One Of World's Largest...
Firestone Tires Help
In West Pakistan
Dam Construction
Firestone tires are playing a lead-
part in construction of one of the
World’s largest earthfilled dams. The
^ompany is tire supplier for the Guy F.
Atkinson combine for the $354-million
^sngla Dam project on the Jhelum
River in West Pakistan.
is the largest single construction
job ever serviced in the company’s 62-
year history. A combine of eight
American contractors headed by Atkin
son company is working on the Indus
River development project, the first
part of which will cost $1^4 billion.
Completed, the Indus Basin project
will include three large dams, two
reservoirs and extensive canals with a
total size of more than seven times that
of the St. Lawrence Seaway develop
ment.
The contract awarded to the Atkin
son combine is reportedly the largest
single non-defense contract in history.
Initially, Firestone is supplying a
majority of the original heavy-duty
earthmoving tires on equipment and
many of the rims for the more than 200
pieces of machinery used in the first
stages of construction at the Mangla
site.
INCLUDED are tires for graders,
scrapers, bottom dump wagons and a
variety of trucks and other vehicles.
Throughout construction, Firestone will
supply new replacement and retreaded
tires for the Mangla project. Tires will
range in size from those for passenger
automobiles to the giant dual 18.00-49
Rock Grip Excavator, more than seven
feet high.
The Indus Basin project will provide
substantial irrigation development in
both Pakistan and India, in addition to
developing a further hydro-electric po
tential. It will also promote soil recla
mation and drainage for Pakistan as
well as flood control in both countries.
The Mangla Dam will reach 370 feet
at its highest point and will extend
nearly two miles across the river bed.
Almost 150 million cubic yards of ex
cavation and fill will be required to
build it.
At first, hydro-electric capacity will
be 340,000 kilowatts with an ultimate
capacity of a million kws. The reservoir
created will cover about 100 square
miles, submerging some 64,000 acres
of land.
GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME XI-NUMBER 8
JULY • 1962
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Dr. S. H. Adams
Heads GCHA
Dr, Simeon Huey Adams
is the new president of Gas
ton County Heart Associa
tion. The 34-year-old surgeon
and Firestone Textiles phy
sician was elected at the As
sociation’s annual dinner
meeting recently.
He succeeded E. F. Gallagher,
Gastonia Bible publisher, as
head of the Association. Upon
taking office. Dr. Adams pledged
an active leadership in the year
ahead, recognizing others of the
new officer slate assigned to
help him.
President-elect Larry Petty of
Petty Machine Co., will succeed
Dr. Adams in 1963-64. Gallagher,
immediate past president, is
serving as second vice president.
Recording secretary is Mrs.
W. A. Lindeke of Bessemer City.
Duke England, Gaston County
manager, is treasurer.
Continued on page 3
^ interpretive art composition by Mrs. W. R. Turner Sr.
^rs T American heritage of freedom and independence,
and* is radio chairman of Variety Garden Club of Firestone
crejjf member of the Charlotte Garden Club. An amateur ac-
Intej. -flower show judge, she is a member of Ikebana
Pigjj^®*ional Japanese flower society, and the North Carolina and
^ont Flower Judge groups.
^■th These Voices America Speaks
^ Calvin Coolidge, 301h President of the United States, was born
% on Independence Day, 1872. This excerpt from his first annual
message, December 6, 1923, expresses America's unchanging
purpose. It is especially appropriate on the 186th anniversary
of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
world has had enough of the curse of hatred and
the of destruction and war. It has had enough of
use of material power. For the healing of the
there must be good will and charity, confidence
Pow time has come for a more practical use of moral
and more reliance upon the principle that right
might. Our authority among the nations
t be represented by justice and mercy.
^ is necessary not only to have faith but to make sacri-
its f faith. The spiritual forces of the world make all
determinations. It is with these voices that America
^P^ak. Whenever they declare a righteous purpose,
^ need be no doubt that they will be heard.
.^^rica has taken her place in the world as a republic—
^^*^®P^^dent, powerful. The best service that can be
bft to humanity is the assurance that this place will
"Maintained.
Slight Increase In Profits
Net Sales Set Record
Net sales for the first half of the fiscal year ending April
30 were the highest ever attained for a first six-months
period. Despite the large sales increase, profits—out of which
operating expenses are obtained—showed only a small in
crease for the first half of 1962.
Chairman Harvey S. Firestone months of 1961. The previous
Jr. and president Raymond C. high in net sales for a six-
Firestone reported sales of $605,- months period was $581,129,397
280,472 which compared with in 1960.
$544,872,290 for the first six Earnings for the first half of
1962 were $29,744,159 compared
with $28,142,824 in the first half
of last year.
Sales for the second quarter
were $318,770,914 and earnings
totaled $15,209,747. This marked
a new high for sales for a sec
ond quarter, the previous high
being $307,207,875 in the second
quarter of 1960.
Citing this record, president
Firestone said, “Teamwork and
cooperation on the part of Fire
stone employees have been a
major factor in this great
achievement.”
Summer Session
At Textile School
A new term at North Caro
lina Vocational Textile School
began July 2, with morning,
afternoon and evening classes
being offered in five subjects
five days a week.
Courses are in yarn manufac
turing. mill maintenance (ma
chine shop), weaving and de
signing, knitting, and tailoring.
Kings Begin
Argentine
Assignment
The Ralph King family arriv
ed at Llallavoll in early July,
to begin a three-year assign
ment with Firestone’s Argen
tine textile plant. They left
Gastonia June 27 for New York,
and traveled from there by air.
Their household goods had been
sent on ahead by boat.
Mr. King is assistant manager
at the Argentine plant, replac
ing Thomas Yelton who moved
to a new assignment at the com
pany’s Sao Paulo, Brazil textile
factory. Mr. Yelton went to
South America from Gastonia
two years ago.
Mr. King joined Firestone here
eight months ago, to prepare for
the South American assignment.
A graduate of Clemson College
with the BS degree in textile
manufacturing, he had 10 years’
experience with two of South
Carolina’s large textile com
panies before coming here.
Both Mr. and Mrs. King are
from Abbeville, S. C.
The two oldest children will
The Ralph Kings, with Barry (on father's lap), Treshia and
Ralph Jr. Several weeks before leaving for South America, the
family obtained a learn-a-language course in Spanish through a
Charlotte newspaper promotion. The recordings and instruction
manuals supplied a good introduction to the language the Kings
will be learning first-hand in Argentina.
attend a private school in Ar
gentina, studying in English. But
they hope to learn the Spanish
language “sort of automatically.”
“Our assignment will be an
educational experience for all of
us,” said Mr. King. “There will
be many interesting things to
see and do, and we have promis
ed friends in the United States
to give them reports on several
facets of Argentine life.”