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Volume Four
Monday, December 3, 1945
Number Eleven
Absenteeism
Well, the total average is lower, and
that’s good. We’ve still a long way to go
before we have an Absenteeism Meter
that we’ll be proud of. In the standing
below we have, as usual, placed first the
mill that shows the greater decrease in
absenteeism over the last meter.
ABSENTEE METER
Two weeks ending Nov. 11, 1945
Per Cent
MILL 10-28 11-11
Finishing 6.4 6.2
Towel 7.5 6.7
Central Warehouse .. 6.4 7.1
Hosiery 7.4 8.0
Bleachery 7.5 8.0
Rayon 12.3 8.3
Woolen 9.1 8.9
Sheeting 11.7 9.2
Bedspread 14.5 10.7
Blanket 11.7 10.7
Karastan ; 11.6 12.2
TOTAL 10.3 9.1
Where Does Your Mill Stand?
What Are YOU Doing About It?
Wholesale Distributors
For Fieldcrest Domestics
To Visit Our Mills
Twenty-four men representing the
management of our wholesale distribu
tors who serve several thousand smaller
stores will be visiting the Marshall
Field & Company mills on December 3
through 8.
These men will take tours through the
mills, and sit in conferences with Com
pany sales and mill executives concern
ing problems of manufacture, distribu
tion, sales plans and advertising plans
dui'ing the post-war period. Under the
new sales plan, Fieldcrest towels, sheets,
blankets and bedspreads will be sold
direct to several hundred larger stores.
These wholesale distributors will serve
^he smaller stores from coast to coast
■cho handle our domestics.
The roster of guests and the com
panies represented follow;
December 3 through 5
J. Russell Fitts
(Continued on Page Seven)
P. E. SMITH RETURNS
On December 1, 1945, P. E. Smith,
formerly superintendent of the Bleach
ery and Finishing mills, rejoined our or
ganization as Director of Research and
Quality Control.
Mr. Smith will head the Physical and
Chemical laboratory and the Research
and Developements departments.
H. W. Whitcomb, Assistant Manager
of the Manufacturing Division, in an
nouncing the return of Mr. Smith, said:
“Our Postwar Program calls for rigid
control of the quality and high standards
of our various products. We feel that
the organization and development of our
Research and Quality Control depart
ments under the able leadership of ‘Peg’
Smith, working in close cooperation
with our mill managers, superintendents,
and sales managers will make an im
portant contribution to the progress of
the Manufacturing Division.”
Mr. Smith is well remembered here
and we welcome him back to the or
ganization.
Who knows, maybe that Victory Bond
you buy today will pay back enough
to help out in an emergency later.
Marshall Field & Co.
Retires Employees
On Friday afternoon, November 30,
1945, in impressive ceremonies in the
company’s offices in Spray, N. C., and
Field ale, Va., eighteen men and two
women employees of Marshall Field &
Company Manufacturing Division who
have reached the age of sixty-five and
have five or more years of continuous
service with the company were retired
under the company’s Retirement Pen
sion Plan, which was inaugurated on
December 1, 1943, and received checks
covering their first monthly payment of
their pension income.
B. C. Trotter, member of the Retire
ment Committee representing the Man
ufacturing Division, states that these
twenty employees’ continuous service
records range from 12 to 45 years. He ,
adds that thirty-eight employees were
retired during the past year, thus mak
ing a total of 58 employees who are now
enjoying the benefits of the Marshall
Field & Company Retirement Fund. In
addition to the pension income, each of
these retired employees receive monthly
Social Security benefits.
Seven of the company’s eleven mills
are represented in the group retired as
of December 1, 1945. Two men, D. C.
Yarborough and W. G. Taylor, and one
woman, Mrs. Mollie Mitchell, among
this group have the remarkable dis
tinction of having worked for more than
forty years without a single lost time
accident.
Employees retired, and the mill in
which they worked, are: S. H. Hall, R.
L. Hopkins, and S. G. Martin, from the
Towel mill, Fieldale, Va.; S. A. Bowman,
J. D. Hopkins, and Mrs. Jane S. Martin,
from Finishing and Bleachery mills.
Spray, N. C.; G. W. Rorrer and T. E.
Davis, from Central Warehouse, Spray,
N. C.; J. B. Hairfield, J. H. Wilson, and
J. N. Wilcox, from Blanket mill. Draper,
N. C.; D. C. Yarborough, R. I. Brown,
and W. M. Beal, from Bedspread mill,
Leaksville, N. C.; W. T. Dix, from Rayon
mill. Spray, N. C.; W. G. Taylor, J. M.
Clark, J. R. Land, Mrs. Mollie Mitchell,
and G. A. Nowlin, from Sheeting mill.
Draper, N. C.
Have You Bought Your Victory Bond?
People who never bought a War Bond
can redeem themselves with a Victory
Bond.