$13,593.53 CONTRIBUTION
Your Gift To UF
Helps 24 Agencies
Firestone employees opened their hearts—and hands—
to an average gift of $10.02, in support of the Greater Gas
tonia United Fund this year. The total employee contribu
tion of $13,593.53 was among the largest gifts from business
and industry.
Dollars from Firestone people
will go to work toward the sup
port and operation of 24 com
munity and national welfare,
recreation and character-build
ing agencies during the next 12
months.
This was the eighth consecu
tive year that the Gastonia plant
participated in the program of
the Greater Gastonia United
Fund.
As in years past, several dozen
volunteer solicitors signed up
employees for contributions
through the payroll deduction
plan. Gifts came from 98 per
cent of the total employment.
Those pledging a “fair share”
were eligible for a numbers-
drawing at the end of the cam
paign period.
Production manager F. B.
Galligan was the fund campaign
chairman. He was assisted by
co-chairmen P. R. Williams,
Cotton Division manager; and
F. S. Martin, Synthetics Divi
sion manager.
Where Money Goes
American Red Cross of Gas
ton County, Boy Scouts of
America — Piedmont Council,
Children’s Home Society of
N. C., Florence Crittenton Home,
Gaston Big Brothers, Gaston
Life-Saving Crew, Girl Scouts
of America—Pioneer Area Coun
cil, Junior Optimist Boys Club.
N. C. Mental Health Associa
tion, Red Shield Boys Club,
Regional Mental Health Center,
Salvation Army, United Cerebral
Palsy Association, United Medi
cal Research Foundation of
N. C., United Service Organiza
tions (USO), Young Men’s
Christian Association (YMCA).
National Agencies: American
Hearing Society, American
Social Hygiene Association, In
ternational Social Service, Na
tional Probation and Parole As
sociation, National Recreation
Association, National Social Wel
fare Assembly, National Travel
ers Aid Association.
With this issue of the plant
newspaper, there begins a series
of articles on the various agen
cies which share in your United
Fund contribution. The first
article, on the Salvation Army,
is on page 3.
Guard Eyes
At Home, Too
☆ ☆ ☆
Guarding your precious
eyesight while at work on
your job is one of the major
concerns of your personal
safety. Your activities off the
job also require constant eye
sight protection, and one of
the best places to practice
this kind of safety is at home.
The American Optometric
Association suggests this
check-list for visual safety
around the house:
Are there do - it - yourself
hobbyists in the home work
shop?
Do you wear eyeglasses
that Baby could break?
If children wear glasses,
do they play rough-and-
tumble games, while wearing
fragile lenses and frames?
Can the teenage athletes in
your family play their best
basketball, football or similar
sports in eyeglasses designed
for school work?
These four situations sug
gest adoption of safety glass
es. Unbreakable lenses and
sturdy frames are available.
It will cost you less to supply
the proper vision care to be
gin with, than to repair the
damage that might be done
without it.
FAIR-SHARE LUCK — UF
contributors who were winners
in the lucky-numbers drawing
at close of fund campaign. Give
away merchandise was from tha
Firestone Stores. From left;
Sarah Ward, automatic toaster;
Lewis Connor, clock-radio; Al
fonso Nixon, 35 mm camera with
flashgun; Speer Holloway, hi-
fi radio and recorder; Willie
Ward, refrigerator. Bob Chavis,
sixth winner who received a
steam-dry iron, is not in picture.
AT ALL COMPANY PLANTS
Long Holiday Season Gets Safety Emphasis
When you head for home at the end of your work shift,
you can’t leave safety behind at the factory gate. At least,
you shouldn’t. That’s the motivating truth behind Off-the-
Job Safety Month in December.
☆ ☆ ☆
Every year all Firestone plants
set aside the months of May and
December for emphasis on away-
from-the-job injury control.
Within, or near, these two
months are five major holidays
—Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christ
mas, and New Year’s Day.
And these holidays take a
heavy toll of injury and death
each year—most of them occur
ring at home, play, on the high
ways, or other places away from
the job.
“A person injured off the job
is just as lost to industry as if
Bernard Aim places a visual
reminder from the Safety de
partment. Signs like this—with
the other side reading "Your
On-the-Job Safety Begins Here",
are now located at all major
plant entrances.
S3!1W^ Yadkinville Students On Plant Tour
DECEMBER, 1960 PAGE 2
ever told. It is joyfully welcom
ed because it is so rich in those
things that undergird the spirit
and strengthen the soul of
man . . .
In keeping with the Season
of the Immortal Story, this
month’s front page combines a
picture of plant photographer
Charles A. Clark, and a Bible
quotation in a layout by Char
lotte artist James Barnette.
In the picture arrangement,
the singing cherub figurines are
flanked by hemlock boughs from
“the Christmas-tree country” of
Western North Carolina. The
background features the majes
tic carol of hymnwriter Isaac
Watts, with stirring music by
George F. Handel, composer of
“The Messiah”.
December is the month of Scripture quotation of the
warm hearts, bright lights and cover layout is Galatians 4;4a,
a renewal of the Greatest Story King James Version.
Frank Wilson of Yadkinville
Elementary School loaded his
seventh-graders into a school
bus and made the usual once-a-
year journey to Gastonia and
Firestone Textiles in late No
vember.
It was the third year that the
former Gastonian had made the
100-mile trip with his pupils for
a tour of the Firestone plant.
This year there were 33 stu
dents, along with Mr. Wilson
and a woman chaperon, Mrs.
Leslie Adams.
They all had a look at tire
fabric and other textile produc
tion here, then had a group pic
ture made by the plant pho
tographer just as they started
homeward.
Teacher Wilson is the son of
Lester Wilson of Spinning and
Mrs. Wilson of Twisting (cot
ton). A sister, Mrs. James Gallo
way, is in Main Office.
Frank, a graduate of Gardner-
Webb College and Appalachian
State Teachers College, is in his
fifth year of teaching in the
Yadkin county school system.
In addition to his work at
school, Mr. Wilson is pastor of
South Oakridge Baptist Church
near Yadkinville.
the mishap had occurred at a
machine in a factory,” said com
pany safety manager M. R.
Batche, as he announced the an
nual effort to control holiday-
season injuries.
Off-Job: 30 to 1
Reports compiled in his de
partment show that in a typical
month, mishaps occurring off
the job and resulting in lost
time at work, outnumber on-job
injuries more than 30 to 1.
The primary purpose of con
trolling injuries to employees
wherever they might be, is the
reducing of pain and suffering
to employees and their loved
ones, Mr. Batche noted.
Among the many other rea
sons for emphasizing safety
away from the job, he lists
these:
» It reduces wage loss and
medical expenses which inevi
tably come to the worker as a
result of lost-time injuries.
» Reduction of injuries cuts
down on absenteeism from the
job; also increases worker ef
ficiency.
» A safety consciousness away
from work most likely will be
applied wherever threat of in
jury exists—on or off the job.
Safety records show that a
good off-the-job program defi
nitely helps reduce injuries on
the job.
Price Reduction
from $1 to $4
on all tires
by Firestone
See your dealer
On Page 1
This Month
^Heritage
of
Quality’
A large Southern industry has grown into an international
concern on the operating formula that is summed up in what the
firm calls “A Heritage of Quality”. This basic credo, written by the
company’s founder more than a quarter century ago, defines ^
“quality product” as one that “. . . fills the need better than any
other product . . . one that is backed by faith, honor and integrity
of the maker, and is manufactured with such painstaking care that
it will be set apart from all other related products.”