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Some Steel Fabric To Go • • Sandra Huss (left), draw-in hand, checking warp packages as they feed wire to loom. Right photo: Fabric baler Erman Busby placing a package of moisture-con- trol material on roll of wire fabric. Helping package the roll is Y. Moissard (right) of Firestone’s wire and cable plant at Lens, France. He was at the Gastonia wire-weave operation on a technical assignment in Janu ary. Firestone was first U.S. tiremaker to have steelbelt radial tires approved by an auto company. Use of steel-belted radials on new cars is expected to increase from about 2 percent of the 1972 total to at least 10 per cent in 1973. Mission ^ ™ Dennis Johnson, a Product & Process Development engineer, was scheduled to go from Gas tonia to Lens, France, in early February, to help put into op eration a wire-weave loom. The loom, first of its type to operate at the Gastonia plant, was moved to Lens in late 1972. This equipment will take its place in a major expansion pro gram at the company’s wire and cable division. When the expansion program is completed, the Lens facility will increase production capaci ty of steel wire by 300 percent. The Lens plant began opera tion in 1971. It is being enlarged to meet increasing demand of the company’s foreign tire plants for steel cord material. I Control First At BG Jodie Fulkerson (center) was Ihe first salaried person hired at Firestone Textiles Company, Bowling Green, Ky., five years ago. Eugene Hanner (left) was the first clock employee hired a few days after the plant be gan production in early Janu ary of 1968. Here Jodie and Eugene talk ed of their five years at Fire stone and looked over their service pins presented by Ralph L. King, plant manager. At the time Jodie and Eugene started work, the plant man ager was F. B. Galligan. He is Long, long ago, February was the last month on the calendar, March beginning the new year at the vernal equinox. February gets its name from a Latin word meaning “to cleanse”, associated with the ancient Roman feast of purifica tion. February is most distinctive of the months. For one thing, it is the shortest. It has an extra day added on leap years (next one will be 1976). Two of our most folksy “days on the calendar” are in Febru ary; Groundhog Day and Valen tine’s Day. OF THESE two February days. Groundhog Day is most deeply entrenched in American From page 1 • • February is the last full month of Winter (if you go strictly by the calendar). The daylight hours are lengthen ing now, which means that out ahead is Spring. But there are other signs too—such as the buds on the trees, if you look close-up. effluent and to provide continu ous treatment of plant waste water at the Noblesville, Ind., Firestone Industrial Products Company plant. • An advanced water treat ment system at the Akron Fire stone Synthetic Rubber & Latex Company’s plant. • A system which filters water back into the ground at the Salinas, Calif., Firestone tire plant, using a series of earthen lagoons. • Pollution control through preventive maintenance at the Firestone tire plant near Nash ville, Tenn. Joseph R. Laman is the parent company’s manager of environ mental engineering. Concerning company projects during 1973, Laman says: “Firestone will continue to upgrade, develop and expand its pollution-control facilities and technologies throughout the world. “The company also will con tinue its research and develop ment of new products and proc esses to assist in solving new environmental problems as they arise.” Mixed Tires: A ‘No, No’ Advice on this point: If your car is equipped with radials, and you need snow tires for the rear wheels, buy radial snow tires. It is very unsafe to mix radials with non-radials. “It is sort of like wearing a tennis shoe on one foot and a ballroom pump on the other,” says the Tire Industry Safety Council. “You get different types of traction and that’s dangerous.” now General Factories Manag er. Jodie, first hired as secretary to the plant manager, continues in that assignment. The mother of three children, Jodie is presi dent of Bowling Green chapter. National Secretaries Associa tion. She's been president for two years. Eugene was first assigned to balance bobbins in the Mainte nance department. At present he is in charge of working on the scales and mono rail sys tems throughout the plant. Eu gene, wife Betty and their one child live in Scottsville, Ky. He is a deacon in Oak Forest Bap tist Church, Allen County. Color, History, Handicrafts FOR FUN & ADVENTURE ■Almanac lore. One story is that early Pennsylvania settlers brought from Europe the belief that hi bernating animals such as bears, wolves and badgers could fore tell the oncoming spring weath er conditions, as they emerged from winter sleep. In time, the lore became asso ciated with the native wood chuck. These little burrowing animals are also known by such names as whistlepig, marmot, and monax (an old Indian word meaning “the diggers”). Groundhogs go into a sus pended life state in their bur rows in the fall. But it’s in April —not February—that they fling their shadow across sunny mountain slopes of the South land. Call February the threshold of the outdoor travel-play season, where in the Mid-South a display of early-blooming flowers and shrubs are signals of Spring. Of special interest are camellias at gardens and plantations along the coast of the Carolinas and westward toward the Piedmont of both states. Notable of camellia centers are Southport, Wil mington, Pinehurst, Whiteville, Georgetown, Beaufort and Charleston. February is a good time to visit Charleston. If a visitor for the first time, or for the first time in a while, you’ll notice considerable progress in restoration of landmark houses in the down town area. From the wide variety of places of interest in the Charleston area, pick little-publicized Sum merville. It has color, history and beauty, "Flowertown In The Pines" • Summerville is 25 miles NW of Charleston. Close by are such renowned beauty spots as the magnificent gar dens located south toward Charleston. Most famous gardens in the region are Mateebe, Middleton, and Magnolia; also Cypress Gardens and old Mulberry Castle, built in 1714. The Georgian structure, with its landscaped grounds, in on the Cooper River. Too, near Summerville are the remains of Tabby Fort, one-time site of the Town of Dor chester. Old Dorchester has remains of a half bastion style fort dating to the French and In dian War. Headlining the special events in North Caro lina this month: Southern Living Show in Char lotte, Feb. 24-March 4. At Gaston College, Dallas, guitarist David Pengelly will give a concert the morning of Feb. 20. Art, Sports And History • In Kentucky: The J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville has chang ing exhibits throughout the year. Open daily except Mondays. Free admission. Prints and drawings by Rudy Pezzatti are on exhibit through February. Student ceramics are on display through Feb. 20 at the Art Gallery of Western Kentucky Uni versity, Bowling Green. And these Kentucky events in February: Field Naturalist Weekend at GilbertsviUe, 23-25; U of Kentucky Symphony, Lexington, 22; Rod and Custom Car Show, Louisville, 23-25. The Textile Museum • Firestone Textiles peo ple stopping in Washington, D. C., can gain an appreciation of the art and industry of which they are a part, by viewing exhibits at the Tex tile Museum. At 2320 S St. NW, the Museum has begun an expanded schedule to meet public demand. It is open Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Sundays, 1-5 p.m. FIRESTONE TEXTILES COMPANY P.O. Box 1278 • Gastonia, N. C. 28052 BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID at Gastonia, N. C. PERMIT NUMBER 29 R03ERT PASSaORS 1011 W. SECOND AVE. GASTONIA, N. C. 23052
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