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Eight Plants Are Presented l^afety Awards
Eight Fieldcrest nlants and the Gen- hplnw thfiiT' -pQ+/i -f/-»-i^ lofjo _ 1 _
Eight Fieldcrest plants and the Gen-
, ®*'al Offices have won awards for their
I ^ood safety performance during 1969.
The Mount Holly Spinning Mill and
: as Blanket Warehouse were awarded
as National Safety Council Certificate
Commendation and the General Of-
*aes the N. S. C. Award of Honor.
The award to the Mount Holly Spin-
*hg Mill was for operating without a
Jasabling injury from March lO, 1967,
arough December 31, 1969, accumu-
®ting 631,671 accident-free man-hours.
The Blanket Warehouse operated
fl'om August 18, 1968, through Decem-
31, 1969, without a disabling in-
and accumulated 494,665 safe
^an-hours. The General Offices at the
of 1969 had 5,057,949 safe man-
below their rate for 1968 and more
than 50 percent below the state aver
age.
The following earned awards by re
ducing their accident frequency rate
by more than 40 percent below the
previous year: Automatic Blanket Plant
(eighth year) , Sheet Finishing Mill
(fifth year). Blanket Mill (first year).
and North Carolina Finishing Co. di
vision (first year).
The National Safety Council Awards
were presented at the Central Safety
Committee’s quarterly meeting June 11.
The North Carolina Department of
Labor certificates are to be presented
as soon as they are received from the
state.
‘‘Ours since March 13, 1958.
. In addition to the N. S. C. awards,
06 following units won Certificates of
afety Achievement from the North
arolina Department of Labor: Blanket
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arehouse. Mount Holly Spinning Mill,
General Offices, Blanket Finishing Mill,
5arastan Rug Mill, Automatic Blanket
Jant, Sheet Finishing Mill, Blanket
‘yh and North Carolina Finishing Co.
^‘''ision.
g The Blanket Warehouse, Mount Holly
^Pinning Mill and the General Offices
j.^^ned the awards by operating
^ofoughout the calendar year 1969 with-
a disabling injury.
The Blanket Finishing Mill and the
aiastan Rug Mill qualified by oper-
j^‘hg throughout 1969 with an accident
squency rate more than 40 percent
New IBM Records System Being Tested
Store Hours
j. The Fieldcrest Stores at Eden and
®Iumbus, Ga., will be open during the
his’ vacation period, except that the
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Ores will be closed on Saturday, July
‘n observance of Independence Day.
. Store hours at Eden are 9 a.m. until
.P'tu. and at Columbus 9:00 a.m. until
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p.m.
Monday,
Test operations are under way on
Fieldcrest’s new computerized personnel
records system in which the IBM 2260
scopes shown above are tied in with the
electronic data processing equipment at
the General Offices, Eden.
When the new set-up is in operation,
the electronically-stored information
from an employee’s record can be dis
played on the screen by use of a code
system. Information also is fed into the
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computer from the keyboards at these
scopes.
Watching the test operations above
are Haven H. Newton (right), vice
president-industrial relations, and Phil
Shepard, of Information Systems, who
is helping with the installation of the
system. Seated at the scopes are Linda
Bare (in foreground) and Nancy Bate
man, personnel data control clerks in the
Industrial Relations Department.