PAGE TWO MARCH 20, 1953 Firestone Wins Award of Honor (Continued From Page 1) Plant Supervision Changes Announced For safety records achieved in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1950, Firestone received the National Safety Council’s Award of Honor for Distinguished Service to Safe ty. For 1951 and 1952 the title of the highest award was shortened to “Award of Honor”. During the year 1952 the Com pany also received a special Award of Honor from the Safety Council for setting a new world industrial safety record for the tire manu facturing industry. The special a- ward was in the form of a plaque for operation of the home plants in Akron, Ohio, for 5,334,043 man- hours without a lost-time accident. Individual world safety records in the rubber industry have been held successively since 1947 by Fire stone plants at Des Moines, Iowa; Memphis, Tennessee, atid Akron, Ohio. Standing's within the Company showed that two plants completed the year 1952 with no accidents and thus have frequency rates of 0. 0. They are the Memphis, Tennessee, Flotation Gear Plant and the Christchurch, New Zealand, plant. Akron Plant 3 completed the year with a rate of 0.3 and only one lost-time accident. Other plants with outstanding z'ecords were Akron Plant 2, with a record of 0.6; Akron Plant 1, with 0.8, and Gastonia, North Carolina, Textiles Division, 0.9. The 30 plants sharing in the Na tional Safety Council Award of Honor are the seven located in Akron; three in Memphis, Tenne ssee; two in Los Angeles, Cali fornia; two in Pottstown, Penn sylvania; and those in Gastonia, North Carolina; Bennettsville, South Carolina; Fall Fiver, Massachusetts; New Castle, In diana; Des Moines, Iowa; Nobles- ville, Indiana; Wyandotte, Michi gan; Lake Charles, Louisiiana; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Wood stock, Ontario, Canada; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Christchurch, New Zea land; Brentford, England; Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Bombay, India. BASEBALL SCHOOL Recreation Director Ralph John son will conduct a 3-day baseball school for boys, age 8-12, in the Band Room starting Monday, March 23, at 4:00 p. m. The second and third classes will meet on Wednesday and Friday of the same week, same time and place. The school will teach baseball funda mentals and positions. Freedoms Foundation Award 4 d J. E. TRAINER (ceiiter), Vice-President in Charge of Produc tion, accepts from Vice-President Richard M. Nixon (left) an honor medal from Freedoms Foundation for the Company’s seven employee publications. The publications received the top award in the Freedoms Foundation Competition of 1952. At right is Kenneth D. Wells, President of the Foundation, who read the citations. FIRESTONE NEWS Volume II, No. 6, March 20, 1953 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—Guinn Briggs, Gertrude Sanders, Jessie Westmoreland. Spinning—Lois Bolding, Evie Thomas, Janet Hartgrove, Mary Turner, Fannie Bruce. Spooling—Nell Bolick, Helen Reel, Rosalee Burger. Twisting—Nevie Dalton, Mable Hanna, Hazel Clark, Lassie Crawford, Corrie Johnson, Dean Haun, Ellease Austin. Weaving—Mary Johnson, Lucille Davis, Inez Rhyne, Irene Burroughs, Vivian Bumgardner, Nina Milton. Cloth Room—Margie Waldrop. Quality Control—Dealva Jacobs, Irene Burroughs, Leila Rape, Catherine Isham. Winding—Dorcas Atkinson, Mayzelle Lewis, Kathleen Hovis. Shop—Cramer Little. Warehouse—Bobby Smith, George Harper, Albert Meeks. Main Office—Mozelle Brockman. Superintendent’s Office—Sue Van Dyke. Personnel Office—Flora Pence. Refreshment Department—Deuel Redding. MR. HULL MR. MOSS MR. RHYNE Hull, Moss, & Rhyne Assume New Positions In Quality And Superintendents’ Offices In a series of supervisory chang es completed recently Robert B. Hull, formerly assigned to Fire stone Textiles Division in Akron, became Quality Control Manager, replacing Clyde E. Moss who in January was named Assistant to General Superintendent Nelson Kessell. William A. Rhyne, former ly superintendent of the Hadley- Peoples Manufacturing Co., of Siler City, N. C,, was employed by Firestone Textiles to be Assistent to Superintendent Francis Galli- gan. Mr. Hull, who received his for mal textile training at Lowell Tex tile Institute (Class of 1940), joined Firestone in 1944, after be ing associated with the U. S. Test ing Co., for four years. While in Akron he worked under W. A. Karl, President of Firestone Textiles, as Scheduler of Fabric Production. Mr. Hull is married to the form er