Local Men Play Checker Champion
The largest crowd of checker players
in the history of the Tri-Cities at
tended the exhibition March 5 by Tom
my W i s w e 11, world’s unrestricted
checker champion.
Demonstrating simultaneous and
blindfold playing, Mr. Wiswell play
ed 30 opponents all at the same time.
He won 41, drew 8, and lost one game
to J. Garland Stegall, of Leaksville.
Checker enthusiasts from Leaksville,
Spray, Draper, Reidsville, Ruffin, and
Fieldale, Danville, and Collinsville,
Virginia, were on hand for the exhi
bition sponsored by the Checker-Chess
Club of the Consolidated Central
Members of an economics class at
Wentworth High School are shown in
the Nantucket Conference Room dur
ing a recent visit to Fieldcrest Mills.
The students toured our Quality Con
trol laboratories and the Karastan
Rug Mill.
Standing at left is Walter Schacht
of the Quality Control Department and
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YMCA. Mr. Wiswell was introduced
by Grover C. Swinney, master of cere
monies. Mr. Swinney a long-time friend
of the champion, is an assistant fore
man in the Blanket Wool Spinning De
partment. Mr. Wiswell spent the week
end with the Swinneys.
Players shown above as they played
against the champion are, left to right:
W. L. Gatewood, Karastan; C. Z. Rob
erts, Finishing Mill; Mr. Swinney, sec-
retary-treasurer of the Checker-Chess
Club; John Conner, Towel Mill Card
ing; and E. L. Teague, General Office.
Mr Wiswell is shown standing at ex
treme right.
seated in right foreground arc Doug
las M. Harrelson, history and social
science teacher, who was in charge of
the group, and J. O. Thomas (extreme
right), chairman of the Rockingham
County Board of Education and Field
crest Mills Personnel Manager, who
made arrangements for the students’
visit.
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Copyright, 1955, Fieldcrest Mills, In^
OTIS MARLOWE Edit^’
Vol. XIII Monday, Apr. 4, 1955 No. 1^
Good Old Days?
Whenever you hear some backward-
looker longing for the “good old days/
you might pin him down as to just ho'V
“good” they were and ask for facts
and figures — or, better yet, suppW
some facts and figures of your o'VO
about today, to refute him.
Suppose, as is likely, he is referring
to those days 25 years ago when the
U. S. had reached a peak of prosper'
ity that everybody supposed wouW
never be topped. Well, in 1929, tW
average employee was working a 48.3'
hour week. Today he puts in 40 hours ^
week — and makes three times ^
much money.
Then, there was but one automobile
to every 5*4 persons — today, there®
one car to every three — and wh®|
luxury cars they are! There was b'*
one electric refrigerator to every
persons in those “good old days”
today there’s one to every four person^-
There was one vacuum cleaner the®
to every 14 persons — there’s one
every five today; one washing machio®
to every 18 then, vs. one to 4.4 no^’
one telephone to six persons, one
three now; one radio to 12.8 person^
one to two now — no television, tbei'’
one set to every five persons today'
Less than 20 miUion homes had
tricity, today 45 million homes have J'
The average family today has rtiO’',
than twice as much insurance a®
four times as much personal savine
now as then. Seventy per cent rnor
kids are in high school, more
two and a half times as many go
to college now as then. Life
ancy is up 12 years — we’re livi'’*
longer, eating better, earning more-
Service Anniversaries
THIRTY YEARS
William Dean Finishj^
Robert M. Brim Finish*^
Fred R. Stultz Karas‘^
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Oakley E. Kestner Sheet*
Thomas Lee Cochran Synth®
Fabrics
T\\-EXTY YE.\RS
Alda J. Edwards Bcdspr® ^
Martha A. Pearman Bcdspr ^
James T. Payne Finis**
TEN YEARS
Roy V. Perry .... Central Wareho j,
Lee P. Rieson Kara®
FIELDCREST MILL WHlS'I'I'
Wentworth Seniors Make Visit To Mills
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