MEL-ROSE-GLEN
THE VOICE OF MELROSE AND GLENN MILLS
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HIGH POINT, NORTH :AR0LINA
Volume 5
MELROSE HOSIERY MILLS
(Seamless and Full Fashion Plants)
HIGH POINT, N. C., NOVEMBER ISSUE 1948
GLENN HOSIERY MILLS
(Infants’ and Misses* Goods)
No. 2
KIVETT DRIVE BUS IS ASSURED
WHAT IS A FOREMAN?
If he is pleasant, he is too fa
miliar;
If he is sober-faced, he is a sour-
puss.
If he is young, he doesn’t know
anything;
If he is old, he’s an old stiff.
If he belongs to a lodge, the mem
bers expect favors.
If he goes to church, he’s a hypo
crite;
If he doe^in’t, he’s a heathen.
If ftour early.
If you want to know what M,
Furr’s favorite dish is, it is “Pen
simmon Pudding.” He never seem:
to get enough of it, so all you gals
who know how to make it, remem
ber Mr. Furr with a couple slices
If he gets too much, he can always
divide with his next door neighbor
His next favorite dish is “Foot
ball.”
We wish to express our deepesl
sympathy to Mabel Caviness,
Knitting Dept., in the death of her
father.
Eural has found a nice way to
spend the evening with your girl
friend. Just take her one of those
large “Sugar Daddy” suckers. He
says it’s more fun to eat on one
side while she eati on the other.
Better try it some time.
We were very sorry to hear of
the accident of Margaret Arrant’s
husband. We wish for him a
speedy recovery.
Ruth Brown has had her hair
SVio als'i weEt_±ii—.
This year it is proposed that
each department plan ahead for a
holiday party at the close of the
last day worked before the Christ
mas shut-down. It is suggested
that committees give thought to
this arrangement well in advance
and see that everyone in the group
is in on the departmental party.
There will be other plans and sug
gestions as the time approaches.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM
CUN A President Farr
I want to congratulate the cre
dit unions and the leagues for en
rolling over 150,000 credit union
members during the 1948 Member
ship Drive.
The unselfish spirit, shown by
our present members in bringing a
necessary service to thousands of
associates, is a true expression of
the Golden Rule, and the kind of
Americanism of which I am proud
to be a part.
The results of the membership
drive indicate that our credit union
people do realize the vital part
thrift and low-cost credit play, not
only in times of adversity, but also
in enriching the lives of our fami
lies and communities.
Further, the results of the drive
demonstrate the growing ability
of our credit union people to tell
the story.
Your evident faith in the credit
union ideal, proves to me that we
will contribute mightily in this era
toward giving the world an exam
ple of greater individual and com
bined creative power and justice.
Again, congratulations!
Gurden P. Farr, President
Credit Union National Association
"Rocking Chair"
ACCIDENTS
Your atention is called to Shop
Rules, Item 12: “F’ailure to Report
Injuries.” All employees are in
structed in two things: 1. Report
to your foreman as well as Nurse,
2. Report on day and hour of acci
dent, not hours or days later.
The responsibility is the em
ployee’s to report as instructed.
Listed below are social security
numbers and benefit payments
from N. C. Unemployment Com
mission to Melrose employees for
the period ending July 31. These
checks secured through unemploy
ment commission must be paid
from some source. How? The Mel
rose corporation is taxed. The
checks are paid out of the Melrose
reserve account with the commis
sion. Of course, the law requires
the tax, but the tax becomes an op
erating expense the same as wage
payroll; in a sense the checks are
“indirect” wages paid through un
employment tax. In the long run,
everyone would rather work for
wages and have steady employ
ment—get paid for work perform
ed—than to get “indirect” wages
through unemployment checks.
S. S. Account Benefits Paid
24105016 18-50
245011688 2.00
408010102 15.00
240031353 60.00
240031423 6.00
240031717 20.00
240031758 6.50
240031933 20.00
240032099 96.00
240032228 12.00
240032427 40.00
240032564 89.50
240033008 20.00
240034093 186.00
240034169 10.50
240034758 60.00
240035141 91.00
240035246 60.00
240035339 * 47.50
240035339 13.50
240035354 17.00
240035420 46.50
240035422 2600
240035524 56.00
240035548 2.00
240035548 1.50
240035622 87.50
240035661 180.00
240035716 180.00
240037439 29.00
240037440 43.50
242037211 195.00
242051433 86.50
242051549 2.00
237076561 4.50
237077145 9.50
242070684 8.50
242070967 70.00
242071852 4.50
242071991 5.00
242072102 7.50
242072282 184.00
242072330 36.00
242072330 36.00
2420723292 1-50
242072854 2.50
242072952 5.50
242073010 40.00
242073178 5.00
242073822 68.50
242074385 51.00
242074394 214.50
242074417 2.00
242074693 10.00
242074763 18.50
242074767 2.00
242074772 4.50
242704772 17.00
242074779 53.50
242074796 1.00
242074832 1.00
242074851 29.00
242074922 191.50
242074950 8.00
242075151 32.50
242075635 32-00
242076570 8.50
242076856 98.00
242077131 6.00
242077525 20.00
242078071 22.50
242078581 4.00
242078795 9.00
(Continued on page 4)
STRICTLY FOR THE GIRLS!
