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PAGE EIGHT JUNE 10, 1955 SYNTHETIC RUBBER Company Expands Two Plants WHEN HAROLD MERCER, General Manager, pitched out the first ball which opened the 1955 season of Little League baseball, Firestone Tex tiles began its fifth year of participation in the National Little League program. During its history here the team has won the local league champion ship for two years, 1953 and 1954. Those making up the team this season, front row, from left: Bobby Edwards, Ronnie Lovingood, Roddey Edwards, Jerry Westbrook,'^Jerry Alford, Ralph Huffstetler, Vance Ipock. Back row: Howard Moore, Harvey Totherow, Frankie Johnson, Roger Lunsford, Michael Ballew, Larry York, Dobb Phillips, Sammy Honeycutt and Ray Jones. News In Brief (Continued from page 2) and Mrs. Oliver Taylor. Visiting the Taylors on a recent Sunday were Mrs. Lawrence Burton and children of Kings Mountain, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Will Absher and children of Bessemer City, N. C., and also Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hovis of Bessemer City, N. C. Cleveland Dixon is a new em ployee in the Opening Room on the second shift. He lives in York, S. C. Bobby A. Purkey is a patient at Gaston Memorial Hospital. Frazier McNair has returned to his home from Kings Mountain Hospital, where he was a patient for several weeks. Ellie Hugh Easter, Warehouse employee, and his family are spending their vacation visiting friends and relatives in Clover and York, S. C. Tracy Moore, Opening Room em ployee, Mrs. Mooi’e and their sons are visiting relatives in Salisbury and Charlotte, N. C., while on va cation. Ellen Posey, battery hand, recently. Mrs. Jane Rice, smash hand, has returned to work after several weeks of illness. Mrs. Audrey Mathis, smash hand, has returned to her home after sev eral days in Gaston Memorial Hos pital with pneumonia. Mrs. Mae Jones and family spent a recent week end with Mrs. Jones’ mothef in Homer, Ga. Mrs. Sarah Davis, battery hand, spent a recent week end with Mr. and Mrs. George Forrester of Gainesville, Ga. Mrs. Ella Ruff, change hand, and her daughter, Mrs. Joyce Franklin visited Mrs. Franklin’s husband, Pvt. Garvin Franklin in Fort Knox, Ky. Tom Webb, section man, did some deep sea fishing while on a week’s vacation recently. Annie Elliott, drawing tender, is out from work due to illness. New employees in the Carding Department are Lennis Pennington, sweeper, and Donald Lyles, picker cleaner. W. N. Laws, intermediate tender, has returned to work after an ill- nes. Robert Pinkard, can hauler, who was injured recently in an auto ac cident, has returned to work. Mrs. Alene Smith and Mrs. Ethel Robinson, change hands, visited in Rock Hill, S. C., recently. Mrs. J. R. Ballew, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bryant, and Carlos Ballew of Liberty, S. C., visited Mrs. Mary Yarn Packer Paul Caldwell and Mrs. Caldwell visited the Fields of the Woods in Cherokee County, which is a shrine of the Church of God of Prophecy. Mrs. Viola Deaton, warper ten der, visited her sister, Mrs. M. B. DeMarcus in Kannapolis, N. C., in mid-April. Miss Bertha Dettmar, warper tender, was out from work due to a minor injury at home. Bonnie Fletcher, winder tender, has moved into her new home on the Kings Mountain highway. PR Program Receives Honor The public relations pro-' gram of the Company has earned its fourth national honor since 1950 at the A- merican Public Relations As sociation’s Annual Award meeting in Philadelphia. Firestone’s 1954 program in the field of educational aids was a- warded a certficate of achievement. Previously Firestone had been similarly honored by the national group in the manufacturing and labor relations categories. The 1954 award was received on behalf of Firestone by W. D. Hines, Director of Public Relations. The citation read, in part: “The Certificate of Achievement in the maunfacturing category was voted to The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company for a fine educa tional program. Thoroughness char acterized the operation in every The Firestone Company re- * cently disclosed that it has launched a $1,200,000 ex pansion and improvement pro gram at the two synthetic rubber producing plants which it has purchased from the Government. During formal transfer ceremon ies April 22, payment of $13,- 136,612 was made to the United States Government for the Lake Charles synthetic rubber plant and inventories. J. E. Trainer, Fire stone Executive Vice-President, after taking title to the plant for his company, took Government rep resentatives on a tour of new con struction work that will increase the annual capacity of the Lake Chai'les plant by nearly 13 per cent. * * * AT THE AKRON