YARN BY ttie rack fulls are consumed by the knitting machines daily in the three shifts
at the plant. Roger Shepherd, knitter, is shown getting a load for his machines from a portable
yard rack.
TO ?
Franklin Hosiery Company
Best Wishes and Congratulations
on your Fifth Anniversary in
Franklin
The Visiting Burlington Officials
Welcome to Franklin and may
Your stay be a pleasant one
\
The employees of Burlington
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We are proud of you and your organization. If we can
serve you in any way please let us know.
Conley Motor Company
IF A DEFECT appears in a stocking, it is sent to the Mend
ing Department where skilled hinds remove the defect. Shown
here performing the hamd mending is Annie Nell Jones.
Paradox
Confronts
Hosiery
A staff of highly trained tech
nicians in Burlington is confront
ed daily with the responsibility
of bringing together the contra
dictions of a paradox. And they
are making headway.
The paradox: To improve
women's hosiery in two widely
divergent directions ? more sheer
ness and longer wear.
Glamorous Business
But, then thfj whole history of
hosiery is paradoxical. For, what
started out to be an effort to pro
vide warm ? yet porous ? pro
tection for feet and legs has turn
ed into one of the world's most
glamorous businesses ? making
women's legs more beautiful than
ever by providing sheerer, finer
? almost invisible ? covering.
The dictates of fashion today
call for the sheerest hosiery fabric,
and in order to produce this, ex
tremely fine yarns are required.
Naturally, the finer the yarn, the
more delicate the fabric.
Burlington Hosiery Company,
No. 1
plant was the 76th in the Burl
ington organization, which then
had plants in nine states and in
three foreign countries. Today,
Burlington Industries has manu
facturing plants in over 90 com
munities in 17 states and four
foreign countries.
Franklin Hosiery Company em
ploys about 450 people. It has an
annual payroll of approximately
$1,500,000.
Faith Shown
Burlington's faith in the Frank
lin community as a progressive
area was emphasized just a little
more than a year after the plant
went into operation. In December
1956, an expansion to the building
was completed, enlarging produc
tion facilities by about 50 per cent.
The plants' employees have been
active In civic and community
affairs in the past five years.
Their participation has included
such activities as the polio drive.
United Fund, Parent-Teacher As
sociations. Red Cross, . Little
League Baseball, girls' and booys'
basketball, and others.
Officials Named
S. A. Bundy is superintendent
of the Franklin plant. Richard
Murphy is office manager, W. E.
Adams is personnel director, and
Paul L. Orier is plant industrial
engineer. Other key men are Dan
F. Stewart, Clyde E. Poole, Will
iam H. Jones and Thomas B. Col
lier, knitting supervisors; Marvin
A. White, looping supervisor; and
Robert O. Willard. inspecting
mending supervisor.
Happy Birthday
i
i 1
FRANKLIN HOSIERY COMPANY
May you celebrate many, many more
happy birthdays in our community. You
have been a great asset to our commun
ity and we are mighty proud to call you
one of us. '
DRYMAN'S
auvitiy aitcr it was oegun 22 years
ago, re?ognized the potentials of a
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3rd Section
TRUCKS ARE used to ship the ho6iery from the Frankfin plant to another plant for fin
ishing. A Burlington Industries truck is shown being loaded! with hosiery at the ramp of the V
local plant.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to
FRANKLIN HOSIERY COMPANY
on their
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
and
BEST WISHES FOR THEIR
FUTURE SUCCESS
NANTAHALA OIL COMPANY
A
ATTENTION! ALL LISTENERS
(oops, we are sorry, we meant readers, but here it is loud
and clear anyway ? there we go again)
HAPPY
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HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
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to
FRANKLIN HOSIERY COMPANY
and
BESTWISHES
FOR
THE FUTURE
We are proud to have you in the community we serve and think
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that your contributions are many and lasting.
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