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Copyright 195S, Marshall Field & Company
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For
the Employees of Fieldcrest MUla, Divi
sion of MarshaU Field & Company, Inc.,
Spray, North Carolina
OTIS MARLOWE Editor
Vol. XI Monday, April 13, 1953 No. 18
Mold Safety
Into Your Job
By T. R. RAY
Foreman, Electric Blanket Mill
Safety is really a habit. Whether or
not we experience an accident depends
on our working habits which are formed
by everyday practice.
Sure, you have been doing the job
for a long time. But does that mean you
are following safe working practices?
From time to tune,
it is wise for even the
most experienced
worker with a good
safety record to check
over his job to see
if he is applying good
safety principles.
Below are listed
some of the charac
teristics of a safe
worker:
T. R. Ray
1. His workplace is clean and order
ly.
2. He reports immediately to the
supervisor or to first aid any in
jury that occurs on the job.
3. He wears safety goggles and pro
tective clothing when needed.
4. He never engages in horseplay
or scuffling.
5. He never rvms in the mill or on
mill premises.
6. He always enters and leaves the.
mill through regular doors and
gates.
7. He never cleans or adjusts ma
chinery in motion unless speci
fically instructed by supervisor.
8. He never takes chances.
9. He earnestly tries to do his job
safety.
10. He immediately reports any im-
safe condition to his supervisor.
Mold safety into your job. It can be
done by knowing the safe way and by
doing your work in a safe manner and
by doing it the safe way everyday.
★
New Telephone Number
S. R. Fifield,
Raw Materials Purchasing 7335
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Bedspread Mill
By Ada Jones
We are glad to have Kathleen Meeks
and Edith Herko back with us again.
Mrs. SteUa Talbert has taken early
retirement and will make her home
with her son, Berean, in Baltimore.
On the sick list this week was Miss
Minnie Sue Carter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard B. Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Love of High
Point with daughter, Barbara, spent the
week-end with relatives in the Tri-
Cities.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ftazier and son,
Benny, of the Marines, visited Rev. and
Mrs. Hobson Tolbert in Portsmouth, Va.,
during Easter and attended services at
the Alexander Park Baptist Church
where Mr. Tolbert is pastor. Mr. Frazier
reports that attendance in Rev. Tolbert’s
Sunday School set a new record of 873.
Mr. Tolbert was formerly a card cutter
at the Bedspread Mill and his wife,
Lessie Mae, worked at Karastan.
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Birth Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Warren announce
the birth of a son, Robert Joseph, April
1, in Olean, New York. BiUy is a former
employee of the Electric Blanket MiU.
Young Robert Joseph’s grandfather, Joe
Warren, is employed in the Weaving
Department at the Synthetic Fabrics
Mill.
Hoarseness
Although hoarseness is a common un
pleasantry experienced by everyone at
one time or another, it can be a danger
signal, according to Dr. Robert W. Ard,
Hagerstown, Md. When it persists for
more than two weeks, it may be more
than laryngitis—it may even be cancer.
Hoarseness usually is a temporary
voice defect associated with simple up
per respiratory infections. Dr. Ard wrote
in Today’s Health, published by the
American Medical Association.
“However,” he added, “such infections
aren’t the only cause of hoarseness.
Other diseases, notably cancer, tubercu
losis and syphilis, may give rise to
this voice difficulty. Unlike laryngitis,
these vicious illnesses are not of brief
duration.
“Their nature is chronic, not acute.
Self-medication of such disorders is
totally ineffective and only serves to
delay necessary diagnosis and treatment.
Cancer of the larynx (voice box), in
particular, must be discovered while the
growth is still small and before it
spreads to other organs if surgical re
moval is to bring a cure.”
Anyone who has hoarseness for more
than two weeks should have a thorough
medical examination, including a direct
examination of the vocal cords. Dr. Ard
stressed. Then, if a growth or any
questionable lesion is found, it can be
checked more closely, a definite diag
nosis made, and immediate treatment
instigated.—Health Bulletin.
FIELDALE NEWS
By Lee Hundley
Miss Billie Berry became the bride
of Mac Earles, fixer at the Hosiery
Mill, last week-end in South Carolina.
Cpl. Marshall Spraker has returne
home after serving several months ^
Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. James Collins spent the
week-end with relatives in WinstoD'
Salem.
Miss Jean Hundley became the bride
of Jack Harrison April 4. Immediately
after the ceremony and a reception
close friends and relatives the coi^i
left for a honeymoon in Miami, ■
Jean is a seamer at the Hosiery Mi”-
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Plogger and Don
ald visited in Lexington over the weeK'
end.
Miss Clarice Hill, seamer at the Hos
iery Mill, became the bride of Melv^
Brown in South CaroUna last week-eni'
Donald Hajrnes, student at Bluefiei
College, spent the Easter holidays wii
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernar
Haynes.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hodges, of
mond, spent the week-end with the
parents in Fieldale and Bassett.
Mrs. Eugene Sears, of New Bedfor >
Mass., arrived Sunday by plane to ,
the week with her brother-in-law an
sister. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Martm-
also Mr. and Mrs. Everette McCollum-^
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Fox, of BlacKS'
burg spent the week-end with the
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hund
and Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Fox.
buy — SELL — SWAP
FOR SALE—Two twin roll away
tubs, one French door, four tires 6.70'
15, one home-built rip-saw, one typ^
writer.—LesUe Hall, Meadow Roao>
Spray next to Meadow View MethodiS
Church. -
WANTED—One Pony Wagon or
wheels suitable to cut down for same-
Call 1831-R after 4:30, Leslie Oakle^
FOR SALE—^Electric Brooder, 300-chi^
capacity. $10.00—See J. W. Long, Bed
spread Mill or phone 1713-J.
LOST—Hand saw lost in New LeaK'
ville March 25. Handle split and tie“
with string. $2.00 reward if returned
to owner—Andrew Collins, 200 Jeffer
son St., Leaksville, Tel. 961-W.
FOR SALE—Plants for sale, pansieSi
petimias, snapdragons, scarlet sag®'
tomatoes, peppers, cabbage. In bands-
Also azaleas, other shrubbery. J. Pla'-
Turner, phone 33-M, 135 South Bridge
Street, Leaksville.
FOR SALE—Dahlia and Iris bulbs.-'
Mrs. J. H. Wilson, River Road, Draped'
near cemetery, Tel. 713-J.
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