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RECREATION TRAVEL NOTES
December Has Variety- Enjoy It
A FIRESTONE GIFT
FOR CHRISTMAS
Youngsters at this time of
year are feeding their hopes
on Good Things for Christ
mas in the vast network of
Firestone stores and dealer
outlets. Each year the com
pany’s nationwide retail sys
tem fills a treasure chest of
exciting wares for the chil
dren. Along with this, the
thousands of other items for
the home and automobile
suggest “Make It A Firestone
Gift For Christmas.”
Here Robert Pearson (left)
and his brother Richard sur
vey some items of interest in
the Firestone Stores display
at Franklin avenue and Ma
rietta street, Gastonia. They
are the sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Pearson, 1607 Davis
Park road. Mr. Pearson is an
electrician in the mechanical
department.
10 Awards
Their Ideas
‘Made Grade’
Ten persons in recent
weeks put their ideas to
work in the form of approv
ed suggestions that brought
cash awards to the employees
and improvements to the
plant here and its production
processes. Suggestions cover
ed improved efficiency in op
erations, added safety, waste
control, good housekeeping,
and quality control.
Here are names of suggestion
winners, their department, and
an identification of their adopt
ed idea:
Helen F. Heffner, Beaming &
Quilling: Addition of flag indi
cator, to show that a portion of
quiller unit is out of order.
Wade Led well. Shop: Installa
tion of permanent lighting fix
ture in sanitation-supplies stor
age of Warehouse.
W. A. Johnson, Spinning: Im
proved lubrication tubes on
spinning frames for easier ac
cess and safety.
Edward L. Tart Jr., Weaving
(cotton): Added shield for slash-
Student’s Speech
Won DE Trophy
Jo Ann Case won a trophy for
taking third place as Gastonia’s
Ashley High School entry in the
speech competition of the West
ern District Convention of Dis
tributive Education Clubs in
November. Her speech was “De
veloping Leadership in Market
ing and Distribution.” Her fath
er, Clarence Case, works in the
Shop.
Jo Ann was one of five Ash
ley students attending the DE
convention at Hickory.
er comb, for more efficient op
eration.
Grady L. Davis, Twisting (syn
thetics): Relocation of one cable-
twisting frame to facilitate
better operation.
Exie I. Quinn, Quality Con
trol: Relocation of a bottle rack
to eliminate strike-against haz
ard.
Mason King, Weaving (cot
ton): Addition of wall hooks to
hold hoist chains and singletrees
out of aisle in Weaving (cotton).
Lester Wilson, Spinning:
Equipping doff boxes with hold
er for yarn-and-frame-number
identification tags, to aid in
waste control.
Genever Johnson, Cloth Room:
Use of rubber bands on c'hafer
fabric, for scrap control and fab
ric protection.
Clyde Thomasson, Weaving
(synthetics): Adding protection
boards on wall in new Weaving
(synthetics) unit, to stop dam
age from yam-hauling boxes.
December fare for traveling and sightseeing
sparkles with enough variety to interest almost
every fancy of Firestone people on-the-go. In
its monthly suggestion list, plant recreation urges
you to get out and go on a week-end trip, short
away-from-the-job journey or wintertime vaca
tion.
One of the most popular sightseer attractions
in December is Gaddy’s Goose Refuge near An-
sonville, where Canada geese find Southern hos
pitality from now until March. More than 10,000
of the birds spend the winter here.
A similar attraction is the Pea Island Refuge
on the NC Outer Banks, where snow geese arrive
in November and remain until their flight north
to the Artie Circle in early January.
At Lake Junaluska near Waynesville, thou
sands of ducks are on hand for your sightseeing.
Fowl at Gaddys, Pea Island and at Lake Juna
luska are for seeing only—no hunting.
Battle wagon Home: Go And See It
Newest of Mid-South all-year tourist interests
is the Battleship North Carolina, open to visitors
at Wilmington. The super-dreadnaught veteran
of 40 months in the Pacific during World War
II was saved from scrapping by North Caro
linians who raised funds to bring the ship home
as a permanent war memorial.
The 35,000-ton USS North Carolina is moored
on the Cape Fear River opposite the Wilming
ton waterfront. Visitors may go aboard between
8 a.m. and sundown seven days a week.
Outstanding of special events during Decem
ber is a program on the 17th commemorating the
Wright Brothers’ first successful airborne flight
at Kitty Hawk. The upcoming program marking
the 58th anniversary of the event will be held
at the Wright Brothers National Memorial near
Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk on the coast.
A flyover of military aircraft climaxes cere
monies at the Wright Monument.
