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PAGI': I'WO POlNI-CRESr NOVEMBER, 1946 Published monthly by and for the employees of Di^h Point Weavinir and Hillcrest Throwing: Plants of Burlington Mills Corporation. Member of the American Association of Industrial Editors “POINT-CREST’ High Foint Mary Morris Inez Melton Albert Jones Lois Mabe Loui&e Kidd Frances Roach Anna Russell Clayton Clark Mary Ring Vernon Webb ’REPORTERS Weaving Marcella Thornton Eleanor Cox Lona Carroll Grace Britt Franc-es Tuttle Glenn Morris Carl Peterson Faye Burrows Winfred Clinard Hillcrest Mary Coltrane Kat Church Beulah Kidd Mary Hendrix Vicky Carter Jane Stewart “Shorty” Foslenian Avis Gibson Virginia Dody Joe Ward Anne Garrki r — Bill W’klls Advisors Limerick for the Month There was an old grocer named Sam who started a searcli for a ham; Said he of the pig, "She’s gotta be big” — But all he could find was some si>ani. DO YOUR SHARE W'hen you start making out this year’s Cliristmas shopping list, be sure to put Christmas seals iieiir the tO]5 of )Our list ... for they are the greatest gifts for greiitest number. Since A'7 when the American peo ple first Hiade Christmas seals a part of tlieir Christmas giving, they have hcli;ed luI the tulxicnlosis daith rate bv se\ enty-five per cent . , . have helped save four^iillion lives. Yes, a great gift to iWikind. As you pass your Christmas seals stand this > c-ar, sto)) to think that; Tuberculosis kills 144 Americans a day — killing at the rate of one person every ten minutes ... It is the seventh cause of death in this country . . . It kills more young men and women from 15 to 35 than any other dis ease ... It kills seven times as many unskilled workers as professional ijeoijle. 'I'hink of this when the 1946 drive • starts on November 25 and you’ll do your share to help stem the tide of tul)ercnlosis. Remember that packages wrapped in the traditional gay red and green colors of Yuletide give an added message of joy and goodwill when they bear the Tuberculosis Christmas Seals. Have You Read Working Together’ If any or all the following questions arc of interest, you may ver>' easily find the answers by reading your copy of “Working Together”. 1. How old is Burlington Mills? 2. How many plants arc there in the Company? 3. Can you name the six foreign countries where Burlington Mills operate i>lants? 4. I low many employees from Bur lington Mills ser\ed in the armed forces? 5. How many separate types of war ])roducts did Burlington Mills make? 6. How many cents from each dol lar received by the Company is paid out to employees in wages? 7. Approximately how much money has been invested to make each job possible? 8. W'liat ix;r cent has the average take-home-pay increased since 1941? Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Ex cellence in any art or profession is at tained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you arc per fect. W’hen a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. Cold Winter Ahead Another flare-np of strikes they say may be on the way . . . There goes my dream of an automobile babied for another six months . . . But with prices like they are maybe I’ll be better off to wait awhile . . . They say they’re talking about another coal strike, too. It’s not me by myself that I’m wor ried about. It’s the people that are out on strike. Now, they have it tongh. I heard that the fellows working in the steel mills during the last strike will have to work thiee years to make u]3 wages they lost by going out for that extra 3 Vi cents an hour. Seems like it wouldn’t be worth it. And they say the General Motors folks will be working nntil 1953 to be as well off as they would . have been if their union and the company could have gotten to gether on the company’s jjroposition of I3'/2 cents. So I hate to sec them threatening to liave all the trouble again and all tliat hardship for the folks back home. I don’t know what the answer is, but it does look to me like jjulling togethcr’d be better than so much of this bickering back and forth. . . . Seems like the workers would be bet ter off because they wouldn’t lose so much wages. The company would be better off because they’re bound to be losing money every minute tlie ma chines are standing idle. If everybody stuck to w’orking steadily, soon maybe we’d be able to buy the things we’ve been hankering for since before the war. And I bet if goods got plentiful, then prices would get down to my level. Purely Personal. HILLCREST First Shift News The spinning department has been buzzing about a great painter among their midst. Tracing the story down, we found Ruth Jackson has Ijcen paint ing furniture again. Yep, it’s painting now inste-ad of carpenter work. ^^'elconle to Kermit Lomax from the spinning department. Kermit is an other veteran who is trying his future at Hillcrest. Since the “Point-Crest” last visited \ ou Billy Wagoner, Bert Chandler, and D. C. “Flash” Gordon have been out sick. W'e are glad to see this trio back on their jobs. I’irst shift lost a good sjjinner the other day when Clinton Marsh was transferred to third shift as winding fixer. Rayford Moore, Bessie Moore’s son, has had a bad case of tonsillitis and Bessie was nurse. Fixer A. C. W’all is now traveling by “foot and ankle express” since he sold his Che\Tolet. Everybodv is guessing just how long this mode of travel will last. Wiley Jones, tennant operator, is re covering from a tonsil operation which