Red Cross Fund Drive Opens Today
Tri-Cities Goal Is
S7000.00 In Biggest
Peacetime Program
Employees Will Be Solicited
In Mills By Red Cross
Volunteer Workers
NEEDS^RE GREAT
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Funds to support the biggest peace
time program in the history of the
American Red Cross will be sought in
the drive which opens in the Tri-Cities
Monday, March 5, and continues during
the week.
E. W. Medbery, general chairman ot
the fund campaign, said every effort
would be made to launch the drive
simultaneously in all areas and carry it
through to a successful completion by
the end of the week. The goal in the
community-wide drive is $7,000.
Nationally, the Red Cross goal for
1951 is $85,000,000.00 — an increase of
27% over the $67,000,000, the 1950
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As a part of the 1951 capital im
provements program at Fieldcrest Mills,
a brick and steel addition to provide
30,000 square feet of floor space is to
be built at the north end of the finish
ing building at the Towel Mill in Field-
ale.
Bids were opened and the contract
let February 28. John Smith & Sons,
of Leaksville, was the low bidder. Work
on the addition is to begin immediately
with the contract calling for completion
within 270 calendar days. Plans and
specifications were prepared by Robert
& Company Associates of Atlanta.
A. G. Singleton, plant engineer, is in
charge of the project for Fieldcrest
Mills.
The plans call for a section of the
new structure to be 50x96, 3 stories
high, and another section 130x96, 2
stories high. The third floor will be
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Magicians Will Perform Here March 22
Torrini and Phyllis with their “Mag
ic At Its Best” will give a performance
before members of the Carolina Coop
erative Cour.cil in the Leaksville high
school auditorium Thursday evening
March 22.' The famous show has been
featured in leading theaters,
schools, churches, and hotels throughout
the United States. Torrini and Pnyliis
have appeared on the screen, stage, and
television.
The March meeting of the Council
wiU be ladies’ night with wives of
Council members invited. Members of
the Junior Carolina Council and their
wives or husbands will be guests.
It was a happy occasion February 10-
11 for Mr. and Mrs. Jesse J. Hundley
when their son, Pfc. Douglas E. Hund
ley, on pass from a hospital at Fort
Bragg, visited his parents in Leaksville.
Young Hundley, while in action in
Korea, was wounded by shrapnel and
suffered frozen feet and hands. He was
flown from Korea to a hospital in Japan
and then was fiown to the United
States and was placed in an Army hos
pital at Battle Creek, Mich., before be
ing transferred to the Fort Bragg hos
pital. His feet and hands responded to
treatment except for two fingers which
had to be amputated.
Both the parents are employees of
Fieldcrest Mills. Mr. Hundley works in
the Karastan Weave Room and Mrs.
Hundley (Rivers) in the Blanket Fold
ing Dept., at the Finishing Mill. They
earlier had lost a son, Pfc. Elrin M.
Hundley who was killed in action in
Korea.
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Service Men’s Folder
Announcement was made in the last
issue of the MILL WHISTLE that the
Fieldcrest Mills military service folder
would be given to all employees enter
ing the armed forces. We neglected to
state that the folders wiU also be mailed
to any former employees now in ser
vice who request them.
Men already in service who desire a
folder should write Mr. J. O. Thomas,
Veterans’ Counselor, Fieldcrest Mills.