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Shore A. Neal
Shore A. Neal is personnel supervisor of the Burlington
Hosiery Company's No-Seam D4 vision, which includes Franklin
Hosiery Company. He has been a personnel executive with the
hosiery company since March, 1956. A native of Forsyth Coun
ty, Mr. Neal first joined Burlington in June 1950, and has sincei
served in various personnel and administrative capacities in
Burlington operations. Prior to joining the company, he had
served as a teacher and coach in Winston-Salem city schools,
at Lenoir Rhyne College, his alma mater, and as director of
parks and recreation for the City of High Point.
BEST WISHES
i And
CONGRATULATIONS
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To
Franklin Hosiery Co.
From
JAMISON JEWELERS
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CONGRATULATIONS
And
BEST WISHES
*
To Franklin Hosiery Co.
And
All Their Employees
We are proud of the fine contributions
you make to the progress and development
of our community.
HERE'S WISHING YOU
THE BEST OF SUCCESS
FOR THE MANY YEARS
TO COME.
ANGEL'S DRUG STORE
FIRST OPERATION in the manufacture of seamless hosiery
is knitting. Ficture here is Charles Mincey, Knitter, who is pull
ing a stocking on a form board for inspection.
EMPLOYS 26,000 ?
Worlds Leading Textile
Firm Started 36 Years Ago
.
Burlington Industries, Inc., the
world's leading textile manufac
turing organization, got its start
in North Carolina some 36 years
ago.
From a single small rayon plant
in Burlington ? which lent the
organization its name ? the com
pany now has plants located in
over 90 communities in 17 states
and four foreign countries.
Today, Burlington Industries is
North Carolina's largest employer,
with more than 26,000 employees
working in 58 manufacturing
plants in this state.
Key Figure
The key figure behind Burling
ton is Spencer Love, who with
initiative and money saved from
his pay as a World War I Army
officer, bought a cotton mill in
Gastonia, where he worked at his
first textile job.
When the possibility of a new
plant in Burlington came up in
1923, Mr. Love sold his Gastonia
real estate and moved his ma
chinery to Burlington, which gave
its name, its blessing and some of
its money to get the new textile
plant underway.
Rayon Eyed
Cotton mills of the day were
having dificulty, but the small
new plant became interested in a
little-known man-made' fiber, ray
on. Prom there was to lead an
upward trail that in only 10 years
took Burlington to a predominant
position as the largest weaver of
rayon fabrics in America.
In 1925, oply two years after
the company began, a wooden wall
was installed at Plant Number
Two at Piedmont Heights In
Burlington. Plant. No. Two was
an expansion of the company's
first plant.
Look To Future
Instead of being satisfied with
a new plant with four walls. Burl
ington looked to the future and
built one of the plant walls as
a temporary wooden wall, which
could be easily removed for fu
ture expansions. In many ways
the wooden wall is symbolic of
the spirit of progress shown by
company leaders who firmly be
lieved that the company would
succeed and grow. The wooden
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Paradox
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Second section
then-novelty fiber, nylon (the first
major non-cellulosic fiber intro
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
To Everyone
At
Franklin Hosiery Co.
(And Especially to all the Girls)
FRANKLIN BEAUTY SHOP
Here is a large group of the women employees operating looping machines fta the modern well lighted, air conditioned
work area. A large number of women from Macon and adjoining counties are employed in this department.
INSPECTING IS an operation where every stocking la care
fully inspected to insure the very best quality hosiery at all
imes. Shown at work is Pegjry Woodard, Inspector.
ducel by duPont in 1938), as hav- 1
Ing the strength and the fineness |
necessary to produce sheerer, yet
durable hosiery.
Team Work
The company then established
quality control laboratories and
put a team of experts to work on
producing finer stockings. So, for
almost 22 years, Burlington has
been attempting through research
and development to please milady
? by giving her an almost weight'
less stocking, so fine that it gives
thi leg a barefoot look and yet
having comfort and as much
strength as possible.
