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GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA BENNETTSVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY JANUARY 1972 Snow — big flakes and fluffy—descended in earnest during the night of Dec. 2 and most of the day the 3rd. For that time of year, it was a record for the Piedmont Carolinas (Lincoln County recorded 13 inches). The snow which visited the Western Piedmont ex tended onward Southeast to include Bennettsville, S. C., though not as deep as in the Gastonia area. Bowling Green, Ky., had its first snowfall even earlier—Nov. 23, but with less than the ex pected 4-inch accumulation. This Firestone News photo? Along a country road in the Northwest N. C. ski country. % 4 4 / They Came To Visit; Learn For Francis Martin, Leroy Posey and Claude Smith it was an “old home” visit to the Gas tonia plant in December. The men, from the management staffs of Bowling Green (Ky.) and Woodstock (Can.) Firestone plants, came to Gastonia for conferences in production meth ods, management procedures, and to observe manufacturing operations. Posey, originally from Gas tonia, worked for many years in weaving at the North Carolina plant before transferring to the Bowling Green unit in 1968. There he is manager of the weaving department. Smith, a member of the Gas tonia plant staff on assignments before and after he was plant manager of Firestone’s Argen tine textile operation, transfer red to Bowling Green in 1968. He is plant production manager. Martin was on the manage ment staff at Gastonia before transferring as manager of the company’s Buenos Aires, Argen tina textile plant. Returning to Gastonia from that assignment, he was transferred to the Hope- well (Va.) Synthetic Fibers MORE THAN $153,000 PLEDGED FIRESTONE Tjr- U J TOTAL: $16,064.56 (7O' JTUna The 1971 United Givers Fund of Bowling Green and War ren County (Ky.) passed its goal of $150,000 at year’s end. In the last weeks of the annual funds drive the Firestone Textiles Company plant made an unplanned second report. Firestone had been ihe earl- and character-building agencies iest Warren County firm to re port, with $13,767 pledged. Then, enough additional contributions came through to bring the total Firestone figure to $16,064.56. The annual funding program provides for 11 health, welfare ☆ ☆ ☆ Add two more names to the roster of veteran employ ees at Bennettsville’s Fire stone plant. Lola Jordon and Prentis White are the latest to mark 25-year work anniversaries. They received their service lapel pin and $100 “congratu lations” check from factory manager Edwin Fuller. Company,., then., to.. Woodstock. He is manager of the Woodstock unit of Firestone Textiles, Ltd. of Canada. in the city and county. Ralph King, plant manager, served as a corporate division chairman for the countywide drive. Richard Webber, Fire stone industrial relations man ager worked as a section chair man directing solicitation of gifts in the five major firms throughout county and city. The corporate division re ported almost $95,000 of the goal as of mid-November—that being $14,000 above the corporate fig ure for last year. THE II AGENCIES which will receive UGF money on a bud get basis during 1972 are: American Red Cross, Boys’ Club, Girls’ Club, Crippled Chil dren, George Washington Car ver Community Center, The Sal vation Army, Mental Health- Mental Retardation, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Humane Society and United Services Organization (USO). Because today it takes in several different fields, the rubber industry deservedly could be re-desig nated the “polymer industry.” The suggestion came as long ago as 1962, from a scientist with one of the major rubber companies, speaking to an assembly of high-school science teachers. Polymers? They are chemical compounds made up of large numbers of molecules, hitched end-to- end to form long chains of atoms. They are the building blocks from which scien tists produce synthetic rubber, plastics and fibers —major product areas of the Firestone company. Of late years, the rubber industry has been pro ducing not only rubber, plastics and fibers, but also has been fashioning products from these ma terials, individually and in combination. Booklet reviews Firestone's search ways to Environment Excellence All three units of Firestone Textiles Company have en vironmental study and/or action projects in the Firestone company’s nationwide program of pollution control. Gas tonia has enginering studies in air; the Bennettsville oper ation has converted from coal to gas-fired boilers; and Bowling Green has water-treatment action and fabric-unit studies. Altogether, 34 Firestone man ufacturing and other process in stallations across the country have environmental - improve ment programs in action. As a summary-review of the company’s efforts at pollution control, it has published a maga Quest For Quality • • This Instron test de termines strength rating of a single tire-cord sample, by measuring it at breaking point. Lois (Mrs. Shirley) Bold ing operates testing machine in Firestone’s Gastonia qual ity control lab. This is one of the many routine check/ tests in quest of quality as surance of cord and fabric processed at Gastonia. zine-size booklet: “Firestone— Excellence in Environmental Engineering — through a search for new solutions.” The 24-page booklet is being distributed to federal, state and local environmental agencies, business, civic and industry leaders and citizen ecology groups. Detailed descriptions of past, present and future Firestone projects are featured to illus trate the company’s corporate anti-pollution objective of “do ing whatever is necessary to meet all regulations in all phas es of pollution control-air, water and solid wastes — within avail able technology, to obtain mean ingful results.” Firestone began an accelera ted pollution-control program More on page' 4
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