Initial use of medical van will be in hearing conservation program.
Mobile Health Unit Goes Into Operation
J’i
Wgg ®'^'^rest’s new mobile health unit
^ Put into use last week when it
^Ud’ at the Sheeting Mill for
l^Q^'^Pietric tests on Sheeting Weave
Cow ®®Ployees in connection with the
^’Ppany-wide hearing conservation
®§ram.
*)>ik plans are to utilize the mobile
keg continuing hearing tests on
Shg'l® uoom employees at the Blanket,
and Bedspread Mills. The
!)5j,'?al Van contains equipment which
live conducting audiometric tests of
A ^sons simultaneously.
'''as . nnietric testing equipment earlier
Hob “''dialled in the central Medical
^^_^'’lhient at Eden and at the Fieldale
and Columbus Medical Departments.
Hearing tests throughout the manu
facturing organization eventually are
to be conducted by the nine persons
who have recently completed training
as certified audiometric technicians. The
training was under the auspices of the
University of North Carolina Speech
and Hearing Center, Charlotte, and the
North Carolina chapter of the Associa
tion of Industrial Nurses.
While the initial emphasis will be on
hearing tests, the mobile unit will
eventually make possible a voluntary
employee health screening program in
cluding blood tests, blood pressure
checks, chest x-rays, breathing tests, etc.
Second Quarter Sales
And Earnings Noted
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Chairman Q. W.
Moore reported July 28 that the Com
pany’s sales in the second quarter of
1970 were $49,167,000, up 1% from
$48,773,000 in 1969.
Quarterly earnings also increased to
$1,626,000 ($.46 per share), up 3%
from the year earlier level of $1,572,000
($.44 per share).
For the six months ended June 30
sales of $90,181,000 were down slightly
from the $91,048,000 reached last year,
reflecting the low level of business ac
tivity in the first quarter.
First half earnings were $2,242,000
($.63 per share), down 16% from $2,679,-
000 ($.76 per share) in 1969. Earnings
for 1969 have been restated to reflect
straight line depreciation currently be
ing used for financial reporting.
“The sales increase in the second
quarter reflected strength in our bed
and bath fashion product lines. Sales
of carpet and rugs continued to be low
er than last year, but some improvement
was noted in the second quarter,” Mr.
Moore said.
“The quarterly increase in earnings
reflected in part the initial effects of
a company-wide cost reduction program
and these expense control efforts which
offset higher interest costs and lower
(Continued on Page Four)
fieldcrest Is County’s 2nd Largest Taxpayer
ha{^®^^*^rest Mills, Inc., paid Rocking
^93(6 ^°unty $396,758 in ad valorem
fiscal 19(39-70, ranking as the
O95 Tobacco Co., with $445,-
s second largest taxpayer. Only
Paid
more.
''’ho t taxpayers in the county.
ift^w^Sether paid a third of all the tax,
Fieldcrest and American To-
aird
■Were Duke Power Company;
itig J '"'ith $353,978; Madison Throw-
k){ °hipany, fourth, with total county
Stgj i. $141,001; and Transconti-
'Vitk”' Gas Pipeline Corporation, fifth,
^115,488.
large taxpayers in the county
Othe
were: Washington Mills, sixth with
$61,534; Central Telephone, seventh
with a tax paid to the county of $38,-
837; Southern Bell, eighth, with $38,-
652.12; Southern Railway,, ninth, with
$32,847; and Burlington Industries,
tenth, with $29,908.
Goldston Transfer was the sixteenth
largest taxpayer with a tax of $14,774
and Spray Cotton Mills was eighteenth
with a total tax paid of $12,660.
In all, the county collected $4,531,319
in ad-valorem taxes on property of busi
nesses and individuals.
Fieldcrest was by far the largest pay-
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Addition At Store
Construction of an addition to the
Fieldcrest Store at Eden approximately
doubling the present space is scheduled
for completion by December 1. The steel
work has been substantially completed
and the masonry work is well under
way.
An additional wing is being added to
the left side of the main building equal
in size to the present right wing. An
addition is also being built to the left
side and to the rear of the present
storage area.
W. P. Groseclose, manager of the
Fieldcrest Stores, said thfe enlargement
of the building will provide badly need
ed additional space in both the sales and
storage areas., The hew left wing will
be "used for slh extension of the pres
ent Thrift §Ho'p.
The overall addition consists of 11,500
square feet and is the second additiou
since the store was opened in 1962.