AMCO NEWS
Vol. XXIV No. 5 Adams-Millis Corporation Sept.-Oct. , 1966
MEET YOUR SUPERVISOR
Detailing orders
for the Knitting and
Dye Departments
requires a knowl
edge of orders on
hand and stock in
process. The
necessary amount
of goods must be
knit and processed
without having ex
cess stock when
orders have been
completed.
Gene Yow, supervisor of the
Order Department of the finishing
plant in Kernersville, works up the
knit and dye orders for the High Point
and Kernersville plants and part of
the orders for the Mt. Airy plant.
His experience with Adams-Millis Cor
poration during the past twenty-four
years has been in many phases of the
Finishing Departments of four plants.
Yow started with Adams-Ivlillis
on December 15, 1942, yanking socks.
This was a process of shaping the tops
of socks which did not have elastic
tops. About a year later, he was trans
ferred to boarding socks on the hot
forms.
In November of 1952, Gene Yow
was assigned to the Dye Departme^it of
the Gaylord Street plant in High Po int.
He was assistant foreman in the Finish
ing Department where he helped detail
dye and knit orders in addition to get
ting up orders for shipment. When the
Grimes Street plant operations were
moved to the English Street plant in
1958, Gene Yow assisted in the Order
Department and in working up knit
orders.
Not only did he have to know what
orders to issue for the knit process,
but Gene also often had the problem of
locating a lot already in process and
getting the lot finished so that the
larger order could be completed and
shipped. Here Gene was persistent;
he would keep tracing through the
plant until the lot was located and hur
ried to completion. This same tenac
ity of pushing lots through the plant is
one of Gene's strong forts in expediting
orders through the new finishing plant.
The job has become much larger
for Gene, but so has his experience
and diligence to get the job done. His
soft-spoken and quiet-mannered dis
position becomes self evident to all
those who work with him. If he ever
becomes impatient or irritated, no
one knows it but Gene.
Eugene Carr Yow was born in
High Point on October 12, 1926. The
Order Department prepared his birth
day cake for him on his birthday. Only
one candle was on the cake, but most
everyone knew life was just beginning
for Gene for as the saying goes, "Life
begins at 40. " If that is true, it can
be said of Gene Yow that he started
with a solid foundation of experience.
Gene was in the Navy almost two
years during World War II. He attend
ed High Point School. While working
in the Boarding Department of Plant #1,
he married Miss Betty Griffin on Decem
ber 23, 1949. Mrs. Yow was a looper
in the English Street plant. They have
two children, Sharon, who is in the
tenth grade, and Randy, a fifth grader.
The Yows attend the Church of Christ
on Lexington Avenue in High Point.
MORNING: The time when the
rising generation retires and the retir
ing generation rises.
GENE YOW