Vol. XXIII
Spray, N. C., April 19, 1965
NO. 20
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Well-equipped training room at Blanket MUI provides improved learning
Conditions for the acquiring of new skills or the changing of old skills. Looking over
■■aining plans, from left, are R. B. Mitchell, Blanket Mill assistant superintendent;
•■ed Jones, Blanket Mill training coordinator; and J. E. Gardner, Fieldcrest Mills
•“lining manager. (See picture-story on pages four and five.)
All Blood Donors To Receive Green Stamps
..Every person who donates blood at
Bloodmobile Wednesday, April 2i,
"ill be given 100 S & H green stamps
drawings will be held among the
^rnes of all the donors with two win-
receiving 5,000 green stamps each.
The Bloodmobile will be stationed at
the
Meadow Greens Shopping Center,
the space between the Belk-Cline C;o.
Mann’s Drug Store, from 11 a.m.
I^til 4;3o p.ni. The goal for this visit
180 pints.
The Bloodmobile is being sponsored
the Tri-City Jaycees with the coop-
^ation of the merchants and other busi-
^erstin Westerdahl
''oins Sales Division
^ Miss Kerstin Westerdahl has joined
Fieldcrest Marketing Division as a
yiist in the Style and Design Depart-
it was announced in New York by
■ W. Moore, division president.
^tiss Westerdahl has had extensive
^•^Perience in textile styling and design
ih work in the creative area and,
^ addition, will direct the Fieldcrest
^®sign Studio. She will report to Miss
j.'^ith Jay, manager of the Style and De-
Department.
ness people at the Meadow Greens Cen
ter, and of several community organiza
tions.
E. B. Baldwin, of the Research and
Quality Control Department, is president
of the Tri-City Junior Chamber of
Commerce, and Jack Carter, of the In
dustrial Relations Department, is chair
man of the Jaycees’ Bloodmobile project.
The Jaycee leaders said they hope the
giving of green stamps will prove to
be an incentive for blood donors, partic
ularly women donors. They emphasized,
however, that all donors—men and
women—will be given the stamps.
Mr. Baldwin said each Jaycee has
been asked to be responsible for obtain
ing three pints of blood. “If every Jay
cee does his share it will virtually as
sure that the quota of 180 pints will be
met,” he said.
In addition to taking the lead in the
recruitment campaign, the Jaycees will
also have representatives who will move
through the area on the day of the visit
to remind people of the Bloodmobile.
The Tri-City Rescue Squad will help
recruit donors and will man the sound
trucks during the Bloodmobile visit. The
(Continued on Page Eight)
Towel Mill Reaches
Million Safe Hours
Employees of the Towel Mill at Fiel-
dale, Va., have worked over one million
man-hours without any lost time due
to injury. The mill-wide record had
reached 1,252,491 safe hours at the end
of March.
In a bulletin to employees, D. A. Pur
cell, mill manager, said: “We now have
over one million man-hours without a
lost-time accident. We are over halfway
to earning a plant barbecue. Our safety
slogan this month is: ‘LET’S MAKE IT
TWO MILLION MAN-HOURS.’ ”
K. R. Baggett, Fieldcrest Mills safety
director, praised the Towel Mill employ
ees for their million man-hour record.
“This is a commendable achievement,”
he said, “and I hope that they will go on
to attain two million man-hours and
win an award.”
In addition to the record of the mill
as a whole, several of the individual
departments at the Towel Mill have
achieved outstanding safety perform
ance. Out front is the Cutting and Sew
ing Department which is well past the
four million man-hour mark since the
last disabling injury.
With its current record the Towel Mill
is runner-up to the Automatic Blanket
Plant at Smithfield for the top safety
position at Fieldcrest Mills. The Auto
matic Blanket operation has a record
of over 5Vz million man-hours without
a disabling injury.
14 Fieldcresters File
For Municipal Offices
A total of 14 Fieldcresters are candi
dates for town offices in Draper, Leaks-
ville and Spray in the municipal elec
tions scheduled for May 4.
Nine Fieldcrest employees are running
at Drapsr, including John W. Steagall,
a plumber at the Draper mills, who filed
for mayor, and the following who are
candidates for commissioner: Broadus
Burgess, foreman of the Plant Service
Department at the Draper mills, seek
ing a fifth term; Wayne Griffin, a fixer
at the Karastan Mill; Harden Hairston,
a sanitary man at the Blanket Mill;
Raymond Hopkins, night foreman of the
Blanket and Sheeting Mills; J. E. (Jake)
Setliff, a retired assistant foreman of
Blanket Wool Spinning; Paul Shrop
shire, instructor-fixer in the Blanket
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