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PAGE TWO OCTOBER 25, 1953 Old-Timers Meet I FOUR of Firestone Textiles’ retired employees happened to be in the Men’s Club at the same time recently. They weren’t all shoot ing pool, but for the sake of a picture they broke off their reminiscing with other old friends and posed with cue sticks as follows, left to right, W. E. Stiles (guard), A. P. Honeycutt (speeder tender), W. P. Stevens (speeder tender), and R. A. Bartlett (accountant). United Nations Week THE WEEK beginning October 28 was United Nations Week. Throughout the world, Saturday, October 24, was celebrated as United Nations Day. It marked the eighth anniversary of the founding of the organization. The purpose of United Nations Week is to create an America well informed on the work and purposes of the organization. To that end the American Association for the United Nations and more than 100 civic, religious, farm, labor, business and other groups have dis seminated information about the United Nations in various ways. Since our own Senate voted 89 to 2 for affiliation with the United Nations, and in so doing pledged our faith and support to the organization, it therefore becomes our duty as patriotic Americans to learn as much as possible about it. As Chairman of United Nations Week Mr. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., recently said: “Without the United Nations, we have no forum where the countries of the world can work out problems with words instead of fighting them out with guns. This is the year 11 of the atomic age, a time of history when new methods of solving age-old problems must be used. Because the United Nations is new, we should have patience with it for its objectives are sound. In the United Nations we have the best instrument for international education and unity that so far has been designed. “As responsible, freedom-loving Americans, it is naturally our fer vent hope that we can achieve lasting peace and happiness for ourselves and our loved ones. In this atomic age we must surely realize the need for working with the other peoples of the world toward these ideals or else we may not be able to keep them for ourselves.” President Eisenhower stated his feeling about the United Nations in these words: “What we need most—and first—to give the United Nations needed strength and effectiveness is to believe in it. I happen to believe in it with all my heart. I cannot overstate my desire to see the United Nations made stronger, to see it win more and more people to its support and to a greater determination for the practice of the principles it lays down.” FIRESTONE NEWS Volume II, No. 19, October 25, 1953 Published at Gastonia, North Carolina By Firestone Textiles A Division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Department of Industrial Relations R. IL HOOD, Editor Department Reporters CARDING—Edna Harris, Jessie Westmoreland. SPINNING—Lois Bolding, Mary Turner, Maude Johnson. SPOOLING—Nell Bolick, Helen Reel, Rosalee Burger, TWISTING—Annie Cosey, Grace Stowe, Hazel Foy, Dean Haun. SALES YARN TWISTING—Elene Dodgins. WEAVING—Mary Johnson, Lucille Davis, Inez Rhyne, Irene Bur roughs, Vivian Bumgardner, Nina Milton, Sarah Davis. QUALITY CONTROL—Dealva Jacobs, Leila Rape, Irene Burroughs, Catherine Isham, Margaret Tate. WINDING—Mayzelle Lewis, Ann Stevenson, Christine Stroupe. CLOTH ROOM—Margie Waldrop. SHOP—Cramer Little. WAREHOUSE—George Harper, Albert Meeks. MAIN OFFICE—Mozelle Brockman. SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE—Sue Van Dyke. PERSONNEL OFFICE—Flora Pence. REFRESHMENT DEPARTMENT—Deuel Redding. Visits White House. . . H. S. Firestone, Jr., Heads United Nations Week IN CEREMONIES at the White House, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., National Chairman of United Na tions Week, and Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Chairman of United Nations Day, turned over to President Eisenhower a bound volume containing testimonials from 82. national organizations reaffirming their support for the United Nations. The occasion was the fall planning meeting of the United States Com mittee for United Nations Day which was observed on October 24, the anniversary of the effective date of the United Nations Charter in 1945. United Nations Week was held this year from October 18 to 24. Approximately 200 representa-®" tives of communities throughout the country and representatives of co-operating national organizations witnessed the event on the grounds just outside the President’s office adjoining the White House rose garden. In extemporaneous remarks President Eisenhower restated his belief in the value of the United Nations. Later at a conference held to discuss United Nations Day plans at the State Department audi torium, Mr. Firestone spoke briefly concerning his viewpoint toward the United Nations. “Without the United Nations,” he said, “we have no forum where the countries of the world can work out problems with words in stead of fighting them out with guns. “During United Nations Week,” he continued, “we have the oppor tunity of increasing our knowledge about the United Nations and en larging cur understanding of the sound basic objectives it seeks to attain.” * Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, .yvho had just returned from attending the first ten days of the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, also spoke to the group. Other speakers included Walter Bedell Smith, Under Secretary of State; Benjamin A. Cohen, Assist ant Secretary General of the United Nations for Public Infor mation, and John Nason, President of the Foreign Policy Association. Recreation Director To Attend Annual Conference Recreation Director Ralph John son will attend the annual North Carolina Recreation Society Con ference in Durham, October 31 through November 5. As president of the Industrial Division of the Society, Mr. John son will preside at Division meet ings starting Tuesday and con tinuing through Wednesday noon. At one of the Industrial Division meetings he will make an address on the subject, “Standards for the Evaluation of Recreation Direc tors.” Safety Slogan Contest (Continued From Page 1) Third Prize 10.00 Ten prizes, 5.00 each 7. The contest will run from No vember 2, 1953, through November 28, 1953. 8. The decision of the judges will be final and all slogans submitted become the property of the Com pany and can be used by the Com pany in promoting its safety pro gram. Official entry blanks will be available from each department overseer or second hand. Blanks will also be available from the Personnel Office. The slogans may be deposited in the suggestion boxes or left at the Personnel Of fice. PRESIDENT EISENHOAVER is shown as he accepted a gift of a leather-bound book containing testimonials from groups rep resenting 40,000,000 people who support the United Nations, at a White House ceremony recently. In accepting the volume, the President said that the U. N. has become a “sheer necessity” when every new invention makes it more nearly possible for man to “insure his own elimination from the globe.” From left to right in the group are: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Chairman of United Nations Week and Chairman of the Firestone Company; Benjamin A. Cohen of Chile, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in Charge of. Public Information; President Eisenhower; and Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Chairman of United Nations Day. They Work And Study EMPLOYEE-STUDENTS—These young men are combining work and study in a very practical way. Russell Morrison, Richard Chastain, and Henry LeCroy (reading from left) are attending miH maintenance classes at the North Carolina Vocational Textile School in Belmont. Billy Howie, right, is enrolled at the Gaston Technical Institute where he is studying electricity. Mr. Howie, a Korean army veteran, works in the Shop, as do Messrs. Chastain and LeCroy. Morrison works in the Carding Department. First Shift Duckpin Schedule First Half Second Half Monday, October 19, Weaving-Spinning : November 30 Friday, October 23, Carding-Twisting December Monday, October 26, Carding-Spinning December Friday, October 30, Weaving-Twisting December 1 Monday, November 2, Weaving-Carding December Friday, November 6, Twisting-Spinning December 1 Christmas Week Monday, November 9, Weaving-Spinning December Friday, November 13, Carding-Tv* isting January ^ Monday, November 16, Carding-Spinning January ^ Friday, November 20, Weaving-Twisting January Monday, November 23, Weaving-Carding January Friday, November 27, Twisting-Spinning January Play-off to follow. (All games at 1:00 p. m.) ^
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