Jennie Ivey
Spinning
James M. Smith B. J. Bumgardner Henry F. Boyd
Carding Twisting (syn) Canteen Service
il
25
k ' 1 ff and 30
Years
Tom Snipes
Twisting (syn)
M. E. Hyleman Roy McMillen
Spinning Carding
Thirty-Year People Past 100 Mark
Addition of six names in
December brought the total
to 102 on the Gastonia roster
of 30-year employees. See
these December names un
der photos, along with one
25 - year employee (Roy O.
McMillen).
While these persons were
marking work anniversaries last
month, six more reached 20-
year milestones here; and one
completed 15 years of service.
Not Fire Dept.;
Try Firestone
A Garden City, Kan.
grade-school student wrote
lasi month to request some
product samples. "I would
like to have some tire
cords," his communication
went. "At school we are
making a products map."
The student had address
ed his letter to the "Fire
Manufacturing Company.
Gastonia, North Carolina."
The postoffice here hesitat
ed—apparently sent the let
ter to the local firefighting
people — then noted on the
envelope "Not Fire Dept.
Try Firestone Mill."
In turn. Firestone indus
trial relations received the
request and soon tire-cord
samples were on the way to
the student at Jones School
in Garden City, Kan.
Twenty
Years • Carol E. Holden, Dock
Terry, Bertha W. Broome, all
twisting (synthetics); Hattie E.
Stacey, weaving (synthetics);
Jim A. Burdette, shop; Luther
C. Brown Jr., methods-time
study.
Fifteen
Years • Andrew Johnson, twist
ing (synthetics).
‘Mixed Yarn’
In Your Address?
Your mail wasted. Lost ef
fort in sending it. Some ex
pense to the company for
unforwarded and unclaimed
mail which is returned to
4-1-\ ^
That’s what is involved
when you change your place
of residence and don’t let the
payroll department know
your new address.
Quite often copies of the
employee newspaper and
other periodic mailings end
up where they started — in
the addressing division of
payroll. All because some
body forgot to list a change
of address.
“Please”, pleads Mrs. Eula
Wilson, payroll manager, “if
you have moved and haven’t
told us already, let us have
your new address.”
January, 1966 Page 4
Company Products
That Made History
Many an antique motor ve
hicle is still “shod” with the
famed Firestone Non-Skid tire,
the distinctive lettering forming
the tread at an angle.
Introduction of this first an
gular non-skid tire tread in
1908 was one of the highlights
of the company’s early history.
Firestone saved a few molds of
the historic product, so it can
still today take care of the spe
cialized demand to equip vintage
cars.
Other Firestone “firsts” which
ante-dated the non-skid tire in
cluded introduction in 1900 of
the solid-rubber sidewire tire as
one of the company’s first prod
ucts; development of the first
mechanically-fastened straight-
side pneumatic auto tire in 1904;
Of Your Craft... Quality ?
T,
he wisdom of a scribe cometh by
opportunity of leisure: and he that hath
business shall become wise. So every
carpenter and master builder that la-
boureth night and day: and they that
cut and engrave seals and are diligent
to make great variety, who give them
selves to make a life-like picture, and
whose sleepless care is to finish a work.
So the smith, sitting by the anvil and
tiring himself with the rough iron . . .
fighteth the heat of the furnace: The
noise of the anvil is in his ears and his
eyes are upon the pattern of the utensil.
He giveth his mind to finish the work,
and his sleepless care is to polish it per
fectly.
^o the potter sitting at his work, and
turning the wheel about with his feet,
who is always anxious about his work,
and maketh his work by number. He
fashioneth the clay with his arm, and
maketh it pliable with his feet; he ap-
plieth himself to glaze it over; and his
sleepless care is to make clean the fur
nace.
A
11 these trust to their hands, and
every one is wise in his work. Without
these shall not a city be inhabited; and
men shall not dwell abroad, nor go up
and down . . . And they will maintain
the world, and their prayer be for the
work of their craft.
