Top Students
Recognized
At Luncheon
A June luncheon at Holiday
Inn honored Neal Tate, 1961
Firestone College Scholarship
winner from Gastonia, and the
eight other area high - school
seniors who won a company
Certificate of Merit and a U.S.
Savings Bond for outstanding
student achievement.
Neal was among 28 sons and
daughters of Firestone em
ployees in 15 states to win the
four-year college Scholarship,
renewable each year at the ap
proved college or university of
the student’s choice.
The educational prize provides
for fees, textbooks and a sub-
Neal Taie received his Cer
tificate for a four-year College
Scholarship from Firestone and
congratulations from general
manager Harold Mercer. Look
ing on were the student's par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Tate.
Neal will enter Wake Forest
College this fall to study politi
cal science.
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stantial payment toward room
and board at school.
In this the second year the
company has made the Certifi
cate of Merit awards, 173 stu
dents across the country were
chosen for the honor. Those
from the Gastonia area are:
C. W. Honeycutt and Elizabeth
Butler of Bessemer City; Ro
berta Lovingood, Donald Mc
Ginnis, D. K. Hoffman Jr., and
Carol McAllister, all of Gaston
ia; L. W. Bumgardner Jr. of Bel
mont; and Carrie Wallace of
York, S. C.
THE 38TH TIME
Mark up the 38th consecutive
victory for Firestone tires at the
Memorial Day Indianapolis 500-
mile race. A. J. Foyt, national
driving champion from Houston,
Texas, won with an average
speed of 139.130 miles per hour.
He edged Eddie Sachs of Center
Valley, Pa., and Rodger Ward of
Indianapolis, who finished sec
ond and third respectively.
Driving on Firestone race
tires, both Foyt and Sachs finish
ed with an average speed better
than the previous record of
Airman
Serving
In
Korea
Jerry G. Dellinger, employed
as an air conditioner mechanic
at Firestone, 1957-58, is serving
with the U.S. Air Force at Kun-
san, AB, Korea. His father,
Howard Dellinger of the Nylon
Treating Unit, and Mrs. Del
linger live at 1611 West Fifth
avenue.
The former employee was pro
moted June 1 to airman first
class. He is a cryogenic fluids-
production specialist with the
6175th Material Sq. at Kunsan.
Dellinger is serving a 13-
month overseas tour of duty in
Korea. He arrived there in
November of last year from
Minot AFB, N.D.
138.767 set last year by winner
Jim Rathmann. Sachs’ average
for the 200 laps was 139.041 and
Ward was close behind, with
138.539.
IN TIME TRIALS. Sachs won
the pole position and with it the
Walter E. Lyon Memorial Award
.which goes to the fastest quali
fier each year. Company presi
dent Raymond C. Firestone pre
sented the trophy in memory of
Mr. Lyon, former director of tire
engineering and development for
Firestone.
Sachs’ qualifying speed was
147.481 mph for four laps around
the 21/2-mile speedway. Foyt’s
winning speed for the 500 miles
was faster than last year’s rec
ord despite the fact the yellow
caution light was on for 33
minutes and 2 seconds, about 3
minutes more than last year.
An estimated crowd of 200,000
watched the finish, the second
closest in the history of the race.
On AEC Project
Harold L. Shehane, salutatori-
an of this year’s graduating class
of 56 at Gaston Technical In
stitute, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs Jesse L. Shehane of 317 S.
Vance street. Both parents are
employed at Firestone.
A mid-winter graduate at GTI,
Harold is with General Electric
on an Atomic Energy Commis
sion project in Florida.
He and Mrs. Shehane, the for
mer Patricia Beam of Gastonia,
live with their two children in
St. Petersburg.
RECREATION TRAVEL NOTES
July: Time To ‘Get Out And Go’
The first full month of summer is top-travel
time anywhere and in the Mid-South in par
ticular. “Down Home” in North Carolina—where
most Firestone Gastonia travelers do a lot of
sightseeing and visiting—there are things aplenty
on schedule from mountains to seashore in July.
A handcrafts fair, a wealth of outdoor plays
and summer theatre productions, coastal fishing
contests, open-air square dancing and a raft of
sports events and festivals brighten the State’s
roster of summer specialties.
With outdoor playtime here, the July Plant
Recreation bulletin reminds employees: “Each
month there are more and more things to do
and places to go and see. Whether a few miles
from home or across the country, travel adds
richness to life. Get out and go!”
In July, all swimming areas and refreshment
stands in NC state parks are open.
HIGHLIGHTING THE CALENDAR is the 14th
annual Craftsman’s Fair of the Southern High
lands at Asheville, July 17-21. This is the most
comprehensive single showcase for craftsman
ship in a mountain vacationland where crafts
centers are noted year-round attractions.
July brings the mountain trout season to
Western North Carolina’s cool streams. The sea
son, through August 31, includes streams in the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Also, for
the angling-minded, the All-NC Coastline Fish
ing Contest is in its third season. Other contests
which run through the summer include one at
Topsail Island and the Southeastern NC Fishing
Rodeo in the Morehead City-to-Southport area.
