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GASTONIA 15 With Long Service When John Bryant of the service award from Firestone James B. Call, he went down person to complete 35 years fabric unit. While Bryant marked his work anniversary in January there were 14 of his fellow em ployees who joined him for service awards—records rang ing from 5 to 30 years. These are: Thirty Years • John Stowe, TC Twist ing; Roy J. Ward, Chafer Weav ing; Fred Davis, Shop. Twenty-Five Years • Lewis Montgomery and Claude C. Carpenter, both TC Shop (Gastonia) received his Textiles Company President in plant history as the 100th employment at the NC tire- Twisting; Lawrence Burk, Shop; Jackie E. Gates, Quality Control. Twenty Years • Billie A. Gamble, Shop. Ten Years • Dennis Lee Mauney, Louise G. Lankford, both TC Twisting. Five Years • Carolyn R. Summey, TC Twisting; Gary Dean Pat terson and Thomas Edward Gingles, both TC Weaving; Mar tha Sue Dill, Chafer Weaving. Manager Quality Control Carroll Cloer is the new manager of Quality Control at Firestone Textiles Company’s Gastonia unit. He suc ceeds Raymond Morgan who left the ' company for another textile position in Gastonia. Roland E. Huss; Bassie R. Rogers A memorial service for Bassie Rollins Rogers, 81, was held at Beech Avenue Baptist Church of Gastonia, Jan. 13. Burial was in Gaston Memorial Park. Mr. Rogers retired from a long career of employment at Fire stone, Gastonia, 16 years ago. Besides his wife, Mrs. Amanda Stiles Rogers, he is survived by 5 daughters, 2 sons, 23 grand children and 18 great-grandchil- dren. One son, Claude Rogers, is a Firestone (Gastonia) em ployee. Funeral for Roland E. Huss, 66, was held at Sisk East Chapel in Bessemer City, Jan. 28, with burial following in Memorial Park there. Mr. Huss retired from Firestone, Gastonia, a year ago, after 25 years here. Besides his wife, Mrs. Essie Y. Huss, survivors are three daugh ters and a son: a sister and a brother; seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. One of the daughters, Mrs. Jim Fitzgerald, is chief PBX oper ator at the Gastonia plant. Cloer, a graduate of NC State University-Raleigh, with a B.S. in Textiles, is from Patterson, N. C. He attended high school at Lenoir, N. C. The Quality Control manager is a major in the Air Force Re serve. He will retire from the APR in July, with 20 years ser vice. He served an active enlist ment in the Air Force, 1944-45. Cloer is a graduate of Indus trial College of the Armed Forces, the Air War College and the Institute of Leadership. HE HAS studied further through various management and technical courses at East Tennessee State University. After finishing at NC State U, Cloer was employed by a cotton textile firm at Hudson, N. C. and later, by another mill at Rhodhiss. He was with Beaunit Fibers at Elizabethton, Tenn., before I Closed-circuit TV Most recent electronic 'helper' to be installed in the Gastonia No. 8 treating unit is a video monitor-recorder which scrutinizes the finished fabric as it emerges from the treating tanks- ovens and is packaged at the take-up mechanism. TV screen at center above clock panel and at start-up roll shows Bill Radford, lead operator (left); and Calvin Hanna, unit operator, how finished tire fabric is 'going'. A video taper at right of panel 'cans' the pic- NO. 8 Fixing Up The Fabric More than 50 years ago The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company perfected a method of insulating tire cords against internal heat build-up. It was called a “Gum-Dipping” process. In those days the cord was cotton, with the “upland” kind considered the highest quality. This method of insulating tire cord and fabric has evolved into what is known today as “treating”; sometimes by an older term “plastic-dipping.” SINCE the mid-1950s, the operation has been done in electronically-controlled, heat-setting joining the faculty of Danville (Va.) Community College. As head of a textile management school there, Cloer led in re organizing and updating much of the curriculum to meet fu ture demands of the textile in dustry. He has applied his under standing of textiles to the prep aration of technical manuals primarily on polyester fibers, and by writing articles for Mod ern Textiles Magazine. The QC manager came to Firestone from a position with a textile manufacturer near Bur lington, N. C. ANNOUNCING C 1 o e r ’ s ap pointment, Firestone Textiles Company President James B. Call said; “He brings to Firestone a broad background in yarns, fab rics, fibers; a combintion of ex perience and achievements in management and technical areas of textiles, and in quality con trol—from fiber production to finished product. “His experience includes or ganizing and training of person nel and operating of an out standing quality-control pro gram at a polyester-producing plant. There, he was instrumen tal in establishing an efficient finished-products management program.” Cloer is a member of Ameri can