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SUPERVISORY FERSONEL f> ' . .. V. - " ? Burlington Mills Corporation Phenix Plant Kings Mountain. N. c. SUPEBINTENDENT? B. P. Dougherty. Industrial Engineer ? Sam H. Stalling*. Personnel Supervisors ? Ben F. Nuttall, Jr., and Bruce Thorburn. ?f ? f u '! Paul M. Xing, General Overseer Carding. Balph Conner. 2nd Shift Overseer Carding. Doctor H. Piemmons. 3rd Shift Overseer Carding. Q. P. Aldridge, General Overseer Spinning. C. H. Lawson. 2nd Shift Overseer Spinning. Bobert C. Bush. 3rd Shift Overseer Spinning. Pool JL Howard. General Overseer Winding and Twisting. Frank JL Adams. 2nd Shift Overseer Winding and Twisting. Carl X. Wright, 3rd Shift Overseer Winding and Twisting. Master Mechanic ? L W. Ledford. Warehouse and Shipping Overseer? Bobert L. Payne. SocretapT ? Mrs. Margaret Qulnn. More About Milestones (Cont'd from page 1, 2nd Section) 1935?44)00 employcM ?with nation in depression Buz ling ton raised wages 15% and pro duced S60.000.000 yards of fab tics. 1934 ? Burlington recognised as largest weared of rayon fab rics in the United States. 1934 ? 14 plants ? Sales ov er $20,000,000 ? New York company formed to handle tail ing. 1937 ? First public stock of fering of Burlington Mills in February, followed in May by payment of first dividend, and listing on Stock Exchange in July at 18 1/4. 1938 ? Entered Hosiery filed, con tinuing policy of applying man-made yarns to new fields 1940 ? Spun rayon division es tablished. 1941?40 plants in 3 states Sales S63.000.000. 1942 ? Burlington revealed as largest single purchaser of ra-' A GREAT NAME IN FURNITURE takes pleasure in congratulating the Management and Employees ef PHEN1X PLANT On HieU fifth Andvermy Burlington Mills is truly a great name in textiles, and . V ? . ? - ' " v ' , ' . . ?? we commend the Kings Mountain plant in its progress during the past five years. PRESIDENT ? J. C. Cowan. Jr. orginally from Spindal*. it presi dent of Burlington Mill? Corpora tion. | yon yarn in the United States | ?44 plants. 16.000 employees. 1943 ? Burlingtoc. as war pro duced more than fifty differ ent products for Uncle Sam. in cluding fabrics for parachu tes. uniforms, tents, raincoats, airplanes, guns cover end tow targets. Spencer Lore called to Washington to head the Tex tile. Clothing, and Leather Di vision of the War Production Board. 1944 ? Foreign operations be gun in Cuba and Australia. 1945? Entered Ribbon busi ness ? Sales for year 1108,000,- | 000 ? Operations commenced in Canada. 1946 73 plants ?Sales $144, 0004)00 ? . 234)00 employess ? Burlington moved into South America with a plant in Colom bia. 1947 ? Burlington Mills Inter national Corporation formed ? Fashion Bureau established. 1948 Hay McSwen Kaiser Company merged to expand hosiery division. 1949 ? 76 plants In 48 localities In seven states and four forei gn countries with 27,500 em ployees. -| 1950 ' <40,0004)00 moderni sation and expansion program begun for manufacturing plants ? acquired majority in terest in Brighton Mills at Shannon and Forsyth. Go. By Way Of Mention By Lois Beatty Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weaver and Mr. and Mrs. Oren White and daughter, Nadine, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Blanton of Columbia, S. C. Paul Brady of Salisbury spent Sunday with his srtster, Mrs. Ag nes Gladden. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Falls, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Falls, Jr., were recent visitors is Shelby. Clyde Cooke of the ai my spent Sunday in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Smith of Lawndale and Mr. and Mrs. Ho bart H4pps of Beams Mill spent Sunday with Mrs. Troy Wright. Mrs. Hm Turner of Rock Hill spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Dorus Allen. Mrs. Troy Wright spent Sunday at Fort Bragg with Clyde Smith of the army. North Carolina farmers In 84 counties bought 24,418 beef cat tle in 1950 according to a sur vey just completed. The figure includes 783 registered bulls and 2,355 registered remales. Animal industry authorities at State College predict that the number o i dairy cows bred ar tificially In North Carolina dur ing 1950 will reach 354)00. The United Kingdom is the -world's largest importer of food. 0OAl# Ty Former Dilling Superintendent Now Burlington Vice-President (Special Herald) GREENoBORO.? Jay Earl Gar vin, general superintendent of the Dilllng Cotton and Rayon Mills at Kings Mountain from 1933-36, is now a busy manufac turing executive with Burlington Mills here. A veteran of 14 years service with Burlington, Garvin is now a company vice president in charge of the Filament Throwing and Weaving Division. He left the Kings Mountain textile company in 1936 to begin his present career with Burling ton Mills. He was manager of the