AMCO NEWS
Vol. xxn No. 1
Adams-Millis Corporation
January, 1964
R. Thompson
MEET YOUR SUPERVISOR
Keeping knitting
machines and other
equipment in the best
of mechanical condi
tion requires parts
and repair services
when needed. Devel
opment of new pat
terns requires new
attachments, and
these must be avail
able immediately in
order for our com
pany to be first in the market.
Adams-Millis Corporation main
tains one of the most modern machine
shops in the hosiery industry for mak
ing machine parts and attachments--
not only for our plants in High Point,
Kernersville and Mt. Airy, but for
several other mills in this area as
well. Supervisor of the machine shop
since July 1, 1959, has been Robert S.
Thompson, a man who has spent most
of his adult life in the machinist's
trade.
Born in Davidson County on
August 21, 1922, Bob Thompson at
tended Thomasville and High Point
City Schools, graduating from High
Point Central High School in 1940. Up
on his graduation, he enrolled in Jones
Business College, attending dayclasses
and working in the Shipping Department
of Stehli Silk Mill at night. All went
well until 1942 when World War II
broke out and Bob entered the Army,
seeing duty in Africa, Sicily and Italy.
He was discharged in 1945 and return
ed to High Point, securing a job as
an apprentice machinist at Adams-
Millis. After 11 years in the shop, he
left our company to accept a position
as foreman of Archdale Machine Shop,
but soon after opened his own shop
which he operated until his return to
Adams-Millis as shop foreman in
1959.
In 1941, Bob was married to Miss
Hazel Floyd of High Point, his high
school sweetheart. They have one
daughter, Carol, who is presently a
student at Woman's College in Greens
boro, and who, last year, was chosen
as a delegate to the National Girls'
State meeting in Dallas; she was also
a cheerleader and homecoming queen
while attending Allen Jay School and
elected "Miss Congeniality" in the Miss
Archdale-Trinity Contest in 1963.
The Thompsons have just recently
moved into their new home on Corina
Circle in the Archdale section. They
are members of Green Street Baptist
Church where Bob belongs to the
Brotherhood Class. He is also a
member of the Bush Hill Masonic
Lodge in the Archdale-Trinity area.
His favorite hobby is hunting.
You cannot help men permanently
by doing for them what they could and
should do for themselves.
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