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Lineberger ‘Frills ’n Frolic’ Helping to plan and par ticipation in the third an nual Festival in the Park is the next major project of Variety Garden Club of Fire stone. The Festival, to be staged in Gastonia's Lineberger Park on Saturday, May 2, will feature a variety of "frills and frolic." All clubs that compose the Gas tonia Council of Garden Clubs take part in the Lineberger event each year. Proceeds from sales of re freshments, handicrafts and other items go for beautifica tion projects throughout the city. This year’s chairman of the Variety Club’s participation is Mrs. Fred Morrow Sr. THE FESTIVAL begins at 11 a.m. and continues throughout the afternoon of May 2. Since the date is close to Mayday, entertainment programming will be geared to that theme. Announcement of the Festival program was made at the March club meeting in Firestone Re creation Center. At the meet ing, the 1970-71 club officers began duties, following their in stallation by Earle Brockman, retired director of the Gastonia District Employment Security Commission. Mrs. Brockman is a member of the Variety Club. Installing the officers, Brock man reminded club members that—in the words of a poem— “Whoever plants a garden, never works alone. . . .” Besides involvement in the annual Festival at Lineberger, the Firestone-sponsored Variety Garden Club has several con tinuing projects. Three Candy Merchants • Jeffrey Ramsey and Wayne Moore (left and center) laid aside their jackets for a session of candy sales in March, while helper Sherry Hutchins reckoned she'd stick with coat and gloves. The youngsters, students at Abernethy School, were photo graphed in front of the Fire stone plant. Their sales effort was a part of "Operation Candy Sell" which was a project of Abernethy PTA. Jeffrey's father, M. L. Ramsey, is in Firestone's recreation de partment. Jeffrey's sister, Linda (Mrs. David) Sudduth, works in the cloth room. Sherry's grand mother, Annie (Mrs. Dillard) Bradshaw, works in weaving- TC. Mrs. Baber Dorothy (Mrs. Yates L.) Ba ber died March 22. She had worked 24 years in twisting- TC and respooling at the Gas tonia Firestone plant. Burial was in Gaston Me morial Park, following a tribute service in Carothers Chapel. Besides her husband, she is sur vived by her father, Paul Har per of Clover, S.C.; brothers, Kenneth, Clifford and Reginald Harper all of Clover; sisters, Mrs. Lois Alexander of Clover, Mrs. Margaret Love of Belmont, Mrs. Edith Grier of Charlotte. Bobby Jones Honorary pallbearers were second-shift employees of the Gastonia Firestone nylon-treat ing unit at the funeral of Bobby Lee Jones 39, who died as the result of a fall from a horse in early March. He was buried in Gaston Memorial Park. Jones, a Firestone employee of several years, was a super visor in the nylon unit. Besides his mother, Mrs. Daisy G. Jones, he is survived by his wife, Patricia Bradley Jones; three children, Bobby Lee Jr., Steven and Millisa, all of the home, sisters, Mrs. Doris Garrigan of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Mavis High of States ville. PROJECT OF VARIETY GARDEN CLUB Among these are the Oriental Garden and other streetside plantings on Franklin Avenue in front of the Firestone plant, flower-planting at NC Ortho pedic Hospital, projects with handicapped children and with senior citizens; and continuing shared sponsorship of three out standing North Carolina public gardens: Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, The Martha Franck Fragrance Garden at Butner, and Daniel Boone Native Garden at Boone. STILL ANOTHER continuing project of the club is emphasis on land and wildlife conserva tion, litter and pollution con trol. Variety Club won first place in exhibits at the 1969 Spindle Center Agricultural Fair for its layout on birds con servation and making homes “for our feathered friends.” As a new project this season, each of the club’s 27 members will undertake to plant and cultivate at least one tree, shrub or horticultural plant which the member has never grown be fore. Also on the schedule of club events are the annual field trips which members take to points of interest. Major trips already decided for the summer are to Elizabethan Gardens at Manteo, and Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania and adjoining counties in Western N.C. ‘Backwinding’ • Miniskirts To Stay? Accord ing to a recent survey, 89 per cent of respondents quizzed be lieved that the female hemline should