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SEW IT SEAMS
JANUARY ISSUE
SEW IT SEAMS
Published Monthly by
ANVIL BRAND
INCORPORATED
High Point, N. C.
Martha Clontz, Eiditor
Letters To
The Editor
(Following is a letter from Al
bert B. Hill, who before his in
duction into the Armed Forces,
was employed in Hudson Office
of Anvil Brand.)
Hello you-all rebels,
How is the world treating
everybody on that side of the
big pond long about this time of
year? As for me, I’m C. Q. (in
charge of quarters) today so you
can imagine how happy I am
right now, Ha!
Seems like everybody in Spe
cial Troops is out on three-day
or weekend passes, but I’m be
ginning to get a little company
every hour or so because the
M. P.’s are beginning to bring
back some of my buddies.
Since it will be after Christmas
and possibly after New Year’s
before you get this, I won’t wish
you a Merry Christmas but I’ll
wish each of you a very Happy
New Year.
Is old Jerry Talley still work
ing at Anvil Brand? Tell that
guy if he is Still looking for wom
en he should have been with me
last month. As most of you know,
I bought a ’49 Ford back in Oct.
and in November I took a 15-day
leave and drove down through
Switzerland, France and to Bar
celona, Spain. Let me tell you I
saw some beautiful country, es
pecially in those Swiss Alps and
for Jerry’s information, those
Spanish Senoritas are too much!
Believe it or not but those 10
days in Barcelona were the most
wonderful 10 days I’ve ever spent
in my life and if I can squeeze in
a trip to Holland, Sweden and
Copenhagen before next June, I
am sure going back to Spain.
Well, so much for my exploits
in Spain. Why don’t some of you
people write once in a while and
let me in on the news around
there? It doesn’t seem possible
that all of you have broken arms
and if there isn’t enough of you
to chip in and buy a box of
stationery and pencils, let me
know and I’ll mail you some.
Well, another couple of hours
and I’ll turn this C. Q. job over
to somebody else and it will be
my turn to paint the town red.
So I’d better bring this scratching
to a screaming halt and get
ready to bug out of here.
Goveirment Issue,
Bunk
P. S. Thanks for the Christmas
card.
(Enclosed with Bunk’s letter
was the following G. I. Version of
“The Night Before Christmas.”
Whether he wrote it or not, he
didn’t say.)
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS
’Twas the night before Christmas,
And as the First Sergeant pre
dicted.
Not a soldier was stirring—
They were all restricted.
Our passes were hung by the
fireside so bright
In hopes they would catch on
fire that night.
When out from the Quadrangle
there arose such a chatter
I leaped from my bunk to see
what was the matter.
When I saw him my eyes almost
popped from my head
For there was the battalion com
mander in an odd-colored
sled.
He had helmets and liners and
canteens for all
And he was laughing merrily as
he let a cartridge belt fall.
There presents were surely more
than enough
Why, he must have had ten laun
dry bags full of the stuff.
He placed some at headquarters
K, L, and I,
And as he dropped off, he said
with a sigh,
“My mission is over and he took
off with a roar
on SI and S2, S3 and S4.
The next day was Christmas and
I opened my present with
glee —
For there was a pass, not for
one day, but three!
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year!
Two men were discussing the
romance of a young neighborhood
couple. “What do you think of
their getting married?” one
asked.
“It’s all right, I guess,” the
other said, “but it’s too beid they
aren’t good enough for each
other.”
“What makes you say that?”
“Well,” was the reply, “I’ve
been talking to both families.”
Perfect Attendance Names
Listed For Past Six Months
Following is a list of Anvil
Brand employees who maintained
a perfect attendance record dur
ing the last six months of 1956.
DUNGAREE:
Mozelle Arney, Leona Caudill,
Jessie Feemster, Barbara Gilmore,
Ina Holland, John Kendrick, Ila
Leonard, Dora Mills, Dorothy
Meshenheimer, Carleen Palmer,
and Mabel Slate.
