AMCO NEWS
Vol. XX No. 8 Adams-Millis Corporation September, 1962
MEET YOUR SPERVISOR
Thirty-five
years ago, there
was an opening for
a good boy to take
up the work in the
Looping Depart
ment of Plant #4.
One of the pairers
heard about this
opening and asked
for the job for her
son-in-law, who
was then a young
farm boy twenty years of age. He
was interested inajob even though he
had never applied. His name was
John Vanhoy, and he came and accept
ed the job. His first day of work was
certainly not impressive and he just
didn't like the work, but his foreman
told him that tomorrow would be a
better day and for him to come back.
This he did--and he is still on the job
today.
After about five years, John was
promoted to another job, that of fix
ing loopers, which he did for another
five years. As a reward for his loyal
and efficient service, he was then
promoted to the position of foreman
of the Looping Department. During
his years as foreman, he saw the
looping process reach great heights
and later be completely replaced by
the seaming process. In addition to
his duties of supervising the loopers,
and presently the seamers, he super
vises the turners and clippers, which
is a record at Plant #4 in number of
employees under his leadership.
John has taken very few vacations
and, except for a little time out due to
sickness, has an almost perfect at
tendance record.
Perhaps the greatest single con
tribution John has made to Adams-
Millis has been his interest and inven
tive ability in the seaming process.
He conceived the idea of a new needle
plate on a seaming machine of the two-
needle, three-thread type of stitches
that will open up properly to provide
soft, flat, butted seams. Through the
use of the web plate attachment, seam
ing instead of looping the toe of the
sock has become a permanent process
in a large part of the hosiery industry.
Application has been made for a patent
of the web plate attachment.
In the Vanhoy family there are
two boys and one girl. The daughter
lives in Goldsboro, N. C.; a son re
sides in Greenville, N. C. , and is
employed as an accountant with Fie Id-
crest Mills; and the other son is an
engineer with Western Electric in
Winston-Salem. Mrs. Vanhoy (Avah-
lee) is employed in the Sample De
partment at Plant #4 with a record of
25 years of service.
John is a member of the Methodist
Church and resides at 131 Clifton
Street in Kernersville.
UNITED APPEAL REPORTS
Southern Die Casting and Mac
Panel have reported 100% participation
in the High Point United Appeal. The
average contribution at Southern Die was
was $ 18. 90 with total pledges of $1, 134. 20
coming from 60 employees.
Employees of Mac Panel with every
one participating gave $627.25 for an
average of $12.80 per person.
No final reports have been re
ceived from the hosiery division. The
shipping department of plant seven has
reported 100% participation. The cam
paign was still underway in some depart
ments when AMCO NEWS went to press.
J. Vanhoy