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Timtone NEWS
APRIL 25, 1954
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SAFETY STUNT—As a fitting climax to “Clean Up-Fix Up-
Paint Up Week,” L. B. McAbee, plant safety director, and Captain
Roy Short of the Gastonia Police Department, staged a safety stunt
in downtown Gastonia on Saturday April 24. Taking part in the
demonstration were Beatrice Bradshaw, the wheelchair “victim,”
Betty Ann McAbee, daughter of Mr. McAbee (with the eye patch),
and Tommy Grant, the wheelchair pusher. Miss Bradshaw and Mr.
Grant are employees in the Industrial Relations Department.
First Regular Postage Stamp Combining
God And Country Symbolism Introduced
THE most impressive ceremony
of its kind in the history of the
United States Post Office Depart
ment set the stage Thursday noon,
April 8th, for the introduction of
the Nation’s first regular stamp
combining a religious message and
the Statue of Liberty.
At the request of thousands of
persons who have urged the Post
Office Department to issue a regu
lar stamp with a religious senti
ment, the new 8c Statue of Liberty
stamp carries the inscription of
“In God We Trust” arched over
the symbolic torch bearer which
stands at the entrance of New
York Harbor on Bedloe's Island.
Under this symbol of freedom that
thrills returning citizens and
visitors to the United States is the
word “Liberty.”
This stamp was introduced to a
nationwide television and radio
audience during a 15-minute pro
gram in which President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and Postmaster
General Summerfield participated
with the leaders of the Nation’s
three largest religious groups:
The Reverend Dr. Roy G. Ross,
General Secretary of the National
Council of Churches, comprising a
fellowship of 30 nationwide de
nominations with 34,000,000 mem
bers.
Francis Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York, the larg
est Catholic Diocese in the world.
Dr. Norman Salit, President of
the Synagogue Council of America,
the representative and coordinat
ing group for orthodox, conserva
tive and reform Jews of the three
national rabbinical organizations
and the three congregations.
FIRESTONE NEWS
Volume III, No. 7, April 25, 1954
Published at Gastonia, North Carolina
By Firestone Textiles
A Division of
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Department of Industrial Relations
R. H. HOOD, Editor
Department Reporters
CARDING—Edna Harris, Jessie Westmoreland.
SPINNING—Mary Turner, Maude Johnson.
SPOOLING—Nell Bolick, Helen Reel, Rosalee Burger.
TWISTING—Hazel Foy, Grace Stowe, Annie Cosey, Dean Haun,
Corrie Johnson.
SALES YARN TWISTING—Fannie Humphries.
SYC WEAVING—Sarah Davis, Nina Milton, Vivian Bumgardner.
CORD WEAVING—Margaret Rhyne, Irene Burroughs, Mary
Johnson.
QUALITY CONTROL—Dealva Jacobs, Leila Rape, Catherine Isham,
Margaret Tate.
WINDING—Mazelle Lewis, Ann Stevenson, Christine Stroupe.
CLOTH ROOM—Margie Waldrop.
SHOP—Cramer Little.
WAREHOUSE—George Harper, Albert Meeks.
PLASTIC DIP—Frances Huffman, Helen Guffey.
MAIN OFFICE—Mozelle Brockman.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE—Sue Van Dyke.
PERSONNEL OFFICE—Barbara Abernathy.
All-Sports Banquet
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were won by a father and daughter
combination: James Ballew, Card
ing Department, and Miss Bobbie
Ballew, a Gastonia High School
student and recent winner of a
music scholarship from the Gaston
Music Education Foundation. Su
perintendent Francis Galligan pre
sented the Johnson Awards.
Another group of special awards
was the No-hit Pitcher Awards
won by Little Leaguers Sammy
Honeycutt, Bobby Tate, and Buddy
Johnson. These awards were pre
sented by J. K, (Buddy) Lewis,
former Washington Senators star.
Other team and individual tro
phies, presented by the recreation
director, included:
BOWLING
Half and Half League — Deluxe
Champions — Reid Deal, Capt.
High games — Nell Bolick and
Charlie Ballard
High sets—Nell Bolick and Lewis
Clark
High averages — Mazel Johnson,
Reid Deal and Mull Ramsey
First and Third Shift Duck Pin
League
(Spinning League and Play-off
winner—High team set for 1 and
3 games)
High average—Mull Ramsey
High game—B. J. Bumgardner
High set—B. J. Bumgardner
Second Shift Duck Pin League
(Weaving — League Winners)
Twisting—Play-off)
High team set—1 game. Twisting
and Weaving
High team set—2 games. Twist
ing
High average—Belon Hanna
High game—David Rollins
High set—David Rollins
Girl’s Bowling League
(Spooling—League Winners)
(Office—Sportsmanship)
Spinning—General, High team set
for 1 and 3 games
High game—Dorcas Atkinson
High set—Ann Hubbard
High flat—Dorcas Atkinson and
Jane Rice
High average—Mazel Johnson
First and Third Shift Ten Pins
(Spinning—League Winners)
(Carding—Play-off)
High team set—1 game, Shop
High team set—3 games. Spinning
High game—Dock Reynolds and
Hubert Morris
High set—Lewis Clark
High average—Lewis Clark
Second Shift Ten Pins
(Twisting—League & Play-off)
High team set for 1 and 2 games,
Twisting
High game—Maurice Harding
High set—Laura Medlin
High average—Belon Hanna
BILLIARDS
First and Third Shift League—
(Twisting—League & Play-off)
High average—B. T. Hanna
Second Shift League
(Carding—League and Play-off)
High average—J. C. Westbrooks
BASEBALL — A. L. Sudduth
League Champions
VOLLEYBALL—City and County
Champions
BASKETBALL — City League
Champions
SOFTBALL
First and Ehird Shift League—
Twisting
Second Shift League
(Spinning—League & Play-off)
(Weaving—Batting Champions)
High batting average—Ed Crisp
Girl’s Softball Team—
County Champions
(League and Play-off)
SHUFFLEBOARD
First and Third Shift League—
Quality Control
Second Shift League—Twisting
TOURNAMENTS
What’s Your Hobby?
