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Bennettsville
South Carolina
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Last season's crop of seedpods on a calalpa
tree in front of Fireslone Textiles at Gastonia.
The long seed capsules are giving way to new
leaves of another Spring, and the showy blossoms
and more beans of mid-Summer upcoming.
Catalpa is the North American Indian name
for this familiar ornamental tree of the East and
South, characterized by huge oval/heart-shaped
leaves, clusters of white and yellow-striped
flowers and the 9-18-inch slender seedpods. The
catalpa is known also as Indian cigar bean, bean-
tree, smoking-bean tree and candle tree.
Stores new home-supply program
IT'S MORE
THAN TIRES'
“More than a tire store,” is
motto of the new home supply
program in Firestone Stores.
Trade Sales division recently
announced the Stores plan to
promote sales in major appli
ances, home, lawn, garden and
recreational merchandise.
The 2 Firestone Stores in Gas
tonia are participating in the
home supply program in which
stores stock a larger line of
merchandise at lower prices,
made possible through group-
buying in large volume.
The Charlotte retail district
has 13 stores in the Carolinas
taking part in the program. The
Gastonia outlets are Firestone
Stores in Dixie Village and Fire
stone Stores at Franklin and
Marietta. The Dixie Village
Store will be a backup supplier
for the downtown store if it
does not have items in stock.
BOTH STORES have larger
stocks and more variety in the 4
departments of the home supply
program. These include Toro
Power mowers with trimmers,
Arkla gas grills, Hot Point ap
pliances, bikes; electronics by
Sylvania, Sharp, and Sound De
sign, Craig Auto Sound and
many others.
Managers Mike Blackburn of
the downtown store, John Cole
of Dixie Village, and District
Home Supply merchandiser
Energy Month
FOUR
WINNERS
Week of ‘Quality’ emphasis
“Quality Week” in the Commonwealth of Kentucky was
proclaimed for March 2-8. The South-Central Kentucky sec
tion of the American Society for Quality Control, located in
Bowling Green, was instrumental in obtaining the statewide
proclamation, granted by Gov. John Y. Brown, Jr.
The week of quality emphasis Paula Johnson of Firestone
was observed in conjunction Textiles, Bowling Green, is a
with ASQC’s third annual all
day conference March 1 at
Western Kentucky University.
BG: perfect
attendance
Nine employees at the Bowl
ing Green Firestone plant were
recognized for perfect at
tendance at work for 5 years or
longer. They, with their de
partment managers, were hon
ored recently at a luncheon at
Briarpatch Restaurant.
Those receiving “congratula
tions for a job well done,” their
work departments and dates of
beginning service: Herbert
Ballard, Weaving, 7-27-72;
more on page 3
member and secretary for the
South-Central Kentucky sec
tion.
ASQC is a professional
organization of industry people
involved i n quality-control
functions. Quality control deals
with each industry’s efforts to
police itself in its manufacturing
of a product or providing a
service so the customer can be
assured that the product or ser
vice received is actually what it
was designed and advertised to
be.
The society’s Bowling Green
section educational efforts in
clude joint courses with Western
Kentucky University, monthly
dinner meetings and an annual
conference with guest speakers
and seminars on quality control.
John Barfield periodically issue
flyers on items available
through the program. They em
phasize that the stores men
tioned here are the only out
lets in the Gastonia area in the
program, and offering mer
chandise at prices advertised
in the flyers.
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March windy and April
rainy—makes May the pleas
antest of any. Poor Richard's
Almanac
$100 incentive on cars
• • Firestone is offering $100 incentive to any
Firestone employee or retired person in the U. S.
who buys a new ’79 or ’80 passenger car or station
wagon during April. The vehicle must be made in
North America and from one of these manufacturers:
American Motors, Checker, Ford, Chrysler, General
Motors and Volkswagen. Detailed announcements on
the offer have been distributed to all Textiles di
vision employees at work and mailed to retired per
sons. The offer is good through April 30.
• The four winners in a recent Energy Month
promotion at Firestone-Gastonia received $300
in U. S. Savings Bonds. Prizes for winning
posters of the 10 entered: 1-David Rowland,
$100 Bond; 2-Christy Rowland, $75 Bond; 3-Fred
Davis, $50. Christy and David, sister and brother,
are grandchildren of Irene Jones, Shop humidi
fier technician. Fred is a senior production
scheduler in Scheduling.
Poster competition was open to employees and
members of their families. All entries were dis
played in the mill main entrance during March.
The other prize, a $75 Bond, went to Judith
Zander, secretary in Traffic. She won in a draw
ing of names of employees who submitted sug
gestions in February on ways to conserve energy.
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