Industrial news letter, 1951 July 10 - 1952 August 15

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J uly 10, 1951

First Eight Steps In Seeking

Foreign Commerce in Ga. Billion Dollar Industry

Georgia's customs d istrict in th e past

'. Defense Orders Are Outlined

decad e cle a rr-d goo ds to and fr om foreign coun tries valued a t $ 1.3 billion , ac cord ing to a com pila tion mad e by

Over fin' hun dr ed man ufa cturer s or formation, so far as it is concern ed th e Atlan ta office of th e U . S. D ep art-

th eir rep resen tative, registered a t th e and we believe it sets a pattern for de- m en t of Co mmer ce.

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procurem en t item s display a nd clinic fense ind ustry in general. The neces-

The com pila tion, m a de In con nec -

held in Atlanta J un e 18- 21 by th e sa ry ste ps as relat ed by C hrys le r a re tion with th e 17th an n ual observance

Birmi ngham O rdnance Dis tr ict an d as follows :

of " W orld Trade W eek" , included a

C h rysle r Corporat ion un d er sponsor-

1. T he m an ufa ctu rer should make a valua tio n of $9 75,047,000 in goo ds ex-

shi p of th e Geo rgia Dep a rtm ent of self-ana lvsis of wh at h is facilities a re ported from th e po rts of Sava nnah ,

Commerce. Wh ile mo st of th e a tten di ng best qua lified to ma ke for defense.

Brunswick and Atl anta , an d $343, 982,-

ind ust riali sts were from Georgia , som e

2. T hen decide what h e wa n ts to 000 in imports from 1941 th rough 1950 .

ca me fro m su rr ound ing Sta tes. T hey ca me largeIy seeking de fense su bcontr act s, to det erm in e wh at item s th ey could man ufac tur e an d what inf or m a'ti on to prepare for th e p rim e contra ctor.
C hrys ler p resented a \'ery excellen t

m ake. 3. Next , p repare a do cu m en t abo u t
his com pa n y an d h is facilities an d also a listing of th e items h e prefers to m ak e fo r th e defense effo rt.
4. Arm ed with thi s info rmatio n, h e should stop her e to d elib erat e and con-

L a st yea r, a va luatio n of $4 8,600 ,000 pla ced on goo ds imp ort ed into the State was the second largest of th e 10year peri od and was ex ceede d only b y the $50 ,890 ,000 in imports recorde d in 194 5 .

exh ibit of pa rt s it wo uld p urchase to sid er th at he has a selling job to do



,go in to th e manu fa ct u re of th e Contin ental V - 12 tan k enzines it will make

wh ich will req uire th e sam e sales effor t he outs in to hi s civilia n om-rations.

in its new defen se pla n t a t N ew Or-

5. T hei1 he should ser iously seek

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lean s. Follow ing th e fo ur -day exh ibi - ou t th e p rim e con trac tor wh o mi ght

tion , Secretary Clark Gaines of th e have need for hi s facilities an d p refer-

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G eorgia Dep a rt ment of Commerce re- red p roducts. I t is better to do thi s

cei ved a letter from th e C h rysler Cor- instead of b road casting h is fa cilities

po ra tion com m en ting as follows :

prom iscuo usly with th e hop e that som e

" All of our p eopl e wh o took part in th e C linic in Atlanta feel plea sed with

p rim e con t ra ctor will hav e need for th em and will con tac t him .

th e turn-out and feel th at th e affair

6. Pr esent hi s facilities and kn ow-

wa s well worth whil e. W e believe th at how to th e pri m e con trac to r, p referably

a g reat deal of th e success of th e C linic by a per son al ca ll to discu ss th e m atter

ca n be con trib ute d to th e th orou gh in det ail. If he has any spec ia l proj ect

preparatory wo rk done by you a nd your under whi ch he wants to rende r his

sta ff."

services he sho uld make that fa ct

Since th e close of th e exhibit. th e Com m erce D ep a rtment ha s rec~ived

kn own . 7. Next, h e should be pat ient and

letters from m anufacturers wh o wer e not expect an inquiry to foll ow im me -

unable to attend bu t wh o desired to diat ely. H e must rem ember that th e

know th e ste ps an ind ust rial concern p rim e con tr ac tor m ight be t ryin g to get

sh ould take in seeking or de rs from under wa y and m ay not be read y for

prime con trac tors. The C h rysler Cor- him .

poration has p rov ided us with th is in-

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

Jul y 10, 195 1

GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

Work is progr essing rapidly on th e new industrial plant in M ENL O to be kno wn as th e Best M an ufactur ing Corporation . The thirty or for ty th ou sand dollar building sho uld be com pleted within th e next mon th. N . E . Tillot son a nd Roy M a nn , of T rion , form th e com pany .
Th e 6,400 sq ua re foo t stru cture will be built of conc re te bloc k and brick ven eer. M r. M ann a nno unced th at 50 or 60 people will be em ployed to beg in th e init ial operations , this n um ber to be d oubled by Feb ru ary or M arch of next yea r.
In the beginning th e conce rn will make gloves, M r. M a nn sta tes, and later safety eq uipmen t item s suc h as saf ety a p ro ns, sleeves a nd specia l safety clothing it ems.
Mr. T illot son is one of th e foremos t ru bber and pl asti c chemists in the co untr y. M r. M ann will h ave cha rge of manufacturing a nd sales.
The M enlo Development Association compose d of int erested local citizens, was inst rum en tal in locat in g th is industry in M enlo. At a com m uni ty m eeting . th ey rai sed th e major portion of money to pay for th e building and ob tai ne d th e land fr om six or eigh t different owners. T he committee conce rne d with thi s project was headed by Charley W yatt, Gen e Ball ard and Bill Edwards .
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Pla ns to beg in im med iate const ruction of a $250,000 plant to prod uce d efen se eq uipme n t in Cobb Coun ty were repo rte d to th e boa rd of d irectors of th e Co bb County C hamber of Comme rce a t a recent me eting.
The plant is to be locat ed ju st above Plant Atkinson a long th e Sea board Railwa y at the C hattahooche e Ri ver.
No dat e to begin actua l ope ra tion of the pla nt was d isclosed . A spok esm an fo r th e cha mbe r of com me rce said th e pla nt wo uld req ui re " a lot of wa ter" and would use heavy machinerv.
T he C hamber de~ l ined to n;me th e com pa ny pla n ning op erations in thi s coun ty, but d id reve a l th at it wo uld em ploy less th a n 100 worker s. H owever, the spokesman said th ey we re " h igh-sa la ried personnel," which wou ld mean a sizea ble payroll.
Furth er d et ail s will be reveal ed lat er, th e chamber of commerce an no unced .
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The Sou thern Sta tes Portland Cem ent Com pany at RO CKM ART h as

announced pl ans for a com plete plant modernization progr am to cost fro m fou r to five mill ion dollars.
W . B. Elcock , president, said th e mod ernization p rogr am will inc re ase th e facilities and product ion efficiency of th e local pl ant, and will place it amo ng the most m od ern pla n ts of its kind in th e country.
The local So uthe rn Sta tes pl ant wa s organized in 1902 by th e late Hugh F. VanDeventer, of Knoxville, Tenn ., and is th e oldes t cement pla n t with a non-broken existe nce in th e So u th, Mr. Elcock pointed ou t. T he firm is still con tro lled by th e V anl.lcvcnter fa mi ly.
Approximat ely 900 acr es of land in th e area are ow ne d by the company , on whi ch are fo und large dep osits of lim estone, sha le, silica a nd iro n ore , p rinc ipal ingr ed ients used in th e manufac ture of cemen t.
" We ar e p rob abl y the on ly cement com pa ny in th e cou n try for tu nate eno ugh to hav e all th ese raw m at eri al s in suc h qu a ntity righ t at hand," M r. Elcock remarked.
H e pointed out th at on p roper ty owne d by th e com pany, however , a re found deposits of sto ne not suitable for ceme n t prod uction. "T h is h as forced us in to a crushe d stone bus iness wh ich has reache d large propo rtions," he adde d ,
The an nual productio n of crushe d sto ne now amo un ts to ab out 100,000 ton s, it was sta ted . This compares wit h a p roducti on each year of 750,000 barrels of va rious types of cemen t a nd 100 ,000 ba rr els of m a sonry cem en t.
Origin all y the p lan t produced only Portland C em ent, but d uring th e past five years has ga ine d wide fa me for its h igh- qu ality m a sonry mix.
R eferr ing to th e crushe d stone produc t m anufact ur ed by the local firm , Mr. Elc ock pointed out th at th e stone p rodu ced by th e Rockm ar t pl an t was select ed by th e gove rn m en t duri ng World W a r II as a su perior product for deck armor on steel battleships.
The deck a rmo r consisted of a m ixture of asp ha lt and crus he d sto ne, an d was subm it ted to rigid tests.
T he local plant em ploys in th e neigh borhood of 200 person s and has a n annual payroll of a pproximately $700,000. Du ring th e pa st 15 to 16 years some one and a qu arter mi llion do llars has been expe nded in improvem en ts on th e Rockm a rt pla n t.

Co nstruc tion has begun on a feed mill in CA M I LLA to ser ve th e fa rm ers in th at a rea. The new K ing Bee M ills will be own ed a nd ope rated by Ne il Palmer and Billy Phelp s.
Mr. Palmer sa id th e 40 by 120 foot building wo uld hou se in addit ion to a retail store a large feed grinder, a dry m ixe r, a mola sses m ixer and a corn she ller.
The plant wi ll p rovide a ready market for co rn , hay, oa ts and ot her small gra ins year rou nd a nd will offer custom gr ind ing a nd mixin g of feed s.
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In CA L HOUN th e Patrick Ru g Mi lls, In c., a new ly chartered ind ustry, has an nou nce d pla ns to lease th e building form erl y occ upied by th e Ri ch ards C he nille C o,
A. .J. H orne a nd Mrs. Esther B.
H orn e of H ollywood , Fla., and Do uglas Mitch ell , of Dalton, are th e petitio ne rs, and have been gra n ted a charter for 35 yea rs, with th e p rivilege of renewi ng. T hey will manufa cture a new typ e of floor covering, it is report ed.
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Fastex, Inc" of CEDA R TO WN is in th e p rocess of expa nsion. They a re planni ng to op en a bra nch plant which wi ll be com pleted and rea dy for ope ration by ea rly fall.
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L A GRA N GE is enjoying a p rosperit y never before rea lized by the me n a nd wom en who toil in its 12 co tton m ills.
M ayor D uke Davis and th e city's
textile" ind ustry repo rt ed that La-
G range's textile payroll has jumped $3.000,000 in th e past 12 months. T her e a re 8,600 perso ns em ployed in th e mills, an increase of 600 during the year. And they a re ea rn ing three tim es what they d id ten years ago.
M r. Davis and the textil e off icial s com pa red the p resent $20 ,000 ,000 payro ll wi th th a t of $6 ,500 ,000 in 194 1.
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Sumter Coun ty commission ers a re ta king steps to keep pace with th e ra pid ly growing livestock ind ust ry in th at sectio n. The boa rd voted to a ppropriate one qu arter of one perc ent of th e receipts from th e weekly livestock au ct ions for th e construction of a new a nd larger sales ba rn in .B I ER I CUS.
Th e ori gina l barn and pen s have been enla rged severa l times since the weekl y auctions were sta rted. But a t

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

July 10, 1951



present th e barn is inad equate to p ro pe rlv tak e ca re of th e la rge c rowds of

Warehouse and Office Space In Augusta

bU)'er s a n d farme rs attending the sa les,



T he new ba rn is to be a modern st r uctu re with accom m oda tio ns fo r 600 pe rson s.

At Premium As New Companies Move In
T ha t busin ess is good in A UG US T A po lis-Honeywell R egulato r C om pa ny;

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C onstr uction h as begun o n a m od ern 40 ,00 0 squa re foot addition to th e G eorgia Rug Mill in S UMlvlERVILLE , R alph Rhod es, p resid en t, a n n o unc ed.
The new building, sche d uled for co m ple tio n in O ctob er will hou se ad d ed ma nu factu ring eq u ipmen t design ed to more th an double th e co m pany's current output of cotton rugs.
:VIr. Rh od es sta te d th at th e buildi ng

is being refl ect ed to an in creasing deg ree by th e m an y n ew fin ns wh ich are locating th er e. The predi cti on by th e Fed er al Sec ur ity Agen cy, as o utl ined in a d isp atch fro m W ash in gt on , th at Ri ch m ond C o un ty wi ll p ra ctica lly dou bl e its pop ul a tion within two years, is well on its wa y to becoming a reality.
A mo ng the new b usinesses to ope n

S ta te R oofing a nd Sid ing Com p a ny ; Minute Autom atic Car 'N ash , Inc. ; Electrical Sales and Se rv ice Com pa n y ; Peerl ess W ind ow C lea n ing C om pa ny, a nd m an y di st ributors of co m mod ities of eve ry kind .
\ Val ke r L a bo rato rv has ren ted a n en tire bu ilding on Reynolds st ree t fo r th e operation of a builders' testing la borato ry , for test ing co nc re te a nd othe r

is one of the first in th e co un t ry spec ifi- th eir d oors in Ge o rg ia 's prosp e ring city bu ilding m aterial s.

ca lly planned for con tin uo us flow p roducti on of co t ton r ugs. N earl y 75 p er-

a rc som e with n ation al co n nections. such as th e C ra ne Com pany , d i strib u ~

S upe rio r Conc re te Product s, Inc., h as a n impressive .~ 2 5 0,000 pl ant for

cen t of th e n ew eq uipme n t to be in- -to rs of p lumbing sup plies, refrige ra - th e m anufacture of all typ es of con-

sta lled has been specia lly design ed by tion a n d electri c eq uipme n t. The H a- cret e block p rod ucts. A pipe cas ting

engineers a nd in co rpo ra tes m an y n ew joca C o rpo ra tion of Philadelphia , m a n- mach in e will soon be in stall ed a t th is

fea tu res.

Ia c t ure rs of pl umbing a nd h eatin g pl ant.

A n ew full y eq ui p ped q ua lity co n- eq uipme n t, is bu ilding a p lan t on U . S.

\Vareh ou se a nd office space in A u-

tro l labo ratorv is included in th e new Hi ghw a y N o. 25 a t a cos t of $1 75 ,- g usta is a t a premium . I t is im p ossibl e

addi tion . .

000. O th er s include th e Gene ra l El ec- to ge t a post office box, a nd the Tele-

tric C om pany; Electri ca l W h olesalers, ph on e Com pany h as a recu rrin g wait-

Indications Are For Best

Inc. : C h a rles S. M a rtin Dist ributing Com pa ny; U n ite d Roofing a n d Sid ing

ing list on file, in sp ite of ste ppe d up serv ice to ta ke ca re of th e req uests th at

Pea ch Crop Since 1948

C om pa ny; G ulf S up ply C om pany, Inc. ; keep pouring in .

If fav or able weather con d itions co n- Bald win Engin eering Co m pa n y ; Acm e

The Sta te F ann er s M ark et h as add -

tinue, G eorgia peach gro wer.i may m ak e 3,000,000 bu shels th is year, acco rd ing

Fast Freight, In c. ; M a ner H ardware a nd Su pp ly Com pa n y: Sou thea stern

ed a n exte nsion to its facili ties at a
cost of $75,000. J. B. White a n d Com -

to G . H . Firor, Extension Service h orti - Distri b uto rs, I nc. ; N a tio na l Dist ribu- pany, o ne of th e la rger d epartme n t

cu lt u rist. This would be th e la rgest to rs In co r po rated of G eo rgia ; M innea- sto res, a lt ho ug h rem od eled within th e

crop since 1948.

last few vea l's. h as found it necessa rv



Peach es a re now growing in no rt hern . ce n t ra l a nd manv Coasta l Plai ns

be a State kn own for its repu ta tion of

to ex pa n d agai n a nd is co ns t ructing a t rem en dou s m er ch and ising wareh o use

co un ties, th e h ortic ult urist sa id . I n p roducing the best qu ality peach es."

to cos t $200,000. Sear'>, R oeb uck a nd

Geo rgia , 29 coun ties p roduce thi s fr ui t

So m e of th e new e r in sec ticides. if Com p a ny a lso h as under const ru c tion



othe r th an fo r local uses. Firor ca lled up on farme rs to use all

properly used in time, will el imi ~ a te curculio to th e point th at we ca n p ro-

a large wa rehouse costing a p proxim at ely $ 100,000.

th eir kn ow-how to produce pea ch es th at d uce a pea ch fr ee of worms, F iror sa id .

In addition to th ese la rger bu sin ess

will bring th e hi gh est prices from th e " T he consume r is dem anding a ripe add itions a nd expa nsions, th er e a re



la rgest number of consume rs.

peace. Let's furn ish him a p each , n o sco res of co rn er g roce ry sto res, fillin g

" W e arc a State kn own for it s ma tt e r wher e h e m ay be, th at is rip e sta tions. res taura n ts. d ru u sto res. and

peache s," F iror sa id , " and we ca n also a nd fr ee of worms."

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Ge org ia has a place in th e sun for vacatione rs who en joy th e outdoor life. ( L eft) The beach a t Sav an n a h is on e of th e favorit e

ocea? playg~ou.nds for tourists. (C en ter) . The mysterious ~kefenoke e Swamp, land of th e " trem blin g ea r th" , is th e tourist 's haven for

boating, fishing' and colorful flow er s. ( R Igh t) Th e mounta.n s of N ort h Ge org ia lend th eir seren e lovel in ess to sailin g on placid Lake

Trahlyta.

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Warehouse and Office
Space at Premium
(C on tin ued from Page 3 ) nume ro us other types of com me rcial en te rp rises o pen ing fo r bu sin ess ea ch d a y. Several la rge supe r m arket s h a ve re cen tly been co nstr uc ted a nd m or e a re in th e process of co m pletion .
Th ose wh o m a y h a ve been skep tica l of th e rep ort fro m th e nation al ca pita l that a p eriod of unpreceden ted growth was in sto re fo r A ug usta a n d th e C en tra l Savannah Ri ver A rea , a rc now m ak in g prep aration s, a long with th e m o re con fide n t, for th e influ x of p eopl e wh o are com ing to thi s sec tion from every pa rt of th e na tion .
First Eig ht Steps Outlined
(C on tin ued from Page 1) 8. Then wh en h e docs receiv e a n ord er h e sh o uld m ak e it a special poin t to learn h ow th e prim e con t rac to r exp ect s him to fun ct ion . This incl udes such important activities as tooling, subm itting prod uc tio n sa m p le" initial a n d subseq uen t deliveri es, a n d th e manne r in wh ich eng inee ring cha nges are p ro cessed . K now led ge of th e p rim e con t rac tor's requirements under th ese fun ctions is a n a bsolu te necessit y fo r th e subcon t ractor. By foll ow in g th ese ste ps, C hrysler bel ieves that th e p ot ential su pp lie r ca n a ttain th e grea test succ ess in findin g d efense work best su ite d to h im . I n presenting informati on to prime co n tracto rs, som e conce rns h a ve forms printed or mi m eog raph ed , while o thers prep are elabo rate a nd costl y bro ch ures. The exac t form is not too im portan t, as long as a clea r, co ncise but d etailed ac co un t of th e vendor's fa cilities and kn ow-how is p resented in written form .

I'll t th e p rosp ective sup plier w ill fin d it profita b le to p rep are a selling docum r-nt to subm it to the p rim e co nt racto r, gi\'ing informa tion th a t ca n be used in cla ssifyin g a nd eva lua ting h is a bility to serve as a su p plie r.
Fore ign Com merce in Ga.
(C on tin ued fr om Page I ) p in e lumber from Br azi l. co ffel' from Sout h America , h a rd wood s fro m C en t ral Amer ica a nd SCl T \ \' S an d nai ls from Belgi um .
The two la rgest ex po r ts in moneta ry va lu e wh ich p assed th rou gh G eo rgi a cus to ms last year we re na va l sto res, g ums a nd resins an d ra w co t to n . The n av al stor es p roduct s sh ip ped to th e N eth erla nds , Belgium, Luxembourg a n d Cuba we re va lued a t $2,884,555. The raw cotton. va lu ed a t $ 1.135.510. was sh ippe d to 'Engla nd a nd G erma nv,
Government Contracts
For Georgia Industries
Fed e ral G 0 v e r n m en t con t rac ts awa rded to G eo rgia m anufactu re rs du rin g June we re a, follows :
So uthe rn Lumber a n d Mfg. C o., ELL ]JAY-Assembl ed h a rdwood pa llet s.
T id ew a ter Foundation Co.. In c.. SAV ANNA H -- Re pairs to Po st D ock : Pa rris Island, S. C .
W a lker El ectric Company, ATLAA'TA -Dist ribution panel ,
Au gu sta I ron and S teel W o rks, Inc., A UG USTA -Deck ca rgo ba rges.
C a lla wa y M ills Co.. LA GRA NGEH D V Di~'i si on-Gre~' co tton d uck : ~1M C D ivision -s-Grev cott o n d uck .

G ener al Services Admin ist rat ion , ATLA NTA- Office furniture.
C in de rella F ood s, D iv, of Stevens I nd ust ries, I nc., DA WSO N- Pean ut Butte r,
J aeo Pa nt s, Inc" JFINDER-Wool field trouse rs.
Fu lton Bag and Cotton Mi lls, A TLA .lVTA- Cal1\'aS p aulin .
At la n ta Paper C o. , A T LA 1VTAF ibreboard sh ip ping box es.
Zac-L ac Pa in t a nd Lacquer C orp ., ATLA NT A-Rust inh ibiting en a m el.
U nderwood Corp., A T LANT A-IOO elec tr ic ad di ng m ac h ines, $31,200.00 ; 100 typew ri te rs .$11,716.00.
Burro ugh s Ad di ng C o., A T L ANT A - 15 electric calc ula tors, $13,608.00.
Frid en C a lc ula ting M a chi ne C o., ATLANTA - 60 electric ca lcula tors, $42 .54 2.50.
M a rch an t Calcu la ti ng M a ch in e C o., ATLA NTA -4 0 electric calcula tors, $31.486.00.
R oyal Typewriter Co., ATLANTA - 243 stand a rd typ ewriter s, $30,747.5 1.
R emingt on -Rand, In c., ATLANTA - 142 standard typ ewriter s, $18,063.88 ; 78 K ardex file", $16,693.26.
Internation al Bus in c s s M achine Corp ., ATLA NTA -200 elec tric typ ew rit er s, $69,840.00 ; 100 electric clock s, 600 time ca rd racks, 3 time sta m ps, 3 legend plates, $36,274.24.
Nationa l Cash R egister Co. , ATLA NTA-2 bookkeeping machines, $ 10,203.70.
Ditto, Inc., ATLANTA-1 5 ditto machines, $10,099.89.
Visi ble Acme R ecords, A T L A N T A - 252 ca rd file s, $35,721.00.

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V ol. 3, No .2

July 25, 1951

Egg Industry Offering Great

No Shortage of Pork in Ga. Pig Crop on the Increase,

Five Times Larger than 1940

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Opportunity To Our Producers The second largest supply of hams, cho ps, bacon and oth er pork m ea t in

The farm ers of the Sou theast a re year. Twelve a nd a half mi llion ad - th e nati on 's hi story was for eca st for

losing m or e th an on e hu nd red m illion d ition al hens a re needed to sup ply th e the coming hog m a rketing yea r by the

do llars a yea r. This is the amo unt demand in the nation .

U .S. Agri culture D ep artment.

spent an n ua lly for eggs im ported int o

2. Rapid incr ease in popula tion .

And Georgia, we're hap py to rep ort,

Georgia, Alabama, F lor ida and the Eac h d ay of th e yea r, nearly 6,800 ad - is among the sta tes in wh ich a marked

Carolinas. I n G eorgia alone m or e dition al egg consumers a ppear for in crease in the pig crop is indi cat ed .

th an twen ty-five mi llion d olla rs is spe nt br eakf a st. T he South ea st is one of th e

H og production in the Sta te in -

eac h yea r for eggs sh ip ped in to th e m ost rapidly growing parts of th e U. S. creased m ore than five times fr om

Sta te th at co uld be produced here a nd

3. M ilit a ry requirem ents a re hi gh . 1940 th rough 194 9, th e tota l soa ring

thi s money pai d to Geo rgia farm ers. A sold ier ea ts twi ce as m any eggs as from $7 ,9 15,000 to $4 1,0 2 1,000 . M il-



Last year Alab am a spe n t tw enty-tw o he d id when he wor e civilia n clothes. lion s of d olla rs m ore could be realized

mi llion d olla rs for eggs im ported from

4. Employm ent is high , a nd m ore from our hog cro p for it tak es mu ch

other Sta tes. T o supply th ese dem ands m on ey is bein g spe n t on food .

less tim e to produce and fat ten 'a hog

for fr esh eggs a nd capture thi s money,

5. H old ings of sto ra ge eggs were tha n a beef an im al.



ano ther si..x mi llion good hen s a re nearlv exha uste d last winter. D emands

j
In promoting G eo rgia' s ho g cro p,

need ed in G eorgia and Alab ama. Or a re high for eggs to pla ce in cold th e CA R ROLL County C ham ber of

if Alabama is not inter ested, we might sto rage .

Co mme rce ag ricultu ra l progra m is



a dd all six mi llion h en s to Geor gia's flocks a nd su unlv a t least one siste r

T hus, the outlook as to p rices as well as 3.H unlimited m arket far su-

showing a rem arkab le for esigh ted ness in the establish m en t of a pure bred boar

Sta te with eggs 'in' ad d ition to ou r own. perior qu ality fresh eggs is extreme ly cha in system . I t is th eir ai m to esta b-

Authorit v Iorjhe abo ve is Dr. R ob - favora ble for Georgia poultrymen. lish th e chai n system in eve ry com m u ni-



ert S. W heeler, C ha irma n of th e Poul- This ou tlook, as Dr. W heeler says, ty in the coun ty.

try Division , C ollege of Agricultur e, should enco u ra ge m or e farm ers to in-

Emph asis will be pl aced on one of

U nive rsity of Georgia, Ath en s. These crea se th eir p ullet flocks so as to tak e three breed s of swine : Duroc j ersey,

figur es, furni shed th e Comme rce D e- ad va ntage of th e m on ey-m aking p ro s- spotte d Poland C h ina or bl ack Poland



partment on request by one of th e pect s. Ther e is vast room for expa n- C h ina.

Sou th's a blest a u thorities on th e pou l- sion of com mercia l egg produ ction in

Coun ty Agent Earl Sa nders sta tes

try ind ustry, well ind ica te the tre- G eorgia and th e en tire So utheas t. The that th e pr im ary p urpose of th e C ham -



m en dous op po rtu nity con ta ined in egg producti on for those in G eorgia in po-

market is m ad e stea dy and inviti ng by hi gh consum er income, smaller hen

ber's swine comm ittee, head ed by J. L.
H endon , is to improv e blood stra ins in

sition to raise and tend laying flocks. populati on , red uced co ld -storage h old - th e co un ty' s hogs, th ereby raisin g the

It also ind icat es ano ther big hole in ings, and populati on growth . The cities ge ne ra l q uality of hogs to th e ben efit



our live-a t-home p rogr am that need s to of th e So uthe ast a re g rowing mo re of eve ry p rod ucer.



be plugged up . The wide-op en opportunity is for substan tia l a dd it ion al incom e to both ou r fa rm er s a nd m erch a n ts.
The need is going to becom e even

rapid ly th an other U . S. cit ies.
It is advised th at p rod ucer s sell eggs on a grad ed m a rk et in ord er to realize m aximum egg prices and thus be re-

Another phase of th e work will be coope ra tion wi th co un ty swine exh ibits an d shows. I n thi s con nec tion $ 156 has been set aside to be used as p nz e money



grea ter, a nd D r. Wheeler gives fiv e rea sons for this:
1. F ewer hens on th e farms th is

wa rd ed for doin g a good job of produ cing superior qu a lity eggs. D oin g a
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in the thi rd a n n ua l Fat H og Show a nd Sa le to be held at th e Ca rroll Co u nty
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C W USTRIAL NEWS LETTER

J uly 25, 195 i

GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

The Atl an ta Pa per Co . pl an s to build II M arine sup plies com ing off assembly m ony. Within a sho rt distan ce of th e

a pa per board mill in BOLT ON cos t- lines went immedia tely in to th e battle- new m arket a re four oth er plan ts d e-

ing app roxima tely $2,000,000. T he mi ll line. Now, h e sai d, th e nati on is bu ild - pendi ng on fa rm commo dities - a

will p rod uce paper board from waste ing u p its sup ply eq uip me n t a nd th e mea t packing plan t, feed m ill, food

paper for th e manufacture of sh ell con- M arines will have to sto re aroun d processing plant an d turpentine pl ant.

tainers and other ca rtons for military $90 0,000,00 0 worth.

Rivalry between th e farmers was

usc.

Land h as been purch ased for th e sta ge d in watermelon , can ta loupe , and

In a recent letter to th e ed itor of d ep ot and actua l work on th e $40 ,00 0,- co rn growing ' con tes ts. Priz es wer e

th e N orthwest Fulton N ews, Arth u r L. 000 p roj ect will begin soon .

awa rded con tes ta n ts en te ring th e lar g-

H a rri s, p resident of th e Atlan ta Paper

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est wa ter melons an d ca n ta loupes.

C o. stressed th e fa ct th at th e mill is

T he NE I1' NA N- CO I1'ETA C ham-

A heft y 50 .8-poun d m elon sligh tly

en tirely a m ech an ical process a nd will ber of C om me rce an no unces th e form a- edge d W. W . Kirbo's 50 .7-pound en try

utilize only waste paper whi ch does tion of a new industry, The U n ited to ga in first prize for C . O . White.

not crea te unplea sant odo rs.

Extruder s, In c., to p rocess alum in um

Fl oyd H ayes' eigh t-po und, six ounce

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billet s for usc in vari ou s a lum in um can ta loupe , placed fir st in thi s ca tego ry,

"

$20,683 ,000 has been ea rm a rked by products .

with .J . R . Owen s taking second with

th e U . S. Budget Bureau a nd th e De-

T h e compa ny, cha rtered locall y by hi s eigh t-poun d, two -ou nce en try.

fense Departmen t to en la rge th e facili- N ew na n citizens, in cluding H amilton
ties a t R obins Ai r Force Base nea r Arn a ll, J ack P. K eith a nd .J. L. G IO\'er,

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A p rogressive L O UIS VILL E indu s-

MA CON.

will em ploy local lab or with ope ra tions tr y con tin ues to d em onstrate its fai th

The per sonnel a t W arner Robins to ca ll for the initial em ployme n t of in' Geo rgia by setting new p roducti on

will be gra d ually incr eased to 17,000 a p p roxim a tely 30 to 35 person s. U po n reco rds .

whi ch would be a n addit ion of 6,000 th e addition of a seco n d unit of opera -

Pr odu ct s' of Georgia, In c., reach ed

over th e p resen t figure.

tion s, th e com pan y will practi call y a nothe r m ile post in its roa d of p rogr ess

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double th e nu mber of persons em - last week wh en it completed its 275,-

T he D efense D epartm ent has a lso ployed.

OOOth piece of folding furni ture an d

a pp ropr ia te d $ 14,690,000 fo r ne w con-

W ork will begin immedi a tely on a only a co uple of weeks ago set a p ro-

struction a t th e N aval Air Facilitv a t m eta l bu ild in g 50 feet bv 160 feet d ucti on reco rd by turn ing out 7,000

G lvnco on S T. S1J\ifON'S I SL A ND .

to hou se th e atum in um extrusion plant. pieces of furn iture in a week .

Aft er W orld W ar II , Glynco wa s When full produ cti on is a tt a ine d, th e

G row ing stea d ily over its past four

classified as a mainten an ce sta tion, but com pa ny will m ak e a lum in um resi- years of opera tion in L oui sville, Prod-

it recen tly revert ed to a n active sta tus, denti al window un its a n d oth er sim ila r uct s of Geo rgia has now rea ched a new

a nd au tho rities said it would assume a types of a lum in um p rod uct s.

peak in em ployme n t with 60 persons

role of in creasing import an ce in the

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on its payroll, wh ich is app rox im a tely

na tio n's ae rona u tica l establishme n ts. I t

T he Mi n nea polis-Moline Co mpa ny $2,200 weekly .

is one of th e N avy's fo ur lighter-th an- will join th e ind ustri es now p resen t in

K en Butl er , presid en t of the fin n,

a ir bases on th e Atl antic coast.

th e I ndust rial Boul eva rd area in DE- sa id th e plant is set up to p roduce 1,200

T ot al per sonnel of th e base is ex- KALB Count.

cha irs per day but th at thi s wa s sur-

pect ed ultimately to be m or e th an 2,000

Th e farm implem ent com pa ny plans passed th e week 7,000 units wer e m ad e

person s, including men wh o will be en- to erec t a building beh ind th e J ohn wh en th e av erage climbed to 1,40 0

ro lled in th e tr ai n ing program .

D eere Plow Com pa ny on Deere D rive. cha irs per d ay.

'I t was disclosed th at Glynco is being

Fu rt h er news of the new indust ry

T he ch ief p ro du ct p ro d uced in th e

es ta blishe d as a perm an ent insta llati on will be released soo n.

. plant is bea ch chairs in th e ad ult line

a nd th a t th e new ac tivities will not be

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bu t the plant a lso p roduces folding

o f a temporary nature. I t will tak e tw o yea rs to set th e p rogr am in moti on . Th e beginning of th e new const ruc tion p rob ably will start befor e th e end of 1951. Alr ea dy the Navy has ca lled for bids for the reh abilita tion of existing fa cilities, a n undertaki ng expected to c ost a t least $500, 000.

A new $60,000 Sta te Fanners M a rket ope ne d recently in C AM]LLA with hundred s of Sou thwest Ge o rgia ns on hand to pa rti cip ate in th e for m al ded ica tion exercises of G eorgia' s 29th Sta teope ra ted fa rm p rod ucts m a rket.
With th e m arket's ope n ing Mi tch ell Cou n ty became th e first in Georgia to

f urn itur e for ch ild ren, including a set com posed of a tab le an d cha irs.
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The ex pa nd ing Kingston Mill Co rpora tion of Ki ngston , Ga ., bought th e m odern C a nd lestick Yarn M ills p rope rt y in CA R TERS V I L L E a nd will ope ra te th ere under th e tempora ry

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hav e tw o m a rk ets. The Pelh am m ar- name of " K ingsto n Mill, Inc."

The M arine Co rps pl an s to dou bl e ket in recent yea rs has been on e of th e

Th e ya rn plant wi ll em ploy as m an y

the size of its proposed ' Southe as te rn most ac tive in th e Sta te.

of th e work er s as possible wh o a t one

a rea dep ot a t ALBA N Y . The need for

The m arket go t off to a p rogr essive tim e were with eithe r th e C a nd le-

d ou bl ing the ca pacity was brough t on start even bef ore the d edi ca tion cxe r- wick pla nt or th e K ingston m ill. A

bv th e K orea n war an d th e defen se cises wer e held. M ore th an 115,0 00 spo kesman described th e tran saction as

build-u p, acco rd ing to a n a rme d serv- ca n teloupes, 53, 90 2 wa termelons a nd a n "e xpa nsion" of the K ingston m ill

ices com m ittee spokesm an .

50 ,000 d ozen ca rs of corn passed and said th e titl e " K ings to n Mills, In-

H e ex pla ine d th at during \Vorld W ar through th e m arket befor e th e cere - corporate d" is m erely a temporary one.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

./ul y 25. 195 1

Hospital Equipment Plant In Columbus

Vast Expansion of Frozen Shrimp Industry Cited

Only One Of Its Kind In The South

Brunswick' s froz en br ead ed sh rimp industry has expa n ded to th e point th at

A quiet little CO L V lv[ BV S company Wi lson .

d istribution is nati on -wide, a pion eer

whi ch grew ou t of a h obby fou r yea r~

M ateri als fo r th e fini shed prod ucts in th is field wh ich has gai ne d great

a go is well on th e way toward a hali n~illi on doll a I' bu sin ess in 19S I .

a rri ve a t th e plant in th e shape of sta inless steel a nd a lumin um tubing 12

mom ent um in b ut a few post-w a rvea l'S d ecl ared.

And expa nsion plans of th e Wils on to 20 feet in length a nd sheet met a l in . Sa m Lewi s, owne r a nd man ager of

l'\'f anufacturing Com p an y h aven' t 18x 120-foot sectio ns.

Brunswi ck Qui ck -Freezer C om pa ny,

ca in

liw~shut nuuspuayleftielwd

ith -t

th he

e m

p o t e n t ia aking of

liti es h os-

Th e on ly parts of th e hospita l eq uip m ent whi ch a re made outside th e plant

said Geor gia ea sily sup plies 65 percent of th e froz en breaded sh rim p consume d

pital eq uipme n t.

a re heavy cast iron bases for some of in th e U n ited Sta tes and Brunswick is

.

As th e onlv m anufacturer of hospital eq uip me n t in th e So uth, a nd th e only

th e larger sta nds a n d tables. These pieces a rc given an alum in um fin ish by

th e undisputed ca pita l of th e ind ustry. Describin g th e operations of hi s con-

plant of its kind in th e U n ited Sta t:s elec tro -pla ting an d arc th en ready for cern. Mr. L ewis sa id Brunswick Quick-

o utside N ew York C itv and St. Loui s, assembly a nd th e fin a l polishing.

Free'zer is now making consiste n t sh ip-

th er e is ju st pract ically ' no limit to bu si-

The com pleted eq uipme n t is cra te d ments to the W est coast.

ness possibi lities, acc or d ing to Dr. .T oh n right a t th e plant and sh ipped directl y

R ecently a truck load ed with 20,000

Wilson , who orga n ized he company to hospi tals. Order s- all placed thro ugh pounds left for Portland, Oregon , he

back in 1947.

deal ers-have been sen t thi s year to pointed out.

At th at tim e Dr. Wil son , wh o liked pr a cti call y eve ry sta te in th e uni on an d

M r. Lewis ex pla ine d th a t it h as been

to work with a la th e in hi s spare tim e, also to hosp itals in Arabia , Israel an d on ly with in th e pa st 12 months th at

decid ed th at it wouldn't be too d iffi- th e Philippines.

th e com pa ny ha s developed a system

c ult to m ak e on a la rge sca le some of

Recen tly another honor was con- of d istribution whi ch mak es it possible

th e things he had been turning out in ferre d on ' Dr. Wi lson by fellow Geor- to serve th e W est coast. N at ion-wide

h is own hobby sho p.

gia ind ustriali sts. H e was elect ed presi- distribut ion , h e sa id , has been gr ea tl y

The com pa ny sta rte d with on e em - dent of th e new ly cha rte re d Georgia fac ilita ted by th e perfecti on of a new

ployee in a sma ll room 12 by 2S feet , M anufactu rers Associati on , I nc.
eq uipped with a ben ch -p olishing la th e,

typ e of ref rigera ted truck in whi ch dry ice is used to m aintain th e necessary

a met al-b ending mach ine a nd one Georgia Firms Organize

low tem pera tures .




ben ch grinde r. Th ey began m ak in g a few tabl es and cha irs whi ch wer e found to be marketable. Then as orde rs began co m ing in it wa s necessary to have m ore workmen to m eet th e dem and.
The young com pa ny wa s forced to move four ti m es because of th e growing d em and for its p rodu ct s and th e increasin g producti on requirem ents. .T ust last month th e com pa ny m oved into its own conc rete block building cove ring 10,000 squ are feet of floor space with $35 ,00 0 worth of ma chiner y. M o re th an 3S em ployees a rc on the payroll. T od ay in addition to th e ma n ufact urin g divi sion , th er e is an office sta ff a nd tw o sales re p rese n ta tives with th e co m pa ny-one in th e East and th e othe r west of th e M ississippi.

. To Secure Defense Work
A concerted effo rt is bein g m ad e by Georgia m an ufa ct ur ers to get th eir sha re of defen se con t rac ts.
A forw ard st ride in th is directi on was ac h ieved wh en a group met in At la nt a rece nt ly and orga nized th e Georgia M anu fact urer s Associati on , In c. . A president was elect ed an d stee ring com m ittee set up empower ed to select the ot her office rs to serve for the first six months or during th e orga n ization peri od . Ste ps will be tak en by th e ne w group to unify th e sma ller ind ustriali st's of Georgia in th e int erest of making better con tac t with th e Federa l Govern ment a nd prim e cont rac tor s.

Th e bod y of thi s new veh icle is so desi gn ed that it has better insula tion and is airtight.
Brunswick Qu ick-Fre:zer own s all eq uipme n t need ed for th e bu sin ess in cluding five tra nsco n ti ne n ta l ref rigera ted trucks th a t d eliver fro zen b read ed shrim p to th e west coas t. After the ca rgo is di sch arged in Portland , Sa n Francisco o r some othe r city frontin g th e Pacif ic, the vans a re loaded with fro zen seaf ood processed in th at section for tr an sportation to th e East.
l"lle sL"afoud in d ustrinl isr re pOl ted that his company now has wareh ou ses in p racticall y a ll m ajor cities of the U n ited Sta tes with a population of 150,000 or m ore .

Th e Wi lson Manufa cturing Compa-

T he new ly form ed cor po ra tion is a

Th e bus iness ha s so expan de d he



ny, whi ch spec ia lizes in sta inless steel cha irs. solution stands . a nes the tist's

non -profit orga n iza tion. J oh n M. Wilson, pr esid ent of th e \Vilson M an u-

said , th at Brun swick Qu ick-Freeze now em ploys :)5 di stributor s a t va rio us cen-

tables ' an d stoo ls, and operating room fac tu ring Co . of Columbus, was elec te d ters in th e nation.

" kick buckets" is n ow go ing into the president. T he stee ring comm ittee is

The compa ny 's present rat e of pro-

cas te r bu sin ess on a big sca le. As cas ters made up of th e following:

duc tion of frozen b read ed sh rim p is a p-

a rc used on p racti cally a ll kinds of

Mr. Wi lson , J oh n C . Boesch . Jr. , proxim ately 200,000 pounds a m onth,

furniture, a big m arket seem s likely. vice-presid en t Au gu sta C he m ica l Co., Mr. Lewi s disclosed .



At an y rate, selling th e cas te r isn't bothering th e Wil son com pa ny right

N eil M. M ingl edorff, vice-presid ent Sa vannah M achine a nd Foundry Co .. \ V. la n ta. sccrctarv of th e comm ittee.

now. Th e only p roblem, a pparen tly, B. C h ilds, presid ent of C h ilds M ;nu-

All sma ll i;1dustries in Geo rgia in-

a t th is mu sh room ing ma nufa ctu ring fac turing Co ., M a con : K en Butler , ge n- ter ested in orga nizing to be in be tter

site is kee ping u p with th e dem an d.
" We ex pec t to m ak e-and sell-

era l man ager Product s of Georgia, In c., posi tion to bid on defen se cont racts Loui sville, a nd T. M . Croxto n, v ier - or subco n trac ts a re bein g in vit ed to

m illions of ca ste rs next year," said D r. pr esident A uto V ent-shade C o., At - jo in th e associa tion .



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Government Contracts
Fed e ral Gove rn m en t co n t I' a c t s a wa rd ed to G eorgia m anufacturers d u rin g .Jun e w ere as foll ow s:
C in d erella Food s, Division of S tevens Industries, Inc., DAWS ON -Peanut b utter.
At lanta Paper Co., ATLA NTA Box es,
Ri ver sid e M ills, A U GUSTA -White co tto n wa ste.
Benj amin K ahn Ri bbon Mills, ATLA NTA-W eb bing.
So uthe as te rn G arm en t Co ., Lt d., M O NR Ol~'-W ool field t rou sers.
Fult on i Trouscr Co., In c. , ATLA N TA- -Wool field trousers.
Wright M anufacturing Co" T O CCO A- Trouser s,
Sa va nna h R efin in g Corp., SA V A NN AH - G ra n ula te d su ga r .
l ;eor gia Duc k &: C o rd age M ill, SCO TTD A Ll~'-C otton d uck.
Sou the rn L um be r & ~Hg. C o., I~LLI
.IA Y- Assem bled h a rdw ood pa llets.
D ixie Constr uc tio n Co., of G a . Inc., a nd Ro bert Lee, I nc., SA r'A N N A I-I Alte rations and repa irs to ro ads a nd railroad t rack s, N a va l Am mu n i(0:1 D ep ot , C h a rlesto n, S. C .
C a rroll Da niel C onst ru ct ion C o ., GA IN/~'S V I L L /~'-Tw o n ew buildings: Nava l O rd na nce Plant, M acon.
Graham Pa pe r Co" A T L A N T A1,600 rolls K raft pack in g paper , $9.398: a lso 18,000 lbs, K ra ft w ra pping paper, $ 1,5 75.
Di xi e Pa int & V arnish Co., BR UN SWI CK - 6, 150 ga l. paints, varnish , $ 22,83 7.50 .
L ane Office S upp ly C o., ATLA NTA - 260 desks, ca rd files, ca bine ts, $ 19,-

782 .

Sou th ern Sta tes I ro n R oofin g Co.,

S A VAN NAI-I-AluminuJll ro ofing and

co rr uga tions.

Alexander Bros. Lumber Co ., CO-

L U/vlB US-"t\'Iill sto rage.

.

The Auto-Solar C o., ATLA NTA -

M 34 sigh t units.

Za c-La c Paint & Lacqu er C o rp .,

A T LANT A- Prime r paint.

Kn ox M et a l P I' a d u c t s, In c.. WAYNESB OR O - Utilit y type ' trail er s:

C a lla way M ills Co.. LA GRA N GEC otto n d l;ck . Also ~IDV Division -

g rey co t ton du ck.

Albany Mop Factory Thrives
It's been rumor ed th er e' s noth in g n ew under th e sun , but in ALBANY folk s think differently. On e Alb anian , di ssatisfied with th e cotto n m op , go t a cq ua in rr-d with a n r-w D uPont r pll ll lose sponge m aterial , p roduced on a stro ng co tt o n co rd in rop e form , began expe rime n ts on h is own and a fte r less ' t ha n a yea r ca me u p w ith wh at is declared to be a supe rior type m op. T od a y th e W alk er M anufacturing C om pany claim s its " E-Z Sq ucezic" m ops a re a " re volutiona ry im p rovem en t in wet m opping over cotton m op s."
W. .J. W a lker , inventor , is finding
bu sin ess wonderfu l. At his Ia ct orv h e p rod uces 50 dozen m ops a week \,:hich a re sh ippe d to 80 di stri bu tor s in th e tw o-state a rea exte n d ing fro m T occoa to Mi a mi . Sa nde d pine h andles a re used on th e m ops, th us p rovidi ng So uthwes t G eorgia tree g ro we rs wi th
anoth e r ready m arket.
Mr. W alk er is a n ticipating a n in-
c rease in hi s producti on as well as h is
pa yroll in th e ve ry n ear future.

Egg Industry Offering

Chance to Producers

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good jo b in cludes m aintaining efficien t

p roducti on by co nsta n tly culling , em -

p loyin g so un d feeding program, keep-

in g h en s cool a nd com fo rta ble in sum -

m er , collecting eggs four or five tim es

daily . After ga the ring, eggs sh o uld be

rapidly co oled in wire basket s a nd then

pack ed small-end -do wn in pre-cooled ,

humidifi ed cases, Prev ention of dirty

eggs a lso in c rea ses egg profits.

.

The po ul t ry ind ustry is a lrea dy a

g rea t on e in G eo rgia , espec ia lly as re-

ga rds th e production a nd p repa ring of

broiler s fo r th e m a rk et. The Gaine s-

ville a rea h as m ade m arvellou s strides

in thi s during recent tim es, N ow,

co un ties in va rio us sec tions of th e Sta te,

includ in g So u th G eorgia espec ia lly, a re

pu shing forward in th e p roducti on a n d

nl 'l i' k c t~ l1g of cgg~. B Ul the field uf G iJ -

po rt uni ty is still w id e op en , as indi-

ca te d by D r. Wheeler' s a na lysis of th e

c u rre n t situ ation .

No Shortage of Pork
(C on tinu ed fr om Page I )
Liv estock Sa les Barn , Au gu st 23rd. W orking with NIr. H endon on th e
swin e co m m ittee a re E . B. Wilder. W .
O . D ou glas a nd .J. C . H a rri s. '
NIl'. Sa nd e rs rep orts th at a tour of some of the co un ty's h og prod ucer s is also bein g worked o ut to sho w other p rod uce rs a nd visito rs p roper m ethod s of feeding o ut, goo d sa n ita tion set ups a nd other important points in purebred producti on .
Sw ine specialists fr om th e G eorgia Exten sion Se rv ice wi ll be o n h and durin g th e visita tion period to off er a dv ice , NIr. Sa n d ers rep orts.

r

Vol. 3, No .3

10 , 1951

tt Sales and Use Tax Doesn

Keep Gaines

t Promote

Summer Fuels -Btfying to

Prevent Winter Shortage
Industry From Locating in State In the interest of preventing a tra ns-

porta tion bottleneck thi s fall a nd win-

" It a p pea rs . th at ta xin g ind ust rial m achin er y and eq uipm ent is no det erren t to ge tt ing manufacturers and proc -

Mead Corpor atio n t o Sp e nd Larg er Su m on Rome Pla nt

ter whic h might ca use a serious fuel shortage with its a tte ndan t inconven ienc e and ha rd ship, Go vernor H erma n

esso rs to esta blish th emselves in a sta te," A. R . K aiser , gen era l m a nager of th e tax departmen t of Sears, R oeb uck and

The new pa perboa rd pla nt of th e M ead Corpora tion to be bu ilt at R O,H E will cost from twen ty-

Ta lm a dg e has design a ted C lark Gaines, State Secretarv of Com merce. to coordinate a pl:ogram of s u m l~1e r fuel

Com pa ny, of C h icago, said in a letter

seven to th irty m illion dolla rs in-

buy ing' by Sta te a nd mu nicipal agen -

di scu ssin g Georgia 's three percen t sa les

stea d of the sched uled twe n ty-one

cies in G eorgia . H e will a lso promote

a nd use ta x in rela tion to suc h tax es

milli on , th e Comm erce Dep a rt-

publ ic su pport of fuel storage duri ng

of other sta tes.



"Californ ia and Ill inois, for exa m ple,

h av e had a n outstanding industria l

growth in recent years," NIl'. K aiser ,



points ou t, "and th ey tax sales of m ach ine ry to manufacturers."

Mr. K aiser is a nation ally recognized

a utho rity on taxes. In a recent letter



to H on : W illiam 1'y1. Lester , D eputy

Comm issione r of Revenu e of Georgia ,

Mr. K ai ser says th at Georg ia is in lin e

with th e ma jor ity of sta tes by imposing



a sa les a nd use tax on sales of ma-

chinery to m an uf acturers.

me n t has bee n inf ormed .
The corpora tion is purch asing ap proxima te ly four hund red ac res of for est la nds from farmer s in th e vicinity from wh ich to cut timber for 'its paperboard-makin g op erati ons .
.J. H . Lovell a nd Associates,
Rom e a rch itec ts, a rc mak ing a topography map 01 th e site prepar at ory to co nst ruc tion ac tivities, a nd as soo n as suc h p relimi nari es ca n be com pleted, th e plan t will be built.

th e m onths of August and Sep tem ber. Scc rc ta rv of th e Interi or Osca r L.
C ha pma n, ' vvash ing to n, D. C ., re-
qu ested Go verno r T almad ge to d esignat e someo ne with in th e St at e Administra tion to prom ote th e program oi summ er fuel b uying by St at e a nd loca l gO\'l' rn me n ts as well as pri vat e conce rns a nd citizens ge ne ra lly as a n essen tia l
I'h :1 <t' n f tht' ,.j"fpn< p pffnrt .
Secret ar v Ga ines has written th e ma yors of 'the various cities and town s O\T'r th e State requ esting th eir cooperation in th e effort. He said :
" I n orde r to avoid spot sho rtages

In his a na lysis of Geor gia' s sales a nd

in oil, coa l a nd liq uefied pe tro leu m



use tax ac t, NIr. K aiser asks:

m a chiner y sold to m an ufact ur ers o r gas next win ter wh en t ran sportati on

" Should th e Georgia Sa les an d U se Tax Law be am ende d to exempt sa les

p ro cessor s. It appears tha t tax ing in d ustry a nd eq uipme n t is no det erren t

faciliti es may be burdened by hcav v defense traf fic. it is d efin itel\: in th ~



of machi nery and mach inery rep air pa rt s to m anufa ct urers?"

to ge tt ing man ufactu rers and processors to esta blish th emselves in a sta te . Cali-

pu blic int erest tha t a ll consumers bui ld their own fuel stock piles d uring th e

forn ia a nd Ill inois, for exam ple, have sum m er mo nths. By bu yin g now th ei r

Answerin g th is qu estion , M r. K aiser, had a n ou tsta nd ing industrial gro wth maxi m um su p ply of fu el for the next



says th at " Georgia is in lin e with th e m ajority of sta tes by imposing a sales

in rece n t yea rs, a nd th ey tax sales of m achiner y to m an ufac tu rers . IVc ca11-

heat ing seaso n, th ey ca n gin; direct assista nce to thi s vita l effo rt.

a nd use tax on sales of m achin er y to 1I 0t see w here th e cx cm pti on of m a-

" As will be recall ed , th ere wer e spot



m anufactu rer s. Of th e 32 sta tes which hav e a sales tax , only th e eight sta tes

chiller)' to m anu [actu rcrs has been of a11)' benc!it to 1\1ichiga 11 . Th ese pri oiICJ!,cd cxe m pt ion s m i[!ht ha ve dcpriced

sho rtages in va rious a rea s of th e country thi s past winter of oil, coa l a n c! liqu efied pet rol eum gas . Th ese sho rt-

of Alab am a, F lor ida, Mi chi gan , Miss- th e state of l\1 ichiJ!,all of some solely ages were a llev ia te d by special a ction

issippi, N orth Carolina, Ohio, Okla- need ed reucn uc accordin g to th e repo rt by th e Fed er al Admini str ati on for )) 2-



hom a, and So u th Ca ro lina do not tax

(Continued on Page 2)

(Contin ued on Page 2 )

INDUSTR IAL NEVI'S LETTER

Au gu st 10, 1951

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

South ern St at es Iron Roofing C ompany of Savannah has taken out a const ruction permit to bui ld a $75,000 warehouse in A UG USTA . Th e build ing w ill be of steel fr ame, with masonry walls.
Extent of th e proj ect ed op era tions h as not been a n no unced , but it is exp ect ed th e firm will be a w elcom e ad d ition to Au gu sta's industrial ec onom y.
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The Am eri can Soc iety of Indust rial En gineers ha s announ ~ed that th ei r M cri t Awa rd for 1951 has been presen te d to the Crawford Door C om pany, ATLANTA . This award , fir st to go to a ny manufacturer of upward ac ting doors, is g ra n ted for lea de rsh ip in research , d esign and m anufacture in th e ga rage d oor field .
The Am erican Society of Industrial En gineer s is a n assoc i a ti~n whi ch draws its membership from th e ranks of industrial eng inee rs through out th e U n ited States. From ob servations and experiences of the m ember engin ee rs and from test s m ade bv the board of gO\'ernors come s the d e~ i sion to a wa rd t he ir sea l of approval to on e m anufacturer of a product used a nd bou ght by th e gen er al public. It is th e a im of th e Soci et y to indicate to th e gene ra l public that th ose p roduct s g ra n te d th e M erit Award a re leaders in their field and a re wo rthy of g rea t co nsid era tion .
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Operations a re to begin soo n at th e Fros-N e Foods, Inc., new food industry in CAM ILLA . The com pa ny wi ll locate in building formerl y occupied by th e M itch ell Co unty Packin g Com pan y.
Harry Frostcu , Pelh am . one of th e owne rs, sa id th ey would begi n bu sin ess ca nn ing ch ic ken Brunswick ' stew m ade in th e p lant a nd rep acking tom atoes. These will be th e principal item s in th e initia l op erations of th e plant.
In a dd ition to Mr. Frosteg, th e n ew
owne rs an' IVIax Frosteg a n d A . .J.
Faber, of Pel h am, a nd IV1. \V. NeSmith , Atlanta.
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Babcock & Wilcox Expansion
Program Nearing Completion
A two-year plant expa nsio n program is nearing co m p letio n at th e refractories division of th e Babco ck & Wilcox

C ompan y in A U GUSTA .
This program includes introduction of a revolu tio nary new product im po rtan t to both mi litary and domesti c production , e rec tion of four new bui ldings tot all in g 45,000 sq ua re feet , rem odeling of three o th e r buildings and in stall a tion of m any new devi ces to improve em ployee working cond itions.
Th e new product , bein g m arket ed under th e tr ade name of Allmu l, is a supe r refract ory fo r lin in g hi gh temper ature indu stri al furn aces which will rem ain sta ble at temperatures 500 d egITes a bove th e melting po int of steel. I t will make po ssible vastly improved furna ces to ste el , glass a nd other ind ustries expec ted to pla ya lead ing part in th e nation 's expa n d ing producti on need s.
The building p rogram a t th e plan t was sta rte d m or e than two yea rs ago with const ruction of a ste el st ruct u re to hou se th e mu llit c mixing a nd meltin g op erati on s. The a ll-automatic m ach ine ry for thi s pu rpose towers to th e +0 foot roof of th e bu ilding.
Other construc tion in th e new bui ld in g program incl uded a new addi tion to th e pers onnel building a nd ga te h ou se, a new Lvsh ap ed office building a nd a 60x2 00-foot b ui lding to ho use th e testing a nd qu ality co n trol ope ration s of th e p lant.
Sales and Use Tax
(Contin ued from Page 1) we heard [rom t he gove rnor al th e 1'0 11 ucn tio n.
" Sales or lise lax paid is a dcd uctibl c expru se all t h e f ederal incom e lax re111m . A ll)' sales or lise lax paid ill G co rpia 1~'ill resu lt ill a red uc tio n of th e federal lax .
.,I t is realiz ed th at G eorgia h as a unique problem because th e su rro un d ing states ex empt sa les of m achinery fro m sa les and use tax," h e con tin ue d. " C all it be pro ved ill all)' way tliat thesc stat es derive all )' kn oion ben el iis [rom th.c cxem pt ion ? Our com p a ny h as h ad a part in esta blish ing a few fa ct ori es through out th e co un t ry. T o our k notcl cd gc, tohct her a state has a sales and lise lax has 11 0 1 had all)' bearing all tlir selection of tli c state ir hrr thr [act orv should be local I'd, as t he sou rce of lab or and m at erials is at pri m i mportan cr :"

Government Contracts For Georgia Industries

Fed e ra l Go v e r n m en t con t rac ts award ed to G eorgia manufacturer s
during 1un e and .J uly wer e as foll ows :
H . W . Ri ch a rd s Lumber Co.. CA R R OLLTON -Blocks fo r gun 'powder
ca ns. Also Axl e box es. Wollun Mills, CA R RO L L TON --
W ebbing, typ e 1A. 2A , 3A. Zac-L ac Paint & Lacque r Corp. , AT-
LANTA -Lustrelcss la cq uer.

Ge o rgia In stitute of T echnolog y, ATLANTA-Training 150 AF perso nnel in a rma m en t electroni cs fundam enta ls fo r 19 weeks.

So u the rn Drv Kiln Co.. ATLANTA

- L um be r. '

'

C . L. Dun ca n . CH A.\I BL EE-Copper co nes .

Peerless Woolen Mills, R OSS VILLE - C loth .

Wi lliam Armstrong Smith Co., EAST PO I N T - Ena m cl.

Robert a nd C om pa ny Associ at es, A TLANTA -AE services re-d esign of ce rta in faci liti es a t R edston e Ars enal , Huntsvi lle, Ala , One job-$90,822 fcc.

(Contin ued on Page 4 )

Gaines Moves to Promote
Summer Fuels Buying
(C on tin ued from Page 1)
fcns e and th e Def ens e Solid Fuels Admin istration in th eir assign ed fields but we want to be prepared durin g' th e next yea r for a ny eme rgenc y.
" I t is repor ted th at widesp read 5\.[fer ing was prevented onl y by near miracles in t ran spo rt ation a nd th at th e m ounting burden of d efen se a nd deIense-support ing tra ffic th is yea r w ill by fall a nd winter m ak e such h eav y demands up on th e nation 's transport ca pacity as to c rea te th e prosp ect th a t relief ca n no t properly be provid ed fo r spot areas in dist ress.
The no rm al peak movcm cn t occurrin g in O ct ob er a nd N ov ember must thi s year be sp rea d over a 10n ITcr p eriod , includ ing Au gu st a n d Sepfem ber.
" 1 a m informed th at ac tion bv G eorgia cons umers to buv th ei r fu'el no w fo r next w inte r will 'a id to assu re an ad eq ua te sup ply for a ll co ns ume rs a nd m at eri a lly help to m ak e ra tion ing and othe r con trols in th e fuels industries unn ecessary."

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF C O M M ER C E



IN~U STRIAL N EWS LETTER

August 10, 195 1



Industries' Expansion l Construction

Specialists W ill Discuss Small Business Problems

Keynote to Savannah's Bright Future During University Course

Even befor e th e outbreak of th e war p lant whi ch bids fai r to rival any in -

Begin ni ng Octo ber 2nd , th e Co llege

in K orea ga ve th e nation a l eco no m y a d ustrv in Sava nnah .

of Business Admin istra tion of th e At -

sho t in th e a nn th er e wa s an uptu rn in bu sin ess an d industria l ac tivity in

The G eorgia State Ports Au thority h as b roken ground f01' the firs t uni t of

lanta D ivision . University of G eorgia will offer a ~o u rse com posed of t'en

Savannah . By early sum me r of 1950 th e new Sta te d ocks at Sava nn ah in- weekly sem ina rs on T h e Pro blems of

em ployme n t wa s increasing and n umer- voking an im medi a te expe nd itu re of Small' Business. T h e cour se is being

ous expa nsion p rograms, whi ch h ad a p proximately five m illion dollars wh ich spo nsor ed by th e G eorgia Bankers As-

been d eferr ed beca use of th e trou- whi ch will be expa nde d man y times socia tion an d will be held a t th e At -

bled in ternation al situation, h ad been over before th e faci lit y is co m p leted.

lanta Division in cooperation with th e

lau nch ed. Almos t im percep tibly a t

W ork h as b een in p rogress for som e G eorgia Sta te Dep artment of Co m-

firs t, b u t with ga th eri ng spe ed, th e months at nea rb v Hunter Fi eld on im- merce, th e Di vision of Sm a ll Busin ess

com m un ity ou tloo k began to im prove. provements an d' mod ernizati on of a of th e U ni ted Sta tes D ep a rtment of

By th e end of last vea l' reta il sa les wer e perman ent air base a nd thi s activity Co mm erce and th e Atl anta C ha m ber



16 IXT cen t abov e' th e precedin,g., v. ea l'
and thi s t ren d h as contin ued un ab at ed .

is bcin g accele ra ted by th e recent a pp rop ria tion of an additional 24 m illion

of Co m m erce. Topics of vi ta l importa nce to a ll

For som e m onths now em p loyme n t h as dollars.

operato rs of small bu siness con cerns

been a t a p eace-time h igh and th ough

Th e C en tra l of G eo rg ia Railway wi ll be presented by outstanding spe-

th er e is still a reservoir of workers Co m pa ny and th e O cean Steams h ip cia lists in ea ch field . So m e of th e

a va ila ble, th e number ac tively seeking Co m pany h ave com p leted preliminary topi cs to be presented a re :

job s is th e low est it has been since negoti ati on s with Seatrain L ines for

J. Organi zation of Your Busin ess

\Vorld W a r T wo . Sizeab le new con- esta blishmen t of regular weekly sa ilings and So u rces of Informati on .

"

stru ctio n p roject s a nd expa nsion to between Savannah an d New York a nd

2. F in an cing, G ra n tin g a nd Us in g

existing industries a re under wa y a nd in th e neigh borh ood of a m illion dol- Cred it.

many previously d eferred p roject s sh ow la rs is being spe n t to imp rove existin g

3. Selec ting an d Training Your Em-



new signs of life. Sava nna h 's outloo k h as nev er been

term inal faci lities a nd co nv er t th em for use with thi s typ e of service.

p loy ees . 4. Sa les Promoti on fo r Sm all Busi-

br ighter. N ew industries of immeasur-

Two n ew mod ern multi-storv ef- ness.

a ble importan ce to Savannah hav e ficienc y a partmen t bui ld ings p roviding

5 . I nsur a nce R eq uir em ent s fo r th e

been an n ounce d . O th ers of eq ual mag- in the neigh borhood of 200 living u ni ts Small Businessm an.

nitud e appear with in reac h . L ocal in - ea ch a re in va rious sta ges of co nstruc-

6. R ecord K eep in g an d Accoun ting

dust ries are a lready spe n d ing man y tion an d gro und h as been b rok en for for You r Busin ess.

mi llions of doll ars for n ew fa cilities tw o m od ern downtown off ice buildings.

7. Adve rtising fo r th e Small Busi-



a nd ot he r simi lar plan s a re in th e

U tilities are exp an d ing a t a rapid n ess.

making. Non -in dus tria l construction of ra te to tak e ca re of th e growin g need s

8. T ax es a nd Yo ur Bu sin ess.

eq ua l im po rta nc e h as a lr ea dy been of th e com m u n ity a nd in th e tran spor-

9. L aw for th e Sm all Bu sin essm an .

sta rted. M or e new construction is un- tati on field , th e Sea boa rd Ai r Line

JO. Causes an d Sym p to ms of Busi-



der way, or in immed ia te p rospect , th a n R ai lway Com pa ny is m aking exce llen t ness F a ilure and th e T ask of M an a ge-

h as ever tak en pl ace in Sava nna h in progr ess on th e rep la cem ent of th ei r m ent.

anyon e yea r. A few hi ghl ights fr om drawbrid ge over th e Sa va n na h R iver

11. Pricin g a nd Pri ce Policy.



thi s progra m suffice to sho w th e basis of Sava n na h' s op tim ist ic outloo k.

whi ch will facil itate th e flow of water
traffic :0 th e upper h arbor. 1:1 add ition

Offi cia l figures show th at 98 per cen t oi th e busine ss units in Ame rica h av e

U n ion Bag & Paper Co rpo ra tion, th e Seaboa rd Air Line R ai lwav Co m - few er th an fift y em ployees a nd would

whi ch in J5 veal'S h as becom e Sava n - pany has also b ro ken g ro un d for a be classed as sma ll bu sin ess. These in-



na h' s leading ind ust ry, is ad ding to multi-million d ollar p rogram to p ro - clude th e ret ai l sto re, th e sma ll sh op,

th eir alr eady extensive facil iti es at Savannah bv ~onst r uc t i o n of an en tirelv

vid e n ew fr eight ya rds and di esel sho ps to h andle th ei r growing bu siness a t Sa -

m ill or fact ory, th e my ria d sales a nd service esta blish me n ts of eve rv kind .

new pu lp ' a nd paper m ill, usin g a new vannah,

Small bu sin ess includes th e ~elf-em



p rocess.

T h ese a nd many ot her p roj ec ts as- ploycd , th e pi an o tun er, th e man wh o

Southe rn Fertil izer & Ch em ica l Com pany is well on th e way for th e com -

su re a level of bu siness ac tivity which would h ave been th ou gh t fan ta~ti c on ly

runs a rad io repair service , th e one wom an beau ty shop, as well as th e



p leti on of a modern acid p lan t and p lans fu rt h er expa nsion for p ro d uction

a few years :ago , an d ocean sh ip p ing which a lm ost ca rne to a sta nds till dur-

corne r drug sto re, th e groce ry, th e fou ndry, th e truckin g lin e, th e ba rber

of diversified che m ica l p rod ucts.

ing th e war, is in creasing by lea ps and sh op .



Am erica n Cyanami d Company, one of th e na tion's leading ch emi ca l ma nufa cturers, whi ch curren tly produces mor e th a n 5,000 p ro d uct s in 47 wid ely

bo unds with cu rre n t tonnage almost eq ua l to th e a ll-t im e record .
Per ca p ita in com e for C h a tham Coun ty is a lready in exces s of th e n a -

Busin ess firms wh o m eet on e or more of th e following q ua lifica tio ns can be defined as sm all bu sin ess:

distributed p lants, h as purch ased a tional ave rage a n d th er e is eve ry indi -

1. M anagem ent is indep endent. U su -



1,600 -a c re pl ant site on th e Sava nnah ca tion th at it will co n tin ue to rise. Co n - ally th e man ager s a re also owne rs.

Riv er a nd is co m p leting p lan s for con - scrva tive estim a tes a re th at Sa va n nah' s

2. Cap ita l is sup plied a nd owner-

struction of a chemica l m an uf act u ring

(C ontin ued on Page 4 )

(Continued on Page 4 )



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Government Contracts

(C on tin ued from Page 2 )

M et a lcralt Autom ot ive Di vision. I nc., AT LANT A- Re pair part s-i- Sf items, $29,909 .00.

T he following list of con tracto rs wer e

awarde d con tracts during Jun e a nd

July tot aling one -ha lf mili on dollars or

m ore :

Avondale Mi lls-CH I CKAMA U GA.

Bat avia Mi lls, In c.-TEN NILL E.

Co lum bia Spo rtswear, Inc.-HARL EAI/.

E Z M ills, In c. -CARTER S VILLE . Georg ia Fact or y for Blind-BAIN -

BRID GE .

Sco ttdale Mi lls- SC OTTDALE.

Tumpan e Co ., In c.- i\!/AR I ETTA .

Atlanta Paper Co .-A T L ANT A .

Au to Soler Co .- A T L ANT A .

Bowe Con tracting Co ., I nc.- A U-

GUSTA .

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'-..Adu.a \-\.a i .I.\-'.1 11 J.:"I \,J v . - - - i.... .a v l l n ..(\' v l~ .

Dunwod y M acewen H a ll FergMA CON .

En terprise Aluminum Co .-EATON-

T ON.

G eorgia Co nso l. Cont.- }';fANCHES-

T ER.

G eorgia Sho e Mfg. Co.- BU FO R D .

H ardaw ay Co n trac ting Co.-CO-

L UMB US .

H arris F ound ry an d M achine Co .CO R DELE.
H awthorne Flyin g Service- MOUL TRI E.
Knox M et al Pr oduct s, Inc.-HIAYNESBO RO .

L e'Tourn cau , I nc.- T O CC O A.
Lockh eed Aircraft Cor p.-lv/ A R IETTA .

M arick Co.- A T L ANT A.

N ewma n Co nst ruc tio n Co . - L AGRANGE.

Peerl ess W oolen Mills - R OSSV ILLE.

R eeves Broth ers, I nc. - CO LUM B U S.

Scripta , In c.- ATLA N TA .

W alt on Co tton Mills Co .. Inc.- -

M ONR OE

.

Za c-L ac Paint L acquer Corp .- A T LANTA .

Industries' Expansion
(C on tin ued from Page 3 )
population , which in cr eased 28 per cen t du ring th e last census decad e. will con tin ue to grow a t an even ;no re rap id rat e, an d th at th e m etro po lita n popula tion will exceed 250,000 by 1960.
All of thi s is not du e to chance. b ut is th e result of ca re ful plann ing a;rd a gi u ,,,i llg cuup e l a rio n b etween th e variou s local gove rnme n ta l and CIVIC age nc ies wh ich a rc conce rne d w ith th e comm unity's futurc pr ogress. This was well summed up by Frank O . W ah lstrom , P resid ent of th e Industri a l Co m m itt ee of Savan na h , Incorpor at ed , an d C hairman of th e Savannah D istrict Authorit y, in hi s m essa ge to th e Industrial Co m m ittee on th e occa sion of th eir a nn ua l m eeting ea rlie r thi s year. Hi s words merit qu oting her e as th ey refl ect th e fee ling sha re d by lead ers in eve ry walk of life in Sav an na h tod ay. Mr. W ah lstrom said :
" Savan nah h as not vet felt th e full impact of recen t indust'ria l accomplishm ents, but poster ity may well record t~is yea r a~ a turnin g point in our city's h istory. Since th e I n d ustrial Co m m ittee was orga nized, Savanna h h as been unde rgo ing a g rad ua l m et am orph osis.

~ u d de n ly-wit ho ut m ost ' of us reali zin g It-the cha nge has been acco m plishe d .

Th e onc e leisurely So uth ern town is now a bu stfing industrial city.

" I n recent Years. mu ch of thi s work

and pl annin g h as bee n ini tiat ed by the Industri a l Co mm ittee and ca rried out

with th e assista nce of th e C h ambe r of Co m merce and other local and Sta te

civic orga niza tions and particu larl y with th e assistance of th e d evelopm ent

d ep artm ents of th e ra ilroad s and uti lity com pa nies. The cum ula ti ve resul t

is mos t gra tifying. Sa va n na h indus-

tr ies h a ve ste p pe d up th e tempo of th ei r ac tivities and la unched im p ressive ex-

pan sion progr ams-n ew indust rial enterprises of th e u tmos t im po rta nc e to

Savannah have been a nno unc ed and ot her industri a l, com me rcia l and tr an s-

port ation in terests have new p roject s of equ a l im porta nc e in th e immed iat e of-

fin g."

! t i:: b ~i :lb 2.rn p !j " C 2;':-: 8~: Jt i'ut ~d cv c rv day th a t th ere h as been no relaxing o"f

efforts and th at all local orga nizations have for gotten selfish in terests and a rc

pu llin g togeth er for th e general wellbein g of th e city and Sta te. The M other

C ity of Geor gia is an ticipa ting a ,period of con tin uing p rosperity whi ch

wiliiell Sb~e ~sh. ared

bv'

in terests

throu uh ou t
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Specialists W ill Discuss

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shi p h eld by a n individual or sma ll group.

3. Ar ea of operations is mainly lo-

ca l. \-Vorkers and ow ne rs arc in one

hom e commu ni ty. Market s need not

be local.

.

4. The bu sin ess is sma ll wh en com par ed to th e biggest units in its field .

Vol. 3, No .4

Broiler Industry In Georgia

Armed Fo rces Seeking Subcontractors, Exhibit

Exceeds $45 Million A Year

Planned For September
R ea chi ng out to in cr ease particip a-

tion of sma ll bu siness in the nat ion a l

The recent im po r ta n t a nno u nceme n t but it is ra pidly expa nding int o Sou th rearm ament p rogra m, a join t Ar my,

of th e College Experiment Sta tion at Georgia and othe r sec tions of th e St ate. Navy a nd Air Force exhibit of ma-



Athens th at it had develop ed a new br oiler -t yp e chicken whi ch is expec ted

I t has expe rienced a trem endous growth in th e last 16 yea rs. In 1935

teriel will be held a t th e Atla nta Biltmore F ot el Septem ber 10, 11 and 12.

to give an add itiona l boost to G eorgia 's boom ing broiler industry ca me

th e tot al p roducti on in G cor gia was one-ha lf mi llion birds, va lued at on e-

Prime rrn tra ct ors for th e three serv-
ices \\"::1 displa y p rod ucts th ey a re

a long with th e news th at G eor gia la st qu arter milli on dollars. L ast yea r ap - making for th e Arm y, Navy a nd Air

year exceede d all other states excep t proxima tcly 63 milli on broi ler s, or 126 Force for th e inspection of manufac-

D elaware in commerc ia l b roiler p ro- tim es as ma ny as in 1935, wer e ma r- turers wh o a re po tentia l subco ntrac tors

du ction .

ket ed , with a gross in com e exce ed ing for such work.



. Sixty-three m illion broiler s wer e $45 milli on , or nearl y 190 times as

Lt . Col. R obert F . K ay, US AF, who

market ed in Geo rg ia last yea r, gross- mu ch as grossed 16 yea rs befor e. P ro- cond ucted a similar exh ibit recently in

in g $45 ,400 ,000. This hu ge number is du cers received 46 cents per broiler Fort W orth , T exas, has been design at ed

a lmos t twi ce tha t p roduced in th e
State in 1948, a nd is a 38 per cen t in-

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proj ect officer in cha rge of the Atl anta exhibit. T he disp lay is bein g spo nsored

crease over 1949. The g ross dollar income received was 56 per cent gre a ter

Pulp Pla nt At Jesup

by th e Atlanta Armed Forces R egion a l Co unc il, of whi ch Cap ta in Do na ld T.



th an in 1948 a nd 38 per cent over 1939.

Of th e 616 million broilers ra ised in

th e U nited St at es last yea r, Geor gia

produced over ten per cen t, and of th e
$5 17 mi llion gross in com e, our Stat e' s

sha re was 8.8 p er cent.

The above in formation is gi\"Cn by

.Jeff Cobb, Act ing D irect or , Burea u of

Business R esea rch , College of Business

Adm in istration , U niversity of Geor gia ,

in the college 's mo n thly periodica l,
Georgia Business. M r . Cobb def ines

com me rcia l broile rs as mea t b ird s

which sa tisfy th e follow ing conditions:



(a ) weight: norma lly m a rk et ed a t tw o to four pound s, livc-wcigh t ; (b ) breed :

hea vy or crosses based on heav y breed s;

and (c) no sex distinction : at ma rk et -

ing time, th e en tire brood , fem ales as
well as male s, is sold with out distin c-

tion as to sex.

The industry in Georgia is confine d
la rgely to coun ties in Nor th Geo rgia

To Cost $15,000,000
T h e pu rchase of 500 acres of land ncar JES UP and the proposed const ruc tion of a paper boa rd p lant, expected event ua lly to represen t a n inv estm en t of fro m $ 15,000 ,00 0 to $20,000 ,000 was a nnounce d bv A. A. Voit, p resident of the ' M en ge] Co . Louisville, a nd Winth rop Allen, pa per bu yer for th e com pany.
T he ini tial unit of the pla nt, wh ich will em ploy about 400 , will m ake p ap er boa rd for five other p lants wh ich man ufacture corr uga ted boxes.
T h e M engel Co ., ca p ita lized a t about $20,000,000 has plants a t Lou isville, K y., W inston -Sal em,
New Brunswick, N . J., Fulton,
N . Y , and Nas hv ille, T enn . In th ose box pl an ts no pulp or pap erboard is m anufactured .

G iles, U SN reti red , is acting cha irman . T hose wh o desire more infor mation
a bout th e exhibition a re asked to com m uni cat e wit h Colonel K av in ca re of I nspector of Navy M a terial; 770 Sprin g Stree t, ~ . W ., Atlanta.
"T he ma jor pu rp ose of the exh ibit," Col. K ay sa id , "is to sp rea d defen se prod uction a mo ng numerou s sma ller man ufa ct ur ers who are willin g a nd a ble to pa rticipa te in th e defen se p roduct ion p rogram.
" I nte rested ma n ufacturers who at ten d the exhibit will be a ble to see num ero us items currently being mad e by th e prime contrac to rs th em selves but wh ich they wou ld pr efer to obt ain from sma ller ma nu facturers on a subco ntract basis.
"Business a nd eng inee ring rep resenta tives of the prime contracto rs will be on h and to exp lain th eir need s a nd
(C on tin ucd on Pa ge 4 )

I ND UST R IAL NE WS LETTE R

.....
A ug ust 25, 195 1

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

HARTWELL ad ds a no the r big in-

dustrv to its evc r- incrcasino a nd va rie d

list o f pla n ts.

"

Th e Cro- Mer Cor pora tion . a $ 100, 000 co m pa ny, w ill engage in th e processing of co tton see d , a nd o ther see ds, for planting , a nd from th e H artwell plant will serve a large number of sta te s in thi s a rea. The o the r plants, in Mississippi a nd T exas, wi ll se rve states in th ose sect ions of th e co t to n b elt.

