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WHISTLE Copyright, 1951, Marsliall Field & Company Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of Fieldcrest Mills, Divi sion of Marshall Field & Company, Inc., Spray, North Carolina OTIS MARLOWE Editor No. 1 Monday, July 23, 1951 Vol. X Soldier Visits Home Picture above shows Bosen Lee (Buddy) Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Wilson of Draper. Buddy former ly was employed in the Sheeting Card Room and left to enter military service in February, 1951. He is now stationed at Camp Pickett, Va. He is shown above with his parents on a recent week-end visit. His father works in the Sheeting Card Room and his’ rnother (Mary) in Sheeting Spinning. His grandfather, R. L. Wilson, retired June 1 from the Blanket Wool Carding Dept. ★ Pennsylvania Rug Man Pays Visit To Karastan Edward J. Lancner, a member of the rug department at C. A. Dorney Furni ture Company in Allentown, Pa., was a visitor at the mills last week. Mr. Lancner, who sells Karastan rugs from the Allentown store, used a part of his vacation to come to the Tri- Cities where he visited the Karastan Rug Mill and the Research and Quality Control Laboratories. A photography fan, he made a number of pictures of the mill and other community land marks. Mr. Lancner said he was visiting friends in Virginia when it occurred to him that he was near Leaksville; so he took advantage of the opportunity to visit the mill where Karastan rugs are made. Missionary Group Makes Tour Of Fieldcrest Mills Making their first visit to a textile mill, returned missionaries from France, Brazil and Venezuela, are shown above in the warping department at the Sheet ing Mill. The visitors made tours of the Blanket and Sheeting Mills at Draper, the Finishing Mill at Spray and the Karastan Rug Mill in Leaksville. The missionaries were in Draper to attend the first annual missionary con ference at Draper Baptist Church June 20-24. After speaking engagements in this country they will return to their respective fields in the late summer or fall. In the picture, reading from the left, are: Rev. Dynes McCullough, Brazil; Rev. and Mrs. Edward Schwartz, Vene zuela; Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Sommer- ville, France; and Rev. John H. Reinert, pastor of Draper Baptist Church. Rev. and Mrs. Sommerville were serv ing in Czechoslovakia until recently when they were forced out by the Communists. They will return to their work in France during August. QUOTES Some persons are left to shift for themselves; others get instructions from the back seat. * » * I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed to a cause that will ultimately fail. —Woodrow Wilson. Wool Carding Second Shift Honors R. L. Wilson R. L. Wilson (center) was honored by fellow employees upon his retire ment under the Pension Plan. An in formal party was arranged by the second shift employees in the Wool Carding Dept, at the Blanket Mill just before Mr. Wilson ended his last day of active service. Left to right, A. J. Fuller, Oscar Mc Daniel, Veril Jones, Teddy Tate, G. N’ Cochran, Charlie Hall, Ray Esteridge, Percy Wilson, R. L. Wilson, Ester Sauii" ders, Clyde Hall, assistant foreman; Snow Land, Margaret Weadon, F. H. Minter, foreman; Caroline Grubbs, and Marvin Smith. 2 FIELDCREST MILL WHISTLE
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