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" ei??5 ^ V I a wise-guy; below 12, a p good sport. 1. What textile manufacturer became known as the Father of American Manufacturing? (a) Richard Arkwright (b) Francis Cabot Lowell (c) Samuel A. Slater 2. The invention of what machine in 1793 revolutionized t he economy of the South and the textile industry? (a) slot machine (b) Spinning Jenny (c) power ^ loom (d) cotton gin. 3. After experimenting with many materials, Thomas A. Edison finally made the filament fnr Vii? first light bulb by burning a (a) cigar (b) cotton thread te) pair of nylons (d) silk yarn 4. Textiles were the only known substance light enough, strong enough, and pliable enough to be used ^ in man's first trips (a) across the Atlantic Ocean (b) into the air (c) up the Oregon Trail (d) to the 1966 New York World's Fair 5. At the turn of the 19th Century what Frenchman devised a loom which became the forerunner of today's modern computers? (a) Joseph-Marie Jacquard (b) Napoleon Bonaparte ict Count Hilaire de Chardonnet (d) Charles de Gaulle ) 6. According to the latest figures the United States >vM 20 QUESTIOI So you've been working for the textile industry B quite a few years now, and you think you know a lot about it? Or maybe you liiof or r?/-l x-v ?* 1 - ^ JUOl .3 LU1 ICll W W 1 IV (111U would like to pick up a little extra knowledge. Below are 20 questions with multiple choice answers. See if you can pick the right answer to each of them. If you get 18 or more right, you're a know-it-all; 15-17, a smart-aleck; 12-14, , ?) *A V iS About the U. S. Te textile industry employs approximately how many people? (a) 95,000 (b) 221,000 (c) 475.000 (d) 989,000 7. In how many of the 50 states can textile mills be found? (a) 8 (b) 42 (c) 36 (d) 17 8. Approximately how many dozen pairs of nosiery cnci united States textile manufacturers produce in 1967? (a) 165,000 (b) 21 million (c) 230 million (d) None. Hosiery* is produced by the rubber industry. 9. How many pounds of fiber does the textile industry use in a year? (a) 18 /u\ ?i * /--v iitiiuun \u; uuue luub more than 9 billion (d) no one knows 10. The nearly 7,000 textile plants in the United States produce cloth at the rate of (a) a foot a second (b) a mile a minute (c) 900 miles an hour (d) 10,000 yards a day 11. The United States textile industry's biggest customer is (a) Eva Gabor (b) the home furnishings industry (c) the United States Army (d) the apparel industry 12. The win^s of the Wright Brothers' plane were covered with (a) unbleached muslin (b) 56 yards of 45inch osnaburg (c) Irish lace (d) corduroy 13. How many items made of textiles are used by the United States a r m e d forces? (a) 420 (b) 25.000 (cl 750 (d) 7,500 14. A p p r o x i ni a t el v how many Americans depend either directly or infl j r I" ( t 1 V nil thi> TTnitorl States textile industry for a livelihood? (a) 15 million (b) 970,000 (c) enough to fill The questions and answer Tiik Tkxtilf. Editor, published faeturers Institute as a service ipagsl r"^VF9 ncv> -Jm - {? ? J * ^ MO? -o"- I xtile Industry Yankee Stadium (d) more than a million. 15. Each year the Unitec States textile industry pay? wages of approximately (a' $4.5 billion (b) $25 millior (c) nearly S750 million (d'( $2 billion 16. Approximately how much does the Unitec States textile industry pay each year for the product; and services of other in dustries? (a) $100 millior (b) $12 billion (c) more thar $14 billion 17. In terms of employmeni the United States textik industry is (a) 5 time: larger than the oil industry (b) 10 times larger than the tobacco industry (c) 50 pei cent larger than the lumbei and wood products indus try (d) answers (a), (b). anc (c) are all correst 18. Each year United State: textile mills supply enougi carpet to the automobile in dustry to make a runner (a reaching from Peoria. Ill inois, to Oshkosh. Wiscon sin (b) 12 feet wide reach ing across the entire Unitec States (c) covering all th< stairs of the Empire State Building 19. What famous Italiar explorer w o r k e d as i weaver until the age of 27' (a) Marco Polo (b) Christo pher Columbus (c) Johr Cabot (d) Clina Lollabrigidc 20. The textile-ceramic hea shield of the Apollo space craft can resist tempera tures up to (a) 500 degree; (b) 3,000 degrees (c) 12,00( rloifrooc OHH V v? / v/,uuv; V4ULICC3. ANSWER 1. (c); 2. (b); 3. (b); 4. (b) 5. (a); 6. (d); 7. (b); 8. (c) 9. (c); 10. (c); 11. (d); 12. (a) 13. (b); 14. (a); 15. (a); 16. (c) 17. (d); 18. (b); 19 (b); 20. (c) s on this page were taken fron by the American Textile Manu for editors of textile publications 'So jjl Mobile Chest X-Ray U i Egaf B^H H 1 LAST VISIT ? The S. C. StaJ 1 activating its Mobile r.hm* Y-] 1968. The reason given by the Si I yield of new cases found." The * to 1.3';. One of its last visits wa 5 Mills. Clinton Mills employees to< i last free chest X-ray available UnitFor many years, the unit 1 " alternate years for a voluntary ployees. The X-rays, requiring than a minute. The clinics we - Company personnel. ! Tuberculin tests are admii prospective employees by the 1 i uiupiu) mem jju^biLcii trxanunaiu Free X-rays will continue by the County Health Departn cases found in these departmei 1 is 45.5rJ. ? The best possible precauth ? fight tuberculosis is to get a tu a chest X-ray made on an anr year basis, or as advised by yo * t1 "~T r"T J. ? " WtiJL k i ^*4 M ^MV Lp *rgMfWI nit Visits Plants e Board of Health is inRay Units December 31, late Authorities was "lovpercentage has dropped s at the Plants of Clinton ok full advantage of the from the State's Mobile las visited the Plants on mass survey of all emno undressing, took less ?re aided by services of nistered routinely to all 3lani Nurses during preDn. to be made each Friday aent. Percentage of new its throughout the State Dn one can take to help berculin test and to have mal or once every other ur doctor. V ^f % ^m ^ 4>^^B WBW> 4 I'nHi^ "Bob" Wilkie killed this land earlier this month, ble of killing a fawn or gest seen in our area this HUNTER ? Lydia Carpenter 35 lb. bobcat from his Deer S Bob said his trophy was capal doe. His kill was one of the lar< season.