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 NOVEMBER - 
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 NEW SLETTER 
 
NEWSLETTER 
 
P'.1blished monthly by 
 
GEORGI<\. DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN 
 Governor 
BOARI, OF COMMISSIONERS 
 
EI,IORY L. BUTLER Chairman 
 
Y. F. GEESI,IN 
 
HOKE PETERS 
 
BEN JESSUP TRAMI\IELL McINTYRE 
 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary  ~'RED D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No.1 
 
Novenlber 1955 
 
November 1955 
 
Chicken Ousts King Cotton In Georgia 
 
T he chiCken has dethron ed "K ing 
Co tto n" as Georgia' s N o. 1 fa rm cash getter. 
 
L ast year, po ultry a nd poultry p rod~l ctS brou ght $ 134,6 17,000 to gro wers m th e st~te,. com pared with $ 126,836 ,000 receiveq from cotton. 
 
Fin al figtlr es fr om th e Agri cultural M arketing ~)ervice, U . S. Department 
 
of Ag ricultur e, on 1954 cash re turns to Geo rgia fa rm ers credit th em with re- 
 
ceiving a tot al of $595, 125,000 fro m all 
 
sO~l rces. L a rr-ely becau se of th e d rought , 
 
thi s was a etop from th e $646 23 7 000 
 
received in 1953. 
 
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.But wh ile crop receipts de cli ne d, receipts from me a t animals ros e from 
 
$85,160,000 in 1953 to $99 176000 last 
 
yea r ; dai ry prod uc ts, from ' $43 :8 19,000 
 
to $44, 157,000, and po ultr y, $ 13 l.142 .- 
 
000 to $134,617,000. 
 
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DIXIE COTTON GOODS FAR AHEAD OF EAST 
 
G e<;>rgia l<\st yea r prod uced 4-16,356,000 lmear Yards of cott on wov en finished goods. 
 
Pr oduct ior- of this m at erial. in th e South east' s f ive textile sta tes- GeorCTia Alabama , T tennessee an d th e Caroli~a~ 
 
- was 3,8? 6,,343, 000 ya rds, 53 jper cen t of th e natiory, supply. 
 
N ew En g'land trail ed far behind 
 
Di xie with 1991 4 74 000 ya rds 
 
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FLYING FREIGHTERS - H ercul es tr ansports on th e line outside the hug e Lockheed 
 
plant at Marietta. They ar e the Air Force's first jet-prop cargo tr ansports. 
 
LOCKHEED WINS HERCULES BID 
 
VALUED AT $100 MILLION PLUS 
 
A new contrac t for m anufacturer s of Air 'F orce C-1 30A H ercul es turbo-prop transports, sa id to be th e largest to dat e, has bee n re ceived by th e G eorgia Di vision plant of L ockheed Air craft Corp. a t M a rietta . 
The orde r is th e fourth, and by far th e largest ever received fo r th e fast , high-flyin g turbine-p ower ed a e r i a 1 freighter, Lockheed officia ls indicat ed . In a nnounc ing th e third C-1 30A con tract a ye ar ago , th e Air F orce va lued it a t approxi ma tely $ 100,000 ,000. Thus, th e new cont ract will be conside rably in excess of this a mo u nt. 
The Ai r M at eri el Command of th e Air F orce stated th at "an initial au th orizati on of $25,000,000" h as been mad e for th e add itional planes. This in itia l sum, however, represen ts only a fracti on of th e over -a ll va lue of the cont rac t which probabl y will be negoti at ed on a " fixed price incen tive basis." 
The new con t ract for th e Geor gia pla nt will exten d qu antity manufactu re of th e nation 's first tru e aeria l fr eighter using turbo-p rop p ropulsion a full yea r beyond current schedules, 
D . J. H au ghton, Lockheed vice p resi- 
dent and Geo rgia Di vision man ager, 
 
said . 
The first YC1 30 prot ot yp e H er cul es, mad e by L ockh eed 's C alifornia D ivision, flew into M a ri etta in Au gu st 1954. The first p rodu cti on mo de l H ercules took th e air at th e Georg ia pl ant in April of th is year. T wo p rototyp es and several p rodu cti on versions of th e tran sport a rc cu rre n tly under goin g test ing by bot h th e Air F orce an d Lockh eed. 
The first op erational C- 130s turned out a t Marietta are sched uled to be receive d by th e T act ical Air Comma nd's 18th Air F or ce. 
All p roduction versions of th e 54ton H ercul es a rc bein g ma nu fa ctu red a t M a rietta. 
T he L ockh eed plant is Georgia's lar gest ind ivid ua l emp loye r. ha vin g some 22,000 wor kers . 
COVER PHOTO 
Lots of Ge org ia ns have seen Allatoona Dam and lots f them ha ve s ee n th e Boeing-designed B-47 , six-eng ine jet bomber which Lockheed builds at Marietta, but few ha ve ever seen both at th e sa me time. H er e's th e air giant saluting th e giant dam. 
 
GEOR G IA :D E PAR T M ENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 :-iEWSLETTER 
 
Novemb er 1955 
 
GRIFFIN ATTAINS QUICK RESULTS 
 
ON CLEVELAND INDUSTRY BID 
 
Go v. M arvin Gri ffin' s bid for new indust ry for Georgia a t C levelan d , Ohio, brou ght quick resu lts. 
Scott Can dl er, secre ta ry of the Georgia D epartment of Commer ce, received two inqui ries abou t pl an t loca tions from execu tives who heard th e Georgia Governor, a nd W alter T. Cates, exec utive secretary of th e Georgia C ha mb er of Commer ce, was contac ted by a third fir m interested in esta blishing a pl an t in Geor gia. 
Georgia's eli mat e is always highly favorable to industry and bus iness, Governor Griffin assured the Ohio area industrialists in his series of talks across th e nation to boost the opportunities of his state. 
Governor G riffin, who already had made similar talks in New York and Chicago, addressed a luncheon meeting of more than 100 business chieftains at Cl eveland's historic Union Club. Several key Georgians were present to second his invitation to the group. 
" We offer no special inducemen ts to newcom ers but we m ain tain, a nd we in tend to m aintain at all times, an a ttitude and clim ate favor abl e to bu siness and indust ry, bo th old a nd new," th e Geor gia Governor said. 
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HE POINTED OUT th at since 1939 th e number of manufacturing pl ants in th e state h as more th an doubled, and th eir p ayrolls h ave in creased mor e than ten tim es. 
"To man th ese industries, and new industri es, Georgia has a supe rb reservoir of pot ential ar tisans," h e said, citing th e sta te's ou tpu t of 15,000 high schoo l gradua tes each yea r. 
Following his talk, Governor Griffin was congratulated by Don ald S. Smith, President and Chairman of the Boa rd of P erfection Industries, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio. The Perfection firm, formerly known as the Perfection Stove Co., recently established a branch plant at Waynesboro, Ga., to manufacture air-conditioning equipment. " Before we ac qu ired our pl ant at Wayn esboro , a pretty carefu l study was m ad e of th e South, and we becam e convin ced th at Georgia w as th e state 
 
CONGRATULATIONS-Donald S. Smith, pr esiden t and chairman of th e board of Perfection Industries, In c., and Governor Griffin exchange them at the Cleveland luncheon. Mr. Smith's firm recently established a branch plant at Waynesboro, Ga. 
 
in which to locate," Mr. Smith said . " After hearing your very interesting 
 
gusta, Ga . ; Sco tt Can dler , secre ta ry, Georgia D epar tment o f Comm erce ; Gar nett Ca rter , vice pr esident , F ult on Na tiona l Bank , Atla nta ; Wal ter T . 
 
remarks, my previou s conviction has 
 
Ca tes, exec utive vice presid ent , G cor gia Chamber of Commerce ; C . D . Clawson, president , Ferr o 
 
been completely confirmed . W e look forw ard to a long , and we hope successful op eration in your fin e state." 
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Corp. : R alph Cob ey, pr esid ent, Perf ec tion St eel Body Co., Ga lion, Ohi o ; Er-Ie Cock e, chai rm a n ex- 
ecutive co mmittee, Fulton Na tio nal Bank , A tlanta ; Sta nley B. Cofall , president, Nati on al Solvents Cor p. 
J . E. Collin s, pr esident , Sincla ir -Colli ns Val vo 
Co . , Akron , Ohi o ; John L . D ean , a tt orney , M oon ey , Hahn, Loeser , K eo ug h & Fre edh cim ; John \V. D ent , 
 
GOVERNOR GRIFFIN was intro- 
 
pr esident , G eorgia M arbl e Co., Tate, Ga.: G . S. Dively, chai rma n, H arris-Seybold Co.: Randolph J . 
 
du ced at th e lun ch eon by Wright Bry an, editor of th e Cl eveland Plain D eal- 
 
Dorn , presid ent , Barr Rubb er Produ ct s Co., San du sky, Ohi o. 
D . A. Ed wa rd s, tr easur er , Ch esap ea ke & O h io 
 
er, former edito r of th e Atl anta Journal. Ian R. Dowie, p resident of th e Carling Brewing Co ., whi ch recently 
 
Rail ro ad ; J ohn T . Fall on, R . M. Bradley & Co. , 
Boston , M ass. ; H enry J . F awc ett , president, Carpen ter Mf R. Co rp. ; \V . V . Fi sher , presiden t, Anch or 
Hocking G lass Corp., Lan caster , O hio; Ed gar .T . 
Faria , vic e president , Coca Co la Co., Atl anta ; A. 
 
established a plant in Atlanta , preside d. 
 
L . Frcedl a ndcr , president a nd cc ner al manager , Dayt on Ru bber Co., Dayton, Ohi o; E. Smyt he Gambrell , a ttor ney , Atl anta; Sasnett Ga rdner, p resi- 
 
Luncheon gues ts included : 
 
den t , G a rd ner Co . a nd pr esiden t M ad ison a nd M or ga n Cou nt y Chamher of Com merce ; R. C . G ar - 
 
I va n Allen, J r ., pr esid ent , I va n Allen Co. , At- 
 
rett son, adv ert ising man ag er, Ca rling Brewin g Co. 
 
lan ta ; M . A tlcson, exec utive vice presiden t, Plast ic 
 
Don. H . G ea rheart, p resident , H upp Corp . ; L or - 
 
Film Pr odu et s Co. ; L . D . Ballew , ge nera l sales 
 
ing Gelhach , president, Cen tral Na tio nal Bank ; 
 
man ager, Carlin g Brew ing Co . ; D avid Barbour , 
 
Rober t Gra nt , vice pr esid en t, St an dard Prod uct s 
 
president , Plastic Fi lm Produ ct s Co . ; Fran k C. 
 
Co. ; Elisha Gray, pr esident , Wh irl pool Co r p. , St . 
 
Ba tt ey , assis ta n t v ice presid ent . Tr ust Co mp any 
 
J oseph , M ich . ; J a mes H . Gra y, p ubl isher , Alba ny 
 
of Georgi a , Atl an ta ; John Bcnt ia , president, All i- 
 
Her ald , Alba ny , Ga. : Fred L . Grossman , president , 
 
a nce M fl:. Co., Allia nee, O hio; R . E. Bloch , pre si- 
 
Li ndsay Wir e Weaving Co. ; F. H. G u th rie, pr esi- 
 
den t a nd trea surer, Mohawk Rub ber Co. , Ak ron, 
 
dent, Ne wark St ove Co. , N ewark , Ohio ; Pey ton S. 
 
Ohi o. 
 
H aw es, presiden t , H awes Com panies, Elb erton, Ga . ; 
 
J . D . W. Blyth , vice p resid ent of fin an ce, Ca rl - 
 
Robert Hell er , pr esid en t , R ober t H eller & Asso- 
 
ing Brewing Co . , H . D. Brcgenzer , vice president, 
 
cia tes, In c . 
 
Cozi er Co ntain er Corp. ; Brigham Britt o n, preside nt , 
 
Ca rlo n Prod uc ts Corp. ; S. H adl ey Bro wn , rea lto r, 
 
Br un swic k, Ga . ; M orr-is 1 1. Brya n, J r. . presid ent , 
 
J efferson Mill s, J efferson, Ga .; Wri ght Bryan , edi- 
 
tor , Cleveland Plain Deal er ; J a mes R . Cal dwell , 
 
presiden t , Woost er 
 
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\Vooster , Ohi o ; 
 
c How~rd 
H am il ton Ray C 
 
a,CmGa lalaewt\~"(\,'.4\r:alniUa if ~I~\~ QIVo trI</HJh'.~1")'U~~ao~c.e~l.1n 
 
Gardens, :"ond , _A u- 
 
Robert T . H en drick , pr esiden t , Wir e Coa ting & Mfg. Co. ; Her bert S. H ersey, pr esident , C . O . Bar tl ett & Snow Co. : J . H . Hoffm an , pr esident, Man sfield T ir e & Rub ber C o., M an sfield , Ohi o ; Fr ed L. H ovey, vice pr esiden t of pr odu ct ion , Carling Brewin g Co., Lan e Hubbard, vice presiden t , Sou thern Bell T el. & T el. Co ., Atl a nt a ; E. T . 
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1 LIB R:A RI ES TEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E 
 
OF GEO RGY -~ 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
Novem ber 1955 
 
State Gains 161,000 People In Four Years; 
4.70;0 Rise Puts Population At 3,606,000 
 
Georgia in four yea rs pi cked up a n a d d ition of 161,000 persons. 
F rom July 1950 when the regula r decennia l census of p opul at ion was ta ken to July 1954, wh en the Bureau of th e C ensus made its la test revised estim a te, th e sta te's populat ion went from 3,444,578 to 3,606,000, a n ad va nce of 4.7 per cen t. 
Analyzin g th e newest revised population est ima te for the nation, M errill C . Lofton, manager of th e U . S. D epartment of Commerce's Atlanta field offi ce, sa id that Ge orgia 's ga in of 161,000 led 29 othe r sta tes in numeri cal in crea se in the four-year p eriod. 
In th e C e n s u s Bu reau's " Broad South" di vision w h i c h incl udes 17 
 
sta tes a nd th e Di st rict of Columbia, Geo rg ia's pick-up of 16 1,000 resid ents was grea ter tha n D elaw are' s 53,000, Di stri ct of Columbia 's 47,000, South C arolina' s 153,000, K ent ucky' s 33,000, and T ennessee's 70,000. Other ga ine rs wer e Fl orida, where the adva nce was 529,00 0, and North C a rolina, 163,000, bu t Alabama, M ississippi, Ar kansas. O klahom a a nd W est Vi rgini a showe d decl ines. 
With a single ex ception, Ge or gia' s increa se in total population has been g ra dua l in the four-year period, Mr. Lofton's a n a I y s i s shows. From 1950 to 1951, it wen t fr om 3,452,000 to 3,536,000 , and from 1951 to 1952 the rise wa s from 3,536,000 to 3,5 77,000. Between 1952 and 1953, however , a 
 
decline of fr om 3,577 ,000 to 3,564 ,000 took place, but between 1953 and 1954, it again progressed to from 3,564,000 to 3,60 6,000 . 
T ha t th e sta te is " imp ro ving wit h age" is shown in a furt her analysis. Between 1950 a nd 1954 , it was cred ited with a n average a n nua l increase of 1.1 per cen t, wh ich compa red wit h only 1 per cent between 1940 a nd 1950. 
L ast yea r's estim a ted po pula tion, a nd th a t of other yea rs since the 1950 decenni a l census was based upon such major fa ctors as bi rths, dea ths a nd mig ra tions. In Georgi a, th e report showed th at in th e four -yea r peri od . the sta te expe rience d 428,000 births and 131,000 dea th s, a long wi th a loss of 135,000 persons thro ugh m igrations. 
 
WARNER'S REPAYS MOULTRIE STAKE IN PLANT SITE 
A sur p rise note wa s inj ected in the program dedi cating W arner Brother Co .'s new pla nt a t M oult rie, wh en J oh n Field, presid en t of th e garment manufact ur ing firm, returned to th e M oul t rie Cha m ber of Com me rce a nd its Indust rial Co mm ittee $4,000 whi ch local bu sinessmen had inv ested in th e plant site. 
"T his chec k represents paymen t for the property given so ge ne rously by th e bu sinessmen of M ou lt rie," Mr. F ield said . " We kn ow th at you r gift of th e la nd was in goo d faith a nd a token of your goo d will. W e wa nt you to ta ke back th is m oney an d usc it for furth er indust rial develop ment." 
Cham ber Presid en t R oy Zess, respond ing to the gesture, expressed the ch am ber' s sur prise and gra tifica tion a t having the fun d for furth er development of th e com m unity. 
" T h is action justifies our thin kin g th at W a rn ers is th e kind of fi rm we wa nt for our com m unity," h e said . 
M r. Field flew fr om Bridgeport, Conn,. \ Va rn er Bros. h ea dq ua rters, for the openi ng of th e $290,000 M oult rie pl a n t . 
 
D EDICAT ED AT MOULTRI E - Mod ern new found ation ga rment plant construc ted by Warncr Bros. Co. It con ta ins 25,500 square fcct of floor space and is up -to-theminute in ever y detail, It s cost was $290,000. 
 
MICHIGAN FIRM OPENS NEWNAN TRIM PLANT; SECOND IN GEORGIA 
 
D ouglas & Lom ason Co ., of D etroit, has op ened a plant a t Newn an for the m anufa ct ur e of sta inless stee l tri m for a utomobiles. 
T his is th e second plan t to be establish ed in Georgia by th e 54-year old M ich igan firm, th e first h avin g been ope ned a t Carrollton ea rlier thi s year. 
The Newn an plant is locat ed on the Carrollto n Hi gh way, in th e bui lding form erl y occupied by Cow eta M ills, Alton Fra nk, m an ager, sa id initial pro- 
 
du ct ion was started with 35 to 50 specia lly train ed local workmen . 
Douglas & Lom a son ha s been engaged in the man ufac tu re of autom otive bod y pa r ts a nd meta l specia lties in D etroit sinc e 1902. William K. 
L om ason , presiden t of th e com pany, 
said the N ewn an plant will supply its 
ou tp ut of fin ish ed stainless steel trim 
primarily to a utomo bile manufacturers in the Sou th a nd M idwest , 
 
G EO RG IA DEPARTMENT O F C O M M ERC E 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
Nov ember 1955 
 
Folks Of Fitzgerald Proud To Lend A Hand 
 
When Pants Factory Moves To New Home 
 
Wh en Fitzger a ld' s P er fe e t Pants ~Hg. Co ., a home-owned ~once rn, moved int o a new locall y-fman ced pla nt build ing; the wh ole t?wn pitch.ed in to help WIth transf erri ng a nd 111sta lla t ion to avoid loss of so much as a n hour's producti on tim e on fall com - 
mitments. Owner H. R. K aminsky was 
overwhelmed by t he volunteer help given him when probl em s a rose in shift ing h ea vy eq u ipme nt from the firm's old location on the second floor of a down town building to the spa nking n ew one story plant a t the edge of the city . 
An ex am ple of th e coope ra tion, M I'. K aminskv sa id . wa s th e quick respon se of Bryant Br~thers G arage to . a c~ll lat e a t night wh en rem ova l ot a big boiler posed a problem . They sped a wr ecker to th e scene and moved th e hoilcr on sche d ule. 
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JOHN H ENRY DORMINY, JR., president of the National Bank of Fi tzgerald, who aided in fina nc ing th e new plant, assigne d two tru cks and d rivers for use during the mo vin g process. Cu rt is Green, of Dr. P epper Bottling Co ., on the ground floor of th e old P erfect P ants location, furn ish ed a truck and driver. Johnny Garri son's grocery next doo r provid ed hand tr uc ks and t ools. The Stan dard Su p ply Co m pany loaned it s tru cks. 
The M erritt Auto Service placed its pickup tr uck at Mr. K am insky's di sposal.  Goodman 's Welding Shop shoved as ide it s own bu siness to do eme rge ncy welding. R epresentatives of th e Sh erwin -Wi lliams Paint Co . b ran ch ga ve help a fte r hours in th e testing ? f pa ints a nd superv ision of th e paintmg . 
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EDITOR Alb ert Geid el'S of th e F itzge ra ld L eader-Enterprise & P r e s s printed th e com pany 's moving schedule on th e front p age, and a s a result a lot of vo lun teer help wa s on h and . 
' Vhen it ca me t ime to m ove two 1,500 -p ound presses from the old second floor location, the C ity of Fit zger a ld fu r n i sh e d a truck, wenc h an d wor kme n. 
 
PERFE CT PAN 5 
 
PRIDE OF FITZG ER ALD - New pl an t of the Per fect Pan ts Mf g. C o., a home-own ed industry, wh ich r ep resents an in vestm ent of mor e th an $ 150,000 in building and equ ipm ent . The who le tow n turne d ou t to help the firm m ove int o n ew qu arters. 
 
"I've never seen a ny thing like it," Mr. Kaminsky sa id . " Everyone seeme d to come running to give us a hand. And then they thanked us for as king them ." The Perfect firm, specia lizing in th e manufa cture of dress p ants for nationwid e di stribution, was esta blished bv 
1'1r. K aminsky in 1937 with abou t 20 
 
peop le em ploye d . As dem and for its 
 
product s in cr ea sed , th e payroll gre w to 
 
75, a nd en la rge d q uar ters became im- 
 
per ative. 
 
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T HE NEW P L ANT , situa ted on Bow en Mill R oad, and away from th e bu sin ess section of Fitzger ald , contains 
 
20,000 sq ua re feet of work space and is mod ern and trig through out. Built under a I c a s e - 0 p t ion agreem ent through co-operation of th e Fitzgera ld Ci vic Corp. and the Chamber of Commer ce, it was fin anced throu gh local sa le of $25,000 in bonds a nd a combination of local a nd ou tside fina ncing. New sewing m achines and other eq uip ment brin g th e tot a l inv estment in th e new in stall ation to mor e th an $ 150,000 . 
A p re-moving da y recruitment and tr aining program enabled th e new plant to ope n with 100 worker s. :Mr. Kaminsky sa id th at a tot al of 200 o r mo re will be em ploye d as th e fin n swings into spr ing producti on . 
 
1955 MANUFACTURERS GUIDE 
 
MIRRORS GEORGIA INDUSTRY 
 
A 1955 D irectory of Georgia Manu- 
fa cturers , containing m or e than 16,000 listings of sta te firms and their products , has been prep ared by th e Georgia D ep artm ent of Commer ce. 
Scott C andler , sec re ta ry of the departmen t said th e di rcct orv is th e most com plete ' guide of its kind ever issued in Georgia . The dep artment' s last previous directory wa s com piled in 1952. 
T o obtain th e inf ormation con ta ine d in th e 1955 editio n, he sa id , representatives of th e D ep artment of Commerce visit ed every one of the state 's 159 coun ties and made hundred s of ca lls upon Chamber s of Commer ce, m unicipal offi cia ls, industrialists, banker s and new spaper s. Also consulte d wer e reco rds a nd p ubli cation s of the Labor. Agricu lture and other St ate departments, t he Geor gia Power Co .. various 
 
rai lroads a nd a host of tra de and bu siness associations. 
T he d irecto ry, con ta in ing 33 2 p ages, is attractivelv bound in red a nd bla ck paper cove rs' imprinted with th e state sea l. 'F irm s, th eir product s and em ploym ent, ar e listed a lphab eti call y both by loca tion a nd p roduct. 
Pri ce of th e direct or y is $3. Co pies may be obtained a t th e Georgia D epa r tm en t of Comme rce , 100 St at e C apitol, or will be sent pos t paid. Check or mon ev order sho u ld acc om pan y orders . . 
PAPER FIRM BUILDS 
Sloan P aper Co. is building a com bin ation wareh ou se a nd office at 72fl Ch estnut St ., N. W ., At lanta, whi ch will co nta in 48,000 squ a re Ieet of sp acr. Co st, $ 175,000. 
 
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G EO RG I A DEPA RTMENT OF C OlvI M E RC E 
 
 :\'E\VSLETTER 
 
November 1955 
 
GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS 
 
GARMENT PLANT QUITS VIRGINIA FOR ABBEVILLE 
A new ind ustry will open a t Abb eville soon as th e result of efforts bv the Abb eville Developmen t Assn. . 
Mrs. J. N . D oster , secreta ry of th e 
associa tion, said th e Otis M an ufactu ring Co., of Rockmont, V a., will mo ve its entire pl ant to th e Wilc ox C ounty city. George O . Pr att, pl ant m anager, 
said ope ra tions will begin about .Ianu- 
a ry 1 with 100 work ers, and th at a payroll of 275 is scheduled next year. 
The compa ny, to be known as th e Abb eville M anufacturing Co., will m ake children's appar el. The finn h as a 10yea r lease on an Abbeville bu ilding and a renewal clau se whe n th at period h as expired . 
Cha rles Ca nno n, pr esident of th e developme nt committ ee, said credit for locating th e plant belonged to all Abb eville citizens, as well as th e committee. 
Oth er m emb ers of th e committee ar e 
R. L. Bennett, J. R. Harrell, J. B. Do r- 
sey, C. W. Gillespie a nd E. B. Wolf e. 
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BAXLEY PLANT OPENS 
Miller Western W ea r, Inc., new Baxl ey pl ant, man uf acturing child ren's ga rme n ts, h as gone into op eration , and employme nt is sla ted to climb to 200 wh en fun cap ac ity is rea ch ed in about seven months. W. A. Cow arte is gen eral manager. 
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POULTRY ON THE AIR 
T he F ed eral Communica tions Co mmission has gra nted a p ermit for a ra dio sta tion a t Canto n design ed to serve th e N orth Georgia poultry industry. I t will op erate on 1290 k.c. with a power of 1,000 watts. Prin cip als in th e station a re L. H . Christi an a nd C . A. M cClure. 
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QUITMAN MILLS SOLD 
Three Quitman bu sinessmen , H . R . Ga rr ett, S. A. Ph elp s and H . H . C armich ael, h ave purch ased all th e proper ty of the old Quitman Mills, In c., from th e Weh adkee Yarn Co., West Point. The deal covere d mill buildings and war ehouses, 38 residen ces and 25 ac res of land. The purchasers hope to locate a n ew industry on th e property. 
 
NEW BR UNSWICK I ND U ST R Y - Ar chitect's drawing of new mercury cell chlorineca ustic soda plant to be const ruc te d by Solvay Process Divi sion, Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., near Brunswick. Scheduled to be in production by December 1956, the plant will provide em ployment for 125 people and will p roduce 100 tons of chlor ine and 125 ton s of caustic soda per day. It is slated to operate late in 1956. 
 
MT. VERNON FACTORY 
Construction is  underway a t Mt. Vernon on a plant bu ilding to house th e Mt. Vernon Mfg. Co ., Inc., recently incorpor a ted with local cap ita l to manufacture trousers with local p ersonnel. The building, cons truc ted of jumbo brick and containing 20,000 squa re feet , is located on th e Montgo mery County Courthou se Square. It is sla te d for occupancy J an . 1. 
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CLARKESVILLE ADDS 
Clarkesville Mill has complet ed con struc tion of tw o additions to its plant. Fi ve thousand square feet of floor space has been adde d to th e slashe r room a nd th e weave room is enla rged by 18,000 square feet. Z. B. L an e, Jr., pl ant man ager, said th e additions will provide mor e flexibility in th e manufacture of new style cur tain materials now in demand. 
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NEW FIRM AT AMERICUS 
A cotton and seed p rocessing and stor age plant whi ch will employ 40 men has located at Am eri cus. W. D. F eld er & Co ., Inc., of Dallas, T ex., has leased two large wa rehouses at Souther Field which wer e erected by the government in World War II. The firm maintain s sales offic es in Atlanta. 
 
BOWMAN PANTS PLANT IN BIG EXPANSION 
Wright Garment Co ., a t Bowman, is const ru cting a new 14,000 squarefoot building which will allow expan- 
sion of its sewin g operation s 33Y3 p er 
cen t . Loy E . Wa tkins, superintende nt, said 
th e construction is being speeded in ord er to get new equipme nt installed during th e work ers' Christmas holidays. 
The pres ent plant buil di ng will be retained for storage and shipping facilities, whi le th e sewing production units will be h oused in th e new structure. The new bu ild ing, of modern br ick con structi on , fir eproof and aircon ditioned, will cost $70 ,000. 
The fir m is own ed by Mr. and M rs. E. D . W right, of Toccoa. 
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COLUMBUS MILL ADDS 
Construction of a 5,000 square-foot addition to th e finishing plant of Eagle & Phenix Mill, Columbus, is under way. The exp ansion including building , machiner y and installation, will cost approximat ely $50 ,000. James M. Bya rs, manager , said th e addition will incr ease th e fin ishing pl ant's productiv e capacit y by 25 per cen t, or to approximately 5,000,000 ya rds of goods per month . 
 
GEO R G I A DEPARTMENT OF COMMER CE 
 
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GEORGIA GETS $1 ~644~836~OOO IN BUSINESS FROM UNCLE SAM 
 
Georgia business firms in th e p ast five yea rs have received con tracts for co ods and services from th e U ni ted Sta tes govern ment tota lling $1,644,836,000, la rgest sum in th e Southeast. 
From the Air Force alone , in the period June 1950 to June 1955, came contracts with a value of 
S1,0 25,06 6,00 0. 
Army con tr ac ts amounted to 
$474,263,000, thos e let by the Navy came to $ 143,571,000, and the A I' m e d Service Petroleum 
Agency, $1,936,000 . Total U . S. expe nditures in th e seven Southeastern states for th e five yea r period ca me to $5,567,644,000. 
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NORTH CAROLINA received th e second largest total, $ 1,0 19,3 24,000; Alabama's s h a rc was $78 7,266,000 ; F lorid a's, $544,806,000 ; Mississippi's, $330,171,000 ; South C ar olina's, $428,439,000, an d T ennessee's, $81 2,80 2,000 . 
Purch ases by U n cle Sam in Georgia hav e r anged fr om foo d p rod ucts to heavy machinery, and contracts for const ruc tion wo r k have run th e ga mut from archi tectura l dr awings to streets a nd bui ldin gs in military in stallations. 
Although U. S. bu ying was ligh t in September, Georgia firms re ceived 10 contracts, nine of which aggregated $897 ,506. No amount 
 
was specified on the tenth. Follow ing a re the aw a rd s by firms in Georgia durin g Septemb er: 
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COTSWOLD FIBRES, I NC. , Co lumbus, barri er ma ter ial, $27,725 ; At lan tic St eel Co., Atlan ta, ste el ba rs for Arnold Engineering D evelop ment Center, $40,5 78; Alb an y Con cr et e Produ ct s Co., Alban y, sto ne, gravel and sand , $38,450; Gen eral El eva tor Co., Atl an ta, p assenger a nd fr eight elevat ors for hospital a t For t Bragg, $24 7,423. 
Go rdy Ti re Co ., Atlan ta , rep ai r and retr ead aircraft casings, call con tract ; Empi re Gas En gineerin g Co., Atla n ta , conversion of heating facilities a t Stewart AFB , $233,883 ; Southern Spri ng Bcd Co., Atl anta, bed sprin gs, $29,338 : Prather & Cart er Construction Co ., 
Georgia Boasts 118 Television, Radio Beams 
Georg ia now boasts of 118 commercial radio a nd television sta tions on th e air, of whi ch 105 are radi o outlets a nd the remaining 13 ar e in th e video field . 
Eighty-nin e of the radi o sta tio ns arc "AM ". 
 
SMART GU Y- B' re r Squirrel tests a h ickory nut before adding it to hi s winter cac he deep in woods. Hunters say th at Ge org ia's squirrel population is th e largest in yea rs, that sq uirrel fri ed an d ste wed will be a popular di sh this winter .-Ed Friend photo. 
 
Harlem, bu ildings a t Clar k H ill proj - 
ect, Sa van nah R iver, $23,380; Zac Lac 
Pa in t & L a c q u e r Corp., Atlan ta . 
ena mel, $29, 729, a nd Co lon ial Oi l In - 
dustri es, Sa vann a h, fuel oil, $227,000. 
GRIFFIN BID 
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.j effer -y, presid ent , \ V. S . Tyler C n. : .Je ssl' D . j ewcl l, 
cha ir ma n, J. D . J ew ell , I nc . , G aint's\'ill c, Gn . : J . L . J on es, vice pr esid en t, Van Dorn Ir o n " 'o r ks 
Co . 
L a wr en ce J on es, p r esid e n t . Va n D urn Iron \ Vo r ks Co:; D wigh t P . J oyce , cha ir ma n a n d p re sid en t . G lid de n Co . ; C ha rles Ka tes , presid en t, U n io n M al lea ble :\lfg. Co ., Ash land , O hi o ; O . B. K eiste r. Ten ne ssee , A laba ma . Georgia R a il road , Chatta noo ga , Ten n .; C harles H. Kc ll stndr . " icc prcsidcn t . Sea r s. R oeb uc k & C o .. Atlanta ; H uns Y. K r a cp cli c u . p r esident , N orth E lec t ri c Co ., Gali on , Ohio : O SC411 C . K r avit z, presid ent, Anchor R ubber P;'Od UCh . I nc . ; George H . K u b es, p resid e n t , Am erican \\' 0 (1() Pr od uct s Corp . 
M ills B . La n e, j r. ; p r esid en t , Citize ns & So u t hern Banks of Geo r gia , A tlan ta ; A . J . E, La rson , p re sident a nd ge nera l m an ag er , Ar t M e t a l Co nst ru ctio n Co ., J am es town , N . Y , ; J ohn \ V. L asti n ger , p rr-sid ent , G eor g ia Powe r & L ig ht Co ., Va lclosta . Ga . : .J o~l n A . Law )el> p r es,id cn t " Acrcn ca ~[fg , ~or p .. M id d le to wn , 0 1110: Alli so n \\, L ed be tt er . chairman . Ce ntra l of G a . R a ilwa y Co .. Savanna h ; Mer r-i c k L ew is , prsid ent , All ia nce M ach ine Co .. Allia nce. Ohio. 
H erber t H. L in k. presid ent , Bell ow s Co., Akron . Ohio ; Ca lvi n F. Ll oyd , t re a surer , Gard ner Boa r d & . Car to n. Co . , Mid dl et own , Ohio: .J. Lo u is ~laI I1l , 
c h ie f e ng mcer, In d ust r ial Ra yon Co rp .; J . J . ~ Ic. 
D orroug h , exec u ti ve vice presid en t , Georg ia P O W l' l Co ., Atl anta ; Tra m me ll M clutvro , rea l to r a n d co mm ission er , Ge org ia D e pa rtm e nt (If Co m me rce At - 
la n ta ; C lay to n b . M cl.cu d on , vice presi de n t ,' Citi - 
ze ns & Sou ther n Banks o f Geor gia , A t lant a; J ose p h F . ~ 1c~I a n amon , a ssist ant sec r e ta ry, Ca rli ng Brew ing Co. 
Joseph Mi sh cll , p resid en t , Natio na l Ya r n Corp . ; Xcl so n B. M oo re , Nelso n B. 1 100r c & Associa te s : \ V. A. Ni ch ol s, manag er o f p rodu c tion se r vice s, X a ti on al Carbo n D ivision U nio n Carbide & C arbon Cor p . ; \ Vill ia m O 'Nei l, cha irman an d p re sid e nt . General T ire & Ru bbe r Co ., A kron . O hio' Rolx-r: E. O ' Br ien , ind ustri a l rep r esen ta tive , Geo;'gia De pa rt m ent of Co m merce . 
H a rrel! L . Perkins, vice pr esid en t , Ccu tra l o f C a . Rail wa y C(~ , . At la nt a ; Fra n k ~L Po lloc k , p re sid ent . Buckeye R ibb on & Carbon Co . : O livcr I. Powcll , e ng ine.eri llg m ana ger , Carlin g Brewin g Co. : G eoruc H . Ri c h ma n , prcsid c nt , R ichmond HIos.: D ougl a s R. Robert so n , " ice p resid en t, Tr ust C o. of G eor g ia . Atlanta : H en r y E . R ussell , re g ional v ice presid ent . Ca rlin g Br ewi ng Co ., Xa tick , ~ I a ss . : L . R. Sa nd er - 
son , presid en t , Xationa l Gypsu m 0 )., Buffalo. N , 
Y. ; Jacob Sapirstein , p reside nt . Amer ica n Gree tings Corp. 
H o wa r d R . Sc h war tz , sa les m a na ger . Cleve la nd 
Ca p Scr ew Co .: J . P. Seiberling , chair ma n a nd 
pr esid en t , Seib er ling Ru bb er Co " Ak ron . O hio : Pran k \ V. Shack leto n , Ne lso n B. ~ l ()o n' & Assoc ia u-s ; J ohn A. S ib ley, ch a ir m a n of the hoard . T r ust Co . o f G eor g ia . A tla nta ; \ V. A. Singh-r-, cha irman a nd d ire ctor , Ap ex Smelting C o. , Chicnuo : Do na ld S . S mi t h . presid ent and ch ai r ma n of t luHoa rd. Perfection In d ust r ies . I nc . ; Edward D . Sm ith , pre sident . Fi rst X ut ion al Ba nk of Atl anta ; L . P. Sp ore, exec u tive "i ce presiden t , Am er ica n Cravou Co. , Sandusk y. O hi o ; F red P . S tash ower , L an ger. Fi sher & Sr ashowc r -, Iu c . : Freema n Strickla nd . vice preside nt , F ir st Na tio na l Ba n k of Atl ant a : II . Ca m p be ll S t uc ke ma n , "ice p re sid e n t . Rock well ~[fg . Co " Pittsbu r gh , Pa . 
J ack Tarvcr, gv ncrn l man ngcr, A tla n ta :\l'\\':--pap ers, In c . ; F r an k ~I. T at e , p r esid e n t , D a y tu n Pu m p & ~ [fg , Co . , D a vt on , Ohio ; j oscph I-I. T hompson . preside nt. ~I. A . H a n na Co . ; \ \' . N . Thompson . p resid ent , H . K. Fe r-gu so n C o . : \ V. D . Tr-ippe . cha ir m a n o f th e board . Co m me rcia l N at ion al Ha nk , Cedartown, G a .; R . C . Trundle. p r esid ent, Trund le E ngineering Co . ; Al b crt J . \ Veath crh ca d , Jr., pr esident , \ Vca t he rl H'a d Co .: J o h n S. \ Vilb tlr . vice prcsident , C leve la nd -C liff s I ro n Co . 
 
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- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS - 
 
Proposed expansion of th e St ate Docks at Savannah, to include a huge gra in elevato r a nd th ree add itional berths, is estim a te d to cost $4,5 00,000. . . . H eavy m achinery is pouring into Hartwell for cons t ruc tion work on th e H artwell D arn. . . . The annu al Turkcv F esti va l was held a t Griffin O ct. 2 6~2 7 . . . . A $90.000 N a tional Guard Armor y has been dedi cated a t \Vin der. 
Na tural gas h as been turned on a t Statham.. .. Gainesville's Avion M otel wi ll a dd an eigh t-u n it ad d it ion . .. . Rathbon e, H air & Ridgw a y Box Co ., Savannah, is observing its one hundredth ann iversary . It em ploys 280 people. . . . Am eri can Junior Di vision of Rhea M anufacturing C o., Bainbr idge , is cons truc ting a n add ition to its d ress fa ct or y to cos t a pprox ima tely $60,000 . 
M em ori a l Hospital a t Savanna h, built a t a cos t of mor e th an $4 ,000,000 , has been opene d. . . . Oconee O ak Flooring Co. is in opera tion a t Mount Ve rnon. .. . The 14-mi lc L akeland R ailroa d has been purchased by John Kim brou gh , Lakeland pu lpw ood d ealer. . . . I . J . R osen plan s to erec t a m od ern mot el on St. Simons I sla nd. . . . C itizens & So u th crn Bank of T homaston plan s to erec t a new bui lding. . .. G ird ler Co ., Loui sville, K y., will be eng ineer s and con trac to rs on th e $ 14,000, 000 pl ant of Sou th ern N itroge n Co .. Inco at Savannah, 
A natura l gas syste m is bein g insta lled a t Pel ham. . . . R om e K raft Co. and In land Container Corp. will d edi ca te t heir plants a t R om e on N ov. 17. 
 
. . . Chick Supp lies, In c. is in it s new plant a t Gainesville.. . . W ork is p ro gressi ng a t Battey St ate H ospi tal at R ome on a bui lding to repl ace one rc ccn tlv d estrovcd b v fir e. . .. Berrien County C en t~n n ial w ill bc celeb ra te d ea rly in 1956 . . . . Ce n tra l Bank of Swa'ins boro wi ll er ect a new $ 150,000 building. . . . C lar en ce M ob ley C onstr uc t ion Co . wi ll er ect a sho pp ing cen te r a t D aniel Village, Augusta, to cos t $ 147,840. . .. M a yor Frank Tigner of LaGrange is the new presid ent of th e G eorgi a M uni cip al Association . The 1956 conve n tion of th e assoc ia tio n will be held in Atlanta . 
A sho p ping ce n te r to cos t a n estimated $6,000,000 is bein g bu ilt on a 550-acre t ract a t th e juncti on of Buford I-Iwy. a nd Bri a rwoodRd., north of Atlanta, to be kn own as Peachtree Vi lla ge P laza .. . . An office a nd wareh ou se building is to be erected in th e C ha tta hoo chee Indust ri al Di stri ct , Atlanta, for W alworth C o., m an uf a cturer of va lves and fittings. . . . The Manufa cturers R ecord Pub lish ing C o., of Baltimor e, Md ., has been purch ased by C onway Publication s of At lanta. Ed it ori al headqu arter s of th e pion eer tr ad e publication M anulacturers R ecord an d th e an n ua l Blu e Book of Sou the rn Progr ess. will be moved to Atlanta. 
Sixth Annua l Pimiento F esti va l a t Wood bury was a ttende d by 10,000 p eople . .. . State Mutual Insu r an ce Co. is erec ting a new office building a t R ome. . . . G eorgia Southwestern Co llege, Americus , has d edi cated a $2 10,- 
 
000 science building. . . . J ulia n T. Hi ghtow er h as been re -electe d president an d tr easurer of Thomast on Mi lls a t T homaston. .. . Cam de n Gas C o. is cons tr uc ti ng a new plant a t Kingsland. . . . Savannah Bank & Trust Co. wi ll expan d its bran ch office at Skid way Rd. an d V ict or y D r. , R euben C lark, presid ent. sta tes. 
A new office and laboratory bui lding has been d edi cated at th e Southeast ern Tidew ater Exper im ent S ta t i on a t F lemi ng . . . . Farm Feed & Supply Co. , at Monroe, is bui lding a new warehouse and store a t a cos t of $20 ,000 . . . . A fi lter p lant th at will ser ve both C layton a nd H enry C ou n t ies is under cons truction a t Stockb ridge. . . . Ce d artown D ai rv Pr odu ct s h as leased its chees e p lant ' a t Cedartown to the No rth Geo rg ia P roduct s Co . 
R ubberoid Co. , Savannah, h as erect rr l a loading d ock at its pl ant. . . . Prel imi n ar y wo rk of conve r ting th e teleph on e syste m to di a l ope ra tio n is u n dcrw a v a t Greenville , .. . T errell Cou n ty ~\" i ll cele b ra te its I DOth birthd ay in April 1956. . . . Robert & Co . Associates, Atla nta, ha s been awarde d a con tract to mod ify a nd brin g lip to d ate plans for a Co mmu n ica ble D iseas e Ce n ter to be buil t bv th e 'Fed era l Govern me n t on a 15- a c;-c tract ncar Em ory U n iversity. The cen ter will cos t an estima ted $ 12,3 33, 000 . 
Sca rs, R oebu ck & Co. h as erec ted a new sto re a t Rome. . . . Co lu mbus Fib er Mills is erecte d a n $8 1.400 a d d ition to its plant a t Co lumb us: 
 
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NEWSLETTER 
 
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GEORG IA DEPT. O F COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
 
* MA RV IN G RIFFIN Gover nor  BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS 
 
El\IORY L. BUTLE R Cha irma n 
 
Y. F. GEESLIN 
 
H O K E I'ETERS 
 
BEN J ESSU P 
 
T RAMMELL McINTYRE 
 
* SCOTT CANDLE R Secre ta ry 
 
NE LSON M . SHIPP Assistan t Secretary 
 
F RED D. MOON Editor 
 
V ol. 7, No.2 
 
Decemb er 19 55 
 
Hartwell Gets Big New Plant 
Monroe Auto Equipment Co ., of Monroe, Mi ch. , ha s announce d p lan s for building a $2,000 ,000 p lant on a 20-a cre site a t H ar twell. 
The p lant will employ about 300 p ersons . It will have an annual p ayro ll of about $ 1,000 ,000 . 
T he plant is expec ted to be com p let ed an d p ut into operation by March, 1956. 
 
NEW POULTRY FEED MILL BEING BUILT AT TUNNEL HILL 
A new poultry feed mi ll, now under construction, is schedu led to begin operation at Tunnel Hill ea rly in 1956. 
Alab am a F lour Mi lls, D ecatur, Ala., is er ecting th e p lan t, wh ich will m anufa ct ur e its R ed Hat lin e of p oultry and livestock feeds. 
T he p lant, bu ilt of concre te a nd prefabri cated steel, will have a rated ca p acity of 480 tons of formu la feed a day. Mixing will be a con tinuo us flow op eration with automatic con tro ls u tilizing th e most modern equipme n t. 
COVER PHOTO 
Su lphuric acid fa cilities at th e new $15,000,000 ti tanium dio xid e p lant of th e Ameri can Cyan amid Co. in Savannah. (See story on page 3) 
 
NEW BRIDGE OPENS- Macon Cou nty Ve terans Memorial Bri dge spanning the Flint R iver on Hi gh way 49 and 90 between Mo ntez uma an d Og let ho rpe, pictured as the first ca rs crossed it duri ng dedicat or y exercises. Former Gov. H erma n E. Talmad ge and Li eut. Gov. Ernes t Va ndive r were pr inci pa l speakers at the opening . T he brid ge was com plete d at a cost of $1,000,000 ma de ava ilable by the State Br idge Aut ho rity, esta blished du rin g the recent Talma dge ad minis tration.-Drinnon, In c., photo. 
 
HERE'S WHAT INDUSTRY LOOKS 
 
FOR IN CHOOSING A PLANT SITE 
 
Industry and the community in whi ch it locates a re p artners in every sense of th e term, share a nd share a lik e. 
Good industry is a good citizen and a good employer. I t rewards th e com munity with steady jobs, fair wages, a continuing flow of in com e and taxes , over-all prosperity. In return, as it s part of th e bargain, th e comm unity mu st reward industry with a business climate favorable to long-ru n, p ro fita ble, pleasant operation. 
H ere ar e some of th e minimum community assets whi ch new industry looks for and expec ts. The list wa s comp iled by th e United Stat es Chamber of Commer ce. 
1. Co mpetitive labor costs-Not p rima rily a qu estion of wage-rates, but rather of p rod uctivity, work attitu des and em ployee morale, ada ptab ility to training, etc. 
2. A record of h armonious lab or relations, as evide nce d by a minimum of strikes, slow -downs, secon d ary boycotts, fea th er-b edding, resistance to new a nd improved m ethods a nd processes, a nd by lab or legislatio n wr itten an d a dmi nistered in the public in ter est. 
3. Government regu lations whi ch re- 
 
flect a n understanding of th e problems of industry, including ad equate zoning an d up-to-d at e industrial codes, without ex cessive and discriminatory regulation . 
4. A L EVE L of governmen t expenditures whi ch is neither extravagant nor inadeq uate to meet suc h need ed community improvem ents as education, highways, health, public ut ilities, etc . 
5. An equit able dist rib ution of th e costs of local government-employers expect to p ay th eir share of the tax load wit hout special favors, but will certainly be rep elled by communities whic h consider it "good politics" to tax bu sin ess heavily. 
6. Ad equate community c u l t u ra l and recreational facilit ies, whi ch will mak e a commun ity a ttrac tive to good em p loyees. 
7. Evid en ce that local emp loyers a re disch ar gin g th eir obligations to th e community as good business-citiz ens . 
8. Fund am ental at tit u d es in the community whi ch reflect an under standing of th e ben efits of our economi c system and th e need for bui lding a healthy relationship between employers an d th e community." 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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Decemb er 1955 
 
300 New Chemical Plants Forecast for Dixie 
 
As American Cyanamid Opens $15Million Unit 
 
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GIANT NEW I ND USTRY-Acrial view of th c America n Cyana mid Compa ny's $ 15,000,000 plan t at Savannah. I nd ustry lead ers say th e chemica l ind ustry is marc hing Sou th to th e tunc of $2,000,000 in new plan t construction dail y, th at Dixi e will have 300 new chemical installati ons in operati on in ten years. This plan t began opera tion with a pa yroll of $2 60. 
 
The chemical industry is marching South to the tune of $2,000,000 in new constru ction dai ly. 
Finishin g tou ch es are currently being put on $555,000,000 worth of new plants, and another $225,000,000 worth is in th e drawing board stage. 
In th e next decade, 300 additional chemical plants whi ch will employ an estimated 10,000 new che mists and ch emical engineers, will be humming in Dixi e. 
T his for ecast comes from chemical industry spokesmen who wer e pr esent in Savannah when one of th e nation's major man ufacturing conce rns, th e Ameri can Cyan amid Co ., expressed its confide nce in Georgia's economic future at th e dedi cation of a $15,000,000 insta llation. 
 
GOV. MARVIN GR I FFIN, principal speak er at the dedication ceremon ies on Dec. 1, termed the big new faci lity "a fin e contr ibution to Geor gia's industrial structure ." 
K. C. Towe, American Cyanamid president, who headed a group of 
 
WELCOME TO GEO R GIA-Gov. Marvin Griffin greets K . C. Towe (left), pr esident of th e Ame rican Cyanamid Co. , and Emil Hladky (right) , manager of the new Savannah installation of the company, at dedic ation cer emonies Dec. 1. 
 
company officials from the New York headquarters, said the pla nt was estab lished to ma nufacture ti- 
 
tanium dioxide, " whitest of white pigments ." Titanium dioxi de is used 
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GE ORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM MER CE 
 
 N EWS LETTE R 
 
D ecem ber 1955 
 
RISE IN MODERN CONVENIENCES PACES GEORGIA'S FARM DECLINE 
 
Georg ia farms a rc shrin king in nu m ber bu t increasing in size and value, whi le electricit y, telephon es, au tomobiles, m ech ani cal equ ip men t a nd lab or saving devices a nd luxury gadge ts a rc fast rubbing out th e differen ces between citv a nd rural life. 
T hese are highli ghts of th e Bur eau of th e Census' 1954 census of agri cu ltu re in th e sta te, part s of whi ch have ju st been released : 
Geor gia in five yea rs lost 32,600 farm s a nd 1.728,000 acres of farml and. The numbe;' of 'fa rms declin ed fro m a tot al of 198,191 recorded in 1949 to 165,000 found last yea r. 
The av erage size of farms went from 129.4 acres five years ago to 145.1 acre s in 1954, and th e value , of land and buildings rose sha rply. The increase in av erage value per farm was from $5,336 to $7,926, and the gain in average p er a cre was from $43.28 to $6 1.35. 
C ro pla nd h ar vested declined in th e half decad e fro m 7,098, 147 to 6,118,583 ac re s. 
THE CENSUS -TAKERS f 0 u n d th at th e Georg ia far mer is going ou t mo re an d mor e for facilities th at ease th e burden of his toil and m ake livin g easier a nd mor e enjoyable for hi mself an d hi s fa m ily. In th e five-year p eriod, th e num ber of fa rms with telephones wen t from 18,624 to 36,50 1, and th ose equippe d with elect ricity from 149,271 to 152,36 1. 
T he count of home freezers on farms jumped from 11,717 to 37,347. Farm motor trucks went from 63,022 to 77,483 , tractors, 60,576 to 88,118, and automobiles from 100,586 to 111,026. 
Georgia farmers want entertainme nt and new s as well as city folks , and in th e five -year p eriod 45,720, or about one-fourth of the total number of farm homes in th e state, installed televi sion sets. 
With th e decrease in number of farms went a reduction in number of oper ators living on th eir farms. While in 1949 th ere wer e 185,058 Geor gians living on farms, last yea r th er e wer e 153,328 . 
A SLIGHT RISE took pl ace 111 number of operators not livin g on 
 
N EW V ID AL I A PLANT-Scen e in the W. A. Stevens Co. tool and die wo rks , n ew Vidalia industry, whi ch is Iilling important cont rac ts for th e automotive and manufacturing field s. Photogr aph by Vidalia Adv ance 
 
STEVENS TOOL AND DIE PLANT 
 
JOINS VIDALIA INDUSTRY SCENE 
 
'''T. A new Vid ali a industry, th e tool and 
d ie works of A. St evens Co ., has gone int o op eration. 
The me ta l p la nt is housed in a new building of steel an d conc rete block const ruc tion, con taining 20,000 squ ar e feet of work space. T he bui ldin g was erec ted by th e Vid alia R ealt y Co. for lease to th e Stevens firm . Stockh olders of both comp an ies a rc local peop le. 
The met al sho p, which is completely stoc ked with precision equipme n t used in tool and die operation, h as a num - 
 
bel' of impor ta nt con trac ts to provid e chrome moulding or stripp ing for lea d ing m ak e au tomobiles. Other con trac ts ar c for filt ers used in cotton mill s, foil p an s for th e packagin g of ice-b ox biscui ts a nd stretch fixtures used to fa bri ca te au tomo bile p arts. 
Locati on of th e pl ant result ed fr om effor ts begun last fall by th e Vid ali a Ch am ber of Commerce. The new pl ant has been responsile for bringin g a dozen or more met al a rtizans and th eir fami lies to th e city . 
 
farms. It was fro m 7,706 to 7,756. Some 60,3 13 Georg ia fa rmers re- 
port ed other fami ly incom e excee ding th e valu e of agr icu ltura l p roducts sold last yea r, whi ch compa red with 64,4 11 at th e previou s census. 
In 1954, there were 79,331 farm operators working off their farms in the state, which was an increa se over th e 72,140 in 1949. 
Sharp declines in number of both white and non-white farm operators took place. Five years ago , there wer e 147,834 white operators and 
 
last year only 126,314, and in the number of non-whites th e decrease was from 50,357 to 39,210. 
T ena ncv is on th e decline. In 1949, th ere wer~ 84,820 ten ant fa rm ers and last yea r th ere were 58,221. Sh ar ecro ppers arc also on the wan e-the decr ea se was fr om 4 1,194 to 27,688. 
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Georgia has 1,714 farms in the soca lled No.1, economic class, that is, those that sell products va lue d at $25,000 or more. This was an increase over the 960 in 1949. 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ER CE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
D ecember 1955 
 
 INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY EXPOSITION 
 
 TO SPOTLICiHT DIXIE CiROWTH IN MAY 
 
Geor g ia and the Southeast's fab ulous commer cia l a nd indu strial development is going to be put in the spotlight of world -wid e att en tion. 
Pl ans ar e bein g co mplet ed for Dixie's first full-s cal e internation a l tr ade sho w, th e Southeastern Internation al Industri al Expositi on , to be held a t Atl anta' s Lak ewo od Park next M a y 18-25. An advisory com m ittee consisting of wellknown leaders who hav e spea rheade d the growth of this sect ion of the n ation is now pu tting finis hing to uches on the hu ge show aim ed at further stimu la ting th e progress of th e region. 
C h ai r m an of th e ex hibition's 
board is E. A. Yates, Jr., man ager of 
th e Industr ial Developme nt Di vision of t he Georgia P ower Co . D irector s inel ude: Scott Cand ler, secretary, Georgia D ep a r tm en t of Co m merce; R obert M. H old er , prominent com mercial real estate develop er ; Harold L. Perkins, vice presid ent of th e Ce n tr al of Geo rg ia Railroad , and C liffor d M . C la rke, execu tive vice presid ent, Assoc ia te d Indust ri es of Geo rgia. 
 
