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Page 4 Outside Employees Sow Seeds To Brighten Winter Months As summer ends and autumn and winter come, Clinton Mills' Outside Department begins the annual rye grass seeding to help the plants and office grounds look bright and cheerful during the winter months. Pictured here are Willie Boyd, William Carwise and Roosevell Jones during the annual reseeding project. ' m Downtown banner pre Textile Week Hei Textile Week (Oct. 17-24) has come and gone and the recognition brought ot the textile employees throughout South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina was well received. Needless to sav. everv week is Textile Week for Clinton's approximately 3,000 employees who make their living in textiles. Vet, it is important to set aside a specific week to call attention to the role textile employees play in the local, state and national economies. The news media did an outstanding job in carrying related articles about the industry and its employees. In Clinton and Laurens, participating merchants went all out in providing special discounts for Clinton and other textile employees who had presented their Wooden Nickels. Textile Week, with down town banners waving, automobile bumperstickers telling the story that Textiles Cover America, a BE j Boyd I >motes Textile Week. ri nrtnhdr 17-OA VI WIVMVI I# <U"T Chamber of Commerce Textile Appreciation night, as well as various newspaper and radio advertisements, recognized that the industry and its employees have done a good job m creating a positive image for the industry. Textile Week means many things for our inHi ictrw Tho Tovhln Pi in holH fnr thn fifth consecutive year in Clinton, points to the interest of textiles in physical fitness. Despite the stiff competition faced within the industry from markets flooded with imported goods. Textile Week focuses attention on he pride that exists among all employees. Textiles provides good jobs for thousands of people who take pride in the quality products they makes. As the backbone of local economies, textile employees work in one of the safest, cleanest and most modern industries in the world. Each can say, "We're proud to be a part of "Textile Week." Carwise iy38Bj Bumper stickers tell Tc M tt^32MHBF 4 jg \ 'fa Karen Bragg displays bumper sticker i vPffllpS* . / -* * ?. HI # " .?. ? , K:^hkBiu^v * &-: Jones I v^ ^5Sy ixtile story. - mSSm JBft" ifc^E w^ is Textile Week promotion.