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Six THE. MILL WHISTLE Receive Promotions To Supervisory Jobs Shown here are recently promoted foremen and assistant foremen, several of whom received promotions to fill vacancies left by employees retired under the pension plan. In upper picture, seated, left to right, are: Dan Squires, assistant foreman on third shift in Sheeting Spinning; Herman Blackwell, foreman on third shift in Blanket Wool Carding; Ray Warner, foreman'of Rayon Entering. Standing, left to right, are: Glenn Wilson, assistant foreman on third shift in Sheet ing Weaving; A. E. Shumate, foreman of Karastan Dyeing; F. H. Minter, second shift foreman in Blanket Wool Carding; and Clyde Hall, assistant foreman in Blanket Wool Carding. In lower picture, left to right, are: William Dew, assistant foreman in Woolen Finishing; J. E. West, assistant foreman in Warehouse Shipping; and Harvey Biggs, assistant foreman in Finishing Napping. - > li August 19, 1946 Numa R. Martin Is Named Instructor Numa R. Martin has been transferred from the Wage Bureau to the Training Department and will take up his duties there August 23. His work will consist mainly cf following up suggested im provements which have come about through the medium of Work Simplifi cation. Along with these duties he will be available to help employees with the working out of thsir ideas for improv- ments. Because of his recent training at A. H. Mogensen’s Work Simplification Con ference at Lake Placid, N. Y., he will also be used to conduct classes in Work Simplification in the various mills. Martin is a native of Rockingham County and a graduate of Leaksville high school. He attended Shenandoah College, in Virginia, and has had varied work experience both with the Com pany and outside firms. His first connection with the Company was as a dofler at the Bedspread Mill. He was subsequently a doffer in the old Lily Mill, a packer in the old Ameri can Warehouse, and a silk soaker at what is now the Rayon Mill. For several years he was a weaver at the Rayon Mill, and in 1940 was transferred to the superintendent’s office to make loom stoppage tests. He con tinued in the same type work at the Woolen and Bedspread Mills, and in late 1940 was transferred to the Wage Bu reau. While engaged as a Wage Bureau checker he received training in time study v/erk and subsequently became a time study engineer, working in sev eral different mills. During the war he resigned and went to Wilmington where he did time study work for the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company. He re-joined Marshall Field and Com pany in 1943, and was assigned to time study work in the mills in the Spray area, and most recently was assigned as the engineer for the Karastan Mill. In the summer of 1945, Martin went to the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, where he attended the Summer Man- . agement course conducted by Prof. Ralph M. Barnes, professor of Industrial Engineering at the university. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank all our friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and for all their kindness shown to us in the death of .our son, Willis McKenley Booth. THE BOOTH FAMILY Blanket Mill. Many a girl will scream at the sight of a mouse but think nothing of step ping into a car with a wolf.
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