Danville
Museum
In Making
A Danville, Va. building, for
half a century a tobacco plant,
will become the National To-
-bacco-Textile Museum. The
company which used the build
ing as a factory recently do
nated the structure for its new
use.
The idea of establishing such
a museum in Danville came
three years ago. The project will
collect and display tobacco-tex
tile artifacts.
An official of the project said
that although the museum will
be in Danville, scope of the en
terprise will be national and,
possibly international in the fu
ture.
The Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, the Virginia Mu
seum of Fine Arts and Colonial
Williamsburg will cooperate in
suggesting possible display and
layout.
The museum’s two basic sec
tions will present memorabilia
of tobacco and cotton; and de
velop a library on the two
subjects. Museum plans call for
a process of collecting materials
for exhibiting and cataloging
over a period of many years.
SS Takeout
Increased
Amount of earnings subject
to social security tax was in
creased from $7,800 to $9,000 as
of Jan. 1. Percentage rate of so
cial security deductions (5.2 per
cent) is unchanged from last
year.
As an employee, the law re
quires the employer to deduct
social security tax from the first
$9,000 you earn in work covered
by social security.
Mrs. Eula Wilson, Firestone
(Gastonia) payroll manager,
pioints out that people who earn
more than $7,800 a year can ex
pect higher social security bene
fits in the future, because the
PEOPLE & PLACES in the news
• • Old tobacco factory on Lynn Street in Danville will house
proposed museum presenting historical data, artifacts, scientific
data and demonstrstions. A designer company and an architect
firm have been hired to advise on layout and presentation of
artifacts and other features of the proposed collection. Museum,
planned in phases, is operated by a board of directors.
A Good Way
To Go Places
A good way to go and to en
joy visiting places: Make it a
planned group trip. The sug
gestion is from Phoebe Pearson,
shop secretary at Firestone, Gas
tonia.
No newcomer to this kind of
‘going,’ Miss Pearson within the
past few years toured the New
England states, and in recent
weeks, went to Colonial Wil
liamsburg, Va.
With nine others from the
Gastonia area, she traveled by
bus, making it a four-day sche
dule.
The group “took in” the ma
jor attractions of the restored
town which was the American
Colonial capital 1669-1780.
Miss Pearson was especially
Who ‘He’ Was
THEY
DIDN'T KNOW
Ask a thousand persons the question “Who’s the
boss?” and you’ll be lucky to get the right answer.
There is only one boss, reminds a piece in an in
dustrial publication passed along to Firestone News.
Reprinted here, it goes on to say:
Whether a person shines shoes for a living or heads
up the largest corporation in the world, the boss re
mains the same. It’s the customer. The boss pays every
one’s salary and decides whether a business is going
to succeed or fail.
And he doesn't care if a business has been around a
hundred years. The minute it starts treating him badly,
he'll put it out of business.
The man who works deep inside'a big plant on an
assembly line might think he’s working for the com
pany that writes his paycheck. But he’s not.
He’s working for the person who buys his product
at the end of the line. Aiid if that person doesn’t like
the product, he won’t buy it. Eventually, if this con
tinues, he fires the man on the assembly line. In fact,
he’ll fire everyone in the company, including the presi
dent.
And he can do it by simply spending his money some
place else. This is one of the reasons why taking pride
in the work we do is so important to us.
Some companies that had flourishing businesses a
few years ago are no longer in existence.
They couldn't—or didn't—satisfy the customer. They
forgot who the BOSS really was.
impressed by her visit to The
College of William & Mary, and
with a special program at which
hosts and hostesses in Colonial
dress served hot apple cider.
She and others of the group
went to Bruton Parish Church
for an organ concert; saw the
continuous movie, “Story of a
Patriot”; and “stepped back into
time” at such restored buildings
as the Public Goal, Raleigh
Tavern, Old Court House, the
Capitol, and Governor’s Palace
with its formal garden.
Rodger Doyle has received
the Distinguished Service Award
from the Caverna Jaycees of
Horse Cave, Ky. Rodger works
in Twisting at the Firestone
Bowling Green plant.
The award was in recognition
of his work as assistant scout
master of Boy Scout Troop #60,
and for his leadership in the
Honey Sundown campaign.
“Doyle has been of valuable
assistance in every project the
club has undertaken during the
past year,” said Paul Gaines, the
Caverna Jaycees president.
Nancy Moore, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Moore of Gas
tonia, has been voted one of the
20 outstanding seniors at Uni
versity of North Carolina-
Greensboro. Her father works in
the Shop at Firestone, Gastonia.
