The Caromount News
PUBLISHED EACH MONTH BY AND FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WILSON AND CAROMOUNT DIVISIONS
VOL. 13, No. 10
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL AND CO., INC.
OCTOBER, 1955
Caromount-Wilson Employees Enjoy Outini^s October 15-22
Sunset Park Is Scene Oi Employee Picnic October Fifteenth
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Valley Falls Plant
Receives Recognition
! The following article appeared
i in the October issue of TEXTILE
WORLD. The article, accom-
I panied by several pictures, is
written about our Valley Falls,
j Rhode Island, plant.
The Sidney Blunienthal & Co.,
i Inc., spinning plant in Valley
Falls, R. L, a specialty-worsted-
yarn mill, works hand in hand
with its sales organization for a
successful New England opera-
■ tion.
The mill processes worsted and
synthetic fibers on the Bradford
; system and has a number of
frames for novelty yarns.
The superintendent of the man
ufacturing department is respon
sible for delivery of material from
his department to the next.
The mill keeps abreast of or
ders through an elaborate ticket
arrangement. Colored stripes on
the ticket smatch the chalk marks
' Used on the goods in process.
Tickets go on every truck of rov
ing and every doff of the spin
ning frames; a blackboard on
each frame carries pertinent in
formation such as lot number,
toving weight, yarn number,
chalk-mark color, draft gears,
(See VALLEY FALLS, Page Five)
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The Caromount and Wilson
Athletic Associations were hosts
to the employees of Wilson and
Caromount Divisions at a picnic
at Sunset Park on October 15.
About 2600 employees and their
families attended and participat
ed in the fun and food. Numer
ous games and contests were held
and employees went home with
some nice cash prizes.
The weather was perfect for
an outing of this sort and games
got underway early in the day.
Three chariot races for girls were
first on the program with Jackie
Riley, Margie Strickland, Jean
Williams, Jackie Whitley, Sonya
Whitley and Shelby Joyner win
ning first prizes of $2.00 each in
the three races.
In the potato race for boys,
Bobby Long and Atlas Parker
won first prizes and Chris Need
ham and Dennis Gardner won
second prizes. This was a con
test in w'hich the pairticipants
tried running as far as possible
holding a potato in a spoon.
The girls also tried their luck
with the potatoes with Jackie
Whitley and Jackie Riley winning
first and Cindie Riley and Loret
ta Proctor second prizes.
Winning the two sack races
were Carlton Harlow, first, and
Bobby Long, second, for boys
and Jackie Riley, first and Don
na Hedgepeth, second for girls.
Contests were held on the bas
ket ball court for free throws;
these were won by Bettie Glover,
Bob Conway, Hilda Whitley,
Pluma Hopkins and Gene Vester.
In the tug-of-war contests, the
winning team for men was pre
sented a $6.00 prize and the win
ning boys’ team was given a
$9.00 prize.
Horse shoe champs for the day
were Hubert Mattox and Lloyd
Flora and runners up were Bobby
Edwards and Roger Matthews.
First place winners in the four
50-yard dash contests held for
girls, women, boys and men were
Gretchen Rackley, Loretta Clark,
Bobby Long and Hal Stalcup.
Second place winners were Nancy
Harlow, Pat Joyner, Paul Wells,
Jr. and Andy Higgins.
In the balloon blowing contest
for girls, Marie Richardson won
first prize and Barbara Proctor
won second. For the boys in the
balloon contest, Bobby Long won
first prize and Paul Wells sec
ond.
Probably the most exciting con
test of the day was won by Bob
by Long and Cooper Hicks, first
prizes, and Paul Bunn and A, E.
Parker, second prizes. This was
(See PICNIC, Page Seven)
Troop 113 Holds First
Eagle Scout Court
(See PHOTOS. Page Eight)
Presentation of the Eagle
badge, highest rank Scouting
awards, to two outstanding mem
bers and the awarding of various
other ranks and merit badges fea
tured a special troop Court of
Honor held last night for Troop
113 at the Caromount field house.
Scouts receiving the Eagle rank
were Phillip Bone, son of Mrs.
Ethel Bone, and Ronnie Hay, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hay. Bone,
17, is a high school senior and
serves as senior patrol leader of
the troop. Hay, 16, is a junior
and serves as junior assistant
Scoutmaster of the troop.
R. W. Tonning, Jr., chairman
of the Rocky Mount District
Court of Honor, made the pres
entation of the Eagle badges. He
was assisted on the court by R.
Quillen Ward, Perry English,
Randolph Sutton, Clayton Hedge
peth and George Bates. A fea
ture of the session was story tell
ing by Scoutmaster Bill Draper
of Troop 11.
Bone and Hay were the first
members of the troop, sponsored
by the Caromount Athletic Asso
ciation, to receive the Eagle rank.
Scoutmaster of Troop 113 is Nev-
(See SCOUTS, Page Eight