Card Of Thanks
‘^ family of “Chip” Sexton would
thank all of their friends and
^^ers for the many acts of
the food, cards, flowers,
6h’ ^*^d prayers shown us during
Sss'^^tng of our loved one. May God
of you.
JftGiNiA AND HERBERT
j&Ton
^gjmFER AND ROBERT
,Vatt New VP
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f Period away from Fieldcrest,
1^ ewart rejoined the company
itia named department
Rugs in 1972.
tj ^ttended Fordham University
resides in Basking Ridge,
Mr. Stewart and his wife,
have four children.
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at their highest level since
liilll’ textile imports reached 5.1
(SYp? .®^oare yards equivalent
fisiif according to latest
Cf ^o^ipited by the U. S.
Pertinent of Commerce.
Perr^ figure is less than one
ibov 1 above 1973, but 17 percent
Q ® 1974 and 34 percent above 1975.
in product basis, cotton imports
all-time high, 1.9
1575 H • ’ ^ of 53 percent over
fepn„j percent over the previous
set in 1972.
product imports for the year
196 million SYE, 35 percent
iiDh.lt975. Man-made fiber product
atdr,, ^ '''ore up 25 percent over 1975,
I^^bng to 3.1 billion SYE.
Hh-5 apparel imports also hit a
Perc^!”’ '■oaching 2.6 billion SYE, 16
it) 15^2 ®bove the previous record set
irnports. from Japan, Hong
!or5y raiwan and Korea accounted
ill 197r of total textile imports
^aiounting to 2.9 billion SYE.
We f ® is 30 percent above the 1975
fail). „ ior textile imports from these
i W°''atries.
i>f f*’®’ri the People’s Republic
Ni;®=pRC), in 1976 totalled 154
W f> 1 a 10 percent increase
I ^j^'^aiendar 1975.
American Textile Manu-
Institute pointed out that
tentj. 9'ted States does not have a
’"1 jL ^ade agreement with the PRC
iJjtij^^'afore, there is no limit on the
'^''sh' Saods which that nation
W? ^astitute also pointed out that
ttegf and apparel imports in 1976
*j)pf a an all-time high trade deficit
itpj .aabing $3 billion, one-half of the
jf S. trade deficit last year,
diy, ,^be month of December 1976,
totalled 371 million SYE, 11
Whf November and 18
i ^ below December 1975.
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Fieldcrest Honored
By Boys Club
Morris Janney, president of the Eden Boys Club, left,
presents plaque awarded Fieldcrest Mills for “outstanding
support of the Eden Boys Club.” Accepting the plaque is
Robert L. Moore, Fieldcrest regional personnel manager
and a former member of the board of directors of the Boys
Club.
“Fieldcrest has been our primary support through the
years,” Mr. Janney said. “We could not ask for a better
friend of the Boys Club than Fieldcrest Mills.”
Don Janney Promoted To Eagle Scout
JACKIE EVANS
New Nurse
Jackie Evans, R. N. has joined
Fieldcrest as the plant nurse at Swift
Spinning Mills, Columbus, Ga.
She will assist Dr. George Conner in
implementing Fieldcrest’s medical
policy at Swift Spinning Mills.
A graduate of Druid City Hospital
School of Nursing in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
she was previously employed at
Providence Hospital, Mobile, Ala.
A native of Columbus, she is
married and resides with her
husband, Wayne and their two
children in Phenix City, Ala.
Don Janney, 15-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Janney, of 319 North
Jackson Street, Eden, has been
promoted to Eagle Scout, the highest
rank a Scout can attain.
A Scout for the past four years, he
currently is a member of Troop 553,
sponsored by the Central Church of
Christ. In the summer of 1976 he was
elected to the Order of the Arrow, an
organization of honor campers.
Young Janney spends at least one
week each year at Scout camp and
attended the Philmont Scout Ranch in
New Mexico for three weeks in 1975.
He is registered for the National Scout
Jamboree to be held in Pennsylvania
for 11 days in August of this year.
His mother, Barbara Janney, is
employed in the Employee Benefits
Department at the General Offices,
and his grandmother, Dorothy B.
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DON JANNEY
Janney, in the Winding Department
at the Karastan Rug Mill.
Toastmasters Set AAarch Schedule
Meetings of the Rockingham
Toastmasters for the remainder of
March have been announced as
follows:
—Monday, March 14, 7:30 p.m..
Board Room at the Rockingham
Community College Administration
Building.
—Monday, March 28, 7:30, dinner
MARCH 7, 1977
meeting, details to be announced at
March 14 meeting.
Pat Comer of Karastan Information
Services, a charter member of the
Rockingham Toastmasters, said all
Fieldcresters who wish to improve
their oral communication are
invited to attend. They may partici
pate in the program and join the club
if they so desire, she said.
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