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Gaston
United Way Goal $750,000
Needed: $750,000 for 32 people-helping services.
The Gaston County United Way will seek this amount
in the fall, 1974, campaign to raise money for partici
pating agencies during 1975.
This year’s goal is a 9.5 per
cent increase over that of
last year ($685,114), but just
$40,000 more than was
pledged in last year’s funds
collection.
Campaign Chairman Tom
Graham said that he is confident
of Gaston County’s continued
support for the united program.
“The United Way benefits all
residents of the community,”
he said. “People working to
gether and helping each other
is a tradition in this great coun
try of ours and especially in
Gaston County.”
The United Way will officially
launch this year's campaign Oct.
2.
At Firestone Textiles Com
pany’s Gastonia plant, the
United Way program is the only
SKI-BEES
in-plant solicitation during the
year. Contributions from Fire
stone people make up a major
portion of the corporate gifts in
the county each year.
Firestone pledges for 1973
were $44,398.84.
Of this year’s campaign,
Chairman Graham said, “The
1974-75 team is committed to se
curing the necessary funds to
keep all agencies on a sound fi
nancial basis. Each of us work
ing together and contributing
More on Page 3 •
ON LAKE CUMBERLAND There are 13 lakes in Kentucky
larger than 1,000 acres. Two of them—Kentucky Lake and Lake
Barkley—are joined by a canal and they constitute the largest
man-engineered body of water in the world. Combined shoreline
is nearly 3,500 miles. This picture by Kentucky Department of
Public Information was made on Lake Cumberland, another fa
vorite that has more than 1250 miles of shoreline.
Wilson Plant In Production
Lori
AND HER
MEDAL
liOri James won a medal for
first place in breast stroke of
the girls’ 9 to 10-years group in
the 1974 Gaston Invitational
Swim Association championship
in August.
Representing Wesley Acres
Swim Club, she competed with
18 girls. In the meet were teams
from Wesley Acres, Gaston
Country Club and hosts Gardner
Acres Swim Club. Wesley Acres
was regular season champion of
the Association.
Lori, who has been swimming
just two years, earned during
the season a second and fourth-
place ribbon in meets. Alto
gether she won a dozen ribbons
in swim heats and other com
petition.
Her father, Bobby James,
works in Quality Control.
In midsummer, 800 steel-
belted radial tires were load
ed and the tractor-trailer
was on its way to the cus
tomer: General Motors Cor
poration.
It was the first shipment of
production at the Wilson, N. C.,
Firestone plant.
The Gastonia and Bowling
Green plants of Firestone Tex
tiles Company had a "behind-
the-scenes" part in Wilson's first
major production order. They
supplied polypropylene fabric
for liner material used in process
of building the steel-belted tires.
Currently, the new North
Looking Forward
• Centennial events in Kings
Mountain, Oct. 1-6. Kings Moun
tain is a 'Firestone hometown'
9 miles from Gastonia.
• International Textile Expo
sition, Textile Hall, Greenville,
S. C., Oct. 21-25.
Carolina tire-assembly facility
is building calendered wire
reinforcement into tires from
steel fabric similar to that pro
duced at Gastonia and Bowling
Green units of Firestone Tex
tiles Company.
• • No longer can business
produce goods and services, sell
for a profit, repeat the sales and
be satisfied. Business must have
a social conscience. Said a presi
dent of one leading advertising
firm.
"You must consider the con
sequences of your business—
what it does to human beings
and for human beings."
SEPTEMBER
1974
Firestone
Textiles
Company
GASTONIA
NORTH CAROLINA
BENNETTSVILLE
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOWLING GREEN
KENTUCKY
☆ ☆ ☆
Register ETS
By September 30
• To high-school seniors
applying for a college schol
arship in the 1975 program:
Register no later than Sep
tember 30 with the Educa
tional Testing Service,
Princeton, N.J., so you can
be eligible to take the Schol
arship Aptitude Test (S.A.T.)
In recent months the S.A.T.
replaced the School and College
Ability Test (S.C.A.T.) as one
of the means of evaluating ap
plicants.
Eligible sons and daughters of
Firestone employees take the
S.A.T. through the Educational
Testing Service at only two
scheduled test times.
Dates are November 2 and
December 7, 1974. This allows
the company scholarship com
mittee to receive the test scores
by the application deadline,
March 1, 1975.
Students get S.A.T. registra
tion forms and instruction ma
terials from their high school
counselors.
Bobby Nichols
In Gastonia
Grandparents at Firestone are
Carl James of Shop and Novella
James of Data Processing. S. L.
Owens, Lori’s great grandfather,
is a retired Carding supervisor.
John Owens of Purchasing and
Lee Owens of Preparation are
her uncles.
Bobby Nichols, touring
golfer and head pro at Fire
stone Country Club, Akron,
Ohio, was in Gastonia Au
gust 12. He visited the Fire
stone Textiles Company
plant, and at the Gaston
Country Club attended a
luncheon and press meeting,
conducted a how-to session
and played an exhibition. His
foursome included Gastonia
pro Bruce Sudderth, Char
lotte’s David Strawn, and
Charlie Smith of Florence,
S. C.
The veteran of 16 years
professional play is holder of
12 tour titles—his most re
cent, the Canadian Open in
late July.
Some photos of his visit to
the Firestone plant are on
page 3.