Gifts Support Worthy Causes
U. s. business and its company-sponsored foundations donated
more than $400,000,000 in 1961 — nearly eight times their outlay
a decade ago.
The businesses — large and small — apportioned the money amrag
federated charity campaigns, hospitals, colleges and universities,
museums, libraries and toward the promotion of international under
standing.
Of worthy note is this comment from M. J. Rathbone, president
Off the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey:
“If good citizens, corporate and individual alike, do not support
these institutions, they would have to turn to the government — and
that certainly is not the way to advance the cause of free enterprise.”
Traits Of Accident-Prone
Persons with a tendency to be involved in accidents have some
definite personality traits. The Executive Analysis Corporation has
reached this conclusion, after extensive studies and testing. Among
traits belonging to the accident-prone the EAC lists: a superabund
ance of (false) self-confidence (cockiness); aggressivenss leading to
the attitude that teamwork is not necessary; the tendency to be easily
distracted; and little disposition to follow social customs.
Textile industry Taxes
Government—national, state and local—depends a great deal on
the textile industry for money with which to operate. The textile in
dustry pays from $300 to $400 millio'n a year in corporate income taxes
to the federal government alone, in addition to millions and millions
to state and local treasuries.
Ann Midkiff Named Reporter For Mill Whistle
Ann Midkiff, clerk in the Cutting and
Sewing Department, has been appoint
ed a correspondent for The Mill Whistle
to report the news of employees at the
Bedspread Finishing Mill. Employees
of that plant are invited to pass on to
her appropriate news items and pic
tures for publication in The Mill Whis
tle.
Ann is a native of Rockingham Coun
ty and is a graduate of Wentworth High
School and of the Felt & Tarrant Comp
tometer School in Charlotte.
She first joined Fieldcrest in 1947
and has worked on various production
and clerical jobs at the Bleachery, Fin
ishing and Bedspread Finishing mills.
Her husband, Harley Midkiff, is em
ployed at the Bleachery and her father,
Loom No. 55 Presented
Karastan Quality Award
Weavers and loomfixers on loom No.
55 won the Karastan Weave Room
award for above-standard quality and
all-around performance for the month
of December.
George Matthews and William Balser
are weavers on the loom. The loomfix
ers are W. S. Barker and W. B. Miley.
The Karastan Mill each month gives a
certificate on looms where the perfor
mance is above standard in the five
areas of loom efficiency, seconds, burl
ing costs, housekeeping, and yield. Each
of these factors represents a crucial area
involving cost and quality.
Robert V. Rodgers, works in the Karas
tan Weave Room.
Ann is an active member of the
Leaksville Moravian Church. She teach
es a primary class in the Sunday School,
is secretary-treasurer of the Women’s
Fellowship and plays a clarinet in the
Moravian Band.
The Midkiffs have one son, Michael,
who is five years old. The family lives
at 202 Carter Street in Carolina Heights,
Spray.
THE MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Other Monday For Employees
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Copyright, 1962, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, N. C.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, South Atlantic
Council Of Industrial
Editors
REPORTING STAFF
Automatic Blanket Plant Sue Crecch
Bedspread Mill
Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann Mi^
Blanket Mill Kather ne Turner
Central Warehouse Geraldine PerKin
Draper Offices "’IS-i'aan
General Offices Hilda ®^09 y
Gladys Holland, Katherine Maniev
Karastan Mill Irene Mee*
Karastan Offices Mary Stephen
Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Bea^,'
New York Offices
Betty
Sheeting Mill .^® 5rev
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Huna^
Vol. XX Monday, Feb. 5. 1962 No^
.'fmERVICE
IV ERS ARIES
Fieldcrest Mills extends congratul®'
tions to the following employees who-
since our last issue, have observed no -
able anniversaries of continuous serv
lee with the company.
Thirty-Five Years ,
Patrick Dillard Towci
Twenty-Five Years ,
Sanford Hampton Blank®
Elizabeth H. Joyce Bleachery
Devoy E. McCoUouch Karastai
Annie G. Robertson Bleachery
Twenty Years
Frances H. Compton Blanke
Fifteen Years ,
Coy E. Via ToWe
Leroy Belton ToW®
Jesse J. Hopkins Towe
Eunice C. Overby Bleache
Ora K. Young Bleachery
Minnie H. Turner Sheetins
Frank L. Meadows Bedsp^
Lois W. Joyce Karasta
Ten Years .
Lewis H. Lee, Jr Fieldcrest ^
Bessie Tripp Karastan Spinn*
APRIL FOOL g
Clerks in a regional tax office
taken aback by a blank tax
which was accompanied by this ^
“You were notified several times tn
I have been dead for four years.
send no more of these blanks.”
Buy . . . Sell . . . Swap ^
FOR SALE: Boy’s 24-inch bicycle.
as new, has been ridden three or i _
times. $30.00. See Mack C. Stegall,
Lawson Street, Leaksville, N. C.,
call MAin 3-7822.
FOR SALE: Small gas heating
ANN MIDKIFF
. . . Reports For Bedspread Finishing .,
stove-
Also, 30-gaUon galvanized water
H. F. Reavis, Joyce’s Store, Field
Va.
THE MILL WHlSTl^®'