, , 1 DEPAnTMENT OF [DMMEU[E ...- ;- J EWSLETTER )CTO BER 10, 19 5 3 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMA N E. TALl\[ADGE G ove rn or BOARD OF COMMISSIONER S EM O RY L. BUTLER Chairman Lonni e A. Pop e, V. Chm . Ben Je ssup Y. F. Geeslin Hok e Peters * CL ARK GAINES S ecr e t a r y Vol. 5, No. October 10, 1953 Geo rgia Products On Display D uri ng th e week of O ctober 11-17, the Atla nta Woman's C lub will spon sor Georgia Prod ucts Week. Nearl y 400 Georgi a m anufacturers' pr odu cts will be on display. All Georgia manufacturers ar e invit ed to send sam ples of th eir product s, and the public is invit ed to a ttend th e exhibit from 9-5 during tha t week. Leather, clothing, preserv es, paper, pottery, towels, plastic rain coat s, flowers, mea t and processed poult ry- a wide va riety of items will be show n. Following th e last da y of th e exh ibit a dinner will be h eld . Pro ceeds from this will be don at ed to underprivileged ch ildren at th e Formwalt Schoo l. COVER PICTURE This cla ssic corridor of a rc hes a t historic Fort Pul aski is a favorite sight for Georgia visitors. Loca ted on Cocksp ur Island, it comm a nds th e mouth of the Savannah Ri ver. The F ed er al for tress was begun in 1831 ; it too k 16 years to comp lete, con ta ins 13 million br icks an d cost one million dolla rs. T he semicircula r marks in th e floor a re rid ges for ca nnon tro lleys. The fort covers a n area of app roximately 724 acres. On O ctober 15, 1924 it was ma d e a N ation al M onu ment by Pr esidential proclamation . The gro unds a nd buildings are carefully p reserved a nd a n inter estin g museum with histori c relics is maintain ed th er e. - Photo by Ca rolyn Cart er. O CTOBER 1 2- 3 0-A th ~ns : C PA R eview Cou rse, U n iversity of Georgia . O CTOBER 14-16- Atl a nt a : O ccup ational H ealth Work Co nfe rence, At la nta Di vision , University of Georgia . OCTO BER IS-Atlanta : Fifth Ann ual Retail C linic, Atlanta Division , University of Georgia. O C T O BE R 12-16- Augusta : Geor gia Indep endent Oil men's Association Fall Co nve ntion a nd Golf T ourn ament, Bon Air H ot el. OC T O BER 15 - 18- Savann ah : Georgia Acad emy of General Pr actice Co nference, DeSoto H ot el. O CT O BER 16- A t I a n t a : Ann ual M eet ing of Associa ted In du stri es of Georgia, B;;(more H ot el. O CT O BE R 16-1 7- A th e n s : C ityCo unty Attorn eys' In stitu te, U niversity of Georgia . O CTO BER 18-2 1-Atlan ta: Geor gia Dent al Associat ion Con fere nce, Biltmore H otel. O CTOB E R 19-24-Sylvester : Worth Co unty Ce nten nial. O CTOBER 20-22-A u gus t a : 58th Co nve ntion of G e 0 I' g i a U nited Dau ght ers of the Confederacy, Bon Air H otel. OCT O BER 22-25-Brun swick : Co nvention of Georgia L ibra ry Association, King & Prin ce H otel. OCT O BER 23- Atl ant a : C h u r c h N ews Clin ic, Atl ant a Division, U niversity of Georgia . NO VE M BE R 1-4-Savann ah : Georgia Conference on Social Welfa re, DeSoto H otel. NOVEMBER 12-13-Athens: 6th Annu al South eastern Short Co urse on th e Ca use a nd Pr even tion of Econom ic Waste in th e M a rketing of F ruit s a nd Vegetables, U niversity of G eo rgia. NO V EM BE R 19- Ath ens : Dedication of th e new L ibra ry, U niversity of Geo rgia . NOVEMBER 19-20-Atlanta : 2nd Annual Sou theas tern Tra nsportation C linic, Atlanta Div ision , U nive rsity of Georgia . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE O ctob er 10, 1953 O CTOBER 5- 10- LaGrange : T roup Co unty Fair. O CTOBER 5- 10- .1 a c k son Butts Coun ty Fair. O CTOBE R 5- 1O- Mo nteZllma: M acon Co unty F air. O CTO BER 5- 1O-Swainsboro : Em anuel Co un ty Fai r. O CTO BE R 7-1O- Summer ville : Ch at tooga Co unty F ai r. O CTOBER 8- IO-Ringgold : Ca toosa Co un ty Fair. O CT O BE R 12-1 7- St at esboro : Bulloch County Fai r. O CTO BE R 12-17-Americus : Sumter Co un ty F air. O CTO BE R 12-17-Rome : Coosa Valley F air. O CTO BER 12-1 7- Bainbridge : Decat ur Co un ty Fai r. O CTOBER 12-17-Pemb roke : Bryan Co un ty Fair. OCT O BER 12-1 7-Eas tma n : Dodge Co unty Fai r. OCTO BE R 14-\Vood burv : W o o d bury Pim ien to Festival. . OCTO BE R 14-A ustell : Austell Fall Fes ti va l. O CTOBE R 19-24-Macon : Geo rgia State Fai r. O CTO BER 19-25- T ifton: T ift COUIlty Fair. O CTOBER 26-3 1- Cordele: Ce ntral Geo rgia Fair. O CTO BER 26-3 I-Moultrie : Co lq uitt County Far m Bur eau Fai r. NOV EM BE R 2-6- Na shv ille : Berri en County F ai r. N O VE M BER 2-9-Savannah : Co astal Empire Fai r. Beverly Brown, Georgia's new Maid of Cotton. NEWSLETTER O ct ober 10, 1953 Georgia's Tobacco Crop This Year Breaks Past Records As To Poundage and Income Bright-lea f tobacco sa les this yea r a t 19 South Geor gia m arket s broke a ll record s both for pounds sold and fo r th e mon ey income. Du rin g th e sale seaso n, from July 17 th rough Augu st 2 '~, pounds sold a t the Geo rgia mark et s tot a led 155,170,266, which bro ught $79,9 23,828.18, at an a\'crage of 5 1.5 1 cen ts a pound . This comp ares with th e next biggest year 1951-when 155,053,010 pounds sold for $ 70,859,760. 75, an in cr ease thi s vea l' of 117,256 poun ds and $9,064,067.43 over 1951. Of th e sales thi s yea r, 136,788,710 Otto Orkin Termed 'Pied Piper of U. S.' F ifty -one yea rs ago, a boy of 14 in Penn sylvania becam e a door-to-d oor salesm an of a rsenic as a "sure -fire ra t killer" to hou sewives and fa rmers. A few yea rs la ter he moved to Ri ch mond , Va. , a nd opened a small ex ter min a to r's shop. The shing le he hung ou tside his door read " O rkin th e R at M an ." To- day, with headquarter s in Atlanta, he pr esides over the world' s la rgest extermi na ting busin ess, grossing nine mi llion dollars a year, wi th some 227 offices in 24 sta tes and em ploying over 1,500 peopl e. Several months ago , th e Kiplinger magazine, C han ging Times, found the subject so in ter esting tha t they pub lished a double-page fea ture in th e regard, ca lling Otto O rkin " Am erica' s Pied Pip er. " Th e a rticle reads in part as follows : " In Ri chmond (where he ope ne d a small shop nea rly 50 years ag o ) progress wa s slow. Exter m ina tors p lied a n un env ied trade. Cu stomers turned to them onlv as a la st resort. When th e: ex term ina tor made h is ca ll, he ca me down back a lleys and en tere d thro ugh back doors, so th e neighbors wo uld n't know. Young Otto seemed to h ave em bar ked up on a ca reer th at could bring him only un pleasant not oriety and ver y littl e in com e. " But O tto noticed that th e h ouseholders of Ri ch mond had unw elcome visitors in ad d ition to rats- ugly, crawlIng things th a t inf ested food , a tc woo l, or burro wed passages under hou ses an d in gigan tic invasion lit er ally a te po unds wer e sold for Georgia growers, with 18,381 ,556 pounds being gro wn ou tside G eorgia but sold a t Geor gia ma rk et s. The ga in in import ance of th e tobacco crop in Georgia is shown by a com pa rison of this year's figures, both in producti on a nd mon ey, with th e cro p 21 yea rs ago . In 1932, the crop totaled 12,171 ,179 pou nd s, whi ch bro ught $ 1,26 7,211.07, th e avera ge p rice being 10.4 1 cents a pou nd . Tobacco has been ca lled Georgia' s " m ira cle cro p" beca use of its ra pid gain CIT Y : Ad el Ba xley Blackshea r C laxto n Douglas F itzgerald H ahira H azlehurst M etter M ou ltri e Nashvi lle Pelh am Q u i t m an Sta tesboro Sylvest e r Tifton V al dosta Vid a lia W a yc ross T otals Lb s. So ld by Farmers: 4,6 17,846 Ibs. 5 ,964 , 7 14 10,889,864 6,908 ,1 72 12,26 4 ,48 2 5,603,938 4,594,454 5 ,9 26 ,3 04 7,5 23,211 10 ,4 6 2, 774 9,940,790 5,69 0,171 4,300,0 12 18 ,58 5 ,6 40 3, 126,982 11,70 3,32 2 8,95 7,562 12,9 34 ,24 2 5, 175,786 155,1 70,266 Ibs. of impor ta nce in th e sta te sinc e 1917 , wh en boll weevils in vaded Georgia and th e othe r Southern sta tes and ca used farmers to turn to g ro wing new crops - toba cco being in the diversified p ro gram ad op te d . Officia l sales in 1953 as repo r ted by th e warehouse op er ators as req ui red by Geor gia law to th e Geor gia D ep ar tment of Agriculture, T om Linder , Co m m issione r, a nd compiled by Guy D . J a ckson, chief sta tisticia n of th e D epartm ent, a t th e 67 wareho uses wher e sa les were held, wer e as follows: Amoun t R eceived : s 2,425 ,824.78 3, 19 7,507.0 7 5,813 ,230.72 3,326,35 5.40 6,828 ,217.8 1 2,848,695 .19 2,426,799 .48 3, 28 9,3 26. 2 7 3,675,254.6 1 5,5 79,44 6.29 5,269,629. 15 2,788 ,463.74 2,0 92 ,624.30 8,760,6 16.18 1,545,5 70.55 6,247,46 5.30 . 4,707 ,230 .68 6,297 ,020 .77 2,804 ,549 .89 $ 79,923,828. 18 Av . Lb . P rice: 5 2.5 3 53.6 1 53. 38 48. 15 55 .6 7 50 .83 52.82 55 .50 48 .85 53 .33 53.0 1 49 .00 48 .67 4 7. 14 49.4 3 53 .38 5 2.5 5 48 .68 54 .19 51.51 Cleveland Zippers T a lon , I nc., h as officia lly opened its 17,000-squ are-foot zip per plant at Clevela nd. On e h undred a nd thi rt ytwo em ployees dai ly produce som e 15 m iles of zippers. L ewis R . Coope r is m an ager of the plant. T alon 's warehouse in Atlanta , which is being expa nded, will ha ndle d istribution of th e product. Doraville Center The Dorav ille Co m m uni ty Building and a swim m ing pool were recen tly dedica ted . The bui ld ing which consists of an a ud itorium, health center and a library was ded icat ed to Dr. .J. E. F lowers and Ed Grant, contributo rs of F lower s Pa rk, th e la nd on wh ich the bui ld ing a nd pool a re loca ted . The park plan was sponsore d by th e Do ra ville Women's C lub. th e props out from under. "T hese a nts a nd roa che s and mot hs a nd termites and ot her a ffilia te s of th e bug kingd om were fully as obno xious as, and often more deva statin g th an , rats on a fora y. "I n th em O tto sa w his futur e. If, reason ed O tt o O rkin . I can no t on lv rid houses of th ese pests, but keep them ou t. too. then mv fortune is assured . H e 'beg;n to sell "h is services the way a utilit y comp a ny sells gas or clcctr icity-$5 or $ 10 a m onth for pest- free premises. "The idea wor ked . Otto sold his services to stores, rest au ran ts, hospita ls, offices, fa ctories, gr ain elevators, rai lroads and even to an a to m ic energy plan t. Today, he ha s over 100,000 clien ts who are as likelv to ca ll on him to get r id of snakes or"bats as to erad ica te silver fish or a colony of termites." 3 GEORGIA D E PARTMENT O F COM M ERCE NEWSLETTER O ctobe r 10. I!1.')1 GEORGIII PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS Textile Concern A n ew textile m anufa cturi n g p lant ha s been o rga n ized a nd wi ll ope ra te in BRA S I;;LT O N. J a c kson Cou n ty. The , Colo n ia l Ga rm ent Com pa n y wi ll make a ll kinds of wea ring a p pa re l, c u rt a ins, bia s tape, bind in gs a nd othe r su p plies fo r th e m an u fa ct ure of wea ri nt; a ppa rel. '- 0 - Historical Markers Short lv, 278 ro a d side m arkers will a ll be in ' p la ce throu gh out GEO R GI A , m a rkin g th e skir m ishes a nd battles o f th e 1864 G eo rg ia ca m pa ign in th e W ar Betw een th e St ates. In m an y co u n ties th e m arker s h a ve a lrea dv bee'n e rec te d , Wilbur G . Kurtz is a ut ho r of th e texts which will loca te a nd d escribe til!' m ovements of th e C on fed e ra te a n d U nion forces th ro ugh ou t th e co n fl ict in G eorgi a . The road m arkers a rc a p ro jec t o f th e G eorgi a H isto rical C om m is- si on. - 0- Freezer Expansion T he BR U N S WI CK Q u ick F reezer Com pa ny. sh rim p a nd cr a b mea t p a ckr-rs, is pla n n ing a major ex pansion . Construction will sta rt shortlv on a one -sto rv a d d it ion wh ich will h'ou sc 450 em~ ployces. The ex ist ing b uil di ng will be used as sto rage, with a ca pacity for storing th ree mi llion pounds of sh r im p . F ro zen sto rage will b e d on e on a co m m er c ia l ba sis for ind ivid uals a nd o ther fir m s, as well a s for th e p lant's ow n ou tp u t. C oo ked a nd fr ozen c ra b mea t a u g ra tin is a new product of th e conce rn . - 0- New Hartwell Plant' W ir e Produ ct s, Inc.. a new li A R "!'- W ELL industry, began ope ra t io ns ITcc n tlv. Th e co nce rn m an ufa ctures ru st 'p ro o f a lu m in um sc reen wi re fo r window s a nd d oors. The plant, wh ich is locall y ow ned . occ u pies a new building a nd is t u rn ing o u t a lmost 15.000 fe;'t o f nlum inu m ;-creen wire each d ay. -o- ~ Dawsonville Industry Cons t ruc tio n of a new p la nt fo r th e U n ion C u tle ry Com pa n y w ill sta rt im m edi atc lv in DAWS ON V I L L E. A 24.OOO-sq ua 're-foo t b uild in g w ill h ouse th e new in d us t ry . w h ich will em p loy a bou t 150 people in the m an ufa ct u re of p ock et kn ives. h ou seh old cu t le rv a nd hunting kn ives, A tra in in g p rog ram wi ll be cond uc te d fo r p rosp ective em p loyees of th e co nce rn , whi ch is ex pecte d to sta rt ope ra tio ns in .Ja n ua ry, 1954, Mammoth Savannah' BuiDding T h e fou nda t ion fo r a co m bina tion ma nu fa ct urin g a nd warehouse fa cility is hein g la id a t th e S AVANNA H p la nt of U n io n Bag a nd Pape r Corpo ra tion . T he new bui ld ing, wh ich will be 290 ket wide a nd 1,296 feet lon g, co n ta in ing :{68,000 sq ua re fee t of floor space . is expected t o be com plet ed by M a y. 1954. :\ sp ec ia l trea tment for roofing ov er th e m anufa cturing half o f the b uilding will be th e use of white m arble ch ips from G eo rgi a as a heat reflec tor a nd to h elp provide in sul ati on . Th e con ce rn will co n tin ue to use th ei r p resent build in g a lso. T. T . D unn is m an a ger of th e plant. - 0- Chinchilla Ranch C a rl E . D ou gl a s h a s opened a ch in - chi lla ranch on th e Eatonton Hi ghway . two mil es o u tsid e of GR AY, in J on es C o un ty. The Dougl a s R anch is asso cia ted with J essca . l nc., o f Colu m b us, wh ich h a s 22 suc h ranch es in a n etwork through th e Sou th . M rs. H a zel Shea of M a con wi ll be in cha r ge o f th e ra nch . whi ch is a ir-cond itio ne d a nd fire p ro o f. --()- Jewelry Manufacture Dc M a r io J ew el ry Com pa ny , of N ew 'f ork, recently op en ed a b ra n ch pl a n t in FORT GA INI;;S . A to ta l of 14 arc em p loye d in th e m aki ng o f j ewel ry a sscm blics a n d n eckl a ces. The m a ch in e p rocessin g of th e j ew el ry t ak es pl a ce in Pro vid en ce , R . 1., a n d th en is sh ip ped to Fort C a irn-s. wh ere th e hand work is ex ec u te d . - - - () - Tri-County Ho spital To Se rve Northw est A T ri -C ounty H ospita l for D ade, W alker and C a toosa co u n ties will be d ed icated n ext m onth a t FORT OGL E TH ORPE, in W alker a n d Ca toosa co u n t ies. Th is h ospi tal will be th e first in Ame rica su p po rte d by th ree co u n ties. I t is loca ted on 89 ac res of land d ona ted by th e F ed e ral gO\'rrnm cn t fo r th e p roject. Th e h osp ita l h a s been co ns tr uc te d a nd eq u ip pe d a t a cost of tw o mi llion d ollars. It ca n accom m oda te 110 pa tients a n d is enti rely firepro of. T he nursery, obstetri ca l a n d operating sec tio ns a re a ir-con d iti on ed to reduce th e d ang er of in fection , a nd a n a ux iliary elec t ric syst em h a s been in st all ed in case of p ow er failure. Opening of th e new hospita l wi ll cu lm ina te six vea l's work hv co m m ittees in th e three co u n t ies. . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Park Almost Ready A new pa rk is nca r com p le tio n a long_ sidr St ate h igh wa ys 103 a nd 4:{ on the northwest ern a p p roac h to BU I~NA F IS T A . I twi ll se rve as a roadside pa rk for to urists. a nd as a recreat ion area for th e peo ple of Buena V ista an d M a rion Cou n ty, It incl ud es a la rge ba rb ecu e a n d pi cni c table sec t ion a nd a park ing lo t. TI ll' park ov erlo o ks a fish pond. Landscapi ng with flow ers a nd sh r u bs is pl anned thro ugho u t th e pin eI rcc a re a . - 0- Blairsville Motor Court Bonnell Akins, own er of th e M ilt on Hot el in BLAI R S FI LLE. a n n o u nces th e open ing o f a m otor co u rt in co njunct ion with a nd a d j ac en t to th e h otel. T h e re a re 18 u nits in th e m otor co u r t. E a ch ha s a tile ba th a nd is h eatI'd el ect rica lly. - 0- Warehouse Construction Plans h a ve been comp le te d for ti ll' co ns tr uc tion o f a la rge wa rehouse in A U G U S T A hv th e G en era l E lect ric Supply Co mpa ny. T h e wa reh ou se. which w ill be used as a di st ri bu t ion ce n te r for t hr - So uthea st ern a rea . w ill ha ve 14,000 sq uare feet of floor space. T he grou n ds surrou n d in g the bu ilding will h ave park ing space a n d wi ll he la ndsca p ed . '- 0 - "Dawn Of A New Day" A new colo r film . " Daw n o f a N ew Da y," d epicting G ~orgi a 's rev olu t iona ry t ra nsit io n from. row crops to g rassla nd farming, h ad its fir st sho wing recently in S T A T ES BO R O . It wa s p rodu ced by th e U n iv ers ity of G eorgia Agric ultu ra l Exten sion Serv ice a nd sp onsorcd b y th e Trust C o. of G eorgi a . The d evel opment of pa stures a n d the livestoc k industry in G eorgi a began in ea rn est ov er ten years a go with the use of farm m a chinery, th e pl anting o f new g rasses a nd th e use of better fer ti lizati on p ra c tices. The film will be shown th rou gh ou t th e sta te to h elp in th e p rom ot ion of bal a n ced farmi n g. - 0- New Baxley Concern Th e Appling Box C om pany will soon settl e in BA XL EY. A p pling Cou nt y. Cons t ruc tio n o f a n ew pla n t is a lmost co m ple te d . Th e pl a n t m an uf a ct ure, na iled wood en box es for th e Arrnv a nd N a vy. The boxes a re used prim a ril y a, a ero bomb con ta ine rs. 1'. 1\'1. St rick land. E . S . Thoma s and E . A . W ol fe a rc in cha rge ' o f th e co nce rn . :,\EWSLETTER O ct ob er 10, 1953 Macon County Is Fine Farming Area And Location Of Varied Industries l\Iacon C ounty is ul1l~s u a l in that it . I' pl.l,dOllll'nc.nth.' .an .a"g.n cultura.l co un - t.\.' . I ' 111', d t\'l'I'sifled i n I H.! a.nd has m an \" Its farn ung .in du st ri' esL proand ",.~praeIl.Il:Ia, l'IZ'.l'S' in h a"m. 'g- I:ts 1.arm prod ne ts JroCl'ssed a t home.. I with a n a rea 01 nearl y l OO sq uare 'I 'sl the la nd a rea 1111 ( . . di"ided into 1,186 of far 255 ms ,:)I60. ha w lIC c res is ~om - pos.t. ?- '~O,088 acres- .90. pe'r ce n t o l th e land in th e coun ty IS m . la rm s. I'h csc ia rllls a rc h ighly p roductive. a nd [arm ing op erations in clud e genera l c r~ps . [ruits a nd veget able, ca t tle farms, tim- her- saw a nd pulpwood . Th er e a rc 1I10r e th an 100,000 peca n tr ees a nd more th a n a h al f m illion pe ach trees in the coun ty, a nd on e tung tr ee "01'- ch ard" - th e mo st north ern one in Georgia. TI ;c p ea n ut acreage is large a nd 9. - :160 bales of co tto n w er e g rown in th e countv in 1952 ; co rn and gra in arc growl~ in abunda nce , a di ve rsit y of .vege- tab les a re grown; much acreage IS de- voted to pastures, and fin e ca ttle fa rms dot the county. M acon co unrv was crea ted ill 1837 . a nd is now 116 yea rs old . It was n a m ed for N athaniel M acon . O gleth orpe, the coun ty sea t, was n amed for Ge ne ra l O gletho rpe, fo un der of Geo rgia . O the r cities in th e county arc M on tezu m a, Ma rshall ville and I d ea l. T he coun ty is t ra ve rsed bv F lint R iv- r-r and sev e;'a l c reeks, which provid e am ple water sup ply. M an y hi gh wa ys give th e co un ty a good road syste m . They include Sta te Highw a ys 49 , 90 , 128, 214 , 224, 26. A new, mo dern bridge is so ught to re place the one acros s F lin t river be tw een M on- tezuma a nd Oglethorpe, which has a curve in it th a t is rega rd ed as a traffic hazard. A wat er con trol project on Beaver cree k a t M ontezuma h as b een a pproved by engin eers. Two railroad s, C entral of G eorgi a a nd th e Atla nti c Coa st L in e. serve the rou ntv with rai lwav service .' Coun rv offi cers a're: Ordi nary, S. F . Hogg ; C ler k of Court, L aw ren ce M e- Kenzie : Sh er iff, W . 1'. J oll y ; T ax Col- lector, J ames Sm ith ; Tax R eceiv e r, D. C. Smi th ; Sc hool Su pe rin te nde n t, W . H. M artin ; Surveyor, Ri ch a rd Curtis ; and. Commissione rs, J ohn Willia m s, cha Irman ; \ Vin ston H olm es, F el ton M e- Carty, O . M . W a re, H eywa rd Smith. Fa rm Agent, \V. E. H un ter ; H om e Dem on stration Ag ent, NIl'S, Mart ha Anglill Sm ith : Ci ty Cou rt J udge, ./o!III Averill . a nd M em be r of the Leg isla t u rc , T om Coogle. M a vo r of M on tezu m a is A . C . Fel- to n, I i I : of Ogletho rpe. C lay Will iams : M a rsh all vil le, Lurt on M a sscc , a n d Id eal , 1'. V . Smi th . C hurch es a n' II II II H'!"O IIS thro ugh o u: th e co u n tv: a t least se ve n d cnom in ations are re p rese n ted . M rs. Violet M oo re. wel l-kn ow n newspaper writer, is Lib ra ria n a t th e C arneg ie Lib rary in M on tezum a . T h e library h as a large collec tion of books, espec ia lly G eorgi ana . I{c'("f'nrl v th n " has been insta lled a va lu ab le g ro up of In d ia n relics. co llec te d locall v bv Fred Edwards, or' O glethorpe. wl;o loaned a nd a rra nge d th e di spla y. Mrs. R uth H asla m is Librarian at th e M acon C o un ty L ibrarv at M a rsh allvill e, a nd th rough a book;I1obile it provides books to coun ty dep a rtments, sch ools, etc, and it ha s a b ra nch library a t Ogleth o rp e. Th e ac tive M o ntezum a Ch amber of Commer ce, of whi ch M rs. N anita Sch ofield is m an a ger, h as offi ces in th e Ca rnegie Li b ra ry. W . F . Bla n ks is p resident of th e C ha m ber, 1t is a lively or ga niza tion, a n d p rovid es up -to -d a te info rm a tion on th e ci ty and co un ty. L. H . M cKcnzic is president of the .Jun io r Chamber of Commer ce. Mont ezum a Knitting- Mills, Inc. Elcctrici tv is furni sh ed th ro ugh o u t th e co un tv lw th e G eorgia Pow er Com - pany, a n d h~' two REi': co -o ps, one a t Reynold s a nd one a t V ienn a. Mo nte- zurna is an act ive con tende r in the C ham p ion H orn e Town con test of th e G eo rg ia Pow er Co. A Countv H eal th C enter is und e r construct iol{ at O glethorpe, and th er e a re tw o privately ope ra te d hospitals in M on tczu m a-i-th c M a con C o unty C lin- ic a nd Rivers Sanita ri um . . Th e co un ty has sev eral h igh a nd g ra m ma r schools wi th bus service , Each sch ool h as a large enrollme n t a n d ef ficien t sta ffs of teach er s. Ind ust ri es a t M ont ezuma incl ud e Van ta Corporation , D en n is Shea , ma nage r. whi ch em p loys a p p rox im a tely 250 a n d m ak es ba hv clothes: M o ntezum a K n itt ing M ill , ;n anufacturers of knit clo thes. mos tly m en 's und erwea r. R . C. Collier- is p resid ent of this pla n t. whi ch em ploys some 200 peopl e. South ern F ro zen F ood s. W . H . M cK cn zic, j r.. ma nage r. em p loys from 100 to 400 p eo ple ( in seas on ) and processes man y farm product s gro wn locall y. T h ey include froz en foods of a ll kind s. stra w berri es, blue berri es. okra , peas, tu rnip greens, kale , b ro ccol i, pea ches, etc. Kroger Co . Hug-e Peanut M ill. T he M cKenzie Pea ch Packing H o use a ffo rds a com m u nity sh ed wh er e grow ers m ay pack th eir pea ch es eve ry year. T h e K roge r Co., m idway between M ontezu m a a nd O glethorpe, em p loys a pp rox ima tely 50 p eople at it s hu ge plant th at processes p ean ut s, a n d pro"ides a market for local pea n ut growe rs. O th er M on tezuma industri es arc C ha rle s F . D oyel', gin ; F . G . Guerry, gi n a nd wareh ouse ; Sewell & Lacey, g rist m ill : Fl in t R iver Lumber Co ., lumber ; M ontezuma Bui ld er s S up p ly Co., lum ber ; Satter fiel d & Bu rchfield . lum ber ; So uter Lum ber Co. , sawmill: W illia m s Bros . Lu m be r & S upply Co., lum ber a nd build in g supplies ; South G eorgia I ce Co. provid es ice and also processes m ea ts. T h e C itizen & Georg ian, .J. C . Cox , ed ito r a n d publish er , is issue d week ly a t M ontezum a . This paper bega n its 76 th year wi th th e issue of Se p tem ber :I. On O ctober I , 193 1, th e M acon Coun ty C itizen , of O glet horpe, and th e M ont ezu m a G eorgi an wer e m er ged under th e masth ead "Th e M a con County C itizen-T h e M ontezu m a G eorgian ." . M acon Co un ty popula tion in 1950 was 14,21 3 ; M on tezu m a, 2,921 ; O gleth o rp e, 1,204 : M arsh all vill e, 1,121 ; Id eal , 3 18. H otel M on tezum a is und ergoing ex ten sive alterations which wi ll includ e a new dining room and space fo r seve ra l (C on tin ued on Page 6 ) 5 GEO R G IA DEPARTIvIENT O F COMMERCE - I -NE-W-SL-E-TT-E-R -------------------------------------O-cto-b.er.1.0,..195' . Macon County (C ontinued from Pag e 5 ) COUNTY AGENT GOVERNMENT commercial enterprises. Five banks serve th e county. The C itizens National Bank and th e Montezuma Banking Co ., at ,M on t eZllm ~ ; The Citizens Bank and th e Georgi a GIVEN AWARD Th e mounting progr essiveness and growing diversification of G eor gia's agri cu ltural economy was h ighlighted in September wh en Gov ernor H erman CONTRACTS '---------------- Trammel Hardwood Floor ing Co j I nc., LaGRANGE-Ammo box es, t\\' contrac ts, $132,310. Banking Co . a t Marshallville, and th e Talmadge presented Byron Dyer, Coun- T. C . Alexander , J 1'., C onst rucri-, I Bank of O glethorpe a t Oglethorpe. ty Agent in Bulloch County for th e last C o., ATLANTA-Construction of thn I Industries at Oglethorpe include th e M acon County Lumber Co. ; C. A. Barry, grist mill; Coogle Gin and Ware- 21 years , with th e L cd er lc Award for Distin guished F arm Servic e. Mr. D yer was ch osen as th e County radio buildings, Robins Air Force BaS! ' $56 ,960 . L ,J ! Evans Construction Co ., WARREll house. At Marshallville : Maco Grain Agent of th e Year by a committee from TON-Construction of two ranges, on ; Co., buyers of and processors of local th e Exten sion Service on th e basis of confide nce course and six la trine; c gra in; Ch arl es C. Childre, sawmill ; compe titive ratings with regard to Camp Gordon, $35, 174. Georgia \'\' arehouse Co., Inc., cott on warehouse ; Lan ey Food Processing In c. ; Burke 13. Murph, gin . At Idea l: Raburn Bros., gin and warehouse. Camellia Center achi evem ents. Judges said scores of six " fina lists" nominated bv the District Agen ts were "e xtremely' close." The plaque with whi ch Mr. Dy er was presenetd was given by th e Lederle Laboratori es Divi sion of American Eaton Laboratories, Inc., ATLA NT. I - D ru gs, m edi cinal, laboratory and it ~ dustrial che micals. I The Tumpane Co . of Georgia, Inc I MACON-Three Air Force contract ( overhaul and recondition kitchen an i Marshallville area is th e recogniz ed Cy ana mid Comp any " as a symbol of ex- sho p eq uipme nt, $158 ,582 . , cente r of camellia growing in Georgia . Dave Strother's " M assey Lane" camellia farm is on e of th e most exte nsive in th e South and draws thousands of visitors ann ually. One ente ring Marshall- ceptiona l service rend ered by County Agents to th e peop le and lands of G eor gia in the ad vancem ent of scientifi c agri culture." A native of Ca rr oll Co unty, G a., Mr. Chicago Bridge and Iron Co ., .11 L A NTA-Prefab metal, $11 ,600 . 1 New m an Construction Co ., LeI GRANGE-Pallets, $37 ,060. a ville is m ad e conscious of th e city' s in ter est in flow ers a nd sh rubbery. I ts Dyer was gra d ua ted from th e Univer sity of G eor gia C ollege of Agricu lture. General Cable Corp., ATLANTA- I' R eels and depos its, $12 ,684 . ~ highways and streets a rc lin ed on eac h Working with and through th e Farm Childs & Co ., LITHONIA-Ovel j side with camellias, crape myrtle and Bur eau , h e h as developed what is gen- hau l and recondition equipmen t, $45 huge na tive trees, set alternately. A marker pla ced at his home in Mar- erally recogniz ed as on e of th e finest farm organizations in th e state in Bul- 000 . J oh ns-M a nville Sal es C orp., A1~ sha llville proclaims th e la te Samuel H. Rumph as the- " Fa th er of G eorgi a 's com me rc ia l loch County. H e and his assistants meet regu larly with th e farm folks to plan future activities and discuss their prob- LANTA-Non-metallic conduit, $ l i 5 78 . J 1 F. H. Wright Co ., MACON-C otto ~ p ea ch, a noted hor ticu lturist, ori gi n ator of th e famous Elb erta p ea ch, inven tor of th e p ea ch sh ip p ing refri gerator, and of th e rigid mortised-end p ea ch crate- lems . This year, incidentally, marks th e fiftieth anniversary year since th e first linters, $16 ,092 . II Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills , .11 LANTA-Burlap tubing, $45 ,315 . c th e firs t G eorgian to gro w and ship p each es on a com me rcial sca le." Norris Cattle Co. , said to be th e " world's la rgest breeders of regist er ed Brahma cattle," has established a 5,000 acr e ca ttle ranch in Macon County. organized farm demonstration in th e co untry- a ha lf century wh ich has seen tr emendous strides in agri cu ltural progress all over th e South. Ri chland Box Co ., RICH L A N D- Ii Pa llets, $26 ,900. ( Norris Candy Co ., ATLANTA-i l Three contracts, can dy, $46,829. b A. S. Hatcher Co ., MACON-A,b This firm recognized th e possibilit ies of th e fertile soil and year-round grazing availab le h er e. of Capt. H enry Wirz, superintendent of th e prison during th e war. sembly and pi lots for Waterhouse to " dresser, $12 ,445 , II Crawley-Gorbrandt Co ., ATLANT.:J Andersonville U . S. Natio na l Park and Cem et er y is 10 mi les south of Montezuma. This is on e point wh er e th e The inter estin g h istory of Macon C ounty was wri tten by th e la te Mrs. J. E. (Louise Frederick ) Hays, in an 803- - G rilles for air condition systen ) $14 ,737 . Roanoke-Goodwater Pin e Co ., Inesa: Confederates kept Union soldiers th ey captured during th e War Betw een th e States. The prison site contains 83.3 page volume. Sh e served many years as State His tori an , in charge of th e G eorgia Department of Arc hives , H O M ER V I L L E- L umber, $17,948. Savannah Machine & Foundry Cc~: SA V ANNAH-Repairs on ship, .p5 .1 acr es and was converted into a park, ma intained by the U . S. Gov ernment. The cem eter y contains 28 acr es and interments th er e during th e wa r totaled 13,740 . The number of Northern tourists visiting th e spo t has exceed ed 175,000 in one year. Many sta tes have erec ted beautiful monuments to their d ead in both th e cem et ery and prison park, an e! on th e main street of nearby Andersonville Rhodes M emorial H all , At lanta. Dr. John D . Wade is a na tiv e citizen of Marshallville. Long a University of Georgi a professor, h e is a lso th e author of th e " L ife and Tim es of Augustu s Bald win Longstr eet" and a volume on " J ohn W esley." Judge Jule W . Fe lton, of Macon C ounty, has been a m ember of the Georgia Court of Appeals since 1937 . 058. c. o" Savannah Machine SAVANNAH-Table & Found rv I n assembly, $ 11. 414. IS R. F. Crutcher, SAVANNAH-Se'rr en con tracts, lumber, $7 1,699 . C Standard Oi l Co ., SA V ANNAH-'t-, Gasolin e, $13,320. ' fascinated by its friend ly peop le, iN varied industries an d its beautiful stands a monument erected in m emory Visit Macon County. You will be homes and farms . G E O RGIA D E PART M ENT O F COM MERCE 6 5 NEWSLETTER O ct ob er 10, 1953 :Pickens County Is Marble Center :And Restful, Scenic Mountain Area P' kens Coun ty, in th e northwest sec- . ICf th e sta te lies in th e foot hi lls of o ltihoen B0 lue Ridge , M ountal.,?s. T he hiIgh ~t s' cp-1~iea.c\l.'ava ir1s1io)i.tnoartsat.rnadcGtop.ivoleedatsto.ai.snthotimucgnl.ismatsnaadt en hdaurGnctem.oesrg.-- j\ 'I, gt 11d an d awrionus im' parts th e th ~ sereni I.dea l ty a of th e m o tm osp he re uf no r complete relaxa tIOn . Pickens Coun ty, crea ted in 1853, was r. amcd fo r G en era l Andrew Picken s of ir Sno. uth Carolina and R evolu ti'onary \,\' ar fame. J asper, th e Coun ty sca t,. wa s Ie nam ed for Sg t. J asper, a lso .from Sou th :t Ca rolina, a n d kn own for hi s o u t~ta n d n in" con trib ution to th e R evolutionary W"a r. 1 Pickens Coun ty popu lati on is 8,825 ; 1.380 are resid en ts of J asper. Oth er . t~wns in th e co un ty a re N elson, T a te .c and T alking R ock . Sta te Hi gh way 5 run s north a nd south through th e coun- - ty and State Hi ghways 53, 108, 136 and 156 branch off on either sid e of N o. el5 to serve all sections of th e a rea . oj The fair rolling h ills of th e co un ty suppo rt cro ps and timber and ca ttle. .?Man y ac res are cove red with co rn a nd I hay, and a goo d porti on of th e land is seeded to winter pasture for th e ca ttl e. :0 Poultry raisin g is a n important part of the economy. J The timber ra ised through out th e coun ty is m illed and sold th rough four I- lumber com pa nie s. H inton L umber Co., and J asper Lumber Co ., are both l- in J asper, a nd th e C lyde T eagu e Lum- ber Co ., is in Nelson . The Jasp er Lum- !\,ber Co ., with J ack Ad ams as presid ent, ()(employs a bout 100 peopl e a nd , for th e main part makes ammu ni tio n boxes for r. the Governmen t. T he M cE ntire L urn- 'nber Co ., also is in J asper and em ploys . about 50 . Thom ason Brother s h ave a lcsawmill a nd a cott on gin. . The T erry Poultry Co., p rocesses itthickens from Pickens and nearby coun- '5tles. Its workers p rocess over 30,000 chickens daily, some of wh ich a re sen t ' cto St. Louis, D etroit a nd C hi ca go in 18 1 1~'efrigera ted trucks. D . M . U nderwoo d IS manager ; Doyle T err y, owner. e' R. O . Brinkman and H . 13. Brinkman opera te th e Ro yal C rown Bottling {_C~., located in J asper. Pr ather' s Grist Mill is a no th er en te rp rise th ere. -r-, T wo oth e r interestin g manufact ur.Ing plants a re loca ted in J asper. T he ifNlInnally-M cCrea Co ., which em ploys about 180 work ers, m ak es wor k clo th es and dunga rees. Fred Ashcra ft is m anage r of thi s p lant whi ch is one of four in th e sta te. Plan s arc u nder stu dy for its expa nsion . T he J a sper Rubber Co ., em ploying over 20, m ak es a variety of rubber goods, including some th a t a rc used in a u tomo biles. In T at e, Wi em an Thomson's concern grinds talc a nd mi ca , wh ich is used not only in th e m anufacture of ro ofing a nd bu tt ons bu t also in rubber a nd Iertilize rs. The Georgia M arble C om pany, In c., locat ed a t T at e processes m arble a nd produces some ca lcium ca rbona tes. It em ploys over 600 in its q uarrying, cut- ting a nd po lishing oper at ions. .J. R . Co wa n is p reside nt. Over 3,000 ca rload s of Geor gia m a rb le arc shi p ped a nn uall y for b uild ings, m onuments a nd sta t ues. T he Ca lcium Product s Division of th e com pa ny grind s some of th e marble for use in th e m anufacture o f paints, lin oleums, rubber goods, roofing a nd n ume rous othe r com me rcia l prod ucts. The co m pa ny was fo un d ed in 188 0 by Ste phe n C . T a te. T he Pickens Co unty C ourtho use is a h andsom e building m ad e of Geo rgia marb le from th e q ua rri es a t T ate. Marble Cou rthouse of Pickens County. Civic Projects The Picken s Coun ty Libra ry, loca ted in th e Cour thouse at J asper has a fu lltim e lib ra rian to ca re for its 5,0 70 volum es. A privat e hospital whi ch ope n ed 12 yea rs ago has fift y bed s. It is owne d by two br others, D r. E. A. R op er a nd D r. C . .J. R op er. Soon a new coun ty high schoo l wi ll be construc te d in J asper wh ich will conso lidate th e hi gh sch ools a t T ate and J asper. $5 17,750 h as been a p p rop ria ted for th e new buildin g, wh ich will be situat ed on 20 acr es. Enlargem ent of five elem en tary schools in th e coun ty is under wa y. T he Li ons' C lub of which R ich a rd Brinkman is p resid en t, is very ac tive in J asper. At th e pr esent it is workin g on a progr am design ed to increase th e co un ty as a restful vacation a rea . Ther e a re clea r wat er la kes a nd small mo untain strea ms for tro ut fishing. A large h unting reserv e is th e breeding gro und for deer and turkey. J asper itself is a t an eleva tion of 1933 feet a bove sea level. O ne-h underd- acre G ran dview La ke is abo ve th at , a t th e foot of Sha rp T op M o un ta in . The fifty-acre lake a t 2,600 feet is a t T at e M oun tai n Estat es, a pri vat e resort area . T her e a rc lod ges at G ra ndv iew Lake for th ose wh o lik e moun ta in relaxation a nd hunting a nd fishing. T he Lenning H otel a t J asper is m od ern a nd in viti ng. Arch er T ouri st Co urt in J asper on Rout e 5 h as 32 guest roo ms . Beautiful G ran d view Lake n ea r Jasper . There is a n ac tive W om en's C lub a nd the Am icolola-G arden C lub , whi ch is well kno wn for its an n ua l flower show . Its presen t p roject is to spo ns')r picn ic a reas along the scen ic ro u tes th ere wh er e tou rists may stop and ea t a nd rest. O ne is now bein g bui lt on St at e Hi gh way N o. 5. C la ude M . Ed ge is edi to r of th e Pickens Co un ty Pr ogress, th e cou n ty's newsp a p er. Ther e a rc over 20 Bap tist and M ethodi st ch urches in th e coun ty. \VGST ha s its FM tower on top of T at e M ounta in a t 3,33 0 feet abo ve sea level. The Salva tion Army m a in ta ins a $200,000 recr eation ce n te r a nd encam pm en t part way up th is same m ou ntain. The $ 70,000 REA bui ld in g in J asper supplies elec t rici ty for 9,000 families in five coun ties. W . A . T an kersley m an ages this plant. Historic Interests An inter esting an d hi storic ro ute is to be found in the northern pa rt of the co un ty where ro ut e 53 joins 5. It's ca lled th e " O ld Fed eral R oa d" or th e " And rew J ackson R out e." The road m arker a t th e juncti on reads : " Fe de ra l R oad ; C isca-S t. A ug ustine T rail. "T he Roa d tu rn in g west h er e, d ow n T a lk in g R oc k C reek to the si te of th e Cosa wa tc e O ld Town, is a p ortion of th e old Fed era l R oa d ope ned th rou gh th e C hero kee N at ion in 1805 by G cor- (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ES6L ' O L ~380.1.:J0 - UD ' S U ~ l.i t V D1 5JC DD JO ~~ lSJ O~lU n a~l S Ol J OJ Ql 1 ~~l s J O ~I Un oU l suol s1 ~I G s u oI 112 1 nt ~ v 1<;1 'oN l !W.lJd ' E8 'El UBP V Pll?d :,IOVl.SO d 'sn '~ ~ 'Td 99 '-\7 ':>:>S 'VIEI~03E1 ' 'V.LN'V-'.L'V ,0.1.ld'O'::J 3.1.'0' .1.5 00 l 3:J~3~~0:J ..:10 .1.N3~.1.~Vd3a , V18~038 Pickens County (C on tin ued from Page 7 ) ~ia a nd Ten nessee . I t follow s th e co urse of a tra il shown on a m ap of 168+ as con nec ting th e an cie n t Ind ian town of C isca in the Te n n essee Va lley with St. :\ ugu stine in Spa ni sh Florida . '~ It b ecam e th e p ri n cip al U.S . M a il a nd stage coa ch road alo ng whi ch pio neers se ttled in th e C hero kee ter ritory." The Sa m Tate hom e. b uilt a ll o r marble, pink a n d white, now stands un th e site of th e first electi on held ill Ci .cro kcc Co untv whi ch a t th a t tim e, included all th e area betw een th e C ha t~ tah ooch ce Ri ver a nd th e sta te linr of T ennessee. C u rved a nd ca rve d m ar ble is used for moldings a nd dcco ra tion both insid e a nd ou t. T wo mil es nor th of J asp n the O ld Indian Trading post is still int act . County Officers Picken s Co un ty offic ers a rc : O rd inary, Sol A. T atum ; C lerk of C ou rt, Tonv T atum: She riff, Fr ed K . Stan cil ; 'T ax C om m issioner, E. H , Blackwell ; Coun ty Sch ool Superinten den t. T. W . H olley, Co un ty Farm Age n t : J . Z . M iller : H om e D em on stration Agen t: V irgin ia Lot t : Survcvor: E. C. Per row : Cor- oner~ .J. G. C hap ma n ; .J. S. Darnell i ~' C o un ty C ommissione r. \ V. H a yes Pickctt is Co un ty Attorn ey. S. C . Gartr ell is M ayor of J asper. H . G , V andi vicrc from Can to n is So licitor Ge nera l. a nd H ow ell Brook e of Ca nton is Judge of th e Blue Ridge C ircuit. A. C . M oor e represents th e co unty in the St ate Legislat ur e, a nd C . W . Kiker is Sta te Se na tor from the -l 1st Se na to rial dist rict . Picken s Co un ty is in th e N in th Co ngressiona l d istrict, ~ll1 d .fasp er is th e hom e of Co ngressntan Ph il NI. Landrum . HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROCHESS Un ited M er ch an ts an d M au uf .u- turcrs, Inc.. p lans to improvr a nd ex- pand its ncw lv a cq uired A. D . ,Iui llia rd text ile m ill a t A ra go n, .. R-C M ot or Lines, In c., Savannah, plan s to occ up y new offic('s a nd wa rehouse in DrrcmIxI' a t a mo dern tru c k u -rrn inal 110\\ ' under construc tion . .. T he new "Varl1l Sp ri ngs 'F oun d a tion R ecr eation a l Building has been com ple ted a nd ded ica ted . . . C a iro wi ll soon ha ve a IH ' W m u nicipa l sewage di sposa l pla nt .. .. '1'11<' th ird wareh ou se a t Mi llen fo r th e M illen W a rehou se Co . has ju st been com pleted , gi \'ing th e compa n y a tot al ca pa cit y of 8,500 bale s fo r th eir th ree war eh ouses , . . G ri ffin Rug M ills :1t Dalto n has ta ken over a new bu ild ing wh ere it s do u bled floor space a nd m a ch ine ca pa citv wilt a llow for grca tl y incr ea sed ru g an d ca rpe t produ cti on . . . Fulto n Bag a nd Co t ton M ills hav e p urchased a pla n t in Sa va n na h, . . A m illion dollar ele ctr ica l repair shop will be erected by W estingh ouse E lectric Co rp . th is year in A tla n ta . . . Improved peanu t gra de rs whi ch were de"elop ed a t G eorgia T ech a rc being tried a t Ba in br idge th is fa ll . . . The Au to Su p ply Co. wi ll soo n have a 1+,000 sq ua re foot warehou se in C olum bus , . . Co nstruction ha s begun on th e new $+00 ,000 a d m in istra tion building for th e Georgia E xperi me n t Sta tion nca r G riff in . . . A grou p of Harris. C ou n ty ci t i z e n s rep rese nt ing eve ry tow n a n d com muni tv in th e cou n ty have form all y orgun izcd a public hea lth cou n cil, . Tmprovcm cn ts cost- GEO RGIA DEPARTr. lENT O F COM M E RCE 8 ing a lmos t $ 10,OO(r . hav e been com ph-ted on the W i lk~! '. Cou nty - Coun hou se in the past year' . ' . '. T he va lu of farm m a ch ines ' and cq u iprnen w, ma n ufa ctu red in Georg ia last year $9,186,000 . . . M or e poles a t 100\'ei' cos a r ha u led by a . new design ed alii built mot or ized pole tr aile r Ieatur by th e Dixi e Pole Co mpany '01' ,B. n1nl wick . . . P elha m and C am illa ' {vii sha re a r adio sta tio n wh ich is cx pc ct to be read y ca rlv in 1954 . . . T h $250,000 a d d itio l; to th e Sop hie Ma Candy Co rp ., plant in Atla n ta h as re ccn tlv been complete d . .. The watt pip e lin e 1'1'0111 C hatsworth to th e nei citv n -scrvoir is now well und er wa . . ' . G ain esville 's ra d io sta tio n W GG. rece n tly boost ed its pow er _to 5,00: watts . .. T he Icrrv a t N ea l's L an d ing , ncar Donalson ville, h as been con: plct cd a n d is now in operation . . . , sla ug h tering service is now a vai la bl for mea t m arket s. freezer own ers am ca ttle raiser s south of Waynesboro iJ Burke Co unty, "Love tt's Farm ani Ran ch Prod ucts" , . . Savan na h h a tw o new sho p p ing ce n te-rs : Inneckcn' a nd " R cm lcr's C orner" . . , Plans ar under wa y to gea r up th e produ ctioi of Knox M eta l P rodu ct s in Wayne; boro to reach a goa l of 100 trai lers, 0 mobi le hom es, per mo n th . . . Blae Rock M ountain St at e Park in R ahIll Co u n ty wa s recently opene d . . . ., Wrong Daie Much in terest has been created by th e a rticle in th e Se p t. 25 issue of The Ne wslette r on " Gold N uggets" found in th e Dah lonega a rea. A typ ogr aphi cal error said W . A. White' s lett er was writ te n in .I848", instea d of in " 1948". , / DEPARTMENT OF [OMMEUCE WSLETTE CTOB ER 25, 19 5 3 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Published semi-mont hly by GE O RGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HE RMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Cha irman Lonnie A. Pope , V . Chm, Ben J essup Y. F. Geeslin Hok e Peters * CLARK GAINES Secretary Vol. 5, No.2 October 25, 1953 Wayc ross "Welco me Wo rld" Program Waycro ss's hospitality plan for tou rists call ed "Welcome World" has h ad much national publicity since it began in May 1951. The tourist program, which is one of Georgia's m ost outstanding, is now being used by more than thirty other town s throu gh out th e United States. " We lcome World" starts its plan with th e " a rr est" of mot orin g tourists; th e guests a re tak en to a hot el, interviewed over Station W AYX a nd given gifts supplied by th e m erchants of Waycross a nd other Geor gia concerns. Then th e guests ar e tak en to a h om e and served a South ern dinner, wh ere th ey m eet Waycross p eopl e wh o offer th eir individual a n d person al welcom e. The next morning th ey h ave an airplan e ride over th e city, county and Ok efenok ee Swa mp Park ; th en th ere is an escor ted tour into Okefen okee. While th e gu ests a re thus engaged, th eir car is wa shed, greased a nd ch ecked, a nd th e gas ta nk filled . A noon m eal is served to th e visitors, who th en h ave a p olice escor t out of town. () CT()BER 19-25-Tifton: Tift C ounty Fair. () CT()BER 26-28- Atl anta: South ern M edi cal Associa tion M eeting, Bilt more H otel. ()CT()BER 26-31-Cordele : C entral Georgia Fair. () CT()BER 26-31-Moultrie : Colquitt County Farm Bureau F air. ()CT()BER 29-Athens: Georgia Turkey Association F estival. ()CT()BER 29-Atlanta : A t I ant a Co n tro llers' Co nf erence, Atlanta Division, U n iversity of Geor gia. N()VEMBER I- Sav annah: G eorgia Co nference on Social Welfa re, Hotel D eSot o . N()V E M BER 2-6-Nashville: Berrien Co unty Fair. Two New Georgia Branches Two new factory sales and servi ce br an ch es of Titan Chain Saws, Inc. recently opened near Gainesville and in M acon . Co inc ident with th e open ing of th ese branch es T itan is sup plementing its saws a nd for estr y equipment with a fire pu mp, a brush cutter, a post h ole digger and four n ew types of chain saws. ()ctober 25, 1953 N()VEMBER 2-9-Savannah : Coastal Empire Fair. N ()VEM BER 12- 13-Ath ens : Annual Short Course on th e Cause a nd Pre. vention of Economic Waste in the M ark eting. of F ruits and V egetables, University of Georgia . N()VEMBER 13-14-Atlanta: Sou th. ern Econ omi c Association M eeting, Biltm ore H otel. N ()VEMB ER 15-18-Atlan ta : N at ion. al Fertiliz er Associa tion M eeting, Biltm ore H ot el. N()VEMBER 19-Athens: D edi cation of th e new Library, University of G eor gia. N()VEMBER 19-20 - Atlanta : 2nd Annual South eastern Tran sporta tion C linic, Atla nta Di vision, U niversity of Georgia. New Trucking Terminal Geor gia Hi ghway Express Compan y is h aving a new terminal erec ted on the Chatsworth H ighway ju st outside the D alton city limits. The new str u cture will be of conc re te blocks and stee l and will have an adjoi ning pa rking ar ea for abou t 30 truck -trailer units and seven loading doors on the bui lding. . ~""\It"' .~ "J COVER PICTURE T he H ercul es Powd er Plant a t Brunswick is a naval stores industry, spec ializing in deri vatives from rosin. This conce rn is th e la rgest on e of it s kind in th e world . R osin, turpentine, pine oils a nd various deri vatives of pin e stumps are used in th e manufacture of exp losives. The comp any em ploys ove r 1,200 peopl e in th e pl ant and in th e field ga thering pin e stumps.-Photo by Carolyn Ca rter. These apples grown in North Georgia help supply the demand over the nation for one of America's most popular fruits. GE()RGIA DEPARTMENT ()F C()MMERCE 2 NEWSLETTER O ctober 25, 1953 Cash Income of Georgia Farmers Last Year Well Above Half Billion to Break Records - ----- - - - ---- - - - -- _.._---_._ - - - - - --1 These peanuts being stacked in South Georgia are the basis of Georgia's peanut butter man ufa cture. Gcorgia fa rm ers were bu sy in 1952. This is provcn by the fa ct th at th eir cash income, incl uding Governmen t payments, for th e second consec u tive year set a n all-time record in 1952 by reaching th e amount, $6 52,898 ,000 . Thi s com pa res with th e 1951 figurc of $647,276,000. The 1952 in com e was 45.2 per cen t abov e th e 10- year av erage of 1942 throu gh 1952. T hese figures are containe d in a recent rep ort issued by th e G eor gia C rop Reporting Serv ice, Athens, D. L. Floyd, Agricultural Statisti cian . An unusual feature of th e rep ort is the grow th of th e livestock and p oul try ind ustry in th e sta te in re cen t yea r s. In com e fr om livestock a nd livestock product s and poultry ac coun ted for 38.8 per cent of th e tot al cash in com e, with cro ps tot aling 61.2 . C ash received from livestock, product s a nd poultry totaled $253,343,000, a nd fr om crops, $39 1,966,000 . Gov ern men t p ayments were $ 7,589,000, the tot al of th e three sourc es of income is $652,898 ,000 . T hese figures represent a ct ual sales by th e fa rm ers, a nd wh en hom e consump tion of crops, livesto ck, poultry and product s is added , th e total va lue of Geo rgia farm crops and poultry la st year ran up to $763,04 6,000. This in clud es Government p aym en ts. $ 170,59 3,000 - lint brin ging $ 152,929 ,000 fo r 730,000 bales, a nd seed, $ 17,664,000. T ob aeco was second in cas h va lue, brin gin g $63,6 14,000 ; pcan u ts third , $45 , 184,000. Other cro ps and th eir value wer e: Truck cro ps, $22,244,000 ; fruits and pcca ns, $20,100 ,000 ; corn , $8,372,000 , and a ll other cro ps, $62,159,000. The above crops tot al ed $391,966,000. Commer cia l broiler s head ed th e list in th e livestock and poultry colum n, sa les tot aling $88,6 10,000 for broilers a lone, other chickens selling for $3,858,000, a nd cggs, $25,606,000. Therefor e, chickens al on e accoun ted fo r $ 118,0 74,000 of th e cash in come, Turkeys br ou gh t $3,355,00 0; hogs topped $52,55 9,000 ; ca t tle a nd ca lves, $35,354,000, a nd d airy product s, $41,977 ,000 . H ogs, ca ttle a nd dairy p roduct s brought a tot al of $ 129,890 ,000 . Other livestock a nd products sold for $2,024,000. T hus livestock, products and poultry brought th e farmers $253,343,000, and with th e cro p total of $39 1,966,000 and Government paym ents, $ 7,589,000 added, th e sum of $652,898,000 was paid th e fa rmers. H om e consum p tion of crops by th e farmers was set a t $35,9 16,000, an d livestock and pou ltry a nd p rodu ct s tot aled $ 74,232,000. The above figu res sho w that Geor- (Contin ued on Pa ge 8 ) Cotton Leads Cotton and seed led th e Incom e, I . , ." Hogsfor lh ome and market being fed on a middle Georgia farm. 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER O ctober 25, 1953 GEORG/A PARADE OF PROGRESS Sardis Factory A new textil e plan t will start op era ting imm ed iat ely in SA R DIS . The Waynesboro Garmen t Co ., Inc., will open a bra nc h fa cto ry to make drapes. T he plant will use abo ut 100 mach ines and employ 50 women workers. - 0- New Roadside Parks Work was recently begun on a new road side pa rk about four m iles north of M ONTI CELLO . The land for th e p a rk was don at ed by W . E . K ey. Plan s include picnic tabl es, a grill a nd con tainers for trash disposal. Trees will be clear ed only where necessar y. G ra ss will be pla nted and grav el used on th e park roads a nd paths. Planting of sh rubs and flowers will be a proj ect of th e local garden club s. M rs. F ra ncis L. K ard an e h as also don at ed anoth er tract of land for a wayside pa rk. It will be on Hi ghway 16, five miles west of M onti cello. - a- New Chinchilla Ranch The Bryan t Ch inchilla R an ch recently ope ne d ju st outside of COLUM BUS . The R an ch, an associa te of th e Evergreen C hinch illa R an ch , now h as 130 a nimals. M r. and Mrs. W . F. Brya nt ar e th e owners . - 0- Vidalia Expansion Co nstruc tion on a n ew a nd m odern industrial pl ant recentl y sta rted in V IDALIA for th e Globe M anufacturing C ompa ny, makers of boys' pants a nd jackets. T he $ 100,000 structure will conta in some 32,000 square feet of floor space and be erected on a site lar ge eno ugh to allow for furth er expansion. The concern h as been in Vidalia over two year s a nd em ploys 112, wh ich number is expec te d to double rapidly. L. A. T hompson is man ager of th e plant. - a- Modern Wooden Gunboats Last m onth th e first of six Navy gunboats made almos t entirely of Georgia a nd Florid a tim ber was lau nch ed a t ST. A'IA R Y'S . The 110-foot wooden gunboats will be used in river a nd h arbor patrol in th e Philippines and will be espec ially useful becau se th ey will not att ract magneti c mines. Aleck MacDonell, J ohn M acD on ell and Sidney Gaffin h ead th e compa ny wh ich for over fift y years bu ilt shrimp boats. New Calhoun Company The H iaw assee Land Co mpany recently ope ned a district office in CA L H O UN. T he company wi ll p rocur e pulpwood for the pr oducti on of newsp rint and sulphate kr aft pulp. The Ca lho un br an ch will h an dl e all op eration al ac tivities in th e North Georgia territory. The conce rn is no t only interested in procuring pin e pulpwood in th e a rea, b ut in encouraging bett er forestry management p rac tices so th at timberl and resources will be kept at full produc tivity. R ex M cC ord is sup ervisor of th e n ew office . - a- Million-Dollar Box Factory for Albany A million- do lla r corr uga ted box-fabricat ing pl an t with an a nn ua l payroll of more th an $200,000 will rise on ALBANY'S northern ou tskirts within a few weeks. M axwell Brothers, Inc., of Chicago will emp loy from 75-100 workers. abou t half of th em women. Co nstr{lction will begin soon on th e b uild ing whi ch will conta in more th an 120,000 square feet of floor space. The plant will be on a C entral of Georgia ra ilroad siding , a nd h ave faciliti es also for truck loading. T hose wh o will be sup plied by th e Alba ny conce rn include food packers, candy and soap m anufacturers, m eat pa ckers, th e toy industr y, beverage bottlers, clothing a nd furniture m anufacturers, h andlers of glassware, m ed icines and drugs, ra dio and refri gerat or m anufacturers a nd othe rs. - 0- B-Day An elaborate celebra tion was rece ntly h eld in BUTLER m arking t he d edica tion of th e new combina tion gymnasium a nd a udi tor ium which were constructed at a cost of $ 100,000. A new h ealth cente r was also d ed icat ed. B-Day also highli ghted a number of other Butl er projects, including p avin g of stree ts, th e beginning of a new m unicipal swim ming pool, erection of a for estry center, and constructi on of a new youth rec rea tion park. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 Douglas Fertilizer Plant Ann ouncement has been m ad e tha t a new fer tilizer manufac tu ring pl ant will locat e in D O U GLAS th at will em- ploy 75 peopl e. T he fir m is th e C. O. G ua no Co mpany, whi ch has purchased ove r three acres for th e erection of a modern pla nt. T he bu ilding, now un- der constr uc tion. will contain 65.000 square feet of fl~or space. . - a- Atkinson County Concern A new pulpwood yard covering severa l ac res recen tly opened in WI LLACOOCHEE. M cCran ie Brothers T imber Company is able to handle 60 carload s of pulp wood per week. The ya rd has rail sidings a nd is equipped wit h mec hanica l loading an d unloa ding facilit ies. - 0- New Cotton Machine O scar S. Ga rri son & Sons Cotton Gi n in H OMER , Banks Cou nty, has recently in stall ed a mo de rn cotton gin whi ch is believed to be th e only one of its kind in th e Eastern cotto n belt . The new $ 150,000 gin ning eq uipme nt takes a hu ge load of wh ole cotto n bolls cluttered with leaves, stems and bu rrs, and th en gives ou t a top qua lity finish ed product of wh ite cotto n. - 0- Bamboo Furniture A new development in furn itu re mak ing is bein g featured by Fr ew, I nc., of CE DA RTO WN . Throu gh a spec ial pr ocess, W . E. Robertson h as developed bamboo th at won't split or crac k a nd will last many years . The company is producing chairs, tabl es a nd sofa beds mad e of bamboo . Each pi ece is h andmade ; nothing is pieced togeth er by machines. Ninety pe r cent of th e ba mboo th e company uses is gro wn in Georgia . The fir m also mak es othe r styles of fu rniture ; in th e past three yea rs, sh ipm ents h ave dou bled in volum e. - 0- - Box Firm For Macon A nati on al box man ufacturing com pany h as selected MA CON as th e site for a pl ant to serve th eir expanding Southeastern market. The Park Sun beam F oldi ng Box Compa ny of Georgia will em ploy ab out 50 in th e manufactur e of a full lin e of folding pap er boxes an d comp lete packagin g. The conce rn pl an s to sta rt ope ra tions at th e end of the yea r. :--;EWSL ETTER O ctober 25, 1953 McDonough Thrives as Enterprising, Cultured Center of Henry County :V1cDonou gh , Co un ty . seat of Hel~ ry County, is a n enterp l:ISIng commu m ty n"\[f.~as'D!Jonounamtou1eg7d0h0, fohperorpoCu looafmt ILmOnao.kdceoMrCecIDlaTomhnopomuIagma.hs : \ he War of 18 12. The Co unty itself lI \\ ~,a.s nlu t n'amed ionary for fam P e. a tri ck 1'\'[ cD H en ry, on o ~lgh of .h R as evan attractive to wn sq uare wh ich IS well- kept : stores surround th e sq ua re a nd the County cO~IIt ho use is OJ~ one slde. T he city was Incorpor a ted In 182.). The industr ies of l'v1cDonough arc interesting and va ried. The D owling Mc Donough Baptist Church wh ich celebrated its 125th anniversa ry this year. Textil e Mfg. Co. , manufactures spo rt shirts ; Carm ichael H osiery Mill s a nd ~l cDonough H osiery Mills arc makers of children's socks; .J. "M. Ca rmich ael Furn itu re Com p an y em ploys over 25 people in m a kin g upholstered furniture; M cDonou gh Icc Co., produ ces ice and maintains a freezer locker ; McDonou gh Found ry a nd M ach ine Co., In c., mak es ma ch ine pa rts , fa rm implem ent s, castings an d ot her mechanical devices; W . A. W al ker is a furn iture conce rn ; S. B. Fortinber ry and Sons Mfg. Co., In c., m anufactures saw gummel'S and sharpe ning ma- chines. .J. W. H a r kins has a cott on gin and wa rehou se. In Stockbridge, nin e mi les abov e ~l cDon ou gh, D ani el S. Mi ller h as a cotton gin . Locu st Grove, seven mil es south of th e county scat, is the loca tion of Robert son Furnitur e Company, makers of leat her cha irs. H a mp ton, southwest of M cD onou gh, is th e site of Southe rn Sta tes Equ ipment Corporati on , mak ers of elec tr ica l power tran smission s. Louella and Flippen are a lso com munities in H enry Co unty. Community Life Just recently a Ch amber of Co m mer ce was organ ized in M cD onou gh . The fir st presid ent is La ma r Ru ssell. and ther e arc 75 memb er s. Alrc adv th e organiza tion has provided a football field for th e high school, stud ied th e advisa bility of pip ing gas to M rDo noug h, a nd has plans for con struct ing a roads ide p a rk, wit h a pi cni c table for traveler s wh o wish to rest and ca t, on State H ighw ay No. 42. The K iwanis C lub. with Pa ul Can-s as pr esident, is also 'very a ct ive. The Am er ican L egion a nd it s a uxilia ry ca rry th rou gh many fine p rojects. T he Aux ilia rv re ccnt lv d onatr-d $ 1,000 for a h igh s~hoo l ba nd . L ocu st Grov e ha s a Wom an 's C lub tha t me ets rcgul arly a nd th e Garden C lub of Stockbridg e is a lso a n ac tive orga niza tion; Locu st Grove is the home of th e form er Lo cust Grove Institu te. a Bap tist Junior Co llege. A Co un tv h ealth cen te r has been maintained ' in th e H cn rv Co un tv Co urtho use for abou t five vcars. I t ha's a fu ll-t im e nur se and san ita rian . There are 37 wh ite ch urche s in H enry Co un ty. The Baptist Church in M cD on ou gh celebrated its 125th a nn iversary thi s year. T he H enry Co u nt y Lib ra ry, wh ich has 16,000 volumes, is moving in to a renovated building soon whi ch will double its space. M rs, L enora Pullin is Librari an . The rai lroa d th a t serves th e countv scat is th e Southern: the C entra l ~f Georgia travers es th e southwest part of th e coun ty . Ther e is d a ily Greyho und bu s service to a nd from N1cD on ou gh , and St at e H ighways 42, 8 1, 20 and 138 cr isscross th e coun ty . Seven white a nd ten Negro schools serve the coun ty. A new g ra mma r school is expec ted to be rea dy in M eDon ough by nex t J anua ry . T here a n : 2,036 white stude n ts and 2,197 colored studen ts enrolled in Co un ty schoo ls. M cDonough has a fine mu nicip al swimming pool ; a park th er e is und er way a nd pl ayg rou nd eq uip men t will soon be ad ded . Soon th e water a nd sewage system will be expa nde d . South R iver provides part of th e cas t bound ary of th e cou n ty . M cDonough Foundry and Machine Co. , which has ex pande d conside rably re cen tly. T he pri ncipa l cro ps of H enr y arc cotton, corn, grai n a nd pimientos. Poul trv a rc raised to a ron sidera hlc ex ten t; as arc beef ca t tle. R ecently M cDon ou gh took in one - fou r th mile more terri to n ' all th e wav round its city limi ts. ' . T he wcck lv Adv ertiser is M cDon- oug h's newspaper , F . .I . L inch is ed i- tor . County Officers Offi cers serving H enr y Co un ty ar e : C. H. Bowen, Ordinary ; Bess Fou ch e, C lerk of Co urt ; E . Q . Owen, Sher iff ; Charles R a y, T reasurer ; C. W. Fargaso n, Tax Co mmissioner ; H arold R . T urpin, County Sch ool Superintendent ; Benjamin B. G a rland, Solicit or General. Co unty F a rm Agent is Hugh Fi nd ley ; H om e Demon stra tion Age n t, Mi ss M arinell W eld on ; Surveyor , F. W . Lovell ; Corone r, E. W . Barnett ; M ember of the L egislature, Ed ward E. M eGarity; F ra n k B. Willingh a m is Judge of the F lin t C ircuit. Co unty Co mm issione rs a rc : J. C. Cha fin, cha irman ; C . W. W a lker, T. A. Coan , W . W . Wi se, .J. O. Cown , a nd .J. S. Hunt, C ler k. M cD onou gh' s M a yor is H . M . Turner , J oh n F . W a rd is Fi re C hief , and D. C . Co llins , C hief of Police. Cannon Ball Dedication T he first cannon ba ll fir ed in th e \ Var Between th e St at es was rc ccntlv dedicated on a permanent gra ni t~ mo num ent on the Co ur tho use sq uare in T ho mas to n, U pso n County. M anv months of plan n ing wen t into ma king a permanen t monum ent whi ch would properly per ser ve and display th e fam ous canno n ba ll. Museu ms have soug ht the fa mo us cannon ba ll on numerous occas ions. U pso n Co un ty now h as it for a p erman ent landmar k. U pso n Coun ty has p la ns now to pa ve walkwavs to th e mon ument to ena ble visitor ; a closer view . 5 GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Nation's Defense in Atom-Bomb Age Looks to Georgia Aircraft Industry H ow is Georg ia's inf ant in age, gia ntin-size aircra ft industr y at Government airc ra ft p lant No.6 doing th ese days? And wh at is it s future ? Geor gia aircra ft builders at M ari etta a re deliverin g to th e nati on's a ir a rm th e world 's fastest kn own bomber, th e 6-jet, 600 mil es p er h our B-47 Stra tojet. Capable of ca rrying th e A-bomb, it can screa m into the stra tosphere more th an 40,000 feet a nd h as a ran ge of more th an 3,000 mi les. "Deliveries of B-47's to th e Air Force fr om th e M ari etta p lant a re right on schedu le," says D . J. Haughton, vice- president and gene ra l man ager of th e Geo rgia Division of Lockh eed, in a report on th e first six m on th s of operations th is year. " I n spite of man y problems in buildin g one of th e world's most complica ted airp lanes, our team of Geo rgia work ers ha s turned in a per Iorm an cc whi ch is a cred it to th e a ircra ft industry a nd a feath er in th e ca p of Geo rgia ns," Mr. H aughton said. Ca lled th e tra nspo rt jet of th e next ten yea rs, th e Air For ce's n ew C-130, Am erica' s first turbo-p rop eller ca rgo ca rr ier, will be built in qu antity at Geor gia's L 0 c k h e e d Aircraft plant. Lockh eed designed, it will fly hi gh er, faster and slower, a nd also more economi cally th an a ny existing mi litar y t r a n sp ort. Whi le performan ce fig ures are still secret, Lockh eed Pr esident R obert E . G ross has revealed th at th e C- 130 will ca rry ca rgo for about four cents p er ton-mi le, as compa red to p resent costs of appro xima tely ten cent s a ton-mi le. T h is is a startling cost reduction th at foretells th e comme rcial success of thi s tur bo-p rop jet . Economy Impact The sto ry of th e Lockh eed -Air Force development of a new source for Am erican air power at M ari et ta is a unique one . It is one in whi ch privat e enterpri se, teamed with th e milit ar y serv ices a nd the p eople and local govern me nts of a Southe rn region, is building th e nati on' s air mi ght on a bu siness-like basis designed for perm an en cy. Co unting only th e plant's 13,000 employees and th eir families a nd th ose of bu sinesses and industri es working directl y on jobs for Lo ckh eed, mor e th an 100,000 p ersons a re primari ly affected - O ctob er 25, 1953 ADVERTISING GEORGIA Georgia Adv ertisem ents by the I Department of Commer ce will ap_ pear in th e following n ati on al pu bli. ca t ions: TIME magazin e, Novemb er 2nd. IRON AGE m agazin e, November 12th. TIME magazin e, Novemb er 16th. TIME ma gazin e, Novemb er 23rd. TIME magazine, Novemb er 30th. by th e M ari etta Lockh eed airc ra ft in. du str y. Seco nda rily, m an y th ousand, mor e feel th e impact. Lockh eed' s weekly payroll tod ay ex. ceeds $ 1,000,000. Geor gians from 36 comm unities comm ute daily to wor k at the plant. And these comm uters an a boon to bu siness for automotiv e servo ice esta blishme nts in mor e th an a fifth of Georgia's coun ties. Some 20 per cen t of all p eop le work. ing in manufacturing in Cobb, Fulton and D eK alb Counties are employed hI Lo ckh eed . These fami lies spe nd mort than $45, 000,000 per yea r for food. clothing, rent an d other n ecessities. In the region serv ed by m erribers of th e Seve nth Di stri ct Pr ess Association. wh ich excludes Atlanta, th ere are 7,076 Lockhe ed employees w ho comm ute daily to th eir jobs , distributed by counties as follows : Bartow, 369 ; Ch attooga, 3 ; Cobb, 5,743; D ouglas, 83: Floyd, 131 ; Go rdon , 2 15 ; H a ralson, 7; Murray, 3 ; Pa ulding, 237; Polk, 209. These em ployees and th eir famili es would make a fair sized city by th emselves. Becau se of excellent highways; h owever, they an d th e rest of th e L ockh eed wo rkers live in a disp ersed 36 coun ty ar ea, making th e impact of the new aircr aft in d u s tr y dir ectly felt throughout North Geor gia. T he new turbo-propeller cargo ca r rie r, C- 130, now bein g produced at the Lo ckh eed aircraft pl an t in Marietta. GEORGIA D E PARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 New Colonial Stores Warehouse Coloni al Stores, Inc., recently open ed a multi -m illion dolla r war ehouse in East Point . It will ser ve Coloni al' s 88 stor es in Georgia, T ennessee and Alabam a. The building conta ins 500,00 squa re feet of floor space and houses th e genera l exec utive and adrninistrativ e offi ces, groce ry and produce storage a reas , a meat plant, mod ern ba kery and othe r p ackin g a nd processing faciliti es. It is one of th e largest an d mo st modern warehouses of it s type in th e U nit ed St ates. NEWSLETTER O ctober 25, 1953 Ellijay, Gilmer Boast Scenic Mountains, Timber and Farmlands Gilmer County, situate? in th e n~rth west section of th~ state, IS an esp.ecJa~ly beau tiful mou?tamous a rea . E lhp y,.l ts ~\~ourndtyforse"astt,opIS anthdereCs~.h:e' roIkne?eeedI n,. di a n th a t is exactly what th e VIsitor in Gilm er County will wa nt to do. The moun- tains called "the foo th ills of th e Blue !