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(® The Erwin Chatter M Vol. IX, No. 8 AUGUST, 1953 Circulation 6,000 No. 7 Employee Sp Project "Operation iteM |N "''lffLz sEBBHHHrai The new playground at Neuse is the direct result of the interest and effort put forth by Carl Green, Smash Hand in No. 7 Weave Room. Shown with Carl are two of his children, Billy and Eva Jane. .A. 'ML- v i THE FIRST DAY'S WORK on "Operation Playground." Left to right: Douglas Frarer, Bobby Mor ton, Gene Green, Hubert Jenks, Den nis Leonard, J. B. O'Neal, and Lin wood Barham. Erwin Mills hired a bulldozer to do the heavy work of leveling play ground. NEUSE MANAGEMENT CHANGES MADE L. E. Gatliu, Jr., Manager of No. 7 Mill. Xeuse. resigned as of the latter part of July. Fred Mc- Donald, who has been Overseer of Carding: and Spinning for the past several months, will have full gen eral supervision of the operations at Xeuse. He will continue his present duties as Overseer and, in addition, will be Superintendent of the plant. The payroll work, invoicing, and some other general office functions will be handled in Durham. The General Office at Xeuse will be dis pensed with and only functions necessary to production will be car ried on there. CARL GREEN SAW NEED FOR RECREATION PROGRAM; TOOK UP COLLECTION AND MILL LEVELED LAND FOR GAMES Carl Green, Smash Hand in the Weave Room at Neuse, is a man of ideas with the will to carry them through. He has been working at No. 7 Mill since 1952, and at the same time, he is studying for the ministry at Wake Forest College. Saw Need for Playground As a father of three small chil dren, Carl was aware of the fact that the children of Neuse needed some sort of recreation program. He saw the possibility of making a play area on the Company-owned vacant lot next to his house. After he got approval to use the lot, he started planning where he would put what if he could get the equip ment. To best serve the needs of the community, he decided to pro vide games which adults would enjoy as well as children. Employees Donate Money The next step in "Operation Playground" was to jret the citizens of Neuse interested in his project, lie to talk about it to his fellow employees at the mill and they liked the idea. They liked it so much that iu one day they donated enough money to buy all - ' «WKBIb »„ , JJfik ■-f ■ ' iI ■ Mr- - ; . > -/v •- - - . ~jjgife .j|§- 3/9 ™ ll^" ' * l^KpsHP Elizabeth Fonville and Mary Etta Holme* challenge Dennis Leonard and John Fonville to a game of badminton on the new court. the necessary equipment. That in cludes balls, bats, badminton and tennis rackets, croquet set, horse shoes, and the nets for badminton, tennis, and volleyball courts. Clearing Land Children in the community volun teered their help in clearing the land of high grass and rocks. The management of Plant 7 was so im pressed with the community spirit of cooperation that they arranged to have a bulldozer do the heavy work of leveling the lot and clearing space for the tennis and badminton courts. Supervises Playground In his spare time, Carl supervises oil the playground and has volunteered to help employees learn the rules of the games they do not know. He hopes that eventually there will be a pieim* area and fireplaee as part of the playground. Also, he believes that others in the eommunitv will volunteer to super vise games at the playground so that the equipment will be available all day long. Now, he ean keep the equipment out only when he is not on the job at the mill. TRAINING CLASSES BEGIN NEXT MONTH The Training Department an nounces that vocational education classes will start in Loom Fixing and Mill Calculations sometime around the middle of September. The exact starting time of these classes will be announced through the Company bulletin boards. These courses are offered to all employees who are interested in advancing themselves in the textile field. They are offered to employees by the Company under the super vision of the State Department of Vocational Education and the Er win Mills Training Department. Upon satisfactory completion of a course, an employee will be pre sented with a diploma from the X. C. Department of Vocational Education. A permanent record of his achievement is kept in the Raleigh office of Vocational Educa tion. %JJ P» W-' F. E. Grier, Chairman, Our Board of Directors No. 8 Spinning Is Safest Dept. No. 4 Carpenter Shop Has Longest Record Without Lost Time Accident Employees in the Spinning: De partment at Plant 8, Stonewall. Miss.. liave worked 1.432.377 man hours sine their last lost time in jury. Records in the Safety De partment show that the last time a person suffered a lost time injury in that department was October 1948! On the basis of man hours worked. No. 8 Carding is the next safest department in Erwin Mills. They have 962.612 man hours to their credit without a lost time acci dent. Xo. 3 Weave Room. Cooleemee, holds third place with 954.152 man hours; Xo. 1 Spinning. Durham, lias 846,915 man hours; and Xo. 2 Carding, Erwin. has 803.205 man hours since their last lost time in jury. Ten Years for Carpenter Shop Xo. 4 Carpenter Shop. Durham, has the longest record of any de partment in Erwin Mills for work ing safely. They have the enviable record of working ten years with out a lost time injury. Xo. 6 Shop and Vard crew can almost match that record of safety because their last lost time accident happened in Januarv 1944. So. 6 Carding Department -an boast a record that goes back to July 1945: and Xo. 3 Dyehouse has worked since April 1946 without an on-the-job accident which caused an employee to be out of work. Xo. 3 Warehouse record goes back to December 1946. Good Safety Record Helps All Each employee in the department has done his share in making these excellent safety records. By work ing carefully and safely, he has helj>ed the department . . . helped the mi 11... helped the Company ... and most of all, he has helped him self because everyone knows that IT HCRTS TO GET HURT! Abney Mills President is Elected at July Meeting; Fills Place Vacant Since Death of Mr. K. P. Lewis F. E. Grier. President of The Abney Mill* of Greenwood. S. C., was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of our Company on July 28. The office of Chairman of the Board has been vaeant .«inoe the death of Mr. K. P. Lewis in June 3952. To Serve in Advisory Capacity Mr. (irier will continue to reside in Greenwood and to carry on his duties and responsibilities as Pres ident of The Abney Mills. He will serve the Erwin Mills in advisory and consultative capacity. which, as stated by President Buffin. should prove to be most helpful and will be appreeiated by hiiniself and other officers and directors of the Company- Readers of the CHATTER will re call full stories recently about The Abney Mills and its large opera tions in South Carolina. Was Bank President After graduation from Erskine College. Due West. S. C.. in 1920, Mr. Grier began work in the book keeping department of a bank in Rock Hill. S. C. He climbed swift ly to the top in the hanking busi ness. becoming President ot the Bank of Greenwood in 1933. He served in that capacity until 1942 when the Abney family asked him to take over the presidency of The Abney Mills following the death of J. P. Abnev. ERWIN SHEETS ARE NOW IN COLORS "• Our first order* for colored sheets and jyllow cases are now being filled. The Erwin line of colors include* T>lue, maize. rose, green, pink, and lilac. Employee* of the Sewing Room in Durham have the pleasure of hemming* sheets and pillow cases in lovely pastel colors after working on all-white goods for manv vears. We are making the colored sheets in both percale and muslin, in all popular sizes. Colored sheets will probably be made in fitted sizes as well.
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