Newsletter, Georgia Department of Commerce, 1956 November - 1957 October

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GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN
Governor
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
EMORY L. BUTI.ER Chairman
T . C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP
TRAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary
NELSON M. SHIPP
Assistant Secretary
FRED D. MOON Editor

Vol. 8, No.

Novem ber, 1956

COVER PHOTO

WAR TASK EASY FOR MARIETTA'S GIANT HERCULES
The Georgia-built C-130 Hercules -the Air Force's first propjetprop elled combat transport - ha s demonstrated its ability to deliver troops and supplies by para chute int o
combat zones. The new cargo-troop air carrier,
product of the Georgia Division of Lockheed Air craft Corp., Marietta, has completed simulated war-t ime tests at Pope Air Force Base, N. C. It will become an operational unit of the Air Force in December.
Eighty-six missions were flown . A tot al of 160 tons of supplies, 315 dummies and 485 paratroopers were drop-
pe d . Each mission simulated in some m an-
ner the act ual comba t condi tions in which the new aircraft was designed to be employed.
The Army loaded p aratroopers and supplies whi ch would be drop ped into the "combat" zone to supply the tr oops. Many of th e equipme nt drops wer e the real th ing - self-propelled weapons, jeeps, tr ucks, guns, food, medical supp lies and roa d building equipment.
The cover photo shows a 2~ ton Army truck floating to ea rth in th e
drop .

ANT IQUES FO R VANN HOUSE-Mrs. B. J . Bandy, of D alton, one of the lead ers in the restora tion of the Ch ief J oe Vann Hou se, famous Cherokee Indian ma nsion near Chatswort h, looks at a paint ing of Vann which will han g in the house. T he bed on which M rs. Bandy is seated was mad e by slaves at Carters Q uarters plan tation, another Indian landmark , and will be among the Va nn H ouse fu rni shin gs. Chief Vann's old
home, said to have been the finest house in th e Cherokee Nation, is being restored by th e Georgia Hi stori cal Commission an d Wh itfi eld and Murray County groups.
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NEW DOUGLAS GARMENT PLANT

HOLDS PROMISE OF 300 JOBS

A new garment factory that has its sights set on an employme nt goal of 300, is getting un der way at Douglas.
Federal Corsets Co., Inc., has begun pilot operations with a work force of 50 in a ha ngar a t Dou glas Airport. The firm will manufacture women's foun dation garments.
The h angar, with 18,000 square feet , was formerly occupi ed by the Douglas Corp., an overall manu facturer. M an y of the new fa ctory's work ers will be re-

cru ited from personn el of th e old com pan y, while others are being trained by th e Georgia Employment Service.
CALHOUN PLANT ADDS
A third majcr enlargement of Forrest Mi lls, Inc., since it opened to manuf acture and fini sh br oad loom ca rpe ting in 1953, is underway a t Calhoun. The new add ition, 55 x 90 feet, will be used for the plan t's inspection and shipping dep artments.

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November, 1956

GEORGIA'S INDUSTRIAL GAIN

LEADS S. E., IS 4TH IN NATION

The post-war years have brought Georgia more large manufacturing plants than an y other sta te in the Southeast and the four th largest number in all the nation.
Georgia gained 117 firms employing 100 or more workers in the sevenyear period 1947-1954, reports th e federal government in its latest study of the national industrial scene. Georgia's increase of 117 big plan ts was exceeded nationally only by 476 locating in Ca lifornia, 201 T exa s, and 119 in Ohio. In th e seven-state South eastern region, the picture was : Georgia, 117, North Carolin a, 113, T ennessee, 82, Florida, 74, South Carolina , 72, Alabama, 57, and Mi ssissippi, 54.
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ANALYSIS by the U. S. Depart-

ment of Comm erce of Bureau of Census' surv eys of manufactur ers for 1947 and 1954, shows that the nation as a whole gained 2,448 large-class plants. The number of such plants in Georg ia went from 473 to 590, decisively outstripping th e gain in 44 ot her sta tes.
Nationwise, Alabama had 57 newcomers, Arizona, 20, Arkansas, 37, Californ ia, 476, Colorado, 16, Connecticut, 42, Delaware, 5, District of Columbia, 4, Florida, 74, Georgia, 117, Idaho, 20, Illinois, 30, Indiana, 30, Iowa, 33.
Kansas added 37, Kentucky, 22, Louisiana, 13, Maine, 7, Maryland, 57, Massachusetts, 31, Michigan, 106, Minnesota, 17, Mississippi , 54, Missouri , 34, M ontana, 10, Nebraska, 11, Nevada, 8, New Je rsey, 94, New Mexico, 5.

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IN THE SEVEN-YEAR span, New H am pshire lost 8 big plants, Rh ode Island lost 49, Vermont lost 4, and Wyomin g lost 1. There was no gain or loss in th e industrial status of North Dakota.
Georgia had 590 plants in the large-class category in operation at the 1954 census.
Of the nation's gain of 2,448 onehundred-or-more employee plants between 1947 and 1954, 569 were established in the Southeast. This was the largest number to locate in an y single region in the U.S. The region 's total went from 2,673 just following th e war to 3,242, moving the Southeast up from fourth place to third in the country in total number of large plants.
Compared with this region' s 569 large plants added, the New Engl and region added 19, Mi ddle Atl antic section, 208, East No rth Central, 334, West No rth Central , 136, West South Central, 293, M ountain region, 79, Pacific, 562, and th e remainder of th e South, including Del aware, Maryland, K entucky, th e Virginias and District of Columbia, 169.

BARNESVILLE PLANT TO GET ADDITIONS

William Carter Co. plant at Barnes-

ville has announced plans for an ex-

American Bitumu/s & Asphalt

pansion program costing some $500,000. Charlie Walker, in charge of th e firm' s oper ations at Barnesville, For-

Terminal for Bainbridge Port

syth and Thom aston , said the addition will provide a p rinting plant and more

American Bitumuls & Asphalt Co., Mobile , Ala., has purchased a 25-acre site a t Bainbr idge adjacent to the State

the installation was estimated at "several hundred thousands of dollars."
Compa ny officials said construction

room for knitting and bleaching .
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NEW DEPOT FOR PORT

Port s Authority on whi ch to erect a will start immedi ately and that the

Georgia Ports Authority has ap -

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plant is expected to be in operation by proved construction of a new wa re-

Plans ca ll for dock facilities, stora ge, next spr ing.

house at the Savannah State Docks . It

truck-tank load ing area, an office, a warehouse and a laboratory. Cost of

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N ovember , 1956

ANCIENT ETOWAH MOUNDS LOOM
AS A FABULOUS TOURIST MECCA
One of Georgia's most ancient spots may yet become the most po pu lar tourist attraction in the sta te.
Georgia Hi storical Commission archaeologists at the Etowah Mound group near Cartersville are turning up prehistoric artifacts by the hun dred, and thousands of tourists a re stopp ing to watch the unearthing of on e of th e most highly advanced c iv i l iz a t i o ns ever developed by Am erican Indians.
" We a rc eq uipping a small mu seum a t th e mounds whic h will soon be ope n to th e public," sa id C. E . G rego ry, exe cu ~iv~ secretary and direct or of th e com m ission .
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ORIGINALLY, t here wer e seven mounds in th e E towah group, bu t four of th em hav e been leveled by continuous cu ltiva tion for 200 yea rs. T he

LARGEST ETOWAH MOUND-Mound "A " is 60-feet high and has a flat top more than half th e size of a football field . Many beli eve thi s mound is hollow and con tains tombs like the pyramids of Egypt. Leg end hold s that it contains th e Ark of the Covenant.

ETOWAH IDOLS-Male ( top) and female figures, carved from white marble, ar e two and a half feet hi gh and weigh 175 pounds each.

mounds cen tere d a n Indi an village th at extended for 3,000 feet along the E towah R iver and was 1,500 feet wide. Aro un d the en tire village was a moat 15 to 20 feet deep run ning from th e river into th ree ar tificial la kes.
Dr. Warren King Moorehead, of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., dug into one of the mounds, known to archaeologists as Mound C, in 1925-27, and opened up 100 graves. From them he recovered 12,000 stone, shell and copper artifacts, half of whi ch he gave to various Georgia institutions.
At the tim e of his visits , Dr. Moorehead surveyed Mound A, the largest in the group, and reported that it had a base 380 x 330 feet, was 61 feet high, had a circumference of 1,347 feet and a level top that was 170 x 176 feet, or more than half the size of a football field.
It is th e t heory of archa eologists th a t E towah was the religious mecca of Indians from a la rge surrounding territory and th a t M ound A was th eir temple mound. M ound B is believed to have been th e site of th e chief's house and M ound C th e bu rial mound for th e princip al m en of th e trib e, in-

eluding chiefs and high p riests. The smaller mo unds are th ou ght to con ta in th e burials of the tribe's lesser lights.
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THE IMMENSITY of M ound A has been th e ca use of mu ch specula tion ever since white m en occupied Northwest Georgia. One legend hold s th at thi s mound is hollow a nd con ta ins th e Ark of th e Covenant, linking th e Etowah builders wit h one of th e lost trib es of Israel.
Dr. A. R. K elly , of the U niversity of Georgia, who developed the famous Ocmulgee Mounds at Macon, now a National Park Monument, is a member of the Georgia Historical Commission. Convinced that Dr. Moorehead's excavations in Mound C had not gone deep enough, he persuaded the commission to employ Lewis H. Larson, Jr., a graduate archaeologist from the U niversity of Minnesota, to explore it further.
"T he third season's work, during t he summer ju st ende d, has pro duce d a num ber of new and important discoveries in a series of ritua l burials some 500 years old," M r. L a rson said. "A mo ng th e finds wer e three cere mo n -
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No vember, 1956

GRIFFIN TAKES GEORGIA BID

TO BIG INDUSTRY AT DETROIT

A new titan, Industry, has risen in Georgia, and manufacturers large and small are invit ed to come and enjoy its ben evolenc e.

This was the message Gov. Marvin G riffin, Ge org ia's No . 1 Ambassador to Indust ry, carried to th e D etroit a rea on his latest bid to the industrialists of the nation .

The Gov erno r spoke to mor e th an 100 indust rial leaders at luncheon at the D et roit At hleti c C lub, O ct. 11. T he affa ir, a r ra nged by the Geor gia C hamber of Commer ce in associa tion with
Cha rles T. Fi sher, .T1'., president of th e
Nat iona l Ban k of D etroit , was simi la r to p revious ga therings in New York, Chicag o and Clevelan d .

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GEO RGIA is still a gr ea t agri cu ltu ral sta te, bu t " the dr eamy rom an tic old way of cotton an d pl an tations has gone forever," the Gover nor told th e .magnat es of th e motor car are a . "The era of min t jul eps, crinolined belles a nd ban joes in the moon light h as disappeared . A new gian t h as been insta lled in our economic pi cture. T it antic industrial develop ment has surged forwa rd in recent years and is now moving ah ead a t a ra te that speaks for almost inestim a tabl e exp ansion and p rogr ess in the fut u re."

"Come down and see for your selves," he u rged. "W e will co-ope rat e in every possible wa y to make a suc cess of an y new pl ants you may see fit to build."

Gove rno r Griffin ca u tione d n ew industry against any exp ecta tion of finding cheap labor, but assured the gathe ring t hat Georg ia has an abundance of wor kers " willing and eag er to offer an honest day's work for an honest da y's pay."

Citing Geor gia' s econom ic surge, he said th at ma nv of the sta te's new pl ants sta nd on ' old cott on p lan ta tions and have absorbed the men who once plowed the fields and the wom en who used to ga the r th e crop .

" \ VE HAVE," he went on, " fac to ry exec utives by the dozen who a tt est th at th ese peop le ma ke th e most ap t, the most p roducti ve wo rkers th ey h ave

DETROIT HOST AND GU EST-Charles T . Fi sher, Jr. pr esident of th e National Bank of D etroit, chats wit h Gov. Marvin Griffi n at th e gathering at wh ich th e Georgia chief executive ca rried his new-industry invitation to lead ers of th e automotive ca pita l.
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T he Gov ernor said th at while Georgia's agri cultural income, derived from fewer but mor e p rodu ctive farms, now tot als 700 milli on dolla rs a yea r, its ma nufact uring pl ants h a v e nearly tr ipled in less th an 10 yea rs. The tot al, he explained, is now 8,000 agai nst 3,000 in 1947.
" L ast yea r," he related, " we added 287 n ew plants representing capital investment of more than 150 million dollars. In the fir st six months of thi s year we added 126 more. W e have ever y reason to believe that 1956 will break all records."
Industry, he said, has sp read out all over Georgia, brought unprecedented prosperity to small towns and rural areas and h as absorbed an y farm labor that might have been displaced. Virtually all of the 159 counties, he recounted , ha ve industrial payrolls, and among 340,000 industrial workers are members of 60,000 farm families supplementing farm income with factory pay.
T he fac t that Georgian s a re enjoy ing the gr ea test fin ancial ga ins in history -ea rn ing mor e, savin g mor e, inv esting mor e-also ma kes th e state a trem endo us comme rcia l pot ential, he p ointed out.
Altho ugh D et roit is th e motor vehicle capita l of th e world, Governor Griffin pointed out th at th e Ford Company an d th e Buick, O ldsmob ile,

Pon tiac and Chevrolet division s of General M ot ors "are tod ay runn ing huge assembly pl ants in Georgia th at provide employme n t for armies of wor kers."
258 Georgia Retail Stores Sell Million
Georgia has 258 re tail establishments wh ich gros s a m illion dolla rs or more eac h in annu al sales.
T ot al volume of these firms , accor ding to th e la test Burea u of the Cen sus summa ry, is $676,198,000. Their sales rep resen t n early one-fourth of th e sta te's $2,900,000 ,000 in all re ta il sales.
Eigh ty-seven of Geor gia's mi llion dollar empor iums deal in food, mo stly gro ceries, a nother 87 sell automobile supplies, and 79 a re new ca r deale rs. T wenty-three a re depa rtmen t stores, 35 ge neral mer chandisers a nd 10 handle lumber a nd building supplies.
SEAPACK ENLARGES
Seap ack Corp., St. Sim ons Island shrimp processing plant, is com pleting construc tion of an additiona l flashfreezing tunnel and will build a n 80 x 100 foot add itio n for more storage space. T he firm 's sales in the p ast year totaled $ 10,449,500.

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PRIDE OF ROCKMART-Partial view of th e Aragon Mills plant, which employs 750 Polk Countians and ha s an annual payroll of nearly two million dollars. The plant's annual employees' field da y and barbecu e recently assembl ed 3,000 people.

ANNUAL ARAGON MILLS DAY IS BIG EVENT AT ROCKMART

Aragon Mill s is such an integral part of the economy and social life of Rockmart and Polk County, its annual field day and barbecue for its employees has become traditional.
The third such get-together, held recently on the plant grounds, assembled all 750 of the workers plus three or four times that many members of their families and invited guests .
J. B. Hughes, pl an t manager, pr e-
sided over th e day-long gala, and other company officials vied with employees and visiting dignitari es in sack races, egg throws and penny scrambles.
Aragon is a unit of United M er chants & M anufacturers, Inc., farflun g fab ric producing enterprise which extends throughout th e United St ates, South Ame rica and C anada, and whose annual sales volume exceeds $400 million .
The plant, located four miles northwest of R ockmart, was bu ilt at th e turn of th e cen tury and was op erated by A. D . Julliard & Comp an y un til United M erchants purchased it in 1953. Today th e Ar agon plant employs an aver age of 750 persons, 350 wome n and 400 men, and th e payroll during th e past calenda r yea r was $1,925,000.
Pres ent production at th e plant consists of drapery and decor ative fabrics which are used for upholstery and

draperies, pinwal e cordur oy, thick cor duroy and laundry padding.
Since A rag 0 n was acquir ed by United M erchan ts, th e plant has been extensively renov ated an d modernized. M ore than a million dolla rs was spen t last year on th e improvemen t program .
CiEORCiIA POWER ACiREES TO BUY RIVAL UTILITY
Purch ase of th e Georgia Power & Ligh t Co ., th e state's second largest electr ic ut ility, by th e Georgia Power Co . for 16Y2 milli on dollars, has been approved by directors of th e latter firm.
The deal mus t be app roved by th e Federal Power Comm ission and th e Secur ities and Exch an ge Commission and is contingent upon fr an chises being gra n ted to Georgia Power by municipalities in th e GP &L area .
Georgia Power & Light, with head qu arters at V ald osta , serves 19 South Georgia counties. The utility is owne d by the Florida Pow er Corp., while th e Georgia Power Co ., based in Atlanta, is a subsid iary of th e Southern Co .

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Etowah Mounds
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ial blad es, chippe d fr om flint, 17 to 19 inches long. Also found were a wooden mask and a wooden ra ttle, both expertly carved to represent the human head and covere d with th in copper shee ting. Both pieces have shell eyes an d teeth inset in th e wood, and th e mask is equipped with carved wood en an tlers. A large gorget or orname nt worn on the chest was found in th e same buri al, along with man y copper badges, parts of an elaborate headdress, and other ar tifacts."
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IN PREVIOUS seasons, th e archaeologists dug up two amazi ng idols, male and fem ale, carved from white marble and wit h pain t still on th e lips, ears, hair and chest . These sitting figures are two and a half feet high and weighing 175 pounds each.
M an y copper axes have been recovered, a monolithic axe and handle carved from stone, hundreds of pearls from necklaces, breastplat es, headdresses and ear rings of coppe r, hair ornamen ts, wa ter jugs, food jars, she ll gorge ts, and th ousands of other obj ects.
In addition to the museum being provided for th e public at the mounds, a house site has been excavated for an in-place exhibit. Here can be seen the wall post pattern of the hous e, its fireplaces and a number of p ottery vessels just as they were found.
Both Mound A and M ound B have been cleared of underbrush and steps have been construc ted to make ascent easy.
SYLVESTER GETS TEXTILE PLANT; 200 JOBS SEEN
A new industry, Sylvester Textile Corp. , which will manufacture ladies' undergarment s, is scheduled to go into pr odu cti on in Sylvester next spring.
W. A. Banks, ch airma n of th e industr ial committ ee of th e Sylvester-Worth County Chamber of Commer ce, said th e plant will employ 200 workers.
A masonry pl ant building, containing 50,000 square feet of work space, will be erec ted and is scheduled for occupancy by May, 1957.

NEWSLETTER

Novemb er, 1956

GEORGIA FORGES AHEAD OF U.S.

IN MANY PHASES OF ECONOMY

Georgia h as for ged ah ead of the U.S. as a whole in development of

its business economy in th e pa st 10 years, reports th e Atl anta field

office of the U. S. D ep artm ent of Commerce.

An analysis by the federal agency, based on sur veys of 1946-47-48 and 1955, shows the r ate s of increase in the state surpass the nation in many majo r lines of activity.
Georgia and th e na tion 's gains in th ese fields are brou gh t int o sharp contrast by the accompanying tabulation.
In several other imp ortan t phases, the progress in Georgia was just short of th at of th e nati on . In ba nk deposits, the national rate of increase was 41.4 per cent an d Georgia's 37 per cent , value adde d by ma nufacture of goods pro duc ed, 57.1 and 56.9, and mineral production value, 86.6 and 70.7.
In popula tion grow th , the nationa l gai n was 17.3 per cent against 11.7 per cent for Georgia.
HERE WERE th e Georgia ga ins in individu al lines:
Population, 3,242,000 to 3,621,000. Gross person al income, $2.9 billion to $4.9 billion.

$1,333. Bank deposits, $1.7 billion to $2.3
billion . Cash farm income, $4 16.4 million to
$595. 1 million . Industrial and commercial firm s,
34, 160 to 46,21 3. Manufacturing employment, 249,958
to 304,742. Manufacturing payrolls, $484.2 mil-
lion to $859.2 m illion. Valu e added by ma nufac ture of
goods pr odu ced, $ 1 billion to $ 1.6 billion.
Value 0 f contrac t constr uction, $195.7 million to $480.4 million .
Construct ion employmen t, 36,000 to 51,900 .
W holesale sales, $3.1 billion to $4.5 billion.
R et ail sales, $2.1 billion to $3 billion. Service tr ade receipts, $ 131 million to $318 million . R etail trade employment, 124,324 to 131,326. Retail payrolls, $206.7 million to

Per capita personal income, $884 to $288.3 million .

Georgia Surpasses The Nation

In Post-War Decade Growth

How Georgia outstripped the nation as a whole in many lines of economic

development during the post -war decade: Activity

Georgia % Gain u.s. % Gain

Gross personal income

68.9

60.5

Per capita personal income

50.8

40.3

Cash farm income

57.5

15.6

Number of industrial and comm ercial firms

35.3

22.9

Manufacturing payrolls

77.4

66.4

Manufacturing employment

21.9

12.9

Value of construction contracts

145.5

117.6

Wholesale sales

42.8

29.6

Retail sales

40.4

30.

Retail trade employment

5.6

2.9

Retail payrolls

39.5

34.

Life insurance in forc e

136.8

86.9

Motor vehicles registered

90.9

68.

Electric energy produced

161.9

131.8

Airline passenger trans por tation (in region )

267.

215.8

Rail passenger and freight revenue (in region )

18.4

15.9

T elephones Number of beef ca ttl e

109.4 145.

102.1 50.6

Value commercial broil ers

522.3

210.6

Commercial chick production

442.5

46.5

Mo tor vehicles reg istered, 649,000 to 1,239,000.
Life In sur an ce in force, $3 billion to $7 billion.
Electric energ y pro duced, 3.5 billion kilowatt hours to 9.1 billion kwh.
Tel ephones in operation, 344,452 to 721,136.
Value of minerals p rod uced, $30.1 million to $51.4 million.
Airline transportation, 302,171 to 1,109,246 passengers, and 2.267 to 6,96 7.6 tons of cargo.
Beef ca tt le on far ms, 427,000 to 1,046,000.
Valu e of br oiler pro duction, $20.2 million to $125.7 million .
Nu mber of chickens hatched commercially, 36.9 million to 200 million .
With the sharp expansion of business operations taking place since World War II, th ere also has come substantial gain s in taxation, according to the report . Federal an d state taxes have gone from $500 million to $1 billion, and per capita collections fro m $153.82 to $260.58.
COLBERT SEEKS PLANTS Colbert , up an d coming Madison
Coun ty city , has organized the Colbert Industrial Corp., an d is seeking bids from new ind ustry. The city recently pa ved all of its streets and installed na tural gas.
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STAPLETON FIRM ADDS Additiona l contracts for the ma nu-
facture of boys' slack s, and shorts have enabled St apl eton Garm ent Co., Stapleton, to open th e third floor of its plant for full opera tion and add 50 new emp loyees. T he firm now has 300 on its payrol l.
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CRISP PLANT RITES
Gro undbreaking ceremon ies were held at th e site of th e new electric gas tur bine gener ating plant to be erected by th e Crisp Cou nt y Power Commi ssion a t L ake Blackshear.
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AIR PROCUREMENT MOVES H ead qu arters of th e Atlanta Air
Pro curement District have moved from th e old location at 44 1 West Peachtr ee N.W . to 41 Exc hange Place S.W. the newly-comp leted K emper Building Annex. Col. Loren A. Bryan , Sr., is in charge.

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- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS

Gov. M arvin G riffin dedi cated

$350 ,000 im p rovemen t of Utelwico Co. telephone service at T al bott on . . . T occoa v 0 t ed $ 140,000 bond s for schoo ls and rec reation . . . R obert T rain, M a con , was named presid ent of Bibb M fg. Co . . . . M o tt Body W orks, new Ameri cus p lant, turned out it s firs t refrigerated tru ck.

D ia l telephon e system is planned at C h ipley .. . J ohn H . D avis was elected president of Tifton 's F armer s Ba n k ... Benson Ba kery, At he ns, a cq uired F lowers Bak ery, Gainesv ille . . . D eKalb

County vo ters approved $ 11,000,000

schoo l bond issue ... Albe rt S. H a rd y, C ommer ce publisher, will bui ld a ra dio st ati on .

Cinderella Food s, Inc., D a wson , received a $1,250 ,000 gov ernment con tract for peanu t butter . . . Li berty County L ibrary, Hinesville, is bein g remod eled ... Pelham Golf and Country C lub p lan s a new bui lding.

G EO R G I A O N PA RA DE-Gcor gia D epartment of Conun er ce booth at th e great Sout heas te rn Fair , annu al ed uc ational a nd ente r tainme nt even t whi ch attract s hund red s of tho usa nds of visitor s to Atla n ta. Photo shows part of the big di spl ay of Ge org iam ad e m anufactured products that was feat ur ed under the state's att rac t ive ncw offici al flag.-Ed F rie n d photo

An $80 ,000 sweet po tato curing

. . Nalley Ch evrol et Co., Atlanta, is . . . J efferson's new pos t off ice is oper-

hou se has been built at Americus .. . bu ild ing on an l l -a cre site . . . South - a ting .. . Cordel e D ispatch is buildi ng

D ouglas' Pl antation R est aurant has a ern Bell's new bu siness off ice is op en a new pl ant . . . Cl a rence E . El sas,

new bui lding . . . Kwick Chek Stores in D ecatur.

Atlanta, has been elected president of

ope ned a supe rma rket a t Macon .. . Bu rk e Co unty will erec t a libra ry bui ldin g a t Waynesboro . . . Adairsv ille G a rmen t Co. , Ada irsv ille, a nd Pa co K nitting Mills, Chattanooga, T enn., m e r ge d.

R ad io St ation WSGA, Sav anna h, has a cquired new q uar ter s .. . L ibert y Natio na l Li fe Ins. Co. has p urchased a bu ildi ng site at V aldosta .. . McIntyr e's new $105,000 wa ter syst em is in ope ration . . . L aGrange Co llege,

F ulton Bag & Cotton M ills.
BABCOCK &WILCOX CO. ADDS SPACE, WORKERS

F arm ers Bank of M onroe is rem odeling .. . P elham Savings & Loan Assn. is in a new building . . . Sh ack leford

L aGra nge , has adde d a m en' s dormi-

tor y

N ew Bank of F or est Par k is

ope n

R ichland pl ans additional

Brunswick' s Babcock & W ilcox C o., ma nufacturer of hea vy boiler s, is adding both to its p lant and payroll.

Sh op ping Center, East Albany, erec ted street and sidewalk paving.

A 30 x 80-foot stee l structure is being

a new seven-unit bu ilding . .. Binns H otel, Albany will be rep la ced by five bri ck stores.

H arris Hotel, M eRae la nd ma r k, has been raz ed to mak e way fo r a business buildin g . . . Georgia J aycees are

er ected to p rovide mor e work space, an office and locker rooms, and R a lph C arl, supe rin te ndent, rep orts th e plant

L ife I nsurance Co. of Gcor gi a pl an s an off ice building in Marietta . . .

building a sta te hea dq ua rt er s in P erry . . . Cl ar kesville h as ad ded a to urist

has a dded 100 em p loyees and insti tuted a nig ht shift for the first time

J enkins C ounty M emorial Li brary is in form a tion booth on th e town square sin ce 1954.

sla ted a t M illen . .. Pl anters & C iti-

zens Ban k, Camilla, is in a new bui ld -

ing . . . R EA fu nd s tot aling $425,000 have been a pproved for Cobb Cou nt y . . . Scapa D ryer s, Inc., manufa ct uring felt d riers for the p a per industry, form -

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF" COMMERCE
1 DO .TATE CAPITOL ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA

BULK RATE
u.s. POSTAGE Paid

ally opened it s Waycross pl ant . . . Pin ela nd Telephon e Coop er a tive, Millen , wi ll expand .
Ch arles J. Thurmond, G ainesvillt;:r.i v e r s i t y of Ga. Libraries

Atlanta, Ga. Permit No~ 151

new p resident of Associated I nd ustries
of Georgia . . . Sloan Pap er Co., 1: uisit ions

Di Vl.5~. On

lanta, is in its mod ern new p lant . . . Athens, Ga.

WJ BF -TV , Augusta, pl ans a new plant

to cost ' $300 ,000 ... Kay J ewelry h as

op en ed a sto re in M ariett a . .. Clay ton

County vot ed $1,326,000 schoo l and

sewage bonds.

