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FIELDCREST MILL WHISTLE
March 31, 1947
FIELDCREST MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
FIELDCREST MILLS
Division of MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC., Spray, North Carolina
OTIS MARLOWE. Editor ------- WALTER GARDNER, Photographer
REPORTERS: Ada Jones, Katherine Turner, Charlotte Martin, Glennice Jones,
Beulah McBride, Frances Watson, Mildred Saunders, Virginia Hurd,
Faye Warren, Geraldine Hubbard, Evelyn Lewis, Kathleen Barrow,
Hazel Carter, Lois Shelton, Mamie Link, and W. E. Wigmore.
Murphy Back After
Adventurous Job
It is not often that local boys leave
Fieldcrest Mills and go with other tex
tile concerns but when they do they usu
ally make good wherever they go. A case
in point is that of Junius Murphy, form
erly with the Rayon Mill, who is now
plant superintendent of Roanoke Weav
ing Company, a division of Burlington
Mills.
After attending Leaksville High
School, Junius began working lor the
Marshall Field and Company in 1927.
For 15 years he worked at various jobs
in the Weave Room and was well known
and highly respected by all his fellow
employees.
During this time he studied textiles
for seven years at the Vocational School,
took an International Correspondence
Course and attended an extension course
at Roanoke University. In 1942 he left
the Company for a position as assistant
superintendent with Roanoke Weaving
Company and was promoted to plant
superintendent in 1943.
One of his most adventurous assign
ments was in 1945 and 1946 when he left
Roanoke to go to South America and
supervise the opening of a Rayon plant
in Medellin, Colombia.
His task accomplished, he returned to
Roanoke Weaving Company in January
of this year to resume his position as
plant superintendent.
Junius is the son of Mr. J. M. Mur
phy, a loom fixer in the Rayon Mill. He
also has a brother, Paul Murphy, in
Rayon Preparation. —V. H.
Report immediately all unsafe condi
tions which you yourself cannot correct.
Inform your supervisor. Prompt action
may avert an accident.
Do You Remember These Old-timers at Woolen Mill?
Foremen and assistant foremen (they were then called overseers and second
hands) at the Woolen Mill along about 1918 or 1919 are shov/n in the old photograph
reproduced above. Standing, left to right, are Charlie Roberts (deceased), Frank
Eanes, A. D. Patterson, Tom Baker (deceased), Charlie Thomasson, and Lee Eanes.
Seated, left to right, are B. W. Self (deceased), L. J. Baker, O. R. Clark (de
ceased), William Stevenson, J. W. Roach, and W. J. Slayton.
W. A. Blackburn Has
Unusual Record In
Rayon Weave Room ^
W. A. Blackburn, “Willie” to us, a
loom fixer in the Rayon Mill, has a
record that surpasses many others.
Willie came to
work for Marshall
Field and Com
pany 43 years ago,
learning to weave.
What would now
seem like a very
crude way, he
learned to weave
outing flannel on
looms that were
p r a c t i c a 11 y all
wood.
He has spent all
these years of con
tinuous service in me Weaving Depart
ment, alone, without a lost time acci
dent. Aside from a safe working record,
he has set an example of dependability.
He is above all a person of never fail
ing good humor.
Willie is a member of the 25-Year
Club and a charter member of the
Carolina Council.
When away from the job, spare time
finds him in his small workshop at
home, his chief hobby. — M. S.
W. A. Blackburn
The Bleachery
(By Charlotte Martin)
Hilda Joyce, Annie Glass, and Elice
Smith have returned from a week’s stay
in Florida.
Mrs. Pauline Hylton will leave Friday
for San Diego, California, to join her
husband, H. T. Hylton, Jr., who has
been overseas. They will make their
home in San Diego.
Haywood Meeks, from Emory Uni
versity, visited his mother, Mrs. P. G.
Meeks, during the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Beach, Jr., an
nounces the birth of a son, Clarence
Maynard, III, March 14 at Leaksville
Hospital. She will be remembered as
Dorothy Martin. Grandmother, Prud
ence DeHart, works in Bleachery.
Mr. and Mrs. James Clark and chil
dren spent the week-end with the lat
ter’s mother, Mrs. Zack Brame, at Beth
any.
We are sorry to have the following
folks out sick: Mary Ward, Mary Craig,
and Lillie Newman. Hurry back, girls;
we miss you.
Did You Know?
One cotton fiber is made up of
35 layers of cellulose.