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^ ^^f'emony Honors Nine Employees ^^tiring Under Pension Plan retired December 1 plan t Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. pension ®i'Plo° ® total of 449 Fieldcrest ®ioti have retired with pen- the 1943. Ceremonies honoring 'onfgf were held in the Nantucket at Monday November 30, sioj '-ifwe the first monthly pen- ^ ecks were presented. Mill Land, Synthetic Fabrics the L years and 11 months, led ice, length of continuous serv- llill Hope M. Flinchum, Blanket ®Wt second with 41 years and Blank„?°'^‘hs and James H. Wade, 9ti(j was next with 34 years Mrs M Charlie W. Agee and 6ach j) B. Peters, Finishing Mill, 30 years and six months. 3o H. Franklin, Towel Mill, had Goitis months; Arthur L. seven’ Mill had 21 years and Miii_ James A. Arnold, Towel Jjifj 10 years and one month; and sijt yg ■ Brannon, Blanket Mill, had ^fvice and 11 months of continuous p „ trotter, secretary of the Re- »ieeti Committee, presided at the "'ho gf presented E. W. Medbery, ^ivi(jy P'^^ssed appreciation of the in- 'uWjyd contributions of the retirees Cottir, success and stability of the ^*lls described the Fieldcrest ^»H(jgj pension program as a well- ''^®U-established pension plan [d easp*^®'^ employees can depend upon ^is. ^heir minds on financial prob- *** Whitcpmb, vice president 'o tiig °f operations, in his remarks pointed out that each of the- 3nd women was retiring *9ij normal retirement date and an indication that they tite to retire and had chosen to re- **0()5i rather than work an addi- nionth as they could have ^lillj do. The new owners of the h to retain the pension plan 1- the conditions of the sale, Mr. % asserted, and over $6 niil- to? been taken out of the Mar- & Company pension trust ®^ed in the Fieldcrest Mills Inc., JjatiQj^^'^nd administered by the First *hij Bank of Chicago as trustee. ®te j^ount represents the proportion- %()1q ear-marked for Fieldcrest He Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. will '*1(j ), Annual payments to the trust on the benefits for those retire in the fu- ’ Vlr. Whitcomb said. placed in the pension trust ^3tiy ®''er be recovered by the Com- ^nd must be used solely for the ^^AY, DECEMBER 7, 1 payment of pensions to retired employ- 00S, Individual citations regarding the service records of the retiring em ployees were read by the respective mill managers. Mr. Trotter explained the rights and benefits enjoyed by re tired employees. He said retired em ployees are still identified with the Company and make up an important part of the “Fieldcrest family.” He in vited the retirees to return for visits to the mills and offered the services of the Personnel Department in assist ing them on any problems involving their rights and privileges as retired employees of the Company. Five of the eight members of the newly-appointed Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Retirement Committee were present for the meeting: Messrs, Whitcomb, Med bery, Trotter, E. L. Brown and Dr. William McGehee. Members of the committee not present were Milton C. Mumford and James C. Walsh, of New York, and Macon P. MiUer who was away on vacation. ★ Last year shortening was the largest single user of cotton seed oil, consuming 358 million pounds. Margerine was the second largest user. ★ Paradoxical but true, a man must sleep well to be wide awake. No one can get proper rest on lumpy, sagging, or worn bedding. Service Anniversaries Thirty Years Livia Rodgers Finishing Jim Ray Sheeting Frank T. Chilton Blanket James M. Norman, Jr Karastan Joe Neal Synthetic Fabrics Twenty-Five Years Ruth H. Davis Bleachery Bethel A. Jefferson . Synthetic Fabrics Twenty Years Albert W. Vestal Synthetic Fabrics Fifteen Years Nettie S. Murray Bedspread A. R. Washburn Synthetic Fabrics Bessie G. Hundley Blanket Myrtle M. Smart Synthetic Fabrics Goldie B. Amos Synthetic Fabrics Vivian L. Wimbish .. Synthetic Fabrics Thelma W. McCollum Synthetic Fabrics Leslie W. Tilley Finishing Ten Years Ruth S. Hopper Finishing John W. Jones Karastan Lottie M. Hill Synthetic Fabrics 5 3 Reporters Visit Newspaper Plant And TV Station Members of the reporting staff of the MILL WHISTLE enjoyed a behind- the-scenes tour of the Greensboro DAILY NEWS printing plant and tele vision station WFMY-TV in Greens boro Friday afternoon, December 4. Carl O. Jeffress, general manager of the Greensboro Daily News Company which operates the DAILY NEWS, the GREENSBORO RECORD and Station WFMY-TV, arranged the tour for the visiting reporters. Mr. Jeffress greeted the group and introduced them to guides who showed them through the plants. Following the tour, the reporters en joyed a turkey dinner at the Bliss Res taurant in Greensboro. The trip was given the MILL WHISTLE correspon dents in appreciation of their services during the past year as news reporters for their respective plants and offices. The event Friday was the 12th an nual get-together for the reporters of the Fieldcrest employees publication which was established in 1942. Re porters making the trip were Katherine Turner, Blanket Mill; Evelyn Lewis, Draper offices; Ruth Talbert, Sheeting Mill; Ada Jones Bedspread Mill; Mary Stephens^ Karastan Mill; Faye Warren, Vera Warrick, Lee Hundley and Lorene Merriman, Fieldale; Louise Nowlin, Electric Blanket Mill; Freda Suit, Nan tucket; Hilda Grogan, General Office; Rebecca Barnard, Finishing Mill; Vir ginia Hurd, Synthetic Fabrics Mill; and Geraldine Perkins, Central Warehouse. Sarah Eggleston, reporter for the Bleachery was unable to attend. Accompanying the group on the trip were Otis Marlowe, editor of the MILL WHISTLE and Howard Barton and J. O. Thomas of the employee publica tion’s advisory board. ■ ★ Plans Announced For Oakland Heights Party The Oakland Heights neighborhood annual Christmas Party will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Eggleston on Saturday night, December 12 at 7:30 o’clock, Mesdames Herman Oslin, J. W. Baughn and Otis Kallam will be joint hostesses. Each adult is expected to bring one piece of fruit, or a can of juice as gifts for shut-ins. Each child is expected to bring a gift for exchange with another child. It seems that current events set the fashions in jewelry. According to the 1953 Yearbook of the American Peo ple’s Encyclopedia, Queen Elizabeth’s coronation has created a trend toward antique, ancestral-looking jewelry. 3
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