Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Textili Textiles are all around us, sume an avers touching our lives everyday 60 pounds ol with literally thousands of ducts per pers< products for consumers and out twice the industry. in Western Ei The textile industry is the much as 10 tir nation's 10th largest em- in other coui ployer. The fiber-textile- world. anriaroLrnmnlnv rirnuirlac Hnw arp th V* ppu I V I VVIIlpi^A piWflU^g *??' '* ? ' ~ ? some two million jobs?one used? of every eight in manufac- Clothing is turing ? forming our na- single use, a< tion's largest industrial about 40 pei complex. icans spend ov The United States de- for clothing al pends on textile products for Other major clothing, the home, trans- towels and sh portation, industry, de- tainsandcarp< fense, health care, space ex- stery. They als ploration, and recreation. tensively for i The desire for textiles is sings and sur; greater than anywhere in the fish nets and world. Not so readi Americans yearly con- textile prodt It's Chrisi at Clintoi Clinton Mills employees have again F selected the gifts of their choice from the i Company's 1983 Christmas Gift Selection js Catalog. This vear's catalog Drovided numerous < EMPLOYEES SELECT GIFTS? Lucill and Donna Patterson examine the 1983 es Tout age of nearly cord, conveyor belts, artifif textile pro- cial arteries, insulation jn. That's ab- material, typewriter ribamount used bons, and fire hoses. Our jroDe and as armed forces use some nes that used 25,000 different items from itries of the rifle slings to bulletproof vests to pontoon bridges and lese textiles parachutes. The creative ability of the largest America's textile industry is :counting for reflected in a wide range of rcent. Amer- fashionable and sophistier $80 billion cated fabrics to meet everone. changing consumer deuses include mands. eets and cur- Today. America's textile etsanduphol- industry offers consumers o are used ex- special finishes in clothing nedical dres- and home fabrics which eical sutures. make them not onlv wrinkle filters. free, but colorfast, nonly apparent as shrinking and resistant to jets are tire flame and soil. tmas i Mills jersonal, recreational, and home workshop tems for employees and their families to ielect their gift. The gifts will be presented on the job a few Jays before Christmas. W35* __ e Dunaway, Laura Black, Helen King Christmas gift selections. :h Our Dramatic new textiles contribute further to the quality of life: ? Medical dressings reduce pain from burns, fight infection and control fluid less. >\ ? Fabric fibers trip spot from coal-burning power plants and keep the air _ clean. ^ ? Fiber and fabricreinforced boat hulls are, ? r pound-for-pound, five times stronger than steel.? A space travel wardrobe ? from heat resistant \ S\ ejection suits to flame resistant flying suits. ' / ? The American textile I industry manufactures the. equivalent of 24 billion square yards of fabric each year. ' VHHlLkiikriissiyHHHflH it Ui \ A LARGE VARIETY? Johnny Glenn which to select a gift from the Compai M sw Jmlr, j ; -R^ HOUSEHOLD OR PERSONAL? lone Wigley chooses a househ. d item as her personal Christmas gift from the Company. Page 3 Lives # C*A% JWi fc>l. 1 ponders over the numerous items from iy. DIFFICULT DECISION? Johnnie Peay finds making his choice from among the many items available to be very difficult.