NOVEMBER ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Page Seven
EARL WARD, W. O. HENFIELl) and HERBERT ROSS f
Safely Program Couldn't Succeed
Without Maintenance Department
19 Persons Gave
^ Blood This Month
Nineteen of the 20 persons from
Anvil Brand who volunteei’ed to
donate blood at the November 7
visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile
to High Point were accepted and
gave a pint of blood. Part of this
blood is kept available in this
community, and part of it is pro
cessed for men on the battlefield.
Those donating blood were Nell
Burroughs, Doris Pridgen, Agatha
Southern, Gertrude Stultz, Kath
ryn Johnson, Leola Phillips, Robert
Harris, Joan Spoon, Ken Poindex
ter, George Williams, Henry
Smith, Winona Carroll, Lois Seism,
Olive Overby, Dorothy Brown,
Lorraine Pearson, Lettie Burrus,
Shirley Pierce and Anna Mc
Kinney.
Service Calls Keep
Plans Unsettled
Dave Cowan, Walter Jones and
the sales department are having a
hard time these days trying to
make any settled plans owing to
uncertainty as to when and if Dave
and Walter will be called to the
service of Uncle Sam.
Dave has been operating our
Anvil Brand advertising car, tak
ing it all up and down the eastern
seaboard. When he was ordered
to report for hisi physical exami
nation, it was decided that Walter
Jones should be broken in on the
job so that this important service
to our customers should not be in
terrupted.
Consequently, Walter was taken
off his job as multilith operator
and went out with Dave to learn
the i-oad job. But instead of taking
the advertising car out this week,
Walter reported for his physical
examination on Wednesday.
DUNGAREE I —
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scored the first touchdown in the
Allen Jay-Trinity football game.
Ina Holland had her sister and
her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Pitts, of Baltimore, Md., visit her
Recently.
* Mary Pierce visited her sister,
Mrs. W. M. Arey of Salisbury, who
recently undewent an operation.
She is recovering nicely.
Newcomers this month are
Patsy Fraley, Edna Parrish, Belle
Williams, and Mary Gardner. Wel
come, girls, and we hope you en
joy working with us.
Nelia Albertson and daughter,
Mrs. R. L. Taylor of Greensboro,
visited another of Nelia’s daugh
ters in Kingsport, Tenn. recently.
To the maintenance department,
of which Herbert Ross is super
visor, goes a large part of the
credit for the success of our safety
program, according to Ossie
Wright, chairman of the safety
committee.
Herbert and his two assistants,
W. 0. Benfield and Earl Ward,
were literally swamped with work
orders once the program got under
way. More space was needed for
thread in the dungaree, shirt and
pants departments which meant
that new bins must be built. Door
stops were needed in other depart
ments. A glass inset was recom
mended for the door at the foot of
the stairs from the shipping room
to second floor.
As the inspectors went about
their departments looking for
things which might cause acci
dents, they found many things
which the operators themselves
could remedy, such as bottles on
the floor and unnecessary articles
on their machines, but on the other
hand operators at the join shoulder
operation in the shirt department
and at the back pocket operation
in the overall and dungaree de
partments pointed out that they
couldn’t keep ropes off the floor
if they didn’t have some place to
put them. That meant more work
orders for the maintenance depart
ment as did the request for window
latches in the Hudson Division, for
guards on the pressing machines
in the shirt department, arid for
the repair of a steam pipe in the
shipping room.
“Herb,” as most of his fellow
workers call him, confessed there
were times when he didn’t think
he’d ever get to the bottom of the
work orders that continued to pile
up on his desk despite the pace
at which he and his assistants
were working. Rails at the empty
truck alley needed repairing. A
drinking fountain was leaking,
and must be repaired or replaced,
because wet floors are dangerous.
Someone might slip and fall. The
pants department needed racks to
keep waist band material off the
floor, and Herb lost count of the
departments that wanted tables,
benches, floors and electric wiring
repaired.
One of the larger jobs assigned
to him was to provide a smaller
and easier to open door into the
pattern department and the lower
floor of the Bostian Building, or
Plant No. 2 of the Hudson Divi
sion. The original sliding door was
big enough to admit a truck, and
it almost required a truck to pull
it open. Since hand trucks actually
do have to pass through this door.
Herb put in double swinging doors
and filled in the excess space the
original door had occupied.
While this was one of the larger
jobs in size, it wasn’t in the
amount of work required. Herb
pointed out. And still more work
orders poured in. The finishing
room needed new tables, cutting
and shipping needed racks for
punch cards, and shipping also
wanted some provision made for
emploees’ coats.
“I expect we gave the mainte
nance department a rough time,”
Ossie observed, “but they did a
beautiful job. They made the sug
gested repairs and improvements
quicker than would seem possible.
In fact, the whole maintenance de
partment cooperated with us, or
rather are cooperating with us, as
are the sweepers in the various de
partments. I’d like to give them a
public vote of thanks.”
In addition to Ross, Benfield
and Ward, other members of the
maintenance department are: Rob
ert N. Harris, Leory Clark, Napo
leon Johnson, Charlie Wilson,
Avery Taylor, Wayne Bailey, and
Dorothy Carr.
Sweepers assigned to the var
ious departments are: Annie
Laurie Dixon, Nannie Lee Moffitt,
Sallie Wright, Priscilla Hale, and
Janie Shelton.
NEW MAC HINES —
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perha])s for careless visitors (but
this kind of visitor won’t be wel
come).
After the shirts leave the lK)dy
presses, they are passed on to the
folders, Elsie McGee, Betty Car
den and (Joldie Davis, who fold
and pin them on the shirt boards.
Howard Peterson, supervisor of
the finishing i-oom, is enthusiastic
about the new presses anl how
much they are improving the ap
pearance of our shirts. He also
says Margaret Sullivan, represent
ing Prosperity pressers, is a real
expert in setting up the new
routine.