”'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.