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tht F&feinew. Harry T. McKinney is foreman of the Washing Department at the Kara- stan Mill. The department he supervises is responsible for the expert chemical washing of the rugs to give them their full beauty. An exclusive machine proc ess and skillful floor washing techniques are employed to bring out the color ings of the patterns and the beautiful lustre of the worsted yarns. As a pioneer member of the Washing Department, Mr. McKinney’s long ex perience and accumulated know - how make a distinct contribution to the Karastan operation. As a supervisor he has maintained, through the years, a splendid record in employee relations, housekeeping and safety. A native of Caswell County, he join ed the Karastan Mill in 1927 just after completing four years in the Navy. He first worked as an inspector of finished rugs but in 1929 was transferred to the Washing Department when the first continuous washing machine was in stalled. He operated the washer for three or HARKY T. McKINNEY four years and then became an assist ant foreman on the second shift. He was promoted to night foreman in 1937 and served in that capacity until 1943. He has been foreman in charge of the de partment for the past 20 years. Mr. McKinney is married to the for mer Frances Layne, a native of Halifax County, Va. They have three sons; Harry, Jr., who has served in the Ma rines for 15 years and is making a career of the service; Bobby, employed in the Setting Department at Karastan; and Jerry, a student at Morehead High School. The McKinneys own their home at 215 Oakwood Drive in Hampton Heights, Leaksville, and are members of the Leaksville Christian Church. THE SLIGHT EDGE eImiEl^vwi Issued Every Other Monday For EmploVj and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc./j” Copyright, 1963, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc] Spray, N. C. OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR Member, South Atlant'l Council Of Industria'J Editors ADVISORY BOARD D. F. Carson J. M. Moore C. A. Davis J. M. Rimmei" J. S. Eggleston J. T. White REPORTING STAFF Automatic Blanket Plant Shirley Bedspread Mill Edna HoPj Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann MJfj BIaniet Mill Katherine Central Warehouse Geraldine P®?) Draper Offices Mamie Tj Karastan Mill Irene General Offices Hilda Gladys Holland, Katherine MfT Karastan Service Center Mary Step'J. Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn New York Offices Betty Sheeting Mill Ruth TaL, Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Vol. XXII Mon., August 26, 1963, Recently, an employee publication which comes regularly across our desk repeated “The Slight Edge,” an illustrated editorial which it had first run in 1959. The re-run was prompted, the publication said, by the fact that three of that company’s largest customers in 1959 are no longer purchasing its products. The “slight edge” the company had in supplying those three customers had been dissolved in the months since the editorial was first used. The editorial said the “slight edge” is “that little extra something a company gains through its own initiative which permits it to do a better job for its customers and itself.” More specifically, the editorial said, the “slight edge” is: • Willingness to accept new ideas and changes. • Ability to keep up with and make changes and improvements in machinery and methods. • Loyalty, interest and enthusiasm among all company personnel. • Ability to maintain a favorable position when in direct competi tion with other companies producing similar products. • On-time delivery of go'ods that are the best it is possible to make. • Efficient control of supplies, waste, machinery maintenance and all other items of cost. • Enthusiasm, imagination and effectiveness in all levels of man agement and production. The “slight edge,” obviously, doesn’t “just happen,” and having it once doesn’t mean you’ll keep it. Ask the company which has lofst three of its largest customers in the past four years. SERVICE UNNIVERSARi(^ Thirty-Five Years Dollie B. Moore Kara®' Mattie S. Merriman Kara®^ Thirty Years J S. S. Burgart Kara^J Beulah H. Graham ToV. Jesse B. Patterson . Raymond L. Wade Roy J. Kasten CaP*,,-^ Eliza W. Voss Shee^ Irene C. Tulloch BedsP>^ Twenty-Five Years Henry C. Dillard Fir Twenty Years Lottie R. Hayden Karas% Carrie O. Shelton Bedspfj. Kathleen C. Edwards Christine B. Laprade .. Central ^ i Fifteen Years J Irene J. Bailey BedsP'^ .j Coy A. Joyce Lucy M. Shelton Edith J. Wray "T® Albert J. Goard TO' J. Stanley Nelson Ten Years J George C. Currie Bedspi^ Floyd B. Strange Wilbur D. Campbell J. Thurman Johnson Cora C. Grubbs Karastan Posey G. Jeffries Kara Willie B. Phillips Karastan ", Harold J. Hale VERSE" Thy word is a lamp unto mV ' and a light unto my path. —Psalm the MILL WHiS
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