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RICHARD CANIPE Scout Gets Highest Church Citation The God and Country Award, highest church citation for Scouting, was presented to Richard Canipe at First Meth odist Church in early February. Making the presentation was the church pastor, Dr. J. G. Hug- gin, and associate pastor the Rev. Clyde Murray, who worked with Richard in the Scouting program for the past year. It was Richard who, last year, became the 14th outstanding Boy Scout of the Gastonia area to receive the Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Award for Scouting. The 16-year-old Eagle Scout, who has 24 merit badges, is a member of Troop 35 of Luther an Chapel Church. The son of Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Canipe of 203 Beverly drive, Richard has 3,000 MILES IN THE JUNGLE one of the most outstanding records as a winner of the top Firestone award for Scouting. He scored 425 points—a perfect record—in the rating program for the company honor last year. Hopewell Plant Gets Manager W. J. Smith has been named manager of the com pany’s new plant for produc tion of synthetic fibers and resins at Hopewell, Va. The facility, now in limited op eration, is expected to be in full production by late sum mer. It is now undergoing extensive expansion and modernization. Mr. Smith has been with the company’s plastics division since 1944, starting as a development chemist at the plastics labora tory in Paterson, N. J. In 1945 he transferred to the Firestone Rubber & Latex Products Com pany in Fall River, Mass. A year later he was appointed manager of control laboratories at the Pottstown plastics plant, and in 1951 was named manager of the plastics development laboratory, the job he held until his promo tion to the Hopewell post. A native of Paterson, N. J., Mr. Smith was graduated from Rutgers University with a bache lor of science degree in chem istry in 1944. He is a member of the American Chemical So ciety and the Society of Plastics Engineers. The plant of which Mr. Smith is manager was purchased from the Celanese Corporation last September. Firestone’s acquisi tion of this facility represented the first venture of any rubber company into full-scale manu facture of synthetic fibers. Nylon from Hopewell Coming to Gastonia Nylon will be the first syn thetic fiber produced at Hope- well. Executive vice president, James E. Trainer has announced that initial production of around 1,000,000 pounds of nylon per month will be shipped to Gas tonia for processing at Firestone Textiles. This production will be devoted primarily to the manu facture of tire cord, and will fill about 15 per cent of Firestone’s requirement of this material. Other production at the Hope- well plant will be resins, the first to be polypropylene, a pro cess developed by Firestone scientists as an outgrowth of its research in Coral rubber. Poly propylene is used in making a plastic film similar to the poly ethylene marketed extensively as packaging material. When the company bought the Hopewell plant last year, chair man Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., announced that the Firestone Plastics Company at Pottstown, Pa. had become the Plastics and Synthetic Fibers Division of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Com pany, which took over manage ment of the Virginia operation. President of the expanded op eration is Roger S. Firestone; executive vice president is Ern est T. Handley. March, 1960 Page 8 Nylon ‘Whale’ Hauls Oil To The Amazon Deep in the South American jungle, 3,000 miles from the sea, a “whale” swims on a remote tributary of the Amazon River. While in some respects resem bling the real animal which gave it its name, this “whale” is made of nylon and coated with rub ber. Its business; to transport diesel fuel down the Coroico and Kaka Rivers of Bolivia. The 1,000 - gallon - capacity tanks like this one are officially named Fabritanks. They are Xight-Look’ Cases For Pepsi-Cola Firestone is playing a heavy role with a light touch in pro duction of a new beverage case, with the “light look,” for the Pepsi-Cola Company. The four- carton case, first used by bot tlers in four major cities, will soon be available to the more than 500 Pepsi-Cola bottlers in the United States and abroad. The case is a joint develop ment of Firestone, Reynolds Aluminum Company and the Pepsi-Cola Company. It is formed of two identical halves of extruded aluminum riveted to form the body. A masonite base is held by the extruded channel of the aluminum sides. Carrying handles are formed by roll-back cutaways. Side panels have cutaway areas, so the carton identifica tion can show, and the name identification is permanently stamped into the aluminum, avoiding loss and misplacement. The Pepsi-Cola case takes its place with a long line of metal