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Gambill And Riley Receive Promotions Daily Gamlill and Rupert Riley have recently received promotions at the Blanket Mill. Daily Gambill was pro moted to foreman of the Blanket Cloth Inspection Dept, effective December 1 succeeding Earnard A. Jefferson, who retired under the Company’s Pension Plan. Rupert Riley was appointed assist ant foreman cf the Blanket Cloth In spection Dept, on the second shift effec tive November 15. He was transferred from the Wastemeter division cf the Standards Dept. Both men are graduates from North Carolina State College with a B.S. de gree in textile manufacturing. Both served overseas as officers in World War II- Mr. Gambill is native of Indepsnd- ence, Va., and has been with the Com pany since June, 1941, except for his War service. He has worked through all of the departments at the Blanket Mill under the student training pregram and had served as assistant foreman in the Jack Spinning Dept, on the third shift. Born in Raleigh, Mr. Riley .ioined the Company in May, 1946, and worked Wi.iT GAMjdlLL (left) and RUPERT RILEY . . . Blanket Supervisors . . . through the Blanket Mill under the student training program. He had served as assistant foreman of the Ring Spinning Dept, and the Jack Spinning Pept. before joining the Wastemeter P>ept. in June, 1949. ★ Advises Cuban Mill G. C. Truslow who retired from the Company in March of 1949 after ap proximately 35 years of continuous ser- ''Ice, has returned from Cuba where he served as a special advisor in prac tical engineering at a Cuban textile plant. Mr. Truslow recently returned to his home in Leaksville after serving as a hianager of Davis and Furber Machine Company’s new office at Charlotte. ^lONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1950 Pictured above are employees who retired December 1 under the Marshall Field & Co. Pension Plan. First pension checks were presented and rights and privileges of retired employees under the retirement program were explained. Ceremonies honoring the group were held in the Nantucket building at Spray November 30. Left to right are; R. David Black, Blanket; Wesley C. Dar nell, Blanket; Daniel R. Watkins, Fin- ish'ng- Lula B. Darnell, Blanket; James Pfc. Elmo Hundley Wounded In Korea A message from the War Department received December 11 by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse J. Hundley, of Stoneville Road, informed them that their son, Phivate First Class Elmo B. (Pete) Hundley, was wounded in action on or about December 1 while serving with the American Army in Korea. The young soldier’s father is em ployed in the Karastan Weave Room. Pfc. Hundley was serving with the 31st Infantry regiment cf the Seventh Division which formed part of the 20,- 000 American troops trapped by the Chinese invaders in North Korea. After receiving wounds, the extent of which were not described in the War Depart ment’s message, Pfc. Hundley was flown to Osaka, Japan, and is now a patient in the U. S. Army hospital in that city. His parents are hopeful that their son may be flown to the States soon and placed in a hospital here where they may visit him. This is the second blow brought to the Hundley home here by the war. Pvt. Elrin M. Hundley, a brother of Elmo’s, was killed in action in Korea on Octo ber 13. A- Webb, Bedspread; J. Henry Crowder, Sr., Bedspread; Jesse Hiram Yernon, Sheeting; Virginia Dillon Vestal, Rayon; John M. Shough, Finishing; Mamie Fer guson Jones, Bleachery; and Barnard A. Jefferson, Blanket. Minnie J. Jackson of the Towel Mill was not present for the photograph. Those taking early retirement were Mr. Watkins, Mrs. Darnell, Mrs. Jones, id Mrs. Vestal. PROUD PAPA:—Carl Benjamin Dun- ton, 3 months old December 15, is shown above with his father, B. F. Dun- ton, assistant purchasing agent. His mother (Barbara) is on leave of ab sence from the Personnel Department, Spray. Young Carl was only seven weeks old when the picture was made. When he was 10 weeks old, he made a motor trip to upstate New York to visit his paternal grandparents. 3 pm. Xmas Eve, WLOE, WMVA. Traffic sign; Slow down before you become a statistic.
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