MILL WHISTLE
Formal Opening Set
For New Rayon Mill
Plant Will Go Into Operation
Monday, December 10;
Employees To Visit On Sunday
The New Rayon Mill, located at the
former Woolen Mill site, will be formal
ly opened Sunday afternoon, December
9.. The Fieldcrest Radio Program will
be broadcast from the new mill and
Will carry a portion of the dedication
ceremonies.
Rayon Mill employees and their fami
lies are being mailed invitations to the
formal opening. They are being request
ed to arrive at the mill by 2:45 p. m. in
order that the crowd may be seated
before the broadcast begins at 3 p. m.
Following the program, employees and
their families wil be conducted on tours
of the new plant.
Later in the same week it is planned
to have an “open house” for the general
Public to give employees of our other
mills and community people an oppor
tunity to see the new mill.
Remodeling of the mill building has
Store Schedule
The Employees Store will be
closed Monday and Tuesday, De
cember 24 and 25, in observance
of the Christmas holidays. The
store will be open during the reg
ular hours Wednesday, December
26.
The store will close for inven
tory at 1 p.m. Thursday, Decem
ber 27, and remain closed until
Wednesday, January 2, 1952, when
it will re-open for the regular
schedule.
been virtually completed and some of
the machinery already has been moved
and put into place. The present Rayon
Mill will be closed December 1-10 while
the remainder of the machinery is trans
ferred to the new location. Employees
of the Rayon Mill, who worked through
the regular vacation last summer will
take a week’s vacation while the last
machinery is being moved and made
ready for operation in the new plant.
Progress Made On New Addition at Towel Mill
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Picture shows construction at the Towel Mill, Fieldale, Va., where an addition
to provide 30,000 square feet of floor space is being built at the north end of the
finishing building. The sewing room will be enlarged and badly needed additional
space will be provided for packaging and open stock storage. The new structure
is to be completed early in 1952.
First Fire Lighted
In New Rayon Boiler
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Bonnie Pruitt, veteran fireman and
watchman at Fieldcrest Mills, who shut
down the boilers when the Woolen Mill
was closed in 1948, is shown as he light
ed the first fire in the boiler at the new
Rayon Mill Tuesday, November 13.
Looking on as the boiler was placed
into operation are Howard Barton,
superintendent of the Rayon Mill (at
Mr. Pruitt’s left); Leslie Flynn, of the
Rayon Mill; and J. G. Farrell, Jr., (with
hght hat) Engineering Dept.
Mill Trip To Feature
Distributors Meeting
The annual Fieldcrest Sales meeting,
bringing together our road salesmen,
mill and sales officials opens at Hotel
Roanoke, Roanoke, Va., Friday, Novem
ber 30 and continues through Monday,
December 3. At the sales meeting of our
organization, these three days will be
devoted to sales problems, new pro
ducts, new ideas to keep our mills ac
tive.
The Sales meeting will be followed
by the Fieldcrest Distributor meeting to
be attended by approximately 50 execu
tives from the wholesale distributor
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