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PAGE SIX N« W S APRIL S, 1953 New Employee Benefit's (Continued From Page Five) management and the employees would be very happy to run only one type and style, however, we are not our own boss—the customer is the boss. If the customer states to us that he wants a different type and style, we have very little choice. Of course, we could refuse to change and fill the bins up with yarn for which there is no sale but I do not think this would be very profitable because it would only be a relatively short time until the plant would be shut down. “I am sure we can all agree that the interest of management and the employee is best served in a plant that operates efficiently and profitably. I remember Mr. Fire stone saying years ago that a plant that could not make a profit was no good to anyone. It was not good for the stockholders because it would lose money. It was no good for the workman because it would be closed and he would lose his job. . . . “I have taken up a great deal of your time. I have tried to give you some thoughts that will help you in your work. I have not covered all the questions because I think we all realize that modern industry is continually changing, and I think the changes are for the better. We try to conduct our business at Fire stone in keeping with the company slogan, ‘Best Today, Still Better Tomorrow’. “Thank You.” Miss Billie June Hanna and Charles Kenneth Barker were united in marriage on Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at Firestone Wesleyan Methodist Church. The Rev. Frank B. Dennard was the officiating minister. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Belon D. Hanna, both em ployees of Firestone. The bride groom’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Barker of Belmont. Following the wedding an attrac tively appointed reception was held at Firestone Girls’ Club. White blossoms and greenery were used as decorations. Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Barker Lost Time Accidents By Departments—1952 Ply Twisting 1 Weaving 2 Shop 1 Warehouse 1 ROBERT PASSMORE, shop employee, takes great pride in the relics he has collected during his long period of plant service. From left to right in the picture, the first steam whistle used by this plant (then Loray Mill), the first clock used in the boiler room (retired from use in 1919), the handle used to throw the switch that put electric power to work in the plant for the first time, and the first steam pressure gauge used in the boiler room. The latter was used continuously from the time the mill began operations at the turn of the century until 1947 when it was replaced by a more modern gauge. Mr. Passmore has been a boiler man at Firestone since 1935. Employee Builds Home J. H. BROOKS, second hand in the Weaving Department, and his wife, Mrs. Velva Brooks, weaver, have completed and moved into a beautiful ranch type brick veneer home located just off the Kings Mountain highway. The house blends well with the natural wooded setting which surrounds it. ' The house has five rooms, one of which is a combination living- dining room. Most of the rooms are pine panelled, the floors are hardwood except in kitchen and bath which have rubber tile. The house is piped for hot air central heat and has celetex ceilings throughout. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, both 17-year Firestone employees, have plenty of garden space to work during their spare time. Their new property contains two acres of rich soil; ideals according to Mr. Brooks, for cabbage which is one of his favorite garden vegetables. Employee's Daughter Continues Gravely III; Physicians Unable To Find Cause LITTLE Patricia Anne Hardy, 18-month old daughter of Weaver Roy Hardy, continues gravely ill in Gaston Memorial Hospital. She became ill in October of last year, was taken to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem where doctors were unable to diagnose her ailment. As mysteriously as she became sick she apparently recovered un til she suffered a recurrence of the illness in February of this year. She has been at Gaston Memorial Hospital since suffering the re lapse. According to her father, she is at this writing somewhat improv ed, although doctors are still baffled as to the cause of the ill ness and have never conceded her much chance of recovery. Mr. Hardy, who lives in East Gastonia, wishes to thank Fire stone employees for their concern and interest in the welfare of his child. “They’ve been very kind,” he says, “and I have wanted to thank each one personally, but just haven’t had time.” Mrs. Evie Thomas 111 Mrs. Evie Thomas, spinner and second shift Spinning Department reporter, has been confined to Me morial Hospital since February 11. Her husband. Jack Thomas, wishes to thank her many friends in the plant for their interest and concern for Mrs. Thomas’ recovery. Shop Employee Bob Passmore Saves Relics Of Former Era A visitor to the Boiler Room dur ing first shift hours will be greeted by an employee who, in his 22 years at this plant, has developed tremendous pride in his job—and the gadjets, gauges, clocks, etc., worked with on his job in years past. The employee. Boiler Man Robert Passmore, has managed to save, from what might have been an inglorious end in a salvage pile, a collection of obsolete clocks, gauges, and other items having little or no commercial value. Un der the care and keeping of Mr. Passmore, however, these items have developed a degree of senti mental and historic value. He be lieves time will increase these values. At any rate, he hopes they’re never discarded. Equally interesting as the col lection itself is the collector (both pictured above). His record of ser vice and loyalty to Firestone is possibly without equal in the plant. For example, since it is necessary for someone to fire the boilers over holidays, he has done the job every Christmas during the past 17 years. Only once during his nearly 18 years with Firestone Textiles has he failed to make an appearance for work, and then it was because of illness. * * * MR. PASSMORE, who lives with his wife at 1011 West Second Avenue, has witnessed many changes in machinery and plant while serving here. He recalls the days when steam power was used to operate the plant, a system that was slow and inefficient as com pared to today’s electric power. He remembers the rather difficult task encountered in removing the old steam plant with its huge system of rope drives extending up through several floors in what vf'dS known as the “rope way”. So it is that Mr. Passmore and his collection, taken together form an interesting story of the plant, past and present. If atomic energy should ever replace electric power for industrial use (a remote and distant possibility at best) and there’s a Bob Passmore around there will be no tears for the pass ing of electric power. . . . just an added item or two for Bob’s collec' tion. _ VOICE OF FIRESTONE Programs For April April 6—Jerome Hines Unfold Ye Portals from “The Redemption” Trust in the Lord The Bells from “L’Arlesienne Suite” Panis Angelicus The Two Grenadiers Venusberg Music from “Overture to Tannhauser” La Spagnole April 13—Rise Stevens Can’t Help Singing Songs My Mother Taught Me Sacchanale from “Samson and Delilah” Mon Couer S’Ouvre a Ta Voix from “Samson and Delilah” Onward Christian Soldiers di Chiara Gounod Handel Bizet Franck Schuman Wagner Kern Dvorak St. Saens St. Saens Orch. & Chorus Hines Orchestra Hines & Chorus Hines Orchestra Hines & Chorui? Orch. & Chorus Stevens Orchestra Stevens Sullivan Final 4th Symphony Say Not Love is a Dream from “Count of Luxembourg” April 20—Mimi Benzell Cielito Lindo Over the Rainbow Dancing Doll Musetta’s Waltz from “La Boheme” The Lass with the Delicate Air Melody of Moonlove Siboney Stevens, Chorus and Audience Tschaikowsky Orchestra Lehar Traditional Arlen Poldini Puccini Stevens & ChoruS Orch. & Chorus Benzell Orchestra Benzell Arne Benzell & ChoruS Tschaikowsky Orchestra Leucona Benzell & ChorU April 27—Dorothy Warenskjold and George London It’s a Grand Night for Singing Rodgers Warenskjold The Girl That I Marry Berlin London Lady of Spain Evens Orchestra La Ci Darem La Mano Mozart Duet from “Don Diovanni” The Sailor’s Life Wilson London Romance, from “Desert Song” Romberg Warenskjold Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms Orchestra Medley from “Naughty Marietta” Herbert Duet a. I’m Falling in Love with Someone b. Ah Sweet Mystery of Life SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R- U. S. POSTAGE PAro GASTONIA, N. C. 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