Clinton Mills clothmaker. [volume] ([Clinton, South Carolina]) 1984-198?, January 15, 1985, Image 4
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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.