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Vol. XX
Spray, N. C., Monday, September 25, 1961
NO. 6
Community Fund Drive Set Oct. 2 - 23
Blood donor — Prior to donating a pint of blood to the Bloodmobile, Ken-
®eth White, assistant scheduler at the Bedspread Finishing Mill, gets medical record
®ard from Miss Edna Starnes, Red Cross nurse. Dr. Thomas P. Clay is shown in back-
^m>d. More pictures and story on page five.
I*rlzes And Awards Offered In Mill Campaign
^hose Who Pledge A Day’s Pay
Participate In Drawings
Valuable Prizes
Employees who pledge a day’s pay
departments in which 100 per cent
the employees pledge a day’s pay in
® Tri-City Community Fund cam-
^ ign will be eligible for valuable prizes
® awarded through drawings.
If'- addition plaques, certificates and
»th,
honors will be given departments
'^ith
loo per cent participation on a
^ Pay’s basis,
h posted daily in
mill department listing the names
ha department’s employees who
pledged a day’s pay.
by ® President’s Plaque is to be given
Resident Harold W. Whitcomb to
cg which has the highest per-
Th employees giving a day’s pay.
P^33ue will be held for a year by
'''in rotate to next year’s
*!>r. The staff department having
the highest percentage of “day’s pay
givers” will receive a similar plaque.
Certificates of Merit will be presented
by the Tri-City Community Fund to
each mill department and staff unit in
which 100% of the employees pledge a
day’s pay.
Each mill will have a drawing from
among the employees who pledge a day’s
pay; the winner will have a choice of
an American Heritage bedspread, an
automatic blanket or one of Karastan’s
Happiness rugs.
There will also be a drawing for a
similar prize among the staff personnel
who pledge a day’s pay.
The names of all employees—mill and
staff—who pledge a day’s pay will be
thrown into one final drawing for a
grand prize of a beautiful 9x12 Tiempo
Coloniale rug.
These prizes are gifts of Fieldcrest
Mills, Inc., and are not taken from cam
paign funds.
Day’s Pay Per Employee
Is Goal At Fieldcrest
The annual finance campaign for the
Tri-City Community Fund will begin
in the Tri-Cities October 2 and con
tinue until October 23.
The budget goal for the community-
wide campaign is $59,026, representing
the minimum amount needed for the
continuance of the 10 health, welfare
and recreational services included in
the campaign.
Fieldcrest employees, along with
members of all other firms in the Tri-
Cities, will be asked to pledge a mini
mum of a day’s pay. For the conveni
ence of employees and upon their au
thorization, Fieldcrest will make pay
roll deductions over a 12-month period
to collect the pledges.
Arthur L. Jackson, assistant to the
vice president of manufacturing, will be
general chairman of the drive at Field
crest Mills, which will begin Monday,
October 2 and is expected to be con
cluded Friday, Octo*ber 6.
The manager of each mill will serve
as chairman for the solicitation in his
mill, with the assistant managers and
(Continued on page eight)
ARTHUR L. JACKSON
Heads Drive At Fieldcrest