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AUGUST, 1959
IDEA PAYOFF—Maxie Carey (center), reviews an idea which
paid him $25 recently. With him are F. B. Harrison (left), chief ac
countant and chairman of the plant Suggestion board; and two
other $25 suggestion winners; Lewis Connor (standing, left), and
William Hogan.
Twelve Ideas Bring $170
During Two-Month Period
During the months of May
and June, payment for ideas ap
proved through the Suggestion
System totaled $170. Of the 12
suggestions accepted during the
two-month period, three of
them brought an award of $25
each.
Of the $25 awards, Maxie
Carey’s experience again dem-
Bloodmobile
—from page 1
The group system provides a
credit card to each employee be
longing to a qualified depart
ment. It entitles the card holder
and certain members of his or
her household to receive all
blood they might need, so long
as blood is available.
Blood is supplied card holders
and their families in hospitals
not participating in the plan,
provided the hospital involved
will accept replacement on a
pint-for-pint basis, when blood
is available.
As always, persons who do
nate blood but are not included
in a group plan have individual
eligibility through the Red Cross
blood program.
onstrated the wisdom of the old
adage, “If at first you don’t suc
ceed, try again.” The fourth sug
gestion which the Weaving
(Synthetic) employee submitted
was the first that won him the
money.
Similarly, it took William F.
Hogan of the Mechanical depart
ment three tries at suggestions
before the payoff.
And the experience of Lewis
Connor of Spinning showed that
an employee’s first attempt at
turning in ideas can bring a
sizeable award.
Five of the 12 suggestions in
May and June were of ideas re
lating to safety. Others had to
do with economy of operations
and improvement of working
conditions.
The Gaston County unit of the
American Red Cross operates its
blood program through the Pied
mont Carolinas Regional Red
Cross Blood Program. Regional
collections for the fiscal year
recently ended total a little more
than 62,000 pints. An estimated
63,000 pints of blood will be
needed in the area this year.
^ .. Whose Broad
Stripes
and Bright Stars ..
This year on Independence Day,
the latest design of the flag of the
United States was officially flown
at Washington, in ceremonies led
by President Eisenhower.
The new design in Old Glory’s
face represented the first change
since admission of Arizona as the
48th state in 1912.
On the day the 49-star flag made history, plant pur
chasing agent R. L. Tompkins and Mrs. Tompkins of Main
Office were vacationing at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Second of the latest-design flags to be raised in the Unit
ed States was officially presented in ceremonies at Daytona
Beach, with high-ranking military personnel taking part.
Mr. Tompkins photographed the accompanying version
of the “49er” Stars and Stripes.
Plant Was Host
To Industrial
Nurses Group
Firestone was host to the
North Carolina Association of
Industrial Nurses at its regular
quarterly meeting held in the
plant Recreation Center, July
31.
Mrs. A. T. Newton, third shift
nurse here, and president of
NCAIN, presided at a morning
business session. This was fol
lowed by a talk, “Building and
Maintaining Confidence of Em
ployees”. The speaker was Fred
Ratchford, executive secretary
of the Gastonia Chamber of
Commerce. He was until re
cently a personnel director of
Burlington Industries.
Luncheon speaker was the
Rev. Lewis F. Filewood Jr.,
minister of First Christian
Church at Brownsville, Pa. Mr.
Filewood, until recently the
pastor of First Christian Church
of Gastonia, addressed the meet
ing here on “The Nurse and Al
truistic Attitude”.
At the afternoon session. Dr.
B. M. Drake of the Gaston
County Health Department
spoke on “Radiation and Medi
cine in Industry and Public
Health”.
The NCAIN is a constituent
of the American Association of
Industrial Nurses.
NC Has Good Share Of Textile Jobs
North Carolina has nearly one-fourth of the textile
jobs in the nation, according to figures compiled by the
North Carolina Employment Security Commission.
Based on 1957 figures, North Carolina with 228,599
textile employees had 22.68 per cent of the more than
one million textile jobs in the U. S. South Carolina with
131,732 textile employees was second with 13.09 per
cent of the total. Other states’ totals and percentages:
Georgia, 101,144, 10.05 per cent; Pennsylvania, 93,295,
9.27 per cent; New York, 66,853, 6.64 per cent; Massa
chusetts, 58,142, 5.78 per cent; Alabama, 44,219, 4.39 per
cent; New Jersey, 42,790, 4.25 per cent; Virginia, 36,225,
3.60 per cent; Rhode Island, 33,262, 3.30 per cent; Ten
nessee, 31,770, 3.16 per cent; all other states, 138,826,
13.79 per cent.
