The
MILL
Issued Every Two Weeks By
and For the Employees
WHISTLE
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC,
Manufacturing Division, Spray, North CaroKsia
Volume Four
Monday, August 13, 1945
Attention Returned
Service Men
Welcome home, fellows, and we cer
tainly hope you’ll soon be back on your
old job, turning out material to help
your former buddies finish up this war
in a hurry. You, more than any of us,
know the importance of keeping sup
plies flowing into the war zones, and
you can give us a “shot in the arm” to
cause us to keep production even higher
than it has been.
But the Mill Whistle has a kick— and
we aren’t ones to keep still when there’s
a chance to howl. And here it is: If mail
doesn’t stop coming back to us at the
rate it is now coming the post office
at Spray will be forced to hire a couple
more clerks to take care of it.
Fact is, we’re getting back a lot of
' Mill Whistles that were sent to your ad
dress overseas. Maybe you’re so en
thused at being back home that you just
forget to tell us about it. We don’t
blame you, but at the same time it is
making a lot of needless work for sev
eral people—including your Uncle Sam.
If you are one of those fortunate ones
who are at home from overseas we
would greatly appreciate it if you would
drop us a card telling us about it so we
can remove your name from the list of
overseas mail. Or have some of your
folks notify our reporter in any of the
mills. The volume of returned mail is
getting heavier every week and we are
sure you don’t want to cause needless
work for the mail clerks and those of
us here who handle the mailing out of
the Mill Whistles.
Again, we’re really glad you’re back,
and we’ll be even more glad when all
of your buddies, too, are back.
V . . . _
Two small boys at the Salvation
Army dinner put their grimy hands
side by side on the tablecloth.
“Mine’s dirtier’n yourn!” exclained
one, triumphantly.
“Huh,” said the other, disdainfully,
“you’re two years older’n me.”
I V ... —
The vicar was appealing to mem
bers of his congregation to supply re
freshments for the church social.
“And now, please remember,” he end
ed, “what we want are not abstract
promises, but concrete cakes.”
Number Three
The 25th Bomb Group, (Reconnais
sance), England: — Pvt. Edward L.
Joyce, of Leaksville, former infantry
man, now assigned to the technical
supply section at this operational base,
is getting acquainted with some of the
flying equipment that he will handle
for flying personnel of this B-17 and
Mosquito group. Explaining the work
ings of parachute harness is 1st Lt.
Chester J. Chmiel, of Dupont, Pennsy
lvania, a pilot of B-17’s, that fly long
range weather missions over the North
Atlantic.
V . . . —
Church League
Now Going Strong
If you have been missing the soft ball
games in the Church League you have
been mistreating yourself. The old boys
are disporting themselves like teen-age
youngsters and some surprisingly good
ball is being played.
As in nearly all local leagues, compe
tition is keen, but good natured. The old
boys fight to win, and despite aching
joints and somewhat dimmed eyes it is
hard to believe that some of them are
grandfathers.
Whether you are connected with one
of the churches or not you certainly
should see some of the games. You’ll
probably see some good playing and
some not-so-good playing, but you’ll see
a real ball game. Come out.
Games for the next two weeks are:
CHURCH LEAGUE SCHEDULE
August 13-25
August 13—Rock Church vs Moravian
at New Leaksville.
August 14—First Christian vs River-
view at North Spray; 2nd Christian vs
Presbyterian at Leaksville Graded.
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In Third Place Now
Say, it’s getting tiresome. Too often
some one asks: “Who won last night?”
and the answer has to be: “Nobody. It
rained.”
And it does ram in these parts, don’t
let anybody tell you different. We never
heard of St. Swithin’s day until recently,
but whosoever this old saint was he
sure knew his rain. St. Swithin’s, as
we understand it, comes on July 15, and
legend says that if it rains that day it
will rain every day for the next 40 days.
Well, it did, and it has.
Not even our daily rain could keep
our Cubs from moving up a space in the
club standing. We’re in third place now
and Raleigh is casting anxious looks
backward—from their perch in second
place. They’d better, lor sure as the
dickens we’ll be right on top of them
within a week.
The boys have settled down and are
playing heads-up ball—something they
haven’t been doing so far this season.
With second place, and visions of the
“World’s Series” (Carolina League ver
sion) dough, in plain sight they’re hus
tling.
For the first time in history the local
club has been without a really long dis
tance hitter. Crawford, catcher-out
fielder, and Granzig, second baseman,
are the longest hitters but neither could
be classed as a consistent long distance
hitter. The little catcher, Majercik, is
the hardest working kid we ever saw
and one of the most reliable hitters. We
like him and believe he’ll go to higher
class leagues during the next few years
and may eventually end up in the maj
ors.
We also like Zam, center fielder, al
though he doesn’t hit much. He covers
his territory like a blanket of dew and
makes the hard ones look easy. The
pitchers are so-so, with the exception of
Bustle, who is a smart pitcher with plen
ty of stuff. He is, we firmly believe,
destined for higher company pretty soon.
A southpaw, with poise and as cool as a
cucumber under fire, he’s an ideal re
lief pitcher, although we have used him
steadily as a starter. When he gets up
in higher class ball he’ll probably be
called on to relieve plenty of times.
Well, that’s enough of criticism. We
never were such a heck of a player that
we could afford to criticize the other
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