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PAGE FOUR AUGUST, 1946 Mending Dept Reports The Mending Department thoroughly enjoyed the picnic. Several ladies won prizes in the various contests. They were par ticularly outstanding in the dress making contest. Knox Ellis spent a well earned vacation at Carolina Beach. He reported that he and his family had a most enjoyable time. Linard Bailey has been trans ferred to the pick pulling ma chine. . . . Mrs. Pauline Morris has returned to the first shift after working several months on the second shift. . . . Mrs. Edith Dunn has returned to work after a brief illness. . . . Miss Ruby Ezzell has returned to work after a trip to Washington, D. C. From all reports, she had a wonderful trip. . . . Mrs. Annie Woodard spent a recent Saturday in Ra leigh visiting her son, Df Woodard. From The Storeroom Jess Evans does it again. As you know Jess Evans is a me chanic in the machine shop. Last week he was told to put some tirerods on the pickup truck. He was given the tirerod ends and proceeded up to the garage to perform the operation, as he calls it. Jess worked hard for several hours doing the job. After iie was through, he told Charlie Lewis, the driver of the truck, to take it and try it out. Charlie was all smiles when he got in the truck—thinking how good it v,muld seem to drive the truck when in good shape. Charlie drove out of the garage and at tempted a turn south. Only to learn that the truck went north. This startled Charlie and upon returning back to the garage, he told Jess that the truck was haunt ed or he was crazy. After Jess tried to drive the truck, it was finally determined that Jess had put the tire rods on backwards and it caused the truck to go in the wrong direction when steer ing it. News From Wilson The Wilson employees express their appreciation to management for the outing and picnic held on August 10. It was well planned and conducted. It is the general opinion that it was the best out ing given employees thus far — Joe and Sam Langley can really “pick ’em”—In the beauty contest Mrs. Joe Langley won second place and Mrs. Sam Langley won third place. Concerning his recently pur- ^ % v'v. ■ ■■ Herman Allen, a native of Franklin County, has been employ ed in the Rocky Mount plant since November 1928. One of his first jobs was to help install looms and then he began his work in quilling and beaming. As a matter of fact. Alien states that he has performed nearly every job in the weaveshed except fix looms. Incidentally when help is need ed to operate a movie projector, call Herman for he operated a projector during his spare time of school days in Franklinton, N. C. Allen’s quiet, soft spoken, and even tempered manner and his congenial personality have won him many friends here. Since 1931 he has been very active in the Sunday School of the Marvin Methodist Church where he is now serving as superintendent. For recreation Herman devotes much of his spare time to reading, particularly history, biographies and fiction. He also enjoys an occasional game of chess. He is always an interested spectator at baseball games. During 1935 Al len was manager of the “B” soft- ball team at Caromount and this team won the second half of the Y. M. C. A. schedule for that sea son. He called the names of the players of that team with pride— many of whom are working here now. Another source of happiness in Allen’s life is his home, the cen ter of all his activities. His wife was the former Miss Esther Olivia Edgerton of Wayne County. They have one son, Herman Edgerton Allen, affectionately known as Eddie. chased cow. Cal Jones said “I am going to kill that ?*?!!! cow if she doesn’t stop kicking over the milk bucket.” She: “Is there no hope, doc tor?” Doctor: “Well, I don’t know. What are you hoping for?” Weaveshed Activities W. H. Young and Paul Wells, foremen of the Warping Depart ment, recently returned from their vacations. They both took it easy —resting and visiting relatives. L. R. Joyner, third shift weav ing foreman, vacationed recently. We have no reports concerning his activities for we saw him only once—at the company picnic. Mrs. Joyner and his daughter were with him which means his behavior was good for this day at least. Incidentally many of the proud parents were presenting their babies to the crowd at the picnic for the first time. “Duck” Walter Jones and George Pridgen led this parade of proud fathers. Nolie Robinson recently under went a tonsilectomy at the Rocky Mount Sanitarium. He has recov ered satisfactorily. At the picnic, Herbert Clark and Earl Powell were matching for free beer. They drank eight on Earl and fourteen on Herbert. They both were very happy. Naturally they couldn’t lose—but through force of habit found it necessary to contest each other. Randolph Sutton is trying to collect a bet. He will take one box of gunshells, a pint of medi cine for snake bites or ten cheap cigars at fifteen cents. Incidentally what is the bet? Leslie Alexander has built a very nice sail boat. E. 1. Raper, E. B. Davis and Alexander went sailing over the week end. 0. B. Solmon was there also but spent most of his time asleep in the automobile. These friends argued that Alexander has a fine sail boat but they do not like the two hours of hard work getting the boat ready for sailing and the two hours to take it out of the water into dry dock for the 30 minutes devoted to sailing. Mrs. Mamie Taylor has been out several days due to the illness of her daughter. We are happy to report that her daughter is well again and Mamie is at work. . . . We are glad to see Horace Ezzell shave again. He has had a bad case of barber’s itch and could not shave for about two weeks. Now, talk about an ugly man—however he is 0. K. now. . . . Mrs. Lillie Mae Nelms has been sick recently. We are gald to report that she is better now. ... It has been reported that E. B. “Crow” Davis has had a bad crink in his neck. We wonder if the bathing beauty contest at the picnic had anything to do with it. Mrs. Mavis Thomas, employee of the Caromount Dyehouse of fice, was crowned queen of the 1946 Blunienthal Bathing Beauty Pageant held on Satur day, August 10. Machine Shop Chatter Jesse Evans, who claims to be a young man, went to the circus on August 13. Evans stated that he had two grandsons whom he had promised to carry to see the sights. Really, we think that Jess is in his second childhood. It was reported that Jess had the time of his life. When he was seen at the circus, he was having an argu ment with the monkeys about evolution. The monkey was try ing to claim kinship with Jess. We do not know who won the argument, but when Jess left the monkey was still laughing. . . • Herbert “Booty Goat” Taylor said that Doc Lancaster was a good man and he thought he did wrong by using Booty’s new band jacket to wipe the water off the piano at the picnic. . . . Vester Land “almost” gave himself away at the picnic during the softball pitching contest. Before pitching the ball into the ons and only barrel available, he asked, “Into which barrel must I throw the ball?”
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