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The enormous obligation of every
business to make a profit
When a business makes no profit, it can no longer afford modern
equipment, so its costs and prices increase, its customers refuse to pay
needlessly high prices — and the business dies.
When a company makes a small profit, it only just gets by, but
gradually loses business to the company which makes a large profit
and so can afford to keep its equipment modern, its costs low, and its
prices reasonable, its jobs high.
But when a company makes a healthy profit, it can afford the most
modern equipment which, wisely used by good workmen, means its
costs and prices can be lower and lower. Then more and more people
can afford the product, more and more workmen will be needed to
make it, the company can afford to pay higher wages and fringe bene
fits, more and more taxes will be contributed to run the government,
and more dividends will reward the investors who make it all possible.
So profit — a good healthy profit — is more than desirable .
an OBLIGATION.
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There are two things that Arthur
Justice knows plenty about: yarn manu
facturing and airplanes. He has had
many years of experience in both and
advanced rapidly in each field.
Now general foreman of the Mount
Holly Spinning Mill, he is directly in
charge of the first shift and has re
sponsibility for the operation of the sec
ond and third shifts. Thus, he holds a
key position in the efficient production
of quality yarns that go into beautiful
Fieldcrest towels.
His technical knowledge, leadership
ability and other personal qualities en
able him to make an important contri
bution to the successful operation of the
Mount Holly Spinning Mill.
He was born in Gastonia and prac
tically grew up in a textile mill. He was
a spinning doffer at Cramerton Mills
(now Burlington Industries) before en
tering the Army Air Corps in World
War II. After the war, he returned to
Cramerton Mills as a doffer and attend
ed the North Carolina Vocational School
at Belmont, studying yarn manufactur
ing.
Following his graduation he worked
as a spinning section man, overhauler,
shift foreman and general foreman at
several different mills. He became sec
ond shift foreman at Mount Holly in
September, 1963, and a few months la-
ARTHUR H. JUSTICE
Mt. Holly General Foreman .
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Copyright, 1967, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, N. C.
Issued Every Other Monday For Employe®®
and Friends ot Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
^51"^ OTIS MARLOWE
EDITOR
Member, South Atlantic
7 Council Of Industrial
Editors
ADVISORY BOARD
R F Bell W. F. Crumley
T.’ E. Boyce J. S. Eggleston
J. T. Carter R. B. Mitchell
E. A. Clark J. M. Moore
J. L. Crabtree J. M. Rimmer
REPORTING STAFF
Alexander Sheeting Mill Edna Br L,,
Pauline Yeii»
Automatic Blanket Plant Janice Enn^
Bedspread Finishing Mill A."” fylnoar
Bedspread Mill Edna HoPP .
Blanket Mill Katherine TornCj
Central Warehouse Geraldine Per^'
Draper Offices ’J.SJ.asn
General Offices Hilda
Gladys Holland, Katherine Mani?J
Karastan Mill
Karastan Service Center Mary Stepn®
Karastan Spinning Div Evelyn Beasi
Mt. Holly Spinning Mill Peggy Men
Muscogee Mills Mildred Newsojn
New York Offices Betty Lenc»
Nye-Wait Division Mary SR^t
Towel Mill Faye Warn
Worthville Spinning Plant James Wjca.^
Vol. XXV Monday, March 6, 1967,
SERVICE
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35 Years
P. Ray Bailey
30 Years ^
Mary E. Farrar Musco#
Colonel D. Evans Karast
Alice C. Hall Fieldcrest Sai*'
25 Years
Thelma W. Powell
Ishmael L. Dew
Bennie Hairston Blan
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ter was promoted to general foreman.
In the Air Corps from August, 1942,
until November, 1948, he served in the
Western Training Command on B-17
Flying Fortresses as aerial engineer,
crew chief and assistant line chief.
He went overseas in 1944 to the
China-Burma-India Theatre. Based at
Karmatola, India, he was an aerial en
gineer on C-129 tankers and C-54s
transporting fuel to Claire Chennault’s
“Flying Tigers” in China. He also was on
the commanding officer’s field staff as
an air inspector.
After World War II ended, he served
three years as squadron inspector for
the 37th troop carrier group at Green
ville, S. C. He received his discharge
from the Air Corps in 1948.
Mr. Justice married Nellie Herron, of
Cramerton, in 1951 and they have four
daughters, Vickie, 14; Myra, nine; Janet,
seven; and Lisa, two years old. In his
off-duty hours Mr. Justice enjoys gar
dening and carpentering.
20 Years
William O. Kennon
Garland E. Church
Raymond V. Setliff
Willie Evans
Audrey M. Belton
Peachy V. Haynes
Katie R. Hankins
MuscoSL
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Annie H. Hooker
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Beatrice L. Shelton
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Eula R. Tilley
Howard D. Higgs
Anne B. Biggs Sheet Finish
15 Years
Robert L. Cox, Jr Finish ’
G. Goodwin Dehart Karas^
David R. Barr MuscoS ^
Edna Y. Hopper Bedspt®
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10 Years
Ernest Wigington, Jr
Joe Williams
James R. Hensley
Blanche T. Merriman ....
Jack L. Hovey Mu^°%i
Louise B. Bryant
Goldie H. Martin
Larry A. Patterson Sheev j
Jerry W. Thrasher MuscOS ^
Alice M. Swords Musco
THE MILL WHIST^