Those experts are the first to
admit the entire problem has not
been* solved, but progress' has been
made and even more success is iii
the offing,
Now. due to the expansion and
growth of the company, the
world's leading hosiery producer,
and the continual search for
newer and better hosiery processes
and fabrics, the quality control
and research department has been
moved to new and enlarged quar
ters. This spacious laboratory,
modern in every respect and one
of the best-equipped In the in
dustry, has just been opened
Known as the Burlington Hosiery
Company Research Center, it is
adjacent to the company's May
Hosiery Finishing plant.
Control Work
The research center serves as
central headquarters for quality
control work in all Burllngtoh
hosiery operations, including
Franklin Hosiery Co. ? full-fash
ioned or seamed, no-seam or seam
less ladies' hosiery and half-hose
or sock;. Sub-divisions are main
tained at Greensboro and Ashe
boro, N. C.. Harrlman. Tenn .
Pomona, Calif , in Canada, and
In South Africa.
This department stands watch
over BurJington's hosiery plants to
make certain quality levels are
maintained that will ensure sat
Isfatcory serviceability to the cus
tomer and consumer.
Nerve Center
THe research center is the nerve
center for hosiery production In
the company arid acts as a clear
ing house for Information on
hosiery manufacture.
It also acts as a clearing house
for diagnosing hosiery failures and
report back to the source of com
plaint.
Microscopic examination is made
of each stocking returned to de
termine the cause of the failure.
If this examination reveals a man
ufacturing defect, the department
takes immediate steps to prevent
a recurrence.
There are, of course, some man
ufacturing defects that can cause
failure of the stocking, but norm
ally these are found before the
hosiery leaves the plant. More
often, however, the failures are
due to causes beyond the control
of the manufacturer.
Cause* Listed
Principal causes of hoBiery
failures are: (li bruised fabrics.
(2) cigarette ash, (3) nykn sol
vents (atmospheric and cleanin;!
agents), (4) abrasion, and the big
one, < 5 > pull threads. Regardles.;
of how well the hose is manu
factured, once the fabric is
snagged, it certainly invites pre
mature hosiery failure.
This problem goes back to til")
demand for sheer hosiery amonr
today's wearers. ,H siery manu
fatcurers could, of course, produce
a stocking now that would outlasl
any on the market today. But. wh')
would buy it? Who would wear it
P-.ssibly the most outstanding
characteristic of nylon ? usfrd
almost exclusively in the manu
facture of ladies' hosiery ? is its
strength. Weight for weight, it is
stronger than steel wire, yet It
weighs less than any other com
monly used textile fiber
Yarn Is line
However, the nylon yarn used
in today's hosiery is so fine. It
takes approximately 2,700 yards
of yarn to knit a single stocking.
In that stocking are over 1.000,000
loops, with each loop depending
on the other like links in a chain.
Thus, it is not hard to understand
why the hoslc y experts work so
diligently to come up with an In
visible stocking that offers the
warmth and protection for which
the Idea of hosiery was originally
Intended, yet be able to withstand
harsh treatment for long periods
of wear and also sell at an eco
nomical price.
Thy have, at least, provided a
stocking today that's better than
ever ? sheerer and stronger ?
and at a better price than 10 years
ago.
It is not inconceivable that they
will find the perfect anawer to
the paradox in the new research
center. At least, there they have
the best equipment available to
do the Job. the manpower and the
training, and, certainly, the will
ingness to tackle that several years
ago miwht have seemed an im
possibility. Now, it doesn't seem
as uncertain.
FRANKLIN HOSIERY
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COMPANY
And
Their Employees
lii;>rv\VlSIII> AND 1 1 1 ART II '.ST
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Thi' c unt rihiil inns inadc l?v vour <>.rgai?iza
lion id I lie growth hi' oiii' coiuinunit y play a
vital part in our sih ? ess. We arc mighty proud
to have vou'with'us and wish you every suc
cess in the future. '
PERRY'S DRUG STORE
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IT MAKES US HAPPY
to wish the folks at
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FRANKLIN HOSIERY COMPANY
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AND BEST OF LUCK
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FOR THE FUTURE
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