Give Blood - Help Save A Life
We are quite sure that a minute never passes — night or day — that
a desperate call isn’t issued for blood in any one of the thousands of
hospitals across the nation.
Automobile accidents, home accidents, industrial accidents, cata
strophes of all types are the reasons for these desperate calls. Were
it not for Blood Programs such as the one in which the Tri-Cities par
ticipate, thousands of victims would surely die.
Hardly a day passes in local area hospitals that blood isn’t needed
to save the life of an accident victim, a young mother giving birth to
a baby, or a youngster injured in a home accident. We are quite sure
these patients have said a prayerful thanks to the regular donors and
supporters of the local Bloodmobile.
As participants in the Piedmont Carolinas Regional Blood Pro
gram, all residents of the Tri-Cities receive their total blood needs at
Morehead Memorial Hospital without charge for the blood itself and
without having to replace it.
In order to remain in the program, Tri-City area residents must
donate 850 pints of blood to the Bloodmobile each year. This figure
is based on actual blood needs for this area. The program is running
slightly behind its quota to date but it is expected that the small defi
cit will be made up during the remaining four visits by the Bloodmo
bile in 1961.
Fieldcrest men and women have been generous in donating blood
on previous visits of the Bloodmobile. It is hoped and confidently ex
pected that Fieldcresters will again be outstanding in their response
to the call for blood donors when the Bloodmobile visits Draper cm
May 24.
The giving of blood is simple, and it may help save a life.
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charge for the blood itself and without
having to replace it.
The blood collected is processed at
Charlotte, and blood and its derivatives
are supplied to the local hospital from
the Charlotte center.
Tne Bloodmobile is scheduled to make
six visits to the Tri-Cities each year,
rotating its visits from Leaksville to
Spray to Draper. A total of 146 pints
was donated when the unit visited
Leaksville in January, and 117 pints
when it visited Spray in March.
Following the visit to Draper on May
24, the Bloodmobile will again visit
Leaksville and Spray and return to
Draper once more late in the year.
It was pointed out that the blood is
not given to the Red Cross, but to the
community’s own sick and injured
through the Red Cross.
Ben Dunton, assistant purchasing
agent at Fieldcrest who is the Blood
mobile chairman for the local Red Cross,
said, “The giving of life to someone is
a wonderful thing. It is something for
which you may never receive a thank-
you note or even an acknowledgment.
“Your reward wiU be simply the
knowledge that your blood may have
given new life to an accident victim, a
hemophiliac, a heart-surgery patient, or
someone else whose life depends on it.
“Fieldcrest employees have willingly
answered the call for blood before, and
I am confident that Fieldcrest men and
women, particularly those in the Blanket
and Sheeting Mills, will cooperate fully
in the Draper visit by the Bloodmobile
and make this visit a success.”
On The Job
At Fieldcrest
James H. Hairston is a bale opener
and hopper feeder in the Cotton Carding
Department at the Blanket Mill and has
over 33 years of continuous service with
the Company.
In his work it is important that he
feed a small amount of cotton off each
bale in order to get an even blend.
He also is careful to follow the clean
ing schedule so that the machinery and
work area are kept clean. He keeps
buckles, hoop irons, etc. off of the floor.
James is a native of Pittsylvania
County, Va. He has worked in the open
ing and picking section of the depart
ment during all of his years with the
Company and has worked on nearly
all of the jobs there.
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Issued Every Other Monday For
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills# I']""
Copyright, 1961, Fieldcrest MillSi '
Spray, N. C. '
OTIS MARUOWE
editor
Member, South
Council Of Industri
Editors
ADVISORY BOARD
J. O. Thomas, Chairman
Howard Barton J. M. Rimmer
C. A. Davis J. T. White_
Bedspread Mill
Blanket Mill
REPORTING STAFF
Ada
Katherine
Central Warehouse '•IJn
Draper Offices
General OHices •;—•.y
Gladys Holland, Katherine
Karastan Mill
Karastan Offices - —
New Yoric OHices BeW ^
Sheeting Mill HU" -
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fanni^' ^
Vol. XIX Monday, May 15, 19^
SERVICE
fANNIVERSABl^^
Fieldcrest Mills extends .
tions to the following: employ®* ^
since our last issue, have obsefV®
able anniversaries of continuous
ice with the company.
Forty Years
Eunice Wigington
Thirty-Five Years
Thomas Scales
John W. McCoUum
Thirty Years
Bessie H. Tipton
Clarence E. Belcher
T^venty-Five Years
Susie H. Adkins
Louise G. Cooke Genera
Fifteen Years
Evelyn M. Nelson
Richard N. Turner
rcicndici IM. 1
George L. Aheron .. Bedspread .)(«•
Bethel Carter j
T. Elmer Fulcher '
H. Simmons Adkins t
Calvin E. Taylor
Willie B. Scales
Ten Years
Junius Parker Fielder
Lorine B. Pruitt DraP
VERSE
Withhold not good ,j,g‘p
whom it is due, when it is in ^
of thine hand to do it.
THE MILL W