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4 THE CLO Published by and CLINTON and L> Clinton, Soi Calvin Cooper The publishers of Th items of interest from its r reporters or to the personn A MOMEN1 Elsewhere in this issue reproduced pictures of the gra School, Academy Street Schoc the lone Wallace Kindergai moment for these sons and c Mills employees and we are g ing each and every boy and g of their required scholastic wc successfully carried on their ? various jobs in our mills wh and initiative. Our Kindergarten gradua grammar school and our Ac Street students will move on Clinton High School will tak Some will further their educa will immediately take their ] Quite a few of our young men Regardless of the next st? take, it should be taken with young people have had far m than did many of us of the c more problems than did the o These are serious days the wo of the problems will have to For this reason it is a time foi decision is made by each indiv Although on the one side at the same time our youth o ODDOrtunities than manv nf started out in life. The perio< in reality it is here today mor Our own Clinton and Lyc There are many fine opportu young person anxious to leai Textile industry, particularly stantly adding new innovatioi ery and new techniques to p provide better jobs. The pers part in advancing in modern cellent opportunities in our high school graduate who en correspondence courses in 1 quickly learn the fundamer later putting them into actui Again we wish these gra and success in whatever thei are sure that every Clinton a * ? :-ii ? ' ' iv unci a guiaing nana oasc in past years if you ask for t! wmm ACADEMY LITTLE LEAGU hard for a top spot in the Clinl row: Gary Brown, Ned Handb Jimmie Smith, Billy Norris, Samples. Keith Stewart, Rand] Madden, Kinard Littleton, Th Leatherwood. T THMAKER for the employees of (DIA Cotton Mills ith Carolina Editor e Clothmaker will welcome eaders. Turn them in to your iel office. rOUS EVENT of THE CLOTHMAKER are iduating classes of Clinton High >1, Providence Street School and -ten. This is indeed a proud laughters of Clinton and Lydia lad to take this means of salutirl on the successful completion >rk. A number of these students school work while also learning lich is a credit to their ability ites next fall will step up into :ademy Street and Providence into high school. Graduates of ;e varied steps into the future, tion by going to college. Others Dlaee in business anH inrSnctrv i will enter the services. ?p these young men and women serious thought. Most of these ore advantages up to this point >lder generation. They also face lder generation at the same age. rid is living in today, and many ? be solved by these graduates. : sober and sane thinking as the idual as to his or her future life, we have these serious problems, f today face a world with more our older people had as they d of pioneering is not over, but e than ever. lia Mills are an example of this, nities in our two plants for the -n and advance in textiles. The here at Clinton-Lydia, is conns, new equipment and machiniroduce a better product and to >on willing and anxious to take textile production will find ex mills. The same is true for the ters textile school or who takes textiles so that he may more itals of textile manufacturing, il practice in our mills, duates of 1954 the best of luck r future endeavors may be. We nd Lydia employee will be glad ?d on their practical experience heir aid and advice. ? I fERS?These youngsters are fighting ton League and playing well. Front >ack, Charles Slack, Maxie Davis, Delmar Hardeman. Back: Wayne f Sanders. Barry Whitman, Eddie omai Wcmble and Coach Chuck 'HE CLOTHMAKE IN THE MAIL BAG Co. B, 656 Engr. Bn. APO 403 % Postmaster New York. N. Y. To The Clothmaker Staff: Words on paper could never express my thanks and gratitude for sending me The PlntVim olror V/AVVII1I1UIW1 V. CI V- I 1 1IIV7I1 III. Next to letters from home it cheers me during my blue and lonely moments and makes me feel close to the friends and neighbors that I love and have worked with in past years. So I say, thanks again and keep up the good work. Please remember we who are away from home in your prayers and join us in prayers for world peace. I am looking forward to seeing all of you folks again real soon. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. Pfc. Richard Wallenzine * Clinton. S. C. May 19. 