In vit at ion to exhibit in th e Southeastern I ntern a tional Industria l Ex po sition are now going forward to manu facturer s and di stributors in all parts of th e U nite d States and seve ra l foreig n countries. 
T HE EXH IB ITS will occu py two large bui ldin gs a nd a spa cious outd oo r plaz a a re a. The structu res will be known as th e Commer ce Bui ld ing and th e I ndustry Building. T he former will house d isp lays of finished products and services whi le th e la tter will featur e raw m at eri a ls, m a chiner y and eq uipment. The plaza will provide space for heavi er exhib its such as t ransportation, roa d bui ldin g and cons tru etion eq uip ment. 
Hi ghli ghting the pl aza will be the Them e Ce nte r of the ex pos itionan a rea of 5,000 sq ua re feet whe re in spect ac ula r lighting effect s and decora t ions will pay colorfu l tribute to the i n d u s t ri a I and comme rc ial gro wth of th e g re a t Southe ast. 
Each of th e tw o ex hibit buildings will feature a 350-foo t re d-carpete d 
 
main aisle, which will be devot ed to those firms p resenting espe cially d esigne d booths. 
 
Attra ct ive a nd novel lighting and 
 
decor will fea ture both buildings. For 
 
th e conve nience of ex hibitors a nd th e 
 
th ou sand s of bu yers wh o will a ttend, 
 
th e ex hibition m an agem ent will pro- 
 
vid e telephon e, telegr aph a nd ban king 
 
fa ciliti es, a U . S. bran ch post office, 
 
ho tel and tr an sp ortation reservation 
 
ser vices and ample p ar king and sto r- 
 
age space. 
 
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AD M ISSION will be by invitation only. The ge ne ra l public will not be ad m it ted. Exhibitor s will issue th e invitation s, a nd a n official program, devoid of ad ver tising , will be di stributed without charge. 
T he p remi er ope ning on th e evening of May 18 will be a ga la occa sion for whi ch formal inv itations will be ex te nde d to nation al , sta te and city officials, as well as to r anking m embers of th e a rme d serv ices, re p rese nta tives of for eign govern me nts a nd leading citizens of the So uthe ast. Specia l cere mo nies will be stage d for th is eve nt. 
Programs of p anel discu ssion covering subje cts of importan ce and interest to m anufa cturers and di stribu tor s will be held, and a well-rounded ca lendar of socia l even ts, includ ing a banq uet on the elosing n ight, is bein g a r ranged. Specia l a tt en tion is being given to a program for the la dies who will be in attendan ce during th e eight da y show . 
 
Florida Man Buys Adel Chair Factory 
 
T RA DE SH O W PLANNERS-Conferring on ar rangements for th e Sout heastern Interna tion al Industri al Ex position, wh ich will be held at Atla nt a's Lakewood Park next May 18-25 are, seate d, E. A. Yates, Jr. chair man , and sta nding left to ri gh t, Scott Candler and Rober t M . Holder , dir ecto rs, and Roger E. M ontg ome ry, managin g director. 
 
O scar Green , Liv e O ak , Fla., businessm an, ha s purchased the D ash -Mat Ch air Factory in Adel , and p la ns to begin soon th e expansion of th e p lant to dou ble its capacity. 
" For th e present we will con tinue to make cha irs, roc ke rs, vani ty benches and sim ilar it ems ," Mr. Green said , " bu t abou t March we hope to add sofas, sofa bed s, club ch airs and ottom an s." 
The changes will d ouble th e employment of t he plant, he said. 
 
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GE O RGIA D EPAR T M E N T OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSL ETTER 
 
December 1955 
 
Atlanta, Fulton Near Billion in Retail Sales; Chatham, Richmond, Muscogee, Bibb on Rise 
 
At lanta and Fulton County a rc fast 
 
approa ch ing th e billion dollar class in 
 
retail sales. 
 
 
 
Ret ail sales in Atl anta last yea r to- 
 
t a li ed approximately $75 1,673,000 , 
 
substan tially a hea d of all other cities 
 
in th e Sou th east. 
 
Fulton's total was $805,902,000. 
 
Includ ed in Atlanta's sales total 
 
was $735,164,000 in that part of the 
 
city located in Fulton and $ 16,509,- 
 
000 in that portion lying in DeKalb 
 
County . 
 
An alyzing a repo rt ju st issued by th e 
 
Bur eau of th e Cen sus fro m its n ati on- 
 
wide en ume ra tion of retail sales Io i 
 
1954, M erril] C. Loft on, manager of 
 
the At lan ta field offi ce of th e U. S. 
 
Dep artmen t of Commer ce, says in 
 
Gcorg ia as a whole last y?ar sales to - 
 
talled $2,953 ,926,000 . ThIS rep resen ts 
 
an increase of $850 ,753,000, or a ga in 
 
of ab out 40 per cen t, since th e last 
 
pr eviou s feder al census of 1948. 
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FIVE COUNTIES an e! cities wer e in th e $100,000,000 class sales ca tegory last yea r, wher eas tw o wer e in th at class ifica tion six yea rs ago . Fulton , Chatham, Ri ch mond, Muscogee an d Bibb Coun ties, and Atl anta, Savann ah , Aug usta, Columbus and M acon a rc now cou nting th eir sales in nine figures . 
In Fulton Co unty, in the six yea rs, sales increased from $588 ,407,000 to $805 ,902,000, a ga in of 37 per cent. I n Atlanta t hey leap ed abo ut 42.2 per cent, or from approximately $528,446,000 in 1948 to $751,673,000 in 1954. 
In Chatham, the rise was from $120,765,000 to $154 ,137,000 , up 27.6 per cent, including an advance of from $109 ,693 ,000 to $146 ,146,000, or 33.2 per cent, in Savannah. 
Ri chmond Co un ty, fro m $88 ,993,000 to $ 149,9 18,000, a rise of 68.5 p er cent , with sales in Augu sta going fr om $83,111,000 to $138,760 ,000, an incr ea se of 67 per cen t. 
Muscogee County, $9 7,40 6,000 to $ 137,367,000, up 4 1 p er cen t, includ ing a 35.9 per cen t ga in in Columbus, or from $9 2,338,000 to $ 125,513,000. 
 
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BIBB COUNTY, an increase of fr om $90,206,000 to $125,190 ,000 , a rise of 38.8 p er cent, with Macon up from 
 
$83,44 1,000 to $ 109,370,000, or 43 .1 per cent. 
In Decatur, DeKalb County, adjoining Atlanta, an increase in sales of from $20 ,490,000 to $45 ,156,000 was recorded. This rate of gain, 120.4 per cent, was one of the largest in th e Southeast. 
DeKalb's overall gain, from $53 , 540,000 to $98,518,000, was 84 per ce n t. 
T he 40 per cent increase in sales in Georgia was well above the national average of 31 per cent. 
No immedi ate br eakdown of sales in the va rious Georgia coun ties a nd cities is availa ble, but in th e state as a whole, food sales were well ahea d of a ll other lines, with automotive establishme n ts second. In both classes of comm od ities, sales exceed th e half -billion ma rk . 
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OF CONSIDERABLE significance , M r. Lofton said, is th e fact th at th e past six yea rs brought a sharp redu ction in number of retail establishme n ts in Geor gia, but substa n tial ga ins in sales in all lines of bu siness. The number of establishments d ropped from 35,614 in 1948 to 32,39 2 last year, 
 
with five lines reflectin g redu ctionsfood stores , ea ting and drinking pl aces, gen era l mercha ndise, gaso line sta tions, an d lumber, building mater ia ls, ha rdware an d farm eq uipment dealer s. 
On th e other hand, establishmen ts engaged in selling apparel and ac cessories, furniture, home furnishings and appliances, automotive supplies, drugs, miscellaneous s tor e sand " n on-store" operators reflected gai ns in numbers. 
Sal es in food stores incr eased fro m $47 1,606,000 to $675,5 17,000 in th e six-year period , ea ting a nd d rinking places, $107 ,864,000 to $ 139,870,000, ge neral mechandise, $283,443,000 to $353,539,000 , apparel a nd accessori es, $ 143,679,000 to $ 171,419,000, furniture, home furnishings and appliances, $ 109,570,000 to $ 141,922,000, a u tomotive supplies, $380,5 11,000 to $574,136,000, gaso line s e r v i c c sta tions, $120,295,000 to $222,455,000, lu mber, bui ldin g materials, hardwar e and farm equ ipme n t, $ 156,246,000 to $202,673,000, dru g and proprictor y sto res, $69,4 17,000 to $96,720,000, a nd other retai l stores, fro m $ 191,065,000 to $274,027,000. 
 
WATER LAW BODY STUDIES 
 
GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL RISE 
 
Although Georgi a's water resources have, in ge ne ra l, been ade qua te to meet th e demands m ad e up on th em , th e Georgia W at er L aw R evision Commission is looking to the future and the p ar t wa ter will play in the sta te's rapidly increasing nu mb ers of ind ustrial and comm ercial en ter p rises. 
The commission, crea ted by the Ge ne ral Assembly, is th e official agen cy charged with th e respon sibility of protecting and developing Geor gia 's water su p p ly. 
The group is now engaged in gathering fac tua l data and information needed to determine wh at law s, if an y, shou ld be reco mme nde d to th e Gen era l Assembly relative to water pollution, conservation a nd use by industry, agricultu re, municipalities and others dependant upon this vit al resource. 
The 15-man commission, a study 
 
and recommending group, is headed by Secret a ry Scott Candler, of th e Georgia D ep a rtment of Commerce as ex -officio cha ir man . Secret ar y of Agr icult ur e Ph il Campbell, D irector Fulton Lovell of th e Ga me an d Fi sh Com mission a nd D irect or T. F. Sellers of th e Dep artmen t of Pu blic H ealth, a re also ex-officio members. 
The rem aining member s, ap poin ted by Governor Griffin a ne! representing industry, farming, wild life conserva tion, fin an ce, hydro power , for estry, property development and municip al usc are: John P. Baum, Milledgeville ; Frank Etherid ge, Atlan ta ; Thad M c- 
D an iel, J esup ; n. F . M erritt, Jr., M a- 
con; Frank N eely, Atlanta ; G . F . Powers, M illedgeville ; R a I p h P r i m m , Rom e ; W . D . Sincl air, Co rd ele; Floyd Taber, Byron ; Malcom Taylor, Savannah ; Paul Weir , Atlanta. 
 
GEO R GIA D E PART MENT O F COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
D ecemb er 1955 
 
$40,000 POULTRY PROCESS PLANT OPENS IN DODGE 
A new indust ry which p romises to br ing hundreds of th ou sands of dollar s a yea r int o Dodge County has begun opera tions. 
I t is th e Dodge Coun ty Poultry Co., whi ch is occupying a newly built pl ant on th e Ch auncey Hi ghw a y, ncar Eastman a nd God win sville. The bri ck bu ilding, whi ch contains 3,000 squa re feet , was built a t a cost of $40,000. 
W. E. Boh an on and Wilmer Jump, who own th e firm, say th ey a rc beginnin g by pro cessing 20,000 to 30,000 ch ickens a week . When full producti on is reach ed, th ey exp ect to handle th ree times th at number and will emp loy 40 to 50 peopl e. 
A spec ialty of th e new pl ant will be packaged ba rb ecued ch icken, p rep ar ed by a secret p rocess. 
WADLEY EXPANDS 
Wadley M fg. Co., Wadl ey, has purch ased th e equ ipme nt of th e Midville Shirt Co., a t Midville, a nd is continu ing operation of th e second plant under th e n am e of W adl ey Mfg. Co . No .2. 
 
NEW DODGE INDUSTRY-Processing plant of the Dodge County Poultry Co. , ncar Eastman and Godwinsville, which is seen as a big boost to the poultry industry of t hat 
section.-Photo courtesy Eastman Times-Journal. 
 
NEW PLANT AT METTER Construction is underw ay at M etter 
on a lar ge pl ant for th e Pyr ofax Corp., whi ch will be used by th e firm as a tan k filling sta tion a nd bulk storage cen ter. The pl ant is locat ed on th e Central of Geor gia R ai lroad east of th e city. It is scheduled to be in operation by J a n. 1, serv ing th e M etter area with bottled gas. 
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CORNELIA PLANT ADDS Chicopee Mfg. Comp any's Lumite 
Division a t Cornelia, which manufactu res au tomobile sca t covers, is add ing 26,000 square feet to it s working a rea. The addition will provide for about 50 mor e wo rk er s. 
 
RUG MILL EXPANDS 
An expansion of 16,000 squa re feet is under construction at K atherin e Rug M ills, D alton. The addi tion will house extra equipme nt for th e carpe t dyeing a nd finishing dep artment. The firm last month celebrated it s tenth yea r of operation . 
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NEW CRISP INDUSTRY 
A new corpora tion, Sp a W aste of Georgia, bran ch of th e Sp a Waste Co., Sara toga Sp rin gs, N. Y., has chosen Cor del e as th e base of it s sou thern expan sion, VV. R . Turner, cha irma n of th e Crisp County Chamber of Commer ce' s Industri al Bureau , announ ces. 
 
U. S. CHEMICAL 
in the manufacture of paper, whitewall tires, automobile enamel, paint, tile and numerous other items. 
Governor Griffin explained th at " loca tion of th e comp any is a result of th e recen t developments of th e St ate Ports Au th ority and th e activities of th e Sava nna h Di stri ct Au thority, of whi ch A. K. D earing is chairma n of th e Committee on Industri al D evelopment." L. C. M cClurkin is Savan n ah Dist rict Aut hor ity chairman. 
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ACTUALLY, he said, negotiation s wer e sta rted with th e comp any in 1948 and it acquired a 1,600 -acre tract of land from the Savannah Di stri ct Auth ority. The fa cility h as been com plet ed a nd is employing appro xima tely 260 persons, nearly all of who m a re fro m the Sava nnah ar ea . T he pl ant is situated on th e ea st side of Savannah on th e Savannah Ri ver. 
The plant obtains ore as a raw material from Canada and India. 
Mr. Towe assured the group that 
 
INDUSTRY MARCHING TO DIXIE 
 
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the company has no intention of razing historic Fort Jackson, wh ich is a part of the plant site . 
H e revealed th at th e pl an t was designed for the production of 24,000 ton s a nnua lly of titanium dioxide, whi ch in recent yea rs h as repl aced white lead as a basi s of pigm ent for paints, both becau se of its efficienc y and it s econo my. 
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MR. TOWE declared th at th e Sava nna h site for th e pl ant "approac hes the idea l for our p urpose" . H e added: " I sha ll not ma ke a ny prediction, bu t I will confide to you th at this site was chosen and thi s pl ant was design ed with th e idea in mind th at th e growt h in dem and for tit a nium dioxide would warrant a fu rther increase in its produ cti vit y capac ity." 
It was pointed out that American Cyanamid Co. was among the first of th e la rge chemical firms to take 
 
ad vantage of the South's wealth in resources and la bor. The Savannah plant is its third facility in Georgia and 20th in the South. Within the past ten years it has built or acquired four plants in Dixie with a total employmen t of more than 1,500 and an annual payroll in excess of $6,000,000. 
In for ecasting a tremendous grow th of the che mica l industry in the South in th e next ten yea rs, American Cyanamid officials emphasized th at chemical plants a rc ideally suited to th e need s of Geor gia' s economy and th at of the South in gen eral, becau se textile manu factu ri ng is now th e principal indu st rial activity in thi s region . 
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GOVERNMENT figu res show th at th e tex tile industry purch ases mor e th an $ 1,100,000 ,000 worth of product s from th e che mical industry annu ally, and th e gro wth and p rogr ess of th ese two man ufacturing fields a re closely interlinked . 
 
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Otis Ele vat or Co. was awa rde d a a 3 1-acre tr act a t Jesup . . . Di vcrsey city hall and fire sta tion is comp leted 
 
$ 16 1,9 15 con tract for inst allati on of Corp., Macon clay manufacturin g firm , . .. Ri ch ard F. Brown has been a p- 
 
elevators in th e new nin e-story Munici- will enla rge its plant. 
 
pointed vice pr esident in cha rge of 
 
pal Building at Aug usta . . . Lif e In- 
 
George Gowd er , Ga inesv ille busi- Southern Nitrogen' s new Savanna h 
 
sur an ce Compan y of Geor gia has erec t- nessman , will erect a 22-unit mot el on plant. 
 
ed a district offi ce building in Griffin . .. Elm City plant of Call aw a y Mill s 
 
West Bro ad St . in th at city .. . A pulpwood yard has been estab lished a t 
 
Stockh old ers of West Point Co ., '"Vest Po int, have approved 
 
mMe rl~z. 
 
Co., LaGrange, celebra ted its 50th an- Blackshear . . . Cairo has acqui red a ing Wellin gton Mill s, I nc., Anderson, . 1 
 
nivers ar y .. . Inglett & Corl ey, Inc., site for its new R od denb er y M emorial S. C. with th e Georgia firm . .. Lester 
 
Augusta, has sh ipped its first for eign order, a ba g-fillin g machine cap able of 
 
Library . . . Flowery Branch's new 
 
Lab or at ori es, In c., At lanta, m anufa ctur ing che mica l spec ia lties, is building 
 
loading 40 ton s a n hour in 100-pound bags, to a firm in Durban, South Afri ca . 
G round is to be br oken next Sp ring for new fac ilities at Dobbins Air Force 
 
ROBINSON RAYON BUILDING PLANT 
 
a new plant . . . J am es H . T at e has been nam ed director of public re la tions for th e Atlanta Gas Light Co. . .. Paradi es & Co., Atlanta wholesale distributor of va rietv sto re merchand ise 
 
AT MONTEZUMA Base, Marietta, preliminar y to switch- 
ing Chamblee N aval Air Station to th at 
 
has moved to a new building. 
 
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Adairsville has dedi cated a new $25,- 
 
install ati on . The move will involv e 600 Navy, M arine Corps a nd civilian personnel . . .A new fini shin g unit has been com pleted at J effer son Mill s, J efferso n .. . Canton has a new waterworks plant. 
The Rome plant of th e Celan ese Corp. of Ameri ca is produ cing Fortison-Sfi, a new supe r-strong industri al fiber . . . Montezuma's V anta Corp. plan s a new shipping room .. . A move has been mad e to revive th e Altamaha River Development Assn., to promot e navigation on Georgia' s lar gest river .. . Belmont Shopping Center between At lanta a nd Marietta, plans an ex tensive expansion . . . Life Ins urance Compan y of Virginia has op ened a dis- 
 
R obinson Rayon Co., In c., of Pawtu cket, R . I., has made ar ran gem ent s for th e opera tion of a br an ch pl ant to mak e novelt y twisted ya rns in M ontezum a, Ga . 
R aymond F . Franks, p resident, a nnounces th at work on th e building is underw ay, th e constr uc tion con trac t h av ing been a wa rded to Cornell-Young Co., of 'M acon. Plant equipme n t was purch ased fro m W hit i n M achine Wor ks, Whitinsville, M ass., a nd othe r supp liers. 
The Georgia operation will be addi tion al producti on for th e company a nd will not affec t Robinson's ope ra tions in th e North, Mr. Franks said. ' 
 
000 citv hall that was built with a bequ est f{'om th e lat e W. A. G raham . . . Mrs. Ebba Ol sen has ope ned th e Canton Ba kery a t Canton . . . Crisp Coun ty voters approved a $195 ,000 schoo l bond issue . . . T he 16-unit Qua il M ot el is open a t Bla kely . . . C leveland has voted bond s to constru ct a city hall and fir e sta tion ga rage .. . Cox Hatch er y, Ca lho un, is in ope ra tion with a 65,000 -egg in cub at or . . . The Na vy has purch ased 200 acres a t Byron as part of its prop osed 1,600- aer e sup ply de po t location. 
Sp ad e Co nstruction Co ., Savan nah, will erec t a 92-unit hou sing proj ect , to be ca lled Skvland T errace . . . Construc tion is ~nd erw av a t R om e on a 
 
tri ct office building a t Savannah . . . 
 
The M ontezum a pl ant will operate $ 1,100,000 addition to th e F loyd Coun- 
 
Natha n Friedl ander will erect a sho p- under th e supe rv ision of D ennis E. ty H ospit al . .. Na tural gas has been 
 
pin g center in Valdosta . . . The St at e Sh ea , Jr., as residen t ma nager , an d turn ed on in Statesboro . . . Hawkins- 
 
Hi ghw ay Dep a rtment has b I' 0 ken Frank S. M cCl ellan d , Jr. , as supe r- ville voted a $100,000 han d issue for 
 
ground for a new division building on intendent. 
 
severa l city projects. 
 
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GEO RG IA DEPT. O F COMME RCE 100 State Ca pitol 
 
* MA RV IN GRIFFIN Gove rno r  BO ARD OF COM M ISS IONERS 
 
EMO RY L. BU TLER C h a irman 
 
Y. F. GEESLIN 
 
HOKE PETERS 
 
BEN J ESSUP 
 
T R AI\Il"IELL M ciNTYRE 
 
* SCOT T CANDLE R Sec reta ry 
NE LSON M . SHI P P Assistan t Sec re tary 
 
FRED D. MOO N Editor 
 
Vo l. 7, No .3 
 
J anuar y, 1956 
 
J a n lIar y, 1956 
 
GRIFFIN LAUDS 
ROBERTA FOLK ' ,~:FOR NEW PLANT 
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;..:, T he R oberta Mfg. Co., $500,000 . ~hi ld ren 's ga rmen t plant whi ch was es- 
tabl ished with comm unity assistance, ; wa s cited by Gov. M an'i;l Griffin as 
an "e xce llen t exa m p le" of local initi ative in G eor gia's surging industrial . growth. 
I n dedica tion exercises a t th e plant, whi ch cm plovs 300 and is a lread y consider ing expansion, th e Governor cre dited its location to th e activ ity of " p rog ressivc-m indc d citizens." 
H e recount ed th at through the Crawfor d Co unty Development Corp ., h ead ed by W. T. J ones, citizens financed th e plant bu ilding and leased it to th e op er a tor s. 
COVER PICTURE 
Archi tect's sketch of th e $2,000 ,000 plant whi ch is to be bu ilt a t H artwell for th e M onroe Auto Equipment Co ., of M onroe, Mi ch. The plant, located on a 20-acr e site, will conta in 1,000,000 sq uare feet of floor spa ce and will em ploy 300 work ers a t a payroll of $ 1,000,000 a yea r. Wells and T a ylor, Atl anta, a re a rchite cts on th e p lant, and W esley & Co. , Atl anta, is gene ral contractor. T he plant is scheduled to be comp leted an d in op eration ab out May 1. 
 
CAMOUFLAGE AN D CUR IOS ITY-Aware of how perfectly his soft coloring blend s with th e pin es and palmettoes, Mr. Buck holds his flight long enoug h to inspect the camera th at Ed F riend, not ed nature ph otographer , is aiming at him . When the shutte r clicked, the deer was gone with th e wind. The scene is ncar Woodbine in Ca mde n Coun ty, a sect ion noted for wildlife and hun ting. 
 
TOURIST IRAVEL IN GEORGIA 
 
UP 300/0 AND STILL GAINING 
 
M oto r travel in Geor gia was up 30 per cent in th e p ast year a nd is still ga ining . 
The nation al touring bureau of th e Am eri can Autom obi le Assn . say s th at th e sta te's popularity as a scenic, hi stori ca l a nd ind ustrial a tt raction is a ttested to by th e fact th at th e AAA is a nnua lly routing 5,000 ,000 tr avel er s through At lanta as a result of th eir c. 'sire and requests. 
The orga niza tion says th e trend is g rowing for to urists from t h e East , Midw est and as far aw av as th e Pacific Coast to ask to be rou ted thro ug h Georgia. T h is mov em ent of "Ame ri- 
 
cans on \Vheels" makes it vitally import ant th at motor cour ts, hot els and other tourist a ccommo da tions be im p rov ed constan tly. 
The Am eri can tourist is both "sma r t a nd choosy," a nd onl y th ose motel and motor cou r t opera tors and bu sinessmen in general who keep a breas t of th e tim es may expec t to profit, th e AAA adds. 
An idea of th e importan ce of vacation a nd winter tourists, as well as th e weekend a ut oists, is seen in figures wh ich sho w that th ese t ravelers spend upward of $ 15,000,000,000 annually in the U nited States. 
 
G EO R G I A D E PARTM ENT OF C O M M E R C E 
 
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 N EWS LET T E R 
 
J a nu a ry, 1956 
 
$150 MILLION PUT IN PLANTS DURING YEAR~ GRIFFIN TOLD 
 
By SCOTT CANDLER Secretary, Ge orgia D epartment of Commer ce 
 
( C onte nts of t his ed ition of NE WS L E T T E R we re co m p iled largely fr om t h e Georg ia D ep art m ent of C om m er ce's an nual report to G overn or M aruin Gr iffin ) . 
During 1955, Georg ia reaped th e richest harvest in history fr om industry and tourism, the two grea t sources of prosperi ty which are d irect charges of th e Georgia D ep artment of Commerce. 
 
Close to $300,000,000 in t o u r i s t moncv was left in th e sta te bv the es- 
tima t~d 10,000,000 visitors who cross- 
ed our borders. T he phen omen al growth of our in - 
du strial empire continued apace. With some 8,000 pl ants now in opera tion, Georgia stands a t th e foref ro n t of the ind ustrialized Southeast. 
More than 250 new industries, la rg e and sm all, began op erations or wer e announced during th e year. 
They represent capital inv estment ex ceeding $ 150,000, 000 . This ex penditure is for new facilities and new equipment and doe s not in clude expansion of existing factories. Neither does it include pow er dams, hydro-electric plants nor a wide range of non-manufacturing proj ect s. T he amount of ca pital expende d in expand ing and re-eq uipping existing pl an ts during the yea r is not ye t ava ila ble, but indications a re it will excee d th e tot al spent for thi s purpose in 1954. T he 1954 expenditu re for expa n sion and new equipmen t was $ 150,000 ,000 , accord ing to Fed eral estimates. 
O ur manufact uring p lants now give regular employmen t to about 350,000 Geor gian s. 
Som e 15,000 new jobs wer e created by our indu stri al expa nsion in 1955. 
 
in Wayn e County, is costing $25, 000 ,000. 
A new DeKalb County p lant represents an outlay of $6,000,000 . 
Chatham County announced four multi-mi llion do l l a I' installa tions during th e yea r, and Gilmer , Flo yd , M eriwether and Glynn Counties added $ 1,000,000 operations. 
Fu lton Coun ty reported esta blishment of 37 new pla nt s during the yea r. 
GO V. MARVIN GRIFFIN 
 
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D URING THE PAST YEAR, man- 
 
uf a ctu ring alone pu t a billion a nd a 
 
qua rt er dollar s in to circu la tion throu gh 
 
wages a nd salaries. 
 
T he tot al va lue of our man ufac- 
 
tur ed products is nca r $4,000,000,000 
 
an nua llv. The current va lue of Geor - 
 
gia's in'dust rial p la nts, conse rva tively 
 
estima ted, is in excess of $3,500,000,- 
 
000 . 
 
Amo ng our industrial newcom ers, 
 
one plant, th e second unit of Rayo- 
 
nier 's hu ge wood cellulose operation 
 
They represent ca pital inv estment of $23,870,000 a nd mean 1,337 new jobs, acco rd ing to Frank Sh a w, engineerma na ger of th e Industrial Bureau of th e Atla nta C hamber of Commerce. 
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THE CO BB COUNTY Chamber of Commer ce's secre ta r y-ma nager, J ames L. Dani ell, rep orted inv est men ts excecd ing $ 1,000 ,000, " not including a nu mber of va lu able sm aller p lants." 
M 0 u n t a i n 0 u s Lumpkin and Towns Counties, which had never 
 
had a mod ern industry, both acqu ir ed important fa ctories in 1955. 
Naturall y, most of our industries have been sma ll in size. But, large or small, th ey a re highl y diversified a nd wid ely sca tte re d. This makes a healthy situa tion in that it enables man y of ou r rural communi ties to integrate industry with th eir tradi tional vocation, agriculture. 
I t is in ter esting to no te th at the la test Census of Agr icult ure conduc ted by the U . S. D epartment of th e Census shows th at some 60,000 far m fami lies in Georgia now supplem en t th eir farm income with mon ey earned off th e farm . 
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I ND USTRIALIZAnON also accoun ts in la rge measure for the grea t surge in Georgia per ca pita income. I n 1930, when Georgia wa s still p ri ncipally a n ' agri cult ural state, ou r per cap ita incom e was $274. Tod ay the per cap ita is at $ 1,300. The ra te of increase over th e tw enty-five yea r period is one of the lar gest in th e nation. 
Important to Georgia's industrial growth and progress are th e industrial development corporations now activ e in more than 100 counties, cities and towns. Charter ed under local leadership and financed with local capital, th ese community stockholder groups are encouraging home industries to establish or expand as well as lending every assistance possible to firms in other sections that ma y be inter ested in establishing branch operations in Georgia. 
T he R ockwell Mfg. Co ., Pittsbu rgh , Pa ., na tion a lly known manufacturer of meters and machine tools, is installing a bran ch operation a t Statesboro where a pl ant was erected by th e Bulloch Co un ty D evelopment Co rp . T h rou gh the efforts of the C rawfor d County Development Corp., wh ich erec ted a plant bu ilding at R obert a, an ea stern ga rmen t m anufa ctu rer as leasee recently began opera tions with a p ayroll of severa l hu nd red worker s. These arc but two examp les of new industry set in m ot i on by local commun ities th rou gh out th e sta te. 
( T u rn to pa ges 4, 6, 7 and 8 for ot her p ortions of C om m er ce S ecretarv S co tt C and ler' s rep ort t o G ov . iH arv i;1 G riffin on G eorgia's p rog ress in 1955 .) 
 
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G EO RG I A DE PARTM ENT O F C O M M ERC E 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
Jan uary, 1956 
 
'Golden Age' Phrase Keynotes Georgia Drive For New Industry, More Tourists During Year 
 
A ca p tion whi ch appeared in NEWSLETTER last J anuary keynoted th e Georgia Department of Commer ce' s activities through out 1955, Secr etary Scott Candler sa id in h is annua l rep or t to Gov ernor Griffin . 
T he caption, heading a rev iew of the state's ad vances in a ll fields of ende avor during th e 1939-1954 p eriod, r ead " 1955 Find s Ge org ia in a Go lde n Age ." 
"Georgia 's Go lde n Age" was the them e of the D ep artmen t of Co mmerce's national ad vertising and promot ion a l ca mpaign in 1955, Sec re ta ry C a ndler sa id. 
Ad s emp has izing thi s sloga n, m an y of th em printed in color, wer e ai mecl at both industry and tourists. Thcv ap pea red in suc h publicati on s as FOl:tunc, Busin ess W eek, H olid a v, N ati on's 
Business, Fi eld s: Strea m ; . Outdoor 
Li fe, Na tiona l Geogra phi c, U. S. News & W orld R ep or t, Co ronet, a ncl va rious trade a nd spe cia lty magazin es. 
OTHER ADS CA R RY ING th e same thought wer e presented in th e New York Times, J ou rn al of Com mer ce, \Vall Street J ou rn al ancl th e da ily press of C hicago, Cleveland ancl Detroit. The depa r tment crossed t he At lan tic to insert a " Golde n Age" ad vertisem en t in th e Londo n Boa rd of Trad e J ou rn a l. 
F ro m its 1955 adv ertisin g ca mpai gn , Mr. C andler sa id, th e dep artment received some 50,000 respon ses. In rep ly, 300,000 p ieces of literatu re wer e mail ed p ropaga ting Geo rgia's a dva n tages to tourists, new in du stry, new ca pital and new citize ns. 
In th e industry sec tion of th e ca mpaign , e\'ery prospect wa s a nswered with a per son al letter , and, in man y cases, direct con tact was esta blished with th e pr ospect. The department' s indu strial representatives m ad e persona l ca lls on hundred s of indust ri alists in th e North and East. These prospect s wer e furnished wit h su rve vs of Geor gia 's labor, resources, utiliti es, tra nspor ta t ion, et c, 
I n many cases spec ia l surveys wer e 
 
undertaken to pr oj ect prospects' individua l requirem ents. With th e co-op era tion of th e D ep artments of L abor a nd R evenue, th e St ate G eologist and othe r stat e departments a nd offi cial s, Georgia' s adv antageou s labor pic tur e, eq uitable ind ust rial tax struc tu re and natura l resources were em phasized at every opportunity, 
 
T he Department of Commerce has received lett ers fr om a number of nationally kn own firm s that have esta blishe d branch manufact uring plant s in th e sta te, in whic h th eir exec u tives set for th the advantages th ey found in Geo rg ia. Seve ral of these lett ers- from East ma n K odak, A rmstrong Cork, J ohn Deere, G lidden a nd others-were incorpor ated in th e na ti onal advertising ca mpa ign. R ep rod ucti ons of ads in th is series also are enclosed in correspo nde nce wit h ind ustrial prospects. 
 
R ecently, t he Depa r tmen t of Com- 
 
mcr ce has exp er imented wit h sma ll, 
 
di rectl y-word ed indu stry-seek ing ad s 
 
insert ed in th e met rop olita n press of 
 
th e North and East , The respon se to 
 
th is ine xpensive t y p e of ad ver tising has been a mazing, I n one three-w eek 
 
period 75 inquiries wer e received from 
 
indu stri al firm s exp ressing interest in 
 
moving to Georgia or establishing 
 
br an ch p lants in thi s sta te'. 
 
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THE S E SMALL ads, insert ed " blind, " outline the advan tages offe red a new indu strv bv an unna med Georgia sma ll town , T he town is hypothe- 
 
tical ; th e description presented in th e ad fits severa l sma ll Geor gia town s. An swers to th e ad arc forwarded to a selec ted town whi ch best meet s th e requirem ents spec ified by the prospect , a nd wh ich is known to us to be dil igen tly seeking an ind ustry. Only on e town receives th e prospect. However, if for an y rea son the town designated is un ab le to fu lfill th e prospect's desires, th e na me of the prosp ect is passed along to a no ther comm un ity. 
 
T his met hod of bringing tow ns a nd industria l prospects together is pro ving high ly sa tisfac tory . T he D epartment of Co mme rce sta nds read y to re nde r a ny serv ice possible to either or both pa rties, but th e responsibility of the negoti a tion s rests with the tow n a nd its p rospect. 
 
T ow ns an d com mu nities whi ch hav e 
 
local deve lopment corpora tions or sim- 
 
ilar g roups for med to promo te indus- 
 
try. especia lly are expressing sa tisfa c- 
 
tio n with th is method of contacting new prospects. M ore th an I00 G eo rg i~ 
 
to wns or coun tics now hav e develop- 
 
men t corpo ra tions a nd th e Dep a rtment 
 
of Comm erce is enco u raging th e for- 
 
mation of othe rs. These g roups arc 
 
com posed of local lea der s wh o, wit h 
 
their own funds or fun ds obta ined 
 
from the sa le of stock . assist new in- 
 
dustrv Iinan cia llv and otherw ise. in 
 
loca ting in th e community . L ocal 'pa r- 
 
ticipa tio n in new ind ustry th rou gh in- 
 
d ustria l corpora tions is p aying good 
 
d ividend s in manv comm unities in 
 
Geo rgia , 
 
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C HUGG ING DOW N THE R I V ER--The Ca pt ain R eggie M. D al es, owne d by M erry Brothers Bri ck & T ile Co ., Aug usta, ma kes a p re tty picture as she plow s down the Sa vannah R iver with a cargo of bri ck s.-Phot o Co urtesy Aug usta C it izens' R eview . 
 
G EO R G I A DE PARTMENT OF C O M M ER C E 
 
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.Janua ry, 1956 
 
RECORD HIGH IN ALL FIELDS SEEN 
 
AS GEORGIA BUSINESS ENTERS 1956 
 
When the Federal go vernmen t' s final figures on t he business economy of Ge org ia for 1955 are tabulated, which will b e some time this sp ring, indications are they will reflect the highest level of business operations of record in the st ate . 
 
Meanwhile, bu siness authorities arc agreed that a ll signs point to still higher marks in the twelve months to come. 
 
A preliminar y 1955 co m p ila t ion made by M erril1 C . Lofton , ma nage r of th e Atlanta field off ice of th e U . S. D ep artment of Com me rce, sh ows th at su ch segme n ts of G eor gi a 's industri al a c tivity as fin ancin g, agricu lt u re, con struc tion and t ra n sp ortation sa iled in to th e n ew yea r on th e cres t of a high 
 
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DEPOSITS IN BANKS, NIr. L of- 
 
ton sa id , a re ex pec te d to to p th e tw o 
 
bil1 ion dollar ma r k in th e fin a l figures, 
 
loa ns a n d di scounts w ill be well oyer a 
 
bil1 ion do lla rs, a nd chec king ac co u n ts 
 
a rc likel y to be u sed to the ex te n t of 
 
some $21,500,000,000. 
 
Cash receipts of farmers for liv estock and crop products will ex ceed th e $600,000,000 level , the predi ction showe d, and n early 2,000 new busin esses will be incorporated in t he sta te . 
 
Aro u nd three quarters of a mi llion telephones will be in operation among bu sin ess firms and resid ent ia l users. 
 
' Vor king in t h e state's manufacturing plan ts in turning out the m illions of d ollars worth of go ods will be n earl y 350,000 em p loyees. 
 
N ea rly 700,000 ,000 pounds of beef , vea l and po r k will be produced in co m me rcia l sla ugh tering plants. 
 
F ro m com me rcia l ha tcheries will come nearly 200 .000.000 ba by ch icks to lead the U nite d S t~ t cs a gai~ in that ph a se of the p oultry-p rodu cti on indus- 
t rv. 
 
GEO RG IA W ILL AGAIN lead the na tion in p rodu ction of b ro ilers in 1955, topping its a ll-time record of 154 ,4-71 bro ilers p roduced in 1954 with a re-t urn on them o f $ 10 1,48 7,0 00 . 
Railroads serving th e area will 
 
SHA R P IS THE WORD-For both th e plant and th e product of U n ion Cutlery Co., Inc., Dawson ville , which manufactures po cket kniv es, carving sets and other cu tle ry it cms under th c K ab ar trademark. Photo shows but on e sect ion of th e larg-e plant. 
 
realize well over a bi llion do llars in fr eight revenue. 
Airlines arc exp ected to carry more than 12,000,000 revenue passengers and 34,000,000 ton -m iles of fr eight and express. 
Elect ric en erg y produced fo r in du st ri al and utili ty purposes will run wel1 above th e 7,000,000,000 kilo watt -hour ma rk , thus esta blish ing an al l-time high in th at di vision of the sta te's industry. 
T he So ut h At la n ti c region in whi ch Georgia is loca ted wi ll usc more than 11,000,000 co rd s of p u lpwood in its p a per produ ct ion o pera tions, and produ ction and sh ip me n ts of sou the rn pine lu m ber from Southern Pine Association m em be r p lan ts a lo ne w ill exceed 100,000 ,000 feet. 
More th a n a hund red m il1ion dolla rs worth of busin ess wi th firms in foreign cou n t ries w ill be d on e, div id ed a lmost eq u a lly in to ex po rt s a nd im por ts. 
 
IN THE FI ELD of co nst ru ction. nearl y 15,000 build ing permi ts w ili have been issu ed in m et ropolitan a re a s of th e state for new dwelling units, an d th e value of new bu ild in g op er a tions w ill run well over th e $ 100,000,000 ou t lay. E m p loym en t in con trac t con str uc tion wi ll be upward s of 5 7,000. 
Employm ent remained sta ble in th e st a te last vea r. In addition to a su bsta n tia l ris~ in number of manu facturing work er s, F ed eral and sta te agen cies re porte d a sha rp drop in number of p ersons receiving unem p loy men t com pe ns a tion . 
I n th e trade Iicld , m er chants rep ort ed booming sa les. R eta il transaction s wer e wrl l u p in th e m et ropolit a n area s, and d epartmen t sto re t rad in g was cspccia llv affecte d, a ll a reas record ing sharp in cr eases oyer 1954. Wholesal e 
trade in 1955 wa s su bs ta n tia lly u p oyer 
1954, wi th a ll lines of bu sin ess p a rti- 
cipa ti ng in th e ga ins . 
 
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G EORG IA D EPARTMENT O F C O ':vEvIE RC E 
 
 N EWS L ETTER 
 
NEW INDUSTRIES IN 
 
Following are new ind ustries which 
77 began op erations or were a nnounced in 
Geo rgia during 1955. T hey includ e new plants record ed by th e Industnal Development Division of th e Geo rgia Power Co ., plus new plan ts na med by local C ha mb ers of Co mmerce, ut ility firms, ra ilroad s, mu nicipal offi cia ls and othe rs in a sta te-wide SUITe v cond ucted by t he Geor gia D epartment of Commer ce. 
AAA Con cr et e Produ cts Co., Albanv, Concr et e Prod ucts. 
/ ../\A Sheet M etal Co., Atlan ta , Shee t M et a] W or k. 
Ab bev ille M fg. Co ., Abbeville, Ap parel. 
Adams, R oy, C lev ela nd , F eed . Allen Sa usa ge Co ., Carrollton, Sa u - 
sage . All-Star Knitwear. Griffin . Socks. Alma Mfg. Co., Broxton , Apparel. Alsobrook Lumber C o ., Newn an , 
L u m b e r. Am erican Cyana mid Co ., Sa va n na h, 
Titanium Dio~idc . Am er ican Poult rv & Feed Co ., 
Ga inesville. M ea t Pl:od ucts. An de rso n, B. 1. Gra in Eleva tor Co ., 
F itzgera ld, Feed . Arnold, Pa ul C ., Adcl, Cab inets . Artcraft Pr ess, Atlanta, P rin ting . Artcx Co ., Atlanta, Signs . Athen s Mil ling Co., At hen s, F eed. Atl anta Seat ing Co., At lanta, Fur- 
ni ture. Atlanti c Engin eering Co ., Bruns- 
wick, Concr et e Products. At"la n tie Industries, Savan na h, :t\'fetal 
Produ cts. Austell Box Board Corp ., Au stell, 
Box Boa rd. Awn ings, I nc., Atlanta, Awnings . 
B s. 13 Seed s. FITd Co ., Grr-cn sboro, 
Fr ed . Bald win Garmen t ~Ifg . Co. , Bald - 
win , Appa rel. 
 
Bamboo Tic-A vTac, Dou glasville, Bamboo Fen cin g, Novelties, Fi shing Rod s. 
 
Bass & Co., Co lumb us, Lu mb er. 
 
Beacon Ru g Co ., Car ters ville, C henille Rugs. 
 
Beck & G reen M a tt ress Co. . Mil- 
 
ledgeville, M attresses. 
 
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Ben son 's Bak er y, Bogart, Fo od Product s. 
 
Bcrvcn Southern M ills. Dalton . Ch e- 
 
nille Prod ucts. 
 
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Bio-Lab, I nc., Decat ur . D isinf ect an Is, Sanit ary Supplies. . 
 
Blak clv M fg. Corp., Bla kely, Ap parel. " 
Bra dley Plywood Co rp ., M acon , Plywood . 
I~ran ch & Co ., Baxley, M eat Pr od uct s. 
Bra ntl ey-L an ier L u III b e l' Co . , Sw a insboro, Lu mber. 
Brookhav en W ood Prod ucts, Co lumbu s, Furniture. 
Brook s County H osiery M ill, Quitman . Hosicrv . 
Brurnbv Knitti ng Mi lls, I nc., Young H a rri s, U nde rwea r. 
Bucca neer Boa t Co ., M a riet ta, Sa il Boa ts. 
Buen a Vi sta Broiler Pl an t, Buen a V ista. Pou lt rv P roducts. 
Builoch Paper Co ., Decat ur , Paper Produ cts. 
Butler. A. R .. Byromville. Lumber. C ak el{1aster s,' Inc., Atlanta, Bak ery Pr od ucts. Carling Brewing Co., Atlanta, Beer. C aro lina M achine T ool Co ., Atl anta, Pr ecision M achi ncrv. Ca rt er. ' Villia m ' Co ., T homaston , Kn itw ea r. C en tra l Packin g Co ., Sa nde rsville, Food Products. C hampion Ven t Corp., Avo nda le, Awni ngs. 
Cherokee Mfg. Co., W inder, Appa rel. City Packin g Co ., Swainsbor o, M eat Product s. Cl abun IV[fg. Co., Cla yt on , Shirts. C lem ents, A. G . Co., M oul trie, M etal Pro du cts. C a a s t a I La bora tories, Sav an na h, C lean ing Co mpound. Cobb M et al Produ cts Co ., Smyrn a, Aw n ing s. 
C ollege Pa rk M fg. Co ., Atlan ta , Wo od Prod ucts. 
Co llegiat e Pr ess, A tlanta, P rinting. Co llins Corp. of Geor gia, Vidalia, Food Products. Cornelia G arment Co., C ornelia , Fitted Crib Sh eet s. 
Cornelia Po ultry Processing Plan t, Corn elia, Po ultry Processing. 
Cracker Aspha lt Co ., Do ug lasv ille, Asp ha lt Produ cts. 
Cres ton Mill s, Swain sboro, App arel Crowe Pri nting I nk Co ., St. M arys, Ink. C una rd M ills, Inc., Forsyth , Cotton Twine. 
Dacula Sp orts ,Vca r, Dacul a, J ackets, 
T r o u ser s. 
Dad a nd Lad Slacks, Cumming, S la cks . 
 
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- GEORGIA Dalton Can dlewic k, I nc., R oyston , Candlewick Products. 
Davenport Ho siery M ills, Ellijay, Hosier y. 
Davis Cas ket Co ., Ameri cu s, Cas kets. Da wson Co m press & Sto rag e Co ., Dawson, Fertilizer, Co tto n Gin. Dee's L a tex Co ., Dalton, Adhesives. Del-C ook L umber Co. , Adel , L umber. DeM ari o J ewelry Enterprises I nc., Fort Gain es, H an d-made J ewelry. 
Demorest Broom ' Va rks, Demorest, 
Brooms . D ixie Pri de M ills, I nc., Flowe ry 
Bra nch , Feed . Do dge County C itizen, Eastm an , 
Newspa per , Prin ting. Dodge C ounty Poultry Co., Ea stman, 
Poult ry Processing. Douglas & Lom ason Co ., Carro llton, 
M etal Aut o Trim. Dou glas & Lom ason Co., N ewn an , 
M etal Auto Parts. Du Pont, E.I. de N em ours & Co ., 
Tucker, Paint . D u I' a l l P I' a d u c t s C o ., At 1an t a, 
S c re en s. Dvc Sh eet M et al Products Co., 
At hens, Sheet M eta l W orks. Eastman Mfg. C o., Eastman, Skirts. Edison Vault C o., Edison, Burial 
V a u l t s. Elberton M fg. Co. , Elberton , Wo - 
men 's Blouses. Eld er Sc ree n & Supply C o., College 
Park, Scr een s. Ellis Publish ing Co ., Atlan ta, P ub- 
lish ing. E ntris Sa usa ge Co. , Alpharetta, Sa u- 
sag e . Eshelman , J oh n , V. & Sons Co ., 
C ham blee, F eed . Fabro, I nc., Athens, Dog Fo od . Faircloth & Sons Variet y Works, 
Cairo, Boats, L awn Furniture, Cabinets. Farm Feed & Supply Co., Monroe, 
Feed . Farm & I ndu strial Che m ical Co. , 
Sm yrn a, Ch em ica ls. Ferguson Feed M ill, Dawson , Feed , 
Peanut Processing. Flemi ng & Son Co. , Atlanta, Boxes. Foster Su pp ly Co ., Th om asville, 
Plumbi ng F ixtur es. F ran klin Mfg. Co., Fra nk lin, I nf a nt s' 
and Childr en 's Apparel. Fulghum, O . T . Lumber C o., Wad- 
ley, Lumber. Gail', R obert Co ., I n c., At lanta, Pa- 
per Carton s. G assaw a y, C . B., C um ming, Feed . 
 
 N EWS L ET T ER 
 
J an ua ry, 1956 
 
 PLANTS, PAYROLLS, PROSPERITY 
 
Genera l Lat ex Co ., Dalton, Lat ex Products. 
Gene's Va riety Sho p, Cairo, Cabinet s. 
Georgia Flush D oor Co ., At lanta, Doors. 
Geor gia K nitwea r Co ., Atla nta, Ap parel. 
Georgia Slacks Co ., La wrenceville, M en 's Sportswear. 
Georgia Vault Service Co ., Tucker, Burial Vaults. 
Cibson- Homans Co ., Co nyers, Pain t. Glen n Co ncre te Co ., St. M a rys, Co ncrete Prod ucts. Glennville Baker y, Glennville, Bakery Prod ucts. G ray Provision Co ., G ray, M eat Pa ckin g . Grova nia Groves, In c., Perry, F eed . H ab ersham M etal Pr od ucts Co ., Co rnelia, M etal Door Fr am es. H a mp ton T ext ile Co. , H am pton , I n fants' Wea r. H a rris M ach ine & T ool Works, M arietta, Tools an d Dies. H awes, Allen Mfg. & Sp ecialty Co. , Atlanta, T oys. H azelh urst Mfg. Co ., V idalia D ivision , Vidalia, Brassieres. Henson Mfg. Co., M onroe, Work C loth ing . 
H uber, J. M . Co ., M acon, I nk . 
Hu nt & Co. , M adi son , P rinti ng. Huttig Sash & D oor Co ., Atlanta, Doors, W ind ow F rames. H yers Mi lling Co ., Patterson , F eed. Ideal By-P rod ucts Co ., Lawren ceville, Ferti lizer. Ideal R oller Co mpany, Cha mblee, Print ing R ollers. Inl and Co nta iner Corp., R ome, PapCI' Board Boxes. Intern ati onal Lat ex Co rp. , Ne wnan, Foundati on Ga rme nts. I nt ern ational Lat ex Co rp ., M an ch cstel', Fo un dation Ga rments. J a pco of Atlan ta , Atla nta , D oors. j cffreys-M cEl rath L umb er Co ., J effersonville, Lumber. J ohns-M a nville Co rp ., Savannah, Asphal t R oofing. 
J ord a n Sheet M etal Works, M acon, Fabricated M etal Prod ucts. 
J ustrite Envelope M fg. Co ., Atla nta, E n velo p es. 
K alstre M fg. Co ., Smy rn a, Plastics. 
K ellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., Atla nta, Pan els. 
Kugel, J. L. & Sons, Atl anta, Win- 
dow Shades. 
 
K ylan Co rp., Brunswick, R esin Produc ts . 
Ladd Lime Produ cts Co ., I nc., Cartersville, Li me. 
LaFayette M ills, I nc., LaFayett e, T extiles. 
Lama r Brick Co ., Barnesville, Brick. Lee, F ran k W ., H iawassee, Cabinets. Lee, H . L. Co ., Chamblee, Overalls, \ York Clothes. L ind e Air Prod ucts Co ., Alba ny, Com pressed Gas es. Linway M fg. Co. , Palmetto, Textiles. Li th o Co lor Co rp ., Atla nta , Lithogra phy . Lord L um ber Co ., T oombsbor o, Lumber . M achine T ool & En gin e Co. , Lithoni a, Fa rm M achi nery. M ar bleseal Pr odu cts, In c., Chamblee, \ Vaterproof Compo un ds. M cArthur Sept ic T ank Co ., Smyrn a, Tanks, D ra ins, Traps. M cDaniel, C. A., Ch amblee, Toys. M cl.ronough Pow er I mplement Co ., M cDonou gh, Power M ow ers, M cDuffie, E. F ., Carn esville, Feed . Mc M illan Stav e Co., Lawren ceville, Barrel Stav es, H eads. M elnor l\H g. Co ., I nc., Fitz gerald, Wire, l'vIetal Nov elties. M etal Corosion Control Co ., Atla nta, M etal P rodu cts. M etter M fg. Co ., M etter, Women 's Blou ses. Mill er's D ress Factory, Baxley, Appar el. Mill er Western Wea r, Baxley, Western C lothes . M oss Hi ll Dairy Co. , Ri ch land, Dairy Produ cts, Icc Cream . M onroe Auto Equipment Co ., H a rtwell, Au tomob ile Pa rts. M ount Vern on M fg. Co ., M ount Vern on, T rou sers. M or gan Co ., Atla nta, Au tomobile Pa rts. M a y, Charles, I nc., G reensboro, Appar el. Metal Pr od ucts D ivision , T hompson I nd ustries, Va ldosta , M etal Stamping . M ad ison M illing Co. , M adison, Feed . 
M assey, Forrest, M a rt in, Concrete Pro ducts . 
Nationa l Contain er Co rp. , Atlan ta , Paper Containers. 
Nationa l Gypsum Co ., Savannah, Wall Board . 
Nebraska Co nsolida ted M ills Co ., Tunnel Hi ll, Feed . 
Neo bel, Inc., Atl anta , M en' s Sh ir ts. 
 
No la nd Co., Inc., D ecatur , I rrigation Equipmen t. 
Nunn Bet ter Cabine t Co ., M a riett a, TV Cabinets. 
Ober ma n l\H g. Co ., V aldosta, Du nga rees. 
O lson-Montgomery, I nc., Bru nswick, Boats . 
Pa n Coatings, I nc., Atla n ta , M etal T reat m en t. 
Pa ramou nt C he mical Co ., I nc., Co lumbus, Sani ta ry Su pplies. 
Patterson Milling Co ., Patterson , Feed . 
Pattillo L umbe r Co., D eca tur, L um be r. 
Penf ield Che nille Co., Ad airsville, Rugs an d Sp rea ds. 
Perfecti on Door Co ., J on e sb or o , D oor s. 
Perfection I nd ust ries, I nc., Wayncsboro, H ouseh old Applia nces. 
Person's \ Va rehouse, Talbo tto n, Feed. Pilch er J . L . & Sons, M eigs, Feed. Pine Tree Co., Dahlonega, Tuftin g Yarn. Plywood Products, Toccoa, Plywood . Powers, Ed L. Contracting Co. , Cairo. Co nc rete Products. Pre~ision Provision Co ., Smy rna , M etal Pr odu cts. Presley & V au ghn , Toccoa , Feed . Pr estressed Concrete of Ga ., I nc., Co llege Pa rk, Co ncrete Produ cts. Progressive E nterprises, In c., Waycross, T ractor Parts. Purvis, A. V ., Ala pa ha, Feed . R . & W . Awni ng & Scr een Co. , Sopert on , Awnings. R ayoni er, In c., J esup, Wood Cel lulose. R ead dick Building Supply Co., St. M ar ys, Lumber. R ed H at Feed Mi lls, Tunnel H ill, F eed. R eynold s Drapery S hop, Ca i ro, Draperies. Ri vers Trailer Co., L t., Augusta , T railers. R ober ta M fg. Co., R oberta, Dresses. R obinson R ayon Co. , M on tezum a, Synthet ic Yarn. Rockwell Mfg. Co ., Statesboro, M eters, Tools. R oh r Aircraft Corp., Wind er, Air craft Engines. 
R ou nd t ree, G . M. Lumber Co ., Adel , Lu mber. 
R ub berm asters, Inc., Atla nta , Prin ting Pl ates. 
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GEO RG IA DEPAR TMENT OF CO M M ERC E 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
J anua ry, 1956 
 
MORE INDUSTRIES, PROSPERITY 
 
(Con tin ued from Page 7) 
 
R utl ed ge Processing Co., R utl ed ge, 
 
Bags, Cotton W aste. Sa nfax Co rp., Atla nta , Sa ni tary Su p- 
 
pl ies. Sasse r Gin & Mill Co .. Da wson, Co t- 
 
ton Gi n, Feed, Pean ut Processin g. Sc a pa D ryers, Ltd ., W aycross, F elt 
 
Driers. Sch na ble Co., G riffin, R efrigera ted 
 
T r u c ks. Sc o tt-Hea rn Lumber Co ., Ashburn, 
 
Lumber. Scoville M fg., Co ., Cla rkesville, M et- 
 
a l Product s. S e pa ra to r Mf g . Co ., W a ycross, 
 
Wood en Co res. Sewell Preforming Co rp ., Au stell, 
 
Pap er Mi lk Co n tai ners. 
Sha piro, Ben J Mfg. Co ., Senoia , 
 
Trou ser s. Sh eet M et al F ab ricators, Inc., At- 
 
lanta, She et M et al W ork . 
 
