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PAGE 6 MAY, 1957 SERVICE MILESTONES Three Names Added To 20-Year Roll ☆ ☆ ☆ With the coming of April, there were three more names added to the mounting number of employees who have join ed the honored class of 20-year record holders at the plant. April additions are: Edgar Brockman, Rayon Twisting; Eve lyn Mayfield, Quality Control Laboratory; and O’Neil Gam ble, Spooling. While the 20-year roster ad vanced to 259 names in April, the number of 15-year record holders was increased by four, when these received their serv ice pins: O’Dell Hammonds and Floyd Neal Ratchford, Spinning; Bessie F. Payne, Spooling; and John W. Goebel, Shop. At the same time service pins were distributed to the follow ing in the 10 and 5-year cate gories: Ten Years James H. Mathis, Samuel M. Rhyne, Mason Strickland, Card ing; Porter Cable and Pearl I. Welch, Spooling; Marie Fogle, Helen D. Bolick, Zeb Bradley, Edward Jolly and Ida L. Deaton, Rayon Twisting. Frank E. Capps and Sadie Richardson, Cotton Weaving; George A. Floyd, Shop; Arthur N. Moore, Warehouse; Vernie Mae T. Boyd, Winding. Five Years James L. Allen, Spinning; Glenn W. Palmer, Lonnie L. Wil liams and Tom Fowler, Rayon Twisting; Bernard H. Aim, Shop; Flora H. Pence, Industrial Relations (Firestone News). ii' mnt CSJJCCR GIFT TO CANCER FUND The Gaslon County unit of the American Cancer Society moved $1,260.00 nearer its goal this year of $15,000.00 when it received a contribution from employees here recently. Mrs. Lola Wilkinson, a 21-year Spooling-Winding employee who has been successfully treated for cancer, presented the check to J. Mack Holland. Jr., president of the Gaston County unit of the ACS. Looking on is L. B. McAbee. assistant director of industrial relations. The money gift represents contributions earmarked for the ACS by employees during the last United Fund drive at the plant. Cool Water Beckons Trout Fishermen For many Firestone sports lovers, May 16 is an important date. It is the opening of the trout fishing season in the Great Smoky Mountains. Added to this news is the an nouncement from the N. C. De partment of Conservation and Development that more fish, more stream mileage, and more fishing days are in store this year for trout fishermen on the cooperative wildlife manage ment areas of western North Carolina. Present season on the man agement areas opened April 6 and will continue through Au gust 31. More than 422,000 trout, rang ing up to 14 and 16 inches in length, have been allocated to refuges and public streams in western North Carolina. TWO NEW refuges will be open for public fishing. Harmon Den in Haywood County, near Waynesville, will be open on Wednesdays and every other weekend through July 28. The South Mountains area, near Morganton, will be open Wed nesdays and every weekend through July 31. Trout fishing “purists” have a stream to themselves in the Standing Indian Wildlife Man agement Area. It is a section of the Nantahala River headwaters, near Franklin, reached by U. S. 64-23-441. There, lures are now permitted to wet or dry flies. In most sections of the Stand ing Indian Area fishing is per mitted on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Three classes of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who have no idea of what is happening. FORREST L. EAKER (center), and General Manager Harold Mercer show the certificate authorizing a college scholarship for the Tryon High School youth. Firestone Textiles President W. A. Karl (left), stands next to Loyd Eaker, the student's father. Mrs. Eaker is at right. Scholarship To Sixth Gastonia Area Student Forrest L. Eaker is the sixth person from a Firestone Textiles family to be awarded a Company scholarship which entitles him to a four-year education at the college or uni versity of his choice. The son of Loyd Eaker and Mrs. Eaker of RED 2, Bessemer City, is to be graduated this June from Tryon High School, near Bessemer City. The student’s mother has been employed in the Spooling department here for about 14 years. The 17-year-old student was the only winner selected from North Carolina for the 1957 Fire stone Company educational grants. He is among the 26 chosen from 251 applicants in the different states this year. Nationwide, awards went to 11 sons and 15 daughters of em ployees. THE WINNER will receive a grant equivalent to approxi mately $5,000, covermg full tui tion, academic fees, cost of text books and a contribution toward his living costs while in college. The scholarship is renewable each year for four years. A win ner’s eligibility to receive the grant each year is dependent up on scholastic achievement and other standards set by the Com pany. This year’s Gastonia area win ner is contemplating entering N. C. State College next fall, al though he has not definitely de cided on his course of study. He is interested in sports, and has been on the basketball varsity team at Tryon High for three years. Forrest is a member of the Future Farmers of America of his high school, where he has taken an agriculture course for the past four years. After school hours, he is a part-time sales man at a department store in Cherryville. THE STUDENT is a member of Concord Methodist Church, where he is an active member of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. In spare moments of his busy schedule, he writes poetry — “the kind that rhymes,” he ex plains. Including this year’s winners, the Company has awarded a total of 118 scholarships under the plan instituted in 1953 by Company Chairman Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Fifteen of the win ners wiU complete their coUege work this year. In this group is Mrs. Ralph Kaylor at Duke Uni versity. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Taylor^ both employed here. “The intention of this scholar ship program,” said Mr. Fire stone, “is to help and encourage the sons and daughters of Fire stone employees to receive the solid background of education which will make them outstand ing citizens of this country and of-*4heir respective communi* ties.” In Short Hills, N. J., there is a charitable organization known as New Eyes for the Needy, Inc., which gathers discarded eye glasses, gold and silver frames and similar objects of metal, to be used in making new eye glasses for needy people in this country and in medical missions abroad. New Eyes for the Needy is a volunteer, non-profit group. The Queen Had A Timely Message On Safety Note: Mrs. Nancy D. Cloninger, Cotton Office, represented the plant at the Blue Ridge Safety Council’s Safety Queen Contest judging at Mor ganton, April 18. When she was chosen Safety Queen of Firestone Textiles a few days earlier, the chief basis for judging was the contestant’s ability in delivering a short talk on safety pro motion. The following is her original talk. Although we may be safety-minded, we can not say we are always safe at work, leisure or play. We cannot say we will be alive and healthy tomorrow. Safety depends not only on how safe you are, but how safe everyone around you may be. If we are sensible and safety-conscious we can eliminate the majority of unnecessary deaths and accidents that occur every day. Just stop and consider that more lives have been lost on the American highways in the past 55 years than were lost in all wars in which the United States has participated during the past 180 years. It’s hard to conceive, but we must face this fact—with the realization that we could have been one of these victims. Safety is not something just to think about or talk about on occasions like this. It should be and must be one of our most vital thoughts and practices. There is no better way to be your brother’s keeper than to do your part in keeping him safe. In so doing, the life you save could be your own.
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