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AMCO NEWS Vol. XXIV No. 1 Adams-Millis Corp>oration Jan.-Feb. , 1966 BANNER LEACH AND PLATO BERRY RETIRE On January 29, Banner Leach com- / pleted 60 years of se rvice with Adams - Millis Corporation. He is believed to hold the High Point record for continu ous service with the same company. Now 80 years old, Banner retired last week--not because Banner Leach he particularly wanted to, but because his eyesight just isn't what it used to be and he can't see the intricate ma chine parts as well as he once did. Hired to run ribbers for Adams- Millis in 1906, he was quickly recog nized for his mechanical ability and was promoted to fixing knitting ma chines within two months. Through the years, he has worked on all types of machines, making many improve ments, some of which are still being used in the plants. He has seen Adams-Millis grow from 125 workers and 40 machines in its High Point plant to 2,150 workers and 3,000 machines in plants in High Point, Kernersville, Mt. Airy and Hickory, N. C. He has not been absent from work in 23 years. Even though he has retired. Banner doesn't plan to stop working on ma chines. "I'll find things to fix around the house, " he says. And, the man who made his first nickel, at the age of 13, fixing a clock will do just that. Mr. Leach was featured as "High Pointer of The Week" in the February 6 issue of The High Point Enterprise and as "Supervisor of The Month" in the March-April issue of Amco News. E. P. Berry, fixer. Plant #1, has retired with forty- two continuous years of employment in the Knitting Depart ment of the High Point plants of Adams-Millis Cor poration, Plato spent his entire life in the hosiery industry. Plato Berry His father was superintendent of a plant in Valdese, N. C. ; and, at the age of six, Plato started working after school, unwrapping yarn in the plant. At times, he was called from school to fill in for someone who was absent from work. He recalls that in 1908, while he was working, his father left the plant to go to see Teddy Roosevelt who was campaigning for president throughout the western part of North Carolina. Berry came to Adams-Millis in 1923 as a knitter on the first set of H machines in what was called the new High Point hosiery plant. He was later transferred to the Kernersville plant and back to High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Berry (the former Eula Lee Powell) live at 312 Boulevard and are members of the First Baptist Church in High Point. Mrs. Berry taught school prior to her marriage.
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