Irter To Complete
Years' Service
Second Shift Supervisors Study Costs
•sse Ben Carter, of the Bedspread
’ is to be honored in informal cere-
Friday, April 21, when he com-
40 years of continuous service.
® is to be presented the Fieldcrest
^ond-and-gold 40-year emblem and
awards on his anniversary date.
Carter is a native of Rocking-
, County and first worked at the
Mill in 1917. He has continuous
since April 21, 1921. During this
he worked as shipping clerk at
Rhode Island Mill, as yard fore-
L. ®nd as assistant foreman at the
). Rhode Island and Blanket mills.
® has worked at the Bedspread Mill
1956, as timekeeper, overhauler,
tnan and in other capacities in the
S and Spinning departments. He
Sent is blow down man in the
Department.
Jesse ben carter
Long Service Record . . •
Williams Attends
ij ^^'^ersary Meeting
Williams, safety director at
attended the spring meeting
'% p^^ety Advisory Board of the
llaK. ®folina Department of Labor
April 7.
J‘‘tlj ®^*'°Sram featured a discussion
'^sij ''Vitiation and Safety” with em-
JoiVti industrial lighting. Well-
\ p^^thorities from North Carolina
\ °^lege, the Illuminating Engi-
f ‘ind the Carolina Pow-
Ae Company participated.
/Meeting marked the 15th anni-
the Safety Advisory Board
Ay ' E>uring this period, the all-in-
p^'^cident frequency rate for
' Mr dropped from 15.8 to
A g Williams has been a member
Advisory Board for many
currently is chairman of the
^ ^ Committee.
APRIL 17, 1961
/
COST CONTROL CLASS, standing, Guerrant Norman, instructor; seated, first
row, Dana Heffinger, Edward Gillie, Henry Harrison Henry Crowder, Perry Harris;
back row, William Blackwell, T. W. Cover, Cecil Ball, Charles Johnson, J. W. Roach.
Twelve second shift supervisors,
mainly from the Bedspread and Blanket
Mills, were enrolled in a 10-week course
in “Cost Control” which has just been
completed. The classes were held in the
conference room at the General Offices.
Guerrant Norman, of the Fieldcrest
Cost Department, was instructor for the
course which covered Fieldcrest’s cost
accounting system and its application
to the control of various manufacturing
costs.
Presented as one of the regular sup
ervisory training courses at Fieldcrest,
the course was under the joint auspices
of Fieldcrest Mills and the North Caro
lina Department of Public Instruction
through the Industrial Education Center
on the Morehead High School campus.
State-issued certificates will be pre
sented to those who completed the
course.
Members of the class included Wil
liam Blackwell, Waverly Roach, and
George Vass, Sheeting Mill; Henry
Crowder, Perry Harris, Henry Harrison,
and Floyd Vaden, Bedspread Mill; Cecil
Ball, Dana Heffinger, Edward Gillie,
T. W. Gover, and Charles Johnson,
Blanket Mill.
Steagall Candidate For
Draper Commissioner
John W. Steagall, plumber at the
Blanket Mill, is a candidate for the
Draper Board of Commissioners in the
municipal election May 2. He filed too
late to be included with the 12 other
Fieldcrest employees who are candidates
for municipal offices in Leaksville,
Spray, and Dra
per, as reported in
the last issue of
The Mill Whistle.
Mr. Steagall is
a native of Rock
ingham County
and a long-service
employee of Field-
crest Mills. He
was a doffer in the
old Jack Spinning
Department at the
Blanket Mill for
several years, and
has worked in the
Plant Service De
partment at the
Blanket Mill since 1944. He has been
plumber for the past several years.
J. W. Steagall
Looms 37 And 62 Get
Housekeeping Awards
Cecil Carter, Ronald Fain, and Her
bert Shelton, weavers on Loom 37, and
Watson Gunter, J. B. Hall, and William
Murray, weavers on Loom 62, were
winners of the Karastan Weave Room
housekeeping award for the month of
March. It was the first time that a
tie has resulted in the competition for
the housekeeping award since the rec
ognition program was started.
Housekeeping award certificates will
remain on Loom 37 and Loom 62
throughout the month of April in rec
ognition of the outstanding house
keeping.
A certificate is awarded each month
to weavers on the loom which has the
highest total points in four housekeep
ing inspections made by the super
visors.
A housekeeping “scoreboard” in the
Weave Room shows the points given
on the various looms as each inspection
is completed. By referring to the board,
the weavers can tell at all times how
they stand in relation to others in their
housekeeping performance.