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Page 2 ? August 31, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK Lancaster man w fnr rtpHiratinn tn W MUUIUU 1IU1I IU By Associated Press Floyed Mcllwain, an 86-year-old Lai who hasn't missed a day on the job sir for Ashe Brick Co. 73 years ago, was h South Carolina's oldest industrial wor "I always do a satisfactory day's wc in explaining his secret for a long and plenty of what I can afford, and I get rest so I-can be fresh for the next day Gov. Dick Riley and state labor McGowan presented Mcllwain with special State House ceremony Thursda ed a proclamation dedicating Labor Carolina's older workers. "Mr. Mcllwain's a good, hard w Rabon, customer service manager anc visor. 4 Hecomes from the old school tl a hard day's work for your pay." Mcllwain went to work lor Ashe Brit anc o! 13 and hasn't missr-H n rfav <Jn< and lias never had a serious accident on a pinched finger once or twice," lie s; He said he started off "toting wate hours a day, six days a week" for fou earned his supper by milking cows aft of the plant's owner, W.N. Ashe. Mcllwain has held a variety of jobs since his first day at work. He has been shipping department, "set brick" in tl and fired the kilns tor burning the bri He has been yard foreman, superv brick on trucks, since the 1930s. Mcllwain, who was presented wit I raimetto tiy KHcy in lv/v, said lie Ma"My health is good and I don't like nothing. They've (Ashe management) too hard, but I work just as hard as e The state Department of Labor laurn state's oldest employed industrial work w as selected from about 350 nominatic dustry, relatives and friends of older v ra 2 piz; 2 1 250-0301 1907 Blossom S 5 Points 1 til 1"^ fek ins honor 1 * iob 1 J icaster County man 1 ice he went to work onored Thursday as ? ker. t J )rk," Mcllwain said healthy life. 441 eat B| 9j plenty of sleep and f|| 1 g| 's work." H |J Commissioner F.d a plaque during a Hi H y. Later, Riley sign- B Day 1984 to South M 'orker," said Dave _ M i Mcllwain's super- S? lat believes in giving :k Co. in 1911 at the I :e because of illness \ Tg the job, "other than JH * lid. A r to the laborers, 10 "mm, \ r cents an hour, and er work on the farm Qr0yy|J COVltrOl in the brick factory USC President James Holderr a brijk loader in the highting Irish Uct. ^U. le kilns to be burned ising the loading of Former c h the Order of the 0y y^g Associated Press > no plants to retire. T he battle to open the do( to sit around doing students at Winthrop Colle^ told me not to work worth the "long, hard fij vcr," he said. former Gov. John West in :hed a search for the lhc college's 10th anniver er in July. Mellwain coeducational institution. >ns submitted by in Winthrop President Phil workers. West's willingness "to leai troversial fight to secure tion. . . permitted a col 2?) J _A P/2 ZAS FOR 4" 1 Item Pizzas for 10.2C Extra Chet I * I j 2 14" 1 Item Piz; ! for 10.4 I j Name j Phone i i I Expir i- Writ finnrfl mil I I _ iff Illflli I t ^(?89^ r BBl||HHfagjbt^^, nan announces to the band that thev will travel to Notre [ lovernor speaks declining enrollment and other serioi urs to male problems to flourish once again." ^e was well ?ht," said The first legislative push tc clebrating coeducation occurred in 1956, We sary as a recalled. But it took 20 years befoi the General Assembly would agree t Lader said admit males to Winthrop on a ful ri ? I ~ timn raci^lnn t i i 1 Uon'r J IliC LUIl- II.lie, i vaiuwiuiai uaan. coeducalege with "The final holdout in the proce: v:a exp 1 LOW + 4 Free 16 oz. ) tax included ise Is Standard - . zas + 4 Free Cokes? j i >0 tax included j I I I I I es 9 2 84 256 0301 \ Any Other Offer 1907 Blossom St. I ft Pnintc ^ W Mill %U | ? a 5 -- > 1B? *3BF JMBMI^y |HU r] Pholo by Joseph Garnett )ame University when the Gamecocks play the at Winthrop js was one of the great legislators of our generation, Marion Gressette, the senator from Calhoun," West said, ir adding that Gressette, who died this st year,"did come to recognize the re wisdom of that change 10 years ago." r\ I U A rr*Ur\/\l U/orf 4 /A r U ?r of ?./ I 11V 1V.I1UUI IIUIIUIWU ?T L31 I UI 1113 V.I1 forts Wednesday by naming him the first recipient of the Winthrop Medallion during convocation ?s ceremonies. 'RESS PRICE r?~i rff) uuites i B /HJ M M ^1 ZDOUJUI j 1907 Blossom St. 5 Points