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SIX firestone beauties vie for the title Miss Firestone Textiles at first
liobby show
111 1947. Contestants left to right: Mildred Burgin, Willie Mae Green,
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—(winner), Betty Queen, Lassie Crawford, and Francis Wingo
1949 CHRISTMAS PARTY for colored employees’ children complete with Santa
- us at the Palace Theater in Gastonia.
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FIRST JOHN W. THOMAS AWARD WINNER in Gastonia, James Mc-
cente^^' ^ Scout, receives award from Harold Mercer, plant manager. Looking on,
——__L7® Summerow, McKensie’s proud scoutmaster.
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in SOFTBALL COUNTY CHAMPIONS for the year 1948. Standing
^ean to right are: Mitchell Wooten, Sarah Graham, Nettie Neagle, Betty
Evelyn Clark. In back row: Romano Haney, Audrey Robinson, Janis Hovis,
Betty Bertha Dunn, and Recreation Director Ralph Johnson. Another player,
^ yueen, was absent when picture was taken.
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TIRES, GUNS AND BOATS plus hundreds of other war products were
viewed by Gastonians at the War Products Show October 9-11, 1944.
1947 ALL-SPORTS BANQUET scene at Girl’s Club, at which Roy Clogston,
Athletic Director of North Carolina State College in Raleigh, was featured speaker.
AMERICAN LEGION CITY-COUNTY CHAMPS for the year 194G, and con
sidered the best baseball team of its kind ever produced by our recreation department,
are, left to right, front row: Bill Purkey, Bill Rowland, Bill Stewart, Johnny Jones
(since killed in Korea), Donald Bell, and Fred Deal. Back row from left: Recreation
Director Ralph Johnson, Arthur Purkey, Ed Atkinson, Russell Wilson, Frank Wilson,
E. L. Blaylock, and Reid Deal, spinning section man.
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FIRESTONE TEXTILES’ booth at the Gaston County Industrial Exposition
of 1948. ... a handsome display of Firestone auto, truck and tractor tires.