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Page 10 Clinton Mills Sons and Daughters Receive Scholarships and Loans The Bailey Foundation has awarded two Clinton Mills employees’ daughters $8,000 M.S. Bailey Memorial Scholarships. This year’s recipients, Jennifer D. Boyer and Phyllis Blakely, plan to enter Presbyterian College and Clemson Un iversity, respectively. Jennifer is the daughter of Tax Manager and Mrs. Lewis Boyer. Phyllis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Blakely, Lydia and Clinton Plant No. 2 weaving employees. The Grants Advisory Committee recommended 12 students for college educational loans valued at up to $7,000 each. These included: Gordon Baker, Harvey Dickert Jr., Jane Marie Hamrick, Elizabeth Dee Motes, Francene Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Satterfield, Melissa Satterfield, Jerry Dwayne Sherfield, Terri Lee Tumlin, James Rowland Woody, Belinda McGowan and Anna Marie Pennington. The Bailey Foundation awarded Jennifer D. Boyer an $8,000 M.S. Bailey Memorial Scholarship. Jennifer is a 1985 Thornwell High School graduate and plans to enter Presbyterian College this fall. Claude A. Crocker, Vice President, Clinton Mills, and administrator of the Bailey Foundation, right, made the presentation. At left is her father, Lewis Boyer, Clinton Mills' Tax Manager and Jennifer’s mother, second from right. The Bailey Foundation has awarded an $8,000 M.S. Bailey Memorial Scho larship to Phyllis Blakely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Blakely, both Clinton Mills’ employees. Making the presentation on behalf of the Foundation is Clinton Mills' Personnel Director Calvin A. Cooper, left. Phyllis plans to enter Clemson University this fall and major in chemical engineering. Left to right are: Cooper, Phyllis Blakely, and Mr. and Mrs. Blakely. Pre-Tax Plan Lowers Expenses Clinton Mills, Inc. has been very concerned about the rapid rise in medical care costs. Our health care plan has been modified in an effort to control these costs. The company has been exploring ways to hold down medical care costs and is actively talking with doctors and hospitals about the fees they charge for services. As a result of our continued efforts to help you reduce your medical expenses, we are going to use some favorable tax provisions that will allow us to establish the Pre-Tax Plan (PTP). WHAT IS PTP? PTP will simply allow you to shift premiums for health benefits from an after-tax to a before-tax basis. This can be done by a salary reduction in the amount of premiums before withholdings for Federal, State, and Social Security taxes. ELIGIBILITY; All regular active employees of Clinton Mills who are eligible for the health benefit plan can participate. New employees will become eligible to join the PTP when they enroll in the health benefit plan. REQUIREMENTS TO JOIN PTP: You will automatically be enrolled in PTP if you are now paying health premiums. This will allow you to take advantage of the before-tax method of paying premiums. If you do not wish to join, you must contact your personnel office. CHANGES: Changes may occur in your PTP for a couple of reasons: If premium contribution rate changes. If your family status changes. (Family status changes include marriage, childbirth, death, divorce, doption, and a change in the status of your spouse’s employment.) If you have changes like these, be sure to contact your personnel office. ONE UST WORD: Clinton is able to allow pre-tax payment of medical premiums because of certain changes the federal government has made in the tax laws. At some point in the future, these laws may change again and the govern ment may eliminate this tax advantage. Chemicals Sought Clinton Mills is in the process of surveying all of the chemicals used throughout its plants in the first step towards compliance with the OSHA standard on hazard commun- cations. The OSHA standard requires that all che mical hazards be identified. It also requires training for all employees who come in con tact with any chemical substance. Clinton Mills, along with other industry leaders, view the overall communications standards as being one of the most expen sive - and difficult regulations in the 12 year history of OSHA. Clinton Mills plans to have a detailed material Safety Data Sheet for each chemic al substance used in the plants by Novem ber, 1985, and a completed training prog ram prior to May, 1986. Hazardous chemicals include those that are toxic, corrosive, irritants and sensitizers. Safety Scoreboard January 1, 1985-May 31, 1985 MEDICALS LOST TIMES FREQUENCY Plant No. 1 2 1 7.01 Plant No. 2 14 5 11.29 Shop/Warehouse/ Outside 5 0 0 Lydia Shop 2 0 0 Lydia Plant 15 4 8.94 Bailey 4 0 0 Geneva No. 1 3 0 0 Geneva No. 2 8 1 3.99