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Scout Award From Page 1 Downtown Store Continues To Serve J. V. Darwin (left), manager of production planning and pro- Lee Beaty, Wayne Clemmer. Troop 67: Richard K. Thompson, Jeffrey H. Warren. STANLEY • Troop 49: Har ley Jack Carnes, Ray Wilson, Gary Lutz. jects, presenled the 1966 Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Award Silver Medallion to Ronald K. Kiser. With them is Lewis Kiser, the Scout's father. Mr. Darwin pre sented the award on behalf of Harold Mercer, the plant gen eral manager. THE ILLUSTRATOR Handy With Brushes and Tools Many-talented Wayne Glance will be a senior at Ashley High School this fall. One of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Glance of Highland Street, Wayne does a superior job when he put his hand to such ex pressions as woodworking, land scaping, drafting and designing. And he is especially handy with pencil and artist brush. One of his most recent achieve ments was “honorable mention” for his entry in the twice-a-year beginner competition at Art In struction Schools of Minne apolis, Minn. His 11x14 pencil rendering of a classmate at Ashley won the distinction on neatness, render ing skill and general ability. It was judged among hundreds of contestant entries. WAYNE has been studying by correspondence at the Minne apolis school for some seven months, receiving ‘A’ grades on THE ILLUSTRATOR maga zine of Art Instruction Schools featured pencil drawing (left) of Christine (Teena) Slaten. Art ist Wayne Glance worked from Teena's photograph at right. all his work. He has also com pleted his first year of art class es at Ashley. While at Wray Junior High School Wayne was named “most talented student.” Distinguished in industrial arts at school, he has moved on to such designing- building projects as some of the display cases at Schiele Museum of Natural History and finish New Dixie Village Store Company-Operated SPRING 66 At the new company store in Gastonia’s Dixie Village Center on Andrew Jackson Highway two miles west of town, Firestone employees may purchase merchandise and service on employee dis counts and the company’s regular payroll - deduction plan. Opened several months ago as a Firestone Home and Auto Supply Store, the merchandis- ing-service facility began op erating last month as a regular company store. The original company store at Franklin and Marietta down town continues to serve under Robinette: One Good Speller Robinette Caldwell, who came out winner in spelling competi tion among Gastonia city ele mentary schools this spring, went on the finals a month later and took seventh place in The Observer Regional Spelling Bee. Called the “crowd-pleaser” at the Charlotte finals, Robinette— at nine years and a fourth-grad er at Gastonia’s Wilson School— was the youngest contestant ever to participate. A newspaper story described her as “blond, blue-eyed, cher ubic, smiling, spectacled, dress ed in a robin-egg-blue dress and white Mary Janes, and confi dent as all get-out, rapping out letters as though she were tell ing her name." Robinette,- daughter - of—Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hollifield of Gas tonia, spelled up through 15 rounds in the finals. She and the four other runners-up received copies of the Lincoln Library. Robinette’s mother, Doris, works in splicing. carpentry on jobs in one of Gas tonia’s newer residential de velopments. His drawings, posters and other artwork have been includ ed in local displays, some win ning distinction in such as the Sears art exhibits. Wayne's mother works in twisting (synthetics). His brother Ted also works in twisting. Two-Month Season For Playground Wading and splashing in the pool are the exclusive choice for children up to 12 years of age again for another season at Fire stone Playground in front of the mill. And the pool crowd can join their older associates for fun-recreation at such activities as horseshoe-pitching, see-saw ing, swinging, chin-barring; and learning - doing in arts and crafts. The company-owned recrea tion facility is turned over each summer to the Gastonia Parks and Recreation Commission which operates a 10-week pro gram. The park is among more than a dozen recreational facili ties which the city operates in summer. June 13 opens the season which closes August 13. Mon- day-Friday hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday: 9-1. City-employed attendants on duty during playground hours will be Darinda Camp and Doana Derryberry. Instruction in arts and crafts, begun in the 1964 season, is part of the city’s general recreation al training program. management of Chris Hope, long-time employee of that unit. The modern facility in Dixie Village Center contains 10,000 square feet, with a sales area of 3,000 square feet. It stocks a complete line of appliances, radio and television sets and other home and auto supplies. THERE ARE six bays for servicing automobiles, with all- new equipment. Some of the services are front-end align ment, wheel balancing, brake relining; replacing of mufflers, tailpipes and shock absorbers and complete engine tuneup. Manager of the store is Thad Foxx, former manager of the downtown store. Both down town store and the store in Dixie Village are open evenings to 9 o’clock. The new Firestone Store is one of the most up-to-date in this area. Its facilities are a part of the overall plan to make Dix ie Village a regional center of fering complete lines of mer chandise and services. June 6-II was set aside for increasing sales of U.S. Savings Bonds through Payroll Savings at Firestone plants. The opportunity continues for people here to increase Bonds purchase, or to sign up for "the bargain that's bigger than ever." This message by RAYMOND C. FIRESTONE • Chair man of the company and chairman of the execu tive committee and chief executive officer: BONDS BETTER than EVER This year marks the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Sav ings Bond Program. For a quarter of a century now our company has been sharing in this program because of great importance to our country and because it offers each American a convenient method of saving. Recently President Johnson announced a new, higher interest rate on Series E and H Bonds which, now at 4.1^ per cent, makes Bonds a better investment than ever. I hope every man and woman at Firestone will be buy- ing Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan by the time our enrollment campaign ends in June. When you buy bonds you strengthen our nation’s se curity today and your security for the future. An act of the Florida Legis lature named a water-conser- vation project for Rufe Wysong. Here he stands beside the Wy'ong Dam and Navigation Lock. RUFE WYSONG FABRIDAM at the lock It is the world’s first appli cation of Fabridams to control operation of a navigation lock. The rubberized dam repre sents the first major step to conserve water in the 2,200-sq. mile Withlacoochee River Basin in West central Florida. Wysong, a government leader in the area, was instrumental in getting the dam authorized so the water level in the basin would remain constant. Before the huge Fabridam collapsible unit was put water levels upstream of son’s Landing and in nearly Lake Panasoffkee often droP ped so low that fishing and « ing were affected. Stretching 2 feet across the Withlashee (background, photo), the high Firestone inflatable ation, bolted to a concre foundation, can hold 65,000 Ions water. In minutes, it can emptied to lie flat on its Crete base. be Beside the main dam GASTONIA Volume XV Number 6 June, 1966 Page 2 Plant Offices Warehouses Claude C. Callaway, Editor ☆ ☆ REPORTERS ☆ Employee _ publication of Firestone Textiles. Gastonia, North Carolina, division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Member, South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors. Carding—Payion Lewis Industrial Relations—Shirley Greene Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—Sallie Crawford, Louella Queen, Leila Rape Twisting (synthetics)—Elease Cole, Katie Elkins, Catherine Fletcher Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradshaw, Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Israel Good, Rosevelt Rainey Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving (synthetics)—Ann C o s e y , Mayzelle Lewis boat lock 17x86 feet. Specia^^^^ designed Fabridam bags 9 ^ high become gates at each of the |lock. The Fabridai^ manufactured by F i r e s t o Coated Fabrics Company, “carcass” structure of synthetic fabric. ^
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