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COMPETITION AND QUALITY Benjamin Franklin, writing in his famous “Poor Richard’s Alma nac”, once said, “A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.” The fact that “a little neglect may breed mischief” is as true today as it was in the Eighteenth Century when Franklin lived. However, the truth may be a little more meaningful today than it was in Franklin’s time because of changed conditions and higher standards. For example, in the textile industry of Franklin’s time, nearly all of the yarn and cloth produced in this country was laboriously made by hand. Certainly, quality was desired, but consumers understood the conditions under which yarn and cloth were produced, and they took what they cauld get. Today, after more than a century and a half of progress, the con sumers of American textiles demand, and get, the highest quality pos sible. They will not necessarily “take what they can get”, because they know that they can find what they want if they just look long enough. The individuals who make up the textile industry — nearly a mil lion good Americans — recognize this. They know “a little neglect may breed mischief” in the form of inferior yarn, shoddy cloth and ill- fitting garments. They know, too, that the highly competitive nature of the textile market quickly eliminates the second-rate companies and individuals. The American textile industry stands today as the world’s finest be cause its people are constantly on guard against “a little neglect”. Every individual’s contribution to the production process is important to the quality and appeal of American textiles. HEIM IL wmi Textile Industry Sets Record For Expansion The American Textile Manufacturers Institute reported the textile industry will spend approximately $820-million this year on modernization and ex pansion. The institute interpreted the figure to mean an increasing faith in the future of the industry. “Of particular significEince,” the re port said, “is the fact that the rate of expenditures for modernization and ex pansion was more than twice the rate for all manufacturing.” ATMI said the $820-million figure would be 24 per cent ahead of 1963, the previous record, and on a percentage basis, was greater than that of any other industry in the nation with the excep tion of the paper industry. Data for the report was obtained from the Office of Business Economics of the Department of Commerce and estimates for new plants and equipment were based on anticipated capital expendi tures as reported in February. On The Job At Fieldcrest Credit Union Member Wins $25,000 Prize A credit union member, Mrs. Joyce Liere of Fairbanks, Texas, recently won the $25,000 top prize in Coca-Cola’s World’s Fair Sweepstakes. When asked by contest officials what she intended to do with the money, Mrs. Liere quickly answered, “Put it in my credit union.” The next morning she and her husband, a dairy farmer, de posited the $25,000 check in the Houston Milk Producers Federal Credit Union. Letha White, of the Karastan Spin ning Division, is busy each day driving the Greenville plant truck on local de livery and pick-up jobs. He has been employed at Greenville since December 8, 1959, and first worked as a yard man. In April, 1962, he was promoted to plant truck driver with responsibility for hauling baled stock to and from local storage warehouses. In between his hauling jobs, he is kept busy as a maintenance handy man throughout the plant, and is con sidered a dependable and conscientious worker on all tasks assigned to him. He rays the most exciting part of his job is raising the American flag over the building each morning. Issued Every Other Monday For Employee* and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, lnc.> Copyright, 1964, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Spray, N. C. . iLlcaLi OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR Member, South Atlantic Council Of Industrial Editors ADVISORY BOARD P. E. Bowes R. O. Howard, Jr. D. F. Carson J. L. Crabtree C. A. Davis J. S. Eggleston J. M. Moore J. M, Rimmer J. T. White REPORTING STAFF . . Automatic Blanket Plant Bedspread Mill Edna Hopp^ Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann ^ Blanket Mill Katherine Turn® Central Warehouse Geraldine PerK Draper Offices Mamie General Offices Hilda Gladys Holland, Katherine Karastan Mill Karastan Service Center Mary S^n® Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Beas Mt. Holly Spinning Mill Eliiabeth Muscogee Mills Mildred Nfwsorne New York Offices Betty Lenc^ Nye-Wait Division fiieV Sheet Finishing Lucille A"'! Sheeting Mill »HleV Towel Mill Fay Warren, Fannie Hun^igl Vol. XXIII Mon., Aug. 10, 1964^J£lJ SERVICE mNNIVERSARlE^ Fifty Years j Betty H. Ratliff Spray Thirty-five Years . . W. Clarence Manley Finishin Thirty Years . ^ Cornelia H. Harris Finishing Twenty-five Years Oren D. Fox Twenty Years .i Benton Spencer ToWe John O. Wray ® ,el Margaret L. Hundley Fifteen Years - Willis M. Booth Nathaniel Thomas Muscog Thelma V. Carpenter Marie C. Haymore Joe R. Kimbro Gladys W. McCracken Shee Roy Troy Spain Riley W. Wilson Sheetm^ Leonard Curtis Cobb Louie N. Durham Wayne L. Overby Sheetm^ Ten Years ^ Louise T. West Amos J. D. Hall J. Diary Wright Doris S. Hopper ^3 ,p\ Willie J. Forsythe j Albert M. Goode New Directory A new Fieldcrest telephone direci»^^ is being compiled. Please check y® ^ directory and notify Wendy Yoder, grineering Department, of any changes. The deadline for visions, additions or deletions is ust 17. THE MILL WHISTL^
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