A $30,000,000 ex pansion pl an has begun .a t Atlanta M unicipal Air port

DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEU[E
NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER
1956

NEWSLETTER

December, 1956

NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Press As sociatio n

Published mon thly by
GEORGI A DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol
* MA RVIN GR IFFIN
G over n or
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
EMORY L. BUlLER C h a i rman
T . C. BRANS ON, .JR. HOKE PETERS BEN J ESSUP
T RAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Sec r e t a r y
NELS ON M. SHIPP
Assistant Secretary
FR ED D. MO ON Edit or

Vol. 8, No.2

December, 1956

COBB TOY PLANT TELLS SANTA BYE,
STARTS ON BUNNY
It's Decemb er and th e C hristmas sea son a lmost ever ywhe re, but in a Cobb Cou nty toy facto ry t hey' re getting read y for th e Easter bunny.
R ed S t a I' Novelt y Co., Acworth, whi ch mak es 20 diff erent kinds of toys fr om Georgia textiles and sh ips th em all over the world, h as long since don e its part for Christmas a nd is now busy on it s E aster line. But befor e Eas.ter gets her e, P. C . Brockman, p resident, says th e pl an t will be p rep a rin g for th e F all of 1957.
The firm occupies fou r bui ldin gs, employs 50 per sons and has a weekly p ayroll of $8,000 . M r. Broc kma n sa ys th e dema nd for th e pl an t' s stuffed do lls, la mbs, clowns, rabbi ts and other items has doubled in the p ast yea r.

COVER PHOTO
Okie, half-grown black bear, had to wear collar and chain for his movie debut, but even so, he looks happier than his companions as th ey sta r t into th e Okefenokee Swamp to shoot scenes for the Georgia Department of Commerc e's newest tourist promotion film. Three color movie s depicting the natural and historic attractions of th e state will soon be unreelin g on tele vision and before promotion groups all over th e nation.
(Story and other photos on Page 3) .

TRUCKERS DELIVER DOLLARS-B. C. Simp son, pr esident of th e Georgia Motor Trucking Assn. and Gov. Marvin Griffin sha ke hands over a check for $5,000, GMTA's contribution to the 50-50 plan to advertise Georgia . Approving are E. S. Burk e (left), GMTA executive vice-president , and Commerce Secretary Scott Candler (right).

GEORGIA TRUCKERS JOIN STATE

IN 50 50 ADVERTISING PLAN

Georgia's comm erc ial truck ope ra tor s h ave made a spec ial $5,000 investment in th eir sta te's future.
In informal cere monies a t th e Ca pitol, th e Georgia M ot or Truckin g Assn. presen ted a chec k to Gov. M ar vin G riffin and Scot t C andler , secretary of th e Georgia D ep artment of Commerce, as the industry' s share in th e 50-50 plan.
Secr et ar y Candler develop ed th e plan , in whi ch va rio us indust ries and private agen cies join forces, to a ttract new industrv and tourist traffic to Georgia through nationa l adv er tising .
B. C. Simp son , of Atl anta, GMTA pr esident, a nd E. S. Burk e, execu tive vice-president, made th e presentation to th e sta te officials.
Pr esentation of th e check, Governor Griffin comme n ted, "not only p roves th e sin cer ity of th e Georgia trucking industry in wa nting to do its share toward promotin g th e welfare of all our citizen s; it also dem on str ates again th at th e state's trucker s a I' e th em selves a mong our best citizens."
With twin signatur e ads scheduled in nati on al publications, th e 50-50 plan calls for $50,000 fr om bu siness and industr y an d a n equ al amoun t fro m th e sta te .

Georg ia's electric power compa nies, railroad s and banks arc amon g th e other bu siness and industri al groups pa rti cip ating in th e p la n.
WAYCROSS WINS PLANT TO BUILD MOBILE HOMES
H enslee M obile H omes Mfg. Co., of Arlingt on, T ex ., h as leased a 37,000 square-foo t building at W aycross Air Base and is expected to be in p roduction J an . 1.
C. C. H en slee, president, said th e Ca sa M an ana Corp., a division of H en slee, will operate the Waycross pl ant, wh ich will be the t hir d fa ctor y for th e T exas firm.
The plant will em p loy a round 100 men during th e first ph ase of its op eration s, he said.
The in stall ation will m anufacture three tr ad e-n ame house tr ail ers, C asa N ovit a, C asa M an an a a nd th e H en sel!. T hey will be made in seven d ifferent sizes wit h 15 floor pla ns, and will ra nge in len gth fro m 19 to 53 feet .

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NEWSLETTER

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3 ;_.FILMS TO PARADE

GEORGIA TO TOURIST

T hree motion pictures that will show a nd te ll th e na ti on that Georgia is the grandest, most varied tourist and vacation state of all, will soon be on televisio n and private screens throughout the nation.
The Georgia Department of Commerce is now putting fini shing touches on two films that are tr eas ur e troves of tourist appeal. One depicts the Cherokee I ndian land of the Blue Ridge of North Georgia, the other shows t he multiple scen ic, historic and recreational attractions of the broad South Georgia area. The thi rd pi cture, in whi ch th e Department of Commer ce joined with th e Georg ia Chamber of Commer ce, Geor gia Power Co ., At lanta and Sav annah Cham bers, Little White House, Ro ck City Gardens and Ida C ason Callaway Garde ns, is a gorgeous cover-all of a ttractions throughout th e sta te.
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T HE CO-OPERATIVE travelogu e' is fini shed and will be read y for di stribution in J anuar y. The two Department of Commerce film s ar e bein g edited a nd will be relea sed ea rly in the Sp rin g.
All three of the pictu res are in natural color and sound. T he cooperative film is a 27-minute travelogue, whi le the running time of the others is 14 minutes. All will be available for television broadcasting and for screening without charge, by chambers of commerce, civic clubs , travel organizations, schoo ls and simi lar groups. The co-operative picture was produ ced by Green-Loomi s Productions, In c., H ollywood . Titled " O ur Thir-

teenth Colon y," it will be included in

a 26-week nationwide television series

to be known as " Holiday, U .S.A." 'Fra nk Will a rd P roducti on s, of At-

lanta, is producin g the South Georgia

picture for th e Commerce D ep a rt ment

and th e North Geor gia pr oduction is being m ade by In tern a tion al Sou nd Fil ms, In c., also of Atl an ta . F inal titl es

for th e two pict ures hav e not been

selected .

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SCOTT CANDLER, Geor gia sec-

retary of comme rce, explains th at both of th e department's films star t a t th e

Cycloram a in Atl anta and fa n ou t

from that fam ou s Wa r Between th e St ates painting to embrace tri an gu lar section s north and sou th of th e capita l

city whi ch ar c p articu larl y rich in Indian lore, mi lit ar y histor y a nd scenic beauty.

T he North Georgia tour covers the Blue R idge highlands fr om th e

Chief Vann Ho use at Spring Place in the northwest to J arrett Manor in the no rtheast, near Toccoa. It features gorgeous mountain panoramas

with forests, streams, lakes and parks, the gold area around Dahlonega,

Etowah Mounds at Cartersville, New

Echota, the ancient Cherokee capital near Calhoun, and the flaming

route of the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

The South Georgia tour fans out

(Continued on Page 6 )

SOUTH GE O RGIA tourist movie in the maki ng - Shrimp boats at Darien, St. Simo ns beac h, ott ers at Okef enokee Park, Fort Fre derica, Juliette Low house at Savannah, R adi um Springs, Callaway Gardens, Battl e of Atlanta Cyclorama.

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December, 1956

JM"'s GIANT SAVANNAH UNIT REPLACES FAMED PLANTATION
In a setting that once was one of coastal Georgia's most famous plantations, J oh ns-M anville has begun manufacturing operations in its new and handsome asphalt shi ngle and roll roofing plant.
The mu lti - million dollar plan t, one mi le north of Savannah, is located on a 58-acre tract that was formerly part of the historic Hermitage Plantation and puts in to constructive use property tha t has been out of cotton production for nea rly half a century.
Formally dedi cated on Nov . 20, the Savannah inst a llation is th e 26t h .T- M plant or min e locat ion in th e United St at es and Canada. It was describ ed by company officials as th e most modern in th e industry. They said it represents ano the r mil estone in th e postwar gro wth of th e firm th at has alread y spent mo re th an $ 180,000,000 on expa nsion and mod ernizati on .

THE NEW PLANT, wh ich will serve th e sou thea stern U n ited States, is so designed th at p roducti on can be tripl ed when fur th er expansion becomes ju stified .
T he three mai n buildings now p rovide more than 100,000 square feet of floor space.
Production started wit h 100 em ployees and an an nua l payroll of $500,000. Scott Ca ndler, Georgia secretary of commerc e, welcomed th e new plant on beha lf of Gov. Marvin Griffin an d presented it with a State of Georgia fla g .
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M R. CANDLER called attention to th e fact that in the last seven years, Geor gia has stood fourth in th e entire nation in th e gro wth of new major
BURNED PLANT, REBUILDS
W ear-Well, Inc., Alma's thriving new gar men t industry, will rebuild as qu ickly as possible the plant which was destroyed by fir e last month. Nylon netting used in the manufacture of wom en's lingerie was blamed for th e night blaz e which swept through th e 150-foot qu an set-type building. Hi gh wind fanned th e flames, and firemen were hampered when falling power lines short-circuited th e city's waterworks.

JOHNS-M ANV ILLE PLANT-Aerial view of the hu ge new installatio n on e mile nor th of Savanna h, where wor ld-fa mous asphalt and asbestos-ceme nt pro ducts are ma nufactured.

ind ustries , exceeded only by California, Texas and O hio.
"T his gr eat Jo hns -Manville plant is an indication that Georgia will ma intain this lead in 1956 and may even forg e ahead of some of th e other states," he said.
A. R. Fisher , president of J ohnsManville Corp., told Georg ia officials and industrialists that "it is in spiring to see how fa st th e Southeast is growing. We are happy to be a part of this kind of growth."
"Estab lishment of our newest plant at Savannah is our first manufacturing move into the Southeast," it was exp lained by Harold R. Berlin, J-M vice-preside nt and general manager of the company's bu ildi ng p roducts division. "Our decision to bu ild here is a natu ral develo pment in view of the tremendous expa nsion in this pa rt of th e country since World W ar II, and th e growing deman d for

Johns-Manville products III this are a."
L. C. M cC lurkin, chairman of th e board of th e Savannah Di strict Au thority , pointed out that J ohns-M anville will "mean a substan tial addition to th e local pa yroll at Savannah, and the strengthening of our diver sified industrial struc ture ."
CLAXTON OPENS FIRST INDUSTRY
Claxton's first manufacturing industr y, Claxton Garment Co. , has begun op eration with a pilot force of 30 wom en.
The plant, manufacturing highquality sports shirts for the op en market , is a project of the Claxton-Evans County Chamber of Commerce.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

Decemb er, 1956

DIXIE'S GROWTH 'INSPIRING~'

SAY S J-M PRESIDENT FISHER

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HEART OF ATLANTA-Partial view of the $ 1,500 ,000 luxu ry motel that was recently completed in downtown Atlanta. The motel ha s 120-units and a Gla ss House restaurant.

120-UNIT LUXURY MOTEL OPEN IN CAPITAL CITY

One of th e most luxuriou s motels betw een either N ew York or Chicago and Miami is now op en in downtown Atlan ta .
The H eart of Atlanta Motel, a $1,500,000 facilit y of 120 units, is com pl et ed.
The motel , facing on Courtland Stree t, N.E., covers an entire city block between H arris and Baker Sts ., formerly occupied by th e old Atlantic Brewery. It is two blocks eas t of Pea chtree St . and will be only two blo cks from exit and entrance ramps of the dow ntow n expressway when th at project is complete d.
No exp ense was spared to m ake th e Heart of Atlanta one of th e finest motels in th e south. I t is completely air conditioned th rou gh out an d has the on ly out door swimming po ol in downtown Atla n ta .
The mot el's $350,000 Glass H ou se restau rant can serve 153 people in th e ma in dini ng roo m and 192 persons in the con vention room.
The H eart of Atlanta offers three

diff er ent typ es of bedrooms, private bath, dressing room , telephone and rad io. One variety of bedroom features one doubl e bed , another two double beds, and th e third variety has two single beds making a living room by d ay and bedroom by night.
Each guest may control his own airconditioning and heating by individual th ermostat.
SCRIPTO ENLARGES
Scripto, Inc., Atlanta writing instrument m anufacturer, has completed a 43,000 squa re-foot addition to its main plant on H ouston St. , N .E. The new two -sto ry unit includes space for resea rch and development departments plu s additiona l manufacturing facilit ies.
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COLUMBUS M ILL ADDS
Swift Mfg. Co., Columbus textil e mill, will build a two- story addition conta ining 36,000 squa re feet to provide space for more eq uipmen t.

J oh ns-M anville Corp. is "inspired to

sec how fa st th e Southeast is gr owin g.

and it wants to be a part of th e con-

tinuing growth an d develop men t."

With those words, A. R. Fisher,

pr esident of the int ernationally known

manufa ct ur ing company, for m a II y

opened J -1'..,1's new aspha lt shingle and

roll roo fing plan t at Sav an nah.

" You arc blessed with rich natural

resources, a very fa vorable climate,

an a bun dan t

supply of excel-

lent labor and

the greatest sur-

plus of f r e s h

water in th e en-

tir e country ex-

cept for the

Northwest," Mr.

Fisher declared.

stn".pYpom.u gatrheeonuat --

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A . R".'"F'ISher

tional average in population growth.

You r wealth and earning pow er are

increasing faster. Your livin g stan-

dards are rising faster. W e are

happy to be a part of this kind of

growth. 'Ve want to be a part of th e

continuing growth and development

of Sa vannah and the Southeast. "

Speaking of th e firm whi ch he head s.

Mr. Fi sher said th at .T-M is an old

compa ny . "I n 1958 we will celebrate

our 100th birthday. We are a diversi-

fied company. W e m ake and sell mor e

than 400 lin es of p roducts whi ch find

use in practi cally every field of human

endeavor. We have about 21,000 em-

plo yees and nearly 19,000 stoc kho lders .

"You, of course, are primarily in ter-

ested in our Savan nah operations . It is

com mon knowledge th at th ere are cer-

tain imper son al, econom ic fac tors th at

a company mu st consider before de-

ciding on th e erection of a plant in an y

locali ty. T hese incl ude such items as

reliabl e sources of raw materials and

electric power, availabi lity of p rospec-

tive emp loyees, transportation an d

p roximity to m arkets. All of th ese are

imp ort ant. But more important is the

comm u nity. In th e final analysis the

peopl e who make up th e commun ity

are th e decidi ng fac tor."

MACON PLANT ADDS
Macon 's Atl antic Co. is constructing a $90,000 addition to its plant on Waterville Rd.

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NEWSLETTER

GIANT FOUNT OF REFRESHMENT-Architect's conception of the new Royal Crown Cola-Nehi bottling plant being construc ted at Columbus at a cost of $500,000.

Nehi's New Columbus Plant To Be Model for Drink Industry

T he new plant of Royal Crown Co la-Nchi, under const ruction at Co lumbus, will be a model for the soft drink industry .
T he installa tion, to cost $500 ,000 is being erec ted by Murphy Pound Co nstruc tion Co ., Co lumb us. The firs t unit. for production and di stribution, is sch ed uled to be ready by April, 1957.
T he Columbus pla n t is th e only bottling plan t owned by Nehi. T he fir m' s more than 450 ot her bot tlers th rou ghout th e na tion a rc on fran chi se basis.
W . H. Glenn, Ne hi presiden t, said the n ew pl ant's m ain bu ilding, a strea m lined structure 0 n e story in height, will contain 40,000 squa re feet. An add itiona l 20,000 feet will be provided for truck storage, rep air a nd painting. Built of bri ck and tile, th e pl ant will h ave 120 feet of plate glass across th e front to provid e d ayligh t lighting for bottling sec tion and offices.
T he plan t is design ed to be th e " last word in au tomation," a company official said . The electronic-con trolled producti on line will be th e fastest known in th e soft drink indust ry- 440 bottles per minute.
T he com pany, which started in Columbu s in 1905, now h as 110 emp loyees on th e bottling un it' s pa yroll. M r. Glenn said the new pl ant would mea n
WORK STARTS ON PLANT
Con struction is under way at Alb an y on a 2,000 foot-long pl ant for th e Grave ly T ractor Co . assembly pl ant whic h is scheduled to be in p roduct ion ea rly n ext spring. The plant willhave an emp loyme nt potential of 200 workers.

a n increase in em ployme nt.
The new p la nt is being built on Victor y D rive, next to th e Na tional Gu a rd Armo ry . The present p lan t will be remodele d to provide increased offic e space for th e firm.
GEORGIA POWER HIGH ECHELON CHANGES TOLD
Harllee Bran ch , Jr., former president of th e Geor gia Power Co., h as been elected president of th e Southern Co., p ar ent of th e Georgia utilities firm.
J ohn .J. M cD onou gh, for mer exec u-
tiv e vice-preside nt of Georgi a Power , ha s been named to succeed Mr. Bran ch as president. Mr. Branch wa s elected a vice-president a nd will con tinue as a dir ector.
.J. M . Oli ver , former vice-p reside nt
and general manager , was elected executive v i c e- pr es i d e n t and general m a n a ger.
u. S. COMMERCE DEPT.
MOVES ATLANTA BASE
The Atl anta field office of th e U. S. D epa rtment of Commer ce is in a new location, 604 Volunteer Bldg.
The Commerce D ep artmen t' s Atla nta headquarters is one of th e busi est Fed eral Agen cies in th e Southeast . In addition to Geor gia , it serves Alaba ma , easter n T ennessee and western Nor th Carolina.

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December, 1956
TOURIST MOVIES
(Con tinued from P age 3)
from Atla n ta to Savannah, Brunswick and the Golden Isles, cradles of British civilization on the Atlantic, and to Bainbridge, Albany and Columbus in the southwest ern part of th e sta te. Included a re Forts Frederica, Pulaski and Hawkins, Sea , J ekyll and St. Simons Islands with their semi - tropical beaches, moss-hung trees, sh rimp boats and wild life, th e Okefenokee Swamp, Radium Springs, Lake Blackshear, Ida Cason Callaway Gardens, Andersonville, Warm Springs and th e Little White House, Provid ence Canyon, Ocrnulgee National Monument, Macon, Milledgeville, Louisville and score s of other shrines, attractions and recreational areas.
Throu gh out th e shoo ting of the film . th e came ra crews received cvcrv coopera tion fro m th e lead er s and citizens of cvcrv communitv visited . In Savannah ,' when th e Geo rgia producers arrived, th ey found a H ollywood p ro ducer on the scene hiring extras for a professional mov ie. Bu t th e Georgians got more extras-and for freeby inviting students of Armstrong M emoria l Junior College to play the role of to uri sts at Fort P ulaski. Savannah Girl Scou ts en livened scenes at th e Juliet Low H ome wh ere th e founder of their organization was born and reared.
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IN GLYNN COUNTY, residents put on wh at th ey ca lled " O pe ra tion Goosep impl e" to get a " s u mm e r crowd" on th e beach es on a chilly fa ll d a y.
R eal shrimp boat skippers and residents of the Go lden Isles participated in many scenes.
When the movie-makers reached the Okefenokee Swamp, bears, alli gators, ott ers, and egrets took stellar parts for the asking-plus refreshments.
At R adium Springs near Alba ny. teen-ag e swimmers perfor med graccfully and en thusiastically in th e glassclear water for th e sub marine cameras. At L a ke Blacksh ea r, nea r Cordele, local wa ter skiers wen t through th eir pa ces behind high-p owered boats full of Crisp Co un ty bathing beauties.
CLAXTON MOTEL ADDS
Pen L eah M ot el, in th e hea rt of Claxton, is construc ting six new units, bringin g its tot al number of un its to 14. Mrs. Peni e H od ges is owner.

NEWSLET'l'ER

Decemb er, 1956

NBC 'SALUIE 10 GEORGIA'

IELLS WONDERS OF 51A IE

"Georgia is where yesterday and tomorrow fu se to make a del ightfully different today ; a sta te rich in the traditions of th e past and richer still in the promises of th e future," Alex Dreier, rioted radio commentator, told a nationwide audienc e of Monitor, NBC network program, in his broadcast Nov. 11.
Mr. Dreier 's coa st-to -coast salute to G eorg ia wa s th e second program of his " Man on th e G o- for the Van on th e G o" series, sponsor ed by North Am erican Van Lines, Inc., worldwide mo ving organization.
Gov . M arvin Griffin launch ed th e broadca st wi th a brief recor ded message.
" G reetings to radi o listener s every where fro m Georgia, th e Peach St ate," th e Govern or sai d . " We a ppreciate th e honor of bein g one of th e ver y first fea tu red states on Alex D reier 's new N BC -M onitor pr ogr am . W e cordially in vit e you to enjoy a Georgia vacation a ny mo nth of th e yea r. As we say down here, 'Y'a ll come-to Georgia !'"
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RADIO STATIONS in Atla n ta, Aug usta , Co lum bus a nd Savan n ah ca rried th e salut e to G eorgia, along with the other nearly 200 N BC n etwork ou tlet s over th e nation.
A vivid pi ct ur e of Georgia's gracious old cities, m ajestic man sions, an mu seums, lovely trees and scen ic beauty, con tras ted with th e billion dolla r p ro duction from th e sta te's bu sy factories, was given by the not ed broadca ster.
" Ge orgia reverently protects and retains the old , yet swiftly and eagerly acc epts th e new," he sa id. " T he Peach State knows how to work and it knows how to pl ay. It is proud of the industrial revolution that is taking place within its borders, and eager to accept th e role of pace-setter in th e fast-approaching industrialization of the Old South."
M any worthwhil e movem ents or iginat ed in Georgia, Mr. Dreier pointed out- th e Girl Sco ut organization, sta te own ers hip of universities, th e gra nting of college degr ees to women . H e reca lled th at th e fir st orp ha ns home was esta b lishe d in Georgia, and th e first Prot est ant Sunday School. H e men tioned th at two Presiden ts have t a ken Georgia to th eir hea rt s: R oosevelt for

SALUTE TO GEORGIA-Alex Dreier (left) and J ames D. Edgett, pr esident, North American Van Lines, at th e NBC mi crophone on Monitor's nationwide tribute.

th er ap y a t W ar m Springs, Eisenhower for reerea tio n at Au gu sta .
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HE PAID TRIBUTE to Georg ia' s fam ou s au thors, J oel Chandler H arris, M a rga ret Mitch ell, Erskin e C aldwell.
Hi s main theme, however, wa s the beauty and variety of G eorgia's myriad tourist attractions. He spoke of flaming a z a I e a s , rhododendrons, magnolias and live oaks, the wild cha rm of th e Okefenokee, Augusta's famous G reen Street, Savannah's his to ric past, Atlanta's modern glitter , th e many beaches, la kes, parks and

playgrounds. He pointed out the uniqueness of Bonaventure Cemetery, Stone Mountain, the Plantation belt and th e Golden Isles.
"T his is th e land of wa termelons and pea nu ts an d pecan s a nd tobacco," he said, "a nd shiny n ew warplanes an d automobiles and huge ea r th -moving eq u ipmen t and tin y watch es. This is th e lan d of th e nation's first gold ru sh , th e tung nut tr ee, m agn olias, monuments and m anufacturin g. A sta te rich in traditions of th e p ast, but richer still in th e p romise of th e futu re. T his, th en , is Georg ia, prot ect or of th e old, cha m pion of th e new ."

CLUETT, PEABODY BUCHANAN PLANT ADDS AREA, JOBS
One hundred n ew em ploye es will be adde d to th e force of th e Buch an an plant of Clu ett, P eab od y & Co.
An addition , 50 feet wide a nd ru nnin g th e en tire length of th e pl ant, is bein g const ructed .
The p la nt, ma n ufa cturing nation all y ad ver tised shir ts, a t p resent has a p ayroll of 600 .

GLYNN FIRM BUYS SITE
Georgia D eer T on gu e M a rk et , a G lynn County industry, h as pur ch ased a site for a n ew, lar ger bu ild ing on Bay Street , Brunswick . Deer tongu e is a native weed wh ose extrac t has va riou s uses, including b ases for perfume.
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ZONOLITE EXPANDING
Zon olite Co ., of Ch icago, has announ ced pl an s to en la rge its Atl anta plan t, locat ed on Zon olit e R oad ., N .E ., and expa nd facilit ies for th e ma nuf actu re of perlite, a plaster a nd conc re te aggrega te . T he firm is a pion eer in th e ma nufa cture of insul ating p rodu cts.

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Decemb er , 1956

- - HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS

F ord Motor Co . has leas ed a 550-

ac re farm nea r V ienna for p ersonnel

training . . . Kirk Bros . is a new super

m arket at Marietta . .. Baldwin Co un-

ty vot er s approved a $500,000 school

bond issue . . . N ew Eggleston Me-

morial Hospital for Children, to be

erected at Emory University, will cost

$2,000,000.

H ou ston County is erecting a county

office bui lding a t Warner R obins . ..

Sav annah's First F ed eral Savings &

Loan Assn. ha s open ed a branch in

Garden C ity

G uyton is digging a

new city well

Helena's new fir e

station was dedi cated . . . New-Ideal

Sprayer Co., Nas hville, is manufactur-

ing a plant p uller machine for South

Georgi a pl ant shipp ers . . . T ifton

Chamber of Commer ce has a new home

. . Washington pl ans a $435,000 dis-

posal p lant . .. Buchanan Construc-

tion Co . is a new Bu ch anan firm . . .

Hart Co unty now has dial telephones.

Natural gas is flowing to Comer, Co l-

bert an d Danielsville . . . Villa Ri ca is

exp an ding its water and sewage sys-

tems . . . Commerce's Hotel Andrew

J ack son has been purchased by Vaughn

Cannon, of Miami and Ash eville.

Muscogee County Court House,

Columbus, is getting a two-story addi-

tion . . . Eastern Air L ines has hand-

some n ew offi ces at 522 We st Peach-

tre e St. , Atlanta . . . Scripto, Inc.,

Atlanta, h as acquired Scro ll Pens , Ltd.,

of London, Eng. . . . Gainesville's new

$645,000 dispo sal plant is op erating.

D airyland D airies, In c., Cairo, is en -

la rging ... Sears, Roebu ck & Co. has

a n ew and larger building in T homas-

ton . .. East Dubiln has a new water

system . . . A new shopping center,

Southgate Plaza, is scheduled at Au -

gusta . . . Claude Wi lliams, J r ., is new

president of Gainesville-Hall Co unty

Chamber of Commer ce.

Georgia Pow er Co . purchased a 44-

acre tract in C layton Co unty, near

Forest Park, for future developm ent

. . S & M Scrap M etal Co ., Tifton ,

has installed a hu ge new press . . .

Macon Citizens & Southern National

Bank h as open ed a branch in Ingleside

. . A new dormitory has been ad ded

at Tift Co llege, Forsyth . . . Southern

Bell Telephone Co. has er ected a bui ld-

ing at Calhoun.

Griffin observ ed annual " M ade in

Spalding Co unty Week" . . . T exas

Co.'s n ew bu lk st ati on at Sparta is open

.. T r enton h as a new sup er market,

th e Shop-Rite . . . R. A. Hollingsworth

& Son s, Carrollton, was awarded con -

tract to build a $315 ,000 classroom-

auditorium at Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring . . . State Mutual Insurance Co ., R om e, dedicated its new bui lding.
Marietta purchased a lO-acre site for a new $12 5,000 National Guard Armor y . . . Sandersville's kaolin festival was a big success. . . A & P h as a n ew sup er market in Griffin . . . Georgia Poultry Di sease L aboratory No . 3 is open at Ce dartown . . . Mercer University, Macon, announces a $822,000

bui lding program . . . Waynesboro Community Betterment Council, Inc., ha s built th e dam for a 36-acre recr eation lake .. . "Yare County's new cour t hous e a t Waycross will cost $892,000 .
G . T. Fo lds is building a combin ation bus station and restaurant in Gray . . . Atlanta Gas Li ght Co., remodeled its Rome office . .. Georgia Junior Chamber of Commer e will dedicate its new state headquarters in P erry in J anuary.

Georgia Motel Trade Mirrors Tourist Boom
Georgia' s yea r-by-year in crea se in tourist tr ad e has brought an accompanying rise of 56 p er cen t in number of motels and to ur ist cou rts.
It also resulted in a gain of 278 per cent in receipts in such accommod ations .
In th e la test study of business in th e state, jus t relea sed, th e U. S. Bu reau of th e Census found that th e number of motels and tourist courts in Geor gia rose from 3 19 in 1947 to 500 in 1954 and receipts went from $3,078 ,000 to $11,663,000 .
During the sam e seven -year p eriod, the state's number of hotels in op eration dropped from 346 to 265, bu t sales ad van ced from $25,109 ,000 to $28,712 ,000 .
The $11,663,000 in sales shown for th e state's motels and tou rist cou rts wa s th e nation's ninth largest, being exceeded only in Arizona, California, Colorado, F lorida, N ew York, T exas and Virginia.

