At Laurelcrest Carpets, Mary Norris (left) and Glenda
Pierce take swatches from revolving table to form sample kits.
Laurelcrest Uses ‘Lazy Susan’
Idea hr Method Improvement
Nearly everyone has seen a “lazy Susan” on a dining table
but fewer have seen one in a carpet plant.
The Sample Department of Laurelcrest Carpets at Laurel
Hill has adapted the lazy Susan idea to achieve an easier and
more efficient method of assembling sample books and chain
sets. Stacks of carpet samples are placed on a large revolving
table, in the order needed. As the table turns, operators pick
up samples from each stack and place them in the books.
Under the former method, several operators picked up arm
fuls of samples and walked beside a long table, placing the
stacks of samples on the table. This method required much
walking and double handling, since the samples then had to be
collected and placed on the posts in the books.
The revolving table was the joint idea of plant general man
ager, R. J. Saunders, and John Grogan, standards engineer,
who, in observing the operation, believed that there was a
better way of doing it. The “lazy Susan”, 14 feet in diameter
and mounted on an automobile hub assembly, was designed
and built at the Laurelcrest plant. Cooperating in the project
were John Grooms, Sample Department foreman, F. C. Sertl,
plant superintendent, Jim Hattaway, plant engineer. Gene
Walters and Clyde Smith, both of the Plant Service Dept.
‘Outstanding Cadet’
Cochran Children
Employee’s Daughter
Is Homecoming Queen
Virgil Alexander (Al) Cochran, Jr.,
four years old, and John Wallace (“J.
W.”) Cochran, two years old, are sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cochran. Father
is employed as a weaver at the Blanket
Mill.
Teresa Murray
Cadet Basic J. C. South, Jr., has been
named the outstanding cadet for the
past six weeks in the Dan River Squad
ron of the Civil Air Patrol. He will be
awarded a free steak dinner given by
the squadron commander, 1st Lt. Joseph
R. Whitten.
Cadet Basic South has been a mem
ber of the Civil Air Patrol since June
23 of this year. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John S. South, Sr., of 301 West
Delaware Avenue, Draper. His mother,
Rachel Y. South, is employed in the
Weave Room at the Bedspread Mill,
Leaksville.
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Teresa Arlene Mur
ray, age 41/2 months
when picture was
taken, is daughter of
Leon and Eunice
Murray. Mother is
employed in the Kar-
astan Setting Depart
ment and father
works in the Quilling
Department at the
Bedspread Mill.
Great - grandfather,
Bradley Murray, is a 50-year employee
of the Bedspread Mill, now retired, and
great-grandmother, Cleo Murray, is a
long-service employee of the Bedspread
Winding Department.
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Carol Allen, daughter of a Fieldcrest-
er, is the homecoming queen at Ruther-
fordton-Spindale Central High School
for 1967-68. She was crowned in pre
game homecoming festivities recently
and is the first freshman to receive the
honor in seven years.
Carol’s father, Vernon D. Allen, is a
weaver instructor at the Alexander
Sheeting Mill, Forest City.
“How’s Henry getting along at school,
Eph?”
“Not so good, George. Tells me they’re
learning him to spell taters with a ‘p’-’
THE MILL whistle