November 1980 Gastonia
North Carolina
Bennettsville
South Carolina Bowling Green, Kentucky
l^tre^tone
news
From
Bowling
Green
to
Gastonia
Clifton O. Logsdon joined the
Personnel department at Fire-
stone-Gastonia, November 1, as
labor relations assistant. He
transferred from the textiles di
vision’s Bowling Green (Ky.)
plant, where he had worked
since February 1970.
In the Personnel department
at Bowling Green, Logsdon was
employment interviewer/coun
selor and last, supervisor of
training and employee relations.
At Gastonia, he works with
S. E. Crawford, labor relations
representative.
• • Lead carpenter Arthur N.
McCarter (left) and grounds-
keeper Ronnie J. Smith, at Fire-
stone-Gastonia in October pul
down ryegrass, fescue and fer
tilizer. Over the winter season
they'll 'take hold' toward a good
lawn, come Spring.
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Logsdon is from Horse Cave,
Ky. He spent four years in
photographic service of the U. S.
Air Force. At Western Ken
tucky University, Bowling
Green, he earned a B. A. degree
in history/psychology, and the
M.A. degree in counselor edu
cation at WKU.
His wife April is a registered
nurse, with an associate degree
from WKU. The Logsdons have
two daughters—Jennifer, 5 and
Pamela, 4; and sons—^Tim, H
and Todd, 10 months.
A bad workman quarrels with
his tools.—English proverb
Students Textile Week
• • Students of Clay Street and Chapel Grove elementary
schools visited the Fiiestcne Gastonia plant during North Carolina
Textile Week, ending October 5. Their letters and posters express
ing appreciation for the guided lours were displayed later in the
month in the mill tower entrance.
At Chapel Grove, students prepared several classroom exhibits
on the Textile Week theme "Beautiful! . . . Tar Heel Textiles,"
and showing the industry "a Giant in Gaston County."
At Chapel Grove, students prepared several classroom exhibits
on the Textile Week theme "Beautiful! . . . Tar Heel Textiles,"
and showing the industry "a Giant in Gaston County."
Right photo: Tour day at Firestone; and (below), three of the
Chapel Grove school exhibits. John Beavers with his large Fire
stone Mill poster; students from Firestone families (center) with
a collection of artwork and textile materials. From left; Roger
Edwards, whose grandmother, Mary Ethel Edwards, is a rewinder
operator in TC Twisting; Michelle Sanders—her grandmother,
Gertrude Sanders, is a reclaimer in TC Twisting, and grandfather,
Maford, is retired from Supply; Ann Huitt, whose father. Perry
Huitt, is a Utex bobbin changer in TC Twisting. A student-made
quilt and display of yarns and other materials was a project of
f
$3.5 million Savings
A record $367,595 w^ent to Firestone em
ployees for suggestions they submitted dur
ing the first nine months of fiscal 1979-80.
The ideas from people at the company’s
plants and other installations are resulting
in annual savings of more than $3.5 million.
U. S. and Canadian plants reported the
largest savings from suggestions in the his
tory of the program. Turn-in rate on ideas
for the last quarter of the year had not been
compiled when this vi^as written (in Oc
tober—fiscal year ended 31st.)
Money saved through adopted employee
suggestions in the first three quarters of
the fiscal year that closed October 31, far
surpassed the total of any nine-month
period before that. Too, the savings ex
ceeded the largest saving ever achieved be
fore in a whole year.
In the period July 31, 1979-July 31, 1980
there were 28,780 approved suggestions.