- _ I e" ! .~ )/ { Vo l. 3, No . 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. . 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 I 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- I 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- (Con tin ued on Page 4 ) 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 . - 0- 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 . - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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; - 0- 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." '(C on tin ued on Page 4 ) . ;\ \ 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. . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E ~ D 4 G ~ u li ~ V u1 ~ J C a G JO A+1SJ &A1 Un S B I J BJ Q1 1 A+ 1 GJ BA1 Un a q l + UBj 2s1 n o1 r Sl n 191 'oN ~!uua d 'RD 'RFmnV P!gd :3: DV.LSOd 'sn u W 'T d 99 '1'[; ';);)S 'VI E1~03E1 ' E: 'V.LN'V-'.L'V ' D.Ll dV ::J 3.LV.LS DO L 3:::J~3~~O:::J ..:lO .lN3~.l~Vd3a V18~038 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. r 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 , 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 (Continued on Page 4 ) 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 (C on tin ue d on Page 4 ) 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 - 0- 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 - 0- 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, - 0-- 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 - 0- 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 - 0- 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 - 0-- 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. - 0-- 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 - 0- 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 . G EORG IA DEPARTM EN T O F COMMERC E \ ', 191 '0N ~!UI.lad "BD 'BWBnv P !~d :3:DV.LSOd 'sn '11 'Ill ''l'd gg 'f>f: ';);)S VIEJ~03EJ ' E: V.LNV.,.LV ' C ..Ll d V ::I 3 .l.V.l.S C C l 3:J~3W~0:J .::10 .LN3~.L~Vd3a VIEI~03E1 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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 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 (Contin ued on Page 4 ) sec th at scr ap m oves p romptly. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF C O ~'I M E RCE - t: D ' ::: ~ J r.i ~ V u l ~~ ooa J O ~ ~l : J D~l~ n 0 41 s OT ~ ~,1 ~ ~ 1 l ~ 1 :~ : ~1 i: n c ~l 191 'oN ~nlU.l a d "'BD ' 'B~Ul~ nv P!l?d :iIDV.LSOd 'sn u 'l? ''1' d 99 'tf: O;)S V IEl~D3El ' V.LNV'.LV ' O.J. ld V::J 3 .J.V.J.S 00 l 3:J~31f\l1f\l0:J .:10 .LN31f\l.L~Vd3a VIEI~03E1 Broiler Ind ustr y In Georgia (Continued from Page 1) 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 (Con tin ued on Pag e 4 ) (C ontin ued on Page 4 ) 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. ' - 0- 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. - 0- 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 - 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 .. 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 (C on tinued on Page 4 ) GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M E RC E v ~ .... .... 1,. . _ ~ ) ' . . .....-.. - _-. .. (' .~ , ~ .... . r .. ~ ~ 1".. __ :- ... ;; . r _ . ., i r -. ' l , . . . .. . I i .. 191 'ON ~Huua d 'BD 'BWBHV P!Pd ::iIDV.L SOd 'S'[1 '11 ~ ''I'd 99'vf: ' oas V1El~03El ' E: V.LNV.,.LV 'O.Lld't::J 3.L't.LS DO L 3::::J~3~~0::::J ..:10 .lN3~.l~Vd3a V 18~038 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 ." - 0- 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." - 0-- 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. - 0-- 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. -0-- 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 ) ~.:if:':;:."":.:_..':~.l"t~~_.: :i.J; _ .4. _ ..,. ,. ~Ilf.. .(t'"'.:- ";':~ 1. (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 'SD ' s u a lii 'tJ '81 ~~Oe D JO Ailt.J 8A1Un sel~&~q l1 A il r~ aA1Un a 41 i U '8 .!1 e Cl11 c'l "1!'1 191 oN 1!lUJ 8d uD 'UluuIlV Pled :iID V .LSOd 's'n '~ :lSI ''1"d 99'pf; ';);)S VIEI~03E1 -c V.l.NV..,.l.V 'OJ.. ld"':J 3J.."'J..5 00 L 3:J~3~~0:J .::10 .lN3~.l~V'd3a V'1EJ~03EJ 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 I , .1 1J \....ll H J l! ,I l il t; . .. l; 1J l C I lJ l l :,)l" , 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 St lu 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- (C ontinued on . Page 3 ) ( 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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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 . - o- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 (C on tin ued from Page 1) " 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. (C on tin ued on Page 4 ) (C ontin ued on Page 4 ) GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - "C D 'G U O li ~ 'rJ B l~JO Qn J O ~ 11 S ~ ~A l un a~ l S Gl11 ~ J q1 1 ~ ~ 1: ~1 0 Al un a~ J. suo I s I AIG s Uc 11 l sT n b 8V 191 oN '!P.u.lad BD 'BfuBIlV Pl I?d 3:DV.LSOd 'sn .