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OCTOBER
1978
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Textiles C^OfyipCtfiy Gastonm, North Carolina
Beunettsville, South Carolina Boirling Green, Kentucky
PROMOTING
FIRESTONE UW • Jesse
Parks Jr., lead vehicle mechanic
(Shop), greeted Buddy Baker,
honorary chairman of Gaston
County United Way campaign.
The renowned NASCAR driver
visited Firestone after appearing
at the kickoff meeting for the
UW program seeking $1 million.
Others here (from left): Max
Graham Jr., employment inter
viewer; Ben Rudisill, Gaston
UW campaign chairman; James
Burr, unior engineer in Indus
trial Engineering. Graham and
Burr were chairmen of this
year’s in-plant UW drive.
Screen News Digest
NEW
SERIES
“Conquest of the Skies”, issued in late September, leads
off the neviT series of Screen Newrs Digest films which Fire
stone is again sponsoring during the 1978-79 year in schools
of the company’s several plant cities.
“Conquest”, a double issue for among Firestone Textiles Com-
September/October, is a history
of 75 years of powered flight—
from Orville and Wilbur Wright
to the age of the supersonic
transport plane. Firestone
makes available the Screen
News Digest films to public jun
ior and senior high schools of
plant cities where the company
has production and other facili
ties.
GASTONIA and Bowling
Green, Ky., are again included
Bowling Green UW
United Way’s annual appeal
to raise funds for 13 Bowling
Green and Warren County com
munity services began in mid-
September. This year’s cam
paign theme is “People Helping
People.” This year’s campaign
goal is $202,000.
Bowling Green Firestone
plant manager Thomas Yelton
is United Way president this
year.
pany plant locations in the latest
film series. The films for No-
vember-April:
more on page 4
Gastonia
Firestone People
Textile Gave:
$41,384
To Gaston
United Way
‘Thanks A Million’
On Oct. 1, J. M. Driggers be
gan his 21st year of company
service. He is a supply clerk at
the Fire.stone Textiles Company
Bennettsville plant.
‘The Heart Of Its Strength’
“What has made the Firestone organization out
standing throughout its 78-year history have been
the same qualities that are at the heart of its strength
as a company today.
“We should not overlook the fact that we are a
company with many resources that will enable us
to continue to make progress in the years ahead.
“Our principal resource, of course, is our people.
Our progress depends upon our people and upon
their accomplishments as members of the worldwide
Firestone organization. Our company’s well-recog
nized financial solidity is and will remain a bulwark
of continuing strength in any challenging situation
we face.”
RICHARD A. RILEY
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
More Oil For Treating Units
• A 30,000-gallon tank (left foreground) for No. 2 fuel oil
was installed underground behind the Gastonia mill in late
summer. It serves the fabric-treating units. It, with the
older tank for No. 2 fuel, brings to 60,000-gallons-capacity
for this type standby fuel. Smaller tank (background) was
installed as a catch-container for any spills during truck
deliveries of the fuel.
There are 3 other underground tanks with a combined
capacity of 52,000 gallons No. 6 fuel. Both 2 and 6 fuels are
a standby energy source for the plant. Primary source is
natural gas from Louisiana. Fuel oil comes mostly by way
of Charlotte and Charleston.
Photo at lower right was made just before the tanks were
buried—and a stop of the refreshment wagon (center of
picture). Photo (upper right); Shop carpenters Ted Williams,
Thomas Turner and Bernard Aim were building forms for
construction of concrete unloading areas for the tanks. Part
of west wall of newly-completed section of 1 of a 2-unit
warehouse is in background.