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Big Fling In Georgia’s High Country LATE JUNE Tire$ton« • In the North Georgia hills, Rabun County is home country of a number of employees and retired persons of Firestone, Gastonia. Rabun County is also host to thousands of homefolks and visitors for its biggest annual event every third week in June. That’s when the Mountaineer Festival offers one of the most fun and frivolity-packed “shindigs” in all the Southern Blue Ridge Country. This year’s Festival dates are June 19-22, with the biggest crowd-fetching events on the 21st — Crowning of Festival Queen, and mammoth street parade featuring hillfolk, cover ed wagons, bands, horses—and all depicting pioneering rural times. OTHER HIGHLIGHTS of the four-day program: Motorcycle climb, skydiving shows, chil dren’s amusements, musical pro grams; a “sock hop’', also round and square dancing. Too, ther’re a doggers con vention, horse show, contests for the best costumes and beards, the giveaway of a saddle horse, displays and sales of mountain arts and crafts. Still other recreational events in the “high cool” of Clayton and surrounding hills are hik ing, mountain climbing, swim ming, golfing, a coondog race. JAMES RAMEY of produc tion scheduling and control says of his home country: “It’s where JUNE 1969 GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA Jon Ward And 34 Others 69 Scouting Awards “His is the most outstanding record I have ever review ed in our Scouting competition down through the years,” said Ralph Johnson, announcing Jon S. Ward as recipient of the Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Scouting Award for 1969. The plant employee relations outstanding Scout to be honor- spring spends the summer. There are five lakes in the area, with good fishing and lots of scenery, and friendly people who’ll see that you have a good time when you visit.” • For other travel suggestions, see “People Going Places” on page 4. Of Tire Tread And The Law Norlh Carolina siaie law now requires motorists io have on their vehicles tires which meet safely standards as set by the law enacted by the General As sembly May 1. The law requires that tires have a 2-32nds of an inch of Iread and to be free of other defects. Joe Garrett, NC motor vehicle commissioner, reminds the pub lic that mechanics who are cer tified for auto safety inspection checks have attended orienta tion classes on the new tire-in- speciion law, and are now in specting tires. Garrett notes that motorists may be cited to court for having unsafe tires. A motorist can de fend himself in court by show ing that the unsafe tires have been replaced within 15 days of the citation. manager and coordinator of the company’s Scouting awards competition here, pointed out that the winner this year re corded a higher total of points than had any other winner in years past. Jon, a member of Troop 13, Gastonia, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ward Jr. of 516 W. Sixth Avenue, and grandson of W. B. Ward, a Firestone retiree. Jon attained Eagle Rank in April this year. In Scouting since late 1965, he has made the unusual record of 42 advance ments within the past year alone. Jon, who will be a senior at Hunter Huss High School this fall, has an “A” school record. He also has an outstanding list of achievements at St. Michael’s Church. He will be 16 on upcoming Nov. 18. For his Scout project in the Firestone competition, he constructed a pack frame. Says his Scoutmaster, Bruce Wofford: “Jon is an outstanding Scout — always anxious to demonstrate his skill at meet ings and to help other Scouts in the troop to get their merit badges and advance.” The 1969 winner is the 24th Happiness: Being Busy & Productive QUEEN & HER COLONY A newly-organized colony of honeybees on the move camped in an oak tree near the main office in May, and ^'esumed the industry for Which they are so well known. Before a Firestone “bee man” hobbyist could transfer them to his home apiary, they’d gather ed about two pounds of honey ^nd placed it on their chosen ^I'ee branch. R. E. Mack, safety supervisor, ^irst noticed the wandering Moneymakers. He called Roy ^arr of twisting-TC, knowing ^^lat Roy has been making bee keeping a hobby for many i^ears. Roy brought along an equip- ^^ed hive and invited the swarm- inside. In the moving proc ess, the hastily-deposited honey dripping to the walk be- W. their new owner placed the hive under the tree and at the ^iose of his work shift, took to his home on Church Street. There, he placed them ^iongside the five “stands” he had for three years. Marr said that had not some- provided the bees a per manent home, the colony’s scouts eventually would have located a more suitable place to carry on their industry. The day before they moved into Marr’s patented “gum” the swarm members had weathered a rain-and-hail downpour. THEY DIDN'T STING • George Chalk (left) and John Bryant of the shop (sanitation service) stopped to make friends with the visiting honeymakers. Why didn't they sting George and John? When picture was made, the sun was shining and nectar was abundant. Under such favorable conditions, bees are usually too busy to bother with people. ed in the company program at Gastonia. Presentation of award was made May 27 at the annual Scout Awards dinner meeting in Firestone Recreation Center. Besides Jon's recognition, 34 other Scouts from Gastonia and four other Gaston communities were named Merit winners for noteworthy Scouting achieve ment. Plant manager John V. Dar win presented Jon the Silver Medallion emblem of the award, a Certificate of Merit, a $100 U.S. Savings Bond and a $20.80 check for an expenses fund to Schiele Scout Reservation en campment or for purchase of Scouting equipment. The 34 others honored for Scouting achievement each were presented a Certificate of Merit and a gift check of $20.80 to ward expenses for a stay at Schiele Reservation in Polk County, or for equipment. Bessemer City • Troop 37: Scott S a r V i s , Randy Scott More on page 3 Jon Ward received Medallion from John Darwin Suggestion Emphasis ™'*°une June is wrap-up month of a quota-by-department sug gestion program designed to stimulate production of ideas and their turn-in to the Suggestion System at the Gastonia plant. The special effort, started at the beginning of April, sets quotas based on the number of people working in each depart ment. Members of supervision are “key salesmen” for stepping up suggestion participation. By the in-person approach, supervisors encouage suggestions by calling attention to problems in such areas as waste control, increase of production efficiency, and improvement of safety. Each month the Suggestion Board Secretary sends depart ment supervisors a subject list of suggestions turned in. This report is an index to the pro gress the three-month program is making. Open Line To ‘Fire Center’ On utility poles at intersections all over Gastonia—77 bright red boxes are marked FIRE. One of them is located on W. Second Ave., in front of Firestone’s Industrial Rela tions office. Another is at the Second Ave.-Dalton corner near Firestone Recreation Center. Placement of the alarm boxes hours a day. The phone works is part of a new Emergency Re porting System for the city, and installed by Southern Bell Tele phone Company. The boxes, designed by Bell’s marketing department, were se lected by the city after ex tensive studies by Ernest L. Rankin, police chief; and John L. Farris, fire chief. EACH UNIT contains a tele phone connected directly to the city Fire Communications Cen ter which is in operation 24 without dialing. Mr. Farris says the system af fords a high degree of flexibili ty to meet the city’s changing needs in emergency communi cations, and provides effective protection. The systems, maintained by the telephone company, are all situated at street intersections having traffic control signals working on a full-time basis, and at certain other critical lo cations.
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