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THE MILL WHISTLE
November 19, 1945
Mention Around the Mills
Blanket Mill
By Katherine Turner
We welcome Vivian Barton to our
Department as time keeper.
Mrs. Ethel Lillard will be with us for
a week in Miss Louise Newman’s place.
More news about Louise later.
We wonder why Miss Lillie Meadows
wears such a large smile. Maybe it’s
due to the arrival of her boy friend,
Cpl. Robert W. Moore, who has been in
Hawaii for 36 months and now has an
honorable discharge.
We are glad to have Cecil Squires and
Vance Coleman with us again.
J. E. Rogers is home from hospital and
improving nicely. Good luck, “Spot.”
“Army” McGavick spent a few days
in New York visiting his parents.
Jewel Cochrane is the proud daddy of
a new baby girl.
Mr. and Mrs. John Weatherford and
Mrs. Laura Mason visited in Greensboro
during the week-end.
Pfc. Arnie Mason has been moved
from Augusta, Ga., to the hospital in
Camp Butner, N. C. We are so glad he
is improving.
We see Ralph Hopkins and LeRoy
Smart enjoyed a furlough at home. So
did Bobbie Burnett, Nolen Powell,
Mont. Garrett, and Melvin Howell.
Broadus Burgess is back at work after
a few days’ illness.
“Home with discharges”: E. C. Mc
Bride, Clifford Ball, Ralph Fuller will
be home soon, Gilbert Chilton, Henry
Gerringer, Ralph Hopkins, Emerson
Chumley, Frank Underwood, Mai Prof-
itt, Jimmie Chilton, James Stewart,
Carlton Chambers, A. J. Fuller.
Anyone wanting to know where to get
a good rabbit dog, see Shelton Johnston,
“Fat” Powell, and Gentry Higgins.
Miss Mozelle Johnson is all smiles.
We know Boy-friend Henry is on his
way home from many months in the
South Pacific.
Congratulations, Harold Luck. Your
new bride. Ruby, was all smiles when
she came back to work this week.
Frances Gilbert, supply room clerk,
is all smiles ’cause her boy-friend came
in unexpectedly over the week-end. Oh,
boy, these Marines.
Annie Belle Craig has been a very
happy young lady for the past two
weeks. Reason; the Merchant Marine
has landed in Draper.
Pfc. Robert Powell of U. S. M. C. K.
writes his wife. Hazel, that he has made
quite a few staunch friends among the
Japs since he has been stationed near
Nagasaki. And J. D. Young also reports
the same thing. He is stationed at Ta-
kapa.
Mollie Edwards is back at work after
an illness of several weeks. Looks good
to see you, Mollie.
J. E. Perry was seen carrying a big
box under each arm to the post office.
Oh, boy! John and Jimmie will have
treats.
Miss Hilda Smith and Mrs. Russell
Taylor visited in New York f,or a few
days.
We wonder what’s wrong with Nellie
Minter when she gets so she can’t talk.
Could it be, Nellie, you are in — love?
Finishing Mill
By Beulah McBride and Avis Jamerson
The charming merry widow . . . take
my word for it, she is. She sits in a
bottle in my window sill and displays
her shining black beauty and her lovely
red spots. Occasionally they throw her a
live fly or such which she sticks her
dainty head into and sucks it to a dry
spot on the bottom of the bottle. They
slipped her a drink of water to wet her
“whistle” and, my, how she guzzled it!
She is quite a dancer (we are thinking
of opening a black widow spider circus)
also; she ballets around all over her
web. She dances on one foot, weaving
her body around and then she will stand
on her nose and wiggle for a while. In
cidentally, do you know why she is
called the black widow? After she mates
she eats her husband. Interesting little
lady we have for a pet, huh? Come in
to see mon friend spider!
We all enjoyed the advertisement we
received with our last MILL WHISTLE
. . . those quality sheets, beautifully de
signed towels, the nice bedspreads and
oh, that luscious all-wool blanket really
gave us ideas about what to give and
what we’d like to receive for Christmas.
We are proud that we have a part in
making such excellent products.
Grissom Manley wishes to express his
thanks to his many generous (?) friends
who made-up his “no pay day” (due to
his two weeks in Florida.)
We have heard all through the war
about those super cars that would be on
the market at the end of the war. We
think Fred Morrison thought they were
atomic powered and supposed to climb
trees. At least, that is where he ended
up in his.
We are all feeling joyful for Mrs.
Bertie Motley Shelton whose son, Sgt.
Sherman Motley, has returned home
after being captured with General
Wainwright in the Philippines and was
held in a Jap prison for three and one-
half years.
Pvt. Junior Eggers, formerly of our
Blanket Sewing, was in to see us. Good
luck, boy, and hurry back to see us.
Ensign R. D. Shumate, Jr., was downi
to see us. A mighty fine looking sonf
Mr. Shumate.
We, of the MILL WHISTLE staff, en
joyed a lovely dinner and interesting
meeting November 9. We hope to do our
part in giving you a more interesting
paper in the coming year.
Rayon Mill
By Mildred Saunders and Ray Warner
We are glad Tommie Jenkins has ex
changed his Bell Bottom Trousers for
a civilian suit. Make the vacation short,
Tommie, so you can soon be on the job
again.
Our little blonde secretary would like
to get a copy of the new bus schedule.
Maybe she could get home from the
week-end trips in time for work on
Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Crouch and
children were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Stafford Gilley Sunday.
Frank Eanes is walking around in
circles with a great big smile since he
heard his son, Pfc. Joseph Eanes was on
his way home from the Pacific. Bring
him down to see us. Pa!
Joe Braitsch claims the boys have an
unusually good basket ball team going at
the Central YMCA practice on Monday
Wednesday nights. How about the girls’j
team, Joe?
We welcome home another lucky guy.
Pvt. Cosby Purdy, with an honorable
discharge.
Mrs. Maude Ballard is leaving us for a
visit with her daughters, Mrs. J. D.
Beckham and Miss Jeanette Ballard in
Atlanta, Ga.
The Preparation department welcomes
home another service man this week,
Robert Brown. This Rayon Plant is be
ginning to look like the good old days
since so many of our boys are coming
back.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reynolds entertained
a number of close friends, Sunday. The
occasion being a surprise birthday din
ner for their son, Grady on his eleventh
birthday. The honoree received many
nice gifts.
Overheard at the Mill Whistle banquet
that a certain engineer has a cure for
colds. Please, let us have the formula
for the Rayon office.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Shropshire had as
week-end guest, J. E. Carey from Ra
leigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Light were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey
Hambrick. Later in the afternoon the
group visited Mr. and Mrs. Nick Martin.
School teacher: “Willie, define propa- ‘
ganda.”
Willie: “My pop had some goose eggs
setting and they didn’t hatch. He checked
up and found out that he had the proper
goose but didn’t have the proper gander.”