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Harden Named Asst. Director Of Engineering Robert A. Harden, Jr., a textile en gineer in the Engineering Department at the General Offices, was promoted to assistant director of engineering effec tive July 1, reporting to A. G. Singleton, division vice president-engineering. All employees previously reporting to Mr. Singleton now report to Mr. Har den with the exception of W. J. Robert son who will continue to report to Mr. Singleton. Mr. Harden has been a textile en gineer with Fieldcrest since 1953 except for about a year in 1958-1959 when he was with an architectural and engineer ing consulting firm in Atlanta, Ga. He is a native of Georgia and re ceived his B. S. degree in textile en gineering from Georgia Tech. Prior to joining Fieldcrest he was employed for five years in the Technical Department of Martha Mills in Thomaston, Ga. His studies at Georgia Tech were in terrupted during World War II when Mr. Harden enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He was a navigator on B-29 bombers on duty in the South Pacific m i R. A. HARDEN, JR. and served fcr four years, being dis charged with the rank of captain. G. W. Moore Is Elected Chairman Of Board (Continued from Page One) elected chairman of the board and chairman of the board’s executive com mittee April 25, 1967. During his long and distinguished career, Mr. Whitcomb was active in the over-all textile industry and in trade circles, serving as president and as a director of various textile associations and institutes. He is the immediate past president and a director of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute and is a past president of the North Carolina Tex tile Manufacturers Association. He cur rently is a board member and treasur er of the Textile Foundation of North Carolina and long served as a trustee of the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottesville, Va. Holds Many Directorships A director of John P. Maguire & Company, Inc., New York City, and a director of Crossley Karastan Carpet Mills, Ltd., Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, he also is a member of the southern advisory board of the Arkwright- Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insur ance Co., and Mutual Boiler and Ma chinery Insurance Co., Waltham, Mass. He is a director of the Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company; a director of Dibrell Brothers, Danville, Va.; a director of Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, Inc., and a trustee of the Du- maines Trust, family trust fund for the heirs of F. C. Dumaine, Sr. A leader in civic and educational af fairs both locally and on a state level, Mr. Whitcomb is a trustee of the Med ical Foundation of North Carolina; a trustee and former president of More- head Memorial Hospital, and a board member of Carolinas United, Charlotte, N. C. He for a long time served as a trustee of the North Carolina Founda tion of Church-Related Colleges and currently is a trustee of Rockingham Community College and chairman of the building committee. He maintains a personal interest in community affairs and has consistent ly furnished effective leadership in civic movements and encouraged mem bers of the Fieldcrest organization in good citizenship and public service. Mr. Whitcomb was named “Man-of- the-Year” lor 1954 by the Leaksville- Spray Exchange Club and was chosen “Textile Man-of-the-Year 1955” by the North Carolina State University Chap ter of Phi Psi, national honorary tex tile fraternity. He was honored in 1963 by having the Whitcomb Diagnostic Clinic at Morehead Memorial Hospital named for him in recognition of his leadership in the building fund campaigns for the main hospital and the new addition of the diagnostic clinic. He was awarded an honorary L.L.D. degree by the University of New Hamp shire in June, 1964, and by Catawba College in June, 1965. CU Dividend (Continued from Page One) transactions as convenient as possible, the Company cooperates by permitting both savings and loan repayments to be handled through payroll deductions. To join the Credit Union, an employee pays a 25c fee and signs a card authoriz ing the Company to deduct a specific amount (whatever the employee chooses) of savings from each paycheck. 8 Hearing Protection Is Goal Of Program (Continued from Page Five) personnel were trained to make tests on a continuing basis. New audiometric testing devices been installed at the Fieldale and lumbus Medical Departments to i®* periodic audiograms of employees * posed to high noise levels. The testing facilities at these tions, along with the existing au® metric unit in the central Medical' partment in Eden, will be supplernei’ with a large mobile health unit d taining audiometric testing equip®* which will be used at all plant locati’ The mobile unit will make it P® ble eventually to expand the heat' test program into a voluntary empl°' health screening plan including ® tests, chest X-rays, breathing blood pressure checks, etc., and to it available to all employees in plant locations. Muff Type Protectors In the current noise control progt* Fieldcrest has purchased hearing P tective equipment tO' be worn by ployees when in high noise level ai®^ The muff-type protectors being are similar to those worn by air? employees when working around ■ aircraft and to those already sek^j hy other textile mills for use by employees. I While the protective equipment i be used as a beginning, the obje^J of Fieldcrest’s program is to find P‘, tical ways to reduce noise levels thr® 1 engineering. The engineering approach emhf* the use of best known materials, chinery and designs in new const® tion and remodeling of building. With the trouble spots isolated, '! forts are being made to overcome d' di>l culties where possible for imme) benefit. In cooperation with mach®' manufacturers efforts will continn® seek equipment designs which meet the desired noise levels for chinery which cannot presently modified to achieve these levels. To Meet Or Exceed Standards In announcing the hearing conS' lei'j tion program. Chairman Moore ^ “It is our intention to develop progt"| which should meet or exceed the mum recommendations of the government “This program is just one part , broad-gauge effort which is concSL with many facets of the health of employees. “Our larger goal, going far bef « T_1 -• r. _ +/> the noise problem, is to operate cf business consistent with modern , cepts of occupational health and those things that bring about and tain a work environment as pleasant and healthful as possible’ THE MILL WHlSf^
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