Some
Lucky
‘Fair
Sharers’
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From page 1
In the Greater Gaston United
Appeal program, this year’s
money gifts will help to fund
welfare, recreation, and other
‘people’ services in a major
portion of the county. This is
where the money goes:
Uniied Appeal
• Support for 34 Agencies
American Cancer Society,
American National Red Cross,
American Social Health Asso
ciation, Boy Scouts of America,
Cherryville Rescue Squad, Chil
dren’s Home Society, Communi
ty Relief Organization of Mount
Holly.
Dallas Township Recreation,
Family Counseling Service,
Florence Crittenton Services,
Flynn Fellowship Home, Gaston
Boy’s Club, Gaston County As
sociation for Retarded Children,
Gaston County Mental Health
Association, Gaston County
Speech Clinic, Gaston County
YMCA, Gaston Life-Saving
Crew, Girl Scouts of America.
International Social Services
—Traveler’s Aid, Junior Opti
mist Boys Club, Medical Re
search Fund of North Carolina,
Mount Holly Life-Saving Crew,
National Assembly for Social
Development, National Associa
tion for Hearing & Speech
Agencies.
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Seven Retired—Gastonia
Jessie Glover of the Shop led the long-service list
among seven who retired from the company at the
Gastonia plant within recent weeks. He had 32 years
and 4 months on the job. Nov. 1 was ‘going out’ date
for Jessie and two others: Warren Jackson, Chafer
Weaving, with 29 years and 3 months; and Irene C.
Burroughs, TC Weaving, 28 years, 5 months.
The others who retired earlier this fall; Grady P.
Stacy, TC Twisting, 32 years, 4 months; Bertha W.
Broome, TC Twisting, 28 years, 4 months; Marcus
Dobbins, TC Weaving, 22 years, 10 months; Guy Crain,
Shop, 12.
OF
SIX
Generations
Yule Album
Firestone again is of
fering an all-new Christ
mas recording through its
store and dealer outlets
this year. It is the tenth
year the company has of
fered a long-playing al
bum of Christmas music.
The latest issue was
expected to be available
by early November.
"Christmas America",
the 1973 edition, features
eight famous singers. The
a'bum sells for $1.
Included are songs by
Bing Crosby, the late Nat
King Cole, Peggy Lee,
Glen Campbell, Dean
Marlin, Dinah Shore,
Tennessee Ernie Ford
and Ella Fitzgerald.
Also featured are Fred
Waring & the Pennsyl
vanians and the Holly
wood Pops Orchestra and
Choir.
• At Gastonia, 28 "Fair Share" contibutors won prizes in a
promotion drawing. Winners here (from left): Jack Wilson, Wilma
Smith, James Saylor, Henry Hinson, James Ramey, Vincent Jones,
Vernon Carver, Arthur Gordon. Other winners: Beatrice Patter
son, Billy Boone, Bertha Fullbright, Richard Philbeck, Florence
England, Denoise Meeks, Doroihy Couick, Jack Hall, Larry Harrill,
Mildred Holland, Charles Crowe, Opal Jenkins, Clarence Lewis,
Gasper Tuminaro, Johnny Gibbie, Emma Gregory, Pat Travis,
Marie Jones, John Falls, Dewey Clark.
North Carolina Mental Health Rescue, United Health Services
Association, The Salvation —Drug Action, United Com-
Army, The Salvation Army munity Services of North Caro-
Boy’s Club, Lowell Salvation lina, United Way of America,
Army Boy’s Club, Serenity United Services Organizations
House, Stanley Civil Defense (USO).
Student Visitors
Fifty-two students with two
faculty members from Iredell
High School at Olin near States
ville, N. C , visited the Firestone
Textiles plant at Gastonia one
afternoon in October.
The students and teachers
were welcomed to Firestone by
company president James B.
Call. They had refreshments and
in small groups went on a guided
tour of the plant.
Back home, most of the stu
dents work four hours on a
regular job as part of their
school day. Their stop at Fire
stone was part of a planned
itinerary of visiting business
and industrial installations in
various areas of North Caro
lina.
