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Chapman Promoted To Blanket Mill Post The appointment of J. Melvin Chap man as superintendent of weaving at the Blanket Mill has been announced, effective May 1. Mr. Chapman was transferred to Eden from Forest City where he was employed several months ago as a shift foreman in the Weave Room at the Alexander Sheeting Mill. He was with Woodside Mills in Greenville, S. C., for 31 years, includ ing 13 years as a weave room super visor. He then joined Burlington In dustries and was night superintendent and superintendent of weaving at plants in South Carolina. Mr. Chapman was superintendent of weaving at ether companies in the South and in New England before join ing Fieldcrest Mills. He is a native of Oconee County, S. C., and served three years in the Navy during World War II, on convoy duty in the Atlantic. ■ J. MELVIN CHAPMAN Safety Glasses (Continued from Page Four) slip, seem crooked or are too tight, take the time to have them adjusted. Keep your glasses in a case when you are not wearing them. Don’t stick them in a back pocket or a tool box. They' can get scratched, bent or broken. Also, hanging goggles by an elastic band can twist and stretch the band so it doesn’t fit. Remember: safety glasses protect your precious eyesight. Give them the care they deserve. Dividend Voted Directors of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. voted on May 2 to pay a quarterly div idend of $.35 per share on June 30 to holders of record June 16. 8 t'H ■ Shown here are second shift employees in the Karastan Dyeing Department wbef® nine years of work without a lost-time accident were completed on April 25. Sta**“' ing at right in the picture are shift foremen Ray Lewis and Jesse Manns. Karastan Dyeing Honored For Safety Record Employees of the Karastan Dyeing Department have received congratula tions on their completion of nine years of work without a lost-time accident. The last disabling injury to occur in the department was on April 25, 1963. In honor of their outstanding safety- record, employees of the department were given special treats in the can teen on the day that the ninth accident- free year was completed. Free refreshments were served to employees on all shifts and a large “safety cake” was awarded in a draw ing. The winner was Goil Lowe, Jr., a dryer tender on the second shift. John G. Cunningham, plant managsr; used a bulletin board letter to all astan employees to call attention to Dyeing Department’s outstanding ord and to announce the special trea j a;rd the drawing for the “safety cake • The letter said: “Karastan Dy6^*'° employees have completed nine y®® without a lost-time injury. This is ® outstanding safety achievement. , “ ... As we recognize and comfflC’^ the Dyeing timployees for their u” safety record, may we all rededicate o efforts to improve our overall safety 3^ housekeeping practices which will hC r keep Karastan tops in the Company’ •Hi A large “safety cake” awarded in a drawing is presented to Goil Lowe, Jr., a tender on the second shift, by A. E. Shumate, superintendent of dyeing. THE MILL WHI
The Fieldcrest Mill Whistle (Spray, N.C.)
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