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AUGUST, 1958
WARP AND FILLING
Of The Passing Scene
‘ALASKA CAN WAIT
They Saw 9,000 Miles Of Countryside In July
Now that the plant is back in operation after the June 27-
July 6 shutdown, that vacation which most of us have enjoyed
is just a pleasant memory. But reflecting upon it suggests a review
of some interesting figures concerning vacations at Firestone.
Company-wide in the United States, a total of 92,000 weeks—
or 1,769 years—of vacation will have been enjoyed this year at
company expense, by people who work in offices and plants in the
United States. Paid vacations are provided for both hourly-rated
and salaried employees who have completed the required amount
of service.
During the 1957-58 vacation period the company is paying
an estimated total of $11,545,767 for vacations for 26,692 hourly,
and 8,775 salaried employees in the United States plants and
offices. This total of 35,467 does not include the thousands of em
ployees in the field sales force throughout the country who also
enjoy company vacation benefits.
With summer vacation shutdowns over, those employees who
have no more vacation time remaining in this year can look forward
to another vacation period starting after the company’s new fiscal
year begins November 1.
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The Ten Commandments—Driv
ers' Version
A safety-conscious employee
has passed along this interesting
body of rules, penned by an un
known author:
ALIVE!
. . Thou shall not make of
thyself a dangerous nuisance,
nor the likeness of anyone that
grabbeth the road beside and the
road ahead, and cutteth in and
out of line . .
I. Thou shalt keep safety first
ever before thee.
II. Thou shalt not make of thy
self a dangerous nuisance, nor
the likeness of anyone that grab
beth the road beside and the
road ahead, and cutteth in and
out of line.
III. Thou shalt not take the
laws of the state in vain, for the
policeman and the judge will not
hold him guiltless that taketh
the laws in vain.
IV. Remember thy brakes and
thy tires, and take the curves
slowly and cautiously.
V. Honor the red lights and
the green lights, that thy days
may be long in the land which
the Lord thy God giveth thee.
VI. Thou shalt not kill.
VII. Thou shalt not stop
abruptly.
VIII. Thou shalt not steal past
a bus loading or unloading, nor
through a peopled crosswalk.
IX. Thou shalt not flash bright
lights against thy neighbor.
X. Thou shalt not shove thy
neighbor’s chariot, nor his
fenders, nor his bumpers, nor his
glass, nor anything that is thy
neighbor’s.
If you are concerned over the increasing use of automatic ma
chines as a threat to the working man, you might find some con
solation in a cartoon which appeared in the United States around
1830.
It showed the calamitous disasters that would be visited upon
the land if steam power were used in factories. The cartoon even
went so far as to suggest that women cease bearing children, since
the proposed use of steam power would eliminate any possibility
of jobs for any additions to the population.
ATTENDED WORLD’S FAIR
John Mercer Back From European Tour
Shop Benchman John Mercer
packed a lot of sightseeing into
a month-long tour through eight
countries of Europe this sum
mer. The son of General Man
ager Harold Mercer left from
New York July 6 aboard an SAS
airliner, and returned to Gas
tonia August 4.
The extended tour took him
through Norway, Sweden, Den
mark, Germany, Switzerland,
Belgium, France and England. In
all these countries he saw many
of the famous landmarks of
Europe, and got a passing
glimpse of city and rural life
along the way.
In Brussels he attended the
World’s Fair.
A high point of his tour came
in Copenhagen, Denmark, when
he joined his sister, Sarah, for
a few hours of sightseeing. Miss
Mercer has been in Paris since
early this year, attending The
Sorbonne. This summer she has
been on a tour of European
countries.
Of the eight countries he visit
ed, Belgium was among the most
interesting, Mr. Mercer reported.
“It is a time-mellowed land, yet
modern in many respects. A land
of big cities, medieval towns,
ports, quiet villages, farms, and
chateaux standing amid fields,
forests and hills—cut by rivers
and canals.”
Belgium is a land of two main
languages, French and Flemish.
Many of the some nine million
people who live there also speak
English, he said.
Over 500 gallons of gasoline
rolled Mr. and Mrs. Winston
Crawford almost 9,000 miles on
a “see-America” tour in July.
Mrs. Crawford, Quality Control
inspector, reported that she and
her husband planned an itiner
ary, which, with previous trips
around the United States, chalk
ed up to their credit a visit to
all 48 states.
“Folks in Washington pulled
a ‘fast one’ on us when they
Mrs. Turner
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Who sits by me when the day
is done
Who sighs when knowing,
madly roaring,
Bloody battles are fought and
won;
Who, melancholy, right and
left looking
Over the eternal mass of time?