{idge :Mountai ns," ar e . covered. with pines and other p rofit ab le timber , which affo rds m an y of th e population their livelihood. T here a re five conce rn s in Ell ijay dealing in lumber : The Appalachian Pastoral scene in Gilmer Coun ty. Oak Flooring an d H ardwood Corp., employs over 50 p ersons in their flooring lumb er sup ply com pa ny ; Ellijay Lumber Co m pa ny is a lumber fini shing plant ; Gene tt e Lumber Co. a nd Southe rn Lumber and Mfg. Co ., are both lumber firms, and W at ers Building Supply Co ., sells lumber an d other building n eed s. The othe r enterprises in Ellija y a re : Th e D ra pe r Co rporation wh ich m anufactures shuttle blocks; The H all Pr ess, and Times-Courier, printing ; The .J. & C. Bedspread Co., In c., and th e Elli jay M a n ufact uri ng Co ., a subsidiary of the Lawtex Compa ny a t Dalto n, makers of bedspread s. T he Co ncrete Products Company h as been in Ellijay for about a year a nd manufactures concrete bui lding blocks. W illingh am -L ittle Sto ne Co ., shi ps crush ed roc k used in soil conservation and h igh way bases. About 75 are employed in thi s com pany of whic h S. C. Gartrell is manager. Civic Life There are five communities through out th e county: H enry Grady, T own Creek, Boa rdtown, North cutt an d T ails Creek. Ellijay's population is 1,500, an d th e rest of th e county's 9,000 residents make up the oth er towns an d areas. Gilmer County libra ry h as 20,000 volumes wh ich h ave a wide circ ula tion. A Co unty H ealth Nurse has offices in th e County Co urtho use. A new schoo l will soon be constructed to repl ace th e one whic h recently burned . The total enro llme nt of th e schoo l system is abou t 1,100. Gilmer Co un ty is serv ed by a weekly newspap er, T h e Ell ijay T imes-C ourier, of whi ch C. F . Owens is edito r. T he L. & N . R ai lroad h as a sta tion in Ell ija y. Ellijay is reac he d by Sta te Hi ghway No .5, runnin g north a nd south th rou gh th e coun ty, or No. 52, east a nd west, tak ing th e mo toris t from Chatswor th to Dawsonville, as scenic a route as an y mountain enth usiast cou ld wish for. Tourists an d Georgia visitors are d rawn to th e rolling moun tain cou ntryside for its restfu l bea uty an d for th e fishing streams whic h abound there. The Ellijay, Cartenay a nd Cosawatee R ivers provide fishing sites and su pply wa ter. A new filtering pla nt h as rec ently been install ed whi ch doubles th e sup ply to th e reside nts of th e cou nty. T he Brendan a M otel is conveniently loca ted to acco mmoda te visitors to th e a rea. T h e T ankersley H ot el a nd th e J a rrett Hotel a re in Ellijay also. T here a re 20 ch urc hes or m ore in th e co u n ty . Three ac tive civic clubs h elp enliven activities in Ell ijay: The Ellijay L ions Club h as Charlie Wat ers as p resident ; th e R ota ry C lub is h ead ed by Ava ry Di mmock, and th e Ellijay W oman's C lub has M rs. J ames Tankersley as it s head . Vegetable gardening, with corn a nd potatoes predominating, is ca rried on th roughout th e county; apples a re grown, an d cattle an d livestock rai sed . Timber an d pulpwoo d sales are high . County Officers Gilmer County has th ese officials : Ordinary, C la ude Mullinax ; Clerk of Co urt, Bill Westm oreland ; Sh eriff, J. H . H efner ; T ax Co llecto r, W ayne Pin son ; T ax R eceiver, F. C. M cK inni sh ; Co unty Schoo l Superintendent, Bryan T he road to Ellijay. Par ks; Solicitor General : H . G . Vandivere ; Co unty Age nt , H . E. Chas ta in; H om e Demo nstra tion Agent , Mi ss N ell D uckett ; Sur veyor, W . O . Do uglas; Coroner, Ernest L ogan ; M emb er of Legislature, .J. P. H olloway; J udge, H owell Brooks ; a nd Co unty Commissioner, 13. C. L ogan . G. L. Hu ff is M ayor of Ellij ay. Travel Editors Tour Georgia Ea rlier in th e mon th a number of travel ed itors from the nation's largest metropolitan newsp ap ers toured Geor gia's principal resort areas, covering 1,000 miles. T he purpose of th e trip was to lea rn first hand about th e fa cilit ies, th e beauty a nd variety of recreation offered in Georgia. The group assemblied in Atla nta a nd th en wen t to D ah lon ega, Vogel State P ark , Blairsville, E lbert on, Cl ark Hi ll L ak e, Au gus ta , M agnolia Spring St at e Park, Savannah , Brunswick a nd the Golden Isles, Okefenok ee Swamp Park, R adium Springs, Ida C ason Ga rd ens, th e Li tt le White H ouse, F lyin g S. D ude R an ch, th e Cycloram a and Stone M ounta in. A repo rter and pho tograher accompani ed the gro up th rough ou t the en tire tou r. T he edi tors' visit was planned an d sponsor ed by the Georgia St ate Chamber of Commer ce, the Geor gia H otel Associa tion , Modern Trailways and the Atl anta Jou rn al a nd Con stitu tion . Bathrobe Manufacture T wo GR I FFIN manufacturers ar e organizing a corporation to make ba throbes. H owa rd Co llier and Do n J ackson will em ploy abou t 40 wom en in a new 1O,000-square-foo t building constructed for th e new conce rn. R a ymond David will be th e m an ager of th e Co llier-J ackson Corporation. 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE e::S6L -sz ~380.1.::JO r . _, l .... ' 11 'oN l!W.l J d 'BD 'Bl UBP V P!Pd 3:DVl.SOd 's'n 'lI11' Td gg't ':J;)S VIEJ~03EJ '8 V.LNV'.LV 'O.L ldV:J 3.LV.LS 00 I 3::J~3~~O::J ..:10 .1.N3~.L~Vd3a VIEJ~03EJ HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS Mingled orff's, Inc" Savannah h as expanded into th e m anufacturin g field with a new refri ger ation unit for shrimp trawler s , , , C on struction projec ts tota ling mo re than $ 14,500,000 a re under wa y a t For t Benning . . . Dixie Dairies in Macon will soon bui ld a new icc cream and milk processing plant , , . Atla nta will hav e a new building soon to be occ upied under lease by th e in suran ce com pa n ies of th e Com mer cia l Un ion -O cean gro up . , . St ate Pap er Box Compan y's new 2 5, 0~0 sq uare foot fa ctory a nd wareh ou se 111 Co lum bus will be com pleted soon , . , T he Georgia State Co llege for Women a t Milled geville has started constr uction on a new science bui ldi ng .. , Akers Motors L ines op en ed its eigh th terminal last mo nth in Alba ny , , . At R ock E ag le P a rk , 4-H member s rc centlv dedi cated ano ther $ 10,000 co ttage '. . . Aug usta will soon hav e a nother tel evision sta tio n, WRDW-TV . , , Cinder ella Foods, a di vision of St even s Industries, In c., ha s been awa rde d a con trac t to supply 5,670 ,000 pounds of peanut butter for school lun ch rooms throughout the entire United States , . . T he Buckeye Co tton Oi l Company of Aug usta has announced the produ ct ion of dcgossypolizcd cott on-seed mea l, a new produ ct th at ca n be fed to a ll elasses of livesto ck , . , The J un ior Order of United Am er ican M ech ani cs h as reported a success ful sale of sta m ps ad ver tising th e " Buy Georgia Product s Campaign" . , . "Action and Progr ess," regul ar monthly publication of th e Sa vannah C hamber of Commer ce, has been selec ted as an ou tst anding exa m ple am on g thousands of cha m be r publications through ou t the coun try . . . The Bivin s Youth Cr ntcr rece n tly ope ned fo r Baldwin County's teen -agel's . . , H. K. F ergu son Co m pa ny, textiles, rece n tly opened a sa h-s off ice in At la nta . . , The ncw bridge a t Co rd ra y's Mill has been complet ed a nd ope ned to tr affi c, giving a nother all-pa ved road from Alba ny to Morga n . . . Hopk ins H a ll. a new 25-room dormitory was rcci-ntlv dedi ea ted a t Agne s Scott College .' D eca- tu r, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Lo ckh eed Air craft Corp ., MA R l ETTA - Rep airs, $ 115,000 , Statham G arment Co rp., STATHAJH-Men's trousers, $45,000. J aco Pants, Inc.,WIN DER- M en's trousers, $ 186,500. J ohn J. Wo od side Storage Co" Inc" ATL AN T A-Packin g, cra ting , dr ayage of hou seh old goo ds for sto rage, $222,700 . Ga. Farmers (Continued from Page 3) gia farmers in 1952 pr oduced products whi ch th ey either sold o r consumed a t home to th e value of $755,45 7,000, excluding Government payments. These p roducts wer e grown on 198,000 fa rm s in th e sta te, as reported by th e 1950 U . S. Cen sus Bureau. GE O RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 A nothe r.Leo rgia Success $iory An a tt ra ctiqe 25th anniversa r y br chure wa s published lat e in Au gu st b th e Genuine P arts Companv. E sta lished in 1928, with a n organization 0 six persons, Genuine ' Pa r ts tod a)r) s th largest ind cp cnd cn t au tom ot ive re plac em en t parts bus iness in the world sta ffed by more than 1,100 c m p lo yr-rs Pr esent ope ra tions incl ud e six ware hou ses, 4 1 jobbing sto res and three re building pl ants from Ar kan sas to th Atl antic a nd fro m Ne w J ersey t M aine. Sale s in 1952 were 0 \'('1" $2 mill ion . U. S. Highway 27 Group Makes Plans Some 300 members of th e U , Hi ghwa y 27 Association convened ca r ier this month in Chattan ooga und President J. H , Lop ez. Go v el' n 0 Frank Cl em ent of T ennessee addr ess cd the meeting, and th e group visite R ock Citv and Lookout M ountain . Th obj ectiveof th e ga thering was to m ak plans for th e promotion of to urist trav cl and for popularizing the re sor along th e en tire length of U. S, 2 from M ackin aw City, Mi chigan, t Miami, Florid a, The route cnt c Georgia a t Chattan ooga a nd connec with th e 'F lo rid a sec tio n of th e high way sou th of Bainbridge. Delegat es 19 W est Georgia cou nties served by I, S, H ighway 27 met in joint sessio with th e T ennessee a nd K cntuck memb er s of th e associati on . , DEPAUTMENT OF [DMMEU[E NEW LETTER OVEMBER 10 195 3 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman Lonnie A . Pop e, V. Chm, Ben Jessup Y. F. Geeslin Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Secretary Vol. 5, No.3 November 10, 1953 Novembe r 10, 1953 Georgia Cotton Crop Shows Gain in 1953 Co tton growing in Georgia is on th e up grad e. The Georgia Crop R epo:,tin,g Ser vice Athens Ga ., rep orts th at ind ications' ar e th a{ th e yield th is year will be 790,000 bales, a ga in of 61,000 bales over 1952's yield of 729,000 b ales, and a great ga in also over th e 10-year averag e pr odu cti on, 1942--1 951 of 716,000 b al es. This yea r's crop is bein g produced on a reduced acreage of 1,354,000 com pared with 1,439,000 last yea r. A ga in in th e pou nd s of . lint p er ac re is also indicated for th is yea r280 pounds, wh erea s in 1952 it was 245 pounds and th e 10-yea r average, 1942-1951 was 252 pounds per acre. The indicated yield for th e United States thi s yea r is 15,596,000 bales, comp ared with 15,136,000 last yeara gain of 460,000 bales thi s yea r. F ou r sta tes, acco rding to th e rep ort, are expec ted to produce one m illion bal es or m or e this yea r. They ar e : T exas, 4,050,000 bales ; Mi ssissippi , 2,050,000 bal es; Californ ia, 1,725,000 ; Arkans as, 1,325,000. M anufacture of cotton into vari ous textile produ cts is Geor gia's lar gest industry, 110,000 emp loyees turning out goods annua lly value d a t mor e th an on e billion dollars. COVER PICTURE This an cient "overshot" water wh eel that form erly p rovid ed power for a corn mill on th e Berry Schoo l grounds, near Rome, holds its own in beauty in a setting of a placid lak e and amidst a profusion of flow ering sh rubs th at surround it .-Phot o by Carolyn Carter. Parking and traffic are both accommodated on Augusta's Broad Street. MACON: Am eric an College of Sur geons M eetin g, D empsey HotelNovember 12. ATHENS : Annual Sho rt Course on th e Cause and Pr eventi on of Econo mi c W aste in th e Marketing of Fruits and Vegetabl es, University of Georgia-Novemb er 12-13. ATLANTA: The Society for th e Ad van cem ent of M anagem ent, Georgia Chapter , " M anagement Phil osophy as a Basis for M anagem ent Impro vem ent ;" Atlanta Athleti c Club - November 13. ATLANTA : Southern Econ omic Association M eeting, Biltmor e H otelNov emb er 13-14. ATLANTA : T ennessee V alley (Southeastern) Section of th e Am erican Ce ram ic Society M eetin g, Geor gia T ech an d Biltmore Hotel-November 13-14. ATLANTA : N ational F ertiliz er Associa tion M eeting, Biltmore HotelNov ember 15-18 . MACON : Georgia Baptist Con vention, D empsey H ot el- N ovember 1619. AT H ENS : Dedi cation of th e n ew Li brary, University of Georgia-November 19. ATLANTA : 2nd Annual Southeastern Transportati on Cl inic, Atlanta Di vision, University of GeorgiaNovember 19-21. MACON : Georgia R ur al Letter Carriers' Association M eetin g, D emp sey Hotel-November 21. ATLANTA : Dedi cati on of th e Pri ce Gilb ert Librar y, Geo rgia T ech- Novem ber 21. ATLANT A : Nationa l Associati on of P rofession al Baseball Leagues M eeting, Biltm ore Hotel a nd D ink lerPlaza-Novemb er 29-D ecemb er 4. AT H ENS: Psych ological Associat ion Annual M eetin g, U niversity of Georgia-De cember 5. ATLANTA : Georgia Associa tion of Soil Co nservation Supervisors' M eeting, H enry Grady H otel-December 8. MACON : Georgia Liv estock Association M eetin g, D empsey H otel- December 8-9. ATLANTA: Association for th e Adva nceme n t of Managem ent , Geor gia Chapter, "T he Past or and Industri al R elations," Atl anta Athletic C lubD ecember 10. ATLANTA : 2nd Ann ual Sheri ffs' Confer ence, Atlanta Di vision , University of Geor gia-Decemb er 11-12. ATLANTA : Geor gia Canners' Associati on M eetin g, Biltmore Hotel-> D ecember 10-11 . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 NEWSLETTER Nov ember 10, 1953 Analysis of Car Accidents in Georgia Shows How Mishaps Occur and Who Are the Victims With th e large increase in th e numI er of motor vehicles in Georgia in re: cnt years a nd th e ga in in th e use of thcse vchicles, hi ghway acci dents natlII'ally also h ave j ump ed , and m otorists find it increasingly necessar y to be mo re carefu l as they d rive. Highl y revea ling. a nd ~nformati,:,e ficrures on roa d ac cidents 111 Geo rgia h ~ve been release d by th e G eorgia Department of Public Sa fety. The report sho ws that in 1952 th er e were 1,033,428 motor vehicles registered in Georgia, com pa red with 733,369 in 1948, a ga in of 300,059 in four years ; that 1,004 person s were killed a nd 11,368 injured in motor vehicle acc iden ts in 1952. T he report a lso point s out th at whereas th er e wer e 600,000 licen sed drivers in Georgia in 1940, th e numbcr increased to 1,353,235 in 1952 . The popul ati on in G eorgia in 1950 wa s 3,444,578, whi ch mean s that app roximat ely one out of every three person s in th e stat e is a licensed motor veh icle d rive r. Und er the hea ding, " D I D YOU KNOW," th e Public Safety re port gives th e follow ing facts on motor vehicula r acc ide nts in Georgia : There is no spec ia l set of circumstances or violations th at cause fat al accidents. The viola tions th at show up in mi nor acc ide n ts also show in about the same fr equency in fatal acc identsonly by cha nce is it true th at every accident is not a fat al on e. Nin et y per ce nt of th e drivers inv olved in G eorgia ac cid ents in 1952 reside in the Sta te . Forty-on e percen t of th e d rivers involved in R ur al acc idents in 1952 were rura l residents. . O ne ou t of eve ry twenty veh icles reg istered in Georgia was involv ed in an acciden t last year. . One out of every tw enty-four vehicl es involved in acciden ts last yea r h ad a defect. . One thousand and four person s wer e killed in Georgia accide nts last year, which in clud ed 8 70 Georgians a nd 134 residents of other states. Three h undred and fift een Georgian s and sixty-eigh t reside nts of other sta tes were killed by spee ding drivers. . One hundred and thirty-five G eorgIans a nd thirteen resid ents of othe r sta tes wer e killed becau se of drunken dri vin g. Sixty-four Georgian s and th ree residents of othe r sta tes were killed becau se someone fail ed to yield o r did not have th e right of way . T wo Geo rgia ns were killed by ca rs following other cars too closely. Fifteen Georgian s and seven reside nts of other sta tes wer e killed due to passing on hill s and curves. Forty-eight G eor gian s a nd eleven residents of other sta tes wer e killed as drivers drove on or acro ss th e cen terlin e whil e meeting othe r ca rs. Seven Ge orgia ns a nd tw o residents of othe r sta tes were killed beca use d rivers fail ed to signa l or signalled too la te. Fourteen G eorgian s and one resident of a nother sta te were killed in acc ide nts ca used by illegal or improp er parking. F our Georgi an s a nd on e reside nt of anothe r sta te wer e killed in acc ide nts ca used by defective brak es. Ni ne Geor gian s and fo ur reside nts of other sta tes were kill ed becau se d rivers fa iled to hav e veh icles under control (Sleepy and fatigu ed drivers and/or not wat ch ing th e road .) Eighty-three othe r G eorgian s were killed in accid ents ca used by numerou s other violations by dri vers, bicyclists and ped estri an s. M ost acc ide nts occ ur betw een 2 :00 p. 111. and 9 : 00 p. m. The more deadl y acc idents occur afte r midnight when speede rs incr ease becau se of lesser tr affic. Each day last yea r th er e we re 7.4 ac cide nts in th e h our betwee n 5: 00 p . m. and 6:00 p. m. One person was killed in traffic accide nts every 8.7 h ours last year. In 1951 a person was killed every 9.2 hours. Th er e wa s a killed or inj ure d person every forty-nin e minutes in 1952 while in 1951 one was killed or injured eve ry 53 minutes. Ther e was a n accide nt eve ry seventeen minutes in 1952 while th er e was one every twenty-six minutes in 1951. Two th ou sand six hundred a nd thi rteen dr ivers cause d acc idents by fa iling to give h and signa ls or gave th em too late. One thousand five hundred and thirty-two d rivers ca used accide nts by dis- regarding stop signs and signals. Nine hundred and fift y-eight drivers ca used accid ents wh en th ey disregard ed tr affi c lights . Eight hundred drivers ca used acc idents by improp erl y starting fro m parked position .-They ju st did n't look before they leaped. Thirty-four th ou sand seven hundred and thirteen dri vers ca used acc ide nts by viola ting som e traffi c law or safety rul e. Fifty-five p ed estri ans wer e injured a nd nin e wer e killed as th ey played in th e roa dwa y. Forty of th em were nin e yea rs old and younger. One th ou sand and eighty ped estrian s wer e inj ur ed and one h undred a nd sixty-four were killed in traffi c acc ide nts in 1952 to total one th ou sand two hund red and fort y-four ped estri an casua lti es. There were eigh t hundred and tw elve male and four hundred and thirty-tw o femal e ped estri an cas ua lties. O ver six tho usand acc ide nts occurred on Sa turday, over five thousand accide n ts occur red on Sund ay, and th er e was an ave rage of ove r three th ou sand acci dents for eac h of th e week-days last vear. . O ver twelve billion s of mil es were traveled on Georgia Hi ghways last year. Eleven th ou sand three hundred and sixty-eigh t p ersons were injured in traffic ac cide nts last year. Seve ntee n th ou sand on e hundred and sixty-four drivers in volved in accid ents last yea r had eleven or m ore years driving experience; four hundred a nd sixtyth ree of th ese wer e in fa ta l acc ide nts. For eac h person killed th ere were eleven inj ur ed . Seve n hundred and for ty-nine males wer e killed and two hundred and fift vfive females killed , almost 3 to 1. . Ther e were seven ped estrians injured to eac h on e killed . Nin et een thousand two hundred and eigh ty-two accid ents, th e majority, occurred in daylight hours. Twenty thousand three hundred and twenty-four acc idents occurred on stra ight, level roads. W ith so man y fine new road projects, Georgians will surely take increased pride in th eir proper use and make Georgia safer and mo re inviting to tourists. 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER - November 10, 1953 GEORG/A PARADE OF PROGRESS New Milling Facilities Newes t addition to th e agri cultural in dus tries in sout h central Georgia is th e modern milling and feed pla nt in sta lled a t Co ley's Gi n, F eed an d Milling Company, DO OLY COUNTY . I n half a n hour the average tru ckload of feed stuffs can be processed . T here are elect rically op er at ed h oists, conveyor belts, suction pipes, a corn she ller, a h ammer mi ll a nd mixing machine whic h mix es feed stuffs acc ord ing to any form ula desired. - 0- LaGrange Structure Co nstruction on a new building a t LaGRAN GE h as been started to repl ace th e Park H otel, destroyed by fire last spring. The new two-story bui lding which will cost approximately $200,000 , will be know n as th e Mallor y-Hutchinson Building. It will be com pletely aircon ditioned a nd con tain its ow n heating system . Plans ca ll for six stores, 14 offices and an upsta irs d ining room wit h a sea ting capacity of 100. - 0- New Type Rugs A new ru g m ill, managed by W . H . Shup tr ine, recently op ened in DALTON. The ru gs, m ad e of knitted mater ia l rather th an braided, are available in oval a nd round shapes. The rugs are reversible an d are m ad e in a varietv of patterns. The machine wh ich help's to produce th ese kni tt ed rugs is b elieved to be th e onl y one of its type operating in th e n ati on . All of th e com pany's ou tput will be sold through the Barwick Mills of D alton . - 0-- Albany Motel The H amilton M otel recently opened in ALBAN Y on U . S. H ighwa y 19. O wned and mana ged by Mr. a nd Mrs. Paul H ami lton, it is of hand some con structio n and well equip ped to ca re for the needs of tourists an d Georgia travelers. - 0-- New Insecticide Company Announcement h as been m ade th at AMER IC US will h ave a new en terprise. The South Georgia Insecticide Com pan y will open in th e near fut ure to op erate as general contractors for structural termite con trol , gen eral p est control, ai rplane cro p d usting, weed control and tree spraying . Even tuall y th e company plans to manufacture agricu ltural chemicals to be distribut ed throughout G eorgia, Florida and Alabama . Joh n H. Mobley is president . Cotton Mills Expanding Aragon Mills at ARAGON h ave announced plan s to expan d and im prove th eir textile m ill. C allaway Mills a t L aGRA N GE will soon sta rt operations in its $300,000 additio n to its H illside pla nt. The additio n wi ll be used as ca rd room a nd will h ouse 60 indivi d ua l mo tor-driven ca rds equipped wit h ballbearing liekerins and comb boxes. Cabin Crafts a t DA LTON will bui ld a ru g mill a t R ossville a t an estima ted cost of $ 150,000. A one-s tor y addi tion will be constru cted at th e Da lton pla nt , p a rt of it to be used for expansion in th e d ye h o u se. - 0- Two Cartersville Motels T wo new motels rece ntly op ened on U. S. Hi gh way 4 1, ju st out side of CA R TERSVI L LE) in th e Cassville a rea . The Imperial Lodge an d th e Skylit M otel are mo dem in construction and well equipp ed. T he Im perial L odge is ow ned by M r. a nd Mrs. Ri ch ard T opham : the Skylit M otel is th e p roperty of M r. an d Mrs. Edward T opham . - 0- Shopping Center Co nstruction will begin shortly on a new sho pping cen ter in MACON. A 63-a cre tract of land will be th e site of a $4-million suburba n shopping area wh ich will incl ude also offic e space, a motel, swim ming poo l, service station, a d rive-in ba nk and a movie th eatre. - 0-- New Hospitals Given Dedication A number of new h ospit als h ave recen tly been ded icated throughout G eorgia, and severa l more a re in th e process of construc tion, with plans under way for ot h ers. Pierce C ounty H ospital was ded icated in September at Black shea r. T his structure; bu ilt a t a cost of $340 ,000 has 50 rooms. A new hospita l at Ashburn, Tu rner County) costing $4 16,000, was dedi cat ed soon af ter in th e same month, as was th e Gordon Co unty H ospital a t Calhoun, constructed at a cost of $600,000. Peach Co untv H ospital a t Fort Vall ey was dedicated ea rly in O ctober. This b uild ing will have a tot al of 32 bed s and was built at a cost of $4 11,000 . T h e ded ication of th e D ouglas-C of f ee County H ospital soon followe d . This is a 60-bed in stitu tion . C risp C ou nty H ospital at Cordele, a 50-bed structure, was also dedicated in O ctober. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE 4 Addition In Carrollton CA R ROL LTON'S Ge ne ral Shoe Corporation pla nt h as recently complsi, ed an expansion which adds 2,000 sq ua re feet to its manufact uri ng space. The total a rea of the concern is now 22,000 square feet. T he plant ope ne d in Ca rrollton with 10,000 square feet of floor space in 1946. H a rry Dobbins is manager of th e Carrollton en terprise. -0-- Expansion In Talmo M cE ver Packing Plan t of T ALM O, J ackson Co un ty, is nearing th e cornpletio n of a $50,000 expansion p rogram. T he conc ern , which packages bologna, sausage, wien ers, ham, pork and othe r mea t p rodu cts, will have four new la rge coolers, modern sausage kitche ns, a packi ng cooler an d bon ing room . An a ir con di tion ed offic e is a new add ition to th e p lant, which em ploys about 50 peop le a nd purchases $700,000 worth of livestock a nn ua lly fro m the surrounding area . - 0-- Quitman Fertilizer Plant A bulk plan t for h andling liqu id fertilizer was recently comp leted in Q UIT. M AN by th e Brooks Ch emica l Cornpa ny. It will serve as a who lesale ou tlet for Quitman L iquid Fertilizer Company, own ed by E. M . Mathis, J r., an d Q. M . Mathis. T he business concern, which started in Quitman in 1950, has expande d their pla nt and ope ra tions fro m an or iginal investm en t of $9,000 to $50 ,000 . - 0- New Nail Keg T he Atla ntic Stee l Co m pa ny, ATL A NTA ) is now using a fiber board carton for packa ging its nails, rive ts an d sta ples, rath er th an th e familia r nail keg. Atlantic Steel Co ., is the first major producer to ado pt this " nail ca ddy" a nd completely aba n do n kegs. T he com pa ny h as installed a new nai l-cleaning uni t, a conveyor system a nd automa tic sealing unit along with th e adoption of the new type of con ta iner. - 0-- Hotel Improvements The Ge neral O glethorp e H otel, SA V ANNA H ) h as en tered upon a $ 150" 000 improvement plan which is expected to be complete d by n ext spri ng. The golf club an d its services will be enla rged un der the new pl an . New fa cilities for dining around th e pool will be adde d, and th e in terior of the hotel will be a ir-condition ed . NEWSLETTER Novembe r 10, 1953 pike County is a th riving agri cu ltura l area of west. C~ntral G eorgi a. .Its economy is ba se? In ItS. land productlO~ and th e industnes. ~vhl ch p rocess ag n cultural commodItIes. The pastoral countryside supports a populati on of 8.459 in th e county ; 539 of this numher live in th e county sea t, Zebu lon . Pike Co unty and its coun ty sea t a re named for Zebu lon Pike, explore r and discoverer of Pik e's Peak . Other town s in the county a re Wi lliamson , Co nco rd, Hollonville, M ean sville a nd M olen a. Molena is th e " tur key ca pita l" of Georgia. Turkey pr oducti on there is valued a t $200,000 an nua lly. L ester McCr ar y h as a large tur key farm, a turkey processing p lant and freezer locker . Three la rge ca nning concerns h ave their homes in Pik e Co unty. C onco rd boasts the Co ncord Canning Co mpany, with J ohn H . Bak er as presid ent. O ver 140 em ployees ca n 800-9 00 ton s of pi mient os a nnua lly. This com pa ny also cans turnip gree ns. The Langford and T aylor Cannery at M ea nsville is h ead ed by H . G . L an gford and E. L. T aylor . H er e 300 em ployees ca n pimientos, turnip greens, collards and peach es. The annua l payroll is over $250,000 p er year. The county sea t is th e site of Besco Products, I nc. This concern processes and cans pim ientos, turnip g reens, colla rds, peach es a nd swee t pot at oes. The firm , with .J. J. Edwards as h ead , em- ploys over 200. An other industry for Conco rd is th e Co ncord M anufacturing Com pa ny, mak ers of a rgyle socks. Pr incip al crops of Pik e County a re p im ientos, corn and cott on . A goo dly porti on of th e land a rea is also seeded to small gra in a nd to pastu re. L ivestock and livestock products br ou ght $700,000 last yea r, dairy prod ucts, $79,000 ; a nd poultry, including turkeys, $400,000 . T imb er and pu lpwood sales am ounted to $60,000. A yea r ago, Zebulon installed a wa ter filtrat ion plant with Elkin 's C ree k as th e source of supp ly. Flint R iver tr averses th e coun ty, and th er e a re abo ut 100 fa rm ponds to serve th e a rea' s agricultural needs. Comm unity Li fe The Pik e Co un ty Li on s Club, with E. P. L ee as president, is a n active organ ization. Annually, it holds a bro om A prosp erou s tu rkey fa rm in M olena is read y for T hanksgiving . sale for the benefi t of eye testin g th roughout th e county scho ols. Its p resent project is securing m or e subscriptions for the Pike C ounty .Jou rn al, th e weekly newspa per edited by C . W . Prccton . The Zeb ulon Cham be r of Co mme rce has Loui s D. C ulbreth as pr esid ent. Pik e Coun ty is a mem ber of th e recently orga nized West Ce ntral Orga nizat ion. P ack ing P ike county peach es. U. S. Hi gh way 19, or Sta te route 3, runs north and south th rou gh th e county. Sta te ro ute 18 traverses th e a rea east a nd west, and sta te rout e 109 is under construc tion . Zebu lon , loca ted in the center of th e county, is th e crossroads of Sta te routes 3 and 18. Pike Co unty is served by th e T railways bus conc ern a nd the Southern R ail road. Telephon e imp roveme nts in Pike Co unty will include n ot only more ph on es but also th e dial system . A mo tel is und er construc tion which will be m anaged by Ches te r Bush. T h ree ba nks serve th e area, all m embers of the FDI C . T her e a re forty ch u rches in Pike C ounty, thirty-on e for th e wh ite popula tion and 19 for colored citizens. Seven wh ite schoo ls a nd ten Negro sch ools serve th e county. Three new sch ools a re in th e blueprint stage, and a re expected to be rea dy abo ut one yea r fr om no w. A N egro schoo l a t Zebulon will be constructed a t a cost of $ 163,421; Pike Co un ty white h igh school will be of $ 164,5 75 value, and Pike County consolida ted N egro school a t C oncord, $237,913.09. T h e enrollment in th e Pike Co unty school system is 1,129 white stude nts and 1, 138 colored stude nts. County Officers Pike Co unty h as th e following officia ls: Ordin a ry, W . L. J on es ; Cler k of Court, J. W . Storey ; Sh eriff, J. A. Ri g- gins; Treasurer, th e Bank of Zebu lon ; T ax Co llec to r, Shade O . Bartlett ; T ax R eceiver , W . H . J oh nson ; Co unty School Superintendent, H arold T. Dan- (C ontinued on Pa ge 8 ) 5 G EORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Rome Making Dramatic Advances With Big Plants Under Construction R om e, boom town of N orthwest G eorgia a nd coun ty seat of Fl oyd C ounty, is taking one h und red m illion dolla rs' worth of new industry in her graceful step. T h is site of th ree new h uge plan ts h as a fine ba ckgro un d of p rosperou s in du stries and is faci lita ting th e newcom ers throu gh ca ref ul pl anning and years of th oughtful expe rie nce in the d evelop ment of m any en te rp rising conce rns. The lat est industri al coun t tot aled 115 industri es, plus th e three new op era tions, tw o n ewsp ap ers, three radio sta tions and one television sta tion. Ei ght concerns em ploy ove r 100 each; soon six will have over 500 em ployees eac h . T he backbon e of indust ria l Rom e, firms too nu m erou s to m ention, which h ave h ad long sta nd ing esta blish me n t th ere, deserve cre d it fo r m a kin g th e Rome Kraft Company. city an a pp rop riat e pla ce for developm ent and expa nsion . C ivic groups a nd geogra ph ic locati on must be cred ite d a long with th e wa ter system and ra ilroad developm en t. The four conce rns a lrea dy Iirrn lv estab lished with ove r 500 employees a rc An chor R ome M ills, I nc., Bu rli ngt on M ills - Brighton Di vision , Pepperell M an uf actu ring Co m pa ny and C ela nese Co rpo ra tion of Am erica . T he fir st three a re cott on m ills, th e last m an uf actu res ra yon ya rn. G enera l El ectric Co rpo ration, whi ch is construc ting a $30-m illion tr an sformer pl ant, pl an s to em ploy over 1,800. R om e K ra ft Co., m a kers of paper board liners for corruga te d box es, will h ave a bo u t 650 in a $30-mi llion structure; Georgia Power Com pany, wit h its $40m illion Plan t H ammon d, will tak e on over 100. Four old stand-bys in R om e h ave under gon e con sid erabl e expa nsion with- in th e past three yea rs : Dixie Corporation' s a lum in um extrusion plant has enla rg ed eigh t times ; Fox M an ufacturing Co m pany, furn iture p roducer ; Advan ce Gl ove M anufactur in g Com pa ny, and K ay-Townes Antenna Company. R om e' s $ lOO-m illion d evelop m ent p rogr am was feat ured recently in a n im pressive a rticle in Business W eek, wid ely cir cul a ted na tion al magazine. Hi storical Features R om e was off icia lly nam ed in 1834. Fi ve m en who bou ght up th e land lot s of thi s part of th e C h ero kee territory eac h dep osit ed a slip of pap er in a h at with hi s choi ce for a nam e for th e new town . " Ro me, " Col. D. R . Mitch ell' s cho ice, was selec ted, a nd thus th e city's legal bi rth . In 187 3 C herokee Baptist College was foun ded . Lat er it was renam ed Sho rter C ollege in h on or of a ge ne rous ben efact or, Alfr ed Sh orte r. T od ay it is a hi gh- standing four-yea r college fo r wom en . T he fam ou s Bcrrv Schools a nd Co llege, locat ed a t M o'unt Berry just outside of R om e, were founded in 1902. Sin ce its beginning as a log-cab in Su nd ay schoo l, thi s un ique self-he lp in stit ution has developed a nd train ed thousands of boys and girls over th e years Irom th e m oun tain and ru ra l d istri cts of th e Sou th. Recen tly U. S. H igh way 27 was ded ica ted in Rom e as th e M artha Bcrrv H ighway. This name will a p ply to th ~ h!ghway th rou gh out th e sta te of G eorgia. Darlingt on School fo r Boys was fou nded in R om e in 1905 with th e ai m of " teach ing boys as well as books." W ith in recen t m onths a new $ 100,000 dorm itory a d d ition was com pleted at the school, as a gift fro m th e citizens of Fl oyd Co un ty. Battey State H ospital. nam ed for Dr. Rob er t Battey is situa te d on th e ou tskirts of R om e. T wo th ous and tuberculosis p ati ents a re ca red for her e. The G eorgia School for th e D ea f is locat ed a t Cave Spring. N ew buildings whi ch ha ve just been com pleted will be ded icated th ere on N ov em ber 11th o D r. Alfred L. Davis is head of thi s school wh ich h as a total of 3 18 stude n ts. Flo yd County Facilities Fl oyd Cou n ty, with a n eve r growing population now estim a te d a t 66,000 , is situated in th e northwestern pa rt of th e GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 - Novem ber 10, 1953 sta te and fo rms part of the Georgia. Alaba ma bo un dary. Cave Sp ring, a town in th e sou th wes te rn corne r of the co un ty, co nt rib utes about 1,000 to the tot al population . A nu mb er of Corn. munities locat ed through out th e co un, ty, add up to ap proximately 19,000. The urban population in and around R ome is estima te d at 43,000. T o serv e thi s fast growing sec tion. Fl oyd Coun ty has ade q ua te fac ilities in a lm ost eve ry res pect. T he city a n d coun ty scho ol systems have j ust under. gone consid erable ex pa nsio n . A new city recrea tion b uild ing will soo n be construc te d in R ome. St. M a rv's Ca th, olic Sch ool is locat ed in R om'e. In ad d ition to th e H arbin H ealth C linic, th ere a re two hospita ls : Fl oyd H ospital and M cC all H ospital. Fl oyd H ospital is now building m ore rooms a nd a dd itional kit ch en and dining facio li ti es. There a re well over 40 ch urc hes 10. ca ted th roughout the coun ty ; over a two yea r span there has been n ca rlv $2 mi llion in ch u rch expa nsions. . T h e Carnegie Lib rary h as ove r 30.. 000 vo lumes. A N egro lib ra ry is a ls~ locat ed in R om e. Ther e ar e three banks in th e city, with a tot al of ov er $27 milli on in dep osit s. A number of parks serve th e a rea with pl aygr ound eq ui pme n t a nd picnicking facilities. The Youth R ecreation C enter is a pop ula r place amo ng teen -agel's. Georgia Pow er 's P lant Hammond. The YMC A is und er ex pa nsion, a nd th e Optimist C lub is now sponsoring a Boys' C lub. R ecr eation is fu rther aided by four p ubli c swimm ing pools in and a round R om e. F our p rivat e pools and tw o golf co urses a re a lso av aila ble. Fishing and hu nting a ro und th is area are ver y popula r. Wi th in recen t years abo u t 100 la kes hav e been made on va rious farms, where fish ing is perm itted a t a m in im um fee. La st spring th e Chamber of Com' m erce improved its h eadqu arters in the NEWSLETTER ; ter of R ome a t a cost of $ ~8 ,000 . It has a ne\: fac~de and a SpaCH? Us,. con~ fortable II? tenor . The or ga l11za tlon . IS highly actIve :;tnd keeps up -to-d at e 111- forma tion available on m an y phases of Rome. Five new brid ges will soo n be con- structed ncar R om e. A new $ 1,000,000 ilridge will span th e O ostan au la downtown. O ne will traver se Armuche Creek, one th e Etowah R iver, one above town on th e O ostanaula, and one on th e Coosa. Expansion of Fl oyd Co unty Cour t- house is pla nn ed, with ge ne ra l remod- eling and an an nex. T ran sportat ion is fa cilita ted by U . S. Highway 27, or M a rth a Berry Hi ghway and U . S. 4 11; Stat e 20, 53,1 and 101 highways form wh eel spo kes from Rome, th e hub. Over 50 Greyhound bu sses a day top in R ome. T h e Southe rn R ailroad and th e Centra l of Geo rgia both serve Rome and th e sur ro und ing ind ustrial a rea . Rome is wh ere " the O osta nau la m eets the Et owah to form th e Coosa. " In addition .to th ese !'ivers in Fl oyd Co unty, there IS also BIg Cedar C ree k, whic h flows to th e C oosa a bove C a v e Spring. City water com es from a filtration plant on th e Coosa Ri ver. Floyd Co unty Airp ort, ca lled R ussell Field, is served by various airlines . Th e R ome N ews-Tribune, Floyd County's dail y newspaper , is ed ite d by Edward 1. Bernd. It da tes back 111 years. J ournali sticall y, R om e is not ed not only for its fin e and long-sta nd ing newspaper, but a lso for th e fa ct th at Henry Grad y sta rted hi s liter a ry ca ree r here. The R om e Enterprise is a colored weekly edited by th e R ev. E . L. Zub er. The th ree radio statio ns whi ch serve t~ e ~rea a re The Coosa V all ey R adio Station WROM, with Ed M cKay as Cmoanmapg~enry;, The R om e WRGA, with Bro ad M a th er cPasatyinn~z managm g ; L. B. Lowry is m anager of the R om e News-Tribune Sta tion W~VLRAOQM. , R om e's open ed la T st elevision J uly. D e st an aCtioovn~ mgton is president of th e station, a nd E~ M cK ay is m an ager. With a ' 100- mIle radi us, it serves part of T ennessee and Alab am a also. A nu mber of mot els a re available for tourists a nd Geor gia visit ors, beside three hot els : The General Forr est th e Greystone a nd the Third Avenu e ' H otel. Visitor s to R om e will wan t to be sur e to. visit th e grave of Mrs. Wood row Wilson in th e bea ut iful M yrtl e Hi ll November 10, 1953 cemete ry th er e. The Berry Schools a nd College , Shorter Co llege and D arl ing- to.n School a rc special h ighli ghts, along WIth th e C apitoline W olf in front of th e City H all. This copy of the famo us sym bol of R ome, Ital y, was sen t to R ?me, Geo rgia as a . gesture of goo d- WIll and respect from' th e Ita lian ca p i- tol cit y. Fl oyd Co unty ha s a number of verv ac tive civic organ iza tions th at m eet regul arl y : The R ot ary, Exch an ge Op- tim ist, Pilot , Kiwani s, J aycees, C ivita B. & nP~ Li on W ., s'a nQduottha~ Cha mbe r of C om m erce . T he quality of th e work of these gro u ps is of th e best . U tilities in th is a rea are a ll q uite bu sy. T he Geor gia Power Co m pa ny's Plant H ammond, now under construc- tion , will genera te 300,000 kilowatts. A new telephon e excha nge in R ome is less than th ree m on ths old a nd rural lin es a re bein g exte nde d. Gas lin es a re also bein g lengthened. Cott on is th e fa vored cro p in Fl oyd . A n umber of lumber m ills flour ish on timber of th e area . Beef and dairy cattle a rc ra ised. R ice Sp rings F a rm and Sh an dra Farms rai se a nd sell Black An gus ca ttl e. County Officer s O fficers of Fl oyd Co unty a re : Ordinary, C . H . H ollin gsworth, J r. ; C lerk of Co ur t, M elvin Owen s ; Sh er iff, J oe Ad ams ; T reasur er , C. O . Walden ; T ax General Electric Plant in R ome. Collector a nd Receiver, J. W . Winkle ; County School Superi ntendent, J. F . Murdock ; Solicitor Genera l, Chas tine Parker ; County Fa rm Agent, Glen n Wil e):; H om e D em on st ration Agent, M yrtl e Lee M cGoogan ; Coro ne r, J. W . D avis. . M embers of th e L egislat ur e a re R obert L. Scoggins, M a c G . H icks and Battle H all. H . E. Ni chols is Super ior C our t Judge. Serv ing th e C ity of R om e a re J ohn Ya rb ro ugh as F irst Com m issione r, W . Lumpkin Man Heads Ga. Unit, Highway 27 EI ~ct i on of officer~ featured th e joint I~eetll1g of U .. S. HI ghway 27 Associa- n on of G eo rgia, I nc., a nd th e Ce ntra l Division , com posed of members of K en- tucky a nd T ennessee, held O ct. 8-9 a t the R ead H ouse in C h a tta noobza, a t- tended by severa l h un dred dclcna tcs and visitors. b I.I? COIuffdiccerLs nam a rr y ed for C a s tle the G berry, c oruia ofo L U nit ump- kl? , Stewa rt Co unty, p resident ; O . A. ! ':J;)S VIEJ~03EJ 'E: V.LNV'.LV 'C.Lld'o':::J 3.L'o'.L5 CC L 3:::J~3~~O:::J .:10 l.N3~1.~Vd3a VIEJ~038 Co unty Commissioners. M emb er of th e Legislature is C harlie Br a y. GUY Hardaw ay is M ayor of Green. ville. ' New Facilities The Ame rican Oi l Co mpa ny in SA. V ANNA H has mo ved int o n ew quartel's. A lar ge war eh ouse for storag e of pet roleum a nd allied products a nd the sales offices a nd fa ciliti es for handling th e products a re now all in on e buill ing. Part of th e Warm Spr ings Foundation, n ation al center for po lio p a tien ts. Meriwether Co. (Con tin ued from Page 7) Wat er is supplied throughout th e com m unity by a water works and filt er svstcrn . Th e sour ce of supply is th e Flint River, boundary betw een Pike and M eriw ether counties. A good sewerage system is maintained . The Little White H ouse and th e Wa rm Springs F oundation a re th e fea tur e attractions of M eriw ether Co un ty. The Southe rn hom e of th e lat e President, Franklin D. Ro osevelt, is visited by hundreds upon hundreds eac h year. The I nfa ntile Pa ral ysis Fo undation was established in 1927. The Little White H ouse was built in 1932. Located between Greenville and M an ch ester, th is section of Sta te Hi ghw ay 4 1 h as been nam ed th e R oosevelt Hi ghway. I n Greenville is situa ted th e fin e coun ty courthouse whi ch sta nds h igh, wide and handsom e in th e town squa re. County officials a re Ordinar y, J ohn H ead ; Cl erk of Co urt, Alb ert Herring ; She riff, Sutt on H . Gill ; T ax Co mmissione r, M . R . Twitty; County Scho ol Superintendent, E. C . M itcham, J r. ; Solicitor Gen eral, Wright Lip for d of Newn an ; S. J. Boykin of Ca rrollton is .J udge on th e Co weta Ci rcuit; Fi r~ Chief, Bill Cla rk ; Police C hief, LeVI Ga rre tt ; Cou nty Fa rm Agent, R . C. B u c h an a n: H ome Dem onst ration Agent , Mrs. Elizab eth Pro ctor ; Sur veyor, Ernest Porch ; Coroner , I d us Robertson ; Mrs. M artha Ca ldwell is Director of Personn el of M eriw eth er Co unty Welfare. Cou'ntv Co mmissioners a re F. W. All- corn, Chai rma n ; w . P. K eith , J ames Caldwell, Martin Gibson and Luke Gill ; Mi ss Sa rah Hill is C lerk of th e GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 Cat And Dog Food A new ca t a nd dog food ca lled 100 per cent is being packed at GAIN ESV I LLE. Georgia Broilers, In c., is h andlin g th e product for th e R . A. Simm onds Com pa ny of San Francisco. T he product is all pro tein from natural sources, with no vitamin or mineral supplem ents adde d. - 0- Okefenokee Movie Warner Broth ers Film Company i; now showing a movi e ca lled " Black Fury " whic h was filmed in th e 0 KE FE NOI--\'- * COB B ~N N E/ ' ~CON t\:-/ I CLARK GAIN ES U\ Sec re tary / "y < '<. ---- \ >- 7 S'c I .... '" .:> - z e j DEK AL ,, B ; ' ~ Y' *Q: S ( ; . LINCOLN '- j > ..,.\.\~,~,"/~~,~~j:\\I'4, ~,o-0-& 'r->-. OL UMBr Vo l. 5, No. 6 '?.J If AYETTE, H EN R Y , / \ ".'.- / I / \ ' I ( -, ARREN\ /~ / D ecemb er 25, 1953 " '---, / -' PUT N AM ) '- ' _, > "R I CH M OND , \ L ~ SPALDING";'B JA S P E R U TT S t ../ H A N CDC K \ ,!>vOv~ ' ( I q.. \ __ ~-r-/ ~- - -_ 1/ ( r ;~ , / "'f"I ( - ---'- - :, "'~Iv ~,~Iv ~P I K E ) L AMAR ': : \ MON ROE I J ON ES " BALDW IN ', , '\ .\ rr / ' ' '', -J \, '-:! 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( \__----J I LEE T URNER --J B E-N'~ H I L L _)\- '- ' '/ ~ ' E FOFAVI ~t APP LING <--'- L r--':J (J ~ ~ 1 WORTH " WIN CALHOUN DOUGHERT Y ~(~ T 1 F T ~ CO F FEE L l'r r r\ MIT CHE L LCD L QU I T T ' B ERRI E N COOK ATK INSON - --~ i P I E RCE ~ WAR !: I~ BRANTLEY l--_ LANIER T HOMA S CL INCH FLA Cover P icture: Cherokee Ro se, Geor gia St at e Flow er-Photo by Caroly n Carte r NEWSLETTER D ecember 25, 1953 Interesting Georgia County Name Origins Feature Assorted Subjects, Revive History Georgia Counties were named for quit e a number of unusua l subj ects, in- cluding a churc h, Indians and Indian tribes, rivers, a cree k, Earls, Dukes, Lord s, Revolutionary 'Val' heroes, Pres- idents of th e U nited St at es, man y Gov- ernors of Georgia, one wom an , a fr uit, the Union, Independ ence (L iberty ), a minister , an editor, and a wh ole fam- ily. All three signe rs of th e D eclar ation of Independ en ce from Georgi a-Button Gwinnett, L ym an H all and George Walton -have been thus honored, as was one of th e signers from Geor gia of the U. S. Constitution-Abrah am Bald- win. The list a lso includes a coun ty named for th e discoverer of Am erica (Columbia for Christopher Colu m- bus) ; one for Geor ge Washin gt on , R ev- olution ar y war hero and fir st President of the United St at es; one after th e founder of th e Univer sity of Geor gia, one for a former Chancellor of the University-Barrow ; and on e eac h for the Pr esident and th e V ice-President of the Confederacy. Three counties hav e had two nam es each, and one man has had two coun- ties nam ed for him-John R andolph. R andolph County, crea ted in 1807 had its name changed in 1812 to J as- per ; th e present R andolph County was created in 1828. Cass County, created in 1832, was changed in 1861 to Bar- tow; Kinchafoonee County, cr eated in 1853, named for a cree k, had its name changed in 1856 to Webster . The cou nties of Georgia, th e dat e each wa s created and the ori gin of their names follows: App ling-1824-Colon el D ani el Ap- pling ( 1787-18 18) - Soldier and patriot from Columbia County; fought in In- dian Wars and War of 1812. Atkinson-1917-Wm . Y. Atkinson . Governor, 1894-1898. . Baeon- 1914-U . .s.. Senator Augus- tus O . Bacon, ( 1839-1914 ) , M acon lawyer. Bak er- 1825- Colonel J ohn Bak er ; farm er , R evolutionary soldi er, served with General J am es Ja ckson against the Indian s. Bald win- 1803- Abraham Baldwin ~founder of Univer sity of Georgia ; a sIgner of the Federal Constitution. Banks-1 858-Dr. R icha rd Banks (1784-1850 )- successful and brilliant doctor in Gain esville. Barrow- 1914- Chancellor D a v i d Crenshaw Barrow of th e U niversity of Georgia . Bartow- creat ed as Cass county in 1832- na med cha nged to Bart ow 1861 - General F ran cis Bar tow . Ben Hill-1 906-Ben jamin H . Hill - U . S. Sen at or fro m Georgia . Berrien-1 856- J 0 h n M. Berri en ( 178 1-1855) - Savanna h lawyer, St at e Senator, U . S. Senat or, celebra ted or ator and Attorney Gener al in J ackson' s Cabinet. Bibb-1822-Dr. W. W. Bibb ( 178 11820 )-Elbert County citizen; Georgia R ep resentative and Senator, U. S. R epresen tat ive and Sena to r ; T erri torial Govern or of Alabam a, firs t Governor of St a te of Alabam a ; a coun ty in Alabam a also is named for him. Bleckley-1 912-Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley. Bran tley- 1920- B e n j am i n D. Brantley (1832-189 1) - c i t i z en of Blacksh ear , en terp rising bu sinessman , St at e Legislat or , Pier ce County Treasur er for many years. Brooks-1 858-Preston S. Brooks ( 1819-1857)- M e m b e l' of Congress fro m Sou th Carolina . Bryan-1793- J 0 n a t h an Brya n ( 1708-1788 ) - accompa nied General O glethorp e wh en Savanna h was chosen for site of Colon y; taken prison er in th e Am eri can R evolution. Bulloch-17 96-Archibald Bulloch - Re volu tionary patriot, S a va n n a h law yer. President Theodore R oosevelt was Bulloch's decend ant throu gh his eldest son. Burke-1777-Edmund B u r k e English champion of Am erica n liber ty. Butts-1 825- Capt. Samu el Bu tt s of the Wa r of 1812. Calho un-1 854-J ohn C . Ca lhoun of South Carolin a ; serve d as U. S. Sen a tor, Secr etary of ' Val' and Vi ce-President.' Camden-1777-Earl of CamdenEn glish supporter of colonial rights. Candler-1 914-Governor Allen D . Candler- served as Gove rn or 18981902. Carroll-1 826-Charl es Ca rroll - a signer of th e Declarati on of Independen ce. Catoosa-1 853-An Indian nam e. Charlton-1 854-R. M . Charlton fro m Savann ah (1807-1854 )- three tim es Mayor of Savannah , U . S. Senator ; U . S. Di strict Attorn ey under President J ackson. Chatham-1777-Earl of C hat ham - English supporter of Am eri can freedom. Chattahooehee- 1854 - Ch att ahoochee Ri ver . Chattooga-1 838-Chattooga River. Cherokee-1 831-Cherokee Indian s. Clarke-1801 - General E l i j a h Clarke (1 733-1799 )- soldier of Indian and R evolutionary ' Val's; a br ave frontier man ; his eldest son becam e a Governo r of Geor gia. Clay-1854-Henry Clay of K entu cky- elected six times Speaker of th e F ederal H ou se of R epresentatives. Clayton-1 858-A. S. C I a y ton ( 1783-1839)- lawyer of Athens; R ep resentative in th e Georgia Legislature and State Senator ; Judge of Western Circuit ; U. S. R epresentati ve-s-activ el ~ interested in th e University of GeorgIa. Clineh-1 850-Gener al Duncan L. Clinch (1 787-1849 )- soldier of War of 1812 and th e Indian W ars-U . S. R epresentative-declined nomina tion for Go ver n o r shi p. Cobb-1832-Thom as W. C ob b (1784-1830 )- lawyer of Gr eensboromemb er of Congr ess and Senator, Judge of Sup eri or Court. Coffee-1854-Gen eral John Coffee (1780-1836)- I ndian fighter, planter and Congressman -memb er of St at e Legislature from T elfair County. Colquitt-1 856-Walt er T. Colquitt - p reacher, ora tor, sta tesma n, U . S. Sena tor. Columbia- 1790-Christopher Colu m b u s. Cook-1918-General Phil ip Cook (1817-1894 )- Iawyer, soldier and public-spirited citizen; one of five commissioners wh o superin tended bui ldin g of the Capitol. Crawfor d-1822-Wm. H . C I' a w ford -law yer and sta tesman- M inister to F rance under P resident M adi son and Secreta ry of th e T reasur y. Crisp-1 905-Charl es F . Crispfro m Sumter County ; Sp eak er of th e U . S. H ouse of R epresentati ves. D ad e- 1837- M ajor Fran cis Dade - killed by I ndians in F lorida, 1835. (Continued on Page 4 ) 3 G EO R GI A DE PARTMENT OF COMMERC E NEWSLETTER County Name Origins (Continued fro m Page 3 ) Dawson-1 857-William C. D awson ( 1798-1856) - lawyer, soldier, an d statesma n from Gree nsbo ro; U . S. Senator. D ecatur-1 823- Commod ore S t e phen Deca tu r. DeKalb- 1822- Baron DeK alb-fell in defense of American free dom at Battle of Camd en, 1780. Dodge-1 870-Honorabl e Willi am E. Dodge of New York. Dool y-1 821-Colonel J ohn Doo ly -soldier in th e Indian an d Revo lutionary Wars. Dougherty-1 853-Charl es Dou gherty, pr ominent lawyer and jurist of Athe ns, Judge of Western Circuit. Douglas-1 870-Steph en A. Dou glas of Illinois. Early-1 825-Peter Earl y-Governor of Georgia, 1813-1815. Echols-1 858-General R obert M. Echols-Pr esident of Georgia Senate. Effingham-1 777-Lord Effingham En glish supporter of Colonial rights. Elb ert-1 790-General Samuel Elbert (1740-1788) -Revolutionary War hero an d Governor of Georgi a, 178586. Emanuel-1 812-David EmanuelGovern or of Georgia, 1801. Fannin-1854-Colonel J. W. F an- nin-killed by M exican s at Goliad , Texas, M arch, 1836. Lafayette-1821-Mar qui s de Lafayette of 'France. Floyd-1 832-Gen eral J ohn Fl oyd (1769-1839 ) - meritorious cit i z en , member of Stat e L egislature and U . S. Co ng ress . Fors yth-1 832-J ohn E. Fo rsyth , Governo r of Geor gia, 1827-1829. Franklin-1784-Benjamin Franklin . Fulton-1 853-Robert Fulton-inventor of steambo at . Gilmer-1832-George R. GilmerGovern or of Georgia, 1837- 1839. Glascock-1 857-General Thomas Glascock ( 1750-1804 )-captain of cava lry in L egion of Count Pulaski. Appointed by Washin gt on as M arshal of Georgia, 1794. Glynn-1777-John Glynn-known for his support of the Colonists. Gordon-1850-William W. G 0 r don , lawyer from Savan nah-active in intern al improvements, first pr esident of Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgi a. Grady-1905o-Henry Grady, orator and journ alist of Georgia , editor of th e Atlanta Constitution . Greene-1786 - General Nath ani el Gr eene (1742-1786) - R evolutionary War hero. Gwinnett-1 818- Button Gw inne tt, a signer of Declarat ion of Independ ence. Habersham-1 818- J oseph H ab ersha m- Re volutionary officer, delegat e to Continental Congr ess, M ayor of Sava nnah ; appointed by W ashington to be General Postm ast er. Hall-1 818-Lym an H all-a signer of Declar ati on of Independ ence, close fri end of Gwinne tt and Gove rnor of Georg ia . Hancock-1 793-J ohn H an cock of M assachu setts-President of Continental Congress (1 775-77) and first to sign Declar ati on of Independ en ce. Haralson-1 856-Hugh A. Haralson, from L aGran ge-lawyer, member of Con gress. Harris-1 82 7-Charl es H arris-born in En gland-S avannah lawyer, alderman and M ayor of Savann ah for over 20 years. Hart-1853-Nan cy H art-fam ous heroin e of th e R evolution ar y War. Heard-1 830-Steph en H e a r d planter, patriot, soldier promin ent in th e R evolution, Govern or of Geo rgia in 1740. Henry-1821-Pat rick H enry of Virginia-five tim es Governor of Virginia and most eloquent ora tor in cause of American R evolution. Houston-1 821- John H . H ouston - Governor of Georgia, 1788-1789. Irwin-1818-J ar ed Irwin-Governor of Georgia, 1796-17 98. J aekson-1 796-James T. J acksonpromin ent figu re of th e Revolutionary War era and who declined to serve as Governo r. Jasper-1 807-Sergeant Jasper hero at 'F t. Moultrie, Sava nnah, and offered commi ssion whi ch he modestly declined as he could neither read nor wr ite. H owever, he did acce pt a rov ing commission. Jeff Davis-1 905-J efferson Davis -Govern or of Mi ssissipp i, Secretary of War under President Pier ce, Pr esident of Confederate States of America . Jefferson-1796-Thomas J efferson -President of U . S., and author of Declar ation of Independ ence. Jenkins-1905-Charles J. J enkins -Govern or of Georgia, 1865-1868 . Johnson-1858-H. V. Johnson- Governor of Georgia, 1853-1857. Jones-1807-James Jones-prominent law yer, planter of Sav annah in last half of 18th century. Member State Legislature, U . S. Congress. Lamar-1920-L. Q. C. Lamar-U. S. Senator, Secretary of th e Interior , Associate Justice of U. S. Sup reme Court under President Cleveland . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 December 25, 1953 Lanier-1 919- Sidn ey L anier-s-fam, ous Georgia poet ; lectur er on En glish literature at J ohns Hopkins University. Laurens-1807- Colonel J ohn Lau , rens-killed in South Carolina during th e R evolution ar y War. Le e-1 826-Richa rd H . Lee of Vir. ginia-in 1776 he move d th at " the Col. onies declare themse lves free an d in. depend ent." Lib erty- 1777- N amed for Ameri. can Independ ence. Lincoln-1 796- General Benjamin Lin coln of th e American R evolution. Long-1 920-Dr. C r a w f o rd W. Long-first to use sulphur ic ether in an opera tion as an anesthetic. Lowndes-1 825-William J. L own. des-Member of Congr ess from Sout h Carolina. Lumpkin-1 832-Wilson Lumpkin -Governo r of Georgia, 1831-1835. Macon-1 837-Nathani el M acon of North Carolina- Revo lutionary sol- dier, Speak er of U . S. H ouse of R ep re- senta tives, U . S. Sen at or. Madison- 1811-President .J arn e s M ad ison . Marion-1 827-General F r a n c i s M arion of South C a r 0 l in a-the "Swamp Fox" of th e R evolu tion . McDuffie-1 870-George M cD uffie - U nited States Sena tor fro m Sou th Carolina. McIntosh- l 793-Named for M cln- tosh fa mily. Meriwether-1 827- General David M eriwether- planter and soldier from Ath ens; member of United Sta tes Con- gress, member of U . S. Commission on In dian s, two times Pr esidential elector. Miller-1 856- Andrew J. Mill e r (1806-1856 )- lawyer, me m bel' of Stat e Legislatur e and Sta te Senat e for over 20 years. President of Senate an d prominent man of civic affairs. Mitchell-1 857- Gener al H en r Y Mitchell- early settler of H an cock Co u n ty . Monroe- 1821-Presiden t .J a rn e s Mon roe. Montgomer y-1793-Gener al Ri ch- ar d M ontgomer y-pat riot and R evo- lutionary soldie r. Morgan-1807-G e n e r a I D an iel M organ, officer of the Am erican R evo- luti on . Murray-1 832-Thomas W. M ur- ray of Lincoln County. Muscogee-1826-frorn Indian tribe of th at nam e. Newton-1 821 - S e rg e a n t John Newton of th e American R evolution. Oconee-I 875-Named for O conee Ri ver . . Oglethorpe-1793-General James (Continued on Page 6 ) -NEWSLETTER State Capitol Square To Be Enhanced By Two More Handsome Buildings Decemb er 25, 1953 was that after it was completed , th e sum of $ 118.43 was left of th e one million dollars appropriated for its constr uction. The total cost of th e build ing was $999,88 1.57, it bein g said th at now- The Capitol " Plaza" or " Squa re" in Atlan ta, as it is gene rally called, is be- til the end of 1795, when it wa s mo ved to Lou isville, wh ere it remained until 1953-it would cost ten mill ion dolla rs to rep lace th e p resent Capitol. ing fu rth er im proved by two a ddition al 1807, when it was located at M illed ge- The Capitol was bui lt of Indi an a buildings in course of construc tion ville. It rem ain ed th ere th rou gh and limeston e, in stead of Georgia ma rble, which will add gr ea tly to th e bea uty of until after th e Wa r Between th e States a commi ttee from th e Georgia Legisla- the a rea and also affo rd additiona l fa- when the U . S. mi litar y au thorities es- ture reporting aft er visiting th e ma rble cilities a nd spac e for State agenci es. O ne bui lding, a t th e north east corne r of H un ter and Wash ington st ree ts, will house th e Dep a rt ment of Agriculture, including its general offices and labo r- atory; the Geology and th e En tom ology depa rtments. The other bu ild ing, a t th e south east corne r of Mitch ell a nd Washin gton streets a nd extending along Washin g- ton south to T rini ty aven ue, will be th e Judiciar y office bui ldin g a nd be occu- pied by th e Courts and th e Labor De- partmen t. T h is will be th e la rger of the two new bu ildings un der construc- tion. T he new buil d ings will each be six stories high and conform to other Sta te buildin gs of compa rable h eigh t in the area. These new, modern buildi ngs will en- hance the bea uty of the Sta te Ca pitol, which with its towerin g heigh t in a setting of a squa re, adjo ined by am ple grounds, will con tin ue to be th e cente r of th e Capitol " Plaza." T he Capitol, after seven ty years of changes in th e style of a rch itec ture , still is th e state's most h an dsom e. stat e- ly and beautifu l building. . It s magnifi cence, both outside a nd inside, is awe-inspiring to local citizens and espec ially to visitors. T he a tt rac tiven ess of the Capi tol is born e out by th e fact th at it dr aws m ore visitors-a pp roximately a ha lf million ~n nua lly-than a ny other p ublic bui ld- The St at e Capitol building in Atlanta. mg in th e sta te. The p resent Capitol has a colorful a.nd unusua l h istory. Atl anta is th e fifth city to be th e cap ital of Georgia . Beginn ing with th e founding of the col- ony in 1733 by General O gleth orpe, Sa - vannah was th e ca pita l un til that city was capture d during th e R evolutionar y war, wh en it was moved to Augusta, then tem porarily af ter the war's close back to Savann a h ( 1783), then back to Augusta in 1783, two sessions of th e Legisla ture bein z h eld in two different cI' ti.es . within obne yea r- in J a nua ry 1783 111 Savan na h and la ter in 1783 in Augusta . . tab lished the state govern me n t in Atlan ta. I n a sta te-wide election h eld on D ecember 5, 1877, Atl anta was nam ed as the site of th e Sta te capital, a nd in 1883, th e Geor gia L egislature appropriated one mi llion dollar s for th e erection of the Capitol building on th e present site. Work on th e Ca pitol was begun in 1884, was com pleted a nd fir st occup ied J une 15, 1889, ded icat ion exercises under Gov. J oh n B. Gordo n being held on J uly 4, 1889. One unusual and remarkable fea - ar ea th at "no one in the (m a rble ) district was capable of supplying suffici ent stone for th e construction of the Sta te C a p ito l." H owever, all interi or marble used in th e building, including all steps, floo rs a nd many wall s, and mu ch of th e iron , wood and oth er m at erials were obta ined in Georgia . In addition to providing m an y State offices, th e L egislati ve halls, Executive offices of th e Governor , m uch history is also wr itte n into the Capitol, wh ich conta ins four floors a nd a magnificent dome, reached by 222 iro n steps-from The capi ta l rem ain ed in Au gusta un- ture of constru ction of the Capitol (Continued on Pa ge 6 ) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER State Capitol (Continued from Page 5 ) whi ch point you m ay ge t a g ra nd view of Atlanta and th e surro und ing country. 'An inter esting Museum-one of th e best in th e nation ; historica l matter covering many subje cts; dioramas that depict Georgia industrially, agricultura lly and otherwi se ; busts, plaques and portraits th at g lorify Geor gians ; war records th at tell of her oic Georgians in battle ; an extensive Library, and othe r interestin g things ar e found insid e th e Capi to l. Imposing monuments honoring three Geor gia Govern or s-Gordon , J oseph E. Brown, Eu gen e Talmad ge and on e honoring Legislator, Co ngr essman and U . S. Senator Thomas E . Watson , grace th e Capitol gro unds. Oth er events of the sta te a nd nation ar e a lso marked on th e impressive grounds, whi ch a re dot ted her e and th er e by numer ous tr ees, sh rubs and flower s. M an y office buildings, required by a hi gh ly mod ern a nd expand ing State G overnment, a re on adj oining st ree ts to th e Capitol. Vi sit Georgia's Sta te Capito l, maybe tak e a walk to th e Dome, a nd tak e pride in th is han dsome stru cture . Facts About Georgia Georgia was found ed by G ener al J ames E . O glethorpe of England in 1733. The Charter for th e Colonv wa s g ra n ted by K ing George II of ' Great Britain in 1732 ; it is for him th e st at e was named . Georgia is ca lled "The Emp ire State of th e South." The State motto is " W isdom, J ustice and Moder ation ." The State Bir d is the Brown Thrash e r. The St ate Flower is the Cherokee Rose, pi ctured on th e cover. C apital : Atlanta. Former capitals have been locat ed at Savannah, Augus ta, Louisville and Milledgeville. Ar ea rank among the 48 states: 20th . Popula tion - 1952 Cen sus figures3,5 18,000. Population rank among th e 48 states a ccording to th e 1950 census: 14th. L egal H olidays: New Years D a y-January 1. Birthday of R obert E. Lee-Janua ry 19. Washington's Birthday-February 22. M emorial D ay-April 26. Birthday of Jefferson Davis-June 3. Inde pendence D ay-July 4. Georgia Government The General Assembly The Gen er al Assembly- composed of 54 Senators (one from eac h sena torial distri ct ) a nd 205 representativesmeets eve ry two yea rs on th e second Monday of J a n ua ry for a term of 70 days. This session may be divided into more th an on e session during th e two yea rs for whi ch th e representatives a re electe d. The House of R ep resentatives consists of 205 members electe d for a term of two veal'S from th e 159 counties in th e sta te, Eight co unties with th e la rgest population ha ve three rep resentatives eac h . The 30 coun ties with th e next la rgest popu la tion hav e two represen tatives eac h . Th e rem ain ing 121 counties have on e eac h . The presid ing off icer of th e H ous e of R epresen ta tives is th e Sp eak er , selec te d by member s of th e House. Each re p resenta tive rep resents two units in th e co unty-unit syste m. Therefore, th e eigh t coun ties with three rep resenta tives eac h have six units ea ch , a total of 48. The th irty counties with two rep resentatives eac h h ave four units each, a total of 120, and th e remaini ng 121 coun ties having on e representa tive each hav e two units eac h, or 242 units. The gra nd total is 410 uni ts. A person seeking offi ce under th e co un ty-unit system must receive a m a jor ity of th e co unty-unit vot es or 206, to be nominated ; th us h e is qu alifi ed to ente r th e gen eral election. which is on a sta te -wide vote ba sis. . The Executive Branch The Go vernor is elect ed for a term of four years and is not eligible for reelection as Governor un til four veal'S hav e elapsed a fter the term served . T he L ieutenan t- Govern or is elec ted for a term of four years. H e presid es over th e session s of th e St ate Senate and exe rcises pow er s of the Governor in case Labor D ay-First Monda y in Septem ber. Co lumbus D a y-October 12. Armistice D ay-November 11. T hanksgiving D ay-Fourth Thursd ay in November. Christmas Day-December 25. Speeial Days: Georgia D ay-February 12. T emperance Day-Fourth Friday in March. Mother's Day-Second Sunda y in May. Pulaski M emorial Day-October 11. Arbor and Bir d D ay- First Friday m D ecem ber. Uncle R em us Day-s-December 9. G EORGIA DEPARTMEN T OF COMMERCE 6 D ecember 25, 1953 of "de a th, di sab ilit y or res ignation" of th e Go vernor. Judiciary The Suprem e Cour t of Geor gia is composed of seven justi ces electe d by popular vote for terms of six yea rs each. ~ Ch ief J ustice presid es over th e ses. sion s. The Court of Appeals is composed of six judges, elected for terms of six years eac h . A Chief J ud ge presides ove r thi s court. The Superior Courts of th e sta te are di vid ed into 36 judicial ciru its a nd the judges a re elected for four-year terms. M an y of th e circ uits include four or five count ies each . The Super ior Court Circui ts a re : Alapaha, At lanta, Atlantic, Augusta, Blu e Ri dge, Brunswick, Chattahoochee, Ch erokee, Cobb, Cordele, Cow e ta , D ub lin , East ern, F lint, Griffin, L ook. ou t Mountain , M acon , Midd le, Moun. tain, Northea stern, Northern, O cmulgee , O con ee, O geech ee, Pataula, Piedmo nt, R om e, Southern, Southwestern, St on e M ounta in, T all apoosa, Tifton, T oombs, Waycross, W est ern. The Judges, who presid e over th e Courts, and th e So licitor-G en er als. who ar e a lso elec ted for four-year terms, follow cour t ca la ndc rs in holding cou r t in th e various cou n ties cornposing th e Circuits. Court is held in eac h coun ty severa l tim es a year and the term m ay va ry in len gth from one d ay to a wee k or more. Georgia h as two U nited States Sen ators, eac h electe d for a term of six years ; it is a lso represented in Washington by ten Congr essmen, each elected for a term of two years . County Name Origins (Continued from Page 4 ) E. Oglethorpe, Founder of G eorgia . Pauldi ng-1832-John P auld ing on e of captors of M ajor An dre in Ame r ica n R evolution. Pea ch- 1924---N am ed f o r Georgia pea ch . Pi ckens- 1853- Gener a l An d r e w Picke ns-hero of Am eri can R evolution in Sou th Carolina. Pi er ce-1 854 - Presid en t Frank lin Pi e r c e . Pike- 1822-Zebulon Pike, discover er of Pik e's Peak. Polk - 185 1- J ames K. Polk, Pr esident of th e United States. P ulask i- 1808- Count Casmir P ula ski, hero of Am erican R evolution at Sa vannah. Putnam- 1807-M ajor G ener al Is(C on tinued on Page 8 ) T he Lion Hou se in Columb us. H enry Grady's HOllie, Athens. Georgia h as m an y fam ou s h omes a nd aistorieal fea tures. Pi ctured on this page a rc only five outsta nding places of interest. T he center ph otograph of the Statue of General J am es E. O glethorpe is a t Chi ppewa Sq uare, Sava nnah, Chatha m Co unty. The sta tue is made of bron ze, nine feet h igh on a pink-grey ma rble ped estal. It was designed by H enry Bacon and execu ted by Daniel Ch ester F rench . Surrounding th e sta tue are fou r lion s, each carrying a shield . On ea ch sh ield is a seal-one for th e Co lony of Georgia, one for th e Sta te of Georgia, one for the City of Savanna h, and on e for th e coat-of-a rms of Ge ne ra l Oglethorpe. The Lion H ou se, 1316 Third Avenue, Co lumbus, M uscogee County, was started in 1840 for Dr. Thomas Hoxey and served for a number of years as one of G eorgia's early privat e sch ools. Stat ue of O glethorp e, Savannah. Now known as the R a lston-C argill House, it is now occupied by th e Co l- unibus Schoo l of Arts. Th e two Nubian Lions gua rding th e ent ra nce give th e building its nam e. The H enry G rad y H om e, 634 Prince Avenue, Athen s, Clarke County, is th e famous h orne of th irt een colu mns, said to repr esent th e thi rt een colonies, is wh ere H enry G ra dy lived wh ile a studen t a t th e U niversity of Georgia . Th e W ren 's Nest , 1050 Gordon St reet, SW, Atlanta, Fulton Co unty, is t he Atlanta hom e of j oel Chandl er Harris. It has been ma de into a liter ary shrine in hon or of th e crea tor of U nrl c Remu s. At 213 Hi gh Street , M acon , Bibb Co un ty, is th e birthplace of Sidn ey L anier. A marble tab let set in an ivy-covered terrace commemo ra tes thi s hom e for th e best kn own poet of Georgia . Hi s most beloved wo rks a re th e "M a rsh es of Glynn" and th e " Song of th e Chattahooch ee." T he Wren 's Nest , Atla nta. Sidney Lan ier 's Bir th place, Macon, ES6L -sz ~381o"ol3::::J3a UfJ C U G t.j:j V C12 J OOD JO l11C J OAlun BGl s Ol ~ ~ ~ q11 ~ ~ lG J a A 1 U n Oli! C U O l S1 ~ 1 Q SUOT1 1s 1nc0 V I~ 1 'oN l!W.lJ d 'BD ' ln Ul~ PV P!l?d aDV.LSOd 's' n ' lI ~ 'T d 99 'H: ;>:>s VIEJ~03EJ ' E: V.LNV-'.LV 'O .L ld V:J 3 .LV.LS 00 1 3::::J~31o"ol1o"ol0::::J .:10 .lN31o"ol.l~Vd3a VIEl~03El County Name Origins (Continued fro m Page 6 ) rael Putnam of th e Am eri can R evolu- tion . Quitman-1 858- Gener al John A. Q u i t m an. Rabun-1819 - Governor Willi am Rabun, Governor of Georgia 1817- 181 9. Randolph-1828- J 0 h n R andolph of R oanoke-famous U. S. Sen ator from Virgini a ; fought bloodle ss du e! with H enry C la y. . R ichmond- 1777- D uke of Rich - mo nd, a suppo rter of America n liberty. R ockd a le- 1870 - N arne d for Church of Rockdale. Sc hley-1857 - Wi lliam Sch ley - Governor of Geor gia, 1835-1837. Screven-1793-G e n era I J ames Screven of South Carolin a, who fought in th e Am er ican R evolution ncar Sa- vannah. Seminole-1920-Nam ed for Semi- nole Indians. Spalding-1 851-Honorab le Tho~ as Spalding ( 1774- 1851) ; From St . SI- mon s; writer , speaker, la wyer, St ate L egislat or , U. S. Congressman , St ate Sen a tor an d planter. Stephens-1 905-Alcxancler H . St e- ph en s- law yer, Vi ce-President of Con- federa cy, Governo r of Geor gia, 1882- 83. Stewa r t - 1830 - Gener al D an i e I St ewart-soldier an d patriot of Ameri- ca n R evolution. Presid en tia l elector a nd grea t . gra ndfa ther of Theodore Roosevelt . Sumter-1831-General Th o ma s Sumter of th e Am eri can R evo lution. Talbot-1 827-Matthew T a I bot , Governor of Georgia 1819. Taliaferro-1825-Colon el B en j a- min T ali af er ro ( 1750-1821) - from Wilk es County ; St ate Sen a tor,mem ber of Constitutional Convention of 1798, member of U. S. Con gr ess; m ad e Judge of Superi or Court althoug h not a lawyer . Tattnall-1 801-Josiah T attnall U. S. Senator from Bonaventure, Chath am County, and Gove rn or of Georgia, 1801-02. Tilylor-1852 - Presiden t Zacha ry Taylor. . . T elfair- 180 7 - Edward T e i f ai r Gov ernor of Georgia, 1786-178 7. Terrell-1856-Dr. W illiam T errell, U. S. Congressman, pl anter and scien tifi c farmer ; donated funds for Agricult ural Professorship at Universit y of G eorgia . T homas-182 3-Gen er al J ett Thom as ( 1776- 18 l 7)- con tractor, ea rly settler of Ba ldwin County. Bui lt th e Statehouse at Milledgeville and th e fir st buildings of Franklin Coll ege, Athens, now th e Universit y of Georgia . Tift-1905 - Nelson T i f t ( 18 101891 )-established newspap er called The Patriot, now Alb an y H er a ld . T oombs- 1905 - Gen eral R ob c r t T oom bs . . . la wyer, officer of th e Wa r Between th e St ates, M emb er of L egisla ture and Congress. Towns-1856-George W . T own s-iGovernor of Georgia 1847-185 1. T reu tlen- 1917- J ohn A. Treutlen - Gove rn or of Georgi a, 1777-1778. T roup- 1826- G eorge M. TroupGovernor of Georgia, 1823-1 827. Turner-1 905-Henrv G . Turn erQuitman lawyer, member of L egislature ancI Congress. T wiggs- 1809 - G e n e r a 1 J 0 h n Twiggs-Revolution ary hero wh o lived a nd died in Ri chmond County. