SEW IT SEAMS
MOVEMBER ISSUE
Work And Plans For Your New Shirt
Started In Factory Full Year Ago
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Most people don’t realize when
they buy and put on a new Anvil
Brand or Tom Long garment that
work and plans for that particular
garment probably started a full
year before in our Anvil Brand
factories.
For instance, some of the goods
for our Fall line for next year was
purchased in October — before
most of us had completed our
wardrobe for this winter. Within
a few weeks orders will have been
placed for a major portion of the
suedes, flannels, corduroys and
other winter materials that will go
into our 1953 Fall line.
The words “placing orders” has
an easy sound. Reminds one of
picking up the telephone and or
dering a ton of coal or a milk
shake and a couple of sandwiches
from the drug store. According to
Floyd Mehan, the man who ac
tually places the orders for Anvil
Basketball Team
Oli To Good Start
Our basketball team got off to a
good start in the YMCA Industrial
League play with a nine-point win
over the Heritage team in its
opening game. Richard Wade is
acting as manager of the team
this season.
Players include Dickie Hayes,
Grayson Ward, Lee Wade, Ike
Craun, A1 Hoover, Dean Comer,
Carroll Welborn, Bobby McDaniel
and Eugene Shelton.
Richard would like more Anvil
Brand support for the team and
invites everyone to come on out
and root for our side in any or
all of the game^ scheduled before
Christmas with the following
teams: Monday, November 24, 8
p. m.. Globe Parlor; December 1,
8 p. m.. Triangle; December 8, 9
p. m.. Highland; December 15, 8
p. m.. Heritage.
Don’t Waste Money,
Call Right Number
Because the engineering office
telephone is listed in the telephone
directory as being on Willowbrook
Street, some White Division oper
ators have called this number
when trying to get in touch with
their supervisors. All telephones
in the sewing rooms at the White
as well as at the Hudson Division
are connected to the main switch
board, telephone number 4535,
Personnel Director Aline Carter
pointed out.
Brand, it’s not like that at all.
Weeks and months of work, sampl
ing, figuring and estimating is
done before the cloth is ordered.
Hugh Webster, who with Mehan
and R. C. Kirchofer make up the
planning and designing committee,
conducts a poll among his sales
men to get their ideas of what our
customers want.
Then Webster and Mehan make
a trip to New York where they
examine hundreds of samples ex
hibited by dozens of cloth manu
facturers. Three-yard samples of
the most promising patterns are
ordered and after the men return
to High Point shirts, slacks, pants,
and other garments are actually
made from these samples so that
they can see what the finished
product will be like.
In the meantime committee
members have kept a close check
on orders, and particularly on re
orders, for this year’s Fall line to
see which numbers are in greatest
demand. From cloth salesmen and
other sources they have gathered
information on trends in buying.
For instance, there is a trend at
present toward buying softer,
more subdued colors. A year or so
ago bold, bright colors were de
manded by the public.
All of these factors, plus the
very important item of price, must
be taken into consideration in
making the final selection of
goods. And then the committee
still must determine how many
yards of each pattern to order,
when it wants delivery, and when
it can get it. In order to decide
how many yards of each pattern
to buy, they must estimate the
number of garments Anvil Brand
will be able to sell a year hence.
And with most fabrics (except
staples like denim and twill) that
first order is all of that particular
pattern they are going to be able
to buy. Cloth manufacturers make
enough of each pattern to fill their
or-ders, but they don t pile up big
surpluses which might or might
not sell.
Of course the committee is
guided by its past experience as
to how many dozens of garments
within each price range which we
can sell, but it doesn’t have any
crystal ball to tell it how business
conditions are going to be a year
from now.
Delivery schedules also must be
worked out so that enough cloth
will be on hand at all times to
keep all departments operating,
but not enough will be delivered
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HUDSON NEWCOMERS — Among the new faces to be seen at the
Hudson Division are: back row, left to right, Ruth Johnson and
Lucille Rising of utility, and I*atsy Fraley of dungaree; front row,
Mary Cox and Mary Taffer of dungaree.
BILL LEHMAN — ^
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he could verify that fact by a
check of the records of the P. H.
Hanes Knitting Company. Bill
ended his work as a machinist with
Hanes one afternoon and started
his new job at Anvil Brand the
next morning.
Bill reported for work up on the
second floor of Main Building, and
there he has worked since then.
To begin with, however, he served
not only as machinist but as elec
trician, carpenter, plumber, or
general handy man.
“There wasn’t anyone except
the superintendent and me to fix
anything that went wrong,” he ob
served. “When something did get
out of order, they’d send for me
to fix it, and the superintendent
would double as a fixer until I
could get back on my machines.”
Bill is married to Jessie Lehman
who also is a member of the 25-
year club, and the couple lives on
the CC Camp Road. Two of Bill’s
sons also have worked here, Rob
ert, who lost his life during World
War II, and Major William Leh
man, now stationed in Biloxi, Miss.
There is a third son, Harmon, who
was married recently ‘ ' v''
at any one time to flood our ware
houses.
All in all this business of select
ing cloth that will please the pub
lic a year from now, deciding how
many garments you can sell made
from that cloth, getting it to the
factory in time to keep production
moving, and buying it at a price
which will enable us to make it up
and sell it in a competitive market
is quite a job.
Mehan admitted with a grin that
placing an order for a half million
dollars worth of cloth could make
one “sweat a bit.”
ALL OUR SALESMEN —
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Director of Sales Hugh Webster.
Most of the salesmen will arrive
on Sunday, December 14, in order
to be on hand when the sales meet
ing is called to order Monday
morning. ^
Those expected to attend are
Charles V. Ashley with headquar
ters in Beckley, West Va., W.
Hooper Boggan of Knoxville,
Tenn., Richard F. Broaddus, Jr.,
of Richmond, Va., Paul V. Curcio
of New Orleans, La., Quince A.
Duncan of West Jefferson, Rob
ert Emerick of Wyalusing, Pa.,
Wilber W. Estes of Memphis,
Tenn., Henry Fischer of Chicago,
111., Garland W. Fleenor of Cleve
land, Va., Harry B. Flora of Roan
oke, Va., Norton B. Gilmer of Win
chester, ky., John C. Hayes of '
Hendersonville, Grady P. Hedrick
of Columbia. S. C., William Ilorne,
Sr., of Raleigh, Harold E. Hut
chinson, Tom V. Long and Harold
D. Smith, all of High Point, Jack
A. Johnson of Clearfield, Pa.,
Thomas F. Johnson of Atlanta,
Ga., C. Byrd Joyce of Fairfield,
Fla., Joe H. Macklin of Seaford,
Del., Richard L. Robotham of
Hopewell, N. J., Albert Silver of
New York City, Louis H. Smith of
Pittsburgh, Penn., Russell B. Still
of Birmingham, Ala., and Patrick
H. Yancey of Newnan, Ga. $
UNC Class Tours All
Anvil Brand Plants
Earlier this week from Chapel
Hill came Richard P. Calhoon,
professor of personnel relations,
and 18 members of his class from
the UNC school of industrial engi
neering, to tour Anvil Brand s
plants and study our personnel
set-up here.