”'MILL Issued Every Two AV eeks By and For the Employees Volume Two Monday, August 16, 1943 Number 3 MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY. INC Manufacturing Division, Spray North Carolina IVIILL WHISTLE GROUP: Members of the executive and editorial staff of The Mill Whistle gathered at Central Y. M. C. A. for their second supper meeting on July 27th. Following an enjoyable supper the group joined in a round table discus sion in which each feature of The Mill Whistle was discussed and others suggested. Due to transportation difficulties a few members were unable to attend. In the picture are shown, standing, left to right: J. F. Wilson, Production Manager; Mrs. Maybud Stanley, Central Warehouse; Miss Mary Lee Fitz, Order and Billing; Miss Avis Jamerson, Service Department; John Robertson, Publisher of The Leaksville News and The Mill Whistle; Mrs. Katherine Turner, Blanket Mill; Morrel Con ner, Bedspread Mill; Mrs. Evie Royster, Bleachery; R. H. Tuttle Personnel Manager; Mrs. W. B. Weaver, Director Nutrition Classes, Girls’ Club, Etc., and Roger Wilkes, Personnel Department. Seated, left to right: W. B. Weaver, Personnel Depart ment, Editorial Advisor; B. C. Trotter, Legal Department; Mrs. Nellie Kirby, Nantucket Building; Jeanette Edwards, Photo Department; Miss Selma Stone, Draper Office; J. U. Newman, Jr., Editor; Miss Dorothy Manley, Karastan; Miss Gladys Sum ner, Sheeting Mill, and Ray Warner, Rayon Mill. Miss Elizabeth Joyce, Towel Mill; Miss Gertrude Minter, Hosiery Mill; Mrs. Beulah McBride, Finishing Mill; J. P. Powell, Assistant Production Manager; Howard Sheffield, General Office; Stanley Kramer, New York Offices, and Sidney Cox, Woolen Mill, were unable to be present. Picture made by Walter Gardner. Note On Army-Navy “E” Under the heading of “The Periscope” the magazine NEWSWEEK carries the following that is of great interest to us, since we are shortly to receive the Army-Navy “E” award at our Woolen Mill: “Although stories are plentiful about Army “E” awards, actually less than 3 percent of the plants producing war materials have been awarded the in signia”. Which makes us still prouder of our Woolen Mill and its achievement. V . . . — “That military policeman looked at me as if I ’adn’t got a pass.” “So what?” “I looked right back at ’im as if I ad.” V . . . — Buy War Savings Bonds. Killed In Action One of the tragedies of war is ex perienced by this paper today. On Tuesday morning J. H. Eggleston gave the editor a slip of paper on which was written: “Earl Eg gleston writes his parents announcing his safe arrival in North Africa.” We had written this news and were about to have it set in type when word was received, that same day, that Earl had been kill ed in action. The Mill Whistle staff joins Central Warehouse, where Earl Vacation Bonus On bulletin boards throughout the mills notices have been posted to the effect that vacation bonus will be paid the week of August 23rd. The bonus, as usual, is equivalent to a 40-hour week’s pay, and will be paid to regular employees whose names ap pear on the pay rolls for weeks ending August 22, 1942, and August 21, 1943, and who, between these dates, have not been discharged or have not quit or resigned or received a military bonus check, or been absent from the mill for a period longer than six months. was employed before entering the ser vice, and the entire community in ex tending sincerest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Eggleston and family. Their son has not died in vain.

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