Issued Every Two Weeks By
and For the Employees
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MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC,
Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Carolina
Volume Three
Monday, December 4, 1944
Number Eleven
Shown here are President Hughston M. McBain and Vice-President Luther H.
Hodges as they present a button signifying membership in the 25-Year Club to
James T. Tuttle, Towel Mill. Thirty-five new members were added to the original 107.
Buy a Bond-
Buy Another One
There is no need of reminding our
selves of the necessity to buy bonds. It
costs thousands of dollars a day to win
this war. What we should always keep
in mind is that we should not only buy
a bond, but buy another, and as many
more as we possibly can.
We all know, too, that buying bonds
is all many of us can do to bring
victory. We can’t, as millions of the
flower of our young manhood are do
ing, get out and fight the enemy, but
we certainly can, and must, fight the
enemy with the best weapon at hand—•
all the War Bonds we can buy.
Every dollar invested in War Bonds
not only comes back to you with inter
est, but it will also bring that son of
yours back that much sooner. And in
the meantime it will furnish him with
the ammunition, clothing, and other war
material that will continue to keep him
the best fed, best clothed, and finest
fighting man the world has ever known.
And there is no better, more use
ful Christmas gift you can buy for the
family than a War Bond for each one.
Why not give Bonds as gifts instead
of the pretty, but not always useful,
gifts you' have been accustomed to buy?
V . . . —
War Fund
Oversubscribed
Sure, we went over the top again.
And we’d like for you fellows in serv
ice to know that your letters home, tell
ing us of the great service the various
organizations were doing for you had
much to do with our willingness to dig
deep. There has never been a time
when the employees of Marshall Field
& Company, as well as the fine people
of the community, failed to oversub
scribe to a worthy cause.
Here are the amounts collected in
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Retirement Program
Now In Effect
When Marshall Field & Company an
nounced in October, 1943, a Retirement
Program, subject to the approval of the
United States Treasury Department, the
news was received with more enthusi
asm than any other announcement. It
is with equal enthusiasm that we learn
the Treasury Department has approved
the Program.
The Treasury Department requested
that a few changes be made in the
Program. These changes, however, are
so slight that none of them will ad
versely affect the interests of the em
ployees. In plain words, the Program
has been approved in substantially its
original form. Copies of the Program
w’ere distributed to all employees last
year and copies of the approved Pro
gram will be distributed in the near
future.
The Company contributed nearly two
million dollars to the Program in 1943
and expect to contribute a like amount
this year. This’ money is solely for the
benefit of retiring employees and can
not be recovered by the company.
Due to wartime conditions and the
delay in receiving Treasury approval of
the plan all of the employees who were
eligible to retire on December 1, 1944,
were given the option of either retiring
on December 1, 1944, or as soon there
after as Treasury approval was re
ceived, or if they so chose could post
pone retirement until December 1, 1945.
The first retirement date is set for
December 1, 1944,, at which time four
teen employees have indicated a desire
to retire. Advancing age and inability
to work steadily because of failing
health play a part in the desire to re
tire.
The first employees who will receive
the benefits of the Retirement Program
and who will retire on December 1,
1944, are: J. P. Bryant and Ezra Card-
well, Finishing Mill; William B. McCor
mack, Central Warehouse; W. P. Ber-
rier. Bedspread Mill; L. A. Belcher,
Bart S. Talbott, N. C. Lawsom and Wl
F. Barham, Woolen Mill; Edna Sawyers,
Bleachery; James PI. Frith, James E.
Gilbert, and W. D. McBride, Towel
Mill; 'W. C. Glasgow and Lula Motley,
Blanket Mill.