PATTERN:
Thurman Huff, James Walter
Ingram, Hal Sechrest, Warren
Shelton, and Louise Stroud.
KNITTING—SHERROD:
Harold Brackett, Lucille Car
ver, Minnie Mills, Fausta Over
by.
CUTTIING—HUDSON
Clyde Nelson, Henry Smith.
WORK SHIRT:
Doris Bizzell, Hattie Bizzell,
Agnes Pearl Cameron, Esther
Cecil, Esther Chamelin, Ava Lefr
Cox, Beatrice Craven, Wanda
Jane Craven, Lezzie Everhart,
Cora Ethel Gammon, Beulah ;
Gunter, and Carlton Maiirice
Holt.
Ida Hunt, Charles Isenhour,
Ina Mae Johnson, Nairane John
son, Velna Johnson, Gertrude
Lavender, Harmon Lehman,
Mary Etta McLendon, Treva
Mack.
SHERROD
Jennie Owens, Lena Sarah
Owens, Eva Shaffer, Annie Ruth
Smith, Claressie Stamey, Sallie
Levora Stanley, Wilma Taylor,
Jessie Teague, and Ila Whicker.
INDEPENDENCE;
Mary Lou Bonham, Gladey
Boyer, James Boyer, Kathleen
Hackler, Musetta Halsey, Nancy
Jean Hash, Ruby Paisley, Olga
Irene Parsons, Ethel Phipps,
Retha Poe, Viola Privett, Carrie
Ruth Ward, Elizabeth Wingate,
and William Lee Wright.
SPORT SHIRT:
Nellie Chavis, Jessie Leona
Fritts, Jettie Hayes, Elsie Mae
Lester, Frank McCulloch, Ruth
Samuels, Ollie Snow, and Mabel
Sarrell.
LADIES:
Annie Laurie Dixon, Brady
Felts, Ila Martin, Hazel Wallace,
Frances Wells, Lillian Wood, and
Gracie Branon.
MAINTENANCE:
James Glover, Robert Harris,
William T. Hatton, James Le-
Grand, Archie McBride, Herbert
iRoss, and Avery Taylor.
FINISHING:
Pauline Mendenhall, Howard
Peterson, and Beatrice Steele.
FACTORY:
Bill Roach, John L. Simpson
SHIPPING:
Frank Lambert, William A.
Waller, and Clayton Wampler.
RECEIVING:
Dan Grace, Kenneth Wilker-
son.
PANTS:
Mary Lou Atkinson, Flossie
Bryant, Eva Burgin, Geneva A.
Cook, Gladys Dillard, Clarence
Duggins, Shirley Elledge, Carrie
Hardy, Esther Hughes, Sadie Jar-
rett, Etta McIntyre, Osie Owens,
Janie Shelton, Frances Workman,
Richard Gibson, and Wiley
Clarey.
OFFICE:
Alden Bean, Johnny Davis, Ida
Fetner, Shirley Kennedy, Sylvia
Livengood, Gertrude Mooney,
David Moore, Mildred Moran, Al
ma Paul, Arthur Royals, Doug
las Tate, James Wall, Norman
Wampler, and Carlene Hill.
UTILITY:
Margaret Armfield, Betty Bell,
Edith Cleary, and Ruth White-
sell.
OVERALL—
Hattie Bray, Kathleen Causey,
Mildred Craven, Donald Farlow,
Gladys Freeman, Vernel Gibson,
Ella Rook, Gerturde Rumsey, and
Letha Towery.
An atom is built like our solar
system. It is almost all empty
space. The nucleus is the only
solid piece. Scientists say that
if you eliminated all the space
in every atom in the body of a
200-pound man he would be no
bigger than a particle of dust.
The earth without the space in
its atoms would be a ball only
one-half mile through.
—Henry J. Taylor
Independence
By
Irene
Parsons
We are glaid to have Lucille
Kilby and Geneva Byrd back
after their leave of absence
Edna Ball has as guests during
Christmas her son, Harold, of
the Navy, her son, James, of Bal
timore, Md., and her daughter
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