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THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953 PAGE SIX You Can Save an American Life! RIGHT NOW blood is saving lives at the front in Korea—and in hospitals far behind the combat areas. HERE AT HOME, TOO, blood is needed by other thousands in our civilian hospitals. What’s more, it is vital to our national defense that we build a reserve of plasma against the possibility of an enemy bombing attack on our homes, our cities and factories. THAT’S WHY your blood donation is needed now. And when you give it, this you can be sure of: Wherever it goes . . . this priceless, painless gift will some day save an American life! RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE in Basement Lutheran Church of The Redeemer THURSDAY, July 16 from 2 P. M. until 6:45 P. M. PJS.—U you are unable to give blood Thursday, please fill in the coupon below to the local Red Cross, stating when you will be able to donate. GIVE BLOOD NOW Mail Coupon Today! RED CROSS will verify your appointment! AMBRICAN RED CROSS (LOCAL ADDRESS) m be glad to give blood. If possible, I would prefer to come on: DATE HOUR ADDRESS PHONE — WHITAKER FUNERAL HOME Carolina Remnant Shop Criskay Linen Prints Nylon Swiss Chambray Denim Taffetas Crinkle Cloth Crib Sheets Drapery Curtain Material Organdy Rayons ALL AT POPULAR PRICES FIRST QUALITY WEEKEND SPECIAL BUTCHER LINEN Heavy Quality ... in colors 98c per yd. "Quit worrying. Purcells make auto loans in a hurry , . . and besides we still have four minutes to catch our train!” Phone first and then stop in . . . your mo ney will be waiting for you. PURCELLS "Your Private Bankers'* 1418 Main St. Newberry Kendall Looks Back Upon 50 Productive Years From An Humble Beginning. Fifity years ago, Henry P. Ken dall took over a small, unprofit able manufacturing plant in Wal pole, Massachusetts, which was the modest beginning of what to day is a high integrated business with 17 manufacturing plants lo cated in 6 states and foreign sub sidiaries in Canada, Cuba, and Mexico City. Nineteen hundred and fifty-three marks the 50th an niversary of The Kendall Com pany. The growth of -The Kendall company is a typical example of the potentials of our American free enterprise system. The lead ership, resourcefulness, and fore sight provided by Mr. Kendall have been dominant factors in the building of a business with annual sales volume of almost^ $100,000,-' 000. His ability to assemble capa ble business leaders and his wil lingness to delegate authority ac count for the strong organization he has succeeded in building. Mr. Kendall soon recognized that efficient manufacturing would be furthered by moving to his ba sic raw material—cotton cloth. To this end in 1916 the first cotton mill, Wateree, located in Camden, South Carolina, was acquired. The natural beauty of the Caro- linas made a lasting impression on Mr. Kendall. A lake and extensive woodland section were part of the property of the Wateree mill, and these natural resources interested Mr. Kendall greatly. He became active in scientific - tree farming, along with the preservation and conservation of trees. Both the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry, and the Clemson Col lege Extension Service have cit ed the Kendall company’s wood lands in Camden and elsewhere as authentic <‘tree farms.” Since the citation is made on the basis that the woodlands are adequately pro tected against fire and properly tended in accordance with rigid standards, this is a distinct honor and Mr. Kendall has long been recognized as a pioneer in Caro lina tree farming. With his high regard for the Carolinas, Mr. Kendall purchased a residence in the city of Camden. In the various Carolina communi ties where he bought cotton mills he gave his support to many com munity projects. He worked with municipal governments and civic organizations on improvements. He speaks enthusiastically of the tremendous potentialities in the South. Mr. Kendall works with unlimit ed energy yet plans for necessary leisure in which he enjoys nature and interesting hobbies. For years, he has been acquiring a collection of old South Carolina maps. French, English and Dutch cartographers. His hist o r i c a 1 South Carolina maps represent the largest collection of state maps assembled in one place by an in dividual. Henry P. Kendall is well-known throughout the South. He was awarded an LL.D. by the Universi ty of South Carolina in 1937. In November 1951, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Textile Industries by Clemson College. He was awarded an honorary degree by Amherst, his Alma Mater, in 1949. Mr. Kendall is known and re spected throughout the United States. Recently he was honored by the Newcomen Society of Eng land in North America at a ban quet in Boston. The Society hon ored The Kendall company on its 50th anniversary and Mr. Kendall specifically as its founder. Recent ly, too, employees of his first plant in Walpole, Massachusetts, recognized his leadership