THE MILL WHISTLE
FIEUOCREST INC, • J Plodts ot Draper, Forest Ci»y, Greenville, Leoksvilte, Mount Holly, Salisbury, Smithfield,
I..~ ' Spray and Worthville, N. C; Fieldale, Vo.; Columbus, Go. and Auburn, N. Y.
IPL. XXIII
Spray, N. C., March 22, 1965
NO, 18
Some of the Sears, Roebuck and Co., executives who visited the mills recently are
during a mill tour on which they were accompanied by President Harold W.
^itcomb. From left to right are Carl E. Lind, supervisor. Department 696; A. K.
^^Iton, vice president, factories; J. T. Moran, supervisor, Department 624; L. E.
liver, vice president, southern territory; and Mr. Whitcomb.
^rs Executives Hold Meeting At Mills
^ ^igh-ranking officials of Sears, Roe-
and Co., a major customer of
leldcrest, toured the domestics mills in
j^e Tri-Cities and Fieldale, Va., recent-
Q ^d held a meeting at the Meadow
Country Club, Spray.
® group of about 25 Sears executives
Otn Chicago, Atlanta, and Greensboro
headed by A. K. Walton, Chicago,
. president-factories and L. E. Oliver,
to president-southern terri-
"iTie meeting was arranged and
“'iducted by Carl E. Lind, Chicago,
Psrvisor-Department 696.
j. ■'Accompanied by Fieldcrest officials,
. ® visitors toured the domestics mills
^ the quality testing laboratories to
^ Fieldcrest’s equipment and facilities,
their opening meeting at the club-
Harold W. Whitcomb, president
Ujj^ieldcrest Mills, Inc., made a brief
. ^ in which he welcomed the visitors
I ^ told of the fine relationship that
existed between Sears and Field-
®st over a long period of years,
^^^iscussions at the meeting centered
j^^Und Fieldcrest’s unique capabilities
Produce the highly-styled merchan-
Which Sears sees as an ever-ex-
*iding part of its business.
At the afternoon session, new lines of
merchandise manufactured by Field
crest for Sears were presented. The re
view of new products was followed by
an exchange of ideas among Sears of
ficials responsible for the various prod
uct lines and between the Sears group
and Fieldcrest executives.
In addition to the memoers of the
company’s general management present
at the meeting, the following attended
from the Fieldcrest Marketing Division,
in New York:
G. W. Moore, president of the divis
ion; E. S. Klein, Jr., vice president-spe-
cialty sales; F. W. Green, vice president-
merchandising; H. A. Brown, C. E.
Moulton, O. G. Grubbs and J. H. Byler,
department managers, respectively, for
towels, sheets, blankets and bedspreads;
and F. X. Larkin, product manager.
Towel Department-Muscogee.
To Visit Holy Land
A visit to the Holy Land will be the
highlight of a tour to be made this sum
mer by Alice Howard, a cloth inspector
at the Blanket Mill. See page two for
story on her plans to visit 11 countries
in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Company Buys Large
Acreage Near Draper
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., has announced
the purchase of the Union Carbide Cor
poration property consisting of 815 acres
of land in Leaksville Township on Dan
River adjoining Duke Power Company’s
steam generating plant.
The tract, fronting on the river for
nearly two miles downstream from the
Duke Power plant, is part of the old
Sharp plantation. The land once be
longed to Col. Thomas Sharp, a big
land - owner whose property included
large acreages in the Draper vicinity.
Union Carbide decided that it would
not proceed to construct a plant on this
property as intended when it acquired
it and wished to convey the property to
a purchaser who could utilize the prop
erty for industrial purposes to the bene
fit of the neighboring communities.
In its expansion locally during the
past several years, Fieldcrest has out
grown its present mill locations in the
Tri-Cities and has reached the limit
of its own land. The necessity to pro
vide adequate parking facilities for em
ployees has made it mandatory that new
industrial locations have larger land
areas than has been the case in the past
when most of the employees lived with
in walking distance of their work.
The former Union Carbide property,
in addition to providing ample space, is
well situated along the river and is ac
cessible to railroad and highway trans
portation. Fieldcrest stated that its fu
ture expansion in the Tri-Cities would
probably be at this location.
Plans are now in progress to con
struct a sheet sewing-warehouse and
service operation on the site within the
next 12 months.
Litter ‘Pick-Up’ Day Is
Scheduled For April 3
The first phase of the Tri-Cities beau
tification program will open Saturday,
April 3, with litter “pick-up” day. With
assistance from garden clubs of the area,
the Boy Scouts, and young people from
the YMCAs, trucks will make rounds
to collect litter that has been carelessly
dropped in public places.
Paul L. Peterson, chairman of the
beautification committee, said detailed
plans for the Clean-Up Month, planned
for April, will be announced this week.