Working Together To Prevent Plant Accidents Brings
Outstanding Safety Record For Blanket Sewing Dept.
Part of first shift employees, left to right, kneeling, William Dean, Farmer, John Lee Redmon; back row, Johnson Dillard Andrew JoneS'
Jack Thornton, Junior Eggers, Melvin Morgan," front row, ^vi Rob- Julius Sims, Melvin Harmon, Lucy Bradford Sadie Angle Goal POP®'
ertson, Clarence Manley, Clyde Fulcher, Evelyn Sink, Hilda Carter, Fan- Lois Oslin, ^wette Brown, Vera Smith, Gaynelle Woodalf Dawn Slaugf;
nie Mabe, Maxine Shorter, Arlene Hopkins, Bertha Williams, Pearl Cox, ler, Nettie Dillon, Roma Burris, Roy Studdard Phil Brown Names
Fawney Evans, Ruby Agee, Beatrice Gravely, Lucy Rankin, Jo Ann members of the department not in the picture arrgiven It end of
Sewing Department. In addition to thos®
shown, the following were not presen
for the photographs;
Thelma Bailey, Connie Branch,
Cherwaty, James Collins, Mary CoruW'>
Annie Dillon, Lola Farmer, Myrtle Gla®'
gow, Bernice Lillard, Floyd Meeks,
tie Meeks, Fred Morrison, Juanita Ro^'
erts, Livea Rogers, Ethel Sims, Sadi®
Snody, Margarette Trent, Judie Turner-
Janie Wall, Rivers Edwards, Quesel*
Scott, Jr., Gladys Lawson, Lessie Till®^'
Lillian Smith.
Congratulations are in order to the
employees of the Blanket Cutting and
Sewing Department at the Finishing
Mill who have completed over a mil
lion man-hours of work without a lost
time accident.
Actually, the department had operated
1,018,196 man-hours through July 31,
and the employees are continuing to add
to their accident-free record.
A report by the Fieldcrest Safety
Department pointed out that the Blanket
Cutting and Sewing Deartment is the
only department at the Finishing Mill
which has a million man-hour safety
record at this pwint. However, there are
some departments at other Fieldcrest
plants which currently have million
man-hour records.
In commenting on the fine safety re
cord, Walter Schacht, foreman of the
Blanket Cutting and Sewing Depart
ment, said: “Credit for this outstanding
achievement is due primarily to the ef
forts of the employees in the depart
ment.
“All of them are aware of what safety
means to them and of what a disabling
Injury could cost them in lost wages
and suffering.
“Whenever members of the depart
ment observe any unsafe condition, they
report it promptly so that action can be
taken to eliminate the hazard. We ap
preciate the interest and cooperation
shown by our employees and hope that
we can go on to attain an even better
record than the present one.”
Pictures on these pages show the em
ployees of the Blanket Cutting and
Accident-Free Months
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employees throughout the organization.
“While we have a fine record so far
this year, it will be necessary for us to
maintain a daily emphasis on safe work
if we are to continue this record into the
future,” Mr. Frank added.
He pointed out that a number of mill
departments at Fieldcrest have attained
records of over a million man-hours
without lost time due to injury.
Fieldcresters On Old Baseball Team
Several well-known Fieldcresters and
other local men are shown in this pic
ture of a baseball team at Draper many
years ago. A number of those shown are
now deceased.
Back row, left to right, Vollie Kizer
Fred Hall, T. B. Hamrick, Johnny Fran
cis, Clint Hall, Alvis Turner and Johnny
Powell. Kneeling or sitting, Cy
Shorty Owens, Wesley Weadon and ^
vey Minter. The bat boy is Sam
more. ^j-d
Hai^vey Minter, now a Burns
at the Draper mills, furnished
ture which he recalls was taken at
per sometime in the 1920’s.
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