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Employee To Visit Japan Josie C. Crowder, a sheet hemmer at the Sheet Finishing Eden, will leave October 1 for a 10-day visit to Japan to her newest grandchild. She will be accompanied by her *''^sband, J. H. Crowder, Jr., section foreman in the Bedspread ^^eave Room. will be Mrs. Crowder’s first overseas trip but not for Mr. Cro^vjer who was overseas in World War II and who last spent four weeks in Switzerland on a business trip for Company. The Crowders will fly from Greensboro to Los Angeles via ttanta. From Los Angeles they will fly to Tokyo on a Japa- airline. They will then go to, Kamiseya, where their son, “ief Petty Officer Joseph Crowder, and his family live. The and daughter-in-law have sight-seeing tours lined up for , CPo Crowder, a Morehead High School graduate, has been the Navy since 1959 and is making a career of the service. ® has been stationed in Japan for three years and he and his ’’lily earlier lived in Hawaii and Iceland. Joseph Crowder is the former Rosemary Newman, Josie Crowder will go to Japan to see new grandson. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Newman of the Draper section of Eden. Mr. Newman is employed in the Blanket Mill Plant Service Department. CPO and Mrs. Crowder have three children, Tammy, 10, Susanna, 8, and Chris, born June 7. Greenville Man Lands 135-Pound Tarpon ROBERT L. MATTHEWS RALPH R. Ml RPHV Two At Bedspread Mill Receive Promotions j. The appointment of Robert L. Mat- jj and of Ralph R. Murphy as as- tant foremen in the Bedspread Weave has been announced, effective re- 'entiy Itr. hi tWr, Matthews is a native of Rocking- County and was first employed in ^ ® Bedspread Weave Room in 1964 as doffer. He later worked as an ^^®i'hauler before becoming a loom fix- atid was a supervisory trainee before \ his promotion to assistant foreman. Mr. Murphy, a native of Eden, first joined the company at the Synthetic Fabrics Mill in 1953 and worked as a server and later as a fixer in the Prep aration Department. He has been at the Bedspread Mill since 1957 and worked through most of the departments at that mill. He was a sample and fabric developer just prior to his promotion to assistant foreman. k *Tiports Totaled 3.3 Billion Square Yards In 1968 Nearly 77 per cent of all cotton, wool and man-made fiber textile imports in 1968 came from 10 countries. Japan alone accounted for more than 25 per cent of all imports. Hong Kong was the second largest exporter, accounting for 16 per cent. The next largest was West Germany, accounting for seven per cent of the textile imports. , ^hiports of cotton, wool and man- fiber textiles in 1968 reached 3.3 square yards, up 28 per cent from ^ and double the amount in 1963. L The textile balance of payments sank V ^ the red by $800 million, and ap- c^^iinately 227,000 potential textile j “s^more than $1 billion in wages- ^*■6 forfeited. BNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 2, 1 9 6 9 William “Bill” Stokes, second shift assistant foreman of the Twisting, Winding and Reeling Department at the Karastan Spinning Mill, Greenville, landed the largest tarpon of the season from an ocean pier at Topsail Island. It took him an hour and a half to land the tarpon which weighed 135 pounds and was six feet, 5V2 inches long. Mr. Stokes was using a 6/0 Penn reel with 40-pound test line. He beached the catch about 200 yards from the pier.
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