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CASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA ^
VOLUME XIV - NUMBER 10 ^
SEPTEMBER • 1965*"
S!3I1W
Your Symbol
of Quality
and Service
LOOKING
MOUND
From
Camp Firestone
Polished
Bowl;
Plucked
E^ulcimer
UF Campaign In October
ONE GIFT HELPS 28 AGENCIES
You put hands and feet to the dollars you give to the
Gastonia United Fund, and make them work miracles you’d
never be able to do any other way. The miracles will be
wrought through 28 local, state and national services for
health, welfare, recreation and character-building.
“The United Way is you and Last year the total contribu-
your neighbors working together tion here was $23,425—largest
The 30th annual season at Camp Firestone
^Lake James continues into early October,
the highland country parades in her
autumn dress.
„ firestone employees and members of their
^inilies enjoy variety recreation-relaxation
t the company’s retreat at Bridgewater in
^ fountain setting renowned for its scenic
and native lore.
*^Ple relaxing and playing at the camp
„ take side trips to interest points in the
j^med Southern Blue Ridge Playground,
andicrafts are a favorite folk art. In these
^^^stone News photos . . .
A woodcarver from Brasstown near
, ^rphy shows a visitor the art of creating a
J^Wl with mall and chisel. The John C.
j^^^pbell Folk School at Brasstown is well
own for its instruction in woodcarving.
^ * A Cherokee Indian, herself a basket-
^eaver and bead designer, admires the
5 ^f^'^^nship and tests the sweet sound of
'^Uclimer, hand-fashioned by one of her
rj,j§hland neighbors of Scotch-Irish descent.
Wit^ ^i^cient 3-string dulcimer, associated
^ Southern Appalachian pioneer days,
s been revived as a folk instrument.
to raise funds, budget and co
ordinate the health, welfare and
recreation services of our com
munity,” said P. R. Williams Jr.,
who is co-chairman of the Fire
stone in-plant solicitation this
year with J. G. Tino Jr.
“It is in the American tradi
tion of neighbors getting to
gether to help each other, com
bining activities so everyone is
benefitted and in the most ef
ficient way,’' said Mr. Tino.
The campaign Oct. 5-Nov. 5
is set on a goal of $248,556. In
keeping with the record of the
past. Firestone Textiles peopls
are being looked to as paceset
ters in the financial effort this
year.
New Classes Going
At NCVT School
New students were accepted
Sept. 1 iu Hie five regular cours
es offered at North Carolina Vo
cational Textile School, Bel
mont. Courses are yarn manu
facturing, weaving and design
ing, tailoring, knitting, and mill
maintenance.
Although regular courses be
gin at scheduled intervals, the
school will admit new students
after the classes are underway.
For information about NCV
Textile School and its courses
of study, inquire at the plant
industrial relations office, or at
the school office, open Monday-
Friday 8:20 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
gift from a single source.
Firestone production manager
F. B. Galligan, as first vice
president of the Greater Gas
tonia United Fund, points out
that the campaign method is
once more the effective person-
to-person approach to every po
tential contributor at his place
of employment.
At Firestone, it is the only in-
plant general solicitation during
the year.
For receiving UF pledges here
to be paid through payroll de
duction, chairmen Tino and Wil
liams will be assisted by several
dozen volunteer workers.
In the community-wide cam
paign some members of Fire
stone management will work in
key positions. Alvin Riley, man
ager of industrial relations, is a
campaign vice chairman in
charge of the industrial division
which has the largest section of
the campaign in terms of money.
Ralph Johnson, manager of
employee relations, is co-chair
man of another industrial divi
sion.
Mr. Galligan is in charge of
pilot campaigns among selected
firms which receive employee
donations in advance of the
regular solicitations.
A number of other Fii'ostone
people and family members will
volunteer their services in the
community UF campaign. Still
others will work in their own
hometown UF programs outside
the Greater Gastonia area.
Family
Plant Visit
Kansas family included a
^i^sstone Textiles on its
j] ^^hat unusual vacation trip
last month. Mr. and Mrs.
y; ^ Kaufman with children
Mitchell and
tQ Jr. had traveled by plane
6(i ^ Point where they board-
^*^hool bus and headed for
Kan., and home.
^^^estone Store For Dixie Village
^ o b e r 1 is scheduled
date for the new
Home and Auto
Store in Gastonia’s
t^f ^^^illage Shopping Cen-
district store
Perry Rose says the
r. ^ Unit TTriii mnnn
The vehicle, ordered by the
Canton, Kan., city school sys
tem, had its body assembled at
a factory near Thomasville. So
the Kaufmans were able to turn
the bus-delivery trip into a va
cation pleasure.
Kaufman is superintendent of
the Canton schools. The family
decided to stop along and see
things of interest on their west
ward way. At Firestone, it was
the first time they’d seen textile
manufacturing.
feet with sales area of
sn, ^nit will contain 10,000
4Uare fee
3>000 teet.
Qj ^ill stock a complete line
vigj^^Pl^ances, radios and tele-
On receivers and other home-
Applies.
will be six bays for auto
such as wheel align-
and balancing, brake relin
ing; replacement of mufflers,
tailpipes and shock absorbers;
and complete engine tune-ups.
All service personnel will
have complete training by the
time the store opens.
Paul N. Faulkenberry, who
moved to Gastonia from Greens
boro, will be the Firestone deal
er in the new store. The modern
sales - service facility on the
Kings Mountain highway is part
of the overall plan to make
Dixie Village a regional shop
ping center offering complete
lines of merchandise and serv
ices.
G. A. Perry:
45 Years
In Textiles
“You’ve earned your trip
through that retirement
gate,” went the last line of a
poem by Doris Corella of
main office, as she joined in
tribute to G. A. Perry at a
recent luncheon honoring
the weaving (synthetics) de
partment manager on his last
day of Firestone employ
ment.
Earlier that day, Mr. Perry’s
associates on the job had “wish
ed him well” at a brief party,
then another group met with
him at the recreation-center
luncheon. Replying to the many
tributes paid him, Perrj'^ sum
marized by saying, “Of all my
45 years in textiles. Firestone
and the people with whom I’ve
worked here have been the best
of all.”
When he came here in early
1955, he already had 34 years
experience in textiles, transfer
ring here as a shift supervisor
GOOD WISHES in the "richer years" were expressed by Carl
Rape (left) for retiring G. A. Perry, who turned over to Rape the
weaving department manager job.
from a Firestone operation then
at Roanoke, Va. He had been an
engineering foreman in the ray
on weaving department there.
A native of Independence, Va.,
his career in textiles began in
1920 with the first job at nearby
Fieldale. He worked and also
studied at a textile school be
fore leaving Fieldale in 1934 to
take a job with a Kannapolis,
N. C. plant. He was there five
years.
He then went to Roanoke to
help set up operations in the
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