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Textil Textiles are all around us, sume an a touching our lives everyday 60 pound: with literally thousands of ducts per p products for consumers and out twice 1 industry. in Westerr The textile industry is the much as II nation's 10th largest em- in other c ployer. The fiber-textile- world, apparel-complex provides How an some two million jobs?one used? of every eight in manufac- Clothini turing ? forming our na- single use tion's largest industrial about 40 complex. icansspen The United States de- for clothin pends on textile products for Other m clothing, the home, trans- towels anc portation, industry, de- tainsandc fense, health care, space ex- stery. The> ploration, and recreation. tensively I The desire for textiles is sings and greater than anywhere in the fish nets a world. Not son Americans yearly con- textile pi K It's Chris at Clinto Clinton Mills employees have again selected the gifts of their choice from the Company's 1983 Christmas Gift Selection Catalog. This year's catalog provided numerous Jr M . ?* R X i I EMPLOYEES SELECT GIFTS- Lu ? les Tout iverage of nearly cord, conveyor belts, artifis of textile pro- cial arteries, insulation >erson. That's ab- material, typewriter rifaChe amount used bons, and fire hoses. Our ) Europe and as armed forces use some 0 times that used 25,000 different items from :ountries of the rifle slings to bulletproof vests to pontoon bridges and ? these textiles parachutes. The creative ability of g is the largest America's textile industry is , accounting for reflected in a wide range of percent. Amer- fashionable and sophistid over $80 billion cated fabrics to meet everg alone. changing consumer deajor uses include mands. I sheets and cur- Today, America's textile arpetsand uphol- industry offers consumers i also are used ex- special finishes in clothing or medical dres- and home fabrics which surgical sutures, make them not only wrinkleind filters. free, but colorfast, nonjadily apparent as shrinking and resistant to oducts are tire flame and soil. >tmas n Mills personal, recreational, and home workshop items for employees and their families to select their gift. The gifts will be presented on the job a tew days before Christmas. m wut &fLM a#? '"QSn cille Dunaway, Laura Black, Helen King )83 Christmas gift selections. ch Our! Dramatic new textiles contribute further to the quality of life: MoHiral rlroccinoc ro. duce pain from burns, fight infection and control fluid less. ? Fabric fibers trip spot from coal-burning power plants and keep the air ^ clean. nn?n^ ? Fiber and fabric- ^ reinforced boat hulls are, ? r pound-for-pound, five times ^ stronger than steel.? A space travel wardrobe ? from heat resistant \ ejection suits to flame resistant flying suits. ' yy* ? The American textile ( industry manufactures the. ^ equivalent of 24 billion square yards of fabric each year. ^ * ? < jf- 'Z fr-jT.,. * ' ', i JbMH1 yH I A LARGE VARIETY? Johnny Glenn p< which to select a gift from the Company - wKsE HOUSEHOLD OR PERSONAL? lone Wigley chooses a household item as her personal Christmas gift from the Company. Page 3 Lives CVfe, >1/ I ^mmm f k^U -^ SbESbIiJ^*'^^ flL onders over the numerous items from r. DIFFICULT DECISION? Johnnie Peay finds making his choice from among the many items available to be very difficult.