Management Association, American Association of Textile Technologists, American Society of Testing and Materials, and American Society of Quality Control. He is married to the former Rachel Tuttle of Lenoir. They live on Carriage House Lane in Gastonia. PINE • PALMETTO & PENNYRILE ALMANAC The harshest Winter finds an invincible Summer in us. • Albert Camus ture which is sent to Quality Control lab for monitoring and study. After they've served their purpose, tapes are erased for re-use. The video equipment was installed in mid-1971, A similar system is in service at the Bowling Green treating unit. Another electronic 'servant' is the PA com munications system which was original equip ment with Unit 8 at Gastonia, and with the Bowling Green fabric-treating facility. units. Firestone was a pioneer in this major ad vance of the tire industry. Besides insulating against heat in tire use, fab ric treating imparts other qualities to tires pro duced today. It improves strength, controls stretch, adds flexibility, helps toward smoother running and easier driving. The Firestone company and its Gastonia in stallation scored a “world’s first” when the original electronically-operated, gas-fired “dip” unit went into service in early 1955. In en suing years, two more units began operation at the same location—the most recent, the “Big One” on the site of the Old Millpond. Besides the three units at Gastonia, the com pany has fabric-treating facilities in three other U.S. locations: Memphis, Tenn., Akron, Ohio, and Bowling Green, Ky. The Kentucky unit is newest of the “family” of six. The company operates other fabric-treating plants outside the United States. ‘Caboose’ of Winter February. Short, fickle as the wind, means Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, birthdays of many of the world’s great peo ple, and holidays. February trademarks: Cold, sleet, snow, ice, lengthening daylight hours; maybe a little sunshine and then thaw. Down South, February is the “caboose” of winter (“six more winter weeks in store if sunrays strike the groundhog’s door”). It’s the long-range promise of Spring an-1 make-ready time for Sum mer days surely on the way. • • A winter evening at home with TV, reading, conversation, a songfest or other pleasantries. But with a bowl of popcorn, if you’d maki it an occasion to re lish. And fix it to “suit the taste,” as Southern folks say. Thereby renew your appreci ation for America’s First Citi zens, who bequeathed us more than they usually get credit for. For example, the people whom Christopher Columbus named Indians introduced to European colonists such goodies as pump kin, pemmicin, maize and its kindred grain—popcorn. One history reference, putting popcorn’s introduction as on Feb. 22, 1630, recalls: PILGRIMS OF the storied Plymouth Colony of Massa chusetts were staging one of their early-day thanks/socials, a main feature being an abun- Survey (Continued from page 1) “While we make no claim that the NON-SKID survey is com plete or scientific, we do feel that it clearly indicates that nearly all of us need a better understanding of the importance of profits to our company and our country,” said the editors. Notes & Footnotes • This be ing Leap Year, February has 29 days. So, happy birthday to all Leap Year babies! February is Boy Scout Month (BSA char tered in U.S. Feb. 8, 1910). On Feb. 3, 1789 at Beverly, Mass., a general court granted a charter and extended certain favors to encourage operation of a textile factory which prom ised “to produce cotton goods as cheaply as those imported from England.” The three-story brick cloth factory, one of the earliest in America, produced cotton fab rics principally, but was capable of turning out materials of flax, silk, hemp and wool. Pres. George Washington vis ited the mill in Oct., 1789 and marvelled at its mechanical operation. Records indicate that the old mill was destroyed by fire around 1823. ☆ ☆ ☆ dance of good things from the harvest. History students know about Good Chief Massassoit of the Wampanaog confederacy. He’s remembered down the years be cause of his friendship with the Colonists and his treaty with them. Too, he helped them sur vive the first few harsh wilder ness winters and had something to do with the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621, Now Massassoit had a brother whose name was Quadequina. And it was he who introduced popcorn to his newcomer friends from “across the Great Water,” Arriving at a settlers’ thanks festival in 1630, Quadequina presented his contribution to the sumptuous fare: A huge deer skin bag stuffed with several bushels of the popped corn. Add Quadequina to the list of obscure Early Americans to re member. • About what is the current number of people working in Gaston County's textile industry? The Chamber of Commerce says that of the 38,000 manu facturing employees in the county, 30,000 are in textiles.
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