PAGE FOUR
POINT-CREST
OCTOBER, 1945
Wedding Bells
RAY DELAPP, one of Hillcrest’s
service men, recently paid us a visit dur
ing his leave following the completion
of his boot training at Bainbridge, Md.
Ray, formerly a helper in the shop,
was manager of the Hillcrest softball
team the past summer until he was
called into the Navy.
AMONG those recently married was
none other than the former Lucille
Culler, member of the Hillcrest soft
ball team and secretary to W. I. Spcn-
cer. She was married on September 20,
1945 to S 1/C Janies Peatross, who will
soon report for duty in Raleigh. “Point-
Crest” wishes to congratulate this cou
ple and wish for them the best of hap
piness.
lie: “I can’t see what keeps girls
from freezing.”
She: “You’re not supposed to.”
In The Mail Bag
Pfc. Folger C. McKinney, APO 247—
San Francisco, Calif.—
“Well it was nice to see another pa
per from the mill and I was glad to
know everyone is fine and dandy too
... As you ha\e seen in my other let
ters, there is no news here but now it
looks like I will be seeing everyone
aborUChristmas. Boy, what a happy
day t*t v'ill be.”
Pfc. Paul L. Mendenhall, Sr., San Jose,
Luzon—
“I certainly would have liked to have
been there for the picnic. 1 know you
all had a good time. I knew a lot of
the ■
faccii
eral of the fellows arc getting dis
charged and returning to their old
jobs.”
John A. Samuel S/2C, Titusville, Fla.—
“I received your letter the other day
and was glad to hear from you. I was
glad to know that you remember me
as one of your fellow employees. 1 hope
to be back with you very soon now
that the war is over, because when I
am working there, I know that J am
among friends. I also received the pa
per the other day and was very glad to
receive it, because 1 like to know what
is taking place there at the mill among
mv friends.”
jfcple in the pictures and a lot of
c3i didn’t know. I noticed that sev-
Jack and Jill, dressed fit to kill.
Went driving on a bender.
And fit to kill, drove off a hill.
For salvage, there’s one fender.
Roy E. Scarboro S.C.3/c—F.P.O., New
York-
“Tonight a mail boat came along
side while we were seeing a movie,
on the bow of the ship, and you should
have seen the rush . . . The fellows
forget a movie and everything else
when there is news from home. I was
one of the lucky to ha\c news fr(ra
home and of the mill. P'or me was tW
September issue of “Point-Crest”
which I had been looking forward to
getting. I cannot begin to tell you hov.’
it makes me feel to get a chance to
read the “Point-Crest” after looking at
nothing but water for two or thrg,,
days.” ^
Pvt. David E. Brinkley, Ft. Leonard
Wood, Mo.—
“In regards to your letter of Septem
ber 25th, I assure you I appreciate the
interest that the High Point Weaving
Company takes in their men and
women of the Armed Forces. As you
probably know by now that I have al
ready gotten my vacation bonus. It is
impossible for me to express how much
1 appreciate it. Anyway, at the least,
thank you, and all concerned who
worked and made it possible that I get
a bonus. I have been receiving the
“Point-Crest” regularly, and in my esti
mation it is unexcelled. It really gives
us a lift to carry out our service to our
country and to someday return home,
so to take an active part in the progress
ing of the whole Burlington Mills
Corp.”
THE RECORD
. If the contribution of employees and Company during the war could
be numerically figured it would look something like this:
Employees in the Services 3,976
Employees Killed - 105
Victory Cloth Woven - 150,000,000 Yards
Victory Yarn Spun 36,134,000 Pounds
Different Victory Materials Produced Over 50
Employee Bond Deductions $4,237,217.00
Employees and Company Gave to War and
Community Chest, Red Cross, etc $218,872.73
Employees gave of their time to volunteer jobs including nurses’
aides, Red Cross volunteers, U. S. O. hostesses. Scout leaders and many
other home front jobs. Company helped in furnishing U. S. O.’s, donat
ing to special war-time appeals and in loaning President Spencer Love to
Washington’s Textile. Leather and Clothing Di^’ision of WPB. Person
nel offices set up services to assist employees with rationing problems,
housing shortages, nursery schools, transportation and other personal
headaches to holding down a full-time job and keeping up with exacting
war-time restrictions.
FORMER AIRMAN NOW
TRAINING AT HILLCREST
Often we at Hillcrest and High
Point Weaving may feel our life at
times is monotonous, ^^ut to Major
Grover Furr, the apprentice at Hill
crest, the life around the plants is a
welcomed haven after 29 months
overseas as a pilot for Pan-American
Air Lines and the Army Air Trans
port Command.
Grover’s flying experience began in
October, 1941, &fore the U. S. A. en
tered the war for he was with Pan-
American which played an important
part in ferrying supplies to the British
Army during the British-German
North African campaign. From his
station on the west coast of Africa—
the first stop after an Atlantic
Oceanic hop from South America —
he helped shuttle and gather supplies
in preparation for the North African
invasion, the turning point of the war
for the Allies. As the Germans held
the Mediterranean route, this south
ern route across the wilderness of
Africa was one of our few means of
getting much needed supplies to Rus
sia and the India-Burma area.
Our new apprentice is very modest
in relating his experiences, but he ad
mits that his most hazardous job was
ferrying supplies and personnel over
the hump of India to Chennault and
his “I'^ighting Tigers” after the Japs
closed the Burma Road—the last en
trance to China. He feels he was very
lucky for the Japs interrupted the
jump for many of the pilots. Certainly
it is no safe feeling to lift a plane
from the ground when you know your
plane, built for 20 persons, is carrjdng
65—especially in the face of high
mountains, Burma’s monsoon weather,
and no radio facilities. I'his occurred
during the evacuation of British and
native Burmese refugees from Burma
as the Japs first pushed in. With such
overloading it was necessi-^ for one
plane to use the entire fiel tor its take
off, and much of the flyiiig was done
by instruments.
Compared with a dilapidated tea
plantation in India and a rock island,
the living accommodations in High
Point look wonderful. It is a good feel
ing to be minus the heat, flies, filth,
and danger of tropical diseases that
are so prevalent in Africa and Asia.
Our new employee says that Masira,
a minute rock island off the coast of
Southern Arabia, is one place that he
never cares to see again. I'he island,
leased from an Arabian Sultan for a
refueling stop to India, had never
been inhabited as it was merely rock
and sand without a picce of vegeta
tion in sight. The men stationed
there to service planes distilled their
drinking water from the sea and re
ceived all food from incoming planes.
I'^our months in such a place must
have seemed like a lifetime.
Our flyer holds the Distinguished
Flying Cross and all three theatre
ribbons—the Asiatic-Pacific, European-
Middle East, and the American. He
received his well-earned discharge by
points this September and now seems
perfectly satisfied to settle down in
one spot. For us. Major Furr made a
happy landing.
More than three times as many people
died from injurj' by non-poisonous animals
in 1943 as those who died from venomous
animals, the National Safety Council re
ports.
Doctor: “The General is sick.”
Chaplain: “What’s the matter with
the general?”
Doctor: “Oh, things in general.”