Some Christmas Goodies
From The Heart
THESE
EMPLOYEES
TELL HOW
In these days of supermarket packages, one of
the most rewarding things a person can do is to
get into the kitchen and turn out some old-fash-
ioned “goodies”. It is especially so at Christmas
time, with the holiday’s wealth of rich tradition
associated with peace and joy of hearth and
home.
Here, some employees share four time-honored
recipes which you may not have in your collec
tion:
in pan of hot water. Bake in oven at 350 de
grees F. until firm (about 45 minutes). Serve hot
with coffee or raisin sauce. Makes 6 servings.
CHOCOLATE
STARS
7 teaspoons cocoa
6 egg whites, stiffly
beaten
% cup thick raspberry
jam
WALNUT
STICKS
Vz teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup chopped walnuts
To eggs, add sugar, flour, salt and vanilla, mix
ing well. Add walnuts. Spread in greased baking
pan, 9 X 12V2-inch, and bake in oven at 375 de
grees F. 20-25 minutes. Cut into strips and re
move from pan while warm. Yield: 24.
Carrie Helms
Spinning
1 cup brown sugar
Vz cup sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
Vivian Melcalf
Weaving (cotton)
1% cups confectioner
sugar
21/2 cups shortening
IVz ounces (squares)
chocolate, melted
6 cups sifted cake flour
Cream shortening, sugar until fluffy; add
chocolate and beat well. Sift flour with cocoa
and add to creamed mixture small amount at a
time, blending well. Add egg whites and blend
well. Put dough through cooky press, using star
tip.
Place stars on ungreased sheet and bake in
oven at 375 degrees F. about 8 minutes. Spread
half the cookies with jam, cap with other half
and dust with confectioner sugar. Makes 75 to 100.
Hazel D. Ward
Spinning
B. J. Magner
Main Office
Gladys Butler
Twisting (synthetics)
1 egg, beaten
Vz cup sugar
2 cups milk, scalded
\Vz cups bread crumbs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
V2 teaspoon cloves
Combine ingredients
SPICE
PUDDING
1 teaspoon allspice
teaspoon nutmeg
Vs teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
1 tablespoon melted
butter
order listed, mixing
Helen Mason
Twisting (synthetics)
2 cups sugar
% cup milk
MAPLE
PRALINES
1 cup maple syrup
2 cups pecan ‘meats’
thoroughly. Place in greased baking dish and set
Boil sugar, milk and maple syrup until mixture
reaches soft-ball stage, or about 238 degrees F.
Remove from heat, and cool to lukewarm and
beat until smooth and creamy. Add your choice
of broken nut ‘meats’ and drop on buttered paper
from tip of spoon, forming little mounds.
General Manager
Harold Mercer:
EACH OF US
AN BE THANKFUL
The Christmas Season —
or. ‘h all its wonderment of
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friendships—comes again to
renew our faith through the
Greatest Gift of all, God’s
Son.
My wish for you at this
glad Season is that all of
your loved ones will be
gathered around you, and
that good health and happi
ness will be yours. Somehow,
may the Prince of Peace
show us the way, so that
“Merry Christmas” and
“Happy New Year” can come
true for all the world.
As the Book of Time closes
on 1961, we are especially
aware that the success of our
business depends upon all
the members of our company
family. I appreciate your
friendship and loyalty. We
have set a good example of
people of good will working
together, each respecting and
nourishing the other’s talents
and all benefiting from each
other’s achievements.
SURVEYING the past
year, each of us can find so
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December, 1961
Off-Job Safety
—From page 1
that there are other sound rea
sons. Among them are;
• The off-job safety emphasis
cuts down wage loss and medi
cal expenses which inevitably
come to the worker as a result
of lost-time injuries.
• It reduces absenteeism from
the job, while increasing produc
tion efficiency, meaning better
earning power.
• Stressing safety this way
helps to carry over an awareness
for safety throughout the year.
This alertness to injury control
is usually applied by the indi
vidual wherever threat of injury
exists.
During December, supervisors’
personal appeals to employees
will be backed up by articles in
plant newspapers, messages on
bulletins, posters and other
means of communication, to help
build an awareness that “you
never stop learning to live safe
ly, no matter where you go or
what you do.”
Home Is Where The Hurt Is
The Franklin Institute
much to be thankful for. As
we renew in our own hearts
the meaning of that First
Christmas, let us count our
blessings, mindful of the mil
lions of people whose most-
desired Christmas gift this
year is the things that we en
joy and so often take for
granted.
Let us sincerely pray—and
work—to the end that the
day will soon come when
people everywhere will
know more of the blessings
that we Americans enjoy.
