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i'SSieiii From Shuttles To Dancing Feet ^ Massive wooden timbers and lathed posts which had their first use in a North Carolina textile mill are playing a real supporting role at one of the state’s newest mountain recrea tion centers. The huge wooden members and bolted steel plates, salvaged from a mill in the Greensboro area, are supporting the ceilings and second floor of the Visitor Center at Seven Devils Recrea tion Park on NC 105 between Boone and Linville. • Familiar? Two views of beams and turned pillars are reminiscent of standard fixtures in textile mills erected as late as the early 1920s — and the Where once the hefty timbers vibrated to the hum of spindles and clack of shuttles, they now tremble to the rythm of nimble feet and mountain music of squaredancing on Saturday nights during the summer-au tumn season. same type as those in the Fire stone plant at Gastonia. • Seven Devils Visitor Center where posts and beams are "working at a new job." Among services of the family recreation area are camping facilities, rental lodges, boating and swimming, fun rides, a ski lift in summer and winter; and the Visitor Center in which is located a country store and craft shop, luncheonette, and the rec reation floor above. Safety Programs Recognized In Two NSC Publications A Firestone Textiles exhibit and the plant’s special emphasis on fire safety late last year was the subject of a full-page fea ture in National Safety News for July this year. The National Safety Council magazine carried a picture of the “Don’t Get Trapped” display of a house model which appear ed in Firestone News last No vember. The story described the fire exhibits put on by members of the plant fire brigade as part of the model-house display in front of the plant during Na tional Fire Prevention Week last October. “While an important message was put across by the demon stration house, equally impor tant phases of fire prevention (home and plant) were covered by other activities conducted during the week,” the article EVERY GOOD GUY noted. It then listed special meetings with people on the job, visiting speakers, and the plant’s comprehensive review of its firefighting and fire-safety serv ice. Another NSC publication, the Textile Section News Bulletin, in one summer issue recognized the plant here for its promotion al activities of the off-job safety emphasis in May. ‘Pacemaker of the Piedmont’ "Pacemaker of the Pied mont"—that's the new slo gan adopted last month for Gastonia. The newest pro motional phrase replaces "City of Growing Beauty" which had advertised this hub city of "Big Textile Country" since 1951. The latest slogan, with its built-in reference to a "pro gressive city of diversified industry", was adopted through a public competition sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Of the more than 400 entries, there was a winner tie: Ja cob Hord, Jr., and Hugh Stroupe, both submitting identical slogans. Each received a $25 check from the Chamber of Com merce. GIVES THE UNITED WAY OVERSEAS EDITIOK OF MAN ON THE MOVE, a com prehensive history of transpor tation by Harvey S. Firestone Jr., has been published by Bant am Books in an overseas, Eng lish-language, paperback stu dent edition of 25,000 copies. Distribution is to Latin Ameri ca, the Near and Middle East, the Far East and Africa, an nouncement was made by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, which produced Transportation History the original hard-cover edition earlier this year. The company honorary chair man’s book is also being pub lished as a French paperback for distribution to students in French - speaking countries in Africa and Southeast Asia. The United States Informa tion Agency (USIA) chose the book for this overseas distribu tion. Fun While It Lasted season Youngsters in West Gastonia enjoyed the Firestone Play ground right up to the week before local schools began the new session on Aug. 28. The traditional watermelon party was the usual good way to close out the summer of recrea tion, of the season which began the first week in June. The company-owned facility for youngsters in the Fire stone plant community is one in the system of summer parks and playgrounds operated by the City Recreation Depart ment of Gastonia. Children up to age 12 play under super vision of persons who work for the City Recreation Depart ment. Gastonia Marine In DAV Magazine Marine Pfc. Roger B. Donald son of Gastonia was featured in a one-page layout in the August DAV Magazine, official voice of the Disabled American Veterans. The magazine reprinted Rog er’s letter “I Remember and Hope” which he wrote earlier this year to the Gastonia Ga zette, while on his way to serve in Vietnam. Firestone News reprinted the letter in April, along with Rog er’s picture, taken when he was on sentry duty in Vietnam. DAV Magazine requested the material from the plant newspaper. It published it along with art sketches illustrating Roger’s let ter of memories of his childhood and youth in Gastonia, his de votion to duty in the service and his gratitude for the privilege of guarding America’s freedoms- Roger’s parents, Mr. and Mrs- Clarence Donaldson, work i^^ twisting here. An older brother, Clarence Jr., is a technical as sistant in process refinement and development. United Appeal — From Page ^ was Firestone Textiles opera tions manager F. B. Galliga^^- The UA current president-elect is Carl J. Stewart Jr., local at torney whose parents work here in the county-wide campaig’^ this year, several who work at Firestone are in volunteer lead ership assignments. ROGER MORISSETTE He Keeps A Tradition Roger Morissette and Miss Flo Brochu will be married in their hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada, October 7. Then they will go on a trip to Quebec, highlighted by a visit to Expo 67 in Montreal. Mr. Morissette in August re turned to Canada from Gastonia where he had spent more than two months studying production and other phases of cord-fabric manufacturing at Firestone Tex tiles. His assignment is with the company’s Woodstock, Ontario, plant of the textile division. Miss Brochu came to Gastonia ® Leonard Ingram of ing (synthetics-cord) discussion a loom operation with Morissette (right), who studi® operations here this summer. for a few-days visit while he* fiance was on duty here. Morissette studied textiles ^ the Hamilton (Ontario) Institute of Technology. He joined tb® company at Woodstock upon graduation from HIT last In textiles, Roger is followi^^^ in a tradition begun by ^ father who has been in the co ton-spinning business in Cana for the past 30 years. Both Roger’s parents are inally from Quebec. , Welland is in the southeas^^ ern tip of Ontario, near ton, and a few miles from agara Falls on the Canadia U.S. border. 'Fir«$lon« SfSWJ GASTONIA Volume XVI Sepiember. 1967 ^ Callaway. Editor Number 9 Page 2 Employee publication of Firestone Textiles, Gastonia, North Carolina, producing quality tire fabric since 1935. Member, South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors. Plant Offices Warehouses ☆ ☆ REPORTERS ☆ Carding—Payion Lewis Industrial Relations—Rita Maye Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—Sallie Crawford, Louella Queen, Leila Rape o ^ ^ ‘ Twisting (synthetics)—Elease ^ , Katie Elkins, Catherine Fletcn ^ Warp Preparation—Elmina Brads^® Nell Bolick Isf® Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Good, Rosevelt Rainey Weaving r( cotton)—Ruth Veitch ^ Weaving (synthetics)—Ann C o ® Mayzelle Lewis
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