Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 THE CLO' 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 *-> r?" ** 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 . . . (Cont'd, from Page 3) 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. i 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< (Cont'd, from Page 1) 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 kJWAVt C4 V C* UIO^WUIII. 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 A */ O "" 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 V?*MTf WI.4 v. ?\0, piv A~UU 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 ..,01 U ^ 1 ?: aun inuii f^uuua ailU glVK VUU 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. $ $ * 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." * $ * 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'." ib^00fZ a ? & V crTr 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.