BOWLING
GREEN
11 With ‘Years’
Eleven persons at Bowling Green marked service anni
versaries in August. Those completing 10 years: Thomas D.
Allen Jr., unit operator, Treating; Linda T. Atwell, back-
winder operator, Backwinding; Jimmy G. Brooks, unifil
mechanic, Weaving; Samuel L. Cassidy, Unifil mechanic.
Weaving; James L. Gillentine, style-change specialist, Weav
ing; Gene Harvey, plant nurse. Medical; Paula Johnson,
laboratory supervisor. Quality Control; Richard B. Miller,
special projects. Weaving.
Also Carlie D. Sherfey, warehouse supervisor. Warehouse/
Shipping; James Wills, storekeeper, General Stores. And
with 5 years: Robert W. Crain, tender. Ply Twisting.
Service
(lefl)
and
Bradley
i
• • William J. Bradley be
gan his retirement on Sept. 1,
having worked at Firestone,
Gastonia, 38 years, 1 month
and 27 days. He was last a
twister operator in TC
Twisting.
Also ‘finishing out’ a ser
vice record at Gastonia at
the end of August: Bonnie L.
Service. She has 10 years and
19 days with the company,
some of it in Chafer Weav
ing. Her last job was as
reclaimer in TC Twisting.
Retired Nurse
Lois Taylor
Lois Moore Taylor, 72, retired
from Firestone Textiles at Gas
tonia in 1968, where she was in
industrial nursing. She died
Aug. 13 and was buried in Gas
ton Memorial Park. Surviving
are her husband Fred Taylor,
daughters Eleanor Furr and
Janel Thomas; stepson Ben Tay
lor; brother Fairley Moore; sis
ters Mrs. A. M. Wilson and Mrs.
Nell Unts and 2 grandchildren.
Tire Pressure
Cheek it Right
Just as you check oil in the
engine and coolant in the radi
ator, it’s a must that you regu
larly check air pressure in the
tires. And especially before go
ing on a trip. Underpressure can
increase fuel consumption, cause
tires to wear out faster and even
make for tire failure.
Tire pressure is difficult (ac
tually almost impossible) to
check accurately by just look
ing at tires, particularly if
they’re radials. The only way:
use your own air pressure
gauge. Do the checking before
starting out, so you can get a
“cold” pressure reading. As tires
roll, they get hotter and their
pressure increases. That’s norm
al.
For correct air-pressure listing
on your tires, look in the car
Can you tell which radial tire
has correct air pressure? The
one at left. It's hard to tell be
cause the sidewall bulge of each
is very similar to the other.
Firestone issued these photos
to show how hard it is to trust
your eye for correct air pres-
owner’s manual or on a sticker
on the door jamb or dashboard
drawer. These are “cold” in
flation readings and take into
account pressure build-up as
tires get hotter.
If you’ll be doing lots of high-
sure in radial tires. Left tire
here is inflated to 24 pounds
per square inch, and the other
one has 16 psi—that's underin-
flated by 33 percent. Not enough
pressure can add fuel use, cause
tires to wear faster—even lead
to tire failure.
speed (turnpike) travel, increase
air pressure 4 pounds over the
recommended pressure, but not
over the maximum pressure
marked on the tire sidewall.
That’s 32 pounds per square
inch on most passenger-car tires.
You may have a free copy of
A FAMILY DOCTOR LOOKS
AT ARTHRITIS, by William W.
Levis III, M.D. Write American
Arthritis Association, Inc., P. O.
Box 666, Chapel Hill, N. C.
27514—attention Clifton Jones.
Arthritis afflicts 50 million
Americans, some 250,000 of
these in North Carolina.
A Job Forum Display
• Firestone Textiles and 29 other industries had displays
at Gastonia’s Eastridge Mall for a Job Forum—a kind of
adult-careers day, Aug. 3. Its purpose was to inform citizens
of employment and career opportunities in the area.
Sponsoring the exhibits/information exchange were Gas
ton Community Action, a federal economic-betterment
agency; Gaston Mall and North Carolina Federation of
Senior Citizens.
Several people at the Firestone plant contributed to the
company display. D.N. Lewis and Bill Calhoun of Process &
Product Development designed the display and obtained ma
terials for it, and several of the Shop maintenance crew con
structed the layout. Downtown Firestone Stores manager
Mike Blackburn helped with company products for display.
Firestone display. It featured
the 721 Steel Belled Radial and
• J. C. Claypool (lefl). Fire
stone Textiles division Person
nel manager, and Tim McClure
of Gaston Community Action at
other Firestone tires, and Gas
tonia plant materials for tire
fabric.
NE TEXTILEEi
Volume VXIV September, 1978
Number 9 Page 2
• GASTONIA
Claude C. Callaway, Editor
Plant
Offices
Warehouses
REPORTERS
Monthly publicallon oi the Gastonia, N. C., plant of Firetlone TextilM
■ . ■ ‘ — Akron, Ohio.
preildent. Mem-
Company, a division oi The Firestone Tire tc Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.
Division Headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, • ■ *'
ber CaroUnas Association of Business Communicators.
Industrial Relations—Bobbie Baldwin
Main Office—Freida Price
Mechanical Dept.—Carol Payne
Twisting Tire Cord—Elease Cole, Katie
Elkins
Warp Preparation—
Nell Bolick
Warehouse—Harold Robinson
BENNETTSVILLE PLANT
Frances Fletcher, Redona David, Mar
garet McCaskiU, Jimmy McCaskill
BOWLING GREEN
Clifton O. Logsdon
Pageant
Honor
For
Linda
For the second consecutive
year, Linda Cheryl Owens was
named “Miss Congeniality” in
the Miss Gastonia Pageant. The
1978 pageant was held Aug. 12
in Ashbrook High School audi
torium.
Linda is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Owens. He
is junior buyer for the Gas
tonia Firestone plant.
In her senior year at Ash
brook High School, Linda was
a Merit winner in the Fire
stone Scholarship program.
Linda, 19, is a sophomore at
University of North Carolina-
Greensboro where she is major
ing in English and journalism
and minoring in physics.
At school she works on the
annual staff, is a member of the
Masqueraders theatrical group,
and is an advisor in a girl’s
freshman dormitory.
Safety 13 Years
In "Our Towns'' • Bennetts-
ville, S. C. has not a pedestrian
fatality in 13 years. So the town
has been honored by Carolina
Motor Club and the American
Automobile Association for
Pedestrian Safety Achievement.
Latest recognition was for the
year 1977.
Bennettsville is among the 17
South Carolina cities honored.
The other 32 are in North Caro
lina. Only 1 city has a longer
pedestrian safety record than
Bennettsville: Oxford, N. C.,
with no pedestrian fatality for
20 years.