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V><OMPANIES or other organizations producing goods and services, are a combi nation of people, money, materials, ma chines and other tools. Of these “standard ingredients”, people are paramount. “Peo ple power” is the greatest determiner of the good operation and progress of any or ganization. Tir*$fon« GASTONIA C'/ NORTH CAROLINA JANUARY • 1971 COUNTRY Caiii|> I irrsloiK JL ALL, somber, grim against the sky they rise. . wrote Paul Hamilton Hayne in his poem “The Pines.” • This early-morning scene of pines and mist-shrouded hills is a familiar one in the Blue Ridge Country around Camp Firestone on Lake James in the NC mountain counties of McDowell and Burke. • This Firestone News photo was made after the employee recreation retreat closed its last- year season in October. OFF-SEASON IN THE HIGHLANDS ☆ ☆ ☆ Suggestions: $945. Don’t use it any more—for under the circumstan ces, the dip works just as well without it. And most of all, there’ll be an annual saving of around $6,000. The idea was one which Dariel Walker, dip mixer in fabric treating, shared with his company last year. Be cause of its involvement, it took the Suggestion Board several weeks to check it out for approval. It was worth $600. Walker, who has earned a number of lesser suggestion awards, on this one suggested deletion of the volume of anti foam chemical from all poly ester dip mixtures here. He explained how the product could be “done without”. Walk er, who knew the chemical in question floated on the surface of the dip unless agitated, no ticed once that the foam in the dip had not increased when the agitator mechanism failed to work. His observation and reasoning led to a saving of nearly 25,000 pounds per year of anti-foam material. WALKER'S suggestion turned out to earn the second-largest payoff in the history of Fire stone’s Gastonia plant. The largest was $850 in 1956. It went to James Reel for a suggested method of saving waste in rayon and nylon tire cord in a creeling operation. Walker’s “big idea” was among 32 suggestions processed in the November-December pe riod, 18 of which were approved Next biggest payoff in this period—$110 — went to Horace R. Hughes, chief pipefitter in the shop. The amount was for two . suggestions—$60 and $50. He proposed a changeover from a type of rubber washer to washers of a composition fiber on certain plumbing applications in fabric-treating. It promised a saving of $600 per year. Hughes’ other suggestion, to install a pump for removal of unused dip in nylon treating. More on page 2 • TEXTILE SCHOOL Expanded Program ‘Will Fill A Need’ Beginning in September this year, high-school graduates can start a two-year course leading to an associate degree at North Carolina Vocational Textile School. The new pro gram, announced in December, will be the school’s first fulltime course of study limited to high-school graduates. NCVTS in Belmont, training textile people since 1943, was the area’s pioneer state-sup ported trade school. Students completing the as sociate degree course will be equipped to go into good-paying supervisory jobs, said John Jen kins, the school director. For the past 27 years, NCVTS has been drawing its students from people employed in tex tiles and related industries. Many Firestone Textiles em ployees are alumni of the school. “With the new plan”, said Jenkins, “we will be recruiting high-school graduates for a pro gram which we think will fill a definite need.” The new program, built around textile manufacturing Textile Progress In 1970 The textile ‘end of the business’ shared in a review under “Diversified Operations” in the Firestone Company’s 1970 Report, issued in December. The Annual Report noted that Firestone's diversified-products divisions produce more than 44,000 different products in textiles, rubber, metals, plastics and chemicals. Introduction of new nylon resins and yarns for home furnish ings, fashion and automotive industries highlighted the year at the Synthetic Fibers Company headquartered at Hopewell, Va. Three new Nytelle textile nylon products for use in texturized hosiery were developed and marketed. A special nylon resin was developed for the automotive industry’s use in gasoline-emission control devices; and a new resin was marketed for carpeting custo mers who produce colorfast yarns. Production capacity at the Hopewell plant was increased for nylon textile and tire yarns to meet expected needs in these areas. Added the review: THE THREE units of Firestone Textile Company at Gas tonia, N. C.; Bennettsville, S. C.; and Bowling Green, Ky. were expanded to keep pace with tire plant requirements for nylon, rayon and polyester cord fabric. In line with programs on environmental control, during 1970 coal-fired boilers at Bennettsville were replaced with oil-fired equipment. technology, will involve 30 class hours per week. As in ths past, there will be no tuition for NC residents. Jenkins expects to have 30 fulltime students for the Sep tember opening. THE ASSOCIATE degree pro gram will be conducted separ ately from the regular schedule which has been in operation throughout the years. Current enrollment in that program is around 300. The director points out that the upcoming course for high- school graduates will not dupli cate nor compete with any pro gram at NC State University, in Gaston County public schools, nor at Gaston College. Neither will this program in terfere with the school’s long standing function of preparing More on page 4 • RESOLUTION: Join Payroll Savings — for U S. Savings Bonds. • Make the world a better place? See "Alma nac" on page 4. SUSAN GAIL CHASTAIN Checking a copy of the student newspaper at ASU GAIL The G a s t o n i a-area 1970 Firestone College Scholar ship winner is a freshman at Appalachian State Univer sity, Boone, N. C. Susan Gail Chastain, the 16th Scholarship recipient from a Firestone (Gastonia) employee family, is one of 39 college and university freshmen in several states attending school on a Fire stone Scholarship this year. Susan spent the recent holi days in Gastonia with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Chastain. Mr. Chastain, a power house operator, marked his 35th anniversary of employment at Firestone, Gastonia, in Septem ber. SINCE the company began its education-help program for sons and daughters of employees in 1953, it has awarded 521 Scholar ships. Susan plans a career in teach ing Spanish. One other 1970 Scholarship winner is from the Carolinas. Tony G. Waldrop of Columbus is a freshman at NC State Uni versity, Raleigh. His father, H. C. Waldrop works at the Spartanburg, S. C. metals-pro- ducts plant.
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