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SEW IT SEAMS
JULY ISSUE
NINA MARTIN AND RUBY LOFLIN
Nina Martin And Daughter Both
Work In Dungaree Department
SEW IT SEAMS
Published Monthly by
ANVIL BRAND
INCORPORATED
High Point, N. C.
BESS THOMPSON, Editor
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE —
(Continued from Page One)
Long, J’nettes and State Fair gar
ments. Every month in the year
6,500,000 readers of agricultural
journals on farms and in rural
areas are urged to learn the sat
isfaction to be gained from Anvil-
made clothing. Over a twelve
month period 910,000,000 publica
tion readers are told in a variety
of ways that they can put full trust
in Anvilwear for style, fit, skilled
workmanship and durability.
Dealers also help us advertise
with materials we furnish. And
they demonstrate their confidence
in our products by displaying in
their stores tens of thousands of
advertising signs, posters, plaques,
mirrors, cards, window and door
displays, and electrical interior
signs that flash on and off through
out store hours. With special news
paper ads which we supply, mer
chants have used local newspaper
advertising at their own expense
to a total of 41,800 inches — equal
to 261 full pages exclusively ap
plied to making more sales of our
garments.
All these items are also con
stantly being distributed by the
company Advertising Car as it
travels through the vast area over
which retailers make Anvil gar
ments available to consumers.
So our advertising program in
volves many forms and purposes.
In part it is directed to dealers.
To keep them informed, to help
them become better merchants, to
convince them that they serve their
own interests best when they stock
and feature garments made with
the care and skill represented by
the Anvil Brand production organ
ization. The other part of our pro
gram is devoted to persuading
consumers to gain the benefits of
Anvil Brand quality by buying
from Anvil dealers.
Our task in the factories is to
create garments as uniformly high
in quality as our advertising says
they are. For most consumers are
like you and me when we are in
fluenced to buy an advertised
article.
If it makes good, or even sur-
New Telephone
Switchboard Is
Expected Soon
That new telephone switchboard
which has been on order for years
and which is expected to relieve
the serious telephone facilities
shortage that Anvil Brand has been
experiencing, may be installed
soon. That was the cautious pre
diction of George K. Hammes, who
as secretary of the company and
comptroller, has charge of all office
business.
When the new switchboard was
ordered, it was expected in a mat
ter of months, but the armed serv
ices requii-ed all the output of the
factory and the company had no
choice except to wait for its civil
ian needs to be met. We have been
notified that the switchboard and
other equipment was ready to leave
the factory, and a room has been
built, taking in part of the print
ing office in the Hudson Division’s
Main Building, .to house the new
equipment. The switchboard itself
will be placed where the present
switchboard stands.
Telephone engineers also have
been busy getting ready for the
new installation. Owing to the long
wait, everyone ihas their fingers
crossed waiting for delivery. And
no one will risk a guess as to just
when it will be.
However, when it is installed,
inter-office calls may be made by
using the dial system, and it will
not be necessary to go through the
switchboard except for outgoing
calls.
16 Blood Donors
Like the city as a whole. Anvil
Brand has been meeting its quota
during the Red Cross bloodmobile
visits here, and on the last trip 16
employees donated a pint of blood
each.
Donors were:
From the pants department, Be
atrice Brown, Hazel Ward, Ger
trude Stultz, Doris Pridgen, and
Kathryn Johnson.
Maintenance department, Her
bert Ross, Jones Dagenhart, Rob
ert Harris, and W. 0. Benfield.
Office, E. H. McCall, Reitzel
Morgan, Grayson Ward, Alden
Bean, Bill Thomas, and Roger Tate.
Mechanics, Jasper Michaels.
passes the advertising claims —
we keep buying!
Cordially yours,
Nma Martin is one of those peo
ple who can turn out two days
work in one, and still be as crisp
as a lettuce leaf. Since she started
work at Anvil Brand 28 years ago,
she has reared a family of seven
daughters, and last week her fourth
or middle daughter, Ruby Loflin,
also joined the Anvil Brand family.
Four of Nina’s daughters are
married, while the three younger
ones make their home with her
and her husband, E. S. Martin, a
carpenter-contractor, in Oak View.
Nina begins her day by milking her
two cows, caring for the milk, and
bottling that which she sells. After
breakfast she sees to the comfort
of her invalid mother-in-law, be
fore reporting to work in the dun
garee department. She is a feller
and is called an excellent operator
by her supervisors. At present she
is on loan to the third floor of
Main Building.
In addition, Nina has a big vege
table garden from which she
canned 14 quarts of beans last
Saturday and will have more to can
at the end of this week. Sew ?
Yes, she likes to sew for her fam
ily. When her girls were born, and
she stopped work temporarily, she
accommodated her friends and
neighbors by sewing for them.
None of which Nina thinks is
unusual. “The girls are good to
help me, and to help care for their
grandmother,” she explained. There
is Sarah Ann who will graduate
from High Point High School next
year, Elber Dean who finished the
eighth grade at Oak View this
year and will enter high school
this fall, and Darlene who will be
in the sixth grade at Oak View
this year.
Ruby is Nina’s youngest married
daughter, and is herself the mother
of a 19-month-old daughter. She
is married to Calvin Eugene Lof
lin, who works at the Dinette
Parts Company. Her home is very
close to her parents, and indeed
all of the married girls except one
live in the Oak View community.
Her favorite use of leisure time ^
reading. She hems bottoms in dun^
garee II, and since she only started
work last week confesses she still
hasn’t gotten the feel of it yet.
As long as members are re
turned to Congress because they
‘brought home the bacon’ it will be
impossible to avoid deficit spend
ing.”—Rep. Cannon of Missouri.
IN AIR FORCE — A/B Carl
H. Tuttle, Jr., now of the Lackland
Air Force Base, San Antonio,
Texas, a former Anvil Brand em
ployee, and the step-son of Vera
Tuttle of the ladies’ dungaree de
partment. Carl worked in the
pressing department and for a
short while in the cutting room.
He joined the Air Force earlier
this year.