1954 Dear Mr. Cornelson: In regards to the nice letter we received a few days ago concerning the Clean-Up. Fix-Up Contest, we wish to thank you and Clinton Cotton Mills very much for the $15.00 first prize. Since the judges were those who had no idea who lived in any of the houses, we appreciate the honor even more. As a winner of this contest it will give us greater interest in trying to beautify our yard and home much more and will give us a greater desire to try to make our community an even better place in which to live. Sincerely yours, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fuller * * * Clinton. S. C To the Personnel Department: May I take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks for the bus whirVi \irac nrn. vided to go on our picnic tc Mineral Springs. We shal never forget your kindness thoughtfulness and splendic cooperation. Sincerely, Mrs. Jennie Watkins President Clinton Drama Club * + * Clinton, S. C May 13. 1954 uear Mr. Cornelson: We would like to take thi opportunity to thank you fo the recent check of $15.00 fo the first prize in our recen yard contest. We conside this a great honor to us botl and v/e are very grateful t< the judges for having selecte( our home and yard for firs prize. Thank you so much. Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. C. M McElhannon I i There is always one con so lation for the father of i I bride. He may be losing i | daughter, but he may hav< gained a bathroom. Jl A FEW LINES FOR READING < THE FOURTH They say that you're fearful, afraid. Indiana, Utah, Maine, and the Carolinas, Georgia, Ohio, and the Dakota*? States. People. Americans ... They say t you're fearful. Vermont, California? _ Fearful of what? Of whom? And v l Oregon, Washington?(Waj named for, anyway?) Illinois, Mor homa, Missouri?All the Gre Q, They say. They?f< *0 towers, in ivory to f\ I vzfi' 1 words, maledictions ?W ?GLOOM ... DOC Fearful little men wi * * Oracular, vernacular, p know Ameri . America? Do they kno\ states, great plains and You're not afraid, are you? L / ' Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma * *f"l 'ijfi P Or ore you? -?: I -m ' | tj Remember, today the Fourt there was a July 4. 1776, i Colonies with no Army or N, ? at all but brave, brave hearts *1 im 1 i* natrhoc nf natrintc A morir p I up bold to the King of Ei; ' I might of his Empire, and "RESOLVED, That these United Colo are, and of Right ought to be, Free and dependent States; that they are Abso! from all Allegiance to the British Crc and that All political Connections betv* them and the state of Great Britain is, Ought to be. Totally Dissolved." THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATIC THE THIRTEEN UN And you, Forty-eight, are > V5W , "I only regre yf f* have but one \ > ... "I have f v John Paul Jor And the pion a tf/yr ^ unknown, the Daniel Boone, Crockett; Ge 2?^ Li,tle Big Ho the Alamo?1 Remember the Marines on Iwo What is a heritage, Americans?a faint, If we're afraid today, the Question i We've got the Hydrogen Bon to wipe out cities, to vaporize | r Have we discovered thof and lost God? ) I ' Lydia Cookout Is L'v a : III -r aii MVdlldDie I O Mil ea? The fine cook-out built by ? i the Lvdia Men's Club has proved highly popular since , its recent construction in the park behind Providence School. The Men's Club is anxious r for parties to use this Cookr out but simply requests that t the grounds around it be left r in spick and span shape after i use. Clinton-Lydia people ^ may reserve the cook-out in ^ advance by registering in a * book now maintained at the gatehouse at Lvdia Mills. a Interested parties may check ' to see if the date they wish is taken and if not, sign up for the date and time desired. To avoid confusion and q possible embarrassment, it is a requested that no one use the e facilities unless they have re- Mi served the time and date by Ea JUNE IS, 1954 ON OF JULY ha^yBCK^m^ ?hy? Why is the big Question, ihington, who were you itana, Arizona, Nevada. Okla> at 48?all fearful, afraid earful little men in big city wers, Whispering, mutteringi , woes, predictions, Suspicions DM? ; . . - 5^.-. th books and pens, icture-tubes, mikes? ca? Do they fee I n you, great united I mountains? ouisiana, h of July, that when 13 puny avy, no nothing ans, who stood || jgland and the nies 4 lyed C . ,wn: )N OF " vy>^ ITED STATES OF AMERICA. \fraid Today? t." said Nathan Hale, "that I life to lose for my country." not yet begun to fight," said tes. . . . Remember them? eers, the covered wagons, the savages, the vast unexplored, the hardships ? Remember , Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Davy neral George Custer on the >rn? Remember Sam Houston* Of hat if they had been afraidl Jima? fearful heart? .... - is. Why f J ib. we know how people? g , *aJ&u Trtl by Carl C. Helm lllutlraiiont by LtunarJ Buttig ;ning the register at the dia Gatehouse where the ok is available 24 hours ch day. Cupid's C orner W* vWZ j i T HJ// ft ' JEAN, daughter of Mr. and s. Leon Hamby, Clinton Mills, came the bride of Mr, William rl Robinson May IS.