ON^ THE SPOT AROUND the PLANTS HAZEL JENKINS is one of our reliable women on the first shift. She is shown operating one of our new Dietze & Schell winders in preparation for the ovem which her husband, Clyde operates. Hazel has been with the company four years, and lives at Springwood, taking care of her three children, and attending The Catawba Freewill Baptist Church. LESTER SOLES is a slubber tender on the first shift at the Adrian Plant. He is married and has one son. His hobby is working on cars and fishing. He is a 25 year employee. DENNIS BALDWIN, Assistant Shipping Clerk, is really proud of the new conveyor and automatic strapping system recently in stalled at Spun Fibers. DENNIS says this new system is a tremendous help and time saving. STEVE NORTON is a sales trainee who spent two weeks working at Maiden Plant. STEVE is married and lives in Charlotte. He has two children, KIM, four years old, and SCOTT, one year old. He is a graduate of the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he served two years in the United States Marines. GRADY MURRAY, head laboratory tech- nican at the Albemarle Plants, keeps a sharp eye on his Uster equipment to be certain that the roving checked is all up to standard. Grady has been employed with American & Efird twenty-seven years. SPRING, 1968 13