Altavista (Va.) Rayon Plant from 1937 to 1945. In 1946 he was mo ved to the executive offices in Greensboro. Garvin was elected a v'ce president in 1949. A native of Pendleton, S. C., the textile executive did his first ap prentice work there, in a small cotton mill during the summer months while taking a textile course at Clemscn College. In 1918 he left school to volunteer for military service in World War I, returning to Clemson after the war to graduate in 1920. In September 1920, the young textile graduate became a de signer for the Brogen Mills, now the Appleton Company of Ander son, S. C. FoUr years later he left to Join the Judson Mills, Green ville, S. C., where he worked in various capacities until promot ed to. assistant superintendent in 1929. In 1930 he returned to An derson as general superintendent of two Gosset Mill plants where he introduced the first rayon weaving there. In 1933 he moved to Kings Mountain for his work with the Dilling organizaton. Burley tobacco markets in Ashe County handled 1950 sales of ov er one and a third million dol lars. North Carolina turkey growers expect a crop of 729,000 birds In 1951 as compared to a 1950 top of 483,000. Dairy specialists at State Col lege say thta cows fed liberal a- 1 mounts of good qualify roughage need not be given large amounts of . bulk in the concentrate mix ture. Columbus County's income | from dairying has Increased from $9,000 in 1945 to more than $300,000 in 1950, reports County Agent Charles D. Raper. " - Station indicate that citrus pulp is efficient for adding weight to beef anmals. Steers fed on a diet of 50 per cent citrus pulp gained 2.17 pounds a day. UP THE LADDER? J. E. Gar* in. former superintendent o! Dilling Mills here, BOW BurHngton's Phe nix Plant Is a vice-president of Burlington Mills, In charge of tbi> company's flament throwing and wearing division. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture Soil Testing Lab oratory tested some 85,000 soil samples for farmers in 1950. Johnston County led all others with more than 1,800 samples. FITE'S SHOE SERVICE extends Congratulations to Management and Employees of PHENIX PLANT lVBlls, Inc. on their - 5th ANNIVERSARY in Kings Mountain Management and Eini Icyees of PHENIX PLANT v * Burlington Mill on your FIFTH ANNIVERSARY in Kings Mountain , Wee Folk Shop Full Line Children's Wear ? Priced Right! (Former Woodward & Son Location) Mountain St. Phone 10 ?? .. _J f ? I' m i m ? ?<:. YEARS OF PROGRESS Burlington Mills is proud to mark its fifth anniversary of operations here in the town of Kings Mountain and the county' of Cleveland. During the five years we have been acrosi-the- back-fence neighbors in this area, our Phenix Plant has contributed good wages, good jobs, substantial taxes, and sincere civic cooperation to the general progress of Kings Mountain and Cleveland. In turn we have received excellent support and coopera tion here. We appreciate this fine working relationship and will do our best to merit such continued local support. We are also proud of the fine record our employees have made in the civic, religious, and cultural life of this area.* They are your neighbors and you know them as good cifl* sens, church members, tax payers and friends. Doing the past 27 years Burlington Mills has grown from one small mill at Burlington, If, C., into . the world's largest producer of synthetic fabrics. It new has 77 manu facturing communities of eight states and four foreign countries. It employs over 33.000 people ? good folks such as you know here at Phenix. We are always happy to point oat that teamwork between skilled. loyal employees and able, experienced management has made Burlington Mills o leader in the textile industry. This same teamwork bp* also produced the highest quality products at the lowest possible cost. This successful formula was possible because American free enterprise permitted constant improvements in ma terials and machinery, development of our human resour ces. better methods of production, and an incentive for progress and growth. As evidenced here at Phenix. <t brought better Jobs, higher pay. increased benefits and ex king conditions to employees. J I won Burlington Mills takes pride In the fact that Its products are truly "Woven Into the Life of America." just as its plants are woven Into the lives of the communities in which they ,v * " V v ? . v ? 5-Tv. ..f' mwm wJm. 1 m, wmm W . iff-; X*' - urim 1 on mi the Life cf America ? ? i ? EXECUTIVE OFFICES: GREENSBORO, N. C. ? rife''. MAEEB or WOMEN'S OUTEEWEAE AND UNDEBWEAB FABRICS O MEN'S WEAR FABRICS ? HOSIERY POR MEN AND WOMEN ? COTTON VIECE GOODS AND YARNS ? RIBBONS ? INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION FABRICS ?MS BpfPH ! m ttfiNii k .. ^ ? V ' 1 y -,
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