Atlanta Gas Company
Marks IOOth Year
At lanta Ga s Co . celebrated its centennial fiscal yea r whi ch ende d Sept. 30 by p assing th e 300,000 custome r m ark and topping on e bi llion therrns in gas sales.
In th e fift v communities th e finn serves, cus to~ers wer e up 7 per cent over 1955 to 305,280 and gas sales were up 5.7 per cen t to 1,041,227 ,295 terms.
The comp any's gross revenue for th e year was $43,601 ,559 and it's 1,630 employees drew wage s a nd salar ies totaling $5, 920,375.
GEORGIA SEA CATCH 9.5 MILLION POUNDS
Coastal Georgia's total seafood production, incl uding fish, in the firs t eight months of 1956, was 9,500,000 pounds.
Shrimp production for th e period was 3,226,490 pounds, and crab, 5,672,170 pounds, ac cording to U. S. Fish and Wi ldlife marketing statist ics.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF" COMMERCE
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NEWSLETTER

J anuar y, 195 7

NEWSLETTER

Member Georgia Press Association

Published monthly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol
* MARVTN 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 Edilor

Vol. 8, No.3

January, 1957

TALLAPOOSA (iETS HALF-MILLION RUBBER PLANT
Pequanoc Rubber Co., Butler, N. j., one of the country's leading producers of reclaim rubber and special compounds for industry, is starting construction of a new plant in "T allap oosa. The facility, representing an intial investment nf.rrrore th an h alf a mill ion dollars .in buildings a nd m achinery, is .schedulcd to be in opera tion ab ou t
June 1. The m ain pl ant stru ctur e will
-contain 25,000 squa re feet of floor space.
Initial employme n t a t th e p la nt will be about 50 workers a t an estima ted a nnual p ayroll of $150,000.
Tallap oosa R ealty Corp. , a local group for med to p ro mot e industry for th e H aral son County city, sold sto ck to assist in const ruc ting th e pl ant, whi ch will be leased to th e m anufacturing concern.

COVER PHOTO
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. plant at Savannah, biggest pulp and paper mill and integrated kraft container plant in the world. A multimillion-dollar expansion program, starting immediately, will enlarge the va st installation and add hundreds to its payroll. (Story on Page 4.)

OLD AND NEWEST- A Wells-Fargo stag ecoac h is deliver ed by a C-130 H ercul es, as th e hu ge Propj et cargo car rier, built by Geor gians at Lockh eed 's M ari etta plant, arrives to join the Army Air For ce at Ardmore, Okla.

First Georgia-Built Hercules

Join Air Force in Oklahoma

Ge orgia aircraft builders have delivered the first propjet powered tra nspor ts to th e U n ited States Air Force.
When the initial group of Marietta-produced Lo ckheed C-130 Hercules went to Ardmore, Okla., they ca rried with them a Wells-Fargo stagecoach to symbolize the improvements made in 100 years of transportation from East to West. R ollin g out of the ca rgo compartment of th e lead H er cul es, th e sta gecoac h th en becam e th e m ean s of tran sporta tion for th e aircraft' s crew fr om th e landing a re a to th e reviewin g st ands wh er e Gen. O . P. W eyland, com mander of th e Tact ica l Air Comm and, received th e delivery.
A cro wd of mor e th an 10,000 persons, including high-ranking milit ary figu res and press representatives from all over Am eri ca, witnessed th e ar ri va l of th e Georgia p rop jets a t Ardmore on D ec. 9.
Official turn-over of th c pl an es was m ad e by Robert E. Gross, ch a irman of th e bo ard of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
The Geor gia Di vision of Lockh eed, a t M arietta, whi ch is producing th e C-1 30 ca rgo ca r riers, is Georgia's big-
PULP MARKET OPENS
A pulpwood yar d h as been established in M oultrie by Un ion BagCamp Pap er Co rp. , of Sav annah . Loca ted on a tw o-acre tr act behind th e Sta te F arm ers M arket on th e Georgia & Florida R ailroad , th e new m arket is pr epar ed to purch ase pulpwood in any qu antity.

gest emp loyer. In 1956, approxima tely 19,000 wo rkers, who represent ed 40 differ ent coun ties of th e sta te, wer e emp loyed on a p ayr oll th at excee de d $ 100,000,000.
Georgia's Lockh eed Division is also work ing on a nu clear power ed aircraft design whi ch eventu ally may be produ ced at th e M arietta plant.
WAYNE PLANT IN EXPANSION; 200 NEW JOBS
Waynesboro Garmen t Co ., Inc., Wayn esboro, h as an nounce d pl an s to construct a $ 150,000 addition to existing faciliti es.
A. K . Steinberg, p resident, said a 25,000 square-foo t building, to be located adjacent to th e p resent st ruchi res, will be begun as soon as ar chitec t's drawings a re complete d. The addition will be of b rick a nd steel construc tion, an d will be air-condition ed.
A paved pa rking a rea ca pable of h andling 150 ca rs will also be included in th e expansion .
Mr. Steinberg said th e n ew addition would permit th e employme nt of some 200 more workers a nd would brin g the pl ant's p ayroll to ap proximately $ 1,250,000 a yea r.
Ann oun cem ent of th e . expansion plan s wer e made at th e comp any's an nu al dinn er for employes a nd officials of Waynesboro a nd Wayne County.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

J anuary, 1957

'56 BROKE INDUSTRY RECORDS,

CANDLER REPORTS TO GRIFFIN

[F ollotci ng a re ex ce rp ts fro m th e annual repo rt of S ecr eta ry S cott C a nd le r t o Go v . M a ruin Griffin , in regard to af f ai rs in G eor gia in 1956 and th e act ivity of th e G eorgia D r/Jartm ent of C om m e rce durin g th e rea r. S cc ret arv Ca nd ler's repo rt w as d at ed D ec. 3 ( )

By SCOTT CAND LER
Secretary, Ge or gia D epartment of Commerce
Nineteen hundred fift y-six will go down in th e annals as the yea r of gre a test p ro gress and prosp erity III th e histo ry of our sta te.
Records have been shatter ed in almost eve ry field of our economy . This includ es industry and tourism, th e two areas in which this depart ment is most direct ly conce rned.
In th e sphere of industry, G eor gia thi s ve al' ad de d mor e th an 300 new man ~ fac t u re rs. Thi s increase, we belicvc, sus ta ins our sta te in the position she h as held for the previo us th ree veal'S as th e indust ri al lead er of th e Sou theast.
LARG E AND SM AL L , our new ind ustries this yea r rep resent total ca pita l in vestmen t of ap pro xima tely $ 165,000 ,000. T he ag gregate employment of th ese p lan ts is 11 ,000 worker s. T heir com bi ne d payrolls will exc eed $32,000 ,000 .
These are new industri es, n e w job s, new payroll s.
Thev a re located in 82 counties and 130 towns and citi es.
Counting both industrial and comm ercia l bu sin esses, G eorg ia has add ed som e 2,000 new firms in 1956.
For th e fir st tim e in histo ry , ac cord ing to th e Georgia D epartmen t of Labor, our total em ploy me nt in industry and trade combine d is 1,000,000 wage- earners.
T h e figures on ind ust ria l gro wth cite d above do no t in clude ex pansions of fa ciliti es th a t wer e in op er a tion previou s to the curr ent vcar. Statistics on th e a moun t of ca pita l inv estment expended during 1956 on enla rg ing, mod ern izing a nd re-eq uipping esta blishe d pla nts a rc not yet complet e. It is our confide n t bel ief th a t th is sum will ex-

AN O T H E R BOOST FOR GEORGIA-A. W . L edbetter (left) , bo ard ch a irm an of th e Ce n tra l of Ge org ia R ailwa y, hands G ov. M ar vin G riffin a $5,000 check, reprcsen ting th e Ce n t ral's sha re in Georg ia 's 50-50 promot ion plan. Com me rce Sec re ta ry Scott C hand ler look s on a t righ t. U nde r th e 50-50 pl an , leading Geo rgi a ind ustr ies ar c matc h ing fund s with th e state in a $ 100,000 na tion al adve rt ising cam pa ig n .

cccd considerably the $150,000 ,000 expended fo r th ese purposes in 1955.

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ONE PLANT A LO N E, to 0 u r knowled ge, is engaged a t present in a n expansion program. th at will accoun t for mor e th an one -half of th e vcar's estim at ed tot a l. O fficia ls of thi s ' comp an y tell us the ir enla rged fa ciliti es will mea n 600 addit ion a l jobs.
Obviou sly the g rea t exp a nsion of our existing fa ct ori es will spell ou t a cor res po ndi ng in cr ea se in em ployme nt.
Geo rgia's n ew m anufacturer s range from sm a ll com m unity -ty pe op era tions to multimi llion-dollar in sta lla tions. A sum m a ry of va luation com p iled by the Ge org ia Power Co ., on th e larger plants esta blishe d in th e a rea serve d by that utilit y, plac es 54 of th em in a range between $50, 000 and $75,000,000.
The ou tput of our new pla nts is wid elv d iversified . I t includes textiles a nd a ppa rel, food a nd me a t p rod ucts, feed , chem ica ls, paint, ele ct ron ics, tran sport ation eq u ipmen t, wood p rodu ct s a nd by-p roducts , glass, toys, fur niture, light and hea vy ma ch inery, and numerous ot her items. One hu ge insta lla tio n is being er ec ted tow ard de-

velopmcnt of nuclea r-powered a ircraft.
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A HEALTHY PORTION of our new ind us tries re presen ts local interests. bu t manv o the rs a rc firm s th at h av~: tr an sfer ;'ed bod ily to G eor gi a from other sections or out-of-st at e op era tions wh ich hav e esta blished bran ch p lan ts here. Am ong th ese arc som e of th e ro u nt rv's leadi ng ind ustri a l na m es.
The number of hea vy industries among ou r new com er s, we believe, will fu rther ad vance Georg ia in th e national industrial pi cture. In its most recent su rvey of manufacturers, rel eas ed last November , the U . S. Bureau of the C en sus announced that onl y three othe r sta tes, T exas, California and Ohio, had exceede d Ge org ia in ga ini ng major m anufactu r ers during th e post -wa r years. Our st anding in thi s ind ex likel y wiII be cha nged in th e next fed eral cen s us .
An ever- increasing ent h usiasm on th e part of out-of -stat e ind ustry for esta blishing in Ge or gia is reflected in th e incr easing volu me of mai l arriving a t th e D ep artment of Commer ce. At th e present time we arc receivi ng
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GEORG IA DEPARTMEN T OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

January, 1957

SAVANNAH'S UNION BAG REVEALS

MULTIMILLION PLANT EXPANSION

A new ha rdwood pulp mill and a paper machine that will be longer than a city block are included in a multimillion - dollar expansion and modernization program announced by Savannah's Union Bag -Camp Paper Corp.
Alexander Calder, chairman of th e comp any's board of directors, said the program will get under way immediately. It is scheduled to greatly increase th e plant's productivity and add several hundred employees to the payrolls.
The Savann ah plant, whi ch began op erations in September , 1936, as a on e unit, or one p ap er-m achine mi ll, is now recogni zed as th e largest pulp and p ap er mill and integr ated kraft containe r plant in th e world.
MAJOR ITEMS in th e expa nsion progr am, Mr. Cald er said, a rc th e followin g :
1. A new paper machine which

will be the seventh on the plant's production line. More than a city block long, it will produce a sheet of paper 18 feet wide. The machine will be designed to run at a maximum sp eed of 2,500 feet p er minute, and will produce principally lightweight kraft. It will be housed in a special new bui lding designed to accommodate it.

2. A hardwood pulp mill with digesters, pulp washers, storage and refining equipment wit h productive capacity of 300 tons of pu lp daily.

3. Expan sion of th e present woo d

. ya rd and wood room , consisting of new barking drums, a new chippe r, scree ns a nd a chip storage silo.

4. Addition of a new lim e kiln , recovery furn ace, black liquor eva porators and pulp washing faciliti es, whi ch will be in add ition to faciliti es provided for in th e new hardwood pulp mill.

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5. A NEW TURBO GENERATOR

whi ch will be th e eighth for th e pl ant, h avin g a ca pa city of approximately 25,000 kilowa tts, a nd a combined b ark a nd natural gas fir ed high -pressure boiler.
6. An electro nica lly controlled autom atic conveyor system for th e movement of lar ge ro lls of kr aft paper and kr aft pa per board dir ectl y to war ehouses a nd th e var ious sh ipp ing docks.
Other additions will include enla rgement of roll sto rage wells in th e box plant a nd additiona l storage space in th e dock a rea a nd new offices for th e sta ff of th e box sales group .
M orton C. Tuttle Co . will be gen er al con tractors a nd it is expected th at some 600 to 800 const ru ction work ers will be emp loyed on th e various p rojects.
At th e present tim e, the Savannah
pl ant emp loys m or e th an 5,000 work -
ers, wh ose annual wages total some
$26,000,000.

GEORGIA BROKE RECORDS IN '56

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a n av er age of 150 inquiries a month

from manufa cturers in th e E ast, N orth

a n d West wh o ex press inter est in lo-

cating in our sta te.

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MUCH OF THIS out-of-sta te inter est in Georgia' s industrial p ot enti al mu st be credited to th e dep artment's adver tising a nd p romoti on al effor ts, whi ch h ave been inten sified grea tly thi s yea r as well as in th e tw o previou s yea rs of th e present admin istra tion. The 1956 Gen er al Assembly saw fit to increase our adv ertising budget by $50,000 , a nd sinc e th at tim e our 50-50 Pla n of C o-op erative Ad vertising has been in op era tion. The respon se fr om th e latter ca mp aign has been p arti cul arly gra tifying .
Under the 50-50 Plan, priva te ind ustrial in terests th rou gh ou t Georgia are join ing with the sta te administration, dolla r for dollar, to carry the "Georgia Story" to every corner of the nation through advertisements placed in leading- periodicals. T his plan, in effect, ad ds $100,000 to the

promotional budget of this department. T he state's uti lities, banks, rai lroads, truck lines and other groups ar e joining in the plan w ho l e h e a r t e d ly.
The dep artment' s ads emphas ize th e basic adva n tages Geo rg ia has to offer -abundan t n atural resources a nd high-typ e lab or , eq u ita ble tax stru cture, healthy industrial climate, th e co-o pe ra tive attitude of th e sta te administration , goo d highways, good schoo ls, and our stea d ily rising p er cap ita income- and in th eir follow-up our indust ria l re presentatives give p er son al considera tion to th e p eculiar requirem ents of eac h prospect who answers th e ads. In thi s service we receive con tinuing assista nce from th e industrial development representatives of our utilities, banks, rail ro ad s an d cha mbe rs of comme rce .
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NO OFFICIAL estima te of Georgia 's tou rist incom e h as been compiled since 1955 ; it was pl aced th at yea r at $300,000,000. In view of th e tr em en dous incr ea se in plea sure and bu siness

travel since th at tim e, du e to th e uripreced entcd prosperity and in crea sed leisure of th e Am eri can public, it would ap pea r reason ab le to assum e th at Geor gia' s share of tou rist revenue h as risen pr op orti on at ely.
To st imulate th e flow of tourists into our state, the D epartment of Commerce continues to place in leading travel and vacation publica tions attractive advertisem ents fea turing Georgia's mountains, sea shore, recreations, historic background, good roads and superb accommodations. Again this year, in response to out-of-state requests for to urist and va cation information, we have distributed some 300,000 piece s of litera tu re. In add ition, th e dep artment h as produ ced tw o moti on pi ctures aime d a t th e nation al tourist audien ce, a nd h as co-spo nsored a third suc h movie. All three of th ese films are in color and sound . They will soon be a vai labl e for television an d live ex hibition in all p arts of th e cou ntry . We believe th ey will do a tr em end ou s job of "se lling" G eor gi a .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWS LETTER

J a nu a ry, 1957

SYLVESTER LEADER TELLS HOW

TOWN SECURED 'DREAM' PLANT

Sylvester has its first indust ry-a

big one. The Sylvester T extile Corp. will

be a comp letely in tegrated te xtile-

garme nt manufacturing fa cility. Its handsom e new plant will cost

$300,000. I t will provid e 250 to 300 jobs.

I t will weave, d ye a nd finish clot h,

the n sew th e cloth into finished gar-

ments. Con struct ion is sta r ting on th e plant.

Fin an ced by th e Sylvest er-W or th

Cou nt y I nd ustri al Corp., local stoc k-

holder s g roup, it will be leased to th e

man ufacturing corpo ra t ion . The build-

ing will con ta in 72,000 square fee t of

floor space. Mach iner y has been deliver ed a nd

set up in a temporary loca tion, a nd an

extensive worker tr ain ing program is

un der way. Most of th e work er s will

be women .

Production -the plan t will mak e

wom en 's undergarments- is sche d u led

to start in th e ea rl y summer.

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HOW SYLVESTER, a coun ty sea t

town of less th an 3,000 popu la tio n, lo-

ca ted in ag ricult ural sou thwest Geor -

gia, went abo u t securing such a desir -

able indust ry, is a n inter esting sto ry.

' ''' . A. Bank s, cha irman of th e I ndustrial Commi tt ee of th e Sylvester-Worth

Coun ty Chamber of Commer ce, and now president of Sylvester T extile

Corp., tells it as follows :

" L ast J anuary, th e cha mbe r's in-

du st rial committee, com pose d of

' ''' alt er E. Graham, T. 1\'1. Pu rd om, G. L. H ouston , J a mes R ou se, H ar-

mon P owell a nd m yself, met a nd decide d th a t 1956 was to be the year

that Sylveste r got its fir st industrial

plant.

" We let th e Sta te D epartment of

Co mmerce kn ow th at we were ready

to do bu siness a nd th ey p ro mptly

pu t us in to uc h wit h several desir-

a ble prospects. They ha ve been ex -

treme ly helpful, espec ia lly with th e

industry tha t is loca ting h er e.

" Ne x t, we cond uc ted a labor survey.

H om e D emonstration C lub s ove r the

county and a gro up of civic-minded

ladi es in the town did a thoroug h job

of ca nvassing for power ma chin e op -

erators. Then th e St ate Dep artment

of L abor m ade a la bor an a lysis, a nd

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DREAM PLANT- Ar chi tect' s dra win g of the pla nt of Sy lves ter T ex til e C orp. , $300 ,-
000 installa tion . H ow th e W or th Co unty town land ed th is plant, which will em ploy up to 300 wome n, is told on thi s pa~e.-Photo cour tesy Sylves te r Lo cal.

a ptitude tests wer e give n to a group pi cked a t random fr om th e 1,700 appli cation s we received . The results p roved th at we had ad eq ua te labor to su pply a plan t.
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"AFTER THE LABOR SURVEY, we cond uc ted a fin an ce campa ign to secure pled ges for th e erection of a building, wh en we signed a lease ag ree ment wit h a rep u tab le conce rn . T he results showed th e commi ttee th a t the p eop le wer e in terest ed , and th at they wer e read y to ba ck up th at inter est with th eir mon ey. The pledge stipu la ted that no mo ney would be asked for unt il a legal lease-contract was signe d by th e incoming corporation.
" I n th e m eanwhile, th e committ ee prepared brochures on Sylveste r and W orth County wit h th e assistance of th e D epartmen t of L ab or a nd Geo rgia Power Co . T hese p amphlets stated what we had a nd what we could offer, and th e oppo r tunit ies for a plant to locate here. Then briefs were prep ared, directed to actual prospect s, listing our tax advantages, insu ran ce rates, availability of lab or , brea kdow n of labor survey according to ag e, ex perience , nu mb er tested, results of test , av aila ble sites, cost of building, lease proposal , fr ee training facilities, housing, etc .
"T he cha mbe r was in corres pond ence with abo u t 20 prosp ects, wh o received a ll th e informati on ab out ou r coun ty a nd to wn. These prospects were furnis he d us by th e G eorgia D ep a rtment of Commer ce. Ther e wer e some a mong th ese who wer e lookin g

for handouts or gifts, others wh o wanted to do business. ' ''' e had seven firms to send on e or mor e representa tives to look a t our town . T he industrial commit tee met with each prospect and beca use of our thoro ug h prep aration, we were able to discu ss a ny p roposition th at th e prospect mig h t have in mind, and to give him defini te answers.
" Of course, com petition was keen from ot her tow ns; some of them had mo re to offe r prospeets fr om a financia l sta ndpo in t th an we did . But we did inter est three of th e seven a nd in th e fin al ou tco me , a ll th ree chose Sylvester for th eir loca tion . Sin ce we could accom mo da te only one plant, we too k ou r cho ice of the three."
Georgia Marble In $1.5 Million Expansion Plan
An expans ion program that wi ll eost a million a nd a h al f dolla rs is under wa y for th e G eorgia Marble Co ., whose headqu arters are a t T ate.
J ohn W . Dent of C a rter sville, p reside n t, sa id th e p rogram started J an . 1 and will be com p leted as rapidly as possible. I t will include expansion a nd new machiner y a t all of the firm's plan ts, which are located a t Tate, N elson, M arble Hill and W hitestone.
Another expe nd iture anno unce d by Mr. Dent is a $ 180,000 adver tising p rogram, to carry th e story of Geor gia marble to eve ry sec tion of Am erica in 1957.

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G EORG IA D E PA RTMENT OF COM M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

H O M E TO WN I N D U STRY-Scen e in Union P oint Box Co., where ca rd boa rd boxes a re made for th e shi rt, hosiery an d ca nd y tra de. W hcn the firm was in danger, citize ns p urchased sto ck an d p ut it in to p ro fit abl e op erat ion .

Union Point Citizens Rally, Save Town's Box Industry

When Un ion Point Box C o. , o rgan ized a bo u t a yea r ago, falter ed a nd threatened to fold up , th e Chamber of Commerce step pe d into the pi cture .
The finn w as re -o rga n ized a nd in corporated. Stock was sold to th e townsp eop le. A new bui lding, of con cre te a nd ste el con struct ion , firep roof a nd m odern , w as e rec te d, a n d m or e ma chinery wa s added . Now the plant is running tw o fu ll sh ifts a d a y, a n d it is exp ec ted th at a third sh ift wi ll be ad de d soon. The present pa yroll of 20 work ers wi ll soo n be inrrt-a srd to 30.
The p lant m ak es paperboard boxes for th e sh ir t, hosiery and candy trad es, and p lans a rc now und er way to ad d produ cti on of fancy gift boxes.
The p lant is th e fir st industry th e Greene County town h as a d de d in 40 yea rs, a n d U nio n Po int's prid e in it is not limited to th e 20 citizen s who a rc stoc kho ld ers . The en tire town is a tivcly behind it.
Dr. H . L. Chccv cs is president of th e U n io n Point Box C o ., a n d the r o rpo r-

a rio n' s board of directors include C al vin L each , E arl Butler , John St ew a rt, L ewi s Thrash er a nd A. B. Drane . Mr. L ea ch is plant manager.
METTER FORMS CHAMBER, AIMS AT INDUSTRIES
M etter , county scat of C a n d ler C ounty, h as or ganized a Chamber of Co m m er ce, a nd a t t he sa me time IT ac tiva te d th e M etter -C andle r C ounty D eve lopment Corp.
The n ew ch amber is now loo king for an ind ustry-minded exec u tive senetar y, ac cording to M a yor Hines R . Brantlcv .
R . G. D aniels is presid ent of th e
ch a m ber , B. G . Bow en , J r. , vi ce-presid ent, and E . R . Britt, sec re ta ry -t rras-
urcr. M ember s o f the bo ard are J. T.
Trapnell, L. B. Green , M . H . Hay-
m ans and D . .J. Parish .

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J anuary, 1957
LEADS DIXIE-
Georgia Gets $136.8 Million U. S. Business
G eorgi a led th e Southeast last yea r in valur- of purch a ses m ade by the U n ite d States go ve rn me n t. According to th e At lanta field offi ce of the U. S. D epartment of Comme rce, the va lue of goods a nd se rv ices bought by th e D ep artment of Defen se a nd G en e ra l Se1'\'ices Administration in the sta te reach ed a n estima te d $ 136 ,876,900, la rgest a m oun t lcft with business firms in the seve n -sta te a rea of G eorgi a , F lorida, Al abam a, Mi ssissippi, T ennessee and th e Carolin as .
The cu mula tiv c tot a l of con trac ts a wa rde d in the sta te in 1956 fell j ust sho rt of the reco rd hi gh $ 138 mi llion worth bou ght in 1955, th e p eak year of gO\'e rn me n t bu ying in G eor gi a , it w as sta te d. I t was, howev er, g rea te r than th e $114,427 ,227 lef t in A labama , $74,453,071 in F lorid a , $ 19,49 7,3 79 in M ississippi, $7 4,976,335 in North Carolina, $ 19,743 ,662 in South C arolin a , a n d $4 6,206,464 in T ennessee.
Purchases m ade in the sta te during 1956 included m an y typ es of goods a nd services, food s, wearing a p p a rel, textiles, wo od m anufactures, p ape r and it s product s, a n d he av y munitions of defen se. M an v contract s were a lso let for a rr-h itc c-t u ra l-c ngi ncc r ing se rvi ces a nd for con stru ction and m aintenance work a t mi litary in st a llations dotting G eor gi a a n d ot her sectio ns of th e co u n -
trv,
'A tot al of 374 con t rac ts was a wa rd ed during the yea r, which a lso led th e o the r South ea stern sta te s.
FIRST CHEMICALS MADE AT SOLVAY'S BRUNSWICK PLANT
Allied Chemi ca l & D yc Cor p.'s ru -w Solvay p lant a t Brunswi ck is now turning o ut chlorine a nd ca us t ic soda .
W alter Epting, m anager , sa id fu ll product ion w ill be re a ch ed in J a n u a ry .
Construction for ces now co m p leti ng ins ta lla tions in th e fir st portion of th e p lant , b egun a year ago, wi ll rn ovr immedi atel y tow ard d ouhl.n g th e size of the o riginal pl ant . The ove r a ll inve stment wi ll be at $ 20,000,000.
T he p lant' s em p loyme n t is now 125 p er son s o n a p ermanent ba sis,

i\E WS L ETTER

J a n u a ry, 1957

I N DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH -New Tow n M otel, in th e heart of Sa van na h, wh ich off er s ever y mod ern con ven ience for both tourists and bu sin essm en.

