Of The Passing Scene
ft’s The World’s Most Popular Hobby
last
If you’re average, you “collected” approximately 200 stamps
year on 193 letters and six parcels; in the same year, the Post
ffice sold $1.2 billion-worth of stamps.
The first U.S. postage stamps weren’t issued until 1847. In
'^gland, where the postage stamp was invented, some people
^^red it would encourage treason!
Stamp collecting has long been the world’s most popular
°bby. Flowers are the best-loved stamp motif. You can buy 25
the world's prettiest flower stamps for a dime. On the other
philatelists have offered $45,000 for a single stamp.
The world’s biggest stamp was almost 10 x 4 inches. The high-
denomination ever issued was a $280 stamp.
Texans Visit
and
and Mrs. Lloyd Kelley
nine - year - old daughter
^tty visited two weeks in July
Mrs. Kelley’s parents, Mr.
Mrs. Jess Helms of Gastonia.
☆ ☆ ☆
textile industry continues
North Carolina's leading eco-
asset. There are more
223,000 employees — over
per cent of the state's manu-
^®cturing employment
1*000 textile plants.
in
Mrs. Kelley’s mother works in
Spinning here. The daughter
worked at Firestone, before she
moved to Texas 10 years ago.
The Kelleys live at Angleton
in the Houston vicinity where
they are in business selling gas
and oil, and auto services and
accessories.
On the trip to Gastonia the
Kelleys made sightseeing tours
through portions of Louisiana,
Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina. On the homeward
way, they went through the
North Carolina and Tennessee
mountains.
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Building For Textile Exposition
^ill Be Ready For 1964 Trade Show
Southern Textile Exposi-
at Greenville, S. C., will
a new home when the
trade show is held in
^ctober of 1964. A modern
,JPosition building, with
^0,000 square feet of show-
space, is to be constructed
a 30-acre site adjoining
^^eenville’s Municipal Air
port.
The Textile Hall Corporation,
^on-profit organization, pro
ves the big textile trade show
^^®^y two years.
Medical Director
NCHA Board
to;
Simeon H. Adams, Gas-
surgeon and Firestone Tex-
medical director, has been
®cted to the board of directors
^he North Carolina Heart As-
so
^^ation.
Adams is president of the
,^®ton County Heart Associa-
having assumed this posi-
in June.
Time-Worn Dolls...
Tools & Progress
Uncle Charles in Santa Fe sent the
smiling doll v/ith built-in crybox to
his little niece in North Carolina.
That was almost 40 years ago. And
long since, Ada has earned her place
in the attic, along with all the other
things of cloistered memory that
served well “in their day”.
The nostalgia associated with a
little girl and a time-worn dolly sets
us to thinking of the weeks, months
and years—of how they play their
role in a world of change.
For example, there are machines
and equipment that enable people to
manufacture things—like textiles and
tires. Those tools wear out, too. Re
placements pave the way for progress,
but in the world of making things for
people to use, that progress comes
with a costly pricetag.
Herein is a lesson for all of us who
work with the tools of industry: Make
good use of them while they last, take
care of them along the course of
Time.
Men, Machines and Money. Operat
ing efficiently and effectively, they
are the essential ingredients of Prog
ress—and a better life for us all.
*
s^sws
August, 1962
Page 3
Suggestion Awards To 17 In Recent Period
This year’s exposition, the
22nd, is set for October 15-19 in
the present Textile Hall on West
Washington street in Greenville.
The upcoming show will set new
records in number of exhibitors
and in floor space in use.
CONSTRUCTION plans for
the new exhibit building will
not be approved until after this
year’s textile show, which will
afford opportunity for leaders in
the industry and exhibitors to
look at the plans and make sug
gestions.
Already, a number of valuable
suggestions have been received
from exhibitors and mill men on
design of the new building.
Present plans call for a build
ing 600 X 250 feet, with provision
for doubling the size of the
structure. It will be one story,
with a 22-foot ceiling over most
of the exhibit area. »
There will be on-site parking
for more than 2,000 cars and
parking for ' private planes on
a runway just one-half block
from the building’s main en
trance.
Jesse F. Liles of Weaving
(synthetics) was awarded $25
for his suggestion to add spe
cification shuttles on cord
looms. Later, he earned an
additional $10 for a sugges
tion to install clamps on the
levers of shrinker rolls.