With these thoughts, I ex
tend to you and your family
sincerest wishes for a blessed
Christmas and a good and
meaningful New Year.
“Home is where the hurt is,”
observed plant safety supervisor
Ralph Johnson. He was referring
to the fact that some four mil
lion persons were injured last
year in this country while pre
sumably “safe at home.”
The ratio of injuries was four
at home to one on the highways.
Danger lurks in every room and
closet, on every staircase and
step, in every place of front or
back yard. This being so, the
plant safety department, in
keeping with off-the-job Safety
Month in December, suggests
the following checklist as/ a
guide to the safety inspection of
your house and grounds;
1. Bathroom. Does it have a
door that can be opened from
the outside, and a grab-rail on
the tub or shower? Are electrical
appliances kept out of reach of
bathtub and sink, so wet hands
will never touch them?
2. Kitchen. Falls account for
the majority of home mishaps.
Do you use non-skid floor wax,
making sure chairs and ladders
have sturdy rungs? Don’t climb
on chairs or other makeshift
“ladders”.
3. Medicine Cabinet. Is it well
stocked with standard supplies
. . . every medicine container
labeled? Is cabinet out of reach
of children?
4. Storage. Are closets well
lighted? Give special attention
to safe storage in drawers,
shelves, cabinets where poison
ous products are kept. These in
clude some of the ordinary clean
ing materials. Store sharp knives
in a container; turn handles of
pots and pans inward on the
stove when cooking; keep match
es in a fireproof container and
unattainable by children.
5. Bedroom. Do you outlaw
portable heaters here? Have
proper ventilation while you
sleep? Are you careful of over
loaded electrical circuits? To
smoke in bed is to play with
death.
6. Outside. Biggest backyard
dangers are broken glass, pro
truding nails, holes in the
ground, neglected play equip
ment, steps. Inspect these often.
V 30, 25-Year
Anniversaries
For November
Hazel D. Ward of Spinning
has seen a mighty lot of
spindles whirl since she came
to work here in 1936. When
she marked her anniversary
in November, she became the
200th person at the Gastonia
plant to reach the 25-year
employment milestone. At
the same time, B. J. Magner,
payroll clerk in Main Office,
completed 30 years of serv
ice, 9 of which have been
spent at the Gastonia plant.
There were four others with
20 years of service; 17 more with
records of from 5 to 15 years.
That list includes:
Twenty Years
William H. Massey Jr., Twist
ing (synthetics); David L. Grib-
ble and Alloise T. Murray,
Weaving (synthetics); Herbert
Broaden, Main Office.
Fifteen Years
Beatrice S. Jenkins, Alene A.
Bolynn, Bonnie Dockery and
Thurman S u m m e y. Twisting
(synthetics); Roy Lee Ball,
James R. Reel and J. Hoyt
Blackwood, Weaving (syn
thetics); J. B. Mitchell, Shop;
Harold N. Robinson, Warehouse.
Ten Years
David Ratchford, Miles T.
Michaels and Richard T. James,
Twisting (synthetics); Samuel L.
Glenn and William S. Haynes,
Weaving (synthetics); Bessie
Gentry Foster, Beaming & Quill
ing; Ralph Dalton, Shop,
Five Years
Harold D. Burgess, Twisting
(synthetics).
This list is only a beginning,
says the safety department. But
if you take seriously the prin
ciples involved, you’ll soon be
applying safety yardsticks to
virtually every situation where
danger lurks around the house.
UOOSE OBJECTS ON FLOOR.
A GOOD WAY
TO FALL DOWN AT HOME
Scholarship Winner In Honor Group
FIRESTONE TEXTILES
P. O. BOX 551
GASTONIA, N. C.
Betty Ann McAbee was re
cently named to membership in
the Garnet Circle at Erskine
College, Due West, S. C. A
sophomore studying on a four-
year college scholarship from the
Firestone company, Miss Mc
Abee earned membership in the
honor group as one of 25 stu
dents currently enrolled at
Erskine to have maintained the
highest scholastic average dur
ing the past academic year.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. McAbee of 901 Home
Trail, Gastonia. Her father is
assistant manager in the syn
thetics division at the Firestone
plant here.
The scholarship winner is
majoring in elementary educa
tion. She is a member of the
Epsilon Sigma Tau for future
teachers, and the South Carolina
Student Education Association,
this year serving as secretary of
the Erskine chapter.
She is a sophomore class rep
resentative to the Women’s Stu
dent Government at Erskine,
and is a member of the Athenian
Literary Society and the A. R.
Presbyterian Student Union.
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