Alvin Riley Finds Strict Social Order
And Sharp Stingers Best Describe Bees
IT’S mighty easy to get stung in this business.” It was Alvin
Riley, Quality Control supervisor, talking—his way of introducing
bee keeping to visitors, especially those who are thinking about raising
bees as a hobby.
With this word of literal warn-®"
ing, Mr. Riley walked up to one of
his two colonies of bees without
benefit of the protective bee hand
ling equipment with which bee
handlers usually provide them
selves. The effect tended to con
tradict the “easy to get stung”
idea. You don’t quibble about
words or ideas though; the intense
hum of bees converging on their
hives like spent bullets is enough
to keep strangers at a safe and
respectful distance.
“Bees have an interesting social
order within their colonies,” he
continued. “Just a minute, and I’ll
show you what I mean.” He was
lighting his smoker, the most im
portant tool in bee keeping. “This
smoke makes them sluggish, takes
all the fight out of them,” his bee
hat and face screen were put on as
a precaution.
After taking off the top of the
hive and breaking the beeswax seal
on the lid of the “super” (name
for each tier of comb racks which
may be added to the hive as need
ed) this bee kingdom social order
became evident. It was a strict and
hard working system for most
members of this highly specialized
group.
Looking down deep in the hive
you can see the “queen”. It is for
her and around her that all bee
activity originates. Without her
the colony would perish in short
order unless a new queen came
on the scene as a replacement. By
the same token no more than one
queen can exist for long in one
colony. Either the old queen or the
newcomer must leave, taking with
her enough “workers” to form a
new colony. This is what happens
when bees “swarm” in the spring
or summer.
* *
“THE only loafer in the colony
is the drone,” says Riley, “and he
gets kicked out in the cold to die
when winter comes.” Workers,
Odd Pin Bowling—Ann Hubbard
and Jim Hughes
Turkey Bowling—Vivian Bumgard
ner and Max Cary
His and Her Bowling—Dorcas At
kinson and Jack Guffey
Girl’s Doubles Bowling — Dorcas
Atkinson and Mary H. Pearson
Father and Son Bowling—Harold
and Doug Freeland
INDIVIDUAL TOURNAMENTS
Men’s Bowling
First and Third Shift
Lewis Clark
Second Shift
Wayne Broadway
Women’s Bowling
First and Third Shift
Ann Hubbard
Billiards
First and Third Shift
B. T. Hanna
Second Shift
J. C. Westbrooks
Shuffleboard
First and Third Shift
Hubert Morris
Second Shift
J. C. Westbrooks
Ping Pong
First and Third Shift
Bill Deal
Second Shift
John Cothern
Checkers
ALVIN RILEY, above, uses
his smoker to retard the bees in
the hive he’s looking into. The
rack he holds is partially full of
honey and will be ready for “rob
bing” by mid-summer.
drones, and the queen bee differ in
size in ascending order and are
thus easy to tell apart in the hive.
They vary in number also, there
being one queen, up to 500 drones,
and up to 50,000 workers.
All the work in the colony is
done by the worker. This includes
gathering 100 pounds or more of
honey annually, building the comb
in which to store the honey, pro
tecting the colony against other
insect intruders, feeding a special
“bee bread” to bee larva, and final
ly generating heat by friction
(beating their wings) during the
winter months of inactivity.
The worker actually kills itself
working. During the busy working
months of spring and summer,
workers wear their wings out and
die within a month as a rule. All
the while the drones take it easy,
eat the honey the workers gather,
and make themselves a pest gen
erally.
“You’d think' the workers would
rebel at such unequal distribution
of work,” Mr. Riley concluded, ad
ding as an after-thought, “but con
fidentially, I’d like to know the
drones’ secret.”
The Rileys (his wife, Ruby, is a
respooler) in their new ranch typ®
home on Union Road have plenty
of surrounding room for the bee
colonies as well as space for a veg
etable garden, another of
Riley’s hobbies.
Mr.
Second Shift
J. C. Westbrooks
Girl’s Ping Pong
First and Third Shift
Sue Van Dyke
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FISHING
Largest Bass—Mason Strickland
Largest Catfish—James Barker
ALL AROUND SPORTSMAN'
SHIP TROPHY—Weaving