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PAGE POUR Tir^^tone. MARCH 25, 1955 Sports Banquet Set For April 9 (Continued from Page 1) Special Awards: Harold Mercer and F. B. Galligan 1927, with a law degree he played Introduction of Speaker: Dave professional football with the Smith Green Bay Packers, In 1928 he re The Address: Rex Enright ceived his first coaching job with A quartet will sing several num the University of North Carolina bers at intervals during the pro as an assistant. In 1931 he went to gram. the University of Georgia as assist Ms ant football and head basketball REX ENRIGHT, who will deliv coach. One of his basketball pupils er the address of the evening, is a was Frank Johnson, now basketball graduate of Notre Dame, where he coach for South Carolina. played football under K n u t e ^ ^ Rockne. As head coach of USC, he IN THE OLD Southern Confer has held his position longer than ence, Enright was a member of the liilB-K' JS- 'I ■'-iit-vi p any athletic mentor in the Atlantic basketball, football and boxing Coast Conference, coming to Caro committees and held the presidency lina as successor to Don McAllister of the coaches’ association. He was in 1938. The time since has includ one of the key men in the founding ed 13 active seasons at USC, and a of the Atlantic Coast Conference ■3? leave of absence from 1943 to 1945 and has figured prominently in its when he served as a commander development. and athletic officer in the Navy. 'H ^ In 1926 Enright was one of the Dave Smith, who will introduce nation’s top fullbacks and was Enright at the banquet here, op Galligan Bowling Team - - - - t h e s e s o n s of employees composed the Gam- named to the All-Western team, in erates an automobile agency in gan Bowling Team for the 1954-1955 season at Firestone. They are, from left: Michael Conrad, Robert cluding the big ten and Indepen Gastonia. Captain of the University Ramsey, Steve Buchanan, M. C. Huffstetler, Bunny Jordan, Douglas Freeland, and Michael Hardy. This dents, He was also a topflight of South Carolina golfing team in team was named for F. B. Galligan, Superintendent of the Cotton Division. Other teams were named for basketball player for the Fighting his college days, he is now one of Irish, Harold Mercer, General Manager; Nelson Kessell, General Superintendent; E. J. Mechem, Comptroller. the outstanding amateur golfers in After Enright’s graduation in the United States, ANSWERS To Quiz Many Attractions In N. C. (On Page 2) 1. St. John’s, Newfoundland. During Month Of April 2. Generally placed at 1088 feet per second at sea level, at 32 de For those of you who may be AteA/V TO YOU/ grees, farenheit. It varies in other planning week end or early spring season on the Outer Banks Island. temperatures and in different vacations, a look at the calendar, * =i: media. of special events in North Carolina From the Atlantic Coast to the 3. North Carolina, with approx brings the reminder of several at Great Smoky Mountains Easter is imately 6,650 buses. tractions. observed with sunrise services. 4. The Island of Corsica, April begins with the eighth Most famous of Easter obser- 5. “In God We Trust.” annual Wilmington Azalea Festival ances in North Carolina will be March 31 through April 3. It ends the 184th annual sunrise service at SAFETY HABITS BREED v/ith a gala seashore festival the Moravian Community of Old SAFE SURROUNDINGS. April 29 - May 1, opening the beach Salem, Winston-Salem. In early April, flowers—azaleas and dogwood are in full bloom on Retired Employee Passes Time With the coast and as far west as the Mid-South resorts of Southern Hobbies, Devotes Time To Traveling Pines and Pinehurst and the capital city of Raleigh. In the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham; and Rey- nolda Gardens, Winston-Salem, flowering shrubs are at their best. wm f • A • In the Blue Ridge and Great Smok ies, redbud, dogwood, and silver- bell bloom by around April 20 in altitudes up to 2,000 feet and reach higher slopes during the next two weeks. The big spring run of gamefish makes the North Carolina coast a favorite place for anglers in April, with the spotlight on surf, sound, and piers in the neighborhood of Nags Head and Cape Hatteras, Morehead City and Beaufort; and IT IS IMPERATIVE that we do everything we can to prevent the southeastern coast of the Wil mington and Southport areas. The further reduction in the protective tariff against importation of mountain trout season opens April foreign textiles produced at low wages. 15. FIRESTONE TEXTILES MRS. ADAMS proudly exhibits a portion of her bric-a-brac P. O. BOX 551 SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R. collection at her home on York street. GASTONIA, N. C. U. S. POSTAGE Mrs. Annie Adams is a retired PAID employee who misses her work and the Second A.R.P. Church where GASTONIA, N. C. fellow workers in the Weaving De she seldom misses a service. PERMIT NO. 29 partment. She felt she would be Her plans for the future include lonely after she gave up the more traveling and time devoted daily routine of holding down a job to her hobbies. “I am thankful for but through her various hobbies Firestone and the ten years I was she has kept her time occupied. She employed there, the pension plan is has been retired about one year. wonderful and I don’t know how I When not “hobbying” with her would live without it,” she says. flowers, sewing, gardening, crocheting and collecting what She looks forward to receiving nots she does some traveling. each issue of the Firestone News, She lives at 1202 S. York and through the paper she keeps up her neice lives with her. She is 66 with what is going on at the plant Form 3547 Requested years of age and is a member of and her many friends in Weaving..