The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 31, 1984, Page Page 2, Image 3
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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
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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\
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state's oldest employed industrial worke
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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:
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clebrating coeducation occurred in 1956,
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