GOING PLACES . . . SEEING THINGS
February; Gateway To The Outdoor Season
ARTIST'S SKETCH of Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer
Research, being built near Denver, Colo. Construction began last
November 16. on the 75th birthday of Mrs. Roosevelt. Mail ad
dress of this humanitarian project is 801 Second avenue. New
York 17, N. Y.
ADVENTURE IN BROTHERHOOD
Cancer Research Institute Progresses
Spring with the call of the
outdoors arrives in February—
ahead of the calendar — along
the southeast coast of the Caro-
linas and at mid-South resort
areas. This reminder from Plant
Recreation is in the interest of
worthwhile travel and recrea
tional activities for Firestone
employees and their families.
For the period of February
through mid-March, Firestone
travelers will note that festivals,
garden tours and flower shows
highlight the spring pattern, as
the green-up season moves
across the North State from sea-
level to mile - high mountain
crests.
BEGINNING with the Christ
mas season, pink, red and white
camellias have brightened the
Eastern Carolinas, and the Sand
hills of the North State. Out
standing points to visit are Orton
Plantation near Wilmington and
Clarendon Gardens at Pinehurst.
February 27 and 28 are dates of
the 17th annual Camellia Show
at Wilmington, sponsored by the
Men’s Tidewater Garden Club
there.
By mid-March, Azaleas begin
to appear, with dogwood, wis
teria and other flowering shrubs
brightening the wayside until
late April. Firestone people
traveling US 17 in March, have
a treat in store in such beauty
spots as the plantations and gar
dens near Southport, and the
former Colonial capitals of
Edenton and New Bern, with
their stately homes and public
buildings surrounded by spring
blossoms.
Waldensian Festival
Has Old World Touch
Of outstanding February
events, Plant Recreation sug
gests a trip to Valdese on US
70, where in the Blue Ridge
foothills you can visit one of
the South’s most unusual com
munities.
Bloodmobile
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qualify for a six-month period,
when 15 or more per cent of em
ployees donate blood.
Under the same system, de
partments can qualify separate
ly, each donating 25 pints, or
20 per cent for total employees
— whichever is larger — within
the period covered by the six-
month agreement.
In recent years at Firestone,
the Mechanical department and
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Valdese in Burke county is a
little more than an hour’s drive
from Gastonia. It was settled in
1893 by people who came there
from around Turin in the Alps
of northwestern Italy. Having
come from near the French
border, they speak both Italian
and French.
When the Waldensians came
to Valdese they set out to build
a New World community as
much like the old one as pos
sible. So they erected stone
houses and planted vineyards.
Most of the stone houses are
still there and the vineyards are
still tended.
Here on February 17, you can
share in the 112th annual Wal-
densiari Independence Day pro
gram.
This enterprising town of al
most 3,000 population has be
come the end of the Waldensians’
search for freedom of worship.
They are said to be the world’s
oldest continuing group of
evangelical Christians, dating
from the 12th century. Peter
Waldo, a wealthy merchant of
Lyons, France, first gathered a
following after he had given his
money to the poor and vowed
a life of strict religious devo
tion.
Then came more than seven
centuries of difficult history for
these people. In 1898, a number
of Waldensian families settled
on 3,000 acres of land they
bought around Valdese, and set
about to build a community that
today bears many marks of the
Old World. There is the church
with the lancet windows, and its
second-floor museum which is
open to visitors.
But if you want the rich story
of Valdese, attend the Independ
ence Day program there Febru
ary 17. Admission is by ticket.
Offices and Supervision have
qualified under this program.
The group system allows a
credit card to each employee of
a qualifying department. It en
titles the card holder and cer
tain members of his or her
household to receive all blood
they might need — provided
blood is available at the time
needed.
As always, persons who do
nate blood but are not included
in a group plan, have individual
eligibility through the Red Cross
blood program.
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Some More Variety
In Travel Picture
Additional entries on the Feb
ruary travel calendar in North
Carolina which may be of in
terest to Firestone travelers:
Raleigh: NC State College
Fine Arts Festival, February
11-23; Hoffman: Gun Dog Class
ics, NC Field Trial Association,
18-20; Tryon: Bird Dog Field
Trials, 27; Chapel Hill: “New
Heavens”, Morehead Planetari
um, 16-March 14; Whiteville:
Camellia Society Show, 27-28.
And into March—
Asheville: Better Living Ex
position, sponsored by Citizen-
Times newspaper, March 1-4;
Charlotte; Sportsman’s Motor
Boat and Vacation Show of the
Carolinas, 1-6; Raleigh: seventh
annual Atlantic Coast Basketball
Tournament, 3-5; Fayetteville:
Garden Club Camellia Show, 5-
6; Greensboro: Arts Festival, 8-
12; Ringling Brothers Barnum
and Bailey Circus, 11-13; Eliza
beth City: Albemarle Camellia
Show, 12-13.
