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Paul Shore, right, IS pictured as he pre pares to take a ride on his new bicycle, a re tirement gift from his co-workers. After Completing fifty-two years of continuous Service with Adams- i^illis Ho siery Com pany's Kernersville plants, Paul retired ■^pril 1. With his out standing record of con tinuous employment, he became the fourthmem- ber of Adams-Millis Corporation's exclusive "Fifty-Year Service Club"; only three other employees. Banner Paul Shore Feach (with 60 years), J. W, Rose (with 51 years) and Eddie E. Stoner (with 50 years) have ^et the service eligibility requirement for membership. Paul Shore came to Adains-Millis in 1922 ^nd was employed in the knitting department for thirty-five years, first as a knitter and later as S-sizer. The last seventeen years of his employ ment were spent in quality control work; this job included experimentation with new yarns and new styles, setting up knitting machines, securing yarns, expediting samples and submitting cost data. Born and reared in Winston-Salem, Paul moved to Kernersville in 1922. His wife, Lula Shore, retired last year after forty year s of serv ice in the Hosiery Division's Kernersville plants. The Shores are of the Moravian faith. They make *^heir home at 703 Salisbury Street. ^ About his years of service, Paul commented, Fve enjoyed every hour of it"; and there were Hiore than one hundred thousand of those hours, ^is hobby is golf and he hopes to spend much of bis spare time on the links. Bill Sink's only problem since his April retirement is staying retired. Already, he has been offered three positions, but he ex pects to be too busy "down on the farm" with his Black Angus cattle and his gardening to have time for work away from home any time soon. Bill Sink During the early days of the depression in 1929) Willis L. Sink left his winding job at Shoaf-Sink Hosiery Company in Lexington, hop ing to get into the better-paying work of Adams- Millis Corporation's Full-Fashioned Division in High Point. He was able to secure employment in the Half-Hose Division until there was an opening in full-fashioned knitting a short time later. He first learned full-fashioned knitting, was soon promoted to fixing and then to super vising. When full-fashioned hosiery production ceased in the fifties, he moved to the boarding room, first as a machine fixer and later as boarding supervisor. In 1964, he transferred to the machine shop and remained there until his retirement. Bill was born in Davidson County, attended Davidson County schools and graduated from Lexington High School. Shortly after he was em ployed at Adams-Millis, he met and married Lib Turner, who was a topper in the footing de partment of the company. Lib is still employed in the Ladies' Hosiery Division of the High Point plant. After making their home in High Point for several years, Bill and Lib moved back to the Sink home place on Route 7 out of Lexington. They are active members of Lexington's First Lutheran Church. There is one son, Jim, who is employed in the electronic field in Huntsville, Alabama; and one daughter, Mrs. Susan Bizzell, who lives in Asheboro where her husband, Henry, is principalof Asheboro High School. The grand children number seven. “First, everything goes back where you got it. You’r not sticking me w'ith that job." “I’ve found out why this computer has trouble reaching a decision, Mr. Adams. Manufac tured 6/2/72 . . . it’s a Gemini!” - 11 -
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