6-Million Man-Hour Safety Record Set
J«tomatic Blanket Plant
pliployees Receive Recognition
or ‘Best Record In Fieldcrest
In Southeast’
pEi-npioyees of the Automatic Blanket
have achieved a six
hion man-hour safety record which
described as “the best at Fieldcrest
tli5 industrial plant in
j Southeast.”
shiff ^ program at the mill, first
«t u ®*pPloyees assembled in the Blank-
gf Department and heard con-
sstit lotions extended to them by repre-
gp„ of fhe mill management and
aeral management.
Pi P®3kers were Robert A. Harris,
tjij,'fo^'ost vice president-manufacturing;
F- Sambleson, manager of the
jj Blanket Plant; and Haven H.
tpw. Fieldcrest director of industrial
'®tions.
5 first shift employees were served
f>orbecue dinner at the regular
Poriod. Arrangements were made
oiji^®oond and third shift employees to
barbecue dinners from the cater-
Credit Union Grows
6}.Fieldcrest Mills Credit Union has
^(i 6,500 mark in membership
6fln ^ assets totaling approximately
; y0,000. Loans outstanding at present
Si
total
w'Pce its
'“Oft
$1,031,000.
organization, the Credit
has loaned approximately $5-
to members to help them finance
j wrtant purchases or tide them over
”j^®fgencies.
are made for a wide variety of
Poses: school expenses, taxes, medi-
dental bills, consolidation of
Vyj ’ Piaking cash purchases instead of
thsg ^ “on time” and many other pur-
- s beneficial to the members.
Credit Union was formed among
ia ^j®'P-Ployees of the mills and officer
Tri-City area in 1958. The mem-
W] ^P was subsequently extended to
in all locations, including the
divisions.
Ptoyees who are not members of
^5 (, '^Pdit Union may join by paying a
fee and signing a card authoriz-
tiao'P® company to deduct a specified
Pt of savings from each paycheck.
ing restaurant. As part of the award
earned by the employees for their rec
ord, the canteen was redecorated and a
music system installed.
The Automatic Blanket Plant pre
viously has received the highest awards
given lor safety performance. Included
is an Award of Honor, the highest award
given by the National Safety Council.
Also received previously were an
Award of Excellence given by Field
crest Mills, Inc., and the third consecu
tive blue ribbon award as a Certificate
Muscogee Employees
Give $28,012 To Fund
In a phenomenally suecessful cam
paign among the 1,567 employees of
Muscogee Mills at Columbus, Georgia,
1,535 employees, or 97.96 per cent, con
tributed to the United Givers Campaign.
A total of 1,213 employees, or 77.41 per
cent, gave a Fair Share or more and
698 employees, 44.54 per cent, signed
up for continuing deductions on the Fair
Share basis.
A total of 828,012 was pledged by the
employees at the Muscogee plant, repre
senting a per capita gift of ?17.88 for
all Muscogee employees and an average
donation of $18.25 for each contributor.
of Safety Achievement, given jointly by
the N. C. Department of Labor and the
U. S. Department of Labor.
Technically, the Award of Honor was
given to the plant for having operated
3,561,561 man-hours without a disabl
ing injury between September 21, 1960,
and December 31, 1963.
The blue ribbon award was for the
employees’ having worked the entire
year of 1964 without disabling injuries.
The plaque from Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.,
was given as an Award of Excellence to
the employees in recognition of five mil
lion man-hours without a lost-time acci
dent, a record which was attained on
June 18, 1964.
Barbecue Won In Safety Contest
The barbecue dinner was given under
terms of the Fieldcrest safety contest
in which the company gives a barbecue
dinner for all employees in any mill
which operates without a lost-time in
jury for an average of 2,000 hours per
employee.
Fieldcrest for many years manufac
tured automatic blankets at Spray and
the six million man-hour record dates
from July 27, 1956, when the last dis
abling injury occurred at the Spray
mill. To date, there has not been a dis
abling injury since the Automatic
Blanket Plant began operations at
Smithfield in June, 1960.
Only 66 Pints Donated At Bloodmobile
The visit by the Bloodmobile to tht
Meadow Greens Shopping Center No
vember 8 was a near-failure as only 66
persons contributed blood. It was the
poorest turnout of donors since the Tri-
City Blood Program was started in 1961.
The quota for the Central Area visit
was 150 pints, an amount necessary to
maintain a balance between blood do
nations and the actual usage of blood
for the benefit of Tri-City patients.
Blood Program officials expressed ex
treme disappointment at the number of
donors. They pointed out that 154 pints
were contributed at Spray September
30 and that 189 pints were donated on
the Bloodmobile visit to Leaksville
August 5. The record blood collection
was in May, 1964, in the Central Area,
when 282 pints were given.
Of the 66 pints given November 8, 37
were given by Fieldcrest employees, pri
marily from the General Offices and the
Karastan Mill. General Offices em
ployees rallied to help a fellow worker,
Ernestine Cox, of the Data Processing
Department. Sixteen pints were given as
replacements of blood for Miss Cox, who
remains a patient at Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem.
The General Offices and the Karastan
Mill furnished 15 donors each. Other
mills or staff units accounted for seven
pints.
Four donors, all Fieldcresters, gave
their eighth pint and became eligible
for the “Gallon Club”. They were: Paul
Kitchens, Karastan; Edward Specht,
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