'BRUSH' FOLKS (from page 1) From left: Jerry Mitchell, pipe
fitter in Shop; L.A. Holland, beam & yarn handler, TC Twisting:
Jerry Alford, buffer machine operator. Roller Shop.
Employer Award
TO
CHAIRMAN
The “Employer of the Year”
Award from the National Indus
trial Recreation Association was
presented to Richard A. Riley at
the NIRA annual meeting in Or
lando, Fla., in May. The chair
man of the Firestone company
received the award for “out
standing executive support of
employee recreation and service
programs”.
NIRA, founded in 1941, is
composed of 1,200 employee ac
tivity and recreational directors
for commercial and industrial
firms.
Since it was founded in 1915,
Firestone’s program has grown
to some 27 separate employee
activities at company headquar-
For Graduate Study
Barry Richard Robinson has
been awarded a fellowship from
the University of Wisconsin at
Madison for graduate study in
Arts Administration. Barry re
ceived the Bachelor of Music
Therapy degree from East Caro
lina University at Greenville,
May 29.
He studied the four years at
ECU on a Firestone scholarship.
At school he was student union
president, a member of Sigma
Nu social fraternity, Phi Mu Al
pha music fraternity and Phi
Sigma Pi honor fraternity.
Barry is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Robinson of Gas
tonia. Harold is warehouse man
ager at Firestone.
Centennial
Garb
ters in Akron, Ohio. There and
throughout the world. Firestone
sponsors clubs and activities,
ranging from skeet shooting to
scuba diving and from camping
to CB radios.
Other facets of Firestone’s
program include a discount tick-
et-purchase program for amuse
ment parks, sporting events,
concerts and other events. The
program of discount-purchase of
tickets for amusement parks is
in effect at the three U.S. plants
of Firestone Textiles Company.
Savings Bonds
During the last half of May at
Firestone Textiles C o m pa n y
plants and other Firestone com
pany locations in the U.S., the
annual Savings Bonds campaign
sought to sign up at least 50 per
cent of all non-subscribers, and
to increase allotments from at
least 10 per cent of those already
enrolled.
Over the years, many Fire
stone people have found that
buying Bonds through payroll
Years
• • Mildred Redding, senior
accounting clerk in Cost Ac
counting, dates the beginning
of her employment with
Firestone at Gastonia as May
27, 1937. So, for her: 40 years
service. Joining her for long
service at Gastonia last
month were 15 people who
have 5 to 35 years.
Thirty-Five Years • James A.
Mauney, lead operator in Nylon
Treating; Duard C. Rabb, box
repairer, Shop; Morris S. Derre-
berry, section supervisor, TC
Twisting.
Thirty Years • Lillie S. Crain,
weaver in Chafer Weaving.
Twenty Years • Don Radford,
style-changer specialist, TC
Weaving.
Fifteen Years • James C.
Barker Jr., maintenance tech
nician, Shop.
Ten Years • Nora V. Noblett,
respooler operator, TC Twisting.
Five Years • Charles H. Ad
ams, Twister Operator, TC
Twisting; Lewis L. Foster, twist
er bobbin changer, TC Twisting;
Barbara J. Byrd, automatic
splicer operator, TC Weaving;
Francis J. Sutton, weaver, TC
Weaving; William C. G r i g g,
lathe Operator, Shop; Johnny C.
Martin, shop mechanic. Shop;
Bobby R. Queen, pipefitter.
Shop; Betsy G. Smith, mechanic.
Shop.
deduction is a good way to build
savings, while also helping to
“keep America strong.” More
than 23,000 Firestone employees
throughout the country partici
pate in the Savings Bonds pro
gram.
If your car has a habit of
idling “fast” after a reasonable
warmup period, have the choke
adjusted.
In keeping with the Gastonia
Centennial theme, some mem
bers of Loray Senior Citizens
came to the (barbecue) meeting
in May dressed "old style."
Here (front and from left):
Nell Robinson, Lillian Mincey,
Margie Waldrep: and (back from
left) Dorothy Wilson, Mae Ward,
Edna Dixon, Lois Treadway,
James A. Waldrep and Ann Lit
tlejohn. Ann, Dorothy, Nell,
Margie and James are retired
from Firestone. Loray Baptist
Church sponsors the group.
