^OL. XV
Spray, N. C., Monday, September 24, 1956
NUMBER 6
Fieldcrest Honors Long-Service Group
A part of the crowd at the 25-Year picnic. More pictures on page eiirht.
Reed To Be Council
Speaker On Oct. 18
C. s. Reed, Duke Power Co. vice
President and rate engineer, will trace
progress and growth of the Pied-
*'^ont Carolinas when he is featured
speaker at the opening meeting of the
^^'olina Cooperative Council Thursday
®^6ning, October 18 at 7:30 o’clock in
® Consolidated Central Y.M.C.A.
Blending original humorous poetry
ith cold statistics, Mr. Reed will out-
the South’s growth from a “one-
°®llus economy” to the highly diver-
lied prodoction center the region is
today,
p Reed is a native of Pittsburgh,
who came South permanently in
^ He and Mrs. Reed live on and
jPerate a farm at Matthews near Char-
Ue. He was a rate consultant before
1 ^^ing Duke Power and is nationally
in the field of electric, water,
^ transit rate making.
^6 is a past president of the Char-
® Engineers Club and of the Char-
lott,
Kiwanis Club. He writes poetry'
a hobby.
Courses In Departmental
Management To Start At
Fieldcrest This Week
The first in a series of courses in
various phases of departmental man
agement which will continue over a
period of several years, will open this
week at Spray and Fieldale. Foremen
and assistant foremen from all mills
will participate.
The courses were arranged by the
Training Dept, and will be conducted
by instructors from the mills and staff
departments. Each class will meet from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. one night a week for
about 10 weeks.
Fifteen supervisors are enrolled for
the course in “Training Operators,” to
be given in the Towel Mill conference
room at Fieldale. The classes will begin
Monday night, September 24. Instruc
tors will be James Gardner and Wil
liam McGehee.
A course in “Machinery Efficiency for
Carding and Spinning Supervisors” will
open Tuesday evening, September 25,
in the Nantucket conference room at
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Nearly 600 Persons Attend
14th Annual Meeting Of The
25-Year Club; Picnic Held
At Stadium
A crowd of nearly 600 persons at^
tended the Fieldcrest Mills 25-Year
Club picnic in Morehead Stadium Sat
urday afternoon, September 15. The
event was considered the best attended
and most successful in the history of
the club.
The highlight of the program was an
address by President Harold W. Whit
comb who reviewed the progress made
by the mills in recent years and dis
cussed some of the plans for the future.
Robert A. Harris, vice president in
charge of manufacturing, was master
of ceremonies. The invocation was giv
en by the Rev. J. K. McConnell. R. H.
Tuttle welcomed the 66 new members
of the club and J. H. Ripple handled
the drawing for attendance prizes.
Messrs. McConnell, Tuttle and Ripple
are members of the 25-Year Club.
Mr. Harris introduced Paul D.
Emery, assistant to the vice president
in charge of manufacturing, Clinton J.
Frank, Jr., director of industrial rela
tions, and Benjamin Thomas, Jr., as
sistant manager of the Synthetic Fabrics
Mill, who recently joined the Fieldcrest
organization.
The club’s eight members with more
than 50 years of continuous service
were recognized and asked to stand.
These were O. F. Ferguson, J. Will
Patterson, W. A. Blackburn, Miss Mol-
lie Lea, A. D. Weaver, W. Riley Gover,
Miss Annie Lea and J. J. Dodson.
Also recognized were S. R. Fifield,
vice president in charge of purchasing,
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The ‘Living Rose*
What is the “Living Rose”?
It’s a completely new rose variety
developed in Texas and named for
LIVING FOR YOUNG HOMEMAKERS
magazine, which will introduce Field
crest and other tie-in merchandise in
its October issue. See pages four and
five for Fleldcrest’s completely co
ordinated collection of bed and bath
fashions on the Living Rose theme.