Ex-Towel Employee^ Now Congressman^ Visits Mill
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Progress In Mill 'And
^ommunity Impresses
*'ormer Employee
Mil] “celebrity time” at the Towel
ijie other day when Jim Haley, for-
5iid of the Ringling Brothers
’’'ill ^ Bailey circus toured the
>, While in Fieldale to visit his sister,
Charlsie Jordan.
his th' completed
'•'ati f term as a Democratic congress-
foj. L. Florida and who is unopposed
05 fourth term, stopped by Fieldale
lou to Florida from Washington
CfiK the adjournment of the 85th
ySress.
Mrs. Haley visited the Towel
“>the
'"erl.’v
"'here they spent considerable time
Weave room where Mr. Haley for-
ivifg^.'^'orked. He demonstrated to his
that he still knew how to start and
!>fOi
'Pal o.ai.1, ailu
*°om. He seemed amazed at the
'Sresg
Qere,
in the mill since he worked
flayed Baseball at Fieldale
recalled that he came to
teiijai around Christmas in 1920 and
,Qed until mid-summer. He is re-
^ei
he
'^as
th^'^Wd
® 1 team. He recalled that Fieldale
as a star first baseman on
thgfg ^*^®t getting started” when he was
he was very complimentary
^ the town as it is today.
of Alabama, he first learned
'Vin through L. E. Turner and
who were working at the
playing baseball on the
, team.
Wh
left Fieldale he went to
Ga. where he managed a
f Calloway Mills. From there
the ^/orida as personnel manager
Florida Power and Light Com-
vjg. Club Picnic
Mf\ Saturday In
**ehead Stadium
^Continued from page one)
Ner
of
ceremonies. Officers of the
other guests have been
*^h
' Dots and Dash trio, from
i ’ -
^hi
foiiV°°d Mills in Greenwood, South
will entertain with
M Sir*! > tcixil WILH £)»
' ? ^ of Greenwood Mills
® has
songs,
em-
V *^ade a name for itself in
■ ^fio,,'*'^'=es before numerous groups in
1’L Parts of the South.
i,‘he .
St ladi supper will be served by
J *'evin^ Matrimony Grange, of
t) '^'^der the direction of Mrs.
^ly^ich This is the same group
Q. prepared the food for 25-
'] '^b picnics for the past several
t
^ ^his issue
iripi 25-Year Club mem-
■ 1 the 204 new members
' 6 mtn , ...
**^to the club this year.
Jim Haley, Florida Congressman, is shown (center) as he arrived to visit the
Towel Mill where he formerly worked. At right is D. A. Purcell, mill manager, and at
left is Mrs. Charlsie Jordan, the Congressman’s sister who lives at Fieldale.
pany, and then operated an auto sales
agency for a short while.
At Sarasota, winter home of the cir
cus, Mr. Haley formed an accounting
firm which did the auditing for the old
John L. Ringling circus. When Mr. Ring
ling died, Mr. Haley became general
manager for the executors of the estate,
holding this post until he was made
president when the two shows were con
solidated.
When he was head of the “Greatest
Show on Earth” Mr. Haley visited his
sister and friends at Fieldale when time
permitted. When the circus played in
Roanoke, Greensboro, or Winston-Salem,
Mr. Haley had seats reserved for old
friends from Fieldale who saw “the big
show” as guests of its president.
Since he has been in Congress, Mr.
Haley has visited Fieldale occasionally
as he travelled between Washington and
his home in Florida. Also, through the
years he has kept in touch with Fieldale
through correspondence with his sister,
and with J. Frank Wilson and J. H.
Ripple, former managers of the Towel
Mill.
Clemmons D. Long Attains 40-Year Record
Clemmons D. Long, frame fixer in the
Carding Department at the Sheeting
Mill, completed 40 years of continuous
service with the Company on Monday,
September 1.
In informal ceremonies at the Sheet
ing Mill, Robert A. Harris, vice-presi
dent, manufacturing, presented Mr.
Long with the Fieldcrest diamond-and-
gold service emblem, a gift, and a letter
of commendation from President Whit
comb.
Mr. Long is a native of Rockingham
county and was an early employee of
the Carding Department at the old
Nantucket Mill. He left the Company
for a time but returned September 1,
1918, and has continuous service since
that date.
He has worked all of his years in the
card room. He has been a stripper,
speeder hand, intermediate hand and
for the past several years has been
a frame fixer.
CLEMMONS D. LONG
SEPTEMBER 8, 1958