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Tir«$tone NEWS
AUGUST 5, 1952
Know Your Plant. . . .
Warehouse Department Ships, Receives and Stores
WILL FOOTE, fork truck operator, loads fabric on out-going
truck at the loading platform. Akron receives the largest quantity
of fabric shipped from Gastonia with Memphis, Pottstown, Penn.,
Los Angeles, and Des Moines, among others, sharing the remainder.
Brewer And Turner
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the take-up rolls on looms could be
j'edesigned to give operatives more
walking clearance when going in
or out from behind cloth rolls, and
effect a saving in costs of gears
and maintenance due to the reduc
tion of the number of gears and
])arts needed for the new design.
Mr. Turner’s idea has been tried
out and it too has proven successful
in the Weaving Department.
The Suggestion Board is proud
of the achievements of Messrs.
Brewer and Turner in finding so
lutions to problems that required
real ingenuity on the sugges-
tioneers part. The Board invites all
employees to participate in the
suggestion program. All sugges
tions are carefully considered and
in some cases tried out in an effort
to determine their possible value
to Firestone.
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TOP suggestion award winners thus far in '52 receive their
awards from Superintendent Francis Galligan. Left 'to right: Mr.
Galligan, Sanford Brewer, loom fixer; W. R. Turner, second hand
weaving; and Russell Conrad, overseer of weaving. Messrs. Brewer
and Turner received $100.00 and $50.00 respectively for their ideas.
FIRESTONE NEWS
Volume*!, No. 6.— August 5, 1952
Published at Gastonia, North Carolina
By Firestone Textiles
A Division of
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Department of Industrial Relations
R. H. HOOD, Editor
Department Reporters
Carding—Leila Rape, Jessie Westmoreland.
Spinning—Lois Bolding, Helen Bolick, Janet Hartgrove, Evie
Thomas, Grace Christopher, Bertha Ellis, Mary
Turner, Ray Cloninger, Fannie Bruce.
Spooling—Nell Bolick, Rosalie Burger, Ruth Easier.
Twisting—Carolyn Anderson, Nevie Dalton, Mable Hanna,
Hazel Clark, Lassie Crawford, Corrie Johnson, Dean
Haun, Ellease Austin, Ruth Waldrop.
Weaving—Mary Johnson, Lucille Davis, Inez Rhyne, Irene
Burroughs, Betty Martin.
Cloth Room—Margie Waldrop. •
Quality Control—Dealva Jacobs, Irene Burroughs, Catherine
Isham.
Winding—Dorcas Atkinson, Ann Stephenson, Mayzelle Lewis.
Shop—Cramer Little.
Warehouse—Anne King.
Main Office—Mozelle Brockman.
Superintendent’s Office—Sue Van Dyke.
Personnel Office—Christine Clark.
THE job of shipping, receiving,
and storing at Firestone Textiles
is the function of the Warehouse
Department under the guiding
hand of Fred Morrow, warehouse
foreman. Assisting him are: Doll
Wren, receiving clerk; Harold Rob
inson, shipping clerk; Allen King,
weigher; and John Hendricks, sec
ond shift clerk.
Manning the hand trucks, the
fork trucks, and overhead convey
ors are 44 laborers. They are the
men who keep up the incoming
movement of cotton, rayon, and
a large portion of the miscel
laneous supplies needed to operate
the plant. They, likewise, load all
outgoing trailer-trucks and freight
cars with Firestone Textiles’ major
product—tire fabric.
The warehouse consists of 32
sections which if filled exclusively
with cotton would hold approxi
mately 25,000 bales. Of course,
that is never the case as the ware
house must store beams of rayon,
finished fabric, and supplies as
mentioned above. In addition the
job of baling storing, and shipping
waste is a lesser function of the
warehouse.
* * *
WEEKLY shipments of fabric
ordinarily are enough to fill 10-12
freight cars and 20-30 trailer-
trucks. These shipments are rout
ed to the various tire plants of
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Com
pany in the United States and in
foreign countries.
The warehouse is under the
general supervision of the Cotton
Department’s Frank Davis, cotton
classer. The work of Mr. Davis and
the Cotton Department will be pre
sented later when the various of
fices at Firestone Textiles are
featured.
