Mutual Aid Assn. Posts Annual Statement
Top Weavers, Fixers
Listed For Towel Mill
Recognition Is Given To Those
Operators With Best Records
For Quality and Efficiency
Top quality weavers and loomfixers
at the Ttowel Mill for the most recent
periods of record are listed below.
As part of the mill’s program for giv
ing recognition to the weavers and
fixers with high quality and efficiency,
names of the leading operators are post
ed on the mill bulletin board each week
and are published in The Mill Whistle.
The “top” weavers are those with the
lowest percentage of seconds with re
spect to the standards for the various
loom groups.
The leading loomfixers are determined
through a combination of low seconds
and high loom efficiency on the sections
for which they are responsible.
Weavers—W/E January 20
Dobby Terry Robert Watson
Jacquard Terry Elmer Haynes
E>raper & Cam Roy Stoneman
New C-7 Looms Clyde Cahill
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Fixers—^W/E January 20
Dobby Terry William Martin
Jacquard Terry None
Draper & Cam Baxter Thomas
New C-7 Looms Booker Dalton
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Weavers—^W/E January 13
Dobby Terry Robert Watson
Jacquard Terry None
Draper & Cam Albert Goard
New C-7 Looms George Lynch
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Fixers—W/E January 13
Dobby Terry James Dalton
Jacquard Terry None
Draper & Cam Roy Whitlock
New C-7 Looms None
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Weavers—^W/E January 6
Dobby Terry David Shively
Jacquard Terry Leonard Tilley
Draper & Cam Ralph Ballard
New C-7 Looms .... Harold Spencer
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Fixers—W/E January 6
Dobby Terry Ralph Martin
Jacquard Terry None
Draper & Cam Ben Miller
New C-7 Looms None
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Weavers—^W/E December 30
Dobby Terry Thomas Scott
Jacquard Terry Tonsie Cruise
Draper & Cam Orelle Shelton
New C-7 Looms Marvin Stone
(In Hosiery Mill building)
Fixers—W/E December 30
Dobby Terry Newton Dixon
Jacquard Terry None
Draper & Cam Thurman Watson
Roy Whitlock
New C-7 Looms None
(In Hosiery Mill building)
The annual financial statement of the
United Mutual Aid Association was ap
proved by the board of directors at their
meeting last week.
The statement is posted on the bulletin
boards throughout the Tri-City mills
and is printed below.
The United Mutual Aid Association,
a valuable employee benefit at Field-
crest, provides hospital-surgical insur
ance for employees and their families in
Draper, Leaksville and Spray, affording
protection to approximately 14,000 mem
bers and dependents.
Officers of the association who were
elected recently to serve during 1963
are as follows:
President, Glenn Simpson, Bleachery;
vice-president, Dan Squires, Sheeting
Mill; treasurer, Grissom Manley, Finish
ing Mill; and secretary, Clarence Martin,
Engineering Department.
In addition to the officers the follow
ing are members of the board of direc
tors; Carson Slaughter, Sheet Finishing
Mill; Robert Adkins, Blanket Mill; Ken
neth Patterson, Central Warehouse; J.
B. Reynolds, Karastan; F. Wade Younts,
Bedspread Mill; George Chatham, Bed
spread Finishing Mill.
The board of directors is composed
of the chairmen of the various unit
committees which were elected by the
membership at the respective mills.
Members of the unit committees are:
Bedspread Mill—F. Wade Younts,
chairman; Perry Harris, vice chairman;
Willard Fulton, secretary; Aubrey Purdy
and Billy McCullouch.
Bedspread Finishing Mill — George
Chatham, chairman; George Aheron,
vice chairman; Margaret N. Webster,
secretary; Walter Pyrtle and Frances
Nance.
Blanket Mill—Robert Adkins, chair
man; Leonard Hodges, vice chairman;
Paul Shropshire, secretary; William F.
Hall and Floyd Strader.
Bleachery—Glenn Simpson, chairman;
Eugene Purcell, vice chairman; Douglas
Boyles, secretary; Roy Jones and John
W. Dunn.
Central Warehouse—Kenneth Patter
son, chairman; Jesse W. Washburn, Jr.,
vice chairman; Loretta Washburn, sec
retary; Cyril Hudgins and Robert
Meador.
Finishing- Mill — Grissom Manley,
chairman; Kenneth Slaughter, vice
chairman; Gail Walker, secretary; Sid
ney Cruise and Ernest Rogers.
General Offices — Clarence Martin,
chairman; Stan Ellington, vice chair
man; Lucille Morris, secretary; Robert
L. Moore and Louise Cooke.
Karastan Mill—J. B. Reynolds, chair
man; Oscar Simmons, vice chairman;
William O. Highfill, secretary; Virgil
Chambers and Doris Leffew.
Sheeting Mill—Dan Squires, chairman;
E. C. Stophel, vice chairman; Mamie
Link, secretary; Willard Min ter and
Mary Shelton.
Sheet Finishing Mill—Carson Slaugh
ter, chairman; W. Phillip Brown, Jr.,
vice chairman; Faye Light, secretary;
Charlie Luther and Kemp Newnam.
Quality Weavers
William Adkins is a newcomer on the
Blanket Mill’s quality honor list for the
six months ending December 31. The
complete list follows below.
The listing of the quality weavers is
part of a program at the Blanket Mill
designed to emphasize the importance
of quality weaving and to give recogni
tion for outstanding records.
In order to make the quality honor
list a weaver must work for six months
without a major quality defect in his
or her cloth.
When a weaver on the list has a ma
jor quality defect, his name is dropped.
Other weavers are added as they attain
six months of quality work.
Plain & Dobby W’eavers
William Adkins Kathleen Edwards
Lillie Barker Dillard Harris
Jacquard Weavers
Thomas Cochran
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
UNITED MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION
January 1, 1962 Through December 31, 1962
Your Association Received:
Dues and Other Income $297,634.39
Your Association Paid Out:
Hospitals 183,679.76
balaries and Expenses g 196 45
Doctors ;;;;;;;; 74’,34e;63
Aaded to' Reserves 33,411.55
• , $297,634.39
Your Association s Total Assets on
December 31, 1962, were: $ 93,213.95
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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