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CONGRATULATIONS
FILM DIVISION EMPLOYEES
SECOND YEAR
FETY GRO» AW^D
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Double honor of reaching 3,000,000
worker hours without disabling in
jury and being designated “Best in
Group” came to Film Division’s Pis
gah Forest plant within a few days
of each other. In front of the safety
board commemorating the safety
honors are, left to right, Paul Seagle,
president of Local 1971 United Pa
perworkers International; J. Don ¬
FILM SAFETY (cont’d)
ulations and notify your people of
the decision.”
Approximately 1,000 days are
represented in the plant’s 3,000,000
worker hours without disabling in
jury. As of February 29 the plant had
3,344,106 injury-free worker hours.
Garza Baldwin, Jr., president of
the Fine Paper and Film Group, said
that arriving at the “Best in Group"
decision was unusually difficult. In
a memorandum to Link and Larry H.
Staples, vice president and general
manager of the Ecusta Paper Di
vision, Baldwin said:
“I think both Divisions should feel
proud of their programs and their
accomplishments, which were high
ly commendable. All of the programs
are good, and the resulting achieve
ments testify to that without any
equivocation. The Pisgah Forest
Film people, however, should take
a lot of satisfaction in the fact that
they have won this award for the
second consecutive year and in the
face of extremely effective compe
tition from the sister plant at Pis
gah Forest.
“I know everyone in the Group
wishes the Pisgah Forest Film Plant
well in the competition as the eval
uation process continues from this
point on.
“Again, both of you have my sin ¬
ald Parker, plant manager; Nancy
Logan, corresponding secretary of
Local 1971; James E. Reese, Jr.,
chairman of the Company-Union
safety committee; James H. McIl
wain, maintenance superintendent;
Thomas Payne, safety supervisor;
and Fletcher H. Roberts, group di
rector of safety and loss prevention.
cere congratulations for your
achievements in this important
area. I urge you to continue to build
upon the excellent record of 1975.”
RETIRES
W. Cedric Paris, broke handler
n the Ecusta Paper Division’s Fin-
shing Department, retired in early
March after com
pleting more than
30 years of com
pany service.
He was em
ployed by the
former Ecusta Pa
per Corporation
September 14,
1944.
Paris was born
in the Blue Ridge
Township of Hen
derson County
and attended schools at Dana. He
worked at Balfour Mills until World
War II when he became an air
plane assemblyman at the Glenn
L. Martin plant at Baltimore.
He and Mrs. Paris, the former
Geneva Myers of Bat Cave, live at
Mountain Home. They are parents
of seven children and have 14 grand
children.
TOTAL EFFORT
IS URGED
It is the combination of engi
neering improvements and the ef
fort of the individual that will make
the long-term difference in saving
our natural resources, the Group
Energy Committee agreed in a meet
ing at Pisgah Forest March 15.
Engineering recommendations
already have resulted in lowered
electrical, steam and water loads
for specific types of product manu
facture. Additional sources of
energy savings are under study
at each Fine Paper and Film Group
plant.
While dramatic reductions in
energy needs can be shown by
piping changes, heat recovery sys
tems, and other engineering-type
modifications, the overall need is
for total cooperation by each in
dividual to help eliminate waste
of energy — at work and at home.
With this objective, the committee
plans to encourage programs in the
various departments that will help
create an awareness of what the in
dividual effort can accomplish.
J. H. Tomlinson, group director
of energy and environmental con
trol, said that the committee will
give recognition to the departmental
efforts toward employee awareness,
perhaps selecting the “Best in
Group” for special commemoration.
Energy programs at the three
larger plants were described at the
Group Energy Committee meeting
by W. S. Wallace, Ecusta repre
sentative; J. H. McIlwain, Film-
Pisgah Forest representative; and
S. Conklin, Film-Covington repre
sentative. Other reports were on
heat pipes, heat recovery from
casting machine effluent, fuel an
alyses, and the possibility of there
being held a corporate-wide sem
inar on energy.
The committee endorsed distri
bution of a government booklet
stating gasoline yields to be ex
pected from new automobiles. Avail
able booklets were placed shortly
thereafter at the Pisgah Forest gate-
houses, as others were sent to Cov
ington and Watertown.