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO MMERCE 8 U pson-18 24- Stephen U ps 0 n la wyer from Ogletho r pe, mem ber of th e St at e L egislature. Walker-1833-Maj or F r e e man W al ker- Au gu sta law yer , C ity Attorney and M a yor of Augusta, U . S. Sen. ator. Walton-18l 8-George W a I t o n . signer of th e D eclaration of I ndcpcnden ce, twi ce Gover no r of Georgia, 1779-80, 1789 . Ware-1 824- Ni cholas J. W ar e- Au gu sta law yer, mem ber of Geor gia Hous e a nd Sen ate, M a yor of Au gu sta af ter M ajor Freem an W alk er. Warren-1793 - Gen eral J 0 s e P h W arren , wh o fell at Bunker Hill. Washing to n-1 784-Geor ge W ashingt on . \Vayne- 1803-Gen er al A n t h an y W ayn e-known as " M ad An thony;" fou ght at Sa vannah during th e R cvolution . W ebster-1853- D aniel Webster. Wheeler-1 912 - Gen eral J 0 s e p h Wheeler ( 1836- 1906 ) ; soldier, scho lar a nd sta tesm an, U . S. R epresentati ve from Alab ama. White- 18S7-TheRever cnd D avid 1'. White of th e R evolution s. Whitfield-1 8S1-The R e v er e nd Geor ge Whitfield , fri end of th e Weslcys, tr aveled between En gland and Savannah many times and established th e O rpha n H ouse at Bethesda. W ilcox-1 857-Captain John wn cox-an ea rl y set tler of T elfair Countv. , Wilkes-1777- J ohn Wil kes- ch am' pio n of Am erica n fr eedom . W ilkin son-1 80 3- G ener al .J a m e; Wi lkin son-prominen t in Indi an af fa irs. Worth- l 853-Gen eral '''' illia m J Wo rth - soldier of the M exi can W a rs. DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEnCE NEW LETTER - . ', "-' . . .. " ... .....,....... II , " .. ' ; , ",/ ' " r - . I - _ ~ ~ . . ' .. ' '. I .. _ 1 ' " .'1 ,, I I( ) ., : ' ' 1' - ' ,, -' ., ~.":.: - . ~ , " ./ . J. Jr . ~ , -, .. .I ..-." . .,.. .. ! . . ~,-. , J., _. . .....- , J . i L ' " . "- ' 6" , " . . "r .,.. "'t"" I ; , - .",~" 'I ' ., ,, ."" ' .." _ e , ., ~ .. ' .J' :. e, , ., ~ .. '. .. " ~ ~ ,1 . ', ',...~. ' ,-I . ~ Jr."... . iJJ-''; : ~J, ~ ! - ' ...'~ /.1 . . " f' ~ j( ," "tJ'" if. 7I. / : I. " .~. iI . ," . , '\ , ..b ' .. 4 __ .I \ .,. : _ -- I , feren ce, Atla nta Division, Universir of Georgia, M arch 12. Atla nta: Geor gia Educati on Assoei~ tion , Municip al Audi tor ium, Marc 18-1 9. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 SEWSLETTER February 10, 1954 With Georgia at th e top of th e list in broiler pro duction for the past three \'c'ars, and last year. rated as nu mbe r . ne in hatching ch ickcns-s-the ne west food ind ustry, an? a. very rapid gr?win" one in Georgia, IS egg prod ucti on. G~orgians have decid ed to do some thing about th e fact th at less th an twenty per cent of th e eggs ea ten in the sta te a re p roduced within it s bor ders-that th ey spend some $25,000,000 annually imp orting eggs into th e sta te. On e of th e mo st important steps in the building up of egg pr odu ction is the establishme nt of egg co-ops and markets. M an y counties, incl uding Wi lcox, Polk, Stewart and Webster together, Fulton, C la rke , Gilmer, C risp, Johnson, Gw inn ett , Co lqu itt, Floyd, Hall, J enkins, T aliafer ro, H ancock an d Fayett e all have egg ma rkets eithe r in operation now or pla nned for th e very near futu re. Some of th ese markets have some help from the Geor gia D epart ment of Agr icu lture in th eir establishment , ma ny ar e org anized and ru n completely by th e farmers in th e area. Th ese local egg markets serve as a place wh ere eggs may be brought, candIed, grad ed, packed and sold to local wholesale or retail groce rs, so that we may be sure of havin g fr esh eggs, a nd it also brings the egg producers a substantial cash inco me. All eggs a re subjec t to the Georgia Egg Law, whi ch provides for th e inspection of eggs, for size, quality , weight and corr ect labeling. Many people, encouraged by th e demand for local fresh eggs, a re taking on one hundred h ens or so and t rying their h and at egg production. Some families have given up oth er outside occup ation s an d taken on 3,000 h ens or more, and are making egg p roduction a full tim e operation. With the development of egg p roduction, th e University of Georgia at Ath ens is considering devotin g $ 75,000 for research in poult ry and eggs in th e U niversity's Agr icultura l D epartment. The first egg m ar keting a ssociati on was esta blished a t Athens. H er e th e firm ca lled Geor gia Eggs, Inc., leases a section of th e State Farmers' Market which h as been enclosed and h as refrigeration facilities. In 1952 thi s firm p acked approxima tely 4,500 cases a mo nth, (30 dozen eggs to th e case) ; in 1953 th is standa rd was maintain ed to brin g farmers who supplied the eggs a total of $4 12,405.12 income for th e year from eggs. Th e Atlanta egg m arket whi ch was esta blishe d last yea r a t th e Atl anta Farmers' Market sold over 10,000 ca ses -bringing in an in come of over $ 200,0 00. In Mi llen, J enkins County, th e Ogeechce Va lley Egg M arket was established last yea r by farm ers throughout C hec king eggs in an incu bator at a hatcher y, th e va lley district, an d th e Georgia D epartment of Agricultu re is now con structing a bui ldin g for th em to enclose th e fa ciliti es. Besides th ese ma rket s th ere are a number of p rivately operated egg companies throughout th e sta te . With th e development of egg production in Georgia as an in dustry, othe r corrun ercial con cerns will benefit also. There a re man y supplies need ed in egg production-those who produce and /or sell th em are in creasing th eir profits monthly. Feeds, feed additiv es, m edicine, feeders, co o I e rs, p acking equipment, cases and cartons a re all di rectl y coi.nected with th e growth of the egg in du str y. Hi gh ly correlat ed with egg produc- tion , of course , is th e b roiler ind ustry and th e ne w ha tch eri es wh ich have been esta blished in the sta te. M ore eggs a re need ed for th e h atcheries, whi ch hatch th e bab y chicks th at even tually th e hou sewife bu ys as broilers, or th e farmer buys as pullets for egg production. Th e production of baby ch icks by Georgia hat ch eri es has increased in a phenomena l way. Back in 1935, hatch eries in th e state produced 4,406,000 baby ch icks. In 1951, th e number was 87,564 ,000 ; in 1952, 127,220 ,000 ; a nd in 1953, 130,999 ,000 chi c k s were hatch ed. These figures sh ow that in th e last two yea rs hatch ery production in Georgia lit erally leapt, with an incr ease of over forty- th ree m illion chick s. Bab y chicks a re purchased a t one day old fr om a h at ch ery. They m ay be bought "straigh t run"-in whi ch case th ey are usuall y abo ut 50 percent male and 50 percen t fem ale. Af ter about two a nd a h alf or th ree m onth s th e cockerels ca n be sold as broilers, and th e p ullets will begin laying. Or, only pullets may be p ur ch ased a nd raised for egg laying. In th e ra ising of pullets for egg produ ction , a nd/ or cockerels, th ey a re kept for a bou t eight weeks und er artificial heat-the bro oder . H er e th ey are fed all grain, or all m ash, or a combination. Supplem ents ar e oft en added to th eir food , whic h helps th em to grow more qu ickly and protects th em from disea se. As th e pullets grow th ey shed th eir yellow down a nd begin to "feathe r out." Those th at becom e inf ected with pullorum, coccidios us or Newcastle's disease a re destroyed . Those th at do not prove to be good layers may be sold for roas t h en-in oth er words th e non- p rofit pull ets are cu lled out. The others .ar e oft en put in separate cages for lay- ing. The cag e-laying system helps fa rm ers to keep indi vidual records on ea ch h en 's production, keeps them cleaner, mak es care easier. The most popular typ es of layers in Geor gia ar e th e White Leghorns, Rhode Island R eds, and th e H all Cross. 3 GEORGIA DEPART MENT O F CO M MERCE NEWSLETTER - February 10, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS Defense Center The Civil Defense office in charge of co-ordina ting def ense activ ities in seven Southeastern Sta tes - Geor gia, Florida, Alab am a, T enn essee, Mi ssissippi, N orth and So uth Ca rolina- will move from Atlanta to TH OMASV I L LE as of M ar ch 1, 1954. In even t of enem y attac k, thi s office has th e task of h andling Fed eral assista nce a nd sup plies a nd of co-ordina ting intersta te defense ac tivities. I t also h elps sta tes an d cities p rep ar e civil defense pr ogram s a nd help s in th e co-ord ina tion of fed eral assistance in th e even t of nat ural disasters such as floods a nd tornadoes. The office is being m oved from Atl anta to remov e it from a critical tar get a rea. - 0- Cotton Report The U. S. Census Bur eau repor ts that 16.140.397 ba les of cot ton of th e 1953 crop l~ a ~1 b-en ginned to j an ua ry 15 com pared with 14,703,200 bales ginned to th e same dat e a year a30' Geor gia ginn ings to J a n. 15, 195 ~ totaled 75 1,345 bales, compare d with 729,543 bales a yea r ago . Georga's 1953 cro p is estimated to be 760',000 bales. - ( )- Lawrencevttte I ndustry Establi shment of th e Sou the rn D ivision of Oh io T able Pad Comp any's new plant Iacil.ties at L AW R EN CEVILLE, Ga ., is a nnounce d by th e com pan y's h eadq ua rters at T oled o, Ohio by S. A. Kra user, pr esident of th e fi rm. The Lawren ceville plant wa s op ened on Februar y 1, and R oy Littler h as been n am ed plant m a nager. The 2V2 ac re-pla nt site is on Sta te Highway 124, betw een Law renceville an d Sn ellville. It will employ abo ut 30 people, the annou ncem ent re veals. The Southern Division is being set up to better serve th e retail fu rni ture and depa rtmen t sto re trade in th e Southe astern sta tes, M r. Kra user says. The firm manufactures tabl e p ad s. - 0- Albany TV Grant The Alban y H erald Publishin g Co ., ann ounces th at it h as been gra nte d a p erm it by th e Fed eral Commun ications Co mmi ssion in Washingt on to erect a hi gh frequenc y 10-kilowatt television station on Cha nnel 10. J ames H . G ray, p resident of th e p ubli shing com pa ny whi ch owns and ope ra tes The H er ald and R adi o Sta tion WAL B, said construc tion of th e $350,000 sta tion will begin imm edi atel y. The new building will house both W ALB a nd th e TV sta tion . - 0- Linen Service Plant The Atl anta Lin e n Service a nnoun ces th e completion of a new pl ant on Glen Iris Drive, N. E., ATLANTA , containing 100,000 square feet of spa ce. T he new project, inclu ding equipment, cost $ 1,300,000; employs 340 peopl e, with an a nnual payroll of m ore than $ 1,000,000, and opera tes 66 trucks. 1. M . Wein stein is founder a nd president of th e firm ; L ouis Zinkow is manager. - 0- A nothe r Georgia Winner Named BIRMINGHAM, Ala .-George H. K ing, ATHEN S, has been named as Georgia's " M a n of th e Yea r in Service to Agricu lture" by T he P rogressive Fa rm er. This an nouncement is m ad e in j anua ry issue of th e ma gazine by Editor Alexander N unn. K ing has a record of nearl y 30 yea rs of service to Georgia's fa rm p eopl e, The Progressive F armer says. H e b ega n as a vocation al-agri culture teacher and today is a leader in farm resea rch . F rom 1942 to 1950 h e was director of the Coastal Plain s Exper iment Sta tion. During th e time he was th ere Dixi e 18 corn was developed, and is now said to be planted more wid ely in th e South than any oth er h ybr id . One of Director King' s m aj or interests is grass, a nd his book, " Pastu res for th e So uth," is now in its second printing. H e is also th e a utho r of bulletin s and circula rs dealing with fa rm p rogress in Georgia . Since 1950 h e h as been associa te d irector in charge of all resea rch in th e U niversity of Georgia College of Agricult ure. K ing is th e 16th m an from Geor gia to receive The Pro gr essive Farmer' s "M an of th e Year in Agri culture" awa rd . These awa rds a re p resented a nnu all y by th e magazine, whi ch has more tha n 1,200,000 read ers. The Progressive Fa rm er selec ts for the awa rds th ose it fecIs hav e done outsta nding work in service to agriculture. Last yea r's award went to W . T ap Bennett, director of th e agricult ural development of th e Cent ra l of Georgia railw ay. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 Lay Company Expands Plan s have been announced by H . \V Lay and Co mpany, I nc., for th e con: struc tion of a new plant in CHAM. BLEE. The company, makers of pot ato chips and oth er similar products, \ViII combine th eir six Atl anta pl ants and war eh ouses in th e new building. It \ViII contain some 145,000 squa re feet of floo r space a nd cost $1,250,000 . Con, struction will begin in m id-summ er. The Lay Co mpa ny h as plants in 10 other Southern cities. - a- New Cairo Company A new corporation h as been formed in CAI RO . Graea F ertilizer Company has purch ased faci lities wh ich will b~ expande d a nd m od ernized for the ma nufactur e of a full lin e of fert ilizers. At th e head of th e new corporat ion is C yrus T. H elm ; H. T. LeGette is viceprr sident and R obert E. J ohn son secreta ry-treasurer a nd general manager of th e pla nt. - 0- Textile Invention An old barn h inge h as been turned int o a new pat ented ga dget for use in textil e mills bv Cl ar en ce W . Franklin. Th e inventi on ' is th e p icker stick check used on th e loom sh ut tle to insure a more even weave in th e man ufacture of cloth. It is att ach ed to th e m achinery wit h one bolt and is ad justabl e. It elim inates vibra tion of th e sh uttle during opera tion and p revents un even fil- ing of th e thread . Mr. Franklin is a Eabersham Co unty nati ve and a for- m er CLARKESVILLE mi ll work er. I - a- New Hospital Wing The Board of Trustees of th e War I ren A. Ca n dler H ospit al in SA V AX N AH announces plan s for the erection of a new wing to th e p resent b uilding to be four stories high , and alte ra tion' will be mad e to th e present building. 1' 1 The new win g will add about 65 .bed- to th e h ospital's pr esent fac ilities, it a nno unced. - 0- Kaiser Expansion .I Ed gar F. K aiser , of T oled o, Oluv: president of Kaiser M otors C orp., anC its subsidiary , Willys M otors, Inc., an' nounced in Atl anta th at a n ew zone. office a nd wa rehouse to service & . tributors of th eir products in th e South east, will be op en ed soon in AT- LANTA . NEWSLETTER F ebruary 10, 1954 Brantley County Is A Vast Timber Area And Important Tourist Region Brantley Co unty, located nea r th e southeast corner of th e sta te, is a vas t timb er a rea . The hi ghways throu gh out th e county are lin ed with for ests. A flat , seren e part of th e country , it is a pleasant sto p for tourists on th eir way to Florida . Na hunta is th e coun ty sea t of Brantley C ounty. The city nam e is an old Indian word. Brantley Co un ty itself was nam ed for Benj am in D . Brantley, a citizen of nearb y Blackshear. H e was an ente rprising bu sin essman , a State L egislat or, and Pierce County T reasurer for man y yea rs. H e lived fr om 1832 until 1891. The county was create d by an act of th e L egislature in 1920. N ahunta h as approximately 1,000 populati on ; Brantley Co un ty has over 6,000 . Other towns in th e county includ e H ort en se, H oboken , Hi ckox, Waynesville, Lulat on and Atk inson . The basis of th e econo my in Brantley Co unty is for est products. Pu lpwo od sales are high a nd n aval stores also p rovide a tid y in com e fr om th e timberlands. Sa tilla L umber Co m pa ny docs a la rge bu sin ess in Nahunta with a sawmill and d ry kiln. By way of em ph asizing timber, it is of in terest t o note th at only 10 per cent of th e land is cleared in th e county. The tobac co whic h is grown in the county h as th e reputati on of b eing one of th e best flu e-cu red tobaccos, becau se it is p roduced in hi ghl y aci d soil. Livestock is grown in th e a rea, and th ere is a livestock a uction m ark et in N ahunta . H ogs are raised , as well as ca ttle . Na h un ta is at th e crossroads of U . S. Hi ghw ay 84 to th e Atl antic Coast, a nd U . S. Hi gh way 30 1 to Fl orida, and Sta te Hi ghw ays 23 a nd 50. Sta te route 121 runs through th e western pa rt of th e county. County Facilities Transportati on-wise, Na h unta is very well equ ipp ed . The hi ghways which go through th e cen ter of t own provid e ro ute for an av erage of over 3,000 cars a day. In th e tourist season, some 6,000 cars use th ese hi ghways dai ly. For touri sts th er e is one h otel, fiv e mot els, a tourist h om e, h alf a dozen filling stations, and five mo dern restaurants. The Atl antic Coast Line Railroad h as th ree tr acks through Brantley Co unty, tw o sho rt lin es an d one m ain lin e. Two of th e lin es intersect at Nahunta a n d a pproxima tely 35 tr ains p ass throu gh daily. Both th e G reyho und and Trai lways bu s com pa nies serve the city also. Ano th er hi ghw ay is under construction in th e northern part of th e county. State route 32 will provid e t ran sportation , east and west, from Patterson to Bru nswick. Ther e a re about 20 ch urches in th e county to ser ve Bra ntley citizens. Libraries ar e m aintain ed in t he schools to serve bo th th e schoo ls a nd comm uni ties. The C itizens Ban k, a br an ch of th e Bank of Fo lksto n is loca ted in N ahunta, and h as nearl y three mi llion dollar s in assets. Th e Brantley Enterp rise, a weekly newspap er, is th e official organ for th e coun ty, and is edited by Carl Broome. Two new hi gh schoo ls a re und er construc tion . H oboken will soon have a new high schoo l, as well as N ah un ta . A n ew schoo l h as been erected a t Waynesville for colored stude nts. A brand new building serves as h ead qu a rt ers for th e REA in Nah un ta . The Ok efen okee Rural Elect ric M emb ership Corpo ra tion located th er e serves seven counties-four in Georgia and th ree in Fl orida. Two gas compa nies h ave install ation s in th e county, wh ich h as both propan e a nd butan e gas for its citizens to use. The Sa tilla Ri ver which m eanders th rou gh th e coun ty is th e source of wat er supply. The Sa tilla also provid es fine fish ing whi ch is an espe cially popula r recr eation in th e area. The O ld K ing Plantat ion whi ch overlooks th e Sa tilla is an im portant tou rist a tt rac tion. It was once n am ed "Li n da " afte r a famed G erman ope ra of th at title. The Indian T rail Ridge is a no th er feature of th at a rea th at b rings t ravelers along th at particul a r route th rough N ahunta. Titan ium dep osits a re supposed (Continued on Page 6 ) _ l1::::li__: _._. j Fo ur counties in Georg ia and three in Florida h ave their electricity h eadquarter s h ere. 5 Brantley Co unty Courthouse in Nahunta. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Brantley County (Continued from Page 5) to occur along thi s coas ta l form ati on . A County health cen ter in Nah unta takes care of th e med ical needs of th e area. M rs. R obert Griner is Co un ty H ealth N urse. During the past year a t Nahu nta a new police station was const ruc ted. Now a Ci ty H all is un der construction. Fire p lugs were insta lled, as well as street lights, and n ew streets were opened. A mile of new p aving was laid from th e center of town to th e new high schoo l site. County Officers O fficials serv ing Brantley C ounty in clude : J am es R. Stewa rt, O rdinary ; D elm a F . H errin, Clerk of Court ; Thom as F. Rhoden, Sh eriff ; Ar chi e A. J ohns, Treasur er; John M. Wi lson, Tax Comm issione r; H ersch el W. H errin , Co unty School Supe rintende nt; Ben W . Strickland, Survey or; C . S. Kiz er, Coro ner ; Co unty Commissioners are R . B. Brooker, Ch airman ; R . C. H a rr ell, Clerk; C . H. Penland, T. V. Rhod en an d Silas D. Lee. Co unty F a rm Agent is George A. Floyd. Walter T homas is Judge of th e W aycross C ircu it, which serves Brantley County , an d J. R andall Walk er is S.o- licitor General. Membe r of th e L egisla ture is J oseph A. Str ickland . F red Stric kla nd is M ayor of Na- h un ta. Aldermen are J. W alt er C rews, J. D. O rser, Ira F. Brown and T. L. Dowlin g. If you have not alread y seen it , be sure to not ice th e article an d photographs featuring WARM SPR INGS in th e F ebrua ry issue of HOLIDAY magazine. The a rticl e is writ~en by Turnley Walker, a form er p ati ent at War m Sp rings. H e tr aces th e developm ent of th e polio foundation a nd emphas izes th e chee rf ul a tmosphe re and spiritua l gro wth of p atients th ere. lOOth Annive rsa ry The week of Feb ruary 14-20 will be celebrated in Charlton Coun ty as it s 100th a nnive rsary . The coun ty, created in 1854, was nam ed for R . M. Charlton , th ree times Mayor of Savanna h, U nited States Senator and U nited Sta tes Distri ct Attorney under President Andrew J ackson . Charlton County contains muc h of th e famous Ok efen okee Swa mp in its area , and the centennial celebration with its many festive activities, cent ered in Folk ston, the county seat, will draw many visitors . GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS EAST POINT- William Armstrong Sm ith Co., ename l, $ 12,530. SAVANNA H -Savannah Machine & Foundry Co ., overhauling five steamships, $446,965. ATLANTA -Alum inum Company of Am erica, ASCR fittings, $35,9 64. RICHLA ND -Richland Box Co. , shipping boxes, $ 10,104. V ALDOSTA - Gidden & Wilkes, gasoline, $25,740. A UG USTA - Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Co ca-Cola, $56,865. JACKSO N-Pomona Products Co., pimientos, $28,133. ATLANTA - Link-Belt Co. , part s for coal conv eyor, $26,897. L aGR AN GE - N ewm an Construction Co ., ammo box es, $75, 330. SAVANNAH-Savannah Sugar Refining Corp., suga r, $ 10,290. DECATUR - Peerless Pump Div., Food M achiner y & Chemic al Corp., water pumping units, $ 17,775. ATLANTA - North Brothers, in sulation a nd adhesive, $ 17,4 11. THO MA S V ILL E - Rose Kist Fo ods, In c., p eanut butter, $12,325. WAYSIDE - G . M . Canning Co., In c., pimientos, $83,837. AUGUSTA - The T exas Co ., c/o Boardman Oil Co ., gasolin e, $90,000. ATLANTA-Chic ago Bridge & Iron Co., material for erection of extension to steel stacks, $107,400. EASTMAN - Coffee Construction Co. , con struction of access road, $15,490. BRUNSWICK - Seaboard Construction Co. , con struction of radio facility and roads, $150,464. BROOKHAVEN-Mark Smith, Jr. Construction Co. , alternations for AFES fa ciliti es, $59,673. ATLANTA - Auto Soler Co ., tripods and spare pa rt s, $ 18, 158. AUGUSTA - Augusta Iron and Steel Works, Inc., steel tanks, $36,638. GRIFFIN-Pom ona Products Co. , pimientos, $28,275. SA VA N NAH - J ackson & Brittain constru ction of telephone conduit, manholes and enlargeme nt of cable va ult, $48,657. A UGUST A - Southern Construction Co ., con struction of building, $ 732,2 74. LaGRANGE-Trammell Hardwood Flooring Co ., Inc., boxes for shells, $544, 73 1. SAVANNAH - Diamond Construction Co., construction of wa lls, lock GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 Februa ry 10, 1954 a nd dam , $ 167,604. ATLANTA-Pa n-Electronics Corp., crysta l units, $29,033. AUGU~TA - Pep si-C ola Bottling Co ., Pepsi-Cola, $30,900. CO LUMBUS - Trussell Construe; tion Co., cons truction of am mo storao-e facilities, igloos and rep ai r shop , $163 _ 393 . ' AUGUSTA- I deal Tile Co., instal, lation of tile, $7 25. CO LUiHBUS - Georgia Webbing & T ap e Co ., cotto n webb ing, $ 109,9 70. A TLAN T A- Georgia Milk Produc- ers Confederation, Inc., mi lk and bu t- termilk, $4;6,56 6. S A V ANNAH - Dixie Co nstr uctio n Co . of Georgia, In c., constr uc tion job, $69,9 13. R OSSVILLE-Brock & Blevins Co., In c., insta llat ion of com bustible gas ana lyzing system and constr uctio n of fr eight eleva tor, (two con trac ts ), $ 1H ,- 5 16. A T L ANT A - W a I k e I' Elect rical Company, In c., two switch boards (two con tracts ), $ 167,040 . SA V ANNAH- Savannah Sugar R e- fining Corp., sugar, $26,668 . A T HENS - Big Ace Co rporation, shirts, $78,000. BR UN S WI CK-Dixie Paint & Var - nish Co ., I nc., paint, $74,5 15. The article in th e J anua ry 10th issue of th e N ewslett er about J eff Davis County and H azlehurst omitted men tion of an important tour ist fac ility th ere. The M agnoli a H ot el, a longsta nding H azlehurst in stit ution, h as fine acco mmo da tions and dining fac ilit ies f~r tr avelers throu gh Southeas t Georgia . - - - - -- - - -- - - Atlanta Terminal Opens Th e new term inal building of Acme Freight, In c., h as been ope ned on Huff Ro ad , N. W ., A T L ANT A . The n ew modern T erminal measur es 320 by 80 fee t, will acco mmoda te up to 20 ra il boxcars an d 26 trucks or t railers. T he bui ldin g also h ouses th e mo dern offic es of the firm . Cement Plant Transaction The Sou thern Sta tes Portl and Cem ent Company at R ockma rt has been amalga mated with th e M a rquette Cement M anufactu ring Compan y, the old est cem ent m an uf acturing concern of the M ississippi Valley. Ano the r cement plant in Ohio also joined th e Marquette organization a t th e same tim e, a nd with th ese new properties M arquette will rank as one of th e five m ajor cem,ent companies in the United States. NEWSLETTER Hapeville City of 'Big Industry, Many Homes, Baptist Orphanage H ap eville, a progr essive city In the southeas t corne r of Fulton Co unty, is highl y diversified . It is th e site of a children' s h ome, evidence of it s ben evolent spir it; it h as ind ustr y in big volume, a nd m any h om es are locat ed in its ar ea . O utside its city lim its, but n ea rby are ma ny industr ial pla nts an d th e huge Atla nta Municip al A i r por t , whi ch brings mu ch tr avel th rough H ap eville. In cor por at ed in 1891 la rgely thro ugh the effor ts of Dr. Samuel A. H ap e, a large landown er in th e a rea, a nd named for him, th e city has enjoyed a stea dy increase in populati on . The 1950 Census gave it 8,560 inhabita nts, a great gain over 1940, a nd a _recent sur vey ma de by th e H ap eville Chamber of 1-- --- - .-- .. _.. '1 th e Baptists of Georgia . It h as a bran ch at Baxley, Georgia. M or e th an 3,400 ch ildren h ave been ad mitted to th e H om es since its or ga niza tion, th e total enro llme n t n ow bein g 465, with 130 at Baxley a nd 335 at H ap eville. The two pl ants h ave 124 buildings and 1,700 acres of land- 500 at H a peville a nd 1,200 a t Baxley-and on its fa rm s is p roduced beef ca ttle, dairy products, beef, pork a nd p oultry and eggs. A unique feature of th e h om e is th at during th e yea r, usually in th e fall a t har vest tim e, fr eight ca rs and t ru cks move from city ' to city over th e sta te and as stops a re m ad e, p rovisions are load ed in th e ca rs, and whe n filled, mov e on to th e H omes. L ast year, 115 F eb ru ary 10, 1954 M any H a peville ch u rches h ave undergon e or a re pl annig im provements. The First Bap tist Church com pleted during 1953 a n addition a t a cost of approxima tely $125,000. Th e M ethodist Ch urc h h as p urchase d an adjo ining lot wh ich h as been improved into a pa rkin g area, and con sidera ble painting a nd reworking was don e on th e m ain build ing. An Evan gelical Lutheran C hurch of th e Goo d She pherd h as b een organized to serve H ap eville, with th e R ev. Thomas O . Stelling as Pastor. G race Baptist Church on Stewart Avenue h as just comp leted a new ch urc h building wh ich cost a pproxim at ely $ 100,000. Plan s h ave been m ad e to erect a n ew Sunday Schoo l plant to cost an oth er $100,000, constr uc tion to begin within the yea r. St. J ohn 's Mi ssion h as purch ased a n eigh t-acre tr act on Sunset Boul eva rd for a ch urc h to seat 600 to 700, a schoo l building, with auditor ium and cafe, a I FORD l_ The Fo rd Motor Pl ant at Hapeville, where 1,500 ar e employed. This is the modern printing plant of Longino and Porter, Inc., where the Newsletter is printed. Commerce and ' oth er organiz ations estimates th e p opulati on in 1954 a t a pproxim at ely 12,000. Dr. H ap e, a n ati ve of Balti mor e, Md., served as a physician for th e C onfederates during th e W a r Between th e Sta tes. H e was wounded a t th e First Battle of M an assas. H e was sent to En gland by J ud ah P. Benj am in, Secreta ry of th e Co nf ederate Treasury, in a n effort to obta in a loan from G reat Brit ain for th e Southe rn ca use. The effort failed, h owever. Aft er th e close of th e war, Dr. H ap e locat ed at wh at is now H ap eville. H ap eville is th e home of th e 82-year old Georgia Bapti st Child ren's H om e, owned an d op erated by th e G eorgia Baptist Conv ention a nd supported by train cars and 100 truck load s went to th e H om es. The H ome provid es h omes for orphan s or need y boys and girls, and th e progr am of operation is designed to m eet th e needs of th ese ch ildren, physically, spiritua lly and educationa lly. Gen eral offices of th e H omes a re a t H ap eville. John C . Warr is m an ager of both units, and D . C . Bussell is superinten dent of th e Baxley pl ant. The last fr ame building a t H apeville is being repl aced by th e C urry M emorial Co ttage. It is of brick a nd will house 21 ch ildren. It is a m em orial to th e C . W . C ur ry family, of LaGran ge. Cos t of th e building will be approxima tely $68,000, and $5,000 for furnishin gs. R ectory, Conve nt fo r Sisters , p arking and pl aygrounds. C onstru ction h as begun on th e institution and will cost close to one milli on dollar s. Industrial Plants T he hu ge F ord Motor C omp an y plant in H apeville comprises 78 ac res, plant an d gro unds with 12.45 ac res under roof. This pl ant employs approxim at ely 1,500 p eopl e, produces 428 passenger a utos an d t ru cks dail y; has an annua l pay roll of aro und $7,464,000 ; a nn ua l local exp enditures fo r m aterials, services, etc. total $ 10,023,4 79. H enry C . D orsey is pl ant manager . Longin o & Porter, In c., Printers, established 30 yea rs ag o by th e late Brown (Con tinued on Page 8) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE vS6L ' O L A~Vn~83~ U1 ~ ~OOQ JO ~~ 1GJGL l~ n o~l S v1 J D ~ q11 ~~! : ~8~1UO c ~ l G ~ o ~ :~~ ~ Q : ~o1i1s1n bo v srI oN 1!W.I::>d EO ' El UBP V P!Pd " 'iID V.LSOd 'sn ' ~~ ' T d 99tE ';);lS VIEI~D3E1 ' V.lNV'.lV 'O.1.ld\f:J 3.1.\f.1.5 00 l 3:J~3~~D:J ~D .LN3~.L~Vd3a VI8~D3EJ Hapeville (Con tin ued from Page 7) T yler as T yler & Co ., has been under th e pr esent own ership a nd m an agem ent since 1949. The firm is composed of George F. Longino , Jr., president, Bradley 1'. Porter, vice president, a nd F loyd M orris, superin tende nt. This firm prints th e Newsletter, published by th e Georgia Department of Co mme rce. Sou the rn M eter & R ep air Co., established in H ap eville in 1935, produces wat er meters of assorted sizes. The firm has expa nded in recent yea rs to serve all states east of th e Mi ssissipp i riv er and south of th e Mason a nd Dixon Lin e. The firm handles practi cally every item required by a city in the operation of its water system . H. H . Timmerman, Jr., is president of th e firm , which has a branch p lant at M ar shall, T exas . Dainty Debs, owned and op erated by Mrs. Frances M cCracken, an d established in Hapeville in 1953, employs a pp roxima tely 60 p eop le and produces women' s a nd ch ildren 's handbags. Outp ut last yea r was some 200,000 it ems. The Motor Con v 0 y ope ra tes a Truck-A-W ay service in Hapeville, covering th e Southeastern sta tes for th e Ford Assembl y Plant . Their terminal of nearl y 15 ac res adjo ins th e Ford Plant. Th ey opera te approx imatel y 125 tr ailers daily, an d have 225 em ployees. Gu y W . Rutland is owne r a nd m an ager of th e bu siness. The Atlanta Municip al Airport borders H ap eville on th e south . It em ploys 4,200 peopl e and h as 214 dai ly sche d uled flights. The annual payroll is approximately $20,000,000. The C ity of Atlanta, owner of the fa cility, is now constru cting a $200,000 operational buildi ng for Eastern Airlin es. I n addition, Hapeville has many other industrial p lants. Robert B. M cC ord , Jr. is president, and Mrs. Aldr en H. Hale, Jr., secreta rymanager of th e H ap eville C ha mber of Comme rce, an alert civic orga nization th at provides up -to-d at e in formati on on the cit y. H apeville's M ayor is E ugen e E . Dixon, J r., Alderman -at -L arge is C . B. Bond , and Co uncilme n a re I. L. E llis, T . Perry Jackson , W. Hoyt Smith a nd T om Morris. .J. P. Nunn is Fire D e- partment Chief and G . B. Pear son is Police Chief. The Central of Geor gia Railroad pa sses th ro ugh I-Ia peville, and h ighways ar e U . S. 41 and 19, and State 85. The Atla nta Expressway skirts the city on the east. T h e Greyho un d Bus Station serves th e public, a nd many motels af for d accommodations to tour ists. Atlanta T ransit Co ., provides bus service ; Georgi a Pow er Co ., furni shes electri city, a nd Southern Bell T elephone Co ., operates th e telephone system. "M rs. Marjorie J ones is supe rintendent of th e Fu lton Coun ty H ealth Cent er in H ap eville ; A. P. J ackson is president of th e Ci tizens' Bank of H ap eville, a nd head of th e Tri-City Bui ldin g & L oan Associa tion is St reet K orn egay. Gas service, is p rovid ed by th e Atl ant a Gas Light Co . Hapeville's schoo ls include H ap eville H igh, of which C . W . O'Rear is princi- pal, a nd two gra mmar schoo ls, North Avenue , of which Mrs. M . P. Barnett is principal, and Co llege St ree t Sch ool, M iss Bern ice J ones, princip al. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 Garden Tours Planned Throughout The State Nin e tours have been p I ann e d throughout Georgia for th e m onths of M arch a nd April. They a re spo nsored by th e Gard en Club of Geor gia, I nc., with th e aid of th e Sta te C ha mber of Co mme rce. The tours will open on March first, at Id a Cason Ga rd ens. A boat ride, picn ic lunch a nd a five-mil e drive th rou gh th e Gardens will be included. The tou rs at th e Gardens, sponsored by th e C lub, will continue eac h day through th e end of M ay. The tour through Thomasville a nd th e hom es selected to be op en th ere this yea r will be March 6-7; in Sav an nah th e gardens an d homes will be op en March 11-12 ; in Alba ny, M ar ch 14; Columbus, March 20-21 ; Augusta, M ar ch 27-28 ; Rome, April 2 ; At lanta, Ap ril 3-4, an d M acon, April 9-10. T his is th e fift h year that th e Garden Club of Georgia I nc., has plan ned th ese tours. The cost of each tour per person ran ges from one to three dolla rs. Macon Man Honored A. S. H at ch er, Jr., Pr esident of A. S. H atcher Co mpany, M acon , has been elected Pr esid ent of the National M otor Sa les & Equipment Wholesalers Associa tion, whi ch is composed of 1600 a utomo tive parts an d equipment wh olesalcrs in th e United States and Ca nada , for the yea r of 1954. H e has served as Vic e-Preside nt for the pa st yea r. DEPAUTMENT OF [OMMEU[E NEW LETTER EBRUARY 25, 19 5 4 NEWSLETTER NEWSLEITER Published semi-monthly hy GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman Lonnie A. Pope, V. Chm, Y. F. Geeslin Ben Jessup Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Secretary Vol. 5, No. 10 February 25, 1954 - February 25, 1954 New Ga. Directory And Guide Published A new Geo rgia Ca pito l Di rectory and S tat e Guide h as just been pu blish ed by th e Dixie Directory Publishers. It is a com prehe nsive guide coveri ng all regions of th e sta te with inf ormati on a bou t eac h section's history, governme nt officials, uti lities, shops , accommo dations, featur es, transporta tion fa ciliti es, bank s, h ospit als, ch urc he s, climate, estimated ret ail sales, etc. The gui d e is an inv aluable volume for tourists a nd industry alike. It may be purchased from D ixie D irector y Publishers, 606 North H ighl and Aven ue, N . E., Atl anta, an d in various bookstores. COVER PICTURE Catoosa Sp rings, nea r Tunnel Hill between Dalton an d Ringgold in th e northwest corner of th e state, shows signs of th e coming season. " U ncle Per cy" Glenn and Da nny Powers are on their wa y to find a "big one" in t he lak es close by where th ere is good fishin g . Catoosa Sp rings was once a h ealth spa where Georgia ns migrated to cure various ailme nts by " ta king" of th e curative wat ers. Eleven of th e springs a re still ac tive. Buff alo, Beauty, AllH eal ing, W hit e, Black an d Yellow Su lphu r Wat ers are some that ca n be found th er e. Whil e th e spr ings are all close togeth er, eac h h as separate q ua lities. They do not ta ste nor look alike. - Photo by Carol yn Carter Fishin g is popular throughout all Georg ia. Here a girl tri es her lu ck at a pier on one of th e Gold en Isles off the coast of Brunswick. Savannah: Southeastern Theatre Conferen ce, H otel DeSoto - F ebru ar y 25-2 7. Atlanta : Geor gia Society of Profession al Engin eer s, D in kIer-Plaza, F ebrua ry 26-2 7. Savannah : Geor gia Society of Ophthalmo logy an d Otola ryngology, Gen era l O glethorpe H ot el, M a rch 4-6. Atlanta: Ame rican Ba r Associati on, Bilt mor e H otel, M a rch 4-9. Atlanta: Georgia Chapter, th e Society for th e Advancem ent of Management, " O rga n ization Planning," Atlanta Athleti c Club, M a rch 11. Atlanta: Third Annual Southeastern Sa les and Sa les M an agem en t Conferen ce, Atla n ta Di vision, U nivers ity of Geo rgia , M a rch 12. Athens: Entom ological Society M eet ing, University of Georgi a, M a rch 12-13. Savannah: Southern Academ y of Oral Surger y, Genera l Ogletho rp e H otel , M a rch 12- 14. Macon: 18t h Annual M iddle Georgia Livestock Show , Central City Pa rk, M a rch 18. Atla n ta : Georgia Educat ion Associa tion, Municipal Auditori um , M arch 18- 19. Atlanta: National Associa tion of Pro- du ce M a rket Managers Co nference: DinkIer -Plaza, M a rch 24-26 . Au gusta: Women's Title Holders Golf T ournam ent, Augusta Coun try Club Cou rse, M arch 25-2 7. I Atlanta: Southern Sociological Society , M eeting , Biltmore Hotel, M a rch 2j 27. Atlanta: All Southern H ot el Exposi. I tion, Biltmore H otel, April 1-3. Atlanta : Southea stern H ospi ta l Con- fer en ce, Biltmor e H otel, April 1-3. I Atlanta: Chambers of Comm er ce Stafi C linic, Pied mont H ot el, April 3. Albany: Camellia Show , R a d iu IT. Spring I nn, April 3-4. I Albany: Federated Womens Club Con- feren ce, R adium Springs Inn, April 5 - 7. Atlanta: Society for the Advanccmcn' of M anagem ent, Geor gia Chap ter. , St ud en t Cha pt er M eeting, Atlanta Athleti c Club, April 8. Athens: Chamber Music Festival, Uni vers ity of Georgi a, April 8-9. Augu sta: M asters Go lf T ou rnamen- ! Aug usta Nationa l Go lf Course, Apri 8 - 11. Alb anv: R ot a rv Co nference ' Ves: Georgia Distri ct, R adium Sp rint I nn , April 18-20. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 ~EWSLETTER F ebruary 25, 1954 - Middle Georgia 2,000-Tree Chestnut Orchard Helping to Reestablish This Crop in the South It is a littl e sur prising t o say th at many ches tnuts are growing in Peach Count y, becau se th e county was named for th e peach a nd it is st ill looked upon as the cen ter of peach growing in th e state a nd South . H owever, th e fact th at th er e is a ? OOO-chestnut tree orc ha rd in the ~~unty only intensifies the versatility of the soil th ere and of th e ente rp rising . pirit of it s fa r mers. Tw o Peach Co un ty orcha rdists, Wil - liam J. Wil son a nd h is brother, C lyde Wilson , h a v e some 2,000 seed ling Chinese ch estnut trees and abo ut 300 graft ed trees of Na n king, M eiling a nd Kuling va rieties- th e kind th at resist blight. T o give a littl e ba ckground of chestnut raising- or lack of it for m any years- let' s go ba ck in to h istory, a nd the troubles of th e native chestnu t t rees in Georgia . The chestnut blight or disease was first det ect ed in Ameri ca in N ew York Stat e in 1904, th ought to be introdu ced by seedlings imported fro m the O rient . So deva sta ting was th e effec t of th e spreading blight that within 20 years the Am eri can chestn ut crop was p ractically nil. U p until th is blight a rrived, t he chestnut was a popular tree in Geor gia. Trees were sca tt ered th rou gh p racti- ca lly all forests or woodl ands in North and Middle G eorgia ; roa ds were lin ed with th em, a nd it was also a p opu lar " ya rd" tree. Ches tnuts were ga the red in th e fall, and ea te n raw or roas ted . They were also used to "g a rnish " or season certain food s like roast turkey, stuffed ch icken, etc. T he blight, a fat al fung us d isease wh ich attacked ches tnuts only, destroyed all th e foliage on th e t rees a nd left th e wh ite, sta rk trunks a nd limbs of th e dead tr ees. No rth G eorgia m ountain s, cover ed with ch estnut t rees, a nd wh er e th e tann ing indu str y th rived in places, wer e soon turned from green tr ees to bare na kedness. Over th e yea rs, m an y of th e dead tr ees h ave been cut a nd th e m ounta ins have la rgely rega ined th eir leafy verdure in spring and summe r. M uch of th e wood was used fo r firewood an d other uses. N ow, mu ch chestnut is being cu t in North Geor gia for pulpwood - 6,934 cords were h arv ested in th ree counties in 1952. Fan nin Co unty p rod uced 3,718 cor ds ; Gi lm er, 1,261 a nd U nion, 1,955 cords. O ver th e yea rs, m any experime n ts ha ve been undertaken throughout the nati on to grow che stn ut-bligh t resistant t rees. The Wilson Brothers of Peach Co unty hav e th e th ree va rieties selected a nd named by th e United Sta tes D ep artment of Agri culture-Nanking, M eilin g an d K uling. Of th e orc h ard and experiment, W. J. Wil son says: "As th e seedling t rees come into fruiting, th e supe rior trees will be selected for wid er testing as possible va rieties. H a rvest sta rts her e at For t Vall ey about August 15 and ru ns through O ct . 10. " Chestnuts, unlike othe r nuts, con tain very littl e oil, ab out on e p er ce nt ; th er efore, a minimum amount of moi stur e mu st be maintained in th e nut to keep it ea table. This is do ne by keeping it on cold-storage, aft er a llowing to d ry for severa l da ys. This 'cur ing' work s th e sam e as th e curing of our sweet potatoes. The s t a I' c h e s are chang ed to suga rs and th e nuts become swee t ." Not m any of th e 1953 cro p of ch estnu ts grown by th e Wil son brothers found th eir way into local con sumption as mo st of th e nuts went to nurseri es as seed for producin g new t rees. The Sou theaste rn Ches tn ut G row ers Associa tion was org anized in 1952. The grower-me m be rs of thi s or ganization have some 10,000 trees in orchards, mostl y seedlings. "Bill" Wil son is president of th e Association. Orch ards in Georgia where th e trees are being grown a re nea r Atlanta, L eesburg, Cordele, a nd Fort Valley. Th e Wilson Brothers in their Chinese Chestnut Tree Orchard. Mo st of their crop is used as seed to produce more trees. 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERC~ NEWSLETTER - February 25, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS Vanta Expands Again Construction has begun on th e second addition to th e V anta Co rporation building in M ONTEZ UM A since the industry locat ed th ere in 1950. I n 1951 th e first addition doubl ed t he pl ant capacity. The new a ddition will do uble the size of th e present employees' cafeteria an d enable th e plant' s kn itting production to be doubled . T he concern manufactures V anta baby garments an d Mc Kem T-Shi rts. It is a subsidiary of Shawmut , I nc., of Massachusetts . New Motel Am ericus M ot el, Inc. , h as esta blishe d with 20 units in A MER I CUS on U. S. H ighw ay 19 and 280. Of hand some classic brick construction , it serves m an y travelers in the area. I t is air-con ditione d th roughout an d has th e latest in equi pment and furnishin gs. The motel is man aged by M r. an d Mrs. H arold Ri cker t. - 0- New Valdosta Concern Negot iati ons have been comp lete d by th e Oberm an M an ufactu rin g Co mpany of J efferson City, M issouri , to esta blish a bran ch plant in V A L DOST A . T he concern manufactures pan ts. The plant will be 60,000 square feet in area, constructed at a cost of $250,000 . -0-- Grain Storage Plant Construction is under way at FITZGER A LD on a $250,000 grain storage plant. It is being bu ilt by th e D ixie Peanut Com pany and will draw peanut s and grai n for storage from a 100mile radius. The bins in the plant will have a 320,000-bushe l cap acity. The bins will be fir eproof, an d in connection wit h them th ere will also be a dryer, feed m ill an d molasses m ill. In th e storage plant will be two grain eleva tors with a five-thousand-bushe l an hour capacity each . The construction will be 120 feet high. -0-- Transformer Delivered The first transformer built at ROM E by th e General Elect ric plan t h as been deliver ed to the Georgia Power Company. The tr an sform er, an 18-ton, 5,OOO-KVA, th ree-phase unit, is the first of its size manufactured in th e south. Tourist Court At Pearson The new M iami Motel at PEARSON has been formally op ened by Mr. and Mrs. V. W . Cook. It is mod ern in every respect, and located on on e of th e ma in tourist a rter ies, U. S. Highway 44 1. Ga. Power Company Tells Plans for 1954 The Georgia Power Compa ny will invest more than $34,000,000 in new generating, tr an smission and di stribution facilities in 1954, Harllee Branch, Jr., president, announced . Of th e $34,000,000, nearl y $13,000,000 will be spe nt on power plants. M ost of this amo unt will go towards th e com pletion of the first two 100,000 kilowatt stea m-electr ic generating u nits a t Plan t H am mond on th e Coosa riv er near R OM E and for further wor k on a thi rd unit of the same size. The firs t two un its of Plan t Hamm ond are sche duled to go into op eration du ring 1954. The third unit will be complet ed in 1955 . A part of th e money -a pprop riated for genera ting facilities will be spent on engineering for two additiona l hydroelectric units of 5,000 kilowatts each to be installed at the company's Goat R ock plant on th e Ch att ahooche e river ab ove COL UMBUS. The two units will increase th e cap acity of this plant to 31,000 kilowatts. Actual con struction at Goat Rock will begin in 1955. More th an $6,000,000 will be invested by th e company in new transmission lin es and s u b s t at i o n s to stre ngthen and expand th e company's service. This work includes several major powe r lines to connect Plant H ammo nd with the comp an y's sta tewide transmission system . These 110,000 volt lines will radiate from Plant Hammond to transmission substa tions located at LINDALE, BREMEN, ARAGON and N OR CR OSS. Th e construction of th ese lines will make additions and changes necessary at th e Lindale, Bremen and Aragon sub stations. Major transmission substations to be constructed by the company d uri ng 1954 will be located at TOCCO A, Steve ns Creek nea r AUGUSTA, SA N DERSVILLE, A LB A NY and LaGR ANGE. Nearly $ 14,000,000 has been alloca ted by th e company for th e expa n- GEOR:GIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 sion an d improvement of the elect rical distribu tion system . This includes addi. tions and improvements to th e facilities now in use as well as lin es and sub. sta tions to serve new custom ers. - 0- Latex Plant A new plant will open in NEWNAN, In tern ational L atex Corporati on will establish a branch th ere as part of a four-million-dollar expansion program in 1954. The company manufa ctures infan ts' wear, girdles an d pillows, bath. ing caps and other it ems. The con. cern 's main plant is located in D over, Delawa re. Approximately 300 people will be employed at th e N ewn an plant, mostly women . - 0- Another Addition Thomaston Mi lls, T HOMASTON, which recen tly sta rte d constr uction of an expansion of their bleachery, has announced plans for the addition of a three-story un it to th eir main m ill. It will conta in some 30,000 square feet. The addition al spa ce will be used in conjunction with th e mill s' program of complete modernizati on of th e spin. nin g, spooling, warping departments, and canteen fac ilities. .Tulian T. Hi gh. tower is president of the Thom aston Mill s. -0-- Food Plant Expands Plan s have been annou nce d bv the R odenb erry Company of CA I RO for an expa nsion and imp rovement pro- , gram whi ch will incl ud e th e con strue- tion of tw o more buildings. The firm packs pickl es and makes peanut butter. A very new pickl e-pack plant is already locat ed th ere ; th e second unit will be a modern peanut-shelling plan t, elec- j trically operated th rougho ut. The third unit will be a new peanut butter plant. The last two un its will be connected with conveyo rs. The new buildin g program will in crease p roduction capac ity and mod ernize th e op erati ons. - 0-- Sylvania Wood Yard I Operations have begun at th e S. A. Allen, Inc., Wo od Ya rd at SYLVANJA. I The conce rn ships wood to the Uni on Bag & Paper Corp oration at Savannah, an d offers a rea dy market t o t imber owne rs for pulpwood , both pine and . gum woods. John Eisenger, forester. ( will be m an ager of the yard. It is 3 branch of S. A. Allen Inc., of Savan' nah. NEWSLETTER February 25, 1954 Jasper County Proud of Its History, Farm Program and Progressive Spirit J asper Co un ty is a ve rsa tile county. It is a leading ag ricultural area ; it s progressive spirit is show n by M onticeUo, th e coun ty sea t, winning a $ 1,000 "beau ty" p rize recently ; it tak es great pri de in its hi story a nd a ncestry. In 1950 th ere were 725 farm s listed by th e U . S. Census Bur eau ; th e land ar ea is 238,720 ac res, of whi ch 161,874 acres were in farm s, a ga in of 23,186 acres over th e 1940 figure of 138,688 acres in farms . Average size of th e fa rm s in 1950 was 223.8 acres. J asper land is sligh tly u ndula ting, with outcroppings of stone boulders here a nd th ere. O ne of th ese p rovided, accor ding to record, th e first " pu lpit" in th e county. Vari ed crops ar e gro wn, including ap prox imately 5,000 bales of cotton a nnu all y. Peach gro wing is indicat ed by fact th at 84,643 trees we re repor ted in the coun ty in 1950, and 136 fa rmers reported 7,753 p ecan tr ees a t th e same tim e. Much land is devot ed to p astur es for many beef and dai ry ca ttle h erd s. Created in 1807 J asper Co un ty was cr eated D ecem ber 10, 180 7, an d was n am ed R an dolph, in honor of J ohn R andolph, a noted V irginian . Five yea rs lat er , in 1812, th e nam e was chang ed to J asper, honoring Sergeant J asper, who ga ined fame a t Fort M oultrie, Savannah, during th e R evoluti on a ry W ar . The present R andolph County was crea ted in 1828. Thus, J asper Coun ty h as h ad two n am es. The county is bounded by six coun ties. Big J ackson L ake and th e O cmulgee river a re on th e west, whi ch af fords attractive fish ing a nd re crea tion faciliti es. Will iam H . K ey repr esen ts th e coun ty in th e Legislature, and Dr. E. F . Gr iffith, of Eat onton, is Sta te Senator from th e 28th D istrict, composed of Putnam , M organ and J asper C ounties. The cou nty is in th e Sixth Congressiona l distri ct, repr esented by Congressm an Carl V inson, of Milledgeville. The county is m or e th an 300 squar e miles in a rea, and th e p opulation in 1950 was 7,473. M onticello h ad a pop ulati on in 1950 of 1,918, with 2,673 in th e district . Other town s and post offices in th e county a re F arrar , Hillsboro, K elly, M ach en and Shady D ale. Th e northern area of th e Piedmont N at ional Wildlife R efu ge extends into J asper county. The county is traversed by the Ce ntr al of Geor gia R ailro ad and by a n etwork of hi ghw ays, including State N os. 11, 229, 83, 142, 16, 162 and 221. Co unty office rs are : Ordinary, Eugene Middlebrooks; Cl erk of Court, C. An offic er in Monticello gives directions to a tourist from the city's new information booth, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the City Fathers. B. Pound ; She riff, F . R. Ezell ; Treasure r, Ellis Pope ; T ax Co mmissioner, C . E. Ozburn ; County School Supe rintendent , Doy O . Gay ; Commissioners, .J. E. Oxford, M . L. Clay, an d G . B. Turner, Jr. ; Co ron er, Tom Chaffin. Co unty Farm Agent, J. O . Chandler ; H ome D em onstration Ag e n t, Mi ss M ar y San ders. Mrs. R aymond Cowan is p resident and Mrs. R . J. Sammon s vice-pres ident of th e J asper County Home Demonstr ation C ouncil. The not ed Geor gian , Benjamin H . Hill, was a native of Jasper County. Hillsboro was named for him, and hi s home site th ere is marked . Other hi storic spots in th e county include a large mill-rock with a bronze tablet up on it which m arks th e site of th e " Isaac Par ker Inn," on th e stagecoa ch route from " Bar ksda le Ferry on th e Savanna h Ri ver to Wh atl ey's F erry on th e Chatta hooc hee." This m ark er is on Hi ghw ay 11, n orth of M onti cello, and a few m iles north of it is a hu ge boulder, about six feet hi gh a nd appro ximately 20 fee t wide, with a large bronze tabl et, 36 x 24 inch es, labeled "D O W'S PULPIT." The wording, in pa rt, read s : " O n this rock in 1803, Lorenzo D ow, of Connecticut, fam ous pioneer eva ngelist, p reach ed th e first gospel serm on in J asper Co unty, ac cording to well-founded tr adition." A handsome ston e m onument, some 40 feet high , place d on th e Sq uare a t M onti cello, pays hi gh t ribute to th e Co nf edera te Soldier. Mont'icello, County Seat M onticello, nam ed for the V irgini a home of Thomas J efferson, has its chest "stuck out" ju st now. It was nam ed first-p rize winner in th e 1,0003,000 populat ion town s in Georgia in th e 1953 C ha mp ion H ome T own C ontest conducted by th e Georgia Power Co . The prize was $ 1,000 in cash a nd a br onze pl aque. The con test in M onticello was sponsored by th e Youn g Women' s Garden C lub. Under direction of thi s group th e M onticello Comm unity Improvem ent Council was org anized, consisting of several sub-co mm ittees. Each was in cha rge of some phase of community developm ent and improvem ent. A general improvement progr am , both in buildings and land, wa s carried out. The reward also was much ben efit to th e city gene rally and th e gratification of success to th ose wh o took p art in th e progr am. The gene rous spirit of th e sponsors of th e contest has been demonstrated by th e don ati on by th em of $900 of th e prize tow ard outfitting the High Schoo l band. Monticello gives tourists a nd other visitors a "hearty welcom e" by m aintaining on th e Square a "Welcom e Station," wh ere inf ormati on sough t on man y subjec ts is given. R ay M. Persons is M ayor of Monticello. and Co unc ilme n are: Travis Lynch, H arvey Lane, H a rrell H arvey, Ellis Pop e and J. P. Pop e. City Cl erk is D. M . Glover, and V . T . Murphy is C hief of Police. The two banks in Monticello are th e First N at ional Bank of Monticello, of which L. O . Benton, Jr., is president, and th e Farmers' National Bank of Monticello, with D. M . Harvey as (Continued on Pag e 8) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Albany Highlights Southwest Georgia With Pecans, Industry and Tourists Alb an y, one of sou thwest Georgia's most th rivin g cities, is th e cou nty seat and indus tria l and com mercial center of Dou gh erty Co unty. It is a n a ttractive city, with palm-lined stree ts, n umero us sho ps, good restaurants a nd a fri endly a tmosphe re. The terrain is fairl y flat , and th e ac res surrounding th e city are well kept and th e site of attracti ve homes. Albany was founded by N elson Tift, a C onnec ticut Yankee. H e ca lled th e site Albany becaus e it reminded him ' of Albany, New York . Both cities arc at th e head of im portant n avigable I ndustrial Mecca Ther e are, to dat e, 55 Alba ny indus- tries, pl us on e mor e wh ich will begin operatio n th is summer. Th e new concern is M axw ell Brothers, Inc., m ak ers of corruga ted boxes. The firm is construc ting a milli on-dolla r pl ant whi ch will conta in mor e th an 162,000 sq ua re feet on a 22-acre site with a Ce ntra l of Georgia R ailroad siding. The industry will emp loy about 100 person s, appr oximately 60 p er cent m en, a nd 40 per cent wom en . The plant manager is Robert C . L emon. Larger industries of long standing in February 25, 1954 K aragh eusian , Inc. N y Ion Hosiery, glass len ses, vene tia n blinds, br ead an d lumber (p rocessed by three compani es) and a score of othe r products ori gin ate in Alb an y. Sulfa mila nide is mad e th ere in a new che mica l plant of M erck, In c., Coats and Clark, Inc., employ about 1,000 person s in th e m an ufact ure of th read , a nd th e Georgia Power COIllpan y operates Plant Mitch ell th ere whi ch p roduces elec tric p ower. The development of p ecan s as an import ant commercia l cro p in D ou gherty Co unty sta rted a bout 1890 . Today th er e are three pecan -processing plants in Alban y with a total em ployme n t of nearl y 150 peopl e. Peanuts, too , claim three processing com pa nies in Alb an y. Dough erty Co unty is a significa nt livestock section also. A total of 9,849 ho gs wer e sold a t $296,200.27 and 47,- A broad palm-lined thoroughfare in Albany. Radium Springs is a popular resort just south of the city. rivers. In this case, Albany, G eorgia, is at the confluenc e of th e Kinchafoonee River and Muckalee C r e e k , whose waters flow into th e Flint River n ear Albany. In N elson Tift's day, the Flint wa s used to send cotton down to th e Gulf. This was in the mid-1800 's. Today Albany thrives for several reasons : it is an excellent p ecan , p eanut, an d livestock area; it has m an y large and diversified industries ; th e important thing is that th e p eopl e of Alb an y have always done someth ing a bout developing th eir cit y, not just thought about it. Industry wh ich has al read y moved in hasn't made th em com pla .. cent, but th ey are ready for mor e, and are willing to do som ething a bout secing th at th ere is adeq uate h ou sing and other faciliti es. And, with th e increase of industry and population th e eco- nomic level has risen to h elp th e city's advancement. Albany include th e Virgini a-Carolina Ch emi ca l Corporation, a fertilizer concern establishe d in 1901 ; Flint River Cotton Mills, organized in 1911, employing about 250 p erson s ; Swift a nd Com pa ny Plant Food Divi sion , which sta rted operating in 1914 ; Bob's Candy Com pa ny, whose products a re famous throughout th e South, esta blishe d in Albany in 1919 ; Lilli ston Implem ent Compan y, p roducers of farm impleme nts, orga nized in 1926 ; Swift and Co m pa ny O il M ill, which produces oil, meal , feed and she lls pean ut s, started in Alban y in 1931, and Cuda hy Packing Co m pa ny, m ajor m eat processing conce rn which em ploys a bo ut 250 persons, esta blishe d th ere in 1936. Other Alb an y conce rns produce a vari ety of goods, from con cr et e, whi ch is produced by two conce rns-the Albany Concr ete Products Company and th e Flint Concret e Products Company, to carpets, manufactured by A. & M . 589 h ead of cattle at $4,237,285.59 during th e year of 1953 at the huge Union Sto ckvards, Features and Facilities One of th e main attractions in th e Alb any a rea is th e well-known Radium Sp rings. The R adium Springs Inn a nd Lod ge has fine food , excellen t accommo da tions a nd th e unique radio-active wat er, whi ch flows out of th e gro und a lovely blu e-gr een at th e ra te of 70,000 ga llons a minute. The springs h ave been inc orpor at ed in a la rge, inte rest.. ingly sha pe d sto ne pool used for swim min g ; a well-la ndsca pe d golf co urse j;, near-by, and fishing is p opul ar in th e ad jacen t lak es. Two mil es north of Albany is th e Che haw Sta te Park. It is named for th e Ch eh aw T rib e of th e C reek In dians who wer e in that a rea in the mid16th century. Tift Park ncar th e cente r of Albany is a city park with a zoo, pl ayground, GEORGJADEPARTMENT OF .C:;OMMERCE 6 NEWSLET T ER February 25, 1954 tennis courts, swimming an d wa ding pools. Lak eworth is a lar ge lak e for boating and fishin g behind Plant Mitchell. Alban y also h as a n atural bowl spo rts arena, ca lled Mill s M emori al Stadium, which sca ts 6,900 spec tators. Car dina l Field, is the t ra ining cen ter for th ree of th e St. L ouis Car dinal ba seball teams. I t is ve ry close to Alba ny, has seven diam onds a nd a n car 2,400 seating capacity. Besides th ese recreat ion facilities, Alba ny also has a m unicipal a uditorium and nu merous comme rcial recreation places. Of special pride to Alba nians is a n- othe r newly com pleted swimm ing pool. Sponsored by th e C ity of Alba ny R ecreation Departme n t a nd the Albany J ayCees, and built a t a cost of $ 145,- tioned th ere. Forty -t hr ee m illion dollars h ave been appropria ted for th e Depot, a nd th irt y-eight mill ion h ave already been spen t on it or ar e under co n t r a c t . Tra nsportation facilities to a nd f rom Alba ny are excellent. F ive railroads give freight and passenger service. F our tru cking compa n ies h a v e term inals h ere, and four oth er lines off er intersta te servic e. Excellent b us service is m aintain ed from Alban y in eve ry dir ection with 60 dail y schedules by th e M odern Co ach Corporation . The Serv ice Coach Co rpora tion also operat es between Alban y and D ublin . T wo U . S. H igh ways crisscross at Alban y : U . S. 19 ru ns nort h a nd south a nd U . S. 82 goes east and west. Georgia hi gh ways traver sing th e coun ty include Nos. 50, 62, 9 1, 133 an d 234. fina nce d completely by th e m embers of th e C ham ber. Three banks, one dep osit and trust bank an d a F ed eral Sav ings a nd Lo an Associati on have combined assets of over eigh ty-seven mi llion dolla rs. Albany h as excellent ac commodations for visitors and tour ists. Six hot els with a tot al of 450 rooms, incl uding Rad ium Springs a nd 13 motels are available. It s semi-tropical a tmosphe re and fin e hostelri es ap pea l also to th ose makin g th eir hom e in th e South during th e winter m on ths. T he p opu lation in Alb any h as grown rapi dly. F rom 1940 to 1950 th ere was a 62 percent incr ease. Th e 1954 estimat e is 4 1,000 peopl e. This yea r's esti. mat e for th e en tire county is 51,500 . The labor supply is p lentiful becaus e within a 50-m ile radius th e population Cudahy Packing Company, on e of many large Albany industries. Dough erty County Courthouse. 000, it will be th e site of a n AAU swim min g m eet next July. Am on g othe r hi ghli ghts of Alb an y th ere is th e H ert y N ur sery, a Sta te p ine tree n ursery. F rom h ere a re shipped 12 to 20 m illion pin e seedlings annua lly. T he city is also th e site of Albany Sta te Co llege, which is a Negro teach ers, agricult ur al and industri al college. Alba ny and Dough erty Co un ty togeth er also hav e a n ai rpo rt. Scheduled flights to and from h ere ar e m ad e by Ea stern Air Lin es and Sou the rn Air Li nes. East of Albany is Turn er Air F orce Base, a perma nent installation wh ich is headqua rt ers for th e 40th Air Division and 31st and 508th Stra tegic Fighter Wings. A M a rine Dep ot wh ich serv es as supply cen ter for th e entire eastern U nit ed States covers over 3,600 acres just ou tside of Albany . U po n completion it will em ploy up to a th ousand civilia ns and have a sizeable milita ry gro up sta - A fin e 154-b ed h ospit al in Alba ny will soon embark on an addition al $ 1,800,000 building program to be completed by 1955. A clinic is operated here by th e K iwa nis C lub fo r less-fort unate ch ildren. A television station, WALE-TV is now under construction a nd will go on th e air in June. Th ree radi o sta tions, WGP C, WALB an d WJAZ all op era te in Alba ny. The n ew television sta tion will be sponsored by the A lban )' H erald, th e city's daily n ewspaper. Th is is edited by J ames H . Gray. The weekly Alban)' J ou rna l is edited by William O . D avis. Alba ny h as a large number of civic clubs and organizations. The C hamber of Co mmerce is m an aged by F . William Broom e. H e a nd h is staff h ave com plete information on th e city for tourists and po t e n t i a I in dus t ries. T he C hamber has a fine new $34,000 building completed less th an a yea r a go, a nd is n ear 380,000. To serv e A I ban y th ere a re 40 churche s. A fin e library accommoda tes 20,000 volumes . H oused h er e also is th e H enry M cIntosh Co llect ion of arrowhea ds. Water is av ailable at th e rate of 70,000 gallons p er mi nute. Albany is th e cen ter of educa tion for th e county. Through out th e county are th e various gramma r schoo ls, whi le th e high schools a re consolidated in Alban y. It has a lar ge m odern high school, a nd a $2,500 ,000 n ew h igh school and gym nasium a re u nder constr uction now. Spec ial a nd industrial trad e training as well as a business school a re p rovided by th e public school syste m. County and City Officers Dougherty Co unty officials include the following : Ordina ry, Evelyn Cour- son; Clerk of Supe rior Co urt, J. W . Bush ; She riff, D . C . Camp bell, Sr . ; (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE vS6L 'sz A~Vn~83.::1 . - ( / ./ ' C ~ ' : t: :. ~:", ~J r ._ .. I , ; ' - -" ... l.. ~. ' ... . ... : z .: c .. -- r .... '. -' ~ .~ ~ . __ ~. _ ..... - :-,"1 ;: . : ~. .. o .,. .-, ~ 1~1 'ON l!Wl dd 'eo 'e lue p v PlPd 's'n :ilD V~SOd ''lI 1l? 'T d 99tE ';);lS 'VIEl~03El ' V.LNV'.L'V ' C .Ll dV::J 3.LV.LS CC l 3:J~3~~0:J .::10 J.N3~J.~Vd3a vm~038 Jasper (Continued from Page 5 ) president. The third bank in th e county is th e Citiz ens' Bank of Shady Dale, a t Shady Dal e, O . H. Banks, president. Mr. Bank s is also M ayor of Sh ad y D ale. Built under th e Hill-Burton Act a t a cost of $265,000, th e J asper County Ho spital at Monticello was dedicated Dec . 