How Soon Is The Fufure?
A trade magazine recently used its editorial page to comment on
new trends in consumer packaging. The editorial noted that in some
applications traditional packaging materials are losing ground to new
er ones. Examples are plastic bottles, pouches and cartons seen on gro
cery shelves.
So it is with many kinds of products. Furniture makers have re
placed horsehair padding with plastic foams, and the jet is edging out
piston-powered airliners.
Synthetic fibres scarcely known at the end of the Second World
War are now an important factor in the textile business, and even the
traditional type bars on typewriters have been replaced by an ingen
ious invention on one manufacturer’s new model.
A large proportion of the packages, clothes, machinery and other
products now being manufactured are made in a different way or frorm
different raw materials than they were 20 years ago. And changes in
the next 20 years probably will be greater.
Manufacturing a product suitable for today’s market doesn’t assure
a company’s continuing success. If it is to be healthy in the future, the
modern firm must anticipate changes and improvements and be pre
pared to manufacture the product that tomorrow’s consumer wants.
Customer Must Be Pleased
The importance of the customer to each of us employed at Field-
crest is realized when we give thought to the fact that our wages are
paid ultimately by the company’s customers, not by the owners or man
agers of the business. The only source of revenue a company has is the
customer to which the product is sold or the service is rendered.
All wages and salaries, all employee benefits, and all of the taxes
levied on a business are, in the end, paid for by the customer. The cus
tomer must pay all of the expenses of the business that serves him from
the cost of the materials used ta the charge for the money invested
that makes the business possible.
In view of this, we are acting in our own interest when we perform
our jobs in a way that will enable us to continue to please our custom
ers. To keep our present customers and attract new ones requires that
we continue to give superior service and the highest quality at the
lowest possible cost.
On The Job
At Fieldcrest
William Whaley is a finisher tender
in the Carding Department at the Kara-
stan Spinning Division at Greenville.
He has an excellent record for getting
high production of top quality roving
from which are made pile yarns used by
the Karastan Rug Mill.
As on the wool cards at the Blanket
Mill, he must make sure that the rov
ing is on standard weight, that it is
wound under proper tension, and that
there are no uneven feeds which would
cause light or thin places. He must be
careful to see that the roving is kept
clean and not contaminated by grease
or colored fly from other lots.
Starting with bales of wool from the
Blending Department, Mr. Whaley’s
machines produce roving which is spun
into yarn and then is twisted, reeled,
inspected, and baled before shipment
to the Karastan Mill at Leaksville.
One of the best-known and most-re-
spected employees of the Karastan Spin-
gTHE MILCWHISTL^
WILLIAM WHALEY
Issued Every other Monday For Employee*
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Copyright, 1962, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, N. C.
,5=3,
s.A.a.1.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, South Atlantic
Council Of Industrial
Editors
nmg Division, Mr. Whaley is a native
of Pitt County and has been employed
at the Greenville plant for eight years
REPORTING STAFF
Automatic Bianlcet Plant Sue Cree^
Bedspread Mill Ada Jon**
Blanket Mill Katherine TurnfJ
Central Warehouse Geraldine PertiiJ’
Draper Offices Mamie LiOR
General OHices Hilda Grogajj
Gladys Holland, Katherine Manley
Karastan Mill Irene Mee«»
Karastan OHices Mary Stephen*
Karastan Spinning Div. Evelyn Bea^ej
Nevi^ York Offices Jane Coro^
Betty Lencs^
Sheeting Mill Ruth Talben
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie HundWY
Vol. XX Monday, Jan. 8, 1962 No.
ir #ISERv;cE
\^^fANNI VERS ARIES
Fieldcrest Mills extends conffratul®'
tions to the following employees
since our last issue, have observed no
able anniversaries of continuous scrV'
ice with the company.
Forty Years ,
Herman D. Wilson Bedspread
Thirty-Five Years ,
Claude C. Austin Towei
James P. Hall Karastan
Ranie M. Overby To"'’®
Robert A. Turner Karasta
Samuel A. Kallam Finishii*®
Thirty Years ^
Burlie T. Gilley SheetiOo
Twenty-Five Years ,
Reuben H. Garrett Draper St° ■
Melvin M. Underwood Blan
John W. Pratt Karasta*
Charlie O. Roach BlanKe
Billy W. Trent Bedspre^
Fifteen Years
Mae L. Adkins Blan^e
Mabel B. Dooley
Arnold F. Farmer
Roy H. Hazelwood Bedsprf j
Sam W. Mcirtin
Elizabeth H. Rodgers
William McGehee Gen.
Frank S. Brown Central Wn
Ruby H. Thomasson Gen. Of * j
Elbert D. Alderman tafl
Charlie A. Terry
J. Paul Crum ctai*
William Homer Marshall .. fin-
Fleta H. Martin Bedspread r
Sandy H. Woods
A. Angle Sh^t
Forrest G. Wray
Ten Years
Addie I. Monday Fieldcrest
Jean G. IXmn General
Lucille M. Morris .... General O
J. Russell Martin
THE MILL WHiST