Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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New Ol HERM ** I + 0* ? k ^ ? 0 V il w, ' ' ?r? * * .* . ? * ?? * V *^ ? r -t:-' . ' A Star Ligh Clinton electrician D.C. Whitman puts the final touches on the star at the top of the Clinton Mills Main Office Christmas d-Timers IAN NABOBS gx ts The Way Tree. The 32 foot tree has approximately 175 brilliant blue lights. inu. z spinning. Today, Nabors operates the i Filter Plant, a job he's been doing since 1958. Nabors, like many of his fellow employees, is a CB radio operator. Herman is 1st Vice President of the Emerald City React Team No. 2059 of Greenwood, and is also a member of the Greenwood Civil Defense Preparedness Unit, specializing in communications. His hobby in addition to CB radios, is raising horses. Wood I With the price of fuel oil soaring, lots of people are beginning to look at their fireplaces as something more \ than ornamental. They are ^ right, for good firewood can | replace a lot of fuel oil. ^ According to figures quoted f' by David Sargent in United Business Service, one cord of hardwood equals 155 gallons of fuel oil in heat content. If you use your fireplace all winter, you could use up six cords of wood and save some 900 gallons of oil. $ .0^ A v 'N, 8 r rr\ _ : k * 'V a I ? / Claude Ward carefully pi Mills Main Office Christmas Doris Harvey Completes 25 Years Doris B. Harvey, a Clinton Mills Laboratory Fiber Tester, completed 25 continuous years service to the company on December 4. A native of Simpsonville, but reared in Laurens County, Doris previously worked for Lydia Mills Store and Laurens Glass. Her husband, B.F. Harvey, is a Lydia Loom Technician. Their rlniicyHtor Hionno ic o camiai* v*v?w^ii?vft I A^iUIUIVy to a WvlUVl CtV Thornwell School. When away from the lab, Doris is active in the Lydia Baptist Church, serves on the Board of Directors of both the Clinton Campfire Girls and the Thornwell Boosters Club. She is also a member of the Eastern Star. Herman Nabors Raises Horses A quarter century ago, on December 12, 1950, Herman Nabors came to work as a creeler at Clinton Mills Plant I If E 1 . 4 '' " ^ DORIS H The Story Be Our Christm Clinton Mills Plants 1 & 2 Maintenance Department built and entered a float in the 1975 Clinton Christmas Parade. Maintenance personnel worked many long and tiring hours to design a float to convey effectively "Season's Greetings" from the company to its employees and friends Johnny Price, a maintenance feats In Man) However, wood is not always < wood, at least in its heating ability. According to the U.S. < Department of Agriculture, < certain hardwoods will give you 1 twice the heat of the same 1 amount of basswood, black i willow and fir balsam. While a crackling living room Dnngs cneer along with warmth, parts of the house away from the warm hearth would be chilly indeed. Further, six cords might bulk large in the garage, when you figure that one cord measures 4x4x8 and * ;! m r / / / r < / ( : / ' lp \/ aces tensil around the Clinton Tree. ARVEY hind as Cover department employee, drove the 16 horsepower garden tractor which pulled the float Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Tapp, both Clinton Mill employees, accompanied employee children ramila Cathcart, Da via Price, Mandy Price and Tina Renee Tapp along the Clinton parade route, and thus captured 1st place honors in the traditional division. f Ways contains 128 cubic feet. Nevertheless, Mr. Sargent observed, firewood in these days of high priced fuel oil is not to be sniffed at, for it is the only heat source that will warm you more than once. It warms you when you fell it when you busk it when you split it when you pile it mKnn trAii Koul i# " Vll J VU IKIIU II when you repile it when you carry it in and when you burn it. RECENT SERVICE AWARDS 5 YEARS NAME PLANT Inez Hair Lydia Kathy M. Simpson Lydia Jessie Roberson No. 2 Joseph J. Burns No. 2 Charles L. Mace No. 2 10 YEARS Willie J. Smith No. 2 15 YEARS J.H. Whitmore No. 2 Joseph A. Cothran No. 2 25 YEARS William H. Nabors Filter Plant Doris Harvey Lab Robert F. Ray Store 30 YEARS Wallace Young Warehouse J.C. Lawson No. 2