She ll, A. C ., Pitts, Lumber. Sincla ir & V alentine Co., Atla nta, 
 
Print ing. Sio ux H on ey Associa tion, W aycross, 
 
H oney Processing. 
 
Skilcraft Prin ting Co., Atl anta, Pr int- 
 
ing. S m ith , Bobby & Lloyd, C um m ing , 
 
Feed . Sofkee Lumber Co ., M acon , L umber. So uthe rn Sa w W orks, M cD onough , 
 
Lawn M ow ers. 
 
Solvay P rocess Di v., Allied Che m ica l 
 
& D ye C orp., Brunswick, C he m ica ls. So uthe aste rn L iq uid Fertilizer Co ., 
 
C a iro. F er tilizer. SOI;th crn Building Pr oduct s Co., D e- 
 
ca tur. W ood Product s. S O~l the rn L at ex Co rp ., A ustell, Ad - 
 
h esives. So uthern Ni tro gen Co ., Sa vanna h, 
 
Fertili zer, Che m ica ls. South port M f'g. C o., W ind er, Barrel 
 
Sta ves. Spa W aste Co rp., Cordel e, Co tton 
 
W aste, Spears, O . I-I., Soc ia l Circle, F eed . 
 
Spri ng er Fashion U niforms, Atl anta, 
 
ni form s. Sta ncil M lg. Co ., Ball Groun d, D ia- 
 
pers, In fants' W ea r, 
 
Sta nley Electrical J\H g. Co ., Atl anta, 
 
Fl uorescent L ighting F ixt ures. 
 
Stee l C raft. Inc.. At lan ta . Conveyor 
 
Equ ipment . " " 
 
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Stephe nson C hem ica l Co., Co llege Pa rk. Drv Insecti cid es. 
 
Steve ns, W . A., Co ., V id ali a, T ools 
 
a nd Di es. 
 
Stevens, \V. P . L umber C o., M ari- 
 
etta, Lum ber. 
 
Stone , H a rold Lumb er Co., Waynes- 
 
boro ' Wood Products. 
 
Sturdec O ak M fg. Co. , Am ericu s, 
 
F ur nit ure. 
 
Sun Styles of Ga., H a wkinsville, Ap - 
 
p a rel . 
 
Supe rior Ste el Fa bricat ors, I nc., At- 
 
lan ta, Stee l F ab rication . 
 
Supe rior T an k Co., Tucker , T anks. 
 
Suwa nee M ills, Inc., Bax ley, Ply- 
 
wood. 
 
Susa n ne Corp., Atl anta, W omen 's 
 
Slips. 
 
Swa insbo ro Co ncr ete Product s C o.. 
 
Swa insboro, Co nc re te Product s. 
 
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Sweeper Broom W ork s, D anvi lle, 
 
Brooms . 
 
Szekley & Associat es, Inc., Com- 
 
m erce, El ect roni cs. 
 
T apco of Atla nta , Atla n ta, Alum- 
 
inum Sa sh . 
 
Ta turn L umb e r Co ., S m yr na , 
 
Lumber. 
 
T aylor' s, J oe Fa rm Sup ply, Cairo 
 
F eed ~vIi I I. 
 
Georgia Power Lists 77 Plants 
 
At $60 Million T he Georgia Power Co .'s industri al develop m ent division, in its a n n ual report of new m anufacturer s in its service a reas, names 77 lar ge plants that were esta blishe d in 1955. 
Th e Pow er Co. list in cludes only in d ustrics with $50,000 or m or e ca pita l invest ment a nd 10 or m orc em p loyes, I t does not include plant expa nsions. 
T he Power Co. estim a tes th e 77 new indust ries in its a reas represent ca pita l inv estm ent totalli ng $60,087,000. T h ey em ploy 7,219 w orkers a nd have payrolls aggrega t ing $22,270,500 a nnually, th e repo rt sta tes. 
 
PITTSBURCiH FIRM CHOOSES CiRIFFIN FOR PLANT SITE 
Schn able Co., of P itt sbur gh , Pa ., m an ufa cturer of re frig era ted trucks, has pur ch a sed la nd ncar G riffin on whi ch it plan s to bui ld a pl ant t ha t wi ll emp loy a bou t 200 per son s. 
 
T estwor th Laborat ories, I nc., Carrollto n, L a tex. 
Thom son Co., H arl em, Ap pa rel. Thurmon d Mfg. Co ., Dulu th, M en's Spo rts Shirts. Tiara R ug Mills, Inc., Calho un, T uft ed R ugs. T imber Structu res, Inc., Sava nna h, Boxes, Crates. Touch-e -M ag ic Paint Co ., Atlan ta. Paint. Tran s-Pacifi c Import C o., Atl anta, Bam boo Fabricators. Tucker , L. R . Co ., Inc., R oyston, Feed . T ucker, T. R ., C um m ing , Fl our. Tufted Fabri cs, Inc., D alton , Tuft ed P r o d u ct s. Tugal o Poultry C o., Inc., T occoa, Poultry Processing. Turn er C ounty Frozen Food s, Ash burn, F rozen Food s, Peanut Pro cessing. U nion Poin t Box Co ., U nion Point, Boxes. U niq ue K ni tt ing Co. , Acworth, H osi- 
 
ery. Va ldosta Shee t M et al W orks, V a l- 
d osta. Shee t M et al W orks. " V a"rnell M illing Co., V a rn ell, Feed . Vi ctor Awning M fg. Co ., At la nt a, 
Awnings. Vid al ia Buria l Va ult C o., Vida lia, 
Bur ial Vaults. V idalia M fg. Co ., Vidali a, Ap pa rel. Vi en na F ou nd ry, Vi enna, C astings. V u- Lighter, Inc., Atlanta, C igarctte 
Ligh ters. W alk er Conc rete Pipe Co ., Sco tla nd, 
C onc rete Pipe. W alk er Nail Co., Am eri cu s, Na ils. W allis Su pply C o., G ain esville, C on- 
crete Produ cts. 
 
Wa rd & White Lumber Co ., Lyons, L um ber. 
 
W alworth M fg. Co ., Atlan ta, V a lves, 
 
Wa\'(:lite Co .. Waverl y H all. V en e- 
 
tian Blinds. " 
 
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Wa\ 'erl y Petroleum Prod ucts Co.. M eigs, F ~d lers Ea rth . 
 
W ebb , j ervis B. Co ., Atlanta, Co n- 
 
\'eyo rs. 
 
W h ite's Carpet & Bedding Shop, M a- 
 
riet ta , M a ttresses. 
 
Whi tewood Cabinet Co ., Smyrna. 
 
Cabi ne ts. 
 
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\Vhi tt en, L eon a rd, Bu ch an a n, O rna men ta l Iron. 
W h itwor th, 1. J , L ula, L um ber. 
 
. Willia ms Printing C o., Austell, Printmg. 
Young R u bb er C or p ., Atl a nt a, R ub ber Fab ricat ors. 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ERCE 
 
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 NE'VSLETTER 
 
J anuar y, 1956 
 
GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS 
 
CORDELE FIRM ADDS 
 
Aermotor Corp., Cordele, is adding 
 
4,000 squa re feet of floor space to it s 
 
plant and rem od elin g th e en tire struc- 
 
ture. The firm assem bles wat er SYS- 
 
tem s for city and rural use. 
 
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NEW ATLANTA PLANT 
 
J ervi s B. Webb Co., of D et roit , has ope ned a bran ch plant in At la n ta to design, m anufacture a nd insta ll all types of conveyo r systems for indus- 
try. The new firm, n am ed J ervis n. 
Webb Co . of Geo rg ia, is esta blished in a n existing building con ta ining 22,000 squa re feet. It has 100 emp loyes. 
 
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POMONA JOI N S STOKELY 
 
Th rou gh a stock tran sfer , Pomon a Pr odu ct s Co ., Griffi n, has become a subsid ia ry of Stokely-Van Camp, In c., na tion all y-kn own packing finn based a t Indi an a polis, Ind ., but it will con tinu e to operate with th e same personnel in cha rge a nd will mainta in th e same br oker age ou tlets for it s Sunshin e Brand produ cts. Pomona's a nnua l sales a rc between fou r a nd five milli on dolla rs; th ose of Stokely-Va n Ca mp exree d $ 150,000,000 a year. 
 
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GEORGIA SHOE EXPANDS 
 
Geo rg ia Sh oe Mfg. Co., of Flower y Bran ch a nd Buford , plan s a new 30,000 square-foot building to be comp leted this Spring. I t will mean an increa se in jobs of abou t 50. 
 
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KUT-KWICK REBUILDS 
Brunswick's Kut-Kwick Corp., destro yed by fire last O ctober , is being rebu ilt with th e most mod ern pla nt of its kind in th e Southeast. savs Fildes T resher, president. The ' main pl ant, 60 x 120 feet , is rep aired , a nd a new bui ldin g, mea suring 80 by 125 feet , is being erec ted . The firm manufactures pulpwood saws and heavy-duty gr ass and brush cu t ters. 
 
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SEA ISLAND ADDS 
 
A new beach hou se providing 14 luxu rv uni ts is und er const ruction bv the S ~a Isla nd Co. a t a cost of $325;000. R ates for acco mmoda tions are ex pected to run abou t $50 p er da y per couple, includ ing meals. The unit will be complete d thi s spring . 
 
STUCKEY'S EXPANDS-Plant of Stuckey's , Inc., at Eastman, which is being enlarged with a two-story addition containing 9,000 sq ua re feet of floor space, at a cost of $140,000. The addition will create jobs for 25 to 50 more people. The firm , specializing in pecan candies, opened 15 new retail outlets in 1955, bringing th eir total to 55 shops in 15 states.-Photo by Sid ney Ridley, McRae. 
 
BRUNSWICK'S DIXIE PAINT CO. 
 
PLANS NATION'S FINEST PLANT 
 
Di xie P aint & V arnish Co .. 15-vea rold Brunswick firm , has purch ased th e for mer Tidewater plywood pl ant in th at citv a nd will esta blish wh at it d e s cribe~ as th e " nation's most modern" paint fa ctor y. 
W. Quealy Walk er , Di xie president, said electroni c engi neers hav e design ed a p roducti on system th at will be com ple tely "push button" for th e new plan t. Automa ti c mixing a nd q ua nti ty con trols will be op era ted by chemists from th eir off ices. The only manual lab or will be wh en men put' th e cans on th e convcvo r a nd other s rem ove th e fini shed product , sca led an d p acked in ca r tons, from th e other end . 
The a u to m at u m ope ra tion, Mr. Walker said , will en able Dixie to increase it s output by 50 per cen t from th e p resent $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 a nnual sales volume . 
H owever , th ere will be an increase in em ployme nt, putt ing a tot al of 80 per sons on th e p ayroll , he adde d . 
The 60,000 squa re -foo t plant build ing, idle since th e plywood conce rn went out of bu sin ess, wa s sold to Dixie by Alfred W . Jones. Mr. W alker said th at cost of th e building a nd new eq uipme n t represe n ted a $ 1,000,000 investme n t. 
The pl ant will be com pletely remo deled a nd modern ized , a new offic e st ruc ture. a lab orat ory a nd a va rni sh Iacto rv \;.ill be adde d . 'and a tan k far m will b~ erec ted for storage of ra w materials. 
 
The site consists of 14~ ac res. With th e new structur es, th e plant will con tai n 70,000 feet of buildings. 
ROCKWELL BUYS BULLOCH PLANT; 
TO EMPLOY 500 
R ockwell IVIfg. Co., of Pittsburgh , Pa .. nation all y known manu facturer of gas ' and water met er s and p ower tools, h as purch ased th e mod ern manufacturing plant erected at St atesboro last year by th e Bull och County D evelop ment Corp. 
Stockhold ers of th e development cor poration vot ed un animou sly to acc ep t Rockw ell's bid of $850,000 for th e building, land and eq ui pme nt. Th e plant was built in con junc tion with Ge ne ra l Inst ru ment Corp., New J er sey electroni cs manufacturer , who , sho r tly befor e occ up ancy was scheduled , underwent a reorganization and decid ed to ca ncel plans for th e Statesbor o op eration . 
Rockw ell is expec ted to mak e a n a nnouncem ent in J anuary as to wh en opera tion of th e St at esbor o pl ant will begin . The p lan t is expe cted to employ abo u t 500 work ers in th e manufactur e of meters . 
Rockw ell now opera tes 14 pl ants a nd has 20,000 employees . 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
1955 ELECTRICITY RECORD 
 
REFLECTS STATE'S GROWTH 
 
A new hi gh r ecord in the use of electri city was set in Geor gia in 1955, r eflecti ng the con tin ued economic a nd ind ust ria l gro wth of th e sta te. 
H a rllee Branch , J r., president of the G eor gia Pow er Co ., says total sa les of electri c power in th e area served by the com pany in cr eased from 6,600,000 ,000 kilowat t hours in 1954 to 7,- 
CARL LAWSON HEADS BUFORD DEVELOPERS 
 
100,000,00 0 in 1955, a gain of more than 7 per cen t. 
More tha n 22,000 custom ers were added to th e lines of the com pa ny, bringin g th e total now served to som e 576 ,000. The new custome rs include more than 20,000 new hom es, over 2,000 sma ll industries an d comme rc ia l establish men ts an d 33 la rge industries. 
To provide for th e in cr ea sed need for power , the company invested over $31,000,000 in new fa cilities during th e year, Mr. Br an ch said. 
 
Carl L aw son , of G ainesv ille, is th e new president of th e Uppe r Chattahoch ee D evelopm en t Assn. 
Chosen a t th e third annual meeting of the group at th e Buford D am site on the C hattahoochee R iver, he succee ds R obert M . H old er, of Atlanta . The associatio n is com pose d of represen ta tives of 10 co un ties in the Buf ord development area. 
O th er officers are Joseph E . C heeley, Bufor d, secretary; J a m e s M athis, Gainesvi lle, treasurer ; M rs. G uy W . H ud son , Decatur, historian, a nd th e following vice presiden ts : Robert W. Acree, Step hens Coun ty ; L . Y. I rv in , H abersham County; S y 1va n M eyer, H all Coun ty; Milton M cCl ain , Gwi nnett Co un ty; J am es P . D avidson , White Cou nty; R ober t M . M oor e, Lumpkin County ; L en T aylor, Dawson County ; Roy P. Otwell, Forsyth County; Ar t Austin , D eK al b County, and J ohn M . Cooper , Fulton County. 
Lew Coo pe r, C leveland, V ern on Smith, Dah lonega, an d J am es A. Dunla p, Gainesville, are d irectors-a t-la rge. 
Congressman Ph il L andrum of the N inth Di stri ct, speaker at th e a nnual m eet ing, d eclared th at th e South " is ready now to start some rea l industrial g rowth ." 
SMOKERS' SAUCERETTE 
For th ose who enjoy a cigarette with th eir cup of coffee, a "sauc erette" h as been patented an d is now being mark ete d bv Anderson and Fuller , 4016 N . Stratf~rd R oa d. N.E.. Atlanta . The gadget rests on ' th e r i~ of the sa ucer an d eliminate u sing th e cup and sa ucer for an ash tr ay. Orders for sa ucerett es hav e been l"C~eived from 45 Sta tes a nd a lso from as far away as Saudi Arabia. 
 
Georgia Keeps Chick Hatching Title in 1955 
Georgia in 1955 again led th e nation in com me rc ia l chi ck h a tchery prod uction. It was th e fourth stra igh t yea r that the state has held th is crown . 
A t the end of t he first 11 months of th e yea r, Geo rg ia com me r cial hatch er ies had p roduced an estim a ted 171,187,000 chicks. far more than anv ot her state. Thi; to tal was nea rly ' twice as many as her nea rest rival, California, whic h turned ou t 96, 121,000. 
Geo rg ia took th e lead in hat ching in 1952, a t a bou t th e same tim e it wr este d con trol of the nation's broiler outpu t, and has never relinquished its No . 1 position in eithe r field . 
GEORGIA GARDEN FILM AVAILABLE 
" V isiting G eorgia Gardens ," a 15min u te prod uct ion in co lor whi ch takes viewers on an ex citing tri p th rou gh some of the sta te's mos t beautifu l a n tebellum a nd con te m por ary gardens , is now ava ila ble for showing to group and club m eet ings . 
Prod uced by the Gard en C lu b of Georgia and the to u rist promotion department of th e Georgia St at e C hamber of Commer ce, th e print may be obtain ed for a nominal rental from headquarters of th e la tter organization , 205 Forsyth Bui lding, Atlanta. 
Formal and simple gardens in seven state com m u nities- A the ns, Augusta, Covington, Madison, Atlanta and Marietta-are cove re d in th e pi cture. 
 
GEO RGIA D E PA RTMENT OF CO M M ERCE 
 
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January, 1956 
NEW ROME MILL TO EMPLOY 200 ON METAL TUBES 
Constr u ct ion h as begun a t Rome on a new a luminum tu be plant wh ich will em ploy 200 p er sons with an annua l pa yr oll of $800,000 to $900 ,000. 
The Dixie Aluminum Corp. which a lrea d y h as a pla n t in down town R ome, is insta llin g th e new operation on a 100-a cre site on the Alabama Road, ten miles from the city . Br ett Holmes, presid ent, said the firm wou ld op erate both plants, and that new ly p urchased machinery wo u ld provide 40 additiona l jobs a t th e or igina l m ill. 
T h e new pla n t will be d esign ated as th e D ixie Alumin um Tube Corp., since it will spe cialize in producing tubing. 
Production is scheduled to start about July. 
RAVONIER PURCHASES HUGE TIMBER TRACT 
A tract of 3 1,000 acres of p rim e tim berl and in G lynn, Bran tley and Wayne Counties h as bee n p urchased by Rayonier , I nc., to supply it s wood 
cellulose p lant at Jesup. J. H . Sh eehy, 
ex ecutive vice presid ent of R ayon ier, said the acqu isition broug h t th e firm's tim ber hold ings in the Sou theas t to approx imately 550 ,00 0 ac res . 
NEW CHEMICAL FIRM 
C . P. St ephenson, College Pa rk che m ist, h as organize d th e St ephen son Ch em ical Co . in th at city , a nd is spe cia lizing in the manufact ure of d ry agricu ltural insecti cides . Mixing p lant and warehouse are loca ted in an existing build ing 50 x 100 feet , and six p er sons are emp loyed . The firm's tr ad ename p ro duc ts in clude D rop D ead Bu g K iller and Per k Up F ungi cid es. 
U. S. CONTRACTS 
F ed eral con tr act award inf ormation is carried eac h day in a 
publication , "Synopsis of U. S. 
Govern me n t P roposed P ro curement, Sa les and Co n t r a ct Awards," which is available to bu sin ess firms through the Atlanta 
F ield Office, U. S. D epartment of 
Co m me rce, P ea ch tree-Seventh S t. Bldg., A tlan ta 23, G a. 
 
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J anu ar y, 1956 
 
GEORGIA KEEPS SOUTHEAST LEAD 
 
IN FEDERAL PURCHASES IN 1955 
 
Georg ia in 1955 kept th e lead in th e Southeast in tot al valu e of con tract awa rds mad e by th e F eder al govern ment for goods an d services. 
Approxim ately $77,547,600 was represented in 251 con tra cts let in th e sta te on a n adver tised, noncl assified basis. 
T ot al U . S. con t rac ts let during th e yea r in th e seven sta tes com prising th e Sou theast- Alaba ma, F lor ida, Geor gia, Mi ssissippi , T ennessee and th e tw o 
 
Ca rolinas-was $3 16,823,500. 
In Decemb er alon e, th e governme n t let contrac ts in Georg ia tot aling $8,070,300, whi ch also led th e Southea st. 
Followin g wer e th e Georg ia a wards mad e in D ecemb er : 
Pat ch en & Zim merman , eng ineers, Au gust a, design of brid ge for relocation of U . S. 29, H artwell, Ga ., and Ander son, S. C., $9,000 ; M ontag Brothers, Atl anta, mem o pad s, $30,95 7; Way- 
 
cross M achine Sh op, Waycross, min aturc pr acti ce bombs, $239,000 ; L ockheed Aircraft Co rpora tion, M ari etta, facilit ies for producti on of C - 130 air cra ft and modi cation of 13-47 aircraft , $8 75,000; :M cD onough Co nstru ction Co. of Ga. , Atla nt a, construc tion of barracks a nd subsiste nce bui ldin g a t M arine Co rps L and ing 'F ield, Beaufor t, S. C., $2,213,0 13. 
J am es C . \Vise Associa tes, Atl ant a, architect-eng inee r services for administr ation building a t U . S. N aval Supply Cen ter , Byron , Ga ., $25,600; Guy C. Smith Constr u ction Co ., Au gu sta, const ruc tion of parachute and din gh y building, M yr tle Beach AFB , S. C. , $ 111,4 21; Co lumbus Constru cti on Co ., Colu mbu s, constr uc tion a t Eglin AFB, $ 100,684 ; Yea rwood M ot or s, In c., \rV arner R obins, serv icing base mot or vehicles, $ 129,000 ; Southern Roadbuild ers, Inc., Au gu sta, construc tion of parking ap ron, M a cDili AFB , T ampa, $ 1,398,95 3. 
Sout hwire Co., Carrollton , Schedule A & 13 faciliti es for use on contrac t for wir e, $71,561, and industrial prep ar edness st udy on wir e, $ 199,456; Southern Constru ct ion Co., Au gu st a, const ru ction of BOQ M arine Corps L anding Fi cId, Bea u for t, S. C., $ I,054,350 ; W right Contracting Co., Columbus, cons truc tion of FY 56 ap ron and taxiwa y, M ood y AFB , Valdost a, $260,153; Ri chl and Box Co., Ri chl and, staves , ra ils, fr am es, etc., $36,391; N ati onal Co n tra cting a nd En gin eering Co., Alm a, r unway and ta xiway ligh ting systems, Mood y AFB , $ 1,777. 
R . H . Wright, .II'. & Associates, Col- 
umbus, const ruc tion of sho ps and buildings, T u rn er AFB , Albany, $359,130 ; H ewitt Con tracting Co., Columbu s, cons tr uction of runw ay and taxiwa y, C raig AF B, Ala ., $886,068 ; Harbour & Co. , College Park, constru ction of hospit al h eating plant, K eesler AFB , $32,99 1; a nd L a yn e-Atlantic Co ., Savannah, const ruc tion of wat er supp ly system, Sh aw AFB , S. C ., $35,859. 
 
NUTWOOD-Anteb ell um plan tation home nea r LaGrange. February will begin th e annual Spring garden tou rs of famous an d pi cturesque old homes and gardens in Geo rgia.Carolyn Carter photo. 
 
WAYCROSS PLANT OPENS 
Way cross h as added anoth er firm to its rapidly growing ro ster of industri es, Tapley-Walk er , In c., whi ch deal s in conc re te a nd st eel work. 
 
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I ntern a tional F urniture Co. is add ing to its p lant at Madison ... J efferson h as or ganized a developmen t corpo ra tion to promote industry for th at J ackson Co unty city . . . O . E. Szekely & Associa tes, In c., form erly of Phil a delphia, have opened their new p lant in J ackson Co unt y, bet ween Commerce a nd MaysviIIe, to manufactu re tools, par ts, meta l fab rication a nd assembly. 
W right M a nufa ct uri ng Co., is com p leting a new garme n t p lan t at Bowman . T h e compa ny 's main plant is at T occoa .. . C lay ton Count y Wa ter Au thor ity h as sold $1, 100,000 revenu e certifi ca tes to be used in expa nding the coun ty's wa ter system. 
Spa tola F ootw ear Co., new "Yaycross industry, is produ cing 2,000 p ai rs of shoes daily. The p lant 's goal, says Sam Spatola, president, is 4,000 p airs a day . . . Co lum bus Bank & Trust Co. pl an s a new five-sto ry build ing to cost $ 1,250,000 . 
WiIIiam J. Trippe and Gordon G . 
M cI ntosh, of E lber ton , ha ve leased a la rge quarry in H ancock Co unt y and wiII process p in k gra n ite into monuments a nd building stone . . . Coop ers, Inc., Millen, has boug ht prop erty ad joining its p lant for fu ture expansion ... Brunswick Pu lp & .Pap er Compa ny spen t $1,000,000 on improv emen ts in 1955 . . . Sou th ern BeII T elephon e Co. will exp and its lines in Elbert Co un ty a t a cost of $80,000 . . . Brun ner Co ., Gainesville, pla ns to erect a la rge warehouse a t it s pl a n t . . . Selig Co., At lanta , ma nu facturer of sani tary supp lies, wiII erec t a new plant . . . Me- 
 
Donough Power Equipment, I nc., is erec ting a manufacturing plant a t M cDonough. 
Pla ns a rc com plete a t Alba ny for erection of a $650 ,000 store build ing to be occup ied by Scars, R oebu ck & Co. . . . F irst Na tiona l Ban k of Atlanta has bough t the Peachtree Ar cad e, ad joini ng its 'Five Points head qu a rt ers .. . R a yoni er, Inc., wiII build a ta lI oil pla nt at its che mical ceIIulose op eration at J esup . .. Trimedg e of Georgia, I nc., at Newnan, a unit of Trimedg e, Inc., of You ngstown, Ohio, ha s been acquired bv Newn an 's WiIIiam L. BonneII Co . ' T he Newnan plant, producing alu minum aIIoy ext ru sions, emp loys mo re than 500 work ers. 
Electr ic power sales by Geo rg ia Power Co. were 7,100 ,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1955, a gai n of mor e than 7 per cent over 1954 . . . Ch ipley T eleph on e Co., wh ich serves 214 subscribers, h as been acq uired by Southern BeII from H owa rd CaIIa wa y . . . A new bridge acro ss th e Altamaha Ri ver has been opened between L udow ici and J esup , on Hi gh wa y 30 1 . .. T eITeII Co unty wiII celebra te its cen tennial in 
April . . . J. M . T uII M eta l and Sup- 
ply Co., Atla nta, has pur chased con tro IIing in ter est in Florid a M etals, Inc., T ampa. 
T . T . Dunn, vice p resident of manufact uring a t Union Bag & Pa per Corp ., is gene ra l cha irman of th e Na tional Resou rces Confer en ce to be held a t Savann a h M a rch 12-13 . . . Marietta has op ened a $335,000 d isposal pl an t on th e west side of th e city a nd is 
 
p lanning a 2,000,000- gaIIon p lant for th e sou th side . .. Natu ral ga s serv ice has been instaIIed for Summerville and adj oining a reas . . . Atla nta Feder al Sav ings & Loa n Assn. pla ns a $250,000 building at Peacht ree St. a nd Piedmont Ave. . . . Bank of Georg ia has opened it s new home a t Per shin g Poin t, Atla nta . 
Wood Product Plant Locates In Waycross 
Sep a rat or Mfg. Co., of M emphis, T cn n ., man uf acturer s of wooden special ties, wiII constr uc t a pla n t a t W aycross to p rod uce wooden cores to be used in paper roIIs by th e pap er ind ustr y of South Georgia a nd F lorida . 
C laud e N . M cCord, J r., a partner in the firm, said a cont rac t wa s comp leted with th e Wa ycross a nd Wa re Co un ty D evelopment Authority for a fiveacre tract a t th e Wa ycross Air Base wher e a 10,000 square-foo t building wiII be ere cted . 
H e said th e plan t is sche duled to be in operation by Sp ring with a n initia l employmen t of 30 men . 
$500,000 N EH I PLANT N eh i Corp., Columbus bot tl ing firm , 
wiII erect a $500,000 pl an t. C . C. Colbert, ch airma n of Nehi's board, said details of the expa nsion program wiII be a nnounced foIIowing ac quisition of a site . 
 
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FEBRUARY 
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Feb ru ar y, 1956 
 
NEWSLETTER 
 
Published monthly by 
 
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State C apitol 
 
* MA RVIN GRIFFIN Governo r  BO AR D OF COMMISSIONERS 
 
EMORY L. BU TLER Chai rman 
 
Y. F. GEESLIN 
 
HOKE PETERS 
 
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T RAMMELL McINTYRE 
 
* SCOTT CANDLER Sec r e t a r y 
 
NELSON M. SHIPP Assista nt Sec retary 
 
FRED D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No.4 
 
February, 19 56 
 
GEORGIA POWER IN $41 MILLION '56 EXPANSION 
Geor gia Power Co . will spend app roximately $4 1,000,000 thi s year in expansions of its generating a nd tra nsmission fa cilities. 
T his comp a res with a recor d of $31,000 ,000 invested by th e firm in 1955. 
In cluded in th e 1956 program ar e $ 13,500,000 for two steam-electric genera ting units at Plant Yates near N ewn an ; $8,000,000 for tran smission line additions, and $ 17,500,000 in additions and improvements to th e distribution system . . One of th e maj or tran smission jobs will be const ruc tion of a 230,000-volt line fro m Plant Yates to M orrow, nea r Atl anta, an d on to Bonair, nea r Macon, a nd a new substa tion near th e latter city. O fficials said th e line will be th e fir st of its high volt age in th e state . 
Other 1956 proj ect s include dou blin g th e cap ac ity of th e substa tion at Brunswick, a new substa tion a t Butler, a nd enla rge me n t of th e Ath ens, Ar agon a nd Winder substations. 
COVER PHOTO 
Pulpwood -cutting scene in a Georgia forest. The state's 24,000 ,000 acres of forestla nd s p roduce our biggest crop-worth $750,000,000 a yea r-and give em ployme nt to 200,000 peo ple. (Story on Page 3) 
 
GEORGI A RADAR POST-Here is th e new $600,000 U. S. Ai r Force radar station on Lookout Mountain in Wa lker County, wh ich will be manned about March 1 by 250 personn el of th e 867th Air craft and Warning Squadron. The installation is just south of th e Lookout Mountain Hotel on Geor gia Hi ghway 157. The Chattanooga News-Fre e Pr ess, through whose courtesy th e picture is reproduced, says th e station's $ 100,000 monthly payroll will be a big boost to business in th e Chattanoo ga-North Georgia ar ea.-photo by John Goforth, flown by Harry Porter . 
 
$125,284,000 BROILER CROP 
 
GIVES GEORGIA NEW RECORD 
 
Georgia' s broiler indust ry, already No . 1 in th e nati on , soar ed to new heigh ts in 1955. 
Grower s in th e state produced 5 15,162,000 poun ds of b I' 0 i I e I' s which brou ght th em a gross of $ 125,284,000. 
Producti on wa s 51,749,000 mor e pounds th an in 1954, and th e gross income was $23,333,000 gr ea ter. 
Not only did Georgia con tinue to lead th e nati on in outpu t and incom e in 1955, th e fifth consec u tive year of suc h lead er ship, bu t both production a nd in com e were tw ice as grea t as th e second rank ing broiler sta te, T exa s, where p roduct ion totalled 236,907,000 pounds and income, $60,411 ,000. 
In fact, says th e Agr icultural M arketing Service, U . S. Department of 
 
Agriculture, Georgia in 1955 approximated a bout one -fou rth of th e com bin ed p roduction a nd income in all 21 of the other principal broiler sta tes. T hese a re M aine, Connect icut, Pennsylva nia, I ndian a, Illinois, Mi ssouri , Delawar e, M a ryland , V irg in ia, West Vi rgini a, th e two Carolinas, Flo rid a, Alaba ma , Mi ssissippi , Arkansas, Loui siana , T exa s, ,'\' ash ing ton, Oregon and California . Producti on in th ese sta tes adde d up to 2,362,659,000 pounds and income was $596,886,000. 
In a review of th e broiler industry in the U n ited States as a whole. th e U . S. D epartment of Commerc~ reports th a t in th e p ast 20 years produ cti on in Geor gia has increased by 35,428 per cent a nd value of p rodu ction by 54,371 per cen t. 
 
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Forests Net Georgians $750 Million Yearly, 
 
Make 200,000 Jobs, Supply 3,000 Industries 
 
Georgia's 24,000,000 acres of forest com prise her most extensive and valua ble agricu ltural cro p and constitute one of the st ate's ~reatest natural reso urces. 
Georgia la ndown ers receive more an nual income from forest products than from any ot her a~ri cultura l crop.. 
Georgia's for e s t economy-the growing, harvesting, sale and manufactu re of forest produ cts-exceeds $750,000,000 yearly. 
Georgia leads t he South in pulpwood production, cutting more than 3,000,000 cords annually. 
South Georgia is th e world 's naval stores capital. 
Some 2,000,000,000 board feet of lum ber arc cut yea rly from Georgia's woodlan ds. 
More than 200,000 Georgians are directly employed in for estr y. 
Georgia has some 3,000 wood working industries loca ted in all of th e 159 counties. These fact s highli ght th e a nnual report of th e Geor gia For estr y Commission to Gov. Marvin Griffin and th e Gene ral Assembly. And "o ur record fores t ou tpu t can be doubled a nd indu str y, employme n t a nd income gr eatly increased," say s Guyton DeL oach. commission director and sta te for ester. "Researc h, public educa tion and unpr oved for est man agem ent point th e wa y to thi s abunda n t future." 
GEORGIA, ALREADY th e nation 's leader in acreage of priva te an d sta tc forestland under organized fir e p rotecti on , reached new heights in fire control in 1955, th e rep ort continues. 
" Progra ms in seven additiona l coun ties br ou ght to 143 th e number of coun ties under p rot ecti on a nd incr eased th e p rotected acreag e to 20,937,462 . Other advan ces included providi ng leadership in th e Southeastern 'Forest Fire Compact , expanded air patrol ope ra tion to improve fir e detection and suppression, acceler at ed law enforce ment, furthering work on recl assifyin g fire ca uses and providing better guidance in prevention effor ts. 
Georgia continues as th e nation's pace setter in the production of forest tre e seedlings in state nurseries. 
 
WEALTH FOR FUTURE-Pine seedlings unde r cultivation at one of the Sta te For estry Com mission's four nurser ics.-Forestr y Cornmision Photos. 
 
D uring the 1954- 55 pla nting seaso n, the commission's four nurseries- located at H i g h tower, Davisboro, Glenwood and Albany- produced and shipped to landowners a record total of 111,000,000 seedlings. The commission's hercul ean reforestation effort is directed toward the re- 
PINE SEED-A climber gathers th em for Georgia's great reforestation program. 
 
stocking of 3,500,000 acres of la nd in the state that must be planted in tr ees to become productive. 
Resea rch, key to for est ry progress and ad van cem ent, is playing an increasing p a r t in Georgia 'Forestry Com.mission ac tivities, as is a full sca le public relations an d educ a tional program. 
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ONE OF THE MAJ OR research activities in 1955 was th e establishmen t of p ine seed or chards. F rom th ese orcha rds will come a special strain of superior tr ees, and fro m th ese t rees will come seed wh ich will be used in nurser y pl anting. 
Through its educational program wh ich uti lizes all availab le me dia inclu ding press, radio and television, display materials, motion pictures, demonstration and personal appearances and contacts, the commission estimates that 98 of every 100 p ersons in the state have been reached with an effective forestry message. 
Sound f or e s t I' y man agem ent, th c pr ime need of forest ry in Georgia toda y, ca n double the p roducti on on th e sta te' s woodl and acres, the repor t concludes. T he No. 1 for estr y problem is imp ro pe r cu tt ing practi ces coup led with th e invasion of comme rcial timber-growing land by cull hardwoods. The comm ission's ma nagement services are design ed to pro vide aid to a ma ximum. nu mber of ow ners of sma ll woodla nd s-thus meeting the m an agem ent problem a t its core. 
 
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THOMASTON'S NEWEST-William Carter Company's n ew plant at Thomaston , th e firm 's third Geor gia operation, is mod ern, airconditioned and contains 28,000 square feet of floor space. It will produce th e famous Carter line of knit und erw ear with 350 employes. Six hundred prominent Georgians joine d in dedicating th e new plant.-United Press photo. 
 
600 GIVE WILLIAM CARTER CO. 
 
ROUSING WELCOME TO THOMASTON 
 
H ead ed by Gov. M arvin G riffin, leaders from th roughout Georgia ga ther ed at T homaston on Februarv 7 for a double-barr el salute to the ' Upson County cen ter's newest citizens- T he William Cart er Co. and th e T hird State Hi gh way D ivision. 
" All of Georgia joins in th is welcome," th e Govern or assur ed the more tha n 600 guests of th e ThomastonU pson Coun ty Ch am ber of Commer ce who sa t down to a chicken dinner in th e handsome new plan t of Carter. 
R eviewing the rapid industrialization of Georg ia in the pa st 15 years, Governor Griffin said that the sta te is now moving into a phase of growth that is "e ven more ph enomenal. " 
He lauded th e Carter finn, " the world's largest manufacturer of knit underw ear for men, wom en and children, as representative of th e highclass, honorable type of industry" that brings permanent prosperity to th e community in which it esta blishes residence. 
Dr. Walter A. Blasingam e, cha irman of the State H ighway Departmen t, said the h i g h w a y division headq uarters would add 40 families to th e T homaston area. H e outlined the state 's highway developments, particularly th e widen ing of in tra-sta te R oute 19, now un der way. 
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IRVING KASS, president of the Thomaston-Upson County Chamber, pr esided at th e dinner ra lly, and Por- 
 
HORACE A. CARTER 
ter Carswell, form er Burke County legislator, was master of ceremonies. Dr. A. H. Barron, mayor of Thomas- 
ton an d J. E. Presley, chairman of th e 
Upso n Cou n ty Commission, brou gh t officia l gr eetings to the new-comers. Also parti cip ating in the welcom e wer e represen tatives of T homa ston's largest established indust ries- J uli an H i g h tower, presiden t, T homaston Mi lls; S. Wayne H emp stead , general manager, M ar tha M ills, T ext ile Division , B. F . Good rich Co., and W . O . Britt, Jr. , owner, Britt M fg. Com pan y. 
Lyndall F. Carter, vice president, on behalf of the Carter Co ., pointed 
 
out that th e firm is really an "old friend and neighbo r" of all th e Georgians present, since it began oper ating a plant at nearby Barnesville in 1923 and ha s a second ope ration at Fo rsyth. 
Quotin g a message from his father, H ora ce A. Carter, 86-year-old president of th e Firm, he said : " We thank all th e wonderful people of Thomaston who have helped us plan and build and staff our plant. W e'll try to pro ve our gratitude by bein g just as good a neighbor as we know how. " 
O ther Carter officials from th e firm's hom e 0 f fi e e in Needh am H eights, M ass., who wer e present, included William L. Cart er, second vice p residen t ; William M cD ani el, production man ager, and B. H . Finnegan , comp tro ller. Also pr esent wer e Charlie Walker, Barnesville, in charge of Cart er' s three Georgia operations, an d J ames F . Pruett, J r., manager of the T hom aston plant. 
The Thomaston plan t is a mod ern, air-conditioned one-story brick bui ld ing con ta ining 28,000 squ are feet of floor space . It featu res a cafeter ia for employes and has a large parking space . 
So th at trained employes would be available for the opening, a training pr ogram was begu n in J anuary 1955. Vice Presiden t Lyndall Cart er said th at when full production is reached, about th e midd le of th is yea r, em ploymen t will be 350. 
 
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Jarrett Manor, Stained By Indian Massacre, Hallowed By Georgia's Great, Becomes Shrine 
 
J arrett Manor, fad ed but historically thrilling Northeast G e o I' g i a landmark, is coming into its own. 
The Geo rg ia Hi storieal Co mmission ha s ac q uired the 17-room log house a nd the hill top up on wh ich it sprawls ab ove th e T ugaloo R iver in St ephe ns Co unty, near T occoa, a nd alr ea dy its dign ity a nd cha rm a re being revived. 
Wi thin a yea r or so, say s C. E. G regory, th e commission 's exec ut ive di rect or , Jarrett Manor will be a worthy riva l of th e Chief V ann House as a histori c shrine an d to ur ist a t tracti on. R estoration of th e Vann H ouse, nca r Chat swort h, in northwest M urra y Coun ty, is nea ring complet ion. 
Although th e two an cien t dwelling s ar c sepa rated by nearly 100 mi les of mounta ins a nd va lleys, an d ar c wid ely diff erent as to a rch itec tural typ e, they ea ch had a full share of the blood a nd glory of Georgia's ea rly d ays. 
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TH E VANN HOU SE is a fine brick ma nsion, bui lt by a chief wh o was educ a ted, culture d an d on e of th e wea lthi est I an d 0 w n e I' s in th e old Ch erokee Nation. India n J oe V an n's tragedy came when his peop le were driven out wh en gold was d iscovered in their ancestral dom ain . 
J a rrett Manor , on th e oth er hand, wa s th e white man's an swer to savages who vowed that civiliza tion would never ga in a foothold in th e Blue R idge. The set tle r wh o carved it out of th e wilderness a t gun point paid for it later wi th his life and th e lives of his family. To thi s d ay t here are dark st ains in the old house, a nd grisley legend h olds they are the blood of th e J esse W alt ons . 
J a r rett M an or was built in 1782. while the R evolu tion a ry W a r wa s stili ragin g. Its builder was J esse Walton , bro ther of Geor ge Walton, one of the Decla ra tion of Indep enden ce signers fro m Georgia . It is one of the oldest, if not th e oldest buildings still st an ding in upper Georgia ; as frontier ou tpost , pla nt a tion home a nd sta gecoach inn , it h as wea th er ed th e better part of two cen turies. 
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J ARRETT M ANOR-Built durin g the Am er ican R evolution, thi s spraw ling fortresslike hou se nca r T occoa was th e scene of a bloody Indian m assacr e. Oldest bu ilding in upp er Ge org ia , it is bein g restored as a shrine by t he Ge org ia Hi stori cal C ommi ssion. 
 
come from England, bu ilt th e strength of a castle into his hou se. U sing footsqua re logs of oa k and p ine, he m ade it 100 feet long an d 30 feet deep , settin g it over an enormous cobblestone basem ent. T he b a s e m en t contains kitchen, diningroom, storerooms, wine cella r. H e made his house two stories tall and topped it with an a ttic stu dded with loopholes. The downstairs floor he divided into four rooms and two hallways, all sp ac ious, all opening upon a bro ad front porch . H e brok e the second floor up into 13 rooms ; th ey open on e into anothe r ; th ere is no cen tra l h all way. Four stair ways con nect the two floors. On one of the sta irways is a secre t room, inten ded as haven for th e wom en and childre n in case of a ttack. 
Walto n made his doors- th e house contains 27-m a s s i v e eno ug h to withstand a battering ram, and hung them on hinges of wrought iron. H e 
 
imported locks from England ; they bear th e crest of a London found ry. The keys that turn th em , still in use, are big as tomahawks. The house has enormous sto ne fireplaces and six towering ch imney s, and th e wall s inside are paneled with wa lnut and chest nu t. Som etime after the house was built t he ou tside was covere d with hand-hewn planking; to thi s day, it has ne ver tasted paint. 
The Indian s let Walton fini sh his hou se a nd get settled in it. T hen they struck. The fa mily beat off the a tt ac k for four days an d nights. Then , somehow, th e savages br oke th rough the rin g of rifle fir e. With th e excep tion of one son, wh o escaped miraculously, th e en tire hou sehold of six persons wa s sca lped . 
.r FO L L O W ING THE M ASSACRE, 
th e p rop erty passed to a am es E . Wylie. H e sold it , in 1810, to Dr. Dcv- 
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ROCKWELL'S STATESBORO HOME-Built with th e aid of Bulloch County ca pita l, this handsom e fa ctory building at Statesboro is being occupied hy Ro ckw ell Mfg. C o., leading manufacturer of met er s, valv es and power tools . Th e plant con t ains 106.000 square Ieet of space, is locat ed on a 33 -ac re tract. Its em ployme n t goal is 250 worker s. 
 
STATESBORO 'PROGRESSIVENESS, CIVIC PRIDE' WIN ROCKWELL 
 
Because of its " progressive outlook " and " civic pride," as well as its more ba sic fa cilities, Statesboro wa s chosen for th e fir st Ge orgia op eration of the nationally known Ro ckw ell Mfg. Co . 
Acc epting th e keys to a new 106,000 square-foot factory that wa s built with th e aid of local ca p ital, Willard F. Rockwell , Jr., pr esid ent of the Pittsburgh, Pa., met er , valve and tool firm, declared: 
"Statesboro is th e typ c of sma ll city we are espec ia lly in ter est ed in, because our development program and policies dep end on close and long-term partnership betw een th e com pa ny and th e communit ies in whi ch we op erate." 
T he young ind ustr ia list whose fir m incl udes 17 plan t comm unit ies, four of wh ich a re in the South, a lso cited Sta tesboro's big labor poo l (the ne w p la nt is th e fir st I a I' g e industry for ag ri cultura l Bull 0 c h Co un ty ). tran sportation facilities (C en tra l of Georgia R ail road, U . S. R oute :l0 1 a nd an airport ), clima te (5 1 degrees, mea n win ter temp eratur e ) , cu ltural a tmos phere (G eorgia T each ers College ) a nd nationa lly recognized com munity betterm en t pr ogra m . 
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MR. ROCKWELL a c e e p t e d the p lant keys fr om T had M orr is, cha irma n of the Bulloch Co unt y Deve lopment Corp., a t a din ner a t F orest Heights Co un try C lub. Eig ht ot her R ockwell officia ls a nd 100 Georgia lead er s a tte nded th e dinner. 
 
The new plant, a on e-stor y aluminum-sheated s t e e I and conc rete building, located on a 33-acr e plot, wa s built last F all for Ge ne ra l Instrument C orp., Elizabeth, N. J., for th e manufacture of television and radio parts. R ockwell purchased th e plant as a result of ch anges in G eneral Instrument 's plans. 
The building in c Iud e s 80,000 sq ua re feet of manufa cturing space and 26,000 sq ua re feet of office, boil er and eq uip men t a rea. It is completel y a ir- conditioned and ha s fluorescent lighting throughout. But in addition to th e plant itself, Mr. Ro ckwell emp hasized, th e community wa s an important fa ctor in th e purchase decision. 
H c sai d the Sta tesboro insta lla tion will ma nufa ct ure a varictv of meters. val ves and other products. Empl oyment goa l is 250 wor kers. 
ROCKWELL, W H I C H CALLS itself " the biggest littl e bus iness in America." was recen tlv described in a business 'serial in th e N ew York T imes as a lead er in th e n ati on wid e trend toward ind ustria l decentrali zati on . Its sou thern pla n ts, besides Sta tesboro, are a t T upelo, M iss., Sulphur Springs, T exas, and Russellville, K y. 
Starting in 1926 as a m anufacturer of gas meters, Rockwell now al so produces a large and varied lin e of products suc h as water met ers , regulators, petroleum and industrial liquid meters, lubricated plug valves, oil field instruments, power tools for home and industry, fare registers, 
 
electric counters and high-pressure, high-temperature va lves for steam line s. 
T he com pany is th e world 's largest producer of severa l prod ucts, incl uding lubricat ed plu g valves, fare meters for taxica bs a nd pa rking met er s. 
SHEEP INDUSTRY NETS $100,000 FOR GEORGIANS 
Georgia's revitali zed c o m me rc i a l sheep industry br ou ght $ 100,00 0 to fa rmer s in 1955. 
An d th ere was a 400 per cent increa se in th e sta te's sh eep po pula tion d uring th e year, ac cording to th e St at e Co llege of Agriculture. 
According to Pete D eL oach , ex te nsion sheep specia list, 20,000 Southwest ewes and 500 Suffolk and H ampshi re ra ms have been br ought into th e state since O ctober 1954. 
IDEAL IN PRODUCTION 
Id eal R oller & Mf g. Co. has begun full-sca le op eratio ns a t its new plan t in Chamblee. T he fact or y, manufac turi ng equ ipme n t for th e printing trad e, is a mo dern b rick and struc tu ral steel structure located on a foura cr e-tract a t 5100 Peachtree Rd. J ohn E. M cSt atts, forme rly sou thern sa les ma nager for th e com pa ny, is general mana ger. 
 
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CiA. FIRMS PUT $400 MILLION IN EXPANSION 
Geor gia bus iness firm s in th e past five yea rs received approval from th e United St ates gov ern men t to spend nearly $400,000 ,000 dolla rs on plant and facility expa nsions a nd im p rovements to furth er th e nati on a l program of defen se. 
The govern men t approve d 195 soca lled ce rt ifica tes of ncccssitv a mo unting to $395,966,245 for Geor gia firm s. 
In th e Southeastern a rea wh ich indudes G eor gia, A I a b am a , Florida, Missi ssippi, T ennessee and th e tw o Carolin as, 1,300 cer t ifica tes to taling $2,46 1,943,53 2 wer e issued acc ord ing to th e At lanta Field offic e of th e U . S. Dep a rtment of Comm er ce. 
670 GLYNCO HOMES 
The N avy pl an s to bui ld 670 d welling a t th e G lynco Naval Air Stati on , lighter -th a n- ai r i n s t a II a t i on near Brunswick . Bids a re expec ted to be ae cepted in September. 
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SPARTA PLANT GROWS 
Sp arta Furniture M fg. Co ., Sp arta, has completed a conside ra ble expa nsion p rogram and is now em ploying 50 worker s. 
 
Warm Springs Wishing Well Yields $5 ~088 
The W ishing W ell a t th e Little Wh ite Hou se added $5,088 to th e M a rc h of Di mes. 
The dimes ca me from tr av eler s fro m all th e states a nd many foreign cou ntr ies, nearl y 110,000 of wh om in 1955 visited th e famous Geor gia cot ta ge wher e Pr esident F ranklin D . R oosevelt lived pa rt t ime and wh er e he died . 
T he annual tr ek of school child re n to th e Little Whit e H ou se h as already 
begun , and J. E. Sm enner, man ager, 
ur ges ea rly scheduling of school gro ups. M ore a tte n tion ca n be given th em now tha n later when th e summer cro wds pou r in, he sa id . 
VIDALIA ADDS PLANT 
Vid ali a's I a t e s t industry, N elson Mf g. Co ., builder of low-bed comme rcial tr a ilers, has gone in to p roduction in an exist ing plant buildi ng. Bernard Alt, for merly with th e fir m' s pa rent plant in Otta wa, Ohio, is man ager. 
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GARMENT PLANT BRANCH Waynesbor o Garmen t Co., of W a y- 
nesboro and Sar dis, is open ing a new bra nch plant a t Midville. F orty employees will sta rt th e opera tion. 
 
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TETLEY EXPANDS 
T et ley T ea Co., Savannah, IS expand ing th e tea bag ca paci ty of its plan t by 25 per cen t. St art ing Iivc years ago with three p ack aging ma chines a nd 10 em ployes, the pla nt now has 19 mach ines a nd em ploys 108. The pla nt pack ages tea imported fr om India and Ceylon . 
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WHITIN 'S NEW HOME 
Whitin M achi ne W or ks, of Wh itinsville, M ass., one of thr- countr y's la rgest manufactu rer s of textile machincrv, has mov ed its At lan ta head qu arters in to its own new bui lding on Spring St .. N. W . 
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NEW CORNELIA PLANT 
A new ceme n t block plant opera ted by Builders' Lu mbe r and Supply Co., Cornel ia, is now in full producti on of stea m-cu red conc re te blocks . \ Vith a ca pac ity of 5,000 8 x 18-ineh blocks daily, th e plant ca n ma nufacture a wid e vari ctv of blocks for residen tia l a nd comme ;'cia l pu r poses. 
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MODERN GUM PLANT Turpentine & R esin F actors, In c., 
has purch ased th e old Seab oard Air Line R ailroad roundhou se on th e west side of Sav annah and is erecting a modern oleoresin plan t there. T he plant will be in operation in time for th e new gum p rodu cing season, A. L ee Powell, 1'. & R. chair man, said . 
 
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eraux J arrett , R evolution ar y pa triot and one of No r th Georgia's fir st grea t finan ciers. I t rem ained in th e J a rrett fam ily until last yea r, when M rs. M a ry J a rr ett W hite, last of the d an, disposed of it to th e sta te . M rs. Whi te, who was the fir st woman in Georgia to vot e, was born in th e hou se 90 yea rs ag o; und er stipula t ion of th e deed , she continues to reside th er e. 
Dr. Jarrett, whose lands included all of the present City of Toccoa, was a fabulous host, as were suc ceeding generations of the family. W he n a Federal post road wa s cut through the Blue R idge country, the plantation became th e most popular " stop over" between Charleston and Chattanooga, an d trave ler s spread its gracious name, an d tales of its groaning table far and wide. 
Jarrett M an or miracuously esca ped the flam es of th e W ar Betw een the 
 
States, but in th e conflict 's afte r ma th lean yea rs ca me . The J a rr ett of th at era ca p ita lized on th e re pu ta tion of th e pla nt ati on a nd turned it into a n inn 
wh ich he ca lled Travel ers' Rest. Jef- 
ferson Davis, Alex ander H . Stephens a nd J oseph E. Brown, Georgia's fa mous war governo r, a rc a mong th e n am es tha t a ppear on th e old gue st books of tha t time. 
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THE LATE HAROLD L. ICKES, secreta ry of th e Depa rtment of Interior, recogn ized J a rr ett M an or as one of th e most valu a ble historical landmarks in the coun trv. In th e ea rl v 1930's he sen t a sta fr' of a rc hitec ts t~ T occoa and mad e complete d ra wings of th e hou se. A painting of it now han gs in Coch ran Ga ller ies, W ashington. 
U nder th e di rect ion of Mi ss M ab el 
 
Ra msey, a cousin of Mrs. White, wh o has been appoin ted hostess of th e M an or , th e conte n ts of th e shrine a rc bein g sor ted a nd ca ta logue d. M eanwh ile, workmen under th e d irect ion of th e H istorical Commission a re completing some need ed rep airs to th e spra wling hou se. 
TWO PARKING GARAGES FOR CENTRAL ATLANTA 
Two parking garages with a tot al of 350 spaces will be built in downtown Atla nta by Cen t ral Parking, I nc. 
A ISO-ca r uni t, will be loca ted on In' St. betw een D ecatur St. a nd Excha nge PI. A 200-car unit will be built on th e site of th e Awtry & Lowndes Funeral H om e, a C ain S1. landma rk across from th e H en rv G radv H otel. 
The tw o p rojects ~\'i ll cost a n estima ted $700,000. 
 
