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JULY, 1957
FIRESTONE FAMILY LIVING
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SUMMERTIME IN DIXIE
Friendly sun, good soil and proper care advanced employees'
garden crops to harvest and others to approaching maturity by late
June. This corn, of "elephant-ear" height, is on the South York
road place of Edgar Bruca, Twisting. His sons, Richard (left), and
Ray examine the stalks in anticipation of some roasting ears by
midsummer.
Take These Safety Measures
Before Leaving On Vacation
Last year, one employee fam
ily was well down the road to
ward a vacation trip when some
one remembered that in their
helter-skelter to be off, they had
left the iron plugged in—and
resting on the ironing pad be
sides! A long-distance telephone
call to a neighbor righted the
situation in time, and the vaca
tioners were on their way.
To avoid getting vacation time
off on the wrong foot, here is a
suggested list of points to check
off before embarking on your
extended trip:
Lock all windows, including
those in the attic and cellar.
Leave the shades up, or the
blinds open, so that the house
will appear occupied.
For A Summertime Cooler
Try Floating Sundaes
Floating sundaes are the
answer to a variety of cool sum
mer desserts. Each one may start
with the same idea—an easy and
inexpensive pineapple sherbet
which you can easily prepare
and chill in your refrigerator.
Over this sherbet goes a com
bination of chilled fruit nectar,
canned fruit juice and tangy
ginger ale. Your whim or prefer
ence will determine the variety
you choose to prepare.
Some Firestone homemakers
have suggested peach, apricot or
loganberry nectar blended with
cranberry, orange, orange-grape-
fruit or pineapple juice. Any
twosome from among these will
harmonize well in a floating
sundae.
Ons cup each of juice, nectar
and ginger ale makes enough
liquid for about six sundaes.
Serve them in tall glasses—two
scoops of sherbet in each with
the ginger ale mixture poured
over the top.
Pineapple Sherbet
1 can (13 ounce) Evaporated
milk
2 tablespoons lemon juice
V4 cup sugar
Dash salt
1 can (1 pound, 4 ounces) crush
ed pineapple
1. Chill evaporated milk until
icy cold. 2. Beat with a rotary
beater until frothy. 3. Add lemon
juice and beat until mixture is
stiff and holds a peak. 4. Gradu
ally add sugar and salt. 5. Fold
in pineapple with the syrup. 6.
Spoon into freezer tray and let
remain until firm.
This makes about two quarts.
Disconnect small electrical ap
pliances. Deepfreeze units may
be left running, and refriger
ators may be turned low. If dis
connected, leave the door ajar.
Turn off gas stove burners and
water heaters.
Discontinue deliveries of mail,
newspapers and milk.
Arrange for someone to keep
the lawn mowed.
Leave with a neighbor a key
to your house and your vacation
address. Give your vacation ad
dress and the expected length of
your absence to the police de
partment.
Include in your on-the-go ma
terials a first aid kit that con
tains fold-up tubes of unbreak
able ointments.
Sanitation Is Best
To Fight Bacteria
With the outdoor eating sea
son well upon us. Dr. W. B.
Parks, plant physician, hopes
employee families will keep in
mind that the creatures of the
family Salmonella would take
over our earth if given even the
slightest opportunity.
Trillions to one, they outnum
ber us—these wily bacteria who
get their chance of a lifetime
when preparers and consumers
of food and drink become care
less, as people often do when
picnicking or eating around out
door grills.
Shortcut From Summer To Winter
Any language, at best, some
times fails to communicate.
Take, for example, the word
“fall” as applied to the season
of the year between summer and
winter.
In England the word “au
tumn” is most widely used. But
in the United States this term
has never come into general
usage.
To show you how confusing a
little matter like this can be
come, a Knoxville, Tenn., news
paper the other day headlined a
hydrogen bomb story;
U. S. Finding Way To Cut
Fall-Out.
The paper had hardly hit the
streets before a subscriber rang
the city desk and anxiously in
quired:
“If they cut fall out, will we
be going from summer right in
to winter?”
Sanitation of the most precious
kind is the only effective wea
pon against Salmonella, says Dr.
Parks. For example, if you eat
food in the raw state, scrub it
thoroughly. An added precau
tion: If food is eaten raw, see
that it is fresh.
Food cooked hours in advance
of the time it is to be eaten
should be refrigerated in the
meantime. If not this, recook it
just before eating, the plant
physician advises. He adds:
The family that plans on a
summertime of picnics would do
well to invest in a portable ice
box to take care of the perish
able foods they will be taking
along.
James Barker
Serves In Navy
S/2C James Fred Barker re
cently spent a few days of leave
with his parents, James Barker,
Shop carpenter, and Mrs. Barker.
At the time of his visit, James
had completed his basic train
ing and was ready for assign
ment aboard the USS Jayson.
The sailor would appreciate mail
from his friends. His address:
C/o Fleet Post Office, San Die
go, Calif.
Sgt. Bobby Towery, son of
Fred Towery, Carding, and Mrs.
Towery, spent a leave in June
with his parents, after a 16-
month tour of duty in Korea.
Sgt. Towery, Mrs. Towery and
their baby daughter spent some
time with Mrs. Towery’s parents
in Griffin, Ga., before he report
ed to Washington for reassign
ment.
Recreation Areas
For Picnic Fun
Now that picnic time is here
again, this reminder from the
plant travel information service
will help you to more enjoyable
outings this summer:
In North Carolina national
forests there are 51 improved
free public recreation areas in
cluding roadside facilities. Along
the state’s highways there are
23 roadside parks and more than
400 roadside picnic tables—all
available to the traveling public.
To keep within the budget
these days you have to let the
rest of the world go by.
An expert: One who takes
something you already know
and makes it sound confusing.
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BOY SCOUT CERTIFICATE OF MERIT WINNERS FOR 1957
Fifty Boy Scouts of the Gastonia area were honored
by the Company for achievement in Scouting this year.
In addition to recognition which went to the winner
of the Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. Award (see page 1), 49
boys each received a Certificate of Merit and a check
for $25.75 to apply on expenses at summer camp. With
exception of John Charles Cone (page 1), the photo
here shows those of the other 49 who were present at
the annual Scout Banquet last month. Those receiving
Certificates were: John Cloninger, Eugene Robinson,
Bobby Price, Kenneth Green, Steve Harmon, Roy
Green, Theo Lynn, Sam Smith, Harry Whitiner, Tom
my Martin, Dennis Setzer, Jr., K. B. Garrison, Charles
Huggins, Wilson Hemphill, Claude McElveen, Michael
Parrish. Gene Martin, McCoy Watts, Jr., Bobby Ed
wards, Ted Thomas, John Carson, Rhett Carson, Bobby
Allison, John Hudson, Tommy Ipock, Vance Ipock,
Lander Gray III, Ted Collins, Don Sayers, Lonnie
Smith, Frankie Galligan, Patrick Walsh, John Knox,
Henry Thomason. Paul Farris, Gerald Featherstone,
Vernon Chastine, Herbert Nall, Howard Kendrick,
John Kendrick, Johnny Walker, Larry McCarter, Will
Bell, Carroll Robinson, Bill Robinson, Polie Stroup,
Ronnie Deviney, Billy Jackson, Banks McArver III.