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J Bircher Heads Pitt Co. UF Campaign Jack Bircher, assistant wool buyer at the Karastan Spinning Division, is gen eral chairman of the Pitt County United Fund campaign which is nearing its budget-goal of $100,000. Employees at the Greenville plant made a spectacular showing in the cam paign when 99.23 per cent made con tributions and 98.84 per cent gave a day’s pay or more. Mr. Bircher, as the general campaign chairman, succeeded Henry F. Morris, manager of the Karastan Spinning Di vision, who was last year’s chairman and is now serving as vice president of the Pitt County United Fund. A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Bircher has been with the Karastan Spinning Division since July, 1964. He previously had business dealings with Mr. Morris for 13 years as an importer supplier of wool. The son of an airport operator, Mr. Bircher has been flying since his 16th birthday. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, entering as a private and advancing to second lieutenant. He continued to fly after the war and keeps a commercial pilot’s license with an instructor’s rating. He married the former Irene Fischer of Philadelphia. They have a married daughter, Mrs. Irene Queen of Houston, Texas; a son, Dick, a sophomore ma- JACK BIRCHER joring in journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; a son. Jack, Jr., a freshman music major at East Carolina College; and a son, Jim, in the seventh grade at Greenville Catho lic School. They also have a grandson, one-year-old Chris Queen. The Bircher family lives at 112 Lord Ashley Drive in Greenville. Health And Work What Are Occupational Health Services? By DR. A. D. GULLETT Medical Director, Fieldcrest Mills What are occupational health serv ices? They are services provided by the company to help maintain the health of its employees. Particular emphasis is placed on preventive medicine—con serving the employee’s good health. Four basic elements of the service are: (1) pre-hire physical examinations, (2) periodic individual health apprais als, (3) care of occupational disabilities and minor personal ailments, and (4) other preventive services, including im munization programs, personal health counseling, and health education. Some Common Misconceptions Later we will explain in more detail what these services are, but at this time it is well to state what they are not. Too frequently, when the provision by the company of occupational health services for employees is mentioned, such comments as these are heard: “Oh, you mean setting up a program for medical and hospital benefits.” Or, “We have these services in our mill. Practically everyone is covered by hospital-surgical insurance and accident and health insurance.” Or, “Our insurance policy protects us against losses from accidents.” Or, “We have a physician on call for any accident or serious illness that may occur in the mills.” Occupational health services, as the term is used here, means none of these. The services are not a substitute for insurance plans such as we have in Fieldcrest. Such voluntary plans make provision for the cure of the sick, while our occupational health services empha size the prevention of sickness and dis ability. Nor does the provision of occupational health services mean the disruption of the personal relationship between the patient and his own physician. Employee Should Use Services The individual employee is encour aged to take advantage of services for the conservation of his health, which he otherwise might not do. If illness, or signs of illness are discovered, he is re ferred to his family physician. Thus, the family physician becomes an integral part of the over-all effort for maintain ing the good health of the company’s employees. In later issues we will discuss in more detail the basic elements of the company health service. SAVE>°‘'B0RR0W at your THE MILLWHISTL 1 Copyright, 1965, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Spray, N. C. Issued Every Other Monday For Employ® and Friends of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. OTIS MARLOWE EDITOR Member, South Atlanh Council Of Industrial Editors Vol. XXIV Mon., Nov. 22, 1965, ADVISORY BOARD R, F. Bell R. B. Mitchell E. A. Clark J. L. Crabtree W. F. Crumley J. S. Eggleston J. M. Moore E. L. Parrish J. M. Rimmer REPORTING STAFF BtiSl'! Alexander Sheeting Mill velto" Pauline Y|» .j Automatic Blanket Plant Bedspread Mill Edna Hopkjj RoHcnrAAH Fini^hina AAill Ann Bedspread Finishing Mill Ann MJ" jf Blanket Mill Katherine ToUi Central Warehouse Geraldine Draper Offices General Offices Hilda Gf “,,i/ Gladys Holland, Katherine . Karastan Mill Ii'eh® .'’‘j;jiti Karastan Service Center Mary Step%y Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Mt. Holly Spinning Mill ;;v;/®39i!,pwson'' Muscogee Mills Mildred Nf'"„c5ei New York Offices Betty Lent j Nye-Wait Division Mary |,t Sheet Finishing Mill alW Sheet Finishing Office Sheeting Mill Towel Mill Faye Wa;^ SERVICE mNNIVERSARl^^ Thelma G. Thirty Years Smith W. Oliver Dunivant Karas , George B. Johnson Thelma McAlexander To Blah'‘!i Blan Gillie Scales Paul J. Minter 1 Twenty-Five Years , Clara B. Coram Musco® Willard C. Dixon Muscos ■ Muscof i Obed E. Powers ■ e5 Swanson S. Jones General Annie M. Hundley Thomas J. Warren Blah | Twenty Years James E. Adams W. Otis Marlowe General Ou Glenn F. Odell Finish* Massey P. Hodges Kara Roy Parker MuscO' eeti» Leonard J. Mize She^_ . Doris C. Carter Kara ■ Fifteen Years , .jj) Rozelle F. Alcorn .... Bedspread Lenford D. Moore Vivian F. Johnson Fieldcrest b To'*' CRERIT UNION Ten Years J. Wesley Hall Eva G. Jordan James W. Brown Jimmy Belton John Greene Paul J. Hale Bla^ Gail J. Haley General OH Evon O. Aaron Elree H. Carter Bedspr Musco® To« . KarasJ Musco»|,t THE MILL WHIS T Jj
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