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CLINTON - LYDIA MILLS Vol. 8. No. 9 Sept.. 1959 Clinton. S. C. (OILIMir?S VOL. 8. NO. 9 PUBL Your Gifts Offer \ iielpih TTUC IIMM inc umi 1959-1 Goal $19, "Kick-Off" One Goal ? One I **4*ivr Enough For ill" In si rail ii In C.ommunily ('.host Drier Clinton Lydia Emergency We will have the opportun- I itv of helping twenty worth- | while charitable and charac- \ tor building organizations be- < ginning October 6. when all employees will be asked to < contribute to the United : Charity Chest. All of us at Clinton-Lydia i Cotton Mills h a v e been blessed one way or another from a materialistic stand point and we want to share < this blessing with those less i fortunate than we. Many of us think that we are also in need, but immediately our thinking changes when we i are reminded of someone's i statement, "I felt sorry for 1 myself because I had no shoes 1 until 1 saw a little child who had no feet." Of course, we all have shoes and we all have feet, but this statement enables us to more fully realize how very fortunate we are. FILM TO BE SHOWN A new twelve minute color CLo .ISHED BY AND FOR THE I n ti Hand VE ; n Fed way ; 960 J 989.53 c October 2 1 line Out* <iift i ? In I his I (.am /miun 1 >/ 20! | l Fund Included i film showing new faces, new places and different works of the agencies of the Greater Clinton Community Chest will be shown to all employees. This film shows the services the twenty organisations which your contributions support perform daily in our communities. Following showing of the film a card will be given to each employee so he or she may designate how much they wish to contribute to these worthwhile causes. A receipt will be given for all contributions. (Incidentally, contributions to the United Charity Drive may be deducted from your income tax returns.) MONTHLY DEDUCTIONS CAN BE MADE Nov. 1. 1959 to Nov. 1. 1960 Employees may make a cash donation to the United Charity Chest, or they may (continued on pane 1 nMi EMPLOYEES OF CLINTON-L ' nluntary?Frev lias is t Flu Shots Available \ To All Employees Flu shots on a voluntary, . ree of cost basis are being ffered to all Clinton-Lydia mplovees. ' Vaccine has been ordered or all who indicated they > rished to have the shots in a urvey taken in all depart- ' nents last week. i The shots to be given in- ! ludes protection against tsian and all commonly ] mown kinds of flu. ] The program has been well eceived since its beginning nd by all indications has to considerable degree, been 1 ffective in keeping flu cases 1 o a minimum. -i 4 : 11 i I 11l_ M1IHS Will Ut given Oil he job bv the plant nurses. 1 3rd President's P( The recently completed oil >ortrait of Clinton - Lvdia's 1 jeloved deceased President D. S. Bailey was hung in the < riinton Mill Office Reception ionm the last week of August. New York portrait artist , Villiam Chollick was coninissioned to do the 35" x 27" vork as he had previously lone some time ago of Clinon's onlv two other presilents. Mr. Mercer Silas Baiev. Founder and First Prescient (1896-1926) and Mr. Wiliam J. Bailev (1926-1948). Mr. M. S. Bailee's Dortra't s hunt* in the Diiector's {oom of the office and Mr. H HI IHJflpI i s | WKgM ' - - - ? - ? . *-1 iv s. ii\u.i:\ lKl$ vni A MTT T C r-T IMTOM <; it Thorntcell SERVICE AWARD BANQI President Robert M. Vance \ continuous service award pins 1 banquet to be held in their hor it 7:00 P. M. in the Thorn well c alovee will be accompanied by Miilget Football Begins It's Midget Football time again in the Clinton-Lydia Communities and professional leadership is available again to our youngsters. Truman Owens is coach of the M. S. Bailey School teams, and Ellis Huffstetler coaches the Providence School teams. Practice has already started put latecomers are still welcome. Clinton boys interested are incited to practice at the baseball park each day at 3:00 p.m. Lydia poys report to the field behind Providence School, same hour. Our teams will play in a league with Joanna, Thornwell, Hampton Ave., and Whitm?re schools. c aimmIa4a?I fiii an vvmpiciuu VV. J. Bailey's is in the reception room on the opposite wall facing the new portrait of Mi*. Bailey. You will note that Mr. Bailey was wearing his "Old Timers" Service Award Pin at the t^me the picture frcm which Mr. Chollick worked was made. He was a Charter Member of the club and took ereat pride in his membership and in wearing his pin and watch. All employees are cordially invited to come in to view the portrait of their employer and friend down thru the years. ??? t X M I f ji II I M^MIl BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Clinton, S. C. Permit No. 59 IL1DI1& C. SEPTEMBER. 1959 Jtlb - Oct. 1st and Btli vill present 10-15 and 20 year to 127 eligible employees at a lor on Thursday, October 1st. lining hall. Each honored emthe guest of his or her choice. Entertainment for the gala occasion will be provided by a local vocal and instrumental group under the direction of Mrs. Eva B. Land, Clinton Recreational Director. "Old Timers" One Week Later Sixteen senior employees will be welcomed into the elite "Old Timers" Circle at their annual banquet on Thursday evening. October 8. at 7:00 in the same building. Those receiving ruby set pins and Hamilton watches in recognition of twenty-five years of loyal service will be Mary Bauknight, Eunice Braswell. Grace Ficklin. Grace Wooten, Joe Sam Caughman. W. D. Gilbert, James H. Hughes, Cleo Lusk. Cecil Wooten. and Cleveland Young of Clinton; A rrn qc? \\7i 1 1 i o m c u T i rv-\ * Q i_ * ? iUlUlliO, u 1111 i-/u Jley, Bill Patterson, Joe Nelson. T. O. Williams, and Mr. J. S. Todd of Lydia. This will be the 4th anniversary meeting of the senior employee group. M. B. Camak to Speak Mr. M. B. Camak. educator, writer, and orator of Ware Shoals. South Carolina, will be the guest speaker of the evening. Mr. Camak, now retired, served for many years as Superintendent of Public Schools in Ware Shoals. His weekly column, "Camak's Corner" appearing in the Ware Shoals Life, is widely read and enjoyed tnrougnout our area. Mr. Camak is well known in the educational and textile field in South Carolina and is in great demand as an after-dinner speaker. Sii|??'r\i>or> MUmkI Safety MeeJing Mr. Frank Moore and Mr. Colev Campbell. Presidents ot the Lyd'a and Clinton Supervisors' Safety Committees, will leave by plane on October 18th for Chicago, Illinois, where they will attend the 47th Annual National Safety Conference and Exposition during the week of October 19-23. Claude A. Crocker, Director of Safety and Indust rial Pnl of \ i i 1 1 Qonnm. panv them. The theme for the world's largest safety conference will be "Safety in the Sixties." Programs are designed to inform the more than 12.000 expected conferees as to ways and means of preventing acciients in the decade ahead.