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GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA VOLUME XV - NUMBER 4 MARCH • 1966 Tir«$ton* Your Symbol of Quality and Service ? It-I s 5 SUGGESTION BOOST \ It’s possible to earn two $25 U.S. Savings Bonds at one ‘sweep’ if your idea turned in to the suggestion system at Gastonia is approved and you’re winner in a monthly draw ing, March through June. PSA Members on Plant Tour Twenty members of Ashley High School Future Scientists of ■America observed operations of the Gastonia plant on a Firestone 'conducted tour in February. Evelyn Mayfield of quality control laboratory demonstrated a yarn stretch-and-tensile-strength tester (from left) Donald Hull, son of QC manager R. B. Hull; Wynn Schwartz. Ashley Future Scientist president; and Toni Cloninger, also of the group. Better Community Safety Dalton The incentive plan for sugges tion participation provides for each of the four designated months that a “mystery date” be selected (March already chosen) in advance of each month. The mystery date (in all four cases a day on which the plant is operating) is selected by the general manager. He seals it in an envelope and it is locked in the display case at the plant’s main (east) entrance. Firestone people who have submitted one or more sugges tions on the mystery date for a given month thus become eligi ble for the drawing. The draw ing, to be of identification num bers on suggestions submitted on mystery date, will be made as soon as a month is completed. SUPPOSE you win the Sav ings Bond in the drawing for a given month. Further surmise that a suggestion you turned in on the mystery day is adopted by the company. That would mean you get a second $25 Sav ings Bond. This, of course, would be in addition to the regular cash payment for your winning idea. “The surest avenue to good President Honored At Northwestern Company president Earl B. Hathaway was among 11 alumni of Northwestern University to receive merit awards at the University’s Founders Day pro gram at Evanston, 111., recently. Awards were conferred for usual cash awards Savings Bonds fortune these four months is a suggestion turned in every working day,” says F. B. Har rison, board chairman. Bulletin - board notices and other media will be calling at tention to the promotion pro gram and suggesting areas where ideas may turn up for you. Among these are advance ment of safety, added product quality, materials savings; more effective methods of production, maintenance, materials - h a n d - ling or other operation. worthy achievement in a pro fession or field bringing honor to themselves and Northwestern. Twenty outstanding alumni were recognized in the cere monies which marked the 115th anniversary of Northwestern’s founding. Mr. Hathaway addressed the alumni association during his visit to Evanston. public safety program equal that of safety promotion and Practice in industry was sug- Sssted by Dr. Frank Dalton, speaking to a group of Firestone supervisors in February. The Gastonia optometrist cit- ed Firestone Textiles’ safety Program and its many honor Troop 9 Anniversary Lewis Barnes officiated a charter-renewal pres- ®i^tation for Boy Scout Troop 9 at Loray Baptist phurch during the morn- ^ ^ 9 assembly program, 13. The Scout execu tive for the Gaston Coun ty district. Piedmont Council BSA, helped to ^ark the 40th anniversary Troop 9. It came at the 1 o s e of National Boy Scout Week. John P. Smith, retired Firestone, has been Associated with leadership the troop for some 30 years. And throughout the y®ars, a number of other from Firestone have 'contributed leadership. Raymond Varnadore of the shop is present scout master of Troop 9. awards for injury control. “What we need now is an im proved and intensified program encompassing our whole town and county and every other town and county in our land.” Dr. Dalton, who works with many Firestone people through his visual-care service, listed protection from injury as one of man’s most important physical concerns. “Safety training and practice is long-range,” he reminded. “You can preach it, and luckily some will listen and practice. But too often it takes a tragic or near-tra£ic injury to a person or someone close to him to sell him on safety.” NEED for safety goes wher ever people live and move, he said. For example, you may have a good safe day at work, then meet injury or death on the homeward way, or at home. Since the home is the scene of the larger number of injuries, it ought to be the major training ground for safety, he said. To bring about an improved and intensified safety program in town and county, Dr. Dalton said community leaders and the general public must first be con vinced of that need, “for apathy is cur worst enemy.” Among suggestions to improve the public safety program par ticularly in North Carolina, he —more page 4 Warehouse man ager F. T. Morrow presented driver awards to (from left) Tracy Moore, Alonzo Setzer, George Pender grass. and to Wil liam Hope (not in picture). TOP TRUCK DRIVERS NAMED For plant - warehouse forklift and towtruck operators, 1965 was another outstanding year. Four of the drivers earned spe cial recognition for operating safety and performance efficien cy. Winners of the yearly cash awards—Alonzo Setzer, George Pendergrass and Tracy Moore, each had won in years past. William Hope was a newcomer winner. “Yours is a most responsible job,” safety manager Raymond Mack told drivers at the awards meeting, pointing to the record of 10 years here without a lost time injury involving a forklift or towtruck. Production manager F. B. Gal- ligan told drivers, “What you do out there is tremendously im portant — just as important as spinning, twisting, weaving and many other processes in the mill. “Your machine itself costs more than a Cadillac. And ma- New Store Manager: “Come see us often,” invites Thad Foxx, new manager of the Gastonia unit of Firestone Stores. .He calls attention to the employee payroll - deduction plan for budget purchases at the Franklin Ave.-Marietta St. store. The plan, effective late last year, has proved a good arrange ment for many Firestone Textile families. “For those who have not terials you handle are most ex pensive — for example, nearly $1,000 for a beam of nylon and even more for some other syn thetics. And the beam itself is worth $250,” he added. —more page 3 Come See Us learned of i(s advantages, we in vite a trial,” said Mr. Foxx. Detailed arrangements on purchases and at the employee’s usual discount are worked out between the purchaser and the store. The plant payroll depart ment takes out of the wage- earner’s pay the amount he specifies in the store agreement. You can get details and pur chase forms at the store. Company Ads Were Personal Letters March 31 of 1900, the first nationally-cir- |.i ^^ted automobile advertisement was printed in ^ Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia. ^ you’d expect, products related to the orcar—such as tires—began to be advertised ^'^t the same time. The Firestone company, pioneer in several areas of the tire industry, began its product sales appeal in 1900—first aimed at the horsedrawn carriage trade. Company Founder Harvey S. Firestone sent letters personally addressed to owners of livery stables and physicians, informing them that Fire stone had taken over the Whitman Barnes Manu facturing Company and was prepared to sell new Firestone solid-rubber carriage tires “superior to any tire ever placed on the market.” He kept a promise. The business prospered. The first printed company ad was circulated on ink blotters in 1905, as the horseless carriage was about to take the public fancy. By 1906 a Firestone ad in Motor Way magazine announced a new development — the pneumatic tire. The following year, other ads told of Firestone tires with dual treads, the manufacturer’s first answer to the danger of sk’dding that had de veloped with the increased horsepower of the early automobiles.
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