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■ r/ ».) 12 These views of Big Spring, photographed by Firestone employ ees. In summer the water is too cold for fish. Kentucky Sinkholes Some at Firestone Plant, Bowling Green Big Spring in the Southern part of Allen County, Ky., is the source of Big Tramnel Creek. Big Spring is not a boiling, bubbling font and does not flow with any perceptible current. The spring’s opening, measuring 120 yards lopg by 50 to 75 yards wide, rises from an un determined depth. At the head of this spring is a place called the Bottomless Pit, so named because the depth has never been measured, although many attempts have been made. The spring occupies a basin or depression en closed on one side by a solid rock wall. In sum mer the water is too cold for fish, but in winter the fish make their way up to the spring by the thousands. As springtime approaches they leave Big Spring and again assemble in great numbers in the creek below. BACK IN the late 1870s the waters of Big Tramnel Creek abounded with fish. The late J. W. Foster, once a representative from Allen County, used to tell of the “old days” when passengers on the stagecoach would join local people to seine fish on Saturday before Easter Sunday. They’d take fish by the bushels, having nice big speckled trout and yellow suckers on their breakfast tables Easter morning. Big Spring and Big Tramnel Creek are associ ated with a number of Indian legends. Big Spring is perhaps best-known of what Kentucky people call “sinkholes.” Warren Coun ty has a number of them—some located at the Firestone Textiles Company plant outside Bow ling Green. We’ll tell you about more sinkholes in a future issue of Firestone News. • FRED DEHOAG Firestone Bowling Green plant Long Service The number of 35-year service records attained at Gastonia reached 105 in June, when Maford M. Sand ers’ name was added to the roster. Sanders, who works in supply, was joined in June by 11 others at Gastonia with records from 5 to 30 years. Thirty Years • Furman F. Pearson, Charlie M. Parham, Shop; Ar thur C. Bradley, Industrial Rela tions (plant protection); Mildred Mack, Main Office. Twenty- Five Years • Edward T. Dailey, TC Twisting; Newell E. Hardin, In dustrial Relations (plant protec tion). Twenty Years • Gertrude C. Price, TC Twisting. Fifteen Years • John E. Johnson, Jr., TC Twisting; Ruth B. Wilson, Quality Control. Ten Years • Joshua Brice, TC Twist ing. Five Years • J. E. Butts, Quality Control. Tacts On Car Care’ YOU CAN HAVE A COPY To help inform motorists about car care, the Firestone company has prepared a booklet discussing key auto parts and systems, and their maintenance. “Facts on Car Care” deals with these subjects: Tires, ignition and electrical sys tems, brakes, exhaust, suspension, fuel, engine and cooling system. “These are components which most often need main tenance o r replacement,” said Jack B. Scarcliff, direc tor of consumer affairs for Firestone. “The booklet explains pur pose, function and impor tance of these parts, so cus tomers will understand why a replacement is needed.” Copies of the car - care booklet are being distributed to Firestone’s service centers where service personnel use them in answering custom ers’ questions. The 1 5 - p a g e illustrated guide is presented in simple, non-technical language. You can have a free copy by re questing it from: Mr. J. B. Scarcliff, director of consumer affairs, 1200 Firestone Parkway, Akron, Ohio 44317. Training In First Aid From Page 1 Bill Baker, Burl Blanton, Bessie Bradley, Clifford Bradley, Coy Bradshaw, Betty Brown, Robert Bryson, Julia Buchanan, Harold Burgess, Joe Burroughs. Lucille Callahan, C. K. Cauth- en, Grace Christopher, Christine Clark, Vauda Clark, S. E. Craw ford, Grady Davis, Helen Dial, W. F. Dixon, Rosie Francum, Ralph Franklin, Harold Free land, Earlene Fitpgerald, James Gaultney, John Goebel, Arthur Gordon, Homer G. Hall, Robert Hager, Clyde Hamrick, Oliver Hardee, Patricia Henson, Clyde Huffstetler, Barbara Hughes, Sue Huss, George Jackson, John Jenkins, R. L. Johnson, W. T. Kirby, Freida Lankford. R. E. Mack, William Massey, Clee McCaslin, William McGin nis, James Meeks, M. J. Nichols, J. D. Nix, Dan O’Neal, Donald Parham, Marshall Parham, Henry Parker, Max Pearson, Sadie Perkins, Betty Phillips, Clyde Phillips, H. B. Phillips, Jarvis Plemmons. Floyd Ratchford, Lorene Rog ers, T. J. Ross, Gary Rowland, James Saylor, Ray Shields, Bill Shuford, William Shull, Robert Stephens, Larry Stevens, Elton Still, Sue Stuart, Wilbur Sumey, Pearl Tate, Walter Tate, Clyde Thomasson, William