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Lam Oper ating Co., Rome th eat er finn , will build a modern drive-in th eater in th at city .. . Gw innett County has a $6,000,000 water system u nd er construc tion . . . Bla kely Mfg. Co., whi ch ma kes washabl e service uniform s, held open house at it s new plant recently . . .' Georgia's hon ey p roduction in 1955 was 2,412,000 pounds, va lued a t $656,000 . . . Cel ebrati on of Armour Week at T ifto n revealed th at th e pl ant th er e, whi ch emp loys 400, spe n t $ 14,000,000 in th e area last year for livestock, wages and othe r costs . . . In ternational Fen ce Co., which mak es all-steel fences, is a new enter prise at Forest P ark. 
Calh oun N ati on al Bank, Calhoun, is rem odel ing its bui lding to dou ble the floor space .. . Work on th e H a rtwell Dam is progr essing on schedule, th e U . S. Corps of En gin eers rep ort s . . . Central Georgia V ault Co., Macon, h as been ch artered to manufactu re cast conc re te va ults a nd allied products. 
U . S. H ousing Administration has authorized construction of 50 wh ite and 50 N egr o housing units a t Gainesville . . . D . B. Blalock, chairma n of J ekyll Isla nd St ate Par k Authority, announces that a 30-unit mo tel to cost $200,000 will be erec ted on th e isla nd. 
Savannah's new television sta tion. WSA V -TV, began op eration . .. Tift Co llege, F orsyth, is bu ilding a new dormitor y . . . Sa n dersville R ailroad is constructing a six-m ile line to serv e th e Georgia K aolin Co.' s new ch alk pla nt. The pla nt will emp loy 400 when it ge ts on full pro due tion . . . Allied Van Lines, In c., is in its new $300,000 
 
Hugh Shrimp-tor-Soup Order 
 
Makes Brunswick Plant Hum 
 
Tha nks to a n ati on wide taste for sh rimp soup, a Brunswick shrimp plan t had to send out a n SOS for 100 add itional employes. 
J eky ll Island P a c kin g Co., th e world's lar gest shrimp pr ocessor , received a ru sh ca ll for a qu arter-million pounds of soup shrimp. R ecent em ployment of the plan t has been run-ning aroun d 300, but A. L. Greene, man ager, had to recruit 100 mo re women workers to get th e or der under 
 
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Campbell Soup Co. introd u ced frozen crea m of shrimp soup abou t two years ago, and J ekyll is one of th e principal su ppliers of sh rimp. The Brunswick firm ships to ca nning p lants in Californ ia, New J er sey a nd Chicago. 
Shrimp for soup mu st be comp letely free of she ll and vein, M r. Greene said, a nd th e task of p rep a rin g it is mor e meti culous th a n when the shrimp are destined for other p urposes. 
 
terminal bui ldin g in Chamblee. Dublin 's new H ealth Cen ter is in 
operation . . . Georgia St ate H ighw ay D epartm ent will dedi cate its $ 1,000,000 labora tory on th e Georgia T ech campus, Atla nta, on F eb. 29 . . . Insu ra nce Compan y of North America is ere cting a $250,000 office bui ldin g for its Atlanta headqua rters. 
Butler's In c., ret ailin g shoe fir m, h as purcha sed 12 ac res ncar Brookwood St at ion , Atlanta, up on wh ich it will erec t a warehouse . . . Sca pa-D ryers, In c., is install ing machiner y in its mil lion-d olla r plant at Waycross. The British-Canadian firm will m anufacture dri er s for th e p ap er-making indu str y. 
Seven -U p Bottling Co. , Gainesville, has purch ased la nd u pon which to erect a 15,000 square -foot plant . . . T he new $800,000 brid ge across th e O osta- 
 
nau la Ri ver a t R ome is op en . . . M eLella n's is remodelling it s Marietta sto re a t a cost of $ 185,000 . . . T. H. Resseau , Jr., is cha irma n of th e Eatonton Ex chan ge C lub's four th a nnua l Dairy F estival to be held in June . .. H am alyn En terprises, In c., New York, has pu rch ased th e N ew Dublin H otel block in Dublin. 
The Bank of D ad e Co unt y, Trenton, is in its new build ing . . . Rural Gas Co., L yons, has been sold to J a mes L. 
.J. O lin and Ernest H . H arp er . .. O f- 
ficials of Sa vanna h 's Sou th Atla ntic Gas Co., say a 60-foo t sphe rical n atural gas tank, now under const ruc tion, will be completed in M ar ch . . . Swift & Co . says expenditures at it s Moultrie pla n t in 1955 tot aled $2 1,677,000. 
Ci ty Coun cil of F lower y Branch has reques ted Ga inesville to pump wat er int o its wa ter system 
 
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* MA RVIN GRIFFIN Gover nor  BO ARD OF COM MI SSIONER S 
EM O RY L. BUTLER Ch air man 
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NE LSON M . SH IPP 
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March, 1956 
 
LEES TO BUILD SECOND PLANT NEAR CLAYTON 
J am es Lees & Son s Co., of Bridgeport, Conn., has announced plan s to build a new tufted carpe t mill on land pur cha sed in R abun County, near Clayton, G a. Operati on of th e plant wiII be ca rr ied on by Rabun Mill s, In c., a recently organized Lees' subsidiary. 
Lees last yea r placed in operation its first Georgia plant, the Pin e T ree Co., at D ahl onega. 
 
WEDDING BELLS RING 54,488 TIMES IN 1955 
Cupid's score wa s 54,488 marriages in Geor gia in 1955, an advance of 2,984 over th e p reviou s year. Atl anta recorded 5,302 marri ages, 276 more th an for 1954. 
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Movie-making scene in Northeast Georgia, as J eff Hunter , playing railroad hero Willi am A. Fuller , rid es th e tend er of th e locomoti ve T exas in ' Valt Di snev's "T he Gr eat Locomotive Chase:" filmed on th e Tallulah Falls R ailw ay. The movie is a re-enactment of An drews' R aid . (Story on Page 3.) 
 
ARMOUR'S TIFTON PLA NT-Largcst single indu stry in th e Tift County city , th e Armour & Co. plan t employs 400 and has been operating continuously for 20 years, The plant was th c central po int of th e recent " Armour Week" celebration. 
 
TIFTON AND ARMOUR CELEBRATE 
 
MUTUAL PROGRESS, PROSPERITY 
 
Ti fton and Armour & Co. are mar chin g along together to th e tunc of p rogr ess. 
The south Geor gia city and th e nation ally known meat packer join ed recently in celebrating 20 yea rs of growth. Wh ile th e even t was centered in Tifton , "Armour Weeks" were also held in Alban y, M oultrie, V aldosta, Thom asville and W aycross, and in T al lah assee, Fla . 
The Tifton project was sponsored by the Tift County Chamber of Commerce in observance of Ar mour's 20th anniversary of plant operation there. 
Hig hlight of t he week was an ad dress at the annua l banquet of the Chamber of Commerce by Armour V ice President Walter S. Shafer of Chicago. He pointed out that during the past five years the company has spent more than $76,000,000 in the Tifton area for livestock, salaries, taxes , maintenance and other operating expenses. 
Mr. Shaf er emphasized th e tr emendou s pot ential of th e livestock industry in Geor gia and the South. 
"T he gro wth of th e Ti fton plan t will depend largely on th e supply of livestock" he said . " We would like to sec thi s plant doubl ed, and th e company wiII do all it ca n to bri ng it abou t." 
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ARMOUR'S TIFTON pl ant presen tly employs abou t 400 work er s. 
Other fea tur es of the week-long celebr ati on included : 
 
Appear ances of " M iss Wiscon sin of 1956" (M argaret Walls of Milwaukee ) in connection with th e packer s' line of cheeses . 
A cooking festival cond uc ted by Armours home economist, M ar ie Gifford, which was at tended by mor e th an 800 women of T ifto n. Similar festivalswer e held in M oultrie, Alban y, Valdosta, Thom asville and T all ah assee. 
T wo pay-d ays in wh ich Armour employees received th eir wages in twodollar bills. 
Armour di splays in abou t 70 businesses wh ich do not handle food, in addit ion to spec ial displays in all food stores in th e area . 
EMPLOYEES IN EACH parncipating firm- includ ing banks, furn itur e stores, au tomobile dealers, clothiers and every other typ e of business-wore blue ribbons with th e words "Armour Week" imprin ted on th em . 
T ifton Plant M an ager Alan K . Bird accep ted a certificate of appreciation presented to Arm our by th e Ch amber of Commer ce, th e City of Tifton and Tift Coun ty, at the cha mber's annua l banquet. 
Also at the ba nquet, Master of Ceremonies, George P. Do na ldson read a telegram from State R epre- 
sentatives 'V . T. Bodenhamer and 
Howard Fowler of Tift County, re por ting that the General Assembly had passed a resolution com men ding Armour for its contribution to Georgia 's economy. 
 
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OLD-TIME TRAIN ON TALLULAH 
 
URGED AS TOURIST ATTRACTION 
 
DISNEY'S 'CHASE' '1 
PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON GEORGIA LINE 
 
Georgia's most picturesque railroa d, soon to be spotl ighted nationally on th e motion picture screen, may take its place at th e head of th e state's list of tourist attractions. 
A move is under way to bring an old-fashioned wood-burning locomotive and wooden passenger cars back to the Tallulah Falls Railway, locale of Walt Disney's Ge orgia spy drama, "The Great Locomotive Chase." 
Thc T allulah , wh ich is 112 yca rs old, operates from Co rn elia, Ga ., to Franklin, N. C., through th e heart of the Blu e R idge M ountain s. T un nels, grades, sweep ing cu rves and 43 trestles, th e high est of whi ch is 96 feet , a ttes t to its ru ggedness. Di sney chose it as th e setting for his W a r Between th e St a tes movie becau se it still fit s descriptions of th e railroad on whi ch th e ac tua l chase of And rews' raid took pl ace. 
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THE TALLULAH is diesclized now, and its traffi c is limited to tw o fr eight trains a d ay. But in th e ea rly 1900's, wh en "e xcursions" were run to T allulah Gor ge and other scenic spo ts along th e route, th e road enjoyed a brisk tourist patron age. Pointing out th at th ese scenic attra ctions ar c still th er e, a nd th at th ey will receive vas t publicity when th e tcchnicolor pi cture is released, leaders of Cornelia, Clay ton a nd other commun ities on th e railro ad a re ur ging th at th e line du st off an a n tique t ra in and put it in operation. 
"It would be a priceless tourist attraction, particularly now that steam locomotives have all but disappeared," says Mrs. Helen S. St ewart, manager of th e Cornelia Chamber of Commerce. 
"T he G reat Locom ot ive Chas e" was filmed along th e Tallula h last F all wh en, appea ring in per son for th e first week, Mr. D isney b roug ht 180 ac tors and technicians fro m. Burbank Cal., to th e location for th e dr am atic re-st agin g 
 
I N DISN EY DRAMA- Jeff Hunter , (l eft ) , co-sta r of Fess Parker in " T he Great Lo comotive Chase," as a scene wa s filmed near C layton . Portraying a Confederate sold ier at right is Geor ge (Sleepy) H ead, popular hillbilly mu sician from Atlanta, on e of many Ge orgians who pla y in th e movi e. 
 
of one of histor y's strangest and most th rill ing incid ents. 
THE REAL-LIFE locom ot ive chase took place in 1862, wh en th e pr ofes- 
siona l spy, .Iames J . Andr ews, led a 
scor e of disgu ised U nion soldiers behind th e Co nfederate lines in an attempt to cripple th e South's vita l mili tar y tr an sport system. T he raid ers sought to pu t th e stra tegi c Western & Atla n tic route ou t of commission between Chattanooga, on th e battle fr ont , and Atla n ta , the br ead basket of th e Co nfedera cy. 
History reports that the daring raid fai led onl y because of one man -William A. Fuller , of Atlanta, con ductor of th e Confederate train Andrews' band stole for their railroad -wrecking rid e ba ck toward their own lin es. Kennesaw-then known as Big Shanty-was selected as th e 
 
point at which to kidnap the train because Andrews knew it had no telegraph and that Fuller's crew stopped there for breakfast. 
 
T hei r plot wen t awry wh en th e 
 
doughty Fuller com ma ndeered ano ther 
 
tr ain a nd cap ture d th em after a hair- 
 
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THE TWO LOCOMOTIVES in volved in th e chas e still exist. The Gene ra l, stolen by th e raid ers, sta nd s in C ha tt a nooga's U n ion dep ot. The T exas, comm a ndeered by Fuller to overha u l th e Yankees, is in the Atlan ta Cyclorama at G ra nt P ar k. 
H owever , since neither of th e histori c eng ines is opera ble, Di sney im ported "sta nd ins" for th e film. T he 
 
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LANIER, GEORGIA'S NO. 1 LAKE, 
 
SHAPING UP AT BUFORD DAM 
 
L ak e L a nier, whi ch will be the la rg- est a ll-Geo rg ia la ke, is forming behind Buford Da m, and alre ady weeken d motori sts a re drivin g bumper to bumper to view th is conse rv a tion ma rvel. 
Water s of th e m ighty Chattah oochee bega n backing up in the 37,000 ac res on Feb . 1, wh en cere mo nies a tte nding the lowerin g of th e sluice ga tes. Fed by heavy ra ins, th e lak e a t th e dam has a lread y a t ta ine d conside ra ble depth. 
A six-year construction operation of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, costi ng $42,000,000, wa s climaxed as the b ig gates went into action. 
T he dam, located near Buford, will impound runoff waters from more than 1,000 sq uare miles above th e site and provide flood control along the C ha tta hoochee as well as an adequate water supply for th e G rea ter Atlanta area . 
Bu ford Dam is a p art of th e network of d ams along the Chattah oochee, Ap a lachi cola a nd Flint R ivers. L a ke L anier, which it crea tes, is n am ed for Sidney L ani er , G eorgia poet wh o immo rtalized t he former st rea m in his classic " Song of the Ch attah oochee." 
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LAKE LANIER'S sho re line will be develop ed in man y pl aces in to reCl'ea-, tion sp ots, including a $ 1,500 ,000 p roj ec t to be built by th e Ci ty of G a inesville. 
The Buford imp ounding project consists of a ea r then dam 192 feet high whi ch stretches 1,639 feet ac ross th e river, a nd th ree low ea rth saddle dik es f~lI ing in low pl a ces in the reserv oir 1'1m . 
GROUND WAS BROKEN for th e construc tion of the da m in 1949. Sin ce th at tim e, th e face of th e earth has been a lte red. M oun ta ins wer e pier ced to cha nne l th e riv er or blasted away to obtain sto ne a nd soil to bu ild th e earthwor ks. An entire comm unity of fa rming pe ople- their homes, possessions, livestock , chu rc hes an d cemeter ies- was moved out of th e Upper C ha tta hooc hee Valley to make wa y for the reservoir, a nd wh ole forests wer e cleared to provide safe navigation a nd a clea n shoreline. R oad s h ad to be relocat ed a nd new, high e r bridges 
 
BUFORD DAM-This aerial photograph gives a splen did view of th e $42 ,000,000 project th at will harness th e mighty Chattahooch ee and provide more power, flood protection and recr ea tion for Geo rgia. The for ebay, at ri ght, has bee n partially shut off to begin fillin g Lak e Lanier at upper ri ght.-Photo by Ed Brazl ey, Gainesville. 
 
constr uc ted. 
When filled, Lake Lanier will extend 35 miles up the Chattahoochee and 25 miles up the C hestatee River from the da m. It will have a shorelin e measuring 580 miles. 
Lanier will be the largest reservoir la ke in Georgia ly ing entirely wit hin the state. Clark H ill, on the Sava nna h Ri ver, covers 71,100 acres but lies partly in South Carolina. Jim Woodruff, on the Chattahoo chee, Apalachicola and Flint Rivers, wh en comp leted will cover 37,000 acre s, but will lie in F lorida and Alabama as well as in Georgia. Allatoona, on the Etowah above Cart ersville, Ga., is 10,550 acres in area. 
C ha rles J ackson, resi dent en gine er at the Buford , sai d the reservoir will pr obably not be filled to ca pac ity until 
a bou t .I un e 1957. 
H owever, Colon el Bisbort sa id th e fir st po wer will be ge ne ra ted fr om th e da m in D ecem ber of thi s vca r. The ini tial prod ucti on will be enough to 
 
serve 6 1,000 hom es. 
Aside f ro m 810 ,000 ,000 kilowatt hou rs of hydro-electric lmergy produced eac h yea r, th e da m will regulate th e stre am flow of th e Chattahooche e to industrial plants a nd municipalities a nd assure navigable waters on th e Ap ala chicola River in northwest F lorida. 
A mini mum of 500 cubic feet of water per second will be a llowe d to pa ss the d am. 
8,046 WORK AT GM PLANTS IN GEORGIA 
A tot a l of 8,046 person s wer e employed in Georgia pl ants of Gen eral M ot ors Co. in 1955. 
T heir ea rn ings for the year ca me to $43,9 12,045. 
Th is was far a head of th e 1954 payroll, wh en 5,5 13 plant worker s had aggrega te ea rn ings of $28 ,414,466 , GM officia ls sa id. 
 
GE O RG IA DEPARTMENT OF C O ~vI MERCE 
 
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March, 1956 
 
$400,000,000 IN NEW INDUSTRY 
 
ON CENTRAL OF GEORGIA LINES 
 
With som e $400,000,000 in new industry established on it s lin es over the past 15 years, th e Central of Geo rgia Railway is dri ving like a diesel locomotive to bring still mor e new plants and pa yrolls to Georgia and the Sou th east. 
" Fo rty-four new industries located along our lin es last yea r." says H arrell L. P erkins, vice presiden t of th e railroad in cha rge of industrial develop ment. " O ur program of promoting communities and ad vertising specific sites, coupled with th e continuation of business at a high level, ca uses us to predi ct that 1956 will be one of our best yea rs." 
The Central is a top salesman of Georgia a nd th e New South ; its nation al advertising is a calling ca rd for new industry. Ads featurin g fac tu al inform ation and aeria l phot ogr aphs of plant site location s in Sava nn ah, M acon, Am ericus, Fort Valley a nd other ar eas ar e run in magazi nes aimed at the key bu siness executives of th e coun try. I nqu iries for det ai led inform ation regarding these loca tions ar e received in confidence and immediat ely serviced . 
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LAST YEAR, 254 requests for additional information were received from comp anies in terested in locating in Georgia, Mr. Perkins said . 
The railroad's current national ad is a booster for its newest planned industrial area, the Central Industrial District near Atlanta. This tract, lying in Clayt on County south west of th e city limi ts, on th e railroad 
 
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R USH SE RVICE-The Ce ntral of Geo rgia, whic h has located $400,000,000 in new industry along its lines, speeds indust ry's prod ucts to the nation via fast frei g-ht . 
 
a nd fa cing on th e four-lane Sou th Ex pressway (U.S. Highway 4 1-19), con tains 490 acr es of level terrain and "o ffers all the conve n iences of an urban location, with plenty of elbow ro om for profitable plant operation and gro wt h ." 
"T he conce n tra tion of industries in thi s pl anned district will cu t your con struc tion, utiliti es an d m aintenance costs and reduce distribution expenses," says the ad , which goes on to cite som e of th e basic advan tages At lanta a nd Geor gia offer . 
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" CO M PETENT LABOR - with high ly adaptable skills- is p lentiful a nd stable, willing to give a da y's work for 
 
a d ay's pay. Business, labor a nd local govern men t are fri endly to new ind ustr y, offering wholeh earted coope ra tion in establish ing a profitab le p lant or war eho use." 
"You ca n cou nt on Ce ntral of Georgia'S Industrial D evelopment D epa rtm en t for fr iendly help, too ," the message concl udes. 
The Ce ntral Indust rial Di strict is the secon d pl anned indust rial distri ct to be develop ed by the railroad in the Atla n ta m etropolitan area. The fir st, th e E mpire Indust rial District at East Point, whi ch was sta r ted in late 1949, now has 2 1 firm s. 
Under th e Central's spo nsorship, many local industrial committees have been esta blished in th e sta te. They a re coope ra ting hand in han d with th e rai lroad's industrial experts . in presen ting th eir indust rial pot ent ials to best adva n tage. 
 
SE RVING I ND USTRY-Some of the Ce n tral's 1,900 new freight ca rs leave a Georgia factory, load ed with pr od ucts destin ed to th e fou r corne rs of the ea rt h. 
 
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T he Central's trained industr ial sit e specialists do mu ch necessar y spadework for indu st rial prospect s without obliga tion. M aps a nd d ata in full detail a re prep a red on acreage, pop ulation , labor, ma rk et s, rail , wa ter and highway tran sportation, wa ter supply, weather , power , tax es, communi ty services or any other facet s of inter est . Good salesman th at it is, th e Central want s satisfied customers . 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF C O MMERCE 
 
 N EWS L ETTER 
 
M ar ch, 1956 
 
WASHINGTON WILKES TO OPEN 
 
SH INES OF HISTORIC GEORGIA 
 
I n keep ing with it s heri tage of gra cious living, th e histor ic town of Washington -Wilkes will open th e doors of some of its finest man sions and qu aint churches on Ap ril 11 for th e Washingt on Woman's C lub tour of homes. 
I nclu ded on the itincrarv will be M t. Pleasan t, seven miles eas t of the city on Hi ghw a y 378, wher e Eli Whitney pe rfec ted his cotto n gin. Th is beau tiful plantat ion home sta nds almost as it was first erec ted a round 1790. 
Another feature will be old Smyrna Church and cern eterv laid out in 1788. Originally Presbyterian, it was taken over bv th e M ethodists in 1825. Sin ce out ~f th e original Wilkes Coun ty the State of Georgia grew, many of her most illustrious sons and daughters rest under th e tremendo~s oa ks, ceda rs and m agnoli as of thi s shrine . 
The sta tc lv Willi s A . L ind sey hom e with its two 'fron t door s an d long Dutch window s, once th e home of sta tesma n Du nca n G . Campbell, will fascina te ou tsiders. T his hou se was built in two parts; the olde r section, da ting from 1820, has timb ers which a re n umb er ed in L atin numer als. 
ONEOFTHELOVEUEST~m ~ 
on th e age nda is Pcaccwood , th e ruralurban residen ce of the C ha rles Sa un der s. T his 1790 house ha s recen tly been restor ed a nd th e adja cen t home of th e plantation 's overseer has been mad e into a delightfu l guest hom e. 
An other rccentlv restored hom e on th e tour is Evert~n House whi ch is filled with pri celess ant iques. Its old barn has been conver ted in to a ~u est hou se. 
The Epi scop al C hurch is espee ialII' int er est ing with its interior ap pointments of heart pin e and its ha ndsome windows. The latt er were design ed by Wi lbur H erb ert Bu rham who design ed th e Lee and Jackson windows in th e Nat iona l Cathedral. 
T he cha rm ing little Pr esbyt eri an C hurch will also be open to visitors. I n its vestibu le is the tomb of it s first p astor , the R ev, Alexander H amilton " ' ebster, who died in 1835. Some of th e gree n-shu ttere d windows still h ave han d -blow n panes, and th e little banister ed ehoir sta ll, th e sofa in th e p ulpi t a nd th e p ulp it lamps a re mor e th an 
 
WILLIS A. LI ND SEY HOM E-Built in 1820 , it ha s timbers numbered in Latin nu mcrals. T he Washin~ton -Wilkcs tou r of hom cs will inc lud e this mansion . 
 
100 yea rs old . 
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OF SPECIAL INTEREST to guests will be th e Mary Willis Librar y, th e first libra ry in Georg ia open free to both town a nd coun t ry. Dr. F ran cis T. Willis esta blished it as a mem orial to his dau ghter in 1889. It eontains m an y valu abl e sou venirs of Wi lkes County's past, incl uding mement oes of th e last 
STATE TABS $400,000 FOR JEKYLL RESORT 
Acting on a legislati ve committee's rep ort that J ekyll Island has a " po ten tia l mon ey va lue of $20,000 ,000 a nd unlimi ted possibiliti es for development of a seaside resort for usc by all th e p eople of Geo rg ia," Gov. M a rvin G riffin has ta bbed $400,000 for its fur ther developmcn t. 
Exp end itures would go to rem odel hot el fa cilities to provide 125 ad ditional rooms and conversion of th e presen t indoor tenn is court int o a conven tion hall with a sea ting ca pac ity of 1,200. 
Ea rly completion of th e Sidn ey L anier Bridge will grea tly facilit a te tra vel to a nd from the islan d , th e Gov ern or said . 
HOMER GETS PLANT Blue Bell Mfg. Co., Greensboro, N. 
C., ga rme n t-ma king fir m, has signed a 
 
meeting of the Con feder at e Cabinet wh ich was held in Washingt on in M ay 186 5. 
H eadquarter s of th e Ap ril 11 tou r will be th e Wilk es Cou ntv Courthouse in Washington. H our s or' the tour will be l O a . m. to 6 p. m. Mrs. F rank Thomas is tour ch airma n and lun cheon reserv at ions a re in cha rge of M rs. Jim Lind sey. 
lease on a two-story conc re te bu ilding a t H om er and will be in opera tion soon. Compan y officials say initial emp loyment will be 60, bu t th at a goa l of 100 wor kers is set. T he plan t payro ll will put a bou t $ 10,000 a month in circulation in Banks County. 
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STEPHENS-ADAMSON CO. 
Step hens-Ad amson Mfg. Co. , of Aurora , 111., has open ed a new war eh ouse a nd sa les office at 650 Murphy Ave., S.W., At lan ta, to handle its St anda rd line of conveyo rs, ca r puller s, box-car loaders, spee d reducer s, etc. 
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GOLD PLANT ADDS Addition of 15,000 squa re feet to cur- 
ren t m ill facilities with imp rovements will give Go ld & Co. one of th e lar gest and most mod ern ru g pl ants in D alton . .J er ry Gold, presiden t, a nnounced th at two new 15-inch car pet mach ines ar e bein g installed . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
M ar ch, 1956 
 
CiEORCiIA TAKES 
 
SOUTHEAST LEAD 
 
IN WHOLESALINCi 
 
Geor gia h as tak en th e whol esale 
 
tr ad e lead ership in th e Southea st. 
 
Figures just released from th e 1954 
 
census of bu siness tak en by th e Bur eau 
 
of th e Census credit Geor gia wh olesal<-.; 
as with sales of $4,493,868,000, lar gest 
 
total in th e seven-sta te area. 
 
In 1948, when th e last previous bu si- 
 
ness census was tak en, Tennessee had 
 
th e lead with $3,33 7,736,000, whi ch 
 
compared with Geor gia's $3, 147,403, - 
 
000 . 
 
In addition to climbing to th e top in 
 
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volume, Geor gia also adva nce d to 11th place in th e en tire nation in rat e of 
 
$13 ,000,000 DAM-Architect's drawin g- of proposed Oli ver Dam, h yd ro -elec tr ic proj ect of th e G eor g-ia Pow er Co. , to be loca ted on th e Chattahooch ee Riv er near Col umbus. 
 
inc rease in th e six-year period, says th e U . S. Dep artment of Commer ce. Geor- 
 
T he dam , 75 feet hi g-h and 2,02 1 fcct lon g, will form a lake m ar e th an eig-ht miles long, cove ri ng 2,400 acres . The pl ant will p rodu ce 22 5,000,00 0 kilowatt hours of elect ricity 
 
gia's r at e of gain , 42.8 per cen t, far 
GEORGIA PACKERS LEAD DIXIE exceeded the average of 29.6 per cent 
for th e nation . 
 
IN BEEF, HOG SLAUGHTERING Wholesale sales in the Southeast in 
1954 were placed at over $21,000,000,000. Besides Georgia's $4,493,868,000, 
 
Alab ama had $2,325,951 ,000, F lorida, $3,402,04 1,000, Mis sissippi , $ 1,183,83 1,000. North Carolina, $4, 165,75 8,000, South Carolina, $1,334,750,000, and T ennessee, $4,492,009,000. 
Of Geor gia's 1954 tot al, Fulton County had $2,905,387,000, Chatham, $227,508,000, Bibb , $ 102,618,000, Ri chmond, $107,60 3,000, Muscogee, $102 ,670,000 , and D eK alb, $171 ,648,000 . 
 
Geo rg ia's comme rcia l slau ghter ing houses a rc th e bu siest in D ixie. 
From J anuar y through De cember 1955, Ge org ia p ackers led th e sevensta te a rea in th e slau ghter of both beef ca ttle and hogs, says th e Agri cultural Marketing Servi ce, U . S. Dep a rtment of Agri cu ltu re. 
Beef ca tt le sla ug htered during th e 
 
vea l' tot aled 540,000 , an incer ase of 9, 
boo over 1954, and hogs 1,615,000, an 
incr ease of 135,000. Geo rgia pa ckers a lso sla ugh tered 190,700 beef ca lves during 1955, alt houg h th e tot al in th is ca tego ry represen ted a declin e of 10,900 head . 
The ca ttle sla ug h tered in Geo rg ia last year weigh ed 359,326,000 pounds and th e hogs 322,739,000 po unds. 
 
Old-Time Train on Tallulah 
 
Slau ghtering tot als for th e yea r in th e Sou th east - Geo rg ia, Alabama , 
 
Urged As Tourist Attraction 
 
Florid a, M ississippi , th e two Ca ro linas and T ennessee-wer e 2,179,800 ca tt le weighing around 1,586,372,000 pounds, 
 
(Continued from Pa ge 3) 
 
1,094,000 calves with a live weight of 
 
100-year old Wi lliam M ason, a vet eran ton-he built to suit his purpose. 
 
296,482,000 pounds, and 5,72 7,400 
 
of U nion Army service, portrays th e 
 
Andrews' chase lasted eight h ours on hogs with a weight of 1.2 18,293,000 
 
Gener al, and th e In yo substitu tes for th at Saturday of April 12, 1862 ; D is- pou nd s. 
 
th e T ex as. The In yo was bui lt in th e ney's took six weeks. In th e cou rse of 
 
SOUTHERN BELL'S 1870's to haul silver from th e Com- th at period he hired dozens of local 
stoek Lod e in N evad a to San Fran cis- ac tors fr om Atl anta and th e C layt on 
 
co's mint. Since the Western & Atlantic is 
now a streamlined, high-speed segment of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis ru nning through busy 
 
a rea, spent close to half a milli on dollar s for supp lies, labor and talent and exer cised his ben t for good public relation s to suc h a degr ee th at th e Geor gia Legislature felt ca lled up on 
 
NEW FACILITIES AT $228 MILLION 
 
cities a nd h ighl y developed country- to respond. 
 
Sou the rn Bell Telephon e & T ele- 
 
side, Disney counted himself lucky to 
 
In a resolution, th e lawmak ers graph Co . spen t $288,500,000 for new 
 
find on the Tallulah R ailroad , not 50 lau ded Mr. Di sney as "o ne of ou r for e- faciliti es in th e Sou th in 1955 a nd add- 
 
miles to the east, all of t he "props" 
 
most moti on pi cture producers," cited ed 349,000 telephon es, ac cording to th e 
 
required for the picture exce pt the 
 
th e benefits such film p roduct ion brin gs compa ny 's annua l report. 
 
rig ht station stops. T hese - Big to th e sta te and ex tended him a hea rt y 
 
New faci lities in Georg ia amo un ted 
 
Shanty, Allatoona, Etowah, King- welcome to return to Geor gia to mak e to $30,000,000 a nd 50,000 new tele- 
 
stan, Adairsville, Calhoun and Dal- future pi ctures. 
 
phones wer e adde d during th e year. 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
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M a rch , 1956 
 
- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS 
 
C. H. Petty, of D awson , h as bought th e Tifton Nchi Bottling Co . ... Waycross a nd Golf L eaf Tobacco Warehouses, both a t \ Vaycross, have been purch ased by K entucky-N orth C arolina int er ests . . . Allen H . Douglas has bcgun his duties as director of A ugusta 's C ommittee of 100 . . . Brunswick observed th e 100th anniversa ry of it s cha rte r F ebruarv 22 . . . Cobb Ex change Bank, Marietta, is in a new, mod ern bui ld ing. 
 
Aug usta City Council mov ed to develop the Port of Aug usta after Gov ern or Griffin signed a legislative bill a u thorizing a $250 ,000 expenditure ... R obers-C ru ce T ractor Co., Swainsboro, is erec ting a new building . . . A $ 165,000 Nat ional G uard armory will be bu ilt at Brunswick .. . Atlanta Gas Ligh t Co. observed its 100th an ni versary. It serves 300,000 customers ... 
J. R . L ien tz has been named resident 
man ager of th e Union Bag & Pap er Co.'s pl ant a t Sava nna h . 
Hall Co un ty vo ters approved a $250,000 bond issue toward a $700,000 addition to th e coun ty ho spital at Gainesville .. . St . joe (F la.) Paper Co. purch ased th e R eynolds Brothers L umber Co., Albany. 
W arren J. Smith Co., A thens drug 
a nd variet y firm, celebra ted it s 67th a nnivcrsa y. Owners are R al ph a nd M arion Cono lly, J oh n F . Moon an d D r. Billy B. Epps . . . Mc.Ev er Packing Co., has mov ed to a new 21,000 square-foot building on a 27-acre tract nca r Talmo, Hall County. T he firm employs 60 peop le. 
E llav ille is extending its water lin es and erec t ing a 100,000 ga llon tank ... DuPont's $6,000 ,000 p ai nt p lant at 
 
NEAR COMPLETION-New hom e of the Bank of Fulton C ounty at Ea st Po int. Co stin g $250,000, th e building conta ins 10,000 square feet of floor space and in corporat es all modern custome r conve n iences . Drive-in windo ws, complete air condit ion ing and a large parking ar ea a re fea t ures. Organized in 1934, the bank now ha s r esources totaling $8,000,000. Fred W . C oope r is pr esid ent. 
 
Tucker will go into fu ll p ro du ction in J une. K arl E . Ack ley will be manager. 
Southern Nitrogen Co. has broken ground for its hu ge new plant at Sav a nnah . . . Pet D airy Pro du cts Co. purchased the Magnolia Creamery at M illedgev ille . . . W esleyan College, Macon, has op ened a $750,000 Fine Ar ts building . .. Griffin's National Guard unit is in its new armory. 
Sh eppard & Smi th is a new re ady mix ed concret e firm at Sandersvill e .. . King Mill, Augusta, will erect an $80,000 wareho use ... Summerville is exp anding its wa terworks system . . . Cherokee Engin eering Co., Macon, was awa rde d con tract by th e Baldwin County Commission to make surveys for th e Milledgeville-Bald win Airport. 
A. & P. will open a supermarket at Commerce ... K ennesaw L and & Insurance Co. pl a ns a $100 ,000 offi ce a nd 
 
sto re bu ild ing at Marietta . . . u . S. 
Highway No . I Motel, Ada irsville, has 
been sold by J. A. Edwa rds to A. P. 
Moore, A tla nta . . . Smyrna Investment Co . is erecting a building to lease to th e Bank of Sm yrna . . . Crossroads Shopping Center , in C ha tham County nea r Savannah, opened .. . R ome Pl ow Co . has added to its C edartown plant . . . M er cer University, Macon , h as begun a million-dollar building p rogram . .. Eight hundr ed persons a ttended th e E lberton Chamber of Commerce's 32nd ann ua l banquet. . Coastal Chemi ca l Co ., Sa vannah is erec ting a new plant. 
EMANUEL (iETS OHIO BELL FIRM; TO EMPLOY 200 
 
BULK RATE 
U .S. POSTAGE 
Paid 
Atlanta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF" COMMERCE 
100 STATE CAPITOL 
ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA 
 
L iber ty Bell Mfg. Co ., M inerva, Ohio, electronics firm, will move its en tire op er at ion to Swainsboro. 
A 35,000 square-foot building of steel, block and brick is being ere cted to hou se th e plant. 
The Emanuel County Development Corp., of whi ch R . B. Darling is president, was instru ment al in bringing th e firm to Swainsboro. The plant, scheduled to begin op erations in April, will em p loy 200 men . 
Li ber ty Bell, in business since 1924, is on e of the la rgest manufacturers of door chimes, transformers, bells, buz~ers and signal devices in North Am er- 
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GE O RG IA DEPT . O F COMMERCE 100 State Ca pitol 
 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN 
 Governor 
BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS 
EMORY L. BUT LER Chairman 
T . C. BRANSON, JR. H OK E PETERS BEN JESSUP 
TRAMMELL McINTYRE 
 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary 
NELS ON M . SHIPP Assistant Secretary 
 
FRE D D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No. 6 
 
April , 1956 
 
CRUCIBLE STEEL SETS $400,000 HOME IN DEKALB 
Constructio n is underway on a new home for th e Crucible Steel Co., of Ameri ca, on Peachtree Industrial Blvd ., Ch amblee. 
Lo cat ed on a four- acr e tract that will provide for fu ture expansion, th e plan t will contai n 20,000 squ are feet of wareh ouse space and 5,300 squ ar e feet of offices. O f stainless steel panel wall const ruction, it will cost $400,000. Completion is scheduled for Septemb er. 
HARTWELL PLANT GROWS 
Fisher M fg. Co ., H artwell, one of the Sou th's largest manufact ur ers of textile mat erials han dling eq uipmen t, whi ch moved into a new plant only five months ago, is already add ing a new wing to its building whi ch will contain 3,200 squa re feet of floor space. The firm is owned by Glenn Fisher , J imm y Fisher an d Bob M atthews, all of H art well. 
COVER PHOTO 
Dawsonvill e, in North Georgia, near which Lockheed and the Air Force will construct an atomic-plane research ba se to cost $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. The lOl -year-old Dawson County Court House centers the photograph. (Story on Page 3 ) 
 
"WHITE COLUM NS" - New $1,500,000 home of WSB Radio and TV, Dixi e's oldest 
radio and television stations, which was form ally dedicated April 7. Situated on 16 wooded acres at the corne r of Atla nta 's Peachtree and Beverly Rds., th e building was inspir ed by th e old Govern or's Mansion at Mill edgeville. 
 
Public Urged To Attend Water Meets 
Public hearings on the proper usc and conser va tion of the sta te's wat er resources, whi ch began at th e Cap itol on Ap ril 4, will con tinue through April, M ay and J un e, acco rd ing to Scott Ca ndler , chairma n of th e Georgia Law R evision Commission. 
Citizens are ur ged to att end th e hea rings an d parti cip at e wit h the commission in discussing adeq uacy of water sour ces, conservation, str eam pollution , wat er legisla tion and other matters pertai ning to local , sectiona l and sta tewide wa ter probl ems. 
Time and pl ace of th e hea rings arc as follows: 
T ifton, April 12; Va ldosta, April 13; W aynesboro , Ap ril 19; Du blin , Ap ril 20; Columbus, M ay 8 ; M acon, M ay 9; Waycross, M ay 21; Savann ah , M ay 22; R ome, June 4 ; Gainesville, June 5. 
 
CARTERSVILLE'S NEW INDUSTRY 
Bartow Mills, Inc., Carter sville's newest industr y, has been in corpor at ed and has pur chased a tract up on whi ch to build. T he plan t will be a one- story concre te block and br ick veneer struc tu re of the most modern design. 
T he spinning of all kinds of ya rncotto n, wool, silk, or syn thetics- will be th e principal operation of th e firm . Plan s are for th e plant to begin op er ation with 50 to 60 worker s, and gra dually expa nd. 
MACON MOTOR HOTEL A 70-unit mo tor hotel to cost 
$600,000 will be erec ted on R iverside Drive, M acon, by th e Secu rity Land Co., In c., of th at city. To be called H olid ay I nn , th e two-story str uctur e will be of modern brick, steel and glass construc tion and will be completely air-cond itioned. It will offer complete hot el facilities, including a restaurant and a con vention hall. 
 
Georgia Salutes Chemical Industry 
 
Geor gia th is month is salu ting on e of its most imp ortant and fastest growing ind ustries- chemicals. 
T he week of April 23-28 has been designa ted Ch emical P rogress Week, and in p roclaimin g it Gov. M ar vin Griffin reminded all Geor gians of th e imm easur able con tributions the industry has mad e to almost every p ha se of modern life. 
In the field of new construction alone, he sa id, th e chemica l indust ry spen t $ 15,000,000 in Georgia last yea r 
 
an d thi s yea r an d next it will spe nd $87,000,000 mor e for new plant s and equipmen t. 
Emil Hl adky, manager of th e new Sava nna h plan t of American Cyan amid Co., is chairman of Ch emi cal Progress W eek. 
LATEX STORAGE PLANT 
Rubber Corp. of Am er ica will begin constru ction soon of a large bulk stor age plant at th e Savannah St at e Do cks. 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLET TER 
 
Ap ril, 1956 
 
DAWSON ATOM PLANE PROJECT 
 
TO COST SSO TO S100 MILLIONS 
 
A tremendous facility for aircraft nuclear research is to be built immediately in Dawson County. 
The project is a joint undertaking of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and the United States Air Force. 
It will cost from $50,000,000 to $ 100,000,000 . 
Its goal is th e development of an atomic-p ower ed ai rplane. 
Location of th e project is a tr act sixteen miles squa re- approximately 10,000 acres-one and three-quarters miles southwest of Dawsonvill e. This includes some of th e most primitive terrain in Geo rg ia's thinly settled Blue Ridge Mountain country. 
Con st ru ction will begin in Mayor 
June. Once in operation, th e fa cility will 
be manned by 500 scientists, engin cers and servi ce personnel. 
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THE PROJECT IS , a nd will con- 
 
tinue to be top secret. It will be completely fenced. Buildings hou sing reacto rs and ot her atomic equipment will be so la id out that th ey will be scr een ed by th e ru gged, heavi ly woo ded h ills. T he stru ctures will be widely sp aced for safe ty. No ne of th e fa cility will be visible from th e project boundaries. 
When th e installation is completed 
and in op era tion , says D an J. Haugh- 
ton , vice-p resid ent a nd gene ral manager of Lockheed 's huge Georgia Division at Marietta, it will compri se one of the finest nuclear research laboratories in th e world. 
It will not be a producti on plant, but Mr. Haughton indicated that the manufacture of an atomic-power ed plane-perhaps the fir st-might result from research there. 
" O ne of the principal reasons for pickin g th e site (D awsonville ) for the aircraft nuclear test proj ect ," he sai d, " was because of its n ea rness to our 
 
pr oducti on pla n t at M arietta ." 
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THE PROJECT will be conf ined initi ally to a new, ligh t-weigh t shield to withstand nuclear radiation. The aim of this research is to develop th e fram e of an atom ic-powered pl an e. 
The Dawson test site is 40 miles northea st of Lo ckheed's plant at Marietta and approximately 60 miles from Atlanta. It is about 16 miles north of C umming, 20 miles east of Tate, 15 miles southwest of Dahlon ega and 21 miles nor thwest of Gainesville, largest city in the area. 
Mr. Haugh ton said th e facility will use atomic reactors which will be basically the same kind as several others already operating in various sections of th e United States. 
"T hey are of a type such as are being operated with complete safety much closer to densely populated 
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T AKI NG A LOOK-A Lockheed Marietta-built Air Force C-130 H ercul es flies low over hiIly, sparsely settled Daw son County, scene of th e hu~e nuclea~-powered.aircraft research project announced by Lockheed and the Air For ce.-Lockheed Photo 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NE WSL ET T ER 
 
April, 1956 
 
GEORGIANS GEl $1.7 BILLION 
 
U. S. BUSINESS IN FIVE YEARS 
 
Business firm s in Geor gia received a total of $ 1,69-1,099,000 from th e Feder al gm Trnme nt for nation al defense goo ds a nd serv ices in th e past five yea rs. 
This was th e la rgest a mo un t by far spen t in th e Southeast to pr om ot e th e nationa l defense p rogram , a nd was th e 17th la rgest a moun t spe nt a mo ng all the sta tes. 
I nclud ed in U ncle Sam 's buying in Ge orgia was $ 1,055,689 ,000 spent by th e Air For ee. In addition, the Arm y spen t $487 ,242,000, th e Na vy, $14-8,:\90.000. a nd the Armed Serv ices Petrolell\;l Purch nsiru; Agenc y, $2,778,000. 
T he buying was done bet ween .July 1950. when th e Korean \ Va r broke ou t, and :Ja n. 1 of th is year. 
T hL $ 1,694,099,000 spent in Georgia rep resented 1.3 per cen t of th e $ 126,138,602,000 spent in the na tion. 
In th e Sout heast, Feder al expenditu res for the five-yea r agg rega ted $5,987, 154,000 . Besides Geor gia's $ 1,694.099.000. Alab am a received $824,327;000; F lorid a, $630,873,000 , Mi ssissipp i, $340,290,000 , North Ca rolina . 
 
$ 1,199,233,000, South Car olin a, $448 ,558 ,000, a nd T ennessee, $849 ,774,000 . 
Food , clothing, soa p, paint, wood pr od ucts an d scores of other commodities were bough t in Georgia by th e gO\'Crnme n t services, a nd man y contr acts were let to firms for work on 
 
milita ry install ations in th e sta te, most of th em go ing to firm s locat ed withi n Georgia. 
All t old , constru ction contracts, ra nging from blu e prints to buildings, in whi ch militar v installation s in Georgia figured, to t~lled $ 129,653,000 . 
 
NEW M cDONO U GH PLANT - Artist's sketch of the new plant of McDonough Pow er Equipme n t Co. , whi ch is bein g erected at M cDonough . Containing more than 75,000 sq uare feet of plant and offic e space, it will cmploy 250 work ers. The firm is p rincipally engaged in product ion of th e "Snappin' Turtle" lin e of rotary lawn mow ers. 
 
illion Atomic Proiect 
 
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cen ters," he said. 
T hL Eto wa h River runs th rou gh th e prop erty, as well as th e Am icalola Riv r-r and Shoa l C reek. There will be no pollution of th e st reams, th e Lockheed official decla red. 
DA W SON COUNT Y, cr ea ted in 1857 ou t of former lands of th e old C he ro kee Nation , cont ains 2 13 squa re m iles a nd has an altitude of ap proximatclv 1.750 lcct ab ove sea level. T he pop ulat ion, 3,712 in the 1950 census, is 100 per cr-n t white. The br oiler indu str y is th e principa l ag ricultural ac tivit y in th e a rea gene ra lly, a nd p rodu ction in th e count y ra nges between seven and eight million broilers per year , va lued a t $5,500,000. L umbering is th e second ranking ind ustry. 
Dawsonvill e, th e county seat, is a broil er supply and processing center with a population of 318. It also has two lumber mills, a cutlery manufacturer and a large pine seedling nul" sery, besides the st ores, service estab lishm en ts, schoo ls, c h u r c h oe sand homes that go to make up the -aver- 
 
age comfortable, progressive North Georgia courthouse tow n. 
D aw sonv ille is trav ersed bv U . S. Hi ghw ay 19, a favorite nor'th-south tourist route, and St ate Highway 53. The town is th e ga teway to Ami calola St at e Park, natural wonderla nd of 239 acres cen ter ing around Ami calola Fa lls. T he fa lls, with a lak e at th e su mmit, h as a sloping d rop of 729 feet. 
NEW BROILER PLANT OPENS AT FITZGERALD 
Ben H ill Co unty's newest industry, th e Fitzger ald Pou lt ry Processing Co. , 
is open, and owne r J. D . (Red ) Elling- 
ton expec ts to rea ch a cap ac ity of 10,000 broilers a week. The pl an t began op er ation with 12 emp loyees. 
DOUGLAS QUARRY OPENS 
Douglas County's newest bu siness enterprise, th e AAA Quarry, has begun ope ra tion in th e Beul ah community . The p lant, with a cap ac ity of 1,000 to 1,500 ton s of crushed stone a day. 
 
-GEORGIA DEPARTj."lENT cOF COMMERCE 
 
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Towns County To Celebrate JOOthBirthday 
Beards a rc flourish ing and centen nia l costumes a rc the topic of conve rsation as T owns County prepares to celebra te its 100th b irthday at Hi awassee on Saturday, July 7. 
Gov . M a rvin Griffin, Geor gia's 72nd gov erno r, will be speaker. The coun ty is n am ed for Gov. Geor ge Washin gt on Towns, who served as th e state's 39th ch ief execu tive, 1847-51. 
Gover nor T owns' nam esa ke nestles like a sparkling emerald high in th e mo un ta ins of No rth Geor gia, a nd is a mecca for tourists and fishermen. It has two incorp or ated town s-Hiaw assee, th e coun ty seat, and Young H arris. 
ATHENS PEPSI-COLA 
Pepsi-C ola Bottling Co . of Athens is in its new pl ant, a handsome struc ture located on West Broad St . The pl ant con ta ins 14,000 square feet of floor space and is equipped to bottle more th an 100,000 bottles of cola a day. 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
April, 1956 
 
LAY'S NEW $1~800~OOO HOME 
 
WORLD'S FINEST FOOD PLANT 
 
NEW LAY 'S PLANT-This $1 ,800,000 st ructu re conta in ing 152 ,000 sq uare feet, hou ses th e world's most mod ern eq uipme nt for producing and pa ckagin g potato chips and other sna p-ty pe food s. It is locat ed on Peachtree Indust rial Blvd ., C ha mblee. 
 
Os car, the smiling red and whi te pota to ch ip symbol, is in his new hom e. 
T he plan t, located on a 14- acre site on Peachtree In du str ial Blvd. , C ha m blee, h as act ua lly been in opera tion since last F all. But it was off icially ope ned on M a rch 23, wh en young H oward Lay, son of H erm an W . Lay, founde r and p resident, cu t a ribbo n to ad mit city, county an d state lead ers an d visiting offi cials of food compa nies from all over the nat ion . Open house for the gen era l publi c followed . 
The plant covers 152,000 squa re feet , an area larger than three foot ba ll fields , but size is not its only outstanding feature. Beauty, efficiency and conven ience are blended in the impressive bu ilding and landscaped grounds. Oscar, Lay's familia r trademark, ha s a prominent pl ace on the structure's facade of pink brick and cr eam porcelain enamel. 
Cl eanliness, flexibility and comfort were th e prime consideration in designing th e building. In th e administrative section, the motif is sma rtly mod ern. Inside the plant proper , tile floor s and walls , air conditioning, fluorescent lighting, con cea led hard ware, complete fire-proofing, and a 120-plac e employees' caf et eria combine to assure sa nitation, safety and idea l working conditions. 
Lay's began, says H erma n Lay, when he was a schoolboy with a pi an o-box ref reshm ent sta nd on th e la wn of his home. I n 1932, he established a small sna ck -food route in Nashville, T enn., and from th is veriture grew th e presen t huge organization which pion eer s, pro- 
 
cesses and distributes million s of pa ckage d food items th rough 50,000 dealers throughout th c country. 
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BESIDES ITS NEW head qu a rt er s plant, int o whi ch were consolida ted fou r manu facturing and tw o war eh ouse facilit ies th at forme rly occupie d six separate Atla nta locations, La y's op erat es plan ts in M emphis, Loui sville, J acksonville, J ackson , Mi ss., Greensboro , Ri chmond an d Washington , D . C., as wcll as war ehous es in all principa l cities in a ter ritory that stretches from New O rleans to Washington and from K ey West to Cap e Giradea u, M o. 
T he C hamblee plant, with an employment of approximately 400 , pro duces potato chips, Critos, bacon puffs, peanut butter sandwiches, cream-filled sa ndwiches, nut meats a nd other food items bearing the Osc a r lab el. Ev ery facility of th e plant provides for future expansion. 
The plant at present produces 1,000 pounds of potato chips p er hour, using select potatoes at th e rate of four pounds for ever y pound of ch ips. Human hands never touch the potatoes as they pass from temperature-con trolled storage bin s that have a capacity of 1,500 ton s, to machines where th ey a re automatically peeled, sliced , rinsed, cook ed, salted and conv eyed to th e packagin g mac h in es. 
In it s bag-making depa rtmen t, which man ufactures all Lay containers. machines p roduce 2,500,000 double-thi ckness cellophane bags a week. The pl ant consumes - 1,50C,000 pounds of mois- 
 
ture-proof cellopha ne per year. 
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FRITOS, OR CO RN C H I PS, ar e prepared from pr em ium grade corn in a depa rtmen t that provides storage for 400,000 bushels. 
Peanut butter sandwiches , made with peanut butter produced dail y by La y's, come off th e assembl y line at th e rate of 20,000 pa ckages an hour. 
Bacon puffs arc made under govern me nt inspecti on in a self-con ta in ed unit of th e plant. 
CLAY PROCESS PLANT TO LOCATE AT VVRENS 
Geo rg ia-Tennessee Mining & Ch emical Co. and the W rens I ndustrial Committ ee have completed negotiations for locating a la rge cla y processing plant a t W rens, 
W . E. Thompson , of th e I ndustrial Committee, sa id const ruc tion of th e plant , to be loca ted on th e Savannah & At lanta Railroad , will begin shortly. T hirty men will be employed at th e sta rt of th e op eration. 
T he plan t will p ro cess local clay for ship men t throug hou t th e Un ited States an d to foreign coun tries, Mr. Thompson sa id . 
CORN ELIA EXPANS ION 
Cornelia Garment Co ., wh ich manu fa ctures some 4,000 dozen crib shee ts a day, is adding 15,000 square feet to its p resent pl ant. 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
April, 1956 
 
 
 
CRAWFORD LONG MUSEUM MARKS  
 
DAWN OF PAINLESS SURGERY 
 
 
 
/ An a t tractive two-stor y b rick build- 
ing nea ring comp letion on th e public 
 
sq ua re in J efferson , J ackson Co un ty, is th e latest memo rial to Dr. Crawf ord W . L ong, Geor gia physician who took pain ou t of surgery. 
 
The Long M useum is on th e site of the hom e a nd office wher e D r. Long performed th e firs t operation with th e use of su lphur ic ethe r as a n anesthetic 
on M arch 30, 1842. The lat e D r. .J. B. 
Pendergrass, of J effer son, bought th e Long propert y in lat er yea rs and constr ucted th e bri ck building that has been remo del ed into a museum by th e Georgia H istori cal Commission . 
 
The people of J efferson and Jackson County raised $2,500 as one-half of th e purchase price of the old building and the Georgia Historical Commission matched this amount. The commission had only $2,500 more available for the restoration, but form er Gov. H erman E. Talmadge contributed an additional $22,50'0 from his emergency fund shortly befor e leavin g offic e. Thus the commission had $25,000 to comp lete the job. 
 
T he M edi cal Associa tion of Georgia 
 
has set up th e sum of $ 1,000 p er yea r 
 
for 10 years to mai ntain th e museum, a nd J ackson Co un ty a nd J effer son leaders ar e seeking L ong m emon tos for displ a y, as acco rding to C . E. Gregory, 
 
CRAWFORD W. LONG MUSEUM - This brick building on th e square at J efferson , now being restored , marks th e site of th e offi ee wher e th e fir st painless su rgery was performed on March 30, 1842. 
 
director of th e Hi storical Com mission. Step hens, who was to become governo r 
 
rounded out his studies as interne 
 
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CRA WFORD WILLIAMSON 
 
of Georg ia, U . S. congressman and vice-p residen t of th e C onf eder ate States 
 
in various hospitals for 18 months. H e returned to Georgia in 1841 and 
 
 
 
LONG was born in Danielsville, M adi- of Am erica . 
 
esta blished his practice at J efferson . 
 
son County, on N ov. 1, 1815. Hi s father , J ames L ong, was a p romin ent 
 
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Sulphuric ether, commonly called 
 
MARBLE LIKENESSES of D r. " la ug h ing ga s," had long been known 
 
merch ant, pla nt er a nd churchman. H is Long and Alex ander St ephens represent to che mists, and socia l expe rime n ts 
 
mother was beautiful Elizabeth W a re, Georgia in Sta tua ry H all in th e N a- with th e substance were a fad of th e 
 
a Vi rginia girl of Scotch- Irish an ccs- tion al Capitol. An exact replica of th e da y. L ong observ ed th a t a gro up of 
 
tory. 
 
