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Changing faC0S Of Highway Signs As you have traveled the highways in recent months, you have begun to notice significant changes in the designs of familiar road signs and markings. According to the Federal Highway Administration’s re vised Manual of Unitorm Traf- iic Coni,roi uevices, the changes are an etiort to Jieip the motor ist by combining international highway symbols with U.S. Highway sign shapes. The new traffic-control sym bols, instead of the conventional printed messages, have two ma jor advantages: • Symbols provide instant communication and overcome language barriers. • In addition to instant read ability, color and shape have a special significance with the new traffic system. As highway speeds increase, quicker recognition of signs are called for. This need is illustra ted by the larger signs along in terstate routes. SHAPE AND COLOR make it possible to quickly recognize the various kinds of highway signs. Most shapes of our present signs will be retained. There will be only slight change in color-coding. A major change is the “Yield” sign, which will go from black and yellow, to red and white. The only other color change is A Mgt. Trainee; Two Foremen Gerald Brown of Smith Grove community came to work at Firestone in February, 1968, first helping to start production on the new twisters. With his co-workers he unboxed bobbins, carried water, did general clean ing and ran machines. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children. Brown enjoys working in the yard and around the house at Smiths Grove. He likes to go fishing whenever he “man ages some time.” The foreman on B crew, he enjoys the work environment at Firestone—with radio-equipped ear protectors and paging sys tem. James Sweeney is also a fore man on B crew at Bowling Green. Sweeney looks back to his first days at work, and the difficulty he had of looping reg ular and reverse yarn—^moving from one side of the machine to the other, keeping the looping in the same direction. When he began work he had three ply twisters, one cable and one loom started. He has worked as a doffer, also cleaned bobbins and attached identification discs on them. Sweeney’s wife Jessie worked as a beam knotter in Twisting. Safe To Walk Benneltsville is one of sev eral Soulh Carolina communities to win 1972 citations from the American Automobile Associa tion for pedestrian safety. Bennettsville's citation recog nized a 7-year record without a pedestrian death. From left: BROWN GRIFFIN Bollom: SWEENEY His recreation interests are fishing and auto mechanics. James A. Griffin recently joined Firestone Textiles at Bowling Green as a management trainee. In late 1968 he was em ployed as a management trainee at the Gastonia Firestone plant. Early the following year he entered the Army and spent one year in Vietnam before return ing to Gastonia in April, 1972. He was then transferred to Bow ling Green to continue his man agement training program. Griffin has a degree in tex tile technology from North Caro lina State University. His hobby interests; Fishing, handball, tennis. SLIPPERY WHEN WET SIGNAL AHEAD DO NOT PASS DO NOT MSS WHEN WHEN SOLID YELLOW YELLOW LINE LINE IS W YOUR LANE ISNYOURLAIC the use of orange to show con- struction and maintenance warning. The symbol that is expected to cause some confusion as the conversion process advances is the “Prohibited” or “Don’t Do It” marker. This one makes use of a red circle with a slash run ning through it, painted over a symbol denoting an action that is prohibited. Gradual changeover to the new system is on a nationwide scale. Some states are now in process of converting to the new symbols. The project with all states must be completed by the end of 1974. In the meantime, the motorist must be familiar with the con ventional and new systems. EDUCATIONAL PANELS will be used with the signs un til the traveler has become fa miliar with the new markings. The panels consist of written words which tell what the sym bol means—this placed on the sign post just below the new symbol. Also included with the sign changes are changes in pave ment markings and traffic sig nals, all of which are covered PEDESTRIAN CROSSING K DEER CROSSING DIVIDED HIGHWAY MERGING TRAFFIC TRAFFIC ' RIGHT DO NOT ENTER TRUCKS SCHOOL sCROSSING YIELD, OLD NEW OLD NEW RIGHT TURN TURN by the National Joint Commis sion. Changes in signals will be slight, so will likely go un noticed by the average motorist. One big change in pavement markings will be on two-lane, two-way roads. A two-line yel low marking