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Visitors
Co. who visited the mills and quality
ntrol laboratories last week are shown in the Bedspread Weave Room with S T
tJerson, superintendent of the Bedspread Mill, guide for the mill tour.
Ill • Herdes, San Francisco. Calif.; Mrs. Hazel Clymer, Moline
Garri ®h®wnee, Okla.; Mr. Anderson; Mrs. Florence Craytor!
City, Kan.; A. A. Sachs, Chicago; Wayne B. Crandall, Santa Monica, Calif!
Receive Promotions
. Harold
Squires (left), formerly as-
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the R, foreman on the second shift in
Hien* Cloth Inspection Depart-
foj-g ’ been promoted to assistant
atid Blanket Weave Room
the time being is working on
shift.
®3rrow (right), formerly loom-
^6av ° T> third shift in the Blanket
fofg^ ’ promoted to assistant
*Jietit the Cloth Inspection Depart-
second shift.
Coined a native of Draper, first
company in the Blanket
® Room as a quill collector in 1935.
He was a weaver and loomfixer for
several years. For a time, he was associ
ated with Ivar Moberg in experimental
and loom development work in the
Standards Department before becoming
assistant foreman of the Cloth Room in
December 1951. In the past, Mr. Squires
has attended the Vocational School
where he studied carding and spinning
and weaving and designing.
Mr. Barrow, also a Draper native, at
tended the local schools and completed
a loomfixing course sponsored by the
Company at the Vocational School in
1947. He has worked in the Blanket
Weave Room since July 1939 when he
was a filling hand. He was a weaver
for several years on jacquards and has
been a loomfixer since 1947, fixing both
jacquard and plain looms.
Fire Prevention Week
Fieldcrest Mills will cooperate with
the fire departments of Leaksville,
Spray and Draper in the observance of
Fire Prevention Week October 5-11. An
organized schedule of activities is plan
ned for the week with special atten
tion being given to certain items on
each day. E. W. Medbery, production
manager, has urged that each mill take
steps to safe^ard the plants against
winter fire hazards and possible freez
ing of fire protection sprinkler pipes.
Sears, Roebuck Sales
Winners Visit Mills
Domestics section managers from
Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail stores,
who were winners in a sales contest,
last week enjoyed a three-day trip to
Fieldcrest Mills. Visiting in two groups,
the first contingent of nine September
24 and 25, and the latter party of 10
on October 1 and 2, the visitors had
their headquarters at the Fieldale
Lodge, from where they made tours
through the mills in the Tri-Cities and
at Fieldale, with a side trip to Philpott
Dam.
Sears’ gave the expense-paid trip as
a reward for the section managers’ in
creasing sales to the highest percentage
above their quotas in the contest. The
pleasure trip was combined with the
mill tour to give the salespeople an op
portunity to observe our production
processes and our quality testing pro
gram.
Contest winners visiting the miiig
were D. Hoss, Los Angeles, Calif.; Jack
Fully, Los Angeles, Calif.; Robert W.
Bain, Louisville, Ky.; Richard Taylor,
Sacramento, Calif.; William Adams,
Bakersfield, Calif.; Miss Alice Hon-
gerousky, Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. Rachel
Brandes, Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. Verla
P. Cooper, Enid, Okla.; Ed Truitt, Dal
las, Texas.; Leonard Gleason, Dallas,
Texas;
Leonard Herdes, San Francisco,
Calif.; George King, Inglewood, Calif.;
Wayne B. Crandall, Santa Monica,
Calif.; Miss Bee Jones, Orlando, Fla.;
Louie Wilson, Riverside, Calif.; Mrs.
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New Assistant Foreman
Jack Jarrett, form
erly a weaver on the
third shift at the
Sheeting Mill has
been promoted to as
sistant foreman of
the Cloth Inspection
Dept., second shift.
Mr. Jarrett was born
in Spray and gradu
ated from Draper
high school in 1943.
He served overseas
with the Marines during World War IL
He has been a weaver on the third shift
for the past several years and for a
time worked with the Standards Dept,
on Control Testing in the Sheeting
Weave Room.