The H art we ll pla nt loca t io n wa s selected because of its adva n rngco us loca tion in th e h ea rt of th e Piedmont Belt, a nd a lso as th e cente r of the g rea t U p pe r Sa vann ah R iver development.
Some $35,000 worth of m a chincrv wi ll he in sta lled as rapidl y as poss ible in the large bui ld in g . fo rmer loca tio n of the T emple G in Co,

On ly cer tifie d seed wi ll he p rocessed

a t H art well. T his m ea ns th at growers

o f hi gh g rad e seed in thi s a rea'- in th e

fut ure wi ll receive prem ium prices for

th eir p rodu ct. M eanwh ile, g rea t q uan-

tit ies of p ure-b red see d w ill be sh ip p ed

a nd truck ed to H artwell from va rious

sta tes a nd th en sold bv th e Cro-Me r

Corpora tion to it s di stri'hut o rs ove r the

South east . T he local co rporation wi ll

n ot buy seed from ind ividua l fa rme rs,

bu t w ill d eal w it h large buvers of ce rti-

fied see d .

v

.

Th e H artwell p lan t wi ll be, p erhaps, th e fi rst of it s kind in th e So u th ea st . T he cleaning p ro cess, whi le n ot n ew , h as n ot b een used befo re in th is a rea .

Th e Gro-Mer plan t fac ilities will be rus he d in or de r to be in op eratio n for the ' :') I co tton seed m a rket.

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T h e A tlanta Paper Co m pa ny h as wi thd rawn it s a pp lication for re -zo ning of a t ra ct in BOLTON for co nstr uction of a waste p ap er board m ill.

A rt h ur L. H a rr is, presid ent of th e

firm , req ueste d th e a p plication be w ith -

drawn in a lett er to H a ro ld Sc h illing,

ch a irm an of th e C obb Cou n tv Plan -

ning Co mm ission .

'

A la rge g rou p of reside nts in th e Lemons D ist ri ct op posed const ruction of th e p lan t on th e C h a ttahoochee R iver. Th ey ex p ressed fe a rs the mi ll would eve nt ua lly becom e a p ulp p aper m ill a n d as suc h crea te undesira b le odors.

H arris h a s in sisted th a t th e mill wou ld b e a wa ste -p a per boa rd p la n t

on ly, a nd wo uld h av e n o undesir ab le feat ur es,

In h is lett er to Mr. Sc h illing, M r. H arris sa id: " Yo u a nd vou r Board ha ve shown ext re me co u rtesv to us in ou r various m eetings with yo u, a nd I want to tak e thi s opport un ity of th anking yo u for th e ca ref ul co ns idera tion whi ch yo u ha ve a ffo rde d o ur problem ,"
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T o m eet th e increasing dem and for elec tri c pow e r in No rthwe st Geo rgia, th e Geo rg ia Power Com pany a nnounced pl ans to co ns t ruct a huge new steam -elect ric ge ne rating p lan t on th e Coosa Ri ver nea r R OAfE.

H a rlcc Br anch , Jr. , p reside n t of the Georgia Power Com pany, sa id th e new pl ant wi ll h ave a n in itial ge ne ra ting ca pacity of 200,000 kilow a tt s a n d wi ll cost mo re th a n $ 20 ,000 ,000.

Th e new plant w ill be named Plan t H ammond in h ono r of \ V. P . H amm ond, vic e presid ent in charge of engin eerin g for th e pow er com pany. H amm ond h as serve d with th e co m pany for 38 years a n d h as p la yed a m aj or role in th e devel opment of th e com pany's gene ra ting p lan ts, both h ydro-electric a n d ste a m -elec t ric,

Br an ch a n no unce d th at th e n ew

45 ,000-kilowatt p lant of the Geo rg ia

Pow er Com pany now unde r co ns t r uc -

tion at F urm an Shoals on th e O con ee

R iver n ear Milled gevi lle w ill b e n amed

n. Plant Sinclair a fte r

W . Sinclair,

supe ri n te nde n t of p roduct ion in charge

of co nst r uc tion a nd op era t ion of th e

co m pa ny's p ow er pl an t . Sin clai r h as

been wi th Georgia Power for 39 years.

Br anch sai d work on th e n ew p lant ncar R om e will begin thi s F all. It will he loca ted on a p lot of 350 acres te n miles west of R om e on th e Coosa Ri ver in F loy d Coun ty.

T he first 100,000-kilowatt uni t of Pla nt H ammon d will bc com pleted in O ctober, 19:') 3, Br an ch sa id . A secon d u ni t, of eq ual capa city, wi ll go in to se rv ice in J a nu a ry, 1954 . H e ex p la in ed tha t th e n ew pla nt w ill be constructe d to ta ke ca re of a ny ex pa ns ion wh ich m a v he n cccssa rv to serve the Northw e; t Georgia a re'a .

\ Vhen com p leted , Plan t H ammond w ill ge ne ra te 1,4'00,000,000 kilow a tth ou rs of elect ric p ow e r each year, enoug h to supply th e n eed s of 500 ,000 ave rage G eorgia h om es. By w ay of

com parison , Br anch sa id th e two ge nera ting units a t Pla nt H ammond wi ll

produce each yea r three a nd one -half

times as m anv kilow att-h ours as the co m pany's six ' h yd ro-elect ric p lants in

N or theas t Ge o rg ia ; eigh t tim es as m an y

kilow att-h o ur s as Allatoon a D am, n ca r Carte rsv ille .

Oth er plants which Geo rg ia Pow er

Com pan y now has u nd e r co ns t ruction include Plant M cM anus, n car Bru ns-

w ick , wi th a n ini tial stea m-gen era tin g

ca pacity of 40 ,00 0 kilow atts, a nd the

enla rge me nt of th e Bartlett's F erry

hyd ro-elect ric d am . nca r Colum b us.

' '':ith a 2 0. 00 0 -k il ow~ tt addi tion .

.

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Th e Brunswi ck Pulp a n d Pape r Com pa ny has purch ased f rom th e cit y of BR U N S IF I Cf{ a 250 -ac re in d us trial plan t site in m a rsh es d ir ectly sout h of th e present mi ll for $25,000 .

No a n no unceme nt was m ade of co n st ruc tion pl a n s bu t it is un derstood th e gro und w ill be used fo r fut u re exp a n -

SIO I1.

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$60 ,000 Grain Elevator
To Be Built in Athens

Tota l stoc k subsc rip tions of a p p rox im ately .$60,00 0 h a ve been raised by fa rm e'rs in th e ATHEN S a rea for th;? erection of a g ra in elev at or fo r th a t sec tion .

Th is a mo un t of subsc ribe d ca p ita l is with in $ 15,000 of the goal prop osed hy th e di rect or s of G eo rg ia Grai n G rowe rs Associati on , Inc., 1'1. C . G ay, p reside n l, a u uo uu ccd. A ll cx tcusiv ca m pa ig n is to be con d ucted un til the goal is reach ed .

T h e p ressing need for g ra in sto ra ge fa cilit ies in th is sec tio n of Georgia ca n n ot be ove re m phasized, M r. Gay d eclares. A t th e beginning o f th e season, h e said, th ere was a reason able d em and for wh ea t, b ut now th ere is h ardly a ny market for t h is c ro p desp it e th e fa ct th at a record crop of excelle n t qu ality whea t h as been p ro d uce d .
" F a rm ers a nd othe rs h ave been h a ul ing g ra in hundred s of m iles fo r storage in a pp roved fa cilities in o rde r to avail th emselves of t he govern m en t loa ns," Mr. Gay sta tes . " N o a p proved faci lity of th is kind is ava ilable in less than fift y miles of At he ns a n d th at is for a verv limi ted vo lume."

G EO RGIA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ERC E

IN DU STRIAL N EWS LET T ER

Au gust 25, 1951

Industry Needs Steel

JESUP AND WAYNE COUNTY

Scrap to Meet Defense

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
" S O U T H E A S T GEORG IA'S CATTLE AN D NAVAL STORES CENTER "

And Civilian Needs

JESUP , GEORGIA

Mills a nd foundries need a stea dy flow of iro n and steel scrap to keep

A ugust 15, 195 1

pace wi th need s. Tha t is no t news . . . but it is news tha t un less our industries

Mr. Clark Ga ines , Secretary State Department of Commerce 100 State Capitol Atlanta 3, Georg ia

th rough ou t th e cou n try have incr ea sed su pp lies of scra p p ro mp tly, the p ro du cti on sched ules of iro n a nd steel for t he d efen se p rog ram a nd our civilia n need s will not be met.

Dear Mr. Ga ines:

An addi tiona l 3,000,000 gross to ns

Thank you for the edition of the Wall Street Jour nal you se nt me in which

m us t be ob ta ined thi s year to m ain tain

your progress ive department had ind ust ria l advertisement on Georg ia .

ou r p roducti on sche d ules. In 1952, a n

This wa s what I had reference to when I wrote you recently about adver-

even g rea ter amo un t will be need ed .

t ising th e state and I appreciat ed your reply at that t ime that the department was underway wit h an advertising program.

I n a Ju ly -lth sta te me n t, D efen se M obi lizer C ha rles E . Wils on sa id th e

Just tho ught I wou ld drop you a line a nd let you know how en t husiast ic

rea rmame nt progr a m is running souu:

I am over the Geo rgia Department of Commerce ca rrying the story of Geor-

20 p er cen t beh ind sche d ule and mu st

gia before the nat ion.

be ste ppe d up im medi ately, wh ether

Incidentally , I am sure you wer e happy to know land has been purchased her e fo r th e proposed erection of a pulp mill. A pleasant side-line to t his is th at so fa r these people have co mpla ined not once of the sale a nd use t a x. If an d when t he y settle in .Jesup, they will make good cit izens .
When e ve r yo u ar e down th is wa y, drop by . Best wishes a nd kind est pe rson al re ga rds .

or not th e figh ti ng ends now in K orea. F ur the r cur ta ilme n t of civilian p rod uct ion is inev ita ble u nl ess there is a n im med iat e and sus tain ed incr ease in th e [low of scrap meta l ha ck to the m ills.
Steel ea n be mad e wi thou t th e usc


WMK:grk

Since rely yo urs,
(Signe d ) W . MOFFETT KENDRICK , JR. Manager

of scra p, but it is of po or quality ; is mor e costlv, a nd wa stcf ul of tim e, materials, transportat ion and labor.' For each ton of scra p used in the production of stee l, we conserve tw o to ns of

iron ore. one ton of coa l. nearl y one

Billion-Dollar Atomic Energy

ton of li;l1cst on e an d othe;' ma te;ial s.


In Augusta Area Will Employ

T he Greater A tla nt a Scr ap M obi liz.a tion Com mit tee urges q uick ac tion by th e presid ents and ge nera l m an -



The Ce n tra l Sava nna h Riv er Area in th e vicinitv of A U GUSTA is un dergoing tr em el;d ou s cha nges th ese d ays. With Camp Go rdo n ju st a few m iles d ist an t on the Georg ia side of th river. and th e hu ge Savannah River pla n t of the At om ic Energy Co mm ission being constr ucte d on the So ut h Carolina side . Augusta has becom e a " boo m town ."

cons truc tion and 10,000 per son s a re now employed , with expecta tions th a t thi s number wi ll be in cr ea sed to 36,000 by Jul y 1, 1952. An appropria tion of $900,000,000 has been m ad e hv Con g ress for cons t ruction of th e plant, whi ch is expecte d to cost in excess of a bill ion dollars. When co m pleted th e pl ant will m a ke h yd rogen m a te ria ls.
In m a king th e selection of a suitable

agc rs of wareh ou ses, sho ps, m anufacturing a nd con tr ac ting firms in th e Atlanta a rea as well as throu gh out Geo rg ia to save th e stee l industr y from a scra p shor tage. In sto ra ge rooms, od d corn ers ~. ::d v a cant lo ts of hundred s of local p la nts th ere a rc id le, obso let e m achines and eq uip men t con ta ining th c heav y typ e cas t iron and steel th a t is need ed .

N ew bu siness firms a re ope ning d aily site for th e pl an t, the At omi c Energy

A sudden hu rst of en th usias m m ay



and con trac to rs can no t bui ld hou sin g fa cilities fa st eno ugh to a cco nllno clat;';

Commission h ad m anv fa ctors to con side r. A la rge tract or"land surrounded

re lieve th e immedi at e cr isis, b u t th e problem will be con tin uous. I n lcs



th e th ou sands of new residents. A!"l> port m a de by a F ed era l Securit y Agen cy in W ashin g ton revea led th a t th e twelve cou n ties su r ro u nd ing the

by a group of good sm all tow ns and a d esirab le larger city was necessa ry. Au gu st a , as th e la rger city, and the g ro u p of sma lle r towns nearby, were

tha n th ree yea rs th e steel 'ind ustry o f Amer ica wi ll hav e ad de d 1I10re ca pa cit y th an th e en tire a n n ual steel

isolated a tom ic energy pla nt may ex- properly loca ted for the site fin ally se- ou tp u t of Great Br it ain . If th is cou n-



pect an incr ea se of 181,500 in thei r popu lation , with 75,000 of this nu m-

lected. C hemi ca lly pure wa ter hac! to be ava ilab le, plus sufficien t power fn r

try keep s it s defcn sc comm itme n ts and a t the sam e time m ai n tains the

ber set tling in Au gu st a and R ich mond Co u nty.

opera tion . The Savan na h R iver a nd Clark Hill hvdro-clcctric d am, th e th ird

high lcvrl of civilian econom y we a ll



This plan t is rep or ted to be th e fifth largest eyer constructe d in the wo rld.

la rgest d an; of its typ e cas t of the Mi ssissippi River, wer e id eal for th ese

desir e, the stee l ind ustry will need the coo peration of e\-cry top -executive to

T he Du pont Co rn pa nv is in charge of

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sec th at scr ap m oves p romptly.



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Broiler Ind ustr y In Georgia
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in 1935 as comp ared to 72 cen ts 111 1950 .
Ther e is on e detail in th e broiler bu siness to whi ch Georgia need s to give attention - and is doin g so. In av er age live-w eight per broiler , our St ate lags beh ind th e n ational aver age fourtenths of a pound to seven-tenths. However , gre a ter improvement in thi s respect is being sho wn in Georgia than in th e national ave rage. The top ave rage for G eor gia of 2.8 pounds obtain ed in 1945 and again in 1950 rep rese n ted a h alf -pou nd increase over th e lowest ave rage weight, whi ch was in 1942. The n ati on al avera ge h as incr eased only on e-fifth of a pound for th e comp let e p eri od , 1939-1950.
No w comes th e new br oiler- t yp e chic ken ju st developed by the Co llege Exper iment Station at Athen s to rais e the av erage weight in Georgia . Named th e Georgia-L igh t, it is a wh ite-plumag ed bird with some bla ck feather s in the neck a nd ta il.
' Vhr n com pared with p resent b roiler-type ch ickens, the G eor gia -Li ght is declared to hav e many advantages. Its wh ite fea thers are sa id to make it more desir ab le for the dr essing pl ants beca use pin fea the rs a nd the hai r- like feathers on th e ca rca ss are less consp icuous.
P rior to 1947, the av erage prices paid to Georgia prod ucers exceeded th ose of th e nat ion , but fo r th e last four yea rs th e pri ces in our St ate ha ve slump ed unde r th e nation al average.

Armed Services Seeking
(C ontin ued from Page 1) to answer qu estions for th e visitors."
Th e exh ibit will be restri ct ed to th e rep resentatives of manufacturing firms , and will be op en from 9 a.m , to 5 p.m. daily exce pt on Tuesday, September 11, on wh ich da y the exhibit will be open from 9 a .m . to 9 p.m.
T h e Fo rt Worth exhibit attracted more than 5,000 in terested visitors from states throughout th e Sou th and was successful in spreading production of d efen se items among numerous smaller manufacturers .
LT. COL. ROBERT F. KAY, USAF, project officer in charge of joint Army, Nav y an d Air Force exhibit to be h eld at the Atlanta Biltmore H otel, September 10, II and 12.

Billion-Dolla r Atomic Energy
(Continued fro m Page 3 ) purposes. Cl ark Hill dam is now 93 per cent comp lete and will gene ra te 703,000 ,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually.
The loyalty of th e peop le in th e a rea en tered into making th e decision . In thi s conne ctio n there arc ma ny people livin g in a nd around Au gu sta wh o a rc descend ants of men who fou ght in th e R evo lutionary War a nd th eir p atriotism is unquestionable.
In addition to the salient effec ts of th e a tom ic ene rgy plant, Aug usta's military installation s a re importa nt econo m ic assets. The Au gu sta Ar sen al emp loys hundred s of civilian per sonnel, as docs th e Vet eran s Ad ministrat ion H ospital, while C amp Gordon is th e source of both civilia n a nd military payr olls. The ca m p is ra pidl y ex pa nd ing- and is expected to reac h full cap ac ity by O ct ober 1, 1951. T his is br inging more new peop le and mo re new mo ney to Aug usta .
The Fed eral Go vernment is now spending $5,500,000 for ad di tiona l facilitics, including ba rr acks, build ings, class roo ms, pa ving, exte nsio n of the wa tel' syste m, floor cover ings in a ll bu ildings, and pa inting insid e a nd ou t. The painting con tr ac t a lone is $8 79,000, t he largest paint con tract ever let in th e Sa va nnah Dis tri ct of the Corps of En gineers.
A comp re hensive p rog ram is in p rocess for development of the Savanna h River in th e area bv th e cons truction of eleven dams.. witl; C lark H ill bcinu0 th e fir st of th e seri es. Already lead ing this section of the nati on in sales and bu ilding ac tivity, th e ind ica tions arc that th e area aro und Au gu sta fa ces a future of unp reced ented prosperit y and growt h.

Vo l. s, No .5

Georgiais Fifteen Paper ~~'!!fIf~ak in Employment ~~Mi'--- Cited In Manufactu ring

Georgia' s non - f a r In em ployme n t

May Place It First In Nation

rea ched a new peak in J uly with an estimated 831,600 level. T he J uly ga in of

I t is a fortunat e thin g th e Sta te of

Georgia ste ppe d up its fir e-prot ecti on

and refor estati on progr am s ju st as th e



pap er- and-b oard indust ry began Il1 ea rnes t to mov e into ou r Sta te . It

sta rted movin g in abo u t th e tim e th e

ga rme n t and othe r industries looked

o ur way and found th e pastu res gree ner
th an in other region s. Th e discov eri es

of Dr. Hcrt v in h is Sa va nna h laborator y a nd otl~ e rs working with th e id ea
of m a king pine tr ees in to paper tended

to revo lutionize th e ma nufa ct ur e of pa-

per an d pl a n ts began to hea d sou th.



It all happen ed sim ultaneou sly, wit h the stro ng movem ent in Georgia by

com m u nitie s bo th sm all an d la rge to

obtain new indust ries. T h e smaller



cities lea rn ed th at paper-mak ing, a :-~~~:; - p :'c d~ :cti 8;: in d ustry, gc:: cr~ lly 10

Natio nal Conta iner Corp.
Anno unces Plant Plans
T he N at iona l Co n ta ine r Co rpo ra tion has a n nou nced th at th eir .$25,000,000 V A L DO S T A plant will be com pleted in a yea r and a hal f to tw o vea rs a nd will increase the com pa ny's outp ut of kr aft pulp , board and pa per by about 50 percent .
The co rpora tion a lread y has four pu lp -an d -board m ills wh ich in 1950 prod uced nea rly :lOO,OOO tons. Wh en com pleted the plan t in Va ldosta will pr odu ce 500 tons a da y. T he com pany a lso opera tes 12 corr ugated box plan ts as well as a paper-bag plan t wi th an a djoin ing mil l.

3,400 work er s, accord ing to th e Georgia Department of La bor, represented increase d activity in m anufacturing a nd co nstruc tion wh ich m or e th an offset seaso na l d eclin es in tr ade a nd gove rn men t. The tot al in J uly was almost 50 ,000 grea te r th an th e correspo nd ing month in 1950 wit h ove r-the -yea r ga ins in eyery m aj or ind ustry exce p t ser vice .
The greates t m onth ly ga in in any majo r in du stry occ urred in m anufactur ing, wh ich h ad been declining for seve ral mon ths. Thc } uly rise of workers wa s du e prima rily to seaso na l h iring a t food-processing pla n ts a nd co ntin ued hiri ng at a n a ircraft plant.
Food-processing em ploym ent rose
shar ply in .I uly with a ga in of 4,000
workers. T here was a sligh t increase in texti le mi lls when some of th e work ers in seve ra l miii s ret urn ed to wor k

ca tes in sm a ll communiti es. Also it dow n for construc tion, an d there wer e after a la bor di sp ute. Seasona l upt urns

uses la rge volumes of p rocess water. I ts six bui lt p rior to 19+1. Th ese six have in plants manufacturing men 's a nd

hea vy m ach inery m a kes th e po wer re- ente red upon expa nsion progr am s that boys' furn ish ings and mi scellan eou s

qui rem ents great, as th e grind ing ac- a lso grea tly adde d to th e industry in fabricat ed textile product s ca used a

tion dem ands mu ch po wer. But , for - G eorgia .

ga in of 400 workers in th e a p pa rel in-



tun ately, G eorgia ha s power in ab und a nce, a nd it possesses tr em endou s ac re-

The five built since 19+ I wer e: Armstr on g Cork Co., M acon : Au stell Box

dustrv, Desp ite a sligh t loss in em ployme n t,

ages of trees suita ble for pap er -and- Board Co .. Au stell : Ce rta in-tee d P ro- a v"C rage weekl y ea rn ings in th e paper

board m anufacture. Geor gia thus con- du ct s Corp., Sa va n nah : M a con K raft ind ustry increased $ 1.65 with mor e ov-



stitu tes a n ideal place for thi s important ind ust ry- the sixth la rgest in th e

Co., M a con, a nd South ern Paperb oa rd C orp., Port W en tworth, ncar Sav an-

ertime work in paper mills a nd wa ge incr eases in plants manufa cturing pa-

nation , acco rd ing to the U . S. Bureau nah.

per con ta iners.

of Sta nda rds, wh ich places ahe a d of

Th e fo ur in th e planning or con-

Tran sportation eq uip me n t em ploy-

it M otor V ehicl es, M ea t Pa cking, Steel struc tion stage a rc: M ea d Corpora- ment con ti n ue d to rise with a gain of

W orks, Petroleum R efi ning and Cott on tion , R om e ; Nati onal Con ta ine r Corp., 700 wo rker s in .J un e. H iri ng a t an air-

Broad W oven F ab rics.

V a ldos ta : M engel Com pany, J esup , a nd cra ft plan t a nd new con trac ts in sh ip



An d now alrea dy fifteen paper m ills ha ve been bu ilt or are bein g pla n ned

Atlan ta Paper Co., At la nt a . T h e six m ills located in Georgia

repairs mo re than offset a slight decline in a uto assemb ly pl an ts, wh ere

or construc ted in Georgia. The last prior to 1941 were : Br unsw ick P ulp ther e was a shortag e of material.

n ine years b rou ght us five new ones in an d Pap er Co ., Brunswick ; National

After a sligh t d rop in J une, the con-

ad d ition to four othe rs now bein g laid

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I N D U STRI AL N EW S L ET T ER

September 10, 195 1

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Down in So uth Geo rgia 's T er rell Co u n ty, a housewife has con verted a recip e ' an d a willingn ess to wo rk into a thri ving bu siness.

Becau se she had a recipe for d elicio us brunswick stew a nd becau se her neigh bors br a gged on it, Mrs. Albert Cook Aultman tod av is head of th e Alberta Packin g Co ., \~'h i ch is turning out about . 1.000 ca ns of br un swick stew da ilv in a dd ition to a p p roxima tely 1,500 pou nd s of sa usage a week.

The bu siness originat ed wh en M rs. Au ltm an d ecid ed sudd enly one day to ask th e local ca n ni ng plant ttl- put up a ll th e stew she had ingr edi ents to m a ke. The first 1.000 ca ns sold like hotca kcsa nd J',hs. ' Aultm an was in b usin ess. \\'h en h er sons ca me hom e fro m the wa r, sh e form ed a pa rtnership wi th th em a nd construc ted a packing hou se. No w, in ad d ition to ca nn ing stew a nd m ak ing sa usage, th e com pa ny also is selling othe r by-p roduct s of pork a nd is d oin g custom sla ugh te ring and processing for th e public.

M rs. Aultm an is still incr ed ulous a t

th e succes s of her bu siness, wh ich be-

ga n with a goo d recipe, th e confidence

of h er friends a nd a little solitarv fro n t

porch thinking.

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The \Veston & Brooker Com pa ny, of Columbia, S. C ., a rc re viving th e Dugga n gra nite qu arries a t GR ANI TE H ILL. Thi s will be a g rea t asset to th e industria l g rowth of Han cock a nd sur ro und ing co un ties.
The plan t in the ini tia l ope ra tions , IS produ cin g 35 or m ore ca rs of crushe d stone d a ily, a nd th er e a rc grea t possibiliti es th at it will be enla rged in th e future.

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ATLA NTA ha s ad d ed a nothe r new man ufa cturing pl ant to her rost er of indust rial develop men t. T he L assiter Corpora tion, Geo rgia D ivision , will begin operations a t th eir plant on W . W h it eh a ll in th e ver y ncar fut ur e. Th ey will print cello pha ne paper an d rolls. Th eir ca pita l inv estment in Atl anta has been estima ted a t ap proxi ma tely $ 150,000. Oth er plan ts of th e Lassiter Co rporat ion a re locat ed in C ha rlo tt e, a nd Green sboro, N . C ., a nd C helt enham , Pa . Th eir m ain office is in Ne w York .

Gum Processing Corp . Is Good Srnellinq Busi ness
Th e best sm elling bu siness in Pea rson a nd on e of the m ost profit able as far as marketing of nat ur al reso urces is conce rn ed, is th e Pearson G um Processing C orpora tion.
The beau tiful $ 100,000 plant is fast becom ing an Atkinson Coun ty la nd m a rk a nd tr ee farmer s in th a t and neigh boring coun ties b rin g th ei r crude gum to ma rket here.
Rcccntlv dcst rovcd hv a Iirc tha t rav ished th e p lant, tl{e gum-p rocessing facto ry, has bcC!'ll reb uilt a nd expanded .
Fi rst built in 1940 hv th e Penin sular Lurton Co ~: lat er t ak~n over hv th e
la te Sh eriff 1\1. L. Da vis, Leon H ."Tan-
ner , Sr., a nd Hiram Tan ner, the plan t in 1948 becam e the Pearson Processing Corp ., the nam e bein g cha nge d from M cCrae Pro cessing Sup ply Co.
Th e plant is aff ilia ted with Turpentin e an d Rosin Fact or s, Inc., J acksonv ille .
T he gum -p rocess ing com pa ny in ad di tion to p rocessing nava l sto res su pplies, h as su pplies Tor g um fanners.
Leon H. T anner is presid ent of th e corpora tion . Oth er officers a rc A. 1,. Brogd en a nd Leon ard Sto ne, vice-p residents, and J ohn G . Barnett, secr eta ry-treasu rer and man ager.
1951 Fescue Seed Crop Tops In Northeast Ga .
A grea t m an y coo pe ra tors m th e Broad River Soil Conserva tion Dist rict a nd espec ia lly in H art, Elbert, F ranklin a nd M ad ison co unties ha ve been growing K Y-::\ I Fescue fo r bot h gra zing and seed purposes. M an y of these a rc gro wing seed th at came fr om fo und ati on sto ck sec u red fro m distr ict supervi sors a nd th ey in turn secu red th ese th rou gh th e So il Co nserva tion Service N urseries.
At a meeting of th e G eorgia Crop Im p rov em en t Association ea rly th is yea r, it was decid ed th at KY-3l Fescue seed tha t co uld be traced d irectl y from foundati on stock th rou gh Soil C onserva tion N ur seri es could be certifi ed , as well as a ll seed pl anted fr om ce rtified so ur ces.
Hugh In glis, rep resen ta tive of th e a ssocia tion , m et with a group of distri ct su pervisors a nd d iscu ssed procedure for certifying seed . Since a la rge qu antity of KY-31 Fescu e seed is bein g

p rodu ced in the section, it was felt tha t for th e fa nners to get the best price for their seed, it wou ld have to be ce rtif ied .
L. R. T uck er See d Co m pa ny of R OYST ON , one of th e man y seed -p ro cessing plants in th at ar ea, was a pp rov ed as a certified p rocessing plant by th e C ro p Improvem ent Associa tio n of Georgia. U nde r presen t regul ati on s, to ce rtify seed in Georgia, you ca n not hav e any nox iou s weed seed .
O ne hund red ten farmers have had K 'I' -:\ 1 Fescu e seed certified th rou gh th e p rocessing plant a t Royston alone and it is estima ted by th e plant m anage r, Pet e Spea rma n, th at at thi s pl an t 250,000 pounds of K Y-:)1 Fescue seed wiII be processed th is season .
Irrigated, Iced Corn Latest Farm Venture
J. D. a nd Fran k J erom e a nd j erry
Butl er a nd their farming opera tions in E V A N S a nd T ATTN ALL co un ties arc proof of th e fact tha t goo d farmi ng a nd good bu sin ess go hand in hand . Th e j eromcs and J erry But ler arc handler s of produce, m arket men as wel l a s farmers. This year to ca rr y a u t som e of th e p racti cal knowl ed ge as ma rk et m en a nd combine it wi th th eir fa n ning a biliti es- som et hing th ey'v e been doing on a smaller sca le for 20 yearsthey put a $40 ,000 inv estment in m ach ine ry a nd eq uipme n t to bring in a n irr igat ed a nd coo led sweet co rn cro p .
This sum mer th e irrigat ed field s o f com were picked , gra ded , expe rtly packed in th e field, th en c h il l e d a nd sh ip pe d in sem i-traile rs all over th e cast coas t. Three ton s of sno w icc wer e thrown on th e product to keep th e tem perature down a nd insure it reaching th e m a rket in perfect condi tion. Accord ing to expe rts, th e cro p h andled thi s way, instead of sh rin king on th e way to ma rk et , actu a lly gro ws in ga ins a nd flavor.
T he J eromes and Mr. Butler pl an to handle cuc um be rs and string less a nd black va len tine beans in th e fa ll on the sam e ac reage a nd with th e sa me eq uipment.
Aft er ea ting d elicious tast ing co rn , next seaso n bu yers and ret a ilers as well as consum ers in th e Eastern sea boa rd market will look and ask for Georgia grown " Sweet Co b" corn .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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I NDU STR IAL NEW S LETTER

Se p te m be r 10, 195 1

Livestock Industry Gains In lmportence,

expla ined th is limitat ion was necessary beca use sa tisfactory records for d et er-

m ining th e redu ction in fires a n d acre-

Local Markets Show Weekly Increases

age bu rn ed arc ava ila ble on ly from for est fire rep orts com piled by th e

G eo rgia 's prod uction of livest ock is of h igh prod uction. The ca ttle will rep - Georg ia Forestry Com mi ssion.

increasi ng ra p id ly. \\'c h a ve a mi lliondo lla r livestock in d ustry tha t was not

resent su ch fa mous br eeds a s J erseys, G ue rns eys an d H olst ein s, and will

Georgia Leads Southea st

here ten yea rs ago . T en years fro m range f;'om small ca lves to m ilking In Rural Electrification

now we should riva l the big \"est ern livestock sta tes wh ere th at ind ustr y h as

cows. T h ey wi ll be offe re d by local breed ers for th e p urpose of esta blish -

Georgia lea ds th e en tire So utheas t in rural electrificat ion, H arllcc Bra nch ,

lon g been esta blishe d and prosp er ed. T h e \\'estern sa les system is one of
la rge cen t ra lized m arket s. Georgia 's method of m arketin g th e

ing a sta te -wide m a rket fo r goo d da iry sto ck .
T he ca tt le off er ed in th is sa le wi ll represen t a ra d ica l ch a nge in br eed ing

J r., p resident of th e Georgia Pow er Co m pa ny, rep or ts. T h e power co m pa ny p residen t quoted REA figur es sho wing th at 95 .7 per cen t of th e far ms

a n imals is exec u ted through many with em phasis on p rod uct ion ra th er of Georgia a rc receiving elect ric serv-

sma ll ma rket s th rou gho ut th e S ta te wh er e livestock is sold a t au ctions. Prett y close to 75 p ercent of the a n i-

than p ed igree. Whi le Wi lkes does n ot yet h av e a su rp lus of th e " test tube" a n imals. d airym en feel th at th e sa le will

ice. G eo rgia's fig ur e is hi gh er, h e sai d, th a n tha t of an y of th e n eigh bor ing sta tes of N orth and South. Ca ro lin a,

mal s a re h an dl ed in this way. The be a goo d th ing for th em as th ey wi.ll F lorida . Ala bama a nd T enn essee.

w ho lesa le sla ug h terers bu y directly even tua lly req uire a m a rket for th eir

Georgia's ra pi d p rogress in rur al

from th e farmers only a bo ut 17 per- over-supp ly of breed in g stoc k.

elec trifica tion is d ue to the com bin ed

cent: farmer-to -farmer sa les take a n-

efforts of th e R EA cooperatives a nd th e

ot her six percent , and local dea lers Fire Prevent ion Contest

pow er co m pa ny, Mr. Bran ch sai d . H e

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a bo ut four p ercent. '\'1arkets all ove r th e Sta te h ave re-

Slated By Geo rg ia

p oi nt ed out th a t wh en th e R EA p rogra m was lau nch ed in 1936 th e com -

ported record sales th is year. An ex - Forestry Association

p an y offe red a spec ific pl an of assist-

a m ple of the upward trend m ay be

Detai ls of a $ 1,000 forest-fire p reven- ance . U nde r th e p lan , th e co m pa ny



sigh ted by th e Ca rroll Coun ty L ivestoc k Sa les Ba rn wh ere th e weekly to-

tion co ntes t, in wh ich 86 G eorgia cou n ties und er orga n ized forest prot ection

su p plied th e services of its engi nee rs wi th ou t ch arge to mak e SU lyeys of p ro-

ta l h as sho wn a n increase fro m" the a rc eligible, hav e been a n nou nce d by pos ed coo pera tive lines ; it gave up

begin ning of th e sa les in 194 2 un ti l the th e Georg ia Forest ry Associati on .

lines whi ch it ha d in te nde d to bu ild so



presen t month wh en once again a ll p re-

H ugh Dobbs, Associa tion p resid en t, th e lines could be incl ud ed in R EA

vious records were sha tte red .

said th e cas h p rize of $ 1,000 will be project s ; it h as p erfor m ed eme rge ncy

Twice du rin g th e mont h of A ugust awa rde d th e co un ty sho wing th e grea t- re pa ir wo rk for th e coope ra tives.



th e week' s sa les wer e h igh er th an fo r all p revi ou s weeks. The to ta l for one

est p rogress in its for est- fire p revent ion p rogram .

G eorgia 's ra p id ly expa nd ing use of elec tric servic e n ecessit at ed a h uge co n-

week was $3,91 1.7 1.

" Our purpose," D obbs sa id , " is fou r- struction p rogra m on th e pa rt of the

T h e sa les barn will th is vcar, for th e fold . \ Ve wa nt to red uce the n umber pow er com pany, ?vI r. Bran ch sa id . I n



secon d tim e, p ass th e $ 1,000 ,000 ma rk in sa les, as th e re la tive ly young Ca r-

of fo rest fires whi ch annually ra vage Georg ia's woodl and ac res. \Ve want ,

th e five-year peri od, 1946- 50, th e com pa ny in vested $ 114,000,000 in n ew elec-

ro llton esta blish m en t qu ick ly becom es too, to red uce th e to ta l acr ea ge whi ch trical fa cilities a n d in th e three yea rs,

one of th e biggest conce rns of th e a rea . th ese fires damage.

195 1-53, will spe nd a no ther $ 125,000 ,-



T h e yea rly tota l is less tha n $200 ,000 :I'::~y from th e $ 1,000,000 m a rk

" \ Ve wish," h e adde d, " to stim u la te 000 .

now , an d if t re n ds conti nu e as ind ication s sho w, th e year's busi ness will far

interest in better forest p rotecti on, an d finally, we d esire to create a grea te r

Southeastern Rubber Co.



sur pass all p revi ou s yea rs.

sense of person al respon sibi lity rega rd- Holds Formal Opening

T h e tot al recorded d uring J ul y of th is yea r alon e was $ 144,39 +' 70. Duri ng

in o forest-fire prevention a mo ng a ll citoizens-eac h m a n , wom an an d ch11ild ."

The So u theas tern R ubber M an ulacturi ng Co m p any, Inc., m anu facturers



th at m ont h, over 1,900 h ead of livestoc k wer e excha nge d thro ugh th e m ar-

T he associa tion head sa id ce rtifica tes will be p resen ted th e fiv e ru n ner-

of ca m elbac k fo r recapping tir es, h eld a fo rm a l openi ng of th eir new p lan t in

ket. Se lle rs d ur ing th at per iod n um - up cou n ties.

A T HEN S rece n tly. Sev eral hundred

bered 867.

All co u nt ies, h ow ever , wh o jo in th e Athen ian s a tt end ed the preview of the



An d whi le th e sa les a t local m a rket s reach ed a ll-time h igh s, G eorgia ns were

co n test wi ll profit , no m atter wh eth er or not th ey rece ive a n awa rd . Their

new ly-complet ed build ing whi ch will h ou se th e off ices an d p lant m ach inery

looking tow ard th e futu re of livestock profit will lie in the fact th a t preven - n ecessa ry for th e p ro cessing of crude

in th e field of dairyin g.

tion of a single fi re may save jobs an d rubber in to ca melbac k.



T h e fi rst sa le of a rtificia lly bred in come fa r more valua ble from a dol-

T h e com pa ny is to spec ia lize in th e

h eifers a nd co ws eve r h eld in th e E ast - la rs a nd ce n ts sta nd po in t th an th e cas h m an ufact ure of ca mel back in th e be-

ern U nited Sta tes has been sch ed uled prize aw arded .

gin n ing, accord ing to R al ph Sno w,



to tak e p lace at a n ea rly d at e in Wi lkes co un ty.

Coun ties coo perating with th e fir eco n tro l syste m of th e G eo rgia Forest ry

vice-preside n t, treasu rer a nd gen eral ma nager, but later will m ak e other rub-

T h e sale wi ll fea ture the offsp ring Co m mission for one or more yea rs p rior ber p rod u cts. T h e pla n t will em p loy

of bulls wh ich a rc p rov en tran smitters to July 1, 1951, m ay pa rti cipate. D ob bs

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Georgia's Paper Mills
(Contin ued from Page 1) Gypsum Co., Savannah ; National Paper Co. , Bolton ; Noble M anufacturing Co., Ce da rtown ; St. Mary's Kraft C orp., St. "Ma ry's, and U nion Bag & Paper Co., Sa van nah . Other la rge paper con cerns a re said to h ave th eir eyes on G eor gia for location of a factory.
Th e rapid ten- year g rowth in produ cti on of paper and pu lp in G eor gia is ind ica ted by th e following figures : Pulp : 1941-441 ,650 ton s ; 1946496 ,400 tons ; 1950-1 , 11 6,900 tons. Paper : 1941-386 ,900 ton s ; 194655 1,150 ton s; 1950-1 ,08 5,87 5 tons .
Di st ribution of th e pap er m ills in th e So uth as of O ctober, 1950 , was as fo llows: V irgini a, 14 ; T enn essee, 12 ; G eor gia 11 ; North Carolina , ten ; Lou isiana, ten ; F lor id a, nin e ; Maryland , eigh t; T exas, eigh t ; Alabama, seven; Mis sissippi, six; Ark an sas, four, and So uth Carolina, three. W est Virginia had fou r. Thus G eorgia a t th at tim e wa s th e third sta te in th e South in number of suc h mi lls. It may now lead th e So uth a nd nation as to mill s bui lt or proj ect ed .
One of th e fast est growing field s for th e use of paper and board is that of pack agin g, according to Dr. Louis T. Steve nson, Economist of th e Am er ican Pap er and Pu lp Associa tion , w riting in the tr ad e m agazine, Southe rn Pu lp and Paper M anufact ur er.
Th e modern package, he points out, must perform satisfac torily under seve re cond itions of handlin g, climate and storage. Paperboard h as grown trem endously in volume in recent years bec ause th e prod uct h as been adapted to m eet m or e a nd more exac ting requirem ents. The advent of the paper shipping sack, both sing le and mult iwa ll, ha s grea tly expande d th e use of

kraft or sulpha te -processe d pap er in th at field .
At th e same tim e, specia l research into th e a p plica tion of sulph ite wr appings, glassine, grea se-p roof and vege tab le parchment, h as wid en ed th e use of th ese papers.
O ver 13,500 ,000 ton s of paper and board were used last year in packagin g product s in thi s coun try.
G eorgia cord ially welcomes thi s grea t industr y. Our vas t pin elands awa it th e axe and saw th at feed th eir machines . \ Ve possess th e fin e tr ansporta tion syste m required to carry th eir prod uct s to m arket . H er e th ese mi lls h ave th e fa ciliti es as well as raw m a terial s necessar y for a profitabl e ope ra tion.
(W e are indebt ed for mo st of th e fi,(.T,_
urcs in th is article to .Jerry \ V. Wh eeler , m an agin g ed ito r of So uthe rn Pu lp an d Paper Man ufa cturer , published by Ern est H . Abernethy Co mpany. )
Southeastern Rubber Co.
(C ontin ued from Page 3 ) a pp roxima te ly on e h undred p eopl e wh en in fu ll op erati on . Th e beautiful red bri ck structure has 15,000 squa re feet of floor space.
The So utheaste rn Rubber Manuf'a cturin g Co mpa ny will fill a need that has existe d in thi s section for year s-the need for ru bber m at eri als vit al to th e recapping process, M r. Snow brought out in a recent inter view . "T he re is more recapping don e in th e Southea st than in an y other section of th e countr y, and until our plant wa s construc ted no other such facility wa s in exist ence east of th e Mi ssissippi riv er and south of th e Ohio," h e state d.
Officer s of th e com pany are Charl es H olloway, presiden t, Mr. Snow, and Abi t Nix , secr etary.

New Peak in Employment
(Continued from Page 1) st ruction industr y rose again to a new peak with a gai n of 1,400 ove r th e pr eviou s m onth . The rise was sh a red bv a ll segme nts with th e gr ea test gai n o~ eurr ing in gene ra l bui ldin g du e to new cont rac ts, particu larly th ose engaged in const ructio n work in m ore than on e sta te.

Government Contracts

For Georgia Industries

Fed er al G overnmcnt co n t I' act s

awa rded to G eor gia manufactu rers during Au gu st w cre~ as follows:

M etalcr aft Au tom otive Division ,

Inc., ATLANTA - 4,878 rep a ir p ar ts

for 4x4 tr act ors , $40,462.00.

M eier Mfg. & Dist. Co ., T U CKER

- W ooden d inin g hall tables. excee ds

$250,000.00. v



Di xie Paint &: V arn ish C o., Inc.,

BR U X Sf.VI Ci{-Wl lite en a mel.

C olum bia Naval Sto res Co ., SA -

V ANNA H - R osin.

W right Co nt racting Co ., CO LUM BUS- C onstructi on work a t K eesler Air Force Base, Mi ss., ,~46 2 ,423 .

Sav an nah Suga r R efining Corp ., SA V A NNAH- 345,000 lbs. gra nula te d suga r, $3 0,654. 00.

G eorgia Du ck & Co rdage I'd ill, S COTTDALE-40,OOO lin . yds . cotton du ck, $80,800.00.

Scien tific Lab . Supply Co. , ATLA NTA-Glassware, Labor atory an d H ospit a l.

Southe rn Scien tific Corp ., AT-

LA NTA -Glasswarc, Laboratory a nd

H os p i t a l.

.

Wi lliam Armstrong Sm ith Co .,

EAST PO INT- Enamel. semi-gloss,

$ 122,848.

.

V ol. 3, No.6

Se p tember 25, 195 i

Georgia15 Unknown RegionsMay

Small Business Exhibit One of Most Successful

Yield Bountiful Supply of Oil

To Be Held in Nation
T he So ut heaste rn Armed Forces Sma ll Busin ess Exhibit, which was held

Why a ren' t we do ing somet hing it cou ld n' t be don e.

in Atl anta, Se p tem be r 10-12 , d rew a

a bou t Georg ia's oil developmen t ? Ther e' s oil to th e west of us in Ala -
ba ma and Mississippi, oil to the sout h of us in F lori da, oil to the nor t h of

D r. Sod av sa id th at wa s th e ease in th e li me~ton e a rea in Illinois. Jt was giyen u p by mos t oi l nu -n. Then
an experimente r struck oil in the mid-

reco rd a ttenda nce of a pp roximately 4,500 person s a nd en th usias tic ac clai m from th e officials as one of th e mos t successful exhi bits staged .

us in Tennessee. Everv ind ication dle of th e limestone formatio ns.

The exhibit included 32 p rime con-



points to th e p rcsen ce of ' 0:1 in Ceor-
gi a. D r. Fran k .J. Sod ay, vice presi-

Fl orid a, since 1944. ha s di scove red 12 oil wells whi ch p roduce 54,499 ba r-

trac tors an d 13 b ra nch es of th e armed forces. The exh ibitors di spl ayed item s,

d ent of th e Southern Association o f rr-ls a month. Alab ama di sr ov cr cd ran gin g from sm all m ach iner y parts

Science a nd Industry. believes th a t th e tw o news well thi s month bringing her a nd wood packing cases to la rge br idge



o nly lim it to a \'a i labi~ oil in th e U ni ted Sta tes is th e limit of tim e in which to

tot al to 77. In Jul y th e Ala ba ma oil well s produ ced 90,000 barrels. M issis-

assem blies, whi ch th ey d esired to subcontract to com pe te nt small business

chart the under ground stra ta and hunt sippi is still d igging and today has 1,-

(C ontin ued on Page 4 )

fo r the black liq uid go ld .

693 ac tin' we lls tha t in June produced



With ex pa ndi ng pe troleum m arket s, 3,024,379 barrels of th e liquid go ld .

Dr. Sod a y ex p resse d a hope " tha t we And Tennessee ca n boast o f 30 oil pro-

ca n develop all a reas th at hav e a d ucin g wells, one of whi ch was discov-

rc la tivcly unknown under ground po- ered wi th in th e la st few months.



tenti al ." And very little is kn own

Tra ces of oil a nd pet ro leum hav e

abou t the undergr ound in Georgia. been found in Georgia but no wells

The fac t tha t thi s strata m a y bear oil ?a" e been d ug to pe netrate deep enoug h



ha s unli mited possi bilities. . Oil is th e key to th e en tire p rogr ess

m to th e un kn own levels of ground . Ga rl and Peyton , di rect or , Dep a rt men t

a nd sec u ri ty of th e wo rld . O il m anip u- of M ines, Mining a nd Ge ology, says

lat es m achiner y to p roduce food , oil th a t spasm odi c in cff crtua l dforts to



is tr an sport ation , oil is am mu n ition, th e food of our ultra -mod ern r111:;,

prospect for oil and gas in th e Coast al Pla ins o f Georgia han : been ma de at

navv an d air eq uipment. T he vit a l va riou s times during th e past 40 years,

p ro d uct may be in your back yard . I t bu t it was not un til 1938 th a t th e first



could be in a ny cou n ty in Georg ia, a n untou ch ed resource of rich es fo r

adeq ua te test was made with a ro tary rig . These a t te m pts a t drilling hm';~

ou r fa rming a nd industri al ad va nce- yield ed va lu abl e info rma tion conc ern -



men t .
The Coast al Pl ai ns in Georgia a nd th e North wes t corner of th e St a te are said to hav e th e bes t oil possibil it ies. Bu t there still are no hard and fas t rules for " d r ip ping a well." Time a nd tim e again cer ta in area s that wer e crosse d off as oillcss, have produced

ing th e nature of Georgi a's und erg round th at a rc not fo u nd on ou r latest geo logi c m ap . It was di scovered th at th ere arc seve ra l th ou sand feet ad d itio na l th ickness of sedime n ts which m ight p ro\T to be oil-bearing.
Mr. Peyt on rep orts, th at during th e 10-year period between 1939-1949,

Exhibit officia ls and advisors of th e
Armed Forces Small Busin ess Exhibit at the Atlanta ~iltmore H ote l. Left to right: Lt. Col. J uh an B. Cross, Mr . Clark Gai nes

gushc rs by someon e wh o didn't know

(Con tin ued on Page 3 )

Capt. D. T . Giles and Lt . Co l. R. R. Kay:

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

Sept ember 25. 19:) I

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

A $50,000 feed mill will be rea dy for opera tion in .I1~'S UP by Nov ember l.

C . M. Ph illip s, owner of th e J esup Stock Ya rd , plan s th is new mill a s another serv ice to th e livestock owne rs of thi s section, an d says th e mill will be locat ed in th e wa reh ou se section of th e stock yard for co nvenie nce to selle rs.

M achinery has a lready started a rriving and co nsists of she llers, crushers, mix er s, a molasses m a chine, a nd co rn

cutte r. By next sp ring , Phi llip s plans to introduce a pellet m achin e in his mi ll since livestock m en in thi s section are findi ng p ellets to he econom ica l. W hen the feed is mould ed into small pellets or "c hec ke rs," th er e is virtua lly no waste a nd thi s kind of Iood is easv to feed. Pellets do not require as ex'pen sive feeders as other types of feed .

Phillips says he expe cts to bu y peanut m eal , cotto n seed m eal , corn a nd hay locally for usc in th e mill. H e will m anu'factu re feed and do custo m g rinding a nd m ixing. Wh en th e mill is in full opera tion it will ha ve a 30 to 40 ton d aily capacity.

In outlining his pla ns, th e owne r sa id, " My idea in building a new m ill here

in J esup and op er ating it in co nnec -

tion with the stockya rd is so that th e

f a r m er s feed a t

of a

thi s section ca n minimum cost,

h av a nd

ein'<"rothode

hope that th e feed will return to use

in th e form of more and better stock

to be sold at th e market ."

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WINDER and BARROW COUN-

TY will h av e an add itiona l cotto n

war ehou se and cotton buv er th is season .

G eorge Thompson , Sr.: presiden t of

th e Winder O il Mi ll Co., and hi s son,

J oh n A. Thompson , vice-president.

have an no unce d th e formati on of a

new com pa ny, th e Thompson Bonded W a re h o u se.

J. V. L owrey, a n experience d co tton

bu yer and wa reh ou seman, has been em-

ployed as man ager a nd co tto n hu vcr fo r

th e con cern .

.

Mr. Thom pson stated th at a grea t deal of Barrow Co unty co tto n was bein g tak en to othe r nea rby towns du e to th e lack of sufficient 'buyers a n d storage fac ilities in th e a rea . H e said that now h e could off er th e fanner a " one stop service" , by ginning his seed cotton, bu ying hi s seed and cotto n o r makin g th e govern me n t loa n on th e cot ton and storing it in the new bon ded

wareh ouse."

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T he M a rkh a m Brothers Co mpany .in FORT V A L LEY hav e d isclosed plans to expa nd th eir operatio ns. I n th e new p rogram th ey will ope ra te seve ral mo nths lon ger durin g th e yea r a nd will pack a va riet y of crops instead of onl y peach es.
The ca n ning plant, whi ch em ploys about 275 per son s, has been producing only th e " Pride of Georgia" a nd " O ak H ill" brands of Elber ta peach es. Betw een 60 and 70 thousand cases of 24 ca ns eac h wer e pa cked this sea ton.

W h en expa nsion plan s a re com pleted , Markh am will process okra, pimi ento pepper s, turnip gree ns, mus tard , peas a nd sweet pot at oes. All prod ucts used will be loca lly produced a nd bou ght by th e com pany a t mat u r it y.
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The Associat ed So uthe rn Planters

ca nning plant in Q UITAIA N ha s

sta rted on a ca pacity run for pinea ppl e

pea rs, canni ng th em for th e commerc ial

m arket. The product , marketed under

th e na me "South ern Planter s" is a

choice di ced pin eapple pea r whi ch is

popu lar with groce rs a nd hou sewives,

used main lv for sala ds a nd fruit cock-

tail.

.

New eq uipme nt h as been added thi s year which spee ds up th e ca nning process and wh en running at full ca pa city th e plant turns out about 800 cases of No. 303 ca ns per day. Th er e are 24 cans to th e case .

R a y Latson, owne r of th e plant, h as been in th e ca n n ing bu siness for a n umber of yea rs and his p rodu cts a re always choice and find a read y market. Each yea r he h as dozens of rep eat orde rs from g roce rs wh o hav e used his products in th e past and find th em popul a r with th e bu ying public.

Th e plan t em ploys abo ut fift y wor kmen . In a d dition to pears, Sou the rn Planters ca n sweet potat oes an d turni p roots, M ost of th e p rod uct s ca nned by th e pla nt a re produced locall y.
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North Georgia Experiment

Develops Into Business

The once fam ou s ap ple industry in th e m ountain section of G eor gia m ay be head ed for a tr em endous revival from all indications of the apple juice bu siness and th e roadside sale of apples

c ur rently flou rishin g in No rth Georgia . Th e hi ghways of northeast Geo rg ia
ar e dot ted with roadsid e sta nds selling th e famous " ap ple juice" or cider prod uced on th e farms a nd in the la rge processing plants th rou gh out thi s section of th e a pple co untry. Some of th e largest a p ple growe rs say approxim at ely 20 percent of th e crop grown in North Georgia is now going into th e jui ce stands a long th e highways for immedia te sale to tourists t raveling through th e mountain country.
T he Mountain City Pa ckin g Co m pany, and othe r la rge processing plants sh ip a good portion of th e output out of th e sta te .
Wh at wa s sta rt ed as an expe rime nt with mountain families on th e roadside has now grown into a co mmercial bu sin ess. The com me rcia l dist ributor s of a p ple jui ce have enco uraged th e little ope ra to rs to improve th eir m iniature sta nds for th e ju ice sales
The tourist bu sin ess is fast developing in th e mounta inou s terr ains of Georgia and th rou gh th ese visitor s, th e qu ality of No rt h G eor gia a pples is get ting new publ icit y. D eal er s say tou rists fro m m an y sections of th e nation are orde ring th e North Georgia ju ice a fte r once sto p ping a t a road side place for th eir first drink of it.
Georgia Tobacco Crop Sets Records for All Time High
All tobacco records, for po un dage and mon ey, have been broken in th e Sta te by th e 1951 crop, th e rep ort issu ed by the Georgia D epa rtment of Agri cu lture shows.
Through th e fifth week' s sa les a t Geor gia market s, end ing Au gu st 17, th e rep ort showe d 148,704,793 pounds h ad been sold, bringing $68,588,458.74, a t a n average pri ce of 46.12 cents a pound.
The next hi gh est poundage was in 1947 wh en it reach ed 139,000,000, a nd next hi gh est incom e was 1950 wh en th e crop sold for $54,626,833.
It is believ ed th at sales since Augu st 20 will swell th e in com e to a t least $70,000,000, wh ich will mean th at tobacco thi s year will vie with peanuts for seco nd place in cash cro ps in th e Sta te , cotto n bein g first.
Georgia warehouses are required by law to file offi cia l reports of first-h and sales of tobacco with th e St at e Departm en t of Agri cultur e and resales ar e not included in th e above figures.

GEORGI A D E PA R T M ENT OF C O M M ERC E

IN D U STRIAL NEWS LETT ER

Sep tem ber 25, 195 J

Columbus Industry Processes

10,000 Tons of Peanuts Yearly

The Tom Huston Peanut Company , way down in Colum bus, Georgia , is doin g a milli on dollar a month bu siness. F or us th at 's not peanuts, but for T om Huston it's th e 10,00 0 ton s th ey use eac h yea r to m ak e th eir deliciou s prod uct s rangin g fr om th e in itial and best-sellin g it em , T om 's T oasted Pean uts, to Peanut Butter Log, an origina l ca ndy product .
G eo rgia-born, th e Tom H uston Peanut Co m pany is amo ng th e State 's outsta n ding citizens. Alm ost all of th e peanuts processed into T OM'S p roduc ts a re bo ught from Geo rgia farmers, and if you figure 750 pounds of pean ut s to th e acre, it tak es 27,000 ac res, wo rked by 1,500 operato rs to supply thi s la rge indust ry with th e necessary raw product s.
Now nati on all y fam ou s, tw enty-six years ago th e T om Huston Co mpany was a one- man bu siness in a on e-room bu ilding. Li vin g in Co lum bus, th e heart of th e peanut belt , T om Huston became intereste d in a way to she ll th e com mo n peanut and so he devised and per fect ed a machine whi ch would ac com plish the task. Soo n afte r h e discovered th at peanuts were a salable item when th ey wer e packaged prop erly. To ins ure th eir freshn ess h e obtained a pat ent on a narrow wax pap er bag that p ro ved revo lutiona ry to th e gro wth of th e industry.
Today th e product s a re m ad e in a pl ant covering tw o city blocks, with over 1,000 em ployees. Three fourths

of th e pla nt's m a ch iner y was built by T O M'S engi nee rs, th e others were conconve rted to T O M'S use. T hese engineer s a re consta ntly on th e sea rch for new ideas and new 'gadgets to m ake th e pla nt operations eve n m or e effic ien t. The com pany's p resident, Mr. W alter A. Ri ch a rds, proudl y rela tes th at a ca ndy man ufac tu re r, who'd looked over th e plant named it one of th e m ost effic ient ope ra tions in th e coun try .
TOM'S peanut plant is unique in th at th e ra w nuts a re bou ght fro m Geo rgia farmers, she lled and p rocessed right in th e plant, The outer she ll is used as a fu el and as a fertilizer, w hi le th e skin, removed in th e blan chi ng process is used as a livestock feed .
L ast year 3,000,0 00 pounds of p ean uts had to be she lled and put into cold storage for lack of stor age space, but thi s fall , with th e com p letion of a $200,000 storage wareh ouse, th e raw , unshe lled nuts can be stored until needed for processing .
M or e th an 2,167 ,000 bags of TOM' S T oasted Peanuts a nd TOM' S Jumbo Peanuts we re sold eac h week in 1950. Only th e choicest nuts a re processed for salting. Aft er th e blanching process, th e nuts a re in spect ed by means of a fa bulous electric eye sorting m achine and are again inspecte d, thi s time by h and. The p eanuts a re th en coo ked in th e fin est gra de of coco an ut oil under consta nt supe rvision. When th e nuts h ave been prop erl y salte d and packaged, th e ba gs a re place d in carto ns

Georgia's Unknown Regions
(Con tin ued fr om Page 1)
mo re th a n nine m illion ac res of land in th e Coas ta l Pl ain was under lease by major oil companies and ind ependent prod uce rs. D uring th e p ast tw o years a vcrv la rge per cen tage of th ese leases have been a llowed to lap se or rever t to th e ow ner. T he direct or sa id th at in a ll probab ilit y not mor e th an a mi llion ac res a re und er lease a t th e present time. Drilling ac tivity, as well as geo phys ica l and geo log ic investi gation s, h ave laggeJ somewhat du rin g the p ast tw o years, with th e result th at a t th e p resent tim e th ere is no actua l drilling in progr ess. Ther e is evcrv reason to believe , however, th at th ose who would sea rc h for oil in Georgia will be ba ck in th e ver y ncar futu re and con tin ue th eir exploration .
One th ing whi ch may lend im pe tus to th is renewed inter est is th e ame ndment to th e Sta te Con stitution , passed by the 1949 session of th e L egislature and ratified bv the voter s of th e St ate in Novembe r, ' 1950, which au tho rize d a bonus of $ 100,000 to th e very first company or individu al brin ging in a 250-ba rrel oil well.
Ther e is conside ra ble sim ila rity betw een form at ions in th e G eorgia Coasta l Pl ain and th ose of th e oil-p rod uc ing states in th e coun try. This, together with the fact that Fl or id a, T ennessee, Alabam a and M ississip pi h ave struck oil, sho uld only streng the n our beli ef that Geor gia, too, has an abundance of commercia l oil.
ready for ship pi ng . They a re sh ipped the day th ey a re made and with th e spee d of 1,100 trucks are placed on
(Continued on Page 4 )

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(L eft) One of eight machines used in TOM'S candy fa ctory to roll and cut fre shly cooked peanut brittle to uniform size and thicknes~ . (R ight ) TOM'S new farm ers ' stoc k peanut warehouse, .whi ch :will be rea~y for use this fall. It will store 4,541 tons of p eanuts and IS eq uippe d with a suction unloader to speed up th e handlmg dunng th e buying season .
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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Small Business Exhibit
(Con tin ued from Pa ge 1)
industri es.
Lt. C ol. Rob ert R . K ay, U SAF, Pr oject Officer , said peop le a tte nding th e exhi bit had been serious and decide dly in te rested in obta in ing contr acts ra ther th a n curiosity seekers. T he off icia ls of th e th ree day m eet, he said , wer e astounded at th e vari ety and exce llen t sour ces of mat eri al to be found in th is section.
The purpose of the exhibit, according to Lt. Comdr. R. S. Linn, USN, Exh ibitor Control Officer , was to unea rth and get acquainted with those in du stri es in th e southe ast wh o wer e inter ested and ca pa ble of handling prime and sub contracts, The busin essmen , seeking prime contra cts from th e Army and Navy, wer e given qu estionnaires to fill out and conseq ue ntly will be placed e n th e bidd ers lists to rece ive dat a en prop osed contrac ts. The sma ll bu sinessman , not inter ested in prime contr acts but interested in subcontrac ts, m ust do his bidding direct ly with th e prime contractor.
H owever, th e awarding of contrac ts was not th e obj ect of th e exh ibit, ac cord ing to Captain D . 1'. Gi les, US N R ET. , Acting Ch airman of th e Progra m. The main purpose was to help th e bus inessman get acquainted with military regulations and becom e familiar with a few of th e item s need ed by the armed forces . As a result of a similar exh ibit held recently a t Fo rt Worth , T exas, 2 percent obtained con tract awa rds and 80 perc ent felt con fident that th ey would receive bids as th e forc es expa nde d th eir operations,
The Air Force Procuremen t, unli ke that of many of the arms an d services of the Army a nd Navy, is centralized

Government Contracts
For Georgia Industries
Fed era l G 0 v e r n m en t contrac ts awa rde d to Georgia manufacturers during Au gu st an d Septe mbe r wer e as follow s:
C inde rella Fo ods Divi sion of Stevens Industri es, Inc., DAWSON-Peanu t butter , excee ds $250 ,000 .
Dixi e Paint & Varnish C o., BR UNSW I CK- 36,000 gals. gray deck paint, .$63,360 .
Norris C andy Co., ATLA NTA 162,300 lbs, hard ca ndy, $3 7,340.
1'. H. Pearce & Co ., COLUMBUSCon struction work, to excee d $250 ,000.
Atlanta Paper C o., ATLA NTA -559 ,313 boxes, $4 1,274.00.
York Corpora tion, ATLANTA T emperature cyclin g and conditioning eq uipme nt, .$ 173,000.00.
at th e Dayton, Ohio, h eadquarters a t W right-Patterson Air Force Base. M ajor John Sta rkie, US AF, in explaining th e program, said that th e six procurement districts of th e Air F orce, and th eir subordinate region al offices do no bu ying, but th ey, inst ead, are charged with th e responsibility of administer ing th e contrac ts on ce th ose contrac ts have been let .
Major E. .J. Gazelle, USA, Space
Control Officer, on th e proj ect committee, stressed the fa ct that small industri es should keep in touch with th e prime contractors who are con stantly in sea rch of ca pable sources of supplies for th eir sub contracts. In summarizing th e va lue of th e exhibi ts being cond ucted throughout th e nation, Major Gazelle, sa id th e government wa s expanding eve ry effort to protect sm all bu siness and Am erica's free enterprise system d uri ng thi s p eriod of accellerated def ense production.

Columbus Industry Processes
(Contin ued from Pa ge 3 )
counte rs of over 230,000 retai l outlets throu gh ou t 36 sta tes.
T O M 'S Peanut Butter a nd Sweet Sa nd wiches Dep artment h a s grown rapid ly to wh er e it is now a com plete fa ctory in itself, occu pying an entire bui ldin g with over 200 em ployed . Approximately 20,000 pounds of pean ut butter is ma de daily m ost of whi ch is used in th e fa ctory wh er e th e crack ers a re automatica lly filled, sta cked a nd pa ckaged .
Some of th e most popu la r ca ndy products a re th e peanut brittles mad e in th e cand y fac to ry. An ind ustry em ploying 300 peop le, th e candy dep artment m anufactures an av er age of 3 million do llars worth of candy annually. Co nstantly on th e sea rch for met hod s to m ak e th eir candy even m ore attractive and uniform, TOM'S is cur rently expe rime n ting with new m achines th at roll and cut th e peanut br ittle ca ndy.
N ew expe rime n ts and expansion pro gra ms a re nothing new a t TOM' S. During th e last six months TOM 'S h as doubled th e ca pacity of th eir ca ndy production. The reason for thi s is th e zoom ing popularity of th eir Pean ut Butter Log, an original produ ct that many candy m anufacturers hav e tri ed to copy. Th ~ peanut butter filled ca ndy , packaged in on e cent wr appers as well as five cent sizes is a tribute to TOM' S own ingenu ity in devising ma chines tha t can produce the nex t best thing to " home- ma de " candies.
C olum bus as well as th e Sta te ca n well be proud of this Georgia industry that ha s elevated th e pea nut to a place of vas t importance in th e welfa re of agriculture an d ind ustry.


Movement for Wayside Parks

O ct ob er 10 , 195 1
Rice Growing Industry Shows Signs of Revival

For Tourists Sweeping State

Ri ce g row ing was once a n a ll-im po rta nt en te rp rise o n th e Gcorzia -Caro lina coa st lin e. Bu t a fte r th e "'W a r Be-

No t lon g a fte r its cre a tion ca rl v in 1949, the G eo rg ia D ep ar tm ent' of C ommerce launched a nd p romot ed a ca m p a ign for W a ysid e Parks th at h as been gai ning stea d ily in popu larit y ever since a nd cu rren t ly is " sweep ing the S ta te," Thou sands of weary tourist s h av e enjoyed ou r rest- and- rela x a tion a reas a nd h av e lef t loca l co m m uni ty p a rk s with a wa rm spo t in thei r hea rt s fo r G eorgi a' s welcom e.

tics of t he D cr a tur L ion s C lu b. The Ci vic Im p rovem en t a nd Com m u n itv Betterment Com m ittee of the D eca tu 'r L io n s adop te d as its m ain p roj ect during th e last club vrar th e e rec tion oi W a vsid e Pa rk s a t stra tcv ic locations o n . th e m ain hi ghwa ys '"of D eK a lb
Co u n t y. Again this yea r, it is following throu gh o n th e progra m .
Loca tio ns for five of th ese p a r ks wrrc selec te d by . t he co m m it tee a nd

tw een th e Sta tes its produ ction decreased u n til th e da ys of p rofit a ble rice growin g in thi s area see me d to be ove r.
N ow it looks as th o ugh th er e m a y be a local revival of rice cult ure .
T ex as, wh ich w ith L ouisian a . A rkansas a n d C a lifo rn ia produ ces ni net y p er ce n t of th is co un t ry's rice sup ply, h as ~ sh o rtage of wa te r. Irrigation is req uired , a n d the lowering of th e wat er h as result ed in d etri m en tal sa lt




As soon as t he Commer ce D epa rt -

m ent initi a ted it s m ovr-nu -nt fo r \ Va \'-

sid e Parks, th e va rious hi ghw a y asso -

ciatio ns joined a ctively in th e ef fo rt ;

!h e V et e rans of Foreign W ars mad r

It th eir S ta te proj ect ; th e Li on s C lubs

ca me forward with exc elle n t COO;)('I"a -

ti on ; t h e wom en 's elubs fell in line

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a u u,

u u., rcr

c i v i c

a n d vet er ans o rga n iza tio ns, includi ng

the ever -p rog ressive local c ha m bers of

co m merce, gan' ac tive sup po r t. There

a re tod a y ov e r scv cntv W a vsid c P arks

a p p rova l fo r tl;eir e re c tio n ob taine d from t he D eK a lb Pl a nni n g C ommissio n . T he fir st of th ese wa s establishe d o n ;\tl e~no ria l Drive, H ighwa y N o . 78, a pp roxim a te ly h alf w av bet ween Atla n ta a nd St ~n(~ M ount;in . The L ion s C lub clea red th e a rea, p ro vid ed tw o p icn ic tables, a b a rb ecue p it , a trash b u r ner an d g arb a ge Lit H.:") , T he Kir k Road G a rden C lub beautified the area by p la nting ove r 500 bulbs. T his fa ll, t hey will co m ple te t hi s beautifica tion prog ram by pl a nting a ba ckground

wate r being pumped in . So me T exan s a re see king suitable rice-g rowing la nd elsewhe re .

Ri ce crops in G eo rgia wer e d estroy-

ed both in th e R evolu tion a nd in th e

War beca

Bet ween th e use of th eir va

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at es e in

fbev~~

dtihneg

e n e my troop s:

T h ey fail ed a fte r 'th a t fo r seve ral

r ea sons , in r lllcling lack o f la bo r, com-

petition from a reas wh ere machi nery

wa s used , a nd la ck of ca pita l of la ndowne rs.

Two T exa ns, R oy G . Bisca m p a n d

eit he r co'n st r uc te d o r planned for con- screen of rh od od end rons, m ountain L. , AI, M a jo r of Al vin , h av e been m a k-

st r uc tion in th e va rious co m m u nitics.

lau rels, a n d wild aza lea s. I n ad dition in g a tou r of th e coast lands of G eorgia



T h e State Highwa y D ep a rtment a nd o t her ~t ate a ge n cies p rov ed highly co o per a tive in t he im po rt a n t act ivi ty ,
a n d as r esu lt of a ll t hese effo r ts. ou r ca mp ai gn h as been a most su cc~ss fu l on e a nd sho ws sign s of still g rea te r

th ey han' policed it weekly in see ing

th at all tr a sh a nd ga rbage is re-

m ov ed a n d the p lace carefu lly m ain -

tai n ed . The S ta te H igh wa y D epart-

m ent h as prov ided th e n ecessary h igh -

wa y m arker s.

.

a nd So uth C a ro lina . They reported ~h at th ere a re a t least 30 rice g rowe rs III T ex as wh o a re looking fo r fr om 2JO to 2,000 acres each a n d a re read y to com e to th e Atl a ntic coast as soon as land ca n be loca ted .

success.

Tho ugh thi s fir st w a y s i d e area

The rice la nd s of thi s coast were



Amo ng the latest p a r k proj ect s execu te d are th ose a t o r near D ecatur,

has been in ope ration o n ly a shor t wh ile, it is. tr u ly servi ng its purpose

quot ed as being "good as a nv in Am er-

ro ca ."



S tatesboro, Au stell, Gainesv ille. Cl av- as shown by th e gu ests wh o register

The T ex ans sa id th a t m od ern rice

to n, Ludowici a nd Colbert. . For 'a eac h wee k. In o ne week of g ue st regis- mi lls h a ve been e rec ted th ro ugh ou t



close-up loo k a t wh a t is h appening tr a tion , ninet een differ ent sta tes w cr e T ex as' rice section s, as wa rranted by

in Ways ide Park co ns truc tio n a nd represented. T ypica l of th eir COIll - production . The sa me ac tivity wo uld

o pera tion , a nd th e ta ngi ble resu lts be- m en ts wer e th e fo llowing:

be a natura l resu lt of th e rev iva l on th e

in g ob tain ed , let us exa m ine th e a ctivi-

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( C on tin ucd on Pa ge 2 )

IND U STIUAL N EWS LETTER

O ct ob er 10, 19S1

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Factory t o Locate Labe l

Plant at Homerville

The C linc h Co u n t v Industrial Board

has rece ive d word f;'om a New York

co nce rn, A rt ist ic Weaving Com pany,

th at it is read v to locate a new Ia ct orv

in HOMERr/ILL E right a way .

.

According to in formati on th er e, th e

com pa n y for some tim e has had under-

wa y plans for th e co nst r uc tion of a new

plant in th e So uth. The com pany is

re ported to be the world's largest man-

ufac t urers of interwoven labels suc h as

a re used in clothing a nd othe r produc ts. Exact Iiuu res h av e not been m ade

pu blic, but" it is understood th at th e

co mpa ny's investment. wh en co m p lete,

incl ud ing construc tion a nd eq uipment

ins ta lla tions, would tot al several hun-

dred thou sand doll ars. Artisti c Mills,

In c., as it will be in corporated , w ill

em ploy local labor. The citizens of

Hom ervill e a re to be co m me nde d for

successfui efforts in bri ng ing th is prom -

ising n ew ind ust ry to th eir tow n.

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Offi cials of th e G oo dyea r Tire &

Rubber Com pany, Akron , Ohio, rece n t-

ly a nno unced th at an expans ion pro-

gra m, for th e p rod ucti on of rayon ti re

co rd, will be ca rr ied o ut a t th eir sub-

sid ia ry co t to n textile plant , G ood yea r

C lea rwa te r Mi lls N o. 3, located at CA R T ERS V I L L E.

Present plans ca ll fo r a one -sto ry

st r uc t u re a p proxima te ly 300 feet lon g

a nd 28 0 fee t wide to be eq ui p pe d w ith

th e mo st up-to-d ate a n d modern twist-

i n ~ a nd weaving m achinery avai lable. ~P rel i m i n a ry g rad ing a nd other n ee -

l'ssa ry prep aration s for co ns truc tion

will begin in the nca r future. S truc t u-

ra l stee l fo r th e new ad d ition is expec t-

ed to a rri ve bv late fall . a fter which

ac t ua l cons t r uc tio n of th e building wi ll

proceed a t a rapid pa ce .

Com pany officia ls pl an to h av e this

ray on co rd pl ant in fu ll p roducti on by

mid-summer of 19S2. G . 1. Parmenter,

su pe rin te nde n t of G oodvear Cl ea rwater Mi lls No . 3. will a lso a~s u me the man -

age me n t of thi s new addition.

Estimated cos t of th e expa ns ion pro-

g ra m was not a nnou nc ed by th e com -

pany .

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T he Ca nd ler G in Com pa ny, AIET-

TER , is now ope n for bu sin ess. The

new double-matting Lummus gi n is

complete wi th M it ch ell clea ners a nd

tow er d ryer wh ich is opera te d by elcc-

t riri tv.

The G in Co" owne d by J. E . W a r-
re n a n d R . L. Turner. will ex te nd a fr ee sa m p ling se rvice to all fa n ne rs inter est ed in placin g th eir co tto n in th e loan .
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J. W . O' N eal a nd Assoc iates h av e
a n no unce d plans to ope ra te a bonded warehouse in TIFT ON. S te ps arc being tak en to qu alify th e warehou se for th e sto ring of co tto n o n which GO\,ern mc n t loan s a re m ade. as well as for th e sto rage of ot her m er ch and ise a nd product s wh er e a bonded wa reh ou se is required .
Mr. O 'Neal sta te d th at h e and hi s associa tes believ e th e wareh ou se th ev h a ve purch ased will fill a g reat need i;1 th e area for suc h accom mo da tions. Th e wa reh ou se will h a ve a ca pacity of -1-.00 0 bal es of co tto n .
Meanwhi le, the gin n ing of thi s year's co tto n cro p is now under w ay with th e gin n ing o f a n exce p tiona lly large n um ber of bal es.
Expansion, Construction of
Grain Elevators Announced
The owners of th e new $-I-SO.OOO gra in elevator a t WAYNESB OR O in Burke Coun tv now h av e a n no unced pl ans for a $ i SO,OOO annex which will double present ca pac ity. The inc rease in gra in production in Burke C oun ty has m erited th e a d d itional co ns truc tio n . it was rep o rt ed .
The Cotto n Producer s Association is planning to build a $20,000 gra in elevator in V A L DOS T A. In Camilla a g ra in eleva to r is under cons t ruc tion at th e cos t of $5 0,00 0 .
It is gratifying to kn ow th a t more a nd more ele va tors a re bein g erec te d in G eorgia to se rve th e fa rme rs in cleanin g, processing and sto ring th eir gra in a n d g rass seed s. Grain eleva tors a re p roving th eir usefulness a nd as witnessed in Burke Coun ty are helping to p romot e th e growth of g ra in a nd leg ume crops.
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Th e U. S. Se na te has a pp roved funds tot aling $3 70,000 for ad d itiona l work in SA V A N NAH h a rb or deep ening p rog ra m whi ch h as been under wa y fo r th e past tw o vea l's.
Th e appropri ation will a llow th e co n tin ua tion of th e dred ging of the h arbor cha n ne l.
A to ta l of $ 18,000,000 was also approved fo r fu rther co ns tructio n work on th e C la rk H ill R ese rvoi r nca r A U -

GUST A, a nd th e Buford D am project near BUF ORD was gran te d $900,000 for furth er co ns tr uc tion.
Th e allocations wer e a part of th e $638,5 78, 2 13 bill passed recen tly by th e Se na te for navi gation , flood con trol a nd o ther civi l fun c tion s.
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A new industry in CO M }d E RCE is sla te d to provide' an additional p ayroll for th e city and furnish a m arket for broil er s from th e ch icke n gro we rs of th e sec tio n .
\\'. D . Bolton , well-known Comm erce p oultryman a n d feed d eal er , h as op en ed a broi ler -dressing p lant in the basem ent of th e Bolt on Feed a nd Poultry Com pany a nd h as th e eq u ipme n t to dress a bo ut SOO b roil ers a d ay.
Plans ca ll for the dressin g ~f a pp roximately 10,000 b roil er s a w eek , a nd ret ai l stores throughout th e sec tion a re now offe ring Bolton' s f resh broiler s, fr esh dressed d ail y, for sale.
Mr. Bolt on is supe rv ising th e d ressin g of th e p oultry a nd is a lso m aking con tac ts with sto res for th ei r sale. Addition al workers will b e em ployed a t th e plant as th e demand for this product in cr eases.
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C lark Hill Dam
Bridge Opens Soon
All of th e spillway bridge sections are now in pl ace a t th e Cl ark Hill D am, F . \V. F acey, resid ent eng ineer, reports. The enginee rs h ave alread y pl aced thirteen of th e co nc re te ro adway sla bs, which m eans th at only ten more have to be pl aced .
By D ecember , Mr. F a cey says, the road way ove r th e dam should be com plet ed ~n d o pe n to th e public, if the work con tin ues to proceed satisfactorily .
Vi sitors are still barred , however , from th e em bankme n ts to the d am as work is in p ro cess th er e. The recen t rains have slowe d up th e com pletion of thi s phase of th e job , Mr. Facey sa id, but h e h op es soo n to be ab le to permit visitors on th e em ban kme n ts again .
Rice Growing Industry
(C on tin ued fr om P age 1)
G eor gia coast . Th e Savannah River G ame San ctu-
a rv co uld be m ad e availa ble for rice p roduct ion th ro ugh F ed e ral Gove rn -
m en t ac tio n , according to Sheriff J. E.
M cTeer , of Beaufort, S. C.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

I NDU STRIAL N E WS LETTER

O ctober 10, 195 1

Great Progress Cited in Livestock

Movement fo r Ways ide Parks
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" Ce r tainly a pprecia ted th e p lace to

Industry in Mitchell County

sto p"-Clemso n, S. C . " V ery ni ce pl a ce- enjoyed it."-

Boston, M ass,

Ca m illa. M itch ell co un ty. with a pop u la t i OI~ of some 4,000, is' ~ne G eor-

T he Lewis W ood P reservin g Co. h as a weekly payroll of $3, 000 and em ploys

" If vo u have a nv timber th at wou ld make 'ra ilroad ti e~. lu m ber or st av es.

gia tow n tha t is go ing places. T he en- 60 persons . During th e fir st three please wri te. . . .":"-Sa lem, l\{o. .

th usia stic citizens a re not resting on the ir fo rm er h on or s of hav ing one of

months of thi s yea r, 300,000 cubic feet of lumber was tr eat ed at th e pl ant. Ap-

" T h a n ks ! W e enjoyed the park"-
Ja cksonvillc, 'F la .

th e m ost beautifu l cour tho uses in th e proximat ely 75 ca r loa ds of po les wer e

" E njoyed th e use of th e pa r k" -

Sta te, or winning th e 1949 C ham p ion tr eat ed last m onth. Mr. Axford said D eKalb , T cx .

