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New Ways Of Doing Things Some employees are always looking for better ways to do things. They welcome new machinery that’s installed in the mills and they take to new and better job metbods as if it were tbe most natural thing in the world to expect improvements. On the other hand, a good many employees act as if it were the most unnatural thing to be asked to accept new ways, new machines and equipment. Resistance to change is a common reaction. “But we’ve always done it that way,” is their defense of the old way. They protest that the new or different way has drawbacks, or that “it won’t work.” It is obvious that new and different methods are being adopted every day and are working successfully. A cold economic fact is that those companies that cling to the old ways too long are soon out of business. Those who cry loudest against change wouldn’t want it to be “al ways done that way” — not where the things that make for com fort, luxury, and a higher standard of living are concerned. For if we kept doing things as they were “always” done, we’d have no automobiles, no TV or radio, no electric appliances, no automatic heating, or the hundreds of other modern inventions that make life enjoyable. A Positive Accomplishment Textile prices today are about seven per cent lower than they were 15 years ago, while the average of pAces for all industrial commodi ties has increased more than 25 per cent. This record of economic stability has been established by the textile industry despite intensive and unfair foreign competition, despite in creases in prices off raw materials and supplies, despite higher cost for machinery and equipment, despite ^ improved wage scales and em ployee benefits, and despite a record of earnings below the national average for all industries. While there is much room for improvement in the textile industry’s profits, to produce better products at less cost in a generally inflated economy is certainly a positive accomplishment. New Reporter Named For Bedspread Mill Edna Y. Hopper, a Weave Room em ployee, has been appointed The Mill Whistle reporter lor the Bedspread Mill to replace Ada Jones, who took early retirement under the Pension Plan. Employees of the Bedspread Mill are invited to pass on to Mrs. Hopper their pictures, news and “Buy . . . Sell . . . Swap” items for The Mill Whistle. A Spray native, Mrs. Hopper attend ed Leaksville High School and began work with the company in 1938. She was an enterer and draw-in hand at the Silk Mill (later to become the Synthe tic Fabrics Mill) for many years and since 1958 has been a draw-in hand at the Bedspread Mill. A daughter of Mrs. D. C. Yarbrough and the late Mr. Yarbrough, she is mar ried to John F. Hopper, who is employed by the State Highway Commission in North Wilkesboro. The Hoppers have two children, a daughter, Vicki, a 1963 graduate of Morehead High SchooL who is recep- EDNA Y. HOPPER tionist for Dr. C. F. Tulloch, Jr., Spray ...Joins Mill Whistle Staff... optometrist; and a son, John Jr., a sixth grader at Leaksville Graded School. lowship Class. She devotes much of her Mrs. Hopper is an active member of time when not at the mill to her church Spray Methodist Church and currently activities. Whenever she can spare the is vice president of the Wesleyan Fel- time, she enjoys working with flowers. iTHE.MILL, WHt Issued Every Other Monday For Ernpl^j and Friends of Fie\dcrest WiWs, Ip';' 1 Copyright, 1963, Fieldcrest Wills, in'- '1 Spray, N. C. ^ OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR Member, South Atlant' Council Of Industrial ] Editors ADVISORY BOARD D. F. Carson J. M. Moore C. A. Davis J. M. Rimmer J. S. Eggleston J. T. White REPORTING STAFF ef Bedspread Mill Edna Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann ||( Rlanlfst Mill Katherine Automatic Blanket Plant Shirle^^-ji Blanket Mill .7. Katherine Central Warehouse Geraldine f'lj Draper Offices Karastan Mill General Offices Hilda or |, Gladys Holland, Katherine Karastan Service Center Mary Step j, Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn pji New York Offices Betty Lep Sheeting Mill Ruth Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Vol. XXII Mon., Aug. 12, 1963, p^SERVfCE I pMp ww/ VERSA Forty Years , .J Willie A. Berry Finis' j Thirty Years J Pattie B. Minter Mae M. Terry Finish' -i Melvin G. Rakes Ewell W. McAlexander Edward R. New Shee'^ Mildred L. Sawyers ; Annie P. Tadlock Tula R. Knight Kara® | Andrew J. Fuller Bla”^ Twenty-Five Years j, Eva P. Medford Shee'*^ Zella H. Wilkinson Twenty Years i Laola B. Harris Bedsp^; Jesse C. Wike Ila H. Shelton FinisJ^ Henry Moyer Finis”; Troy T. Newman BedsPj; Junior D. Eggers Finish Fifteen Years John E. Berry Ray Lawless Vergie Wood Bia**, Russell O. Dyer Booker Hudson She^'^ Ten Years -A William K. Sturrock .. Fieldcrest ^ French J. Mock Fini®^ Richard Eggleston, Jr Fin)5>;, Jesse G. Hall To, Valerie T. Hall Kar^ Jesse F. Thomasson BedsP^ Ivadell S. Crotts BedsP^ Betty H. Austin ^edsP^ Christine W. Cox General Calvin D. Robertson Mech- Baxter R. Thomas Mary T. Barber Karastan Russell Lee Crouch the MILL WHIS'T^'
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