5, 1965
NO. 19
‘Y’ Membership Drive
In Progress At Spray
The 56th annual membership cam
paign for Consolidated Central YMCA,
Spray, began simultaneously with the
annual meeting Monday, March 29,
and will continue through Monday,
April 26.
Oscar J. Simmons, general foreman at
We Karastan Mill, is co-general chair-
jWan with Zell D. Ford, of Spray Cotton
^ills. The first report meeting is set for
Monday evening, April 5, and a final re
port meeting on Monday evening, April
‘6.
A large organization of area captains
and Workers will carry the campaign
Jttto all parts of Spray, Leaksville and
Central Area.
In addition to the captains for various
®®ographical areas, the following are
?®*'''ing as plant captains at Fieldcrest
IVlills;
John Cunningham, Karastan Mill;
^iles Runnings, Bedspread Mill; Cletus
all and George Aheron, Bedspread
inishing Mill; Guy Buckle, Finishing
Bleachery; Jesse Burton, Central
arehouse; Scott Chowning, Sheet Fi-
^•shing;- Robert Hair and Haven New-
General Offices; Mrs. Louise Land-
®ss, Research and Development; Ernest
■ Sams, Fieldcrest truck drivers.
At Nova Scotia plant, from left, Barry Lee, Mervyn Dickey and W. S. Barker
William S. Barker Is Muob-Traveled Fixer
OSCAR J. SIMMONS
Co-Chairman Of Campaigrn
Certainly the most traveled fixer at
the Karastan Rug Mill, Leaksville, is
W. S. Barker, head repairman. Last year
Mr, Barker was sent to England where
he helped to set up new machinery at
Bloodmobile To Visit
Central Area Apr. 21
Blood donors—180 of them—are ur
gently needed when the Bloodmobile
visits the Central Area Wednesday,
April 21, at a location to be announced.
The Tri-City Jaycees, of which E. B.
Baldwin, of the Research and Develop
ment Department, is president, will have
charge of the recruiting of donors. As
sisting them will be the Tri-City Rescue
Squad and the Leaksville-Spray Junior
Woman’s Club.
The Virginia-Carolina Citizens Band
Radio Club will again provide free
transportation for donors who need rides
to and from the Bloodmobile.
Norman Young, co-chairman of the
Tri-City Blood Program, said usage of
blood for local patients continues to ex
ceed the amount of blood donated.
Blood is being used currently at an
average rate of 90 pints per month.
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the John Crossley company’s Dean
Clough Mills in Halifax, Yorkshire.
Later he was sent to the new Cross-
ley-Karastan plant at Truro, Nova
Scotia, to help set up machinery there.
He recently returned from a second two
months assignment at Truro.
Mr. Barker found the people in Eng
land and Nova Scotia “very friendly”
and he enjoyed working with the textile
and machine shop personnel. He said he
liked everything about England except
the rainy weather.
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., in June, 1963,
granted John Crossley-Carpet Trades
Holdings Limited, of England, an ex
clusive license to build and sell the
products of its Kara-loc carpet loom in
the United Kingdom, Canada, South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe
and various other markets throughout
Crossley’s world-wide operations.
In July, 1963, Fieldcrest and the John
Crossley company formed the jointly-
owned Crossley-Karastan Carpet Mills,
Ltd., to build and operate a new plant
at Truro, Nova Scotia, making high-
quality rugs and carpets.
^e picture above shows Mr. Barker
(right) at the Truro plant with Barry
Lee (left), maintenance engineer of
John Crossleys, England, and Mervyn
Dickey, loomfixer with Crossley-Kara
stan in Truro.