Volume 4
HIGH POIN T WF.AVING CO., and FlILLCRl.S I THROWING CO., High Point, N. C., March, 1947
Number 3
‘‘Bur^Miir Ad
Program Will
Be Expanded
\n advertising program which will
promote qualitv i^roducts from all di
visions of the Company is being im-
dertaken.
In carrying out the program use will
be made of six or more different de
signs built around the triangle for
merly \ised exclusi\ely to ad\ertisc
"Bur-Mil" quality products. 'I'he tri
angular design c.irrying \arious trade
names will be encircled b>- the \vords
“A Product of Burlington Mills”. IVo
of these designs are jjictiired on this
page.
The familiar “Bur-Mil’ uuality trade
mark which has identified certain of
Burlington’s products since 1941 will
continue to identify women’s and men’s
wear fabrics such as men’s suiting,
blouses, lingerie, and shirting. I'his
quality mark will also identify Burling
ton hosiery to be trademarked in the
spring.
A new program known as Burlington
House has been develo]x.‘d to identify
products of the Decorati\e Fabrics Di
vision. I'lill-page, full-color Burlington
House ads wij] soon appear in such
household mjJ> .dues as Ladies' Home
Journal. Good Ilousekeepinfi, Ameri
can Home, House and Garden, House
Beautiful and Ri^tf^r Homes and Gar
dens. Bedspreads, formerlv merchan
dized as Sun Sjnm, will be tied in with
the Burlington House advertising ])ro-
gram. L.
I he ribboii plants will tie in their
Royal Swan seal with the new adver
tising emblems and ginghams and other
goods produced by the Cranierton Di\ i-
sion will also be identified with the
program.
Winter? Spring?
New Designs
D V
8URLINGT0H
HDIISE i
Shown here are two of the several
designs to be used in earring out an
expanded program of company pro
duct advertising.
Uptown, Downtown
Titles Changed
new name plate went up recently
for the jacquard fabrics division of the
Company formerly known as the
"Downtown Di\ision”. 'I'o be known
now as the “I^ecorative I'abrics Divi
sion,” the new name will better de
scribe the products wo\en b\- the di\i-
sion.
Only recently the “Uptown Divi
sion” name was changed to the “Fila
ment 'I’lirowing and Weaving Divi
sion”, and this division name also is
now descriptive of the plant products,
several plants having been shifted from
the old Uptow'n Division to another
division. The two divisions were orig
inally gi\en the names Uptown and
Downtown because of the location of
the New York sales office in uptown
and downtown New York.
'I’he other eight divisions of the
Company are nov\- known as the S))in-
ning, Knitting and W'oolen Division;
the Spun Weaving Division; the Hos
iery Division; the Cranierton Division;
the Tricot Division; the Dveing and
Finishing Di\ision; the Ribbon Divi
sion; and the I'oreign Division,
WITH SHOVEL in hand, George Towery, Hillcrest shop employee,
is sho\m cleaning away the snow which recently covered the office steps at
Hillcrest. Let's hope March 2ist lives up to its tradition and brings the
First Day of Spring.
Y. M. C. A. Extends
Dance Invitation
I’he Industrial Department of the
Y. C. A. has recently announced a
program of sponsoring dances ever\'
jther Satiirda\’ night iii the month for
;he purpose of providing local recrea
tion for working people.
'I'he dances will be held at the Y. M.
C. A. Building at 1106 North Main
St. from 8:00 to 12:00 p. ni. Miss
Millie Hunt, Program Director has an
nounced the following “Dance Nights”
for .\i)ril and Mav as follows: April 19,
May \ and May IS.
F\er\one is in\ited to bring his wife
or her husband, date, or to come alone
for an evening of dancing. small ad
mission charge will be made of 25c a
person or 40c a couple. Cokes and
snacks will be sold in the canteen for
hose who need a “pick-up” after an
evening of “strutting” or “jitterbug-
ging.”
To date, the attendance has averaged
around 70 people with couples from
different industrial plants serving as
hostesses. Not only will vou find a
friendly bunch of people, I)ut an eve
ning of fun in store for you at the
Y. \y. C. .\. Industrial Dances.
Triplett Assumes
Personnel Duties
At High Point
• john Triplett has recently been ai)
pointed Personnel Su))ervisor of High
Point W'caving.
John was transferred from Cireens-
boro \\’eaving where he held a sim
ilar ]5osition for the past two ye;irs. He
graduated from .\i)palachian State
College in 1936 and went into school
work as ]>rincipal of a rural high
school in Randolph County. In 1943,
lohn entered the Na\y, and saw serv
ice in the Pacific area as Pett\- Officer,
itationed at Pearl Harbor about a year.
