AI’RIL, 1945
POIOT-CREST
Page Turee
HIGH POINT WEAVING
Preparatory Department
Mumps! Again? I’wo more victims
of tliat “swell” disease this time. It’s
P’rances Henderson and Vangie Com
er’s husband, Jim. Our best wishes to
both for a speedy recovery and also our
wishes to Vangie’s mother, Mrs. F. S.
'I'owery, for a speedy recovery at her
home in Chase City, Virginia.
Mada Loflin braved the Easter
transportation to go see her sister, Mrs.
Paul Chesson and her brother, L. C.
liOflin in Norfolk, Va. Some nerve to
go that far from home with transpor
tation the w'ay it is, but Mada says she
had a swell trip.
Hope Wanda Iledgecoek’s mother
i\lrs. J. L. Clark, of Reidsville, enjoys
her visit here with Wanda and Clyde.
Looks nice to see Olean Lane back
at work after going to Florida to see
her husband, Ralph. Hope she’s as
glad to be back as w'C are to have her.
Sorry to hear that Belle Brown has
been out sick for two weeks. Hope you
will soon be able to be with us again
Belle.
Glad to hear that Zoda Phipps has
returned home after an operation at
I he Baptist Hospital in Winston-Sa-
lem. Here’s wishing you the best of
luck and good health.
Clennnie Handy recently spent the
week-end in Burlington visiting her
brother, S. A. Handy and his son, who
was home on furlough.
Myrtie Jacobs was a very elated
person the other week when her hus
band, Charles, called to say that he
would be home for seven days.
Charles is stationed on an aircraft car
rier and is what is known as a “sea-
goingji^ine.”
Mal^Kvelyn Farrington sju's to ex
press hSRippreciation to the Company
for her birthday holiday. Oh, of course
now the fact that her birthday and
Faster Monday fell on the same day
c)uldi>J*iVe anything to do with it.
or
Ann^ vVhitaker spent Easter in
North Wilkesboro w'ith her husband’s
family.
Fannie Swiggctt spent Easter at her
home in Ramseur, N. C.
Blanche Hudspeth spent Easter
with her father and sister at Brooks
Cross Roads.
Hallie Neal spent Easter at her
liome in Seagrove, N. C.
Lona Carroll spent the week-end at
her home in Kings Mountain, N. C.
Our sympathy goes to Anna Whit
aker in the death of her uncle, W. E.
Wood.
We all extend a big welcome to
Cleveland Prevatte who is our new
yarn boy. He w'as transferred from
C(mping Department.
Jack Neal is out having a swell
time with the mumps. Hurry back to
work. Jack, but for goodness sake
don’t bring the mumps with you.
We are sorry to learn of the death
of Josephine Creggs’ brother who was
killed in action February 28th.
Willis Rachels has been visiting his
son at Sanford, N. C., who was
wounded overseas and is now home on
furlough.
Alta Lanier spent a w'cek-end at
Wilmington recently \isiting her sis
ter.
Lillie Wcllx)rn spent the Easter
holidays at her home near Elkin, N. C.
Ida Peterson is back on the job after
being out sick for a week. We sure did
miss you, Ida.
Throwing Department
We are glad to have Kizer I'homas,
a discharged veteran of foreign wars,
working in the Supply Room on first
shift.
Glad to report that Edith Talley.:
who underwent an operation on Eas-i
ter Monday, is improving. !
Mary Morris has returned from Bal
timore, Md., where she visited her
husband, S/Sgt. Robert Morris.
Carmen Key’s husband, Pvt. Roy
Key, who is stationed at Fort Benning,
Ga., and her son, Roy Key, Jr., S2/C
who is stationed in Virginia, were here
at home for Easter.
Sadie Lee Walker has returned from
New Orleans, La., where she visited
her brother, I'lddie B. Pegram, Sl/C.
We wish to welcome to the first
shift Redraw Department: Rosa Floyd
and David Scoggins to the Shipping
Department.
Kathleen Faircloth recently visited
her mother in r'ayetteville, and her
mother-in-law in Durham.
We welcome to the second shift
Winding and Redraw Draartment:
Kcrmit Mills, and Causey Conner in
the Atwood Department.
Fairy Flynt and Oma Simpson w'cre
out sick for several days. We are glad
to see them back at work.
We hope our new fixer, Lola Lam-
Ixith, will enjoy working with us. We
wish you the best of luck, Lola.
Frances Roach is back with us after
a long stay with her husband, Melvin.
We are happy to see you back at work.
Frances.
We all miss Clarice Reid and wish
for her small daughter who is sick, a
speedy recovery. Hurry back to w'ork.
Clarice.
We were sorry to hear that Ruth
Peterson, John Hill’s daughter, is se
riously ill in Lexington Hospital. We
sincerely hope she will be better soon.
