Tanner Kalervo Miettinen
' ■ • ■. Visitor from Finland
are a very kind and gen-
People”, Kalervo Miettinen, "
Mustrial Life In Finland And U. S.
(Contrasted By Visiting Textile Man
textile man from Finland, said
! '
and gave particular attention to
during his visit to Fieldcrest
* Where he toured many of the
Hr
ere
'JUality testing system which he de-
as the best he had seen any-
^^®ttinen, who Is associated with
.j^men Trikoo OY/AB in Tampere,
is spending six months in the
‘j^ States on a - scholarship from a
technical foundation, an agency
f, ® government.
'j, ® visiting mill man said Suomen
is a tricot knitting firm making
of the knit goods in Finland.
“OY/AB” following the name
,iv 4-1.
%
I . - company is incorporated, he
Suomen Trikoo produces full
hosiery, bathing suits, under-
’ Sweaters and other fine knitted
*cs.
S).y ■ Miettinen has visited the various
W ® centers of the United States in-
the New England and Philadel-
l(,o®^eas as well as the mills in the
W ' He has visited Lowell Textile
Lowell, Mass., the Rhode
School of Design, Massachusetts
V Technology, Cambridge,
■l«th ’ ^°rth Carolina State College and
College in addition to his visit
tt|® heading textile companies.
poitimenting on his first trip to
Mr. Miettinen said he was
impressed with the up-to-date
textile machinery of this coun-
With the excellent employee re-
® in the industry. The standard
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^DAY, may 3, 1954
unusually
whole of
of living here, he said, is
high as compared to the
Europe.
In Finland, he said, very few people
own automobiles. Of his company’s 3,-
000 employees only about 20 have cars.
Mr. Miettinen’s father, a mill superin
tendent, rides a bicycle to work. Bi
cycles are popular in Finland even on
long trips. A tremendous parking rack
for bicycles is maintained at mills, Mr.
Miettinen said.
He said few American cars are used
in Finland, most autos being of English
or German make. These are of rela
tively low power, he said, in order to
provide better gasoline mileage. He said
gasoline was expensive and was a factor
in the small degree of auto ownership
in his native country.
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MAKERS for June contain ads on our
solid-color towels showing all 13 colors.
Karastan’s national advertising in
cludes pattern No. 779 featured in full-
page colored ads in the April HOUSE
BEAUTIFUL, and the May HOUSE &
GARDEN. Karastan pattern No. 781 is
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BETTER HOMES & GARDENS for
April and HOUSE & GARDEN for May.
Report Shows Men Stay
Active After Age Of 65
Contrary to the general impression
that age 65 usually marks the end of
productive life, a relatively large pro
portion of American men past that age
are still actively at work, the Metropol
itan Life Insurance Company’s statistic
ians report.
Of all men at ages 65 to 69, fully
three-fifths are gainfully employed, and
at ages 70 to 74 the proportion is about
two-fifths, according to estimates de
rived from Census Bureau data. Even
among those at 75 and over, one in five
is still working.
A larger proportion of those work
ing after 65 are self-employed than is
the case at the younger ages, and the
proportions employed as farmers and
farm managers, in executive positions
in business, or as service workers like
wise are greater than for the years
prior to age 65. This increase in the
proportion of service workers reflects
the tendency of older men to take such
lighter jobs as watchmen and guards.
It is noted that about one-fifth of
those working at the advanced ages are
in part-time employment, and that
about one-sixth of those employed after
age 65 do not prefer or cannot accept
full-time work.
“The chances of survival to the older
ages have increased markedly, and to
make adequate provision for this per
iod calls for a program of careful plan
ning and savings during the productive
years,” the statisticians comment.
UnriMiMftMt
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1926 DRAPER TEAM—The picture above was loaned to the Mill Whistle by
Mrs. Walter Braswell of Blanket Spooling and shows the Draper baseball team in
1926. Seated left to right are; the catcher, Walter Braswell, who died in 1953; J. U.
Newman, Jr., Noel Shelton; Tootsie Swift; Lem Shelton; George Holland.
Standing: Bill Jones, Leonard Stultz, Clarence Combs, Howard Sheppard, Fred
Hall, Furman Holland.