Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 J ^T^nTTnWTTnTTTWWTTTT^TtnWTWTTnTTTTTTTTnTHmWTHTTI T I ^ei ^ j Annivt 5 YEARS Oron E. Hancock Store Dennis R. Tucker No. 1 Rachael Paulsen . No. 2 Michael G. Alexander ....i No. 2 Frank Boland Maintenance Kimberly Coleman Lab James W. Lawson Lydia George E. Holder No. 2 L.C. Roberson No. 2 Betty Samples No. 2 James Robinson Lydia Elizabeth W. Bagwell Bailey Kimberly Prather Bailey 1U TtAKS Emma J. Miller Lydia Rudine Jones Bailey George M. Grant Jr Bailey Darrell Bragg Lydia Nancy F. Suber No. 2 Omega Peay No. 2 Linda Fuller No. 2 Rosa Lee Pitts No. 1 Billy R. Smith No. 2 Brenda Hill Lydia Procedures t< Health Care I Employees who leave Clinton Mills employment and satisfy certain eligibility requirements, may be eligible to continue both employee and employee dependent health care insurance. In order to be eligible to continue group health care insurance, the employee must have been insured for at least three months prior to leaving the company. Applicable health care premiums are payable in adv ance. Continuation of health care benefits is I Did Steve Lanford being inducted as Wattsville Lions Club Tail Twister...Joanna Lions Club's Citizen of the Year award going to Bill Crocker (retired).. .Joe Wilkie assuming position as Geneva Lions Club second vice president...Joe Spillers and 29 fellow employees leaving for National Guard camp...Nell Haggart, R.N., being recertified in CPR...Martha Simmons scheduling staff in "word processor" rvice srsaries Uil 15 YEARS James D. Gary No. 2 Willie L. Burnside Lydia Wallace Phillips Bailey Bruce D. Clark Bailey Samuel Pitts No. 2 James T. Lewis No. 2 Herbert Suber Lydia Larry McCravey Lydia Mary Howell Lydia Larry King Bailey 20 YEARS Lylliann Snow No. 1 Richard L. Clark No. 2 25 YEARS CharlesT. Campbell No. 2 Patricia J. Tucker Office 35 YEARS Juanita Leopard No. 2 40 YEARS B.F. Harvey Lydia 45 YEARS Robert M. Vance Office ) uonnnue benefits permitted at the employee's expense for the remainder of the month in which employment ends, plus one full month. After this, the employee has the option to select a conversion policy under terms and rates set by Aetna Life, Clinton's health care insurance provider. The maximum period of continuation permitted is 60 days, or until covered by aiiuuici cin(jiuyci sgiuup iiediin care poiicy. Members of the personnel department will be pleased to discuss continuation and conversion procedures with you. you see... operator training...Homer Lawson making routine inspection of looms on his job ..Johnny Rushton and Dennis Hampton hurrying to Rolling S Golf Course...A group of Auburn University students admiring Clinton Mills display on the campus...Roy Edwards disclosing the secret to having unusually large harvest in his garden.. .Gnoidie Simmons managing voting precinct during city election. Smoking Be Injurii to Your I The smoking of tobacco in cigarettes is one of the major causes of illness and disease in the United States. It is estimated that each year nearly 300,000 people die before their time because of the effects of smoking. The exact number of people who smoke cigarettes in the United States is not known but is felt to be in the range of 60 to 70 million people. The number of new smokers each year is quue large, it is reit tnat almost a million teenagers each year take up cigarette smoking. The actual rate of smoking among the population has decreased since the 1950 or 1960s because of increases in population. The total number of cigarette smokers has continued to increase. The number of men smoking cigarettes has gradually decreased and the number of women smoking cigarettes has increased markedly over this period of time. It is also important to realize that over the past 10-15 years some 30 million Americans have stopped smoking as they became increasingly aware of the health consequences of cigarette smoking. TKorA 1 r/% rv>i ? 44 - IICIC arc illumine Clld-lS UI ClgdrtHie smoking on an individual's health, but three major diseases are affected by cigarette smoking. 