We wish to welcome to the third
shift Redrawing Department: Z. D.
Wright, Ernest Earley and Roy Med-
lin.
We are sorry to hear that Frances
Yates, third shi^^wwood Spinner, j
out sick. We you a speedy
coverv.
We arc glad to hear that
Neese’s brotlier, Sgt. I'Yancis Watson
has been liberated from a prison camp
somewhere in Germany.
Dimpie Taylor spent the Easter hol
idays visiting relatixes and friends in
Dunn, N. C.
We are sorr\' to lose Holx'rt Floyd
to the second shift but we wish him
all the luck and success in the world.
Irma Radford is spending two weeks
at her home in I'hidicott, Va.
We are sorry to hear of the death of
Mr. Jack Coe, Pauline Coe’s father-in-
law.
Weave Room
We lost one of our old timers
March 22nd when the Army got
Alvah Coppedge. A1 has worked at
High Point Weaving for the past five
years as clerk in the sup))ly room. A1
is now stationed at Fort Bragg where
he says he will be for the next thirteen
weeks. He also says, according to a let
ter, that he is having breakfast in bed
and is drinking “Rum and Coca-
Cola.”
“When we go to the mpply room,
it seems so bare,
We miss Al sitting there iu
that easy chair.”
Marian Norman had as her guests
over the Easter holidays, her Inother,
Allen Norman, and sisters, Joyce,
Jacqulync Norman and Mrs. Katherine
Wheatley and her husband, Stanley
Wheatley, of Lincolnton, Georgia.
Lindsay Morris and family visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Mor
ris near Concord during the Easter
holidays. 1
M. L. Voncannon ^||| wife \ isited!
relatives in Davidson Wrnty recently. |
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Stokes and
son Phillip spent the lOastcr holidays
visiting Mrs. Stokes’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Story near Mt. Gilead.
John Plummer and family visited
John’s father, J. C. Phunmer near
Wallburg. Mr. Plummer is quite sick
and we wish him a speedy reco\cr)'.
Maggie I'’lliott had as her guest over
the holidays her brother, Ralph Carter
from Wilmington.
Ethel Owens visited her mother,
Mrs. G. I,. I'ryc in Davidson County
over the holidays.
Jo Anne Reid, daughter of Dewey
Reid, has recovered sufficiently to re
turn to school after undergoivig a ton
sillectomy at Dr. M. B. Leath’s clinic.
David Brinkley went to I'ort Bragg
on March 20th for his pre-induction
examination. He returned 1-A and is
now back at work but is expecting
every minute to be the last one.
Jess Payne, who is an ardent golf
fan, can be seen most any afternoon
on the Blair Park Golf Course looking
for his lost golf ball.
We wish to welcome two newcom
ers into our midst. Rivers Huff, as
shuttle filler and William T. Reid as
helper in the Supply Room.
We welcome tiie following new em
ployees:
“Bobby” Underwood, cloth marker;
Grace Davis and Blanche Kennedy,
shuttle fillers; and Troy McKaughan,
shuttle filler who was transferred from
the Preparatory Department.
We welcome Ernest Jones, new su])-
ply room clerk, to the second shift. 1 Ic
W'as transferred from the first shift.
Carlton Chatham lea\es us on the
24th for service in the U. S. Army.
Carlton, we wish for you the best of
luck and may you soon be back witli
us.
We wish to express oc'^deepest
sympathy to Pearl Martin ])ass-
ing of his brother, Pfc. I'iiM t^^lartin
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May We Present
Some say tha^B dog is man’s bc.if
friend, but George Towery says that
Nellie is his best friend. (For the bene
fit of George’s reputation, Nellie is
his horse.) In the snapshot at the
right, we see this swell working team
and when they arc on job, boy!
the dirt really flies!
During the past season, George with
the unfailing help of Nellie, has
plowed fifteen gardens for friends and
neighbors. He also found time to plow
and plant four separate gardens for
himself. So if you get hungry for a
good spring onion, just see Mr. Tow-
cry. He has had this hobby of plow
ing for several years and says that he
gets a “kick” out of it.
George has been working at Hill-
crest since August, 1938, and before
that was employed at High Point
Weaving. His present job includes
duties of watchman, yardman and
shop hand. If perchance you try to get
in the gate at Ilillcrest during the sec
ond shift and you arc halted by a
sudden, “Whoa, there!”, well think
nothing of it, because it’s probably
George forgetting which job he is on.
Not only is Mr. 'I'owery a fine
handy man around the mill, but after
he works 48 hours at the mill each
week and does his plowing, he still
finds time to help around the house.
Often he is called “the conmumity
mechanic” due to his odd jobs of fix
ing iron cords and similar things for
the neighbors.
George is married and has three
children. Two of his children, Roy and
Charlie, are also employed at Hill-
crest.