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The Caromount News
PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS
VOL. 10, NO. 2.
Caromount Employees
At Furniture Show
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SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL AND CO., INC.
E. H. Suessmuth Heads igsz Red Cross Drive
Softball Season,
Will R0 Here Soon
It’s ^me for Caromount soft-
hall l^ppefiils to begin loosening
Up th^ kinlcs gained by winter’s
idleness.
Plans are being made to get
^he athletic field in shape for
those eager for early workouts.
I’alk up a good team in your de
partment and let’s get ready for
a big season.
It’s really smart business to
'vork off that pent up feeling and
leave your worries on the ball
field.
It is hoped that many teams
'vill come out this year and sug
gestions as to how to schedule
the games to the best advantage
''^ill be welcomed at the Personnel
f>ffice.
E. H. Sullivan and John Ster- i
ken attended the furniture market i
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in Chicago during January where |
the) visited the company’s offices
and were given the opportunity
to inspect and examine first hand
the many furniture exhibits which
Were on display. All the well
known furniture manufacitiirers
throughout the country are rep
resented at this Chicago market
and the exhibit occupies an entire
eighteen story building and is by
far the largest building of its kind
in the world. They had an op
portunity to see how our fabrics
are being used on the many dif
ferent styles of furniture which
Were being shown by various
manufacturers and were very
oiuch impressed with the wide
distribution of our fabrics, which
the company, through its sales
efforts, enjoys.
The company has introduced
a large variety of attractive new'
patterns and is hopeful that our
spring business will lie good.
Messrs. Sullivan and Sterken
also had an opportunity to meet
oiany of our customers and the
experience they had at the market
will be greatly beneficial to them
hi the pursuit of their daily duties
at the Caromount plant.
Above is E. H. Siiessimith wlio lias betni named to head
the lJ>o2 American Red t’ross F'und Camiiaigii of the Rocky
•Mount-Nash County t'liapter.
Caromount - Wilson Employees To Stage Show
Rehearsal^ for the J0.S2 variety
and milistrel show' began on
Thursday, February 21, in the
Field House where interested em
ployees met to discuss plans for
the coming show. After reminisc
ing about the former shows, the
discussion led to the plans for
19.52 and a rehearsal of some of
the old familiar tunes followed.
The employee shows began in
1945 when Bill Williams of the
Machine Shop wrote the script for
the first minstrel show' given at
Williford School at Rocky Mount
for beriefit of his Boy Scout Troop
112 in May of that year. The Car
omount Novelty Band, as it was
called then, provided the music.
On May 22, 1948, the second
minstrel show was staged in Rocky
Mount’s Braswell School Audi
torium with an all employee cast
for the benefit of Caromount’s
Boy Scout Troop 113.
On June 25, 1949, the third
show', known as The Caromount
Varieties was staged in the Edge-
mont School Auditorium in Rocky
Mount.
FEBRUARY, 1952
Manager At The ARC
Meeting In Atlanta
F H. Suessmuth, resident man
ager. has been named chairman
for the Rocky Mount-Nash Coun-
t) (Jiapler of the American Red
Cross 1952 Fund Campaign.
Mr. Suessmuth recently return
ed from a regional Red Cross
meeting in Atlanta and was most
favorably impressed with the busi
ness like manner in which the
American Red Cross conducted
a series of meetings which lasted
for two days. It was his ob
servation that the Red Cross or
ganization functions most effic
iently and economically.
1 he Red Cross was in charge
ol relief in the flood stricken
areas of Kansas, Missouri, Okla
homa, and Illinois last year and
furnished food, clotinng, and fi
nancial assist".ice in the amount
of thirteen .■ lillion dollars. ‘Tt was
most encouraging to learn”, he
stated, “that 94c out of every dol
lar actually went to some person
in need, leaving only 6c as the
entire cost for rendering all
these services.”
.Suessmuth has completed all
his preliminary organizational
plans for the coming campaign
and feels enthusiastically confi
dent that the Rocky Mount quota
will be attained.
Walter Greenman, Superintend
ent of the Finishing Department
at the Caromount Plant has been
appointed Chairman of the In
dustrial Division.
Safety Slogan Contest
Plans for the 1952 show call
for an enlarged cast including a
group of employees from the Wil
son Division. Specialty acts of
singing, dancing and i^cting are
planned for the first part of the
show and an oldtime minstrel
show is scheduled for the second
half. It is hoped that'new' faces
will appear in the 1952 cast.
All employees who would like
to participate are invited to the
rehearsal set for Tuesday night,
February 26, at 7:30 P. M. in the
Caromount Field House.
The Safety Slogan Contest is
still on and you are urged to
write down your entry and send
it in to the Personnel Office be
fore April first.
Some simple idea will win
$10.00. Why not give it a try?
Entries must be short and related
to accident prevention. Many em
ployees have already entered this
contest.
Slogans such as: Safe Today—
Here loniorrow; Be Alert—Don’t
Get Hurt; Safety Has No Quit
ting Time, are examples of the
types of slogans that might win
the prize.