AND 11 OTHERS
Two 20-Year Records
Sun And Shade
The 10-week summer sea
son of Firestone Playground
extends into August, offer
ing recreation to youngsters
in the West Gastonia area.
Besides a wading pool for
children to age 12, and other
recreation facilities with no
age limit, instruction in arts
and crafts has been included
this year.
Wading as a favorite cool-
off activity centered in this
photo. The playground closes
in mid-August with the tra
ditional watermelon picnic.
The company-owned facility
is operated summers by the
Gastonia department of
parks and recreation.
At The Fair—Something For All The Family
You won’t begin to take all
Df it in on a stay of several
days, but a visit of any length
to the New York World’s Fair
is a thrill you’ll long remember.
So agree Miss Phoebe Pearson,
shop secretary, and Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Passmore whose visit
to the Fair extended into July.
Miss Pearson went on a Bob
Bean travel tour from Char-
John Galligan
At MM Academy
John Patrick Galligan, son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Galligan of
Gastonia, has entered the U. S.
Merchant Marine Academy at
Kings Port, L. I., N. Y. The son
of Firestone's production man
ager here attended St. Michael’s
School, Victory School, and was
graduated this year from Ashley
High School.
At St. Michael’s he was a
member of the varsity baseball
and basketball teams, and a let-
terman in baseball, basketball,
football and track at Victory. At
Ashley High he was on the
track and football teams and
was a member of the Radio
Club.
In Boy Scout activities for 10
years, Galligan attained the
rank of Star Scout. He earned
the Junior Red Cross Life-Sav-
ing rating and won first place
in the Gaston County Scout
Swim Meet of 1959.
He has been a participant in
activities of St. Michael’s Catho
lic Church of Gastonia.
Congressman Basil L. White-
ner announced the Academy ap
pointment.
The Academy prepares offi
cers for the U. S. Merchant Ma
rine. Graduates receive B.S. de
grees and commissions in the
U. S. Naval Reserve.
lotte, paying a standard charge
which covered most expenses.
“It’s a good way to make the
trip,” she recommends, “because
lodging, meals, main Fair ad
mission and other arrangements
are made for you. The com
pany’s congenial and you see
the scenery from a chartered
bus.”
The Passmores went by auto,
accompanied by another Gas
tonia couple. Bill, a shop em
ployee here, took many pictures
while touring the exhibits.
Besides attractions at the Fair
itself, the Gastonians did some
looking around the town. Miss
Pearson was most impressed by
a Broadway show at Radio City
Music Hall and a guided tour of
United Nations headquarters.
The Passmores liked especially
the fireworks display and the
photography pavilion.
“Is it expensive to go to the
Fair?” they were asked. Miss
Pearson and the Passmores —
SUGGESTIONS
Waste Control
Being Stressed
August" September
Share with your company an
idea on waste control during
August and September and
you’ll receive a ballpoint pen
for the effort—whether the sug
gestion is adopted or not.
The appreciation gift goes for
each suggestion submitted dur
ing the two-month period at the
Gastonia plant, so long as it per
tains to waste and how to con
trol it.
John’s older brother, Francis,
Jr. (Frankie), is beginning his
third year in the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y.
among many from here who
have been or will be going to
the Fair—had this to say:
Once you’re there, prices are
reasonable — you can spend
about what you want to.
The Fair offers much that’s
free: admission to pavilions, in
ternational buildings, fountains,
pools, gardens and many other
exhibit areas.
"There’s - something for the
whole family to enjoy.
I like to travel—see new plac
es, farms, valleys, trees, hills,
rocks, rivers, lakes, wonders of
nature and marvels of man. You
don't have to have money and
a lot of time to travel. An after
noon, a couple of hours, 15
minutes will do.
Jess Wilson in Mountain Life
& Work Magazine
July 10, 1944 was beginner
day for Eunice W. Jacobs in
her long work record at the
Firestone plant here. In
twisting (synthetics), she
marked her 20th anniversary
last month. Joining her for a
score-of-years record was Al-
den H. Hass, also of twisting
(synthetics).
While these two reached work
milestones, 11 others here com-
leted records of from 5 to 15
years:
Refueling Tanks
Laced With Fabric
Fabric is the backbone struc
ture of 30 tactical airfield fuel-
dispensing systems being made
by Firestone for the U. S. Ma
rine Corps. Systems are portable
fuel stations for fast refueling
of combat planes on beaches
and improved landing strips.