MR. FRED MORROW
MAIN OFFICE
Betty Moss, main office, and ,
Frances Smith were visitors at j
Daytona Beach, Jacksonville Beach, '
and St. Augustine Beach, Fla. dur
ing their vacation holidays.
Margaret Howard, main office,
and Sheldon Spencer spent Monday;
July 21 at Savannah Beach. '
Joan Dalton, main office, and ,
her husband, A. B. Dalton, Ji’-> !
spent several days at Daytona |
Beach, Fla., during the week of j
July 19. i
Mildred Mack, main office, her
husband, Raymond Mack, Weaving
Department, and Rebecca and
Eugene Mack spent several days of *
the week of July 19 at Myi’tle {
Beach, S. C. '
Novella James, main office, her ;
husband, Carl James, Carding De- j
partment, their son, Bobby, and j
W. A. Gaddis, Jr. spent several |
days at Oak Ridge, Tenn. during I
the vacation weeks. |
Marguerite Styers, main office,
and Evelyn Mayfield, laboratory,
spent the week-end of July 12 at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Dobbins of Union, S. C. During the
following vacation week they also
visited in Statesville, Henderson
ville, and Clemson.
Helen Spencer, Carolyn Sanders,
and Helen Craig, main office, spent
the week of July 19 through 27 at
Daytona Beach, Fla. Accompanying
them on the trip were Mrs. Mabel
Neal Craig, her son, Jackie, and
Kitty Sanders, daughter of Caro
lyn Sanders.
DOWN the ramp slides an in
coming bale of cotton.
FINAL DISPLAY in the series “Salute to Gaston Industry”
at the Citizens National Bank of Gastonia was the Firestone Textiles’
week-long exhibition July 14-19, of Firestone products embodying
materials that are processed at the Gastonia plant. The racing tire
was the most novel part of the exhibit and was perhaps the first time
such a tire has been shown in Gastonia.
News In Brief
PERSONNEL
Everyone in Personnel enjoyed
vacations in various ways. L, B.
McAbee, Safety Director, and
family spent the week of July 14
through 19 at Myrtle Beach, S. C.
J. M. Cooper of the Time Study De
partment, and family enjoyed the
week of July 21 through 25 at
Camp Firestone. Flora Pence and
her husband. Bob, journeyed to
Newport News, Va. to visit friends.
They also visited several beaches
while there. Dr. W. B. Parks,
Plant Physician, made a trip to
Canada during his two weeks va
cation.
Industrial Relations Department
extends its sympathy to Recreation
Director Ralph Johnson and his
family in the recent death of his
wife’s mother, Mrs. Spargo.
Friends of J. E. Spencer, Em
ployment Manager, will be glad to
know he is back home after being
hospitalized for a week.
SHOP
John Mercer, backsaw operator,
recently spent his vacation
Indiana.
Oscar Jacobs, milling machine
operator, spent his vacation on a
fishing trip at Little River.
J. E. Fletcher, lathe operator,
toured Florida on his vacation.
Sgt. Hoyt Davis, mechanic, spent
his vacation at Fort McCellan, Ala-
He is a cook with Co. K. 120 Keg'
30th Div., N.C.N.G. Hoyt received
grade A in cooking and baking
while at camp.
Cramer Little, lathe operator,
spent part of his vacation at Fon'
"tana Village in Western North
Carolina.
H. A. Cauthen, assistant plant
engineer, reported having had ^
wonderful time at Carolina Beach.
N. C. during his vacation.
T. S. Huffstickler, humidified
man, motored to the mountains on
his vacation.
M, E. Robinson, lathe operator*
spent two weeks in the mountains
of Western North Carolina.
Ed Foy, lathe operator, enjoyed
a week of vacation at Myrtl®
Beach, S. C.
Horace Robinson, electrician, e*’'
joyed a week of vacation fishing
Carolina Beach, N. C.
Howard Moore, truck driver, and
Joe Burroughs, mechanic, spei^^
part of their vacation visitio^
Howard’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Moore.
William Davis, elevator man, and
his family spent their vacation*
with relatives in Gainsville, Fla.
William Kennedy, helper, spei'^
his vacation with relatives in
dersonville, N. C.
WINDING
Sgt. Emogene Lewis, who is
leave from the Army Air Force-
is spending a few days with hei
parents, Lloyd Lewis and Mrs*
Lewis, winder tender, and then
join her husband.