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Page Two PIELDCREST MILL WHISTLE January 6, 1947 ' f f 1 Hodges Commends Community Spirit In WLOE Broadcast MAIN STUDIO, WLOE—Left to right, Harold W. Whitcomb, Luther H. llodgefl, and Staff Announcer Jerry Webster. A community program in which 85 local citizens took part marked the formal opening of WLOE, Leaksville, Rockingham County’s first radio station Sunday afternoon, December 22. Repre sentatives from all community organi zations participated in the broadcast. Speaking for Fieldcrest Mills, division of Marshall Field and Company, Inc., which employs 5,000 persons within the area served by WLOE, Luther H. Hodg es, vice-president of the Company and general manager of Fieldcrest Mills, commended the community spirit ti*fit exists in the Tri-Cities and attributed to the characteristics of the people “the pleasant communities in which we live and work.” assistant general manager of the mills. Station WLOE is owned and operat ed by Douglas Craddock. It operates on 1490 kilocycles and reaches a listening audience of 375,000 people in 35,000 radio homes. The station is affiliated with the Mutual network. The studio building is patterned after RCA modern design and is furnished throughout with oriental rugs which were reproduced in the Karastan Rag Mill and with draperies designed here and woven in the Bedspread Mill. The main studio furnishings include an original idea in sound-proofing in that the walls are padded with Field crest Mills cotton, then covered with drapery material woven in the Bed spread Mill. Desk Is Presented J. Frank Wilson At Council Banquet Hodges pointed to a better under standing between the peoples of the world as a requisite for world peace. Russia, he said, has been running five- year plans one after another and is now in her fourth plan trying to do the things that industrial and capitalistic America has done successfully in war and peace. “We must analyze the good things we are getting from our own country and must learn to appreciate the freedom we are enjoying,” he said. Hodges was presented by Harold W. Whitcomb, divisional vice-president and REYNOLDS AND COBB (Continued from Page One) ties. G. T. Sykes, office manager, will assume part of the duties previously performed by Reynolds, and in the ab sence of Sykes those reporting to him will report to Reynolds. Cobb will report to Virgil Hall, sup erintendent of the mill, and will have direct responsibility for the threading, warping, and weaving departments. The foremen of these departments will re port to Cobb and in the absence of Hall the foremen of all departments will re port to Cobb. The Carolina Cooperative Council and the Junior Carolina Council held their annual Christmas banquet at the Leaksville armory Saturday evening, December 21. John M. Geer was gen eral chairman of the affair and Harold W. Whitcomb was toastmaster. The Rev. H. Fletcher Lamberth, pas tor of Spray Baptist church, spoke the invocation and James L. Marlowe, Council song leader, led in the singing of Christmas carols. Luther H. Hodges of New York spoke briefly, bringing greetings from the management. A feature of the program was the presentation of a mahogany desk to J. Frank Wilson, production manager with 36 years’ continuous service who retired December 31 under the Company’s re tirement plan. The presentation was made by S. T. Anderson, superintend ent of the Bedspread Mill, who was as sociated with Wilson at Draper when Wilson first joined the Company. Do You Know? About 60 Pounds of Cotton Textiles Go into Every Automobile.
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