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Spray, N. C., February 22, 1965
NO. 16
Mutual Aid Publishes
Financial Statement
annual financial statement of the
United Mutual Aid Association has been
Approved by the association’s board of
*^irectors.
The statement is posted on the bul-
*®tin boards in the Tri-City mills and
offices and is printed on page five.
The United Mutual Aid Association, a
''sluable employee benefit at Fieldcrest,
P^'ovides hospital-surgical insurance for
®niployees and their families in Draper,
J^eaksville and Spray, affording protec-
to approximately 14,000 members
dependents.
Officers of the association who were
®lficted recently to serve during 1965
as follows:
President, Glenn Simpson; Bleachery;
ice-president, Dan Squires, Sheeting
treasurer, J. B. Reynolds, Kara-
Mill; and secretary, Ronald Black-
General Offices.
] addition to the officers, the fol-
owing are members of the Board of
(Continued on page Five)
Company Gives SI,000 To School Fund
M. G. Allen (right) presents check to
Tommy Roberts, a co-chairman in fund
campaign for Forest City school.
Bloodmobile To Visit Spray Tuesday, March 2
^.Persons from all parts of the Tri-
are urged to give blood when the
^loodmobile visits Spray Tuesday,
Jnarch 2. The unit will be stationed at
® Spray Methodist Church from 11
■ until 4:30 p. m.
Norrnan Young, Blood Program co-
'^‘^airman, said the recruiting of donors
Jyould be concentrated in Spray but
jjat all who can should give blood on
visit rather than wait until the
"loodmobile visits their own localities.
. Since a person can give blood every
®*§ht weeks, all donors in the communi-
^ except those who gave at Leaksville
)^tiuary 29, will be able to give on the
^®rch 2 visit.
“We are counting on a good turnout
donors from Spray, but we will also
”®ed Draper and Central Area donors
? Well as Leaksville people who did not
on January 29,” Mr. Young said,
pointed out that, based on the act-
usage of blood, 160 pints must be
(j^Hected on each Bloodmobile visit.
Si]
the area has had a deficit for
e time, at least 175 pints are need-
on the March 2 visit in order to
''^^ce donations with the usage.
The Spray Fire Department, the Vir
ginia - Carolina Citizens Band Radio
Club and the Leaksville-Spray Junior
Woman’s Club are taking the lead in
recruiting donors for the March 2
Bloodmobile. Also assisting is Oscar
Mills, who will recruit donors in the
business section at the canal in Spray.
Employees of Fieldcrest plants and of
fices in Spray as well as those of the
other textile firms will be contacted and
asked to donate blood. It is expected
that the Fieldcrest plants in Spray will
again furnish women employees as vol
unteer workers, to servs as hostesses
and to aid in the operation of the can
teen at the Bloodmobile.
Chairman Young stressed the great
need for new donors — persons who
have never given blood before. He urged
those who have never given blood be
fore to become unselfish volunteer don
ors, helping to save lives and restore
the sick and injured to health.
He again appealed to the relatives and
friends of those who have received
blood to give blood in the recipient’s
name. While they are not required to
replace the blood, the family and
friends of those who have benefitted
should want to give, he said.
Donation Will Help Replace
Items Lost When Forest City
School Was Destroyed By Fire
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. has donated
$1,000 to the Forest City Elementary
School fund drive to replace equipment
and supplies lost in the fire which de
stroyed the school last August.
M. G. Allen, superintendent of the
Alexander Sheeting Mill at Forest City,
presented the company’s check for $1,-
000 to Tommy Roberts, vice president
of the Rutherford County branches of
the Northwestern Bank, who is co-
chairman of one of the two teams rais
ing funds during the drive.
In appreciation of the gift, Robert
W. Gammon, principal of the Forest
City Elementary School, and Robert A.
Jones, president of the Forest City
P.T.A., wrote Harold W. Whitcomb,
president of Fieldcrest, as follows:
“On behalf of the Forest City P.T.A.
and especially the children of the Forest
City Elementary School, we want to
thank you for your contribution to the
Forest City P.T.A. fund drive. Your con
tribution of $1,000 was the largest one
we received and will help greatly to
ward replacing books and other educa
tional materials lost in our school fire.
“This splendid cooperation and com
munity spirit shown by you and your
(Continued on page five)
Operations Moved
The moving of some departments and
operations into the new million-dollar
Karastan Service Center began Friday,
February 12, but the transfer of all op
erations will not be completed until
sometime in March.
All office operations, including Custo
mer Service and Warehouse and Ship
ping offices already have been moved
from the former location in North Spray
to the new facility on Summit Road.
Also, the full roll storage, cut order
storage, cut order machines, carving and
hand weaving have been moved and are
in operation.
John G. Cunningham, superintendent
of the Karastan Mill, said the transfer
of the pattern rug storage and Sample
Department from the old Service Center
and Karaloc rug finishing and Karaloc
rug storage from the mill at Leaksville
is scheduled to be completed between
March 1 and March 15.