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Two Retirements Announced Zora Jones, Plant #4, retired October 2, after more than 15 years of service with Adanns-Millis Cor poration. Zora's first work in the knitting and hosiery busi ness was with the P. H. Hanes Knit- tine Company, where she seamed for about a year. In order to work nearer home, she then ac cepted a job with the Vance Knitting Company in Kernersville, where she gained experience in pairing, mending and inspecting. In 1949, she was employed as a mender at Adams-Millis. Later, she inspected, clipped, turned tops and folded. She was a folder at the time of her retirement, Zora is a member of the Kerwin Baptist Church, where she has an Have we Americans gone com pletely off our rockers? Spaed is the dominant factor that causes the accidents which are send ing tens of thousands of our people to the morgues of our nation, and mil lions of others to our hospitals or to doctors. Thousands of these remain crippled for life in one form or an other. All over the land the number of fatal smash-ups are ahead of last year, and that was the worst year we have had since the advent of the motor vehicle. It is reported that the new models for 1965 are of such a nature as will aggravate the situation even more. The packing into the 1965 models cars of as great power and speed as the last model cars assures the nation that the murder and mas sacre will continue on our streets and highways. There was entirely too much power and speed in those 1964 almost perfect attendance record, hav ing missed only one Sunday in over four years. She is now secretary of her Sunday School class and was formerly secretary of the church. She resides near Talleys Crossing, on Route #3, Kerner sville, George Samuel Flippin, yarn man in the Knitting De - partment of Plant #7, retired Octo ber 27 on the basis of disability. He became ill in August and has been unable to work since that time. Born in Stokes County, Sam farm ed before coming to Adams-Millis in October of 1954. He now resides on Route #1, Jamestown, N, C, models, as evidenced by the gruesome appearance on the streets and high ways of our land. In the face of these facts, news items tend to show that the automotive engineers are talking of cars with more than four hundred horsepower. With our roads already congested and getting worse each year, with our traffic engineers wracking their brains in every way possible to figure out a way to stop this carnage on our high ways, the automotive engineers and manufacturers continue to manufacture motor vehicles with law violations constructed in every one of them. More horsepower, more accelera tion--the very thing that has brought us to this terrible state of affairs and keeps our highways littered with the bodies of our people and every mile echoing the cries of the injured. (Continued on page 5.)
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