OCTOBER, 1973
Summer's past.
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GASTONIA
NORTH CAROLINA
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BENNEHSVILLE
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOWLING GREEN
KENTUCKY
Firestone People United
Contribute To Goal Of $685,114
Contributions from Firestone people in the Oc
tober in-plant campaign will constitute a major
amount toward the United Way of Gaston County’s
goal of $685,114 to sponsor 34 community services in
1974.
Leading the effort to
solicit UA gifts in the plant’s
only money-collection of the
year are John V. Darwin,
administrative assistant to
to President James B. Call;
and co-chairmen Milton J.
Nichols, Preparations de
partment manager, and
E. W. (Bill) Passmore, em
ployment interviewer.
They will be assisted by many
other employee volunteers in
the various departments of
plant, offices and warehouses.
The corn's in the pone and Ihe pumpkin's in the pie.
Season's maturity at full-circle. October has come again.
BG Treating Unit No. 1
Works Like A Microwave Oven
Operations began Oct. 1 for the company’s newest
fabric-treating unit No. 1 at Firestone’s Bowling
Green, Ky., plant. The facility, built alongside No. 9
unit, was completed in September.
Some 80 construction
workers and technicians at
tended to final details. They
added sheetmetal paneling
and flashing to heat-treat
ovens, did pipefitting for the
gas trains and installed
water and air lines.
Also final stages, mill
wrights aligned rollers, put
in duct insulation; electri
cians terminated wires, in
stalled light fixtures and
checked rotation of motors.
Engineers made final inspec
tions.
The new treating unit is cap
able of processing fabric at 125
yards per minute, "with a ver
satility never before possible,"
according to Craig Wolf, Bowl
ing Green plant engineer.
Wolf said that many combina
tions of saturator stations, oven
passhnes, puUstands, infra-red
and dieletric will be possible.
“This new treating unit is the
only one known to have the 400-
kilowatt dielectric section. This
section works much the same
way as a microwave food-cook
ing oven. That is, the dielectric
treats cords from the inside
out,” Wolf said.
“Also unique to this treating
unit is a 10,000 cfm catalytic
oxidation unit which controls
pollution emissions from the ex
haust stacks.”
The plant engineer explained
that this pollution-control equip
ment cleans up emmissions in
much the same way that the
automobile manufacturers in
tend to control emissions from
motor vehicles. Added Wolf;
“The new No. 1 treating unit
is the most efficient fabric-
handling oven in the Firestone
organization. Many engineering
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Scholarship
Students
In College
Four students from fam
ilies of the textile division
are attending school on Fire-
tone College Scholarships.
The students, their chosen
field of study, and school:
• Barry R. Robinson,
music therapy. East Carolina
University, Greenville, N. C.
• Charles M. Willis,
physics-astronomy. Western
Kentucky University, Bowl
ing Green.
Barry and Charles are
freshmen.
• Laura Ann Hall, ocean
ography, Duke University,
Durham, N. C.
• Samuel M. Rhyne, pre
law, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Laura and Samuel are
sophomores.
• Heard at shift-change, Gas
tonia: "This note referred to an
inscription on an Old English
piece of pottery; "What handi
craft can with our art compare?
For pots are made of what we
potters are.'"
As in past years, United Ap
peal gifts are being sought
through pledge cards and the
payroll-deduction method of
payment.
Last year. Firestone people's
gift to the UA was $43,048.65.
This represented the highest
rate of giving per employee of
all contributing organizations in
the county.
The county’s campaign goal of
$685,114 is being aimed for
under the slogan “Thanks to
You, It’s Working.”
GIVING throughout the coun
ty is emphasized through the
“Fair Share” method. This is
explained as being one hour’s
pay per month, or six-tenths of
one percent of annual salary for
those earning less than $10,000
per year; one percent of annual
salary for those earning $10,-
000 or more annually.
“We have faith that our peo
ple will live up to the fine tradi
tion of generosity through the
many years of our United giv
ing at the plant,” said Mr. Dar
win. “It is a record to be proud
of.”
The county campaign, begin
ning Oct. 10, has its Victory
Dinner meeting set for Nov. 8.
UNITED WAY campaign area
includes all of Gaston County
except Belmont, Bessemer City
and McAdenville, communities
which have United Fund pro
grams of their own.
United Way is a volunteer or
ganization supporting member
agencies which provide social,
health, youth services and other
‘people benefits’.
• Motel sign near eastern en
trance to Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park; Camping
Is Fun FOR THE BEARS.
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•• The Minuteman Flag,
highest award of the U. S.
Treasury Department for
Savings Bonds purchasing,
was presented to Firestone
Textiles Company Gastonia
plant in September.
Employees increased pur
chase of U. S. Savings Bonds
to 72 percent this year, over
the 1972 figure of 62 percent.
C. D. Gray Jr., Gaston
County Savings Bond Direc
tor (center) presented flag to
M. J. Nichols (left). Prepara
tions department manager;
and L. H. Keenum, Waste
control manager. Nichols
and Keenum led in the
Bonds sales increase pro
gram.
W^e Can’t Beat Nature’s Laws
THEY SET THE STAGE
ON WHICH WE PERFORM
•• Science is very big today. The scientific laws and
forces of Nature are big every day. Ignore them and-wham-
mo! You’re in a box!
Step on a slick spot and see what difference a proper
coefficient of friction could make.
Trip over something and see if you can defy the law of
gravity.
Go into a questionable air space without testing and see if
your body can be fueled with less than 16.5 per cent oxygen
in air.
Get 3 tons of auto moving 60 miles per hour and see what
the forces of momentum and kinetic energy do if the de
celerating frictional forces between road and tires cut out or
vary.
Sniff an atmosphere for a couple of hours where the
threshold limit value of some toxic material is exceeded
and see if your innards curl or dissolve.
Gawk at an arc welder and see what radiation can do for
your eyeballs.
Lie in the sun too long and see what it’ll do for your skin.
Walk under a suspended load and cogitate on what would
happen if that potential energy were converted to kinetic
energy and how the law of momentum conservation would
react on you at inelastic impact.
Hit a 5-ton truck going 30 mph with a 2-ton convertible
going 75 mph and see what the coefficient of restitution is.
Fall off something and test the compressibility of bone
and flesh versus other solids. • More on Page 3