NOVEMBER, 1957
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These Six Employees Are Typical
Of Those Who Like Work At Night
MINNIE WELCH, Nylon Re
spooling—“Years ago I worked
on first shift, but for the past 12
years have been on third and
like it just fine.”
EDWARD EVANS, Spinning
— “I’m used to the third shift
now, after about three months
on the job. Working at night
gives me days for relaxing.”
W. H. KILPATRICK, Spin
ning—“The night shift (third) is
all right. In summer, it’s cooler
at work, and time off the job is
worth more in the daytime.”
LILLIAN MORRISON. Spin
ning — “Fifteen years on third
shift has convinced me that day
light hours at home are the best.
I can be with the children.”
EDWARD KNOX, Rayon
Twisting — “Working on third
allows me plenty of time at
gardening in summer, and to do
other things all year.”
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DAVID RATCHFORD, Rayon
Twisting—“I wouldn’t work on
any other than third shift. Gives
me daytime for working at
home and for visiting, too.”
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And always, there is the First Aid, as much on the job at 3
o’clock in the morning as at noon.
Many who work nights like it for several reasons. Work at
night, they say, gives them the daylight hours to garden, pursue
other hobbies, to travel when the sun is high in the sky. Others like
it because they can be at home with the children during daylight
hours. Because there are fewer employees at night, those who are
on the job then feel a certain closeness to each other. They become
better acquainted as they work while others sleep.
But there are those who are alone on the job at night. The
guards at the gates, and the watchmen who make their rounds
Walking their beats to protect Company property from theft and
accident.
THE ELEVATOR operator works alone at night, shifting ma
terials up and down. The boiler room attendant is by himself, too,
as is the laboratory technician in Quality Control most of the time.
Whatever the job, the hundreds of men and women who work
at night render their Company a special service. Because of them,
the property is protected, and textiles from the Gastonia plant
continue their march 24 hours a day toward the finished product
and the eventual consumer market.
ARRIVALS...
October 13 was arrival date
for Thomas Linden McAbee, son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McAbee.
The father is assistant director
of Industrial Relations.
Regina Gail Sanders is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maford
M. Sanders. The baby arrived
September 22. Her father is a
clerk in Supply; the mother
works in SYC Weaving.
Arthur Benjamin Dalton ar
rived September 15 at Gaston
Memorial Hospital. His father,
Alfred B. Dalton, is employed
in the Shop. The mother used to
work in Main Office.
Redding A Member
Of Men’s Chorus
Deuel Redding of the plant
Refreshment Service appeared
with the Gaston Association
Brotherhood Chorus at the First
National Conference of Southern
Baptist Men, in Oklahoma City,
Okla., recently.
The 40-voice Brotherhood
Chorus was featured twice on
the two-day program which
drew almost 7,000 registered
delegates from 41 states.
Mr. Redding, who sings second
tenor, has been with the Chorus
for about three years. The sing
ing organization is composed of
Religion In Life Emphasis
For Month Of November
Increased regular attendance
at church and synagogue will be
urged throughout the United
States in November, during the
ninth annual Religion in Ameri
can Life Program. This year the
Laymen’s Committee of 67 mem
bers of all faiths lead the drive
to encourage every American to
go to a house of worship, in an
effort to emphasize the impor
tance of religion in personal,
family, community and national
life.
Theme for the RIAL program
is “Find the Strength for Your
Life — Worship Together This
Week.”
Each year the sponsoring
committee appropriately plans
the special religious emphasis
for the month of Thanksgiving.
Community programs are be
ing sponsored by local groups
in cooperation with religious
organizations. On a national
basis, the program is supported
by the Advertising Council, the
United States Junior Chamber
of Commerce, Kiwanis Inter
national, 24 national religious
bodies, their agencies and their
men of Brotherhood laymen’s
groups in Southern Baptist con
gregations of Gaston County.
affiliated churches and syna
gogues, and the Public Rela
tions Society of America.
