AMCO NEWS
Vol. XX No. 7 Adams-Millis Corporation August, 1962
MEET YOUR SUPERVISOR
In the late
thirties, a young
man named Clifford
Chappell passed
the Pointer every
morning on his way
to work at Nachman
Spring-Filled Cor
poration. This
young man decided
he would like to_
work in a hosiery
mill--especially Chappell
Adams-Millis Corporation's Pointer
Plant, so he stopped one morning and
applied for a job. Jobs were not so
easy to come by in those days and it
took several stops before he was suc
cessful in getting on. However, per
severance did bring its reward, and
in April of 1939, he was hired as a
scissor clipper on second shift. Thus
Clifford C. Chappell was introduced
to Adams-Millis and the hosiery indus
try.
Clifford was born June 23, 1920,
on a farm in Surry County at the foot
hills of the Blue Ridge. He was edu
cated in the High Point city schools,
but each summer he returned to his
grandfather's farm in Surry County to
help with the tobacco and the thousand-
and-one chores to be done on the farm.
Upon his graduation from high
school in 1937, however, he decided
to stay in High Point and secured a
Job operating a knotting machine for
Nachmein Spring-Filled Corporation
where he remained tmtil he came to
the Pointer in 1939. Clifford worked
for about six months as a clipper and
was then given the opportunity to leam
to knit on "H" machines. About a
year later, when new P. W. machines
were installed in the plant, he was
transferred to them and soon was pro
moted to the job of fixing. Then, along
came World War II and November of
1942 found Clifford serving in the
Armed Forces. When he returned
from service in January of 1946, he
was promoted to third-shift supervisor
of the Knitting Department; but, in
1953, business became slow and it
was necessary to close down the third
shift for a year. During this time,
Clifford moved up to second shift as
head fixer on Komet machines, and
in 1954 became second shift knitting
supervisor. When the Looping and
Knitting Departments were moved
from the Pointer in July of 1959, he
moved to the English Street plant as
second-shift supervisor of the com
bined Pointer and Piedmont Knitting
Departments, the position he holds
today. For more than 22 years, he
has not been absent from work a single
day because of illness.
While in service, Clifford served
with the Air Force in both the Ame rican
and Asiatic Theaters, most of the time
as a parachute rigger. In September
of 1944, he took time off from duty to
marry Miss Annie Hughes, the girl he
left behind. They have one child, a
sixteen-year-old daughter, Carol Ann.
They are members of English Street
Baptist Church where Clifford serves
as assistant secretary. At their home,
3700 North Main Street, Clifford tends
a garden and keeps their freezer over
flowing. However, he does take time
off occasionally to pursue his favorite
hobby of hunting and fishing.