Something Good Happened When They Gave
CLOTH ROOM employees (from left) Geneva Johnson, J. A.
Waldrep and Eihel McAbee display Good-Houskeeping prize.
The Broom Swept Clean
For Cloth-Room Folks
Personnel of the Cloth Room
won the plant’s “good house
keeping” banner in late Septem
ber, after the incentive award
had been in the Spooling-Wind-
ing-Twisting (cotton) depart
ment since June. That was when
the banner was first displayed,
although the good-housekeeping
program itself began here almost
a year ago.
Plant Newspaper
Receives Honor
Firestone News received a cer
tificate for the Award of Excel
lence for Distinguished Achieve
ment, in the annual photograph
ic competition sponsored by the
South Atlantic Council of Indus
trial Editors this year. The hon
or came at the close of the coun
cil’s two-day annual meeting at
Hotel Wade Hampton in Colum
bia, S. C., Sept. 15.
Charles A. Clark is photog
rapher and Claude Callaway is
editor of the Gastonia employee
publication.
Sharing the honor with the
Firestone publication was The
Chatham Blanketeer of Chatham
Manufacturing Co., Elkin, N. C.
The top award for photography
went to The Textorian of Cone
Mills Corp , Greensboro.
The program is based on a
monthly inspection, with a
checklist of 10 major points of
emphasis of orderly and effici
ent shopkeeping.
All production supervisors are
assigned in three teams to con
duct the monthly inspection
tours. Teams inspect a different
department from their own and
record conditions by a standard
checklist from the safety depart
ment.
The department which wins
the good-housekeeping banner
places it in a prominent location,
as a proud display to orderly,
neat shopkeeping—a chief factor
in safe, efficient production.
Other awards for excellence
included: Best Newspaper, The
Textorian; Best Editorial, The
Flat Top of Sears, Roebuck &
Co., Greensboro; Best Magazine,
Hanes Hosiery News of Hanes
Hosiery Mills, Winston-Salem.
Two years ago. Firestone News
won the “Best Newspaper”
award in the SACIE judging
for journalistic excellence.
The South Atlantic Council of
Industrial Editors is made up of
some 90 editors and other per
sons in the communications field
of industry and business in Vir
ginia and the Carolinas.
'Your Finest Hours'
Bible Week October 16-22
“Read Your Bible — Your
Finest Hours” is this year’s
theme of National Bible Week,
October 16-22. National chair
man of this the 21st annual ob
servance is Erwin D. Canham,
editor of The Christian Science
Monitor.
Honorary vice chairmen are
Bud Collyer of TV’s “To Tell the
Truth” program; Hcirry Golden,
editor of the Carolina Israelite,
and best-seller author; George
Meany, president of the AFL-
CIO; and Mrs. E. Lee Ozbirn,
president of the General Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs.
On accepting chairmanship of
What I gave, I have; what I
spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
Upwards of 200 employees
and others of the Firestone
community experienced first
hand the truth of “Good
Things Happen When You
Give”, at the Red Cross
bloodmobile visit here in
September.
The total collection of 174
pints represented the first time
that the bloodmobile had met its
quota since the Red Cross Gas
ton County Chapter program
year began July 1. This was the
second of two stops the blood
mobile makes at Firestone each
year. Alvin V. Riley of Indus
trial Relations is chairman of
donor recruiting for the visits
here.
A List Of Donors
Marvin L. Allen, Hobert T.
Aldridge, Edna Baker, Bobbie
Baldwin, J. R. Benfield, Lee R.
Bentley, Ernestine Bolynn,
Arthur Bradley, Jennie Bradley,
Opal Bradley, Coy T. Bradshaw,
Carl Briggs, Ira Neal Broadway,
Vernon Brockman, Harley W.
Brooks, Luther C. Brown, Sam
my Bunton, John Bryant, Jim A.
Burdette, Rosalie Burger, Ben
Byers, Ida Byers.
Yates W. Campbell, Frank E.
Capps, Grafton Carpenter, Irene
Carpenter, Cornelia Carriger,
Everett C. Carson, Gene Carson,
Edna Champion, Paul Chastain,
Roy M. Chastain, P. G. Clon-
inger. Myrtle Collette, Jack R.
Cook, James M, Cooper, William
Cosey, John T. Crane, Eva Nell
Crawford, Samuel E. Crawford,
Ralph Dalton, J. Coy Davis,
Fred Davis, Grady L. Davis,
William H. Davis, John Dockery,
W. A. Dunn Jr.
Frank Elliott, Ray England,
Hazeline Erwin, Jack W. Faile,
C. M. Ferguson, Exlice Fletcher,
John Fletcher, Edgar S. Foy,
Luther Foy, Barbara Galloway,
Jackie E. Gates, Thomas Gibby,
Thomas E. Gibson, Fred I. Good-
son, Arthur Gordon, Mollie E.
Grimsley, Thomas A. Grant,
Clinton Guffey, William S. Guf
fey, George M. Hager, John P.
Hall, William Hallbrook, Belon
D. Hanna, Ben T. Hanna, Pau
line Hanna, Hazel Hardin, Ern
est Harris, Ernest S. Harris.
J. P. Hart Jr., Leonard Hawk
ins, James D. Hicks, George
High, Fred H. Holloway, Hazel
Holloway, Lloyd Hope, Jerry
Howie, Thomas E. Huffstetler,
Robert B. Hull, Thomas B.
