Down in their hearts, wise men
know this truth: The only way to
help yourself is to help others.
—Elbert Hubbard
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GASTONIA
We are here not to get all we
can out of life for ourselves, but
to try to make the lives of others
happier. —Sir William Osier
VOLUME VI
GASTONIA, N. C., OCTOBER, 1957
No. 10
15 PARTICIPATING AGENCIES
UF Appeal Begins October 10
The sixth annual Employees United Fund appeal is scheduled for October 10-Novem-
ber 10. The drive will be conducted alongside the Greater Gastonia United Fund effort
which begins October 10 and will conclude November 8. General Superintendent Nelson
Kessell, for the sixth consecutive year chairman of the fund-gathering effort, has an
nounced that employees will have the opportunity this year to contribute to the 15 par
ticipating agencies of the Greater Gastonia United Fund.
In past years, the plant drive
allowed for contributions to a
few additional agencies beyond
the Greater Gastonia UF list.
The 1957 drive procedure at
the plant has been changed
somewhat from that of past
years. Instead of making con
tributions to individual com
munity and charitable agencies,
employees will be asked to give
on a “Fair Share” basis, to the
total list of organizations in the
Gastonia Fund.
The approved list of these
organizations: Red Cross, Gas
ton Big Brothers, Junior Police
Athletic Club, Gaston Life Sav
ing Crew, Girl Scouts, Red
Shield Boys Club, Salvation
Army, United Cerebral Palsy
Association, United Medical Re
search Foundation, USO, Chil
dren’s Home Society, Florence
Crittenton Home, National
Travelers Aid Society, United
Medical Research Foundation of
N. C., and United Fund and
Council, Inc.
The “Fair-Share” formula is
based upon contributions sug
gested by the United Foundation
and adopted to the plant’s own
wage and salary structure. Vol
unteer solicitors who will re-
—Turn to Page 6
THE PROGRAM was launch
ed with a kickoff rally, a down
town parade featuring a float
with a reproduction of the
Liberty Bell, and a rally in front
of the Firestone plant.
Highlighting the September 23
program to get the drive under
way was the appearance of Mrs.
Russell Smith of Tulsa, Okla.,
“Mrs. United States Savings
—Turn to Page 8
nrn a z? 4 ca ppT y
These children are on their way to school. They’ll be
crossing streets, perhaps hurrying home at lunch time, and
always eager to get home at the end of the school day.
So drive carefully. Drive slowly near their school. Don’t
pass a school bus when it’s stopped to take on or discharge
passengers.
These youngsters, sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Guffey, attend Abernethy School and Wray Junior
High. Their father is a second hand in Quality Control,
their mother a splicer in Rayon Weaving.
In the picture, from left: Jean, third grade; Michael, first
grade; Linda, eighth grade and Bruce, fourth grade.
The Guffey brothers and sisters are representative of
all the children who have started to school within the past
few weeks.
So wherever you drive, your thoughtfulness and cau
tion every day will make the streets and highways safer
for the children throughout the school year.
Purchase Of Savings Bonds At Record High
People at Firestone Tex
tiles are buying U. S. Savings
Bonds at the rate of 99.2 per
cent of the plant’s current
employment. This all-time
record figure was reached
during the “Share in Ameri
ca” Week in Gaston County,
September 23-29.
In the special Bonds selling
effort here, Firestone sought to
surpass its 97.1 per cent record
of last year. The plant was
among the industrial and busi
ness firms in the county taking
part in the special effort, ar
ranged by the Treasury Depart
ment. Gaston County was the
first location in the Southeast
selected for the special promo
tion campaign.
O. K. Forrester, overseer in
Spooling-Winding, was plant
chairman for the drive, and
General Manager Harold Mercer
was payroll savings chairman in
the county for the “Share in
America” Week.
In top photo: "Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds" (right) and
^rs. North Carolina" take a lesson on cotton staple
^rom Cotton Division Superintendent F. B. Galligan
(center), and Walter Johnson of the N. C. Savings
®onds division of the Treasury Department. Above,
left: General Manager Harold Mercer presents a Fire
stone radio to "Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds" and to "Mrs.
North Carolina."
Above, right: Employees who volunteered as in-
Plant Bonds solicitors attended a meeting on the open
ing day of the drive. Seated, from left: Rosie Francum,
Shop; Colene Bennett, Cable Twisting; Ruth Cloninger,
Winding; Sallie Crawford, Quality Control; Elizabeth
Harris, Winding; "Mrs. North Carolina"; O. K.
Forester, plant Bonds chairman; "Mrs. U.S. Savings
Bonds" and current "Mrs. Oklahoma"; Hazel Foy, Ply
Twisting; Edna Harris, Carding; Lillie A. Brown, Spin
ning; Della Lipford, SYC Weaving; Dorothy Baber,
Ply Twisting.
Standing from left: John Hendricks. Warehouse;
Gary Lyles, Rayon Weaving; Coy Bradshaw, Carding;
Fred Morrow, Warehouse; Jimmie Lou Hartgrove,
Spooling; Bonnie Dockery, Sales Yarn Twisting; Inez
Rhyne, Cloth Room; Beatrice Carver, SYC Weaving;
Irene Odell, Rayon Weaving; Aileen Brimer, Spooling.
Solicitors not present for the picture were: Vera
Carswell, Rayon Twisting; Maude Peeler, Spinning;
Rosalie Burger, Spooling; Hazel Nolen, Winding; Mary
Johnson, Cord Weaving; J. M. Piercy, Rayon Twisting.