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VOL. XV
Bruce Gauldin Attains
50 Years Of Service
R. Bruce Gauldin completed 50 years
of continuous service January 1 to be
come the first Blanket Mill employee to
attain a half century of service alto
gether in that mill. Mr. Gauldin will
be honored by the management at a
luncheon today (Monday) at 12:30
P-m. at Meadow Greens Country Club.
Guests at the luncheon will include
®even other Fieldcrest employees who
previously have attained 50 years of
continuous service. President Harold
Whitcomb will speak informally to
the group and will present Mr. Gaul-
with the Fieldcrest diamond-and-
gold SO -year emblem. Other officers
the Company will attend, together
''^ith members of the Blanket Mill man-
^Sement and supervision and repre-
^ntatives of the Industrial Relations
department.
Mr. Gauldin has been associated with
'-he Blanket Mill almost since the mill
Spray, N. C., Monday, January 21, 1957
NUMBER 14
began operations. He was living on a
in the Draper section even before
be town and the mills were built.
Starting to work as a youth, Mr.
'Mauldin recalls that he carried drinking
^ater and was general errand boy for
‘be New Englanders who erected the
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Karastan Mill Rearranges Machinery
For Greater Capacity And Efficiency
New Treasurer
Richmond R. Roberts of New Canaan,
Connecticut, now staff assistant to the
treasurer of the General Electric Com
pany, will assume his duties February
1 as treasurer of Fieldcrest Mills Inc.,
as previously announced.
Mr. Roberts, a native of Wise county,
Va., plans to move his family to the
Tri-Cities after he takes up his new
position here.
R. BRUCE GAULDIN
. New 50-Year Man .
Company Officers Will
Address Council Meeting
President Harold W. Whitcomb and
other officers of the Company will
present management reports at a joint
meeting of the Carolina Cooperative
Council and the Junior Council Thurs
day, January 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Consolidated Central Y.M.C.A.
In their talks, the officers will review
the Company’s operations during the
past year and will discuss the outlook
for Fieldcrest Mills in 1957.
The January meeting, featuring re
ports by Management, is always a high
light of the Council programs. A large
attendance is expected at this week’s
meeting.
The Karastan Rug Mill is nearing
completion of an extensive program of
machinery relocation to gain spav,c for
new equipment being installed and to
prepare the mill for greater capacity
and increased efficiency.
New equipment already in operation
or in the process of erection includes an
extractor and skein dryer, 42 Foster
winder spindles, an additional creel and
reel for the pile yarn beaming unit, a
ground warp beamer, and a carpet
backsizing and drying unit. Two addi
tional needle looms are on order with
delivery expected this summer.
The mill began rearranging its equip
ment for a more efficient production
flow nearly two years ago. Since thsit
time every piece of machinery, except
the washer equipment, the dye tubs
and a few looms, has been relocated.
The moves were made on week ends
and during vacations. No weaving pro
duction was lost and the mill set records
in its shipments last fall during the
period when most of the rearranging
was taking place.
The entire Finishing and Carving
Depts. were moved to the first fijor of
the main mill and placed adjacent to
the Packing and Shipping Dept. The
former finishing room is being used
for winding, twisting and skein yarn
storage.
The Burling Dept, was moved to the
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Withholding Statements
To Be Issued This Month
W-2 forms, employees federal income
tax withholding statements for 1956,
are being prepared in the Payroll Dept,
and will be distributed in the mills to
all active employees by the end of the
month.
The W-2 forms for persons out sick
or laid off will be mailed to them
through the United States mail by Jan
uary 81.
The forms likewise will be sent
through the U. S. mail to the last known
address of all other persons who work
ed any at all during the year but who
are now terminated from the payroll.