The way io love anything is lo
realize lhai 11 might be lost.
—G. K. Chesterton
Tir«$ton«
GASTONIA
Let others praise ancient times;
I'm glad that I was born in these.
—Ovid (c.2 B. C.)
VOLUME V
GASTONIA, N. C. AUGUST. 1956
No. 8
SOME GOOD GARDENS DESPITE DROUGHT
Of the many employees who are part-time
farmers and gardeners. Clarence Weaver, Card
ing; and Frank Capps, Weaving, represent those
who have had success with their projects in
spite of dry weather this summer. At left. Weaver
looks over ripening tomatoes, okra and cabbage
growing behind his residence at 1002 West Fifth
avenue. With him are daughters Carolyn, left,
and Judy. At right, Capps applies life-saving
water to his 1103 West Third avenue garden, as
niece Cynthia Capps looks on.
Quoting Aright
President Karl —
In reporting the commence
ment address of Firestone Tex
tiles President William A. Karl,
at tlie N. C. Vocational Textile
School, Belmont, June 13, the
July issue of Firestone News
Was in error on one statement.
Mr. Karl was quoted as say
ing, “There is no difference be
tween knowledge and educa
tion . . .” Actually, the correct
statement was, “There is a dif
ference between knowledge and
education.”
N. C. State Service Office
Doing Research In Textiles
A recently-established tech
nical service office at the Voca
tional Textile School, Belmont,
will place the textile industry in
closer touch with a research pro
gram, and take results of re
search to the industry.
The center is manned and op
erated by the School of Textiles
of North Carolina State College,
Raleigh. It was established at the
Belmont school, a branch of
State College, so it would be in
the heart of North Carolina’s
cotton textile industry.
Ralph Barnard, member of the
school staff since 1952, is in
charge of the research office. He
will visit textile plants and work
with their personnel in applying
various phases of research now
being conducted at the School of
Textiles, Raleigh.
Field work will be done on a
limited basis until the field pro
gram can be expanded, accord
ing to William A. Newell, co
ordinator of Textile Research at
the State College School of Tex
tiles.
Continue Studies
At NCVTS
OFF TO EUROPE AND ASIA
Clyde E. Moss. Assistant to the General Superintendent, offers
9ood wishes to J. G. Tino (center), upon his departure from Gastonia
a trip to Europe and Asia, in the interest of Company textile
'Operations. Assistant Superintendent William F. Gates was also
^f^sent to express best wishes for the traveler. While abroad. Tino
^ill spend some time at Balboa, Spain, where the Company has a
plant and textile affiliate. After that, he will spend several
*^°nths at the Firestone plant in Bombay. India, in an advisory
^^Pacity where tire fabrics are concerned. On the return trip he will
at the Firestone plant in Switzerland, before leaving Paris for
United States.
Four Assigned
New Duties Here
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Five changes in supervisory and administrative personnel
have been announced by General Manager Harold Mercer.
Affected by the new assignments are Leonard B. McAbee,
Alvin V. Riley, Charles A. McArver, James L. Ramey, and
Charles M. Ferguson. Ramey has been transferred to the
home offices in Akron. The other four have new assign
ments in the plant here.
an elder and teacher of the In
termediate boys’ Sunday school
class.
He is vice-president of the
Wray Junior High School PTA,
and past president of Abernethy
PTA.
ALVIN V. RILEY, new plant
Safety Director, has been work
ing here for almost 15 years.
—Turn to page 7
LEONARD B. McABEE, for
the past five years Director of
Safety, has been assigned as as
sistant to the Director of Indus
trial Relations. He has been with
the Company almost 20 years.
In addition to his assignment in
Safety, he spent nine years in
Twisting and six years in Qual
ity Control.
Along with his duties in in
dustrial safety, McAbee has
served as chairman of the Blue
Ridge Safety Council, president
of the N. C. Society of Safety
Engineers, as a member of the
Executive Committee, Textiles
Section, National Safety
Council. He has also served on
the planning committee for the
annual state safety school of
N. C. State College, and on the
program committee of the N. C.
State Industrial Safety Confer
ence.
He is a director of the Gas
tonia Chamber of Commerce,
and is chairman of the Safety
Committee of the C of C.
As a leader in Second AR
Presbyterian Church, McAbee is
Leonard B. McAbee
J. C. Mahaffee, Rayon Twist
ing; and Bobby A. Rogers, Ray
on Weaving, are enrolled for
classes at the summer term of
North Carolina Vocational Tex
tile School, Belmont. Both em
ployees received diplomas at the
June 13 commencement. In the
summer term, Mahaffee is tak
ing Course II in Yarn Manufac
turing; Rogers, Course I in
Knitting.
The summer .program at the
school began July 2, for morning
shift only. New classes on the
afternoon shift, 3 to 6:30, will
begin September 4.
Young men employed in tex
tile mills who hope for promo
tion, and who realize that tech
nical training will be of great
value to them, are urged to take
advantage of this opportunity
for study and training, begin
ning in September. The school
office during the summer months
will be open week days from
8:20 a.m., until 4:30 p.m.
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James L. Ramey
Charles A. McArver
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Alvin V. Riley
Charles M. Ferguson