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CLINTOh MILLS SEPTEMBER, 1977 ? Three I Clinton Mills has promoted three manufacturing management personnel to areas of greater responsibility, according to Vice President of Manufacturing D.H. Roberts. Dick Swetenburg has been named Manager ol Greige Mills Manufacturing for Clinton's six weaving plants located in Clinton, South Carolina and Geneva, Alabama. Swetenburg has served as Plant No. 2 Manager since 1972. He had previously served consecutively as Superintendent ol Lydia Spinning, Superintendent of Plant No. 1 and Lydia Plant Manager. A graduate of Clemson University, Swetenburg is a deacon in Clinton's First Presbyterian Church, and a Com] Clinton Mills is in th process of effecting nunc erous improvements be tween its sales offices, Clir fnn Mille K?1m Horn loral ed in New York, and it wn?in offices and plants i Clinton. Clinton's Data Processin P &ieJ dat< \ V Published By a Mlannfas*tiirii IWIMIIMIUVtMl .. >t- _ :mm \ai I 1 DICK SWETENBURG i Between N puter Ce e Manager, Paul Tyson, and |. Clinton Sales Corp Office >- Manager, Florence Fischer, i- have been working closely L- with the Clinton sales, ships ping and data processing n personnel in order to link 1 1 A uucvuj iuuu cumpuier upK erations with a terminal in -i -2v\ s\\ a , FA YE SIMMONS ind For Employees of Clinton F ng Promote Hp- tBI jm JOE NELSON Iain Office Anc ipacity the New York sales offices "At the present time wi are controlling the record on our inventory of good manually," says Shippini Clerk, Faye Simmons, "Bi we're moving towards con puterizing all of these n cords." i?T_ _ J -J J in auuiuon, auue I Simmons, "we plan to pre pare all of our custome invoices and bills of ladin by computer, thus elimint ting the need to perforr these operations manually. "Orders and shipping in structions are now transmit ted from New York t Clinton by teletype. One the additional computer in stallations are completed, says Mrs. Fisher, "we'll b | able to service our cus tomers much more efficient ly. In the New York offic? \ we will put into the con puter orders, specific shi] ping instructions and othc data. It will be verified fc I accuracy and stored f< transmission. At the punch of a buttoi we'll transmit data to Clii , ton. and it'll be received on special memory disc. Then will be printed at the rate < 1,600 words a minute ? plant and shipping personn will know exactly how 1 handle a specific order. | "As you can see. corr spondence between the sah mm Mills, Clinton, S.C. 9ns Are Ann< jy ^ f syra GEORGE GRANT 1 New York Is Increa e ft 15 .JB n ?l\ V . * -_l ' B n !. ir J&tmKH >r >r FLORENCE FISCHE [?. na it staff, offices and plants will of be almost instantaneous," jo added Tyson. We will el actually be transmitting by to computer many things which we send by mail that e- now take 3-4 days for de js livery. M VOL. 25-NQ.8 Dunced ? member of District 56 School Board of Trustees. Joe Nelson has been promoted from Bailey Plant Spinning Superintendent to Plant No. 2 Manager. He, too, is a Clemson University graduate, and is active in Broad Street Methodist Church and the Kiwanis Club. George Grant succeeds Nelson as Bailey Plant Spinning Superintendent. A Presbyterian College graduate, Grant currently serves as Laurens District Scouting Chairman and President of the Clinton Rotary Club. He is also an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church. Grant was Assistant to the Bailey Plant Manager prior to assuming his new position. N sed MP A :R AND PAUL TYSON "By having a direct link to Clinton, we will also be able to provide, in the near future, more detailed information about orders and shipments in a shorter period of time than ever be fore," continued Fischer.