DECEMBER, 1975
Gastonia Bennettsville Boivling Green
North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky
T'lrestone
Textiles Company
PEOPLE OF FIRESTONE
TEXTILES COMPANY:
My sincere wishes that
the Holiday Season be for
you a memorable time
filled with blessings. It is
good to be associated with
you all and I appreciate
the contributions you
have made to o u r com
pany during the past year.
As the Miracle of the
Manger lives anew, I hope
it will brighten your
hearts and homes with
love, joy and peace now
and throughout the New
Year.
JAMES B. CALL, President
Firestone Textiles Company
THE
MACKS
‘Plans
—Art by Marty Duckworth of
Cost Accounting, Gastonia plant.
It’s 1976 ‘^Scholarship Time’
• • Application forms and booklets describing the 1976
Firestone Scholarship Program are in supply at personnel
offices of Firestone Textiles Company plants — Gastonia,
Bowling Green and Bennettsville.
High-school seniors of em
ployee families who plan to ap
ply for the 1976 scholarships
must register and take the
Scholarship Aptitude Test. The
test already has been adminis
tered on Nov. 1 and Dec. 6.
Upcoming and final date for
the test in the series is Jan. 24.
To take the test on this dale,
students must register for it
Dec. 19, and no later than Jan. 2.
Guidance counselors at high
schools can get registration
forms and information on SAT.
COMPLETED Firestone
Scholarship application materi
al and test scores must be re
ceived by the Scholarship com
mittee in the Akron company
headquarters by March 1, 1976.
Firestone Scholarship code
number for the SAT is 0080.
This number must be used when
requesting that scores be report
ed to Firestone.
For an employee’s son or
daughter to be eligible for a
scholarship, the employee can
not earn more than an average
$1,833 per month. The previous
ceiling on this figure was $1,667.
Also, to be eligible for a
scholarship, the senior high-
school applicant must be in the
upper third of his or her class,
the son or daughter of a full
time active employee (or a re
tired or deceased employee) who
has or will have completed at
least five years continuous serv
ice with the company by Jan. 1,
1976. All details are in the
services scholarship booklet.
More on Page 2 •
As We Go Along’
• Almost 74 years, combining
their two service records with
Firestone, Gastonia. Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond E. Mack retired
Nov. 30—he with 40 years and
5 months, she with 33 years and
5 months.
Raymond, who was plant safe
ty engineer since 1961, had
worked in a variety of jobs,
hourly-rated and salaried. Some
of his assignments were work
in Supply; various jobs in Weav
ing, including weaver and loom-
fixer; and in salaried jobs as
shift foreman in Weaving and
supervisor of waste control, be
fore his promotion to safety
engineer.
Mildred’s first assignment was
in Payroll, as clerk. She worked
in general accounting and more
recently in cost accounting.
“We’ll make plans as we go
along,” the Macks say of their
retirement. A son, Mike, a sen
ior in high school; and daughter
Sandra, fifth grade, are at home.
Another daughter is Rebecca
(Mrs. Steve) Lynch. The oldest
son, Eugene, is a pipefitter in
the Firestone Shop.
Gifts To UF
Bennettsville Firestone
people in November deliver
ed their contributions to the
United Fund drive of Marl
boro County. Pledges and
donations went toward the
1975 UF goal of $54,000 to
support 20 community serv
ices “the United Way” dur
ing 1976.
The Firestone drive was
completed with 100 per-cent
employee participation and
69 per cent “Fair Share” em
ployee giving.
They Have New Jobs
BILL
PASSMORE
and
CHRISTINE
CLARK
SAFETY &
PERSONNEL
The appointments of E. William (Bill) Passmore as Gas
tonia plant safety engineer and Christine (Mrs. Earl) Clark
to succeed him as supervisor of training and employee re
lations were effective Dec. 1.
Passmore succeeds Raymond
E. Mack, safety engineer for the
past 14 years. Mack retired Nov.
30 with more than 40 years serv
ice.
Mrs. Clark has been in secre
tarial assignments with Fire
stone almost 25 years, beginning
in industrial relations and later
working in the comptroller’s of
fice. In 1966 she became secre
tary to the late Harold Mercer,
plant general manager and
president of Firestone Textiles
Company.
