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DECEMBER, 1957
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PRIZE DRAWING WINNERS — Door signs,
poslers, bulletin board displays and a prize draw
ing helped to promote interest in the UF in-plant
campaign. Each contributor who gave the "fair
share" amount or more, received a ticket which
was deposited for a drawing at the close of the
drive. Above, winners are shown here with their
prizes. Left—William McGinnis, Nylon Treating,
tries out his television set, the first prize. Cen
ter—Tom Fowler, Rayon Twisting, admires his
rotisserie, second prize. Right — (from left),
Emma Jolly, Spooling, electric mixer, third prize;
William N. Laws, Carding, Firestone twin-speak-
er radio; Maxie Carey, SYC Weaving, steam-dry
iron; C. W. Donaldson, Jr., Rayon Cable Twisting,
electric toaster.
Your United Fund Gift
Aids Fifteen Agencies
Because more than 1,500 Firestone Textiles people cared enough to share, 15 com
munity and charitable agencies in the Greater Gastonia area will be better enabled to
serve deserving persons during the coming year.
The total Firestone contribution of $16,830 made to the United Fund in the annual
appeal, ended November 10, represented the largest single gift to come from any plant
in the Greater Gastonia area. Of this amount, employees contributed $14,530. The Com
pany added a corporate gift of $2,300.
The employee giving repre
sented 89 per cent participation
and an average of $7.85 per in
dividual.
This year’s contribution to the
United Fund set a record in the
history of the plant’s annual
fund-raising appeal, for the sup
port of a growing list of com
munity and charitable agencies.
When a man dies he clutches
in his hands that which he has
given away in his lifetime.
—Rousseau
The contributions from the plant
last year totaled $10,920.
In late November, when this
issue of the plant newspaper was
being prepared for publication,
the Gastonia UF drive had pass
ed its goal of $115,000. In the his
tory of united giving in Gas
tonia, the community has never
failed to reach its fund goal.
COMMUNITY agencies and
charities designated to share in
the UF program are:
American Red Cross, Gaston
^.. Choose For Me^ Dear Santa Claus,
What You Think Is Right..
Visions of reindeer and sleigh and a Jolly Visitor down
across housetops on Christmas eve . . . These fancies play
across the minds of five-year-old Cathy Diane Branham and
Robert Reid Parks, eight, as the youngsters browse through,
the large selection of toys in the Firestone Store at Franklin
and Marietta. Cathy’s grandmother, Mrs. M. B. Prince, is a
winder tender in Winding. Robert is the grandson of J. L.
Parks, Sr., second hand in Spooling, and Mrs. Parks, creeler
in Spooling.
Big Brothers, Gaston Junior
Police Athletic Club, Pioneer
Council Girl Scouts, Gaston Life
Saving Crew, Red Shield Boys
Club, Salvation Army, United
Cerebal Palsy Association
United Service Organization,
Children’s Home Society, Flor
ence Crittenton Home, United
Medical Research Foundation,
National Travelers Aid Society,
United Medical Research Foun
dation of North Carolina, and
United Fund and Council, Inc.
The fund-gathering procedure
this year allowed employees to
give on a “fair share” basis to
the total list of organizations ap
proved in the Gastonia Fund.
General Superintendent Nel
son Kessell, for the sixth con
secutive year chairman of the
drive, expressed his thanks for
the “unusually fine response, for
the help of our neighbors in
need.” He added: “I wish to
thank each volunteer solicitor
and every other person who con
tributed to the success of this
year’s drive.”
Francis Galligan, Superintend
ent of the Cotton Division and
Mr. Kessell’s co-chairman this
year, noted that the generous
contribution to the fund “indi
cates that Firestone Textiles
people are convinced that the
united way of giving is the best
way.”
General Manager Harold Mer
cer, a past-president of the
Greater Gastonia United Fund,
said;
“It is indeed gratifying that
our people have shown their un
selfish concern for others,
through their response to the
United Fund appeal.”
The business of being a good
neighbor and citizen goes far
ther than just looking in the
mirror and smiling every now
and then.
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UF CONTRIBUTION—General Superintendent Nelson Kessell
(center), hands lo UF vice chairman Charles Zeigler a check for
$16,830, representing the combined gift of Firestone and its Gas
tonia employees to the United Fund. UF drive chairman Harry
Mann looks on.
FOR coMimunFrs' servxce
UNITED
AWARDED TO
FIPeSTOilE TEXTILtS, I.IG. EMPLOYE
IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING
ACHIEVEMENT IN SERVING THE
HUAAAN NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
This Citation of Service recognizes the Firestone Textile con
tribution to ihs 1957 UF appeal.
‘Modern’ Dwelling Adds Fire Danger
In event of fire, it would take
an acrobat to escape from many
of the homes being built today,
a spokesman for the National
Fire Protection Association said
recently.
“Many so-called ‘modern de
signs’ of dwellings have greatly
increased the life hazard to oc
cupants from fires,” NFPA gen
eral manager Percy Bugbee
pointed out.
☆ ☆ ☆
December is Off-the-Job Safe
ly Month at Firestone Textiles.
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He described as particularly
dangerous the “tendency toward
removal of certain doors and
ceiJing-height partitions in the
dwelling and the tendency to
provide small, high windows in
bedrooms from which it would
be impossible to escape in case
of fire.”
Other observations which Mr.
Bugbee made were:
The greatest challenge by far
to fire preventionists today is
the large numbers of fires in
small one and two-family dwell
ings which are caused by simple
and very well-understood haz
ards. Most common of these are:
* Thoughtless disposal of
matches and cigarettes
* Overloaded or defective
electrical wiring
* Overheated stoves and fur
naces
* Needless accumulations of
rubbish
Home fires can be blamed for
the majority of this country’s
fire deaths and fire injuries. Of
the estimated 825,000 building
fires in this country last year,
573,000 were dwelling fires.