Travelers visiting in several Western NC towns
July to early autumn can join the fun of moun
tain music and square dancing under the stars on
Monday nights. You can “swing your partner” at
Chimney Rock, Brevard, Waynesville, Hender
sonville, and Blowing Rock. Fontana Village has
outdoor square dancing just about any night.
NORTH CAROLINA is the home of three
famous outdoor dramas, all playing nightly ex
cept Mondays from now through Labor Day.
They are Horn in the West at Boone, Unto These
Hills at Cherokee, and The Lost Colony at Man-
teo. There’s additional entertainment at summer
theatres: Silo Circle Playhouse at Black Moun
tain, Charlotte Music Theatre, Tanglewood Barn
Theatre at Clemmons, and the Playhouse at Flat
Rock.
Outstanding of the annual events of statewide
interest are the Miss NC Beauty Pageant, Greens
boro, July 19-22; annual Basket Picnic at White
water Falls on the NC-SC state line, 26.
Festivals and sports events: Junior Rodeo,
July 15-16, and Western Horse Show, 22-23 at
Love Valley near Statesville; Charity Horse
Show, Hendersonville, 20-22; 8th annual Horss
Show at Waynesville, 27-29.
Antiques-and-arts lovers, mark these on your
July calendar: 13th annual Antique Show, Hen
dersonville, 11-14; National Antiques Fair, Blow
ing Rock, 17-19; “Arts of the Pacific Isles” at
NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, through Sept. 1.
The mountain resort town of Blowing Rock has
a tour of houses and gardens July 28.
In early August, but belonging to this list of
summer attractions are: 34th annual Mountain
Dance and Folk Festival, Asheville, 3-5; Side
walk Art Show, and Carolina Mountain Flower
and Garden Show, both Hendersonville, 3-4.
Production Manager — Display Flag
‘500’ Won On Firestone Tires
The more than 11,897 boy
members and adult leaders of
Piedmont Council of Boy Scouts
of America are promoting an in
terest in displaying the U.S. flag
at their homes, especially on
holidays. Scouts and leaders are
also encouraging citizens to dis
play the flag.
“Through the years the Boy
Scout organization has promoted
displaying of the flag as a sym
bol of the freedom and privi
leges Americans enjoy as cit
izens,” said F. B. Galligan, plant
production manager and Pied
mont Council district chairman
of Boy Scouts,
“Our five million present and
28 million former members have
come to know the flag as a sym
bol of the ideals, hopes, goals.
and history of our people,” Mr.
Galligan added.
He pointed out that almost all
of the nation’s 130,368 Scout
and Explorer units have their
own U.S. flag, which plays an
important role in the citizenship
training of the Scouting pro
gram.
Since its beginning in 1910,
the Boy Scout organization has
required its members to be
familiar with the history of the
U.S. flag and to have a knowl
edge of flag etiquette.
‘I Was Only Thinking Of The Children’s Feef
A peasant woman was passing along a
street in a French town, holding her little
boy by the hand. Suddenly she stopped and
picked up an object from the street, tucking
it within the folds of her garment.
A policeman’s suspicion was aroused. He
demanded the woman produce the object
she had concealed, whereupon with down
cast eyes, she revealed a jagged fragment
of broken glass.
“I was thinking only of the barefoot chil
dren,” she said.
Reflecting on this story, it becomes ap
parent that every one of us has the moral
responsibility to do our bit in making our
plants safer places in which to work—just
as this woman took it upon herself to pick
up the bits of glass that might injure the
feet of others.
Oftimes we neglect to take action in a
matter, feeling that someone else will han
dle it. Or we may think that what we do in
our job has very little influence on the total
plant or company performance whether it
be in safety, costs, waste, or quality.
The truth is, when we add the individual
parts each of us plays in our daily work, we
have the total effort which determines how
successful our plant or company will be in
all of these areas of operation.
general manager
July. 1961 Page 2
Volume X Number 8
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Published by The Firestone
Tire & Rubber Company,
Firestone Textiles Division,
Gastonia. North Carolina.
Claude Callaway, Editor
Charles A. Clark, Photographer
PLANT REPORTERS
Carding—Payton Lewis, Jessie
Ammons
Cloth Room—Margie Waldrep
Industrial Relation s—Flora
Pence
Main Office—Bea McCarter
Quality Control—Sallie Craw
ford. Louella Queen, Leila
Rape
Spinning—L i 111 e A. Brown,
Maude Peeler, Mary Turner
Spooling—Nell Bolick, Rosalie
Burger, Ophelia Wallace
Mechanical Department — Rosie
Francum
Twisting—Vera Carswell, Elease
Cole, Annie Cosey, Katie El
kins, Catherine Fletcher
Twisting (Sales)—Elmina Brad
shaw
Warehouse—N a n c y Cloninger,
George Harper, Albert Meeks.
Rosevelt Rainey
Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch
Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E.
Johnson, Irene Odell
Winding—Ruth Cloninger, May-
zelle Lewis