Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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APRIL IS, 1952 I fw w j :-t K K- I i i^H THE CLINTON MEN'S CLUE more members from the Clinton p held under the direction of the ol dent; James Crain, vice-president; Campbell, secretary. Oil Stoves Demand Care An oil stove when it is kept clean, installed correctly and watched constantly is a great help and convenience in the kitchen. Improperly installed, dirty and left unwatchcd when you leave the house, an oil stove can be one of the greatest hazards to life, furniture and other household goods, not to mention your house, that can be found today. In fact, more than 90 per cent of the fires at Clinton and Lydia villages during the past 10 years were started by faulty or unwatchcd oil stoves. Fortunately some of the oil stove fires have been caught at an early stage and total loss of house and goods was prevented. but not before much of tho fi i rn i 111 rf> clnthos otr were seriously damaged either by fire or smoke and water. In some other cases, the houses and all that was in them was completely lost. Here are a few simple rules to help prevent oil stove fires: 1. Be sure the stove is completely level and that tank and pipe lines have no leaks. 2. Keep the surfaces of the stove completely clean of grease and oil. Keep paper and other easily burned materials away from stove. 3. Most important of all. don't go away and leave an oil stove or heater burning, even for a few minutes. It only takes an oil fire a moment to start and within minutes the fire is beyond control. * * * Try putting your heart into your work?and see how it puts heart into you. **4 ~ J EjFjJ MB i Lb^S i WMiHB IT WAS LADIES NIGHT a when the Clinton Men's Club ei About 36 member* and their wi J is an active group that welcomes lant. Some interesting meetings are fficers above: J. E. Braswell, presiCecil Wooten, treasurer and George ,/ y out2~ & ^ of Mrs. Helen Nance, Lvdia, : l -i i '? emu i\\<? ciniuren nave Deen ill. The H. E. Martin family at Lvdia has been ill with flu. Jonah Brown. Lvdia, was ill several days. Glad to see Mrs. Evie Shocklev, Lvdia. back after an illness. Mrs. Josie Bovters has been absent due to the illness of. her husband. Mrs. Geneva Caughman, Lvdia, has been ill. Mrs. H. H. Dalton. Lvdia, has been in the hospital. Myitis Livingston is out again after an illness. Mrs. Stacia Cooper. Clinton, has been ill. Mrs. Abelina Evans. Clinton, is suffering from an injured hand. Joe Adams, Danny Ivester and Mrs. J. H. Whitmire. all of Clinton plant, have been ill. Mrs. Willie Mae Riley, Clinton, is ill with flu. Mrs. Fred Cantrell, Mack Thompson, and Walter Smith. all of Clinton have hoen sank Mrs. Rov Quinn's daughter has been sick, and David Hughes. Clinton plant, was at Blalock Clinic. Mrs. Vivian Kuvkendall. Clinton, has been ill. Earl Barton, father of Mrs. Helen Owens. Clinton, has been ill at Langley, S. C. Frank Owens, son of the G. J. Owens, has been at Hays 1 lospital. I 4 H M H t Panorama Lodge late last month ntertained their wives at a dinner, ves attended the enjoyable affair. THE CLOTHMAKER Clean-Up, FixUp Time Here With Contest Springtime is "Clean-up Paint-up and Fix-up" time throughout the nation anu that inrlnrlpc nil nf nc ir-i t - > Clinton-Lvdia villages. Take a look around the place today and see wha needs to be done. It's surprising what just a little work can do and how it makes the homeplace look so much nicer for all the Spring and Summer months to come. Cleaning-up, painting - up and fixing-up will pay off at Clinton-Lvdia, too. A contest is being sponsored bv the mills at both villages from April 15 to May 1. Three prizes at each village will be given for the nicest looking places in the opinion of outside judges not connected with the mills. Prizes will b? c 1 ^ cm a c^ ;~ 11 ~ g n/ ciiiu 111 VJCI^II vina^c. The outside of all houses and the yards will be judged May 1. so you have two weeks to get things fixed up and win a cash prize. *7&e Oi<t *7tt*ten. .. . Well, we've got a pretty good story for you this time. It seems that one of Lydia's supervisory staff had a tough time with his income taxes this year. We'll just call him Mr. X. but maybe you can guess who he is. It seems that Brother X didn't even START making out his income tax until March 17. then he found he had no forms. He pretty nearly turned the house out from top to bottom and finally found them. He sat down and then found he didn't have an instruction sheet. His wife found one of these next door. About 11:30 that night he was through but?wait a minute?then he could not find a blank check. Back went the wife to wake up the neighbors again and borrow a check, and then a mad dash to the post office. At last the forms were in the mail box. mother a beat it home ana piled in bed for a good night's sleep. Yep. that's what he thought until his wife asked a question, "X. dear, where did you get the stamps for the envelopes?" "Ding the blast it." said