The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, October 15, 1952, Page 5, Image 5

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OCTOBER IS, 1952 Know j (Your plant reporters of the Clothmaker do an excellent job each month in providing you with news of your neighbors and fellow workers in both plants. So that you can know these people better, this feature each month will introduce you to some of the reporters with a brief sketch about each. This month we meet a few of the Clinton Mill group, next month introducing you to some at Lydia.?Ed. Note.) The first reporter we intro duce you to this month is Mildred Kinard who is very well known in the Clinton Mill where she is a spare weaver and battery filler in the weaving department, first shift. wv'/.? < y Mildred Kinard Mildred and her husband, Oscar, live at 506 Sloan street and they both are members of Calvary Baptist church. Oscar also works at Clinton in No. 1 weaving. Mildred also has eight other relatives working for Clinton-Lydia. A native of Clinton, she has worked here since 1941. They have one son. Mrs. Kinard is a great baseball fan and an interested member of the Clinton Wo man s Ulub. ET" > r / x rB B V fl Dorsey Turner Dorscy Turner is our capable reporter on the first shift in the Clinton cloth room where he works as a grader. He and his wife. Inez, live at 701 Jefferson street. Incidentally, Inez is a weaver at Clinton with ten year's experience but she is on a leave of absence right now. Dorsey has worked in the cloth room since 19JO and he is a native of rOintnn Tlw> Dorsevs have four children, two boys and two girls. He says his favorite hobbies are music and rocking babies, and this last hobbv may give you an idea of why Inez now is on leave of absence. ] r Reporters ! w " * & ^ !/ "" ..V%; i : * .. , >> , " Jennie Watkins Mrs. Jennie Watkins handles all of the news from No. 1 spinning on the first shift at Clinton where she is a spinner. A native of Greer, S. C., Mrs. Watkins lives at 405 Sloan street and she is a member of the Baptist church. Jennie is a veteran employee. having worked at Clinton for the past 32 years. She has seven relatives also employed at Clinton-Lydia. She has one son. Her favorite hobbies are reading and sports. Lydia Campfires Have Entered Contest The Lydia Campfire Girls have added four new members during the past month and are holding their weekly meetings each Tuesday at 5 o'clock. The Lydia group has entered a contest with the national Campfire organization in which they will sell greeting cards. First prize in the contest is a four-weeks vacation at a Campfire girl camp, plus Sfifl in mch TVarn-o aro other prizes and the Lydia group is hoping to capture some of them. Youth Night "Youth Night" in the Clinton village is growing by leaps and bounds as the teen agers gather in the community building each Saturday night. Volley ball and horse shoe have been added to the many other pastimes enjoyed by this group. A big Hallowe'en carnival is being planned for the last 1 i ivl o\? nirfUt i n tUio t K Every teen-ager in the village is invited to the fun sponsored each Saturday night bv the Clinton Woman's Club. MR. AND MRS. BARDY Cannon are two of our newly-weds at the Clinton plant. They were married August 30. [ HE CLOTHMAK =EE CI i vQSso?P is r^H 1 NEW OFFICERS OF TH they were elected this past son, treasurer. Back row: Mi ham, secretary; Mary Frances B|VT -y f\ B jmB^ F. r^ ^L. \ B y JM THE CLINTON HOBBY members already working on of Mrs. Eva Land, center, is M NEW OFFICERS OF Th club September 15. The new president; Mrs. Allen Power, well, assistant secretary; Mrs : e r nton Acti w*m E SCHUBERT Music Club at the Clii month. Front row: Jo^?n Burgess, ass irtha Joan Reeder, vice president, EI Foster, reporter and Dawn Campbell I \ - L[(^ 9t' "^mmm CLUB is off to a fine start for the presents they will give for Christina: doing ceramic painting. - w|| vr- *'M OQQI Jr ft* .< A ' ^NPBi r\ I I Vm f:' $\' ^4 I ; [E CT.TNTON Woman's club were ir officers are Mrs. Clinton West, pre? second vice president; Mrs. Arthui , Elvin Holtzclaw, treasurer and Mrs 5 vities ^? JN fekji j ^^jgH R / J^Hr ! M pp * * t% w faf? I I, B^ mK9 . ^^kvk' / ifl ^XW 'S +S9 V i^l *<SpaSeVv^^^r T V 3^5^28^^ a nton Mill are shown above right after istant secretary, and Lorraine Patter lizabeth Cole, president; Pat Cunning, treasurer. HL? ' Er fall and winter season with a lot of ?. The above group, un^er the direction r* ^1 i 4? r* > - 1 c. k * istalled at this dinner meeting of the iident Mrs. O. W. McGee. first vice Howard, secretary; Mrs. Lewis Bag. Ina Bell Hooper, assistant treasurer.