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Service Years gastonia Of the several people who “hired on” at Firestone in Gastonia during August of 1943, three of them stayed on and are now into their 31st year of employment. They are Elease K. Cole, TC Twist ing; Robert Nichols Jr., Chafer Weaving; and J. L. Patterson, Shop. While these were marking long work records last month, seven others at Gastonia joined them for service spans of from 5 to 25 years. That list: Twenty- Five Years • Beatrice S. Player, TC Twisting; Lee R. Sims, Shop. Twenty- Years • Grady G. Wylie, TC Twisting; Marlene E. Stewart, TC Weaving. Fifteen Years • Bobby Joe Duncan, TC Weaving. Ten Years • Moetell P. Stiles, Wil liam D. O’Neal, TC Weaving. Five Years • Bonnie L. Servis, TC Twisting; John V. Mitchen, Chafer Weaving; Denoise Meeks, James S. Meeks Warehouse. Scrimshaw, bookbinding, bur- lap-crafting, ceramics, daywork, doll-making, wirecrafting, tie- and-dye, sculpture, repoussage. And lots more. If you’re looking around for a hobby, a ‘goldmine’ of sug gestions and introductions will be found in the big book PRAC TICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRAFTS, compiled by Maria Di Valentin and others. Check your public library. YONDER COMES THE TRAIN They liked the ride when the lonesome whistle blew Rails clickety-clacking, the hiss of steam, cinders flying and the wail of a lonesome whistle. It was something to reminisce about, to enjoy—and remem ber when the steam ‘special’ puffed down the line from Salisbury, N. C. to Greenville, S. C. on a Sunday afternoon in August. Some Firestone people from Gastonia got aboard for the ride. Southern Railway’s classy locomotive No. 4501, which appeared in the movie “Fool’s Paradise,” pulled a line of coach es to give rail buffs and others an op portunity to live (or relive) history of a bygone era. A much-traveled engine on special ex cursions in recent years, No. 4501 is one of the first Mikado-class locomotives used by Southern. Built in 1911, it ran until 1948 and was sold as surplus to Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad which used it to haul coal from the mines until the mid-1960s. It was then retired a second time and sold to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum at Chattanooga. When it made the Salisbury-to-Greenville run in Au gust it was on its way back to the museum. Hayes DP Manager Floyd Hayes, with Firestone Synthetic Fibers Co., Hopewell, Va., for the past 10 years, last month became manager of data processing at the Gastonia plant of Firestone Textiles Company. Hayes’ hometown is Hopewell. He attended high school there. Hayes worked for Allied Chemi cal for 10 years and during that time attended Virginia Common wealth University in Richmond, receiving the BS degree in busi ness. At Firestone, Hopewell, he was supervisor of systems and programming. Marlboro County, S. C.: More Find Leisure Manager Data Processirg Hayes and his wife, Joyce, have five children—three mar ried and living in the Richmond area; and two, ages 10 and 11, with their parents in Gastonia. Hayes’ position at Gastonia was created when the data processing department was ex panded and installed in the new offices on third floor of the fac tory. First Long Interstate The Lincoln Highway was the first coast-to-coast paved road in the United States and the first real interstate. It reached 3,300 miles across 13 states. Proclamation for opening of the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco was made Sept. 10, 1913. The superhigh way traversed the states of New ■ York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ne braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. At 1913 prices, the road cost around $10,000,000—a “drop in the bucket” to what that many miles of interstate would cost today. • • Hometown. Bennetts- ville, S. C. A recent story in Marlboro HERALD-ADVO CATE was headlined “More here find ‘leisure’; either re tired or just lazy.” The feature pointed out that in Marlboro County, S. C., a growing proportion of the male population over age 16 is, by choice, not going to school, not working and not choosing to work. It went on; “There are some 1,472 local residents in this non-work cate gory, according to figures from the Department of Commerce. Included are 826 who are be tween 16 and 65, and 646 who are above 65. "THEY REPRESENT 18.4 per cent of the over-16 population. Nationally, the average is 14.9 percent. The majority of them are retired persons who have sufficient financial assets or sources of income to enable them to lead lives of leisure. “There are others of course who are able-bodied but who are neither self-supporting nor interested in working. But they represent a small portion of the total. The news item noted that throughout the country, in the over-16 male population, there Joins Gastonia Staff Guido Martinelli of Red Bank, N. J., last month joined Fire stone at Gastonia as an indus trial engineer trainee. Martinelli attended Middle town Township High School in New Jersey, and is a 1973 gradu ate of North Carolina State Uni versity, Raleigh. He received the BS degree in industrial engin eering. With Firestone, Gastonia, he is assigned to special engineer ing projects, working out of the office of factory manager, Philip R. Williams. Volume XX Number 9 September, 1973 Page 2 > GASTONIA Claude C. Callaway, Editor Monthly publicalion of the Gastonia. N. C., planl of Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire 8c Rubber Company. Akron. Ohio. DiviMon headquarters, Gastonia. N. C. 280S2. James B. Call, president. Mem ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors and Inlernalional Association of Business Communicators. Plant Offices REPORTERS Warehouses Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Fletcher Quality Control—Louella Queen, Leila Rape Twisting (synthetics) Katie Elkins Elease Cole, Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradshaw, Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson. Israel Good Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILT-E PLANT Faye Shankle Mary H Oliver, Sylvia Lockamy, Frances Fletcher—Report ers. BOWT.TNO GREEN Fred De Hoag are nearly 10 million in this non-school, non-work group a big increase over the 6,800,000 reported in 1960. Much of this is attributed to the fact that more men are quitting their jobs when they reach retirement age. Less than a fourth of them continue to work beyond 65. Of Marlboro County’s male population over 65, approxi mately 21.2 percent are still on the active list, according to the Commerce Department. Com pare this with an average of 24.8 percent throughout the U.S. as a whole. Said the story: "MAJOR FACTOR in enab ling people to retire, in many instances before reaching 65, is the rapid expanison and scope of private and public pension programs in recent years. “Besides pensions there are other sources of income, such as interest on savings, dividends, life insurance annuities and the government’s so-called ‘transfer payment’.” “These payments which in clude social security, welfare, unemployment insurance and veterans benefits, provide them with a large part of their in come.” In the past year, $104 billion came from these transfer pay ments, report^ show. Related to the total personal income of Americans in 1972 ($936 billion), it appears that $1 out of every $9 is provided in that way.
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