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The Caromount News
PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS
APRIL. 194H
VOL. 6—NO. 4
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New Insurance Booklets Issued To Employees
Janie Alexander, Naomi Stancil, J. K. Ainerson, and W. A.
Haxley, of the Warping Department, are shown examining the
new group insurance booklets which were recently distributed
to all employees. This booklet brings up to date the many
benefits added to the insurance plan during the past year and
desci-ibes fully the complete plan which otters protection in
ease of death, sickness, or hospitalization as well as medical
and surgical expense benefits.
This plan is entirely free to the employee. Your foreman will
be glad to answer your questions about it.
Plant Workers Donate
rkree Drops Of Bkcd
More than 300 eniplovees par
ticipated in the blood typing pro
gram sponsored by the Rocky
Mount-Nash Chapter of the Am
erican Red Cross. Through this
project the Red Cross is setting
up a Volunteer Blood Registry in
Rocky Mount.
Each individual was given a
Red Cross identification card in
dicating the blood type and the
Rh factor. Local doctors have
pointed out that the principal rea
sons for being typed is to establish
blood type and Rh factor in case
a person should need blood
promptly and to enable that person
to be available immediately if a
relative or a friend should need
blood.
Miss Penelope Jenkins, the Red
Cross technician, set up her equip
ment in the First Aid Room for
drawing ‘‘the three drops of blood”
with the assistance of Mrs. Mary
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Greenmans Are Shown
Br fiingson’s Kypospray
Dr. Robert A. Hingson, the
first physician to use hypospray,
visited Dr. Adam Thorp in Rocky
Mount recently. While here Dr.
Llingson jrrivately demonstrated
the hy[)ospray at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Greenman show
ing this method of giving hypo
dermic injections without using
a needle. This was the second
demonstration performed in North
Carolina.
Upon learning of Mrs. Green-
man’s illness and constant use of
the hypodermic needle in treating
her illness. Dr. Hingson offered
to demonstrate the hypospray to
Mrs. Greenman in order that she
might look forward to less pain-
Jul injections. This demonstra-'
tion was (juite successful in prov
ing this [)oint.
Dr. Thorp commented, “In
spite of Ids fame and world wide
recognition Dr. llingson remains
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Safety Award Announced ^
Hie Sidney Blumenthal and
Vo. Inc., Caromount Division, of
Bocky Mount was among the 80
ttidustrial plants named b y
y Commissioner Forrest H. |
^hufurd of the State Department
Labor as qualifying for the
i-abor Department’s Certificate of
■Safety Achievement.
I he qualifying firms reduced
dieir accident frequency rates by
40 per (;ent or more last year,
‘'otnpared with their 1946 rates, or
'Maintained accident rates 75 per
1‘eni lielow the Slate average for
^^*oir industry.
I he safety awards will be pre-
'"laited to qualifying firms in the
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Camping Equipment
A complete set of camping
Cipdpment for a parly of six to
i-ight members is available to em-
l^My^es of the Caromount and
Wilson Divisions who will be re
sponsible for its condition and
Safe return to the mill.
The equipment includes a trail-
tent, folding cots, stove, table,
Hiairs, kitchen utensils and var
ious tools.
Applications for the use of this
Equipment may be made at the
1 ersonnel Office.
Production Curtailed
The decrease in orders for cloth
used in the cloaking and suit
trades has resulted in a corr
esponding decrease in production
activities in the Caromount and
Wilson Divisions. I’here has al
so been a far smaller demand for
the upholstery fabrics used in
furniture manufacturing.
Indications are that this cur
tailment will be of short duration.
I Our Research Department is
! constantly searching for new pro-
I ducts and the sales force is al-
1 ways looking for new markets.
Caromount Employees Visit Shelton Plant
Minstrel Plans Given
For an evening of real enter
tainment do not fail to attend
the Caromount Minstrel show now
scheduled for Saturday evening,
May 22.
There will be plenty of good
singing, soft shoe dancing, spec
ialty acts and by all means those
funny end-men.
Rehearsals have been going on
for some time now. The end-men
have searched high and low for
funny jokes, and you will be
amazed at the amount of talent
here at Caromount.
Mrs. Audrey liiinier and Miss Aileeii Womble visi(*l in New
York (Ity and South ()ran}>e. New Jersey, diiriii); March as quests
of Mr. and Mrs. Hen Thomas of South ()ranf>e, former residents
of Rocky Mount. Tliis Avas their first trip to New York, and
their eyes are still as hig as saucers from all the heautiful sights
that they saw. They say that they still prefer to live in Rocky
Mount hecause evei’ything moves too fast in New York. While
in New York Audrey and .\ileen visited the New York Ottice
at One Park AA^enue and 14()(> Broadway, and spent one day
at the Shelton Plant in Shelton, ("onn. The above picture
Avas taken in the laboratory there. Mrs. Lanier stands by
while Miss Womble is looking into the microscope.