H om e T owns Con test. Thcv are now th at $ 10,000 a week was spent in Ca-

"Su re did en joy p a rk" -Swamp-

endea vo ring to cha nge the ' la ndsca pe mi lla and surrounding area for lum - wat er , Cal.

of th e town a nd farm lands. T he farm - ber. To help ma in tai n the local sou rce

" T ha n k yo u, it was a pl easan t rest"

lands th a t a short ten years ago were of raw materials, th e company is spo n- - Philad elp hia, Pa .

devoted to row cro ps a nd cott on , ar e soring a fo rest conse rva tion p rogr am to

"T he L ion s a lways th ink and do

now pasture lands do tted with ch oice enco urage land owners to p rot ect th eir ni ce things' t-c-D av cy, W . V a .

livestock b reed s. T he town , wh ich once dep ended on K ing Co tto n, no w ope ns its door s to ind ustr y a nd is going all

wood la nds . A forr-s trr. working in coopera tion with th e Ga. For estry Co m mission, is em ployed by th e pl ant t o

" Please m ai l a p ictllrt: o f Stone
M ountain"-Ton awanda. N. v.
" W e cer ta inly we1con~ed this pa r k

ou t to promote its bount iful la bor sup- enco urage land owners to prot ect th eir after hi king u p Sto ne M ountain' t-s-

ply, delightful climate and a bund an t woodlands.

'N aco, T ex .

sup plies of ra w m aterials.

Situa ted in the peca n be lt of Geor-

And th ere is a typica l T exas com -

One of th e newest indust ries in Ca- gia, Camilla h as a rea dy market for her men t : " T his pl a ce will do, but yo u

mill a is th e C ha rlie Branton P rovision peca n cro p a t th e local Princess Pe- shou ld sec wh at we hav e in Texas!"-

Co . T h is m eat pa ckin g plant which ca ns, In c., plant. T he processors of Ce da r Hi ll, T ex .

began opera tions th is m onth , was m er- cas hew n u ts, wa lnuts a nd local pecans

In a lon g-ran ge program, th e D e-

ited by th e town 's fast-growing interest bu y som e 2,000,000 po unds of nuts d ur- ca tu r Li on s pl a n th at wher ever possi-

in liv estock. T he mo de rn 74x52 1/ 2 - ing the seaso n. M . C . W alters, presi- ble these a re as wi ll occu r in pa irs

foot plan t cost a pproxima tely $48 ,000 dent. said that they package qu antities ac ross th e high wa y from eac h other

an d is equipp ed to slau ght er, cur e and of peca ns for a famo us peanut pl a nt as so as to discourage left- ha nd tu rn s

store hogs a nd beef cattle.

well as under th eir own br and label. a nd pedestr ian cross-overs. They will

Pr op osed new ind ustries in store for King 0 ' N uts. They print and m ak~ be well ou tside o f cities a nd vill ages

th e prospering city a re th e Mixon Mill- th e bags for th ei r product s right in th e so as not to affe ct building- lot inter-

ing Co. , a $50,000 feed mill, a nd th e pl an t. One of th ei r most popular prod- ests, a nd com for ta bly rem ot e from a ll

Ledbetter a nd Perry Box Fact orv. The uct s, a n ori ginal P rincess Pecans spe ci- other class es of buildings in th e cou n-

box pl ant wi ll occ upy a concrete block building an d pl an s to begin in it ial op -

alty, is th e Cup 0 ' Nuts. A m easured cup fu ll of n uts in ea ch ca n makes it

tr y in case some of th e user s a re not c~nside ra te of th eir neighbors.

era tio ns in th e nea r future. An other a co nve nien t item for the hou sewife

M ost of th em will be la rge enough

manufacturing plant, wh ose name a nd in prep a rin g recip es whi ch nin e ou t of to acco mmo d a te tw o or th ree large

p roduct will be disclosed a t a lat er dat e, ten call for a cup fu ll.

truck s or a half doz en automobil es.

ha s a lrea dy tak en op tion on land in Cami lla a nd is in the p rocess now of m a kin rh r-ir constru ction p lans .
F ro~~ N e Food s, In c.. a no ther new ind ustry, began opera tio ns th is sum mer. T hey spec ialize in ca n ning ch icken Brunswick stew made in th e pl ant, a nd hav e one of th e fin est plants for rep acking tom at oes to be found in th e coun try.
But Cam illa is not on lv in terest ed in her new bu sin ess : she is jus t as en th usiastic ove r expan sion programs being

Mr. W a lter s sa id that th ey h av e ord er ed a new $ 10,000 machine, which will package the C up O ' i\ut s ill celoph an e bags rep laci ng the ca ns. T h e mach ine wi ll package 300 dozen bags a n hou r a nd lower th e cost to th e consume r.
Sinc e com ing to Camilla in 1939, Princess Pecan s, I nc., have expa nde d th eir ope ra tio ns m an y fold and a re continually devising new devi ces for adding to th ei r pla n t facilities.

M ost of th em will have a few p icni c tables a nd tras h ba rrels. Fuel for coo kin g, test ed water , to ilets a nd par k a ttenda nts are not a part of t he p rogram. \ \' a ter, how ever, will be p ro vided wher e it is availa ble a t no t too grea t a n expe nse.
Plan s a re under way by th e club for erec tion of a second one of th ese parks, to be loca ted on Highway N o. 12, th e Aug us ta hi ghwa y via Covin gton . Again one of th e D ecatu r Garden Clubs will h andle the beau tifica -

ca rried on by the presen t indus tri es.

O ne of th e mos t im port ant ch anges tio n p rog ram, acc ord ing to J. M . M c-

The Lewi s W ood Preservi ng Co ., su p- to take place in Camilla in th e last ten Corkle, co-c ha ir ma n of th e club com -

plier s of tr eat ed lumber a nd poles fo r yea rs is th e switc h from row crops to mittee in cha rge.

public utilities, th e REA and th e Geor- pasture. Em ory L. Butler , well-known

This p ark will be com ple ted within

gia Power Co m pa ny has ju st a nnou nc- citizen wh o is interested in eve ry phase the next tw o months, followed by th e

ed ex pa nsion plans to cost a pproxi- of th e develop m ent of th e to wn a nd erec tion of a th ird p a r k. T he erection -

mat ely $ 100,000. W illiam Axford , cou n ty, is one of th e large la nd owners of on ly one p a r k a t a time is u nder-



manager , sa id th ey plan to add yard tr ackage, enla rge th e storage ya rd , put

who has revert ed hi s lands from cotton to pasture, a nd b y b uying a few good

taken. Not un til the po licing a nd maint enance program of eac h park is

in ga ng sa ws a nd a treat ing capacity.

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These are Georgia Firsts
Georgia- largest sta te east of th e Mi ssissippi Ri ver-hold s m an y records to wh ich its peopl e m ay point with prid e.
No rmally, it ranks fir st am ong sta tes of th e nati on in sale of forest products. It produces more naval stores- tu rpe ntin e and rosin-than all othe r sta tes com bined . Last yea r, it ranked first in th e So uth in sale of pulpwood , and fir st in plantin g of forest tr ees.
Georgia ranks fir st in p roducti on of peanuts, imp rove d papershell pecans, a nd wat ermelon s. It grows and packs m or e pimi entos th an all other sta tes com bine d.
In broiler product ion and p rocessing, Geo rgia is th e N o. 1 sta te of th e So uth a nd No . 2 St ate of th e nati on.
La st year, Georgia ranked fir st in th e Sou th in lumber m anufactu rin g plants, first in sale of fact or y-mad e clo th ing, an d fir st iri com me rcia l food pr ocessm g.
No sta te has so m an y m od ern , up . to-d at e food cen te rs-can ning p lants, m eat-curing plants, fr eezer locker
pl ants- av ai lab le for usc of its fa rm fa m i lies.
With more than 95 p er cent of it s nearly 200,000 farms elec trified, Georgia ranks among the top fiv e states of th e nation in number of farms w ired for electric service.
$2 Million Tomato Crop Largest in History
Southea st G eorgia took a holiday recen tly to celeb ra te th e mo ving of a twomil lion-dollar tomato cro p to market. The 1951 crop is th e la rgest in hi story, dw arfing th e $300,000 cro p of 1950 . This year, 3,000 acres were planted , as com pa red with only 1,000 ac res last-

vear. The co un ties in th e South Georgia
a rea a re pr ov ing th at th ey ca n com pete suc cessfully with Florida cou ntie s in p roducin g ea rly truck crops for sh ipm ent and sale in a ll p arts of Am eri ca . As a result of comm on-se nse div ersifica tion of crops and planning, South Geor gia is for gin g to th e econo m ic for efront.
Great Progress Cited
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head of ca ttle h e h as slowlv amas sed som e 800 h ead of fin e Ab e;-deen Ang'us. Th e H olt on b roth ers, H arry, .J am es, ,W . C ., Virgil a nd Brazier , h av e ap p roxim ately :~ , OO O h ead of pure-bred ca t tle, W. C . has a herd of Sa n ta Gcrtrudis and Brahm an . The others spec ia lize in Sh orthorn An gu s a nd H ereford . The .J ames L. D avis a nd W . C. H olton farm) H awthorn, with 1,500 improved a nd bcing im p roved p astu re was sta r t .. cd four yea rs ag o a nd is a show p lace of th e lat est in nova tions of grazing la nd .
Am on g those con trib u ting to th e m ajor devel opment of livestock are W. C . Ad ams and son, Dr. C . P . Adams, wh o have a herd of som e 1,500 head ; J oe B. Ad ams ; J am es E . Ad ams ; D . C . Sp en ce ; Charles Kolbi e ; Harry Co llin s ; A. T. Rigsby ; Dan Pa lm er and son, D an, J r. ; H arry Collins; Julia n Co llins ;
Ben Hi ll Cox ; C . M . Stripling ; .J. E.
Br ook s; L eo Batem an ; C. F . Ri chards ;
.J. B. Butler; James G. D avis ; J. C . But-
ler and son , Joe ; W. D . Palmer ; W . H . Bu tler ; W . S. Green ; K. D . Ph elps ; C . B. C ox ; David G lenn W est ; A . B. Co ch -
ran ; E . J. Vann, Jr. and son , E . .J.
Vann , III ; B. W . Hugh es : R . S. Coch -
ran; R . S. Miller : .J. A. Branch ; and
L eR ov Th omas.
.J. A. M au lding, County Agent, said

th e be ef ca ttle populati on in Mitch ell Co un ty had inc reased 50 per cent in th e last fiv e yea rs bringin g th e tot al well over 34,000 head . Mitch ell County is third in th e Sta te in th e product ion of hogs and pi gs. Th e inter est in liv estock is growing , a nd th e quality of th e ca ttle in th e section h as sho wn a marked improvem ent.
Cam illa is on th e m ove toward a grea t future. T he city points with pride to th e new Co un ty h ea lth cen te r, now under construc tion a t a cost of $ 75,000. A $95 ,00 0 a thletic building is bein g er ected at th e Corn ill Consolidated School bv th e Co un tv Board of Education . Th~s e a re on l~ a few of th e steps of progr ess being tak en in Cam illa to m ak e it one of So uth G eorgia's m ost progr essive towns.
Geor gia admires your spirit, Cam illa , a nd we will contin ue to wat ch your p r og r ess.
\A/a yside P~rk Campaig n
(Contin ued from Page 3 ) working wi ll th e erection of an other park be sta r ted .
What is taking p la ce in D eK al b Co un ty is la rgcly cha ra cteristic of the Wavside Park activities throu gh out th e "State. The mov em ent is r apid ly cover ing Georgia wi th th ese cou r tesy a reas, which arc a grea t convenienc e to th e tourist and provid e safety for a ll tr avellers in par kin g on th e side of th e road.
Basic plans and specification s for th e construc tion of W aysid e Parks wer e printed by th e Com me rce D ep artmen t in th e beginning of th e cam paign and distributed to inter ested parties. These are still a va ilab le on request.
The comm u n ities of th e whole State are to be cong r a tu la ted upon th eir readiness to tak e a n a ct ive part in Georgi a's tourist progr am .

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Focuses Attention on

In Georgia In 1950

Notable Textile Industry
T he cu rre n t near-record cotton cro p, in exce ss of 17,000,000 bales, focuses

Geo rgia 's visito rs from other sta tes tra veling by a u tomobile spent a lmo st 160 mi llion dollars in th e Sta te last yea r !

tel' to Sta te Co m m erce Sec re ta ry C la rk Gaines, th ese figur es were ba'sed on th e m i'nimum sojo urn wi thi n th e bord ers of th e Sta te bv th ose travelers

renew ed attention on textil es, th e la rgest sing le indu str y in G eor gia a nd th e So uth, J ou ett D a venport , b usin ess ed itor of th e Atlan ta J ou rn al , re po rts.

T h is is th e concl usion of an offi cial passing th ro ugh to 'a nd from oth er

I t is a ~ ! gn i fi ca n t fact in th e hi sto ry

st udy recen tly completed on th e esti- sta tes.

of thi s g rea t indu str y th at th e m echa n i-

m a ted va lu e of tr awl in Georgia hy out-of -sta te licen sed passen ger ca rs, to attem p t to eva lua te th e amo unt of th is

" U ndo ub ted ly," com me n te d E ngineer Fl ynt , "as th e tou rist ac commo da tion s a nd a tt rac tio ns in Georgia a re

ca l cotton gin, wh ich ope ne d th e way for d evelopm ent of h uge textil e plan ts, wa s perfect ed right here in Georgia .

tr avel in 1950 a nd its pro bab le spe nd - fur ther im proved a nd publ icized , th e

O n a fa rm nea r Au gu sta , in 1793,

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in g in thi s Stat e. Th e studv was cond ucted bv th e

sojo urn will len gth en , with a corresponding in cr ease in th e revenue value

M r. Davenport sa id, El i Whitney got the first such success ful m achine in

G eorgia S ta te Hi ghway D ep artmen t in of th e tourist to th e Sta te. Amounts opera tion . Th at inven tion m ad e pos-

coope ra tion wit h th e U. S. D ep a rt- estim a ted to be spen t by t rav elers on sible for th e fir st tim e a suff icien t qu an-



ment of Comme rce and th e U . S. Bureau of Public Ro ad s. Th eir findings

bu sin ess, sho pping or touring have been inc reased to refl ect genera l incr eases in

tit y of co tton fib er to permit fact ory volume p roducti on of text ile yarns and

a re sho wn in th e com pilation publi sh- livin g costs, but yet a re consid ered to fabri cs.

ed at th e bottom of this pa ge.

he on th e conserva ti ve sid e."

H ow ever, since th e So uth was al-



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ESTIMATED VALUE OF O UT-OF-STATE T RAVE L 'WITH IN G EO R G IA

1948

D a i ly

Annually

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N um ber of ou t-of-Sta te pa ssenger ca rs en te ring St a te

~ : 'lI1 her of ou t-of-Sta te passenger ca rs ente ring Sta te

.. 12,637

4,486, 135

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-1-,389

1,601,985

Num ber of ou t-of-State passen ger ca rs en te ring Sta te



on b usin ess

. 4,9 18

1,795,070

N umber of out -of-Sta te passenger ca rs ente ring Sta te

on work

3,330

1,215,450

N umber of per son s tr av elin g on pleasure in ou t-of-Sta te cars

10,709

N umber of person s t rav elin g on bu sin ess in ou t-of-S ta te ca rs .

7,3 77

3,908, 785 2,692,605

Am ount of mon ey spe n t by per son s on pleasure trips .

...$ 171,344 $ 62,540,560

$ 8.00 per d a y for 2 d a ys in 1948



$ 10.00 per day for 2 d ays in 1950 Amo un t of mon ey spe n t by person s on bu siness tr ips .

$ 118,032 $ L~3 , 08 1 ,680

$ 10.00 per d a y for 1.6 d ays in 1948

$ 12.00 pCI' da y for 1.6 d ays in 1950

T ot al am oun t spe n t by visitors in th e St at e

$289.376 .$105,622,240

1950

Daily

A n n u a lly

14,690

5,36 1,850

5, 140

1,8 76,100

5,730

2,09 1,450

3,820 13,364 8,595 $267,280

1,394,300 4,877,860 3, 137, 175
s 97,557,200

$ 165,024 $ 60,233,760

$432,304 .$157,790,960

I N D U STRI A L ~E WS LETTE R

Octobe r 25, 195 I

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

The 1'\a tiona l Contai ner Corpora tion p lant und er const ruc tio n at V A L DOS T A wi ll a dd nea rly 50 pe rcen t to th e co m pa ny's production ca pac ity of kraft pu lp . boa rd a nd pape r. L ast year th e com pa ny's fou r kr af t pulp mills, th e largest of whi ch is a t J acksonville, Fl a ., p roduced a p p rox ima te ly :WO,OOO to ns .
Sa m ue l K ipni s. presid ent of N ation al Con ta ine r Cor p.. sa id th e ne w m ill in G eorgia "i s desi gned to include th e latest machinery a nd equipment, to mak e it the lowest cost and most mode rn mill in th e industry."
Th e V aldosta mill is' being bu ilt un d er a Gove rn me n t Certifica te of N ecc ssitv penni tting th e co m p a ny to amortize for in co m e a nd excess p rofi ts tax p urposes 60 per cent of th e cos t, not exceed ing $2 1.165 .00 0 . ov er a fiveyea r period .
Th e new pl an t wi ll he a 500-ton p el d a y kra ft pul p. board a nd paper m ill.
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Th e Aid Corpora tion . C LA Y TON, has co m p leted a n or der fo r wing deice rs fo r jet pla nes. Acco rd ing to H . G . Lesley of th e Corporation. th e plant is now em p loying :W people and m ore will be ad de d a s they get fur th er a long wi th th e p roducti on set-u p .
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G ilber t H yd e C hick Com pany , th e wo rld's largest manufa cture r of specia lty o rt h opaed ic a nd frac t ure eq ui p ment, h as rem odeled a n d e nla rge d th eir So ut h ern branc h offices in I~L B/~'RT O N . Za ch B. Rogers, J r. , ge ne ra l sa les m an a ge r. says that the com pa ny br an ch \ \'; S prin; aril y esta blished in o rder to giH' bett e r serv ice to its Sou th em c ustclIlle rs.
O ne phase of ma nufac t u ring fo r th e com pa n y is ca rri ed 0 1.1 in Elberton , wh er e th e R uc ke r Lum ber Company a nd Hulme Ad \'l' rt ising Ser vice m a ke acccssorv boards for the Bell fra c tu re table . ~fo re than :, .000 hospi tal s in th e U n ited S tates use thi s equi pment.
T h e com pa ny h as b ran ch es in EIbcrton , N c: Yo rk. H ou ston. T ex as a n d St . Lo uis. ?\fo,
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S T A T ES BO RO 'S new est ind ustrv has gone int o o pe ra tion w ith th e o pe ning of t he R a vli n Feed Mills.
Own ed a nd o pe ra te d hy R a ym ond Summerlin . t he Ra d in M ills wi ll m anufac t urc feed s of a ll' kinds which w ill be di stribut ed und er th e tr ad e n ame of "S hur Gro" .
Th e eq uipm en t in th e new m ill is

most mo d e rn , including a 75-horsepow er h am m er m ill. d ry fee d mixers, syr up m achines : a co rn sh eller wi ll be ad de d later.

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A n ew ch icke n p ro cessin g plan t-i-thc fir st to incl ud e b ro ile r turkeys as a n integr al part of it s p roducti on 'sch ed ule - op ened recen tly in GA INESVI L L E.
M a rell Fa rm s. Inc .. ow ne d hv Fr an k
.J. M art in, W. T. Ell ison , Grm'~ r H a r-
bin a nd George W offord . is h andlin g a p p roxim a telyLl O.OOO birds a d ay in th~ new p lant.
U nde r co ns t ruc tio n fo r a bo ut fiv e m onths, th e plant co n ta ins th e lat est m odels of m od ern broile r p rocessin g
eq ui pm ent a nd is ca pa ble o f t u rni ng o u t 20,000 ch ickens a d a y unde r full

production . Broil e r turkevs will be processed two
d a ys a week un der th e p resent sche d ule. Mr. Elli so n sa id , with about ..1-,000 white-feather ed , six-po und b ird s to b ~: dressed each d ay . T he b roil er t u rkevs a rc of th e Belt s\:ille \Vhit e bird \'a riel\ '

and a rc rais ed o n con t rac t wit h :'vfa re!1

Farms. I nc.. in ch icke n broi ler h o uses.

T hey a rc marketed a t 1-1- wee ks of age .

whe n th ey weigh a ro und six o r seven

pounds.

I t is in teres ting to not e th a t m or e

tha n 200.000 t u rk cv b ro ilers h av e be en

sta rted il'1 th e ?\'ort heast Geo rgia area

a lrc ad v th is vea r.

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The' new plant brings to six the num -

he r of m a jor proccssinu plan ts in th e Ga inesville a rea .

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CA R RO L L TON'S Ca rroll F eeds. I nc., is ex pa nding ha ving acq uire d th e co ld storage pla nt fro m th e form er Ca rro ll F roz en F ood s & Provision C o . The loca l fr eezing eq uipme n t. acco rd ing to H o race Po pe, Ca rro ll Feeds exec utive. w ill help co nsid e ra hlv in th e futu re . a lt ho ug h m ost of the th ou sa nd s of b roil e rs dressed wcc klv bv Carroll Feeds a rc sh ip pe d d irect : w (thout req ui rin g sto rage .
T h e Duffey Sausage C o ., CA R R OLLTON. is a lso p lann ing to enla rge th eir fac ilities a nd is constructi ng a 20x 10 addi tion to t hci I' sla ugh ter in g a n d p ro cessing p lant.
D . A. Du ffe\. ow ne r of th e D uffe\'

Sausage Co ., savs tire co nce rn h as en joyed a h ea lthy g row th during th e past year. Durin g o ne week recently a p p roximately 52.000 p ounds of hogs were sla ug h tere d and p rocessed a t th e plant.
M r. Duffey sta tes h e p u rch ases prac-

ticall y all of th e h ea vy h ogs offe re d at th e Carroll L ivestock Ba rn as well as th ose of n carbv m a rket s.
The p lant addition is being bui lt of conc ret e a nd ce m en t block to be CO \ .. e red w ith st ucc o. I t will h ou se a n office a n d c utti ng and pa cking roo m .

Government Contracts

For Georg ia Industries

Fcderal Gove rnment c a n t ra e t s

aw a rded to G eo rgia m an u fact urers

d u ring Scpte ruber we re as follow s :

C olon ial Oil Industri es, Inc., SA -

V ANNA H-Fuel oil an d gasoline ,

$ 106.260 .

Atl ant ic Steel & W ire Co., AT-

L ANTA -20, 12+ spls . 100-lb . co il barb-

ed wire steel. $ 127,183.

At lantic Steel Co., A T L ANT A-

-1-8-1-,61 5 lb . black , st rip steel , $30 , 112.

Sim mo ns Plating W orks, ATLANTA

- Facilit ies for C h rome Plating G Ull

T ubes. Also C hrom e Pla tin g 90 MM

Gu n T ub es, '1' 119.

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For em ost Da iries. I nc.. SA !'A N N AH

a nd / 0 1' J ac ksonvillc, Fl a .- ?vf ilk and

icc crea m , $86,677 .00 .

C he ro kee Prod uct s Co., HADJ) O C/":

- 10,000 d z. ca ns of pim ientos, $5 1,-

1-1-0. Also 5 .000 dz. cans of pim ientos,

$26,5 25.

Th e W a rren Co., I nc.. ATLANTA-

Ref rigera to r II 11Th ., a m o un t to exceed

$250.00 0.

Chief of Army Engineers, Addressing Columbus Meet Introduce d by \N oodruff
Li cut.-C cn c ra l Lew is A. 'Pick, C h ief of th e U. S. Arm y Corps of E ngineer s,
W ashi ngton, n. C ., was principa l
sp eake r a t th e wa te rw a ys developm en t co nfere nce ca lled by th e C h a tt a h oochee V a llev C h a m be r a t Colu mbus on Frid av , O ct . 5. Leaders fr om a numbe r of ' 'Sou th eastern sta tes a tte nde d th e m eet in g to hea r di scu ssion s on th e developmcnt of water pow e r III th e South ea st.
G en eral Pi ck wa s introd uced by J ames \V . W oodruff , S r., presid en t of th e C hat ta ho oc hee V a lley o rg a n iza tion , vice-presid ent fo r G eorgia of th e South eastern Resources D ev elopment Associati on . M r. \ Voodruff is a m ember of the Board of Com m issioners, G eo rg ia D ep artm en t of C om me rce.

G EORG IA D E PA R T M EN T OF C O M M ER C E

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

O ct ob er 25, 1951

Clarke County Industrial Payroll But, since th ere are today about 23,200,000 spind les in th e U nited Sta tes, this mea ns th at th e So u th has abou t 80

Increased Million In 18 Months per cent of them . Thus th e region that grows th e cot ton h as com e in to it s own .

M r. Forbes po in ted ou t tha t cur re n t

The ind ustria l payroll in C la rk Co un ty has been increased 'by a m illion d ~llars in th e past 18 m on ths, a

cheese con ta ine rs. Bill J on es, ma nager. sa id tha t the
Athens pl an t su p plies th e Sou theast

ope ra tions of th e Southern mi lls consum e 88 per cen t of a ll th e cotton used by th e texti le indust ry of th e na tion .

rem arka ble record whi ch all G eorgia wi th the cartons wh ich a re cu t a nd

" T he refore," he asser ted , " it ca n be

ca n point to with p rid e. And much of th is g rowth ca n be tr aced to . the pro-

p rin ted a t the ra te of eigh t h und red to a th ou sand a min ut e. T he m ain plant

acc ura tclv sta ted th at the So uth complet ely d ~mi n ates th e cotton m a n uf ac-

gressive actions of a g ro up of citizens and office of D a iryp a k is locat ed in tu rin g ind ust ry in thi s cou n try, both in

wh o decid ed th ey need ed organiza tion C levela nd , Ohio.

prod uctive eq uip me n t a nd in th e con-

for growth, banded into th e Industr ial

Approx imately 80 peopl e a rc em - sum ption of raw m at erials."

Devel opment Co rpo ration, th en went ployed in th e present initia l opera tions

Th e five sta tes which con ta in m or e

a fte r indust ries.

of th e p lant. H owever. Dairypak is a l- th an 80 per cen t of th e nati on's cott on-

According to Malcolm Ain sworth , ready planning a n ex pa nsion progr am spin ning eq uipme n t a re, in ord er,



exec u tive direct or of both th e Industri a l D evelopment Corp . a nd th e Ath-

for th e ncar future . I n wr itin g a sto ry ab out Athen s and

No rth Ca ro lina, So uth C a rolina, Geo rgia , Massachusetts and Alabama .

ens Chamber of Comm erce. th e Ath- Cla rk County's indu stri a l growth, it

As th e South 's la rgest industrial en-

ens Divisi on of th e C h icopee M anu- wou ld be impossible to om it th e M alli- terprise, texti les emp loy in exce ss of

facturing Co rp. , is th e la rgest plant son Bra ided Cord Co. C hartered in 500,000 work ers in m or e th an 1,000

in C la rk Co u n ty. Employin g 450 per- 1893, thi s is one of th e oldest plants in sepa ra te esta blish men ts. Th e sale of

sons, th e mill works three shifts, 24 th e Coun ty.

th ese textil e mill products last yea r

hours a d ay. manufacturing diaper

A new ad d ition of a p p roxim a tely br ou ght in close to $7,000,000,000 to

clo th es.

15,000 sq. ft. has just been completed th e Southe rn sta tes . Only food p ro-

The mill whi ch wa s Ion na llv th e wh ich will incr ease th e com pa ny's ulti- du cts industries excee de d th is va lu e.

Athen s M anufact uring Co., was bou ght mat e producti on of cott on braided

In con nec tion with progress of the



by C h icopee last year. Officials of th e plan t, it was learned , a rc planni ng a

co rdage by 30 percen t. Luther G lass. vice p residen t a nd

industr y, M r. Forbes exp ressed the opin ion th at textile mi lls h ave co nt ri-

vast expa nsion progra m to begin in th e general ma nager. said that the wid e va- bute d " infinitely more" th a n any othe r

nca r I'ut ure.

;~i ety of Ylalli ~on braid ed co rd p roducts Southern ind ustry to th e esta blish me n t



Ath en s' newest ind ustry is the So ut heas te rn R ubb er M anufa ct uring Co..

- in-door, ou t-doo r clothes lines, ten t rop es, sta rt er co rds for gaso line en -

of a p ro per bal ~n c e between ag riculture a nd m an uf a ctu rin g.

In c., m anu facturers of ca mel b;c k for gines-arc di st ributed na tion all y und er

H e fur ther em phasized that the in-

reca pping tires. wh ich began ope ra - th e tr ad e nam e of Pu rit a n C ord ag e d ustr y h as help ed crea te th is bala nce

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tions in Au gu st. Ralph Sno w. vicepr esid ent. tr easurer a nd ge neral ma n -

Mills. Loui svill e. K Y.

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Athen s a nd C la rk C ou n ty ma v well

by esta blish ing it s pl ants in hund red s of sm all towns a nd ru ra l com m um tICS

ager, sa id th e Athens plant is th e only be p roud of th ei r indu stri ~l d evelop- in th e So uth . Th e grea te r par t of

one of its kind in th e So uthe ast. The men t. And we comme nd th e citizens Geo rgia's a p p rox ima tely 175 mills is



impressive red bri ck struct ure has 15,- on th eir fon'sightedn ess in openi ng an exa m ple of that.

000 sq ua rc feet of floor spa ce and wi ll th ei r door s to ind ustrv a nd foster in g

As to wh y th e industry fin ally set-

em ploy approximately one hu ndred th eiI' expansion .

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.. tled ch iefly in thi s reg ion, th e associa-



people wh en in full opera tion. Th e Colonia l Poultry Co. in Athens
is th e largest com plete 'po ultry dressing

Nea r-Reco rd C ot t o n C ro p

tion exec utive stressed th e " almost unlimi ted resources," both hum an a nd na tural , th at a rc here. It is logica l.

plant in th r U nite d Sta tes. M r. Ains-

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too, th a t text ile ya rns a nd fa b rics



worth brough t out th e fa ct th at th ere is a larger plan t in N ew .Jersey; bu t it

th e text ile ind ust ry d evelop ed m ost ra pid ly in th e N ew En gla nd sta tes.

sho uld be produ ced within th e a rea wh ere th e ra w m at erials a rc grown .

does not do a s com plcte or th orough

Af ter th e \ Val' Between th e Sta tes .

M r. D av en port said . " th us th e tex-

job of poult ry processing as the Athens the So uth slowlv incr eased th ei r ind us- tile ind ust ry ha s becom e liter all y a

"

pla n t. Th e growth o f th e Colon ial Poult ry Co. ca n be cre d ite d to th e u-n-

tria l pace. Acco rdi ng' to in form ation su pplied by T. M . For bes of Atl anta ,

pa rt of th e 'Sou th's p ulscbca t, a nd ' the con tin uing dep end en ce of one up on th e

acitv. ;>f V Ol III b" Dov. le T erry a nd hi s executive vice-presiden t of the Co tto n oth er constitu tes a prime fact or in th e

IIife. O nlv a Icw sho rt vcars ag o M r. M a n ufactu re rs Associati on of Georgia , reg ion's past an d th e future."



T CI"!"\ ' wasd rcssiug ch ickl:ns in l~i s back this region ca ug h t up wit h th e N ew

I'ard : Now his J; lant boasts 300 em- En glan d m ills in terms of spindles in State Cas h Far m Income up



ployces a nd produc tion ca pac ity o f 7.:')00 d ressed ch ickens a n ho ur.
O ne o f the new ind ust ries in C lark

1925. Each sectio n then had abo ut 18,000,000 spind les.
A peak of 19.350,000 spi nd les in th e

30 Pe rcen t f o r Five Months
Cash farm incom e in Ge orgia dur-

Co unt v th at ccrt a in lv com ma nds res- cot ton-gro wing sta tes was reach ed in ing the first five m on ths th is yea r was

Pl'Ct (o r its imp ressive m illion-d olla r 19Tj. Sin cc tha t tim e the re has been substa n tially a hea d of tha t for the like



plant a nd nati onall y known p roduct is Da irypa k. In c.. manufacturers of

a g ra d ua l red uction in th e size of th e industr y in th e So ut h to about 18,500,-

1950 peri od , it was revea led in fig lll'es su pplied by th e U . S. Dep artm en t of

Pur e-P ak mil k ca rtons a nd cottage 000 .

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Petroleum Industry
Grows With Georgia
The dem and for pe tro leu m p rod ucts in Georgia has sho wn a sta rtlin g in crease in th e past few years, keep ing pa ce with th e ra pi d agricu ltural and ind ust rial growth of th e sta te, ac cord ing to figures just released by th e Sou the a ste rn District Oil I nd ust ry I nformat ion Commi tt ee offi ce in Atlan ta . There are mo re tractors on fa rms and more mo tor vehi cles on the road s th an a t any tim e in h ist ory, an d th e number cont inues to increase.
Georgia fa n ne rs h a ve been mech anizing rapidl y, and since 1945 h av e in creas ed th e number of tract ors in use on fa rm s fro m 14,600 in 194 5 to 52,~23 in 1950 .
Th e number of mot or vehi cles register ed in Georgia has a lmos t doubled sin ce 1945. According to th e St at e of Georgia M otor V ehicle Li cen se Unit. th er e ' wer e 553,867 m ot or vehi cles registe red in EN::>, and 1950 th e number register ed was 944 ,85 6. Dep artment estimates fo r 1951 indica te a con tin ued incr ease in registrati on with th e n umber of veh icles expected to go over th e mill ion m a rk. To m eet th e d em and for petroleum prod ucts, th e oil ind ustr y has incr ea sed storage ca paci ties and deliv ery facilities trem endously. In 1945, 4 17,779,000 ga llons of ga soline were p ur ch ased in Georgia, a nd 1950 th e nu mber of ga llons pu rch ased was 774,562 ,000 . T he d em and con tinues to incr ease. an d in th e first half of this year was 15 per cent over last yea r.
The oil industry fo r yea rs has been one o f th e nati on's m ost vigorous " growth" industri es, a nd is now also one of o ur la rgest indust ries. Geor gia oil m en a re p roud of th e devel opmen t of th e indu str v in thi s sta te .
O il com pa nies h av e m ad e and a rc

m aking a n a ll-ou t effo rt to keep up with the growing need s of th e nation , ex panding ca pac ity a nd mo d ern izing facil ities in a ll br an ch es of th e ind ustry. As a result , the ou tp ut of p et ro leu m prod ucts thi s yea r will be grea te r tha n eve r before, now estim ated at least eigh t pCI' cen t over the best p revio us year.
As to wh ether we wi ll h ave enoug h oil produ cts for civilia n a nd mi litary needs. the Ameri ca n Petr oleum Inst itute, spok esm an for th e industry, offers thes e encouraging concl usions :
I. The military will ge t a ll th e oil it need s.
2. No important sho rtages of any petroleum product s are now in sigh t.
~. M eeting a ll in cr eases will call for a tr em endous effo rt.
State Cash Farm Income up
30 Percent for Five Months
(Contin ued From Page 3 ) \.. :om m e r c e .
T ot a l for th e period in th e Sta te thi s year was $ 130,69 1,000, as com pa red to .$ 101,78 0,000 in the five months last yea r.
O ver th e So ut hea st as a wh ole, tot al farm in com e for th e five month peri od this yea r sho wed a gai n of 20 per cent.
Increased in com e fro m bo th livestock a nd its products, as well as crops, con trib ute d to th e surn ula tive gain in cash receip ts th is yea r over last, th e departm en t said .
H owever, in sp ite of th e step ped-up producti on , feed, fiber a nd food reserves are low . And in crea sed p roduction s a re bein g planned for 1952. This ca lls for someth ing like 90 million ac res of co rn, 80 million of wh eat, 13 million acres of soybeans, a nd eno ug h cotton for abo ut 16 mi llion bales.
It seems th e world need s just abo u t

eve ryth ing th e fa rmer ca n g row. So cran k up th e mule or tract or. It looks like op po rtuni ty ahea d.
Visitors Spent $ 160 Million
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were based on the tr affic tren d s th at have been noted since 1939. T hose of 1950 were d erived sim ila rly, supplemented by ca lcula tions using factors develop ed fro m recent observ a tion s on car occ upa ncy an d com position of tra ffic on major rou tes th rou gh out Georgia .
I t is understood , of co urs e, th a t the t ab I e is estim a ted . But like all other we ll-bas ed estim a tes, th e tabl e rests on rath er defin ite a nd dep endabl e indicati on s. These figures will be of consid era ble inter est and va lue to all th ose in th e State who ca te r to the tourist tr ade, wh ether with motels, hotels, restaurants, or m ercantile establishments of various kinds.
In th e m eantime, th e work goes on of doing just wh at Engin eer Fl ynt says will result in a g rea te r vo lume of tourist tr avel and a n increa se in tou rist spe nding in Georgia . Its attractions for visito rs are bein g improved a nd publicity is bein g given to th ese a ttractions through out th e cou n try an d ab roa d. T he G eorgia D epartme n t of Commer ce is send ing ou t m any th ousands of colorf ul brochures and folders on the Sta te d esign ed to in form th e wo rld 'of Georgia's notable vacation spots and pl a ces of hi stori cal interest. It is extending co rd ia l invit ation to th e million s of tourists who hit th e road ea ch yea r to see different sigh ts and scenes to m ak e G eorgia th eir goa l, and to th ose vacationi sts who h asten th rough Georg ia to F lorida a nd ba ck through to " linge r a little lon ger" in our h ighly a ttra ctive Sta te.

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Brisk Winter Tourist Season

Rurai Property In Georgia Rated

Being Predicted For Georgia

Choice Investment
A land rush is on for rural Geor gia property, the biggest sing le fa rm land



With the winter tourist season ju st travel bu sinesses profit from th e visitor boom in th e last 10 years, Bill Boring,

ahead of us, those in Georgia who de- but ot h ers as well. Tourists' expe nd i- business ed ito r of th e Atl anta Co nstit u-

pend for th eir livelihood on th e vaca - tures m ean new wealth a nd hi gh er tion, rep orts.



tion busin ess a re asking wh at volume of to urist tr ad e m ay be expec ted during

profits for virtually eve ry bu siness in th e com m unity. They mean in cr ea sed sales

Ri ch returns from inv estm ents in timber a nd livesto ck inter ests are send-

th e nex t five or six m on ths .

for department, food and drug stores ; ing farm hunter s to th e Sta te's coun-

Those wh o h ave been m ak ing a study for resorts, hotels, m ot els, m otor courts. try sid e both from within its own bord er s

,.

thi s yea r of th ese matters report with assurance th at th e volume will be quite

restaurants, railroad s, ai r lines, sh ip lines, bu s com pan ies, and th e ga~oli ne,

a.nd from othe r sta tes, 1'.1r. Bor ing contm ues.

good . With thi s coun try's industrial oil, automobile a nd auto access ory deal -

The n ation's investors' journals are

econo my geare d to a hi gh level a nd ers. This means an in cr ease in em ploy- now list ing G eorgia farm p rop erty

with person a l incomes and em ployme n t ment a nd a resu ltant rise in purchasing am ong the choicest investment po ssi-

on th e uptrend , " the to urist b usiness power , so th a t labor and agriculture biliti es, com m en ting that many big fi-

shou ld be exce llent." ' ''' e ar e quoting both benefi t from tourist expe nd itures. nancia l inter ests a re putting money in to

h ere from the report recen tly made by

Based on th e Cu rtis survey, tourists Geor gia la nd fo r th e two-fold purpose



th e research department of th e Cu rtis Pu bli shin g Company of Ph ilad elph ia,

spe nd vacation dolla rs w ith p ract ica lly every business in th e comm un ity. F or

of hed ging against inflation and longter m ret urn .

whi ch con d ucted an ex tensive surv ey in every $ 100 spe nt by va cation ers :

In At lanta rece ntly, Georgia Agri-

th e field .

$32 went for rai lroad , bus, plane an d cult ura l Ext ension experts joined bank-



As the C ur tis survev reports. on e of ship fa res and gasoline . oil a n-I a ut o ers in agreeing th at we're in the big-

th e paramount problems ' fac ing eac h accessories.

gest rural lan d boom in years.

area and comm unity is that of getting

$45 wen t to h otels, resor ts, m otels,

Agricu ltural cxte nsionists, h ead ed by

mo re abl e-to-buy to ur ists to visit th eir motor courts, ranch es and ot her lodging, W alter S. Brow n, direct or of th e Uni-

respecti ve areas. M ore and more, com- restaurants and foo d stores.

versity of Georgia Co llege of Agri cul-

muniti es a nd sta tes are making stre n u-

$23 went to department, d rug, spor t- ture a n d represent ing eac h of th e

ous efforts to increa se th eir share of ing goods an d othe r sto res, en te rta in- Extension d istri ct s, wer e in Atlanta to

th e profitab le vac a tion bu siness. Many ment, d ry cleaning, laund ry, utilit ies rep ort on th e Sta te 's reforestation p ro-

areas are redo ubling th eir efforts to and other services, including profes- gra m bein g ca r ried forward unde r a

m ak e tourism a year-ro und bu sin ess. siona l services of doct or s or lawyers.

five-year sche d ule in co-op er ation with

So uthe rn Ca lifo rn ia an d F lorida h ave

I n a dd ition to th e a mounts spent by a Fulton Nation al Bank-spon sor ed tr ee-



been outsta nd ing exa m ples of th ose th at have been success ful in attracting tour-

tourists for th ese products a nd services, va cationer s a lso help sup po rt th e tax

planting drive that has enrolled 251 banks.

ists through out th e en tire yea r. Th e loa d of manv a reas. The revenue de-

The Exten sion specia lists rep orted

G eor gia D ep a rtment of Comme rce also riv ed from ~ales tax es, gaso line tax es th at in th e fir st year of th e program

has been consta ntly sellin g the idea of and adm ission tax es paid by tourists now ende d, 36,608,400 pin e seedling ;

year-round vacation travel, an d the let- amounts to mi llion s of dollars annually. were planted in 86 counties co-ope r-

ters we receiv e give clear indication

It is true that tourist money is la rgely a tin g to date. T h is topp ed th e yea r's



tha t to urists are com ing to regard our Sta te as vac at ion terr itory every mon th

pa id to the retai ler , th e ga soline sta tion op erator, th e tou rist cou rt , the ho tel,

goa l of 35,000,000 seed lings by a wide margin.

of th e year.

the resta urant an d th e resor t peo ple.

They said 50,630 a dd it iona l acres

G eor gians in gene ral ar e now rea liz- Theirs a re th e fir st tills to receiv e it. were brought into free fertility during



in g th at no t only do the va ca tion a nd

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

Novemb er 10, 1951

GEORGIII PIIRIIDE Of PROGRESS

Waring-W ea r, I nc., WADLEY industry p roducin g sport shi rts, recen tly m oved int o its new $100 ,000 bui ld ing. O pen house was held at th e plant wh en th e mo de rn bu ild ing conta ining 25,000 square fee t of floor space was com pleted . J ack Brum by is presid ent of th e firm . Approximat ely 150 pe rsons are em ployed a t th e pla nt .
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Co nstruc tion of th e M ead Corporation' s new, multi-milli on-dollar paper conta ine r boa rd mill 12 miles fr om R OME on th e Coosa River will begin immed iately, Al H . Mah rt, president of th e newly organized Rome Kraft Compan y, announced .
No formal ground-breaking ce remoni es a re sche d uled. Som e pr eliminary work has already been don e a t th e site, a nd th e actua l start of construc t ion will be g rad ua l. Mr. M ahrt sa id con struc tion is expec ted to be com pleted within 24 months.
The company is owne d by th e M ead C orpor ation of Dayton , Ohio, a nd th e Inland Co nta iner Corpo ra tio n, of I ndian ap olis, owne rs of th e M acon Kraft Company a t M acon .
The new mill will m ake kraft contai ner board used by Inland and othe rs in manufacturing corruga ted shipping containe rs for all typ es of products, including mi litary and defense item s.
Equipment an d machinery for th e pl ant will be ca pable of maint aining a sustained annua l ra te of p roduction in excess of 200,000 tons, Mr. Mahrt revea led .
Th e p lant on th e Coosa will cost approxim ately $30,000,000 and will emp loy 650 men a nd wom en , officia ls estimated . Operations will demand some 350,000 cord s of pulpwood to be produced annually in Northwest G eorgia a nd parts of T ennessee and Alab a ma , furnishing additiona l em ployment fo r 1,200 persons.
T o h elp supply p ulpwood for its growing Georgia op er ations, th e M acon Kraft C orporati on h as bough t 9,000 ac res of Carro ll County land " in wh at is believed th e la rgest ac rea ge t ra nsac tion in Carroll Co unty's rea l esta te hi story."
The Kraft com pa ny will turn th e acreage in to a long-ra nge reforestati on project. Company off icia ls are consciou s that th e need for trees will in crease in Georgia and are m aking th eir pl ans according ly.

The Centra l of Geo rgia R a ilway has

purch ased 111 acres of land at CO -

L UMB US with th e view of developing

th e prop erty for th e a ttractio n of in-

du strial conce rns .

The tract , loca ted near th e Fort Ben-

ning jun ction, is kn own as th e J ohn

L. Willi s Estate.

Among those taking part in th e trans-
action were Ben J. Tarbutton , president

of th e Central ; C . B. Ni ehaus, land

agent, an d H . L. Perkins of Atlanta,

vice pr esident in ch a rge of industrial

development for th e ra ilway.

The tract of land, C entral offi cers

sa id, will be develop ed into an indus-

tri al area simila r to the C entral's proj ect

in At lanta, th e Empire I nd ust rial Di s-

tri ct, whi ch now ha s eigh t la rge indus-

tri a l plants com pleted or under con -

struc tion.

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The n ewly formed OMEGA Peanut

and Milling Company loca ted in th e

same spo t ope ra ted so successfully by

Lama r Powell last season, is now ready

to bu y a ll th e pean ut s its hu ge ware-

hou se ca n h old . As a matter of fact,

many load s have a lre ady been pur-

chas ed by th e new com pany, wh ich is

th e only on e operating in O mega thi s

seas o n .

This year th e Go vernment is bu ying

th e pe anuts inst ead of th e com pany.

The com pa ny acts as an age nt and

stores th e nuts for th e Government.

Ri ght now th e pri ces are ave rag ing

a round $200 per ton for th e pe an ut s

a lthough some grades hav e brought

much hi gher p rices.

Buying for th e new com pany is being

done by A. O . L ee, L am a r Pow ell an d

H owa rd Pon der .

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Con tinuing a policy of providing a better cash incom e and esta blishing a ready market for staple farm commodities, offic ials of CEDARTOWN Dairy Product s, Inc., announced tod ay that th eir new feed mill is nea rin g com pletion.

The mill will p rovide a local ma rket fo r fa rm ers wishing to sell th eir sm all grain and corn . I t will also do custom grinding and event ua lly th e official s plan to expand it to include th e manufa cture of meal and feed s.

Stovall Trawick, president of Ce da rtown Dairy Products said th at Casto J a rv is, exec utive vice-p reside nt, wou ld be in charge of th e new mill and its op eration s. M r. Trawi ck pointed out th at the modern feed mill has th ree

GEORG IA DE PART M ENT OF C O M M ERCE

huge m et al sto rage gra in eleva to rs wit h a ca pacity of six thousand bushels. , T h e mill also includes a corn scourer wh ich clean s th e corn and th us assures a hi gh er price on th e market a nd elim inat es all trash.
The officia ls said th e company h as purchased about 15,000 bushels of gra in th is pa st season despite storage a nd other handicaps. Thcy sa id th ey expec ted to double or triple th at amo unt from th e cur ren t ha rvest.
Brisk Winter Tourist Season
(Contin ued from Page 1)
But pretty soon th r-sr- dolla rs turn lip and circula te in other ch anne ls, benefittin g every segme nt of th e economy. But even th e fir st agen cies to rec eiv e thi s mon ey are pretty well distributed . For inst an ce, th e Eb erl e Econ omi c Se rvices' Survey of Southe rn California gave th e following p rim ary channels of tourist expe nditures :
F or food , 23.2 percent; accommodation s, 19.1 ; gas, oil and au to, 12.4 ; cloth ing, 13.2 ; p ublic ut ilities, 10.3 ; recr eation , 11.0; laundry an d dry clea ning, 2.0 ; profession al and personal services, 4.0, and drugs, sund ries, ctc., 4.8 per cent.
A previou s rep ort made by C ur tis for 1949 indicat ed th at vacati on trip s were divid ed among th e count ry as follows : Middle Atl antic sta tes, 19.3 percent : East North Central, 17.1 per cent ; South At lantic (Georgia and nei ghbor stat es) 14.6 per cent ; We st North Ce ntra l, 10.9 per cen t ; Pacific, 10.3 perc ent ; N ew En gland, 9.5 p erc ent ; W est South C entr al, 7.5 per cent ; M ountain, 6.7 p ercent, and East South C entral, 6.2.
As for method of travel, the a utomobile wa s well out front with 79.5 p ercent. Train accounted for 17.7 percent - five per cent Pu llman an d 127 percent coach . Bus accounted for 10.8 per cent, airline for 3.4 p ercent, and sh ip 3.3 per cent. Other m ean s accounted for one percent. As woul d be expect ed , th e a ut omobil e sh owed weak est in th e winter months, giving up some tr avel to tr a ins a nd bu ses. Except for overseas sh ip, th e longest average t rip was mad e by Pullman, 1,667 mil es, followed by airline 1,376, au to 928. tr a in coac h 764, bu s 545, and local ship and boat 267. Average by all modes wa :' 1,044.
The typ es of lod ging used cn routc wer e 33.2 per cen t for m otor co urts,
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INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

No vember 10, 1951

Agricultural Development

Active Industry in Pelham

Agriculture is th e industry in PELHAM. In this progr essive city of 4,500 population , th er e's a market for everything th e farmer s in Mitch ell County

g row. Ther e a re four tobacco m arkets in the town . A unique feature of th e

markets is th e fac t that all four a re loca lly owne d. In th ese market s this past seaso n, a record 650,000,000 pounds of tob ac co were sold. M or e Georgia tobacco was sold in Pelham than in a ny one set of buy er s in th e State.
Th e largest tom at o m arket in Georgia is in Pelham. Ev ery major tomato conce rn in th e co untry is represented at th e a uction hou se wh en farmer s st ream into town bringing th eir prod uce. D uring tom ato season, truck loads

of the red vegetabl e, from as far as a h und~'ed m iles, form a seemingly end less lin e a t the m arket to h ave th eir produce weigh ed and gra de d. Approx imately 80,000 bu shels of tomatoes wer e sold this yea r.

Cabbage , ca n ta loupe find a ready market at Pelh am . Ev ery make traco r

a nd farm m a chiner y has a n agen cy in

Pelham. The town ca te rs to th eir aozri-

c.Itupltauyrsa

l produce, a nd th ey to sup ply the farmer

are with

faingdoiond'z"

competitive m arket for th e fr uits of th eir labor.

Another lucrative and pl entiful cr -p

is peanuts. Harry Frosteg a nd J oe Spe nce, who own and m an a ge one of th e largest private peanut m arkets in th e State, said that more peanuts are bou ght in Southwest Georgia than in any other section . Three la rge buyers

are represented at th e peanut market wh er e m or e th an 34,500 tons of peanuts wer e sold last sea son.

A new market was inaugu ra ted last m onth wh en Mr. Frosteg, M r. Spe nce and C ecil Bass op en ed th e door s of th e new G eorgian Warehouse for th e auction sa le of pecans, a well establishe d cro p in Mitch ell County. Mr. Frosteg said it takes a while to get a market establish ed with buyers as well as grow-

ers. However , he said h e a nticipated handling some two million pounds of

pecans during th e two months of marke t.

Li vestock is another up and coming

agricult ural industry for Pelham and Mitch ell County. At th e private auction barn th e quality of livestock that

passes the critical eye of local judges is showing a marked improvem ent. A

sh ort ten years ago , a white-faced h ereford would have caused a stir of excitem en t on auction day, now purebred ca ttle is a g rowing feature of the over a million-dollar-a-year a uction.
Although Pelham is a n agri cultural town, th ey have th eir indust ries that make good use of th e products close at home. The Alexander-Harris Co ., Inc., m anufacturers of venee rs, use ove r 120 logs and blocks a day that are bought from local timberl and own er s in Mitchell and surro und ing counties.
During World W ar II , th e AlexanderHarris veneers wer e used in th e m anufa cture of airplan es. N ow, how ever , th ey supply th e H oosier Panel Co ., India na , with ra w venee r for use in television and radio box bod y con structi on. Approx im ately 60,000 feet of vene er are cu t a day a t th e m ill.
An other local plant m aking quite a record is th e Pelh am Ph osphate Company, m anufa cturers of fertilizer and
supe r phosphate. A. J. Cook, supe rin-
tendent of th e plant, said approximately 200 ton s of fertilizer and 180 tons of supe r phosphate are m ade eve ry day and shipped throughout th e country.
A manufa cturing plant for one of th e world's largest m an ufacturers of co tto n thread is located in Pelhamth e C la rk Thread Co., Inc. P. B. Steph ens, gene ra l m anager, said that Clark Thread m oved to Pelham eigh t yea rs ago, a nd has in cr eased its op erations to suc h a n extent they now em ploy 400 p ersons working three shifts a day . The Pelham pl ant is on e of four in G eor gia that m anufactures I' a w cotton into th read, p rovid ing anothe r outlet for a Mitchell County p roduct.
By providing m arkets for eve ryth ing the fa rm er grows a nd promoting industri es that utili ze th e fanners' prod uct s, Pelham is encour ag ing diversification and spee d ing agricult ur a l development in a farming State.
Brisk Winter Tourist Season
(Contin ued from Pag e 2)
29.9 p er cent for h ot els, 23.1 per cent for fri ends a nd relatives, 9.8 perc ent fo r tourist homes, 3.3 perc ent for cam ping out and less th an one percent for trailer coach. D estin ation lod gin g indicated 42.8 percent at homes of fri ends and relatives, 24.0 per cent a t hotels, 15.9 p erc ent at vac ation cottages, 8.6 percen t a t motor courts, 4.3 per cent camp-

New Mobile Soils Testing Units To Be Put Into Use
Four new mobile soil-testin g laboratori es will soon be equipped for service in Georgia com m unities. The trucks are now bein g outfitted at th e Georgia Experiment St ation, Experiment, Ga., under th e su pe rvision of Dr. L. C. Olson . When put into service, one of th e mobile units will op erate fr om th e College Experim ent Station at Athens, on e from th e Coasta l Plain Experi ment Station a t Tifton , and one from th e M ountain Experim ent Sta tion at Bla irsville. The othe r un it will op er ate from th e Sta tion at Experim ent, in addi tio n to th e on e alrea dy in service ther e.
The fleet of trucks will be able to in cr ea se mater ially th e number of soil sam ples processed for Ge org ia fann ers, acc ord ing to Dr. Ol son. At p resent, 10,000 soil sam ples a yea r are tested by th e Soil L ab s. When th e new trucks a r ~ a dde d to th e fleet , 50,000 o r more sam ples cou ld be a na lyzed. L ess d rivin g will be n ecessa ry to cover th e Sta te, beca use of th e strategic location of th e differ ent m obil e labs ; and a t ru ck w ill be abl e to stay in a given com m unity lon ger .
In the past, m any samples have had to be sen t to th e Experiment Sta tion to be ana lyzed, since th e crew of th e mobile unit co uld not fini sh in a day all sam ples brought to be tested. In th e future, a cre w will stay until all sam ples brough t in are processed.
Since 1949, wh cn th e first m ob ile lab began its work, th ese lab s hav e brou ght scientific soils testin g co nveniently near m any thousand Geor gia farmers . Soils test in g elim ina te, much of th e guesswork in fertilization. A farm er ca n ap ply just th e am ount and kind of fertilizer need ed to m ak e his soil p rodu ce th e best crop yields. T he amount of fertilizer sav ed in thi s way, plus the in cr ea sed yields ga ined, has been of gr eat ben efit to th e farmers who have had tests m ad e. These units wer e th e first of th eir kind in th e United States.
When th e enlarged fleet is ready to roll, service will be qui ckly available to any community in Georgi a . The service will op er ate with th e coo pe ration of county agents, vocation al tea ch er s, and other farm lead er s. When a visit by th e soil lab is requested by som e local leader , th e truck nearest th e comm un ity will come a t an a nnounced time and do all soils tests desired by th e local farmers .
ed out, 3.8 percent at tourist hom es a nd .6 per cent used trailer coach es.

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Air Force Procurements
Information Available
Now in Atlanta Office
Complete information on all proposed Air F or ce unclassified p rocurem ents in excess of $ 10,000 is now easily available to m anufacturers in th e Southeast.
This a nnou ncement was m ad e by L t. Co lonel R oy Whisenhunt, Air R egion al R epresentative in th e Atl anta Re gional Office of th e Southern Air Pro curem ent Di strict.
A full -time spec ialist in m atters p ertain ing to Air For ce Pr ocu rem ent has been employed to assist sma ll man ufacture rs in the Sou theas t who are desirou s of obtaining manufacturing contracts from th e Air Force.
The small bu siness specia list, Walter C . R oose, will m aintain in hi s office a complete list of it ems bein g procured curren tly by th e Air force. Interested man uf actu rers wh o visit th e office will also be able to examine drawin gs a nd specifications of item s now bein g procured on eithe r a prime cont rac t or sub contract basis.
Qualifi ed manufacturers ca n execute in th e R egion al Office all pap er work necessa ry to place hi s fir m on th e mec hanized bidd ers list of the Air F orce in H ead quarters of th e Air M ateri el Command , Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, D ayton , Ohio.
The Small Busin ess Office is a part of th e Atlanta R egional Office, which is located in th e Belle Isle Building, 40 H ouston Street, N.E. , Atl a n ta.
"All sma ll man uf acturers of the Sou theast who a re in terested in obta ining Air F orc e contracts a re ur ged to visit th e Atlanta R egion al Office a nd avail th emselves of its services," said

Co lonel Whisenhunt. " If a visit is not feasible, manufac turers can obtain most of th e information th ey need by writing to Mr. R oose, or to M ajor Phi lip V. Soreo, Chief of th e producti on section, of whi ch th e small bu siness acti vity is a part."
Government Contracts
For Georgia Industries
The latest govern me nt con trac ts for Ge orgia industri es, acco rding to th e field servi ce reports of th e U . S. D ep ar tm ent of Co mme rce, include th e followin g :
T hom as a nd Hutton , SAVANNA H - Arc hi tec tu ra l-engineering services , $ 76,03 0.0 0.
R obert a n d Co m pa ny Associates, ATLANTA - Engineering Services, $ 26, 09 2.00 .
Georgi a Du ck & Co r d age Mi ll, Sco r t D A L E--1 24,500 lin . yds. r otton duck, $ 146,9 10.00. Also 60,000 lin. yds, cotton du ck, $ 111,600.00.
C rown Co tt on Mills. DALTONCo tton du ck, amo un t to exceed $250,000 .00 .
The M cGregor Co. , ATHENS-250 wooden office tab les, $ 10,287.00.
Crane Co ., ATLANTA - 100 water coolers, $13,05 9.00.
M oss Co nstructio n Co .. CO LUi\1BUS- Contracted to furn i~h all plant, lab or and materials a nd p erf orm all operations, required for resurfacing Benning Bou levard, $6 1,170.
Wells Dairi es C ooperative, CO LUM -
BUS-250,000 Y2 pt. glass bottles of
mi lk, also 25,000 btl s. buttermilk in qt. glass contai ners, also 8,000 btl s. cottage ch eese, $ 136,7 67.
Rittenbaum Bros., ATLANTA 160,000 lb. wiping cloth, $28,684.

M ontag Bros. Inc., A T L ANT A 579 ,600 ea . ru led memo pa ds, $8 3,103.
Will ingh a m Co tton Mill s, MA CON - 25,000 lin . yds. grey cotton duck, $5 7,930.
Pr eston- Ch ambers, DECAT UR New basement offices at Atm ore, Ala. , Post Office, $ 13, 197.
F. L. Alberso n & Co ., ATL ANTA New d riveway a nd m ailing platform a t C ullman, Ala., P. O ., $ 18,390 .
Rural Property
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th e yea r a nd of th e total numb er of seedlings set, 80 percent wer e plant ed bv machines which the ban ks fu rn ished f~ rmers free of charge under th e Fu lton Nati onal Ban k program. More than 1,900 farmers used th e tree-planting machiner y during th e yea r.
Mr. Borin g said th e goa l for th e next 12 months was set by th e gro up a t 60,000,000 seedl ings an d that for th e fifth a nd f i n a I year of th e pla n, 100 ,0 00,0 00 .
Georgia now has mor e m ech an ical tr ee p lanters than all oth er sta tes com bin ed , th e gro up announced , adding th at during th e past, 83 forestry field demonstr ati ons were cond uc ted, attended by 6,309 fa rmers.
U nder t h e reforestati on p rogram, farmer s should mak e applica tions Ior seedlings through th eir coun ty ag ricultural officia ls. R equests for m echani cal planters should be filed with th e county age n ts.
J oining with th c ag ricultural extonsionists and th e ba nks in the program a re th e Sta te an d F ed eral for estr y departments, th e U . S. Soil Conservation ag enc y, th e 4-H an d Future Farmers g ro u ps .

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Vol. 3, No .9

Novem ber 25, 1951

Georgia Holds World Market
In Kaolin by Big Production

Fertilizer Prospects Aired
By Plant Food Leader
Will th e fa rmer be ab le to get as m uch fertil izer as he need s in thi s tim e of war, wh en munition s-m aking is



G eorgia tod ay dom inat es th e world

day newspap er and th e sleek pap er on

greedy fo r th e two prim e ra w mat er ials in fertilizer-nitrogen a nd sulphuric

m ark et for kaolin by p roducing 75 per which man y of th e magazines you read acid?

cen t of th is fin e raw m at erial mined in are pr int ed , are the results of th e av ail-

The a nswer a ppears to be "yes,"



th e U ni ted States, and is also near the ability of fine qu alit y kaolin . Being an says .J. E. T otman , chairman of the

top in production of h illers earth . At ab sorbent, kao line keeps the ink from board of directors of the Nationa l Fer-

one time, Georgia led in amoun t of sp reading and pap ers made sleek wit h tilizer Associa tio n.





fu llers ea r th p roduced , but T exas h as

since becom e highl y ac tive in such

m ining.

In th e p rodu cti on of K aolin, in th e

last twelve years Georgia has risen fr om

a producti on of $4,000 ,000 in 1939 to

$ 20,000 ,000 last year. The kao lin

plants of 1939 cost a bou t $200,000 to

build, wh ereas some of th ose tod ay in

th e S ta te cost as mu ch as five milli on

do llars, a nd th ere are now a dozen in

G eorgia, according to inf ormati on sup-

pli ed by th e St at e M ines Dep artment.

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Iy va lua ble ind ustry wer e recently sup-

pli ed by the Mi nes Departm ent for an

a rticle in Th e Blue Fla me M agazine,

published by th e Atl anta G as Light

Co m pa ny. Th e following dat a is taken

from th at a rticle.

K aolin is a ver y pure, white clay used

a coa ting of it ca n now be run off th e presses as fast as a n ordina ry newspap er. If you should happen to burn a copy of L if e Ma gazine a t a hi gh temperature, you would find a residu e of abo ut a teacupful of wh ite Georgia kao lin. Ap proximately 60 percent of Georgia's kao lin outpu t goes int o manufac t ure of pap er a nd rubber.
Fullers ea rth is a clay -like min er al used as a filt er and clarifying agen t in edible fat s and oils, and in floor swee p -a mat erial wid ely used on floors in l UilChi ut.:: :')il UP ~ dUU~ ill iu u u;')ll ial pi d.(tl:') wh ere oil might be spilled , and on damp floors in da iries a nd ca ttle ba rn s.
K aolin was min ed in Georgia as ea rly as 1766 a nd was reg ula rly sh ipped to th e fam ou s W ed gewood Pott eries in En gland until th e clays in En gland beca m e avai lab le. The discover y of En g-

Mr. T ot man in Atl anta for th e 25th annua l Southern conve ntion of th e N ation al Fertilizer Associa tion, Inc., recen tly, said " Prospects a re reaso na bly good th at th ere'll be eno ugh fertil izer to go around ." " Alth ough th e fa rm er ma y not be ab le to get as m uch Iert iliz.er as h e would like, he is fairly certam not to go too hungry for it."
H e said th ere is no ap pa re nt shortage ahead for nitrogen-in fact th e planting season of 1951-52 sh ould h ave obtai na ble a t least five ocr cent mor e ni trogen th an th e previous year. But sulphuric ac id ca uses more concern. .
T he . world-wide sulph ur sho rtage comes into pla y h ere. Sulph ur is used by th e ferti lizer industr y to make sulphuri c acid wh ich , in turn, is converted in to super-ph ospha tes for ' th e fanners.

extensively as a coating for fine -q ua lity lish kaolin ended the minin g of th e

For a wh ile it looked as if th e ferti -

pap er, in text iles, as a filler for rubber clay in Georgia for more th an a centu- lizer ind ustr y was in for a bad deal in



for automobile tir es, for wh ite wear (ch ina and pott ery ) , fire br ick an d terra cot ta. Natu ral gas is th e ideal fuel

rv a nd no t unt il 1880 was it resumed . , In th e ea rly days the la yer of di rt or ove rbu rden over th e kaolin dep osit was

sulph ur alloca tions, T ot man said, but th e government has come a round to a mor e g~n e ro us viewp oint and things

for firin g th e kaolin-drying kilns as its stripped with shovels or by mul e scrap- are sha ping up more optimistically now.



cleann ess pr eserves th e whiten ess of th e product, one of its most va lua ble qu ali-

pe rs. Th e kaolin was mined by h and, ca ref ully h and-sort ed to rem ove any

T otman said th e Southeast continues to use about 50 per cen t of th e nat ion 's

ties. These mi ning op erations are con- th at was off-color or conta ined grit, fer tilizer ou tpu t, but th e M iddle W est

d uct ed for most pa rt in Middle an d d ried in op en she ds, packed in hogs- is making percentage gains in con-

Sou th Georgia, with ten lar ge plants head s hold ing about a ton of d ry clay sumption .

located at M acon and Dry Bran ch , a t and th en shippe d to manufact ur ers.

The associatio n executive said th e

Huber (nea r M acon ) , and a t Gordo n

L ater wh en th e clay wa s shippe d in South is 50 veal's a head of th e rem ain-

and M cIntyre in th e Mi lled geville a rea . a m ore refin ed state, it was dri ed by der of th e coun try in soil conse rva tion



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IND U STRI AL N E WS LETTER

Novem ber 25, 195 \

GEORGIA PARADE Of PROGRESS

Georgia' s exports more th a n do ub led in th e first six m on th s of 1951 as compared with th e correspo nding per iod last yea r, an encou raging rep ort by th e U . S. Departmen t of Comm erce reveal s.
T hese sh ipm en ts to oth er co un tries
from th e Sta te from .I a nuary to Jun e
were va lu ed at $25 ,900 ,000 , com pared with on ly $1 0,500,000 for th e sa me period last vea r,
Th is is' goo d news to G eorgians. I t m a kes a ll th e more impo rta n t tha t por t d evelopment s a t Savan nah an d Brunswick be ca rr ied forward with a ll po~ sible speed .
Expo rts from Georgia include nav al sto res to C uba , Ge rmany, Brazil and th e U nite d K ingd om , m anufactured an d raw co tton a nd other fib er s to T he N et herla nds, I tal y, Norway a nd Aus tr alia ; paper an d related produ cts to a d ozen nations, la rge quantiti es of lurnbel', a nd agricultu ra l machinery parts to many co untries of th e globe.
I t is goo d to find Geo rgia ga ining in th e field of comme rce, as it is to sec th e Sta te leading in oth er field s. Last yea r G eorgia co nfectione ry p roduct s acco un ted for nearl y 50 per cen t of th ose sold in the Southeast. G eorgia led th e Southea st in th e p rod uct ion of pa per a nd boa rd , reco rdi ng a ga in of 140 per cent over 1945. Alabama, G eo rgia , North Ca rolina, South Carolina a nd T enn essee p roduced 42 per cen t of th e nat ion ' s 1950 o ut pu t of fini shed woven goo ds .
Th ese are only a few of th e items whi ch indicate a growi ng and prosperou s Georg ia a nd So uth la nd.
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C LA R KESV I L LE'S newest indus tr y, th e C larkesville M ill, has sta rted processing on a trial basis to test m a ch ine ry an d eq uipme n t. T hi s was th e first processing by th e industry since th e steam boiler wa s placed into op era tion recently. Operation of th e boiler is necessary to p ro d uce hum idity control vit al to ha ndling ya rn .
Sixty-eigh t of th e mi ll's loom s a re in place and elec tr ica l conne ctions com pl et ed . The C ity of C la rkesville's new 100,000-ga llon wa ter reservo ir, located on the m ill property is being erected a nd wi ll be com plete d with in th e next tw o weeks.
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A new pla nt is in th e pla nn ing stage fo r one of Cordel e's most recen t industri es th e Knit-rite H osiery Mills. Com -

pieted cost of th e land and p roposed bu ild ing is estima ted a t .$8,000.
T he Kni t-rite finn is com posed of
A. J. Booth , Stewart Musselwhite,
j a mcs A. H arp, E. E. Reed a nd j amcs St ewa rt. a ll of Co rdel e. Thev hav e been in opera tion for a mon th', occu pying tem pora ry space in th e fo rm er Cordele H osiery M ills. Their p recent product ion is sta ted as a pp roxima tely 2,000 doz en s pai rs of ho sier y a month .
The prop osed b uild ing will be 35x65 feet of conc re te block construction with a woo de n end to p ro vid e fo r expansion .
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Deve lopment Assn. Acquires Site For New Industry
The W a re Coun ty Ind ustrial D evelopmen t Assoc iati on , I nc., has secured from the At lan tic Coast Line Ra ilroad a site for a new industry , it was reveal ed by M . M . M onroe, presid ent of th e associa tio n.
Th e tit le to th e property is now vested in th e new industry. D et ails of th e op eration will be a nno unce d with in th e next few weeks.
Construction is expe cted to be started at an ea rly dat e on a 10,000-sCjua refoot bu ildi ng to house the ind ust rial plant.
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Livestock, Pa sture Lands Thrive in Chattooga Co unty
T en yea rs ago cotto n was " king" in S U M M ERVI L L E, com p rising 90 percen t of th e p rodu cti on in th at a rea ; tod ay livestock is com ing int o th e forefront in thi s en terp rising No rth west Georgia town wh ich now boasts 50 per cen t cotton pr odu ction, 50 percen t livest o ck.
Accordi ng to J ohn Pa ul J ones, loca l feed deal er , it is most g ra tifying to witness this change in farming practices th at is tak ing pl ace in C ha ttooga Co un ty . Where th er e was one cow on th e Iarm , th er e a rc now tw o and three cows of good breed . Where th er e was on e hog on th e farm , th ere a re a t least 15 now . T he la nd once d ra ined by cotton is no w d evot ed to winter pastures a nd cove r crops 10 V:! months of th e yea r. T hese pastures ar e th e key to th e con tin ue d growth of a profita ble livestock ind ustry in Sum m ervi lle an d C hattooga Coun ty.
Dairyin g is also growing int o a size-

ab le industry, acc ord ing to M r. J ones. Seven la rge d a iries ca rryon p ro fit able opera tio ns in th e coun ty. Fou r of th ese were sta rted only last vear.
In Trion last month th e G uernsev Ca ttle Associa tio n held its vearlv a uc'tion sale wh ich a ttracte d d~ ir\'Il'len in 15 sta tes fro m New J er sey to 'F lorid a , T he average sale price per animal was $1 ,200 . H owever, a regist ered Guernsey raised in C ha ttooga County brought th e high est p rice of $5 ,000 .

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Sub-Contracting
By Lockheed

It is estim a ted th at a p p rox imately 50 per cen t of th e B-47, to be bu ilt a t M ARIET T A , will be m ad e bv sub-co ntractors. In a ddi tion to m eetin g its own needs, the Sub-Contractin g Department a t M a rietta wi ll sub-contrac t certa in parts for th e W ich ita and Tulsa plan ts. M a ny firms, m a king parts for th is pla ne, a re doin g work en tire ly foreign to th eir usual lines. If yo u ar e eq uip ped to do pr ecision work, yo u ca n probably sell yours elf to Lockh eed .

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A new chemica l plant wi ll soon ope n

for bu sin ess in DALTON. The firm ,

Th e Com pa ny Fa rm and I ndustrial

C hemical Co., wit h main offi ces in At -

la nt a, manufactu res chemi cals for la un-

d ries, an d is a heavy sup plie r of th e

p rodu ct used by tu ft ed texti le laun-

d ries.

Dalton , cen te r of a large a rea serv -

iced by th e com pa ny, will be a m anu-

facturing and distributi on point for

T ennessee, No rt h Ca rolina , N orth Ala -

bam a a nd North Georg ia a rea .

The chem ica l com pa ny has ta ken op-

tion on ac reage south of Dalt on an d is

m ak ing plans to erec t a bu ild ing on the

site.

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T he Dra per Corpora tion of Bal tmo re, N . C ., man ufac turers of text ile mach inery, will begin operations in TH O}"IAS VILLE up on com pletion of th eir new building on th e Ca iro R oad .
The new pl ant even tua lly wi ll give em ploymen t to severa l hund red per son s in Thomasville and th e surro unding a rea . The com pa ny will b uy d ogwood lum ber to manufacture shuttles, which a re used to feed threa d into loom s.
R. C . Buchh olz has rep resented th e Draper Corp. in negotia tion s with th e Thomasville C ha mbe r of Com me rce. T he local br an ch pl an t will be in ch a rge of H . E. K elly.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

IND U STRIAL N EWS LETTER

Novemb er 25, 1951

Two New lndustries Valued at 57 Million Scheduled for Floyd

R ome - The heart of Northwest Georgia' s ind ust rial em pire- is ridin g the crest of a wav e of expa nsion that rivals a ny sec tion of the Sou th east.

Near thi s a lrea dy th riving city of in -

d ustries, th e M ead Corpor a tion is plan -

nin g to bu ild a $30,000,000 pap erboa rd

conta ine r mill on th e Coosa Ri ver a nd

th e Georg ia Power Compan y has un-

der const ruction a $27,000 ,000 steam -

electric gene ra ting pl an t near th e sam e

location.

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Th e p ap erb oard mi ll wh en comp let ed will em p loy some 650 per son s; it is sched u led to be construc ted in th e next 24 months.

Georgia Power has sched uled th e first 100,000 -kilowa tt unit of Plant H am mond to begin ope ra ting in Sep temb er, ] 953. The new gen era ting sta tion will be ca pable of p roducing ap proxima tel y ] ,400,000,000 kilowa tt hou rs eac h yea r, enough pow er to sup ply more th an ha lf a million average homes.

I n a nother indust rial phase, hun d red s of tho usa nds of dollars will be inv ested in th e next severa l months by th e Central of Georg ia a nd Southern R ailways in expanding tran sportation faciliti es to keep p ace with dem ands spurred by industrial growth. Civic improvem ents, too, a rc keeping ab reast of th e tim es, with two public housing proj ects nearing com pletion a nd mil es of streets bein g pav ed . R om e ca n a lso boast of a remodele d police headq ua r ters , enla rged, renovat ed municipal library and fir e dep artment head q u art e rs.

Industri al pl ants a re expa nding a t a

ra pid pace. Burlingt on M ills' an -

nouncem ent thi s mo n th of th e comple-

tion of a mul ti- million -dolla r p rogram

in mo dernizing a n d enla rging its

Brig h to n di vision a t Shannon is the

lat est in a series of pyramiding invest -

ments in 'Flovd Countv' s industrial

fu ture.

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Burling ton , in th e yea r since it assumed con trol of Brighton , has a lloca ted seve ra l millions of dollars fo r new a nd ren ovat ed m achiner y, pl ant and vill age physica l improvem en ts and emp loye ben efits until th e Sh annon pl ant is tod ay th e lar gest sing le manu fa cturing unit in Burlingt on 's far-

flun g ma nufacturing o rga niza tion . Thrcompany op erates 73 textile p lants in 43 communities sca tte red thro ugh eigh t states and four foreign coun tries.

T he revamping program was begu n immediately after Burling ton acqui red th e hu ge spinning a nd weavin g plant a t Sha nno n a nd the sma ll spinning plan t a t For syth last yea r.

The tw o Br ighton plants employ a tot al of nearly 2,000 person s with an an nua l p a y I' 0 II of ap proxima tely $5,000,000. T hey manufacture a wid e ran ge of both cott on and rayon men 's and wom en 's wea r fabrics.

The Di xie Co rp., a n a luminum extrusion pl ant, is in the p rocess of th eir th ird expa nsion since esta blishment in R ome less th an a yea r a nd a h alf ago. T he fir st extrusion pla n t in th e Southeas t, Di xie Co rpo ra tion is an imp ressive addi tion to G eorgia's growing list of di versified ind ustries.

O nly this fa ll th e second la rge expa nsion program was com p leted wh en approximately a quarter million dolla rs in new eq uipme n t and ma ch inery began opera tions in th e new 35,000 square feet add it iona l p la nt .

Brett D . H olm es, presid ent of th e Co rpora tion, sa id that th e melting plant now under const ru ction sho uld be com pleted by J anuary, 1953 and will trip le th e pr oducti on .

The locally owned cor po ra tion advertises its own p roduct s in its p lant wh er e a lumin uum extruded moldings edg e th e desks, decor at e the doors wind ow casings a nd fixtu res in th e ult ra-mod ern offices. Di xie m ak es th eir own discs th rou gh whi ch th e softe ne d aluminum bill ets are p ressed in th e mass ive 2,000-ton ma chines . The plant area is marked bv its u tt er lack of waste. T he scrap ~ Iu m i n u m is melted and mo lde d in to billets for processing ,

Af ter th e aluminum is a rtificiallv

aged in the p la nt O\'Cn, a nd treated 1'0 '1'

its maxim um physical properties, it is

shipped all over th e coun try . The Dix ie

Corpo ra tion is prep a ring to conce n-

tr ate on defen se con tracts for milita rv

item s, chiefly to the Air For ce.

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In civic progress a nd industrial expan sion , Rome is assured of a growing pr ospcri tv and a well deser ved pride in a ttai nmen t.

