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Give A Pint Of Blood When Bloodmobile Visits Leaksville February 15 THE MILL WH CaOROtNATCa ■ ■' ANO'aATH- > Published by fisi.ocdest wtUis, me. » Plotiht ot Proper, $reenville, Uoksville, SmirtrfseW and Spray, N. C.‘ VOL. XXf Spray, N. C., Monday, February 4, 1963 mfdaie, Vo; and Aubvrn, N» Y NO. 15 -4_ TOWEL MILL Towel mill visitors—wives of the salesmen for Lester Brothers, Inc., Mar tinsville, Va., were recent visitors at the Towel Mill. They are shown with D. A. J*urcell, mill manager. See story and pictures on page six. Credit Union Assets Now Exceed S600,000 Assets of the Fieldcrest Mills Credit Union were $620,295 as of December 1962, having increased from $407,253 the end of 1961. Membership grew from 2,716 at the “^ginning of 1962 to 3,387 at the close the year, an increase of 671 members. During the year, the Credit Union P3id its members a four per cent per Safety Barbecues Employees of nine Fieldcrest plants ®3rned barbecues on the basis of their Safety performance in 1962. Completing the year without any lost due to injury were the Automatic lanket Plant, the Bedspread Finishing Bleachery, Sheet Finishing Mill Central Warehouse. The following mills qualified for ^rbecues by achieving an accident fre- ^^ency rate 25 per cent or less of the ^te average for the textile industry; ®dspread Mill, Karastan Mill, Towel and Karastan Spinning Division. ^he barbecues are awarded under ^fns of a contest sponsored by the ^°fnpany in which a barbecue is given o ^ all employees of any mill meeting requirements for a safety award ^he North Carolina Department of annum dividend amounting to $16,016, as compared with $10,690 paid in divi dends in 1961. The Credit Union granted a total of 3,420 loans to members and had 1,637 loans outstanding at the end of the year. Loans were made for a wide vari ety of purposes, including the financing of automobiles or appliances, taxes, school expenses, medical and dental bills, consolidation of debts and for other needs. These are highlights of the financial statement presented at the annual mem bership meeting Friday afternoon, Jan uary 25, at Consolidated Central YMCA. The financial statement is printed else where in this issue of The Mill Whistle. R. L. Wilkes, secretary-treasurer of the Credit Union, presided and present ed the financial statement in the absence of Robert A. Harris, president, who had to be out of town. Mr. Wilkes reported on the activities of the Credit Union and described its rapid growth since it was chartered in June, 1958. On behalf of Mr. Harris, he thanked the directors and commit tee members whose terms were expiring for their fine service to the Credit Union. Because the company makes it easy to save systematically by deducting the (Continued on page two) Bloodmobile To Visit Leaksville Feb. 15 The Bloodmobile will be stationed at the Leaksville Methodist Church on Jay Street from 11 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. Friday, February 15, for the first of the six visits the unit will make to the Tri-Cities during 1963. Although donors are expected from Spray, Draper and the outlying areas, the recruiting of donors v/ill be con centrated in the Leaksville area and in the Bedspread and Karastan mills. Em ployees of those plants will be contact ed and asked to donate blood during the Bloodmobile’s February 15 visit. Bloodmobile officials point out that the usage of blood for the benefit of Tri-City people in the Morehead Memorial Hos pital and in outside participating hospi tals exceeded the blood collections by more than 70 pints during the past six months. Extra donors are needed in order to make up the deficit. Annual Meeting Held By Community Fund Reports on the activities of the agen cies that receive financial support from the Tri-City Community Fund were presented at the Fund’s annual meeting January 24 at Consolidated Central YMCA. Clifford Ball, outgoing president, an nounced that the 1963 campaign ex ceeded its goal by 14 per cent. The goal was $60,813, Mr. Ball said, and a total of $69,318 was pledged. In the election of officers, Arthur L. Jackson, general chairman of the suc cessful campaign last October, was elect ed president of the Community Fund. Other officers to serve with him in 1963 include: T. S. Harrington, first vice president; C. J. Frank, Jr., second vice president; J. Ray Lewis, third vice presi dent; Richard Robertson, secretary; and Robert Stewart, treasurer. Fourteen directors were also elected to serve through January, 1966; Julian Slaydon, Richmond Roberts, Bransford Edwards, Carl H. Hall, D. Fred Mitchell, Robert Broadnax, H. W. Whitcomb’ (Continued on page eight)
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