Ceremonies To Honor
Retiring Employees
Retirement ceremonies honoring a
group of employees who will retire
effective December 1 under the Field-
crest Mills, Inc. Pension Plan, will be
held in the Nantucket conference room
at 10:00 a.m., Monday, December 3.
Members of Management will speak
to the retiring employees and the rights
and privileges of persons retired under
the pension plan will be explained.
At the end of the inforrnal program,
the first monthly pension checks will
be presented to the retirees.
The employees whose normal re
tirement dates are on December 1 are:
Hubert W. Ashburn, Towel Mill; Les
ter W. Bolick, Sheeting; Minnie J.
Bryant, Finishing; Minnie Culp,
Bleachery; Martin W. Hayden, Finish
ing; Taylor M. Hundley, Towel; John
B. Jones, Synthetic Fabrics; Martha
A. Vestal, Blanket; and Brewer Whit
ten, Towel.
Those who have elected to take early
retirement on December 1 are: Posey
L. Arnold, Towel; Jesse J. Barrow,
Towel; Pearl T. Farmer, Central Ware
house; Annie S. Giles, Central Ware
house; Odell C. Kreger, Towel; George
W.' McAlister, Sheeting; Estelle H.
Shaw, Towel; and Pearl D. Thompson,
Bleachery.
Thanksgiving Schedule
All Fieldcrest plants and offices and
the Employees Store will be closed for
the Thanksgiving Holiday, Thursday,
November 22, resuming operations Fri
day, November 23.
In mills where there is a third shift,
this mill will stop at the end of the
shift Wednesday morning, November
21, and resume operations Thursday
night, November 22, at the regular
time.
Payroll checks for all mills normally
paid on Thursday will be paid on
Friday.
Clean-Up Tips
By Howard Barton
Secretary, Housekeeping committee
Little effort and time are required
to practice good housekeeping. Every
body benefits when work surroundings
are clean and attractive. It is mostly
a matter of habit—of automatically
doing those little things which add so
much to the appearance of the depart
ment.
Here are three items that all of us
can do something about:
1. Pick up quills and bobbins when
dropped or spilled on the floor.
2. Don’t lay quills or bobbins in
windows or on top of machines.
3. Keep spinning creels free from
quills, rollers, and personal be
longings.
Fieldale Men Attend
Loomfixing Courses
Two loomfixer training courses in
tended as refresher courses for persons
with fixing experience and as begin
ner’s courses for new candidates for
fixing, are in progress at the Towel
Mill in Fieldale, Va. Eleven employees
are enrolled in each course.
Classes in jacquard terry loomfixing
with Frank Fulcher as instructor, meet
on Wednesdays and Fridays from 7:00
p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the training room
in the former Hosiery Mill building.
John Hartis is the instructor for the
class in Draper terry loomfixing which
meets in the same place on Mondays
and Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Each class will meet for 20 sessions.
The courses were arranged by the
Towel Mill and the Training Dept, un
der auspices of the Virginia State De
partment of Education.
Enrolled in Draper terry loomfixing
are: William Blankenship, James
Campbell, Neal Hall, Thomas Joyce,
David Murray, Culas Hundley, Baxter
Thomas, Billy Stone, Joe Joyce, Jesse
Amos and Roy Whitlock.
Members of the class in jacquard
terry fixing are: Woodrow Allen, O. C.
Hudson, Andrew Gilbert, Simmons Ad
kins, Carlton Rakes, Wilfred Prilla-
man, Lenwood Shelton, Thurman Wat
son, Harvey Harris, Stanley Nelson.
Changes In Fieldcrest
Telephone Nos. Listed
Personnel concerned are requested to
make the following changes in tele
phone numbers in the Fieldcrest di
rectory, emergency list, and all other
listings of company numbers:
Karastan Sales Office, 295 Fifth Ave
nue, New York—change to Murray Hill
3-1373.
Margaret Murchison, 208 East 70th
Street, New York 21, N. Y., add tele
phone number TRafalgar 9-6956.
Home phones at Fieldale should be
changed as follows:
D. A. Purcell—to Orange 3-2611.
D. E. Simons—to Orange 3-3561.
C. P. Wilson—to Orange 3-2541.
J. M. Rimmer, Jr.—to Orange 3-2601.
Also at Fieldale, change:
Private automatic branch exchange,
to Orange 3-3011.
Personnel Office—to Orange 3-3011.
Towel Mill—to Orange 3-3011.
Fieldcrest Lodge—to Orange 3-2461.
Fire Department—to Orange 3-2121.
Police Department — to Orange
3-3131.
Night and week end connections at
the Towel Mill: should be changed
as follows:
Boiler room—to Orange 3-3011.
Filter plant—to Orange 3-3012.
Manager’s Office—to Orange 3-3021.
Shop—to Orange 3-3031.
THE MILL WHISTLEJ
Issued Every Other Monday For Employe®
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Spray, N. C.
Copyright, 1956, Fiedcrest Mills, inc.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, American Association of
Industrial Editors -
ADVISORY BOARD
J. O. Thomas, Chairman
Howard Barton J. M. Rimmer
C. A. Davis J. T. White
REPORTING STAFF ^
Automatic Blan1et
Bedspread ^ Tnrner
Blanket Mill Katherme TU^L
Central Warehouse Geraldine "e*,
Draper Offices
General Office Hilda Grogan
Gladys Hoiian“
Karastan Mill
Karastan Offices Mary Sfeppe
Nantuclet Offices
Patsy Barton, Katherine
New York Offices Jane Cor
Sheeting Mill Ruth Taioe
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Hunai^i
Synthetic Fabrics Dons Grog"
Virginia
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Service
Anniversciries
Thirty-Five Years
Jettie R. DeHart Synthetic Fabrics
Sanford Bradford . . ■ Blanke
Thirty Years
Troy M. Ellington Finishing
D. Webster Fulcher Finishing
Twenty-Five Years
Lena R. Roberts .. .. Karastan
Carrie H. Stovall .. Synthetic Fabrics
Gladys M. Shough Bleachery
Charlie C. Davis Bedspread
Fred T. Duke Finishing
Twenty Years
Howard F. Fargis Bedspread
Hester S. Martin Karastan
Doss H. Burch, Jr Towel
Fifteen Years
Robert Reid Pratt Sheeting
Doris K. Stegall Towel
Ten Years
Helen A. Reynolds Sheeting
Noris C. Hundley .. Automatic Blanket
Homer T. Martin Towel
Ivan J. Wray Sheeting
Daniel B. Hollandsworth .. Karastan
Jimmy L. Price Blanket
Leonard J. Brammer ToweJ
Jesse H. Chandler Blanket
Dewey Lee Corum •. Karastan
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