'Ttrestone
Textiles Company
Gastonia
North Carolina
JUNE, 1975
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South Carolina
Top Gaston Scout
Outstanding in his Troop,
School, Church, Community
Eagle Scout David Michael Farmer is Gaston County’s
1975 winner of the Raymond C. Firestone Award for achieve
ment in Boy Scouts. Michael, of Gastonia Troop 21 sponsored
by Myers United Methodist Church, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. R. Farmer. Mr. Farmer is Firestone projects man
ager of Process & Product Development, and is scoutmaster
of Troop 21.
In this year's Firestone Scout
ing awards, 19 others from 9
troops in Gaston County of the
Piedmont Council received Cer
tificates of Merit and money for
a stay at summer camp.
Awards were made at a din
ner meeting in late May.
An Eagle Scout since last Sep
tember, Mike, 14, has been in
Scouts four years. He holds Life
Rank and has completed much
of the requirements toward the
God & Country Award. He has
earned 28 merit badges, the
most recent received for snow-
skiing.
He is a member of order of the
Arrow, national honorary camp
ing organization.
AS AN EAGLE Scout, Mike
has participated in the national
Reader’s Digest Oratorical Con
test, speaking on “The Spirit of
’76.” He has won in troop,
district and in the 11-county
Piedmont Council competition
and will advance to semi-finals
in Atlanta.
As part of the judging in the
Firestone awards program, Mike
did two community-service pro-
David
Michael
Farmer
Eagle
Scout
Saving Waste & Oil
RETREADING
Recycled 1.5 billion poimds
potential waste, while saving
more than 300 million gal
lons of crude oil. It’s the
record of the tire retreading
industry in 1974.
J. E. Hynds, head of retreading
for the Firestone company, said
that:
Of the 1.5 biUion pounds, al
most 900 million pounds were
reusable casings of truck tires
and 506 million were car tires.
“These casings ended up with
a new life by being retreaded,
and when a tire is retreaded it
saves crude oil used in produc
tion of synthetic rubber.” Hinds
noted that. . .
• It takes 4% gallons less
crude oil to retread a passenger-
car tire than to make a new one,
and a retread of an average
truck tire saves 10 gallons crude
per unit.
• The industry retreaded 34
million car tires and more than
15 million truck tires in 1974,
adding up to 305 million gallons
crude oil saved.
• Firestone, the industry’s
largest retreader, is retreading
all types tires, including steel-
belted radials.
• Firestone retreads cost
about half as much as a com
parable new tire, and are “ex
tremely difficult to tell from a
new one.”
TRAVELING?
• • Planning your vacation
travel itinerary? Summer-Au
tumn special events abound in
the Three Stales where Fire-
SomG Events stone Textiles Company has its
production plants, So> this
Tinpnminjy long-range glimpse of wide-
appeal events to look forward
to—July into early October;
Kentucky • Davy's Run Homecoming Festival, Hitch-
ins, July 26; Mountain Music Festival, Olive Hill, Aug.
1-3; Sacajawea Festival, Cloverport, Aug. 7-10; Ky.
Highlands Folk Festival, Prestonsburg, Aug. 29-31: Art
ists & Craftsmen Fair, Cave City, Sept. 27-28.
North Carolina • Yancey Youth Jamboree, Burns
ville. July 31-Aug. 1; Mountain Dance & Folk Festival,
Asheville, Aug. 7-9; NC Apple Festival, Hendersonville,
Aug. 16-Sept. 1; Crafts Fair, Fontana, Aug. 27-29.
South Carolina • Low Country Arts/Crafts Festival,
Charleston, Aug. 1-3; Foothills Festival, Easley, Aug. 16-
17; Apple Festival, Westminster, Sept. 5-6; Golden Mus
cadine Festival, Woodruff, Oct. 4.
jects. He helped in program
ming young people’s educational
activities at Parkwood Baptist
Church where the Farmer fam
ily attends; and assisted in or
ganizing a Scout troop at NC
Orthopedic Hospital.
