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2 CLOTHMAKI CLINTON MILL! Plants-CttatM Hi Published monthly um Claude A. Crocker, Dir and Employee Relatioi FOUNDE1 If you could check the 1 business firms, vou would no larities ? and some significan' pany is young, cash is usuall lean, trim, and eager. Everyor pany a success. Every employe Middle age sets in when and gets a trifle fat and comft a bit. As it does, costs begin to Hardening of the arteries i new ideas dries up and emplo to pull together on the team 1 The spark plugs get fouled. ' "old." As costs go up profits are point. Some businesses reach 1 rrrrm/th pvr>lo an?) V-? O- w T, ... WJ UUU WV.VU1 lit IJ panies with aggressive, fars young indefinitely. Whether a company remaii has very little to do with its of the people who make up tl it ahead of competition. An old motto states, "Wi Young companies follow this afford to ignore it. The formu How old is our company? It Pays To Work J It pays to work at Clinton paid holidays each year?Labc Easter Monday, and Christrrw department doesn't operate on eight times your average strai If you do work, you're paid straight time hourly earnings ) for that day. Clinton Mills employees paid holidays each year?New If you work on these days, yoi your regular hourly earnings. umer L,iinton Mills benefits In Family Benefits, Paid Vac. Retirement, Group Insurance cational Assistance Plans, and Junior Ach Clinton Mills interest in c economic education has ti been well demonstrated a through its sponsorship of n me t^iintex Junior Achieve- p ment Company this year. The efforts of Clintex s; achievers is a good example ii of the interest which can a be generated in our free p enterprise system. k Clinton Mills management men, Dick Sweten- t< burg, Ted Davenport, and P Sam Williams served in j. production, sales, and management advisory capaci- tc ties to Clintex. It is diffi- ei ER 5 Superior Quality Fabrics 1.1-Clinton No. 2?lyiio?loRoy Jer the direction of ector of Community is. 9-1896 life cycle of a number of tice some interesting simit differences. When a comy tight so the business is le works to make the com?e is part of the team. the company has grown jrtable. The pressure eases rise. sets in when the flow of yees forget that they have to make the company run. The company has became squeezed to the vanishing that point quickly in their riiddle aged." Other comighted management stay ijiv-uiviij anu LUIII[JCUUVC age. It is a state of mind le company and who keep \STE NOT-WANT NOT." motto because they can't la makes them successful. Vt Clinton Mills Mills. Employees get four >r Day, Thanksgiving Day, is Day. If your plant or those days, you are paid *: i 1-- - gui unit: nuuny earnings, eight times your average dIus your regular earnings also enjoy two premium Year's Day and July 4th. j're paid one and one half include Jury Pay, Death itions, Profit Sharing and i, Service Awards, Eduother benefits: ievement ult to assess the cducaional value of the program nd its impact upon the linds of the young particiants. Junior Achievement is a vstem of "learning-by-doig." Few of us will disgree with this age-old hilosophy in sccu rin g now ledge. The experiences encountered in this program will ay big dividends to these chievers, now and in the iture. Very few programs ffer such an opportunity > see "first hand" how free aterprise actually works. THE CLOTHMAKER Social Security Q & A Q. I am over 18. Can I continue to receive my social security student benefits even during the summer when I am not in school? A. Yes, benefits are payable to a fulltime student during the time between the school years, if he intends to resume his full-time attendance within four months. Q. How early can an individual enroll for Medicare? A. An application may be effective as early as three months before the individual is age 65. The first enrollment period extends from the third month prior to the 65th birthday until the last day of the third month after the individual reaches age 65. Q. My mother died five years ago and my father received a death benefit. He never received any monthly checks for us