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Volume VII
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY, 1955
No. 27
MESSAGE
EROM THE
PRESIDENT
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS:
With this issue Sew It Seams
comes to you as the product of new
editorial hands. You read last
month that when circumstances
necessitated the resignation of
Mrs. Brooks we were fortunate to
gain the talents of Mrs. Martha
Varner Clontz whose experience
equips her admirably for this edi
torial responsibility.
Preparing a publication like Sew
It Seams is no light task. And per-
^laps you, like myself, have many
times marveled over the variety of
its editorial material, articles
about company plans and progress,
interesting pictures, departmental
personals and news of events and
developments which affect the fu
ture of us all. These represent the
vision, the human understanding
and the skill of a capable editor
assisted by generous co-operation
on the part of members of the An
vil Brand organization.
Comments direct and relayed to
me from others have encouraged
me to feel that our little monthly
news-magazine is widely enjoyed.
We can rely, , on Mrs. Clontz to
maintain that popularity.
However, an editor does not cre
ate a publication for his own in
formation or entertainment. He
has only one purpose. That of pro
viding a useful service to the
paper’s readers. And one of the
most welcome helps an editor can
receive is to know from the readers
how he can serve them even better.
Some publications rely on their
readers to volunteer suggestions
jpnr improvements, for hints as to
/L w features and for comments
which wil help make the magazine
more interesting or helpful. Some
editors occasionally circularize
lists of subscribers asking them
for opinions and assistance in mak
ing the publication more desirable.
Editors and readers benefit alike
from the results.
(Continued on Page Two)
New DepartmentXreated To Expand
Production Of Ladies’ Garments
Due to a tremendous increase in
the public’s demand for Anvil and
Tractor Brand Ladies’ garments,
a new department is being created
on the third floor of Hudson Plant
No. 1, Jack Rives, production man
ager, has announced.
Ladies’ shorts, shortie shorts
and bermuda shorts will be made
in this new department which will
ibe known as the “Ladies’ Short De
partment.” Both the Jeanettes and
Dorothy Kay lines will be in pro
duction in this space.
Ike Craun of the sales depart
ment, said this increase in demand
has been developing over the past
three years as the ladies’ garments
produced by Anvil-Tractor Brand
have been constantly improved. He
“f noted that changes in construction,
patterns, design and fabrics are
some of the factors that have
brought about this wider accept
ance by the merchants and custo
mers.
Craun also explained that since
Anvil-Tractor Brand expanded into
these lines, the company’s sales
men have been able to call on new
accounts which has opened wider
markets for these garments and
that the response has toecome so
great that increased production
has become a necessity, if the
salesmen are to fill their orders.
Annual sales in the ladies’ lines,
O’^aun said, has increased more
than 10 to 1 in the past three
years.
Reece And Bell Train For New Jobs
Mrs. Mildred Reece and Mrs.
Betty Bell, both of whom have had
several years’ service with Anvil
Brand, have been promoted to the
position of training supervisors.
Jack Rives, production manager,
has announced.
Mildred and her husband, V. M.
Reece, Jr., live on Route Two. They
have one son, Stephen, who is^in
his first year at Wallburg Sciiobl.
Reece is employed at Thomasville
Chair Co.
Mildred is a graduate of Thom-
asvile High School and worked at
Anvil Brand for a short time in
1947. She returned here in October,
1950, and has worked in various
capacities since that time, includ
ing tacking and clipping behind
the ibander in Dungaree No. 1. Her
joib as training supervisor will be
in Dungaree Department No. 2.
Betty, who this nionth celebrated
her eighth wedding anniversary,
ha.s been with Anvil Brand since
1947 except for leaves of absences
when her two children were born
and for two illnesses. She said for
the past two and a half years she
Production of ladies slimerees
and matadors will continue in Hud
son Plant No. 2, Production Mana
ger Rives said, with this depart
ment name to be changed from
Ladies’ Dungaree to Ladies’ Slim-
ere.
The ladies’ dungaree production
will be moved to the Dungaree
Department in Hudson Plant No.
1 where men’s and boys’ dungarees
also are made.
Some 30 to 40 new employees
will be added to Anvil Brand for
the new department, Rives report
ed. Mary Earomirski, supervisor of
the Overall Department, will add
the new department to her area of
supervision. Carrie Payne will be
training supervisor.
has been present for work prac
tically every day.
She and her husband, J. T.
Bell, arid their two children, Gary,
5, and Laura, 7, live in their new
home on Carolina Avenue in Oak
View, which they purchased about
two years ago. Betty is a native of
High Point and attended local
schools. Her husband is with Tom
linson’s of High Point.
Her work with Anvil Brand has
included several jobs in Dungaree
Departments No. 1 and 2, and the
Overall and Boxer Departments.
Her new job as training supervisor
will be in Dungaree No. 1.
Ossie Wright, supervisor of
training, in explaining the train
ing Betty and Mildred will receive,
pointed out that their first job will
be to learn all the machines in
their departments, in order to in
struct new employees.
However, they also will receive
instruction in payroll procedure,
motion and time study, work sim
plification, quality control, pattern
making and cutting, personnel pro
cedures and company reports and
forms.
Mrs. Wright explained that some
of this training is given before
they go into their new jo'bs, while
some is on-the-jab training.
Promotion of Mildred and Betty
will fill two vacancies, one of
which was created by Attalene
Fletcher, who is on leave of
aibsence.