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MARSHALL FIELD A COMPANY, INC,
Manufacturint Division, Spray, North Carolina
Volume Three
Monday, November 20, 1944
Number Ten
25-Year Clu’b Has
Second Banquet
TRI-CITY BUDDIES IN ENGLAND
The second annual banquet of the
25-Year-Club, composed of men and
women who have worked continuously
for the company for twenty-five years
or more, was held at the Central Y. M.
C. A. on Wednesday, November 15th.
Thirty-five new members were added to
the original 107.
Some interesting sidelights were that
126 members have worked a total of
3,859 years. Figure the overtime on
that! Ernest D. Pitcher will have com
pleted 60 years of continuous service on
January 31, 1945. Mrs. Mollie Mitchell
has worked approximately 46 years
without a lost time accident.
Another interesting feature is that
the company has several brothers and
sisters who are members of the 25-year
club. Among them are Ellie and Will
Sykes, Harry and Andrew Collins, De-
mus and Pink Purdy, Charlie and Sam
Pieese, and J. F. and W. B. Wilson.
Vocal solos by Mrs. Ronald Hirst were
greatly enjoyed.
Short talks were made by W. H.
Owen, O. F. Ferguson, Miss Betty Hayes
and Paul Fleming, whose total years of
service add up to about 147 years.
Toastmaster J. F. Wilson called on
Luther H. Hodges, one of the new
members, for a short talk, after which
Mr. Hodges introduced Hughston M.
McBain, President of the company, who
made an interesting talk. Mr. McBain
stated that the one thing that makes
M. F. & Co. such an outstanding or
ganization is the personnel; men and
women who are cooperative, loyal, faith
ful, that they and nothing else can
build and maintain an institution of the
type of M. F. & Co. All these quali
ties are exemplified in the group here
tonight. At the conclusion Mr. Mc
Bain was presented with an old fash
ioned pound cake, prepared by the la
dies of the Cooking School.
The banquet itself was delicious. A
Negro Quartett, dressed as laborers,
sang during dinner, shucking corn as
they sang.
V . . . —
“Oh, Mr. Policeman—a man has been
following me.”
“Are you sure he was following
you?”
“Yes, I went back two or three times
to see if he was coming.”
These boys don’t look like they’re
fighting a war, but maybe it is because
they were so glad to get together that
they are smiling so broadly here. From
left to right they are; Pfc. Jackie Ray,
Leaksville; Sgt. Ernest Stopel, Draper;
Cpl. Emerson Manuel, Draper; Pfc. Her
bert Isley, Spray; Dillard Harris, Dra
per, and Roland Brown, Spray, who took
the picture. Nearly all are former Mar
shall Field & Co. men and one, Cpl.
Manuel, formerly published The Draper
Times. They are all in France now, it
is believed.
HAZELWOOD TAIL GUNNER
ON B-24
15TH AAF IN ITALY: Sergeant
Winfred M. Hazelwood, 20, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Abner A. Hazelwood, 2 Early
avenue, Leaksville, N. C., has arrived
overseas and has started combat flying
as tail gunner on a B-24 heavy bomber.
“I guess they started me out the hard
way,” said Hazelwood. “My first three
sorties were over the oil refineries and
factories in Vienna, Munich, and St.
Valentin. On the St. Valentin mission
one of our bombers had a wing blown
off and as the plane went into a spin
the tail turret broke off—I began pray
ing then as I had never prayed before.”
Third Army Command
Gives Fine Show
It is generally agreed that the crowd
that packed the Tri-City baseball park
on November 10th was the largest ever
to congregate there. And it is also gen
erally agreed that the show put on by
the Third Army Command, composed of
some 75 soldiers, was the best of its
kind ever seen here.
Of interest to local people is that
Capt. J. O. Thomas was instrumental in
selecting the personnel of the show,
although he didn’t know at the time it
would stop in his home town.
It was a great show and not one of
the approximately 5„000 people left the
ball park with any doubt in their minds
that our service men have the stuff it
will take to win this war
T . . . —
LAND AWARDED BADGE
With an Infantry Division some
where in the Southwest Pacific Area-
Private First Class William D. Land,
22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie G. Land,
Spray, North Carolina, has been award
ed the Combat Infantryman Bodge for
“exemplary conduct” in com.bat against
the Japanese.
Land earned the badge—a silver rifle
on an Infantry blue field imposed on a
silver wreath—for his part in helping
defeat Jap assaults on Hill' 129, Bou
gainville Island.
Overseas 18 months serving also in
New Hebrides and Guadalcanal, he has
two brothers overseas; Private Paul, 27,
an infantryman in France, and S. 1/C
James C., 25, in the navy in India.
V
PICTURES
We’ve said it so many times that
we’re tired of hearing ourselves talk
about it, but the fact is that impossible .
pictures are still coming to this office.
Last week, alone, we had to return nine
pictures that for one reason or another
could not be used.
Once again let us urge that you do
not send us any tinted pictures, faint
(light) ones, or those with various col
ored backgrounds. We can’t use them
and it is a waste of time and effort to
handle them.
And please put your name on the
BACK of the picture, otherwise we can
not guarantee your picture will be re
turned to you.