has kept him away from work. Dock Martin reports that Mattie is recovering nicely from her serious operation, but she will be away from work for quite sometime. Those who know say “ole man win ter” is at hand for Herbie Fox has bought a new' pair of shoes. Helen Houser has returned to work after having the misfortune of hitthig a telephone pole while driving to work one Saturday morning. W'e arc all thankful that her injuric“S weren’t too serious. In case }0U have missed Mary Col- trane, she is taking a rest in Florida. With all the sunshine, etc., we cannot help but be envious. Edith Lambeth has started the basketball season off by attending a recent game in W'allburg. Come Thanksgiving Day, Lucy Hes ter will see another year fly by. Happy birthday, Lucy. Eulane Guyer has been out due to illness, but we are glad to see she is on the road to recovery. On the rccent election day, Mr. Warner was nowhere to be found around the jilant, but was carrying on his job as “Poll Holder” in his pre cinct. From reports he didn’t hold tight enough for the precinct went 2 to I Republican. News has arrived that Colon MoflStt, Hillcrest veteran, is the proud father of a baby girl, Andrea Lynn. Colon and his family arc still stationed in Norfolk, Va. Frances Cuniby spent the week-end with her parents recently in Newport News, Va. Luck wasn’t with Grace Honeyaitt at the corn shucking w'hich she at tended bccause she didn’t even find one red ear of corn. There was only one red ear found and Mozelle Ken nedy was the lucky person. lx)traine Tate was a recent visitor in Belmont, N. C. ^\'e are happy that Minnie Conrad’s mother, is imjjroving from injuries v\hich she received in a fall. Marjorie Spencer enjoyed entertain ing her iiarcnts from Nit. Gilead. “Pop” Newman s;iys you couldn’t prove b>- him that this is opossum season for on a hunt recently the 0])0ssunis were scarce as “Chicken Teeth”. Second Shift News \\'e have quite a few new em- Ijloyees on our second shift, as follows; Annie Stalls and Elsie Teal — cake winders from here (Elsie has two sis ters in the Spinning Room); Carrie Campen, skein winder from Winston- Salem; ISlartVif Holla way from Elkin and Bertha Lovett — High Point, re drawers. (Bertha’s husband w'orks in the Spinning Room); Joel H'*nderson, scr\'- ice boy from Thomasville; and Wil liam Columbus Mabe, better known as “\\'ill”, swceiier, from Stokes County. % Mary Holmes went to a shindig the last Saturday' night of October. Her feet, she says, are still aching from the terrible blows received by the expert dancers. An old comer among the re drawers is Peggy Recce who came to work almost when the plant started. She’s worked at High Point Weaving too. Glad to have you back, Peggy. Clara McGuirc is back at C"ake-wind- ing after being, out for about three weeks. Trotter has shown he is going to be the very best of a foreman. Already his willingness and efficiency has been ob served by all. We welcome you! Robert Hester is going to be missed verv much in the redrawing depart ment. He has been with Burlington Mills five years and recently received his pin at the dinner. He was in the Navy and when he returned became a fixer. \\^e certainly do hate to see you go, Robert, and wish you success in anything you undertake to do. Floyd Dillon is taking over Robert Hester’s job as fixer. Hope you en joy working with us, Hoj'd. Maude Styles’ daughter has been in the hos|)ital with ])neumonia. She has been sick for about three weeks, but is im]jroving ver>’ nicely. “Red” Daniels and Lou Callieutt have already been “deer Hunting.” Don’t think they caught much. Sadie Pearson was recently out due to sickness, but we are glad to report that she has recovered. Randall Woodell had an emergency operation during the week of No vember 11th at the Guilford General Hosjiital. ^^’e wish for him a sjjeedy recovery. Randall and his family had just mo\'cd into their new house on Ward Street. I’he Coning Department has added Nannie Carter and Maggie Gilmore to their group. Wc arc glad to see these former employees back with us. Ollie Quick recently journeyed to South Carolina to sec her family. Wc were sorry to lose “Shorty” Fogleman and Dwight McGuire, but hope they find success on their new jobs. Tliird Shift New's Several first shift redraw operators have been with us for a while. They arc Eunice Garner, Mollie Hutchens, Jane Stewart, and Ruth Cooper. Hope this night life agrees with them! Dorothy Williams is back with us again after having been out for two weeks. Several new faces are among the re draw machines — Edna Childress and Dora Samuels. May McAllister spent the week-end recently visiting her parents in Lin- colnton, N. C. Amos Crotts and Willie Haynes have been transferred from the spin ning to the winding department. We arc glad to have these two boys. Madie Ward and Mollie Hutchens s])cnt the day in Rcidsville recently, visiting their father. 'Flien they mot ored on to Danville, Va. Amos Crotts has been out sick. He went “a hunting” and caught “Cold”. Luther Gardner, ex-Navy man, has joined the winders as service man. He is the son of Mrs. Clara Gardner, who W'orked here as a skein winder for 16 years. 