at an anniversary dinner. An impressive number of these employees have been with Mr. Kendall for a major portion of this past half-century. The first Kendall company plant, known as the Lewis Batting company, was making absorbent cotton, cotton baits, stair pads, and carpet linings when acquired by Mr. Kendall. The manufactur ing processes were quite crude, with the cotton being dried on chicken wire over boxed-in steam coils through which air was blown. Mr. Kendall took over the management of this plant, added new machinery, and began the fin ishing of gauze. By the time of World War I, the Lewis Manufac turing company was making a name for itself. To meet the de mand of the U. S. Government and the Red Cross for its products, the company added more buildings and machinery to the Walpole plant. In 1915, to further enlarge manu facturing facilities, the company purchased the Slatersville Finish ing company in Slatersville, Rhode Island. Following the acquisition of the Wateree mill in 1916, other Caro lina mills were added to the Ken dall company organization. The Addison mill in Edgefield, South Carolina, was purchased in 1918. In 1924, the company purchased the Thrift mill at Paw Creek, North Carolina, and the five Ken dall plants were incorporated and became known as Kendall Mills, Inc. Growth continued through the years with the acquisition of more plants to complete an inte grated business. In 1925 and 1926, the Oakland and Mollohon Cotton mills in Newberry, South Carolina, were bought. In 1928, the com pany purchased the 40-year old Bauer and Black company in Chi cago. This organization manufac tured surgical dressings and al lied products. It was during this year that the name of the Kendall organization was changed to The Kendall Company. In 1929, the company purchased the Bike Web manufacturing com pany of South Bend, Indiana, and has continued to manufacture ath letic supporters and other elastic products. A finishing plant and two cotton mills were added to the company in 1932; Griswold- ville Manufacturing company, Col- rain Mill, and Turners Falls, all located in Massachusetts. The year 1933 was the beginning of The Kendall Company’s foreign subsidiaries with the founding of Bauer and Black in Mexico. Later the company was to have a Bauer and Black division in Cuba, and The Kendall Company, Limited, in Canada. In 1936, Pelzer Mills at Pelzer, South Carolina, was added to the Cotton Mills Division. In 1948, the Burson Knitting Com pany of Rockford, Illinois, was purchased. The company’s cotton mills di vision, with mills in North and South Carolina, and Executive Of fices in Charlotte, has approxi mately 296,016 spindles and 6,861 looms and is one of. the largest cotton textile mill enterprises in the United States. In the Caro linas this division employs 4,000 people, with an annual payroll of $10,500,000. The Baiier and Black division, with plants in Illinois and Indiana and Executive offices in Chic^ro, manufactures surgical dressings, foot products, elastic goods and in dustrial adhesive tapes and other allied products. The Finishing division, with plants in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Executive offices in Walpole, Massachusetts, finishes the grey goods secured from the Cotton Mills division of the com pany and purchased from other mills, and converts textiles into department store, variety store and bulk hospital goods. These in clude a line of nursery supplies, curtain materials, industrial fab rics, bulk gauze, cheese cloth and non-woven fabrics. INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOWED All the preparations had been made for her club tea that after noon and Mrs. Wilson decided to take a short nap. But when her girl friends did arrive, Mrs. Wil son was nonplussed, to say the least, at their behavior. Her guests simply walked in without ringing the doorbell, greeted her in hush ed tones, and treated her with extreme caution. All of them, sit ting silently, and stiffly in their chairs, seemed ill at ease. Finally, the mystery was set tled when one of the guests got up courage enough to ask her hostess about the note tacked to the front door. “The note! shriek ed Mrs. Wilson, suddenly remem bering the warning she had writ ten—and forgotten—to her teen age boys to keep them from dis turbing her nap! <‘The door is unlocked. For goodness sakes, come in—quietly. If you must talk to each other, just whisper, and no roughhous ing in the living rfcom. Don’t ask me for anything and if you dare touch any of the food and the din ing-room table. I’ll skin you alive!” —Tracks. