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CLINTON - LYDIA MILLS Vol. 4, No. 9 Sept. 1955 Clinton. S. C. (gMS^nr?! VOL. 4. NO. q Hw **^H V J jM CLINTON MILLS HORIZON Club are shown al the Community a theater party. The group was es Community Activity Directors Mrs. MRS. THARP IS I "R if ? C-Q3 ivii s. i neresa 1 narp, 01 Plater, S. C., has been named Community Activities Director at Lydia Mills and assumed her duties there Sep ""** - * I, x '* -^vv' ^ MRS. THARP tember 1. She will direct the Clinton - Lydia kindergarten, the Lydia Community building and all other community activities. Mrs. Tharp comes to Lydia with an excellent background in this type of work. A nativn nf Alnhnmn cho ic ;? (TrnH. uate of Glenco, Ala., high school, had two and a half years extension courses, five summer courses at Montevallo College and a summer course at Athens College, Athens, Ala. She also has had kinder do DTTWT T5UPn POD rMDT l X?U X V^ll L.1UI i^1 V.ji *-*"?!^ i * ^ CLUB ENTERTAINED?These merr Building just before they left for G rr>rfnr^ Ktr 4_Vw* 1 A mr M XX T ^iy ^ Eva Land and* Chuck Leather wood IAMED DIRECTOR garten courses in Spartanburg and in Chicago, 111. She operated a private kindergarten at Slater Mills, MaE. C. Huffstetler Named Director H4D unrrcTrrr rn i*in. nur r o i Lj i i^un Ellis C. Huffstetler, Assistant Personnel Director of Clinton and Lydia Mills, has been named to the additional position of Recreation Director for the Lydia Mills community. "Huff," as he is better known, has been employed in iThm a DYEES OF CLINTON-LYDIA Mil for R H am fac Hf^ljfl i I hai urn W tex I tro ^9 I the wA mc H pe1 lai nir ibers of the Clinton Mills Horizon un rreenville in August for dinner and imith and Mrs. John Vassey. and mt No AT LYDIA MILLS h pe rietta, S. C., for four years and was employed with the an Slater Foundation before com- ? ing to Lvdia. She also has had . . . . , m( extensive training and exper, P? lence in decorating. ? mi Mrs. Tharp, who now lives in the Lydia community with her 15-year old daughter, is a Methodist and a member of the Eastern Star. She is a widow. Choral Clubs To Begin Rehearsals A The Choral Clubs of Clinton and Lydia communities have started rehearsals now. a? A cordial invitation is extend- L\ ed to any persons wishing to Pr join these groups. a^ Full information can be obtained by calling Mrs. Stanley Hardee, 1049, at Lydia. or Mrs. Eva West, 752-R. at Clin- co ton. tc wi M the personnel office for the past three years. He was a member of the Clinton Cava- ?* liers baseball team for seven seasons. A full round of recreational j activities is planned at Lydia this year, beginning with midget football which now is underway. gi -LS, CLINTON. S. C. 'resident 71 We have recently announced ' hourly paid employees of C s done because your manager i hopes the markets for cloth, tors, will be better in the mc At the same time we feel we s ~d and cold facts and figures w derstand the difficult financii :tile industry, and Clinton am ?s operate on the lowest prof ? country. The rate of profit s .95 per cent, less than $1.0i es. The rate of profit for all it. The iron and steel industr 0 per cent, automobile indust leum, 10.58. These are Feder; Translated another way, this lustry grants an average of ;ed on profits it is the equiva ? iron and steel industry, 25^ ?bile industry, and a tremendc troleum industry. A current financial statemen ge textile corporation showin le months amounted to $21,256 s. Their net earnings, howev ?ant a net earning per share fo t much of a return on a large This is the picture we face ir s than one per cent on our s? eat of cheap Japanese competi titive domestic market. The situation boils down to tl d sincere efforts of every sinj; dia management and product )st to keep our quality high, ssible minimum, eliminate wa im efficiency. Only by so doi ? full-time basis which we all F lidget Football No It's midget football time ain in both the Clinton and ,dia Mill communities with ofessional leadership availile to the young boys who :mt to learn and plav foot ill. Chuck Leatherwood will ach the Academy Street ams and Ellis Huffstetler ill do the same for the Lydia ill teams. Practice has already started it there is still time for her boys to come out and v for the teams. The rules r eligibility are as follows: Any boy born after August 1942 can weigh any amount. If the boy was born be:een August 1, 1941 and Auist 1, 1942, he may weigh 120 Sec. 34.66, P. L. & R. U. S, POSTAGE PAID Clinton, S. C. Permit No. 59 ILTO3& SEPTEMBER 15. 1955 Message... upward adjustments in wages linton and Lydia Mills. This nent believes a raise was due despite many adverse market >nths ahead. hould acquaint you with some hich will enable you to better al situation under which the d Lydia Mills, operates. Texit margin of any industry in on sales for textiles in 1954 0 of profit for every $100 of manufacturing was 4.53 per y operates on a profit rate of ;rv on 5.05 per cent, and peal Trade Commission figures. means that when the textile five-cent increase in wages, lent of 27.85 cents increase in cents increase in the autodus 5534 cents increase in the t recently was released by a g their net sales for the past 1,000, a very nice sounding figrer, were only $147,000. This r the stockholders of 14 cents, investment in money, l the textile industry, earning lies. Now we have the added ition on top of our highly comhis. It will take the combined ?le person on the Clinton and ion team to do his or her utreduce seconds to the lowest iste and produce at the maxing can we hope to operate on desire. 'resident and Treasurer w Underway pounds. If he was born between August 1, 1940 and August 1. 1941, he can not weigh more than 115 pounds. Uniforms will be issued to the team members and sub stitutes soon. The Clinton and Lydia teams probably will play in a series with Joanna, Thornwell, Whitmire and Florida Street schools. LYDIA CLOTH ROOM HAS 400-DAY SAFETY RECORD The Cloth Room at Lydia A A H # 1 1 1 _ t_ 1 * v-onon mnis nas worxea more than 400 days without an accident, instead of 173 days as incorrectly stated in last month's issue of THE CLOTHMAKER.