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OCTOBER. 1959 Clinton News, Cont. (Continued from Page 4) Birthdays and Anniversaries Melvin Huey?Cct. 15. Joe Adams ? Oct. 22 ? 12 years old. Don Handback?Nov. 6. Mrs. J. W. Fowler?Nov. 19. Mrs. Oscar Kinard?Nov. 5. Oscar Kinard?Nov. 6. Larry Fowler?Nov. 13 Mrs. Clarence Brookshire? Oct. 11. Clarence Brookshire?Oct. 18. Melane Snelgrove?Oct. 16 ?9 years old. Mrs. Tom Windsor?Oct. 26. Johnny Lever?Sept. 21. Arthur Attaway?Oct. 12. Evans Lever?Nov. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Gholdie Simmons?Anniversary?Oct. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Evans Lever ?Anniversary?Oct. 22. Mr. and Mrs. "Bootsie" Allman?Anniversary?Nov. 6. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Lanford?25th Anniversary?Oct. 20. Mrs. Ruth Putman, of Woodruff, visited her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Lawrence, recently. She reports that our former supervisor John Hughes, who is now night superintendent there, is well liked by the help. Our best wishes for his success from all of us. Note of Thanks I wish to thank all of you for the lovely flowers sent me while I was in the hospital. Joe Terry WEAVING NO. 3 West End?2nd Shift By Christine Brewer Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Leopard celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary October 27. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barker and son visited friends in Greer recently. Mr?i Maltio . -- ukaiuil SJJCIll cl few days in the hospital recently. Barbara Jean Hughey is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Landv Heaton, for a few weeks. Barbara Jean is from Jasper, Alabama. Mrs. Sam Madden spent a few days in the hospital recently. Loraine Cothran will have a birthday November 9th She will be 9 years old. Edna Mac Cothran will be 8 years old November 17th. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cothran had as their guests for a weekend Mr. and Mrs. Bummie Scurbrough of Elberton, Ga. Itflk k m H 4 BB ^ 1 flr ' I Fh I This relaxed young man is Frankie Stephens, seven months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stephens, Clinton Mills. Joe Proffitt had a birthday October 26. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Proffitt celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary October 3. Charles Fallaw, son of Mr and Mrs. Vandy Fallaw, has come to work in our department. We are happy to know that he is still going to school Bill Campbell had a birthday October 10th. He was 17 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lawsor. had as recent guests Mr. anc Mrs. James Maynoy and chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. Archie ir;,.i? > j ' - ?? mv.A.1 tiiiii uaugnier ana ivirs Carolyn Cole and her son Johnny, all of Spartanburg. Kenneth Vaughn won i trip to the F. F A. Conven tion in Kansas City, Mo., ir the Hog show fitting anc showing contest held in Spar tanburg, S. C., October 9th These trips are sponsored b\ Belk-Hudson Co. of Spartan burg. Kenneth is a senior a Woodruff and is the son o Mrs. Dora E. Vaughn. WEAVING 3A 2nd Shift By Inez Blackwell Hi Folks: It's news time again, anc at the time of this writing it': fair time. Hope everyone wh< attends has a good time. I is time also for the Unitec Fund drive so let's don't for get that. In Weaving r3A we hav< been and are still havinj safety meetings and I've hat the privilege of sitting in or these meetings, which hav< been of much interest I thin! to one and all. Our depart ment has been divided int< small groups with a differen speaker for each group a each meeting. So far we hav< heard talks about safety ant how to prevent accident haz ards from Fave Barker ant Mildred Smith, who repre sented the battery fillers Dave Lawson and Eva Pul ley. who represented th? weavers and Hubert Rollin and Rosco McGinn is. whi represented the loom fixers nnh cnnlrn fin.. .J^v/rwv. 1\M ilUUUl 1I\? minutes on safety and I thinl we've all gained a good bi from these meetings. W< want to get the safety pro gram over to everyone whi works in Clinton Mills am hope that it will also help u at home and any where els that we may go. Mr. Harold Perr y am daughter are visiting Mrs Perrv's parents. Mr. and Mrs E. N. Harrill. Mr. and Mrs. David Pulle; and daughters attended th Greenwood fair. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Thorn ton of Hazelhurst. Ga,. visitei Mr. and Mrs. Oho Thorntoi recently. Hobart Phillips and sor Billv Ray. and niece. Marsh Ann Turner, and Mr. W. E Phillips visited in Bee Lop N. C., recently. Birthdays for this time in elude: Linda Pulley?Sept. 21. Eva Pulley?Oct. 3. Jo Ann Thornton?Oct. 31. Beverly Bryant?Sept. 23. Inez Blackwoll ? Oct. 2ft Eva and 1 aren't going to t?l which birthday we're having We have been having som fun in 3A recently watchin THE CLOTHMAKER Dave Lawson really eat with the new false teeth he had made recently. For awhile we thought he would get choked to death on the teeth, but then he began to get be; hind a loom and take them out and eat, but finally he made it. He masters them pretty good now. (Just kidding you a little, Dave, your ; teeth really look nice. Hope you enjoy them very much.) i I WEAVING NO. 3A Jrd bhilt ? By Jerry Huey Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith celebrated a wedding anniversary the 22nd of October, i Mary Miles, Bill and Charles Cody spent Sunday with Mrs. i Madge Clark in Marietta, S. 1 C. