Members of the Fieldcrest Team
Velma Nevvnam, supervisor in the
Industrial Relations Dept., directs the
work of several clerks and typists, has
responsibility for rnaintaining up-to-
date personnel records for all produc
tion employees in N. C. mills and for
all salaried employees, and supervises
the preparation of numerous reports for
the management and for governmental
agencies.
Her work requires familiarity with
all Company policies relating to per
sonnel. Mrs. Newnam computes senior
ity for job rights and continuous ser
vice for pensions, vacation pay and 25-
Year Club membership, all of which
have a different basis. She must be
extremely reliable and work with the
utmost accuracy.
By a thorough knowledge of her job-
gained from long experience and by
exercising the greatest care so that all
records and reports are correct and
complete, she contributes to the suc
cess of our personnel program.
Weaver Attains
50-Year Record
(Continued from page one)
appointed director of industrial rela
tions.
Mr, Weaver, responded with a brief
talk. He described interesting high
lights of early days at the Mills and
stated he has noted tremendous im
provement in fabrics, machinery, build
ings and working conditions since he
started in the industry 50 years ago.
A native of Patrick County, Virginia
Mr. Weaver has lived at Spray since
he was a young boy. He first worked
as a doffer at the old Rhode Island
Mill but has been a loomfixer for
over 40 years. He used a horse and
drag pan to help dig the foundation
for a part of the present Rhode Island
Mill building. Nearly all of his half-
century of service was at the Rhode
Island and Synthetic Fabrics mills.
Mr. Weaver has owned his home on
Washburn Avenue in Spray for more
than 40 years. He attends North Spray
Christian Church and is a charter mem-
Benton Chaney, fireman, operates the
Nantucket boiler plant which provides
steam and hot water for processing at
the Bleachery and Finishing Mill and
furnishes steam for heating all mills
and offices in the Central Spray area.
He watches various controls and
gauges to keep steam pressure at the
correct level, checks the conveyor bring
ing in coal to see that it functions pro
perly, and uses a steam appartus to
lift ashes into an ash silo so they can
be hauled away by trucks.
H-8 must understand his equipment
and be on the alert to keep all of his
controls regulated. If sufficient steam
pressure were not generated for any
reason it would interfere with opera
tions at the finishing plants which
would in turn affect the schedules of
the Blanket, Sheeting and Bedspread
Mills.
By doinw a good job Mr. Chaney has
a vital part in the over-all operation of
the mills.
ber of the Carolina Cooperative Coun
cil. He married the former Miss Doro
thy Ivie Vernon and they have one
daughter Alda, a graduate of Woman's
College and formerly a member of the
Leaksville high school faculty. She is
now married to William Keeter who is
supervisor of traffic and transportation
at the Savannah River project at Ai
ken, S. C. Mr. Weaver has three grand
sons, Billy 7, Mike 6, and Larry
16 months.
The little girls who used to make
faces at the boys, now make eyes a1
them.
Issued Every Other Monday For Em-
ployees and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc., Spray, North Carolina
Copyright. 1955, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
OTIS MARLOWE
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Aniiiwefsftries
Fifty Years
A. Dudley Weaver ..Synthetic Fabrics
Thirty-Five Years
John E. West .... Central Warehouse
Thirty Years
John F. Hartis, Sr Towel
Jasper R. Hylton Towel
Robert Adkins Blanket
Twenty-five Years
James M. Harris Towel
Twenty Years
Cora S. Carter Karastan
Elsie M. Harpe Bleachery
Bessie C. Shockley Bleachery
Frank T. Suttenfield .... Bleachery
Joseph G. Farrell, Jr Engineering
Charles P. Wilson .. Central Warehouse
Jesse G. Dehart, Jr. .. General Office
Leslie F. Flynn .. . Synthetic Fabrics
Jesse B. Dishman Blanket
Kate S. Fuller Blanket
Fifteen Years
Duell W. Mitchell Towel
John F. Roberts Karastan I
Ten Years
Lena B. Barker Karastan
G. Thomas Stovall Karastan
Gertrude B. Hopkins Towel
Sarah P. Turner . Central Warehouse
Austin H. Murray Bleachery
Peter Stokes Wilson Blanket
Hazel S. Aaron Bedspread
Floyd N. Strader Blanket
Susie C. Rierson Sheeting
Clyde C. Carter Bedspread
F. Wade Younts Bedspread
New Telephone Number
In your Fieldcrest telephone directors'
please make the following: revision oi>
page six:
Change J. K. McConnell from 7241
to 7253.
MILL WHISTLE
Vo. XIV Monday, Sept. 12, 1955 No. 5
Weaver Pictures
Opposite page shows random shot*
taken of Mr. A. D. Weaver, 50-ye3f
man a few days before his anniversafS^
on September 8. Mr. and Mrs. Weave^
are shown in large circle, middle righ*’
while middle left shows their daugh'
ter’s family, Mr. and Mrs. WilliaJJ*
Keeter and family of Aiken, S. y'
Upper right shows the Weavers wit®
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Griggs, next-doo*
neighbors. At upper left Mr. WeaV«
chats with V. L. Wimbish while ju®
below he is shown with Roy Marti’*'
assistant foreman. Lower right sho"^
Mr. Weaver with Rev. D.
Saunders, pastor of North Spray Chri®
tian church. Bottom left shows the
year man with A. L. Jackson, W*
manager, while at bottom right he >
pictured with fellow loomfixers Geofg
Bateman, W. R. Cover, Rufus Shelto’’
and Melvin Adkins.
’lELDCREST MILL WHISTL^'