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FJEl_OCREST MtULS, INC,
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‘ Plants at Draper, Forest City, Greenville, Lealcsvillo, Mount Holly, Salisbury, Smithfleld,
Spray and Worthyille, N. C.; Fleldale, Va.; Columbus, Ga. and Auburn, N. Y.
PL.
XXIV
Spray, N. C„ March 21, 1966
NO. 18
75 Blood Donors Needed This Week
VNER at work Watching: with interest as Ralph Hicks paints a rug de-
Mrs. H. J. Rollins and Mrs. J. M. Lee, members of an interior decorating
* k'ho visited the Karastan Mill recently. At right is Harold Craddock, a guide
® tour. The course at the Technical Institute of Alamance is taught by Harvey
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designer with Colonial Furniture House, Burlington.
Bloodmobile To Be Stationed At
St. Luke’s Church Wednesday;
Big Recruitment Drive On
Employees of the Spray area mills and
offices are expected to form a majority
of the blood donors when the Blood-
mobile visits St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church (Rock Church) at Spray Wed
nesday, March 23, from 11:00 a.m. un
til 4:30 p.m. The goal is 175 pints.
An intensive recruitment campaign is
being conducted in the Spray Fieldcrest
plants and offices in order to obtain
the donors badly needed at this time.
Every employee is to be contacted and
asked to donate a pint of blood.
Donors also are being recruited in
other textile companies and other busi
nesses in Spray and the Central Area.
Under the new Blood Donor League ar
rangement, it is expected that a greater
number of industries and business loca
tions will be represented than ever be
fore on a Spray Bloodmobile visit.
A minimum of 175 pints will be need
ed to balance the blood donations with
the actual usage of blood for Tri-City
patients. If this amount is obtained, the
local blood program will be in a cur
rent position as of the day of the visit.
However, there will not be a sufficient
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ite Elephant Is Safety Reminder
a new organization at Field-
the “Royal Order of the White
“tatit.”
1 ^fder to stimulate interest in the
j objectives of Fieldcrest, both in
‘•'dividual plants and in the com-
a whole, the “Royal Order of
,^bite Elephant” is being instituted
J'Og all of the Company’s manufac-
^ locations in the South.
'der the new program, adopted for
^I’oar by the Central Safety Com-
j,®’ a large white elephant will be
to the mill which has the poor-
dfety record of the month. The
! elephant will be rotated through
lhat mill’s departments during the
eding month.
^dialler white elephant will be
to the manager of the mill
I ‘d® poorest safety record. He will
M ll on his desk throughout the
d With the obligation to explain its
significance whenever asked to do so.
The safety records of each mill will
be evaluated on the basis of the fre
quency and severity of accidents. The
frequency figure is the number of dis
abling injuries per million man-hours
worked. The severity figure is the num
ber of days lost because of injury for
each million man-hours of operation.
The first recipient of the white ele
phant award will be the mill with the
poorest record for the first three months
of 1966. Thereafter, it will be awarded
on the basis of the preceding month’s
experience.
W. G. Hunnings, president of the Cen
tral Safety Committee, said, “It is the
desire of the company that employees at
all locations have the safest and most
pleasant working conditions possible. To
attain these objectives it is essential for
every employee to give determined and
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Whether retired or still working, if
you were 65 years or older on January
1, you have only until March 31 to sign
up for the medical insurance feature of
Medicare.
If you miss that date, you won’t get
another chance until 1967, and then you
will have to pay a penalty.
Finally, if you let more than three
years go by after your first opportunity
to enroll, you will have lost that right
forever.
If you fail to sign up for the medical
insurance under Medicare (Part B) you
will miss out on benefits such as pay
ment of doctor’s bills.
If a retiree covered by the Fieldcrest
plan is eligible to subscribe for Part B
of Medicare and fails to do so, he will
suffer a loss because his benefits under
the Fieldcrest plan will be computed as
though he were a subscriber to Part B.