dinners In Sears’
Contest Make Visit
T'o Fieldcrest Mills
group of eight domestics section
Managers from Sears, Roebuck and Co.,
Jvinners in a sales contest in Sears’ re-
stores throughout the nation, visited
fieldcrest Mills March 25-27. With
headquarters at the Fieldale Lodge the
^oup toured the mills and quEility con-
‘I'ol laboratories and enjoyed a scenic
trip to Philpott Dam.
Sears’ had offered an expense-paid
"ip to the mills as a reward for increas
es sales the highest over established
Quotas. Accompanying the contest win-
jj^ers on their visit here were Joe Doak,
Chicago, Sears’ assistant retail sales
manager; and C. H. Kettinger, Chicago,
assistant buyer, blankets.
The visitors flew from Chicago to
Danville in a private plane belonging
}° Sears, Roebuck and Co. They arrived
Tuesday evening and the plane waited
° fly them back to Chicago Friday
afternoon.
Contest winners were Mrs. Myrtle
^opman, Vineland, N. J.; Mrs. Dorothy
*J^alter, Bellingham, Wash.; Mrs. Lois
Thomason, Paducah, Ky.; Arthur Drake,
Santa Rosa. Calif.; Rodger Kasefang,
“ackensack, N. J.; Richard Taylor, Sac
ramento, Calif.; Mrs. Dorothy A. Paris,
Tucson, Ariz.; and AI Campbell, Pon-
Mich.
Some of the contest winners from
Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail stores
who visited Fieldcrest Mills March 25-
27 as a reward in a sales contest are
shown in the Bleachery at Spray.
Watching Mary Louise Ramsey folding
sheets, left to right, are Joe Doak,
Service Anniversaries
Company To Build
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^ield & Company. Since the war’s end,
McBain said, more than 8 mil-
dollars have been spent on the
^ompany’s 10 mills in Virginia and
^orth Carolina.
—The projected Old Orchard shopping
Renter to be built in Skokie, Illinois.
^he $20,000,000 center, announced some
time back by Marshall Field & Com-
is nearing the completion of the
Wanning stage, Mr. McBain said.
All of this, Mr. McBain said, was in
‘iie pioneering tradition set by the Com-
®^ny’s founder, Marshall Field I.
“While Marshall Field & Company
,egan as a small store on Chicago’s
Riverfront more than 100 years ago,”
McBain said, “the Company grew
^ith the area it served.
“When Chicago was the supplying
outfitting center for Westward ex
pansion, Field’s was famed for its
Wholesale operation. As the West grew
our Company came more to serve,
^•1 its Chicago store, as a retailer of fine
Soods for a growing conununity.
“But the Company has always sought
meet the challenges of its times. All
Us here feel the present improvement
our properties and the effort to find
’'ew frontiers in retailing is as exciting
®ttd purposeful as the Company’ past
Pioneering achievement,” Chairman
McBain concluded.
Monday, april i3, 1953
Forty-Five Years
Cora H. Rickman, Blanket
Thirty-Five Years
Oscar T. Kelly, Blanket
Thirty Years
John F. Burgess, Blanket
Thomas B. Chaney, Finishing
Lillian Ann Holt, Blanket
Twenty-Five Years
Aultsy G. Smith, Ksirastan
Beaman Nance, Bedspread
Elbert J. Smith, Hosiery
Maye B. Roberts, Karastan
Twenty Years
Robert Y. Martin, Karastan
Clarence M. Isenhour. Towel
Edward J. Hanley, N. Y Office
Fifteen Years
David A. Purcell, Blanket
Aubiere T. Leffew, Cost Dept.
Jack Murphy, Bedspread
Ten Years
William R. Eastridge, Blanket
Ruby C. Burnette, Blanket
Annie K. Reid, Karastan
Lillie H. Sowers,' Sheeting
Iva H. French, Hosiery
Cecil D. McDonald, Blanket
Irene M. Meeks, Karastan
Louise W. Rigney, Karastan
Elizabeth Robertson, Sjmthetic
Fabrics
Ola L. Stultz, Blanket
Bennie H. Graves, Blanket
Winfred M. Hazelwood, Finishing
Chicago, Sears’ assistant retail sales
manager, who accompanied the win
ners; Mrs. Dorothy A. Paris, Tucson,
Ariz.; Rodger Kasefang, Hackensack,
N. J.; and Frank Suttenfield, super
intendent of the Bleachery and Finish
ing Mill.
Lee Hundley Named
Hosiery Mill Writer
Miss Lee Hundley of the Hosiery Mill
who was recently appointed reporter
for the MILL WHISTLE is a native of
Fieldale, and graduated from Fieldale
High School with the class of 1950.
She was employed at the Fieldale Drug
store before joining
Fieldcrest Mills in i ^ i
1952. Her father is
a watchman at the
Towel MiU in Fiel
dale. Lee has a sis
ter and a brother also
employed by the
Company.
The new reporter
enjoys sports, especi-
aUy basketball, and she likes dancing
and movies. She is a member of the
Fieldale Baptist Church and attends
regularly.
Employees of the Hosiery Mill are
requested to turn in to Miss Hundley
news items and pictures for publication
in the MILL WHISTLE.
Old Dobbin may have had his faults
but he never scattered you all over the
road just because he met a one-eyed
horse at night.
Flora L. Gammons, Blanket
Helen J. Gilbert. Towel
Posie E. Kirks, Synthetic Fabrics
Elma O. Crews, Finishing
Gladys C. Harris, Blanket
Mary G. Mangrum, Sheeting
Henry L. Hairston, Central
Warehouse
Lillie B. Jones, Karastan
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