STOP, LOOK, AND THINK
SAFETY.
■—Rosie Francum, Shop, winner
in the 1954 Safety Slogan Con
test.
Tir«$ton«
GASTONIA
BE ALERT AND NEVER
GET HURT.
—Annie Lay, Plastic Dip, winner
in the 1954 Safety Slogan Con
test.
VOLUME IV
GASTONIA, N. C., FEBRUARY 25, 1955
NUMBER 4
Scholarship Application Deadline Is Near
MISS HELEN BEAVER, Gastonia High School senior, submitted
^er application early to the Firestone College Scholarship Awards
^•"ogram for 1955. Helen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Beaver, 207 South Liberty street. Her father, at Firestone for the
past 19 years, is employed in the SYC Weaving Department.
One Nation Under God’ Theme
Of National Brotherhood Week
Observance of Brotherhood
Week, February 20-27, is being
J^arked by special events in more
10,000 communities through-
the United States,
^^'otherhood Week, sponsored by
. ® National Conference of Christ-
and Jews, has as its theme
1955, “One Nation Under God.”
. ^^sident Dwight D. Eisenhower
® honorary chairman of the ob-
^^I'Vance, and Ben Duffy, presi-
of Batten, Barton, Durstine
Osborne, Inc., is general chair-
»nan.
Was in 1934 that a Denver,
. priest, Monsignor Hugh Mc-
®r^amin suggested the idea of a
^ Motherhood Week and in that
me year some 300 communities
^ Served a Brotherhood Day. It
a full week’s observance in
1940.
•fi V
E. R. CLINCHY, president
the National Conference, ex-
of
that the purpose of Brother-
®od Week is to give people an op-
^ ^unity to rededicate themselves
^ttdividuals to the ideals of re-
ct for people and human rights,
try to dramatize the prac-
things that people can do to
iz understanding and real-
of those ideals,” he said,
ly ^^^^hsrhood Week is essential-
^ Campaign against the preju
dices and bigotries that disfigure
and distort religious, business,
social and political relations.”
Programs during the week have
been designed to extend the work
of the National Conference which
stimulates year-round programs in
schools and colleges, churches and
synagogues, labor-management and
community organizations, and in
newspapers, magazines, motion pic
tures, radio and television.
Program Listed
For Feb. 28
Thomas L. Thomas is listed as
feature artist on The Voice of
Firestone radio-television pro
gram for February 28.
The program will include:
Southern Rhapsody, by Hosmer,
Firestone Orchestra; Mah Lindy
Lou, Strickland, Thomas L. Thom
as; Kentucky Babe, Geibel, Fire
stone Chorus; In the Still of the
Night, Porter, Thomas; Della
Splendour Immortelle, from “Ben
venuto Cellini,” Diaz, Thomas;
Wedding Dance, Press, Orchestra;
and Men of Harlech, Welsh Tradi
tional, Thomas and Chorus.
Winners Ta Be Announced In May
March 1, 1955 is the final date for mailing applications
for the Firestone College Scholarship Awards, provided for
sons and daughters of employees by The Firestone Tire &
Rubber Company.
Copies of the latest booklet describing the awards pro
gram, and application blanks are available in the Industrial
Relations Office at Firestone Textiles. The booklets and
application forms may be obtained by parents or by high
school seniors M^ho are interested in applying for the
Scholarships.
To be eligible for the 1955 Col-O
lege Scholarship Award the appli
cant must be a senior, and scholas
tically must rank in the upper half
of his or her high school class. The
parent of an applicant must have
five or more years of service as a
Firestone employee. Only children
of those employees whose average
base pay does not exceed $650 per
month (previously $625) will be
eligible.
SCHOLARSHIPS will be allo
cated to various sections of the
country on the basis of propor
tionate Firestone employment.
This will assure that children of
all employees will have equal
opportunity to win the college edu
cation scholarships regardless of
where they may live.
Each scholarship award will pay
the cost of full tuition, fees and
books and a substantial part of
living expenses. The award pro
gram, began in 1953, provides that
Scholarships will be awarded each
year to high school seniors so
that, after the first four years,
the college education of 60 stu
dents annually will be financed.
Winners this year in the College
Scholarship Award Program will
be announced in early May.
Beasley Named
To New Position
Robert P. Beasley was elected
Assistant Comptroller of The Fire
stone Tire & Rubber Company by
the Company directors following
the annual stockholders meeting
recently. He joined Firestone in
1937. His assignments have in
cluded various positions in the
General Accounting Department
and on the staff of the Comptroll
er. Since 1947 he has been en
gaged in tax work for the Com
pany.
He was graduated by Webb
Preparatory School, Bell Buckle,
Tennessee, in 1932 and attended
Duke University for one year. In
1936 he received a B. A. degree
from Vanderbilt University and
the following year an M. A. de
gree on a teaching fellowship. In
1954 he received the degree of
LL. B. from Akron Law School and
was admitted to the practice of
law in the state of Ohio that year.
From 1943 to 1946 he served
with the U. S. Navy.
Mr. Beasley is a member of the
Akron Bar Association, the Ohio
State Bar Association and the
American Bar Association.
Employees Contributed $1,875,05
To March Of Dimes For 1955
Of the $9,982.75 contributed by employees of Firestone Textiles in the Employees’
Community Fund for 1955, $1,875.05 was designated for the March of Dimes.
Of the 17 agencies which received funds from Firestone workers’ contributions through
the Community Fund, the March of Dimes got the greatest amount, according to informa
tion from the office of General Superintendent Nelson Kessell, who was chairman of the
united drive for this year.
Money contributed by workers O”
here to the March of Dimes will
help in the prevention of polio, and
in the treatment and epidemic aid
to victims of the disease, the Na
tional Foundation ■ for Infantile
Paralysis has pointed out.
In the January, 1955 drive, the
March of Dimes sought $64,000,-
000, the amount estimated to be
needed in the fight against the
disease throughout the nation this
year.
In addition to the $1,875.05 given
by Firestone through the Commu
nity Fund, it is estimated that a
sizeable contribution was made by
employees who gave to the March
of Dimes during the actual Jan
uary drive.
Lucky Number
Wins New Auto
Mrs. W. G. Henson, Jr., 425
Lin wood street. West Gastonia,
held the lucky number which made
her winner of one of two 1955
Fairlane Ford automobiles, given
away in Gastonia on Valentine’s
Day by the Dixie Home Stores.
Mrs. Henson is the daughter-in-
law of W. G. Henson, Sr., plant
engineer at Firestone. Her husband
PRESENTS CONTRIBUTION—Mrs. Carolyn Sanders, Main
Office, gives a check for $1,875.05 to Roy Robinson, campaign
treasurer of the local March of Dimes for 1955. General Superin
tendent Nelson Kessell, right, was chairman of the Firestone Em
ployees’ Fund drive.
recently returned from service
with the Air Force, and is now em
ployed at Firestone as a Shop me
chanic.
Safety habits breed safe
surroundings.
—James R. Thomas, Rayon Weav
ing, First-place winner in 1954
Safety Slogan Contest.