Sears* Visitors See Fieldale Operations
Sales contest winners from Sears,
Roebuck and Co. retail stores who visit
ed the North Carolina and Virginia
mills April 15 and 16 are shown above
during their tour of the mills at Fiel
dale. Sears’ gave the domestics section
managers an expense-paid trip to Field-
crest Mills as their reward for increas
ing sales the highest above established
quotas.
Picture at left shows some of the
visitors in the Towel Carding Dept.
Left to right are William H. Brophy,
Patterson, N. J.; Mrs. Ann Tearse,
Appleton, Wis.; Mrs. Elizabeth R. Bald
win, Chester, Pa.; and Augustine Dono
van, San Mateo, Calif. Charles Harper,
Towel Spinning foreman, is shown at
extreme right.
Picture at right shows the group in
the Knitting Dept, at the Hosiery Mill.
Left to right, Mr. Donovan, Mrs.
Therese Bevernick, Honolulu, T. H.;
Mrs. Baldwin, Thomas Hopkins, (partia
lly hidden) San Francisco, Calif.;
Tearse; W. J. Troost, Chicago, retail
sales manager for Sears’, and Clarenc®
Joyce of the Hosiery Mill office.
Miss Frances Hewitt, Sears’ retail
assistant, Chicago, accompained the con*
test winners on their visit here. D. !'■
Helvie, Sears’ sheet buyer, came froi®
New York to be with the group.
ners making the trip but not shown
picture were Robert Bain, LouisviU®’
Ky., and Neil Foust, Houston, Texas.
Scouts Receive Awards
At Court Of Honor
A total of 22 Boy Scouts received ad
vancement awards at the Dan River
Court of Honor at the Recorders court
room at Spray March 10. The highest
award, star scout, went to William Rags
dale of troop 8. Junior Dunn, Melvin
Holt and Charles Washburn of Explorer
post 5 and Kenneth Campbell and Jerry
Powell of Troop 15 were promoted to
First Class Scouts. Ernest Wilson of
Troop 27 was promoted to Second Class
Scout. W. D. Carter of Troop 86 was
honored for one year of perfect attend
ance and Service Stars were presented
to Ray Parrish and Alec Purcell of
Troop 27.
Merit badges were awarded to Wil
liam Brown, Kenneth Campbell, Dick
Powell, Jerry Powell, Carl Rhodes, Mac
Robertson, Cecil Slaydon and Ronald
Younts, Troop 15; Wilfred Aheron,
Junior Dunn, Jimmy Newman, and
Douglas Terry, Explorer Post 5; Lindley
Butler, Troop 8; Mickey Snow, Mack
Walker, Darrell Wilson, Troop 27.
HOME HINTS
A handful of sal soda (washing soda)
added to your washing machine wat^
will soften the water so that you
to use less soap. And, of course, sa
soda does not harm fast colors.
From baker to buyer in three genera
tions of American women—^that’s tb®
story told in a recent survey made W
Tip-Top Bakers. Today’s homemake^
buy about 90 per cent of their breaoj
whereas their grandmothers made abo'^*
90 per cent of the breadstuffs tbeiT
families ate.
Boy Scouts of Dan River District at the Court of Honor, March 10, in the Recorder’s Court Room
4 FIELDCREST MILL WHISTL^