OCT 8 1965
GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME XIV - NUMBER 11
OCTOBER • 1965
Tir«$lon«
F
Your Symbol
of Quality
and Service
Nylon Takes To Skybuses
Over Pittsburgh
THE
FIRESTONE
WORLD
I'OOKING
around From Camp Firestone
Come out in the early morning. Sniff the
breeze and feel the air. Cast your eyes
Across a blazing glory of landscape warmed
be-jeweled by October’s sun. Meet Au-
on her own terms and savor her many
■>-3.cets
The vast mountain domain of Southern
^ppalachia is famed far and wide for the
^ature Mardi Gras it puts on as surely as
■Autumn comes again in the parade of sea
sons.
Set in the heart of the color spectacle is
the Lake James playground of the Southern
this autumn-hlessed land
Blue Ridge. Here is Camp Firestone, point
from which employee families are in the
habit of starting out on many a sightseeing
tour of the region.
The 30th season at the company-operated
lakeside retreat at Bridgewater closes each
year in early October, but not before the
peak color season arrives.
In this Firestone News photo, some young
hikers look across a landscape sweeping up
to the cloud-swept face of Grandfather
Mountain, about 30 miles from Lake James
and just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Their Gourds
Took A Prize
exhibit of representative
specimens from the 750 species
the gourd family won a blue
ribbon for Variety Garden Club
of Firestone at Spindale Center
Agricultural Fair in September.
The display featured artisti
cally-arranged examples of ripe
and cured gourds, edible and
non-edible varieties — some of
them rare. Mrs. W. R. Turner
Sr. and others of the club plan
ned and built the display booth
to include several utensils, con
tainers, birdhouses and novelty
items made of gourds.
The first prize was harvest
payoff for the club’s gourd-
growing project this summer.
Textile fabrics have found
their way into astronaut suits
and other space equipment. Our
cord fabric is a little closer to
earth but still in the air, as it
takes to skybuses over Pitts
burgh.
The Steel City’s new experi
mental rapid-transit system is
being equipped with Firestone
air suspension springs (rubberiz
ed fabric “doughnuts”), steel
wheels and miscellaneous rub
ber parts.
The Transit Expressway will
be in operation to serve the fair
grounds and recreation areas of
Allegheny County’s South Park.
The one and three-quarter-mile
roadway, a new concept in mass
transportation, is being tested in
an out-of-the-way area before
trying it out in regular com
mercial use.
Eight Firestone Airide sus
pension springs are on each of
the three “Skybuses” to be used
initially on the elevated struc-
☆ ☆ ☆
USO Expansion
Adds Services
United Service Organizations
(USO), of which Harvey S. Fire
stone Jr. is national chairman,
is in an expansion program to
meet growing needs of the Arm
ed Forces in this country and
overseas, especially South Viet
nam.
Increase in number of USO
clubs and extent of the live en
tertainment program is being
carried out in response to re
quests from the Government
and military commanders in the
field.
"o"’"’' WORLDS BIGGEST HEART
It The . . .
^ho has the world’s biggest heart,
•Measured by generosity and unselfish-
^®ss? You may say it belongs to the
Am
an
$50
srican people, who each year give
^mazing $10 billion—an average of
from every man, woman and child
philanthropic causes.
Why do they? Maybe the answer is in
Albert Schweitzer’s view: “Open your
'^yes and look for some man, or some
''’^ork for the sake of men, which needs
^ ^ttle time, a little friendship, a little
■ • . Search and see if there is not
“Ome place where you may invest your
^^fnanity.”
Americans who invest in humanity do
because they believe they are, in a
‘their brothers’ keepers.’ They want
*^0 things for their fellow man.
Giving LOVE to a frightened child
g' • comforting the lonely . . . bringing
^®^^rity into lives of the aged and neg-
thc
• • . tending the sick . . . helping
ill^ ^^^dicapped, the blind, the mentally
ful
striving to instill precepts of use-
citizenship in minds and hearts of
^^gsters. These are some results from
the
Last
World’s biggest heart”.
year, for example, the “heart”
® 30,800,000 individual gifts, totalling
$580 million, to United Funds alone.
United Funds received contributions
from some 81 per cent of the families
living within the campaign area for
an average per-capita contribution of
$18.89. These are even more impressive
figures when you realize that the United
Way makes $1 do the work of $3.
For the $580 million given last fall,
UF agencies are providing $1.6 billion
in health and welfare services. This is
possible because the agencies provide
services for those who can make modest
payments, as well as for those who can
not afford to pay anything.
United Community Campaigns play a
vital role in the community’s social and
economic health. Protective services for
children, counseling for troubled per
sons and families, recreation services for
people of all ages are essential to a
healthy community.
THIS YEAR some 2,225 United cam
paigns across the country are seeking to
raise over $580 million to meet needs of
more than 25 million families. Alto
gether, some 3,850,000 people will give
volunteer aid in raising and managing
these funds.
HELPER—As one of the many volun
teers who worked in this year's Fire
stone Textiles United Fund solicitation,
Wanda Wilfong of main office helped
make "the World's Biggest Heart." The
in-plant campaign was to be completed
by Oct. 4, but the Greater Gastonia UF
effort continues to Nov. 5. Results of
Firestone giving will be reported in the
November plant newspaper.
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American business and labor organiza
tions are in the forefront of citizen
groups which created United Campaigns
and support their operation. Corpora
tions and their employees provide lead
ership, manpower and money to ensure
success of local United Campaigns.
The United Way brings together citi
zens from all segments of the communi
ty in a common task to reach a com
mon goal. It mobilizes full resources of
all professions, all levels of government,
talent, manpower and money; all races
and creeds in a united crusade for hu
man need.
Firestone production manager at Gas
tonia, F. B. Galligan (first vice president
of the Greater Gastonia United Fund)
points out;
“American generosity continues to re
ly on resources of volunteers and their
efforts as it has for nearly 350 years.
ture devised by the Westing-
house Electric Corporation.
THE TRANSIT Expressway
has two “tracks” from ground
level to 25 feet up. Tracks are
22-inch-wide sections of con
crete with a steel guide beam
mounted between them. This
engages the guide sheels to
steer each axle and position cars
on the roadway.
Rubber and nylon Airide
springs are made by the Fire
stone Industrial Products Com
pany in Noblesville, Ind.
Since the pressure in the Air
ide units automatically increases
as more passengers get on, the
bus not only retains a constant
platform height but has the
same soft ride under all condi
tions of loading.
The steel wheels, size 20 x 6.0,
are made by Firestone Steel
Products Company at Wyan
dotte, Mich. Other rubberized
parts made by Firestone In
dustrial Products Company are
used on the “Skybus.”
The USO buildup was author
ized by the USO executive com
mittee last month and m ado
known to President Johnson,
honorary chairman of USO, in a
telegram signed by Mr. Fii’o-
stone and Gen. Emmett O’Don
nell Jr. (USAF, Ret.), president
of USO.
President Johnson’s letter of
reply to Mr. Firestone thanked
him and Gen. O’Donnell for in
formation “on the USO action
to meet the increasing needs for
USO services resulting from our
expanding commitment in
Southeast Asia.” Tlie President
wrote:
—more on page 4
Truly, we Americans in this age of
abundance, accused of materialism and
lack of depth, can hardly be accused of
selfishness.
“For organized giving on a vast scale
has become one of our society’s best
characteristics, and has rightly earned
our nation the title ‘The World’s Big
gest Heart’.”