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MAY ISSUE SEW IT SEAMS Page Three PURCHASING RESPONSIBILIT T (Continued from I’age One) laii lift the actual card record which discoses the actual amount as well as the quantity on order and when it is expected. The department must keep up with a lot of things in order to always have the proper quantity on hand—such as how long it takes to get each item and the amount of time each staple will last the company. Trim on seasonal goods cannot be ordered too often, for perhaps the planning and design ing committee will change the styles and the trims on hand will no longer be wanted. To help in the planning of seasonal lines, the purchasing department keeps on hand at all times samples of all available trims such as buttons, thread, zippers, labels, and the like. McCall is the first to see any requisitions going into the pur chasing department. He edits them and checks such things as the amount oi'dered. It takes a lot of shopping around sometimes to get the right quantity at the right pries that can be shipped at the right time. Often a better price can be secured if a large amount is | ordered—but first McCall must bs ’ sure that the company will be able | to use the larger quantity in a reasonable length of time. The requisition then goes to ' John Edwards, assistant to McCall, who is responsible for the running inventory. John must note the quantity and items being ordered. Later he will check the invoice received by the company for the items, making sure the right quan tity was shipped us and noting the increase in stock on his inven tory. The requisitions are then typed into orders by Margaret Beck. She types all orders sent out by the company, including the ones for garment fabrics. Also, she acts as receptionist at the White division. Margaret joined the Anvil Brand family in December of 1950. Her husband is Charles Beck who works at the Diamond Full Fash ioned Hosiery Company. They live at 507 Barket St. and have one son, “Chuck,” who is seven years of age. John has been with the company since 1945 and was transferred to purchasing from shipping in March. He left the company twice, once to complete a two-year course in business administration at High Point College and a second time to serve two years in the U. S. Army. He is single. The department head, like his assistant, is unman-ied. McCall first came with Anvil Brand in 1935, starting in the purchasing end of the business. He later served five years in the Transpor tation Corps of the Army, seeing service in Charleston, S. C., New Orleans, La., and in the Philip pines. He was released from serv ice in 1945 and came back with the company, working for a short pe riod as a salesman and then trans ferring back to head the purchas ing department. Others in the White office that work closely with the purchasing crew include Betty Pugh, Ruth, Craver, Rachel Pearce, Milton Gup- ton, Helen Hughes, Vice President Mehan and Production Manager Jack Rives. Betty acts as secretary to Me han, Rives, and McCall. She also helps with production records. Bet ty started with the company in her present job in August of 1952. She is single and lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Pugh, on Route 1, Thomasville. Ruth Craver computes the pre determined standard costs and variances which form the basis for the company’s cost accounting sys tem. She works closely with Milton Gupton who, as Mehan’s assistant, is primarily concerned with cost control. Ruth started as a member of the Anvil Brand family in 1942 in the payroll department. She went to the costs department when it was first organized, about 1947. She is married to Wade Craver who works at Briggs Upholstering Com pany. They live on Route 2, High Point, and have a five-year-old daughter, Sandy. Milton came to Anvil Brand in 1951 as assistant to the comptrol ler. He was made assistant to Mehan last fall. He is married to the former Jean Ousley and the couple live in a new home on Fifth Street with their four and one-half year old son, “Buddy,” and s:ix weeks old son, Garry. Two others in the White office that work closely with the execu tive vice president are Helen Hughes and Rachel Pearce. Helen only last month was transferred from engineering to do the styling and specifications on seasonal lines. She came with the company in 1934, is married to E. F. Hughes, who works at Highland Container, and lives at Jamestown. Rachel keeps a running inven tory O'f all fabrics that go into the making of Anvil Brand gar ments. Her records also form the basis for the firm’s weekly cutting sheets. She came to Anvil Brand four years ago and started in the sales department. She was trans ferred to her present post the lat ter part of February. Rachel’s hus band, Blake, is serving in the U. S. Army. Four Give Blood Even though the company was closed for Easter vacations during the last visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile to High Point, Anvil Brand had four employees to vol unteer to give a pint of blood and they secured their own rides to the Armory. Volunteering were Herb Ross, Jones Dagenhart, and W. 0. Ben- field, all of the maintenance de partment, and Dorothy Brown of dungaree. Take a look a.t your iiext pay slip. Compare the information with that on your social security card. If they are not in agreement please get in touch with the per sonnel office. Help the company to help you. i’HE PURCHASING CREW — Earnest McCall, who heads the purchasing department at Anvil Brand, is shown at right above in conference with his assistant, John Edwards, and Margaret Beck who types up the many orders placed by the company.
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