Uijon receiving his discharge in
\pril, 1945, John t"ame to work with
Buriiiigton .Mills as personnel super
visor at the CJreensboro ^^’eaving
plant.
He and Mrs. Triplett, Elizabeth,
>vill make their home on Nathan Hunt
i^rive in Blair Park.
Bill Wells who served as personnel
supervisor for High Point Weaving for
he past six months moves to the NIain
Office where he becomes tnn eling staff
man for Mr. I. Spencer’s group of
plants.
EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTE
$500.00 TO RED CROSS
Hillcrest Quota
of $200 Reached
“Bur-Mill” Goods
Used World-Wide
Burlington Mills products a r e
known far and wide. Sold in New York
.md exported from se\eral ports, the
Company’s products are distributed to
just about every country in the world
sxce]>t Germany and Japan.
I’liev go to .\rgentiiia, ,\ustralia, Bel
gian Congo, Bolivia. British Guinea,
Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rico,
Cuba, Fcuador, FI SaUador, Guate
mala, Hawaii. India, Iran, Iceland,
Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand,
Palestine, Panama, Philippines, Peru,
Puerto Rico, South .\frica, Sweden,
Syria, Trinidad, Uragiiay, and N'ciie-
zuela.
Ra\'on and cotton piece goods, hos
iery, bedsijreads, lingerie, cotton yarns,
tubular knit goods, cotton yarns, 'I-
shirts, dra])eries, ribbons — all are
imong the Burlington Mills goods
which are sold abroad.
Selling comiianics maintained by the
Burlington organization are located in
llavana, Cuba; Caracas, \'enezuela;
Durban, South .\frica; and San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
Something New
In Newspapers
W'liether their plant paper. “The
Stark News”, tells them to “])roprete
jvant tout” or to “keep it clean”, it’s
all the same to the employees of Stark
Brothers R i b b o n Corporation in
Granby, Canada.
Fmjjloyees at the ribbon plant, one
of the 1 3 plants to make up the ribbon
grou)) of plants affiliated with Bnding-
;on .Mills, have recently welcomed into
their midst a new publication which
A'ould be quite a no\-el one to folks
down this way.
Since emplo\ees at the Canadian
ribbon plant spe;ik both I'rench and
English, their new publication, "The
Stark News ”, is printed in both lang
uages. One side ot the eight-page bulle
tin carries the news printed in Fnglish-
heiidlines, picture explanations and all.
W'hile by merely turning the booklet
around and reading from the other side,
>011 see identic-ally the siime news, yet
written in I'’rench!
During the .\nniial Red Cross Roll
Call lield the week of March 10th,
Hillcrest and High Point Weaving
employees contributed a total of $500
to the financial aid of this national
ser\'ice organization which ser\es as
emergency aid to di.saster-stricken peo
ple,
1 lillcrest employees arc to be partic
ularly commented for making their in
dividual plant quota of $200 with an
a\crage contribution of $1 per person.
When the paiier went to ])ress, the
average contribution at High Point
was 50 cents per iJcrsou gi\’ing a total
of $300 of their $530 quota.
Locally, the Red Cross contributes
to our community by both trauiing
and ser\ices rendered iii nurses’ aid
work for hospitals, industrial first aid,
disaster relief, and water safety. It is
interesting to learn that since it was
inaugurated in 1914, the Red Cro.ss
ater Safety Ser\ ice has cut the na
tion’s drowning rate in half. Still an
other service affeci^' each of us is
that the Red Cross ..as trained volun
teers operating 2,000 highway first aid
stations, and 10,000 mobile first aid
iniits throughout the nation.
I'aiiployees of High Point W e;ivin„
and Hillcrest are to be commended for
their sujjport of such a worthv cause.
iV/
Spring and Summer
Operating Schedule
1. EASI'ER MONDAY, /\PRIL 7:
I’lant will close down at the end
of the second shift on Saturday
night April 5 and start up at the
beginning of the third shift on
Mondav night, April 7.
2. WEEK OF JULY 4: Plant will
close at the end of the second
shift Saturday night, June 28 and
resume operations at the begin
ning of the third shift on Sunday
night, July 6.
3. MONDAY, SEPl’EMBER 1:
Plant will close down at the end
of the second shift on Saturday
night, August 30 and start up at
the beginning of the third shift
on Monday night, September 1.
BILL W'ELLS. above, discusses the personnel program with John
iriplett. new personnel supervisor at High Point \^’eaving. Triplett iiuv
recently transferred from Greensboro \i'eaving to replace Wells who joins
the Industrial Relations Department at Main Office in Greensboro.