CASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME XI - NUMBER 4
MARCH, 1962
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Best Today
Still Better
Tomorrow
Rubber • Chemicals • Textiles
Synthetics • Metals • Plastics
‘. the custofncT di’cides
the quality acceptable'
Quality does not happen. It is achieved.
Degrees of quality mark levels of achieve
ment. Alone, quality is a neutral term. Poor,
mediocre, excellent. These adjectives further de
fine quality.
What matters is the standard by which quality
is rated.
Sometimes we may set our own standard—how
many hours we work; what results may satisfy
ourselves.
Or, others may do the measuring. Usually in
producing goods or giving services, the customer
decides the quality acceptable.
It means, we are accountable. We do not live
on Robinson Crusoe’s island.
The kind of account we give depends upon the
person to whom it is given, for each recipient sets
the standard.
But we can choose to whom we give account.
The quality we produce is reflective—that is, we
absorb into ourselves that same quality we share
’With others.
So, to choose as our goal the highest standard of
the highest user of our goods or services is to
choose the highest quality of life and work for
ourselves. . .
DR. DEAN EVEREST WALKER, PRESIDENT
Milligan College (Tennessee)
Plant Earns Fourth UF Citizenship Citation
For the fourth consecutive year. Firestone Textiles has
been cited for “Outstanding Citizenship” for employee-com-
pany participation in the Greater Gastonia United Fund.
The plant here was one of 12 local firms which this year
received ‘shingles’ for Citizenship Plaques awarded to them
during the past four years that the United Fund has had
the recognition program.
Also, nine firms received the
plaque itself at the UF annual
meeting at Holiday Inn in Feb
ruary.
Plaques and repeater awards
went to firms with more than
15 employees each and partici
pating in UF giving through
payroll deduction; and which
had at least 80 per cent em
ployee giving with an average
minimum donation of $10 per
worker.
OF HONORS announced at
the annual meeting Firestone
production manager, Francis B.
Galligan received a Community
Service award for leadership in
Conservation Of Wetlands
National Wildlife Week This Month
The weight of your help can
swing the balance to insure
waterfowl for the future,
through conservation of wet
lands which benefit man and
wildlife. This is the message of
National Wildlife Week, March
>8-24.
■ The annual emphasis calls at
tention to the American heritage
of abundant natural resources
and seeks to stimulate citizens’
interest in wise management and
preservation of these resources.
National Wildlife Federation
sponsors the program each
March, with cooperation of wild
life councils and sportsmen’s
clubs in all 50 states. Wildlife
Week is just one project of an
extensive year-round program of
education in wildlife apprecia
tion, conservation and develop
ment.
Wildlife objectives for 1962
are:
• Encourage all citizens to be
come informed as to the re
lationship between man and all
natural resources
• Alert all citizens to the
need for conservation of natural
water-retention areas
• Unite conservationists for a
common cause
• Create understanding of the
importance of wetland habitat to
waterfowl and other wildlife.
Interested in natural-resourc-
es conservation? You can get in
formation from wildlife and
sportsmen’s clubs in your com
munity and from these cooperat
ing sponsors of National Wildlife
Week;
North Carolina Wildlife Fed
eration, Education Division, NC
Wildlife Resources Commission,
Raleigh; and South Carolina
Wildlife Federation, P. O. Box
360, Columbia.
exceeding his unit campaign
goal. Mr. Galligan, who was vice
chairman of the UF campaign
last year and head of the indus
trial unit, led in collecting $114,-
611 among Gastonia industries.
At the February meeting, the
production manager here was
elected a director of the United
Fund for a three-year term.
A total of $192,503.98 was
raised in the UF financial ef
fort last fall. The Firestone em
ployee contribution to this
amount was $15,549.98. It was
the ninth consecutive year that
Firestone people here pooled
their gifts of money with the
United Fund for the support of
health, welfare, and recreation
agencies.
Money pledged in the last-fall
campaign is at work this year,
toward the operation of 24 com
munity agencies.
BEAUTY PROJECT—NC Garden Club president Mrs. Olin
Sikes (left) looks over photographs of the Elizabethan Garden
project, with Firestone garden club president Mrs. W. E. Pope
(center), and Mrs. Henry Chastain, president-elect who will take
office in April.
^loodmobile Gets 150 Pints At Firestone
Son h.undred and fifty per-
lif f, ^^rne to “make a gift of
^oK-i Cross Blood-
ston when it visited Fire-
e Recreation Center in
"ftw
plant
D
Plo
Uary. This was the first
0 visits each year at the
°^ors were
fa
and
Firestone em-
members of their
and others of the com
bi,
ood
A list of those
giving
Steve Adams, Hobert Ald
ridge, Bobbie Baldwin, Phelmar
Barrett, James Beddingfield, Lee
Bentley, Buford Blanton Jr.,
Shirley Bolding, Jessie Bradley,
Thomas Bradley, Carl Briggs,
Ira Neal Broadway, Luther
Brown, John Bryant, 'Maude
Bryson, Ruell Bumgarner, Sam
my Bunton, Jim Burdette, Rosa
lie Burger, Ida Byers.
Rabon Calhoun, James Can
trell, Frank Capps, Grafton Car
penter, Cornelia Carringer, Gene
Carson, Sue Carson, Jackie
Cates, Paul Chastain, Bob
Chavis, Henry Church, Thomas
Church, Myrtle Collette, Wil
liam Cosey, Stella Cothern, Eva
Nell Crawford, Sallie Crawford,
Samuel Crawford, Dorothy
Couick.
Ralph Dalton, Fred Davis,
William Davis, Julius Eskew,
Ralph Farrar, Exlice Fletcher,
—More on page 4
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NC Garden Club
President
On Visit Here
The president of The Garden
Club of North Carolina, Inc. was
a visitor at the plant Recreation
Center in mid-February, where
she was luncheon guest and
speaker at the regular monthly
meeting of the Variety Garden
Club of Firestone.
Mrs. Olin B. Sikes of Monroe
was here in the interest of the
State Club’s program which is
designed to encourage horticul
ture, and promote beautifica
tion and conservation.
Mrs. Sikes is a charter mem
ber and past president of the
Monroe Garden Club. She is a
life member of the National
Council of Garden Clubs, and
the Garden Club of North Caro
lina—of which she is a past
vice president, also a past dis
trict director.
She is a past president of the
Monroe Parent Teachers Associ
ation, and is the first and only
woman to serve on the board
of trustees of Union Memorial
Hospital.
On her visit with garden club
members here, Mrs. Sikes dis
cussed some of the objectives of
the state garden organization.
Major projects involve develop
ment and perpetuation of the
Elizabethan Garden on Ronoke
Island, Daniel Boone Botanical
Garden at Boone, and Martha
Franck Fragrance Garden at
Butner; and an educational
scholarship program.
Variety Garden Club of Fire
stone is affiliated with the State
group. The Garden Club of
North Carolina is a member of
the South Atlantic Region, Na
tional Council of State Garden
Clubs.