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J. W. Austin Named
Assistant To Roberts
John W. Austin joined Fieldcrest
Mills at the General Offices, Eden, ef
fective December 2 as assistant to the
vice president—finance.
His responsibilities will principally be
in the areas of effective FPI (forecast
ing, production planning, inventories)
systems for improvement of customer
service, smoothing of plant production
loads and control over inventories; serv
ice center billings and inventory pro
cedures which are integrated with data
systems and inventory management
functions at the mills and in the General
Offices; efficient and low-cost ware
housing and shipping procedures.
Mr. Austin was graduated from the
University of North Carolina in 1954.
After approximately two years in pub
lic accounting, he was employed by
Burlington Industries and J. P. Stevens
in finance and accounting activities.
For the past six years, he has been
with Beacon Manufacturing Company
with principal responsibilities in the
areas of data processing, payrolls, cus
tomer service, production planning and
warehousing and shipping.
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Ward Joins Company
Parmelee Ward joined the Company
recently as quality assurance manager
at the Laurelcrest Carpet Plant at
Laurel Hill.
He formerly was associated with
Hercules, Inc. as quality control super
visor and with J. P. Stevens—Gulistan
Carpets throughout the entire manu
facturing operations. He was quality
control manager while with Gulistan.
A native of Albany, Ga., Mr. Ward
attended Georgia State College in At
lanta for three years, last attending in
1959.
He is married to the former Edwina
Black of Dalton, Ga., and they have
three children; Sherrie, age 11; Parme
lee, age 7; and Troy, age 6. The family
resides in Laurinburg.
Baker And Walker Are
Appointed To New Posts
(Continued from Page Three)
Warehouse since December, 1964.
Mr. Walker, an Eden native and
graduate of Western Carolina Univer
sity, joined the company as a manage
ment trainee in 1963. He earlier had
worked in several of the mills on pro
duction jobs during the summers be
tween school years.
He was appointed assistant foreman
in the Blanket Stock and Blanket Pack
ing Department in January, 1964, and
shortly afterward became office man
ager at Central Warehouse. He again
became assistant foreman in the Blank
et Stock and Blanket Packaging Depart
ment in February, 1965, and was pro
moted to foreman in January, 1966.
He was foreman until May of 1968,
when he was appointed systems coordi
nator at Central Warehouse, in which
capacity he served until his appoint
ment as superintendent.
A dog food recently put on the mar
ket carries this advertisement: “Tastes
just like a mailman’s ankle.”
CtotruOA Jo^
$15-Million Program
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in 1968 is nearing completion.
This project involved the purchase
of
additional terry looms to produce hi®
quality, highly styled terry towels ap
additional yarn manufacturing faciliti®
to provide yarn for the additional loom®'
Construction has been completed a®
the space for the yarn making equiP'
ment. Some of the machinery already
in operation and substantially all of m
equipment will have been installed
the end of the year.
Another part of the Fieldale exp^’'
Sion was building a three-story additio®
to the east side of the Finishing BuiW
ing to provide space for cutting, sewi^ej
v/arehousing, etc., of the addition®
towel production.
Construction of this addition has be®®
completed and the space has been pm
rth
occupied. ,
The total expansion program at Fiel®
ale will provide approximately ^
additional jobs upon completion.
mill now employs approximately
people.
Columbus Towel Mill
Employees Set Record
Employees of the Columbus
Mill, Columbus, Ga., set an outstand’*’^
record when 98 percent of the
ployees made donations in the Unit®
Givers campaign. Total contributio
amounted to $34,394.75.
Of the 1,496 employees, 1,476 road® _
contribution in some amount. A wb®P
ping 1,244 gave on the Fair Share b®^^
representing 83.2 percent of all
ployees. Moreover, 1,200, or 80.2 P'
el'
cent, are signed up to give a Fair Sb»^*
on a continuing basis.
The Columbus Towel Mill is
honored at the United Givers awa’
meeting in January. Twenty-s®\jj
awards are to be presented to the P”
These include 25 Bronze Awards to
d®'
partments in which 75 percent or iP® ^
of the employees gave a Fair Share,
two Honor Awards to departments
eP>'
which 80 percent or more of the
ployees contributed at least $12 earP'
THE MILL WHISTi'