Thomas, Spencer
Get New Positions
John A. Thomas, foreman of the Plant
Service Department at the Blanket and
Sheeting Mills was transferred to the
Engineering Department as an electrical
engineer effective January 1. D. Thomas
Spencer, foreman of the Cotton Carding
and Spinning Department at the Blanket
Mill, was appointed foreman of the
Plant Service Department replacing Mr.
Thomas.
Mr. Thomas is a native of Rocking
ham County and graduated from Went
worth High School in 1954. He entered
the Air Force alter high school and
served for four years. Alter his return
from service he attended Mars Hill Col
lege for two years and then went on
to North Carolina State University
where he received his B. S. degree in
electrical engineering in 1963.
He joined Fielderest immediately af
ter graduation and was a management
trainee in the Bedspread-Karastan Plant
Service Department. He became an as
sistant foreman in the Department in
October 1963. He was transferred to the
Draper plants as assistant foreman in
the Plant Service Department in Sep
tember 1965 and was promoted to fore
man in February 1966.
Mr. Spencer, an Eden native, grad-
JOHN A. THOMAS
uated from the old Leaksville High
School and worked on production jobs
in the Sheeting Mill Weave Room prior
to his service in World War II. He was
in service from January 1944 untU Jan
uary 1946 and served in the Pacific
Theatre as a medic in the Army.
After the war he conducted his own
electrical and plumbing business in Eden
for a number of years. In 1959 he join
ed Morehead Mills and worked there for
seven years, first as maintenance en-
Giveaway Program Has Given Away Enough
The economy is going great guns.
The nation’s gross national product is expected to increase by about
10 per cent this year.
Exports may rise by 23 per cent over 1967.
A surplus in the balance of payments should be in the neighbor
hood of $750-million.
Volume on the stock market is enormous. As m.any as 574 million
shares were traded in just one week.
The United States?
No, Japan. It’s the fourth richest country in the world, and growing.
Out of the ashes of World War II, the U. S. helped raise Japan to its
position today.
We backed its industrial plants.
We provided machinery and technical know-how.
We offered it our markets.
It took them.
Today Japan sells the equivalent of more than a billion square yards
of cloth in U. S. stores. It’s easy for Japan to undersell us. Its textile
workers earn only 39 cents an hour.
If the textile products Japan sells in our market were produced
here in the United States they could provide jobs for 75,000 Ameri
cans at more than $2 an hour.
The U. S. textile industry thinks we’ve given away enough. It would
like to have Japan share U. S. markets, but it doesn’t wish to see U. S.
markets swept away by an economically powerful nation whose low
wages would be illegal in this country.
We subsidized Japan’s textile plants.
We gave it our textile technology.
We gave it our textile markets.
We are giving it our textile jobs.
If we keep it up, the U. S. textile industry could wind up a dead
giveaway.
D. THOMAS SPENCER
gineer and later in production. Immedi'
ately prior to joining Fieldcrest he wa®
superintendent of Morehead’s No. 2
Plant.
He joined Fieldcrest Mills in April
1966 as a maintenance supervisor at tb®
Blsmket Mill. In May 1968 he was ap'
pointed foreman of the Cotton Cardin^
and Spinning Department at the Blank®*
Mill and served in that capacity unU
he became foreman of the Plant Servic®
Department.
Dumaine Gives Land
For New YMCA Bldg-
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Eden community and Rockinghaai
County. He owns several farms i**
Rockingham County and is well know®
as a conservationist. His farm improve'
ment methods and conservation praC'
tices have attracted wide attention.
Plans for the new YMCA building
and out-door facilities were announce®
a few weeks ago by the YMCA board
of directors. Members of the Planning
Committee and a Building Committee
will be announced soon, as the prograr®
progresses.
Members of the Site Committee, 1**
addition to Chairman Craddock, ar®
Jesse M. Burton, Broadus Vernon, Jl’*'
Robertson, Mrs. Guy Buckle, Paul k'
Peterson and W. D. Lashley.
Manley Joyce, of the Leaksville Bank
and Trust Company, was named treaS'
urer of the New Building fund son*®
time ago. The Junior Service Leag®®
has announced plans to contribute to the
New Building fund, and the Rotary Cluk
of Eden is also interested in the projec*'
Many other organizations and individ'
uals have expressed interest in *k®
proposed new building.
SAFETY
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