PLANNERS of the RIAL pro
gram, while urging increased at
tendance at your place of wor
ship throughout the month, call
special attenion to Thanksgiving
Day as a time for “food for
thought.”
. . . Thanksgiving is a time
to take your child on your knee
and talk to him of things that
matter ... a time to take your
family to your church or syna
gogue for prayers of gratitude.
Has any of us so much—or so
little—that he cannot find room
or time in his heart for thanks
giving?
On November 28, take time
with your family to offer your
word of gratitude at your place
of worship. There, you will
learn that your faith is like a
light . . . the more powerful it
is, the farther it will reach out
into the darkness to guide you.
November is the birth month
of five United States Presidents.
Their names and birth dates
curing the month are: James K.
Polk, 2; Warren G. Harding, 2;
James A. Garfield, 19; Frank
lin Pierce, 23; Zachary Taylor,
23.
FIRESTONE TIRES RUN WELL
Battery Hand Keeps 1926 Chariot On-The-Go
To the hood of her 1926 Model
T Ford, Mrs. Jesse Adams Hard
wick applied some of her own
special homemade polish.
There, outside the garage it
stood — a proud-looking craft.
Running boards and fenders
high above the ground, stately
appearance, bug-eyed h e a d -
lights, and tall wheels, sporting
DeLuxe Champion Firestone
tires.
The SYC Weaving employee,
who has been filling batteries
on looms here most of her 14
years at the plant, bought her
dependable vehicle a year be
fore the Ford company quit
making the old cars and went
into production of the then up-
to-date Model A. Before she
bought her Model T, she had
been driving a Copperhead.
“I’ve driven this car for more
than 31 years and haven’t had
as much trouble with it as some
folks have out of their ’57
models,” she allowed.
Mrs. Hardwick’s vehicle from
another era sports its original
paint. The satin-black finish has
been preserved by the polish
she mixes at home from a form
ula worked out in her kitchen
at 1208 York road.
WHEN SHE bought her Tin
Lizzie at a Belmont dealer’s on
July 31, 1926, the total cost was
$621.49. A number of times in
recent years Mrs. Hardwick has
been offered $1,000 trade-ins,
and $400 and $500 cash for it.
“To let her go would be sorta
like selling an old friend,” she
said.
The second shift employee re
minds you that there’s nothing
puny about her car.
“Last winter when many
folks were having trouble get
ting their late-model cars start
ed, I went out to see if mine
would go. The engine turned
over and started running like it
was in the middle of July,” she
recalled proudly.
About a dollar’s worth of gas
is a plenty to take the owner to
her sister-in-law’s in the country
and to another sister-in-law
who lives near York. Oil is
changed once a year.
“Then I drive around town,
to the grocery and anywhere
else I want to go,” she says.
“I’m used to the attention my
car gets when on the road. Peo
ple ask a lot of questions about
it.”
During the almost 40 years
she has been driving, Mrs. Hard
wick has never dented a fender
nor had any kind of accident.
On three occasions she has
traveled as much as 820 miles
roundtrip, to points in Eastern
North Carolina — and no me
chanical trouble with her car.
SINCE 1926 the car has run
on just five sets of tires. Most
of them have been supplied by
the Gastonia Firestone store.
The present ones, now approach
ing their third year of service,
are expected to last the five-year
average established across the
years.
The Firestone batteries for the
car, supplied through the years
by the local Company store,
have an average life of six
years.
The auto has no speedometer,
no mileage register.
“The dealer who sold it to
me, told me it was capable of
going 45 miles an hour,” said
Mrs. Hardwick. “A few times
the neighbors have clocked me
at 35 miles an hour—and that’s
fast a plenty,” she believes.
She wiped the windshield
with the mechanical crank de
vice above the steering wheel
“It’s a good car,” she said.
“It’s most amazing in one way.
Sometimes all you have to do is
turn on the switch and the en
gine takes off.”
With a flick of the switch
there was a wheezing sound.
The engine was purring like a
kitten.
Jesse Adams Hardwick and an old friend.