Opening the small valve on
the Foama+ic cushion introduces
air without blowing, and slight
pressure forces out extra air
for a softer effect. It is wash
able and waterproof.
Self-Inflating
Cushion Covered
With Velon
A cushion that inflates itself
and can be adjusted for individ
ual comfort is being produced
by Holiday Line Inc. of New
York. Covered with Firestone
Velon, it is waterproof and can
remain outdoors in any weather
without damage.
Called Foamatic, the cushion
is a combination of plastic foam
and air. It comes in colorful
metallic tweed patterns of Velon
as well as gay prints, and is
available at leading department
stores at around $3.
The cushion provides for a dif
ferent degree of softness for in
dividual use and different appli
cations. In order to get the in
flation wanted, a small valve is
opened to let in the air automat
ically. Slight pressure will force
air out and the valve can be
closed when the proper softness
is reached.
For portability, the air can be
completely removed and the
cushion rolled up. To re-inflate,
the valve is opened and the
cushion reshapes itself auto
matically.
Company Gives $1,050,000
For Aeronautics Laboratory
A Firestone gift of $1,050,000 has been presented to the
California Institute of Technology, for construction of an
aeronautics laboratory at Pasadena.
The new facility—to be known as the Firestone Aeron
autical Research Laboratory—will make possible a major
expansion of Caltech’s already extensive aeronautics pro
gram. The institute is the country’s chief producer of ad-
vanced-degreee scientists and aeronautical engineers.
Leonard K. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rub
er Company of California, presented the gift to Caltech president
L. A. DuBridge.
Officials at the school said that constrution on the new labora
tory will likely begin within the next few months.
Purpose of the Center
The research center will be devoted chiefly to studies of;
Missile and aircraft structures at hypersonic speeds; design
criteria for solid propellants of the kind used in missiles, rockets
and space vehicles; flow problems at hypersonic speeds such as
those experienced by vehicles operating within or passing through
the earth’s atmosphere; heat transfer, including melting of sur
faces exposed to hypersonic gas streams; theoretical fluid mechan
ics, aimed at the discovery of fundamental laws applicable to
large classes of high-speed flow problems.
The lab will house several kinds of research equipment in
cluding plasma jets, shock tubes, electric-arc wind tunnels, and
hypersonic tunnels operating at speeds up to the equivalent of
12,400 miles per hour.
Besides working laboratory space where theories are tested,
the proposed five-story, 30,000-square-foot building will have
space where individual staff members may evolve the theories
themselves—offices where the equipment is usually no more than
a blackboard, but where much of the critical part of scientific and
engineering research is always done. And there will be classrooms
and lecture rooms for 80 to 100 graduate students, two-thirds of
whom will be doing original research.
Company's Many Interests
In addition to industrial manufacture and production of rub
ber, metal, plastic and textile products, synthetics and chemicals.
Firestone maintains a guided missile production plant in Los
Angeles and a weapons systems engineering laboratory in Mon
terey, Calif.
Acknowledging the Firestone gift, Caltech president Du
Bridge pointed out that he expected the research and engineering
laboratories to make “outstanding contributions to the technologi
cal strength of Pasadena and the nation.”
He noted that the Firestone gift brought to $16,500,000 the
total contributions so far obtained toward the $19,000,000 goal of
Caltech’s development campaign.
Price Reductions On Firestone Tires
Reductions ranging from 5 to
19 per cent are features of a
readjustment in Firestone pas-
senger-car tire prices.
The revised price schedules,
affecting passenger car tires
only, went into effect July 21.
“Historically, the highly com
petitive tire industry has mini
mized the effect of inflation on
the tire consumer by progres
sively delivering more tire miles
per dollar,” Raymond C. Fire
stone, president of the com-
The Foamatic cushion is use
ful on outdoor chairs, for use at
the pool or beach, in boats and
automobiles; at sports events,
picnics, and for camping and
fishing. It can also be used in
the home and office, and is es
pecially suitable for invalids.
pany, said in announcing the
price decrease. “This price ad
justment means that the motor
ist will now get even more mil^^
for his tire dollar. It also
should have a marked effect on
highway safety, by making
possible for car owners to re
place presently unsafe tires with
a higher quality product at ^
lower price.”
PRICES of 14-inch passenger
car tires had the greatest reduc
tion. The company’s 14-inch De
luxe Champion, the tire used on
new automobiles, and the “500,
a high speed tire, were reduced
19 per cent. Fifteen-inch tires
the Deluxe Champion and “500
lines were reduced 15 per cent.
The company said that certain
other passenger car tires
were reduced substantially-