Some Representative Employees of the Karastan Spinning
People Make A Company
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(Continued from Pagej,
Margaret Smith is a spinner at the Karastan Spinning
Mill. She has been employed by Fieldcrest since 1956.
Julian Baker is a guard at Karastan Spinning,
been employed in the Greenville plant since 1951.
He has
$8 122,000, or 4.1 percents
net income before taxB
The textile rate of 5
1968, when it was i
nation’s industrial
contributing to
causes, was 1,5 per»
income before taxes
Following textiles ini
of contributions wer
primary metals industii'
1.47 percent record; sta
and glass industry, i.iip
and paper products
percent.
In all, the 433 si:
companies gave a total 1
million to worthwhile ca
0.73 percent of their cor
pretax income. This was!
below an 0.82 perceiil
reported in 1971,accorij
Conference Board’s "i
Survey of Cot
Contributions.”
The Conference Boari
independent, non-profitts
research organizatio
Bloodmobile Visit Is March 2
(Continued from Page One)
wise have been employees of
Fieldcrest. Two of them, Mrs.
Alice Cochran and Mrs. Eva
Medford, are retired from the
Draper Sheeting Mill Spinning
Department.
Mr. Page’s wife, the former
Ethel Gammons, is also an
employee of the Weave Room at
the Draper Sheeting Mill. They
have three daughters, all
married, and three grand
children.
In commenting on his half-
century at the Draper Sheeting
Mill, Mr. Page said the greatest
improvements he has seen were
the technological advances
made in the looms.
He said the most important
improvement in the community
was the sale of the company-
owned houses to employees in
the early 1940’s. “The new
homeowners improved the
houses and improved the town,”
he said.
Referring to the company,
Mr. Page said he did not know of
any company that “has done as
much for the people,” as
Marshall Field and Company
and Fieldcrest Mills.
When Mr. Page retires August
1, he plans to “take it easy” but
will do some gardening. Also, he
owns a trailer park near his
home at 1018 Friendly Road and
will spend some of his new
leisure time in maintaining the
trailer park.
Is Nominated For
Governor’s School
Jerome Spencer, Jr.
A Bloodmobile visit has been
scheduled for Eden on
Thursday, March 28, at
Morehead Memorial Hospital.
More donors than ever are
needed, according to Mrs. Guy
Buckle, executive secretary of
the Eden Chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Until recently, Eden’s blood
usage was approximately 1400
units per year, but is now ap
proaching 1800 units year year
Mrs. Buckle said.
In order to replace this
amount of blood, present recrui
ting procedures and practices as
well as donors are being heavily
taxed, she said.
The Eden Blood Program is
affiliated with the Piedmont
Carolinas Blood Center in Char
lotte which guarantees that any
Eden citizen or direct relative
will receive blood anywhere in
the United States provided the
hospital concerned will accept
R.ed Cross blood on a pint-for-
pint and type-for-type basis. The
blood must be replaced.
In,general, approximately 80
percent of a community’s
citizens between the ages of 18
and 66 are eligible to donate
blood. Nationally, only three
percent give, while in Eden,
some seven percent donate.
The requirements for blood
donors are:
1. Age; 18 through 66.
2. Weight: at least 110 pounds.
3. Frequency: Every eight to
10 weeks, but hot more than five
times a year.
4. Nourishment: R is import
ant that donor eat something
prior to donating blood, but not
high fat content foods such as
dairy products, mayonnaise, oil
dressing, peanut butter, ham,
bacon, nuts or chocolate.
5. Illnesses: no serious
in the month prior to d®
Also, if a prospective don
had jaundice due to inl«
hepatitis, they may
One regulation whiclili|
changed recently coi
prospective donors
had malaria. Effectiii|
mediately, those whotej’
malaria, immigrants!
malarial areas or indii
with a history of supp
treatment may donate
after continuous resident,'
United States for three
without relapse. Also, W
who have been in malari
are acceptable six mrf]
their return if malaria
occurred during that
nine
and
His
Jerome Spencer, Jr.,
months old, is the son of Mr
Mrs. Jerome Spencer, Sr.
father is a lift truck operator in
the Warehouse at the Fieldale
Towel Mill. His mother, Maxine,
IS an unloader in the Stock Room’
at Fieldale.
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Wanda Grice has been
selected as a nominee to attend
the Governor’s School. She is the
granddaughter of Raymond L.
Grice, Sr., who is employed in
the Plant Manager’s Office at
the Mt. Holly Spinning Mill.
The Governor’s School,
located on the campus of Salem
College in Winston-Salem, each
year accepts 400 of North
Carolina’s most intelligent and
talented students for eight weeks
of resident study. The school
offers unique experiences in art
dance, humanities, math, music
and natural and social sciences.
Wanda is one of two nominees
selected from East Gaston High
School.
Five Years Old
BOBBY MITCHELL
TOMMY
MITCHEI^,
Mitchell
Children
SMILE
Minister; “I hope you won’t
charge too much to fix my car
I’m a poor preacher.”
Mechanic; “Yes, I know
heard you last Sunday.
I
Paul Russell Thornton, III
celebrated his fifth, birthday on
February 5. His mother, Mrs.
Irene Thornton, is employed at
the Bedspread Finishing Mill
free. His great-grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Minter of
Eden.
Bobby Mitchell, age 16
Tommy Mitchell, age 14, and
Jerry Mitchell, age 13, are the
sons of Mrs. Sadie Mitchell and
5® l^te John W. Mitchell. Mr
Mitchell was a retired employee
Z Napping Department at
the Blanket Finishing Mill.
Both Tommy and Jerry will
celebrate birthdays on April 26.