Rockwood Bought
By Georgia Marble
T he Georgia M arble Co. , of T A T E, h as bought th e en tire physical assets of th e R ockwood Alab ama Stone Co. The announcem ent was ma de by J ames R . Cow an , president of the nation a lly fam ou s marble comp any.
Alt ho ugh offi cial s of the com pa ny declin ed to na me the purchase price. th e Alabama firm has va st holdi ngs, which woul d indicat e a substan tia l figure.
Ther e are mor e th an 1,000 ac res of land, 118 hou ses, a n office bui lding, sto re, school, chu rc h . In addit ion th er e a rc two bui ld ings whi ch hou se fabricating mill s for the lim eston e with mor e th an 8 7,000 sq ua re feet of space. Ther e also is a comp lete rock crushing plan t.
Alab am a Li meston e' s property is in F ranklin Co un ty, Alab am a , ju st six mil es sout heast of Russellville a nd 26 miles south of Muscle Shoals on th e Southern R ail wav,
Acquisition of the vast hold ings ar e an ind ica tio n of the p a rt th e Georgia M a rbl e Co ., is playi ng in th e ind ustria l progr ess of th e Sout heast. M r. Co wan said that the comp any lon g had recog nized a need in its exp ansion program for both Georgia ma rbl e a nd lim estone q ua rries an d manufactu rin g fa cilities available for fin e stru ctural wor k and o ther uses.
The com pany president said th at in th e R ockwood qu arries and mill facilities, Georgia M arble h as obta ine d lar ge a nd imp ortant min eral resources wh er e th er e has been a record of pro du cin g a fin e grade of limestone.
Starting p rodu ction in 1884, R ock-
wood has had its sto ne used in man y importan t buildings throu gh out th e Un ited St at es. Included in th e list a rc
C ha rity H ospital in New Orlean s, th e
National Gallery of Art in W ashington , th e W ald orf Asto ri a in New Yor k,
an d th e Birmingham city hall.
Mr. Cowan sa id it is th e intention
of the combined com pa nies to solicit the usc of th ese recogni zed q uality
p rodu cts th rough th e com pany's many
sa les off ices, and also to p rovide crush ed ma teria l th rou gh th e by-produc t di vision for ag ricult ural a nd ind ustrial
uses of which th er e is an increasing
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Georgia Holds World
Ma rket in Kaol in
(Con tinued from P age 1) indi rect heat.
Today, du e to th e use of mo dern machinery, a rea s a re bein g min ed that would hav e been impossible ten yea rs ago. No w the layer of ea rth over the kaolin dep osit is strippe d by big ea rth movin g machines a nd th e miner al is du g ou t with mec ha nic al shovels . Aft er it is min ed it is tr an sported to th e refinin g plants by tru ck, a narrow-gauge rail road or by pipeline, wh ich is the most mod ern m eth od of tr an sportati on. When it is pip ed to th e plants, th e clay is mi xed with wa ter into wh a t is ca lled a slurry-a semi-liq uef ied mixture of clay a nd wat er-which is th en pumped th rough th e pipes to th e pla nts. At th e plants th e refinin g p rocess begins by mixing th e kaolin with wat er in la rge m ixing a nd sett ling ta nks, to wa sh ou t h eavy im purities suc h as mi ca, sand, etc. 'f he kaolin is allowed to settle to a sludg e a nd th e clea n water d rawn off.
Th e cla y is furth er refine d and bleach ed by allowing sulph ur dioxid e gas to bubbl e th rough it a nd it is th en pumped through filter p resses, whi ch are la rge me ta l pl at es con tai ning forms separated by h eav y ca nvas clo th. T he ca nvas hold s th e washed clay wh ich bu ilds up int o cakes betw een the plat es wh ile excess wa ter is eliminated. The kaolin is th en put in to gas fired tunnels or rotary gas fir ed driers or kiln s.
T he rota ry d rier is a lon g steel cylind er a bout 60 feet long a nd six feet in diam eter mounted on suppo rts with one en d lower th a n the other, so that th e clay ca n gra d ually move downwa rd . In passing th ro ugh th e d rier, wh ich is h ea ted to 300 to 400 0 F. by gas burners mounted a t th e upper end, th e clay is d ried with th e moisture con tent bein g

redu ced from a pp roxima tely 20 percen t to tw o percent.
The tunnel type d rier has a series of gas burners on th e exterior sides and in th e interior and is th e mo st modern type of kiln . I t is approxima tely 10 feet high , 10 feet wid e a nd from 30 to 60 feet lon g. The cla y is prep ared for th e tun nel drier by feed ing it thro ugh a grinding mach ine from whi ch it comes out looking like spa ghe tti. It then ente rs th e tun nel on a steel con veyor whi ch is perforat ed so that hot a ir ca n circ ula te through it.
Aft er d rying, th e clay is p repa red fo r sh ipping in eithe r a bulk sta te or packed in 100 pound ba gs.
Fertilizer Prospects Aired
'By Plant Food Leader
(Continued fro m Page 1) pr acti ces. H e comm en ted on th e grea t strides ma de in th is section in th e recla iming of submargina l lands a nd in cro p di vcrsil ication. -- . _ . - --
"Ge orgia h as ma de more p rogr ess in ag ricult ural div ersificati on th an any othe r sta te in th e nati on ," he said . H e was particu la rly im pressed by th is sta te's pr ogr ess in g rasses.
Correction, Please
W e were so ca rried away with PELH A ,\l'S agricult ural prog ress in th e No vember 10th issue of the News L etter, th at we cred ited th e tobacco m arket s th er e with selling mo re pound s of toba cco last seaso n than th e ent ire St ate.
This year approximately 6,500,000 pound s of tob acco was sold in the Pelham ma rk et s. M or c Georgia tob acco was sold in Pelh am th an in anyone set of bu yers in th e State. Georgia market s sold a record 155,053,010 pounds of tob acco.

South Leads in Consumption
Of Logs and Bolts in
Manufacture of Veneer
Sixt y-seven per cen t of th e logs a nd bo lts consumed in th e U nited St ates in th e manufacture of ven eer in th e first q ua r te r of 1951 was used in th e Sout h, the Atlan ta office of the U . S. Department of Co mme rce announce d.
Co nsum pt ion of th e p roducts in th e sou thern St ates to ta lled 224,896.000 board feet. I n th e nation as a wh ole th e consump tion aggrega ted 33 1,820,000 board feet.
Con sumption in th e sou thern St at es included 170,000 boa rd feet of basswood , 150,433,000 feet of gum , 3,243,000 feet of mah ogan y, 777,000 feet of ph ilippin e wood s, 2,774,000 feet of maple, 3,3 13,000 fee t of oak, 33,6 78,000 feet of popl a r, 23,269 ,000 feet of ot her domesti c hardwood s, 1,897,000 feet of other imported h ardwood s, a nd ~ ;l 05,00 L of ~U[ l ,"vuLl.
Government Contracts
For Georgia Industries
The lat est gove rn me nt contracts for Geo rgia industri es, accord ing to th e field serv ice repor ts of th e U . S. D epar tment of Co mme rce, include th e followin g :
Ed L. Powers Contracting Co. , JES UP- Contr acted for im proveme nts to M ess H alls, a mo unt to exceed $250,000 .00.
C inde rella Food D iv., of Steve ns In du stries, Inc., DA WSO N- Canned pean ut butt er, exceeds $250,000 .00.
J. W . Starr & Sons Lumber Co ., AT-
LA NTA-Lumber, $33, II 0.00. Savannah Sugar R efini ng Corp, SA -
V A N NAH- 320,000 Ibs. g ranula ted suga r, $26,34 1.00.

Vol. 3, No. 10

Construction in Georgia Hits
$900 Million in Four Months



With new industry locating in Geor-

gia and existent plants heing expanded,

a long with an active stim ula tion of

public a nd pri vat e building op erations,
construc tion in th e Sta te for th e four

m onths from Jun e through September

went above th e 900-m illion-do llar mark,



accord ing to a survey an d a na lysis for th e period jus t completed by th e Geor-

gia D ep artment of Co m me rce. The

survey included projects finish ed , those

in th e con struction sta ge and others definitely pl anned and announce d.

The a na lysis is bro ken down into
typ es, incl uding ind ustria l, com me rc ia l,
resid ential and public building, th e lat ter b~ F ed er al, St at e, city and coun ty age nCies.



The D epartment com piles its reports

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figure it has on ce utilized. Ba-ed on

this plan of compilation, th e total va lue of const ruction in Geor gia for th e four

months wa s $9 15,247,943 .

Industrial building for th e tim e was
$488,964,262. This figure for fa ct or y cons truction is not onl y conse rva tive
but incomplet e, sin ce in th e ca se of a
la rge proportion of th e industries reporting expa nsion progr am s, no inv est-
ment figur e wa s made avai lable.

Public building during th e p eriod by
th e local , State a nd national govern m ents in G eorgi a came to $43 ,105 ,310,
not including expe nd itures on roads and installations and improvem ents of
sewerage, natural gas systems and water mains. For th ese proje cts, an additional $40 ,412 ,336 was spent during the
four months.

Acc ord ing to U . S. Dep artment of

Commer ce rep o rts, th e valu e of new

St a te and local pu blic cons truction in

Geor gia du rin g th e fir st seven months

of 1951 wa s g rea te r th an th at of a ny

o the r of th e following States in th e

Southea st: 'F lorid a, Alab ama, M issis-

sippi, T ennessee a nd South C a rolina.

The tot al of suc h constru ction in th e

St ate fro m J anuary to July wa s placed

at $84,400,000, a n incr ea se of 141 per

cent over th e corresponding period of

last year. An 86 per cen t in cr ease in

th e valu e of th at typ e of cons tr uc tion

was re ported by the U . S. Commerce

D ep artment for th e six St at es for th e

first seve n months of thi s vca r over

th e 1950 period.

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of Comme rce wer e hi ghl y indi cative of

th e trem endous progr ess bein g mad e in

thi s State over th e whole eco nom ic

front.

"C onstruction," he asserte d, " is on e of th e mo st acc ur a te baromet ers existin g by whi ch to ga uge th e bu siness hea lth and th e ge ne ral progress of a Sta te. Th e far-reaching swee p of building opera tio ns in Georgia well indicates th at it is moving forw ard in eve ry respec t. W e arc marching not onl y with our neighbor States but in important respects ahead of th em . In fa ct , when th e reports are all in for 1951, it will be seen th at Geor gia h as expe rience d on e of th e grea test yea rs of advancem ent in its entire history. From all indications, we can exp ect another yea r like thi s in 1952 ."

December 10, 1951
Expe rt Lists Six Reasons
For Egg Productio n Here
L istin g six reason s why man y Georgia fa rm er s a rc in a goo d position to mak e profits from com mercial egg pro-
du cti on proj ect s, .J. W . Fanning, Sta te
ex tension Se rvice agricultural eco no m ist, said th a t indications poi nt to grea ter egg product ion on farms during th e next yea r.
R easons given by Mr. Fanning for inc reasing egg producti on in thi s St at e in c l u d e:
1. Co m me rcia l egg p rod uct ion brin gs in 1110ney dail y or weekly and helps balance other farming op erations from which cash is received only on ce a year. With money from differ ent sources, farming is less risky. The mo st successful fa rme rs in Geo rgia hav e a wellbal an ced bu siness.
2. Egg farmin g makes full usc of labor. No more lab or is required for 500 pullet s th an is necessa ry to ca re for 50 birds, "Vorking with h ens means dollars eve ry week. Fiv e hundred hens sho uld ea rn $ 1,000 to $2,000 a year.
3. Commer cial egg production is ideal for sm all farms. One ac re of good pa sture is enough to grow out 500 stro ng pullet s. Small acreage will gro w th e corn , wheat an d oa ts needed by growing a nd laying pullet s. About half of th e feed for laying ch ickens ca n be fed in th e form of g ra ins grown on th e fa rm. H en s convert th ese zr ain s into high-priced m eat and eggs.'" In add ition hen s produce very va luable m anure whi ch wi!l in cr ea se th e yields of grains. Th ese things mean high do llar returns per acr e which a re necessary for small farms.
4. G eo rgia has th ou sands of farms too sm all to com pe te on even terms with other sections in field crop pro-
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INDU ST RI AL N EWS LETTER

December 10, 195 1

GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

Langdale Mill Adds

Addition

For an increase in th e produ ction of co tton d uck as wa r material, constru etion ha s started on a three-stor y add it ion to Mill No. 2 of th e Langd ale div i-
sion of ' Vest Point M anufacturing C o., th e tot al cost of th e building, m ach inery a nd ot her eq uipme n t to be a pp roxim at ely $71 2,000.
At presen t the prod uction of th e tcxtile ind ustry of the nation is on ly ab ou t one per cen t cotton du ck, wh ich is rat ed as a major item in wa r m at er ia ls for th e d efen se progr am . The 5,000spind le add ition in Lan gd a le will ad d 40,000 pounds a week of cott on du ck to th e m ill' s p resent p roducti on a nd will ca ll for 49 ad d itiona l employees on a th ree-shi ft opera tion.
The three sto ry brick building, to be sup po rted by concre te pilin g, wi ll cost $ 199 ,609 . T h e con tract for the construction was let to Batson-Co ok Co . R ob ert ' and Co., of At lanta , are th e enginee rs. T he m ach in ery to be in stallcd will cost approximately $400,000: while othe r eq uip men t fo r the building, such as humidification, air chang e, sprin kler, a nd venti lation systems, will cost about $78 ,390 .
C onstruction wi ll be com pleted abou t April, 1952 , a nd producti on will begin immed iat ely following a ll insta llations.

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Alp rod co, Inc., m anufacturers of

alum in um products, wh ich moved to

DUELl N thi s summe r, is on e of th e

town's lead ing ind ust ries.

The Dublin en te rprise is on e of 13

Al p rod co p lants situated in differen t

pa rt s 0f the U ni.ted Sta tes for m an u-

fact uring a nd d istribution of Al um i-

num L ife-time Gates a nd Alumin um

Radio & T elevision T owers. I n th e

Georgia plant, Alprodco man ufactures

th e nationally famous ga tes and towers

for distribution to th e sta tes of Geo r-

gia, Alabam a , Fl orida a nd South Ca ro-

lina , selling to d ealer s as well as con-

sume rs.

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CLARI<.I~S VILLE'S newest bu siness,

H a bersh am H at chery, recently com-

pleted insta llations of tw o com plete

bu ck eye stream line r ha tchery units.

. T he new h atchery is owne d by Tom

a nd L ee Arrendale, prominent feed

deal ers in the city.

The com plete ca pacity of th e hatch-

elY is 133,000 eggs and it is expected

thes e will produce 30,000 saleable

ch icks ea ch week. T he hatch ery is un der d irect ma n-
agem ent of W all a ce A. Beggs, form er ly Vocat ional Ag ricu ltural In struct or at Cla rkesville school. H e will be assisted by Ca rl C hambers, of Lea f.
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T he Sou the aste rn Bri ck Co m pa ny in W AYCR OSS wi ll expand its pl an t fa cilities im m edi ately to tak e ca re of its growing bu siness in So uth Georgia an d north Fl orid a , it wa s a nnounced.
O fficia ls of th e compan y disclo :c th at a $ 75,000 expansion progr am will include m od ern izati on of plant a nd eq uipm en t a n d in sta llat ion of new eq uipm en t to incr ease drasticall y th eir producti on ca pacity .
The stepped -u p p rod ucti on is d esigne d not on ly to m eet th e need s of th e immedi at e sou theas t Georgia section , b ut to extend th e territory now served by th e Southeaste rn Brick Com pan y.
Th e plant now serves th e concrete m asonry need s of a p p roximatel y 20 coun ties fca turing the production an d dist rib ut ion of D ura- Blok and D ur aBrik . stea m-cured masonrv un its whi ch
m eet fed er al a nd A. S. f. M . specifi-
ca tions. L iter ally h undreds of new homes a nd modern com me rcia l and in dustrial bui ld in gs in So uthea st Georgia ha ve been constru cted of conc rete m a w nry units fro m th e So utheastern Brick
Co m pa ny plant.
The compa ny, whi ch has been in opera tion since M ay, 1946, is also agent for Truscon Stee l Com pany.
R. L. Pittman is p resid ent of the com pa ny, with Ro sser Elkins as vicepresid ent, a nd Roy Barnes as secre ta rytr easurer a nd m anaLlL!'er.
- 0Hospitals Liquids, Inc., of C h icago will mo ve th eir pl ant to M I L LEDGEV I LLE and begin th e m anufact ur e of in travencous inj ections used by ho spitals throughout th e coun try. W al ter Cates. head of ind ustrial d evclopment of th e Macon C hambe r of Comm erce, sai d th e p resid ent of the
firm had negotiated with M ark D . Hodges for th e lea se on th e la tt er's form er can dy plan t and th a t th e wornan who supe rv ises th eir workers had a rrived to begin di scu ssion s a nd inter-
views for em ployme n t. The pl ant wi ll em ploy from 50 to 55
wom en and 15 men in th e manufacture of th eir product. The firm is wellthought-of in m edi cal cir cles, accord -

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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GA IN ES V I L L E'S na tionall v kn ow .i
J. D. J ewel b roil er plant has i ~ 0 p ~ :a

tion a new p rocessing line, wh ich offi-

cia ls of th e com pa ny believe w:I1 a llow

th em to ste p up producti on by as mu ch

as a third in th e near future.

Alon g with th e new p roduct ion line

has come other expa nsion. A new 30-

foot sca lder, th e lat est avai lable, h as

been install ed at the pla n t, together

with ad d itional m achiner y in th e pick-

ing d ep artment.

These ad di tio ns. com bine d wit h a

new qui ck fr eezer 'with a 4,000 pound

per hour ca pacity, a nd a 1,250,000

Found refri gerat ed sto ra ge how e both

a dded ea rlier th is year, w:I1 pu :h p ro-

d ucti on to a ro und 30.000 bird s a dav,

th e officia ls sa id . Form erl y th e p'ant

turned out 2 1,000 ch ickens du rin n a

normal work dav ,

.,

A two-story a'ddition is being mad e

to th e plant, a lso, to house a new ice-

maker. Shaved ice is used durin rr mu ch

of th e op era tion a nd thi s new '"'eq u:p-

m en t will allow ice to be transp ortcl

throu gh ch utes to th e pla ce where it is

need ed .

The expande d ope ra tion will rcqu i: c

an estim a te d 40 new em ployees.

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The Canno n Casket Co ., V I LLA R I CA , is ca rrying on opera tions in

th eir newly completed pl ant whi ch con-

tains 3, 200 sq ua re feet of floor space .

Another building of a pp roxima tely th e

same size is now under constr uction.

About ISO person s ar e em ployed by

C an no n a t present, but this number

will be in crea sed la ter. Thev a re ma nufacturing Army caskets. .

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Wollun Mills Buys Building

Acquisition of th e large brick an d

tile bui lding a t J oh nson and Barnes St.

in CAR ROLLTON now occupied by

Wo llun M ills Co. has been announced

bv H arold and Lawren ce W olln er

owners of th e com pany .

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The bu ilding con ta ins a pproxima tely

20,000 sq ua re feet of floor space. The

property incl ud es additional land to

the west for expansion .

Wollun M ills manufactures tape for

V en et ian blin ds, d ish cloths, pot hold-

ers and scru b cloths, and is completing

a defen se order for Army webbing. It

has been in C a rrollton two and a half

yea rs and already has bui lt on e addi-

tion to its building.

IND U STRIAL N EWS LETTER

D ecem ber 10, 1951

Forgotten Georgia Pyrite Mines

May YieldVitallyNeeded Metal

Locked in th e aba ndo ned Pyrite min es in No rth Geo rgia may be la rge deposits of th e preciou s miner al , sulphu r, so vit a lly need ed in o ur defen se p roducti on .
Several la rge com panies are no w in\'est igating th e m ines with th e idea of ex ploiting th ese resources if th e deposits ar e found to be a de q ua te to th eir needs and opera tio ns. \ Vithin th e next few m on th s th eir discover ies m ay open up new or expande d field s of m ining a nd m an ufa cturing in G eorgi a .
The "sp ur" to th e present Pyrite invcstiga tion s is th e fact th at th e supply of sulp h ur is so short now th at th e Defens e Min erals Ad ministr ation of the U . S. D ep artment of I n terior, under th e D efen se Producti on Act of 1950, is offe ring 50 per cen t of th e cost of exploration of new sources of sulph u r.
Garla nd Peyton, director, D epartment of M ines, said there is eve ry reason to bel ieve th at some of th e m ines in Geo rgia will yield three-qua rt ers of a mi llion ton s of sulp h ur and iron . And th a t there a re q uan tities of gold, copper and zin c worth mining commercially in th e N orth G eorgia Belt.
Pyrite is hal f sulph u r and h alf iron ; roasted for its fumes to prod uce sulphuric ac id . Sulph ur and sulph uric ac id are need ed for th e p roducti on of heav y che m icals, explosives, pet rol eum, coa l product s, rubber , paper, ra yon , film and othe r items of defense.
Pri or to th e W orld W ar I , p yrite was m in ed in Georgia chiefly because of its sulph u ric co n ten t, but following the di scov ery of a pu rer form of sulph u r in th e Gulf C oast area, th e Georgia Pyri te m ines wer e closed .
Severa l of th e old pyrit e mines now un der stud y ori gin a lly wer e d ug befor e th e W ar Between the St at es in a sea rch for cop per, th en aba ndo ned and reope ned years later, only to be a ba nd oned again. Am on g th ese were th e L itt le Bob mine in Paulding Coun ty and th e Bell Sta r a nd Ri ch mines in C he rokee Coun ty. The Li ttle Bob mine p roduced 1,500 ton s of pyrit e per m onth du rin g W orld W ar 1. Other p yrit e mines op era ted du rin g th at period incl uded R eed s M ou n tain in H a ralson and C a rroll Coun ties, Vi lla R ica in Dou glas Co unty, Marietta in Cobb Coun ty, Stan da rd

a nd Swift in C herokee Count y, an d C hestatee in Lumpkin C oun ty.
Th e name " fool's gold" was a pp lied to pyrite long befor e th e Ci vil W a r when gold m in er s aro und Dahlon ega often were fooled by the ore, thinking it was rea l go ld . Th ey conside re d it worth less.
But more tha n a cen tu ry later th at " fool's gold" a ppea rs to ' have real valuc-i-Ior th e nati on a nd for Georgia .
Government Contracts For Georgia Industries
Th e la test governmen t con trac ts for G eorgia industri es, according to th e field serv ice reports of th e U . S. D epa rtm en t of C ommer ce, includ e th e follow ing :
.J. H . Estes Mfg. C o., I nc., UN I ON
CI T Y -500.000 strea me rs to be mad e from cott on' sheeting , $26,750 .00.
. Co lum b us Lumber & Sup ply Com pan y, COLU1HBUS - Co n t rac ted to store and sh ip lumber, exc eeds $250,000.00 .
Con tracts to recap and rep air tires wer e awa rd ed to the following conce r ns:
D obbs-Adams Tire Company, ALBA N Y .
Sno w Ti re Com pany, ATH ENS . Atla n ta T ires, In c., ATLANTA . G . T. D uke Com pany, ATLANTA . Gordy Tire Co mpany. ATLA NTA . Pa rk s Tire & Equipment Co ., ATLANTA. P rior Tire Com pa ny, ATLANTA . Ridd ick Sa les Co ., ATLA NTA . Sm ith T ire C om pany, ATLANTA . Co wa rt R ecapping Co., A UG USTA . Br un swick T ire Shop, BR UNSW I CK. D obbs-Adams Ti re Co., CE DA R TOWN . United Oil Corporation , CO L UM BUS . Wi llis Q uick Tire Service, GR I FFIN . M acon Tire C om pany, }vfACON Pal m er Tire Co m pany, M ACON. The Power O il C ompany, MACO N .
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Blackshear Shoe Factory
Prospers in Six Years
Weekly Payroll $6,000
Ch ild ren's oxfo rds, sa ndals, loa fers, h igh top shoes, a nd boots a re tak en off th e asse mbly line of th e Pierce Shoe M an ufact uring com pa ny a t the rates of 4,00 0 pairs per d a y.
Th e shoes, m ade in va riou s colors, includ ing red , white, b rown, a nd brown and wh ite are shi p ped by t ru ck, express, and parcel post to cities over th e U n ite d Sta tes and to Pu erto Ri co .
S. C . Spato la , wh o cam e to Am eri ca when he was a ro und 14 yea rs of age , is the gen era l m anager a t th e fa ctory. H is career in shoe-m aking began in I ta ly. T her e, shoes wer e m ad e by h and.
I n th e fa ct ory, which is cred ite d with br inging m a ny d ollars in to th e country, a re 170 m od ern, sho e-m aki ng m ach ines. These machines a re operated by 200 peop le, th ree-fourth s of wh om are women .
The av era ge length of tim e that is required before a p erson ca n suc cessfully opera te the m achines is from three to six m onths. M an y of th e em ployees hav e been workin g con ti nuo usly since the fact or y bega n oper a ting six years ago .
A h eavy pa ttern in th e sh ape of th e h um an foot is used to shape th e lea ther for th e shoes. This is th e first step . T hen th e cut lea ther goes throug h m any machines for threading, ro ugh ro undi ng, stit ching, and heali ng.
The edge trim mach ine, wh ich trims th e sole of th e sho e, is opera ted only by skilled workmen. And thi s tedi ou s job is not master ed as qu ick ly as the othe r tasks. After th e shoe is trimmed it is th en pa ssed on to th e packing a nd finishing d ep a rtm ent .
At th e end of th e pack ing and [ .nish ing d epa rtm en t th e sho e, com plete with ton gu e, t ra d em a rk, and strings , is placed in a box for ship ping. Each d ay, 100 ca ses a re t urn ed ou t, with 36 pai rs of shoes in eac h cas e.
The registered tr ad em ark used by th e Bambo Manufa ct uring Co m pany is, " T he Streng th of an Elep han t." Bambo a nd Bambino are th e tw o br a nd nam es th at a re used. " Bam bino" is used to iden tify infa n ts' shoes, and " Bambo" is used for ch ild 's and misses' sh oes.
In 1945, when th e fac to ry began to be in op eration, Mr. Spa tola had 13 em ployees an d on ly 6,000 feet of floor space . One yea r lat er, h e bought ad di -
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Government Contracts For Georgia Industries
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Sla ug hte r Ti re Co ., MA CON . Bill K ehoe Tirc Co., SA V A N NAH .
Patter son Car & H om e Sup ply Co. , S AVANNA H
R oyal T ire Service, SAVANNA H . Tifton T ire Co mpany, T I FTON. The B. F . Goodrich Compa ny, ALBA NY. T he Fireston e Tire & Rubber Co ., ATLANTA. The B. F . Goodrich Co m pa ny, ATLANTA .
The Goo dyear T ire & Ru bb er Co., ATLANTA'
Th e Fireston e T ire & R ubber Co., In c., A UG USTA .
The Fireston e Ti re & Rubber Co ., CO LUA'fBU S.
T he F ires roue r rrc & R ub be r ,-,o., In c., M A CON .
The Goodyea r Ti re & Rubber Co ., MACON .
The Fireston e Tirc & Rubber Co ., SA V AN N AH.
The Good year Tire & Rubber Co ., I nc., S AVANNA H .
Sa va n na h M achin e & Found ry Co., SAVANNA H- Vessel reacti vation repai rs, $ 107,985 .00. Also rea ctivation repairs, $ 130,9 09. 00.
T h e St eel Products C o., In c., SA VA NNAH-Eight trailer s, $35, 776.00.
Savanna h Suga r R efining C orp. , SA VA N N AH-400,000 Ibs. gra nu late d suga r, $36, 152.00.
Callaw ay Mills, LAGRANGE-50,000 lin . yds. gr ey cotton d uck, $4 7,150. 00.

State Museum Features
Display on Naval Stores
T he State Capito l, Atla n ta , is th e p roud recipient of a new display in th e Sta te Museum of Natura l Science, th anks to th e Am eri can Turpentine Fa rm er s Associati on of Vald osta . The impressive display depi cting th e m odern turpentine st ill in operation and th e many indispensa ble produc ts derived from our Georgia pine wa s exec uted in a rea listic way by J ohn Steinec he n, not ed At lanta a rtist.
Annette M cl.ean , State C ur ator, pointed out how th e exh ibit showed th ~ m od ern way of using ae id to ea t in to th e bark of th e tr ee to prom ot e th e flow of gum instea d of cutt ing th e t ree in cr iss-cross slashes.
The der ivatives of rosin and turpen tin e, by-products of th e p in e' s crude gum, are vita l items of eve ryday .use fo r eac h on e of us. From turpentme we ge t p aint thinner , clean er solvent, insecticides, pl astics, m ed icin es, ca m phor, wax , polishes, lin im ent, and p rinting inks .
H . M . Paff ord, J r., WAYCR O SSCo nstruc tion of drain age di tch , structures and sanita ry sewe r outfa ll, amo un t to excee d $250,000.
G . M . Canning Co. , WAYSID E5,400 dozen ca nne d pim ientos, $28,647.
Willingh am Co tto n Mills, MA CO N -Grey cotton duck, am ount to excee d .$250,000 .
Callaway Mi lls Co ., LAGRANGEGrey cotton du ck, amount to excee d $250 ,000.
Bibb Mfg. Co ., MACO N -72 ,OOO co tto n shee ts, $ 162,000.
Georgia Webbing & T ape Co., CO L UlvlBUS - 600,000 lin . yds. - cotton webb ing , $ 120,750.

Expert Lists Six Reasons
For Egg Production Here
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d uction . T h ese farms a rc ideally suited to th e profitab le prod ucti on ~ f hi gh qu alit y com m erc ia l cggs as a m aj or source of incom e.
5. Co m m erc ial egg p roducti on fits our fa rms. It is a profitabl e bus iness. I t is fai rly easy to get into bu siness a nd grow with it .
6. Read y m ark et s exist for a ll th e top -qua lity eggs we ca n produce. Ne arly cve ry farm is close to a good m arket.
There is a rea dy market for $ 100,000,000 worth of eggs eac h year in thi s sectio n of th e country, a nd th e population is increasing .
Georgians spend .$25,000,000 eac h yea r bringin g eggs into thi s Sta te. Dr. Robert S. Wh eeler , ch airman of th e poultr y d ivision of th e Univer sity of Geor gia Co llege of Agri cu lture, said th at we need 3.000.000 a dd itional laying hens in th ~ S t~te to produce eggs for our needs.
In a Sta te th at ranks second in th e nati on in th e producti on of broiler s, if we sho uld turn our attention now to th e possibilities of gre a te r egg production , we wou ld find th e chicken th at laid th e "golde n egg" is right in our own back ya rd.
Blackshear Shoe Factory
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tional lan d from th e city and bui lt on to th e fa ctory. D ur ing 'the follow ing years four more addition s h av e been m ad e. T od ay th e fact or y cove rs a p p rox im at ely 28,000 feet of floor space .
This growing loca l industr y is bringing to Blackshear a payroll of app roximately $6,000 per week and is regarded as a cr ed it to th e town .

Vol. 3, No. 11


Janu ary 3, 1952

Georgia, In Midst of Progress,

Sheep Raising Regaining Importance as Profitable

Facing Big Promise in New Year

Enterprise in Georg ia

One of th e oldes t en terpr ises known



By CLARK GAINES

in her progr essive adva nce me nt.

to man- sheep raising- is on th e verge of becoming once again very profitab le

State Secretary of Commerce

In th e yea r 1940, th er e were on and popul ar in Geo rgia . I t is ha rd to farms in thi s State 329,000 cows whi ch believe th at as lat e as some 30 veal'S



This Ne w Yea r, 1952, has b rou ght pr oduced milk va lued a t $29,663,000. ago , nea rly en'ry north Georgia fa'rmer Geo rg ia to a pinnacle of p rogress no Of th is, $ 10,3 11,000 worth was sold to kept sheep to supply wool for clo thing ,

one cou ld for esee ten years ago , when the markets an d $ 19,325,000 consumed meat for food an d a ma rket p roduct

th e swee p forw ard bega n on th e agri- on th e farm . But in 1950 th er e were for cas h. Abo ut th at time, th e sheep



cultura l and industri al fronts. The 365,000 cows on Geor gia fa rm s whi ch populati on began to drop off sha rply. decade h as been one of economic ad- pr oduced $76.293,00 0 worth of milk , T en yea rs ag o there wa s h ard ly a shee p

"ann : th at more than qu adrupled th e of whi ch $36,241,000 was cash incom e to be found .

per ca pita incom e of our peopl e : th e a nd th e balan ce consu med on th e

At th at tim e th e Geor gia M ountain



nu mb er of Georgia' s factories almo st farm. This increase in pr oduction was Exper iment St ation , nca r Blai rsville,

dou bled , from slightly more th a n three no less th an phenomenal, bu tit is of a brou gh t a floek of sheep to th e station

th ou sand in 1940 to some six th ousand pattern with ma ny other far- reachi ng for expe rimen tal purpos es. Ther e were



tod a y; our ag ricultura l life was revolutionized to utilize th e opportunities of

adva nces in our eco nomic life. Now for ano th er revelation of Geor-

no other shee p in U nio n Co unty, and few in th e Geor gia mounta in a rea .

scientifi c application and meet th e gia progr ess. In th e yea r 1940, total Sin ce th at tim e, th e shee p populati on

rapidly growing demands of expanding farm cash receipts in th e sta te were in Union County has jumped 760 per



con sum er ma r kets a nd industrial needs. I l \'\ d ~ Gc;U Jg ~d.'~ GI Litl DC\..~(lG.c . T h e

$ 167,115,000; but for th e fir st nin e 11 101-.lths of 1951 t he y vv er e $40G,C2t,OOO.

cent a nd is on th e increase all over th e a r r-a ,

farm in Georgia becam e th e ac tive ally For the firs t nin e mon th s in 1950 th ev

T ests a t th e sta tion are continuing

of industry, sup plying ra w mat erials were estimated a t $3 19,009,000, ind i'- to lay th e fou nd a tion for th is resurgence



for processing that th e factori es called for , and in doing so adde d definitely

eating th e big ste p-up in a sing le twel ve months.

of sheep br eeding on th e hill and va lley farms. They sho w that an acre of good



to farm prosperity.

Ex cept w h er e industries dep end

lar gely up on mines for th eir materi als,

no grea t indust rial sta te ca n gro w

where the re is not alrea dy a grea t ag ri-

cultural sta te. A glance a t th e progr ess

made in Geor gia during thi s decad e

indi cat es we have ac hieved th e essen-

tia l status as a farm stat e as well as

moving forward in all other field s of

econo my; it all points to a readiness

for th e additiona l grea t p rogr ess th at

is ahead for our State in thi s veal' 1952

a nd th e yea rs to come .

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In 1940, cash receipts for cotton lint and seed tot aled $55,95 7,000 ; for 1950, $ 114,485,000.
Cash receipts for peanu ts wen t from $ 15.818,000 in 1940 to an estima ted tot al value of $73,958 ,000 in 1950 ; livestoc k, estima ted valu e. $87,092,000 in 1940, to $138,320.000 for ca t tle. $42.962.000 for hog s. a nd $12026000 for chickens and turkevs in 1950. We are now moving on to becom ing on e of th e great cattle sta tes in th e na tion , a nd al readv we ar e secon d in com me rciaI broiler' producti on . In 1935 our br oiler

grazing land may return as mu ch as $150 from th e plea sant a nd picturesqu e indust rv.
Tod ~v becau se of better methods of controlling parasit es, better fen ces an d bet ter pastures, along with th e p rice and scarcity of wool, Geo rgia fa rm er s a rc finding th at it pa ys to keep sheep and pa ys well.
The White Provision Comp an y of Atl anta this yea r imported more th an 800 ewes into the state a nd pl aced th em with new grow ers in th e Piedmont section . Three do uble-dec ked ca rs of Suffolk a nd H ampshire gr ad e ewes

As to th e progress we hav e mad e, incom e was $250,000 ; tod ay it is ove r were brought her e from C alif ornia un-

let us begin by lookin g a t Geor gia' s 45 mill ion dollars, or nearly 190 tim es der th eir dir ecti on and placed on Iarrn s

dairy industr y, which is so funda mental

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IN DUST R IAL NEWS LETTER

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J anua ry 3, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Cobb C o un tv sh o rtly will have a new

in d ustry.

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Th e At lan ta Aggrega te C ompany, In c., a subsid ia ry of t he Birmi ngh am Slag C om pany, was successful in its ap p lication to re-zo n e fro m reside nce to b usin ess a loca tion in MARl ET T A a t th e so utheast inter secti on of M arble Mill Road with th e N . C. & St . L. R ailroa d .
J H . C lo tfel ter, treasurer of th e At -
lanta finn sai d th at pl an s for th e co ncrete -bloc k m anufactu rin g plan are now bein g com p leted .
H e said a fir st-class bui lding will be p la ced on th e present un develo ped a rea .

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Th e K n 0 x G lass Com pa ny h as

bou gh t ad d itiona l land nea r G R I FFIN

a nd a nno u nc ed th a t a pla nt defi n itely

, w ill be located a t thi s city . '



The company expla ine d that it h as

not ch a nged its plans to locate a pl ant

a t Griff in th a t will em ploy a bo ut 250

p e o p l e.

The Kn ox G lass Co. has owned land

a t Griffin fo r th e past five yea rs bu t

th e glass marke t up until th e ' time' th at

building m ateri als became di ffi cult to

sec ure sim p ly did not warrant expa n -

sion a nd a n a dd itiona l p lant . N ow it

is h ard to get m ateri a ls with whi ch to

build, but G riffi n is assured of a g'lass

p lant in th e n car future.

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The So uthe rn K ra ft T imberland C o rp ora tion of Ge or gia has purch ased a 70,000-acr e SAVANNAH esta te th a t once was the w inter h om e of th e la te H enry Fo rd .
Fin a l tr ansfer of th e p ropert y was a n no unc ed in New York by a spo kesm an for th e I n tern a tio nal Paper Comp an y, of whic h th e G eor gia finn is a subsidia ry.
Th e esta te, which is a t Ri chmond Hill a n d in cludes a bout 50 ,000 ac res of woodla nd, h as been th e p roperty of th e Ford Fou nd ation for a nu m ber of Years, , The Georgia fi rm will opera te t he property m ainly fo r th e prod ucti on of pulpwood , to be used in p roducti on of " kra ft" o r co a rse ind ustria l p aper. It a lso will p rod uce oth e r wo od item s, including variou s typ es of p osts.
Approxima tel y 200 m en will b e em p loyed in th e woo ds, a spokesm an sa id .
Mr. a nd Mrs. H enry F ord spe n t a t

least a p a r t of each winter on t he R ichmond H ill esta te for m o re th an 20 years before M r. F o rd's d ea th in Ap ril, 194 7.
M uch of th e la nd ult im a tely acqu ired bv NIl'. F ord was on ce conside re d u se less, The lowl ands. fo rm erly a rice a rea , h ad reve rt ed to swa m ps 'a fter th e dikes had d et eri orated a nd th e timbe rlands had been c u t a nd wer e unprotect ed from fir e. Th e en tire area was in a sta te of eco no m ic waste a t th e tim e of ac q uisition . Mr. F ord took t h e lea d in eff ecting an eco no m ic r ev ival of th e area .
Th e property w as ac q uire d wh en M r. F ord was exploring th e p ossibility of producing syn the tic rubber from go ld . enrod . I t is loca ted alo ng th e O geech ce R iver 20 m iles south of Sav annah .
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M a yo r B. S. Johnson of FO LKS TON h as been co n ta cte d by a p a rty d esirous of establish in g a sm a ll h osicrv Ia ct orv in th e town . '- T h e fact or y i;l q uest ion wo uld em ploy 50 per sons a t good w ages a nd req ui re suita ble site a nd b uilding.
Like m ost . p ro posit ion s of its kind this underta kin g ca lls fo r th e expend it ur e of co nsid era ble loca l ca p ita l a s well as furni shing of a site th at wou ld m ak e sh ipp ing eas y a nd a ccessib le. M ayor J ohnson h as request ed th at p ersons wi llin g to donate suc h sites ge t in touch wit h him a t once .
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$1,000,000 Paper
Plant is Opened
A $1 ,000,000 p aper co nve rting p lant, a no th er h andsom e a nd im p ressive st ructure in th e rapidly exp a nd ing in dustri al com m un ity of th e ATLA NTA a rea , has been forma lly o pe ned by Internati on al Paper Co .
With 55 ,500 sq ua re feet of floo r space, th e new plant is a t 232 3 N . Svlva n Rd . in East Point a n d is a un it
at' Intern ational Paper 's Single Service
Divi sion . The operation is d evot ed exclusively
to the p rod uct ion of Pure-Pak m ilk co n tai ne rs. Official s sa id its location in Geo rg ia refl ect ed th e g row th of th e d ai ry indust ry in th e So u theast.
F;'om thi s ~en t ra l loca tion , th e plant serves custome rs in Georgi a , F lorida , th e C arolinas, Alabama a n d T ennessee .
Eq uip m en t a t th e East Po int plant inclu d es three c utting , creasing and

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E

p rin ting presses, a nd six folding- glui ng m ach ines. Th ese facilit ies arc design ed

to p rod uce at th e ra te of 30,000,000 Pu rc-P a k co n ta ine rs a m onth .
A ll on on e floor and of brick co n-

st ruc tion, th e new bu ilding ho uses th e di vision offices for th e region a ; well as th e m a nufa ct u ring operation .
At p resent, th e ope ra tion h as 75 em pl oyees. Anticipating a co n ti n uous inc rea se in bu sin ess. how eve r. th e co m pan y p lans th at ;\'ithi n th e' n ext yea r o r so th is tot a l will be d oubled .
The Sing le Se rv ice Division becam e a who lly owne d subsid ia ry of Inter-

na tion a!' Pape r in 1946 and a division in 194 7. I n ad d ition to th e East Point

p lant, it ha s plants a t Ba strop, L a .,

K a nsas C ity. K ans.. K a lamazoo. M ich ..

a n d No rrist~wn. P~ .

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Beh ind th e new op er ation her e sta n ds th e hu ge So u th e rn Kraft di vision of th e co m pa n y. It h as mills a t Bastrop

a nd Spring Hill, L a . : Cam den , Ark. :

M oss Point a n d Natc h ez, Mi ss.: M o-

bile, A la .: Pan a m a C itv, Fl a ., a nd

Geo rge town, S. C .

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In te rn at ion al Paper em p loys 12,900 me n a nd wo m en in its So uthe rn oper a tion s, with a tot al a nn ua l p a yroll of mo re tha n $5 3,000,000 .

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A new industry, th e N ation al C vl in -

d el' Gas co m pany, p lans to b uiid a plant just o utside A UG USTA 'S city

lim its, if th e city's legal d ep artment a p p ro ves transfer of a lease on som e city-owned property.

C ity C o unc il' s finance co m m ittee

approv ed th e transfe r subj ect to ap proval by th e city a tto rney.

S po kesme n for th e gas finn said th ey pl an to bui ld just eas t of E ast Boundary a nd to e rec t ba rge term in a ls on th e riv er bank, running pipe lin es over th e lev ee to th e gas plant.

Counci l ga ve a n oil co m pany a lea se

som e 10 years ago, officia ls sa id , b ut th e lease h as cha nged h ands on ce o r

twice in th e m ea ntime, a nd th e n ew gas com pa ny wa nt s to m ak e sure of th e

t ransfe r before go ing a hea d .

Port at Brunswick to Ship Timbers for Export Jan. 10
T he first sh ip to sto p in BR U N S "t'I CI< under a long-ra nge p rogram to rea ctivate th e port ther e, is sched u led to a rrive a bo u t J an uary 10 to load a ca rgo of mine props for Belgium, th e
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INDU STRIAL NEWS LETTER

J a nu a ry 3, 1952

Waycross Rapidly Becoming

City of Teeming Industries

WA Y CR OSS , long famed as a ga te way to th e world-renowned O kefenokee Swa mp, is cha lking up o the r claims to St ate a nd Na tional a tte ntion. Ind ustriall y the city in th e last few yea rs ha s ; d de d seY~ra l new plants to th ei r ros ter of p ayr olls and seen local indust ries, th riving under fa vo ra ble circu msta nces, en large th ei r operat ions.
O ne of the most attractive industri al sigh ts in \ Vaycross is th e mo d ern home of King Edwa rd Ciga rs, one of th e five la rgest ciga r fa ct ori es in th e r at e of produ cti on in th e world . Ev rrv da y 1,3 10,000 of th e fam ou s 6 ciga rs are m anufa ctured a t th e W a ycr oss plant .
The home pl a nt o f Ki ng Edwa rd ciga r, a J ohn H . Swisher a nd Son , Inc. p rodu ct , is in J a cksonv ill, Fl orid a. The sole branch fact ory in Georg ia is a n a rc hitec t's d ream of mod ern efficienc y. Two years after th e p lant began p ro du cti on in 1948, th e capacity wa s doubled a nd th e number of employees enlarged from 400 to 9 75 per son s.
One industry in W ay cr oss adds up to tw o. R ecently a gro u p of loca l fina n ciers announced th eir plan s to build a paper-box fa ct ory next to K in g Ed wa rd to supp ly the ship ping box es for th e famous ciga rs. The box fact ory p lant wi ll con tai n 10,00 0 sq . ft. and employ 30 person s for ini tia l ope ra tions.
An other W aycro ss ind us tr y th at is progr essin g, no t on a bi g sca le, but on a potentially g rea t mea su re is th e H ebardvil le M anufacturing Company, one

of th e few toy en te rp rises in Georgia . O wn ed and ope ra ted by J oh n Ce cil Benn ett. local woodworker. th e tOY fa ctory ha; just thi s seaso n g~n e i n t~ fullsca le p rod ucti on of juven ile " playth ings," m ad e from native South Georgia wood , m arketing th e produ ct in cvcrv section of th e U n ite d St at es.
Ik:nnett ha s expa nd ed a small special order mi llwork sho p into a mo dern assembly lin e pl ant an d with th e enla rged bu ildings and new ly inst a lled ma chine tools is turni ng ou t 2,000 units a month from his produ ction line. N ext ye ar he p lan s to enla rg e eve n fu rther to keep up with th e m agnitud e of ord er s he is receiving fro m wh olesale m anufacturer s in other states.
Benne tt is spe cia lizing in three it em s for th e nation a l m arket a nd th e South eas te rn m arket in p articular: wood en do ll beds , woo den rocking horses and wood en cha irs. The wood en " playthings" arc comp lctc lv fini shed , painted and d ecorat ed , befo re th ey are packed for shipping .
O rd ers hav e a lrcadv been deliv ered as far as Oklahoma, following th e exhibit of the tOYS in T oy Sh ow s in N ew York and Chicago, a t the furniture marts in H igh Point, N . C ., and N ew a rk , Ohio.
One of th e ou tsta nd ing selling fea tu res of th e tOYS is th e fa ct th a t th ey ca n be assembled cas ilv a nd ca n be sh ipped in flat boxes th ~t m anufacturers find hand y to store in crowde d

Trio of Waycro ss m er chants who handle juveni le products inspects toys wit h manu-
factu rer John C ec il Ben ne tt. From left to ri gh t, F. J. T asson e, Sam H oward , Ben nett , and
Bill ie Ki ng.

Sheep Raising Regaining
(Continued from Page 1)
in grou ps ran gin g from fou r to 30 with a few lots of 50 and one of 100.
M cfrulfic, Ca rroll, Sp alding, CO\\"l:ta o Co bb a nd Fl ovd Co u n ties received t h~ hulk of th e ship ment s. One gro u p of 25 was sen t to L ee Co u nty in South
Geo rg ia . C a rro ll County Age n t Earl Sander s,
who is en th usia stic oye r adva nce me nt of shee p -ra ising in th e ar ea, sta te d. t l~ at shee p offer " mo re money per umt investment" th an anyth ing else on th e fa rm . H e sai d th a t thus fa r Carroll's sheep hav e averaged aro u n~ 6Y2 pounds of wool per shee p a n.d thi s wool ha s b ro ught th e exce llen t pnee o f $ 1.22
per pound. \V. H . IVleK in ne y. animal hu sband-
man at th e NI ount a'i~ Experiment St ation sees a most p ro mising ou tlook. H e gives thi s size-up o f th e situa tio n:
Sh eep fit in well with other systems of farming pra cti ced in th e a rea. L a,?or requirem ents a re low and th e lambing seaso n comes wh en other demands on tim e arc at a m inimum. R etu rns per dollar inv est ed a re high and a farmer ca n expec t a goo d retur n per a(:re . T he lon g-tim e ou tloo k for m ar ket in g wool and mea t is good .
The sta tion is improvin g it s flock with purebred H ampshire sir es a nd th e stead ily incr ea sing advantag e is ap paren t. II~ 1948, a doz en ewes produ ced a la mb cro p val ued a t $42 5, plus an av erage of seven pounds of wool per shee p. The nex t vcar, 20 ewes produced 30 lambs valu~d ~ t $750 and an average of ten pounds of wool.
T ests show th at abou t five sheep ca n be earried on an acr e of goo d p asture. A little ad d itional grain is req uired but mon ey from wool sales is more th a n
enough to cover this. If p rog ress and in te rest con tin ue to
grow in sheep ra ising, Georgia will h a ve ano ther pot enti all y powerful indust ry to ad d to her in cr ea sin gly div ersified
economy .

wareh ou ses.

The doll bed s, th e fir st product of

th e H eb ardville Compan y, set th e chil-

dren in W av cr oss on fir e. And th e

ambi tious \\Tan Toss millwright, wh o

h ad been lookincr for a m a rk et abl e

b

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prod u ct , go t th e id ea f?r m anul a ctur~ng

tovs that giv es pr onll se of d evelop ing

into one of \Vaycro ss' m aj or industries.

:1\J r. Bennett sa ys th at wood en toys are a natu ral fO I: W aycross, since it

provid es a m a r ket for th e wood th at is so p lentifu l in th at sec tion.

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Georgia, In Midst of Progress
(C on tin u ed fr om P a ge 1)
wh a tit w as 17 yea rs ago.
In 1935, less th an 7,000 G eo rg ia fa rms were receivin g electri c p ow er fr om a ce n t ra l sta tion. T oday 154,579 fa rms in the sta te ge t suc h elec t ricit y, or 79 per ce n t as aga in st 2.8 per cen t 17 yea rs ago.
The above is enough to indicate the g rea t sweep forward that h as been m ade by agri cu lt u re in G eorgi a in it s d ecade of progress. This sig na l a d va ncem en t on the farm h as provided th e necessary b ack ground for th e g re a t industrial a dva n ce that h as co me to G eo rg ia during th e la st ten o r tw elve yea rs. And n ow , let u s look a t industr y.
In 1940 th e va lue of a ll manufactured product s turned out by G eorgi a mi lls was $677,402,000. By 1945 it h ad moved up to $1,296,223,000. In 1948 it w a s $2,809,700,000. And th e vea l' 1950 brought the figure .to '$3,308,000,000. T extile p rodu cti on rose from $218,5 73, 107 in 1940 to .$ 1,085,000,000 in 1950.
The number of industrial em p loyee s went from 179,161 in 1939 to 286,129 in 1950, and for t he fir st n in e months of 1951, 291,300. Industria l sa laries a n d wa ges ro se nearly half a b illion do llars during the 1939-1 950 peri od, or from $ 144,546,000 to $638,809,000.
The sta te 's va lu e ad de d bv manufa cture, or less the cost of m aterial s, sup plies, fue l, electric ene rgy a nd co n t ract work, in 1950 was estim a te d a t $ 1,227,442 ,000, a n in cr ea se of 333 p erce n t over 1939. In this as well as in wages and sa la ries paid in 1950 and th e number of em p loyee s, G eor gi a led the states of A labama, F lorida, Missis.sippi, T ennessee a nd South Carolina.

That the sta te is still definitclv on th e upgrade a nd it s phen omen al p rogress is con tin u ing unch eck ed is indica te d by figu res co m p a ring the first nine mon t hs of 1951 with t he sa me pe riod of th e year bef ore, as foll ow s:
Bank d ep osit s, for 1951 p eri od , $ 1,503,600,000 ; 1950 p eriod , $ 1, 168,600,000 . Bank loans, $523,700,000-$500,700,000 . I n d eposits, G eorgia led A la bama, Mississippi a n d T ennessee.
Annua l weekly in sured unemploy m ent dropped 30 percent in 1951 from the 1950 p eri od.
El ect ri c ene rgy p rodu cti on went f rom 3,711,905,000 kilow att hours in the 1950 p eri od ( nine m onths ) to 4,727,9 14,000 ki lowat t hours in th e 1951 p eriod .
The number of telephon es in creased fr om 507,395 to 545,55 3. The n umber todav is m u ch nearer 600.000.
So'me 56,000,000 feet ~ f pine lumber was produced a n d sh ip p ed in G eorgia d uring the fir st nine mo n th s of 1951 ; 781 new busin ess corpora tion s w er e esta blished; $ 106,63 7,000 worth of n ew resid en ces .we re built in towns of 2,500 population o r more ; Georgi a produced 74 p er cent of the n ation 's naval sto res a nd 75 % of th e kaolin mined in the United States. During the 12 months of 1951 out-of-state visit ors who ca me as tourists or on business sp ent ove r $160 ,000 ,000 in G eorgi a . G en er a l co nst r uc tion u nd er wav or a nnounced in the sta te during one ' four-m onth p eri od wa s in the n eighborhood of a bi llion dolla rs.
G eorgi a is definitel y o n the m ov e, a nd the mo ve me n t h as j us t begun ; th e next fiv e yea rs will see progress now und reamed of in eve rv lin e.
Sources of th e a bO\:e figures, in ad d ition to our own su rve ys a nd records, a re t h e State D ep artment of Agricu lture, G eorgia D airy Association , U . S.

D ep a rtment of C ommer ce, Bureau o f th e C ens u s, Bureau of Agricultura l Econ omics in U . S. D ep artment of Agri cu ltu re, F ed e ral R eserve System , Dun a nd Br adstreet , U. S. D ep artment of L ab or, St a te D ep artment of L abor, Southern Pin e Associa tion , F ed eral Pow er C ommission , St ate Mines Dept ., Cotton Manufacturers Association of G eorgia, a nd t he Blue Book of Sou thern Progress.
Port at Brunswick to Ship Timbers for Export Jan. 10
(C on tin ued fro m Pag e 2 )
Brunsw ick Po rt A uthoritv revea led . Already t ru ck s a re br'inging in the
logs from ov er South G eo rgia a nd a bo u t 4.000 h av e been sto c ked in the sh ipy a rd. As m an y as 50,000 ton s of mine props-p ine logs a bo u t 10 feet lon g-arc sche d u led to be sh ipped through th e p ort, the Authority sai d.
Step s were ta ken severa l months ago to rea ctivate th e Br unswi ck port with the em p loym e n t of a m an ager, \V. H . Bedfo rd . W o rkmen are now rep a iring dock s to a llo w th e mine p rops sh ip ments.
The D uv al Engineering a nd Con-
tra cting Company of .racksonville has
been con t rac te d to dredge th e bas in to ac commoda te ocean -going fr eighters . The co st of d eep en ing t he basin, t h e Authority sa id , wou ld run nea rl y $ 100,000. Arrangements for fin ancing the project w er e not di sclo sed .
This is the firs t co n cre te ste p a n nounced by the Authority tow a rd op en ing th e p ort, wh ich wa s o nce one of th e busiest on th e Atlantic, handling a large volume of lu m ber shipme n ts.
On lv a n oc cas ion a l tanker ca lls now a t the 'p o r t, loca ted but four m iles from ope n sea and con sidered by m any to b e one of t he best a lo ng th e sea boa rd .

V ol. 3, No. 12

J anuary 25, 1952

Fullers Earth l

Vital Product

Georgia Industries Get Bulk of Govern ment

For lndustrv, Mined in State Contracts in December Def en se con tracts let by the Fed era l

Govern men t in G eo rgia a nd th e So uth -

Fuller s ea r th is one of th ose highl y table and an im a l oils, in cluding th e east d ur in g December tot a led fa r in

va lua ble indust rial materia ls vou hear va rious ed ible oils, a nd m an y ot hers. excess of .$ 12,400,000 in va lue, it was

little abou t. But if our forefa th ers had It s absorbe n t quality m ak es it a n ex- revea led thi s mo n th .

ha d it in hog- killing time wh en they cellen t floor sweep . ta king up oils,

In a ll, last month 98 con trac ts were

p rep ared the pork prod uet s for smoke- greasl"s and ot he r foreign substance s. let by th e Fed er a l Governmen t to firm s

ho use or m arket , th eir lard would hav e It is a lso u tilized in the m an ufa ct ure in six So utheaste rn sta tes.

been pu re whi te instead of bearing a of insecticides.

Out of th is tot al G eorgia received

ce r ta in co lora tion . Todav a n umber

Georgia is now p roducing a n nu ally 26 con trac ts, whi ch wa s mo re th an th a t

of important and widel y ' used indus- a ro u nd two mi llion d oll a rs worth of of an y other sta te in th e region ,

tri a l produ cts a rc wh it e or clea r of color full ers ea r th a nd a stcadv in cr ease in

J ou ett Davenport, bu sin ess ed itor, in

bcca use th e d ist illers hav e fu llers ear th its p rodu cti on is expec ted in view of an article in th e At la nta J ourn al.

as a filter, blea ch er a nd absorber.

the new uses being foun d for the ma- brou gh t out the fact th a t more than

F ull ers ea r th has widesp rea d uses in ter ial.

$2,000,000 worth of th e con trac ts let

th e m a nufact uri ng wor ld . Any oil or

T he St at e Dep artment of M ines has to Georgia m an uf acturers wer e for tex-

grease p ro duct can be refined with it . made a highl y valu able study of th ese tile prod ucts . T h is sho uld p rove to be



th e g re ase mat eri al being heat ed to a cla y d eposits in Georgia . They are some thing of a shot in the a rm for

liquid st at e to do thi s. These product s include gasoline, lub ricating oil, la rd

fo u nd over a large par t of th e sta te sou th of Co lum bus, M a con a nd Au -

textil es. Am on g th e fir ms ge tt ing hu ge con-



or its subs titu tes, medi cin e, soa p, vcg c-

(C on tin ued on Page 3 )

(Continued on Page 4 )

MILITARY PRIME CONTRACT AWARDS, FISCAL YEAR 1951

(Money Fig ures in Tho usa nds of $)



% of

Ail'

State Al a b a m a

$ 147,933

Total 0 .5

Army 128,031

Navy 19,080

Force 715

ASPPA 107



Ark an sas

Fl orid a

52,4 76

0.2

13,8 79

38,45 1

14 6

0

75 , 101

0.3

50,2 19

18 ,1 9 2

4,339

2.351

GEOR GI A

K cn tu ckv



Loui sia n;

182,19 2 69 ,500 181,30 7

0 .6

148,831

25 , 55 3

0.2

44,6 75

16,109

0 .6

127,78 7

23,97 0

7,800 4 . 72 2
809

8 3, 99:128,741

Mi ssissippi

42 , 2 78

0.1

38, 989

2,96 7

294

28

N. Caro lina



S. Carolin a T ennessee

209,81 3 118 ,07 0

0.7

150 ,46 4

35 ,132

24,2 17

0 .4

10 1,682

13,2 0 3

3, 158

27

20 6 ,645

0.7

171,2 42

32,94 7

2,45 6

0

V ir ginia .

230,484

0.8

118, 123

100 ,86 3

10,9 34

564

U . S. TOTAL

29,581 ,96 0

100

13,31 3,033

7,401 ,20 4

8,500 ,698

36 7,025



According to a M un itions Board relea se, on e h un dred la rge c ompan ies received 61. 5 per cen t of th e tot al d olla r va lue of a ll

m ilit ary con tracts of $ 10,000 or more awar d ed in th e con tine n ta l U n ited St at es during fisca l year 1951. A total of 28 .9

per cen t of a ll a ward s went to th e ten largest con trac tors; 44 . 3 per cen t went to th e 25 largest, and 54 per cent wen t to th e



50 largest. Genera l M ot ors top s th e list with $2,3 72,50 0,000 or eigh t per cen t of th e tota l.

I NDU STRIAL N E WS LETTER

J anuary 25, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Add a no the r nam e to TH OlvlA S-

M . P. Tucker, of V ald osta, a nd R. A.

T ifto n Bri ck and Block Co m pa ny has



V I LLE'S g rowing list of industri es.

Bow en , of M acon , will be owners and ad de d new block-mak in g m achinery

The D raper Co rpo ra tion of Balti- ope ra to rs of th e new m anufa ct u ring wh ich will r un in to a $50 ,000 inv est-

more, Maryland , manufacturers of textile m achin ery, will begin opera tions in

pla n t. T hes e m en own a nd op era te th e Mi ller Co nc re te Pip e Com pa ny in V al -

me n t, acco rd ing to M a rion C . H olm es. J r., manager , who sai d th e firm 's p ro-



Thom asville up on com pletion of th eir d osta a nd th e Bibb Concre te Pipe du cti on wou ld be dou bled , with fou r

new bui lding on th e Cai ro Road.

Co m pa ny in M a con .

mi llion blocks being produced a yea r.

Dewey C . N orwood , secreta ry-man-

1\1r. Tucker sai d construc tion of a T h is firm , wh ich emp loys abo u t 75 per-



ag er of th e C ham be r of C om merce, manufa ct urin g pl ant would be started sons with an an n ual pay ro ll of ap -

sai d th e new pl ant even tua lly will give as soo n as det a ils co uld be worked ou t, p roxim at ely $ 150,000 , is sup plying block

em ployme nt to seve ra l h und red pers on s in th e town and in th e for ests.

a nd tha t th e manufacture of concrete pipe would begin as soon as th e plant

[or ten Fed era l H ou sing proj ect s, Mr. H olm es said. H e reported a tr act of



The new com pany wi ll bu y d og- was read y.

land adjacen t to th e plant had been

wood lum ber to man ufac ture shuttles,

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leased [or storing ra w materia ls a nd

which a re used to feed thread into loo ms. The m anufa cturers will bu y dogwood in certa in sizes from a wid e

Bowat ers So uth ern Pa pe r Corpora- fin ish ed p roduct s.

tion , a Delaware co rpo ra tion , h as pur- " chased four tra ct s of land in M' U RRAY

Oil Leases are Signed



a rea in th e section .

COUNTY, records in th e office of th e In Chattooga, Walker

Th e Georg ia br an ch of th e Dr ap er Co rp . will be in cha rg e of H . E. K elly.

Supe rior Co ur t Clerk F . R . K endrick di sclosed .

O il leases ha ve been tak en by a Pennsylvani a prospect or on th ou sands



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Ap p rox imately 580 ac res of land of ac res of land in th e W est Arm uc he e

T he Farm an d Industri a l C he m ica l Co ., with headquarters in At lanta ,

we re bou ght by th e co rpo ra tion for $ 14,660 . All of th e sale tr an sact ion s

V alley located in C hattooga and W alker Co un ties.



which last yea r a nnou nce d plan s to were don e on a cas h basis. Some of th e

Af ter m or e th an a year's research ,

erect a manufacturing plant, has pur- la nd has b uild ings on it whi ch wer e H . L. C hapman, 77-year-old prospect or,

chased a tract of la nd a t Ph elp s, south of DALTO N on U . S. Hi ghw ay 4 1, on

ta ken in to conside ra tio n when th e sales wer e mad e.

will go to Pennsylvan ia next week to make arra ngeme n ts [or th e drilling.



which to bui ld .

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Th e Sta te of Geo rgia , as we reported

I t is expec te d th at work on th e plant TIFTON BUSINESS FIRMS

in a previous issue of th e N ews Letter,

will begin in th e ncar future. Th e prop erty wa s purch ased from Mr. a nd Mrs.

PLANNING EXPANSIONS A num ber of T IFT ON bu sin ess con-

has offe re d a $ 100,000 bonus for th e fir st success ful com me rcia l oil well in



Lee H awkins.

cerns are expa nd ing th eir ope ra tions th e Sta te .

The com pan y man ufac tu res che m ica ls for laundries, a nd is a heavy sup-

[or 1952 , a survey disclosed toda y. One of th e ou tsta nd ing expansions is

Mr. C hap man says th at accord ing to a report fro m F rank S. Craver, T ulsa ,



pli er of the p rodu ct used by the tuft ed at Builders Sup ply Com pany, where a Oklah om a, geologist, th ere arc goo d

texti le la und ries.

box fact ory is now being erec ted . K en possibilities of an oil pool in the No rth

D.alton is th e cen te r of a la rge area serviced by th e com pa ny, whi ch is to

M oseley, one of the owners , said th e plant wou ld man ufac ture h ogshead

Georgia area , with a pot enti a l ou tp ut of 8,00 0 barr els per ac re .



use its Da lt on pl ant for ' a d istribu tion stays a t first, but la ter on wou ld m ak e

M r. C raver received conside ra ble

unit as well as m anufacturing. S up - both boxes and hogshead s, wh ich will noti ce some time ago in " T he O il W eek-

plies wi ll be distribu ted from Dalton to poi n ts in T en nessee, No rth Carolina ,

be used in shi p pi ng tob acco. T ifto n M at tress Co mpany is a ddi ng

ly," an oil ind ustry m agazine. T he p rospect or said h e did not kn ow



north Ala ba ma a nd nor th Geo rgia .

to its cu rre n tly-o pe ra ted pla n t by erec t- j ust when d rillin g wou ld start.

Th e compa ny h a s been sendi ng ing a one -story, conc re te block ad d ition

" A well ca n be drilled in abo u t a

tru cks to D alt on da ily with che mical supplies. Aft er th e loca l plant is in

40x 100 feet in size and is also planning to ope n a b ra nch pla n t in Cord ele this

week," he said, " bu t on th e first one , we'll h ave to analyze th e soil eve ry ten



operation a fleet of trucks will be oper- m on th . M . O . Clements, ow ne r, said fee t. T his will tak e ap proximately th ree

a ted from Atl anta .

th e Co rd ele b ran ch would be m an aged times as long."

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CONCRETE PIPE PLANT TO

by E . J. Taylor. The manager sa id

Mr. C ha pman has pa id $ 1 on eac h



T ift Co un ty staple cotto n is used in lease tak en . In th e eve n t of ac tua l

BE LOCATED IN TIFTON

ma king th e m a tt resses and uph olster y dri llin g operations, th e la n el owner will

Th e TIFTO N Co ncrete Pip e Co m- in wh ich th e fir m specializes.

be pa id ten cents an ac re , plus a roya l-

pan y, a firm wh ich will m a n ufac ture

Qu ality Co ncrete Product s Company ty of one -eigh t th e well' s ou tp ut if oil



co.ncrete. p~p e, will be p ut int o oper- has erecte d a tw o-stor y building 70x75 is di scovered . C hapman has tak en

a no n W Ith m a short time. I t will be feet , and new eq uipmen t h as bee n p ur- leases on some 30,000 acre s.

loca ted on a seve n-ac re tra ct of la nd on Go lden R oa d, sou th of T ift on .

chased whi ch will bring abo u t doubling
of produ cti on , George J. S um ne r, ow n-

Oi l geo logists gene ra lly believe th e best possibilit ies [or oil in th at sectio n



T he new firm will a d d much to the er, said. I n ad di tion, M r. Sum ner re- of Geo rg ia a re con ta ine d in Dad e,

city's bu sin ess life, in that it will emp loy ported , th e firm plan s to p ut in new W alk er, C hattooga and C at oosa cou n -

a number of person s, a nd wi ll hav e a pa yroll of fro m .$50,000 to .$60,000 a

eq uip me n t [or furni shing rea dy-m ixed conc rete to bui ld ers. T his improvem ent

ties. Other p a rt ies wh o a re leasing acreages in th ese coun ties include J ohn



yea r.

wi ll rep resent a n investmen t of $20,000. Di et zen and a Mr. Spa rks.

GEORGIA D EPART M ENT OF COMl\1ERCE

IN D UST R IAL N EWS L ET TER

J a n ua ry 25, 1952

Athens Lumber Company Develops

Interesting Art Department

Sevcru l years ag o, wh en J oh n Bondu rant, owne r of th e Athen s L u mber Company, decided to mak pi cture Ir am cs as a side -line, he lit tl dreamed tha t th is u niq ue dep a rt men t would some d a y be recognized as an a rt center by a r tis ts and patron s throu gh ou t

the Sou th ea st. M r. Bond u rant, a t the sugges tion of
his friend L am a r Dodd, world -r en own ed artist a nd head of th e U nive rsitv of Georgia' s A I' t Department , a;ked \\' alter Frobos to take ove r the ma nag emen t of th e lumber com pa ny's new d ep a rtmen t in 1947 .
Und er M I'. Frobos' skilled gu id a nce th e department gre w stea d ily. Artists fro m 22 sta tes have sent th eir prized works o f ar t to th e Athen s Lumber Company to hav e th em cus to m -fra me d .

Their tech niq ue is so estee me d th at fifty percen t of th eir cus tome rs leav e the selection of fr ames up to M r. F ro hos and his tra ined assistants.
Custo m framing, 1,' ,11'. F rob os explained , inv olves fash ioning th e fr am e to com plime n t th e pi cture. And to

ac h ieve thi s, he is never lim ited bv set

pa tter ns of fra mes.

.

Mr. F rob os d esign s th e fra me, and with specia l eq uipment at th e lumber mi ll, he cu ts hi s own mo ld for each d e-

sign. Some of th e frames a rc hand ca noed , some a re tai lored ; it a ll depends on th e pi ct ure. It is not u n til

a fte r the p icture is framed th at th e

natu ra l fin ish of th e wood is ton ed to

harmonize wi th th e co lors in th e pic-

ture.
rn addi tio n to their custom framing,

M r. Frobos and his assistan ts ca rrv on a complete po rtrait resto ra tion se r~' ice.

Tra nsfer restorati on, the mo st d ifficult

form of portrait restoration , is a spe -

cia ltv.

Involving m inute accu racv, tr an sfer

restorat ion is th e p rocess or" 'removing

th e thin coa t of or igina l paint from its

support, wh eth er it is linen or panel ,

and transf erring it to a diffe rent su p -

port. Prized fa m ily possession s a rc re-

sto re d to their natura l hcautv bv this

skilled ope ra tion .

',

What sta r ted as a side -line with the

Athen s L umber Compan y is develop -

ing in to a renown ed bu sin ess in its own

right. NIr. Bondu ran t m av well be p roud of th e p rofound effc~ts he has

achieve d in only a few shor t yea rs.

Fullers Ea rth, Vital Prod uct
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gus ta . Some of these for ma tion s contain an apprecia ble a mo u nt of th e mater ial mi xed wi th sa nd. T hat is th c case of m uch of th e H awthorne formation which m ak es a belt on e hu nd red miles wide a t the su rface th rough th c middle of Georgia 's Coast al Pla in.

M in ing' ope ra tions a rc underway in

T wiggs, Wilkinson a nd W a shingt on

cou n ties. T he Di vcrscy Corpo ration in

Bibb Co u n ty is a big p rodu cer of full er s

ea rth in its part of the st at e.

An other bel t of the m at eri a l is found

fa rther sou th in D ecatur. Gradv a nd

Thom a s Counties, nca r ' th e F'lor ida

bord er, bein g mined th er e in ex te nsive

bed s. Prin cipa l prod ucer s in tha t re-

g ion arc th e Atta p ulgus C lay Co mp a-

ny of Attap ulgus, in De ca tu r Co un ty ,

and the Ca iro Producti on Company of

Cairo, G radv Countv.

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Commer cial dep osit s m ust be pu re

a nd possess th e proper qualities of

blea ching a nd abso rp tion; thu s th e

fir st co nside ra tion for eco nom ic de-

velop ment of a fu llers ea r th d eposit

mu st be pu rity, thi ck ness and ex te n t

of the bed . The first d ep osit s to be

wor ked in Ameri ca were those ncar t he

Georgia sta te line at Quincy, Florida,

discov ered in 1893. The discovcrv ca me

a bou t acc ide n ta lly wh en an attempt

was mad e to man uf acture br ick from

a clay foun d on th e p ro perty of the

O wl C iga r Co mpa ny . T he clay .proved

un sui ta ble for brick bu t its resemb la nce

to a Ge rman fuller s ea rth was not ed .

T he ea rt h was soo n found to be

espec ia lly a pplica ble in th e refining of

petroleum lu br ica ting oils.

Dr. A. S. 'F u rc ron, Assistan t St ate

Geo log ist , tells th e p roperty ow ner how

to identi fy fu ller s ea r th. H e explai ns

that it is a bedded sed im entary d ep osit

of clay whi ch is low in pl asticity. When

wet , it becomes slic k a nd soa p y and if

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(Left) " 'alter Frobos and John Bondurant exa m ining a selec tion of pi cture fram e models, whi ch are design ed a nd exec u ted in th e uniqu e

departmen t of th e At he ns Lumber Co . ( R igh t) Pi cture fram e shows skille d hand ca rved edge. In th e ba ck gr ound is oil portrait in the

process of bein g restored to its original beau t y.

GEORGIA I'EPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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free of gr it most fu llers ea rth can be ca rved with a knife like a ba r of soa p. It has a vcrv high water content thus on dr ying it 'sh rin ks and cracks n'oti ceably, develops a pl aty cleavage, becomes ligh ter in color and has h igh a bsor ption. T his la tt er feature ca n be noticed by tou chin g a piece of it to t~e tOI~gu e . ~Vhe n d ry it becom es q u ite hgh t in weigh t a nd experi me nts in Mi ssissippi indicate th at it ca n be used a fter calcining as a light-weight ag gregate. C hemical analysis shows a high silica con ten t. It has a rela tivclv high h ydrous silica con tent whi ch m av be respon sible in p art a t least for it's
dccoloring p roficien cy.
T he origin of our extensive fu llers ea rth dep osit s in Geor gia has never been exp lained, accor ding to Dr. Furcron . The dep osits a re loca ted in beds of clav inter laver ed with othe r deposits. ' Some believe they ma y rep resen t weathered beds of volc ani c ash or ash wit h ot her sed ime n ts. vet ther e is thus far no evide nce of 'v ~ lcan ism at thi s tim e on our par t of the con tinent. R ecentl y fullers ea rth has been discovered in northwest Georgia near Cassan d ra, wh ere th ere a re beds of unquestioned volc a nic ori gin .
Fu llers earth is mined by open -cut met ho ds. The sand, kaolin or ot her foreign substa nce is removed, a nd steamshovels a nd dr ag-lin es ar e used to dip up th e clay. Much of it is used in its natu ral sta te, mak ing prepa ra tion for ma rket rela tively simp le. T he raw clav is p assed through a crus her th en dried in rot ar y dri er s and ground to desired fin eness. The temp erat ure a t wh ich fuller s ea r th is dried has mu ch to do ~\' i th det ermining it s use ; thu s, drying IS one of th e most importan t stages of

Contra cts in December

.(Co ntinu ed from Page 1) tracts III th e State was Callaway M ills I nc., at L A GR A N GE, which I:eceived orde rs for cotton duck in excess of

$ 1,250,000.

An other orde r for more th a n $250.000 worth of cotton du ck wen t to t he Georgia Du ck a n d Cordage Mi ll, SCO T T DA LE, and th e Fulton T rous e;'

Co. , I nc., ATLANTA , received a n or der for trouser s also for mor e than

$ 250 ,0 00 . Si~ce th e Defen se dep a rt ment , for
security reasons, does not reveal con-

tr act amounts above $250.000. the expression " mo re th an $250 '000" usually

ind icat es an amo un t considerably la rger.

The following is a listing of th e D e-

cem?e r contracts acco rding to the field

service reports of th e U . S. Dep a rt ment

of Co mm erce :

Sava nna h VANNA H-

Sugar Ref I ,200 ,000

ining Co rp pounds of

.~rSaAn--

ulated sugar $105,8 1G.OO.

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The Wa rr en Co ., In c., A TLA N T A

- 33,000 wooden wa reh ouse pallets

$26, 160.00.

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T h e T umpan e Co mpa ny Govern -

ment Aircraf t Plant N o.6, iHA R I ET -

TA.-I~ ecord , i.nspect , sh ip, store an d

maintam mach ine tools. excee ds $250.-

000.00.

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Acme Co nstruction Co .. COCH R AN - Addition to pa rking I~t a t R obins

Air For ce Base, Ga ., $30,7 6 1.00.

Williams Armstrong Sm ith EAST POIN T - 36,000 ga ls. paint ' pr im er,

$ 76,04 0 .00 . Georgia-Pacific Plywood Sts., Co .,

A UG USTA - 350,000 +1- 2 Southe rn

pine, $3 1,500.00 .

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its beneficiation . So it is that a nother grea t raw m a-
teri al highly importan t to indust rv is located in th e soil of Georgi a. '

Georgia Webbing ' & T ap e Co., CO -

L U}.JB US- 265.000 lv cotton webbinz

$43 ,880 .00. "

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Fu lton Trouser Co .. I nc.. ATLAN T A - Field trousers, ' cxce~ds .r;250.-

000.00 .

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'Wright Contracting Co., CO LUM -

BUS - 84,000. sqs. conc rete matt ress

a rticula ted casting , excee ds $250.000.00.

Georgia Institute ATLANTA - Bomb

of scor

iTnesrc h ndoevloi~CTv~ :.

$28,340 .00.

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Sta pleton Gar ment Co .. STA PL E-

TO N - 150,000 Sleeping' ba z cases.

$ 15 1,500.00.

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. Ch icopee M fg. Corp., Lu mi te Div i-

SIOn, GA INE'iVI L LE - Co tton duck.

$ 123,200.00.

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Ca llaway Mi lls Co. . M .M ,C . Div.. L A GR A N GE - Co tto; d uck, exceed~

$ 1,250,000.00. U nity Conta ine ry Corp ., A DA I R S-
V IL LE- 45,000 boxes, $52,890.00. Enterp rise Alum inum Co.. EA T-
ONTON. - Su pplem-nt a ry charge for deep-ca vity she ll. Also liner for deepcav ity shell.
Fairban ks, M orse & Co .. ATL A NTA

- Diesel engine, $34,9 0 1.00.

Savannah M ach ine & Foundry Co .. S A V ANNAH-Reac tiva tion repairs o~

steamship, $ 138,850.00.

Robert and Co. , Associat es. A T LA N TA.--:-~esign of m fg. a nd pro du ction

facilities a t R edstone Arsen al. H un ts-

ville, Ala ., $ 120,000.00.

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Georgia D u c k & Co rda ge M ill.

SCO TT DA LE- Cotto n du ck. exceeds:

$250,000 .

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Wollum Mill s, Co., CA R R O L L TON - Cotton webbing, $ 118,504.00.
Georgia Webbing & T ap e Co ., CO ~O~MB US-C otto n webbing, $45 ,220,-

Dowling T exti le Mfg. Co .. M CD ON O U GH- Sur gical ga uze ' masks, $3 9, 69 0 .00 .

Vo l. 3, No . I :~

Georgia Pimiento Production

$25,000 ,000 Pulp M ill To Be Built Near Jesup ,

Near Hundred Million Pounds

Second in Last 6 Months
Plan s h a ve been a nno u nced by R a y-

Au tomob ile licen se pla tes in th e Em- sa la d s.

on irr, I n c., fo r co ns t ruc tio n of a pulp mi ll to cost more th an $25,000,000 near

pi re State of the South co u ld ve ry ap-

Pimientos are a specific typ e of swee t JES UP in sou theaste rn G eo rgi a .

propria tcly 'tell th e world th at th is is p epper believed to have b een d iscov er -

I t wi ll be d esign ed to produce 250

th e " P im ien to State." For ni net y-five ed in Cen tra l America by Spanish ex- to ns of p urified wood ce llu lose p.er d a y,

tim es ou t of a hund red , wh en anybodv p lore rs . T hey carried th e seeds of th e with an a nn ual ca pa city of Si ,OOO ton s.

anvwh crc in th e United Sta tes ca ts a sa ~ d w ieh m ade outof pimiento, a d ish ga rn ishe d wit h st rips of p imi ento or pimiento in a ny form , it was g ro wn and canned in G eorgia.
N in ety -five per cent of a ll th e pi mi en tos grown in America a rc g ro wn and pa ck ed in G eorgia . Tota l produ ction in th e sta te in 1950 wa s 42 ,i63 ton s or 85,526,000 pounds. Fi gures for 195 1 ha ve no t been co m p le ted . b ut desp ite d routh wh ich cu t down th e size of t he crop, the Asso ciated Pimien to Canners say t hat good cooks eve ry -

new foo d ba ck to t heir n a t ive co untry, where th ey became a favorite thro ulJll the cen tu ries.
U n til 1920, a ll pimien to s used in Amer ica wer e imported from Sp ai n . Th en Wal tel' L. G raefe, a vet eran of \Vo rld \ Va r I. came down from M a rvla nd to organize Po mon a Pro d u c'ts
C o mpan y, in Sp a ld in g C ounty. From th e previous expe rience o f S. D . R eigel a nd son s of E xpr-ri mcn t. G eo rgia, w it h t his crop, M r . Graefe foun d th e wr-at h IT a nd soil id eal fo r p im iento cult u re.
Po mon a , th erefore, wa s th e origina l

Abo u t 450 e m p loyee s wi ll be need ed in th e mi ll it self , a nd 400 to 500 others will work in cu tting a nd transporting pu lpwood to th e p lant.
The co r pora tio n sa id the m ill w ill be buil t on a 53 0-ac n ; t ra c t of la nd a lo ng t he Altama ha Ri ver a t th e vi llage of Doct ortown . The com pa ny has made a pp lica tion for steel a nd other construction m a teri a ls requiring govc rn m cnt alloca tion . Con st r uction will be sta r ted as soon as th ese are availab le.

