MILL WHISTLE
Issued every Two Weeks by and for the Em
ployees of Fieldcrest Mills, Division of Marshall
Field & Company, Inc., Spray, North Carolina.
VOLUME SEVEN
NUMBER ONE
MONDAY, JULY 21
Allotments Of Merchandise Are Doubled At Employees Store
Due to Fieldcrest products’ being more
plentiful now than they were when the
Employees’ Store was established and
an allotment system set up, the allot
ment on all merchandise has been
doubled.
An exception is Fieldcrest sheets, of
which there is still a shortage, and as a
consequence the allotment was increas
ed from four sheets to six sheets per
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J. F. Graham Joins
Fieldcrest Mills Sales
Joseph F. Graham has joined Field
crest Mills as salesman for curtains, lace
tablecloths, and embroidered bed
spreads, it has been announced by R. T.
Graham, General Sales Managsr, and
H. W. Grunau, sales manager of this
new unit.
Mr. -Graham graduated from Phila
delphia Textile School in 1928, went to
Bromley Manufacturing Company for
five years at the mill, then was trans
ferred to the sales staff in 1933 as as
sistant to sales manager. In 1938 he be
came New York representative of C. M.
Jones and Company for tufted bed
spreads, bath sets, and rugs. In early
1942 Mr. Graham entered the U. S. Ar
my as 'Textile Specialist in the Quarter
master Corps. Returning to C. M. Jones
and Company in 1945, he resumed his
duties as assistant sales manager.
Cafeteria Now Open
For Sunday Dinners
Edward Mallicoat, manager of
the Y. M. C. A. Fieldcrest Cafe
teria, invites all employees and
their families and the public gen
erally to make use of the cafe
teria’s Sunday dinner service
which was inaugurated July 20.
The cafeteria is open continu
ously from 12 noon until 7 p. m.
and persons may drop in for din
ner at any time. Complete or a la
carte dinners are offered.
REPORTERS IN CHICAGO;—Miss Geraldine Hubbard, left, and Miss Glennice
Jones, winners in the Fieldcrest Mill Whistle reporters’ contest, are shown above
in the office of Mark Morrow, editor of the Field Glass, at the retail store in Chicago.
Wall picture is of Mr. Marshall Field, founder of the business, and the desk, now
used by the Field Glass editor, is Mr, Field’s old desk. (More pictures on page four).
Fieldcrest Movie, “Crest of Quality,” Goes To Sweden
At the request of the Swedish gov
ernment, the United States Department
of State recently inspected all the cur
rent motion pictures on the making
of textiles and selected “The Crest of
Quality” as the best example of Ameri
can film for this purpose. Our film was
then sent to Sweden to be shown to
textile firms and other organizations.
The narration will be translated into
Swedish.
“The Crest of Quality” is a three-
reel, sound motion picture which tells
how Fieldcrest blankets, sheets, towels,
and bedspreads are manufactured,
showing actual mill scenes. The film
was started in October, 1945, and many
local people appear in various scenes
taken at Draper, Spray, Leaksville, and
Fieldale.
This motion picture was originally
designed to show ■ salespeople in retail
stores how our products are manufac
tured and the fine type of people who
make these goods. It has been shown
to 136 larger retail stores and whole
sale distributors with more than 4,500
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