Five Fieldcresters Elected To Town Offices
Shown below are five Fieldcrest men
who were elected town commissioners in
the municipal elections May 2.
C. B. Rakestraw, retired from the Re
search and Quality Control Depart
ment, was re-elected to the LeaksviUe
board of commissioners.
Paul Shropshire, instructor-loomfixer
at the Blanket Mill, was re-elected to
the Draper board of commissioners.
Russell Stewart, also a loomfixer at
the Blanket Mill, was elected to the
Draper board of commissioners.
Jesse Griggs, assistant foreman in the
Blanket Mill Weave Room, and Jim Rob
ertson, supervisor of grounds mainten
ance at Fieldcrest Mills were elected to
the Spray board of commissioners.
EUNICE WIGINGTON
' ■ • Service Anniversary Today . . .
^el Mill Employee
|i Get 40-Yr. Awards
May 15, marks the completion
^ years of continuous service with
Company for Eunice Wigington, of
,Towel Mill Sewing Department. She
J Scheduled to receive her Fieldcrest
‘^'^Rt-and-gold 40-year service em-
V. ®hd other awards in informal cere-
. at the mill.
Wigington, a native of Patrick
Va., has worked in the Sewing
Continuously since May 15, 1921.
a towel inspector for her first
with the Company, but more
‘ly has worked as a hem inspector
cloth inspector which is her
classification.
I
Rakestraw
Shropshire
Stewart
Griggs
Robertson
% save a life. Give blood when the
**iobiIe visits Draper May 24.
Rug Loom 58 Receives
Housekeeping Award
John H. DeHart, Homer Fain, and
Bud Roberts, weavers on Loom 58, won
the Karastan Weave Room Housekeep
ing Award for the month of April.
In recognition of their outstanding
housekeeping, an attractive certificate
has been placed on Loom 58 and will
remain up throughout the month of May.
A certificate is awarded each month
to weavers on the loom which has the
highest total points in four housekeeping
inspections made by the supervisors.
A housekeeping “scoreboard” in the
Weave Room shows the points given on
the various looms as each inspection is
completed.
By referring to this board the weavers
can tell at all times how they stand in
their housekeeping performance.
College Grads' Pictures Wanted
The Mill Whistle will publish pictures of employees’ sons and daughters
0 Will graduate from a college or university early in June.
The parents should fill in the coupon below and send it with a photo-
of the graduate to The Mill Whistle, Fieldcrest Mills, Spray, N. C. or
may hand the material to one of the plant reporters for The Mill Whistle,
j) It is not necessary that the graduate be wearing a cap and gown. If the
h *'®hts do not have a photograph, the graduate can usually obtain one from
® studio that made his or her picture for the college annual.
If there are any employees’ daughters to graduate from hospital nursing
®ol Qf course, wish to include them, too.
Graduate’s name
Name of college or university
I^egree ta be received
Parents’ names
18 Blanket Weavers
On Quality Honor List
Several Operators Continuing
Their Outstanding Records;
Newcomers Are Listed
A total of 18 weavers appear on the
Blanket Mill’s quality honor list for the
six months ending April 30. Included are
11 plain or dobby weavers and seven
in the jacquard classification.
New names added to the list for the
latest period include Carrie A. Holland
and John R. McGavisk, plain or dobby,
and Cicero D. Underwood, jacquard.
The listing of the quality weavers is
part of a program at the Blanket Mill
designed to emphasize the importance
of quality weaving and to give recogni
tion for outstanding records.
In order to make the quality honor
list, a weaver must work for six months
without a major quality defect.
When a weaver on the list has a ma
jor quality defect, his name is dropped.
Other weavers are added as they attain
six months of quality work.
Quality weavers for the six months
ending April 30 are shown below.
QUALITY HONOR LIST
Plain Weavers
Drewey Chilton Carrie Holland
Lessie Chilton
Otra Chilton
Kate Fuller
Mattie Hall
Dillard Harris
Henry Hutson
John. McGavisk
Sallie Isley
Gladys Powell
Jacquard Weavers
Clarence Boyd Mack Overby
Jesse Corum James Vernon
Jesse Kennon Cicero Underwood
J. Clyde Minter
Ay, MAY 15, 1961