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Published by and f
CLINTON and LY
Clinton, Sou
Calvin Cooper
The publishers of The
items of interest from its re
reporters or to the personnt
Who Is Mos
Have you ever stopped to t
person at Clinton and Lydia
If this question was asked
many different answers. Some
general superintendent. Some
tendent and overseers. Some
ployee.
The last is correct because
termine the future of your c
Everyone working today fc
it to himself and his fellow em
perfect as possible. If bad slive
bad roving for the spinners an<
processed and reaches the cu:
means that the orders stop cor
fice. YOU then as an employe'
employees. The company can
employment for you because
with the goods received.
You have often heard the s
would be some changes made,
far from being perfect and thai
difficult to complete a task ass
of your associates and your c
problem which cannot be worl
If you are a sweeper, spir
job has a very definite part
plant. No job is less importan
You, by giving your full
supervisor, working with and
make Clinton and Lydia Mills
Swimmii
Roth swimming onnle u/il
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read, but it is not a bit too late
proper water safety.
Everything humanly possi
Clinton-Lydia swimming pools
the only way an accident can
Carelessness is up to each sing
be put out of mind, especially i
Children, learn the rules
closely. The only reason we ha^
tion. Live by them and you wi
swimming and playing in the \
guardians and their word is la
all for your own good.
Truck Drivers . . .
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child. He is a native of Ware
Shoah and his favorite hobbies
are hunting and fishing.
Now we come to Jim Little,
truck at the
Clinton M i 11
^ has seen Jim
' driving around
t^e plants or
across town between the two
mills knows he is a safe and
sane driver and his record
proves it. Jim lives at 108
Tribble Street and is a member
of the Mt. Zion Methodist
Church in Joanna. He was
born in the country near
Joanna and has one adopted
son who is a preacher.
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HiMAKER
or the employees of
DIA Cotton Mills
th Carolina
Editor
Clothmaker will welcome
aders. Turn them in to your
?1 office.
t Important?
hink who is the most important
Mills?
each employee, there would be
> wnillH sav tor* rr> u no <Tor>c anrl
?. - - -v. vwiiiwiiw^v-i o auu
would say the plant superinwould
say the individual emi
YOU as an employee can deompany.
>r Clinton and Lydia Mills owes
plovees to do the job as nearly
?r is turned out, this turns into
i doffers. This bad work, if it is
stomer as an inferior product,
ning in from the New York ofe
have affected all your fellow
no longer operate and furnish
th. customer was not satisfied
tatement, "If I were Boss, there
" Supervisors realize they are
t instances arise where it seems
;igned. If you have the welfare
:ompany at heart, there is no
teed out.
iner, doffer, weaver, etc., your
in the overall picture of your
t that another.
cooperation to your immediate
for your fellow workers, can
the best in the textile industry
ng Pools
1 be open bv the time this is
to issue another warning about
ble lias been done to make the
as safe as possible. Just about
happen is through carelessness.
;le individual and should never
around the water,
of the pools and follow them
/e them is for your own protecill
enjoy countless happy hours
pools. The life guards are your
iw . . . but just remember, it's
MSk
300 Sloan Street
Dear Mr. Cornelson,
We were very surprised and
pleased to receive your letter
and award. We are proud that
our work was considered
worthy of first prize in the
clean-up. fix-up contest. You
may be interested to know
that we plan to spend the
prize money for more plants
and bulbs and will continue to
improve our yard. Thank you
for your encouragement.
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Lowe
'HE CLOTHMAKER
Finer Cloth R<
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ity product in other departments
which follow the opening.
Poor attention to these de
tails in this department, aj
well as the picker room, will
result in uneven yarn and excessive
end breakage in the
carding, spinning and weaving
departments. This not
only means poor quality, but
also means less production,
which lowers the pay of all
piece workers throughout the
mill.
Heart of Mill
The carding department is
often called "the heart of the
mill." Whether or not uniform
and good quality yarns
and cloths are produced from
the mills is determined right
in the card room. If poor quality
rovings are produced there,
nothing can be done in the
spinning room or other departments
to correct such
faulty conditions. To write
down all the many things that
must be done in the card room
to make good rovings would
make this article a longer one
than you would perhaps want
to read; but the importance of
every job in this department
cannot possibly be over-emphasized.
It is here that it is determined
if the yarns will be
uniform, strong and clean
and if we will get good production
and quality in the
sninnint* and woavp rnnms
Among other things, it is important
that cleaning of all
machinery be done well and
regularly; otherwise, waste
will be spun in to the yarn,
resulting in uneven yarn and
slubs and gouts in the cloth
which cannot go out of our
mills as first quality goods.
Spinning Rooms
Much can be done in the
spinning room to make yarns
that will weave well and produce
cloth of uniform appearance,
strength and cleanliness.
Buyers of cloth are constantly
comparing the evenness of
yarns in fabrics made by different
mills and those mills
with thf> pupnpvit vnrnc aro
put at the head of the buyers'
list and their product is
always in demand. In this department
also, proper cleaning
schedules must be followed
and much care taken
in cleaning and blowing off of
frames; otherwise, the same
uneven, gouty or slubby yarn
and high breakage will result
in the spinning and
weave rooms, as described in
the card room.
