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February, 1982
Vol. 38, No. 1
TV Film Made At Hickory Plant
Television cameras became a
fapiiliar sight in Plant 6 in
Hickory recently when an
educational television crew
filmed there for three days.
Being filmed was a segment for a
series entitled “Workin’ ” with
some 600,000 public school
students in North Carolina being
the potential audience for the
shows.
Sue James, a boarder at the
Hickory plant for ten years,
was selected to appear in the film
and the camera crew covered her
working day, as well as her
family and a shopping trip to
downtown Hickory.
Janet Doss, of the Hickory City
School Television Center, was
producer-director of the film and
complimented Sue on the way she
quickly adapted to working and
talking while being filmed. Also
appearing briefly in the film are
J. H. Millis, Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Of
ficer of Adams-Millis; Bob Hoots,
Personnel Manager for the
Hickory plant; and members of
Sue’s family.
The purpose of the “Workin’ ’’
series primarily is to assist
teachers in preparing students on
ways to get and keep a job in
today’s market. The programs
positively stress the need for
students to set goals and to learn
certain skills in order to succeed
in a job.
The film shows Sue coming into
her department to work and she
is heard saying; “I love
people...love to do things...it’s
important that you like your
self. . .you have to have confidence
that others will like you I have
a lot more friends now than
before I started working.”
She talks about some of the
things Adams-Millis does for its
employees, such as the Christ
mas gifts, the four paid holidays
each year, and insurance and
health benefits provided.
Then she talks about her job,
how first she waxes the boards,
then gets her lots readied. “I’ve
been a boarder for 14 years....I’m
proud of how fast I am and the
pay is good.” She then shows
exactly how she performs her
job.
“Everyone here is friends,”
she says. “We go out to eat once
^a month, and I never get bored.”
She said a boarder sets her own
pace. “I do 40 dozen socks an
hour....15 to 20 dozen is con
sidered a lot.” Sue tells that she
is paid by piecework and that she
wouldn’t like to be on a straight
salary.
Sue also says in the film that
when she started on her job, she
was told that if she had a problem
to go to someone in authority-to
her Personnel Manager. “If you
do this,” she said, “your job is not
in jeopardy-most problems can
be solved.”
One segment of the film shows
Sue shopping in downtown
Hickory. She says: “Work has
been good for me because I can
have things I want. I can share
the expenses of the family and we
can have what we need and want.
Wellness, Careful Use
Keys to Successful Plan
By Jean Harrison
Employee Benefits Manager
For more than forty years,
Adams-Millis has offered a
health care program to its
employees. Through the years
since the program’s inception,
many improvements have been
made, with the company and its
employees sharing the cost of this
vital part of our lives.
The importance the modern-
day worker attaches to such
plans can be seen in the fact that
many persons consider these
benefits equally as important as
the weekly wages that are paid.
In recent years, however, main
taining health care plans has
become increasingly difficult due
to unprecedented rising costs of
medical and hospital care. Last
year alone, the cost of health care
provided by the Adams-Millis
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Sue James, second from right above, appears in a TV film which will be shown in schools throughout
North Carolina. Sue is a boarder at Plant 6 in Hickory and was filmed at work and also with her fami
ly and with friends on a shopping trip. The title of the film series is “Workin”’ and gives students a
look at jobs in a number of industries in the state. J.H. Millis, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Adams-Millis Corporation, is shown at right, members of the television crew are at left.
1 like to have extra money and
you can save foe what you want. ”
She does note that she quit high
school in the 11th grade and that
she does regret dropping out. But
the film shows that she now is
happy with her work and her life.
Sue and her husband were
filmed watching television in
their home with Sue making a
dishrag doll, which is one of her
hobbies. She also talks about the
race car hobby she and her
husband share.
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Adams-Millis Given Sears
Award For 16th Year
The some 600 employees of attended a ceremony last year
Adams-Millis Hosiery Com- where they learned that their
pany’s Plant 3 in Kernersville plant was receiving a Sears’
Corporation Employee Welfare
Benefit Plan amounted to more
than one and a half million
dollars, an increase of nearly
twenty percent more than the
cost of the previous year. And the
prediction for 1982 is another fif
teen to twenty percent increase.
All responsible employees
understand that a company
which makes the effort Adams-
Millis makes to offer its people
these benefits can expect each
employee to do his or her utmost
to ensure that the plans are not
abused but are utilized in the
most careful manner possible.
Practicing good health habits,
physical fitness and accident
prevention adds up to a program
Adams-Millis Hosiery Company, which for the past 16 years has
received the Sears Symbol of Excellence Aware for boys’ hosiery
shipments, also this year, for the first time, received the Symbol of
Excellence Award for men’s hosiery shipments. The award for the
boys’ hosiery shipments was made at Plant 3 in Kernersville by Fred
Suter, Senior Buyer for Sears Boys’ Wear Department 640. The award
for men’s hosiery was made at the Administrative Office in High
Point. Shown at this ceremony in the photograph above are, left to
right: Joe Hardy, Senior Buyer for Sears’ Department 633; Herb
Goldman, also a buyer for this department; Robert M. Bundy, Jr.,
President of the Hosiery Company; and J.H. Millis, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Adams-Millis Corporation.
Symbol of Excellence Award for
the 16th consecutive year.
The ceremony was held on the
grounds of the newly-rebuilt
plant. Employees wore T-shirts
provided by the company in
recognition of their cooperation
during and after the fire at the
plant in March of 1981.
Fred Suter, a national un
derwear and hosiery buyer for
Sears, presented the Award and
noted that of the thousands of
manufacturers that Sears has
used in the past 16 years, only
eight have received the Symbol of
Excellence Award each year
since the Award’s inception.
Mr. Suter explained that,
early in each year, manufac
turers are nominated for the
Award. A special committee
then surveys retail stores,
catal(% plants and the Sears’
laboratory for their recom
mendations, before a final
selection is made.
R. M. Bundy, Jr., President of
the Hosiery Company, accepted
the Award on behalf of the
employees.
Mso present for the ceremony
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