Ski Lodge Opened This Month
Newest of North Carolina attractions with a
call to the sports-minded is Blowing Rock Ski
Lodge, offering the state’s first winter outdoor
facilities. More than $750,000 is being spent to
provide two ski slopes complete with T-bar sky-
lift, two lakes and service building which in
cludes a ski shop, lounge and eating facilities.
Within a year, a chalet (lodge) will be completed.
The lodge is opening for business this month.
Ski slopes will be provided with man-made snow.
Tony Krasovic, native of Austria, has been nam
ed competitive skier and in-ski professional at
the lodge.
Celestial Pageanl Of Chrisimas
At Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium is of
fering the annual favorite “Star of Bethlehem”
through Jan. 8. It is the Christmas story in all the
splendor which the Bible account gives it. The
pageant recreates the skies of Judea as astrono
mers say they appeared in 7 B. C.
A brief listing of other events on the month’s
calendar: “The Singing Christmas Tree,” Char
lotte, Dec. 12-13; Moravian Christmas Love Feast,
Winston-Salem, 24; Informal Winter Horse Show,
Pinehurst, 29; Tobacco Bowl Festival of Racing
(NASCAR), Winston-Salem, 30.
Successful business is never
conducted on rules alone; it is
conducted on principles put into
effect by human energy—by the
kind of energy ihai does not
know when it is licked.
—^Harvey S. Firestone in
MEN AND RUBBER
Be sure your cards and
packages are signed, ^eal^
and delivered witti
TO FIGHT IB
ANSWER YOUR CHRISTMAS
SEAL LETTER TODAY
WAYNE
LEDFORD
AT FORT
JACKSON
Pvt. Wayne Ledford, employ
ed here for more than three
years, is assigned to the 2nd
Training Regiment at Fort Jack
son, S. C. He had worked at
Firestone since 1958, and was a
yarn hauler in Twisting (syn
thetics) at the time he left for
military service in September
this year.
Wayne’s mother, Mrs. Josie
Ledford, works in Twisting (syn
thetics).
‘Madonnas’ Program Plans Complete
The public has a special invi
tation to the exhibit of art-
flower arrangements on “In
terpretation of Legend of Ma
donnas” at Firestone Recreation
Center, Dec. 14. The exhibit,
open that day 1-9 p.m., is spon
sored and programmed by mem
bers of the Variety Garden Club
of Firestone.
Club president Mrs. W. E.
Pope has announced Mrs. Carl
Stowe Sr. as “Madonnas” pro
gram chairman; Mrs. Henry
Chastain, program coordinator.
Before his Fort Jackson as
signment, Wayne was at Fort
Sill, Okla. His present address:
Co. D, 7th Bn., 2nd Training
Rgt., Fort Jackson, S. C.
Mrs. Chastain said that 17 club
members plan an arrangement
entry. Participants have been
assigned a subject on the Ma
donna theme. Each creation will
be judged for awards on the
basis of best interpretation of
subject matter.
Not included in the competi
tion wiU be a special set of eight
entries, also on the madonna
theme. These, prepared by Mrs.
Chastain, will be designed to
accent the total program through
arrangements with flowers,
plants, and fruits.
On Dec. 14 schedule, judging
begins at 10 a.m., followed by
the club program and lunr'heon
beginning at 11, with exhibits
open to the public at 1 p.m.
‘The Least You Can Do
}Vith Human Life..
Safety belts might have saved 8,000—possibly
10,000—of the almost 38,000 persons killed last
year in traffic smashups in the United States.
These conclusions resulted from a recent crash-
research project at Cornell University Medical
College, conducted in cooperation with high
way departments and motor companies, to show
the value of auto safety belts.
Yet only about 6 per cent of auto drivers and
passengers have benefit of safety belts.
Project officials concluded that the chance of
coming out of an accident without loss of life or
serious injury is better by 40 to 60 per cent, if
driver and passengers are using safety belts.
“It’s like the eggs,” said one official. “They’re
fragile, so they’re put in compartmentalized box
es. It seems that's the least you can do with
human lives.”
Safety belts are standard equipment with rac
ing drivers and with people who test cars pro
fessionally.
In North Carolina every highway patrol car is
equipped with seat belts. How about your car?
PiAwr reporters
December, 1961
2^1 Volume X
Page 2
Number 13
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Published by The Firestone
Tire & Rubber Company.
Firestone Textiles Division,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
Claude C. Callaway, Editor
# South Atlantic Council of Indus
trial Editors
Charles A. Clark, Photographer
• NC Professional Photographers As
sociation; South Atlantic Council
of Industrial Editors
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—Lillie 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,
Harold Robinson, Israel Good
Roseveh Rainey
Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch
Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E.
Johnson, Irene Odell
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Winding—Ruth Cloninger, May-
zelle Lewis