OCTOBER. 1956
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Area Scholarship Holders Back In School
UPON HER RETIREMENT from the Company, Nina Milton
received several gifts from friends in SYC Weaving. Here, pre
senting one of the gifts, is E. G. Bagwell, department overseer.
No Retirement From Life
For Veteran Smash Hand
The five Gastonia area win
ners of educational grants since
the Company began its College
Scholarship Awards Program in
1953, are attending North Car
olina State College, Duke Uni
versity, and High Point College.
Mrs. Ralph Kaylor, first Gas
tonia area high school senior to
win sponsorship of a college ed
ucation under the Scholarship
Program, has begun her senior
year at Duke. The former Claud
ette Taylor is the daughter of
Claude Taylor, Supervisor in
Twisting, and Mrs. Taylor, Cord
Weaving. She won the scholar
ship award in 1953 and has at
tended two sessions of summer
school in addition to the regular
school terms. In her program of
study this year, she is placing
emphasis on psychology.
Mrs. Kaylor’s husband is a
graduate of Duke and the Duke
Divinity School. The Rev. Kay
lor is attending Duke this year
for post-graduate study in soci
ology. He concluded a one-year
pastorate of a charge of churches
the Level Cross Methodist
Circuit near Dobson, N. C.,
September 15. The Kaylors live
in Durham.
the 1954 Firestone Scholar
ship winner from Gastonia, Carl
J- Stewart, Jr., is now in his
Junior year at Duke. A “Y-
employees eligible
'^he competition calls for es-
from 1,200 to 2,500 words in
®^gth on the subject; “A Way to
^Xtend Voluntary Activity and
^ganization in Social Welfare.”
ssays can be general or can
®al with one of the following
Special areas of welfare:
Juvenile delinquency, mental
basic medical research,
® ^ging, rehabilitation, alco-
the blind, child welfare,
^ ronic illness, the crippled, the
niedical care, migrant
'Workers, recreation.
^ An ENTRANT may submit
y One essay in any given area,
’^ay turn in essays for any
^J^ber of fields. Any person,
be ° now, or who ever has
a salaried employee or a
Unteer worker for any social
oj.^ ® agency, whether public
private, for one year or more,
enter. Entries remain the
^Perty of the Foundation, but
paper is published, the
or will be credited.
will be judged by a
^ outstanding persons,
^y the Foundation, who
^ade significant contribu-
farp^ field of social wel-
j ’ ®i^her public or private.
®valn°+'^^^ judges may
without
®Ver name of its author,
"^aine should write his
Sejj address on a sheet
^ e from the essay and at-
Man”, he returned to the campus
September 11 to assist in Fresh
man orientation, in preparation
for the opening of classes Sep
tember 19. “Y-Men” are spon
sored by the YMCA.
At Duke, Carl is majoring in
English and history. He is in his
third year as a member of the
Varsity Debating Team.
During the past summer the
scholarship holder was one of 25
counselors for boys at Camp
Sequoyah, Weaverville, N. C. As
a member of the camp staff he
had charge of a group of boys,
coached dramatics, and served as
assistant editor of “Thunder-
bird”, the camp newspaper.
While at camp he did some
writing for publication, served
as a part-time life guard, and led
hikes to Mount Mitchell and
other points in the Weaverville-
Asheville area.
Carl is the son of Carl J. Stew
art, Sr., Weaving; and Mrs.
Stewart, Ply Twisting.
Bobby E. Sellers, scholarship
recipient in 1955, returned to
Raleigh September 15, for his
Sophomore year at N. C. State
College. He is a student in
chemical engineering.
DURING the past summer.
Sellers attended a six-weeks
session at Belmont Abbey Col
lege, for a course in analytical
tach it to the essay. Each essay
will be assigned an identifying
number for the judging.
EACH essay will be judged on
how well it sets forth a clear and
practical method for extending
private, voluntary efforts and
operations in social welfare, in a
small and humble sphere; in a
large, diversified field, or both.
Each entry will also be judged
on how precisely it details the
experiences of the author that
led him to endorse the method
he proposes, and how fully it
recounts the experiences of other
persons, and of agencies, with
similar objectives. Entries will
be judged on content, not liter
ary style.
ADDRESS your entries to The
National Awards Competition,
Foundation for Voluntary Wel
fare, Post Office Box 2609, San
Francisco, Calif. They must be
received not later than Novem
ber 15, 1956.
At Junaluska
Dedication
Quality Control Inspector
Charles Hipps, and Mrs. Hipps
attended the dedicatory service
of the World Methodist Confer
ence Building at Lake Juna
luska, N. C., September 2.
Representatives of 70 coun
tries were present.
geometry. Earlier in the summer
he took an extended motor car
trip through North Carolina and
Virginia. In August, he ac
companied two other young men
on an automobile tour which
took them to Miami and Key
West, Fla., for two weeks.
Peggy Jean Davis, one of two
Scholarship winners this year,
has entered High Point College,
High Point, where she plans a
four-year study in religious ed
ucation. She is the daughter of
Harry Davis, formerly employed
here, and Mrs. Davis, SYC
Weaving. At High Point, Miss
Davis’ academic work centers in
religion and philosophy.
Last summer, she did secre
tarial work for her father in the
office of a Lincolnton foundry.
Michael A. Stroupe, also a
1956 Scholarship winner, is at
N. C. State College, where he
plans to pursue a course in
electrical engineering. He is the
son of Winfred Stroupe and Mrs.
