The
MILL
Issued Every Two W eeks By
and For the Employees
WHISTLE
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY. INC.
Manufacturing Division, Spray North Carolina
Volume Two
Monday, November 8, 1943
Number 9
As announced by Mr. Wilson in his letter in our last issue we are showing
group pictures of the departments first to go over the top with 100 percent contribu
tions to the United War Fund Drive. In the large group picture at top is shown
two departments which finished in a tie. Both are Cloth Inspecting Departments,
and while the group is somewhat mixed they are, roughly: Blanket Mill Inspecting
Department on left; Sheeting Mill Clothing Inspecting Department on right. In
the exact center, kneeling, is Foreman Edgar Harris, Blanket, and seated, right
center, is Foreman Irving Hodges, Sheeting. The group below, composed of em
ployees of the Washing Room, Karastan Mill, were the first of the Leaksville-Spray
Mills to go over the top. They are (1. to r.) Martin King, Harry McKenney, Morris
Turner, George Williams, Elmo Hampton, Anderson Foye, Norman Jarrett, Charlie
Miller, Peyton Blackstock, Stewart Keen, Curtis McConnell, Murphy Galloway,
Matt Moyer.
Mr. Wilson Expresses
Appreciation
As chairman of the United War Fund
Drive, I wish to express my grateful
appreciation to all of you who helped
to make this a success. A fine spirit
of cooperation was exemplified between
Management and workers, and almost
everyone on the pay rolls of all the
mills took part in making contributions
to this fund.
J. F. WILSON, Chairman,
Tri-Cities War Fund Drive.
Mail It Now!
Postmaster O. H. Hodges, of Spray,
gives some excellent advice on mailing
Christmas packages. He states that
due to the large volume of war mail,
the shortage of postal clerks (over
30,000 have gone into service) there is
no guarantee that packages mailed
later than the middle of this month
will reach their destination. He ad
vises that packages be mailed at once,
marked “Do not open until Christmas”.
It is much too late for overseas pack
ages, but none too early for domestic
mail.
Send In His Name
All over the Tri-Cities you can see
containers in which to put your con
tributions for the cigarettes the V. F.
W. will send the service men. The
Veterans, however, wish that these
cigarettes, so far as possible, shall go
to local service men. If you have a
son, husband, brother, father, or friend
in service overseas why not send his
name to the V. F. W., Leaksville, N. C.,
and be assm-ed that he will receive
some cigarettes from the home folks.
Too, it will give him a thrill to be
smoking cigarettes that the small coins
donated by just about everybody in
the community helped to buy. And do
it today!
Blanket Mill Winner
Of Safety Contest
In the Eighth Safety Contest re
cently concluded, the winner in Group
Six is our own Blanket Mill. Not only
is the Blanket Mill the winner, but
E. G. Padgett, of the North Carolina
Industrial Commission, states that our
mill compiled the best record in this
group. Group Six is composed of mills
employing over 850 people.
Examining this record we find that
the Blanket Mill employees worked a
total of 1,462,088 hours and there were
only three disabling injuries during
the period the contest ran. This makes
a frequency of 2.05, which is mighty
fine considering the number of hours
the employees were exposed to acci
dents.