PAGE FOUR
AUGUST 25, 1955
m
W. G. Hall, baler, his wife and son spent their vacation in
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Tommy Barton, his wife, Irene Barton, inspector, and their son
visited relatives in Danville, Va., and Manly, N. C.
S. L. Owens, overseer, Carl James, section man, and Bobby James
spent part of their vacation in Western North Carolina.
Arthur Barbee and his family spent one week at Camp Firestone.
Shirley Bolding and Lois Bolding, Spinning Department, and their
daughter spent two weeks of vacation at Myrtle Beach, S. C.
William Cosey, Carding Department, his wife, Annie Cosey, Twist
ing Department, and their grandson, Sonny, spent a recent week visiting
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bennett and son in Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Bennett
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cosey. Enroute home they spent a night
visiting Mrs. Cosey’s sister, Mrs. Ray Fair, and her family in Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Dees recently visited their daughter in Oklahoma
City, Okla., during vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Jones spent a week of vacation in Georgia,
Mrs. C. W. Elvis and her two children of Stockton, Calif., are
spending the months of July and August with Mrs. Elvis’ parents,
Mrs. Edna Harris, Carding Department, and N. L. Harris, Weaving
Department. Other visitors in the Harris home were their son, Sgt. Joe
B. Harris and Mrs. Harris of Washington, D. C.; also Mr. and Mrs.
N. N. Nolen of Greenville, S. C., Mrs. Nolen is Mr. and Mrs. Harris’
daughter.
Payton Lewis, fixer in Carding, and Mrs. Lewis of the Spinning
Department, observed the 27th anniversary of their wedding recently.
For that occasion they spent a week of vacation at their summer home
on the Catawba River. Their daughter, Margaret Louise, a student
nurse at Memorial Hospital, recently spent three weeks of vacation at
an Atlantic Coast beach.
Miss Phoebe Pearson, Shop Office, her family, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Coker and daughter of Gastonia, and Mrs. Jean Ledford and
son of Washington, D. C., spent the week of August 1-6 at Crescent
Beach. Mesdames Coker and Ledford are sisters of Miss Pearson.
Edward Taylor, Electrical Shop, Mrs. Taylor and daughter spent
the week of August 13 visiting Mr. and Mrs. Richard Goodman in
Atlanta, Ga.
Horace Robinson, electrician, Mrs. Robinson and their daughter
spent their vacation in St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, and Silver
Springs, Fla., recently. They visited the Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Museum and Marineland in St. Augustine.
Mr, and Mrs. Rudolph Calhoun and children visited Mr. and Mrs.
Swayne Forrester in Atlanta, Ga., recently.
James C. Barker, carpenter, and family spent their vacation re
cently in Bryson City, N. C.
KEEP YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK
n
Do you ever catch yourself
thinking about something other
than the job at hand — like
family problems, financial wor
ries or just plain daydreaming?
We all have, but doing one
thing while the mind is on
another is a reason why any
worker regardless of skill, years
on the job or safety training can
have an accident. Try leaving
your personal problems and
daydreaming until after you
finish earning your living daily
and can give them the full
attention they deserve. It’s up
to you to help yourself to avoid
an accident.
© AMERj^CAN MUTUAL LIAB. JNS. CO.
Firestone Day At Columbiana, Ohio, Celebration
★ ★ ★
Wearing clothing of yesteryear,
a number of descendants of pioneer
families attended Firestone Day at
the Sesquicentennial celebration of
Columbiana and Fairfield Town
ship, Ohio, on July 30. Special fea
ture on that day’s program was the
first public showing of the Fire
stone Homestead where Harvey S.
Firestone, Sr., was born and spent
his early years.
On the Columbiana Homestead
Farm the Company pioneered and
developed pneumatic rubber tires
for use on farm tractors and other
farm equipment in the 1920s.
HOMESIEAD
FARMS
§r'She
$ k-
6
AT SESQUICENTENNIAL—Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnaughy,
Margaret Lee and Trudy McConnaughy.
Lions Club Honors
Firestone Men
Odell Thompson, James
Piercy, Belon Hanna and Jesse
Hodge of Firestone Textiles
were among those invited as
guests of the Gastonia Lions
Club at a special meeting last
month. On that occasion the
club presented a program of
appreciation to non-members
of the club who had helped in
its broom sale this year.
Men from over the city who
were prominent in the broom sale
were invited to the Masonic Tem
ple for dinner. They heard Presi
dent Leonard Kendrick and Lion
Bob Smith thank them for the
many services they had rendered.
Smith, in reviewing projects the
club had done during the past year,
gave a detailed report of the club’s
activities.
Proceeds from the sale of brooms
help in Lions Club projects
especially aimed at giving aid to
the blind.
Village Minister
Is Reassigned
Charles Hedgepath, minister of
Firestone Wesleyan Methodist
Church, has been reassigned to
the local congregation. His appoint
ment came at the 76th annual con
ference of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church for North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia which ended
August 12.
^Red Snow’ Concludes Movie Schedule
A story of jungle life will be depicted in the next outdoor movie
which is scheduled for Friday evening, September 2, at dusk in the
Recreation Park. Johnny Weismuller stars as Jungle Jim in “Fury of
ihe Congo."
The offering for September 9 will be “Red Snow,” featuring Guy
Madison and Gloria Saunders. This picture will conclude the 15-week
series of outdoor movies which have been shown on Friday evenings
during the summer season. The program of entertainment was arranged
and presented by the Recreation Department.
Third Shift Nurse Attends Meeting
Mrs. Roxie Newton, third
shift nurse at Firestone, was
among the 21 industrial nurs
es who attended the Quarterly
meeting of the North Carolina
Industrial Nurses Association
at the Ecusta Paper Corpora
tion plant in Pisgah Forest,
N. C., July 29.
A feature of the meeting was a
tour of the Ecusta Company’s med
ical department. The Association
members were guests of Ecusta at
a luncheon in the cafeteria at noon,
and later that day at a hamburger
fry at the company-owned rec
reation park.
Besides attending the regular
business meeting, the nurses heard
talks by a physician of the com
pany’s foot clinic and by a medical
eye specialist.
Mrs. Newton is currently serving
as chairman of the North Carolina
Industrial Nurses Association.
In Service
Private Jack D. Howard, son of
Mrs. Will R. Howard, respooler, is
a military policeman, stationed at
Fort Belvoir, Va. His address is.’
Pvt. Jack D. Howard
RA 14539823
Company 987, 9th TSU. Ce-Tecr.
Fort Belvoir, Va.
FIRESTONE TEXTILES
P. O. BOX 551
GASTONIA, N. C.
SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R.
U. s. POSTAGE
PAID
GASTONIA, N. C.
PERMIT NO. 29
Form 3547 Requested