NOW IN NOVEMBER when
chill winds snap and steam heat
rises is the time to embark on a
hand care program. Neglect your
hands now and you’ll rue the re
sults through all the wintry
months ahead. Care for them by
wearing gloves, giving yourself a
weekly manicure. Most important
of all, treat yourself to a good
hand cream, and use it religiously
EACH day. At bedtime, and after
each use of soap and water are the
appointed times. A brand new
hand cream, perfected by Ponds
after years of planning, is pale
pink in color, with a special,
greaseless emollient that leaves no
sticky residue. Apply it in long
downward strokes to your upheld
hand, to erase tiny criss-cross
lines, make veins less obvious, and
soften the skin. You’ll keep your
cuticle in the same everlasting
smctothie class if you work a bit
of yhis same pink hand cream
around each nail with an orange-
wood stick. Better have two jars;
one yfor your dressing table and
one TO use at work.
HEARD THE LATEST FASHION
NEWS? Waistlines are getting
higher—all eves are on the Em
pire middle! Try this exercise for
keeping—or getting—a slim waist.
Stand with feet 10 inches apart.
Place all the spades from a deck
of cards in front of youi;,left foot,
all the iieart suit cards. in.irnnt. of
your right. Keeping your knees
straight, bend from the waist to
pick up a spade with the right
hand. Straighten and bend again
to pick up a heart in your left
hand. Alternate spades and hearts,
hand after hand, until you’ve snag
ged all the cards in both suits for
a full 26—but take it slowly at
first! Start with a few cards and
increase the number day by day.
Good for overpadded thighs, too.
TAKE A LADY’S WORD FOR
IT—there’s nothing cleaner under
the sun than the kind of heat you
get with the new anthratube.
Never a shadow of dust, never a
suspicion of film in the anthratube
heated home, because clean, hard
coal is completely burned inside a
sealed heating system. “It’s hea
venly,” say happy housewives. And
here’s the part husbands like:
anthratube’s even, automatic
warmth doesn’t cost more; it costs
less than other kinds of heat!
Burns the inexpensive pea size of
anthracite, and uses 15 to 40 per
cent less coal than other heaters.
Only an ostrich would overlook
looking into anthratube heating
for the cold weather.
WE ALL PLAY FAVORITES.
We have our favorite beau, favor
ite foods. But do you know why
America’s favorite medium for
savings is life insurance? Answer
is that this means of setting
money aside for future use pro
vides family security at the same
time. More than three-fourths (78
per cent) of our families own life
insurance. Second favorite way of
saving is through government
bonds, which are owned by 47 per
cent of our families. No wonder
that while the high cost of living
caused other savings to drop last
year, there was no decrease in our
purchase of life insurance!
Hearing in Winston-Salem
A hearing on a proposed bus
schedule that will directly benefit
employees in Full Fashion and
Glenn mills was held in Winston-
Salem last Friday. The Personnel
Department has been actively in
terested in this project since be
fore the war. There has been vo
luminous corespondence and a trip
to the State Commission in Ral
eigh. The manager of Glenn Mill,
Mr. A. Glenn Smith and the Per
sonnel Director, Mr. J. D. Boyd,
were actively interested in the
Winston-Salem hearing before
Commissioner Johnson and each
gave testimony.
The proposed bus scheduie to be
maintained by City Transit Com
pany was granted a franchise. Per
mission was granted to start the
busses Monday, November 8. Mr.
Herman Fulk, manager of the
transit company, stated informally
that he proposed to run busses
about once each hour. The schedule
to be worked out in detail will go
from High Point to the Oakdale
district in Jamestown and return
via Kivett Drive to East Washing
ton Street, making connection
Oak Hill school and E. Grt
tension.
The company, as well a.'
ees, has '.jeeji interested
transportation for the reason
frequently it has not been possi.
to employ desirable workers wh
wished to work in the Melrose
mills but had no way of going to
and from work.
Previous attempts have been
made to establish a bus schedule,
but they did not work out, ap
parently because workers were not
willing to “give up rides” in pri
vate cars for a temporary experi
ment. The granting of the fran
chise to City Transit will make a
permanent service possible. New
homes in the sections covered by
the bus will guarantee growing
demand for service. The commun
ity bordering on Kivett Drive has
shown real concern and interest
and joined the employees and man
agement of Melrose in achieving
the new arrangement for trans
portation.
College bread is made out of the
flour of youth and the dough of
old age.
Qayroll savings
WILL FEATHER YOUR
nest.
Buy U.S.Jayiiigs Bonds^
REGULARLY