X. "I plumb forgot all about the stamps." Out of the car came that new car again and on to the post office. He had the two stamps, but how to get them into the box and on the envelopes? "Blast the ding it." said our friend. "I'll just slide them in the box," and that's exactly what he did. Arriving home, the dear wife came up with the suggestion that there was not much chance of the stamps potting on the envelopes. "Blast the heck." said X. "I've paid enough alreadv. If the collector wants the dinged returns. let him pay the postage." And with that, we leave you for this month. * * Accidents hurt you -safety helps everyone. A t S > i HERE ARE ABOUT 20 OUT O pliances available today to help ma you add them in your home, howevc current, some of them a lot more thai devices will help reduce your electr Helpful Hints On Using Ap Elcctricitv is one of tho most useful servants a person can have today, giving us more leisure time, more laborsaving devices and a higher standard of living. Electricity goes about its work of helping us with great ease, quiet and simplicity that we never give f it a thought. We never give r it a thought, that is. unless the v monthly electric bill goes up \ and then we really let out a j howl. v Knowing this we decided to ? dig out some facts about olec- j tricity and what it costs for s what it does right here at \ Clinton and Lvdia Mills. r COST IS DOWN a The first thing we found out v was that while practically everything else that enters in- f to our cost of living has gone a up. electric power has not and t actually is ill per cent less 5 than it was in 1940. according j to Duke Power Co. Duke r Power Co. sells Clinton-Lydia t their power and the mills in c turn resell it to village houses c at the same rate charged by c Duke. i Duke Power Co. tells us s that while electric power is .'11 per cent cheaper than in 1940. x the average bill is twice as much but customers are get- L ting three times as much t power for the extra money. The process of adding more and more electric appliances i to every home has been a ^ steady but gradual one so that the ;ivoraep r?er?nn rt<-?r?c > realize how many things they j have that arc using power un- , less they sit down and start making a list. There are electric stoves, electric clocks, percolators, | irons, grills, toasters, waffle . irons, griddles, mixers, radios, television, heaters, washing machines, refrigerators, hot water heaters, elec'ric fans. < hair dryers, bottle warmers, electric blrnkets, not to men- i tion electric lights and scores of other useful electrical items. Every home does not ] ..11 ?1 : l- . im?c <111 ui II1CSC Ill'IIlIS, OUl every home has a lot of them < and we wouldn't give them up for the old fashioned way we used to do the same things. If we use electrical ap- < pliances and don't use proper care in turning them on and off, they will use electric power and you may be surprised when the bill comes in. 3 F HUNDREDS of electrical apke your life more pleasant. As ;r, remember that each one uses i others. Careful use of electrical ic bill. ; Given Mm pliances At the same time if you know which electrical appliances use the most current and use all electrical devices the right way, you can cut that bill down. Let's look at the Duke 3ower Co. rates which the nills pass on to you and then ve will see how much it costs o operate a stove and other mplements. The first 50 kilovatt hours you use are billed it 5 cents each, the next 50 v\VH at 2L> cents each and til over 100 KWH at 2 cents. Vater heaters have a special ate but we will confine this irticle to all other equipment mulii carries xne regular rate. An electric stove turned on ull. using all units, burns tbout 10 kilowatts an hour. Jsing the minimum billing of ? cents per KWH. this means t could cost you 50 cents to un your stove an hour. On he other hand, if you turn >ne or two units on high for juick heating, then turn them iovvn for continuous cooking, his reduces the power used ;o that cost is reduced. Let's look at some other deices and see how much power hey consume. You can figire the cost by multiplying he kilowatt hours by the ates shown above: Electric percolator, 2 5th x\Y per hour; electric iron, 34 o 1 K\V per hour; sandwich pill. 4 5 KWH: toaster, piddle or waffle iron. 1 \WH; electric mixer. 3 20 KWH; television, 1 3 KWH Lip; reflector heater. 1 to 2 KWH; washing machine, refrigerator, U; hot water neater. 1 KWH; electric fan. H KWH. WATCH EQUIPMENT The above figures are for equipment in good condition. If a large electric bulb is used in a refrigerator, or if the rubber gasket around your refrieerator Honr ic wnm it \?rill probably run almost all the time, doubling or tripling the operating cost. This is one reason one house with practically the same furnishings as the next may have a higher electric bill. Leaving a radio or television (and lights) on while you go to the store will do the same. The euuipment doesn't know you aren't using (Cont'd, on Page 5)