New Lines Of Fieldcrest Products
Shown At Sales, Distributor Meetings
Our new 1953 merchandise was un-
WHISTLB
Copyright, 1952. Marshall 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
Vol. XI Monday, Dec. 22, 1952 No. 11
Christmas Holidays
Schedule Is Given
All Fieldcrest plants will close at the
end of the third shift Wednesday, Dec
ember 24, at 7 a.m. to observe the
Christmas holidays. Mills operating on a
six-day schedule will start at 11 p.m.
Sunday, December 28. Mills on a five-
day schedule will resume operations at
7 a.m. Monday, December 29.
Payroll checks for the week ending
December 21 will be distributed at the
mills Wednesday, December 24, at 2
p.m. Straight-time pay for an 8-hour
The banks in Leaksville, Spray and
Draper will be open Wednesday, Dec
ember 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Since
the mills are paying off at 2 p. m. on
Wednesday, December 24, all banks, as
a courtesy, will re-open from 3 p. m.
to 4 p. m. in order that employees may
cash their checks.
work day will be paid to each employee
for Christmas day, provided his name
appears on the active payroll for the
week including the holiday and he
worked his last scheduled work day be
fore and his first scheduled work day
after the holiday.
Pay for Christmas day will be in
cluded in the regular paycheck for the
week ending January 11, 1953.
For the New Year holiday, all mills
will close at the end of the second shift
Wednesday, December 31, at 11 p.m. All
mills will start up again at the beginning
of the third shift Thursday, January 1,
at 11 p.m. Certain departments in the
mills will close earlier and start up
later in order to complete the taking of
inventory. Employees affected will be
notified of any change in the above
schedule. Mills that would normally be
paid Thursday, January 1, will be paid
Friday, January 2.
All offices at Fieldcrest will be closed
for the Christmas holidays Thursday and
Friday, December 25 and 26, and for the
New Year holiday Thursday, January 1.
The company announces that due to
favorable experience for the past year,
group insurance premiums will be waiv
ed for six weeks ending December 14,
21, 28 and January 4, 11 and 18. These
together with two weeks waived for the
vacation period in July total eight weeks
for the insurance year. These premium
waivers will make a total reduction of
15.4 per cent in the annual cost of em
ployees’ insurance.
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veiled for Fieldcrest salesmen and our
wholesale distributors at the annual do
mestic sales and distributors meetings at
Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, Va., Dec
ember 5-12.
At the sales meeting December 5-8
our road salesmen, mill and sales execu
tives devoted attention to sales problems,
new products and new merchsmdise
ideas to help sell Fieldcrest products and
keep the mills active.
A chartered bus brought a large group
of the salesmen to the Tri-Cities and
Fieldale where they visited the mills
and quality control laboratories on Mon
day. The salesmen were given a lunch
eon at Meadow Greens Country club
which was attended by local mill of
ficials.
The distributors meeting brought
together with members of our sales or
ganization executives and salesmen from
Fieldcrest wholesale distributors from
all parts of the United States. The dis
tributors were given a preview of the
new merchandise and sample rooms en
abled them to make their advance pur
chases for 1953. The four-day meeting
was packed with presentations of new
merchandising and selling ideas.
Many of the distributors visited the
mills Thursday, touring the Blanket,
Sheeting, Bedspread, Electric Blanket,
and Finishing mills, the Bleachery, Cen
tral Warehouse and the Research and
Quality Control Dept. The group at
tended a luncheon with Company offici
als at Meadow Greens and visited the
Towel Mill at Fieldale before returning
to Roanoke.
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County Tax Listers
Will Visit The Mills
Tax listing for 1953 for Rockingham
County begins January 2 and listers will
visit the mills on the following schedule:
Rayon Mill — JanuEiry 12
Central Warehouse — January 13
Electric Blanket Mill — Jan. 14 (a.m)
Nantucket Bldg. — Jan. 14 (p.m)
Draper Personnel Office — Jan. 20, 21
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Editor’s Mail
Dear Editor:
Will you please use a small space in
your paper for my thanks to Fieldcrest
Mills for all past favors to me. I want
to wish the Company and every em
ployee a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year.
MRS. DORA SIMPSON
Retired Fieldcrest Employee
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Make safety your job.
Employees Store
Open All Day On
Christmas Eve
The Fieldcrest Mills Employees Stol^j
will observe its regular hours Christm®*]
Eve but will be closed Thursday, Frida?
and Saturday December 25 26 and 2
for the Christmas holidays. The stof®
will be open on regular schedule MoD'
day and Tuesday, December 29 and 30’
The store will be closed for inventon
Wednesday, December 31 and Thursda?'
Friday and Saturday, January 1, 2,
3, reopening on regular schedule Mo®'
day, January 5.
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Perfect Safety Record
In the story accompanying a picture I
Karastan Finishing Dept, employees
the last MILL WHISTLE, the name
Willie Wilmoth was inadvertently otai I
ted. The picture was in recognition
the employees’ working 14 years withO“
a lost-time accident. The omission
doubly regrettable since Mr. WilmO^
has a perfect safety record during
many years of service.
More than 10,000 bales of cotton ^
used annually to provide nurses
neat, starchy uniforms. ^
BUY.. SELL. .SWAf
FOR SALE: Link-Belt Coal Stoker,
lb. capacity. Fully equipped, excell®,
condition. Sacrifice price. Also 60'»
hot water tank. Telephone 328-J-
FOR SALE: Baby Stroller, good as P jj
Used only one week. Wine color,
sell for $8.00. Mrs. Major Church,
Lee St., Spray.
FOR SALE: 16-Guage Double-Barre^^
Shotgun. Perfect condition. See
A. McKinney, 519 Ellett Ave. or
1275-R.
FOR SALE: Apartment size
Range. See Mrs. Pratt 328 Green^
St., Leaksville or Telephone 770'^*• ^
FOR SALE: Breakfast room set (Se^^
table and four chairs, white. In jj,t
lent condition. Mrs. Ray Turner, ^
Shop, or telephone 1810-R. ,!
put’' i
FOR SALE: Craftsman Heavy
Builder’s Bench Saw, complete
bench, HP motor. Switch
110 volts, 10” and 8” blades. Call 2»
after 5 p.m. .
FOR SALE: Pet Ram Lamb sO
months old. See Tom Barker, “
MilL ^
FIELDCREST MILL