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Moving WILL EdSt STARLINGS FOLLOW? “Will the starlings go East now, taking refuge on the tank tower, as they have done through the years here?” ventured one bystand er in a group who’d gather ed to watch a Gastonia land mark come down. Through the years at Gastonia the elevated reservoir had been standby for production service and fire protection. In recent years the company tapped other sources of water supply. Since the tank had been out of service for a time, it posed an unnecessary mainten ance problem. The giant water tank which had towered 145 feet at the Firestone plant since around 1905 was dismantled in Decem ber and January. It made its journey to a new role of service in the Pembroke, N.C., town water supply system. MOVING from Gastonia to Robeson County, the tank to be reconstructed on shorter ‘legs’, closed still another chapter in the history of Firestone in Gas ton County. In future. Firestone people, traveling down Pembroke way, can view with pride and nos talgia the old tank in its new role of service. • National Textile Week for 1973 will be April 1-7. The first National Textile Week was ob served in the spring of 1972. . ... • These scenes of the begin ning and progressive dismant ling of water lank and tower show the giant pot losing its 'hat' and the steel-plate body, section-by-section. Later, the tower itself came down, as steeplejacks worked skillfully in winter weather, readying the parts for removal and recon struction in Southeastern North Carolina. People & Places Gaston County State Representative Carl Stewart Jr. was recently named to head the powerful House Appropria tions Committee for the 1973 session of the General As sembly. According to other legislators, Stewart is probably one of the My View gastonia plant • Should eligible voters be required by law lo vole in U.S. national elections? Why or why not? No. In this country, voting is a citizen’s privilege. It is an obligation, too. And it must remain a personal choice, I believe. To require voting by law would destroy one of my precious rights as a citizen. —Janet Clemmer, Clerk, Methods/Standards. No. Voting should be a person’s privilege—sort of like a man’s religion. Voting should never be an obligation im posed by law. The law should provide the opportunity and that’s all. —-Ray Stiles, loom changer, TC Weaving. Never. A law that would require eligible voters to vote in national elections would create a “backlash” situation. Too many people would cast blank ballots or sell their vote to the highest bidder. Such a law would be definite in fringement upon my rights as a citizen, as I understand my rights under the Constitution. I have been in South Ameri can countries where they do have a law requiring people to vote in national elections. It’s not a good law. —Thomas Yelton, manager, Technical Services. No. I believe every eligible person should vote. But voting ought to be a person’s own free will. A law that re quires a person to vote would be a very bad thing. —Frank Allison, Shop sanitation service. No. To require voting by law would take away my free dom to choose in a real sense. It would be an abridgement of my Constitutional rights. —Elmer (Bill) Passmore, Employment interviewer. most qualified for this position, having served all four of his terms, beginning in 1967, on this committee. The chairmanship is a choice political appointment, one that a Gaston County representative had not held in more than 40 years. Rep. Stewart, a 1953 Firestone College Scholarship winner, at tended Duke University and Law School at Duke. His father and mother are re tired from Firestone, Gastonia. During vacations of his student days, Stewart also worked at Firestone. ☆ ☆ ☆ Vaughn S. Meeks is among those included on the Dean’s List for the quarter recently ended at Gaston Community College. His father, Spurgeon Meeks, a fabric clerk in the Firestone Warehouse, has worked here since 1968. At Gaston College, Vaughn studied business administration his first year. This year he is taking courses leading to cre dentials as a registered nurse. \ cASTONiA 17 Service Records Six at Gastonia topped the long-time service list for January, recording 30 years each on the job. They are Walter P. Tate, Preparation; George M. Davis and Sallie M. Brewer, TC Twisting; Gladys B. McClure and Jessie Lee Ammons, TC Weaving; Clyde L. Payne, Chafer Weav ing. Joining these with more Tigner, many-years were: service records TC Weaving; Larry Hayes Stevens, Process & Prod uct Development. Twenty- Five Years • Mary N. Wilkes and Evelyn Mae Baker, TC Twisting; George E. Harper Jr., Warehouse. Twenty Years • Fred H. Holloway and Joe Billy Neal, TC Twisting; Emory Johnson, Nylon Treating. Five Years • Robert L. Rhoden, Franklin E. Lawrence, Ernest F. Cobb, TC Twisting; Paul E. Ideas GASTONIA Volume XX Number 2 February, 1973 Page 2 Claude C. Callaway, Editor Monthly publication of the Gastonia N. C., plant of Firestone TextUcs Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Division headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors and International Association of Business Communicators. Plcmt Offices REPORTERS Warehouses Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—Louella Queen, Lelia Rape -Elmina Bradshaw, Robinson. Israel Twisting (synthetics) Katie EUcins Elease Cole, Warp Preparation Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Good Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Faye Shankle, Mary H. Oliver, Sylvia Lockamy, Louise S. Preston—Report ers. BOWLING GREEN Dorothy Kingrey, Mary Bryant, Brenda Loafi Leonard Snell, Mary Loafman, Teresa From page 1 shipment of tire molds to over seas plants. Employee participation during 1972 was highest in the 54-year history of Firestone’s suggestion program. Overall, in North American tire plants there were 522 suggestions submitted per 1,000 employees. In diversified products plants, there were 388 ideas for each 1,000 employees. Said John T. Cahoon, com pany vice president of person nel and planning: “T h e suggestion program’s successful 1972 year can be at tributed to increased awareness by employees that they are part of Firestone’s' decision-making team. We encourage our people to suggest improvements in op erational procedures in factories and offices.”
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