30, 1952. It has 19 rooms for white patients and six for colored. Mrs. H elen Dickin son is administrator of the ho spital. A total sum of $808,000 is appropriated to be spent improving the school system in th e county-providing new bui ldings and renovations. Ther e are six white schools in th e county, including th e Hi gh Schoo l at Monticello, of which J . C . Turner, Jr., is principal, and five grammar schools at oth er points in the county. There are seven colored schoo ls, including the Jasper County T raining High S c h 0 0 I at Monticello, and six gra mmar school s throughout the county. It is seldom that a man devotes 66 years to one occupation , but that is the record of T. R . Penn, editor of th e M onticello N ews, which has been in his famil y since 1881-the yea r it was established . "Mr. Tom," as he is affectionately known by all, says he began working in the newspaper office wh en he was six years old and has continued there sinc e. D . W. Jones is supe rintendent of th e plant, whi ch also does commercial printing. General business firms in Monticello are sprinkled with industries. Thur- mond Mfg. Co ., J. H . Truitt, manager, processes men's and children's shirts and pants. This is a branch of the plant at nearby M adison . Charles L. H end erson operates three plants in M onticello: a cannery for fruits and vegetab les ; a locker plant for cold storage of meats, etc., and H en derson' s Cold Storage, Inc., wh ere fruits, etc., are frozen and otherwise processed. Mr. H end erson also operates an ice plant. Monticello Bobbin Co ., Inc., employs approximat ely 80 to 90 people making bobbins for text ile firms. Jo el H . Tun operates th e Monticello Milling Co., and E . C . K elly, J r., is owner and manager of th e Jasper Mill ing Co . Both ar e located a t Monticello and proc ess wheat an d corn. Cotton gin s are op erat ed over the county at Monticello, Shady Dale, Farrar an d K elly. Lumbering is an important industry. Much timber is processe d into lumber by sawmills scattered over the county an d one planing m ill which is located in Monticello. A barrel stave factory operates at Shady Dale. Pulpwood cutting is mo ving into th e picture, and 30,220 cords were sold in the county in 1952. The Georgia Power Co ., an d R EA lines provide electricity over the county. Southern Bell system furnishes tel ephone service in the county, and has ext ended its lines to many farm homes. Miss M ary M urr elle is Librarian of the Jasper County Library at Monticello, and further library service is provided the area by th e Jasper-PutnamMorgan (counties) R egional Library, which serves a populat ion of approximately 30,000 with bookmobiles. Mrs . J oe Pritchett, of Monticello, is secretary of that unit. Much of Monticello's progress may be attributed to its various organiza- GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 tions, including th e Am erican Legion Post ; VFW cha pter ; H ur rican e Club, (sport s) ; Farm Bureaus ; Kiw an is ; two DAR ch apter s; U DC cha pter ; two Gard en club s, Ch urch bells peal loudly throughout J asper Co un ty - Baptists, M ethodist, Presbyterian and Ch ristian denominations ha ve ch urches in th e co unty. M onti cello has -purchased a site for a 200,000-gallon water tank whi ch will cost $65,000. The area is blessed with many wa ter courses. W. F . J ord an , of M onticello, sta tes th at " the re is ru nning wat er on practicall y every 200-a cre land lot in th e county, and th ere are 14 sp rings inside th e city limits of Monticello." Albany (Continued from Page 7) Tax R eceiver, R oyace B. Hinson ; T ax Co llector , Billy Gee ; Surveyor, Wi lliam Lowe ; Co roner, Cha rles M . Stern; Superin tenden t of County Schoo ls, J. J. Cordell ; Co unty Attorn ey, L eonard Farkas; Coun ty Commissioners a re : M . W. Tift, Ch airman, C . M. Pippin, George B. Mock and J. T. Fleming, Clerk . Judge on th e Albany Circuit is Carl E. Crow; M aston E. O 'Neal is Solicitor General. City Manager is Carey C . Burnett. J. W. Smith is M ayor, F rank Bark er is M ayor Pro-Tem ., and th e City Com missioners ar e Frank Faulk, Sr., George J ohnston , M. M . Wiggins and B. C. Ga ble. City Attorn ey is H . G. Rawls; City R ecord er, George Sabados ; Ci ty Physician , Dr. G . E. Seymour ; Cl erk and Treasurer , Mrs. S. T. Willingham. Clayton J ones is Judge of th e Ci ty Co ur t, a nd H ud son M alon e is Solicitor G en er al. DEPARTMENT OF COMMEnCE NEWSLETTER ARCH 10, 1954 NEWSLETTER -------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -M-ar-ch-1-0, - -1954 NEWSLEITER Published semi-mo nth ly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 Sta te Capitol * HERMAN E. T ALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONER S EMO RY L. BUTLER Chairman Lonnie A. Pope, V. Chm , Y. F. Geeslin Ben J essup Ho ke Peters * CLA RK GAINES Sec r e t a ry Vol. 5, No. 11 March 10, 1954 Georgia's Industrial, COml11e rcial Growth At th e end of 1953 th er e were over 6,500 industrial plants locat ed in G eorgia. This is more than double th e number of m anufacturing concerns located her e in 1940. N ew bu siness firms incorporated in Georgia last yea r ca me to an average of 100 per month. I n th e sta te's urban areas, building permi ts were issued a t th e rate of 600 each month-and in Atl anta and Sa va nna h construc tion was over 100 million dollars for th e yea r. COVER PICTURE This is one of th e canno ns a t K ennesaw Nati on al Battlefield Pa rk n ea r M arietta. K ennesaw M ounta in was th e site of th e fam ous battle betw een th e forces of G enera l Johnston an d G enera l Sherma n in J une, 1864-ninety years ago. The Park h as had new road s paved a nd last year 160,000 p eopl e visit ed th ere. A museum is m aintained with rel ics a nd map s, and B. C. Yates, Supe rin tendent of th e Park , has a g reat deal of inf ormation on hand abo ut th e a rea and th e str ugg le. E ach O ctob er he holds a two day seminar, a bout th e battle a nd th e park, whi ch is a ttended by inter ested people from m an y p arts of th e Southeast. At th e Pa rk Museum each yea r a n E aster Sunri se Serv ice is held , sponsored by th e Cobb Co unty Mi nister ia l Associat ion a nd the Co bb Co untv C hamber of Comm erce. , - Photo by Carol yn Ca rter. With pride th e N ewslett er a nno unce s th a t th e cover photo by Carolyn C arter, " H oss 'N' Buggy Days," on th e J anuary 25th issue of th e N ewslett er, won first prize (the Don Barber C up for pict ori al photogr aphs) at th e South easte rn Photogr aphers Association annu a l convention held last m onth. KENNESAW MOUNTAIN-paths on the mountain are ma rked with trailside exh ibits consisting of map s and narratives whic h exp lain the battle action. Dur ing Easter Week a Cro ss which is place d on the mountain an d illum ined at night can be seen by travelers on U . S. H ighway 41. Fort Valley: H am & Egg Show, M arch II. Atlanta: Geor gia Chapter, the Societ y for th e Advan cem ent of M an agement, " O rgan iza tion Planning," At lanta Athleti c Club, M arch II. Atlanta: Third Annual Southeastern Sa les and Sal es M an agem ent Confer en ce, At lanta Di vision , University of G eorgia, M arch 12. Athe ns: Entom ologica l Societ y M eet ing, Universit y of G eor gia, March 12-1 3 . Savannah: Southern Acad emy of Oral Surger y, Gen er al O glethorpe Hotel, March 12-14. Co lumb us: Southeastern R ecr eati on Ex ecutives Con feren ce, R alston Hotel, M arch 17-19. Macon : 18th Annual Middle Geor gia Li vestock Sh ow, Central Ci ty Park, M ar ch 18. Atlanta: Georgia Education Association , Municip al Aud itorium, M arch 18-19. Macon: L if e Insuran ce Companies Sal es Caravan, D e m p s e y Hotel, M arch 24. Atlanta: National Association of Produ ce M arket M an agers Confer en ce, Dinkier -Pl aza, M arch 24-26 . Augusta: W om en s Title H old ers Golf T ou rn am ent, Au gu sta N ation al Golf Course, March 25-27 . Atlanta : Southern Sociological Society M eeting, Biltmore H ot el, M arch 25 27. At hens: St ate Planning Institute, Universit y of Geor gia, M a rch 26. Macon : Georgia St at e H om e Econ om i c s Association Conf er ence, I D empsey Hotel, March 26-27 . Atlan ta: 2nd Annual Confer en ce on th e Treatment of th e Socia l Offender, Atlanta Divi sion , University of Georgia, M arch 26. Athens: Municip al M anagers Institute, Universit y of Georgia, Ap ril 1-2. Macon : M a con H ome Show, M uni cip al Auditorium, Ap ril 1-5. A tlanta: All Southern H ot el E xposi tion , Bilt more H ot el, April 1-3. A tlanta: Southeastern H ospital Con' fer ence, Biltmor e H ot el, April 1-3. Atlanta: Ch ambers of Comm erce Stafi Clinic, Piedmont H ot el, April 3. Ocilla: F at C attle Show and Sale. Ap ril 5. I Alba ny: F ed er ated Women s C lub Co~' fer en ce, Radium Springs Inn, Apnl 5-7 . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 NEWSLETTER March 10, 1954 Record Number Of Ships Called At Savannah Port In 1953; Increased Trade Seen For 1954 The importan ce of th e Sa vanna h Port was sh own in 1953 wh en all predous records were broken for th e number of vessels ente ring th e Port and amount of fees collected . According to th e report of H a rbor- master Thomas J. Canty submitte d to Mayor Olin F . Fulmer, "c onside ring all aspec ts, 1953 was th e h arbor's biggest year. F ees for 1953 amo unted to $13,899 on 1,578 ships, representing 30 nations tha t came up th e Sava nnah River ch anne l." The 1953 report show ed that 1,195 American vessels with tonnage of 2,811,967 a nd 383 foreign sh ips with 1,211,820 tons- a total of 4,0 23,787 net register tons-s-visitcd Sava nna h. M ost ships that ca lled in a single month were 150 in March . Hi ghest fees and tonnage for anyone month wer e $1,306 and 382,058 n et register tons last J uly. This year , 1954, got off to a good sta rt wh en five sh ips entered th e port on J an . 1. Port tonnage as reported by th e U . S. Corps of En gin eers for 1952 was 3,571,869 ton s. This was mod erately in excess of tonnage reported in 1951. Lo cal port officials estima te that in 1953, when fina l figures hav e been com piled by th e Corps of En gin eers, th ey will be in excess of 3% milli on tons. During the fir st eigh t months of 1953, com bined imports and exports at Savannah excee ded th e competing p orts in th e Sou th Atlantic ra nge as follows: Sava nna h . .1,084,550 ton s Ch a rleston 969 ,600 ton s J acksonville 630,100 tons T h e Savannah District Au thority in its 1953 rep ort ju st issued, predi cts a bri ght future for th e Port in 1954, pointing out th at th e Am erican Cya na- mid Co.'s hu ge $ 14,000 ,000 plant th ere will be completed ea rly in 1955, will em ploy from 300 to 400 peop le, and will import th ro ugh th e Por t approxi- ~na tely 100,000 ton s annu ally of titan- IUm ore. " Pr esent indi cations," says th e Dis- trict Authority report; " fo;' 1954 a re th at comme rce in th e Port will excee d pr evious yea rs. Co nt ributing to thi s pr edi ction is th e fact th at the Sta te Port is beginning to reach its oper ating pot en tia l ; also, an increasin g tr affic is not ed in th e ope ra tion of th e Sea tra in in th e coastwise service betw een Sa - van nah and N ew York ." T h e Distr ict Auth orit y points out that th e new Sa va nna h port roste r indicates 67 steam ship lines, representing seven agencies, saying the number of lines has increased by 13 since th e last roster was com piled two year s ago. The Authority I' e p ort continues : " New services to South America have been recently announce d, -x- +, -::- and a substa ntial contr ibution to port tonn age will be made by th e Cya nami d Compa ny, to be felt in 1955, a nd por t adverti sing by th e stea msh ip age ncies serving Savannah and th e Sta te Port and the Distri ct Authority sho uld con tribute to increased port b usiness." Ov er $ 100,000 annually is bein g expended in advertising th e city a nd port, " the lar gest proportion of thi s being expended by th e Geor gia Ports Au th ority in national adve rtising, " th e Authority reports. "A recen t announcement indicates th at a Brazilia n Consulat e will be estab lished a t th e Port of Sav annah, an d office whi ch th e Authority h as lon g sought, as it will facilit ate expo rts to Bra zil." Importan ce of th e Port of Sava nnah to th e Go vernment is not ed in th e report whi ch says : "T he Port from 1948 to 1953 inclusive return ed to th e Federa l Gov ernment, through duties p aid th e Co llecto r of C ustoms, a n amount of $22,6 14,269, a nd during th ese years th e amount spent on mainten anc e and new work in th e Savannah h arbor h as totaled a pp roxima tely $8,900,000." T he Savannah District Authority is com posed of a Board of 10 m embers a nd a n Adv isory Board of 12 m emb ers. L. C. M cC lur kin is chairma n of th e Authority and W . H. ?vlcGowa n executive secre tary. Last M arch 23, th e Au- (Con tinued on Pag e 8 ) .--; An air view of pa rt of Sav annah, th e Sava nna h R iver and th e docks. A steams hip at one of the Savannah docks, tied up for loading. 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE NEWSLETTER M arch 10, 1954 - GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS Two Vidalia Enterprises River Development Ass'n. Annou ncem ent h as been made in V I D A L I A of two new enterprises wh ich will go into op era tion soon . On e is a m od ern 15-unit m otel to be constructed by H . A. Threlkeld an d Lucius Strickland . The tour ist cour t will be of brick construction , an d in addition to all th e mo dern comforts will be a irconditione d. Eventuall v th e m otel will have 25 or 30 uni ts. Site of the n ew mo tel is on U. S. Hi gh way 280, a popular tou rist rout e. V idalia will also h ave ano the r tobacco wa reh ouse- to make a tot al of seven in th at city. The new wa reh ouse will be known as V ann's No. 3, a nd will be bu ilt by J ames Darby, Billy Cheatham an d Arthur Carver. The bui ldin g will h ave a total of 80,000 square fee t of space, an d will be con structed of b rick, con crete and steel, and is located on a rai lroad siding. T obacco growers of many coun ties in east cen tral G eorgia use the Vi dalia market fac ilities. -0- Crest Motel The C rest M ot el loca ted at th e city limits of COVINGTON h a s been opene d. The owner of th e mo dern tourist court is J ames Mann. It will be managed by Mr. and Mrs. Walter T ucke r. -0- Metal Treating Plant Plan s h ave been announced by J. P. Lovoy, president of Southe rn M etal T reating Co ., In c., to erect a $125,000 plant in A T LANT A . Construction h as been begun on a building to house 10 m etal treatin g furnaces. The building will be 7,500 feet square, of brick, con crete block and steel con struction . -0- Ready Soon Expansion of the Spr ing dale p lant of Cabin Crafts, I nc., at DA LTON will be completed by Ap ril. The n ew bui lding, wh ich will be used for some ph ases of ca rpe t manu facture, will provide a n additional 103,000 square feet of floor space for the concern. This addition to th e Sp ringd ale plant is part of a two million dolla r expansion program un der way by Cab in C raft s, I nc., of which R . G . McCamy is pres ident . A n ew orga nization h as been formed in CA L HOUN for th e development and con trol of th e water resources of th e Oo stanaula R iver basin. T he group, with H enry A. Mauldin as chairman, has th e tentati ve n am e of th e " Oos ta na ula Basin D evelopmen t Associa tion ." Emph asis will be stresse d on flood contro l and soil con servation , and the p ossibilities of power developm en t an d recreational areas will be studied by the organization. A II communi ties, towns a nd coun ties in th e bas in- from R ome to Ellijay-will pa rti cipa te in the associati on . - 0- Novelty Yarns Plant A new conce rn h as been formed in CA R RO L LTON for th e m anufactur e of twisted nov elty ya rns for use in th e drap ery a nd upholstery in dus try . T he J. R . N ewell Company will operate in th e form er Mandev ille M ill No . 1, for th e p resent, and emp loy about 40 p eople. T he machin e sho p at th e M andeville plan t will also be re-op ened by Fr ed A. R obin son , and will be called Robinson M achine Sh op. -0- Robins Plans Total 14 Million Dollars Projects totaling fourteen m illion dollars a re under way at W ARN ER R OBI NS AIR FOR CE BA SE in H ouston County. Construc tion un der wa y th ere incl ud es two adm inistrative bui ldings, one for th e Warner R obins Air M ateriel Ar ea a nd th e othe r for th e 14th Air Fo rce, eac h three sto ries h igh a nd containing some 90,000 square feet of floo r space. T wo sto rag e warehouses with a total of 1.200,000 square feet of floor space will be built. I t h as been po inted ou t that th e con crete floor slabs in th e war ehouses a re equal to nin e mi les of a two-lan e hi ghway. A maintenance hangar for th e 14th Air Force airc ra ft is n earl y completed, a nd also un der way a re four adm inistrative space additions which will be air-conditi on ed , as well as a new radio tran smitt er bu ilding , a ra dio receiver build ing , a new und erground steam distribu tion system an d an ad dition to the centr al steam plant to serve th e base bu ildin gs. This is th e 13th yea r of ope ra tions at th e Air Base. GEO R G IA DEPARTM ENT O F COMMERCE 4 Byron Navy Depot OK'd A Naval Supply D epot for BYRON has h ad fin al ap proval by th e U. S. government. Construc tion will begin in June on th e proj ect wh ich will Cost $9,000,000. To begin with, four wars, houses will be built, each 1,000 x 200 feet. The site chose n for th e D epot is at U . S. H igh way 49 an d Dunbar Roa d. Six hundred acres of land will be inclu ded in the fina l project, a nd about 300 perso nnel , some military, will be employed th ere. - 0- Shirt Manufacture The K a rm on Manufacturing Compa ny with headquarters in D enver, Co lorado, is constructing a new branch plan t in CO RNEL I A . The company manufactures western style shi rts for bot h m en and women. The bui lding of the plan t will con tain some 12,000 square feet of floor space. About 75 people will be employed by th e cornp an y. -0- New Monroe Plant Con tract h as been let for a new bui ldi ng in M 0 N R O E which will hous e th e Driwood Corporat ion-which will move from N ew J ersey to establish its plan t her e. The industry m anufactures office partitions made of wood, aluminum, steel an d asbestos insula- . tion . The company will employ abou t 100 persons. - 0- General Motors Center AT L ANTA will be the site of one of th e 35 new training centers bein g constru cted th ro ugh out th e nation by the General M otors Compan y. A building of brick an d steel, with an area of over 26,000 square feet, pa rking space, classrooms , au ditorium, kit ch en an d cafeteria will be sta ffed by a manager and eight inst ru cto rs. The purpose of the trainin g center is to m ak e it p ossible for m ech anics an d dealer servi ce personnel to keep up to da te on new mechanica l a nd technical adva nces in au tomobile manufacture an d care. Each of th e following GM divisions will h ave a special classroo m at th e Atlanta centel' : Chevrolet , Pontiac, O ldsm obile, Buick , Fi sher Body T ru ck & Co ach, Fisher Body and United Mo tors ServIce. NEWSLETTER March 10, 1954 Bacon County ASparkler of Southeast a fine new fire truck. The County Courthouse has been reno vat ed and the business section nea r- Georgia In Civic Pride and Initiative by is in excellent condition, with many new, modern stores . Bacon County, situated in th e south east section of Georgia, is an enterpri sing and civic m ind ed area . Alma, its county sea t, is th e center of all activiti es and an important trad e area. The county was creat ed in 1914 a nd nam ed for U. S. Senator Au gustu s O . Bacon. H e was a M acon lawyer wh o lived from 1839 until 1914. Alma, which had sta rted out as "a sawm ill and four famili es," was chose n for th e county seat. Some ' say th e cit y was named for a pretty girl who lived th ere, oth ers fh at it was named for th e capita ls of Georgia , leaving out Savannah, th e fir st one. T o take th e fir st lett er of Augusta, Louisville, Mill edgeville and Atl anta would give th e word Alm a . D ur ing the 48 years since the begin ning of Alma , the area h as prospered . Alma h as taken th e spotlight in recent years beca use of severa l awards in th e Georgia Power Co mpa ny's C ha mpio n Home T own Co n test. Industry T he mo st recent industrial enterpr ise in Alm a is th at of Arth ur Walk er who has mad e quit e a going concern of ra ising bees an d packaging h oney ; over five tons of h oney were ship ped last yea r. There are two lumber companies in Alma. The Alma L umb er Company of which .J. R . Chancey is general manage r a lso has a fence- post tr eating plant. The A I m a Pulpwood Yard, operat ed by th e West Virgini a Pu lp and Pap er Co mpa ny is man aged by H arold Ch an cey. Its planned expan sion will ena ble th e conce rn to ship 40,000 cords of woo d a nnually. Besides th e lumb er companies, th ere are eigh t sawmi lls wh ich do a com b ined business of $71,500 annually. T urpentine brings $50 0,000, a nd pulpwood $600,000. Fa rmers Enterprises, Inc., h as a cotton gin, feed mill a nd gum pl atform. D . L. Lee a nd Son have a m eatpackin g esta blishme nt with about 15 em p loyees. The South Geor gia Ice Com pa ny of Alm a, In c., cures meat as well as selling ice a nd coa l; h ere are also fr eezer lockers ava ilable. Alma T urpentine Company, with over 25 employees, p rod uces t urp entine. The Satilla Rural El ect ric M embership Corporation h as its h eadquarters in Alma. I t serves eight counties and has over 12,000 custome r famili es. The REA employs ove r 75 p eop le, with an annua l payroll of about $180 ,000 . A new bui ldin g is nearl y through construc tion whi ch will enla rge th e REA fac ilities- it will be air-conditioned and hav e a drive-in pay window. Th e A lma T imes, edited by C . J. The mo st important thing to Alm a at th e present moment, however, is th e scho ol construction pro gr am . A n ew wh it e high scho ol and a new hi gh school for colored stude nts will soon be built, and improvem en ts will be mad e on th e two existing schools . The total amo unt appropriated for th e p rogram is $760,000. Alma takes p ride in its new City Hall and Fi re Departm en t, eq uip ped wit h a br and new fire truck, Broome, J r., is th e weekly newspaper. I t was establishe d 42 yea rs ago, and is a thrivin g concern . The plant also does job printing. The offices were recently renovated and new m achinery adde d. Features Alma has ma ny things to be proud of : th e H ill-Burton Bacon County Hos pit al, th e new City H all and Fi re Department, new jail faciliti es, th eir renovated Bacon Coun ty Courthouse and th e school constr uction whi ch will be completed in th e near future. The Bacon County Hospital was dedi cated in D ecember 1952. It has 30 beds, was con structed at a cost of $329,000 and is air-conditioned . Besides this , Alm a is seeking a $40,000 health center. Alma's new City Hall and Fi re Department was completed last fall. They have a fireman on fu ll tim e duty, an d T ourism is rapidly becoming a n integral part of Alm a life. Becau se it is situa ted on U . S. Highway N o.1 , with U . S. Route No. 23 and Sta te R oute 32 also traversing th e county, Alma is important to tourists passing th rough th at region. It h as seven good m otor courts ; rem odelin g is underway on some of th em , and a not he r new $30,000 motel is planned . Alma also h as th e " Welcome T ourist" plan: a tourist is "arrested" an d given m eals, lodging, etc.; this plan has bee n operating in Alma for two years . It is estimated that tourism ad ds $350,000 to th e Alma econom y each year. Alm a h as a rec reation center at Johnson Lak e. H ere.J. A. J ohnson, J r., operates a $ 100,000 skating rink, bowling alleys, a restaurant, picni c grounds and swinuning, boating and fish ing fa- (Continued on Page 8 ) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Farmers of Upson Turn'0 Livestock; Trl-Ilties Are Industrial Centers Upson, a county that is a good example of a lan d th at has turned from row crops to pa stures, dotted with fin e herd s of beef and dairy cattle, is also not ed for its industr y-i-an ave rage of 6,000 p eopl e a re employed in textile plants with m an y people also working in othe r industri es in th e "T ri-C ities"Thomaston , East Thomaston a nd Silvert own . C reated in 1824, th e county is now 130 yea rs old. I t was named fo r Stephen Upson, a m emb er of th e Legislat ur e, and Georgia sta tesm an. The population in 1950 was 25,078 ; land area 333 tel's at Th omaston, serv es th e entire rural ar ea . L umbering a nd pu lpwood cu tting afford em ployme nt for many a nd timber in th e county is protect ed by a for estr y unit with a fir e tower near Thomaston . Pine M ountain ran ge fr inges th e northern part of th e cou nty, with th e land south of th ere gene ra lly rolling a nd sloping, with a deep clay foundation. U pson County officers a re : Ordinar y, Bethel Sa lter; Clerk of Cour t, Rob ert Bethel ; Sheriff, E. T . Bray ; Tax Collector , Rex Turner; Tax R eceiver , March 10, 1954 There a re four con solidat ed sch ools in th e county, the J am es R . Atwater ; J ohn Thurston , John B. Gordon-all nam ed for U pson residen ts- and th e R ock H ill school. Yat esville High a nd R . E. Lee Institu te also h ave eleme ntary grades, as do th e schools of Silvertown and East Thomaston . K enneth Mo or e is R . E . Le e Institute Hi gh School principal ; N. W . Evan s heads th e Yat esville school, and other principals ar e : Thurston scho ol, C . C. T at e; Go rd on, Cec il Cadenhead ; Atwat er, E. W . F oy ; Ro ck Hill, M . M . Gau ltney. One color ed high school in th e cou nty is th e Thomaston Training Schoo l, with an enr ollme nt of 527 pupils. A. S. J ohnson is principal. There ar e a number of colored grammar scho ols in the co u n ty . T he Bleac hery Di vision of Thomaston M ilk U pson Co unty Co ur tho use in T homast on. square mil es, with 75 p eop le to th e square mile. T her e ar e 867 farms in the county, with 2 13, 120 ac res of lan d, of which 124,865 a re in fa rm s; th e average size farm is 144 a cres. Gen cra l crops a re grown, incl uding man y peach es, and lar ge p astures dot th e county with fine herds of pure bred ca ttle grazing on th em. A ma rket for th e livestock gro wn in th e a rea is afforde d by th e Geor gia Farm Products Sales Corporation, located near Thomaston , which h olds weekly a uctions. Upson has an abundan t wat er supply. It is bou nded on th e west by Flint river, and creeks trav ersin g th e county are Potato (f rom whi ch Thomaston, Ea st Thomaston and Silve rtown get th eir water supply ) ; T obler, Swift a nd Oakchunk cree ks. The Georgia Power Co . provid es electricity an d power which is distribut ed by th e municipalities; Upson Electr ic Membership Corp., with headquar- F . D . M cK enney ; Sch ool Superintend ent, Gordon Ho lstun, wh o is also supe rintendent of th e T ri-C ities scho ols; Su r- veyor , .J. Burrows Smith ; Co rone r, H . P. M cM anus : Comm issione rs a re H ays Arn old , cha irman ; L. 1'. Woodall, J;'., a nd Elm o Boyt : mem bers of th e Legisla ture, O wen Ad am s and \V. S. Brantley: Farm Agent, O . W . Burns, Civic Affairs Upson has always been noted for its adva nce d educationa l system . The R. E. Lee I nstitut e a t Thom aston OCCl!pies a site that has been used for schoo l purposes since 1825-just on e yea r a ltcr th e coun tv was crea ted . Two high 'schoo ls in th e county a re R. E. Lee In stitute H igh Schoo l at Thom aston and Yat esville Hi gh. A 32acre tract. donat ed bv Albert M athews. has been 'develop ed for R . E. Lee In ~ stitute Hi gh School into an athletic field , football stadium and tr ack at a cost of $ 130,000. The three incorporated municipalities, Thomaston, East T homaston and Silver town , constitute t h e Tri-Cities with a total popula tion of a pproxim ately 15,000, but eac h has a sepa ra te govern me nt. Dr. H . A. Barron is M ayor of Thomaston and Co uncilme n a re Lewis Perkins, M ayor pro tern. ; J ohn R. H aynes, LaF ayette Sho rt; Pete Vining a nd W . A. Huckabee, Jr. Walter Pri ce is Ci ty C lerk ; Fire Ch ief, C . \!I/. M cDaniel ; Police Chief, J oe Ab Boyt. A. O . T eal is chairman of th e Silvertown Commission, and R obert Adams is chairman of th e East Thomaston Commission. Alton H a rvey is Postm aster of Thomasto n. One is im pressed by th e handsome brick, three-story Upson courthouse occupying a whol e square in Thomaston. It has four columns at th e four entrances, an d eac h side h as the a ppear- G EO R G IA DE PAR TM ENT O F COM M F:RCE 6 NEWSLETTER March 10, 1954 Martha M ills in Silvertown, one of the Tri-Cities. ance of being th e m ain entr ance. The groun ds a re ad orned with beautiful shrubbery an d flowers. Five m arkers a re also on th e la wn. One honors th e Confederate soldi ers; on e bear s th e "first cannonball fir ed at F ort Sum ter, S. C. on April 12, 1861," m arking th e beginning of th e War Between the Sta tes ; one bear s th e nam es of U pson Co unty World War II casualti es; on e honors Gen . J ohn B. Gordon, a native of Upson County, Co nfede ra te gen eral, U. S. Senator and Governor of Georgia; and one is a regional Woodmen of th e ' '\Torld m em ori al "h onoring de- ceased members wh ose graves cou ld not be m a rked" . Frank Binford is president of th e active Thomaston and Upson Coun ty Cham ber of Commer ce ; W. N . Miner is executive director of th e body organized in 1947, and secr eta ry to th e director is Mrs. R . F. Johnson. This Chamber spo nsored th e orga nization of th e "Wes t Cent ral Georgia Development Associati on" , composed of eigh t counties : Upson, M eriwether , Pike, Lam ar , Monroe, Talbot, Taylor and Crawford . The main purpose of th e org anization is to " create throu ghou t th e 'Wes t Central Georgia' a rea a desire for communitie s to wo rk together for th e economi c development of th e a rea and the welfare of its p eopl e." J. H. Wo odall, Sr. , of Wood land, is cha irman of th e group ; C yru s N euner, of Barnesville, is first vice ch airman ; R . L. Swearingen, of R eyn old s, second vice cha irma n, and Mr. Miner, secr eta rv an d treas ur er. The Thomaston Publishin g Co. , is- sues two papers. T he 86-year old Th om aston T imes is ed ited by J. B. H ardy of th e well-kn own I-Iardv newspaper family in Geor gia. The Th omaston Free Press is edited bv L eon Smith, who was cha irma n of th e 1954 Pr ess Institute just held in Athens. Shed J. Ca rswell is general manager . M r. Sm ith has a column in the F ree Press, and Olin Mill er is columnist fo r the Times. The two pap er s occupy a mod ern pl ant. The Central of Geor gia railroa d ex tends from Thom ast on to Barnesville and th e Sou thern railroad skirts th e coun ty on the cast. U . S. Highw ay No . 19 tr averses th e coun tv, also Sta te No. 3 ; 74 and 36, whil e U. S. 80 a nd St ate 22 skir ts th e lower section of th e coun ty. Thom aston M ot 0 r H otel , Pea ch Court a nd th e Gen er al Gordon Motel, as well as H ot el Upson serve tou rists a nd othe rs . Industry T he hum of ma chinery and th e pl ant whi stle have long been famili ar sounds in Thomaston. T he pioneer industry is Thomaston Mill s. It was org a n ized in 1899, a nd has oper ated con tinuously since ; the firm now h as th ree pl an ts in T homaston a nd one in G riff in. It bega n 55 yea rs ag o with 5,000 sp indles a nd 150 loom s. Now it op era tes a bou t 130,000 spindles a nd 1,850 looms, and consumes mor e th an 60,000 bales of cotton an nu ally. The firm manufactures a wid e variety of textile p roduct s, in cluding shee ts a nd pill owcases, and also ope ra tes a blcach cry and finishin g pl ant. This firm h as alwa ys been op er ated by the H igh tower fam ily, and Julian T . H ightower IS president of Thom aston Mills now . Janua ry 1, 1929 was an important dav in T homa ston. That was th e d at e th~ B. F. Goo drich Co., of Akro n, Ohio, pur cha sed the local M ar th a Mill s a nd began th e man ufacture of cord for use in th e man ufacture of au tomobile tires. This firm now ope ra tes 128,000 spi ndles a nd occupies 9 11,000 squa re feet of floor space under one roof. In addition to tir e cord, th e firm manufactures industri al fabrics, bolt du ck a nd fire-h ose Yarn s. S. ' '\T. H emstead is general ma nager of M artha Mill s. T exti le mills in Upso n County ra nk 16th in th e sta te in industrial p a yroll s. W. O . Britt, Jr., opera tes th e Bri tt Mf g. Co., a t T ho mas to n, a nd emp loys fr om 50 to 55 p eopl e m anufacturing veneer, wir ebound box clca tcs, and he also ope rates a sawm ill. The firm mov ed in to a m odern, new pl ant in 1953. Other ma nufacturing P I a n t s a t Thomaston include p laning a nd saw mills, lu mber pl ants, ready mi xed concrete and conc rete blo ck m anufacturing plant, a flour and gris t mi ll, ice a nd bottling pl ants, an a wning a nd venetia n blind pla nt , a freezer locker, a sausage and meat processing .pl ant. The U pson County H ospital, built at a cost of $ 1,250,000 under th e HillBurton p lan , has 100 beds. Cris Neubert is administra tor, and it is operated under direction of a hospital au tho rity. A $34,000 St ate Patrol Ba rracks is being erec ted in Silver town on a tract donated for the purpo se by M artha Mills division of B. 'F . Goo d rich Co. The 12-r oom sta tion is being constructed by th e county commissione rs with county fund s. Yatesville Honor Yatesville, population 300, in eastern U pson Cou n ty, A. S. M it ch ell, M ayor , was awa rde d a " Ce rtifica te of Achievement" by th e Georgia Power Co., in th e 1953 Champion Home-town con test. The town h as en tered the 1954 co n te st. U pson Coun ty is hon ey-comb ed with chu rches, a nd man y den omination s ar e represen ted in the coun ty. T he Ki wan is, Li on s a nd Junior Ch amb er of Com merce arc acti ve in Thom aston and it s a rea , as arc several women 's organiza tions. The Thomaston T elephon e Co . h as recently inst alled a dial system, a nd th e compa ny also serves Yatesville. Two banks ar e located in Thom aston: th e C&S a nd The Bank of Upson . 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 1;>'56 L '0 L H ::J~'v'~ :c o . , .~ OJ . , C : ', ' ::: U " l.j 1 If !~ 1 ::: Jn ~ l U n aql n ..r ,~ 1 ::: .; u .\1 ll 0 tLL [~[ 'oN l!lUl;:)d 'uo 'uluullV PlPd 3.DVJ..SOd 'sn ' lI ~' T d ggtf: ':);lS ~ ' [ 1.77 1/ ' VIEJ~03EJ 'E V.LNV.,.LV 'C..LldV:::J 3..LV..LS CC I 3::J~3lAllAlO::J ..:10 .lN3lAl.l~'v'd3a 'v'm~038 Bacon County (Continued fr om Page 5) cilities at th e lak e. Alm a will esta blish a wayside park on U. S. Hi ghway N o. 1. It will provide a place for motorists to stop and rest an d sp rea d pi cni c lunch es. Two acres of land were offered for th e pa rk by th e late Mrs. .J. A. Cockm an ; th e L ions Club h ad h elp ed in th e p roj ect, a nd th e Credit-Trad e Bur eau of Alma, Inc., an d th e Sta te Hi ghway W ayside Park Commission will combine in its constru ction and m aintenance. Alm a's civic clubs incl ude th e Lions C lub, th e V eterans of F oreign W ars, wh ich h as contribute d $5,000 tow ards a schoo l band and now is p rom oting a sta dium, and th e Am erican Legion . The AIm a D evelopment Co unci l, made up of rep resenta tives from all civic organizations, is du e a great deal of cre dit for th eir active interest and participation in civic affa irs. It spo nsors Alm a in th e C hampion H om e T own Co ntest each yea r. R epresentative Braswell Dee n, J r., is pres ide nt of th e AD C . R ecentl y it esta blishe d a subsidiary, th e Bacon County Industri al Cor poration to h elp p romo te new and diversified industry for Alma. Since Alma h as really pulled it self up by th e boot str aps in th e pas t few years, and is so alert civica lly, Alma is ju st th e kind of town th at ind ustry wa nts to move to. The C redit-Trad e Bur eau of Alm a, I nc., h as R alph Gresham as its president. This is an extremely impo rta nt gro up in th e commercial life of Alm a . T o show th e im po rta nce of Alm a as a trad e cen tel', it is well to note th at 5 1 new business conce rns ope ned th er e last year. The retail sales of th e town are hi gh , drawing comme rcia l trad e fr om mil es a ro un d. The two ban ks in Alma have over a total of three milli on dollars in assets. Tran sportation-wise, besid es th e all- imp ortant U. S. Highw ay No.1 , th e Atl antic C o a s t Line R ailroad goes th rou gh Alm a and h as severa l other sta tions in th e coun ty, and bu s serv ice is availabl e by Greyho und. Alma is th e site of an emergency int erm edi at e airpo rt and wea the r station, and owns $6,367 worth of mobil e comm unicatio ns eq uipment in case of a n eme rgency . Agriculture Agriculture in Baco n Co unty centers ar ound tobacco and livestock. Alm a h as its own tobacco wareho use, an d a second one is pl anned for th e near futu re. In 1953, 4,274,9 16 pounds of tobacco were sold for $2, 137,485 . Bacon County now has over 500 registered cows and over 200 registered bulls. Three abbatoirs serve th e a rea, and livestock sales m ean $8,000 weekly to th e coun ty. Each year th e Alm a Li ons Club sponsors a C attle Show and Sa le . Poultry is becoming incr easingly im p ort ant to Bacon Co unty fa rmers. Last year $85,000 was realized from po ultry. Now 85,000 to 90,00 0 broilers a re produ ced every fou r m onths in th e area, and po ult ry ra ising is fast becomin g even m ore popula r. Bacon County Officers Officers serving Alm a and Bacon County include : O rdinar y, Paul H ayden ; C lerk of Co ur t, R oy T. Boatwright; She riff, L. W . Wildes; T reas- ur er, J. J. J ones ; T ax Collecto r, Berry Ald ridge ; T ax R eceiver, B. M . Cros by ; Co unty Schoo l Sup t., D . M . D . T yre ; Survey or, Ralph Spivey; Co rone r, B. A. Bishop ; County Commissione rs are: R . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 B. Vi ckers, Chrm. ; M iss In ez Pea rson, Cler k; and J. W . Co the rn, J. S. Mil es, E. L. Sears, L ewis B. Carter, W. B. D owd y, J. B. Brigman and J. Curtis Larmer. County F arm Agent is H ar vey W . J ohn son. Estell T aylor is Fir e Chief of Alm a, an d Glenn Courso n is Police Chief. M ayor of Alm a is Gerard Jones. M ember of th e L egislature is Braswell D een, Jr. County Attorn ey is T. J. T own sen d ; J udge of th e Waycross Ci rcu it which serves Alma is Walter Thom as, and Solicito r Gen eral is J. R . Walker. Garden Tours Ida Cason Gardens..M a rch, April, M ay Savannah ........ .. M a rch 11-12 Albany ................... M a rch 14 Columbus .. M ar ch 20-21 Augusta ............. M arch 27-28 Rome ......... ... April 2 Atlanta ......... . April 3-4 Macon ...... ...... April 8-9 Ports (Continued fr om Page 3) th orit y moved it s offices fr om th e form er Southeas tern Sh ipyar ds, w h er e th ey were located for five years, to uptown offices at 130 East Bay street, whe re attractive offices are now loca ted. D. Leon Willi am s, exec utive director of th e Georgia Ports Authority, says th e outlook for 1954 is "h ighly fa vorable for th e sta te-owned docks and wareh ouse oper ati ons. H e assert s that with th e addition of new h andling equip m ent a t th e docks-including two 35ton gantry cranes-an d a new fumi gating plant, th e Sta te facilit y is prepared to offer serv ices eq ua l to an y port on th e Atl antic coas t." , DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEU[ E - NEWSLETTER 1954 'N E WSLET T ER NEWSLEITER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman Lonnie A. Pope, V. Chm. Y. F. Ge eslin Ben Jessup Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Secretary Vol. 5, No. 12 Ma rc h 25 , 1954 "The Greene r Fields Of Georgia". One of the gre a test boosts ever given the sta te of Georgia is con ta ined in the March issue of th e N ation al Georgra p hic M agazine. Entitl ed , "T he Greener Fi eld s of Georgia," th e 44 page lon g a r ticle is bea utifully illu stra ted wit h 4 I p hotographs- 31 of them in color. The well-writt en a r ticl e is by H owell W alk er ; th e pho tog ra p hs arc by th e a u tho r a nd B. An tho ny St ewart. T he h istory of th e sta te is mi ngled with th e progr ess in recen t years: " Georgia, th e Empire Sta te of th e Sou th, docs not and will not fo rge t its pa st. . . Yet an exube ra nce, exciting as spring a n ima tes th e St at e tod ay. . . Ever ywh ere fresh in du str ies bur geon like . th e Georgia-develop ed wonder g rass for g razing ." COVER PICTURE A ra ce comes to a finish a t L a ke Allat oona . H er e, some of th e V-Fl yers dose in on th e end of th e course. Not only h as sa iling, but motorb oating an d water skiing , too, have becom e choice p asti mes with Georgian s. In add it ion to th e health and pl easure these act ivities prod uce, industry a nd com me rce ben efits. Sever al boat man ufa ct ur ers have esta blished within the sta te, and numer ous commercia l concern s sell supplies to com ply with the needs of wat er enthusiasts. See page 3 for more abo u t Georgia's water recr ea t ion a rea s. - Photo By Ca rolyn Carter. L,;a r Ol)'n Ca r te r H er e a famil y swee ps th c su rface in th eir c raft. M ot orboating is an ext re mely popula r spo r t at C la rk Hill , L ak e S in clai r and L ak c Alla toona , Atla nt a : Southern Sociologica l Societ y M eeting, Bilt mo re H otel, M arch 2527. A thens: St a te Pla nn ing Institu te, University of G eor gia, M arch 26. Macon: G eor gia St ate H om e E eonom i c s Association Confer en ce, D empsey H otel , M ar ch 26-27 . A tla n ta : 2nd Annual Conf er en ee on th e Treatment of th e Soeial O ffender, At lanta Division, U niversity of Geor gia, March 26. At he ns: M un icip a l M a na gers I nstitute, U niversity of Geor gia , April 1-2. Macon: M acon H ome Show, Muni cipal Auditoriu m, April 1-5. Atla nta: All Sout hern H ot el Ex position , Biltm o re H otel, Apri l 1-3. Atla nt a: Southeast ern H ospit a l Conference , Biltmore H otel , April 1-3. Atla nta: Chamber s of Commer ce St aff C lini c, Piedm ont H otel, Ap ri l 3. O cilla: F a t C attle Show a nd Sa le, April5. Albany: F ed erat ed Women' s Clubs conferenc e, R adium Springs Inn, April 5-7. C lax ton : F at Cattle Show and Sale, Apri l 7. Atl a nta : H osp ital Con vention , Biltmor e H otel, April 7-9. Macon : G a rden C 1u b s of Geor gia Spring F lower Show, Central City Pa rk , April 8-10 . Va ldosta : Fat Cattle Show a nd Sa le, Apri l 8. A tla n ta : Socictv for th e Advan cement of M a nagement, Georgia Chapter, Studen t C ha p ter M eeti ng, At lanta At h let ic C lub , April 8. Athens: C hamber Music Festival, U n ivers ity of Georgia, Ap ril 8-9. Aug usta : M asters Golf T ou rn ament , Au gu st a N a tion al Golf Cours e, Ap ril 8- 11. Col um bus: Geor gia Societ y of M ed ical T echnologists M eet ing, R alston H otel, April 9- 11. Lyons: 'F a t Ca tt le Show a nd Sale, Ap ril 9. Sava nna h : Georgia Public H ealth Associa tion Con vention, H ot el D eSoto, April 11- 14. Thomaston: F at Cat tle Show a nd Sale, April 13. Atl anta : Georg ia Bankers Associa tion M eet ing, Bilt more H ot el, April 1315. Sylvania : F at Ca ttle Show a nd Sale, April 14- I5. A tla nta : Southern Societ y of Philosop hy a nd Psychology M eet ing, Biltmore H otel, Ap ril 15-1 7. Alba ny : R o t a I' Y Confer en ce, West Georgia District, R ad ium Sp rings Inn, Ap ri l 18-20. Sav annah : 40t h Annua l Co nvention of Coun tv Comm ission ers of Georgia, H ot d DeSoto, April 19-2 0. Macon : Georgia I nd epend en t O ilmen'S Association Confer en ce, Dem psey Ho tel, Ap ri l 22-23. GEO RGIA DE PAR T M ENT O F COM M ER CE 2 NEWSLET T ER M ar ch 25, 1954 Georgia Families Migrate to Lakes and Coast For Sailing, Motorboating, Swimming, Fishing With th e development of several new lak es in Georg ia, and th e continued popularity of th e ocea n and coasta l wat erwa vs for outdoor fun. th e sta te is rapid ly becoming kn owl~ for its fin e wat er recrea tion faciliti es. Lak e Sin clair above M illedgeville, Clark JE ll L ake ncar Augusta and All atoona Lak e ncar Carter sville a rc th e lar gest recently developed region s. Sailing a t Sav annah has long been a favor itc p ast ime, as at Bru nswick an d the Go lden Isles. Of cou rse, fishing h as lured Geor gia ns to a ll the riv ers, creeks, ponds a nd la kes as well as th e ocean since the founding of t he colony. The new t wist is th e acceler at ed pa ce of in terest in sa iling, motorb oating an d wat er skiing- a n d th e incr eased ac tivity in fishing, swimm ing, picni ckin g a nd ca mping at all of Georgia' s lakes. Lake Sinclair La ke Sinclair had it s first seaso n last su mm er. A Georgia Power Company in stall ation , it mean s a gr ea t deal to Middle Georgian s' recr eation . Ther e a rc tw o docks and two public boat hou ses. M ost of th e boating on th e la ke is mot orb oating. There a re three club s organ ized th er e, one cen tering in M a con , ano ther in Sparta, a nd on e in Mi lled geville. The ra ces last sum mer drew large crowds- up to 2,000 peop le wa tched and participated . Wi th th e p ro minence of m otorboating at Lak e Sincl air, th ere is also a good dea l of wa ter -skiing also. Ther e is some fish ing a nd swim ming too, the picni c fa cilities ar e avai lable, as well as ove rn igh t acco mmoda tions for abou t 70 peop le around th e lak e. Clark Hill Lake C la rk Hill D am and R eservoir is another popular spot for water-lured Georgi a ns. Last yea r a total of 733 boat permi ts were issued th er e to owners of va rious cla sses of craft. O u tboa rd mot orboat s a re bv fa r the most popu lar type of boa t 'used to d at e: 59S of th e tot al group registered in 1953 were of thi s classificati on . The lak e, 70,000 ac res la rge, with O\"Cr 1100 miles of sho reline, is a faverite with swimme rs and fishing enthusiasts, hu n ters, camp ers and pi cnickers. T her e a rc 11 p icni c a reas with tabl es and fir epl aces; some have shelte rs. There a rc four concessions for ren tin g boat s, and eac h h as a restaurant. There ar e overn igh t accommoda tions nea r the la ke. as well as in th e neighboring town s a ~d in th e hot els available in Augu sta . Last vear's estima ted a ttendance at the l a k e~ goes something like th is: 21,000 hunted in th e area, 312,000 p icnicked, 5,300 sailed, over a h alf mi llion fished, 100,000 enjoyed mo torboati ng, a nd th ere were 250,000 sightseers. Obviously, C lark Hill affords much ple asur e to ma ny peop le. A master plan to guide th e developmen ts of mo re facilities a nd pub lic and pr ivat e usc of th e la nds around the la ke has been prep ar ed, and develop ments will be mad e gra dua lly as the use pattern is dem on strated. The Corps of En gineers, U . S. Army, manages a nd operates th e C lark H ill R eservoir, provid es public acce ss, and perm its others to make pl anned develop ments for recreation al usc at t he lak e. Lake Allatoona A repo rt as of J a nua ry 1, lists 9 18 cra ft register ed at Lake Allat oon a. O f these, 416 ar e sailboa ts ; 435 ar e out- board motorboa ts ; 317 a re ou tboa rds. Twentv ca noes are also listed . The classes ' of sailboa ts incl ud ed in th e registr at ion at Allatoon a are Y-F lyers, Pen gu ins, Snipes, Thistles, Vikings and Pr am s. Three boating clubs have their base a t Allat oona : The Allatoona Ya cht Club, the At lan ta Boat Club an d th e Atlanta Yacht C lub. The la tter is ma de lip of some 200 members, mostly sailboa t enthusiasts. T he clubs orga n ized for sailing a t Allatoon a have ra ces and regat tas , since some of t he finest fleets of their cla sses ar e loca ted h ere. The me mb ers of these club s seem to feel th at there's a lot mor e to sailing an d boating than j ust owni ng a boat a nd using it occasionally. Getting tog ether with themselves a nd with othe r sailing or ganization s in th e cou ntry for races, promoting competition in skill and judgme n t in runn ing a good course th e best way, is a spec ial adde d pleasur e to boa tin g. Allatoon a, anothe r Army Corps of En gineers p roj ect, is also equ ipped with tent and trailer camps, conces sion s for rent ing boats and dockage, (Contin ued on Page 4 ) John Zimmerman, Ti me M a gazine Skimm ing along with a goo d win d on one of Ge orgia's new lak es. G EO RG TA DE PART M ENT O F CO M M ERC E NEWSLETTER M a rch 25, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE Of PROGRESS Senoia Industry SENO I A, Coweta Co un ty, is the new home of J. Ben Shapiro Co mpany, pants m anufacturer. The conce rn, with Eddie Ernst as - man ager, will emplo y nearly 100 peop le in th e manufa cturing ope ra tions. T he com pany h as leased th e Fi sch er M emorial buildin g there wh ich con ta ins 7,200 square feet of floor spac e. - 0- New Tourist Court n. E . Pelh am of E L L A V I L LE will open a new tourist cour t and restaurant th ere lat e thi s spring . The court will con ta in six units a nd necessary offices. The faciliti es will be called th e Donna Lynn M otor Co ur t, and will be located on U . S. Hi gh way 19, Sta te R out e No. 26. -0-- Cordele Company A new firm has loca ted in CO R DELE, named the Crisp County Cabinet and Millworks. O perated by Earl Wh ite, th e company will make custom kitch en cabine ts, sinks a nd work tables, windows a nd door s. Fred Barrow is in cha rge of th e woodworking sho p . -0-- Sausage Plant Expands Ashmore Sausage Company, C H Alvl RLEE , ha s expa nde d its plant to nearly 100,000 squa re feet in worki ng a nd storage area . T his enla rgement of th e conce rn 's faci lities enables the produ ction of produ cts to be mo re th an doubled. The plant mak es all-po rk sau sage, skinless wein ers ancl bologna . C ha rles Ashm or e, J r., is general m anage r of th e com pa ny. -0-- New Millen Plant A woodw orking plant for th e manu facture of woo den handles for str iking tools an d farm imp lem ents will soon be under way a t jHI L LEN. Wade Woods is head of th e operation. H a rd wood s, pa rticul arly h ickory and ash will be used for th e h andles. Approximately 15 peopl e will be emp loyed in th e plant, and about 30 in cutt ing a nd deliverin g lumber to th e plant. -0-- Atlanta Boat Works A new man ufact urin g plan t a nd showroom have been open ed by th e Atla nta Boat Works in A T L ANT A . Plan t faci lit ies hav e been doubled to include 12,000 squ a re feet of space. Claude T urn er is presiden t of th e com pany whi ch m akes Aristo-C raft Boat s. Cartersville Corporation A new conce rn h as been established in C A R T E RSVIL L E, the C a rtersville U nde rga rme n t Cor por ation. The in du stry will employ over 50 p ersons in th e manufac ture of ladies' underwea r. A building is under constr uction which will h ave a bou t 11,500 square feet of floor space, and prod uction is expected to begin in mi d-summer. TO OUR READERS lV e ask yo ur coope ratio n in correcting our m ailing list and bring- ing it u p to d at e. W ill yo u no tify us if yo u r add ress ha s change d . . . . So me readers have requested tw o or m ore co pi es of each issue for use in t hei r bu sin ess conce rns : if J'ou are receiving more copies t han are bein g read, w ill you let us kn ow to t hat ef fec t. I n notiiying us of a change of address or d uplication of u nused copies. please be sure to include yo ur old addr ess as we ll as Jlour pres ent one , Please w rite to t he N E W S L ETTER , G eorg ia D epartm en t of C om m erce, 100 S tate Capitol, A tla nta 3, G eorg ia. Griffin Selected For Manufacture Stowe - Woodward, I nc., of M assachuse tts, has chosen G R I FFIN as the site of a bran ch plant. The compa ny, manufacturers of specialized rubber p rodu cts particu larly for th e paper and text ile industri es, h as pl an s under way for a new 25,000 square foot building. The conce rn's products incl ud e ru bber covered rolls for pap er, textil e fin ish ing, tanning an d othe r industries, deckle straps and billiard cush ions and bowling ba lls. E. W , Peterson is president of the firm whic h will employ some 30 peopl e. - 0-- Large Motel A new motel has been opened in S A V A NNA H . The Alamo Plaza, conta in ing 42 units. is m an aged by Robert O . Smith. Each un it of th e m otel is air-conditioned ; whil e th e majority of th e units are single rooms, some are fami ly un its with kit ch en ett es. Po rt ers, mai d service, cler ks and room tel epho ne service are all available. The Alamo Plaza is locat ed on U. S. R outes 80 and 17, Sta te Route 21. GEORGIA DEPARDvIENT OF COMMERCE 4 Eastman Garment Plant A new industr y will soon loca te in E AST M AN whi ch will be called th e Eastman M anufacturing Com p an y . The plant will be locat ed in a $60,000 bui ldin g now under construc tion at Eastm an . The industry will be a subsid iary of a conce rn in New York whic h ma nufactur es snowsuits, pajam as and j a c kets . Water Recreation (Continued fro m Page 3 ) fish ing a nd motorboat supplies, as well as ca bins for overnight visitors and eating places. Thousands also swim and fish at Allatoona. There ar e 10,550 ac res of lak e in th e 38,000 acres of a rea. This includes also R ed T op M ou nt ain P a rk, and a Negro park called George Washin gton Ca rver Pa rk. Brunswick On th e coast a t Brunswick and the Gold en Isles th er e is mu ch swimming, fishing, sailing and mot orboating, some with wa ter-skiing . There a re publi c and pr ivate fa cilit ies av aila ble for th ese spo rts, a nd fr esh-water fishing camps a re in th e area. Deep -sea fishing is a no ther favorite sport herefor ba racuda, ta rp on and other game fish. O n the fourth of July th ere is always a ver y popular mot orb oat race. Brunswick and th e Go lden Isles have long been a choice recreation locality in the hea rt s of Geor gian s who h ave affinity for wa ter. Savannah Historic Savann ah , located on the bank of th e Savannah River, sur rounded by an en tanglemen t of smaller rivers a nd wat erwa ys, is by tradition a city well acq ua inted wit h th e ways of watercraft. Whe ther it be giant ocea n -going vessels disch a rgin g th eir cargoes a t the docks or the sma ller pl ea sur e craft skimm ing thro ug h th e estuaries, Savanna h is a hub of year-ro und waterborne ac tivity. Ther e arc a number of boating clubs through out th e a rea , a nd last yea r Sava nnah was th e scene of th e Southea stern Di stri ct Li ghtning Cl ass Sailing Champion ships. Along the waterways are nu merous la ndings an d fishing ca mps whe re out board motors ancl boats may be ren ted. And th ere ar e ample faci lities for repai rs, ser vice and do ckin g along the main rou te of the Inland Water way. NEWSLETT~R March 25, 1954 Balanced Industry and Agriculture Prosper Americus and Sumter County Sumter County in Southwest Georcia is a good illu st ration of the state' s ba la nce of industry and agricultureworking tog ether th ey provide a sound economic bas is for th e ar ea and sup ply diversified typ es of occupations for th e populat ion of abo ut 24,000 . T her e a re 35 in du st ries in Am eri cus, th e coun ty seat. These, for th e most pa rt , process something produced in the area agricu lturally. The lumber mills, th e m eat-processing p lants, and the p eanu t and cott on processors, ar e exa mples of this. The cou n ty is blessed with on e of the finest soils in t he nation. On the other h and, there are several conce rns manufa cturing a variet y of products, from shirts to insecticides, students in aircraft and auto mechanics, electri city, electro nics, etc. Of spe cia l pride to Sumter County citizens is the recreation cen ter and City-County program carried on with a fu ll-time director. The cen ter is en joyed by many en th usiastic m en, women and ch ild ren. A track and a ba seba ll field ar e both ava ilab le there. The Andersonville N ational Cem eter y and Park is a place of particular historic interest in Sumter Co unty. It is north of Am eri cus, and close to th e border of Macon County. Buried th ere ar e over 13,000 U nion soldiers who died at th e wartime prison near the spot from F ebruary 1864 to O ctob er 1865. known for th e Windsor Hotel, a longtim e winter host elr y, as well as three motor courts, th e Canty, th e Kings, and th e Am eri cus Motel. Am eri cus was given a n a wa rd for its progr ess in th e 1950 Ch ampion Home Town Contest, and a community ca lled New Era, ju st north of Americus won a n awa rd recently in th e Chattahooch ee Vallev Contest. Other cen te rs in Sumter County besides Americus, Ander sonville and N ew Era are L eslie, Pl ain s and D eSoto. The daily newsp ap er in the coun ty is th e Americus Tim es-R ecorder, edited and published by J ames R. Blair. An other important communica tions medium is R adi o St ation ' ''' D EC, m an aged by Charles Smith. County Officers Officials serving Sumter County include: Ordinary, R . T. Hawkins; C lerk of Court, S. R . H eys; Sh eriff, J ack MeArthur ; Treasurer, Will DuPree ; Tax from terry cloth to bottling soft drin ks. The largest emp loyers include Day- ton V en eer and Lumber Company, with 300 employees; Jacobs L umber Compan y, emp loying about th e same number; Manhattan Shirt Compan y, with 700 on th e payro ll; McCleskey Mi lls, cotton and peanut pro cessors, employing from 40 to 140 accord ing to season, whi le Sh ivers Lumber Com pany has 150 employees. An 0 th e r imp a r t an t conce rn in Am eri cus is th e Georgia-Alabama D I- vision H eadquarter s of th e Seab oard Railroad . Two hundred people are emp loye d th ere at th e sho ps and refu el- ing station for rep airing and refu elin g deisels. Agri culture in Sumter County is based on livesto ck anel peanuts , pecans. cotton and sm all gra in. Sumter is well Ch a rles A. Meyer known for it s high level of grain pro- One of Americus' own busin ess concerns b oosts its h om e tow n . du ction, an d th e livestock auc tion facilities a re th e fourth la rgest in the sta te . The in com e realized from th e sale of livestock th er e in 1953 went over $2,400,000 . Features and Civic Life Am eri cus is th e site of Georgia Southwestern Co llege, a branch of th e University System . It is a popular J unior Co llege offering a variet y of cou rses. Last fall a nurses' training program was inst itu ted her e in con junction with the fine 130-b eel ho spital recently comp leted in Am eri cus under th e Hi ll-Burton plan. The South Georgia Trade an d V oca tion al Sch ool is anoth er ed uc a tion al advan tage of Am eri cus. It provides cour ses in practical fields-trainin g As for utiliti es in th e coun ty : water is provieled through a rtesia n wells; the Georgia Pow er Company supplies electricity, an d Sou thern Bell T elephone Co., serv es with th e di al syst em. Sumter County is the site of the old est airstrip in th e state; it has a long runway whi ch has ju st been reworked. A number of civic clubs meet regu larl y in Am eri cus : T he Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitans, Jaycees, Pi lot Club, Junior Welf are League and th e Cham- ber of Commer ce, of whic h J. P. L u- th er is manager. Both Boy and Girl Scouts a re sponsored through these or ga niza tions, as well as aid to th e color ed hospital and many ot her sound and helpful projects. As for tourist fa ciliti es, Am eri cus is Collector a nd R eceiver , T. H . Gatewood ; County Schoo l Superintendent , W. VV. Foy; Surveyor , K endall Wooten; Coroner, Robert We lls; Co unty Farm Agent, Robert Garner ; Home D emonstration Agent, Mis s Martha Cobb. Sumter Co unty Commissioners in - clud e George Matthews as C hairman , H . P. Jon es as Vi ce-Chairman, and J. A. Cook , Wi lliam B. M erritt anel Rufus Chappell. Judge on th e Southwestern Ci rcuit serv ing Sumter County is C leveland Re ese; Solicitor Gen er al is Ch a rles Bur gamy. Judge J. W . Smith serve s th e Am eri- cus City Court, with Cl aud e M orri s as Solicitor-G en eral. 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE N E W SL ETTE R M a rch 25, J 954 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS BR UN SWI CK: Dixi e Pa int & V arnish Co., pa in t, $74,5 15. ATLA NTA : Am eri can C an Co m pany, coffee ca ns, $37,94 1. DAWS ON : C inderella Foods, pea nut butter , (two contrac ts) $322,137. A T L A.1I/T A : Atlan ta Pap er Co ., fiberboard sh eets, $44,935. GR I FFIN : Pom on a Pr odu ct s C o., p im ien tos, $ 13,255. CO L UM BUS : Georgia W ebb in g & Tape Co., webb in g cotton, $ 109,970. SAVANNA H: Sav a nnah Machin e & F oundry Co. , shi p rep airs, $55,589. A T L ANTA: E lectric Storage Battery Co., batteri es, $ 12, 145. M A CO N : Bearings & Drives, In c., stone a nd shell assem blies, $21,754. A T L ANTA: G ulf O il Corp ., kerosen e and gasoline , $ 10,664. HAMPTON : So uthern States Equipm en t Co ., disconnecting switche s, .~ 1 2 , 9 4 3 . Z EB UL ON : Besco Product s Co ., pim ien tos, $14,373. SA V A NNA H : Sa va nnah Suga r R efining Co rp ., suga r, $58 ,897. A T LANTA : L eeds a nd No rth rup C o., sulphur dioxid e ga s analyzer and recor de r, $17,0 10. EAST POINT: W illiam Arm stro ng Sm ith C o., pa int , $10,92 1. MAR I ETTA : L 0 c k h e e d Ai rcr aft Co rp., (2 cont rac ts) rep ai rs and engine cha nges , .$4,759,608. R OSS VILL E : Bro ck & Blevin s C o., In c., constr uction of scrap m eta l handling fa cilit ies, $327,000. A T LANT A : Am erican Fi rep roofin g Co., Inc., m orta r m at erial s, $ 154,924. WA Y CR OSS : W aycross M a c h i n c Sho p, pra ct ice bomb s, $537,600. SAVANNA H: Span-J ero me Co ntractors, construction of orga niza tional storage bu ild in gs, $ 109,347. A UG USTA : So uthern C onstruc tion Co., I nc., construc tion of bui ld in gs and utilities, $933,688. BA I NBR I D GE : Mi ller H ydr o C o., auxilia ry d ct onating fusc hold ing rings, $62,942. A T L A N l' A : Rittenb aum Brot hers, wiping' cloths, $33,800. W EST POIN T : Bat son -C ook Co ., const ruction of armamen t an d electr on ics sh op, $3 16,592. ATLANTA : Za c Lac Pain t & L acqu er C orp., lacq uer, $71,274. I ES UP: Ed L. Power s C ontracting C o., const ruction of N G A F facilities, $ 186,202. ATLANTA : M cD o ugald Construction Co m pany, reconstructing trestles, $262,2 14 . A T L ANTA: Ge ne ra l Cable Corp ., in sula te d ca ble and fitti ngs, $ 10,OH . C OLUivl BUS : Construc tion of five a llpur pose wareh ouses, $24 1,55 7. A T LANTA: E . V . Camp Steel W or ks, (2 cont rac ts ) bombs and ancho rs, $60,998. A T LANTA : I M C Eq uip ment, Inc., ste el ch annel fr ami ng, $ 12,456. A T LA NTA : W alker Electrical Co. , Inc., (2 con tract s) fir e control switch boa rd s, rep air pa rts and inst ructions, $ 167,042. JA SPE R : J asper Lumber Co ., a nimo boxes, $83,650. M A C 0 N : R em ingt on-R and , I nc., guide ca rds, $ 10, 114. D ECAT UR : Peerl ess Pu mp D ivision , wa ter pumping units, $ 17,436. A UGUSTA : Aug usta L um ber C o., doors a nd window sash , $ 12,839. M A CON : Sta nda rd O il C o., gasoline and m ot or oil, $26,0 13. A T HENS : Big Ace Co rp ., shirt s, .$78000 . A U GUSTA : Coc a -Cola Bottling Co., Coca-Cola, $80,280. ATLANTA : Grinnell Co., I nc., fire protectio n equ ipme nt, $ 11,0 15. BR UN SWI CK : H ercu les Pow der Co industrial ch em icals, $44,79 1. ., SA V ANNA H: I sa ac D. H irsch. beer $ 16,821. ., V A L DOSTA: G idden & Vlilkes, I nc., gasoline , $30,5 10. A T L ANTA : Anderson C layton & Co., cotton, $228,280. WAYCR OSS: G eorgia R efrigera tion Service, air cond itio ning and installa- tion , $ 12,07 1. SAVANNA H : T he T exa s Compa ny mot or fu el gasoline, $2 1,795. " A T L ANT A : Genera l Eleva tor Co m- pan y, eleva tors, $49,785 . SA V ANNA H : Coca-Cola Bottlin g Co ., Coca-Cola , $ 14,440 . A UGUSTA : T he Texas Co., c/ o T he Boardman Oi l Co., gasoline, $30,000. A T L ANTA : Scripto, I nc., Scrip to p ens a nd refills, $20,669. S A V A N N A H : G ulf Oi l C o., diesel oil, $18, 183. A UG US TA : Pepsi C ola Bottling Co., Pepsi Co la , $80,280. A T L ANT A: Th e T e x a s C ompany, gasoline , $66,300. SA V A NNA H : Sta nda rd Oi l Co., gas, $46,5 15. ATLA NTA : Coo k & Co ., I nc., cotto n, $ 17,725. A Swimming Pool Is No Longer A Luxury Ba ck ya rds in Geor gia will t ak e on a new look thi s sum me r with the a id of plasti cs. A new corpora tion has rccen tlv been form ed in At lan ta for the cons t'ruct ion of swimm ing pools on privat e p rem ises. M cls.clvcy Co rbe tt Comp any excava te s, cons truc ts walls of m asona ry or lumber, a nd then lin es t he p roj ect wi th a tou gh p last ic liner, th e Bilnor lin er. T he p lastic poo l ca n be filled with a ga rde n hose and drain ed by a sump pum p or plumber' s drain, or a filt er ing system m ay be adap ted . Bilnor p ools can be bu ilt in sizes r ang ing from J2' X 27' u p to 20' X 40' . T he r e a re sloping dep th s from 3' to 8'. The p lastic is tou gh enough to resist str ess, ex tre me weather conditions an d involves a mini mum of upkeep . The a mazing ch a rac teristic abo ut this p lasti c swim m ing pool is it s econo - my- a nd soon throu ghout Geo rgia m any fami lics will be eq uip pe d with th eir own swimm ing fac ilities. Geor- gia's clima te is ju st r igh t for this type of p ool a nd a number of families th rou gh out va rious sectio ns of th e sta te have alrea d y contr a cted for ins ta l- lat ion. ' F un in a pla stic swimmin g po ol. G EO HG TA DEPAHTMENT O F COM M E R C E NEWSI,ETTER Ma rch 2:\ 10.'>1 Good Farming In Taylor County Basis For Humming Industry, Ciood Economy high schoo l building a t Butler to cost $800,000 , and R eynold s high schoo l will und erg~ a remod elin g program. New gym naSIUms han : been built at ha th Butler a nd Reynold s schoo ls. Taylor is a coun ty pred omina tely ag ricu ltural, yet sprin kled with industrv th at varies fro m textiles manufa c!U'red fro m cotto n to m ining of nati ve grist mill s are situated on these streams, several of wh ich have la rge lakes th at provide fine fishing, boat ing a nd gen {Tal recreati on spots. A number of g rammar schoo ls bo t h wh ite and colored, are foun d throu nhali t th e co unty, a nd N eg ro h igh schools a rc at Butler and R cvn o ld s, with nr-w bui ldings p la nned a t 'bo th schoo ls. sa nd , C reated in 1852, nam ed for Zach ary Taylor , U. S. Pr esid ent, it is 102 yea rs old . The land a rea is 256,000 ac res ; 214,:-1 92 acres a re in 1,044 farms. The chief farm pr oduct s a re cott on, pcpper , corn, gra in, pea ch es, p ecans and extensive ca t tle ra ising. Former row crop farms are now dotted with purc-. bred ca ttle g ra zing upon th e lush permanent pasures. Much lumber and pulpwood are produced in th e coun ty, and Au stin Guinn, R an ger of th e T a ylor County Forestry Unit, says th er e are 168,000 ac res in for ests in th e coun ty a nd th at during th e 1952-5 3 winter seaso n, 2,090,000 pines wer e set and 2,000 ,000 seedlings a rc bein g set in th e 1953-54 seaso n ju st ending. Mr. Guinn says T a ylor is one of th e leading reforestation counties in th e state, with a protecting un it. Besides lumber a nd pulpwood , th e pin es a lso yield nav al stores and th e Butl er N av al Stores Co., op er ates in th at field. Two sa nd com pa nies fun ction in th e coun ty- the R. L. Brown Sand Co. , a nd Brown Bros. Sa nd Co. , both a t H oward. Both op er at e severa l sa nd pits. The Georgia Co ating Clay C o., of Butler , produces cha lk and kaolin in th c coun ty. Suggs M a chine Shop at Butler is an adjunct of th e lumber industry as it provides logging (skidders) m achiner y. Taylor is said to be th e second egg producin g county in th e sta te . Three large h atcheries th at provid e eggs an d bab y chicks arc th e Peach V all ey Egg Fa rm , op er ated by Mrs. A. E. Guinn ; th e M cC ants Poultry 'F a rm & H atchery, Franklin M cC ants prop rieto r, both a t Butler, a nd Parr Poultry F a rm & H atchery, Mrs. E. F. Parr p ropr ietor, a t R eynold s. Three freez er -locke r pl ants in th e coun ty p rovide sto rage and refri geration for mea ts a nd othe r products gro wn in th e coun ty. Ther e is one eac h a t Butler , R eyn old s and Ruper t. Taylor ha s a n abunda n t water sup ply. It is bounded on th e north and cast by Flin t river , and cree ks that tr aver se th e county ar e Whitewater, Horse, Ced ar and' Patsiliga . M an y Bibb M anu factu ring Co ., wi th headqu a rt ers at Macon , ope ra tes a large textil e pl ant - T aylor's Mill - on Whitew ater C reek whi ch manufactu res threa d, cord a nd twine. Other plants in th e coun ty are: th e Butl er Lumber Co., p lan er and saw- mill; J. T. Co chran , Butler, ginne ry and fertilizer ; M elton V ault Co ., Buttler, vau lt s and blocks; Payn e Gin & W arehouse Co. , Butler ; J am es R . Wilson, Butler machine shop ; Hinton & Co ., a t R eyn old s, fertilizer ; Reynolds C on crete Pr oduct s Co.; F . A. Ri cks, R eynolds, ginne ry; Charlie R . Simmon s, R eynolds, gin; Thurman What- ley, R eyn old s, gin; J. R yan Coop er , a t Rupert, ceme n t blocks. Georgia Power Co ., provides elec tricity fo r th e area, a nd headquarters of th e Flint El ectric M ember ship Co rp., a rc hou sed in tw o modern buildings a t R eyn old s, th e REA co-op having mor e th an 9,000 consume r-custom er s, th e lin es ex tending from W arner R obin s on th e cas t to Fo rt Benning westward, S. J. T ankersley is superin - tend ent of th e co-op . The main office of th e Public Servi ce Telephon e Co., whi ch serves th e a rea, is a t R evn old s. Two banks a rc in th e coun ty . " w. H. V anLandingh am is pr esident of th e Citizen s St ate Bank at Butl er, and M rs. C . H. Neisler head s th e Citizen s St ate Bank a t R eyn old s. The county is well represen ted by Flint Elcctric Membership Corp. officc building at R eyn olds. Two r ailroad s, th e Central of Georgia and th e ACL serve th e coun ty , whil e paved road s criss-cross th e county in a fin e highway syste m . Hospitals in th e coun ty a rc th e M ontgomer y H ospital, a t Butler, operated by Dr. R . C. Montgom ery, a nd th e Sam s Hospital a t R eynold s, man aged by D r. F. H . Sa ms. Mrs. Laurette Co x is in charge of th e T aylor Co unty H ealth Ce nte r at Butler. Butler, with po pu la tio n in 1950 of 1,182, is th e coun ty sea t, th e tw o-stor y, br ick courthouse occ upying an entire sq ua re in th e city, ado rne d by a h andsome Confede ra te monument. Ther e a re tw o high schoo ls in th e coun ty . Butler High , h as D. S. Compton as princip al , and R eyn old s High , E . H . Joiner , principal. Plan s hav e been a pproved for a new churc hes. A non-denominational ca mp meeting is held annua lly a t Taylor Co un ty Campgrounds, and severa l denomination s have hou ses of wor ship th rou gh out th e cou nty . Reyn old s, with a population in 1950 of 906, has as it s M ayor, R . L . Swearinge n . M rs. Blan ch e Brunson is R eynold s Postm aster . a nd C. C. H obb s serv es at Butler. ' County offi cers are : Ordina ry, J . R. Lunsford ' C lerk J a rrell ; She riff , of C. JC. ouWrt~igThth;clmTaonx Co mmissioner, C . H . Ada ms; School Super intend ent, W. H . Elli ston ; Coro- ner, .J. D. Cooke ; C ommission ers, E. H . Bazemore, Chairman ; Walter W ainwright a nd L ewi s W atson. Farm Agent, V. R . R eddick ; L egislator, D. E. Byrd ; Sen ator, H . G. Cheek . (Continued on Pa ge 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE vS6L -sz H::H:f'9'~ 'un ' S U. o li i 'V B1 2 J o ~ ~ JO ~~lSJaAIU n : c l : r JG 11 ~~lSJ aAIU n aql 1'1 'oN l !WJ ;)d '"ED 'Uluu p V P!l?d 3D V.LSO d 's'n ''N'li''T d 99'+ ';);lS 'V'IEJ~03EJ ' 'V'.1.N'V".1.'V' 'O.LldV:J 3.LV.L5 00 l 3:J~3~~0:J ..:10 .1.N3~.1.