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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953
PAGE SIX
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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. Then one of us caught him
by his feet and neatly pulled his
seat across it, \wiping the step
practically clean, but messing up
the seat of his pants something
awful.
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