Page Ten
SEW IT SEAMS
AUGUST ISSUE
Newcomers
Welcomed To
Anvil Brand
Shipping:
Gary Auman, Haith Blalock,
Martin McMahan, Christine An
drews, Bobby Ray Southern, Lar
ry Eugene Miller, Ronnie Dae
Collins.
Sport Shirt:
Naydean Howell, Carolyn Mar
tin, Iva Jean Marshburn.
Maintenance:
Zan Emmitt Hilliard
Factory:
Walter Dumas
Overall:
Myrtle Lou Ingram
Pants:
Margaret Hulin, Shirley Ann
Robertson, Mary Elizabeth But
cher, Esther Mae Towery, Stella
Maude Clay, Reba Iona Canter,
Emma Jean Manns.
Office:
Evelyn Jean Gossett, Doris
Elizabeth Gossett.
Dungaree:
Ronda Joyce Osborn.
The best lightning rod for
your protection is your own spine.
There’s nothing wrong with
drinking like a fish, as long as
you drink what the fish does.
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY — Doris Weaver of Pants at
White smiles as she calls attention to Anvil Branders’
next holiday. September 3 is the date Labor Day falls on
this year and will be the final “long weekend” of the
season. Several employees say they plan a quick trip to
the beach or mountains to wind up the summer season.
Doris, who has been with Anvil Brand six years, is a
finisher in Pants. She has two girls.
Joel Paul Builds Gars ... As a Hobby, That Is
A THING OF BEAUTY—To Joel Paul, that is. This hot
rod is the third car Joel, of Hudson office, has built. He’s
got parts in it from just about every make and model car
known. Says altogether “The Thing” hasn’t cost him
$70. And some probably would say that’s too much.
Anvil Branders have varied
and interesting hobbies and one
which is provoking quite a bit
of discussion these days is “hot
rod” cars, which happens to be
Joel Paul’s hobby.
“Engines have fascinated me
for years,” Joel said, and he has
just completed building his third
“hot rod” car.
When he begins telling about
“building” a car he sounds some
thing like a cook expounding on a
new recipe. He took such in
gredients as a Ford A-model bed
from a junk yard, a ’55 truck
steering, a ’54 hanging pedal as
sembly, a ’32 rear end, a ’54 Mer
cury steering wheel (which cost
$1.50), a ’39 standard radiator
(which cost $11) and ’50 Mercury
wheels.
He mixed all these ingredients
up together (in his own fashion)
and came up with an engine
which he says is capable of 93
•> to 94 miles per hour. He doesn’t
know just how much it will do
because he hasn’t driven “The
Thing” yet. He said, however, he
plans to take the car to Eliza
beth City in September for the
Southeastern Regional Champion
Drag Races.
Joel is past secretary for the
Tar Wheelers, a local hot rod
club. He emphasized the mem
bers are only interested in drag
racing where it is legally sanc
tioned. In his opinion drag
racing (on official tracks) is much
safer than other types of automo
bile racing sanctioned in various
parts of the country today. The
hot rod cars, he said, are built
on the idea of the “road-hugging”
designs of European sports cars
and that the method of “drag”
racing which is starting from a
dead stop to see how much ac
celeration can be achieved in a
given distance (straight line) is
safer than other types of racing.