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Summer Morning
• August: Peak of Sum
mer. A time of savoring and
storing the Good Earth’s har
vest and of carefree days in
sun and shade ... a time of
relaxing for “creatures great
and small.”
This Firestone News barn
yard look was on a quiet
Employed Firestone peo
ple and those retired from
the company can benefit
greatly in the purchase of
Firestone tires and car serv
ices at Firestone Stores. The
reminder from Alvin V.
Riley, personnel manager of
Firestone Textiles Company,
urges “Use your special ad
vantage!”
Included in the tire-purchase
and service advantages are dis
counts on all new first-class
passenger tires, all new first-
class light truck and recreation
al vehicle tires; and special re
funds in addition to discounts
on all new tires, except blemish
es.
In addition to tires listed in
the most recent information
Sunday morning in Rabun
County of the North Georgia
mountains. Up the road a
piece is Black Rock State
Park; and down a little ways,
such places as Lake Burton
and Tallulah Falls.
Firestone people who are
‘transplants’ from the Blue
Ridge region of Georgia will
especially take note of this,
in “the Hills of Home.”
folder, there is a new one in the
line — the bias-ply Deluxe
Champion Polyester, 4-ply.
Besides price advantages on
new tires, discounts are allowed
on all types of car service. Com
plete details are presented in
the folder available at plant per
sonnel offices and at Firestone
Stores.
The Firestone Community
Center was South Bennettsville
voting precinct location in the
July 16 South Carolina-Marl-
boro County election, when 25
candidates sought county, dis
trict and statewide offices.
Firestone’s Community Center
is used for many purposes, in
cluding bloodmobile visits. Scout
meetings; and social gatherings
for employees.
Bobby Nichols Day in Gas
tonia, August 12: A tour of
the Firestone plant, followed
by a press party and lunch
eon at Gaston Country Club;
a round of golf with Pro
Nichols and several local
club pros; a social hour and
dinner at day’s end.
Nichols, head professional at
Firestone Country Club in Ak
ron, Ohio, is one of the winning-
est professional golfers on the
tour.
His coming lo Gastonia is
company-sponsored, wilh local
arrangements made by Fire
stone Textiles Company presi
dent James B. Call and others
of the plant staff.
A professional golfer since
1959, Nichols began the pro
tour in 1960; joined Firestone
in 1968.
In the off-season he serves in
a public relations capacity for
the Country Club and the com
pany. He continues to play in
major golf tournaments, includ
ing the American Golf Classic at
Firestone.
HOLDER of 12 tour titles,
Nichols’ most recent victory was
the Canadian Open in late July.
His biggest year came in 1964,
when he captured the PGA
Championship at Columbus
(Ohio) Country Club and the
Carling World Open at Oakland
Hills Country Club, Birming
ham, Mich.
He won the Westchester
Classic last Summer, and at the
1973 season’s end was 14th on
the all-time, money-earning list
with $738,000.
Other tour titles include the
1962 St. Petersburg Open, the
1962 and 1965 Houston Classics,
the 1963 Seattle Open and the
1966 Minnesota Classic.
He and partner George Arch
er won the PGA Team Cham
pionship in 1968, and Nichols
claimed the $60,000 first prize
in the 1970 Dow Jones Open.
HE WAS an outstanding high
school athlete in his hometown,
Louisville, Ky. At Texas A & M
he won the Southwestern Con
ference golf championship in his
sophomore year.
Nichols was honored in 1962
when the Golf Writers Associa
tion of America voted him the
Ben Hogan Award.
Firestone Country Club is the
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AUGUST
1974
Firestone
Textiles
Company
GASTONIA
NORTH CAROLINA
BENNETTSVILLE
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOWLING GREEN
KENTUCKY
Suggest—
And Share
Cash payments ranging
from $15 to $10,000 are pro
vided through Firestone’s
Suggestion Awards Program.
On a recent visit to the Gas
tonia plant, Bruce Palmer
noted that the company’s
suggestion system is one of
the 10 largest in the United
States and the largest in the
rubber industry.
The program, begun in 1918,
now involves some 70 plants
worldwide. The manager of the
suggestion system noted that
suggestions in use during 1973
represented a savings to the
company of $1V4 million.
For the first half of the cur
rent fiscal year, employees
shared $135,702 in suggestion
awards. At the Gastonia plant
alone, savings of around $9,000
are currently realized through
suggestions in effect, said Pal
mer.
During the first half of this
year, Gastonia people submitted
471 suggestions and 102 of them
were adopted. At the Bowling
Green plant, there were 303,
with 56 adopted. At Bennetts
ville during the same period, the
plant approved the largest
single cash award within Fire
stone Textiles Company thus
far this year—$550 for William
Hyatt’s cost-saving idea on a
cable twister.
Cash payment for suggestions
is figured on the basis of 10 per
cent of estimated savings which
the idea in use will realize over
a one-year period.
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• Bumperese: Conserve En
ergy—PUSH! Heard: "A pioneer
is anyone who settled there be
fore they raised the taxes."
• Maybe a good idea to bor
row? People who go to church
in Phoenix, Arizona, get 50 cents
off the price of dinner at Tasty
World restaurant. Customers
who bring their church bulletin
with them to the restaurant get
the reduction in price of the
meal. Offer limits four lo a
family.
5 Completed Careers
He came to work for Firestone around six months
after the company started operating its Gastonia
plant in 1935. Trenton Ginn, shift foreman in TC
Twisting, retired as of August 1 with a service record
of 38 years and 8 months.
At the same time, four others ended long work
careers at Gastonia: Mildred C. Bolding of TC Twist
ing, 34 years and 6 months; Rufus G, Starnes, TC
Twisting, 31 years and 8 months; Israel Good, Ware
house, 18 years and 10 months; Edwin E. Dyer, TC
Twisting, 18 years and 9 months.
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