Towel Employees
Contribute $12,656
Employees of the Towel Mill have
pledg:ed a total of $12,656.72 in the
Fieldale Community Fund campaign.
Of the Towel Mill’s 1219 employees,
964—or 79 per cent—gave a day’s pay
or more. An additional 99 employees
made contributions of less than a day’s
pay. Considering all contributions, a
total of 87.2 per cent of the Towel Mill
employees participated in the campaign.
A $50 U. S. Government bond will be
awarded in a drawing from among the
names of all employees who gave a
minimum of a day’s pay. The drawing
will be held as soon as the records have
been completed.
Certificates of Merit, given by D. A.
Purcell, Towel Mill manager, will be
awarded to the several departments in
which 100 per cent of the employees
pledged a day’s pay.
The Fieldale Community Fund cam
paign began at the Towel Mill simul
taneously with the Tri-City Community
Fund campaign. D. E. Simons and C. P.
Wilson, superintendents, were co-chair
men of the Towel Mill drive.
Under the Fieldale plan, the money
raised is used for the Community Fund
and other authorized fund drives, in
cluding the Heart Fund, Cancer Fund,
March of Dimes, and Martinsville-
Henry County United Fund.
Teachers Will Tour
ills On B-E Day
Fieldcrest Mills will be host to teach
ers from the Leaksville Township Pub
lic Schools Tuesday, November 15, for
the second annual observance of Busl-
ness-Education Day.
Business and industrial leaders—in
cluding men from the management
group at Fieldcrest — will visit the
schools during the morning to observe
the schools’ operations and facilities.
The teachers and business people
will attend a luncheon together at Mea
dow Greens Country Club.
During the afternoon, the teachers
will visit various business establish
ments. Each teacher will have an op
portunity to visit one other business
and Fieldcrest. Guided tours will be ar
ranged for them at the Blanket and
Karastan mills and the General Offices.
Business-Education Day is sponsored
by the Tri-City Chamber of Commerce
and is held each fall during or near
American Education Week.
B-E Day is observed in more than
300 areas throughout the nation. Its
purpose is to acquaint business and in
dustry with the schools and their opera
tions and to show teachers how the
economic life of the community works.
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A Message From Our President^
(Continued from page one) 1
abling the various agencies which derive their support from thes*
funds to carry on their programs which are essential to the 'Welj
fare of the communities of which we are a part. |
I am sure that you enjoy a sense of satisfaction in knowii'j
that you did your share. We can all take pride in the fact tha
Fieldcrest men and women played a major part in the attainme®
of the community goals.
I feel that your ready response and contributions to these c&f
paigns are indicative of your sincere interest in your communitj®
and of the cooperative spirit of the Fieldcrest organization.
such a spirit, we can look forward to additiooial achievement-
both in the communities and at the mills.
President
Council Plans Tribute
(Continued from page one)
ernment and the State of North Caro
lina.
He was elected Lieutenant Governor
in November, 1952, and succeeded to the
Governorship in November, 1954. He
was elected Governor in his own right
in November, 1956, the 92nd Governor
of North Carolina. His term ends in
January, 1961.
He is past chairman of the Southern
Governors’ Conference and past chair
man of the Southern Regional Education
Board. He was one of nine American
governors to make an extensive tour of
the Soviet Union in the summer of 1959
and was head of his state’s Trade and
Industry Mission to Europe in Novem
ber, 1959.
In the last four years, under Gover
nor Hodges’ administration. North Car
olina has secured more than one billion
dollars of new investment in manufac
turing activities, in addition to huge
sums for electric utility expansion. He
has helped in having communities or
ganize over 200 development groups in
the State.
New Asst. Forema*l
Patterson Names Council
Attendance Committee
Charles Patterson, of the Bedspread
Mill, chairman of the attendance com
mittee of the Carolina Cooperative
Council, has announced the following
as members of his committee:
Norwood Cheek, Bedspread Finishing
Mill; Billy Stone, Blanket Mill; Glenn
Simpson, Bleachery; Maurice Rawlins,
Central Warehouse; Guy Buckle, Finish
ing Mill; Joe Tulloch, General Offices.
Also, Rod McCoy, Karastan Rug Mill;
Horace Penn, Research and Develop
ment Building; Dillard Powell, Sheet
ing Mill; W. B. Chambley, Towel Mill;
Willard Fulton, Bedspread Mill; and
Ralph Pigue, Automatic Blanket Mill
A. M. Conner, second hand
Napping Department, was prorno ^
assistant foreman in the Blanket p
ting and Sewing Department at
ishing Mill, first shift, effective N
ber 1. jif>
Mr. Conner, a native of '
County, first joined the ComP® ^
July, 1941. He worked at the ^ yAf
Mill for a short time as a tie-uP *’ jC
and then was timekeeper
scheduler for several years. ^ iji
ed to enter the Army in February’^
and served until November, 1945 ^
aviation cadet in the Army Air C® i
He was transferred to the
Mill as a control tester early in 1“
next was a dispatcher for printed (
at the Finishing Mill. He
supervisory trainee at the
Mill and was appointed second ^ jjj
the Napping Department in
He served in that capacity until h
recent promotion. 
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