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Clinton Mills MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY FABRICS P. O. DRAWER 1215 CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29325-1215 GEORGE H. CORNELSON PRESIDENT TELEPHONE 833-5500 AREA CODE 803 Christmas 1986 To All Associates: As we are on the threshold of another yuletide season, let us renew our faith in mankind and rededicate ourselves to that great task of making this world a better place in which to live ... a world reflecting the true spirit of Christmas. We pause at this time to enjoy the activities of the season and to reflect on the many blessing that have come our way during the past year. We are grateful to you, our employees, for your loyalty, service, and dedication in 1986. It is our Christmas wish that this Holiday Season be filled with joyous times and that the New Year will bring Peace, Happiness and Prosperity to us all. George H. Cornelson President Pages New Stars Join Made-in-USA Campaign The names of the celebrities who will appear in the Crafted with Pride in U.S.A. Council’s 1987 television commercials were announced recently. The ads, part of the council’s three-year, $40 million advertis ing campaign, will continue the “It Matters” theme. New stars — including Ted Danson, Christie Brinkley, Billy Dee Williams, Loret ta Swit and Robert Stack — will join Bob Hope in telling Americans why buying USA- made apparel and home fashions is impor tant to them. Produced by Warwick Advertising in New York the commercials were designed to con vince Americans to buy Made-in-USA apparel and home fashion products. Com pelling new music has been created exclu sively for the new campaign. The overall message is to encourage Americans not only to look for items that contain the Made-in- USA label, but to buy them. According to Robert Swift, executive director of the Crafted wth Pride in U.S.A. Council, diversity was an important factor in the selection of the celebrity panel. “We chose a versatile cross section of talented entertainers,” he said. "Each one has some thing very personal to say about why Amer ican textile products are important to him or her.” According to a national survey of 1,000 consumers by the research firm of Elrick and Lavidge, advertising messages on TV urging consumers to look for the Made-in-USA labels were highly effective and convincing. The research study revealed that of the 53 percent who could recall the council’s TV commercial, 81 percent found Made-in- USA clothing, and 93 percent of those bought it. Survey results also showed that 80 percent reported they had seen the com mercials and that 50 percent of those could accurately recall a specific sales message. Textiles Rank First in Safety Finally, the U.S. textile industry is first in safety among 42 industries ranked by the National Safety Council. The council, headquartered in Chicago, is a non-profit organization chartered by Con gress to promote safety. It bases its findings on reports voluntarily sent in by its members regarding missed work cases of accidents and fatalities. According to the report, for every 100 workers, the textile industry in 1985 re ported 0.46 cases of missed days due to job-related accidents, sickness or deaths. Chemicals was second with a rating of 0.52. The average of all industries was 1.98 cases. “A major reason for our success is the hieghtened awareness of safety stemming from the ATM I First in Safety contest, which has recognized outstanding achievements in textile safety since 1981,” said Dewey Trog- don, president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute. **★★★★★★ “Textiles has been among the top five safest industries for the past five years, and we have improved our record every year.” The ATM I contest, which was started in 1981 by ATMI President Robert E. Cole man, tracks safety reports by companies to the Department of Labor. The purpose of the contest was to focus attention on safety, provide companies with a means to measure their performances against other companies of similar size, rec ognize companies with superior perform ances, and insure that the American textile industry becomes “First in Safety.” “The challenge now,” Trogdon declared, “is to stay No. 1.” Everyone of the more than 700,000 textile employes — more than automobileand steel combined—should be proud of the first in safety ranking. “You have to have a commitment from management in order to insure that a safety program will work,” said Mack Parsons who directs Clinton Mills Workers' Compensation programs. “That’s exactly what we have at Clinton Mills.” In 1987, Clinton Mills will put forth an extraordinary effort to reduce its medical injuries by 20 percent. The company's safety program for the fol lowing year calls for a renewal commitment among supervisors to correct unsafe condi tions and unsafe acts. “At the present time, we are studying the causes of our major accidents and working on methods to improve our experiences,” noted Parsons. TEXTILE 0.46 CHEMICAL 0.52 AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS 0.65 PETROLEUM & COAL PRODUCTS 0.76 ELECTRIC, ELECTRONIC EQUIP 0.88 MOTOR VEHICLES 0.89 COMMUNICATION 0.90 AIRCRAFT 0.94 PIPELINE TRANSPORTATION 0.99 OIL & GAS EXTRACTION 1.05 NONMETALLIC MINERALS 1.26 STEEL 1.34 ELECTRIC SERVICE 1.40 NONFERROUS ROLLING, DRAWING 1.43 MACHINERY, EXC. ELECTRICAL 1.59 IRON & STEEL FOUNDRIES 1.63 BITUMINOUS COAL 1.68 PRIMARY NONFERROUS METALS 1.80 WHOLESALE & RETAIL TRADE 1.86 PAPER 1 87 furniture&fixtures"""”"""!!!".'!"”"!l9i ALL INDUSTRIES 1.98