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fintlont NEWS
AUGUST 20, 1952
Carding Department Changes Raw Cotton To Roving In Five Steps
CLARENCE McDOWELL, picker tender, watches a lap being
formed at the end of a one-process picker. Cotton enters the other
end of the picker as loose lint which is piped in from the Opener
Room pneumatically.
Firestone Loses
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un the all tournament team. These
were Bud Atkinson, Eddie Cannon,
and Bo Davis. Nineteen teams from
seven counties were represented in
the tournament.
Line Score — Championship Game
R H E
Firestone 0000000 0 1 2
Shelby 000002x 2 4 1
Davis and Atkinson;
Vaughn and Runyan
SOFTBALL PITCHER
GETS NO-HITTER
IN SHELBY
no DAVIS, fire-balling right
hander pitched no-hit ball in the
first round of Mid-western Soft
ball Tournament play in Shelby to
give Firestone a 12-0 victory over
Lily Mills of Shelby. This game
played Friday, August 8, advanced
Firestone to the Semi-finals for a
win over Smyre and on to the
finals in which Firestone came out
second best to the Shelby Wood
men.
MIDWESTERN
TOURNAMENT SCORES
MR. S. L. OWENS,
Carding Overseer
First Round
R H E
Lily Mills 0000000 0 0 3
Firestone 129000x 12 10 1
Camp, Brooks, and Pearson;
Davis and Atkinson
* « *
Second Round
Firestone 1002000 3 5 2
Akers 0010000 1 1 3
Lynn and Atkinson;
Harvey and Clarke
Hi ih Hi
Semi-Finals
McAdenville 1000000 1 1 3
Firestone 010033x 7 11 0
Helton, Brynum and Jenkins;
Davis and Atkinson
FISHING SCOREBOARD
George Honeycutt, weaver, holds
the present fishing record for Bass.
His catch of five pounds 11 ounces
replaces the five-pound Bass
caught by James Truesdale.
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Second Shift
Carp—five-pounds, Andrew Whitt,
twister tender.
Catfish—one and one-half-pounds,
Ethel Whitt, spinner.
Crappie—14-ounces, W. N. Laws,
DAVID LOWERY, drawing
tender, makes an adjustment on
a drawing frame. At this stage
several sliver ends from the
preceding carding process are
combined and drafted out so that
the resultant sliver is the same
size, but more uniform, than the
original.
carding fixer.
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First and Third Shift
Bass — five - pounds 11 - ounces,
George Honeycutt, weaver.
Carp — 10 and three - quarter
pounds, H. L. Jenkins, re
spooler tender.
Crappie—one-pound, 10-ounces, M.
F. Goins, weaver.
(NOTE: For the best Tough
Luck Fishing Story, a prize will be
awarded by the Recreation De
partment. If you have such a story,
you are asked to turn it in to the
Recreation Director or to the Clerk
in charge of the Men’s Club.)
The Carding Department is the
starting point in the manufacturer
of cotton tire fabric* at Firfestone
Textiles. The raw product, cotton,
enters the department as a bale of
cotton and leaves as roving, teady
to be spun into yarn. The processes
from cotton bale to roving ate
further divided into opening, pick
ing, carding, drawing, and the fly
frame process. Pictures accom>-
panying this article show to some
extent what takes place at several
of these steps. ,
S. L. Owens, one of the oldest
men at Firestone Textiles in point
of total service to this plant, is
carding overseer. Mr. Owens has
worked at this plant since 1923,
the last 17 years of this period be
ing under Firestone management.
Assisting Mr. Owens on the three
shifts are Second Hands Alvin
Riley, Carl Rape, and Coy Brad
shaw.
There are more than 200 em
ployees in the carding department,
40 of whom have worked for Fire
stone since the plant was acquired
in 1935. Job titles for the various
jobs in this department are: tender,
fixer (ie, picker tender. . . . card
fixer), oiler, can hauler, and
sweeper.
The Carding Department has
been in the forefront of several
plant improvement programs. It
was the first department, for ex
ample, to get fluorescent lighting
when the fluorescent lighting pro
gram was undertaken in 1945.
Automatic air stripping is used for
removing waste, a marked im
provement over the older hand-
stripping method once employed.
A machinery development pior
neered at this plant and known
as a “Junior Cleaner” was the
subject of an article in the “Tex
tile World” magazine, June 1952
issue. A line of these cleaners were
installed here recently in the open
ing room. An excerpt from the
article mentioned follows:
“Firestone Textiles, Gastonia,
N. C., is getting much better clean
ing of its cotton since it installed a
line of Junior cleaners a short
time ago.
Besides better cleaning, the mill
finds that these machines open the
cotton into smaller particles so
that it can be processed into a
softer, more even lap and, there
fore, into a more uniform sliver.
Running conditions in carding and
spinning and appearance of the
woven fabric are definitely im
proved.
The cleaners were installed be
hind the feed hoppers so that they
deliver cotton to the conveyor belt
that carries it on to the rest of the
opening line. The three that were
put in on an experimental basis
are in the opening line that pro
cesses a special mix for osnaburg
fabric.”
MOVIE SCHEDULE
August 22—
“Commanche Territory”
(Technicolor)
With McDonald Carey
Chapter 12 “Wild Bill Hickok”
* * *
August 29—
“Sahara”
With Humphrey Bogart and
Dan Duryea
Chapter 13 “Wild Bill Hickok”
* * *
September 5—
“T Men”
With Dennis OKeefe
Chapter 14 “Wild Bill Hickok”
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HENRY BROWN, card tender, stands at one of the carding
machines, or cards, that he operates. The tall can, left, receives the
“sliver” as it leaves the card and must be “doffed” at intervals of
approximately one hour.
m
AN important step in the making of carded cotton yarn is the
fly frame process. Here the loosely held together sliver is reduced
in diameter and given enough twist to allow it to be spun properly-
Shown above is Speeder Tender William Cosey standing in the
aisle between two speeder (or fly) frames.
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