rmjon,
Welcome to the Quilting Board forum.
The White Rotarys turn opposite Singers and most other machines. In other words the hand wheel turns away from you rather than towards you. If you turn it backwards you'll get all sorts of thread jams.
As far as the needle they generally use the standard 15x1 which goes in flat to the right, and threads left to right.
If you can post a picture we can get a better idea of which machine, or many of us can. I myself can't tell by the serial number what you have.
Joe