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MRS. GRACE WHITLEY has been an em
ployee at the Rush Planl for the past four
years. At present she is working in the spin
ning department on the first shift. An ex
perienced winder lender she also helps in
that department when needed.
Grace^s husbands Mr. Donald Whitley,
works at J. P. Stevens & Company in Stanley
where they make their home. They have two
children, Teresa, eleven, and Steve, eight.
They are members of the Free Will Baptist
Church. Mrs. Whitley enjoys sewing as a
hobby.
Working for A & E is praclically a family
affair according to MRS. MILDRED CULPEP
PER, employed as yarn inspeclor in the ship
ping department at the Rush Plant, for the
past 14 years. Prior to that, she worked over
two years at Holly Knit. Mildred's husband.
Robert, is a section man at Textured yarn
where their daughter, Roberta is also em
ployed. , ^ _
They have two other children, Robert, Jr.
and Mrs. Delene Hargett.
Mildred said happiness for her was the
time she spends with grandson. Bobby Har
gett, pride and joy of the Culpepper family.
Herbert M. (Huck) Weymouth, Vice President and General
Manager of Wilson Sales died on January 23, 1968. He had spent
his entire life in the Textile Industry, and loved his work.^
After Huck graduated from Lowell Technical Institute^ in Mas
sachusetts, he started working with the Nashua Manufacturing Com
pany in New Hampshire, where his father was a Cotton Buyer. His
father was very much interested that Huck learn all about the cot
ton business, "from the ground up.” He proceeded to learn all
about the machinery and about how cotton is processed in a textile
mill. While working through the mill, he finally became a super
visor of one of the world’s largest card rooms.^
After learning this job, he was given a job in the cotton depart
ment where his father taught him all about the cotton purchasing
business. Huck studied the classing, grading, and buying of cotton,
and never ceased to study during the rest of his life.
When Nashua Manufacturing Company was bought by Textron,
Inc., he was transferred to Textron’s Anderson, South Carolina
Plant, where he purchased cotton and wool. He also worked for their
Ameratron Plant in Aberdeen, North Carolina, before coming to
work for American dC Efird in July, 1956.
He has traveled all over the United States, speculating, always
trying to get the best price and the best, quality cotton for A 8C E.
He was very well known in the Cotton and Textile Industry, and
was liked by everyone who knew him. _
He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and sang tenor in the
church choirs. He also served the communities in which he has lived,
as a member of many civic organizations, and served his industry
in the Tri-state Cotton Association, of which he was a past Chair-
man.
We shall all miss "Huck” Weymouth. As Vice President of Wil
son Sales, (A subsidiary of A 8C E), he bought all of the cotton for
A & E Mills and A Si E Thread Mills, Inc. He contributed greatly
to the profit of the Company by knowing where and when to buy
cotton.
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