Two Publications Honored
COTTONTAIL BOXES — On a warm fall THE RECORD—Retiree Dunlevy goes over
afternoon the hobbyist reconditions one of his a page of entries in his carefully-maintained
rabbit traps, readying it for the hunting season. "account book."
Life’s Afterglow Rich For Retiree Dunlevy
Two Firestone plant news
papers in the United States have
received honors in recent weeks.
Firestone News, Gastonia, was
named the year’s “most out
standing newspaper-type publi
cation among trade papers in
the South.” The citation came
at the 12th annual convention
Steel Rims Made
By New Methods
Two advanced manufacturing
processes are making possible
mass production of heavy-duty,
precision truck wheels at Fire
stone’s Wyandotte, Mich, plant.
The methods — spin-forming
and thru-welding — are being
used to produce the new Accu-
Ride wheel, said to be “the
truest-rolling wheel of its type
ever produced.”
Of all methods now in use,
spin-forming employs the most
precision in fashioning wheel
discs. As the disc is formed over
a mandrel, it is tapered uniform
ly.
Sew a fine seam, bake a cake,
strut in the Jackettes squad out
front of the Dallas High School
Band. These are but three of the
talents you’ll find in sisters
Patsy and Louise Rhyne, whose
mother is a twister tender at
Firestone.
Both daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Rhyne are members of
the Future Homemakers of
America chapter at Dallas High.
Louise is in the eleventh grade;
Patsy, in the ninth.
This is Patsy’s first year as a
member of the Jackettes march
ing squad, spearheading unit to
the Dallas High School Band,
and top booster for the school’s
Yellow Jacket football team.
Red-letter date this season for
the Jackettes and the Band is
the 13th annual Carolinas Car
rousel Pageant Parade in Char
lotte, November 26.
Louise’s interest in the home
arts began before she put away
her dolls. She’s been right handy
With the family meals since she
Wasi in the seventh grade.
Louise prepared the featured
cinnamon apple salad especially
for this month’s Family Living
of the South Atlantic Council of
Industrial Editors, at Asheville
in October.
The Gastonia paper also re
ceived honorable mention for
general excellence in photo
graphic quality. The News is
among some 75 publications rep
resented in the SACIE member
ship in the Carolinas and Vir
ginia.
The other award went to the
Firestone Hawkeye at Des
Moines for general excellence of
content. It was presented at the
annual fall meeting of the Iowa
Industrial Editors Association at
Keokuk.
Thru-welding, also new in
production of large wheels, is a
method used to unite rim and
disc—the two parts of a wheel.
Heretofore, this step was usually
accomplished by riveting or
spot-welding.
Eight years of research and
production, and 150 million miles
of testing have gone into the
Accu-Ride.
article. Her recipe is particular
ly appropriate for preparing
during the Thanksgiving season.
Cinnamon Apple Salad
4 medium-size red apples
2 cups water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped English
walnuts
1/2 cup cinnamon “hot” candies
1 3-ounce pkg. cream cheese
1 teaspoon mayonnaise
Prepare syrup of water, sugar
and cinnamon candy. Peel and
remove apple centers. Put apples
in slowly-boiling syrup and turn
over carefully several times to
get even coloring and thorough
cooking.
Chill apples thoroughly and
fill centers with cream cheese to
which has been added the may
onnaise and chopped walnuts.
Top each apple with a half wal
nut kernel.
Olives and walnut - coated
cheese balls add interest and
tastiness to the finished dish,
says Louise. “This salad—gorge
ous looking but simple to pre
pare—tastes like a million,” she
adds. It serves four.
An adventure in contentment
pretty aptly describes the “after
glow years” of life for D. L.
Dunlevy, who retired from the
Mechanical department here 14
years ago. At his attractive
white house and its well-kept
grounds on Route 1, Dallas, his
memories of almost a half-cen-
tury in textile mills do not
stifle an active schedule of re
warding hobbies and other
worthwhile endeavors.
One of the first to retire from
Firestone in Gastonia, Mr. Dun
levy put in his last day as a ma
chinist here February 24, 1945.