Science Promises
Wonders For Home
The march of progress in
America touches almost every
aspect of people’s lives. You
hear quite a bit of comment,
these days on progress in indus
try which enables manufactur
ing to keep pace with the ad
vancing demand for goods.
As the future unfolds, the
home itself wjll be the scene of
drastic changes for better living
—all possible through progress,
and change.
An Indiana University profes
sor recently envisioned elec
tronics and ultrasonics as mak
ing our home workloads remark
ably easier in another 15 years
—maybe less time than that.
By 1967, he said, “Those
household appliances which are
now in the semi-luxury class,
will be standard equipment in
most homes.
“There will be appliances un
believably new, and new de
velopments in old ones. Ex
amples: Ultrasonic machines for
washing clothes, and dishes;
electronic dust filters . . . elec
tronic methods of sound repro
duction which will render to
day’s hi-fi and stereo out-of-date
. . . electronic stoves that will
prepare a meal in seconds. . .”
Four employees with
two-gallon blood don
ors records have each
been awarded a ster
ling ball - point pen.
Luther Brown of
Methods and Stand
ards (right center),
receives his pen from
L. B. McAbee, assist
ant Cotton production
manager. Looking on
at extreme left is gen
eral manager Harold
Mercer; at right, chief
production manager
F. B. Galligan. Others
besides Mr. Brown
who received pens
(from left); James
Cooper, Methods and
Standards; Ray Thom
as, Spinning; John
Verdery, cotton office.
In the Rocky Mountain foot
hills near Denver a few weeks
ago, a spade of upturned earth
marked the beginning of new
hope in the struggle against one
of man’s greatest enemies.
On hand were people of good
will, whose love for others had
involved them in this drama of
life and hope. And all who had
a part in this beginning rejoic
ed, as a research center was on
its way to reality.
The Eleanor Roosevelt In
stitute for Cancer Research,
named in honor of the former
First Lady’s dedication to the
health and welfare of the
world’s peoples, is on the
grounds of the American Medi
cal Center, and near the hospital
it maintains for patients in all
stages of cancer.
THE HOSPITAL is one of the
few in the country where can
cer patients in advanced stages
can be cared for indefinitely.
Firestone’s outstanding record
in auto racing during 1959 was
a glowing introduction to the
company’s second half-century
in this field.
Winning the top four places
in the first international race of
compact cars in December
brought the company’s 50th an
niversary of racing to a dra
matic close. At the race in Se-
bring, Fla., Firestone was in di
rect competition with major tire
manufacturers the world over.
Seven of the cars placing in
the top ten at Sebring were roll
ing on Firestone tires; and win
ner Walt Hansgen — who also
was awarded the 1959 National
Class C modified crown—had
used Firestone tires exclusively
during the year.
Record Set At Daytona
The company's winning record
last year began when Lee Petty
of Randleman, N. C. won at the
new Daytona International
Speedway in February with a
new world record speed for
stock cars: 135.521 mph for the
500 miles.
Five months later, Glen “Fire
ball” Roberts set a 250-mile
world stock car record in aver
aging 140.581 mph at the Day
tona Firecracker 250.
Championship races broke
The open-door policy means
treatment and care without
charge to all who can be ad
mitted. Already, this hospitaliza
tion has resulted in restoring to
their families many cancer pa
tients considered “hopeless” and
“incurable.”
Success of this hospital en
couraged the establishment of
the research center in which
doctor, research specialist and
patient will form a partnership
in the fight to banish a disease
that has killed more Americans
than all our wars.
Working in laboratories made
possible by contributions of
Americans from all Ihe States,
research scientists will br wag
ing a battle against time, to
solve the age-old riddles of can
cer.
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some records, too. In April, Jim
Rathman set a world mark of
170.26 mph at Daytona, erasing
his own top record of 166.72 set
when he won the Monza, Italy,
International 500 in 1958.
For the 36th time in a row,
the Indianapolis 500-mile race
was won on Firestone tires, as
Rodger Ward set 10 records en-
route to the fastest Memorial
Day classic of them all. His 200
trips around the 2V2-mile speed
track at an average of 135.857
mph topped Sam Hanks’ 1957
mark of 135.601.
There were other Firestone
victories, like those at Pikes
Peak, Colo. There, Bob Unser
and Nick Sanborn repeated as
winners of the championship
and stock car divisions of the
37th annual Pikes Peak hill
climb, and Ak Miller won the
sports car competition. Unser
drove his Grandview Special
over the rough 12:42-mile course
in a record 13:36.5.
At the Bonneville National
Speed Trails on the salt flats of
Utah, 23 new speed records
were established — 16 by cars
with Firestone tires. Firestone
used its regular Bonneville pr^'
duction tires, rather than having
special tires made for individual
cars — a fact that made the
record even more impressive.
FOR FIRESTONE
Auto Racing In 51st Year