~'9'd3a '9'18~03 8 HIGHLIGHTING OUK PKOGKESS Royston gets dial telephone system . . . Louisville in stalls a $56,000 sewage treatment p lant. .. Two housing projects completed at Blakely: 24 units for whites and 39 for negroes. . . Two new shopping cente rs are to be built at Co lumbus-one to cost $200,- 000 and another $3,500,000. . . J. D . J ewell, Inc., of Gainesville, a nnounces th e purchase of a froz en baker y goods manufacturing firm at Florenc e, Ala . Jackson Electric M embership Corp., an REA co-op, at J efferson has issued a 16-page p amphlet, "Northeast Geor gia Empire" to enco urage new in dustries to locate in the area ... Hotel D eSoto, Savannah, will be " 100 p er cen t air-conditioned on or befo re M ay 1, 1954," the management announce s... Lo ckheed Air craft Corp., Marietta, h as order s that will ca rry its produ ction into 1956.. . Mixon Milling Co. at Camilla, has under wayan extensive exp ansion progr am at it s p lant. Harmony Blue Granite Co. , a t E lberton, is rebui lding its recently burned-out unit with a new, mo dern 224-foot shed on a new site along the Seaboard railro ad . . . M acon Chamber of Commerce a nnounce s th at 60,000 convention del egates spent nearly onc million doll ars in th at city in 1953. . . A contrac t to build the pipelin e that will carry natural gas to Sparta has been let. . . N atural gas lines to Cochran have been completed, and M illen also will in stall natural ga s, as will E a t o n to n . McCaysville pl an s a 280,000-gallon a d ay water filtration p lant. . . The Shower D oor Co . of Am erica has built a new p lant at Atlanta.. . Savannah got its fir st television station recen tly wh en WTOC-TV went on the air... Crisp County Pow er Commissioners at Cordele, state that th e Raines substation has been put in to operation, providing new rural electric lines in th e ar ea. . . The Berrien County H ealth Center a t Nas hv ille h as been ded icated . T he Phoenix Oi l Co., of Augusta will become a terminal point for produ cts of the California Oi l Co... A n ew win g of 12 rooms for th e M innie G. Boswell Hospital at Greensboro is to be bui lt . . . T he new Polk County H ealth Center at Ce dartown wa s dedi cat ed on F eb . 4... A new tobacco war ehouse is under const ruc tion at Moultrie. . . Southern Bell T elephone Co., has construc ted a new bu ilding in J onesboro for Jonesboro and Fayetteville custome rs. Plantation Pipe Line has completed a $200 ,000 oil terminal on Miller Road, Columbus.. . Waynesboro's new radio sta tion is WBRO at 1310 on th e dial. . . .Griffin 's n ew million-gallon water tank has been put in operation. . . El Patio Tourist Co urt at Brunswick will add 10 new u nits at a cost of ap. proximately $30,000. Tifton op ens its $275,000 sewage disposal p lant.. . Mo ultrie p lans a large new au ditorium -a rmo ry to be fin an ced by feder al, state an d local funds with a sea ting capacity of 1,800-2 ,000 p eop le.. . Southern Gum Processing Co ., Savannah, has tak en over op eration of seve ral naval stores p lants in seven South Georgia cities.. . T he Valdost a a nd Lowndes County Hospital Authority announces p lans for construction of an offi ce bui lding at th e site GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE 8 of th e n ew hospit al, space to be available to doctor s and dentists of the a rea. T I' e utI e n C o u n t y Hospi tal has been dedi cated . . . A N ati on al Gu ard Armory to cost over $100,000 has been approved .to be bu ilt in Fort Yargo Park at Wmder. Cellophane Concern Brook s Paper Company, a subsidiary of a St. Louis firm of th e same nam e, has op en ed a plant in ATLAN TA. The conce rn conver ts cellophane for bu siness a nd industrial uses. Operations in th e Georgia p lant at fir st will be sheetin g, cutt ing and rewinding of DuPont cellophane such as pliofilm, ace ta te and polyethylen e. E. A. Woolwin e, J r., is h ead of th e firm . Taylor County (Continued fr om Page 7) E. L . H a rris is M a yor of Butler, and .J. D . Cook e is both fir e an d police ch ief. Butler and R eyn olds eac h h as a Li ons Club , a nd sever al Women' s organiza tions in each city a re activ e. Butler and R eyno lds participate in th e Better Home T own contests, and Crowell community in the county won first p lac e in 1953 Ch attahooche e V alley Farm Community Improvement contest sponsor ed by th e Georgia Power Co . The prize was $600 . The 78-year old Bu tl er H erald serves th e ar ea with a modern printing pl ant. Owner and editorial wri ter is Charl es E . Berms, Sr., former secre tary of the Geor gia Press Assn., an d who served 15 yea rs as Butler Postmaster. Charl es Berms, Jr., is managing editor, an d O. E . Cox, publisher and bu siness ma nage r. I '0, E~ IMENTOF [OMMEU[E EW LETTER APRIL 10, 1954 NEWSLETTER NEWSLEITER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chai rman Lonnie A. Pope, V. Chm . Y. F. Geeslin Ben J essup Hoke Pet ers * CLARK GAINES Secr e t a r y Vol. 5, No. 13 April 10, 1954 Pierce County Site Of New FFA Cantp On th e Satilla Ri ver betw een Patterson and Blacksh ea r a new Future Farmers of Am erica camp has been establi shed . Situated on eight acres of land given by L indsa y Grace for whom the camp is nam ed, it will be used as h eadquarters for forestry ed uca tion, camping, fishing a nd recreati on . M embers of the FFA throughout the Southeast Georgia district ra ised $4,900 th emselves, mostly through selling magazin e subscriptions. T his was invested in construc ting th e building, whi ch was built of jumbo bri ck. The building contain s a la rge dormitory room for sleeping twenty boys, ano th er smaller roo m for advisors quarters, a living and dini ng room, kitchen and screen porch. The members of th e FF A did a good portion of th e work th em selves, a nd pl a ns ar e un der study for the expansion of th e facilities. T he F ut ur e Farm ers of America are a p roject of th e V oca tional Agriculture Divis ion of th e St ate D ep artment of Education . M embers of th e FFA a re boys studying vocational agriculture in hi gh scho ol. Savanna h : Geor gia Public H ealth Assoc ia tion Conven tion, Hotel D eSoto, Apri l 11- 14. Thomast on: F at Cattle Show a nd Sa le, April 13. Atla nta : Geor gia Bank ers Association M eeting, Biltmore H otel, April 1315. Sylvania: Fat Cattle Show and Sa le, April 14-15. Atla nta : Southern Societ y of Philosophy a nd Psychology, Biltmor e H otel, April 15-1 7. Albany: R o t a I' y Conference, W est Georgia D istrict, R ad iu m Springs I nn, April 18- 20. Savanna h: 40 th Annua l Convention of Co unty Commissioner s of Georgia, H ot el D eSot o, Ap ril 19-20. Macon: Georgia Independ ent Oi lmen's Associat ion Conference, D empsey H otel , Apri l 22-23. Sav anna h : Am eri can Associat ion of Universit y Women M eeting, Georgia D ivision, H ot el DeSoto, April 2325. Macon: Georgia Credit Leagu e Confer en ce, Hotel D empsey, April 2324 . Swainsboro: Pine Tree Festival, April 23-30 . Commerc e: J ackson Co unty F at Cat tle Ap ril 10, 1954 Show a nd Sale, Apri l 24. Columbus : Knights of Columbus M eet, ing, R alston H otel , April 24-25. Co lumbus : Bet a Sigm a Phi Con ven tion, R alston H ot el, Apri l 24-2 5. Savannah : Geor gia Baptist Su nday Sch ool Con fer en ce, H ot el D eSoto, April 25-29. Atla nta: Geor gia Li vestock Exposition, April 26-28. Sta tesboro : 'F a t Cattle Sh ow a nd Sale, April 29. Thomasville: R ose Festiva l, Apri l 30. Sav a nnah : Beauty Show, H otel DeSoto, M ay 1-3. Macon : Georgia St ate M edi cal Associa tion, Municip al Auditorium, M ay 2-5 . Atlanta: M etropolitan Opera Season, M a y 3-5. Atla nta: National Co un cil of Ind ust rial M anagem ent C I u b s Confer ence, Biltmor e Hotel, ?vIa y 6-8 . Savannah: Civitan I n tern a tional, Georgia Di stri ct M eeting, H otel DeSoto, May 6-9. Columbus: Georgia Fed er ati on of M usic Club s Con vention, R alston H otel, M ay 6-8. Alba ny: Georgia State O steop atic Association M eeti ng, R adium Springs I nn , M ay 7-8. Cover Picture "Atlanta-The Do gwood City," set s aside again thi s yea r a week in celebration of the blossoming of th e offi cia l flower of the cap ital city of the sta te. D ogwood W eek, April 4 thro ugh 11, as proclaimed by At lanta's M a yor Wil liam B. Hartsfield, is sponsored by th e Women' s Chamber of Commer ce of Atlanta. It is estimated that th er e are a half milli on dogwood trees in Atlanta, and addit iona l thousands are p lante d eac h yea r . Sp ecial d isplays thro ughout Atlanta sto res in favor of th e dogwood will be seen, a nd severa l private a nd (Continued on next Page) C a rolyn Ca rler A close view of Atlanta's official flower, at the height of its blossoming in early April. GEORGIA D E PARTMENT OF COM M ERC E 2 NEWSLETTER April 10, 1954 Georgia Shares in Growth of Woolen Industry In The South As New Plants Begin Operation I nformati on that th e woolen and worsted indu stry spindles south of th e M ason-Dixon line had jumped fro m five per cent of the nat ional tot al in 1949 to 15 per cent in 1953, a growth of approxima tely 200 per cent, stresses the fact th at Georgia is sharing in this gain of mills manufacturing woolen goods. E. H oward Benn et t, ed itor of the T extile R epo rter, national trade p ublication, is quoted as saying of th is tr end southward : "You can no m ore stop th e tr ansf er of th e woo len and worsted industr y to Southe rn sta tes th an you could h ave stopped th e hegir a of th e cotton mills yea rs ago." Georgia is sharing in thi s increase in woolen mill s and in 1953 was second state in th e So uth in the number of persons em ployed in these plants- 3,588. North Ca rolina was first in the South with 7,389 employees in that in du stry. Th is in crease in th e number of woolen mi lls in Georgia is also noted in th e gain in th e number of sheep now being grow n on Georgia farm s, th eir hik e in valu e and an improvem ent in th e quality of th e anima ls. Ther e was a gain of 2,000 shee p on Geo rgia fa rms on J an. 1, 1954, compar ed wit h a yea r ago. On J an. 1, th ere wer e 15,000 sheep in Georgia, compared with 13,000 at th e end of 1952. The value sho wed a big gain , too . I n 1945, th e value of sheep per head was $6.10, wh ereas in 1953 th e va lue was $12.80 a head. In 1945, all she ep on Georg ia far ms were va lued at $110,000, and in 1953 th ey were said to be wort h $ 192,000 . Sheep growing in Georgia is scatte red well over th e state, many farmers findin g th em profitable, and farm you th clubs ar e adding them to th eir livestock progr am s. She ep displays at various Georgia fairs ar e being made over the sta te ; thi s is someth ing new at Georgia fair s. The Georgia Exp erim ent Sta tions have shee p flocks, and th ese an imals are included in th eir expe rimen tal ac tivities, as to breeds, diseases, etc. The Georgia Sheep Breede rs Association also promotes thi s industry in th e state. T he expansion of mi lls that manufa cture woolen good s in Georgia was increased recentl y wh en th e Ti fton M anufacturing M ill, at Tifton, established th ere by th e Am erican Wool en Co ., began operation. It is h oused in a lar ge, commodious bui ldin g, thi s plant being quite an addition to th e ind us- M ills, Inc., Newnan ; Atlanta Woo len Mi lls, Atlan ta ; Brook M anufacturi ng Co., Gr eensboro ; Ca lloway M ills Co., LaGrange; Ceda rtown T extil es, I nc., Ce da rtown; Dublin Woolen Mill s, Dublin ; Ed gefield Sh irt Co ., I nc., Swainsboro. Georgia K nitt ing Mi lls, Atlanta ; M acon T extil es, I nc., M acon ; Mi lledgeville Mi lls, Mi lledgeville ; Newn an Cot- Part of a h erd of shee p ra ised near Ri verdale. tri al development of Tifton. William C . Ro ss is resident m an ager of th e new Tifton mi ll. The Am es Woo len M ill at Cleveland, is sched uled to begin operations in a short tim e. This mi ll will manufact ur e woolen p rod ucts, and will p rovide employment for many people in th at section . It is th e lat est plant to locat e in th is th riving Northeas t Geo rgia city that has attracted nationwide atte nion in recent years. Other mills, many of whi ch have been establishe d a long tim e in Georgia, that manufacture woolen produ cts include: Arnall Mill s., Inc., Sa rgen t; Arnco ton M ills, Newn an ; Peerless Woolen Mi lls, I nc., R ossville ; Sachem M ills, In c., Winder, and Sh ep herd Bros. Spread Co., Calh oun, Ga. Cover Picture (Continued from Page 2) CIVIC orga nizat ions sponsor sp ecial ac tivities in the name of the dogwood . Ea ch year the Women's Ch amber of Commerc e publishes a series of walking tours for th e beginning of April: sections of th e city wh er e dogwood is particularly preval ent are m apped out, an d bus routes to them are exp lained. - Photo by Carolyn Ca rter. 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M EP CE NEWSLETTER April 10, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS New Athens Industry A new company, Luminous Processes, Inc., is erecting a plant in ATHENS. The conce rn manufactures lum inous dia ls for clocks. It will supply General Time Corporation, anothe r in dustry establishin g in Athens, with dials for Electric Wesclox clocks. Approxi mately ten persons will be employed by Luminous Pro cesses ; most of th e manufa cture is by machinery. Wi lliam Zorn will serve as manager of th e concern. - 0- Ocilla Expansion The Sou th Georgia Wood Pr eserving Company of OCILLA has completed the installation of an Osmos e retort plant for the pressure treatment of wood . Installed at an estimated cost of $30,000, th e new facilities ar e capable of producing 20,000 board feet of lumber per day . The company, which was organized three yea rs ago , has con siderably expanded since then, and serves a la rge portion of South Georgia with tr eated lumber, fence posts and construction material. - 0- New Building A new quarter -million dollar bui lding for the Wagner Electric Corporation was opened recently in ATL A N T A . The bui lding has 20,000 square feet of floor space. F orty p eople ar e employed at th e Atlanta branch of th e St. Louis corporation under C. G . Jackson, manager. T h e plant is concerned with autom obile motor manufacture. -0-- Motel Addition The $50,000 addition to th e Orlando Courts at L U D O W I CI has recen tly been completed . With th e addition of 12 new units the motor court now con tains a total of 22 units and a restaurant. Besides the addition of n ew units and their furnishings, the land around the courts is being la ndscaped. R . A. Pa lmer is owner of the courts. - 0- Lumpkin Corporation A new corporation has been form ed in L U M PK I N , Stewart County, under the lead ersh ip of Larry Cas tleberry. Mallard Frame, Inc., will manufacture woo d products, and wood and metal frames, primarily for pi ctures. Production will begin in th e very near future. Food Plant Construction has begun on a building for Blue Plat e Foo ds, Inc., in ATLANTA . Construction cost is estimated at $560 ,000 for a one-story fir eresistant p lant, con taining some 116,870 square feet of floor space. The concern, manufacturers of mayonnaise and other food products, is a subsidiary of Wesson Oi l Company and Snowdrift Sales Company of N ew Orleans. TO OUR READERS W e ask your cooperaiion in correcting ou r mailing list and brin ging it Ujl to dat e. Will you notiiy us if your add ress has changed . . . Som e read ers ha ve requ ested two or m ore cop ies of each issue for use in th eir bu siness concer ns; if j'OU are receivin g more cofli es than are bein g read , wi ll you let us kno w to that effec t. In notifyin g us of a change of address or du.plicati on of unused copies, please be sure to include your old address as we ll as your present on e. Please w rite to th e NEWSLETTER, Georgia D epa rtment of Comm erce, 100 Stat e Capit ol, Atlanta 3, Georg ia. The Modernaire A fine n ew tourist court is now open to th e public in ADAIRSVILLE . The Modernaire Tourist Court, managed by Mr. and Mrs. J am es King, is locat ed on U. S. Route No. 4 1. The 16 units of the motel arc air -conditioned and have new and modern equipment. - 0-- Fertilizer Plant I nstallation has been completed of a fertilizer manufacturin g plant by th e Stevens Warehouse Company in ELLAV ILLE. The n ew machinery allow s for production of 160 tons of fertilizer during an eight-h our day . -0-- Tobacco VVarehouses Two new warehouses will soon be cons tructed in PE ARS ON , to be ready for tobacco auction sales in the sum mer. The bui lding of the warehouses is a corporate concern of Waldo H enderson, Math Mize ll and C. A. Drake. GEORGIA DEPART M ENT OF COMMERCE 4 HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS Jake Roobin is th e new president of th e Crisp Co unty Chamber of Commer ce, succeeding W . R. Turner , who serves in 1953. Ralph B. Moore is th e new ch amber managcr. ... H azel M . Chamberlain, of D es Moins, Iowa, writing in Better Homes and Gardens, says " We visit ed th e L and of th e 'T rembling Earth,' th e best trip we ever took!" Sh e refers, of cou rse, to Okefenokee Swamp Park. . . . The Central of Georgia Railro ad 's annual report points out that th e concer n has becom e comp letely " dieselizcd ," and that industrial project s undcrw av on the rai lroad's lin es tot al mor e than 200 million dollars in valu e a t th e end of 1953. . . . Villa Rica citizens voted approval of a $515,000 bond issue to install a municip ally own ed ga s distribution syste m, and a line will be extended into Vill a Ri ca bv th e Southern N atural Gas Compan y. Elberton is spending $400,000 enlar gin g and improving its waterw orks sta tion. . . . Calhoun Council has vo ted to extend its wat er line in th e northern section of th e city .. . . Construct ion con tracts totaling approximately $500,000 for additions to th e Gen er al E lectri c Company's new tr ansformer p lant at Rome h ave been awarded to th ree Georgia firms . . . . Hartwell has put into ope ra tion a new wat er tank th at will in creas e th e city 's water storage cap acity to 375,000 gallons. . ..Bonds h ave been vot ed to construc t a new gym and auditorium at the Crawford County High School at Roberta.. .. In At he ns the corne rstone of Gen eral Time Corporation's new tw o-mi llion dollar clock manufacturing plant wa s recently laid. . . . The cont rac t for the constr uc tion of a building for Cartersville Undergarme nt Corporation has been let and the bui lding will be complete d by July first... . A new steel grain warehouse is being er ected in J ackson by th e R edm an Seed Company.. . . A tour of th e state for motor club travel offi cials during the week of March 27-April 3 was sponsored by the Georgia St ate Chamber of Commerce in coope ration with The Georgia Motor Club , The Georgia Hotel Association and Modern Trailways. . . . NEWSLETTER Murray Mingles Archaeology and History . With Present Day Progressive Activities Archaeology-still a p uzzle- histo ry, religion , traged y, mining, industry, mo un tain scenery and agriculture are all in th e makeup of 122-year old Murray coun ty, n amed for T homas \V. Murr a y, a nd crea ted in 1832. It was then a la nd occupied la rgely by I ndians, since that was four years before th eir t rek to the west beg an . T he L. & N . railroad traverses th e county, includ ing a station at th e present county-s eat, C ha tsworth . The county capita l was removed from p ioneer Sp ring Pl ace, a few m iles wes t- Ch at sworth's popula tion in 1950 was 1,214, an d t he re cent expa nde d city limits a nd serv ices, and n ew res idences are evide nce of th e city's rapi d grow th. Facilities T he approximately 20 in dustries in th e county-most of them in Chatsworth-include three large talc p lants, chen ille good s, lumbering, mu ch of whi ch is conver ted int o fini shed p roducts, gins, grist mi lls an d sawm ills. Talc m ining has long been a n impo r ta nt industr y at Chatsworth. T ak en Ap ril 10, 1954 Murray M emoria l H ospital, Stanton J ones, administrator, an d th e Mur ray County H ealt h Center, M rs. M ar vin Ro gers, cou nty nurs e, are at Chatsworth as is th e M urra y Count y L ibra ry, with M rs. J ohnnie H a rtl ey, libraria n, a nd also R ed C ross dir ector. Coh utta Ban king Co ., R . E. Chambe rs, p resident, is a t Chatsworth ; H. B. Brooks is president of th e Chatswor th Lio ns Club, and women's organizations incl ude th e Chatsworth Woman' s C lub an d th e Business an d Profession al Women 's Club . Electricity is provide d by the Georgia Power Co. and REA lines; Chatsworth T elephone Co. h as a dial system, an d th e city wa terworks is bein g im proved by th e ere ction now of a 500,- Georgia Parks Dept . Tower atop Fort Mountain State Park. The historic Vann Ho use at Spring Plae e whie h will be restored and converted into a Ch eroke e museum. wa rd, whi ch still re ta ins its cha rm a n d histori c interest. T he famou s residence built abo ut 1790 by Chief J oseph V a nn, a massive two-sto ry brick st ru cture, is to be restored and con verted in to a Cherokee museum by th e Georgia H istorical Commission . T wo markers cite th a t J ohn H owar d Pa yne, author of "Home Sweet H om e," was imprisoned or " de ta ined " at this house, but was exone rated of the ch arge of being a spy of the Indians. N ear th e V ann house stood th e " First M oravian Mi ssion to th e Cherokees." Spring Pl ace's popula tion in 1950 was 214 ; it s an cient, former courthouse is now used as a schoo l building a nd the town is said to be one of the oldest in th e state. T he town's p eopl e are proud of it s history a nd present charm . from nearby Cohutta and F ort M ountain, talc is used in th e manufacture of crayons, toilet articles, fa ce powde r, paper , du stin g po wders (insecticides) , paints, as a filler for roofing material an d for other uses. The Murray County high school, of whi ch H . C. Bosto n is p rincip al" is located at Chatsworth, and has enrollment of around 400 high school pupils. Gramma r schools are loca ted throughout th e county. A bu ildi ng program to cost $700,000 h as bee n approved whi ch will be used to imp rove th e schoo ls of th e coun ty. Fo ur modern motels serve tou rists a t C hatsworth , wh er e U . S. H ighways 4 11 an d 76 cross. State highway 22.5 extends fro m Calhoun through Spring Place, northwa rd, an d oth er Sta te road s a re 6 1 a nd 52. ODD-gallon reservoi r on nearby Cohutta mountain . S. H . K elly is M ayor of Chatswor th , and Councilmen are: W . A. W est, C. B. H oney, W . H . Bramblett, Seward Hi x. Police Chief is M . C. Queen and volunteer F ire C hief is R . L. Vinin g. M urray Co unty officers ar c : O rdi- na ry, .J. W . Dooly; Clerk of Co ur t, F. R. K endrick ; Sh er iff, T om Peepl es; T ax Co mm issione r, Gera ld H . Leonar d; School Sup erin tende n t, R ay Bag ley; Coroner, E . P. Ad am s; m emb er of Legislatur e, Odell Ingle ; St at e Senator, Kirby Pa rk. H. O . Cole is 'Farm Agent an d Mi ss An ne Wil son is Home Demonst ration Agent. M iss Alva J ea n H olmes is secre ta ry of the Cha tswor th Chamber of C om merce. The 66-year old Chatswort h T im es (Continued on Page 6) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Murray County (Con tinued from P age 5) is p ub lished by R oy M cG int y, J r., who took over p ubli cation of th e paper in 1929-25 yea rs ago-succeeding h is fa th er , R oy :Me Gin ty, who went to Ca lhoun wher e he has since published th e Tim es th er e. Gen er al cro ps a rc grown in Murr ay coun ty, spec ializing in gr ain , cot ton, livestock da ir ying, po ultry, pi miento peppe rs-650 acres being "signed up" for 1954. ' Oth er towns in Mu rr av besides C ha tswort h an d Spr ing P lace' a rc E ton , Crandall, R amhurst and Tenn ga . In addition to local industries and agr icu lture, nearby p lants- especially che nille conce rn s-afford emp loyme nt for m a ny M urray Coun ty p eop le. Fort Mountain Fort M ountain, a few miles east of Ch at sworth, holds a secret th at has intrigued hi stor ian s a nd archa eologists for many years . Ncar its 2,855 -foot summit is an anc ien t fortification 800 feet long, a low wa ll of ro cks, abou t two feet high , 12 feet at bas e an d wit h a cha in of 30 ind ividual " dugou ts," all joined or connec ted wit h th e mai n line. M a ny exp la na tions arc given as to th e or igin of this forma tion. T he development of F ort M ou nt a in is the result of a childhood desire of I van Allen, Sr ., Atlanta resident. As a child a t D alton he was promised a h ike upon th e mo un ta in. T his was not accomp lished u ntil yea rs later when he bou ght 800 acres on top of th e mo un tain , t hen climbed up to see his purchas e. H e later gave th e State of Georgia man y acres on top of th e m ountain . A CCC camp was established th ere on la nd totaling 2,000 ac res ac quired and set aside for th at p ur pose . A to wer was ere cted on the top of the mountai n, dedi cated to M r . Allen, and a highwa y- D. S. 76 a nd State 52 - h as been p aved to th e top an d over the mountain, wh ich is now a un it of the D epartment of State Pa rks, and con tains 1,954 acres. A feature of Fort M ou ntain is a 17-aere lake, hig h on th e mountai nside stocked with bass an d trout. The P ark is op en th e yea r-round with a reside nt superin tende n t in ch a rg e . GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS M ONTI CELL O : M ont icello Cannin g Company, pimientos, $29 ,240. ATLANTA : T he Babcock & Wilcox Co mpa ny, (2 con tra cts) grinding balls, ring s an d pu lver izer parts, $101,984 . LITHIA SPR I NGS: But ler Lumber Company, pallets, $23,968. A T LANTA : Ph illips Sewing M ach ine Company, recon ditioning of equipmen t, $ 13,352. A UGUS TA : T ho ma s H . Brittingham & Com pa ny, air-conditioning , $29,10 1. W AYCR OSS: Waycross M achine Sho p, p ract ice bombs, $537,600 . A T L ANT A : Link-Belt Co mpa ny, conveyor unit, $66,245. SA VA N N AH : Savanna h M achine & Found ry Company, (2 contracts) shi p rep airs, $ 136,953. A UG USTA: Patch en & Zimmerma n, architectural a nd enginee ring services, $74 ,000 . CO LUM BUS: W righ t Contracting Compa ny, casti ng a rticula ted concrete ma ttress, $652 ,320. FA Y ETT E VILLE : Redwine Brothers, (2 contracts) lumber, $23, 194. ATL ANTA: Broo ks-Fisher I nsulating Compa ny, inrulation , $5 12,505 . CO RDELE : Harris Foundry & M achi ne Company, sh ells, $36,836. A LBANY : K een an Welding Supplies Co ., I nc., oxygen an d t ran sport ation, $38,852. SA V AN N A H: Savannah Sugar R efinin g Corpo ra tio n, (3 contrac ts) suga r, $48,201. ATLANTA : Scientific Associates, I nc., resea rch inves tiga tion of lens, $27,998 . BA INBR IDGE : Mi ller H ydro Compa ny, auxilia ry fuse rings, $62,942. ATLANTA: South la nd Co ffee Compan y, coffee , $ 16,713. BR UN SWI CK: Georgia Creosoting .Com pany, creo soted p iles, $ 10,600 . AT LANT A : Titus M anufacturing Company, Crawley-Corbrand t Co ., adj ustable fin grilles, $11,420 . EAST POIN T : W illiam Armstrong Smith Company, paint, $71,929. A T L ANTA: Walker Electrical Comp an y, switch boa rd, $ 14,040. A T LANTA: Campbell Coal Compa ny, alum inum window screens, $ 10,192. CO L LEGE PA RK : T en nessee Corp . R esea rch L ab s, resea rch, $50,000 . A T LANTA : Egan Co tto n Mi lls, cotton p ad ding, $13,455. (Continued on Page 8 ) GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 Ap ril 10, 1954 Two Georgia Festivals Celebrate On April 30 T his yea r two of Georgia's important festiva ls will celebrate on the same date. Swainsboro , ca st cen tral Georgia, will climax a week of activity with pin es on April 30th, th e day tha t Thomasville, southwest Geor gia, will glorify its roses. Pine Tree Festival The Pine Tree F estival hcld annually at Swainsboro celebra tes one of Georgia' s most im porta nt n at ural resour ces. T his yea r th e ninth annual festival will be held th ere fro m Apri l 23r d th rou gh April 30th, un der th e lead ership of Ca rlton D eckle. The week of events inclu des the choosing of th e F a rm Bu reau Queen, a nd talent sho w, installation of edu cational exh ibits, contest for th e selecting of th e Pine Tree Festival R oyal Fam ily: th e King, Queen, Prince and Princess, an all n ight singing convc ntion, a golf tournament at th e Swainsboro Golf Course, variety show and the Pine Tree Ball. O n th e last dav there will be a m ile-long parade witll approxim ately 60 un its includ ing float s a nd bands, announcem en ts will be mad e of the winners of con tests of declamation, po ems, pin e arrangem ents , floats, exhibits, essays, posters-all th ese relat ing to p ine trees. The T ree Fa rmer award will be m ad e, th ere will be a demonstr ation rela ting to th e care of pines. T he Fa rm Bureau Q ueen will be anno unced, a nd th e winners of th e talent show. As a fin ale, there will be two h uge squa re dan ces. O ver twenty thousand p eopl e h ave flocked to Swainsboro in previous yea rs for thi s festival, and m an y m or e ar e expected to pa rti cip ate in the celebr ation th is yea r. Rose Festival The T homasville R ose Festival was born of a n id ea M rs. J essie H a rri s h ad some th ir ty-three years ag o. From a very small R ose Show h eld in N ecI Bro th ers D epartme nt Store in 1920, th e Chamber of Commerc e and th e Thomasville .Garden Club h as h eld an an nu al R ose Show and F estiva l un ti l today, thirty-four years lat er, it is an outstanding even t of the southeast. O riginally planned for T homasville, Georgia, th e "City of R oses," it has expanded to such extent th at thi s entire section takes pa rt in th e festivities an d Festival. N eighbo ring cities, industrial a nd commercial esta blishme nts, and va- (Con tinued on Page 8 ) NEWSLETTER Wayne (ounty Rapidly Becoming Site For Big Industries Using Resources Wayne Co un ty, n ea r th e coast of Sout hea st Georgia, will be the site next month of th e ope ning of a tw enty-five milli on dollar industry: R ayoni er Incorpora ted, whi ch will establish a t Doctortown , nea r J esup .. This will be a not ab le event, no t only for W ayne County a nd R a yoni cr In corp or ated , but for Ge orgia as a sta te. It constitu tes Geor gia's 16th p la n t in th e pulp and p ap er field. It symbolizes the recognition of th e sta te as a good industri al site becau se of it s a bun da n t resources, excellent la- bel' 250, with George Wein stein as m anager . J ones Lumber Co" emp loying 50, cuts and p rocesses pine. This conce rn is owned by H . D. J on es, Sr. Pion eer Product s, In c" deal s with lumb er a nd wood veneer, under ,V. F . and .J. Y. M cC ann . T hey employ 150. Columbia Naval St or es of J esup, Inc., processes rosin and gum, p rodu cing tu rp entine and other naval stores. S. .J. J oyner is mana ger of t his pl an t, re- cently amalga ma ted with several othe r nav al stores conce rn s into th e Southern Gum Processing Company. The April 10, 1954 ' Va yne County is a n a ttrac tive are a, situa ted in a stra teg ic position for tou rists. Not on ly a rc vaca tion ists just stopping on th ei r way to Fl orida or th e coast via U . S. R ou tes 25, 30 1 a nd 34 1, but th ey a re stopping and sta ying in Wayn e Coun ty, baskin g in th e sun, fishing in the Altarn a ha a nd hunting th rou gh the swa mp lands. Fou rt een mot els ar c in th e a rea, providing accommoda tion s for th ose motoring thro ug h or stay ing. O ther tran spor ta tion fa cilities available in th e ar ea in clude th e Atl antic Coast Line and th e Southern R ai lways, and th e Greyho und a nd T railw ays bu s lines. T here a rc th ree banks in J esup , th e pul se of th e coun ty : th e First Fed er al Savings and L oan Association, th e .-. -, ._. - - Way ne Co unty Chamber o f Commerce Wayn e County Health Center at J esup. ~~IW: Wayne County Chamber of Commerce The mammoth Rayonier Incorporated plant at Doctortown. bor conditions a nd econom ic progr ess. This industr y, like man y othe rs esta blishing in Geor gia , is a sign of th e indu strial rennaissan ce th at h as been shaping in th e state for severa l decad es, and whi ch has every evide nce of bein g of a stable a nd endur ing nature. Not only R ayoni er will m ak e good use of th e local timberl ands in th e manufacture of cellulose. The M en gel Comp an y has also bou ght a la rge site nca r J esup wh ich will be su ita ble for construc tion of a pl ant for p rodu cing kr aft type pulp to supply its four boxmaking plants. The tot al inv estm ent of th e M en gel Co m pany will rep resent abou t fift een m illion dolla rs. Several other industries located in th e pinelands of W ayno County deal with th e prevalent local resource: timber. W aynl inc, In c., is a furni tu re manu fa cturer. Employees th ere nu m- Sou thern ' Vood Preser ving Company th ere initi all y processes poles for ship ment to its East Poin t pla nt for fin al tr eatment. Another major industr y already establi shed in Wayne is Sea I sland Shirts, Inc. This Company ma kes spor ts sh ir ts, emp loying 350 worker s under Rob ert Pascal, P rcsidcn t. Features J esup is the coun ty sea t of Wa yne, with a populati on estima ted in 1953 a t 5,800. The coun ty h as a total population of app roxima tely 15,000. Other town s in th e county include Odum, whi ch h as two gum m a rk ets, Screven, a nd Ga rd i wh ere th e Alta ma ha Api aries p roduce hon ey, Broadhurst, Doctortown a nd Pin ey Grove. York Bee Co. op erates in J esup a nd R yal s Ap iaries is just ou tside th e city . Am eri can N ational Bank and the Wayne Sta te Bank . The assets of th ese th ree h ave soa red in recent year s, not onl y becau se of industry a nd tourism, but becaus e J esup is a fav orite city for ret ail trad e in th e area . J esup is th e site of a four-county health cen ter, serving Brantley, Liber ty, L on g and 'V ayn e coun ties. The L eaphart H ospital is th ere, and th e M cCr ar y H ospital. An extensive sch ool building p rogram is under wa y in th e coun ty: n ew schoo l construc tion, renovations and add itions to be comp leted by thi s tim e next yea r will ben efit J esup , Odum, Pi ney Grove a nd Screven , including two specialized N egro schools: W ayn e County Training School and R osen wall Industri al School. The total p rogram , as p roj ected , will amo un t to (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE vS6l 'Ol "1~dV - 1;D ' Ct: OU, 1 V ~~ ~~ : : n JO ~11SJOA I U n D41 8 ~ T ~ ~~ ql 1 ~~Tc~~A I U n oq1 Gt:C ; : TAI G 2u c I11 s 1nb oV I~I 'oN l !W l dd 'ED 'El uEIlV P!Pd 'ilDV~SOd 'sn '"RJl>" T d 99tE ';):>S VIEJ~03 EJ ' V.l.NV'.l.V ' C .J.l d V ~ 3.J.V.J.5 CC l 3:::J~3~~D:::J .:fD l.N3~1.~Vd3a VIEJ~D3~ Wayne County (Co n tinu ed fr om Page 7 ) some $1,000,000 . A new sewa ge tr eatment and dispo- sal progr am is now u nder cons tr uc tion: a t. a cost of $600,000 th e new p lan t will a llow for expa nsion of both the sewage an d water syste ms. The coun ty seat, J esu p, is th e sit e of two neighborhood p arks with swings, etc., a four -a cr e p ark with a com muni ty hous e, swim m ing pool, and tennis courts wh ich are con ver ted into a ska t- aingci.rtiynkpairnk th . e winter tim e' as w ell as A fin e coun ty newspaper , th e week- ly J esup S ent in el, is edited by W . B. Rhoden . R adio Station WBGR op er - a te s on 1370 kilocycles. . The tel~phone system in th e cou n ty IS und ergomg a $70,000 expansion pro- gram. . ~.the~ important W ayn e County fa - cilities in clude 11 w hite ch u rc hes and five for N egroes a nd a city library whi ch w~s origina lly sponsor ed b y the com m u nity garden clubs . Ther e is a great spiritual awaren ess, as evide nce d by the fa ct th at a ll ch urches have eithe r bu ilt new structures or expand- ed exist ing fa cilities. Besides the very a ctive Chamber of Commerce, managed by W . Moffett K e?drick, Jr:, th ree other civic organi- za tions con tn bu te their effo r ts tow ards comm unity imp rovem en t. The .JayCees, under W a lker Burke as president a re providing funds for a new football st ad ium. T h e K iwanis Club, h ead ed by L aw - renee Bennett, Sr. , a nn uallv provid es for n eed y child re n. ' The Lions Club, under \'V. A. Zorn, helps with vot er registration. R ecent figures on agriculture indi- ca te that livestock, poultry and dairy products are important to W ayn e County, besid es timber . In 1952, livestoc k sa les amo unte d to one and three qu arter million dollars; in 1950, $79,000 w as reali zed from th e sa le of dairy product s and $59,000 from poultry. County Officials Officer s of W ayn e County include: Ordina r y, =-:ordon Bishop ; C lerk of Court, S. F. Bennet t, Sr. ; Sh er iff, Sid ney R eddish ; T a x Commission er , W . O . Yeom an s; Co un ty School Superintendent, Aubrey Hires; Surveyor , W . P . R eddish ; Coron er, T om M ad ray. County Commission er s include C . C . Harris, a s C ha irm an, Ji mmy J on es, Camer on Bennett, Ernest Strickland, B. L. Yeom ans, Sr. M a yor of J esup is D r. J. A. L eap - hart. M ember of the L egislature is R . L. Harrison . Judge on th e Brunswick Circuit whi ch serves W ayn e County is D ou glas Thom as; W. G lenn Thom as is Solicit or Ge ne ra l. Fire Chief is K ennie Yeom an s; T om Crosby, Police Chief. W ayn e County F a rm Agent is H arry Hutch eson ; H om e D em on stration Agent, Miss Nell D aniels. Government Contracts (Con tinue d fr om Page 6 ) COR DE LE: Butler Box and C ra te Com pany, p allet s, $26,900. ATLANTA : Pan -El ect ronics Co rp oration , transmitting equipme nt and crysta l units, $ 16,200. COLUM BU S : T om U nde rh ill C o., in sta llation of a ir-co nditioning, $29,714. ATLA NTA: Ch icago Bridge and Iron C o., const ruction of storage tank s, $3 2,700. CA R ROL LTON: Ri ch ards & Asso- GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 Festivals (C on tinued fr om Page 6 ) riou s civic organiza tions enter floats and/or displays in the Show. Bein g held on th e last Friday in April eac h yea r, the even t tak es plac e wh en roses and t.he m any othe r flow ering plants p ecu liar to this a re a are a t th eir pe~k . Vi sitors from eve ry sta te in th e un ion , C anada and M exico, can be found in Thomasville on Rose F estival Day, Some 4.1,000 to 60,000 peopl e visit th e Sh ow and F estival eac h yea r. Tours of th e various ga rde ns and esta te s a re arranged for th e visitor s, golfing match es a re h eld at Glen Arven Co untry C lub, dan ces to accomm odate th e crowds, all of whi ch are reign ed over by th e R ose Sho w Queen wh o is selecte d just prior to th e Rose F estival. The .Iunior Cham be r of Co mmerce sponsors th e Beauty Pageant a nd th e selec te d Queen . ~h e Rose F estival is a comm unity p ro~ect . Ever y s~rvice and civic or ganiza tion , a long WIth hundred s of individuals, do th eir part toward makin bz the program a success. It is spo nsore d by th e Thomasville Cha mber of Comm er ce a nd th e Th omasville Garden C lub. Ever~on e, every yea r, is invited to Th om asville on th at day. cia tes, Inc., in stallation of op er ation al eq uipme nt, $249,568. ATLANTA : Jarrett E lectric Co. , elect rical work , $34,38 1. iHACON: T aylor Constructi on C o., modification s to bu ild , $166,162. ATLA NTA : Ab co Bui lders construc tion of bu ildings, $496,326.' CO.LUi\l BU S : R ..H . Wright, .II'., & Associat es, co nstruc tion of bu ildings, $75,290. - " 'I DEPAUIMENT OF [DMMEnCE NEW LETTER APRIL 25, 1954 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Go vernor BO ARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Ch airman Lo nni e A. Pop e, V. Chm. Y. F. Geeslin Ben J essup Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Secr etary Vol. 5, No. 14 Ap ril 25, 1954 April 25, 1954 Public Help Invited In Museunl Creation All Georgians a re given an opp ortunit y to participate in th e esta blish me nt of th e m useum of th e U ppe r Chattah ooch ee Development Associati on a t Dahlon ega . Private collections concern ed with Northea st Georgia along hi storical, geological, a rche ological, p lant an d wild life lin es ar e welcom ed by th e Association for disp la y in th e mu seum. Mrs. H enry W . M oor e, Sr., of D ahlon ega is Chairman of th e Museum a nd its development. Cover Picture This historic a nd well-loved Midway Ch urc h in Lib erty Co un ty celebr at es its 200th anniversa ry thi s year on April 25th. In 1753 a tempora ry log hut was construct ed by Cong regationalist colonists from Dorch ester, S. C ., who h ad, before th at, moved from Dorch ester, Mass. T he R everend J oh n Osgood , first minister of the ch urc h, moved th ere in17 54. The p resent bui lding, seen in th e cover ph ot ograph, was bui lt in 1792. There were m any famous m embers of th e cong rega tion of Midway Chu rch. Two of the most outs tan ding wer e Dr. Lym a n H all and Button Gwinnett ; bot h were signers of the D eclaration of In dependence, both Gov ernors of Georgia, and counties in th e state have been named for eac h of th em. Three reason s h ave been att ributed to th e nam e, Midway Church: th at it is eq uidistant from th e Sa vannah and Altamaha R ivers, that it is m idway between Savannah a nd D ar ien, and th at th e section and one of th e rivers in it was orig ina lly ca lled M edway, after a river in En gland. - Photo by Carolyn Ca rter. T he fin e lon g season of pickn ickin g and many oth er ou tdo or recreations in Georgi a is well und er way. H er e, a picnic party is enjoyed at th e R abun Beach area ncar Clayton, in th e Cha ttahooc hee Na tiona l Fo rest. I Savannah : Georgia Bap tist Sunday School Confer ence, Hotel DeSoto, April 25-29. Atla n ta : Geor gia Livestock Exposit ion, April 26-28. Statesboro: F at Cattle Show and Sale, April 29. Thomasville: R ose F estival, April 30. Swainsboro : Pine Tree Fes tiva l, April 30. Savannah : Beauty Show, H otel D eSoto, M a y 1-3. M acon: Georgia State M edi ca l Association, Municipal Audi torium , M ay 2-5. Atlan ta : M etropolitan Opera Season, May 3-5. Aug usta : Southern Pulpwood Conser vati on Association M eeting, Geor gia, Fl orid a a nd South Car olina a rea, Bon Air H ot el, May 4-5. Atla nta: J oin t meeting of G e 0 I' g i a Chap ter, Society of Am erica n Foresters Associa tion and Georgia Schoo l of Forestry A 1u m n i Association, DinkIer -Pl aza H otel, M a y 5-6. Atlanta : N ational Council of Industrial M anagem ent C I u b s Conf eren ce, Biltmore H otel, M ay 6-8. Sav a nna h : Civitan Intern a tional, Georgia Di stri ct M eeting, H otel DeSoto, M ay 6-9. Co lumbus: Geor gia Fed er ati on of Music Clubs Con vention, Ralston H otel, M ay 6-8. Alba ny : Geor gia Sta te Osteopathic Association M eeting, R ad ium Springs I nn, M ay 7-8. Savanna h: Tri-State Co llectors Associa tion Confer en ce, H ot el D eoSto, M ay 7-9. Sava nna h : Indep endent Order of Odd F ellows M eeting, Hotel D eSoto, M ay 10-1 3 . Columbus: Grand Commander y of K nigh ts T emplars, R a lston Hotel, M ay 11-12 . West P oint: Atlanta & West Poin t Centennial Celebration, May 12. Albany: Am eri can Associati on of T exti le Chemists a nd Co lori sts, R adium Springs In n, M ay 13-14. Sava nna h: I n terstate Oi l Compact Commission M eeting, Gen eral Oglethorpe H ot el, M a y 13-15. Aug usta : Geor gia Junior Chamber of Commer ce Conferen ce, Bon Air H otel, May 13-15. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE 2 NEWSLETTER April 25, 1954 Georgia-Fostered Industry of Soft Drinks Manufacture Is Now Billion Dollar Affair Modest beginnings in the 1880's in Georgia have turned in to fOt:tunes : a billion dolla rs wor th of soft dnnks wer e sold last year. T he manufacture of soft drinks is really a Georgia -born a nd br ed indus try. Back in th e '80's, two well-know n soft drin ks were crea ted : the R ed R ock and th e Coca-Co la formulas were made' an d used in soft d rink s. At th e end of th e nin et eenth century, th e M ona rch M anufacturing Co m pa ny was incorporat ed. Then th e Nehi Co mpa ny started in Co lu mbus, followed by th e Nati on al N u-Grape Comp any in Atlanta, Greinoma n's Extract Co mpa ny, Sunny Isles Company, th e Grape-De w Compan y and th e Bud winc Company in At hens. In th e trade, a flavor mea ns concen trate ; a syrup is a flavor or concen trate with suga r an d other ing redients added-everything but th e carbonat ed or distilled wat er . A flavor manufacturer oft en m akes one featured flav or, an d a line of oth ers sold under innumerable trade names by bottlers. There a re about 180 bottling plan ts in Georgi a, an d many more th roughou t th e nation . T he bott lers procure th e flavors or syrups from th e manufactur er , ad d the ca rbonated or distilled wa ter, bottle a nd cap th e d rink s an d distribute th em to stores, soda fountains, institutions, indu stri es, public a nd pri vat e buildings. Per Capita Consumpt ion Because Georgia is th e home of th e indus try may be one reason why th e per capita consumption of soft drin ks is high er in Georgia than in an y othe r plac e in th e U . S. While the rest of the coun try consumes a n ave rage of 180 soft dr inks p er person per year, th e "average" Georgian drinks 225. At five cents eac h, thi s would m ean th at th e " average" Georgian spends $ 11.25 eac h yea r on soft drink s. Ge orgia tak es pride in a no the r fact abo ut th e soft drink industry : th e fact th at th e monthly m agazine American Bottl er is published in Atl anta . It is a n imp ortant trad e p ublication to th e industr y and its rela ted manufact ur ers. Relat ed to th e soft d ri nk indust r y an d bottlers wou ld be the manufa ct ur e of woode n cases, display cases, coolers, paper ca rr y-home ca rtons, glass bottles, cork a nd metal caps, the mix ing ma chines; many of thes e needs are supplied by Geor gia con cern s. Georgia Soft Drinks The R ed R ock Company was st arted in Atla nta in 1885 by Lee H agan ; th en it h ad a differen t n ame. Today th is conce rn ma n ufa ct ures conce n trates for R ed R ock, Pl ayers, H ep a nd H age & H age soft drinks. T he pla n t employs a bou t 14 persons an d has over 45 bot tlin g pla n ts over th e coun try. The company also mak es a long line of flavors an d syrups for other sof t drinks. T he Co ca -Co la Company had it s beginnings in 1886 when J oh n S. Pemberton, former Co lumbus druggist, con cocted some tasty syr up in th e back vard of a hou se on M ar ietta St reet in At lant a, it is sta ted by the Co ca -Co la au thor ities. T od ay the company emp loys over 500 at its head qu a rt er s, some 400 in th e At la nta bottling plant, a nd over 12,500 in its many subsidia ries all over th e world-not including th e in dep endent bot tlers wh o h ave fr an chi ses to bo ttle Co ca -Cola . Net p rofit of th e Co ca -Co la Compa ny a nd its consolida ted subsid ia ries rea ched over tw entyeigh t million dollar s in 1953. M ona rch M anufacturing Company is th e maker of these brand names of soft dri nk s: New Yorker, Cascade, Esqui re, Swa nncc, J o-J o and th e new Cal-Fre. It employs up to 125 in At lan ta making flavors and syrups. Som e of th em a rc sold to institutions and the Army and N avy , besides to 200 bottlin g plants throughou t thi s coun try, Europe and South Am eri ca . Approximat ely 16 of that number a rc loca ted in th e St at e of Georgia. T he N ehi Company of Co lumbus was started in 1907. I t is a not her international company with bottling pl an ts over th e wo rld . It is the ma ker of (Con tinued on Page 6 ) The Co ca-Co la bottling plant in Atlanta. Syru ps bein g prepared for sh ipmen t in th e Nehi Corporation laboratory. 3 GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER April 25, 1954 GEORGIII PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS Tobacco VVarehouse Under construction in SYL V ESTER is a m odern tob acco war eh ouse whi ch will be read y for th e 1954 tobacco sea son. Sylveste r alrea dy has two such war ehouses with a combined floor a rea of over eigh ty thousand squa re feet ; thi s third building will add sixty th ou sand squa re feet more to th e comm unity's tobacco faciliti es. The combined effort of th e entire community, under sponsorsh ip of th e Sylvester-Wo rth County T obacco Warehouse Association , is responsible for th e new warehouse. - 0- Polk County Concern A newly-organized furniture manufacturing company, W. L. Frew Co rporation, CEDARTOWN, rep lacin g Frew, In c., ha s plans under way for a new bui ldin g and will move into its new qu arters wh en th e constr uction of it is complete. The new corpo ra tion is en tirely a Polk Co un ty institution, owned and contro lled by its citizens. The same sta ff th at was' with th e or igina l compa ny will con tin ue with th e new conc ern. The new building will be a modern steel plant built on reinforced waterproof concrete, with 20,000 squa re feet of floor spa ce. The firm m anufactures upholstered livin g-ro om furn iture. - 0- Clinch County Park A public p ark has been approved by th e State Highway D epartment for Clinch County, on the west side of HOMERVILLE, U . S. Route No . 84. The site of th e park was donated by the George D am e heirs, and C linc h County Lions C lub is sp onsoring th e proj ect. The park will provide a place for all Clinch Countians' recreation, and eventually th e project will include a swimming pool. -0-- Boat Builder A new boat-building conce rn h as been esta blished ncar SYLVESTER. N orm an Lee is constructing custombuilt boat s up to 16 feet in len gth whi ch can be outfitted with eithe r inboard or outboard motors. The boat s will belong to an excellent class of sm all craft, will be constructed of m ahogany and boat cedar, and be abl e to develop a spee d up to 18 mil es per hour with three adult passengers. Timber Depot CORNELIA will be th e site in th e velY near future of a new timber dep ot esta blishe d by th e Southe rn Wo od Pr eserving Company. It will serve mainly as a receiving and shipping point at first, and eventua lly m ay h andle pulpwood from that ar ea . The compa ny deals particul arl y in pines, treating th em under modern methods with a creosote mixture to prevent th em from rotting. - 0- Chinchilla Ranch A new chinchi lla ran ch opened last month in RED CLAY comm unity of Whitfield County. Mr. a nd Mrs. C lyde Morgan are own ers and op erators of th e ranch whi ch will deal main ly in br eeding stock. TO OUR READERS rVe ask ,),o ur coo peratio n in co rrectin g our m ailin g list and b ringing it up to dat e. W ill yo u notify us if yo ur add ress has cliansrcd . . . S ome readers ha ve requ ested tw o or m ore co pies of eac h issue for usc in th eir busin ess conce rns; if )'OU arc receiving m ore copies tha n are bei ng read, w ill vo u let us k now to tha t effec t. In '/lotifying us of a change of address or duplicat ion of unused copies, please be su re t o include your old address as w ell as your present on e. Please w rite to th e NEWS LETTER, G eorgia D epartment of Comm erce, 100 Stat e Capit ol, Atlanta 3, G eorgia . Cartersville 1'0 Have $ 500, 000 Feed Plant The H ale s & Hunter Co., of Chicag o announces plans to erec t in CARTERSVILLE a m illing plant to be known as "Re d Comb Pion eer Mill s, In c. (Georgia ) ," which will ultimately cost $500,000 . The plant will process feedstuffs for poultry, cattle, hogs, dogs a nd rabbits. The esta blishment will be locat ed in th e northern section of Cartersville and near th e main line of th e N. C. & St. L. Railroad . It will be large and mod ern in every respect. Three states, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee will be served from th e Cartersville plant. The mills will provide a market [or locally grown corn and grain. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 Machine Tool Show The first ma chine-tool show eve r h eld in th e So uth which will tak e pl ace in ATLANTA on May 19, 20 and 21, is a no ther sign of Dixi e's rapid industri al gro wth . A dozen of th e nation's leading manufacturers of metal-workin g machines will demonstrate th eir most mod ern machines in actual use a t th e Exhibition Hall of the Atlanta Biltmor e Hotel during th e three-day event. The show is sponsored by the R . O . D ead erick Compa ny, Inc., of Knoxville a nd At lanta. Th e exh ibition will be open to th e gene ra l public, an d n um erous industrialists, engineers, bankers and many othe rs conce rne d with South ern economic progress will attend. About 40 examples of th e la test metal-w orking equipme nt will be in operation at th e show, manned by skilled opera tors from th e various fa ctories represented. Among the inter estin g mach ines to be demonstrated will be a jigmill , whi ch weighs 15 ton s. It is a p recision machine which bores and drills a t toleran ces within millionths of an inch - so fin e th at th ey must be measur ed by a beam of light since no mechanical ga uging device is sensitive eno ugh . One use of thi s kind of machine is borin g a utomo bile cylinde r blocks. There will be a h ydraulic duplicating lathe, a deep hole drill, a sur face grinder and a hydro-router, and many others. -0- Two Roadside Parks Two new roadside parks ar e now un der con struction for the enjoyment of motorists in th e state. Travelers on U . S. Highway No . I just south of LOUIS VILLE will find an ar ea cleared and landscaped for resting and lunching out-of-d oor s. Like th e wayside park ncar FITZGERALD in Ben Hill County, it will be equipped with tabl es and ben ch es an d out-door cooking facilities. The land for th e park n ear Fitz gerald , on th e Bowens Mill Road , was given to th e sta te [or a park by F. R. Justice as a mem orial to th e late Mrs. F. R. J ustice. -0-- Bryan Clinic Opened The new Morris M . Bryan , Sr., M emori al C linic open ed recentl y in JEFFERSO N , J ackson County. The clini c was nam ed [or the late president of J efferson Mills, In c. Medi cal and dental offices in the clini c will serve th e public in th e area. NEWSLETTER April 25, 1954 Columbus Great in Manufacturing, Commerce and Military Activities Columbus, located abo ut rnidw a v on th e Geor gia -Al ab ama bord er , is ' th e largest tr ading cente r in the highl y pr ogr essive Chattahooch ee Valley, and because of it s gre a t textile mill s has been give n th e sobriq uet, " Lo we ll of th e South." A highly develop ed metropolis, it is int egr at ed with its neig hbor across th e Ch attah oochee Ri ver , Ph c- U . S. A r m y P h o t o Parachute jump towers at Fort Benning, nix City, Alabama. In add ition to figuring ac tively in th e comme rce of cco no mv for th e citv . Among th e tcxt il~ concerns a rc tw o hosiery manufa cturer s, a che nille plant and nine co tton-goo ds producer s. The hosicrv co nce rns arc Arch er Mills, Inc., 'and Sh annon H osier y Mills. In c. Chenille pr oduct s a rc m ade by Muscogee Crafts, In c. Th e cot to n-goo ds manufactu rer s prod uce everything from domesti c and co mmercia l shee ting to yarn: Anderson Mills, Bibb M anufa cturing Co m pany, Columbus M anufacturing Compan y, Eagle & Ph enix Mills, G eor gi a W ebb ing an d Tape Compan y, J ord an Mills, In c., Muscogcc M anufacturing Co mpa ny , Swift M anufacturing Company a nd Swift Spinning Mills, Inc. Swift M anufacturing Co m pany is the conce rn wor kin g with th e fibre ca lled " ra m ie," now bein g used in a utomobil e upholster y, and is being d evelop cd as a clothing m at eri al fib er . Eagle & Pheni x is an other major em ployer, as is th e Columbus M anufa cturing Compan y. An other im por ta n t conce rn in Colum bu s ou t of th e texti le lin e is T om Huston Peanut Co m pa ny. Nearly 1,000 a re emp loyed her e, not onl y in peanut processin g but a lso in m aking several kinds of ca ndy . Features and Facilities Besides th e thriving commerce, th er e are several other outsta nd ing cha r ac teristics th a t ma ke Co lumbus a n inter esting and a ttrac tive city . Beautiful resid enti al sections, ove r 100 h andsom e ch u rches, a n excellent ed ucationa l system, thre e hosp ital s, two libraries, a museum, goo d tourist facilities including 13 mot els and five hotels, a ve ry fin e tr an sp ortation system a nd three banks a ll con tr ibu te to m ak e a well integr at ed community. Education in Columbus is provid ed th rou gh one syste m combin ing a ll th e schoo ls in th e coun tv a nd citv under a cen t ra l manageme nt. The 46 public schoo ls are contin ually being expanded and improved , a nd several new modern buildings for th e public-sch ool svstc m a re cu rrent Iv under cons truc tio n . Ad ult ed uca t i~ n classes a re well a ttende d in Columbus. There a re th ree in stitution s of hi gh er learning: th e Columbus Sch ool of Art, th e University of Geor gi a ha s an off-cam pus cen te r, and Albany Stat e Co llege for Negroes mainai ns a bran ch in Columbus. The city also has a splend id Opportunity Sch ool. Transport at ion-wise, Columbus IS very well eq uip pe d. The Central of Geor gia, th e Seab oard Air L ine and th e Southern R ail road s a ll serve th e a rea . There are IO intra- citv bu s lin es as well as tw o inter- cit v ones , A fourlane ex pressway is bein g const ruc te d th rou gh th e city to con nec t with tw o m ain highways: U . S. No. 27 and (Con tinued on Page 8 ) at lea st 35 counties com pos ing its a rea and h aving been a n ac tive manufac tu r- ing cen ter since th e W ar Between the States, Columbus serves as home base for 28,000 personnel sta tioned a t th e Army's great I nfantr y Sch ool a t near- by F ort Benning, a nd a t Law son Air For ee Ba se. Columbus' estimate d population is now 87,200. Its m et rop olit an area population , second la rgest in G eorgia, is a n est ima ted 185,500. While Columbu s is a mecca for tex- tile conce rns , th e newest industri al a d diti on to th e citv is th e Sunshin e Biscuit Com pan y. ' The Sunsh ine plan t will em ploy abo u t 600, a nd re presen ts an inv estment of six milli on d ollars. Ther e wer e, a t last coun t, 187 industri es loca ted in Co lum bus. the manu fac turing in terests a lon e 'a ccount for em ploy me nt in excess of 17,000 peopl e in Co lumbus a nd l\1uscogee County. The many di ver sified conce rns produ ce eve ry thi ng from pean ut p rodu ct s to ma chine p a rt s, p roviding a bala nce of L ed g er-Bnqu'ire r St. Elmo Pool, one of Columbus' fin c municipal swimm ing pools. 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER '.. .. 1 ) " Co u r tes y Ga . P oultry Federation P art of the 1953 parad e throug h Ga inesville of th e Po ult ry Festival. Poultry Festival To Be Gala Gainesville Event The Seco nd Annual Poultry Festival will be held in Gainesville on M ay 14 and 15. On Frida y, M a y 14, a n industr y ope n h ouse will be conducted for food bu yers, food editors a nd ind ustr y lead ers. In th e evening a dinner will hon or th ese people wh o help to sell Georgia po ult ry, M ay 15, Sa turday , will begin wit h a parade th rou gh Gainesville- a poultry parad e of p rogress; the n th ere will be a chic ken-dinne r-onth e-grounds a t th e C ity Pa rk, and entertainmen t including th e cro wning of " M iss Georgia Chick," a ch icken ca rn iva l with music and fun . Travel Directors'Tour Geor gia tourism is expec ted to reap much benefit from an eigh t-day tou r made of Georgia, March 27-April 3by a group of AAA Travel Bureau D irect ors- the peop le who give information to tourists and tell th em ab out th e highw ays, scenic spots and inf orm ati on abou t th e a reas to be visit ed . The tou r over Geor gia was sponsored by th e Geor gia Chamber of Com mer ce, with Penn Worden as emcee, and a Trailway bu s provided tran sportati on leaving fr om Atlanta on Sunda y, M ar ch 28th, th e first stop was for lun ch in Macon, af te r wh ich th e Indian mou nd s a nd Council H ou se th er e wer e visited. Sunday night was spent a t Savannah , with a tou r of th at city M onday foren oon ; th en on to Brunswick for M ond a y night, with Sea I sland a nd St. Simo ns beauty a nd historic spo ts bein g shown th e next morning. A fish dinner a t O kefe no kee Swamp P a rk on T uesday wa s followed by a This colorful event honors the de- velopment of th e broiler , egg a nd tur- key business in Georgia . It will not only bring poult rymen togeth er for a festive and informati ve celebration, but also do honor to th e Am erican hom em ak er who is a n in tegral part of poultry commerce. O ver 20,000 people will pa rti cipate in th e festiviti es. Theron Brown is chairman of th e Poultry F estival thi s year; Go rdo n Sawyer is exec utive secreta ry of th e Geo rgia Poultry F ed erati on, In c., whi ch sponsors th e event. - -- -- - boat cru ise into th e swa mp; next a p ause at Valdost a a nd on to Thomasville for the night. A tour of T homasville homes and p lantat ions Wednesda y morning wa s followed by lunch at R adium Springs- and then to Fort Benning for a partial tour of this gia n t military install ation, whi ch included suppe r on th e reser vati on . Among the gues ts was Gen er al M eloy, Command an t of Benning. W ednesday night was spent in Co lumbus, and after a sumptuous br eakfast th er e Thursda y, th e party p roceeded to Warm Spri ngs for a tour of th e Little White H ou se ; th en lun ch at Ida Cason Garde ns, and to Cartersville for a cruise on Allatoona Lake, ba rb ecue supper, a nd a tour th rou gh th e Allat oon a dam inst all ati on before spending th e night at Cartersville. On Frid a y th e party visited Ke nnesa w Moun ta in, followed by br eakf ast ncar M a rietta, a nd th en th e ento urage swung int o North Georgia. The first stop was a t D ahl on ega for lunch ; th en th er e was a tour of th e former GEORGIA D EPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 April 25, 1954 Soft Drinks (Con tinued from Page 3 ) R oyal Crown Cola, Par-T-Pak beverages a nd a line of flavor s. There are several hundred employees in th e pla nt. O f the 450 bot tling pl ants supp lied wit h Nehi p roducts, 29 a re loca ted within th e bord ers of th e sta te . The Na tiona l Nu-Grap e Companv with 40 emp loyees in Atl anta not only pro duces Nu -Crape, but a line of Sun crest fruit flavor s for other soft d rinks. Approxim at ely 275 bottling pl ants through out th e nati on use Nu-Grap e a nd Suncrest flavor s in th eir bottling30 of th ese are located in Geor gia . T he conce rn also h as sales agencies in T oro nto, Bermud a and the H aw aiian Isla n d s. Greinom an's Extract Com p an y mak es man y typ es of syr up s and flav ors. They manufacture th e flavo rs for th e Sunny Isles Compan y of At lanta fr om th eir formula ; th ey make th e Orange Crush fla vor for th at company whi ch has it s headquarter s in Chicago, and has a large Southern market. Grc ino man's also manufactures th eir own line of syru ps under th e nam e " Mira." They m ak e flav orings a nd syrups for bakers a nd icc crea m pl ants, soda fountains a nd other food concerns , the only such concern in thi s pa rt of the count ry between Norfolk and Mi a mi. The G rape-D ew Compan y produces flavors called Grape-D ew and ColaD ew whi ch a re popular with bottlers. Plan s are under wa y for a new bu ilding in Atl anta for th e company 's internati on al headquarters. The Budwine Company in Athens, run by th e Costa Brothers , manufactures flavor s for Budwine, Geor gia R ed, Sun Up Gin ger Ale a nd Gimmee soft drinks. gold mining a rea , and gold "p an ning," in whi ch member s of th e p arty joined. Vogel Park was th e next stop and th en in to Blai rsville for suppe r a nd a "squ are dan ce" th at eve ning atop Neel 's Gap. F rida y night was spen t in Blairsville; Saturd ay th e pa rt y returned , via L ake Blue R idge, to Atl anta, where it dispe rsed . I nasmu ch as th e visiting mem bers of t he p a rt y representing Tourist Burca us in cities fro m Boston north to C hicago west a nd Fl or ida sou th, give prospectiv e tou rists in th eir a reas information a nd route th em , it is th ought th at Georgia will reap mu ch benefit from th e visit of these officials wh o will be able better to tell of the wonderfu l a ttractions Georgia offers th e tourist. NEWSLETTER April 25, 1954 Fannin County Citizens Make Plans and lumber manufacturing plants arc th e Blue Ridge Buildin g & Supply Co., a nd J ennings & Wri ght C orp. L umber Celebrate Its lOOth Anniversary , 0 m ills a re ac tive th ro ughout the county. .J. M . Eaton is p resident of th e Fan- nin Co un ty Bank at Blue Ridge ; M rs. T he Ci tizens of 'F a nn in coun ty a re putting on th eir best " bib and tu cker," get ting ready to celebra te th e one hundred th a nn iversa ry of th e crea tion of the county . On J anua ry 21, 1854, Gov. H er shel V. Johnson app roved the act of th e General Assemb ly of Georgia crea ting the county, wh ich was ca rved out of Gilmer a nd U nion counties. Gen eral cro ps of corn a nd grain, tru ck crops, some Bu rley tobacco- p ractically no cotton- pastures on which br ed beef a nd d a nd poult ry mak e up at hir~v Fcaatntnleinthfraivrne~ program . Population of Fannin in 1950 was 15,192, a nd Blue R idge, th e county seat, had 1,718 peopl e listed in th e 1950 census report. Other towns in th e O . E . Stewa rt is Librari an of th e Fannin Co un ty Librar y a t Blue R idge, a nd two hospit als serve the ar ea, th e Brooks H ospital, man aged by Dr. C . C . Brooks, a nd the Burns C linic, opera ted by D r. G. C . Singleton . M iss D ell H a rri ot is county nurse. TVA pr ovid es electricit y for th e section and th e dial-system, provided by th e Blue Ridge T elephone Co. , owned T he coun ty was named for Co lonel J am es Walk er Fannin, hero of Goliad , in T exas' war of independe nce; h e and his bra ve m en wh o went to aid T exas from Georgia, T en nessee a nd ""estern North Carolina , were sho t down in cold blood on Palm Sunday, M a rch 27, 1836, on orders from San ta An na afte r their cap ture a t Go liad. They had been pr om ised th eir release, but were slaugh- tered instead . The site of thi s massa- cre is one of the most sac red a nd h is- toric spots in T exas. Seven tee n years later, F annin coun- ty wa s named in hon or of Co l. Fannin . Summer weather bein g bett er th an wint er, it was decided at a m eeting held on M a rch 19 in Blue R idge a t the instan ce of Attorn ey William Butt , County Hi stori an , to hold th e celebra - tion th e week of th e last of J uly an d th e first of Au gu st. At th at time, wh en th e section will be visited by m any tourists and visitors will be flocking to th e Blue Ridge mountain s, a week filled with colorful programs, pageants, plays a nd variou s oth er en tertainmen t features will be given to portray th e dram ati c hi story of F annin Cou nt y. Car o lyn Car ter Beautiful Lake Blue Ri dge in Fannin County has over 100 mile s of shoreline. Blue R idge Lak e, on th e T occoa river, wh ich traverses th e coun ty, with a shore-line of m ore th an 100 miles, is the la rgest bod y of water in th e a rea . It is a TVA po wer-pro duc ing utility. Th e lak e draws visito rs fr om nea r a nd far for boat ing, fishin g a n d swinun ing; recreati on spo ts, ca bins a nd m an y homes line th e lak e banks. The Blu e Ridge a nd th e Gartrell hotels, a nd th ree motels, Mi mosa, J ones an d Anderson a nd several cafes a t Blue Rid ge serv e th e p ubli c. Many Farms The land a rea of F annin is 253,440 acres, conta ining 1,549 farms, op era ted almost entirely by owne rs, for in 1950 there were onlv 181 ten ants listed in the coun ty. ' county a re M cCaysville, on th e T ennessee sta te lin e, 2,067 ; M organton, 244 ; Mineral Bluff, 208, and Epworth . T he L. & N. railroad serves th e county, and h ighways a re U . S. N o. 76, a nd State Nos. 5, 60, 245 a nd 2. M uch of th e Fannin a rea is in th e Chatt ah ooch ee N ati on al Forest, whi ch is stocked with deer and oth er an imals a nd ga me. Fannin Features T h e Van R aalt e Co ., I nc., manu- fact ur ing full-fashioned nylon hosiery at its Blue Ridge p lant, employs some 175 p eop le. Walter M aebert is m anager of this pla nt. The Atlan ta O ak Flooring Co ., p rocesses lumb er at its Blue Ridge m ill. O th er la rge lumb er by H oke J ones a nd Cecil H a rtn ess also serves M organton . The 66-year old Blu e Ridge Summit Post is p ublished weekly by th e Sum mi t-Post P rin ting Co., which is th e proper ty of th e J. M. H ackn ey esta te, with J . Fred H ackney as man ager. Lu th er Cobb is ed itor and publisher of th e weekly Fannin Count)' T im es, at Blue Ridge. It is 22 yea rs old. The Blue Ridge K iwani s Clu b, D avid H aigh t, pr esident, is ac tive in seeking new industries, p rom oting a Wayside Park, sponsoring Boy Scout activities an d is taking a lively inter est in furth erin g th e F annin Centenni al. The East F an nin Co unty Lion s Club was (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE vS6L ' s z "1~dV 'C D ' S t.:;:' Li +V :0 r l~ 8 J~ A T ~ n 0 4 1 . . .r. ~ -: :-; .to / , ~ un o tt1 I ~ I 'oN l !Wl dd 'EO 'EluEIlV P!l?d a OVB Od 's'n "1J1l? "Td 99t~ ':l;lS . '( VIEJ~O:3EJ ' V.LNV-'.LV 'O.LldVO 3.LV.LS 00 I 3:::J~3~~0:::J .