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PAGE 8 Mnwi MARCH, 1956 Date Of Sports Banquet Changed To April 14 UNC Coach To Speak At Meeting Honoring Outstanding Athletes The date of the 20th annual All-Sports Banquet, originally set for March 31, has been changed to Saturday, April 14. This change in date will make it possible for Jim Tatum, head coach at the University of North Carolina, to be featured speaker. The banquet will honor more than 200 sports champions who have earned distinction at the plant in the sports and recreation program during 1955. Tatum, ex-Maryland mentor who came to the University of North Carolina recently, could not attend the banquet here on the date first set, be cause of a previous engagement in the interest of the Carolina Tar Heels football squad. Besides Mr. Tatum, a number of other eminent personalities in the sporting and recreation world will attend the April 14 meeting here. BY APRIL 1, when the next issue of the plant newspaper is published, complete details of the banquet program will be announced. Outstanding on the Sports Banquet program will be the awarding of trophies to those em ployees who distinguished themselves in sports and recreation last year. Of the awards the Supremacy Trophy will go to the department which has won the greatest num ber of honors during the past year. The Supremacy Trophy has been captured by the Spinning Department for 8 consecutive years. Last year that department tied with Twisting for the honor. INCLUDED for the special awards will be four men and four women representing all three shifts at the plant, and who will be announced as “Ideal Athletes of 1955.” Those so honored have been chosen by secret ballot, cast February 6-17 by employees. Those voting were required to'h^ve participated in at least one sports-and recreation activity during 1955. Points considered when an individual voted included the suggested Ideal Athlete’s sportsmanship, attitude, coopera tion and participation in the sports and recrea tion program last year. EXECUTIVES AND NATIONAL OFFICERS of the Future Farmers of America were featured on the program of the Voice of Firestone radio-television show from New York, February 6. Dan Dunham, (second from left, front row) was interviewed by Ray mond C. Firestone, Company Executive Vice-President (third from left, front row). Mr. Firestone is former chairman of the Sponsoring Committee of the Future Farmers of America Foundation. Frank Guarerra (center). Metropolitan Opera baritone, was the singing star on the program. Left to right, front row. Dr. W. T. Spanton, Director of Agri cultural Branch of United States Office of Education and National Adviser, FFA; Dan Dunham, President of the Future Farmers of America, Lakeview, Ore.; Raymond C. Firestone; Frank Guarerra; Dale Ring, Central Region Vice-President, Wooster. Ohio; Joe Moore, 1955 Star Farmer of America, Granville, Tenn.; Dr. A. Webster Tenney, Executive Secretary of FFA. Back row, from left, Terrell W. Benton, Jr., Student Secretary, Jefferson, Ga.; Allen Colebank, North Atlantic Region Vice-President, Morgantown, W. Va.; Lynn Loosli, Pacific Region Vice-President, Ashton, Idaho, and Lennie Gamage, Southern Region Vice-President, Cartersville, Va, Notify Postoffice Of Address Change This is the same as moving to SOME DEPARTMENT at the plant will re- ceive the Supremacy trophy which will be awarded for the 20th time April 14. Here looking over the much-sought-after sports award are Ralph Johnson, Recreation Director, right; and Bobby Purkey, Assistant Recreation Director. YOUR TRAVEL NOTEBOOK Planetarium Spectacle Begins March 6 In Chapel Hill “Easter, the Awakening,” Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, March 6 through April 16, is outstanding on the list of coming events in North Carolina for early Spring travelers. Besides this, the month of March offers a variety of attrac tions from the coast to the mountains of the state. Included are: ATLANTIC COAST Confer- ference Basketball Tournament, March 1-3, Raleigh; Seniors’ Golf Tournament, 36th Annual, Pinehurst, 2-6; Statewide Con- Wilson-Bridges Miss Frances Lee Bridges was married to William Wilson in a ceremony at Long Creek Presby terian Church, February 4, with the Reverend J. S. Johnson of ficiating. The bride is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bridges of Route 1, Kings Moun tain. Mr. Wilson is the son of Mrs. Nelson D. Wilson and the late Mr. Wilson of Bessemer City, Route 2. Included in the wedding pro gram was a solo sung by the bride’s uncle, Floyd Hager, weaver in SYC Weaving. The bride is a niece of Clyde Hager, tie-in hand; and Loyd Hager, fixer in SYC Weaving. ference of Daughters of Ameri can Revolution, Asheville, 8-10; N. C. High Echool Athletic Asso ciation Tournament, Class AA, Enka, 8-10; N. C. Orchid Socie ty Meeting and First Annual N. C. Orchid Show, Wilmington, 10-11; 281st District Rotary Con vention, Greensboro, 15-17; Boy Scouts of America Jamboree, Raleigh, 17; Annual Spring on Tennessee Highway 73. “Chucky Jack” was written by Chapel Hill playwright Kermit Hunter, and will be produced by the non-profit Great Smoky Mountains Historical Associa tion, nightly except Sundays, June 22 through August 31. If you have had a change of address, notify magazine and newspaper publishers of that fact. Here is a reminder from C. W. Boshamer, Gastonia post master. Postal laws prohibit the post office from forwarding the mag azines or newspapers on the new address, unless you notify of the address change to the publishers within 90 days. Those who have had change of address must notify the publish ers themselves. SOME T R O U B L E has been encountered locally, according to Mr. Boshamer, by families on routes that were recently re vised. In these cases, the fam ilies did not move, but their ad dresses changed. a new address, the postmaster said. The Post Office will for ward second class mail (maga zines and newspapers) to the new addresses for three months, but the law does not allow more time than that. CARDS for the purpose of changing addresses have been inserted in the mail for many of the houses where the address has changed. Many of the cards have been ignored, the post master reports. If the post office has to notify the publishers, local subscribers will miss some issues of their publications. By filling out the cards themselves and mailing them in time the subscribers will not miss any issues. Industrial Products Plant From page 4 parochial schools and the Bradford Durfee Tech nical Institute, a college granting degrees in courses relating to the productive industries. There are 154 acres of municipal parks in Fall River, a public library with 175,000 volumes, a symphony orchestra and one daily newspaper. MEN AND WOMEN who work at Firestone have varied opportunities for recreation in Fall River. Traditionally New England are summer clambakes and beach parties. There is an active interest in sports: baseball, boating, basketball, fishing and soccer, this last drawing an enthus iastic response from people of English and of Portuguese origin who make up large segments of the population/: To the families who come to Fall River with the Firestone Company, a New England welcome has been accorded. Many hold prominent posi tions in church and community service enter prises. The record of plant workers in city-wide drives for charity has consistently been that of leader. Fashion Show, Pinehurst, 19; Junior Horse Show, Tryon, 24; Tin Whistles Golf Championship, Pinehurst, 24, 27; Better Living Exposition, 2nd Annual Rocky Mount, 27-31; National Duck Pin Tournament, Charlotte, 30-31. TRAVELERS who are inter ested in the historical dramas which have multiplied in num ber in recent years, will have opportunity to attend a new pro duction this summer. “Chucky Jack,” depicting the early his tory of Tennessee, will be pre sented in the $150,000 outdoor theatre “Hunter Hills,” now un der construction at Gatlinburg 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
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