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The Caromount News
PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS
VOL 11, NO. 4
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL AND CO., INC.
APRIL, 1953
Pontiac Features Blumenthal Upholstery
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Lacy Baker of the Caromount Dyehouse is shown with his
Mew 1953 Pontiac.
This car features a new Nylon Upholstery designed by Sidney
Blumenthal & Co., Inc. exclusively for Pontiac. This vipholstery
material known as 4 AY is manufactured at the Caromount Di
vision.
Harper Named To Board
George Harper, Personnel As
sistant of Sidney Blumenthal &
Gottipany, Inc., Caromount Divis
ion, April 10th was elected a mem-
i6r of the Advisory Board for the
Conservation of Manpower in
-'''forth Carolina Industry.
Harper was elected unanimous-
*y by vote of the other 22 Ad-
yisory Board members after hav-
'ng been recommended for board
nienibership by State Labor Com-
^nissioner Forrest H. Shufford.
The Manpower Conservation
Advisory Board is composed of
pntstanding men in the field of
Industrial safety who are employ
ed by representative North Caro-
jina industries. The board acts
ni an advisory capacity to the
^tate Department of Labor in
helping to plan and promote ac-
m ent prevention programs in the
in ustries of the state. Organized
in 946, it has promoted a pro
gram consisting of Labor Depart-
men awards for outstanding plant
safe y achievements, speofal in-
spechon drives in industries hav-
'ng high accident frequency rates,
and educational work in the state’s
^^£^®ering colleges and public
th’^^ ^^tstanding achievement of
^^^is group was the introduction
Saf^t^ nndergraduate course in
textile engineering and
Vacation Schedule
The Caromount and Wilson
Divisions will be closed for one
week’s vacation starting Monday,
June 29th and will re-open Mon
day, July 6th, 1953.
This will be a vacation with pay
for all employees who have work
ed for the company at least one
year immediately prior to two
weeks before the time set for va
cation. This is the company’s
established vacation policy.
In addition to the regular pay-
check, employees will receive on
June 26th, they will also receive
the vacation pay-check.
Coll
ege.
students at N. C. State
Grosvener Appointed
Andre Blumenthal, president of
Sidney Blumenthal & Co., Inc., on
April 14, 1953 announced the ap
pointment of William Grosvenor as
Technical Director of the Com
pany.
Mr. Grosvenor is a graduate of
Columbia University with a de
gree in Chemical Engineering.
He was associated for many years
with the W. M. Grosvenor Lab
oratories of New York, specialists
in Patent Litigation and Industrial
Consulting; and recently with C.
Tennant Sons & Co.
Cancer Strikes One In Five
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Give Today To The
American Cancer Drive
New Officers Elected
At the Annual Stockholders
Meeting of Sidney Blumenithal
& Co., Inc, held March 26, 1953
in the Company’s main office at
One Park Avenue, New York,
the stockholders adopted a Res
olution amending the Charter to
provide for not less than nine
nor more than twelve Directors,
the exact number to be determined
by the By-Laws.
All the present Directors were
reelected.
At the Annual Meeting of the
Board of Directors held March
26th the By-Laws were changed
to inerease the number of Di
rectors from nine to eleven.
Ralph E. Case and Manly Fleisch-
mann were elected to the Board.
John R. Simpson, Chairman of
the Board for many years, retired
from that office. However, he is
retaining his membership on the
Board.
Herbert H. Schell, Presirent and
General Manager of the Company
for many wears, was elected Chair
man of the Board and Chief Ex
ecutive Officer.
Andre Blumenthal, who had
been Vice President and Assistant
General Manager of the Company,
w^as elected President.
John Fenske, who has been As-
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Visitor From Cyprus
Vartkes Kassouni, a native of
the island of Cyprus, and Allen
Finley of Charlottesville, Virginia,
recently visited Randolph Sutton.
Kassouni, a ministerial student
at Bob Jones University, Green
ville, South Carolina, is complet
ing his fourth year and plans to
enter a seminary following grad
uation. He became a Christian
at the age of five years under
the leadership of the great evangel
ist, Bob Finley. Since that time
he has aspired to being a Chris
tian minister among his people,
the Armenians, on the island of
Cyprus, located at the eastern end
of the Mediterranean Sea. His de-
seendants were forced out under
Mohammedanism and finally en
circled and engulfed by Commu
nism.
A story of courage and charac
ter was woven into his conversa
tion as he told of the struggle of
the survival of Christianity on this
little Mediterranean island where
only about 1% of its people are
Christians and where many na
tionalities live. American mis
sionaries came to Cyprus about
fifty years ago and began Ameri
can schools there. Due to training
in these schools Mr. Kassouni
speaks English very well. He stat-
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Third Shift Fixers Gather For Photo
The men who keep the wheels turning in the third shift Weav
ing Department are shown in the Foremen’s Office as they
prepared to start out on a nights wmrk. Pictured left to right
are: George Pridgen, Paul Parker, Oscar Davis, B. W. Jones,
Frank »lelton and Garland Rose. All are loom-fixers except
Panl Parker, who is a repair fixer.
They are charged with the responsibility of keeping the looms
in good working condition so that the Weavers may turn out
quality production most efficiently.