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XV Spray, N. C., Monday, March 18, 1957 NUMBER 18
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Year’s Best Quality Weavers At Towel Mill
Quality champions at the Towel Mill for the past year are shown with mill
officials. Second from left, Charlie Ramsey, in the dobby terry group, has been the
quality weaver for nine weeks out of the year; center, Moir Padgett, jacquard
‘®rry, lo weeks; and second from right, John Haynes, Draper and cam terry, 10
^^eeks. At extreme left is D. E. Simons, mill superintendent, and at extreme right
R. H. Turner, weaving foreman.
Karastan Rugs Get Nation-wide Publicity
Millions of people all over America
'^ill be seeing Karastan advertisements
editorial features showing our rugs
5tid carpets during the next few
Months.
A full-page colored ad on Karastan
appear in the April issues of House
^ Garden and House Beautiful. An
other full-page ad featuring a hand
Carved rug from the Desert Collection
^ill be in the May issues of Better
^ornes & Gardens and House Beautiful.
McCall’s magazine (circulation 4,-
®®0,000) in it’s February issue, fea-
^fed Karaleau carpet in the “To
getherness House” built last summer
Miami, Florida. This is the first
I’ouse treated by McCall’s since they
introduced their effective “Together-
less” theme. The house and our car-
have received a lot of publicity
'^'itside of the magazine.
Karaleau carpet again was used on
/'e second page of the February House
^ Garden in a pink, lavender and or-
^fige bedroom. The bedroom employs
a daring color scheme that manages to
be utterly serene and “decorated for
repose”. Both of these photographs
prove the validity of Karastan’s color
line and its acceptance by decorating
authorities.
In an industry article in the April
Living For Young Homemakers, our
Edwardian Blue Chateau is shown to
good advantage.
Other Karastan publicity in spring
issues of national magazines is expect
ed to appear as follows; “Circus Time”,
Happiness rug, in black and white, in
the spring issue of Bride and Home
(formerly Guide for the Bride); Sun
burst on Sunset, in color, and “Night
Flower”, in black and white, in a rug
article, in the March House & Garden
and “Shell on White Sand”, in color,
in the April issue of House & Garden.
Esquire will show “Imperial Butter
fly” in it’s June issue. Good House
keeping has photographed a Desert
Collection rug for a carpet story in
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Fieldcrest Men Have
Parts In STA Meeting
Several Fieldcrest men will take part
on the program at the Spring meeting
of the Northern North Carolina-Vir-
ginia division of the Southern Textile
Association.
Approximately 250 textile operating
men from a wide section of North
Carolina and Virginia are expected to
attend the meeting in Hilton Hall at
Danville, Va., Saturday, April 13, be
ginning at 10:00 a.m. The group will be
guests of Dan River Mills at a luncheon
at 12:30 p.m.
D. E. Simons, superintendent of the
Towel Mill, and R. A. Turner, weaving
foreman at the Towel Mill, will have
charge of the session on box weaving.
R. C. Going, superintendent of the
Sheeting Mill, and William B. Chamb-
ley, foreman of carding and spinning
at the Towel Mill, will lead the dis
cussion on spooling and quilling.
Basil Browder To Speak
The meeting will open with a wel
come given by William J. Ervin, pres
ident of Dan River Mills. Basil D.
Browder, executive vice-president of
Dan River Mills, will speak on “The
Outlook For Textiles”. Following the
main address, a number of technical
discussions will be held, led by men
who are well experienced in their re
spective fields.
In addition to the subjects covered
by the Fieldcrest men, there will be
discussions on opening and picking,
carding, spinning, slashing, plain weav-
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Fabrics Made At Mills
Exhibited In Trade Show
At N. C. State College
Thousands of visitors saw textiles
made by Fieldcrest Mills at the Trade
Show sponsored by the Student Union
at North Carolina State College last
week. Reports indicated that approxi
mately 8,000 persons saw the exhibits,
held in the Student Union building.
Fabrics displayed by the Company
were selected by our Domestics De
signing Dept, and Karastan Designing
Dept. Included were Starglo and Town
house bedspreads, Acrilan blanket. Field
Flowers blanket of orlon, rayon and
cotton, Duracale printed sheet, and five
rugs from Karastan’s Desert Collection.