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Page 4 ^)Did you see... January 9, 1985, marked George Cato’s 25th anniversary with the company. George has anxiously awaited this significant milestone in his work career. Presenting Cato his watch are Director of Plant Engineering Silas Campbell, left, and Lydia Plant Engineer Mike Kinard, right. Company Announces Operating Schedule Paid holiday and vacation schedules have been posted in the plants for Clinton em ployees to plan their activities for these dates. Clinton, (S.C. weaving plants) second paid holiday of the year for eligible em ployees will be Easter Monday, April 8. The next paid holiday will be Memorial Day which falls on Monday, May 27. For July 4th vacation, Clinton (S.C.) plants will stop Friday, June 28, at the end of the second shift and start Sunday, July 7, with the third shift. July 4th is also a paid holiday for eligible employees. September 2 is Labor Day and this, too, will be observed as a paid holiday. Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28, will be observed as the final, paid holiday before the Christmas season. For Christmas, the Clinton plants will stop Monday, Dec. 23, at the end of the second shift and resume operations Thursday, Dec. 26, with the third shift. Christmas Day is a paid holiday, also. To begin the New Year, January 1, 1986, which falls on Wednesday, will be observed. Clinton Mills employees enjoy seven (7) paid holidays annually. For Clinton Mills of Geneva (Alabama), planned plant stoppage includes Easter Sunday, April 7, 1985; Memorial Day, Mon day, May 27; and July 4th vacation when the plants will stop from midnight, Sunday, June 30, at end of the 5th shift and start midnight Sunday, July 7th, with the 3rd shift. Other holidays include Labor Day, Sept. 2; Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28; and Christmas vacation when plants will stop Monday, Dec. 23, at end of 2nd shift and start midnight Thursday, Dec. 26, with the 3rd shift. Like Clinton, Geneva plants will also observe New Year's Day Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1986. If business conditions and/or some unex pected development necessitate a change in plans or schedule, employees will be noti fied as far in advance as possible. Dykes McGowan recalling honors daugh ter Gail had recently received in school to include being selected as Samson High School FHA calendar girl and also being named to the school's principal's list for academic achievement ... Rudolph Barker taking time out from a busy retirement sche dule to participate in Hubert Rollins' retire ment party ... John Pate trying to determine how much size Plant No. 2 runs in the course of a day ... Group of third shift Lydia em ployees helping each other start the cars of fellow employees ... Plant No. 2 weavers congratulating Marty Satterfield on recent promotion ... Sonny King making regular visits through the plants as he posted important notices on plant information centers ... Mary Ann Ste wart and Nell Haggart being pleased to learn that Clinton Mills ranked fourth among 317 self-insurers in the state in prompt reporting of accidents to the South Carolina Industrial Commission ... Clothmaker readers taking note that this year begins the thirty-third year of publication for the company news paper ... Made In USA and Crafted With Pride mes sages appearing regularly on flashing sign at Classic Fash ions store on Jacobs H ighway... Barry Whitman preparing for another cam paign for re-election to District 56 School Board ... Scuppy Gallman making his rounds through Lydia weave room reminding employees of the importance of being safe ... Lucille White in Geneva and Truman Owens in Clinton giving special assistance to employees concerning group insurance claims ... W-2 earnings forms being distributed and employees wondering where they have spent the money they'd made at Clinton in 1984 ... Only to realize federal, state, and social security taxes had taken bigger bite than they had originally thought... Darrell Bragg explaining to employees the multiple choice of hearing protectors available as replace ments in the Lydia supply room ... Eligible profit sharing participants being amazed at the rapid growth currently experienced in the investment income of their individual accounts ... Jimmy Carroll cautioning a class of new loom technician trainees of the importance in performing their job according to Clinton Mills' safety rules and procedures... Crafted With Pride flag waving briskly at each plant location ... Bailey Plant employees com menting about how orderly the plant mod ernization was going ... Bob Hooks present ing a program entitled “Quality Practices in the Card Room" at a seminar at Clemson University ... Concerned Geneva employees havingtheir family pets vaccinated following recent news of increase in rabies ... Rob Wilkie congratulating each of his “outside" employees for working twelve months without a medical injury ... Ware house employees taking extra precaution against unusual cold weather by wearing more protective clothing ... Several em ployees talking while on break about the things they were doing to stay healthy so they could avoid unnecessary visits to the doctor ...A sure way to keep medical costs to a minimum ... Geneva general manager Barry Hooks, cotton classer Bill Hill and Clinton Mills chairman Robert M. Vance discussing the many aspects of the cotton markets with shippers, crushers, growers and other cotton consumers at recent National Cotton Coun cil meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Profit Sharing Earnings Announced Eligible Clinton Mills profit sharing participants shared in $656,566.12 in fund earnings for 1984, according to Assistant Benefit Plans Administrator John Wallace. As of DecemberSl, 1984, total assets of the employee profit sharing plan totaled $5,792,230.51. Wallace also noted that the plan included 1,176 eligible participants. Editorially Speaking Clothmaker Begins 33rd Year of Publication Ordinarily along about this time I'd be writing about the new year and perhaps set ting forth some ideas relative to the coming months. The timing would be right for a multitude of items but now it seems more appropriate to think about the 33rd anniversary of The Clothmaker. On February 15, 1952, the first issue of a new plant newspaper was published under The Clinton-Lydia News masthead. The late President P. S. Bailey in writing to the em ployees about the new publication stated, “This first issue is like a newborn baby. It doesn't have an official name ... The pur pose of this newspaper is to bring all of us closer together." This year, The Clothmaker begins its 33rd continuous year of publica tion. A contest was held at Clinton and Lydia to name the newspaper. After more than 300 entries were received and carefully re viewed, a $15.00 cash prize was awarded to the late W. P. Burdette for his entry, “The Clothmaker." From that day The Clothmaker has found its way into the homes of Clinton employees. Previously bound copies of The Clothmak er show Personnel Director Calvin Cooper as the first editor. Others include Claude A. Crocker and in 1969 Mack Parsons became the paper's editor. The hardest job posed for The Clothmaker has been to continue the tradition set by each preceding editor. If there has been any thing that has made the editor's job less difficult, however, has been the wholehearted cooperation and support of everyone throughout the company. The Clothmaker format has changed sev eral times, but the basic philosophy of its purpose and goals have remained virtually unchanged. Clinton Mills has undergone numerous changes and transitions in the last one-third of a century: Clinton and Lydia merged, the company name changed to Clinton Mills, the Bailey Plant was built and the Geneva plants acquired. Despite all the progressive changes, the Clothmaker has and will always feature the most loyal and dedicated em ployees to be found anywhere. As the company changed, so did The Clothmaker. New editors added their own ideas, but never deviated from the basic philosophy behind the paper’s original pur pose—to publicize the employees and com pany in the best ways possible. Jacobs Press, The Chronicle and The Laurens County Advertiser join the ranks of the local printers who have provided valu able production and technical assistance to the paper's publications. Page sizes, papers and processes have changed, but none of these changes have forsaken the integrity of each issue. As The Clothmaker begins a new year, for the first time ever, it will be under the au spices of the “new owners" of Clinton Mills, Inc. As the company moves ahead, The Clothmaker’s greatest desire will be to give its support to the senior management team as they go forward with the company. As progress is made and changes and chal lenges occur, The Clothmaker will keep you informed to every extent possible.