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MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC,
Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Carolina
Volume Three
Mopday, October 23, 1944
Receives Promotion
H. W. Whitcomb,' newly appointed
assistant general manager of the Man
ufacturing Division, who will assume
his new duties in the near future. Mr.
Whitcomb is no stranger to us and
we heartily welcome him back.
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Committee Is Named
To Get Memorial Fund
B. W. Walker, chairman of the. Fi
nance committee to raise funds for
the War Memorial which is to be
erected in Leaksville in honor of our
service men and women has announced
the membership of the Finance com
mittee as follows:
Mrs. Tom Stanley, Mrs. Carl Rob
erts, Mrs. Anna Laws, Mrs. George
Armfield, Mrs. Lester Fulcher, Mrs.
Gid Smith, Mrs. J. D. Jones, Mrs. J.
O. Thomas, Mrs. George Fulp, Mrs.
Hoyt Stultz, Mrs. Ann Morgan, Mrs.
J. G. Farrell, Miss Helen Litaker, Miss
Jeanette Edwards, Mrs. Lawrence
Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Eubanks, Mrs.
Frank Sherron, of Leaksville; Mrs. Les
Caston, Mrs. May Hudnall, of Spray;
Mrs. Courtland Hailey, Miss Louise
Swinney, of Draper.
Sgt. Barksdale
Awarded Air Medal
Headquarters, 7th AAF, Central Pa
cific.—Technical Sergeant William M.
Barksdale, son of Mrs. Roxie Barks
dale, 314 Glovenia street, Leaksville,
N. C., has been awarded the Air
Medal for Missions flown in combat
zones of the Central Pacific area.
Presentation of the award was made
by Brigadier General William J. Flood,
chief of staff, 7th AAF, in ceremonies
held at a base in Hawaii.
An assistant crew chief on a cargo
converted B-24, Sergeant Barksdale
was inducted into the army i» Octo
ber, 1941, and attended the Army Air
Forces Technical School at Kessler
Field, Miss. He is a graduate of Leaks
ville high school, and a former em
ploye of the Marshall Field & Com
pany mill at Spray, N. C.
Corporal Carlyle Barksdale, a broth
er, is with the U. S. Marines in the
Central Pacific.
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Pfc. Samuel Burnette
Is Wounded In Action
Mrs. Beulah Burnette, Route No. 3,
Reidsville, N. C., was notified by the
War Department October 7, that her
husband, Pfc. Samuel E. Burnette,
was slightly wounded in action in
Germany, Sepember 18. She also re
ceived a letter from her husband stat
ing that he was wounded in the right
leg and two fingers on the left hand
and was convalescing in a hospital in
England. It is interesting to note that
he left England on June 2 and return
ed to England exactly four months
later, October 2, during which time
he saw much action in France, Bel
gium and Germany.
Mrs. Burnette received a letter
sometime ago stating that her husband
had been awarded the “expert Infan
tryman badge”. Pfc. Burnette is with
General Hodges First Army and is
highly esteemed and very kindly re
membered by the employees of the
Setting and Winding Department of
Karastan Rug mill where he was as
sistant foreman before entering the
Army.
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Are You Buying War Bonds?
Number Eight
100 Years Old
Birthdays are memorable occasions
to most of us but to Mrs. Mary Love
lace, of Draper, this one was some
thing special. For on August 31, she
celebrated her 100th mile stone at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Lovelace, despite her years is
known to her hosts of friends as a
most charming lady, deeply interested
in people and things. She has three
children, 17 grandchildren, and 23
great-grandchildren, all of whom wish
her another 100 years of life.
y ... —
Another Star For
Woolen Mill
The Woolen Mill, of Marshall Field
& Company was notified by the Under
Secretary of War that an additional
star has been awarded to them to bo
added to the Army Navy Flag.
This entitles the Woolen Mill to fly
an Army-Navy E. Banner with two
stars, indicating rewards of army-
navy production. This is an outsand-
ing honor for this plant since very
few plants in our counti-y have been
awarded these stars.