GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME X NUMBER 1
JANUARY, 1961
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Playing ‘Safgo’ This Year?
Aren’t you glad you gave to the
United Fund? Your gift will
help so many people during 1961.
Hai'riett
Progress Report
Set For February
Employees will read the
company’s I960 year-end sur
vey of progress and report to
stockholders, in the special
annual issue of Firestone
plant newspapers in Febru-
ary.
The progress issue is high
lighted by the financial re
port each year by Harvey S.
Firestone Jr., chairman and
chief executive officer of the
organization.
The Gastonia Firestone
Textiles edition of the publi
cation is scheduled for mail
ing to employees around
BEGINNING JANUARY 16
‘Two Rs’ Ckss Set For TV
Charlotte station WBTV has
revamped its “learn-to-read”
program so it can be conducted
without classes and without
local teachers. Beginning Janu
ary 16, the station will attempt
to teach people to read at home.
In two previous years the sta
tion organized classes for its
non-reader listeners and recruit
ed volunteer’ teachers to help
the students with their TV in-
YouVe heard it by now: SAFGO is a game like Bingo.
And by this time, employees here are playing it for a re
peated lesson in safety. As the months go by, several per
sons will share in a total of $600—a payoff for their interest
and effort.
mid-February. All editions of
the progress report issue are
produced in Akron, Ohio. At
the company’s headquarters,
members of the public rela
tions staff, with the help of
publication editors at the
various plants, prepare and
edit the report.
Each year the progress is
sue features significant
points of the company’s his
tory during the preceding
year—growth and expansion,
and new developments in the
company’s efforts to better
serve its customers.
It is customary for the
Gastonia edition of the prog
ress issue to include a photo
graph from Firestone Tex
tiles here.
struction.
One of the many TV class
rooms scattered across the Caro-
linas and other Southern states
was at the Firestone Recreation
Center. Miss Myrtle Bradley of
Main Office was early-morning
instructor for the course for both
of the two years.
This year, in the absence of
enough volunteer teachers, the
—More on page 5
This program of fun and
profit, available to all Firestone
Textiles Gastonia employees ex
cept the safety supervisor, offers
a $50 reward in merchandise
each month during 1961. The
payoff, selected from merchan
dise of the earner’s choice, will
be supplied through The Fire
stone Stores. If there is more
than one person eligible for the
reward each month, the prize
will be divided equally.
Stay Safe To Participate
At the top of the list for eligi
bility to play Safgo: The partici
pant must work safely on and off
the job. If an individual has
sustained an injury resulting in
more than one day’s absence
from his work schedule during
a given month-long contest, he
will be ineligible for the $50
payoff that month.
And, too, if absent on any
regularly scheduled workday,
the participant may not play the
Safego number posted for that
particular day.
Here are operating principles
upon which Safgo is carried on
here:
1. There is one contest per
month, and each employee re
ceives a Safego card for that
month.
2. On every Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday a num
ber is taken at random and post
ed on the Canteen Wagon. Those
having that particular number
on their cards, cross it out as
soon as they see it posted.
3. The first person to finish
by crossing out a row of five
numbers in any direction, may
hand the card to his supervisor,
to have it checked. Provided the
participant has met all eligibili
ty requirements and rules, he
will be declared winner of the
money—if he is the first to turn
in a card. If there is a tie, the
money will be divided equally.
4. If a card is lost, a replace
ment cannot be issued that
month. You’ll have to wait until
a new contest begins.
The first contest of the year
was scheduled to begin January
9. All essential information on
the Safgo project here was made
available to all employees by
mimeographed bulletins early
this month.
Comments safety supervisor
Ralph Johnson: “We think you’ll
have lots of fun with Safgo. It’s
an interesting and profitable
way to keep us safety-minded,
while the merchandise payoff
will be added incentive to par
ticipate.”
A REMINDER
Tax Forms: Don’t Lose Them
You’ll recall that the State of North Carolina received
its income tax from your earnings through payroll arrange
ment during 1960. But you have to file a return just the
same, like you have been doing for Fed.eral tax in former
years.
Along about now you will be receiving your tax state
ment forms from Payroll — the Federal (W-2) and the State
(NC-2).
Take care of them. Above all, don’t lose them. And in
preparation for filing your returns, carefully read the in
formation on the back of each form.
—THE MASTER WEAVER
One Suggestion Earns $200; Another, $100
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Two outstanding sugges
tions that—in practice—are
proving increased efficiency,
better economy, improved
quality of product, and op
erating safety, paid a total
of $300 in November.
Electrician Horace Robinson
was awarded $200 for his idea
on time-delay relays for twister
frames; and turret lathe op
erator John Fletcher’s sugges
tion on twister rolls and stands
was worth $100.
These ideas represented the
largest awards approved by the
suggestion board here in recent
years.
The electrical improvement on
twister frames resulting from
Mr. Robinson’s idea, enables a
faster and safer start-up of the
frames following the doffing op
eration. The time-delay relays
greatly reduce danger of switch
blow-out and possible burns to
employees. The new system also
brings longer life to switch
mechanism, switch contacts,
motors and drive belts.
Mr. Fletcher’s suggestion pro
vides for gradual replacement,
with his own design of twister
rolls operating on sealed ball
bearings. These will eventually
replace the older-type necks and
stands. The new part eliminates
cost of re-necking rolls, promises
almost no wear, and will reduce
labor and lubrication costs, with
less damage to yarn from grease
contamination.
REWARD — Plant engineer
W. G. Henson smiles approval as
he hands over award checks to
Horace Robinson (center) and
John Fletcher. Both men are in
Mr. Henson's Mechanical depart
ment.