There are two kinds of discon
tent in this world: the discontent
that works, and the discontent
that wrings its hands.
—Gordon Graham
Tir«$ton«
GASTONIA
If you will think about what you
ought to do for other people, your
character will take care of itself,
—Woodrow Wilson
VOLUME V
GASTONIA, N. C„ FEBRUARY, 1956
NUMBER 2
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firestone exhibition square DANCE
Team—clockwise, around circle beginning at
ttiiddle front; Flora Pence. Robert Pence, Bea
trice Bradshaw, Ralph Johnson. Doris McCready.
Bob Purkey, Annie Lou Harmon, Jerry Black.
Dot Bradley. Bill Bradley. Louise Sutton. Don
Dixon. Lola Mae Harmon. George Martin. Mem
bers of the team not in the photograph are
Margie Harmon, Joe Harmon. Ann Jenkins and
Robert Jenkins.
Dance Team In Demand For Appearances
The Fire stone Exhibition
Square Dance Team, organized
last October, has been in de
mand this winter for public ap
pearances in North and South
Carolina. Composed of nine
couples, the popular group has
drawn applause for its appear-
^^ices at sports events and other
public gatherings.
Last December 29, the group
drew a standing ovation from
the more than 12,000 fans at the
Duke-Wisconsin and Carolina-
Villanova games in the Dixie
Classic at Raleigh. On January
12 the troupe appeared at half-
time for the Davidson-Furman
^BRUARY 19-26
Galligan Is Local Chairman
Of Annual Brotherhood Week
The 23rd nationwide observance of Brotherhood Week
be observed February 19-26. The annual brotherhood
^^phasis week this year has as its local chairman Francis
Galligan, Superintendent of the Cotton Division.
Inuring Brotherhood Week,
ocal civic organizations will de-
time in special meetings to
® brotherhood ideal. Also in
® public schools assembly pro-
will be devoted to the
and the newspapers and
^ io stations will emphasize the
Pecial brotherhood observance.
Series of 13 weekly programs
j! “New Horizons in Human
. ^lations In Our Community,”
® currently running on WGNC.
arvey S. Firestone, Jr., Com-
^ y Chairman, is serving as na-
chairman of the observ-
with Louis B. Selt-
editor of the Cleveland
^i^ess.
ment agencies and the media of
mass communications.
Brotherhood Week was first
suggested in 1934 by Monsignor
Hugh McMenamin, a Catholic
priest of Denver, who proposed
In
i ^^listing national
tion
follii
coopera-
the two chairmen are en-
leadership for Brother
committees repre-
cVii, schools and colleges,
^Urches
^^nity
and synagogues, com-
groups, labor-manage-
basketball game at Davidson.
The team performed at a March
of Dimes benefit in Winnsboro,
S. C., January 27.
With the exception of two, all
members of the team are em
ployed here, or are members of
Firestone families. The square
dancers are sponsored by the
Recreation Department. Mem
bers dress uniformly, the girls
wearing red and white corduroy
skirts, white rayon gabardine
blouses, red bow ties, and black
shoes. The men wear red trous
ers with a white stripe down the
leg, white shirts, red bow ties,
and black shoes.
Trophies Await
Tourney Winners
Participants in bowling, shuf-
fleboard, billiards, checkers and
ping-pong are entered in the
Individual Tournaments for men
and women from all three shifts
at the plant.
Begun January 16, the tourna
ment is on a double-elimination
basis, that is, each person taking
part in any activity must be a
loser twice before being elimi
nated.
A trophy will be awarded to
each of the winners in the dif
ferent sports activities.
that the National Conference of
Christians and Jews organize a
special program when the people
of all religious groups in the
United States could be invited
to consider together the need
and implications of the brother
hood ideal.
A REMINDER.
Make Application
For Scholarship
By March 1
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High school seniors who are sons and daughters of Fire
stone employees have until March 1 to submit their applica
tions in the Company’s 1956 College Scholarship Awards
Program. Application blanks and booklets which describe
the program and outline the latest changes in application
procedure are available from the Personnel Office here.
Parents interested in obtain- ing offices throughout the coun-
ing copies of the booklet for their
children may pick them up on
the way to or from work, or the
interested students may obtain
them.
Explanatory letters and book
lets on the 1956 program have
been forwarded to all Firestone
stores, division and district of
fices, retread and appliance
shops, warehouse and account-
try.
TO BE eligible for this
year’s College Scholarship
Awards the one making applica
tion must be a high school senior
in the upper half of his or her
class from the standpoint of
grades. The parent of an appli
cant must have five or more
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HIS PREDICTIONS PAID OFF—Lennell Keenum receives a
check for $15 for his most nearly accurate guesses in the recent
football contest. Presenting the check is Mrs. Flora Pence, Fire
stone News typist and Recreation Department secretary.
Football Guessmg Contest
Awards $30 In Prizes
Lennell Keenum of the Re
freshment Department received
first prize of $15 for his skillful
prediction in the annual football
bowl guessing contest, which
ended when the nation’s major
gridiron teams clashed on Janu
ary 2. In his forecast Keenum
came within 17 points of the ac
tual scores in all major bowl
games played throughout the
country.
He is an avid football fan who
sees most of his games on tele
vision.
Earning second place, with a
prediction of just 35 awry of the
total, was Charlie A. Small,
Spinning, He received a check
for $10. And C. W. Donaldson,
Jr., Cable Twisting, was third
from top, with a forecast 39
points from the actual total. For
his guess, he received a $5 check.
Honorable mention went to
Margaret S. Hamrick of SYC
Weaving, who picked all games
correctly but missed the total
scores by 85.
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