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist “BIGGEST PRACTICAL THING” I ravine is a potential pond. Dry- “Supplemental irrigation is the biggest single practical thing now known and available to us for im proving crop yields in the Rain fall Belt.” That was Bill Camp of South Carolina and California speaking. i He made his fortune with' it in j the West. He knows what it can be made to mean to us. And he I and his boys have endowed Clem son for the sensible and sane pro motion of it here. They send me anywhere I want to go to see and study irrigation in all of its forms so that I might be in better po sition to size it up, write, and talk about it here. Clemson has considerable ex perimental work in irrigation un der way at the College and at several of its experiment stations. The Camp Fund furnished the Ex tension Service a truck and porta ble irrigation outfit with which to put on crop irrigation demon strations over tjie state; it sent our engineers On trips to see and learn practical irrigation and a gtoup of our county agents up East to see ^ under extreme drought conditions a few years ago. And the makers of irrigation equipment have also contributed certain pieces of equipment- too for demonstration purposes. So, all in all, we are digging in on the practical details of getting this great undeveloped potential of irrigation started over South Carolina. Results already secured tend but to increase our enthtis- iasm for the promise it holds. Water storage is now the great problem. Plenty of it falls here. But so much of it is gone when you need it. To hold some of it for future use, many ponds are being built. And to ‘ that end, every land or otherwise, ' they likely serve their great purpose. For during normal times, we have periods of heavy rainfall along that will replenish them. And with the water they store, we will reach out and bring new crop riches as far as it will reach. And so will w - e use the running stream and the large reservior. A veritable revolution is already started in water storage. Supplementary Irrigation, x the new yield factor that is invading the Rainfall Belt. HEALING THE ROADSIDE WITH SOD While riding with County Agent Hopkins of Anderson I saw a lot of good farming, fine farming. Those men of the rolling red hills are sure making tlieir lands bloom. Even though we were in a hur ry, we pased one farm where I had to ask him to slow up. There were beautifully contoured fields, with winding rows that sagged and swayed gracefully with the contour. There were no raw seams left in that picture. A strip about 20 feet wide that came ‘clear to the black macadam road had been flawlessly prepared in the fall and seeded to grass. It had been clipped for hay and looked like a lawn. And on it his machinery turned around, without leaving a track. Rows of crop jutted right up to it, Without the irregularity and skips you usually see at the end of the rows. v That was Manly McClure’s farm. And the remodeled home was just as neat. Hopkins told me that Mrs. McClure is the same sort of housekeeper that Manly is a farmer. Pride in what you are doing! BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER Occasionally I see children whose clothes have never been dirty. It seems to me, they are to be pittied. It’s not their fault, you can bet, that they'are brought up that way. Well-meaning parents just carry it too far. The little things become clothes conscious. And they are cramped at play. It usually makes them a bit sissy in the 'eyes of the other kids, and they have a tendency to grow up and be a bit sissy, especially the boys. Now I’m not defending dirt. But with usual caution, kids are going to get dirty at play. Once a boy moved to our com munity who was afflicted with cleanliness. His parents had drum med it .into him so, he was never quite natural. Was always afraid he’d get his hands or his clothes soiled, and stood back When we skated In the sloppy mud or slid down the clay bank on the seat of our pants. Kids are cruel and heartless things. And, to be sure, we made that poor boy’s life a bit more miserable than it must have al ready been. He is the one we pull ed the hidden *egg trick on, break ing it under his cap, and it stream ed down from his curls onto his white Buster Brown suit. And he wanted to help us grease the buggy. We let him put the grease on one axle, but saw to it that some good black used grease from the tap was smeared over Do you have it? Pity more of us don’t. And I’ll guarantee you this, he is not just spending money prettying up. his farm. Hopkins implied to me that when the har vest was in, Mr. McClure’s bank account usually looked just as good as his farm and home did. the grease-paddle handle just be fore he took it. When he saw his hand, he cried. We laughed with glee. We told him to rub it in the red clay there in the yard, as we did. But he couldn’t bear the thought of that. And he ran on home to his horrified mother. Another time we told him we could wipe some of that black grease off the step and he couldn’t keep us from getting to it, even though we’d let him have our open knives, one in each hand. He said we couldn’t. So we put a blob of that grease there on the top step. We sat him down, with legs spread on each side of the grease. His was the privilege of guarding that grease with the two knife blades. We made like we were trying to get at it a little. 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