be lowered. Recently the Dartnell Cor poration’s publication ‘‘From Nine to Five” for business girls, had an article resulting from Dartnell’s survey in which read ers’ votes were sought on their favorite skirt length. Hundreds of men and women responded. One point the article made from the survey: American busi nesswomen do not like short skirts. With entire offices polled in many instances, the predom inant choice for milady’s skirt length is that of 1963 (length that stops at mid-knee). Second in popularity is 1957’s just-below-the-knee length. The above-the-knee length of 1966 comes in for a week third choice. The in-between length of 1946 is the fourth popular choice. Hemline with slightest appeal is the mid-calf length of 1954. Added the article: “Rumor has it that a year from now we’ll be back again to 1954.” Remember... • When a man went fishing only when it was too wet to plow? And the very thought of going fishing on Sunday was considered sacrilege? • Mrs. Carl Stowe Sr., retired Fire stone plant hostess, re ceived Varie ty Garden Club presi dent's gavel from Earle Brockman, who installed 1970-71 club officers. Mrs. Stowe, a char ter member of the club, served as president for the 1963-64 term. • Mrs. Tom Mathis (csnter left), outgoing Variety Garden Club president and now vice president, called attention to lapel pin worn by Mrs. Stowe, new president. It denoted her Honorary Li^e Membership since 1966. Othsr current officers (from left): Mrs. H. A. Cauthen, chaplain; Mrs. Furman Hayes, secretary; Mrs. Lewis Moss, treasurer. Mrs. Stowe is only member of club ever elected to. Life.-Msm’r bership. Mrs. Mathis was presented two camellia plants as token of appreciation for her leadership as 1968-69 president. THE WEATHER An Old Southern Superstition • If dandelions bloom in April—expect a hot, wet July. ALMANAC APRIL Set The Clock • The poets used to pen lines about “April whispering this to me . . .” But in a multiplied million ways, April shouts loud ly of her 30 days of unexcelled glory—of Springtime’s coming into fulness, new life, dazzling charms and all. Our “April 30 Days” segment of the year came down from the ancients, with the Old French Calendar merging April into the last part of Germinal (Bud) Month, and into the first part of Floreal (Flower) Month. The oldest still-alive tradition this month is April Fools Day, or All Fools Day. Its true origin is obscured by the pass ing centuries, but All Fools Day is believed to have “caught on” with ancient celebrations and festivals associated with the vernal equinox, or new-life season. These days, April is also as sociated with Clean-Fix-Paint- Up time, the deadline filing date for income tax (15th), and the switch to Daylight Standard Time. Not long ago it was called “Saving” Time—for what rea son we know not, as it’s all a matter of getting started an hour early. DST begins at 2 a.m., April 26. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provides that standard time in each zone be advanced one hour from 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in April until 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October. Newest special date on the April calendar is Earth Day (22nd). It may well prove to be the greatest observance of all —for it has to do with survival- On April 22 the full force of mass media will promote a na tionwide program of getting people involved to rid the en vironment of pollution and other abuses that threaten man’s life- On that day, thousands of com munities throughout the land will entertain study-group meet ings of concerned citizens who want to make Earth Day an ap proach to survival. GASTONIA Volume XIX Number 4 April, 1970 Page 2 Plant Offices Warehouses REPORTERS Claude C. Callaway, Editor Monlhly publication of the Gastonia, N. C., plant of Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Division headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president; Philip R. Williams, Gastonia factory manager. ☆ ☆ ☆ Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—Louella Queen, Leila Rape Twisting (synthetics)—Elease Cole, Katie Elkins. Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradsha'ff' Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Israel Good. Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving '(synthetics)—Ann CoseV BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Faye Shankle, Mary H. Oliver, Syl^*® Lockamy, Louise S, Preston—Repo^ ers.
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