Stroupe, employed in Weaving
here. They live in Bessemer
City.
The past summer, Michael
spent an 11-week period of Air
Force basic training at Lackland
Air Force Base, San Antonio,
Tex. This was a part of his in
doctrination as a member of the
Air National Guard. From San
Antonio, he traveled to Denver,
Col., for a week’s visit with a
sister.
Since winning the Firestone
scholarship, Stroupe has quali
fied for Airman, Third Class in
the Air National Guard, and has
been granted license as a radio
telephone operator of his ama
teur shortwave station K4DRT.
Years of work at repairing
warp breakouts and defects in
cotton tire fabric at Firestone
has taught Nina Milton that life
is a series of growing from one
stage into another—that retire
ment can mean the taking on
of a new career, with new vistas
opening all around.
That’s why the retiree who
terminated her employment here
in late August, is already mak
ing plans to raise turkeys, to do
some traveling, and pursue tv/o
or three hobbies.
Miss Milton, originally from
Rutherford County, N. C., began
her textile working career in
Gastonia at the old Loray mill—
Firestone’s forerunner. She has
been on the job as a warper,
weaver and smash hand at dif
ferent times since 1918, with ex
ception of a few short interrup
tions. She came to Firestone in
1942.
BESIDES her plans to raise
turkeys, she anticipates a bit of
travel now and then.
For many years, much of Miss
Milton’s off-job time has been
used in doing church work; in
recent times, at Loray Baptist
Church in the Firestone com
munity. In spare moments she
pursues hobbies of photography
and collecting small money
banks and old coins.
Essay-Writing Competition
Offers Awards Of $13,250
Firestone employees who do or have done work for
various health, welfare and recreation agencies in their
communities are eligible to enter a national essay competi
tion with awards totaling $13,250. It is sponsored by the
^^oundation for Voluntary Welfare.
First Grand Award will be $2,000 and the Second Grand
■^Ward will be $1,000. First awards of $500 and second awards
$250 will also be given in each of 14 special subject areas.
YOUR TRA VEL NOTEBOOK
October Dresses In Flame And Gold...
Someone has said that October is all the other
seasons of the year wrapped into a 31-day pack
age and tied with a rainbow ribbon. For Firestone
travelers, October in the Mid-South is a time
when Mother Nature brings her traveling road
show to a climax, with the pageantry of forest
color, the romance of early harvest, and the por
tent of winter.
This month is replete with things to do and
places to go in the area easily accessible to em
ployees on a week end trip.
October brings autumn’s foliage parade to its
peak brilliance in the Blue Ridge and Great
Smokies of North Carolina, while all along the
seashore game fish make the beaches from the
Outer Banks to the Southeastern coast popular
with anglers from every section of the country.
THE FOLIAGE display in Western North Caro
lina is from mid-September through mid-Novem
ber, varying according to altitude and the pre
dominance of certain species of hardwoods.
Across the Piedmont and Coastal Plain, the color
parade begins in late October and often lasts
until late November, when the autumn-winter
season is well underway in the Mid-South re
sorts of Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Tryon and
Sedgefield.
Scenic attractions and picnic and camping
areas in National parks and forests remain open—
as do state parks, fishing piers, museums and
historical sites.
THE CAROLINAS celebrate the harvest season
with fairs and festivals to which visitors are
always invited. In the North State, largest fair
is North Carolina State Fair at Raleigh, October
16-20. Unusual in America is the Cherokee Indian
Fair on the reservation at Cherokee, October 2-6.
Outstanding attraction is the Indian stick-ball
game, probably the toughtest sport in the world.
The program also includes archery competition.
singing and dancing contests, and exhibits of
Cherokee crafts.
Typical of harvest festivals is the 8th Annual
Fall Festival at Red Springs, October 24.
A partial list of other October fairs in North
Carolina:
Southern States Fair, Charlotte, 2-6; Cleveland
County Fair for Negroes, Shelby, 3-6; Union
County Fair, Monroe, 8-13; Winston-Salem Fair,
9-13; Piedmont Fair for Negroes, Charlotte, 16-20;
Jones County Agricultural Fair, Trenton, 22-27;
Moore County Agricultural Fair, Carthage, 22-27;
Martin County Fair, Williamston, October 29-
November 3.
FOR THE sports-minded, some notes on hunt
ing and fishing. In most counties of South Caro
lina open season for deer is on, and will last
through January 1. Statewide in North Carolina
ruffed grouse season is on and will last through
January 31. Bear, deer and wild boar hunting
season begins October 15 and will last through
January 1. There are big game hunts in Wildlife
Management Areas on State or U. S. Forest Serv
ice lands. Field trials and formal fox hunting add
further variety to the sports scene in autumn and
winter. A big run of channel bass challenges surf-
casters, while king mackerel, amberjack, dolphin,
sailfish and marlin are boated offshore, Septem-
ber-November. Fresh water lakes and sounds
yield good catches of largemouth bass.
The North Carolina Fishing and Hunting Book,
together with current regulations on hunting and
fishing, is available free from the State Ad
vertising Division, Department Conservation and
Development, Raleigh.
MORE on this month’s calendar of events:
“Programa, 1956,” Angier, October 10; Annual
Homes Tour, Charlotte, 12, 13; N.C. Fox Hunters
Association Annual Meeting, Bench Show and
Field Trials, Yanceyville, 15-18; Inter-Club Surf
Fishing Tourney, Nags Head, 19-21.