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CARdMOUNT DIVISIONS
Miss Peggy Jane Blandford
(above), 12 year old daughter of
Mrs. Mavis Carter Spivey ( Weave-
shed), was one of a group of
young people who were recently
p r e s en t e d a “Certificate of
Award” as State Winners in a
State Memory Work Tournament
at Seaside, N. C., for perfectly-
reciting 52 Bible verses.
Miss Blandford entered the con
test through the Baptist Training
Onion of the Arlington Street
Baptist Church. She made a per
fect score at Rocky Mount. Roan
oke Rapids and Wilson before go
ing to the State Contest at Sea
side, for examination,
Peggy is a student of the sev
enth grade of Bassett School. Next
year she plans to learn 52 new
Bible verses and to go to Fruitland
in western North Carolina to trv
for a State Winner Certificate
again.
Trophy Displayed
The Shelton Looms Trophy
which is to be presented to the
winners of the Rocky Mount-Wil-
son football game November 4 in
Wilson is now on display in the
J. C. Pennev Store window on
Main Street in Rocky Mount. It
will be displayed in Bissette’s
Drug Store in Wilson October 28-
November 4,
The trophy, more than four
feet high, was given in 1948 by-
Sidney Blumenthal and Co., Inc.,
and is to be presented to the win
ner of the Wilson-Rocky Mount
game each year. The first team
to win the annual football game
ten times will become the perman
ent posse.ssor of the trophy, Wil
son has had possession of the tro-
j*hy since they beat Rocky Mount,
'November 5, 1948 by a 13-7 .score.
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Reorganization is perhipi;- the most vital ^n.d important, is^pe-
confronting the American peojj^le :aii,d^ the,^Co^gress^pJ ,tbe^Un|)Led
States today. It is a conmlex problem, with many ^J^mificclti^yy^,
and is not easily understood. However, it is imp(^raBve that
thinking citizen know exactlv what it means and what itjvib arr
complisn. ' r
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For this ])urpose your (bvmpany is openibg-the pagtvs. ofiFT'omj .yF
pany Publications” to a series of articlesjby Robert L. Johjison.
President of Temple Ibiiversity and Chairman, of the^ipCsitizens ’
Committee for the Hoover Report.” a voluntary, nbnprpfihonon- ,
parti.san organizationof.Heading citizens which has undertaken
the task of informing the public of ].usjtjwhpt reorganization meau.s:
and what' the Hoover Commissioiy, recpimnendations.,,if, tnia(‘tjf|d
into law. will mean to each individual and to the nation.
1 kriow you will be interested Im Ibarning why ' the Federal ,(
Government absorbs one dollar out of every five that vou earn,
why the average citizen must w rk 47cdays each year just.-to pav
Federal.taxes. and how your jnc.^^ent income taxes could be lowtned
by at least 10 per cent. 'i ^ ;i ..
I commend Dr. Johnson’s articles to'you an d'MolJe d^Vtuy em
ployee wilLfollow'the .series and thus becOme familiht^’Bvjfli the
(amntry s nfmiber hue problem, reduction of-'taxes atuL im|)roved
efficiemw in the operation of the government;
H. H. .SCHFLL. I‘’residenl
Soo First of Serips on Pape Two
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Squirrel Season Opens With A 'Bang!
r. .S||IIITCl Hunt r
Hubert Sutton. 0. Ij. ,..S|obimn-'
Nolie Robinson and Sidney Col
liermade up a party for a s(|u’irref
hunt recently. One of the party
was made the victuir. of an iioiy,
est John game. The results of*
the hunt were as follows: Hubert
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Of all the squirrel hunters at
Caromount so far, George Pridgen
seems to be the champion. The
other day he killed two with one
.shot. This is a rarity and happens
to the average hunter once iii a
life time or never. His total lyag
for the day was four . v
(Contirmed on ]*aKe Three)
OCJ’Ol^FRz 1949
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l^irkers
;st^;’monlbs (if
ful ac-
(iidents nccOfl-e^^ii^vorkers at
CardmounC^ l-iaAi me resulted
i p ■ f|iu% fd six \veeks IbiSsyI inn*.
iTf^^irst of these ba]ipene{LVn
Jtumpfv 1949. just as ihe Nmc
YeatyfA^as getting started. On thgt
Pa^Cerman Rose started around
it: l(>|ftt,;^r;ipFedf6ver a clqth cbairu
fell^^^is^iefLarm struck the flom
-SithmrdsJ^iBp^s a bone fracture.
Henhan'i is ii good experieticed
vy rer. He hgs .nine^years e^xtijii i-
enci ,,:th our ...(ioiypaiyy, .and
knoWjS how to do
one ■a.yykward movtjj. (^ai^sejJ {vim
to lose.5^K weeks^tinWj a ' ,,
, 1 n^addition .Rijtfm;Ipss, iTline.
and loi7.s of payy.,b^Juql, | o yycar.
a heavy cast bp--, jiiyaii) weeks,
which added ^l(>q hiSy^discom,fyrl
and misery. Henjian jV^»luid('ci;y'(|
this stalemeiit:-,.‘fJ( want t()yipl\jtlvj('^
world, it pays,] to pvorksafely.
don’t ever make one.hdso move. I
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want to do anythi,^g: in my jiower
to keep anyone else,.'from going
ihrougli wlial I’ve been through.”,
On March 16, Leslie H. .foiie.s
received a ipainful fracture of ijir
arm when lii.s loom was accident
ally started up,catching bis wrist
between the lay .and knife rail..
Leslie innv jpa|ize.s*the imporlani'c
of beingsure, that .the switch is
fully cut off. He. takes an extra
check now jpsG lo lie sure. He
knows that gdiiom can bi' a power
ful and, (langjeriins thing, that it
can pnL A m^UjOut oLwork as well
as provdd.iig;,(a meatus for work.
Hedpts greuil JiyspeiR for his ma-
cliine, i,pjd he handles it carefulh.
liCslie ,wpul(l nlso. like to put
(Continnetl on ThretO
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Safety l^eoreboiird
Thirty-!Iiree incinlicrs of tin* Wilson Business ami Professional
Women’s dill) (shown above) were entertained at the (’arpnnynnt
Plant (>-tol)‘r H, 104!) with a siijiper and a tour of inspeet'ion
thron$>h the plant. Th(*y wa‘e most “nthusiasti'e about the vari
ous operations in the mill and w‘ie fascinated not only by t'he
looms but by tbe many iiniiiue effects created in the finished
labries The ladies wholeh(‘artedly expre.ssed their appreciation
for tlie intei‘sting evening they siient in the (Tiromonnt Plant.
The officers .seated in the center of the front row are nmding
left to right beginning with th‘ third jicrson seated an- dandia
Lucas Vice President; Ola .lohnson, Treasurer; Mrs. K. H. Siuvss-
imidi,’ PO'sibent; and Velma Bryant, t’ornssponding S*cre|ary.
" The first. ' Coi n 111 IT sh(
)W's the
iiiimbcrv'ji^f*' accidents n
‘qniriiig
medical att^mliou’gnd the
si'cond.
the mimbitr Of dost* time a
eeidents
during' 1949. i' ' ^
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Finishing .
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Final' F.Xamining .:t. . ;. j
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