Scott Evington
Life Scout
• With James B. Call,
Firestone Textiles President
Gaston Scout Awards 1977
Gaston County’s outstand
ing Boy Scout this year holds
Life Rank and has earned 17
merit badges. Winner of the
1977 Raymond C. Firestone
Scouting Award, Scott Ev
ington is a member of Gas
tonia Troop 11 sponsored by
First Presbyterian Church.
The award, symbolized by the
Firestone Silver Medallion, was
presented at the recent Scout
Gold Rush Camporee. It is
named for retired company
chairman Raymond C. Fire
stone.
Scott, 15, has completed ninth
grade at Ashley High School. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.
Evington.
The Firestone award is based
on character, citizenship, mental
and physical fitness over the
past year, and achievement in
Scouting.
In addition to the Medallion,
Scott received a certificate
worth five shares of Firestone
common stock, and a $43 check
GASTONIA
Volume XXIII
Number 6
June, 1977
Page 2
Claude C. Callaway, Editor
Plant
Offices
Warehouses
REPORTERS
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 Carolinas Association of Business Communicators.
Industrial Relations—Bobbie Baldwin
Main Office—Freida Price
Mechanical Dept.—Rosie Fletcher
Twisting Tire Cord—Elease Cole, Katie
Elkins
Warp Preparation—
Nell Bolick
Warehouse—Harold Robinson
Chafer Weaving—Ruth Veitch
BENNETTSVILLE PLANT
Frances Fletcher, Redona David, Mar
garet McCasklll, Jimmy McCaskill
BOWLING GREEN
Clifton O. Logsdon
toward a week’s expenses at Boy
Scout Piedmont Council camp in
Rutherford County.
Of the 40 Scouts nominated
for the award this year, 19-
others were honored for achieve
ment. They each received a cer
tificate of merit and a check for
$43 for camp expenses, or for
scouting equipment.
Merit winners; Bessemer City,
Troop 54—Todd Capps and JeiTy
Humphries. Gastonia, Troop 15
— Warren Bess; Troop 21—
James G. Jones Jr.; Troop 25—
Curtis Howe, Thomas E. Wallace
Jr.; Troop 349—Grady H. Smith,
Tommy Jonas, Gregory L. Hicks,
Pinkney Froneberger III.
Mount Holly, Troop 12—Brian
Smith. Stanley, Troop 49—Tony
M. Moore, Tim Bingham, Jeff
Brotherton, Alfred Homesley,
Jerry H. Ballard Jr., Bradley
Smith; Troop 527—Tim Boggs
and Paul Tallent.
Merit Scout Thomas E. Wal
lace Jr., was winner of the Ray
mond C. Firestone Award in
1976.
PINE, PALMETTO
& PENNYRILE
If Mother forgot to mention it,
here’s a helpful reminder about
U.S. Savings Bonds, when you
get married. Have your Bonds
reissued in your married name.
They’ll continue to earn interest
as they are, but reissuing helps
avoid problems when you want
to cash them.
If you want to be named co
owner or beneficiary on your
spouse’s Bonds, these should be
reissued, too. Your bank will
help you with this, and free of
charge.
☆ ☆ ☆
Tomatoes are perhaps the
most popular of all vegetables
(fruits) with backyard garden
ers. One way to make them
thrive:
Stir into soil around each
plant a tablespoon of common
Footnotes
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Epson salt and a handful of
wood ashes. If the soil is lacking
in magnesium and potash, these
two additions will be in a quick-
use form for the plants.
Something else on tomatoes:
Don’t smoke tobacco close to
your plants, for tobacco can pass
on a virus to the foliage. This
will cause tomato plants to yel
low and sicken. The smoke-
virus can pass through the air,
or from your hands, to the vines.
The fifth annual Folklore in
America Seminar, June 16-25,
will include a lecture on “In
dustrial Folklore.” The seminar
at the University of Virginia’s
Blandy Farm near Winchester is
co-sponsored by the University
of Virginia School of Continu
ing Education arid the National
Council for the Traditional Arts.