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>■ V ^ READY Gastonia-based drivers Robert Col- service north to Ohio and Pennsyl- TO HITCH UP lins (left) and Ralph Ferrell oper- vania. The Bowling Green, Ky., AND RIDE ate the company’s newest trucking plant runs a service to Memphis, Tilre$ton* APRIL 1971 SfHW GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA Bennettsville: A 5-Year Safety Record People at the Firestone Bennettsville plant have gone more than five years without a time-loss injury on the job. One day last month a special program commemorated this outstanding achievement. There were congratulations, talks on industrial safety, some "magic with a message", and a barbecue plate for everyone on all three production shifts. Pres entation of two awards which * took note of the five-year rec ord in production safety, cli maxed the program. For the event, some retired people came back for a visit. Firestone personnel who took part on the program were James B. Call, Firestone Textiles Com pany president; Ralph King, former Bennettsville factory manager and now manager of the Bowling Green, Ky. Fire stone Textiles plant; F. B. Gal- ligan, division factory manager who was the Bennettsville man ager in the 1940s after Firestone began operating the plant; and Edwin Fuller, now the Bennetts ville factory manager. Also present were George Wilson, chief hygienist of the Firestone parent company; R. E. Mack, Gastonia plant safety manager; and Ralph Johnson, Gastonia industrial relations manager. MAIN FEATURE of the pro gram was K. Thomas Call’s presentation “The Wizard of Cause.” Call, a professional ma gician who puts on programs all across the country, is spon sored by Liberty Mutual Insur ance Company. With him was Martin Davis of Liberty Mu tual’s Spartanburg claims of fice. Call’s “magic with a message on safety” was presented to rep resentatives of all three produc tion shifts at Bennettsville. “Magic gets your attention,” emphasized the sleight-of-hand artist, “but, seriously, I hope it • More on page 2 • Bennettsville factory man ager Edwin Fuller received award for five years safe oper ation, the recognition from Lib erty Mutual Insurance and the company's representative, Mar tin Davis (left). FROM GASTONIA AND BOWLING GREEN Company Trucks On The Road Firestone, Gastonia and Bowling Green are names with increased publicity these days, traveling up and down two routes on trailer-tractor rigs. The three International Tran star tractors and their nine trailers are decorated in the company colors of red and white. Two tractors and six trailers tic fiber at the Firestone Hope- are based at Gastonia; the oth ers at Bowling Green, Ky. Out ward-bound freight is tire fab ric produced at Gastonia and Bowling Green. Homeward car go are tires and other products and materials. The company-operated truck ing service started regular runs in early March. The Gastonia route takes fabric to the com pany’s tire facilities in Akron, Ohio and Pottstown, Pa. Re turning, trailers bring tires to distribution points in Virginia and North Carolina. TRUCKS may pick up synthe- well, Va. operation, bringing it to Gastonia for processing into tire fabric. Bowling Green’s trucking service takes fabric from there to the Memphis Firestone tire plant. Going back, it takes tires to the company’s stores distri bution center in Nashville and some to the store in Bowling Green. Presently operating the trac- tor-trailer fleet are drivers Robert Collins and Ralph Fer rell, stationed at Gastonia; and driver Charles E. Horine at Bowling Green. R. A. Riley To Exec. V-P At a recent board of direc tors meeting of the parent Firestone company, Richard A. Riley was elected an executive vice president. Riley had been vice president for diversified products divisions since Dec. 1968, and a member of the Firestone board of directors since Jan. 1970. Riley is one of two Firestone executive vice presidents, the other being Robert P. Beasley who became executive vice president, finance, in 1968. A native of Fall River, Mass., Riley joined the Firestone com pany’s plant there in 1939. He has held a number of financial and operating positions in sev eral Company divisions. auoftory meatus semidrcular canals ear auditory mr^f^ tatio nerval cochlea ^ stapes tympanic membrane p'eustachian tympanum' ^tube • • Dr. Sataloff used some hu morous references to underline his serious subject of hearing conservation. Dr. L. H. Ballou (seated) also spoke at the meet ing. A MAJOR PROGRAM Conservation Of Hearing Loss of hearing is one of the major health problems of our society. And successfully dealing with the problem through preventive measures and medical science is among the most enormous challenges of our time, Dr. Joseph Sataloff said in a presentation at the Gastonia Firestone plant in March. Representatives of the Gas tonia and Bennettsville units at tended the meeting devoted to the company’s program of hear ing conservation. Appearing with Dr. Sataloff were his associate, Eddie Ander son; and Dr. L. H. Ballou, medi cal director of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. “At the top of the list of ‘most amazing’ is not a moon landing, but the miracle of the human ear and how it works,” declared Dr. Sataloff, hearing consultant to the Firestone company. THE DIRECTOR of a Phila delphia clinic, he is author of “Hearing Loss”, a major refer ence work in the field, and lead er of continuing hearing-loss studies at Colby College. At the Waterville, Me., college, indus trial representatives, scientists and other professionals take part in the studies. Dr. Sataloff has invented one ear appliance for protection against damaging noise level and sound frequencies. The speaker noted that the Firestone company pioneered hearing conservation in indus try, but since the program was for many years voluntary “we did not make significant prog ress until recent Federal law fixed standards and began to enforce them.” He pointed out that impair ment of hearing affects the per sonality more seriously than im pairment of any other single sense. • More on page 2
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