May: ^See North Carolina’ Month
YOUR
TRAVEL
NOTEBOOK
INFORMATION—Just before leaving for New York, Mr. and
Mrs. Yelton and sons Gary (left) and Bruce caught up on geo
graphical facts of South America's southernmost country.
Yelton To Argentine Factory
When members of the
Thomas Yelton family step
ped off the Scandinavian jet
airliner in Buenos Aires on
May 3, they took a hurried
look at South America’s larg
est city before traveling in
land some 30 miles to their
new home at Llallavoll.
Mr. and Mrs. Yelton and sons
Bruce and Gary look forward to
a minimum of three years at
Llallavoll, the town where Fire
stone operates a textile factory.
Mr. Yelton has been assigned
to the management staff there.
The family left New York May
2, and 18 hours later arrived in
Argentina’s “City of Fair Breez
es”. Their household belongings
had been sent by boat to Buenos
Aires.
Firestone Helps
Summer Bloom
If you got your free zinnia
seeds at a Firestone retail out
let this spring, you can look for
ward to a garden of gay colors
that will add much to the beauty
and festive look of your neigh
borhood all summer long.
The Burpee-produced hybrid
Firestone zinnia is one of the
loveliest annual flowers, blos
soming through July and August
—and on to the first frost.
Each year the seeds are avail
able only through Firestone
dealers and stores. For 20 years
now, more than two million
packets of the seeds have been
distributed at springtime
through company outlets across
the country.
Each envelope of 100 seeds
features an assortment of red,
orange, pink, yellow and white.
The fluffy or ruffled type zin
nias grow to about three feet,
making an excellent backdrop
for tiered or split-level flower
beds, as well as decoration
around porches and patios, or
for sidewalk borders.
Zinnias also lend themselves
easily to almost any type of de
sign of flower arrangement in
the home. A few giant blossoms
placed dramatically with other
flowers can lend new dimension
to an arranger’s creativity.
Since joining the Gastonia
plant staff in January this year,
Mr. Yelton was in a training
program here and at the com
pany’s home factories in Akron,
Ohio—in preparation for his as
signment at the Argentine op
eration.
IN HIS new job, he follows
Jesse Williams, who went from
Gastonia to Llallavoll in March
of 1958, and was recently trans
ferred to the company’s textile
plant at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The new staff member at
Llallavoll was graduated from
high school in his hometown of
Rutherfordton, N. C., then serv
ed two years with the Marine
Corps. He received a BS degree
in textile engineering from
Clemson College in 1952, and in
the few years that followed was
associated with three of the
country’s leading textile pro
ducers of cotton and synthetic
materials before joining the
Firestone organization early this
year.
In Llallavoll, the Yeltons’ son
Bruce, age 10, will enter the
fifth grade at school. He can
look forward to a 10-month
school term, with two 30-day
vacation periods a year.
Although there will be some
English spoken on the job at the
Firestone plant there, the Yel
tons’ most immediate challenge
is the learning of Spanish.
A choice combination of spring and summer
makes May a month of mountain flowers and
introduces deepsea fishing and the opening of
the surf-sun season along North Carolina’s
“Gamefish Junction” coast.
A lively calendar of traveler attractions makes
May one of the best times of the year for going
places in Tar Heel Land. That’s one reason May
has been established as “See North Carolina”
month, to emphasize the State’s wide variety of
vacation lands, and to encourage in-State travel.
“See N. C.” month is dedicated “to the wider
use and greater enjoyment of North Carolinians
of their own unequalled vacation travel attrac
tions—not only in May, but throughout the
year”.
Sun-Fun Season: Hooray!
Many employees—emerging from a long, hard
winter—have anxiously longed for this time of
year, and the beach season. Now, with surf and
pier fishing good along the beaches, charter
boats take anglers to blue water in May for
marlin, sailfish and other deepsea species. Five
new ocean fishing piers have been added at
beach resorts, giving the State’s coastal play
ground a total of 26.
Mountain trout streams and lakes are open
in the Blue Ridge and other ranges, and trout
waters in the Great Smokies National Park open
May 16. Saltwater fishing contests are underway
along the coast, and inland lakes fishing is good.
Of recent addition on the coast are picnicking
and camping spots in Cape Hatteras National
Seashore Area on Bodie, and on Hatteras and
Ocracoke Islands. Westward, more picnicking
and camping areas and a community building in
Nutbush Recreational Area at Satterwhite Point
await you at Kerr Reservoir, Henderson.
On to the mountains, new and improved roads
connect highland resorts with America’s most-
visited National Park attractions, the Great
Smokies and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Here, dog
wood whitens mountain slopes and valleys, and
by late May, gives way to laurel, flame azalea
and crimson purple rhododendron.