Sta tuar y H all figu re of Long also youngsters a t an "e the r p art y" nevvr 
 
Crawford Long was named after 
 
stands in D anielsville, th e town of his seemed to noti ce th e knocks and bruises 
 
his father 's closest fr iend, William H. 
 
bir t h . 
 
suffere d in th eir hila rious horsepl ay. 
 
Crawford, of Oglethorpe County, who served as secre ta ry of war and as minist er to France, and who lost the presiden cy to John Quincy Adams by on e vote. William Crawford was the man of whom Napoleon said : " H e is the only man in the world I feel like taking my hat off to. " 
At th e age of 14, Crawf ord Long entered Franklin College a t Athens, now th e University of Geor gia . There 
 
After graduating from Franklin College in 1835 with a M. A. degre e and second honors in his class, Crawford Long served for a year as principal of the academy at Danielsville. H e then entered the medical school of Transylvania Univer sity, L exington, Ky. Two yea rs later, he transferred to th e m edical school of the University of P ennsylvania, where he studied under some of the leading doctors and surgeons of the era. 
 
Logicall y, if ethe r relieved sma ll p ain s, perhap s it might relieve pai n altogeth er. H e exper imen ted with su lphuri c ether on himself, a nd less th an a yea r later he administered th e anesthetic and removed a tumor fr om the neck of J am es V enable, a pr om inent Cobb Co un tia n. 
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MR. VENABLE, who was a n ancestor of th e V en able family th at owns St one M ountain , was so p lea sed with 
 
he was th e roommate of Alexander H. 
 
In 1839, he went to New York and 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO~MER9E 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
Apri l, 1956 
 
GEORGIA BUSINESS AT RECORD 
 
ON ALL FRONTS OF ACTIVITY 
 
Georgia business is th e best in history! 
E ver y major segm ent of th e state's economy, from banking to foreign commerce , is at an all -time high. 
This holds true in the fields of finance, retail, wholesale and department store trade, cash receipts from farm marketings, emp loymen t, new businesses incorporated, transportation, production of electric ene rgy, construction, world trade and numerous individual lines of business activity. 
Authorit y for thi s glowing summar y is M errill C . Lofton , ve tera n head of th e Atl an ta field office of th e U. S. Dep a rt men t of Comm er ce. I n his 56th quarterl y rep ort on bu siness conditio ns in th e Southeast, ju st compiled, he sa ys th at never befor e was th e bu siness 
 
situation in Geor gia any better than it was a t t i.e sta r t of the current yea r. 
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IN BANKING, expert M errill said, dep osits in Fed er al R eserv e m emb er banks in Georgia , tot alled some $ 1,500,000,000, 4.9 per cen t more th an in 1954. Loan s in these ban ks during th e yea r rose 12.9 per cent, or from $665" 700,000 to $751,900,000. 
Most of th e major cities of the state reported advances in deposits, and all of them experienced the impact from increased lending. 
D ebit s were up 12.2 per cent, from $21,200,000,000 to $24 ,000,000,000. 
R etail a nd whol esale merchants and department stores reported incre ased sal es. Retail sales were up 17 per cent and department store 
 
FATHER OF PAINLESS SURGERY 
 
( Con tinued fr om Page 6 ) thi s oper at ion th a t he return ed to J efferson on June 6, 1842, for th e removal of a second tumor. The fees against Venable for th e two operations, as well as charges for th e ethe r used, are en tere d in Dr. L ong's old acc ount book. 
Crawford Long did not seek eithe r fame or profit from his discovery, but freel y sha red it with other ph ysicians. He made no public demon- 
U. S. HONOR - Commemorative stamp issued in 1940 , honoring the Georgia country doctor who discov ered th e use of ether as anesthesia. 
 
st rations, did not even get around to publishin g a description of his ex periments until 1849. In the meanwhile, howe v e r, two Bostonians, Charles T . Jackson, a mining engi neer, and Dr. W . T. G. Morton, a dentist, bid for recognition as the "discoverers." They went so far as to try, in 1846, to secure a patent on sulphuric ether under the trade name "ethe r ine." 
Dr. Long's ledg ers show th at he perIr rm ed ma ny operations with ethe r a t j efferson between 1842 an d 1850, when he moved hi s home and p ra ctice to Atla n ta. I L later moved to At hens, then a la rger town rha n th e new Atlan ta, so th at his sons mig! ' ;,' tend th e U niver sity of Gec rgia :.  enlisted in th e Confed er at e Army ,;,- ~ : -riva te in 1861, but was ordere d to remain at hom e to min ister to th e wou r.d ec' a nd th e civilia n popu lation. He c:)(I1.:nued th e gene ral pract ice of med icine at Ath ens until th e day, almost th e hour of his death he suffered a fa tal stro ke on June 16, 1878, whil e delivering the wife of Congressma n H . H. Carlton. 
I n 1940, th e U nited St ates Post Office -Dep artmen t issued a commemorative sta mp bearing a portrai t of Craw for d W . Long, an d j am es A. Farley, th en postm aster genera l, visited J efferson to p ay tribute to h im . 
 
trade climbed 10 per cent. A 12 p er 
 
eent rise in whol esale sales in th e region was reflected in Geo rg ia . 
 
More than 2,000 new businesses 
 
incorporated in the sta te, a gain of 19.2 per cent over 1954. 
 
T he number of telep hones in use, 
 
always a baromet er of econo mic con- 
 
dition s, increased sharp ly. 
 
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GEO RGIA'S EMPLOYMENT situati on was particularly sta ble. T here 
 
were 30 per cen t less insured employees 
 
dr awing compensa tion, a nd th er e were 
 
6.2 per cen t more wage ea rners em ployed in m an uf acturing . 
 
While farmers in most sta tes were 
 
not so fortunate, thos e in Georgia 
 
exp eri enced a 6.9 per cent rise in cash re ceipts for th eir marketing last yea r over 1954. 
 
The transportation industry in th e state did a record business. Airlines 
 
showed sha rp ga ins in number of 
 
revenue passengers carried and in 
 
ton-miles of fr eight and express flown. Freight revenue of most of 
 
the railroads operating in Ge orgia 
 
a nd the larger trunk line s was greater. 
 
Ele ctric en ergy produced for industrial and utility purposes was 12.2 
 
per cent grea ter last yea r than in 
 
1954, 1955 bringing a rec ord 9,100,- 
 
000,000 kilowatt hours. 
 
SHIRT FACTORY CHOOSES ADEL 
One of the n ation's leading manufacturers of men 's and boys' sports shir ts h as chosen Ad el for a pl an t location . 
The firm was secu red by th e Cook Coun ty Chamb er of Co mm er ce, whi ch is pa rticip ating in finan cing th e enter prise. 
T o be know n as the Adel M fg. Co., the pl an t will be housed in an existing bu ilding. 
 
$3,000,000 EXPANSION 
Savann ah El ect ric & Power Co. directors have au thorized $3,000,000 of new constr uction in 1956. Mo re th an a mi llion do llars will be sp ent in starting construc tion of a new power sta tion a t Port Wentworth. 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
April, 1956 
 
- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS - 
 
COVINGTON TO GET Americus plan s an extended white- Monroe observed its 65th birthday . . . 
wa y syste m . . . Thom aston M ason s R. L. W at ford bou ght th e 22-unit 
 
NEW SPRING PLANT have Ict contract for a $50,000 building 
 .. Atlanta L odge of the Loyal Order 
 
O rl and M ot el a t Ludowici . . . Athens Chamber of Commerce observe d its 
 
of M oose is ere ct ing a $ 150,000 bu ilding . . . Atlanta Pa per Co. has put 
 
50 th anniver sarv. M alcolm Ains worth is exec utive d ire~to r. 
 
T he Southern St at es Spring Co. will be the first pla nt to locat e on Covin g- 
 
$ 1,500 ,000 wo r th of new m achiner y 
 
A new bank, of whi ch Theo Dinkins ton 's new industri al site, accor di ng to 
 
a nd eq u ipme n t into opera tion . . . Geor- is p resid ent, op en ed a t Fo lksto n . .. J ohn L . J ernigan, secret ar y of th e Co v- 
 
gia's 1955 pi mi ento crop brought $ 10,- J cffcrson Housing Authority has re - ingt on Busin ess M en 's Association . 
 
000,000 .. . G ainesville Nation al Ban k ccived a n okav to build 40 low- rent 
 
R. K. Bro wn a nd George Allen 
 
is erec t ing a new build ing . . . St and a rd homes . . . A new tob acco wa reh ouse Brow n, owners, said it will be th e first 
 
T elep hon e Co. will build an exchange to be know n as Gold L eaf No . 2 is plan t of its kind to locat e south of th e 
 
a t D emorest . .. Chevr olet ha s been is- und erwa y in Hahira . . . Stapleton is Ohio R iver. It will be a pilot p lan t 
 
sued a p ermit for a $ 700,000 expa nsion to cons truc t a $60 ,000 wa terworks sys- ma nu facturing mechanical spring s. Po- 
 
of it s At lanta plant. 
 
tem . . . Wrcns is spc nd ing $25,000 to tential emp loy me n t of th e pl ant is from 
 
Thc histori c homest ead of th e late ex pand it s w ater system . .. G en er al 100 to 150, th cy ad ded . 
 
form er Gov . J ohn M . Slat on a t Buck - Electric Co . will build a $100,000 office 
 
head, Atlanta, will be conver ted int o a hu gc sho pp ing cen tc r. D evelopmen t of the 83-acre t ract will cost $8,000 ,000  .. Atlanta's First Nation a l Ban k h as a cq uired pro pert y lor expa nsion of its North Ave. br an ch . .. M ar-j ac Poultr y Co . is bu ilding a new plant a t Gaine sville. 
R ayle Elect r ic M embership Co rp . is in its new $13 1,000 hca dq ua rt crs a t Washington ... Blackshear Bro ad ca st 
 
a nd wa reh ou se bui lding in Atlanta. 
TOOL FIRM FORMED 
Burns T ool Co., recently organ ized a nd in corpor at ed a t Loui sville, will begin oper a tio n thi s sp ring , says Sam Burns, president and gene ra l m an ager. The firm will m anufa ctu re a nd market a high -speed ch ain saw for both ind ustry and dom est ic use. 
 
NEW LUMBER MILL 
A new lumber firm, owncd by Pat Bid dy, of Color ado a nd R om e, Ga ., is beg inning oper a tions at Pea rson as a result of a d rive for new ind ustry spcarhead ed by M ayor Fran cis Corbett a nd Pear son City Coun cil. The mill will specia lize in railroad timber s, but will a lso handle' a ll kinds of rough a nd dressed lu mber. 
 
Co., Blacksh ear, a n affilia te of W AYX, 
"'Od d s' on':Tornado-in - e'orgia Waycross, ha s inauguratcd cdaily.-pro- 
g ra ms . . . C ity Bank & Trust Co., 
 
Less Than Many OthE:7 States Macon, will expand . .. Evans. Pal- 
. mour a nd J ohn J acob s, Jr., will build . a 28-un it a pa r tme n t a t Gainesvillc .. . 
 
A new sa les ba rn a t Rome was leased 
 
The odds on a tornad o occu rr ing in 2.18. 
 
to Coosa Vallev L ivestock Co. Carlton ded ica tcd its new wat er - 
works syste m, built wit h a $63, 000 bond issue . . . Hart County's new hospital a nd hea lth center a t Hartwell is open  .. A $5,000,000 shop p ing ce n ter is under cons truc t ion on Ban kh cad H wy., Atlanta.. . . H . I. Lewi s Steel Work s, Louisville , is in a new pl a nt . . . J ohn H a rla nd Co., m an uf a cturing sta tione rs, 
 
Geo rg ia arc less th an in m any other sta tes. 
In a per iod of 39 yea rs, Geo rg ia has had an aver ag e of 5.56 tornadoes a yea r. Aver ages a mo ng other nearby sta tes wer e Arkansas, 9.74, Fl orid a, 6.67, Mi ssissippi, 6.59, Alab a m a, 6.15, L ou isian a, 5.90, T ennessee, 4. 23, South Carolina, 3.23 a nd North Caro lina, 
 
Nation wide, K an sa s had th e hi gh cst average, 23.05, an d Rhod e I sland th e lowest, 0.03 . 
From 1916 to 1954, a tot al of 6,970 tornad oes occurred over th e coun try, says th c U. S. Weather Burcau, whi ch describes th e torn ad o as "one of the sma llest a nd most dangcrous of a ll sto rms. " 
 
is cons truc ting a $500 ,000 pl ant in 
 
Atlanta .. . The State of Geo rgia dedi- 
 
ca ted it s new $2,80 0,000 Agri cultural Building on Capito l Sq ua re, At lanta. 
 
BULK R ATE U.S. POSTAGE 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF' COMMERCE 
10 0 STATE C APITOL 
 
Gainesville's Fir st F ederal Savings & Loa n Assn. pla ns a $600,000 build ing  . . W . E . Beckham is building a supermar kct for Pcrry Sup er Foods a t 
 
Paid 
Atlanta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
ATLANTA 3 . GEORGIA 
 
Perry . . . Piggly Wi ggley has ope ned 
 
a supe rmark et at ' Va ynesboro. 
T erhune M otel and Coffcc Shop, Watkinsville , held opc n hous e .. . K enncston c H ospital , Marietta, pl an s a 
 
'c qui si t i on s Div~ si on ~ 
 
The The 
 
University 
Unive~ s i ty 
 
Lo~fbGr aerolreg~la 
 
100-bcd expansion .. . A bu s sta tion 
 
Athens , Ga. 
 
costing $30,000 is bcing bu ilt a t Cedar- 
 
town .. . W isem an Ba king Co., Rome, 
 
is in it s mod ern new plant . .. A motel 
 
is bcin g erec te d at Ida Cason G arden s 
 
near Chipley . . . N ational Bank of 
 
  NEWSLETTER 
 
M a y, 1956 
 
NEJJ7SLETTER 
 
P ublished mont hly by 
GE O RG IA DEPT. O F CO M M ERCE 100 State Capit ol 
 
* M ARVI N GRIFFIN Governor  BO ARD OF COMMISSIONERS 
EMORY L. BUTLER Cha irma n 
T . C. BRANSO N, JR. H OKE P ETER S BEN J ESSU P 
T RAMM ELL M cI NTYRE 
* SCOT T CANDLE R Secre ta ry 
NELSON M. SHIPP 
 Assistant Secre tary 
FRED D. MOO N Edit or 
 
Vol. t , No . i 
 
M ay, 1956 
 
ATLANTA GETS DIXIE'S BIGGEST GLASS FACTORY 
Owens-Ill inois G lass Co . plan s to construc t the la rgest glass manufact uring plant in the Southeast in Atlan ta . 
J. A. Run nels, Southern regiona l sales 
rnanazcr of the Iirru . said the install ation \~'as a pp roved a t the a nnua l director s' meeting held recently in T oledo. 
T he plant will employ 200-350 wor kers at th e ou tset a nd eventua lly a bou t 800 per son s, he said. 
T he hu ge fa ctory will be erected on a tra ct on Sylva n Rd ., where the firm at p resent ope ra tes a wa rehou se. 
ROCHELLE SHIRT PLANT AGAIN IN OPERATION 
R ochelle M f'g. Co., Rochelle, whi ch closed the fir t of the veal', has been sold to the Wi lcox Gar;nent Co ., and prod ucti on is ag ain und er wa y. 
T he p la n t expec ts to employ 80 persons within a short time , officials said. 
M adi son Shirt Co ., New Yor k, is the par ent compa ny of th e Wi lcox Garment Co. 
COVER PHOTO 
Ge orgia's ncw flag, which becom es officia l on July I, comb ines th e sta te seal and th e hallowed battle flag of the Co nfederacy, Story on pa ge 3. 
 
MO U NT AI X TO P PLANT - Aer ial view of the Pine T ree Company's modern ca rpet ya rn plan t a t Dahl onega. As it got in to full operation with 200 work ers, J oseph Lees Eastwich, president of the mill and its parent firm, J ames Lees & c ons Co., of Bridgepor t, Pa., announced th at construc tion will start in Ju ne which will double its size. photo by Ed Beazley, Ga inesville. 
 
LEES' PINE TREE YARN PLANT 
 
AT DAHLONEGA TO DOUBLE SIZE 
 
Pine Tree Co mpa ny's ca rpe t ya rn plant at Dah lonega , built less th an a yea r ago a nd already employing 200 persons, will be doubl ed in size by constru ction sta r ting in Jun e. 
j oseph Lees E astwich, president of James Lees and So ns Co ., and of Pine Tree, announced th e expan sion of th e plant at a dinner at Dahlon ega feting leading Lumpkin C o u n t ia ns. 
K ey exec u tives of L ees' parent pl ant a t Bridgeport , Pa ., an d the Lees mi ll a t Glasgow, Va., join ed exec u tive of Pine Tree as hosts at the di nner. 
Presiden t Eastwi ch' s announ cem ent of the expa nsion a t D ah lonega came soon after disclosure th at L ees p la ns to build a second tu fted ya rn mill in Ra bu n County, nea r Clayto n. T he second subsidia ry will be called R abu n M ills, I nc. 
At the D ahlon ega din ner, M r. E astwich praised th e working abili ty and ind ep en den ce of th e Geor gia mo un ta in peop le a nd told of th e firm's sa tisfac tion with the new p lant a it wings into full ope ra tion. 
T he addition will be built on the eas t ide of the p resent pla nt using the pr esent east wa ll as a com mon wall for 
 
the two buildin gs, he said . 1t will contain blending, ca rd ing a nd spinning ope ra tions. 
The pr e cnt plant, with 40, 000 sq ua re feet , is mod ern, bri ghtly lighted a nd a ir cond itioned and con ta in allnew machiner y. The p lant pro cesse a nd spin ya r n from raw materials, then ships it s p rodu cts to othe r L ees plan ts for final processing int o car pe ts. 
$150,000 PLANT SET FOR AUGUSTA 
M a r ks H a nd kerchief l-.1fg. Co., 18yea r-old AuCTu ta firm , plan to begin constr uc tion immed iat ely of a $150,000 plan t. 
T he new structure, to be loca ted nca r th e in ter section of Ft . Gordon supe rhighway and U . S. H igh way 78, will be a on e-stor y bui ldin g of mod ern design containing 25,000 qu ar e feet of floor space. 
Owners J oe B. a nd M OtTi M a r ks said th e new plant wou ld mea n doub ling th e firm 's emp loymen t, whi ch now numb ers 75. 
 
GEORGIA D EPART M ENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWS L ET T ER 
 
M a y, 1956 
 
DIXIE'S FAMED BATTLE FLAG 
 
BECOMES EMBLEM OF GEORGIA 
 
" Fu rl t hat ban ner, for ' tis tueary; R ound its staff ' tis d raa/lin g d rear y; Fu rl it, fold it, it is best ; For t here's not a man t o w ave it, A nd t here's not a sw ord to sav e it , A nd t h ere's not o ne left t o lave it I n the blo od tha t heroes gave it; A nd it s foes now scorn and brave it ; Furl it , hid e it- let it rest!" 
M ore th an 90 yea rs ago , wh en 
Abr am J. R ya n penned tho e ad, stir- 
ring lines, th e wa r between the Blue a nd th e Gray wa s just ende d . T he flag of the Confed er acy was being lowered , and in the lowering the Georgia pr iest poet sa w, or th ough t tha t he sa w, the vmbol's death. . F ather Rya n was as wro ng in his 
assump tion tha t the tars a nd Ba rs was destin ed to suffer a fat e so mela ncho ly as he was in th e titl e he gav e th e verses he dedi cated to it. h e called hi dir gc "T he Conquered Banner ," a choice of ca p tion that mak es Sou th ern ers wonder and in whi ch lIIany a Yankee ha s susp ected a t ypographical erro r; an d inst ead of being furled and hidden a nd scorn ed, th e flag ma rch ed on down th e yea rs, honored a nd revered on both sides of th e M ason -Di xon line. 
Com e J uly 1, the ga lla nt old Confed era te flag will mar ch faster a nd farther, a nd to grea ter glory th an ever before. O n tha t date it will be officially incor po ra ted in to the design of the sta te flag of Georg ia. T he new flag will be ca rried by every for ce of the orga nized mi litia and will wav e over eve ry school, ta te dep ar tm ent a nd 
age ncy in Gef)It a .... * 
T H IS NE W ST AT E FLAG was ere- 
 
a ted by the 1956 Gen er al Assemb ly, thro ugh a n ac t a me nding sta tu tes of 1879 a nd 1916 wh ich crea ted t he original Geor gia flag. I n the new design three br oad horizon tal bar of sca rle t a nd whit e that for mer ly occ up ied twothirds of the flag' s a rea a rc rep laced by th e Confeder a te bann er. The flag retai ns. in th e one-third area next to th e flagsta ff, the origina l Georgia flag's vert ica l blue band emblazoned wit h the sta te sea l. 
The universally fa milia r version of th e Confede ra te' flag that will be a part of th e new Ge org ia flag is popu larl y known as th e St a rs and Bars. Ac tually, however , it was Dixie's battle flag. It was th e third of five banners, four of wh ich wer e officially sa nc tioned, that were associated with t he Confede ra te Sta tes of A m e r ic a . T he first of these flags ( though un official, it perhap enjoyed more fa me in ong and story th an all the othe r combined ) was the Bonni e I3l ue Flag. This blue emblem sur mounted by a ingle whi te star is sa id to have been broken ou t a t the Secession Conv en tion in M ississippi; the ea r I y regimen ts adop ted it, a nd it was ca rried, a long with their va riou s sta te flags, until th e newl y for med cen tra l governme n t p ro vided a n emblem. 
THE FIRST O FFI CIAL fl~g \~'as , like the Confederacy's co ns u tu tion, fra mework of governmen t, cur rency a nd num ero us other essentials, pa tt er ned af ter those things in the U nion. I n the case of the flag, the Un ion pa tt ern was too closely followed, as tr aged y soon p roved . The flag wa given three 
 
broad ba rs, two red a nd one whi te, a nd a blue field u pon which even white sta rs form ed a circle. T he sta rs repr esen ted the even origina l ta tes of the Confederacy- ou th' C ar olina, M i si sippi, Fl o r i d a , Alabama, Geor gia, Louisiana and T cxa. . 
Called the ta rs a nd Ba rs, thi s flag was ado pted by th e Pr ovision al Cong ress on M ar ch 4, 1861, a nd rai sed immedi at ely over the C ap itol in M ontgom er y, Ala ba ma . D escrip tions of th e design were broad cast throughout th e South, alon g with an appeal to pa tri oti c wom en to donate th eir froc ks of red , white and hlu e silk, a nd on th e following .July 2 1 most of th e Co nfede ra te f o r c e s march ed to th e Hatti e of M an assas und er th e new flags. 
The ou thcrn ers won a t M a nassas, bu t th e ta rs a nd Ba r enda ngere d the victo ry. When it drap ed it elf a round the sta ff or hung limp, it was d ifficult to distinguish it fro m the ta rs and 
tripe . T he imila rity was so mar ked th a t severa l times th e Confederates found th emselve firing on their own flag. In one uch confused incident. Gen. 'F ra ncis . Bartow, of ava nna h: wa killed . He had been a mem ber of th e committee tha t designed th e tar s and Bar . 
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T O PREV ENT a recurrence of suc h a tr agedy, Gen . J oseph E. J ohnston, a t that t ime in comma nd, ill consulta tion wi th Gen. G . W . Smith a nd Gen. P. G . T. Beaurega rd, decided that a diff eren t flag for field serv ice shou ld be pro vided . T hus th s ba ttle flag was " con ceived on the field of ba tt le. born on 
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OFF IC IA L FLAG OF T H E CONFE D ERATE STAT ES OF A l\fE R ICA- Lcft 10 righ t: th e Sta rs and Bars. hattI e fla g and two na tio nal Ila gs, O f the four , the battle flag is best known , alt ho ugh an un official ban ner , the Bonni e Blue F1a ~ , is more famou s in song 
and story . T he design of the ba ttl e flag is incorp orated in the new sta te flag of Georgia wh ich becomes official on J uly t. 
 
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G EO R GIA DE PART~'IENT OF CO M MER C E 
 
 NE\VSLET T ER 
 
M ay, 1956 
 
$46~OOO~OOO IN NEW INDUSTRIES 
 
COUNTED AS SAVANNAH BOOMS 
 
C a p ital inv estment of mor e than $46,000,000 is represent ed in new plants announ ced , begun or CO Il1 plct cd in Sa vanna h during th e past 
vca r, - And th e C ha tha m C ounty metro po lis-on -the-sea faces even grea ter ind ustria l expa nsion in th e fu ture, pr edi cts the Sava nna h Di strict Au tho ri ty. 
" W e feel confidcnt th at 1956 will p roduce a number of addition al interest ing developments," sa ys L. C . !Vl cC lukin, a uthority cha irma n, in a sta te me nt accompanying rel ease of the report on April 19. 
T he estim a ted a moun t of wages p aid in C ha tha m Countv in 1955 bv a ll industries, incl ud ing fJoth m an uf a ct u r ing and non-manu fa cturing, bu t excluding wages of m ilit ar y per sonnel a nd dom estics, was $ 177,300,000 . ac cor ding to the 
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TH I S WA S AN I N CREASE of llJO I e than $70,000,000 in two years a nd mor e th a n $ 100,000,000 since 19-18 when th e a utho rity bega n com piling ind ustrial sta tist ics fo r the area . 
Va lue added by manufacture (the di fferen ce betw een t he cost of th e ra w material a nd th e wort h of t he fin ishe d p rod uct ) in 1955 wa s $ 140,000 ,000 . T his represent ed a n increase of $5, 000,00G over the p revious vear. 
C ~sto ms collections th rou gh th e P or t of Sa va nna h during 1955 to ta led $4,089 ,369 , a ga in of nearl y half a million dollars, ac co rd ing to th e repo rt w hich a lso noted th a t Sa van na h " con tinued as the leading por t on the So ut h A tla nt ic in expor t, im por t a nd coas twise trad e." 
Estim ated re ta il sa les for Cha tham Co u nty in 1955 wer e $ 162,50 7,000, com pa red to $ 120,765,000 in 1955. 
I nd ustrial developm ents mentioned in th e a ut ho rity's report include: 
Am eri ca n Cyana mid Co. Titani um ox ide p lan t, b~i l t a t cost of more tha n $ 15,000,000, ded icat ed Dec. 1, 1955. Annua l payroll $ 1,000 ,000 . 
j chns-M anvillc Cor p . Asphalt roofing p lant to be comp leted ea r ly next fa ll. Cos t $3,000,000. Wi ll em ploy 100 persons with a n a nnua l p ayroll of $400,000. 
So u the rn Nit rogen Co ., I nc. Fou rteen -m illion dolla r syn the t ic ni trogen 
 
GE O RG IA T O M ECC A- This sce ne was repeat ed 78 times recen tly at th e Sta te Docks, Sava nnah , wh en the G ree k freighter H elleni c Beach loaded a ca rgo of bu ses for disch a rge at j edda h , Sa ud i Ara bia. T he buses, built by th e Blue Bird Bod y C o., Fort Va lley, Ga., will be used by th e Ar ab ian govern me nt to tra nsport M oslem pilgrims on their ann ual trip to l\Ieeca.-photo by J ames Bisson, Sava nna h M or nin g News. 
 
p la nt , a lrea d y in limited pro du ct ion , will em ploy 200 with a nnua l pa yroll of $ 1,000,000 . 
H ercu les Powder Co . H as erec ted new office build ing and is constructing ta ll oil p la nt that will em p loy 50 a dditiona l wo r kers. 
U nion Bag & Pa per Co rp. Fi ve million dolla r expanSIOn p rogr am under way. 
Sav a nnah Elect ris & Power Co . Sixmillion dollar genera tion unit n ea r comp letion ; new power plan t a t Port \ Ven twor th un der construction . 
Sout hla nd O il Corp. Added two 80,000 ba rrel tank s a t a cost of $200,0 00. 
So u thern Bell T elep hone & T elegra ph Co . Insta lled its 50, 000 th p hon e in D ecember a nd com pleted a new cen tra l exc ha nge a t a cost of $ 750,000 . 
T ur pentine & R osin Fact ors, In c. New pl ant com pleted thi s spr ing . 
G & A L abor at ories, I nc. Co n st ructed p lant for th e p rodu ction of pellet ized rosin . 
T etley T ea Co . Expanded p lant fa cilities by 25 per cent. 
D iamond Co nstr uct ion Co. Exp and - 
 
cd its sh ipyard opera t ion and is building specia l eq u ipmen t fo r use in the Ba ham as. 
Coasta l C hem ica l Co. An noun ced plan s for a new plant. 
 
STEVENS TO EXPAND 
 
MILLEDGEVILLE PLANT 
 
An ex pa nsio n th at will provide in tegra ted dyeing a nd finishing facilities 
a t J. P. Steven s & Co., I nc., M illedge- 
ville, will be star ted a t a n ea rly elat e 
and com pleted in 12 months. 
 
T he p rogram calls for const ruc tion of 70,000 sq ua re feet of ma nufact uring space a d jacen t to the present buil di ng. W hen th e new fac ilities a re in op eration , the p la nt's emp loyme n t will be increased by 250 work er s, J oh n P . Bau m, vice-president , said. 
 
T he pr og ram will not affec t St even s' 
 
D ublin p lan t wh ich now performs the 
 
dyein g and fini shin g operation on fab - 
 
rics wove n a t M illed geville. M r. Bau m 
 
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 NEWS L ET T ER 
 
M a y, 195fi 
 
ELBERTON GRAN ITE INDUSTRY 
 
GROWS BY MILES AND MILLIONS 
 
Thc gra nitc industry of Elbcr to nGco rg ia 's famous " Gr anitc C ity"-is 
 
r, 
 
cx pa nd ing by mil es a nd milli on s. 
 
M or e than a milli on dollars has 
 
been spe nt in recent months for plant 
 
a nd eq ui pmcn t a d di tions by th c 
 
a rea 's 9 1 gra nitc firms, a nd still th c 
 
she ds co n ti n ue to st retch and thc 
 
stra nds st rid e lon gcr. 
 
Gra nite is bv no mean s th e onlv in - 
 
d ust rv in Elbe;'ton . but it is bv fa;' the 
most 'import a n t. 1t em ploys o~'er 1,500 
 
worker s, iO per een t of th e a rea's non- 
 
fa rm wa gL: ea rners, a t an a n n ua l pay- 
 
roll ex ceed ing $5,000 ,000. T his, figur es 
 
W illia m A. K elly, genera l m an ager of 
 
th e E lber ton Granite Associa tion , is 
 
the eq uiva lent of $250 for ea ch of the 
 
18.500 men , wo me n a nd ch ild re r .iv- 
 
ing in Elhel:t Co un ty tod ay. 
 
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TH E R E A RE 6i indepen d entl y own ed a nd operated compa nies in and abo u t Elb erton devo ted exclusively to the g ra nite ficld. Of these, 56 a rc engage d in q uar ry ing, man ufa cturing or re ta il op erations; six are su p ply hou ses serving th e eq uipme nt need s of the ind ustry; three a re mon umental design- 
 
GRA Y GO Lb--Scene a t one of th e num er ous qu a rr ies that dot Elhert C ounty, wher e 8 10,000,000 " 'orth of g ranite is mined, pr ocessed and shipped eae h year. 
 
WORLD'S l\10X U :\ lENT CE NTE R-Elbe rto n furni shes mor~ th an a thi rd of all mo numental gran ite; its memori als mark the fin al res ting pl ace of 100,000 person; annua lly. H er e is a par t ial view of the Harmon)' Blue sh ed, one of th e city's 9 1 g ranite firm s. 
 
ing services, and two ar e long-d ista nce tr uc king com pa nies tha t tra nspo r t the finished gra nite prod ucts . For va rious reasons, these 6i firms opera te under a t least 24 a d d itiona l compa ny names. T hu s, say s ;',,11'. K ell y, ther e ar c 9 1 com pa nies d oing business in gr anite or its a llied prod uct s in the imm ed iat e vicinitv of th e citv, 
Twent y quarries a re in op eration rem oving th e stone from th e ea rth in a series of drilling and bla sting ope ra tions. Ther e a rc 42 fini shing plants, or "she ds" as they are com monl y known, whi ch take th e rou gh stone and turn it into com pletely fini sh ed monuments or dress it for building mat eri al. Six custo m wor k sho ps perform spe cia l manufactu rin g ope ra tions such as sa wing or polishing. 
The Elberto n Granite Associa tion's sloga n, " Elber ton G r a n i t e is th e Fo remost N ame in the M onumen t Industry," is not an idl e bo ast. Elbe r ton eac h vea r furnish es m or e than one-t hird ~ f all monumental gra nite produ ced in Am eri ca . Its m em orials mark th e final resting place of over 100,000 per son s annuall y. 
 
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G EO RG IA DEPA RT MENT OF CO!,,1MER CE 
 
 NEWSLET TER 
 
M ay, 1956 
 
RUBEROID PLANS $3,200,000 MILL AT SAVANNAH 
Ru bero id C o. will begin con tru ct ion wit hin a few week on a hu ge fcl t m ill on th e site of it roo fing fa cto ry at Sav a nn ah. T he new fa cilit y will cos t a n estima ted $3,200,000 . ' 
Oper a tion of th e new pl an t wi ll begin ea rly nex t yea r, St a n ley W ood wa rd , R uberoid presid en t, a n no u nced. 
The p la nt, wi th a floor a re a of abo u t 60,000 sq u a re feet, will ha ve a ca p ac ity of 80 to ns of felt a d ay. 
M r . W oodwa rd estim a ted th e new mi ll will requ ire 60 a dd itiona l em p loyees a nd will a d d $250,000 a yea r to th e com p a ny 's Savan n ah p ayroll. 
Rubero id, w hi ch ope ra tes 18 bui ld ing m a teri a ls p lants th rou gh ou t th e na t ion , acq ui red the D ixie Aspha lt Prod u ct o rp . a t a van n ah in 1954. Since tha t t ime, the p lant h as been opera ted as a R uberoi d d ivision . 
 
l~LA~lJ BEA CH- Visitors by th e hundred s en joy th e wat er and sun on Robin L ak e bea ch at Ida C ason C alla way G a rde ns, near C hipley . This is on e of II lak es in th e ga rdens, all man-made. T he ga rde ns ar e now add ing motel facilities. 
Griffin, Talmadge Win Praise As Ambassadors To Industry 
 
New Siale Flag 
( Con tinued fro m Page 3 ) 
the field of battle." 
The b a ttle flag , with its sq u a re sha pe and solid blo od -r ed ba ckgro un d bisect ed by a broad blu e S1. Andrew 's cross stud d ed with 13 large white sta rs, wa s later sanc tione d h y th e Co n fede ra te C ong ress. 
The battle flag 's 13 sta rs represen t, in addition to th e seven ori ginal C on fede r a te s tat e s, Vinrinia , Arkansas, North C a ro lina and T ennessee, whi ch a little later join ed th e con fed er a tion ; K entuck y, whi ch at fir st assumed an attitude of n eutrality, but la ter ad opted an ord inan ce of session whi ch co uld not be ratified , a nd Missouri, which decla red in fa vor of th e So u th by a resolution that may or m a v not ha ve been a m and ate' of h er p eopl e. 
The C on fed er a cy' s th ird a nd fourt h offi cia l flags, kno wn as n ational flags, n ever saw service in th e field . One of them was a solid wh ite ban ne r on whi ch a m in iature repli ca of th e battlefl ag was im p osed as th e un ion . Becau se of th e sim ila rity between th is flag a nd the flag of tr uce, it was red esigned wit h a b road vertica l band of red ad de d to the ou tside edge. 
 
Tha n ks to th e efforts of Go v. M a r vin Griffin a nd former G ov . H erm an E . T a lm ad ge, G eorgia h a s a no the r new ind us try to add to it s ever-mou n ting sco re. 
J. 1v' 1. M a rcot te, presid ent of Bilt- 
mor e T ex ti le I nd ustr ies, I nc., W edowee, Ala ., h as p ur ch ased a bu ilding in T a llapoosa , G a. , a nd is now orga nizing a new com p any to be known as Bel- 
 
mon t portswear M fg . C o. The plant will sta rt with 75 worker s. 
M r. M a rcotte to ld th e Georgia Dep a rtmen t of Co mmerce he is espe cia lly a pprecia tiv e of th e efforts of G overn or G r iffin a nd for m er G overnor T a lm ad ge in help ing h im locate in G eorgia. Bot h off icia ls, he sa id, co n ta cted h im p er son a lly du rin g ea rl y negotia tion s. 
 
GEORGIA SALES $3.9 BILLION 
 
AS STATE TOPS ALL RECORDS 
 
Sales to G eor gia consu me rs in 1955 amounted to approximatel y four billion dolla rs, th e hi gh est on record. 
The actual figu res was $3,90 1,423 ,999 , says th e Sa les Tax nit, Georg ia D epartment of R evenue. 
Co m pare d with sa les of $3 ,6 14,199,678 in 1954, th e 195 5 total r epresen ts a ga in of $28 7,224,3 21, or 8 per cent. 
The figures incl ude a ll reta il transactions a nd sa les or use tax collec tions on suc h purch ases as m a ch in er y, eq u ipm ent, bu ilding m at er ia l, etc . 
Of the 159 cou n ties in th e sta te, 119 la st yea r h ad sa les ga in s over the pre- 
 
vious ye a r, the com p u ta t ion shows. 
Fult on Cou n tv led wi th sa les listed a t $ 1,056,07 1,42 2, a gain of $ 109,925,764 over the previou s year. 
C h at ha m C ounty's total went from $249 ,384-,386 in 1954 to $26 1,235,076 last yea r, M uscogee's $167,266,700 to $ 178, 165,449 , Bib b' s $ 151,578,755 to $ 167,669,262, and D eK alb's $ 110,003,59 7 to $ 126,40 7,733 . Of the h eavily pop u la ted m etro polita n co u n ties, only R ichmond sho we d a decline. The d ecrease t her e was from $ 147,5 13,355 to $14 3,214,401). 
 
GEO RGIA D EPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE 
 
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 NEWSL ET T ER 
 
M ay, 1956 
 
THOMAS COUNTY CLAY PLANT ADDS 'QUALITY' TO MAP OF GA. 
 
Thomas Count y has added a stra ppin g newcomer to its industrial roster and at th e sa me time put a new town on th e map of Ge org ia. 
The plant is th e S250,OOO inst allation of t he W a verl y Petroleum Product s Co., of Philadelphi a, Pa ., loca te d fou r mil es sout h of M eigs at a new add ress ca lled Qua lit y, Ga . It began ope rat ion in Ap ril, less th a n a yea r a ft er grou nd was brok en for its const r uc tion. 
The plant mines and processes fu ller 's ea r th. Th is min eral is used to malic oil and grease ab sorben ts, p roduct s whi ch are wide ly used in th e m anufacturing industry, par ticularl y th e autom oti ve field , to prevent accid ents from slip pery floor s. 
T he plan t is loca ted on a 3,000-ac re site in an a re a d escribed as h aving the ri ch est dep osit s of fu ller' s ea rt h in the world . Buildings and othe r plant struc tures occu py mor e th an three a cres of thi s tr act. 
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U N T I L NOW , Thom as Co u n ty ha s not been a large comme rc ia l p rod ucer of fuller 's ea r th, a ltho ug h conside r able pr odu ct ion h as corne from D ecatur a nd Gradv Co un ties to th e west . T he T hon; a s Coun ty tr a ct, says Edward P. Frankel, president of W averl y, contains eno ug h of th e m ineral to last a lmost indefinitely. 
The plant wa s design ed for easy 
expa nsion by J. 1'. Nas h, D ecatur, 
G a., and Ra ymond B. Ladoo, Ne wton, Mass., two of th e na tion 's foremost a uthor ities on non-metallic minerals. It is sa id to be th e most mod ern and efficien t in stallation of its kind in the So ut h . Em p loyme n t is 100. 
T he plant's outsta nd ing fea ture is its materials handling syste m. All op er ation s are m ech anized or convevor ized fr om start to fini sh. A t no' time during p ro cessing of the ra w m ater ial is it tou ch ed by a human hand exce pt for in specti on pu rp oses. 
Location of th e site was selec te d a fte r ex tensive r esearch and geologica l surveys. Estab lishmen t of the p la n t wa s e n co u I' a ge d by rep resentatives of T hom a Co un ty, sta te a nd fed era l govern me n t, com m u nities in th e surr ound ing area, a nd banks, utilities a nd cham- 
 
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1,0000/0 LEAP MAKES GEORGIA 
 
TUFTED RUG INDUSTRY NO. 1 
 
Geo rg ia has offi cia lly becom e th e na tion's N o. I pro d ucer of ca rpe ts and rug s made from cotto n a nd fiber s. 
According to the la test F ed eral Census of M an ufa cturer s. of th e tota l va lue of a ll shipm en ts of th ose pro d ucts mad e in the U nited Sta tes in 1954, Georgia p lants register ed 58.2 per cen t, a nd m or e than 52 per cen t of the va lue ad d ed by m an uf a ct ure, or net va lue of suc h shipme n ts. 
T he va lue of these non-wool product s in th e na tion in 1954 tot a lled $ 175,009,000 , of whi ch $ 101,898,000 worth went from Geor gi a . T he va lue a d ded by m anufacture of uch shipments approximated $6 7,109,000 in th e nation and $35,243,000 in G eorgia . 
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W averl y, a pioneer in oil a nd g rease a bsorben ts, is one of the la rgest com panies in its field . I t maint a ins warehouse stoc ks in 62 cities and has m or e than 1,000 jobbers a nd dist rib ut ors. T he Q ua lit y in sta llation represen ts the firm's first full-sca le mining oper a tion . 
 
have corne in Geo rgia since th e 194-7 Census of Manuf acturers wa s tak en. Seven years ago, t he va lue a d ded by m an ufa cture of ship me n ts mad e in th e sta te wa s pla ced a t $3, 123,000, or only 10 per cen t of the nation' s su p ply, wh ich means th at since W orld W ar II the indust ry has expande d by more tha n 1,000 per cen t. 
Of a to tal of 213 esta blishme n ts in the U nited Sta tes engaged in th e m an ufa ct ure of tu fted , woven a nd othe r non wool ca rpe ts and ru gs in 1954, Geor gia had 62. Of 11,4 78 emp loyes in the na tion drawing ' $30,735,00 0 in wages, Georg ia had 5, 798 wit h a tot a l p ayroll of $ 13,797,000. 
G -E TO BUILD UNIT 
Genera l Elect r ic Co. will bui ld a new di st ri ct ser vice cen te r and wareho use on E lsworth In d ustria l Blvd ., T.W., Atlan ta, for th e hou sewa res and radio receiver di vision . T he bri ck struc ture, to co n ta in 23,000 squa re fee t of floor sp ac e, will cost more th an $ 100,0 00 . 
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CRISP VOTES BONDS 
C risp Co unt y vo te rs ove rwhe lming ly ap p ro ved a $2,224,0 00 bond issue for ex pand ing th e L ak e Blackshea r po wer p lant. T he ballot ing wen t 3, 115 votes for the pro ject and only 131 vo tes ag a ins t. T he m on ey wi ll be u sed to construc t a 15,000- kilowa tt stea m -elec tricga s tu rb in e. 
 
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GEORGIA DEPA RTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 N EWSLETTER 
 
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~I a y, 1956 
 
- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS Henry M cD. T ich enor, president of ~===========================:~ 
 
\ Va lto n Co tto n M ills, M onroe, ha been 
 
e lec te d p resid ent of th e Cot ton ~Hg. 
 
Assn . of G co rg ia . . . B. O . Thursto n 
 
& So n a rc bu ild in g a $38,000 b uild ing 
 
a t G a ines ville fo r Norton R eal t y & 
 
Loa n Co... . A m od ern shop p ing cc n- 
 
te r i op en a t J o rd an C ity , nca r Co - 
 
l u m b u s, 
 
East A tla n ta Bank & T rus t Co . h as 
 
been m erged wi t h Trust C o. of G a ., 
 
Atlanta ... Property has been bought 
 
in Macon fo r t he new M acon - Bibb 
 
Coun ty H ea lt h C en ter . .. D eca tu r 
 
Fed er a l Sav ings & L oa n Assn . h as 
 
o pened a new b ra nch bu ildi ng in D e- 
 
ca t ur . . . Ha ll C oun t y's new H eal th 
 
C ent er a t G a ines ville is op en . . . Ma - 
 
con will expan d it s water sys te m .. . R icha rd Fu rn itu re Co., Aug usta, p la ns 
a new $2 00 .00 0 sto re . M oult ri e'~ na tural gas sys te m is be- 
ing ex te nde d . . . H a r-Cl au R ea lty, 
 
SC RA P I l'IG T H E EART H- W alkin g dra glin e, lar gest ma ch in c of its t yp e in Gco rg ia, at wo rk on the Huber Co r pora t ion's hu ge K aolin holdin gs at Hu ber, Tw iggs Co u n ty. Th e d ra glin e, wh ich has a 22 0-foot boom and a nin e-ya rd buck et, strips away th c overburden from thc cla y d ep osits, Huber clny is sh ip ped all over th c world . 
 
I n c., is erecting a n office build ing a t 
 
M a ri etta . . . Swa insboro hel d it 11t h 
 
a nn u a l P ine Tree Festi va l . . . G eorgi a 
 
Pow er Co . is bui ld ing a su bs ta tion n car 
 
Bu c hanan . . . La m a r Co . p lans a big 
 
resid enti a l d evelop m ent o n ' Vilm ingto n 
 
Island , nca r Sa va nn a h . . . Co a sta l 
 
Broad ca sting, Inc., Sava nna h, has been 
 
g ra n te d a cha rte r. 
 
W ade-R eid M o tel, V id a lia , is add ing 
 
12 units . . . C olumb us Bank & T rust 
 
Co ., Colu m bus, has let a con trac t fo r 
 
its new $ 1,250 ,000 b u ild ing 
 
C a iro 
 
is in cr easin g its water su pp ly 
 
G old 
 
Lea f H o tel, H ahi ra , ha s been purch ased 
 
by M rs. S ue K ingston , of M ia m i . .. 
 
G win ne tt C o u n t y vo ters ra tifi ed a 
 
$260,000 bon d issu e to bu ild a H ill - 
 
Bu rt o n H ospi ta l . .. A N at ion a l G ua rd 
 
ar mo ry to cost $ 159,000 wi ll be bu ilt 
 
a t Brunsw ick. 
 
St a nd a rd Telep ho ne Co., C o rn elia, 
 
plans a seve n -co u n ty exp a ns ion . . . 
 
ne wspaper plant . . . G eo rgia Pow er Co . is bu ild in g a $;)0,00 0 Sub st ation ncar S toc kbridge, to se rve th e new C la vton C oun tv wa terw orks .. . ' Valton 'C oun tia ns a p p rov ed bond issues o f $ 240,000 fo r a H ill-Bu r ton H osp it a l a nd $240,000 f0 1 chools . . . R oswell vo te rs okayed a natura l gas syste m to cos t $80 0,000. 
AMERICUS MOTEL ADDS 
Co nst ru c tion o f a 10-u nit ad d it ion to the Ameri cus M o tel. Amer icu s. is unde r wa y. F ran k S ta p leto n, p re sident of th e L elia-F ran ces Corp ., which owns a nd o pe ra te t he m ot el, sa id t he new u ni t s, a ir-co nd ition cd , elec t ric a llv heated a nd eq u ip pe d wi th p riva te tel ~ p hon es, will cos t $6 0,000. T hey wi ll bri ng to 30 th e in st a lla tion 's goa l of 50 units, he sa id . 
 
HOUSTON BUILDS $300,000 SILOS 
Twelve silos which wi ll h a ve a storage ca pac ity of 30,000,000 pou nd s of peanu ts a re bein g co ns tr uc te d a t th e p lan t of the T o m H usto n Peanu t Co ., in Columb us. 
T he st ruc tures will he 120 fee t tall a nd 30 feet in di ame ter. T hey w ill cost .$ 30 0, 0 00 . 
T he silos are sche d u led to be co m ple ted in Au gu t. 
DAVISON'S WAREHOUSE Dav ison -Pa xon Co ., A tla n ta d ep art - 
m en t sto re, will begi n co ns t ruc tio n immediately o n a " m illion -dolla r-p lus" wareh o use a nd se rvice buil d m g . 
 
Ca ll le t ters of T occoa 's new rad io sta - 
 
tion are W N EG .. . Bu en a V ist a voted $ 2 15,000 in bon ds fo r its sewage syste m . . . A b ig ho pping ce n te r wi ll be built a t \ Ve leva n Conserva torv , 
M a con .. . J. C lyde M ixon was n a med 
presid en t of the A tlanta & W est Poin t R oad a n d t he W este rn R a ilw a y of 
 
BULK R AT E U.S. POSTA GE 
Paid 
Atlanta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF' COMMERCE 
1 0 0 S T ATE CAPITO L 
ATLANTA 3 . GEORGIA 
 
A laba m a . . . A t la n ta G a s L ig h t C o. 
 
leased a n off iee buildi ng in W est End 
 
. . . A N ation a l G u a rd a rmo ry is be- 
 
ing bu ilt a t Forsyt h. 
 
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A tla n ti c C oas t Line R a ilroad h as o rd er ed 1,800 new fr eig ht ca rs . . . 
 
Ul1iversity 0 Gil. LibrClries 
Acquisit i or Division Athens , G 
 
Southern Ban k, " 'ayeross, w ill o pen 
 
J un e 1 . . . M id -G eo rgia N atura l Gas 
 
Co ., Conye rs, has lai d lin es to se rve 
 
Come r, C a r lt on a nd Dan ielsville 
 
T he Cornelia D ispatch p la n s a n ew 
 
 I f ERAL LIBRA Y 
- OF COMMEnCE 
NEWSLET ER 
JUN E 1956 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
M emb er C eor gia P ress A ssoci ati on 
 
Published monthl y by 
GEO RG IA DEPT. O F COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Gov e r n o r  BO ARD OF COMM ISSION ERS 
EMO RY L. BUTLER Chairman 
T . C. BR ANSO N, jR. HOK E PET ER S BEN J ESSUP 
TRAMMELL McI NTYRE 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretar y 
NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary 
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FRED D. MOON Edit or 
 
Vol. 7, No.8 
 
june, 1956 
 
CHEMICAL FIRM TO BUILD PLANT AT BRUNSWICK 
Olin M athieson Chemi ca l Corp. h as ac quired a 100-acre tr act at Brunswick and will construc t immedi ately a huge plant to p roduce a whole famil y of che mica ls not presently made or previouslv slated to be made in Georgia . 
In addition, th e pl ant will produce chlorine and ca ustic soda. 
Initial ou tlay for th e plant in cludes more th an $ 1,000,000 for rai l and marine shipp ing faciliti es. 
The construction will also incl ud e a pipelin e int o th e adjacen t pl ant of th e Bru nswick Pulp & P ap er Co . 
Olin M athieson was formed severa l yea rs ago by mer ger of M athieson Alka li Corp., vet eran produ cer of basic che micals, with Olin Industries, In c., mak er s of cellopha ne and man y other consume r p roduct s. 
COVER PHOTO 
Indust rial Gia nt-Aerial view of the Tallula h powerhouse of the Georgia Power Co . a nd the rugged mou ntain terrain wh ich serves as the de velopment's colorful and pi cturesque backgro und. The famous incline railway ~vh ich serves the plant ru ns like a thread down the 1,165-foot slope . T his Blue Ri dge area is a favorite vacation and recreation spot for Georgians an d to uri sts. 
 
PLANT FOR AT LANTA-Squa re D Compa ny's regional assembly plant to be constructed on Marietta Blvd., N.W., is shown in thi s artis t's conception. T he 31,000 square-foot faci lity costing $500 ,000 an d scheduled for comp let ion late this yea r, will house regional sales as well as prov ide prod uction facilit ies. Square D is one of the nation's largest manufa cturers of electrical controls and distr ibution dev ices. 
 
Georgia's $20 Million Kaolin 
 
Is 70OJo of Total U. S. Output 
 
Georgia cont inues to lead th e nation in the m in ing of kaolin , highl y useful commercial mineral of whic h th e state has unl im ited dep osits, and an d which annually pu ts more t han $20,000,000 in to the pockets of its producers. 
The F eder al Bur eau of Mines, in its la test rep ort, pl aced Geor gia' s 1954 kao lin output a t 1,3 18,863 ton s va lued a t $20,665,886. 
This was 70 per cen t of th e en tire nation al outpu t and 73.4 per cen t of th e nationa l va lue. The output in th e U nited St at es as a whole was 1,886 ,998 tons worth $28, 159, 159. 
Alab a ma an d Fl orida had a CO Ill - 
NEW CHENILLE PLANT TO OPEN; ELLIJAY'S THIRD 
H ampton Mill s, In c., Ellij ay's third r hcnille pl ant, will begin opera tion a bout July I . It will employ 40 persons at th e beginning. 
The new corpora tion, head ed by H . W . H ampton as pr esident, will occupy th e Ch arlie Logan Building on North M ain St. It will m anufacture bath se ts. 
J am es S. T ankersley is vice president of th e firm , and Bandy 'Fu ller is gene ra l man ager. 
The entire capital stoc k of th e new compa ny was subscribed locall y. 
 
bin ed production of 32,983 ton s with a value of $594, 162, North Carolin a, 20,882 and $391,469 , South Carolina , 327,259 a nd $4,030,377, U tah, 80," 176 a nd $ 1,603,520, Cali fornia, 29,928 and $288,64 1, a nd all other sta tes, 76,967 and $585, 104. 
Geor gia' s ka olin output in 1954 ran sligh tly behind that of 1953 in ton nage, but va lue of p roducti on was up nearly three qu arters of a milli on dollar s. In 1953, 1,341,725 tons wer e pr od uced with a value of , $ 19.659,625. 
BUILDING AVAILABLE IN LYONS PLANT MOVE 
Lyon s Mfg., Co., eight-yea r-old firm, has mo ved into a new $60,000 bui ld ing in th e southern section of L yons, a nd th e former plan t site is now availa ble to a n industria l p rospect. 
M or e spa ce a nd additiona l facilities wer e required for th e L yons firm. whi ch man uf acturer s sh ir ts. Approximately :-100 work er s ar c emp loyed . 
T he for mer plan t building, owned by L yons Development Co., is of brick construc tion, con ta ins 25,000 squa re feet of floor space, and is equipped with sprin kler system, heating and light. 
ADEL PLANT OPENS 
Adcl's new indust ry, Ad el Mfg. Co ., wh ich was la unched with th e aid of th e Chamber of Commer ce, has installed 22 sewin g m achines and begun th e production of spo r ts sh irts . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
June, 1956 
 
'GEORGIA HAS MOST AND BEST, 
 
SEE IT FIRST,' EDITORS URGE 
 
Georgia's richest "tourist " po te n - 
 
tia l is Georgians. 
 
T his was the consensus of opi nion 
 
among a group of leading Georgia 
 
newspaper ed itors who rece ntly made 
 
a 1,500- mile tour of the state's tour- 
 
ist attractions and resorts. 
 
The editors agreed that if Geor- 
 
gians were properly apprised of the 
 
attractions and accommodations that 
 
are to be found in their own 59,265 
 
square miles of mountains, seas hore, 
 
wood lands, la kes and streams, they 
 
would not be tempted to leave Geor- 
 
gia for va cation or recreation. 
 
