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GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
AN ALL-AMERICA CITY
VOLUME XIII-NUMBER 6
MAY • 1964
Your Symbol
of Quality
and Service
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Safe-Off-Joh Theme This Month
S'SLstone Southern Gateway
To Blue Ridge Playground
The company-operated retreat on Lake James was well
its 29th summer season by early May, offering a variety
of recreation opportunities for employees and members of
their families.
Camp Firestone at Bridgewater-Nebo in McDowell
bounty is in the heart of a vast mountain region known
Widely for its recreation-sightseeing attractions. The com
pany’s “Walden Pond” retreat is an ideal beginning point
tours of mountain country, at the most within a few
*^ours of travel from Marion.
Morganton, a few miles away, is the historic county
^®9t of Burke, and known as “Southern Gateway to the Blue
^idge Playground.” This Firestone News photo shows Con-
lederate Soldiers monument on Morganton’s Court Square,
he Court House was erected before 1850.
You may operate a po-
tentially-dangerous machine,
handle deadly acids or you
may be otherwise exposed to
threats of physical injury at
work. But your chances of
going unhurt are far greater
on the job than at home or
somewhere else away from
the factory.
The company’s safety depart
ment points this out to call at
tention to May as Off-Job Safe
ty Month. Firestone sets aside
two months of every year to
stress off-job safety among peo
ple of its U. S. and Canadian
plants.
“Because there are added haz
ards during the warm weather
season, May is selected as the
first month for away-from-the-
job safety promotion among our
people,” says Gastonia safety
manager Raymond Mack.
“With its long Memorial Day
weekend. May is an appropriate
time to begin reminding employ
ees and their families of safety
education and practices. We
hope that the May emphasis will
carry over into the summer and
fall months ahead.”
Water sports, increased high
way tra-v^l and at-home projects
are associated with a great num
ber of injuries and fatalities
every year. Vacations and, rec
reational activities are added
reasons why the outdoor months
bring a special reminder: “Away
from the job—make safety pay.”
During the month an exten
sive in-plant effort will stress off-
job injury control among em
ployees, with the hope that they
will take it home and share it
with the whole family.
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Auto Safety Check Part Of Program
Every year the number of
motor vehicles on the high
ways is multiplying rapidly
and along with this increase,
statistics show that mechan-
ically-unsafe vehicles are
growing in alarming num
bers. With this potential dan
ger on the road, it is added
reason why you need to have
your vehicle checked to make
it safe for you, your family
and friends, and everyone
else on the highway.
This year Firestone is again
conducting its vehicle safety
check in stales where auto in
spection is not required by law.
The company effort is in co
operation with a nationwide
program.
Inspection lanes al the
Gastonia plant will operate
May 18-22, with daily hours
from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and
1-5 p.m.
Employees and all others of
the community are invited to
the free inspection. Qualified
personnel will be on duty at all
times the lanes are operating.
The safety inspection will
check for defects or mal-func-
tion of brakes, front and rear
lights, turn signals, steering,
tires, exhaust systems, glass,
windshield wipers, rear-view
mii'rors, and horns.
Vehicles which meet inspec
tion standards will have stickers
placed on windshields. Those
that do not pass inspection may
be repaired and returned to the
lanes for approval.
Area
Honors
In
Scholarship
Program
James Carpenter Bettye Johnson
Robert Hull Jr.
Three Gastonia-area seniors in high school have won
Certificates of Merit in the company’s 1964 Scholarship
Awards Program. They are James Ray Carpenter, 17, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Grafton W. Carpenter of Bessemer City; Robert
B. Hull, Jr., 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hull, Gastonia;
and Bettye Jean Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B^'reddie
N. Johnson of Kings Mountain.
Each student received the
Certificate of Merit and a U. S.
Savings Bond in recognition of
outstanding high-school scho
lastic records.
—more on page 4
Firestone Textiles joined
the big street parade during
week-long festivities in April
celebrating Gastonia’s selec
tion as an All-America City.
In All-America
PARADE
The company float was
adorned by young women
who are Firestone employees
and members of employee
families.
Riding the float were Ear-
lene Creasman, Linda Hel
ton, Rebecca Mack, Carol
Wiley, Barbara Galloway,
Sharon Clark and Doris Co-
rella.
Sidecar in this photo was
matched by another one qn
opposite side of float. At
right, Poncho and his horse—
well-known to area TV view
ers—gave children quickie
rides beside the Firestone
float while waiting for the
parade to move off. Another
picture from “All-America”
Week is on page 2.