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Alan Coates of Weaverville. N. C. They also spent a r Sunday recently with Carl Codv in Florence, S. C. t Mrs. Gladys Hucks has ref turned home after a six weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Dean and family, of Paul, Idaho. Birthdays Bobby Jean Dean?Sept. 17. 1 Billy Cody?Oct. 1. s We all welcome back Lawd rence Kuykendall, who had a t recent illness. We are glad to i see you back on your job. Lawrence. Michael Ray Wooten, son = of Jack Wooten, is enjoying t his stay at Clinton and at1 tending Mercer Silas Bailey i School. 5 Mickey McCarson. whose < father is Fred McCarson. Loom Fixer, has completed d her part in the picture-taking t preparation for her high t school annual. She is a 10th e? grader. i Mr. and Mrs. Bardy Cannon and Mrs. J. C. Lawson 1 and children visited with J C. Lawson. who is a patient of Veterans Hospital, Columbia. Good luck, J. C. We wish p you a speedy recovery. s Mert mix said he had two :> teeth pulled last week but it wasn't so bad after all. You p see, his girl friend was hold< ing his head during the ext traction. p Our efforts for safety have been renewed with the group a as a whole taking a keen ini terest in the welfare of their s fellow worker. Here on Weave ing 3A. 3rd Shift, we can feel the need for working safely rl for the many and varied rea; sons that make a safe job necessary. Many good points and ideas are brought out in c our safety talks in which all e of us are invited to take part in. Each person sometimes during the week is called d upon to express themselves i concerning safety. These talks have inspired us to get a safe t. tv program rolling which a cannot fail, because we ini tend to keep our group safety [. minded every working hour. Approximately twenty people participate in these group talks each week which covers everybody on the job. Our past record has been a good one. but we know that we can have a better one in the future. Let's all unite our II efforts for safety and a good j. effective safety program, bee cause as a team we cannot g fail. A Good Time Was Had By AII At Fourth Annual 0 ** jifl b^mM3 r 2 Jfak M in 74 Yeai President Vance congratulates becoming an "Old Timer". Mr. To Room. He takes just pride in his the past 25 years. On receipt of hi "Thank you very much. I hope ti Mr. Todd will be 75 on Novembe: Husband President Vance proudly poses Old Timers. To his right are Ceci Agnes and T. O. Williams. Cecil i employees while Agnes and T. O Weave Rooms for twenty-five co> WEAVING NO. 3C West End 3rd Shift By Louise Martin We were all dreading our safety meeting speech but it's not so bad and after all safety does mean a lot to all of us. Tom O'Shields and 34 of his help have already had three meetings. Horace Robinson and Louise Martin have been our speakers so far. Billv Snelgrove has had several meetings on safety, too. He said they had been rr?nl nnpc Mr. Billy Snelgrove visited his father. S. B. Snelgrove. in Saluda recently. Mr. and Mrs. James Wells and children visited his mother and father in Rock Hill Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Motts and bovs spent last weekend with Louise Martin. Vivian O'Shields went to the singing in Spartanburg Saturday, October 10th. I know the people there sure were proud she came to listen instead of singing herself. We welcome Tommy Horger to our Weave Room. Dorothy Green had a birthday October 7. She was 4 years old. Sylvia Robinson sure was a proud and surprised little girl Sept. 29. Her mother gave a surprise birthday party. Thirty-four little boys and girls attended the party. She received many lovely gifts from each of them. SLASHING 1st, 2nd. & 3rd Shifts By Mary Price We are having meetings in 7 Id Timers' Banquet K V ^ A it ' H rs Young Mr. S. J. Todd on the event of his dd is employed in the Lydia Weave i work and attendance record over is watch he remarked to Mr. Vance, o be with you for 25 more years." r 5th. s & Wives with "husband and wife" incominq ,1 and Grace Wooten and to his left ind Grace are Clinton Weave Room . have been employed in the Lydia itinuous years. our department on safety. There has been several discussions. We have had fiftytwo to listen in at the meetings. On the first shift, Mrs. Mary Bouknight, a member of the draw-in department, made a talk on general safety to the other draw-in hands. She has worked for the comnnnt* fnr t tirnr? v r civ fsui?j iui i vv ciu^-oiA v cai a and has never had an accident of any kind. Richard Turner should be complimented on the fine speech that he made to Roy Lawson and Charles Huey about the safe way to load and unload tv-in racks and draw-in racks and the safe way of rolling warps to the weave room. The second shift employees of the slasher and tv-in rooms were impressed with the discussion by David Dixon about the safe way of handling hot steam and size lines, also oil and wet spots on floor. Carl Campbell, on the third shift, made a fine talk on trprioral cafoK? Mi UV44V. vy vW vilt CIIIU c working force in both the slashing and tv-in rooms. We hope that these discussions will help make our department a more safe place to work. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Watson and Mrs. Ursula Blakely visited Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Blakely of Spartanburg recently. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Campbell visited Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Baker of Newberry. We are glad to have Fred Lowerv return to work with