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PAGE 6 AUGUST, 1959 WARP AND FILLING Of The Passing Scene Textiles: Second Largest US Industry A recent issue of Dixie News, employee publication of Dixie Mercerizing Company, pointed up the textile industry’s place in world history, and the position it holds in the American way of life today. The article, in part: We in textiles belong to the second largest industry in America. There are at least 8,000 manufacturing plants in the United States turning out cotton and chemical fibre textile products. Fabrics from textile mills follow us from the cradle to the grave—in peace and in war. Textiles are ageless. Cloth more than 5,000 years old has been taken from the tombs of the Pharaohs of Egypt. The Bible speaks of Joseph’s coat of many colors, the fine linens of the Tabernacle of Israel, Elijah’s mantle; and of Lydia, the seller of purple. Moreover, it speaks of the swaddling clothes of the Bethlehem manger, and of the robe of Calvary. Historians agree that a shortage of textiles was a major factor in Germany’s downfall in World War I. In the recent world conflict, Secretary of War Knox ranked textiles as second only to steel in importance to national defense. Textiles is the fourth highest-paying industry in the United States. It is outranked only by the automotive, steel, and chemical industries. Films On Boating Available Free Firestone boat owners and other boating enthusiasts may be surprised to learn of the large number of boating films available for home or club show ing. As example, just one booklet, published by the National As sociation of Engine and Boat Manufacturers lists 300 boating film titles. Adventure, boat construction, technical fields, cruising and camping, fishing, life saving and swimming, navigation and weather, racing, safety and maintenance, sailing and water sports are among the list of sub jects covered. Many of the films may be bor rowed for the asking; small rent al fees are charged on others. The complete listing may be ob tained by writing the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. WORD PICTURES. . . In the weaving process, warp is any yarn that runs length wise in fabric made on a loom. Warp is usually stronger than filling (crosswise yarn), because the lengthwise yajrn is under considercible tension, and must withstand shuttle friction. The word "woof” comes from the Anglo-Saxon "owef," an other term for warp or warp yarn. But "woof" has been pop ularly used to refer to filling yarn in the weaving process, and made to interchange with the word "weft"—an old term for filling. Other names for "weft" are "pick" and "pick-and-shot." TEXAS PETROCHEMICAL CENTER Reactors are among chief installations of the Firestone PetTOchemical Center at Orange, Texas. The 40,000-ton ca pacity facility which went into operation in 1957 was the first butadiene plant to be constructed solely by a rubber company. As part of a $55 million construction and expan sion program of its worldwide facilities, the company is building a new unit to its plant at Orange. Butadiene from Texas oil fields is processed for production of the company’s man-made rubber compounds, Coral and Diene. Firestone has finishing plants for synthetic rubber at Akron, Ohio and Lake Charles, La. SERVICE AWARD—Company executive vice president J. E. Trainer congratulates Harry Swain (second from left) for 25 years of Firestone service. Mr. Swain was in Akron recently to receive his service award. Also offering congratulations were W. A. Karl (left), president of Firestone Textiles; and W. D. Waugh, president of Firestone International Company. THE HILLS BEYOND George Lovingood Funeral for George Lovingood, 81, was held July 15 at the White Church near Murphy, N. C., and burial was in the cemetery there. Masonic rites were offered at the graveside. Mr. Lovingood, who lived on RFD 3, Murphy, was a retired merchant and farmer. His son, Vernon Lovingood, is an over seer in Twisting (sales yarn). Surviving besides the son in Gastonia are: The widow, Mrs. Dora Tredway Lovingood; two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Bates and Mrs. Maggie Anderson, both of Murphy; three sons, Roy of Murphy, Homer of Springfield, Ohio, and Jack of Henderson ville; 11 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. B. B. Palmer and Mrs. J. F. Palmer, both of Marble, N. C. Swain 25 Years With Company Harry L. Swain, well known at the Gastonia Firestone plant through his assignment in the textiles division, has begun his 26th year of employment with the company. Mr. Swain, manager of Fire stone’s textile plant in Sao Paulo Brazil, marked his 25th service anniversary recently. The Brazil plant manager came to the company in 1926 as a trainee in the Fall River, Mass., textile plant. Late that year he transferred to the fabric labora tory in Akron, Ohio, where he remained until 1932. From late 1932 until early 1936, he was in quality control at the New Bedford, Mass., tex tile plant. He returned to the Textiles Division in Akron in 1936. In 1944 Mr. Swain left the company, but in 1952 rejoined the Textiles Division in Akron to handle sales of textiles to out side firms. He was named manager of the Sao Paulo plant in 1957. Mr. Swain is a graduate in textile engineering from Lowell Textile Institute at Lowell, Mass. PUT FIRE OUT BEFORE IT STAR TS The easiest fire to put out is the one that never starts. Is fire lurking in your house, waiting to strike at some unex pected time? If oily rags and mops are carelessly kept, or newspapers, discarded clothing and boxes heaped in attic or basement, flammable liquids left in the house, fire can start at any time. Check up. Clear out these threats to life and property. USE YOUR REAR- VISION MIRROR! Get in the habit of looking reg ularly in your rear-view mirror while driving along. This will warn you of cars approaching from the rear, tell you when the coast is clear to steer your car into the other lane. Always use proper warning signals, re membering there is a blind spot to the side and back of your car in which another vehicle may be present. © AMERICAN MUTUAL LIAB. INS. CO MASS PRODUCTION After 161 Years: A Good Idea Has Grown Up It’s an old idea. The years have proved it to be a good one. Mass production is the basis of our American economy and the fountainhead of our standard of living. Turn back the pages to 1798, for this ex ample of how mass production contributed to the country’s march of progress. Back then, each army rifle had to be made laboriously by hand, each part being fash ioned to fit only one gun. Then Eli Whitney—better known as in ventor of the cotton gin—devised a revolu tionary method of speed-forging. It made possible the stamping of “standard” inter changeable parts of the rifles. Assembly of parts was made a separate process of the manufacture. Adapting the Whitney mass-production method in 1807, a clockmaker in New Eng land began turning out 5,000 clocks a year. Before that, his production was four time pieces a year. What’s more, he sold each clock for $5 instead of $25—his price under the “handmaking” method. Eli Whitney’s idea of 1798 has grown up. Today, mass production enables American workers to turn out more and better goods to sell at lower prices than could be possible under any other system. Volume VIII, No. 9, August, 1959 Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. Department of Industrial Relations DEPARTMENT REPORTERS CARDING—Edna Harris, Jessie Ammons. SPINNING—Lillie Brown, Mary Turner, Maude Peeler. SPOOLING—Nell Bolick, Ophelia Wallace, Rosalie Burger. TWISTING—Elease Cole, Vera Carswell, Katie Elkins, Annie Cosey, Catherine Fletcher. SALES YARN TWISTING—Elmina Brad shaw. SYC WEAVING—M a x i e Carey, Ruth Veitch. CORD WEAVING — Irene Odell, Mary Johnson, Samuel Hill. QUALITY CONTROL — Sally Crawford, Leila Rape, and Louella Queen. WINDING—Mayzelle Lewis, Ruth Clon- inger. CLOTH ROOM—Margie Waldrep, Mildred McLeymore SHOP—Rosie Francum. PLASTIC DIP—Jennie Bradley. -- MAIN OFFICE—Doris McCready. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS—Flora Pence. WAREHOUSE—George Harper, Albert Meeks, Rosevelt Rainey, Marjorie Falls. Claude Callaway, Editor Charles A. Clark, Photographer
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