Vol. XVI
Spray, N. C., Monday, March 17, 1958
NUMBER 18
Hospital Building Fund Gets Fieldcrest Check
A check for $100,000, as payment
in full of the Company’s pledge to the
Tri-City Hospital Building Fund, is
Presented to Douglas Booth, treasurer
Of Tri-City Hospital, Inc., who served
3s general chairman of the highly-
successful fund campaign. Presenting
the check is President Harold W. Whit
comb while Company treasurer Rich
mond R. Roberts is shown at left in the
picture.
Fieldcrest employees gave or pledged
$223,000 to the hospital fund. This
amount with the Company’s contribu
tion of $100,000, totalled $323,000 given
by employees and the Company of the
approximately $550,000 raised in the
community-wide campaign.
June House Beautiful. Fieldcrest’s new
est summerweight blanket will be pro
moted in Better Homes and Gardens for
April and in the summer Bride’s maga
zine on sale April 10.
National Ads Promote Products
Millions of people will be seeing
fieldcrest and Karastan products in ad
vertisements in leading homemaker
*^agazines during the next few months.
Reprints of the full-page colored advert
isements are being posted in the mills
Over a period of several weeks.
A custom design from Karastan s
hand-carved Desert Collection is featur
ed in an ad in the April House and Gar
den, on sale March 20, and the May
House Beautiful on sale April 20. Seren-
eau broadloom is promoted in the April
House Beautiful and the May Better
Homes and Gardens.
Country Flair, complete ensemble of
sheets, towels, blankets, bedspreads and
automatic blankets will appear in Charm
and Mademoiselle for April; Better
Homes and Gardens, Living for Young
Homemakers, for May; and in the fall
issue of Modern Bride, on sale July 15.
Royal Velvet towels wil be advertised
in the April House and Garden and in
‘Open House’ Planned
At New Office Bldg.
Employees, members of their
families and the general public
will be invited to visit and tour
the new Fieldcrest Mills general
office on Stadium Drive Saturday,
March 29. “Open House” will be
held from 9 a.m. to 12 o’clock
noon and from 1 p. m. to 4 p.m.
Notices are being posted on the
mill bulletin boards inviting em
ployees and members of their fam
ilies. Because of the large crowds
expected, parents are requested
not to bring children who are
under 12 years old.
Jackson Takes
St. Marys Post
Arthur L. Jackson, newly-named
plant manager of St. Marys Woolen
Manufacturing Company, has assumed
his duties at St. Marys, Ohio, arid will
move his residence there within the
next few weeks.
The appointment, effective March 1,
was announced by Harold W. Whit
comb, president of Fieldcrest Mills and
chairman of St. Marys. Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc. purchased the St. Marys mill Oc
tober 1, 1957 and has since operated
it as a Fieldcrest subsidiary.
Mr. Jackson graduated at North Car
olina State College in June, 1948 with
a B.S. degree in textiles. He joined
Fieldcrest Mills immediately upon his
graduation and worked for a time in
our Research and Quality Control De
partment. He has served successively as
superintendent and later as manager
of the Synthetic Fabrics Mill, assist
ant manager of the Towel Mill and
most recently as technical assistant to
J. H. Ripple, manager of the Blanket
and Sheeting mills.
Mr. Jackson studied industrial admin
istration at Yale University and West
minster College under the Navy’s V-12
program. He graduated in April, 1954,
in the Business Executive Program
conducted by the School of Business
(Continued on page eight)
ARTHUR L. JACKSON
Transferred To St. Marys . . .