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PAGE 8 S^lWS MARCH, 1958 ■ IN FEBRUARY Estelle T. Cooper of Spinning received of Gen eral Manag2r Harold Mercer her watch for 20 years of service. On hand to add a word of congratulation was James M. Cooper, chief engineer of Methods and Standards. SERVICE MILESTONES One More At 20-Year Mark; Others Have Long Records The years flew by almost as fast as the motion of the spindles, leaving Estelle T. Cooper eager to work well into her second score of years at the plant here. When she was honored in February for her 20 years of service, she became the 277th person at the Gastonia plant to reach this dis tinguished milestone. As Mrs. Cooper received her gold watch and lapel pin, there were seven others who were awarded service pins for 15- year records. Several, too, were added to the ten and five-year lists. The February roster; Fifteen Years Rayon Twisting; Leonard Green, Andrew J. Webb; Rayon Weaving; Ralph W. Myers, Blanche E. Hovis, Pauline Stroupe; Shop: Robert H. Har- SELLS THEM FOR PETS Yarn Packer Raises Ring-Necked Pheasants mon; Warehouse; McBrie Sanders. Ten Years Carding: James T. Helms, Ida I. Welch; Spooling: Addie W. Deaton; Rayon Twisting: Harlan E. Butler; Rayon Weaving: Wil liam L. Tench, Jr.; Cotton Weav ing: Rose B. Dodgen. Five Years Carding: Hoyt W. Benton; Spinning: Clinion B. Myers; Rayon Twisting: Howard J. Gib- bie, Hovert Mann, Jr., Doris M. Wall, J. C. Mahaffey, James Moses, Jr., Dillard R. Palmer, Herman H. Hughes; Shop; Cramer McDaniel; Winding; Ethel L. C. Neal; Main Office; Cornelia McCarver. A yarn packer in Sales Wind ing finds rich rewards in rais ing ring-necked pheasants on his little farm out behind Boger Mountain. Ernest Meek, for the past three years employed as a packing and banding machine operator here, got a start with his interesting hobby when he set a Bantam hen on pheasant eggs about three years ago. From that “hatching” he began with two birds. Once since that time he had more than 100 birds on hand. Last spring there were 42. On a recent count, he had 30. Along with his pheasants, Mr. Meek has “sort of accidentally” acquired two wild doves and a dozen Bantam chickens. The doves were rescued from a nest in a tree near the Meek acreage and given a home. These birds have become so well adjusted to their feathered neighbors that they give no evidence of wish ing to fly back into the wild. RAISING ring-necked pheas ants can be a paying enterprise as well as an interesting pas time, says Mr. Meek. “Of course you’ve got to fig ure closely on your operating expenses and look out for a mar ket for the birds you produce,” he explains. “Too, you always have to consider that living things are subject to disease— and there are ailments peculiar to pheasants.” The fowl which Mr. Meek raises are produced from eggs incubated under his Bantam hens since pheasants hens do not set very well. The pheasants go through three feather-shed ding stages before they are ful ly grown. Once the females be gin to produce, they pretty con sistently stay on the job every day from around mid-April through August. One feature of Mr. Meek’s in teresting hobby is the history of ☆ ☆ ☆ Ernest Meek, Sales Yarn Winding, has been raising ring- necked pheasants for three years. With him here are some of the beautifully-plumed fowl. Of these native Chinese birds the cock has the colorful ring around the neck. the ring-necked pheasant in this country. The ring-necked, one of many varieties of pheasants, is a native of China. It was first introduced into the United States in 1880, by an American who made two importations from Shanghai. HE SUCCEEDED in landing 22 cocks and 20 hens and liberat ed them in the Willamette Val ley of Oregon. From that begin ning they multiplied greatly and by 1892, when an , open season, was declared, the first day’s hunting netted some 50,000 birds. Following this, many breeding experiments failed, un til the population was greatly reduced. In the intervening years, hunting laws have protected the birds by regulating the seasons in which it is permissible to hunt them, Mr, Meeks points out that ring-necks are prized as color ful pets and for the delicacy of their meat, “I often have more requests than I can fiU for the birds as pets,” he says. The employee points out that in North Caro lina there is a law forbidding the sale of this bird for food. It is permissible to sell the eggs which for their food value are much like the guinea egg. Since some states have no re striction on the sale of the birds, you can sometimes find canned pheasant at the grocery store. Looks like Nature is bent on making us work. The less hair we have to comb, the more face we have to wash. Beckham-F o wler Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Fowler, Jr., are at home in Gastonia, after their recent marriage in Bradley Memorial Methodist Church here. Mrs. Fowler is the former Miss Maude Beckham, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy Beckham, Spool ing. Miss Fowler is a graduate of Burton Junior College and is now employed in the office of the clerk of court in Gastonia. Her husband was educated in Mount Holly schools, the Uni versity of North Carolina, and the school of law at UNC. RECREATION LEADERS MEET Firestone was host to 25 members of the board of directors of the North Carolina Recreation Society, at a quarterly meeting here in February. Attending the two-day business session at the Recreation Center were recreation leaders from every section of the state, representing business and industry, municipalities, churches, schools, hospitals and the armed forces. v Here, reviewing notes from the meeting are (front row, from left): Miss Mae Crandall, Mooresville, past president of the Society; Miss Mable Smith, Greensboro, current secretary, and (back row, from left): James S. Stevens, Jr., Raleigh, NCRS president; Lonnie Powell, Raleigh, treasurer; Ralph Johnson, Firestone recreation director and president-elect of the Society; and Bert Gillette, Wil son, current vice president. The next meeting of the group will be held in July at Thomas- ville. FIRESTONE TEXTILES P. O. BOX 551 GASTONIA, N. C. SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID GASTONIA, N. C. PERMIT NO. 29 Form 3547 Requested
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