Vacation Time At
All Erwin Mills Will
Be The Week Follow
ing July 4
NEW PILLOW CASE MACHINES OPERATING
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Huge rolls of doubled cloth are fed into this continuous sewing machine as
part of the manufacture of pillow cases in our Durham plant. Donnie
Shambley keeps selvage edges together as the cloth rolls into the stitcher.
The folded edge of the cloth is nearest camera so that after this sewing,
cloth is in form of long tube. This new machine also automatically trims
the sewn edge so that finished seam is neat.
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Joseph Wright inspects new pillow case cutter. This machine cuts the tube
of pillow casing made by the continuous sewer into even lengths. The
cases are now ready to be finished by hemming on one end and closing on
the other.
Pneumafil Added To 54
Durham Spinning Frames
Pneumafil (pronounced new-ma
fil) attachments have been put on
fifty-four frames in No. 1 Spinning
Room. When an end breaks during
the spinning process, Pueumafil
sucks the loose end into a tube and
draws it into a Lint Collector box
at the end tff the frame. This elim
inates the scavenger roll on a regu
lar spinning frame.
Spinners say they like Pneumafil
because it makes their job easier.
They don't have so much daily
cleaning to do and the regular Fri
day clean-up of scavenger rolls is
eliminated. At first they found it
harder to spot broken ends but they
are getting used to the new system.
The lighting in No. 1 Spinning will
• soon be improved to help spinners
see the broken ends more quickly.
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When end breaks, it is sucked into Penumafil tube instead of collecting on
scavenger roll. Circle indicates broken end drawn into tube.
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A C*Trie Christie, Spinner, pieces up broken end on frame equipped with
Pneumafil. In foreground is the Pneumafil Lint Collector. Air suction
draws waste into Collector box.
■4 Close-up view, inside Pneumafil Lint Collector box on end of Spinning
Frame. The waste is clean, fluffy and ready to be re-run.
MAY, 1953
Water Shortage To Be Relieved By
End Of Summer At Cooleemee Mills
M. J. Wise Joins Staff This Month
To Assist Dr. deVyver in
Personnel and Industrial
Relations At All Plants
Marion .J. Wise, Jr., has accepted
a position with our Company as
Assistant to Dr. Frank T. deVyver,
Vice-President of Personnel and
Industrial Relations. Mr. Wise
is in charge of personnel serv
ices offered to employees by Erwin
Mills. This includes employment
procedures, training courses, our
safety program, recreation activi
ties and publications such as THE
ERWIN CHATTER. His duties also in
clude assistance to I)r. deVyver in
handling grievances, contract nego
tiations and other dealings with the
unions. He began his work with
Erwin Mills on May 8.
Mr. Wise has a long background
of experience in industrial relations
in both administrative and execu
tive capacities. He came to Erwin
Mills from New York City where
he was consultant in industrial re
lations.
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Mr.
Wise says that he is delighted to be
back in the South again and is very
happy to have joined such a pro
gressive company in a part of the
country which is going ahead more
rapidly than any other.
Marion J. Wise, Jr.
805 New Looms in
No. 5 Weave Room
All of the 805 new X-2 looms
scheduled for No. 5 Weave Room,
Erwin, are now in production. The
job of installing the X-2's and tak
ing out old looms began last Novem
ber.
The new lighting system for No.
5 Weave Room will be completed
be the end of July.
Cooleemee Empl
To Buy Company
As the CHATTER goes to press,
employees in Cooleemee are making
arrangements to purchase Com
pany-owned houses. The sale is
being conducted by Alester G. Fur
man Company. This is the same
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Tom Shoaf of No. 3 Spinning Room looks over the map of Erwin Mills
houses with Mr. Dillard of the Al'ster G. Furman Company. This scene
is being repeated many times eacj day as employees come into the office tc
discuss buying their houses.
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Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Carter are getting all details on buying their houae
in Cooleemee from a representative of the Furman Company.
Vacation Time At
All Erwin Mills Will
Be The Week Follow
ing July 4
Circulation 6,000
Residents Asked To Help
Conserve Water Until
New Filters Are Completed
For some time the water supply
at Cooleemee has not been adequate
for the demands. The Cooleemee
water supply system was created
for the use of the mill. In addition,
it is used for homes and for the
swimming pool during the summer
months.
Contract Awarded
Erwin Mills has now awarded a
contract for building an addition to
the filter plant, ami it is expected
that this will give a 50% capacity
increase in water when it is com
pleted. J. L. James, Manager of
the Cooleemee plants of Erwin
Mills, announces that work will
start this month and it is hoped
it will be completed by late summer.
Cooperation Asked
Until the new filters are com
pleted, it will be necessary that the
residents in Cooleemee use the very
minimum amount of water; and the
swimming pool will only be able
to open on weekends in order to
conserve water.
A survey of water usage in sev
eral surrounding communities re
vealed that the average resident of
Cooleemee uses more water than
average residents in other areas.
Mr. James is asking each resident's
cooperation to save water in every
way possible and to report any
breakage of water lines or waste
of water.
organization which handled the sell
ing of Company-owned houses in
Erwin, X. C. in 1951. Their office
reports that the sale of houses is
going along well.