MAY, 1957 PAGE 7 From All-Sports Banquet: These Top Awards At the 21st annual All-Sports Banquet this spring, more than 200 employees played the role of champions, when they were recognized for their participation in the sports and recreation program during the past year. Prizes ranged from a premium for the per son who caught the largest fish, to the Supremacy Trophy—symbol of top excellence in the largest number of recreation activities. Pictures here represent some of the most- publicized awards. Each year, employees who participate in the sports-recreation program choose, by secret ballot, four men and four women as “Ideal Athletes,” representing all three shifts at the plant. Those honored are selected on the basis of recreation participation, sports manship and outstanding attainment. Below are the “Ideal Athletes of 1956.” THE SUPREMACY TROPHY, here presented by General Su perintendent Nelson Kessell to E. D. Bagwell (right), of SYC Weaving, represents the highest number of awards won by a de partment during the year. When Weaving captured the top-honor cup this year, it broke a tradition which had been established by Spinning, which had won it for the past nine years. In 1945, Spin ning tied with Twisting for the trophy. V 'X Alma Westbrook Spooling Mull Ramsey Recreation Maude Peeler Spinning MOST COMPETITIVE Athletes—Each year Recreation Di rector Ralph Johnson selects two employees, a man and a woman, for their display of the most competitive spirit in sports participa tion. This year they are Earlene Creasman and Charles Ballard. J. C. Westbrook Spooling Flora Pence Industrial Relations Bill Caskey Carding To Turn Ideas Into Suggestions . . . In pensive mood? Have an idea that you think is worth while? Then “sell” it to your Com pany by this step-by-step pro cedure; Know your subject—Do you have good reason to think your idea would lead to an improve ment, or to a better way? Has it been tried before? Is it a practical idea? If it will save money, can you prove it? Write it down—Figure it out and state it on paper as plainly as you can. Polish the wording until it says what you want it to say. Then put it aside for a while. Go back to it and recheck it, thinking it through again. Count the cost—If your sug gestion involves costs, figure them as against the present way of doing the job to which your Prevention Best As Firefighter The only sure way to win the fight with fire is to defeat it be fore it starts. Springtime is a good season in which to concentrate on clean ing out trash, old clothing, boxes and newspapers in the attic, closets and basement. Dispose of flammable items. If you must have them around, put oily rags and clothes in closed containers — preferably metal ones. Get rid of dried grass and leaves that have remained through the winter. Defeat fire before it strikes. A clean house is less apt to burn. idea pertains. Rough estimates are good enough for this. Write up the form—Put your idea down on the specially-pre pared Suggestion Blank avail able at many points throughout the plant. Write as legibly as you can, or use a typewriter. Give as many details as you are able. Include drawings if you can better explain your idea through them. Rough sketches are usually good enough to put the point across. In case your idea turns out to be one that calls for further ex planation, be prepared to give more details if called upon. Send it on its way—Drop your suggestion into the nearest box provided for it. Max Carey SYC Weaving Doris McCready Main Office Free CD Communications Instruction Available Through Local Radio Club ☆ ☆ ☆ Twenty-seven guests helped Cathey Shields celebrate her fifth birth anniversary last month. Festivities were com plete with ice cream, cake, candy, soda pop, party hats and balloons. Cathey is the daughter of Ray Shields, utility man in SYC Weaving, and Mrs. Shields of 1109 West Fourth Avenue. ☆ ☆ Interested in amateur radio— the type that will help strength en the defenses of your country? The Gaston Amateur Radio Club, in cooperation with Civil Defense, is sponsoring a free program of instruction for radio operators. It is intended to pro vide trained personnel for op erating emergency defense sta tions to be set up in all towns of Gaston County. The course of study is de signed to prepare operators for obtaining a Novice class license issued by the Federal Communi cations Commission, which per mits restricted operation in some of the amateur radio bands. In struction will also qualify op erators who have special securi ty clearance and are registered to operate on the Civil Defense radio networks over the coun ty and state. The free course will consist of two parts: Code, and Theory and Law. Several persons already have begun code training in practice sessions held in the Recreation Building of First Wesleyan Methodist Church, Franklin avenue and Church street, on Saturday afternoons beginning at 3 o’clock. If you are interested in this free instruction, you may contact Oscar Norris of amateur station W40XH, telephone VA 4-1873. Or, go direct to the classes now in progress on Saturday after noon at First Wesleyan Church Recreation Building. Phillips Brooks, the renowned New England preacher, was widely-known for his poise and ability not to become perturbed by the cares of life. But his intimate friends knew that sometimes Dr. Brooks suffered moments of frustration and irritability. Finding him peevishly pacing the floor one day, a visitor asked: “What is the trouble, Dr. Brooks?” “The trouble is,” Brooks replied, “that I’m in a hurry—but God is not.”