Each system, with 60,000-gal
lon capacity, is composed of six
collapsible, 10,000-gallon, rub-
ber-coated fabric tanks; hoses,
pumps and other equipment for
storage and pumping of fuel.
The stations can refuel six
planes at one time at a com
bined rate of 675 gallons a min
ute.
Boating Safety
Boating mishaps needn’t be
tragedies when you know and
practice water safety, says the
U. S. Coast Guard. If a pas
senger falls overboard, toss a
line and life preserver slightly
past him. Don’t throw it short
so he has to swim for it.
If a boat capsizes, stay with
it, because most craft will still
float. If there have been two
in the boat, take turns holding
on to each other’s wrists across
the keel. You won’t tire so easi
ly and will have some strength
left when help arrives.
The Coast Guard reminds
boaters to have standard life-
Fifteen Years:
Hubert G. Taylor, Cordie S.
Hardin and Fred E. Elkins-
twisting (synthetics); Mae Mas
sey Jones, weaving (cotton),
Grady C. Johnson, shop.
Ten Years
Annie Devern Humphrey,
twisting (synthetics); Clarence
L. Jolly, nylon unit.
Five Years
Jerry B. Edwards, twisting
(synthetics); Bobby Lee Setzer,
Glenn Marshall Walker and
Irene C. Burroughs, weaving
(synthetics).
All 13 persons each received
a service lapel pin, with 20-yea^
record-holders being presented
the company’s recognition
—a gold watch in choice o
wrist or pocket model.
Tanks, 40 feet long, H
wide and 4 feet high in use, can
be folded into packages an
transported by helicopter, plan®
or truck.
Firestone has produced ^
number of similar refueling
systems for the Marine Corps
within the past several years.
saving equipment aboard, as rC'
quired by law.—Drawings:
tionwide Insurance Companies-
A. J, Foyt’s name is history now, as win
ner of this year’s Indianapolis 500 auto race.
But the veteran Texas driver was not the
only winner.
For the 41st consecutive time. Firestone
tires were on the winning car. But this
time, despite higher speeds than ever be
fore, the winning car went the entire 500
miles without a tire change. All 12 cars
which finished the race rolled on Firestone
tires and required no tire changes.
What does this mean? You and I, our fam
ilies and friends and the millions of Fire
stone customers throughout the world will
have a safer tire than has ever been offered
to motorists heretofore.
LESSONS learned in development of the
tire which can hold a race car on the track
while hurtling around a sharp turn at near
ly 150 miles an hour can be built into a
passenger tire that will enable quick stops
and prevent skidding.
A tire that can go 500 miles around the
Indianapolis track in the heat of a race and
We AU Won
At Indianapolis
still have enough tread left for two
500-mile races, paves the way for a
senger tire which will stand an incredib^^
amount of sustained high-speed driving
turnpikes.
From Indianapolis came tougher treads>
sturdier plies, superior road-gripping
signs. The “500” will always be much
than a race. The lessons it provides benefit
every motorist.
Driver Foyt was just one of many
ners at the race. The traveling public
won. Once more the race proved—and
haps in the most dramatic manner in rece^
years—there is more meaning than ever to
the slogan:
"Proved On The Speedway For
Safely On The Highway".
Textiles—Still The Leader
Textiles will remain Gastonia’s ‘backbone’, even though
there has been much industrial diversification in recent
years. This observation was made by the secretary of the
Gastonia Industrial Diversification Commission recently.
S!3!lWi
August, 1964 Page 2
Volume XIII Number 9
☆ ☆ ☆
Published by The Firestone
Tire & Rubber Company,
Firestone Textiles Division,
Gastonia, North Carolina.
Claude C. Callaway, Editor
0 South Atlantic Council of Indus
trial Editors
PLANT REPORTERS
Carding—Payton Lewis
Main Office—Bea McCarter.
Mechanical Department—Rosie Fran-
Quality Control — Sallie
Louella Queen, Leila Rape
Warp Preparation—Elmina
Vera Carswell, Elease Cole,
Cosey, Katie Elkins, Cath©
Fletcher
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id
Warehouse—Harold Robinson,
Good, Rosevelt Rainey
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Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch
Weaving (synthetics)—Irene
Mayzelle Lewis
Winding—Nell Bolick, Ruth CloO»^®®^
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