Chath am Blanketeer
Vol. 6 OCTOBER 9, 1939 No. 1
New Plant Is Fast Taking* Shape
The new addition to our plant is fast taking shape as workmen hurry construction so as to have
the building in readiness to remove the finishing department from Winston-Salem to Elkin around
the first of the year. The photo above gives a general impression of the scope of the new construc
tion, with the present Elkin plant seen in the background.
Mr. Chatham Favors
Support For Allies
Tells Club Members of Conditions in Europe in Talk Monday
Night; Says We Cannot Sit By and Be Totally Inde
pendent; English Industry 95 Per Cent,
on War Materials
MRS. CALHOUN
DIES IN FALL
Wife of Former Elkin Man
Hurtles from 7th Story Win
dow in Tennesse Hotel
Mrs. Annie Gray Johnson Cal
houn, 28, of Winston-Salem, wife
of Charles Dobyns Calhoun, for
merly of Elkin, died Monday
afternoon i n a Chattanooga,
Tenn., hospital after a fall from
a seventh story floor of a Chat
tanooga hotel. Mrs. Calhoun
lived only a short time after the
accident.
The deceased was a member of
a prominent Tarboro family and
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
Henry Johnson. Shortly after
her marriage to Mr. Calhoun
they made their home here for
several months and she had
many friends here.
Mr. Calhoun is employed with
the Chatham Manufacturing
company and for a number of
years was with the New York of
fice of the company. He has re
cently been transferred to the
south, with headquarters in Win-
ston-Salem.
Mrs. Calhoun is survived by her
husband, a small daughter, Annie
Gray Nash Calhoun, and her par
ents.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday in Tarboro.
Photo Contest to
Close October 6
The last day for submitting
pictures in the first annual T. C.
U. Club Photo Contest has been
changed to Friday, October 6.
The postponement in date was
due to requests of several em
ployees who are planning to sub
mit pictures.
All Chatham employees in the
Elkin and Winston plants who
are interested in photography as
a hobby are urged to submit one
or more pictures to the commit
tee in charge of the contest. The
committee in charge of the con
test are Henry Woodruff, chair
man, Hugh Salmons and Russell
Burcham.
Ideals are like stars; you will
not succeed in touching them
with your hands, but like the sea
faring man on the desert of wa
ters, you choose them as your
guides, and, following them, you
reach your destiny.—Carl Shurz.
Thurmond Chatham, president
of the Chatham Manufacturing
Co., Monday night addressed
members of the Chatham T. C.
U. Club, the Lucy Hanes Chat
ham clubs, plant foremen and
special guests at a meeting held
at the clubhouse near the Chat
ham plant here.
Mr. Chatham spoke informally
of his recent trip to Europe,
which included France, England
and Scotland.
Balloons are all over England
for protection from air raids, he
said, stating that in his opinion
they would ihave a tremendous
effect on air warfare. Prior to
the war, the working people beg
ged and pleaded with the govern
ment to stop Hitler, Mr. Chatham
said.
In speaking of Germany and
Russia, the speaker said the
standards of living are terrific
ally low. Hitler has the young
people charmed with promises of
world domination, while the old
er citizens are stunned,
English industries are 95 per
cent on production of war mater
ials, Mr. Chatham told ihis listen
ers. He also pointed out that the
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FOLGER SPEAKER
AT T.C.U. MEETING
Fifth District Congressman Ex
presses Self as Favoring Re
peal of Arms Embargo
In keeping with its policy of in
viting interesting speakers to dis
cuss current problems of interest
to young men the T. C. U. Club
had as its guest speaker on
Monday evening, September 18,
Congressman A. D. Folger, of
Mount Airy. Mr. Folger’s talk on
“World Conditions at Present”
was preceded by his praise of the
wonderful work of Mr. Thurmond
Chatham and his interests as a
humanitarian.
Congressman Folger traced the
growth of the United States Gov
ernment from its beginning to
the present time. In speaking of
our present status in world af
fairs he stated that “We are in
this world and we are a great na
tion in this world. Why isolate
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