Prosperity—Not Boom
Seen For The 1960s
A decade of prosperity is envisioned by Earl
B. Hathaway, vice president of Firestone. But
Mr. Hathaway would have you guard against
the belief held by some economists that there
will be a fabulous boom during the next ten
years.
The company official made these observations
in a recent talk before a Rotary group in Akron,
Ohio. He listed these primary reasons for his be
lief in a prosperous decade coming up: Increase
in population and increase in “real income”.
Census figures led Mr. Hathaway to expect
a U. S. population climb of 40,000,000 persons in
the next ten years, bringing the total to around
220,000,000.
“Population increase is the main reason that
public school administrators are much concern
ed with providing 35,000 new classrooms each
year during the 1960s,” he noted. “But let’s re
member that additions to the population also
create increased buying power to consume the
goods people produce.”
The company executive estimates that increas
ed population combined with greater output and
slowly-rising prices will result in a 60 per cent
increase in the gross national product by 1970.
Real income, he thinks, will rise sufficiently to
allow middle-income families to purchase more
goods and services than they have been able to
heretofore.
On Distribution
Of Tax Dollars
The million and billion-dollar
figures tossed around in talk
about the cost of government are
so big they don’t have much
meaning for the average per
son. By way of example, what
does it mean to the average
citizen that the U. S. govern
ment intends to spend close to
$80 billion in the fiscal year be
ginning next July 1?
To translate this into some
thing meaningful to you. Tax
Foundation Inc. relates this
staggering figure to the Federal
income taxes paid by a worker
whose pay is $5,000 a year. The
table below accounts for his in
come tax dollar (by Federal
budget categories). A worker in
this salary bracket is calculated
to have a Federal income tax
obligation of $420 a year. Here’s
how this tax load is spent:
National Security $240
International Affairs
and finances 12
Veteran’s Service and
benefits 29
Labor and Welfare 24
Agriculture and
Agricultural Resources 29
Natural Resources 10
Commerce and Housing 14
General Government 10
Interest 51
Other 1
TOTAL $420
JUNE, 1980 PAGE 5
Darwin On Board
Of Traffic Club
Jack V. Darwin, Firestone
Textiles manager of sales, is one
of the three-member board of
governors of the Gastonia Traf
fic and Transportation Club. He
is among the slate of new of
ficers invested with their duties
at a dinner meeting at the
Eagles Club May 18.
With 130 members, the Gas
tonia Traffic and Transportation
Club has begun its third year
of operation. Membership is
drawn from persons associated
in some way with traffic and
transportation. Most members
are from Gaston county. Several
are from Cleveland, Mecklen
burg and Forsyth counties; and
York county in South Carolina.
About the only lime young
sters let grass grow under their
feet is when they're asked to
mow it.—Third Shift Doffer
Mr/s J. Vick Smith
In Kings Mountain
Mr. and Mrs. James Vick
Smith went to live in Kings
Mountain following their wed
ding trip to the Western North
Carolina mountains in early
May. Mr. Smith and the former
Miss Margaret Costner were
married in Kings Mountain First
Presbyterian Church April 30.
Mrs. Smith, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Costner of
Gastonia, is a graduate of Ash
ley High School. Her husband,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Smith of Kings Mountain, is a
graduate of Kings Mountain
High School. He is employed in
Spooling at Firestone Textiles.
Auto Inspection
—From page 1
program which Firestone op
erates each year is part of the
accident-control efforts of the
Inter-Industry Highway Safety
Committee. Cooperating in the
project is the Association of
State and Provincial Coordi
nators.
Firestone was the first of
major American industries to
make the free volunteer safety-
check program available to its
employees and other motorists
in its plant and retail-store com
munities across the country.
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HOW-TO FOR SHUTTERBUGS
Vacation Photos Will ‘Keep Memory Green’
New Tire Produced
For Farm Service
The company which put the
farm on rubber in 1932 is build
ing a new tire for the free-roll
ing wheels of wagons, and some
tractor front-wheel applications.
Here, under a hefty load of
baled straw, the Firestone Farm
Tire rolls on the Company’s
Homestead Farms at Columbi
ana, Ohio.
For years, farmers have de
pended upon used passenger
tires for hauling wagon loads.
