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Gaston Rabies Clinics The Gaston County Health Department will sponsor 41 rabies vaccination clinics in the county, April 29-May 10. All clinics are scheduled in the afternoon, Mondays through Fridays. Location and time of clinics: APRIL • 29: Cherryville City Hall. 5-5:45; Carpenter’s Food Mart, 6-6:30; High Shoals School, 5-5:30; St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 5:40-6:15; Woodhill School, 6:30-7. April 30: Alexis, 5-5:30; Stanley City Hall, 5:45- 6:45; Old Lucia High School, 5- 5:45; Mount Holly High School, 6-7. MAY • 1: Me Aden ville Swim ming Pool, 5-5:45; Holbrook Jr. High School, 6-6:30; Cramerton High School, 515:30; Joye’s Serv ice Station, 5:45-6:30. May 2: Belmont Aberfoyle Recreation Park, 5-5:45; Bel mont Jr. High School, 6-6:45; Family Grocery at Smyre, 5- 5:45; Groves Gym, 6-6:30; 3: Tuckaseegee Baptist Church, 5- 5:30; Freewill Baptist Church on Cherry Street, 5:45-6:30; Brown- town Wesleyan Church, 5-5:30; North Belmont School, 5:45-6:30. May 6: New Hope Presbyteri an Church, 5-5:45; New Hope Fire Department, 6-6:30; Spen cer Mountain Mill, 5-5:30; War- lick School of Ranlo, 5:45-6:30; 7: Bessemer City Central School, 5-6; Lincoln Jr. High School, 6:15-6:45; Rhyne School, 5-6; Dallas City Hall, 6:15-7. May 8: Peeden School, 5-5:45; Myrtle School, 6-6:45; Grier School, 5-5:45; Robinson School, 6-6:45; 9: Davis Park Superette, 5-5:45; South Gastonia School, High Scouting Award 50-Series Widest Ever Firestone has a new line of sporty passenger-car tires al most a foot wide. The 50-series tire, widest ever offered by Firestone and named the “Fire stone Pamelli Jones,” carries the name on the sidewall in large raised white letters. “We elected to bring out the 50 series because of the success of the ‘Pamelli Jones’ 60-series tire introduced a year ago,” said Lawrence Lombardo, vice presi dent for trade sales for the com pany. “Wide as they were, many motoring enthusiasts asked for tires which were even wider and lower.” THE NEW model will be avail able in sizes: The N50-15, with an overall width of 12% inches on a nine-inch rim; a G50-15, with a width of 10 inches on a seven-inch rim; an F50-14, 10 inches wide on a seven-inch rim, and a C50-13, with a width of 9% inches on a six-inch rim. Tread design has nine ribs on the N size and seven on the other sizes. The 60 series is available in sizes from A60-3 to L60-15. Both the 50 and 60 series are pat terned after Fireston race tires, having four high-angle body plies of polyester. Pamelli Jones, who has won nearly every major auto race in the U.S., including the Indian apolis 500, is a large-scale Fire stone dealer in Southern Cali fornia. • A stamp honoring the Expo ’74 environmental world’s fair will be issued April 18, says the U.S. Postal Service. Expo opens in Seattle, Wash, May 1. The stamp features what the artist calls a “cosmic jumper”— a stylized man—striding through animals over the inscription “Preserve the Environment.” A profile of a woman’s face is on the right side of the 10-cent stamp, with the words “Expo ’74” across the bottom edge. • A 'halo' and a 1974 rabies lag for your dog. 6-6:45; Bill’s Superette, 5-5:45; Chapel Grove School, 6-6:45. May 10: Firestone Playground, 5-5:45; Victory School, 6-6:45; Wray’s Amoco Station, Hy. 274, 5-5:30; Costner School, 5:45-6:45. Service Years The 17 persons who marked service anniversaries in March at Firestone, Gas tonia, represent a total 325 years association with the company. The service records, rang ing from 5 to 35 years, are: Thirty- Five Years • Virginia B. Bradley and Ruth H. Bolick, TC Twisting. Thirty Years • William Kennedy, Shop. Twenty- Five Years • Ollie J. Propst, TC Twisting; Dessie Mae Welch, TC Weaving; Grace A. Spencer, Quality Control; Deaver Jolly, Nylon Treating. Twenty Years • Charles R. Lunsford, TC Twisting; Henry G. Hinson and James E. Mews, TC Weav ing; Brady Lee Robinson, Shop. Bobby Carter recently re ceived a high local honor in Scouting activities in his home town of Scottsville, Ky. It was the Cal Rogers Award, presented at the annual banquet of Boy Scouts Mammoth Cave District, at First United Metho dist Church, Glasgow. Carter also saw his wife, the former Eva Huntsman, pre sented an award of appreciation for work in the Scottsville Cub Scouts organization. WITH Firestone at Bowling Green since early 1968, Carter is a unifil fixer on C Crew in the Weavijjg^ department. He is Scoutmaster of Troop 127, Pe troleum. The Cal Rogers Award origi nated in 1962 with a two-fold purpose: To honor persons who have performed outstanding GASTONIA Fifteen Years • Cecil B. Heffner, TC Twisting. Ten Years • Beatrice G. Patterson, TC Twisting. Five Years • Ruby C. Kernea, Keigh D. Harmon and Roberta McGill, TC Twisting; Eddie N. Hawkins, TC Weaving. Heard • At shift-change: "The nicest thing about egotists is that they never go around talk ing about other