—Art by Marty Duckworth of Cost Accounting, Gastonia plant.
Holiday Wishes
“Wonderful World of Christ
mas” is the 1976 version of Fire
stone’s holiday stereo phono al-
■bum. Featured in traditional
and contemporary favorites are
•country/popular artists Freddie
Fender, Merle Haggard, Loretta
Lynn, Ray Price, Donna Fargo,
Glen Campbell, Pat Boone, Di
nah Shore, Jimmy Dean and
C. W. McCall.
Selections: “We Wish You A
Merry Christmas,” “White
Christmas,” “Jingle Bells,”
Paula: QC
Supervisor
Paula Johnson has been
supervisor of physical and
chemical testing in the Qual
ity Control lab for two of
her eight years with Fire
stone at Bowling Green.
Both she and her husband Le
roy began with the company at
the time the BG plant opened
for production in early 1968. Le
roy, in maintenance engineer-
• Paula Johnson reviewed
some project plans with senior
staff chemist Michael Flanigan,
when she was on a working
visit at the Gastonia plant in
November.
ing, has a degree in engineering
from Western Kentucky Univer
sity, Bowling Green.
Paula, also a WKU graduate
with a degree in chemistry, will
complete work for a master’s
degree in chemistry at the end
of the current semester. Her
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DECEMBER
1976
Textiles Company
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We’re approaching a wonderful Holiday Season.
It’s a time during which we take special joy in friends
and family and in pleasant recollection of relationships
of the past.
I appreciate the fine contributions you have made
and all that you have meant to our Company in 1976.
My sincere wishes that the year’s ending and this
Holiday Season will bring you and yours the blessings
that make life rich and rewarding. May our hearts
have a special renewal of the Abiding Message of that
First Christmas—giving us Faith and Hope, Love and
Goodwill, Peace and Joy, this Season and throughout
the New Year.
James B. Call • President
Yariety In ’76 ‘Wonderful’ Music Album
“Away In A Manger,” “Amazing
Grace,” “Santa Claus Is Coming
To Town,” “Snow On The Roof,”
“Blue Christmas,” “The Sweet
est Song,” “What Child Is This?”
“It Came Upon A Midnight
Clear,” “Silent Night,” and “O
Come All Ye Faithful.”
The album is available this
season at Company stores and
dealers for $1.69, tax not in
cluded. This is the 11th year the
company has offered a holiday
recording.
The Impact
Of Textiles
Textiles was the Mother
of the American Industrial
Revolution. Today the
highly-developed industry
continues in an important
place in commerce. In the
nation, its impact is second
only to steel.
These points were un
derlined at a press seminar
in connection with the
American Textile Machin-
e r y Exhibit-International
in Greenville, S.C. this fall.
Seminar speaker J.G.
Wellman, immediate past
president of the South
Carolina Textile Manufac
turers Association, pointed
to a bright future for poly
esters, especially in pro
duction of blends and in
textured yarns. Modern
textiles "is a blend busi
ness" he said.
Wellman said he believes
that in the next five years
the textile industry as a
whole will increase from
the current production of
1014 billion pounds annu
ally to 14 V2 billion pounds.
One factor in this ex
pected growth, he noted,
is in increasing home furn
ishing and industrial mar
kets.
ENERGY SAVINGS
Your Ideas:
ATMI Booklet?
Suggest a way, or ways, to
use textile products in helping
to save the nation’s energy sup
ply and earn $5 for the idea—if
it is selected for inclusion in an
upcoming consumer booklet.
The nationwide competition is
sponsored by American Textile
Manufacturers Institute, the na
tional trade association of tex
tile manufacturers.
ATMI will include as many
winning entries as space pro
vides in a consumer handbook
on energy-saving, to be distrib
uted free in early 1977. Winning
ideas will be selected for their
originality, simplicity, relation
to use of textiles, and potential
amount of energy-saving prom
ised.
Contest deadline is Jan. 31,
1977. Send ideas to ENERGY
BOOKLET, ATMI, 400 S. Tryon
St., Charlotte, N.C. 28285. In
case of ideas that require some
thing to be crafted or involve
do-it-yourself projects, be sure
to include directions for making
the item.
Accepted entries become
ATMI property and no entries
will be returned to sender.
19.09
PERCENT
Doing better at saving energy all along! The 16.38 per
cent cut in energy consumption reported through July for
six Firestone Textiles Company plants and the Memphis,
Tenn., tire factory treating unit, moved to 19.09 for the 12-
month period ending through September.
Figures are based on the en-
ergy-usage rate of these facili
ties for 1972. Guido Martinelli,
industrial engineer and energy
coordinator for the division
points out that:
The significant savings within
this textile division and within
other facilities of the Chemicals
and Raw Materials division, led
the company savings program
worldwide to run slightly ahead
of the corporate goal for 1976.
FOR EXAMPLE, in the first
three quarters of the fiscal year
ended October 31, the effort
saved Firestone the equivalent
of 440,000 barrels of oil in fuel
and electric costs, this again
compared with the 1972 usage
rate.
The Firestone energy-conser-
vation effort, announced in Oc
tober of 1975, aims at reducing
energy-usage 20 per cent world
wide by 1980. Separate goals are
set for each facility, or grouping
in some cases, but with the
overall averaging 20 per cent
compared with the 1972 figures.
If it goes well, the program
will save the equivalent of 3
million barrels of oil per year
by 1980.
Christmas Gifts
Again this year, employees’
children will be honored at
Christmas-gifts presentations at
all three U.S. factories of Fire
stone Textiles Company.
Firestone-family youngsters up
to age 14 will receive their gifts
on schedules and dates to be an
nounced by personnel-industrial
relations offices of the plants at
Gastonia, Bennettsville and
Bowling Green.
"GREAT TOWN" committee members ended nine days of in
terviews of 18 firms with a visit to Firestone Textiles Company of
Bennettsville. At main office (from left): Plant manager Claude
Smith greeted Lee Shortt and Donnie McDonald, members of the
Existing Industry Committee.
GREAT TOWN
A major step in Bennetts-
ville’s community-improvement
achievement of the South Caro
lina “GREAT Town” program
was completed in November.
The Existing Industry commit
tee visited 18 business firms in
the greater Bennettsville area
to learn how management feels
about all facets of life and work
in the community.
Teams met with industry
leaders at their places of busi-
BENNETTSVILLE
PROGRAM
ness to discuss the program and
get support in the community’s
effort to promote economic de
velopment.
By mid-November five of the
seven required categories were
successfully completed, toward
Bennettsville’s try at recognition
as a “GREAT Town.” Two other
committees—because of their
nature—are requiring a few
more weeks for completion.