Management Four Employees Have 40 Years Of Servic
Appointments
Paul V. McKernan, presently
product manager, Blanket
Department, has been appointed
senior product manager. Automatic
Blanket Department. The
announcement was made by David
M. Tracy, president of the Field-
crest Marketing Division.
McKernan joined Fieldcrest in
1966 as a sales representative in
Boston. In 1972 he was promoted to
product manager, Bath Fashions. In
1974 he became product manager.
Blanket Department. He will
continue to report to A.S. Thompson,
Jr.
Other appointments announced at
the same time were: Desmond P.
Morrissey, product manager.
Blanket Department; Robert Dale
product manager, Sheet Depart
ment, and Richard A. Grissinger,
product manager. Sheet Depart
ment.
Also, Edward F. Waterman has
joined Fieldcrest as product
manager, Fieldale Towel Depart
ment. James Lazarus and Mary C.
Stafford were appointed department
assistants. Sheet Department and
Fieldale Towels, respectively.
Four Fieldcrest employees have
been honored by management on
completion of outstanding records of
40 years of continuous service. Each
has received the Fieldcrest 40-year
service emblem, a $40 gift
certificate for company
merchandise and a letter of
commendation from William C.
Battle, president of Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc.
Carl Barton began employment in
1937 as a creeler at the Karastan
Rug Mill. Since then he has been a
tie-up helper and a quill boy at the
Blanket Greige Mill and a floor man,
stock clerk, truck operator, lister
and checker, receiving and shipping
clerk and production clerk at
Karastan. He presently is a shipper
and receiver there.
Marvin Eggleston joined
Fieldcrest in 1937 as a napper
operator at the Blanket Finishing
Mill. He has worked in that
department for all of his 40 years
with the company.
Percy York worked for 30 years as
a loom fixer in the Weave Room at
Worthville Spinning Mill, formerly
owned by Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. He
transferred to the Weave Room at
Alexander Sheeting Mill in 1965 as a
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W. M. Ziglar
Percy York
loom fixer, his present job. He has
also worked as an overhauler there.
William Ziglar began his
employment in the Napping
Department at the Blanket
Finishing Mill as a learner and later
worked as a napper oprator there.
He has also worked in )
Warehouse and Shipping DepJi
ment at Karastan Rug Mill. In'
he became a filter operator at^;
Central Filter Plant. He present!.®
supervisor of water and waste'
treatment
Plant.
at the Central P*.
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Officials “Arrested” For Bike Fund
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. . . And Fun!
It was a citizens’ “arrest” for charity when several members of the Beta
Alpha Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) International, including some
Fieldcrest employees, took several Eden city officials into custody recently.
Jean Farlowe, secretary in the Fieldcrest Medical Department at the
General Offices (left photo, far left) and Gloria Hilton, R.N., of the Medical
Department (left photo, far right) “arrested” Eden’s Mayor Pro-Tern Dan
Squires, two members of the Eden police force and two city firemen.
Squires, a shift foreman in the Spinning Department at Draper Sheeting
Mill (right photo), was “arrested” for operating his trike at a high ratr; of
speed.
Sgt. Posie Meadows and Detective Buddy Moretz of the police depart
ment, and Firemen Benny Sexton and Ronnie Overby were caught trying to
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“steal” the mayor pro-tem’s tricycle.
Mrs. Mitchell Wilson and Mrs. Lee Ivester (wife of Fieldcrest’s indusi
hygienist) assisted in the “arrests.”
Bond for the offenders has been set at $500 each and they were rele3'
to members of the sorority. Contributions toward their bond will be dori3
to the “BIKE ACROSS” for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to be I’
Saturday, July 23.
One hundred cyclists will compete in the “BIKE ACROSS,” sponsored
the sorority chapter, by racing against the clock in a time obstacle coU'
All proceeds will go to the hospital to aid in treating children for leuked
other types of cancer, infectious diseases and malnutrition free of chd
and for research and development.
THE MILL WHIS^