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Tir«$tone NEWS
MARCH 5, 1953
News In Brief
Continued From Page 5
SUPERINTENDENT'S
OFFICE
Welcomed to the Sales Yarn De
partment was Mrs. Cornelia Mc-
Carver, stenographer for R. L.
(iraham. Cotton Division. Mrs. Mc-
Carver has two sons, David and
Allen, and is the wife of Jim Mc-
Carver, yarn trucker, 3rd shift ply
twisting.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Graham and
son, Bobby of Atlanta, Ga., spent
the week end of February 14 with
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Graham.
Alfred and Mrs. Mable Rhyne
visited The R. L. Grahams, Mable’s
parents, over the week end. Alfred
is now a ministerial student at
Lenoir-Rhyne College,
Clyde E. Moss, formerly of
(Quality Control, has been trans
ferred to the Rayon Division as
Assistant to General Superinten
dent Nelson Kessell.
Service Awards
FIFTEEN YEAR PINS
Spinning
Dezy Helms
TEN YEAR PINS
Carding
Ophelia Massey
Walter Jones
Spinning
Grover C. Woody
Colen H. Rogers
Twisting
Hobart Aldridge
Garfield Thomas
Shop
William Kennedy
MAIN OFFICE
Janet Sue McCartei', daughter
of Mrs. Beatrice McCarter, main
office, and Howard McCarter,
Spinning Department, entertained
jointly with Joyce Lambert in com
pliment to the former Miss Joan
Whitaker, Monday, February 16.
Miss Whitaker who was married
to Earnest Clanton on Saturday,
February 21 at Loray Baptist
Church was remembered with a
miscellaneous shower of gifts.
The employees of the Shipping
Department extends a welcome to
Cicero H. Falls of Kings Mountain,
Mr. Falls is married and is the
father of one child.
The main office personnel wel
comes its three new members,
namely: W. W. Blackwell, former
ly of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Freida
Kirchoff, who at present is living
at tliCi home of her parents on
North King Street; and James
Robert Kilby, who was formerly
employed in the Supply Room and
has been transferred to main office.
PERSONNEL
Miss Barbara Abernathy of Con
nelly Springs, N. C., recently joined
the Personnel Department as re
ceptionist and personnel clerk. Miss
Abernathy started her new work
February 9, 1953, She graduated
from Clevenger Business College in
Hickory, The employees of the
Personnel Department welcome her
as a fellow employee.
Tommy Grant of Ply Twisting
Department has been transferred
to the Time Study Department. The
employees of the Personnel Depart
ment welcome him and wish him
every success on his job.
Mr. and Mrs. J, W, Cooper left
Monday, February 23, for Lynn,
Mass., after an extended visit with
their son, J, M. Cooper, Time Study
Engineer, and his family.
Mrs. Grace Reeves, visiting
nurse, has been ill and in the
Gaston Memorial Hospital recent
ly. The employees of the Person
nel Department wish her a speedy
recovery.
FIVE YEAR PINS
Spinning
W. J. Stewart
Charlie Small
Spooling
Sam Ware
Mattie V. Deaton
Twisting
Sarah M. Nall
Minnie C. Carpenter
Floy J, Green
Beatrice Humphries
Weaving
Ray R. Shields
Emlie T, Goble
Marjorie Anderson
Evelyn C, Barnett (Syc)
Pauline Patterson (Cord)
Shop
Ernest E, Austin
House Service
George Adams
Quality Control
Alfred H. Hovis
Refreshment
Hazel L. Johnson
3n JWemoriam
MRS. MARY HOPE BRADLEY,
mother of Mrs. Euia Wilson, Miss
Myrtle Bradley, both of main of
fice, John S. Bradley, Twisting De
partment, and A. C. Bradley, Re
freshments, died at her home on
Linwood Road on Tuesday, Febru
ary 24.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at 4:00 p. m, at West
Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Burial was in the Olney Presby
terian Church Cemetery, The of
fice personnel as well as the entire
community, extend to each mem
ber of the family their deepest
sympathy.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Moses of
the Cloth Room announces the mar
riage of their daughter. Miss
Imogene Moses to Lee Dean of
Asheville. The marriage was per
formed by the Rev. Bowman of
Sandy Plains Baptist Church on
January 24, 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean are making
their home in Asheville.
FRANK ASHE
Frank Ashe of Murphy, N, C,
died Friday, February 6, Funeral
services were held in Murphy.
He is survived iby two daugh
ters, Mrs. Dixie Griggs and Mrs.
Ellen Mulkey, both employees of
Firestone Textiles.
JAMES W. MOBLEY
James W. Mobley, an employee
of House Service, died following an
attack of influenza on February 2,
1953. He lived at 1401 North York
Street.
He leaves his wife, Clara Belle,
and 13 children. One son, William
E., is an employee of the Weav
ing Department.
At GHS.
Out-Standing Student's
MISS Sandra Annette Wald-
rep, daughter of Card Tender J.