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be pl enty of th e pr~tty, red G eorgi a compan y and it s pimiento en t husias t d el' th e execu tive di rection of R . F .

prod uct to b righ ten M a ine seafoods, hav e both come a long way : for Po- Erickson , vice -p reside n t in cha rge of



a dd fla vo r to New M exico meat loa ves, mona is no w th e largest p rodu cer of l'llgin C'erin g d evelopm ent for t he R a y-

a nd pu t ex tra vi tami ns into O regon

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(R lght) Mature pimi ento plants-one of G eor gia 's " pre tt iest" crops.

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

F cbru arv 10, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Spau lding M anufacturi ng Compan y with he adquarters in At lanta wi ll op er ate th e garment plant in JACKSON form erly cond uc te d b y Covington Manu fa cturing Compan y on the \Vest Th ird street ex te nsion .
Robert Zerman as manager of th e plant said th at new machinery ha s been insta lled a nd initia l op er a tion s ar e underway.
Men's a nd boys' trouser s are bein g made in th e plant, 1\1 r. Zerm an ex plained, and th e number of employees will be abo u t 150 .
Ther e is a back log of r onsidcra blc bu sin ess to begin with, he d eclared , and the bu sin ess ou tloo k is \T ry bri ght .
1\1r. Zerm an has been engaged in th e ga rme n t bu sin ess for 25 years and as an expe rience d ope ra tor kn ow s thr bu siness fr om a ll a ng les.
The present g ar me n t plant is an outgrowth of th e J ackson M a nufactu ring Compan y star te d seve ra l yea rs ago by J a ckson and Madison ca p ita l, with loca l finn s taking sto ck . Thr pl ant was fin a lly liq uid a ted a nd was taken over b y th e Co vingt on M anu fa cturing C o. with headquarter s in Atlan ta . This finn failed to ren ew its lease on th e fir st of th e ye a r a nd th en Spaulding M anufacturing Company en tere d th e pi cture.
Mr. Zenn an sa id Mrs. Pau lin e Bord en wou ld continue with th e plant as for ewoman and Fred Hubbard as a member of th e office personnel.
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The G eorgia -P acifi c Plywo od Co. of AUGUSTA ha s a cquired two-thirds
of stoc k of th r C. 0 : J ohnson Lumber
Co rp .
C . D. J ohnson , whi ch has its hea dq uarter s a t T oled o, Orc., is a lea ding Pa cif ic Northwest timber a nd lum ber conce rn . Its sale s tot aled .$ 11,3 16,000 for th e 10 months ende d September 30, 1951. Georgia-Pa cifi c first disclo sed its plans for ac q uiring th e firm la st D ecembe r.
The a cqu isiti on , accord ing to Owen R . Cheatham, presid ent of Georgia Pa cifi c, wi ll in cr ea se his firm' s timb er reserves fo r it s W est ern p lywood mills by abou t a 15 to 20- yca r supply. On th e basis of "! 00 p er cent a cq uisition o f Johnson sto ck , the consolida ted com p any would han: assets of abou t $4 7 m illion.
It is fin ancin g th e sha re purchase in p art by a 14-m onth $12 ,600 ,000 bank

loan and in part b y rece n t sa le of 126,000 shares of Georgia-Pacifi c common stoc k at $20 per sh ar e. G eorgia-Pacific now ha s outstanding 882 ,368 shares of common stoc k.
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Stapleton Company Plans To Enlarge Plant Facilities

Fo llow ing receipt of two la rge order s

for pants a nd slee ping bags from the

New York Q uartermaster' s Procur e-

ment agen cy in N ew York, M ax Es-

troff of Au gu st a a n no unc ed th a t th er e

will be an imme d ia te enla rge me n t of

the STAPLETON Ga rme n t Company

in order th at both ord ers mav be filled

a t that plant.

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One orde r was for 325,000 pa irs of

tr ou ser s to be manufa ctured b v M ax-

well Est roff Comp an y, whose' offices

a re loca ted in Au gu sta.

The sero nd order was for 150 ,000

sleeping ba g cases, to be manufa ctured

by th e St apleton Garment Company,

of whi ch Mr. Estroff is tr ea surer.

Mr. Estroff said th e con tract for th e

sleeping-b ag case s m ean s th at th ese

will be manufactured for th e first tim e

in th is section of the coun try .

New mach iner y will be ad de d at the St apleton plant immediately and th e wo rking for ce will be increased by 50. The plant now ha s 126 employees.

The com pa ny p lans also to ad d 5,000 add itional sq ua re feet to th e plant, Mr. Est roff repo rts .

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W ith the com pletion of Qua lit y D airies, In r. , at CEDARTOWN , th e com pa ny h as begun op er ation and distribution of mi lk and dairy produ ct s.

The new d air y plant is mod ern in

(T cry det a il and well-equipped . E . C.

Morgan is pr esident of Qu a lity Dairies,

Por ter Pittma

Hun t n, secr eta

vicr -p rc sid c ry -treasu re r

uart~d

C lv d c H{,gh

\Va tts Ran d al l, a ssista n t secreta ry tr casurer.

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Five newsprint firm s hav e request ed governme n t permission to esta blish plants in the Southeast, the U. S. D epartment of Commerce re po r ts.

M erri ll C . Lofton , regional direct or of th e d epartment, sai d th e firms hav e request ed cer tifica tes of necessit y from th e Defens e Produ ction Administration , but that ac tion on th e applica tion s wi ll have to await di sposal o f higher defens e priorit y ca ses.

Mr. Lofton said th e DPA recognizes

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ER CE

th e importan ce of providing sufficien t newsprint so that newspapers wi ll be abl e " to continue to ca rrv ou t th eir fun ction of keeping th e public fully in formed ." Howev er, the DPA's positi on is th a t th er e ar e other more urgen t defens e project s pending, :\11'. Lofton sa id .
The D PA has fix ed new sprin t prod ucti on at 494.000 ton s a n nuallv. A listi ng of the fi;'m s seek ing ce rt i fi~ a tcs of necessity wa s not revealed .
Georgia Pimiento Production
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ca n ne d pimientos in the wo rld a nd :\h. Graefe, the p re sid ent, is cred ited with havin g pion eer ed an industry andove r th e vca rs - sett ing manv of it s sta nda rds . ' (H is vision h as a ls~ publicized th e Geor g ia clim at e, for Pomon a wa s the- fir st ca n ne r to a dver tise pi mientos natio nally, a nd NIl'. G ra efe's en th usiasm for th e weather a ro u nd Griffin has resu lt ed in mi llion s of ca ns labe lled with "Su nshine." )
T oday Pomona Produ ct s Company owns a large modern ca n ning fa ctor y at Griffin and anothe r a t J a ckson . Geo rgi a . The company purchases raw produ cts from hundred s of farmer s ea ch yea r including som e 1,800 gro wer s of pim ientos and employs some 1,000 or m or e workers in its plants a t th e peak of th e ca nn ing season.
George E. White, Moultrie, esta b lished th e sta te 's seco nd pimiento ca nning plant in 1919 ; it now op erates as th e White Pa ck ing Company, Vi enna . The thi rd to ope n was th e Continenta l Packing Compan y, M a con .
There arc now fift een p imien to pro cessing plants in th e st at e: Bat eman Canning Compan y, M acon ; B e s co Pr oducts Co mpa n y, Zebu lon ; C hero kee Produ cts Co m pa ny, H addock ; Concord Canning Compan y, Inc., Con cord; Contin enta l Pa cking Compan y, M acon ; E asterlin Packing Compan y, Anderson ville ; G . M . C anning Company , W a ysid e; T he Hi lls Brother s Comp an y, W oodbury ; L aney Food P ro cessors, In c., Marsh a llville ; L angford & T a ylor, M eansvi lle ; Monti cello Can ning Compan y, Monticello ; Pom on a Prod uct s Comp any, Griffin ; Southern Frozen Foods, In c., M ontezuma ; Wald en Produ ct s Company, Wren s, and White Packing Company, Vi enna
Approxim ately 6,000 peop le are em ployed in th ese processin g p lants, th e
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IN D USTRIAL N EWS LET TER

F ebrua ry 10, 195 2

Augusta Plant Manufactures New Type of Awnings For Distribution in Three States
T h e busin ess boom in A UG USTA a nd th e a ctivities a rou n d the cons t ruction of the H-Bomb pl ant across th e Savannah Ri ver m a v a t ti m es O\Trshadow the smaller b~t th ri ving indust ri es in the city that a re m aking them selves kn own n ot o nly in G eo rgia but th e Sou theas tern sta te s as well.
Au gust a h as a fin e reco rd for " suc cess sto ries" dealing wit h nati ve sons w ho h a ve built busin esses a n d go od profits ou t of th eir in vent ive ge nius, plus a gift for indust ry .
T o th at list of n a m es m ust be ad ded th at of A ug ustu s E . H od o w ho h as, u uri llg th e p ast th ree yea rs, b uilt u p a new busin ess th a t now ex tends into three Sou t hern sta tes a nd wh ich co uld branch ou t farther if it were not for present -d a y res t ric tions on critica l m a -

$25 ,000,000 Pulp Mill
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onicr Corp . Cl yd e B. M o rg an , p resid ent of R a y-
on icr, said th e n ew m ill will sup p ly ad diti on a l tonn age n eed ed to m ee t the in creasing requirements of hi s co m pan y's custo me rs. A t th e sa me tim e, M organ a d de d , the p lant will p rov ide a reserv e sup ply for the po ssib le m anu fa cture of wood ce llulose for mi lit ary purposes.
The R a yonicr Co . owns o r con trols a bo u t 40 0,000 acres of woo d resources in sou t heas te rn co un ties of Geo rg ia an d no rtheast ern cou n ties of Fl or id a . T hese hold ings will ass ure a lon g-term sup p ly of r a w ma teria ls.
The m ill wi ll co ns um e ab ou t 550 co rds of wood per d a y . I t will be designe d to u sc all of th e loca l sp ecies of pine as well as loca l hard wood s.
P a rt of th e d a ily co ns u m p tion w ill

come f rom R a yonier 's 0 w n t im ber holdin gs a n d p ar t w ill be bou ght from land o wners of the vicin it y .
R ayo n icr a lready owns a n d operates three mi lls in the sta te of W ash in gton a nd one in F lorid a . T hey h ave a co m bin ed a n n ual ca p ac ity of a bou t 430,00 0 ton s of pu rifi ed wood cellu lose, whi ch is a b asic raw m ater ia l u sed in the ma n ufa cture of r a yon , tir e co rd , ce lloph ane phot ographic fil m a nd othe r p rod u ct s.
M o rgan said the new mi ll a t Doc to rtown " w ill u se a n im proved p ro cess which p ermit s the product ion of su per ior g rades of woo d cellu lose , p rim arily fo r h igh ten aci ty ya rd a p p lica tio n s su ch as tire co rd , p a ra chute m a teri a ls a n d rubber belti ng ."
H e ad d ed t he mi ll wi ll be designed to prod u ce nitra tio n pulp if necessa ry fo r th e m anufac tu r e of exp losives .
T h is is th e seco n d la rge pulp m ill to

teri al s. M r. H od o worked o u t a n id ea for
a m u lt i-ven t a w ning of alu m in u m a nd

$30,000 ,000 Wages Paid On H-Plant Project

esta blish nea r j esup w it hin a p eri od of mo nt h s. The M en gel Co m p an y a n nounced their plans in Augu st to build

th en d esign ed a nd bu ilt fou r new-typ e ma ch in es in o rder to b e a b le to manu facture t h e kin d of a wn ing he is now m a kin g .
H is p atents cove r tw o typ es of a wn in gs that ca n not be d up licated a n ywh er e else in th e U n ited Sta tes.

W ages total in g $3 0,000,000 h a ve been p aid to wor ker s in the Sa van nahRi ver A to m ic E nergy pl ant of E . I. d u Po nt de N em ours nca r A UGUST A during the p ast 10 m onths, . it wa s re vea led ,
T he report ca me fr om R ob ert

a $ 15,000,000 to $ 20,000,000 p ape rboard pl an t.
T h e initial unit of the M en gel p la nt, whi ch wi ll em p loy a bo u t 400, will m ak e pa p erb oard for five ot her p lants whi ch manufactu re corruga ted boxes.

M r. H od o h as th e true inven tive

K enda ll M ason , field p roj ect m a n -

mind, plu s a kn a ck for ca rry ing ou t hi s ideas in practi cal form . H e is a n ex -

age r for du Pont, wh o a ddressed m emb er s of th e G eo rgi a Engineering

Area Hereford Association

p ert wel d er , a n expe r t elec tricia n , a n expe rt ca bine t wo rker, a n d h e docs a few othe r things on the sid e that sho w th at h e h a d both cre a tive in stinct s a nd a bility to d evelop id eas th at requ ir e some skill in a r t tech ni ques.
Just bef ore h e ope ne d h is own busi-

So ciet y in A tlanta recently .
Mr. M a son sai d more th a n 24,00 0 em p loyees a rc now o n the com p a ny p a yro ll a t th e Savann a h Ri ver pl ant a n d are engaged in the co nst ru ction of 100 p erma n en t buildi ngs on t he 240,OOO-a cr e tra ct of th e proj ect.

Formed at Athens Meet
Some 40 of th e top livest ock r ai sers a n d fa rm er s in the no r t hea st section of the S ta te ga the re d in A thens recently to or gan ize the Nort h eas t G eor gia H er eford Br eed e rs Associa tion.

n ess, he w as represen tative for one of

t he big a wn ing m anufa ct urers. T hat

was w hen he bega n to ge t the no tio n



th a t he cou ld bu ild better a wn ings t ha n a ny he h ad ye t see n - a wn ings

th a t wou ld p ro vid e ventila tion as well

as prot ection from ra in an d sun .

Sou t her n firm s, 111' ad de d , a rcget ting m ost of th e orders issu ed by du Pont for m at eri als to bu ild the pl ant. Of th e 29,352 p urchasin g o rde rs issue d for m a terial s so fa r, m ore tha n 20,000, h e said , wen t to 4,000 d iff e ren t com panies in Southern states.

The m c(:ting cu lm in a ted mon ths nf grou n d wo r k by E rnest Ll oyd , Atla nta bu sin essm an a nd ow ne r of a Whit e Cou n ty livest ock fa rm, a nd Go rdo n Dudley, A th ens m a n u fact ur er a n d p art ow ner in the th ree D ud ley fa rm s in C la r ke C o un ty.



H e sta r te d " m on key ing a roun d " with

M r. Ll oyd sai d the n ew or gan iza -

idea s a n d design s an d, as a r esu lt , shel te r aw ning ; a specia l typ e brea k tion , w h ich will be set up along lin es

la unch ed a n ew busin ess of hi s own in m a chi n e th at tu rns ou t flu ted a wn ing sim ilar to the G eor gia H ereford Br eed -

Augu st a . H e is n ot on ly vice-presid en t of t he Multi-Vent Awn ing a n d Alumi-

shee ts th at a re the sa me on both sides an d wh ich p ermi ts a t remendous cu t -

ers Associa tion, w ill see k to tak e in H erefo rd b reed ers in th e a rea s cove re d



num Co m pany, but h e is th e man who owns the p atents on th e n ew -t yp e eq u ip me n t in sid e those sho ps.
P au l D . Norvell is presid ent of th e

down in waste ; a n eigh t -foo t po wer shea r mach ine ; n ew -t yp e cha n ne l a nd a n gling m a ch in es, a n d a very efficien t powerb and sa w design ed a nd bui lt b y

by th e No r thea st G eo rg ia a nd Athen s F ai r Associa tions . This will m ea n p r a cti call y e\'e ry cou n ty in the northeast ern sec tion of the State.

com pany , a n d L eon a rd E . M artwal tel' Mr. H od o hi mself.

sec re ta ry a n d t rea su rer.

In ad di tion to these m a ch in es of his

Breed ers of r egist er ed , com me rc ia l,

M achin es d esigned a nd bui lt by M r . ow n design a n d cons t ruc tion , he h as polled or h orned H er ef ords wo uld be

H od o in elude a p erfo r ating m ach in e, oth er regu lation -t yp e m a ch in es th at he eligible for m ember ship in the n ew as -

used in bui lding a specia lly cons t r uc ted uses in hi s g ro wing busin ess.

soc ia tion.



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Georgia Pimiento Production
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figure va ryin g with th e crop and th e season ,
M ore than 8,000 farmer s in G eorgia grow pimientos. The value of th e crop to these farmers aver ag es more th an
$3Y2 mi llion a yea r ; th e valu e of th e
pimien to af t e r p ro cessin g ave ra ges
more th an $ 11Y2 million a year.
All pimi entos a re produ ced for sa le to ca n ne rs- a ll arc g ro wn under con tract . E a ch yea r, a bou t D ecember, can ners an nou n ce a price for th e com in g sea son and sign co n tra cts with gro wers in th eir resp ective territori es, which vary in size from tw o to tw enty or m ore cou n ties. Prices arc b ased up on gra des an d arc p ayabl e on del iver y a t th e fa cto ry or at a design ated receiving sta tion ,
C anner s do eve ry th ing p ossibl e to be of assist ance to th eir grow er s. Pom ona, for exam p le, em p loye d D r. H ,L. Coc h r an, former horticu lturist for th e G eorgia Agri cu ltura l E xp eriment Station , in 1944 to be d ir ect or of raw produ cts producti on . It was Dr. C ochran who found ed a plant on th e farm of M . C, Ba llard, in Pike C ounty, in 1935 an d from this sta rt developed the n ew a n d improved va rie ty known as T ruHa r t P erfection. Seed of this new var iety w as fir st m a de av aila ble to th e Pi mi ento C anners of G eorgi a in 1943.
" N ea r Griffin we grow four or five million p lants each ye a r," says D r. Co chran . "T h ey arc sold to growe rs at cos t . About 5,000 p lants are required to set out an a cre ." When you consid er that 33,829 acr es wer e p lan ted in G eorgia in 1950, for in stance, yo u can see what a p assel of pimien to p lants th at is!
T,ess than 10 per cent of the farmers

Employment Total
Still Rising
Tota l no n -far m em p loy men t estab lished ano th er record h igh in D ecem ber with 8 71,400 worker s em p loy ed in G eorgi a . The G eor gi a D ep artment of L ab or rep or ts th e m onthly gain of 7,600 worker s represented season a l hiring in go ver nm en t a n d trad e. Through out th e ye ar, em p loyme n t ha s been on a hi gh er lev el th an th e cor responding period a yea r ag o and in D ecem ber surpassed th e 1950 peak b y more th an :17,000 worker s with in cre ased levels in all majo r groups , par -
n ow produ ce th eir own p lants. Ever y po ssib le ef for t is m ad e to enc ourage th em to do so, according to D r. C och ra n, b ecau se it not on ly relieves the can n ers of some of th e resp onsibili ty but sa ves th e gro we rs som e money.
Pimi ento can n ing not on ly ad d ed a n ew crop to G eorg ia's di ver sified I a rm in g, but crea te d th ou sands of off-thefarm jobs, an d a dd ed mi llions of do llars to th e sta te ea rn ings. Its grea test econom ic va lu e is th a t it p rovide d p lants and lead ership for th e spear h ead of th e ca n ning in dus t ry . Sin ce th e produ ct is high ly season al, ca n ne rs have tu rn ed to other produ ct s to utilize th ei r m a chiner y and st abilize emp loym ent th e yea r 'round.
Pimientos a rc sold in m anv sizes fr om tw o-ounce glass ja rs to b arrels. The mo st popular size, how ever , is the fou r- ounce size. If the en tire cro p wer e to be p a cked in four-ounce ca ns, th er e would be over 133 m illion ca ns every yea r. " T h e prettiest id ea on the p antry sh elf," th e can n ers say of pimientos in th eir n ational publicit y. At least , p imi entos com p ose on e of the pret tie st in dust ries in G eorgia .

ticul arly gove rnme n t, service a nd m an uf a ctu ring.
As wa s to be expected, go n Tn mc n t levels ro se by 5,100 worker s with th e hiring of tempor ary worker s a t post office s for th e holida y sea son . W ith in er eased ac tivitv a n d th e estab lish men t of new gov~rn m en t offi ces du ring th e year, the level of this m aj or group in D ecember was 13,500 greater th an in 1950.
Th e usu al seas on a lly upward tr end prevai led in th e trad e grou p, a cco rdin g to th e Labor D ep artment , an d th e gain of 6,300 work er s over th e previ ou s month represen ted worker s h ir ed in ret ai l dep artment an d a pp are l stores an d seaso nal ex p ansion in nut wh olesa le an d shelling esta b lishme n ts.
Finance, in su r an ce a nd re al esta te em p loy me n t con tin u ed to ris e. This gro u p in D ecemb er was 1,600 grea ter th an th e sa me month la st year.
The const ruc tion industry, h ampered by govern m en t restrict ion s on bui ld in g an d m ateri a ls, declined . In a d dition to restricti on s, work in th e D ecem be r p eri od wa s slowed b y rain y we a the r in som e secti on s an d th e po st p on em ent by potentia l custome rs of job s u n til afte r the ho liday season .
The gain of 900 work er s in th e lum ber industry was sho w n b y a ll seg ments, particu larly in logging cam ps, sa w mi lls and pl aning mi lls. Althou gh furnitur e m anufa cturing em p loy me n t rem ained st ead y, earn ings in this in dustry in cr eased $1. 95 with a lon ger work-week in t he manufa ct ure of mattresses an d bed springs and con tin ued overtime in other seg men ts .
The p h enomen a l grow th of th e transportation eq u ip me n t in dus try durin g th e p a st yea r h a s been due primarily to the estab lish men t of an aircr a ft p lan t in the Atlan ta area.

Vol. 3, No. 14

February 25, 1952

Visitors Left Some $300 Million

Atlanta Becomes World Capital for Cotton Waste

In Georgia In 1951, Survey Finds The New England Waste Co ., one of th e old est and bigg est co tton -was te con cerns in th e world, has complet ed

The touris t trade was on th e boom in Georgia last year. A trem endou s in -

number of ou t- of-state passen ger cars visiting G eorgia la st yea r an d the

the removal of its h eadquarters from Boston, M ass., to ATLANTA.

cre a se in tr avel from out of th e Sta te amoun t of money sp en t by th eir occu -

I n a recent ar ticle, Bill Boring, b usi -

was noted by those in position to ga uge pan ts.

n ess ed itor of th e A tlan ta Cons ti tution,

the vo lume of visitors pouring into Georgia from th e outside . Counting those who eame on both pleasure and

Thei r fin dings a rc shown in th e com p ilation published at th e bottom of th is page. It has be en ascer tai ne d by tr av-

em p h asized the fa ct th at with th e addition of this old -line N ew E ng land firm Atlanta becomes t he lin t- waste

business, th e number to ta lled over twelve mi llion for the yea r. T his do es not include those en te rin g th e State for d aily work in border cities.
T h e amount of . mo n ey th e visitors spen t in Georgia in 1951 was in the

el experts th at some 80 p er cent of tourists and other travelers go by automobile and 20 per ce n t travel by train, bus , airplane, ship, etc . Allowin g for a n umber who passed through without stopping, th e G eorgia D e-

market ca p ita l of th e wo rl d. Mr. Bor ing reported that Atlanta's $110,000,000 cotton-waste business annually surpasses the ' vo lumes of bo th Boston an d Manch ester, England , whi ch ro und out the market's "Big Three."

neighborhood of 300 mi llion dollars.

par tment of Commerce has arrived a t

With th e N ew England Was te Co .

These figures are bas ed largely on a it s figures . As noted in th e auto-travel joining th e parade sou th, Boston's past



su rvey made by th e State Highway survey ta ble, th e number of p ersons Ameri can lea dersh ip in the industry

Department's Di vision of Highway traveling on p leasure in out-of-sta te appears definitely on the wane. In the

P lanning in con ju nc tion with th e U . S. ca rs was 6,997,050 an d th e number on proportion that Boston loses bu sin ess

Ilurcau of Public R oad s and th e U . S. business, 3,8 16,075. This made a total volume in the f u ture, Atlanta will gai n,

D epartment of Commerce, as to the

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ESTIMATED VALUE OF OU T-OF-STA TE AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL IN GEORG IA



1950

1951

D ai ly

Annua lly

Daily

Annually

Number of out-of -state passenger cars en te ring State .

14,690

5,36 1,850

17,920

6,540,800;f



N umber of ou t-of-st ate passenger ca rs entering State

on p leasure ....

..__ ...-..--- ..-- ---..-- .--.---. ---- --_ ...__..__ ... 5, 140

1,8 76,100

6,390

2,332,350

Number of out-of -sta te passenger ca rs entering State

on business

.

5,730

2.091,450

6.970

2,544,050

Number of out-of-s tate passenger cars en ter ing S ta te

on work . ..

.

3,820

1,394,300

4,560

1,664,400'X'

N umber of p ersons traveling on pl easure in ou t -of-state cars 13,364

4,8 77,860

19, 170

6,997,050



Number of persons traveling on business in ou t-of-s tate ca rs . Amount of money sp ent by persons on pl easu re trips

8,595

3, 137,175

10,455

3,8 16,075

($ 10.00 per day for 2.5 d ays)

.

. ... .$267,280

$ 97,557,200

$4 79,250

$ 174,926,250

Amoun t of money sp ent by persons on business trips

($12.QO per day for 1.75 days ) ....................

. $165,024

$ 60,233,760

$219 ,555

$ 80,137,575

Total amount spen t by visitors in th e State in 1951.. . . .. $432,304

$ 157,790,960

$698 ,805

$255 ,06 3,825

* Does no t include interurb an travel of foreign passenger cars en te r ing State for daily work at West Point, Co lumbus, Sa -



vannah, Augusta an d Rossville .

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

February 25, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

ALBANY CHOSEN SITE FOR NATIO NALLY KNOWN CHEMISTS
M er ck & Co., Inc., m anufa cturing
chem ists of Rahway, N . J., will start
work in a few da ys near ALBANY on a plant destined to grow in to on e of Sou thwest Georgia's largest indust ries.
The new plant will turn o ut fin e and m edi cin al che m ica ls, including th e new " wonder drugs," vitamins, hormones, a nd hou seh old p rod uct s of vario us kin d s, George \'\'. M er ck , cha ir man o f th e bo ard of direct ors, a nno u nce d .
The Alb an y plant is M erck's second in th e So uth . Accordin g to Eu gen e E. L yon s, vice president in charge of person ncl, th e Ge orgia pl ant will have a mod est beginning, em ploying a bout 100 person s, but will gro w in tim e to a "substa ntia l manufacturing plant."
' M erck, whi ch produ ces 1,000 individ ual che m ica ls and is ranked with th e la rgest m anufactu rin g che m ica l finns in th e U nited Sta tes, selected Albany a nd th e Sou th as a plant site , Mr. Ly on s expla ine d, for a diversity of reasons, including " ad equate ground wat er, a progr essive comm u nity with c ult ura l and ed ucationa l a d va n tages , a good d aily newspaper and room for ultim at e expansion."
En gin eering for a tem pora ry power plant and th e fir st manufacturing unit a lready has been started , a nd it is a n ticipa te d that th e plant will "b egin product ion by th e end of this i'ea~' .
This high ly sp ecialized industry's selecti on of th e sou th G eorgia location is a tribute to th e abi lity a nd characte r of ou r G eorgia workers , as well as to th e ad vantag es wh ich thi s sta te o ffers a lm ost an y industry.
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It was announced recently that a gro up of CA IRO businessmen had purchase d a 25-a cr e tract of railroad frontage property " to be kept ava ilable for an ind ustrial sit e."
The group , who wa s not named , also is studying p ur chase of additional railroad frontage property, a Chamber of Commer ce official sai d. All propert y is proposed to be kept avai lable fo r industri al development purposes.
Establishmen t of an industrial de velopme n t corpora tion for the purpose mention ed is rumored . Industr ial prospects already have been offer ed leasecon struction a nd sim ila r proposa ls, aecording to th e Chamber of Commer ce.

The d evelop ment gro up has also obta ined op tions on othe r desirable local sites without ra ilro ad fron tage. Other sites wit h fr ontage a re bein g kept availa ble hy individ ua l owne rs.
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Present pr oduct ion a t th e O geech ee V all ey C heese Plant in MILLEN is running a t a bout 7,500 pounds a day, sta tes Leland Carter , man ager. With con tin uing fa vorable weather condi tions, this sho uld be ste ppe d up to a bo ut 10,000 pounds a day within a mon th o
The che ese plant is still int erest ed ill findin g m or e producers. Th otc int er ested ca n secu re the necessar y information by co ntac ting H . E. Thompson ,
production m an ager , O!' Arth ur Ca tes.
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NEW DAWSON PLANT EM PLO YS 30 WORKERS
DA WS ON has secu red a new hosiery plant whi ch will em ploy som e '30 workers , with a payr oll of a p p roxima te ly $2 ,500 per week .
James G . W right, wh o wi ll head th e new en te rp rise, confirme d th e selec tion of D aw son for th e new plant an d an nounced plans for erec tion of a new m od ern air-condition ed building.
N egotiation s for th e new plant wer e instituted by th e T errell Co unty C ha m ber of Com me rce and were succ essfully conclude d wh en Mr. Wright agr eed up on th e site and loca l inter ested busi nessmen ra ised th e ca pital to bu y the lot an d pay part of th e moving ex pe nse.
Practica lly all th e eq uipme n t will be moved from Alb an v, wh ere it has been used in the plant of' the Albany Manu fa cturing Com pa ny, acco rd ing to reports. The machines a re own ed by Mr. Wright, who has been connec ted wi th the Albany firm for seve ra l years .
I t is expe cte d th e plant wi ll be complet ed on or about April I. Mr. W right sta ted tha t a hi gh grade of hos e wiII be manufactured by the plant and that its en tire ou tput a lready has been cont ra ct ed for.
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The C ity of CHAMBLEE has issued a permit to th e Peachtree-St ewart Corporation fo r a small office and warehouse to be bui lt on D eer e Drive and Peachtree Street.
It was und erstood that the com pa ny has bou ght 75 acres between th e Bou leva rd a nd Pea chtree Road and plans to d ev elop it for industry.

GEORG IA D EPARTM EN T OF COMM E I~CE

The com pa ny was recently in co rp or a ted by N athani al Parker , J r., Wi lliam
C. Lea and J. J. O'C onnor for th e pur-
chase and sale of real esta te d evelopm ent and leasing of industri a l 'a nd com m er cia l plants of all kinds.
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The Perfect Pants M anufacturing Co m pany in FITZGERALD is en la rging th eir p lant so th at th e output wi ll be a t least one -fou rth more, according to Dick K am insk y, owner and ope rator of th e com pa ny.
Mr. K am insky recen tly leased th e seco nd floor of a local bui lding, giving an addition al six th ou sand feet of floor space to th e Fitzger ald plant.
The p resent building, whi ch hou ses all th e fa ctory, will in th e future contain on ly th e manufacturing part of th e bu sin ess ; th e bu sin ess offi ce, pr essing department, and th e sto rage will be in the new portion of th e bui lding.
M r. K aminsky sta te d th at he now has em ployed about 80 persons, and with th e rem ova l of th e off ice and ot he r d epartments from th e fa ctor y room , he will hav e space to pla ce at least 15 new machines and wi ll em ploy 25 m ore persons, making a payroll for m or e than 100 .
Atlanta Becomes Capital
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ind us trv observers believe. The ' N ew Engl and company has
moved it s en tire headquar ter s staff to Georgia. It is head ed by Presid ent Rob ert W eir. The company will continue its Boston offic e but as a b ranch und er th e Atlanta he adq uarte rs.
Sti ll another recent addition to th e Atlanta cotto n-waste industry is th e esta blish me n t of Warren Coleman, In c., a new ly incor por a ted firm headed by Warren Coleman, who formerly was with the I nt ern ational Corp ,
Chairman of th e board of In ternation a l Corp. , a n Atlanta firm which ranks as on e of the biggest cotton wa st e conce rn s in th e world , is Robert H echt. H echt is conside re d the " fa th er" of the cotton-waste industry in At lan ta , and throughout th e years has campai gn ed for top position which th e cit y has now rea ched in the industry.
M r. Boring in his colum n said that H echt in 1919 predi ct ed A tlanta som e da v wou ld lea d th e world in cot to nwast e busin ess. H e m ad e thi s pred ic-
(C on tin ued on Pa ge 3 )

IND UST RIAL NEWS L ETTER

Febru a ry 25, 1952

Turkey Broiler Busine ss
Growing Rap idly in
Northeast Georgia
Th e t urkey broi ler ind ustry is fast becom ing a big an d sta ble part of No rth east Georgia' s poultry indu stry.
An estima ted 30 per cent of a ll tu rkeys grown comme rcia lly in Geo rgia last yea r were gro wn in a nd a round H all county, and mor e are sche d uled to be prod uced next year.
An estima ted 200,000 turk eys were g rown in thi s N or theast Geo rgia area during 1951. The State ra ised well over a half millio n birds.
T his yea r a con sider able in ter est is developing in th e a rea a nd th rou gh out Georgia over th e bi.~ birds. T he G eorgia Crop R ep orting Service pr edi cts that turk ey rai sing in the Sta te will increas e 56 percen t ove r the 1951 crop of turkeys. Last year Georgia raised 503,000 t urk eys ; thi s year th e anticipa tion is for a record cro p of 785,000 birds. The Crop Reportin g Service cred its a la rge portio n of this incr ease to a growing int er est in turkey broi lers.
Tu rke y growers over the na tion also expec t to raise a record crop of turkeys thi s yea r. If pr oducers do wh at th ey int end, th e num ber of tur keys rai sed in the U ni tedStates thi s vea l' will be about 11 per cen t mo re th~ n in 1951. All areas of the co untry expect incr eases, ra ng ing fro m four to 3 1 percent.
R eason s given by turkey growers for th e increase fro m last year are high er turkey prices d uring th e pas t sea son , a more fa vorable turk ey-feed p rice relation ship a nd sma ller cold-sto rage hold ings on J an uary 1 th an a yea r ago.
In th e West wh er e turkey product ion is pr edo m inan tly commercial, growers pian to p rod uce 12 per cent more turkeys th an last year. Th is is a reaction to th e fa vor ab le retu rns in 1951, wh ich resulted from high er turkey pri ces with relat ively high er prices for th e heavy birds a nd a fast gro wing pr ofit abl e turkey br oiler industry.
The numbers of tur keys ac tually raised usually va ry from J anuary 1 intentions, th e difference dep ending on pri ces of feed , supply and prices of hatchi ng eggs and poult s a nd th e va lue of turkeys rema ining in growers' hands.
The number of turkeys rai sed in 1951 was 15 per cent high er than J an uary 1 in tentions. This h appen ed beca use during th e h at ching season turkey p rices rose 15 percen t abov e th eir 1950 level an d th e turkey-feed price relati on ship steadily im proved as th e

Atlanta Becomes Capital
(Continued from Pa ge 2 )
tion in a n art icle in M a nufacturers Recor d on lv a sho r t tim e afte r the indu stry in Georgia was born a nd a few th ou sand dollars would ha ve covered all loca l cot ton -was te dea lings.
I n his 19 19 articl e in Manufa ct ur er s Record, H ech t wrote, in part:
"T here is tr iple ben efit to th e Sou th in its cott on-waste tr ade. At first it is th e esta blishme n t of waste spinning mill s, whi ch co nsume th eir own waste at home, an d secon d it is the stabiliza tio n of prices in thi s section by com manding its own ma r kets . The thi rd an d grea test be nef it is th e direct export from th e South to for eign coun tries of waste."
Sin ce H ech t' s a r ticle, mo re and more beneficial uses of so-ca lled " cott on wastes" have been found . Amo ng th em a rc th e weavin g of coarse fab rics, towels and ya rns, padding for bedding and upholster y, upholster y for au tomobile sea t covers, insulat ion for a uto mobiles, absorbent cotton for surgery, wipi ng wastes for ind ustrial machinery, high- grad e filters of all sorts.

BORDEN TO ERECT SAVAN NAH PLA NT

M achi nery, tr ucks, eq uipme nt and

R'ood-will of H a rm s' D ai ry, SA V AN-

N A H, have been acq uired by Bor -

den's, nati on all y-kn own dai ry prod-

uc ts concern.

No rea l esta te was involved in the

tra nsa ct ion, said J ohn W . H a rms,

owner of th e local dairy bu siness,

who will remain as man ager for one

vear. T he nam e H arms' Dairv will

be reta ined , he said .

'

T he sa le was com pleted recently

by George Sa nc ken, Sr., of Aug usta,

Southeaste rn rep resentati ve for Bor -

den' s. Th e tr an sacti on is effec tive

im m ed ia tely.

I t is understood th a t Borden 's immedia te plans ca ll for th e erection of a new and larger plant, m anufacturing ice crea m and cheese a nd hand ling some 170 Bord en da iry pr oducts.

hatching season advance d . Ea ch yea r sinc e 1947 the number of turkeys raised has been high er th an th e J anuary 1 in tention . If Georgia tu rk ey growers this year ca rry out th eir present plan s, we will have a record cro p of a livestock that is ra pidly develop ing into a va lua ble pa rt of our economy .

Brunswick Industry First Shipper in Port

A home industry mo ved to becom e

th e first shippe r through th e re-activa t-

ed port of Brunswick.

The H ercu les Powd er Com pa ny, op-

era to r of th e world's la rgest stea m-d is-

tilled tur pentine pla nt at Brun swick,

said a Swedis h vessel do cked the re

February 20 to load ca rgo of its prod -

uct s for Norwa y and Sweden .

H ercu les ex po rts abou t one-fifth of

th e pr oduction of th e plant. The ca rgo

con sisted of rosin, turpen tin e an d pin e

oil.

.

Government Contracts For Georgia Industries

T he follow ing government con tracts

were award ed to Georgia industri es

during Decem ber a nd J an ua ry, accord-

ing to th e field service repo rts of th e

U . S. Dep artm ent of Co mmerce : Savanna h Suga r R efin ing Co rp. , SA -

V ANNAH-800,000 pounds of gram l-

la ted sugar, $72,304.00. T he Warren C o., I nc., ATLANTA

-33,000 woo den wareh ouse pallet s,

$26, 160.00 . The Tumpan e Co m pa ny Gove rn -
men t Aircraft Plant No . 6, MARlET-

T A- Reco rd, insp ect , sh ip, sto re a nd

mai ntain ma chine too ls, exceeds $250,-

000 .00. Acme Co nstr uc tion Co. , COCH RAN

- Addition to parking lot at R obins

Air For ce Base, G a. , $30 ,76 1.00. W illiams Armstrong Smith , EAST

POIN T - 36,000 gals. Pain t primer ,

$76,040 .00. Georg ia -Pacific Plywood Sts., Co .,

A UGUSTA - Cont ract for :#:2 south -

ern pin e, $3 1,500.00. Sav a nna h Suga r R efining Corp .,

SA V ANNAH-400,000 lbs. gran ulate d

suga r, $33,5 12.00.

. ..

Ca llaway Mills, Inc., MMC D1V1S10:1,

LA GRA N GE-Three contrac ts for cot-

ton duck, excee ds $250,000.00 eac h . Georg ia Webbing & Tape Co ., CO-
L U I'v/BUS- 265,000 l.y. cot ton web -

bin g, $43 ,880.00. Fu lton Trou ser Co ., Inc., ATLAN-

T A - Field tr ou sers, exceeds $250,-

000 .00 . W right Contracting Co ., CO LUM -

BUS- 84,000 sqs. concrete mattress ar-

ticul at ed casting, exceeds $250,000. 00. Georgia Institute of T echnology, AT-

LA NTA-B omb scoring device, $28,-

340 .00. The W a rren Co ., Inc., A T LANTA-

49,000 woo den warehouse pallets, $62,-

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GEORGIA DEPART MENT OF COMMERCE

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Government Contracts
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430.00. Ci nderella Food s, Div. St eve ns Ind us-
tr ies, In c., DA WS ON- 3,988 doz. ca ns of peanut butter , $88,525.00.
Fu lton Trou ser Co. , In c., ATLANTA -Two con tracts for field trou sers, exceeds $250,000 eac h .
J aco Pant s, I nc., W INDE R-50,OOO pairs field trousers, $ 115,000.00.
M anderville Mills, I nc., CA R RO L L T ON -200,000 Ibs. co tto n ya rn for fishing industry, $149,940.00.
Enterp rise Alumin um Co ., EATON T O N-Liners for deep cavity shell.
C rysta l Sp rings Bleachery, Inc., CH IC KAlvl A UGA - 650,000 cott on clo th bags , $182 ,000.00.
Fulton Ba g & Co tto n Mills, ATLA N TA -Burlap ju te a nd cotton cloth bags, exceeds $250,000.00.
A ugu sta Bag a nd Burl ap Co m pany , A UG USTA - --Burlap jute bags, exceeds $250,000.00.
At lantic Creosoting Co. , I nc., SA VANNA H-40,000 treat ed cros s ties, $ 163,000.00.
Geo rg ia-Alaba ma Pavin g Co ., CO L U}.;I BUS - Construc ting additiona l ai rfield pa vin g, T ampa, Fla ., excee ds $ 250,000 .00 .
G eorgia I nstitute of T echnology, A T LA NTA-Tuiti on fees for 450 stu de nts pe r q ua rte rs, $76,550.00.
Forem ost D airies, I nc., ATLANTA - l'vl ilk an d mil k products, excee ds $250,000.00.
So uthe rn D airies, A U GUSTA -79,450 ga ls. bulk a nd brick ice cream , $ 110,435.00.
T he W a rren Co. , I nc., ATLANTA 50 electr ic refrigerat ors, $26,250.00.
Calla way Mills Co., LA GRA N GEFour contrac ts for cotton d uck, excee ds $250,000 ea ch .

Carwood M fg. Co ., WIND ER-1 20,000 cott on shirts, $93,000.00.
Big Ace Co rp ., ATHENS- 317,000 cotton shirts, $245,675.00.
Cornel ia Ga rme nt Co. , CO RNEL IA --210,000 cott on sh irts, $ 139,500.00.
Perdue Mfg. Co ., ATHEN S- I 80,000 cotton shirts, $ 136,800.00.
Co lumbus Mfg. Co ., CO L U M BUS 300,000 l.y. cotton du ck, $213,300.00.
Peerl ess Woolen M ills, R OSS VILL E - Wool lining eloth , exc eeds $250,000.00.
Visitors Left $300 Million
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of 10,8 13,125 traveling by a u tomobile a lone.
Roy A. Fl ynt, St ate H ighway Plannin g En gin eer , inf ormed th e Commer ce Dep artment th at he conside red the figures of the ta ble q ui te conserva tiv e. T hey were bas ed, he sai d, on th e minimum sojo urn withi n th e borders of th e St a te by those t ra velers passing th rou gh to and from ot her sta tes. Amounts estim ated to have been spe nt by tr avel ers on bu sin ess, sh opp ing or touring have been increa sed to rctlcct ge nera l increases in living costs, but yet a re consider ed by En gin eer Fl ynt and h is associa tes to be on the conse rva tive side. Their 1951 fig ur es, like th ose of 1950, were based on traffic tr ends th at hav e been not ed since 1939, suppleme nte d by ca lcu la tions using factors devel op ed from recent obse rva tio ns as to ca r occu pa ncy a nd composition of tr affic on major ro u tes throug ho ut Georgia. M r. Fl yn t sa id his ag ency was planning a more extensive a nd th orou gh tr avel survey in th e near fu tu re but th at th e present on e w as based on suc h definite and dep endable

indica tion s th a t he believed th ese . figu res were fa irly a ccurate.
Such travel estima tes a rc of particu lar interest and va lue to th e ra pid ly gro wing tr avel indust r y in the St ateth e mot els, tourist cour ts, wayside restaurants and hot els, th e oil-and -gasoline sta tions and othe r merca ntile establi sh ments. If it is true, as so definitely appears, th at 300 mi llion dollars was left in Georgia last yea r by visito rs, th en th e tr avel an d va cation industry is indeed com ing to be " big bu sin ess" in Georgia - o r as a better term wou ld be, a lot of bu sin ess, for it is sca tt ered ou t amo ng small esta b lishm ents from the T enn essee to t he Flo rida line and ac ross Geo rg ia from Alabama to Carolina an d the coas t. It provid es a boost for our en tire economic structure.
In th e meantime, th e Geo rg ia Departmen t of Commerce is working as sid uously and consta ntly to bring visitors to Georgia and to ind uce th ose who hasten thro ugh th e State in quest of som e vac a tion spot beyond it to " linger a little longer" in Georg ia . We are send ing out hund reds of thousands of pict orial booklets and inform a tive brochur es in genera l through out th e la nd and even o ther lands, fro m northern Canada to th e Argentine. T he la rgest number of req uests for va cation liter a ture on Georgia com ing fro m foreign coun tr ies in th e last twelve months has been fr om Spain . H ard ly a 'day passes tha t a letter docs not come from that M ed iterran ean country requ esting va ca tion fold ers. In a ll, th e D ep a rtment re ceives as high as 200 letters a day, a gre a t many of wh ich a re from prospective visitors planning a t rip into th e South and desiring inf orm ation on whi ch to m ak e a decision. as to wher e to spe nd their vacation . .

V ol. 3, No. 15

M ar ch 10, 1952

Georgia Has Many Minerals

Government Contracts For Georgia Industries

Needed Now By Government

The followin g Governm ent con tra cts were awarde d to Georgia industries du rin g December a nd J anua ry, accord-

O f interest to m an y Georgians who are en gage d in mining or wish to do so is th e fact tha t th e F ed eral Gove rnment now offers assistance in prospecting for strategic min erals. I nformation on th is program is gi\'en in National Prod uction Authority O rd er M-78 in connect ion with th e sett ing up of the Defense M inerals Exploration Admi nistration a nd th e D efense Mi nerals Procuremen t Admi nistration . The first ag ency p rovides assista nce to min ers wh o wish to pro spect a nd develop ores ; th e second one is engaged in esta blish ing pri ces to subsidize stra teg ic materi als a nd make purchase contrac ts with min eral producers. A number of con tracts to purchase metals have alread y been negoti at ed by DMPA, most-
1A 1J1 .;.T..".l.. t...h....n...... 'A.ro.....d... .-..

dustr ial diamond s, kyanite (strategic ) , mica (st ra tegic ) , monazite, ur an ium and rare ea rth or es, nic kel, plat inum group metals, quartz crystals, (piezoelectrical ), talc (Steatite ), an d tin- 90 pe rcen t."
As sta ted befor e. many of th ese minerals ar e found in ~ur S t~t e. According to Dr. A. S. F ur cron, Georgia's Assist':. an t Sta te Geologist, th ere h ave been locat ed copp er deposits in Lin coln Co unty ; also, our pyrite dep osits in No rth Georgia will produce a n a ppre cia ble amo unt of met allic copper a nd iron sinter. These pyrite dep osits have been st udied extensively by th e Stat e Mines D ep a rtm ent and a re of special interest becau se of th eir sulph ur content . Gr aphite h as been mined to a limited extent in eastern Georgia . COJn-

ing to th e field service repo rts of the U. S. D ep a rtment of Co mmerce :
H olep roof H osiery Co ., M ARIETTA - 226,800 pai rs cush ion-sole wool socks, $ 120, 158.00.
Go lde n C ity H osiery Mi lls, I nc., V I L LA RICA - 150,000 pairs cush ionsole wool socks, $83,925.00.
Foremost Dairies, In c., SAVANNA H and /or J ackson ville, Fla . - Mil k and milk p rodu cts, $62,667.00.
Shafter Co nstructio n Com p an y, HIN ES VILLE - R eplacing m ap I e floorin g in Spo rts Aren a, $28 ,506 .00.
Savanna h Machine & Foundry Co mpan y, SA V ANNAH-Reactiv ati on repairs on stea msh ip, $ 138,850 .00.
Lyons T exti le M ills, In c., GR EENSBOR O - 75,000 cotton uti lity ja ckets, $44, 250.0 0.
Fu lton Trouser Co ., In c., ATLAN-

Every qua lified prospector is given mercial grades of br own iron ore a re TA- 95,720 pairs field tr ousers, $209, -

a n oppo rtunity by DMEA to investigat e mined extensively in Polk and Ba rtow 626.00.



a good p rospect a t small person al ex- Co unties, as well as bedded h ematite

Co lumbus Mfg. Co ., CO LUM BUS-

pense. The progr am is basicall y out- ores in Northwest Georgia, simila r to 300,000 l.y. cotto n du ck, $2 13,300.00.

lin ed in Mineral Order 5, as follows:

th e iron mined in Alab am a.

William Armst ron g Sm ith Co. , EAST

"T he Go vern me nt will con tr ibute to

Furthermore, reports Dr. Furcron, POINT- 33,000 ga ls. enamel, $54,-



th e exploration p roject, upon th e terms halloysite beds occur in Chattooga 425.00 .

specified in th e con tract, a cer tai n per- County, a nd bauxite dep osits in both

Fl ou rn oy Fl uor escent Serv ice, CO-

centage of th e total cost of th e p roj ect, No rth an d So ut h Georgia. Ba rtow L UMBUS - F urn ish all plant, la bor

dep ending upo n th e mineral wh ich is Co unty's most not icea ble strategic con- an d materials a nd perform all op era -

th e subj ect of exploration, as follows:

trib ut ion in m an ga nese. L ike one or tions required for th e installa tion of

" (a ) In th e case of chromium , cop- two sta tes in th e far W est, several sta tes fluorescent ligh ts in 3 1 classrooms a nd

pe r, fluorspa r, graphite (cru cible flake ) in th e eastern section of ou r cou ntry , instructors' offic e build ings, $36,700 .00.



iron or e, lead , molybde n um, sulp hur, including Georgia, are known to con-

Britt Elect ric Company, TH OMA S-

halloysite (catalytic grade ), ba uxite, tain lar ge supplies of m an gan ese, wh ich T O N-Install additiona l elect ric re-

zinc (a nd cadm ium ) - 50 percent ;

also produ ces iron . It is suggested th at cep tacles in 175 mobiliza tion type bar-

" (b ) In the case of an timo ny, man- a good policy for DMPA wo uld be to rac ks in Ar ea E & F H a rm on y Ch urc h

ga nese, mercury, tun gsten-75 percen t ; stockpile thi s ore in. a dep ot in Geor gia Area, $ 15,000.00.

" (c ) I n th e case of asbestos (ch ryso- as done in Ne w M exico a nd M on -

Washburn Storage Co ., CO L UM -

tile and amosite ), beryl, coba lt, colum - ta na . Virgini a likewise ha s a la rge BUS-750,000 Ibs. a ppr ox. service and

bium-t antalum , coru ndum , cryolite, in -

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INDUST RIAL NEWS LETTER

M a rch 10, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

.J. & P. Coa ts of Pawtucket , R . I. ,
h as m erged with No rth G eor gia P ro cessing Co ., Inc., a Delaw are co rpo ra tio n .
Th e n ew nam e of th e tw o firms will
be .f. & P. Coats, Inc. Both a re su b-
sidi aries of 1. P. C la rke Co" L td .. a Brit ish corpo ra tion .
The R h ode Island co mpa ny m akes st itching thread, zipper ta pe a nd allied cotton products and employs 2.250 per son s. North Georgia Processing h as a p lan t at T OCCO A for hleac h ing a nd dyein g spool th read .
Th e m erged firm ha s a tot a l a ut ho rized ca pita l of $ 1'~, 8 5 0 ,00() . consist ing of 160,000 shares of .$ 100 p a r stoc k wi th 148,500 shares a ll tstand ing . I twill mainta in an office a t 100 W est 10th S t., Wilm ingt on , Del.
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Th e Ev cnr rc cn ch inc hi lla ran ch near CO L U M BUS . has increased its va lu e to nea rly $1,000 ,000 with the p ur ch ase of 253 more of th e ex pe nsive fur bearers, it wa s a n no unce d .
Th e a dd itional purchase, from Ca liforn ia, brings th e number of a n imals a t th e ran ch to 4,200. Mrs. C . A. C u tle r, owne r, brought in th e a n ima ls. whi ch sh e estimate d a t $ 1,750 to $2.000 pe r pair in val ue,
Mrs. Cu tle r described th e tran sacti on a s the " largest single ch inc h illa purchase in h istory ."
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COMMERCE SALUTES QUITMAN MILLS
Th e Q UITlvfAN Mi lls, Inc., m anufa cturers of ru g yarn for Alexander Sm ith , th e largest ca rpe t man ufacturing p la nt in the wo rld , is to be com mend ed on th ei r h a lf-mi llion-dollar imp ro vem en t program rec en tly co m pleted . This expansion program pl aces th e m ill on an equality wit h a ny in th e co un try.
F ro m its tim id beginnings an d lack of ca p ita l th e indust ry h as risen to a p ositi on of sta bility a n d is indeed a gr eat asse t to th e town an d co un ty .
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BEAVERS PACKING CO. OPENS BRANCH PLANT IN VIENNA
The Beav er s Pack in g Com pa ny, of N ew na n, h as ope ne d a b ra n ch pl an t in V IENNA . Th is n ew in d ustry in D ooly cou nty h olds p ro m ise of meaning much to th e development of th e growing livestoc k b usin ess in th e a rea.
The Vi enna branch of th e wellkn own North G eorgia packing com p an y

will serve as a d istributing cen ter for pr oducts of th e co m pa ny a n d also as a market for purch asin g sup plies of livestock for processin g.
Th e livestock sales barn wi ll be used to pr ovid e local farmer s with a d ai ly market for th eir stock . sa les bein g co nd uct ed fiv e an d one -half days a ~week . fro m M on d ays thro ug h Sat urda y noo n; inst ead of onlv one a week as h eretofore at the local s~ l es barn .
\Villi ams A. Beave rs, son of J ames A . Bea vers, S r., presiden t of th e co m pany, will be gen era l m an ager of th e V ienna pla n t . J oe Steve ns, wh o h as been with the com pa ny for man y yea rs, will be sa les m an ager.
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F or th e first time since being esta b lished severa l years ago. th e S PA R T A Fu rniture fa cto ry will soon begin cu tti ng its own veneer fo r use in making plywoo d . It is ins ta lling a large ven eer lath e wh ich will shave th e ven eer off a log in a ny th ickness desir ed.
At present th e firm is sh ip ping plywoo d to oth er furniture fa ct ori es over the co un try, cut to th eir specifica tions .
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Th e G eorgia Pow er Co . h as in ope ra tion a n ew 20 .000-kil ow att h vd ro-clectric gene ra ting uni t at Ba rtl e'tt's F erry Dam on th e C hat ta hooch ee R iver .
The new un it, wh ich cost $ 1,500,000 is design ed to help th e co m pa ny m ee t pea k d em ands in th e CO LUM BUS a rea, Division M an ager Edwin M . C la p p sa id .
Sc he d uled for limited ope ra tion for th e present, th e unit wi ll ge ne ra te fu ll rim e as d ep leted wa rr- r res e rv es beh ind th e dam arc bu ilt u p to norm al.
The p la nt's ca pac ity h as been increased fro m 45 ,000 to 65,000 kilow atts by th e a ddi tion of th e n ew uni t.
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H orace Pop e of CA R RO L L T ON h as an no unc ed p lans for a new fee d mi ll to do custo m mi xing a nd grind ing .
Pope' s new en te rp rise wi ll also h andle a lin e of co ncen tra tes to go in to th e feed .
A 15-inch h ammer mill ca pable of grin din g 125 poun ds of co rn p er mi nute will be used , Pop e sa id .
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GEORG IA MAY NOW BE RANKING POULTRY STATE
P oultry m ay h av e no sed out p eanuts as G eorgia's N o. 2 cash crop in 1951,

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

accord ing to A rth u r G annon , E xt en sion Se rv ice pou lt rym an . Peanuts held a .$3,00 0,000 m argin in 1950 .
Mr. G annon sa id "we th ink" G eorgia is th e n ati on 's rankin g producer of pou ltry, a position long held by Del a ware. H e estimate d th e 1951 Georg ia broiler crop at " som ewhe re bet ween 88 an d 92 m illion," th e la tt er b ein g th e figur e a rri ved at by Time M agazine.
" A t th e clo se of 1950 Georgia wen t ahead of M a ryland for second pla ce in th e n ation an d I am co nvinced th a t in 1951 we went ahe ad of D elaw are, but it m av be a few weeks befor e th e fin a l figur~s by sta tes are rel ea sed by th e U . S. D ep a rtment of Agri cultu re," :M r. Ganno n sa id.
Mr. Gan no n sa id h e would n ot be sur p rised to see Georg ia g row mo re th a n th e 785 ,000 turkeys which growers a re figuring on in 1952 , " if p rices remain goo d." A tot al of 503 ,000 turkeys wer e rai sed in th e sta te last year. . The p roj ect ed 56 p er cent in crease for this year wi ll largely be in Belt sville White broiler t urkeys.
Georgia Has Many Minerals
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amou n t of m an gan ese a n d V irgini ans ha ve been ac tively working to ge t th e Gove rn ment to esta blish a stockpi le dep ot in th at sta te.
T h is policy is sa id to be em ine n tly su ita ble f or G eor gia. H ow ever, alth ou gh we h av e exte nsive manganese dep osits in Georg ia, especia lly in Ba rtow, we un dersta nd th at because of policies beyond co n trol of th e m iningpu blic, pract ica lly no m an ganese h as been m ine d in our Sta te sinc e th e begin n ing of W orld W ar II, whi ch for some un accountabl e reason ended its prod uc tion . Yet , DMEA will put up 75 per cent of th e cost of prosp ect in g this meta l.
For th ose wh o wish to mine on e of th ese variou s m ateri a ls, th e fir st thing to do , aecord ing to th e Sta te 's Assistant G eolog ist, is to lease a goo d prosp ect or unworked mine with a good reputa tion ; also, of course, h e sho uld selec t a mineral with which h e h as h ad exp eri en ce. The Sta te Mines D ep art m ent will h elp a n d a dvise th e prospec to r in th e m atter. In its offic e in the Sta te C a p ito l a re th ousands of m ines a nd prosp ect s ca ta log ue d and stud ied over
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I ND U ST RI AL NEWS LETTER

M a rch 10, 1952

Diversified Agriculturef Industry

Key to Prosperity in Colquitt County

M oultrie and Co lq ui tt Co unty ha ve

found the key to prosperity and eco-

no m ic cult ure

sta bility-d iver sifica tio a nd diversificati on in

ni n

dinusatc~r .i

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Agri cu lture bu ilt M oultri e. For' a quarter-cent ury or more th e city has

been recogniz ed as a "cash m ar ket" for

e\T ry crop grown on the fa rm . The

soils of Co lquitt Co un ty are suita ble

for evcrv kno wn cultiva'ted vcvb et ation . . . pean uts a re grown in a bunda nce .

tobacco holds swa y over th e fer tile I~ n d s and .in ./uly C~)t llt is paid to th is

rich crop m the now fa mo us M oul tric

T.
in

cbtahcecop

F estiv al. ast ure la

L ivestock nd s thr ou

is thri gho ut

vin th

tr oe

coun ty. I n th e mid st of this diversified

agricultural richness, M ou ltri e h as th e

far- sigh redness to develop diversified

ind ustry.

T he pr esent industrial growth within
the town gives evidence of clea r-th inking ~i t ize~s who h ave tu ned th eir produ ct ion tor world consum p tion, using

I? cal . p rod ucts, local em ployees. T he first industry was begun in 1901 wh en th e M oult rie Co tton Mill s was established . Then a gro up of M ou lt rian s ~)u ilt a I.l~ ea t- pack i ng pla n t, lat er selling It to Swilt and Compa ny in 1917 . Since th at time, M oultrie has seen its ind ustrial a rea expa nd vastly to include th e Georgia Peanut C om pa ny a nd its hold il~gs, oil mills, severa l of s~ u t h Georgia's biggest fert ilizer work s, cotton gins, tobacco . marketing wa reh ou ses, mi lling com pan ies, and man y other opera tions

a llied to agricu lt ur e. T his industria l p icture is contin ually
expa nding . Th e G eorgia Peanut Co m'-

pan y . handles ? ne-thi rd of th e pea nuts
used in the na tion's produ ction of ed ible
peanu t produ ct s. T hey are now h usv rea.d~i n g a new, ult ra-l{lOdern plant fo;' ref ini ng pea nut oil. RAVO. the new

ra lad d ressing, cooking oil. according to H om er G . Ray, president , will eq ua] if not surpass the pr esent cooking oils on th e mark et . M r. Ray said . " ext ensive tests sho w that Ravo' is an ' odo rless oil tl~a t i ~ Com l?ara ble to th e fin est q ua lity of re fine d 011 on the market. \Ve kn ow tha t we have a grea t prod uct: the ma rket is here : we feci th at R a vo has unlimited possibilities."
One of M ou ltri e's oldest ind ustries is

the R iveI.side M an ufact uring Co m pa ny,

locally financed a nd un der th e sa me

ma nagemen t as th e M oultrie Cotton

Mill s a nd th e Riv erside Bcddin u Com-

pa ny. R iversid e man ufactu res" ind us-

t ria l un iform s. T he term ind ustrial uni-

form coine d by th e com pa ny is now

~cce p ted by th e industry as a pro pos

tor the work sh irts, t rousers, and CO\Tr -

a ~ ls used by em ployees of plan ts of all

kmds wh ere uniform s a re requ ired .

The Ri vers ide M anufact urin u Com-

.

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b

pan y enJoys an interna tio na l tr ade.

T he lat e W. C. Vereen. local citizen seein g the vast need for a n ind ustry in th e town , organized the Moultrie Co tton M ills. I t' s been sa id th a t M r. V e-

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From l~ft to ri ght: Ro y E. Pa.rri sh, exec utive vice presid ent, G eor gia Peanut C ompa ny , C la r k Games , Sec~eta~y, Georgia Department of C omme rce, and Homer G. Ray, president of th.e Georgia I ~anut C ompa n y, examin ing a jar of R avo , refined peanut oil for
salad dressing and cookmg, now being processed by th e peanut company.

Government Contracts

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~n at e ri als n ec.essar~ to ac com plish pack-

ll1g an? cra tmg of hou seh old goods of

a uthon zed personnel, $39,375.00 .

Scientific Lab. Supplv Co ., A T LANTA -For se rv ices ren d ~red .

South ern Scientific Co m pa ny A T-

LANTA -For se rvices rendered: '

Th e Wa rren Co ., I nc., ATL ANT .1-

205 ea . 52-806 BRefr igerat ors $98 -

195 .00 .

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Pacific Mill s, GR I FFIN - 500 .000

turkish towels, $207, 100.00.

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Dundee M ills, GR I FFIN-300,000

turki sh towels, $ 125,9 70.00.

C lassic C ity Overall Co ., Inc., A T H -

ENS- 189,000 pa ir cotton utility trou s-

ers, $ 127, 102.00. W right M fg. C om pany, T OCCOA-

140,000 pair cotto n utili ty trousers,

$94,500.00. Also 97,563 pair khaki

trou sers, $8 7,282.00.

C arwood M fg. Co ., W INDER -

150,000 pai r cotto n utility t rousers,

$106 ,500 .00. Also 100,000 pa ir kh aki

trou sers, $90,000.00.

M axwell Estroff Co ., A U GUST .1-

325,000 pa ir cott on utilit y tr ousers,

$227, 175.00.

.

J aco Pa nts, I nc., W INDER- 50,000

pair wool field trousers, $72,000.00. Al-

so 100,000 pai r kh ak i tro users, $89,-

500.00.

Sou th easte rn Ga rme nt Co ., lvION -

R OE-120,000 pair wool field trous-

ers, $ 167,640 .00.

R ome M fg. Company, R O }vIE- 80,-

000 pair khaki t rou sers, $ 72,000.00.

R itt enbaum Broth ers, ATLANTA-

200,000 lbs, cotto n wiping clo th, $36,-

420. 00.

Enter pris e Aluminum T O N- Su pplem enta ry

Ccoh.~rE<YeATOf No -r

dceu -cavitv sh ell.

o

The At;to Solar C o., ATLANTA-

Sigh t un it M 34 with equipmen t.

L at ex C onst ruction Co ., ATLANTA

- C onstruction of a ircra ft refuelintc:> system, exceeds $250, 000.00.

Bowers She et M et al C o., ATLANTA

- R ep lenishm ent of tan k and com ba t

vehicl e parts, $25,383 .00.

H ewitt Contracting Co ., CO LUM-

BUS- R eh abili tation of demolition

a rea , R edstone Arsena l. H untsville

Ala., $ 115,335.00.

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Croft-M ullins E lect ric C o., Inc.,

MA C ON- Con structing additions to

power distribution , M acDill AFB

T amp a, Fl a ., $29,845.00.

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W righ t Contracti ng Co ., COLUM-

BUS- R eloca tion of Virginia Secon-

dary Highway 712, exceeds $250 ,-

000 .00.

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More Than 60 ,000 Traetors on Farms In State in 1951
With more than 60,000 t ractors in op eration on Georgia farms in 1951, thi s sta te now has six tim es as many tractors as were in operation h ere in 1940.
Walter S. Brow n, Agricult ural Extension Service associate director, reports that th ere are well over twice as m an y tractors in op eration in th e state now as in 1945. Census figur es for 1945 show ed approximately 24,000 t ractors in th e sta te that year.
" If th e equipme nt is availab le th ere is every indica tion that th is tren d towa rd farm machinery will continue in Geor gia in 1952," M r. Brown sta ted . H e indicat ed th at th ere is a strong d eman d at p resent for heavy equ ipme nt such as cotto n pic ker s.
T he census figu res for 1945 and i950 on farm tractors in use in Georgia showed, accordi ng to Mr. Brown , th at 158 out of Geo rgia's 159 counties had an in crease in tract or nu mb ers over th e five-year period .
Georgia Has Many Minerals
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a continuous period of mo re than 60 yea rs.
In or der to com e under th e DMEA p rogr am, the prospec tor sh ould con tact Dr. R obert A. L auren ce, Executive Officer, Field T eam, R egion 7, U . S. D efense Minerals Administr ation, Room 13, Post Office Building, Knoxville, T ennessee. A team will th en be sent out, con sisting of a geologist from th e U . S. Geological Surv ey a nd an engi-

neer from th e U . S. Bureau of M in es. T h ey will examine th e prospect to decide if th e show ing is sufficient to deserv e prospectin g. T h ese me n wo rk also in cooperation with th e Georgi a Geological Survey, which is head ed by Captain Garla nd Peyton , in the State C a p itol.
If the min e or p rosp ect is sa tisfac tory, details ca n th en be worked out with th e rep resentat ive of th e U. S. Bureau of M in es. If the opera tor h as mach in ery of h is own , a certain amount is allowed for dep reciation . I n ad dition, duri ng th e prospecti ng, the op erator receives a salary allotment. Quite often, th e p roject ca n be worked out so th at th e cost to the operator is very sma ll.
Diversified Agriculture,
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reen too k the emphasis off th e cotto n crop in Colqu itt Coun ty as th e boll weevil did in other sections of Geo rgia. -
The Cotton Mill s proved to be an asset to its owners an d th e com m unity. I n 1911 ano th er indust ry wa s begun to increase th e gen eral usage of cotton. The R iverside Bedd ing Company under M r. V ereen's ab le leadership began th e manufa cture of cotton mattresses. In th e 20's th e Bedding Compa ny went into th e pr odu ction of innerspring mattr esses, developing th e Royalty line.
Accordin g to L. L. D ickerson , vicepresident and 30-yea r member of th e renowned company, t h e R iverside M anufacturing Company bega n op erations in 1923. Mr. Dickerson said that the la te M r. Vereen started th e factory to give employme nt to young wom en in th e commu nity. I n a modest begin nin g, th ey began with a sm all nu mb er of sewing mach ines making protective covers for a uto steering wh eels and

ca rs being servic ed . Lat er tie covers a nd covera lls wer e manufactured .
Th e first industrial un iforms manu fact ure d by thi s plan t wer e "for th e Co ca -Co la Company during th e inf an cy of th e latt er. This was the m edi um in which R iverside expande d .
At first when th e plant was exp erimenting with th e manufacture of uniforms for Coca-Co la em ployees, th ey import ed th eir cloth from th e N orth beca use th eir clot h did not m eet the qu alification of m at erial necessary for th e h igh-type un iform Ri verside dem an ded. Mr. D ickerson said they decid ed all th eir local emp loyees nee ded was a Ii tt le "know how", so th ey wer e sen t to la rge mi lls to lea rn the a rt of producing superior cloth.
Today wit h a pp roximately 600 machines in ope ra tion in two com pact, efficient pl ant s, Ri verside m anufactures industrial uni form s und er th e " M asterbilt" la bel for ind ivid ual an d mass pro'd uction for expo rta tion a c r 0 S s th e Globe. T h ey are one of the fou r official cu tte rs for th e Coca-Cola Bottling p lants. " Masterbilt" uni forms a re worn by employees of Sta nda rd Oi l, Pepsi Co la bo ttlers, Ford M otor, Bord en' s an d oth er famous name bran d pro ducers.
Un der th e management of W . J. V e-
reen, president , W . C. V ereen, II, vice p resident, 1\1r. Di ckerson, t reasurer,
and T. J. Vereen, vice pres ident (R iv-
erside Beddi ng Co.) , Ri verside continually strives to imp rove th eir already superior products.
T he two industri es cited show in pa rt how M oultri e's ind ustry and agricultur e work toget her. The achi evements of th e citizens of Moultrie an d Co lquitt County a re an inspirati on and shou ld sh ine as a n exa mple of wh at ca n be accomplished wh en diversificat ion is practiced ,

Vo l. 3, No. 16

M a rch 25, 1952

Georgia Taking Real Place

New Aggregate Enterprise Welcomed at Rockmart

In Nation's Steel Industry

M ore th a n 400 persons, including Gov. H erman T almad ge, princip al spea ker, a nd promin en t bu sin ess and



The South's industria l growth is gra p hica lly or sta tistically, th e South- industri a l lea d ers from all ove r th e

taking giant ste ps. From 1939 to 1947 eas t is looming larger in th e nationa l Sta te, were present a t th e RO CK-

one su rvey ind icat ed that 16,000 m anu- stee l picture, as it is in th e overall in - 1\1ART C ham ber of Comme rce ban -

fa cturing p lants had been esta blishe d du strial picture.

qu et th is m onth a nd h eard formal a n-

in th e South- an in cr ea se of 50 per

In 1939, steel ca pac ity for thi s region noun cem ent of th e opening of a new

cen t com pared to a nati on al increa se tot al ed abo u t 2,830,000 ton s an nua lly indu str y wh ich will utilize th e vast de-

of 36 per cent. You can almos t pi ck - o r 3.5 per cen t o f th e nation al total. posits of sla te in th at a rea .

yo ur ca tego ry a t random -wages, elec- This year we h av e m ore th an 4,900,00 0

The Georgia Li ghtweight Aggregate

tri c pow er , number of telephones in- to ns-4.7 per cen t of present nationa l Co., with Robert L. M acDouga ll, At-

sta lled- a nd vou' Il find th e So uth h as ~ apac i ty . And the Sou th is st ill bui ld- la n ta, as presid ent, wi ll begin op er ations

led th e natio'n in per centages of improvem ent.
R ob ert S. L yn ch , p resid ent, Atl antic St eel Compan y, said recently th at in

mg.
The Atlantic St eel Compan y, Georgia 's only steel mill , has mod ernized some of its facilities since th e wa r to

a t a n ea rly d at e to tr ansform th e R ockmart slat~ into a commo d ity of usefu lness a nd va lue. The sla te \~i ll be turned in to a n ag grega te th a t, wh en mad e

genera l, wh ether you cons ider it geo-

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(LEFT ) T he mak ing of steel requires great skill, a fact wh ich is hi ghl y evide n t in the ro lling m ills. H er e, me n m ust grasp th e cn d of a flashing ribb on of steel as it emerges fr om th e roll s, turn , and feed the ribbon in between mo re rolls. (RIGHT) Building being erec ted to house Atla n tic Stee l's new 60 -ton elect ric furn ace, which will in crease the company's produc tion by 50 pe r cent.

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

M arch 25, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

GRAIN GROWERS CONSTRUCT 2IS,OOO-BUSHEL ELEVATOR
Co nst ruc tion of a 2l 5,000-bushel ca pacit y grain eleva to r nea r A THENS will comme nce imm ediately. M. C . Gay, Pr esid ent, G eorgia G ra in G rowers Associati on , Inc., sa id th at th e $250,000 eleva tor is expec ted to be com pleted by ea rly summe r and in time for th e sp ring gra in cro p to be marketed th ro ugh it.
Over six hundred farmers a nd bu siness m en in Barrow, C la rke, Elbert , Franklin, G ree ne, J ackson , M adi son , M organ , O con ee, O gleth orp e a n d
'''' alton Coun ties subscr ibed to ove r $98,000 of stoc k in th e Associati on , an d $90,000 of th is amo unt has alrea dy been p aid by subscribe rs.

as a who lly owned subsi dia ry.
T he lat e J ohn J. W ilkins an d J ohn J. Wilkins, J r., of Athen s started Bell-
grade M anufact uri ng Co m p an y 27 yea rs ago with nominal ca pi ta l. U nde r wise guida nce and stro ng lead ership th is company, manu fac turing w 0 I' k clo thes, became highl y successful. M r. W ilkins , Jr., beco mes Chai rma n of th e Board of D irec to rs of th e Nunnally & M cCrea Co. , an d Chairman of Bellgra de M anuf acturing Co.
Alexander H. H end erson , preside nt a nd chief exec utive office r of th e Nunnally & M cC rea Co . also becomes pr esid en t of Bellgrade M anufacturing Co m pany.
T he N unna lly & M cCrea Co ., manufac tu re rs of overa lls a n d working

a mo de rn em ployees' cafete ria will be inco rpora ted .
Also incl ude d in th e building program a re plan s to enla rge an d modernize th e "general offices. De partme n ta l section will be arra nged for easier comm unication. I mp roved lighting and air condi tion ing eq ui pment will also be installed .
Southern Sta tes Eq uipment Corpo ra tion move d to H am pton from Birmingham , Alabam a, in 1940. T hey are manufactu rers of elect rica l tr ansmission and distribution eq uipmen t, m ech anica l devices and text ile mach ine pa rts.
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Wayside Park is Planned for Wrens

A five acr e site for th e elevator on clothes, with plants in Atlan ta and

Plan s for mak ing a Blue Sta r M e-

th e mainline of th e Seaboard Air L ine J asper, has been in operation some mo rial Pa rk a re rapidly bein g com-

R ailroad near th e Ath ens-J efferso n 60 years . Under Mr. H end erson th e pleted by th e WRENS Garde n Club.

Hi ghw ay was acq uired by th e Associ- company has becom e a substan tial fac- The J ohn Frank R aley Am erican L e-

ation last yea r. The Cla rke Co unty tor in th e industr y. The result is a con- gion Post No. 299 h as given a tract of

Board of Co mmissioners a re ope ning a solida tio n of inter ests on th e part of land nea r th e Legion h om e for th e

new public road from th e J eff erson the owne rs of two lar ge and esta blishe d park. The pa rk will be locat ed sou th

highw ay to th e eleva tor site . The City businesses wh ich sho uld furth er sta bilize of th e hom e on a tr act of land , 200x50

of Ath ens h as recently placed a fire th e ind ustry .

feet.

hydrant with in a few hundred feet of

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Th e park will h ave a triple purpose,

th e site . R ail road facilities will be

T wo BARTOW COUNTY ca ttle- serving as a ro adside p ark for th e con-

ava ilable whe n th e Seaboard comp letes me n did th eir part last week to see venie nce of tou rist s, as a place to erect

a sp ur tr act fr om th eir main-line to th e th at th e ca ttle industr y grows an d th e Blue Sta r M emori al and for local

eleva tor site .

bro ught in some $54,000 worth of new outings.

The rein for ced concrete elevato r will breeding stock to be used on th eir

Th e county and Sta te H ighw ay De-

be 40 feet wide, 80 feet high and 126 fa rm s.

partme nt a re cooperating in th e work

feet in length. The eleva tor will h ave

.J. W . Picklesimer and R . L. (Bob) of gradi ng and levelin g a nd laying out

seven tee n storage bin s and th e most mod ern grain h andling eq uipme n t, such as drier, clean er, truck scales, truck dumper, and temperature control syste m will be incorp orat ed in it.
Th e pr op osed elevator will " provide fac ilities for m arket ing and storing of gra ins bein g gro wn in Northeast Georgia area in increasing amo unts. The Association was incorp or at ed fiftee n months ago to fill th is need afte r a seri es

Lipscomb ha ve just rece ived 14 head of polled H er eford s ave raging $3, 150 per head . The ca tt le wer e purchased fr om Sena to bia, Mi ss., from th e C ircle M . R an ch and Mid-South Cattle sales h eld recently. T hey, al on g with others from Bartow Co unty, attende d th e sa les.
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HAMPTON FIRM EXPANDING

th e d riveway and parking a rea .
The Co mmittee has been noti fied by th e Sta te D ep artment of Parks th at two picni c tabl es will be supplied, along with road side m arkers designating Sta te Wayside Pa rk.
Elb ert Botts, landscap e design er of th e Au gusta G reen Thumb Store dr ew up plans for th e park . M r. Botts h as used m an y n ati ve plants in th e plan ,



of meetings of farm ers spo nso red by

Southe rn Sta tes Equ ipment Corpor a- whi ch will be sup plied by m emb ers of

th e Georgia Farm Bureau.

tion in HAMPTON is expand ing.

th e Garden C lub and othe rs.

Officers of th e Association, in addi-

Plans have been com pleted and th e

The Blue Sta r M em orial will be

tion to Mr. Gay, are R . L. Boswell, gro und broken for a new on e sto ry purch ased through th e G arden C lubs

Green sboro, Vi ce-President and H ow- building to adjoin th e p resent fa cili- of Georgia a t a cost of app roxi ma tely

ell C. Erwin, J r., Athen s, Secreta ry- ties. The new building will be a stee l $ 100. The Blue Star committee of th e

Treasu rer.

and masonry str ucture of mode rn, Georgia C lub plan s to rai se m on ey for

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fun ctional d e s i g n covering approx i- th e marker and othe r expe nses by pub-

The Nunnally & Mc Crea Co. of At- m at ely 25,000 square feet.

lic donation s.

lanta h as acquired th e bu siness and

Construction of th e n ew building

This comm ittee also is making pl an s

major asset s, including plant, eq uip- will provid e th e extra manufacturing " for a " Blue Star Day" on whi ch can -

m ent and tr ad e names of Bellgrad e spa ce necessary to relieve th e presently vass of th e city will be made to give

Manufacturing Compan y of WINDER. overcrowded conditions. In addition a every citizen of Wrens a part in erecting

Bellgrade Manufacuring Com pan y fire-proof va ult for stora ge of all im- this m emorial to th e wa r dead of

with no change in name will ope ra te portant drawings and do cuments and World War II.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

INDU STRIAL N EWS LETTER

M ar ch 25, 1952

Hinesville Rug Plant Finds

Georgia Firms Receive $270.8 Million in

Production in South Easier

Contracts Since Korea
Geo rgia bu siness firms since th e be-

gin ning of K or ea an d up to th e end of

T he thriving town of HI NES VILLE, of specialists, incl udi ng th e Carufels 1951 had rec eived m ilita ry cont racts

fam ou s as th e site of Cam p Stewart, th emselves, a re nati ves of L iberty coun- from th e F ederal Govern me nt tot alling

produces othe r thi ngs besides soldiers. ty. M ost of th em had n ever seen th e $270,849 ,000 in va lue . Du rin g the

Besides being an ag ricultural an d inside of a fac tory befor e comi ng to same peri od th e va lue of such con-

timber cen te r, it also may lay cla im to wor k for th e Pilgrim Compa ny. T h us tr acts awarde d in th e southeas te rn

th e possession of one of th e several in- th e plant's contr ibutio n to th e com- Sta tes of Georgia, Fl orida, Ala ba m a,

d ustri al plants whi ch fled hi gh produ c- m unity in th e form of a payroll, h as M ississippi , No rth Carolina, South

tion costs in New En gland and moved bee n considerable.

