VOL. XVI
Spray, N. C., Monday, May 26, 1958
NUMBER 23
Beautiful New Merchandise Unveiled
29 Persons To Retire
Under Pension Plan
All mills except the Automatic Blank
et Mill and Central Warehouse are rep
resented in the 29 employees who will
retire with pension effective June 1.
It will be one of the largest groups to
retire at one time since the Company
started the Pension Plan in 1943.
The retirees will be honored by the
management at a meeting in the con
ference room at the new General Offices
at 10 a.m. Friday, May 30.
Those to retire are: Blanket Mill,
John Artis, Lillie L. Hodges, William
W. Mangrum, Ernest G. Powell, Luther
V. Reece and Cora H. Rickman; Towel
Mill, Eliza J. Burnette, Jesse Ben Hair
ston and Luther G. Hazelwood; Bed
spread Mill, Arthur R. Chandler, James
W. Long, Ernest C. Tiller, Martha S.
Jones and Tima R. Collins; Finishing
Mill, William R. (Boss) Chaney, Nan-
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Mills To Be Closed For
Vacation June 28-July 6
All mills and offices will close for va
cation at the end of the second shift
Friday, June 27 and will resume oper-
a'ions Monday morning, July 7, at 7:00
а.m. except the third shift which will
begin operations Sunday evening, July
б, at 11:00 p.m. If there are any excep
tions to this schedule, employees affect
ed will be notified by the mill manage
ment.
Vacation pay will be issued on the
regular pay day during the week be
ginning June 23. Pay checks for the
week ending June 29 will be distributed
to all employees in the regular manner
on Monday morning, July 7, 1958.
Group insurance premiums will be
waived for the weeks ending July 6 and
July 13. The directors of your Mutual
Aid Associalion have likewise waived
payment of Mutual Aid dues for the
week ending July 6.
The Personnel Office will be open on
a limited basis during the vacation.
Fall Selling Goals Set
At Fieldcrest Sales
Meeting In N. Y.
The Fieldcrest semi-annual sales
meeting was held at the Worth Street
Showroom the week-end of May 3. Dis
trict managers, mill managers and New
York sales representatives attended.
The Saturday meeting was opened by
Arthur S. Thompson, vice president in
charge of sales, who set the tone for and
outlined the two-day program. F. W.
Hoit followed with a review of Spring
1958 and announced the goals for Fall
of 1958.
The new merchandise for fall was
brought together in a Fieldcrest “Al
manac of Fall Fashions” theme. The
showroom had been redecorated to pic-
torially present ideas from the pages
of a giant 8-foot almanac, each page
representing a special promotion for a
fall month. Then the dramatic show
room displays were revealed one by one
as each promotion was introduced.
During the day presentations of the
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Karastan Shipping Employees Work 24 Years Without Lost-Time Injury
Employees of the Shipping Depart
ment at Karastan, shown above with mill
officials, have completed 24 years with
a perfect safety record. There has been
no lost time due to injury in the de
partment since May, 1934.
Left to right, are Roy Pratt, Louis
Clark, Larry Cheek, Harry Meeks, And
rew Powell, and Bobby Shropshire;
standing, J. M. Norman, mill manager;
Virgil Hall, assistant to assistant mill
manager; F. W. Klein, assistant mill
manager; John Ray Taylor, L. M. Oak
ley, foreman;
Carl Keaton, Jesse Smith, Sylvia
Vaughn, Bill Barton, Ozella Lane, Dock
Burroughs, Winona Smith, John Mar
tin, Gordon Overby, Melvin Clark, Frank
Overby, Brooks Collins, Herbert Branch,
Charles Ward, Bob Wilson and J. G.
Cunningham, mill superintendent.