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League Champions Of the 15 games played in competition, the team sponsored by Optimist Club of Firestone won 13, to earn the championship of the Harold Mercer Little Tar Heel League this summer. The winning team played in games with three other Optimist- sponsored teams and two church-sponsored teams. In picture—front row, from left: Ricky Caldwell, David Black, Mike Blalock, Mike Stewart, Randy Gillespie, Timmy Blalock, Vacation N ortheast war d Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Taylor recently spent a week of vaca tion with their son, Bobby W. Wolfe and family in Cleveland, Ohio. Of the several points of in terest along the way, the Tay lors visited the Harvey Firestone Memorial and Research Building in Akron. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor traveled to Ohio by jet plane. Joining them there were a son, 2nd-Class Petty Officer Edward D. Taylor and his wife of Charleston, S. C.; a daughter, Mrs. Barney Jiles and daughter Christy of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and a Gastonia neighbor, David Webb, who works here in twist ing. Ricky Jones. Second, from left; Fred Davis, Mike Lineberger, Eddie Jones, Marshall Craig, Billy Queen, Terry Parker. Third, from left: Steve Clayton, Berry Austin, Bill Queen (coach), Jimmy Dobbins, Marcus Dobbins (coach). This was the second year of LTH team- coaching for Mr. Dobbins (he works in Fire stone weaving — synthetics). The other coach, Bill Queen, works for the local Post Office. The name of the local LTH league honors Harold Mercer, president of Firestone Tex tiles Company. r: II ■ Mr. Taylor, a section super visor in twisting at Firestone, Gastonia, is also an ordained minister. • Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and daughter Brenda Jiles visiling the company's research center in Akron. DIG HERE It has not caught up with stamp collecting in numbers of devoted followers, but it’s one of the more unusual and excit ing hobbies. Treasure hunting has loyal followers around the world. In this country there are hundreds of devotee clubs and other groups of THs (treasure hunters) on the local level. One Firestone family, relating experiences in an old mining camp on an Out-West trip last summer, suggested this piece about treasure hobbying. AS YOU'D expect on just about any subject, there is a wealth of material on the theme of treasure hunting—Books gen eral and specific, magazines and other periodicals, maps, listings of possible locations of treasures, many more. Legends and Ghost Gold WHAT'S YOUR HOBBY? Then there are manufacturers and suppliers who make avail able the materials and equip ment needed to do the treasure hunting. In case you’re interested in “reading up” on the subject, as a startoff in the hobby or as just fascinating reading, here are a few major books in the field: Treasure Hunter's Manual and Encyclopedia of Buried Treas urer, both by Karl von Mueller Dig Here! by Thomas Penfield Lost Mines and Hidden Treas ure by Leland Lovelace The Treasure of Buccaneer Sea by Harry Heisenberg The Padre Island Story by Daly and Reisenberg. Survival of Legends by Roselle Williams Crawford S, ALMANAC My favorite season is the time during those last lanquid sum mer days which come just before the autumn; and in the day, the hour . . . when the sun lingers before fading with rays of copper- yellow on the gray walls, and of copper-red on the windowpanes. —Stephen Mallarme Ghost Gold by Oren Arnold. Check your library or book dealer. Of magazines devoted exclus ively or in part to treasure hunt ing, here is a smattering list: True Treasure Conroe, Texas 77301 TAB . 