THE
MILL WHISTLE
Issued every Two Weeks by andfor the Employees of
Marshall Field & Company, Inc.,
Manufacturmg Division, Spray, North Carolina
Volume Five
Monday, November 25, 1946
Number Ten
To End Active Service
After Thirty-six Years
Shown above is J. Frank Wilson, pro
duction manager since 1940 and a vet
eran of 36 years continuous service,
whose voluntary request for retirement
under the Company’s retirement pro
gram effective December 31 has been
granted. Mr. Wilson has not yet made
any definite announcement concerning
his future activities.
J. Frank Wilson Thanks
Workers, Contributors,
In Scout Finance Drive
A letter of appreciation to those work
ers and contributors who made this
year’s Scout finance campaign a big
success has been issued by J. Frank
Wilson, Production Manager of the
Manufacturing Division, who is chair
man of the joint campaign.
The letter follows:
“As Finance Chairman of the Boy
and Girl Scouts Drive, I want to thank
first the many workers who willingly
gave their time and second each con
tributor who participated.
“This has been the most successful
Dr. William McGehee
To Join Company Jan. 1
The appointment of Dr. William Mc
Gehee, head of the department of psy
chology at North Carolina State Col
lege, Raleigh, as director of personnel
research for the Manufacturing Divi
sion effective January 1, 1947, has been
announced by Macon P. Miller, director
of industrial and public relations, to
whom Dr. McGehee will report.
Dr. McGehee will conduct investiga
tions in the fields of selection, testing,
job evaluation,' and industrial relations
problems, a work that he has been do
ing for the Company on a consulting
basis since last August. Dr. McGehee is
well known in his field and the Com
pany is fortunate in securing the serv
ices of a man of his qualifications, Mr.
Miller said.
A native of Tennessee, Dr. McGehee
obtained an A.B. degree at Sewanee
College in 1929. For the next several
years he was football coach and a teach
er in the public schools of Domel, Term.
After doing graduate work at Duke
University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, he received his
master’s degree at George Peabody
College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1936 and
his doctor’s degree there in 1939.
He first joined the faculty at State
College in 1936 and rose through suc
cessive steps until he was made head
of the department of industrial psy
chology. He served in the navy from
1942 until 1946 in the field of aviation
psychology, having the rank of lieuten
ant commander. He is the author of a
number of articles having to do with
the various aspects of industrial psy
chology. ,
Dr. McGehee is married and has a
small daughter.
Scout Drive ever put on in the Tri-Cities
although we are still somewhat short of
our goal.
“If there are those our workers did
not see and you want to participate in
this worthy cause, you may still send
your contributions to our office or to
any Mill office.
“Final tabulation will appear in the
next issue of The Mill Whistle.
Mrs. Edgar Bergen Gets
Box of La France Hose
McCarthy and Snerd
Beam Approval As Mr.
McBain Presents Gift
Edgar Bergen, famed radio and movie
star, visited in Chicago recently ac
companied by Mrs. Bergen, Charlie Mc
Carthy and Mortimer Snerd. Mr. Fred
Gurley, president of the Santa Fe Rail
road, gave a private dinner party in
honor of the Bergens at which our own
President Hughston M. McBain and
Mrs. McBain were guests.
During the dinner, Mr. Gurley re
marked that Mrs. Bergen was unable to ^
get nylon hose but possibly Mr. Me- '
Bain could help her out. Always equal
to the occasion, Mr. McBain arose and
said that in these days of shortages his
friends were always asking him to help
them out v,dth sheets, soap flakes, and
other scarce itemis.
He said he would be very happy to
present Mrs. Bergen with some beau
tiful 51-gauge 15-denier La France Ny
lon hosiery, the newest product of our
Fieldale Hosiery Mill.
To the surprise of everyone present,
Mr. McBain reached under his chair,
produced the box of hose and gave them
to Mrs. Bergen. Charlie McCarthy
beamed his approval and even the re
doubtable Mortimer Snerd chuckled and
joined in the applause.
Emory Goode, manager of our Fiel
dale Hosiery Mill, was responsible for
Mr. McBain’s ready supply of hosiery.
Mr. Goode had sent a sample of the new
hose to Mr. McBain’s office and our
president was taking them home for
Mrs. McBain on the night of the dinner.
The new hose are very sheer and
beautiful, and Mr. Goode feels confident
that they will help to maintain Mrs.
Bergen’s reputation as one of the most
beautiful and best-dressed women in
Hollywood
See color advertisements for Karastan
Rugs and Fieldcrest Domestics on Pages
9 and 25 of “This Week Magazine” at
tached.