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MILL WHISTLE Published by Fleldcrest Mills. Inc. • Plants locateil in Spray, Draper and leaksville, N. C. and Fleldale, Va. VOL. XIII Spray, N". C., Monday, June 27, 1955 Number 25 Plants Recognized For Outstanding Safety Records T?or significant achievement in industrial safety, three Fieldcrest plants have been given the Award of Merit by the National Safety Council. The Central Warehouse, Electric Blanket Mill and Syn thetic Fabrics Mills received the certificates for having operated the entire year of 1954 without a lost-time accident. Presentation of the awards here was made by Vice President E. W. Medbery. Officials of the mills involved accept ed the certificates on behalf of em ployees in their respective plants. Central Warehouse has not had an injury causing lost of time since Octo ber 1951 and through May, 1955 had accumulated 1,154,467 man-hours of safe work. With a perfect safety rec ord since its establishment as a sepa rate unit in 1950, the Electric Blanket Mill through May, 1955, has^built up 1,172,253 man-hours of accident free operation. The last injury causing lost time at the Synthetic Fabrics Mill was in January, 1950, giving that mill 2,- 872,750 safe man-hours through May of 1955. H. E. Williams, safety director, said the three Fieldcrest plants were among (Continued on page three) 4 ^^^ESENTATION Vice President E. W. Medbery presents safety awards to T. R. Electric Blanket; A. L. Jackson, Synthetic Fabrics; C. P. Wilson, Warehouse. fieldcrest Prominent In ‘Sellerama’ Fieldcrest had a prominent part in the Segal 1955 spring Sellerama i,^^ducted by Meyer Segal Sons, wholesale dry goods distributor, at the^DyckmlVnXl Tn^^MinheTpolisr A*Total of 600 merchants from sight-state area served by Meyer Segal & Sons attended. According to F. J. Eglles, sales pro motion manager for Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., the event was an outstanding ex ample of aggressive merchandising in dry goods wholesaling in small towns. Merchants were given envelopes con taining information on merchandising domestics, piece goods, various fabrics, and new fibers and had the opportunity to visit various model booths set up by manufacturers where they could ob tain specialized information on selling individual lines. Fall promotions and tie-ins were stressed. glive Will Serve On Assn. Committee B. Olive, patent engineer for ^eldcrest, has been appointed a mem- of the American Bar Association l°^niittee on employer-employee re- Uons in the section of patent, trade- and copyright law. j^^arold S. Silver, of Allis-Chalmers j^^'^'Jfacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wise., committee chairman. ^g^^rpose of the committes a s s i g n- . ®®tigate the pract- of leading in- '^strles in inventions, ^^tents ^ents vj^Ployees are in- its report of Q bindings and the ^•’^mittee’s recom- J|®ndations will be the bar asso- j ation at its meet- 'f* Philadelphia August and will (Continued on Page Eight) to in- B. B. Olive A complete “model store depart ment” showing how to display and sell soft goods was erected for visiting merchants. The first day’s session in cluded the showing of a movie, “How to Sell Quality,” by representatives of Fildcrest Mills. “Make Yours a Well Dressed Home” was the title of the fall Successful Farming promotion being planned in cooperation with Meyer Segal. Betty Grayson of that magazine presented four-color film strips on making the (Continued on page three) Vacation Checks Total $363,000 Vacation pay for Fieldcrest employees will total more than $363,000 with ap proximately $275,000 being paid in the Tri-Cities and around $88,000 in Fiel- dale, Va. Checks have been written for over 3,000 employees in the North Carolina mills and for more than 900 Fieldale workers. The total amount being paid is high er than last year, reflecting greater employee earnings due to increased ac tivity of the mills. Vacation pay checks will be distri buted on the regular paydays during this week. A high percentage of the employees now working will draw va cation pay. In addition, employees out sick and those laid off within the past 12 months will, in most cases, be eli gible for some vacation pay. All employees with continuous ser- (Continued on page three)
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