=10 J..N3~J..~Vd3a VI]~03] Fannin County (Cont inued from Page 7) rec ently organiz ed a t Miner a l Bluff. The ch urc h bell is loud in Fannin Co un ty, since th ere arc approximately 50 ch urc hes of seve ra l den ominati on s through out th e county. Fannin citizens are looking for ward to much imp rove me nt in th e county's sch ool building progr am ; $924 ,000 has been a lloca ted for th e constr uction of new buildings and to improve othe rs in th e county schoo l syste m. On e pr oject will be a new h igh schoo l plant to be bui lt north of. Blue Ridge th at will also serve Epwor th a nd M cC aysville. The Georgia Sta te Employment Se rvice, a unit of th e Geo rgia Dep a rt ment of L ab or, has an office in Blue Ridge and serves five cou n ties: F an nin, Pickens, U nion , T own s and Gilmer. It helps to place peop le in jobs , to supply labor, and to assist in all civic proj ects. H enry H a rdman is m an ager of th e office; W infred Powell is assista n t manager, and M iss M axin e Ray is a ide. County Officials J. C. Thom ason is m ayor of Blue Ridge and Co unc ilmen a rc : N . L. Gi lbert, Bryan Hi gd on , Winfred H arper, A. L . Bra ckett, E. E. Ti lley. Paul Hi gdon is Police Ch ief and J oe Poston is Postmaster. Fannin County officers arc: Ordi n ar y, R oy Chapma n ; C ler k of Co ur t, T ed Bru ce ; She riff, H . G . H en son ; Tax Co llector, C lyde J. H enry ; Tax R eceiver, Ll oyd Stepp; Surveyor , D . C . Col e ; Coroner, J. W . Pack ; Sch ool Superintendent, Travis Guthrie ; Co m mission er, C la ude Co llins. "D usty" J ord an is Co unty F arm Agent, and M rs. J osephine Dccs , H om e Demonstration Agent. M emb er of th e L egislature is R eid Mull, and Sta te Columbus (Con tinucd fr om P age 5) St ate No . 85. Placement of a third bridge ac ross th e C ha t ta hoo chee Ri ver is und er stu dy . A pl an for a m uni cip al a udito rium is under conside ra t ion a t Columbus. Estimated to cost $ 1,800,000 , th er e will be 3,000 p erm an ent sca ts, an icc rink inter ch an geab le with a basketball floor , a nd a la rge stage. Parkin g facilities a rc incl u ded in the pl an . The Co lu mbus Ch amber of Co mmer ce is a highl y orga nized group p resided ove r by L t. Ge ne ra l M . S. Eddy. T he Ch amber has manv subd ivisions wh ich p arti cip at e in numerou s ph ases of comm uni ty development. Eb en R eid is ma nager of th e C ha mber office' which is well-staffed and has a grea t dea l of indust ria l, commercia l a nd tourist inf orma tion on h and . T he newest pro ject of th e C ha mbe r is ca lled " T he Hub of th e Wheel." The phrase means th at Columbus a nd Fort Benning a rc th e cen ter of a circle whi ch includes th e Gu lf Coast, N ew Orleans, F lor id a -Bcachcs, th e Atla n tic O cean and th e Sm okv M ou nt ain s- all within one da y's mot oring distan ce. M an y re tire d a rmy officers a rc making th eir homes in Co lu mbus for th is adva nta ge, beside th e fact th at Fo rt Ben ning p rovides a close t ic with th eir ca reers a nd ma in in tcrcst . T wo newsp ap ers serve Co lumbus: Th e Co lu m bus E nq uirer) edited by W . Clifford Tucker, is th e morning p ap er , a nd th e Co lum bus L edger, edited by Sena to r from th e 4 1st Dis trict is C . W . Kik er. Get read y to visit Fannin Co unty soon, espec ia lly during th e C entennia l celebration thi s summe r. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO MM ERCE 8 R . W. Brow n, is th e even ing pa per. The L edger -Enqui rer Publishi ng Company is head ed by A. H . Ch ap man as presi de n t, a nd Co lonel M . R . Ash worth is publisher. T hree ra d io sta tion s ope ra te in th e a rea , a nd two T V sta tions have sta r ted ope ra tions wi thin th e past yea r. T he lead ing ag ricultural activity in th e coun ty is d airy farming. As eviden ce of th is is a fin e new dair y cooperative, construc ted last year a t a cost of one million and a h alf dollars, to serve th ose engaged in d airying an d to p rovid e fresh p roducts for consumers . Tru ck crops a re ra ised, as well as peanuts and cotto n. L ivestock, particu larly beef ca tt le and hogs, rat es high, a long with pou~try ra ising . County Officers The following a rc th e officia ls serving Muscogee County: O rdin ary, H . H . Hunter, J r.; Cler k of Cou rt, J ohn W. Blood worth ; Sh er iff, E . E . H owell; Treasurer , R . H . Ba rnes; T a x Co mmission er, Alber t R . T u rner ; Muscogee D istrict Schoo l Superintendent, W . H. Sh a w ; Su rveyor , G . V . C arr ; Cor oner, Ernest L. H owell. County Commission ers include R oy W all er as Chairman , Malcolm W. Forte, L. P. Banks, St eve Knigh t and Frank Phillips. Co un ty F arm Agent is M . S. 1'>'1 cWhirt cr ; H om e D emonstration Agent , M iss 'F ra nces W illiam son . Fi re Ch ief is 1'. C. Turner ; Police Ch ief, Ed M on cr ief. R a lph A. Sa yers IS M ayor of th e Citv of Columbu s. M emb er s of th e L egislature from M uscogee Co unty arc Mac Pickard , H owell H ollis and J. Go rd on Young. DEPAUTMENT or [OMMEU[E NEW LETTER MAY 10, 1954 NEWSLETTER 1\EWSLET1ER Puhl ish ..d semi -m on thl y h y GEOR(; IA DEPT. O F C O :\c\ IERC E 100 Sta te Capi tol * HE R:\[AN E. TALl\IADGE Gov ernor BO ARD OF COl\IMTSSTONERS EM O RY L. BUTLER Chairman L on nie A. Pope, V . Chm , Y. F. Gees lin Ben J essup Hoke Pet ers * CLARK GAI NES Secr etary Vo l. 5, No. 15 May 10, 1954 M ay 10, 1954 Watch fo r Geo rgia In Magazines N ati on a l p ub licati on s h ave in recent months focused th e spo tligh t on G eorgia as never befor e in its hi story. Every Geo rgia n wh o has read th e a rticle in th e M a rch issue of th e Natio na l G eogra phic is proud of th e fin e sto ry and beautiful ph ot ogr aphs abo ut th e sta te . And th e April issue of Co ronet contai ns a dramat ic a rticle a bo ut th e Better H om e Town Co ntest whi ch has becom e a kind of G eorgia tr adition in just a few sh ort yea rs. The D epart ment of Co mmerce h as been ad vertising in a number of maga zine s fo r a number of yea rs, a tt rac ting ind ust ry a nd to urists to th e sta te. The nat ion al m agazines which will ca rr y adv ertisements a bout Geo rgia in M ay, June an d July include th ese-swat ch for th em : SOUTH ERN O UTDOORS-M a y Issue-back cov er. H OLIDAY- -May issue. RED BO OK-May issue. L O OK-May 20th. LIFE-May 21st. SATUR DA Y EVEN I NG POSTIVl ay 22nd . PH O TOGRAPHY- June issue. T I M E- J une 7, June 14, J un e 21, J uly 12. COVER PICTURE The Alpha D elta Pi So rority M em orial Fountain a t W esleyan C ollege a t M acon is one ot th e m an y beau ty spo ts on th e camp us. For more a bout th is hi stori c college, th e oldest cha rte red college for wom en , and scenic M acon , see story on pa ge 7. - Pho to by Ca rolyn Carter. Go lfing is a popular spo r t through ou t all G eo rg ia, with exce llen t cou rses loca ted all over the state. H ere is a scene at th e Aug usta National Go lf Co urs e. Savanna h : Indepen dent O rder of Odd F ellows M eet ing, Hotel D eSoto, M ay 10-13. Co lum bus: G ran d Command er y of Knight s T emplars, Ralston H otel, M ay 11- 12. Wes t P oint : Atlanta & W est Point Centenn ial Cel ebration , M ay 12. Alba ny: Am eri can Associat ion of T extile C hemi sts and Colorists, R adium Springs I nn , May 13- 14. Savanna h : In terst at e O il Compa ct Commission M eet ing, Gen er al O glethorpe Hotel, May 13-1 5. Aug usta : Georgia Junior Chamber of Commer ce Confer en ce, Bon Air H otel, M ay 13- 15. C olumb us: Geor gia F ederation of Business and Professional ' Women's Club s, I nc., M eeting, R alston H ot el, M ay 14-16 . G a inesv ille: 2nd Annual Po ultry F estiva l, Ci ty Park, M ay 15. Co lumb us : Geor gi a F ederation of L abor Co nvention, Ralsto n H ot el, M ay 18- 21. Sava nna h : Georgia Association of In- sura nce Agents Co nve n tion, General O glethorpe H ot el, M ay 19-2 1. Sava nna h : Georgia St at e E lks Co nvention, H otel D eSot o, M ay 20- 22. Aug usta : Geo rgia M ot or T ru cking Associa tio n M eeting, Bon Air H otel, M ay 20-23. Glennv ille : T omato F esti va l, M ay 20. Albany : Georgia Societ y of Certi fied Public Accoun tants, R adium Springs Inn, M a y 27-29 . Aug usta: Di sabl ed Am eri can V et erans M eet ing, Georgia Group, Bon Air H otel , M ay 28-30. Emo ry: School of M edi cin e Cen tenni al Cel ebra tion , Emor y U niversity, J une 1-3. Macon: Order of th e Eastern St ar M eeting, Muni cip a l Au ditorium, June 6-9. A tlan ta : Geo rg ia Vocat ion a l Association M eet ing, Biltmor e H ot el, J ~ n e 10- 12. Epworth By-th e-Sea : South Georgia ' An nual Co nfer ence of th e M ethodist Chur ch, June 7-10 . GEOR GIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE 2 N EWS L ET T E R . May 10, 1954 Georgia Conserving Its Large-Water Supply WithMammoth Lakes, Numerous Farm Ponds With wat er su pply a p robl em in many sections of th e U ni ted Sta tes, a surve y of Georgia sho ws th at thi s sta te is for tuna te in h aving a high av erage rai nfa ll a n n ua lly, a large number of creeks, m an y la rge and sma ll riv ers, whose wat er is bein g conse rved by a series of lak es th at cover a lm ost 200,000 acres, some extend ing into othe r sta tes. The aver age rainfall in G eorgia is aro und 50 inches-one of the h ighest of a ny sta te in the U nion- the quantit y ranging from 70 inches in some area s of the sta te to approximately 48 inch es in ot hers, Except in extrem e cases of drouth, enoug h rai n fa lls in Georg ia to m ature practica lly a ll crops. Dry weather m ay affec t ce rta in a reas, but th e rainfa ll ove r th e sta te is usu a lly copius enough tc " m ake" all cro ps. In ad d ition to th e natural water courses ' tha t t raverse Georgia, and th e 11 large power-p roducin g a nd wat ercon trol lak es th at dot th e stat e, hundreds of sma ll Jakes have been created or " built" on farms to conse rve wat er , .to su pply th e ever-growing liv estock indu stry a nd to propagat e fish . Few sta tes in th e union are so blessed with as well-di stributed ' water supply as Georgia. Besid es the riv ers that fl~w ac ross th e sta te, some th a t form Its boun dary lines ; some that have th eir sour ce in Georgia and flow to othe r sta tes, th er e is hardly a comm unity and/ or farm th at does no t have a spring or cree k on it . Th ese afford a bountiful su p ply for pastures an d livestock . T here are also m an y private lakes an d millponds in th e sta te . W at er is found in wells a t all fa rm hom es in Geor gia , un less the hom e is close enough to a sp ring to furni sh all th e wat er need ed . Large rivers in Georgia include th e Sav a n nah, on th e easte rn border of the state which G eor gia owns to th e eastern bank. T he Sava nnah with tw o othe r riv ers, th e Tuga lo and th e C hattooga , fo rm th e ea ste rn bounda ry of Georg ia . Other la rge rivers across th e sou thern part of th e sta te a re the Ogeech ee, longest ri ver in Georgia to ret ain its r.arn e fr om its sou rce to its mouth as it flows into the Atl a nt ic ocean; the Altarnah a, largest river in th e sta te, fo rm ed at Lumber C ity by two other la rge rivers, the O conee an d th e Ocmulgee ; th e Satilla, and th e St . Marys and th e Suwan ee, both of whi ch h ave th eir sou rce in the Okefen ok ee Swa m p . Other rivers in extrem e Sou th Georgia, flowi ng southward, are th e Alapaha, W ithl acoochee, Ochlochnee a nd th e Flint, whic h jo ins th e C ha ttahooch ee a t th e southwes t corner of th e state . Here the mammoth Jim Wo odruff Lak e and Dam are bein g cre a te d. T he C hattahoochee, fo rmi ng half of th e wes t bou ndary of Georg ia, is the lon gest river in th e state. Its sou rce is in th e m ou n tain s of northeast G eorgia ; it flows southwestward to th e GeorgiaAlabama line, then turns south a nd loses its iden ti ty a t th e southwe st corner of the state, m erges w ith the F lint a nd becomes th e Apalachicola River [rom ther e to th e Gulf of Mexico. North of W est Poin t, running westward, are th e Little Tallapoosa and the T allap oosa riv ers, th e Co osa formed at Rome by th e Etowah and th e O ostanaula rivers , a nd th e C hattooga rive r. G eorgia has two C ha tto oga rivers-this one in the northw est ern part of the state an d th e on e that forms th e northeas t boundar y of Georgia. The sta te a lso has two Li ttle R ivers- one th at flows in to th e Et owah river in C herokee co un ty, and one th at flows eastward into th e Savannah river. Carte cay river is in Gilmer Co u ny. Across th e northern section of the sta te a re th e Co nasauga and Coosawa tt ee rivers th at form the O ostanaula ; th e T occoa, th e No tt ley a nd th e The Chattahooch ee R iver which flows through west Georgia. Hi aw assee riv ers th a t flow north wa rd ou t of Georgia ; the Tallu lah , flowing southeastwa rd, and wit h th e C hatt ooga, forms th e Tugaloo, which becom es the Sava nnah . Ca rolyn Ca rter Lak e Sinclair above Mill edgeville. N ea r Waycr oss, th e Alab ah a , some tim es miscalled the Alab ama, runs just ea st of Blacksh ea r to flow into th e Big Satilla R iver near Hoboken . O ther river s th at h ave th eir source in th e m ou nt ai ns are th e Soq ue and th e C hesta tee, bo th flowing into the C ha ttahoochee river. T he T estatee flows in to th e C hestatee, fa rt her north. Fa rth er south we find Broad and Li ttle R ivers flowing eas twa rd into the Sav annah ; the Ap a la ch ec, Yellow a nd Alcov y, which flow into J ackson L ak e, as does Sou th River. The Sou th Ri ver and th e F lint h ave th eir source in Fulton C ounty. T ow ali ga River , farther south, a lso flow s into th e O cm ulgee. Ther e a re a Lum ber of smaller river s, that a re ca lled both " rive rs" a nd "creeks," accord ing to th eir size a nd a rea th ey traverse. Large Lakes Large la kes th at h ave been bui lt a nd ar c under construc tion in Geor gia are: C lark Hi ll, on th e Sava nnah riv er, partly in Georgi a and Sou th Caro lina , 71,000 ac res ; Burto n R eservoir of Geor gia Power Co., on T allu lah River in (C ontinued on Page 6 ) 3 G EO RG IA DE PA R T M ENT O F COMME R CE NEWSLETTER M ay 10, 1954 GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS VVaycross VVarehouse WAYCROSS will have its fif th tobacco war ehouse ready in June wh en th e Gold L eaf T obacco War ehouse is completed. Being built by Phil Walker, Leroy Walk er, Paul Walker a nd Raymond M itchell, the war ehouse will contain 53,000 square feet of floor space, and will be located near th e Atlantic Coastline Railroad, faci litating transportation. The new wa rehouse, whe n completed, will be of galvan ized iron over a wood frame, will have an asp halt roof a nd cem en t floor . A particul a r feature of this warehouse will be th e use of Magnalite, in th e ro of. A special type of glass wh ich doesn't make sun spots or cast shadows, Magna lite will provide excellent lighting for the disp lay of the tobacco. -0- VVrens Feed Mill Plans have been completed for a new industr y to locate in WRENS . A custom gr inding tee d mill a nd fa rmers supply store, owned by C lifford M a rtin, will be call ed Mart in Mill ing Company. M odern milling equipme nt is being installed in th e plant locat ed on U. S. Hi ghw ay No.1 , and operations of th e feed mill will begin in the very near future. - 0- Roadside Parks Two new roadsid e parks have been approved by th e State Hi ghw ay D ep a I' t m en t for WR IGHTSVI LLE. These parks will provide resting pl aces a nd eating facilities for tr avelers in the ar ea . Both of the p ark s will be bu ilt on Georgia Route N o. 78- one northeast of Wri ghtsville towards Bartow, on land donated by H arl ey Fulford, th e other will be southeast to wa rd s Ad rian , nea r th e Ameri can Legion R ecr eational Cen ter. -0- Moultrie Motel Plan s h ave been an nounced for th e const ruc tion of a modern $ 150,000 I110tel in M O ULTRIE . Sou th Georgia M ot els, Inc., is sponsoring th e mo tor court which will h ave 28 units, offi ce, and man ager' s apartment. The ac commodati ons will be bu ilt in ra nch style, V -shaped, ar ound a landscaped courtya rd . Construction will be of bri ck a nd concrete, and th e entire motel will be air-conditioned . .TO OUR . READERS W e ask your coop eration in cor- recting ou r m ailing list and bring- ing it' up to dat e. Will j'OU noti fy us of your ad dress has changed . . . Som e read ers ha ve requested two or m ore cop ies of each issue for use in their business concerns; if you are receivin g m ore copies than are being read, will you let us kn ow to that effect. In notif yin g us of a change of address or duplicat ion of un used copies, please be su re to in clude your old address as well as yo ur present one . Please w rite to th e NEWS- LETTER, Georgia D epartm ent of Commerce, 100 Stat e Cap itol , At- lanta 3, Georgia. G. E. Opens Rome Plant R om e will be th e site of th e officia l dedicati on and opening to th e p ublic of an impo rtant addition to Georgia's industrial famil y on M ay 11thGe neral El ectric Com pa ny's new 25million dollar n an sforrner plant. Gen eral Elect ric's Pr esident, Ralph J. Cordiner and Lt. Governor M arvin G riffin will pa rti cip ate in th e dedication cerem onies, according to D . B. Lawton, th e .plant m anager . Visitors to th e hu ge an d hi ghly m echanized p lan t will see m edium transformers, weighin g from four to thirty tons eac h, being m ass-produced for th e first tim e in th e history of th e industr y. Star ting at th e cast end of th e plant, m aterials a re h andled and ca rried by a conveyo r system and th e com pleted tr an sformer rolls out of th e west end. M anufact urin g has been und er way for some time-th e first tran sform er was com pleted a nd delivered to th e Georgia Power Company in J an ua ry. Full production is expect ed to be ach ieved in 1955, an d eventua lly 1700 to 1800 persons will be employed at the plant. Constru ct ion of th e vast pl ant bega n in 1952. There a re ten buildings on th e sit e, incl ud ing two la rge manufacturing buildings, a n office buil din g and service bui ldings. T h e largest manufacturing bui ldi ng is 1200 feet lon g. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE 4 Modern Paul Bunyan T h e H a rris Foundry and Machine Company of CO R DELE is about to un dertake production of th eir n ewest invention, a land-clearing m ach ine th at work s on th e p rinciple of a rot ary lawn mower. It ca n clear land effici en tlv an d cheaply so th at area not in culti'vat ion now ca n be clea red a nd put to work. The machine "ea ts" grass, bushes a nd small trees, in a six, eight or ten foot swa the. The new cutt er is towed by a ca terpilla r tr actor ; it craw ls along , che wing into growth a nd leaving a trail of three-inc h stubble. Noth ing is left to be h au led away or bu rn ed. The m achine eats th e growth, chews it up an d spews it out as small particles which make a protecti ve and fertile gro und cover. This " Pa ul Bun yan " of a m achine will be in p roduction in about two months. - 0- New Rug Mill Co nstruction is u n d e l' way 111 CH ICKA M AUGA, Walk er County, on a building for H eirl oom Car pe t Mill s, In c., organized by George F. Co llins, A. H . Bat es a nd Ch arles Watkins. Construction of .th e 20,000 squa re foot building is expected to be comp leted in J une. The pl ant will manufacture ru gs, ca rpe ts a nd cheni lles. - 0- Gainesville Production GA INE SVI L L E'S n ew industry, T EV, Inc., sta rted p roduction last mo n th of 300 power lawn m owers per day. The p lant, which ca n p rod uce both electrica lly p owered mach ines an d gaso line driven m owers, has a 40,000 squ are foo t bu ilding. J im K olls is plant manager . - 0- Gas Company Th e Fa rmers Gas Company, a newly lorrned concern , is m aking its headqua rt ers in PELHAi\J. D . E. Price, Lou D . Hill, and Sam 1. Barb er ar e th e officers of th e organizat ion wh ich is construc ting offi ces and installing a 30,000 -ga llon storage tank in Pelham. NEW~LETTER M ay 10, 1954 Industrial Buford Anticipates Large Development When Dam Is Completed city, betw een Atl anta and Washin gton , D. C. Two mot els, M cN eal' s T ourist Court and Clark's 'Tourist Court provide accommodations for tourists. Buford owns its elect ric plant, ob- T he plea in th e song, "R iver stay away from my door," does not apply to Buford, since this industr ial city looks with favor to th e time wh en th e multipurpose Buford Dam an d Lake will come within three miles of th e city. T he Cha ttahooc hee R i vel' , upon which th e huge proj ect is situated, is six m iles (rom Buford , and wh en it is completed, the sho re line of 580 mi les Buford to manu fac tur e sea t covers. Alan Pitt ard is manager of thi s firm , which em ploys approxim ately 200. Mor eno Press, esta blished in 1916 by Earl y Wilb anks wh o died in 1952, publishes th e Buford Advertise r, the weekly newspap er, and also opera tes an extensive printing business, specializing in labels, tags, tickets, etc. M rs. Wilbanks, own er an d ope ra tor of the business, has associated wit h her in its taining power fro m the Georgia Power ' Co ., which it distribut es to its cus to- mers; a natural gas line supplies th at commo dity. Hutchins M emorial H ospital is oper- at ed by Dr. W. J. Hutchins, and by his son, Dr. Harry Hutchins, wh o is now serving in th e Arm y. Mrs. Garland Benn ett is Administ rator of th e mo dern facility. T he H ealt h Clinic is sponsored by the Senior and J uni or will be ju st on th e outskirts of th e city. The lake will not only pro vid e an ample wat er supply for Buford , all Gwin nett County, DeKalb Co unty, hu t will also assure growing Atl anta with an ad equ at e reservoir of wat er. East- war d, Gain esville and that area will be supplied. R ecreat ion al and fishin g facilities will also be greatly improved . Situat ed in th e northeast section of large Gwinn ett County, Buford's populat ion, with two adjo ining ind ustrial areas, was given in 1950 as 4,742, it being th e largest city in th e coun ty. Procl aim ed as th e "H ome of Bufo rd Dam and center of industrial development of northeast Georgia," the city was found ed by th e lat e 1'. S. Garner and L arkin Smith in 1869. In 1873, Bona Allen, Sr. began a sma ll leather bu siness th ere, which grew into th e hu ge Bona Allen leather goods manufacturer s, giving employment to hundreds of people of th e area. Bona Allen , I ncorporated, now ar e manufacturers of saddles, harness, other leather goods and ope ra te one of th e largest tanneries in the world. The p resent firm is op erated by John and Bona Allen, Jr., sons of Bona Allen , Sr., who died in 1925. The firm employs about 500 people. The Geor gia Sho e Mfg. Co., Sam L. Perling man ager, em ploys approxima tely 150 a t its Buford plant, and approximately 150 at th e firm' s plant at nearb y Flo wery Bran ch . The concern mak es boots and shoes. Chicopee Mfg. Corp., J. L. Hall local manager, affords em ploymen t to ma ny at its Buford plant, wh ich manufac tur es fiber glass and lumite screen wire. Fry-Duluth Inc., has leased a building and will soon move its plan t to Two dramatic scenes in th e constru ct ion of Buford Dam. opera tion her two brothers, Paul a nd Bill Cain , plant man agers. The firm employs 15 people and ha s a large, modern plant. Sawing of timber and p rocessing lumb er is an ac tive Buford ind ustry, three firm s being th e H amner Lu mb er Co ., W. R owe Pu gh and th e K elly Lumber Co. Blue Ridge Mfg. Co . em ploys ap proximately 50 people in th e manufacture of linen goods. Buford -is on the doubl e-track, main line of th e Southern R ail road , whi ch plan s to erect here a mod ern pa ssenger and freight depot. The Southern Bell T elephone Co. , has erected a new bui lding here and h as insta lled th e dial system . Buford is served by two highwaysIT. S. 23 and State 20. The city looks forw ar d to th e completion of the p roposed fou r-lane highway through the Women 's Clubs, Mi ss Electra Ki mbrough, Co unty nu rse in charge, assisted by Mrs. Frank R obinson. The Clini c is located in th e Buford H ousing proj ect. J ohn Carter is p resident of th e Bu- for d Co mmercial Ban k, and J. F. H am- ilton cashier. W. O . Pu ckett is Com mand er of th e Am erican Legion Post. Its ' h om e here cost approxima tely $75,000 and th ere are plan s to add a mod ern swimming pool. Buford is proud of its five-acre Youth Cente r, p rovid ing facilities fo r youth activities, it having a lar ge swimmi ng pool, barbecue pit s, picn ic tab les, swings and other equipme nt. H . W . Gardn er is presid ent of th e C en ter Orga n iza t ion. Buford has its own school system, which includes a high and grammar school for whites and high and gram- (Continued on Page 6 ) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Two Festivals Celebrate Soon Two importan t Geor gia festiva ls will tak e place in th e ve ry nca r future : th e T om at o Fes tiva l a t Glennv ille will be -a n even t of M ay 20th, and th e W at ermelon F estival a t Cordele will begin on Jun e 7th and continue th rou gh July 3rd. T he Glennvi lle Tomato Festival will beg in with a parad e with a number of bands a nd march ing un its an d b eautiful float s. A golf exhi bitio n will be given, a T omato F estival Q ueen will be cro wne d; a flower show will be h eld , followe d by a stre et dance and th e traditional Queen 's 13 a II . Govern or Talma dge will be th e princ ipa l speaker of th e day. T he W at ermelon F estival a t C ordele will be th e n inth annual celebration in favor of th is po pula r summer fruit. It is spo nsor ed by th e Cordele M erchants Associatio n, a divi sion of th e Crisp Co un ty Chamber of Commerce, Earl Mur rav Mi ss Billie Cunningham , Watermelon Queen of 1953 . and features street dan ces, d rawing of priz es donat ed by m er ch ants and, of course, fr ee wat ermelon. Buford (Con tinued from Page 5 ) ma r schoo ls for colored . T h e white high schoo l is to be enla rged t o ca re for all high schoo l pupils in n orth Gw inne tt Co unty. A. L. C la rk is superinten de nt of th e schoo l, whi ch employs 25 teach ers. A new $25 0,000 gra mmar sch ool is to be erec ted. Buford boasts of one of th e fin est gym nasiums in th e nation. Thom as Riden is h ead coach and Ger ald M eQuaig assista n t coac h of a th letic ac tiviti es. F our den om ination s- Baptist, M ethodist, Presbyteri an and Ch urc h of God - h ave ch urc hes in Buf ord . The C ity Library, spo nso red by th e Senior W oman's C lub, h as as it s Libra rian , Mrs. M . E . Brogd on . C lubs include Kiwanis, Li on s, Ame rica n L egion , Senior a nd Junior W om an's Clubs, L egion Au xiliary, T allul ah Fall s Circle. .J. C . Dover is City M an ager of Bu- for d, a nd Co mm issioners a re Li on el Drake, E. E. R obinson , A. E. Hamner. J. C . M er ritt is C ity Cler k; R aymond Sm ith, Police and Fire Chiefs. E. W . White, J ud ge of Buford C ity Court, is also a m emb er of th e L egislature from Gwinnett Co unty . R ay M errit is City Solicitor. Water Conservation (Con tinued from Page 3 ) R abun Co unty, 2,800 ac res ; L ake R abun (Math is development ) , Geo rgia Po wer Co., on Tallulah Ri ver, R abun Co unty, 830 acres ; Tugal o R eservoir, G eorgia Power Co ., on Tugal o River, 600 ac res, p artly in Georgia and Sou th Carolina ; L ake J ackson, Georgia Power Co., on O cmulgee Ri ver, near J ackson, Ga. , 4,800 ac res ; Sincla ir R eservoir, G eorgia Power Co ., on O con ee River, a b a v e Milledgeville, 15,000 ac res; Lak e Blackshear, owned by Cris p C ounty, on Flint River, near Cordele, 8,000 ac res; Allat oona L ak e a nd D am , on Etowah R iver, east of C art ersville, ) 0,500 acres, constructed by th e C ovem me nt ; Buford L ake a nd D am , on Cha tta hoochee Ri ver, near Buf ord , Ga. , 37,100 ac res, bei ng built by th e Govern me nt to be com plete d by 1958 ; Bartlett's F er I' y R eservoir, Georgia Power Co ., on th e Chattahooch ee river, above Co lumbus, 5,000 ac res, partly in Al ab am a ; Jim W oodruff L ak e and Dam , by th e Go vernment on th e Ap alachicola, Chatta hoochee and Flint Ri vers, partl y in G eorgia, Florida and Alab am a, 37,000 ac res, to be com p leted in 1955. These large lak es total n early 200,000 ac res, wh ich afford wa te r con trol, power, wat er supply, boating and fishing. In addition, several h und red farm po nds h ave been built ove r th e stat e GEORGIA DEPART M ENT OF CO M M ERCE 6 May 10, 1954 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS MA CON-Gas Equipment an d Air Conditioning Co m p any, constr uc tion of cooling towers, $ 17,235. ATLANTA-Empire Gas En gineer- ing Company, additions to aircra ft re- fue ling system , $ 19,183. TH OiyJAS VILL E-Rose K ist F oods. Inc., pimientos, $59 ,535. . ATLANTA-Atlant a Pap er Com- pan y, ca rto ns, $80, 673. MA CON-Louis Briggs Co nstr uc- tion Co m pa ny, construc tio n of barrack s a nd rela ted faciliti es, $799 ,98 6. A T LANT A- Eng ineering- Co ntra c- tors, Incorp orated , insta lla tion of air conditioning, $95 ,350. A T LANT A-W i II M anufact ur ing Company, shirt-flying m en 's wool ser ge coa ts, $171 ,121. l ON ESB OR O-Bowers Shee t M etal Compa ny, repleni shment of h ardwa re, $ 15,420. CO R DE LE- Butler Box & C rate Compa ny, p allet s, $26,900. THOMA STON-Thom aston Mi lls, Bleach ery Di vision , fin ishing cloth , $ 10,062. ATLANTA-Babcock & Wi I c o x Co m pany, h ou sing u nit assemb lies, $ 10,4 79. HAMP T ON - So u th e r n St a tes Equipment Co rpo ra tion, disconnecting switches, $29,000. MARI ETTA-N 0 I an d Co m pa ny, Inc., fir ebox boiler, $21, 943. ATLA NTA-Diam ond Power Sp e- cialty Co rpo ra tion, c/ o Boiler Eq uip- m ent Service Co m pa ny, soot blowers and push button p an els, $29,021. COLUM BU S- W righ t Co ntracting Company, conc rete m attresses, $652 ,- 320. which conserve 'wa ter for fa rm u sc, for livesto ck and fishing an d boating. Geo rgia h as a bountiful wat er sup Fly, both for industry, far ming and oth er pu rposes. Georgia is practi cally fr ee of 'serious flood s. Nearl y all stre ams h ave th eir sour ce in th e sta te, or are "owne d" by it, thus it ca n control th e wa te r flow. The huge O kefeno kee Swa mp , con taining m ore th an a half million acres, is covered by wate r practi call y all th e tim e, th e wat er -level gett ing low only in extreme d rouths. App roxim at ely two-thirds of Geo rgia's boundary lin es a rc formed by wat er- rivers, lak es and th e Atl anti c O cean. NEWSLET T ER M ay 10, 1954 Macon Fine Cultural and Educational" been recognized ever since. \Vesleyan Conserva to ry gran ted its fir st degr eeth e first d egr ee to be granted to a wo- Center and Manufacturing Metropolis man in this country-in 1840-two year s before Sidn ey Lani er a ppea red Wh at would Sidney Lani er find in Macon tod ay ii, after over 100 yea rs, he ret urne d to have a glimpse a t th e city of hi s birth ? For one thing, he would find that the house in whi ch h e was born has oven m ore charm, becau se of th e yea rs th at hav e grac ed it, a nd th at it is one of th e most cherishe d and respected sites in th e region . H e wou ld also fin d that Wesleyan Conserva to ry, where J:1e ta ught mu sic, ha s rem ain ed an impor tant educa tiona l institution and h as expanded on a ca mpus north of th e city with h andsom e bri ck build ings a nd spac ious grounds. R em ainin g sti ll a re th e lovely ga rde ns and la rge, whitecolumned homes whi ch lend th eir gen erous dignity to a ra pidly expanding industri al community- but thi s would be new to Sid ney Lani er. M acon h as kept her ch arm wh ile becom ing the cen ter of industry a nd tra de for middle Georgia . Indeed, "T he H eart of Georgia"-17 Y2 mil es from th e geogra ph ical center of th e state-sup plies many of the needs of 26 coun ties ; th is vast a rea in turn sup plies M acon with th e basic resources to manufacture th ese goods. It is a truly well-integr at ed area. Th e agricultura l sections surro unding M acon supply her with food a nd cott on for her texti le fa ctor ies ; h ardwoods com e fro m th e wooded sections; Full ers Earth and K aolin, two impo rtant kinds of white clay, are m ined extensively for use in m an y ind ustries. T hese, a nd man y othe r resou rces, p rovide th e basis for 173 m an ufact ur ing plan ts- wh ich in turn employ 36,630 peopl e. M acon conce rns pr odu ce a lar ge a rray of diversified p roducts. The newest manu facturers to establish th ere ar e the Park Sunbeam Fold ing Box Com pan y which em ploys about 50 under th e m anagem ent of Paul H oward , a nd th e Strc itma n Biscuit Co mpa ny, produ cers of six maj or br ands of cookies and crac kers, em ploying over 200. Famous Features Sidney Lani er, through hi s m elodi c poetry, mad e important contributions to th e lit erar y world . .H e also brou ght fam e to M acon. But M acon, long before th e birth of th e poet in 1842, was well known . Indian s h ad a lar ge settlem ent th ere-for centur ies before th e pioneers ca me. The O cmulgce N at ion al M onumen t th ere h as m uch evide nce of their ha bitation a nd relics of th eir civiliza tion. Its und ergrou nd Indian Council H ouse, whi ch served as a meeting pla ce for the chiefs f rom th rou ghou t th e ar ea, is rega rd ed as one of th e greatest ar chaeologica l find s in Am erica . T he mou nd s th em selves have proven highl y valuable in revea ling th e custom s of Geor gia's aborigines. F ort H awki ns, used in th e War of 1812, is a symbol of th e first wh ite men in th e area. About 20 year s lat er th e first group of whi te settlers mad e M acon th eir perm an ent hom e. They named Macon in honor N atha niel Macon , a sta tesman from North Ca rolina of th e 18th centur y. It was nam ed th e coun ty sea t of Bibb C ounty, created by an ac t of the Legislat ur e in 1822. Bibb Co un ty's na me is a tribute to Dr. W. W. Bibb, a citi zen of Elb ert Coun ty, wh o h ad died two yea rs previously. H e was not only a Geor gia State R ep resent ati ve Co ke' s Indian Pottery at th c O cmulgc c National l\Ionument. and Sena to r, a nd a R epresent at ive a nd Sena tor in th e U . S. Co ng ress, but a lso th e first T erri torial Govern or of Alaba ma , first Governor of th e Sta te of Alab am a-and a countv in Alab am a also is na med for him . . M acon grew rapidly in th e n ext few yea rs; hom es a nd comm ercial buildmgs, schools a nd churc hes were builtan d its commerce and cult ure have M a co n Chamber of Com merce The doorway of th e Administration building at Mercer University, a co-educ a tional Baptist institution. in thi s world- on High Stree t, a few blocks away . T he n M acon becam e th e h ome of M ercer U niversity, a fine liberal a rts institution wh ich moved fr om Penfield, Green e Co unty. Now M acon is also the hom e of Geor - gia Ba ptist Co llege, wh ich is a ju nior college for Negroes, th e Georgia Aca de - my for th e Blind , th ree comm ercial schoo ls, severa l vocationa l scho ols, two par ochi al schoo ls, an d 36 pu blic schoo ls in the M acon- Bibb Co untv Pu b I i c Sch ool System . Fine Facilities M acon is an attrac tive city, h as a pleasant clim ate and a friendl y atmosph ere- and excellen t facilit ies for all kinds of ac tivities. Perh aps this is one reason why m an y conventions m eet th ere. Twelve h ot els a nd 15 m otels acco mmo date visitors . Th e Municipa l Auditoriu m, seating 3,300 is th e logical site for ma ny m eeti ngs a nd pr esen tation s. Central C ity Pa rk is a lovely a rea ; 19 oth er pa rks and an equa l n umber of playgr ounds, swimming pools, a public golf cou rse, tenn is cour ts a nd a ba seball field provide am ple recrea tion grounds. And th e " Peaches," M acon's (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO :MM ER C E vS6L ' O L AV~ " ~. :-- .' ~ .', T- u n o q.L ::-~':("' T -' T: : l ll::- ;:' V I ~ I 'oN :l!Wl;:ld 'BD 'B:lUBP V P!Pd 3:DV.LSOd 'sn '(I 'S" T d ggtl> ' O;l S VIEJ~03EJ 'E V.lNV'.lV 'C.J.ldVO 3.J.V.J.B CC I 3:J~3~~0:J ..:10 .lN3~.l~Vd3a vm~03~ Macon (Con tinued from Page 7) own baseball team, is enth usiastically sup ported. Three airlines, five railroads and four m ain hi ghw ays constitute an excellen t tr an sportation netw ork. All th e principal den om inations a re represented in 147 ch urc hes. On e mun icip al and th ree private hospit als serve th e region . Three bank s have combined assets of over 430 m illion doll a rs. T he source of wat er supply is th e O cmulgee River. At th e moment, a $700,000 wat er- system exp ansion progra m is under way to in crease Macon's water supply by six milli on gallons more per day. Two othe r wat erw ays run through Bibb Co unty : th e T obesofkee an d th e E ch econ ee C reeks. Macon 's Chamber of Comme rce is an ext remely alert organiz ation wh ich promotes a nd particip at es in m any civic affa irs. The office is well-staffed and h as a grea t inf ormati on at h and. Tom Green e is m an ager of th e Chambe r. F ou r radi o stations serve Macon and middle G e 0 r g i a: WBML, WIEB, WMAZ, and WNEX, and two TV stations . Two oth er important comm unica tions med ia a re th e Macon n ewspapers. Both a re own ed by Peyton Anderson, but sep arat ely edited an d staffed, th ey give complete morning and even ing cove rage. Th.e M aeon T elegraph, edited by Burt Stru by, is th e morning pap er. The T elegraph wa s foun ded in 1826, or fou r yea rs after th e creation of th e county. The Ma con N ews, edited by J oe Parh am , is 70 yea rs old th is year. Officials Macon's govern me nt consists of a Mi nm g Kaolin, one of Bibb Co unty's most important M ayor, B. F . M erritt, a nd 15 C ity Councilme n . Mallory C. Atk inson is J udge of th e Supe rior Co ur t of th e City of M acon ; Solicito r Gen eral is O scar L ong. Bibb County is gove rne d by five Commissione rs: Wm . A. Fi ckling is Chairman, M. L. N ewberry, Secretary ; L. J . Brown, J. W. D enson, K. W. Dun- wody an d K enn eth Car swell complete th e board. R epresentatives to th e Sta te L egislat ur e from Bibb County include John H arris, Jr., D enmark Groover, J r., a n d Andrew W . M cK enna . Other Bibb Coun ty officers incl ude Walter C. St evens, Ordinar y ; R . E . Raley, Clerk of Court ; J ames 1. Wo od, She riff; Daniel D . Dunwody, T ax Co mmission er ; Mrs. Agn es L . Freen ey, Treasur er ; Frank B. West, Su rveyor ; Lester H . Chapman , Coroner; M ark A. Smith, County Sch ool Superi nt enden t an d J. Ellsworth H all, County Attor- ne y . Fire C hief for M acon is B. H. Brown ; Police Chief, Ben T. Watkins. County F arm k gent is D. F. Bru ce ; Home Demonstration Ag e nt , Mi ss Frances Lowe. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 , DEPAUTMENT OF [DMMED[E NEW LETTER .\.. I MAY 25 . 1954 NE WSLETTER NEWSLEITER Published semi-monthly by GE OR G IA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 Sta te Capitol * HERJ'vIAN E. TALMAD GE Go ver n o r BOA R D OF COMMISSIONERS EM O RY L. BUT L ER Chairman Lonnie A. Pope, V. Chm. Y. F. Geeslin Ben J essup Hok e Peters * CLARK GAINES Sec reta ry Vol. 5, No. 16 May 25, 1954 M a ); 25, 19.'i\ Southe rti Hot els Guide Available The Sou the rn Sta tes Hotel Association has recentl y published th e 1954-55 edition of th e Southe rn H otel s Directory. The Di rectory, a n a ttractive a nd convenientlv-sized br ochure, lists over 1,300 hotel~ in twelve Southe rn sta tes. T he hot els included in th e listings a rc all mem bers of th e Southe rn States H otel Associations and th e America n H otel Associa tio n whic h requ ire high sta ndards of elea nliness an d safetyand th e memb er h otels ar e pledged to give good serv ice. Along with th e listin g of th e hot el by geogra phical location, th e broch ure sta tes th e numb er of rooms availa ble, th e man ager of th e hotel's nam e, a nd th e rat es cha rged fo r accommodations. The Director y is of value to all wh o motor throu ghout th e South and will be a particu lar asset to touri sts-and to th e tourism bu siness in thi s area. Copies of th e brochure m ay be obtain ed by writing to th e Geor gia H otel Associati on , 80 1 Rhodes-Hav erty Build ing, Atla nta 3, Geo rgia . COVER PICTURE The Administra tion Buildin g of North Georgia Co llege a t D ahl onega stands on th e site of th e United Sta tes Mi nt whi ch was esta blishe d th ere in 1837 and ope rated u nti l 1861. The mint bu rne d in 1878 a nd th e p resen t building was erected in 1879. F or more about Dahl onega, Lumpkin County a nd it s p opular tourist a ttraction, gold pan nin g, sec page 6. - Photo by Carolyn Carter. . l<.a gl ~nd S tudio and Eng!'aving Co. SunrIse. ove~ the Golden. Isle;s of Geo rgia IS.a glOrIOUS SIght . T ourists and other VIsitors to these h istori c and beautiful Islan ds know this as only one of the man y magical deligh ts of th is coastal region. Albany- Georgia Societ y of Certified Public Accountant s M eetin g, R adi um Sp rin gs Inn, M ay 27-29. Augusta - Di sab led Am erican V eterans, Georgia Group "M eeting, Bon Air H ot el, M ay 28-30. Atlanta-South Atlant ic Dru g Club Co nvention. Dinkier-Plaza. M av 30- June 3. ' ". Emory-School of M edi cin e Centenniel Celebrati on, Emor y U n iversity, June 1-3. Macon-Order of th e E astern St ar M eeting, Municipal Auditorium , J une 6- 9. Corde le-Opening F estiviti es of th e Watermelon F estival, June 7. Epworth -by -the-Sea - South Geor gia Annual Confer en ce of th e M ethodi st Church, June 7-10. At hens-Gradu ation and Alumni D av, U niversi ty of Georgia, June 7. . , Eatonton-Dai ry Fest ival, J un e 8-9. Savannah- Georgia Ba r Associa tion Convention , H ot el DeSot o, June 912. Atlanta- Georgia Vocation al Association Con feren ce, Biltmor e H ot el, June 10-12. Emory-Advertising In stitute, Emor y U niversity, J u ne 11-12. Macon-Delta T ank O pe n H ouse. Cer emonies at th e Pla n t. June 11 . " At lanta-Lions Clubs of Georgia Convcn tion, Biltmore H ot el, Ju ne 13-1.'i. Athens-Summer Music C linic, U niversity of Georgia, June 13-25. Atlanta-Southeastern Travelers Ex- hibitor s Con vention , Aud itorium . June 13-1 6. " " Augusta-Veteran s of F oreign \ Va rs, Geo rgia Con vention, Bon Air H otel, June 17-20. Atlanta -Countv Officer s Associati on of Geor gia M eet ing, H enry Gra dy H otel , June 17-18. Savannah - Southeaste rn P r i n t i n g T ra des Confere nce . H otel D eSoto. June 18- 21. ' . Co lumbus- Geor gia Societ y of P rofessional En gin eers Con vention , R alston H ot el, June 18-1 9. Atlanta- Geor gia F eed a nd Pou ltry Association Con feren ce. D in klcr- Plaza , Ju ne 21-22. . Athens-Man agement I nstitu te for Pe- trol eu m M a rketers, U niv ersitv of Georg ia, June 21-23. . Sava nna h-Georgia Sta te C hampion Skeet T ournam en t. H ot el D eSoto. June 25-27. . Augusta- Georgia Conferen ce of V etera ns Services, Bon Air H ot el, june 25-26 . GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 NE WSL ETTE R M ay 25, 1954 Stone Mountain, Georgia's Wonder of Some 200 Million Years, Still Draws Many Visitors Geo logists ha ve estima ted the ag e of the gra nite in Stone M ountain as 200 million years . A lot of things h ave happ en ed in th at tim e. The ea rth hascha nge d its face severa l tim es, bu t ~cient ists say th at Sto ne M oun tain has rema ine d abou t th e sam e. T he only recorded difference is in the creatu res wh o h ave frequented the mou ntain. Back in prehistoric times they used to be m astod on s. T od ay, they a re pickni ckers a nd tou rists. The la rgest rock in th e Western M ountain in North Georgia, tha t it was const ructed by DeSoto. Oppon ents of this theo ry assert th a t if D eSoto h ad ever tied hi s for ces down in a single spot, th e Indi an s would h av e annih ilated th em , th at instead he h ad to depend upo n th e strategy of a ttack. T he remains of th e Ston e M oun tain fort were dissipated over the years by young boys using th e rocks to throw down th e mo untainside. About a mil e high and seven miles in circumference a t its base. th e moun- Planned for th e sheer side of th e mo unta in is a memoria l to the Confederacy. G utzon Borglum, executor of th e Black M ountain colossus, was th e first sculp tor to work on th e Stone M ountain M em orial to th e Co nfe de racy. H e began drilling in 1915, but Worl d War I interrupted. H e resum ed work in 1920, but a few years la ter quit in a h uff followin g a quarrel with sponsors .over finan ces a nd p rogress of th e ca rvmg. Borglum, before leavin g, destroyed C aroty u Car re: M assive granite S ton e Mo untain looms up on th e horizon. Caro ly n Car -ter Th e plast er sculp tu re model for Stone Mountain. Hemisphe re, Ston e M oun tain never has been properly exploited as such. N obody ever seeme d to ca re too much about it. The Indian s however, held it in high rega rd a nd in' awe. T hey held th eir imp ortant t ribal c~nfe ren ces on top of it a nd th e last big pow-wow of the Creeks was staged th ere. DeSoto, ea rly in th e Sixteenth C~n tury, was said to have been the first whi te man to lay eyes upon th e mountai n. H e nam ed it th e New Gilbra ltar. a pseudonym th at stuc k un til compar- atively recent yea rs. Histo rical a utho rities tell of a fort built of rock once locat ed on th e mo un tain, erected presumably by I nd ia ns. and according to some, by a pre-Chero kee tribe. Others conten d, as th ey do in rega rd to the fort remains on Fort ta in ea ts deep into the ea rth. Atlanta sits on top of one of its granit e roots . These veins of granite, considered finest in th e world, have yielde d stone used to bui ld th e locks of th e Pan am a Cana l, th e dom e of th e gold dep ository a t Fo rt Kn ox, th e ste ps of th e Ea st Win g of the U. S. Cap itol building, th e Treasury Building in W ashin gt on , th e C uban Capitol at H avan a an d, closer to home, the Fu lto n Count" Courthouse an d th e Federa l Prison. . Altho ugh treach erou s, few recorde d tragedies have occurred on th e mountain. On e man lost his life during th e carving of th e unfinished m em ori al, A girl once fell 300 feet down its side , but hit a led ge, was rescued an d lived to be a grandmother. H eroi c feats to rescue an ima ls who have fallen off th e mounta in have been frequ ent . all h is mo de ls a nd tried to obliterate th e ac tual carving. In hi s haste, h e didn't finish destruction of the carving. but Augus tus Lukem a n, th e second a rtist com m issioned saw to that. Lukem an spe n t some time destr oying Borglum's unfinished carving and by th e tim e h e com pleted a new m od el, the mo ney was all gon e. As a result , th e monument was lef t in its pres ent sta te, consisting of a nearly complete figu re of L ee on horse back and two outlines of Jackson and Davis. R enewed efforts to build th e M emorial are now und er way. Wh en completed , it will comprise th e world's most heroic gro up of figu res. The great Sp hinx of Giza h, could be h idd en behind th e figure of L ee on horseback. The Co lossus of M emnon at T hebes would scarcely reach to his stirrup. G EO RG IA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ER CE NEWSLETTER May 25, 195\ GEORG/II PIIRIIDE OF PROGRESS New Baxley Industry Operation s are expected to sta rt early in th e fall by Mill er Western Wea r, Inc. , in a new building to be constru cted in BAXLEY, Appling County. The conce rn, with h eadqua rters in D enver, Colorado, will m anufacture boys' and girls' western style sh irts, pants and jack ets. They will lease an d occupy a building to be erecte d by Appling- Industries , Inc. The bui ldin g will h ave 21,000 sq ua re feet of floor space, will be ai rconditioned, and will be constructed at a cost of about $100 ,000. Approximately 100 people will be em ployed by the conce rn in the starting- months, and double that number will be employed as production gets fully under way. Mr. William A. Cowarte is president of Mill er W estern W ear, Inc. -0-- Metter Garment Plant Pla ns are under way in METTER for th e construction of a p lant which will house a ga rme n t fa ctory head ed by Jim Peterson. The building, to be ~on structed at a cost of $60 ,000 , will be erected' by th e Candler County Development Corporation. The garment firm will employ approximately 150 p eop le . - 0-- Carrollton Company A Lin en dyein g company has purchased th e No . 2 mill property of th e form er Mandeville Mi lls of CA RROLLTON and will start operations in th e very near future. The concern will em ploy 300 men in dyeing- and finishing all types of printed cloth. In cluded in the purchase is a rai lroad siding an d warehouse space. - 0-- Brunswick Port Pla ns h ave been approved for th e dev e lopmen t of port facilities at BRUNSWICK. The City a nd County Commissions plan to purchase waterfront property now owned by th e Southe rn Railwa y Company and to construct a dock th ere at a cost of $300,000 . The proposed dock will be 90-feet long and equipped with dolphins so tha t ships longer than th at will be ab le to use th e dock. Manufacturing concerns and shrimp boats will be able to use the dock. Gainesville Enterprise A new spo rting goods company is opening in GAIN ESVILLE. T o be operate d by .J. Larry Kl eckley, th e film will manufacture th e K lecklev Red -Pak. This is a fishing rod case, de"signed to carry several fishin g rod s at once in a conve nien t m anner. The in vention is being p at ented and manufacture will begin in th e summe r. - 0-- Grain Storage Redman Seed Compan y has built a new steel grain warehouse in JA CK SON which has a capacity for over 75,000 bushels of grain . I n PERRY, two n ew grain storage bu ildings a re read y. D avis Compan y, Inc., h as constructed a warehouse with a 150,000 bu shel capacity, and A. C . Pritch ett's new bu ilding will nearly equa l it. - 0-- .Roadside Parks Are Enhancing Georgia The com pletion of a R oad side Park on U . S. Hi ghw ay 23 outside of CO CH R AN has been announced . The park will serve motorists who wish to stop and rest a nd have picnic lunch es out-of-doors. The Coch ran - Bleckley County J unior Chamber of Commerc e sponsored th e project an d was aided by Vance Wimberly, who leased th e land fre e of charge, th e Cochran Garden Club, whos e m emb ers landscaped th e grounds, a nd th e State Highway Department. Work is well un derway on a nothe r roadside park at POULAN , Worth County. The Highway Dep artment is helping wit h the development of thi s park also, and th e the Pou lan H ome Demonstration Club will help to beautify the gro unds. Much of th e a rea will be left as woods ; th e clea red portion will have a semi -circular drive, a parking area, tables an d ben ch es. A small stream which runs through th e park area will add to th e attracti ven ess of th e spot. At OCILLA, ,the Irwin County 4-H C lub and many other inter ested citi zens have apark un der wa y on Geor gia Route 32 near th e community of MYSTIC. T he park will serve the commun ity as well as m otorists through the area. I t has not only picnic facilities, but a ba seball diamond and hors eshoes area. GEORGIA D EPARTMENT OF COMM ER CE 4 Tobacco VVarehouses BLACKSHEAR will be th e site of two more tobacco warehouses whi ch will be read y for th e comi ng tob acco au ction season. Construction is well under way on th e fa cilities which a re owned by B. B. R ogers. The war e- h ouses will have 102,400 squa re feet of floor space each . Three n ew wa rehouses ar e un der way at V IDALIA. One is being constructed by J ohn R. Murry and King R oberts whi ch will contain some 150,000 squa re feet of floor spa ce. Vanns Warehouses. Inc. is constructing the fourth ware: hous e of th e fi rm in Vidalia ; thi s one will contain 100,000 squa re feet . The third new wareh ouse for thi s city whi ch is being const tion of Easley, r uc W ted by th alk er and eBaonr~aeasniwz ial-l con ta in 120,000 squa re feet of floor sp ac e. - 0-- HIGHLIGHTING OU{( P{(OG{(ESS Seatrain Lines, Inc., has been given a p ermit to operate ocean-going fr eight service between Savannah and new York . .. . Sylva nia Garment Compan y will manufacture some 35,000 doze~ pajamas this yea r for H ollida y Pa- jamas, I nc. . . . Milledgeville State Hospital Lawren ce Warehouse was re- cen tly dedi cated . . . . Contract h as been a warde d for th e construction of a Na- tional Guard Armory at LaGrange. . . . Radio Station WBRO has been ded icated and sta rted ope ra ting- ju st outside Waynesboro . . . . Plan s have been approved for a N ational Gu ard Armory-Au ditorium in Moultrie. . . . Two housing projects ar c under wa y in Athens, and 300 hou sing units are pl anned for Milledgevill e. . . . Cochran's Junior Chamber of Com mer ce has issued a booklet on Co chran a nd BIeckley County. . . . A n ew jail a nd sheriff's reside nce a re being built in Tifton. . . . W hitfield, Elbert and Gwi nne tt Counties won agricultural awards for progress in th e contest sponsored by th e G e o I' g i a S ta t e Chamber of Commerce. . . . A complete industrial survey of Screven County has been prepared by the Chamber of Commerce of Sylvania.. . . Ame ric us will soon have new sewa ge (Contin ued on Pa ge 8 ) NEWSLETTER M a y 25, 195--1 Oglethorpe County Is Duly Proud Of Its History, Great Men, Progress No Pau l R evere rode to th is tow n as in Lexin gt on, M assachusetts; no racehorse fa rms high light th e blue-grass count ry as Lexington, K entucky ; it hasn' t a fam ous college as does Lexington, V irg inia, bu t Lexington , Georgia, does h ave severa l claims to fame. Lexington was the home of Gov ern or Gilmer, of Govern or Lumpk in, and Stephen Upson. Gov ernor R ockin gh am Gilmer served th e sta te as Governor from 1829 until 1831, and aga in from 1837 to 1839. Wilson Lu mpkin held th at office for four yea rs between Gilmer' s terms from 1831 unti l 1835. It was for L umpkin' s d au gh ter, M a rth a, th at M a rthasville whic h la ter became At la nta, was named. Steph en Upson was a memb er of th e Legislature. All three of th ese men h ad the honor of havin g coun ties in th e sta te nam ed for th em . Gilmer County is in northwest Geo rgia, (N ewslclt c;, October 25, 1953 ) . Lu mpkin County in m iddl e north Geo rgia is th e subject of another article in thi s issue of th e N ewslett er. U pson Count y (N ewsletter, M a rch 10, 1954 ) is an im po rtant middle west Geor gia area. Lexington was the origi nal site of Co lumbia Semi nary, Pr esbyterian center of learning, now locat ed in Decatur. And during th e yea rs th at F ran cis O glethorpe Cou nty Courthouse. Gouldin g was wn tm g popular " T he Y ou ng 1\1; aroon ers" he was a fr equent visitor in Lexin gton 's beautiful antebellum hom es, whi ch rem ain th ere to d ay . J esse M ercer, for whom M ercer University was named, was th e pastor of a Baptist church in O gleth orpe County. Crawfor d, west of Lexington , was th e home of Will iam H. C rawford. H e was United Sta tes Senator, Minister to Fran ce, Secreta ry of War under Pr esiden t Madison a nd Sec reta ry of th e T reasury under Pr esident M onroe. Besides holdin g th ese offices, he was also One of Lexington's bea utiful ante-bellum h o m es, a candidat e for th c Presiden cy of th e U . S. in 1824. And it is said that Crowfor d was instrume nta l in th e writing of the M on roe D octrine. An Extensive County Lexington is the cen ter of a large county : Ogleth orp e conta ins 504 square miles of a rea. In thi s area a re included th e town s of Crawfo rd, M axeys, Steph ens, Arnoldsville an d th e communities of Sa ndy Cross, V esta, Point Peter, Goose Pond and Phi lomath. Lexin gt on and Crawford h ave nearl y th e same populati on , eac h h aving ju st ove r 550 people. Maxeys h as over 200 p eopl e. T he en tire county has abo ut 10,000 popula tion, spread ou t th rough th e rolling countryside. O glethorpe County is th e site of six la rge granite quarries and mu ch timber. The m ajor industry is located in C rawford : J efferson M ills wh ich employs 300. Lexin gton Roller Mi lls in Lexington process wh eat a nd corn . T . E. N elms is h ead of a lumber compa ny in Lexington , an d th e pr inting bu siness is man aged by H . W . Ama son, also editor of th e weekly newspaper, th e Oglethor pe E cho. Lexing ton also boasts Part of Jcffcrson Mills , Crawford. the Fa rmers' Seed C lean ing Co mpany, own ed by P. S. Sh ac kleford . Agricul turally, O gleth orpe County is "go ing to grass." Some cotto n is rais ed . a nd m an y grapes, but much of th e lan d a rea is bein g turn ed to pa sture for beef a nd dairy cattle. Approxim at ely 20 ch urches serve th e county. Two new schools, one for whites an d one for colored st ude nts a rc under way at th e cost of one-half m illion dollar s each. Crawford is served by a br an ch line of the Geor gia R ail road , an d th e Sou theastern Bus Company. T he Commercial Bank a lso is located there. Lexingt on is the locati on of the Citi z ens Banking Co mpany. T ran sport ation-wise, it is also serve d by th e South eastern Bus Co mpany. O glethorp e Co un ty is velY fortunat e in . h aving pure wa ter supplied by spn ngs. Officials O fficers serving Ogleth orpe County incl ud e th e following: O rdina ry, F . D. M ax ey ; Clerk of Court, George A. Ba rron ; She riff, W . T. H oward ; Tax R eceiver, M. H . Furcron ; T ax Co llector , W. Grady H oward ; Treasur er, F . D. M ax ey; Surveyor, O. C . Dellinger : Corone r, W . C . H a rri son ; Co unty Superintendent of Schoo ls, B. E. Fau st : Co un ty Attorn ey, George B. Brooks. Lexington Ci ty Court J ud ge is W . W . Armistead, an d E. P. Shull is Solicit or Ge n e r al. County Commissioners include .J. L. H arris, Chairm an ; E. H. R oberts, E. Logan Bray, P. W. Wynn e, and F . D . M ax ey, Cl erk; , 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER Search for Gleaming Yellow Metal Lures Many Tourists to Dahlonega GO L D, th e magic word in min erals th at typifies purity of m etal a nd hi ghest intrinsic value, th at h as been sough t and used by m an over th e ag es a nd which was amo ng th e gifts by th e Wise M en to th e Christ ch ild (M att hew 2 : 11 ) , is still a magic word a t Dahlonega , in Lumpkin County, and is now its main touri st attraction. Tourism is Dahlonega's biggest bu siness at thi s tim e, and th e city's interest in attracting tourists in th e last few yea rs is bringing more visitors to th e city than any oth er activity of its citizen s and civic organizations. News of Dahlonega bein g a site of gold production for more than a century "has gotte n a round," and recent " panning" activities th ere are a ttracting tourists from all over th e nation. " I t pays to adve rtise," lead ers th ere say. Also, "Welcome T ouri st Bur eau s" get a big plug from Mrs. J. D. Anthon y, ch airma n of D ahl onega Co mm unity Co uncil, wh o says : " O ur inform ati on boo th a t th e Co urthouse square a nd tourist bull etin board ar e worth th eir we igh t in gold." Need more be said a bout th e value and importan ce of informati on booths in town s a nd cities wh ere tourists and oth ers may get information? Lumpkin Co unty was crea ted Dec. :i, 1832 a nd nam ed for Governor Wil son Lumpkin, who serv ed from 1831 to 1835. Population in 1950 was 6,574 , a gain of 1,647 over th e 1930 figures of 4-,927. Ther a re 292 square miles of land in th e county, 22.5 persons p er square mile. Fa nu s in th e cou nty tot al 789, th e land a rea being 186,880 acres. Lumpkin is in th e U pper Chatta hooch ee Ri ver Soil Co nserva tion Distri ct, Robert M oore, of Dahlonega, District ch airman ; David Passmore is Lumpkin Soil Co nserva tionist. Approximat ely one- th ird of th e county's area is in th e Cha tta hooc hee N ational Forest, whi ch is stocked with deer and oth er ga me and h as many fishing spots . There a re 27 large and small lak es in th e county, and th ese with th e Chestatee and Et owah rivers provide excellen t fishin g waters. The Buford Lake waters will cove r part of th e southe rn section of th e county a nd "bac k up " to within four miles of Dahlonega, citizens say. This wiII add to th e nearby fishin g and rec reation facilities of th e cou nty. The Appalach ian T ra il, which h as its southe rn terminus at th e O gleth orpe monument in Pickens Co unty. form s th e no rthern boundary between L um pkin and U n ion counties. Two noted "camps" in th e co un ty a re Wah sega, a sta te 4-H C lub camp. occ upied by 4-H Club gro ups from over th e state du rin g th e summ er, an d Cam p Glisson, own ed and ope ra te d by M ethodists, wh er e youth groups and oth er " cam pers" visit in th e summe r months. Cane Creek Falls, a beautv spot of North Ge orgia, is an attracti o;1 M a y 25, 1954 a t Cam p Glisson. "H idde n Acres." near Wah sega, a private, lar ge lake affords excellent fishing and is a p opula r recreati on spot. Charles Turner at "T urner's Co rner" at th e ju nc tion of U. S. Hi gh way 129 and U. S. 19 p rovides faci lities for t o u ri st s. L umpkin IS p redo minately mou nta inous, bu t it also has ma n" fertile farms on whi ch ar e gro wn corn , gra in an d tru ck cro ps ; beef, dairy ca ttle, a nd broilers. T he re a re severa l dairi es in th e county and man y farmers have egg-prod ucing p oultry flocks. The entr y of th e D ahl onega Feed & H at ch ery was recentl y nam ed first pri ze win ner in th e a nnual " Chicken of T om orrow" sta te contest con ducted by th e Co llege of Agri culture, Ath ens. Hi ghw ays tr av ersing th e county a re U. S. 19, U . S. 129, Sta te 52, 249, 60, 11 5, 9-E, a nd th ere are man y well-kep t county road s. Lumpkin has an ambitious school improvem ent program for its white enrollm ent of 1,500 pupils a nd its fewer tha n 100 Negro ch ildren. The p rop osed building program will tot al $3 79,545. Lumpkin's vast forest area is guarded from fire by a 60-foot observa tion tower erec ted recently on top of Crown moun tain , inside th e city limi ts of Dah lonega . I t is well equipped to p rot ect timb er and wildlife fro m fires. C. E. Sykes, owner of th e tract , don at ed the site for th e tower. T ouri sts a re brought to thi s spo t to get a beautiful view of th e surround ing landscap e. The tower was erec ted in 1954 by th e Co unty a nd Sta te. Lumpkin County officers include : Ordinar y, C. C . Sm ith; Cl erk of Court, Historical Marker in Lumpkin County. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6 A tourist g-roup at Can e Creek Fa lls. NEWSLET T E R C. E. Co uch ; She riff, J. R . Gibson T ax Co mm issione r, O . T. Thomas School Superintendent, Fred Butler Survey or, J. D . Barrett ; Co rone r, For- rest Sisk; Commissioners, R obert Jones, chairman; W . H . H arkins ; Jim Ri cketts. Farm Agent is Frank N eal, and Fred [ones is m emb er of th e Legislature. ~rhe coun ty is in th e Ninth Co ng ressional Distri ct and th e Thirt y-second Sta te Senate Di strict , composed of Lumpkin, 'Whit e a nd D awson counties, T he p resent Senator is T om C . H ood of Clevela nd, Wh ite county. R obert J ones is ch airma n of th e Co un ty Board of H ealth orga nized in 1954, and Thomas N elm s is sanita rian ; he is also serving in th at ca pacity in the seat of government after Lumpkin was created in 1832, work on th e courthouse beginning th e n ext year, 1833, N ea rby Aur a ria-meaning "gold"was nam ed by John C . Calhoun, of Sou th Carolina, and "was th e scene of Georgia's first gold ru sh," a tablet th ere says. Another ma rker read s: "T he building with th e tower, (on college campus ) , sta nds up on th e foundations of the U . S. Bran ch Mint, whi ch was established here in 1837 a nd operated until 1861, minting gold coins to th e amo un t of $6, 115,596. The mint building was tran sferred to th e Sta te of Geor gia for educational purposes in 1871 and bu rn ed in 1878. The present building, erected in 1879, is now th e M a y 25, 195-1 cra tions, and th e site of a form er "mo ney mint." The word "gold" IS still magic a t Dahlon ega . Dahlonega's populati on in 1950 was 2,152, an d City officials a re : Mayor , J oe W . Woodwa rd , an d Co uncilme n, B. C. Sande rson, m ayor-protem ; Emory Brackett, W . A. Whitmire, H enry Burns a nd L. L. Chapman. Bob M ead ers is clerk. Prof. J. P. King is prin cipal of Lumpkin Hi gh Schoo l, an d Mrs. Id a Phillips is princip al of th e Da hlonega Elementar y Schoo l. C ha rles Phillips is Dahlonega postm aster. The Geo rgia Power Co ., provides electricity, and REA lines dot th e county. Geo rgia Power h as recently erected a substa tion in D ahl on ega and stru ng Above, a native sh ows a photographer how to pan for gold, a favorite pastime in this north G eor gia region. At th e left, is th e pioneer Courthouse of Lumpkin County built of materials from Augusta whi ch wer e hauled to Dahlonega by ox- cart. Forsyth and Dawson cou n ties. A Co unty D ent al C linic h as been established, served twice a month bv Dr. E. L. J ackson, of Ga inesville. ' Pioneer Courthouse T he p ioneer Lumpkin Co unty Co ur thouse, built in 1833-36 of materials haul ed by oxca rt from Augusta, is said by local citizens to be th e oldest cour thouse as origina lly constructed in th e Sta te . It h ouses th e county officers. Fr om its second -sto ry balcon y, it is said th e sayings, " T h a r' s gold in th em th ar hills" and "T h ere's milli ons in it," origina ted in a speec h mad e by D r. M. F. Stephe nson, assayer of th e U . S. Mint, as h e pl ead ed with th e local miners in 1849 not to leave Dah lonega min es an d join th e "gold r ush" to Californ ia . Dahlonega Means "Yellow Metal" Dahl onega is deri ved fro m a Cherokee Indian word , "T a u-lon-ne -ka," mea ning "yellow metal," and becam e Admi nistr ati on Building of N orth Georgia College." T his br iefly tells th e hi story of th e min t at D ahl onega . Go ld m inin g in th e ar ea was badl y crippled by th e rush of th e miners to Californ ia in 18+9, a nd lat er in 1861 by th e War Betw een th e Sta tes. The rec urrence of gold-m ining ope rations th at too k place in th e D ahlonega area p rior to World W ar II cease d in th e 1940's during th e war and th ey have not been resumed since on a commercial scale. H owever, th ere is still som e gold " panning" by local residents, a nd it is also a great attraction for tou rists' who like to " try th eir hand" at "pa nnin g," and pa rti es are form ed wh o engage in thi s "sp ort." Beginning in June, " pann ing parties" will be form ed every week en d . Peopl e come to Dahl onega from far and wide to see th e "gold- digging " op- new tr an smission lines. T he Sta ndard T elephone Co ., h as a n office her e a nd h as grea tly improved its service. It is own ed by H. M . Stewa rt, of Co rne lia . Numerous bu siness houses line th e st reets su rrounding th e court ho use squa re, more th an 30 new bu siness firms having been opene d in D ahl onega in th e last two yea rs, a nd man y residences h ave been erected . North Geor gia Co llege, one of th e senio r colleges of th e U nive rsity System of Georgia, a co-educationa l institu tion, is located in Da hlonega. It was founded in 1873 a nd opera tes throughout th e yea r on a full four-qua rt er schedule. M erritt E. Hoag is president , and enrollment totals 500 or more stude nts. It is one of nine essen tially milit ary colleges in th e nati on, and is known as "Georgia's West Point." R ecent ex- (Continued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE vS6L ' s z AV'~ C Cl t C t ; c:..; :-; 'J r- .. - ~ . - _~ . ' . ,r , -. ., _ !