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Wood Badge, High Scout Honor, Is Awarded To Towel Mill Employee John Walter Craig, an employee of We Towel Mill, Fieldale, Va., has been ^Warded the Wood Badge, a high honor ^ven by the Boy Scouts of America. ^6 is the first man in the Boy Scouts’ Patrick-Henry District to win the Wood Badge and is one of the few recipients the Blue Ridge Council. The Wood Badge is presented to adult ®eouters who successfully complete a 'issignated high-level training experi ence. Mr. Craig spent 18 months in pass ing the requirements. The training was devised and insti tuted by Lord Baden-Powell, founder the Boy Scout movement. The badge 'Consists of two wooden beads worn on ® leather thong around the neck. These replicas of beads captured from an ^rican chief by Baden-Powell in 1888. The scouter to whom the Wood oadge has been awarded is entitled to ^etnbership in the international Gilwell *^ark scout group, whose headquarters in England. The scouter so honored wear the gray neckerchief with its Patch of McLaren tartan at its back, the '^ilwell Park insignia. ^ood Badge training is accepted nroughout the scouting world. It is gov- *^ed internationally by Gilwell Park n close cooperation with the Boy Scouts international Bureau. Wood Badge gaining forms an important unifying in world scouting. Candidates for the training must be ^tstanding scouters, capable of helping JOHN WALTER CRAIG with the leadership training program in their own councils. Every scouter who becomes a candidate for the Wood Badge experience subscribes to an agreement of service involving training in his local council. Mr. Craig for six years has been scoutmaster of Troop 167, sponsored by the Bassett, Va. Church of the Brethren. He is an active member of the church and was formerly chairman of the fi nance committee and secretary-treas- urer of the men’s fellowship organiza tion. He has made an outstanding record with his troop and has taken part in many leadership training activities. He has been a member of Powhatan Lodge, Order of the Arrow, honorary camping society, since 1960. He is a holder of the Scouter’s Key, awarded to adult scouters for three years of continuous service in successful unit leadership and the completion of certain training re quirements. Attends National Jamboree Mr. Craig served as assistant scout master accompanying 18 scouts from the Patrick-Henry District to the National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., in 1964. He hopes to attend the World Scout Jamboree to be held at Valley Forge this summer. A native of Henry County, Mr. Craig has been with the company for 10 years, all of this time in the Towel Mill Weav ing Department. He has worked as fill ing carrier, weaver, and loomfixer, and at present is a second hand in the No. 2 Weave Room. He is married to the former Gloria Smith of Bassett. They have two daughters, ages eight and six. The eight- year-old recently joined the Brownies and Mr. Craig predicts that his wife soon will find herself busy with Girl Scout activities. I^oreist Citj Plant Gets Full-Line Vending major improvement in canteen ®rvice at the Alexander Sheeting Mill, . Orest City, has been made through the J^stallation of full-line vending to serve n^oyees throughout the mill. , The latest-type automatic machines ave been placed in convenient locations in the mill to dispense fresh-brewed coffee, hot chocolate, milk, bottled drinks, hot and cold sandwiches, soup, pastry, candy, potato chips and ciga rettes. Also included are an automatic changer and a condiment bar. A battery of machines, metal tables. and metal chairs with cushioned, wash able seats have been installed in a spe cial room made by enclosing a corner of the Weave Room. Veneer paneling extends from the top of the machines to the ceiling. The room has fluorescent lighting, is cooled from the Weave Room’s air changing system, has a rubberized floor, and has windows looking out over the Weave Room. The curtains for the windows are of unbleached sheeting and were made at home by M. G. Allen, superintendent of the mill, and Mrs. Allen. This canteen serves employees of the Weave Room, Cloth Room and Office. A similar canteen, located in the Carding Department, serves the Carding and Spinning personnel. . ®ttjoying new Canteen in the Alexander Sheeting Mill at Forest City, from left are Edna Bright, Lucille Trantham, Dorothy Mowery and Pauline Yelton. ^BRUARY 8, 1965 Andy Daughtry Andy Daughtry, who was five weeks i old when this pic- ; ture was taken, is the ^ son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Daughtry. The mother (Rita Daugh try) is employed in the o f fi c e of the ; Product Service De- I partment at the A.utomatic Blanket | Plant, Smithfield.
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