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Scholarship Apphcations DeadUne: end of February High-school seniors trying for the 1973 Firestone Col lege Scholarships must have all required application ma terial in the scholarship office of the company’s Akron, Ohio, headquarters by the end of February. Applications are open to sons and daughters of Firestone em ployees, and who meet further requirements as outlined in the information booklets which have been in supply at all three factories of Firestone Textiles Company since mid-December. Students apply from all states where the company has major production and service facilities and retail systems. Each full scholarship is worlh up to $7,000 toward tuition, fees, required textbooks and room and board expenses during four years in college. Earth Week • Earth Week 1973 will begin April 9 and continue through the 15th. Purpose of Earth Week observance is to promote an awareness that people are care takers of the earth’s resources. . . . “that no longer do we con sider ourselves separate from the environment or above it. Whatever affects the environ ment sooner or later affects people.” Scholarship winners may at tend any accredited college or university in the United States and pursue any desired course leading to a degree. Besides scholarships, the com pany each year awards Certifi cates of Merit and U.S. Savings Bonds in recognition of out standing high-school achieve ment among applicants. IN 1972 the company awarded 41 full scholarships and honored 174 applicants as Merit Win ners. Of the full scholarships from last year, two are from Fire stone Textiles Company: Laura Ann Hall, attending Duke Uni versity; and Samuel M. Rhyne, who is at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. This (1973) is the 21st year Firestone will have awarded scholarships in the educational- aid program. Up through last year, the company had awarded 603 scholarships. Purpose of the Firestone pro gram is to provide financial as sistance to worthy sons and daughters of Firestone employ ees who seek college educations. NSC Honor For Safety • The National Safety Coun cil in late 1972 honored the Fire stone company for 60 years’ ac tive participation in the organi zation’s safety programs. Firestone, the only firm in the rubber industry so honored, was a charter member of the council at its founding in 1913. Howard Pyle, president of NSC, commended Firestone for its contributions to the council’s 60 years of safety progress. “The company’s steadfast de votion to accident prevention has written a bright chapter in America’s history of social re sponsibility,” said Pyle. The National Safety Council strives to educate business firms, employees and the gen eral public on safety in plants, offices, homes and on highways. Through its publications and training programs, the council provides up-to-date information on safety legislation and safe operating procedures. Joseph P. Cangemi making a point in personality develop ment, in one of the January classes he led at Firestone, Gas tonia. Instructor Cangemi (left) dis cussing study materials with (from left) T. J. Ross, shipping- receiving foreman in Ware house; Philip Williams, factory manager: Edwin Fuller, plant manager at Bennettsville; and W. E. Lindquist, junior staff elec trical engineer. Growth, Leadership A continuing program to help employees to good hu man relationships and job leadership is now involving people of all three produc tion facilities of Firestone Textiles Company. The latest course in the Psy chology of Effective Leadership was conducted at Gastonia, where 60 members of manage ment and the supervisory staff completed training in two sep arate week-long sessions in late December and early January. People involved represent both Gastonia and Bennettsville Fire stone plants. Joseph P. Cangemi, assistant FROM Old Tires: Cotton stalks and the boll gleanings are good mulch and natural fertilizer for growing vege tables and other crops. Too, cotton hulls and the seed meal are excellent organic fertilizer. These by-products of one of the original tex tile fiber plants have been known as recycle materials to perhaps as far back as the beginning of spinning and weaving. Besides natural recycling, science has been finding exciting ways of converting textiles sources, such as cotton and soybeans, into all sorts of products. Protein food is one example. Comes now an impressive discovery for the use of discarded tires, made principally of rub ber and fabric. A project sponsored by the Fire stone company found that the old tires can be used to produce high-protein food, condition poor-quality soil and purify water. Dr. Glen Alliger, Firestone’s director of re search, reported: “These are only initial findings and, while they are exciting, a great deal of re search is needed to find out their practical value.” In the two-year, company-sponsored study, scientists were able to grow a yeast-base of food on shreddings taken from scrap tires. Although rather tasteless, the food produced is nutritious and suitable for human and animal consumption. Dr. Alliger reported. “Low productivity was the major problem we FOOD, SOIL CONDITIONER, WATER PURIFIER encountered in making the food,” he notes. “Large quantities of water and sterile air were needed for proper fermentation while the yield was relatively small.” The study was conducted at Rutgers Univer sity’s Institute of Microbiology, under direction of Dr. Walter J. Nickerson, and at Firestone’s Central Research Laboratories in conjunction with the company’s overall waste-control pro gram. As part of the project, scrap rubber was shredded, reduced to powder with fungi and then mixed with unproductive soil such as sand and clay. Alliger said the powder improved the ability of sand to hold water and reduce the density of clay allowing water to penetrate. As further proof that poor-quality soil could be improved, the scientists grew kidney beans in sand mixed with the powder. Another experiment; They found that when water was mixed with the powder, certain im purities which were in the water were removed through an ion-exchange process. Thus, scrap tires may prove useful in cleaning polluted water, Alliger observed. The scientists also found that discarded tire rubber could be used in producing several or ganic chemicals. One of them—a polysaccharide —can be used to obtain a type of sugar. The Firestone company is seeking patents covering these processes with discarded tires. dean of psychology at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, was instructor of the classes which dealt with person ality and management develop ment. THE PROGRAM is considered a pioneering approach to em ployee enrichment, with indus try and a university working cooperatively. Mr. Cangemi began the pro gram at the company’s Bowling Green plant in 1972. There he conducted three courses in Man agement Development for supervisors and in Human Rela tions—Individual Behavior and Motivation. The work at Bow ling Green involved supervisors and some 200 production em ployees. Cangemi is now on leave from Western Kentucky University. He is doing residence require ments for the doctoral degree at Indiana University. In the fall of this year he will return to WKU. Besides his teaching duties on the faculty, he will continue the training program with Firestone Textiles Com pany. Firestone Textiles people who work at the Bennettsville, S.C. plant will be interested in a new eight-acre park which is plan ned for Hamlet, N.C. This town on the N.C. Southern border, is just a few miles North of Ben nettsville. Eastside Park, expected to be completed by March or April, will have two tennis courts, two basketball courts, two cookout shelters, a football field, a base ball field, a Little League field, and lots of trees. ‘Col. Lovingood, Suh’ KENTUCKY Vernon Lovingood, who retired from the Bowling Green plant in late 1972, is the fourth man associated with Firestone Textiles Company to be appointed to the honorary order of Ken tucky Colonel. Lovingood, who spent many years at the Gastonia Firestone plant and transferred to Bowl ing Green in 1968, moved back to Gastonia upon his retirement. He had been BG Twisting de partment manager. Just before Lovingood left Kentucky, Gov. Wendell Ford honored him with the Colonelcy membership. IN 1967 the late Harold Mer cer was made a Kentucky Col onel by Gov. Edward Breathitt. Soon thereafter, Mercer—at that time president of the textile di vision—^was honored with a sec ond Colonelcy by incoming Gov. Louie B. Nunn. Then Gov. Nunn added two other Firestone Textiles Com pany men to the Colonel list: President James B. Call; and Francis B. Galligan, at the time the plant manager at Bowling Green. Galligan later became division general factories man ager, a position he still holds. Christine (Mrs. Earl) Clark, secretary to James B. Call, division president, is the 1972- 73 secretary of Gaston County unit, American Cancer Society. She also serves as chairman of the “Reach for Recovery” com mittee of the cancer program. Christine calls attention that April will be observed locally and nationally as Cancer Con trol Month. Major emphasis is on informing the public of can cer warning signals and value of early treatment.
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