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Variety In Holiday Music
A good mix of holiday songs sung and played by pop.
country and folk arlisls—that's the Firestone "Christmas
America, Album Two" recording available this season
for $1.29 at Firestone Stores and dealers. This is the 9th
year the company has offered a holiday record album.
This yecir's stereo version compares in quality with
those retailing for as much as $5.98.
Album selections: "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" by Bing Crosby,
"'Christmas Wishes" by Anne Murray, Glen Campbell's
"It Must Be Getting Close to Christmas," "Santa Claus
and Popcorn" by Merle Haggeird, "Silver Bells" by
Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians and Wayne New
ton's version of "Silent Night."
Also Nat King Cole sings "The First Noel," "Mr. and
Mrs. Snowman" is sung by Roy Clark, followed by
"What Will the New Year Bring" by Donna Fargo and
the Lettermen's "O Holy Night."
The Capitol album includes medleys of songs about
Christmas and America by the Hollywood Pops Orches
tra & Choir.
Retirement Course Finished
Firestone’s first group of
employees have participated
in a pre-retirement course in
evening classes at Gaston
Community College. The 7-
week course which ended in
early November, was ar
ranged and started by Hugh
Brower of Drake University.
Firestone people (employees
and or spouses) who participat
ed: Robert and Minnie Kilby,
Eula Wilson (now retired), John
and Rosie Fletcher, A. V. Riley,
Marguerite S t y e r s , Roy and
Christine Davis, Lennell and
Nell Keenum, Ralph and Evelyn
Dalton, George and Ramelle
High and Margaret Whitener.
Firestone people were first in
the Gastonia area to be involved
in the “getting ready for a sec
ond career” program. The com
pany requested it for Gaston
College after Firestone in other
parts of the country was suc
cessful with the plan.
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Six Basketball Teams
Bowling
Green
Six teams are in the Firestone
Textiles basketball league for
the 1974-75 season at Bowling
Green. The teams, from A, C, D
and E Crews, Maintenance,
Warehouse & Treating, are
named Astros, Chapparrals,
Demons, Flyers. Hogs and Ware
house.
The season play opened Nov.
15 and will extend to late Feb
ruary. After league play of 10
scheduled games there will be
a round-robin tournament be
tween the teams.
The Firestone employees
league is sanctioned and con
trolled by the Bowling Green-
Warren County Athletic Asso
ciation.
PEOPLE OF FIRESTONE
TEXTILES COMPANY
In the spirit of the time of year when lue celebrate
the Miracle of the Manger, I wish for everyone a
warm Christmas Season. May its message live anew
and bring you joy. And may the season be filled
with a spirit of Love and Peace which will continue
throtighout the New Year of 1975.
James B. Call • President
Early Start
George W. Wilson joined the
company work force at Gastonia
3 months ago, is a cleaner learn
er in TC Twisting. Sometimes
he has opportunity to learn dof
fing. He is 16 years old.
DECEMBER • 1974
Firestone
Textiles
Company
GASTONIA
NORTH CAROLINA
BENNETTSVILLE
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOWLING GREEN
KENTUCKY
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Carl Wilson, George's father,
is a loom starter in TC Twisting.
Mrs. Wilson (Kay) is a respooler
operator in TC Twisting also.
Carl and Kay began working at
Firestone a few weeks before
their son did.
The Wilsons live in Lowell.
Off-Job
Safety Month
More accidents happen in
December than in any other
month.
• More traffic accidents
• More home fires, more
falls, accidents with toys,
more accidental poisonings...
For these reasons, Firestone
every December stresses off-job
safety. Figures gathered in the
company’s safety department
show that in a typical month,
injuries taking place away from
the job far outnumber on-job
injuries.
The company is vitally in
terested in its people 24 hours
of every day—not just while at
work in factory, store, or wher
ever else the job may be.
CHIEF REASON for the
December emphasis, says the
safety department, is the reduc
tion of pain and suffering to
employees and their loved ones.
And there are other sound rea
sons:
• Stressing off-job safety cuts
down on wage loss and medical
expenses which inevitably come
to the worker as a result of lost
time injuries.
• It reduces absenteeism from
the job, while increasing pro
duction efficiency. That means
better earning power.
• Stressing safety this way
helps to carry over an awareness
for safety throughout the year.
Marlboro CB
Radio Club
The first monthly meeting of
the CB (Citizens' Band) Radio
Club in Marlboro County, S.C..
was held at the Firestone Tex
tiles Recreation Building Nov. 16.
At this meeting the club so
licited members and talked
'shop' around an evening meal
of pork barbecue and chicken
bog.
Organized this fall, the CB
Club began with 75 members,
including some Firestone peo
ple from the Bennettsville plant.
Purpose of the club is to furn
ish emergency radio communi
cation as a people-community
service.
Christmas was first observed
in England around the year A.D.
521, during the reign of King
Arthur.