system will replace the present three-line white sys tem. If passing is allowed from either direction, there will be one skip-yellow line. If pass ing is not permitted from one of the lanes, that side of the road will contain a solid yellow line next to the skip-yellow line. When passing is not per mitted from either direction, the road will be marked in center by two solid yellow lines. In all cases, lines on outside edges of roads will remain white. THE IMPORTANT POINT to remember; All these changes are for two-lane and two-way roads only. If there is a yellow line in the center of the road, then the two sides of the road will have traffic flowing in op posite directions. A white line separating lanes NEW means that traffic in both lanes is moving in the same direction. For conversion to the new sys tem of symbols and markings, there will have to be a vast edu cational program by all the States, assisted by the news media, to help the motoring pub ■ lie become familiar with the newly-adopted driving guides. When the job is accomplished, a driver will be able to travel the length and breadth of the nation and see the same high way symbols wherever he goes. • A large volume of our tire-fabric production at Firestone Tex tiles Company is polyester. Could you tell some basic facts about this fiber? Polyester is one of more than a dozen general names of non-cellulosic manmade fibers, nylon being the pioneer in this classification. Polyester was first produced commercially in 1953. Its fibers are produced from fiber-forming material made from elements derived from coal, air, water and pe troleum. Fibers of polyester are melt-spun. The Man-Made Fiber Fact Book lists some two dozen principal uses for polyester, one of these being tire cord. Among polyester’s many char acteristics are its great strength, resilience and resistance to abrasion. (Jk NCSU Grad Warp & Filling ALMANAC • July; zenith of the year. Early harvest, like grapes lush and tangy and watermelons smiling on the vine. The twister operator waxed poetic in his observations on July, went on to note that this month means. . . Independence Day and its as- dependence Day weekend a sociations of our nation’s heri- commemorative program was Other communities cited were Mount Pleasant, at the top of the list with 10 years safety; and (with 3 to 6 years safety): Beaufort, Clemson, Forest Acres, Cayce, Orangeburg, Walterboro, Union, Allendale, Seneca, North Augusta, Chester, Myrtle Beach, Laurens and Sumter. tage, our love and loyalty of country; picnics, family reun- tions, festivals, vacations, early fairs; the joy of hammock- swinging in the shade. And most of all, the cool sweetness of a drink of moun tain spring water back home in Swain County, N, C. Reminder • Members of Va riety Garden Club of Firestone say this is a good month to make cuttings of azaleas and camel lias. Our Heritage • July 4 this year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of U. S. President Cal vin Coolidge. Some historians say the 30th President repre sented the last “grassroots” era of our American history. On In- held at Coolidge Memorial Homestead, Plymouth Notch, Vt. Tarte: Course In Firefighting Alton Tarte, Bowling Green plant maintenance received a certificate of completion for a three-day firefighting course at the University of Kentucky in June. Classes were taught by fire chiefs and an official of Oc cupational Safety and Health Act program. Instruction was in service and maintenance of fire extinguish ers, fire prevention in industrial plants, service-maintenance of sprinkler systems and fire hose, the most recent OSHA rulings Wayne R. Booth of Gastonia, became associated with Field- crest Mills, following his gradu ation from North Carolina State University this spring. He re ceived a degree in textiles. Wayne’s mother, Mrs. Banna L. Booth, is a respooler in TC Twisting at Firestone, Gastonia. As a senior, Wayne was hon ored by faculty and students of the School of Textiles—being named winner of the North Car olina Textile Manufacturers As sociation Award and the Delta Kappa Phi Textile Fraternity “Outstanding Senior of the Year” Award. He was the only senior this year to receive two awards. Wayne also was recipient of the Textile Prestige Scholarship for the class of ’72. on fire protection. Other instruction was in in stallation and maintenance of fire doors, fire alarm and ADT systems, welding safety, rescue techniques and evolutions, stor age and handling combustible liquids and air packs, and gen eral indoor storage.
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