He whose heart is aching,
breaking,
Waiting for, “Thy will, not
mine.”
It is he who was waiting;
When, filled with reverence
and awe.
Mourned, as for a well beloved
child.
They brought me here that
day.
He was sad, he was lonely
The day that I arrived;
And, though we have been to
gether constantly.
He seldom since that day has
smiled.
Come, He will bid you welcome
You’ll find quiet, peace, con
tentment and rest
voted to admit Alaska as the
49th member of the Union,”
commented the Crawfords. “But
we can wait to see that.”
The travelers left from Gas
tonia, touching portions of Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California,
making Mexicali, Mexico a high
light of that portion of the jour
ney. .
THEY CAME through Nevada
and swung northward into Utah,
Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Coming eastward, they travers
ed Montana, North Dakota, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana and Michigan. They came
home through Ohio, Kentucky
and Virginia.
The Crawfords listed Yosem-
ite Park and the Grand Can
yon as “most outstanding” of Na
ture scenes viewed on the trip.
They were greatly impressed by
the Mormon Temple and Taber
nacle at Salt Lake City.
Among the most prized of a
number of souvenirs was a tool
ed-leather handbag from Mexi
cali.
A sidelight surprise of the trip
was that Mrs. Crawford found
her paternal grandmother, Mrs.
R. L. Moore, thought by her kin
in the East to have been dead
for several years. Mrs. Moore
was found at Redmond, Ore.,
very much alive for her 87 years.
The discovery came about when
Mrs. Crawford was routinely
“looking up” her kinfolks in the
Western states.
When the touch of His hand you
feel
With His clasp of friendship
you are blest;
But if I am not mistaken
You are not the only ones—
He is waiting for the forsaken
From the vastnesses of seas
and skies and lands.
He is waiting for a calling.
To come and enter in
And bring grace and joy and
love abounding
And peace that passeth under
standing.
For if to come He is not bidden
To dwell on earth in the hearts
of men
He will ever be sadly looking,
wistfully mourning,
For the certain coming of
other men.
—Thelma Turner.
Glovers In Gastonia
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dean
Glover are living at 388 North
Edgemont Avenue, Gastonia,
after their marriage in New
Hope Presbyterian Church July
12. The former Mary Carolyn
High is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. R. High of Dallas. Her
father works in rayon Weaving.
Mr. Glover’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Glover of Gastonia.
The bride is a graduate of
Dallas High School and Gaston
Memorial Hospital school of
nursing. She is now a nurse in
the operating room at Gaston
Memorial. Mr. Glover, a gradu
ate of Belmont High School and
Gaston Technical Institute, is
employed by a truck and tractor
firm in Gastonia.
Like Plugging A Hole In The Dike
Do you remember the story of the little Dutch boy who found a
small leak in the dike and plugged the hole with his hand, thereby
saving his homeland from the floodwaters of the sea?
The poem-story of little Peter of Holland, conceded to be a legend,
symbolizes the struggle of the Dutch people against the sea, ever threat
ening to invade their homeland.
From the story-book account, we draw another lesson—one that
has to do with waste control in industry. Fact or fiction, the story of
heroic Peter could be termed a parable with an earthly application to
those of us who handle materials in the process of manufacturing goods
for the marketplace.
The boy who stopped the hole in the dike Someone must pay for avoidable waste
first recognized the situation, then set him- That’s why a portion of it eventually comes
self to the task of meeting the immediate right out of the worker’s pocket,
need. Just so with waste control. The aver
age person on the job in industry needs pri
marily to be concerned with a “saving-mind-
edness” about the routine little things that
add up to great losses over a period of time.
Take for example such items as shuttles
and quills—everyday grist to a textile op
eration. At current prices, the average size
shuttle, if broken by inattention to details
on the job, represents enough money to buy
five pounds of coffee. A larger shuttle would
cost around $7, and others, such as plastic
ones, would cost $8 or $10. One ordinary
quill is equal in value to three bananas. A
10-inch roving bobbin is purchased at about
the cost of three pounds of bananas.
Of materials themselves, consider waste
in cotton, rayon, nylon, and monofilament—
processed at the Gastonia plant for the
Company’s tire plants and for the outside
market. Here, waste—if allowed to grow—
can mount to serious proportions.
In the manufacturing process, some waste
is obviously necessary. But for preventable
waste, careful attention to details on the
job will go far to help control the loss. And
the further along the line of production the
waste occurs, the more expensive the loss.
unless you fight ^
it every minute!