All recreational areas- and special exhibits
along the more than 200 miles of the Parkway
opened May 1. They include Doughton Park near
Sparta, the Museum of NC Minerals near Spruce
Pine, and the Parkway Craft Center at Blowing
Rock. The Craft Center is in Moses Cone Me
morial Park, a 3,600-acre estate bequeathed to
the National Park system by textile’s “blue
denim king” of Greensboro. It is complete with
fishing lakes, riding and hiking trails, and a 21-
room manor house.
Spring Walks The Highlands
From scenic overlooks, May travelers can watch
spring climb Eastern America’s highest peaks.
On Clingman’s Dome, a new observation tower
will open to you vistas of the Smokies and sur
rounding ranges and valleys.
In the Blue Ridge, Smokies, and shorter ranges
in between, there are 223 peaks of 5,000-feet
elevation or more, including Mount Mitchell,
highest of them all in the East.
Across North Carolina, state and national
parks and state forests offer more than 100
developed recreational areas for picnicking,
hiking, swimming and camping. These are listed
in a new booklet “Outdoors in North Carolina”,
available free from the Department of Conserva
tion and Development, Raleigh.
For May, plant recreation makes this brief
listing of special events;
Chadbourn; 28th annual Strawberry Festival,
May 18-20; Statesville; Western Horse Show and
Shodeo at Love Valley, 21; Greensboro: Power
Boat Races, 22; Fontana: Square Dance Fun Fes
tival, 25-30.
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BLUE RIDGE ATTRACTION—Parkway Crafi
Center in Moses Cone Memorial Park, Blowing
Rock, is sales and display location of the South
ern Highlands Handicraft Guild. Here you can
spend hours "just looking" at handmade articles
ranging from fine furnishings and fabrics to
intricate jewelry and whimsical carvings. One
of the rooms contains a small crafts museum.
(Photo by Miles Hughey for State of N. C.)
Careful With Fire
In Sunny Months
Light an outdoor fire on a
windy day—and you’re asking
for a siege of trouble. This Na
tional Board of Fire Underwrit
ers reminder is especially time
ly for the Spring clean-up sea
son and warm-weather-months
safety around the outside of
your house.
NEWSWEA VERS:
PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS
Miss Myrtle Bradley was in New Bern, N. C. April 23-24, at
tending the annual North Carolina district 6 convention of Pilot
Club International. Miss Bradley, outgoing president of the Gas
tonia club, was accompanied to the New Bern meeting by Dr.
Mary Ellen Nelson, president-elect of the local club; Mrs. Itara
Little, district chairman of community services, and Miss Aline
Robinson, all of Gastonia.
Members attending the Pilot convention at the Governor Tryon
Hotel went on a guided tour of restored Tryon Place, first fixed
colonial capital and the original State capital of North Carolina.
Jerry Barton and Doris Corella of the payroll department, and
Becky Andrews spent a recent week end at Jacksonville Beach,
Fla.
Mrs. Jack Barbee (Joyce) is a newcomer to the accounting de
partment. The Barbees live on Robinson road in Gastonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bohanan and son Steve, with Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Bohanan, spent a recent week vacationing at Daytona
Beach, Fla. Mrs. Alfred Bohanan (Carolyn) is in Main Office.
Trash fires—so easily out of
control—can be kept reasonably
safe, if you take seriously these
basic precautions listed by the
Fire Underwriters;
1. Before burning rubbish or
leaves, have at hand your
garden hose and keep it in read
iness until your fire is complete
ly out.
2. Bum trash in a wire mesh
basket or metal container with
cover slightly open, to check
scattering embers and sparks.
Set the burner safely away from
buildings, fence, tall grass.
3. Keep children away.
4. Stay with fire until it is
quenched and ashes are cool
enough to touch.
Further suggestions related to
outdoor fire hazards:
• It’s a dangerous practice to
use a blowtorch to remove paint.
Be careful of the outdoor use
and handling of paint removers
containing volatile, flammable
liquids or solvents.
• Remove old paint by these
safer methods: Scrape, sand, or
wire-brush, or use non-combus-
tible paint removers or an elec
tric paint scraper of a type ap
proved by Underwriter’s Lab
oratories.
MAY, 1960 PAGE 2
Company Adds
UMS Products
Now, through Firestone stores
and dealers, operators of passen
ger cars and light trucks can
buy a host of United Motors
Service products for their ve
hicles. E. B. Hathaway, Firestone
vice president of sales, an
nounced the decision to dis
tribute the UMS line, and com
mented:
“In keeping with the trend
toward service stations becom
ing centers for car service needs.
Firestone makes available parts
of original-equipment quality to
its dealers and stores national-/
ly.”
Besides Delco batteries added
to the Firestone line of products
last spring, the complete line of
UMS products includes Delco-
Remy service parts, Packard
cable products, Harrison thermo
stats, Delco shock absorbers and
brake service parts, New De
parture bearings, Rochester car
buretor parts, and Moraine gaso
line filters.
UMS is a division of General
Motors. GM offers a training
program for Firefstone dealers
and store personnel, as part of
the agreement for Firestone's
distribution of the UMS line.