Ipock Jr., O. G. Jacobs, Ralph
F. Johnson, Frank A. Jolly,
Bobby L. Jones, Eugene J.
Jones, Jesse T. Jones, Troy
Jones, Lennell Keenum, Mildred
Kelton, Alfred C. Kessell, Mel
vin F. Knox.
Alvin Ledford, Rachel Led
ford, Larry D. Lee, James F.
Lewis Jr., Lloyd Lewis, Jesse
Liles, Ollie L. Liles, Cramer
Little, Richard Littlejohn, Ray
mond R. Long, Gary P. Lyles,
Cramer McDaniel Jr., Frances
S. Martin, Jack W. Martin,
Benjamin Massey, Daniel T.
Matthews, Alva F. McCarter,
Marvin McCurry, Juanita Mc
Donald, John R. Mercer, John
S. Mitchell, Olive Moretz, Bon
nie Moses, James Moses Jr.,
William Q. Murray.
Roxie R. Newton, Howard E.
Nix, Dillard Palmer, Jesse L.
Parks, Jesse L. Parks Jr., Mattie
B. Passmore, Ray Payseur, Rob
ert H. Pearson, M. A. Peeler,
Flora Pence, Corene M. Petty,
Leroy L. Posey, Grady Queen,
James T. Rankin, Thomas Ray,
Deuel Redding, Mildred Red
ding, Ralph L. Reep, William C.
Revels, Margaret Rhyne, R. L.
Richburg, Alvin V. Riley, Homer
L. Robertson, Carmon F. Rob
bins, Eugene Robinson, Harold
Robinson, Vina Robinson.
Robert L. Shannon, Lloyd D.
Smith, W. O. Stephenson, Buster
Stiles, Wade H. Stiles, Nellie H.
Stowe, William D. Teague,
Edgar B. Thomas Jr., James O.
Thomas, James H. Thompson,
Thomas W. Turner, John A.
Verdery, Algie Warren, Cole L.
Whitaker, Floyd H. Whitaker,
Tracy Whitener, George D. Wil
liams, Irene Williams, Philip R.
Williams, Eula B. Wilson, Fran
ces S. Wilson, Iva Wilson, Ervin
L. Worthy.
National Bible Week observance,
Mr. Canham said;
“Amid the turmoil of ideologi
cal and political rivalries, facing
the constantly-enlarging com
plexity of knowledge in a world
where danger and hope are com
pounded, individual man needs
to turn to truth. No source
of truth can possibly equal the
revealed truth of the Holy Scrip
tures.”
National Bible Week is spon
sored by the Layman’s National
Committee, Inc., an interfaith
group founded in 1940. Purpose
of the Committee is to reaffirm
the principles of our forefathers,
to reawaken interest in the pre
cepts of the Bible, and to en
courage regular attendance at
places of worship.
To Meet The Challenge
Of Change
Axe Helves... Handles
... And Progress
Two Kennesaw Mountain farmers were
conversing. Looking up from his chopping,
one of them heard the other:
“That looks like a good axe. A new ’un?”
“No. Had it for 55 years,”
“Shore looks as good as new to me,” re
turned the other.
Continued the owner: “Well, it has had
three new blades and five new handles.
Except for these, it’s the same oF axe I
bought down at Englewood 55 years ago.”
The farmer and his changing axe suggest
a lesson for us on keeping pace with chang
ing ways. Life each day demands a revision
of the ways and means of yesterday.
Things with which we are familiar may
change gradually — but sometimes com
pletely — over a period of years. We may
not be aware of what is going on “right
under our noses.” It may not mean much
to the folks on Kennesaw — but for us in
industry, our lack of awareness may cost us
dearly.
Of no small importance are the changing
ways in our work.
Job skills change. So do methods and
machines.
Our working methods may need a check
up for improvements, revisions.
The alert worker knows that he must
constantly learn more in order to do his
best for his family, his employer, and him
self.
Industrial changes mean more and better
production. More and better production
means more satisfied customers, increased
jobs, added economic security for us all.
The tools in our hands, the machines at
our command are constantly changing. And
it’s all for the progress of our jobs, our earn
ing power, industry and our society as a
whole.
To meet the challenge of change, we need
to be fully informed today about the job
we knew well yesterday.
'fire$lon«
October, 1961
Page 2
Volume X Number 11
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Published by The Firestone
Tire & Rubber Company,
Firestone Textiles Division,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
Claude C. Callaway, Editor
• South Atlantic Council of Indus
trial Editors
Charles A. Clark, Photographer
• NC Professional Photographers As
sociation; South Atlantic Council
of Industrial Editors
PLANT REPORTERS
Carding—Payton Lewis, Jessie
Ammons
Cloth Room—Margie Waldrep
Industrial Relation s—Flora
Pence
Main Office—Bea McCarter
Quality Control—Sallie Craw
ford, Louella Queen, Leila
Rape
Spinning—L illie A. Brown,
Maude Peeler, Mary Turner
Spooling—Nell Bolick, Rosalie
Burger, Ophelia Wallace
Mechanical Department — Rosie
Francum
Twisting—Vera Carswell, Elease
Cole, Annie Cosey, Katie El
kins, Catherine Fletcher
Twisting (Sales)—Elmina Brad
shaw
Warehouse—N a n c y Cloninger,
Harold Robinson, Israel Good
Rosevelt Rainey
Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch
Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E.
Johnson, Irene Odell
Winding—Ruth Cloninger, May-
zelle Lewis