The
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Issued Every Two Weeks By
and For the Employees
WHISTLE
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC.
Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Carolina
Volume One
Monday, September 28, 1942
C. P. Wall New
Council President
The first meeting of the Carolina
Council’s new year was held at the
Central Y.M.C.A. Thursday evening,
September 17th, and was well attended.
As usual, a spirit of comradie and good
fellowship was manifest and once the
boys had worked some of the mischief
from their systems the Council settled
down to installing the officers for the
coming year. C. P. Wall is the new
president; C. P. Wilson, vice president
and program chairman; W. B. Weaver,
secretary; W. L. Caston, assistant secre
tary; Robert Joyce, chairman of attend
ance committee; W. A. Ashworth, chair
man of refreshments committee, and
H. E. Williams, chairman of constitution
committee.
Music by the Tri-City Band was an
enjoyable feature, and the way “Chug”
Latham led the boys in singing was
something. He actually made them
sing!
The chief speaker was Hon. O.
Arthur Kirkman, Mayor of High Point.
Mr. Kirkman made an -interesting, in
structive talk, and was presented with
one of our new all-cotton rugs from
Karastan, which he accepted with
genuine pleasure.
An interesting feature was the “fake
quartette” composed of four of the boys
■who appeared determined to sing, re
gardless of what the audience thought
or said. Just as they started one of
them walked away, drawing the screen,
before which they stood, with him. Be
hind the screen was a negro quartette,
composed of four well known local
singers. This quartette rendered sev
eral songs that deUghted the gathering.
Our Morale
By Ruby Snow, Woolen Mill
We may never have a chance
To aim destructive bombs
Which will fall again on Tokyo
No we can’t be the ones.
To plan strategic battlefronts
Or pilot our big planes
Or be alert on convoy trips '
Along our shipping lanes.
We cannot with careful aim
Shoot fighters from the sky,
But we can keep eternal faith
In those who fight and die.
Happy Birthday
Mrs. Ellen Frances Holt, a resident
of Draper for 19 years, was given a
surprise birthday party on September
12th. Incidentally, that date also mark
ed the 19th anniversary of her arrival
in Draper. The party, given by her
daughter, Lillian, was attended by
fifty-three guests. Mrs. Holt received
a large number of lovely useful gifts.
Cake, punch and candy was served
and everyone joined in wishing Mrs.
Holt many happy returns of the day.
Among her cherished possessions is
one of the first blankets ever woven
on the Jacquard looms in Draper. It
has been in constant use for twenty-
two years and is still in good condition.
Incidentally, her daughter, Lillian, drew
the threads into the harness frame that
went on the loom that wove this Jac
quard, thus making it quite a family
blanket. Mrs. Holt has two more
daughters and a son who work for the
company.
T'wo Chances
A young man was worrying about
the chance of his being drafted for ihe
Army. Another man consoled him.
“There’s two things that can happen,
boy. You are either drafted or you
ain’t drafted.
“If you ain’t, you can forget it. If
you are, you still got two chances. You
^’lumber Six
Mail Service Men’s
Christmas Packages Now!
Officers of the Army and Navy Postal
Services urgently request that Christ
mas packages to men in service be
mailed as soon as possible, any mailed
after November 1st will not be received
until after Christmas. Packages should
be made as small as light as possible.
Regulations provide that no package
over 18 inches long or 42 inches in
length and girth combined may be mail
ed. It must riot weigh over 11 pounds.
Don’t send your soldier, sailor or
marine any food! Don’t send him cloth
ing. Electrical things are useless where
he is. Send toilet kits, wallets, shaving
items, fountain pens, cigarettes and
things like that. The officials ask that
you use every care in addressing your
package, putting name, Army serial
number, company, regiment or batta
lion, and army post office number.
For example:
Pvt. John J. Doe (Army Serial Number)
Company B
212 th Infantry
APO 801, c|o Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
For Sailors:
John J. Doe, Sea l|c (Seaman first class)
(Or whatever the rank)
U. S. S. Benham
clo Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
For Marines: ~ '
Pvt. John J. Doe, USMC
United States Marine Corps Unit No. 765
c|o Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
Be sure to put your own address in
upper left hand corner of the envelope
or package.
may be sent to the front, or you may
not. If you go to the front, you still
got two chances. You may get shot
and you may not. If you do, you still
got two chances—you may die and you
may not! And even if you die, you still
got two chances.”
“No sir, no girl ever walked back
from a ride with me.”
“Drive a roadster?” «
“No, a hearse!”