The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, September 15, 1953, Image 1
CLINTON-LYDIA MILLS
VOL. 2. NO. 8 SEPTEMBER. 1953
CLINTON. S. C.
?ILIMITOS
VOL. 2. NO. 8
Cavilettes
Honored Guests
At LydiaParty
The pennant winning, undefeated
Cavilettes were
honored for their hard-hitting,
fast-fielding efforts in
the past season with a fine
banquet at the Providence
School late last month. The
season was over, but everything
at the banquet, including
the menu, was baseball
style.
Umpire of the event was
Personnel Director Calvin
Cooper. The game caller was
Lydia Superintendent Dave
Roberts who pronounced the
invocation. The rooting section,
which consisted of extending
greetings to the
Cavilettes and praising them
for their outstanding play for
mis and previous years, was
J. B. Templeton, Vice President
in Charge of Manufacturing
for Clinton-Lydia Mills.
Team-work was Calvin
Cooper again as he presented
a lovely trophy to the team
which was accepted by Mr.
and Mrs. Clark Meadows,
coaches and managers of the
team.
The "grand-slam" was
made by George Cornelson.
Vice President of Clinton
Lvdia Mills, who presented
sterling silver medallions to
each of the players.
Attending the banquet, in
addition to those listed above,
were Reuben Stroud, umpire,
and the following members
t\f tlio tnam'
Pat Davenport, Carol Patterson,
Nancy Pitts. Betty
Harrison, Lillie Belle Crawford,
Barbara W h i t m i r e,
Carol Mills, Bobbv Harrison
and Betty Jo Vanderford.
The banquet was served by
ladies of the Lydia community
and a baseball motif was
carried out in the table decorations.
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Don't let the "Accident-Rattler"
strike you in the mills. Keep
safety on your mind ALWAYS.
ALL WAYS!
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CALVIN COOPER. CLINTON
Clark Meadows, managers of the C
ionship Trophy. George Cornelson
late last month.
Clinton-Lydia Begin
Million Man Hours
October 1 will be a red
letter day at Clinton-Lydia
Mills because it marks the
starting date for a concerted
drive by both mills to reach
one million man-hours at
work without havint? a lost
time accident.
Separate records will be
kept for each mill and the
management has promised
the biggest barbecues you've
ever seen (and eaten) for both
mills when they reach the
goal. On present work schedules.
it will take Lvdia
about six months without an
accident to reach the goal,
and Clinton Mills a little less
than six months.
The man-hours without an
accident must be in successive
order. In other words, if
one mill should work two or
three hundred man-hours and
then have a lost time accident.
that mill has to start
over again "from scratch." A
lost-time accident is one in
which an injured employee
is off the job for more than
one working day due to the
accident.
Although the contest
actually starts October 1. all
man-hours worked by each
mill since the last lost-time
accident in that plant will be
credited to that plant. In
other words, if both mills or
either one can go from the
date of this issue to October
l without an accident, they
will have a good start at the
beginning of the contest to
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-LYDIA Personnel Director, is showi
avilettes Softball Team, with the Pie
. Mill's vice president, is looking on
s Drive October 1 To
Without A Lost Time
ward the million man-hour
goal. Records will be published
in each issue of The Clothmaker
as well as posted on
the bulletin boards so that
you can keep track of the progress
being made.
There are many mills in
the textile industry which
have reached the million r
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lost-time accident, and some c
have reached several million r
hours without an accident, r
So, if other mills can do it, i
we certainly can here at i
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New officers for the 1953- i
54 year were elected bv mem- '
bers of the Clinton Mills Wo- (
man's Club at a meeting Aug. 1
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Allen Powers, president; Mrs. <
Oscar Kinard, first vice presi- 1
dent; Mrs. A. C. Young, second
vice president; Mrs. Ruf- '<
us King, secretary; Mrs. T >m <
Norris, assistant secretary;
Mrs. Eva West, treasurer and <
Mrs. Geneva Lowerv. assist- 1
ant treasurer. <
The annual dinnor and in- 1
stallation of officers will be j
liolcl Tuesday, Sept. 22. at <
7:30 in the Community Building.
Please note this date
which is a week later than
previously announced due to
a conflicting date.
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i here presenting Mr. and Mrs.
dmont Softball League Champduring
a banquet held at Lydia
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riinton-Lydia. As far as we
enow, no other mills in the
Clinton area have reached
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ran take even greater pride
n making Clinton-Lvdia the
irst in this area to attain the
nark of honor.
Calvin Cooper. Safety Diector,
points out that we
rannot reach the goal with)ut
some real effort which
ncans keeping safety on our
ninds at all times. Although
>nly lost-time accidents count
igainst us in the contest, we
vill have to reduce a lot of
)ur minor accidents to be
iuccessful. The reason for
his is simple. Records from
he National Safety Council
?how that plants with more
ninor accidents have more
ost-time accidents. In
>ther words, if you continue
o have a number of minor
lccidents, sooner or later one
)f these minor ones will turn
>ut to be a major, serious and
gainful one.
Who will benefit from this
ill-out drive to eliminate accidents
from Clinton-Lydia?
That's a simple question to
inswer, too. Every employee
who does not have an accident,
plus his or her family,
will benefit. The mill mana
gement does not like accidents.
but the pain of the
accident, the loss of time and
pay?that hits the individual
and his family.
So, it is up to the individ(Cont'd.
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Cavaliers Take
Playoff Trophy
With Fast Play
Clinton-Lydia's Cavaliers
were not satisfied in winning
the Palmetto League baseball
pennant, so they carried it a
step further and won the
olav-off tronhv of the league
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as well.
The final playoff came out
with Clinton defeating Watts
Mill bv 3-0 and Fork Shoals
by 3-2.'
The entire team was given
a banquet at Epps Eating
Place in Greenville by the
management of the mills. The
report The Clothmaker received
was to the effect that
members of the Cavaliers
might be good ball players,
but their skill in that line
could not touch their eating
abilities as proved at the
banquet.
Campfire March
Begins At Lydia
History has witnessed
countless marches, by armies,
by crusaders, by revolutionists,
by agitators.
Another march is upon us
now, this one a completely
peaceful constructive and inspirational
one. It is the
annual Membership March of
the Camp Fire Girls which
began September 15 and will
end November 30.
This march has no axes to
grind or wield?except the
axes that Camp Fire groups
aim at the trees for fire
wood. This March doesn't
bear down hard on anyone's
toes. It swings happily along,
with a smiling invitation to
grown-ups and youngsters of
the community to get in step
and march happily along, too.
The way to do this is to
join as a leader, sponsor, or
committee member, if you
are an adult, or as a Blue
Bird or Camp Fire Girls if
you are between the ages of
seven and eighteen.
No one has to "go it alone"
in Camp Fire. It's a family
affair. Fathers, mothers,
daughters all pitch in on the
work and play, and have a
wonderful time dnincr it
That's why Camp Fire is such
a wholesome, stabilizing force
in the community.
This year the Camp Fire
Membership March theme is
"Light The Way-With Camp
Fire". That's a reminder of
how consistently Camp Fire
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