Carolina an d Tennessee ap proxima ted

to th e Deep South, closer to th e source

M aurice Caru fel feels th at wh en h e $ 1,602,3 11,000, M errill C . L oft on , re-

of th e cotton supply.

has perfect ed th e carding process and gional di rect or of th e U . S. Dep art-

The Pilgrim Manufac t uring Compa- spins his own thread , th e fin al ste p in me nt of C om me rce a nno unce d .

ny, occu pying ab out 25,00 0 sq uare fee t th e re-esta blishme nt of th e com pa ny

G eorgia' s share of th e contrac ts for

of space in two bu ildings, rece ntly cele- will h ave been tak en .

th e period of a yea r and a half was

brat ed its second anniversary in Hines-

"Bei ng close to where ou r cotton is six-ten ths of one p ercen t of th e tot al

ville. It was esta blishe d in 1935 in gro wn," he says, " results in a saving of $43,122,5 15,000 represented in all

Pawtucket, Rh od e Island , by Sam uel S. no t only in shipp ing costs but in tim e. contracts awarde d in th e 48 States an d

Carufel, who wanted to make sca tter Being able to turn out ou r own thread Di strict of Co lumbia , and th e share for

rugs by hi s own pr ocess. At th e very will multiply thi s adva ntage. The m ove th e 7 southeaste rn Sta tes was abo ut 3.7

beginning it th rived , and M r. Carufel fr om th e N orth was u nq uestio na bly per cent.

took on addi tio na l p rod ucts, such as well justified. "



cords for venet ian blind s. Soon, how-

No rth Carolina led th e southeaste rn Sta tes in total dollar val ue of th e

eve r, soa ring costs convi nce d h im th at th e textil e industry's trend toward th e South wh ere cotto n is gro wn had a

New Aggregate Enterprise
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awards m ad e in th e individu al Sta tes in th e region with $468,164,000 and Georgia was second with its $270,849,-

sound fo un dation.

int o blocks using ceme n t in construc- 000 .

Aft er an exhaustive survey of avail- tion work, will reduce th e weight by

The following a re th e mos t rece nt

able locat ions, M r. Carufel, wh o h ad one -third, M r. M acD ougall stated. The Gove rnment con trac ts a war d e d to

bee n joined by his son, M aurice, in th e sla te industry, m an uf acturin g roof ing Geo rgia industries:

managem ent of th e business, settled on materia ls, upon whi ch R ockm art was

Bowe rs Sheet M et al Co. , ATLAN-

H inesville. I n F ebruary, 1949, th ey pri maril y founded , h as been dormant T A - 55 ,000 ea . R epl en ishment of



pulled sta kes in Pawtu cket a nd mo ved with th eir families and a few of th e skilled workers to Liberty Co un ty.
They went to work imm ed iat ely settin g up th eir intricat e a nd ela borate plant wh ich engages in six basic p ro-

for a nu mb er of yea rs. It was related th at a search had bee n
in pr ogr ess for more th an five years for suita ble rock or shale fo r m aking a lightweight aggregate and, afte r tests of R ockm a rt sla te h ad been m ad e by

hardwar e, $40,150.00. Smi th -G ray El ectric Co. and ~eo q~ia
Elect ric Co., ALBANY-Electncal dIS-
tribution system , U . S. Marine Corps
dep ot of supp lies, Alb an y, $757,432.00.

cesses - spinning, winding, dyeing, th e State Geological Dep artment and

Knox-W ar rent on Co ., THOMS ON

braiding, sewing and polishing. M au- th e U . S. Burea u of M ines, it was found -3,345 ea . b ase pl at e, $206,921.00.

rice Carufe l is at work now pr ep aring th at thi s sla te would mak e an exce llent

Geo rgia T ech R esearch . F ou~dat!on ,

to a dd a seventh p rocess - the ac tual aggregate, cutting down to a la rge de- A TLA N TA - R e~ea l ch investigations

cardi ng of ra w cotto n . While hi s card- gree th e amo un t of str uc tu ra l steel and of techniq ues for th e precision fr e-

ing machi nes h ave been set up, th ey othe r weighty items .

q ue ncy contro l of signa ls of 150 mc / sec



a re not yet fa r eno ugh along to be

The new company, fin an ced 100 per and hi gh er, $28, 724.00.

termed a regul ar process of the plant. cent by Georgia ca pita l, will remove th e

Ar m co Drain age & M etal Products,

The Pilgrim Co mpany tu rn s out woven sca tter ru gs rang ing in size from

sla te from th e qu arries, run it th ro ugh a cr usher and th en ce into high-temper-

In ft.

c .~pDi riaxl i ewDe lidve.d

ATLA p ipe

NT G

A - 6 00 ,000 fittings 8",



17 to 29 inch es to four by six feet . O ne a ture kiln s, whe re it doubles in vol- $747,900.00.

of its speci a lities is a woven bath mat ume. It is th en sized and sent to m anu-

Atl anta M etalli c Cas ket Co m pa ny,

whi ch is, at on ce, kind to th e ba re feet facturers using agg regates in m asonry. ATL ANT A-500 me tal caskets, $84, -

and highl y absorbent - two desirable qu aliti es.
V eneti an blind cord-a m ajo r output of th e plant now- is turned out in 18 differ ent colors at th e rate of abou t 650,000 ya rds a week. It , too, is m ad e of cotto n - without a filler th ou ghand is so tightly woven th at it tak es a

Nothing but aggr egat es will be manufactured a t th e pl ant, it was pointed out, and it is expec ted th at 10 to 12 ca rloa ds of th e product will be p rodu ced p er day.
The officers of th e G eorgi a Lightweigh t Aggr egat e Co. inclu de R . F. H olohan, vice-p residen t; Alex Mac-

695 .00 . Ci nderella Food s, Di v. of Stevens
Industri es, Inc., DAWSON - 59,262 ca ns peanut butter , $ 102,4 18.00.
R ose C ity Food s, Inc., THOMASVILLE - 26,664 ca ns peanut butter, $45,256 .00.

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It is sign ifica nt th at of the fifty mer M acD ougald , secreta ry-treas urer, -1 ,575 ,000 sq. yds. c o t ton cloth,

work ers in the plant, all but a handful all of Atlanta.

$ 1,099,68 7.00.

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increase ca pac ity by abou t 35 per cen t. These additions and improvem ents help ed A tla n tic St eel break 13 production record s last year, topping th eir pr eviou s high in ingot producti on by 14 per cen t. And now th e la rge stee l comp a ny is comp leting inst allation of a new electric furnace wh ich will in crease th e compa ny's ca pa city by 50 per cent. This 60-ton furn ace, largest in th e en tire Southeast ca n pr od uce 100,000 ton s of steel a nnually.
" It looks ver y mu ch as if th e region as a who le will com for ta bly exceed 6,000 ,000 ton s of ca pac ity in 1953" , Mr. Lyn ch rep orts. "T hat will give the Sou the rn dist rict some 5.1 per cent of proj ect ed nation al capac ity."
T he 100,000 additional tonna ge to be pr oduced in Atl antic's hu ge new furn ace, suppleme n ting th e producti on in the ir p resent three ope n-hearth furn aces, will help supp ly th e requirements of th e ever-exp anding Souther n met al-working ind ustry. Too, th e great str ides of th e ag ricultura l and livestoc k industries requi re in cr easing a ~10 un ts of wir e fen cin g a nd ba rb ed wire . .
In 1901 a gro up of Atlanta bu sinessmen sta r ted th e At lantic St eel Companv under th e name of Atl antic St eel H oop Compan y. It has been ind ependently owned and operated from tha t d at e to th e present tim e. L ocated nca r Atla n ta's Br ookw ood St a tion , on the Sou thern R ail road , th e p lan t's 200 acres of la nd contain approxima tely 65 ac res of buildings, with 750,000 square feet of floor spa ce. T he comp any is one of th e la rgest users in Georgia of both natura l gas a nd electricity .
T he ra w mat erials used in m a kin g steel com e from all over the United

States, a nd some mu st even be imported fro m for eign coun tr ies. Sold under th e tr ad e name "D I X IST EEL", th e compa ny's finished pr oducts are distributed p rimaril y t h I' a ug h th e Sou th eastern s t at e s, however some pr oduct s are shi p ped as fa r west as Californ ia .
Atlantic St eel was founded to pr oduc e cotto n ties, for balin g what was th en th e Sou th 's p rincip al p roduct . Sti ll one of At lantic's maj or items, co tton tics arc now produ ced by only tw o other mills in th e U nited St ates.
Among th e m an y p roducts p roduced in th e Geo rgia mill a re sma ll bars a nd shapes for a wide variety Of man ufacturers, h oop s for maki ng ba rrels, and reinforcing bars fo r roads, br idges an d buildings. Wire p roducts include nail s, fe~ cing, barbed wir e, rivet s a nd baling wire,
Di st ribution is a no ther ph ase of the steel industry. W ir e prod ucts arc usually sold t hrough jabber s o r dealer s, and rolled p rod ucts direct ly to large man ufacturers or to steel warehou ses. To sup ply th e requirement s of small user s of steel p rod ucts, Atlan tic St eel estab lished a W arehou se D ivision in 1947. No w u nder construc tion is a new 67,000 square foo t wareho use bu ilding a nd office for thi s Di vision .
T o keep pa ce with th eir ever expanding steel p rodu cti on , Atla ntic Steel is vita llv con cern ed with Atla n ta 's scrap d riv e ' week now in pr ogress. " M ore scra p tod a y, more steel tomor row " is th e th em e of th e dri ve whi ch was given a big send off on M a rch 21st wi th th e sho wing of th e mo tio n picture, " Steel T own " .
The backgr ou nd fo r th e film wa s ta ken in a large found ry in Ca liforn ia sho wing th e actual ope ra tions for con verting scrap in to usefu l steel. It is in ter esting to not e th at Atla n tic St eel

Pulpwood Receiving
Plant Comes to Alma
Operations h ave begun a t th e new strea mline d wood ya rd in ALidA . T he ya rd is design ed to br ing substantia l savi ngs of time a nd mon ey to fa rm ers and timb erl and owners selling pu lp woo d in ALMA , th e West V irginia Pulp and Pap er C om pa ny anno unc ed .
T he new ya rd, whi ch will give th e Bacon Co unty ar ea its first h orne ma rket for pu lpw ood , will h elp sup ply th e pap er com pa ny's plant.
The installati on , m an aged for th e paper company by H . L. C ha nc ey, occupies an a rea of a pp rox imately tw o ac res. Facilit ies w~ll include a scaling house for measunng truck load s of pulpwood, a crawler crane for un loading trucks and loading rai l cars , ade quate sp~ce for sto ring wood durin g emergenelCs, and an office, wh ere rec ords will be kept and scaling tickets issued a t th e tim e of deliver v.
M od ern a nd efficien t w~ od h andlin g method s, develop ed by th e com pany af ter several yea rs of expe rime n tation, will be used in th e Alm a ya rds.
Pu lpwo od bro ught to th e yard will be meas u red by experienc ed scalers an d q uickly unloa ded by crane . T ime sav ing also will be a big fact or of th e new ope ra tion. A crane ca n un load a fu ll truck in a few minutes, com pa red to abo ut a half-h our requi red to unl oad by hand.
The new yar d is expe cted to brinu particul a r advan ta ge to farmers a nd sma ll timberl and own ers, since it provides for p rodu cers, wh o operate on a small scale, a nea rby market wh ere wood ca n be deliver ed with a m inimu m of expanse a nd labor.
uses simi lar opera tions in th eir found ry in Atlanta .

V ol. 3, No. 17

M a y 1, 1952

Marble Production in Georgia Four Large Industries

Over 3,000 Carloads Per Year

At Savannah Expanding
Savann ah is growing a nd cha nging industry-wise a t a rapid pa ce. Four



G eorgia m a rbl e, th e " wh ite gold" of G eorgia, h as proved itself for i2 yea rs to be ju st th at. In and a ro und th e T at e com m un ity in North Georgia th is internationally famous min er al has been quarri ed an'd fabri cated since 1880. So vast ar e th e prov en marble d epo sits in thi s a rea th at geologists estim a te th ere is sufficient market abl e Georgia m arble to opera te a ll th e mill s of th e Geo rgia

15 cen tur ies-a rich G eor gia t reas ure, ind eed , and a source of em ployment in thi s section of th e sta te for yea rs to com e. Ov er three thousand ca rloa ds of G eorgi a m arble a re now bein g sh ipped annuall y.
Some of th e world's m ost famous a nd beautiful buildings a re m ad e of Geor gia marble. These include many famili ar Washin gt on landma rks-the

plants a re planning exp ansion of existin g locati ons, or th e development of new on es a t Savan na h . These are th e Union Bag & Paper Co rp ., $20,017 ,000 ; Am erican Cyan amid Com pany, $ 13,875,000 ; Southern Paper board Corporation , .$4,970 ,000 , a nd th e Atlantic Refining Co m pa ny, $33 7,895 .
The Union Bag & Pap er a nd th e Sou th e r n Paperboa rd ex pa nsions



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The quarrying of Georg ia's "white gold" has been goi~g on . in the famed Tate co mmunity

Georgia since 1880. Above, a hu ge steam de rrick ra ises the blo cks fro m th e qu arry .

Good rich Rubber Co .'s
New $400 ,000 Factory
Opens in DeKa lb County
DEKALB County cha lked up a nother big industri al plant with th e recent opening of th e new .$400,000 di str ibution cen te r of th e B. F . Goo dr ich Rubber Com pany a t 1i21 DeK alb Avenu l' to ser ve eigh t So utheas tern sta tes.
Th e im p ressive plant is com posed of 75,000 sq ua re feet of wa rehouse space and 10,000 sq uare feet devoted to offices. M o re th a n 12,000 ru bber product s a re stoc ked in thi s m odern a ir-co ndit ioned bu ild ing, ran gin g from tin y rubber was he rs to gia nt I ,OOO-pou nd off-the-road tir es.
The center will serve some 5,000 dea lers and distributors in Geor gia ,
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I?\DUSTRI.-\L ?\EWS LETTER

M ay 1, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Const ru ction of th e new paper mill of th e Nation al Co nta iner Co rpora tion nca r fI ALD UST:l will begin in th e \"Cry ncar future. a ccord ing to a sta tement by \ V. T . Webster. vice-p resident a nd genera l m an ager. A large amo unt of th e eq uipme nt ha s alread y been purcha sed and critica l mat erial needed in the cons truction has been alloca ted , thus pav ing the way for a n ea rly sta rt.
This mi ll, wh ich will be the la rgest in th e Na tion al Conta ine r cha in, will ad d about 150.000 tons a nn ua lly to th e present ca pa city of th e 17 mi lls, wh ich last year p rod uced ove r 300,000 tons .
Th e bui lding. wh ich is 1,800 fed lon g a nd 900 fee t deep, has heen designed to permi t expa nsion lat er without in terfering with opera tions. Th e ca paci ty of th e mi ll co uld thu s be ea sily doubled at a fut ure dat e, acco rd ing to M r. Web ster. T he goa l for sta rting operations of the m ill has been set for J a n ua ry 195-+ .
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Ju st beginning ope ra tions is th e new ga rment plant of Bru mhy & Lippett Com panv a t Jr:lDLEY , set up under th e pr esiden cy of J ack B. Brumby, for mer presiden t a nd ge ne ra l man ager of W ar ing' W ear, In c., Wadley, a nd genera l manager of Coo per 's, Inc., Mi llen . D everea ux H . Lippct t, owner a nd manage r of Twin C ity M anufa ct uring Co ., G raym ont, is secr eta ry-treasu rer, a nd Mrs. j ack Brumbv vice-pr esiden t.
T he new fac tory, to operate on a fu ll-tim e basis, will begin wit h the produ cti on of men's dress sh irts and all contra cts will be for n at ion ally a dver tised br ands. Th e prime sou rce of th ese co ntrac ts will be the sa me corpor a tions wh ich have been served by th e Twin C ity Co m pa ny fo r th e last five yea rs with a contin ued SO-week yea r opera tion a nd con tin uous expansion since it s ini tia tion.
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T he ALBA NY Lin en Se rvice, an af filia te of th e Na tiona l Li nen Corpo ra tion of Atla nta , will begin ope ra tions in the South G eor gia city as soon as its new $300,000 p lant now being con struc ted th er e is fini shed . It will em plo y 200 person s a nd serve Sou thwest G eor gia in general.
The new industry will manufacture and lease ga rm ents, uni forms, linens a n d ot her a rticles used by hotels, restaurants, hospi tals, barber shops an d

othe r com mer cial instituti on s. I ts plan t, bein g erected on a three-a cr e tra ct , will con ta in 30,000 fed of floor space . Som e 20 truck s will he emp loyed to serve the te r r i t o ry.
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Peerl ess T exti les, In c., C leveland , T ennessee, a ma nu fa ctu rer of textile fabrics, an no unces they h ave purch ased a t ract of la nd in Gi lmer Co un ty for futu re ind ustri al d evelop me nt pu rp oics. Th e proper ty is loca ted south of the tow n of EL L IJA Y on th e L. & N. Ra ilroa d , adjacen t to Coosawatcc a nd Ca rte rc a v R ive rs,
TI;e pr op ert y was purch ased from th e Gcorgia Power C om pa ny, on conditi on th at an ind ustri a l pla nt with all the necessa ry uti lities for th e man ufacture of tex tiles will be const ruc ted on the proper ty wi th in a four-yea r per iod .
I n th e eve nt such a plan t is not construc ted withi n th e fo ur-y ea r peri od from dat e of th e deed , th en th e p rop ert y will be rccon vcycd to the Power Com pany.
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Th e ga rme nt plant in HA}v!PTON form erl y ope ra ted by th e Am erican U n iform Co m pa ny, h as changed h ands and is now being operated as the H en -
ry Ga rm ent Co., Inc., with L eonard J.
Sac hs, of Atla nta , as presid ent.
Th e new owners h ave h ad wide experience in thi s field and h ave other manufacturing in ter ests. The H am pton plant is devot ed exclusively to th e m anufacture of m en' s sla cks.
Th er e ar e some 60 p erson s now em ployed by the new firm a nd Mr. Sa chs says h e expects to h ave a hundred or m or e on his payroll within two m onths.
Powder Firm Inaugurates
Large Expansion Program
The H er cul es Powder Co m pa ny plant at BR UNSWICK is ina ugura ting a $2,783 ,200 expansion p rogram, in clu ding a ch lorine recover y un it , insta lla tio n of an add itiona l boi ler and ot her pla nt improvements, particula rly in th e manufacture of rosin an d turpentine.
The ch lor ine pl ant will cost $ 1,0 76, 000. and will recov er chlorine from hyd rochloric ac id now sold as a byprodu ct in th e manufacture of Toxaph en e, an insecticide. T he recovery p lan t will be in the main plant ar ea .

G EOR G IA DE PAR T M ENT OF C O MMERCE

A total of $833,400 will go tow ard th e insta llati on of th e boiler , including a n a dd ition to the p resent boiler bui ld ing to h ouse it. T he N ati on a l Produ cti on Authorit y also a pproved th e sum of $8 73,800 for th e other pl ant improv ements.
The H er cul es Powd er Co m pa ny is the world' s la rgest prod ucer of steam d istilled tur pen tine. T he new facilities will imp rove the com pa ny's compct itiv e position in th e nati on al a nd world m arket , it was ex pla ined by H. \ V. Watson , plant su perintende n t.
Goodrich Rubber Co.
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Florid a. Nor th and South Carolina, Mi ssissip pi, Louisia na, K entucky a nd T en nessee.
T he plant was formall y ope ned by J ohn F . C ollyer of Ak ron , Oh io, president of th e Good rich Co m pa ny, wh o a n no unced that with th e D eK a lb in sta lla tion h is com pa ny's tot a l inv estmcnt in plants, Faciliti es and inv en tory in G eor gia has reache d $30,000,000 , or nearlv one-th ird of th e G oodrich in vestm ents of $ 100,000,000 in th e entire Southeast.
President Collver said the U nited Sta tes will never aga in be confro nted bv a rubber crisis such as th at whi ch n~en ac cd Am erica's wa r effort followin g th e a ttack on Pearl H a rbor. This is assure d, he asserte d, by th e rapid increase in th e qu antity and qu a lity of svnthctic rubber , wh ich he called ':Ame rica n-made rubber," in whi ch the Goodrich com pany pion eer ed .
" W e h av e enough rubber , both crude a nd m an-mad e," he sai d, " to meet all essential need s for a five-vea l' all-out war. should such a disaster 'occur. Our position in rubber is strong er tod ay than at any tim e in ' h istory becau se of our ab ility to produ ce high-qua lit y rubber in vol um e in Am er ica n plan ts using Am er ican materi als and Am eri can p rod uction m et ho ds. The threat of anothe r Pearl Harbor in rubber no longer e x ists ."
The Goodrich president decla red hi s firm estimates that Am erican ti re manufa cturer s should be in po sition to produce at least 72,000 ,000 p assen ger car tires this year, or about 6,000 ,000 more th an wer e manuf actured last year.

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

M ay 1, 1952

Georgia Tells Story to World

Through National Advertising

G eor gia is now goi ng sho pping in th e tourist m arts of th e nati on for visito rs and in th e industrial cent ers of th e North a nd \Vest for new fact ori es as it never h as befor e in it s en tire h istory. In a big way, our state is making a bid for nat ion al a ttention as a n id eal loca tion for new industri es, on th e one hand, and on th e other as a bri ght va ca tion land wh er e th e tourist seeking rec rea tion, rela xation , scenic g ra nde ur and spo ts of histori c int er est ca n find th ese in a most sa tisfying: mann er and degr ee. I t is ca lling on th e world to "discover" Geo rgia, on a scale it h as never been " discovered" by th e outside in th e past.
All th is is bein g acco m plishe d by th e G eorgia Departm ent of Co m me rce in a g rea t nati onwide advertising ca mpaign th at is utili zing th e big, popular m agazines to get th e Geo rgia message to every per son , gro up or corpo ration it is de emed will be of practical va lu e to our sta te in th is two-f old ca m pa ign. Th e im pressive a rray of big-gun p eriodica ls bein g used , wh ich circ ula te through out th e nati on and well beyond, includ e such top-not ch ers as th e wid elyread Sa turday Ev ening Post, H olid ay Magazin e, N at ion 's Busin ess, Manufacturn s R ecord , U. S. N ews an d World R ep ort , Li fe M aga zine, Dun's R eview

a nd Time M agazine.
As a result of thi s wid espread a dve rtising in ca refu lly chosen mediums, litcra llv th ou sands of letters a rc now pouring into th e D ep artment's offi ces in th e Sta te Cap itol from through out th e U nited St ates.
Th rou gh th ese ma gazine a dvertisements, th e Com me rce D epartment is reaching not only th e country at la rge but Cana da , L atin-Ameri ca , Australia a nd even Europ e. The latest such adve rt iseme nt is a half-p age inserti on in color appearing in th e April issue of H oliday, one of th e grea t C urtis publica tions and a world lea der am on g travel a nd vaca tion ma gazines. It is amo ng th ose peri odi ca ls that a re " tops" with touri sts in consult ing such to mak e up th eir minds as to wh er e to go on vacation and what to sec.
Th e famou s Sa tur da y Ev en ing Post, whi ch goes into just abo ut a ll the levels of life, recently ca rr ied a fu ll-p age message for the Georgia D ep artment of Co m merce , h eralding this state as one of th e m ost opportune and advantageou s for new industr y to be found an ywh ere. Such popula r and wid elyread m agazin es as L ife and T im e also h ave boosted th e broad st rea m of mail now flowin g into th e D ep artment.

Marble Production
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Pan-Amer ican Bui ldin g, H ouse of Representatives Office Bui lding, F eder al R eserv e Bank and th e Co rco ra n Art Galler y. Others a re th e C leveland Ar t Museum, th e Fi eld Museum in Chica go, the F ed eral R eserv e Banks of Clevelan d an d At la nta, Emory University in Atlanta, th e capitol bui ldings of Rhode Isla nd an d Puerto R ico, an d th e Royal Bank of Canada in Montr eal.
The sta tue of L incoln in the Li nco ln Memorial, in Was hi ngton, also is of Georgia marble, an d over fifty oth er fa mous memorials have been constructed of th e material.
In rec en t yea rs th e marble company has made subs tan tia l progress an d expansion . Its op erations brea k in to th ree classifica tions , utilizing large production m ills loca ted at Tate, N elson and Marble Hi ll, Ga.

Aft er h uge blocks weighing many tons arc wr ested from on e of ten op erating qu arries, th ey a re fabricat ed for rrm stru cti on rllrpos~s and supplied to contractors a nd build ers through th e assistance of the comp any's sa les offi ces loca ted in many key cities. O thers are fabricated into finished and semi-finished m emorials a nd monuments and sold through hundreds of Georgia m arble monuments dealers fr om coast to coast. Still ot her Georgia marble is supplied to th e Calci um Prod uct s Division mi lls where thi s particu la rly fin e white marble is gro un d to varying specifica tions a nd finds its way into the manufacture of paints, linoleums, rubber goods , roofing an d countl ess ot her commercia l prod uc ts.
T he Georgia marble commun ities of Tate, Ne lson an d Marble Hill, where h uge modern mi lls are located , provide stea dy em ploym ent for hun dreds of fami lies year 'round because of th e

Government Contracts
For Georgia Industries
Dixi e Pa int & V arnish Co .. I nc.. BR UNSWI CK-12,500 ga ls. ena me l, $ 14,8 75.00.
Savanna h Sugar R efining Corp., SAV ANNAH - 800 ,000 lbs, gra nula ted suga r, $72 ,304.00.
The Warren Co ., In c., ATLANTAThree contrac ts for 33.000 wood en wareh ou se pa llets, $26, 160.00 eac h .
Atl anta Pap er Co. , ATLANTA768,000 ca . solid fib er baling board, $46,566.00 .
Atl anta F loor ing & Insulati on Co.,
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eq uable working clim at e ; and th ese mod ern mi lls, some of whi ch ar c int erconne cted by th e com pa ny's own ra ilroad , represent one of th e la rgest manufa ctu ring inv estm ents of G eorgia.
I n 1951. th e com pa ny sh ippe d 3, 191 ca rloa ds on its own rai lroad from th e T at e a nd M arb le Hi ll plants, in addition to th e number of ca rs ori ginating from th e br an ch at N elson .
Officers of th e G eor gia M arble Company a rc J am es R. Co wa n, president ;
.J. W . Cha ppell, vice-presiden t and sec-
ret ary ; J ohn W . D ent, Geor ge A. D oss,
T. J. Durrett, Jr., R . M . Harris, E. W .
Hi ghtower , S. E. Hy att, and W . L .
V an ce, j .; all vice-presidents ; .J. O.
C ham pion, tr easurer ; R owland Bryce, con troller, a nd Gran ger Hansell, assista nt secre tary.
M emb ers of th e board include C . H . Candler. J r., secre ta ry-tre asur er Asa G. Ca ndler, Inc. ; C lem en t A. Evan s, president Cleme nt A. Evans & C o., I nc.; Wilbur F . G lenn , vice-president At lantic Stpr:'1 C011lp<l n y ; G rangf? r H anscll, of C renshaw, H an sell, W are & Bran-
don , a tt orneys; and .J. D . Robinson , j r.,
newlv-clect ed cha ir man of th e board First ' Nation al Bank, all of Atlanta ; and J ames R. C owan, J oh n W . Dent,
Thom as J. Durrett, Jr. , and Wi lliam
L. Vance, Jr., all of Tate and officers of the marble com p any.
Associat ed with th e C a lcium Products D ivision , in addition to Mr. Dent, who is vice-presiden t and gene ral man-
ager, are Wi lliam n. Tate, sales manager , and E. J. Haley, sup erintendent
of op eration s. I n th e mo numenta l division a t Tate an d M a rble H ill, Howard Ni x is sales manager, H. C . Long
sup erin ten den t, and J. B. Hi ll ch ief
designer. I n th e structural division at th e N elson p lant, Y. T. Tarpley is sup er in tendent.

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Dalton Gets Two Chemical Industries

Textile Rubber And
Chemical Company
Will Build Plant
Plans h ave been completed by th e T exti le Rubber and Chemical Company to build a p lant in DALTON for production of rubber and synth etic compounds for the tufted texti le cotton rug trade. Although actual construction p lans h avc not been completed, execu tives of th e firm state th ey have definitely decid ed on Dalton as the location for th eir p lant.
A corpora tion will be form ed, an d heading th e new con cern will be N . E. Tillotson, of Wellesley Hei ghts, M ass., wh o is on e of th e for em ost rubber a nd plastic che mists in th e country. H e is affiliated with a number of companies and is president of Tillotson Rubber Co ., Needham H"i 8"ht~, M ass., par ent company of his subsidia ries.
Associated with M r. Tillotson will be Harvey H owalt , T exan , and a recent law schoo l graduate ; Cecil Morris, assista nt manager, Southern Wholesalers, D alt on , a nd R oy W . M ann, president of Best M anufacturin g Co ., M enlo, Ga .
Mr. M ann, wh o announced p lans to loca te th c pl ant, said Dalton was selected because of its proxim ity to th e cotton floo r cove ring industry.
"We feel th at by loca ting in D alton, th e center of th e industry, we will be in a po sition to offer m ore efficient, expedient service to th e tr ad e.
" Fo r th e past severa l months th e compa ny ha s been engag ed in extensive research work on various products whi ch ca n be used in ru g backing compounds. Substantial progress has been made toward improving the compounds now commonly used. "

General Latex Corp.
Schedules Opening
Of Factory In July
DALTON has been selected as the site for th e new Southe rn factory of Gen eral Latex and Chemic al Corporation , wh ose plant, equipm en t an d in ventory th er e will represent an investm ent of app roximately $400,000. Sch ed uled for opening in July, th e plant will contain th e mo st modern latex compounding and pro cessing equipment, as. well as its own resear ch and development laboratory.
Announcem ent of Dalton's selection fo r th e n ew unit was made by K enneth B. O sborn , pr esident of th e corpora tion. R obert H. Ew ell of th e h eadquarters p lant at Cambridge, M ass., has been named general m anager of th e Gcorgia fact ory. H e is th e son oi a form er prcsidcnt of th e firm.
Accordin g to C . B. Colt, executive vice-presiden t, th e corp oration ch ose Dalton becau se of th e la rge number of cotton rug m ills in th e a rea wh ich usc latex backin g.
In addition to its m anufacturing ope ra tions in Ca mbridge , Mass., Gen era l Latex h as a pl ant also at M ontr eal , Canada . The firm is said to be amo ng th e pion eers in th e introduction of natural lat ex in th e rubber a nd rubber- consuming industries in th e \Vestern H emisph ere.
Gcn er al Latex handles a 1 a r g c vari ety of r ubber latex compounds for such diverse uses as rubber thread , doll skins, foam rubber, fabric coating and sa tura ting, adhesives, toys, che wing gum, sur gica l goods, paint an d paper applications, as well as many others.

Government Contracts
(Con tin ued fr om Page 3) Rabern-Nash Co ., Inc., Thompson Bros., ATLANTA-Furnish all paint, labor and m at erials to perform all op erations required for sanding floors and installing lino leum in 38 classrooms and instructors' office bldgs ., $45,997 .00.
T. H . Pearce & Co., COLUMBUSF urn ish all materials and perf orm all op erations required for making alte ra tions an d additions to bldgs ., No . 1063 and 1065, nurses' qtrs., main post, $16 ,495 .00.
M edley Mfg. Co., COL UMB US 1,000 evac ua tors ch ambe rs, $50, 700.00.
Columbus Lumber & Supply Co ., In c., CO LUM BUS- l ,OOO,OOO bf. of mill sto rage , $8 7,770.00.
G & S Construction Co ., Sf>VAINSBORO-Alterations to radi o rep air mainten an ce bldg., Camp Gordon ,
~44; 7'1 n n n
J ohn L. Callaway Co ., COLUlvf BUS - Construction of additiona l airfield ligh ting, $4, 779.00.
Calla way Mi lls Co., LAGRANGE800,000 yards, $1,139,606 .00 ; 35,760 1. y. cotton du ck, $29,4 12.00.
Geor gia Duck and Co rdage M ill, SCOTTDALE-440,000 yards, $719,696 .00.
E. J. M cM ahon & Co ., A UG USTA
- replacement of plumbing fixture tr im, Ca mp Gordo n, Ga ., $26,205.00.
Correction
T h e sto ry ab out th e "Hinesville Rug Plant," published in th e Industrial N ews Letter of March 25, 1952, was in error. It was inadver ten tly publish ed.

No. 18

~'[ a y 15. 19 52

Little River Recreation

Georgia Now Holds Fifth Place

Area Gets bOO-Acre Lake

In Nation's Granite Production Concrete plan s have been made
for th e crea tion of a 600-acre la ke

fo r recr eation , incl udi ng fish in g and boating, to be located on Little River bet ween Cook a nd Colqu it t Cou n ties . At a m ass m eeting , which was a tte nde d by more th an 200 people fro m both co un ties. a steer in g co m mittee w as set u p a n d a p p rox ima tel y $iOO was raised to engage a regis-

Ce n tered in the E lbert on a rea of

N orth east Geo rg ia is th e g ra n it e ind us-

t ry, whi ch an nua lly p rod uces on e-third

of an

d

th e n ati on's ranks Geo rg

m on ia in

um fift

enta l h pla

uran c: in

tithc~.

produ ction a n d va lue of " ra n ite in th e

en tire nation.

co

ind ustry, a nd for p recision ta ble top s in d eman d by experim en ta l la bo ra to ries of the au tomotive and aviation industrv. Locall y, 1.I1I I('h sto ne gal' , into b uildi ng co ns t ruction a nd ba lla st a long th e Seaboard a n d South ern rail ro a d s.
M ore th an 1,500 person s arc em ploy -

tered en ginee r to make sUI"\"eys .

T h e qua lit y of Geo rg ia g ra n ite is as ed by the Elberton g rani te iudustrv,



Actu al selectio n of a site will be m ade a fte r th e eng inee ring sUlyey h as been com p le te d . Th e g ro ups from C o lq uit t a nd Cook Coun ties agree d to set up a non-profit co r po ra tion to furthe r th e p ro ject. R epresen ta tives from tw o pow er co m pan ies h a ve sta te d th at it wo uld not be

hi gh as th at o f a ny prod uc ed in th e world . M ost of th is goes in to th e p ro duction of monuments and mausole um s, suc h as the Ameri can Legion Founders M em ori al in S t. Lou is, Nl 0., a nd th e p riv ate m em o rial of Fred eri ck R . Gard ner. fo rmer G ov e rn o r of Missou ri, both ~ f whi ch w ere p rodu ced in

l\Ta n y arc na tives of fo reign la nd s. a'll

at t ra cte d to this sta ble ind ust rv. whi ch is 100 percent l~eorgi a - own ed 'a nd o p-

e ra te d. M an v visito rs a rc a t t ra c ted

eac h yea r to th e quar rying d ist rict, with

last vcar's tot a l numbcri n u we ll into th e

thol;sa nds.

..,

From th e m an v fold s in G eol'!!;ia

feasible to p ut a d a m for pow e r p ur-

E lb erton .

g ra nite stra ta, it is evide n t that th e

p oses on the rive r.

E lberton g ra n ite is a lso used in th e la yers a rc of \T r y a ncien t o rigin .



crush ing of p ulp in th e paper-mak in g

( C on tin ued o n r a g!' 4 )







(L EF T) . A . ~ranite quarry in Elb erton, wh er e huge d erri cks lift " wet poli sh ed " by skille d worker s, m an y of whom h ave worked at



blo ck s welghmg as mu ch as 25 tons. (R IGH T ) Sla bs of ~ranite are th e quarries for year s, produ cin g smooth ly -d resse d sto nes .

INDU STRIAL NEWS LETTER

May 15, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

V A IFS O N has ad de d two new ind ustr ies to its roster. Daws on H osiery. Inc.. began ope ra tions during M ay, employing a bo ut 35 wo rker s. with a weekl y payroll of $2,500, acc ord ing to M anager .Jim W righ t. Six kn itting m ach ines ha ve been inst a lled in th e firm's mod ern , a ir-cond itione d building. The en tire outpu t was con trac ted for befor e ope ra tions began an d co n tin uo us fulltim e opera tion is expec te d . A m od ern ag ricultural che m ica l pl ant bui lt by Ste vens I nd ustries, Inc., is now in p ro d ucti on in Dawson . a lso. m anu facturing insect icid e concen tra tes, du sts a nd sp ray em ulsions for con tro llin g cotton insects. The plant is op erating 16 hours a d ay , but will soon go in to 24 ho ur production , employing 15 to 30 persons.

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The Brunswick Pu lp & Paper Com pany, of BR U NSWICK, recently com plet ed th e purch ase of approximately 50 ,000 acres of timberl and in W ayne, Br antley, Appling and Brooks Counties in G eorgia and Lib er ty County in Florida. The acq uisition of this tr act of la nd will enable th e com pa n y to continue with a lon g-sch eduled expa nsio n
pro~ram , acc ord ing to E . J. Gayn o r,
presid ent of th e com pany. The tr ansac tion was held up during litiga tion ove r th e will of th e la te W. C . Ro ger s o f Wa yne Coun ty.
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Th e Southeastern Br ick Com pa ny in

WAY CR OSS, manufacturer s of D ;lra -

blok and Durabrik, recentl y u nd erwen t

a n $80,00 0 expa nsion proj ect in ord er

to meet th e needs of a Iarcc number of

So ut h C t.o rg ia a nd North Florida b uild -

ers. Th e com pa ny in stall ed a St ea rn s

pl ain pa llet m achin e. whi ch will m ore

th an ? ouble th e block ma n ufactur ing

ca pac itv of th e plant, a nd othe r eq uipmcnt. ~ w n e d a nd o perat ed by \\' ay-

cross citizens R . L. Pittm an . Rosser Elk i~1 s, an d Roy Barnes, p residen t, vice-

p resid en t and secreta ry-t reas u re r rc -

s pec t i ~'ely, th e co m pa nv bega n ope r~ -

n on s 111 1946 .

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T he Dooly Co.un ty Tra ctor C om pany op ened recentlv i n V I EN N A d calin rr in aII types of fa r.m machinerv'as " well as tra~tors. Head e~ by Wi llard E verett, a re tired M eth odi st minist er th e new
firm wi ll h andle eq uip m en t by th e Min-
neapolis M olin e Co m pan y wi th wh ich
Mr. Ev er ett has been con nec ted for a n um ber of years.

T IFT ON , known as th e largest plant sh ip pi ng cen te r in the worl d , is in the m idst of her busiest seaso n as Iiterallv mill ions of tom at o plants a re mO\'ed o ut by truck and railwa y. a nd a sma ller nu m l; er by plan e. TI~~ sh ipme n t of plan ts to tom at o g rowe rs reach ed its pea k abou t th e m idd le o f th is month . Severa l hundred worker s a re em ployed during th e seas on in th is thrivin g busin ess.

Georgia Leading Nation

In Production of Broilers

G eorgi a h as climbed to th e top in

the na tion's list of broiler prod ucer s,

an d the ind ustry now brings th e state

a tot a l farm revenue second on ly to

cotton. D elaware, the previous lea d-

er in production , wa s left far behind,

with Georgia producin g 88 ,678 ,000

birds in 195 1 with a va lue of $68 ,-

530 ,000 , com pared with Delaware' s

8 1,73 1,000 birds va lued a t $66,44 7,-

000 , acc ord ing to officia l figu res ju st

released .

The 41 per cen t incr ea se in num-

ber a nd 5 1 percen t rise in valu e over

195 0 of Geor gia' s broilers broke a ll

records for th e fourth consecutive

year. From 1935, wh en Geo rgia pro-

du ced onlv 500.000 broilers va lued a t

$230,000, 'th is industr y ha s gra d ua lly

no sed out tob acco a nd peanuts, both

of whi ch form erl y occupied second

pla ce as a produ cer of fa rm cash .

Th e prin cipa l broi ler-producing

co un ties a re C he ro kee , Forsyth, H all,

Banks. Barrow. son, C ordon, G

Co bb. C win ne'tt .

aHrraobl~l rsDh aawlll-.

J ackson, Lumpkin , Picken s, W alt on .

White and Whitfield.

CO LUM BU S has a d de d a nothe r large ch inch illa ran ch to its industri es. Rex Lav ender, retired Colum bus d ru ggist, ope ne d h is ran ge recen tly with $43, 750 worth of th e va luable a n ima ls. Twenty m ore a n ima ls a re being adde d, bri ngin g the tot al valu e of hi s sto ck to $6 1,250 . A spec ial building with a irco nd itioning, ge rm icidal lighting a nd a plat e-gla ss window . has b e e n con-
struc ted to hous e th e a n ima ls. Th e
ran ch will be assoc ia ted with th e Ev er -
g reen C h inc h illa ran ch , own ed by C . A.
C utler, wit h ab out $ 1 m illion wort h of ch inch illas.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

BLA C KSH EA R to bacco wareh ou ses a re ad d ing mo re th an 140,000 sq ua re fee t of floor space, thus m aking th e m arket there one of th e best in th e sta te for th e conven ience of g rowers. The Bran tlev Brick W arehou ses No. 1 an d 2 will b~ ex pa nd ed by 50,000 sq uare feet of floor space, acc ord ing to P resid ent Leo
J. Allen . Big Z a nd Planters W a re-
hou ses will a dd abo u t 30,000 sq ua re feet of floor space, th e new ownersPau l Edmunds, I II, Ben H awth orne a nd M a ck C a rte r- a nnounced . A new war eh ou se, Farmers ' ''' a rcho usc No.2, is to be constructed on St at e Rou te 38. T hi s will h ave a ca pac ity of betw een 60 ,000 a nd 80 ,000 square feet . It wi ll be owned and opera ted by D an a nd Bill C u rrin.
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A new ready-mixing con cr et e plant has been set up by Lott Builders Suppl y Company a t DO UGLAS. The pl ant, wh ich is running on a full-tim e basis, h as read v-rnix ed concrete for floors, found ati o~ s and walk-wa ys. It a lso opera tes three new J a eger mixing trucks with a ca pacity of th ree cubic ya rds eac h, d elivering read y-m ixed concrete within a 25-mile radius of Dou gla s.
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A 50,000 bu shel gra in elevat or wi ll soon be erec ted in LEARY, a comm unity of 717 in Calho un Coun ty. According to N ed Dunn, head of th e Leary Elevat or Co m pan y, th e elevator , as ~n o~ ern as a n y in th e sta te, will speciali xc III oa ts ~lI1 d corn . Enterprising citizens wer e instru men tal in having th e el e~:a tor loca te in Leary, by purch asing a nve-ac re tr act a nd p resenting it to
th e finn . Th.e pla nt is !)ein g d ~sign ed
by th e C orn Sta tes H ybnd C om pa ny of I owa a nd co nstr uc ted by th e ' ''estern T ank & Building C ompany.
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Firm Seeking
Sub-Contractors
The Geo rgia D ep a rtment of Commcr ce has ju st received infor ma tion th at th e Orclik on T ool a nd Ar ms Corp. of Am eri ca , Inc., Ashevill e, N . C ., will m anufa cture rocket s for th e Fed era l Go vern m en t a nd wi ll need mi llion s of small parts, for whi ch th ey wi ll let sub-con tra cts. NI anufact urer s in terested in suc h sub-con tra cts should con tac t Mr. Buo l, purch asin g ag en t for the firm .

I NDUSTR IAL NEWS LETTER

M ay 15, 1952

Griffin's Citizens Pave Way

For Securing More Industries

Griffin, one of th e most progressive

cities in Georgia , ref uses to be satisfied

with the manv fine industries she h as cha lked up t~ her credit. Alth ou gh

situa ted in th e county whi ch th e Geor-

gia Dep a rt ment of Lab or rep orts as

having th e ten th la rgest payroll in th e

en tire sta te, Spa lding County, citizens

of the T owel C ity have ju st okaye d a

$2.5 million water and sewerage im-

provem ent progr am which will ena ble

Griffin to accommoda te more ind us-

tri es.

Th is is typica l of Griffi n progress.

Everywhere you look in th e city, you

see evidences of a for wa rd-looking citi-

zenry . Attracti ve new residen ces a re

being built in all sect ion s of town , a nd

a $2 million Federa l H ou sing Pro jec t is

well under way with comp letio n sche d -

ul ~d for J uly. A new stone bui lding is

gomg up a t th e County W or k Cam p,

th e National Gu a rd un it has moved int o

its $47,000 esta blishme n t, a nd th e 200-

ac re m unicipal park is bu sy wit h peo-

ple enjoying the golf course , tennis

cour ts a nd swimming pool. The five

la rgest religiou s den ominat ion s in town

h ave all bu ilt new ch urch es or made

substantia l addition s to their facilities

since th e wa r.

T extile m ills have p layed a la rge

part in Griffin's developmen t. Dundee

Mi lls, wh ich opene d in 1888, is th e

la rgest .ind ust ry in th e tow n, em ploying

a pp.roxlma tely 3, 300 p eople, a nd pro-

cluein g towels, wash clot hs a nd dia pers.

C rom p ton-H ighl and Mi lls, ma kers of

cord uroy, velv eteen a nd ga ba rdines,

cn.1plo)'s abo ut 1,000 peopl e. Other

nu lls G riff

in cl u d e in K ni tt

inSgpaMldiilnl ~g

K nit J aco

tiKn

~z

i

tMwei allsr.:

Am erican T hrowing Compan y, South -

eas te rn T extil e Co m pa ny, U nited Co t-

ton Goo ds Co m pa ny, Ru sht on Co tton ~f il.l\ G rif~in H osiery M ills, Gossett KI~l ttll1g M ills, an d th e Griffin Knitting

NfI1ls. T hes e com pa nies m an ufac tur e

such goods as twills, she eting, child ren's

hose! sweat sh irts, T sh irts, an d full-

fashion ed nylon hose. For the three-

month per iod of J uly, Au gu st a nd

Sep tem be r of 1951, the texti le indu strv i~, th e county ha? tota l payrolls o'f ~b, 1 2 1 , 1 9 9, according to th e Gc orc ia

Dep artment of Lab or.

t:J

. Ra nking ~eco nd in ma nufacturing

Imp or tan ce m the coun tv is food ac-
~?rdi ng to th e sa me repo rt . Griffi~ h as

liv e wholesa le grocers, including one of

the largest independen t g rocery jobb ers in th e sta te- H . V. K ell Co mpany. Pomo na Produ cts Co m pany, which ca ns beans , sq uas h, peas, peaches a nd p imientos, is one of Gri ffin' s most impor tant industri es, em ploying m ore th an 1,000 peop le a t its peak seaso n.
One of th e most important project s th e citizens of Griffin h ave undert ak en latel y is th e new water a nd sewerage improvement program - marking the first step toward securing new industry. T he bond issue is for $2.5 million , with $ 1.5 million ea rma rked for wa ter and th e other $ 1 m illion for sewerage disposal plants and tr eatment.
(Cont in ued on Page 4 )
SIMMONS PLATING WORKS
LAUNCHES $1 M ILLION PLANT
T he Simmons Plating W ork s h as begun operations in its new plant on Wh iteh all Stree t, ATLA NTA , where th e land , bui ldi ngs, machiner y and eq uipme nt represen t a total investment of close to $ 1 million dolla rs.
The bui lding, of m asonry and stee l, has 17,000 squa re fee t of floor space, plus a large boi ler room area. Especia lly design ed for th e company to handle Govcmment def ense contracts, the new plan t has specia l features such as ceilings 20 feet high , a section wit h a 45foot ceiling a nd a p it 30 feet deep wh er e plat ing tanks a re loca ted, and another pit 34 feet squa re, 35 feet deep , prepared for handling the la rge tank g uns the compa ny will p lat e for the Arrn v Ord nan ce Dep a rtment. Th e plant .op er at es ten rectifi ers. T wo hu ge electric cr an es m ak e easy th e handling of heav y guns a nd parts.
With th e new fac ilities, Simmo ns Plating Co m pa ny now has a total of 50,000 to 60,000 squa re feet of ope ra ting space. I ts retin nin g plan t is a t 578 Decat ur Street, N. E., Atlanta. It s cen tra l plant and offices arc loca ted a t 219-23 Pr yor Street, S. W ., wh ere silverware pla ting a nd various comme rcia l jobs a re exec uted . The th ree divisions of the conce rn em ploy 125 persons, all skilled a rtisans.
Officers a rc President Louis R . R osenberg, wh o has direct supe rvision of the Whiteha ll plant, a nd H . C . Simmon s, secr etary an d tr ea sur er. T h e Pryor Street fact ory is und er the management of Charles Lewis.

Government Contracts For Georgia Industries

A total of $35 m illion in Federal

Gover nm ent con trac ts was awa rde d in

th e South east duri ng Ap ril with Geor-

gia receiving th e most in total va lue.

Among these a rc :

M ad ley M fg. Co., COLUM BU S-

lock assy. turret, special tooling guide,

spacer, pad , rod , handle, cover, hou sing.

br acket , bolt , cup, $ 14 1,835.

Wi lliam Armstrong Smith Co ., EAST

POIN T - 27,150 gallons paint, $32,977 :

En amel, $80,490.

U nion M fg. Co.-UN ION POIN T

- 360,000 pl'. woolen lightweight socks,

$ 124,560.

Co lum bus M fg. Co ., COL U }vIBUS

- - cotton du ck, $213,000.

Callaway M ills, LA GRA N GE- cot-

ton du ck, $803,000.

Callaway Mills, ,\IllLST EA D an d

MANCHES TER - cotton d uck $4,-

994,000.

'

W est Poin t M a nufacturing Co ., of

WEST PO IN T , with mi lls also a t L an g-

dal e and Lan et t, Ala ., received con-

tracts in excess of $8 m illion April. T hese include : Army

dt ouwr ienl ~z

$5 12,000 ; sepa ra te contrac ts for cotton

du ck, $ 1,60 1,000; $597,000; $23,000 ;

$3,779,000: $749,000; $ 1,465,000 ; and

$ 195,000.

The Spoo l Co tto n Co ., C lark Thread
Co., J. & P. Coates, Inc., T OCCOA -

thread, $49,919.

Ann ette's D a i r v, SA V AN N A H -

M ilk, crea m a nd bu ttermilk, $54,047.

Ha rms' Dairv, SA V ANNAH- Mi lk

cream an d ice cream, $34,522.

'

W ells Da iries Coo p., CO L UMBUS

M ilk, $127,542.

Kinnett Dai ries, COL UM BUS -

Icc C ream, $45,600.

Scripto :vff g. Co., ATLANTA. - --

Boosters, $ 1,5 79,920.

Wri ght Co nt rac ting Co ., CO LUM -
BUS- Sewers. M arine Dep ot , Albany, $867,657. .

J ord an Co n trac ting Co m pa ny, COL UM BU S-constr uction of new facilities at F t. M cCl ellan , Annisto n, Ala. , $ 1,443,597.00.

J efferson M ills, Inc., I EFFE RS ON - cott on clot h, $ 1,099,687.00.

At hlet ic Eq uip ment Co ., A T L A NTA - tennis tables, $396.00.

Sa m Finley, Inc., ATLANTA- Con-

struction of asphalt upper bank pavi ng ,

.$ 6 70,50 0 .00.

t:J

Wright Co ntrac ting Co ., COLUM BUS- san ita ry a nd storm sewers, U . S. M a rine Co rps Depot of Sup plies, Albany, $8 76,657.00.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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Griffin Paves W ay

pa ny, th e Southe rn Sta tes Printin g in 1882. Th e new industry str ugglcJ

(Con tinued from P age 3 )

Com pa ny, T urn er M anufactu rin g COI:l- along. m eet ing with only m od erat e sucpa ny, m ak ing display cases, th e Bill cess, unt il sho rtly a fte r W orld W a r 1.

Th e pr esen t wat er capa city of th e W ard C om pa ny, and th e Wynn Pr e- when a nati on -wid e dem and for granite

system is four milli on ga llons dail y, \~'hi ch will be incr eased to six milli on

cision Co m pa ny, manufactu rers of fish ing eq uipm en t a nd costume jewelr y.

m onuments sen t prospect or s out seeking new deposits. R eal dcvelopm cnt

gall ons daily under th e new program .

Spaldi ng C oun ty h a s a dhe re d to a nd expansion began in th e ea rly 20\

Th e plan s ca ll for a new wat er lin e from sound econom ic practi ces, bal an cin g the a nd tod ay th er e ar e more th an 50 coru-

th e pumpin g sta tion, whi ch is on th e countv' s industri al plants with a div ersi- pa nics with offices in Elb erton q uarry-

Flint R iver nine mil es from th e filte r fied a'gricult ur e. The G eorgia Exp eri - ing and m anufactu ring m onum ent s a nd

plant, enla rged storage facilities, new ment Sta tio n ju st outside of town h as m au soleums fro m Gcor gia gran ite.

eq uipme nt, new pumps a t th e p um pi ng added im measurably to th e p rosperit y

T he ac tua l q ua rrying is an awe -

sta tion and filt er plan t, new lin es for of th e farm ers. H er e manv new a nd inspi rin g perf orm an ce. Grea t pn e ll-

fil tcr cd (rea dy to usc ) wat er a nd a 1 import ant plants hav e been' develop ed m ati c dr ills a nd cha nneling m a chin es

milli on ga llon steel eleva ted tank, m eas- - - Empire cott on, Hunt mu scadines. d rill a nd cut from th e qu arri es blocks

uring 140 feet from top to bottom ,

hyb rid corn . and T rue hea rt Per fection which a re sawed into slabs to be polish-

Griffin's prospering industri es include pimi entos to mention only a few- and cd a nd sha ped. Blocks wcighi ng 20 to

th e H appyval e Flour Mills, Allen's F eed studies ha ve been cond ucte d which 25 ton s a re com mo np lace and often are

Mill, th e C ity Wholesale Co m pa ny, have imp roved food p rocessing' p ro- lift ed mor e th an 150 feet from the

So uthern Poultry Di st ributor s, Wri gh t ced ures th rou gh out th e sta te.

depths of th e qu arri es. The m oder n

I ce C rea m Co m pa ny and Lif sey I ce

The sigh t of ca tt le grazing in lush saws an d gr ind ing devices, so com m on

C rea m Co m pany. Amo ng G riffin's oth- pastu res is a fam ilia r one in th e a rea . to day , a re a far cry from old h a nd

er manufacturing plants a re th e Ch ero - Th e ca ttle industr y in th e county h as drills a nd wed ges used by th e di scov-

kee C asket Co m pa ny, Crossfield I ce grown so in i m po r ta n ~ ~ th ~t two W ~s t ere rs of Elberton gra nite. Th e ro \lgh -

Com pa ny, D ixie Bottling Com pan y, er n ca ttleme n , recognjZlng its pot ent ial, hewn ston r-s of :~ O yea rs ilgO havr:

Geo rgia Business Service, spe cia lizing in hav e settled her e to rai se H er efor ds a nd been outmo de d by highl y-p olished an d

offset printing, Geo rgia Na tiona l V ault Ab erd een Ang us.

sm oothly-d ressed design s now produced

Co m pany, Go en Printing Co m pa ny ,

G riffinites a rc ju stl y p roud of th eir by ma ch in es and skilled cr a ftsme n .

G riffin Box Plant. G riffin Brassier e man y outsta nd ing public fac ilities- the

M or e th an three milli on cubic feet of

Co m pany, G riffin ' Cabi ne t Co m pa ny .$ 1 milli on G riffin-Sp alding Co unty stone is used in th e m anufa ctu rc of

and Griffin Coca -Co la Bottling Co,

H ospit al , th e 200- acr e muni cip al park m onuments and mau soleums each vea r,

Ther e a re seve ral thrivin g lumber with a well-planned recreati on al pro- represen tin g a whol esale valu e or' $ 12

businesses-Gibson Lumber Co m pa ny, gra m, a nd th eir outsta nd ing city and milli on . Other uses of g ra nite in th e

Griffin Lumber C om pa ny, Griffi n co unty schoo ls. The thri vin g indust ries U nited Sta tes a re : crushe d and broken

Wood Product s and th e H. O . W illiam s and div ersified ag ricultur e of th is area sto ne, 155 milli on short ton s, with an

Lumber Com pa ny-as well as th e Grif- hav e pav ed th e way for th e pl ea sant, a pproxima te valu e of $ 180 million:

fin M attress Co m pa ny, H olt Shee t prosperou s life whi ch its citizens lead .

building sto ne, three m illion cubic Icet .

M et al & Ornam ental Sho p, W . A. J ester

$4 .5 m illion ; r ubble a nd rou gh , 240,-

Casket Com pa ny, Charles E . J on es, manufa cturer of conc rete block a nd ce-

Georgia 's Granite Production

000 s h o r t ton s, $95 0,000 ; flaggin g, 265,000 cubic feet , $2 20,000 ; cur bing .



ment va ults, Pittman M et al Pr oducts

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200,000 cubic feet , $ 195,000 : an d pav-

Co m pany, m aking r estaurant furniture,

Co nsidered va lueless and a nui san ce ing blocks, 650 ,000 pieces, va lued a t

R ed R ock Bevera ge Co m pany, R oberts bv land-own er s and fanners for man v $45 ,000.

Auto Trim Sho p, an d th e R oyal Crown Bottling C ompany.

yea rs, th e outc ro p pings a nd bouldel:s strewn over th e co unt ryside fin all y a t-

Geo rgians ca n be proud of thi s thri ving industry whi ch mak es such a

Also contributing to Griffin's pros- tr act ed th e eye of Dr. Nathani el Green lasting con tribu tion to th e nati on 's WilY

perity a re th e Shivers Mattress Com- Lon g, and th e fir st quarry was op en ed of livin g.

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Ju ne 1, 1952

Georgia Provides Large Market

For Eggs Produced in State

A gre a t opportun ity awai ts G eorgia farm er s in th e form of a ready market for quality eggs. This product is a lread y brin gin g a substa n tia l sum to a grea t m a ny fa rme rs in th e state, money whi ch co me s in weekly through out th e year. , T h e la rge market for qualit y Geo rgia -p ro d uce d eggs is evid en ce d by figures kep t on th e sale of eggs in Atlanta . I n J an ua ry, 1952 , a p p ro xi ma te ly 72,000 cases wer e sh ippe d into Atlanta , a nd o u t of thi s number on lv a littl e more th an 2,000 cases wer e p roduced in G eorgia , During 195 1, 94 per cent of th e eg gs sold in Atlanta wer e sh ip -

p cd in from other sta tes a nd six perce n t wer e prod uced in G eorgia . Large number s of eggs co me in from I owa a nd some from as fa r a wa y as Cana da . As lon g as thi s sit ua tio n exis ts. q uality eggs from Geo rg ia p roducers should h ave a ready m arket.
A la rger p roducti on of qu alit y eggs by G eo rgia fa rm e rs would be advantageou s to the whole sta te. T he fann er wou ld benefit from th e inc rease d , yearround incom e, a nd th e co nsumer wou ld benefit by bein g able to bu y a fres h , q ua lity p roduct.
An agen cy which h as done a great dea l to h el p G eorgia farm er s ca p t ure

Towns of Cartersv ille , Co rnelia, Alma, Douglas Set Ca ps for Tourist Trade

Out of welcome -

sta te tourists a mat spread for

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cra l Georgia towns . The CO R N EL I A

C hambe r of Comm erc e re cen tly spon -

so re d a fre e Tourist Courtesy C o u rse.

ope n to a nyo ne in th e cou n t v, and

m ade a va ila ble by th e State D epart-

m ent of Education . A L I\!A an d

DO UGLAS ha ve b e e n "arrest ing"

to u rist s on their wa y thro ugh town

presenting th em wi th' gifts fro m local

m er chants, with m ea ls a n d in vita t ions

to stay as th e g ues ts of town sp eop le.

The la test recip ien ts of thi s So ut he rn

h ospitality in Alma sa id it was "an ex-

perien ce we will a lways rem ember ,"

a n d will no do ubt tell th ei r fr ien ds

abou t. The Do uglas program, spo nso r-

ed by th e L ions and K iwa nis clubs, is

me e tin g with outstanding success .

CA R T F RS V lTLF is gj ':ing o::t-:-)[

sta te visitors a n assu ra nce of its good-

will by p lacin g printed g ree ti ngs on

th eir cars, say ing th ey are welcom e,

a.nd may park as long as th ey wish in

tune or m et e r zon es. On th e ba ck of

th e ca rd , importa nt fact s a bout th e

town a re given . Visi tors will surely re-

m ember these fri end ly towns. '

th is w,ll t mg m arket is G eor gia Eggs,



Jnc., in Ath en s, h ead ed by J oh n F.

M auldin , pou ltry m arketing spec ia list.

I t was sta rt ed as an egg-ma rke ting dem -

onstration , w ith A tl~ens b us in ~ssm en



parti cipating. The purpose was three-

fold: to provide a market for p roduce

brin ging a n addition al fa rm in com e to



th e farmers of th e a rea : to sho w th at G eorgia fa rm ers co uld produce top-

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quality eggs, and to acquir e egg-marke ting o utle ts wh ere p eople are CO I1-



M ode rn eg g h andl in g m et hods include automatic sizing, grad ing and cand ling . Abov e, eggs ar e bei ng sized an d graded at Geo rgi a Eg gs, Inc" in Athe ns.

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

June 1, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

VIDALIA is th e h ome of a new d istilled vin egar p acking p lant. Operat ed as a subsid ia rv of th e Ca rl Cannon Com pa ny , a f~od brokerage co nce rn , it em p loys fiv e worker s an d h andl es a pp roximately 1500 gallo ns per d ay at present. Pints, quarts a nd 100- oun ce ga llons a re th e m ost popu la r con ta in ers used , but th e p lant a lso h as facilities for ba rr ell in g.
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A n ew ad d ition is being co nstruc ted to th e facilities of Sout h ern Sta tes Equipment C orpora tion a t HA 1\IPT ON , th e la rgest ind ust ria l p lant in H enrv Coun ty. a nd m an ufact ur ers of hi gh volt age ~ iec t ri ca l eq uip me n t, m ech an ica l devi ces a n d textile m ach in e p a rt s. Th e n ew building will be a stee l an d mason ry struc ture co ve ring about 25,000 sq ua re feet , a n d is sla ted for com p le tion th is fa ll.
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T ravel is being mad e more attractiv e to visitor s in ou r sta te with th e a ddition of several m od ern tourist courts. In CA R T ER SVILL E, R . G . R oger s a n d Edgar T opham a re constr ucting tw o of th e m ost mod ern cour ts in th e So uth , loca ted a cross th e road from ea ch ot h er on Highway 4 1. The co urts wi ll be 14 un its each, of solid b rick m asonry, and furnished with th e best eq uip me n t availa ble throughout. At L UD OWI CI , construc tion h as begun
on th e first 15 units of th e Orlando 1\;10-
tel, h a lf a m ile west of town on High way 30 1. I t is bein g built by G . F . Bra zell of Orlando . Of conc re te block const ruc tion, th er e wi ll be cera m ic ti le in a ll bath room s, and p astel-co lored m et al furniture. A resta urant wi ll b e ope ra ted with th e cou rt a nd p lans also ca ll for a swim m ing pool.
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Liston Elkin To Promote
Okefenokee Swamp Park
L iston Elkin , exec utive m an ager of th e W aycross an d W are Co u n ty C ham ber of Com me rce , h a s resign ed , effec tiv e J uly 1, to accep t a positi on to p rom ot e th e Okef en okee Swa m p Pa rk, one of th e n ation ' s m ost impressive n at ural wonders. Duri ng a sin gle week-end rece n tly, 4 1 sta tes a n d Ala ska wer e represen te d in th e person s wh o visit ed th e p ark, as well as h alf a d ozen othe r co u n tries. M r. El kin is on e of th e sta te' s a blest p romot ers, a nd th e Park is fortunate in a cq u iring hi s services.

Th e p lant-gr owing indust ry whi ch was rece n tly sta rte d a t N I C HO L LS . in Coffee Co un ty, h as rea ch ed its p ea k with m illions of p la n ts being p ulled, p rocessed an d sh ipped . A n ation all yknown sou p co m pa ny leased a large tract of la nd from Banner L ee and So ns for growing tom ato plants last yea r, and plan s wer e la ter m ad e fo r a packing-ho use in N icho lls. The So uth ern Plant C om pa n y, ope ra ting th e in du stry, p la ns to en la rge th e project fro m veal' to year. 1\10re th an 60 wornen are em p loyed at th e pea k season in co un ting, g rad ing a nd packing pl ants, a n d m any m or e per son s a re em p loyed wo rking in th e field s.
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ARAGON wi ll soon be on e of th e tw o sites of A. D . Jui lliard & Com p an y's co tton-weaving operations. This com pan y is en d ing its cotton-weaving op e rations in th e North, a nd transferrin g th em to the company p lan ts a t Aragon and Brookford, N . C. The d ecision was m ad e becau se of th e " disp ari ty in wo rk loads an d wages as co m p ared with th e com pa ny 's So u the rn mi lls." The goods whi ch are manufa ctured in th e Southern p lants wi ll be sh ip pe d for p rocessin g to th e cord uroy a nd fin ishing plant at N ew York M ills.
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A new region al office an d wareh o use of G ray Com pany, I n c., of M inn eapolis was op en ed in M av in ATLA NTA a t 1223 Spring St reet , N .W . According to D istri ct M anager Thomas Bruce, th e n ew insta llation will provide eq uipm en t for a nine-state a re a in th e So u the as t, incl uding Graco lub ricati ng eq u ipme n t, h eav y m aterial p umps, an d sp ra y eq u ip me n t, a nd will h ou se a spe cia l testing la bora tory. Mr. Bru ce sta ted " A tla n ta h as becom e th e cen te r of trem endous industri al and econ om ic grow th in th e South .. . Graco has es'ta b lish ed th e offi ce h ere to render better service to th e firm' s m any custo m e rs 111 th is a rea ."
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S Y L V ES T ER has a n ew industn"th e H ouston- David son Pla n t Co m pa ny, pa ckers of tomato p lants. T he new orga n iza tion, own ed by J oe H ouston and Luciu s Da vid son , grows plants for a co m pa ny in N ew J er sey. The pa cking she d em ploys a bou t 12 p eople, and will h aw a sea son of a pp roxim a tely 45 d ays.

G EORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

TRACTORS ON FARMS NOW SIX TIMES 1940 NUMBER
M ore th a n 60 .000 tract ors " 'eIT being oper a ted on G eorgia farms in 195 \ , six tim es th e nu mber in oper a tion in 1940. C ensus fig ur es on tr act or s in 1945 sho we d 'a p p roximatelv 24 .000 . Wa lter S. Brown. Agri cultu ral Ext en sion Se rv ice associa te direct or, sa id th at if th e eq u ipm ent is ava ila ble. " there is eve rv in d ica tion th at th i ~ trend to ward fa rm pow er machinery will con tin ue in G eorgia in \ 952 ." H e ad de d that th ere is a grea t d em and for h eav y eq u ip men t, such as co tto n pi cker s, a lso. Accordin g to ce nsus figures for 1945 a nd 195 0, 158 ou t of G eorgia' s \5 9 co u n ties increased th e n umber of tracto rs in th e five-year p eriod .
A n ew gum m arket was op en ed recen tlv in SO PERTON. Previouslv th er e h as \~e e n no h om e market for th e in dustry, a nd th e new m arket is expected to bring top p rices to th e p roducers an d ch a nne l more trad e to othe r bu sin ess in th e region . An a ffilia te of th e Soperto n N av a l Sto res a nd Filter ed R osin Product s of Bax ley, it is bein g managed by Pet e Phillips.
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MA CON h as been gra n ted $ 73 1,640 by th e H ou sin g an d H om e F in an ce A uen cv for slum clearance a nd urban dev elopment. C ity a nd co un ty off icial s a re curren tly holding m eetings to di scuss th e Ieasibi litv of th e esta blish me n t of a zon in g and ' p la nn in g comm ission an d stud ying a rea s which sh ou ld be clea red and red evelop ed .
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A " m ult i-m illion d olla r" pl ant for th e m anufa ctu re of tran sformers is sch eduled for R OME, to be erec te d bv G en eral E lectric Co. C onstruc tion w iil begin immed iately and be com p leted bv mid- 195 3. Th e main GE transformer pl ant will con tin ue to be located at Pittsfield , M ass., but th e new pl ant is need ed to " p rovide a dd itiona l ca p ac ity required to tak e ca re of a n ticip a ted incre ase in bu sin ess." The Rome p lant. em ploying 1,700 person s, wi ll h av e a n a n n ua l ou tp u t exceed ing 5.5 m illion kilowatts of sma ll power transformer s, incl uding som e kno wn as large di st ribution transformer s. Peak ca pacity sho uld be reach ed bv 1955. Th e rat in gs of th e transformer~ will ran ge fro~ll 300 to 7,500 kilowatts.

I?,DUSTRIAL N EWS LETTER

June 1, 1952

Cartersville Thrives on Economy

Of Mining, IndustryI Agriculture

Cartersville, bu ilt on th e p rosper ou s trian gle of mi n ing, ag riculture, and industry, provides its 7,2 70 citizens with a oood way of life, N estled in the bl ue hiTIs of Northwest Geogia, th e town has gro wn in th e past few yea rs a t a n as to und ing rat e, Between 1945 and 19+9 th e pop ula tion in cr eased 6 1 per cen t. Bartow Co unty, wit h Cartersville as the cou nty sea t, now h as a po pula tion of 27 .3 70.
T he city is 'pro ud of th e grea t strides it is m a king in a ll ph a ses of its devel opm cn t . Its schoo l system is exc ellen t, a nd is being improved with th e addit ion of a new $+40,000 hi gh school bui lding, complete wi th a thletic sta d ium . Its ten ch urches are well-equipped to deal with the sp iritua l a nd socia l needs of th e corrun uni tv. Good hospital ca re is readily ava i l~ble and severa l hotels and modern tourist cour ts tak e ca re of th e eve r-inc re asing number of touri sts. The dail y TribuneNews, the we ekly Bartow H erald, and R adio Sta tion WBHF supply the news.
Allatoon a D am plays an in cr easinglyim po rtant part in th e life of th e town. Located abo ut six m iles from th e $30 milli on proj ect , C a rte rsville citizens enjoy fishin g, boating and picknicking a t the hu ge lak e. T he Allatoon a proj ect will un doubted lv m ea n mo re indust ries fo r th e town . ' T he inc reased power available will be a deciding facto r, but probably of eq ua l impo rtanc e will be th e fin e recr eation al fa cilities available a t th e Lak e. M ore an d m or e industri es are interested in moving to town s whi ch nffe r p leasan t living con d itions- and th is Cartersville h as in abu ndance.
Ca rtersville' s ind ustry rests on a solid found at ion , G oodve~r' s C lea rwa ter M ill, which m ak es ~o rd fo r Goo d year tir es, em ploys a p proxim ately 2,000 peop le, O the r la rge m ills a re th e T extilon C he nille Co m pany, man ufacturing chenille robes a nd ru gs, the locall yowned K ingston M ills, m a king co tto n cord, a nd th e Bartow T ex tile Co ., prod uce rs of ch enilles.
E-Z Mills. Inc.. manufacturer s of kn it und e,w~ar opera te a large mill a t Ca rtersville, a nd h ave ju st a nnounccd th a t th ey will move co tto n op erations from Ben nington, Vt ., to Ca rter sville. in the ncar fut ure. T he moving of th e V ermont operation, wh ich em ploys abo ut 500 people, to G eor gia, is th e resul t of a m arket cond ition, mill

officia ls have said .
o t h e r import a nt man ufacturing
com pa nies a re th e A & D M ach ine Sho p, a nd Ca rt ersville Casting Co ., bo th making foundry p roduct s ; Ce me nt Product s Co ., Che m ica l Produ cts Co rp" prod ucing chem ica ls; Georgia Art Pottery, m ak ing clay produ cts : Georgia Gold D air y. mak ing dai ry prod uct s a nd ice cream; and G rogan M et al Sho p, p rodu cer s of m et al produ cts,
Also inclu ded in th e list of Ca rte rs\"ille's prosper ous man ufact urers a re T . E. J oh nsey, p rod ucer of ceme nt blocks ; Nor th G eo rgia Pipe & Block Co. , making concrete blocks, pipe a nd d rai n : R ome M on um en t Co., ma rble prod uc ts ; and Southe rn Co tto n O il Co .
Mining is very importan t in th e economy of Bartow Co unty, and h as been for m or e th an a centurv. Seven m inera ls a re mined in th e co unty for com me rc ial use- ba rvtes. used in th e m an ufactu re of p ain ts, .rubber goods and barium ch em ica ls : ba uxite, from wh ich alumin um is deriv ed ; m a nganese, used in th e manufacture of steel; sla te : br own iron ore : lim eston e. and och re, used m ain ly as a pigm ent in paint.
The m irung com pa nies opera ting a t Ca rtersville are L ambert Bros. M inin g Co. , produ cing crushe d rock ; Ladd Lim e & Sto ne Co., prod ucin g lime and the only dolomitic magn esium lim e pla nt in th e So uth eas t ; New R iver sid e O ch re Co., mining och re, ba ryt cs a nd manga nese, and th e Thom pson-''''einman Co ., prod uc ing ba ryt es, ochre and ore.
Agricu lture in th e cou nty is well-developed an d becomi ng contin ua lly more d iversified . The land is excellent fo r yea r-ro und grazing a nd m an y fa rm er s in th e county a re ra ising livestock in la rge nu mb er s. Sheep-ra ising is ga ining in importa nce in th e a rea.
Ca rte rsville and Ba r tow Co unty h ave jo ine d ha nd s to give th eir citize,;s outsta ndi ng recrea tiona l facilities. T hey hav e jointl y leased 140 acres a t Allatoon a Lak e and plan to resand th e beach , build a m od ern bath-hou se and co ncession sta nd .
T he well-bal an ced eco nom ic life of Ca rt ersville is th e resu lt of the efforts of citizens in all wal ks of life a nd th e con tin uing progress of th e town and county reflect s th ese efforts,

Government Awards
Contracts to Many
Georgia Industries
R ecent Gov ernm ent contrac ts a wa rded to Geo rgia firms in clude th e follow ing :
J efferson M ills, JEFFER SO,Y- cotton clot h, $843 ,000 .
E. Z. Mills, CA R T ERSVI L L E-u nderw ea r, $695,000.
L owell Blea ch erv. GR IFFIN- cotton cloth , tw o co n trac ts tot alin g $560 ,000.
Vanta Co., M ONT EZ UMA- -undershirts, $238,000 .
W a rd Stetson Co ., BA IN BR ID GF. -cotton dresses, $ 185,000.
U nion Bag & Paper Co., SA VANN AH - ha rrie r pap er, ~ 14R : n nn "
M a rks H andker chi ef Co. , A U GU ST A- handk erchiefs, $ 138,000.
Curtiss Printing Co., A T LANTAsu pply ca ta logs, $105 ,000 .
Peerl ess W oolen Mills. R OSS VILL E - 55,2 10 yds, blu e melt~ n clo th, $33, 39 1.
Sa va nna h Suga r R efining Corp., SAVANNA H-995,000 lbs. gra nula ted, beet or ca ne sug a r, $83,08 2.
Georg ia Provides Eggs
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scious of quality. So successful has th e enterprise been
th at it is bein g used for demonstration purposes by th e Exten sion Service a nd th e poult ry industry in ot her in terested area s.
Georgia Eggs d raws its p roducers from a n area wh ich in cludes th e counties of H ab ersham, Step h ens, H all , Banks, Franklin, H art, J ackson , M adison, Elbert, Barrow, C la rke , O gleth or pe, Wilk es, Lincoln , W alton , O conee, M organ, G ree ne a nd Taliaferro. By June I, of th is yea r, a fter approxi m at ely three yea rs of operation, Geor gia Eggs had paid fa nners of the a rea $36+,000. They a rc now paying an ava\"erage of $ 16,000 per m onth.
Qu ality is th e key to prod ucing for th e m a rket. This is th e point which is stressed by Geo rgia Eggs, and by all egg a nd market ing specia lists. I n or der to insure quality eggs wh ich will com ma nd a h igh price on the m a rket, Geo rgia Eggs, work ing closely with the Exten sion Serv ice and poul tr y m a rketin g spec ialists, ha s drawn up a 1+-po int progr am .
Th is inclu des such p ractices as co llecting eggs fou r to five t imes a day, getting th em to m a rket a t least twice a ~\"Cek in warm weat h er. a nd bringing
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Auditor General Guards Air Force Dollar

During 1952, th e largest sing le por-

tion of our tax dollar wi ll be inv est ed in

a grea tly expa n d ing Air Force. ~illi o~s

of doll ars will be sp en t for n ew a ircral t

an d eq uipmen t, for serv icing a n d, main-

teariant iino ~u

of of

Air F or ce a irp lanes

b a ses, in all

an d lo r parts of

opth e

world.

At a tim e wh en d efen se costs a re sky-

rockct in 0c ' it is com fo rting~: to kn ow th at highly-train ed spec ialists fr om th e Au -

d itor G en er al's off ice a re on h and as-

sisting Air F or ce m anagem ent in ? ne

of it s tou gh est assignm cn ts-s- p rotec tio n

of th e taxp ayer's dollar.

The work of th e Auditor Ge ne ra l fa lls into tw o gene ral ca teg ories-econ om v in th e actu al op er ations, th at is, th e Air F or ces bases, a nd eco nomy in procurem ent, or con tracts for Air Force materi el. H e keeps costs a t a minimum by co nsta n t vigilan ce a n d d em ands .for so un d bu sin ess principles a n d practi ces in a ll Air F or ce op er ati on s. This job is ca rr ied out by hi s sta ff, whi ch incl ud es Certi fied Public Accountants, Industri al C ost Accountants, an d m en of wid e bu sin ess a n d gove rn me n t ex perienc e.

In th e procurem ent ca tego ry, Air For ce a ud itors re n der serv ices sim ila r to those of a C PA to th e Ai r M ateri el Co m ma n d- - the ch ief procurers for th e Air Force. Indep endent rep orts of Air F or ce procurement cos ts are assu red . Th e Auditor G en er a l is au tho rized sepa ra te lin es of com m un ica tion a t all levels below th e H eadquarters, US AF , H e h as been given th e indep enden ce n ecessary to insure th a t his rep orts are uninflu en ced an d fr ee from bi as th at could resu lt from in te rme d ia te co m mand authority.

An exam ple of a fin e job bein g don e

by th e Air F or ce Auditors can be found a t L ockheed Aircraft C orpo ration , M ari etta , Ga ., wh er e co n trac to rs' claims totaling $ 700,000 per day are au di te d . This build er of th e supe rspee d n ew B-47 Stra to jet bomber , em p loys ov er 10,000 per son s an d anticip at es a peak of some 25,000 to b e rea ch ed a t fu ll production . Alm ost everyth ing which goes into th e 92-to n bomber at on e tim e or a no the r co me s under th e minute scru tiny of th e a ud itors-from bolt s and nuts to en tire win g asse m blies. The individual p art s a re subjec t to spo t chec ks a t a ny time,
The n ati on 's taxp ayer s ca n rest assur ed th at Ai r F orce a ud ito rs a re co n sta n tly on duty in cr easin g Air F or ce firC))Q\Vt.'I' hy cutting costs .
Br iga dier General T . R . R a mp y, Aud itor General, and Lie u te nant Co lon el G . ~1. H inckl ey , Southenstern Di stric t Ch ief, arc pic tured a t a re cent con fere nce a t which they d iscu ssed increasing Air
Force fir epe wer -.

