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Rolled Of the 97,000 miles Scott McCarter had on his ’72 Chev rolet Caprice in mid-August, 52,000 of them were travelled on a set of Firestone V-1 Steel Radial tires. The Shop electri cian (Gastonia plant) figures the tires would have gone an other 12,000, if the car’s front end hadn’t become a little out of alignment, causing peripheral tire wear. At the Dixie Village Firestone Scott sold one of the less-worn store where he bought the tires, tires to Shop electrician Robert he removed them, had the front end re-aligned and put on a new set of V-1 Radials. He’s looking for equal or better performance and life from the newer ones. THE LONG-RUNNING set was on the car nearly three years. During that time there was a lot of local travel and the McCarters made trips to Flor ida, Illinois and Iowa. Some of that going was before the cur rent 55 mph speed limit, so the car sometimes went 75 and 80 mph on extended hauls. Parsons. Scott may have the other three recapped for further service on some other car. His considerable experience with radials has shown good gasoline savings. Division chem ist Michael Flanigan took Scott’s record into account and figured that the increase on gas mileage with the long-run radi als was enough to pay the cost of the tires themselves. The sav ings averaged around two miles extra travel per gallon over the record of the previous set of tires—not steel radials. Long Service Records gastonia • Five with 40-year work records at Gastonia—and all in the same month. They are L. Leona Dameron, supervi sor of Quality Control Lab oratory; Leonard B. Mc- Abee, manager of Produc tion Planning & Control; Ben Hanna Jr., twister oper ator in TC Twisting; Frank Brown, office cleaner. Shop; Emory A. Beaver, roller shoo supervisor. Shop. Also marking anniversaries last month were 26 others with records of from 5 to 35 years. Thirty-Five Years • William R. Rainey, Waste checker, Ware house; William G. Hall, twister bobbin changer, TC Twisting, Thirly Years • Helen Spencer Foy, Payroll control clerk. Twenly-Five Years • Willie C. KeUy, beamer creeler. Prepa ration; Samuel A. Grissom, twister operator, TC Twisting; Dautha L. Lane, frame changer, BG: UGF (From page 1) year. Firestone Bowling Green plant manager Thomas Yelton is a director of UGF. People at Firestone make their UGF contributions through the in-plant drive which is usu ally completed by late October. Almanac • Piedmont Interstate Fair. Spartanburg, S. C., October II- 16. The Sign of Virgo—August 23- September 22. Symbol: The Vir gin. Students of the zodiac and its influence upon earth mortals contend that Virgo is the sign of service. People born in this pe riod are dedicated to others and like to help their fellows. They are caring, discriminating and industrious. Mercury being the ruling plan et, Virgoans are intelligent and analytical—sometimes to the point of trying to be perfection ists. They have very good taste in all things; are refined; forth right in opinion, even if it gets them into trouble. It’s said of Virgoans that Jan uary and May are their lucky months; Wednesday, their lucky day. Scott McCarter shows the two front steel radials of a set of Firestones that went to a 52,000- mile service record. His Chevro let Cheyenne pickup, here, has 6-ply nylon Firestone tires on rear wheels and on front, two others of another brand (on truck when bought new). Scott put 2,700 miles on the truck— pulling a camper—Gastonia to Iowa, Missouri and home again, on a vacation this summer. Two More ‘Went Out’ For more than two-score years Tracy Whitener was a part of the scene at Fire stone, Gastonia. Then he “closed it out” at the end of August. After all those years on third shift, Whitener may need a while to re-orient—but then, he may take his time at that (retirement days being so unstructured, at least for a while). The TC Weaving third-shift supervisor—special duties—has a service record of 41 years, 2 months and 17 days. He had been in his last job assignment since 1966. Before that he was a factory supervisor and in the “real early days,” a loomfixer. At the same time Whitener “went out,” George Hill finished off his career at the Gastonia plant. Em ployed by the Shop but working all over the place as a carpenter, Hill’s days on the job stretched into 16 years and 5 months at his retirement August 31. Several Articles ... Bernie R. Farmer, manager of technical services of Firestone TextUes Company, has published several articles in textile trade journals over the past four years. A recent one was translated into Japanese and widely distributed in Japan. Latest of his articles on tech nical phases of textile produc tion is “Solving Twister Ring Problems” in the August, 1976 Textile Industries magazine. In July this year, American Textiles published Farmer’s “Ring Lubrication” in a “Twister Ring Studies” column. Among others of Farmer’s articles are “Noise and Vibration” in the July, 1975 American Textiles; and “Textile Mechanical Evalua tion” in Textile Industries of September, 1973. This was the article circulated in Japanese. MOST OF these published ar ticles Farmer originally pre sented at meetings of the Inter national Society of Industrial Yarn Manufacturers, a group he organized in 1974. Farmer was charter president of ISIYM and will retire from that office at the end of his second one-year term in November. From 1970 to early 1976, he was projects manager of Gas tonia’s Process & Product De velopment. In March he was ap pointed manager of technical services. In earlier company service. Farmer was for more than four years manager of the Firestone textile plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. FOR FUN & ADVENTURE See You At Gravel Switch Festival TC Twisting; Joe G. Adams, su pervisor in TC Weaving; Tom J. Neal, elevator operator. Shop (retired Aug. 1). Twenty Years • James A. Hamilton, wister bobbin chang er, TC Twisting. Fifteen Ytears • Thelma D. Robinson, beam knotter, TC Twisting; Freida D. Price, sec retary to plant comptroller. Ten Years • Edith W. Groves, reclaimer. Preparation; Ruben A. Burchfield Jr., twister operator, TC Twisting; Linda Jo Carpen ter, beam knotter, TC Twisting; Dewitt O. Ezell, box repairer, TC Twisting; Ollie B. Patton, respooler operator, TC Twisting. Also Helen E, Bradham, cleaner, TC Weaving; Raymond D. Rice, elevator operator. Shop; Roger D. Baker, lead operator. Nylon Treating. Five Years • Danny B. Hall- brook, section supervisor, TC Twisting; Thelma R. Glenn, beam knotter, TC Twisting; Donald L. Price, cleaner, TC Twisting; David E. Costner, twister bobin changer, TC Twist ing. Everett L. Reid, weaver, TC Weaving; Emma J. Gregory, loom knotter, TC Weaving; Roger D. Rosser, weaver, TC Weaving; Willie D. Sahms, loom starter, TC Weaving. Rich September—ripe and mellow. Harvest. A turn in the Year’s Road, to days of Autumn Glory. It’s a time to go, to see and to do, especially in Firestone Textiles “three States”—the Carolinas and Kentucky. Come along. NO: Fairs. Pioneer Living & Fun Days • Among major events this month are the Farmers Festival at Fairmont, 18-26 and Albemarle Crafts man’s Fair, Elizabeth City, 22-26. Fairtime in NC this month has these going into October, at: Hickory, Concord and Franklin, IS IS; Hendersonville, Lexington, Kinston, Golds boro, 20-25; Edenton, 20-26; Elizabeth City, 27- Oct. 2. More Sept. events: Arts & Crafts, Maggie Val ley, 17-19; Pioneer Living Day, Weaverville, 19; Heritage Week, Beaufort, 19-26; Denim Fun Days, Erwin, 30-0ct. 2; NC Poultry Jubilee, Rose Hill, 27-Oct. 2. NC early Oct.: Dixie Classic Fair, Winston- Salem, 1-9; Fall Festival, Chapel Hill, 3; Golden Belt Fair, Henderson, 4-9; Autumn Leaves Festi val, Mt. Airy, 8-10; Gathering of Clans, Red Springs, 9-10; Moore Fair, Carthage, 11-14; Rock Swap, Nantahala Gorge, 16-17. SC: Highland Gathering & Harvest Moon Stroll • Raylrode Daze Festival, BranchviUe, 24-26 and Scottish Games and Highland Gathering, Charles ton, 25, are leading Se^t. events. Others; Fair at Anderson, 20-25; Flea Market & Country Fair, Prosperity, 18; Colonial Life & Crafts at Charles Towne Landing, Charleston, 25-26; CB Radio Jamboree, Dillon, 26. Early Oct: Fair at Newberry, 4-9; Sgt. Jasper Festival, Jasper County, 1-3; Arts & Crafts Show, Spartanburg, 3-5; Harvest Moon Stroll, Charles ton, 6; Festival in the Park & Bicentennial Ob servance, Lancaster, 8-9; Arts & Crafts, Walter- boro, 8-10; Octoberfest, Summerville, 9-10; Pied mont Fair, Spartanburg, 11-16. Ky.: Apple Festival. Fishing Derby & Country Ham Days • Of “things going” in Sept.: Golden Armour Festival, Radcliff, 18; Black Patch Festi val, Princeton, 18; Ky. Country Ham Days, Leba non, 24-25; Fair at Mount Olivet, 23-25. Also Arts & Crafts Show, Princeton, 17-19; Arts & Crafts Festival, Louisville, 25-26; Kaintuck Territory Flea Market, Benton, 25-26. Thoroughbred racing at Florence through Sept. to Oct. 4; at Lexington through Oct. 9; at Hender son, through Dec. 4. Kentucky Lake Fall Fishing Derby at Benton continues through Nov. 5; Sen ior Citizens Golf Tournament at Dawson Springs, Sept. 24-26. Ky., early Oct.: Apple Festival, Paintsville, 1-2; Artists & Craftsmens Fair, Berea, 1-3; Arts & Crafts, Henderson, 2-3; Oktoberfest, Louisville, 2-3; Octoberfest, Benton, 2-3 & 9-10; Tobacco Festival, Russellville, 2-10; Old-Fashion Days, Greenup, 7-11; Kingdom Come Swapping, Curn- berland, 8-9; Heritage Festival, Gravel Switch, 8-9; Traders & Founders Day, Somerset, 8-9; Sor ghum Festival, West Liberty, 8-9. Other States • Ark.: State Fair, Little Rock, 26-Oct. 5. Ind.: Oktoberfest, Terre Haute, Sept. 24-26. Va.: National Tobacco Festival, Richmond, Oct. 2-9. D.C : City Celebration—street festival, Washington, Oct. 9-10. FIRESTONE TEXTILES COMPANY p. O. Box 1278 • Gastonia, N. C. 28052 BULK U. S. POSTAGE PAID RATE at Gastonia, N. C PERMIT NUMBER 29 . . ^ ROBERT PASSMORE 1011 I, SECOND AVE. GASTONIA, N. C. 23052
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