FOR THE past six years she
has been secretary to division
president James B. Call.
Mrs. Clark is a graduate of
Gastonia High School and studi
ed at Evans College of Com
merce. A past secretary of the
Gaston unit American Cancer
Society, Mrs. Clark now heads
the unit’s “Reach for Recovery”
program. Her husband, Earl, has
39 years service with Firestone.
He is a shift foreman in TC
Twisting.
Passmore, with Firestone al
most 14 years, started as a mill
wright and was a pipefitter be
fore transferring to Industrial
Relations as plant protection of
ficer in 1970.
HE NEXT was appointed em
ployee interviewer, then pro
moted to supervisor of training
and employee relations in early
summer this year.
The Clark and Passmore ap
pointments involved four other
job changes: Barbara (Mrs.
James) Galloway from secretary
to comptroller Harry Laver to
secretary to Firestone Textiles
Company president James B.
Call; Freida Price from secre
tary to factory manager Philip
Williams, to Mr. Laver’s secre
tary; Betty (Mrs. Randy) Sum-
mitt from secretary to industrial
relations manager S. E. Craw
ford, to Mr. Williams’ secretary;
Bobbie (Mrs. Howard) Baldwin
assigned as secretary to Mr.
Crawford.
Energy ‘...Waste It Or Save It—It’ll Certainly Affect The Way We Live’
• What does The Firestone Tire & Rubber Com
pany’s energy-conservation mean to us — individual
employees of Firestone Textiles Company?
• How can each of us help our division meet, or
exceed, its goal, thus do our part in aiding Firestone
to achieve its worldwide goal?
These are interesting ques- Each of us uses energy in its
tions for all of us, since en
ergy is so essential in our
daily living. Wasting energy
can certainly affect the way
we live, so it’s important that
we conserve energy. How?
By getting involved in sav
ing.
LET'S EXPLORE opportuni
ties raised by the question
“What does the program mean
to us, employees of Firestone
Textiles?” It means that each
employee can take part in a
worldwide Firestone program
and contribute to that program’s
success, just as much as anyone
else.
various forms in many ways
every day. This means that
every one of us has many oppor
tunities each hour, or day, to
save energy if we wiU only
take the time to think, look
about us, and do the things that
will save energy.
It also means that we can
help our country, for certainly
we have an energy shortage
which is costly to our country,
our company and ourselves.
WE ALL know how costly
energy in all its forms has be
come. Consider the price today
of gasoline, electricity, coal, oil
and natural gas and how these
prices have increased in the last
few years.
The total of aU the energy
which individual employees can
save for Firestone Textiles can
amount to a considerable savings
in money for the company.
Let’s take one example and
assume that the Gastonia plant
spends $100,000 per month for
electricity: If we can save 10
per cent, then this would
amount to $10,000 per month, or
$120,000 per year. Assume that
you, an employee, work for the
company for 40 years (age 25-
65), the savings during that time
would amount to $4,800,000. This
is for electricity only at the
Gastonia plant. Think of how
large the amount would be for
all forms of energy at aU of our
textile plants!
Saving energy actually bene
fits the employee, for it enables
us to keep cost of our products
down so we can be competitive
and sell our fabrics so as to pro
vide employment for each of us.
What could happen through
waste of energy? Shortages
could cause plants to close—and
you know what that would
mean. If we waste energy, costs
could go up and we could not
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energy
remain competitive pricewise.
We then would not be able to
sell our fabrics, so plants would
have to cut back or close.
Thus, by saving energy and
helping our country and our
company, we are actually bene-
fitting ourselves. We can have
steady employment.
Also, we can get a bonus be
cause by forming good energy-
saving practices at work, we will
naturally carry these same prac
tices with us off the job. Energy
can be saved at home, and off
the job, which will give a direct
dollar savings to each one who
becomes involved.
More, Page 3 •
By JOHN V. DARWIN
Coordinator of Firestone Tex
tiles Company's energy-saving
program. Mr. Darwin is admin
istrative assistant to division
president James B. Call.