products from Firestone’s more than a half-century in metal forming and metal finishing. among the wide diversity of products which Firestone turns out for special jobs. The tanks were originally designed for storage, rather than transporta tion of liquids. South American Placers, Inc., recently dredging for gold in one of the most remote sections of the Amazon drainage area on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountains, adapted the Fabri- tank to cut fuel transportation costs 80 per cent. DIESEL FUEL is pumped from tank truck or storage tanks into the Fabritank, first placed in the river. Diesel fuel is light er than water, so allows the fill ed craft to float. After it has been fiUed, the tank is loosed and two natives on a balsa raft follow it downstream. At destination, the tank is lifted by a truck crane using two wide straps made of con veyor belting. The tank is placed on a flatbed truck and hauled to the place where it is emptied, rolled up and sent back by plane for another load. The job field manager plans to eventually install a pump to empty the tank without remov ing it from the river. He ex plains that the company’s dredg ing operations are in such a re mote location that the only al ternative to the Fabritank method of hauling fuel would be by way of expensive air lift. This Fabritank job proved so successful that South American Placers recently ordered two more units for the jungle opera tion. , Firestone - built "w hale" — down a tributary of the Amazon with a load of diesel fuel. THE HILLS BEYOND John Love, Father Of Employees Funeral for John Love was held February 9 at Trinity AME Zion Church of Gastonia, and burial was in the church ceme tery. Mr. Love was a member of the board of stewards and form er chorister of Trinity church. Two of his sons work at Fire stone: Howard, interplant mail; and Ervin Love of Twisting. Other survivors include the widow, Mrs. Faithy Love of the home on Linwood road; chil dren—Oscar, Asbury, and Sloan Love; Mrs. Ila Barber, and Mrs. Mildred Davie all of Gastonia; and a brother, the Rev. Samuel Love of the Pisgah community; 24 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. FROM MRS. WHITAKER . . . ^Thanks... For Helping When It Was Needed Mosf Jud Whitaker, who was employed here for 12 years before illness forced his retirement in 1957, came home to 1116 West Seventh avenue February 29. He had been in Garrison General Hospital since late 1959 — first with pneumonia, then with blood clots which led to amputation of both his legs just below the knees. To meet the emergency of mounting expenses at the hospital, many individuals and organizations, including church groups, col lected money for the patient. Firestone people made an in-plant contribution in January. Of the amount, $1,177.73 paid Mr. Whit aker’s hospital account through January 18. The rest of the collec tion — $257.25 was given to Mrs. Whitaker who works in Splicing (synthetics). In response to the Firestone employee contribution, Mrs. Whit aker wrote for the plant newspaper: “Thanks to each of you who gave when it was needed most. Though I would like to express appreciation to all of you in person, this note will reach you to say we appreciate your kindness so much. I just can’t thank you enough, and I know God will bless each one of you for what you have done.” IN ALL ITS FORMS Water Serves Us Well Water—like fire—is one of man’s greatest blessings from God. Also like fire, water can be a curse if misused. National Wildlife Week, March 20-26, which coincides with the beginning of spring, is a good time to consider this great natural resource. This year’s Wildlife Week Slogan, “Water —Key to Your Survival”, calls attention to a growing problem, because water is es sential to our well being. In few places is water as “free as air.” All living things on earth, from the small est micro-organism to giant trees, are de pendent upon the basic resources of soil, water, air and sunlight. Some creatures, but not many, may exist with very little water; but life as we know it is dependent upon this precious commodity. Proper management of water truly is of national concern. Essentially, water means life. Water nourishes the soil and enables it to grow the things we eat and use. We need water for drinking purposes and other personal uses. Water serves men in other ways, too. It generates power, helps produce an end less variety of industrial products, provides transportation, serves many municipal functions and offers the basic component of recreations such as fishing, hunting, swim ming, boating and other water sports. Using it in such diverse forms as solids (ice and snow) and vapor (steam), as well as liquid, water serves man well. FIRESTONE TEXTILES P. O. BOX 551 GASTONIA. N. C. 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