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Timfoiie NEWS
NOVEMBER 25, 1953
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MRS. NELLIE STOWE, hostess at the Girls’ Club, launches the
holiday season at the Club by setting up an attractively appointed
table with typical holiday treats such as baked ham, fruit cake,
mixed fruits, and candy. Scenes simular to the one above will be
repeated many times during the holiday season as departments and
individuals use Girls’ Club facilities for parties and dinners.
United Fund Drive In Windup Stage
AS the United Fund Drive went
into its final stage here, there were
a number of pledge cards still to
be accounted for, according to
General Superintendent Nelson
Kessell, chairman for the plant
drive.
“Those still holding pledge cards,
or those who would like to make
added contributions to the United
Fund still have an opportunity to
do their full part,” advised Mr.
Kessell.
A total of 14 agencies were listed
on the pledge card used here, in
cluding three—Boy Scouts, March
of Dimes, and the Gaston Life
Saving Crew—that were not a part
of the Greater Gastonia United
Fund.
How To Get Along
1. Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you
think. Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. How you say it often
counts mure than what you say.
2. Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully, no
matter what it costs you.
3. Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind and encouraging
thing to or about somebody. Praise good work done, regardless of
who did it. If criticism is needed, criticize helpfully, never spitefully.
4. Be interested in others; interested in their pursuits, their
welfare, their homes and families. Make merry with those that re
joice; with those who weep, mourn. Let everyone you meet, however
humble, feel that you regard him as one of importance.
5. Be cheerful. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up.
Hide your pains, worries and disappointments under a smile. Laugh
at good stories and learn to tell them.
6. Preserve an open mind on all debatable questions. Discuss,
but not argue. It is a mark of superior minds to disagree and yet to
be friendly.
7. Let your virtues, if you have any, speak for themselves, and
refuse to talk of another’s vices. Discourage gossip. Make it a rule
to say nothing of another unless it is something good.
8. Be careful of another’s feeling. Wit and humor at the
other fellow’s expense are rarely worth the effort, and may hurt
where least expected.
9. Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you. Simply
live that nobody will believe them. Disordered nerves and a bad
digestion are a common cause of backbiting.
From “The Roebling Record”
FIRESTONE NEWS
Volume II, No. 21, November 25, 1953
I’ublished at Gastonia, North Carolina
By Firestone Textiles
A Division of
Thp Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Department of Industrial Relations
R. II. HOOD, Editor
Dcp.Trtmont 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 Bumgardncr, 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.
Withholding Tax Is
Reduced For 1954
Beginning with all wages and
salaries paid after January 1, 1954,
the Company will withhold less
Federal Income Tax, Reason for
this is that the increased rates
which were set up at the outbreak
of the Korean War in 1951 remain
in effect only until the end of
1953.
This means that the employee’s
deduction for income tax will be
reduced about 10 per cent because
withholding will be at the rate of
18 per cent after exemptions in
stead of at the 20 per cent rate
which applied during 1953.
Unless Congress decides to post
pone the scheduled increase in the
Social Security tax rate, Social
Security taxes will be higher in
1954, for the employee and for
the Company, which matches the
employee’s tax. The rate will in
crease from 1 1/2 per cent to 2
per cent on the first $3,600 paid.
This will mean an additional de
duction of $18 per year for all
who receive $3,600 or more.
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THERE is a similar increase in
the matching rate paid by the
Company which will in 1954 pay 2
per cent of the employee’s wages
as its portion of the Social Securi
ty Tax.
Employees are urged to review
their “exemptions” for Income
Taxes at this time. The Company
has an exemption certificate on
file for each person, but new cer
tificates should be filed if there
have been any changes. The law
requires that a new certificate be
given the Company when exemp
tions decrease, but a new certifi
cate also should be filed when ex
emptions increase.
An employee is allowed one ex
emption for himself or herself and
one for his or her husband or wife,
unless the husband or wife takes
his or her own personal exemption
for himself or herself and one for
his or her husband or wife. An
additional exemption also can be
claimed for each dependent who
earns less than $600 gross income
for the year, for whom the em
ployee furnishes more than one-
half of the support and who is
closely related to the employee.
Close relatives are defined as
child, grandchild, stepchild, brother
or sister, parent, grandparent,
stepparent, nephew or niece, uncle
or aunt and in-laws.
Employees should see their de
partment managers if they wish
to change exemptions.
READY TO HUNT—Now that Governor Umstead of North
Carolina has lifted the hunting ban, which was imposed because of
the extremely dry condition of the forests in the state, Payton Lewis,
fixer in Carding, is ready to strike out after his favorite game:
rabbits. In the picture above he and his son, Payton, Jr., are shown in
a wooded area near the home of another Carding Department em
ployee, Tom Galloway. The dogs they’re holding are young beagles,
considered the finest rabbit hunting dog by most hunters.
What’s Your Hobby?
Payton Lewis Goes After Game With Dogs,
Gun, And Considerable Hunting Savvy
ONE of the first hunters in the fields when seasons open—and
usually the last to leave—is Fixer Payton Lewis of the Carding De
partment. He’s not a brash city-bred amateur as he stalks his game,
either; but is rather a steady, experienced outdoorsman who can bag
the limit if anybody can.
Stamping through miles of un-o
derbrush to flush a quail—or better
yet for him, jump a rabbit—is at
least a weekly experience for Mr.
Lewis during hunting season. “It’s
the kind of thing I’d almost rather
do than eat,” he says, “and I’m
right fond of eating.”
Mr. Lewis is familiar with most
of the good hunting spots in Gaston
and surrounding counties. He
thinks nothing of loading up his
beagles and hunting equipment and
driving 25 miles to a hunting lo
cation, after he leaves his first
shift job in the plant.
One of his most constant hunt
ing companions is his young son,
Payton, Jr., whose toy gun will
soon be replaced with the real
thing, “He’s going to make a
pretty good shot in a few years,”
his Dad explains, “thinks he is
already.”
Although Mr, Lrewis likes to hunt
any game that’s in season, he pre
fers rabbits above all others. For
that reason he keeps several
beagles on hand most of the time.
This season he has three which he
farms out to his friend and fre
quent buddy, Tom Galloway, also
of the Carding Department.
“They’ll find rabbits even when
there aren’t any,” Mr, Lewis says
half-seriously, “I reckon that’s why
they’re the best,”
Supervisors Attend McFarland Address
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SUPERVISORS, INCLUDING SECTION MEN, gathered in the Company dining hall Friday, No
vember 20, to hear an address by Dr. Kenneth McFarland, noted speaker and vocational consultant foV
General Motors Corp. The approximately 150 Firestone men in attendance heard Dr. McFarland stress
the fact that few people fail in their work because of a lack of skill. He cited laziness, immorality,
disloyalty as major causes for job failure.