He was among 17 persons v/ho
earned cash awards for work
able ideas during a five-month
period since March. Suggestions
Firestone Nylon 6
Goes To Japan
A technical-help agreement
for making Nylon 6 tire cord is
in effect with Firestone and
Asahi Chemical Industry Co.,
Ltd., of Osaka, Japan.
The agreement gives the Jap
anese concern exclusive license
to manufacture Nylon 6 tire
cord, a Firestone development
now being produced at its Hope-
well, Va., plant.
Firestone has used Nylon 6
tire cord in more than 10 million
passenger and truck tires in the
past five years. Company engi
neers have found the cord meets
the new higher standards of
heat stability in tire cord, su
perior adhesion to rubber and
flex-fatigue resistance.
Asahi executives have visited
Firestone in Akron and two Jap
anese technicians have come to
study operations at the Hope-
well plant. Firestone will send
technicians to Japan to help
with beginning operations in the
plant there.
Asahi is a pioneer in the Jap
anese chemical industry, in busi
ness since 1923.
involved promotion of safety,
production efficiency, cost con
trol, worker convenience, and
quality.
Those having approved sug
gestions during this period, their
department, and their usable
ideas:
E. F. Sartin, Weaving ^syn-
thetics)—installation of workers’
platform for cloth balers; J.
Hoyt Blackwood, Weaving (syn
thetics)—providing barrels of
black dip for all shifts; Larry
Sanders, Cloth Room—brake im
provement on inspection tables.
Frank Wilson, Industrial Re
lations—adding truck back-stops
at loading dock; Charles V.
Cates, Weaving (synthetics) —
number identification of looms
and fabric styles; Millard F.
Goins, Weaving (synthetics) —
improvement of eyeboard clamps
for changing loom styles; Roy J.
Ward, Weaving (cotton)—use of
picker-stick guides with aprons;
Hansford Wilkes, Weaving (cot
ton) — additional lighting at
looms.
Luell Thomas, Carding—relo
cation of picker pedals; T. E.
Huffstetler, Shop — better con
trol box on slasher; Earl Cun
ningham, Supply — electrodes
storage in supply room; Novella
C. James, Payroll—adding op
eration numbers to Shop-em-
ployee cards; Edgar S. Foy, Shop
— installing guard on boiler-
room pump.
Alda Guffey, Weaving (syn
thetics)—modifying loading-lift
plates on automatic splicers;
Doris J. Corella, Payroll—train
ing courses to improve com
munications between plant and
Payroll department; Grace
Christopher, Quality Control—
revision of inspection cards.
Four Join 20-Year Group
In June, the last person to mark a 25-year work anniver
sary here brought the total number in that group to 218.
But in July, four persons celebrated the completion of 20
years of service, bringing the total to 446. They are Mervin
F. Huffman, Spinning; Irene PhilHps, Weaving (cotton); Sam
Jordan, Shop; and Frank L. Gurley, third-shift production
superintendent.
While these were marking em
ployment anniversaries in July,
11 others reached records of 15,
10 and 5 years. This list includes:
At the end of March of 1962,
there were 883,000 persons
earning their livelihood as em
ployees of the textile-products
industry of the United States.
In the closely-allied apparel in
dustry, there are slightly more
than a million employees.
A complete file of Firestone News, Gastonia, has
been entered in the University of North Carolina
Library at Chapel Hill. Copies of the employee pub
lication dating from May 5, 1952 to the present have
become a part of the library’s North Carolina Collec
tion.
Subsequent issues will be added to the permanent
collection which represents the first ten years of the
Gastonia plant newspaper.
FtRESTONE
NEWS
IN
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Fifteen Years
Edna C. Bishop, O’Dell Hu
man, William L. McCarter and
Brady L. Whitesides, all of
Twisting (synthetics). Virginia
M. Bridges, Weaving (cotton);
John Fletcher, Shop; E. T.
Green Sr., Industrial Relations
(plant protection).
Ten Years
Ethelene J. Nichols, Cloth
Room; Thomas A. Taylor, Weav
ing (cotton).
Five Years
Alexander J. Neal, Twisting
(synthetics); George F. Hill,
Weaving (cotton).
Following the traditional cus
tom, the 20-year people received
a service pin and gold watch.
Those with 15, 10 and 5-year
records were presented the ap
propriate lapel service pin.