Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 What Does Christn "What does Christmas mean to you?" This was asked of numerous Clinton Mills employees recently. Here are some of their answers: mm ^ Alice O'Shields?Lydia Spinner I always enjoy this season. I like for everyone to have plenty at Christmas time. It is a time of giving, just as Christ gave for all of us. It is really a time for each one of us to renew our love for Christ, and celebrate his birthday with the true Christmas spirit. ft A - V Ina Bell Hooper?Bailey Weaver Christmas to me means a time to be cheerful and happy because of the birthday of the Christ it represents. It is really one of the most joyous of all occasions for me. ^m.i wrnrnm Molly Campbell?Plant #2 Spinner Christmas always means the season of bright colored lights and Christmas Shopping. It is always so much fun to watch everyone as they open their gifts which each person has purchased them. The manufacture of silk Textile oroduction is at products began in China least as oid as the Stone about 2640 B. C. Knowledge Age. It has been discovered of it spread to India and that thousands of years befrom there it was intro- fore the dawn of civilizaduced to Europe by Alex- tion, mankind was weaving, ander the Great in about ornamenting and dyeing 320 B. C. fabrics. THE CLOTHMAKER ias Mean To You': Eileen Ellis?Lydia Spooler Tender Christmas brings back the memories of childhood, feel a true spirit of Christmas as I watch the pageant parades, and especially the young children in our con munity. I ^ fl I jdtr' Sa^Hufl^l mflFKwW^m T*?rTr=?^ m?rw 7 Leonard Finley?Roll Shop Man Christmas is the time when we give many gifts an pause to celebrate Christ's birthday. It is the most happ occasion of the year. ^cvv7^| Loree Lawson?Plant *1 Battery Filler At Christmas time I always eniov shoDDina for m family and friends. It is always good to have good healt and a good job so you can share your blessings wit someone else. Mllll For Sale?40" Frigidaire Electric Range. Good Conditioi Contact Nell Haggart, Clinton Mills Clinic. DECEMBER, 1970 ) TEXTILE EMPLOYMENT I DROPS In September 1970, as foreign imports continued to pour in, textile employment in the Southeast HrnrmeH I to 660,400 ? a decrease of 25,100 from September 1969. Figures are from the U. S. Labor Department. Not counting July with its regular vacation shutdowns, September had the 1 lowest employment mark of the year and this was -- the latest month for which figures were available. Compared with the first I nine months of 1969, job s. losses looked like this: l" North Carolina, 9,300; Georgia, 6,900; South Carolina, 6,100; Tennessee, 1,400; Viral ginia, 700; Mississippi, 500; and Florida, 300. Man-made fibers continue to edge out cotton in textile use. Cotton's share of fibers used is down to 40 per cent and by 1980 is expected to be at 20 or 25 per cent. * * * The United States imports man-made fiber textiles from about 80 countries. Some 57 per cent of the imports come from Ja pan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, and 30 per cent from the European d Economic Community. Y To Spend Christmas In Army \mm Y h PFC John W. Prather is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Prather. He has just completed his basic army training and is now stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. His 1. mother is a ~2 Cloth Room employee.