Slaughter Is Promoted
To Assistant Foreman
Traffic ClubFre^ident
Kenneth Slaughter (left), new assist
ant foreman, goes over a report with
Roy Thompson, foreman. Napping De
partment.
Kenneth L. Slaughter, second hand in
the Finishing Mill Napping Department,
has been promoted to assistant foreman
in the Napping Department, third shift.
A native of Leaksville, Mr. Slaughter
was first employed in October, 1957 as
a clerk at the Employees Store. He was
transferred to the Finishing Mill as a
dispatcher-printed goods in February,
1959, and a few months later was ap
pointed a supervisory trainee. He was
promoted to second hand in November,
1960 and continued to serve in that
capacity until his most recent promotion.
Heads C. U. Chapter
Fred Burton, of the Fieldcrest Mills
Industrial Relations Department, has
been elected president of the North
Piedmont Chapter of Credit Unions
which embraces seven counties and in
cludes 45 credit unions. Mr. Burton
served as vice president in 1962.
A Rockingham County native, he has
been with Fieldcrest since .June, 1958.
Ernest W. Sams, traffic manager at
Fieldcrest Mills, has been elected presi-,,
dent of the Burlington Traffic Club,"
comprised of approximately 100 indus
trial traffic managers and representa
tives of motor carriers, railroads and
airlines in North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Virginia.
The purpose of the organization is to
better the relationship between the in
dustries and the carriers in the world
of transportation.
Other officers are; D. C. Morrow, sales
representative, McLean Trucking Com
pany, Winston-Salem, first vice-presi-
dent; Norman Aired, traffic manager,
Western Electric Company, Burlington,
second vice president; and W. F. Henley,
southern traffic manager, Burlington
Industries, Greensboro, secretary.
Mr. Sams had served as a director
and as second vice president and first
vice president before his election as
president.
He is a native of Tennessee and a
graduate of the University of Tennessee
where he majored in traffic and trans
portation. Prior to joining Fieldcrest
in September 1956, he was associated
with the Southern Motor Carriers Rate
Conference, a tariff publishing agency
in Atlanta, Georgia; was an assistant
in the Traffic Department of Akers
Motor Lines, Gastonia; and was traffic
manager for the American and Efird
Mills at Mt. Holly.
Mr. Sams is a charter member and a
director of the Lynchburg, Va., chapter
of Delta Nu Alpha, transportation fra
ternity; a member of the Private Truck
Council of America, Washington, D. C.;
and of Textile Traffic Managers, Atlan
ta, Georgia.
He was employed in the Leaksville Cost
Department and the Data Processing
Department at the General Offices be
fore he was transferred to the Industrial
Relations Department in November,
1960, as an administrative assistant as
signed primarily to Credit Union duties.
Issued Every Other Monday For Employees
and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
Copyright, 1963, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, N. C.
OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, South Atlantic
Council Of Industrial
Editors
REPORTING STAFF
Automatic Blanket Plant Shirley Byrl
Bedspread Mill Ada Jone*
Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann Midki’
Blanket Mill Katherine Turne'
Central Warehouse Geraldine Perkins |
Draper Offices Mamie LinK
Karastan Mill Irene MeeK* |
General Offices Hilda Groga" I
Gladys Holland, Katherine ManleV'
Karastan Service Center Mary Stephens ■
Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn BeasleV
New York Offices Jane Corbi"
Betty Lencsej
Sheeting Mill Ruth Talber’
Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie HundleV
Vol. XXI Monday, Feb. 18, 1963, No.
SERVICE
Anniversaries
Thirty-Five Years
Denny Hall Blanket ^
Rufus L. Shelton Bedspread j
Mollie F. Gregory Blanket ■
Jesse A. McKinney Karastan
Thirty Years '
B. M. Hairfield Blanket
Courtland F. Haley Blanket ;
James C. Haraway Blanket '
Lillie Y. Roberts Sheeting
Everett Wade Towel
Gladys M. Powell Blanket
Addie M. Carter Blanket
Irene W. Edens Blanket
Janie E. Moore Blanket
Kesler Shough Finishing
W. Jesse Tucker Finishing
Daisy L. Chambers Blanket
Nellie F. Chambers Blanket
Roar L. Dishman Blanket
Eva M. Slaydon Blanket
Frank M. Adkins Blanket
Thomas Whitt Gover Blanket
Lilly G. Williams Blanket
Gladys H. Willis Blanket
Darries C. Shropshire Blanket
Twenty Years
Calbert C. Richardson .... Bedspread
Hazel D. Hall Blanket
Irene H. Hall Blanket
C. Arthur Brown Karastan
Hilda G. Grogan General Offices
Lillian W. Hall Towel
Fifteen Years
Clarice M. Lawson Towel
Thelma C. Gilbert Towel
Clarice M. Gilley Leaksville Cost
Ola G. Stewart Blanket
David M. Tracy Fieldcrest Sales
Ruby S. Watson Towel
Lucille S. Alley Sheet Finishing
Ten Years
Charles W. Johnson Blanket
Woodrow W. Walker Towel
THE MILL WHISTLE