Bedspread Finishing Employees Enjoy Safety Barbeci
Employees at the Bedspread
Finishing Mill recently enjoyed
a safety barbecue in recognition
of having achieved an average of
2,000 man-hours per employee
without a lost-time accident.
Bedspread Finishing em
ployees achieved a total of
557,591 safe man-hours.
Under the terms of the
Fieldcrest Safety Contest, em
ployees at any mill are eligible
for a safety barbecue whe
achieve an average of 2,0(
man hours per employee,
Given Extra Responsibili)
Trainees from left, Josephine Neal, Blanket Finishing; Hilda Lowe Blanket Finiahim^-
and Jarrell Pritchett, Draper Sheeting, egantine vari„„a*’e,niptent 'i;:; ®|rfh‘
New Training Classes Conclude
The most recent group of pre-
supervisory courses concluded
on November 21. Enrollment in
the individual courses ranged
from six to 18, including
supervisory trainees,
management trainees and new
supervisors.
The complete pre-supervisory
program included classes in the
manufacturing process for those
trainees who needed them, and
two blocks of supervisory
courses covering supervisory
systems and concepts
and
supervisory controls and cases.
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These pre-supervisory classes
are supplemented by on-the-job
training in the mills for the new
supervisors and trainees. The
course in manufacturing
processes is a step-by-step of
how the various textile
equipment works and how the
stock is processed. This includes
both domestics manufacturing
and rug manufacturing.
The Supervisory systems and
concepts courses are intended to
acquaint trainees
Fieldcrest systems
procedures which provide
assistance and ground rules for
handling supervisory problems,
and to acquaint them also with
concepts and elementary skills
helpful in the handling of these
problems. The course is
constructed so as to set the stage
for the understanding of controls
and services available to
supervisors. Some of the areas
included in the course are
safety, labor relations, quality
conUol, problem solving and
decision making, interviewing,
motivation, and communication
and perceptions. The course in
supervisory controls and cases
primarily is concerned with
wage and other cost controls and
with realistic work situations
Thomas E. Wallace, plant
manager of the Automatic
Blanket Plant at Smithfield, has
been given additional
responsibility following the
retirement under the Fieldcrest
Retirement Program of Robert
F. Sambleson, division vice
president and general manager,
automatic blankets.
Mr. Wallace has assumed the
additional responsibility of pur
chasing, quality control-product
service and warehouse-
customer service. He reports to
Norman F. Young, division vice
president and general manager
of blanket manufacturing.
T. E. Edwards, purchasing
agent, E. W. Delahooke, man
ager of quality control-product
service, and L. L. Bulthaup,
manager of warehouse-cus
tomer, service, report to Mr.
Wallace along with others
already reporting to him. E. R.
Mills, chief engineer, who
previously reported to Mr.
Sambleson, now reports to Mr.
Young.
A native of Charlotte, Mr.
THOMAS E. WALLACl
Wallace is a graduate of '
Carolina State University*
B.S. degree in industrial art
started with Fieldcrest as;
man of the molding depar|
when the Automatic Bl|
Plant was opened at
in 1960. I
He became head of the
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Sprouse Joins Fieldcrest!
David W. Sprouse has joined
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. as general
superintendent of weaving and
finishing at the Fieldale Towel
Mill. He reports to C. Hoyt Wig-
gonton, division vice president
and general manager of Fieldale
towel manufacturing.
Mr. Sprouse has a broad back
ground of experience in towel
manufacturing, having served
as plant superintendent for
Cannon Mills at Kannapolis
plant manager of the m!
Lowenstein and Sons towel mill
in Columbia, S.C., and, im
mediately before joining
Fieldcrest, as general
superintendent of weaving at the
Mooresville Mills division of
Burlington Industries at
Mooresville.
A native of South Carolina,
Mr. Sprouse is a graduate of
Clemson University with a B.S.
DAVID W.
degree in textile
He is married t
Sandra Motley,
Durham.
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