Hundreds Attend 25-Year Picnic
Music, Stunts, Prizes, Food
®nd Fellowship Mark 13th
Annual Meeting of Club;
McAlister Is Speaker
Membership reaches sss
Several hundred long -service em-
P°yees of Fieldcrest Mills attended the
^'venty-Five Year Club picnic in More-
stadium, Saturday afternoon,
sptember 10, to hear an address by
6 Key jj Dwight McAlister, pastor
g the First Baptist Church in Cheraw,
■ C. and to enjoy a bountiful picnic
prepared by the ladies of the
®'riniony Grange of Stoneville.
Guests Are Re?ognized
William McGchee, was master of
®remonies. After the invocation by
j^ubert Z. Smith of the Towel Mill,
j *'■ McGehee called on several per-
Jis in the audience to stand for recog-
y *01^: A. D. 'Weaver of the Synthe-
ed just complet-
550 years of continuous service with
Sef *“°^Pany; W. B. Lucas, legal coun-
and assistant secretary of the Com-
f'y; Edward, J. Hoechst, newly ap-
inted director of industrial relations;
a special
^^®teorologist in .
er Department of Commerce weath-
“Ureau at Greensboro.
given a- round of
hav and presented a gift “for
predicted and delivered per-
''leather for the Twenty-Five Year
guest, J. P. Molen,
charge of the United
Club picnics for the past several years.”
President Harold W. Whitcomb made
a brief talk in which he expressed the
Company’s appreciation for the faith
fulness of it’s long-service employees.
He stated that much of the Company’s
success in the past has been due to
the contributions “in know-how and
dependability” of the members of the
Twenty-Five Year Club.
Pension Plan Is Finest
He discussed briefly our Pension Plan
which he described as “the best in the
industry”. He pointed out that the com
pany’s ability to pay for pensions and
other employee benefits it provides is
made possible only by successful opera
tion of the Mills. Mr. Whitcomb dis
cussed briefly some of the current pro
jects under way at the mills and some
of the Company’s plans for the future.
Mr. McAlister, whose address in
cluded some rules for successful liv
ing, spoke in a humorous vein at first,
recounting amusing experiences in his
life as a minister. He grew serious, how
ever, in pointing to certain pitfalls that
must be avoided and some positive
principles that must be employed “if
we are to become happy, useful citi
zens in wholesome, progressive com
munities in a just and peaceful world.”
Stunts and games under the direc
tion of Winfred Hoover and other mem-
. bers of the staff at Consolidated Cen
tral Y.M.C.A., a concert by the Tri-
City Band under the direction of Jesse
W. Griggs, and a guessing contest con
ducted by members of the Industrial
Relations Department preceded the
speaking part of the program.
Attendance prizes were won by John
Eggleston of Central Warehouse, Troy
Priddy of Karastan and Marshall Wil
liams of Blanket Mill. Each received
one of our new Acrilan blankets.
A special prize, a mahogany checker
board with inlaid blocks of walnut giv
en by M. W. Hayden, foreman of the
Plant Service Department at the Fin
ishing Mill was won by Lessie H. Walk
er of the Blanket Mill.
Duplicate Prizes Given
In the guessing game, each member
was asked to examine a jar of new pen
nies and to guess the number of pen
nies in the jar. The jar contained 858
pennies representing the number of
members in the Twenty-Five Year Club.
Although nobody guessed 858, there
were three persons to guess 850 and
prizes of $8.58 each were awarded to
Lottie Frith of the Karastan Office,
Eva Hall of the Blanket Mill, and H.
C. Wade of the Towel Mill.
NEW TELEPHONES NOS.
In your Fieldcrest telephone direc
tory, please make revisions as follows:
On page 6, change Lonnie Hankins’
number from 7304 to 730G. Also on
page 6, J. B. Lamar’s number is now
7316 ONLY. Oil page 5, Allen Bobbitt’s
number is now 7304 ONLY.
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Blue Carpet By Karastan Used In Ohio Church
by carpet by Karastan (Lake Blue No. 391) was used
the Company of Mansfield, Ohio, in an installa-
^ at the Christian Apostolic Church in Mansfield,
til did an interesting decorating job in keeping
'’^terloi simple and using an unusual color scheme. The re-
*>6c contemporary in feeling with no loss in the dignity
®ssary in .i church structure.
'^NDay, SEPTEMBER 2 6, 1 9 5 5
The walls were painted blue to match the carpet. The
wood trim is Colonial white and the pews and furniture are
blondo wood. The only decoration beyond color, is the archi
tectural detail and the three carpet-covered steps (left) form
ing an interesting curved line leading to the altar.
The light fresh feeling of the blue carpet is a change from
the usual deep led or green in Church carpets.