NEW MIDTOWN MOTEL

OPENS IN SAVANNAH

A n outstanding new m otel , appropriately n amed T own, is ope n in d owntown Savannah .
Lo cated at 41 2 W est Ba y S t., in th e heart of th e cit y's bu sin ess and finan cial sec t ion, t he motel con ta ins 42 units, off ering all the conve n ien ces of a motel and hotel. O n U . S. High wa ys 80 a n d 17 a nd Georgia High w a y 25, t h e T own M ot el is conveniently ncar the Eugen e T a lm adge M emor ial Bridge a n d is on ly three block s west of Sa vannah C ity H all. It is surro u nde d by sho ps, stores, th eatres and rest aurants.
The motel ha s a m p le p a rking fo r both t he businessm a n a nd to urist. Each room, comforta blv a nd a ttra rtivelv fu rn ishe d , contai ns' television a nd tele'p hone. T h e switch board op er a tor is on d uty 24 hours a d ay .
T he motel is o wne d by T own M o-
Georgia Jobs Top Million, Pay Is Record
G eorgia went in to 1957 w ith mo re peopl e wo rking, a nd ta kin g hom e mo re pay tha n at a ny tim e in hi story.
St ate Labor C onunisi on cr Ben T . Huiet predict ed tabulati on of satcwidc job fig ures for December wo uld sho w more th an a mi llion worker s bu sv, H e ba sed his assumption on NO\TI{lber 's repo r t, whi ch sho we d 985 ,600 in 11011fa rm em p loyrn cn t.

tel s of Savannah , In c., of which , V. St anley Fu lghum is presid ent, M rs. M arie L. Griffin , sec re ta ry, a nd J o-
sep h A. ' Vebste r, .I r. , treasu re r. ' V. ' V.
C urren s. wh o ha s had 25 vcars experi en ce' in hot el and mo tel ' man agem en t, is man ager.
ELECTRIC POWER SURCiE ECHOES STATE CiROWTH
C ons um p tion of electricity by G eorgia Pow er Co. c usto me rs- reg a rded by econom ists as an accura te barometer of a n a rea's ind ustr ia l a n d ec on om ic d evclopm cn t- in cr ease d by m o re th an h alf a bi llion ki lowa tt- ho urs in 1956,
accord ing to J oh n J. M cC on o ugh , co m -
pan y presid ent.
T ot al use of elec t ric pow er in c rea sed from a rec o rd 7,21 9,264,96 4 kilowatth ours in 1955 to a new h igh of 7,76 5,800,000 kilow att-h ours in 1956, a ga in of o ve r 7 pe r ce n t. New cus tome rs ad d ed d uring the year incl u ded 2 1,671 resid ences, 40 large in d ustri es, a nd 2,444 sm all indust ries an d com me rc ia l conce rns.
E lec trica l cons um pti on b y industria l cus tome rs inc reased hv more th an 17 1.000 kilow att-h ours d uring' 1956 . The;e cus to me rs accou n te d for 2,87 8,895 ,477 kilow att-hou rs in 1955 a nd 3,0 50, 000,000 in 1956 .
K eepi ng up wit h th e in creased dem and for elec tr icit y and assuring a plen ti fu l su p p ly fo r dema nds of fut ur e

LACiRANGE GETS LATEX'S THIRD CiEORGIA PLANT
LaGrange Industries, Inc., LaG ra nge d evelopment group, is buildin g a half-million dollar plant for Internati onal L atex Corp.
The widel y-known garme n t man u fa ctu ring firm , which already ope ra tes tw o p lants in Geo rg ia, has signe d a lease to occupy the locall yfinanced LaGrange plant for a p er iod of 10 yea rs. T he p la nt, to con tain 53,000 sq uare fee t, is be ing erect ed by New na n Constr uc tion Co . L. R . M o rga n , presid ent of L a Grange Industries, I n r ., sa id t he n ew faci lit y sho u ld be rc ad v for opera tion by J ul y 1.
I ntern a tion a l L atex is the world's la rgest m anufa cturer of wo m en's girdle s, baby p ants a n d hou sehold gloves , a nd h as b ecome a leading prod ucer of brassier es since entering the b ra industry t wo yea rs ago.
The firm' s first Ccorgia unit , a plant wh ich m an ufa ct u res in fan ts' wear, was open ed at M anchester in Au gust 1955 . A second plant , whi ch m anufa ctu res brassier es. wa s forma lly ope ne d last Au gust in N ewnan .
The L a G range pl ant . wh ich wi ll a lso produce b rassier es, is sch eduled to em p loy 500.
NEW DAWSON F I R M Georgia T racto r Co.. a new who le-
sa le di stributor of Minneauolis-Molin c eq uipm en t. is erec ting a bu ilding at D a wson to qu arter its warehouse and nf f;ces .
NEW BOTTLI N G P LANT
N chi Bot tling C o., Gainesville, is const ruc ting a new brick and steel pla nt . 60 x 120 feet , wh ich will cost $:\ 5. 0 0 0 .
yea rs ca lle d fo r an ex p end it ur e by Geo rgia Powe r of nea rly $40.000,000 in 1956 . M ore than $6,93 4,000 wa s in vest ed in new transmi ssion fac iliti es a nd $ 12,000,000 in n ew di st ribution fa cilities. Transm ission lin e ex tensions included 63 mi les of 110,000-\'0It lines a n d 256 mi les of 38,000 and 44 ,OOO-\'olt lines. N ew d istrib ut ion lines totaled 540 miles.

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G EO RG IA D E PA R T MENT OF CO M M E RC E

NEWSLETTER

January, 1957

NEW INDUSTRIES IN

Fo llow ing arc new manufacturing indusries that were established, announced or began operations in 1956, Georgia's record-breaking year for industrial growth.
The list is compiled by the Georgia Department of Commerce from records of chambers of com merce, uti lity firms, railroads, ba nks, municipa l officials a nd 0 the I' sources.
AAA Aluminum Screen Co ., Atl anta, Sc ree ns .
AAA Cabinet Sh op , Savannah, C abin et s.
AAA H om e Improvem ent Co ., Savannah , Alum inum Produ cts.
AAA Quarry Co ., Beulah, C rushed Stone .
Ace Screen Co ., Atlanta, Aluminum Scree ns.
Acm e Mfg. & M achine Work s, Atla nta, M achine Sho p .
Acme O rn a mental Iron Co ., Atla nta, O rn am ent al Iron.
Acrop rint Printing & Stam p Co ., Atlanta, P rinting.
Ad ams, R al ph N. , Newb orn , Fertilize r.
Ad el M fg. Co ., Ad el, Sport Shir ts. Ad van ce T ool, Di e & Engr. Co. , M or row , M achine T ools. A. & G. Milling Co. , M aysville, Feed . Airway Ven eti an Blind Co ., Atl anta, Wood & Aluminum Ven eti an Blind s. Air y Ven eti an Blind Co ., Atl anta, Ven eti an Blind s. Akridge Sa usage C o., Rome, Sa usage . Albany Brickcret c Co., Albany, Concrete Pr oducts. All Sta r Knit Wear C o., G riffin, Appa rel. A & M Awning C o., U nion C ity, Awnings. Am eri can H at Mfg. Co ., Atla nta, W om en 's H at s. An ch or Slide F asten er Corp., Atla nt a, Slide Fasten ers. Armco D ra inage & M et al Pr od ucts, I nc., Co llege Pa rk, Pip e. Arn old Lu mb er Co., T rimble, Wood Prod ucts. Artcraft Cabine t & Boat Co. , I nc ., Atlanta, Ca bine ts, Boats. Athleti c Numberin g & L etterin g Co ., M ontezuma, Athleti c Appa rel. Artistic V en etian Blinds, Inc., At lanta, V eneti an Blinds. Atkinson & Griffin Co ., Broxton, F e r t i lizer. Atkinson L eather craft & Indian No velties C o., East Point, Nov elti es.

Atl anta Co nta ine r M ach iner y Co., Atl anta, M achinery.
Atl an ta M achine & M fg. Co. , Atlanta, M ach ine Shop.
Atl anta Pap er Packaging M achi ne Co. , Atl anta, M achinery.
Atl anta Sea t & Back Co rp ., Atl anta, Upho lstere d F urni ture.
Atl antic Industri es, In c., Savanna h, Fabricated M et al Prod ucts.
Bainbridge Co nc rete Products, I nc., Bainbridge, Co nc re te Products.
Bartow Mill s, Inc., Cartersville, Spinnin g Yarn.
Blackshear Fr eezer Locker Plant, Blacksh ear, Fo od Products.
Blevin & Wi lliam s Plani ng Mi ll, Na shvill e, Lumber.
Blue Bell, Inc., H orner, Appar el. Boatw right Paint Co ., N orcross, Paint. Bord en Co., East Point, C heese, Biscuits. Bradberry, W illie Co ., Atlan ta, Wood P r o d u ct s. Braddy's Printing Co ., M an ch ester, Pr intin g. Bradham , H. D ., Brunswick, Wood Produ ct s. Braswell-T uck er L umber Co. , R ed Oak, Lu mb er.
Browd er Iron ' ''' a rks, Co mme rce, M etal H ouseh old Furniture.
Brown, Bill Feed Mill, Lyons, Feed . Brown , Glen n T ., H ampton , Screens. Builders, Lbr. & Supply Co., C ornelia, Co nc rete Blocks. Builders Supply Cabine t Co ., LaFayett e, Cabine ts. Burns Tool Co., L oui sville, Ch ain Sa ws. Ca lh oun Sa nd & Gravel Co ., Columbus, Aggr egates. Ca m p Co nc rete Pip e Co. , Savanna h, Co nc rete Pip e. Candle Decor Co., Atla n ta, D ecorative Ca nd les. Ca pita l Steel Co rp ., At lanta, Fab rica ted M etal Pr oducts. Carley M fg. Co. , Co llege Pa rk, Dump Trucks. Carroll Broom & M op Co ., Carro llton, Broom s, M ops. Carroll Creamery Co - Operati ve, In c., Carrollton, D airy Products. Carroll M attress Co ., Ca rrollton, M attress. C ascad e Ca binet Co., Atl anta, C abin et s. Case Che mica l Co ., I nc., M ari etta, Petroleum Waste R efin ery. Ce ntral Geor gia V ault Co ., M acon , Buri al Vaults, Allied Products.

GEORGIA

Ce n tra l Oil Asph alt Co ., Forest Park,

Asph alt.

C ha mberla in Corp., M onroe, M etal

Awn ings.

C hatta hooc h ee Boat Builders. Co l-

lege Pa rk, Boa ts.

.

C herokee Rubber C o., M acon , Foam

Rubber Produ cts.

C ity Sheet M etal Co ., D alt on , Shee t

M etal.

C la rk Co unty Milling Co ., Ath en s,

Poultry a nd Stock F eed .

C la rk Industri es, In c., At lanta, Fur-

niture.

Claxton Ga rme nt Co ., C laxton, Ap-

par el.

Cleaveland, C. L . & Son , LaGran ge,

Septic T anks .

C leveland Garment Co., Cl evel and,

Apparel.

C leveland Lumber Co ., Cleve la nd,

Lumber.

Cobbl e & Perdue Machiner y Co.,

In c., F or t O glethorpe, T extile M a-

c h in e r y.

Co le, Ern est ' V., Eatonton , Burl ap

Bags.

Co lon ial O rn am ental Iron Co. , At-

lanta, M etal Pr oducts.

Co lonial Sausage Co ., Co lum bus,

Sa usag e.

Co lum bu s Print ing Co., Co lumbus,

Printing.

Co mme rce Iron Works, Co mme rce,

O rn am ent al Iron.

Co mmercial Roofing & Sh eet M et al

Works, Savannah , Sh eet M et al Pr od -

uct s.

Co nc rete M anufacturing Co ., At-

lan ta, Co ncrete Pr oducts.

Co nsolida ted Clays, Inc., McIntyre,

K aolin .

C orne ll-Young Co ., In c., Macon ,

Co nc re te Products.

Co rone t Carpe t Mills, In c., Dalton,

C he nille Products.

Coronet Mfg. Co ., In c., Atl anta, Ap-

parel.

Co tton Prod ucers Ass'n. , Fl owery

Bran ch , Feed.

Craftsma n D ie Co ., Atl anta, D ie C ut -

ters for Printers, L ith ograph ers.

Crescen t T ext ile Co., Atl anta, T ex-

tile Co nverters.

C resto n Knitting M ills, Inc., Swains-

boro, U nder wear.

C rucible Steel Co . of Am erica ,

Chamblee, Steel Prod ucts.

Damascu s Peanut Co ., Damascu s,

Food .

Dari Delight C o., Col umbus, I ce

C rea m.

Deav ours , G . 0., L eslie, Feed.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

J anua ry, 1957

PLANTS, PAYROLLS, PROSPERITY

Decatur, Block Co ., Bainbridge, Con -
crete Produ cts. DeJournette M fg. Co. , Atlan ta , Plas-
tic Toys. DeKalb Machine Sho p, Decatur,
Mach ine Shop. Delagle, Frank Cemen t Block Co. ,
Hi nesville, Cem ent Blocks. Delt a Scr een Co ., Powd er Springs,
Sc ree ns. Denmor e Co. , Atlan ta , Packagin g
M achinery. Dia mo nd Furniture Co ., Swa insboro,
Furnitu re. Dixie M aid Pot at o Chip Co., Au -
gusta , Pot ato Ch ips. Dixi e M etal Screen Co ., At lanta,
Scr eens. Dixi e Pl ast ics, Inc., Norcross, Pl as-
tic Product s. D N J Enterprises, In c., Atla nta ,
Househ old H ardwa re. Do na ldson, Ed , U nio n Ci ty, Fou n-
d ry. Eagle-Bridges Paint Co. , D ecatur,
Pain t.

Eb erh a rt M illing Co. , Co lbert, F lour, Grist M ill.
El roy Turpentine Co., Swainsboro, Chem ica ls.
Engin eering Ind. Group Co., Bru nswick, M etal Fab ricating.
E tris Sausage Co. , Alpharetta, Foo d . Evan s Bros., M ilan , Pu lpwood . F a ultl ess Finishing M ach y. Co. , Smy rna, Sa nding M achinery. F ed eral Co rset Co ., Douglas, Appa rel. F ed eral Pacific Electric Co ., Atlanta , Assembl y Pan elboards. F eelright Bedding Co ., R ome, M at-
t resses. Fin ch & Fu ller Milling Co ., D allas,
Co rn M eal , F eed . Fitzgerald Poultry Processing Co. ,
Fit zgerald, Poultry Processing. Fl emster Crafts, Co hutta, C henille
Prod ucts. Foster, L. B., & Sons Co ., No rcross,
Steel Pr od ucts. F rederi ck's, In c., Atlanta, Nove lties,
Fl or ists' Sup plies.

HERMAN TALMADGE BRIDGE-Quart er -m ile-Iong sp an, bu ilt at a cost of $670,000, across the C hattahooche e R iver between Donalsonville an d Marianna, F la. Moultrie Observer photo.

Talmadge Bridge At Neel's Landing Breaks Bottleneck On Tourist Road

A bridge that was 45 yea rs in the making became reality last month wh en the $670,000 H erman Talmadge Bridge was opened.
The span, a quarter-mile-lon g str uctu re of concrete and ste el, leaps the Chattahoochee R iver at Neel 's Landing, between Donalsonville and Marianna, Fla.
The brid ge h ad been in th e " pla nnin g stage" since 1911, when delegates from Georgia, Fl orid a and Alab ama first met to map a through highway from M oultri e to Pensacola and th e Gulf of M exi co.

Necl's Landing was the bottlen eck th at stood in th e wav of suc h a ro u te. A ferry fir st took tr~velers across the riv er. Then a suspe nsion bridge, bui lt of steel an d woo d, but entirely too narrow for saf et y, wa s used . Several yea rs ago th e bri dge was conde mned, and since then the ferry had been back 111 u se.
U . S. Senator H erma n E . T almad ge, for whom th e brid ge is nam ed , and Gov. M ar vin G riffin also spo ke at th e exe rcises, as did Congr essman J . F . Pilch er and Li eut. Gov. Ernest V andi v e r.

F rost-Purser Lumber Co ., Allen hu rst, L um ber.
G & A Labora tories, Inc., Sav annah, Pellet ized R osin.
Gain es Elec. & M ach ine Sho p, Elberton, M ach ine Shop.
Gain esville F ryer, I nc., Gainesville, Poultry Packing.
Gar ner, R yma n L., No rcross, Boxes. Ga skins & Simpson, V ida lia, Caskets. Ga te Ci ty Yarn Co ., East Point , T extiles. Geechee Iron Works, Savan na h, Ste el Fabricat ors. Geolina Businesses, In c., Sa va nna h, G lue. Geo rgia Bag Co ., Eat onton , Co tton Bags. Georgia K aolin Co., Sa nde rsville, K aolin . Georgia Parl or Furnitu re Co ., Hi ram , Wood en F urnit ure. Georgia R ug Mills, Lyerl y, T extil es. Ga .-Tenn . Mining & Chemical Co ., W rens, Fullers Earth . Ger trud e D avenport , I n c., Am ericus,
A p p a r el. Gravely Tractor Co ., Alban y, Fa rm
M ach inery. Gra y Prov ision Co ., Gra y, M ea t
Pro du cts. Greyshaw Co. of Ga ., Atla nta , T oys. Griffin M attress Co. , Griffin , M at-
t resses. Griffon Pic Co., Au gusta, Pies. G usto M fg. Co ., Atlanta, Sa fety
Stra ps for C ha irs an d Autom obil es. H allm a rk N eed lecra fts, D alt on, Che-
nille Pr odu cts. H ampton Mill s, In c., Ellij ay, Che -
nille Pr odu cts. H arden & O ellerich Iron W orks, Au-
gusta , O rn amental Iron . H a rm an Spor tswea r, Cave Sp ring ,
Ap par el. Ha rmon y Blue Granite Co ., Spa rta,
Crushed Ston e. H a rri s Cem en t Prod ucts, In c., Car-
tersville, Cem ent Prod ucts. H a rr ison, D . D . Co. , At lanta, Drap-
ery, Slip Cov ers. H azelhurst M fg. Co., Vid alia , Ap -
parel. H ern don Co ., Atlanta, M achine
Shop. H ilton M fg. Co ., Co lumbus, Cabi-
nets. Hi tch cock Corp., M acon , Crush ed
S to n e. H ollis Par rott Co ., Lumber Ci ty,
Wood Products. H orne Milling Co ., Coc hran, F eed .
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

J anua ry, 1957

MANUFACTURERS PICK GEORGIA

(Con tinued from Page 9)

H orn e, R . R . & Co., Scottdale,

Swi tchboards.

H ow ard Bro s. Lumber Co., Atlanta ,

Lumber, Mill W ork .

H ow a rd Bros. Mfg. Co ., A tla n ta,

T extile M ach incrv.

Id eal Tool & En gi neering Co., M a-

rietta , T ool a nd D ie W or ks.

Id cn Mfg . Co., Atl anta , T ext iles.

Ilreco Co ., C ha m blee, Paper Prod-

u c ts .

I n d ustrial Pla te rs, Atlanta , M et al

Pla ting.

Indust rial Sh eet M etal W ork s. Co-

lumbus, Sh eet M et al P roduct s. .

Indust rid oor, In c., A tla n ta , Steel

D o o rs.

Intern a tional Fence Co.. Forest Pa rk.

St eel Fencing.

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Internati on al L atex Corp ., L a-

G ra nge. Brassier es.

J ain Mfg. Co., Atl anta , M et al Prod-

uc ts.

J eb R esearch & D ev. Co., At lanta ,

C h emica ls.

J ewel C ra ft, D or av ille, Cos tu me

j cwc lry .

j oh nro n F ood Pr oduct s Co ., Atl anta ,

M eat P rod uct s.

K al st rcc M fg. Co., Smyrna, Plasti c

Produc ts.

K elle r M achi n e W orks, A tla n ta ,

M achin e Sho p.

K ell y Blount Asph alt C o., Atlanta ,

Asph alt Product s.

K en- L ee Mfg. Co., A tla nta, A ppa rel.

K irkp a trick Bak ery , Milled gev ille.

Ba kerv.

Kwick St eak Co ., Fairburn , Frozen

M eats.

K ylan Corp., Brunswick, F eed.

La Fayett e F eed Mills, La Fayette ,

F eed , C orn M eal.

L ama r Brick Co.. Barnesville. Brick .

L & B Enterprises, Inc., A tla n ta ,

C h ild re n 's W ear.

Lamcx , Inc.. Norcross, Plasti c Bags.

Leat h ers, I nc. , Athens, Coat H a ng-

e rs.

L ee Cabi ne t Co., C ha m blee. W ood

Ca bine ts.

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L cn m ar Slack Co., Alph aretta , App arel.
L iberty Bell :M fg. Co. , Swa insboro, E lectri cal Prod uct s.
Lithoni a Fi ni shing Corp ., Li th oni a , M et al Finishing .
Lithoni a L ighting Product s Co., Conyers, Electric Li ghting F ixtur es.
Lockh eed Aircraft Corp., Dawsonvill e. Nuclear Aircraft R esea rc h .

Luxtron Batter y Co., Atl anta , Elec-

tric Prod uct s.

L ot t R oofin g and Sh eet M etal

W orks, Savannah , R oofin g.

Lyon s Cotto n & F ertili zer Co., L yon s,

F ertilizer.

M achine T ool & E ngin eer ing, Inc.,

Conyers, Wood Working M ach inery.

M adison Shirt Co ., R och elle, Ap-

p a rel .

M anhattan Sp on gin g Wo rks, Atl an -

ta , T extile Sh rin king a n d Refinishing.

M anor Rug Co. , Dal ton , Ru gs.

M a nsfield Sh irt Co. I nc.. M a nsfield .

W ork Shi rts.

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M a rath on , I nc., Ne wna n , Paper

Ca rto ns .
M arcotte, J. M ., T all apoosa , Sports-

wea r.

M a rk e r Boy Co., Augusta , Unde r-

w a tel' M a rk ers.

M a rsh Printing Co. , A tlan ta, Com -

m er cial Printing.

M artin Sp ro ek ett & Gea r Co. , At-

lanta , M et al P rodu ct s.

M athieson O il C hemica l Corp.,

Brunsw ick , C h em ica ls.

M atthew s, L oui s P. & Son F eed

Mill , Thom aston , F eed .

M axwell Sh e et M et al W or ks ,

Thoma svill e, She et M et al P ro ducts.

M a yer, O sca r Co., Atlanta, M eat

P rod u ct s.

M a vo's Blca rhcrv Sm yrn a Tex tile

Ble nc h i n g.

., . ,

M eat Se pa ra to r M a chin es, In c., At-

la nt a , M a chiner y.

M em phis W ood Pro d ucts Co ., W ay-

cross, W ood Specialti es.

M enl o Lumber Co. , M enl o, Lu mber.

M erch andise Equipment Co., Atl an-

ta , W ood Fixtures.

M eriwether V en eer Ph-wood Co..

W oodbu rv. \ Vood Prod ucts.'

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M etal S~ lt C h em ica ls. Inc.. Atlan ta .

C he micals.

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Mi cal , Inc., Loganville, C he m ica ls.

Midway Lumber Co. , C levela n d,

Lumber.

Miller. R. I.. Bro xton , Feed .

M ixes, I nc., A tlanta , D ou gh n ut

M i x es.

M obil e F eed Co., J esup, Feed.

M oodv Concrete Co.. In c.. V aldosta.

Conc re t ~ Produ ct s. .

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M oore Cabinet Shop, Lit h ia Sp ring s, W ood W ork.
M oor e' s Sa usage & M eat Co. , Carrollto n, Sa usage.
Morris Mfg . Co., Ca rro llton , Cotto n Braid.
M ouch et , L. L. Co., Atlanta, M etal Pro du cts.

Mt. V ernon G a rment Mfg . C o., Mt.

V ernon, Apparel. M cAvoy Box Plan t, W ash ingt on ,
W ood Product s. M cD on ou gh Pow er Equipment Co .,
Lawn M ow ers . M cE\"Cr M fg . Co., j on esbo ro , Alu m -
inum St ep ladders.
McK in ney, .J. V ., F eed Mill, Pem-
broke, F eed s. M cN ir-l Boat W orks, D or av ille,
\ Vood en Boa ts. Nashvi lle Mill ing C o., Nash ville,
F eed . N a tiona l Awni ngs, I nc., At lan ta ,
Awn ings . Ne-h i Bott ling Co. , Ca rrollto n , Bev-
e rages. N elson lvIfg. Co ., V idalia , Truck
Trailers . Ncmo I nd ustri es, A tla nta, I ndust rial
Eq uipmen t. Ne p tuna lia Sea F ood Co ., In c.,
Thunderb olt , Sea Food s. Ni x Cabine t Sho p, D eca tu r, Cab i-
nets . No rt on, Fl oyd L. L um ber Co.,
Wren s, Lumber. Oco'nee Constructi on Co., Spa rta,
Asph alt Produ ct s. O we ns-Ill inois G lass Co., Atlan ta ,
G la ss Product s. Parent s' P rid e, I n c., Statham, Ch il-
d ren 's U nde rwear. Patty-Cakes Co ., D ecatu r , Bronze
N o vel t ies. Pequanoe Ru bb er Co., T all a poosa ,
R ubb er Com poun ds. Perf ection L ith opl atcs, In c., A tlan ta,
Li th opl a tes. Pcrkcrson D ental L ab oratory, At -
lanta , Dental L ab or ator y. Pied mont Bag Co., M acon , Jute
Ba gs. Pill ow-T ex, Inc., At la nta, Pill ow s. Pin ecr aft M fg. Co. , A tla nta, W ood-
en No velties. Popl a r F oundri es, Inc., M acon , Auto
Tire M old s. Port a-Bu ilt Co ., Smy rna , Sports
Equipment. Powder Sp rings M fg. Co., Inc., Pow-
d er Sp rings, Sh irts.
Pr emi er Autowa rc Co., At lanta , A ut o R epla cem ent Pa rt s.
Prin ters Specia lty Co ., Columbu s, Printing.
Q uality Cabine t & Fi xture Co., College Park, Sto re Fi xtures.
Quicki e St eak C o., F airburn, F ood . Rab un Mills. I n c.. D illard . T ext iles. Regi ster, R . 'A., R entz, F e~d . Ri ch a rd son & Di xon Lbr. Co., D ouglas, Lumber.

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NEWSLETTER

J anuary, 1957

NEW PLANTS LARGE AND SMALL

R ich ey, C. E., F eed Mill, Ro ch elle,
F eed . Rite Pack Co ., Atl anta, Paper Pr od-
u ct s. R oberts & Ne lson, Ashb urn, Feed s. R obb ett Co., Atl anta, Ap parel. R ock Knob Granite Co ., Elb ert on ,
M onuments. R ockw ell Mfg. Co ., Sta tesboro,
M eters. R ogers, L. 0 ., Ell ijay, Ce me n t
Blocks. R omay, I ric., L avoni a, Appa rel. Royal Ch enille & Supply Co ., R om e,
Che n ille Produ ct s. R oyal Poultry Co ., Co rne lia , Poultry
P r o cessin g . Ruberoid Co ., Savanna h, R oofing
F elt . Ruby Milling Co ., C levela nd, Feed. Rutled ge Processing Co ., R oyston ,
Co tto n W'aste. Sco ville Mfg. Co ., C larkesville, M et-
a l Products. Sewell, R ay Mfg. Co. , Mt. Zion , Ap-
p a rel. Shafter-Go ldstein C o., Allenhurst,
C onc re te Pr oduct s. Sheet M et al Fabric, Iric., Atlanta ,
M et al P roducts. She ppa rd & Smith , Sa nde rsville,
Concret e Products. Silver Bear, Inc., Atl anta, W ork
Clothes. Sinclai r-Valen tine Co ., Atlanta, Ink. Singer Sewin g Machine Co., C ham-
blee, Sewing M achines. Sleight & H ellmuth, Inc., Atlanta,
Printing, Lithogr aphing Inks. Smith , O bie, D ouglas, M achinery
Pa rt s. So utheaste rn Awning Co ., Atl anta,
Alu minum Awnings. Southeaste rn Elect rot ype Co. , Atl an-
ta, P rinting Plates. Southe aste rn En g. & Mfg. Co ., At-
lanta, M a chine T ools. So uthe a- te rn T extile Sh rinkage C o.,
Atlanta, T extil e Product s. So utheaste rn W ood Products Co .,
Griffin, Sa wm ill, Plan in g M ill. Southern D oorlite Co ., Atl anta,
Aluminum D oors. Southern H ardwood Lbr. C o., M an-
che ste r, Millwork.
So uthe rn Sta tes Spring Co., Co ving ton , Wire Pr odu ct s.
So uthe rn Waistb ands Inc., Winder , W ai stb ands.
Spec -Wi ch C o., M oultrie, Glass C le a ner.
Square D Co., Atl anta, El ectric Pan els.

NEW VAN T ERMINAL-North Am eri can Van Lines, Inc.' s new sou the rn zone h eadqu arter s at 2960 Forrest Hills Dr., S.W ., Atlanta. Th e fa cility, built at a cost of $ 100, -
000, fa ces on th e Sou th Expressway. J. Ro y Ledingh am is zon e manager of the lo?g-
di stance mo vin g firm. Georgia Commer ce Sec re t a ry Sc ott Candler spoke at exe rc ises d edi cating th e te rm in a l.

Sta llings, J. B. Cabine t Sho p, Ca r-
rollt on , Cabine t W ork. Sta nley Elec, Mfg. Co ., Atla nta ,
Electric Products. Stanley H om e Produ cts Co ., Atl anta,
Che mical Produ ct s. Starfit Shoes, Inc., Flowery Bran ch ,
Boys' Boots. State Ornamental I ron Works,
Tucker, Ornamental Iron . Sta tesbo ro L etter & Printing Co .,
Sta tesboro, Printing. St it ch craft, In c., Athen s, Children's
C lothes . Stoc kbridge Sto ne Co. , No rcross,
Sto ne Product s. Sunsh ine -H Bever age Co ., Atl anta,
Bever ages. Su pe r-D onix Mfg. Co ., D ecatur,
D ent al Equipment. Supe rior Stee l F ab ricating Co ., At-
lanta, Fabricated M et al Pr oduct s. Superior T ank Co rp., Tucker , T anks. Swa insboro Sportswear Co ., Swa ins-
boro, Apparel. Swee pe r Broom W orks, D anville,
Broo ms. Sylveste r T extile Co rp., Sylvester,
U nderwea r. T & B C abine t Co. , Thom asvill e,
Cabine ts. T apley-Walker, Inc., W a ycross, Co n-
cre te Products. T eb R esearch & D evelopment Co .,
Atla nta , Shoe Polish. T cx-Tex Co rp. of Ga. , C hatsworth ,
T extil e M a chiner y. T err ell Mfg. C o., D awson , W omen 's
H osiery. Thom as, A. G . Co. , Cum ming , Lum-
ber. T obi as, Edward A. & Associat es, At-
lanta, Lithogr aphy, Printin g. T om Sa wyer Paints, Inc., Brunswick,
Paints.
T odd Ornamental Iron W orks, Inc., Atla n ta, Ornamental Iron .

