MILL WHISTLE
25-Year Club Picnic
To Be Held Sept. 13
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Members of the Fieldcrest Mills 25-
®ar Club will hold their 10th annual
l^eeting Saturday, September 13 at Tri-
Baseball Park. The program begins
3:3o p.m. A picnic supper will be
Served around 5 p.m. The food is being
P^'epared by the ladies of Matrimony
Jarange, Stoneville, under the direction
1 Mrs. Fred Davis.
The club is comprised of those em-
P oyees who have 25 or more years of
^ntinuous service with the mills. Many
^embers have over 35 years of service
th ^ ^ sizable group have exceeded
e 40-year mark. Total membership
present is 673, including 61 new
^embers who will receive their club
Golems at Saturday’s outing.
Macon P. Miller will be master of
J’^®wonies, with E. W. Medberry ex-
nding the welcome on behalf of the
^anagment. Harold W. Whitcomb will
sent ,'^’^iefly to the group and will pre-
t pins to the new members,
he Tri-City band will play a concert
to the speaking part of the pro-
the Fieldcrest Quartet will
Mlf music and entertainment
11^ ^e provided by Jim Eanes and his
snd Country Boys” from radio
att WBTM in Danville, Va. Several
j'= ^'^3nce prizes consisting of various
“crest products, will be awarded.
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I'omoted To Foreman
Robert C. Wingate,
formerly fixer in the
Seaming Dept, at the
Hosiery Mill, was
promoted to foreman
of the Seaming,
Greige Examining
and Griege Mending
departments effective
September 1.
Mr. Wingate is a
°f Grayson County, Virginia, but
Ijg. “ in Georgia and North Carolina
going to Fieldale in 1938. He
^ Ked in the Towel Mill and later was
Jackpot Winners In Safety Rules Contest
J^ative
jj'-A for two years.
secretary of the Fieldale
in employed at the Hosiery Mill
1952 Seaming Dept, in March
Air Wingate served in the Army
*orce during World War II.
as shipping clerk and became a
Winners of the jackpot prizes at the
various mills in the safety rules quiz
contest conducted during the past sever
al months are shovm above. Employees
were selected at random and asked to
quote one of the Fieldcrest Mills safety
rules. If the individual stated the rule
correctly he was paid a dollar and he
became eligible for the jackpot to be
given at the close of the contest. A dol
lar was put into the jackpot each time
an employee was found unable to state
the rule correctly. Jackpot winners
successfully quoted a second safety rule
before receiving a sizable cash award.
Top row: left to right; Rosa Mason
Combs, Blanket; Euell L. Turner,
Towel; Juanita Joyce, Hosiery; Russell
Krantz, Finishing & Bleachery; Elsie
Mullis, Electric Blanket; bottom row,
Myrtle Harris, Sheeting; Lillie Lamar
Woodlieff, Rayon; Eunice Buckner,
Central Warehouse; Billie McCullouch,
Bedspread; and Charles R. Galloway,
Karastan.
Dr. William Elmore Will
Speak To Junior Council
The Junior Carolina Council will
hold its first meeting of the new Coun
cil year Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock
at Central Y. M. C. A. Robert L. Powell
of the Blanket Mill is president and
Lucille Cherry, Industrial and Public
Relations Dept, is secretary-treasurer.
A vice president and a song leader will
be elected to round out the full comple
ment of new officers for the coming
year.
Nancy Matlock, of Central Warehouse
Office, program chairman, announced
that the speaker for the first meeting
will be Dr. William H. Elmore, chiro
practor, who recently opened offices in
Leaksville. Dr. Elmore is author of a
column “Health Chats” appearing in
The Leaksville News.
Fieldcrest Radio Show
Starts 7th Year At WLOE
The Fieldcrest Show began its seventh
annual series over Station WLOE Sep
tember 7 and will be heard each Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock for the next sever,
al months. The program will be carried
by both WLOE and Station WMVA in
Martinsville, Va.
The Fieldcrest Quartet will again be
featured on the weekly broadcast, as
will the “Mr. Fieldcrest” guessing game
in which cash prizes are awarded the
first persons correctly identifying the
employees whose stories are told on the
program.
Mrs. Curtis Martin, of the Hosiery
Mill Office at Fieldale, was guest
vocalist and Harold W. Whitcomb, as
sistant general manager, was speaker
on the opening broadcast of the series.