David Litaker Plays
In All-Star Tourney
J. CL\DE AMOS
KITTY MAE MARTIN
Two Honored For 40- Yr. Records
Awards in recognition of 40-year rec
ords of continuous service were present
ed October 13 to Kitty Mae Martin of
the Karastan office and J. Clyde Amos
of the Sheeting Mill.
Each was presented with the Field-
crest diamond-and-gold 40-year em
blem, a gift and a congratulatory letter
from President Harold W. Whitcomb.
Miss Martin, a native of Stuart, Vir
ginia, was employed at the General Of
fice October 13, 1924, after attending
Salem College and Averett College. She
worked as a secretary at the General
Office and at the Bedspread Mill, and
at one time was employed in the Service
Department. For the past several years
she has been secretary to J. M. Norman,
Jr., manager of the Karastan Rug Mill.
Mr. Amos, a native of Stokes County,
has never been off the payroll for any
reason since he went to work in the
Nantucket Slashing Department Octo
ber 13, 1924. His personnel record shows
that he worked in the Nsintucket Dye-
house for about three years and then re
turned to the Nantucket Slashing De
partment. He was transferred to the
Sheeting Mill Slashing Department
when sheeting operations were con
solidated at Draper in 1937. He con
tinues to work as a slasher tender at
the present time.
Darnell Lynn Pruitt
Darnell Lynn
Pruitt, 2-V2 months
old when picture was
made, is daughter of
Jimmy and Faye
Pruitt of Danville,
Va., and granddaugh
ter of Gladys Pruitt
Lee of the Bedspread
Mill Inspection De
partment.
GERTRUDE EDMUNDE
New York Employee
Feted At Retirement
Gertrude Edmunde, a veteran em
ployee of the Fieldcrest Sales Office in
New York, was given a luncheon by her
associates upon her retirement with 41
years of continuous service. She is
shown at her desk (at left) as she reads
a congratulatory letter.
Mrs. Edmunde was one of the oldest
employees in the Fieldcrest Sales Di
vision from the standpoint of continu
ous service. She was first employed by
Marshall Field & Company October 2,
1923, as an accounts receivable book
keeper in the General Sales Office in
New York.
She continued to serve in various ca
pacities in the Accounts Receivable De
partment until 1953 and had since been
employed in the Claims Department at
the Fieldcrest Sales headquarters in
New York.
David Litaker, nine years oid, ho*-^®
trophies won by his baseball team, “Th®
Sunshine Sugar Sweets,” in the Flaga^’^
Koury League in Miami, Florida. Davids
who plays second base, was outstanding
in the field and had a batting average of
.670 for the 20-game regular season.
He was chosen to play second base 0**
the Flagami All-Star team in the stat®
tournament. He played the entire touf'
nament without error and had a batting
average of .500. Flagami won the stat®
All-Star title.
David’s grandfather, Lonnie Litaker>
is employed in the Karastan Weave
Room. His maternal grandfather, W.
Cooper, is a Fieldcrest retiree.
Cannon Children
Elmer Cannon, Jr. Dorothy J. Cannon
Elmer Cannon
Jr., nine years old,
Dorothy Jean
Cannon, 10, and
Michael G. Can
non, six months
old, are children
of Elmer and Em
ma Jean Cannon,
both of whom are
employees of the
Karastan Spinning
Division at Green
ville.
Michael G. Cannon
Blood is magic medicine. Be a don®*^
at the Bloodmobile October 29.
THE MILL WHISTL®