The week-lon g tour, which circle d 
 
Geo rg ia from th e C ha tta hoochee Ri ver 
 
on th e west to th e Savannah on th e 
 
cas t. a nd took in tr adition al Tvbcc 
 
Light to the sou th and Rabun Gap 
 
to th e north , was a rra nge d by th e 
 
St at e C ha mber of Co mme rce. 
 
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THE EDITORIAL G R OU P is following its p ilgr image with ser ies of tr avel a rticles in newspap er s a ll ove r th e sta te which echo th e intrastate adver tising slogan of the Georgia Dep artment of Co mmerce- "Geo rgia ns, See Georgia 'First !" 
Assembling in Atlanta on Saturday, May 12, th e editors visited the Cyclorama and toured the far-flung resid ential and industrial areas as gu ests of th e Atlanta C hamber of Commerce. In the evening, th ey sampled the night life of the big cit y at t he Paradise Room, then wer e overnight guests of the Atlanta Hotel Association at the city's lead ing hotels. Sunday morning, after breakfast at t he Dinkier Plaza, the trek began. 
Aboard a n air-conditioned bu s, th e party head ed for W arm Springs a nd th e Little White H ou se, vaca tion hom e of Pr esident Franklin D. R oosevelt and th e scene of his death, now a nationa l shr ine. Af te r touring Franklin D. Roosevelt Park, the party pr oceed ed to Id a Cason Ca lla way Ga rde ns, ncar C hip ley, wh er e lun ch eon was serve d a board C leopa tra's Ba rge. Following a tou r of th e ga rde ns, th e ed ito rs continu ed on to Columbus and Fort Ben n ing. They wer e gues ts of th e Columbus Enquirer-Led ger a t dinner and spe nt th e night a t th e R al ston H ot el. 
 
MONDAY STARTED with a br eak- 
 
EDITOR TOU RISTS-Some of th e Georgia newsm en who recen tl y mad e a I ,SOO-mil e 
visit to va cation spots all around the sta te, her e turn th eir ba cks on alligators at Okefenokee Swam p Park . It was a safe gesture- the ' ga tors had just been fed . 
 
fast a t whi ch th e Co lumbus Ch amber of Comme rce was host , after wh ich th e p arty left for An derso nv ille Pri son N ation al Cem et ery ncar Am eri cu s a nd Vet eran s M em orial St at e Pa r k a t Cordele. Stuckeys, Inc., a t Eastm an , was lun ch eon host. A lon g jump took th e g rou p to Okefen okee Swamp Park near W aycr oss, th en on to Brunswick and th e Gold en Isles. The Cloister Hotel a t Sea Island hon ored th em with a 
 
reception and dinner , aft er wh ich thrKing a nd Prin ce H ot el on St. Simo ns was th eir host for th e night . 
Aft er breakfast tendered by the Brunswick Chamber of C ommerce, th e party sp ent Tu esday morning touring St. Simons and Sea Islands, visited Fort Frederica, Oglethorpe's headquarters, and crossed to J ekyll Island to lunch as guests of the J ekyll 
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Newsmen On '~500-M;/e Trek 
'Spot' Attractions of Own State 
 
Georgia newsp ap er men who recently made a I,SOO -mil e tour of th e state's tourist a ttractions and resorts on a pilgrim age spo nso red by th e St ate Chamber of Co mmerce, we re: 
.I ames R . Blair, ed itor a nd publisher , A m c r i r u s Tim e s-R e c ord e r ; C . .I . 
Broom e, Jr:, editor and publisher , Alma T imes; Roy Cha lker , edi to r a nd publisher , W avn esboro True C itizen and di rect or Sta te Depa rtmen t of Parks; Belmont Denn is, editor a nd publisher, Cov ing to n Ne ws: Ed ge R eid, associa te edi tor. Co lumbus En quirer. 
Alva L. H a ywood , editor a nd pub- 
lisher , Warrenton C lippe r: Ed Hugh es, 
Atl a nt a J ournal ; Bill Knight ma nag- 
ing ed itor, Gr iffin Dail y News; R . E . 
 
Ledford , edito r and publisher, Vida lia Advance ; M arvin M a rtin, news ed itor, Ca rro ll County Geo rgia n, Ca rro llton ; j ack M athews, assista n t publisher , Co rde le D ail y Di sp at ch . 
P. D . M athews, editor and publisher, Dou glas Co un ty Sent inel, Dou glas- 
ville ; .J. Roy M cGi nt y, ed itor a nd pub - 
lisher , Ca lho un T imes; Charles M cl ntosh, Aug usta Ch ronicle ; Ed M ethvin , editor a nd publisher, Eastm an T imesJ ournal ; J er e N . M oor e, editor Milledg eville U nion -R ecorder ; M . A. Perry, edi to r, M etrop olitan H er ald , At lant a. 
Ca rl Roun tr ee, editor a nd pu blisher, Daw son N ews: Penn Word en, projects man ager , Sta te C ha mber of Co mmer ce, and Fred D . M oon , ed itor, Georgia Dep artment of Co mmerce. 
 
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GEO RG IA DEPAR TMENT OF CO M M ERC E 
 
 N E V"SL ETT E R 
 
Ju ne, 1956 
 
1,000 ROADSIDE MARKERS TELL 
 
GEORGIA HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS 
 
The Ge orgia Historical Commission has erec te d its 1,000th ro adside marker. 
 
The marker s, handsom e, durable plaques of aluminum with th e text in raised letters of gilt against a black ba ckground, are sp ott ed wher eve r Ge org ia hi story wa s mad e, in all 159 of th e sta te's cou n ties, and man y score more a r e to be erecte d . 
 
The marker s a re d ivided into six ge nera l classes, acco rd ing to C . E . Gregor y, exec u tive sec re ta ry a nd di re ctor of th e commission . Thcv cove r I ndia n t ra ils a nd old fed era l ' road s; C olonia l sites a nd he roes ; R evolu tion arv b attlef ields a nd sh ri nes: b a ttlefield , command headqu a r te rs. Con fede ra te ce met er ies a nd hospita ls of the W a r Between th e States ; h istoric r hurchcs a nd ed uca tio na l ins tit u tions, an d co unt y hi stori es. 
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TH E Pl RPOS E of th e markers is 
 
two -fo ld : T o ed u ca te you ng Georgians 
 
in the hist ory of th eir state a nd co un - 
 
ties a nd to a cq ua in t to uris ts with th e 
 
ba ckg round of th e E mpire Sta te. 
 
The sec on d objecti ve sh owe d re- 
 
su lts recently, Mr. G regory sa id , 
 
wh en 75 m ember s of th e Chicago 
 
Civil War R ound Table ca me to 
 
Georg ia in a bod y to follow th e 400 
 
marker s th e co m m ission has ere cte d 
 
between C h icka mauga and J on es- 
 
boro cov ering th e Ge org ia ca m p aign 
 
of 1864. 
 
T he co m m ission eng ag ed ' Vilbur G . 
 
Kurtz. Sr .. Atla nt a historian . to w rite the t ~'x t s ' for th e W ar B e t~\'ee n the 
 
S ta tes mar kers , wh ile copy for th e 
 
Ind ia n and fede ra l roads ma r ker s was 
 
p repa red by D r. J oh n W. Goff. Emory 
 
U ni vcrsitv h istoria n. O th er text s h av e 
 
bee n sup p lied by the Colon ial D ames, 
 
D a ugh ters of th e Am er ica n R evolu tion, 
 
D a ugh ter s of 181 2, U nite d Daugh ters 
 
of thr- Co nfcdr-rnrv. as well as co un tv 
 
histori an s. 
 
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THE PLACING OF MARKERS ITview ing co u n ty hist ories in th e co urt 
ho use ya rds of a ll 159 co u n ties ha s been OI~ e of the most im p or ta n t p roject s of th e co m m ission . a nd one whi ch . ;n ma n y instances, t a ~ed the p at ien n : and rt'SO UI T tS of th ose in cha rge . 
" A ll too often , or igi na l co un ty records we re not a vailable," sa id 
Mr. Grego ry. 'T hey had been lost 
 
through carelessness , d e t el' i 0 tat e d 
 
with age, or been d estroyed by war, 
 
fir e or flood . Names of ea rly offi- 
 
cials wer e kno wn in ver y few cou n - 
 
ties. To obtain accurate list s, it was 
 
necessary to go back to th e original 
 
G ove rn ors' Oath Books in th e Stat e 
 
D epartment of Archi ves a nd His- 
 
torv." 
 
T Ile co urt hou se m arker s tell wh en 
 
each co unty was crea te d . th e tc rri torv it in cludes ,' a shor t biography of th~ 
 
per son for whom th e co un ty was 
 
n amed , a nd a list of th e first cou n ty 
 
officers wit h the d a te wh en thcv took 
 
o ff ic e . 
 
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WHIL E A MAJORITY of th r mar ker s co mmemo ra te eve nts, personages or la n d m a r ks th at a rc familiar to stu de n ts of historv, manv tr-ll litt le-k nown ta les. H er e i ~ ' one ~ bout a doug hty G eorgia n wh o " too k on" 
 
'M ISS GE O RG I A CHI CK'-~lary Ruff , Brcnau Co llege soph omo re , receives troph y fro m Ca ro line C on nor, of Atla n ta , th e 19 54 winn er , a t Ga ine sville's an n ua l Poultry Festival. T on i E idson, of C u mmi ng. th ird place win ne r, is at ri gh t. -Ed Bea z- 
ley photo 
 
Sh erm an's whole army : 
"J. Rufus K elly , of G ordon, Wilk- 
inson C oun ty , joined th e Confedera te A rmy at the ag e of 16. H e lost a leg and wa s invalided home. Securing a horse, h e went out to spy on Sherman's Army. W ith th e aid of one volunteer, john R. Bragg, K elly fired on the whole army and kill ed one ene m y. Expecting a battle, S he rma n 's forces stop p ed long eno ugh to su r ro un d G ordon and captu re th e two m en. Kelly soon esca pe d from his captors and lived many yea rs as a local hero." 
A n oth e r C o nf e d er at e hero was T hom a s O vcrbv, w hos e story is tol d on th e marke r p laced a t h is birthplace in Co weta Cou n ty . 
cc    W as ca p tured by U n io n sold ier s wh ile in F ron t R oyal , V a ., in civilia n clothes. H e was id entified as a mem be r of M osby's R anger s of the Con fed e ra te Arrn v a n d sen te nced to be hanged un less he 'wou ld reveal the h id ing p lac e of his COm ma nde r. H e chose dc a th ra the r th an hctra y his comra des in arms ." 
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O T H ER MARKERS tell of Thadde us O liver, wh o wrot e " A ll Q u iet Along the Potom ac T onight," a nd who is buried in H oust on Coun tv : Bill A rp , of Bar tow , who boasted th ~t he "killed as manv Ya n kees as t hcv killed of me ;" and ) e r ry Pa rson , War'. ITn Co un ty negro, wh o was th e or igin a l R .F .\) . m an . 
H er e is th e sto ry of how G eo rgia's T om ' '' a tson conceived th e idea of ru ra l fr ee delivery serv ice : 
" I n 1868 at No rwood six men along a five-mile rural route hired jerry Parson , a N egro who could not read, to deliver and collect mai l at their homes each day except Su nday and holida ys for his food and clothing. Th e po stmast er at Norwood ea ch morning arranged th e mail in co r rect or der and 'Uncle J erry' began his ten-mile walk cove ri ng , in all , 3, 110 mil es. Sen . Thomas E. Watson, then a boy clerking for Hon. T . E. Massengale , observed this perfect plan for Rural Free Delivery. In February 189 3, Sen . " 'atson, then in co ng ress , spo nsore d the bill crea ting Rural F ree Delivery, copying ' U n cle J erry's' R .F .D . in Norwood." 
 
G E O RG I A DE PA RT ME NT OF CO ~vl M E R CE 
 
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.Ju nc, 1956 
 
$150 MILLION COOSA PLANT 
 
TO POWER GEORGIA INDUSTRY 
 
A $ 150,000,000 st eam-electric genera ting p lant to serve the boorrnng industry of G eorgia and the Southeas t will be built on the C oosa River in northea st ern Alabama, nea r the Ge o rgia lin e. 
To be owned jointly by th e Geor gia Power Co. and the Alabama Power Co ., the plant is sche d uled to 
turn out 1,000 ,000 kilowatts. It wi ll 
increase the power ca p a city of the Georgia - Alabama - Florida - Mississippi area b y about on e-third . 
The in iti al a n no u nc eme n t of pl a ns to er ec t th e gia n t p la n t specified no more def in it e loca tion th an " nc a r th e Geo rg ia lin e." T he Coosa Ri ver is fo rm ed a t Rome, Ga., by the co n flu- 
 
cnrc of th e Etowah a nd O ostana u la , a nd flows into Ala bama aprox ima tcly 10 m iles west of R om e an d 70 m iles north west of A tlanta , 
 
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HARLLEE BRANCH , JR., presi- 
d en t of Georgia Po wer, sa id t he Coosa 
loca tio n . n ca r A labama's ric h coa l field s, \~'ill give th e pl an t a dvantage of low- cost fue l. T he insta lla tion will be w it hi n casv reach o f ma ny of G eor- 
gi a's la rgest loa d ccn u -rs, h l: added . 
 
As a r esult of improvements in the scien ce of transmitting power, Mr. Branch sa id, it is now che a pe r to sh ip electr icity into Georgia over t ransmission lin es than to transport coa l from distant mines to gen erat- 
 
ing sites within the st a te . 
The first pow er in stallation on th e C oosa will co ns ist of two 250,000 kilowatt ste a m - elec t ric gen erating units, representing an initial investm ent of $75,000,000. These arc scheduled for com p letion in 1961. Two ad d ition a l units of lik e size arc expecte d to be in pl ace by the en d of 1963, giving the plant its ultimat e ca pacity of 1,000 ,000 kilowatts. 
T he pl ant wi ll be bu ilt and op er ated by a new co mpany kn own as Sou the rn Electri c Genera ti ng Co . It will be fina n ced by th e So ut hern Co. , p are n t fir m of th e G eorgia , A laba ma a nd Mi ssissippi Pow er Compani es a nd t hc G u lf ( F lo rid a ) P ow er Co . 
 
'SEE GEORGIA FIRST' STATE EDITORS URGE 
(C on tin ued fro m Page 3 ) 
Island Authority. An afternoon reception at the G en er a l O glethorpe Hotel, Wilmington Island, wa s [01 low ed by a beach dinner given by the City of Savannah Beach and Chamber of Commerce, and the D eSota Beach Hotel was headquarters for the ni:~ht. 
W ed n esd a y, thr fourth d a y of th e pil g r im age, bega n wit h breakfast a t th e Pi rate H ou se in Sava nn ah , foll owed bv a tou r of th e city a nd a lun ch eo n g iven by th e Sa van n~ h Morn ing N ew s. The bu s th en head ed for Aug us ta w he re t he news men wer e enter ta ined bv the C itize ns & Sou th ern Na tiona l Ba nk , di ned b y th r G eorgia Po wer Co ., a nd ' spe n t th e n ight as g ue sts of th e Bon Air H o tel. 
THE AUG USTA CHAMBER of Co mmerce was T h urs dav's br eak fas t host, a fter whi ch th e p ar t -,: in spected th e C lark Hill power project , we n t to Toccoa to lun ch a t L a ke L ou ise H ot el , the wo rld's on ly a ll-steel hotel , a nd visit ed .Jarrett M an or, R evolu tion ary W ar landm ark now being IT sto re d by th e G eo rgia Hist o ri cal Commi ssion. T' h u r s d a v af t er noo n th cv vis ited Toccoa Falls, Tallu la h Gorgv a nd went to Nea l's Ga p to be fet ed by the G co rg ia Pow er Co . a t \ Valas ivi Inn . 
 
AL L ABO AR D- IVl em bers of th e part y of t ouring- ed itors bo a rd th ei r a ir-co nd itione d bu s afte r a night spent a t th e Kin g and Prince, pop ula r St. Simo ns Island hostelry. 
 
F rida y morning included tours of Vo gel Park and Lake Winfield Scott and th e historic gold fields at D ahlonega. The Dahlonega Chamber of C om me rc e en te r taine d a t lunch eon at the Smith House, after which the party visite d Amicolola Falls, drove ac ross Fort Mountain to th e V a n n House, and then went to Rock C ity on Lookout Mountain. Friday night wa s sp en t at the Lookout Mountain H o t el. 
Sa t urday th e edi tors visited C loud la nd Can yo n and the Be rry Sc hools. 
a nd wou nd up th ei r tour at a lun ch eon 
stage d by th e Geo rgia Departm ent of 
COmnH'I'lT at t he A tla n ta At hleti c 
 
C lub , Scot t C and ler , secretary of th e d cp a rt nu-n t, wa s host , a nd Gov . M a rvin G ri ffin was n-prcscntcd by h is ex ecu tiv e secret a ry , Ben T. \\l iggi n s. 
GEORGIA LEADS DIXIE BEEF, HOG SLAUGHTER 
The yea r 1956 finds Georg ia leading Dixie in the sla ugh te r of beef ca tt le a n d ho gs for food purposes. 
In t he fir st qua rt er of the yea r, th e sta te's com me rc ia l abattoi rs han dl ed 114,000 beef ca tt le, 32, 200 ca lves and 552,000 hogs. 
 
G EORGIA DEPART M ENT O F COM MERCE 
 
 N EWS L ETTE R 
 
June, 1956 
 
DIXIE BANKS $14.2 BILLIONS; 
 
AVERAGE GEORGIA SHARE $644 
 
More Ge orgia ns ha ve mor e mon ey in t he bank than ever before. 
Total deposits, both sav ings and chec king accounts, in all banks in th e state ar e $2,332,554,000. This means th e equiva lent of a nest egg of about $644.19 for every man, woman and 
 
child in Georgia. 
T otal Geo rgia depo sits at th e end of 1955 were 6. I per cent high er th an in 1954. says M errill P. Lofton. man ager or' t he' Atlanta field office ' of th e U. S. Departmen t of Co mmerce in an a na lysis of Feder al Deposit In suran ce 
 
LOCKHEED GETS $106 MILLION JET CONTRACT 
Lo ckh eed Airc raft 's Geo rgia Division at Marietta has been awarded a definitive U. S. Air Force con tract for C - 130 H ercul es prop-jet military transports totalling a pp roxima tely $ 106,000,000. 
This is the fourth contrac t given th e Marietta plant for production of th e 62-to n ca rgo- pe rsonnel carriers whi ch will join the Tacti cal Air Comma nd's 18th Air Force. It gives th e fa ctory firm C -130 produ ction schedules int o ea rly 1958. 
T he plan t has two ot her major aircraft programs. M anufac turc of sixjet, 600-mph Stratoj et bomb ers will extend int o nex t yea r, and maj or modifi cation work on B-47s is sche d uled curr ently int o la te 1957. 
I n addition, Lockheed' s Georgia D ivision, it was a nnounced in April, will ope ra te th e n ation 's lar gest nu clear aircraft resear ch labor at ories for th e Air Force near Da wson ville, and is en gaged in design study on a tom-po wered pla nes. 
Employmen t a t the M a riett a plant tot a ls app roxima tely 18,000 and the week ly pa yro ll is some $ 1,800,000 . 
 
Georgia Gets $300,000 Day U. S. Business 
The Fed eral govern ment thi s year is sp ending nearly a quarter 01 a million dollars a da y with Georgia ~)Usin ess firm s for good s and servIces. 
Purchases of products and con st ruction services in th e sta te from January through May aggr egated $38,697,597. A total of 135 contrac ts figured in th e awards. 
Typica l of th e kind of buying don e in th e sta te were the awa rds made to Georgia firms in M ay of th is yea r when 28 con tracts were let for goods an d services to cost $7,455,26 1, la rgest tota l for th e month in th e seven-sta te Sout heast ern region . 
NEW PLYWOOD PLANT 
Woodbury has a nother la rge industri al en te rprise, a ven eer a nd plywood ma nufacturing plan t th a t will go int o opera tion soon. T he plant is an ad ju nct of Meriwether Lumber Co . I ra Reeves is man ager . 
 
Citizen Added Every 5 Minutes, Georgia Stork Records Disclose 
 
Corp . rep orts. They were :)7.2 per cent high er th an 
a t th e end of World "Va l' II , in 1946. when Georg ia ns wr-re crowing about th c th en all-t ime high dep osit of $ 1,702, I00,000. 
In th e seven-sta te Sout heast Georg ia, Alabama, Florida, Mi ssissipp i, T enn essee a nd th e two Ca rolin as - deposits at th e end of 1955 totalled approximately $ 14,262,800,000. This was an ar ea incr ease of 19 per cent over 1954 and a gain of some 45 per cent over 1946. 
All of th e seven sta tes sha red in th e $2,265,300,000 increa se taking place between th e end of 1954 and 1955, and th e $4,429,700,000 rise betwe en 1946 and 1955. 
In th e a rea, th e 1955 deposits av erag ed abou t $642.4 1 per per son for every m an , wom an and child. 
Per cap ita dep osits app roxima ted . besides Georgia's $644. I9, Alab am a. ,$554.43, Florid a . $954 .37, Mi ssissipp i, $48 1.76, North Ca rolina , $570.82, Sou th Ca ro lina , $373 .67, a nd T enn essee $772.02. 
SANDERSVILLE GARMENT FIRM ADDS TO PLANT 
Royal M fg. Co., Sander sville, is bu ilding a two-story anne x to its plan t wh ich will contain 10,000 squa re feet of spac e. 
T he a nne x will provide a cafeteria and add itional sto ra ge fa cilities. 
The pla n t, bu ilt 10 yea rs ago by Sandersville bu siness firm s and ind ividu als, has shown a steady growth and now emp loys mor e th an 100 wom en worker s. I t ma nufacturer s under wea r. trouser s a nd jacket s. 
Thc ~d d i tio n will be' comp leted by O ct. 1, acco rd ing to H . L. M cC askill, p resid e nt. 
 
Geo rgia adds a br and new citizen every five minut es. 
According to th e U . S. Census Burea u. 955.315 babi es h ave come int o the 'world in th e sta te since World \Va r II ended . or a n average of one a bou t evcrv Five min u tes. 
T he total number of bir ths in Geo r- 
 
gia in th e 10-year period of 1946 th rou gh 1955 was th e second la rgest in th e seven-sta te Southeast . No rt h Caro lina was first with a tot al of 1.001.7 4 9. 
In Georg ia, th e number of births went from 85,667 in 1946 to 101,15:) last year. 
 
CORNELIA PLANT OPENS A new industry, Royal Poul try Co., 
ha s gone into production a t Cornelia , p ro c es s i ng br o i ler s . C ompl et e l y eq uipped wit h th e lat est type machin ery, th e plant has a ca pac ity of 40,000 bird s a da y. T he plan t opened with 103 employees. 
 
G EO RG IA DE PA RT M ENT OF CO M M ERC E 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
GRIFFIN HAILS STEVENS' NEW DUBLIN PLANT 
 
G ov . M arvin Griffin w a s g ue s t 
 
spea ker June 4 wh en th e new multi - 
million doll a r N ath ani el Plant of J. P. 
 
Stevens & Co ., In c., was dedi cat ed a t 
 
Dublin, and wh en even furth er expa n- 
 
sion of th e woolen industrv in th at 
 
area was predi cted . 
 
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" It was a gr ea t day for Georgia 
when .J. P. Steven s decid ed to establish 
woolen plants in our sta te," th e Govern or declar ed . 
T o whi ch J. P. Steven s, Jr. , chair- 
man of th e firm's board , repli ed: "T h is is by no mean s th e end of th e development of th e woolen industry in Dublin." 
 
St even s' fir st Dublin mill, bu ilt in 1947, emp loys 575 wor kers, a nd th e new Natha niel pl a nt employs 300. The two facilities are expected to rea ch a n employme n t level of 1,000 men and wom en. 
 
St even s also opera tes a worsted pl ant a t nearby Milled geville, wh er e some650 worker s a re employed, and whi ch recently beg an construc tion to double 
 
its capa city . 
 
$20 MILLION BREWERY CONSTRUCTION STARTS 
Carling Brewin g Co., Inc., has begun construction of th e fir st stage of its Atl anta plant under a $3, 186,746 building permit issued by th e city. The permit cove rs th e br ewing, bottling a nd shipping building, power house, and sto rage and fermentation ar eas. Cos t of th e complete br ewery is estimat ed a t $20,000 ,000. 
The plant is being bu ilt on a 140ac re tra ct betw een Sou th Expressway a nd Browns Mill Road . 
PLANT ENLARGES 
Producti on Plating Co ., Ad el, is ad din g 12,000 squa re feet to its 35,000 sq ua re-foot pl ant, a nd will switch from steel to alum inum in th e production of a u tomobile trim. Con sider abl e new emp loyees will be added. 
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SKYSCRAPER COOLS OFF 
In st all ation of air conditioning is un derway in th e Hurt Bu ild ing , 18story downtown Atla n ta landm ar k. The" project will cost upw ards of .$ 1,000 ,000. 
 
June, 195(; 
 
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MILLEDGEVILLE CONSTRUCTION-Ar chitect's drawin g shows annex bein g built 
at the Milledgeville plant of J. P. Stev ens & Co. , to provide 70,000 sq ua re feet for dy ein g 
and finishing facilities. The new operation will add 250 em ployees to th e payroll of the woolen and wor sted mill.-Photo courtesy Milledg eville Union -R ecorder 
 
MICHIGAN'S FEATHERBONE CO. 
 
TO RELOCATE IN GAINESVILLE 
 
Warren Featherbone Co., of Three O ak s Mi ch ., pl an s to mov e its en tire ope ra tion to Ga inesv ille. 
T he firm manufactures children's underga rm ents, wom en 's raincoat s a nd other sewn pr oduct s. 
Ann oun cem en t th at F cathcrb one wou ld begin construc tion immedi at ely was mad e June 8, a t a dinner sponsored by th e Ga inesv ille-Hall County Chamber of Commer ce an d a ttended by representati ves of th e company a nd sta te officia ls. 
T he plan t for the new industry will be construc ted bv th e Ga inesv ille-Hall Co un ty Indu st ri ~l Development Corp . throu gh local bond sales, a nd will be lea sed to th e ma nufacturer . The pl ant 
Beauty Costs 
Georgia Belles 
$9.3 Million 
Georg-ia belles, famous for their beauty, spend nearly nine and a half million dollars yearly in beauty parlors to add to their glamour. 
T his averages about $5.82 for each of the estimated 1,6 10,000 women and girls living in the state, says the Atlanta field office of the U. S. D epartment of Commerce. 
The federal agency's latest annual report say s G eorgia females spe nt a total of $9,371,000 in beauty parlors, of which there are some 1,300 now operating in th e state. 
 
will be er ected adjace n t to the site occup ied by T EV, Inc., in Gainesville. 
Fea therbone h as been operating a pilot sewing line for sever a l months with mach ines set up in th e T EV plant for tr ai nin g per sonnel. 
CONTRACT LET FOR RABUN GAP TUFTING PLANT 
Oontra ct for the multi-milli on dolla r J am es Lees & Son s Co ., tu ft ing mill a t Rabun Gap, near C lay ton, has 
been let , and Willi am .J. .Jarrett, for- 
merl y man ager of th e firm' s hom e plant a t Bridgep ort, Pa ., has been nam ed man ager of th e new Geo rgia facility. 
Batson & Cook, West Point, Ga., constr uction firm, was a wa rd ed the con tract. 
No estima ted cost on th e new mill was disclosed . The bu ilding covered in th e con trac t will con ta in 144,000 squa re feet. The pla nt will be ca lled Rabun Mills, Inc. 
Lees recently anno unced a six-million dollar expa nsion plan , whi ch will include doubling th e size of its first Geo rg ia subsidia ry, th e Pin e Tree Co., a t Dahl onega . T he D ahl onega plant, built less th an a yea r ago , employs 200 wor kers. 
1\1r. J a rr ett , who has been connec ted with Lees 15 years, has opened offices in C lay ton, wh ere job app lica nts for th e new mill a rc bein g int erviewed . 
 
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GEO RG IA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 N EW SL ETT ER 
 
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Junc, 1956 
 
- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS 
 
w . J. M orrison a nd Dr. R. P. Col- 
 
lins a rc er lTting a $ 125,000 shopp ing 
 
cen ter a t Marietta . . . ' Va rn er Robins 
 
C itizen s St at e Bank is in a new build- 
 
ing . . . A & P pl ans a new sup er- 
 
ma rk et at Griffin . . . Fried lander 's 
 
new sho pp ing ce n te r a t Valdosta is 
 
0]Jl:n . . . Brunswick's Ogletho rpe H o- 
 
tel a n n o unce s im p rov emen ts to cost 
 
$50 ,000 . 
 
M vlu C orp ., C a r te r sv i ll e c a r pe t 
 
manufa cturer, h a s bou ght MrK inn cy 
 
Ca rpet Co. , Inc., Dalton . . . G eorg ia' s 
 
first Poultry In stitute will be h eld A ug . 
 
2 1-24 a t R ock E agle Sta te 4-H C lu b 
 
C en tc r nca r Eatonton . . . C h a th a m 
 
County vo ters a p proved $5,000 ,000 
 
school bonds . . . Southern Bell is con - 
 
st ruc tin g a $ 1,000,000 building a t 
 
Sandy Springs a n d is exp a nd ing tele- 
 
ph on e se rvi ce a t At hens .. . Macon let 
 
a co n tra ct to A. R . Bri ggs C onst. Co ., 
 
Macon, for a $ 187,890 wat erwork s ex- 
 
p an SIOn. 
 
Su the rla nd Paper Co ., K alam azoo . 
 
Mich ., ha s tak en a n op tion on 2, 100 
 
a cr es n car Augusta as a prob able site 
 
for a pulp pl ant . . . G eor gia Pow er's 
 
new substation a t G ibson is in op era - 
 
ti on .. . Putman County h eld it s D ai ry 
 
F est iva l a t Ea ton to n a nd Millen \\'~1 S 
 
th e scen e of th e Jenkins County Dair y 
 
F estival . .. Abilities of th e Blind is 
 
opera ting a new mat tress pla n t in East 
 
Rome . . . Wa ycross' So u th ern Bank is 
 
o pen for bu sin ess. 
 
. 
 
Carrollton C ha m be r of Co m me rce 
 
rep orts ::1 5 indu stries in ope ra tion , 
 
whi ch em p loy 2,000 m cn and wom en 
 
a nd h av e a p ayroll of a lmo st five 
 
million dollars . . . Su nset M ot el, 
 
Lincolnton, is in opera tion . . ..Jam es 
 
W ood pu rch ased a h alf interest in 
 
Bruner Buick Co ., N ewnan, a n d th e 
 
finn 's name is now Bruner -Wood Bui ck 
 
Co . . . . C ross Cou nt ry P laz a, big 
 
~ ho pp i n g cen ter in su bu rban Columbus, 
 
IS open. 
 
A ba chelor off ice rs qu a rt er s to cost 
 
$250 ,000 is under co nstruc tion a t D ob- 
 
bins Ai r Fo rce Base, Marietta . . . 
 
Rom e H a rdware Co ., Rome, is in a 
 
new bu ilding . . . Ba con County's new 
 
H ealth Ce n ter is o pen a t Alma . . . 
 
Brunswi ck will celebra te it s cen te n - 
 
n ial in August . . . Marietta's First 
 
Na tio na l Bank is en la rg ing its build- 
 
ing . . . Wa ycross' n ew Public Library 
 
is com p leted . . . G eorgia Pow er is 
 
erec ting a new bu ilding a t Dublin. 
 
C oving ton Bank & Trust Co . is en - 
 
largin g its fa cilities . . . South At la n ti c 
 
G as C o., Savannah, is in a $ 1,500 ,00 0 
 
r-xpansion p rogram . . . St ate Game 
 
a nd Fi sh D ep artmen t' s r adio rela y sta- 
 
tion a t Manch ester was d ed ica ted . . . Smyrna will hu ild a $50,000 water storage tank . . . M eriwether County H ospit a l, a H ill -Burton project , is un der cons t ruc tion a t Warm Springs. 
T errell County H ealth Cen ter , to be bu ilt a t Dawson , will serve six CO UI 1tics . . . Georgia Mi lit a ry Acad e m y, C ollege Park, ha s a n ew $85 ,000 ad mi nistr a tion building . . . A Monroe County H ospital wi ll be built a t Fort- 
 
syth, to cost $::1 50,000 . . . Bclk -M atth ews will r-rr -ct a modern hui lding at Vi dalia . . . K ai ser Aluminum and Chemi cal Sal es Co. is erecting a di stribu tion wareh ou se in Conyers. 
Southern Bell' s di al co nv ersion pro- 
g ram a t Valdosta w ill cos t $5 ,000 ,000 
. . . F orty hou sin g units will be bui lt a t 
J efferson . . . Da vid Sh api ro plans a sho pp ing cen tel' a t V ald osta . 
 
HARTW ELL PLANT ADDS-Fisher Mfg'. Co ., makers of texti le materials handling' equipment has just com plete d an addition (lef t) to its plant at H artwell. The firm moved into its present qu arters fiv e months ago aft er fire destroyed its former plant. Partner s in th e firm ar e J . Gl enn Fisher , James H. Fisher and Robert M . Mathews. 
 
Georgia's Broiler Industry 
On Way To Shatter Records 
 
G eo rg ia's broiler industry is headed for a no ther record in it s six th con sec u tiv e yca r of leadership . 
A t th e end of th e fir st qu arter of 1956, th e sta te had produced 52, 109,000 co m mercia l b roil er chicks to n ot on lv lead th e nation by a substa n tia l margin , bu t also to top it s own record of 43,223,000 h atchings a t th e en d of th e fir st qu arter la st year. 
G eo rg ia 's fir st qu arter 1956 ou t p u t represented nearl y a fourth of th e ou tp ut of ch icks in th e South, and 15 per cen t of th e produ cti on for th e 
 
na tion . L ast year Georg ia established a re- 
cord with a n ou tpu t of more th an half a billi on pounds of broiler s and a gross in com e to producer s exc eed ing $ 125,000,000. This was 5 1,700,000 p ounds more th an her 1954 m a rk a nd a r ise of $23,300,000 in in com e. Both produ cti on an d inco me were twi ce as grea t as th at of T exas, th e n ation 's runnerup sta te in th e industry, a nd wer e abo u t a fourth of th e p rodu ction a nd in com e for 2 1 o ther leading sta tes in th e nati on . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF' COMMERCE 
1 0 0 S T A T E CAPITO L 
A TLANTA 3 . GEORGIA 
 
BULK R ATE 
U.S. POSTAGE 
Paid 
Atlan ta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
Unive rs i t y of Geor gia Libr . 
Gif t & Exchange Section Clarke County Athens, Ga. 
 
 DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEDCE 
. NEWSLETTER 
JULY, 1956 
AUG H 195 : liN. ~tTY OF GtO 
$10,000,000 LANIER BRIDGE OPEN 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
J uly, 1956 
 
NEWSLETTER 
 
AIem be r Ge orgia Pr ess A ssociation 
 
Published monthly by 
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Cap itol 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor  BOARD OF COMMISSION ERS 
EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman 
T. C. BRANSON, jR. HOKE PETERS . BEN JESSUP 
TRAMMELL MciNTYRE 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary 
NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary 
 
FRED D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No .9 
 
july, 1956 
 
NE W AT SEA IS LAN D- T h is mag n ificent bea ch house, n amed H amilt on House, is nearing completion at Sea Island , and will br ing to a total 172 guest rooms for th e fam ous Cloiste r. This view is from the beach side of th e new str uctu re. 
SIDNEY LANIER BRIDCiE OPENS; CiRIFFIN LIFTS TOLL TO JEKYLL 
 
Brunswick Sets Six Gala Days For Centennial 
 
Brunswick, Glynn County a nd all of th c Gold en Isles of Georgia will join teams the week of Aug ust 13-18 to cclcb ra te the 100th an niversary of Bru nswick as a cha rte red city. 
 
There will be six mammoth street par ad es, three nights of histori cal pagea nt ry, a grand ba ll, th c world's most glamoro us chec ker game and SCOITS of ot her gay even ts to fill every hou r of e\T ry da y. 
 
The committee in cha rge of th e fes- 
 
tival , head ed by M ayor W. H. Sigm an , 
 
says th ere will be ample hot el, motel 
 
an d priva te guest home accommoda- 
 
tions to care for the th ousands who 
 
will a ttend. Adv an ce reserva tions may 
 
be 
 
made 
 
b v, 
 
writinrbr 
 
Brunswick -Glvn;l I 
 
County Centenni al, Box 574, Bruns- 
 
wick , Georgia. 
 
COVER PHOTO 
The mil e-long Sidney Lanier Brid ge leap s the confluence of Brun swick and Turtle Ri vers to shor ten U. S. 17, key north-south traffic rout e at Brunswick. th e four-l an e spa n cost $ 10,000,000. The City of Brunswick may be seen in the background of thi s aerial photog rap h by Mil es D. Baker , Brun swick photogra pher. (Story in adjo ining column ) 
 
The new Sidney Lanier Bridge at Brunswick is op en a nd th e toll has been lift ed fro m th e nea rb y J ekyll Creek Brid ge leading to J ekyll Island, Georg ia's newest a nd most promising st a te park. 
The m il e - l o n g L an i e r Brid ge, 
which is located on U. S. 1i , spans 
th e Brunswick Ri ver a nd re places two old bridges. O ne of th ese crosses Turtle Ri ver and thi s name wa s used during construction to design ate th e new $ 10,000,000 st ruc tu re. 
The four-lan e bridge shor tens U . S. 17, key north-south tou rist route, by two miles. W ith its limited access ap proaches it cuts off 20 mi nutes by bypassing Brunswick city t ra ffic. 
THE H ANDSOME SPAN is nam ed for Sidney L ani er , Geor gia poet wh o immor tal ized th e " Marshes of Glynn" wh ich an' the background of th e bridge. 
The toll is 35 cen ts eac h way for pa ssenger vehicles and up to $ 1.10 for trucks, dep ending on th e nu mber of a xles. 
A sta ff of 18 persons ope ra tes th e bridge and its lift spa n. WOlllen serve as toll takers. 
With the ope ning of La nier Bridge th e 50 cen t toll on the J ekyll bridge was lift ed by Gove rn or Marvin G riffin as an imp etus to th e development of th e island park. 
U n til th e $800,000 .J ekylI bridge was ope ned a yea r ago, th e island , formerl y a privat ely-own ed mi llionaires' club, 
 
could only be rea ched ? y boat. T he sta te acquired .JekylI 111 1947 for $675 ,000. 
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THE C OT TAGES on th e island, onc e occup ied by the R ockcfellers, Go ulds, Pu litzcrs, Morgans, Good years, H a rr ima ns a nd othe r gilt-edged tv roons ha ve been conver ted into hot els, bu siness and private winter and summe r residen ces to mak e J ekylI an idea l all-year-around p laygrou nd for Georgians a nd visitors. 
The semi -tropical island has 11 mi les of bea ch and 16 miles of hard-surfaced road s. I ncluded among th e bu sinesses a re two hotels , th e C rane and th e San s Souci, a nd p lan s ar c un der way to const ru ct two motels. 
TOCCOA'S GIANT MACHINE PLANT EXPANDS AGAIN 
L eT ourn ea u - Westinghouse, In c., lon g a mai nsta y of indus tr ial p rogress in T occoa and St ephens County, again is enla rging its sprawling plant. 
A steel and conc re te a nne x 200 bv 200 feet is scheduled to be complet ed in July. 
T he new str uctur e will hou se alI facilities for manufacturing the special motors, gene ra tors and othe r elect ric parts th at go into th e giant ea rthmovin g machines built at th e plant. 
 
GEORG IA DE PARTMENT O F CO M M ERCE 
 
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 NEWSL ET T ER 
 
July, 1956 
 
ELI WHITNEY'S COTTON GIN 
 
GIVEN SHRINE IN SAVANNAH 
 
Eli Whitney's cott on gin is being given a p erman ent hom e in Sav annah, th e city of its birth. 
Mills B. Lane, Jr., p resid en t of the Citizens & Southern National Bank, resc ued th e pri celess relic as it wa s about to be shipped ou t of th e sta te, and is p resenting it to th e city on loan. H e also purchased 'Vhitney's worksho p, an ancient ' Vilkes C oun ty barn, as it wa s being dismantled for shipment, a nd it will be rec onst ructed in Savannah to hou se th e gin and other Whitney mem entos. The shrine will be called th e Eli Whitney Museum. 
T he gin , lost to the wo rld for I'H1 years, wa s located in 1934, afte r intensive research , in the loft of th e barn ncar Wa shington , 'Wilkes County. I ts discov ery cre a ted a sensa tion a mong historians. 
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M R. LANE acquired th e Whitney work shop ou tright and obta ined a n 
option to buy th e gin, owned by .J. H . 
Elliott, Atl anta an tiqua ria n. NIr. Elliott is cont ributing and lending man y other valuable reli cs of th e Whitnev era from his hu ge collections to roun'd out th e Sav anna h display . 
Mr. L ane, a native Sav annahian now resid ing in At lanta , ha s form ed a non p rofit corpo ra tion which will own and operate the mu seu m, 
The gin own ed by Mr. Elliott and acquired by Mr. Lane, was built ab out 1794. The banker said that it is known to be th e first commercial version of th e invention whi ch qui ckly br ought about world industrializa tion a nd whi ch , po ets philosophize, crea te d more prosperity and ca used more ha voc than an y othe r single in vention of man. There was a n ea rlier mod el, on sm aller sca le, but ' Vhitn ey au th ori ties agr ee tha t it was dest royed by fir e. 
Whitncv. a M assachuset ts farm bov who had a bent for mech ani cs, gradua ted from Yale in 1792, a t th e age of 27, a nd ca me to Geor gia to serve as tutor in a Sav annah Iamilv whil e Ill' stud ied law , U pon arrival , he found th at someo ne had alrea dv tak en th e position , a nd he was a bo~l t to return when a shipboa rd acquainta nce , M rs. Nat han ael Greene, widow of th e Revolu tiona ry \ Var gener al. invited him to her home, Mulberry Grove Pla n ta - 
 
HOW IT WORKS-Eli Whitn ey's fir st comme rc ial cott on gin gets a tryout in Atl anta before it is sen t to Savan na h to tak e its pl ace in th e Eli Whitney Museum esta blishe d by Mills B. Lane, j r. , pr esid en t of th e C itizens & So u the rn N a ti ona l Bank. P aul Partridge, C & S guard, d em on strat es th e hi stor ic ma chine to j on Cowan, 9, an d Ka y Co wan, 7, both of R t, 4, A ust el l. 
 
tion , nca r Savannah , There the tal k turned to cotton, and someone rem ark ed th at a fortun e was in sto re for th e man wh o devised a mach ine for sepa rating th e lint of cotton from th e seed . At th at time th e seeds were picked out hv hand . a nd a full dav's lab or was requ ircd to produce a ~i ngle pound of "clea n" lint. 
 
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RECALLI N G TH AT H ER G EST had rep aired her wat ch, M rs, G reen e enco u rage d him to un derta ke th e in vcn tion. W hitney shu t himself off in a shed, fashion e'd special tools wit h which to wor k, a nd tackled th e pr ob- 
 
lr- m. By Apri l, 1793, he had finished a machine with which a man could de-seed 50 pound s of cotto n a day. 
U nd iscouraged whe n fire at th e pl an tat ion swept the shed a nd de stroyed his first model, Whi tn ey built a la rger and more p erfect mach ine. L at er he set up a secluded workshop on p ton C ree k in Wi lkes Co unty , wh er e he expe rimen ted wi th wat erwheel propulsion a nd ginne d cotto n for nei ghb or planters. In t 794 he secured a patent on his invention whi ch he ca lled simply a "cotto n eng ine ." The Negro slaves 
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GEO RG IA D EPA RTI\;tENT OF C O M M E KC E 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
OSCAR MAYER CO. OPENS ATLANTA SAUSAGE PLANT 
Oscar M ayer & Co ., nati onall y kn own meat processing firm of Madison, Wis., h as opened a sa usage pl ant in Atl anta . 
The new fac ility, th e p rocessor's first southern pl ant, is locat ed in a remo del ed wareh ouse at 880 Wa rn er St., S.W . T he buildi ng contains 10,000 square feet and is eq uippe d with spec ial pa ckag ing a nd other ma chinery pioneer ed by M ayer. 
" We h ave faith in th e future growth and developm ent of th e industri al South, of which we feel Atla nta is a n excellen t exam ple of th e p rogressive forward movement so vital to bu sin ess tod ay," said Os car G. Mayer. J r., presiden t. 
M ayer's has 8,500 em ployees in its na tionwide operations and last yea r did bu siness to ta lling $225,000,000. Besides pla nt s in Madison and At la nta, it has facilities in C hica go, Phil ad elph ia, Lo s Angeles and Davenport, I a. 
 
July, 1956 
 
PURINA CHICK CENTER 
R al ston Purin a Feed Co., is eq u ip ping a poultry resea rch fa rm in Aver y Co m muni ty, Cher okee Coun ty , to experiment toward prod ucin g a meati er bird q uickly and on less feed . Th e firm has 44 mill s in th e United Sta tes, one of th e newest a nd most mod ern of which is located a t G a inesville. 
CAMP TOCCOA SOLD 
C a mp T occoa, W orld W a r II tra ining site, has been purch ased from th e ,?;overn me n t by th e St even s County D evelopm ent Corp., for $8 1,500 , a nd will be utilized for industry. Corpora tion C ha irman Thom as B. M eNeely, of T occoa, sa id th at the g roup has severa l prospects for th e prop er ty. 
ELBERT GETS RADAR POST 
A ra dar exper imental inst alla tion . pa rt of th e n ati onwide aer ia l defen se system, will be pl aced in ope ra tion a t H a rp er , Elbert Co un ty. The M assachusett s Institute of T echnology will insta ll and opera te th e sta tion for th e gov ernme nt. 
 
RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET-A schooner puts out to sea off th e shores of St. Sim ons I sland, one of th e famous Golden Isl es off Brunswick . J ek yll Island, now a state park, is seen acro ss th e sound. Brunswick a nd Glynn County ar e joining th e week of Au g. 13-18 to celebrate th e 100th anniversary of Brunswi ck as a chartered city. 
 
WHITNEY'S COTTON GIN 
(C ontinued fro m Page 3 ) 
soon shor te ned the name to " gin. " 
It was on Whitn cv's old farm on U pto n C ree k th at sea l:chers locat ed the historic gin in 1934. 
T he im medi ate result of Whitn ev' s invention wa s th at one per son co ~ld do th e wor k formerl y p erf orm ed by 50. In th e fir st seve n vcars that th e gin wa s used , Ameri can 'cot ton expo r ts in creased 30 times. Planters cultiva ted all th e available land in th e South, a nd th e fact th at th ey sp read into T exas wa s one of th e ca uses of th e M exican W ar. A cotton slave became worth 
 
five times wha t he was worth in 1794 a nd, as eve ry schoo lchild kn ows, th e bit ter con troversy over th e exp ansion of slav ery brou ght about disruption of th e U nion and th e W ar Bet ween th e St a tes. 
O n the hap pier side , Whit ney's gin mad e th e producti on of co tton p rofitable, and as a result th e fleecy crop soon became on e of the world's chid agricultur a l staples a nd a key commodity in internati on al ma nufacture and trade. In Georgia tod ay cotton brings th e farmers 60 milli on doll ars a vea l' while th e state's textile and kindred industri es provid e some 150,000 jobs with a tot al a nnu a l pa yr oll of $500 ,000,000. 
 
GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
J uly, 1956 
 
GEORGIA BUSINESS AT PEAK, 
 
NEW RECORDS LOOM FOR 1956 
 
Business is booming in Georgia. In most instances, activity in the major segments of th e state's econo- 
 
Illy even exceeds that of 1955 , gen erallv conceded to hav e been th e peak- business yea r of all tim e. 
 
This is th e gist of th e 57th qua rterly summary of conditions in th e sta te ju st issued by M errill C. Lofton , Atla nta field manager of the U. S. D epartment of Com me rce, as the federal gov ernment's final figure s for th e fir st quarter of 195G were compiled . 
 
C iting Georgia's pr ogr ess in th e fir st 
three mon ths of this year as comp a red with last, th e federa l offi cia l point ed to 
th ese facts a nd figures: 
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NEW HOME FOR ZEP-Her e's the new plant that Zep Mf g. Corp., on e of Ame rica's lar gest manufacturer s of san it a ry and maintenance chem ica ls, is building on an eig htac re tract in Atl ant a's Chattahooch ee Industrial Area. The installation will cost some $750,000. Mandle Zaban , presid ent, said th e firm will re tain its pr esent large warehou se and offi ce building in do wn town Atla nta . 
 
D EPOSIT S in F ed e r a l R eserv e member banks in th e sta te rea ched a high point of more than on e and a half billion do llars, 5.7 per cen t gr eater than last year, a nd loan s tot aled $772 ,300,000, up 13.3 per cent. All major cities sha red in the ga ins. 
Bank debits were up 10 per cent thi s yea r over last reaching $6,424,000,000 , with all citi es also participating in the rise. 
Trading continu ed high. As th e yea r adv an ced, retail sales increa sed with accompanying gains in departmen t star es, all cities in th e sta te reporting sha rp rises in that type of bu ying. Wholesale firms also registered sharp ad vances. 
Some 568 new busin esses incorporated in Georgia in the quarter, an increase of 3 per cen t over last yea r. 
 
Tra nsport ation was on th e hum . For the first tim e in several years , an adva nce in rail road passen ger revenue was observed , a nd fr eight revenues con tinued upwa rd. Amo ng th e ai rlines, 11.7 per cen t more revenue pass engers wer e carried a nd 12.6 per cen t mor e ton- miles of freight wer e flown. 
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NEW RECORDS were esta blished in telep hones in op eration , both in residences and bu siness firm s. 
Nea rly 17 per cent more electric energy was produced for industrial and ut ility purposes. 
Georgia's ports expe rien ced good business in th e field of for eign commerce. Exports were valued at $22,700,000 at the end of the quarter , 
 
a nd imports at $ 18,500,000, reflecting a 3.7 per cent rise in value of goods shipped abroad and conside rabl e stability in importations. 
The sta te' s employme n t picture wa s especially good. Working in manufacturing plants during the quarter were an average of 335,000 employes, an advance of 5.6 per cent over last year, and 22.2 per cent less insured un employment was reg iste re d. 
W hile fanners in other parts of th e nation wer e coun ting less do llars in cash receipts for their mar ket ing, in Georgi a th ey were enjoy ing an overall ga in of 7 per cent. T heir rise in incom e includ ed 6.4 per cen t in returns from livestock and its products an d 8.9 pe r cen t fro m crop com modities. 
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THE STAT E CONTINUED to blaze th e tr ail for all sections in commer cial chick pr oduction with a gain of 21.3 per cen t thi s year over last. 
M ore hogs wer e slaugh tered an d more pulpwood used in paper produ ctio n . 
An incr ease was sho wn in cotton consumed in textil e mills. 
A single d ar k spot in th e ot herwis e rosy bu siness pi ct ure was construc t ion. 
 
SA V ANNAH MILL RISING-Ar chitect's drawin g shows th e Ruberoid Compan y's new $3, 200,000 roofing felt mill now und er const ruc t ion. The pl ant , cover ing 58 ,000 squa re feet , has a st ructura l ste el fram e covered with asbest os-ceme nt roofing and siding . To go into operation next ye ar, it will produce 80 ton s of dry felt a da y for th e compan y's roofing plant in Savan na h. The new unit will add about 60 employees . 
 
A decline came in va lue of all build ing opera tions and in number of new dw ellin g units a u tho rized, wit h most of th e sta te's metropolitan a reas sharing in th e taper ing off. W ith it went declin es in production a nd shipment of pin e lum ber. 
 
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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
J ul y, 1956 
 
BRUNSWICK POWER PLANT ADDS Fulton Bag 
 
$13 MILLION STEAM GENERATOR Sale Brings 
$ 1 0 Million A 75,000-kilowatt electric gene rating gin early in 1957 a nd th e unit is sched- 
 
u nit wi ll be ad d ed to Plant M eM anu s, the Georgia Power Company's stea m plant ncar Brun swick. 
The new unit will cost m or e th an .$1:),000,000 a nd will virtuall y tr eble th e ca pacity of th e existing plant. 
Co nstr uc tion on th e a dd ition will be- 
PEERLESS UNIT AT THOMASTON 
 
uled to go in to service by th e mi d d le of 1959 . 
An orde r for the boi ler has been placed with Bab cock & Wilcox, Brunswick firm . Allis-Chalm ers Mfg. C o. will bui ld th e turbo-gen erator. 
The new un it will require a n en ti rely new struc ture to be bui lt as an addi tion to Plant M cM anus, mor e th an d oublin g its present size. However , th e existing int ak e t un nel and fuel oil ta nks will serve fo r both uni ts. 
The com pa ny has a lso ap plied to 
 
Sto ck con trol o f the F ulton Bag & Co tton Mi lls, 88 -year-old At la nta fin n that op erates plan ts in nine cities, ha s cha nge d hands in a $10 ,000 ,000 dea l. 
The co mpa ny is on e o f th e nation 's oldes t a nd largest ma kers of textile a nd multi-w all paper bags. 
The buyer wa s a gro up of industral ists headed by Ju lius W. Ab ernethy, Newton, N. C ., texti le ex ecutive, who is cha ir ma n of th e new board o f di rect ors. 
Besides its hu ge horn r pl ant in At- 
 
IN EXPANSION 
 
th e Federa l Pow er Com mission for a lirr-nsc to co nstruc t a 60 ,000 -ki lowatt 
 
la n ta , the firm opera tes m ills in Sa vanna h, St. Lou is, K a nsas City, Min - 
 
An a nne x 150 feet long a nd three sto ries in height will be added to th e 
 
hyd ro electric plant on th e C ha tta hooch ee River, ncar Co lum b us. 
 
neapolis, De nver, D a lla s, New O rleans a nd Lo s An gel es. 
 
ma in bui lding of th e Peerl ess Division 
 
CRUSH STONE PLANT of Thomaston Mills, Thomaston. The ad d ition, says J ulia n T. H igh- 
 
tow er , will be th e first stage of a com - 
SELECTS MACON AREA plete modernization program for thr 
d ivision. T he progr am wi ll requ ire 
 
two years to complete. 
Con tra cts cove ring the a dd ition have have been awa rde d to Frank Binf ord Construction Co ., Thomaston. 
 