Georgia Provides

th em in in covere d truck s.

A large fact or in sellin g eve n top-

qu alit y eggs is th e p ackagin g a n d mar-

keting procedure. At th e off ice of Geor-

gia Eg gs, Inc. , eggs a re ca n dled, a uto -

mati into

caatltly;'az~triavdec

d and sized and ca rtons d esign ed

pa cked by an

art st ude n t at th e U n ive rsity of G eor-

g Ia .

"

T he in crea sing number 01 eggs bem g

m arket ed by th is orga n iza tion ca lls for larger sp ace th an is n ow a\'a i l~ b le . , A

co m p letely modern egg m arket IS bemg bui lt in Athen s an d will soon be co m-

p let ed wh er e all th e vari ou s processes

in th e h andlin g of eggs will be carried on.

Fanner s in So uth Georgia a re ju st

beginning to en ter thi s bu sine ss in a

large way. Th ey wer e faced with two

m aj or p roblems which a re n ow bein g

overcome . Th e climate a t ce rta in tim es

during th e yea r is too warm for h en s

to pr oduce a t top levels. a nd th e soil in

flat co un try is ea sily po lluted . Exp er i-

m ents h ave been m ad e a t agricult ura l

colleges in using wire cages suspe nded

from th e cei ling, eac h h ou sin g on e

ch icken, an d all co vered over by an

alum in um sh ed with th e sides ope n .

This off er s m aximum ventilation , th e

aluminum d eflects th e su n's ra ys, and

it offe rs a solution to th e problem of

soil po lluti on . Th e syste m is bein g used

with g rea t success in certa in p arts of South Geor gia .

With th e la rge pot ential m arket for

eggs in th e sta te, a nd th e in cr eased em -

phasis bein g p laced on qu a lit y egg-pro-

du cti on , th e tim e m ay b e clo se a t h and

wh en G eor gia city-d we llers ca n bu y

fresh , top-quality G eorgia eggs a t eve ry

corner grocery, a n d G eorgia fann ers

can tak e home th e la rge sums which

a re n ow sen t to Iowa an d other \Vest-

ern egg-p rod uc ing states.

V ol. 3, No. 20

Georgia Forests Now Providing

Rayonier Breaks Ground For $25 Million Factory

Near Jesup, Wayne County
One of Statets Largest Incomes Ground was broken June 5 for th e $25 million pl ant of Rayoni er Incorpo-

Ge orgia's for ests are big bu sin ess to th e sta te and nation , rankin g h er hi gh

read y her e in full produ cti on and to interest new on es in com ing h er e, Geor-

ra ted, loca ted a t D oct ortown , near J esup in W ayne Coun ty. T he impres-

in th e am ount of lumber p roduced gia need s more tr ees. This important sive ce rem onies were att ende d by Pr esi-

am ong th e So u the rn sta tes, which pro- problem is bein g attacked on three dent C lyde B. M or gan and other offi-

~:

vid e 34 p ercent of th e nation's lumber fronts-fire con tro l, for est ry ma nage- cials of th e com pa ny with Vi ce Pr esi-

su p p ly.

m ent , and refor estation .

dent Ru ssell F . Eri ckson ac ting as m as-

Fo rest cro ps in th e state yielde d $600

Th e Sta te's fir e con tro l progr am is ter of ceremo nies. Also present were

milli on last yea r, doubl e th e $3 00 m il- bein g grea tly expande d. In December , W . T. "Thad" M cDani el, representing

lion of three yea rs ago. M or e th an 1948 . 43 co un ties and 8.5 m illion acres U . S. Sena tor W a lter George , and

166,000 person s a re now employed in of fo'rest la nd wer e prot ect ed by orga n- Cla rk G aines, Sec re ta ry Georgia D ept.

thi s ind ustry, a n increase of 36 ,000 in ized fir e p rot ection units. Todav th e of Comme rce , representat ives of th e



th ree yea rs. To keep th e pulp and pap er mill s al-

n umber of un its has incr ea sed to 'coyer (Con tin ued on Page 4 )

J esup an d Wayn e Co un ty C hamber of Co m me rce , and othe rs.

Produ cin g purifi ed wood cellulose,

th e new plant will h av e a da ily ca paci ty



of 250 ton s and an a nn ua l ca pacity of

87 ,000 ton s. It will emp loy 450 person s

in th e mi ll a nd fr om 400 to 500 othe rs

in cut ting and tr an sporting p ulp wood

to th e plant . whi ch is bein g built on a

530-acre tr act along th e- Alta maha

River. It will have a n ann ua l payroll



of fo ur m illion d olla rs. Th e construc tio n proj ect is being

ca rried ou t under th e exec utiv e d irec-

tion of R. F. Erickson , vice- p reside n t in

charge of engine ering developmen t for

o

R ayoni er, In c.

Rayoni er op er at es four other mill s-

one at F ern andin a. Fla. and th ree in

th e sta te of W ashingt on . Th ese m ills

h ave a ca pacity of 43 0,000 ton s, whi ch

with th e producti on from th e ne w plant

w ill m ak e a yea rly tot al of 5 17,000 ton s.



The superior gra de s of wood cellu-

lose p roduced a t th e new R avoni er

plant will be used primarily in th e

m anufacture of tire cord, parachute



m at erials, an d rubber belt ing. T hi s

pl ant is design ed so th at it ca n a lso

produce nitrate pu lp for th e m anufac-



An exp eri enced for ester inspects baby pines a t a Sta te nursery .

tu re of explosives if necessary.

I N D L' STRIAL N EWS LETTER

J un e IS, 1952

GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

Th e m elon seaso n is unde r wa v in CO R DE LE. W at erm elon ac reage is a p p roxima tely the same as last year, but ca nta loupe acrea ge is some what low er. T he a nn ua l W at erm elon Festiva l is draw ing th e in te rest of everyone in th e surro und ing area . ponsor ed by the Reta il M erchants orga niza tio n, it incl udes a tour of th e trad e a rea several day s befor e th e season opens. A m otorcade of local bu sin ess people visited ncarbv towns to adv ertise Cordel e as the n;clon cen ter an d to invite people from other town s to come to the Festiva l.
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T1,'AIPL1,' has obtai ned a new ind ustry, the Belle M an ufactu ring Co., whi ch will em ploy 30 to 60 per sons m ak ing women 's d resses a nd suits. It is oper a ted by J oe Beckerman of New York C itv and Ned Cohen of At lanta . R e n o\'at i ~n of th e bu ild ing has a lread y beg un.
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Th e Royal M anufact uring Com pa ny in WA SHI NGT ON h as met with such success that it is expa nd ing its floor space for the second tim e since it was esta blishe d . A new two-stor y a dd ition is being co nstruc ted which \~'ill be 100 by 100 feet and cost a pp roximately $ 100,00 0. It will hou se th e packing a nd sh ipp ing dep artment.
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BL A CK SH EAR 'S Pierce Sho e M anufact ur ing Co . has begu n an ex pa nsion proj ect which will add a bout 5,000 sq uar e feet of floor space. Th e add ition is expected to mean th at 100 add itional worker s will be em ployed , a lso. T he fa cto ry now em ploys a pproxiu iat eIy 200 person s.
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A new ind ustry has opened in H A RLEM - Ge orgia Film Processing Co . The new fir m oper a tes to develop a nd prin t roll film , with a pla nt ca pac ity of abo ut 1,000 ro lls a da y, Employing 14 regul ar workers, a ni ght sh ift of op er at ors is anticipa ted . With most of its bu sin ess coming from Cam p Gordon, th e pl ant p rocesses film s fr om a ll over .the .wo rld. Abou t two a nd one h alf .miles of p a ne; a dav i, used . Owner s arc M r. a nd Mrs. G eorge C . Collins.
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T~e on ion crop in T oombs, T attnall , Applin g, Ba con a nd Wh eeler Co unties recen tly went to market a nd com ma nded high prices from bu yers. At th e V idali a Sta te Fa rm ers' M a rket , bu yer s

paid mor e tha n $300 ,000 fo r the onio ns, as com pa red with $ 75,000 last yea r. Bu yer s wer e presen t fro m as fa r away as New York,

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T h e M eier M a n ufa ctur ing Co ., loca ted at T U CKER, i expa nding its b usiness to include the m a n ufa ct ur e of chrom e a nd pla stic din ette sets. T he bu siness was sta rted four yea rs ago, m aki ng plastic tab le to ps. T hey will contin ue wit h th is product . a ddi ng the d inet te sets. Approximat ely 60 person s a rc em ployed at presen t, a nd this n umber w ill pr obably be raised in the ncar fu ture. Ben T . Co nna llv is sales m anager, and Pa ul l'vleier ' of At lanta is p residen t. .

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Ri ch mond Co ncre te Products Co .

recently com pleted its new building in

A U GUSTA and began th e manufac-

ture of conc rete m asonry units, specia l-

izing in co nc re te blocks. Between 35

a nd 40 pe rsons a re em ployed a t the

new plant, where th e m ost m od ern m a-

ch inery available is in opera tion. Pr esi-

dent of th e new com pa ny is Albert V on

K. Gary, also p resident of Augusta

C oncr et e Prod ucts Co .. whi ch will now

devot e its produ ct ion "enti rely to co n-

cre te pipe.

.

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The Tri-Countv Hatch ery a t R OYS-

T ON has moved in to a la r";er buildin

tl~u.s

d oub ling

its

floo r

b
space,

and

;:,~
pro-

vidi ng a. ga rage, supp ly room , boxing

room, ch ick room , egg room a nd ha tch-

ing roo m . Th e hat ch er y now h as a 200 ,00 0-egg ca pac ity, h at ~hin g a p prox i-

m a tely 45,000 bab y chic ks a -week.

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Herty Lab Makes Paper

From Sugar Cane Waste

A new process for th e manufacture
of newsprin t from sugar ca ne waste. k~ own as bagasse, was recen tly given a t n al ru n a t the H ertv Foundati on la borat ori es in SA V A N N AH, and prono~m ced successful. D evelop ed by J oaquin de la R oza, a n Ameri can inv ento r
born in C uba, th e process was wit nessed by ~~an y p ublish ers a nd paper compa ny offic ia ls, wh o were enth usiastic a bo ut
th e strong, opa q ue a nd ver y wh ite pa.
p er produ ced . Th e dem on strati on was
m ad e to show th at th e producti on of
paper from bagasse ha s com me rcia l p ossibilit ies.

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A new indust ry, ~{ ofco- G re en c Corp..

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

recen tly ope ned at GREENSBO R O .

specializing in fert ilizer sa les a nd custo-

m er fer tilizer sp rea d ing . Di ck T aylor of

G reensboro is m an ager of the new en-

terp rise, wh ich is an aff iliate of M e-

Du ffie O il & F ertilizer Corp., M ofco

Co rp . a nd M ofco Poult ry Co. of T hom-

so n .

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One of DA WSO N'S newest proj ects

is the Dawson Li vestock Co., head ed

by Ge orge Perr y of Pa rr ott , a nd Cec il

H . Reese of H erod. T he com pa ny ha s

leased stock-va rd fa cilities fro m the Boa rd of C O~ ll1 t v Co mm issioners a nd
has rep ai red 3nd rep ai nted the barn

and pens. outsta nd ing

M an v p a c kin

b g

u\v;ocurssesreapnredsecnattitnlg~

dea lers a re on han d a t the sales. held eac h T uesda y af te rn oo n, for th ~ fine

livestock prod uced in th e coun ty.

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The Corne lia Ga rment Co ., has

opened a branch plan t a t DEMOR ES T.

T he new pla nt, em ploying a pproxi-

mately 30 peopl e, opened th e first of

Ju ne. T he p lant in Co rn elia began op-

era tions abo ut tw o yea rs ago, with 30

employees, a nd now has 150 em ployees.

with a weekly payroll of $5,000.

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T he Ca rro ll Co untv Swine G rower s

Associati on recently 'put on its first

sho w and sa le. Befor e th e sa le, a ca ta -

log was prin ted a nd circ ula ted over a

wid e a rea to inter ested persons. listing

th e breeders of register ed anima ls a nd

info rma tion abo ut th eir stoc k. T h is

was th e first pureb red a nim a l sale of

local stoc k in th e co unty a nd met with

great succ ess.

A half-m illion dollar sewerage plan t is in th e offing for DO U GL AS , a nd a n extensive street-paving proj ect is underwa y for th e city. T he sewe rage plant has been under di scu ssion for some tim e a nd th e con trac t rece ntly signed marks th e last step in th e p relim inaries for th e plan t.
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The Lenkerd Co., of COC H R A N . deal ers in farm equ ip me nt, tr act or accessor ies and su pplies, recen tly ope ne d a wareh ouse in Atlan ta to stoc k heavy mer ch andise. This bu siness. whi cil sta rte d five years ag o as a man "and wif e ope ration, has g rown into one of th e la rgest industri es in Coch ra n an d a lead er in this wh ole a rea . Three times it has outg rown its q uarters. M ember
(C ontinued on Page 3 )

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

June 15, 1952

LaGrange Citizens Amass Honors

Parade Of Progress
(C on tin ued from Page 2 )

Fo r Pro gre ssive EconomYt Education

of th e Farm Equipment Wholesale Associa tion, a n ati on al orga niza tion, th e

C itizens of La G ran ge m igh t eas ily be tempt ed to rest on th eir laurels, fo r th e town has collec ted enough to p rovide a co mfo rta ble rest ing-p lace. But th e hon ors whic h com e its wav seem on ly to sp ur th e to wnspeople on to bigge'r a nd more a m bitious p roject s.
Th e story is th e sa me in a ll p hases oi LaG ran ge's life, C itizens d ecided that the school syste m sho uld be improved,
a nd in 1951 a p p rov ed a .S1.400,000
bond issue, wit h on ly 65 d issenting votes. \Vh en this wa s sup pleme n ted by $ 1,675 ,000, a tot a l oi more than $3 m illion wa s a va ilable to ca rrv ou t an expanded school p rogr a m , includi ng iou r new schools. A rcvic win u com m it tee visiting LaG range rccent lv sta ted tha t th e city's syste m is outsta nd ing and co uld easily becom e a mod el fo r th e en tire sta te .
Education has a lways been im porta n t to its citizens. In 183 L three yea rs a ite r th e city was cha rte red , LaGran ge Co llege was founded. m aking it th e third oldes t cha r te red college for wom-

city's la rgest indust ry is textil es, a nd its largest mi lls are Callaway Mills Co. , Dunson Mills a nd D ixie M ills, Inc., a br an ch of West Point M anufacturing Co., p roducing ny lon a nd rayon fabrics. T ex tile p ro d ucts m anu factured at L aGra nge arc tire cord, belt duckin g, ducks, d rills and tw ill fabr ics, colorfast chenille a nd tufted ru gs, ba th m at s, bath sets, towel s, industrial wip ing cloths a nd in d ust rial , me cha n ica l a nd com me rcia l ya rns . T h e m ills ar e righ t in ste p with th e town in providing o utsta nd ing p rogra ms for th eir personnel. D ixie a nd D Ullson M ills ha ve reCI L:a tiona l p rogr am s u nder th e supervision of recrea tio n dep artments and incl ude all typ es of ou tdoor a nd indoor ac tivities for young a nd ad ults. Calla way Mi lls m aintains a bea uti ful au d ito rium , and provides a ll types of recr eati on , su pe rv ised by train ed personnel. It also op erates a com p rehe nsive library on text iles and textile eng ineering, and has one of th e mo st com plete research division s in th e cou n try, wh ere im-

bu sin ess now cove rs five sta tes, a nd hop es th at th e wareh ou se in Atl anta will increase thi s territor y.
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Lewi s & G ray Packing Co ., oi S rVAINSBO RO. p roducing Brunswick Stew, recen tly expande d their opera tion s to incl ude barbecu e pu t up in po und packages. O perati ng full tim e. th e com pa n y sells its product s 0\'1'1' a ra d ius of 100 mi les fro m its pla n t.
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Ro ydon \\7ca r. In c ., a th riving ga rm ent business at McRA E_. recently com pleted one yea r of opera tion, an d an nou nced that it h as paid out more th an $ 164,300 in cash in T elfa ir Co un ty d uring tha t year. T h is fig ure rep resen ts $ 141, 100 in wa ge a nd sala ry paym ents and m or e th an $23,200 for supplies, ser vices a nd taxes. T h e company now em ploys 87 per son s, and m ay em ploy marc at a la ter peri od . I n J a n ua ry, 1951, th e firm sta rted ope ra tions with ten em ployees in temporary qu art er s.

en in th e nat ion . Toda v it is a fou r- pr oved m ethods, m achinery and prod- dustri a l fold er d esign ed for distr ibution

yea r accredited college ,' occ upying 12 ucts a re wo rked out.

to p rospect s by th e L aGran ge C hambe r

ac res with handsom e bui ldings, athlet ic

Oth er manufacturing com panies in of Comme rce . A com pan ion fold er is

field , and m od ern librarv,

LaGran ge include Chattaho ochee V a l- a ime d a t att racting tourists.

All th e civic orga niza tio ns co-ope ra te ley Lumber Co ., D aniel Lumber Co .,

A g r i cu i t u r e is well-d iversified

in worthwhile p rog ram s and th e C ham - Newma n C onstruc tion Co ., and Tram- th rou gh ou t th e cou n ty. The climate is

ber of Co m merce is espec ially ac tiv e. mell Floor Co., a ll en ga ged in con struc- suita ble for a lmos t all row crops, and

This year it is expa nd ing its pr ogr am, tion work , a nd Hutchinson Lumber poultry raisin g a nd d airying a rc bein g

g iving spec ia l em p hasi s to trade in th e Co ., Traylor L u m ber Co., and Sims ca rr ied on with grea t success. N atives

citv a nd to rural -urban relati on s. T he Lumber Co . Sup plying th e texti le mills are conv inced of the merits of thi s

Rt;ban Co mmi ttee. believed to be th e a rc N ew Era M anufa ctu rin g Co. , a nd section fo r rai sin g ca ttle and th e fact s

only one of its kind in th e sta te , b rings T exti le R oller Coveri ng Co. Also im - back th em up . During th e yea r end ing

together a ll th e heads of rural com - portant in L aGran ge's industrial life in Aug ust, 1951 , cash sales amo un ting

munity improvem en t clubs w ith local bu sinessm en . in o rde r to bett er th ei r

a re Swift & Co . Co tton O il M ill, Swift
r t: l tilizcr , Vorks , LdGra uge I ro n V\'u t'k~,

to more th an $ 1.5 mi llion were m ade at the L;lCrangc livestock mark et . The

und erstanding oi eac h other's p rob lem s. \Vebb Foundry and Pattern Sho p, la rgest sale of purebred ca tt le eve r

T he ir go als includ e the imp rov em ent Mi ckey M attress Co ., La Grange M at- held ea st of th e M ississippi took pl ace

oi ru ral and urban socia l relation sh ips, tress Co ., V en et ian Blind & Awning J une 9 an d 10 at H ills a nd D al es, th e

ph ysica l hea lth, sta nda rds of living and Co. , Co nc re te Products Co ., making fa rm of Fuller E . Callaway, Jr. Bu yer s

spiritua l va lues .

conc re te blocks, and N ewman Box fro m a ll ove r thi s coun try and C ana da

All imp rovem ents to th e wat er su p- Plant, producing amm un ition box es.

were on h and for th e sa le of m or e than

plv hav e been made with a n eve to th e

Am eri can Se rv ice Co., a nd Troup 500 H er eford s, representing eve ry fin e

iuture. The d aily ou tpu t nO\'\ is fiv e I ce Co. , produce ice, and Borden ' s Lily blood lin e in the nation.

mill ion gallons, but with a minimum of expe nse a nd effo rt, it ca n be in -

Pure I ce C re am and Troup Co-O p Dairy supply dairy prod ucts. M eat

LaGran ge em bo dies m an y of th e best cha ra~c te ris tics of th e S~ u th-old

c ~'eased to 12 m illion ga llons daily. T he packers includ e LaGrange Packin g Co., and new . T he m emories of th e old a re

c itv has on e of th e most mod ern sew ag e and Borders Packing C o., and soft p reser ved in its bea ut ifu l ante-b ellum

disp osa l pl ants in th e sta te. Natural drink manufacturer s a re LaGrange homes a nd grac ious way of life, and



gas service to LaGrange is exp ect ed ~ o '?e com ple ted in Se p tem ber, com ing

C oca-C ola Bottling Co., N ewbitt Grapette Co. , Double Cola C o., D r. Pep -

th e fronti ers of th e new a re eve rywhe re - in th e research laboratori es of th e

in l rom th e field s of T exas . L ouis ian a . per Bottling Co ., Royal C rown Bottling mod ern m ills, in th e sleek H ereford

a nd Mi ssissippi .

.

. Co., and Nu-Grape Bottling Co.

ca ttle on well-t ended farm s. and es-



LaGrange a nd Troup Co un ty are

I n th e in te rests of secu ring new in - pecia lly in th e well-educated citizens

blessed with a n eco nom v well-ba lan ced bet ween indu str y a nd agric ulture, The

dustry, a com p rehe nsive in du strial bri ef has been prep ared and an attractive in-

wh o a re det erm ined th at L aGran ge shall con tin ue to g row and prosper . ~



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Government Contracts For Georgia Industries

The Govern men t has awarde d con -

tracts to th e following Georgia firm s :

Co nn Struc to rs. A T LANTA - construction of airm~n 's dormitories. m ess

and adm inistration build ings and "bac h -

elor officers' quarters, Charleston Air-

field , Cha rleston, S. C ., excee ds $250 .-

000 .

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H ugh M cM a th Co nstruction Co ..

The J ord an Company, CO LUAIBUS

- const ruction of anununition storage

magazines a t Ann isto n Ordnan ce D e-

po t, Ann isto n, Ala., excee ds $250 ,000 .

. Dixi e T allyho, Inc., FAIRB UR N-

ti res, $ 126,930 .

Savanna h V ANNA H-

Suga r R 350,000

cIfbisn.inb~u'

oCwonrps.~. lS<TAar-

$40,677.

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Wi llin gh am Co tt on M ills, AIA CON

- d uck, cotton and nylon , 704,000 I.y.

d uck, cotto n and nylon. exce eds .$250 -

000 .

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G eo rgia SCOTT DA

D u c k &. LE-42,000

CI.oyr. dda~ucek

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Mcoiltl~,

ton an d nylon , $ 107,100 .

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Callaway Mills Co .. LA GR AN GE-

5,668 ,600 I.y. d uck, cotton and nvlon.

exceeds $250 ,000.

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Nunnally & M cC rea Co .. ATLAN-

T A- d unga ree trousers. 34 1.280 pr..

$549,619 .

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Peerless W oolen Mill s. R OSS VIL L E -4753.37,000 woo l blanke t~.. OD, $'-),586 ,-

Bowers Sheet M et al Co., JON ESBOR O- replenishmen t of other motor vehi cle pa rts, 750 ea ., $29,232.

Savannah M achine & F ou nd rv Co .. SA.VANNA H- drydock a nd voyag e re~

pairs, one stea msh ip, H elen Hunt Jack-

son, $28,79 1.

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M a rks Ox ygen Co ., A UG USTA oxygen and ace tylene, $ 178,000.

Georgia Forests Providing One of State's Big Incomes

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105 counties and 17.5 million acres. Alread y existing units have been stren gth e'!ed a nd ~ any new fire -fighting ve h icles p ut 1I1tO operation.
Forestr y managemen t is being improved as fast as possible. T he n umber of personnel avai lab le to aid in the program has been increased and still more are being trained . T h ese exp er ts go ou t and look over th e land of timb erown.ers making suggestions for marking, cu ttmg and other p has es of p roper man agem ent. Thus, th e forests comi ng under th e program a re being used to th e best possible ad vantage, both for present a nd future needs.

On e of th e most important feat u re,

of thi s ,Proj ect is th e nursery and IT Ior estati on p.ro~ram . The G eorgia For-

estry C ommISSIOn a nd man y other in-

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I t:t L::'l lt: U V l gd .l tll.al1U J.l..." .l llL..l ll UIJ.lg jJll.l p

a nd p.ap er com panies, are doin g a n ou t-

sta nding work in ra ising th e p roductivi-

ty of poor for est land, a nd p utti n g

abando ned fa rm la nd back into for ests.

Si nc~ th e 1948-49 plan ting season, ap-

proximately 400,000 acr es h ave been

pla nted in trees. Altho uah th e Sou th b
Iea ds th e nat.ion .in its reforestation pro-

gra m, th ere IS still a great dea l of work

to be done.

Th e Georgia Forestry Commission is prod ucing seedlings f~r reforestation

purposes a t three nu rser ies in th e state

- Davisboro, Alba ny, an d F lower y

Bran ch--:-and a new 11l11:sery is nearing

comp letio n along th e Hi ghtower R iver

on wa

th e y. D

D awsonvi esign ed for

lle-G ainesville a p roducti on

caHpi~tcrhi --

J. T. Knight & Son, I nc., ATLAN-
T A-steel scrap, $29,995 .

ty of 20-25 milli on seedlings a nnually.

th e nursery is alrea dy in pr od uction .

Eventually it is expec ted to rep lace th e

nursery a t Flowery Bran ch , whi ch will

be flood ed by th e Buford Dam p roj ect.

Product ion at oth er n ur series is also

being increased . Extensive germi nation

tests at th ese nurseries indica te th at

enough seed has bee n pla nt ed to gin '

a crop of 60 million seedlings for plan t-

ing next win ter. H owever, this crop is

ope n to ma ny of the unc ertainties af-

fecting a ny oth er crop, so th e Iigurcs

given represent a hop ed-for number.

T hese nurseri es provid ed more than

25 m illion seedlings to th e state d ur in g th e 195 1-52 pla nting season , Guy to~

DeL oach , Co mm ission D irect or. asserts .

Th e D avisboro nurser y sh ipped '11,16 1.-

350 seedlings, H ert y nursery a t Alba nv p rod uced 10,782,590, a n d F l ow e r~'

Bra nch sh ipped 3,980 ,490.

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Slash Pine acco un ted for mor e than 17 mi llion of th e seedlings shi ppe d . N,.." t w a x Lob lollv Pine with mor e th an seven million seed lings: Lon gleaf Pin e.
463,800 ; Sho rtleaf Pin e, 22 1,275 : Ar izona Cy pr ess, 166,200 ; R ed Ceda r. 73.735 ; White Pine, 67,750 ; Black L~c ust. 52,800 , and Yellow Popl a r, 36,960. T~ e past season saw enough seedlings ship ped to put 3,200 acres of Geor gia la nd back into forest prod uction .

W ith G eorgia ra nking h igh in all pha ses of for est indu stry . evcrv citizen
of the state has a persona l stak e in its for est rcs~urces . The current progr am s of .the va riou s forestry organization s a rc d Oll~g an o u~sta ndil~g job toward pr esen :lI1g an d mc rcas mg G eorgia's grea t ag ncuItura l cro p. U nde r th e ex~a n de d p rog ram s being put in to opera ~lOn by th ese same gro ups, Georgia ca n incr ease th e im po rta nce of th e forest
industri es in h er economy, and of th e
sta te to th ese industries.

Vol. 3, No. 21

.J ulv 1. 1952

Research Laboratories Charting

Loans Being Provided
To Small Industries

Georgia1s Economic Prosperity

One of th e most pressing p roblems of sma ll-business ('()J1("PI"ns in a ny m o bili zati on o r cm ci gcncv peri od i~ th a t



Ther e a re dvnarni c new for ces at

Almost every m ajor indu stry in of obtaining th e nec essar y financial as -

work in Ge o rgi ~ tod ay. N ew resources Geor gia tod ay is a lert to the oppo r tu - sista nc e for fu ll parti eip a tion in th e

a re bein g ta p ped , new ta lents d iscov- niti es for devel op in g new product s a nd def en se effor t.



ered, a nd new en te rp rises crea ted . I ndu strial research - conduct ed on a n

p ro cesses th rou gh industri al research . In th e pulp and pap er industr y, for

Sm all -business fil m s fro m all pa r ts of the co un try have com pla ine d to

eve r -wide ning sca le- is pa vin g th e way exa mple, a n um ber of labo ra tories a n: Congr ess th ey a re no t able to get de-

for unp reced ented ind ustr ia l growth in engaged in stud ies o f m anu fa cturing fcnse eon tra cts wi th ou t ad eq ua tc fi-

Georgia in th e yea rs immedi at ely ahead .

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Left : Stude n t doing textile research at G eor gia Institute of Technology. Ri gh t: An ex pe ri menta l distillation colum n at th e Ch emi-

cal En gin eer in g D epartment at Ge org ia T ech .

I ND U STRI AL NEWS LET TER

July 1, 1952

GEORGIII PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

The newest ind ust ry in A USTE L L. th e U niversa l Wind ~w Corpo ra tion; ch ose th is t0\\"11 for its excellen t location for di stribu tion of pro d uct s to lumber an d buildi ng su pply dealer s in Georgia , no rthern Ala bama and eas tern Ten nessee. The new com pa n y is an a ffiliat e of the U nive rsal Wi ndow Co rpo ra tion of C ha rlo tte, N . C .
It pr oduces suc h it em s as trim, screens, wi nd ows, doors, plywood, pan elling, steel casem ents, alu m inum windo w uni ts a nd the spec ia l U nive rsa l " \ Vca thc rsea l" pon d eros a pine woo d window un it. At p resen t, seven local m en a re workin g- on th e asscmblv, saw \\"011, sh ip ping La nd receiving (f~ paft m en ts, vvith th ree salesm en .
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CO L U M BUS is th e site of a gra nite qu a rry opene d in june, a t a cost of betwee n $400,000 and $500,000. C ove ring an a rea of 300 ac res, it p rodu ces 100 ton s per h our of crushe d granite, whi ch will be used as a n aggrega te for conc re te. At pr esent the gra nite wi ll be used in a nd ncar Co lumb us. T he plant facilities consist of an office bui ld ing , d ynami te magazin e, d et on ator-h ou se. four-acre la ke from wh ich water is pumped to was h th e gra nite, a nd several sma ll buildin gs.
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K raft Food s Co " an no unc ed completi on recently of its ma n ufac tur ing and d istr ibution plant in DE CATUR , th e la rgest of th e com pany's en terp rises in th e wh ole So utheast. T he new p lan t em ploys 2.5 0 em ployes, 85 more th a n in th e old plant . Providi ng " cen tra l manufacturin g" and wareh ou se fa cilities for th e com pa nv' s wid espread ac tivitics in th e d ivision ." th e dem a nd s for che ese a nd cheese p rodu cts, salad d ressings a nd m a rga rine m ak e Kra ft a large 20ns um er f~ r th e fa rm er's produce. Th e di st ributi on of th is plant covers 270,000 sq ua re m iles in an a rea conta ining 15.53 per cen t of th e na tion 's to ta l pop ulat ion .
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T he eigh th a nn ual T oma to F estival held at GLENNVI L LE a tt rac ted thousa nds for th e pa ra d e, out sta ndi ng spea kers, flower sho w, st reet dan ce a nd crown ing of th e q ueen. Pr esent for the festiviti es hon or ing one of T attnall Co un ty's chief so urce s of in com e an d speakers for th e occasion, wer e 'Sta te Commissione r of Ag ricult ur e Tom Lind er , M aj or General J oseph B. Fraser
of Hinesville, G len n ville M ayor .J. D.
Ki cklighter , Reid sville M ayor Wi lton

Hill, a nd T oombs Co unty Agent Euge ne Brogd on . O ne of the h ighli gh ts of th e festiv al was th e ded ica tion of a new $ 125,000 tom at o m a rket by Mr. Lind er , who spo ke of th e m agnificen t jo b Amer ica' s fann ers a re d oing toda y.
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Tire Retreading Shop Now Open in Vidalia
The Moses Broth er s Tire Co. , of Vi DA L IA recently open ed the first gia n t tire retread ing sho p in the sta te. T h e shop consists of the la test eq uip ment, mann ed by com pe te n t, experienc ed personnel, a nd is housed in a new bu ild ing pl anned for expa nsion . adjacrn t to th e retr ead ing eq uipm ent for sm a ller tires. H ere h uge tires from ea rt h-re moving m achinery, start ing with size 1,200x1 4 th ro ugh th e gia nt size 2, 100x 25 ca n be retrea de d .
Th e Moses Broth er s Tire Co . is a lso eq uippcd to do sectio n rep air job s on all ti res throu gh 2,400x29. Tires with la rge h oles on th e side a rc repa ired, pla ced into serv ice a nd con tin ue to give goo d serv ice, it is sai d. To expe dit e th e lav-off of m achinery an d as a n ad de d serv ice, th ey ar e eq uip ped to go out on th e job .
T he new sho p exp ects to serve contrac tors a nd munici paliti es th rou gh ou t th e So u th east.
(T h e abov e was sent in by th e Vidali a C ha mber of Co mm erce. )
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CA I RO is to be the site of three new -in d ust ries. Pillsbury, a la rge M idw estern mill ing co nce rn , recentl y awarded a con t rac t for a gra in elev ator to be com plete d a nd read y for operat ion s by Sep tem ber. O perated in con nec tion wi th Mixon M illin g Co . in Cairo. th e first un its will p rovid e a ca pa city of 60 ,000 bu sh els. T he increase in cou n tv co rn viclds-s-wh ich becam e a milli on 'd olb r cro p two years ago- bro ugh t abo ut thi s new facility. A clay-d rying pl ant is planned by a Texas conc ern , whi ch h as acq uire d a sit e for a lO-ca r rai l sid ing cast of Whigh am . Its p rod uct will be used m ai nly for oil-dri llin g mud . Ea st of C a iro, work h as started on a n office b uild ing and a 1O-ca r sid ing for Brownlee Lu mb er Man ufact uri ng Co. Pla ns ca ll for opera tio n of severa l port able sawm ills wi thin a 25-m ile ra d ius. Cai ro P roduction Co ., In c., has recen tly expanded its clay p rocessing fa cilities to increase prod uction.
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L ee Coun ty will h old its first an nual fat ca ttle and' hog show in L EESB UR G

G EORG I A D E PA RTM E NT OF CO M M E RC E

on Se p t. 2, sponsore d by th e Lee C ountv C ham be r of Comm erce . A sale will f~ llow th e show . Pr esid en t of th e C ha mber of Comm erce is A. A. "M ay, an d Secr etary-treasurer is T. Ravm ond Can no n . M ~m b e rs of the con{m ittee for th e show arc R. L . Hea th , Sr., Fred Knigh t, W . C . N esbit a nd G . :M . Ca llaw ay.
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Th e S TATES BO RO a nd Bulloch Coun ty C ham ber of Comme rce have ass um ~d the lead in an ambit io us an d forwa rd -lookin g plan to bring new b usiness to the a rea w ith th e esta blish me n t of th e Bulloch Coun ty Devel opment Co rp . U nd er th e new pl an th e amou n t pa id for a city bu sin ess licen se wi ll be doubled for Iou r veal'S a nd th e increased portion used to build up an indust rial development or ga n iza tion. T h e b usiness peopl e wh o p ay eity licen ses to ope ra te, "will receive at ,$ 10 p er share, stock in th e new d evelopm ent corpora tion in an am o un t eq ua l to h alf th e new licen se fee," beginning in 1953.
Research Laboratories
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p ro cesses, recovery o f che m ica ls, a nd th e con trol of m ill operatio ns . At Brunswick, th e Brunswi ck Pulp and P aper Co . m aintain s a large res earch uni t and , ncarb v, H er cul es Powder op er a tes a mo dern lab orator y to imp ro ve p rocesses for ma nu factu ring rosin, turpentine, pine oil, an d variou s chem ica ls.
Of cou rse, th e pioneering wor k of the H crtv 'Found a tion L abor a tor v in Savannah is wcll known throu gh ou t th e pul p a nn pa per industr y. Th e U nion Bag and Pa per Corp. a lso opera tes a large lab oratory in Sav an na h .
Georgia's growi ng d ay in du str y likewise is ex per ienc ing t he benefi ts of an expa nd ing re search program. Gcorgia K aolin Co ., Edg a r Brother s, and the
J. ~T . Huber Corp., m a int ain lab ora to-
ries nca r M a con , T hom pson, \Veinma n a nd Co. have a laborat orv a t Cartersvi lle. These g rou ps arc consta n tly ex ploring new ind us t ria l uses for Geo rg ia minerals.
A varied p rogr am of research cond ucted bv numerou s firm s is con tribu ting to th~~ ad va nc ement of textiles a nd related indust ri es in Georg ia . T h e Ca llaway In sti tute is ac tive in L aG ra nge. ' Both th e Ge nera l Ti re & Rubber Co ., of Ba rn esville, an d th c U. S.
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INDU STRIAL NEWS LETTER

July 1, 1952

Cordele, Great Watermelon Center

Typifies South Georgia Progress

T he co m ing of watermelon time h as a dou b le m eaning in prog ressive Cordel e, situa te d in C risp Co un t y in sou th ce n t ra ! G co rg ia . Asid e fr om t he p leas u re s asso cia ted wi th t he melon , it h as m ad c C ordel e a g rea t wa tc rrn clon ce n ter in th e Sout h . 'c:om p lcte wi th mon thlo ng fest ival , a q uecn and a ga la ba ll. D uring cer ta in da ys of t he fes tiva l, whi ch star ted June 16 this yea r, cro wds of fin : to six t ho usa n d peop le gat he r in town . This successfu l e ve n t enlists th e coo pera tio n of m an y loca l orga niza tion s, a ll \\'(lrking ha rd togethe r .
C r isp Co un ty is n o ted for t his co o pera tive a ttit ude , L ea de rs in th e cit y a nd county work closel y togethe r a nd h an' been th e me ans of promoti ng m uch of th c p ro sp cri ty wh ich is cvid ent whcrr -vr-r vo u loo k in th e a rea . The hyd ro -elec t ri c pow er pl ant sit ua ted o n L ak e Hla ck sh ea r is the fir st cou n ty-owned a nd o pe ra ted hyd ro -elect ri c po we r pl ant in thi s co un try a nd p robab ly in th e wo rl d . This p lant m ak es C risp C ou n ty one of th e o u tsta nd ing co un ties in th e nation in regard to p er ce n tage of fa r m electrifica tion .
Other join t effo r ts h ave resulted in a new qua rt er of a m illion doll a r co u r tLo use which h as a tt rac ted a tten tion fro m m an y qu arters . The mod e rn d esign a nd n ewe -st fa cilities for heating - a hea t pump syste m- ha n : m ade it a m od el for m anv simila r struc t ures . A Fed era l hou sin g ' project of 225 un it s is go ing- up . C onst r uc tio n is beginning on a new $800,000 ho spita l of 58 bed s, to be bu ilt jointly by th e Ci ty a n d Co u n tv.
L o(;\t ed in the heart of on e of th e rirlu -sr ag riellltl'ra l srr tion s of the sta te. Co rd ele has a thri\'in g Sta tc F al'l n er~ M arkr-t. The volume of sa les a t thi s m ar ke t. which op ened a bo u t fou r yea rs ago, is close to tw o milli o n dollars a n n ua lly. A new $ 100, 000 g ra d ing bu ilding ha s j ust been co m p le te d a nd load ing areas p av ed . M o r th an 1,700 ca rs of wat e rm elo ns a rc sh ip pe d d uring t he season from th e m arket.
L o r-a ted nine mi les fro m Cord ele is t he G eorgia V e te ra ns M em ori al St ate Pa r k, t h e fir st sta te's living m em oria l to vrt rrnns. Sit u a te d on L a ke Bla c kshea r. it offers swim mi ng, boat ing, fishing, horse raci ng. auto racing, pl a yg ro u nd a nd p icnic faciliti es, with in dividua l cab in s a va ila b le a nd a qu arter-mi llion d ol I a r Adm ini stra tion Bui lding, su ita ble for nu-etings and co n ve n tio ns , Wi nt er quarter s a rc also

p rov ided for ra ce h o rses. R epresentative Palme r G reen e of C risp C ounty, spo nsored the 2,000-a cre par k th ro ug h th e L egisla t ure.
Anoth er " firs t" loca ted on L a ke Blacksh ea r is th e chool Bo v Pa trol Safety School, to be dcd ica ted ' on J ul y 7, th e first in th e cou n try. Ope rated by th e G eorgia S ta te Pa tro l, school boy p atrol s of th e sta te a rc tr eated to a w eek of fun a nd lesson s in sa fc tv. Acco m mo da tions a rc c xr c llcn t, i;1cludin g a co m p lete ly mod ern kitc he n, welleq u ip pe d clinic, bra nd -n ew swim m ing pool, op en rec rea tio n ha ll a nd com forta ble ba rrack s-t yp e bui ld ings.
A ll thcs e ach 'a n tages co u ld co m e on lv to a r ountv whi ch ha s la id a solid g round wo rk i l~ d iversif ied indust ry a nd ag ricu lt u re . I nd ust ry- wise, Co rdel e is ex pa nd ing. Two of th e new est indust ri es a rc th e Duncan H osicrv Mills. In c., whi ch will soo n em p loy fro m 75 to 100 pe rson s, a nd t he locall y-owned Knit -Ri te H osiery Mills. Amon g the la rgest industries a re H a rris Found ry a nd M achine Co., em ploy ing 550 p ersons m aking presses, so il pipe a nd fa rm rn ach incrv a nd cu rrc n tlv ma n ufa ct u r i ng shells 'for th e G over n me n t, a nd th e Cordel e C asu a lw car Corp., which is under going its third expans ion a nd will soo n em p loy more th an 500 peopl e.
Thriving Industries
Other thriving industries in clude D eL aine, I nc., make rs of juven ile a p p arel ; Cotton Prod ucer s Ass'n., m anu fa ct uring fert ilizer ; Southeastern L iq uid Ferti lizer Co ., So u the rn C ott on Oi l, N o. 1, p ro d ucing ferti lizer a nd pean u t oil : C risp Co u n ty C a bine t Co ., G love r M arh irv- \Vnr K' , G atewa y P!'!!1ti!1g Co ., I-Ial\1 Printing Co ., a nd Mu rra v Pr inting C o.
Indust ri es d ea ling in food s incl ud e Cordele Coca -C ola Bo ttling Co., N ehi Bev erage Co. , Ora nge C rush Bo ttlin g Co.. Pep si- C ola Bo ttl ing C o ., C ook s M ills, co rn m ea l : Cordel e M ill & El cvator Co.. d ai rv feed s : A tla n tic Co .. icc a n d me a t eu'r ing : F ood Ba n k, food sto rage: H a rris Pecan Co ., pecan she llers: Sou thern \Vine Co.. \Vh olsum I cc Crea m C o.. C ordele 'Provision C o .. po rk sa usage, a nd H arva rd Sa usage Co:
Also ad ding to t he prosp erit y of Cordele a re M aclin Brother s Co ., p eanut p ro cessor s: No ble & C ha nd ler, pea nut shellers : R ed Di amond Mi lls, Inc., cle aning a nd shelling pean uts; Southern C otton O il No . I I. cot ton seed a n d soy bean c rush ing : C . C. C h a p p ell,

Loans Being Provided
(C o n tinu ed fr om Page 1) n an cia I backing, a n d on the othe r hand , a rc no t a ble to ge t fin an cial backing withou t d efen se co n tracts. This sets u p a " vicious ci rcle," a nd to meet t h is th e Fed eral G overnment has cr eated th e Sm all D efen se Pla n ts Admi nistra tion .
S PDA docs no t m a ke loans, bu t is a u t ho rized to reco m m end to t he Reco nst ruc tio n F i n a n e e Corpo ratio n sma ll-business loans for d efe nse a ne! esse n tia l riv ili a n p rodu cti on . Suc h loan s ma y not be gra n te d if private fin an cin g is a va ila b le, or if loa ns can be gra n ted by th c Govern me n t u nd e r p ro-
+ visio ns o the r than Se c tion 71 of the
D efen se Producti on Act. Southeastern Iirrns intcn-strd in ap-
p lYing 1'01' such loa n s sho u ld r on ra c t Hugh M it ch ell, A cting R egion al Di rec to r, Sm all D ef en se P lants Admi nistr ation . I 'P Hunter Street. Kline Buildil~g, 7th F loor , Atlanta, 'G a .

a nd W a lton N a va l St or es. both dea l-

ing in tu rp entine a nd rosi n : \Vood 's

T rac to r & Implem ent Co., tr uc k

bodies : C or dele Sa sh D oor & Lu mb e r
C o., w. .J. l'vl cG arr C o., bungs a nd

ta n ks : G riffin Lu mb er Co ., Cordele H a rd ~\'ood Mill, lumbe r ; C risp Coun -

ty Lumber & Supply, a n d H olt-T ol-

bert Lumber Co.

Agriculture in thi s sec tion is as di-

vers ified as industry. with some of the

chief cro ps bein g ' p eanuts, co t to n,

wa tcrmclon s, swee t pot atoes, peca ns,

a nd pea ch es. Li vest ock is becoming

1\10r c important in th e eco no m y of th e

co un ty, with ca t tle com ing to th e for e.

Two new spape rs- the d ai ly Co rdele

Di sp a tch, a nd t he weekly Crisp Co u n -

ty N ews- a nd R ad io St ation WM.JM

keep the pub lic inf ormed .

I n o rde r to con tin ue t he p ro gress

a ln -ad y made, a new orga n iza tion has

just been set up, the Agricultu ral a nd

I ndust ria l D ev elopment Board of Cor-

dele a nd C ri sp Cou n ty . Obj ectives of

t his g ro u p a re industrial de\Tlop m c l~t

using local agricu lt u ra l prod uce, agn-

cu lt u ra l d evelopmen t, a nd u tili til's de-

vclopm cnt-c-inclu d ing elect ric po we r.

n a tu ral eras a nd o t he r utili tics. an d a

sewage d isposa l syste m .

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Co rdele a nd Crisp C o unty a rc work-

in,c., to m a inta in a ba lan ced farm a n d

ind ustry p ro g ra m, th e basis for lon g-

lastin g p ro sp e rit y. While this b al ance

is a lread v in evid en ce, th er e is a lways

roo m for' im p rov em ent a nd expa nsion

a nd thi s is th e goa l tow a rd which th e

citizcn s a rc m oving. .Just one look a t

t he bu st lin g city a n d p rosp e rou s co ~m

tv a nd vou sec that thcv a rc m eeting

\;'ith g re a t su cc ess.

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

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American Woolen Company Locates

Twenty-Fifth Plant at Tifton, Georg ia

F r an cis W . White, presid ent of Am erica n W oolen Co mpany of N ew York, an no u nced on June 19 th at hi s com pany would establish a woolen p lan t in T ift on , wh ich wi ll emp loy seve ra l hu ndred p er son s.
M r. Whit e m ade the a nno u nceme n t a t a luneh eon given in hi s h on or by th e T ift Co u n ty C h amber of Com m er ce, asser ting that Tifton was chosen becau se of " d esira ble eng inee ring fa cto rs a nd th e sp lend id co-opera tion of th e local peop le." H e ad de d tha t he wa s ve ry p lea sed with the reception th e Sou th had give n him and tha t his com pany would be establishe d in T if to n as fri ends and neighbors to the com -

munity.
A building has been purch ased ad ja cen t to th e Atl antic Coa st Li ne R ailro ad. L ocat ed within the city limi ts on eigh t and one -third acres, the st ruc ture con ta ins 63,000 sq uare fee t. Ab out six mon th s will be req u ired to alt er the bu ild ing and in st all m a chiner y. T ra inin g of work ers will then begin .
Am er ican W oolen Company, with headq uar ter s in N ew Yor k, h as 24 m a nuf a cturing p lants-2 2 in Ne w En g land, one in L ou isville, Ky., and one in R al eigh, N . C . T he 65 -year-old firm em ploys abou t 20,000 per son s, and h as 20.000 stoc kholde rs.

Research Laboratories
(Con tin ued fromPa ge 2 ) Rubber Co., a t H oga nsville, a rc en gage d in in vestiga tion s of tex tile ap plica tions in ti res and othe r p roduct s. T he Tubize R ayon Co rp ., of R om e, opera tes a lab orator y for th e study of improved rayon yarns . Seyde ll-W ooley & Co., of Atlanta, h as recently ex p anded it s la bora tory for t he develop m ent of dyestuffs and che m ica ls u sed in textile finishing. An other fir m en ga ged in this typ e work is the Au gu sta Chemi cal Co., of Au gu st a .
A number of G eorgi a lab oratori es are a ctive in wid ening th e horizons for the ferti lizer industry. Both th e T ennessee Corp., a nd Internation al Minera ls a nd C hem ical Co rp . main tai n la rge laborat ories sou th of Atlanta . R oyster Guano Co. m aintains a u nit in Atlanta. The m ain lab oratories of Law and Co. , in Atlanta, are engage d in test in g of fer tilizers and n umerou s

othe r materi al s.
Other industri al resea rch ac tiv ities in Georgia em bra ce a va rie ty of op era tions. L ockh eed Aircraft is b uild ing 'a new elec tron ics research cen te r a t M a riet t a. In Atla n ta , Sw ift and Co. cond uc ts research on th e processin g of fats, oils, and sho r ten ing . Sou th ern W ood Preser vin g Co., a t E ast Point, ha s a labora tory eng aged in wood con ditioning a nd preser va tion . M et asap Chem ical Co., C ed art ow n, cond uc ts resea rch on soaps; pain ts, a nd oth er materi als.
The la rgest research opera tion in th e state, and on e of the la rgest in th e South, is the Georgia T ech R esearch Institute. in At lanta. L aunch ed less than ten ye ars ago , thi s in stitute now cond uc ts research amo u nting to more th an one million dolI a rs per vea l' for the F ed eral Government, for l~cal ag encies, and for private firm s. G eorgia T ech has mad e availa ble the serv-

ices a nd facilities of this unit to adv ise a nd assist a ll Georgia industri es on their tech nica l p roblem s,
Atl a n ta, of co u rse, is th e scien tific hub of the Sta te a nd, in fact, is fast becoming one of th e n ation 's mor e im portant tech nolog ica l cen te rs. M ore th an 20 scien tific a nd prof ession a l societies h av e units in At lanta . Several hu ndred chem ists, physicists, eng ine ers , and othe r hi ghl y-t rained spec ia lists are em ploye d in th e Atla nt a a rea.
Becau se of th e ra pid expans ion of research ac tivities in Georgia and su r rou nd ing sta tes a number of scien tific ap pa ra tu s su p ply firms ha ve loca ted in Atlan ta in r ecen t ye a rs. T he Sou thern Scien tific Co. h as re cen tly moved into a large new office -wa reho use fa cility. Anot h er nat ional firm , th e A. S. Aloe Co., esta blishe d a di st r ibution poin t in Atlanta during th e past ye a r. N u m ero us other firms now have sa les off ices or representatives in th e a rea .
Perh aps it is a lso sign ifica n t th a t A tlau t a is th e h ead qu arters [ U i ' i ~ lC; Sv uth em Associa tion of Scien ce a nd Industry, a non-p ro fit , non-political or ga n iza tion engaged in th e prom otion of scientific a nd industrial p rog ress in the 14 South ern sta tes. SASI's off icia l publicati on , The Journ al of Southern R esea rch, a forem ost scien tific publication is published fro m At lanta .
While it m av be difficult to assess th e im mediate ' doll ar value of a lI of th e scien tific activities now bein g conduct ed in G eo rg ia , th er e is no doubt that th ese d evel opments wi II have a profound eff ect on the industrial fu ture of the St at e. Because of cu rrent resea r ch , Georgia can look for wa rd to r apid p rogress in th e conse rvation of natu r al resources, th e dev elopment of new product s and processes, th e reducing of m an ufacturing costs, and th e ex pansion of marketing oppor tu niti es.

Vol. 3, No . 22

.Jul y 15. 1952

Georgia Textile Industry Now

Operations Are Begun At Locally Organized

Faces Future In High Spirits

From a world-wide d epression which di srupted norma l marketing procedures, saw produ ction drop, em ploymen t temporarily sh rin k a nd prices ebb , th e co tto n textile ind ustry in G eo rgia tod a y is eme rging with g rea te r co n fide nce th an ever.
That con fide n ce ste ms fr om th e fact th at it weather ed an ec onom ic sto rm whi ch mi ght have ov erwhelm ed othe r industries not so firm lv im bedded in th e nation's cco nom v, 'An d that ve rv d epression it self provided a m easuring. rod to d e te rmi n e just how im po rta n tly thi s hu ge industry contribut es to th e eco nomic well-bein g of scores of other b usin esses and in d ustries all O\"Cr the

co un t ry, but especia lly in G eor gia . In thi s state, as in th e othe r texti le-
p roducing sta tes of Dixie, th e interre la tionsh ip between textiles and other industries is so signi fica n t th at th e slum p in th e fo rm er inevita bly result ed in a d ecline in m an v othe r b usinesses. And now that t extil~s a rc pulling ali t of th eir re cession. sales in m anv other lin es a rc , edging upward aga in.'
I n th e fir st place, more th an 110,000 persons, on a n a\"Crage a n n ua l bas is, a re dependent upon cotton textiles for their livelihood in G eorgia . I t is th e pay in the en ve lopes of th ese men a n d women wh ich ca uses th e ca sh register s
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Rubber Plant at Jasper
A n ew rubber p lant has begun opera tions a t JASPER , loca ted in th e N orth G eor gi a foothills, The plant, costing $300,000 w ill produce a variet y of rubber go ods , incl ud ing shower nozzles a nd baseb alls .
Ope rating w ith six em ployees a t present, pl an s ca ll fo r g re a t expansion within th e next few yea rs, to a building of five times th e present size a nd a n output of over $500,000 worth of goods a n n ua lly. O rganized by 20 loca l busin essm en a nd h eaded by S. C. Gartrell , th e firm will usc local labor.
S up ervisor y for ces from rubber plants in Akron , Oh io, arc b eing brought in to assist in th e training of workers , a n d th e be ginning of op erations. When th e pl a n t goe s in to f ull prod uction , em ploym ent is expec te d to rea ch m o re tha n 100.

GENERAL UBRA Y

Waycross W iii Be Host To Swamp Movie Premiere

Waycross wi ll he ho st on July 17 to

JUL 24 1952

th e world premi ere of " L u re of th e Wi ld ern ess," a m ov ie film ed in th e

Okefenokee Sw amp a n d based o n V e-

reen Bell 's novel "Swamp \Va te r."

Stars of the movie wh o a rc expected

to be in a tt en da nce includ e J ean Pet ers,

J eff rey H un ter , W alter Brenn an a nd

Consta nc e Smi th. Plans ca ll for a la rge

parade, a Sw am p Dinner fea turing

O kefen ok ee food. a nd a st ree t d ance



with mu sic by Sho rt y Dell a nd Okefenokee Swa m pel's. Th e town will be

ga ily deco rat ed , with a p rize go ing to

th e m er chant with th e best di splay in



th e swa m p motif. At on e minute after midnight in Waycross on July 17, th e

movi e will be shown , and it w ill be

T hc Elm C ity Pla nt of C allaway M ills in L aGrange is an exam ple of a mod ern m ill helpi ng to boost the futur e of tex tiles in the sta tc and nation .

shown in A tlanta at 8 p. m . th e same day.

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

July 15, 1952

GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

The 13th annual Coos a V alley ram a nd lamb show was held recently with about 400 sheep entered . Tom Linder, Gcorgia Commissioner of Agriculture, spoke to the assemb led crowd, and im m edi at ely followin g th e sho w a lamb judgin g a nd grading contes t was h eld . Persons from 12 counties entered ani m als in th e sho w, th e counties rep resented being Ba rt ow, Chattooga, Cobb, Fl oyd, Gordon , H a ralson, Murray, Polk, Whitfield , Walk er, C herokee Coun ty, Ala., and H ami lton Co un ty, Tenn.
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A wid espr ead coope ra tive test of surgical tape is being mad e by Filter ed R osin Products, In c., of BAXLEY, togethe r with a major m anu fact urer of adhesive tap e, Ap plin g Genera l Hosp ital a nd other hospitals in a n effort to determine skin reaction to th e new tap e. A spec ial mo di fica tion of rosin has been developed, having the correct texture a nd qu ality when compo unde d with rubber. The fina l test to determ ine th e comme rcial possibilities of th e n ew tape lies in the skin reaction demon strated by its usc. The rosin com pany h as also been active in oth er projects including che wing-gum bases, a nd special resins for grease a nd alkalipr oof floor tile.
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M a ny offic ials a nd executi ves were on h and wh en th e lar ge Ford Pa rt s Dep ot was dedicat ed recen tly a t EAST POINT. Locat ed on a seven a nd oneh alf ac re t ract, it con ta ins a p pro ximately 150,000 square feet of floor spa ce, including two acres of war eh ouse space a nd th e At lanta Ford Di stri ct Sa les offices. Serv ing six states, the depo t em ploys 152 persons a nd ships a pproxim at ely 20 tons of material a day to d ealers in Geor gia , Florid a, the Carolinas, Alabama and T en nessee.
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A new g rain elevator is being CO III pleted at V AL DOST A by th e Cotton P rodu cer s Associa tion, a four-state fat'n1 coopera tive. Wi th a ca pacity of 42,000 b ushels, th e plant h as alrea dy handled some gra ins an d expec ts to begin la rge volum e storage ve ry w on . T he pla nt will be completely eq uippe d with a h am mermill and sack ing eq uip m ent.
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The So uthe rn Bell T eleph one Com pany is const ruc ting a modern bui lding in V IDA LIA as part of a $225,000 expansion program. Grading an d im -

provem ent on th e lot has begun. The bui lding will h ouse new telephone equipme nt and business offices. T h e nu mber of telephones in Vi dalia h as dou bled in th e last five an d on e-half years , and exp ansion is nec essary to keep up with th e need , a good indication of Vidalia's rapid growth .
Repair Contractors Sought By 832d Air Force Depot
The 832d Spec ialized Air F orce D epot at T op eka, K an sas, anticipa tes extensive negoti ati on of rep ai r cont rac ts h av ing to do with rep air of aerona utical equipme nt, in th e near future. A 114-page loose-leaf listin g th at it em izes typ es of equipme nt th e dep ot will handle for servicing , recondition ing, rep airing and testing will be sen t any firm int erested in th is type of work up on requ est to th e 832d AF Spec ialized D epot. The listin g will be accompanied by a lett er exp laining p rocedures to follow to properly register firm' s nam e on th e depot's sou rce list.
Many Government Contracts Awarded Georgia Firms
M an y Government con tracts wer e a wa rded to Geor gia firms duri ng recen t weeks. Some of th e contrac ts incl ud e th e following :
Georgia So ut he rn C onstruction Co ., iVfACON- construction of four storag e sheds for inflamm ab le com presse d gases, $40,122 .
The Auto Soler Co., ATLANTA sigh ting system, 125, $8 1,500.
R ichl and Box Co.. RICH LAND- . p rop ellan t gra in con t~ in ers.
D ixie Pain t & Varnish Co ., In c., BR UNSWI CK -24,000 ga l. pai nt, $ 2 7, 00 0 .
Sou th ern L umb er & l\H g. Co .. E L L I .lA Y- 1,000 h a rdw ood pallets assentbled, $27,500 ; 11 ,000 assembled pa llets, $30,250.
Walker Elect rical Co ., In c.. A T LA NTA-power distribution panels in sheet steel cabinet, 255, .$34,758.
Willi am Armstr ong Sm ith Co ., EAST POINT-62,435 gal. paint, $ 138,684 : 93,482 gal. int erior white, $ 125,770; 23,000 ea. pain t, $64, 147 ; 150,425 gal. ena m el, $ 189, 155.
Savannah M ach ine & Foundry Co ., S A V ANNAH- voyage repai rs Steam sh ip R obert Fulton, $3 2,102.
O . M . R eid Co., MACON- stru ctu -

ral and exterior rehabilitati on of 14 p ermanent typ e bui ldin gs, $25,740.
Claussen-Lawren ce Construction Co ., AUGUSTA-resurfacing parking lots an d driveways Camp Go rdon, $63,417.
Callaway Mi lls Co ., LaGRANGE155,400 I. y. cloth, du ck, co tton and nylon, $190,337; 8 1,040 l.y, cotton du ck, $ 141,820.
Peerless Woolen Mill s, R OSSVILLE - 127,000 wool bla nkets, $250,000 .
Savannah Sugar Refinin g Co rp., SA V AN NAH- 560 lb. gra nulated suga r, $49, 0 16.
Simmo ns Plating Works, ATLANTA - ch rom e plating of gun tub es, exceeds $250,000; fac ilities for ch rome pl ating gun tub es, $43,262.
N ehi Co rpo ra tion, COLUM BUS29,236 ga l. ja rs, $44, 146.
Sou the rn Construction Co ., A UGUST A-for construct ion of dorm ito-
ries, $ 1,299,49 7. Southe rn Sta tes Iron R oofing Co.,
SA V A N N AH- for prefabricat ed build-
ings, $8,275,480. Lowell Bleach ery, GR IFF IN-cot-
ton du ck, $55 ,000 . Carith ers - W allace - Courtenay, AT-
LANTA-Office furniture, $22,119. Am eric an Brid ge Di v., U . S. St eel
Co ., ATLANTA-Fabricating steel for
han ga rs Pin ecastle AFB , $1,216,600. Sa m Finley, Inc., ATLANTA-pav-
ing, $670,500. The Munford Co ., ATLANTA- -
Floorin g in barracks, $45,442. C inde rella Foods, DAWSON-Pea-
nut butter, $33 ,43 1, Zac Lac Paint & Lacquer Corp., AT-
LANTA- Cop e, cellulose nitrate, $304 .0 10.
Dixie Pain t & V arnish C o., I nc., BR UN SWI CK-paint , $362,870.
Nunna lly & M cCrea Co. , ATLANTA - Pajam a coats, $39,186.
Peerless Woolen Mill s, ROSS VILLE - Wool cloth , $ 1,720,000 .
Foremost D airies, Inc., SA V A N NA N and / or J acksonville, F la.-Milk an d milk produ cts, $62,667.00.
Sh after Construct ion C o m p an y. HIN ESVIL L E- R e P I a c i n g map le flooring in Sp orts Ar ena, $28,506.00.
Savanna h M achine & Foundry Com pan y, SA V A N N AH-Reacti vati on repairs on stea mship, $138,850 .00.
Lyons T extil e Mills , In c., GR EEN SBORO-75,000 cott on util ity jackets. $44 ,250 .00.
Fulton Trouser Co., Inc., ATLANT A-95,720 pairs field tr ousers, $209,626.00 .

GEORG IA DEPAR T M ENT OF COMMER CE

INDUSTRIAL NEWS LETTER

July 15, 1952

Monroe Pays Homage to Staple Crop

cial count with 682 m emb ers, is very ac tive in th e comm unity. One of th eir outstanding proj ect s is sponsoring th e

With Third Annual Cotton Festival

Monroe Girls Drum and Bug le Corps. This group has giv en fine performances

Monroe and W alton County h ave won fame through out th e South with th eir cotton product ion , h aving pla ced fir st, second or third in production of cotton in G eor gia for m an y yea rs. This fact has been recogniz ed by th e N ational Co tton Co unc il whi ch recently chose Walton County to pion eer th e Co tt on Festiv al, being held for th e third tim e thi s year. Spe cia l att rac tions of th e Festival, sche d uled for Au gu st 1, will be a la rge parad e with flo at s en tered by loca l orga nizations, th e choos ing cf a M aid of Co tton to represent th e county in sta te com pe tition , a nd a Junior Maid of Co tto n to reign in th e coun ty. A style sh ow will be held on the Cou rtho use lawn, followed by a barbecue an d dan ce. L ast year crowds of severa l thousand wer e on h and for th e festivities.
While Monroe is situ at ed in a county whi ch .is p rimarily agr icultural, the city itself, with a populati on of 4,560 ,

crops and pastures, soil erosion control, diversif ied farming-including poultry, beef ca ttl e, hogs, sweet potatoes, pimi ento pepper, truck farming and seed -the home and h ealth, and recr eation.
C otton is still th e m ain crop produ ced in th e coun ty, with 20,500 ba les being raised in 1951, bringing in $4.5 million . Turkey growing is ga ining in importan ce, as shown by th e fa ct that in 1945 6,000 birds wer e g rown out at a valu e of $36,000 , a nd in 1951 35,000 bird s brought in $ 150,000.
Industry is flourishin g in M onroe. Among th e la rgest ente rp rises a re th e W alt on Co tto n Mill, em ploying abo ut 600 peopl e, an d th e Monroe Co tton Mi lls, with app roxima tely 400 peopl e. Two garme nt manufactu rers, Carwood M anufacturing Co ., p roducin g coa ts, and Southeaste rn Gannent Co ., spo rtswear, account for approxim ately 200 e m p loye es.
Other industries in Monroe includ e

in parad es in all sections of th e country, including N ew York , Chica go and M iami. The VFW maintain s a full-time director for th e group, com posed of about 40 hi gh -school girls.
I n spite of th e many prosperous in du stri es in Monroe, th e city is activ ely seeking to furth er div ersify its economy through n ew industri es. The Chamber of Comme rce is circ ula ting an a tt rac tive bro chure outlining th e main advan tages of M onroe a nd Walton County. Lo cal organizations a re also participa ting, with th e Lions C lub spo nsoring one of th e mo st interestin g p rojects. N ewcom er famili es to M onroe a re given a " We lcome to Monroe" booklet conta ining coupons for fr ee mer ch andise a nd goods a t substa ntial discounts fr om local merch ants, amounting to m ore th an $300.
All of thi s shows tha t M onroe' s welcome is sincere and forecasts a stea dily g rowing city and county.

offers mo st of th e advantages found th e H . M . Arnold Fertilizer Co ., Inc.,
on ly in cities of grea ter size. Ground .J. T. Briscoe & Bros., cotton ginning; Textile Industry

was broken abo ut two weeks ago for R alph B. Briscoe, ginning a nd sawm ill-

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th e new H ealth Cente r, whi ch will cost ing ; C . W . But ler, door fr am es, tru ck to jingle in do zens of G eor gia CIties,

nearly $80,000 . The city op er at es a bodi es and cabine ts; Alver P. F am- towns and villages. The text ile pay-

com p rehe nsive recreational progr am , brough , flour ; Monroe Co ca-C ola Bot- rolls support hundred s of gr ocery

em ploying a fu ll-time director and as- tling Co., Monroe Oi l & Ferti lizer Co ., stores, fillin g sta tions, beauty shops,

sista nt, fina nc ing th e progr am , in ci- Inc., cott onseed pr odu cts ; Thom as W . picture sho ws, dep artment stores, and

dentally, from th e receipts of parking Sorre lls, grist m ill ; Towler Gin Co ., scor es of sim ila r esta blishme nts.

met ers. A municip ally-own ed natural cotton gin a nd sawmill; Walton Lum-

And th ese pa yrolls, plus th e ta xes

gas system costing $300,000 has ju st ber Co ., yellow pin e fr aming and paid by th e work ers a nd th e mi lls th em -

been com p leted .

boards ; Wri ght Gin & T rading Co ., selves, help grea tly to suppo rt educa-

Co nstruc tion is going on all over town . The C ity H all is bein g enlarged

In c., cotton gin ; Mulkey Lumber C o., lumbering a nd planing m ill ; Califor-

tion a nd govern me n ta l services in all th eir ph ases throu ghout th e sta te.

at a cost of approximately $25,000. n.i a Chem ica l Co. , ag ricultu ra l insecti -

Georgia' s texti le mi lls tod ay are in a

Two F ed er al H ou sing Projects costing cides: Nunnally Lumber Co ., bui ld ing position to m eet wh at ever dem ands are

$700,000 ha ve been erected, and all supplies ; M onroe I ce Co ., Doster Lum- thrust up on th em , either as a result of

th e streets of th e town will be resur - ber Co., and K elly Building Supply civilian requirem ents or milit a ry need s

faced , with wo rk beginning imme dia te- Co ., both buildin g sup plies a nd con- in connec tio n with th e nati on' s pre-

ly. An other large wa ter sto rage tank tracting ; and C . E. Parker , cotto n gin . pa redn ess p rogram . They demon strat-

will be installed soon by th e city, hold -

C itizens of th e county a re kept ed th at a bility, in fac t, to such an ex-

ing 250,000 ga llon s a nd costing abo ut abr east of th e news bv th e W alton Tri- tent sh ortly aft er th e outbr ea k of th e

$60,000. An electric coope ra tive, th e Walton El ect ric M emb ership Co rporation, whi ch celebra ted its 15th birth-

bune, a n ou tsta n ding" Geo rg ia newspaper, ranking in th e top six of all Geo rgia weeklies in circula tio n .

K orean hostilities th at th e p ipelin es of supply wer e soon filled . V irtu all y ove rnight th ese m ills evide nce d a conve r-

day thi s spring, serves ten co unties and

Several orga niza tions in M on roe sion to full -scal e p rodu cti on th at ma ny

approx ima tely 7,000 custome rs, with have ea rn ed mu ch civic pri de. Th ese had not th ou ght possible.

3,000 mil es of wire.

include th e Nat ion a l G ua rd Un it. of-

The rea son th ey were able to con-

Mu ch of th e p rosperity of th e a rea ficia lly kno wn as Bat ter y B, 950t h "Au- ver t so rapidly and to pr oduce so swift-

is di rect ly du e to th e outsta nding coun- tom at ic VVca nons Battalion , and locall y ly and in suc h qu antiti es is th at th ese

ty ag ricultu ra l p rogr am . E ach yea r a called th e Walton G uard. This unit sa me mill s h ad plowed back la rge p or-

fan~1 progr am mapped out by farmers, was formed in 1898, h as serve d in all tion s of th e moni es th ey ea rne d duri ng

bu sin essmen and technical experts, is wa rs since th en , and h as on e of th e th e h igh- speed opera tions of World

spo nso red by th e W alt on Co unty Farm la rgest enrollme n ts of a ny unit in th e W ar II into plant improvem ent, re-



Bureau and th e W alt on Co un ty Azri- sta te .

cultural Co unc il. For 1952, th e Pt'o-

The Vet erans of Foreign W a rs, th e

habilitati on a nd expansion a nd th e in stalla tion of th e n ewest and m ost effi-

gram cove red cotton, dairy ca ttle, feed la rgest post in Georgia a t th e last offi -

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is on e of the reasons that m ills in the

So uth h old a co m pe ti tive edge over

those in some o the r a reas of th e coun-

try.

The total number of textile m ills in Georgia n ow is edgi ng up ward tow ard the 200 m a rk. These includ e co tto n spinn ing a n d weavi ng mi~ls, which comprise by far th e la rgest smgle .categ~ry, d yeing, fin ish ing a n d bl ea ~hl~ g mills, braiding m ills, woolen spmnmg ~n d we av ing mi lls, rayon a n d nylon tWIStin u a n d we avi ng m ills, asbestos and pl astic yarn mi lls a n d mi lls which n ow a rc wo rk ing on some of t h e n ew syn th eti c fibers.
It a p pears hi ghly lik ely a t this time th at th e woolen a n d syn thetic indust ries will follow the exam p le of cotton text iles a n d co ncen tra te th eir ope rati on s in creasin gly in Dixie. So, th ou gh th e co tto n textile in d ustry may h ave ju st abo ut reach ed its maxim um 'size in 'Georgia, th e over-a ll tex tile expansion h as .b y n o m eans reached, or even a p proache d, its limits.

T his expansion will p ro ve a boon in provid ing jobs to a bsorb surplus fa rm la bor as agricu lt ure becomes m or e a n d m or e m ech anized a n d th e tr end towa rd larger fa rm s wi th fewer farm h ands co n tin ues . It wi ll mean th a t many p er son s w ho othe rwise mi ght lea ve the bounda ries of G eor gia to seek wo rk elsew he re will rem ain h er e instead .
As a matter of fact , a t this time th er e

are m an\,' hu nd red s of texti'1c work.ers in various ru ral sec tions 0 f' th e sta te
who live on small farms. Th ey t ra vel

IJrogress of th e n ~ti on as a who le. Buht
th ey a dd th at one 'reason whyd so. m uthc.
textile progress h as b een m a e in IS

back a n d forth d ail y to their f ull-time

d'

ttl

jobs in textile pl ants a n raise ca e,

Pou lt ry or g row cro ps to their industrial in comes.

sup plemen t PartICUIa rI),

h as p art-tim e bro iler gro wi.ng been en -

gpaec~rieadll yin

to in

supp lemen the North

t

m comes, Georgia a

esr.ea

state a nd so little in some Northern sta tes is th at Georgia , kn owing th e signifi cance of the text ile in d us try in th e
d over-a ll economv, .. h as n ot c. rea te,restrictive or .op pressive legislation or ihmpose d confiscato ry taxes a s some ot er
sta tes h ave don e.

whe re broil er gro wi ng on a comme rc ia l

M or eover , the re ex ists in Georgia

sca le is re p lacing m a n y ro w crops on
fa rm s. New England prot estation s to th e

excelle n t relation s between em ploye rs
a n d em p loyees . Our wo rke rs h a.ve de~ons trate d ove r a nd over aga m th eir

co n t ra ry, th ere is eve ry reason to believe that the textile industry a n d those

will in gn ess to ,do a "fair d ay' s work fo r a fair day's p ay."

en te r prises whose grow th textiles help stimula te will flourish on a n ever-larger

T he clean-cut p roduct ivit y of the Georgia worker is one of t~ e thin gs that

sca le in G eorgi a a n d other. S?uthe.rn appeal to m anufactu rers m other s.ec-

sta tes . And this, of course, IS m spi te ti on s looking for sites for th e locati on

of the fact that textiles h ad their real of n ew plants. In fac t, all th e way

commercia l origin in N ew England's aroun d, Georgia offe rs textiles th e ve ry

indust ri al areas a t a tim e when th e fac to rs th ey n eed for h ealthy, soun d op-

So ut h was almost altogether agrarian.
Day after d ay almos t~ m or e New
Engl and mills a re reported movm g ou t

orations. inclu ding sui table typ es of
land abt:~~bnt and chea p pC'''::::-,-:l:::; . quate native labor , fine t ransp o rt a~i on

of th at regi on o r closin g down a nd liquidatin g their machin~ry an d . s~ip ping it to foreign cou ntries. It IS 1111-

facilities, a b un da n t raw materia ls, nearby ma rke ts an d a frien dly, coopera tive peop le a m on g whom to dw ell.

porta n t to not e, says the Cotton. M a n u-

Such w ere the ele men ts that ca use d

facturers Assoc iation of G eorgia , that the zreat America n W oolen Company

this old a n d ou tmode d m achiner y is to a n nounce a few wee ks ago it would

not bein g move d into Dixie .

. locate a m ill in Georgia, a t T ifto n . It

New England, under sta ndably, IS was th ese factors likew ise th at in recent

m a kin g every effort to h old it s mi lls. ti mes h a ve b rough t R a yon ie r Corpo ra -

But th e experience of m ill ma nagement tion , Na tiona l Con ta iner Company.

in th at region sp eaks for itself. It h as M ead Paper Company, th e M en gel

been confronte d wi th many oppressive Com pany and other fine co ncerns to

fa ct or s which h a ve res ulte d in its ina bi lity, by and large, to com pe te with

o ur state wi th h andsome pla nts . So ,
Georg ia goes march ing on to a g~'eat in -

m ills of th e South . Georg ia industrial ists. are emhp hatic
in p ointing o ut th at thi s sta te as n o

d ust ri al fut ure as vet u ndetermi ne d as to h ow great it really will be.

desire w haa.tsoever t0 proIiIt a t the ex -

I n th e mean time, a n d th is is h ighly

pen se of any other sec tio n of th e co un - impor~an t to th e gen.era l. si t ua t~ ~n , th e

tr y. They str~ss that G eor gia' s progr ess.:,.:;.:-- :Geor gla . co t to n ~extI~e md~.l~tI ) faces

is dep endent in la rge m ea sure upon the~the yea rs ahe ad in hi gh sp m ts,

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DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEUI:E

NEWSLETTER

AUGUST 1 1952

NE WSLET T ER

NEWSLETTER

P ubli shed semi-monthly by

GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMME RCE

100 S tate Capitol

HERl\IAN E. TA LMADG E

Gove rnor
1I0 ARD OF COM MISSIONERS EMO RY L. BUTLER

C ha irm an LO NNI E A. POP E

Vic e C ha irman

LLOYD n. RAISTY

Y. F. GEES LIN

JAM ES W. WOODR UFF, SR.

CLARK GAINE S

Secre ta ry

Vol. 3, No. 23

Aug ust I , 1952

C O VER PICTURE
T he pict ur e on the cover of th is issue shows clay from th e Huber plan t nca r M acon being load ed on a ship a t Savannah headed for Sca nd inavia .

AUG UST I-Monroe, Co tton Festival.
AUGUST :l- Lowndes Co un ty, Voting on p rop osal to issue $325,000 worth of Count y bond s to complete hosp ital as planned .
AUG UST 6- Ind ian Spri ngs, Centra l Georgia Elect ric M emb er sh ip Cor poration annua l meeting.
AUGUST 25-30- Hi awassee, Georgia M ountain Fair, open to all Northeast Georgia mountain cou nties.

August 1, 1952
SE PTEM BER 2-5- Va ldos ta, .lack O liver Golf T ou rn ament.
S E PT E?, I BE R B - l ~ -V i d a l i a . T oombs Co unty F air.
SE PT EM BE R 23-2 7- Deca tur, DcK alil Coun ty H a rvest Festival.
SE PT E M BER 29 - OCTOBER 4- Ca rr ollton, West Georgia Fair.

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A familiar scene in tobacco warehouses in Ge org ia, as buyer s an d growers meet und er the chan t of th e au ctioneer.

GEORGIA D E PARTM ENT OF CO M M ERCE

2

.N E WSL ET T E R

August 1, 1952

Big Volume of Cash Flowing in South Cieorgia

As Tobacco Crop Cioes T0 Market in 19 Cities

T he sale of Georgia's " mira cle crop" - tobacco- is un derway in Sout h Georgia .
The six months' work th at bega n last D ecember with th e p la nting of th e seed beds is bein g rewarded now with a flow of cash. The su m of $65 mill ion is expected to pou r into 50 South Geo rg ia coun ties wit hin th e next 40
d a ys.
Tobacco is a cash cro p. Wh en th e a uc tioneer " knocks it down" to th e highest bidd er a nd the price is put on th e ide n tifica tion tag, payment then soon follows. The farmer brings th e leaf to town in th e morning, or maybe a few da ys befor e th e sale, and returns horne with his money.
Sales a t Georg ia ma rk et s last year tot aled 155,053,010 pounds, whi ch brought $ 70,859 ,760, or an a verag e of 45.70 cents a pound. Of th e total, 11,44 3,207 pounds sold in Geor gia were grown in su rrounding states, red ucing the sales of tobacco produced in Geor gia to 143,6 10.803 po unds, and th e

mon ey to app roxima tely $64 million . T he Geor gia crop this yea r is esti-
mat ed to be appro ximately 20 per cent off from last year, th e drouth in recent months severely damagin g th e crop in sections. The pri ce is expec ted to hold to last yea r' s level.
T obacco is ca lled Geor gia 's " miracle rrop" because of its rapid grow th in th e sta te since 191 7, wh en th e boll weevil caused farmer s to turn to n ew crops. Sin ce th at time, p lan tin gs in th e state have increased and if we omit corn, much of whi ch is fed to livestock, toba cco now ra n ks next to cot ton in cash value in the sta te.
All member s of the fami lv sha re in spe nding th e well-earned ca~h for th e cro p in th e product ion of whi ch all have tak en a p art, beginning with th e planting of th e seed bed last winter, th en th e setting of the p lants in th e field s, cult iva tion, stripping of leaves, curing. watch ing the temperatur e of

C ITY:

Lbs. So ld by Farmers:

the heat in th e cur ing barns, th e pack ing and finally the h au ling to the war ehous e to a wa it sale and th e " reward" in mon ey for all th e ha rd wor k th at preced ed th e sale.
Au ction sales opened thi s yea r on Mon da y, July 2 1, compa red wit h July 19 last year, a nd will continue until th e last of Augu st. Last year, sales ended on Augu st 3l.
Sales a re bein g held in 19 cities a nd in a pp roximate ly 75 war eh ouses.
Sa les in 1951 as reported by th e Geor gia Dep artmen t of Agri cu lture, T om Linder , Commission er , a t th e 73 wareho uses in 19 cities wer e as follows:
The U . S. D ep artment of Agricul tur e repo rted at its Vald osta office th at toba cco sales on th e Georgia-Flo rid a ma rket th e first week, J uly 21-25M ond ay th rou gh Friday of that week, totaled 43,447 ,10 4 pounds, an av erage of 5 1.18 cents a p ound, whi ch brought above $22 m illion dollars.

