1974
GASTONIA
NORTH CAROLINA
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BENNETTSVILLE
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOWLING GREEN
KENTUCKY
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son was appointed a company
vice president responsible for
operations of the newly-de
signated Raw Materials and
Chemical Group.
BESIDES Firestone Textiles
Company, the group includes
Firestone Synthetic Rubber and
Latex Co.; Akron; Firestone
Synthetic Fibers Co., Hopewell,
Va.; Firestone Wire and Cable
Co., Danville, Ky.; Firestone
Plastics Co., Pottstown, Pa.;
Firestone Adhesives Co., De
troit, and Firestone Foam Prod
ucts Co., East Providence, R.I.
Firestone Textiles Company
had been under the broad diver
sified products grouping. A sec
ond group under that designa
tion operates under Leon R.
Brodeur. Rosenson and Brodeur,
pointed to their new jobs when
the board of directors met in
i
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JAY H.
ROSENSON
He is group vice president,
raw malerials and chemicals.
Firestone Textiles Company be
longs to this group within the
parent company's diversified
products operations.
$1.6 Million
TO UNITED FUND
PROGRAMS
Put it all together and you
have more than $1.6 million.
Firestone employees pledged
that amount to United Funds
throughout the United States
in late 1973.
A survey by the NON-SKID,
company employee publication
in Akron, learned further of the
UF contributions:
Combined with an additional
$350,000 in company gifts from
plants, stores and sales offices,
the nationwide Firestone con
tribution reached $1,627,000.
Firestone contributions were
made to some 75 United Fund,
United Way and Red Cross or
ganizations whose hundreds of
organizations will help thou
sands of people during 1974.
Many of those thousands are
Firestone people.
Throughout the country.
United Fund-sponsored agencies
are deeply involved in activities
and programs to alleviate com
munity problems and to create
a wholesome environment for
all citizens.
SERVICES aimed at helping
the handicapped, controlling
juvenile delinquency, providing
job training and preventing
family breakdown are but a few
of the many challenges UF
agencies meet every day.
All three plant communities
of Firestone Textiles Company
—Gastonia, Bennettsville and
Bowling Green—have United
programs. Contributions from
Firestone people constitute a
Firestone Textiles Company
Firestone Textiles Company and its three plants—at
Gastonia, N. C.; Bennettsville, S. C.; and Bowling Green, Ky.
—is among seven divisions withiii a broad divcisified prod
ucts area of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company.
The grouping was made in both company vice presidents in
late 1973, when Jay H. Rosen- former assignments, were ap-
iN RAW MATERIALS
AND CHEMICAL GROUP
December and announced reor
ganization of the company’s
diversified products manage
ment structure.
Rosenson and Brodeur took
over the duties formerly held
by Jack M. Comely, who was
made president of Firestone In
ternational Company.
OTHER executive changes at
the same time were the appoint
ment of Frank A. LePage as an
executive vice president with
responsibilities of the interna
tional and diversified products
division; and treasurer Kenneth
W. Reese as a vice president.
All these changes in execu
tive management came when
Raymond C. Firestone relin
quished his position as company
chief executive officer, to con
tinue as chairman of the board
of directors.
Richard A. Riley, company
president since late 1972, suc
ceeded Mr. Firestone as chief
executive officer. Mr. Riley con
tinues as president.
Jay Rosenson joined Fire
stone Plastics Company in 1952
and held technical service and
sales positions until being
named manager of marketing
in the chemical division in 1964,
and manager of marketing for
the plastics division in 1967.
In 1971 he was made presi
dent of Firestone Plastics Co.,
continuing in that capacity un
til his promotion to vice presi
dent of the raw materials and
chemical group.
• The world’s first computer
ized form of machine was pio
neered by the textile industry.
It was the Jacquard loom of
many years ago, and long be
fore anyone ever heard tho word
‘computer’.
major amount toward the goals
of all three annual United cam
paigns.
New ‘Kitchen’
Ida (Mrs. Goldie) Byers of
Bessemer City has been em
ployed at the Gastonia plant 28
years—and all of this time (to
mid-December) at Firestone
Recreation Center. For the past
eight years as hostess, she had as
a main job the planning and
cooking for dinner meetings,
banquets and other functions
when meals were served.
Now that the Recreation Cen
ter is gone, Mrs. Byers has
moved to another “kitchen.” It’s
the chemical laboratory at No.
8 Treating Unit.
As a lab technician, she tests
incoming dip solutions, raw ma
terials for tire fabrics, and fin
ished dip.
•See 'Or House', Page 3
Conserving Energy
FIRESTONE
PEOPLE
Programs to conserve en
ergy at Firestone plants in
the United States and over
seas produced an annual sav
ing of five per cent of the
company’s purchased power
and fuel costs, world wide.
The saving was made during
the company’s fiscal year ended
October 31, 1973, said Richard
A. Riley, president. Savings
covered tire and diversified
products plants in the U.S. and
overseas.
The company-wide energy-
conservation program has been
in operation since late 1971.
“Firestone is making its
energy-saving results public to
let industry know that conser
vation programs work,” said
Riley. “Saving electricity and
fuel is good national policy and
good business.”
TWO YEARS AGO managers
of company plants made audits
of fuel and power consumption.
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The company’s corporate engi
neering department issued a
guideline booklet to help plant
managers in uncovering energy-
conservation possibilities.
Now, all plants are scheduling
production machinery uniform
ly among all shifts to minimize
demand for power at peak
periods. Other facets of the pro
gram:
Continuing checks to stop
leaks in steam, compressed air
and water pipes and vessels to
avoid heat losses, and turning
off all fans, pumps, air condi
tioning, lights, and other equip
ment when not in gainful opera
tion.
Firestone is establishing a
special offices of energy con
servation at its Akron head
quarters and at 120 other facili
ties throughout the world.
The coordinator of energy
conservation at each Firestone
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Coordinators in energy conservation have been ap
pointed at all three plants of_Firestone Textiles Company.
Gastonia Industrial ' '
Relations
Bowling Green Industrial
Relations
Bennettsville Personnel
Office
Telephone R. F. Johnson
865-9531 Ext. 336
842-8123 Ext. 224 B. M. Jones
479-2871
Intercom #4 E. E. Fuller
Also, at the plants there is an Energy Conservation
committee made up of representatives from the various de
partments. Names are posted on plant bulletin boards.
• Ida Byers making a chemi
cal analysis to determine the
zinc-copper balance of brass
coaling on steel tire cord.
Yule Gifts To Children
More than 1600 children through age 13 received
presents just before the Christmas time-out at the
three plants of Firestone Textiles Company. The
company-sponsored gifts were presented at gather
ings in (jastonia, Bennettsville and Bowling Green.
The gifts are the ‘main feature’ of the traditional
annual programs honoring employees’ young sons
and daughters and other children of employee house
holds.