Members of the Fieldcrest Team
HE MILL WH ISTt^
Betty Lou Fulton, clerk, works close
ly with other members of the Finish
ing Mill Cost Department on payrolls
and cost control reports. She handles
figures constantly and must be very
accurate in her work.
Her job requires that she be a high
school graduate, good at arithmetic and
skilled in the use of calculating mach
ines. She plays an important part in
helping her department furnish Man
agement with prompt and accurate cost
control information, which is vital to
successful operation of the mills.
Betty Lou is a Leaksville native and
is a member of the Spray Baptist
Church. She is married to Bill Fulton,
an insurance man, who formerly was
employed at the Automatic Blanket
and Bedspread mills. They have three
children, ages 4, 3, and IVz years. The
Fultons live on Rainey Court, Leaks
ville. Betty Lou’s father, Charlie Fer
guson, is an employee of Karastan, and
her mother, Doris, works at the Bed
spread. Both of Bill’s parents, Walter
and Kathleen Fulton, are employed at
Bedspread.
J. Monroe Turner is a valuable mem
ber of the Plant Service Department at
the Blanket and Sheeting mills. He
is an expert carpenter and his skill
and long experience enable him to do
a good job in helping to turn out the
various items of carpentry and wood
work necessary to efficient operation
of the mill.
He and the other carpenters build
and repair aprons for the opening and
carding machinery, build bins, racks
and large roving boxes, and make
tables, benches, cabinets and a wide
variety of miscellaneous v/ooden ar
ticles used in textile operations.
Mr. Turner has been with the Com
pany continuously for 35 years, has
been a carpenter at the Draper mills
for 20 years. He and his wife, the
former Miss Fannie Hundley of Axton,
Va., live on Route 2, Leaksville. They
are members of the Gospel Tabernacle,
Reidsville. They have a son, Everette
Turner, of Leaksville and a daughter,
the Rev. Fuchsia T. Parrish, of Greens
boro.
Mills Make Progress
In Waste Control
(Continued from page one)
turing, said: “Unnecessary losses from
waste at Fieldcrest run into thousands
of dollars each year. These losses add
to our manufacturing cost and affect
the company’s competitive position.
“While a certain amount of waste
is necessary in some processes, there
are many operations where the amount
of waste is under the control of the
employees. Through the interest and
help of employees, we have made pro
gress in our waste control program.
“We ask your continued cooperation
in the elimination of unnecessary
waste. The prevention of such losses
helps reduce costs and enables us to
sell goods competitively.”
Do You Know?
The first textile mills in North Caro
lina were built in 1813. One was con
structed near Lincolnton. The other was
built at what now is Rocky Mount.
The North Carolina textile industry
annually uses several times the amount
of cotton produced by Tar Heel farmers.
In the crop year ending July 31, 1956,
North Carolina farmers produced 351,-
000 bales. The state’s textile mills con
sumed more than 2.6 million bales the
same year.
The value of cotton textile products
manufactured in North Carolina
amounts to about two and a half bil
lion dollars annually, making the Tar
Heel state the leading textile producer
in the nation with 25 per cent of all
spindles in place in the country.
Issued Every Other MomUy for
and Friends of Flelderm Mltls> incv
Spray, N. C.
Copyright, 1957, Fieldcrest 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 Blanket — Bartjara SchacM
Bedspread Ada iones
Bianicet Mlil Katherine TurnW
Central Warehouse C^raidlne Pericin*
Draper Offices Mamie Llw
General Office - Hilda Orofl«>J
Gladys Holland
Karastan Mill Irene Meeks
Karastan Offices Mary Stephens
Nantucket Offices Lois GilM;
Patsy Barton, Katherine Manley
New York, Offices Jane Corbin
Sheeting Mill Ruth Tal^rt
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Hundley
Vol. XVI, Monday, Aug. 12, 1957, No. 3
Forty Years
Samuel T. Anderson ... .Bedspread
Mary M. Manuel Blanket
Sam H. Reese Blanket
Thirty-Five Years
Byron E. Moretz Finishing
Thirty Years
Helen C. Ficker ... Karastan Sales
Rosie E. West . .Central Warehouse
Johnnie A. Ferguson Sheeting
Twenty Years
Clifford Howell .... Domestics Sales
Robert A. Woodall Blanket
Shirley F. Roche .... Kara§tan Sales
Edward N. • jDallaa.* ^. Karastan
Viola D. Vernon I. . r. . Karastan
Fifteen Years
Harvey F. Walker Karastan
Clarence V. Bowling Blanket
R. Loyd Hawks Towel
William A. Joyce Towel
Frances M. Martin Towel
Jane G. Reynolds ... .Medical Dept.
J. Milton Gregory Sheeting
Euna N. Arnold Towel
Ten Years
Russell D. Cherry Tabulating
Emmett J. Coleman Blanket
Cassie B. Smith Blanket
Lera S. Barker . .Automatic Blanket
Thomas H. Harris Sheeting
Edith J. Shreve Sheeting
Charlie O. Hall Blanket
Virginia H. Barrow Blanket
Prentiss M. Dehart Blanket
Elmer H. Hawks Blanket
There are three kinds of men in this
country—the intellectual, the hand
some, and the majority.
2
THE MILL WHISTLE