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Two Employees Given Long Service Awards MATTIE B. MERRITT Outstanding records of service with the Company have been achieved by Mattie B. Merritt of the Sheet Finishing Mill Sewing Department, and J. Troy Merriman of the Fieldale Towel Mill Weave Room. Mrs. Merritt today, April 14, cele brates 45 years of service. A native of the Leaksville section of Eden, Mrs. Merritt started work on April 14, 1924, hemming sheets at the Bleachery. She continued as a hemmer until July, 1953, when she became a corner tacker. In February, 1963, Mrs. Merritt be came a sewer—plain hem sheets at the Sheet Finishing Mill, the job she still holds. Mr. Merriman started work April 1, 1929, at the old Hosiery Mill as a knit ter. When that mill closed in April, 1955, he was reemployed by the Towel Mill as a filling carrier. In May, 1955, Mr. Merriman became a weaver and continues to work as a weaver at the present time. J. TROY MERRIMAN Security Analysts Visit A group of approximately 50 security analysts were guests of Fieldcrest Mills April 2 for mill tours and a luncheon meeting with company officials. The visitors, members of the New York Society of Security Analysts with a speciality in textiles, represented most of leading investment advisory firms in the country. They made the field trip to see the physical plant of Fieldcrest Mills and to obtain first-hand informa tion about the company. The security analysts came to Greens boro by chartered plane and first were taken by busses to Fieldale, Va., to tour the Fieldale Towel Mill. They later toured the Karastan Rug Mill at Eden. At a luncheon at Meadow Greens Country Club, the security analysts heard talks by Fieldcrest’s corporate of ficers on various phases of the Com pany’s operations. G. W. Moore, president of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., presided and commented on the Company’s 1968 annual report. He reviewed Fieldcrest’s sales and earnings in recent years and discussed the out look for 1969. R. A. Harris, vice president—manu facturing and secretary, reviewed man ufacturing activities and described the work of the staff departments that assist i>^ERVICE ANNIVERSARIES Forty-Five Years Mattie B. Merritt Sheet Finish. Forty Years J. Troy Merriman Fieldale Towel 'Thirty-Five Years Ollie W. Kallam Bedspread Finish. Richard Gilley Blanket Thirty Years Cecil M. Coward Karastan Mary S. Bray Karastan Bessie T. Clark Karastan Fannie A. Hundley Fieldale Towel Twenty-Five Years Talmadge L. Powell Blanket R. Everette Rodgers Blanket Sunshine H. Eastridge Sheeting 'Twenty Years Dollie B. Fulcher . Blanket Stephen Husak Nye-Wait Dillard Otis Stultz Blanket Fifteen Years Hugh A. Brown, Jr Fieldcrest Sales Louise H. Martin Fieldale Towel Aileen A. Handy Fieldale Towel Richard L. Bocock Fieldale Towel Bertie P. Wood Fieldale Towel Ten Years Larry B. Garrett Blanket Finish. G. Ronald Newman Karastan Cleveland B. Cornett .... Fieldale Towel Juanita B. Koger Fieldale Towel Houston M. McFarling .... Bedspread James W. Terhune .... General Offices Iva H. French Fieldale Towel the production operation. He gave high' lights of the $17 million capital pr®' gram being carried on in 1969. F. W. Green, president of the Field' crest Marketing Division, commented o® products and marketing ideas. He U' lustrated his talk with a number o' slides and showed a movie of the Field' crest Fashion Show. He said the has been used on several women’s tek' vision programs, and that the fashio® show has been presented nearly times at stores, clubs and in specie showings. W. B. Guinan, president of the Kar^' stan Marketing Division, reviewed tb® activities of that division and discuss® Karastan’s philosophy and policies. He also discussed the operations of Laurelcrest Carpet Plant which Field' crest purchased in 1967. Richmond R. Roberts, vice president^ finance and treasurer, described activities of the Finance and Accountin' Division. He pointed out that FieldcreS is highly computerized, a large part f®* the objective of improving custoipej service. At least half of the Finance Accounting activities are geared to i®' ventory control and sales forecasting’ he said. Harold W. Whitcomb, board chairinn|J of Fieldcrest and immediate past pm®*' dent of the American Textile Man®' facturers Institute, discussed the pm^’ lem of low-wage textile imports, d*, said the industry has been trying to f something done about imports and ‘ oP obtain some sort of quota limitations man-made fibers and wool. Mr. Whitcomb said the textile try is not trying to keep out impo®^ and is not asking for rollbacks. He saJ® there needs to be some reasonable H®®* tation whereby the industry would kn®^ that foreign countries would share jP the growth of the industry but wo' not usurp all of the growth in w American market. An extensive question - and - anS'«'*®_ period followed during which the va®*^ ous company officers answered b®®®" tions directed to them by the visitor®’ THE MILL WHIST Copyright, 1969, Fieldcrest Milis, Ine. Eden, N. C. 27288 issued Eveiv Other Monday For Empl®f* and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, inc.^ OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR SANDRA PENCE „ ASSOCIATE editor ADVISORY BOARD R. F. Bell J. S. Eggleston P. A. Brodie J. L. Crabtree W. F. Crumley S. R. Culligan A. H. JusHce J. M. Moore J. M. Rimmer C. C. Wilson Vol. 27, Monday, April 14, 1969, THE M ILL WHIST^
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