PROCESSES, OPERATIONS ENGINEER
Emmett S. Fullington’s Job:
To Find ‘The One Best Way’
PEOPLE, PLACES
and EVENTS
in the
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rhyne visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Spencer
and family in Orlando, Fla., in early February. While in Florida, the
Rhynes attended the Daytona International Speedway stockcar
races. They saw Marion “Bubba” Farr win the 250-mile modified
race; and Jack Smith and Glen “Fireball” Roberts win 100-mile
late-model feature races, in cars equipped with Firestone tires.
Mrs. Edna Champion, inspector, and daughter Anne spent a
February week-end in Liberty, S. C.
Mrs. Buddy Johnson, inspector, and Mr. Johnson visited recent
ly with their son Richard Johnson at Wilson, N. C. Richard is a
freshman at Atlantic Christian College.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wheeler of Charlotte spent a recent week
end with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Waldrep. The Waldreps work in this
department.
Mrs. Howard Moses came back to work in February after sev
eral days spent at Mr. Moses’ bedside in Asheville, while he was
recovering from surgery.
Main Office
Charles McKee, Shipping, and Mrs. McKee (Margie) spent a
recent week visiting his mother in Greenville, Miss. P>om there,
the McKees went on to Houston, Texas, for a brief visit with other
relatives.
Mrs. Lane Creasman, switchboard operator and a Main Office
receptionist, came back to work in February, after a short period
of illness at a local hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Wellman visited their son in Philadelphia,
Pa., recently. Mr. Wellman is a fork-lift truck operator.
Mrs. Albert Meeks is back home from recent treatment at
Gaston County Negro Hospital. Her husband is a conveyor operator.
Searching for the One Best
Way is a continuing task of Em
mett S. Fullington, engineer of
processes and operations at the
Gastonia plant. The Macon, Ga.,
native, who came here late last
year, has the important assign
ment of research and analysis
which leads to developing and
putting into operation improved
methods of manufacturing.
This pursuit leads to efficiency
of operation of manpower and
machines, allowing the company
to produce the most goods pos
sible for the least expenditure,
and of such quality and price
that will stand up on the prod
ucts market.
“The more and better goods
we are able to produce at fair
prices will enable us to remain
contestants in the game of com
petition,” Mr. Fullington ex
plains.
Firestone People
In Church Paper
Two members of Firestone
Textiles families in Gastonia
were featured in a group picture
which was published in the Feb
ruary 6 issue of Biblical Record
er, journal of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
Mrs. Mamie Stevens of Twist
ing (synthetics) and Mrs. Stan
ley Huffstetler whose hubsand
works in Winding were in the
picture with the Rev. Guy Walk
er, minister of Temple Baptist
Church of Gastonia; Mrs. Kath
erine Gaston, superintendent of
the Gaston Baptist Association
Extension Department and Car
roll Henderson, Sunday school
THE MAN who seeks ways
and means toward more and
better production, has acquired
valuable experience in textile
manufacturing since the day he
relinquished his second lieuten
ant rank in the Air Force in
1 9 5 4. A Fighter - observation
pilot, his last assignment was on
front-line support, forward air
control in Korea.
He was graduated from high
school in Macon, and received
the bachelor of textile engineer
ing degree from Georgia Tech
in 1930.
Upon return from his three
years’ Air Force duty, he was
employed for two years as pro
duction supervisor in a Green
ville, S. C. plant of a leading
textile manufacturer. For two
and a half years he was stand
ards and laboratory overseer in
a factory producing cotton goods
superintendent at Temple.
Others were Mrs. George
Michael, Mrs. Lander Mincey,
Mrs. J. M. Sosebee and Mrs.
Fannie Hudspeth.
Plant photographer Charles A.
Clark took the picture of the
Temple church extension service
personnel, of which Mrs. Stevens
is superintendent. The organiza
tion operates to extend the edu
cational and benevolent work of
the church to those who are
sick, handicapped, aged, and
people who work at essential
jobs on Sunday, or those who
otherwise are prevented from
entering into the worship and
activities of the church.
Some 45 persons are enrolled
as students of the extension pro
gram at Temple, Mrs. Stevens
said.
Emmell S. Fullington
in Atlanta. Then, after 18
months as methods engineer at
a children’s-wear plant in Geor
gia, he came to Firestone.
Mr. and Mrs. Fullington with
their sons, Michael, 3, and Paul,
4 months, live on Poston Circle.
The family attends First Baptist
Church of Gastonia.