Elizabeth Allmon, a native of Pennsylvania. They have two children, Robert, Jr., 7, and Donald, 3 1/2. Mr. Hull plans to move his family to Gastonia next month. Their residence will be at 1105 Swain Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Hull are members of the Presbyterian Church. He, also, belongs to the Masonic Order. Mr. Moss was made Assistant to General Superintendent Nelson Kessell on January 15. Prior to that time he had been Quality Con trol Manager for nine years, and Twisting Department Overseer during the period 1941 to 1944. Mr. Moss, whose father, B. H. Moss, is an employee in the Supply Room, has lived in Gastonia for 24 years. He was born in Rutherford County. Mr. Moss organized and became the first President of the Textile Quality Control Association, a group composed of quality control engineers from textile plants from the New England States to Texas. Mr. Moss is a member of Gastonia School Board, the Kiwani!’ Club, and The Gastonia Chapter SPEBSQSA. He is Baptist. His wife is the former Elizabeth inson. They have five children follows: Clyde, Jr., 18, Dan, Eddie, 12, Mary Anne, 9, and Alan» 2. They live at 109 Firestone Circle. Mr. Rhyne, who became Assist' ant to Superintendent FranciS Galligan on March 9, is a native of Gastonia. His wife, the forrnei Dorothy Bates hails from Sp^^' tanburg, S. C. He is a graduate of Clemson College, class of 1940- During the war he served in tb® Army and was discharged as infantry major. Mr. and Mrs- Rhyne have two children, Lin^^’ 11, and Anne, 7. He is a member oi the Rotary Club, The Junioi Chamber of Commerce, and the Masonic Order. Mr. and Rhyne are Lutherans. Sports Banquet Program (Continued From Page 1) ning Department for the past seven years. General Superinten dent Nelson Kessell will make this presentation, as he did last year, to the winner for the year 1952, that winner to be announced for the first time at the April 4th banquet. The next most coveted award is the Ideal Athlete Award, presented each year to four men and two women who are chosen by election. Elected last year were: Mazel Johnson (General), Nell Bolick (Spooling), Bill Deal (Spinning), Dock Reynolds (Spinning), Carl Barnes (Weaving), and Ernest Millwood (Weaving). This year’s election, in which all participants in Firestone’s recreation program were invited to vote, has already decided the winners. Their names will be announced at the banquet. Another highly desired award is the Most Competitive Athlete A- ward. This award goes annually to the man and woman adjudged to have shown the most competitive spirit throughout the year in athletics. Superintendent Francis Galligan will make these two pres entations. Recreation Director Ralph John son will make the presentations of team trophies to the winners in the various league competitions within the plant. The program at the banquet will begin with an invocation by Indus trial Relations Director T. B. Ipock. General Manager Harold Mercer will welcome Firestone’s champ ions and guests. Mrs. Helen Bolick will make the response on behalf of the champions. Mr. Ipock, an alumnus of Wake Forest College, will introduce Coach Murray Grea- son. Not to be overlooked is the banquet menu which is to be built around generous portions of country fried cubed steak, com plete with rice and gravy. The desert will consist of cherry pie and ice cream. SPORTS NOTES MARBLE CONTEST Grade School children are in vited to compete in a Firestone Textiles-sponsored marble contest at Abernethy School, March 24, at 4:00 p. m. Prizes of baseball bats and gloves will be given to the winners. KITE FLYING CONTEST All children of the community are invited to participate in a kite flying contest to be held on March 26, at Abernethy School. Appropri ate prizes will be offered. DENNY DOCKERY, pin boy at the Men’s Club, holds inoY^ boxing trophies than one other' young man his age in Gastonia- As partial proof of that state ment he recently brought a part of his collection to the Firestone News Office for the photo graphic evidence shown above. Young Dockery, in the picture above, is holding his most prized trophy, the Charlotte Golden Gloves Knockout King Award fov 1951. Among his other trophies^ two of which are shown are: most Popular Boxer (1953 Gastonia Golden Gloves), Featherweight Champion (High Point Golden Gloves), Featherweight Champ' ion (Siler Gloves 1950), Senior Featherweight Runner-up (Char-' lotte Golden Gloves 1953), Featherweight Champi®’’ (Greenville Golden GloveS Champion 1952).