“Top and bottom” of six gen
erations of Mildred Steen’s fam
ily are represented by Mildred’s
15-month-old grandson and Mil
dred’s great-grandmother, Ollie
Hall, 93. Others; Grandmother,
Bertha Watford, 71; mother,
Thelma Skipper, 55.
Mildred’s children are Joanne
Barrentine, 20; Noel, 18; Ernest,
12. Jeremy Barrentine, 15
months, is Joanne’s son. Joanne’s
husband is with the Air Force
in Germany. She and Jeremy
have gone to join him there for
a three-year stay.
Mildred has been employed as
respooler-operator at Firestone,
Mildred
Steen
Bennettsville, since Oct. 19,
1964. She was born and reared
in Hartsville; now lives in Ben
nettsville.
Mildred’s hobbies: Fishing
(her favorite place. Lake Wal
lace), and cooking. Mildred likes
to ‘work over’ recipes to im
prove upon them—“enrich the
results.”
LFO • let’s find out
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GASTON 1%/r o •
COLLEGE Manpower Services
Manpower Services, a new program at Gaston College,
attempts to meet the needs of persons who have had un
satisfactory unemployment, by helping them locate in jobs
and assisting them in reaching their employment potential.
The new program, funded by doesn’t know how to go about
the State of North Carolina,
helps people who have un
acceptable work habits or atti
tudes, those with no marketable
skills, those with physical
handicaps and people who have
never developed their employ
ment capacity.
The program serves the un
skilled and unemployed profes-
sional and semi-professional
persons who need counseling
services.
THE COLLEGE works with
prospective employers to find
out their needs and to explain
the Manpower idea and its
worth to business and industry.
Also, through referrals and di
rect recruitment, the program
deals with prospective employ
ers who need the Manpower
services.
"THIS IS NOT just a place
ment service,” says Dr. Milton
Hagen, director. “We want to
help the person who has trouble
holding a job or help the guy
who can’t get a job because he
doing it.”
Dr. Hagen stresses that the
service offers follow-through
after a person is placed in em
ployment. “The first two or
three months are crucial,” he
says.
MANPOWER provides coun
seling for prospective employee,
leading that person to “do it on
his own.” Another aim is to
eliminate job-jumping and ex
cessive turnover among partici
pants in the program; to de
velop human potential and to
explore new employment and
work-skill experiences.
The counseling area of Man
power Services aims at repair
ing the damage caused by a
person’s unsuccessful employ
ment background, poor educa
tion preparation, and unfortu
nate personal experiences.
Manpower Services at Gaston
College are free of charge to
employers and persons seeking
employment.
Brazil
plant man
ager E I i e
Nassi (left)
and Terry
Kirby, man
ager of Chaf
er & Wire
Weaving at
G a stonia,
studied de
tails of wire
layout. Sao
Paulo plant
will install a
steel-cord
weaving
unit.
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Wire For Brazil
Mr. and Mrs. Elie Nassi of Sao
Paulo, Brazil visited Gastonia
three days in October. Mr. Nas
si, manager of Firestone’s Sao
• GASTONIA
Volume XX
Number II
November, 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 Company, Akron, Ohio.
Division headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem*
ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors and International Association
of Btuiness Communicators.
Plant
Offices REPORTERS
Warehouses
Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan
Main Office—Bea McCarter
Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Fletcher
Quality Control—Louella Queen, Lelia
Rape
Warp Preparation-
Nell Bolick
Warehouse—Harold
Good
Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch
-Elmina Bradshaw,
Robinson. Israel
Twisting (synthetics)
Katie Elkins
Elease Cole,
BENNETTSVILLE PLANT
Frances Fletcher, Redona David, Mar
garet McCaskill, Jimmy McCaskill.
BOWLING GREEN
Fred De Hoag
Paulo facility, came to the Gas
tonia plant to study and gather
data on wire-weaving produc
tion. His plant is in process of
installing a wire-weave depart
ment.
For the Nassi’s it was the sec
ond visit to Gastonia. They
spent several weeks in North
Carolina in 1970.
From Gastonia last month
they went to Greenville, S.C.,
and the American Textile Ma
chinery Exhibitibn. From there,
they began a travel itinerary
which included Washington,
Williamsburg, St. Louis and
New Orleans, on the homeward
way to Brazil.