VOL. XVI Spray, N. C., Monday, May 12, 1958 NUMBER 22 Karastan Employee Gets Red Cross Honor Mrs. Lottie Frith, an employee of the Karastan Office, has established an outstanding record as a Red Cross nurse’s aide. She has devoted over 500 hours to this work at Tri-City Hospital. She was honored by the local Red Cross chapter recently and was award ed her second nurse’s aide stripe emble matic of 500 hours of service. Mrs. Frith became a nurse’s aide after completing a 40-hour course spon sored by the Leaksville-Spray-Draper chapter, American Red Cross. That was in early 1956. She received her uniform and began her service at the hospital in June 1956. She was supposed to devote 150 hours a year to the work. Since this would require only 300 hours by June of this year, she is running well ahead of sche dule. Moreover, she has no plans to let Up. She said she welcomed an oppor tunity to become a nurse’s aide because she always thought she would like nursing. “I am glad to be of service and hope to be able to continue to help Someone by being a nurse’s aide,” she said. Gunnells. Gussin Assume Duties JACK H. GUNNELLS . . . Employee Relations Managrer . . . Jack H. Gunnells will join the Field- crest Mills industrial relations depart ment today (Monday) as manager of employee relations. He comes to Fieldcrest from the Campbell Soup Company, Camden, N. J., where he was labor rela'.ions supervisor. Mrs. Lottie Frith is presented her 500-hour nurse’s aide stripe by Mrs. Harry Fagg, Red Cross volunteer nurse’s aide chairman, while Mrs. Grace Armfield, executive director of the Leaksville-Spray-Draper Red Cross chapter, looks on at right. ALFRED S. GUSSIN . . . Joins Karastan Division . . . He has also had experience in other phases of industrial relations, including employment, training and general ad ministration. A native of Kings Mountain, he re ceived a bachelor of arts degree in busi ness administration at Lenoir-Rhyne College and a master’s degree in per sonnel administration at the University of North Carolina. He is a past member of the Industrial Relations Research Association and the Industrial Relations Association, both of Philadelphia, Pa.; the South Jersey Per sonnel Group, Camden; the Kappa Al pha Kappa fraternity, Lenoir-Rhyne; and the Master of Business Administra tion Club, Chapel Hill. Prior to college he worked at Neisler Mills at Kings Mountain. Mr. Gunnells is married to the former Miss Dorothy Davis, a native of Hickory. They have one son, three years of age. Alfred S. Gussin has been appointed director of advertising and sales pro motion of Karastan Rug Mills, Division of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., as previously announced. Mr. Gussin was director of adver tising, sales promotion and public rela tions for the Firth Carpet Company for nine years. During that period he was, for two years, chairman of the adver tising, public relations and publicity campaign of the American Carpet Com pany.

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