(1 ~ Td ggvs ;las VI8~D3E1 'E V.LNV...,.LV 'OL ldV:::J 3 LVL S 00 l 38~3~~08 ~o .LN3~.L~Vd3a VIEl~03EJ 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 (Con tin ued fr om Page 3 ) 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 . -- .. - ... r I x e e r - r cr ' \ e c o r I o \,."...,orI TI on \,.,rop ,..... 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, . 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- As an nounc ed by Ro y A. Flynt, Sta te lJ : t.. nl _: ~ 1:"_ _= _ : _~ 1 _~ . . ...... 5 ' .. " U ) .. H .tt ll ltl i S .l....Ill t;lll '-.. L t , Jl1 cl .1'-.. 1.-- Th e va lu es a rr ived a t from 1948 I r'i _ _ " __ 1 'T' -4 \ \ v U U l JJ.JlIC U Ull 1 d g t.: 1 ) most en tirely devot ed to agricult ur e, (CUJJ lil1lI ~d o n Page 3 ) . ESTIMATED VALUE OF O UT-OF-STATE T RAVE L 'WITH IN G EO R G IA 1948 D a i ly Annually .. 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 ;,;1 p leasu re . -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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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, - 0- 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. - 0- 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. . The' new plant brings to six the num - he r of m a jor proccssinu plan ts in th e Ga inesville a rea . - 0- 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. "- 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 " 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. ~ 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 . ' .. 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- (Con tin ued fr om Page 1) 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 . (Contin ued on Page 4 ) GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF G O ~vf M E R C E ~ lr~ o O ~ J O S0 7~ ~ ~~ ~ !1 -c D' S tl J ~+V ~ 11: J G h l ~ n G~~ r ~ T :~C ~l ~ n oCL 191 'oN ~!UI.lad 'uD 'uw unv P!~d ::iWV.LSOd 'S 'U '11 ~ "I'd 99'f7f: ';las V IEJ~03EJ ' V .lNV.,.lV 'O.1.ld'1 :J 3 .1.'1.1.5 CO l 3:::J~3WWO:::J ..:10 J.N3vU~'Vd3a 'VIEJ~03 EJ 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 (C on tin ued from Page 1) 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. , Vo l. 3,.- No-.8-------------------------_--.:. N~ ov. e::m::.b:::;er-~1~ 0, 1~ 95 1 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 (C ontin ued on Page 2) (Con tin ued on Page 4 ) 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 . -0- 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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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, (Contin ued on Page 3 ) 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. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF 80MMERCE ,- ~ L. ~ j I __ . . - . . - .... ~ ~ v v, I J ,.... - - ... . .; 1 _-~ " r / . ... .... . .. . l - . , \" ,1 "' 191 'oN ~! uI.l a d 'ED 'EWEnv P!l?d :iIDV .LSOd 's'n .~ W ''1"d 99'vl: O;)S VIEJ~D3EJ 'c V.LNV-'.LV 'O.LldVO 3.LV.L5 00 L 3::J~3~~O::J ~o .LN3~.L~V'd3a V'1~~03EJ 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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 . " , 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. n ," . (' . . 1 . _ .. 1 ' l ' 1 O,llU .1 l; l l1 IJe H l idoL- lo:) JH l C LV l.l ..11 :') ui gll - 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 Th e rot ogr avure secti on of your Sun- (Continued on Page 4 ) (Con tinued on Page 4 ) 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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. - 0- 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 . -0- 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 . - 0- 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. - 0- 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. . 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. ' , 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. ' 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 dem and . GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE ~ D ' Z U 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. ' , 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. ' W righ t Contracti ng Co ., COLUM- BUS- R eloca tion of Virginia Secon- dary Highway 712, exceeds $250 ,- 000 .00. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE - tlD ' SU0 4l V U I 2Jo ~ D J O A11 SJ ~AI Un e 4l " S~ l J ~ Jql1 A11 SJ ~ AI Un o ~l s uo l s 1Al G sU ol1 1s 1nb ov 191 ' 0 N ~! UI.Ia d '~D 'BlUBHV P!Pd :!IDVJ..SOd 'S'U ' 1{ W ''1' d 99'tf: 'OVAINSBORO-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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 . - - 0- 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. -0-- 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. -0-- 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. - 0-- 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 UD ' SU;:Hi ':l-b' BI BJ CGQ J O h':l- l SJ 0A1 un 8 41 s Ol ~ a~ ql 1 h1 1SJ GAI Un 04 1 s u ols 1L 1Q u ol1 1 s 1n bav 191 'oN ~~utlad E8 'EWEllV' P!l? d :iIDVJ,SOd 'sn '(I W ''1"d 99'rl': ';las V1 8C:1038 ' V.1.NV'.1.V ' D.l.ld\;f:J 3 .l. V .l. 5 0 01 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 (Continued from Pagc 1) 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. , 1 / \7 I '-- ./" " -/ -':> ~, ..