From "The Wisdom of Jesus, son of Sirach"
commonly called Ecclesiasticus:
introduction of the universal rim
to accommodate either the
straight-side or the clincher tire
in 1906; and development of the
first commercial demountable
rim in 1907.
FINISHED
AVIONICS
SCHOOL
Navy Tradesman Gene Clon-
inger was recently graduated
from the Avionics Fundamen
tals School at the Naval Air
Technical Training Center,
Memphis, Tenn.
Gene is the son of Mrs. Betty
Webb Boggess of preparation
department.
STRAWS, HEELS,
CONES AND ...
Your Ideas
Back in 1885 (Jan. 3) M. C.
Stone received a patent on the
drinking straw, recalls F. B.
Harrison, chairman of the plant
Suggestion System. Also in Jan
uary, 1899, Humphrey O'Sulli
van patented the rubber shoe
heel.
Then C. R. Taylor invented
the first machine to make ice
cream cones in January of 1924.
Examples of commonplace
things in our lives today? Yes,
says Mr. Harrison. "But they
first were big ideas with the
inventors. And just think oi
how much difference they have
made in our lives."
Your ideas may be much
more important than you think.
Share them with the Suggestion
System and find out. If it's any
thing that will improve or make
better in any way — think
through, write it down, turn
in.
There could be cash waiting
for the payoff, and your adopted
suggestion could change things
for good.
TRAVEi”°ons Much Worth Your Visit In January
A new calendar and lots of exciting places to
go, things to see and do. January—as all other
months—offers special events and inviting places
to go in the Mid and Lower South—the area
most visited by Firestone people on weekend
and vacation trips.
Plant recreation, year-round sponsor of the
travel information service, places a few sugges
tions here each month in hopes they will make
your travel more meaningful and encourage the
stay-at-home people to go also. One of those sug
gestions:
Edisto: An Island Time Forgot • “You may
not believe it unless you go and see for yourself,”
remarked one employee who’d been down for
a stay at Edisto Island, S. C. On Edisto, oxen
still draw plows, some year-round folks sing
ancient lullabies, and lush plantations still thrive
in queenly groves of gnarled oaks and magnolia.
This flavor of old plantation days also hangs
over the little resort village of Edisto Beach,
with its some 350 houses lining a shell-packed
seaside among subtropical palms and myrtle
overlooking the Atlantic between Beaufort and
Charleston.
Tip: After summer visitors leave, there’s quiet
over Edisto until the following May. Winters are
mild. Right now the fishing is good. Now you
can rent a housekeeping cottage or apartment at
unusually low prices. Nearby are deer, wildfowl,
turkey. Bass, bluefish and mackerel swarm in
nearby rivers.
What’s more, Edisto is a bird-watcher’s par^'
dise. At beachcombing, you may come across
surviving signs of corsair days. Visit the planta
tions and on longer trips, see the famous gardens
and some of the other interesting places around
Charleston on the mainland.
Indian Town: A Place To See • If the MuskO'
gean-speaking Indians could come back to the
place they settled in the Pee Dee River Valley ot
NC in the 16th century, they’d find some things
strangely familiar. The State historic site,
restoration, is known as Town Creek India^^
Mound, administered by the Dept, of Archive®
and History.
It’s worth your visit. The 53-acre tract some
five miles from Mt. Gilead, offers a village opef*
to the public. There are museum exhibits
Indian life in NC from the earliest known time-
Tours and lectures can be arranged.
At this season, Tryon in southwestern NC
particularly inviting. In the celebrated therm^
belt of the Blue Ridge, Tryon is one of America®
most charming towns. It has outstanding
places and restaurants, gift and craft shops;
famed for hunting with horses and hounds.
This month, why not try the alpine atmosph^^®
of the organized winter resorts of Cataloochee
and Blowing Rock in NC and Gatlinburg
Tennessee?
Note these special sports events in January-
Mid-winter skeet championship, 14-16; Southeast'
ern Brittany Club field trials, 24-29, both in
hurst. Travel Safely and Have Fun!
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