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PAGE 2 s^gwi JULY, 1958 GOING PLACES. . . SEEING THINGS Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Falls and daughter Hollis spent a recent week-end in Savannah, Ga., where they visited with Mrs. Falls’ sister, Mrs. L. L. Wofford. Mrs. Falls is in Payroll. Mrs. Beatrice McCarter of Payroll, her daughter Janet Ford and her children, Jan and Rusty, spent several days in Waynesville, N. C. They visited Mrs. McCarter’s sister, Mrs. Claude Woodard. Also visiting Mrs. Woodard recently were Miss Helen Spencer, Main Office; and her daughter, Susan. Mrs. Novella James of Main Office, Mrs. Mozelle Brockman, Billy Owens and their father, S. L. Owens, overseer in Carding, spent one day in Durham recently. A stop at Myrtle Beach, S. C., was highlight of a recent week end trip for Mrs. Gene Alexander and her family. Mrs. Glenna McGinnis visited her mother, Mrs. Earline Gordon, in Tryon, N. C., recently. Mrs. Gordon used to work at Firestone. Kenneth Tompkins visited his brother, R. L. Tompkins, pur chasing agent, on a two-week vacation in June. Kenneth lives in Mansfield, Ohio. Shop Jerry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sparrow, is spending this summer at Warren-Wilson College, Swannanoa, where he is taking one course, working in the machine shop and operating a bulldozer part-time. Jerry will begin his sophomore year there this fall. His father is on the grounds maintenance force at Firestone. Louise, oldest daughter of the Sparrows, is attending summer school at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C. Beginning this fall she will be on the faculty of Armstrong School, Gastonia. This will be her second year at Armstrong. B-FCliOlltlSC Mrs. Albert Meeks is back home after having completed a course in senior mission study methods at a Presbyterian Church school in Winston-Salem. Her husband works in the Warehouse. Mrs. Jack Wellmon has returned home after a month spent in a Gastonia hospital, where she recovered from injuries received in an auto accident. She expresses her appreciation to her friends who visited her in the hospital. Her husband works in the Ware house. Ralph Deal, yarn hauler, has recovered from a surgical opera tion. Faye Ross, winder tender, spent a recent week-end at the Isle of Palms, Charleston, S. C. Wide Range Of Travel Attractions In July July is the most popular travel month of the year in the Carolinas. Resorts from mountains to seashore, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore area are samplings of places to go. Things to do across the Carolinas range from hiking and golf in the mountains to deepsea fish ing off the coast. Festivals, sports events, drama and one of the country’s largest crafts exhibits add further variety and color to the on-the-go picture in July. Thus reminds the Travel Information Service of Plant Recreation, which each month posts a list of suggestions designed to help you to a bet ter enjoyment of your trip away from the job. ASHEVILLE will be host to the 11th annual Craftsman’s Fair of the Southern Highlands July 14-18. Skilled workers in over 50 different kinds of crafts display their finest wares, demonstrate their skills, and serve as instructors at the “Try- it-Yourself” booths which give visitors an op portunity to test their own talents at loom, work bench, or potter’s wheel. The new exhibit “At Home in Your Home”, will show rooms furnish ed and decorated with traditional and modern crafts produced by members of the Southern Handicraft Guild. Does the lore of Scotland’s highlands strike a tender cord in your sentiment? Then go to Mac- Rae Meadows at the base of Grandfather Moun tain near Linville July 13, for the third annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and Scottish Clans Gathering. The day-long event is highlighted by contests for tossing the caber and dancing the highland fling. A church service with the singing of ancient Scottish hymns will be a part of the program. It has become quite common for employees and members of their families to make Camp Firestone on Lake James near Marion the take off point from which to travel to the many points of interest in the “Land of the Sky.” Examples of main attractions are the several outdoor historical dramas in the area, most fa mous of which is the Cherokees’ story, “Unto These Hills”, at Cherokee. Across the ridge at Gatlinburg is “Chucky Jack”, centering in the life and times of John Sevier, Revolutionary hero and first governor of Tennessee. And “Horn in the West” plays through August at Boone. SUMMER theatre of the outdoor type is en joyed at Flat Rock Playhouse, Flat Rock; Silo Circle Playhouse, Black Mountain; Parkway Playhouse, Burnsville; and Oberammergau Pas sion Play, Hendersonville. The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will be held in Asheville August 7-9. Since 1927, dance teams, ballad singers and musicians from all parts of the Southern Appalachian take part. Folklore and ballads authority Bascom Lamar Lunsford