children. Arc we eligible? A. If there arc unmarried children in the family who are under age 18 or in school and under age 22, they are eligible. Your father should contact the social security office and file an application. Remind him to take certified birth records for each eligible child. Summer Soldiers Many Clinton Mills employees will make a big contribution to summer soldiering through the National Guard. Captain Van Oxner, Jr., Lvdia Carding Overseer, with 14 other Clinton Mills employees under his command, will leave July 5 for two weeks of annual field training exercises at Ft. Stewart. Ga. Co. C 7J0 Maintenance Batallion is ranked as one of the top units training at Ft. Stewart. The unit will return to Clinton July 19. Amon# those attending will be Barry Whitman. T"? ! A .1 wiiiiam oauey, /\rinur 15. Davis. Francis O. Lowery, Victor W. Mattox, Bobby F. Quinn, Robert L. Simmons, Harold C. Stroud. James F. Birch more Van O x n e r, Jr., Thomas E. Meeks Sanford M. Murphy, James A. Smith, James B. Vanderford, and Mitchell B. Wigley. CLINTON MILLS CRO by Bill Here is a puzzle compiled e: Clinton Mills. In it are clues its employees and the textile ^rT^rp- pr-p-p-? ~i~3 it I / 7 /5 _ _ 23 J 7 3<> ~hs "Tb fl 9 50 Tt ^ 6Z "*? ^ I no 7/ 72. ~ns 7V T) Across 57. A woo 1. One of these is 58. Slubbe made on a spinnin picker term 4. Eggs of fish 61. Yogi . 7. Knowledge of 62. Cloth j a particular on one subject 63. Fifth r 11. The "Old Man" 64. Loom (military) nism tl 13. Outbursts of with tli noise 66. Myster; 15 Heiberg (Lydia (Canadian seer) island) 67. A sour. 16. Conjunction (laught 17. Clinton Mills 68. Anger VP 69. D 20. The result in 8. 1945 seconds when 70. Preside cloth a Clinton loomside 74. Indefin 21. Requested article 22. Price -o'W 75. Part ol during WW II ness n 23. Important man a loom at Parris Island 76. Cluster 24. Toward the sky spores 25. Opposite of 78. One wl junior (abbr.) on tar; 26. A weaver or 80. Credit spinner's job is 81. Or called this Down 27. Clinton Mills 1. Loom i uses this type 2. One wl selvage on mimics drills and twills 3. Clinton 29. Mineral deposit very ou. uscu in picKinj; lis line and harness tion in motion of a tile in< loom 4. No pr< 33. Not out made i 35. Consumed weave 36. A key worker 5. See 20 in the textile 6. You d< industry when j 41. A traveler rides over tc on these 7. Belong! 44. Po.-tnining to of Lvd the air (poss.) 45. Phonograph 8. Lydia's record Room < 46. About 0. Warp 1 47. Contorted. are dr< twisted through 48. Vital machine 10. Rarely to textile measur industry that 11. Person? parallels fibers for CM 52. One of these 12. Decoral may he placed 18. Rone in upcoming 10. Not to< editions of the not too CLOTHMAKER 24 Same r 54. War Food Ad- across ministration 28. Indefin (Abbr.) article (See Solution 1 MAY, 1969 4 >SSWORD PUZZLE Hill specially for employees of that relate to the company, industry. 17 3 . ~ // /-z, -ZZZWLZ >9 ~ i JZ~ 37 38 3T ffl ^ SS Su ( * <>5 jn^~fe9 | 73 h 1 1 dwind 30. Mr. Rogers of r and Bailey Plant ig frame 31, On your toes 32. Males is wound 33. Goes with ego ^ of these 34. Nay lote 37. Fourth note mecha- (ascending iiat helps order) 'in places gg Make a mistake * Over?n 40- ^r- Holtzclaw 4Z. ^resent tense id of went er) 43. Tony Bennett left his heart lay (May there (abbr.) ^ . , 48. Pressed on top ! Mi l ie ro11 of spinning ite frame 49. To join or touch [ a har- 50. VP of manulotion of facturing 51. Those who deal 4 s of with deeds ,. .52. All ... ! ho is not ,, n . ,0t 53. Perform (abbr.) 54. Highly skilled ! employees at CM aart 55. Clinton Mills ho prides itself in the cover and i Mills is of its of nlntVi ?: 5(i- ji?le, fvetLed iustrv these ifit is ?9. Product of vhen we cards and these drawing frames across f>0. Fluids used for :> this innoculation i rou come purposes ' ft-C- 61. Used in a s to B.P. "Daisev Delia Plant fender" r, . 63. Cloth room SjtlL machine overseer _ threads Taut iwn 71. Mr. , rei here centlv retired used VP e (45") 72. Tender loving lei man care 73. Depression between two ^ good, mountains bad 74. Part of to be is 24 ?7 Thal is ite 79. Personal pronoun nn page 6)