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PAGE 6 ssjswi DECEMBER, 1956 IN NOVEMBER Three Are Honored For Long Records ☆ ☆ ☆ An aggregate of 60 years of service was recorded in November, when three women were honored for long-term records at the plant. Marking 20-year service anniversaries were: Grace Neely, Cotton Weaving; Lillie A, Brown and Hazel D. Ward, Spinning. They received the congratulations of the plant General Manager and were each presented the customary 20-year honor: a gold watch and the appropriate service pin. The addition of these names to the record brought the list of 20-year employees to 248. MEANWHILE, 30 other employees here marked service an niversaries ranging from 5 to 15 years. Here is the November list: Fifteen Years Dallas H. Smith, Carding; William H. Massey, Rayon Twisting; David Gribble and Alloise Murray, Rayon Weaving and Herbert Broaden, plant mail service. Ten Years Domer E. Wilson and Hasker Love, Carding; Mary Pruitt, Spinning; Beatrice Stowe, Alene A. Bolynn and Thurman Sum- mey, Rayon Twisting. Bonnie Dockery, Cotton Twisting; Roy Lee Ball, James R. Reel and J. Hoyt Blackwood, Rayon Weaving. J. B. Mitchell, Shop; Harold N. Robinson, Warehouse. Five Years Ruby E. Mullis, David Ratchford, WiUiam S. Haynes, Miles T. Michaels and John Cothern, all Rayon Twisting. Bessie Foster and Samuel L. Glenn, Rayon Weaving; Albert L. Wiley, Sarah M. Keever and Dezaree C. Crisp, Cotton Weaving. Ralph Dalton, Shop; Ralph L. Moten, Supply. People and Places —From page 4 Mr. and Mrs. Grady Ivey had as recent week-end guests, Beatrice Snapps and Lillian Margil of York, S. C., and Mary Robin son of Rock Hill, S. C. Women of SYC Weaving honored Mrs. Ella Ruff at a going- away party held in the Dogwood Room, Charlotte, November 2. She received a four-piece luggage set. Mrs. Ruff and her husband, J. C. Ruff, left Gastonia November 9, for their new residence in Williamsburg, Va. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ruff are working at the new State Hospital there. Mrs. Sarah Ward, change hand, visited Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Clary and family recently in Moundsville, W. Va. Mrs. Clary is a daughter of Mrs. Ward. Viola Webb visited her nephew, George Lewis, at the Mission Hospital in Asheville, N. C., where he is a patient. Martha Wood had her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gatlin of Annapolis, Md., as guests for several days. Mr. Gatlin is in the Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Anderson had as recent guests Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Green of Concord, N. C. Roy Palmer spent a recent week end with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hensley of Murphy, N. C. While here, Roy at tended the homecoming program of a rural Baptist church in the vicinity. Ronnie Cloninger, son of Mrs. Ruth Cloninger, visited his brother. Bob Cloninger and Mrs. Cloninger at Furman University, Greenville, S. C., recently. While in Greenville, Ronnie attended the Furman-Columbia football game. Visitors of Mabel Thomas recently were her aunt, Mrs. Mamie Mehaffey and family of Robbinsville, N. C. ☆ ☆ ☆■ In a recent exchange of vows at First Baptist Church, Gas tonia, Miss Betty Helen De- Brule became the bride of James William Pryor. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer DeBrule of Gastonia; he, the son of Mrs. Vergie E. Pryor, employed in Spinning here. The new Mrs. Pryor attended Win gate Junior College, Wingate, N. C. Mr. Pryor attended Ash ley High School here and was graduated from a high school in Orlando, Fla. The couple lives in Gastonia. SIX EMPLOYEES joined the ranks of 20-year record holders in October. Here, Edgar Sloan Foy receives his 20-year watch from General Manager Harold Mercer (center). Others who received watches were Horace Butler (extreme left), and Clyde A. Foy (second from right). At extreme right, T. B. Ipock, Jr., director of Industrial Re lations, looks on. In back row (from left): Wini fred Redding and Milligan L. Ramsey. Paul Powers, included in this group, was not present when the picture was made. Editorial Bids Workers: Be Alert To Ideas Note: The following quotations are taken from an editorial in The Gastonia Gazette of Novem ber 14, commenting on the Company Suggestion Awards story appearing on page 2. It often has been said that the elephant has a million-dollar body, but a 10-cent brain. There are millions of workers in the industrial world of the United States. They have strong bodies, but to say they have 10-cent brains is doing