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• Front (from left): Cathy Boyles, Kathy Waters, Joanne McKin ney, Joyce Falls, Deborah K a r - riker and Peg gy Lovelace (Firestone nurse). Middle: Robbie Metcalf, Michelle Cham- b e r s , Dianna Rolston, Susan Summitt, Tan ya Williams. Back: Melvina Dial, Willie Fay Moore, David Masters, Eric Robinson, Myra Hatcher and Eric Reinhardt. Learning About Health Careers • • The Health Occupations II Class of Gastonia’s Hunter Huss High School recently completed a rotation schedule at Firestone Textiles. The student group worked with industrial nurse Matching-Gifts Program Mrs. Peggy Lovelace in the Firestone phase of their school program. Health Occupations, a new two-year course, is offered in high schools to students who are interested in going into some field of health work after grad uation. Participants spend the first year in the classroom, and in the second year go into vari ous organizations to gain ex perience and knowledge of what the health-field worker does. Students taking part in the plant rotation schedule said,“We enjoyed the program and appre ciate the help everyone offered to make the experience worth while.” LFO - Let’s Find Out • A while back. Firestone News listed United Fund—Way— Appeal services currently in operation in the three Firestone Tex tiles Company plant communities—Gastonia, N.C.; Bowling Green, Ky.. and Bennettsville, S.C. It was in connection with mentioning the Firestone people's contributions to these community services. Under Bennettsville was listed the Alston Wilkes Society. What is this? The Alston Wilkes Society is a private, non-profit or ganization founded in 1962 by Eli Alston Wilkes, a Christian minister. It was named in his honor upon his death. Its pur- pose is to aid South Carolina public offenders, ex-offenders DigcountS, ReiUnd and the families of both. Most financial support of the AWb is through memberships and contributions. United Way and g0jj0fi^g short-term government grants. Volunteers work in counseling, referral, operation of community residences, coordination of volunteer programs and in other ways. Services are provided through county chapters in the State. Have An IDEA? • Write It Down • Turn It In An average 700 suggestions per 1,000 people at work, and all the adopted ideas harvest ing $3 million savings. These are goals of the com pany’s Suggestion Program: for fiscal 1976—now into its seventh month. Last year the participation rate was 38,459—672 per 1,000 factory employees. Factory and non-factory em ployees turned in a total 39,269 ideas. It all exceeded the goal set at the beginning of fiscal 1975. This means that employee interest is growing and that the quality of ideas continues to improve. On to the 1976 goal! Share your suggestion. BETTER NOW Recent changes have further liberalized the Firestone Match- ing-Gifts program of help to educational institutions. • Firestone now matches a gift of $25 or more made by an employee after just 6 months company service. It used to be that th2 person had to be with the company a minimum of a year to be eligible. • For the first time, surviving spouses of deceased employees or retirees are eligible in the Matching-Gifts plan. • Limit on an annual gift any person can make to an accred ited non-tax supported college, university or secondary school is $3,000 (it was $2,000). Under the revised program, legacies under wills of deceased quali fied persons are matched as the gifts are made by the estate. Ths company’s Committee on Contributions in Akron now matches the gifts on a periodic basis rather than once a year, as in the past. Revised booklets of detailed information on the Matching- Gifts program were in distribu tion in mid-April. In fiscal 1975, 589 employees and retirees contributed $95,993 which the company matched for a total of $191,986. A total 684 gifts went to 273 different insti tutions. Since the start of the Match- ing-Gifts program in 1967, con tributions to colleges, universi ties and private secondary schools amount to almost $2 million. Notes & Footnotes • May brings Mother’s Day (9th) and Memorial Day (30). Since the 30th is on Sunday, the holiday will be observed Monday, 31. Confederate Memorial Day, May 10, is a legal holiday in North Carolina and South Carolina. Nylon stockings (a wonder of the Modern Age) went on sale for the first time. May 15, 1940. PRECIOUS Eyesight • You know it, but maybe don’t stop to realize just how precious your eyesight is. This, from the public health service of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, makes a vital point to consider— Half of all blindness is pre ventable. A checkup by your doctor could lead to early discovery of any sight-robbing condition you may have. HEW lists these facts on blindness and its prevention: • Glaucoma, the ‘sneak thief’ of sight, is caused by increased pressure inside the eye. An ex amination can discover it. Early diagnosis and treatment can pre vent loss of sight. • Cataracts cause the lenses of the eye to cloud up, impairing vision. Surgery usually can cure the condition, if the operation is in time. • Diabetes can lead to blind ness. Loss of sight can be pre vented if disease is found in time—through blood tests and medical examination. • People 40 years and older— especially those 60 or older—are more likely to have a chronic disease affecting eyesight. (from page 1) Beyond tire discounts, em ployees and retirees are reim bursed through the Firestone Tire Purchase Refund Program on purchases of first-class pass enger, light truck and recrea tional vehicle tires (excluding blemished and adjustment tires). Refunds are $1 to $5 per tire de pending on tire type. APPLYING for tire-purchase refunds, employees and retirees are required to fill out and turn in form S.7430, “Employee Tire Purchase Refund Request,” fol lowing directions on the form. Price discounts ranging from 10 to 25 percent apply to both home and auto merchandise items and to authomotive serv ices at Firestone stores. Employees and retirees can purchase national brand appli ances and electronics based on this formula: Store cost, plus 15 percent, plus warranty, plus freight from supplier to store. Need further information on store discounts and refund bene fits? Ask your local Firestone store or the piersonnel-industrial relations department of the plant where you work. h Co. Sponsored Three Students The American free-enterprise system was examined against the economic frameworks of other countries, at a one-day spring seminar sponsored by the Gaston Chapter, International Management Council. The program at Western Sizz- lin Steak House examined trends in the changing pattern of free enterprise; sought to off set some of the negative feelings about free enterprise, and cor rect some of the misconceptions concerning profits in business. Firestone Textiles Company • Firestone-sponsored students at economics seminar (from left) Gordon Bostic, Connie White and Eric Dunlap. sponsored three Hunter Huss High School students in the seminar. Also taking part from the Firestone plant were H.G. Hall, production manager; and Christine C. Clark, supervisor of training & employee relations. Leading in the ‘discovery’ of “What’s Happening to Free En terprise?” were J. W. “Josh” Greene of the Deering Milliken Company’s personnel depart ment, and N. V. Desai of the Johnson C. Smith University faculty. Tiireslone Volume XXII May, 1976 Number 5 Page 2 • GASTONIA Claude C. Callaway, Editor Plant Offices REPORTERS Warehouses Industrial Relalions—Bobbie Baldwin Main Office—Freida Price Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Fletcher Twisting Tire Cord—Elease Col*, Katie Elkins Warp Preparation— Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson Chafer Weaving—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Frances Fletcher, Redona David, Mar garet McCaskiU, Jimmy McCaskill BOWLING GREEN T. J. Slack Historic Tire * Noticed: An old Firestone Non-Skid tire serving as a tree swing, the scene from a recent episode of "The Waltons" TV series. Monthly publication of the Gastonia, N. C., plant of Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Division Headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem ber Carolinas Association of Business Communicators, Formerly South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors.
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