The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, July 15, 1952, Image 1
CLINTON-LYDIA MILLS
VOL. I. NO. 6 JULY. 1952
CLINTON. 8. C.
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VOL. 1. NO. 6
4th Of July
Celebrated At
Both Plants
The Fourth of July went
off with a bang at both Clinton
and Lvdia Mills with a
full day's schedule of activities
planned for voung and
old.
Folks at Clinton got underway
at 8 in the morning at
the soft ball field for races
and games of physical skill.
At 9 it was time to cool off
with a refreshing swim at the
pool, then back to the softbal!
field again for balloon races,
candle races, jelly bean races,
peanut races and many others.
At noon the Woman's Club
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Clinton community center.
The Horizon group of Campfire
Girls sold drinks, ice
cream and cake during all
of the activities.
Over at Lvdia similar races
and games were held for
everyone from two to 70 years
of age. Run to Mama races
and others provided plenty of
fun and laughs. A community
picnic was held at lunch time,
with swimming and other
events taking up the afternoon.
Elaborate prizes were given
in all events at both plants
from ear bobs to a fine pressure
cooker which was grand
r?ri7P at T.vdia Samp r?f tho
other prizes donated bv Clinton
merchants and businesses
included cloth, fishing plugs,
waffle irons, hair cuts, steak
dinners with all the trimmings.
ice cream, hams, hose,
dresses, movie tickets, toasters,
silver dollars, potted
plants and scores of others.
Day Camp Held
With 50 Girls
More than 50 girls from
the Lydia Mills community
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Campfire Girls Day Camp
hold at Lvdia park the week
of July 13.
A full schedule of activities
was carefully planned for the
girls each day, including devotionals,
games, Indian lore,
crafts and swimming at the
Lvdia pool.
The camp was under the direction
of Mrs. lone Wallace
wun me iouowing advisors:
Mrs. J. B. Templeton, Miss
Mary Johnson, Mrs. Roy
Thomas. Mrs. Frances
Warner. Miss Miriam Templeton.
Miss Margaret Mitchell.
Mrs. Bobbv Boyce, Mrs. Lois
Webb. Mrs. Trammie Boozer
and others.
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the managership of Mr. and Mrs.
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Methods of Acf
Fabrics Are Des
By Norman Meyers. Pres.
Clinton Cottons. Inc.
Each trade we sell seems
to have a particular and good
reason, for the quality it
needs. For certain purposes
a good strong piece of goods
is demanded and these customers
constantly keep after
us about the breaking
strength of fabrics. Others are
so particular that they buy
goods made only on feel
motions. For this reason we
make stvle HH both wavs. It
is our job to know such
things, keeping the mill informed
about the uses to
which the goods are being put.
As you know, tests are
made in the plants many
times a day on all phases
of the manufacturing end
of the business. Everything
done from your end producing
high quality uniform
goods aids us that much
more in selling the fabric.
The meat of this subject is
that our customers can buy
from many, many mills the
same cloth they buy from us.
All of these goods are priced
at the market so there is no
price advantage. You may ask
why we get business sometimes
and our competitors do
not, or just the opposite.
The true reasons are quality
and service. Quality of our
goods must at least equal the
quality of the best mill in the
country, and the service we
give our customers here and
i?i the detail departments at
the mills, and in the shipping
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department, etc.. must be the
best. I know of few things
more competitive than the
goods we make.
Now we come to the part
which we in the New York
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This will introduce you to
Mrs. Michael B. Sholar, better
known as "Pat." who is the
new recreation assistant at
both Clinton and Lydia plants.
Pat and her husband come
to Clinton from Greensboro.
N. C. where she recently was
?*? duated from the Woman's
College of the University of
North Carolina, majoring in
lecreation. She began work
June 15 and principally will
direct activities among the
teen-agers at both villages.
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office do, and how we go about
it. As you know, we have salesmen
in New York and in other
large cities, such as Chicago.
Boston. Los Angeles, etc.,
who are able to better serve
the customers and give them
quicker information because
they are located right in the
same area as the customers.
Selling Example
As an example, let us say
that one of the large chain
store and catalog houses, such
as Sears Roebuck &: Co.. are
going to send out a new catalog
and from then experience
estimate, among other things,
that they will need 5.000
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They then go to a pajama
manufacturer and work out
the style of the garment, colors
and patterns, price and
delivery, and all other details,
a.000 dozen equals 60,000
garments, and it takes about
5 yards to make one garment.
So this one requirement of
this customer would use
300,000 yards of cloth.
The garment manufacturer,
who makes the pajamas, then
goes to a converter (whose
function has been explained
in a previous article) and
gives his order for the finished
cloth to the converter. At this
point it is important that the
converter immediately buy
the 300,000 yards of grey
goods at the market price
then prevailing, because markets
go up and markets go
down, but he has sold the
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Clinton, S. C.
Permit No. 59
JULY 15. 1952
League Cup
Captured By
Cavilettes
By Grace Wooten
The Cavilettes of ClintonLydia
late last month captured
the Piedmont Girls
Softball League trophy after
winning 20 straight games
without a single loss during
the season.
Games of the recordbreaking
Cavilettes have
been featured with heavy
hitting by the entire team.
As of the Clothmaker's
deadline, when 17 games
had been played. 311 hits
had been made with 40
home runs. 17 three-baggers
and 32 two-base hits.
June 3 the Cavilettes defeated
Joanna 12 to 1 with
Barbara Whitmire pitching
the one hit game. Joyce Creswell,
Barbara Whitmire, Ruth
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vinceni ana Jerry Barker hit
home runs.
June 5 the team beat Watts
Mill by the top heavy score of
25 to 4 and Whitmire again
was the winning pitcher. Creswell
and Davenport each tallied
a home run and Whitmire
rang up two of the circuit
clouts.
June 9 the Cavilettes went
to Whitmire and won by a
29 to 6 score with Pitts tossing
as the winning pitcher. This
game was featured by eight
home runs by the Cavilettes
with Vincent and Parker lashing
out two each. Davenport.
Patterson. Crawford and Pitts
scored one each.
June 10 the Pa\-ilettoc tnr?Lr
down Watts Mill 22 to 2; June
11 they again beat Watts by
the astounding score of 51 to
3; June 12 they beat Laurens
19 to 5 and June 23 they again
beat Watts by 26 to 6. June
25 the Cavilettes beat Joanna
24 to 8.
Vincent is leading the Cavilettes
at bat with 49 hits in
89 times at bat for an average
of .550. Crawford and Vincent
are leading in two base hits,
each with six. Vincent and
Whitmire are leading three
base hits with 4 each, and
Vincent is on top with home
runs having scored 11 Creswell
has scored the most
runs, crossing the home plate
51 times.
League team standings with
wins, losses and percentages
as of our deadline are as follows:
Clinton, 20. 0. 1.000;
Joanna. 10, 7. .588; Laurens,
9. 7. .562; Whitmire. 5. 11. .312;
Watts, 0. 16, .000.
A great deal of credit goes
to the young ladies of the
Cavilettes team for the con
tinuous hard practice which
they have done resulting in
such a successful season.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Meadors
deserve a world of credit
for their coaching and managership
of the team.