He has finished 9th grade at
Grier Junior High and will at
tend Ashbrook High School next
term. All three years he was at
Grier, Mike was an honor stu
dent. In 9th grade, he has been
editor of the Grier SCRIPT, stu
dent publication.
The top Firestone Scouting
More, page 2 •
Commemorative
The belt buckle. An item
of commemorative art, es
pecially popular in this
time of America's Bicen
tennial. The Firestone
company has its own, to
take note of 75 years of
being in business.
The commemorative
buckles and leather belts
were marketed through
mailorder sales May-June
1. to employees, retired
persons and their friends.
Designed by Larry Mil
ler of the company's art
department in Akron, the
buckle was produced in
pewter and brass. Design
incorporates the familiar
Firestone logotype, a fig
ure of a 1900 worker op
erating a machine for
springing the tires on a
carriage wheel, and the
words "Non-Skid Tires.
Quality Since 1900."
Truck
Operators • MOORE COLLINS LATTIMORE
Trucking With Safety
• • The three operators who run the Firestone trucking
service out of Gastonia have amassed millions of road miles
and thousands and thousands of hours travel time without
an accident along the way.
R. K. “Bob” Collins, Reid
Moore and Frank Lattimore
usually make two trips a week
from Gastonia to Firestone’s
Pottstown, Pa., plant and plants
at Barberton and Akron, Ohio.
They return with pickup stops
at Firestone, Hopewell; and
Lynchburg, Va.; Kemersville
and Greensboro, N. C., then to
Firestone’s tire plant at Wilson
before going on to Gastonia.
ON RUNS NORTH they carry
fabric from Gastonia. Returning,
they bring tires, mill stock and
other materials. The rigs are op
erated mainly on Interstates 77,
85 and 95.
The three operators work out
of Gastonia under direction of
Don Hedges, manager of the
controlled delivery system. Mr.
Hedges said the trucking service
that operated almost four years
from Firestone, Bowling Green,
Ky., has been discontinued.
Charles Horine, who was driver
from Bowling Green, made rung
to Memphis and up to Illinois
and Indiana. Before he left Fire
stone, Horine was recognized for
16 years of operating safety.
Hedges said the one tractor
and three trailers at Bowling
Green were transferred to Gas
tonia, increasing the operating
stock here.
TRACTOR-TRAILER rigs
More, page 3 •
Secretary of the Year
• Jodie W. Fulkerson was named Secre
tary of the Year during the recent observ
ance of National Secretaries Week. An
nouncement was made at a Bowling Green
Country Club dinner, where bosses and
their wives of National Secretaries Associa
tion members were guests of the NSA
Chapter.
Mrs. Fulkerson competed in the Kentucky Di
vision Contest against seven other NSA winners.
Three executive secretaries were nominated for
the award by votes from fellow NSA members.
EACH of the three supplied a resume of her
education, work experience and contributions to
NSA, along with a letter of recommendation
from her boss. Resumes were sent to three out-
of-town judges for selection of Secretary of the
Year.
Jodie is a charter member of National Secre
taries Association (International), and served two
terms as her Chapter president. She chaired vari
ous committees in the local Chapter. These in
cluded Ways and Means which sponsored the
first Dartnell Seminar in Bowling Green; and
Kentucky Division Membership Committee. For
the past two years she was coordinator of the
1975 Kentucky Division Annual Meeting.
JODIE was for four years secretary to John
A. Medley, vice president of Medley Distillery
• Jodie and Bowling Green plant man
ager T. L. Yelton.
Company of Owensboro, Ky.; and for another
four years, secretary to William C. Fisher, M.D.,
an Evansville, Ind. neurosurgeon.
In January 1968 she became Firestone secre
tary to F. B. Galligan, the first Bowling Green
plant manager. She was secretary to R. L. King,
second plant manager; and now is secretary to
T. L. Yelton, plant manager.