He continued to live in Gastonia
until he bought his “little home-
place” near Dallas around four
yeara ago. Since then, he and
Mrs. Dunlevy have improved the
house and workshop, and turned
the grounds into a model land
scaped garden of flowers, shrubs,
fruit-bearing trees and a vege
table “patch.”
ALTHOUGH he is quick to
ascribe much of the “outside”
work to his wife, the retiree owns
credit for such projects as the
grape vines, and certain of the
several varieties of roses and
other flowering things.
If you visit the Dunlevys, he
will most likely bring out a dog
eared combination diary and ac
count book for some recollec
tions of his work of yesteryear.
A South Carolinian, he recalls
that as a youngster he was a
learner in a Columbia cotton
mill, where his first pay was 50
cents a day—and long hours,
too.
That first job was cleaning
looms, but when he moved on to
a humidifier caretaker assign
ment, his pay increased to 65
cents a day. Later, learning the
mechanical trade in the shop
there, he earned $1 a day, and
after a year, $1.50. There were
succeeding pay increases during
his stay in that department off-
and-on from 1905 to 1918.
THEN there was a stretch of
about 30 years in a duck mill at
Columbia. He remembers that
this was one of the first textile
mills in the South to convert
from waterpower to electricity.
Somewhere in those years, he
tried his hand at the mercantile
business.
In early 1933 he heard of
greener pastures in Gastonia,
loaded the family into the Model
T and came to Loray Mill, fore
runner of Firestone Textiles.
After a while, another job offer
took him to Lyman, S. C., where
he worked in a cotton mill until
1936, the year he returned to
Gastonia. In the meantime Fire
stone had acquired ownership of
the mill here. From then on he
stayed here until his retirement,
the last 12 years of employment
being in the Shop, mostly as a
lathe operator.
BESIDES his projects around
the house nowadays, he does
some traveling and visiting,
along with an occasional fishing
jaunt to the Catawba and the
Atlantic coast. And there’s the
fall-winter season of rabbit
trapping, with wooden boxes
which he builds in his home
workshop.
Surveying the years, he likes
to think of his pleasant rela
tionships with people at Fire
stone.
“I can’t begin to count all the
friends from my working years
at ‘The Mill’,” he says. “This
story in the plant paper is an
opportunity to greet them all,
since I can’t get around to visit
as often as I’d like to any more.”
Company Promotes
Youth Safety
The Firestone company is fi
nancially supporting the first
organization of youth ever es
tablished to promote safety on
a nationwide basis. The National
Student Safety Association, run
by high school students from all
50 States, is a central clearing
house for ideas on safety.
It coordinates efforts of schools
and communities throughout the
United States on a scale never
before possible, because of ab
sence of central organization.
Martin G. McGuinn Jr., a high
school senior from Princeton,
N. J., was elected president of
the organization at a recent
Firestone - sponsored National
Student Traffic Safety Confer
ence in Kansas City, Mo. Two
students from each of the 50
States were present.
The conference was organized
by the National Education Asso
ciation, under a money grant
from Firestone.
Watching TV, you may be experiencing eyestrain and not be
aware of it. The difficulty most likely comes from surroundings
that are improperly lighted. These will help;
Arrange lamps to give equal lighting over the entire room,
keeping them far enough from the walls to prevent bright spots.
See that reflections do not appear on the screen. For the best eye
comfort, sit between 8 and 12 feet from the set—the larger the
screen, the farther away.
Most important—Never watch television in a dark room.
BIG, LITTLE,
IN BETWEEN
Whatever you need in
style and size of safety
shoes, it is available
through plant supply.
These two samples, rep
resenting shoes worn by
employees here, ap
proximate both ends of
the size and style scale.
They suggest the wide
range from which to
choose footwear with
built-in features for pro
tection both on and off
the job.
RHYNE CHILDREN—Eager to sample the tastiness of cinnamon
apple salad are Johnnie (left) and Wayne. In center: Patsy (left),
and Louise.
FAMILY LIVING
Apple Salad A Taste Delight
NOVEMBER, 1959 PAGE 3