1018 Griggs SE, Grand Rapids, Mich. Many Smokes (National I n - dian Magazine), Box 5895, Reno, Nev. Western Treasures Box 866, Tarzana, Calif. Goldbug, Dept. T, Box 588, Alamo, Calif. Write for informa tion on subscriptions. • For a free list of books and maps on treasure-hunting, write Mahan’s Treasure Archives, PO Box 726, Garland, Texas 75041. August: Glory Before Frost August: days of summer green and gold—days of summer on the wane. The sights, scents and sounds this month give your senses a workout, offer you something to keep in memory for a long time. These days have a sense of ur gency about them for those who reap the harvest of a garden. Make the most of your garden treasure, for not many days hence is the time of the first frost. Aunt Sadie used to say that she wished that beans, cucum bers and tomato plants were half as vigorous and hardy against frost as the weeds in her garden. It brings us to a footnote on that humble sub ject. As long ago as the late 1600s, New England colonists were having their weed troubles on land they had plowed from vir gin soil. They discovered they had brought the unwanted plants from the Homeland, in baggage and litter so common to the ships of that time. Before 1700 New England had a good crop of quack grass, dan delions, sow’s thistle, shepherd’s purse, knotweeds, chickweeds, groundsel, mullein, dock, plan tain and many others. These are with us still and spread all over the country. Not one of them is native to North America. One authority says that about 60 per cent of our common weeds were unknown to this land before the first colonists arrived. August Is A Good Time To . . . Renew old acquaintances, cherish some new ones at a fam ily reunion . . . Return to the old home place and gain a fresh aP' preciation for beginnings. • • ' Take a hike and enjoy fascina tion of woods and fields—notice some of the season’s trademarks- water flowing quieter in brooks as they begin to deepen, here and there a touch of color such trees as the buckey®> brown stubble of cotton fieldSi glory of wild asters by the waY' side. Company to W. Africa Republic Firestone and the Republic of Ghana have made an agreement for joint operation of a rubber plantation and a new tire fac tory. The 20,000-acre rubber plantation in Southwest Ghana will be owned by a new com pany, Ghana Rubber Estates Ltd. Its natural rubber will be available for use within the na tion and for export. The firm to be formed by Firestone and Ghana will pro duce tires, tubes and retread materials in a plan already un der construction at Bonsaso in the Western Region. Firestone will have a 60 per cent share in Firestone Ghana Ltd. and Ghana will have own ership of 55 per cent in Ghan^ Rubber Estates Ltd. Wh“en^in full production, tb^ plantations are expected to yi^^ near 21.5 million pounds of pro^ essed rubber a year. Togethe^ the two companies are expecte to employ 3,800 people. Earl B. Hathaway, Firest^^ company president, said: ^, at Firestone are looking forwai"^ to working with the people ® Ghana in the operation of \ ^ rubber plantation and the ti factory. The two industries ^ provide considerable e m p 1 ® ^ ment and will greatly strength the nation’s economy.” U O page I Throughout the years the United Fund (now United Ap peal) campaign among Firestone employees has been the only general money drive at the Gas tonia plant. Year after year, people here have pledged amounts through payroll deduction that have be come the leading single con tribution from any one industry. People here last year gave $32,031.41 to the appeal during the regular October campaign. As of late July, these were the approved members of the Unit ed Appeal: American Red Cross, Ameri can Social Health Associati^ ’ Boy Scouts of America, linas United Community Se ice. Cerebral Palsy of GaS County, Children’s Home ty, Dallas Township Recreati^’ Family Counseling Servi*^^^ Florence Crittenton ’ Flynn Home. ^ Gaston Big Brothers, ^ Boys Club, Gaston County Retarded Children, Gaston Life' Saving Crew, Gaston Skill® GASTOKIA Volume XVI Number 8 August, 1967 Page 2 Plant Offices Warehouses Claude C. Callaway, Editor ☆ ☆ REPORTERS ☆ Employee publication of Firestone Textiles, Gastonia, North Carolina, producing quality tire fabric since 1935. Member, South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors. Carding—Payton Lewis Industrial Relations—Rita Maye 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 Gaston YMCA, Internatio^^ Social Service, Jr. Boys Club, Lowell Boys Club. .jjg Mount Holly Life-Sa''^ Crew, Mount Holly Relief ganization, National TraV® Aid, NC Mental Health Assoc ^ tion. National Council-Crin^^^^i Delinquency, National g^o' for the Aging, National ciation Hearing & Speech) tional Recreation Associa National Social Welfare sembly. Pioneer Girl The Salvation Army, Army Boys Club, United ices Organization (USO), Medical Research Foundati®
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