MILL WHISTLE
They Didn’t Miss A Day From Work In 1952
CHAMPIONS—Congratulations are in order to these employees of the Carding
Spinning departments, Sheeting Mill, who had perfect attendance in 1953. They
® shown with R. E. New, foreman. First row, left to right; Mr. New, Mamie
Uis, Dorothy Lee, Mabel Danaho, Mary Coggins; second row, James Adams,
olphus Walker, John Berry. Buster Blackwell, James Minter, Charlie Hale;
row Willie Adams, Manx Artis. George Shropshire, Jr. and John Ferguson
not present for the photograph.
^hitcomb, Medbery
^t*eaks To Councils
Mill Operations
A • •
Op ^®int meeting of the Carolina Ce
cil Council and the Junior Coun-
Central Y. M. C. A. January 22
foj reports of Company operations
oiiy ® past year and a discussion of the
^5 for 1953. Talks were made by
W. Whitcomb, assistant general
and E. W. Medbery, production
ijill^Ser, who were presented by M. P.
Patterson, of the Blanket Mill
Shop, a charter member of the
"'ho completed 50 years con-
ajy service with the company Janu-
iti o’ presented a life membership
Mth ^ '^^uncil and a plaque, inscribed
^ citation regarding his outstand-
invocation was given by R. A.
Karastan. Attendance .prizes
5>i(j j ° J- E. West, Central Warehouse
rj,, • E, Cobb, Karastan.
next meeting of the Carolina
will be on February 19.
Mills Will Be Host
To Safety Council
Fieldcrest Mi Is will be host to mem
bers of the Cf* itral Piedmont Safety
Council at a meeting at Central
Y.M.C.A., 7:30 p. i., Friday, February 6.
Tom Carroll, assistant to the secretary
of the National Cotton Coimcil, Memphis,
Tenn., will speak on “Stop, Look and
Listen” using the flannel board and
other visual aids.
Supervisors, plant superintendents,
and others interested in the promotion
of safe work will attend from central
Piedmont counties. It is expected that a
large number of Fieldcrest supervisors
will attend and invitations have been
sent to other mills and local industries.
The meeting wiU be open to the
public and all interested persons are in
vited.
TAX SERVICE
Paychecks this week will have attach
ed a form which employees may fill out
and return if they desir* assistance in
preparing their income-;:*x returns. The
Company is making the free tax service
available beginning February 10.
Advisory Training
Council Appointed
Appointment of an Advisory Train
ing Council, responsible to the General
Management, to stimulate interest in
effective training throughout the organi
zation and to evaluate programs and
methods as proposed by the training
director, has been announced by Har
old W. Whitcomb, assistant general man
ager.
H. T. Bundy, assistant manager of the
Sheeting Mill, was named chairman to
serve for a one-year term. E. W. Med
bery, production manager, and William
McGehee, director of personnel research
and training are ex-offio members. Re
presentatives on the council are appoint
ed by the assistant general manager and
consist of one member from each mill
and from each major staff department.
The council will hold quarterly meet
ings and will make an annual written
report to the assistant general manager
on the status of training within Field
crest Mills. Continuing functions of the
council will be to review activities
in the areas of production, clerical,
technical, supervisory and management
training and to advise how our training
program can be improved and strength
ened.
Members of the advisory council and
the mill or department they represent
are as follows:F. E. Barron, Engineering;
H. T. Bundy, Sheeting; J. S. Eggleston,
Central Warehouse; R. T. Ingram, Hosi
ery; A. L. Jackson, Rayon; W R. Kiser,
Standards; J. W. Norman, Industrial Re-
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Robert C. Mairs Joins
ICarastan Sales Dept.
Robert C. Mairs, Jr., joined our Keir-
astan division, January 1 as sales re
presentative for the newly-created ter
ritory in the north central states. This
territory is comprised of Iowa, Minne
sota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wisconsin, and assigned ac
counts in Michigan and Canada. Mr.
Mairs’ headquarters will be in Minnea
polis.
The new sales representative has a
background of several years of experi
ence in the floor covering field at the
retail level, having been associated with
B. Altman and Company in New York
and W. & J. Sloane in Beverly Hills,
Calif.