W eston & Broo ker Co ., Co lumbia, S. C ., aggr ega te firm, will begin con struc tion in J uly of a multi -m illion do llar stone crush ing plant in Bibb Coun- 
 
Road nca r Pit ts C hapel, where th e com pany has a cqu ired 300 acr es for quarry and plan t site. 
T he crus he r plant, M r. W eston said, 
 
LOUISVILLE LAUNCHES 
 
ty. W . S. W eston , J r., presid ent, said th e 
 
" will be th e ultimate in push-button design a nd flexibility." Its eq uip me nt 
 
DRIVE FOR INDUSTRY 
 
pl ant will be nin e mil es northea st of M acon on th e M a con -Milled geville 
 
will h av e a ca paci ty of 600 tons of mat eri al per hour. Ab out 40 worker s 
 
An Ind ustrial Committee ha s been a ppoin te d by Loui sville City Co un cil to seck mo re industr ies fo r the pu rp ose of ba lancing th e ag ricu ltura l economy of th e J effer son Co unty city. M em - 
bers of th e com m ittee arc .J. B. Pol- 
hills , J r., cha irma n : A. P. L ittle, secret ar y - tr easurcr; J udge W . Wright Abbott, R . N . Whitham a nd I. Gold- 
 
FARM MACHINE PLANT MOVES TO AMERICUS 
An assem bly plant for farm m achines 
 
will be em ployed . The aggr egate to be quarried is a 
ligh t, hard gra n ite of h igh q ua lity, m eeting fed eral and state sp ecificatio ns for roa d construction and ge ne ra l usc, it was sta ted. 
West on & Brook er a lready op er at es agg rega te plants a t Ca mak a nd Grani te Hi ll, Ga ., and C ayce, S. C . 
 
w a sser. 
LOCKHEED BUILDING Construction ha s begun on a n eigh t- 
p la ne mod ifica tion building at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., M ariet ta , which is sched uled to be comp leted in November. Th e a ll-steel stru cture, 2 10 x 6 16 feet , will cost a p p r o x i m a t c l y $ 700.000. 
COCHRAN DEPOT 
 
is ope n a t Am eri cu s. 
Turner Mfg. Co., Sta tesbo ro, N . C ., firm , whi ch has operate d a warehouse in th e Su m te r Co un ty city for the past 20 years, has moved its farm m achinery d ivision th ere. U lt im at e em ployment of the pla n t will be 175. 
Duke T em pleton, Turner' s Am eri cus manager, said th e pi lot assembly lin e op en ed with 30 workers who arc turning out three peanut-picking m a chines a da y. 
 
GEORGIA PAPER BAGS $60 MILLION INDUSTRY 
Geo rgia is the na tion' s second largest producer of p ap er bags. 
According to a news rel eas e from the U . S. Cen sus of M an ufacturers, in 1954 nin e paper bag p lants in th e sta te sh ip pe d goods va lu ed at $60,118,000. This topped a ll othe r sta tes exce p t N ew York, wh ere sh ip me n ts to- 
 
Southern R ailway's passen ger and 
 
In a d d ition to peanut harvesting tal ed $6 1, 150,00 0. 
 
fre igh t dep ot a t Co chran , a land m a r k eq ui pme n t, Turn er manufactu res tr a c- 
 
Georgia' s bag pl ants em ployed 2,- 
 
for nearly hal f a cen tury, ha s been tors, h ay balers a nd a ge ne ra l line of 86 1 worker s and had a tot a l payroll 
 
rep la ced by a hand some new sta tion. farm machin ery . 
 
of $9,838,000. 
 
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J uly, 1956 
 
CARROLLTON INDUSTRIAL FIRMS 
 
PUT 5 MILLION." IN CIRCULATION Thirty - eight Carrollton industries 
 
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VW"fl""'p  have total payrolls of almost five mil- 
 
lion do lla rs annua lly and fu rni sh em- 
 
ploymcn t to some 1,300 men a nd mor e 
 
th an 750 wom en , ac cording to a survey 
 
mad e by th e Carrollton C hamber of 
 
Commer ce. 
 
The wide variety of p roducts p ro- 
 
du ccd bv th ese Iirrns ind ica tes a high ly s t~ble economy a nd, says th e 
 
cha tan 
 
tmtbiemr~ s iswahefna 
 
r acf trv~ r 
 
fr om on e 
 
not so p assed 
 
dist ex - 
 
tiles, the C arroll Coun ty city' s ind us- 
 
t ria l list was sma ll indeed . 
 
The list now includes lu mb er prod - 
 
ucts a nd processing, food prod ucts a nd 
 
p rocessing, ga rmen t fa ctories, textiles, 
 
l e a t h e r goo d s , construc tion, met a l 
 
p rodu ct s, che mica ls, co tt on ginn ing, 
 
feed s, fertilizer, bottling a nd severa l 
 
miscellaneou s lin es. 
 
The firms include : 
 
H ester Bennett L um ber Co., Ply- 
 
wood Case Co., H . \V. Ri cha rds Lum- 
ber Co., J. B. Stallings Cabinet Shop , 
 
Sout hla nd Produ cts Co ., Aycock Gins, 
.J. M . Bu rn s and Co ., C ar roll Cr ea m- 
 
ery Coop erative, I nc., D uff ey Sa usa ge 
 
Co., Fletcher Sausage Co., Skinner Poult ry, M oores Sau sage and M ea ts, 
.J. L. Allen Sa usage Co., Carrollton 
 
ANG L ER'S PARADISE-Fishin~ scene in M ount ain C ree k L a ke, one of th e II cle a r la kes in 2,500-acre Ida Cason Ca llaway G a rde ns, nea r C hipley. This la ke, hea vily stocked wit h bass a nd br ea m , is reser ved for sportsme n. In t he back ground m ay be 
 
Coca-C ola Bottl ing Co., Nehi Bot - 
 
seen the go lfers bri dg e and the gardens' 17th C ent ury clubhou se. 
 
tlin g Co. 
 
IO-Story Office Building 'Se t Cotton Producers Assn.. Richards & 
Associa tes, Sim onton Con~tru ct ion Co., 
 
H . W . Ri ch a rds Co nstruc tion Co., 
For Historic Savannah Site T estworth Laboratories of Georgia, 
Dou glas & Lomason Co., Indust rial 
 
Fo undries, Sou thw in- Co ., Ge neral Shoe Corp ., Di xie G arm rn t Mf g. Co., Ca r roll Mi lls, C unard M ills, Farmer's Mill, Law ler Hosier y M ill, M a ryon H osiery Mi ll, M orri s Mf g. 
Co., J. R. Newell Co., Printed Fab rics 
Corp., Wollun Mills, Quality Mi lls, St ylewise M ills, Carro ll M attress Co., a nd C arroll Broom a nd M op Co. 
SCAPA SHIPMENT 
F irst shipme n t of fel t p roduced by Sca pa Dryers, Inc., new W aycross plan t, has gon e to N ew Engla nd . H owever, officia ls of th e Brit ish-C an adi an owned firm sa id th e shipmen t was a spec ial order and th e plant has not yet gone into norma l p roducti on . At pr e se nt , l o c a l p er s onn el is b ein g 
 
A 10-stor y office buil d ing with its own mu lti-stor y parki ng garage will be bu ilt in downt own Savanna h . 
SMYRNA FORMS GROUP TO SEEK INDUSTRY 
Smy rna Development Corp., cha rtcr cd by the Co bb County Sup eri or Cou rt , is now opera ting from its 01'ficcs a t 161 Nor th A tlanta St., Smyrna, Georg ia. 
Officer s of th e gro up a rc M . H . 
T atum , pr esident ; .J. C. W ine, vice 
presid ent ; Geor ge S. Wright , tr easurer, a nd A. C. Sh epherd , secreta ry. 
Fi ftv th ou sand dollars worth of th e corpora tion's ca p ital stock is being 
 
T he stru cture, th e first tall buildi ng to join th e skyline of the city in nea rly th ree decades, will be bu ilt by Pulaski, I nc. It will rise from the site of th e old Pulaski Hotel on th e northwest corn er of Bull and Byron Street s, overloo king 
.J ohnson Sq uar e. T he connec ting ga- 
rage , a n int egr a l pa rt of th e new bui lding, will be erec ted on the site of th e K rcpper Buildi ng wh ich ad joins th e hotel to th e west. 
Bern ard E. Eich ho lz, p resident of Pul aski, In c., said the old hotel would be dem olished im mediately a nd that th e office bui lding is sched uled to be ready for occupan cy la te in 1957 . I t will be of steel and reinforced conc rete and will be ai r-conditio ned . 
 
train ed in th e technique of pr odu c- offered for sa le for th e purpose of 
 
The Krepper Build ing, now under 
 
ing felt drier s for the pap er-ma kin g assisting new ind ustries to esta blish or lease, will be razed la ter to m a ke wa y 
 
ind ustry. 
 
pr esent indust ries to expa nd . 
 
for a five-story conncc t ing ga ra ge. 
 
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- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS 
 
Sal e of flue-cured tob acco, highlight 
 
of th e agricultu ra l year to th ou sands 
 
of Georgia farmer s and busin essmen , 
 
sta r ts July 25 
 
Wrens is ex tending 
 
its water ma ins 
 
White County 
 
Chamber of Co mme rce has bee n 0 1'- 
 
za n ized at Cleveland . . . Monroe's 
 
Farmers Bank is remodel ing its build- 
 
mg. 
 
Sandersville's Trailwavs Bus Station 
 
has bee n enla rged ... Macon's m ult i- 
 
million doll ar hospi tal is com pleted 
 
. . . J ack D a rlin gt on h as b een nam ed 
 
plant m anager of th e Pin e T ree Co. , 
 
Dahlonega ca rpe t ya rn mill .. . Inter- 
 
nati on al Associati on of M echanics will 
 
erec t a $500 ,000 lab or temple a t Ma- 
 
rietta .. . Ideal , in Macon County, has 
 
installed a wat erworks syste m . 
 
.J. P. St even s & Co ., Inc., has boug ht 
 
th e old armory building a t Milledge- 
 
ville for use as a wa reho use ... G round 
 
was broken a t Geo rgia Tech for th e 
 
$ 1,000,000 Atlanta Nav.y-Ma rine Corps 
 
Train ing Ce nter. 
 
Summerville pl an s a $500 ,000 water wor ks ex pansion and im p rovement progr am . . . George L ou is h as built a four-unit shopping cen ter in G ainesville . . . H ospital Au tho rity of Colquitt County h as let con t rac ts for a convalescent wa rd a t V ereen M emori al H ospit al, Moultrie, for $254,980 .. . Abbeville's Western Au to Associa te St o re is in a new build ing . . . Waynesboro's $9 7,000 Natio na l Guard Armory was dedi cated. 
J. C . Penny Co . signed lease for a 
new bu ilding to be const ruc ted a t Marietta's Town & Co untry Sh opp ing Center ... Georgia For est ry Co mmission is er ecting a $ 190,000 building near Macon . . . R ice, Stix, I nc., of St. Loui s, has bo ug ht D ou gh erty, L ittle, Red win e Co ., Atlanta who lesa le d ry goo ds firm . 
 
Un ion Bag & Paper Co rp., Savannah, will erect a pl ant a t L ak eland, Fla. , to mak e boxes from corrugated she ets p roduced a t Savannah. 
 
W or k h as beg un on a $2,000 ,000 addition to Albany's Phoeb e Putney H ospital . . . Colquitt County will ob serve its centennia l O ct. 15-2 0 with a colorfu l progr a m a t Moultrie . . . Alma Ci ty Council has vo ted to in stall p arking met er s . . . Manchester pl an s a dial telephon e syste m . . . Bates Mfg. Co ., of M ain e, has acq uire d th e N ation al C hen ille Product s Co ., Dalton . . . Savannah M achine & Foundry Co ., is pr oducing du ct ile iron , a new 
 
pr oduct . 
J. L. Dent, who ope ne d a poultry 
 
processing pl ant a t Buena V ist a eigh t months ago, plan s a secon d pl ant a t Pine Mountain Valley .. . Ameri ca n Nationa l Ban k of Brunswick pl an s a . modern t wo-s tory bu ilding . . . War e County 's $ 1,000,000 hospital a t Waycross was dedicat ed ... .Jefferson Mills held open hou se a t its new fini shing plant a t Jefferson . .. D r. Stewart D. 
G EO R G I A GO L D- R oy Phillipson (left ) demonstrates th e op eration of a Tom Thumb stam p mill in th e Dahlonega Gold Museum operated by the Dahlonega Cha m ber of Co mme rce. The mill , own ed by Capt. Ga rland Peyton, Georgia st a te geolo gist , is th e only on e cast of th e Mi ssissippi actually a t work crush ing gold ore. The mu seum, in th e h eart of th e fabulous gold coun try of North Ge or gia, allows visitors to keep an y gold th ey may pan from stream s or gullies on th e property. 
 
Brown , .Jr., is erecting a clin ic a t Ro yston as a mem ori al to his late fa t h e r. 
L. B. Posey Co., Inc., East Point, was aw arded con tract to build th e Forsyth Co unty H ospital in Cumming. His bid wa s $339 ,3 24 . . . Scoville M fg. Co ., Wat erbury, Co nn., will enlarge its pl ant a t Clarkesville . . . Bankers H ealth & L ife Ins. Co. is in a new district office building a t Rome . . . Georgia M a rble Co ., Tate, has acquired th e Abe rlene Sto ne Corp ., p rodu cing soa pstone. a t Charlottesville, Va.. . . Baldwin County's Nationa l Guard unit is in a new armory at Milledgeville . 
Cleveland's new City H all is op en . . . Hall County's ne w $ 190,000 H ealth Dep a rtment building is open a t Gainesville .. . Belton is ge tting wa ter fr om th e Lula pl ant over a system built a t a cost of $34 ,000 . . . . Citizens & Southern Na tiona l Bank h as ope ne d a fa cilit y a t Albany's M arine Corps Supply Ce n ter. 
Warner Robins h as dial telephone ser vice . . . W GA U , Athens radio station , h as been bou ght by H . R andolph H old er an d Tom Ll oyd . . . Douglas' new National G uard a rmo ry is in op era tion . . . H om er Hutch eson is erecting a new bu ilding for h is supe rmarket in Buchanan . . . T wo Georgia REA co-opera tives h ave been approved for loan s. Lamar County Electric M ember ship Corp., Barnesville, will receive $260,000 , and U pson County Elect ric M emb ership Corp. , Thomaston, $320 ,000 . Each will build 75 new lin es . . . General M otor's diesel engine di vision is esta blishing region al head qu arter s in Atlanta . . . Blakely has a new 250,OOO-gallon city water tank. 
 
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NEWSLETTER 
 
M emb er Georgia Press Association 
Published monthly by 
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN 
 Governor 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman 
T. C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP 
TRAMMELL McINTYRE 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary 
NELSON M. SHIPP 
 Assistant Secretary 
FRED D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No. 10 
 
August , 1956 
 
Ford Doubles 
Size of Giant Atlanta Plant 
Ford M ot or Co. will nearly double the size of its hu ge At lanta For d di vision assembly plant, H enr y C. Dorsey, pl ant man ager announced. 
Co nstru ction will begin as soon as ; on trac ts can be let and completion is scheduled for late in 1958. 
Cost of th e project was estimated a t $ 10,000,000 to $ 17,000,000 . 
T he expansion will add nearl y 500,000 squa re feet of floor space to th e plant's present 650,000 square feet. T he plan t was built in 1947. 
The construc tion p rogr am will not int erf er e with regular car prod uction a t th e plan t, Mr. D orsey said. 
Ca pacit y of th e present plan t is 334 units a day. Wh en th e addi tion is completed , th e operation will be able to produce 640 units a day. 
COVER PHOTO 
Shirley and M a I' t h a Anne M ead ows, of C olumbus, on t he sands of Robin Lake Beach in Ida Cason Callaway Ga rdens, said to be th e largest ma n-made beach in th e world . On hot Aug ust days, as man y as 15,000 visitor s enjoy t he swim ming, fishing and flower trails of the popular recr eation r end ezvous near Chipley. (Story on page 3. ) 
 
H ART WEL L CONSTRUCT IO N-Monro e Auto Parts Com pa ny 's new $2,000,000 plant is seen as it near s comp letion. The bui ldin g conta ins 105,000 square feet. The plant , which will manufacture shock absorb ers for passenger cars, is scheduled to begin oper at ions in mid-September. The build ing in background is the plant of Amero tron, Inc. -Aerial ph oto cour tesy T he Anderson (S. C. ) Independ ent. 
 
DORAVILLE GM PLANT TO ADD 
 
HUGE CHEVROLET PARTS DEPOT 
 
Ch evrolet D ivision of General M otors Corp. will bui ld a multi-milliondollar parts war ehouse in D eK alb County ncar Atlanta. 
T he 500,000 squa re-foot unit will be locat ed on a 70-acre tr act owned by GM adjacen t to th e 1,000,000 squarefoot Buick-O ldsmobile-P on tiac assembly plant at D or aville. 
Details of the construction and app roxim at e cost of th e new plant were no t disclosed. 
It was indi ca ted by Ch evrolet execu tives th a t th e functions of th e presen t At lan ta part s depot, which adjo ins the Chevrolet-Fisher Body assembly plant on M cDonough Blvd ., near th e U . S. Penitentiar y, will be consolidated with th e new fa cility. 
GM has sever al other oper ations in the At lan ta area, includ ing region al and zone sales headqu arter s for most of its manufacturing divisions, a tr ain ing cent er and its newly established regional diesel engi ne division . T he firm 's total employmen t in th e area last yea r was 7,584 persons on a $4 1,000,000 annual payroll. 
Combined expenditures for GM 
 
payrolls and ma terials pu rchased 111 Georgia du ring 1955 amounte d to nearl y $100,000,000. 
CiEORCiIA FARMER INCOME RISES 
Wh ile th e na tion as a who le has suffer ed loss of 1 per cen t in cash receip ts fro m fa rm market ings th is year over last, Georgia fa rmers enjoyed a ga in of 1.1 per cen t, according to th e Agricultural M arket ing Service, U . S. D epartment of Commer ce. 
In th e first five mo nths of 1956, Georgia farmer s received an estimated total of $163,243,000 for their products, aga inst a tot al of $ 16 1,332,000 in the corr esponding per iod of 1955. 
R eturns fr om Georgia crop product s declined from $42,864,000 last yea r to $39,486,000 thi s year, bu t a rise in cash from livestock an d its products mo re th an offset the loss. The livestock income wen t fro m $ 118,468,000 a t th e end of M ay 1955 to $ 123,757,000 a t the same time th is yea r . 
 
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50-UNIT MOTEL ADDS ALLURE 
 
TO FAMED GEORGIA GARDENS 
 
GARDEN MOTEL-Newest addition to Ida Cason Callaway Gardens, on U. S. 27, near Chipley , is this 50 -unit mot el. Picture win dows in every room capture the full beauty of th e 2,500 -acre wonderland wh ich is often called "Georgia's Garden of Ed en." 
 
Ida Cason Callaway Gardens, nationally popular vacation spot near Chipley, now has a 50-unit motel whic h will compare with the finest in America. 
Located on U. S. 27, a main highway from the midwest to Florida, the Garden Motel faces the golf course and Mountain Creek Lake 
the principal fishing lake in the 2 ,~ 
SOO-acre wonderland. The motel was designed by Norman M . Giller & 
Associates, of M iami, and the interiors were decorated by Ray Lang, Inc., of Atlanta, two of the eountry's outstanding specialists in t heir fields. 
The location of th e mot el is suc h th at every room cap tures th e fu ll beau- 
 
ty of th e ga rdens through lar ge picture 
 
windows. Both th e one-story a nd two - 
 
story wing s a re completely fireproof- 
 
ed by th e use of stee l joist s and a gyp- 
 
sum roof deck whi ch is covered with 
 
tan riverstone p ebbl es. The front fa- 
 
cade of th e building is ca rr ied out in 
 
redw ood p an els and jalou sies, p late 
 
glass and bri ck fin s- each material 
 
b alan cing th e othcr- all of whi ch ere- 
 
ates an exciting war m a tmosphere. 
 
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THE CURVED DRIVE fr om th e 
 
main highw ay to th e building goes be- 
 
low th e upper lobb y to a private park- 
 
ing are a in th e rear of th e building. The 
 
en tire bui ldin g is air-con ditioned, with 
 
eac h room's temperature individually 
 
controlled . Each room h as its own pri- 
 
vate terrace for ou tdoo r livin g during 
 
th e spring and sum me r months. 
 
In all of the decorative schemes, 
 
colors are used in rec essive values. 
 
Since each room possesses what is 
 
literall y a "picture window," it is 
 
possible in all instances to see a vista of lakes, trees, f~owers and ~olf 
 
course, and for this reason the rm- 
portane~ of natural surroun dings is 
 
e m p h a sized . 
 
No slight det ail h as been overlooked 
 
in mak ing th e guest rooms un excelled 
 
in both comfor t a nd beauty. Of signi- 
 
ficant importan ce is th at in a typi cal bed roo.m, th e ai~'foam bedding is th e 
 
very fm est obtamable, as are all th e 
 
ot her appo intme n ts. Varlar , in cafe 
 
au lait color, is used th rou gh out as th e wall covering . Wall to wall carpeting 
 
is in a brown, white and blu e-gr een 
 
twi st. Furniture is of con temporary 
 
design and fini shed in brown walnut. 
 
T ops of desk-dresser combina tions and 
 
night tables a rc of real wood p last iciz- 
 
ed, m aking th em burn a nd sta in- p roof. 
 
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WONDEROUS VISTA-View from the rear of the Cal laway Gardens new motel shows the upper lobby above the entrance driveway, with M ountain Creek L ake an d the golf course beyond. The motel is fireproof an d air-conditioned throughout. 
 
TRANSVERSE DRAPERIES a I' e mad e of imported lin en with pr ovin cial design in shades of gree n, cocoa, a nd brown on a natural ground . Bedspreads a re soft br own in color. L oun ge chairs are upholster ed in a textured fabric in sha des of dar k gr een or brown. Fu ll-len gth mirrors a re pl aced in ea ch roo m. An unusua lly lar ge amo un t of closet and draw er space h as been provided for vacationists on a n extended visit. Fresh ga rde n flower s are pl aced in th e roo ms daily. 
The magnificent upper-lobby or living room commands a superb view through its west window wall. All 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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HOUSE THAT FLOATS-"The Mariner ," seen a nc hore d on Lake All atoona at State Park Marina, marks th e laun ching of a new Geor uia industry. Thomas H . Dwyer , president of U nite d Eng ineering Co rp., Atlanta, co nce ived th e idea of the floating house and will produce it as a prefabricat ed unit a t th e ra te of tcn h ouses a day. The house comhin es all th e fea tures of boat a nd vacat ion dw elling, inclu din g elect r ic facilities. 
 
Little White House Shrine Gets New Road, Bridge, Picnic Gear 
 
A program of imp rovements, costing mor e than $60,000, is being completed at th e L ittl e W hit e H ou se a t W a rm Sp rings, Georgia hom e of President Franklin D. R oosevelt. 
T he Sta te H ighw ay D epartm ent p rovided a new conc re te bridge on th e ent rance road to th e sta te-owned shrine, resurfaced th e ro ad and p arking a rea, pav ed more than a m ile of road from the Roos evelt Scenic Hi gh wav to Dowdell's Knob, and built outd o~ r gr ills a nd p icnic ta bles a t th e knob, which was a favori te spo t of th e la te Presiden t. In addition , the gift shop a nd snack bar have been enla rgcd a nd air-condition ed . 
Alt hou gh FDR d ied in th e Li ttle 
1,125 NEW FIRMS CHARTERED IN STATE 
During th e first six months of thi s year, 1,125 new bu sinesses incorporated in Georgi a, Dun & Bradstreet, I nc., repo rts. 
The total compa red with 1,077 new firms la unched in th e like 1955 per iod . 
In Jun e alone, 190 new corpora te ent erprises were record ed in the state . Eighty-one were incorporat ed in J un e, 1955. 
BURNED MILL REBUILDS 
Vill a Ri ca's Go lde n Ci ty H osier y Mi ll, destroyed by fire July 3, is bein g rebuilt and will be back in op er ation with it s 50 worker s as soon as possible, accord ing to Pr esident C. M . Griffin . The new struc tu re is of steel a nd concre te. 
 
White H ouse more th an 11 yea rs ago , mor c than 100,000 visitors yea rly come from near a nd far to visit his modest cot tage. T he sh rine is pa cked wit h personal possessions a nd mem entoes of its famo us occ upan t. 
Gold Panning Project Open In Helen Area 
Newest tourist attraction in th e H elen ar ea is gold panning on th e banks of th e Chattahoochee. 
Ji mmy Vandiv er ha s opened th e proj ect ncar his sand and gra vel excava tion p it, where, he says, a pennyweight of gold can be p anned easily from almos t any spo t on th e property. 
M r. Vandiver h as developed a p icnic area a t th e diggin gs a nd will build a sluice to fa cilit ate the mining opera tion . 
A simila r project a t Dah lonega, op erated by t he Da hlonega Cha mb er of Commerce, is a ttra cting n ati on al at tention. Both H elen and Dahlonega a rc in th e Blue R idge section th at was th e scene of Am eri ca' s fir st gold rush in 1828, and amate ur prospectors still ca n find enough pa y dirt to mak e th eir exped ition inter estin g. 
ATLANTA POSTAL GARAGE 
Pla ns have been approved for a $250,000 post offi ce ga rage in At lanta. The one-stor y struc ture will be built a t Forsyth and Garnett Sts., SvV., on a lot already owned by th e post office. 
 
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Chamblee Gets Million-Dollar Red Rose Mill 
J ohn W. Eshelman & Sons , of Lan caster , Pa., is bui ldin g a $1,000,000 feed mill and warehouse ncar Chamblee. 
The firm , esta blished in 1842, is one of the oldest feed manufactu ring or ga niza tions in th e nation . I ts pr od ucts carrv th e Red Rose brand. 
G~df States Constru ction Co., of At lanta, is building th e conc re te mill a nd storage tanks. The ope ra tion is sched uled for comp letion early nr -xt vcar. . Ra ymond D. Benn er, of Atlan ta, who will manag e the new p lan t, said th e mill will be equ ipped wit h the most mod ern mixing a nd convey ing eq uipment available for au toma tic and ac cu ra te blending of grain, vit amins, mi ner als and d rugs. It also will be equipped for the fast bulk handling of all types of grai ns a nd feed stu ffs. 
Pr odu ction ca pac ity is estima ted at 350 ton s a d ay. The h ighly automatic oper ation will require some 25 workers. 
Eshelman also op erates p lants in La ncaster an d York , P a ., C ircleville, O h io, San for d, N. C., and Tampa, F la. 
ELLAVILLE PLANT IN $50,000 EXPANSION 
Ellav ille M achine Shop, metal spec ialty manufa ct uring conce rn, is in a $50,000 expa nsion program . 
H enr y Popiel, owner, said a 3,000 square-foot addition to th e p lant bui lding an d installation of new equipment will doubl e th e size and em ployment of th e fa cilit y. The pl ant presently em ploys 11 skilled machinists. 
The E llav ille firm recen tly secur ed a n excl usive contract to manufactu re a newly developed tex tile weighing device wh ich attach es to spinn ing fr ames in textile mi lls. Mr. Popiel said hc is set ting up to produce one mill ion units per year. 
SITE BOUGHT FOR PLANT Bibb Conc rete Pip e Co ., M acon , has 
purch ased a 14-acre tract adjoining the Central of Georgi a R ailroad, just off Emery H ighway, for construction of a modern conc re te pip e manufacturing plant. R . A. Bowen , president, said th e p lant will emp loy 15 workers. 
 
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Aug ust, 1956 
 
GEORGIA ADDS 126 INDUSTRIES IN SIX MONTHS; RECORD SEEN 
 
Ge org ia will break all records fo r indus t ria l growth in 1956 , says Scott Candl er , secre ta ry of the Georgia Department of C omme rce. 
In a sem i-a n n ua l report to Gov. M arvin G riffin, Sec reta ry C and ler sa id 126 new manufacturing industri es, representing a capital inv estment of S I:n ,OOO,oOO, w c r e establish ed in th e stat e in th c first six months of thi s yea r. 
The new pla nts will ad d 6,200 new jobs with payro lls aggregating ~ 19,:i00.000 a n nua lly. 
In the same period last yea r, Scc rrt a rv Ca nd ler sa id, th e new m anufacturing firms tota led 68 with a ca pita l inv est ment of ~6 ,990,000. These cre a ted 2,600 jobs with a p ayroll of $6,200,000 . 
THE NEW IND STRIES this veal' are loca ted in 6 7 commu n ities it; 63 coun ties, th e report sta ted . 
" T hese are new industries, new jobs and new payrolls," sa id Secretary Candler. " O ur records on expansion s of existing plants are not complet e enough to summarize at this time, but we are sur e that th e amount invol ved is more than that inv ested in the first six months of 1955, whi ch wa s $80,000 ,000. " 
Produ cts of the new indust ries ra nge from lumber, heavy machiner y a n d tr an sportati on eq uipme nt to a ppa re l, paint, elect ro nic devices, che m ica ls, toys, food p roduct s a nd meta l fu rnitu rc . 
Sever a l of th e plan ts repr esent the first ind ustria l payro ll ob ta ine d I' 0 I' some of Geo rgia's rura l counties. 
L ast year, for the full 12-m onth per iod, Georgia ad de d 28 1 manu facturers with new plan ts and eq uipment to ta llin g $ I56,000 ,000, the sec re ta ry's last ann ua l report showed . 
ISLAND ROADSIDE PARK 
A roadside p ark wit h 10 barbecu e p its a nd pi cni c eq u ipme n t will be built on But ler Island, nea r D a rien , for the use of tr avelers on U . S. 17, ac cor d ing to Alvin P. Cannon, resid ent m an ager of th e Altama ha W aterfowl M an agem en t Area, whi ch incl udes th e island . 
 
NORTH GEORGIA PLANT-New home of th e Warren Featherbone Co. , to be const ruc ted at Gainesville und er a $275,000 bond issue floated by th e Industrial D evelopmen t Corp. The firm , which will manufacture underw ear, raincoats and other sewn g-arme nts, is mov ing its en tire op eration from Three Oaks, l\Iich.-Architect's drawin g cour tesy The Gainesville Daily Times. 
 
$50 MILLION U. S. PURCHASES 
 
MAKE GEORGIA BUSINESS BOOM 
 
The U n ited States gov ern me n t in th e first half of 1956 spe nt more than S50,000,000 with Ge org ia firms for goods and ser vices. 
From January through June, 179 contr acts were let for many products and for construction work at mili tary and other installations with a dollar value of $50,066,920. 
A n ana lysis of dail y listin gs of p rocure me n t opera tions cond uc ted by th e Dep artment of D efen se a nd General Serv ices Administration shows that with one or two exce p tions, Geor gia has consiste n tly to pped th e southe as tern regio n in vo lum e of bu yin g don e throughout the first half of the yea r. 
In Ju ne, Geor gia led th e o the r six sou theas te rn sta tes bot h in n um ber of con tr a ct s as well as dollar va lue in volv cd . Forty-four Ju ne a wa rds ma de in Geogia totali ng $ 11,369 ,323 compa red wit h 22 in Alab ama for $6,4 74.4 36 : 3 7 in F lorid a fO I' $9,764, 194; 32 'in No r th C a ro lina fo r $8,308,5 10; nine in South Ca ro lina for $ 1,732,348; 25 in T enn essee for $5,534,454 , and one in Mi ssissip pi for $ 79,03 2. 
I n cum ula tive tot a ls for the first half of 1956, G eorgia stoo d second in the reg ion in number of con tra cts and value. T he 179 a wa rds for the $5 0,066,920 worth of goo ds and services 
 
bou ght in th e sta te comp are d with A labam a' s 93 for $5 7,106 ,495 ; F lorid a's 183 for $33,989,083 ; M ississippi's 26 for $3,649,393; North C a rolina's 116 for $4 1,113,0 25 ; South Carolina' s 54 for $8,62 1,89 8, and T ennessee's 94 for $22,338,400 . 
PANTS FACTORY (jIVES MT. ZION FIRST PAYROLL 
Mt, Zion , Ca rroll County town, will have its first ind ustria l payroll thi s mont h fro m a p ants fa ctory em ploying 50 worker s. 
The R oy Sewell M fg. Co., of Bremen , op ened th e plan t in a bu ilding leased fro m the M t. Zion Development Corp. T he $22,000 plant was built by subs cri ption fro m 50 mem ber s of th e develop men t corpo ra tion a nd a bank loan . 
T he p lant bu ild ing is 67 x 80 feet, an d is design ed for futu re expa nsion . 
" As we train work ers we will hire mo re em ployes," Presid en t Sewell said . " U lt im a tely, we will have a p ayro ll of 200 ." 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE 
 
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$25 MILLION WESTINGHOUSE UNIT 
 
TO RISE AT ATHENS IN SEPTEMBER 
 
W estinghouse Electric Corp. will begin con struction of a $25,000,000 plant at Athens about Sept. 1. 
The plant, to be built on a 252a e re site on Ne wton Bridge Rd., ju st north of th e Ath ens cit y limits and near the Southern Railway tracks, will manufacture pol e-t yp e distribution transformers. 
Otis O . Rae, of Atlanta, Westing- ' hou se vice-preside nt for th e Southeastern R egion , said the plant is scheduled to begin production in mid 1958, and that full operating capacit y will be rea ched by 1960. At full capacity th e plant will employ ab out 1,200 workers. T he building will be a one-story structure con taining approximately 
 
750,000 square feet, of wh ich 633,000 
 
square feet will be devoted to manu- 
 
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THE AT HENS PLANT will be part of the transform er division of th e fir m wit h head qu a rt ers in Sharon, P a . H owever, only key engineering, sales and administra tive perso nnel from th e Pennsylva nia plan t will be tran sfer red to the Athens location, Westing house spokesmen said. All p rodu ct ion employes will be hired fr om Athens and surroun ding comm unities. 
The new Georgia facility is intended to meet the "constantly growing market for p ole-t yp e distribution transformers" in th e Southeast, Mr. Rae told Athens, Clarke County and 
 
Georg ia leaders in announcing plans for th e plant. This type of transformer, which looks like a round ash can, is attached to utility pol es where it conve rts electricity fro m high to low voltage for distribution to homes. 
"T h is mu ltimillion-dollar p lant will prove vital to th e econo my of our ra pidly growing sta te and a trem endo us con tribution to the in dus tr ial a nd business life of the Sou theast in gen er al," Gov . M arvin Griffin decla red in greetings to th e new p lan t. 
Gordon C. H urlbert, who has been manager of the tr an sformer dep a rt men t a t Westingh ouse's Sh aron p la nt , will manage th e Athens installa tion. 
 
GEORGIA 1GARDEN OF EDEN' ADDS MOTEL 
 
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of th e furnitu re was made either in Japan or the Philippines from sp ecial designs and assembl ed, fini shed and upholstered in California. Some of it is rattan, some round oak-all is of teakwood fini sh with reed binding. Background colors, restrained in th eir values, are distributed in various wa ys throughout the room ; brick walls , dark green terrazzo floor and natural burlap curtains with a pine cone design in tones of brown, henna and gre ens. U pholstered fabrics are all textured, th e colors re- 
FLOOR FIRM RESUMES CLEVELAND OPERATION 
Whit e County's big floori ng plant is back in full pr oduct ion in a new home an d under a new n ame. 
T he n ew fir m, ow ned by C . C. Blalock, Cl evelan d, is know n as the App alach ian Trail Co., and is located in a new $500 ,000 plan t north of C leveland . The modern p lant occupies 30,000 squa re feet of floor space a nd is capable of produc ing 25,000 board feet of oak flooring a d ay . 
The firm , formerl y kn own as the Southern Fl ooring Co., was purch ased by M r . Blalo ck after the or iginal plant a t H elen was totally dest royed by fir e. 
 
peating tho se in th e draperi es. 
 
The exac ting specifica tio ns of th e Gardens M ot el ar e typ ical of th e oth er garden facilities. The gardens, some times referred to as " Ge orgia's Garde n of Ed en," a re owned and oper a ted by the no n-profit Ida Cason Callaway F oundation and wer e established for the ben efit of th e pu blic. All of th e in come from th e nominal fees charged for th e many recrea tio na l fea tu res is used for th e ma in tenan ce a nd develop ment of the gardens. 
 
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FACILITIES NOW CO M PLET E 
 
include a clubho use of 17th Century 
 
Eng lish p rov incia l design and a nine- 
 
hole golf course th at begin s an d ends 
 
off one of the 11 la kes found in th e 
 
gardens. O ver 100 fishing boats ar e 
 
availab le a t th e semi-circular boa t- 
 
hou se for fishin g in 175-acre M ountain 
 
Creek Lake. T here ar e over two miles 
 
of flower trails, fea turing azaleas, 
 
rho dodendron, magnolias, a nd wild 
 
flower s of th e Appalac hians, and th e 
 
holly collection is one of th e world's 
 
la rgest. In addition, th e five-mile 
 
scenic drive and lakes ar e heav ilv 
 
plan ted with na tive mat eri al. 
 
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Robin Lake Beach, believed to be the world's largest man-made beach, is one of the most popular features of the gardens. The beach area is designed to accommodate up to 15,- 
 
000 pe rsons in one da y. Ample parking is provid ed. There are la rg e shaded picnic ar eas and p rovisions a re made for water skiing, sp eed boat riding, paddle boating and ca no ein g. 
No w with th e addition of overnigh t fa cilities, th e Ida Cason Callaway Ga rdens make up a complete community offer ing a va riety of activities for a ny type of vacation. 
OFFICIALS JOIN SOCIAL CIRCLE MILL OPENING 
With State Co mp tro ller Gen eral Zack C rav ey and former Gov . H erman E. Talmadge participating, Social Circle dedi cated it s new est ind ustry July 16. 
T he new m ill, V enus T exti le Co ., was built by the Socia l Circle D evelopmen t Corp. It began operations with a pproximately 150 workers in th e ma nufacture of aprons. 
T he non- p rofit organiza tion of Social Ci rcle busin essme n raised nearly $30,000 by local subscri ption and borrowed the bala nce to er ect the $60,000 
pl ant building, M ayor R oy J. M alcolm 
sai d . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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Au gust, 1956 
 
GEORGIANS SPEND S8 MILLION 
 
A DAY FOR CONSUMER GOODS 
 
Georgia consumers are bu ying goods in th e state's retail stores, shops and restaurants at the rate of more than $8,000,000 a da y. 
The post-war years have brought an incr ease of more than three-quarter s of a billion dollars in retail sales in th e sta te, according to a report from th e Bureau of the Census. The total went from $2,097,68 1,000 in 1948 to $2,963,217,000 in the latest survey, a jump of 41 per cent. 
An alyzing th e repo rt, th e Atla nta Field office of th e U . S. D ep artment of Commer ce brou ght ou t a number of other int erestin g fact s and figu res: 
The some 32,395 retail establishment s in th e sta te average nearly $ 100,000 a year in sales. 
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LARGEST SLICE of th e consumer's dollar goes for au tomotive goods. 
Sales of ca rs and accessori es run $580,9 16,000 a yea r, serv ice sta tion s tak e in $222,455,000 for gas and oil, and on top of that is the money spe nt for parking, sto rage, ca r washes and othe r inciden tals. 
Foods rank next to automobiles in bu ying popularity. Georgians ea t well--$676,751,000 for groceries and another $ 110,000,000 for meals in restaurants and cafeterias. 
Nearly five million dollars a year goes into television and radios. 
It costs two and three times as much to clothe women as men. 
Liquor store sales are running around $50,957,000 a year, an average of nearly $25 per person among the adult population. 
M ore tha n $3,000,000 is being spe nt annua lly for prop riet aries. 
Geor gian s a re bookworms - they spe nd $ 1,608,000 a yea r in book stores. 
Orchids and other flor al items ru n to $9,04 1,000. 
Nea rly seven m illion dollars is being spe nt for house tr ailers. 
Music sto re cash reg isters play a tune worth $5,000,000 a year. 
Nearly two and a quarter million dollars goes to op ticians for the care of th e eyes. 
Bicycle stores in Georgia still sell goods at the ra te of nearl y th reefour ths million dollars a year. 
 
NEW LOUIE MORRIS BRIDGE-Construction is pro gre ssing rapidly 2,000 feet south of Hartwell Dam, marking re-routed U. S. Highway 29, as thi s aerial photograph shows. The new span acro ss th e Savannah Riv er repl ac es th e bridge on present U . S. 29, south, betw een H artwell and And erson , S. C. Completion of the 1,144-foot bridge is sche duled for May, 1957, by Tidwell Construction Co ., Dougla sville, Ga., con t ractors. The structure will be 75 feet abov e water and 36 feet wid e. Hartwell Dam embankment can be seen in th e ba ckground on the South Carolina side, whil e at low er left is th e approach to the br idge on th e Georgia side.-Photo courtesy The Anderson (S. C . ) Independent. 
 
WORK STARTS ON PLANT 
Constructi on of a $500,000 plant by th e Olin M athieson Ch emi cal Corp. has begun at Brunswick . Initial installati on on a 100-aCl'e river-f ront site will be stor age a nd ship ping fa cilities for chlorine and ca ustic soda. 
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TALL OIL UNIT READY 
H ercul es Powder Compan y's new tall oil plan t a t Savann ah, which will process che micals for th e pap er an d o t h e r rosin- consum ing industries, is nearly completed. A company spokesman says the Georgia pla nt and its twin , recently completed at F ran klin, Va., will have a combined yield of 115,000,000 pounds of rosin and fa tt y acids ou t of 140,000,000 pounds of ra w material to be processed a year. 
 
JALOUSY FIRM DOUBLES 
Triangle Aluminum Produ cts Co., of Mi ami , whi ch opened an Atl anta br an ch four months ago, is alread y investing $ 100,000 in new machin ery to double th e ou tpu t of th e Geo rgia br anch. Fran k R osend ahl , president, said th at th e present personn el of 15 wor ker s will be aug mented. 
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HIGHWAY 27 MEET 
U . S. Hi ghway 27 Associat ion of Georgia will hold its tent h annual meet ing at Colu mbu s Sept. 13-14. Sessions a re scheduled at th e R alston H otel and Fort Ben ni ng. Guest speak er at th e convention will be Willi am D. K enn ed y, di rector of publicati ons, Ford M ot or Co., D earborn, M ich . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS 
 
Lo ckh eed Air craft Corp. h as begun construction of it s nu clear resea rch cente r on a 10,000-acn: tract ncar Dawsonville . . . Dalton dedi cat ed its new $1,500 ,000 H amilton M emorial H ospital . .. Atlanta's M uni cipal T raffic Co ur t is in a handsome $600,000 building . . . Lee County Co ur tho use a t Leesburg is bein g remodeled. 
Colquitt County's cen tennia l will be celebra ted a t Moultrie in O ctober . . . Eas tern Airlines is expanding it s hangar fa cilities at Atlanta Airport ... A $60,000 Bleck ley County heal th center is under wa y a t Cochran. 
Coloni al Sto res, In c., has a new sto re in Cedartown .. . Pacolet Mfg. Co., a t New Holland, nca r Gainesville, h as added a $ 170,000 warehouse . . . Bulloch County Ban k, Statesboro, is remodeling an d expa nd ing . . . M a nufacturc of elec tro nic-mecha nica l equipment has sta rted a t th e new plant of O. E. Szekeley & Associa tes, Commerce . . . An administra tion building is bein g adde d a t Byron N aval Supply Cen ter. 
Schley County wi l l celebrate its 100th bir thday in 1957 . .. Covington's newest indus try, Sou th ern States Spring Co ., dedi cat ed its pl a nt . . . Macon's 18-unit Ambassad or M ot el is ope n . .. Clayton County H ealth Ce n ter , costing $ 135,000 , will be built in J onesbo ro . 
Ci tizens & Sou thern Nationa l Bank h as opened a branch on H owell Mi ll R d., Atlanta . . . D edica tion exerc ises were held a t th e Bacon County H ealth Center in Alma . .. Bank of Terrell County, Dawson , is rem odelin g . . . Macon-Bibb County H ealt h Center will cost $390 ,000 . . . Madison County unit of the Georgia 'F orestry Serv ice now has its own head qu a rters bu ild ing nca r Danielsville . . . Calhoun Nation al Bank, Calhoun, held open hou se in it s mod ernized hom e. 
Hart County's second Progr ess Jubilee will be held in Hartwell Sept. 14 . . . Sou thern I ron Corp., \ Vashington, D . C., has sta rted mi ning iron or e and ma nganese near Lumpkin, St ewart County .. . F rank 13. L owndes & Son, Atlanta mortician s, a re erec ting a $250,000 bui ldin g . . . .Jefferson Mills, Jefferson, h ave a new fini shin g pl ant . . . Statesboro's F irst F eder al Savings & L oan Assn ., is erecting a new building . . . W est Georgia Na tional Bank , Carrollton, is in a new home. 
Con struction is under way a t Gainsville on a pl ant for W arren F eather- 
 
HEAVIEST AI R LOAD-The heaviest load ever ex trac ted from any airc ra ft - 27,000 pounds-is jerked from th e ramp door of a C-130 H er cu les, built by Lo ckh eed Aircr aft Corp. at th e Georgia Di vision in Marietta. This aerial view of th e U . S. Air Force' s prop-j et ca rg o-tra nspor t in a ction was m ad e over th e desert testing gro unds a t EI Ce n tro, C alif. Although onl y on e parachute wa s op en as th e shot was made, six parachutes wer e required to ease th e l3 Y. ton s of ir on to th e g ro und in th e test. 
 
bone Co . . . . A $ 100,000 National G ua rd Armorv is slated for Rome .. . G ray is expand ing its wat er system a nd pl an s a sewer system . . . Alexander In vestme nt Co. , Atlanta, will build a $260,000 wa reho use and off ice bui lding . . . H ech t Co. , I nc., wholesa le resta ur ant suppliers, is erecting a build ing a t Co lumbus .. . Ca llaway Comm uni ty Foun dati on h as made a gran t of $ 166,666 for additio ns to LaGrange's C ity -T ro up County H ospit al . . . Four Mill edg eville p hysicia ns plan a Doctor s Building. 
Marietta will build a southside disposal plant . . . A hospi ta l an d six dormit ories, to cost $1,076,800 , arc sched uled a t G racewood Schoo l, Au gusta . . . Forsyth h as enla rged its wat er works. 
F ormer Gov . H erma n E. Talma dg e was pr incipal speaker at t he dedi cation of th e $1 1,000,000 M acon Hospital . .. 
 
Tom Huston Pean ut Co ., Columbus, is build ing 14 huge silos . . . A. R. Ab ram s, In c., Atlanta fixtures plant, is addi ng a building . . . Western Electri c Co rp. has sla ted an addi tion to its Atlanta faci lity whic h will cost $400 ,000 .. . Ex pan sion s at T occoa 's \Vesting house-L eTourneau p lant amount to $ 1,500 ,000 . . . Wi nship C lini c, Emory University, is in its new $ 1,500 ,000 building . . . Mid -Georgia Gas Co ., Conyers, will sup ply gas to th e Gibson 
ar ea . . . .J. C. Penn y Co. , Cedartown, 
has remo del ed its store. Scar s, R oebuck & Co. , has co tll - 
plcted extensive rem odeling of its Savannah sto re . . . Geo rgia Cont inenta l T eleph on e Co . h as long-ran ge imp rovements planned for its Dawson a rea , to cost $:i00,000 . . . A $75,000 sweet pot at o storage plant is bt:ing built nca r Americus . . . K an ter's new supermarket is open at Savannah. 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF" COMMERCE 
, DD S TATE CAPITDL 
ATLANTA 3 . GEORGIA 
 
BULK RATE 
U.S. POSTAGE 
Paid 
 
Atlanta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
Ac qui si t i ons Div~ si on ~ T e University L~brar~e ~ The Unive r sity of Georg~a Athens" Ga . 
 
 DEPAnTMENT OF COMMEnCE 
NEWSLETTER 
SEPTEMBER 1956 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
Septemb er , 1956 
 
NEWSLETTER 
 
M em ber Georgia Press A ssociation 
Published monthly by 
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
* MARVIN GRIFFIN  Gov e r n o r 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 
EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman 
T . C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP 
TRAMMELL McINTYRE 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary NELSON M. SHIPP 
 Assistant Secr etary 
FRED D. MOON Editor 
 
V ol. 7, No. II 
 
Septem ber, 19 56 
 
APPAREL PLANT FIRST INDUSTRY FOR CAVE SPRINCi 
Cave Spring's determined quest for an industry to bolst er it s eco nomy h as reach ed fruition in a garment p lant whic h will employ 100 persons initially. 
Harmon Sportswear Co., a newly cha r tere d Geor gia firm, has leased a two- story bui ldin g and remo deled it for use in th e m anufact ur e of men's clothing . Sa les offi ces for th e plant's output will be in New York City. 
Geor ge H eimb ach, form erl y of Nashville, T enn., will be gen era l man ag er of th e plant. 
The bui ldin g leased by th e Harmon firm is own ed by the Cave Spring I ndustrial D evelopment Corp., a non profit civic or ganization formed more tha n two yea rs ago in an effort to a ttract industr y to the F loyd County town, until now an agri cu ltur al a nd resort center. 
COVER PHOTO T his mammoth a ntenna, towerin g 66 feet and weighi ng four tons, has been erecte d n ca r Elberton for ex periment s in ultra-high fre que ncy ra dio transmission. S i I h 0 u e t t ed against the sky, the structure looks like the web of a prehi storic spider. The au tomobile in for eground gives a com parison in size.- pho to by Ev ere tt Saggus, Elberton, courtesy An derson (S. C.) Indep enden t (Story in ad joining colum n) 
 
ALL ABOA RD !-Whcn th e Geo rg ia Ho tel Assn. met on St. Simons Isla nd recently, the chi ldre n of the members wer e entertained at a beach picni c which beg an with a jee p train rid e sta rting at the Sea Island Beac h Club . H er e they a re seen assembli ng as driver Marvin Long and Mac McKinstry , Cloister sports dir ector, count noses. 
 
Weird Contraption At Elberton Radio Air Defense Experiment 
 
T he giant howl-sh ap ed contraption p ictured on the front of this issue of N ewsletter is an a ntenna erec ted in Elb ert County for Army experime nts i~ ul tra-h igh fr cquen ey ra dio transmission. 
T he parabola is at Harper, eight m iles west of El ber ton, ju st off th e E lberton Bokm an highway. Seven conc re te pi lla rs, con taining 90 ton s of conc re te, serve as base for th e four-ton ae rial. 
T he antenna wa s erec ted by M assachuset ts Institute of T echnology for the U . S. Armed Servi ces, and is an exper iment in ult ra- high fr eq uen cy radio transmission in an effort to develop a quick and fool-proof system of com mu nicat ion. The over all height , incl uding th e six-foot ground clearan ce is 66 feet. 
Ncar th e antenna is a trailer housin g equipme n t to record signals pi cked up bv th e web-like dish. Four men live in th e trailer and operate the recording equip men t 24 hours a day. 
The E lbert County experime n tal field station is part of a new radio tr an smission system known as the " scatt er" system whi ch makes possib le "o ver the horizon" transmission of UHF radio wa ves. R adio wav es trave l into th e sky and are reflected by th e clouds. R eflected wav es ar c p icked up by these an tennas. 
Sensitivity of th e antenna is high and an airplan e can be det ected if it crosses the beam path an ywh ere between the 
 
scn din g stations, whi ch can be as far as 800 miles ap art. 
The Elbert experime n t will con tinue in operation for app rox imately six mo nths. The field station cost th e gov ern men t more th an $100,000 to build and equip . 
NAVAL STORES PLANT TO OPEN IN SWAINSBORO 
A new p lant to p ackage naval stores, Elroy Turpentine Co ., is beginning oper ation at Swainsboro . 
The n ew firm h as bought out the E lro y Naval Stor es Co. , of Vidalia, a nd will consolida te its fa cilit ies and pr oducts, according to R . E. Zimmerman, of Pittsburgh, Pa. , president. It will pa ckag e turpentine, paint th inner and wood pr eservatives. 
H erman K enned y, of Vidalia, will m anage th e p lant. 
LASSITER IN EXPANSION 
L assit er Corp. , of C harlott e, N. C ., packaging design er and m anufacturer, is in a new 20,000 squa re -foot p lant at 690 Huff Ro ad , N .W., At lanta. The , new p lant is double th e size of th e old factory whi ch L assiter had been using since 1951. 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
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September , 1956 
 
GOV. GRIFFIN GIVES UNIVERSITY 
 
5 MILLION FOR SCIENCE CENTER 
 
Co mpletion of the U niversity of Geo rg ia's gia nt new science center nea red reality with th e announcem ent by Gov. Marvin G riffin of an a llocation of $5,000,000 from his cont inge ncy fund " to meet the challenge of the atomic era." 
T he $5,000,000 will be used to erect and equip buildings to house biological sciences and physics at th e Athe ns insti tution , th e nation 's oldest charte red sta te university. 
The university board of regents has a lre ady allocated $3,750 ,000 for const ruc tion a nd eq uipme nt of the a nima l science and che mistry bui ld ings a t th e cen ter. This makes a tota l of $8, 750,000 now available for th e p roj ect . 
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THE CENTER , when com pleted will ena ble th e un iver sit y to coo rdi nate its tot al science progr am, both basic a nd ap plied. 
Centra llv loca ted on th e uni versitv ca m pus, tl{e seven buildings of the n e\~' cen ter will zig-za g thro ugh a wood ed a rea of mo re than 40 ac res sou th of Sanford St adium . 
Co nstr uc tion on the animal sci- 
 
ences and ch emistry buildings, t o be built by th e U niversity System Bu ild ing Autho rity, will begin early in 19 57 . 
T he only buildings no t now spe cifica lly provid ed fo r are those to house ma th em a tics and geography and geo logy, a nd food technology. T hese two will cost an estimated $2 ,000,000. 
Governor Gri ffin' s $5,000,000 a lloca tion " ma rks a new er a in th e life of the sta te 's univer sity," Pr esident O . C . Ad erho ld sa id . 
" T H E ACT I ON demonstra tes th e Governor's genu ine interest in th e ed uca tion of young men a nd wom en of Georgia, and it revea ls his underst anding of th e va lue of scien tific education in th e develop ment of th e resources of ou r sta te." 
" I H AV E ALWAYS been in terested in fu rther ing the development of th e scien tific br an ches of both the U nivers ity and Geo rg ia T ech ," G overnor G riffin sa id. " I am sure tha t thi s investment will pa y huge dividend s to our peop le in the futu re. It 
 
will help all Geo rg ia ns to meet the ch allenge of th e a tomic era." 
At th e university, th er e was particular en thusiasm for prospects of th e wor k in nuclea r research whi ch ca n now be carried on. The new buildings will con tain storage and laboratories for work with radi oactive isotopes. 
COLUMBUS MILLS ADD $600,000 
ANNEX TO PLANT 
A $600,000 add ition is u nd er wa y at Columbus' Swift Spinning Mills. 
A 156 x 53-foot addi tio n, tw o stories in height, is being join ed to th e p resent stru cture to provid e 15,000 addition a l sq uare feet of floor space to th e ca rding and spinning departments. 
H enry Swift, pr esid ent, said th e new area a nd its eq uipme nt will mean an incr ease of 40 to 50 new personnel. 
T he add it ion is sche du led to be com plet ed and in operation ea rly next yea r. 
 
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M O RE "GLO RY T O OLD GE O RG IA "-Architect's perspective shows the $ 10,000 ,000 science cente r to be built at the U n iversity of .Georgia. T he proj ect got a big boost when Gov. Mar vin Gr iffin allo cated $5,000,000 from his cont inge ncy fund to bu ild and equip buildings Nos. 1 and 5, which will hou se th e ph ysics and biolo gic al sciences depar tmen ts. The science cente r is to be built on a wooded tr act of more th an 40 acr es sout h of Sanford Sta dium, an d will pro vide for nuclear research . 
 
