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Research• Jess Parks Jr. (right) of Firestone (Gastonia) Shop, waited as Sgt. Jack Daye of the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Licensing Division gave radio check and go-ahead in Firestone driver-re-search participation.Parks was one of 18 men and women at Firestone, Gastonia, who volunteered as drivers on an afternoon in February. Plant safety manager Raymond E. Mack coordinated the program.Two vehicles equipped with computerized gear recorded mechanical movements and maneuvers; driver patterns and reflexes.Firestone people# each driving one mile with a highway official in the vehicle, are among the some 5,000 volunteer drivers to be involved in the research program statewide.Computer-tape recordings will yield invaluable information on road safety, driver habits and other phases with which the highway department is concerned. Specific reports are notmade on individual drivers who take part in the research.Besides Parks, Firestone volunteer operators were Thomas Grant, Steve Stanton, Helen Foy, Philip Williams, H. G. Hall, Ronnie Franks, Myrtle Collette, William Teague, Joe Adams, Martha Kendrick, Clyde Thommason, Minnie Kilby, Ear-lene Fitzgerald, Donald Hedges, Robert Taylor, Carl Guffey and Trenton Ginn.Looking AI• By first wee! Announcement of Firestone College Awards program.• April 17—Las ing 1971 State an come tax returns.• First week in ning of 38th year operation in Gash• Bv mid-Aori]
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Gastonia Firestone News
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Wed, Mar 01, 1972
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