Vol. no. XV
Spray, N. C., Monday, September 10, 1956
NUMBER C
Ernest W. Sams
George S. Brandon
Robert H. Hair
25- Year Picnic Set For Saturday
A large attendance is expected at the
^ieldcrest 25-Year Club picnic in More-
I'fiad Stadium Saturday afternoon, Sep
tember 15, starting at 4:00 o’clock. Re
ports indicate wide interest among the
^07 employees eligible to attend.
Committees which have been at work
jor several weeks on arrangments for
the event state - that this year’s outing
'''ill offer the greatest variety of enter
tainment in the club’s history. Music,
Pi’izes, games, stunts and other recrea-
“on have been planned in abundance.
President Harold W. Whitcomb will
Present greetings and remarks and is
®Xpected to review the progress made
the Company during the last few
^6ars and to outline some of the plans
the future.
A. 21-inch television set will be given
a grand attendance prize. Another
as
prize will be given in a guessing
pme in addition to several more at-
®>idance prizes.
The “Wheels”, rock and roll band
fom Leaksville and the “South Chords”
Prize-winning barber shop quartet from
anville, Va., will provide music. Staff
^embers of Consolidated Central YM-
A will have charge of games and
^tunts.
Vice-President R. A. Harris will be
faster of ceremonies during the pro
-am in which other Fieldcrest officials
111 take part. Officers of the Company
other guests have been invited.
Carolina Council Makes
Plans For Coming Year
The Carolina Coop»erative Council
will hold its first meeting of the new
Council year Thursday evening, Octo
ber 18, at 7:30 o’clock in the Consoli
dated Central Y.M.C.A. A large attend
ance is expected for the program which
will present a talk by C. S. Reed, vice
president of Duke Power Company,
Charlotte.
Four Meetings This Year
The Council’s executive committee
met recently and voted to hold four
meeting during the coming year as per
mitted by the by-laws as amended in
October, 1955. The Council formerly
met nine times each year, September
through May.
The Christmas program this year will
be held in the Leaksville-Spray junior
high school auditorium Saturday after
noon and evening, December 15. De
tails of this meeting are to be an
nounced later.
Management reports by President
Harold W. Whitcomb and Vice Presi
dent R. A. Harris will be heard at
a joint meeting of the senior and jun
ior councils Thursday evening, Janu-
ray 24, 1957, at Consolidated Central
Y.M.C.A.
Three New Men Take
Positions In Company
Three new appointments in the man
ufacturing organization have been an
nounced by the Company. Two of the
new men joining Fieldcrest September
1 are replacements and the third is in
a new position.
Ernest W. Sams
Ernest W. Sams was named the com
pany’s first traffic manager, reporting
to S. R. Fifield, vice president in charge
of purchasing. Mr. Sams formerly was
traffic manager for the American and
Efird Mills at Mt. Holly. He earlier was
associated with the Aker’s Motor Lines,
Gastonia, as assistant traffic manager,
and with the Southern Motor Carriers
Rate Conference, Atlanta, Ga., as a com
pilation clerk assisting in the publica
tion of tariffs for motor carriers.
He is a native of Tennessee and
graduated from the University of Ten
nessee with a B. S. degree in traffic
and transportation. He served with the
Navy hospital corps in World War II.
Robert H. Hair
Robert H. Hair joined the comptrol
ler’s department assigned to account
ing methods and procedures, replacing
W. C. Spaugh who resigned to take a
position elsewhere. Mr. Hair formerly
was with Procter & Gamble Company
in Kansas City, Mo., and Cincinnati,
Ohio, in industrial engineering and
cost control work.
He is a native of Gastonia and a
graduate of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.,
where he majored in chemical engi
neering and business administration
and received his B. S. degree in 1949.
He has just returned from four years
of service as an officer in the Air
Force.
George S. Brandon
George S. Brandon was appointed
cotton receiver, replacing the late W.
E. Tucker. Mr. Brandon comes to
Fieldcrest from M. Lowenstein & Sons,
Anderson, S. C. where he was cotton
classer for the past seven years. He
previously worked with cotton ship
pers in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Mississippi. Mr. Brandon grew up in
Texas and attended East Texas Baptist
College, Marshall, Texas, majoring in
business administration. He served in
the Army for three years during the
second World War.