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Charles Willis received Scholarship from plant mcinager Ralph King at Bowling Green. Boy Scouts 1973 Awards The first Firestone College Scholarship to be granted in the Bowling Green, Ky., area went this year to Charles W. Willis who will enter Western Ken tucky University this fall. His parents, Charles and Pearl Wil lis, work at Firestone’s Bowling Green textile plant. A second scholarship this year within the company’s textile di vision went to Barry Robinson, whose father is Warehouse man ager at Firestone, Gastonia. Barry will enter Eastern Caro lina University this fall. Charles and Barry are among 46 high-school seniors nation wide to receive Firestone com pany scholarships this year. Each scholarship is renewable annually, and is worth up to a total $7,000 while the recipient earns a degree. She Was Mill Village Nurse On her recent visit, she’d gone to Greenville, S. C. to be with friends and decided to travel with some of them on to Gas tonia for a week’s stay. MISS EMILIE still drives her car—and quite safely, thank you! Last year she traveled more than 44,000 miles. Originally from White Plains, N.Y., Miss Schultz was graduat ed from the nursing program of New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital in 1918. “Where to my first job?” she asked herself, checking around for an opportunity to try her skills. She chanced to contact the YWCA in New York, and thereby hangs the story of how she came South to Loray Cotton Mills for two years. (In later years the giant textile manufac tory was known as Manville- Jenckes Company; and since 1935, Firestone.) As visiting nurse on the mill village, it was Miss Emilie’s challenge to do general duty at the old mill clinic (housed in what is now the plant Recrea tion Center), go in ■ and out among the people of the village houses, as she instructed in health care and elementary san itation. And midwifery was a goodly portion of her work in those days. REVIEWING those times, she talked of typhoid and diphtheria epidemics, of the hard climb up ward in coping with the folk ways superstitions of people who’d migrated from the hill- country to take their first job Historic Product • The Fire stone company introduced the first angular non-skid tread in 1909, with the words "Firestone Non - Skid" molded diagonally across the tread. • From page 1 at “public works” in a cotton mill. Miss Schultz shared a mem orable story of how some of the village employee families would slaughter hogs and salt them down in the bathtub! On one occasion when she went to an employee home to help a woman birth a baby, the house almost caught fire. Down in the furnace room was an el derly man who’d had too much “white lightning”, stoking the fire to the melting point and all the while chanting something about “the flames of Hades.” WITH COTTON MILL nurs ing experience behind her. Miss Schultz left Loray in 1920 and went to China as a missionary nurse. For five years she labor ed there under auspices of the Northern (now American) Bap tist Convention. Returning to the States, she worked in public and in school nursing jobs. Entering Columbia University in 1932, she by 1937 earned a degree in public school nursing. For six years she was in public school nursing on Long Island. For the next 18 years she work- ec^ in Rhinebeck, N.Y. In 1961 Miss Emilie retired, but not “for real.” In her home state she helped train candy- stripers for volunteer hospital work. In 1969-1970 she was asso ciated with Calvary Baptist College at May Pen on Jamaica. That job completed, she went to live at Penney Farms, Fla., in 1970. There she keeps busy—and useful—sharing her long experi ence with others, expanding her horizons with craftwork and other projects, visiting and helping people, and working some in the Penney Farms Clinic. Each was presented a Certifi cate of Merit and a gift check of $27 toward expenses of a trip to Schiele Reservation, or for equipment. Gary, the top winner for 1973, lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Howe at 910 Dogwood Drive in Gastonia. In Scouting since February of 1968, he has earned Eagle rank with 22 merit badges. His project for the Firestone competition was the required work for the Historic Trails Award. Gary at tends Ashbrook High School and Armstrong Memorial Pres byterian Church. AS EAGLE SCOUT, Gary is a very active member of Troop 25. He has been with his troop on one of its trips to Philmont in New Mexico. Gary has completed the SPLTC contract, has served as Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader; has been head of the Leadership Corps a member o' Gaston Dis trict Operation Reach Training Team, a member of District Planning Committee for the Camporee. He presented to Gov. Bob Scott the annual report of Boy Scouts of America in 1972, an honor earned for having won the state level of the BSA Read er’s Digest Public Speaking Contest. Gary is an Ordeal Member, Order of the Arrow. He was Troop 25 Scout of the