William Dean Attains
45-Yr. Service Record
Floyd Meeks Is Promoted At Blanket Finishingr Mill
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William Dean, a cutter in the Blanket
Cutting and Sewing Department at the
Blanket Finishing Mill, completed 45
years of continuous service with the
Company on March 22. He has been
presented with the Fieldcrest 45-year
emblem and a letter of commendation
from President G. William Moore.
A native of Henry County, Va., he
was employed on the transferring job in
the blanket sewing room March 22,
1925, and has continuous service since
that date. He earlier had worked with
the Yard Crew at the old American
Warehouse (now Blanket Finishing
Mill). He has been a cutter since 1944.
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You can COMB a wig—
You can EAT with false teeth—
You can WRITE with an artificial
hand—
You can WALK with an artificial leg—
But you CAN’T SEE with a glass eye—
So protect what you have.
Floyd E. Meeks, formerly a second
hand, has been promoted to assistant
foreman in the Piece Dyeing Depart
ment at the Blanket Finishing Mill,
Eden. He replaces Raymond A. Hoskins
who earlier was transferred to the Bed
spread Finishing Mill.
Mr. Meeks first joined the company
in 1959 and worked as a sealer oper
ator at the old Automatic Blanket Mill
and later was a shipping clerk helper.
He was reemployed in the Blanket
Finishing Mill in 1967 and worked as a
rolling machine operator and as a dyer
operator in the Beck Dye Department
in 1963.
He became a second hand in the
Beck Dye Department in 1967 and was
transferred to the Piece Dyeing De
partment as a second hand in January,
1970. He is a native of Henry County.
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if we don’t know where we are.
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FLOYD E. MEEKS
Wade Nelson Appointed
As Training Coordinator
Wade Nelson, formerly an assist^'^j
foreman in the Spinning Department
the Fieldale Towel Mill, has been
pointed a training coordinator in t
same plant.
Mr. Nelson, a native of Patrick
ty, Va., first joined the Fieldale mm
1956 and was a weaver for app^j*.
mately three years. He was in the
crest apprenticeship trainee program *
six months during 1959 and upon
pletion of this training was named
assistant designer and sample man-
He served in that capacity for
next five years and in June, 1965, '
appointed a style change supervis
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He became an assistant foreman iP
Spinning Department in February
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Safety records of North and
Carolina and of Georgia show that
tile employees work in one of
South’s safest manufacturing indus’
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