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SEW IT SEAMS
JULY ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Published Monthly by
ANVIL BRAND
INCORPORATED
High Point, N. C.
COOKIE BROOKS, Editor
Mail Clerk's Job
Is Varied; Keeps
Plants In Touch
Wondering just what the job of
mail clerk at Anvil Brand consists
of, Sew It Seams asked Gerald
Talley and came up with some sur
prising answers.
Gerald has been mail clerk here
for three months. His day starts
at 7 a. m. on Mondays. Tuesdays
through Fridays he starts work
about 7:30 a. m. and all his work
days continue until around 5:15 or
5:30 p. m. His job requires a lot
of walking, probably one reason
why he stays so slender. But he
does a lot of other things besides
pick up and deliver inter-plan^
mail.
Here’s a typical day experienced
by our mail boy.
First thing in the mornings he
sorts and opens all mail except the
personal communications. This is
given to Jim Thompson who sorts
it and returns it to Gerald for de
livery. He marks the mail orders
for Mozelle Boyles in the sales de
partment, the New York credit of
fice communications to Ida Mary
Fetner, the invoices to John Ed
wards in the purchasing depart
ment, and the salesmen’s orders
to Ken Poindexter. He packs his
mail bag and is ready for the day’s
first delivery and pickup through
out th3 various departments.
He first goes through the Hud
son division, delivering and pick
ing up messages and mail that are
being sent to other departments.
Next he makes up a load for the
White division and the sales office.
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT—
(Continued from Page One)
for which we should be prayerfully
grateful in 1954?
Sincerely yours,
H,C.
He goes through all departments
at White, on up to sales, and then
back to Hudson where he delivers
whatever he has picked up.
Then the mail bag is loaded for
a Sherrod delivery and pick up. By
the time he gets back to the Hud
son division it is usually around
10:20 a. m. He then starts mail
ing out invoices, acknowledgments,
purchasing orders, and the like. At
11 a. m. he checks all Hudson of
fices, picking up any messages or
instructions for a trip to town. He
carries the company’s bank deposit
and usually makes a trip to Noble
Praigg’s office. Praigg is an ad
vertising advisor for the company
and has offices in the Security
Bank Building.
He comes back by the post of
fice, mailing any letters that need
to go out and picks up mail from
the Anvil Brand and Sherrod mail
boxes. Lunch is worked in some
place during the trip to town and
the first thing on the afternoon
agenda is to make another delivery
to White division and sales.
Sometimes this trip can be
worked in before lunch.
Around 1:45 p. m. he starts the
whole process over again with an
other trip to SherrO'd worked in
at around 2:30 p. m. Next he picks
up the bills of lading, sorts and
separates them, and attaches the
bills with freight invoices. At 3:30
p. m. he starts another delivery
and pick up through Hudson,
White, and sales.
Next another mailing is pre
pared of invoices, purchasing or
ders, and the like. On Mondays,
Thursdays and Fridays this out
going mail is extra heavy due to
price lists, communications, and
the like that go to Anvil Brand
salesmen and customers.
Gerald admits that a mail desk
job keeps him “hopping,” but he
likes it. He has been on the job
since April, coming to Anvil Brand
from Burlington Mills.
While at Bur-Mil he also at
tended High Point College whei'e
his chisf interest was math. His
favorite leisure time activity is
spores and his favorite girl is Jean
Towcry, of High Point.
Gerald is single and lives with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Talley, of Route 1, Kernersville.
Ward Gets Orders
The word from Grayson Ward
is that he will be shoving off for
Japan in a few weeks.
Grayson, who left the Hudson
office about isix months ago for
service in the U. S. Army, has
been stationed at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Maryland for
the past while.
Sewing Up Sales
by Hugh Webster
I
This is the plight of a traveling
salesman!
Or, perhaps it should be entitled
the woes of Anvil Brand’s Dickie
Hayes, who drives the advertising
car.
On June 28 Dickie was up in;
Pennsylvania calling on customers
and arranging Anvil Brand dis
plays for them. His luck that day
turned out to be so bad he sat
down and wrote Ken Poindexter a
funny account of the event — just
to put himself in a better humor,
no doubt. He says:
“Just a line to let you knew O'f
my good fortune. This afternoon
I’m riding along, feeling good,
everything going just fine — then
I start hearing a hissing sound.
Bemg in the middle of a town, I
hunt a parking place on Main
Street and pull over to investigate.
Ths left rear tire is going down
fast.
“I don’t worry too much, because
the account I’m hunting is just a
couple of doors down and I figure
I can have someone working on
the tire.
“First, I call a dozen or so fill
ing stations to come fix the tire.
No one did that kind of work. This
excuse, that excuse. I try a couple
more, same verdict — can’t do. I
ibegin to worry now and decide I’ll
do it myself.
“I borrow some tools from one
of th3 filling s'ations and set out
to make my conquest. I get tht
tire pulled, climb up under the
truck to get the spare loose (the
nuts holding it on were I’usted),
and, for all the bad words I had
been saying, it started to rain.
“Here I am, lying in the gutter
under the truck with those stub
born bolts fighting me and it
starts to pour down. That helps!
The water rushing down the street,
trucks and cars flying down Main
Street, which also is the main
highway, splashing water all over
me — and I still can’t get that
spare loose.
“Finally, I win. Soaking wet,
chilled to the bone, I finally get
the spare off. I put it on the truck
and investigate the flat. Cause of
it? You guessed it, ths rim is
split about a foot and a half.
“The moral to this story? Some
days, it just don’t pay to get out
of bed.”
FOR SALE
Gold fish, bait minnows of all
kinds. See Earl Byerly in the cut
ting room at the Hudson division.
SPEAK VOWS — Cpl. Howard Baxter Shirley, Jr., son of Winnie
Shirley of the dungaree department, was married to Miss Mildred
Johnson at the First Baptist Church in Andrews, S. C., on June 12.
Howard, who formerly worked in Aiken, S. C., has now entered the
armed forces. He is stationed at Media, Pa.