T own & Co un try Spo rtswea r Co ., T allap oosa, Ap pa rel.
Trian gle Alum inum Product s Co., Atl ant a, Alumi n um Wi nd ows.
Tucker Cabine t Sho p, Tucker, Cabin et s.
T urner, W . B. N aval Sto res & T imber Co ., Barwick, L umber, N aval Stores .
Turner Mfg. Co., Am ericu s, F arm M a chiner y.
Vamco Che mical Co. , Atl anta, C hem ica ls.
Van Pelt , W. R. & Son Block Co ., Rom e, Co nc re te P roduct s.
V enus T extil e Co rp ., Socia l C ircle, Sh irts, Apron s.
Vu-Lighter, Iri c., Atl anta, C igarette Lighter s.
W anner-Scarboro Co. , Dublin, Fu rniture.
Warren F eatherbon e Co ., Gaines ville, Sewn G ar me nts.
Wayn e Milling Co. , Inc., J esup, M eat Product s.
W averl y Pet roleum Product s Co ., Qual ity, Fuller s Ea rth .
W aynesboro Garme nt Co . N o.2, Midville, Drap eri es.
W ear-W ell, In c., Alma, Appar el. W eatherm aster Co rp., Savanna h, Air Co ndit ioning U ni ts. W estin gh ou se El ec. Co rp ., Athen s, Tran sformers. Whitman & Wil son Printing Co ., Atl anta, Co mme rcia l Printing.
Willi amsburg C ha rcoal Co. , Williamsburg, Charcoal.
Winston Mfg. Co., Inc., L yon s, M en's an d Boys' Spo rt W ear.
W ood craft Co ., M artinez, \Vood Produ ct s.
W right Garme nt Co. , Bowman, W ork C loth ing.
Young Rubber Cor p., Atlanta, Rubber Product s.

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NEWSLETTE R

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J anuary, 195 7

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

J oseph A . L ombard h as been named pl ant ma nager of R ockwell Co rp ., Statesboro . . . "Vork is under w av on tw o wa reh ou ses to cos t $400,000 ; on Southern R ailway p ropert y a t Macon .. C ordr-lia H ot el, Cordele, is ge tting a face -lifting .. . A $200,000 hou sin g - p roj ect for Talbotton ha s been a p p rO\'cd.
R . 1'. J ones M em orial Library, to be built a t Can to n, wi ll se rve C hero kee Co u n tv .. . Art C ollin s M ot or C o.. Sava n na h, plans to bui ld in D eR~nn e S hopping C enter . . . Summerv ille's wa tcrworks is bein g en la rge d . . . G eorg ia & F lorida R ai lroad h a s ope ne d an industri al office in th e H ea ley Bldg ., A tl a n ta . . . Wi nder's Fi rst F ed er a l Sav ings & L oan Assn . is in a new hom e . . College P a rk has d edi cated tw o n ew recr eation al ce n te rs.
Two grocery cha ins, Colon ial an d Big Apple, pl an new st o re s at West P oi n t . . . Georgia Pow er Co.'s new $50 ,000 substa tion a t Marietta is op era ting . . . E lbe rto n a pproved $450,000 re ven ue certifica tcs to ex pa nd its citv-o wn cd elect ric system . . . Ba n k of Smyrna is in new q uarters . . . T er rell County H ealth Cen ter, to he bu ilt a t Dawson , will cos t $100,000 . .. Toccoa pl an s a white wa y.
Francis Stubbs, .I r. E . E . Hill ard
a nd J ohn H . Ad ams, of Do ug las hav e p urch ased Red T ob a cco \Va n hou se in th at city . . . L aG range D aily N ews h as a new p la n t building . . . Imp rovem ents at Ba in bridge Air Fo rce Base will cos t $445, 244 .. . L aurel Fi lt er Plant of th e DeKa lb Co un tv water svsu -rn, near Doraville, is in o pe ra tion : . . Sea rs, Roebu ck & Co . is in en la rge d q uarter s at T occoa . . . A . S. Mi lls Co. h as purchased th e H otel Sc reven , Sy lvania .
Atlanta's First N ation al Ban k will ope n a h ran rh on H em phill Av c., N .\ V. . . L an ier H otel , Macon, is bein g remodeled . .. Fl ooring D ist ribu tors, Inc. , At lanta, ha s ope ne d a bra n ch in Alba ny . .. D ivision off ices for th e Georg ia 'Highway Dep t. a rc bein g buil t a t T ennille . . . A new housin g p roject is sla ted for Bu en a Vista . . . Macon will p av e 25 streets a t a cos t of $240,000 . . Gray is en larging its waterworks system . . . A new Doctors C enter will I; e built at Mo u ltrie . . . A m ini sterial cd uca tion a l building to cos t $600 ,000 is sc he d u led a t Emory U niversity.
Black sh ea r 's Brantley C o.. oldes t mer cantile firm in Br~ntl e y ' Co u nty, cele b ra te d it s 100 th an n ive rsa ry . Fi llin g of Jim Woodruff R eser~oir on th e Ch attahooch ee-Flint R ivers m

NEW STATE FA R ME RS P RO DUCE MA RKET- He re 's a n architect's mo del of the h uge facil it y th a t will be bui lt soon in the Ce ntral of Geo rg ia R ailway's I nd ustrial Di st r ict in C layton Co unty, j ust acros s the lin e fr om F ulton Co un ty and eight mi les fr om down town Atlan ta. The new mar ket will be loca ted on a t ra ct of 146 acres off U . S. H igh way 4 I. It will cost approximately ten millio n d oll a rs.

So ut hwest Georgia is under wa y . .. D r. C. B. Skelton is new presid ent of \ \'i nd er 's Cha m ber of Co m merce . . . So u the rn Sta tcs F eed Co. is a new industry at Lake City ... Georgia Ports Au th ori ty, Savannah , p la ns ex pansions.
Ne w fa cilities for So u thern Bell T eleph one a nd Telegraph Co ., Brunswick, will ca st $3,000,000 . . . R om e's F loyd County H ospita l h as a d de d a win g . .. A 200-uni t hou sin g p roject h as been a p proved for T urner Air Force Base, Alba ny; cost , $3 ,300 ,000 .. . All-Stat e In s. Co . will bui ld a mil lion-d oll ar reg iona l off ice on Howell M ill Rd .. N .W ., Atla nta . . . St eve C ocke Fi ~h H at~h erv , ncar Dawson, is op en . . . M ercer U n iversity, Macon, is in a $ 1,500,000 bui lding program . . . I-1. C . Tharpe, D ublin, ha s purcha sed Al-P rod-Co., of th at ci ty, m anufa cturer of stee l a nd a lu min u m g a tes.
Su mmervi lle M a sons han: a n c w lodge ha ll . . . Ben S. G ilmer, At lanta, is new presid ent of So ut her n Bell T eleph one & Telegraph Co . . . . Edwa rd

K ro ck Industries, Inc. , W orch est er, M ass., h as purch a sed Tifton Mi lls, Tifton woolen p la n t.
Del -M a r C ab inet Co., In r ., h as a ne w p lan t on Go rdon R oad , S.\V., Atlanta . . . Telepho ne lin es are being stru ng to se rve Omaha, F lorence a nd Omaha in St ewart County . . . At lanta's M u n icip al A irport Facilities will be great ly cn largr- d . . . U nited P ress is in new q uar ters on \ Villia ms St ., N .W ., A tla nta . . . R . R . J ohnson , \ Vash ington , is p resid ent of th e new ly orga n ized W ilkes Co u nty Devel opment C orp . . . . Georg ia Pow er Co. will bui ld a subs ta tion to serve th e Montezu ma a rea.
DRUG FIRM BUILDS Co lema n. M ead ows & Pate Co .. Ma-
ca n wh oks ~le drug .fi rrn , is elTcting a n ew $ 150,000 bui ld ing to h ou se its opera tions. Th e struc tu re , co n ta in ing 44 ,000 sq ua re feet of wareh ou se space and 8,000 sq uare feet for offices, wi ll he com p leted abo u t M ay I .

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F ebruary, 19 57

u. S. Defense Puis

$35,000 An Hour

In Georgia Tills

Defense buying has made Uncle Sam Georgia' s No . 1 customer.
Sin ce th e ou tbreak of th e K orean war in 1950, the D epartm ent of D efens e alon e has bo ught goods and ser vices from Georgia business firms a t th e rate of nea rl y $35,000 worth ever y hour in th e day and night.
T hi s, figur es the U . S. D epa r tment of Commerce, m eans that th e stat e h as received a tot al of $1,902 ,345,000 in pr ocur em en t con tracts.
In ad di tion, Georgia's second best custome r, th e Air For ce, spen t $ 1,215,506,000 in th e six an d on e-four th year p eriod.

COVER PHOTO
Aerial view of the State Capitol a nd new state struc tu res that surround it , including the hu ge new Hi ghwa y D epartment Building, left cen ter. Behind th e n ew road headqu arters is Atlan ta City Hall; fronting th e Capitol is th e State Parking C ara-e and behind the Capitol are th e Fulton Co unty Office Building a nd Courthouse, Terminal Station and th e Atlan ta annex post office. C ap itol H omes housing project is in the right foreground ; the tall bu ildings at upper right ar e in the Forsyt h -Mariett a St . area .

NEW RO AD H EAD Q U ARTER S-The $2,000,000 Sta te H ighw ay Building, as seen from Capitol Ave. and Memorial Dr. with the Capito l in the ba ckgr ound.

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT IN NEW $2,000,000 BUILDING

The State Hi ghwa y D epartment is movin g into its new $2,000,000 headquarters building on Atla nta's C apitol Squ a re .
The handsom e, marble-faced six story edifice, of contemporary design, adjoin s the old five-stor y Highwa y Building, tying in to the sout h side of th e latter structu re and ex tending down toward M emo rial D r. Ang lin g off at th e intersection to dod ge a portion of th e South Ex p resswa y interch ange to be bui lt soon, it th en stre tches westwa rd along M em orial.
T he new H ighway Bu ildin g con ta ins some 138,000 square feet of space. T he floor ar ea is di vided in to 69,266 square feet for offices, 6,202 for storage and 62,665 (two basem en ts ) for automo bile p arking. Besides the m ain entra nce on C apitol Square, the building has other " fron t doors" on C ap itol Ave. and M emorial D r.
T he wide m arble-walled lobby of the main entra nce h as ter razo floors, space for a la rge mu ra l, a luminum eleva tor door s a nd box es for p lan ting orname n tal shr ubs. The buildin g is air-condition ed th rou gh ou t.
T he building was erec ted by th e Stat e O ffice Bui lding Authori ty, which also bui lt th e new Educa tion al , L abor and Judicial Buildi ngs on the sou th side of th e squa re an d th e new Agr icu ltural Buildi ng nor th of th e Capitol.
T he old Hi ghw ay Build ing, erec ted in the 1930's, is being remo del ed throughout, an d it is here th at th e administra tive division of th e road d epartment will have p ermanen t head-

qu arters. T he old buildi ng, origina lly faced with limestone, h as b een reface d with marble to conform to the n ew st ruc ture .
T he n ew building will no t be dedica ted until reno va tion of th e old st ructu re is comp leted abo u t June 1, Stat e Auditor B. E . Thrasher , J r., secretary-tr ea sur er of the St a te Office Building Authority, said .
SCOVILL OCCUPIES HUGE NEW PLANT AT CLARKESVILLE
Scovill Mfg. C o. is in it s huge n ew p lan t on Cornelia Hi gh way, C larkesville.
T he move took p lace over the J an ua ry 28th weekend, when equ ipme n t and invent ory we re transferred from th e L ewis Building wh er e the firm began temporary ope ra tions in O ctober 1955.
The first zipp ers completely made in Clarkesville wer e p acked a t the end of th e assembly lin e to celeb ra te the tran sfer. F or the pas t yea r and a half th e " G ripper Zipper" ha d been m ade in Scovill's m ain p lant in Waterbur y, Conn., an d shipped to C la rk esville for assembly.
T he 500-foot-long pl ant now m ak es and assemb les zippe rs fr om ta pe, cord, th read and b rass from m a ter ials sh ipped in from cotton mills in th e Sou th and the firm' s own brass mi lls.
Employment in th e p lan t is n ow 65 p er so n s.

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NEWSLETTER

February, 1957

GEORGIA BEAUTIES AND 'DIXIE'

WIN CHEERS AT INAUGURATION

D emocratic Georgia was very much p resent at R epu blican President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second inauguration.
M illions of television viewers, as well as th e hundreds of thousands who jammed Pennsylvania Ave. in th e nation's cap ital, t hrilled when the Georgia contingent, led by Gov. Marvin Griffin and featuring a gorgeous float bearing five of th e state's most bea utiful girl s, swung into view to the strains of " D ixie."
"H ere come th e C onf ed er at e s!" someone cried, and Pr esident E isenhower grinned broad ly a t th e grayclad Georgia M ilitar y Aca demy band and ca de t corps, 3 10 stro ng, ma rch ing und er the new Georgia sta te flag which is a replica of th e historic St ar s and Bar s.
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BEHIND THE OFFICIAL FLOAT, whi ch was en tere d by th e Georgia D epartment of Comm erce, came an other float representing th e city of Augu sta. Gcorgia was assigned four th place in th e giga n tic procession by virtue of having been th e fourth sta te to ratify th e Constitution of the U nited St ates. She was th e on Iv sta te to have two floa ts in the p arade.
The four fr eedoms guaranteed by th e Federal Co nstitution were the theme of t he parade, and Georgia's official float represented Freedom of Spe ech . On it, R oy Bell of Atlanta, in colonia l costume, depi cted an orator addressing an audience com posed of the five beauty queens in multi -colored evening dresses .
The girls wer e: jane Morris of East Point, " M iss Georgia 1956;" Jane Brock, At lanta, " M iss Georgia Chamber of Commerce;" Marilee Mercier, D ecatur, " M iss Georgia Junior Chamber;" Kay Holloway, Atlanta, " M iss G eorg ia Maid of Cotton," an d J eanine Parris, At lanta, " M iss Georgia 1955."
The Augu sta float depi ct ed th e Augusta National Golf Course, I ke's favorite recreation retreat and in clud ed "M amie's Cab in ," th e va cation ' '''hit e H ou se. A golfer on th e floa t who lobbed plastic golf ball s in to th e reviewing stand got a chuc kling ovation
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GEORGIA O N PA RADE-Presid ent Eisenhower and Vi ce Pr esident Nixon smile, and Mamie and Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower cla p hands as Georgia's gorgeous float, bearing five of th e state's most gorgeous girls, passes the rev iewing stand.Wide World photo

Georgia Hatches 233,829,000 Chicks,

Shatters Her Own National Record

Georgia sha tt ere d her own nat ional recor d last yea r in the commercial p roduction of ch ickens.
H er estima ted 233,829,000 ou tpu t of ba by chicks wa s th e lar gest in history, according to preliminary reports of th e U . S. D epartment of Agri culture. She topped th e previou s record of 200,034,000 in 1955 by some 33,795,000 to continue th e nation's leadership.
Georgia's producti on last year wa s a ppro ximately one-ni n th of th e U nited Stat es ou tpu t of 2,112,672,000 chicks. T exas, th e runner-u p state, p roduced 112,715 ,000.
Ninety-five per cen t of Georgia' s 1956 produ ction or 222,646,000 chi cks wen t into broilers. This was some 35,-

000,000 mor e than went in to th at channel in th e p reviou s year.
Last yea r's commerc ial production of baby ch icks in Geor gia compared with a palt ry ou tpu t of 36,875,000 10 yea rs ago, a ga in in th e decad e of about 534 per cent. The nati on al average advance in th e 10 yea r per iod was only 66.9 p er cent.
NEW UNIT FOR ROHR A new building will be erec ted at
Wind er-B ar row Cou nty Airpo rt to fu rni sh R oh r Air craft Corp. with addit ional spa ce. The p refabricated struc ture con taining 10,000 square feet with an 18-foot ceiling clearance, will cost app roxima tel y $40,000.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

February, 1957

GEORGIA'S FOREIGN TRADE BOOMS,

STATE PORTS LEAD DIXIE IN GAIN

That Georgia's ports of entry did a booming world trade business in 1956 is indicated in fin al reports just released by the U. S. D epartment of Commerce on the value of foreign commerce handed in th e first 10 mon th s of th e year.
E xports and imports passin g through Savan nah, Brunswick and Atlanta, the three ports comprising th e Georgia customs district, from January through Octob er had a value of some $ 152,400,000, including $83,300,000 in expo r ts and $69, 100,000 in imp orts.

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Accord ing to M errill C . Loft on , At-

lanta field manager of th e -fcdera l

agency , Georg ia experienced th e larg-

est rate of ga in in tot al trad e in th e

Southeas t.

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THE $38,600,000 increase over th e

first 10 mon ths of 1955, or 33.9 per

cent, was far ahea d of th e 17.5 per

cent advance reflected for the nation

as a whole, as well as th e 17.3 p er cent

in N orth Carolina, 13.6 per cent in

Florid a, 25.6 per cen t in M ob ile, and

19.3 per cent in New Orleans.

Georgia registered a thumping 30.2 per cent rise in exports last year over 1955 and 38.8 per cent in imports, also th e region's greatest rate of gain. Shipments to other countries went from $64,000,000 from January through October 1955 to $83,300,000 last year, and imports from abroad rose from $49,800,000 to $69,100,000.

On th e "debit side" of th e register , how ever, th e commerce officia l poin ted out, is th e fact th at Geor gia, in spit e of t he sharp rise in tr ading last year over 1955, still sta n ds fifth among th e Southea st's six customs districts in total tr ad e, fifth in am ount of exports handled, and fourth in import bu siness don e. In total tr ading and exporting, it was out-ranked by South Car olin a, Fl orid a, M obil e and New Orleans , and in import s it was behind Flor ida, M obile and New Orleans .

In the six customs distri cts in th e region , comprising 40-odd ports, the tot al va lue of both exports and im ports in th e 1956 period was placed at $2,560 ,800,000 . This wa s an increase of some $378,900,000 over th e correspo nding period in 1955.

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INTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS-Cargoes going and coming from and to all quarters of the globe make th e port of Savannah hum with activity. H er e a fr eighter is loaded.

SPRINGTIME TOUR OF GEORGIA

'DISCOVERY'I HOLIDAY SAYS

"I t is a discovery to tour Georgia south from Atl anta in th e year's ea rly months" says Mi ch ael F rome, t ravel editor of th e Am erican Au tomobile Assn., in th e March issue of H olid ay M agazine.
"T he sun sweeps wa rm and bright across th e coas tal plain, over th e sandy lowlands and th e Piedmont, and th er e ar e wonderful attract ions - gardens, history, adventure and nature's cur ios at Augusta, Savannah, th e Golden Isles, Okefenokee and W arm Sp rin gs - to delight the eye.
" In five days, on a budget th at won't excee d $125, including ac commod ations, m eals and car expenses, you ca n drive 900 leisurely mil es in th e lar gest sta te east of th e Mississippi and enjoy an exciting motor hol id ay."
Mr. F rom e's Geor gia tour begins at Atlanta and in the first day covers Athens, Washington, Thomson and

Aug usta. T he second day is devot ed to Loui sville, Savannah and Wilmington Island ; th e th ird , Fort Pul aski, M idway, Darien, St . Simon an d Sea Island ; fourth, Bru nswick, W aycross, Alb an y, R adium Springs ; fifth , Am ericus and Andersonville, Call away Gardens, W arm Springs and return to Atlanta.
The ar ticle is chock full of histor y and local color, and sugg ests wha t th e traveler should see, th e better places to stay, and where to find the best in food and en terta inmen t.
NEW TRANSFER TERMINAL
A. C . Whit e Transfer & Storage Co.'s new $250,000 warehouse and office, to be read y for occupan cy by June 1, will add 45,000 squar e feet to existing fa cilit ies of th e Atlanta fir m. It is locat ed at th e Ed gewood Ave. viaduct .

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NEWSLETTER

Feb ru ary, 1957

51AlE PORIS AUIHORIIY PLANS

FOR INDUSIRIES OF IHE FUIURE

The Georgia Ports Authority has plans for deve lopment of the state's inland ports, interconnected with th e National Inland Waterways system, plus expansion of the port of Sa vannah and development of the port of Brunswick, which would greatly stren~then Georgia's pos ition as the No . 1 industrial state of the Southeast. The inland wat erway development program ca lls for th e construc tio n of inland bar ge terminals a t key points and follows th e earm arking of over $400,000,000 by th e Federal government for construction of multi-purpose dams in Geor gia for th e purposes of navigati on , hydro-electric power and flood con trol. As dams and locks a re completed, nin e-foot chan nels, 90 to 100 feet wide, will be dredged by th e Corps of En g-ineers to mak e ba rge traffic avai lab le to most of th e state's major inland cities.
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WITH THE JIM WOODRUFF da m on t he 'Flin t Ri ver alrea dy in operation, constr uctio n has sta rted on th e dock and terminal faciliti es at Bainbrid ge, and with future plans ca ll for similar faciliti es upriver at Alb an y. Second on th e program will be termin al faciliti es at Au gusta, p roviding bar ge tr an sport ation from th at city to th e port of Savannah .
The Savannah State Dock, alrea dy the largest seaport on the South Atla ntic, will be expanded to provid e at least two new open ber th s, a mo dern bulk handling plant, storage areas, new warehouses, plus ot her specialized ca rgo handl ing eq u ipment. New port faci liti es are also planned for th e port of Brunswick. The industri al growth of the entire Brunswick area has been seriously I' e t a I' d e d through la ck of port facil iti es, and indep end ent feasibility studies indica te quick economic and industrial expan-
OCILLA PLANT ENLARGES
O cilla Oil & Fertilizer Co., largest industry in Irwin County, h as begun op eration of its new pl ant addition whi ch pro vid es for double th e form er output. The addition provid es 40,000 extra square feet of space, enabling Manager Otto Griner to mix up to 1,000 tons of fertilizer a da y.

SAVANNAH STATE DOCKS AND WA REHOUSES-Already the la rgest seaport on the Sout h Atlantic, thi s bu sy fa cility will be greatly expande d und er pla ns of th e
Georgia Ports Authority. New facilities at Brunswick also are proposed .

sion when such fac ilities ar e p rovid ed .
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BECAUSE of th e unique bottomcondition of th e wa ters surrounding Brunswick, studies indicate tha t that port will be, when complet ed, th e only deep water port on the South Atlantic seaboard capable of do ckin g th e new " supertankers" now under construc tion . These enormous tankers drawing 46 feet of water, will be too large for other southern ports unless extensive continuing dredging progr am s arc initiated.
Barge terminal faci lities for th e cities of Columbus, R ome, Atla nta , Macon and poin ts in the Altamaha

Riv er system are planned for fu ture construction, interconnecting Georgia 's major agricultural and industrial points and p roviding water transportation to the Atlantic and the Gulf through over 1,200 miles of navigable waterways.
This program which will ena ble Geor gia to capitalize on its most valuabl e natural resour ce, it s river s, marks th e beginning of a still gr eater era for industrial and agricultural growth. It is expec ted that many more new manufacturing industries will be eager to re-Iocate in Georgia when low-cost wat er transportation is added to the many inducements now availab le.

Americus-Made
Truck Bodies To Guatemala
Three "m ade in Am eri cus" truck bodi es of Mott Body Manufacturers, In c., ar e enroute to Gu at emala for use at one of th e lar ge airf ields th ere.
Dermott Shem well, Jr., vice-presi dent an d general man ager , said p rodu ction of th e Am eri cus firm, whi ch wa s organiz ed last O ctober, has jumped from an avera ge of two to six bodies per week. Mott spec ializes in custombuilt refrigerated bodies.
The plant's payroll is about $1,500 week ly.

McDUFFIE PACKER EXPANDING PLANT
K elso Pa cking Co ., Thomson, is gre atly expanding it s fa ciliti es and p er so n n el.
Robert G. W eeks, own er, said new eq uipmen t now being installed will enable th e firm to process up to 100,000 broilers a week. I n addition , th e pl ant will handle about 500 hogs and 250 head of ca ttle a week.
The plant has a payroll of 50.
Mr. W eeks said he hoped th e enlarged plant would stimulate production of both poultry and livesto ck in M cD uffi e an d surrounding counties.

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GEO R GIA DEPARTM ENT OF COM MER CE

NEWSLETTER

February, 1957

MOST OF THE WORLD'S SKIS

COME FROM SNOWLESS MACON

When a stranger asks C. R. Lynch, of Macon, what he does for a living, Mr. L ynch off-handedly replies, " I make skis."
That, he says, throws them into a double-take nearly every tim e. You make skis ? In Macon? In Middle Georgia where seldom is seen a snowfla ke?

Mr. L yn ch fin ally br eak s down a nd

adm its, well, ma ybe he is stretching

it a little. H e is man ager of M acon 's

Cha rles D . R oberts Co. Actu ally, th e

Roberts firm selects, cu ts a nd pre-

pares hickory ski bla nk s whi ch are sold

to ski manufacturers all over Eu rop e.

Hi s firm, according to M r. L yn ch ,

is th e wo rld's lar gest sup ply sour ce of

ski blan ks. And all of th e hi ckor v

blanks it expo rts are mad e of Georgi;

hickor y.

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THIS BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT it em came to light whe n th e R ober ts com p an y a nno unced completion of a $70,000 expa nsion and re-equipment p rogram. H eret ofore the pl ant, wh ich works on ly with hi ckor y, h ad p rep ared th e wood for other firms to m anu facture into skis, pi ck, h ammer a nd sledge h andles, drumsti cks, ladder rungs, picker sticks for textile loom s and sim ilar, items. Bu t now, with new equip ment in ope ra tion and its payroll stepped up to 35 employes, R oberts is go ing into th e production of severa l of th ese fini shed ar ticles.
But the plant is not yet ready to undertake the manufacture of skis. Few skis are made in the United States, and for the present at least, the firm is content to prepare blanks for the master ski-makers of Norway, Switzerland, Germany and even Poland. These foreign craftsmen prefer Georgia hickory to any other wood in the world, Mr. Lynch says. And, incidentally, Geor gia is one of th e world's prin cipal source of hickor y. Mr. Lyn ch estima tes th e sta te will supply up to 75 per cen t of th e hickory used in th e U. S. du ring th e next 20 yea rs.

LIKE MOST mod ern industr y, th e Roberts firm has a keen eye for th e cash value of its own waste product s. When you cut wood, you ge t saw dus t. And pure hickor y sawdust is worth money to meat packers who adv er -

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BOUND FOR BIG SNO WS-Scene in Macon's Charles D . Rob erts Co. plant, wh er e
Geor gia hickory is sh aped into blanks that eo to ski-ma kers all over th e world. Foreign
craftsme n dem and G eor gia hickory for skis, and th e Rob erts firm is th e world's largest
supply source. - photo by Drennon, Macon.

tise hickory smoked ham.
The sawdust dem and is so high a nd so stea dy th at a surplus of ski blan ks is usuall y on h and a t th e M acon pl ant - cut a hea d of for eign comm itme n ts

to meet the dom estic demand for hickor y saw dust.
The plant is now sett ing up facilities to manufacture h icko ry charcoal to be sold to meat curer s.

AMERICUS' GERTRUDE DAVENPORT, INC. MOVES TO HANDSOME, MODERN PLANT

Gertrude Davenport, Inc., Americus firm that in only eight years ha s seen its quality garments featured in more than 5,000 top Am erican women's stores, has mo ved to its new manufacturing plant.
The modern new facility, containing some 10,000 square feet of space, is located on a tree-studded fouracre lot, and is a tremendous im-
AI\IERICUS PLANT - N ew horne of G ertrude Davenport, Inc., Americus garment firm, whose quality products are featured in more than 5,000 top Am erican stores.-photo courtesy James R . Blair, editor, The Americus Times-Recorder.

provement over the out-grown former site . Some 25 persons are permanently employed.
Em or y R ylander , J r., of New Yor k, is bu siness m an ager of th e firm, a nd M rs. Ch arl otte D or sey is plant m an ager.
Som e eight yea rs ago th e company was launch ed by Gertrude D avenport, Am ericus native, now of N ew York. During th e fir st four years, wome n's spo r tswear and robes were design ed and m anufactured in New York , but since that tim e all manufacturing a nd shipping h as bee n done in Am eri cus.
The various it ems manufa ctured at Am eri cu s a re adve r tised in th e n ation's leading fashion magazines and h ave been worn person all y and professionally by many celebrities. Jayne M an sfield , who was th e original star of th e Broad way play, "W ill Su ccess Sp oil Ro ck Hunter? ," wore th e popular Gertrude Davenport wrap arong throu gh the entire first act of th e production .

