GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
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Cool, clear
JUNE water
1966
around camp firestone
The serenity which goes with a cool, clear
mountain stream suggests summertime
“when the living’s easy” and beckons Fire
stone people to joys of the great outdoors.
This Firestone News photo was made on the
Oconaluftee River at Cherokee, on an ex
tension trip from Camp Firestone at Bridge
water. It’s one of a million refreshing scenes
in Nature’s panorama down many a road
from the company-operated retreat on Lake
James.
Conservation - minded Firestone people
will visit the Oconaluftee and other streams
like it this season and gain a new apprecia
tion of the Southland’s remaining unspoiled
waterways.
Another
Award
Safety
for
Of the several honors
which the National Safety
Council has bestowed upon
Firestone Textiles at Gas
tonia, for the first time it
gave the plant its Groun III
(Textiles Section) Award.
The Group III Award receiv
ed here last month, is represent
ed by a wood-and-lucite plaque.
It marks the plant’s outstanding
safety performance in the cal
endar year 1965, when people
here recorded almost 3,000,000
manhours in production without
a lost-time injury.
National Safety Council
serves four major industries or
sections. Judging for the Award
in the Textile Section is within
the range of between 1,500,000
and 5,000,000 manhours free of
lost-time injuries.
Firestone Textiles was first
place in its category. The Award
is part of the recognition which
the NSC has for its continuing
programs of good industrial
safety performance.
Earlier this year the plant re
ceived the NSC Award of Honor,
the Council’s highest compli
ment for injury control in in
dustry.
As of late May, the production
record hero without a lost-time
injury was well past the 4,000,-
000-manhour point.
Raymond C. Firestone Company Board Chairman
CHAIRMAN
AND
HONORARY
CHAIRMAN
Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
Raymond C. Firestone
Raymond C. Firestone,
who became chairman of the
board of the company May
17, continues as chairman of
the executive committee and
as chief executive officer.
The board elected him
chairman when his brother,
Harvey S. Firestone Jr., au
tomatically relinquished the
position upon reaching age
68. Following his relinquish
ing the chairmanship, Har
vey S. Firestone Jr. was
elected honorary chairman.
He will continue active in
the business as a director
and as a member of the ex
ecutive committee.
Harvey S. Firestone Jr. be
came actively associated with
the company in 1920, having
been elected a director the year
before. He became vice presi
dent in 1929 and president in
1941. He is the eldest son oC the
late Harvey S. Firestone, who
founded the company (>() years
Company’s Top Scout Award To Ronald Kiser
PHOTO ON PAGE 2
Life Rank with 20 Merit Badges. Add to this an im-
P^^ssive church and school record and other outstanding
Achievements in Scoutcraft and you have a resume of the
. ^66 winner of the Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Award for Scout-
excellence at Gastonia.
Easton county’s most out-
^^nding Scout is Ronald Keith
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kiser of 1605 Fairfield
' Gastonia. He is a member
'f'roop 35 sponsored by Luth-
Chapel Church. His Scout-
aster is Lee McCarter. Ronald,
, ^0 attends Grier School, will
® 13 June 25.
Firestone company’s
^ghest award for Scouting was
ann
ounced at the annual Scout
honors dinner in Recreation
Center May 31.
Singled out from among 35
nominees for the high honor,
Ronald received from J. V.
Darwin, projects and planning
manager, the coveted Silver Me
dallion, a Certificate of Merit,
a $100 U.S. Savings Bond, and
a check for $17.50 to apply on
expeses of a stay at Schiele
Scout Reservation, or for pur
chase of Scouting equipment.
Young Kiser is the 21st Gas-
tonia-area boy to win the Fire
stone recognition. This is also
the 21st year that other Scouts
have been honored here.
At the awards dinner, presen
tation of Kiser’s honors was
preceded by awards to 34 other
Scouts who had qualified for
Certificates of Merit. They also
received a check for $17.50 along
with their Certificate. They
are:
GASTONIA • Troop 9:
Charles Keller, Robert Grindle,
Mike Jordan. Troop 10: Jimmy
Scarborough, Freddy Pilking-
ton, Keith Grindle, David Fri
day. Troop 20: Johnny Paschal 1.
Troop 21: William Joseph Grav-
lee. Troop 35: Robert L. Craig,
Paul L. Sims, Steve Harris,
Steve Lutz. Troop 72: Johnny
Mack Norton.
BESSEMER CITY • Troop
37: Steven Lackey, Ricky Lee
Davis, Randy Rhyne, David
Hook, Donald Carpenter Jr.
Troop 54: Danny Gamble. Troop
312: Ronald Deck, Dennis John
son. Troop 313: John Whitlock,
Arthur Allen Jr., Benny Wilson,
Lariy Spencer.
HARDIN • Troop 34: Mark
Robinson.
MOUNT HOLLY • Troop 60:
ago.
Raymond C. Firestone, born
Sept. 6, 190H, is the fourth son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Fire
stone. He joined the company in
1933 in Los Angeles after com
pleting the company’s sales-class
training.
Subsequently he became com
mercial salesman, store mana
ger, district store supervisor and
assistant manager of the com
pany's southeastern sales zone.
He became Richmond, Va.,
district manager in 1935 and the
following year was assigned to
the new Firestone plant at
Memphis, Tenn. There, in 1937
ho became president of the Fire
stone Tire & Rubber Company
of Tennessee.
He was elected a director of
the company in 1942 and in
1949 was transferred to Akron
as vice president in charge of
research and development. In
1954 he was elected execvitive
vice president and was made
president of the company three
years later.
Since early 1963 he has had
the added duties of chief execu
tive officer, and in late 1964 be
came chairman of the executive
committee and chief executive
officer when Earl B. Hathaway
was elected president.
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