Amoun t R eceived:

Av. Lb. Price:

Seek Geo rgia Beauty Add

Fo r Maid of Cotton Baxley

Geor gia is beginning its sea rch for Blackshear

a Maid of Cotton to represent th e sta te a nd compe te in th e national contest to choose a 1953 Maid of Cotton . County cot ton committees ar e alre ad y holdi;lg con tests, some featuring parades, floats , bands a nd spea kers. County winn ers will compete in Con gr essiona l district contes ts, followed by the sta te

C la xton Do ugla s Fitzgera ld Hah ira H a zle h ur st

fina ls in la te O ctober , and th e nation al con tes t in M emphis in D ecember 1952, or J anuary 1953.

M etter M o u l t rie

The M aid of Cotton mu st be ph oto- Nashville
genic, potentially a good model, and have an a tt ra ctive personality, as she Pelh am
D
will appear with profession al models Q uitman in style shows throughout th e nation , before a udiences in Pa ris a nd other Sta tesboro

European nations, a nd tak e part in a Congressional reception .

Sy lveste r

Sponsored by the N ation al Cotton Tifton

Co un cil, th e con test has brought ex- Valdosta cellen t response from m an y sections of

th e sta te. Further informati on may he Vid alia



obtained from .J. E. M oses, Chairman .
Georgia U nit, Na tiona l Co tton COUlIcil of Am eri ca, :~ 18 Grand Theatre

\\' aycross

Building, At lant a .

Totals



5.6 18, 27 1 6,056,51 6 11 ,181 ,362 6,198 ,072 12,832,56 2 4,96 3,256 4,995 , 10-1
\ :~ 6 :-l , 0 72
6,656 ,441 11,630, 120 10,256 ,124 6,25 2,296 4,726 ,882 1.1 ,:)38,464
2, 162,258 12,410 ,434 11,277 ,934 11,360 ,376 :J.773,46 (j

.':; 2,823,4 76.85 2,646,858 .02 5,092,24 7. 15 2.5 12,249.64 6,067 ,622 .90 2,07 3, 1 11 . 8:~ 2.4 11,79 9.0 7 2,600 ,7 9 2.2 :~ 2,81 9,720.61 5,22 1,725. 72 5, 136,355 .26 2,753,68 1.79 2,2 12.869.40 (i,-l6:-l , 169.:-; 1 885,800 ..1:1 5,9 10,399.:W 5,598,764.6 1 -U 9 7, 118.77 2,831 ,99 7.7-1

50. 26 4 3 .70 45. 54 40 .53 47 .28 41.77 4 8 .28
~ 8 .49 -~ 2 . 36
4 4 .90 50.08 44 .04 '16.8 1 42. 1+ '10.9 7 4 7.6 2 49 .64 42.23 19 ,(6

I55,O5:-l,O10 u.;

s70.H59 ,7{i().7 ;-)

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GEO RG IA DEPA RTMENT OF CO i'vl M E RC E

NE WSLET T E R

Camilla Opens Large Livestock Barn

With Sales Near $70,000 First Day

C a m illa a nd Mitch ell Co un ty h a ve a dde d a no th er feather to their res pective ca ps with th e op eni ng of the n ew M itch ell Coun ty L ivestock Com pany's sa les a nd a uc tion barn, which will rep resen t an investm en t of a bou t $75,000 wh en comp lete ly fini sh ed . The in itial ceremon ies a n d fir st sale - held on June 24- we re a tte nde d by ap proxi m ately 1,500 p eople. M an y 01 t h ose present wer e not only specta to rs, but b uyer s, as eviden ced by th e first d ay' ~ sale to ta ling $67 ;93 1.19; fo r 534 h ead 01
ca ttle a n d 13 1 h ogs.
O pening d a y festivities featured a talk by State Comm issione r of Ag ricu lt ur e tom Linder. who sa id th a t livestock p rod uct ion i'n G eorgia in the last t cn yea rs h as incr eased 500 percent . He ~\'as introd uced by R epresen tative Frank S. Twitty. with th e ceremonie s bein g broadca st" over the Cairo rad io sta tio n . A reco rd number of bu ye rs filled all bu yers' sea ts in the first row, a n d some h ad to sit in specta tor sca ts.
T he Mitch ell Coun tv L ivestock Com pan y was for me d by 'a m erger of th e inter ests of the W . C . H olt on Livestock M a rk et . D an Palm er L ivestock M arket, O ' N ea l Bo utwell, a n in dep en den t b uyer , a n d seve ra l loca l ca tt le p rodu c-
ers. E . OJ . Vann, .J r., p res ide nt of th e
Pl a n te rs & C itizens Bank, h as been ca lled th e " bzod fathc r" of th e mer~ cer.~ h elping to brin g m a ny in terests togeth er into a strong a n d w ell -fin anced g ro up .
T h e n ew barn w ill und oubted lv m ak e la rge crow ds a rou tin e ma tt er , a; it w as de sig ne d for quick h andlin g of a ni mals a nd for th e com fo rt of th e buye r. Spec ta tor ca twalks over th e lon g lines of

stock pe ns a re a n o utsta ndi ng featu re, en a bling bu yers to loo k over th e d ay' s offering before go ing to th e a re na . T he a uc tion m a rk et a lso h as a n a ir-coo led sales a ren a, wi th th ea ter-type sca ts, co m pletely en closed stoc k pens , and acres of p a rk in g area. T h e new m a rk et will enha n ce th e repu ta tion a nd fa ct of So ut h we st G eorgia as a thri vin g ca ttic ce n ter.
Commerce Group
For South Fulton
T he towns of P almetto, Fairburn. U n ion C ity a n d R ed Oa k ilave joined forces to orga nize the So u t h Fu lt on Co u n tv C ha m ber of C omm erce, with offices ' in the Amoss Pharrna cv Bui ld ing in Fairbu rn . Officer s of the n ew organ iza tion a re M a rcclu s T arpley of F airburn, p resid ent ; Fran k Sm ith of Palm etto, first vi ce-p resid ent ; M orri ce R ussell of Unio n C itv , seco n d vice -
p resid en t, a nd Jca n j enk in s of F ai r-
bu rn , sccrc tarv. Named to th e boa rd of d irect or s ~\"('l"c Al Pitm an , Don Cook, H er sh el Mi ller , M. M . Bro w n a n d M arion Hudson , a ll of F airburn .
The n ew C ha m ber of Com m er ce will cond u ct labo r su rveys, opera te a labo r clearing hou se, ma ke a topogra phi cal m a p sho wing goo d loca tio ns fo r new bu sin esses a nd availa ble b u ildings a n d land sites , a n d det er m in e ca paci ty of p ublic uti lit ies. It will co nce n tra te o n con ta cting , both persona lly a n d by correspo n de nce, m a nufactu rer s wh o a rc kno wn to be re locating , a n d to ac qua int them wi th th e a d va n tages ofIt-red by So ut h Fulton Co un ty .
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A view of the M itchell Co unty Livestock C ompany's h and some n ew auction ha m wher e sales will b e held weekly.

G EO RG I A D EPAR TM EN T OF CO M MERC E

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A ugu st I. 19:i 2
Macon Will Honor Indians at Festival
M a con will hold its first a nn ual I n di an F est ival a t the O cmulgee N ation al M onument g ro u nds September 1920, p a yin g tribute to t he cu lt ure a n d a rt of th e American Indians. A su er csso r to th e Bosk ita cere mo n ies, w h ich last veal' drew 6,000 to th e Citv Aud itoriu m , the fes t i~'a l w ill in c!ud ~ ritualisti d an ces, a stick ba ll ga me a n d dem ons t ra tions of Indian h a ndicra ft. Co m ing to p arti cip a te in the ceremo nies a rc 55 Creek I ndi ans fro m O klaho m a a nd 24 C herokees from North Carolina .
Pla n s ca ll for th e fest ivit ies to b egin wi t h a pa rade, in whi ch o the r Midd le Georgia cities wi ll p articip at e, wh ich wi ll lead to the m on umen t grou n ds. On F rid a y . Sep te m ber 19, t he stick ba ll ga me , co m p letely unha mper ed b y a nv ru les, w ill be held at Porter Sta d i ~m w ith th e C re e ks op pos ing till" Clurokecs. H a lf-t ime ce remo nies will in clud e trad iti on a l Indian dan ces.
O n Saturda y, ex hibit ions wi ll b e held of weaving, bead , po ttery an d mo cassin -m a king, a n d dan cin g by Indi ans a nd spectators w ill take place in t he City Auditorium.
Ar t Ba r ry is ge nera l chair ma n of t he fest ival an d Carling Sc ha tz ma n is vi cecha ir ma n. O thers on the fest ival CO I11m ittel'S include Cec il Cok e, W a lt er A. H a rr is, F re ema n A. H art, j . , M a yor Lewi s B. Wi lson , 'F red L eeds, Stev e Solomo n, III, G us K aufm an , M . D . G uy, G us Pop e, C ha rles F a ir ba n ks, Ca rl S to d da rd, M a rcel L ef ebvre, Accc Blue E agle, C h ief J ohn D avis, Milla rd G uy , Su sa n M yrick , E llsworth H a ll, \ V. P . Sim mo ns, W ill iam A. Fi ckl in g, H amilt on H olt , Linton Solomon , Sr., G uy to n Abney a n d W alter D oyle.
Georgia Ranks Second In Number of Farm Ponds
Georg ia now ranks second in th e n ation in the number of fish ponds on farms . W ith 25,000 pon d s, prod ucing a bo u t five m illion pounds of fish p er year, t hey m ake a yery grea t con t ribution to th e farm ers' food resources . They a lso sho w th e in cr ea sin g in te res t of farm ers in soil a nd w a tr-r co nse rvat ion .
Rep orts iudicau. a bo . th at t hes po nds a n ' illcn 'a,illg by a bo u t I .nOn ea ch vcar as m ort : a nd m o rt - fan ne rs
SIT t he ir importa n ce.


NEWSI .E ' )"I'ER

:\ ugust I. I~J:>2

Savannah Has lOO-Miliion-Doliar Newsletter Enlarged

Expansion During Last Five Years

To111eet Ne w Demand
Th e rapid p rogress o ur sta te is

If G eneral O glethorpe wer e to sa il up th e Savann a h Riv er tod ay . retracing his voy age of 219 years ago , h e would n ot reco gniz e Yama c raw Bluff. th e spo t wh er e h e land ed on F eb, 12, 17:n .
The Bluff is now ado rn ed w ith modern buildings, th e plant whistl e h as ta ken th e pl ace of th e Indi an w a r whoo p a n d fact ory smo ke port ra ys industry rather th an a m essage from o n e tribe to anoth er.

er Com pa ny, Sa va nn a h W ood Product s C om pa ny, Seatra in L ines In c., Seahoard Ra ilro ad, Sh a nno n I nd usuics, Sinclair & Ball entine Com pa ny, Southe rn Fertilize r & C hem ica l Com pa ny. So uthe rn Paperboard Corpo ra tion , Sou th ern Sta tes Ph osphate S: F ertilize r Com pa ny, So u th la nd Oil Company. St eel Prod uc ts In c.. Tc tlcv T ea Compan y, U n ion Bag S: Pape r C:or por atio!1 , Better H omes. Inc.
Pr oj ect s just co m p lete d incl ud e a new

und er going in the industrial , co m mer cia l a nd a gric ult u ra l field s h as necessitated en la rg ing th e Depa rtment's Ne wslette r from four to eigh t pages. By doing so. we a re better able to m eet th e in cr eased dem ands for space to give due a tt en tion to th ese ac tivit ies in th e publica tio n. T his ed ition m arks th e fir st issue of th e expa nde d Newsle tte r, whi ch will he in bette r position to serve the int er ests of Geo rg ia a n d its citizens.

Savann ah , like man y oth er Geo rgia building for th e So uthe rn Bell Tele-

citi es. is " b ulging a t th e seams." Mayor phon e Com pany, a $ 2,000.000 apart- facilit ies.

O . F . Fu lm er points out. Busin ess is m cnt h ou se and a n offi ce building to

The S ta te is now co ns t ruc tinsr a

humming for firms alrea dy esta b lished , he occ up ied by U. S. Engin eer s.

tr ansit shed, d ock s, fiv e sh ip berths 'a nd

n ew co ns truction d ot s th e city, while expansion s a rc planned by m an y in -

Proposed a nd a n ticipa ted build in g : n atural gas lines expec te d in 195:1:

o the r fa ciliti es at a cost of seve ra l m illion d oll ars under di recti on of th e S ta te

d ust ries. R ecords show th at m or e th an 100

C ha m ber o f Com m erc e pl a ns n cvv home: A nu-rica n C ya na m id Com pa ny 's

Ports Authoritv. of which H enrv W . Sw eet is gen er; i m a n ager , a nd f~nn al

mi llion d oll a rs h a ve bee n invested in dev elopment of its 1,600- ac re tract re- de d ica tion of th e h uge St ate po rt is

Sava nna h plants in th e last seve n years. cen tly p urch ased: th e new hi gh -lev el to be held n ext Nove m be r. Th e Sta te

o r since th e end of World W ar II . Ca p- bridge ove r th e Sava nna h River on U . leases uni ts in th e fac ilitv a nd Gov.

ital investments in large pl ants alo ne in S. Hi ghwa y 17.

T alm adge a n no unces th at' m or e th an

th at p eriod tot al app roximately 11() million dollars. a n d money inv est ed by
sma ll firms 0;' plants rarses the total

Sav annah industrially revolves largely a ro un d th e riv er 'by that nam e. With a p prox imately ten mi les of de-

one mi llion doll ars have a lrca d v b een paid th e St at e for renta ls, etc: T h e St at e Port h as "L 2:~ 8 feet of riv er front -

much hi gh er. \Vith resid en ce, a pa rtm ent h ou se a nd
sm a ll firm co ns t ruc tion add ed, it is saf e to say th at $ 125 mill io n h a ve been spe n t th e;-c fo r bu ilding p urposes alone

vel op ed a nd potenti al port sites, m a ny la rge industrial firm s h av e located th eir plants on th e river banks, bein g serv ed hy a deep cha n n el th at permi ts sh ips o f a ny size to usc th e land-lock ed port.

age.
The riv er port c urren tly h as 22 a crive sh ip be rths, nin e of which a rc co m parable to a ny in th e coun t ry, pe rmi tti ng Sa va nnah to hand le any type

in the last few Years.

some 20 mil es up from th e Atl anti c of ge neral ca rgo. Add it ion of five

Cons truc tion 'u nde rwa y in th e city Ocea n .

he rths by th e sta te will bring th e num-

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now, tog ether with ex pans ions a n d enti rcly new proj ect s pl ann ed fo r th e Iuture will total more than :10 million do llars.
Among Iirms esta blishe d in recent

Plants located on th e riv er lise its sh ipp ing faci liti es and a lso som e water from th e river , whi ch ca ses th e sup p ly required fr om oth er sou rce s.

her of berths to 27 o n th e rive r.
Manv o ther firms loca ted on th e river a rc exp a n d ing th eir faciliti es, new on es a re plann ed , includin g on e finn whi ch h as purch ased from th e city

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years a nd which h a ve a lrea d y m ad e ~~x tensi ve impro vem ents o r whi ~h h a ve future pl ans for expans ion a re:
Ameri can C ya na m id Company , At lantic Refinin g Com pany , Beb e rm an V en etian Blind Com pany , Ca na da D ry Bottl ing Com pa ny, C hatham M et al Finishing Com pan y, C he m ica l Pa ck aging C om pany, Coasta l Butan e G as C om p a n y, Diamond C ons t ru c tion Com pany, Emu lsified Asph a lt Refinin g C om pa ny, G en eral C hem ica l Com pa ny, Georg ia - Pa cific Plyw ood Com pa ny . G eorgia Sta te Port , Hixon Battery Com pany, Hunter A ir F orce Base, I ndustri al W at er Supply Com miss ion .
K oolvent Awning Compa ny, O zm c r Lumber Com pa ny . Pr e-C ast Concreu : C om pa ny, Pure O il Com pa ny , Q ua lity G um me d T ape l nc., Sa vannah Asph alt

The Savann ah District Authoritv. of which W. H. M cGowan is exec (,t in' sec reta ry, th e ove ra ll purpose of which is to foster within the p ort di stri ct th e developmen t of b usin ess a nd industry, h as supe rvision over all p o rt ac tiv ity o n th e river , development of th e port a s a wh ole a nd pl acing n ew ind ust ries a nd plants on th e riv er , etc .
An im po rta n t un it of d eve lopment on th e riv er is th e Sta te Port. GO\. H erman T a lm adge in 1949 , for th e S ta te of G eor gia , purchased th e giga n tic Quarte rm aster Dep ot from th e Gove rn men t a t a cos t o f .$808, I00, th
o rigina l cost of co nstruction heing S6,-
000,000. The t ra c t incl ud es -1-07 acres of land with :; 7 wa reh o use bui lding, a nd -1-2 othe r bu ildings, a ll o f per m a nent co ns t ruc tio n . T here a rc eigh t

1.600 ac res with much riv er front age.
Savann ah ex pec ts to p rofit hy the huge C la rks Hill p ro ject f ur the r up th e I ive r in th e Au gu sta area , by a no rm al wa te r flow in t11'~ river, espec ia lly in ext re me d rv weather. Riv er t ra ffic between Sa \',{n na h a nd A ugu sta will a lso inc re ase.
Sa va n na h is a popular co nvent ion city, it is pointed o ut hy Cliff D. D a ven po rt, execu tive sec re ta ry of thr C ha m be r of Com me rce . wh o sa vs th e city has a m ple h otel f;c ilities to ca re for a la rge number of delegates, enticin g ea ting p lan's, hi sto ric sites to visit , sea breezes to keep you coo l ill slimmer. an d a mild c1ima te 10 mak.. vo u co n'lforta hh: in w in ter.
Ca mp S tewart, in Libert y Co un t v.

Com pa ny, Sav annah El ectri c S: Po\\,- mil es of railroad on the tract a nd othe r

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CEOR GJ.\ DEPART"lENT OF CO M M ERC E



N EWS LE TT E R

August I, 1952

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Seve ra l new tou rist courts a rc going lip in Georgia. At FOLKSTON four two-un it brick cabi ns have been constructed bv H. D. C hastain. L ocated a t the i nt ~rsecti on of Hi ghw ays 1 a nd :\0 1 in Nort h Folkston , th e cabins a re Ii tt cd with th e lat est in mod ern furnishin gs a nd eq uipme nt. T he buildings will be continued in circula r forma tion as th cv ar e need ed . Anoth er tou rist co urt i's nea rin g com pletion at WES T POIN T, half a mil e north of th e citv limit s. Plan s call for 36 units to be
built over a period of three yea rs. .l-
R. l\1cH ugh, Sr., of Birm ingham, is bu ildin g th is new cour t and expec ts 12 to 16 un its to be read y by Sep tem ber 15. Of red brick with yea r-round h eating a nd cooling systems, th e finished court will cost about $ 100,000 .
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P/~'LHAM has just completed th e 1I10st successful tomat o season by several th ousand dolla rs wh ich th e town has ever h ad . M an y dealers from th e North and East were on h and to buy the qu ality tom at oes, gro wn in great quan tit ies in th e vicinity of Pelh am . G rowers sold more th an 85,000 bu shels, receiving over a h alf milli on dollar s, $200,000 m ore th an th ey received at this m a rket in 1951, even tho ugh acr eage last year was lar ger. The m arket was open for a m onth .
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Swift & Co mpany is doubling th e size of th e present po ultry operati on a t its GA I NESVI L LE pl ant, with a $200,000 plant addition. R oy With ers, plant man ager, says th at th e poult ry dr essing lin es will be doubl ed to a full speed ca pacity of 8,000 an hour, alth ough fo r hi ghest qu ality th e line will be kept to about 5,000 per hou r. The new a rea is expec ted to be in produ ction by O ctober 1, and w-ill be one of two pl ants in th e immediate vicinity p roducing 100 p ercent government-inspec ted ou tp ut. T he plant will occupy 88,000 squa re feet wh en completed, a nd th e num ber of employees will be increased fr om 230 to 400. Of brick construction, th e new faciliti es incl ude bringin g both dressing lines to full govern me nt spe cification, doubling th e feeder sta tion wh ere bird s a re fed before killin g, enla rging a nd air-conditioning office spaces, m odern izing a nd enla rg ing employee dressing room s, and finish ing th e ch icken dressing room in ceram ic tile.

Ano ther research fa cility for th e advan cement of th e dairy industry is now available in ATHEN S in th e newlydedi cat ed dairy cattle n utri tion lab or ato ry. O pera ted in connec tion with the U niversity of Geor gia' s College of Agricultur e, th e laborat ory contains mor e th an 3,200 sq uare feet of floor space . Includ ed ar e mod ern lab or atories for research in biochem istry, bacteriology a nd histology, a nd a room for small a nimal experime n ta tion. Th e new la borat ory is housed in th e north wing of th e U niversity dairy barn .
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A new organization for ma rketin g eggs, th e Polk C oun ty Egg Co-opera tivc, bega n operations at CEDA R T O WN on July 1. At p resent , in order to insur e qu alit y, eggs a re coming from flocks on about 20 farms where a pproved poultry p ra ctices a re followed. But M an ager Ralph Sm ith says that bv thi s fall wh en flocks ar e in full prod uction, th e co-ope rative expec ts to handle eggs fro m 10,000 birds. T he idea for th e co-op origina ted ea rly thi s year, and more th an 15 meetings hav e since been hel d with poultry expe rts. T h e primary objec t of th e new organiza tion is to supply th e local ma rket with qu ality eggs, but offic ers h ope th at expanded pr odu ction will mean th at later some eggs ca n be sh ipped. U nde r th e pl an, farmers bring eggs from th e fa rms to th e co-op two or three times a week, ca ndling an d grading a re don e imm edi ately, and th e eggs a re sent to th e store, m aking it po ssible for a h ousewife to bu y a th ree-d ay old egg. O fficers of th e co-ope rative inclu de T om W. Full er, R ockmart, pr esi-
d en t ; J. C . M cK ibben, secretary -tr eas-
m er , a nd J ack Phillips, David Brown
and J. E. J ord an , directors.
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M andeville M ills, In c., of CA R R OLLTON, celebrated its 50th anniversar y in July with a n open h ouse and a ba rb ecu e for emp loyees and th eir fa m ilies. The first m aj or celebration a t th e mill since th e observance of th e 25th a nniversa ry in 1927, th e festiv ities h onored th e stockh olde rs, em ployees and others wh o have had a hand in th e success of th e mill. The open hou se attr acted m an y visitors who were shown var ious featur es of th e operations, given soft drink s and souvenirs of th e occasion. The mill began ill 1899 as M a ndeville Cotton Mill , with a capital of $100,000 . Opera tions started in Jul y, 1900, wit h 5,760 spindles, 200

G EO RG IA DE PA RT MENT OF CO M M E RC E

looms, 150 em ployees an d a pr oduction of a pproxima tely 20,000 pounds a week. The name was changed to M andeville Mill s, In c., in 1902, which is conside red as th e beginni ng dat e for the p resen t company.
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T he D ixie Ga rm en t M an uf act ur ing Compa ny in CA R R O L L T ON is in th e pro cess of expanding its bu siness an d is now opera ting in a second bu ildin g, with 9,000 squa re feet of floor spa ce. Rich a rd Hutchinson , owner of th e t rousers ma nufacturing company, says tha t whi le th e busin ess is ra pidly expand ing, it is still short of th e goa l wh ich is expec ted to be reach ed eventua lly. Th e new build ing houses th e finishing dep artmen t wher e th e trous ers receive tri mm ing, clea ning, buttons, t i ~k c ti n g, a nd final inspecti on and sh ippill g-.
Savannah
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40 miles to th e west, m oves practi call y all of its soldiers and supp lies through and from Sav a nna h, th e H inesville a rea having both rail a nd high way facilities from Savannah.
Hunter Air Force Base, h ome of th e 38th Air Divi sion , nea r th e city, alrea dy rep resent s a h uge expe nditure and fac es fur th er improvements. The milita ry construc tion bill signed by Presiden t T ruman on July 14 included .$5, 185,000 for H unter Fi eld exp ansion.
Savanna h has three other airfieldsTravis Fi eld (municipal ) , and two p riva te field s, Saffold and Scott Airpo rts. Three ai rlines, Delt a, Eastern and National serve th e city.
The vast progress of Savannah a nd area is duly ch ronicled by its two live newspapers, th e M orning News and the Evening Press. Well-staffed and edited, p rogress of the comm unity is well covered daily, along with oth er news m atter.
Sa va nna h 's 300 pl ants manufactur e products ann ually valu ed a t m ore than 300 million dolla rs and th e a nn ual payroll totals ap pro xima tely 50 million dollar s, reta il sales in th e city and Chath am Co un ty in 1951 total ~d $ 140 m illion dollar s and th e bu ying incom e for the yea r was estimated to be $223, million dolla rs. Fo r th e Savannah trad e a rea of 27 Georgia counties and 11 in Sou th Carolina, the volum e was m uch lar ger. T h e tra de a rea popu lation is set at 1,.100,000.

N E WSL ETTER

Au gust I , 1952

Sunshine Biscuit
$5 Million Plant
Goes to Columbus
Pr esiden t H an ford M ain of the Sunshine Biscuit Co., In c., recently an nounced that his orga niza tion will build a plant in COLUM BUS, with th e tot al investmen t, includ ing eq uipment , exceed ing five m illion dolla rs. Employees will nu mber bet ween 600 a nd i OO when op er a tions begin , wit h wom en co mp rising abo ut 60 per cent of that number. Co nstru ct ion of th e pla nt will begin as soon as bui ldin g m at er ials ca n be obta ined . Plan s fo r th e building, tota lin g 500 ,000 sq ua re feet of floor space, have a lready heen develop ed .
T he C olum bus Chamber of Co mm erce sold th e firm a 17.525 a cre tr act loca ted on Vi ctor y D rive.
M r. M ain said th at wit h the rem od ding of th e com pa n y's h uge New York C ity pla nt, the la rgest biscuit bak er y in the world under one roof, and th e completion a nd ope ra tion of la rge new pla nt s at O a kland, Ca lif., K an sas City, Kan s., D ayton , O hio, and rem odel ing of th ciI' numer ou s other plan ts, th ey hav e had to delay un til now " the everpresent desire to establish a la rge, mo dern Sunshi ne Biscuit bak erv in th e Sout hea st." H e paid t ribut~ to th e m anner in wh ich C lay ton M cl.cnd on , executive secre ta ry of th e Co lum bus C ha m ber of Comm er ce, presented th e cas e for h is city.
W . W . Pa dd on, p rodu ct ion vicep resident of th e com pa ny, sa id that the plant will prod uce S unsh ine K rispy C ra ckers, Hydrox Cookies, C hecz-its, and Hi-J-Io C rac kers. Th e vice-president in cha rge of d istrib ution, E . \V. Kerwin, sa id th a t the pla nt will serve seven So utheastern sta tes, a nd will supply 2:\ com pa ny distribu tion wa reh ouses in Geo rgia, Alab am a , Florida, M ississippi , South Ca rolina, N or th C a rolina, a nd T ennessee.
Columb us C ha m ber of Com me rce President Allen Wood all sa id, " W e ar c d at ed a t th e com pa ny's decision to loca te a plant her e. T h is is one of th e most desirab le industri es whi ch has loca ted in the South in years."

One of Largest News Ink Producers In World Has Big Plant NearMacon

At Huber, Geo rgia, 15 mil es southeast of M acon on Sta te Rou te 87, is the h uge mod ern ka olin clay refining
plan t of th e .I . M . H uber Co rpo ra tion
wh ich typifies th e ex pa nsion of industrv in the New So uth . N carbv a rc th e H'ubel' cla y m ines whi ch feed this pla nt - a va st open-cut mining ope ra tion, with power sho vels, trucks a nd other eq uipme n t ca pable of m ovi ng ove r a million cubic yards of overbur den yea rIv.
. .J. M . Huber Corpora tion is a hi gh-
ly diversified com pany com p rising five divisions : a C lay D ivision with pla nts a t Huber, Ga., a nd Lan gley, S. C . ; a n I nk Di vision with headq ua rters a t Hro okl vn. N . Y., whi ch opera tes six in k plan ts 'a r~ u nd th e country; a n Oi l a nd Gas Di vision wit h hea dquarter s a t Borge r, T exas, ope ra ting over 400 oil a nd gas wells, a nd a Ca rbo n Bla ck D ivision with furn ace a nd cha nnel black plants in T exa s. Th e com pa ny a lso m ak es oil fu el pumpin g a ids. Recently Huber ope ned a Che m ica l D ivision plant a t Ha vre de G rac e, M d.
T he corp orati on is a lso very active in the Sava nna h R iver V all ey, ope ra ting four kaolin clay plan ts a nd m ines. In 1927 H uber acq uired la rge kaolin clay deposits in So uth C a rolina a nd ten yea rs lat e r expa nde d int o Georgia . In itiall y, the di vision p rodu ced only clays used in rubbe r p roduct s such as rubber hose and r ubbe r heels, etc. Later , however, Huber began producing cla ys for the pa per ind ustry as well. In

pap er , clays a rc used to give gloss a nd

for filling the space bet ween th e fibers.

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pr int ed with H uber inks.

T he cla y plant at H uber, Ga.. was erec ted in th e J930'5 a nd ha's bee;] en-

la rged and its ca pac ity incr eased manv times. H ub er is now one of the wo rld':,

la rgest clay p rodu cers a nd its clays a rc ,:\'Cll - ~n ow n for their q ua lity a nd un i101ll1lty. Besid es sup plying th e paper

a nd rubber ind ustries, Huber clavs a rc used extc nsivclv in insecti cides 'ceramics an d ad hesives. Th e H u b~r, Ga .,

plan t prod uces a ll of these specia lized types.

Hub er product s hav e been in usc

since J 780, when H ub er in ks were first mad e in Germa nv. Today H uber is nne of th e world 's' largest I; rod ucers of

news inks a nd other ' publicati on a nd

packaging inks. Since ca rbon black is

a n essen tia l ingredi ent of news ink , it

was a natural step for th e com pa ny to

expa nd int o m a king its own ca rbon hl a ~ k . Th e sea rch for oil a nd gas ,
which a re ra w m at eri als for ca rbon

black, led H ub er into the oil a nd ga s bu sin ess.

./. M . H uber Corpora tion is a n excellent exa m ple of how a com pa ny has

gro wn by coord ina ted research a nd p rod uct d evelopment. It will undoubt-

edly contin ue to g row as resea rch continu es to find new uses for clay an d clay pr odu cts.

Eigh t G eor g ia co unties this yea r a re celebra ting the 175th a nniversa ries of their fou nd ing. T hey a rc C ha t ha m, G lyn n, Effingh am, Li ber ty, Wi lkes, Rich mond , Bur ke and Ca m den. T hey wer e Georgia's origina l counties, crea ted in 1777 .

An aerial view of th e J. ?f. Huber C orpora tion plant at Huber , Ga ., n ear M acon.

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Defense Contracts Awarded Georgia Firms

During June Reach Highest for Any Month

During th e month of j un c, G eorgia m a nufacturers brok e all records for particip ation in thi s sta te in th e purchase op er ati on s of th e Fed era l G ovcrn men t's pr ocur em ent age nc ies. Defens e contrac ts placed in Georgia during th e month total ed $16 ,1 \9,188 for som e 42 contrac ts, For th e first five months of th e veal', such contrac ts were as follows : './an ua ry, $2,541 ,869: February, $3,135,345 ; March , $4,562 ,607 ; Ap ril, $9,823,542; M ay, $14,307,8 79. Six of th e contrac ts placed during
.fun e were for over $250,000 eac h ,
T hc i tot al figure for th e first six months of 1952 amo un ted to $50,490, '130, as aga inst only $8, 172,927 for th e
six months from .fuly t , 1950, through
Decem ber, wh en th e Georgia Dep artment of Comme rce began its concer ted ef forts to have Georgia manufactu rer s rece ive th eir fair a nd d ue sha re of Covcrnmc nt defen se contrac ts. Am on g th e lat est rep orted a wa rds to Georgia fin ns a rc th e following :
Ha rr is Fo undrv & Ma chi ne C o.. CO R DEL E-shells, $4,627,000.
Wi llingh am Cotto n Mill s, MA CO N - cott on a nd nylon du ck, $ 1, 132,730.
Aut o Soler Co. , ATLA NTA - sigh ting system, $8 1,500 .
ABCO Build ers, ATLA NTA - furnishing all lab or , 'plant a nd mater ial for rem oval of existing meta l wind ows a nd install a tion of new meta l windows
il: ,?RC a rmory bui ld ing. Atlanta , $32,-
6:J.J .
Peerl ess Woolen IVl ills, R OSS V1LL/~' - 104,000 blan ket s, excee ds $250,000.
Ch icago Brid ge & Iron Co., ATLANTA - constru ction of two aircraft fuel sto rage tanks a t Tynda ll AFB ,

Florida, $4 1,800.

Sou thern Const ruction Co., In c.,

A UG USTA - construction of two ad -

diti onal Airm en's Dormitor ies, Sha w

Air For ce Base, Sum te r. S. C .. $384 .-

646.

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Ch icago Bridge & I ron Co. , .111'-

LA NTA- const ru cti on of eleva ted

wat er sto rage tank. Ch a rleston . S. C. ,

$55,000. Conn Struc tors, ATLANTA-relo-

ca tion and reh abilitation of existing

buildings, C ha rlesto n, S. C ., $ 139,397. Tri-St at e Construction Co ., AT-

LA NTA- reh abil ita tion of ex istmg

han gar bui ldin gs, Cha rlesto n, S. C ..

$24,000. Scot tda le Mill s, In c.. S C 07TDA LI~'
- 50,300 yds.. c~ t ton ' osna burg cloth ,

$ 198,584.

Wri ght and Mitnick, TALLA-

P O OSA-furnishing all lab or necessa ry

for ga rn ish ing Government furn ished

ca mouflage net s, 4,000 net, $3 7,800 .

Emorv U nivcrsitv- accustomi zation
stud): or' QM equ ipment, $25,222.
Gravbar Electric Co.. ATLA NTA R obin ~ Air Force Base. '39 power tr ans -

formers, $25 , 133. T. H . Pearce & Co ., CO LUM BUS-

to furnish all plant, labor, ma teria ls

a nd eq uipme nt for alte ra tions a nd ad -

diti on s to nurses' qu a rt ers a t Ft . M e-

C lella n, Ala . Ca llawa v Mi lls, Co.. LA GRA NG/~'

-- 493,350 ' l.y. cotto n du ck, $55 5,008 . So uthern Lumber a nd ~Hg . Co ..
I~LLlJAY-40,600 pall ets, $ 116,34 2.

Peerl ess Woolen Mill s. R OSS -

V I LL/:-220.004 wool blank ets , $9 76.-

835.

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Pat ch en & Zimm erma n, A U GUSTA

- a rchitect-enginee r ser vices iII councetion with reh ab ilitation of V olun teer Ordna nce Wor ks, Cha tta nooga . S2:';1.050 .
Puritan C he m ical Co .. ATLA N"I'.4 - wax , floor , wat er em ulsion 53,845 ga llons, $28,236.
T ri-St at e Co nstruc tion Co., A'tLANTA - con version of 2G BOQ-4+ to 15 a pa rtme nts a nd six sing le rooms, Ca m p Cordo n , excee ds $250,000.
Armco D rain age & M et al Products Co., ATLA NTA --installation of cor rug at ed metal pip e, Ca m p Gordon. Ga., $ 114,043.
T ri-S ta te Co nstruc tion Co., .111'LA NTA - con\'ersion of six typ e HQ 24 bu.ildings to nurses suites, Ca m p Gordon , $62,000 .
Ed L. Powers Co ntrac ting Co., JES UP- a lter ati on to com pa ny typ mess to follow O CE guide pla n, Ca m p Gordon, excee ds $250 ,000.
G uy C . Smith Const ruction Co .. A U GUSTA-installat ion of linoleum floor covering a nd overhead ceiling ill pilot reh ab ilitati on arca . Ca m p Gordon , $58,50 2.
Floors, I nc.. ArLA NL4 -- cllstodi al services .for fiscal )'r ar 1 9 5 :~ , Ca m p Gordon , Ga. , ,$208 ,697 .
Southern Dair ies. Inc.. A U GUsrA - icc cream, Cam p Gordon , $ 116,680.
Carev F. Weath ers Tran sfer & Sto rage C~ .. A U GUSTA-packin g a nd cra ting services for fisca l yea r 195:1. Cam p Go rdo n, $ 107,342 .
Cla ussen-La wnncc Co nst ruc tion Co .. A U GU S T A-construct asphalt side wa lks a nd conc rete cross wal ks, C a m p Gord on , $49,879 .
Co nn Struct ors, ArLA NTA - collstruc tion of fa mi],' hou sing. C ha rleston Air field . S. C .: $5 6 .88~r cons truction of tran sm itt er building. receiver bui ldin g and a nte nna farm . Cha rlesto n, $70 ,669 .

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AUGUST 15

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1952

N E W S L E T T E l{

Au gu st 15, 195:2

NEWSLETTER
Published semi-mont hly by
GEO RG IA D EPT. OF COMMERC E 100 State Capitol

HE RMAN E. TALMA DGE Gove r n o r


BOA RD OF COMM ISSIONERS

EMORY L. BU T LER Cha irma n

Lonn ie A. Pope , V. Chili. Y. I;. Geeslin

Ben Jessup

Lloyd B. R aisty

CLARK GA INES Sec retary

Vol. 3, No. 24

Aug ust 15, 1952

Vets' Memorial Park
Improves Facilities
The beautiful G e o r g i a V eteran s M emorial Park, located a t Lake Blackshear ju st outside of Cordele, is drawing incr easing numb:~s. of visitors. ev:ry day. Improved faciliti es a re br ingin g more peopl e from surro unding a reas to
enjoy th e park . Seve ral miles of paved road s th rough
th e park h ave recently been com ple.ted. M or e fishin g doc ks and bo at landings hav e been added and ample picni c orounds are now availab le. Playground ~reas h av e been provided for th e ch ildr en .
Park cottages a re in grea t dem and and must be reserv ed in adv anc e. There ar e boats also av ailab le, but p erson s wishing to bring th eir own boat~ may do so and unload at th e docks in th e par k. Fish ba it is for sale at stan ds all along th e Cordele and Americus high-
wav. Superintendent J ohn Pate Bridges re-
ports that many visitors from Macon come regu larl y to th e park . Schoo l ch ildren a rrive by th e bus load a nd Sunday Scho ol groups a nd oth er young people' s groups a re makin g more and more frequ ent use of th e park.

:\ U G U ST Ii- Camp Stewa rt : Organ iza tion D ay, Ann iversary Cele bra t ion .
AU GU ST 24- Coast al Plain Experime nt Sta tion, T ifton , and So uth er n Piedmont C on servation Experimen t St ati on , Watkinsville: Sixth I nt r-rnational Grassland Co nference.
AUGUST 25-30-Hiaw assee: Geor gia Mountain Fair, open to all North ea st Geor gia mountain coun ties.
AUGUST 28-Fort Gaines: Vet erans' Day Celebration .
SEPTEMBER 2-5 - Valdost a : J ack O liver Golf T ournam ent.
SEPTEMBER 4-6-Savannah: Georgia St ate Chamber of Commer ce Ex ecutives Associat ion. D eS 0 t 0 Beach Hotel.
SEPTEMBER 5-i - Carrollton: Women 's Open Golf T ournam ent.
SEPTEMBER 6-Alpharetta: North Fulton Liv estock Association Sh ow, Alpharetta School G rounds.
SEPTEMBER 8- 1~ - E l ber to n : Elb ert County Fair.
SEPTEMBER 8-1:~ -Vid alia : T oombs County F ai r.
SEPTEMBE R 12- Cartersville: Sh rine Day, I nclu ding Par ad e and Carter sville-S ummervi lle Football Game.

SEPTEMBEI{ . Fir st \V c I' k -- - Blue Rid ge: F annin Count y F ai r a nd Elr- rtrica l Ex posit ion.
SE PT EM BER 22-29 - F nvr-ttcvilh-: Fay ette Co u nty Fai r.
SEPTE 1'",! BER 2:1 -27 -- D eru tur : I kKa lb Co un ty Harvest Festi val .
SEPTEMBER 24-26-Geor gia T ech : 21st Annu al Geor gia Water and Sewage School, Sponsored by Geor gia Dep artment of Pu blic H ealth, Georgia Ins titute of T echnology, and th e Geor gia Water a nd Sewage Ass'n .
SE PTEMBE R 29-0ctob er4-Carrollton : West Georgia Fair.
$9,000,000 Is Allocated For Byron Naval Center
The sum of $9, 102,000 was recently a u thorized through a bill signed by Pr esident T ruman , for th e N aval Supply Center a t Byron , loca ted ten miles north of Perry on U . S. 4 1. T he mon ey will be spen t on land acquisition, a rchitectu ra l and engineering wor k, cons tr uc tion of administra tive, medi cal , storage and supply handling a nd maintenance faciliti es. fl>n eing . a nd othe r insta lla tion s.

COVER PICTURE Contrarv to its n am e. Mud Creek Falls in IZabun Countv 'is one of th e most beautiful waterfails in the South. These falls provide th e typ e of scenic bcautv in whi ch tourists revel, and whi ch th e worker in office, sto re or p lant delights to behold on h is va cation . I t is on e of the m an y lovely spot s in Geor gia , of whi ch we can all be; proud .

A view of th e Administra tio n Building at the Geo rg ia Vetera ns M emori al Park , locat ed near Cordele.

G EO RGI A DEPAI~ TMENT OF CO MM ERC E

2

NE\VSLETTER

Augu st 15, 1952

Discovery of Oil Field In Southeast Alabama Creates New Interest In Drilling In Georgia

AftLT a lull of several months a nother ambitious effo rt to find oil in Georg ia began Augu st 5 wh en drilling of a new well was sta rted in C linc h County, out from F argo, on th e frin ge of th e Okefen okee Swamp .
The well is bein g drilled by th r Clinch Drilling Company, head ed by
Brad y Belch er , Geor ge J. M ar ett, Fred
H . D avis, with W . C. J aeger , of Houston , T exas, geop hysicist, in cha rge. It
is designated as th e " George .J. Marott-
Lcm Griffis Well No . I," L cm Griffis bein g th e owner of th e p rop erty on which th e well is locat ed.

Dri lling is pro ceeding night a nd day . T he promot er s of thi s well a re said to have under lease some 100,000 acres in Geor gia a nd North Florida . The leases were taken afte r intensive geographical sur veys were mad e by W. C. J aeger, of Houston , Texas. Drilling tests to a depth of 6,500 feet were said recomme nde d for th e well. Rot ar y drills a rc being used by th e operators th at arc ca pa ble of going down 10,000 feet .
The site of th e new well is a ppro ximately eigh t mile s northeast of F ar go an d ten miles north of th e Geo rgia -

WELLS DRILLED rx GEORGIA

Date County

Operator

Depth

Bottom Formation

1938 1939 1939 19 39 1940 19 4 0 1940 1940 194 :! 1942 194 2 194 3 194 3 1944 1944 1944 1944 1944 1945 1945 1945

Pi er ce

. Pa n Am eri can

Pi er ce.

...Cla rk

Montgom er y M ead ows

Montgom er y Meadows ..

Montgom er y ..M ead ows .

C linc h
Clinch .
Clinc h ..

.. Ga. R esources
..J. R . Gay.. ... .1 . R . Gay..

D ou gh ert y Scal y

D ou gh ert y Sea ly

T reutlen

Ray .

Co ffe e

...T a ylor

Earl y

Wa rr en

C linc h

Hunt .

C linc h

I'lunt ..

D ecatu r. ...Hunt

Mitch ell

St an olind

Wa yn e..... . .. Californ ia

Atkinson . Sun O il Co .

Lauren s

Ca la po r Mfg. Co .

Ech ols

.. Hunt ; Superior Pin e

Produ ct s N o. I ...

437 5 4355 1180 1619 190 6 150 7
43 5 350 5012 5 31 0 193 5 1210 732 0 4 110 35 13 615 1 7487 4626 4296 2546

G ra nite Granite Sa nd ( Eoce ne ) Sand ( Eoce ne ) H a rd lim e (E ocene ) Fos. lim e Unknown U n k n own San dston e ( Lower Cre tac eu us ) San d-shal e ( Lower Creta ceo us ) Sand Lime-D olo. ( Eoce ne ) Sand ( Pa leozoic ) Sh al e ( Paleozoic ) Sh al e ( U p pe r C re taceo us ) R ed Sh al e (L ower Cretac eo us ) Triassic ; argilli te Qua rt zit e : Pale ozoic ? Granite Cryst allin e

38 65

194 5 Ech ols

Hunt ; Superi or Pin e Produ ct s No. 2

4060 M arl

1945 Ech ols

H unt ; Superior Pinc Product s N o. 3..

4003 M a rl

194 5
194 5 1945 1945 19 4 6 194 6 194 6 194 7 1917 194 7 194 8 194 8 19Hl 19 4 8 194 8 1949 194 9 1949 1949 1950 1950 195 2

Ech ols

Hunt ; Superi or Pi ne

Product s N o. 4

Toombs .. ..Tropic Oil Co .

Wa yn e .

.Bya rs

.

Wa yn e

Byars

.

Crisp .... . K erl yn

Montgomer y Weatherfor d

Bra n tl cv . .Bedin gfi eld .

Decatu r

.D . E. Hugh es

T oombs ....T . R. D avi s

Applin g

..Weath erford

Cli nc h

Sun Oil Co ...

Co lq uitt

R. T . Adams.

Camden

Ca lifo rni a

Ech ols

. . Sup. Pi ne Product s N o. .,

Em anu el ....Bedingfield & Fallin

Bro ok s

.D . E . Hu gh es..

Echols

Humbl e O il Co .

Seminole

. M ont Warren

Calhoun

Tri-C o nstruct io n Co.

Seminole . .Mont Wa rr en .

D ecatur ..

H. L. C ha pma n

.

Cli nch

. George J. M a rolt E t AI. ..

39 16 368 0
345 1965 500 8 34 24 400 37 17 328 0 4098 38 4 8 49 10 4960 39 16 1861 3845 4882 35 72 5 0 00 4000 42 00

Red m ica c. sha le ( L. C re ta ceo us ) Basem ent Sand Sand S. S. Shale ( Lowe r Creta ceous ) Cryst allin e Sand Sand ( Lower C retaceous )
Crys ta lline D a rk sha le ( Paleozoic ) S, Sh ; L. K. Cryst all in e Quartzit e C rys ta lli ne Roc k
Quart zit e Sand Qua r tzite Sand San d

Florida line. The hunt for oil in South Georgia
has been spu rred by th e fact th at several months ago a gushe r was br ought in a t Brewt on , Eseambia County, Alabama . Sin ce th en , four othe r producing wells have been drilled in th e Brewton a rea. These wells arc in th e extrem e southeas te rn section of Alabama, and a re a bou t 110 miles from th e Southwest Geor gia-Alabama line. The first well at Brewton struck oil a t approximately 6,000 feet depth.
The hunt for oil in Geor gia has been further sp urred by the fact th at in 1950 a sta nding bonus of $ 100,000 was offered by th e St ate of Georgia to th e " first p erson or corpora tion bringing in a well whi ch will produce a minimum of 250 bar rel s a day for 30 days."
The Brewton oil comes from th e Tuscaloosa formation. one of th e mo st pr ominent formation~ whi ch crop ou t a t th e surface on th e inn er mar gin of th e Coast al Plain of Alabam a and Geor gia. It is said to be th e oldes t exposed Coast al Plain for ma tion in Geor gia .
The Tuscalo osa strata dip s gently (Con tinued on Page 4 )

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT

NEWSLETTER

Au gu st 15, 1 9 5 ~

Serious Drilling Near Okefenokee

To Provide Real Oil Test In Area

:n (C on ti nu ed from Page
southward . th us farther so u th it is CO \' red bv I; vcr ro cks. a nd is underlain bv ea rlier C oast a l Plain sediments. It is' underst ood th at a "grabe n" or a down-faulted block of ro cks wa s di scovere d under th e surface of th e C oast a l Plain in th e Brewton localit y. Thi s served as a n oil " tra p".
Cap ta in Ga rla nd Peyt on , Georgia's St ate G eologist , sa ys th at " it tak es two things to get oi l: ( I ) O il mu st be prescnt in some of th e beds , a nd (2) there m ust be some struc tu ra l trap to co n fin e it ." Captain Peyt on als o asser ts tha t p etroleum is found in ma rin e roc ks, a n d th at G eorgi a' s Tuscal oosa stra ta con ta ins m arine ro cks.
Ineff ectual effor ts to loca te oi l in Coastal Geor gia hav e been made for th e p ast 40 years, th e fir st ade q ua te test being m ad e, accord ing to C aptain Peyton, in 1938 wh en a rotary rig or drill was first used . This drill went " ro un d a nd round" as well a s " d own" , an d grea tly fa cilitated th e drilling process. The first test was m ad e with th e rota ry drill a t Offerman . in Pier ce Co u n ty , 'in 1938, wh er e g ran ite was reache d a t a d epth of 43 75 fee t- hu t no oil.

und er lease at this tim e, and th e hi gh poi nt was rea ched severa l yea rs ago when lan d under lea se in G eorgia totaled nine m illion ac res . It is leased for so much p er ac re a nd usu all y for a ten-yea r peri od .
Inter est in G eorgi a as a p rosp ective oil-p ro d uci ng area wa s furt her emp ha sized when th e St ate L egislature in 1945 crea te d th e G eorgia Oil a nd G as Commission , whi ch with the State Geology D ep artment a t th e St ate C apitol, is promoting th e di scov ery of oi l in G eorgia .
The Commission is co m po sed o f th following member s a t present :
J a mes P. Dampier , Ad d , Ga., Chai rman ; L. B. H arrell, W aycr oss : J ohn Duncan Jr., Quitman ; H . A. St allings. Director. The offices of the Co mmission a rc a t \Va yer oss.
Since 1938, mo re th an 40 well s h an' been drilled in Georgia , non e of wh ich brought in oi l in com mercia l qu antities-traces of oil be ing fou nd in some instances. T h e deepest well was d ri lled to a depth of 7,487 feet , on ly 27 of the wells going down 3,000 feet or mo re: th e rest , th er efor e, WC1'e not rega rd ed as a de qu a te test s for oil- tha t is. th ey we re too sha llow to find oil.

Outsid e th e Coa st al Pl ain of G eor gia, C aptain Peyton is of th e opin ion " the on ly o the r a re a in th e state con side re d promisin g for po ssible oil or gas dis cov er y wou ld b e in th e nor thw est co rn er, prin cipally in D ad e and Walker Counties, with possib le addition of portions of C ha tto oga an d Ca toosa C oun ti es.
" I n this co rne r of th e sta te ." he says. "we find a small strip of ' Paleoz~i e roc ks which hav e been oil and gas produ cing in sta tes to th e northeast ".
Two Test Wells
T est s have b een made in two well s in H eard Co unty and one in Troup, gr an ite bein g struck a t a bou t 1,000 feet of drilling.
So firm is th e beli ef th at th er e is oil in South G eorgi a th at lin-rally million s of acres of land have been lea sed bv firms a nd individu al s with a hop e th a't th ey might "s trike it rich" wh en a nd if oil is eve r " broug h t in" . It is estimated that a bo u t one mill ion ac res a rc

Sedimentary Rock
Promisin g sed ime n ta ry roc k in G eorgia sta r ts a t a bou t 2,000 feet a nd goes to abou t 10,000 feet (of sed ime n ta ry ro ck ) in th e sou thweste rn corner of G eo rg ia , th en down to 25,000 fr-et in F lori da , ncar th e Gulf.
I n a ll, a p p ro xima tely 500 wells hav e been drilled in Alabama , G eorgia an d Fl orida. M an y a rc bein g du g in th ose sta tes now, an d in 'F lo rid a as far sou th as th e Mi ami a re a .
The coun ties in G eor gia in whi ch wells h ave been drilled a rc : Applin g, Atkinson, Br antley, Bro ok s, Calhoun, C lin ch , Camden , Co lq u itt, Crisp, Coffee, D ecatur, Dougherty, Early, E chols, Emanuel. L auren s. Mitchell. Montgome ry, . Pi er ce, Se minole, T oombs. Treutlcn an d W ayn e in South G eorgia , an d Troup an d H eard Co u n ties far ther north.
All G eorgia will watc h with much int erest th e progress of th e d rilling of th e la test well in C lin ch Co u n tv an d othe rs p lanned for th at sec to r. .

GEO RG IA D E PA RTMENT OF C O MMERCE

Warner Bros. Plans
New $ 4 0 0, 0 00 Plant
~4 t Thomasville, Ga.
W arner Brothers Company, m ak ers of women's found ation ga rme n ts, has begun work on a n ew $400,000 p lant a t Thoma svill e, The com pany h as been ope ra ti ng in Thomasville since 1946 in leased bu ild ings. The new bui lding whi ch will h av e a p proximate ly 32,000 sq . feet of floor space, will enable th em to d oubl e th e present ca pacity an d employ :100 people. Constructed o f ITinf orced stee l and co ncrete , p lans ca ll for sp ri n kk-rs th rou gh out. an d full aircond ition ing .
s. The H &. H Construrtion Supp ly
Company. In r. . of Thom as ville will erect the' bui lding, which is to occupy a six -a i-n - tra ct o f la nd on C ar roll Hill. W ork sta rted th e fir st of Au gu st.
TI1l' Thom asville pl an t is the on ly one whi ch the compan y opera tes in th e Sou th. O t he r p la n ts arc located at Massen a, N. 'Y.. M alon e. N. Y.. a nd Ca n onchc t, R. I.
A. \ V. \Va rn n , vice-p res id en t o r th e company, a n no u nce d p lans for t ill" exp an sion . HI' sa id th at h e is pleased wi th th e ope ra tions of th e T homasvi lk: plant, and th at because of th e smoo th and successfu l ope ra tions th er e, it was d ecid ed to in crease th e p lant ca pacity.
Ben Jessup Named
To Commerce Board
Governo r Ta lmadge h as announced th e appointment of Ben j essup, widel y known bu siness lead er of Cochran , to member ship on th e Bo a rd of Commissione rs of th e G co rgia Department o r Commer ce to succee d j a m r-s \V. \Voodru ff, Sr., of C olumbus, res igne d .
M r. j essu p was elec te d th is yea r to his third term in th e St ate L eg islatu re from Blcckl cv C ountv. H e is in th e a u tomo bile ; nd truckin g busin ess in Co chran, where he op er ates th e Chcvrelet a nd Pl ymouth agen cy. and a lso ha s au tomob ile interest s in Macon . Born in D odg Co unty, he has resid ed in Co chran for 20 vcars a nd bccn a member of it s City 'C ou ncil for eigh t yea rs. Mr. J essu p h as m anifest ed a n a ctive in terest in th e co nm u-rria l an d ind ustria l p rogress of th e sta tr-,
The oldes t boys' hi gh schoo l of CO II tinuou s serv ice in th e U ni ted St a u-s IS Ri chmond Acad em y of Au gusta .

NEWSLETTER

Aug ust 15, 1952

Carrollton-'The Pattern City'-

Chamber at Waycross Names New Executive

Continues Its Pace-Setting Work

F ran k Barfield, for th e last six veal'S execu tive secrctarv of th e G ad ~d en.

C itizens of C arrollton a nd Carroll Co unty trulv believe in th e " Le t's do it together " ap proach to life, and a rc pr oud of its results in th eir a re a. T his strong feeling of unity and coopera tion has brou ght ma ny ad va ntages to bot h town and coun ty, including a way of livin g whi ch has won C a rr ollt on the titl e " Pa tt ern City for Pr ogr essive Georgia," from th e Cotto n M anufactur ers Associa tion of Georgia, and honorable mention in th e G eorgia Power Compan y's C ha mp ionship H omet own Con test.
The coop era tion of Carro llton's 11 .000 citizens has borne fr uit in mod ern T anner M emori al H ospit al, costing a pproxim ately a half million dollars for building an d eq uipme nt, in th e municipal airpor t on th e sho res of L ak e Carroll, an d in Sunset Hills Co un tr y Club, built by th e peop le of th e community. Now four years old, th e club h old s an annual Wom en's O pen G olf Tou rn ament every Septem ber, bri ngin g th ousands of peopl e into Carro llto n . Thi s yea r th e m eet is sched uled for Se ptem ber 5- 7.
L ak e Carroll is one of th e mos t far reaching of th ese joint undertakings. For 20 years th e city ow ned p art of the land wher e th e lak e is now locat ed . Plan s or iginally ca lled for a reservoir for th e wat er supply need ed fo r industri al expansion, but th e depression a nd war ca ncelled a ll th e pl an s for utilizing

of th eir most import ant project s is improvcmcn t of fa rm s a nd comm unities, coopera ting with th e Cou nty Agent in his p rog ram . T he C ha mber spo nso rs a competition for cash prizes amo ng th e 11 Co mmu nity I mprovem ent C lubs in th e county. T he prog ra m in clud es tours of far ms, development of markets , crop con tes ts an d livestock sho ws, a nd farm diver sificati on . Sever al committees cover th e va rious ph ases of fa rming- fa rm crop s, d airy, swine, po ultry a nd beef ca t tle. Also pl aying an impo r ta nt p art in th e coun ty 's pr ogra ms a rc th e serv ice clubs, Ki wani s. Rot a rv, L ion s, Business a nd Pr ofessiona l " "'omen : Pilot, and three garde n club s.
Ca rro llton is th e hom e of W est G eor gia College, a progr essive junior college under th e University of Georg ia System . In addition to th e fin e wor k a lways associa ted with colleges, W est Georgi a ca n cla im an importa nt part in th e n ation all y-fam ou s " College in th e Country" plan. This began in th e small Sm ithfield com munitv in Carro ll Co un tv, M anv of it s citizens had never had ' a chan ~e to grad ua te from high schoo l or college, as many of th eir ch ild ren and grandchi ldren had don e. T h ese people were inter ested in ac q uiring firstha nd som e of th e know ledg e th eir younger members h ad brought hom e from schoo l. F riends fr om W est G eor gia College were called in to hel p,

Ala., Chamber or' Commer ce. is th e new execu tive secreta ry of th e W av -
cross a nd \ Vare Co un ty Ch amber ;Jf
Commer ce, succeeding 'L iston Elki ns. resigned to becom e vice-presiden t of th e Okefen okee Swamp Park Associat ion .
in lectures by th ese p rof essors, was ina ug ura ted, comp lete with grad ua tion exe rcises a nd cer tif ica tes. T he plan was so rewa rding th at it is bein g adop ted by other communities.
Agricultur e is vit al to th e life of th e county. C a rroll Cou nty, with :1,856 fa rms, accordi ng to th e 1950 Cen sus of Agri culture, has th e second la rgest numb er of indi vidually-owned farms of any coun ty in Geor gia . It is one of th e largest p imiento raising counties ill th e n ati on , and also produces la rg(' nu mb ers of broilers.
In industry. C arrollton has don e a n admi ra ble jo b of diversificati on . Thi s fact was p a rtl y responsible for its bting chosen by th e Cotton M anufa ctur ers as th eir Pattern Citv. T he indu stries in Carrollto n include: Dixie Garment Mf g. Co., prod ucing men 's and boy s' pa nt s; H . W. Ri ch a rd s Lum-
bel' Co.; J. B. St allings Ca binet Shop :
Paul D . Williams, building const ruction ; Southland Pr od ucts Co ., concrete mi xed products; Aycock G ins, cotto n ginning ; Southwire Co" copper and aluminu m wire and cable ; Cotton Produ cer s Ass'n ., fertilizer : R oy Rich ards

th e Little T all ap oosa Ri ver. In 1948 and a planned course of study, given

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severa l young men , ineluding th e city

engi neer, revived th e idea and put it

int o action. L ocal citizens bought lak e-

front lot s. on a lak e that was as vet a

mirage, pa ying $350 per lot. One 'hou r

after th e sale began , $35,000 in cash

was ready for u sc a nd work star ted im med iat~ lv . T od av L ak e C arroll cov-

ers 185 acres, wit h cott ages, boat-

hous es, do cks, fishin g pi ers, a nd, of

course, a reservoir.

T he C ar roll Serv ice Council repn'-

scn ts a no ther phase of coope ra tive en -

deavor in th e county. The Council.

whi ch is op era ted by' public subscri p -

tion , is made up of various pan els, in-

clu ding religion , educ a tion, welfa re a nd

rtTreat ion . R epresenting th e wh ole

countv . it coordi na tes effor ts in a ll

th ese 'fields.

T he C hamber of Commerce a nd

Junior Cha mber pl ay an active p art in

the life of th e city and coun ty . One

An aerial view of 11l5-acr e Lake Carroll. at Carrollton .

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G EO R G IA DEPAR TMENT O F C O M M ERC E

:-;EWSLET TER

Aug ust 15, l ~f)2

GEORGIII PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS

20-Unit Tourist Court A new 20-uni t tourist court is being
constru cted at RICHLA ND by J ack T. Cha ppe ll. A two-story central sect ion of Co lonial design , will include offices , lobb y, lounge and registration desk, an d quarters for a resident m anager . T h e brick units will be h eat ed with th e mod ern electric p an el ray, an d thermostatically con tro lled . F urn ishings a re to be varied, including both m odern and Co lonial. The bui lding is on the east side of the Fl ori da Short R ou te, U S 280 and Georgia 55.
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Mines Open in Pickens Three mica min es ar e being opened
in PICK EN S COUN T Y, due to th e sho rtage of high -gr ade mica . T he Govern me n t is beginning a n extensive bu ying program to secure mica necessar y for defense. Two of th e Pickens County mines are located in th e Beth an y section on prope rty owned by C lyde CarlIey. T he th ird is situated on p rop ert y
of S. .J. La wson in th e Dug Road Dis-
tr ict.
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First Egg Plant
Built at Athens
The State Departme nt of Agr iculture has erected at ATHENS th e first egg plant in connec tion with a State Fa rm ers M arket. The new facilities, hou sed under th e same roo f with th e Ath ens Sta te Farmers Market , include office space, receivin g dock, shipping dock, pro cessing room, egg-cooling room a nd freezer room . State Commissioner of Agricult ur e Tom L ind er said th at th e m ark et will be leased to Geo rgia Eggs, I nc., and op erat ed joi ntly wit h the D epa rtme nt to p rom ote egg prod uct ion in N ortheast Georgia . H e contin ued that if this project proves as successful as hop ed, other such plants may be bu ilt in va rious part s of the sta te .
Georg ia Eggs, Inc., a firm organized by businessmen of Athens, is managed
by .J. F . M auld in. President is Ji m
Whi ta ker.
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Modern Cotton Gin A new cotto n gin is under wa y 111
SANDE RSVILLE, owned by T. I. Ha rrison . T he all-stee l and concrete bui ldin g will tak e th e place of a 25yea r old gin. Equipped with th e la test mach inery, it h as oil hea t to dry damp

cotto n. The new gin is one of the most mode rn in th e state.
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Albany to Get Large Cotton Carpet Plant
A. & M . K a ragheusian, I nc., man ufact urers of natio na lly-known G ulista n ca rpets, will establish a plant a t ALBANY for the pr odu ction of cotto n carpets. The com pany h as ente red into a pu rch ase ag reeme nt for the building formerl y known as th e Albany M anu factur ing Co mpa ny, a nd will make addi tions and altera tions as needed . This plant of th e K a ragh eusian Co mpany, wh ich also has plants at Fr eeho ld, N . J., a nd R oselle Pa rk, N . J. , will pro du ce cotton carpets on recentl y developed high-speed equipm ent. It is expected to begin p rodu ction ea rly in 1953.
C ha rles A. K a ragh eusian is chairman of the boa rd, and Steel e 1" Winterer is p resident. George Paul es will be man ager of th e Alban y division .
T he firm, foun ded in 1905 by Arsha ng an d M iran K a ragheusian , has enjoyed gr ea t success. O rigin ally orga nized to imp ort rugs from the O rient , the brothers soon began to man ufacture ru gs in th e U nited Sta tes, starting in th e mill at Freeh old . T he R oselle Park m ill was soon opened and both of th ese divisions hav e trip led in size. At one tim e th e compa ny opera ted a mill in Ti entsin, China, wh ere fin e Orienta ls wer e woven by han d, but thi s mill was recen tly tak en over by th e Co mm unists.
I t is em phasize d by compa ny officials that the Alban y ope ration represen ts an expa nsion of p roduction a nd that the Freeh old an d R oselle Park plan ts will continu e all thei r presen t opera tions.
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Work Begins on New
Sinclair Terminal
Co nst ruction has begun by Sinclair Refining Comp an y on a new $700,000 term ina l at C hattahoo chee, outside of Atla nta . The new fac ilities are being loca ted on a 17-acre tr act of land adjoin ing th e So utheas tern Pipe Line Co.'s product pipe lin!' and th e Sou thern Railway System.
Storage facilities for more th an five million ga llons of gaso line, kero sen e, diesel a nd tractor fuel and home-heat-

ing oil will be provided. A 45,000 square-foot brick office building will also be bu ilt. Plans call for com pletion withi n the yea r.
T rucks and rai lroad ca rs will be load ed by gravity, as tanks will be situat ed on a high section of th e p roperty. The termina l will distrib ut e th e products by rail road tank cars a nd tr an spor t trucks. Three miles of p ipe ar c necessary to connec t th e tanks with the ma in-line system of Southeas tern.
CARROLLTON
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Co nstr uc tion Co., genera l construction; H ester Benn ett Lumber Co. : Carroll Lumber Co.; Plywood Case Co. , lumber doors, sills ; H . W . Rich ards Lumber Co.; Ca rroll M attress Co.; Carro ll Feeds, I nc.; Skinner Pou lt r y Co., pou ltr y p rocessing ; Duffey Sau sage Co ., a nd Fl et ch er Sa usage Co .
Carroll M ills, cotton br aid and yam; Cunard Mill s, In c., br aided cor d a nd ru gs; F a rmers M ill, hosier y : K on tz M fg. Co ., cotton ca rpeting, lau ndry nets and trimming ; Stewart Brai d Mill. br aid ; Styl cwisc M ills, nylon cloth : Vaughn H osiery Mill , hosiery ; and Wo llun Mill s, ven etian blind tap e and kn itted dish cloths.
Ca rrollto n's largest industries an ' M andeville Mill s) with 650 employees pr oducing cotto n ya rn; Law ler H osiery Mill , In c., with app roxima tely 300 em ployees, Dixie Garme n t Co ., 120 em ployees; M aryon H osiery M ill, employing 125, an d Gen er al Sho e Corp., wit h 120 employees. The Southwirc Co mpa ny, one of th e few wire plants in th e Sou th, has expa nde d th ree times in its short life, th e Wollu n Mi ll has ('n larged its faciliti es and D ixie Garment Co. recen tly adde d a finishing dep a r tmen t, employing 50 peopl e.
T he coun tv has several fine newspa pers- a tri-weekly. the T imes-F ree Press. a nd th e Carroll Coun tv Gcorgian, a weekly. both published ' in Carrollto n: th e Bowdon Bu lletin. th e V illa Rica Breeze an d th e Villa Rica n, all weeklies. Carro llto n's radio sta tion, WLBB , is hou sed in a new br ick hui lding, comp lete with air-con dition ing a nd the la test in radio equi pment.
Ca rro llton is a ll excellen t exa mple of wh at peop le can do whe n th ey wor k toget her.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM MERCE

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j\ E\VSL ETTER

Georgia Picture-Frame Producer

Banker at Wayc ross He ads Melno ria l Club

Ranks As One of World's Largest

Geor gia is the hom e of on e of the two largest ma n uf actu rcrs of pi ctureframe mouldings in the world- G eor-

g-ia Art Sup ply Company of At lan ta, with mill and lu mber vard a t Bolt on .

From a mod est bt:ginn i;1g in 1910, thi s

co mpa ny ha s grown to h ave 12 sa lesmen cove ring th e entire coun try, six

ac tive age nts in for eign count ries, and

over 6,000 active accoun ts.

Thou gh th e m ain product of th e

co mpany is pi cture-frame m oulding, other item s suc h as framed pictures a nd mirror s, met a l and wood ph ot o-

graph fr ames, and a r tist's stre tche r str ips a cco un t for a large and stead y year-round volume of bu siness. This is

th e only com pany in th e coun try m anu facturing all of th e item s m en tioned.

In thi s sma ll ind ustry, dem anding

q ua lity a nd highly-skill ed wo rk, a com-

pan y suc h as G eor gia Art ca n only be

built by a slow-growth p rocess. Lon g years of ex perienc e a nd a lar ge invest-

men t in m ach in ery and invr-ntorv a rc necessa ry.

The com pa ny pr ides itself on th e high q ua lity of its mouldings, m ad e with specia lly-built, hi gh-speed m ould-

er m a chines. These m a chines a rc vcrv differ ent from moulder m a chines used by lumber ya rds in th e running of building a nd trim mouldings, since picture moulding must be produ ced to mu ch mor e exacting tol eran ces. M any

customers want to duplicate a mou ld -

ing ordered severa l years previ ously

a nd expect design s to rna tch in cvcrv

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the plac e of th e human han d . F inishes \'a ry fro m th e inex pensive bla ek mo uld ings used on diploma a nd ccr tifica u: fra mes to the gold -lea f fini sh es used on th e mos t expe nsive port ra its.
Lumber com panies in Geo rg ia kn ow this compa ny a s one of th e largest user s of select hardwood s in th e South. Its spe cifica tions on lumber a rc verv ex acting since a ll its pi cture-fram e m ou lding is eigh t by twelve feet in len g th , with ver y few defect s permissihlc. Approx imately 80 per cent of th e lumber used is popl a r a nd bas swood , with th e rem aining 20 per cent bein g oa k.
M et al photogr aph fr ames p roduced by Geor gi a Art a rc pl ated in 24-karat go ld or silver in mod ern electro-pla ting ta nks especia lly design ed by th e company's eng ineer for this usc. At p ea k product ion , over 10,000 fr am es can 1)(' pla ted in one eight -hour-da y shift. M ost of th ese meta l frames a rc pro du ced fro m bra ss. Ther e a rc over 40 sepa ra te and d istin ct desig ns used in thi s one dep a rtmen t. In the Iive years th at G eor gia Art has been manufacturing m et al ph ot o frames, it ha s rea ched th e position of bein g th e thi rd la rgest manufa cturer of sta nda rd metal photo frames in th e count ry, not including certain less ex pe nsive typ es of frames.
An efficient ex po r t dep artment is m aintained by Georgia Art, thus bringing busin ess to Geor gia th at wou ld

O ne of th e m ost exclusive clubs ill the cou ntry- the five- member IZober t Stric kland ' Agricu ltural M l' m o l' i a I Award Club-met recent ly in Augu sta . The m em ber ship of th is club is lim ited to the exec utive offi cer representing ea ch of the ban ks tha t ha ve received th is a wa rd fo r di st ing uished han k St' I"\'in' to ag ricult ure in G eo rgia.
Presented by th e Trust Co mpa ny of Geo rgia, th e awa rd goes to one bank in G eorgia eac h year, th us holdin g down th e an n ua l ga in in club membership to one m ember.
M ember s of th e club chos e th e following office rs for thi s yea r : Pr esidcn t, G eor ge M . Bazemore, president First Nati on al Bank in W aycr oss a nd imm edi at e past presiden t a n d form er chairma n of th e ag ricultura l com m ittee of th e Ge orgia Banker s Association ; Vic e-President C . R . Bradford , president Fa rm ers Ban k, M onroe, a nd a past president, also fo rme r cha irman of th e ag ricult ural com m ittee, of th e G BA : and Trea sur er, J oh n A. Mills. p reside nt Bank of Screven Coun ty.
Other m em ber s of the cl~b arc W . N. Sha d den, exec utive vice-pre sident First Natio na l Ban k of Cartersvi lle, an d W . D . T rip pe, p residen t Commer~ cial N ati on al Bank, Ce da rto wn.
other wise go to mor e di stant poin ts in other states. A Sp anish -speaking export m anager is em ployed , ena bling thi s com pany to ca rryo n its own corresponden ce in th e native ton gu c of most of th e coun tries to which it s prod u cts arc sold .

The m oisture conten t of picture mou lding has to be regul ated ve ry ca refully and held a t approxima tely seven to eigh t percent. Geor gia Art ha s it s own d ry kiln for this purpose.

Embossing ro llers arc im port an t in th e m anufa ctu re of pi cture moulding. Over 200 specia lly-built em bossing 1'011('J"S arc used in producing t he com pan y's many design s. Some of these rollers cost as much as $200 ea ch . T hr compan y a lso possesses over $5,000 worth of specia l kniv es used on m ould IT m achines ma king picture- fram r moulding .

Mu ch of th e work a t Geor gia Art is don e by hand, as m a ch inerv on beau tiful orna te mouldings ca n 'neve r tal -

T he end of t ~c assemb ly linc in thc Phot o Frame Department of th e G eor gia Art Supp ly Company III At la nta. H ere shipmen ts are carefully packed to pr event br eakage

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Georgia Plants Awarded Defense Contracts

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firm s in rece

awarde d nt weeks

G ov ernm include

en t th e

following :

Dixie Co nstruc tion Co. of Georgia,

Inc.. S AVANNA H-constr uction of

sewt:r system . Cha rlesto n Airf ield.

$:144,061 : .

Wh ite F urni ture Co ., JENKI N S-

:;URG- -4 ,594 folding wood c a;';' i~ ta o

blcs, $29,171; and 11,352 foldin g camp

tabl es. $72,085 .

Atl anta Paper Co ., ATLANTA -

.f03,150 sh ipping boxes, $32,84 2.

W . P. Childs M ach inery, ATLA N-

TA- on e electric horizontal pr ecision

boring, dr illin g a nd millin g- machine,

floor typ e com plete with all opera ting

eq uipme nt, listed accessor ies a nd spa re

parts, $26 ,616 .

Simmons Plating Works, A1LA N -

TA - chrome plating gun tubes, $223,-

89 4 .

Co tswo ld F ibr es, Inc., CO LUM BUS

- 5,207 rls. barrier mat eri al. grease -

proof, .$49,040 .

Fulton Bag & Co tto n Mill s, A T L AN-

TA - 65,824 Ibs. burlap an d osna burg

tubing, .$36,093 .

N . M . Bentley, lHAC ON-Struc tu-

ra l a nd exte rior reh ab ilitati on of 32

mob ilizati on type buildings, $35,388.

St eel Prod ucts Co ., Inc., SA V A N -

N A H-64 semi-trailers, exceeds $250,-

(l00: 132 semi-tr a ilers 712 ton , exceeds

.~ 2 5 0, 0 0 0 .

Willin gh am Co tto n Mill s, MA CU N

- cotton du ck and nvlon 704.000 l.v..

.~ 1,132,7 30.

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C a llaway M ills Co. , LAGRA N Gl~'

cotton du ck a nd nvlon, 5.668 .600 l.v..

$6,749,84 7.

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Savanna h Suga r R efining- Corp., SAVA NNA H - 400 .000 Ibs. sugar, g-ra nula ted . sac ked . .$~ 5,3 7i .

Croft-M ullins Electric Co ., MA CO N

- $27,556.48, installin g ae rial electrical

dist ribution a nd stree t ligh ting system

at Eglin Air For ce Base, Fl orid a.

Pat chen & Zimmer man . A U GUSTA

- reh abilita tion project 'a t V ol unteer

O rd nance Plan t, C ha tta nooga , $20,-

000,000.
J St :lrlci l C onstru ct ion (~ (r.-, ~'l S,Pl~'R

- constru ction of ut ilit y building a nd

recr eat ion area buildings a nd ut ilit ies

at Allat oona Dam - $45.785.

Co lum bus Mfg. Co ., CO LUM BUS-

:)00,000 l. y. cot to n du ck, $2 13,300.

Will iam Arm stron g Smith Co. , I~AST

PO I NT-33,000 ga ls. ena mel, $54 ,-

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Taylor Construction Co ., MA CO N

- R ehabilita tion of hospit al fa cilities.

$::; 6,772.

Acm e Construc tion Co. , COCH R AN

- Resur facing existing bitumin ou s sur -

faces, $75,240.

H ay's H eating- a nd Plumbing Co.,

MA C ON-Reh abi litation of hospital

stea m-plant and distribution syste m .

$'1-8 ,000 .

She rida n- Puna ro Co .. M A CON -

M odificati on of utilities' for Bldg. No.

11 91, $30,255.

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E. V. Cam p Steel Works, A T L ANT A- G round lin ks. links. shackles. ~ wivals, ground rings, etc ., ' .$4 7,9 16.

St apl et on Ga rme nt Co ., S T A PL ET ON - Case, wat er rep ellent, hag. sleeping , 50,000, $50 ,000 .

The Warren Co. , In c.. ATLA NTA Prefabricat ed refri ger ator s, .$1 19,020 : 609 refriger at ed display cases, $465.694; 147 ref riger at ed display cases, $ 116, 199.

Harlem Mf g. Co., H AR L EJ'vI- T o cut and manufactu re enlisted men's

ra inco a ts, 59,000, $164,675 .
R. A. Bowen , Inc., lHA CON - Pm'ing parking a rea , U . S. N ava l Ordnance Plant, Macon , .$31,000.
J ackson & Brittain, SA V A N N AHAlt er ati on s a nd renovati on s to existing bui ldings and const ruction additiona l building, U . S. N ava l Ordnan ce Plant, M acon , $ 154,000 : construction addition al buildings, $ 103,853.
GcC'!':;; :~ Sou the rn Co nstructio n C P.. .\1A CON- E rection of butler huts, Naval Ordnance Plant, M acon , $26,082.
Espy Paving a nd Construction Co ., SA V A N N AH- Constructi on of sewage pump stati on a nd rehabilitation of sanitary scwag e system, M arine Corps R ecru it Dep ot. Parris Isla nd, S. C ., $59,.i 66.
Conn Structo rs, A TLANTA - Constru ction of supply office and warehou se and exte nsion to bu ildi ngs, Ma riri e C orps Air St a tio n, Ch erry Point. N . C ., $ 1,313,0 13.
Newman Brothers C o., A UG US"I'A - Altera tions to second floor , pavin gparking a rea and erec t secu rity fen ce, Naval Reserve Train ing Ce nter, Augusta -$6 1,790.
J ack C lark, Co ntrac tor, ALBA N"YPav ed roa d a nd pa rkin g, U . S. Navy M ine Co untermeasu res Sta tion . Pan ama City, Fl a ., $28,9 75. :
.J. R. Ledbetter R oofin g Co., sr.
LANTA-Reconditioning roofs on 29 post buildings, Ft. M cPherson . $33,:16::; .
Floor s. Inc.. ATLANTA - Cu stodi al
services i'or Ft. M cPh erson , $69, 179.
Southern Supply & Equipment Co ..
7 ATLANTA - Petroleum equipme nt.
gasoline met ers, $8,070.
Puritan Chem ical Co ., ATLANTA - W ater em ulsion floor wax. $28 ,236 .

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