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Page 2 ? August 31, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK Lancaster man wi for dedication to By Associated Press Floyed Mcllwain, an 86-year-old Lan who hasn't missed a day on the job sin for Ashe Brick Co. 73 years ago, was he South Carolina's oldest industrial work "1 always do a satisfactory day's wo in explaining his secret for a long and plenty of what I can afford, and 1 get ] rest so l ean be fresh for the next day': Gov. Dick Riley and state labor McGowan presented Mcllwain with special State House ceremony Thursday ed a proclamation dedicating Labor I /" i: ? _ i l Carolina s oiuer wofkcts. 4,Mr. Mcllwain's a good, hard w< Rabon, customer service manager and visor. 4 He comes from the old school th a hard day's work for your pay." Mcllwain went to work for Ashe Brie age of 13 and hasn't missed a day sine and lias never had a serious accident on t a pinched linger once or twice," he sa He said he started off "totinu water hours a day. six days a week" for four earned his supper by milking cows aftc 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 th and fired the kilns for burning the briv He has been yard foreman, supervi brick oil trucks, since the 1930s. Mcllwain. who was presented with Palmetto bv Riles in 1979, said he has "My health is good and I don't like nothing. They've (Ashe management) t too hard, but I work just as hard as e\ The state Department of Labor luunc state's oldest employed industrial worke was selected from about 350 nominatio dustry, relatives and friends of older w J"" 111 p? A?*** 2 piz; 2 1 256-0301 1907 Blossom Si 5 Points ns honor ! U4 job ~~ caster County man ce he went to work XViurcHoif oc * ;JIUI vu i uuiouaj ao * :er# 18 f rk," Mcllwain said I^Btt healthy life. "I eat ? BBg |B plenty of sleep and op ff| s worlc." || p Commissioner Ed " a plaque during a |P /. Later, Riley sign- 8| Day 1984 to South |? orker," said Dave _ W|KP Mcllwain's super- Wt at believes in giving jjj k v u. in i vi i ai ine "^i i p e because of illness t he job, "other than ^ J|j * to the laborers, 10 cents an hour, and rr work on the farm CrOWd COIltrOl in the brick factory ^SC President James Holdern a brijk loader in the Fighting Irish Oct. 20. e kilns to be burned sing the loading of Former q ^4 the Older ot the gy The Associated Press no plants to retire. The battle to open the doo to sit around doing students at Winthrop Colleg old me not to work worth the "long, hard fig cr," he said. former Gov. John West in hed a search for the 'he college's 10th anniver: :r in July. Mcllwain coeducational institution. ns submitted by in Winthrop President Phil I orkers. West's willingness "to leac troversial fight to secure tion. . . permitted a col! X J)e *1 P/2 ZAS FUR 4" 1 Item Pizzas for 10.2C ni cxira unet | 2 14" 1 Item Piz; | for 10 .i i I Name i Phone I I I I Expir ? j Not Good wI I I ^*mBa*glBBB[BU& m, ? fe. Wmm * " - * ' "* I gfSB?jF^ ...."^^jSB^ ( ^ I 1^^'i^r'.". <^MK|LL I AH sKM nw>J|fflB' m m nro ian announces to the band that they will travel to Nol lovernor speak; declining enrollment and other so rs to male problems to flourish once again, e was well ;ht," said The t*rsl legislative push clebrating coeducation occurred in 1956, sary as a recalled. But it took 20 years b the General Assembly would agr Lader said admit males to Winthrop on a 1 the con- time, residential basis. coeducalege with "The final holdout in the pr ZA EXI 1 LOW + 4 Free 16 oz, I tax included ise Is Standard zas + 4 Free Cokes^ >0 tax included es 9-2-84 256-0301 Any Other Offer 1907 Blossom St 5 Points M If I iI''?Tm|IwB M 11 ' 11 I - ?fc M v>JHks| Photo by Joseph Garnett re Dame University when the bamecocks play the ? at Winthrop rious was one of the great legislators of our generation, Marion Gressette, the senator from Calhoun," West said, tor adding that Gressette, who died this West year,"did come to recognize the efore wisdom of that change 10 years ago." IV 111 Thp cchr>r\l linnnrpfl Wf>ct lV\r hie F?f full- forts Wednesday by naming him the first recipient of the Winthrop Medallion during convocation ocess ceremonies. I 9RESS nnipr rniuc . Cokes? i ?! I I ? I I I I I I I * t I 256-0301 i imu/ Blossom St. -* 5 Points I