Fieldcrest To Be Largest DR-F Division
CHARLES M. CLIFTON FRANCES FAIR MERRIMAM MARY ELLEN LAY
Present Company Would Remain
Largely An Independent Set-Up
With G. W. Moore President
Officers of Dan River Mills, Incor
porated and Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. told
members of Fieldcrest management at
a meeting May 16 in the Morehead High
School auditorium that when the pro
posed merger of the two companies be
comes final, Fieldcrest will become the
largest division of the new company.
Robert S. Small, president and chief
executive officer of Dan River, would
continue in the same capacity with the
new company, Dan River-Fieldcrest.
In discussing operational plans for
Fieldcrest, Mr. Small said that it would
be operated as a fully staffed, semi-
autonomous division with its own staff
services and sales groups.
G. W. Moore, now president and chief
executive officer of Fieldcrest Mills,
Inc., would be president of the Field
crest division and have full authority
and responsibility for its operation. The
two combined companies would, of
course, explore opportunities for co
ordinating their efforts and the result
would be one of the largest, most
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SARAH F. DUNIVANT
CAROLYN G. PHILLIPS
SUSAN A. GAMBILL
3,000 Persons Tour
Six Receive Fieldcrest Scholarshiiis New Finishing Plants
® m ^ T11 r» c f r\n a ^ > a -i c
Fieldcrest Foundation has granted
jj Scholarships to make a total of 30
b ^6 the program was started in I960.
, cipients of the 1967 scholarships, each
$2,800, are:
.Charles M. Clifton, son of Mr. and
b Marvin E. Clifton of Leaksville;
j"fah F. Dunivant, daughter of Mr. and
William Oliver Dunivant of
jj^ksville; Susan A. Gambill, daughter
f Mr. and Mrs. Daily P. Gambill of
. Mral Area; Mary Ellen Lay, daugh-
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lay of Dra-
oj*’’ Prances Fair Merriman, daughter
Of Mrs. Derwood G Merriman,
Ij Pieldale, Va.; and Carolyn Gail Phil-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
^ Phillips, of Smithfield.
.Charles Clifton has been admitted to
joj.'^Mgan State University. He will ma-
*h communications and plans a ca
reer in television production. His father
is a foreman at Sheet Finishing.
Miss Dunivant has been admitted to
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She plans to obtain a de
gree in nursing and is considering fur
thering her studies to become a physi
cian. Her father is a shearing machine
operator and her mother (Frances), a
winder at the Karastan Mill.
Miss Gambill, whose father is a fore
man at the Blanket Mill, has been ac
cepted at N. C. State University and
will major in biological sciences. She
plans a career in biological research.
Miss Lay has applied for admission
at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She plans to major in Eng
lish and become a high school teacher.
Her mother (Louise), is a laboratory
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PICTURES ON PAGES 4 and 5-
Approximately 3,000 persons, includ
ing employees, townspeople and visitors
from nearby cities, toured the new
Sheet and Bedspread Finishing Mills at
a recent open house program.
Those attending the open house were
able to see the cutting, sewing, packag
ing, warehousing, shipping and customer
service operations for sheets and bed
spreads. In addition, the Data Processing
section was open for inspection.
The Sheet Finishing mill, built at a
cost of $1,500,000, contains 175,000
square feet of space. The adjoining Bed
spread Finishing mill is similar in de
sign but larger than the Sheet Finish
ing mill, having 210,000 square feet.
The modern, air conditioned plants
are situated in the middle of a 70-acre
site that was cleared on the former
Union Carbide property near Draper.