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(Registered with TJ. S. Patent Office) Volume VII HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1953 No. 2 MESSAGE PROM THE PRESIDENT (Assistant Comptroller, Milton H. Gupton is President R. C. Kir- chofer’s guest columnist this month). What is Security? What is Hap piness? Sociologists tell us that money, or lack of money, has nothing to do with either. They base this conclusion on thousands of case studies. However, I feel 'sure that they, you and I, have at times, felt a little different about this. Hut let us accept this propo sition for a few minutes and let our thoughts ponder over another answer to these age old questions. Would not CONFIDENCE IN TOMORROW be a good answer? What affects our confidence in tomorrow? 1 think faith, reliance, assurance, and trust, in the follow ing, which are listed in order of importance, affects our confidence in the future: God, family, work, country. Let’s examine these ele ments in connection with the New Year and take another look at 1953 as a year of security and happiness. One of the first impressions 1 got of Anvil IJrand was the reli gious and God-fearing atmosphere present at every turn wherever I might be in the plant. Haven’t you noticed this in the absence of swearing,, the Christian-like man nerisms of your associates? From all appearances then, I believe that we should conclude that the first _and closely related second element, . tvhich is family, can be viewed with faith and reliance throughout the year. As for the third element, I want to share some of my ideas about working conditions here at Anvil Brand. During my few years in public accounting, I had occasion to work with the books and learned to know people in dozens of different companies. I learned the innermost viewpoints of man- (Continued on Page Two) Boxer Unit Is Being Set Up Only 61 Employees On Hand Every Working Day During Past 6 Months Only 61 Anvil Brand employees, or about one in 10, had a perfect attendance record during the past six months, a check of the records show. This figure does not include any members of either the execu tive or supervisory staffs. There were 20 members O'f th'C dungaree department who did not miss a working day from July 1 through December 31, while the shirt department was next in line with 10 members. This was closely followed by the olfice, which had nine menibers who did not miss a working day. Other department totals were as follows: shipping, seven; pants, five; overall, four; maintenance, two; and factory, pattern, cutting, and utility, one each. Workers with perfect attend ance records were: Shipping •— Vernie Bowers, Bobby Corn, Charles Edwards, Mitt Foster, Frank Lambert, Elarl Oldham, and Evelyn Witcher. Maintenance — Wayne Bailey and Napoleon Johnson. Pattern — Thurman Huff. Cutting — Hal Sechrest. Overall — Annie Laurie Dixon, Marie Howell, Margaret Pilcher, and Lula Shackelford. Pants — Wiley Clary, Josephine Foster, lola Harris, Alice Hill, and Mary Emma Wall. Shirts — Dora Byerly, Pallie Cecil, Bertha Franklin, 0 1 1 i e Hedgecock, Carlene Hill, Virginia Hubbard, Dorothy Morgan, Mary Sparks,. Emma Staley, and Anna Thompson. Dungaree — Pearl Abel, Mozelle Arney, Dorothy Brown, Leona Caudill, Edith Cleary, E s k e w Crotts, Jerline Johnson, Alberta Hines, Ethel Jones, John Kendrick, Bill Lehman, Dora Mills, Olive Overby, Carleen Palmer, Eddie Patterson, Iris Poole, Minnie Spencer, Virginia Spencer, Faye Undei'wood, and Sallie Wright. Utility — Georgia Payton. Office — Jo Albertson, Joyce Chapman, Kathleen Felts, Mar- r YOUNGEST?—The daily press recently carried a picture of Ntrth Carolina’s youngest grandmother, who was aged 31. This caused some speculation among Anvil Brandites as to who is our young est grandmother. The youngest suggesed to date is Ruth Samuels, training superviosr of the shirt department, who at 35 is the proud grandmother of three-months-old Jerry Edward Southern, Jr., better known as “Eddie.” Is there a younger grandmother in our family? garet Hege, Ruth Lyerly, Eliza beth Madden, Betty Swaim, Louise Welch, and Ossie Wright. Factory — Charlie Simpson. Additional 10 Join Payroll Savings Ten new people have asked to join the payroll savings plan — that is, to have money deducted regularly from their pay checks to be applied on the purchase of United States Savings Bonds. A special effort has been made to interest more employees in buying savings bonds since the benefits were increased last year. New Unit Shares Third Floor Of Main Building A new unit — to make boxer shorts and longies for boys, girls and men — is being set up on the third floor of Main Building. The word ‘^boxer,” in the garment in dustry, is applied to any kind of slacks or shorts which have an all around elastic waistband, attached to the garment. For the persent any Anvil Brand garment with an elastic waist band, whether it be men’s walk ing shorts or slacks, or boys and girls longies or shorts will be made by the boxer unit. The new unit was made neces sary by the fact that sales in women’s shorts, and other goods made by the utility department, grew so fasit that the utility de partment is no longer able to pro duce the needed goods. Every available foot of space in the util ity department is being used, and consequently the new unit to make boxer goods was set up on the third floor of Main Building where space was available, not needed by the overall department. To begin with the new unit will be small, producing only about a hundred dozen garments per day, according to Superintendent Henry T. Short. It will be expanded as work gets under way, and in the meantime will permit the utility department to devote its full time to producing women’s and girls shorts and slacks and other goods not featuring an elastic waistl>and. Azzlea Frith, supervisor, and Carrie Payne, training supervisor of the overall department, will have general supervision of the boxer unit. The new unit includes two band ing machines. One attaches a two- inch elastic band with four nee dles, and is used on men’s goods, while the other sews a one-and-a- quarter inch elastic with two nee dles to children’s garments. BANK NOTE They call it “legal tender,” That green and crackling stuff. It’s tender when you have it. But when you don’t it’s tough.
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