Airide Springs
Bring New Era
To Trucking
<
Airide by Firestone has help
ed to bring in a new era of
driving comfort and safety in
the trucking industry. In mak
ing this observation, president
R. D. Smith of Firestone Indus
trial Products Company, Nobles-
ville, Ind., said:
“General Motors Corporation
features an Airide suspension
on its new DLR-8000 and DFR-
8000 highway tractors. These
two models are so different from
those built in the past that they
have been called a new concept
in highway tractors. They are
the lightest and safest of any
in their field.”
These two GE trucks feature
a new type of stabilized Airide,
independent front wheel sus
pension, fabricated frames and
aluminum tilt cabs, achieving
major advances in light weight
and safety design.
“One of the chief improve
ments to handling ease and
riding comfort lies in the stab
ilized Airide,” Mr. Smith added.
It has a fast-recovery piston-
type air springs and leveling
valve at each wheel.
A NEW TYPE of single con
volution air springs replaces the
former double convolution air
bellows, doing away with the
need for an air reservoir tank
to get the desired ride. This
suspension system also makes
possible an exceptionally-short
overall length. Both GMC units
measure only 48 inches from
bumper to back of cab.
Methods Man Here
Helped Write Book
Thomas A. Grant of Firestone
in Gastonia is a contributing
author of a 216-page manual on
time study for the textile indus
try, released this year by Textile
Book Publishers Inc., a division
of Interscience Publishers, Inc.,
of New York.
The 19-chapter manual rep
resents work of 27 contributors
who are members of the South
ern Textile Methods & Stand
ards Association, which conducts
research and provides a forum at
which methods and standards
personnel exchange experiences,
information and ideas.
The book editor is Norbert
Lloyd Enrick, associate director
of research and head of the op
erations research division. Insti
tute Of Textile Technology. Mr.
Enrick took the work of the con
tributors and added material
from his own files, gathered
from his consulting and research
experiences.
The book to which Mr. Grant
has contributed grew out of the
need for a special manual writ
ten from the standpoint of ap
plications in the textile indus
try. It was designed to fill this
need and to serve as a study
reference, and training aid for
the time study engineer and his
assistants.
A supplementary volume to
the manual published this year
is now in preparation. James E.
Cooper, chief methods and
standards engineer at Firestone
Textiles, will be a contributor to
that work.
Henson’s Hobby
Drew A Comment
The front-page story of plant
engineer W. G. Henson and his
collection of clocks, published in
the January issue of Firestone
News, has occasioned a comment
from an outstanding authority
on timepiece collecting.
Referring to the article “Time
piece Collection Offers A Lesson
For The New Year”, Earl P.
Strickler wrote: “Mr. Henson’s
hobby is all to Firestone’s good.
I know from experience that
he—with his keen awareness of
Time—can approach each new
day’s work problem with a fresh
outlook . . .”
Mr. Strickler is managing di
rector of the National Associa
tion of Watch & Clock Collec
tors, Inc., and curator of the
Columbia (Pa.) Museum of Hor-
ological Antiquities.
AIRIDE—Spring system on this General Motors DLR-800 high
way tractor features independent suspension. The Airide by Fire
stone air spring system makes possible elimination of both front
axle and heavy leaf springs. Rubber and nylon fabric are principal
materials in Airide.
TEXTILES THROUGH THE AGES
Cotton is the most important vegetable fiber used
by man. Its story goes back to prehistoric times in
many lands. Somewhere between 23 and 79 A.D. the
Roman naturalist Pliny wrote: “In upper Egypt,
toward Arabia, there grows a shrub from which the
stuffs are made which we call Xylina (cotton fab
ric).”
Little did Pliny envision that this same Xylina
would some day grow into one of the principal
money crops of world economy. The simple fiber has
multiplied into hundreds of products so diversified
in character that cotton touches our lives in count
less ways.
March 1960 Page 4
Volume IX Number 4
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Published by The Firestone
Tire & Rubber Company,
Firestone Textiles Division,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
Claude Callaway, Editor
Charles A. Clark, Photographer
PLANT REPORTERS
Carding—Edna Harris, Jessie
Ammons
Cloth Room—Margie Waldrep
Industrial Relation s—Flora
Pence
Main Office—Doris Corella
Quality Control—Sallie Craw
ford, Louella Queen, Leila
Rape
Spinning—L illie A. Brown,
Maude Peeler, Mary Turner
Spooling—Nell Bolick, Rosalie
Burger, Ophelia Wallace
Mechanical Department — Rosie
Francum
Twisting—Vera Carswell, Elease
Cole, Annie Cosey, Katie El
kins, Catherine Fletcher
Twisting (Sales)—Elmina Brad
shaw
Warehouse—Marjorie Falls,
George Harper, Albert Meeks,
Rosevelt Rainey
Weaving (cotton)—^Ruth Veitch
Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E*
Johnson, Irene Odell
Winding—Ruth Cloninger, MaY’
zelle Lewis