Year for 1971. He will serve as Campfire Master of the 1973 Camporee in the Gaston District. Some of Gary’s chief interests are backpacking, rock-climbing, whitewater canoeing, basketball and public speaking. AN HONOR-ROLL student, he will be a senior at Ashbrook next school term. A member of the Junior Civitan Club, Gary is past vice-president of his Sun day-school class at Armstrong Church. In addition to the Raymond C. Firestone Award winner for 1973, 17 Scouts from troops in Gastonia and Cramerton were presented Certificates of Merit; GASTONIA • Troop 6; Phil lip K. Price Jr., David Mark Hall. Troop 8: Rodney Kale, William P. Caldwell, Roy E. Smith. Troop 25: Robert Culp Jr., Tommy Wallace. Troop 313: RusseU Gobel. Troop 310: David Lynn Glov er, Glenn Hall. Troop 349; Frank Fuller, Andy Hicks, John Kraft, Scott Martin. • Continued from page 1 CRAMERTON • Troop 72: Kenneth DiUard, Mike Fitz gerald, Brady Lee Polk. Mike Poison was named Scout of the Year of Troop 631, spon sored by Firestone Textiles Company’s South Carolina plant. It was the second consecutive year that the 14-year-old Ben- nettsviUe Life Scout received the award. He was presented a $50 U.S. Savings Bond. He has an outstanding Scout, school, church and personal- achievement record. With Life rank, Mike has earned 12 Merit badges. Besides the Gaston County Scouts honored last month, Fire stone awards included recogni tion of the outstanding member of Troop 631, Bennettsville. • • Special guests at Scouting awards meeting were the Brewer twins, Tim (left) and Tom. Ralph Johnson, Firestone manager of industrial relations and head of the company's Gaston Scouting awards program, discussed the achievements of the two Eagle Scout brothers of Troop 76, Lincolnton. The twins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brewer, each have 92 merit badges. Their goal: To earn every merit award offered by Boy Scouts. "I know they'll do it," Johnson said. $l-Billion Payroll For SC Textiles A $l-billion payroll for the textile industry has been re ported for the first time in South Carolina history. The State Textile Manufacturers Association announced in June that Employment Se curity Commission data show a payroll last year of $1,022,812,140. Association president R. M. Hicklin said that rising wages and a growing work force boost ed the payroll more than $100 million above the $904,982,694 in 1971. Hicklin predicted that the 1973 payroll might reach $1.2 billion. He said the growth pat tern will continue for several Service Milestones • gastonia When Coy E. Brev^^er of Quality Control had his work anniversary in mid- June, he became the 118th person at Firestone, Gas tonia, to have been employed 35 years. A few days earlier, Ella M. Whitaker of Prepa ration also completed her 35th year of employment. There were others with long work records in June; Thirty Years • Blanche McGinnis, TC Weaving. Twenty- Five Years • Miles T. Michaels, Earl W. Queen, both TC Twisting. Twenty Years • Earl W. McMillan, TC Twisting. Ten Years • Eunice T. Payseur, TC Twisting. Five Years • Ray D. Mackins, Susan E. Davis, TC Twisting. Nancy Marie Tignor, TC Weaving. Wayne E. McMillan, Shop. GASTONIA REPORTERS Volume XX Number 7 July. 1973 Page 2 Claude C. Callaway, Editor Monthly publication of the Gastonia. N. C., plant of Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Comptiny, Akron, Ohio. Division headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors and International Association of Business Communicators. Plant Offices Warehouses Industricil Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Francum Quality Control—Louella Queen, Leila Rape — Elease Cole, Twisting (synthetics) ICatie Elkms Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradshaw, Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson. Israel Good Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Faye Shankle, Mary H. Oliver, Sylvia Lockamy, Frances Fletcher—Report ers. BOWLING GREEN Dorothy Kingrey, Mary Snell, Mary Bryant, Brenda Loafman, Teresa Leonard years as the industry builds and improves plants. He noted that payroll figures included only production of the textile mills and not related in dustries such as allied chemical fibers, textile machinery and apparel manufacturing. Included in this picture for the 1972 production figures was Firestone Textiles Company’s plant at Bennettsville. The Ben nettsville facility is one of South Carolina’s leading producers of tire fabrics exclusively. Belted-Bias Tires Popular • As the year 1973 began, the belted-bias tire had become the most popular type on the mar ket, somewhat ahead of the plain bias lire. The belted-bias should con tinue to be the leader for some years to come, observed Edward F. Carter, a vice president of the Firestone company. Carter added: "However, the radial tire is starting to make a strong show ing and it is destined to become the dominant type of tire equip ping new cars by the mid- 1970s." ,
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