The new wagon tire has six-ply
nylon cord body. It is specially
built for farm service, featuring
increased impact resistance over
regular six-ply tires. A wagon
equipped with four Farm Tires
is capable of hauling loads of
more than three and a half tons.
Manufactured in a 7.00/7.60-15
size, it fits most rims being used
today on free-rolling wagons
and implement wheels.
Summer souvenirs and vaca
tions go hand-in-hand. With
Firestone’s Gastonia plant shut
down week in both July and
August, what better way to
treasure places, people, things
and events than photographs and
movies? For vacations and for
regular fun in the sunny months,
photos are your best souvenirs
because they allow you to re-,
live the pleasures of the past.
Because the average person is
not professional with a camera,
photo authorities have written
volumes of how-to advice for
shutterbugs. Here are gleanings
of some of the basic tricks that
will help you sharpen up your
picture-taking this summer.
1. Before you leave for Camp
Firestone, Windy Hill Beach or
wherever else you travel, have
your camera checked at a cam
era store or dealer’s. Make some
practice shots and develop them
before you take off on vacation.
2. Even if your experience
does not go beyond aiming the
“box” and tripping the shutter,
things like film ratings, f-stops,
shutter speeds needn’t over
whelm you. Best advice: Read
instructions that come with your
film.
3. Unless your camera will
take pictures at 1/100 second or
faster, shy away from action
passing directly across your
view. Yet, with the simplest fix
ed focus camera you can record
movements directly approaching
or retreating at moderate speeds.
4. For outdoors, use a filter
with black-and-white film. The
light yellow (K2) is most popu
lar for dramatic sky effects.
5. Take plenty of pictures en
route to your place of vacation.
youR
ings, monuments, bridges,
scenics. People add human in
terest, make photos personalized
treasures.
• Keep backgrounds simple.
Add props for interest. A beach
ball, scarf, straw hat, piece of
driftwood, boat, rocks, surf—■
they’ll do glamour duty for add
ed variety and interest. Props
identify places, help your model
look relaxed, natural.
Take plenty of pictures
wherever you go. The more you
try, the more you’ll likely have
for re-living your vacation
pleasures.
MERA
REMEMBER these points;
Hold camera steady when you
shoot, especially at slow shutter
speeds; keep your distance when
using a fixed-focus box (six feet
is about as close as you can get).
But closeups are usually more
interesting.
• Shoot with sunlight to side
of subject, to bring out details
and create light-and-shadow ef
fects for more artistic values.
• Take pictures mornings and
afternoons—not high noon. On
a hazy day you might “fill” with
flash lighting.
• Plan pictures ahead of time.
Check guidebook, travel bro
chures, road maps for ideas.
• Away with the “picture-
postcard complex.” Include peo
ple—members of your vacation
ing party—in pictures of build
Astle Manager
At Woodstock
William Astle has succeeded
Frank A. Austin as general
manager of Firestone Textiles
Ltd. of Woodstock, Ontario,
Canada. Mr. Astle was promoted
to his present job from office
manager and assistant general
manager upon Mr. Austin’s re
cent retirement.
Mr. Austin was a member of
the management staff at the
Gastonia plant before being as
signed to Woodstock several
years ago.
Members of the Firestone
Company’s family of North
American textile operations in
clude the Woodstock, Bennetts-
ville, S. C., and Gastonia plants.
Freedom’s Banner
183 Years Old In June
June 14 this year marks the 183rd birthday
of the American Flag. The date commemorates
the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of
the Flag, by the Continental Congress meeting
at Philadelphia in 1777.
This was a few months after George Washing
ton, Robert Morris and Colonel George Ross were
said to have called at the home of Betsy Ross
and asked her to fashion a sample flag accord
ing to their directions. “. . . That the Flag of the
United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white
in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
Flag Day was first officially proclaimed by
the governor of New York in 1897. The custom
grew rapidly.
Today, the Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia is
a restored public shrine to the banner of a free
people.
This year, the 50th star will be officially add
ed to the Flag on July 4, The 49th star, repre
senting Alaska, was added last year. For the
second year, both Alaska and Hawaii will join
the other 48 states in observance of Flag Day,
paying tribute to Old Glory and the things which
she symbolizes.