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Vol. XVII
Spray, N. C., Monday, June 8, 1959
NO. 23
John Motley Morehead (left), a large donor, and Harold W. Whitcomb, chairman
the building committee, discuss cornerstone for new Morehead Memorial hospital.
Hospital To Be Completed By Year’s End
The new Morehead Memorial Hospital
expected to be in operation by the end
the year, President Harold W. Whit-
who is chairman of the building
*^*nmittee, stated at the ceremonies for
*3ying the cornerstone held Sunday
®^ternoon, May 31.
The hospital will be completely air-
®°nditioned and second to none in its
'*'odern facilities. “We believe that it
'^ill attract many new doctors and at the
'**^6 of the change-over from the
^•■esent Tri-City Hospital, we will go
a 50-bed institution to a 109-bed
building. However, only 75 beds on three
floors will be utilized at first,” Mr.
^hitcomb explained.
“We think that many persons now
Soing out of town for hospital care will
^^3y in the community once the new
^°spital is in operation. It will serve
needs of the community for years
Come," he said.
The center of attention at the cere
monies was John Motley Morehead, of
N. Y„ and Spray, whose gift of
*^00,000 assured the addition of a
fourth floor to the building. Later the
trustees named the new institution the
Morehead Memorial Hospital.
It was revealed during the corner
stone program that it was Mr. More-
head’s wishes that the hospital not be
named for him, but for his ancestors,
who date back to 1630 when the first
Morehead landed on the shores of Vir
ginia.
In tracing the development of the
hospital, Mr. Whitcomb told how a gift
of $50,000 by Marshall Field & Com
pany, and a gift of $45,000 by the Duke
Endowment Fund, made possible the
purchase of the privately-owned Leaks-
ville Hospital and its conversion to the
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Sale At Store
The Employees Store today (Mon
day) opens a big pre-inventory clean
up sale offering exceptional bargains
in bedspreads, blankets, towels and ny
lon material. Prices are greatly reduced
and some of the items will not again be
available. See ad on page seven.
26 Employees Retire
Under Pension Plan
A total of 26 employees, representing
six different mills and the General Of
fices, retired under the Fieldcrest Mills
Pension Plan effective June 1, compris
ing one of the largest groups to retire at
one time since the Pension Plan was in
stituted in 1943.
Ceremonies honoring the retiring em
ployees were held in the mill managers’
offices at the various locations Friday
morning, May 29. The retirees’ first
monthly pension checks and their vaca
tion pay checks were presented.
Mill officials congratulated the em
ployees upon attaining retirement age
when they can enjoy greater leisure
with their financial future secured to an
extent by their Fieldcrest pensions.
It was pointed out that Fieldcrest was
one of the first textile companies to est
ablish a pension plan for its employees
and the Fieldcrest pension plan remains
the most generous in the industry.
The pension fund is held in trust by
the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
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See pictures of retiring employees on
pages four and five of this issue.
Rug Sales Meeting
Be Held Here
Preparations are under way for our
semi-annual rug sales meeting which
will be held here Thursday and Friday,
June 11 and 12.
Participating will be members of gen
eral management, Karastan mill and
sales officials and our rug salesmen
from various sections of the country.
The Karastan selling program for the
fall and winter will be set up during
the two days of planning and discus
sion. The sales group will view the new
fabrics that have been developed and
will go over the new lines. Advertising
exhibits will be shown and the new
rugs will be displayed at the opening
meeting Thursday morning at Meadow
Greens Country Club.
The group will meet at the Karastan
Mill Thursday afternoon. They will tour
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