-:, ,l j ; '--i r---' ) 3 Vol :1, No. 19 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 rc th h a vi n u em il~" th e sc v- 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- , ._ . , !'t::,l.llJ~~.L-=::! 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. (Continued on Page 3 ) 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 ." - 0- 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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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 (C ontin ued from Page 1) 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 (Continued on Page 4 ) GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M ~TERCE 191 'oN ~nUlJa d 'ED 'EWEllV Pll?d :ilD V.LSOd 's'n 'R 2,Y ''1' d 99 't8 ';las i GENERAL LIBRARY ,IIJN 10 1952 I UNIVERSITY OF GE~ I.-...-... ..J 'VIEJ~03EJ 'E: 'VJ.N'V.,J.'V 'O..L. ld... :J 3..L.....L.5 00 L 3:::J~3lr'tlr'tO:::J ~o .LN3lr't.L~Vd3a VIEI~03E1 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. - 0-- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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, - 0- 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. . - 0- 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. . - 0- 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. " '- 0 - 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. - 0- 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 . - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 . ~ GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE r . .... '" - 1", _ ~ r _ . ~ ... . _ _ . . .; .....: . . ~ '. I , ::: t '., . .. ., - .J ... . : ~ T -, ~ 191 'oN ~!lU.lad 'ED 'EWEllV' P1Pd :!IDV.LSOd 's'n 'l:! ~ 'Td 99' y!: ':las VIEl~03E1 'E V.LNV'.LV 3:_::J~:3 ~~o:i ~,col.l-d-i'fN':J33~l..Vll.S~VcodI3a VIEl~~3El 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 . " 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.~. lS2 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- " 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 o . . 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 (C ontin ued on Page 6 ) s 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 . - 0- 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 . - 0- 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 . - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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 (C ontinued F rom Page 5 ) 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. M au v p ri n ted of o on ur pa na t per iona coa lte dm :w\~iatzhin eI-sIu an' be r d a ys- j ust as ma ny newspa pers a n' 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. 7 G EO R G IA DEPARTMEN T O F C O M M ERC E " "C D I s U<:; t; i V tT ~ ~i S C~} ] 0 l~ ~ : ~::. 1i:~ 2 u.I, 191 'oN ~nUIJad "eD 'lq uellV PlPd :iID V.LSOeI 'sn '~ ~ ''1' d 99'tl: ' ;las VIEl~03El ' V.1.NV.,.1.V 'OJ.ldY::J 3J.VJ.5 00 I 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. . 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. . 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 . , / ...., .2s-' , DEPAUTMENT OF [OMMEUCE NEWSL TTER AUGUST 15 . 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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 . 5 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. - 0- 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. - 0-- 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. - 0- 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. - 0- 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. - 0-- 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 (Con tinued from Page 5 ) 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 6 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 ITsp eet. " . 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 7 GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF CO r-.n vIE RC E 191 'oN lJwJad ''ED ''ElU'En V P1Pd aov J,SOd 's'n 'R ~ ''1"d 99'y& ';las VIEI~03E1 'f: V.1.NV'.1.V 'C.1.ld'o'O 3.1.'0'.1.5 CC I 3:J~3 1,j,'H'~D:J ..::lD J.N3~J.~'Vd3a 'V1EI~D3EJ Georgia Plants Awarded Defense Contracts conGtcroacr~usia 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. . .' . C a llaway M ills Co. , LAGRA N Gl~' cotton du ck a nd nvlon, 5.668 .600 l.v.. $6,749,84 7. . .. . .. Savanna h Suga r R efining- Corp., SAVA NNA H - 400 .000 Ibs. sugar, g-ra nula ted . sac ked . .$~ 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 ,- 42 5 . 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. . 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 . ., 11 11~)l~J~lm'?lfi~iIG"~I~rfAlllrIII 3 2108 05732 6368 :l r.