A. Waldrep and Mrs. Waldrep,
who is an inspector in the Cloth
Room, is a two-time queen at
Gastonia High School, First,
she was made Safety Queen and
was given a place of honor as
such in the annual Travel Safety
parade in Gastonia. More re
cently she was voted Prettiest
Girl in the class of 1953, and in
this coveted position she will
appear in the superlative sec
tion of her school’s yearbook.
This combination beauty-safety
queen has a studious head on her
shoulders too. Her name has
appeared on every honor roll
issued since she entered high
school.
MISS Claudette Taylor,
daughter of Second Hand and
Mrs. Claude Taylor, is rounding
out a very successful scholastic
career at Gastonia High School.
Recognizing her resourcefulness
and ability, her fellow students
recently elected her “Most Likely
to Succeed” in the class of 1953,
Her picture, under that title,
will appear in the Spinner, the
GHS yearbook. Miss Taylor has
averaged 97 1/2 in grades thus
far in high school, and is likely
slated for valedictory honors in
addition to the superlative she
received. In spite of a busy
academic schedule she has
maintained an active interest in
numerous school activities, in
cluding membership in the
Science, Bible, and Future Teach
er’s of America Clubs, She is also
a reporter for her school news
paper, Fine Yarns,
Darkroom Available
To Club Membership
MRS. W. G. GEORGE
Mrs, W, G. George, mother of
Mrs. Helen Reel, winder tender,
died recently .
The employees of the Warehouse
send their regards and deepest
sympathy to Julius Parks and
family during the illness and death
of their mother, Mrs. Mildred
Parks.
CAMERA Club members started
learning dark room procedure on
Tuesday, February 24, when the
first demonstrations of roll film
development and contact printing
were conducted for member’s bene
fit.
For the time being the dark room
will be open on Tuesday afternoons
from 1 to 5 p. m,, for club use.
Later on, it is believed that addi
tional hours can be arranged in
order that office employees can
participate.
Employees, whether they have
any previous experience in photo
graphy or not, are invited to take
part in this widely popular hobby.
Frank Davis Honored For Long Service
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Mr. Davis’ first job was with the
Taylor, Armitage and Eagles Com
pany, a textile chain operating
plants throughout the North Eas
tern States. He recalls that as a
high school lad with some night
studies at the New Bedford Tex
tile School thrown in for good
measure, he went to work as office
boy for the firm mentioned for
$5,00 a week. His initiation in the
textile world included: working
long hours, doing a little of every
thing, and walking home at night
so tired that he would close his
eyes and count the steps, at times,
to his front door.
* *
BY dint of hard work and per
severance he found a place for
himself in the cotton department
with his first employer. With time
out in 1926 and ’27 as a successful
salesman for the P, T, Jackson
Company, he’s been on the cotton
buying and classing end of the
business ever since,
Mr. Davis is a native of New
Bedford, Mass. His wife, the form
er Martha Hutton Docker, was born
in Hyde, England, They were mar.
ried in 1924, Their two sons, just
recently out of the army, are fol
lowing the elder Davis into the
cotton business, Fred W, is with
the George McFadden Company in
Memphis, and Frank, Jr., is with
the Eugene B, Smith Company of
Dallas, Texas,
Firestone’s cotton classer is
active in various fraternal organ
izations including the Masonic
Shrine, The Elks Club, Country
Club of Gastonia, and the Red Fez
Club of Charlotte, He and Mrs.
Davis live at Armstrong Circle.
Wesleyan Methodist
Church Continued
From Page One
ville Jenckes Company, Mrs. Hill’s
husband was until his retirement
in 1951 a plant guard.
* * *
THE present pastor, Mr, Frank
B, Dennard, came to Firestone
Wesleyan in 1950, During his
tenure a parsonage at 212 South
Ransom Street has been purchased
and almost completely paid for.
The new church building which was
worshipped in for the first time in
1949 needed many finishing touch
es when Mr. Dennard arrived in
1950. Under his guidance the in
terior of the church was finished
and painted throughout. In addition
a new organ—a Baldwin Electric—
was purchased, installed, and paid
for within 90 days,
Mr. Dennard reports that of the
179 present membership of the
church approximately half are
employees of Firestone Textiles.
The church is a part of the North
Carolina Conference of the Wes
leyan Methodist Church, which
comprises churches in this state
and parts of Virginia and South
Carolina, The denomination as
whole consists of 42 conferences
throughout the United States and
Canada, The North Carolina Con
ference is the largest in the church.
Headquarters for the church
Syracuse, New York, Nearby
Utica, N. Y., was the scene of tht;
establishment of the church as
separate denomination in 1843, Its
founders left the parent Methodist
Church because of differences in
views regarding slavery and lay
man’s privileges within the church;
the new church holding that laymtn
and ministers should have equal
voice in church legislative matters-
Community Fund Planners
CHIEF PLANNERS for the very successful Employees’ CoiH'
munity Fund Drive recently conducted were the men shown above,
left to right, Comptroller E, J. Mechem, General Superintendent
Nelson Kessell, and Industrial Relations Director T, B, Ipock, J^'-
Mr. Kessell was chairman of the first annual drive which raisc^i
$11,696,42 for eight national charities.
SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R.
U. JS. POSTAGE
PAID
GASTONIA, N. C.
PERMIT NO. 29