GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME XI-NUMBER II
OCTOBER, 1962
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Rubber • Chemicals • Textiles
Synthetics • Metals • Plastics
sightseeing
Camp Firestone
Walk
^ Day
Autumn
^.^ctober has come again
its giant patchwork of
across the land. And
faS pictures of the
• ^panorama are to be seen
the'
mountain country all
within a short drive of Gas
tonia.
Camp Firestone on Lake
James near Marion is an
ideal place from which to
begin an unforgettable tour
of the “Rooftop of America”
along the towering ridges of
the Southern Blue Ridge and
the Great Smoky Mountains.
This year’s camp season
extends to mid-October,
when the mountains are
growing into their colorful
best.
Each season, Firestone em
ployees and members of their
• Sunlight and shadow beck
on hikers to the joys of a forest
ed trail in the Grandfather
Mountain country a few miles
from Camp Firestone.
families enjoy the recreation
al facilities of the company-
operated camp near Bridge
water — then often travel
from there to exciting ad
venture among the almost-
endless sightseeing attrac
tions in a mountaintop em
pire of the Appalachian
South.
Scholarship Students
Back In School
^he two Gastonia-area students with Firestone college
^^^hips have returned to school after a summer of work
Ann McAbee is in her junior year at Erskine
West, S. C.; and Neil Tate is a sophomore at
Ke Forest College, Winston-Salem.
te
the
the
beginning of the school
cr>vi
■ ^ this year, Betty served on
su student committee which
student committee
j^^srvised orientation of fresh-
stiij other incoming new
'JJents.
Cat' in elementary edu-
^ member of the
Education Associa-
^nd is president of the
chapter of Epsilon Sig-
a future-teachers or-
^J'^^ation.
is serving as freshman
^selor on the Women’s Coun-
, fL. ^
tOf college’s governing body
students. She is a
of the Athenian Liter-
tsfj ^^ciety and the AR Presby-
Student Union.
^ '^ring the past summer she
playground supervisor at
Lineberger Park.
^ is the daughter of Mr. and
^®onard McAbee. Her
is assistant division man
ager in Synthetics.
NEIL TATE is studying to
ward a degree in political
science at Wake Forest. He was
a counselor during freshman
orientation week at the begin
ning of the school term.
Neil is in his second year of
the school’s honor program. It is
also his second year on the
varsity debating team. His team
last year won several honors,
including first place in the At
lantic Coast Conference, novice
class.
Neil is a member of Theta Chi
and is living at the fraternity
house.
During the past summer the
scholarship student operated one
of the freight elevators at the
plant here.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Tate. His mother is
employed in Twisting.
Giving The United Way
Your UF Contribution
Helps 25 Agencies
Your “one gift — one time” to the United Fund this
month will put your helping hands to work for 25 communi
ty agencies offering welfare, recreation, medical treatment
and neighborhood-betterment services. This year’s UF ap
peal at Firestone is being made during the first two weeks
of the Greater Gastonia UF program, Oct. 16-Nov. 9.
C. E. Moss, of process refine- thetics; and Alvin V. Riley, man-
ment and development; and
Philip R. Williams, division
manager of synthetics, are chair
men of the in-plant solicitation,
in which employees make con
tributions through a payroll-
deduction plan.
PRODUCTION manager F. B.
Galligan is vice chairman of the
Greater Gastonia United Fund
money-raising program this
year. Two other Firestone men
are participating in the UF
“Loaned Executives” program of
the 1962 financial campaign.
They are L. B. McAbee, assist
ant division manager of syn-
‘Diene 1,000’
In Production
Firestone is producing a new-
.ly-discovered synthetic rubber
of superior qualities which
greatly improves tire perform
ance and wear. The new syn
thetic, called “Diene 1000”, is
derived from butadiene and try-
rene.
President Raymond C. Fire
stone said “Diene 1000” has all
outstanding properties of regular
ager of industrial relations.
In the “Loaned Executives”
program, 21 specially - selected
leaders in business and industry
are taking an active part in the
UF financial drive. “Loaned Ex
ecutives” are specially trained to
assist other volunteers in con
tributing to the success of the
funds drive.
Your Gift Helps These:
American National Red Cross,
Gaston County Chapter; Boy
Scouts, Piedmont Council; Ce
rebral Palsy of Gaston County,
Gaston Big Brothers, Gaston
—More on Page 4
Firestone Diene, a polybutadiene
rubber which the company in
troduced in 1958.
“Diene 1000” offers extended
normal life of a tire, improved
trsctiori ^ncrccircd.
ance to road hazards. It is in
limited production at the
Orange, Texas, Firestone Petro
chemical Center, built several
years ago for manufacture of
Diene and Coral rubber.
At Orange, the company also
produces butadiene, one of the
basic raw materials in manufac
ture of synthetic rubber.
‘Anniversary
Garden 'At Bank
A garden of dwarf marigolds
at the west branch of First
Union National Bank has been
a place of beauty alongside busy
Franklin Avenue all summer.
Of the traveling people who
caught a hurried glance at the
flowers, one businessman from
Greenville, S. C. was impressed
enough to write Conrad Pearson,
branch manager:
“I was so thrilled with the
flowers at your branch office
on Highway 29 (Franklin Ave
nue through Gastonia). Would it
be possible for me to get a color
picture?’'
The Firestone company sent
him a picture.
The flowers were planted and
tended by members of Variety
Garden Club of Firestone, as a
part of the nationwide commem
oration this summer of the Gold
en Anniversary of the Girl
Scouts of America founding.
In the project, the anniversary
marigolds have been thriving on
both sides of the large bank sign
in a rectangular plot about 12 x
20 feet.
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WEST BR
• Betty Ann Hedgepath (left) and Nancy Wallace of Pioneer
Council's Troop 63 at Firestone Wesleyan Methodist Church, in
the Girl Scout "Anniversary Garden" with Firestone retiree Mrs.
Grace Stowe. Mrs. Stowe is a member of the hospitality commit
tee of Variety Garden Club.
Variety Club president Mrs. niversary” garden was among
W. H. Chastain of Weaving (cot- several projects the group has
ton) said that the “Golden An- been working on this year.