1. Heart Disease?Cigarette smoking is one of the major risk factors in causing or being associated with the development of heart attacks and heart disease. The carbon monoxide and nicotine which come with the cigarette smoke and is absorbed into the body causes problems with oxygen getting to the heart and may cause spasms of small arteries that nourish the heart. Repeated use of cigarettes may cause sig nificant reduction in the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to the heart and may markedly increase one's susceptibility to h "iuinn i '?**?*/?l/ Having a ncaii auai~rs. 2. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis)?People with emphysema and chronic bronchitis are frequently associated as cigarette smokers. It is known that people who smoke cigarettes are 18 times more likely to have bronchitis and emphysema than is an individual who is not a cigarette smoker. It is also recognized that even minimal cigarette smoking may increase the irritability of the air tubes and cause individuals to be more sensitive or more susceptible to other lung diseases. Twentv five times more people who are cigarette smokers die from emphysema and bronchitis than do individuals who are non-smokers. In the practice of pulmonary medicine it is quite unusual to find an individual with a significant degree of emphysema and bronchitis who is not a cigarette smoker. Frequently these individuals have other exposure such as urban air pollution, pesti(EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Robert Galphin is rel the lung function and medical surveillance pre specialist in pulmonary medicine.) Page 3 Can ous Health riHoc r\r ovrvnenro /> viuw VI g?^U3Uic IU UIIICI IUII ICi UI gdbCb Cigarette smoking is also known as a significant trigger for asthmatic attacks. The loss of time associated with emphysema and bronchitis associated with cigarette smoking is staggering and accounts for billions of dollars of lost wages each year. 3. Cancer?In the United States at this time cancer of the lung is almost an epidemic. There were more than 120,000 new cases of cancer in 1981. Of these, 88,000 were in men and 34,000 in women. Seventy out of every 100,000 men will die each year from carcinoma of the lung. This is the greatest incidence and increase of any cancer. There were 105,000 deaths due to cancer of the lung in 1981. Cancer of the L.ig is the leading cancer killer in men and will surpass cancer of the breast and cancers of the colon in women sometime in the early 1980s. mere nave Deen more people Killed by lung cancer in the United States in the last five years than have been killed in all wars. More than 80 percent of the cancers of the lung have been associated with moderate to heavy cigarette smokers. Smoking cigarettes increases the risk of lung cancer by 10 times in men and five times in women. It should be noted that individuals who stopped smoking cigarettes will find that over a period of time their risk of developing emphysema, bronchitis, cancer of the lung and heart disease slowly returns to that level of risk of non-smokers. If you are able to stop smoking cigarettes within five to seven v/oarc uAnr rnr? juui i.iianv,c3 ui UCVCIU^IIIg UlbdUllllg emphysema and bronchitis have returned to about the level of the individual who has never smoked. Those individuals who are able to stop smoking will find that after about 10 years their increased incidence of cancer of the lung has disappeared and their risk of developing cancer of the lung is no greater than the non-smoker. Of all the diseases associated with smok ing of cigarettes, it should be remembered that all can essentially be prevented by not smoking or by stopping smoking. The diseases caused by or associated with cigarette smoking, specifically some form of heart disease, bronchitis, emphysema and cancer of the lung represent one of the largest preventable collection of diseases in the world. If individuals would onlv stOD smoktne cigarettes, these diseases would represent relatively minor health problems to the population instead of being the major health problems that they are today. I would encourage everyone to consider the effect that cigarette smoking may be having on his life and make a sincere effort to stop smoking. Robert L. Galphin Jr., M.D, President Respiratory Consultants, Inc. Columbia, South Carolina :ained by Clinton Mills and directly supervises igram of the company. Dr. Galphin is a leading