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Caromount News
PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLO YEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS
VOL. 11, No. 2
.SIDNEY BEUMENTHAL AND CD., INC.
FEBRUARY. 1953
Caromount Wins Award For Safety Mesord
Ceorge Reynolds of Kaleigh, resident manager of the Liberty
•Miitnal Jnsiiranee Company, is shown (second from right) pre-
Award of Merit to E. H. Huessiniith, resident |nianags*r
of Sidney Bliinientlial and Co., CJaromount Division, for having
ompleted more than one million man-hours during the last 24
months without a lost-time accident. On the extreme left is
I.mi ^^ilney Blninenthal, H. H. Schell, while on the
_i4^is George Harper, Safety Director. (Telegram Photo)
Million Man-Hour Safety Award To Caromount
Ihe Employees Safely Com-
niittee and Supervisors of the
Caromount Division of Sidney
Blumenthal & Company, Inc. met
‘It Buck Overton’s on Monday
night, February 9, 1953, to re
ceive recognition for the Accident
Prevention record attained by
of the Caromount
‘-'ivision.
file meeting was presided over
George Harper, Safety Direc
tor. The invocation was pro
nounced by R. Quillen Ward,
ersonnel Director.
Guests for this occasion were
1. H Schell, President of Sid
ney Blumenthal and Company
Lie. and Mrs. Schell; Mrs. E. h]
Suessmuth; and George Reynolds,
Resident Manager of Liberty
StL“Aoberts“|'’
for the. c ^ ’ Service Engineer
t5r the Company, both of Ral
eigh.
Resident Manager E. H. Suess-
muth presented “Certificates of
appreciation” to each depart-
'went stating the number of
months and the man-hours ac
cumulated since the last lost-time
acci ent. Each department had
^ non-disabling accident
special recognition was given to
the employees of the Weaving
Department. largest operating
unit of the Caromount Division,
which has worked 1,034,088 man
hours during the last 24 months
without a lost-time accident.
Highlighting the evenings act
ivities was the presentation of
the Award of Merit bv George
Reynolds, Resident Manager, Lib
erty Mutual Insurance Company.
This award in the form of a
plaque was incribed as follows:
Award Of Merit
Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Inc.
Caromount Division
In the recognition of the
Accident Prevention Record
Of Their Employees In Operating
Without A Lost-time Accident
For 1,000,000 Man-hours
October 22, 1951 to
August 17, 19.52
In accepting this award Air.
Suessmuth paid tribute to the
fine attitude toward Safety which
our employees have. He stated
that by the end of 1952 the Caro
mount Division had already work
ed more than 1,500,000 Man
hours without a lost-time acci
dent and expressed his confi
dence that we would soon reach
the 2,000,000 Man-hour mark.
Turn to Paee Three
American Speak-Up
Series Continues
The Americans Speak-Up Series
will have Major Benjamin H.
Namm as guest speaker on March
1st at 1:45 P. M. over Radio
Stations WCEC in Rocky Mount
and WVOT and WGTM in Wilson.
Major Namm, Chairman, Interna
tional Division of Notional Retail
Dry Goods Association, will speak
on, “How Much Socialism?”.
“We Must Have Two Victories”
will be the subject discussed by
William C. Mullendore, president
of Southern California Edison,
over these Radio Stations March 8.
Dr. William C. Black, a distin
guished medical specialist of San
Diego, California; and a serious
student of the history of freedom,
will talk to us March 15th on the
subject “American Doctor Looks
At European Socialism.”
March 22, Thurman Sensing,
Executive Vice President of the
Southern States Industrial Coun
cil, will talk to us on “The South
Prefers Freedom.”
Henry J. Taylor, noted Econo
mist, Author and Journalist, will
talk March 29, on “Looking A-
head At Home and Abroad.”
Employee’s Son
Favors Eisenhower
When Mrs. Frances Wood
showed her baby’s picture and
a snapshot of Eisenhower to a
local photographer and called his
attention to the likeness, little
did she realize what the outcome
would be. The photographer
printed a picture in the local
paper of the two; and Mrs. Wood
sent a clipping of it and a note
to Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower.
Before too long Mrs. Wood re
ceived the following letter from
Mrs. Eisenhower, “Thank you
for your nice note of July 14th
and for the clipping which you
sent. I enjoyed seeing the pic
ture of your son alongside one
taken of the General. Garland
appears to be a darling baby and
I got a chuckle out of his ex
pression. Our youngest grand
child is six months and her facial
expressions change daily. She
is such a sweet baby.”
’ I shall relay your suggestions
to the proper campaign depart
ment for any use they care to
make of it.”
“It was thoughtful of you to
let us see this and good to know
that people like yourself are be-
Turn to Page Three
Garland Wood Has Picture Of Ike
Wood of ’J***" ll-month.s’.old .son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
D Eisenhemi. ' -Mount, has an autographed picture of Dnlght
Evenine Tele^r.*^ "" new.spaper item in which The
of the preshS photo of the youngster beside that
Picture was pointed to tlie likeness of the two. This
for young Ga^nd'' ^
policb forced , \ father is a member of the Rocky Mount
for the Einal v Mrs. P'rances Wood, Secretary
-■xaininihg Department at the Garomount Division.