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MARCH, 195S MSWi PAGE 3 Creeler In Cord Weaving Has Painting Hobby Miss Margaret Lewis, student nurse at Gaston Memorial Hos pital, is on a three-month affiliation at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D. C. Miss Lewis is the daughter of Payion Lewis, fix er, and Mrs. Vesla Lewis, spinner. Keifer Gaddis, son of A. A. Gaddis, second hand, spent the Week end of January 22 with his parents. Mrs. Edna Harris, roving hauler, and her husband, N. L. Harris, retired Firestone employee, attended the funeral of Olimer Harris, niece of Mr. Harris, at Forest City, N. C., recently. Bessie Gstes, can hauler, had a vacation recently. Hobart Clevenger, drawing tender, and his wife visited Mrs. Clevenger’s sister in Miami, Fla., recently. Mrs. Nina Peters Parker, roving hauler, has been seriously ill at the Gaston Memorial Hospital but is showing much improve ment now. Alfonzo Davis, lap hauler, fell on ice recently and broke his arm. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rhyne spent February 12 and 13 in Charleston, S. C., visiting Mrs. Rhyne’s sister. Main Office Employees of the Payroll Department attended a dinner at the Farm House in Belmont, N. C., Friday, January 20. Beatrice McCarter, Payroll Department, and her husband, How ard McCarter, Spinning Department, spent a recent week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. Claude Woodard and family in Waynesville, N. C. Mrs. Woodard is a sister of Mrs. McCarter. Cornelia McCarver entertained her son, Allen, with a surprise birthday party on Saturday, January 28, celebrating his seventh birthday. Delicious refreshments were served to 20 guests. Bill McSwain attended a dinner at the Elks Club sponsored by the Rambling Rebels Drum and Bugle Corps of the local Ameri can Legion Post on Friday, February 10, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baldwin have moved into their new borne located at 514 E. Georgia Avenue, Bessemer City, N. C. Mrs. Baldwin is a typist clerk in the Personnel Office. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Frady of Spartanburg, S. C., visited with J“Ir. and Mrs. J. E. Spencer recently. Mr. Spencer is employment Manager. New employees in this department are Mrs. Mamie Todd, spool er tender, Mrs. Lorene Lewis, warper helper, Mrs. Katherine Neal, creeler, and Junior Westmoreland, sweeper. Bobby Hamby who is attending school in Charlotte, spent a Turn to page 5 MM ■'V. BIBLICAL THEME—A painting inspired by Christ on the Mount of Olives was done three years ago. THIS PARTRAIT of Elizabeth Marlowe, six, was done by her father when she was two years old. At right, Marlowe shows his first attempt at pastel paint ing, a portrait of a classmate in art school. Ask a person who has a number of hobbies what his favorite is and he may have difficulty in answering. But James Marlowe will likely tell you that of all his pastime diversions, pastel painting is the most reward ing. His other hobbies include woodworking, TV and radio repairing and general handywork around his Cleveland Heights home—which he built with his own hands. And, as if these were not enough to engage a man’s spare time, Marlowe plays the harmonica and guitar “and sings a little, too.” A LOOM CREELER in Cord Weaving for the past two years, Marlowe began cultivating his bent for art about 10 years ago. His interest was strong enough that he became self-taught in drawing in pen and ink and pencil. And then he progressed to a considerable aptness in pastel painting, helped along by a course which he took six years ago at the Burton Institute in Charlotte. There he was a student of Paul Barlett, a well-known artist. At home in spare moments, the employee here harnesses his talents and skills to produce paint ings on a variety of themes. Many of his paint ings inspired by the Bible are donated to church es and passed along to friends. Of late, he has branched out into the field of r commercial art. Just the other day he contracted to do some advertising art for a local laundry. Marlowe’s reputation as an artist now leads people to him, requesting special paintings. Some times they buy those he has on hand. Advent Of Spring A Date On March Calendar In like a lion—out like a lamb. So tradition describes March. Until the Julian Calendar was adopted around 46 BC, March was the first month in the Roman year. Named for the Roman deity Mars, the third month as we know it, was the beginning of the legal year in discuss GARDEN PLANS—Mrs. William R. ^^Jner, Sr., left, talks over plans for the 1956 garden season with Mrs. Fred Morrow, Oman of the Year of the Pisgah Home Demon- **^ation Club for 1955. Grow Flowers This Summer, Take Some To The Fair A first annual flower show is planned as a fea ture of the Spindle Center Agricultural Fair, September 10 through 15 this year. According to Mrs. William R. Turner, Sr., copies of the flower schedule will be printed and made available soon. She is chairman of the flower committee of the fair. IN THE PAST, Mrs. Turner explains, the Home Demonstration Clubs of Gaston County have sponsored the flower exhibits at the fair. This year it is hoped that garden clubs, recreation groups and individuals will be included as spon sors. “We hope every Firestone gardener, whether you grow an acre of flowers or a single plant, will enter an exhibit at the fair,” Mrs. Turner said. She announces that for the benefit of Fire stone gardeners, the flower committee will have information in forthcoming issues of the plant paper. This information will take the form of articles on flower culture, which will include planting, selecting, growing and grooming of specimens to be entered in competition at the fair. Great Britian until the 18th cen tury. It has 31 days. The Romans called it Martius, from Mars, the god of war. Ang lo Saxons called it Hyld-Monath, for “loud or stormy month,” and Lencten-Monath, for “lengthen ing month” in allusion to the fact that the days rapidly grow longer during March. OLD SAYINGS common to England and Scotland represent March as borrowing three days from April, the last three days of March being called the “bor rowing” or the “borrowed days.” The third month of the year is known for the first day of spring, which comes on the 21st, called in the Northern Hemis phere the vernal equinox. Equi nox is from the Latin, meaning equal night, and signifies the time of year when the day and night are of the same length. LIKE FEBRUARY, March is a month within which occur sev eral famous birthdates. Of American Presidents, Andrew Jackson’s birthday comes on March 15; James Madison, 16; Grover Cleveland, IB; and John Tyler, 29. Other notable anniversaries and observances in March in clude: Red Cross Month, 1-31; U.S. Constitution declared in ef fect, March 4, 1789; Ides of March, March 15. U. S. Postoffice established, March 12, 1789; Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17. Birthdays: Sam Houston, soldier and frontiers man, March 2; Alexander Gra ham Bell, inventor of the tele phone, 3; Luther Burbank, bot anist and horticulturist, 7; Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Jurist, 8; Frederick W. Goudy, typographer and type designer, 8; John C. Calhoun, statesman and orator, 18; Robert Frost, poet and interpreter of New England life, 26; Franz Joseph Hayden, Austrian composer, 31. Honored At Shower A household shower honoring Mrs. Ralph Kaylor was held at the Girls Club February 13. The honoree is the former Miss Claudette Taylor, daughter of Claude Taylor, Twisting super visor; and Mrs. Taylor, Cord Weaving. She was Gastonia’s 1953 winner in the Company College Scholarship Program. The shower was given by stone. for Mrs. Kaylor women at Fire- At Nurse Meeting Mrs. Roxie Newton, first shift nurse, attended a recent meeting of the North Carolina Industrial Nurses Association, which was held in Manor Hotel, Asheville.
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