The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, July 15, 1968, Image 1
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SINCE 1896
VOL. 17, NO. 4
Wage Increase Was Effed
Additional Paid Holi
Wages, Benefits Intr
Clinton Mills' employees
increase within 10 months b
nouncement of the upward a*
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junt: o in a lxews center no
Vance. Each of the nearly
hourly rate increases were
during the week of the incrc
Three days before the
effective date of the wage
increase, President Vance
announced the addition of
Christmas Day as the Company's
fourth paid holiday.
Labor Day, Thanksgiving
Day, and Easter Monday are
also Paid Holidays. Under
the Paid Holidays Policy,
employees who work their
last scheduled shifts before
the paid holiday and their
first scheduled shifts after
the holiday receive holiday
pay for the day when no
work is performed.
The wage and benefits
improvement adds more
than $431,000 to Clinton
Mills' annual payroll and
maintains the Company's
HOW THE NEW FED
INCREASE A
How does the new
federal income tax increase
affect you?
For a story and tables
dealing with the
surtax's effect on Clinton
employees, see
story below.
The first effects of the
new Federal Income Tax
increase signed into law by
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
June 28, was felt by
Clinton Mills employees in
paychecks received Friday,
July 19th.
Exemptions: SINGLE
Weekly 1
Earnings Old New
$ 70.00 8.46 9.13
80.00 10.16 11.03
90.00 11.86 12.93 1
100.00 13.60 14.87 1
110.00 15.60 17.07 1
120.00 17.60 19.27 1
130 nn lO oi An l 1
wv.vv Ml .1 I I
140.00 21.60 23.67 1
150.00 23.60 25.87 2
CLOT
PUBLISHED BY AND F<
live July 15
day Announced
eased By $431,000
received the second wage
eginning July 15. First an- i
djustment in wages came on '
tice by President Robert M.
1700 employees receiving
?i - 1 - r iL.i
auvibcu 01 tneir new rate
?ase.
position at the forefront of
the industry in employee i
wage and benefits programs.
Including the addition of
Christmas Day, employees
will have three holidays 1
with pay between now and <
the first of the year. Employees
with five (5) or (
more years of service as of
December 1 of this year 1
will receive Christmas Va- 1
cation Pay during the
Christmas Season in addition
to the pay for Christmas
Day, received by eli
gible employees with less |
than 5 years continuous
service.
IERAL INCOME TAX
FFECTS YOU
Withholding of the additional
10 per cent tax increase
is required by the
new law on paychecks re- (
ceived on or after July 14.
But even the extra withholding
will not. in many
cases, cover the extra tax 1
owed since the extra tax
applies to income received
after March 31 of this year,
whereas the extra withholding
began July 14. The
arithmetic is this: 10 per ,
cent extra withholding for ,
half a year equals 5 per cent
MARF
1 I 9 1
Old New Old New
7.69 7.69 5.66 5.66
9.19 9.53 7.16 7.16
0.69 11.43 8.66 8.66
2.22 13.33 10.16 10.76
3.92 15.23 11.66 12.66
5.62 17.13 13.32 14.56 1
7.32 19.03 15.02 16.46 1
9.02 20.93 16.72 18.36 1
0.72 22.83 18.42 20.26 1
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CLINTON Mil
Plants?Clinton
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Assistant Skipper
Sam Owens, well known
area athlete and sports official,
assisted Coach Rudy
Hamrick in directing the
Clinton American Legion
uaseoan ream to a sudden
death championship playoff
with Greenwood this
summer.
Owens, tired after 9
weeks of practicing and
playing, was high in his
praise of the young athletes
under his charge. ''Coach
Hamrick and I couldn't
have asked for a better
for the whole year, but the
surtax (a tax added on top
of an existing tax) amounts
to 7.5 per cent for the whole
year because it applies to
three-fourths of the year.
Nation-wide, an estimated
1 to 2 million taxpayers will
owe additional taxes next
April and about 60 million
(trill <fot em
?t III l OIIIUUCI IClUUUd.
Coupled with the 10 per
cent tax increase is a mandatory
$6 billion cut in
federal spending.
The accompanying table
shows approximately how
much the amount withheld
from weekly paychecks of
employees has been increased
for certain wage
levels
IIED
3 "4
Old New Old New
3.64 3.64 1.68 1.68
5.14 5.14 3.11 3.11
6.64 6.64 4.61 4.61
8.14 8.20 6.11 6.11
9.64 10.10 7.61 7.61
1.14 12.00 9.11 9.43
2.73 13.90 10.61 11.33
4.43 15.80 12.13 13.23
6.13 17.70 13.83 15.13
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No. 1?Clinton No. 2?Lyd
AILLS, CLINTON, S. C.
Chest X-Rayr Unit Hi
A free chest X-Ray survey
conducted at the Plants by the
early November. The mobile
located inside the fence at eacl
tiroun of bo vs. Thev were 1(
a well disciplined, good h;
hustling outfit. It was a th
joy to work with them. The tc
hurt comes when you fail w
to go all the way." w
Coach Owens' nine had a 5
12-6 record in Area 8. The P(
league was comprised of r(
Greenwood, Ware Shoals, V(
Newberry, and Clinton.
Coaches of the teams, all a1
friends of long standing. ol
competed against each other SI
in the fast textile leagues 31
a few years back. a:
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McArthur ("Mac") ^
George, a Vietnam veteran,
joined Clinton Mills recently
as a manufacturing
management trainee fol- ?
lowing a 2 years tour of
military duty.
"Mac," a native of Laurens.
received a B.S. DeQ
gree in Textile Management
from Clemson Uni- a
versity in December 1965. V
A few weeks later he was w
called to active military j]
duty as a Second Lieu- j
tenant. He was commissilinpfl
at rtraHnatinn frvK P
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completion of the n
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Fabrics
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JULY, 1968
ere In November
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State Board of Health in
clinic will be centrally
1 Plant.
In previous years near
)0 per cent of employees
ave taken advantage of
le convenient opportunity
i have a free chest X-Ray
hile at work. The X-Ray,
hich is made in less than
minutes from a standing
Dsition without any dis)bing,
will be made on a
oluntary basis.
The Company, in coopertion
with the State Board
f Health and the local
Donsor, the Tuberculosis
ad Health Association, has
ssisted in providing this
ledical service to employes
for many years.
All employees are enDuraged
to participate in
le clinics. Dates and times
"je unit will bp statir?r?pH
t the Plants will be anounced
as soon as the
:hedule for this area is
Dmpleted.
years Reserved Officers
raining Corps (ROTC) proram.
For some 12 months
e was stationed in the
aigon area as a Technical
upply Officer, including
ssignments in heavy equip?ent
maintenance. He was
onorablv discharged with
ie rank of 1st Lieutenant
1 January of this year.
Wedding bells will ring
n the 25-year-old trainee
n August 17. He is enaged
to Miss Jeanette
lanley of Owensville, Kenjcky.
a May graduate of
lorehead State University
i Morehead, Kentucky.
Irs. George-to-be will
?ach in the Laurens school
astern beginning this fall.
.ugusi 10
NEXT R & R DAY
All Plants will be closed
aturday, August 10. As
nnounced by President
rance on April 16, the day
ras designated as one of
ko fiatllv/^awa r\tl
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He summer months for
eriods of recreation and
elaxation.