Clocks
Scales
Keys
This Shop millwright
looks after’ production
clocks, industrial scales and
keys for locks all over the
place. James Gordon Swan
son (Jimmy) repairs an aver
age of 15 measuring clocks
per week.
These counting devices, me
chanically and electrically op
erated, are mostly on production
machines—as twisters, respool-
ers, splicers, treating ovens, in
spection tables, looms.
With 5 Years
Thirteen at Bowling Green
completed 5 years company
service in January. They are:
Cecil Sanspree, Diana F. Col
burn, Betty Bryant, Edna E.
Johnson, Betty H. Frazier and
Delores L. Jones, all Weaving
department.
The others; Mackie J. Miller,
Rachel M. Madison, William E.
Downing and Wallace L. Lock
hart, Twisting; J. A. Riddle and
Pat J. Vincent, Quality Control;
Leroy James, Treating Unit.
HOW
OBSERVING
ARE YOU?
’What other group of 4 words . . . ?’
• Answers to this quiz are
printed on another page of
this issue, Firestone News.
You can ‘score’ yourself.
1. What does the Statue of
Liberty hold in her left hand?
2. Which letters do not appear
on your telephone dial?
3. What historic date is usual
ly printed on the flyleaf of
copies of the King James version
of the Bible?
4. An ordinary fork has how
many prongs?
5. What type neckwear does
Lincoln have on the U.S. penny?
6. A standard piano has how
many keys?
7. On a standard typewriter
keyboard, which two groups of
three letters are in alphabetical
order?
8. Other than ‘America’ what
seven-letter word appears on all
U.S. coins of less than $1 and
issued after 1888?
9. Which king in a standard
deck of cards usually sports no
mustache?
10. Whose picture is on the
U.S. $10 bill? What picture is
on the reverse side of the $20
bill?
11. Of the 13 bars on the
American flag, which are there
more of—red or white?
12. What other group of four
words besides “In God We
Trust” appears on most U.S.
coins?
13. How many groupings of
figures are in your Social Se
curity number?
14. What four-word safety re
minder is usually printed on
book-match covers?
15. On the U.S. quarter-dollar,
what kind of hairdo does Wash
ington’s image have?
16. Is women’s clothing but
toned to the right or to the left?
17. A full book of matches
usually contains how many
matches?
18. How many digits in a post-
office Zipcode?
19. What two emblems are on
the state flag of South Carolina?
Generous Donors Recognized
At the Gaston Unit American Red Cross annual meeting,
Firestone persons were among those recognized in the “top
generosity” category for donation of 6 or more gallons
blood.
John Mitchell, Shop construction foreman, has a record
of 9 gallons and 3 pints. Francis B. Galligan, retired general
factories manager, is in the 8-gallon group. With 6 gallons:
Alvin V. Riley, division personnel manager, and J. C.
Barnes, bobbin changer in TC Twisting.
At the annual ARC meeting in January the unit re
ported 4,498 pints blood donated from 38 bloodmobile visits
in Gaston County during 1974. Two of those visits were in
the Firestone plant community.
Some ‘Name Alikes’ • PEOPLE
WHEN CLOCKS “go out of
whack”, Jimmy removes them
to his workbench for fixing and
return to service. In meantime,
he installs extras so machines
won’t be kept waiting.
Then, there are 14 industrial
scales throughout the plant,
warehouses, offices, and treat
ing units. Jimmy keeps these
all “weighing correctly.”
And locks from factory fence
to everywhere inside are his
charges also. These are on gates,
doors, machines and equipment.
He keeps them all provided with
keys.
Jimmy, with Firestone at Gas
tonia since 1968, has been an air
conditioning attendant and an
oiler of machines and equip
ment. With clocks, locks and
scales since 1971, he trained in
the work under Jack Moore who
retired from the job 2 years ago.
Jimmy and wife Charlotte
have sons Jas, 6; and Billy Joe,
4. The Swansons’ ‘real special’
interest: Going to lakes, moun
tains and beaches in the family
camper.
Andrew Johnson, John
Adams, John Garner and
Samuel Wilson. They didn’t
“step out of history”—as the
names might lead you to
think. The four men work at
Firestone, Gastonia.
Adams, a Warehouse fabric-
handier, first shift, has been
with Firestone since late 1973.