_ ,... ...... ~ \.. t ! . . , ... ..... ~ . - _ j ~ 1 . ".., . .. ..<1. -.. . .. II J., I~I 'ON ~!llildd "eo '~~U~PV P!Pd 3DVB O d 'sn 'lI 'll? 'T d 99tf: O;/S VIE)~03E) 'E V.LNV'.LV 'C.Lld"::J 3.L".LS CC I 3:J~3~~0:J .=10 .LN3~.L~V'd3a V'1EJ~03] Hightlighting Progress (Contin ued from Page 4 ) disposal plants. . . . .J. U . F innigan Company, A tla n ta, manufact urers of indu strial fa bri cat ed spec ialties h ave ma de majo r improvements to the com pany p lant. . . . R a bu n Cou nty has two new brochures availabl e wh ich have been prep ar ed by th e Chamber of Commer ce th ere.. . . Sout hern Pap erboa rd Corp., Sava nna h, will add a new $160,000 cafeteria to th eir fac ilities. . . Pr odu ction is under way a t t he Acworth Sta-H ot H eater Corporation . Eatonto n is orga n izing a D evelop men t Association . . . . T he Bank of M illen has mo ved in to a brand new bui lding.. . a nd th e Ba nk of Quitman has comp leted renova tions. . .. Summervill e will have a new City H all. . . Governor Talmad ge has dedicated th e new mi llion -do llar wing of th e U niversity H osp it al in Augusta. . .. Near Sparta, Han cock Co un ty, D r. Frank Lacksen has sta rted a new type of industry, th e raising a nd sale of Feeder Calves whi ch a re shipped west after being wean ed at four or five mo nths .. . . Two new shopping centers will be opened in th e fa ll in North D eKalb County . . . . A depo sit of black marble has been discovered in Go rdon County. . . U nicoi Park will be dedi cated ea rly next month in W hit e Co unty. . . . R. D . Co le M anufa cturing Compan y of Ne wnan recen tly celebrated its 100th anniversary in the manufact ure of tanks, boilers and steel pl ate work. . . . J. C. Green, R obert Green and J. C. Beck have orga nized a concern in M illedgeville for the manufacture a nd renovation of mattresses. . .. Valdosta State Co llege will have a new $300,000 dining ha ll. . . . Dahlonega (Continued fr om Page 7) pans ion program inclu des a girls' dormit ory built two years ago at a cost of .$5 17,7 18; a men's d ormi tory in course of construction now to cost an estimated $355,000; a nd a modern home for th e president being complete d on th e campus. Other bu ildi ngs h ave been imp roved or renovated . T h e 64-year-old D ahl onega N ugget, a weekly newspa per, has a national reputation and a wid e circu lation. T h e qu aint "sayings" of th e editor, VV. B. Townsend, who died in 1933, att racted much att ention and were widely copied over th e nati on . J ack Pa rks is th e p resent edi tor. The Dahlonega F eed & H atchery is Dahlonega's largest industry. The firm employs 25 to 30 peopl e and h atches 160,000 ch icks a week . Other firms inclu de O wens Farm & H at ch ery; Smi thdale F eed & H atch ery; Copeland Lumber Co. J. F. Pru ett is president of th e Bank of D ah lonega, J. S. Speer is vice presi- dent, and J . F. San ders cash ier. The Smith H ouse, the Couch H ouse an d Ed wa rd s Tourist H ome provide hotel faciliti es, alon g with cafes in the city. Mrs. W . D . Young is Librarian at the Lump kin Co unty L ibra ry. The Che stat ee R egional Libra ry operates a Bookmo bile th rough ou t th e county . H owa rd M emorial H ospital is op- erated by Dr. Marcus H oward ; Dr. .J. G. Woo dw ar d con d ucts Woodwa rd 's C linic, an d Dahlonega C linic is in th e charge of D r. D. C . Sirmo ns. Presbyterian s, M ethodists, Bap tists a nd C hurch of Go d have churches in Da h lo nega , an d th ere arc many GEO RG IA DE PA RTM ENT O F CO M M E RC E 8 Putnam County Dairy Festival J une 8th a nd 9th th is yea r will be th e days of celebration of the Second An nual Dai ry Festival in Eat onton. The festiva l will draw thos e conc ern ed in dairying from all over th e stat e. T he op enin g day of th e festival will include a pa rad e, ca ttle show, pa sture tour. fashion show and dan ce. M iss PlIt~am of 195+ will be select ed sever al days befor e so that she may reign . as Queen of th e festiviti es. O th er features of th e occasion will be tales by Uncle Re m us a nd a tour of R ock Eagle. High ligh tin g th e events will be th e address to be delivered by Governor H erma n T almad ge, and the presence of M iss Am eri ca. 1954. Mi ss Evelyn Ay. J un e 9th will be the day of th e Cattle Sa le, and a m ilking COIl test is also p lanned. J ohn A. Smith is Chairman of th e Dairy Festival wh ich promises to be a very spec ial even t Ior th e da iry bu siness and whi ch marks a n impor tan t Geor gia enterprise. churches th rou gh out th e cou nty . About 25 orga nizations are m embers of th e Dahlon ega Commu nity Co un cil, m any city activities being cha nneled through th is organization. A Chamber of Com - merce is bein g organized wh ich will also furth er county a nd city civic proj ects. I n th e 1953 "Bett er Hometown Co n - test" conducted here, over 100 projects were sponsored in th e county. Week-end gold "panning" tou rs will begin at Dahlonega in J un e. You may want to go up th ere a nd " try you r hand ." .J oJ I' ~ , I I - . ", "" v" ' ' J ' ' ' f-w l t ' _ l ' ( J ENT [OMMEU[E / ~ ~ ."':::' , OF NEW LETTER . .,I , . ,:. JUNE 10, 1954 NEWSLETTER J une 10, 1954 NEWSLE1TER Published semi-monthly by GE O RGIA DEPT. OF COM MERCE 100 State Cap itol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE G overnor BOARD O F COMMISSIONERS EM ORY L. BUTLER Chairman Lo nnie A. Pope, V. Chm. Y. F. Geeslin Ben J essup Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Sec re tary Vol. 5, No. 17 June 10,1954 Outdoo r Theate r Is Georgia Sum me r Fare I j , - { I I I i ei .-;-......_ - i i Georgia is ind eed fortunat e in having a lar ge outdoor th eat er whi ch features outdoo r ente rtainme nt drawin g visitors from all over th e sta te as well as being a highl ight for summer tourists. The M uni cip al Theater, In c., a civic, non-profit orga nization in Atla nta , will sp onsor 39 perfo rmances of mu sica l come dies and operettas beginni ng on J uly fir st a nd ending August 16th . The M uni cipal T h eater Under-the-Sta rs will give six different shows with Broadway sta rs an d cast, an d with a chorus of 36 m em bers fro m all over th e South. T h e entire p roduction will be directed by Eric M attson . The opening will brin g " O klahom a" for ten perf orm an ces, th en for six nights each will be " Song of Norway," "Rosalie," " M erry Widow," " New M oon," a nd "Gen tleme n Pr efer Blondes." There will be no Su nday p erformanc es. O n Sunday afterno ons a series of five Pops concerts will be given under th e direction of Albert Colem an . This six-a nd-a-h alf-week sea son of summe r entertainme nt will be a hi ghlight for Georgia in th e entertainme nt field an d is indica tive of th e cultural strides th e state is taking. Cover Picture The O kefen okee Swamp in extreme Southeast Georgia is a un iq ue a rea with its la rge variety of wildlife a nd exotic trees an d flowers. Alliga tors, bea rs, birds a nd fish flourish. T ourists a nd othe r visitors a re en trance d with its stra nge beauty. - Photo by Carolyn Carte r. This photogr aph shows onl y a portion of fin e buildi ngs which make up th e Georg ia State Prison at R eidsville. More photographs and an article on th e interest ing pro gram conducted th ere are on page 3. Atlanta-Georgia V ocation al Association Conferen ce, Bilt more H ot el, June 10-12 . Macon-Delt a T ank Open House, Ceremonies at th e Plant, June 11. Emory-Adverti sing Institu te, Emory U niver sit y, J un e 11-12 . Atla nta-Lion s Club s of Georgia Convention, Biltmore H ot el, June 13- 15. At he ns-Summer Music Clinic, University of Geor gia, June 13-25. Atlanta-Southeastern T ravelers Exhibitor s Con vention , Auditorium, June 13-16 . Augusta-Veteran s of Foreign Wa rs, Georgia Con ven tion, Bon Air H otel, June 17-20 . Atlanta-Cou n ty O fficers Associa tion of Georgia M eeting, H enry Grad y H ot el, June 17- 18. Sa vannah - Southeastern PI' i n t i n g T rad es Conferen ce, H ot el D eSoto, J une 18-2 1. Columbus-Georgia Societ y of Professional En gin eer s Convention, Ralston H otel , J un e 18-19. Atl anta- Georgia F eed an d Poultry Association Confer ence, D in klerPlaza, J une 21-22. Athens-Man agem ent I nstitute for Petroleum Market er s, Univer sity of Geor gia, June 21-23. Savannah-Georgia St ate Champion Skeet Tourn am ent, H ot el D eSoto, June 25-27 . Aug usta-Georgia Confer en ce of V eterans Ser vices, Bon Air H ot el, June 25-2 6. Atlanta-Georgia Associa tion of L ife U nderw riters M eeting, Din k I e I' Pl aza, June 25-26 . Atlanta-Georgia Associa tion of the Deaf, Din kier-Plaza, J uly 2-5. Macon-Georgia St ate Junior G o I f Championship Golf T ourna ment, Idle H ou r Country Club, July 14- 17. Augusta-Convention of the Amer ican Legion of Georgia, Bon Air H otel, July 15-18. Atlanta-Southeastern China, Glass & Gift Show, Municip al Auditorium, July 18-21. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2 NEWSLETTER June 10, 1954 Georgia State Prison at Reidsville Features Constructive Program of Industry, Farming The ave rage person usua lly rega rds a prison as ju st a lot of cells wh ere th e pr isoners "just sit," eat three meals a day and wait for th e day th ey a re re- leased. This is not so at th e Georgia State Prison, nea r R eidsville, in T attnall Cou nty. H ere an active, construc tive program is in force under d irection of R . P. Balkcom , J r., Warden . A daily pr ogr am of employme n t, maybe on th e farm tending th e crops, livestock or poultry; maybe in th e ca nning plant, th e bak ery or th e kitch en where 6,000 m eals a re p repared dail y; likely in th e printing plant or th e plant where all of th e Georgia au tomo bile tags are mad e. I n fact, the average inmate is so oc- instituti on . H ere is the bak ery, the ca nning plan t wher e th ousands of ca ns of vege ta bles gro wn on th e fa rm ar e processed in season. T his great variety of food lat er finds its way to the tables a t th e institution. H ere is the printing plant th at p ut s out T he S jJO kesm an, a mon thl y p ublicati on th at conta ins loca l news and a rticles contributed by vari ou s inma tes eac h month. The plant also prints form s for othe r sta te departm e n ts. Th e tags for all Georgia a utomobiles issued annua lly a re mad e h ere, this being one of th e biggest " ope ra tions" at th e institution. T here also is a ca bine t shop for th e repai r of pl an t furniture a nd other sh ops. A che mical un it to man u factu re various chem icals used in th e d ry-clean- vid ing a regu lar routine of act ivity, both work a nd rec rea tion. T he variou s units of th e plant , such as th e hakery, cannery, pr int sho p a nd au to tag depa rtmen t, afford employme nt for m any men ; the fa rm work req uires th e services of both men a nd women . Big Farm Acreage O f th e 8,000 ac res in th e en tire t ract, 4,900 a re in farms or a re cultiva ted, th e ferti le land p rod ucing fin e crops of corn, grain, a ll vegeta bles consumed at th e institution. T here a rc 1,500 acres of perm an ent pastures th at provide 10 to 11 m onths gra zing annually on lush Coasta l Berm ud a fields for cows, hogs and ch ickens. T he 126 milk cows provide all th e milk used at th e plant, 300 gallons of sweet m ilk daily, eno ugh m ilk for all Good equipment for me d ical attention . cupied during th e da y with a routine program th at he has littl e tim e to think of his situa tion. Occupied First in 1938 O ccupi ed first in 1938, th e la rge num ber of mo dern bu ildin gs house th e 1,850 inm ates- l ,650 men and 200 women. T he ac reage, totaling 8,000 acres, is in two counties, 7,740 in south west T attnall , a nd 260 acres in southeastern T oombs. T he tract is bounded on the eas t by th e Ohoop ee river , and site of th e bui ld ings is six mi les south of Reidsville, county-seat of T attnall co u n ty. T he m ain bui ldings include four units of two stories eac h on eac h side of th e M a in Admin istratio n Building, whi ch has fou r main stories and two sma ll upper floors. A long, oblong building extend ing back of th e Administration unit houses th e ind oor acti viti es at th e G razing Jerseys provide da iry products . Making auto tags is prison industry. ing plant, and fun gicid es a nd insecti cides used to cont rol plant diseases and insects is ma int ain ed in thi s bui lding. A nearby cha pel provides a pl ace of worship wh ere services a re h eld severa l times on Sunda ys. T his chapel is mo dern in design and structure a nd will seat some 300 persons. Another bu ilding houses th e theater which provides up -to-da te films a nd enter tainment. All of th e buil din gs in this a rea a re occupied by men only, wh ile a modern plan t for women has been erec ted about one mil e distant. T here the women do the sewing, mak ing of un iforms, an d mending of ga rme n ts wh ich occupies much of th eir time. A beauty parlo r is also maintained where wom en m ay learn th at p rofession . The program at th e institution is highl y constructive, well-planned , pro- th e butter used. Beef ca ttle and hogs on th e farm fu rn ish th e m eat s; over 6,000 laying hens p roduce all eggs consumed, whil e th e broilers furn ish th e " fried ch icken". The farm record last yea r in par t was as follows : 26,000 ga llons of ribbon ca ne syrup were m ad e ; 400 tons of silage was sto red in silos ; 61,000 bu shels of corn grown ; the 25 ac res of turn ips furn ishe d enough for 30,000 ga llons of turnip tops and roots to be ca nned; 64 bales of cotton grown furni shed lint for th e mattresses, pillows, etc. ; all hay need ed is raised on th e fa rm ; all lumber used at th e plant is sawed from timber grown on th e place ; a naval sto res pr ogr am is followed wh ereby p ine gum is collected and sold . A progr essive livestock pro gram IS conducted on th e far m, which is of (Continued on Page 5 ) 3 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COJvl M ERC E N E WS L ETTE R June 10, 1954 Georgia's Scenic Chattooga County Favored by , extiles and Tourists C ha tto oga Co un ty in th e nor th west corne r of Geo rgia is a very scenic, mountain ous a rea . Fine windi ng road s tak e man y summ er visitors up and d own and aro und beau tifu l slo pes ; mass ive g ree n forests, vast heights and d epths d elight th e eye . C ha ttooga Coun ty was crea ted by a n act of th e Legislature in 1838. I t was nam ed for th e C hattooga Ri ver wh ich flows across the co un ty a nd wa s so named hv th e C he ro kee I ndi a ns. It' s a n I ndi a n ' word m ea ning " ch icken creek." Possihl v th e C her okees ca lled it thi s beca use ~f th e m a rsh hen s which habitat e its ba nks. Sum me rville is th e co un ty sea t, with In T rion , the Reigel T ext ile Com pan y, T rio n D ivision , em ploys ove r 3,000 in th e man ufact uri ng a nd finishin g of cotto n text iles. N . B. M ur ph y is mana ger of thi s pla n t. In L yerl y, th e L yerl y M a tt ress \'\'orks ma kes up holst er y felt as well and both cotto n and innerspring m a ttresses under D . \ '\'. Cope la nd, owner and m an ag e r. In Summerv ille over 20D a re em ployed a t the Geo rgia R ug lvlill. Th is conce rn is a di vision of Bigelow-San. ford Ca rpe t Co m pa ny, Inc. Ralph Rh od es hea ds the Summe rv ille pla nt. wh ich p roduces m any kinds or co tton ca rpeti ng . At the mom en t, pla ns are bo xes a nd crates. At Lyerly th e C hapman Bro th ers have a la rge sawmi ll an d d ry kiln . T he B & B Mi lling Co m pa ny a t Sum merville prod uces poult ry a nd other feed s und er M ax Barker, owner a nd man ager. Other conce rns in th e co un ty sea t incl ude th e Summerville Lumher Co mpan y head ed by C . R . D owney : the Summerville-Trion Ice Co. , Inc., under J oh n Bankson, a nd seve ra l p rin ting firms . The newest ind ustry in C hatt oo ga Coun ty is th e Patrician M anufact uring Co mpany a t Sum me rv ille. W . P. Selm an is p resid en t and m an ager of the concern whi ch m ak es living- room f urnit ur e. Co nstruc tion is under wav for another new industr y a t Sum merv ille : Lee L eag ue and Riley Pa rh am have organ ized a conce rn wh ich will p rodu ce conc re te blocks. C ha ttooga Coun ty Co u rtho use a t S u mmerv ille. A fin c view from U . S. 27 in C ha ttooga County. a popul a tion of a bo u t 5,000. Trion , with nearl y 4,000 peo ple, M enl o and Lyerl y a re othe r towns in the coun ty. M a ny comm uni ties ar e sp rea d ove r thi -, co un ty wh ich bring the tot a l popu la tion to 21,000 : Ber ryton , Gore, Silv er Hill, C lo ud land , T eloga, M ounta in V iew, Dickeyville, Su hligna , H oll and an d Pen nville. Nea rly ha lf of the m an ufacturing conc ern s in C hattooga Cou n ty a re concern ed wi th textil es a nd th e man ufacture of clothi ng. At Berr yton , the Berryton Mills, em ploying over 150 und er J ohn Berr y, presid en t, a nd A. B H am m ond , manager, m a nufa ct ur e knitting ya rns. At M enlo, th e Best M a n ufacturing Co mpany, a d ivision of T illotson R ubber Co m pany, produ ces work gIO\es. Roy M a n n is pr esid en t a nd m an ager of th e firm wh ich em ploys 75 peop le a nd is plan ni ng expa nsion . un d er wa y to enla rge th e plan t facilities wh ich will allow for increased p ro d uction . A new d ye rack , the thi rd for th is pl ant, will a lso be ad de d . Locat ed a lso in Sum m erv ille is th e M on tgom ery K n itt ing Mills. H ere over 350 a rc em ployed in th e m anufact ure of fine-gauge ch ild ren 's a nk lets a nd ha lf socks und er W a lt er Sturd iva n t, p resid ent. T here is a lso th e Su mmerville M a n ufacturing Co m pa ny, m ak ers of du ck, m g hacking a nd o rna b ur gs. A. G . Du nson is m an ager or th e conce rn em ploy. ing 550 peop le. C ha tt ooga M ills, I nc., Summerville, man ufact ur es infa n ts' and chi ld ren' s sea m less hosiery. Em ployees n umber 9 7 ; .J. R. Bur gess is president a nd m a n- age r oi th e m ills. A. va riety of othe r indust ry ba lan ces C hattooga Co un ty : At M en lo th e M en10 Product s Com pa ny prod uces wood en Timber, ag ricult ure a nd livestock a re import a nt to C ha ttooga Co un ty . Tim ber an d lumb er sales a re stea dy. Cotton , co rn a nd ha y are th e m aj or cro ps. D ai ryin g now m ean s $20,000 a month to C ha ttooga Co un ty income ; beef ca ttie and hogs are on th e incr ease. Poultr y fa rmi ng, both b ro iler s and layers, is pop ula r. Over two dozen poultry farms havoc a t least 30,000 chickens ea ch. Features C ha ttooga Coun ty is a favor ite pl a ce for m an y summe r va cati on ers. Th e beau tiful m ou n ta ins at tr act m an y ; ov er 165 acres of wa ter in lak es an d po nds as well as the C ha ttooga Ri ver lure fishing en th usiasts. Beautifu l C loud land is a fav or ite resort that has rnan v sum m er hom es loca ted th ere. Th ree n{ot cis p ro vid e accommo da tions also. M a ny alert civic and cult u ra l groups (Contin ued on Page 5 ) G EO R G I A D E PA R T M ENT O F CO M M E R C E 4 NEWSLETTER Reidsville Prison (Cont inued from Pa ge 3) hizh va lue to G eor gia fa rm ers, esp eci;l1y in South G eorgia. The Coastal Plain Exp eriment Sta tion, a t Tifton , provides tw o spec ia lists at th e farm to advise on swine and ca ttle, a nd a dai ry specialist is sta tione d the re all th e time. T ests a re made to p roduce th e best grades of hogs a nd ca ttle, and plan pastures. The annual J ersey C alf sale a t th e fa rm annually attracts bu yers from a ll over th e South, a nd provid es m an y pu re-b red h eifers an d bulls to restoc k h e rd s. Six lakes have alread y been developed on th e land to pr ovid e wat er for th e livestock and a ll a re stocked with fish, th e plan bein g to eventually get fr om th ese ponds a nd lak es all th e fish need ed a t th e institution . Pean ut s a re grown for " hogg ing;" eroded land is being recla ime d: the 2,000 acres of timb er land is being p rotected: 18 tr act ors cult iva te the crops and do other farm wor k, a nd 60 mu les a re used to cultivate th e 750 ac res of veget ables. J. L. Brid ges, a former C ounty Fa rm Agent, is Sup er int endent of the farm . Spotlessly Clean The entire instituti on is spotlessly clean from a sa nita ry sta nd point; fr om a health sta nd point, -hospital serv ices, a clinic for diagnoses, and dentists a re provid ed . Mr. Balkcom ca me to T a ttnall in 1939 from M acon as business ma nager of th e instit ut ion. He lat er served two years with th e U . S. En gineers in th e At lanta Distri ct , a nd came back to th e prison in 1943 again as busin ess manager. H e was mad e W arden in 1948 and has served in th a t ca pac ity since . He is Presiden t of th e Amer ica n Wardens' Association, and is on the boa rd of directors of the Amer ican Prison Associa tion. H e, his wife an d two ch ild ren live on th e pr emi ses. Mrs. Veni ce Alexander, of Reidsvill e, is th e Warden's secreta ry. La mont Smith is business ma nag er . Th e R ev. W. L. H uggins is C ha plain. Dr. J. D . McArth ur is resident physician ; U niversity Hospital, Augusta , sends sur- geons fo r opera tions, and D r. J. S. Ansley, of Milled gevill e, p rovides dental services once a week. The wom en 's building, of whi ch Mrs. Luc ile Lee is Supe rinte nde nt, was opened in 1939. M an y of th e 131 civilia n em ployees live in th e 65 living q uarters provided June 10, 1954 Chattooga County pu blished weekly, ed ited and pu blished (Continued from Page 4 ) by David 1'. Espy. The pa per has been meet regul arl y in th e coun ty. One of published fo r 70 yea rs. th e most ac tive g roups promoting th e Cha ttoo ga County H ospit al is lo- genera l welfa re a nd economic interests ca ted a t Summer ville: Trion has th e in th e county is th e Summerville M er- Trion Co mm unity H ospital . cha nts' R etail Associati on wh ich acts as T he Ce nt ral of G eorgia R ailw ay a cha m ber of comme rce, mercha nts' tr a verses th e county with sta tio ns a t associa tion a nd ind ustrial orga niza tion. T rion , Summerville: Berryton , Lyerl y Th is group is head ed by J ohn Bank- a nd H olland. G reyhou nd Buses have so n . rou tes th rough the county also. .1 ust recently orga nized is th e Su m- Banking fa cilities in th e county a re mervi lle Industrial Development Co r- pr ovid ed by th e F armers and M er- porati on to promot e new industry for chants Bank a t Su mm er ville. th e a rea . A bran ch of th e C he rokee R egional O ther Summerville civic groups in- Libra rv is located in Summerville. a nd clu de the VFW , Am eri ca n Legion , th e county is fortuna te in having a Eastern Star, M ason , M oose a nd Lions bookmobile in addition . C lub. T ogether Summerv ille and T rion A rad io sta tion has been esta blishe d form a Rot ary C lub. Trion has a Lion s for th e county at Summerville, WGTA . Club, a Business a nd Pr ofession al \'\10- U . S. Hi ghway No. 27 is th e main man 's C lub. A popula r social club is route in Ch a tt ooga C ounty. C onstruc- a lso locat ed at Trion for golf a nd fish- tion will soon begin on St at e R ou te ing. Summe rville is the hom e of a W o- 20 provid ing a paved route fro m Sum- man' s C lub, a Business a nd Profes- mervill e to H olla nd . siona l Wom a n's C lub, a Wildl if C lub, .$8 79,000 has been a pprop ria ted fo r th e Cha tt ooga Garden C lub, a Com- th e cons truc tio n of three new scho ols munity Theat er G roup a nd a M usic in th e county. T rion has a separa te Study Club. Sever al of th ese gro ups school system from th e county, a nd will help provide five p ar t i a I college enla rge th e system there a t a cost of scho la rships eac h yea r. $300,000. Summe rville has a Co m m u nit v C ha ttooga Co unty has 6 :~ churches , H ouse un der wa y which will eve ntua lly whi ch includ e nearl y every denom ina- ha ve a swimming poo l and tenn is tion. co u r ts. Elect ricity is a pplied to th e a rea by In th e south of th e county, on Route TVA and the G eorgia Power Com - 27 is an a tt rac tive spot alon g th e road - pany. side ca lled K a r-Tah Del. This is a T elephon e service, pr o v id e d by fine picnic spo t with a roa dw ay for a local system th a t connects wit h th e parking ca rs and a cleared place for Sou the rn Bell has had a new bu ilding restin g and ea ting. I t is situa ted on a nd switchboa rd with in th e past year, th e edge of a stee p gorge lookin g down and has added 7 ~ mil es of new line int o T aylor 's Rid ge. th rougho ut th e county. Appro xima tely one-third of Chat- Natural gas is planned for th e near tooga Co unty is enh ance d by th e Ch a t- future for th e county. But an e a nd tah ooch ee N a tiona l Forest. T his for est p rop a ne a re alrea dy m ad e ava ilable exte nds int o parts of six counties in th ere. northwest Georgia . Cha ttooga Co un ty is fortuna te in Facilities hav ing many fine sp rings. W ater is Serving C ha ttooga County as th e of- supplied by th ese- a city filter ing sys- ficial orga n is th e S um me rville N ews, tem has Ba rryton C reek as its source ; on th e gro unds. .1 uvenil es committe d to th e institu- Stur diva nt Springs also p rovid e m an y with th eir supply. A contrac t has ju st recently been let tion a re tr an sferred as soon as possible to th e unit a t Alto. I n addit ion to the commodi ties grown and produced a nd used a t the fo r th e bui ldi ng of a new city hall in Summe rville. Th e buildi ng will also conta in a jail, fire depa rtmen t, pu blic a uditorium a nd police sta tion. The institution , th ou sands of dolla rs worth of m at erial, livestock a nd othe r p rod- ucts a re sold a nn ually, bringin g a size- structure will cost some $65,000 . County Officers able incom e to th e institution . Officials serving C hattooga Co unty T he sta te pen al institution is under include J ohn W. King, O rdinary ; J ohn direction of th e Sta te Boa rd of Correc- S. J ones, C lerk of Co ur t: F red Stewa rt, tions, R . E. Wa rr en, Directo r. She riff: .J. E. C larkson , T ax C ollector ; H at ch ett, Assista nt D irec \\"- U NIVERSll' "\ _ J- ' (Continued on Page 6 ) 5 ; \. L I ta--;J G'.".p,.(~)R.S", ' EPART M ENT OF CO M MERCE /, :,~OF" - GEORG\ f'. 4 d . - '="--._ - ~ NEWSLETTER June 10, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS Coffee Centennial C itizens of CO FFEE COUN T Y recently ma rked h er 100th an niversar y with a mammoth celebra tion . Six days of festiviti es hon ored th e coun ty a nd va rio us aspects of community life in th e county. Sunday, M ay 9th wa s R eligious Dedication Day ; da ys followi ng were Pion eer a nd Sta tesma n D ay, Agricult ural D ay, You th D ay, G ood N eighbor a nd Co unty Day a nd N egro Day. Pa rad es, pageants, bands, fir ework s, speeches, th e C entennial Queen's Ball , float s, stree t dan ces and exhi bits were all pa rt of th e elabora te pr ogr am . T wo portraits were un veiled which h ave special meaning to Co ffee Co un tians : a portrait of Sena to r Dou glas for who m th e county sea t was nam ed and one of Gen er al Co ffee , whom th e coun ty's name hono rs. - 0- Alma Warehouse A new tobacco wa reh ou se is under constr uction in ALMA . I t is being bu ilt by a group of five whic h includes M or- ris J ohnson , H . T. Lee, M. E. Butler, Ger ald J on es and Hoke C arte r. The wareh ou se will h ave 60,000 sq ua re feet of floor space a nd will be com pleted a t a cost of a pproxim a tely $60,000. It will be kno wn as th e T obacco G row ers W a reh ouse. 'V. V Ca rte r, owner of a no th er tobacco wareh ou se in Alm a, h as annou nced pla ns for th e enla rgeme nt of his building, providi ng space for a toba cco auc tion . - 0- Canned Squash H a rr ell Brothers C a nn ing Co m pa ny, In c., has opene d its plan t in EAST M A N and will add ca nne d squ ash to th e foods p reserved th er e. Peas a nd pimientos are also ca nne d by the company, and it is estim a ted th at adding squash to th eir products will incr ease Dod ge Coun ty income some $ 100,000. - 0- Metter Warehouses Two new tob acco wa reh ou ses will be com pleted in M ET T ER for th e op eni ng of th e 1954 m a rket season . One wa reho use has alrea dy been finished a nd conta ins some 83,000 sq ua re feet of floor space. The seeond warehouse, owne d by Mrs. J ack K enn edy a nd called th e H en sley W arehouse will con ta in 70.000 sq ua re feet of floor spac e. Fitzgerald Industry FITZGERALD will be the location of a new industry wh ich will em ploy ove r 75 peopl e. The Fitzger ald U nderwear Corpo ra tion is a n organ ization of A. I. Wi lliam s, M . C. Sutton and G. C . Gun ter. Land has been purchased upon which a bui ldi ng will be construc ted for th e new industri al pl ant. - 0- Egg Company A new company has been formed in lo.JET TER by G eorge M . Brown an d Perry L. R ountree. The M etter Egg Com pany will sell eggs wh olesal e and plan s are bein g formed for a wholesale market with other p rodu cers in Candler County. --0- GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS lv/ONTI CELLO -- M onticello Cannin g Company, Inc., pim ientos, $29,240. SA V AN N AH- Savannah Suga r R efining Co m p .1 n y , gra nula ted suga r, $ 10,266. ATLANTA-.J. M . Tul! M et al & Supply Company, n ickel chrom ium iron a lloy rods. $ 11,426. A L BANY- Lilliston 1m P I e m en t Co m pa ny, rotary scyth e, $ 12,028. WEST POUlT-Batson-Cook Co mpa ny, const ruct ion of cold storage an d m ea t cutt ing plant, $ 142,3 11. ATLANTA-Worthin gton Co rpora tion , com p ressor, $261,38 7. BR UNSWICK- Seaboard Co nst ruction Compan y, const ruc tion of roadways, $7,459 . SAVANNAH - Savanna h Sugar R efin ing Corporation , refin ed gra nulated ~uga r, $4 7,66 7. ATLANTA-Th e South land Coffee Co m pa ny, coffee, $58 ,800. AL BANY- A . C. Sa mford, Inc., construc tion of airc ra ft wash rack, $28,900. R OSS VILLE-B rock & Blevins Co., add ition to steam plant, $207,466. ATLANTA-Wcstin gh ou se Electric Co rpo ra tion, X - R ay D ivision , ultra high- speed X-Ray U nit, gene ra to r and tube, $3 1,500. DA WS ON- Cind erella Food s Di vision of Stevens Industri es, Inc., p eanut butter, $42,386. N E W N AN- R. D. Col e M anufactur ing C ompany, augmentation of water facilities, $259,750. ATLA NTA - Stam pr ite Eq uipment GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ' 6 Co., sta m p pad s. DECATUR - D eKalb Co ntracting Comp any, construction of electrical distribution faci lities, $ 157,533. COCH R AN - Acm e Con struct ion Co. , rep air resurfacin g of road s an d pa rking areas, $5 7,8 76. MA C O N--Tum pane Co m pany of Georgia, overh a ul a nd reconditioning of eq uipme nt, $49 ,106 . DA WSON- Cinder ella Foods Division of Stevens Industri es, Inc., pean ut butter, $44 ,6 14. L aGR ANGE- Callaway Mills Co., cotton du ck, $ 173,604. SA V AN N AH- Savannah Sugar R efinin g Co ., granulat ed sugar, $27 ,734. ATLANTA-Atlanta Flooring and I nsulati on Co . a nd R ab ern N ash Co., linoleum insta lla tion, $ 14,489 . V ALD OSTA-.J. N . Bray Co ., const ruction of tower , $72,939. ATLANTA-Righton Distributing C om pa ny, installation of au d io-visua l nur se call facilit ies, $ 12,5 13. JES UP-Watson & Yeargan Co ., construction of AI O sho ps, $96,521. ATLANTA- \Vorthingt on C orpora tion , crankcase compressor, $87 ,252. N/ ACON- T um pa ne Co m pa ny of Georgia, over hauling and recon di tioning of eq uipme nt, $29,468. A T L ANTA- John .J. H a rte Co m- pan y, designing services, $ 118,500 . COLUM BU S- W right C ontracting Co m pany, flood protecti on p roj ect , $ 20 6, 78 4 . Chattooga County (Con tinued from Pagc S ) R ay Van Pelt , Tax R eceiver ; L owell S. Hix, C ounty School Superintendent : M . H. Pur cell, Co unty Farm Agent : M iss Omie W iley, H ome Demonstra- tion Agent ; .J. B. Stephenso n, Sur- veyor ; Roosevelt Young, Corone r. M emb ers of th e Legislature a re Pau l W eems a nd J am es Floyd . M ayor of Summerville, th e COUIlty sca t, is E. C . Pesterficld. M ayor of Trion is W . B. Simmons. C ha ttooga Co unty C ommissione rs a re H om er Cordon, cha irma n; C la ude Bak er, C lyde H arl ow, C laude Floyd an d L. W . Bulman . M rs. T. .J. Espy, .Ir., is C lerk. Cha ttooga Co unty is in th e Lookou t M ountain Judicia l C ircuit with Freeman C . M cClure, Judge and Earl B. ( Bill) Self as Solicito r General. T..J. Espy, J r., is J ud ge of Summervi lle C ity Court. N E W S L E T T ER June 10, 1954 Historic Talbot County Has Balanced Agricultural and Industrial Program T a lbot is a wid ely diversified county which features histor y, agriculture a nd industry, all th ree figuring dail y in th e lives of its citizens and th eir ac tivities. C rea ted in 1827 and nam ed tor Gov. Matth ew T albot, th e county will be 127 yea rs old next D ecember. Conta ining more th an 300 squ are mil es of a rea, its population in 1950 was 7,687, or 19.7 per sq ua re mil e. The la nd ar ea is 249,600 acr es, divid ed into 714 fa rm s, th e 157,282 ac res of fa rm land being 220. 3 acr es in size. Th ere a rc no large cities in th e county. T albotton , th e county seat' s popu lati on in 1950 was 1,175 ; Wo od land, 62 1; G en eva, 209 ; Juncti on C ity, 259 ; a nd th e pa rt of M an chester in Talbot, 52 populati on . Four ra ilroad s ser ve th e county, th e Atlantic Co ast Lin e, South ern , Ce ntra l of G eorgia a nd T alb otton shortline railroad. Flint Ri ver forms th e northeaste rn bound ary of th e county, sepa rating T a lbot fr om U pson county. Nu- In addition to th e lum ber industry in th e coun ty, th e pulpw ood sales in 1953 tot aled $700,000. C ur tis Wi ggin s is Co unty F orest Ran ger. Pro cessing and sale of sand a t J unction City is a n important ind ustry in th at area. Gen er al ag ricultural crops are grown in th e county-corn , cotton, grain, p eanuts and livestock- hogs, beef and dairy ca ttle, and poult ry a nd eggs. C ounty 0 f fi e e rs a re: Ordinary, Thom as H . M ah on e ; Clerk of Co urt, pr esident and Mi ss Fannie M ah on e cashier of th e Peop les Bank of Talbotton ; D r. F. C . Stinson ope ra tes th e Talbotton Ho spit a l, and Mrs. L ynda L ee Bryan is Librari an of th e Stra usLeV ert L ib rary, loca ted in th e Co mmunity H ouse. Electri city is furn ished T albotton and th e a rea by th e Ge org ia Power Co ., and tw o lin es provide REA serv- ice in th e county ; .J. C . W atts is pr esi- dent of th e T albotton Li on s C lub, and Mrs. Am orette Callaway heads th e W oman 's C lub. T h is club spo nsored th e Bett er H om et own Imp rovem ent con- test in 1952-53 ; Mrs. .J. C . Lumsden is R egent of th e Gov. T own s DAR Cha pte r. Insta lla tion of th e dial system is be- ing conside red by 1'. .J. Battle, man ager merous cree ks tr averse th e county, af fording a sufficient water supply. T a lbot h as a fin e syste m of roa ds and hi ghw ays. U. S. Route 80, exte nding from Savann ah to Californ ia, crosses the county, and othe r highw ays a re Sta te 41, 22, 96, with n um erous coun ty roads. Th e la rge for est a rea in th e cou nty provides mat eri al for exte nsive lumbering and pu lpw ood ac tivities, sawmills a nd planing mills a nd plan ts that use much wood . Straus-L eVert Memo r ial H all is the pl a ce of many comm u n ity meetings a nd houses the Talbotton Li br ary. These firms include th e W ood land Furniture M an ufacturing Co., .J. H . Woodall, Jr., president, a t Wo od land ; mak ers of cha irs, beds, settees and other furniture ; th e Geor gia C ushion & Wrapper Co ., .J. H . Woodall, president, a t \Voodland, manufacturers of cush ions a nd wrappers for p adding and packin g fruit ba skets ; Hi ll Cas ket Co., Talbotton, m ak ers of caskets a nd cabinets; Eu gen e H awkins, \Vood land, sawmi ll. Oth er ind ustri es in th e coun ty a re th e T albot Pro cessing Co rp., Talbot- ton , .J. J. Murphy, manager , a un it of th e G eor gia W ebb ing & T ap e C o., of Columbus, manufacturers at Talbotton of tape, largely on gove rn me nt cont r a ct s. Th ese industri es emp loy several hundr ed peopl e. R . H . C a llier; She riff, OJ. H . F ergu son ; T ax Co mmissione r, E . G . C ook ; Sch ool Sup eri nt end ent, M rs. G . L. Carte r; Corone r, T om Wimberl ey ; C omm issione rs, Hinton H endricks, cha irma n; Frank Jord an a nd Marvin H endricks. Thomas H . M ah on e is C lerk to th e C ommissione rs, J ohn Andy Smith Co unty Attorn ey and Sur veyo r ; Boa rd of Education : R obert J ordan, cha irman ; Robert Wi llis, J oh nnie M atthews, M er cer Co ok and John Wo odall. St ate Sen at or fr om th e 25th Di strict is Robert H . J ord an , of T albott on ; Legislator, H . Ch ris Callier; C ounty Farm Agent, R . H . M cRae. M ayor of T albotton , the county sea t, is H enry Persons ; Maro C allier is Postmaster ; Ben Sta rling, Police Ch ief a nd Ch ief of th e Vo lun teer Fire Department. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Persons is of th e telephone com pa ny at T albotton . T albot Post No . 195, Am eri can L egion owns a lot and plans to bui ld its hom e up on it. Natural gas is piped to Talbotton by th e Southe rn N atural Gas Co rp. The 72-yea r-old T alb ott on Ne w E ra weekly newspap er published by th e N ew Er a Publishin g Co ., B. L. T yler editor, wh o is also owne r and publisher of th e 78-year- old 1\1 ario n Co u nty Patr iot at Buena Vi sta , Ga . Steeped in Education Talbotton is d eep -seat ed in ed uca tion . A m en' s and a wom en' s college both flourished h er e more th an a century ago. The present-day exce llent school system in the county stems la rgely fr om that atmosph er e. Prof. C . A. R eynolds is princip al of (Co n tinue d on Page 8 ) 7 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE vS6L 'OL 3Nnr ." - .' - .. ( "~" ...... v l-: -t- I} - - . .- . . .. . -- .. .. ,"' " .- : :"1 " ;. . . " ' " . - . 1 ISI 'oN l !Wldd 'ED ' ElUE[lV P!(?d II DVBOJ 's'n ''M:1ll' 'T d 9~rtE ';J;lS VIEl~03El 'E: V.LNV'.LV 'CJ.ldV::J 3J.VJ.B DD 1 3::J~31i111i110::J .:f0 .lN3Ii11.l~V'd3a V'18~038 Talbot County (Con tin ued fro m P age 7) th e T a lbot Co un ty H igh sch ool, an d th er e is also a h igh scho ol for colo red in T albotton . An $800,000 sch ool bui ld ing p rogram now under way in th e co u nty incl ud es a new gym n asium an d im p rov em en ts a t T alb ot ton Hi gh ; also, a n en tirely new p lant for th e colored Hi gh , a n d imp rov em ents to m any of th e coun ty sch ools. The background of ed uc a tion in T a lbot is th is : C ollingsworth Inst itute for M en flo uri sh ed at T a lbotton fro m 1829 to 1839. T he presid ent 's h om e still sta nds on th e Institute site an d is occ up ied as a resid en ce. LeVcrt F em a le Aca dem y a t Talbo tton was ch a rte re d in 1830, cha nge d in 1856 a n d ch a rte red as a college . It was n amed for M ad a me O cta via W al ton LcV crt, gra n dda ugh te r of G eorge W alton , one of th e signe rs fro m G eorgia of th e Decl a ration of I n dependen ce, T h is bui ldi ng was purch ased by th e Stra us fami ly a bo ut 30 yea rs ago a nd pr esent ed to th e C ity of Talbotton. It is nam ed th e " Stra us-Le Vc rt M em ori al H all ," and is used as a C om m un ity H ou se for co m m un ity meetings and a lso h ouses th e L ibr ary. Religion Deep-rooted R eligi ou s wor sh ip is also d eep- root ed in T a lbot as th e ch urch bell h as soun de d long in thi s area . Every com m un ity ha s ch urc he s of variou s cree ds, faiths an d den om in ations. The T albo tto n Ba p tist ch u rc h, of wh ich Dr. An drew M . Smi th is pastor, wa s organized Feb. 18, 1829 a n d h as a n illustrious record for service to the com m un ity an d its m ember s. Th e T a lbotton M ethod ist ch urch was orga n ized in 1828 a nd th e presen t b uild ing was erec te d in 185 7 of h andmad e br ick, a n d is said to be on e of th e three 0 I d e s t b rick M ethod ist ch urc h es in th e South G eo rgia Conference. T h e R ev. E . G . H ut ch in gs, J r ., is the present pastor. T h e m ost unusua l ch urch in th e area is Z ion Episcop al Ch urc h in T a lbotton erec ted in 1848. A tablet th er eat says in part : " T he per fect rep lica of a typi cal En glish r ural Parish ch urch of th e T udorGo th ic p eriod . The alta r, com m u n ion rai l, lectern - p ul pi t a nd p rayer desk a re h andmad e of nati ve wa ln ut. T h e en tire struc ture is put together with woo de n p egs a n d h andmad e iron n ai ls. Serv ices a re h eld one Sund ay in eac h m onth ." T h e ch urc h is sai d to h a ve 12 m emhers, three of who m live in T albotton. Dr. Co lin Campbell, R ect or of T rin ity Episcop al C h urch in Co lum b us, jurisdicti on of Zion , d irects th e services every m on th . Straus Story Til ' na qs. sto ry is a n. ep ic of Ta l~ bot toiL :-:A: lt~ Qpgh it is m or e th an on e h un dred iye'a rs old - th e begin ning of it, - it is still told . L azarus Stra us loca ted ' in Talbo tton a bou t 1850, ope ne d a store, rem ained in b usiness th er e 12 years, th en went to C olum bus and later to N ew York wh ere th e Straus fa m ilv h as sin ce op er a ted one of th e la rgest d ep artment sto res in th at city- p res en tly M a cy's. I n 1925, M a cy's ac q uired Davison-Paxon dep a rtm ent stor e in At lan ta, a n d othe r stores in G eorgia ope ra ted by th at finn under th e name of " Davison's" a rc in Co lum b us, M acon , Athe ns, Au gusta an d Se a Isla nd ; th er e is on e a t Colum bia, S. C . Is ad or , Na th an a n d O scar Stra us and one dau ghter bou ght th e old L eV ert college bui lding seve ral yea rs ag o and presen ted it to th e C ity for a Community H ou se. The Stra us fam ily h as been liber al con trib utor fr om tim e to tim e to T albotton civic en te rp rises. T h e p resen t co ur tho use was bu ilt in 1892 . On its gro un ds is a h andsom e C on fede ra te m on um ent a nd a lso th ere is a ta blet , placed in 1953 by th e G eorgia H istorical Commission, wh ich rela tes th a t " At T albotton on J an . 26, 1846 , th e first m eeting of th e Suprem e Co urt of G eo rgia was h eld in th e old C la iborrie H ot el, wh ich stoo d on e block west or' th is m arker. " T h e site is n ow occup ied by a bri ck residen ce, owne d an d occu pi ed by Mrs. G . 1. C a rter, C oun ty Sch oo l S upe rin - tend en t. -i T a lbotton wa s th e h om e of th e l a t ~ Cha nce llo r W ait er B. H ill, of th e Uni- versity of G eorgia , an d th e h om e of Go v. G eorge ' V. Town s th ere is occ u- p ied by M ayor H enry Person s. T h e gra ve of M argaret ( M rs. J ohn ) Towns, wife of a R evolution ary sold ier a nd mothe sons h r o of me ' G\~oavs' . T owns n1a l-ked ' nea r on M th ay eP 23 erby th e T a lbo tton T owns DA R C ha p te r. Cap t. H ein y Per son s, C ongressman from th e F ou rth Dis trict in th e 1870' s, a resid en t of T a lbotton , was th e gran d fath er of A . P. Person s, p resent S up er int endent of th e S ta te Dep artment of Ban kin g. T a lbo tto n, long th e h om e of man y pr om in ent residents, h as also h ad notab le visitor s, in cluding G en . L aFayette an d H enry C lay, wh o " passed thi s wa y." G EO R G IA DE PA RTMENT O F C O M M ~~~J~.r ' .\ '1 8 . .I " ' ",, ; ,~ l/\ " DEPAUTM OF EDCE EW LETT JUNE 25, 1954 ._ - -~ .:_:~: NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Puhlis!.. ~1 ... uri-monthly hy (a:OIlGJA DEPT. OF CO:\I:\IERCE J00 State Capitol * HE~MAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman LOPDie A. Pope, V. Chru . Y. F. Geeslin Ren Jessup Hoke Peters * CLARK GAINES Secretary Vol. 5, No. 18 June 25 , 1954 Jun e 25, 1954 _-- _ .......... .... ...._. .- --- _. _.._- - - - --- -- - ---- - _ ._ - - - - _ __ __ _ .... .. ...... .. ... - . Plans jor Labor Day AliatoonalWaterShow I Aquarama , a spec tac u la r water show, is bein g planned for Alla too na L ak e on L ab or D ay week end, Se p te m ber 5-6. The fir st of it s type eve r h eld in th is part of th e co u n try , Aq ua ra ma will feature two d ays of boating eve n ts for boat owne rs, a nd plenty of spec ta to r eve n ts for th e ge ne ra l public. H ighlight of th e sho w will be a g ia n t p a rade of light to be held on th e lak e im m edia tely a fter d ark on L ab or D a y. This parad e will be made up of floats construc te d en tirely of lights a nd mounted on boats. T here will b e no ad m ission charge for any of th e two-d ay eve n ts. Aq u ara ma is bcin g staged by Aqu arama, In c., a non-p rof it corpo ra tion co m pose d of m embers of a ll civic dubs in th e C a rt ersvill e a rea . T h is g ro u p pl an s to present Aqu aram a as a n a n nu al even t to pr ovide North Gco rg ia with a tou rist a tt raction a nd recr eation p roj ect com parab le in scop e to T ampa' s Gas p arilla Parad e o r th e F estiv al of Li ghts hel d a nnua lly a t Balboa , Californ ia . Robert W . M a y, Jr. , is ge ne ra l cha ir man for th e Aqu ar am a p ro gram . H e sta tes th a t th e original id ea was con ceived bv th e recr eation commi t tee of th e C art'er sville Kiwanis C lub as p art of C art ersvill e's en try in n.e C h a m p ion H om e Town Co n tes t spo nso re d b y th e Georgia POWcl' C om pan y. M r. M av ex te n ds an in vita tion to a ll boat ow ners a nd dubs in th e Allatoon a a rea to p articipate in th e Aqua rama festivities. Inf or m ation a bo u t th e in di vidual even ts or ove ra ll p rogram ca n be ob ta ine d by co n tac ti ng th e Aq ua ram a co m m it tee throu gh th e C ha m ber of Commer ce a t Ca rte rsville. This marker at W ind er , at th e int er section of Broad St ree t an d U. S. R oute No. 29 , th e Atl an ta -Athe ns Highway , is on e of many marker s bein g placed throu ghout th e state d escribing hi storical site '; and eve n ts. Th ese marker s, pl aced b y th e Ge org ia Hi storical Com- mi ssion , add 10 motorists' en joy me n t a nd hi storical appreciation of Geo rg ia. Savannah: Georgia Sta te C ham pion Skee t To urname n t, H ot el DeSot o. June 25-27 . Augusta : Georgia Co n fe re nce of V et era ns' Se rvices, Bon Air H ot el, Jun e 25 - 26 . Atlanta: Georgi a Associa tion of L ife U nde rwrite rs M eeting, Di n k I e 1' - Plaza , .I un e 25 -26. Athens: H e a I t h Education Se mi na r, U n iversi ty of Georgi a, June 28-.1 uly 2. Atlanta: "Okla ho ma," Municip al Th ea te r Under-the -S ta rs, Jul y 1-3, 5-10. Savannah: :)Oth Inf ant ry Di vision Associa tion Meeting. H ot el DeSot o, Jul y 1-4. Atlanta: G eo rgia Assoc ia tio n of th e Deaf Co n fer ence , Din kier-Pl aza , Jul y 2-5. Albany : " Alba n y Aqu al ympics' Swim ming M eet , Na tiona l AAU Com pe tit ion, T ift Park Pool, Jul y 3. Athens: R eadi ng Co n fere nce , U ni ver- sity of Georgia , .I uly 7-9. Atlanta: " Song of No rway," M uni cip al Theater U n d er - the-S ta rs, Jul y 12-1 7. Athens: 4- H Di st rict M eeting, U niv ersity of Geo rg ia, Jul y 12-1 4. Macon: Georgia Sta te J un ior C ham pi on sh ip Go lf Tourname n t, I dl e H our Co unt ry C lub , .I uly 14-1 7. Athens: Beef Cattle Short C ourse , Uni versit y of Georg ia, Jul y 14-1 5. Columbus: 19t h Ann ua l So u theastern Amateur Go lf Tourna ment, Co lumbu s Co untry C lub , Jul y 15-18. August a: Convent ion of th e Am er ican L egion of Georgia, Bon Air H otel , Jul y 15-18. A tl an ta : So utheas tern C hi na , G lass & G ift Show, Mu nicip al Auditorium , J uly 18-21. A tl a n ta : " Rosalie," Municipal T he ater U rid er-th e-St a rs, .I uly 19- 24. Augusta: G eorgia Prison W arden s Associa tion M eeting, Bon Air Hotel. Jul y 19-21. A ug usta : Conv ent ion of G eorgia D a ir y Assoc ia tion, Bon Air Hotel July 22(Contin ued on Page 8 ) - - - - -- COVER PICTURE G lass' Ri ver Bridge, one of the last rem aini ng cove red bri dges in G eorgia, crosses th e C ha ttahooch ee R iver abou t n in e mi les n or thwest of LaGra nge 011 Georgia R ou te No . 109. - Photo by Ca rolyn C arter. G EORG IA DEPARTME NT OF C O M M ERCE TE \VSL ET T E R J u ne 25, 1954 Georgia State Museum Fascinates Thousands Each Year With Many Natural History Exhibits T he Georgia St at e Mu seu m on th e fou rth floor of th e Sta te Capitol Building in Atlanta is visit ed by thousands of people eac h year. And wit h good reason -fascin at ing exh ibits relating to Georg ia's natu ra l history cove r nearly every foot of spa ce a va ilable. Cases of mineral spec ime ns, a ni ma l and floral life, both bla ck a nd wh it e and color ph ot o-mu rals, di or amas with moving parts, insect s and fo rest ry exh ibits riva l each ot h er for th e visitor' s attention . T he mu seum was star ted in 1896 wi th exh ibits a rr a nged for d isplay at th e Co tton St at es Exposit ion of 1895. Later, item s wer e add ed that ha d been part of th e G eorgia exh ibit at th e U niversa l Expositi on of 1904 in St. Loui s. Again , in 1939, more m at eri al was a dd ed from the Georgia exh ibit a t th e New York World's Fai r. M eanwhile, th ose co ncern ed with th e mu seum scoute d out in teres ting articles, and fri ends con trib uted va luable item s. T he collection seen at the mus eum todav is of ind et ermin a te va lue to th e sta te a nd to G eorgia citizens. In charge of th e m useum is Mi ss Annette M el. can , C ura tor. She acce pted th e responsibil ity fo r th e museum i n 19:17, a nd since has a rr a nge d a nd classified a gr eat deal of th e ma teria l, a nd ad de d man v new exhi bits. Spring -is th e season wh en th e m useurn has th e gre a test nu mb er of visitors. Lit erallv thousands of school ch ild ren a re brought by th eir teachers eac h week for th e ed uca tiona l expe rienc e of seeing th e "real th ing" at th e museum. School child ren a re most fascin at ed bv th e snake case , seen in th e ph otograph below. Th ese spec ime ns have been placed in a na tur al setting to p resen t an unders ta nd ing of them a nd th eir nat ural habitat more completely. Th e most freq uent q uest ion s arc " Are th ey rea l?" T hey a re. An d th en a littl e m or e tim orou slv. " Are th ey a live ?" Th cv aren't: th~~'re stuffed. ' wiiss M cLea n' has prepared a 72page bro chure describing in d etail th e exh ibits at th e mu seum . Since it is th e on lv volume on th e' natura l hi story of G eorgia, a nd a good on e, it is consta n tly in d ema nd . Schoo ls wr iti ng for q ua n tit ies for classroom use an d histo ria ns, natu ral ists a nd th e inter est ed pu bl ic ' some times absorb as ma ny as tw o tho usand cop ies a week. T ourists in th e Capitol b uilding fin d th a t a visit to th e mu seum with th is deta iled guide in th eir hand gives th em a riche r ba ck- T hes e snakes, thoug h real , ar e not ali ve. Ed Friend Ed Fri end This case displays some of th e marine life found off th e cas t coast of Georgia. grou nd for more en joym en t a nd understand ing of th ei r tour in Georgia , a nd a grea ter ap precia tion for our natural wildli fe. An even t and an exhibit of th e Yen ' near fu ture will have specia l m ea ni ng to th e Georgia State Museum. T h e cott on sta lk with th e la rgest number of cotto n boll s eve r known to be grown in th e world - 715 bolls-is now bei ng pr ep ared for pr eservatio n by a specia list in such work . I t will be rcadv at the end of th e sum m er ; th en it wiil' be show n on a televis ion sho w in Buffalo, Ne w Yor k, a nd wi ll be on d ispl ay in th e Buffalo Museum for a week. Then it will be pl aced in a specia l case a nd be on con tin ua l di splay in th e Georgia State Museum. This sta lk has been in th e museum's possession for some tim e, a nd is now receiving specia l treatment for rea sons of preservation. T he stalk was grown by th e lat e J oh n B. Broadwell in 1912 , in the Craba pple Commun ity of Milton Co u nty, now 'F ult on County, near Alpha re tta . Bird s a nd fossils. a m eteo rite fo un d at Social Circle, G eorgia , I nd ian relics, la rge-sized sam ples of various types of marble and gra n ite for whi ch Georgia is famous-these a re onlv some of the pleasant surprises to be 'found a mong th e d ispla y cases whi ch fill the aisles and line the wa lls of th e corridors on th e four th floor of the Sta te Capitol. :, GEO RG IA DE PA RTMENT O F CO M M E RC E NEWSLETTER June 25, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS Plant Expansion Plan s have been anno unced for th e ex pa nsion of th e M on ar ch - Fi tzger ald Co mpa ny at FITZGERALD . Approxima ted 4,000 sq uare feet of additiona l floor space will be ad ded to the prese nt bui lding. N ew machin ery will be ad ded and oyer 75 additional people em ployed . T he concern manufact ur es M on-T og spo rtswear. -0- Arlington Warehouse A new war ehous e for storing bul k oats, seed lupine, wh eat , clover a nd peanu ts, is under const ruc tion in ARLINGTON . Wh en com plete, th e bui lding will conta in 4,500 square feet of floor space . Mrs. R. C. Wa rd, Sr. , M a nager of Wa rd 's Bond ed Wa rehouses, is owner of th e new building. This will be the fourth war eh ouse bui lt by th e conc ern; th e oth er th ree ar e p resently being used for cotton storage. - 0-- Dawson Milk Plant Operati ons a re about to begin at a new milk p rocessing a nd distributing p lant in DA WSON . Eli H ill is head of the concern, and D . B. Brazeal will be manager of the plant. It is fu lly eq uipped to homogen ize a nd pasteurize milk and process othe r dairy pr oducts. The bu ildi ng for th e mil k plant is onestory high , constructed of concrete. - 0- Calhoun Enterprise The M & M M illin g Co mpa ny a nd M a uldi n Feed a nd Seed Compa ny have officially opened their new qua rters in CA L HOUN. The com pa nies a re op erat ed by H enry A. M a uld in an d Slag le M oss. A new 8,000 sq uare foot brick building houses th e feed and seed section, whil e remo deled qua rters close by contain new mi lling an d m ixing eq uipme nt an d storage bins . - 0- Tobacco Warehouses B. B. R ogers h as begun const ruction in DO UGL AS of a mammoth tobacco warehouse to be ready for th e 1954 tobacco auc tion season. T he warehouse locat ed on th e Willacooch ee R oad , will h ave four distin ct units with a total of 220,000 squa re feet of floor space. Several other tobacco wareh ousemen in Douglas pla n to construct ad ditional warehouses in the area. Dixie Pride Mills FL OWER Y BRA N CH will soon be th e site of Dixie Pr ide Mill s, In c., a recentl y organized firm whi ch will p rodu ce 15 ca rloa ds of feeds a day. The cost of constru ction a nd equipment for the pou ltry feed mixing plan t is estimated at $250,000 . Operati ons at th e plant a re expected to begin about midAu gust. Broiler, chick sta rter, pullet gro wer an d br eed er feeds will be pr od uced at the ra te of abou t 100,000 tons eac h year. The plant site con ta ins six acres, with 600 foo t fro ntage of tracks on th e Southern R ail road. - 0- Rock Crushing Plant A new rock crus hing plant has been established outsi de the city limits of COVINGTON, N ewton Cou nty. The plan t, opera ted by Porter Brown Limestone Compa ny of Springfield, T ennessee, employs 20 men producin g 1,000 tons of crus hed stone dail y. An asphalt plant has also been erected which will sta rt operations in the very nca r futur e. - 0- Claxton Op ens' Roadside P ark A roa dside park at CL A XTON was recently dedi cat ed , adding to th e eve r growing list of such beautified pi cni c a reas th rou gh out th e whole sta te of Georgia. T his par ticular par k has its site overlooki ng the Canooc hce R iver. The p roject of landscapin g the a rea and p rovid ing it with tab les and benches for eating out-of-doors was p romot ed by th e C laxton R otar y C lub. T h e Sta te H ighw ay Depar tmen t help ed with the design of th e pa rk and members of th e Cl axton Garden Club p lan ted flowers and shr ubs in th e ar ea . M an y citizens of Ev an s Co unty help ed in planning, pay ing for a nd in th e crea tion of the park whi ch will be a source of pleasure to ma ny na tives an d mo tor ists in th at regio n. -0- Jesup Feed Mill The Pig G reen Acres F eed Mill recen tly opened in JES UP. It is own ed a nd operated by Sine Aspinwall, a nd represe nts an investment of $60,000. The new mill will supply mix ed feeds of all descriptions for th e pigs bein g raised on th e Pig G reen Acres F a rm and will also be a not her milling fac ility availab le for Wayne cou ntians. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 Barnesville Expansion An extensive expa nsion p rogram is undcrw av a t BARNESVILLE at the plant of 'the Willi am Carter Co mpany, manufacturers of all types of underwear. It is expecte d th a t th e new facilities will be completed by ea rly fal l. A new two-story bleach house a nd a new knitting room which will contai n some 20,000 squa re feet of floor space a rc under constr uction now ; plan s ar c rea dy for a second story addition to the p resent wareho use also. At present thi s firm employs over eight hundred peopl e. -0-- Oats Warehouse CO R DE L E is th e site of a new warehouse for oats stor age. The building is owned by George E. McKay who has also rem odeled anothe r wareh ouse for oa ts sto rage . The new building has a 165,000 bushel capacity; th e remo deled one, a 110,000 bushel ca paci ty. F a rmers from C risp a nd surro unding coun ties will be aide d by th ese faciliti es. - 0- New Henson Plant A new ma n ufac turing plant wh ich will contain some 3 1,000 sq . ft . of floor space is being erec ted in MONR OE by th e C has . W. H enson Garment M an ufacturing Co mpa ny, In c. The new building will be of brick, concr ete a nd steel construc tion, will hav e a fir e spr inkler system and be completely airconditioned . The conce rn , ma n ufacturers of th e "Re d Fox Lin e" of match ed un iforms of sh irts and trousers, will employ some 200 people wh en th e finn begins op erations, with an a nnua l payroll of abou t a half-million dollar s. - 0-- Eastman Kodak Company E a st m an K od ak Co mpa ny h a s ope ned its new br an ch plant in nor th DeI't on , Ga ., Dec. 15, 1885 . His hom e in W ashi ngt on is a hi storic land- ma rk tod av . Th e a re~ of th e cou nty is 39:) sq ua re milr-s a nd th e popu la tion in 1950 was 17,:)82 , or 47 .1 person s per sq ua re m ile. I Lyons, co un ty sea t, had 2,800 pop ula- tion in 1950 : Vi d a lia. 5.8 19. Other town s a re Norm an town , 'C ha rles a nd O hoop cc. There wer e 1.56 9 fa rms in th e coun- ty in 1950, ave ra ge size being 123.9 acres. The land a rea is 236,16 0 acres, with 194.381 ac res in farms. M an y ' other acres are in fo rests, pr otected by fir e towers. These fo rests p rovid e lu mber , pu lpwo od an d nav al sto res- th ree products that consum e tr ees a t th e sa w and planing mi lls, Sap p ' s Studio Tobacco a uct ion tim c in V ida lia's T obac co War ehou se No.2. V ida lia claims th e la rg est warehou se in the sta te , with 230 ,000 sq . feet of floor sp ace in the New D ea l War eh ou se No . 1, 2 3. and plants th at use lumber for processing into other p rodu ct s ; th ey provid e pul pw ood th at furn ishes em ployment to th e woodsm a n, th e t ru ckma n, mon ey to th e land own er , th e tran sportati on facilit y and a p roduct for th e pu lp mill. T her e a re man y plants in the coun ty to pr ocess forest product s and fu rni sh employme n t for a n umber of peop le. Livestock is im por ta nt in T oombs, two sales barns hold weekly a uctio nsth e T oombs Cou n tv Stoc'k Yards a t Lyon s a nd th e Vid ~li a St ock Yard . lion pounds annually. Sa les open on O ct. 15 a nd close Dec. 15. Forty to . 60 peop le are em ployed a t eac h sa le a t the marke t. Bu vers com e from a ll over the South, an d' peca ns a re b rou ght in from a ra d ius o f 150 m iles. T oombs is in a n area th at grows mu ch bri ght-lea f tob acco. Pound s sold a t the V id alia warehouses in 1953 rated second highest in th e sta te , tot alin g 12,934,242, and bringin g $6,29 7,02 1. T he n umber of tobacco wa reh ouses opera ting a t Vid alia hav e been incr eased to eigh t for th e 1954 sale season now on . 280, a nd St ate N os. 4-29-30- 130147-1 52-292. T he Alt am ah a Ri ver forms th e en tire so uthe rn bounda ry of th e co un ty, wh ile th e O ho opee Ri ver is in th e north east ern part of th e coun ty. T hese two riv ers a nd numerous creeks p rovide excellen t fishi ng a nd hunting " ground s." . A por tion of the Georgi a Stat e Prison land- 260 acres- is in southeastern Toombs coun ty, T he 60-vea;' old L yon s Prov rcss, weekly newsp aper, is publish ed by M r. and Mrs. H a rry M , Rh od en , wh o ac- The Sta te Fa rm ers M arket a t Vida- M a ny beef ca ttle a re grown in the qui red th e paper a nd p rint ing pl an t in lia provid es a market for locall y a nd co un ty, a nd m ilk is p rovi d ed by six 1945. T heir son , H a rold M . Rh od en . ar ea -gr own farm p rod uct s. The sales ther e in 1953 tot al ed $486,098.43 for d a i r ies. In ad d ition to th e big in com e from now in th e U. S. A rm v, is associa te ed itor. The R hod ens a r~: m embers of approxima tely 50 items, most ly locall y fa rm p roduct s, th er e a re m or e than 50 (C ontinued on Page 6 ) 5 GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NEWSLETTER .July 25, 1954 ,( ',,\" , i'~ C rowning the Southeast Tobacco Queen at (he Festival at Moultri e last year. Moultrie Celebrates Gay Tobacco Festival Excit em ent will run high in Moul tr ie on Aug us t 12th. Beginning then th rou gh Saturd ay, Au gu st 14th, th e Seventh An n ua l Southeast Toba cco Fest ival will p rovid e fun for some 65,000 viewe rs a nd pa rti cip ants. All thi s activitv will be to celebra te a farm plant th ;t wasn 't even known to So uth G eorgia ns until a bo ut 35 vcars ago. Th rou gh th e co-opera t ion of fa rm er s and bu sin essmen th e crop was successful and tod a v flu e-cured leaf tob a cco is on e of th e ' m aj or crops in th e South. Beauty contests, p a rad es, fir ework s, a street dance, farmers' contes ts, fr ee ac ro ba tic acts a nd m an y other ga la r vr-nts will be featured during th e three-d ay festiva l. A three-mile p arad e on Frid av will have float s, bands, hor ses, clowns, beauties, and th e famou s "T a lking Bull. " Su ch events as chicken' chasing, pie-eating con tes ts and a hu sband-calling contes t will be staged on th e lawn of th e cour thouse square on Thursd ay and Frid ay. In th e hu sband-ca llin g contest, th e la d ies ca ll their spo uses hom e whi le th e men race in ('ating' pi es. Th e' cha mpion hu sband ca ll last vea l' lasted 60 seconds a nd could he ' hea rd , sa id hubby, "a cr oss the field s." The title of Sou theast T ob acco Q ueen will be at stake Thursda y evening , as well as th ose of Little Miss M oultrie, L ittle Miss Brightleaf a nd Queen of the Festival. 'Friday evening C ha rlie Spi vak and his orches tra will Toombs County (Con tin ued from Page :;) a la rge well-known newspap er famil y in So ut h Geo rgia . Th e firm also opera tes a n office-sup ply bu sin ess. Th e 5:1-yea r old V id alia A d tra n cc is issued wceklv by th e Advance Publi shing Co., Inc., R. E. Ledford , ed itor and owner , a nd Willi am F . Ledford , ma na ging edito r. T his finn does a general prin ting bu sin ess and ope ra tes a sta tiona ry and office sup ply bu sin ess. T he church bell sounds loud in T oombs, ch urc hes of m an y dcnomina tions being a ll ove r the co unty. Lyons is County Seat M ayor of Lyon s is D. W . T hompson a nd Co uncilme n arc: Rh onni c 1\100r e, Arli e Elkins, R . L. H orne, j r. , j ack Durst, T ed K a vakos ; Police C hief, Delma Bur ke; Fire C h ief, J ohn E. L an e ; Postmaster , Mrs. Ruth Rou ntree ; .Iud ge of C ity Co ur t, .J. Ell is Pop e ; So- licit or , ' V. T. Darby. T oombs co un ty officers include : O r- d inary, M rs. A. L. Hussey ; Clerk of Co urt, D . Q . Co lema n: She riff, G . M . M ead ows ; T ax Co llecto r, H . .J. Clifton ; T ax Receiver, Mrs. J. L. T hom pson ; Schoo l Super inte nden t, .J. B. Par- tin ; Surveyor, Bill G ray bill ; Co ro ner, U. S. J on es : Co m m issioner, Ross P. provid e m usi c for th e F esti val Ball , held in a lar ge toba cco wareh ou se. La tel' the re will be a Queen 's Sin g. O n Sa tu rday, farmer s tak e ove r th e off ices of ma yor, police chief, fir e chief a nd sheriff. O n th e lawn of th e courthou se sq uare, a " hoosegow" will be set up a nd fines issued for suc h offen ses as " imp rope r dress." " Pro pe r" clothing consists of dungar ees, workpa n ts or ove ra lls, a nd a blue deni m shi r t. T ha t eveni ng a det ermined g rou p of farmers will m eet an "allstar" team of mer eha n ts in a softba ll ga me. Fireworks and a stre et dan ce will climax th e festival. Bowen . Farm Age n t Eu gene Brogd on ; Hom e Dem onstration Agent, Mi ss .Juan ita Stev enson ; L egislat or , .J . Sims Alexan de r ; Sta te Sena tor, 15th Dist rict , St eve M . H all. T oomhs is in th e First Co ngressiona l Distr ict. Th e courth ouse a t Lyon s is a mod ern buildin g th at hou ses th e County off ice rs. M ot els a t Lyo ns a rc York e and Dixie ; hot els, Elb erta a nd New Lyons ; hospit al, Aiken H ospital , Dr. W . W . Aiken ; library, Lyon s Public Lib rary, M rs. Dor sey J ordan , libra ria n ; "Sonny" Kaplan is pr esident of th e Lions club ; .f. A. M cD eermond head s th e Kiw ani s club : Mrs. H . R. Yand le head s th e Garde n club : W . "V. H olloway is president of the Peoples Ban k : So uth ern Bell Telephon e Co., operates a di al system in Lyons ; G eorgia Power Co ., furni shes electri c service , and th e office of th e Alta maha Electric M ember ship Co rp . ( R EA) G . M . St ra der, M an ager, is a t Lyon s. Prof. H. H. Brins on is Prin cip al or Lyon s Hi gh Sch ool and othe r hi gh schoo ls a re a t Vid ali a, and -I'oom hs Centr a l Hi gh , eigh t mil es south or Lvo ns. ' T he Co un tv has an extensive schoo l improvem ent ' progr am for the entire system in th e co un ty, for bo th grammar and hi gh schools. Vidalia is 'Tobacco City ' Becau se of th e numerou s tob acco wa reh ouses- eight-Vid ali a h as com e to be ca lled th e " toba cco citv" of thi s area . T ob acco sale season i ~ on now a nd th e city is thron ged with peopl e. A 30-unit m od ern m otel th e 'V ad e Reid, has just been com plete d in Vidali a, and hot els a re : Sunny Inn, The New Vidali a a nd th e D ixie H ot el. Banks her e are: Vida lia Banking Co. , G . H . G ibson, P resident ; D arby Banking Co ., J am es F . Darb y, Presi- (Contin ued on P age 8 ) Toombs County Stock Ya rd at Lyons. G EORGIA DEPART jvIENT O F CO M M ER C E (j NEWS L ET T ER The Sound of the Telephone Means Business in Georgia Lots of It Ca lling on th e telephon e is such a habit th at few peop le realiz e h ow depend ent we a re on th at mech an ism->Georgia ns mor e so th an a ll othe rs in th e nation. On th e av era ge, eac h telephon e in Geor gia has seven ca lls mad e thro ugh it eac h day- th e na tion al ave rage is five. T hese a re th e figures fro m th e So uthern Bell T elephone Co m pany, th e m a jor telepho ne system in the So utheas t, wh ich is affi lia ted with th e Am erica n T eleph on e and T elegraph Compa ny, th e I a r g es t telephon e system in America . H owever , th e figure of seven calls per ph on e dail y m ight be sligh tly alter ed in view of th e fact th at it doesn' t acc o unt for the other 9 1 indepen dent ph on e com panies in Georgia ; and th e five figur e m igh t be change d when the over 5,000 othe r ind epen den t phone com panies throughout the nation a re tak en in to th e ave rag ing . The othe r 9 1 ind ependent com pa nies in Geo rgia cove r a good deal of territor y in th e sta te and a re vita l to our comm unica tions syste m. While serving their ind ividual com m unities, th ey a lso con nec t with Sou thern Bell for lon g-di stance calls to give a wellintegr a ted service. T hese 9 1 com pa nies have ove r 82,000 cus tome rs in the sta te, serving m ore th an 200 G eor gia cities, town s a nd farm a reas . T hey have 199 exchanges. :~~l;.ii:'~: " f:i::'C:;:;' ; -c Ed Ga mb rell Putting up the lin es for th e in stallation of th e dial system last year at Johnson 's C or- ner. Toombs C oun ty. Th e three lar gest teleph on e com pa n ies, o ther th an Sou thern Br-ll , ea ch own and opera te ten or mor e cxcha uges. Th ese com pa nies have ex pe rience d a pheno mena l growth within th e last few years, ju st as Southe rn Bell, necessita ting new eq uipme n t and th e expe nd itur e of mi llion s of dollars to serve their com m unities. So uthe rn Bell, wh ich cove rs 45 per cen t of th e state geog ra phica lly, bu t a conside rably hi gher per cen tage of th e popula tion , handled an av era ge of 4,% 2,000 local ca lls in Geo rgia in 1953 PER DAY, and a n av era ge of 87,833 Ed G ambrell The Central Office or " bra in" of an I~X change being insta ll ed at Vidalia. lon g dista nce ca lls PER DAY . Th ese figures do not in clude ca lls ma de 0 11 pr iva te lines used by a irlines, civil defense a nd othe r spec ial wir es. Sou th ern Bell h as 10, I00 employees th rou ghout Geor gia. They a rc operators, linemen , eng inee rs, off ice workers, fu tur e planners, in stall er s, service eng ineer s, rep ai rm en, testers, co in-box teleph on e collec tors, a nd m an y, m any others. Two-thirds of th em a re wom en . Sout hern Bell ha s 132 exc ha nge s in th e sta te. T h is is th e 75th yea r of Bell telephon e service in Georgia . Atl anta, had her first phon e in 1877, an d Au gu sta a nd M acon had theirs about th e same tim e. It used to be tha t young boys were th e switch bo a rd oper ators, bu t it was fou nd th at th ey "sassed" th e cus- Ed G ambrell Splicin g cable for th e new dial system at Athen s which will go into effec t on Aug ust 14. tom ers a nd so wer e replaced by young ladi es. U ntil 1923, telep hon e connec tions were man ua lly exec uted, a nd then conve rsion to th e dial system began. The three lat est developments in th is commun ication s field include coaxial ca bles whi ch send hundred s of telephon e conve rsa tions a t on ce th rou gh hollow tu bes, opera tor toll dialing whi ch spee ds long-di st a nce ca lls, a nd rad io rela y whi ch is a tr a nscont inental rad io a nd television syste m . Th e Southe rn Bell T eleph one Co mpan y has incr eased its services 125 pl'l" .cent in Georgia in th e past nine yea rs. In Au gust 1945 th er e wer e 280,000 ph on es in th e sta te. In M a y 1954 th er e were 645,00 0 of th em . This is ind ica tivc of th e in cr eased bu siness ac tivitv th rou ghout th e stat e and of th e higll(:r sta ndard of livin g it affords. Set ting up a teleph on e system in a town req uires a grea t dea l of study a nd time-con sum ing pla nn ing. For eac h comm unity, th e system has to be " ta ilor -ma de ." So uthe rn Bell will spe nd twenty-seven m illion do llars on expa nsions a nd im pro vemen ts in Georgia th is year, a nd a n eq ua l a m ount next yea r. Twenty-six milli on dolla rs were spent betw een 1946 a nd .Janu ar y 1954 in th e exte nsion of rural lines alone. M ajor improvem ent s in telephone service have been made possible by establishin g routine m a inta inen ce procedures, using the ope ra to r toll dialin g system an d develop ments in electro nics. So uthe rn Bell has a n extensive t ra in - (Continued on Page 8 ) 7 G EOR G IA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E . .. ~- ,::: " ~ .: " ~ - '" - ~ _ . .. ...,. r o..J .. ~ ISI 'oN l !Wl~d '-eD '-elu-eIlV P!"'d 30VBOd 'sn ')I 'l?'T d 99'tE ':>;)S 'V"IEl~03El ~ E 'V".1.N'V"'.1.'V" 'O.J.ld... :l 3.J.....J.B 00 l 3::J~3WWO::J .:10 l.N3Wl.