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NEWSLET T ER

February, 1957

Georgia Wins Ike's Smiles In Washington
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from th e Presiden t a nd his party.
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THE BEAUTIES and band drew cheers along th e p a rad e rou te, a nd bot h I ke a nd Vi ce President N ixon smiled broad ly a t "D ixie" a nd waved to th e Confedera te emblems.
I mmedi ately after the parad e, Gov ern or Griffin flew baek to At la nta , wher e th e Sta te L egisla ture was in session, but th e beauties, eade ts a nd ot h er me mbe rs of th e p ar ad e par ty remained in Washing ton for th e ro und of gala in au gur al b alls.
CHICAGOAN MOVES PLASTICS PLANT TO WASHINGTON
A new industry whi ch will pr oduce a wide range of pl asti c produ ets, including bu tt on s and hou sewa res, h as locat ed in Washin gt on , Wil kes Cou nt y.
Buga y Pl astics, I nc., formerl y of Chicago is the fir m.
J ohn Bugay heads th e firm as president, with five W ashingtoni an s as co-

AUGUSTA TRIBUTE-Ike waves his hat as th e Augusta float , bear ing rep licas of Mam ie's Ca bin, the Little Wh ite Hou se, and August a Nat iona l Golf Club, pa sses in th e inaugural parade. The golfer board th e float dro ve imit ati on golf ball s into th e pr esidential box.-Wide World photo

owners an d di rectors. T hese are Willimn W ynn e, Willi am Pope, S. P. M eGill, H. G. Garrard and R . R . J ohnson.
NEW WAREHOUSE SET Ar t Furniture M fg. Co., M acon , is
addi ng a new warehou se at it s p lant to cost a pproxima te ly $ 125,000 .

Georgia Resort, Tourist Data Needed At Once!
The Geor gia D epa r tmen t of Com merce is revising its list of mountain, beach a nd othe r Geor gia resorts so that th e la test info rmation on facilities an d rates ca n be distribut ed to potential visitor s.
R esorts, motels a nd ot hers to wh om questio nnaires have been sen t a re urged to p rop erl y fill th em in a nd retu rn at once, Commerce Secretary Scott C andler said .
T hose wh o may not hav e received th e questionnaire sho uld write to Georgia D ep a rtment of Comm er ce, 100 St ate Capitol, Atlanta 3, Ga.

NE W PROPANE -AIR PLANT- Aeri al view of Atla n ta Gas Co.'s $2,000,000 install ation n car Riv erdale, 12 mil es south of Atl an ta, wh ere liquid propane is stored by refrigeration rather than under pr essure . The plant, first in th e U n ited States, furni shed
a supplemental source of gas on days of peak use, usuall y in extreme cold wea ther.

SOL GOLDEN HEAD OF SYLVESTER FIRM
Sol Golden, of Atla nta , is president of Sylvester T ext ile Corp., new industry a t Sylvester, a nd W . A. Ban ks is pr esident of the Sylvester - Worth Coun ty Development Corp. , local promotion group whi ch secured th e p lant.
I n its J anua ry report of th e n ew industry, N EWSLETTER listed M r . Banks as being presiden t of bot h corpor a tion s.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

N EW SL ETT ER

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Fe bruar y, 1957

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

Georgia J a ycees are in their new $40,000 state headquarters building at P erry . . . Co mmerce T elephone Co . h as a new dia l exchang e at Braselt on . . . Savannah Machine W or ks & Foundry is building sever a l barges at" its sh ipyard . . . Partridg e I nn, Augusta, ha s added a 100-car parking . lot .. . A poultry resea rch cen ter a t th e University of Georgia , At hens , will cost $297,000.
Co lumbus Bank & Trust Co . is erecting a new building . . . El berton Mfg. Co. will double th e size of it s plant and payro ll . .. An eye, ea r a nd nose clini c is und er const ru ction a t M oultrie . . . R ayle REA will add 120 miles of new lines with a $385,000 federal loan . . . J efferson will soon have dial telephones . . . Geor gia Baptists have let a $238,500 cont ract for th e first building a t Baptist Vill age for R etired Peopl e, 570-acre tract near Waycross.
J ackson Co u nty voters have a pproved bonds to bui ld a hospital and a hea lth center . . . Pl ain s has installed a wa ter filt er svst em .. . Macon Ho using Authority p lans 350 low-ren tal homes . . . A n ew adm inistra tion bu ilding at Alba ny Airport will cost $ 175,000. . .
Thomasville Am eri can L egionnaires will build a new home . . .Bufor d's handsom e new civic building is op en . . . . A flood control levee costing $200,000 has been comp leted a t Montezuma . . . R ome will get a $120 ,000 National Guard Armory . . . A Sta te P atrol post will be bui lt a t Cartersville . . . Expansion p lans of Metropolitan Atl an ta YMCA include a $550,000 "Y" for DeKalb Coun ty .. . Moult rie a rea vo ters approved extension of th e city limits whi ch will add 800 to th e popu lati on .
.J. C. Penny Co.'s modern new stor e
in Waycross is op en .. . H ou sing facilities for milit ar y personnel a t Fort McP herson, Atla n ta, will cost $ 1,500,000 . . . At hens has a new shop pin g cen ter, th e Prin ce Plaza . . . Warren F ea therbone Co . is in its new plant at Gainesv ille . . . Co bb Cou nty REA will build a headquarters bu ild ing in Marietta to cost $165,000.
Bagley Mobile Milling Co ., Sum merville, is a "mill on wh eels" serv ice to farmer s . . . Ke nnesaw will get n atural gas serv ice . . . Crawford L on g Inn is a new motel at J efferson . . . A new bu ilding is being erec ted by Loosi er Furniture Co ., Thomaston . . . C ity mail servi ce has begun a t H omer ville.
Carrollton is remode ling its city

SK IS O V ER C O BB COU NTY-A M ar ietta-bu ilt C-130, fitted with m am moth skis for work in pol ar reg ions, is seen on its fir st flight n ea r th e Lockh eed pl an t. In-flight beh avior of th e skis attached to th e landing gears, was observe d on a scree n by fli ght eng inee rs inside th e aircraft by means of a television camera mo un te d on th e ri ght oute r wing . The ski-plane will be tested later on snow a nd icc in M inneso ta .

hall a t a cost of $ 100,000 . .. A radi o-

isot ype lab oratory at Georgia Tech

will cost $300,000 . . . LaGrange

Chamber of Commerce is in a new

building .. . C linc h Co un ty H ospital,

to be built at H om er ville, will ha ve 25

beds . .. Atlan ta Gas Light Co. has

opene d offi ce in Griffin . . . D ouglas

plans a major paving proj ect . . .

Georgia Power Co. has op ened offi ces

a t Forest P ark an d will build a sub-

sta tion in Watkinsvi lle

K enn esa w

has a new city hall

A gro up of

local ph ysician s is erecting a medi cal

center in M illedgeville . . . Bank of

Waynesboro plans a $100 ,000 remodel-

ing a nd expansion project .. . Muse's,

Atlant a dep artment store, is remodel-

ing at a cost of $150 ,000 .

Southern Frozen F oods, Montezuma, has added a new warehouse . . . Cordele Aermotor Co. , Co rdele, will add th e production of truck-mounted water tanks .. . Dalton T elephone Co. is ere cting a building . . . Brunswick water works will add a $40 ,000 ware-

house . . . Atlanta's J ewish Community Council will build a home for th e age d to cost $100 ,000.
Interstate Life & Accid ent Ins . C o., T homasville, is erec ting a new building . . . Construction of 480 housing units a t Fort Gordo n, ncar Aug usta, has been approved .. . R adio Sta tion WTAM , D eca tu r, has ch ange d own ership and moved to th e Atl anta Biltmore H otel . . . A Fo r t Benning hous ing project will cost $14,000,000. . . . . . . Eastern Airlines has a new building at Atla nta Airport.
EXPANSION AT DALTON
Addition of 40,000 squ a re feet to th e Dalton plant of C abin Crafts-Needl etuft Rug Mi lls, Dalton, will give th at insta llation floor space in excess of 400 ,000 square feet. R . G . M cCamy, pr esident, said th e bri ck and steel ad dition , to be comp leted by M ay 1, will give th e tufted ca rpe ting m anufac turer additional space for cutt ing . storaging and ship ping .

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NEWSLET1"'ER

Memb er G.orgia Press A!!ociatioft
Published mo.thly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
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* MARVIN GRIFFIN Go v e r n o r BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Vol. 8, No.5

March, 1957

u. S. Starts 1951

With $12 Million

Trade in Georgia

Georgia began 1957 by moving to ward another re cord year as favorite customer of Uncle Sam in the Southea st .
In January, government p urchases to advance the program of national d efense left a total of $12,356,4 18 with busin ess firms in the state, far ahead of all other states in th e region .
Lacquer, ga uze, cement, coffee, fue l oil, socks, bombs, m etals, boots , trousers, soap and ferti lizer were among the products purchas ed in Georgia during January.
L ast year, Georgi a led th e Southeast in th e value of government purchases with a total of $136,876,900.

COVER PHOTO
Vann's T avern, one of the oldest st ructures in Northwes t Georgia, as workmen res tore it at New Ec ho ta, th e old C herokee Na tion capital near Calhoun. The tavern, which forme rly stoo d n ea r Oscarvi lle, was bough t and move d by the Georgia H istorical Commiss ion to save it from the floo d wa ters of L ak e Lanier . Its reconstruction at New Echota marks th e first step toward reb uilding th e old I ndi an tow n.
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SYMBOL OF PROGR ESS-New home office bu ilding of State M utual Insur ance Co. at R ome, recently dedicat ed an d occup ied by th e company, is ano the r symbo l of grow th in Georgia's economic struc ture. T he beautiful modern structure, situated on a large wooded lot, is of Fre nch R enaissan ce ty pe of arc hi tect ure . I t contains more than 9000 square feet of floor spa ce, and the entire building is of fire-resistive masonry walls'and
pa rt itions, steel fra me an d I ndia na limestone.

UNIPRESS OF MINNEAPOLIS

MOVING PLANT TO CHAMBLEE

Unipress Co., I nc., of Minneapolis, Minn. , one of the nation's largest manufacturers of clot hes-pressing mach in ery, is moving to Chamblee.
Con struction of th e fir st unit of th e installati on, an off ice-warehous e, to con tain 100,000 square feet , is under wa y on a 14-a cr e Peachtree I ndu strial Blvd . site just beyond the ChambleeD unwoody intersect ion in the De Kalb County industrial area. To be com pleted within a year at a cost of approximately $1,000,000 it will employ 350 workers.
J oh n Davenport, of Atlanta, a U n ipress director, said another 150,000 square feet of m an ufacturing space will be ad ded "within two or three yea r s."
Vegetable Crops Worth $12 Million To Georgia in '56
Value of Georgia's commercial vegetable crops produce d in 1956 is estim ated at $ 12,398,000, or 22 per cent abo ve the $10, 193,000 va lua tion of 1955.
The in crease in va lue was due mainly to better prices received for most of the ma jor cro ps, says the Georgia Crop Reporting Service.
H arvested acr eage amounted to 97,500 acres compared with 109,400 ac res for the year before, or an 11 per cen t decr ease.

CARR BISCUIT CO. TO GIVE VALDOSTA $500,000 WAGE
Carr Consolidated Biscuit Co., of Chicago will construct a plant at Valdosta which will employ 150 workers with an annual payroll of $500,000 .
Officials of the company and the Valdosta-Low ndes County Chamber of Commer ce said th e p lant will be locat ed on a 13-acre tract on Forrest St., east of the city and adj acent to the Georgia and F lorida Ry . It will be of masonry construc tion, covering 75,000 square feet of floor spa ce, and will be equipped with two 200-foot ovens capable of manufacturing all types of cookies a nd crackers.
The Carr firm is a subsidiary of Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., of Jacksonville, whi ch op erates m ore th an 450 retail groc ery outlets in th e Sou th . The chain re cently announ ced p lans to open two stores in Atlanta.
B. L. Thomas, Winn D ixie vice-presiden t, said th e new bakery is scheduled to be complete d abo u t the en d of 1957.
BURNED PLANT TO REBUILD
Leslie Gin & Peanut Co ., L eslie, will rebuild its shelling plant d estroyed recen tly by fir e.

GEORGIA D EP AR T MENT O F COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

M arch, 1957

525 MILLION WESTINGHOUSE PROJECT BEGINS AT ATHENS

ENTHUSIASTIC-Gwilym A. P ri c e , board chairman and president of Westinghouse Elec tric Corp., said th e firm was "e n thusiastic to ward expansion in the South," as he presided at ground-breaking rit es at th e hu ge new At he ns plant.

A dynamite charge that lift ed a Clarke County hillside into th e Fe bruary sky will re -echo in about a year when ma chines begin to hum in the hu ge and handsom e plant tha t Westin ghouse Elect ric Corp. is building on the site .
T wo thousand spectat ors, including Westingh ouse's di rectors, Gov. Marvin Griffin and sta te, county and city leaders, attended the ground-blasting ceremony on the outskirts of Athens, February 26th.
T he plant, whic h will manufacture po le-ty pe distribu tion transformers, will cost upward of $25,000,000. Located on a 238-acre tr act between New ton Bridge Rd. an d the Sou thern R ailroad ju st north of the Athens city limits, the building will be a one-s tory structure containing 750,000 square feet.
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I NITIAL PRODUCTION at the plant is scheduled to begin in mid1958. When capacity op er ation is reached th e employmen t will be 1,200 people .
Beca use of road construction at the building site, Westing house "borrowed" space from its next- door-neighb orto -be, the At hens divisio n of Ge neral T ime Corp. , on wh ich to erect a large tent to acco mmo date th e com pa ny exe cu tives and visiting dignitaries. The ac tua l gro und-br eak ing was acco mplished by re mote control wh en Gord on

C . Hurlbert, who will manage th e new installation, pu shed a button to set off a blast sever al hundred ya rds aw ay.
Gw ilym A. P rice, Westin gh ouse board chairman and presiden t, descri bed the new plant as " a partnership bet ween the peopl e of Westin ghouse and th e peopl e of Athens."
" We supply th e mon ey to build and equip the plant, some of th e ex perts to run it, and th e product to make," he said. "You supply the manpower to sta ff th e plant, op erate th e ma chiner y, and make the product. It is an arrangement that benefits both of us ... In a very real sense thi s will be your plant.
" I know th e calibre of th e people here and the quality of the comm unity lead ership, and I kno w that you will support any enterprise her e that is based on fair treatm ent of its people and is soundly managed. W ith t hat suppor t, we will mak e a fin e success of this vent ure toge ther." Gov ernor Griffin hailed th e new plant as a "m ilesto ne" in Georgia's industrial de velopment and assured Westinghouse that "all the peopl e of Athens and Georgia exte nd the hand of good fri ends hip an d good fellowship."
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MR. H URLBERT said the p lant will be "the most mod ern of it s kind in the electrical industry."
" We surveyed ma ny possible loca-
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GIANT FOR ATHENS-Architect 's ske tch for the multi-million doll ar tr an sform er plant of Westinghouse Ele ctric Corp., now under construction. Located on a 238-acr e tract , th e on e-story structure will contain three-quarters of a million square feet of spac e.

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GEORGIA DEPAR TMENT OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

M a rch, 1957

DELTA AIR FREIGHT 14,432 TONS:

MONKEYS, MELONS, MACHINERY

Delta Air Lines last year flew 14,-

432 tons of air fr eight a total of 7,-

783,880 ton-mil es, with shipme nts

ran gin g all th e wa y from a 3,000-

pound consignme nt of au tomobile

parts to two football tick ets whi ch a

fan had forgotten.

This wa s an incr ease of 110 p er

cent over th e 6,843 frei gh t tons ca r-

ried by th e Atla nta-based air line

five years ago.

Started in 1946, air fr eight is now a

million -do llar -a -year bus iness for D elta ,

an d the company 's two C -47 all-cargo

pla nes will be supplem en ted thi s year

with five C-46's. Every day ship pers

are discovering th e advantages of this

fas t but low-cost method of tran spor-

tation .

J oh n Pogue, Delta's ma nager of ca r-

go, estima tes th a t th e average air

fre igh t shipment weighs ap proxima tely

140 po unds an d travels abo ut 500

m iles.

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SU CH ITEMS as seafood, flowers, vege tables, me dicine, clothing and heavy ma chinery tak e to th e air regularly. Along with th em h ave gon e t he unusual and th e va ried, incl uding She tland pon ies, wa termelon ju ice in mid winter, shipme nts of bees, sand a nd chinchillas, a boat, a store front a nd a tiger cub.
A cargo of fleas even once accompanied the usual assortment of dog s that fr equent th e ca rgo flight. But the shipments weren't related. The fleas were designated "parasites " and were consigne d to an indi vidual who wanted to use them for laboratory purposes.
A h alf- gallon of ice cream flew from L exingt on, K y., to a fa rm wife in N orth Car olina, and th ere is a story be hind th e in cid ent. At a foot ball ga me in Lexingt on , gas -filled ba lloons bea rin g gift cer tifica tes good for ice cre am were release d . One of the balloon s d rift ed more th an 300 miles to a fa rm n ear Co nov er, N . C. , and wh en th e finder m ailed in th e cer tifica te th e manufac-
tu rer m ad e goo d.,. his*off>ke r by ai r freigh t.

DELTA AIR FREIGHT con tr ibuted to th e development of p olio vaccine .
On Okatie Fa rm s, 35 mil es from Savannah, is th e largest conc en tration of monk eys in North Am erica. F or

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LOBSTERS A LA AIR-Maine lobsters, the ir pow erful pinchers made u seless by wedges of wood , are admired by Ed Berry and James P. Smith in Delta Air Lines' Atlanta frei ght terminal. The lobsters ar e flown to southern con sum ers in waxed ca rdboard container s, accompanied by a pla stic container of seawater to keep th em alive .

severa l mo n ths during th e vaccine ex perim ents, Delt a fre igh ted m onkeys to th e Cutter L abor atory a t Ber kley, Cal., wh ere th ey were used in th e prep arati on of Salk vac cine .
The laboratory received 400 to 600 monkeys per month from Okatie , all shipp ed .via air freight.
Monkey shipments always bring a nostalgic smil e to D elta folk who remember a scene in New Orleans when several monkeys escaped from their crate and had a field day in the terminal building. The nimble creatures eluded capture until someone thought of whi skey. Bananas satu ra ted with bourbon un steadied th e monkeys and they were soon rounded up and on their way again.
An other air fr eigh t con tribution to me dicine is th e shipme nt of radio-active isotop es from th e Abbott L ab ora-

tories in Oak R idge, T enn ., to hospitals a nd medica l cen ters throug ho ut th e wor ld .
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PROPERLY CRATED, almos t anything ca n move by air th ese d ays, a nd seaso ned pilot s hardly tak e a second look at th eir cargo-excep t, of course , whe n the cargo decid es to move, in flight, fro m it s acc ustomed cargo bin to th e cockpit.
This jolting experien ce h appen ed recen tly whe n D elt a Pilots Bill Pri ce a nd Bill J ames were enjoying a quie t p redawn flight to D all as. Su dde nly Captain Pri ce fclt some thing cu rl around his leg. R eachi ng down, h e felt a lon g fu rr y body with a head like a sna ke's . In th e commotion that followe d, F ir st O ffi cer J ames switched on th e lights, and th ey were face to face with an otter- almost as fr igh tened as th ey.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

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EW SLETTER

M a rch , 1957

GEORGIA MOYES TO RESTORE CHEROKEE NATIONAL CAPITAL

By C. E. GR E GO R Y

Director, Georgia Historica l C o m m i ssion

The Georgia Legislature at its

recent session attracted nationwide int er est by endorsing a mov ement, alread y in progre ss, to rest ore N ew E chota, th e old national cap ital of th e Cherokees.
The lawmakers urged Go v. Marvin G riffin to allocate $ 125,000 this year and a simi lar sum next yea r to-

ward rebuilding th e Indian town,

about five mile s north of Calhoun, ju st as it wa s in th e 1830's wh en th e Cherokee Nation was in full glory.
New Echot a wit h its govern me n t

cen ter, biling ua l newspa per, inns, shops,

a nd the fin e homes of the tribal lea d-

ers, represented th e high est form of

civiliza tion of th e Am eri can In dia n.

W hen be one

roefsttohreed~oist

t

waitltl

r

asuc trievl~y

prove to h istorical

shrines in th e nati on .

THE CHEROKEES, who had aid ed Georg ia in expelling th e Creeks, form ed a government patterned af ter that of th eir white neighbo rs, adop ted a mod el constitu tion and lived under a democra tic form of gov ernment. T heir origina l cap ital a t Echota, T enn., wa s moved to New E chota, Ga ., in 1825, and flouris hed u ntil the discovery of gold in th eir coun t ry led the whites to tu rn against th em .
For more than 100 years the en tire site of the once-booming town had been plowed over every season for crops of cotton and corn. Only one of th e original houses remained. This intere sting old dwelling, long believed to have been the home of Elias Boudinot, editor of th e Cherokee Phoenix, has now been established as the home of the R ev. Samuel A. ''''orcest er. Worcester was a devoted Moravian missionary who was tried at Lawrenceville and sent to prison because he championed the Cherokees' ca use when Georgia and the federal government joined to drive them out of their ancestral lands.
Two years ago th e Georgia H istorica l Commission with lim ited funds laid th e groundwork for th e restoration of N ew Ech ot a. D r. H enry T. M alon e, of the Atlanta College of Business Ad-

LONE SU RVI V O R- H ome of Dr. Samuel A. Wor cester at New Echota, th c sole original building still standing on the sit e of the old Cherokee capital n car Calhoun. Dr. Worcester, a New England missiona ry to the Indians for 38 years, was jailed when he champion ed th eir ca use aga inst Georgia. (S ee fr on t cove r an d page 2 .)

mini stration , resurveyed th e capital site and established th e genera l location of the forgo tt en buildings. Pro f. Clemens de Baillou, of the University of Georgia, excava ted a la rge portio n of the townsite with th e aid a nd adv ice of D r. A. R. K elly, head of the university' s Sch ool of Ar ch aeology. The foundations, cella rs and wells of a number of th e main buildings we re located as well as th e old roads and p aths.
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IT IS KNOWN th at th ere wer e severa l log tavern s or inns in th e town , a nd to cut the cost of rebuilding t hem, the commission pa id th e fed eral gov ern me nt $200 for V ann's T av ern, loca ted near O sca rville. which was to be inundated by L ak~ Lanier.
This tavern, built by C hief Joseph Vann shortly before the construction of New Echota, accommodated travelers who crossed the Chattahoochee River at Vann's Ferry. The twostory log tavern, with a dormitory and bedrooms upstairs, wa s mov ed to New Eehota log by log and stone by stone and carefully reconstructed. The plan now is to use it for the residence of a Cherokee chief who has expressed a desire to come down

from t he North Carolina reservation to serve as caretaker wh en New Echota is restored . Resea rch in various libraries in Geor gia, T enn essee, No r th C arolina , Ill inois an d O klahom a has given th e histori cal commission all th e information need ed for complete restor ation of th e town , . acco rding to Ben F ortson , .Ir. Georg ia secre ta ry of sta te, under wh ose dep artment th e commission operates .
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AN ARDENT HISTORIAN himself, Secretary For tson is p ar ticul arly interested in restoring the pl ant of th e Cherokee Ph oen ix, the tribe' s official newspaper. About 2,000 faces of Cherok ee an d English type have been found alrea dy in excava tions a t th e town site (it is bel ieved th e typ e was buried to keep it fr om th e white soldiers ) and th ere arc rumor s tha t Editor Boudinot 's or igina l p rinting p ress m ay still be preserved in some remo te moun ta in hideaway.
An Indian named White Horse. visiting New Eehota at the height of its prosperity, left a vivid description of the town.
"T h a t long house to our right with
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M MERCE

NEWSLETTER

WESTINGHOUSE
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tion s, weighing th em care fully," he ad ded. "Athe ns, of course, had th e obvious req uirements, such as a well-loca ted plant site, an adequa te supply of electricit y, ab un dan t na tural gas and fine ra il and highway tra nsporta tion fa cilities. It is close to markets, espec ially in th e growing South.
" Beyond these tangible assets, we were very pleased with th e equally important intangibles . We wer e told everywhere that the peopl e here ar e qui ck to learn new skills and are dependable and self-relian t. We saw for ourselves that thi s is a beautiful community in which to make a home. We saw here your fin e educational facilities, including one of the contry's leading uni versities. 'We were impressed with the cultural atmosphere and the charm of your way of

PLANT BEGINS
life ... an atmosphere to which we believe we can contribute and which we can help maintain."
T he plan t will have th e latest equipment an d time-saving devices and will use th e most advanced m anufactu rin g techniques, the Westin gh ouse executives said. They expect to begin oper ations in th e sum mer of next year. Eventually, when it is operating a t full capacity, the facility will employ about 1,200 peopl e. T he grea ter share of these will be from Athens an d the surrounding area-virtually the only people who will be tr an sferred fr om the outside will be key supe rvisors, engineers, sales and adm inistrative executives.
Followin g th e gro und-breaking cer emonies, the memb er s of th e Westinghou se board of directors mo ved to At lanta to hold their Febr uary m eeting - their first official session in D ixie.

CLAXTON PUSHES GARMENT PLANT TO OPEN IN APRIL
With construc tion going apace, Claxton expects to have a new $ 150,000 industry in oper ation early next month.
The plant building, nearing completion, will hou se Claxton M fg. Co., Inc., whi ch will m an ufactu re ladies' u nd erwea r. T he mod ern buil ding cont ains 15,000 square feet of floor sp ace a nd will be air-condit ioned, h eated and equipped with sp rin kler system .
G. E. Perry, president of Cl axton Ban k, and Albert Parker, owner of Claxt on Baker y, are bu ilding the pl ant for lease to th e garment corporation. T he new industry, wh ich was located through th e efforts of the Claxt on Ev ans County Ch amber of Commer ce. will ultimat ely purchas e th e stru cture.
Bernard Sch arack, of New Yor k, is president of th e com pany.
J ames L. Can non , Jr., execu tive di rector of ch am ber , said th e pl ant would open with a force of local women, now being tr ained in power ma chine op er ation. When full production is reached, the industry is scheduled to employ abou t 200 worker s.
This is Claxton 's second new industry wit hin a few months. The other, Claxton Ga rm en t Co., manu fa cturers sport shirts.

PROVIDENCE CANYONS-Sometim es called Little Gra nd Ca nyons, near Lumpkin , wh ere erosion h as exposed great cliffs of rainbow-hued clay. The canyons are on e of numerous points of interest in beautiful sou thwest Geor gia.
COLU MB US OIL DOC K
Citizens Oil Co., T allahassee, Fla., is constru cting a gasoline line and oil storage dock on th e Ch attahoochee Ri ver to serve its new termina l at Columbu s. The termi nal, loca ted on a 100- acre tract ha s tan ks of 1,500,000ga llon capacity.

GE ORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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March, 1957
SAVANNAH'S NEW NITROGEN PLANT IN PRODUCTION
Southern Nitrogen Co., Inc., 1S III p r o d u ct ion .
The new $ 14,000,000 pl ant at Savannah is produ cing ammonia and nitrogen solu tions and will be producing solid ammonium nitrat e in April.
This achievement is said by agr icu ltural leaders to be of particu lar significance in Georgia an d the Southeast because, for th e firs t time, farmers of the region have a depend able local source of low-cost nitrogen at all times. Nit rogen is th e "4" in 4-12- 12 fertilizers.
T he plan t is the first of it s kind to esta blish deep in the sou theast.
NEW ECHOTA-
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beautiful surroundings is the ta vern of A. McCoy, clerk of the council," he wrote in part. " J ust over the hol low further on is the large, beautiful residence of Elijah Hicks, member of the senate from Coo sewatah. We pass the stone house of Lewis Ross and Lavender, and also of James Daniel and Co., and the Council House to our right, and the Supreme Court Building to the left.
"F urther on we pass th e office of the Ch ero kee Ph oeni x, and on th e sam e street a large two- story frame, with garden, orchard and conven ient ou thouse. This is th e home of E. Boudinot, th e ed itor. T o our left is the h an dsome cottage residen ce of J ohn F . Wheeler, th e p rinter. Beyon d that is th e mission establish men t of th e R ev. S. A. Worcester. Not fa r off a re two
more taverns , on e kept by J. Horn, th e
other by George Hi cks.. .. "
Guided by nu merou s con temporary descr ip tions of the town, th e t rib al docum en ts that au thorized the original construction and th e ph ysical eviden ce of buildings and hom es un earthed by th e archeological cr ews, th e reconstructi on of New Echota should be comparatively easy. H isto rians believe th at th e financial cost of th e re storation would be negligibl e alongside th e revenue it would crea te as a tourist attraction.