Johnson, also first shift, but in
TC Twisting, is a twister bob-
bin-changer, with 24 years com
pany service.
Garner, third shift TC Twist-
C Of C Director
Thomas L. Yelton has been
elected a director-at-large
for the Bowling Green-War
ren County (Ky.) Chamber of
Commerce. The manager of
Firestone’s Bowling Green
textile plant is among 3 new
ly-elected directors-at-large
who will serve during 1975.
They join 5 new directors who
will serve 3-year terms, and 11
other directors. New directors
and newly-elected officers be
gan their terms of service at the
Chamber of Commerce annual
dinner in January.
Yelton has been with the
Bowling Green plant since July
of 1973. He was division tech
nical manager before his ap
pointment as BG plant manager.
Before his Kentucky assign
ment, he was with the com
pany’s textile division more
than 12 years—in Gastonia, N.C.;
Argentina and Brazil.
Handling Beams
Fred N. Gordon has been wilh
Firestone, Gastonia, for almost
27 years. His job assignment is
Warehouse trucker, but his pres
ent duty is beam-handling of in
coming yarn. He sends the ma
terial on its way through the
factory for ply twisting, respool-
ing, cEible twisting and, finally,
weaving into tire fabric.
At the ground-flour elevators,
Gordon checks in the beams of
material, recording numbers and
styles before sending the yarn
on its trip for processing 'up
stairs' and returning empties
down again.
ing, is a beam and yarn handler,
his work record dating back to
mid-1951. Wilson, here since
June 1956, is on first shift in
Warehouse. He is a power truck
operator.
As to their “name alikes” in
history? Of course, Adams and
Johnson were U.S. Presidents;
Garner, a Vice President. Sam
uel Wilson was, according to one
story, inspiration for Uncle Sam
as a designation for the U.S.
Government. The Troy, N.Y.,
businessman was inspector of
army supplies during the War of
1812. It’s said, he’d stamp “U.S.”
on the supplies, so workmen and
soldiers began calling the source
of supply “Uncle Sam.”
BG
IR
Man
Jeff C. Claypool is Industrial
Relations manager at Bowling
Green, Firestone. Claypool re
places Richard Webber who left
the company late last year.
The new IR manager joined
Firestone Textiles Company last
December, transferring from
World Bestos Corp., at New
Castle, Ind. World Bestos is a
part of diversified products, and
a division of the Firestone com
pany.
During the almost 5 years
Claypool has been with Fire
stone, he has gained broad ex
perience in the industrial re
lations field.
He enjoys many hobbies, is
especially an enthusiast of bas
ketball and tennis. Jeff and
wife Karen and daughter KeUy
live on Seminole Drive in Bowl
ing Green.
Tir^ston^
February, 1975
Page 3
Tarte Retired
• Alton and Mrs. (Mary Neil)
Tarte in January were planning
to move back to the Gastonia
area. Late last year he retired
from the Firestone Bowling
Green (Ky.) plant.
Tarte’s career with Firestone
began as a twister doffer at the
He and his wife Doris live on
Karen Circle in Bowling Green.
Their son Bruce is a graduate
student at UNC-Greensboro, and
their other son Gary, a student
at Western Kentucky Universi
ty, Bowling Green.
Gastonia plant in 1935. He be
came a twister overhauler. For
a time he had a special assign
ment at the Woodstock, Canada,
textile plant, where he helped
start up twisters at that loca
tion.
Upon return to Gastonia he
was made supervisor of Utex
twisting until his transfer to
Bowling Green when the plant
began operations in January of
1968. He first was a foreman
in maintenance; retired as su
pervisor of preventative main
tenance.
The Tartes have one daughter
still at home.
‘Meet The Press’
FIRESTONE
A SPONSOR
On Jan. 5, Firestone became a major
sponsor of NBC “Meet The Press”, long
est-running program on network tele
vision.
A. E. Brubaker, Firestone vice presi
dent for advertising and public rela
tions, describes the program as. . .
“One of the nation’s most influential
television forums, informing the public
on key issues through its in-depth inter
views with prominent newsmakers, in
cluding top government officials,
diplomatic and military officers, busi
ness and labor leaders, scientists and
educators.”
“Meet The Press” has won every
major radio and TV award in its field
two or three times. It is telecast on
more than 400 stations throughout the
country, Sundays at 12:30 p.m. (EST).