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Volume 49, Number 4
November 1993
CEO’s Perspective
New Challenges Follow Good Year
Teamwork and communi
cation carried Adams-Millis to
an excellent FY93, according
to CEO Rich Noll.
“We met all our goals across
the board, “ he said. “That
includes sales, operating profit
and return on investment. We
received the Sara Lee Rec
ord Performance Award for
the seond year in a row.
“It was a tremendous iob
turned in by everyone to achieve
our FY 93 record,” he said,
reflecting on the past year.
“Manufacturing, planning, dis
tribution, customer service and
all sunnort oersonnel did a tre
mendous job.”
Noll recalled that Adams-
Millis broke the million dozen
mark in a week in 1992.
“This year we did 1.4 mil
lion in a week and followed it
the next week with more than
a million dozen,” he said. “It
takes a concentrated effort of
dedicated people to achieve
that.”
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Winning Shot Boot Hill Shot Is Tops
This photo of Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Ariz., by
Frances Come (Corporate Office) was awarded first prize in
the 1993 Amco News Vacation Photo Contest. The shot was
taken with a $15 disposable camera that had a wide-angle
lens.
Frances Corne’s two-hour
stop in Tombstone, Ariz., re
sulted in the winning photo in
the 1993 Amco News Vacation
Photo Contest.
The brief stop included a
visit to the legendary' “Boot
Hill Cemetery” which Come
(Corporate Office) captured
on film with a $15 disposable
camera.
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which does so much good for employees
Taking second place in the
contest ($100 cash) was Betty
Mayes (Mount Airy) with a
shot of the New River Bridge
in West Virginia.
Third place winner ($50
cash) was Melba Carlisle
(Kernersville Finishing) with
a photo she took in the World
War II American cemetery at
Normandy during a visit to
France in April.
Come, who earned second
place in the 1992 photo con
test, said she took this year’s
winning shot during a 17-day
sojourn with her husband, Vir
gil, along the old Oregon Trail
and other states in the South
west.
“We like history and things
like that,” she said. “We de
cided to travel the Oregon Trail
this year since it was its 150th
anniversary,” she added.
Come began her trek along
the Oregon Trail in Missouri
and covered more than half of
the 2,000-mile trail which ends
in Portland, Ore. It was used
by thousands of pioneers, many
of whom died along the trail,
in the late 1800s to reach the
Northwest Territory.
Along with seeing some of
the landmarks of the trail, such
as Chimney Rock and Devil’s
Tower, she and her husband
took their four-wheel drive
vehicle off the road to see the
original trail.
“We saw some of the ruts
left in the rocks by the wagons
as they headed west,” Come
said. “There were so many
wagons they just wore the rocks
down.”
It was after leaving the
Oregon Trail that she took
her prize-winning shot of Boot
Hill Cemetery. She had vis
ited Las Vegas, the west rim
of the Grand Canyon in Ari
zona before getting to Tomb
stone.
“We didn’t spend very much
time there,” she said, “but it
was an interesting place.”
Boot Hill is the final rest
ing place for more than 250
people, most of who died vio
lently rather than from natu
ral causes.
As a testament to that, the
epitaph of Lester Moore, a
Wells Fargo agent who died
in a gun battle with a man
about a dispute over a pack
age.
It reads:
“Here lies Lester Moore,
Four slugs from a .44,
No Les, no more.”
Among those buried there
are Tom McLaury, Frank
McLaury and Billy Clanton,
who were killed in the shoot
out at the O.K. Corral with
the infamous Earp brothers
and “Doc” Holliday.
Come’s Aug. 20-Sept. 6 that
took her to 12 states and
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