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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961
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SLUBBERS—A view down the slubber alley in the card
room with two of the 28 new 120 spindle slubbers at Oak
land Mill in the foreground. In the background a few of
the 120 deliveries of new controlled draft drawing and the
conveyor which delivers the laps to these machines may
be seen.
64 Years With Same Mill “Miss Maggie**
Enjoys Her Job Too Much To Retire
LEXINGTON, N. C.—Sixty-four
years ago, as the South was
rising from the shackles of the
Reconstruction Period, a cotton
mill was built here and named
Wennonah after the Indian maid
en in Longfellow's poem, the
"Song of Hiawatha.”
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On the day that the mill opened
in January 1887, Miss Maggie G.
Earnhart went to work there.
Today — sixty-four years later—
she’s still on the job, working as
a cloth room inspector.
She could retire, but "Miss
Maggie” wouldn’t think of it. "I
like my work too much,” she
says, "and I just wouldn’t feel
right not having anything to do.”
In her many years at the mill
she has worked in various depart
ments. She also has a number
of outside interests and is active
in the work of the First Metho
dist church in Lexington.
While Miss Maggie is the only
employee still on the job who
started out with the Wennonah
Cotton Mills Company, there are
many among the approximately
450 other employees who also
have long service records.
In fact, five have been with
the company for more than 60
years, 63 have been employed
for more than 26 years, and 96
have served more than ten years,
Joe V. Moffitt, president of the
mill, reports.
William E. Holt, who is chair
man of the board, has been with
the mill for 60 years, having first
gone to work in June 1891. His
father, William E. Holt, Sr., built
the mill at a time when there
was little manufacturing indus
try or jobs in the South and
barter was the order of the day.
The founder of the mill was a
son of E. M. Holt who soon after
1830 built one of the South’s
pioneer—and moist successful—
cotton mills on Alamance creek
in Alamance county.
It was due to chance that Mr.
Holt solved his initial problem
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Sixty-four years with the same company, Mi-* Maggie G.
Earnhart says she finds her work so interesting she "wouldn’t
Ihink of retiring.”
of how to dye cotton cloth. He
met a traveling Frenchman,
whose name is unkown, who for
$100 agreed to show him how
to dye materials. This first
operation was done in an 80-gallon
copper boiler that had been used
to cook turnips for livestock.
The results were so successful,
that Mr. Holt soon installed
better equipment, including four
box looms. This chance meet
ing with a Frenchman marked
the beginning of the famous Ala
mance plaids, which became
known far and wide.
In parts of North Carolina even
today people call coarse ginghams
by the name of Alamance.
The founder of Wennonah Cot
ton Mills Company was naturally
familiar with Alamahce plaids,
since his father was the first man
ufacturer in the South of box
loom fabrics.
The first fabrics Wennonah
turned out were Alamance plaids
—at a time when most textiles in
the South were unfinished pro
ducts. Wennonah was an ad
vance type of mill in its day.
Miss Maggie, Wennonah’s old
est employee in point of service,
can recall those early days. In
her 64 years at Wennonah she
has see nmany changes as the
mill has kept abreast of tech
nological developments and im
provements contributing to effici
ency, better quality and better
working conditions.
Some of the other “old timers”
at the relatively small mill with
so many long service records in
clude Alfred L. Pickard, “super
intendent emeritus,” who still
works in the machine shop, with
67 years of service; Thad L. Lan-
ning, a card grinder, with 64
years; Walter C. Jenkins, weave
Infant Accidents
Each year hundreds of fatal
accidents to infants in the United
States could be prevented by the
person caring for the child. This is
borne out by a detailed study of
fatal accidents during the first
year of life among insured babies.
The most frequent fatal accidents,
statisticians report, are those re
sulting from the swallowing of for
eign objects—nipples, pacifiers,
safety pins, buttons, marbles, or
other things—left within the baby’s
reach, and from asphyxia caused
by the regurgitation of milk and
other liquid foods. Such accidents
as bums or scalds from makeshift
vaporizers, fires started by older
children playing with matches,
strangulation caused by the child
getting its head caught, poisoning,
and drowning in the bath also take
a considerable toll of Infant life,
the study indicates. These acci
dents are due, in the majority of
cases, to lack of proper care by
the person—usually the mother—in
charge of the baby.
Leek For Oak Will
Keep an eye on your oak tree
Ibis Summer. If the leaves begin
to brown progressively from their
tipa toward their sterna and yet
remain rigid rather than shriveled.
Federal and State authorities would
like to know about it. It might be
oak wilt Such symptoms are char
acteristic of the new disease, says
Dr. Rush P. Marshall, director of
the Bartlett Tree Research Labora
tories. Oak wilt is a killer. From
an entrenched position in the mid
west it Is now known to have
spread eastward to two areas in'
Ohio, one in central Pennsylvania
is as far south as the Ozarks
room smash hand, with 62 years,
and Miss Maude H. Miller, weave
room employee; 50 years.
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We also have a word of warm commenda
tion for the people of the Kendall company. -
Building a fine plant in a fine community
reflects good business judgment, a quality by-
the-way, well known to abound in the Kendall
organization.
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