NEWSLETTER

M a rch , 1957

Here Are Georgia 1957 Auto Tags by Counties

The 159 counties of Geor gia a re COUNTY

NO.

CO UNT Y

NO.

design ated by nu mb er on 1957 automob ile license plates, acco rding to POpulation as show n by the 1950 census.

Chero kee Walto n
N ewton E m a n uel Worth

41

A p p l,i ng

42

Ber-rie n

43

R a ndolph

44

T e l f a ir

45

Bar row

71

Co lumb ia

72

Leff Da vis

73

leckl ey

74

St ewar t

75

Effingb am

101

O c o n ee

102

H ea rd

103

Ba nks

104

Wh eeler

105

Le e

131 132 133 134 135

H er e are th e tag designa tion s in h an dy form :

J a ckson Grady Gordon

46

Green e

47

W ilkes

48

M ad ison

76

T a yl or

77

Bu tt s

78

Mil ler

106

Evan s

136

107

Lumpkin

137

108

Tr cutl cn

138

COUNTY

NO.

CO U NTY

NO.

{ eCfcrson Ibert

49

C ook

50

D ouglas

79

Bac on

80

Pick en s

109

M a r ion

110

L incol n

139 140

Fulton

1

Spa lding

21

Brooks

51

Ch a tt ah ooch ee

81

Pul a ski

III

B r a n t l ey

141

Ch atham

2

P olk

22

Sc reven

52

I rwin

82

W ar re n

112

C raw lord

142

D eK alb Musc ogee
Bibb R ich m on d Fl oyd Cobb
TrouYt Doug erty H all Wa lke r C la rke Low ndes Wh it field C arroll Colq uitt Thom as
Laur ens Gwi nn ett

3

Wa re

4

Baldwin

5

Gly nn

6

Co we ta

7

Bartow

8

U pso n

9

Bull och

10

Sumter

11

Coff ee

12

D ec a tur

13

Bu rke

14

C l a y t on

15

Ti lt

16

M it ch ell

17 18

~t~~~~~lfl~r

19

Wash in gton

20

H ouston

23

D od ge

24

C rISp

25

Ea rly

26

Toombs

27 28

fI~b~~shsam

29

Ta tt nail

30

H enry

31

F a n n in

32

Cat oosa

33

Ben H ill

34

H aralson

35

H art

36

F r anklin

37

T errell

38

Wa yn e

39

M acon

40

D ool v

53 54

M Paourl~ai nn~

55

Pea ch

56

McD uff ie

57

H arris

58

Pierce

59

H a ncoc k

60

F or syth

61

M u r ra y

62

M onroe

63

T u r n er

64

J en kins

65

L am a r

66

W ilcox

67

G ilme r

68 69

ot ~~~ ~rpe

7C

{Vilkin so n

83

Ca lho un

113

McI nt osh

84

R ockd al e

114

Clinc h

85

P ik e

86

L iberty

115 116

g~k~~

87 88

~':~~'~r

117

Wh i te

118

::;Iay

89

F aye tt e

119

Lani er

90

Semin ole

120

Ch arlton

91

M ont gom er y

92

Putnam

121 122

T o wn s Ta liarerro

93

T a lbo t

123

Webster

94 95 ' 96

Jones asger
Ra un

124

Sc h l ey

125

D awson

126

L on g

97

D ad e

127

G la scock

98

At kinso n

128

Q ui tma n

99

Ca mden

129

Echo ls

100

Union

130

143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159

FURNITURE PLANT ON SWAINSBORO INDUSTRIAL SCENE
A furniture ma nufacturing pl an t h as been added to th e ever-growing industrial scene at Swain sboro.
Diamond Bros., one of the coun t ry's largest special-orde r livin g ro om furniture m anufacturers, with execu tive
offices in Trenton, N. J., is sta rting op-
erations in a 100,000-squ are-foot building form erly known as Swainsboro T obacco W arehouse on U . S. H ighway 80 at th e outskirts of th e Em anuel County city.
The building has been extensively rem ode led to convert it for mod ern assembly-line production of fini shed furnitur e it ems. A separate operation- a dimension al stock plan t- is included in th e project to provide h ard wood parts for fu rni tu re fra mes.
Sol Diamond, vice-president and treasurer of th e firm, said th e Swainsboro opera tion will be a subsidia ry plant of th e par ent firm . Other Diamo nd plan ts are located in R eading, Pa., and Coal City, Ill.
LeRoy H. Willi ams, manager of Swa in sboro Chamber of Commerce, said th e plant will employ approximately 200 workers, nearly all m ale.
Jos eph P. Fitzpat rick will be genera l m an ager of th e plant.
$1,0 0 0,0 0 0 DAIRY O P EN I rvind ale Farms D airy, Atl anta, h as
formally ope ned its new headquart ers

NEW HOME-The LaGrange Chamber of Commerce rec ently occupied thi s handsome new home .
a t 484 Plaster Ave., N.E. The pl ant, bu ilt and furnished a t a cost of ap pro xim at ely $1,000,000, ex c Iud i n g dairy equipmen t, conta ins 53,000 square feet .

Poultry Proeess Plant at Camilla To Make ISO Jobs
A new poultry p rocessing plant th at will give employmen t to 150 local people is nearing comp letion a t Camill a.
Arni e an d D an Ro yal, owners of Royal Bros. Poultry Co., have leased th e Camill a Farm M arket from th e sta te and are enlarging and remodeling th e building.
Arnie R oyal said th e plan t will be 230 feet long by 70 feet wide, a nd th at machin ery for its op eration will be in place by April 1.
The R oyal firm at p resent is p rocessing 100,000 to 130,000 br oiler s a week. The new fa cility will a pp roxima tely double the firm's capacity.
N EW SAVANNAH F I RM
H ydro-Pak Co., whi ch will ma nufac ture and sell fer tilizers, chemicals and other substa nces design ed to increase th e productivit y of wa ter, h as been gra n ted a cha rter a t Savannah. In cor por a tors are H enry M . Dunn, B. B. Cubbedge and E. O rmonde Hunter.
NEW BAKERY BRANCH
Benson's Bakery, Athens, has formally opened its No rth Georgia br anch at Gainesville. The Gainesville bran ch , for merly 'Flowers Baking Co., was purchased last Nov ember. Al St one is Gain esville div ision ma nager. The facility employs 40 person s.

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NEWSLETTER

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March , 1957

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

East Dublin ha s comp leted its wat erworks syste m . .. Gen. O glethorpe Hotel, Savannah, has acq uired th e D eSot o Beach Hotel, a t Savannah Beach (T ybee ) . .. Georgi a Pow er Co. h as begun supplying elec tric service to 38,200 custom ers formerly serve d by Geor gi a Power & Li ght Co. in 20 So ut h Georgia coun ties . .. Bal d win County dedi cated it s n ew $ 1,200 ,000 ho spit a l a t M illedgev ille.
H er cul es Powder Co. , Savanna h, has its new tall oil plant in ope ra tion . .. T urner Co unty Courthouse at Ash burn is undergoing repairs . . . Ba rrow Co unty H ealth Center to be built at W ind er will cost $75 ,000 . .. Brunswick will have a new W est ern Auto associa te sto re . . . Belk-Matthews is bu ilding a new store at V ida lia . . . Atlanta's D avison -P axon Co. has added a hu ge new serv ice bui lding whi ch cost mor e th an $ 1,000,000.
T. H. R esseau , Jr., is ch airm an of th e fifth annua l Pu tnam Co unty D airy F estival to be held in Eatonton June 4 . . Ar mst ron g Cork Co., Macon, is expanding it s pl ant .. . H arper 's 5 & lOe St or e, Toccoa, has rem od eled it s building . . . Gainesville Housing Authority will build tw o 50-unit proj ect s, one for whites a nd one for N egr oes . . . Savanna h Suga r R efining Corp. comp leted $ 1,500,000 in plant improvem ents in 1956, its " mos t successful" yea r.
.J. .J. N ewb erry Co ., Macon, is r e-
modeling . . . Step hens Co unty has a new furniture store, Mather of T occoa . . Con trolling inte res t in Forrest Mi lls, Inc., C alho un, has been bought by J ohn H. Boston, J r. . . . A housing development for mi litary fami lies a t Fort Stewart, H in esville, is under way a t a cost of $5,500 ,000.
Emmanuel College, Franklin Springs, is adding a $100 ,000 dormitory bu ilding . . . H a rri s Co unty Home D em on st ra tion Council broke gro und for it s new building a t H a milt on . . . A $35,000 expansion at th e State Fish H atchery n ear Summerville is under wa y. . . Hart County Courthouse, H ar twell, is being enla rged . . . T ren ton will er ect a lOO,OOO-galion water tank a nd add more mains . . . Atlanta's new Piedmont Hospital which will a ccomm oda te 300 patients, is practi call y comp leted . . . Alp haretta is ere cting a municipal bu ilding at a cost of $132,000 . . . Eight new cot tages will be added to th e F F A-FHA Ca mp near Covington, und er a $200 ,000 expan sion program.
Bob Morris will be chair man of the

T ALLAPOOSA NEWCOMER-Arc hitect's sketch of th e plan t under cons truction at
Tallapoosa for P equ anoc Rubber Co., of Butler, N. J., one of the country's lead ing pro-
du cers of recla im rubber and industrial compoun ds. T he fac ility, rep resenti ng an in vestment of more th an $500,000 in buildin gs an d equipment, will employ 150 wor kers at an estim ate d an nua l payroll of $150,0 00. Citizens of Tallapoosa subscr ibed toward erecting
the plant buildin g.

1957 K aolin 'F estiva l to be held in Sa nders ville in O ctober . . . L ongstreet Bridge, a ma jor span over Lake Lanier on U . S. 129 betw eeen Gainesv ille and C levela nd, is op en .
Plantation R est aurant is new at D ouglas . . . Estes D epartment Store, Gainesville, is in a new stor e building in a new loca tion . . . D earing Chevrolet Co ., Savannah, h as added a threestory annex . . . LaGrange M oose will erec t a $ 100,00 0 lod ge hom e .. . Miller Concr et e Pipe Co., Valdosta, has added a new plant, doubling its former capa city . .. A plant enla rge men t is under way a t T om Saw yer Paints, Inc., Brunswick.
Matt Friendlander is rebuilding Central Warehouse a t Moultrie, whi ch wa s destroyed by fire . . . Colonia l Stores, Inc., is en larging its Mon tezuma store ... H ouston Co unty has crea ted a hospital a uthority . . . Wrens has com plet ed a new fir e department bui ldin g . . . Aldred Bros . Grocery is building a new store a t Statesboro . . . C obb Co unty -M a rietta W a te I' Authority plans a $2,500 ,000 expansion.
Macon has a new fir e sta tion . . . B. C. Moore & Son s Dep artment Store, Corde le, is building a large warehouse

. . . LaGra nge approved a $300 ,000 bond issue to constru ct a bu ilding for its poli ce departmen t.
Jotin R ealty Co., Atlanta, will erec t a $220,000 offi ce building on Bro okwood Dr. , N.E. . . . Geor gia For estry Commission will dedi cate its n ew headquarter s a t Macon on April 11 .. . Milton R . Murphy bought P er ry's M oss Oaks M ot el . . . Metter and Candler County H ealth Center at Metter is open . . . St and ard T elephon e Co., Cornelia, has doubled it s lin es between Cornelia and C larkesville . . . A classroom bu ilding, to cost $2,500 ,000 , is announced for Geor gi a T ech , Atlanta . . . Valdosta Press, Inc., publisher of th e Va ldosta Times, will erect a new plant . . . Atlanta Boat Works h as a new sport s boat plant . . . K eating Co ., Savannah, is a new roofing con trac t
firm . . . \'\T . .J. M cAlphin, p resident of J. J. Finnigan Co ., Atlanta, h as been
elected to th e board of directors of St eel Plate Fabrica tors Assn.
Cam de n (Co u n ty) T elephone & T elegraph Co. anno un ced a coun tywid e expa nsion . . . A physical ed uc a tion bui lding is bein g ere cted a t G eor gia Academ y for th e Blind, Macon .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
1 0 0 STATE CAP ITOL
ATLANTA 3 , GEORGIA

BULK RATE U.S. PO STA GE
P aid

Atlanta, Ga.

Permit No. 151

Acquis iti ons Di visi ons
The Universi t y Li br ari es
The Universit y of Ge03:lgia
Athen s,:, Ga...

OEPAnTMENT OF COMMEnCE
NEWSLETTER
Georgia Outstrips Nation In Manufacturing Gains
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UN IVERS ITY OF GEORGI A
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L. IB RARI ES
APRI L 1957

NEWSLETTER

April, 1957

NEWSLET1"'ER

Memb er Ge orgia Press Association

Pub lished moa thly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chainnan T. C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMMELL McINTYRE
* scon CANDLER
Secretary
FRED D. MOON Edit or

Vol. 8, No.6

April, 1957

KERCHIEF FIRM ADDS WAREHOUSE
M acon's M arks H andker chi ef Mfg. Co., whi ch recently occ upied a new plant on Go rd on Hwy., is already adding a storage war ehou se estimated to cost $ 130,000.
The one-story building of bri ck a nd steel const ru ction will h ave a n a rea of 50,000 square feet . Completi on is set for J une 15.
"W he n completed it will give our new $150,000 pl ant mod ern shipping and storage facilit ies," said Morris M arks, who co-owns th e firm with hi s brother, J oe B. M arks.

PRODUCTION ST A RTS
Pro du ction has begu n a t Sylvester T exti le Corp. , Sylvester, with 18 kn itting machin es in op er ation in temporary quarter s. M eanwhile, th e tr ain ing of more ope ra to rs is being conduc ted under th e directi on of th e Worth Coun ty Board of Education , whil e wor kmen ru sh th e new p lant bui ldin g to completion.

COVER PHOTO
Pl ant M cM anus, Georgia Power Co.'s $24 ,000,000 inst allation a t Brunswick, whic h will be formally ded ica ted Ap ril 26. The first 40,000kilowatt un it of t he plant was compl et ed in 1952, a nd final const ruction, to be completed in 1959, will bring th e ca pacity to 115,000 kilowatts. The plant operates on eithe r coal or oil as fuel.

MAMMOTH NEW PL ANT-Archite ct' s sketch shows th e $3,000,000 home of Gordon Foods, In c., which is rising on the South Expressway near Atlant a. It will be one of the largest and most mod ern plan ts in th e nation for the manuf acture of snack items.

Gordon-Sunshine Foods Plant Building At Cost of $3 Million

O ne of th e largest pl an ts in th e U nited Sta tes for th e manufacture of pota to ch ips and ot he r snack it ems is rising on Atlanta's South Expressway .
The structure, to house the plant a nd gene ra l offices of Go rdon Foods, a division of Sunsh ine Biscuits, Inc. , will cost, with eq uipme nt, approximat ely $3,000,000.
Lo ca ted on a 16-acre tract, th e 180,OOO-square-fo ot facility will contain approxima tely 164,000 sq ua re feet of manu facturing floor ar ea . Adj acent to this hu ge st ruc ture, which will be on e sto ry in height, will be a two-story office bu ildin g con ta ining 16,000 squa re feet.
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CONST R UCTION will be of concrete base, stee l fr aming a nd cavity walls. The food processing ar eas will be cove red by dairv tile. The entire inst all ati on will be ~ i r-cond i tioned .
Pa t O'Brien , Gordon president, said th e entire p lant la yout is th e result of extensive resea rch and is design ed to employ th e la test techniques in strea m linin g food produ cti on . With abou t three times th e space of th e presen t Gordon Foods plant on Sylvan Road , th e new facility will req uire about 30 per cen t more per sonnel to op era te.
Mr. O 'Brien said th at th e installa -

tion of new aut om a tic potato chip cookers an d p ackagin g equ ipmen t will ste p up chip p roduction to two tons per hour. Automa t ic ovens in the bak er y di vision will be capable of turning out five a nd one -half to ns of ca kes and cookies per hour, a nd new ma ch iner y will almost double the present producti on of p eanuts, salted nu t meats and peanut butter san d wiches.
A separate buildi ng will acc ommoda te the p lan t's tra nsporta tion dep ar tment.
CLEVELAND'S NEW GARMENT FACTORY STARTS PRODUCTION
Cleveland Ga rm ent Mfg. Co., Clevela nd 's newest industry, is in producti on.
First garme nts bein g ma nufa ctured a re ladies' merceriz ed d resses, but th e firm has a contract for men 's t rou sers whi ch will require five years to com plet e, utilizing mor e th an 200 emp loyees per week.
T he plant is located in buildings formerly occup ied by th e C leveland gra mma r and high schoo ls, wh ere W sewing machines a re op er ating.
John F . Ash, own er of th e finn, sa id a nothe r 150 ma chi nes will be installed .

G EO RGI A D EP AR TMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

April, 1957

NEW WOODRUFF DAM HELD KEY

10 DIXIE'S RICHESI GROWIH

New electric power is crackling across the lines to Georgia, Florida and Alabama from the Ji m Woo druff Lock a nd Dam astride the Georgia-F lorida line.
J a mes W . Woo druff, Sr., threw th e switch to br ing forth the first material benefit from the vast multipurpose deve lopment of the C hattahoo ch ee, Flint and Apalachicola Rivers, whi le representatives of the three states and the U nited States government foretold other blessings that will come when t he enormous waterways project is com pleted.
M r . Woodruff, Columbus industrialist a nd chief booster of th e three- river system for nearly h alf a century, is one of th e few livin g men to be hon or ed by having suc h a maj or p rodu cti on n am ed for him .
SOME 3,500 PEOPLE fr om th e three-st at e a rea assembled to form ally dedi cat e th e $50,000 ,000 dam a nd lock on M a rch 22. They agreed th at complet ion of Wood ruff, th e first step in

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J I M WOODRUFF DAM AND LOCK-This $50 ,000 ,000 installation, th e first phas e of the $190,000,000 three-river development , straddles th e Geor gia-Florida line. Its completion op ens navigat ion to Bainbridge, Geor gia 's first inland port.

th e $190,000,000 water ways development, trig gered an unpreced ented era of prosperity and progress in th e heart of th e Southeast.
The three-riv er development, a federal project being executed by th e U . S. Corps of Engineers, is design ed to provide hydro-electric energy and

waterway transportation to scores of cities and towns, to control flood s and increase the water supply and recreation faciliti es of a trem endous area.
W oodruff D am a nd Lock is ju st below th e con flue nce of th e Ch atta-
(Continued on Page 4 )

AT WOODRUFF DEDICATION-Left to right: Rep. J. L. Pil cher, Governor Marvin Griffin, Assistant Sec re ta ry of th e Arm y Dewey Short, Major Gen. E. C. Itschner, chief of eng ineers , U . S. Army Corps of En gine ers, Senator H erman E. Talmadge, James W . Woodruff, Sr.. Gov. Leroy Collins of Florida, and J ames W. Woodruff Jr.-Sp eeiaJ Newsletter Photos by Ed Fri end .

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G EO R G I A "DE PAR T M EN T OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

Ap ril, 1957

35tate River Development Is 190 Million Dollar Proiect

(Continued from Page 3 ) hooch ee and Flint Ri vers. It is 22 highwa y miles southwest of Bainbridge,
Ga. , and 1Y2 miles north west of Chat-
tahoochee, Fla. T he over -all length of the eart h and conc re te project is abo ut one mile, wit h the dam proper 1,634 feet long an d a max im um height of 67 feet. U
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THE DAM will cr ea te a lak e covering 37,500 acres, with a sho reline of 243 m iles. T he lock, insid e dimen sions of whi ch a re 82 x 450 feet, provides adeq uate depths for mod ern bar ge tr affic. The power plant will produce more th an 200,000,000 kilowatt hou rs of electri c energy a yea r, which is enough to serve abo ut 70,000 homes.
Woodruff Dam and Lock make possible navigation from th e Gulf of M exico to Bainbridge, Ga., on th e Flint, and C olumbia, Ala. , on th e Chattahooch ee. When Fort Gaines (Ga.) Dam and Lo ck and th e Columbia (Ala .) Dam ar e completed in 1962 as th e second phase of th e ba sin de velopment, th e C ha tt a hooc hee wiII be op en to barge traffic to C olumbus, Ga. U lt ima tely Atlanta ma y also become an inland port.
" T his development wiII make possible for our p eople a sta nda rd of living beyond th e exp ectations of the most fertile imagination a decade ago, " declared U. S. Sen. H erman E. Talmadge who with Gov . Marvin G riffin, headed the distinguished Geor gia representation at the dedication.
"I t will provid e econom ic sta ndards which will mak e the per capita income of th e Southeast equ al with , if not beyon d th e n ation al average," Sena tor T almad ge said .
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GOVERNO R GRIFFIN ca lled th e proj ect " the greatest developmen t ca rried out in this part of th e South."
The Georgia Governor spok e of the State Por ts Authority's barge terminal now under const ruction at Bainbridge, "my home town ." H e said completion of th e work there an d th e dr edging of a nine -foot ba rge ch annel th is year would give Georgia its first inland por t.
" Beca use of Georgia's many new dams and reservoirs," Gov ernor Griffin added, " we are rapidly becomi ng one of the nation's top lak e sta tes."

Gov. L eroy Collins of Florida said the three -rivers p roj ect is th e typ e that " kno ws no sta te line s." " It has tre men dous pot en ti als for all three st a te s."
Mr. Wo odruff spoke br iefly as did

GU L F O F M EX I CO

BASIN DEVELOPMENT-V. S. Corps of En gineer s map shows the pl an (shaded are a ) for developing the C hattahoochee , Flint and Apalac hicola Ri ver s for hydroelectric pow er , navigation, recr eation and flood con tro l.
M aj. Gen . E. C. Itschner, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army Corps of En gin eer s.
Geo rg ia Con gressmen a tt ending th e dedi cation were reps. Phil L andrum of
.Jaspe r, J. L. Pilch er, of M eigs, and
Prin ce Pr eston, of Statesboro . Other speakers were U . S. Sen .
Spessa rd H olland and R ep. R obert E. L. Sikes, of Fl orid a ; Li eut. Gov. Gu y H ardwick a nd Rep . George Andrews of Alaba ma, J ack Z. Andrews, assista nt to President Eisenhower, and Dewey Sho r t, assistant secr etary, D epa rt men t of th e Army.

CiREENSBORO CiETS

KNITTINCi PAYROLL

A new industry, to be known as G reensboro K nitting M ills, In c., has been secured for Greensboro.

W . H . M cC ommons, p resident of the

Green sboro Chamber of Commer ce,

said th e firm will manufacture va rious

knitted item s suc h as T-shi r ts. bathing

suits, etc .

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New Industry
In High Gear
At LaGrange
In temporary quarters while its plant bui lding is being rushed to completion , th e new LaGrange operation of In ternational L a tex, In c., is proceeding in high gear.
John Swiatex, pl an t manager, said he expec ts the brassiere manufacturing fir m to be in full ope rat ion in Au gu st .
Th e pil ot pr odu cti on presently under way incl udes all ph ases of br assiere manufacturing. R aw mater ials ar e received, cut, sewn into brassier es, examined, p acked and shippe d to L atex' s headqu arter s a t D over , D el. One hundred and sixty persons a re employed.
M r. Swiatex said em ployment will leap to 450 or 500 up on completion of the plant.

Tours Spotlight Mountain Beauty, Confederate Lore

Greyhound, which conducted special

bus tours to North Georgia last O c-

tober with much suc cess, is repeating

the junkets this sp ring .

T he first, ca lled One D ay D rive

Throu gh Geo rgia Mountain s, is sched-

uled for April 21. It will follow the'

dogwood tr ials from Atl anta to Gaines-

ville, La ke L ani er , Neel Gap, Vogel

Pa rk, La ke Winfield Scott, W ood y

Ga p, D ahl onega an d Sandy Springs.

T ransportation a nd lun ch a t th e Mi lton

H ouse, Blairsville, are in clu ded for $7.

The season 's second tour Ap ril 26.

Conf ed erate M emorial D ay, will cover

th e battlefield s an d cemeteries of the

Atl an ta C ampaign , including Peach tree

C reek, K ennesa w M ountai n, Big Sha n-

ty, Ca r tersville, Lookout Moun tai n.

Chickamauga, D alton and int ermed iat e

points. The $10 cost covers tr ansporta-

tion and lunch a t L ookou t M ountain

Hotel near Chattanooga .

D et ails on these and other scen ic a nd

historic tours mav be had at Greyhound Travel B~reau . 81 Cain St ..

NW, Atla n ta .

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T he plant was sch eduled to be in ope ra tion by mid -April. It wiII emp loy a pproximately 35 p ersons with a minimum yea rly payroll of some $70,000.
J ack Pa tt , will be pl ant m an ager.

NEWSL ET T ER

April, 1957

GEORGIA GAIN LEADS NATION

IN MOST INDUSTRIAL FIELDS

Georgia's rate of progres~ in postwar manufacturing exceeds the national avera ge in nearly all lines of industry.
In such fields as paper and alli ed products, furniture and fixtures, appa rel and related products, food and kindred products, primary and fab rica ted metals, printin g and publishing, and sto ne, clay and glass products, Georgia 's produ cti on betters that of th e U nited States as a whole. says the Atlan ta field office of th e U . S. D epa rtment of Commerce.
Geor gia' s 178 per cen t adva nce in the man ufacture of pap er and allied products sta nds out as the nati on 's la rgest in this field.
THE FEDERAL Depa rtment of Comm erce's report is ba sed on ana lysis of 1947 and 1954 tabul a tions of th e Bur eau of th e Census. (T he Cen sus Bur eau's 1954 Census of M anufacturers, not yet released in its en tir ety, is the lat est pictur e of th e na tion al manufactur ing scene.)
In th e producti on of lumber and wood products, Georgia shows a 14 per cen t gain, against a 72 per een t decl ine for th e nation. Georgia's pr odu cti on va lue in thi s field rose from $88,500,000 to $ 101,000,000 durin g the seven-y ear period.
Elsewhere on th e manufacturing front, Geo rgia registers a gain of 47 per cen t in valu e of furniture and fixtures produced, from $22,700,000 to $33,5 00,000 against 46 per eent for th e nati on.
In paper an d a llied produ cts, th e state's rise is from $54,200,000 to $150,700,000, its 178 per cent u ptrend comparin g with 57 per cen t fo r the U . S.
The increase in food and kindr ed products is 99 per cen t for Georgia , from $ 133,400,000 to $265,000,000, and 48 per cen t for the nation .
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IN APPA REL and related prod ucts, Georgia enjoyed a rise of 57 per cen t fro m $76,200,000 to $ 118,500,000 and th e na tion 16 per cen t.
Printing and publishing, 75 per cent for Geor gia, $32,600,000 to $56,900,000 and 47 per cen t for th e n ation.
St one, clay and glass products, 67 per cent for Georg ia, $26,700,000 to

GEO RG IA AN D U. S. INDUSTRY GAINS

Manufacturing Line
L um ber, W ood Prod ucts Fu rnitu re, Fix tu res Paper, A llied P rod ucts Food Prod ucts A p p a rel Prima ry ,\1 etals Fab ricat ed ,H eials Ston e, C lay, Gla ss Prin ting, Pu blish ing C hemicals T extiles All Goo ds Produced
" Based 0 11 C urr ent R eport U . S. D ept. of C ommerce

Percentage Gain or Loss

GA .

U.S .

+1 4% - 72%

+ 47% + 46%

+ 178 o/t- I + 57 o/t+ 99% I + 48 o/t+ 57% I +1 6% + 88% I + 637f +97% I + 54 % + 67% I + 66%
+ 75 % I + 47%
+5 % I + 77%
-4% - ll %

+57 7f I +57)(

Georgia Output Value Increase
In Millions

$ 88.5 I $ 101 $ 22.7 I $ 33.5 $ 54.2 I $ 150.7 $ 133.4 I $ 265
$ 76.2 I $ ll 8.5
$ 7.8 I $ 14.6
$ 14.9 $ 29.4

$ 26.7 $ 44.6

$ 32.6 $ 77 $ 398

I $ 56.9 I $ 81
$ 382

I $ 1,000

$1 ,600

$44,600,000, and 66 per cent for th e coun try as a whole.
Primary metals, 88 per cent for Georgia, $7,800,000 to $ 14,600,000 a nd 63 per cent for th e nation.
Fabr icated metals, 97 per cen t for th e state, $14,900,000 to $29,400,000 and 54 per cent for th e U. S.
In th e production of chemicals and th eir pr oduct s, Georgia ga ined 5 per cent, from $77,000,000 to $81,000,000, whi le the progress in the nation wa s 77 per cen t.