Tomberlin, Tony Truesdale, Ophelia Wal lace, James Wellman, Floyd Whitaker, Tracy Whitener, Lois Whitfield, William York. Bennettsville • Jack Ander son, David Coleman, Helen Creech, Rhonda David, Waldo Frye, Annie Grant, Peggy , Hodge, J. W. Mudd, Mary Oliver, Faye Shankle, Geraldine Strick land, Annie Mae Watson, W. F. Williams. Bowling Green • Robert Arn old, Gerald Brown, Warner Fish- back, John Forsyth, Jean Har- Bait The Hook "Get your fishing gear and get tuned up for the second tournament of the season, set for July 29," reminds Jerry Shields, safety engineer at the Bowling Green plant. The lake location for the up coming tournament will be announced throughout the plant. An earlier tournament, June II, was at Barren River Reservoir, with 34 employees, their husbands and wives, and relatives participating. Cash prizes were award ed for the largest bass, and most pounds landed of bass, bluegill (bream), and crappie. The prize money and recipients: Harold Baldock (two prizes), $34; Ray Dilling ham, Larry Holder, Thom as Holder, Wayne Lykins, Ed Gravil, Ronnie Turner and Gayron Riddle, $13.60 each. On His Way When Howard Michael Boyd won a Firestone company Col lege Scholarship, the Hunter Huss High School senior’s am bition was a career in corporate law. Today, with two academic de grees earned, he is realizing that goal. This spring he went to work in the City of Charlotte legal department. Michael took his bar examination in June and expects to be duly approved as an attorney by August. He attended Duke University on the Firestone scholarship, making the Dean’s List all the way and with time for involve ment in many campus activities, including a research assistant- ship. He earned his undergraduate degree in three years, going on to the Duke School of Law. At the spring commencement he was awarded the Juris Doctor degree. At law school he was a re search assistant to one of his professors. During school ses sions and in between, Michael had experience as a law clerk in Charlotte, an intern on the Gov ernor’s Committee on Law and Order, in work with a legal ad visory firm for the Mecklenburg County Police departments, and at Charlotte Law Enforcement Center. Michael’s mother, Mrs. L. H. Boyd Jr., is an inspector in Qual ity Control, Firestone (Gas tonia). vey, Eulas Hatcher, Ray Hend erson, Roger Jenkins, Joe Lowe, Wayne Lykins, David McKin ney, Joe Madison, Larry Moore, Gayron Riddle, Stanley Scully, Jerry Shields, Ronnie Turner, Harold Whitfield. Jean Harvey, the plant nurse, completed both the standard and advanced first-aid courses and instructors training at Wes tern Kentucky University. She will instruct plant personnel in standard first aid. Business Opportunties natural resources, agriculture, and climate. THE BOOKLET, issued through a joint effort of the City-County Chamber of Com merce and Kentucky Depart ment of Commerce, notes that during the 1960s manufacturing employment increased by 113 percent (the Firestone Textiles Company plant began operating at Bowling Green in early 1968). Among other things the sur vey booklet points out: • Average income per person increased by $1,279 or 88 percent during the 1960 decade. • The population grew by 28 percent. BOWLING GREEN Firestone shares in the cur rent employment picture of as sets and opportunities for busi ness in the Bowling Green, Ky., area, as outlined in a recently- published booklet intended to help attract more industry to the city. “Industrial Resources—Bowl ing Green”, is a 38-page survey accenting the postive aspects of Bowling Green. It deals with basic facts on employment, in dustrial sites, population, in come, wages, labor supply, edu cation, transportation, power and fuel, local government, health, community livability. Volume XX Number 7 July. 1972 Page 2 • GASTONIA Claude C. Callaway. Editor Monthly publication of the Gastonia, N. C., plant o{ Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Division lieadquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors and International Association of Business Communicators. Plant Offices REPORTERS Warehouses Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—^Louella Queen, Leila Rape Twisting (synthetics) — Elease Cole, Katie Elkins Warp Preparation—Elmlna Bradshaw, NeU BoUck Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Israel Good Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Faye Shankle, Mary H. Oliver, Sylvia Lockamy, Louise S. Preston—Report ers. BOWLING GREEN Dorothy Kingrey, Mary Snell, Mary Bryant, Brenda Loaiman, Teresa Leonard
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