plant, which Firestone officially purchased on April 26 at a cost of $2,845,205 for the plant and inventories, equip ment is being converted to increase output of cold rubber, for which there is a steadily increasing de mand. The Lake Charles synthetic rub ber plant was built by Firestone for the Government during the early years of the war. It started producing GR-S in August, 1943, and has been operated by Firestone continuously since that time. The Akron, Ohio, synthetic rub ber producing plant also was built by Firestone and was the first to produce GR-S under the Govern ment’s wartime emergency pro gram. Since production of the first batch on April 25, 1942, Firestone has operated this plant continu ously. phase. Much of the misunderstand ing of business organizations is at tributable to the lack of informa tion about them, the Company be lieved. First step in the survey was among gladly co-operating teachers to determine the best kind of in formation to produce. There was then developed educational material for use by teachers in the class room; supplemental reading matter for teachers and librarians; a ‘Farm Youth Program,’ and Schol arship Assistance Programs. With in twelve months, teachers have requested 800,000 Rubber booklets for their pupils and 24,000 Teach ers’ Guides. Two million students viewed nine films at 27,320 show ings. More than 1,000 teachers have written praising the material and 887,000 teachers received reprints of a prize-winning essay.” Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bentley an nounce the birth of a daughter on Tuesday, May 10, at Garrison Gen eral Hospital. Mr. Bentley is an employee in Quality Control, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dockery an nounce the birth of a son, Allen Dale, on April 11 at Gaston Me morial Hospital. Mr. Dockery is a yarn man in the Spooling Depart ment, Mr. and Mrs. George Ballew an nounce the birth of a daughter on April 14 at Gaston Memorial Hos pital, Mr. Ballew is a sweeper in the Spooling Department. A THIRD PLANT built by Fire stone for the Government at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was purchased by Copolymer Corporation, During the war Firestone also operated one-half of the Port Neches, Texas, synthetic rubber facility for the Government. In accordance with the terms of the sale agreement, the Firestone Company has signed contracts for delivery of 20 per cent of its pres ent capacity of synthetic rubber to others, especially to small business enterprises. Principal product of Lake Charles is Butaprene-S type rubber which has been commonly referred to as GR-S, This rubber, manufac tured by the cold process, is used primarily in treads of passenger car tires. During 1951-52 the 54 reactors of the Lake Charles plant were equipped with refrigeration equipment to make it the first of its kind to be placed in 100 per cent production of cold rubber, ^ WITH THE PURCHASE of the two synthetic rubber plants from the Government, Firestone will have a rated capacity to produce approximately 130,000 tons of syn thetic rubber annually. From its extensive rubber plantations in Liberia, West Africa, Firestone also obtains approximately 70,- 000,000 pounds of high-grade rub ber and latex annually. Present expansion plans for the synthetic rubber plants and esti mates of new tree rubber that will be collected during the year indi cate that Firestone will produce approximately 170,000 tons of rub ber—almost the same amount as the entire rubber industry used in 1921. Prizes For Biggest Fish, Tallest Tale A prize is waiting for each member of the Fishing Club of 1955 who catches the biggest fish in each of nine classi fications from now until October 31. And a grand prize will go to the member who lands the biggest bass. The best “tough luck” story submitted during the season will also bring a prize. The classification in which prizesO— will be awarded are: Small mouth bass, large mouth bass, calico bass, crappie, yellow perch, bream, trout, catfish, carp and pike. The angling contest is open to Fishing Club members only. All fish entered are to be caught with hook and line. Weight of the fish to be entered in the contest is to be written in ink by the weigh station operator. Contest blanks, filled out, should be turned in at the Men’s Club where they will be put on file until the end of the contest October 31, After that date any fish caught may be entered in next year’s con test. Officers of the fishing club, first and third shifts are, Payton Lewis, president; Woodrow Wooten, vice president; Ralph Johnson, secre- tary-treasurer. Second shift, Belon Hanna, president; Max Cary, vice president; Ralph Johnson, secre- tary-treasurer. 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