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CASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
AN ALL-AMERICA CITY
VOLUME XIII - NUMBER 9
AUGUST • 1964
Tir«$tone
A
Your Symbol
of Quality
and Service
palachian State Teachers Col
lege prepare for a dip in pool
at base of falls.—Firestone News
photos.
DUTCH CREEK
FALLS
^op: Upper portion of falls.
Two students from Ap-
[JOKING AROUND
camp firestone
%lvan Splendor
^or 29 summer seasons Firestone people have known the
beauty and recreational opportunities of Camp Fire-
^orie on Lake James in the Blue Ridge. The company-
l^r^.^ated hideaway at Bridgewater lures employees and
l^ieir families to a cove setting on one of the country’s best
akes.
The camp is also starting point for sightseeing tours
a vast highlands playground. An example is one of
fc^stern America’s least-publicized waterfalls. Dutch Creek
just off NC 194 near Valle Crucis, is also reached from
^ 105, Foscoe turnoff,
w ^utch Creek plunges 80 feet over a granite monolith to a
r^ol 10 feet deep. Giant boulders and fallen timbers add to
Tire-Test Rules Standardized
FOR STRENGTH
PERFORMANCE
ENDURANCE
Your assurance that the passenger tires you buy will have
built-in safety and performance is made possible by a ser es
of continuing tests adopted by the Rubber Manufacturers
Association.
RMA president Ross R. Orms-
by, making the announcement
in July, said minimum perform
ance standards agreed upon by
17 American companies will
provide that every type of pas
senger tire must demonstrate
high-speed performance, endur
ance and strength under exact
ing laboratory conditions.
A fourth standard establishes
minimum cross-section widths.
In the high-speed test, tires
will be subjected to a breaking-
in period of 100 miles at 50
miles per hour, then speed will
be increased to 75 mph for one-
half hour, followed by one-half
hour at 85 mph.
Additional, test overloads
ranging from 20 to 40 per cent
will be placed on tires for a
total of 1,700 miles at 50 mph
speed.
USO Shares UF Money
• There are more than 2,-
500,000 men and women in our
Armed Forces right now. Of
these, half are under 25 years
of age and are away from home
for the first time, both here and
in 27 foreign countries.
• Need for a national pro
gram of morale, recreation, wel
fare and religious work to the
Armed Forces of the United
States is as great now as ever
in the past.
These facts call attention to
the 1964 United Service Organ
izations (USO) campaign, spon
sored by the Advertising Coun
cil.
Through provision of clubs.
centers and entertainment
shows, and facilities of many
kinds, the USO is a living sym
bol that the people back home
do appreciate the sacrifices our
GIs are making, and are show
ing it through these “homes
away from home”.
The USO depends entirely
on volunteer contributions made
directly or through the local
United Fund or Community
Chest. This year’s national goal
is $7,000,000.
The USO is one of the 26
agencies to share in this year’s
Greater Gastonia United Fund.
Company chairman Harvey S.
Firestone Jr., is serving his 12th
STRENGTH will be evaluat
ed by forcing a 3/4-inch, round
steel plunger against the tread
of an inflated tire. Each tire
size will liave a set minimum
breaking point.
The tests were established to
encourage better understanding
of the public of severe tests to
which tire manufacturers have
long subjected their tires in rou
tine inspection.
Ormsby points out that satis
factory and safe tire perform
ance depends greatly upon prop
er use and periodic tire inspec
tion. “It is most important that
the motorist himself see that his
tires are inflated neither too
much nor too little.”
RMA recommendation: Exa
mine your tires often to find
any signs of excessive wear or
damage which could cause them
to perform unreliably.
consecutive term as national
chairman of USO.
USO is a federation of six
civilian agencies formed 22
years ago to serve the off-post
spiritual, educational, recrea
tional and social needs of Arm
ed Forces personnel. Member
agencies are YMCA, National
Catholic Community Serviro,
National Jewish Welfare Board,
the YWCA, Salvation Army and
National Travelers Aid Associa
tion.
INTO SECOND
CAREER
Henson:
No Interest In Hammocks
Its
^ugged beauty.
On his desk was a well-used New Testament,
including The Psalms and Proverbs—and from
the sayings of Solomon an oft-read gem; “The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and
the knowledge of the holy is understanding. For
by Me thy days shall be multiplied and the years
of thy life shall be increased.”
William G. Henson believes in that promise
from On High, of many more years for his “sec
ond career” just beginning. He worked here 29
years and 4 months before taking permanent
leave at the end of July.
A WHILE before he left, he and Mrs. Henson
spent a few days vacationing at Hendersonville.
The mountain rest would condition him for a
busy schedule ahead—because he plans to slay
away from rocking chairs and kindred vices.
Mr. Henson began working for Firestone when
the company purchased the plant here in 1935.
For four years he was master mechanic, and for
the past 25 years has been plant engineer in
charge of service and maintenance of all physical
equipment and property.
In the almost three decades on the job he has
seen enough changes to amount to an industrial
revolution.
“I’m glad to have had a part in progress
through change to improved methods, machines,
equipment and other properties,” he says.
One of his memorable jobs through the years
has been overseeing maintenance and improve
ment of Camp Firestone at Bridgewater. Another
momumental side-job was his work as coordina
tor of Firestone’s free auto-safety inspection over
the last several years.
On Aug. 3 a group of well-wishers at the Rec
reation Center gave the plant engineer an ap
propriate sendoff to his “second career.”
He’ll undertake some business projects, while
furthering contributions to Loray Baptist Church
(he is chairman of trustees), the Chapel Grove
Optimist Club, and his political party as a pre-
• Plant engineer Henson; During his last days
at Firestone he checked progress plans that
would extend far beyond his employment years.
cinct worker.
THERE WILL be more building upon the pio
neering he has done as a member of Gideons,
International, with emphasis on the local Gideon
camp project.
Not interested in hammocks, he admits there’ll
be some time for such leisure as travel and
enhancing his clock collection—long ago, grown
to museum proportions. His clocks, dating from
1884 to the Space Age, number around 35:
spring-wound, weight-driven and electric. Ob
serves the collector:
“Calendars count Time, but clocks measure it
in smaller units. Now, more than ever, this hob
by wUl remind me of the value of Time and of
its wise use in these Harvest Years.”