~Vd3a VIEI~03E1 Southern Bell (Con tin ued fro m Page 7 ) ing program lastin g from two to six w eeks, and in some cases as long as a year, dep ending on th e position. I n 1952, th e co m pa ny t rai n ed 2,000 new em ployees a nd 14,000 for be tter job s. I t m a inta ins a poli cy of promo ting wi th in th e com pa ny rather th an hi ring from th e o utside . This m eans th at em p loyees, as th ey ste p up th e ladder , h av e real kn ow-h ow a n d enrich ed backgro un ds fo r th ei r new p ositi on s. Besid es' th e vital b usiness a n d soc ia l ro les Southe rn Bell pl a ys in Geo rgia, it is a goo d citizen, too . I t sponso rs th e 4- H forestry program in th e sta te , p romo ting th e ca re, co nse rva tion a nd usc of one of G eorgia 's m ost impor ta n t natural resou rces . Presid ent of So uthe rn Bell T elephon e Com pa ny is Fred J . Turn er . Executive Program (C on tin ued fro m Page 2 ) st udies on communications in in dustry, a nd M r. Pla n ty is exe c utive coun selor for J oh nson & J ohnson . Instructi on will be mos tly by th e case st ud y m eth od . Enrollm ent is lim ited to thi rty m en , not m or e th an tw o from a nyo ne co nce rn , Pa rti cipants a re nominated by the ir own compan ies. M o re in formation on th e Executive D evelopment Prog ra m m a y be secured by in ter este d in dustr ial an d business concerns by contacting Dean Gates o r P ro fessor F roemk e a t th e College of Busin ess Admi n istra tion, U niv ersi ty of Georgia , A the ns. Toombs County (Con tinued from Page 6 ) dent ; Brice Ba nking Co., M . F . Brice, Presid ent. W . A. J on es is Presid ent of th e V ida lia Fed e ral Savings & Loa n Assn . H osp it al s include: Conn er-Bedingfiel d a n d Gross-Merc er h osp ital s, Beth- any H ome for W omen , Eld er J. D. Durden , Superintendent, is ope ra te d here by th e Primitive Bapti st Church . Vida lia Publ ic Lib rary h as as Libraria n Mi ss C. B. Sha rp e; Norwood Rh od es is Presid ent of th e L ion s club ; Frank All en h eads th e Kiwanis club : th e American Legion post h as its own hom e h ere ; R adio sta tion is WVOP : th er e are three Garden clubs ; a Wom an's cl ub ; DA R and UDC cha p te rs. T he V id ali a C ham ber of Com merce has as its Presid ent L a m ar A, Brow n , a nd H . S. V andiver is Ex ecutive Sec re ta ry. El ectricity is provide d by Geo rg ia Pow er Co., and REA lines dot th e rural a rea , while Southern Bell Co . fu rn ishes telephone service. Prof. 1'. R . T rippe is Su pe rinte nd en t of th e Vidali a indep end ent school system, whi ch in cl ud es grammar an d hi gh sc hools 101' bo t h white a nd co lored . A big bui ldi ng p rogram fo r tlu - system is p la nn ed . Vidali a city officials a rr : M a yor, L . H . Da rb y ; Coun cilme n: J ames F . D arby, H. A. Th relk eld , F. C . Sh u man , 1'. L. Block er , Brooks Brantley. Mi ss F rances Godbee is Cl e rk . Fire Chief is H o ke Di xon . a n d Poli ce C h ief is C . L. Sta nlev. V i'd ali a Postm aster is Sam W illia m s.' Government Contracts (Con tinued from Page 4 ) .\IA CON- T ria ngle Chemica l Co. , in sec tic ide, $ 18,268. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8 A TLA NTA -Lin k Belt Co., belt co n- veyors, $ 10,25 6 . ATLA NTA -Lon g Leaf Lumber C o., lumber, $2 6,988. J\1A C.0 N - U n derwood Corp ., type- writers, $1 3,425. SAVANNA H - Colonial O il I nd us- t ries, ( 2 co n t rac ts ) , fuel oil, $30 ,80 0. SAY' 4 N NAH - Savan na h Sugar R e- Immg Corp., (6 co n t ra cts ) , sugar, .~ 138,989. ATLA NTA - Nolan Co" In c. , tur ret po we r driven punch es, .~ 12::1 ,.'i00 . S TAT H A M - Statham Garment Corp ., t rou se rs, $ 75,480. A T L ANTA - Potte r & R a yfield , I nc.. steel b reechi ng, $ 13,760 . A TL A NTA-Righton D istrib u ting Co,. I n c., in sta lla tio n of a udio-visual ca ll faci lities, $1 2,5 13. ATLANTA - Scott M ach in e T ool C o.. punch p ress, $ 15,090. . TH OlvfASV ILLE-Rose C itv F ood s, In c., pe an ut butter, $ 15,3 77: A T L ANT A - So u th la nd Coffe e Co. , co ffee , $ 135 ,850. W ARRENTO N - Knox - W arren ton Co., storage box es, $ 148,055 , A TLA NTA - V irgin ia -C a rolina C h emica l Corp ., pape r bags, $ 14,700 . SAVANNAH fining Corp., Savannah g ra n ula ted sSluw~zrar R e$25 - 422 , '"', , CO L U J\1 B U S-Ha rd awa y Con trg. C o., co ns truc tion of lock a n d dam, $4 ,200,0 74 . A T L ANT A- hey Brother s Cons truction Co., Inc., three barracks buildings, $657,000. A TLA N T A - Georgia M ilk Conf ed era tio n In c., fu rnish m ilk an d b utte rmi lk, $58,415 . ATLANTA - Fl oor s, In c. , c ustod ial ser vices , .~32 ,043 . DE It\UT NT OF [OMMEnCE EW LETTER 4) r AUGUST 10, 1954 N EWS LETTER August 10, 1954 NEWSLETTER Published semi-monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol * HERMAN E. TALMADGE Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Ch airman Lonnie A. Pop e, V. Chm. Y. F. Geeslin Ben J esup Hok e Peter s * NEL SO N M . SHIPP Sec re t a ry Vol. 5, No. 21 August 10, 1954 Lilliston Company Explains Machinery The progr essive sp irit and enterprise of an Alba ny conce rn was dem onstrat ed recen tly whe n m ore th an 750 fa rm mach ine ry dealers, customers, ban kers, farmers, service a nd pa rts person nel gathe red a t th e pla nt of Li lliston Im pleme nt Company to in spect th e wide ly distributed pro ducts man ufactured by th e company an d to receive instruction on operation, carp a nd m aintenance of th e various types of equipment exhib ited . The schoo l, exh ibit and ba rbec ue was a ren ewal of th e annua l custom that was discontinued dur ing World War II. The local finn whic h em ploys more th an 100 people, pa rti cipat ing in th e ma nufac ture of fa rm machine ry designe d for gene ra l agricultural a nd indu stri al use with a world-wide market, as we ll as hi ghl y spe cialized eq uipmen t such as th e Peanut H ar vestin g Combin e, is now doing over 25 times th e volume of business experienced in 1935. J ohn. T. Phillips, Sr. , p resident of th e fi rm, delivered th e welcom.ing address, and D r. C . R . Pitta rd , pas to r of Byne M emori al Bap tist Churc h, gave th e invocati on , J. H . Lill iston, vice pres ident of th e company, in tro duced (Contin ued on Page 6 ) Cover Photo T he Fo rd Q uadran gle at th e Berry Schoo ls and Co llege is part of th e lar ge campus at M t. Berry, near R om e. H ere a uni qu e an d effective ed uca tiona l p rogram is carried on wh ich inelu des excellen t t raining in agricult ure . Anothe r photogr ap h on thi s pa ge p ortrays part of th e dairy farm at Mt. Berry . - Photo by Caro lyn Cart er Part of the thriving dairy farm at th e Berry School near Rom e, which carries on an exemplary year-round farmin g pro gr am. I Athens: E lemen ta ry an d H igh Schoo l Principals Conference , U niversity of Georgia, July 26-28. Douglas: Coff ee Cou nty Fair, August 9- 14. Atlant a: Gen tlem en Prefer Blondes," Municipal Theater Under-the-Sta rs, August 9-14 . Athe ns : Air 'F or ce R O T C In stru ctors' Work shop, U nivers ity of Georgia, Augu st 9-14. Albany : R ad ium Springs Invitati onal Golf M eet, R adium Sp rings, Aug ust 11-15. Preston: Cen tennial Cel ebration of Webs ter Cou nty, Aug ust 12. Moultrie: Sou theas t Tobac co F est iva l, Aug ust 12-14. Augusta: Geo rgia R et ail Food Dealers Associa tion Meeting, Bon Air H otel, August 15-17. Columbus: J un ior Order of B'Nai Brith Co nven tion , R alston H ot el, Aug ust 16-1 7. . Hiawassee: Georgia M ountain F ai r, Aug ust 16-21. Augusta : Atomic Energy Commission Auc tion, Bon Air H ot el, Augus t 1921. Sav annah: 4th An nua l C heatha m Wi lson M emorial Shoo t, H ot el D eSoto, Aug ust 20-22 Columbus: D eMolay Conclave, R alston H ot el, Aug ust 20-2 2. Augusta : Georgia Sta te H ai rd ressers Associa tion M eet ing, Bon Air H otel, Augu st 21-23. Macon: 8th An nual Fire a nd Cas ua lt y I nsur an ce School, Wesleyan Co llege, Aug ust 22-27. Atlanta: Sou thea ste rn Toilet Goods Associa tion M eetin g, Di nkier- P laza , Aug ust 22-26. Athe ns: Ex ecutive D evelopment Program, U niversity of Georgia, Augu st 23-Scptembe r 17. Savanna h : National Guard Association of Georgia , D eSoto H otel, Sep tem ber 4-6. Cartersville: Aquar ama, Lak e Allatoon a, Septemb er .'1 -6. Atla nta : 6th An nual Sou thern States Appren tice Ship Conference, D in kier Pl aza an d Pi edm ont H ot els, Sep tem ber 9, 10, 11. Atlanta: America n Association of T extile Ch emi sts a nd Coloris ts, Bilt more H ot el, Sep temb er 15-18. GEO R GIA D E PAR T M ENT O F CO M M ERC E 2 NEW SLETTER August 10, 1954 Georgia's Agriculture Is Taking Significant Turns Toward Promising, Profitable Future Th e f ollow ing is f rom an add ress d eliVered by ]. C. H olton, assistant to th e State C om missioner of A g ricultu re, a ll Radio WGST on l ull' seve nt h . E ntitled " C hangi ng A g ricult ure," it is pub lished in the N ew slett er becau se of its im /Jortan ce to G eorgia's ceonom y. The ag ricult ural picture of Georgia has ch an ged conside rably during th e last thirty yea rs. Let' s review bri efly some of th e farm facts of 1920 as com par ed with 1950 Naturally, th e total land ar ea h as not changed, th er e being a bout 37.4 million acres in the sta te. Neither h as the land in fa rm s cha nge d very mu ch duri ng tha t per iod . th ere bein g 25.4 million ac res in far ms in 1920 an d 25.7 million ac res in 1950, acc ord ing to th e Uni ted Sta tes Ce nsus. H owever, the crop land ha rvested h as altered considera blv fr om 10.4 million acres in 1920 d ~wn to 7.09 milli on ac res in 1950. At th e sam e tim e, th ere wer e 310,932 farms in th e state in 1920, and 198,191 in 1950. with th e ave rage size increasing from 8 1.9 ac res in 1920, to 129.9 acres in 1950. An oth er interestin g fact connec ted with c ur farms is th at in 1920, 66.6 p er cent of th e fa rm s were cu ltiva ted by ten ants and in 1950 on ly 42.8 per cen t. The value of our indiv idua l farm unit increased considerably during th at p eriod even th ough 1920 imm edi atel y followed th e First World War. In exa mining census figures we were mu ch impressed with some other outstandi ng fa cts pertainin g to improvements made on ou r far ms. For instan ce, in 1920 th ere wer e only 3, 145 mo tor trucks on Georgia farms and 2,252 tractors. Bv 1950 the numb er of motor tru cks had increased to 66,865 a nd th e num ber of tr actor s to 60,269, whil e a recent estimate mad e by one of th e tractor com panies indi cates th ere are some thing better th an 70,000 tr act ors on Georgia farm s at th e present tim e. Let' s review briefly th e acreage and value of a few of our m aj or crops, keeping in min d that some of our mo ney crops have come in to pr om inenc e dur ing th is perio d . I n the ea rly da ys, our principal crops were corn, cotton, tobacco a nd pean uts, with a few minor crops. The record s show th at in 1930, Georgia farmers pla nt ed A fine cotton field in middle Georgia. Carolyn Carter 3,432,000 acres in corn wh ich prod uced 39,492,000 bu shels. T wenty-th ree yea rs later or in 1953, th e corn acreage h ad been decreased to 2,910,000 ac res th at produced 58,200 / l00 bu shels. It would be approp riate a t thi s point to say th at th e average p er acre corn yield in Georgia h as been stepped up fr om 10 bu shels to an averag e of 20 bu shels in 1953. A review of the ea rly money crops reveal some inte resting data. 'When O gleth or pe landed nea r Savannah in 1733, he br ough t with him a botanist wh o laid out a ten -acre expe rime ntal plot kn own as "T rustees' Garden ." On thi s plot he attempted to gr ow a great many tropical and subtropical fruits, vegetables and other crops. One of th e crops th at seemed to be promising was th e production of silk, which p roduction contin ued for a n umber of yea rs though it never reach ed grea t commercial value. About th is tim e the produ ct ion of indi go seemed to be p rofitabl e thro ugh out th e South east. At one tim e, we were la rge exporte rs of indi go. But th e crop that has reached th e grea test comm ercial p rodu ction- in fact, it became th e great est mon ey crop of all times- is cotton, first grown in Geor gia in "'T rus tees' Ga rd en ." In 1734 Phillip Mill er in troduced th e first cultivat ed cotto n, and in 1741 samples of th e lint were sent to En gland, which beca me known as "Georgia cott on." This mark ed th e beginning of our export trad e, but at first cotto n was largely grown for home consum ption until sla very was permitt ed in the colonies in 1749. After th e inventi on of th e cotton gin by El i Whitn ey in 1793, it becam e our leading mon ey crop and has continued to be. Co tto n prod ucti on 111 G ea r g i a reach ed its peak in 1911 wh en our farmers h ar vested 2)69,000 bales from 4,958,000 ac res. Agai n in 1914, Georgia fa rm ers pla nt ed 5, 157,000 acres a nd h arv ested 2,753,000 bales. Thus, it is seen th at our average acre p rod uction has been compa ra tively low as compa red with some of th e other sta tes, certainly un til recen t year s. Fol- (Con tinued on Page 6) GEO RG IA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E NEWSLETTER Au gu st 10, 1954 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS New Freight Terminal ATLANTA is th e site of a new termin al for R epublic Carloading Company whi ch has occupied it s new $ 150,000 buildinoz whi ch will serve as h e.adqu arters for th e comp any's op erations through out Georgia. The concern h as mor e th an 100 stations throu ghout th e United States. The fac ilities provide fo r 14 rai l ca rs and 25 trucks a t one tim e, with 15,000 squa re feet of floor space. Air- condition ed office sp ace in th e second sto ry of the building contains 2,500 square feet . H . E . ~edwine is region al man ager for th e firrn ; T. R . Decatur is Atlanta district m an ager. - 0- Poultry Processing A new p oultrv p rocessing pl ant h as been opened in BL UFFTO N by A. D . R eeves. The conce rn will buy broilers, cull h en s and handle eggs for ma rketing. The pl ant will emp loy five peopl e and will serve a number of coun ties in th e a rea . - 0- Winder Motel A new mo tel has been opene d n ear WINDER on U. S. Highway No. 29. The ten-unit T ra velers M otel h as pine paneled room s, tile ba ths and is completely a ir-con ditioned. The m otel was built by Frank R . C has tain, Delm ar Smith and R obert Russell, J r. It is under th e managem ent of M r. and M rs. H enry W ood , Jr. - 0- Marietta Enterprise A new fro zen food s pr ocessing pl ant has op ened in M ARIET T A under th e auspices of H . P. Zipp and T. L. Kl even. The Zip and Kl even Frozen Fo od s Compa ny is producing Fruitberry a blend of cranberries, oran ge a nd apples, which can be used with m eat and poultry, in sa la d or desserts. Some 1,500 boxes of th e product is th e planned outp ut per week and expansion with other food it ems is anticipated . - 0- Egg Market Di xie Eggs, Inc., egg m arketing associa tion in V I DA L I A, recently began official operation s. The orga niza tion will purch ase, process and market eggs for flock owners in several counties in th e Vidalia a rea . W . R . G roover is man ager of th e conce rn. It was established by th e Vid ali a Chambe r of C omm er~e . Seafood Plant BR UNSWICK Quick Freezer Com- pan y h as com pleted th e addition to its plant bringing the total floor space of th e building to 55,400 sq . ft. The pl ant, whi ch wa s op en ed in 1945, is now processing seafood wh ich will be sold under 3 1 diff erent lab els. New fr eezers whi ch h ave been in stall ed ~ive 80,000 pound daily freezing ca pacity to th e plant ; th e total storage ca pacity of plant is 1,200,000 pounds. Frozen seafood pr oducts from th e con cern in clude crab , sh rimp , fro gs legs and ca tfish fillets. -0- Burlap Bag Company GAI N ESV ILLE will be th e hom e of a n ew branch of th e C entral Bag an d Burl ap Com panv, Inc., of Ch icago . The conc ern h as leased a building in Gai nesville in whi ch it will manufacture burlap and cotton bags, as well as bu y. process and sell used feed bags. Initial outp ut will be ap p roximately 25,000 bags dai ly. The plant will em ploy abo ut 25 p eopl e ; futur e expansion of th e com pany is expected. The gen er al m an <:ger of th e new plant will be Mike Freudber g. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS MACON-Croft-Mullins Electric Co ., Inc., electrical and water distribution extension, $37,705. AT LANT A -Noland Co ., Inc., punches, $ 123,500. L UTHERSVILl E-H. C. Chambless, rep airs of buildings, $25 ,707 . AT LANTA-The G eorgia Ports Au thority, wa rehou se sto rag e service, $ 100,000. COL UM BUS- V a l l e y Construction Company, con struction of amm unition receipt and mainten an ce building, $232,432. ATLANTA-Fulton Trouser C o., services to cut and m anufacture trou sers, $65,496. AUGUST A- Patche n and Zimmerman, architectural and eng inee ring services, $64,00 0. ATLANTA -Floors, Inc., furnishin g plant, labor, equipme nt and materi als for custodial ser vices, $44,335 . COL UM BUS- Hardaway Contracting Com pa ny, constru ction of dam walls, $50,700. ATLANTA-Ir? Ge l b e r, furni shin g me als, $ 107,482. GEORGIA D E PA RT.M EN T O F C O \ 1M ERCE 4 HIGHLIGHTING OU{( P{(OG{(ESS Callaway Community Foundation is spo nsoring th e constr uction of Colema n Libra ry in LaG.range. . . . Rome K raft Compan y has received its first shipme nt of pine logs, and th e pl ant is expe cted to go into op erati on in late summe r or ea rly fall. . .. On " Progress Day," held late last month a t Lithonia, a new, ten -r oom h ealth cen te r, th e Scott Candler R ecr eational Build ing and th e St ew art Amphitheatre wcr~ all dedi cated . . . . A new acade mic and training buil ding will be constructed a t Dobb ins Air F orce Base, Marietta, to be read v in M arch , 1955. . . . Chatsworth is now using it s n ew 300,000-gallon water reservoir. .. . The M en gel Compan y p aper industries, has a cquired 22,000 addition al acr es of land ncar Fargo. . . . Kingsland recently celebrated i ts 60th an niver sary with an elabora te progr am . . . . A tot al of 120 vessels called a t th e port of Savannah during th e month of May. .. . The F . W . Olin Industrial Foundation Building will be op en ed in September at th~ Ca rver School in Atlanta. . .. Uranium or e has been fou nd in a pegmatite vein on th e Barnesville farm of A. N . M oye. . . . The new Hales & Hunter milli ng conce rn a t Cartersville is expected to be ready in ea rl y Septemb er. ... P ierce County is or ga nizing a Chamber of Co mmerce under lead ership of J. B. Wa rd and a number of othe r interested bu sinessmen . . .. The building of th e Moultrie Banking Company h as been comp letely rem od eled. . . . East man will be th e site of a new garme nt indust ry whi ch pl an s to st art operations in November . . . . The J ewell feed mill in Gainesville has been leased to Pillsbury Mills, Inc.. . . H armon y G rove Mills at Commerce recently celebra ted it s 60th anniversary . . ' . . Woodbury will be the location of a comp any to manufacture a nd p rint ban k an d offi ce supplies.. . . An organizatio n called th e Macon County Farmers Marketing Company has been formed for th e encou ragement of industrial, ag ricultural an d ma rketing en terp rises in th e coun ty. Thomaston will soon have a n ew (C ontinued on Page 6 ) NEW SLETTER August 10, 1954 Middle Cieorgia's Dodge County Has The 81-year old T imes-Journal is edited and publi shed weekly by th e dynamic Edwin T. M ethvin, a former Both Fine Farms and Varied Industry president of the Georgia Press Association a nd a son of th e lat e C . M. Methvin, who also served as president of Dodge Co unty is not only lar ge in land area, but it is also expa nsive in man y other way~-- pa rticularly in its [armi ng a nd industri al ac tivities. Created by an Act of th e Legislature on O ctober 26, 1870, th e county was name d for W illiam E. Do dge , of N ew York . Population of th e coun ty in 1950 was 17,865, 35.3 persons p er square mile. Eastm an , p opulation in .1950, 3,597, is th e coun ty seat and site of m a~y bustlin g ente rpris es. Other. town s in of hi ghw ays, including U. S. Nos. 23, 34 1, 280 and Sta te N os. 27, 117, 46, 87, 30. Do dge Co unty officers a re : O rdi nary and T reas ure r, R . .J. H old- er ; C lerk of Co ur t , Albert H ar rell ; Sh eriff, O . B. Peacock ; T ax Co mmissione r, Sla ton L owery ; Sch ool Superin tenden t, M anning W. T ripp ; Commissione r, D . B. Cadwell ; Su rveyor, W. B. J oin er ; Corone r, A. C . Pa ce. Fa rm Agent, Carte r M artin ; H ome Dem onstr at ion Agent , Mrs. B u e n a that organization. The n ewspap er has . long been in th e M ethvin famil y. The firm do es a genera l printing bu siness and also p rints one other weekly p ap ers at its plant. Eastman is th e site of man y industri es- la rge and small-that give employment to m an y peopl e. Eastm an Cotton Mill s, Inc., M ack D. H eat on, Superintendent, employs appro ximately 350 p eopl e and manufactures cotto n shee ting and drills ; Co pela nd sa usage, with a wid e sales ,uea, is ma n ufac tured at Eastman by th e county a re : F.h ine, populat ion 5:4 ; Chauncey , 348 ; Chester, 3 15; Em~ll'e, 157 ; Plainfield . 11 7; part of Mil a n in Dodge, 224. (T he oth er pa rt . of Mil an is in Telfs.ir Co unty, pop ulation 526, giving M ilan a total populat ion l I of 750. ) . The a rea of th e coun ty IS almos~ 500 squa re miles, with a land area of 319.360 ac res; 82.4 p er cent or 263,264 a cr~s are in th e 1,9 79 fa rms in ~hc coun ty, th e average size fa rm bemg 133 acres. The land is rollin g a nd fer tile, pro- ducing a bunda r.t gene~'al crops . In fact, practi cally all kmds of crops grown in th e sta te a re pl anted in Dodge. This includes ge~eral cro ps, Eastman is th e home of the famous Stuckey's. courtesy Stuckey's such as cotto n, corn, gram, tobacco, pea nuts and pecan s, and a va riety of vegetabl e or truek CJ'ops. There were 1'),023 bales of cotton zi n nc ~brigh d in t-lea th e coun ty in f tobacco is 195 also 3g, raonwdnmhuecrhe an d sold in nea rby markets. Much timb er affor ds employme nt for man y p eopl e, both in th e wood s, in th e saw an d planing mi lls an d in th e plants using wood m at : rial. Sale of pulpwood is also ac tive in th e county. Nav al stor es is another for est "crop ." Growing of bee-f and dairy cattle a nd man y hogs is likewise an important p art of th e agricultural progr am of th e cou n ty . The O crnul gee River forms th e west- ern boundar y of th e county, betw een Dodge and Wilc ox, while th e Little Ocmulgee tr averses th e coun ty, as do ma ny cree ks. Th e well-kn own Sugar Cree k of T elfair cou nty h as its sourc e in D odge. T wo railroad s serve th e co unty, th e Southe rn an d th e Sea board lines. Th e county h as an excellen t system Klinha rt. M emb er of th e L egislature, Gilber t C . Peacock, of Eastm an . Dodge is in th e 48 th St at e senatorial distri ct, com posed of D odge, Wilcox and Crisp cou n ties. The p resent Senator is Ceci l D . C ru mm ey, of R och elle, Wilcox County The county is in th e T h ird Co ngressio na l Distri ct and in th e O conee Superior Co ur t Circuit. Eastman Officials R. T. Wrigh t is Eastman City M an a- ger, an d Coun cilm en ar e: R . T. Ragan , chairm an; Chester Sa unde rs, H 0 k e Wynn e, J ohn L L ee, Jim Gary. Polic e Ch ief is Pet e H arrell. Postm aster is .John Whigham . . The Georgia Power Co., provides th e area with electric ity, and REA service is furnished by th e O cm ulgee El ectric M emb ership Corp .; Southe rn Bell T ele- pho ne Co., h as a dial system at East- man . R adi o service is provid ed D odge, Pulaski and Blec.klcy counties by th e Tri-County Broadcasting Co., Sta tion WCEH, with h eadquarters at Hawkins- ville, stu dios at Eastm an and Co chran. Co peland Bros., th e firm employing from 50 to 60 peop le ; Harrell Bros. Canning Co ., Ir:c , at Eastman, cans peppers, vege ta bles, p ecan s and other "crops" and employs from 60 to 75 peopl e during th e ca nn ing season. Eastm an is horn e and h eadquarters for "Stuc keys," manufacturers of a wide va riety of confections of which pecans are th e base. T1.1is firm, of which W . H . Stuc key, a local citizen, is th e founder and President, has 42 "stations"-sellin g points-in th e Southeast, from F lorida to Virginia and as far west as Mississippi. Pecans, a local product, being th e base of 25 typ es of candies put out by th e firm , is typified in the office building of th e firm , th e panel walls being constru cted of pecan wood . A la rge wareh ouse houses th e la rge qu antities of pecan s and othe r materials used by th e firm, which operates a lar ge fleet of t r ucks to transport products to th e vari ous sta tions, wh ich ar e (Continued on Page 6 ) 5 GEO RGIA DEPART M ENT OF CO M M ERCE NEWSLETTER Georgia Tobacc.o Sales Have Begun The sale season for Geor gia tobacco ope ne d on July 15 and th e ch ant of th e a uc tionee r is bein ., h eard in approximat ely 75 wareh ous es an d in 21 South Geor gia cities. Sa les will contin ue until mid-Augu st. The 1953 cro p tot al ed 155,170,266 pounds wh ich b . ough t $ 79,923,828. 18, an aver age of 5 1.51 cen ts a pound, acco rd ing to th e officia l rep ort issued by th e Georgia D ep a rtment of Agricult u re. Ther e wer e markets in th e following 19 cities last yea r as follows: Adel, Baxley, Blackshear, Claxton, Douglas , Fi tzgerald, Hahira, Hazlehurst, Metter, Moultrie, Nashville, Pelham, Quitman, Statesboro, Sylvester , Tifton, Valdosta, Vidalia, Waycross. Two cities, Alma and Pearson, hav e been a dde d to th e list this year, wh ich br ings th e number of sales poin ts to 21, compare d with 19 last yea r. - 0- Lilliston (C on tin ued fr om Page 2 ) firm member s. J ohn T. Phillips, J r. , exec utive vice preside nt of th e com pany, presided as ch airman of th e "Scho ol" session , during which those present under the huge tent erecte d for the occasion , wer e instru cte d in the operation, servicing and gene ral m aintenance of th e Lilliston Peanut Combine, Shaker , th e RotoSp eed Rota ry Mowers, th e n ew portable elevator and the Lilliston SpredAll fertilizer d istributor- seed er. A parad e of all th e variou s Lilliston eq uipme n t p owered by tract ors of several m akes, conc lude d the fo renoon session, after which a barbecue was serve d. The afte rnoon was d evot ed to the in spection of Lilli ston eq uipme nt by visitors and to a qu estion an d answers forum wh er e individual problems and more detailed qu estions wer e taken up. Highlighting Our Progress (Contin ue d from Page 4 ) armory. . . . A temporary mi lk-processing pl ant is bein g built by Pet Mi lk Company a t Augusta to be r eplaced within the year by a p ermanent building to cost some two m illion dollars. . . . C on struction is underway at t he Valway plant of Callaway Mills Company, LaGrange, of an addition of ove r 31,000 square feet of floor space. . . . A new sewage system is ne arly comp lete in Cairo. Agriculture (Contin ued fr om Page 3 ) lowing th e introdu cti on of th e M exican Boll yield W eevil about dropped tc 1917, our 90 pounds a ver of ali~zte cotton per acre in 1921 and 82 p ounds in 1923. ~ owever, Georgia farmers began to rea lize th at thev had to h ave other sources of fa rm incom e. Aft er all the cash incom e is wha t counts wh eth er it be in fa rming o r a ny othe r bu sin ess. Eco nom ists h av e p roven th at our n ationa l income is in direct rati o to our fa rm in com e. L et's ana lyze th is m atter of farm m arket ing for a m om ent. The reco rds sho w th at in 1924 our tot al cash from in com e from a ll sources was $209, 126,- 000. Co tton provid ed 62 per cent of th e tot al, all oth er cro ps 24.8 per cent ~n d _livesto ck an d livestock product s, $27,J 60,000 or 13.2 per cent. With th e cha nge ove r from a one -cro p sys- tem , th e percentage of cash farm in- come from a one-crop system, the p er - centage of cash farm in com e fr om cot- ton took a nose dive downw a rd until in 1950 co tto n produced on ly 21.9 per cen t of th e total 798,000, p eanuts cas h 13.1 pinecrocmeento, fto$b5a2c8~o- 9.6 per cent, wher eas th e cash in come fro m. livestock an d livestock product s had m cr ea sed fr om 13.2 per cen t of the tot al in 1924, to 36.3 per cen t in 1950 . . Toba cco produ ction ca me into prom- m en ce about th e close of th e First World W ar, ami 90,000 a cr es wer e planted to this cro p in 1930 whi ch yielde d a 1953 was cash va lue th e banner of yea r $i1n5''0t o0b0~0e0e0o pro duc tion in G eor gia, wh en our fa rm- ers p lanted 104,000 ac res and produced a cro p value d a t $69, 000,000. T obacco ranks am on g th e top of our cas h cro ps. Trem endou s progr ess h as been m ad e in th e production of broilers . This giant industry of which we h ear so much about produced only one -half mi llion broilers in 1935 giving a cash inc ome of $230,COO. During th e war period, this indus- try began to grow rapidly and by 1945 Georgia wa s producin g 28,520 ,000 com - mer cial broilers that h ad a cash va lu e of $24,4 66,000. M any of th e mo st op - timistic felt th at sure ly w e would even- tually re ac h the satura tion p oint, but a pp a rently that time is in the future. In 1953, G eorgia poultrymen rea ch ed an all-time hi gh a nd produced 121,- 631,000 broiler s th at h ad a cash in - cg. ommeto oo, kf $fi9r3s,t8 26,000. pla ce in In th e195n1a'tioGneoirn- G EO R G IA DEPARTMENT OF C O ~1M ERCE 6 August 10, 1954 com mercial br oiler production and continues to hold the record . The reco rds sho w th at the number of baby ch icks pla ced on the farms of Geor gia for the first six m onths of 1954 incr eased consi derably ove r th e same ~eriod in 1953. F or in stan ce, th e d elivery for th e week end inz June 26 was 3,383 ,000 com pared with 2,666,000 th e same week in 1953. Co mmercial I:atch erym~n h ave also en joye d a conside rable in cr ease for th e fir st five months of 1954. com pa red with same period of 1953, or 72,000 ,000 aga inst 6 1,000,000 the previous year. In 1935 Geor gia produced only 4.4 milli o; I~ aby chicks, bu ~ !n 1953 Geor gia p roduce d 130. 9 m illion baby chicks. . W e are m ak ing rapid progr ess a lso ~n our beef ca ttle industry, our d airy industr y, an d we a re still th e Iead inz hog-producin g St at e of th e So utheast A bri ef glance a t our total cash income , accor~iing to th e U. S. D ep a rt ment of Agnculture, shows th at in 1952 our tot al cash receipts from all sources amo unted to $fi15,000,000, with livestoc k and pr~du cts con tr ibu ting $253,O OO,O O~ of this. Ther e wa s a sligh t decrease m cash receipts in 1953, but th e sam e sourc e sho ws th at out total inc.orne last year was $629, 000,000, and livestock a n d product s contribute d $254,000,000. Thus it will be seen th at we a re gradua lly rea ching th at p eriod wh en livesto ck an d livestock product s will furnish 50 per cent of our total cash in com e, whi ch is a " balance d ag ricultural progr am." Dodge County (C ontinue d fr om Page 5 ) stoc ked with fr om 2,000 to 3,000 a rticles. These "s tations" a re on well -select ed sites on m a in hi ghways. The Eastman pla n t includes four plant buildings and two large warehou ses. More th an 100 p eople are em ployed a t Ea stman by Stuckeys. New Plant Organized A newly or ganized industry for Eastm an is th e Eastman Mfg. Co., expected to em ploy approxim ately 150 p eopl e in th e n:anufa~ture of ch ild ren's apparel, th e firm being a unit of a N ew York com pany . A site has been bought by a committee rep resenting th e city of Eastm an upon which a building will be erecte d and lea sed to the firm. Other Eastm an industrial plants in- clude E astman Bak ery ; Jan et s, flori st ; E. S. M oon , concrete product s; Willie V. U sser y, icc; W. H . M cCranie Lum- (Con tinued on P age 8 ) NE \VSLET TER Augu st 10, 1954 Georgia's Publishing Firm Promotes Southern Authors and Their Works tel' headings, subtitles, etc. T h en th e printer pr ints a few pa ges. Perhaps th e printer will try sets of pages in differe n t a rr ange me nts or kinds of type. When a sa tisfac tory form at has been decid ed upon , th e printer will p rint G eorgia's major p ub lishing firm, Tupper a nd Love, I nc., was fou nded with th e idea of crea ting a publi shing house whi ch would handle th e wor ks of Southe rn au tho rs-to give th em an outle t for th eir wo rk a t h om e. rather than h avin g to lise conce rns in N ew York , Chicago, or even further a way . Tupper a nd Love, loca ted in At- lanta, wa s organized in 1946 , a nd has as its pr esiden t, Albert Lo ve. T he firm has pri nt ed many Sou thern books, and in particular the works of severa l well- kno wn Georgians. Georgian aut hors an d th eir works that have been published by th is firm incl ude: Maybelle J ones D ewey Push the But ton C. .J. H ollera n Kn ow Y ou r Georgia William 1'. Cam pbell . Big Beverage Dav enport Stewa rd Th ey H ad A Glory Kathleen Lowan cc M'uch Ado Abou t M usic Rox anne Co tsa kis Th e W ing an d the Th orn Dr. T homas An derson Estate of Glory Daniel Whit eh ead H ickey . N ever the Ni gh tin gale Ral ph M cGiIL I srael R evisted Ernest R ogers Til e Old H okum Bucket Ch a rles .J. Bayne Coming of the Crout's Feet R uth Stevens H i-Y a N eighb or R aimundo de Ovies lV[avb e Y ou'r e Not Cra zv O. B. K eeler a nd Gran tla n d R ice . T he Bobby Jones Sto ry Charles .J. Hudson, J r. H udson's S out hern Gardenin g Dav enport St eward .R ainboto R oad Two of th e three works to be pub- lished soon by Tupper a nd Love arc by G eorgian s. D av enport St eward' s Sail th e Da rk T ide will a ppear at th e end of th is month. I t is a ficti on work of blockade running d uring th e C ivil War. Georgia-A Gu ide to I ts T ow ns and Coun t ryside, edited by George G. L ec- kie and with a Foreword by R alph McGill, will be p ublishe d in th e mid- dle of Sep tem be r. This volume wi ll be of pa rt icular inter est to all G eor gians fo r th e va st amount of information it contains-and photographs --on th e who le sta te, on many, many topics. T h e th ir d volume which Tupper Carolyn Ca n e r Books by Geo rg ian au t hors wh ich h ave been pub lishe d by Tupp er and Love. an d L ove will publish thi s fa ll is th e third boo k of Dr. Frank H oward Rich- t n ardson-Ho w Get Alon g With Child ren. It is a guide book wr itten for parent s. Publishing Paths Pu blishin g h o uses are alwa ys on th e lookout for good manuscripts, a nd a uth o rs a re gene ra!!y seeking a publisher. Editor Fraser M oore and read ers in New York go over manuscr ipts; a manuscript th at is p articul arl y good is read over bv member s of th e firm and by ma ny others to ge t rea ct ion s to it . The "ma r ket" is det ermined, and th e cost of producti on. If a manuscript is accepted by th e firm, it is worked over by th e au tho r and edito rs together. The printer casts off or "sca les" th e ma nusc rip t to det ermine th e number of pages th e book wi ll contain. Tupper a nd Love book s a re printed by th e firm's affi liate, Foot e a nd Davies, pr int ers in Atl anta . Aft er th e book has been scaled, the typ e of print is decid ed upon, as well as th e size of the' page, th e margin s, the kin d of print to be used for chap- the wh ole manuscript as galley proofs, or th e author's first proofs. Correctio ns a re made; th en page proofs a re pulled by the printers. 'Fin al corrections are made an d then th e book "goes to pr ess." P ages are bo un d into sewn "signa ture s," covers a re pu t on, a nd th en th e book' s jacket , whi ch is designed by, or un der the dire ctio n of E arl Sa nde rs. H e also designs the cover, the format a nd typo graphy for T up per a nd Lov e books. W hen th e p rinter is finish ed , th e publish ing firm takes over again. Sales conferences a re h eld for th e salesmen to learn abo ut th e books th cv will be selling to book bu yers. Brocl~u res a re distributed to salesme n a nd book buvers ; revie w co pies are sent a ll over th e U ni ted St ates and out of th e coun try also, so th at book reviewers m ay read th em ; p romoti onal copies a re mai led to vari ou s people to introduce th e book ; an adve rtising age ncy advertises the book in va rious magazin es, trade journals and spec ialized publications, according to th e nature of the book. T h en th e book is " p ublishe d ." T hat is, ( Con tinued on Page 8 ) 7 GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE vS6L 'OL .rsrionv ~D 'EUOq~V B1 gJO ~D JO r.~lS J O AIUn ~ q~ S Ol J BJ q l 1 r.~lSJOAIUn oql cuo lslA 1G s uol~l s1nbov 1~1 'oN l!Wl;)d 'ED 'ElUEPV P!Pd 3:DVBOd 'sn ''H1li' 'T d 99'tE ':l:lS VIEJ~03EJ ' V.l.NV'.LV 'O..LldV::J 3..LV..LS 00 I 3:J~3""H"l0:J ..:10 l.N31-"l1.~Vd3a VIEl~03El Dodge (Con tin ue d from Pa ge 6 ) bel' Co. ; Stevenson Lumber & Supply Co ., sawmills and planing mill s ; W allace E. Boh anan Lumber Co. There a re sever al large warehouses in Eastman for sto ra ge of cotton and peanuts and other products . The Dodge County Hospital at Eastman is own ed and ope ra ted by th e county, and th e mod ern Dod ge C ounty Library, in Eastm an , complet ed in 1953, h as as L ibr a rian M rs. Ethlyn Potter Rolfe. H er assistant is Miss Co - rinne Johnson. W, W . T aylor is president of th e Eastman G as Co. , that supplies th e area with commer cial gas; th e O cmulgee Electric Membership Corp. (R EA) has headquarter, at Eastman in serving Dodge, BleckJey and p art of Pulaski counties with REA service, and R oger Smith is Manager. Carter Martin is President of th e Eastman Rotary Club, and Olin Pound h eads th e C ivit an club ; Wilton D . H arrington is Pr esident of th e Junior Chamber of Co mm erce . Ther e are seven women's dubs in Eastm an that a re ac tive in all civic affairs. Banks in th e county include: Ban k of E astman, W . L. J esup, Sr. , President, and Geor ge D . Mullis, Cas hier; C itizens Cl earing Bank, Eastm an , H . R. Ragan, Pr esident an d B. B. Eckles, C ashi er. J. C . Willi ams is Pr esident of Williams Banking C o., at Rhine, and St uart Rogers is Pr esid ent of th e Chester Banking Co" at Chester. Eastman M otor Court is on Hi ghway 34 1, and Le e-Land H otel is in Eastman. Many denomin ation s a re rep resented in th e numerous ch urches in all sections of Dodge County. D odge h as an exte nsive schoo l p rogram for th e coun ty whi ch will in clude th e consolida tion of th e p resent five high schoo ls int o on e consolidated school a t Eastm an , a mod ern plan t to be built on a 20-ac re site. Pr esent high school buildings will be conve rted in to modern eleme nta ry un its. The schoo l progr am includes both white and colored scho ols. The D od ge Co unty L ivestock Sa les Barn at E astm an h old s sales ' on M on days. A housing p roject, with units for whites a nd colore d, h as been built in Eastman. A Community H ou se a nd a Youth Ce nter in Eastm an prov ide fac ilities for recr eational programs. Publishing Firm (Con tinued fr om P age 7) after all th is, on a spec ific dat e book sto res put cop ies of th e new work OIl display in th eir sto res to sell. That 's h ow it goes. And Tupper an d Love staffers, including Mr. L ove a nd NIr. M oor e, Editor ial Assista nt H a rr y Sh aw , M an ag er Miss F ran ces Silver s, a nd Gen er al M an ager an d D esign er Earl Sander s sit back and wat ch th e book sell. That is u ntil a fte r t!; ~ [rot few days of publication. Then th ere is a sudden flow of new manuscripts in th e m ail fr om a uthors seeking a publisher. They say it a lways happens after a new book comes ou t. Southern au tho rs are a t work, and it s gr a tifying th at th ey h ave a h om e supporter. .......1'\ " " ~~ ~h~. ~ Jack Rabbit Co . The Dodge County Library in Eastman was completed in 1953. G EO RGIA D EPAR T M ENT OF CO M M E RCE OEPAUTME TOF COMMEnCE NEWSLETTER AUGUST 25, 1954 N E W SLETTE R Au gu st 25, 19.14 NEWSLETTER Publ ished sem i-monthly by GEO RGIA D EPT. OF COMMERCE 100 Sta te Capito l * H ERM AN E. TALl\IADGE Gove rnor BO ARD OF COMM ISS IONERS EMO RY L. BU T LER Cha irman Lonn ie A. Pope, V. Chm, Ben j essu p Y. F. Geeslin Hoke Peters * I\'ELSON M. SHIPP Se cr e t a r y Vol. 5, I\'o. 22 August 25, 1954 Commerce Department Adv ertising Schedule Watch for ad vertiseme nts by the Georgia D epartment of Commer ce planned for th e following national publications: SO UT H ERN OUTDOORS- A ugu st issue ( Back cov er ) APPAREL MANUFACTURING MAGAZ INE- Septem ber issue- "This is th e N ew Sou th" edition SATU RDAY EVENING POST- O ctob er 25 BUSINESS WEEK- Au gu st 2 Septemb er 13 Nov emb er 8 No vember T'i Septe mber 27 No vember 22 O ct ober] 1 Novemb er 29 Novemb er 1 NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE- Au gu st 2 No vember 8 Septe mbe r 6 No vember 15 Septemb er 20 O ctob er 4 November 22 Novemb er 29 November 1 NA nON 'S BU SINESS- Se ptem be r issue Decemb er issue November issue J a n ua ry issue DUN'S REVIEW AND MODERN I NDU STRY- N ovem ber issue J a nu a ry issue. D ecember issue COVER PHOTO T he ruins of a n old rice mi ll in MeIntosh County, ncar Darien, is a m emory of form er days on the Geor gia coast. Rice growing wa s one of th e first agricult ur a l pursuits of th e ea rly settle rs of Georgia followin g O glethorpe's founding of th e colony in ] 733. Ri ce growing thrived for some sixty years until th e inv ention of th e cotton gin in 1793, wh en cotto n supplan ted rice as a crop in th e coas ta l reg ion . - Photo by Carolyn Cart er. The Pl um Nelly Clot hesline Art Show in Da de Count y (see page 5 ) attracted some 5,000 Georgian and out-o f-sta te visitors last yea r. The event th is year will be held on October 16 an d 17. Co lumbus: Geor gia St ate Firemen's Associati on M eeting, R alston H otel , Augu st 26-27 . Savannah: Nation a l Guard Association of Geor gia, H otel DeSot o, Septem ber 4-6 . Cartersville: Aquarama, L ak e Allatoona, Sep tember 5-6. Atlanta : Sixth Annua l Sout hern States Apprenti ceship Confer en ce, DinkIer P laza H o tel, Septemb er 9-11 . A tla nta: Am eri can Associati on of T extile Chemi sts a nd Colorists, Biltmore H otel, Septemb er ]5-] 8. Macon: Nation al Guard Association of Geor gia, Dempsey H otel, Septemb er 19. At lanta: M aster Ph oto Dealers' a nd F inish ers Associat ion Confer enc e, Municipal Aud itorium, Septemb er 20-2 3. A tlanta: Leadership Training I nstitu te, At lanta Divi sion , Univer sit y of Georgia, September 24. Augusta : Georgia Alcoh olics Anonymou s M eeti ng, Bon Air H ot el, September 24-2 6. Atl anta : South eastern Library Association Confer en ce, Biltmo re H ot el, September 29-0ctober 2. .:: ... ::: Macon: St at e D em ocr atic C onvention , D empsey H ot el, September 29. . At hens: CPA Institute, U nivcrs itv of Georgia, O ctober 1-2. . Marietta: Annu al Seminar a t K ennesaw M ountain National Battlefield Park, O ct ober 1-2. Atlanta : Southern 'F a rm Eq uipmen t Manufacturers Convention , H en ry Grad y H otel, O ctober 1-2. Athens: CPA R eview Cou rse, U niver sity of Georgia , O ctober 4-23. Emory: Em ory School of M edi cine Ccntenn icl Celebration. Em orv U ni- vcrsit y, O ct ober 4-5. ' . Aug usta: Instructi on al Supervisors of Georgia Conferen ce, Bon Air Hotel, O ctober 6-8. Sava nna h : Georgia Mun icipal Associa- tion, Hotel D cSoto, O ct ober 6-9 . Aug ust a: Southeastern Accoun ting Confer en ce, Bon Air H otel, O ctober 7-8. Atlanta : I nt ern ati on al M ilk Control Agen cies, Biltmore H ot el, O ct ober 7-9. Brunswick: Gcorgia Association of R eal Estat e Boa rd s, King & Prince Hotel, O ctober 7-9. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ER CE 2 NEWSLETTER Au gu st 25, 1954 Georgia's History Preserved By Historical Commission Markers Placed Throughout State M acauleay is cre dited with sayi ng: "A p eopl e who tak e no pride in th e noble achievements of a rem ote ances- Alexander, Atl anta, chairman; J oseph B. C ummi ng, Au gu sta ; M . L. Fl eet wood , Carte rsville; Dr. A. R . K elly, used in printing th e old Cherokee Pho enix a t N ew Ech ota, th e Che rokee ca pital, nca r Ca lho un, in Gord on Co unty, try, will never ac h ieve anyth ing wor- U nive rsity of Geo rg ia, Athens, and Alex whe re explora tions a rc continu ing . th y to be rem emb ered with prid e by a A. L awr en ce, Savanna h . C. E. G reg- The Co mm ission h as definitely locat- remot e poster ity." ory, for mer Atlan ta newspap erman , is ed th e sites of three Spa n ish Mi ssion s An d th e Bible also adv ises th e pr eser- Executive Secreta ry and Directo r. on th e Georgia coas t th at h ad been lost va tion of landma rks. Th e services of Wilbur G . Kurtz, At- for more th an 400 years ; has acqui red This ad vice h as been followe d th e Ch ief J oseph Vann H ou se a t somew ha t th rou gh ou t th e world, Springplace , a nd has let th e con- each country ma rking some, if not tr act for its restorati on wh ich will all, of it, histori c spots . M an y of be conve rted int o a C h e r o k e e these places and shrines-such as Museum a nd tourist a ttractio n ; the H olv La nd- d ra w milli ons of paid one -ha lf ($2,500 ) of th e pu r- visitors an nua lly. No ta ble h istori c spo ts in the U nited Sta tes a rc appropr ia tely mark ed and th ey too arc visited a nnu all y by millions of visitors. chas e pri ce of th e Crawfor d W. Lon g offic e-site a t J efferson, Ga ., wh ere thi s em inen t surgeo n p erfo rmed th e fir st operation under an anes the tic in 1842, an d has set aside $2,000 for use in establishi ng Over th e years , va rious orga ni- a m edi cal museum th er e. zations hav e ma rked m an y h istoric spots in Geo rgia and following th e writing of "Gone W ith th e Wind," Atla n ta h as marked many sit es men tioned in the book , as well as othe r spo ts th at h ave p unc tua ted th e city's progress in th e one hu ndr ed years of its hi stor y. T he Co mm ission recovered h istoric relics a t th e anc ient Va nn T avern on th e Cha tta hooc hee Ri ver nea r Gainesvi lle, a nd aide d in the plan s for restoration of Fort K ing George a nd th e graveyard of British soldie rs n ear Darien. M ark ers h a ve been pl aced a t A more systematic system of marking Georgia's h istori c spo ts, th e preservati on of hi stori c sites and research a nd work in archaeo- This roadside marker near Brunswick is one of many that the Georgia Historical Commission has pla ced throughout the sta te. sites figur ing in Co lon ial a nd R evolutionary W a r hi stor y, th e Co mmission working in coo peration with th e D au ghters of the Ame ri- logy took defini te for m whe n th e Geor- lanta hi stori an and artist, wer e secure d ca n R evolution , th e Co lonia l D am es gia H istori cal Commission was crea t- for ma rking th e battlefield s a nd com- a nd other g roups in locating th ese sites. ed by a n ac t of th e Geo rgia Legislature mand h eadqua rt ers all th e way from M an y mark ers h ave also been p lace d in F ebrua ry 1951. Chickamauga to Atl anta an d J on es- on courtho use yards or "sq ua res", stat- L ack or' ap propriated funds halt ed boro of th e W ar Bet ween th e St at es, ing th e history of th e cou nty, for who m the wo rk for a yea r, but th e 1952 ses- requiring approx ima tely 300 ma rkers. it was nam ed an d a list of th e fir st sion of th e Legislat ur e amende d th e The services of D r. J ohn W . Goff of county offic ia ls. act to allow th e Co mm ission any funds Em or y U niversity, wer e reta ined for T h e Co mmission is n ow wor king to- th at m ight be allotted to it by th e Sta te marking th e routes of Old Fed er al ward th e restorati on of Ne w Ech ot a ; Bud get Board, composed of Govern or R oad s, I nd ian Trails, Military Paths, restor ati on of T ravelers' R est, a 21- H erman Talma dge and Sta te Auditor etc., a ll ove r G eor gia. Dr. Goff h as room Inn ncar T occoa; res toration of B. E. T h rasher, J r. mad e a hobby of walk ing th ese tr ails all Eagle T a vern a t Watk insville ; p ur- These officials, sym pa the t ic with th e his life. chase of th e Wh ite H ou se in Au gu sta . purposes of th e Co mm ission, pr ovid ed T o date- Au gu st 1954-the Com- Th e a ttrac tive m eta l ma rkers bear it with $82 ,000 duri ng th e fir st year mission h as erec ted 500 roa dside histor- th e seal of Georgia, th e wording th er e- of its act ivity, which began in M arch ical m ark ers in 135 of th e 159 counties on is conc ise, an d easily read. 1952. Th e 1953 L egislat ur e approp ri- in G eorgia and in addi tion, it h as m ad e It is th e aim of th e Co mmission to ated to t he Co mmission $ 100,000 fo r exte nsive a rcha eologica l excav ations, app ropria tely mark as m an y as p ossible eac h of the 1953-54 a nd 1954-55 bi- uncove ring relics said to be worth ap- of th e important h istori c spots in Geor- en n i u m s. proximat ely $ 100,000 fro m th e Et owah gia, a nd th e m emb ers seek sugges tions T he Commission is under the gene ral Indian mo unds, near Cartersville, whi ch as to th e locat ion of th ese sites. If you supervision of Ben \V. F ortson , J r., Sec- th e Commission ac q uire d and turn ed desire to confe r with th e body the ad- ret ar y of Sta te, who appoi n ts th e Board over to th e Sta te Parks D ep artment ; d ress is : memb ers and th e Direct or. M emb ers th e Comm ission h as excavated m arc Geo rgia Hi stor ical Commission , 11 6 of th e Hi storical Co mm ission a rc H . A. tha n 1,000 pieces of typ e a nd "s paces" Mitch ell Stree t, S.W., Atla nta , Ga. G EO RG I A DEPARTMENT O F CO M M E RC E NEWSLETTER Augu st 25, 19.1'1 GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS New Brochure The Cha mbe r of Co m me rce of th e U nited Sta tes ha s ju st issued a new hooklet called " Fi nding Pr ospect s for C om m unity I nd ustrial D evelopment," prepared by th e C ham ber's pepartl~1 e.nt of M anufa ctu re. It ex plains to CIVICminded leaders how to a tt rac t prospects th ro ugh usc of th eir comm uni ty survey, how to scout out interested prospect s, a nd h ow to dea l w ith pl a~t finding spec ia lists. Ther e a.re di recti ons f?r makinz the best usc 01 space adve rtising a;d for gett ing lea ds fr om daily business news. C op ies of th e brochure Illay be ob- ta in ed fr om th e D ep artment of M anu Iactur c, Ch am ber of Co m me rce of th e Un i ted~ St at es, 16 15 H Street, N .W .. \ \'ash ington, D . C . Pri ces a re : single copy, 50 cents : tw o to 12 copies, 40 cen ts each : 13 to 25 copi es, 35 cents eac h ; m ore th an 25 copies, 30 cen ts eac h . - 0-- Sandersville War'ehouse A cotto n war eh ou se is ncarl v COIll- pleted in SA NDER S VILL E {or th e storage of cotto n. I t will conta in some 13,200 squa re feet of floor spac e. M rs. T hom as W . G ilm ore is owne r of th e struc ture . - 0- Georgia Cotton Crop Set at 510,000 Bales G eor gia's 1954 cott on crop is estima ted by th e U . S. Dep artment of Agri culture to be 5 10,000 bales, to compare with th e 1953 crop of 752,000 bales- a redu ction of 242 .000 ba les. T h is redu cti on' is in lin e wit h th e national forecast for th is yea r of 12,680 ,000 ba les, com pa red with 16,465,000 bales last year. T he report just issued by the Geor- gia Crop R ep orting Service , At hens, of cott on produ ct ion in th e sta te last yea r, shows that Burke Co unty led all coun ties in bales produ ced- 30,800 . Burke h as led all co unties in th e sta te in produ ction for seve ra l yea rs. Oth er leading co unties listed in th e report wer e : Bartow co unty, 22,450 bales ; Worth , 20,200 ; Co lq uitt, 20,130 ; L aurens, 20,120 ; W alton , 20,010 . The 1953 a creage was Iisted as 1,375,000 and total number of bales, 752,000 . Lint yield per ac re was 262 pounds. Th e new address for th e A tla nta Air Procu rem ent Di strict, ' Va rn er R ob ins A ir M ate r iel Area, is 44 1 ' Vest Peach tree Street, NE , At lan ta . T h e Sm all Bu sine ss D ivision telep hon e nu m ber is HIAln ut 4121J E x ten sion 452. HIalt er C. R oose is C hi ef of th e Sm all Bu sin ess D ivision . Atlanta Development Recent developments in At lanta commer ce include th e following conrr-rns : The AAA Batter y Compan y under M. Scigel h as esta blishe d in At lanta for th e produ ct ion of a ll typ es of wet cell ba tt cri cs, T he Precision Rub ber Plate Com pan y of I ndia napolis ha s made Atlanta its home under th e a uspices of M . S. C rce n a nd .J. F . H er schb er gcr. Th e compan y manuf a ctures rubber p lat es for th e printing industry. Bot tler s Associat es. I nc.. under Pr esident J ohn W. P a ln~er i ~ mi xing t he ingr edi ents for a new produ ct , St aF low St arch . The Brown -Vhigh t H ot el Supply C orpo rat ion of At lanta ha s moved into new a nd enlarge d qu ar ter s for the produ ction of restaurant , cafeteria and kit chen eq uipme n t suc h as coun ters , etc . Drap er Co rp or ation. manufacturer s of textile machiner y is doubling its warehouse a nd offi ce space , th e total to a mo un t to some 50,000 sq ua re feet. R af cr, In c., under E. L. R ab c, is a new manufact urer of inf ant' s wear. The product is bein g sold nationa lly. Som e fort y per son s a rc employed, with g rad ua l incr ease of em ployme n t expect ed . - 0- - Park Site Wanted The Georgia No. 1 C ha p te r of th e Iza a k Walton L eague, a nati on al non profit organization devot ed to soil conserva tion and preservation of fish and ga me , is lookin g for a va cant tract of land in G eor gia whi ch border s on a highway . T hey propose to turn suc h a site into an a tt ract ive wa vsid c park for th e convenience of local ~i ti z ens and motori sts. A n v comm un itv wh ich off er s suc h a sit~ wh ich the ~ ' would be inter ested in h avin g developed by th e Izaak \ Val ton L eague ma y con tact th e organiza tion a t Box 445 , Atlanta. G EO RG IA DE PARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4 Augusta Industry A new industry recen tly h ad it s for. mal ope ning in A UG U STA . In glett and Corl ey, I nc., m ak er s of m a chinorv which weigh a nd bag various sub'. sta nces, is hou sed in a new on e-stan' mod ern building representing an in'. vestm ent of some $200 ,000, T he ma. chincry th at th e conce rn produ ces docs th e filling of bags and weighing two to three times as qui ckly as othe r such devices a t abou t h alf th e cost. U nion Bag and Pap er Co rpo ra tion of Sava nna h (sec p age 7) has exclusive selling r ights for the machin es. - ()- Georgia Leads South In Pulpwood Output G eorgia led all sta tes in th e south in pulpwood product ion in 1953 a nd a Ge orgia co unty- C linc h- led all COl Il1 tics in output. These figures h ave j ust been rcleascd by th e U . S. D ep artment of Agricultu re, Forest Serv ice, a nd the So utheastern For est Experim ent Sta tion , Asheville, N . C ., E . L. Demmon, Direct or. T he south's output was 16,127 ,000 cords, 61 % of the n ation's total produ c- tion . Georgia produ ced 2,879 , 168 cords, of whi ch 2,748 ,853 cords wer e pine. 124.613 cords hardwood a nd 5.702 cords che stnut. . Lead ing cou nties in Geo rgia in p rodu ction wer e : C linc h, 146,963 cords : Brantley, 86,228 ; Cha rlton, 75,289: Ca m de n, 73,308 ; Glynn , 71,852 . Glynn County led in h a rd woods cords, 16,38 1; D ecatur second, 15,98 1; McIntosh third, 14,40 1. T wo coun ties produced th e 5,702 co rds of ches tn ut, F annin, 4, 105 cor ds and Gilm er, 1,597. Geo rgia sho wed a gain in 1953 over J 952 of 366,000 cords produced . Th e rep ort listed 71 mi lls in th e south that lise pulpwood . - 0- Vienna Pump Plant V IENNA is th e hom e of a new indu str y which has develop ed thro ugh th e enterp rising sp irit of Roy C . J oiner. H e is th e head of th e Ge orgia-Pacific Pump Co m pa ny wh ich will em ploy some fift een p eop le in the assembly line producti on of wat er p umps. Producti on level is eight p umps per h our. NEWSLETTER August 25, 195,1 Georgia's Dade County Is Unique In History, Scenery, Annual Art Show Every G eorgian wh o VI SitS D ad e County is bou nd to feel proud th at thi s beau tiful, pr ogressive " F ree Sta te" did cha nge its m ind a nd come back int o the famil y. T he story of Dad e Co unty's double- barreled s~cess i on from d; e U ni ted States of Am erica is one of those ficrv episodcs of th e Old South th at n eed~~ rain , a nd, of course, mountain fishin g, hunting and ot her out door sports. Lumberin g is Dad e's oldest and most valu abl e ente rprise, quarrying is important, th e county is progr essive in ag riculture , a nd , in recent yea rs, more Mrs. Ca therine Morrison. is the officia l \ oice of th e countv. Dad e Countv fa'nners util ize th e soil conserva tion ~e rv ices of th e Coosa River Soil Con servat ion Dist rict und er th e lead ersh ip of Al Webb . technician . a nd Col. D . E. M or rison; supervi sor: There a rc seven tr ee far mers in Dad e a nd it wa s one of the first counti es in Geo rgia to ha ve a for estry figh ting unit. J. C. Pace is th e For est R an ger . L ookout M ou nt a in H ot el serves visitor s to th e area . the pen of a M ar gar et Mitch ell to do it ju stice. It happen ed ba ck yonde r Befo' de \ Va hr- as a matter of fact. the imp ending- War Betw een th e States brou ght th e incident ab out. Wh en it becam e obvious that a rup- tur e betw een th e North and South was i-icvitabl c, th e folks up D ad e County way were for getting at th e unpleasant- ness a nd getti ng it over with . Whil sra n-s nu -n on both side s of th e Pot om ac wrangled , Dad e "secede d" from both Georgia a nd th e U n ited Sta tes! T ha t was in 1860 ; th e war came and went, and Georgia and th e rest of th e Confederacy rejo ined th e U nion. But Dade sta ved wh ere it wa s- " out "- for the next 85 yea rs. Fi nally, in 1945, an- other vote was tak en , and on July 4th of th a t vear, th e " Sta te of D ad e" retu rn ed to th ~ bosom of Georgia a nd to the Iamilv of sta tes. The occasion tou ch ed ~ ff mu ch patrioti c fanfare: President Truman wired a n official "Welcome H om e." Dad e, Georgia' s most northwesterl y county, was creat ed in 1837 and nam ed for Maj . Fran cis Langhorne Dade, t...ar Ul ,n L.o.l ll cr Cloudland Canyon h as b reath-taking scenery that attracts many visitors to this northwest Georgia area. who with hi s entire forc e, was killed in th e Seminole War in Florida. The triangle-shap ed county, with an ar ea of 186 squa re miles, is bounded on th e north by T enn essee. on th e east by Lookout' M ountain, .a nd on th e west by Alab ama. Trenton, originally called Salem , is th e coun ty sea t. Dade's pop ula tion is 7,364; th e population of Trent on is 755. Perched on the rises of Lo okout and Sand M ountains and bisect ed by a deep , rich valley, Da de is fam ous for spectacular scene ry. Sitto n's Gulch , in Cloudia nd C anyon Sta te Par k, is known as Georgia's "L ittle G rand Ca nyon." T ourists fin d othe r interests in numerous ca ves, Rising Fawn's comm un ity park, Good will Mis sion pla ygr ound and pa rk, th e Plum Nelly Art Sho w ("plum ou t of T ennessee and nearly ou t of Georgia" ) on Lookout Moun- and more industry has been att rac ted . Dade's corn, cotton and truck crops ar e valued at $300 ,000 a year, beef cattle and hogs $150,000 , poultry $ 140,000 , dairy products $25,000 . The county is 95 per cent electrified and is served by a locall y-own ed teleph one system th at is expanding to th e tune of $100 ,000 . U . S. Hi ghway 1I splits Dade thr ou gh th e va lley, Geor gia Highwa y 143 gives acc ess to Lookout and Sand Mountains. Dade is served by th e Southern Railway and th e G reyhound and Trailway bus systems. Seventeen hundred pupils ar e enro lled in seven excellent grade a nd hi gh scho ols; th ere a re 32 ch ur ches; health facilities are Tri-County H ospit al, Fort O glethorpe, a nd a Co unty H ealth Center at Trenton. The C he ro kee R egion al Librarv bookmobil e serv es D ad e. Th e Dade Cou nty Tim es, edited by Dade County officia ls include Ordinary Raymond M . Morrision, Sheriff F . C . Graham, Treasurer James V . J enkins, Tax Commissioner J ohn W . Murphy. Judge 'F reeman C. M cClurc pr esides as judge of th e L ookout M ountain Circuit : Mrs. Grace WilIiam s is clerk of t he court. R ov W . Mo or e is cou nty school superin tendent, L . C. Ad a ms farm ag en t, M iss Naomi Hubble home dem onstrati on agent, K C . Elli s surveyor, an d C. T. Sims, coroner. M . .J. H ale represents D ad e in th e Sta te L egislature. Trent on's mayor is A. L. Dyer, Gro- ver C . T atu m police chief, a~d ' C. E . Kyzer head s th e volunteer fire depa rt- m en t. Trenton' s industr ies in clude .J. C. H erman Mfg. Co., furn iture ; D yer Lumber ce., J. T. Stephens Lumber (Con tinued on Page 8 ) 5 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COl\HvlERCE N EWS LET T ER Au gust 25, 1954 A nnual Fall Fairs Belo w arc listed the fa irs whi ch will be held th rou ghou t Georgia in the com ing au tumna l mon ths. Two fa irs which hav e a lrea dy been held a rc th e Dou gla s F air (August 9- 14 ) and th e Georgia M ountain F air at Hiaw assee (August 16-21 ) . The Georgia M ountain Fair is for a ll th e north Geo rg ia mountai n cou n ties, and over 25 of th em participa ted la st week in the festiviti es. ANNUAL FALL FAIRS Elb erton : Elb erton Fa ir, Sep tember 611. Ca lhou n : Gordon Coun ty H a rv est F estiva l, Septem ber 9- 10.' Jo nesboro: C layton Co un ty F a ir, Scp tcmbcr 13-1 8. T homaston: \ Vest Cen tra l Geo rg ia Fair, Sep tem ber 20-25. J efferson: J a ckson Co un ty Fa ir , September 20- 25. Ce d ar town : North west Georgia F ai r, September 20-25 . Ca r tersville: narrow Co unt y Fair, September 20-25. Winder: Barrow Co un ty Fair, Septem ber 20-25. Dalton: N orth Georgia Fai r, Sep te m ber 27-0cto be r 2. \Vrightsville : J ohnson Co un ty F air, Sep te mber 28-0ctober 2. Atlanta: Southeas te rn F ai r, Sep te mber 30 - O ct ober 10. Millen: J en kins Co un ty F ai r, O ctober 4-9 . Jackson: Butts County F a ir, O ctober 4 -9 . Pelham: Mitchell Co un ty F air, O cto ber 4-9. Sum m er ville: C ha ttooga Co unt y F ai r, O ct ober 6-9. At hens: Athens Ag ricultural F air a nd Ge org ia H er eford Sho w, O cto ber 11-16. Co lumbus: C hattahoo chee Valley E xpo sit ion , O ct ob er 11-16. Louisville: L ou isville F a ll Fair, O ctober 11-16 . Montezuma : M acon Co unty 'F a ir, O cto ber 11- 16. Hahira: H ahi ra Co mmuni ty Fair, O ctober 11-16. Swainsboro: Emanuel Cou nt y F air, O ctob er 11-16 . Rome: Coosa V alley F air, O ctober 1116. Blakely: E arly Co unty Fair an d Pean u t F est ival , O ctober 11-16 . Barnesvill e: L a m a r Count y Fair, O ctober 11-16 . Ame r icus : Sumter County F a ir, O cto ber 18-23. Bainbridge: D eca tur Co un ty F a ir, O e- New Industries Swell Revenue Offsetting Georgia Tax Slash H ow is it th at Geor gi a, a fter slas h ing th e ad valorem tax rat e, is collecting mor e re venue th an befor e ? I t' s simp le, says \V . V aughn Ri ce, Dep uty St ate R evenue Com mission er. T he floo d of new indust rv has expanded our eco nom y to the tune of mi llions, bringing more fun ds in to the State T reasu ry in th e form of t axes , a nd our ta x la ws a rc being more rigi d ly en forced . Mr. Ri ce ex p la ins th e hap py sit ua tion as fo llow s: "T he qu esti on h as been as ked as to wh at is attribu ted t he in cr ea sed revenu e to th e St at e for th e fisca l vcar end ing June 30, 1954, over th e 'previous year. "A number of th ing s have con tributed to this increa se ; how ever, it is my opi nion that the p rin cip le things arc : " ( 1) The in cr ease of new indust ries located within th e p ast few y e a rs. " (2) M or e rigid enforceme n t of th e laws rel ative to th e collect ion of taxes. " In 1951 the Genera l Assem bly, with the approva l of the Governor, enacted a General T ax R evision Act which includ ed a tax system, whi ch in the opin ion of mos t t ax ex per ts is the m ost eq uita ble t ax system in a ny o f th e forty-eight sta tes. After thi s tob cr 18-2 3. V ienna: D ooly Co u n ty F ai r, O ct ob er 18-2 3. G r iffin : Sp aldi ng Count y F ai r, O ct ober 18-23. Macon: Georgia State Fair, O ctober 18-23. P embroke : Bryan Co unty Fair, O ctobe r 18- 23. Brunswick: Brunswi ck F air, Oc to ber 18 -23. Moultrie: Colquitt County Fair, O cto ber 25-30. Cor dele : Central Georg ia Fa ir, O ct ober 25-30 . Quitman: Brooks Co un ty F a ir, Nov cm bel' 1-6. Vald osta: South Georgia F air, Novem ber 1-6. Sa va nna h : Coasta l Em pire 'Fa ir, No vember 8- 15. Ge ne ra l T ax R evision Act the Genera l Assem bly, up on th e recommendati on of th e Governor, reduced th e State a d va lore m tax from five m ills to one. fourth of on e mi ll an d am ended the intangible t ax act, both of whi ch in. cre ased the adva ntages of ind ustry and investors within th e St at e of Geor gia. "T he Governor, t he D epa rtment of Commer ce and ot her ag enc ies have per for m ed an excellen t service in adver tising a nd ca lling to th e a tt ention of indust ry th e ad va n tages of loca ting a nd ex pa nd ing industry within this sta te. As a result, a la rge number of indust ries have located within th e sta te an d indu st ries a lre adv within the state have expa nded a t a n investment of millions of d ollars. whi ch greatly helped th e econom ic ~ i t u a t ion and as a natural resu lt this reflect ed in th e increase in state reven ue, whi ch was principally a n in crease in sales ta x a nd mo tor fuel tax. " D ue to the in crease in industrv in th is sta te, the revenu e of the state 'was incr eased in fa ce of the fa ct th a t ther e was a slig h t decr ea se in b usiness ';):lS '