JONES NORMAN
Norman Wins
NCIDA Award
Eden’s Mayor Jones Norman,
personnel manager at Karastan Rug
Mill, recently won the 1977
“Industrial Development Volunteer
of the Year” award at the annual
N.C. Industrial Development
Association (NCIDA) meeting.
The newly-established award
recognizes Norman for his work and
cooperation in helping Miller
Brewing Company to settle in
Eden.He will compete with 16 other
state award winners in October for
the Southern award.
Service Anniversaries
Forty Years
... Karastan Service Ctr.
Eggleston.. Blanket Finishing
•’i G. Ziglar Mechanical
fercvH V . Development
. . Thirty-Five Years
Barber Blanket
.f. "®ath Swift Spinning
G- Thacker Swift Spinning
, Thirty Years
im ^hworth Blanket
E. Gardner.. Industrial Relations
Evans Columbus
iia, o Twenty-Five Years
‘ttv^ G. Langston Columbus
^^'vyers Sheet Finishing
Jones Columbus
Stone Fieldale
'e J. Radford ... Karastan Spinning
A. Clark Karastan
ijii- E. Belton Sheet Finishing
pmD.Avant Columbus
ornm Twenty Years
j y w. Johnson Bedspread
E o. Finishing
jii^^bridge Karastan Sales'
G. Hicks Research-Karastan
‘ ^ R. Wilkerson, Jr Blanket
[u Warehouse
)hnn » PhenixCity
K•^‘ght Fieldale
■--~i_y®hers Columbus
Melton L. McKenzie Columbus
Grady A. Hall Fieldale
Talulah E. Rash Alexander
Fifteen Years
John W. McCollum, Jr Bedspread
Finishing
Bobby L. McKinney Karastan
James R. McGavisk Whiteville Plant
Rebecca G. Blackburn Bed Fashions
Information Services
Nellie B. Rakes Fieldale
Willie H. Lee Blanket Finishing
Jimmy D. Huffman. .Supply Purchasing
Larry S. Patterson Fieldale
Ten Years
Inez Lee Bedsnread
Rita B. Talbott Karastan
Elzie Collins Columbus
Norma S. Wigington Fieldale
Barbara L. Aldriedge Dallas Service
Center
Roena M. Dehart Blanket Finishing
Patricia M. Agee .. Bedspread Finishing
D. A. Dalessandro Northeast Service
Center
Charlie M. Moss Columbus
Joan A. Helms Columbus
Kenneth W. Boyd Non Woven
Eula N. Hairston Foremost
Linda S. Bolin Swift Spinning
Temple H. Land Raw Materials
Purchasing
Lonzo R. Adams Automatic Blanket
Hazel L. Pitts Columbus
Golden Shoe Safety Award
^^Q^^^'Conscious Marion Bradford (left), a wool spinner at the Blanket
ioq^ accepts a plaque and lifetime membership in the Golden
^awarding his dedication to foot safety. Plant Manager,
f|Q Greige Mills Fred Robertson presents the plaque to Bradford,
tij^^i®‘^®P6d serious injury by wearing safety shoes when a 500-pound
® •'ail fell on his right foot.
Eden's Father Of The Year
Fieldcrest’s security specialist, George Johnson, was named Eden’s
“Father of the Year’’ for 1977. “It was a total surprise,’’ said Johnson,
who was nominated by his daughter, Mrs. Sandra Johnson Willard of
Summerville, S.C.
“His love for mother and us and his firm discipline gave a strong
family tie that shall never be broken,’’ the letter read. “He is a special
person to others; as well as to his own family.’’
Johnson also Is the father of one son, George Walter Johnson, Jr.,
who lives with his family in Ruffin.
Johnson has worked for Fieldcrest since 1941 as quill collector, shop
helper and mechanic at the Blanket Greige Mill. He became a locksmith
for the company in 1971 and now as security specialist is responsible
for several thousand keys and other security equipment.
Bradley Joins
Medical Staff
Maggie Bradley, R.N. has joined
the Fieldcrest Medical Department
as the plant nurse at the Columbus
Towel Mill;
A native of Mobile, Ala., she
received her training at St. Francis
School of Nursing, Columbus. Prior
to joining Fieldcrest, she has been
an industrial nurse at Chloride, Inc.,
a battery manufacturing company
in Columbus.
She is married to James Bradley
and the couple two children, a son,
nine yeers old, and a daughter, 13
months old.
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JULY 18, 1977