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Gastonia
North Carolina February 1980
Bennettsville
South Carolina Bowling Green^ Kentucky
Prizes March 3
Stressing
Energy-Saving
Selection of winning posters with their U. S. Savings
Bonds prizes and a drawing for a Bond in a Suggestions
promotion will close the Gastonia plant’s emphasis on en
ergy conservation during February. Winners will be selected
March 3.
FEBRUARY is designated as stressing energy-saving
awareness and practice at work, at home, in travel and
recreation.
During the month, employees who turn in suggestions on
energy-saving are eligible in a numbers drawing—the prize
a $75 Savings Bond. And during the month, all adopted
ideas on energy are paying 20 percent of the annual saving
resulting from each suggestion. The usual rate-base is 10
percent for all suggestions.
The poster contest is open to all employees and members
of their families. Requirements; Make it an Energy theme,
put on standard 22 x 28-inch poster board. Present to plant
Personnel on or before closing date, February 29.
All posters submitted will be on view in the mill center
entrance until winners are chosen. Members of plant super
visory staff have selected the judges.
PRIZES for the best 3 posters are U. S. Savings Bonds,
$100, $75 and $50. Winning entries will be posted on plant
safety boards into midsummer.
Marlboro UW 1980 president
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"Obituary"
and drawing
by Von Clem-
mer, 9Jh-
grade student
at Gastonia
Highland
Junior High
School, Her
mother.
Janet, is Sec
retary in In
dustrial
Engineering.
. . was third from the Sun and one of the
most beautiful of all the planets."
Ezra Perkins last month be
came president of Marlboro
County (S. C.) United Way. Last
year the Firestone Textiles-
Bennettsville plant manager
was vice president and the ’79
United Way campaign chair
man.
The funding campaign ended
last month with $63,318.86—
more than $1,000 above the
$62,095 goal.
Outgoing United Way presi
dent John Napier presented
Perkins with an award plaque
recognizing his leadership and
service.
At the victory luncheon meet
ing, Perkins noted that the suc
cess of the ’79 campaign “is
something everyone can be
proud of. We have raised more
32 AWARDS
• • The 33rd annual NC De
partment of Labor Safety
Awards presentation is coming
in April. For 32 years Firestone
Textiles-Gastonia has qualified
for the recognition. The Gas
tonia Chamber of Commerce
has sponsored the awards
locally since 1947.
Here, Wanda Thomasson
shows the last two of the long
series of Firestone plaques.
Wanda, part-time clerk/typist
in Industrial Relations, is a
senior at Gastonia Ashbrook
High School. Her work in in
dustry is part of a school busi
ness course. She has been work
ing afternoons at Firestone since
last September 4. Her father,
Clyde Thomasson, is department
manager of TC Weaving.
money than some larger coun
ties better-off economically
than Marlboro.”
The Industrial Division con
tributed $36,297.00, more than
$2,000 above the goal. Bennetts
ville Firestone people were 98.3
percent in their United Way
giving. I
Von Clemmer
The Earth’s ‘LAST RITES’
June 20, 2,500 A.D.
• • Yesterday, at 4% billion years of age, the Earth died
grimly. The cause was misuse and overuse of Earth’s re
sources, some of which were oil, coal, trees and minerals.
Earth’s death was one of the most major disasters in the
history of all the galaxies. Earth was the third from the
sun and one of the most beautiful of all the planets.
The only survivors are two scientists who had just left in
a rocket ship heading toward planet Mars. Earth’s last rites
will be held at Milky Way Funeral Home on South Space
Street, with burial in Universe Memorial Park.
Pallbearers are Father Star, Pluto, Mercury, Venus, Mars
and Saturn—all good friends of Earth. If you would like to
send flowers in memory of Earth, direct them to Milky Way
Funeral Home, or to Universe Memorial Park, where they
will be placed on the grave.
TV series: ‘Free to Choose’
• More than 200 TV stations of Public Broadcasting Ser
vice are airing the 10-part “Free to Choose” series on
economics, begun in mid-January. Firestone and 14 other
companies and corporations are underwriting the programs
hosted by Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman.
All areas of Firestone Textiles man and his guests, including
Company’s 3 U. S. plants have
PBS stations carrying the pro
grams. Viewers can check local
ly for stations and times.
The series was taped on lo
cations in the U. S. and several
foreign countries specifically
chosen because they best il
lustrated the economic problem
or principle being discussed.
The first half of each 1-hour
program has comments by
Dr. Friedman, followed by a
discussion between Dr. Fried-
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In the U. S., industry spends
some $415 million a year on
printed material, just one means
of communicating among peo
ple.
persons with opposing views.
OPENING PROGRAMS were
“The Power of the Market,”
“The Tyranny of Control,”
“Anatomy of Crisis,” and “From
the Cradle to the Grave.” Com
pleting the series of weekly
programs:
• “Created Equal”—conflict
between freedom and equality;
distortions in the meaning of
equality.
• “What’s Wrong With Our
Schools?”—difficulties in Ameri
can education; alternatives to
the present system.
• “Who Protects the Con
sumer?”—how free markets are
the consumer’s best protection.
Are government consumer
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