MAY, 1958
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"IDEAL ATHLETES OF 1957" pose with General Manager
Harold Mercer (standing, second from right). They are (sealed,
from left): Mazel Johnson and Martha Kendrick; and (standing,
from left): Harold Burgess, Leon Dawkins, and David Rollins (ex
treme right). Leon Dawkins was also chosen one of the two "Most
Competitive Athletes of 1957." The other was Doris McCready,
(standing, center). The sixth "Ideal Athlete", Bill Head, was absent
when the presentation was made.
THE SUPREMACY TROPHY represents the highest number
of awards won by a department during the year. Here, S. L. Owens
(left), overseer in Carding, receives the Trophy for his depart
ment from Nelson KesselL general superintendent at the plant.
It was the first time since 1944 that employees in Carding had had
possession of the honored emblem. In 1945, Spinning tied with
Twisting for the Trophy. When Weaving captured the top-honor
cup in 1957, it broke a tradition which had been established by
Spinning, which had won it for the nine years previous to that time.
Spring Vacations
Gain Popularity
It’s not an unusual idea any
more to think of taking your an
nual vacation in April or May. A
recent survey shows that 60 per
cent of the population now go
on vacation during the months
that were formerly thought of as
off-season.
“More people every year are
discovering the joys of taking
a sightseeing trip before the hot,
crowded summer months make
traveling sometimes more of a
chore than a joy,” according to
the tour director of a major bus
system which operates more
than 72,000 miles of U.S. High
ways, and offers tours from Can
ada to Mexico.
DIVIDING vacation time be
tween peak summer months and
off-season is also gaining in
popularity, the survey showed.
Many employees are getting
longer vacations, and people are
finding it beneficial to split this
leisure time rather than taking
it all at once.
Among the most popular
places which sightseers visit in
springtime are the Great Smoky
Mountains when azaleas, moun
tain laurel and rhododendron
are in bloom; Charleston, S. C.,
for plantation tours, and the
house - and - garden pilgrimages
and tours of colonial Virginia.
MORE THAN 200 OF THEM
Stars Were On Parade At AU-Sports Banquet
At the 22nd All-Sports Banquet in April this year, more than 200 employees and
members of their families stood up to be counted as champions, when they were cited for
noteworthy achievement in their participation in the sports and recreation program
during 1957.
Trophies handed out ranged from the one for the person who landed the biggest fish
last summer to the Supremacy Trophy, the coveted departmental symbol of top
excellence in the greatest number of recreation activities during the year. Also among
the many awards were trophies to each of three women and three men, who had been
elected by their fellow sports as “Ideal Athletes of 1957.”
One man and one woman were selected as “Most Competitive Athletes of 1957,” and
received the Johnson Cup, sponsored by the plant recreation director, Ralph Johnson.
In addition to these general awards, trophies were presented to teams, leagues and
individuals for outstanding achievement in bowling, basketball, billiards, bocce, shuffle-
board, softball, baseball, golf, table tennis, checkers, rifle target shooting, football bowl
guessing, fishing, and garden club activities.
☆ ☆ ☆
Banquet Speaker
Honored
RECOGNITION PLAQUE—The Recreation De
partment lived up to its reputation of bringing
another of the nation's outstanding sports person
alities as speaker for the occasion. This time, it
was Earle Edwards, head football coach at North
Carolina State College. Here recreation director
Ralph Johnson (left), presents Mr. Edwards a
plaque in recognition of the State College Wolf-
pack mentor's leadership in his field of the sports
world.
TOP SCORER — In league
competition the Women's Soft
ball Team was one of several
Firestone champions in the Gas
ton county inter-industry league.
One member, Lillian Deaton,
had the highest batting average
ever recorded for a Firestone
softball team. Her score was
.670.
Bob Purkey Named
To NCRC Post
Bob Purkey is serving as sec
retary and treasurer of the In
dustrial Division of the North
Carolina Recreation Commis
sion. The Firestone assistant rec
reation director, chosen at a re
cent meeting of the organization,
will serve through 1959.
Recreation Director Ralph
Johnson is president-elect of the
State Recreation Commission.
He will take office in Septem
ber.
Check House Wiring For Safe Living
May 19-24 Is National Cotton Week
King Cotton will get his annual salute the week of May 19-24,
when more than 15,000 retail outlets are expected to participate in
the observance of National Cotton Week for 1958. Community-wide
celebrations will be held in more than 100 cities and towns.
Coming at the height of the pre-summer selling season. Na
tional Cotton Week coincides with a period of maximum public in
terest in cotton itself. During May, national magazines devote the
greater part of their coverage of apparel and household fashions
to cotton. There is more cotton product advertising in May than in
any other month in the year.
If your house is over ten years
old, there’s a good chance that
it’s among the more than 20
million in the United States that
suffer from inadequate wiring.
If the lights dim or flicker
when the automatic toaster is
turned on, and if the bread in
the toaster pops up only half
browned, your wiring is likely
overloaded.
Reason for the overload today
is that there are more appliances
in use than there were ten years
ago. Such things as television
sets were new on the scene a
decade ago. Today the number
reaches into the several millions.
There are millions more radio
sets, too.
Most homes today have a min
imum of eight kinds of appli
ances: TV, radio, refrigerator,
iron, electric clock, washer,
toaster, and vacuum cleaner.
Put too many of these on one
circuit and, poof! There goes a
fuse—or maybe a fire.
MANY American homes have
only 30 or 60 amperes service.
Electricians say that 100 am
peres are barely ample. A 30-
ampere entrance service is one
in which a maximum of 3,600
watts are available in the house
at any time.
The wattage rating of an au
tomatic toaster is 1,100 watts,
hand iron, 1,000, TV and re
frigerator, 300 each. These, along
with a few other appliances
turned on at once, may consti
tute an overload.
If there is any doubt about the
adequacy of your electric wiring,
a checkup by an expert may
save you money in the long run
and possibly the lives of you and
your family.
Joyce Redding
Is BSU Leader
Miss Joyce Redding is serving
for the 1958-59 term as secretary
of the Baptist Student Union of
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, Boone. She was installed
on Sunday, April 13, at the First
Baptist Church of Boone.
A rising senior. Miss Redding
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Redding, and is a gram-
mar-grade education major. She
has served as the BSU repre
sentative to the religious coun
cil at Appalachian.
Her father is a humidifier op
erator here; her mother works
in Spooling.
THE HILLS BEYOND
Funeral services for H. E.
Funderburk were held April 20
at First AR Presbyterian Church
in Charlotte, and burial was in
Forest Lawn Park there. Sur
vivors besides Mrs. Funderburk
and a daughter are 14 of his
brothers and sisters and step
brothers and step-sisters. Among
them is a step-brother, Paul
Walker, foreman in the Roller
Shop.
Funeral for Mrs. Docie Laney
Deese, 86, of Lancaster County,
S. C., was held March 31, at
Mount Zion Baptist Church,
near Monroe, N. C.
Her son, William L. Deese, is
an intermediate frame tender in
Carding.
The North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles says that
the average car is not as young
as it used to be.
Check yours for signs of age—
and check accidents.