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GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA AN ALL-AMERICA CITY VOLUME XIII-NUMBER 11 OCTOBER • 1964 Tir«$tone OCT 1 3 1364 Your Symbol of Quality and Service Laie-afternoon view from the ^®adwaiers of Watauga River, booking toward Hanging Rock between Marion and Boone. Looking around ^Rom camp firestone October Harvest October brings peak bril- uance to autumn color in the ^outhern Highlands. And in heart of the lower Blue ^'dge, Camp Firestone is a good p’ace to v.ew the color ^how, and an ideal point which to launch sight seeing tours in a vast region l^^ig famed for its natural e a u t y and scenic attrac tions. Camp Firestone, offering ^^riety recreation for em- ployees and their families in ^ Lake James cove setting ^ear Marion, extends its 29th ^^cison to mid-Ocfcober. These Firestone News pho- Zebulon Baird Vance Birth place, maintained as a State His toric Site, is on Reems Creek Road 5 m'les east of Weaver- ville and near Asheville. The Log house, built in the 1790s, tos are samples of what’s to see when you “look around from Camp Firestone.” Company Advertising On Television National advertising of the ^oinpany this fall and winter in- extensive magazine ex posure of the Town and Country ''^ii^ter tire, and sharing spon sorship of football and bowling Presentations on television. Ads for the Town and Country are appearing in many mag- ^zines of national circulation flu ^1 ring September and October. , for other national-maga- advertising will be an nounced later. ON TV, Firestone is partici pating in bringing pre-game warm-ups every Saturday just before the National College Ath letic Assoc.'ation football games on NBC. This schedule began Sept. 12 and will run through Dec. 5. Also on schedule is the Thanksgiving Day game. The company is taking part in sponsorship of pre-game warm ups for National Football Employee Gift To United Fund $23,425 Firestone people have again registered support for the many community services of the United Fund, by pledging $23,425 to the Greater Gastonia UF campaign. The solicita tion here was the first to be completed in this year’s cam paign, actually several days before the community-wide funds-gathering began Oct. 8. was childhood home of North Carolina's Civil-War Governor, later a U.S. Senator. Asheville artist John Hauen- stein depicts the Vance home stead, with background showing the NC State Capitol and the Washington Monument. The re stored house is furnished with mountain antiques of the area. League games each Sunday—be gun Sept. 13, and running through Jan. 3. Firestone will also share sponsorship of five of the National Football League games during November and December. The company began sharing sponsorship of Championship bowling in September, to con tinue to April. The Firestone message on television is reaching 15 to 20 million viewers each week throughout the fall and winter seasons. It was the largest sum ever recorded for a Firestone Tex tiles in-plant canvass. Last year's UF gift of $17,813 was also a record figure to that time. P. R. Williams, Jr., division production manager, and J. G. Tino, Jr., plant engineer, were chairmen of the campaign. They reported an averaged giving among employees of $17.65, coupled with another record: 910 persons making contribu tions by the “fair share” formu la. General manager Harold Mer cer noted that throughout the many years the plant has par ticipated in united community giving, employee response has grown steadily. He cited the 1961 gift of $15,549 and $16,- 585 in 1962 as examples of the mounting figures leading to the still larger, ones for 1963 and that of the just-completed campaign. “Our people’s record this year is in the proud tradition of a growing concern here for the many services to people made possible through the United 29 Years And More H. A. Cauthen is a testimonial to the wisdom of planning in teresting and worthwhile things to keep busy on in retirement. The assistant plant engineer who in late September finished his Firestone career of over 29 years, has worked out some new fishing strategy, whetted his in terest in art and painting and has gone to playing golf as a bonus for his “green pasture” years. Cauthen moved to Gastonia from Lancaster, S. C. in 1922 and worked for the mill here under its former management until Firestone came along in 1935. From 1935 to 1956 he was shop foreman, then promoted to assistant plant engineer. For many years and until his retirement he was a member of the Firestone Recreation Coun- Fund,” Mr. Mercer added. Plant production manager F. B. Galligan, this year campaign chairman of the greater com munity UF drive, said: “Fire stone people have shown an out standing example — one which we think of as setting the pace for the giving of others during the campaign which runs to Nov. 1.” The Firestone pledges went toward the Greater Gastonia UF goal of $225,184 and support of 27 community - welfare - recrea - tion agencies, and administra tion of the UF program. The in-plant canvass was helped by dozens of volunteer solicitors in every department. In the community-wide solici tation, other Firestone people besides Mr. Galligan are in key leadership positions. Industrial relations manager Alvin Riley is chairman of Industrial Division 140. Working with him are L. B. McAbee, Charles McArver, Ralph Johnson and Samuel Crawford, all of the supervisory staff. Will You Help To Decide? Who'll be the next President of the United States? You'll be helping to decide this piece of American history — if you vote November 3. The question of who'll be the next Chief Executive is one quite different from that being asked in 1787, say historians. That year, at the Constitutional Convention, one hotly-debated question was: Should we HAVE a President? George Washington thought he had his hands full as Presi dent of the U.S., which in his day had 13 states and a popula tion of just 3.9 million. Today's President commands not one. but five, jobs and any one of them could fill a long day. cil. He is a member of Loray Baptist Church. When he retired, his work as sociates honored him with a luncheon and a gift. A son, K. C. Cauthen, is em ployed in the warehouse; and a daughter, Mrs. Carl Sanders, works in main office. ☆ ☆ 'Machines Neither Build Nor Operate Themselves: People Do . . . Skilled People’ ■^s too-S we use in our daily work become more Complex, SO does the degree of skill needed to ^.Perate these tools. Applied to the worM of tex- as it grows more complex, every person who !^akes h's living in the industry needs to grow knowledge and skill. The textile industry has grown great, partly because it is a “people-based” and not a “ma chine-based” industry, points out the American Textile Manufacturers Institute. Machines neither build nor operate themselves. People do. Skilled people. As the textile industry’s base of competition spreads, one of the challenges which must be met is the need for new and better skills. It will be a combination of newer and better ways to do things—and skilled people to do them—that will make the industry stronger in years to come.
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