THE MILL
Issued Every Other Monday For SmployeM
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Spray, N. C.
Copyright, 1957, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, American Association of
Industrial Editors
REPORTING STAFF
Automatic Blanicet Barbara Schacht
Bedspread Ada Jones
Blanicet Mill Katherine Turner
Central Warehouse - Geraldine Perkins
Draper Offices Mamie Link
General Office Hilda ©rogan
Gladys Holland
Karastan Mill Irene Meeks
Karastan Offices Mary Stephens
Nantucket Offices Lois Gillie
Patsy Barton, Katherine Manley
New York, Offices Jane Corbin
Sheeting Mill Ruth Talbert
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Hundley
Vol. XVI, Monday, July 29, 1957, No. 2
VERSE—
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But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the
wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty.
—1 Corinthians 1:27
MIXED-UP BEAUTIES
II you think you have seen the girl
on the left before, you have. She was
in the last Mill Whistle, identified as
“Peggy Ann Dodson.” She’s really San
dra Sue Merriman, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Merriman, both of the
Towel Mill.
Peggy Ann is shown at the right.
She is the daughter of Clyde Dodson,
of the Towel Mill weave room. The
girls are shown at the Community Cen
ter swimming pool at Fieldale.
Towel Mill Recognizes
Top Weavers, Fixers
For Recent Periods
The Towel Mill’s top quality weavers
and the top loomfixers for the most re
cent periods of record are listed below.
The “Weavers of the Week” are those
with the lowest per cent of seconds
with respect to the standards for the
various loom groups.
The top loomfixers are determined
through a combination of low seconds
and high loom efficiency.
Weavers—W/E July 21
Dobby Terry—WilUam Hancock
Jacquard Terry—Harry Hardy
Draper & Cam Terry—William Moore
Weavers—W/E July 14
Dobby Terry—James Witt
Jacquard Terry—Harry Hardy
Draper & Cam Terry—Claude
Austin, Jr.
Weavers—^W/E June 30
Dobby Terry—Percy Shelor
Jacquard Terry—-Moir Padgett
Draper & Cam Terry—William Moore
Fixers—^W/E July 21
Dobby Terry—Melvin Rakes
Jacquard Terry—Carlton Rakes
Draper & Cam Terry—Clyde Dodson
Fixers—W/E July 14
Dobby Terry—Claude Cobbler
Jacquard Terry—Carlton Rakes
Draper & Cam Terry—James Turner
Fixers—W/E June 30
Dobby Terry—Clay Merriman
Jacquard Terry—Wendell Walker
Dobby & Cam Terry—Clarence
Hopkins
Know Your Industry j
The textile industry’s annual payroll
in North Carolina is about 650 million
dollars—the largest single industry pay
roll in the state.
The N. C. State Department of Con
servation and Development says that
textiles by almost all standards of meas
urement, constitute North Carolina’s
largest manufacturing industry. Tex
tiles predominate in number of estab
lishments, total employees, wages paid,
value of products and value added by
manufacture.
The total direct and indirect taxes
paid to state and local goverment by
the textile industry and the people who
work lor it in North Carolina amounts
to about 30 million dollars annually.
The total tonnage of cotton in bales
and textiles handled by rail and motor
carriers in North Carolina amounted to
about one and a half million tons dur
ing 1954.
There are over 1,000 textile plants in
North Carolina, spinning, weaving and
knitting every type of fiber known to
man for use in thousands of end pro
ducts.
Boyd Is Promoted
At Bedspread Mill
Homer Boyd, head supply clerk 3^
the Bedspread Mill for several years,
has been promoted to foreman of the
Shipping and Receiving Department'
He succeeds Ernest M. Hodges who
took early retirement under the Field'
crest Pension Plan effective July 1-
^ Mr. Boyd is a na-
4 , tive of Wool win®’
Va., and first join
ed the Company
1922. He started in
the Shipping D®"
partment at the old
American W a r e -
house (now Finish
ing Mill) but in
1925 was transfer
red to the stock
records department
, at the General Of-
Homer Boyd
ed for 12 years. He was transferred to
the Woolen Mill supply room in 1937
and continued there until 1948, when the
mill was closed.
He worked elsewhere for a short
time but in November, 1950, he be
came head supply clerk at Bedspread-
He continued in that capacity until his
most recent promotion.
Mr. Boyd married the former Miss
Kate Cook, a native of Pittsylvania
county, Va. Mrs. Boyd formerly work
ed in the Finishing Mill. They have a
son and a daughter, both married, and
two grandchildren. The Boyds own
their home on the Leaksville-Reidsville
Road.
'■;Service,,t
Anniversaries
Thirty-Five Years
Clarise R. Edwards—Bedspread
Eck G. Scales—Central Warehouse
Thirty Years
Woodrow R. Rigney—Finishing
Maggie A. Martin—Karastan
Louise R. Reid—Finishing
Louise E. Odell—Finishing
Alton G. Fuqua—Finishing
Twenty Years
John R. Williams—Blanket
Fifteen Years
Norbert B. Murray—Bedspread
Lucille S. Rutledge—Blanket
Madie 1. Jamerson—Towel
Leroy H. Shaw—Towel
E. Leroy Smart—Blanket
Ten Years
William Colston—Towel
Billy R. Morris—Automatic Blanket
William L. Brown—Karastan
Leonard Lee Rogers—Blanket
Hazel L. Kirks—Blanket
Paul H. Brown—Sheeting
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