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Everybody’s Job Is Something Special • • Improvement—ever moving on—is essen tial in business, especially to the people of Fire stone Textiles Company. To continue offering su perior quality of product and service is the one sure way to move forward in our industry. “Working smarter”, someone has called it. There must constantly emerge a better way of doing what we do today. Do you sometimes feel your job unimportant, lost in the shuffle of the “total picture”? Does it make a difference? Definitely. An unnecessary job will not long exist. Because it is needed, everyone's job is special, and so it is vitally important that it be done well. What, then, can each one of us do in the course of our daily work? We can develop our talents and abilities to the highest level we are capable of attaining. Work faithfully. . . always “Quality-conscious.” Use what we work with to best advantage. Study and do what we can to improve jobs. This way we are well along on keeping the good company name we have earned through the years—building for the future of us all. In production, for example, right from the beginning (where raw materials begin to take shape). Quality begins. From careful selection of raw materials to the rigid inspection of fin ished fabric—it has to be quality-controlled all the way. Regular employment and all its benefits de pend upon continuing business. In our customer- oriented industry, nobody gets paid unless some thing is sold. Our master salesman? Superior Quality. GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA BENNETTSVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY MAY 1972 LAURA ANN HALL SAMUEL M. RHYNE 2 Scholarships 1 Merit Award Also one Certificate of Merit for excellence in high-school work and activities goes this year to another area student. All three students are from em ployee families of the Gastonia plant. Scholarship winners are: • Laura Ann Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer G. Hall of 908 W. Garrison Blvd., Gas tonia. A senior at Ashbrook High School, she plans a career as an oceanographer. At Ashbrook, Laura is a mem ber of the National Honor So ciety, is secretary of the French Club and committee chairman for the pep club. She is active in Girl Scouts and Rainbow Order of Girls. Her father is production manager of the Fire stone Gastonia plant. • Samuel Matthew Rhyne, Lester Wilson of industrial relations (plant pro tection) leads with the longest service record of those who retired on May 1 at the Gastonia plant. His service years and those of three others who retired represent nearly 118 years. The other three, with their years/months time on the job: Phoebe Pearson, Shop (office), 29/8; Genever Johnson, Cloth Room, 29/5; Anna Bell Blaylock, Weaving (chafer), 20/9. PAULA JEAN MOSS Two full college scholarships renewable up to four years and worth up to $7,000 each have been awarded to high-school seniors of the Gastonia area, in the Firestone company’s Scholarship Awards Program for 1972. Company Chairman Raymond C. Firestone made the announcement April 18. son or Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Rhyne of Rte. 3, Gastonia, is a senior at Hunter Huss High School. His plans are to take a pre-law course in college. At Hunter Huss, he is a member of the class senate, Key Club, Beta Club and Spanish club. His father works in the carding de partment at the Gastonia plant. • Paula Jean Moss is the 1972 Merit winner. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Moss of 106 Center St., Kings Mountain, is a senior at Kings Mountain High School. Her father works in the carding department at the Gastonia plant. GASTONIA WINNERS of a scholarship are among the 41 outstanding high-school students awarded scholarships this year by the Firestone company. All Scholarship and Merit winners Playtime West Gastonia young sters will be glad to hear that the "in business" schedule for Firestone Playground and its wad ing pool in iron! ot the Gastonia plant is: June 12 through Aug ust 11. The company recrea tion facility accommoda ting children up to age 12, is operated each sum mer as a part of the sys tem of parks and play grounds under supervi sion of the City Recrea tion Department. Children who play at the Firestone location are watched over by per sonnel who work for the City Recreation Depart ment. Main attraction at the playground is the wading pool. Other pastimes to help youngsters get along with long, hot summer days are the swings, horseshoe pits, see-saw3 and pingpong table. This season, as with the past several years, in struction in crafts, spe cial days and contests are scheduled. The playground sche dule: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon days—Fridays; 9 am.-l p.m., Saturdays. 25th ^ 1 .• Safety ^oniiiiendatioii Every Spring for a quarter-century, Firestone Textiles Company at Gastonia has been recognized by the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce and the North Carolina Department of Labor for outstanding achieve ment in industrial safety. Latest of the awards, rounding out 25 years of citations, was presented in April at the annual C of C Safety Awards banquet. Firestone was at the top of the roster for having been awarded the honor the most limes since 1947. NC Commissioner of Labor Frank Crane presented the plaque to Firestone plant manager Philip R. Williams “on behalf of all the people at the Gastonia plant whose safe work performance earned it.” THE APRIL awards to industries and businesses in Gaston County were based on an outstanding accident-free record for the year 1971, or on a record that was 50 percent better than the 1970 average in safety performance in the various industry-business categories. Firestone’s accident-free performance was better than 50 percent of the record in the textile industry for all North Carolina. The Firestone honors throughout the years have been symbolized by award plaques generally at five-year in tervals, with inscribed bars attached for “in between” years. The company’s first award in the series was made in Raleigh in 1947. All others have been presented at the Gas tonia C of C Safety Awards banquet. The April awards were the last to be presented by Com missioner Crane. He is not seeking re-election to the NC Department of Labor post. Also, the 1972 awards represent the closing of an era. A new long-running program of awards will begin with 1973. are sons and daughters of Fire stone employees and represent areas of the country where Fire stone has major manufacturing, service and retail installations. This year’s two Gastonia More on page 2 Cooler’s Coming The framework was well along in April on the addition of an evaporative-cooling sys tem at Firestone Textiles Com pany's Bennettsville, S.C., plant. The major construction began in Meurch and is expected to be ready for service by July. The system, designed so that a chill ing phase can be added later on, will serve the plant's ply and cable units. The weaving area has been air conditioned for some time.
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