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$12,544 Contributed By Towel Employees Employees of the Towel Mill at Field- Va., pledged a total of $12,544.79 in the recent Fieldale Community Fund Campaign. Of the 1202 employees solicited, 964— or 80.5 per cent—gave a day’s pay or '’lore to the Fund. An additional 85 em ployees made contributions of less than a day’s pay. Considering all contributions, 87.5 per ^6nt of the Towel Mill employees par ticipated in the campaign. Certificates of Merit, given by D. A. ^^cell. Towel Mill manager, were ^Warded to eight departments in which loo per cent of the employees pledged ^ day’s pay. Departments r e c ei v i n g certificates Were: Cloth Room, Dyeing, Bleaching, Cost Department, Standards Depart- ’’lent, Warehousing and Shipping, Per- ^nnel - Lodge - Village, and Burns 'Guards. Instead of one grand prize, four frailer prizes were awarded in draw- **jSs among all of the Towel Mill em ployees who pledged a day’s pay or ^ore. The names of all employees who Contributed a day’s pay were thrown in to one lot and four drawings were ^eld in four different locations in the «iill. Prize Winners Listed Prizes were awarded as follows: Bea- L. Shelton, Spinning Department, a towel set; Mary B. Sheffield, Shipping and Warehouse Office, an automatic ‘anket; Ruby S. Watson, Sewing De partment, a bedspread; George L. Hors ey. Spinning Department, sheet and Pillow case set. Edgar Gordon, foreman of the Dyeing Bleaching Department, was general '^airman of the drive and was assisted the supervisors in the various de- f>artments. Under the Fieldale plan, only one oiicitation is conducted each year in the Towel Mill. The money raised is for the Community Fund and for her authorized fund drives including Heart Fund, Cancer Fund, March of *fnes, and the Martinsville-Henry ounty United Fund. The funds are administered by a com- ittee composed of representatives from department in the mill. 100% Day’s Pay ^ final review of the results shows the Domestics Product Develop- Department should have been in- j in the list of departments and Qj departments in which 100 per cent Pa employees contributed a day’s Q ^ or more in the recent Tri-City o^munity Fund Campaign, ga members of the department p e or pledged a minimum of a day’s department has been . arde(j a Certificate of Merit by the Organization Changes Are Made m h HAVEN H. NEWTON DONALD F. CARSON ... Prmcipals In Organization Changes In Industrial Relations ... 'City Community Fund. ONdaY, NOVEMBER 20, 1961 Haven H. Newton, of Smithfield, per sonnel manager for the Automatic Blanket Plant and the Karastan Spin ning Division at Greenville, has been promoted to manager of employee rela tions in the Industrial Relations Depart ment at Spray. He will assume his new duties here about December 15 and expects to move his residence to the Tri-Cities shortly thereafter. Donald F. Carson, formerly with the Rheem Manufacturing Company at Sparrows Point, Maryland, has been employed to replace Mr. Newton at Smithfield and Greenville. Mr. Carson for the past few weeks has been under going a period of training preparatory to assuming his position at Fieldcrest. Formerly at Draper Mills Mr. Newton has been with Fieldcrest since September, 1957, and was indus trial relations representative at the Blanket and Sheeting Mills before his transfer to Smithfield in April, 1960. He is a native of Burlington, Ver mont, and received his A.B. degree from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and his master’s degree in personnel administration from George Washington University in Wash ington, D. C. Following his graduation at Brown, he enlisted in the Army at about the time the Korean hostilities were begin ning. He attended Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and finished recond in his class. He was sent to Korea where he served as a first lieutenant with the 25th Division. He joined the Hecht Co. in 1954, start ing in the employment office of the F Street Store, in Washington. He was promoted shortly afterwards to per sonnel manager of the Parkington Store. Mr. Carson was born in Duluth, Min nesota, and received his B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1953. He served in the Navy from Aug ust, 1953, until August, 1955, starting as an ensign and returning to inactive duty with the rank of lieutenant (j.g.). He entered the graduate school of business administration at the Univer sity of Virginia, Charlottesville, upon his return from the Navy and received his M.B.A. degree there in June, 1957. He was with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh in that com pany’s Executive Development Training Program until January 1, 1959, and from that time until he resigned to join Fieldcrest Mills, he was assistant per sonnel director for the Rheem Manu facturing Company at Sparrows Point. Mr. Carson is married and has t'vo children, ages one and three. He will move his family to Smithfield as soon as housing arrangements can be com pleted. The Federal Government could pay off the national debt if it could collect about $1,600 from every man, woman and child in the country. For the average man, with a wife and two children, this would mean $6,400! Give Blood—Save A Life Bloodmobile will be at First Methodist Church Draper 11 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, November 21
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