them an injustice. These persons who work by the sweat of their brows in steel mills, automobile factories, tex tile mills and other heavy industry have an insight into their respective machinery that is missing even in the mind of the man who in vented the machinery. The fellow who invents a piece of machinery turns it out and watches it in limited tests. Once that piece of machinery is put into operation, the man who sees that it runs, watching it perform hour by hour and day by day, knows what it can do. He also, if he is keen of mind, can see something that will im prove the operation of the machine. VARIOUS organizations throughout the coun try offer cash prizes for persons who turn in suggestions for improving plant operation. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, with a branch in Gastonia, is one such organization. It pays mechanics and other employees well for sug gestions that are adopted. Recent report from Firestone reveals the Com pany has paid out a total of $1,000,000 to em ployees for money-making or money-saving sug gestions. The Gazette feels that The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is doing a fine thing in keep ing workers on their toes, by urging them to use their brains. This newspaper commends the Com pany for what it is doing. We have this advice to the workers: Don’t become discouraged over your daily chore. Be alert. You may find a way to save your organization some money and net yourself some cash. It’s at least worth a try. IN SERVICE Howard E. Railey Three Railey brothers — all servicemen — the sons of Mrs. Letha Hammonds, Spinning, re cently arranged leaves of ab sence together, for a visit with their mother here. On the visit, their friends and relatives con gregated at the Hammonds residence, 1110 Lin wood avenue, for a family reunion. It was the first time in several years the brothers had been home at the same time. Sgt. Howard E. Railey had just returned from 28 months in Japan. In service six years, he plans to make the Army a career. His assignment is now at Fort Campbell, Ky. Pvt. Marion F. Railey is serv ing in the Army at Fort Jack son, S. C., after induction there a few weeks ago. Mrs. Railey lives with her husband’s mother here. SP/3 Jerry J. Railey had ar rived home from a 21-month tour of duty in Germany. He is now discharged and at home with his mother. DC/2 Robert L. Ward, who has been serving in the Navy aboard the USS FDR, and Mrs. Ward recently visited his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ward, Sr., of Gastonia. The father is an overseer in Spinning. Robert, who has re-enlisted for six more years of service, has reported to a naval base in Virginia. His wife, a native of San Francisco, Calif., is remain ing in Gastonia with her hus band’s parents. Pvt. Glenn Jones spent a 10- day leave in November with his father, Walter Jones, interme diate tender in Carding. Pvt. Jones has completed his basic army training at Fort Knox, Ky. Bobby Ray Barber, son of Mrs. Mary Herring, roller picker, was inducted into military service in October. He is stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. ARRIVALS. ■ ■ A/1C Donald G. Kline and Mrs. Kline are parents of a son, named Ronald Gene, born in late fall at Saint Johns, New foundland, where the father is stationed. Mrs. Kline is the former Nancy Calhoun, daugh ter of William Calhoun, Weav ing; and Mrs. Calhoun, Spinning. A/2C Dallas W. Allen, son of Mrs. Lucy Allen, Spinning, is assigned to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Air man Allen was discharged from service last July, but re-enlisted for six more years. During a recent 90-day furlough, he visit ed his mother in Gastonia. Mrs. Allen, the former Miss Eileen Vanderbilt, and the Allens’ young son, are temp orarily with her parents in Tampa. Tindall Featured In NSC Bulletin Gentry Tindall, Shop, was featured in a fall issue of “Safety Newsletter,” Textile Section of the National Safety Council. The publication, issued from Chicago^ carried two photographs of the employee here, to illustrate the right and wrong way to crank a gasoline-powered lawnmower. Along with the photos, the Newsletter reprinted a general story on mower safety, which had appeared in a last-summer issue of the Firestone Textiles plant newspaper. Airman Kline’s post of service is at Pepperrell Air Force Base, Saint Johns. A daughter to Bill Deal, Spii^' ning, and Mrs. Deal, October 26. To Charles Tate, Spinning, and Mrs. Tate, a daughter. Septet' ber 23. A son to John Davis> Spinning, and Mrs. Davis, Sep' tember 11.