people." • Firestone Textiles Company is one of 15 divisions of the par ent company, manufacuring products other than tires and tire tubes. Tire fabric is the basic product of all three plants ☆ ☆ ☆ faciT latices and compounds; adhes ives and sealants; road, track and playground surfacing ma terials; fuel cells; coated fabric products; urethane cushioning materials. service in the Mammoth Cave District; and to perpetuate the memory of the area’s “Grand Old Man” of Scouting, Cal Rogers. It was the original plan of the Cal Rogers Award program that one award would be given for each year since his untimely death in 1942. To date, three awards have been presented each year and will continue to be awarded until the backlog has been used. Carter has worked in many phases of Scouting in Allen County. The Carters are parents of two children, Dwight, 14; and LeAnn, 11. BG Supervisors Recognized Twenty supervisors at Bowl ing Green’s Firestone plant were honored recently, in recognition of the accomplishment of op erating their shift for the entire year 1973 without a serious in jury. Those cited at a special recognition meeting were: Wayne Elms, Sam Hunter, Eulas Hatcher, Duane Halvor- son, Ray Henderson, Roger Jen kins, James Jones, Cliff Logsdon, Wayne Lykins, Don Davis. Also Jesse Liles, Joe Madison, David McKinney, Stan Scully, Ed Sweeney, Ronnie Turner, Rick Wingfield, Lenda Moore, David Hirsch and Robert Don aldson. of the division—Gastonia, Ben- nettsville and Bowling Green. Here, Louella Queen, inspector in Quality Control at Gastonia, marks style on roll of polyester fabric finished in No. 8 treat ing unit. Also metal products including truck, bus, tractor wheels and rims, containers, stampings; farm wagons; a variety of plas tic resins, film, sheeting and fil aments; molded, extruded and calendared products for auto motive and other industries; au to safety equipment—belts and seats. MASTER WEAVER We’ve Come A Long Way Pioneer motorcars have their honored place in Americana, along with the village black smith, horsedrawn surrey, log cabin and the overshot waterwheel. I thought of this the other day when I saw a pretty color painting in a “memories” book. It showed two young lovers riding lickety-split down a rutted pike in a Model T. On the venerable “Tin Lizzie”: Firestone NON-SKID tires. According to one line of an accompanying poem by Donald Jones, “. . . The tires were of the clincher type, the size 30 x 3.” ' THE PIECE went on to recall that it took (seemingly) an eternity to change and fix a flat— and they came often. And, it said, in the old days motorists “carried stacks of spares, tape, patches, and tire ‘boots’ ”. That famed Non-Skid was the world’s first real-traction tire of the modern type, according to “Cycle and Trade Journal” of Nov. 1, 1908. It recorded that Stacy G. Garkhuff of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company applied for a patent on the Non-Skid Sept. 4, 1908. Actual patent was issued April 14, 1914, as No. 1,093,310. Angle formation of raised portions molded on periphery of tire provided against skidding in all directions. For many years after 1914, these tires were produced at the company’s Akron, Ohio, fac tory—the only tire plant Firestone had in those days. NON-SKIDS were constructed of the finest- available rubber compounds, fabric of choice upland cotton cord, bead wire and other ma terials. We've come a long way since "tliose days” ui tire design, quality advances, product perform ance and service. . . All the way to, for example, the Firestone 500 Steel-Belted radials and a host of others in steel and synthetics plies. Those of us who work in the tire industry and in producing supporting materials such as tire fabrics are proud of the advances across the years. And we’ll keep on striving to make the products ever better. Volume XXI April, 1974 Number 4 Page 2 • GASTONIA Claude C. Callaway, Editor Plant Offices REPORTERS Warehouses Industrial Relations—Dale Callahan Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Fletcher Quality Control—Louella Queen, Lelia Rape Twisting (synthetics) — Elease Cole, Katie Elkins Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradshaw, Nell Bolick Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Israel Good Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch BENNETTSVILLE PLANT Frances Fletcher, Redona David, Mar garet McCaskill, Jimmy McCaskill. BOWLING GREEN Fred De Hoag Scene • A cafe near Knox ville, Tenn., named DIS 'n' DAT. A sign at a fleamarket near Gastonia: $1 CHARGE FOR LISTENING TO YOU TELL ABOUT ANTIQUES YOUR GRANDMA HAD. Monthly publication of the Gastonia, N. C., plant of Firestone Textiles Company, a division of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. IHvision headquarters, Gastonia, N. C. 28052. James B. Call, president. Mem ber South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors.
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