Weaving
Perhaps the most important
mailer id users ui prim cioms,
such as are made in our mills,
is the matter of weaving
quality; that is, freedom from
weaving imperfections in the
goods. Even yarns are most
important in the quality of
finished goods, but often times
faults of this type can be
partially covered up, or at
least minimized, by printing,
dyeing and other finishing on
the goods, but there is very
little that can be done in finishing
of cloth to cover up or
even minimize the bad effect
of most weaving imperfections.
Such goods are usually
cut up and made into finished
^ui nit-nib anu wnen necessary
to class as second quality, it
results in much extra expense
and trouble to our customers.
Cloth Standards
Our mills have certain
cloth grading standards which
are designed to result in uniformity
of first quality goods
for shipment to our various
customers and these stand
squires Full Go
ards are set at a level to make
our goods equal to or better
than first quality print cloths
sold by the mills with whom
we compete. We also have
standards for all classes of
goods other than first quality,
designed to accomplish
the same purpose as our
standards for first quality
goods. If we produce cloth
with an excess of imperfections,
the percentage of our
second quality and other off
goods goes up, resulting in
seiious losses to the mills, as
such classifications must be
cnlrl of o rlit'nnimi
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Knowing that it is not a
practical matter to produce
100',; perfect goods in quantity,
our customers expect a
certain limited number of imperfections
in the cloth they
buy from any grey goods mill
and, in most cases, these customers
are most reasonable in
this respect. However, we do
not ever want to forget that
many of these imperfections
result in second quality garments
or other articles for
which our goods are used and
this means serious losses and
much inconvenience to our
customers. Therefore, you can
see why a user of print cloths
will buy his goods lrom the
mills who produce the best
quality and oftentimes will
pay a premium for such goods,
in any case, he will give the
order to the mills who make
the better aualitv eoods and
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that, at times, amounts to the
same thing as a premium.
Imperfections
There are many types of
weaving imperfections which
are very objectionable, but
since our weavers and loom
fixers are familiar with all of
them, we will mention only a
few, which are most common
in grey goods and can be kept
to a minimum with only
reasonable care.
In many cases, a weaver
will fail to trim off a hanging
thread after drawing in a
broken end and, more often
than not, the thread is too
long for the shearer to cut it
off, with result the thread is
not detected and is left in the
cut of cloth.
When the cloth is dyed or
printed, this hanging thread
prevents the dye-stuff from
covering that area and as
a result there is a white
streak the length of the
thread left on the cloth and
this means waste, or a second
quality garment if not
noticed and cujt out.
Other imperfections that
cause m u c h trouble are
rlouhlpv Hi'au/.Kaf'lfc
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and wrong draws, which can
easily be seen and corrected
at the loom. Dirty ends that
come from repairing broken
threads at the loom cause
much trouble and could be
corrected bv keeping the
hands as dry and clean as
possible. Coarse and oilv warp
ends should be watched fur
and removed as soon as
noticed. Of course, there are
numerous other defects that
can be corrected by the
weaver and much expense
and trouble could be saved if
this is done.
Good loom fivii-wr !in/l !/?/?? .
maintenance is the real answer
to weaving quality and
the majority of cloth defects
would never occur on looms
which have had the proper
attention. Jerked-in filling;
smashes; break-outs; rowy
cloth; button-hole selvages;
ropey filling; thin places;
thick places and bad filling
changes are a few of the im
JUNE IS, 1952
operation ...
peifections that occur frequently
in cloth and could bo
reduced to a minimum.
New Displays
We have obtained some
samples of dyed and printed
cloth and a few made-up
gaiments; all of which contain
some type of weaving
imperlection which has resulted
in second quality.
These samples will be put on
display in the various weave
looms at both mills, so that
you can see first hand iust
how bad a weaving imperfection
looks in a piece of finished
goods or a made-up garment.
If you bought one of
these garments with a bad imperfection
in it, you wouldn't
like it at all and would want
your money back. That is just
how the thousands of people
feel about it who buy shirts,
slips, pajamas, shorts, playsuits,
beach wear, curtains,
dresses and many other articles
made from our goods.
There is much that each of
us can do to make such good
quality cloth that it will be
preferred by the many users
of the fabrics we make in our
mills. If we are sincere in out
efforts to do this, it will mean
that our mills will be able to
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reasonably full time employment
most of the time.
p\D you KNOW
By W. P. Burdette
That the plans for the large
old Irbv house on S. Harper
St., Laurens, are said to have
been derived from those of
Solomon's Temple? This interesting
building was the home
of U. S. Sen. J. L. M. Irbv,
who was an able assistant of
Gov. and Sen. Ben "Pitchfork"
Tillman.
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That the towns of Cross
Alienors and Uross Keys are
named for two sailors? They
were good friends for many
years of sailing but retirement
time came and they wanted
to settle inland. One was a
seaman, wearing the cross
anchors of that marine craft,
and so he named his settlement
"Cross Anchors." The
other was a storekeeper, with
crossed keys as his insignia.
So he named his settlement
"Cross Keys."
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Some years a^o one of the
Clinton village preachers
asked for a new ^ate in his
yard. Said one of the veteran
carpenters when he heard of
it, "I don't know what he
wants with it?he wouldn't
keep it "shot'."
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Mrs. Othella Whitmire,
Clinton plant, continues ill.
Mrs. Estelle Dunaway, Clinton
plant, is recuperating at
home after being a patient at
Hays.
Clinton spinning room sick
list: Rosa Pearson, Clenny
Gosette, Dollie Wright (an
operation), and Violet Lawson.