GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME X NUMBER 2
FEBRUARY, 1961
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TEN IN S400 GIVEWA Y
Grid Guessers
Pocket Cash
Mark up Steven Adams as
top-notch prognosticator of foot
ball game winners and scores in
the nation’s major bowl con
tests this year. The employee in
Monofilament Treating picked
winning teams in the Sugar,
Rose, Cotton, Orange and Gator
bowls. And he came within 17
points of prediuling Ihe totaled
scores, too.
Next best guessing in the
Recreation Department’s tradi
tional contest was Furman
Pearson of the Shop. He picked
four winners of the five gridiron
contests and missed the totaled
scores by four points.
Third place went to Edgar Foy
of the Shop, who predicted four
victors of the five games and
went awry only six points on
the actual totaled scores.
GUESSING GOOD — Sleven
Adams marks up his prediction
of 100 for totaled scores of five
major football bowl games,
against the actual totaled figure.
With him are (from left) Edgar
Foy. third-place winner in the
contest; and Furman Pearson,
second best guesser. Mr. Adams
picked victorious teams in all
five major bowl contests.
OTHER participants in the
rivalry who each picked four
winners of the five games, and
who missed the score-total pre
diction within a range of 7 to
89 points were: Frederick An
derson, Coy Davis, Lonnie Mit
chell, B. T. Hanna, Jarvis Plem-
mons and Bobby Donaldson, all
of Twisting; Vesta Lewis, Spin
ning; Elm Sartin, Weaving;
Bobby Jones and Clyde Foy,
Shop; Fred J. Davis, Quality
Control; Tommy Grant, Indus
trial Relations (methods-stand-
ards); and R. E. Conrad, Weav
ing (retired).
Boy Scout Drive
In Late February
The annual Gaston district fi
nance drive for Boy Scouts of
America is set for February 20-
25 in the communities of Cherry-
ville, Dallas, Hardin, Mount
Holly, Lowell, Cramerton, Bel
mont and McAdenville. Francis
B. Galligan, chairman of the
BSA Gaston district, said the
drive does not include Gastonia
and Bessemer City, because in
‘She Went: Lickety-Split’
The other morning as I was walking up Vance street on
the way to the Mill, a woman whizzed by me in an automo
bile. She was going lickety-split, I’d judge around 50 miles
an hour. She had a carload of children, taking them to Ab-
ernethy School.
Now, she needn’t have been in such a hurry, for she had
plenty of time to get to school. What puzzles me is, how any
body would be so thoughtless—with all those youngsters in
the car as a reminder of how folks ought to be careful in
vehicles, especially around school zones.
There were a lot of school children walking along the
street. It was a good thing none of them was in the way,
for that woman couldn’t have stopped quick enough to keep
from hurting someone.
Jackpof Contest Over; Ifs Safgo Now
Ten people who work here “hit a streak of luck” when
their names came out in a January drawing. Each took home
$40 in merchandise from the Firestone Stores, climaxing a
safety-promotion effort here during 1959-60. It was the sec
ond of a year-long contest centering in a “jackpot” which
grew bigger as the people kept production going without
having disabling injuries.
Sharing in the $400 giveaway Neely and Cloys E. Stiles of
in merchandise were: William Weaving (synthetics); Odis T.
Cosey, Carding; Charles Car- Todd, Emily P. Smith and
ringer, Rosa B. Lane, Ozell Everett Watson of Twisting (syn-
these communities the Boy
Scout program is a part of the
United Fund.
Mr. Galligan, the district
chairman, is production manager
at Firestone Textiles.
Alvin Riley, assistant industri
al relations manager here, and
district commissioner of Boy
Scouts in the county, heads a
commission staff of 14 members
for 1961. Commission leaders and
their departments:
Carl Rape, organization and
extension; George Anderson,
—More on page 3
Bloodmobile
Coming Here
This Month
For employees and others
of the Firestone community
it will be another opportuni
ty to “make a gift of life,”
when the Red Croos blood-
mobile comes on the first of
its two annual visits here
this month.
The Firestone Recreation
Schedule Center; II a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday, February 27
Employees and citizens of the
plant community last August
established an all-time record
with 213 pints of blood, donated
to the Carolinas Regional Blood-
bank.
Says assistant industrial re
lations manager Alvin Riley,
who is chairman of the blood-
mobile programs here:
“The outstanding response of
Firestone people along with
many others in this area enabled
Gaston county to collect more
blood last year than its people
needed. This made it possible for
Gaston to help other counties
participating in the regional pro
gram.
“In previous years, Gaston
had been borrowing from the
store of blood in other counties
of the region. This year we have
a challenge to maintain the good
record established in 1960.
“ ‘Make it a gift of life.’ ”
thetics); Louella I. Queen, Qual
ity Control; and Hazel E. Owens,
Spooling.
At the close of the first year
of the “jackpot” contest, a total
of $300 in cash was distributed
on a percentile basis to five
people whose names were
irawn. The second year the prize
money was increased to $400,
offered in the form of merchan
dise.
This Year It's SAFGO
The “jackpot” safety emphasis
the past two years gave way to
the 1961 Safgo program, with a
game similar to bingo. Under
this plan, employees cross out
numbers on a card. Completed
rows in any direction make the
holder a winner, so long as he is
first to report his good fortune
to his supervisor, thence to the
Safety department.
The different contests promot
ed here from year to year are
part of a long-range safety em
phasis, cai'ried on in rivalry with
the company’s other two North
American textile plants. They
are Firestone Textiles at Ben-
nettsville, S. C.; and Firestone
Textiles Ltd., Woodstock, On
tario, Canada. Last year, the
South Carolina and Canadian
plants tied for the winner
plaque.
Transport -100 In Production
A major departure from
the industry’s conventional
five-rib tread design is rep
resented in a new truck tire,
Transport-100, being produc
ed by Firestone.
Featuring a three-rib, bladed
tread design, the new tire prom
ises 50 per cent more mileage
than older 100-level Firestone
original-equipment truck tires,
according to sales vice president
E. B. Hathaway.
A broad center rib with extra
large tread elements arranged
in a rope-like twist pattern, and
improved rubber compounds
that enable tires to run cooler
are factors in the Transport-
lOO’s promise to outwear the
conventional truck tire, Mr.
Hathaway points out.
BUILT-IN traction slots are
another exclusive feature of this
all-wheel position truck tire. In
the 10.00-20 size, a total of 1008
traction blades in the tire mold
give the Transport-100 increas
ed road traction over any other
truck tire on the market, accord
ing to Mr. Hathaway.
Added features of the tire are
a flatter crown for equal pres
sure throughout the tread print
and extra load hauling efficien
cy, stone guards in the tread to
keep it free of damaging gravel
and pebbles, and a tread design
especially engineered with vary
ing size tread elements to elimi
nate tire whine.
In excess of 9500 experimental
Transport-100 tires were run
100 million test miles during the
four years this tire was under
development. Testing was on the
PRODUCTS THAT
MAKE YOUR JOB
company’s tracks at Ft. Stock
ton, Texas, and on truck fleets
in all sections of the country.
The Transport-100 is the prod
uct of one of the most extensive
research-development periods in
the company’s 60-year history.
SKID TEST—Firestone Test Center engineer checks pressure
in the Transport-100 truck tire before a skid test at the company's
test track at Ft. Stockton, Texas. R. H. Brown (right), American
Trucking Association's Driver of the Year, won the ATA award for
driving nearly a million miles without a chargeable accident, and
for saving a six-year-old boy from drowning in a water-filled pit
beside a Texas highway.