Whistle Staff
Has Annual Banquet
Plant reporters for The Mill Whistle
in plants and offices in the Tri-Cities
and at Fieldale, Va., were given a ban
quet by the company Friday evening,
December 22, at Meadow Greens Coun
try Club. Twenty-one persons attended.
Harold W. Whitcomb, president of
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., and Clinton J.
Frank, Jr., director of industrial rela
tions, made brief talks in which they
expressed appreciation to the reporters
for their help to the employees’ publi
cation during the year.
Otis Marlowe, editor of The Mill
Whistle, was toastmaster. The invoca
tion was given by Mrs. Fay Warren, a
reporter from the Towel Mill. Mamie
Link, reporter for the Draper Offices,
led the group in the singing of carols.
At the close of the program, each re
porter was presented a gift. The door
Prize, “My Sin” perfume and cologne,
'>vas awarded to Katherine Turner, re
porter for the Blanket Mill.
Reporters present were Mary Foster,
Hilda Grogan, Gladys Holland, Mamie
^nk, Katherine Manley, Irene Meeks,
Geraldine Perkins, Mary Stephens, Ruth
Talbert, Katherine Turner and Fay
Warren.
Others attending the banquet in addi
tion to the reporters were E. L. Brown,
'Comptroller; R. L. Wilkes, manager em
ployee benefits and services; Rita
''aughn. Industrial Relations Depart
ment; Lee Hilton, of Adams Photo
Service; C. A. Davis, J. M. Rimmer, and
^ T. White, members of The Mill
'thistle advisory board.
Two Complete 40- Year Records
HERMAN D. WILSON
January is a month of important serv
ice anniversaries for Herman D. Wil
son of the Bedspread Mill and Fitzhugh
W. Thomas of the Finishing MiU, both
of whom attain 40 years of continuous
service during this month.
Mr. Wilson completed 40 years on
January 3 and was honored in an in
formal ceremony at the mill. He was
presented the Fieldcrest diamond-and-
gold 40-year emblem, a gift, and a letter
of commendation from F^resident Harold
W. Whitcomb.
Mr. Thomas is to complete his 40
years January 16 and is to receive simi
lar awards at that time.
Mr. Wilson is a native of Spray and
Quesell J. Scott Is Promoted To Foreman
Quesell J. Scott, assistant foreman in
Blanket Cutting and Sewing De
partment at the Finishing Mill, was
QUESELL J. SCOTT
Wins New rromotion
promoted to foreman of the department
effective January 1.
He replaces Walter E. Schacht who
resigned to accept another position in
the textile industry.
Mr. Scott has worked in the depart
ment since 1956. He began as a trucker
and server and worked on a number
of production and clerical jobs in the
department before he was promoted to
second hand in 1958. He participated in
the supervisory training program con
ducted by the company for about a year
and was promoted to assistant foreman
on the first shift in July, 1959. He con
tinued in that classification until his
promotion to foreman.
A native of Spray, Mr. Scott is a
graduate of Morehead High School and
studied spinning and weaving at the
Leaksville Township Vocational School.
He completed several textile and tex
tile-related courses through the Inter
national Correspondence Schools as well
as a number of ccmi>any-spon90red
training courses. He currently is enroll
ed in the textile technology curriculum
at the Leaksville-Rockingham County
Industrial Education Center.
FITZHUGH W. THOMAS
was employed as a doffer in the spin
ning room at the old Rhode Island Mill
January 3, 1922. He becsmie a weaver
at the old Lily Mill in 1929 and con
tinued as a weaver until he was pro
moted to loomfixer in 1945.
He was a loomfixer at the Synthetic
Fabrics Mill until 1955. He then work
ed briefly as an overhauler at the Kara-
stan Rug Mill and as a calender help
er at the Bleachery before he was trans
ferred to the Bedspread Mill in 1958.
He has been a loomfixer there since
that time.
Mr. Thomas was bom in Patrick
County, Va., and was employed as a
machine operator in the Bleachery Fold
ing Department January 16, 1922.
He was transferred to the Napping
Department at the Finishing Mill in
1936 and worked as a napper operator
imtil he was promoted to second hand
in 1941. From that time until 1956, he
worked as a second hand-finisher and
as assistant foreman. For the next two
years, he was a conditioner operator in
the Blanket Shearing Department at
the Finishing Mill and since September,
1958 has worked as a Gessner napper
operator.
Exemption Changes
The Payroll Department reminds em
ployees that changes in the number of
exemptions for federal and state income
tax purposes should be reported
promptly.
Employees should notify the Payroll
Department within 10 days of any
change in their dependents for federal
or state income taxes such as death,
divorce, separation, births, dependents
earning over $600, etc.
Forms for completing a revised ex
emption certificate for either state or
federal withholding tax may be obtain
ed from the foreman, department head,
or the industrial relations representa
tive in your area.
®NDAY, JANUARY 8, 1962