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Hershel Bilbey shows how accident occurred.
Safety Shoes Save Fixer Foot
The first day he wore his new safety
shoes, Hershel Bilbey was saved from
a serious foot injury when a jack fell
on his foot.
Mr. Bilbey is a fixer in the Plant
Service Department at the Foremost
Screen Print Plant at Stokesdale. He
was repairing a lift truck which was
up on a jack. The jack loosened and
fell on his foot.
His new shoes were scuffed but the
steel cap in the toe kept his foot from
being injured. He said he was very
thankful that he was wearing safety
shoes and that no one has to convince
him of their value in preventing foot
injuries.
The Fieldcrest Safety Department
has recommended Mr. Bilbey for mem
bership in the Golden Shoe Club which
recognizes industrial employees who
have avoided foot injuries by wearing
safety shoes.
He will receive a membership certi
ficate and an attractive insignia.
Mr. Bilbey’s safety shoe
New Executive Appointments Are Announced
(Continued from Page One)
ufacturing in January, 1972.
He graduated from North Carolina
State University with a B.S. degree in
textile engineering and joined Fieldcrest
Mills as a quality control engineer in
1961.
Mr. Wiggonton is a graduate of Au
burn University with a B.S. degree in
business administration and had a long
career- with Cone Mills and Deering-
MilUken, Inc.
He served in various staff functions
at Cone’s Dwight Division in Gadsen,
Ala., and for 10 years was at Cone’s
Pineville, N. C. plant where he served
as assistant superintendent and assist
ant plant manager.
He joined Deering-Milliken in 1966
as a staff assistant to the director of
manufacturing for three plants and then
became manager of Pacolet Yarns at
Pacolet, S. C. Immediately before join
ing Fieldcrest in 1971, he was with
Pacolet Mills, Division of Deering-Mill
iken, Inc., Spartanburg, S. C., where
he was yam manufacturing superin
tendent, including responsibility for the
cloth room and warehouse.
Mr. Mills graduated from Clemson
University with a B.S. degree in textile
management and has a background of
experience in the manufacture of sheet
ing and apparel fabrics.
Starting with Springs as a manage
ment trainee he advanced through a
number of responsible supervisory and
managerial positions. He was associated
with several of the Springs plants and
most recently was at Lancaster, S. C.
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Textile Careers
(Continued from Page One)
reers month is: “In Textiles a Career
Comes with Every Job.” The campaign
will enxphasize that someone willing to
work and learn can always find a good
job in the textile industry—that there
are jobs available to people with aU
levels of education and with or with
out prior textile experience.
Most textile firms, including Field
crest, are anxious to find new em
ployees and Textile Careers Month pro
vides a means of informing the public
that the textile industry is modern,
progressive and a good place to work.
Textile Careers Month is being spon
sored by the various textile companies
with the cooperation of the American
Textile Manufacturers Institute. In ad
dition to the special month, April 1-7
is being observed as National Textile
Week, sponsored by Phi Psi, the
national professional textile fraternity-
Named To Dean’s List
Ronald Broadnax, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Broadnax, has been named to
the Dean’s List for the fall semester at
A & T State University.
A Fieldcrest Scholarship recipient
Mr. Broadnax is a junior at A & f
and is majoring in electrical engineer
ing. He is a 1970 graduate of Morehead
High School.
His father is a filling controller in the
Quilling Department at the Bedspread
Mill.
Name Omitted
Thomas V. Dillard, of the Dyeing Ds'
partment, should have been included i>^
the list of Karastan Rug Mill employees
who worked every scheduled day dur
ing 1972. The list was published in the
last issue of The Mill Whistle.
Mr. Dillard had perfect attendance
on the job throughout the year 1972
and the addition of his name makes ®
total of 69 at Karastan who achieved
100% attendance.
THE MILL WHISTL^