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Gordon Holland, far right, has four consecutive Foremost employees with perfect attendance
years of perfect attendance at the Foremost for 1975 are, from left, Ruby D. Payne, Jessie
Screen Print Plant. Another Foremost employee, Holland, Walter Mitchell, Frank Hairston, Edgar
Russell Hairston, third from right, has two con- Carroll, Russell Hairston, Alvin Wilson and Gordon'
secutive years perfect attendance. Holland.
TV Women Visit
Plants At Eden
Visitors to Bedspread Mill Weave Room have questions
swered by (far right) Robert Matthews, section foreman.
an-
Fieldcrest Mills was host April
9 to a group of 12 women’s
program directors from
television stations across the
country for mill tours and a
luncheon.
The group spent two days in
the Greensboro-Eden area in
visiting textile companies under
the sponsorship of the Public
Relations Division of the Ameri
can Textile Manufacturers
Institute, Charlotte.
The television women were
given guided tours of the Kara-
stan Rug Mill and the Bedspread
Greige Mill Weave Room at
Eden and the Foremost Screen
Print Plant at Stokesdale. While
at Eden they were guests of the
company at a luncheon at
Meadow Greens Country Club
and visited the Fieldcrest Store.
At each of the mills visited
they were given general
information abut the operation
in pre-tour briefings and then
were divided into small groups
for guided tours of the plant.
Accompanying the visitors
were representatives of ATMI.
During tour of Bedspread .Mill Weave Room, group of television women are shown with W. A. .Mum-
power (left) superintendent of weaving, slashing and quilling.
Appointmenis
At Columbus
Perfect Attendance At Foremost
Two organization changes
have been announced at the
Columbus Towel Mill, effective
recently. Richard J. Kelly, Jr.
has joined the company as a
shift foreman in the Spinning
Department and Jimmie W.
James has been promoted to a
shift foreman in the Carding
Department.
Mr. Kelly, prior to joining
Fieldcrest, was employed by the
Cartersville Spinning Company.
He is a graduate of Jordan High
School in Columbus and has
attended Columbus Vocational
Technical School where he had
courses in refrigeration, heating
and air conditioning. He and his
wife, Rita, live on Washburn
Avenue in Columbus with their
two children.
Mr. James, also a graduate of
Jordan High School, has been
employed at the Columbus
Towel Mill since 1963. He has
worked in various production
capacities including roving
frame tender, section man and
frame fixer.
He holds a degree from
Columbus Vocational Technical
School in tool and dye making.
He and his wife. Pansy, live on
8th Street in Phenix City with
their three children.
Superdoffers
(Continued From Page One)
during May for all the doffers
who participated in the national
tournament. Each doffer will
receive a certificate of achieve
ment from the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute. The
winning doffer in each division
will receive a grand prize of
$1,750. The runner-up in each
division will receive a $1,000
prize.
Fieldcrest’s two champion
doffers will each receive a
trophy and other awards from
their respective mills and from
the general management.
The first national superdoffer
tournament was held in 1973.
The 1976 tournament was held
at the giant Textile Hall in
Greenville, S.C., where 55
doffers, 34 warp and 21 filling,
participated. The competition
began April 12 and the final
rounds were held on April 22.
Tommy Award
(Continued From Page One)
demand for fashion domestics to
the interest of talented designers
who’ve turned to home
furnishings projects.
Judges for the event included
notables from the fashion press
and fashion and home
furnishings industry. Among
them were: Shirley Goodman,
executive vice president.
Fashion Institute of Technology;
Lee Miles, fashion editor. Red-
book; Rita Perna, assistant vice
president, national fashion co
ordinator, Montgomery Ward;
Raye Rudie, associate
publisher. The Trade and Fabric
News, and Chip Talbot, fashion
director. Men’s Fashion
Association.
Wyatt Chil^
William E. Wyatt, /*'•’ if
years old, and jjj|(
Wyatt, who celebrated^n® ^ (.ijl
birthday on April 7,
dren of Mr. and Mrs.
Wyatt. Their father is ^
shift fixer in the
Department at the
Towel Mill. Their mother. |
is a second shift spinn® ,
Spinning Departm®®
Fieldale.
Missonis
Feature^
(Continued From PaS®
Of
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Chicago, New York, %ie>
Minneapolis, and Los
During that
promoted the Mixed
Collection in the stores a® j,,
frequent guest appearaOjjjcii.'
television and radio to ^
Fieldcrest merchant*'
their basic design philo® r
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