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FIVE RETIREMENTS ANNOUNCED A fifty-year career of selling hosiery has been concluded with the retirement of Alex Seefried, sales man for Knit Sox Division of Adams- Millis. Seefried joined Knit Sox Knitting Mills in Hickory on January 10, 1945; he continued as salesman for the Knit Sox Division after Knit Sox was pur chased by Adams-Millis in 1965. The Knit Sox hosiery line has been combined with production and sales of the other Adams-Millis plants and the sales will be handled by our salesmen in their respective areas. Seefried started in the hosiery business during the era of the "com mission merchants" with the firm of Beebe Howes Company, downtown Church Street in New York City. This firm went out of business when their principals died. Alex then went to Danville Knitting Mills, where he re mained twenty years before leaving to join Knit Sox Knitting Mills. Commenting on his hosiery sales career, Seefried said, "I feel that the hosiery business has been very good to me as 1 have made very many good friends, and now the short stay with Adams-Millis Corporation will wind up my career. " Maude Auman, seamer. Plant #7, has retired due to physical disability. She has been on sick leave since March and has been advised by her physician that she should retire in the interest of her health. Mrs. Auman seamed hosiery for thirty years. She worked in hosiery plants in Asheboro before coming to Adams-Millis Corporation in 1952. She taught school for several years before she started seaming. She is a graduate of Asheboro High School and she attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Hadie B. Peg- ram, folder of Plant #3, has re tired on the basis of age; she had been employed by Adams-Millis Cor poration for approxi mately forty years. Her first public work was with the Kernersville Knit- Hadie Pegram ting Company, starting when she was a young single girl of 18 years of age. Her job was pairing, tranferring and folding when only seven styles of socks were being made. The entire knitting and finishing operation at that time was in the old one-room building which was demolished last year. During her forty years with the company, she has paired, worked on samples, folded and helped to train pairers and folders. During the most recent years of her employment, she has folded. Her record with the com pany is one of deep loyalty and devotion to her work, Hadie was born and reared near Kernersville and attended school at the Old Valley and Kernersville schools. She and Mr. Pegram have two daughters and two sons. They reside on Route #1, Belews Creek and attend Antioch Methodist Church. John J. Wade, fixer. Plant #1, ended forty years of continuous em ployment with Adams-Millis Cor poration when he retired on April 28, 1967. Born in West Springs in Union County, S. C., John J, Wade John worked with Crescent Hosiery
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