Year Of Decision
Do you ever get tired of people urging you to vote?
Do you ever get tired orf the preacher preaching on Sunday?
This year, of all years, every one of us should take more interest
than ever before in politics or public affairs or whatever you may call
it. The main thing is, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Find out who is running for what office and what his qualifications
are and how he feels about the things that really count. Then, be sure
and vote your convictions.
Who knows? This may be the year of decision for our textile in
dustry in the United States. We need men in office, at all levels of
government, with an adequate understanding of the importance of the
textile industry to this nation.
Given such understanding there would be hope that something
would be done about the relentless upward trend in cheap-wage im
ports of textile goods. The vital textile industry deserves fair and
equitable treatment from its own government in its domestic market
places.
An Interest In Costs Pays Off
It has been found that the employees who are most interested in
the costs of what they produce are also the employees who do the
best job.
In that respect they are like the housewife who cares about the
price and value of what she buys. She is the shopper who gets the
most for her money.
The person who cares about the cost of the different elements of
a product being manufactured usually knows what parts of his job
need the most careful attention.
He knows how he can help to keep costs down, and he usually has
some good ideas for ways in which he can save on costs.
All of us have an important stake in lower costs at Fieldcrest. It
is up to us to leam something about the costs on our jobs. We can then
improve our awn performance for the benefit of all, including our
selves.
Four Plants Get Safety Awards
Four Fieldcrest plants have received
safety awards from the North Caro
lina Industrial Commission for their
achievements in safety during the year
1959 in the contest sponsored by the
North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers
Association,
Certificates of merit were awarded
the Automatic Blanket Mill, Bleachery
Central Warehouse and Sheeting Mill!
Showing the certificates above, left to
right, are Margaret O. Estes, Bleachery
Florence Wright, Central Warehouse’
Odessa Taylor, Automatic Blanket Mill-
and James W. Mangrum, Sheeting Mill!
Issued Every Other Monday For EtnpWl
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, I””
Spray, N. C. [
Copyright. 1940, Fieldcrest Mills,
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, American Association
Industrial Editors
ADVISORY BOARD
J. O. Thomas, Chairman
Howard Barton J. M.
C. A. Davis J. T. WhIWj
Vol. xrx Monday, Sept. 12, I960
Service
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Thirty-Five Years
John F. Hartis, Sr
Robert Adkins B
Thirty Years
James M. Harris
Twenty-Five Years
Cora S. Carter
Kate S. Fuller ^ ,
Elsie M. Harpe
Bessie C. Shockley Bl6^ i
Frank T. Suttenfield Finishi’’^
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Joseph G. FarreU, Jr. .. General 0,
Charles P. Wilson ■ ^
Jesse G. Dehart, Jr. .. General O'
Jesse B. Dishman
Leslie F. Flynn General 0 .
Twenty Years
Duell W. Mitchell J
John F. Roberts
Fifteen Years J
Lena B. Barker
Gertrude B. Hopkins -A
Austin H. Murray
Sarah P. Turner Bedfj
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Hazel S. Aaron Be'
Peter Stokes Wilson
Floyd M. Strader • ^
Clyde C. Carter
Susie C. Rierson
F. Wade Younts ^
Ten Years ,/j
John H. Weatherford . \v't'
Edna E. Alderman Centra
Dennis Walker
Richard T. Reynolds ^V;
Jessie B. Hodges, Jr '''
Elroy J. Hopkins
Bernice S. Lillard
Roy A. Wilson ..
Anna B. Merriman
Lena H. Turner ..
J. Harvey Shelton
Aileen R. Odell .
Evelyn M. London
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Christine T. RejTiolds ..
Raymond H. McCracken
Goldie C. Pruitt
Charlie E. Ferguson • piso
Margaret R. Reeves ... Auto-
General
Lucille B. Ziglar
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