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United Appeal In October Helps 37 member agencies Firestone, Gastonia, will conduct its 1968 United Appeal during October as a part of the 15th annual financial campaign of United Community Services of Gaston County. Dates of the countywide program are Sept. 24—Oct. 31. The funds-collecting pro gram which is the United Appeal phase of United Com- niunity Services will raise operating expenses for 37 niember agencies for 1969. For the many years that peo ple here have participated in United Appeal through payroll- deduction pledges, the Firestone contribution has represented a ^ajor portion of the total goal. Lasl year's Fireslone record contribution of $32,240.29 went toward the UA goal of $348,000. "The amount was oversubscribed ^to $357,796. Each year, scores of employ ees in all areas of plant manage ment, production and adminis tration volunteer their services the Firestone UA drive. Money collected in the 1968 UCS campaign will go toward operation of the 37 health, wel fare and recreation services in Gastonia, Stanley, Cramerton, I^allas, Cherryville and Mount Holly. List of United Appeal Member Services This Year • American ^ed Cross, American Cancer So ciety, American Social Health ■Association, Boy Scouts of America, Carolinas United Com munity Service, Cerebral Palsy of Gaston County, Children’s Home Society, Dallas Township Recreation. Family Counseling Service, Inc., Florence Crittenton Home, Flynn Home, Gaston Big Broth ers, Gaston Boys Club, Gaston County Association Retarded Children, Gaston Lifesaving Crew, Gaston Skills, Inc., Gas ton YMCA, International Social Service. Jr. Optimist Boys Club, Mount Holly Lifesaving Crew, Mount Holly Relief Organization, Na tional Travelers Aid, NC Mental Health Association, National Council—Crime & Delinquency, National Council for the Ag ing, National Recreation Asso ciation, National Social Welfare Assembly. Pioneer Girl Scouts, The Sal vation Army, Salvation Army Boys Club, United Services Or ganization, United Medical Re search Foundation, Citizens Ac tion Committee, Cherryville A. F. S., Cherryville Rescue Squad, Gaston County Mental Health Association, Lowell Branch of Salvation Army Boys’ Club. Plant Technical Manager H. G. Hall, with Firestone ^i^ice 1951, has been named technical manager of the com- &any’s Gastonia textile plant. Robert W. Rice, president of firestone Synthetic Fibers and "textile Company, announced ^^e appointment in early July. In his new assignment. Hall responsibility for the tech- ^^cal aspects of the plant, in cluding supervision of experi mental fabric production, ma chinery modernization and plan- and general quality stand- ^J'ds. His duties also include maintaining a special projects and refinements program at the Gastonia plant. Hall joined Fireston at Gas tonia in 1951. He earned a BS degree in textile management at N. C. State University, Ral eigh, in 1950. He worked for a cotton textile plant and a mer cerizing firm for a short time before coming to Firestone. AT THE Gastonia plant, Hall had assignments in quality con trol, cotton classing, and moved up to operating assistant in yarn sales. In 1960 he was promoted to assistant manager of the syn thetic production division. In mid-1961 he transferred to the company’s textile plant at Sao Paulo, Brazil, as assistant manager. One year later, he was advanced to plant manager and remained in that assign ment until 1964. Returning that year to Gas tonia, he was placed on special —more on page 3 1968 Indianapolis 500 race, had been shown on 218 tv stations during June and early July. The 16mm color- sound movie highlights the “biggest spectacle in auto racing” and plays up the battle between piston-driven cars and turbines. Latest Movie On 500 Race . “Preview of the Future,” ^ irestone’s new movie on the ☆ ☆ ☆ The movie features four types of cars and 33 drivers ^^tting records on the Indianapolis famed oval. Pole winner Leonard, in a Firestone-equipped turbine, was within ^^§ht of victory lane when the racer cruised to a halt with ^^ly 22V2 miles to go. The 26-minute movie can be scheduled for showings ^rough an Association Films library serving this area. For ^formation, inquire of the Gastonia plant industrial rela- office. Tfr«$ton« AUGUST • 1968 GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA The ‘Residents’ Are Gone • Call this "Lost to sight but dear to memory." Photo is last one made of the two remaining "residents" on and around the open reservoir which later became location of newest of two fabric-treating units at Gastonia. Across the more than a half century of the Old Pond's usefulness, ducks and geese splashed and glided on the tranquil surface and pattered around the banks. They came, then moved on for others to come—and go. When the pond was drained into history a little more than a year ago, the two remaining "homesteaders" sought out new wetlands—we know not where. Old electric station (center), between Pond and Main Mill, was removed in recent months. Area now occupied by new treating unit is left of center in this picture. Division Promotions: Johnson • Schroeder • Heilman R. W. Rice, president of Firestone Synthetic Fibers and Textiles Company, has announced promotion of three men to broader assign ments, growing out of the re cent merging of two former Firestone divisions. Rice said that addition of the textiles complex—composed of plants at Gastonia, Bennetts- ville, S. C., and Bowling Green, Ky., to the fibers plant at Hope- well, Va.,—has created a need for men capable of larger re sponsibilities. • R. K. Johnson, comptroller of the Hopewell operations, has been named division comptrol ler. • Dr. W. A. Shroeder, man ager of product and process de velopment, has been assigned development responsibilities for the entire division. • E. J. Heilman, sales and marketing manager for the fi bers division, has assumed broader responsibilities in fiber sales as well as fabric sales in the textile area. The responsibi lities also include divisional technical services under man agement of A. E. Martin. Johnson was named comptrol ler of the Synthetic Fibers di vision in 1963. He joined Fire- tone in 1952 as an accountant in the company’s Lake Charles, La., synthetic-rubber plant. In 1956 he transferred to the Orange, Tex., petrochemical cen ter in general accounting. He moved to the auditing depart ment in Akron in 1961; was named accounting manager in 1962. A native of Camden, Ark., —more on page 4 A Major Historical Development CARSON HOUSE Near Camp Firestone Firestone people who enjoy the recreation facilities of the company’s employee retreat on Lake James are ac quainted with the scenic splendor of the area. They know of the many nearby points of interest such as Little Switzer land, Linville Falls and Caverns, the Gorge, and Grandfather Mountain. Then, there are places of his- ed into a heritage shrine and torical importance. museum of history. The house in One such landmark is the the Pleasant Gardens section out stately and sturdy John Carson of Marion is 158 years old. In it House which has been develop- was held the organizational Carson House • A lane of aged English boxwoods leads to his torical preservation which was opened as museum in 1964. Original portion of mansion was completed around 1810. meeting which formed Mc Dowell County in 1842. The Carson Home Restora tion, Inc., opening the house to visitors first in 1964, is making it into a major historical devel opment. The house has a Carson Room displaying furnishings and mementoes which have been passed down among descendants of the home's founder. Col. John Carson. The Carson family was prom inent in county, state and na tional affairs, and members were associated with many outstand ing men, among them Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Na thaniel Macon, Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun. Something of these historical figures event ually will be included in the house restoration. Best known of the Carson family was one of the Colonel’s sons, Samuel Price Carson, a state legislator at age 24, a U.S. Congressman 8 years; and at 40, secretary of state of the Repub lic of Texas. Carson House served as tem porary courthouse for the first two years of McDowell County’s history. Stoneman’s Raiders —more on page 2
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