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SHEETS* TOWELS •lEDSPREAOS* BLANKETS* ELECTRIC ILANKETS*KARASTAN RUG'S* SYNTHETIC FABRICS MILL WHISRE Publislieil by Fieldcrest Mills. Inc. • Plants located In Spray, Draper and Leaksville, N. C. and Fleldale. Va. VOL. XIV Spray, N. C., Mondaj% July 18, 1955 Number 1 Towel Hosiery Group To Attend Blue Ridge Meet Several representatives from Fieldcrest will attend the 36th annual session of the Southern Industrial Relations Conference at Blue Ridge, July 20-23. Theme of this session will be “Sound Human Relations.” Those to attend from Fieldcrest are Norman Young, Bleachery; Edgar Gor don, Towel; John Mauney, Karastan; a representative from the Indus trial Relations department. The conference will open at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, July 20 and will adjourn at 10:30 Saturday morning, July 23. Dr. George D. Heaton, pastor of My- Park Baptist church, Charlotte, ■widely known for his work in industrial relations, will be the first speaker. 'This is his eighteenth time as confer ence chaplain. In addition to his ad- '^ress at the opening session, he will Speak Thursday, Friday and Saturday Mornings. Following Dr. Heaton’s devotional ad- dress, Arthur H. (Red) Motley, editor Parade Magazine, New York City, "'ill launch the program with the ad dress, “The World in Which We Live.” Robert Newcomb and Marge Sam- *^ons, of Newcomb and Sammons, Chi cago, 111., vvill discuss “The Worker’s •^ttitude” at the Thursday morning ses sion. “Training of Supervisors for Sound (Continued on page six) Of the 171 persons on the payroll when the Hosiery Mill was closed, 101 have been given employment at the Towel Mill, records of the Fieldale Per sonnel Office show. The office reported on the remaining 70 former Hosiery workers as follows: 34 were offered work at the Towel mill but declined for various rea.sons; 27 went to work elsewhere; and nine are out sick. It was indicated that the persons now out sick will be put on the pre ferred hiring list when they become available for work. From the community standpoint, the loss of the Hosiery mill jobs and pay rolls was more than off-set by the gain in employment at the Towel Mill which has greatly increased its oper ations. The 1123 employees now at the Towel Mill is a considerably larger number than the combined employ ment of the Towel and Hosiery Mills a year ago. m . ■ I '4 New floor E>- a. Purcell, mill superintendent, and C. A. Davis, foreman, over a section of the new concrete floor in the Blanket Weave Room. The con- ,'^fete floor, with the looms set on Air-Lock pads, is expected to result in less main- ^^ance and higher efficiency. (See Blanket Mill story on pages four and five.) Finishing Men Get New Posts Appointment of Jack R. Baker as assistant superintendent of the Finish ing Mill and of J. W. Arnall as assist-, ant superintendent of the Finishing Mill and Bleachery for second and third shift operations, effective July 1, was announced by E. W. Medbery, vice president in charge of production. Both men will report to F. T. Suttenfield, superintendent of the Finishing Mill and Bleachery. Purpose of the organization changes is to strengthen the supervisory staff at the Finishing Mill and Bleachery where operations have been increased sharply in recent months. Mr. Baker, former foreman of the Napping depart ment, will work on the first shift and Mr. Arnall, formerly assistant superin- Jack R. Baker J. W. Arnall tendent of the Finishing Mill, will have the additional responsibility of the Bleachery. The Bleachery is now on a full two-shift schedule with the sewing room operating three shifts and the Fin ishing is experiencing increased acti vity in the form of certain inspecting, (Continued on page six) F. W. Green Is Assigned N.Y. Metropolitan Area Frank W. Green, Jr., has been nam ed sales representative to the retail trade in the metropolitan New York area for Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., accord ing to an announcement by A. S. Thompson, sales manager for the domes tics division. The appointment was ef fective July 1. Mr. Green replaces T. H. Ducey, who has resigned to take a position with Pacific Mills. Since joining Fieldcrest in 1952, Mr. Green has covered the northwestern states. This territory will be assumed by D. M. Tracy of the company’s San Francisco office.
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