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ers of outgoing- safety committee, -with mill and safety officials, are shown in front of new safety board at Karastan Mill.
Safety Committeemen Praised For Efforts
The Karastan Mill’s 60-member safety
^oinmittee received congratulation from
mill management as the employees
=ompieted six months of tenure.
a meeting in the mill showroom,
^■6(1 Klein, division vice president-rug
Manufacturing and manager of the
Jt^rastan Mill, expressed his apprecia-
“nf* safety committeemen for
me outstanding job you have done.”
He pointed out that the mill has.not
ad any lost time due to injury thus
in 1966. He attributed the fine le-
to the interest in accident preven-
Mn shown by employees under lead-
®rship of the safety committee.
John G. Cunningham, Karastan gen
ial superintendent, and Kenneth R.
^ggett, safety director, Fieldcrest Mills,
^oke in a similar vein. Jones W. Nor-
Man, apga personnel manager, pointed
°ht that the mill is approaching an aver
se of 2,000 hours per employee since
he lost-time accident and that employ-
ha of the mill would soon be entitled to
free barbecue dinner under terms of
he Fieldcrest safety contest.
Mr. Baggett presented a summary of
he safety experience and statistics for
his calendar year and Mr. Norman re
newed the safety reminders program.
Under this program, reminders are
Mtributed to employees every second
Mnday calling attention to specific
.oihts in the safety program, proper
use of hand tools, prompt re-
hrting of any hazards observed, getting
. hst aid immediately for minor in
hales, and other points.
Mr. Norman also called attention to
he new outside safety board and the
6\v departmental safety boards which
^hve been installed. He announced tliat
he-w safety committee will now serve
a six months period and express-
h the hope that they will do as well
® the first committee did.
Mo
NDAY, august 1, 1966
Members of the outgoing committee
were:
Service Center-1st shift, Fred Hand,
assistant foreman; Thurman Hall and
Gordon Overby; 2nd shift, Jerry Slaugh
ter, assistant foreman; Ernest Hopkins
and Naomi Grogan; 3rd shift, James
Walsh, assistant foreman; and Archie
Ratliff.
Burling and Finishing-1st shift, Morris
Turner, assistant foreman; Walter Mont
gomery (Finishing) and Ellen Heffin-
ger (Burling); 2nd shift, David Wade,
assistant foreman; Bill Allen (Finishing)
and Doris Powell (Burling); 3rd shift,
Harold Young, assistant foreman; Wal
lace Law (Finishing) and Betty Shelton
(Burling).
Dyehouse-lst shift, assistant foreman
on shift; and Jesse Galloway; 2nd shift,
assistant foreman on shift; and Oscar
Tucker; 3rd shift, assistant foreman on
shift; and Robert Strong.
Employees’ Son Is
Ordained As Minister
Rev. Billy Ray Hoffner, son of em
ployees of the North Carolina Finishing
Co. Division at Salisbury, is now located
in Johnson City, Tenn., as pastor of Our
Savior Lutheran Church
He is the son of Robert L. Hoffner,
of the Finishing Department, and of
Mary Hoffner, Put Up Department.
Rev. Hoffner received his divinity de
gree at Lutheran Theological Seminary,
Columbia, S. C., May 26 and was or
dained June 5 at the Lutlieran Chapel
Lutheran Church, Gastonia.
The new minister is a former NCF
employee, having worked at the Salis
bury plant each summer during the
period 1958-1963. He is a graduate of
Spencer High School and a 1962 gradu
ate of Lenoir Rhyne College. He won a
Lutheran Brotherhood scholarship.
Wash House-Harry McKinney, fore
man; and Dewey Millner.
Weave Room-1st shift, Elwin Martin,
assistant foreman; Harry Evans and Wil
liam Barker; 2nd shift, Tom Smith-
wick, assistant foreman; Robert Thomp
son and William Murray; 3rd shift,
Richard Angle, assistant foreman; Wat
son Gunter and Morris Davis.
Setting-1st shift, Wayne Odell, assist
ant foreman; Barry Martin and Cora
Carter; 2nd shift, Tom Colvin, assistant
foreman; Bea Earles and Calvin Crad
dock; 3rd shift. Bill Hairfield, assistant
foreman; Frances Dunivant and Roy
Chaney.
Mechanical Develompent-first shift,
James McGavisk, assistant foreman; and
William Shields.
Shop-1st shift. Bill Cook, assistant
foreman; and Ralph Kirks; 2nd shift,
Aubrey Hamrick, second hand; and
Raymond Farmer.
REV. BILLY RAY HOFFNER
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