'ITiis is quite a Hillcrest family for Mary, his wife, is one of our third shift cake winders. It seems that Ed Williams is eating lots of good ole cornbread along about now. Could it be his getting enough to eat has helped his sleeping. We wonder which one of Pauline Hutchens’ boys is flying the kite that father, Dennis, bought — “Dennis or Jr.” Wade Walker, Dennis Hutchens, Ed Williams, Gray Wall, and Ray mond Miles went rabbit hunting re cently. h!d says he had to carry the sack. Could it be that they were afraid to trust him with a gun after his tale of shooting a man when he aimed at a rabbit on another try? Marvin Floyd has been out sick re cently. Glad to see you back, Marvin. A recent letter from Howard Ed- nioiid, 3rd shift siiinncr, tells us that he is now in Japan and very eager to hear from everyone. His address is as follows; Pvt. Howard Edmonds 44183711 Prov. 10th Chemical Service Co. A.P.O. 503 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. ^^'c ha\e two brothers in the spin ning room, William and Melvin Roach from the sen'ice of Uncle Sam. William w’as a Seaman and spent two years in service. Melvin was a corporal in the Air Corps and sjient 4'/2 years in service with 10 months of this time overseas. W'elcome to our third shift, bo\s. Madie Ward si)cnt the day at Fort Bragg recently. P'rom her report there are still plentv of good looking men in Uncle Sam s Army. John Miles was on our sick list re cently. Glad to see you back at work, John. Mrs. Stroudy Johnson spent the week-end at Asheville recently. She attended a ball game while there. Mary Hendrix’s baby, Stephen, was very ill recently but we arc glad to hear he is well again. Iris Muse had to stay home recently and be nursemaid to her children who had the chicken pox. We welcome William Flynt to the spinning room as bobbin cleimcr. Wil liam was S 1/C and spent 27 months in service W'ith 22 months of this time overseas at Saipan and Philippines. W’e thought we had an extra Male spinner on Halloween night, but when the mustache was washed off and the hair let down from under a cap it turned out to be Bertha Workman. Wc welcome Winfred Brown to the spinning room. W'infred spent 3 >ears in the Army with 1 ye;ir of this time in China. He is a former employee of Ilillcrcst. We all envy Mrs. Mammie Johnson these days. She and her husband have gone to Florida to spend the winter vacationing. No hotel problems for them for they have bought a trailer to live in while there. Mrs. Johnson has worked with Hillcrest for 3 years and says this is about her eighth trip to norida. NEW'S FROM 'HIE OFFICE Anne Garrett recently enjoyed a week of her vacation seeing the sights of New York. The other new girl around the of fice is Betty Hutchens coming to us from 'Fomlinson’s. She had formerly worked in the office at Central Falls. Eldon Freeman got caught again — for speeding, that is. Seems to be be coming a habit. Buck Davis’ Hallow'cen excitement was a dent fender which incidentally was caused by Hillcrest’s personnel su]3crvisor. Waunetta Culver and Avis Gibson really got their morning exercise re cently running out to Hulin’s store for Isjd ,and Rinso. Wonder why they didn’t come back with any? Maybe Honest John” had something to do with it, eh Waunetta? HIGH POINT WEAVING THROWING DEPAR'I'MEN'l' Pop” Melton has been on the sick list. Hope he is much better now. Nellie J. Sykes is back working v\ith the skeinwindcrs. Welcome back Nellie. Sarah Holton is spending a lot of time lately playing bridge. Could it be that her boy friend enjovs it We sincerely hope Lillian Williams is getting along fine now. Lillian will be out of work for several weeks due to doctor’s orders. Iona Griffin is back w'orking with us again. She has been out due to her mother’s illness. James Peace is taking over house work now. Could it be that he is pre paring and waiting on a certain girl to make up her mind. We are glad to have Floyd Stanley working with us in the Redraw Depart ment. Bill Osborne, brother to I'^ugene is working in the Atwood Department. We hope he likes his work here. Christine Bullabough has really had it tough lately. She fell down some cement steps one morning recently and hurt her chest. The next morning she ran into a car and tore her nylon hose. We are certainly glad she did not break a leg or arm. We hear that Charlie Kidd had a big time Halloween night, car trouble and everything. Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Hobbs an nounce the arrival of twin boys, Darrvl and Farrj'l, born November 8, 1946. Russell is a spinner on first shift. Meat shortage relieved—Grady Helni- stetler, Clarence Fields, Buren Cran ford and Everette Alderman enjoyed their hunting trip November 2nd. Wc understand Alderman brought in a duck and one ’possum. 'I’hcy say the am munition ran Bobby JohnW)? ^lust have really had a big Halloween because he really v\’cl- comed the use of the First Aid cot the next day. We extend deepest sympathy to Elizabeth Hill in the death of both her grandmothers, Mrs. Amanda C. Hodgin and Mrs. J. J. Loflin. We wish to announce the engage ment of Buren Cranford to Rachel Hilton of I’homasville, N. C. Best of luck to you both. Wc are glad to have Alvin An drews back with us after being out for an operation. We also welcome Lela Hoover back after being on the sick list. John Conklin is a little more careful about that fast driving now. It seems he was riding a bit too fast one night recently. Bob Michael and Velma Lee Carter were married on Oct. 22 at 2;30 P. M. in the bridegroom’s home on Venable Street —with Rev. Paul Hill officiat ing. After the ceremony the couple took a short trip. They are now living at 1000 N. Main Street.
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