Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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6 Lydia Clc "*-/* iS Kk a?T*-^ ? Bffn V^B William H. Gambrill and Rol here. As cloth comes into the L so that it is one piece for fast ( stitching machines, under the make fast work of joining the t\ I ^ \ ^ 3 gy.v&f; j Annie Whitmire, Grader; Her Laura Hughes, Grader, are show in the Lydia Cloth Room. In the notice the automatic air conditic feature of one of the most modei industry today. L. A. Williams. Cloth Room Checker; Charles Barlowe, Press background. Bale Header, are sh of the Lydia Cloth Room, balinc ployees, from the Opening Roor part in producing this baie of " PI^BEbhI dm 1 Inez Jackson and Virginia Wilson prove that you can be beautiful AND efficient as the/ effectively carry out their grading duties at Lydia. 1 >th Room >ert Bagwell, Stitcher Operators, are ydia Cloth Room from the looms, e 31oth Room operating techniques, experienced guidance of men like vo ends of cloth. W SttttB iry Snelgrove, Folder Operator, and n in the foreground of this picture center of the picture you will also ming equipment indicator, another :n Cloth Rooms to be found in the i Overseer; Harold Hairston, Cloth Operator and L. F. Martin, in the lown in one of the final operations 5 the cloth. Hundreds of Lyda emn to this point, have played their Quality Lydia Cloth." ? *** ^ I Harold Cunningham and Sherman Cooper are a good team of Folder Operators in the Lydia Cloth Room. [HE CLOTHMAKER -A Model nds are stitched Juanita ThTi The automatic and Perry Parris Bill and Robert. Room as they co humidification ar Lydia Cloth Ro Real 'Bosses9 Ai By L. A. Williams Overseer. Lydia Cloth Room Tin 4?r> OM who are our Dosses: uur customers, our selling houses and brokers, the bleacheries, the truckers and the public are all our "bosses." Our selling houses can sell our cloth for the first time to a customer, in large or small quantities, but it is the quality of the product which will determine whether or not he can resell to the same customer. This customer has probably placed similiar orders with several different Harold Hairston is the efficient Cloth Checker in the Lydia Cloth Room. His experience and ability maintains the quick dispatch of cloth from Lydia. w ?s" s k Hallie Campbell has a very responsible job as a Lydia Cloth Grader which she carries on most efficiently with an experienced background. of Efficie ^ T A ^m\ ti1 }M\ B> i jf UmT^ ~ -fl. j,; : * 3bHBWBB mhhi ft ?nH Ine-?. Jackson, Graders; Har ?h. Folder Operator, are shown in nduct their duties. The ducts at t< id air conditioning for maximum efi om Overseer E: re In A Textile I mills, and we have to compete with all the first quality cotton mills to maintain our customers. We have to be alert at all times as to the quality of our cloth. One of our many "bosses" may place an order with us for a quantity of h \tfVt of t Vto i?v?n V IWUI, VV I I IV I I Uk kl IV. I II I IV- I iu places the order, he intends to have finished in print cloth, but by the delivery date the market may be flooded with prints, and he decides to have the cloth finished in solid pastels. If the cloth is finished in solid pastels, every little defect in the cloth shows up at a great disadvantage. Any minor or major imperfection such as broken picks, double ends, bent reeds, wavy cloth, uneven yarn, reedy cloth, temple marks and gouts will absorb more dye than the rest of the cloth and produce imperfections called shiners. We do not always know jusi wnat our customer intends doing with our cloth, so the cloth room, or quality control department, must be on guard against these minor imperfections as well as the major ones. We may sell our cloth to a customer, who upon inspection of it, might not think it is up to the standard of other mills. He might not complain to us. but he would simply go elsewhere to purchase his cloth. On the other hand, we may have a good customer, who complains about the simplest little defect. He likes our cloth, but thinks that by complaining he will get a better quality. Then we may have a customer who will complain to us several times, giving us a chance, and if we do not do anvming aixmi his complaints, he will, of course, take his business elsewhere. At this point we bring in our inspectors and graders. One of the most important jobs in the cloth room is the inspect APRIL 15. 1953 ncy from /^SA HI .1 Sfc.l i ibknSb sB old Cunningham, Folder Operator; this view of the Lydia Cloth ap provide laboratory controlled iicient cloth production. Kplains Who *lant And Why ing and grading ot our cloth. One of the smallest yet most important tasks they have to perform is to remove all hangi n g threads, gouts, doctor bad weaves and scratch up long runs. A hanging thread can cause a great deal of trouble. For instance, if a piece of cloth containing a hanging thread is sent to the bleachery, the bleacher y prints the cloth with the hanging threads on it and when it is removed the cloth will not be printed underneath the threads. Although the bleacheries do not actually buy our cloth, they do have a big influence upon our "bosses". They are not supposed to class or grade our cloth, but. neverthe less, they can send out the word for or against us. The bleacheries, upon receiving cloth from many mills, have a system of checking from three to four bales from each shipment, listing each major and minor defect in the greige. classing the many different mills a? to their quality. Naturally, we want our plants to be No. 1. The manner in which our cloth is folded and baled is most important to the truck ing firm which handles our product. If we put up a "sloppy" bale or roll we can bo as(Cont'd. on Page 10) K~~*m Pi ~" v W Mrs. Juanita Thrift, Miss Roberta Chaney and Mrs. Eloise McElveen are a popular trio of Graders in Lydia's spotless Cloth Room.