Nancy has worked on the
“Carolinian”, student news
paper, her four years at Greens
boro. She is now editor. Her
interest in journlism began at
Ashley High School in Gastonia
where she was on the staff of
the school newspaper two years.
She is majoring in political
science in preparation for her
planned career in governmental
news reporting.
Recently Nancy was made an
honorary member of the Mas
queraders, the only undergradu
ate so honored in the organiza
tion involved in campus theatre
productions.
February, 1972
Page 4
☆ ☆
Foremen
☆
Valeria Stiles of Bessemer
City is a freshman at Evangel
College in Springfield, Mo. The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Buster
G. Stiles, Valeria is majoring in
elementary education. Her fath
er is a weaver in TC Weaving
at Firestone, Gastonia.
Larry Moore was one of the
first to be advanced to foreman
at the Bowling Green plant. One
of his early jobs was “busting”
ice off the floor before the ceil
ing was completed.
As a loomfixer in Weaving
and a sewing-machine mechanic
on “A” Crew, he learned his job
well to become a foreman.
Larry’s wife Linda works in
the Quality Control lab.
David McKinney came to
work at the Bowling Green
plant soon after it began oper
ations in early 1968. His first
jobs: Unpacking bobbins and
painting whatever needed to be
painted in “those early days.”
MOORE
McKINNEY
David went on to become a
doffer, operating ply and cable
twisters, progressing to become
one of the first section super
visors on the start-up of Phases
1 & 2. Then, he “made it” as
foreman of “A” Crew.
David’s wife JoAnn works in
Weaving as a loom knotter. The
McKinneys have a daughter,
Debbie Ann,
amount of benefits is based on
average earnings over a period
of years.
So, the higher the average,
the higher the benefits.
“Earnings base” counting for
social security has gone up grad
ually over the years as income
levels have risen in the country.
When the program began
back in 1937, contributions were
paid on the first $3,000 earned in
a year.
February and Her Pre-Spring ‘Jewels’
FOR FUN
& ADVENTURE
The Carolinas and Southeast will have a glit
tering preview of Spring, along with much more,
at the Southern Living Show in Charlotte’s Mer
chandise Mart, Feb. 26-Mar. 5. The extensive
layout of home furnishings, gardens and garden
ing, landscaping, homemaking, crafts, etc. leads
the long roster of attractions that promise “ad
venture” in February and early March.
Overlapping is another major offering—the
15th annual Sportsmen’s Show of the Carolinas
in the Charlotte Coliseum, Feb. 29-Mar. 5.
Camellia Shows and a Snow Carnival • Up and
down the road are many another scene, choice
event and historical treasure, especially in the
Carolinas and Kentucky, “Firestone Textiles
Country.”
February comes with its reminder that Spring
is almost here. In North Carolina, blooming
camellias, for example. A major display of these
native blooms is at the 23rd annual Camellia
Show in the Port City of Wilmington, Feb. 25-26.
Whiteville also has a major showing, with dates
Feb. 19-20.
At Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium con
tinues “Sky Safari” to Feb. 29, then begins its
traditional “The Easter Story”, which will run
through April 10.
Contrast; Blooming camellias toward the
Coastal Region and winter sports in the Western
Counties. The fourth annual Snow Carnival of
the South, Feb. 14-20, takes place in the Boone,
Blowing Rock and Banner Elk areas.
South Carolina Gardens and Fishing • The
famed public gardens of South Carolina have
their increasing appeal in February and on
through the fall season. Tours of historic homes
and buildings in Charleston and other Low Coun
try towns begin late this month.
Of continuing events in SC, remember Beau
fort’s Outdoorama. This old fishing town offers
its fishing special, with 22 species of fresh and
saltwater fish eligible in competition.
Kentucky and Some Things of Interest • Of the
many “things going” in Kentucky this month,
samplings are: Concert of Tuscon Arizona Boys
Choir at Lees Junior College, Jackson, Feb. 22;
Edward Hamilton sculpture and painting at
Spalding College Art Gallery in Louisville, Feb.
20-Mar. 14; and at Speed Art Museum in Louis
ville, “Photography ’72” through Feb. 27; and
“Revival” drawings by Eleanor Dickinson, Feb.
22-Mar. 23.
Going further South? Old Island Days at Key
West, Fla., “on” since late January, continue
through March 4. There, a visitor ‘must’ is Fort
Jefferson National Monument, largest all-ma
sonry fort in the Western Hemisphere.
Go safely. Have adventure!
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