^ S'TH story added—This latest architect’s sketch
"'s how the new Morehead Memorial hospital will look.
The fourth floor will be roughed in for the potential expansion
to 108 beds, adequate for the area’s needs for many years.
1^0 Complete Hospital In *59
Going As Scheduled On
Facility; Provision
For 108 Beds
Ijg ®^®truction of the new Morehead
hospital is going as scheduled,
tiijj ®^STound foundation work has been
opej. and the first floor slabbing
were started 10 days ago.
beautiful, modern, four-story hos
pital is due to be completed by the late
fall of 1959.
Work will proceed on the framework
of reinforced concrete but the brick
work will not be done until next spring.
John Childs, the project superintend
ent, said the project completion date is
set for late fall, 1959, or a total of 500
days from the original time of starting.
^^lesmen On Get-Acquainted Visit To Mills
****■ Mason and William Hawke,
^yijj^’^^'^bers of our Fieldcrest sales
^'^cently spent two days at the
*•> acquainted with personnel
® Production end of the business
®®rving our manufacturing and
j. y testing operations.
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They are shown above, with mill
officials, in the Slashing Department at
the Bedspread Mill. Left to right are
J. E. Barksdale, mill manager; F. E.
Barron, superintendent; Mr. Mason and
Mr. Hawke.
The project superintendent said the
original project completion date was
300 work days. Due to re-location of
the hospital on a portion of the land
that was formerly a hill, several weeks
were added to the originally-planned
work days.
When it was decided to rough in the
fourth floor for the potential expansion
into an 108-bed hospital, instead of the
original one with 75 beds, this added
more work days to the schedule. The
final project completion date was then
set at 500 days from the start of the
project on August 4, 1958.
The 108-bed hospital when completed
is expected to be adequate to serve the
needs of the area for many years to
come.
Employees Contributed $223,000
Fieldcrest people have a justifiable
pride in the new hospital. Funds for its
construction were raised last faU by
public subscription. Fieldcrest employe
es, in a magnificient response, pledged
a total of $223,000 to the building fund.
Fieldcrest Mills as a corporation gave
$100,000, making a total contribution of
$323,000 by employees and the Com
pany toward the cost of the new com
munity hospital.
Bedell New Assistant
In Blanket Sales Dept.
Jerome J. Bedell, Jr. has been ap
pointed assistant to O. G. Grubbs, man
ager of the Blanket Sales Department.
He will assist Mr. Grubbs in all phases
of the department’s operations and in
addition will assume specific responsi
bility for the sale, product development
and inter-mill coordination of automatic
blanket shells.
The appointment, effective October
27, was announced by Frederic W.
Holt, president of Fieldcrest, a division
of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
NOVEMBER 17, 1958