UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP ( ) Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person Magten Asset Management Corp. 35 E. 21st St. New York, New York 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol JPS Textile Group, Inc. JPST 3. IRS Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary) 4. Statement for Month/Year 6/01 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)to Issuer (Check all applicable) ( ) Director ( ) 10% Owner ( ) Officer (give title below) (X) Other * (specify below) 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person TABLE I -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED 1. Title of Security| 2. Transaction| 3. Transaction| 4. Securities | 5. Amount of | 6. Ownership |7. Nature of | (Instr. 3) | Date | Code | Acquired (A) | Securities | Form: | Indirect | | | (Instr. 8) | or Disposed | Beneficially | Direct (D) | Beneficial| | (Month/ | | of (D) | Owned at End | or Indirect| Ownership | | Day/ | | (Instr. 3,4, | of Month | (I) | (Instr. 4)| | Year) | | and 5) | (Instr. 3 and 4)| (Instr. 4) | | | | | | |(A) or| | | | | | | Code | V | Amount|(D) |Price| | | | _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Common Stock 6/1/01 J** 9,742 D ** 1,000,786 I *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED 1. Title of | 2. Conver- | 3. Trans- | 4. Trans- | 5. Number of | 6. Date Exer- | 7. Title and Amount | Derivative | sion or | action | action | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying | Security | Exercise | Date | Code | Securities | Expiration | Securities | (Instr. 3) | Price of | (Month/ | (Instr. | Acquired | Date | (Instr. 3 and 4) | | Deri- | Date/ | 8) | (A) or | (Month/Day/ | | | vative | Year) | | Disposed of | Year) | | | Security | | | (D) (Instr. | | | | | | | 3, 4 and 5) | | | | | |____________|_________________|___________________|_____________________| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Date | Expira- | | Amount or | | | | | | | | Exer- | tion | | Number of | | | | Code | V | (A) | (D) | cisable | Date | Title | Shares | ___________________|_____________|____________|______|_____|________|________|_________|_________|________|____________| | | | | | | | | | | | l l l l l l l l l l l | 8. Price of | 9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of | | Derivative | derivative | Form of | Indirect | | Security | Securities | Derivative | Beneficial | | (Instr. 5) | Benefi- | Security | Ownership | | | cially | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4) | | | Owned at | or Indirect | | | | End of | (I) (Instr. | | | | Month | 4) | | | | (Instr. 4) | | | Explanation of Responses: * The Reporting Person is an investment adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and has voting power and investment power with respect to securities in its clients' accounts. An employee of the Reporting Person is a member of the board of directors of the issuer. The Reporting Person disclaims any obligation to file this report, and this report shall not be deemed an admission that the Reporting Person is subject to Section 16 with respect either to the issuer or such securities. ** On June 1, 2001, the Reporting Person distributed in kind 9,742 shares of the Issuer's Common Stock to one of its investment advisory clients. *** The amount of securities shown in columns 4 and 5 of Table 1 of this Form 4 is owned beneficially by discretionary accounts managed by the Reporting Person. The Reporting Person disclaims any beneficial ownership of any such securities reported herein for purposes of Section 16 or for any other purpose. Nonetheless, the entire amount of securities held by the accounts is reported herein. Signature of Reporting Person: By: /s/ Talton R. Embry ___________________________ Talton R. Embry Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Date: July 9, 2001 ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is sufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. 01651001.BE3