THE MILL WHIST
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VOL. XXI
Spray, N. C., June 24, 1963
NO. 25
Vacation, Regular Pay Total Over SI Million
Fieldcrest Mills payrolls in North
Carolina and Virginia this week will
total well above a million dollars.
The annual vacation pay to be issued
on the regular paydays, plus the regu
lar weekly payroll and the monthly pay
roll of salaried employees to be paid
Friday combine to make this the biggest
Pay-week of the year for Fieldcrest
employees.
A preliminary report by the Payroll
Department showed that 4,266 vacation
checks had been written for a total of
$546,681. Of this amount, $417,713 will
be paid to 3,293 employees in the North
Carolina mills and $128,968 will go to
973 employees of the Towel Mill at
Fieldale, Va.
Under the Fieldcrest vacation pay
plan, employees with five or more years
of continuous service receive four per
cent of their past year’s earnings. This
Amount represents the equivalent of
about two weeks of extra pay.
Employees with one or more years of
Gets Textile Honor
iiip
D. E. Simons, superintendent at the
Towel Mill, Fieldale, Va., has been
elected to a four-year term on the board
■governors of the Southern Textile
Association. He took office at the as
sociation’s 55th annual meeting which
^as attended by nearly 600 mill opera-
executives June 6-8 at the Grove
^ark Inn, Asheville.
continuous service but less than five
years receive two per cent of their past
year’s earnings or about one week of
extra pay.
A large majority will receive vaca
tion pay at the four per cent figure.
The records show that the number re
ceiving the larger amount has been go
ing up each year.
Fieldcrest was one of the first tex
tile companies to provide paid vacations
for employees. The plan was started in
1940 and vacation pay has been issued
each summer since that time.
Vacation Schedule
Fieldcrest plants and offices in gen
eral will be closed the week begrinning
July 1 for the annual vacation period.
Employees affected by any exceptions
to the announced schedules will be noti
fied by their mill manag-ement.
All Credit Dnion Offices will be closed
from Friday, June 28, until Monday,
July 8, but the Personnel Offices will be
open on a limited basis to handle any
miscellaneous problems which may
arise.
The Fieldcrest Store will remain open
on regular schedule throughout the
vacation week, except that it will be
closed on Thursday, July 4, in obser
vance of the Independence Day holiday.
‘Remembrance Book’
To Honor DTC Donors
The names of more than 250 Field-
cresters who contributed more than
$100 to Project D.T.C., the building fund
for the new Diagnostic and Treatment
Center at Morehead Memorial Hospital,
will be inscribed in a “Book of Re
membrance” to be placed in the lobby
of the new wing at the hospital.
The book is now being prepared un
der the direction of Dr. William McGe-
hee, director of personnel research at
Fieldcrest, who is chairman of the Proj
ect D.T.C. Memorials Committee.
Dr. McGehee said the book will carry
the names of all families whose com
bined contribution was $100 or more.
Included in the Fieldcrest listings are a
number of retired employees as well as
some other persons who made their
contributions through the company.
Each donor has been sent a form ask
ing him to indicate how his name or his
family’s name should be shown.
Dr. McGehee said the committee is
trying to make sure that the listings are
correct and complete. The Fieldcrest
names are printed on page four of
this issue of The Mill Whistle.
Any errors or omissions should be re
ported to Dr. McGehee as soon as
possible. He may be telephoned at
Fieldcrest extension 5351.
License Agreement Signed Witli English Firm
Harold W. Whitcomb, president of
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., and C. Patrick
Crossley, chairman of John Crossley-
Carpet Trades Holdings Limited, of
Halifax, England, announced on June
11 an agreement between the two com
panies under which Fieldcrest has
granted Crossleys an exclusive license
to build and to sell the products of its
Kara-loc carpet loom in the United
Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Europe, and vari
ous other markets throughout Cross-
ley’s world-wide operations.
The statement said that construction
of Kara-loc looms is underway at Dean
Clough Mills, Halifax, Yorkshire, which
will enable Crossleys to bring an entire
ly new concept in floor covering to the
British market.
This loom was invented and develop
ed by Fieldcrest’s Karastan Rug Mills
Division, and is covered by basic pa
tents in the U. S. and various foreign
countries. High production and unique
textures and patterns produced by this
loom have been responsible for Kara-
stan’s very successful operations in the
United States for a period of years.
In August, 1962 a marketing agree
ment was announced by these same
companies whereby Karastan sells some
of Crossley’s products in the U. S., and
Crossleys sell some of Karastan’s well
known lines in Great Britain and the
Continent.
Walter B. Guinan, president of Field
crest’s Karastan Rug Mills Division, told
New York press representatives that he
expected this new announcement of an
even closer relationship between Karas
tan and Crossleys would result in sub
stantial benefits to both companies and
their respective customers in making
the well known quality products of both
mills available to a wider range of con
sumers throughout the world.