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Fibers & Textiles Company Gastonia, North Carolina • Bennettsville, South Carolina
Bowling Green, Kentucky • Hopewell, Virginia • Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
WINDOW
TO THE
NORTH
Freelon Ramsey, Shop millwright 2c, paused to look out the Nort;h
window of the 5th floor Firestone-Gastonia mill tower.
For about $ 10 or less...
No matter how you heat your house, you can save 20 to 30
percent of the insulating costs the first winter alone. But what
are some 'smaller' ways to save energy costs this winter?
You can do a lot with an inexpensive caulking gun and a
few tubes of caulking compound — sealing air leaks around
doors, windows, outlet vents for clothes dryers, exhaust fans,
etc.
For about $10 or less, here are some other things that go
far toward saving energy and making you more comfortable:
Fit a cover over the outside of your air conditioner. Put a
plastic cover over your kitchen, bathroom and attic exhaust
fans. Place draft guards at bottom of doors and windows.
Install draft blockers behind electrical switches and outlets.
Or, fit rubber plugs into unused electrical outlets.
Put aerators on faucets to cut wasteful flow of hot water.
Use fluorescent lights that screw into standard sockets (more
light with less energy, than with incandescent lights.) In
sulate exposed heating ducts to keep hot air from cooling
short of the place it’s needed. Insulate hot-water pipes for the
same reason.
Install inside storm windows. Attach reflected window film
(cut heat loss up to 40 percent and screen out 75 percent
summer sun.) ‘More on page 3
’82 VEHICLES SIR REBATES Frances Fletcher, Bennettsville
Sal Costanza, Bowling Green
As a supplier company to American Eligible 1982-model vehicles and rebate
Motors, Firestone has arranged for rebates to amounts:
employees on their purchase of new 1982 Wagoneer $350.00
AMC, Jeep and eligible Renault vehicles. Cherokee $325.00
The Supplier Invoice Reduction Plan allows Jeep Truck $275.00
for each employee to buy up to 2 vehicles Eagle $250.00
per model year. CJ(Jeep) ! ’ $250’00
Employees, after working out an arrange- Scrambler (Jeep) $250.00
ment with a dealer (trade-in, method of pay- Concord $225.00
ment, etc.) and selected vehicle is delivered Eagle (kammback) (SC/4) $200.00
and licensed, present a copy of the title to the Renault 18i $ 150.00
SIR coordinator at each Firestone plant: Spirit $ 125.00
LeCar $ 75.00
Scholarship applications
The first S.A.T. test (required of Firestone College Scholar
ship applicants) was administered Nov. 7 in high schools
across the country. Dec. 5 and Jan. 23 are the other dates in
the test series. School counselors have complete information
on the S.A.T. exam and schedule. Firestone Personnel offices
have details on the company Scholarship program.
All plants and other locations
have the 1982 application
packets.
Jane Marie Wentz. 7th-grader at
Southwest Junior High School,
Gastonia, is in the habit of achiev
ing good records in school and
church.
Chapel Grove, her last school
before junior high, awarded her
three certificates for Citizen of the
Month, one for being a ‘Supereaderi
a Certificate of Achievement, and a
six-years perfect attendance cer
tificate — two of those years for
records at Clay Street Elementary
School.
At West Franklin Baptist Church
The 1982 Firestone Scholarship
program for eligible sons and
daughters of company employees
school. Jane recently received a
Certificate of Achievement, and an
llth-year bar on her long 'ladder'
lapel medal for school attendance.
Jane’s father, Robert (Bud)
Wentz, is a technical assistant in
Process and Product Development.
Her grandfather, Raymond Varna-
dore, is retired from Firestone.
was announced in September. One
major change in eligibility rules
this year has to do with salary limit.
We like it that way, too
A while back, a U.S. government task force study on Work
in America report listed eight major concerns of people on the
job. From top down, they are:
Interesting work. Enough help and equipment to get the job
done. Enough information to get the job done. Enough authori
ty to get the job done.
Good pay. Opportunity to develop social abilities.
Job security. Seeing the results of one’s work.
More than a hundred studies over the past 30 years show
much the same thing, the task force reported. The main con
cern of people on the job is to become masters of their im
mediate environment and to feel that their work and them
selves are important.
INSTEAD OF a fixed dollar ceiling
on the amount of money a person
may earn and still have a son or
daughter eligible for the award, the
policy now requires that a fulltime
hourly employee or salary employee
(grade 28 or below) must be on the
company payroll at the time the
award is made.
Employees are required to have
5 or more years continuous compxiny
service by Jan. 1, 1982, for their
child to qualify. Each applicant
must be a senior in a high school in
the United States: must be in the
top third of the class for the first
3‘/a years of high school.
Firestone grants continue at
$1,700 per year if the recipient at
tends a college or university operated
by local or state government;
83,400 per year if the school at
tended is a private institution.
Under the program, the company
last spring awarded 28 Scholar
ships and 56 Certificates of Merit
throughout the country. As of Fall,
1981, 145 sons and daughters of
employees are receiving Firestone
Scholarship aid.
NOTHING
MORE
BASIC
Without
customers
we’d be
gone
• Everybody’s concerned or affected with the cost of liv
ing and our financial wellbeing. How Firestone and other
companies are doing, financially affects the economy.
The ‘state of the economy’ is not something that we just
hear of but can’t do anything about. Employed people
directly affect their company’s financial wellbeing, as well
as affecting the country.
A good example: Wages, principal cost of everything.
What happens if wages go up without corresponding in
creases in production? That simply drives up the cost of
living for everybody. So, that’s why we seek improved
productivity (output of our labors) and keep on making in
vestments in tools and materials to work with. This helps
to get the work done as well and as efficiently as possible.
An industry that produces things for sale owes its ex
istence to customers who buy and use those products.
Keeping customers is another example of how every em
ployee can affect the economy. All payroll and employment
are derived from customers.
Keeping Firestone’s customers satisfied is a team effort
because we must have good, aggressive people in all
phases of our business — administration, product design,
engineering, production, sales and distribution, etc.
But we must have dependable products to begin with.
Our economy is all interrelated. Our job security is tied
in with our company’s financial success. Nothing is more
basic than that. And the company’s wellbeing rests on its
people’s efforts.