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G EO R G IA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSL ET T ER 
 
September, 1956 
 
GEORGIA PER CAPI,.A INCOME RISES 281 PER CEN,. IN 25 YEARS 
 
Georgia's per capita, or average personal income, is at $ 1,330. 
The total income of residen ts of th e state is $4,882, 000,000. 
These figures are fr om the O ffice of Business Eco nomics in W ashin gton , whi ch has just issued its rep ort on th e national inc ome of 1955. 
Geor gia' s rate of increase in per ca pita incom e over the pa st qu arter cen tury wa s 281 per cen t, th e fed:ral agency said. T his was th e second hIgh est ra te of ga in in the nation, being excee ded only by South Carolina's 3 10 per cen t. 
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GEO RG IA'S ADVANCE in gro ss personal income during th e per iod , 38 1 per cen t, was tenth among all sta tes, 
Georgia's per capita inco me has gone fro m $350 in 1929 to $ 1,330 last yea r. 
Gross personal income expanded from $ 1,015,000,000 to $4,88 2,000,000 during the 25-yea r p eriod. 
In the pa st five yea rs alone, or from 1950 to 1955, Gcorgia scored a 31 per cent increase in per capita incom e, th e nation's fourth largest. 
All seven of th e sta tes in the fede ra lly design at ed Southeast trebled and qu ad rupled th eir per ca pita incom e betw een 1925 and 1955. In Alab am a average personal income wen t from $324 to $1,18 1; Flori da $521 to $ 1,654 ; Geor gia, $350 to $ 1,333; Mi ssissippi , $285 to $946; North Car olin a $334 to $ 1,236 ; South Carolina, $2iO to $ 1,108, and T enn essee, $3ii to $ 1,256. 
SIX OF T HE SEVEN STATES witnessed a qua d ru pling of th eir tot al person al income in th e 25-year period , an d 'Florid a estab lished a record with an octupling. 
In Alab ama, gros :; incom e went from $856 million to $:I,6i 4 million ; Florida $i53 million to $5,923 million ; Geor gia $ 1,0 15 million to $4,882 million ; Mississippi , $5iO mi llion to $2,0 18 million ; North Carolina , $1,046 mi llion to $5,3il million ; South Caro lina, $4iO million to $2,55i million , and T ennessee, $982 million to $4,288 million. 
 
SAVANNAH C ONST RU CT I ON-Sketc h sho ws th e n ew warehouse and office buildin g wh ich is bein g erected by Semmes H ardware Co ., th ird-gener ation Savanna h firm, on a site on Lathrop Ave. T he buildin g, whic h will have 54,00 0 sq ua re feet, consists of a rei n force d conc re te fr am e wit h concrete blo ck scree ned wa lls. The ware ho use ar ea will be extensively skylig hted. Rol and and Burrough s ar e the contractors, and Thom as & Hutton and Associates ar e th e ar chitect s an d eng ineers. 
 
DECATUR COUNTY GIVES SITE 
 
FOR BAINBRIDGE STATE PORT 
 
Geo rg ia's inland Port of Bainbridge is a ste p nea rer reality now tha t the D eca tur Co unty Commission has agreed to deed 60 ac res of Flint Ri ver fron ta ge as site for the facility. 
Gov. M arvin Griffin said th e State Port s Aut hority would begin work on t he p roj ect as soon as title to the propert y is veste d with th e state. 
The lan d, va lued at $60,000 , is on th e west bank of th e rive r directly ac ross from the City of Bainbridge, the Governor's hom e town . The site will be reached from Bainbridge over the Flint Riv er Bridge on U. S. H ighways 84 an d 2i. It will be serve d directly by Sta te R oute 253. 
Governor Griffin said docks an d ot her faciliti es to serve barge traffic to and from th e Gulf of M exico will be built at a cost of approximately $250 ,000. 
"T his new state por t faci lit y, coupled with completion of th e Jim Woo druff Dam, not only will be a great convenien ce for sou theast Georgia business men and farmers but will save much on shipping costs to points all over Geor gia," he po inted ou t. 
" Principa l traffic coming into th e port will be petroleum products, but every conce ivable commodity including 
 
pulp wood, cotton, peanuts, lumber, asphalt, heav y ma chinery and manufactured goods will come through in great quantity to ser ve th e ever -expanding industry, markets and agricultur e of the state." 
WILLIAMSBURG CHARCOAL PLANT NEW INDUSTRY 
A new plant for th e manufacture of charcoal is un der construction at W illiamsbu rg, Calhoun Coun ty, by L. W. High an d Charlie W. Cowart. 
Consisting of 10 kilns, a warehou se and office space, the plant will process comme rcial charcoal from loca l hardwoods that are unfit for use as lumber. 
Each of the kilns will hold 15 cor ds of hard wood, with each cord producing from 500 to 1,000 pounds of charcoal. Approximately two weeks ar e required to conv ert a kiln of hardw ood into charcoal, the owners said. 
For ma ny years Williams burg was a center of the lumber industry. A branch fr eight line formerl y con nected th e community with Morgan, th e county seat. 
 
q E0 !lGIA . D EP ARTM ENT OF .CO MMERCE 
 
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 NEWSLETTER 
 
September, 1956 
 
FREDERICA~ PULASK/~ OCMULGEE~ 
KENNESAW PARKS GET $2.5 MILLION 
 
KENNESAW BATTLEFIELD 
 
Four nation al p ar k areas in Georgia h ave been allocate d $2,506,000 for i m p r ov em e nt. 
T he a reas , all historica l shr ines an d tourist attractions, and th e funds they will receive from th e U. S. Depa rtmen t of the I nterior, ar e: 
 
Fort Fred erica National Monument, St. Simons Island, ncar Brunswick , $265,000. 
 
Fort Pulaski National Monument, 
 
Cockspur Island, near Savannah, 
 
$265,000. 
 
Ocmulgee National Monument, 
 
Macon , $241,000. 
 
K ennesaw 1\1 0 u n t a i n National 
 
Battlefield Park, ncar Marietta, $ 1,- 
 
63 2,000 . 
 
The Georgia park area improve- 
 
ments ar e part of the N ational Par k 
 
Serv ice's " M ission 66" sched ule, wh ich 
 
prov ides ref urbishi ng of na tional p arks 
 
thro ugho ut th e country bet ween now 
 
and 1966. 
 
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THE FREDERICA MONUMENT is the site of a fort and militar y town whi ch Gen . J ames Edward O glethorpe, founder of Georg ia, esta blished in 1736, a nd from whi ch he m ar ch ed to br eak 
 
FORT FREDERICA 
 
the back of Sp ain in th e nea rb y Battle of Blood y M ar sh. H e nam ed th e ou tpost F red erica in hon or of F red erick, Prince of W ales, th e only son of K ing Geor ge II. 
Considerable archaeological excavation has been don e in the old town site among the bearded oaks at Fred erica, and part of th e new allocati on will be expende d for resto ration and renovation. The r est of the mon ey will be spent for constru ction, to begin thi s yea r, of a visitors cen ter to ho use the museum, comfort faci liti es and administration offices, and for uti liti es, a boat pi er and additional roads and trails. 
T he Fort Pul aski allocation will be ut ilized for bui ldings, uti lities a nd road s, and officials th ere ar c hopeful th at mu ch scheduled restoration can be completed by J a n. 3, 1961, which will be the 100t h annivers ary of the 
OCMULGEE MOUNDS 
seizure of th e F eder al fort by for ces of the State of Georgia in the Wa r Between th e States. 
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FORT P ULASKI, nam ed for Count Casimir Pulaski, who served th e Am erican cause in th e R evolu tion a nd died at the siege of Savannah, is bu ilt on the site of pr evio us for ts that saw ac tion in th e R evolution a nd th e Wa r of 18 12. T he pr esent fort was design ed by Napo leon's engineers, an d Robert E. Lee, as a you ng eng ineering officer ju st ou t of West Poin t , ha d a hand in its construction. F acing sea wa rd an d gua rding th e mouth of th e Sav annah Riv er, an d circle d by two moats spanned by dra wbridges, it is one of th e best pres erv ed 19th Century seacoast defenses in the coun tr y. 
Ocmulgee, immediately east of 
 
FORT PULASKI 
Macon on U. S. 80, contains numerous mounds and the remains of prehistoric towns, with exhibits representative of the civilization and cul ture of the " mound builders," the people who inhabited Middle Georgia long before the Indians. 
Paving of trails to connect the coun cil mound and other mounds to th e museum is included in the Ocmu lgee allocation, along with funds for parking areas and utilities. 
K ennesaw Ba tt lefiel d, on U . S. 41, two m iles north of M ariet ta, was th e scene of tw o of the heaviest assa u lts made by Sherman on the Con fed era te for ces in the Atla nta Camp aign in July 1864. The funds allocated ther e are for the bu ilding of a mu seum , utilities an d roads. 
M an y of th e ca rt her n for tifica tions on th e old battlefield are in tac t, ca nnon rema in in pos ition ju st as Confederates an d Fed er als left th em, and th e ar ea is dott ed with handsome sta te mon umen ts. 
K ennesaw Battlefield is a key point on th e m ilitary route from Cha ttanooga to Atl anta , now being marked with scor es of tablets erec ted by th e Georgia H istorical Commission . 
McAFEE BUILDS PLANT Con stru ction of a new pl ant for th e 
M cAf'ec Candy Co., M acon , is under way. The structure, to conta in 100,000 squa re feet, is be ing erec ted on t he property of th e old Con tinen tal C an Co ., at F ra nklinton, and is schedu led to be completed in 12 mo nths. C. O. M cAfee, p resident, said the firms' en tir e operation will be removed to th e new plan t, which will dou ble th e ca pacity of th e present install a tion on Waterville R oad . 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
BUiLT AT GAiNESVILLE-Ncw home of th e First Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Gainesville, combines th e lat est in banking Ia cilities and com me rcial office s, and is a handsome addition to th e bu sin ess di strict skyline of the Hall County city. 
 
$5,278,000 JET RUNWAY 
 
FOR DOBBINS-LOCKHEED 
 
Work has started on a $5,278,000 rebuilding of th e ma in 10,000-foo t runway a t Dobbins Air Force Base, M a rietta, whi ch also serves Lockheed Aircra ft Co rp . 
The runwa y, whi ch is used dail y by 
SAWYER PAINTS NEW INDUSTRY AT BRUNSWICK 
A new manufacturing firm, Tom Sa wyer Pai nt s, In c., has received its cha rt er at Brunswick a nd will go into pr odu cti on within th e month. 
In corporators a rc R . B. M cGo od an a nd J oseph A Duffy, both formerl y connec ted with Dixi e Paint & Varnish Co ., Brunswick, and Ch arl es E. Thrower, one of the la rgest pa inting contractor s in th e Georgia coastal a rea. 
The new firm will be located in th e old carpen try shop a t th e Sou th End shipyards, a st ruc ture con ta ining 3,300 squa re feet. It will produce a comp lete line of paints, va rn ishes and rela ted products. 
 
scores of jet s a nd conven tional typ e milita ry a ircr aft, in clud ing 100-ton B4 7 six-jet bombers and 62-t on prop-jet Hercul es tr an sport s, will be rebuilt one str ip at a tim e. The const ru ction will not interf er e with oper ation of th e runwa y, Air Forces and Lockh eed officia ls sa id. 
The construc tion pl an s call for widen ing of th e runway from 200 to 300 feet. Concr et e slabs 20 to 24 inch es thi ck, substa ntia lly stro nge r th an the presen t su rfa ce, will be used . 
$3.5 MILLION RADAR TO GUARD COBB BASE 
A rad ar install ation, built at a cost of a pproxima tely $3,500,000 , is being com pleted in Cobb County nea r Dobbin s Air Force Base. 
The sta tion, a link in th e Southeast's defense network, is located on a small tract nea r th e four-lan e highway and Wind v H ill Road . Aircraft Control an d 'Y arning officia ls said th e site wa s selected becau se of its elevation and nearness to th e air ba se, Lo ckh eed Aircraft plant and other important factors. 
 
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SOUTHERN FOODS OPENS $250,000 FREEZER ANNEX 
Southern Frozen 'F oods, In c., Montezum a, has com pleted its new $250,000 cold-sto rag e war ehouse. 
In addition to the pl ant, th ere is also incl uded new freezing equip men t a nd new offic e space. 
W. H . M cK cnzie, p resident, said ne w pl ate type fr eezers give th e pl an t a d aily freezi ng capacity of 100,000 pounds and th e new wa rehouse provid es a tot al of 230,000 cubic feet of storage. H e recalled th at wh en th e plant or igina lly opened , ten year s ago, it was m achined to p rocess only 30 pounds of p ea ch es at one tim e. 
Southern F rozen of whi ch .J. B. 
Easterlin, Jr., is vice p resident, and C. G . H au gab ook, Sr. , is secretary-treas urer , exp ects to process 15,000,000 poun ds of produce this yea r, with tot al sales excee di ng $250,000. The p ayr oll will p ass $250,000, th e officers said . 
The firm processes and p acks 19 varieti es of veget abl es and two fruits under its own lab el, M cK cnzie, a nd also packa ges for th e Stokely, Libby, Frosty Acres and Pict swcet br ands. 
NEW T IFTON FIRM 
Southern Premium St amp Co., a Georgia -cha rtered firm dealing in mercha ndise tra de stam p p remiums, is erecting a building at Tifton to serve as its sta te headqua rt er s. The 15,000 squa re-foot struc ture con tains offices a nd war eh ouse. 
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UNIQUE NEW INDUSTRY 
.J. ''\T. M att, form er coach a t R obert 
E. Lee In st itute, Thom aston , a nd M iddle Georgia College, Coch ran , has launch ed a new bu siness a t M ont ezum a - Athletic Numberin g & Lett eri ng Co. T he firm is equipped to make number s, letters, monograms and emblems in plain or three dimen sion al pattern, from one to 10 inches high , in a choice of 18 colors or combinations. 
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AMERICUS FIRM EXPANDS 
Gertrude D av enport, Inc., Ameri cus ga rme nt firm th at h as ga ined wide recog nition for its " W rap a rong" and othe r sports clot hi ng, is building a new plant. Thirt y persons are now employed, and a conside ra ble increa se in personnel is scheduled with th e new facilit ie s. 
 
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Septemb er, 1956 
 
INTERNATIONAL LATEX OPENS 
 
2ND GEORGIA PLANT IN YEAR 
 
T he ne west plant of International Lat ex Corp ., its second op era tion to be installed in Geo rg ia within a yea r, was officia lly opened a t New na n on Aug. 15th. 
Ov er 5,000 per sons particip ated in th e dedi cati on cere monies, including govern ment a nd pla nt officials, emp loyees a nd member s of Newn an I n du str ies, In c., the association of local leaders which construc ted the p lant build ing for lease to the manu fact urers. 
TH E NE WNAN PLANT, first fact or y to be built under International's multi-million-dollar expansion program, manufactures brassieres. The firm opene d an inf ants' wear plant at Manch est er last Aug ust. 
For th e p ast two yea rs, Internation al has used temporary quarters in New nan in conduc ting its brassiere man uf actu ring operations. The new plant p rovid es one of th e most modern sewing operations in th e ent ire coun try. The building is a onestory steel structu re with b rick masonry a nd hardwood floor s, and covers 55,000 square feet. It is air-condition ed throughou t. 
The p rin cip al speak er at th e dedi cation, H arllee Bran ch, J r., president of th e Geor gia Power Co ., salu ted Intcrnational Latex as " a valued member of Georgia' s growing industrial fami ly" and comme nde d the firm for "see king th e opport uni ty to usc th e skills of our citizens and to sha re in ou r natural resources." 
R ep. J ohn J. Fl yn t, of th e Fo urt h 
Co ng ressional Di stri ct, sa id th e comp an y's p r o g I' a m "represen ts th e greatest industrial ad van ce we have experience d to date" in his dist rict. 
International L atex is th e world's lar gest manufacturer of girdles, b aby pants and househ old gloves, and has becom e one of the leading manufacturers of br assier es since entering th e br a industry two yea rs ago. 
P ILLOW PLANT PLANNED Pill owt ex Corp., Dallas, T exa s, whi ch 
opened a plant in Atl anta last December to manufacture da cron pillows, will erect a 30,000 squ are-foot fa ctor y. The new p lant will produce pi llows of down , feather s and decron, and emp loyme nt will be 40 to 50 worker s. 
 
D EDI C ATED - N ew pl ant of th e Interna tional L at ex Co rp. , whi ch was offi ciall y ope ne d a t Ne wn an on Aug. 15th, t o h ou se th e firm 's br assiere d ivision . Internati on al's fir st Geo rg ia plant, which ope ne d at M an ch est er a yea r ag o, ma n ufact ures inf ants' wea r. 
 
FLOWERY BRANCH FEED MILL 
 
TO BE ONE OF HALL'S BIGGEST 
 
Constructi on is under way in Flowery Bran ch on a new feed inill wh ich will be one of th e largest in H all County, cen ter of Geor gia 's gr eat broiler industry. 
Georgia Mule 
Faces Oblivion 
In Motor Age 
H ave you noticed how rarely you enco un ter a mu le on Georgia's hig hways today? 
This humble beast, butt of countless jok es but whos e patien ce, strength and stam ina were proved on every ro ug h field and bogg y ro ad , is disappea ring from Geor gia farms at th e r at e of nearly 10,000 a yea r. 
The latest fed er al ag ric ultural census sho ws th at th e sta te has lost 248,000 mules and hor ses since 1930, leaving th e equinine population tod ay at 142,800. But in th e same peri od , Georgia farmers added 82,700 tr actors, 61,500 mot or trucks and ab out 25,000 autom ob iles. 
I n th e seven -state Southeastern a rea, a total of 1,264,385 mu les a nd hors es disap pea red in t he 25-year sp an. 
 
Owner of th e mill is Cotton P rodu cers Assn ., wh ich will operate it th rough Cooperative M ills, I nc. The insta lla tion will be th e ninth unit in th e Coop erative Mills system, whi ch heret ofor e has served th e North Geor gia a rea with feed m anufactured in it s Cin cinnati , Ohio, pl ant. 
Gulf St ates Con struct ion Co., whi ch bui lt th e model R alston -Purina m ill in Gainesville, is bui lding th e Flowery Bran ch mi ll. T he p la n t will be 240 x 80 feet and will produ ce 60,000 ton s of pou ltry and ot her feeds a nn ually. It will h ave space available to in cr ease cap acity to 125,000 tons , offi cials said . 
NEW INDUSTRY BUILDS PLANT AT AMERICUS 
Americus' newest indust ry, M ott Bod y Works, In c., is constru cting it s plant, a 60 x 140 foot steel building, loca ted on Rucker St . 
The firm will m anufacture all typ es of truck bodies whi le spec ializing in refr igerated units. 
T he comp any, whi ch is owned by George T cford, Am eri cus, and D emott Sgemw ell, Jr., Albany, has been operating in Alban y for severa l yea rs. 
Employment p lan s ca ll for 25 to 35 wo r ker s. 
 
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
 
 NEWSLETTER 
 
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Septemb er , 1956 
 
- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS - 
 
U. S. Rubber Co., Hogansville, celebrated the 25th anniver sar y of its operatio n .. . St at e Hi gh way Dept. is erec ting district repai r shops and offices, costing $ 185,000, on a 23-acre site near Tennille .. . Georgia Power Co. has insta lled five new tr an sform ers at its Winder substation . . . Georgianna M ot el, near Gainesville, has enlarged its restaurant .. . R alston Purina Co. dedi cat ed it s new broiler re search pl ant in Cherokee County. 
Port Wentworth Corp., Savannah, subsidiary 'of th e Central of Geor gia R ailroad , has leased 1,895 ac res of land for explora tion into possibility of commer cial mining of potash and radioac tive min erals . . . Morris Gain es has opened a new supermarket at Moultrie  . . Gr iffin Ch amber of Commer ce plan s a " M ade in Griffin Week" in O ctober . . . Ameri can L egion Post No. 64, Monroe, don at ed acreage to th e Walton County Hospit al Authorit y upon which to build a hospit al. 
F red Walt ers, Atlanta Oldsmobile dealer , will build a new pl an t for his sales agency on a seven-acre tr act on Peach tree R oad . . . R ochelle's new indu stry, M ad ison Shirt Co., is hu mmin g  .. Ci tizens & Southern Nation al Bank is ope ning a bran ch at Ingleside, Macon . . . A & P Sup ermarket and Jones Drug Store are in a new building a t Carrollto n . . . Tifton H ou sing Authority anno unce s a 42-unit duplex housing pr oj ect . 
D eKalb Co unty Ch amber of Com mer ce has new qu arter s at Decatur . .. R ich mond Co unty vot ers will pa ss on a $954,000 library bond issue on Nov. 6 . . . Lump kin Co unty's third annua l " Go ld Rush Day" will be held a t D ahl onega O ct . 6 . . . Forsyth's $ 175,000 National Gu ard Armor y is finished  . . Backu s-Loner Motors, Inc., Sa vannah Cadill ac and Pontiac dealer has a new pl ant. 
Jeffersonville is expanding its wa ter system .. . Coates & Clark, Inc., Albany, h as added a new opera tionsynthe tic th read production . . . Lanier & R egister Ph armacy, Waycross, is in a new bu ildin g . . . Georgia Power Co. is erec ting a new sub stati on near U na dilla. 
First F ederal Saving s & Lo an Assoc' n, Savanna h, opened its second bran ch office at Garden City. 
Monroe County H ospital is under constru ction at Fo rsyth .. . Brunswick will get a new National Guard Armory, to cost $150,000 . . . United Auto Workers U nion, L ocal 10, ded icated its new hall and office building at 
 
M ILITA RY GAL A - J an e M orris, "Miss Georgia of 1956," and Maj. Gen. George J. H earn , adj utant general of Georgia, dan ce to the music of Jo hnny Lo ng 's orchestra at the dedication of Albany's new National Guard Arm ory. M iss Morris was official hostess of Albany J aycees at th e fcstivities.-phot o courtesy Stu ckey 's, I nc. . 
Doraville . . . City of Forsyth plan s electrical imp rovements to cost $165,000 . . . Nat ional Plazas, In c., is building a hu ge shopping center on Buford Hwy. near Atlanta . . . Nationa l Ban k of Fort Benning has receive d federal approval . . . Waycross has a new 750,000 ga llon wa ter ta nk. 
H olid ay Inn H ot el Court , near Augusta, will consist of 52 units on fou r ac res . . . P roduct s of Geor gia Co ., Louisville, manufacturer of hardwood furni tur e, has set up a br an ch plantin Id abel , Okla. . . . Burns Tool Co., man ufacturer of cha in saws, is in ope ration at Lo uisville . . . Ar chbol d M emorial H ospit al, Thom asville, is adding a win g . . . H oover M otor Expr ess Co., Atlanta, has a new $250,000 termin al a t 1020 Lois St., N .W . 
 
Colqu itt Co unty celebr ates ' it s centennial O ct. 14-20, at Moultrie Altamaha Electric M emb ership Assn., headquart ered at Lyo ns, has been awarded a loan of $265,000 for expansion . . . A new Nati on al Gu ard Arm ory is being ere cted at Thomasville . . . Southern Bell' s enlarge d excha nge at Luthersville is installing a dial system . . . Employees of Lockh eed Aircraft Corp ., Marietta, have a new $53,000 cafeteria . .. Woolw orth's Augusta store is being greatly enla rged . . . Yatesville has paved two and a half miles of stree ts . . . Villa R ica plans a $334,000 water and sewage improvement program .. . Crawford Co un ty Bank, R oberta, has remodeled its bui lding . . . T. E. Woodruff Insur an ce Agency, Unadilla has moved to a newly remodeled bui ldin g. 
Bleckley Cou nty's $60,000 H ealth Center is being built at Coc hran .. . M ar sh Wall Pr oduct s Co. has a new warehou se and office building at 204 Perm alu me Pl., N .W ., Atlanta . . . Baldwin County's $1,300,000 hospit al is und er constr uct ion at Milledgeville . . . Cedartown is in th e mid st of a street paving program . . . H olid ay Inn of Macon will build a 72-unit motel . . . Thirt y acres of th e old Knox Glass Co. prop ert y at Griffin, have been sold for use as an industrial site. 
NEW PULPWOOD YARD 
A new en terprise loca ted near Seville, in Cri sp County, is a pulpwood bu ying and storage yard, op erat ed by H. Ross R oger s & Son , of Co rd ele. R . R . R oger s, manager , says th e yard, adjacent to U .S. 280, will be op en th e year round and that farmers can obtain imm ediat e paym ent for pulpwood, wh ether a tru ckload or a trainload . 
 
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF" COMMERCE 
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Atlanta, Ga. Permit No. 151 
 
University of Georgia Li br . Gift & Exchange Section 
Clarke Coun t y 
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NEWSLETTER 
! G!Nf ~Al LIBRARY 
OCT 28 1956 
UMJ~ERSJTY Of GEQftGIA 
 
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O ctober, 1~y) r; 
 
NEWSLETTER 
 
Member Georgia Press Asso ciation 
 
Pu blishe d monthly by 
GEORGIA DEPT . OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol 
* MARV IN GRI FFIN Govern or  BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS EM ORY L. BUTLER 
Chairman 
T. C. BRANSO N, J R. HOK E PETERS BEN JESSUP 
TRAMMELL McINTYRE 
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary 
NELSON M. SHIPP 
 Assistant Secretary 
FRED D. MOON Editor 
 
Vol. 7, No. 12 
 
O ctob er , 1956 
 
Cavalcade 
Of Medicine 
Set In Cobb 
Doct or s of Cobb County ap pare n tly don't believe in the old adage that peopl e aren't much in terested in th eir health until th ey get sick. 
Believin g th at th e av erage citizen is inter ested in what mak es him tick, wh y he some t imes doesn't tick and wh at ca n be done about it, the Cobb Co un ty M ed ical Societ y will give th e public a glim pse into the medical aspects of ac tua l diseases, forms of treatmen t, a look a t mod ern medi cal equ ipme nt a nd a n in sight into pharm aceutical research . 
From Sunday af ternoon, Nov . 11, through Tuesday even ing, Nov. 13, th e society will p resent a Cavalca de of M edi cin e in L a rry Bell Audi to rium , M arietta. This displ a y of medi cal exhibits, op en to the public fr ee of ch a rge , is beli eved to be th e first of its kind in the sou theas t. 
 
COVER PHOTO 
Replica of the trademark of the John Deere Plow Co. , marks the entrance to the firm's 1,000-acre farm, DeereAcres, at the outskirts of Monroe, " Talton County. DeereAcres played host to thousands at a recent Farmorama. (Story on page 4. ) 
 
TO BOOST EMPIRE ST ATE-~I. M. Kimbrel (right) , pr esident of the Georgia Bank ers Association, pr esent s Gov. Marvin Gr iffin with a chec k for $5,000 , repre senting GBA' s participation in th e 50-50 Plan to adverti se Geor gia to industr y and tourists. 
Mr. Kimbrel is executive vice-pr esident of th c Fir st National Bank of Thomson. - Southern Bank er ph oto. 
 
GEORGIA'S SO-SO AD DRIVE 
 
STARTS IN TOP MAGAZINES 
 
Georgia's 50 -50 Plan, a united effort to advertise th e sta te to industr y and tourists throughout the coun try, got off to a " power-full" sta r t thi s month. 
In handsome ad s in Fortune, New sweek, Business lVe ek and th e New York Times, th e electric power compa nies of Georgia join with th e sta te government in cit ing th e advantages of Ge orgia and inviting new indust ries to locat e her e. Next mon th, simi la r ads in these a nd ot her select ed publica tion s, will feature th e ba nks of th e sta te, and th e mo nth after tha t, th e rai lro ads of Georgia wi ll pr esen t th eir message. The series will cont inue through the various ot her ind ustries a nd agencies that hav e join ed wi th Gov . M arvin G riffin to p rom ot e new busine sses, new payrolls and more touri sts for G eorgia . 
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G EO RGIA'S 50-50 PLAN is the first in which a sta te govern me nt an d a sta te' s bu siness, agricultural, fin ancia l a nd indust ri al associa tions share the cost of sta te promot ion on a 50-50 basis. It was laun ched a t a recen t meet ing ca lled by Governor Griffin, a t 
 
whi ch he p rop osed to th ese g roups that they u nit e their p romo tion a l effo r ts with th ose of the sta te govern ment. 
The Govern or ea rma r ked $50,000 as th e sta te's sha re in th e plan and th e representatives of th e commercial and industrial forces enthusiasticall y agreed to match it dolla r for do llar. 
" T he electric power com pa n ies of Georg ia join with th e sta te in inviting you to locate in Ge org ia", say th e O ctober ad s, which a rc topped by an eye-ca tc hing array of hightension electric wires. 
"T he cost of depend able power in Georgia is well below th e nation a l a\"Crage. Power fa cilities a rc being added an d expa nded to keep ahead of incr easing needs. M ild clim a te, plentiful labor, lower construc tion costs, favorabl e local and sta te ta x prog ram s, fast rail, truck and a ir tr an sportation - all work to cut you r costs a nd boost your profits. G eor gia has th e loca tion for your expande d pl ant. " 
T he fir st ad is co-sponso red by th e Georgia Power Co ., Geor gia Power & Ligh t Co., and Sav ann ah Electric & Power Co. 
 
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AUTO PLANT RETURNS MONEY AS HARTWELL ROARS WELCOME 
" 'hen Hartwell roll ed out th e red carpet of welcom e for th e Monroe Auto Equipment C o., big Mi chi gan firm that ha s mo ved to th e U p pe r Sava nna h Ri ver city, M on roe reciprocated with checks. 
The chec ks, tot alling $ 15,000, were refunds to p erson s in th e Hart C oun ty area who subscribed to a fund to purchase th e 20 -acr e site on whi ch th e new pl ant was built . 
M o re th an 3,000 visitors, headed by GOY. M a rvin Griffin, gat hered at H art \\-ell from Geor gia a nd nea rby Sout h Carolina to dcdi ca tc th e $2,500,000 plan t on September 14th. 
 
Governor Gri ffin p resent ed the p lan t 
 
with a Geo rg ia sta te flag wh ich wa s ac cept ed by M on ro e's president, B. D. 
 
M cl nt yrc , wh o pled ged th at " it will fly fr om ou r flag pole as consta nt 
 
rem ind er of our respon sibility a nd th e good will and confide nce Georgia ha s 
m. us." 
"T his magnificent n ew plant 
 
whi ch will manufacture shoc k absorbe rs for t he autom oti ve industry 
 
marks a significa nt mil estone in th e mov e we are wa gin g to bring more 
 
industry to Georgia," G over no r G riffin sa id. 
 
Wilton E. Hall, of An de rson, S. C., cha irma n of t he H artwell Dam S tee ring Comm ittee, traced th e development of th e Sav a nna h V alley and declared " our wonderful region 
 
F I RS T PROD U CT-Presid cnt B. D. McInt yr e (left) shows G ov. Marvin Griffin a rod to be used in th e fir st shoc k abso rbe r turncd out by th e Monroe Auto Equipmen t Co . Betw een thc m sta nds Solicitor Ge ne ra l Ca rey Skel ton, member of th e Industrial Committee of th e H art Count y C hambe r of C omme rce . Gov. G riffi n ga ve th e firm a sta te f1 ag.-photo courtesy T he Ande rson (S.C.) Indep end ent. 
is on th e threshhold of a revolution- 
 
ary era of progress." H a r twell M av or L ee Carter intro- 
du ced Monroe ' offi cials and specia l 
 
guests, who included representa tives of 
 
bu siness, finan ce, governme nt a nd th e 
c o m m u n i t y. Comptroller G en er al Zack D. Cra- 
\ TV co m me n de d Gov e r n o r Griffin. St~te Commer ce Secr et a ry Scot t Cand~ lei' and L abor Commission er Ben 1'. H uiet for their coopera tion in th e 
 
p lant loca tion in Georgia . .::. 
 
D EDI C ATED-Monroe Auto Eq uipmen t Com pany's $2 ,500,000 plant at H a rt well , newest indust rial add ition to the U ppe r Savan na h Valley , whi ch was dedi cat ed Se ptemh er 14. The firm ma n ufa ct ure s shoc k ahso rhcrs. -l'hoto hy Saggus St ud ios, Elberton. 
 
SO LICIT O R GENERA L C a r e v 
Skelton of the Northern Circu it intr odu ced Gov ernor Gri ffin, wh o de clared Georg ia extends a sta nding invitation to business firms th rougho ut the ro untry to locate in th e sta te . 
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ST IL L SM I L ING- F ra n klin D. R oosevelt gives a chee ry sa lu te to visit or s en te ring th e gift shop at thc L ittle White H ou se, nati on al sh ri ne to his mcmory at " 'arm Spri ngs. 
 
Warm Springs Visitors Get FDR Smile 
Two rare photograph s of Frank lin D . Roosevelt in his earl y days at ' Varm Springs have b een made into beautiful murals and now gree t visito rs to th e Little Whi te H ou se. 
As gues ts en ter th e gift shop on th eir return fro m tou rin g th e not ed white co ttage, they a rc met b y the famo us smi le and th e h and wave of th e former Pr eside nt a s he sits in h is crt-am -co lored con ve rt ib le par ked in front of h is Georgia hom e. 
Nea rby han gs an even older p icture, a mura l o f the sa me size, sho wing R ooscvcl t swi m ming in th e old W a rm Springs p ool, long sinc e demolish ed . This was mad e in 1924. short lv after Roosevelt , the n a plain citiz(:n an d only recent ly a fflic ted by polio, fir st ca me to G eo rgia seeking a cu re. 
The life-l ike mura ls, 6 x 4 Y2 feet in size. \\'eIT ma de bv Thurst on H at ch er frol;1, negatives b)' K enn eth R oger s. 
The W a rm Springs co ttage, P rcsid en t R ooscvcl t's ret rca t fr om the cares of office a nd th e scen e of his d ca th Apri l 12, 1945, is a nation al shrine th at a tt ra ct s th ou sands of visitors a week . 
 
THOUSANDS THRONG TO MONROE 
 
FOR DEERELAND FARMORAMA 
 
Twent y to thirt y thousand Ge orgians and visitors from five other sta tes thronged to M on roe O ct. 4, for th e la rgest d emonstration of ag ricultural and a llied machinery eve r h eld in th e So u theas t. 
Hundred s of pi eces of mechanized equipment , includ ing 195i mod el tractors, participated in th e Farmorarna at D ccreA cr cs, mod el training farm of th e John D eer e Plow C o., at th e edge of th e Wa lton C oun ty cit y. 
T wc nt v-th u -c work st ati on s wer e set up o ~'C r the 1,000- acr e p lant ation , a nd gues ts wer e cond uc ted aro un d a six -m ile course to witness perform an ce by th e most mod ern farm eq u ip ment und er a ctua l working co nd itions . They saw land Iwing ch-arr-d, plow ed , planr cd a nd cu ltiva ted , d itch es bei ng du g, field s ter ra ced a nd cro ps irri ga ted , 
 
cot ton p icked , co rn h a rvested an d com bined a nd numerous other farm oper a tion s- all being done by machinery. 
WITH R ADIO walkie-talkies coo rd ina ting th e eve n ts, th e gues ts wer e tra nsported fro m dem on st ration to d em on st rati on via 50 tract or-drawn tr ai ns and th e en tire \Val ton C ounty sc hool bus fleet. Bat ter y B, 950 AA f\ Bn., G eorg ia Na tiona l G uard , th e W al ton Co u n ty C ivil D efense di vision . State Bigl; wa y p a trol a n d ?"Ionro(; Police De partment, handled th e record tr affic load a n d su perv ised the parkin g of th ou sand s of a u to mo biles an d bu ses. 
The festi ve air of a ca rni va l was p resen t throu gh out th e da y as machines roared , crowds jostl ed , loud spe a kers blared and ref res h me n t vcn- 
 
dors hawked their wares. V a r ious farm organizations, including 4-H and FFA units and voc a tion a l and conserva tion g ro u ps, were sp ecia l gues ts. M onroe and \\'alton Co u n ty m erchants donated p rizes, while ch u rc h, school and civic groups manned booths to su pp ly th e cro wds with food and drink. Highlight of the en te r ta in men t portion of the program wa s a precision drill-conce r t by th e Monroe G irls C orp ., nationally known drum and bugle co rp sponso red by th e local Veterans of Foreign '\'ars. 
The So il Con servation Service coop era ted with D eer e off icia ls in th e F armo rnma . One of th e exh ib its sh owed how De('J'eA crt.:s was transformed fr om a n o rd ina ry Iarru t(l tilt" winning district SCS farm in on e )'t'ar's time. 
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GRAYELY TRACTOR TO BUILD 
 
ALBANY PLANT, EMPLOY 200 
 
Gravclv Tractor Co ., of Dunbar, W. V a., ~\'ill begin construction immediately of a plant at Albany which will employ up to 200 workers, 
The plant, to con ta in 30,000 square feet of space, will be erected on a five-acre site at th e corner of South Slappey Dr., and Lippert Rd. The property was form erl y own ed by Dougherty Co unty . 
The p lant is sched uled to be completed a nd in opera tion by the end of th e yea r with initi al em ploymen t of 50. In th e meanwhi le, temp or a ry q ua rter s conta ining 2,000 sq ua re feet have been acq uired fo r insta llat ion of la thes a nd o the r eq uipme nt, a nd a pilo t pr od ucti on with a bou t 20 local men is ge tting under wa y. 
 
will a lso ser ve as the comp a ny's sou thern sa les an d di stribution cen te r. 
 
" \ \le feel th at th er e a rc man v ad- 
 
va n tages for operating in Geo rg ia," 
 
M r. H all sa id. "T ha t is why we wan t- 
 
ed plenty of room for future expa n- 
 
sion." 
 
.Iam es H . G ray, president of the Al- 
 
ba nv Ch amber of Com merce. a nd A. 
 
C. . Go r ta towsky, cha irma n ' of the 
 
C ha mber's Ind ust rial D evelopm ent 
 
Committee, prai sed Alban y a n d 
 
Dough ert y officials and citizens for 
 
their a id in loca ting th e new plan t. 
 
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" SC O T T C ANDL ER , sccrc ta rv of th e Geo rg ia Dep artment of Com merce, a nd h is staff assista nt , Robert E. 0 '- 
 
Brien , a lso were ex tremely help ing in ge tti ng th is pla n t for Geor gia," Bill Broom e, man ager of th e Alb an y Ch amber of Co mmerce , declar ed . 
M r. Broom e also p aid tribute to loca l co-ope ra tion a nd assista nce from th e Dou gher ty County Boa rd of Co mmissioners and th e Albanv Ci ty Com mission ; Carey Bu rn ett, citv ma nager ; Rock Howard , coun ty eng ineer : John Arn old, city ut ilities super in tende nt, a nd I ndu strial Developmen t Commi t- 
teemen K enn eth H od ges, .J. P. C ha m- 
pion , Sr. , Joe R osenb er g, Da n 1.. G ibson, R. ;\-1. M nrbury, Sr ., Demin g 
W hi ting, .J. W . (T axi ) Smith, Frank 
Hed rick, Olin Fu lmer, George Joiner a nd Fran cis R ue. 
 
GRAVELY TRACTOR CO . is a subsid iar y of G ravclv Tract or s. In c.. of D unbar, which ~\' a s founded iI~ 1922 . An other subs idia ry is G ravely O verseas L td ., Buckfast ling, En gland. 
D . R ay H a ll, G ra vely p resid ent, sa id th e Alban y pl ant will p rod uce th e firm's tr a cto rs an d 23 at ta chmen ts. It 
 
LAVONIA GETS NEW INDUSTRY 
A new sewing ind ust ry, L avon ia's second, is read y to begin ope ra t ions. 
T he conce rn , R om a v, In c., will ma nu fact ure child re n's pant ies. T he pla nt is locat ed in two down tow n sto re bu ildin gs. 
Presiden t a nd tr easurer of Roma v is Eu gen e B. M a y, who was formerl y 'associa ted with Ca rw ood, Inc., L avoni a's other sewing pl an t. Other officers a re 
Thom as .J. Rob er ts of Deca tu r, vice- 
pr esident a nd sa les ma n ager , a nd M rs. Ann a B. .Man devi lle, C arrollton , secret a ry . 
M r. M a y sa id initia l em ployme n t wiII be 16 persons, mostly women . 
SUNSHINE GETS GORDON Sunshine Biscu its, I nc., n ati on al ba k- 
(' ry firm, th rou gh a n excha nge of stoc k. has acq uired cont rol of Go rdon Food s, l nr. . Atlant a producer of pot a to chips, co rn chips, popcorn a nd ot her sna ck items. 
 
A NO T H ER G EO RG IA SP ECTACU LA R-Not onl y is Georg ia's industrial g-rowth (" l i lll b i n ~ to unbeli evabl e a lri rudes hut so is on e of its ~reat n ew produ ct s, th e C - I:IO H cruul cs, huilt by Lockh eed Aircraft Corpora tion's (;eor~ ia Divi sion a t illari etla fo r Ih e U. S. Air For ce. Th is H er c ul es, loaded 10 a lmo st !Oll,OOO pounds, is sho wn tak imr 
off after only a n lIOO-foot run . Th e H er cul es is Am eri ca's Iir st propjet tran sport to ~o in to produ ct ion and will join ope ra tional unit s of th e 18th Air Force in D ec em ber, 
 
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NEW SAVANNAH MARINA SERVES 
 
BOATING TOURISTS TO GEORGIA 
 
Something new for tourists has been added at Savann~h-a marina for tourists who travel by boat. 
Savannah Marina is the fir st Ge orgia facilit y for yachts and eruisers traveling south on the Intraeoa stal l Va terway. It on ly op en ed Labor Day, but it is proving so popular with loeal boat own ers and transients th at own er Murra y Ge fen is already at work on enlarge ments. T he ma rina is located on a site of 10 a cres on th e cast ban k of th e wat erwav at Thunderb olt. wit h 800 feet of wa terfron t adj acent to th e T ybee Road . Facilities incl ud e a 150-foo t perman ent dock, floating docks, d ry and wet sto rage she ds, sales room , service an d repair shop, rest rooms , d ressing room s a nd showers for bo th men and wom en . 
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The marina was built by M r. Gd en a fter a study of leadin g ma rin as and boat ya rds all a long the Atlantic coas t. Severa l nati onal marine ar chitects part icipa ted in its construc tion . 
The 16-foot boat lift , highe st in the Southeastern states, is designed so boats can be put in and taken out with th e tide. The lift ha s a cap ac ity of tw o ton s and ca n handle cr aft up to 30 feet . It travels on a monorail th e full length of th e do ek 
BO AT LI FT-Sccn e at Savanna h Marina as a cr uiser pa sses throu gh a section of th e h oist wh ere jet s clean it of sa lt wa ter. 
 
S AV AN NA H l\IARI NA-Look i n~ north from Tybee R oad , th e permanent d ock and hoi st ar c a t left. N autica l tourists on th e Intracoastal \Vaterway wel com e th e fa cilities 
and conve n iences of th is new installation. Expans ion alrea d y is planned. 
 
so that boats ca n be load ed or unloaded on land or on th e doek. A wash ra ck is provided to clean sa lt wat er off boats before loadi ng or storing. 
A floating do ck at the north end of the marina accommo da tes water skiers a nd offe rs live ba it to fishermen , whil e 
 
gaso line, icc and fr esh water are av aila ble seven days a week. A p arking a rea that accommodates more th an 100 ca rs and a ca r rental service ar c part of th e convenience . 
M r. Gden 's future pl an s for th e marina incl ude a mo tel and rest auran t to serv e the boa ting pub lic. 
 
LITHONIA LIGHTING CO. BUILDS $750,000 PLANT AT CONYERS 
 
Lithoni a L ight ing P rodu cts Co., L ith oni a, is construc ting a new plant at Conyers whi ch will cost an estima ted $ 750, 000 . 
Initial size of th e new fa cilitv will be 100,000 sq ua re feet, but constru etion will be suc h th a t it ca n lat er be expa nde d to 500,000 sq ua re feet. The p lant constru ction will be of steel, reinforced concrete and brick, a nd th e office section will be of bri ck an d marble. T he 5,000 sq ua re-foo t offi ce section and an em ployee s cafete ria which will a lso be pr ovid ed , will be air-condit ion ed . 
The new plant will be ser ved by the nearb y Georgia R a ilroad , a nd in ad dition will have a m ultiple load ing do ck for tr ucks. 
T he finn's present facility a t Lithoni a will be mo dern ized a nd used for 
spec ial work. O fficia ls of the compa ny sa id 200 
wo rkers are employe d a t th e Lithonia plant and th at th e new pl ant will materi ally increase p er sonnel. 
 
Lithoni a L igh ting Pr od uct s Co . was or ga nized just nin e years ago with nin e emp loyees, to serve th e electri ca l trad e in th e At la n ta area. The firm now manufacturers a wide vari et y of lighting fixtures a nd market s its p roducts on a nationwide sca le. 
MARIANN KIDD CHOICE OF BLUE RIDGE GROUP 
Mi ss M ariann Kidd , C levela nd, is th e new presiden t of th e Blue Ridge M ounta in Tourist Assn ., to -count v civic g roup devot ed to promot ing rourists in North ea st Georgia . 
T he associa tion held its first a nniversary mee ting a t histori c j a rr ctt M an or , ncar Toccoa , 
A. H . Bra nno n, of Towns Co un ty, a nd M rs. M ad eline An tho ny, Lu mpkin Coun ty, wer e nam ed first a nd second vice-presidents, respec tively. M rs. H elen Stewa rt , H a be rsha m Co unty, was chose n secre ta ry. 
 
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Cyanamid To Triple Plant At Savannah 
Ameri can Cyanam id Company' s hu ge new plant a t Sav annah will be almost t ripl ed in size. 
Emil Hladk y, gene ra l m an ager , said th e exp ansion, to sta r t immedi ately, will in crea se producti on of Unitan e tit anium dioxid e pigm ent to 72,000 ton s annuall y. H e estima ted th e ex pansion will require 250 add itiona l empl oyes. 
Producti on cap ac ity of t he pr esent facility is 24,000 ton s. T he plant h as aro und 225 work er s on an annua l p ay1'011 of $1,250,000 . 
Cyan amid's U nita ne, fir st manufactured a t Pin ey Ri ver, V a ., was introdu ced to industry in 1938. T od ay both its Savannah and Piney Ri ver pl ants a re producing th e pigm ent, wh ich suppli es th e whiten ess to m an y different products such as p aints, h ard-surface floor coverings, ena meled kitch en appli an ces, pap er, white wall au to mobile tires and deco rative fin ishes for cans a nd tubes. 
Producti on a t th e Sa vannah pl ant began in July, 1955 a nd formal dedica tion ceremonies wer e held last D ecembe r. Gov. M ar vin Griffin, princip le spea ker at th e exercises, predi cted a great exp ansion of th e chem ica l industry in G eor gia a nd th e southeast. 
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"And we back up that invitation with a promise of 100 per cent cooperations with such companies by the state and local governments and the cities and towns wh ere they locate," he said. 
Sever al years ago wh en it becam e appare n t industry would h ave to be brought in to balan ce th e agricultu ra l economy of th e H a rtwell a rea, M ayor Carter a nd Solicit or Skelt on launch ed a move to sell sto ck in an indust ri al sit e, Citizen s subscribed $ 15,000 in sums ra ng ing from on e to 500 dollars, and th e prop erty wa s purch ased and pr esented to th e M onroe firm. F ollowing th e pl ant dedi cation , th e a u tomoti ve officia ls retu rn ed th e mon eyevery penny of it- to th e contribu tors. 
 
$500,00 0 PLANT-Ar chitect's dr awing shows th e buildings and pa rt of th e ext en sive g rounds composing th e new pl ant of Armco Drainag e & M etal Product s Co., which is being erected a t th e intersection of Sull ivan Rd. and Old National Hw y., three miles sout h of College Park. Warren S. Mann, pr esid ent, said th e plant, whi ch will contain 60,000 square feet of working space, will cost in excess of $ 500,000 . 
 
LADIES GARMENT FIRM LOCATES IN CLEVELAND 
White County' s n ewly orga n ized Cha mber of Comm erce h as chalked up its fir st industr y- a firm manufactu ring ladi es garments. 
Cleveland Garmen t M fg. Co., Inc., is starting with 30 machines set up in th e old Cleveland schoo l building until pl ans for a new pl ant building are com pleted . Aaron Pen ick is president of th e new firm a nd J ohn E . Ash is vice-p residen t a nd secretary-tr eas u rer. 
The firm will mak e ladi es' du sters and simila r ga rme nts for n ati on wid e dist ribution . The ann ua l p ayroll will r un abou t $ 150,000. 
NEW INDUSTRY TAKES MONROE WOOD PLANT 
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MENLO'S SECOND GLOVE FACTORY READY TO ROLL 
M enl o's newest industri al pl ant is completed and m achiner y is being installed for th e m anufacture of leather gloves. 
T he new firm, as yet unn am ed , chose M enl o as a result of effor ts by th e M enl o D evelopment Assn ., to bring p ayr olls to th e C ha ttooga County commu nity . T he associa t ion a lso prom ot ed th e town's fir st p lan t, Best Mfg. Co ., which began opera tion five yea rs ago an d no w emp loys 200 per sons, 75 per cent of who m a re wom en, in th e manufacture of work gloves. 
Gen e Ball ard, di rect or of th e M enl o D evelopment Assn ., sai d th e new pl a nt would begin op era tion thi s year. H e estima ted th e ini tial pa yroll would be 50 work er s. 
Other direct or s of th e associa tio n arc C harlie W yatt a nd Billy Ed wards. 
M r. Ba llard said cost of th e new plan t, an a t tr active bri ck and me t a l building, was $25,000. It was fina nced th rou gh th e sa le of stock to local cit izens and will be leased to th e op era ting comp any. 
 
ATHENS FIRM EXPANDS 
Athens Co opera tive Creamery, in th e first ste p of a milli on dollar expansion prog ram , h as purch ased a site on whi ch it will sta rt build ing a new pl ant in th e spring of 1957. T he co-op, now in its 27th year, is th e oldest dai ry ma rketing associa tion in t he sta te. 
 
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Pr a ch trr r- Ind ustr ia l Blvd ., l n r ., will d evelop a 20-a cre tra ct a t Dorav ille 
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CHAMPIONS-Tolll and Lee Arrcnda le, C la r kesv ille b rot he rs who se t a wo rld sa les record of 425,000 bags of pou ltry feed in their commu nity, 
Clarkesville's Arrendales Set Feed Record 
Arren dale F eed St ores, In c., of Clarkesvill e, is th e largest feed d ea ler in th e world. 
R al st on Purina Co., of St. L ou is, 1',,!0., so design ates the H ab er sh am C ounty finn , whi ch la st year h andled 425,000 bags of feed. 
Br others T om a nd L ee Arrc nd al c arc sole owners of t his firm , as well as three a llied corp ora tions. These include a h at ch er y and a broi ler p ro cessing plan t. The la tter, located in Athens, last year paid its g ro we rs $465,000 in profits. 
Wh en th ey ca me ou t of th e a rmed serv ices in 1947-Lee h ad been a pa ra tro op er sergean t an d Tom a ca p ta in in th e Ai r F orce-they bou ght ou t a sm a ll co m bina tion gro cer y-feed sto re ow ned bv their father in Clarkesville. With T o'm ha ndl ing sa les a nd L ee in cha rge of wa reh ou se oper ation s, they sold 13,49 5 b ags of feed th e first year of th ei r ope ra t ion. T h e follow in g year th ei r volum e was up to 60,1 34 an d by 1954- 55 it rea ched 306,000 . L ast year it wa s 425,000 b ags, a wo rld record , sa ys Pu rin a , 
R ecently Tom Arrendale flew 7,000 miles in six da ys to tell m eetings of feed an d b roil er m en in T ex as an d C al ifornia how th e Arrendal e bu sin ess is cond u ct ed with suc h su ccess in n ortheast G eorgi a . 
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" . , T h n ... 111"\ \ " we lls w ill SIT \"I" t lu : Demorest a rea . . . G eor gia Forestry C ommission , Iormcrl y he adq u arter ed in Atlanta, is in a new b ui ldi ng n car Macon . . . St anford 's Depart ment St or e op en ed in Forest Park . . . Ci ty M otors, I nc., Athens, will erec t a bu ilding . . . H o m er B, Lovvorn becomes city manager of Brunswi ck on Nov. 1. 
Ph illips Mill in g C o . an d D ix ie Lil y M illin g Co. h av e merged a t Tifton . . . U tc lwico, l nc., Talbotton telephon e sys te m, is conve rt ing to d ial . . . A new a ca de m ic building is sche d u led a t G eorgia Sch ool for th e D eaf , Cave Spring . .. Piedmont Bag Co., Gainesville, h as open ed a bag ren ovating p lant a t Macon . . . Alpharetta p assed a $ 156,000 bond issu e to e rect a municip a l building ... Atlanta Boa rd of Educa tion pl an s a $250,000 ed uca tion a l tclcvision sta tion . . . Elberton has p av ed three m iles of stree ts . .. ' Va sh ington County's K aolin Fest ival will be h eld NO' . 11-16. 
Southern T ex tile S hrin kcrs . Inc.. of St. L ou is, h as es ta b lished al{ AtI~nta p la nt . . . H owa rd J oh nson will ope n a rest auran t in Albanv .. . South Atla n tic Gas Co . h as pu rc ha sed a new bui ld ing a t Savannah . . .N a tional Ba nk of Brunswi ck p la ns a new home . . . Atlanta's H ea rt o f A tla n ta M ot el on Cour tlan d St. , N .E ., is ope n . . . Sparta has inst all ed par kin g meters . . . Fulton Na tiona l Bank is en la rg ing it s Decatur br an ch .. . R alph H . Pu rccll i h as been n amed ge ne ra l m anager of R ockwell' s new pl ant a t Statesboro . 
A Ch amber of Commer ce ha s been formed a t San dersville . . . Bru nswi ck ha s insta lled 100 street lights . . . Emo ry U n ive rsity will bui ld three n ew 
 
s l r U('( III"1"s tn cnsl $:\,200, 000 . . " n cvv p ost office, to cos t $502 ,000, IS a p p rov ed fo r Milledgeville. 
J oh n Coggins will bu ild a motel in Elb erton . . . Sou th ern D a iries, I nc., At la nta, h as co m p le ted a $ 1,00 0,000 plant ex pansion . . . A new bridge a cro ss th e Et owah Ri ver in East Rome will ope n in Novem ber . .. Roopville is insta lling a municipal waterwor ks system . .. Del-M ar M otel, Valdo sta, opened . 
LaFayette H ou sin g Authority h as bou ght land for 64 h ou sin g uni ts M cNeel M arble C o ., Marietta, was co m m issioned to erect a war me mo ria l a t Blakely . . . Warner R obins' new $238,000 sewage di sp osa l pl ant is in op er ation .. . Lavonia ha s b uilt an a irport . . . H otel G en er al O gletho rp e, ncar Savannah, is re nova ting a nd ad d in g a n a ud ito rium . . . Bond Stores, Inc., ha s ret u rn ed to Atlanta via a new hom e on Peachtree S t. . . . H amilto n H ou se, newest a nd finest of The C loist er's fami ly of bea ch hou ses, is ope n a t Sea Island. 
Marietta's Commer cia l Ba nk ope n ed . . . W esleyan Sh op ping C enter, Macon, is ad d ing two b ui ld ings . . . G u lf Insu ran ce Co. is bu ild in g di stri ct offices at Waycross . . . Albany has a new Scars R oebuck store . 
Columbus C hamber of C om mer ce will build . . . America n Red Cross dedi cat ed its n ew $ 1,00 0,000 At lanta headqu arters . . . Dalto n vo ted $250 ,000 bond issu e fo r a recr eation al d evel opment . . . 'F ir st Nation a l Bank of Macon is bui lding a branch office. 
R ich mond Co unty is erec ting a mu ni cipal bui lding a t Augusta . . . Moose L od ge No. 65, At la nta, d edi cated its $200,000 hom e. 
 
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