is founder and director. Beauty Pageant Contestant Dorothy Keenum (right) was the Firestone-family contestant in the “Miss Gastonia” beauty pageant staged by the Jaycees at Ashley High School June 21. She is the daughter of Ernest Keenum, supply room clerk, and Mrs. Kennum. As her talent por tion of the program, she recited a dialog in verse entitled “Don’t Quit.” A 1958 graduate of Ashley High School, Dorothy is in her first term of nursing education at Gaston Memorial Hospital. Whiteners Live In Goldsboro Mr. and Mrs. William L. Whitener are at home in Golds boro, after their wedding at First AR Presbyterian Church in Gas tonia, June 21. A member of the regular Air Force, he is stationed at Seymour Johnson Field. Mrs. Whitener is the former Joyce Wilson of Gastonia. He is the son of Tracy Whitener, sec ond hand in cord Weaving; and Mrs. Whitener of Splicing. Mr. and Mrs. William Hance of Woodruff, S. C., visited on a June week end with Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Edmond. Mrs. Edmond is a reclaimer in cotton twisting. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hughes of cotton and rayon twisting spent a recent week end with Technical Sergeant Paul Table and Mrs. Table in Hampton, Va. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. James Bradshaw, Jr., had as a recent week end guest their daughter, Mrs. Gerry Green of Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Bradshaw is a tie-in-hand in cotton twisting. Overseer Vernon Lovingood, cotton twisting, and his family spent a recent week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lovingood, in Murphy, N. C. Going to Hendersonville, N. C. for a visit were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith and family. There they visited a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Woody. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hughes had as week end guests in June their son Edward and members of his family, from Charleston, South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Edmond spent a June week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Blackman in Darlington, S. C. Mrs. Blackman and Mrs. Edmond are sisters. Among the many employees’ sons and daughters who were spring graduates at Ashley High School was Leonard McMillan, son of John A. McMillan, cotton twisting. W. A. Johnson of Spinning and Mrs. Johnson, splicer in syn thetic Twisting, visited in mid-June with their son, Lee Johnson, who lives in Halifax, N. C. Kathleen Chambers of Jacksonville, Fla., visited for the week ending June 14 with her parents, Otho Chambers, splicer fixer, and Mrs. Chambers, respooler tender in Twisting. Another daughter, Evelyn Chambers, is spending the summer with her parents here. Last year Evelyn was a teacher of the sixth grade at Lake Park School in West Palm Beach, Fla. John Fletcher of the Shop, Mrs. Fletcher of synthetic Twisting; Edgar Foy, Shop, and Mrs. Foy of Twisting; Paul Walker, roller shop, and Mrs. Walker went together for a visit at Camp Firestone on a week end in mid-June. Camp Firestone, on the shore of Lake James near Marion, N. C., is operated for employees and members of their immediate families. Service Records Listed For June Five persons whose names were added to the 15-year serv ice roster in June brought the total number of employees in that category to 552. With no names added to the 20-year list in June, that number remained at 280. In addition to the 15-year peo ple who received their service pins, one was added to the rec ord for 10 years of employment, while the 5-year list was in creased by 8. They have received their pins also. They are; Ten Years George E. Harper, Jr. Warehouse. Five Years Loyl W. Quinn, Carding; Wal ter P. Tate, Cloth Room; Aaron W. Owen, Charlie F. Setzer, Shop; Jessie Lee McFee, Wind ing; Charles R. Wylie, Spooling; Gilbert Thomas Hunter, Rayon Twisting; Marjorie B. Hill, Main Office. There are 15 million more jobs in the United States today than in 1939. By 1975 there will be 22 million more jobs than today. The future of America holds new promise for all. Volume VII, No. 8, July, 1958 Published by The Fireslone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. Department of Industrial Relations DEPARTMENT REPORTERS CARDING—Edna Harris, Jessie Ammons. SPINNING—Lillie Brown, Mary Turner, Maude Peeler. SPOOLING—Nell Bolick, Ophelia Wallace, Rosalie Burger. TWISTING—Elease Cole, Vera Carswell, Katie Elkins, Annie Cosey, Catherine Fletcher. SALES YARN TWISTING—Elmina Brad shaw. SYC WEAVING—M a X i e Carey, Ruth Veitch. CORD WEAVING — Irene Odell, Mary Johnson, Samuel Hill. QUALITY CONTROL — Sally Crawford, Leila Rape, and Louella Queen. WINDING—Mayzelle Lewis, Ruth Clon- inger. CLOTH ROOM—Margie Waldrep, Mildred McLeymore SHOP—Rosie Francum. PLASTIC DIP—Jennie Bradley. MAIN OFFICE—Doris McCready. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS—Flora Pence. WAREHOUSE—George Harper, Albert Meeks, Rosevelt Rainey, Marjorie Falls. Claude Callaway, Editor Charles Clark, Photographer