Georgia, th e Southeast and th e countr y as a whole sha red a decline in th e value of texti le product s. In Georg ia, the decrease wa s 4 per cen t, fr om $398,000,000 to $382,000,000. The na tion al industry's decline is 11 per cen t.
In total value of all ma nufac tur ed goods produced , Georgia reg isters a 57 per cent advance, exa ctly the sam e percentage ga in of th e nation. Georgia's tot al va lue went from $1,000,000,000 to $ 1,600,000,000, accordi ng to th e federa l report.

BAPTIST V I LLAGE-A rchitect's sketch shows ho w th e hom es for retired peopl e being erected by th e Geor gia Baptist Conv ention, will appear wh en completed. The project , locat ed on a hu ge wooded tract on e and on e-half mil es southwes t of Waycross on St at e Route 122, will cost more than $3,000,000 .

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

N EW SL ETTE R

April, 1957

NEW ATLANTA CO-OP PANORAMA

SPOTLIGHTS OLD SOUTH AND NEW

Atla nta Pan orama, a new program d esign ed to a ttract tho usa nds of addition al visitors annually to Georgia and its cap ital city, is being launch ed by t he Atla nt a H otel Assn., in cooperation wit h ot her gro ups.
T he Georgia Chamber of Co m merce, Atl anta Cha mber and the Geo rg ia D ep artm en t of Co mme rce have join ed with th e hotel org a nization in the project, which is said to be the first vent ure of its kind in the co u n t ry.
A major p hase of th e Panorama is to provide visitors to th e At lanta ar ea with a n opportun ity of seeing sites of historic, educationa l and educa tiona l interest.
A second ph ase is design ed espec ially to bring th ousands of Geor gia schoo l ch ildren into Atl anta to acqua int th cm with th e city, its a tt ractions a nd its pr ogr ess.

prepared by th e hotel associa tion, and Mr. St yr on said pla ns hav e been laid to give th e p roj ect na tion wid e publicity.
" We feel confi dent t hat as a result of this p rogram many persons who ot he rwise might come to Atlanta by themselves will hereaft er bring their families so they ma y enjoy th e attractions embrace d in our P an o-

rama," he said. In its letter to schoo l pri nci pa ls th e
associa tion said: " It is our bel ief th at a visit to Geor-
gia's ca pita l city not only would pro\"(' of grea t inter est to your pupils, bu t it also would help give th em a better understanding of sta te gove rnme n t ill whi ch so man v of th em la tcr a rc destin ed to pla y ~ part ."

STEVE STYRON, exec utive vicepr esident of th e hot el assoc ia tion, said invitation s h ave been sen t to high schoo ls throu gh out th e sta te invitin g th eir classes to mak e a weekend visit to At lanta one of th eir projects for th e sp ring .
T o make th is pil grimage possible with the least mo ne tary expe ndi ture. th e hot els ha ve ini tiated a schedule of minimum acco mmo da tion ra tes for stude nts and te ac he rs.
In addition , an espec ially-des igned Old South-New South tour has been prepared for school gro ups at p erhaps the lowest pri ce ever offere d for a sim ilar tour. If students a nd te achers prefer, Mr. St yron said, th e tou r can be rev ised to in clude points pa r ti cul arly desir ed by the gro up a t th e same cost.

The regul ar bu s tour for hot el ad ult

guests and families will be offered eac h

afte rnoon du rin g th e week a nd will last

for three and one-ha lf hours. This tour

will include suc h ou tsta ndi ng points of

interest as Ston e M ountain . th e Cvc lo-

rarna, Geor gia T ech, Em ory U nivers ity.

Agn es Scott Coll ege, State C apitol.

Citv H all a nd th e residential an d in-

du strial areas.

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BROCH URES in color describing

th e tour and other spots of in terest

throughou t th e Atlan ta ar ea h ave been

F I RS T T O R OLL-A. L . D avenport, m a nager of Casa Manana of Georgia , In c., new Waycross ind ustry, sta nds beside the first Georgia-ma de mo bile home to come from the plant' s assembly lin e. T he plan t will soon double its presen t em ploymen t, 32 Ware Coun tians, and turn out four comple te house tra ilers per da y, M r. Davenport said .

CITY OF ROSES PLANS BIGGEST BLOOM FESTIVAL
T homasville, Geor gia 's nation ally known City of R oses, says its 36th annual Rose Festiv al will be th e most colorf u l vet .
The ~eleb rat io n will sta r t with a street dan ce Thursda y night, Ap ril 25, a nd continue through th e weekend. A giga n tic street parad e on F rid ay will fea ture 20 bands, 40 spec tac ula r floats a nd dozen s of beauties representing cities through out south Geor gia a nd nor th 'Florid a. Fr om a mo ng th e latter will be selected " M iss Deep South ."
The tour of th e 34-scenic and historic plantations whi ch surround Thomasville will include Mil estone, th e hunting retreat of U . S. Treasurv-Secretarv George M . Humph rey wh er~ Pr esident Eisenhower hunts qu ail.

TRAILMOBILE BEGINS NEW ATLANTA PLANT
Trailmobi le, Inc., on e of th e nation 's lar gest manufact ur ers of tru ck tr ailer s. is const ruc ting a new sou the rn sales and service p lant in Atl anta.
The install ation , to cost $400,000, is located on Ari zona Ave.. N. E. Completi on is schedule for Dec. 1.
Thc pl ant will serve as head qu arters for both T railmobil e' s Atlan ta br an ch and its division whi ch includes Georgia . Alab a ma. 'Florida a nd Lou isian a .
NEW DAIRY CO-OP
Gold en Isles Dairy Co -op, organized by six Glynn and McIntosh County dairymen , has purch a sed the new pl ant an d equipme n t of th e ju st- established Co astal D airi es at Brunswick. Geor ge Blackburn is president of th e new firm .

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NEWSLETTER

April, 1957

TEXTILES TOP GEORGIA INDUSTRY;

ANNUAL PAYROLL $300 MILLION

By L. G. HARDMAN, JR.
The textile industry by far is Georgia 's largest employer.
The texti le mills in our state em ploy more than twice as many men and women as the next largest indus trial group.
More than 105,000 Ge orgians are directly employed in textile mills operating in more than 60 counties. These employees bring home an annual payroll of about $300 ,000,000. The weekly payroll is upwards of $6,000,000.
The imp act of th e textile industr y on Georg ia's econo mic and social development obviously is tr em end ou s. The figu res I have just listed strong ly indi ca te th at vir tually every resident of th e sta tc in some way is di rectl y aff ected by th e indust ry.
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THE WAYS in whi ch our mill s tou ch on th e lives of all ou r citizens a rc too numerou s to cite. H owever, a few spec ific exa mples may be inter estin g.
For instance, imagine what would happen to th e economy of dozens of Georgia towns and cities if suddenly there was no textile payroll. The resuits obviously would be disastrous since many communities in our state are buiIt around the ver y sound economic foundations made possible by th e textile industry.
Further, th e textile industr y tod ay is the best custome r of th e Geo rg ia farmer. T he consump tion of raw cotton by Geo rg ia' s mills is three times th e tot al pr odu cti on of all our sta te's cot ton farms. Wh at would happen to th e cotton market if sudden ly the re were no cotto n mills to purch ase th e fluff y fiber th at had been harvested a nd gin ned in Geo rgia?
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ACTUALLY, th e textile industr y for more th an a cent ury has pl ayed a pr ominent role in Georgia's economy. H owever , so far as tim e is concerned, text ile mill s a re fairly new to th e GeorgIa scene.
The first Georgia mill was put in operation on U pton Creek in Wilkes County in 1810. From that beginning, our textile industry today has climbed to the lofty position of the third largest in th e U n ited States.

L. G. H ardman, [ r., is president of the American Cotto n iVIanuiacturers In stitut e, central t rade association for th e tex tile ind ust. ryin th e U nitrd St at es.

H e is president of Ha rm on y G rove ,VI i l l s , l nc ., at Co m m erce, Ga.

H is late fath er was th e distinguished 67th governor of Georgia.

L. G. Hardman, Jr.

Only North Carolina and South Carolina are larger textile producers than Georgia.
In fact, four states, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina have considerably more than half thi s country's textile industry. In connection with this, it is interesting to note that today the South ha s about 87 per cent of th e U nited States' textile industry.
I think th e peopl e of th is region call ju stly be p roud of thi s industrial record.
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THE TEXTILE industry in thi s area has rem ain ed strong becau se th e peopl e h ave stood firml y behind th eir

mills a nd p ayr olls. Georgia ns, for exa mple, have alw ays don e an outstanding job of delivering hi gh qu ality work man ship and outsta nd ing citizenship. I since re ly believe th at our mills will remain stro ng a nd progr essive as lon g as th ey a rc blessed with such splendid employees and fri endly neighbor s.
I am confident that Georgia's oth er manufacturing enterprises share thi s feeling with th e textile industry. And speaking of other industries, Georgia's textile plants are proud to be a part of our state's overall industrial community and always are happy to cooperate in endeavors designed to improve the position of our state and its citizens.
Georgia's growth and progr ess truly has been inspirin g for all our cit izen s and I think th at this pride is felt particul arly in our textile industry wh er e tod ay some of th e most gla mo rous fabrics mad e any where in th e world a re being p roduced . Geor gia fabrics a re now being sold through out th e world for hundred s of uses.
The textile indust ry is proud to be a part of Geo rg ia's econo mic and social life. 'Fu r ther, we in th e textile indu str y can say with all honesty and humility th at we since rely feel th at our contribu tion to Georg ia is substa ntial.

TOWELS FOR THE WORLD-The young lady is putting the final stitching on towel s made from cotton into handsome finished products at Dundee Mills, Griffin, one of G eorgia's num erous textile plants. Our textile payroll is $300 million a year.

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NEWSLETTER

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April, 1957

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

Atlanta's Piedmont H ospit al h as moved to its new $5,000,000 plant on Pea ch tree .. . Wilkes (C oun ty ) T eleph on e & El ectric Co., Washington, received an REA loan of $107,000 for ex pansion ... Youngbl ood V an & Storage Co., Inc., of Columbus, h as occu pied it s newly-built wa re ho use at Valdosta . . . Molasses Industries, In c., new fac ility a t Savannah St at e Docks, is receiving molasses shipme nts from Cuba .
Marietta has a ne w disposal pla n t, built a t a cost of $ 1,400,000 .. . G roun d has been broken for a $95,000 building for th e N ation al Bank of Fort Benning . . Am erican Cyanamid Co. is in creasing facilit ies a t it s V aldosta pl ant . . A lO-stor y p arking ga rage is near comp letion in downtown Athens . . . Tom Mitch ell, Atlanta Bui ck dealer, is in n ew headqu ar ters a t Peachtree and Pied mont.
Atlanta Pap er Co. has acquire d ownership of Palm Contain er Co., Mi ami, Fla . . . . Waco will insta ll a water system . . . Thomaston Citizen s & Southern Bank is erecting a new building . . . Hart County REA is in a new building at Hartwell .. . Telfair County voters approved a $300,000 schoo l bond issue . . . Cochran has install ed 200 parking meter s . . . Allenw ood M otel, Louisville, is adding several units . . Cherokee County Librar y h as acquired a building in Canton.
Kingland's Ca md en Hotel was boug h t by Wilbur Sheffield . . . Homerville T eleph on e Co. is erecting new buildings at Homerville and Fargo . . . The 300-room DeSot o, pio neer Savan-
nah hot el, has been sold by J. B. Pound
Hot el Co . to H otel De Soto Corp.
Cordele Ne h i Beverage Co. is adding to its plant . . . Co lonial Stor es is building a new supermarket a t Cartersville . . . Con solid ated T eleph on e C o. has inst alled dial phon es a t Moultrie . . Tifton's Big Sto re is in a modern new building . .. R. F . Strickland Co ., Concord, has purch ased A. A. Bri tt Fertilizer Plan t a t Thomaston.
Tom Gilmo re, vetera n Atlanta newspap er adver tising execu tive, is new business ma nager of th e Atlanta n H otel . . . Washington's new $4 20,000 sewer system will in clude disposal pl ant and three pumping sta tions . . . Georgia Educati on Assn. plans a hu ge headqu a rt ers building in Atlanta . . . Macon 's 'F irst Nation al Bank & Trust Co. has ope ned a sou thside bran ch.
Marietta h as a new Sear s, Roebuck & Co. store . . . Sp ring activities ar e

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NEW DALTON U NIT-New plant of M ayf air Chen illes, In c., at D alton, which fini shes and ships tufted automobile upholst ery manufactured in nearby C alho un.

MAYFAIR OPENS NEW PLANT AT DALTON TO FINISH CALHOUN-MADE CHENILLE PRODUCTS

M ayfai r Chenill es, Inc., a division of Collin s & Aikm an Co rp. , is in its new pl ant at D alton .
W. H . Sp ark s, M ayfai r dire ctor a nd manager of th e new unit, says th e p lant finishes and ships tufted upho lster y manufactured in th e M ayfai r p roduction pl ant at nearb y Calho un.
The new plant, con taining 12,500 square feet of floor space, is of brick a nd stee l const ruction. It is situated on 12 acres of land with rai lroad siding

available. Mr. Sparks said the insta lla tion will soon add a laboratory an d resea rch department.
Co llins & Aikman specializes in th e ma nufacture of tufted upholstery used in the automobile trade. T he materia l used in viscose an d nylon blen d .
Besides its Dalton and C alho un installa tions , th e corpora tion has pl ant s in No r th Carolina, R hod e Isla nd and Canada. The hom e office is in Ne w Yor k C ity.

under wa y at Id a Cason Callaway Ga rden s nca r Chipley . . . Broadlands Prop erties, Atlanta , has erected a $300,000 building on Peachtree to be leased to Armco D rain age & Meta l Product s Co. . .. Houston County H ospital Authority has selecte d Warner Robins as site for a proposed 60-be d Hill-Burton hospit al.
Lavonia h as built a muni cipal airport . . . Hart County H ospit al, H a rtwell, is construc ting an addition .. . A
$400,000 constru ction progr a m an-
nounced by Sou th Atlanti c Gas Co .,
Savannah, will incl ude service to Hun-
ter Air Force Base . . . D eKalb C ounty
has ope ned a new health cen te r on

Rogers St., East Atlanta . . . Albany Citizen s & Sout he rn Bank has adde d a dr ive-in annex . . . Ri chland's City H all, V eterans Serv ice offi ce and th e Stewa r t Coun ty Li bra r y have moved to a new bu ildi ng in Ri chl and.
Haddock-G ra y T eleph on e Co . let a $323 ,000 con trac t to improve its facilities in Jones an d Baldwin C ounties ... Army R eserve Cen ters will be built at Savannah, For t V alley an d Sandersville . . . A National Guard Armory is to be bu ilt at Quitman . .. Brunswick's D eck R est aur ant has added a bui lding . . . K en ned y Constru ction Co ., K en ned y Engineeri ng Co ., an d K enned y-F olsom Transpor t Co . h ave offices in a new building in Ashburn.

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NEWSLETTER

M a y, 1957

NEWSLET1"'ER

Me m ber G,o reia Press Associatio n
Published monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Go ve r n o r BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Ch airman T . C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS
BEN J ESSU I' TRAMMELL MciNTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER
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FRED D. MOON Editor

Vol. 8, No.7

May, 1957

GARMENT PLANT TO OPEN SOON IN WASHINGTON
A new corpora tion, mad e up of 20 Wi lkes County firm s and individu als, will open a pl an t to manufactu re sportswea r in W ashin gt on . I t will p rovide 75 job s.
The pl ant, operated by .J. M . M ar-
cott e, is bein g moved to W ashingt on from T allap oosa . M r. M a rcotte will be sales man ager of th e new corpora tion .
M a chinery for th e facilit y is bein g insta lled in 7,500 squa re feet of space in th e second floor of th e Ga rra rd Bldg. on J efferson St. The first floor of the building will continue to be occup ied by Bu Gay Plastics Co.

RUBBER PLANT OPENS
Dedi cation of T allap oosa' s community-built $ 175,000 Pequa noc Ru bber Co. p lant was held M ay 15. The plant, whi ch has machiner y va lued a t $750,000 , was construc ted for Pequan oc, subsidiary of th e Am eri ca n H ard Rubber Co., as a resul t of T allap oosa's drive to obtain an industry.
COVER PHOTO
The fish bit e th e year a round in Georgia - all over Georgia - a nd right now th ey' re bi ting bett er tha n ever ! There's a fishin g story on Page 5 of thi s edition th at will mak e you it ch to wet your hook. -Cover photo by Ed F riend

V ALDOSTA MUNICI PAL CENTER-Architect's rendition shows the new cit y adm inistration building and jail that ar e plann ed at Valdosta. The small stru ctur e at left , a fire station, is a proposed future developm ent . The center, to be locat ed on the west side of Toombs St., was provided for in a recent $400,000 bond issue. T he Va ldosta firm
of Felton Davis, architect, Vernon O . Blackburn , associat e, prepared th e plans.

GEORGIA SALES TO U. S.
TOP $2 BILLION MARK

Georgia business firm s h ave sold to th e Un ited St at es govern men t ove r tw o billion dolla rs worth of goods an d services und er th e national defense progra m .
From th e beginning of th e K or ean ' Varin 1950 thro ugh last yea r, contr acts wer e a wa rded in th e sta te totalling $ 1,987,503,000. This was th e lar g-
CAROLINA FIRM TO OPEN PLANT AT LINCOLNTON
A new manufacturin g concern is remodeling the plant of th e old L incoln ton U nder wea r Co., in p rep aration for a n ea rly opening .
Clark Mfg. Co., of Colu mb ia, S. C ., which will manufacture blou ses, will begin opera tions with some 50 employees. The p ayroll is expe cted to rise to 100 or 125 when full produ ction is at taine d .
The new industry was secured main ly through th e efforts of th e Lincoln County Indust rial Corp., of which C. A. Perr ym an is president, in co-ope ration with th e Lin coln County C ha mber of Commer ce, wh ich George C . Lev-
erette, Jr. head s.

est amoun t in th e Southeast and 17th in th e nati on .
From the Air Force ca me cont racts to talling $ 1,289,3 15,000; Army, $527,026,000 ; N a v y, $166 ,097 ,000 ; and Armed Services Pet roleum Purch asing Agen cy, $5,065,000.
During th e firs t quarter of 1957, 90 contrac ts with a valu e of $36, 113,783 were awarded in Georgia, brin ging th e state's cumu la tive total to $2,023,616,783.
In March alone, Geor gia firm s received 32 con tracts calling for $16,727,054 worth of goods a nd services.
Uncle Sam 's pu rch ases mad e in Geo rgia in cluded food products, a ppar el, textiles, wood ma nufa cturers, a i r P la n e construction, electronics, pain ts a nd nu merou s other commod ities, as well as millions of doll ar s paid in a rchitectu ra l, eng inee ring a nd construc tion services in con nec tion with mili tar y install ati on s in th e sta te.
GUM PLANT REOPENS
Sh elton Naval Stor es Co., V ald ost a, has resum ed op er ati on in a new mod ern gum p rocessing pl ant whi ch, according to owner Geor ge Sh elt on, is th e lat est in suc h inst all ations. The firm's old pl ant burned last O ctober , with a loss of $60,000. The new plant is all-steel cc nstruc tion.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETT ER

M ay, 1957

GEORGIAMADE TUFTED SPREAD
NOW $300 MILLION INDUSTRY

The great national tufted textil e industry originated in Georgia, develope d h ere, a nd despite its fab ulous growth, has never lost a ny of its appealing local characte rist ics.

Now a half-cen tury old, bu t mechanized only since th e mid-1930's, the industr y toda y turns out floor coverings, bedspreads, robes and upholste ry valued in excess of $300,000,000 annually. Of thi s output, at lea st $268,000,000 is produced in Geo rg ia.

Geor gia has 105 of thc nation's 175 tufting plants and 15,000 of th c industr y's 20,000 workers, Centered in and aro und Dalton, wher e tufting manu facture was born and br ed , ar c G ~ plants with 12,000 employees.
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THE ANNUAL PAY to tu ftin g plant emp loyees in th e sta te comes to $5 0 ,000 ,00 0.
The above figures a re for tuft ing pl ants only a nd do not in clude nu merous mill s whi ch devot e th eir en tire ou tput of yarn , sheeting , du ck, latices, etc. to th e tu fting indust ry and a rc con sidere d a pa rt of it.
The or igin of all of t his sprawling industry can be traced to 1895, whe n a young W hitfield Co unty fa rm girl, Cathe rine Evans (now Mrs. W. L.

MODER N METHOD- This gian t elec tr onic carpet tuf tin g ma chine, which repl aces hundreds of old-time hand tufters, is one of th e reasons why the Georg ia-born industr y is now a $300,000 ,000 business. F ifte en th ousand workers in th e state's 175 tufting plants dr aw wages of $50,000 ,000 a year. The industry is centered in Dalto n.

White ner, of Dalt on ), duplicated an heirl oom bedspread w h i e h re pre sente d a lost a rt of the ea rly colonists- tufting .
She used pie pl ates an d pencils for dra win g th e design s, wound cotton ya rn on corn cobs to ply it , sewed tufts wit h a bodkin needle, cut stitches one by one, then laundered the spread in an iron was hpot and hung it in th e sunshine to blea ch.
Mi ss Evan s sold her fir st spread for $2.50 and thi s was th e beginning of one of Georgia's most colorful bu sinesses.

For two whole decad es, severa l Dalton hou sewives had th e bu siness to th emselves, op era ting fr om ba ckroom wor kshops and selling th eir handicraft from clotheslines a t th e roadside. When th e dema nd con tinued to gr ow, th eir hu sband s left th eir jobs to devote full-time effor ts to developing t he bedspread market fu rther.
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FR OM 1920 to 1930, h and-tufted pr oducts enjoyed th eir heyday. Then th e minimum wage and hou r laws came into effect, exped iting the perfection of mach iner y to ha ndl e much of the tufting operation. Between 1930 and 1935, both th -: needle -p un ch and th e tufting mach ine were introduced, revoluti onizi ng th e coun try hand icraft. By 1946 th e first ma chin e cap able of turning out a six-foot seamless ca rpe t appe ared, followed th er eby by larger units. T od ay, car pe ting ca n be tufted in widths up to 18 feet and a t th e ra te of ab out 360 squa re ya rds per hour, rou ghl y 20 times th e production rate of th e conve n tional ca rpet loom .

" BEDS PREA D BO ULEV ARD"-Scenes lik e thi s were fami liar in Northwest Georg ia ba ck in th e days when th e tufte d textil e industr y was a hom ecr aft and men and wome n
who pli ed it sold their colorful products from ' porches and cloth eslin es.

In recen t years, introduction of a n electronically-controlled pattern attachment that produces un limited sculpt u red , floral or scro ll design s directly onto the face of the carpet, has opened up new ave nues for sty ling .
Tuft ed bedspreads, forerunners of all tufted products, have also come in for t heir sha re of mechanizati on over th e years . Lik e ca rpe ting, th ey
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GEO RGIA D EP ART MEN T OF COMMERC E

NEWSLETTER

May, 195i

DIXIE LILY BUILDING HUGE MILL

AT DAWSON; MEAL BOOM SEEN

BEAUTY FOR BRUNSWICK-Design for th e new post offic e and fed eral building at Brunswick, wh ich has been approved by the General Services Administ ration, is th e work of Abreu & R obeson, I nc. , Brunswick architectural firm . The structure, to be
built under lease-purch ase legis lation, has an estimated overall cost of $1,431 ,000. The multi -purpose structure, finish ed with gran ite, brick an d coq uina rock over reinforce d concrete, will contain approximately 42,000 square feet of work space, and will feature air-conditioning, rap id elevator servi ce and fIourescent lig hting.

Tufted Textiles Big Industry

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too can be produced in any number of intrinsic designs in one operation. In spite of their enhanced quality and styling, however, tufted spreads have not undergone any great retail price cha nge in recent yea rs. Sav ings in production costs have enab led manufacturers to ma intain a
DIXIE CORP. PLANS NEW PLANT AT ROME
Dixie Aluminum Corp. will start constru ction of a new fab rica ted part s plant at Rome.
The 45,000 squar e-foot fa cility will be bu ilt adjacent to Dixie' s existing buildings on North Banks St.
Ben W . Smith, Jr., vice-preside nt and divi sion man ager , said the fabrica tion plant, whi ch will serve th e automoti ve and appliance industries, will be in operation by early November . Around $300,000 wor th of equipmen t will be insta lled.
The new facilit y will provide eventual employmen t for some 60 to 80 men and women, M r . Smith said .

steady an d competitive price level.
Not to be overlooked as a con tribu ting facto r in th e industry's p rogr ess are th e va rio us man-made fiber s which have become available, and whi ch have brou ght to ca rpe ting and bedspr ead s such features as soil resistance, greater resilien cy, sheen and fre edom from lint.
Besides the tufting production plants themselves, allied firms who se supplies have found a sizeable outlet in th e Dalton area, have erec ted plants in Northwest Georgia to better serve th e industry. These include manufacturers of yarns, shee ting, du ck, jute, cones, lat ices, packing materials and any number of other products.
It has been truly sa id th at "birth of the tufting industry meant birth of a hundred industri es"-and th eir hom e is Georgi a.
ARABI WAREHOUSE Th e new cotton storage warehouse,
of concrete and steel construction, containing 10,000 square feet , has been erected at M cKinney Cotton Gin a t Arabi . The structure, capable of accommoda ting 2,000 bales, will be used to store government-loan cotton,

Dixi e Li ly Mill ing Co ., with home offices in Tampa, Fla., is constructing a mammoth grain elevator and mill on a 45-acre tract a t Dawson.
The plant will be capable of handlin g 100,000 bushels of corn with plan s to enlarge to 500,000 bushels as necessity dem ands.
Cecil W. Webb, own er of th e Dixie Lily firm , said the cha in's mills in Florida alr ead y are processing mo re than a million bushels of wh ite corn for meal per yea r. The or ganiz ati on has 1,400 employees and its 200 tru cks supply grocery stores throughout Florida.
M ar vin Farmer , who form erl y lived in T err ell County, will tran sfer from th e J acksonville plan t to man age th e D awson insta ilation.
Dixie L ily recently acq uired th e Ph illips M illing Ce ., in Tifton, and is con templati ng further expansion in Geor gia .
KAISER DOUBLES CONYERS QUARTERS
K aiser Aluminum & Ch emi cal Sales, In c., one of Ro ckdale County's newest bu sinesses, has completed an addition whi ch doubles th e size of its quarters.
The new facilit y has approximate ly 15,000 squ are feet of floor space, and in addition i5,000 square feet wa s added to the yard for storing irrigation tubing.
Kaiser located in Conyer s in J uly of 1956. In creased sales activity and the purchase of the Wire Division of th e United States Rubber Co. brought about expansion.
The firm ca rries a complete line of roofing aluminum products and all typ es of electrical wire.
GEORGIANS RIDE UP LOTS OF GASOLINE
Georgians last year consumed 1,169,369,000 gallons of gasoline, some 65,000,000 gallons more than the y used in 1955, says the Petroleum Association of Georgia .
Georgia ranked 18th among th e sta tes as th e nation consumed a total of 56,000,000,000 gallons in 1956.

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NEWSLETTER

May, 1957

GEORGIA HAS THE FISH TO FIT

EVERY HOOK THE ANGLER DIPS!

When General Oglethorpe's colonists sett led in Georgia, th ey found themselves in a fisherman's paradise.
Today, even though mor e than two centuries have pas sed , Georgia 's fishing story is still a fascinating one.
North Georgia streams ar e a foun tainhead of trout. Thirty impoundments and over 40,000 farm ponds and lak es furnish homes for trillions of bass and bre am. Native fish teem in rivers and creeks all up and down the vast and undulating state, and the coastal waters abound in a wid e variety of fish that are as gam e on the hook as th ey are delectable in the frying pan.
If everyone in Georgia seems to be a fisherman or fisherwoman, th ere's a mighty good reaso n. Georgia has the fish to fit every angler's hook!
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IN THE APPALACHIAN moun tai ns in the state's wild northeast, ar e 17 managed streams where rainbow, brook and brown trout are stocked for the convenience of fishermen . In addi tion, there are over 700 "open" str eams where native trout swim and live in sections far remove d from the congestion of urban life.
Georgia's warm water lake s extend from its rigid northern border to the Atlantic Ocean. From the northeast corner, where Lake Burton, Lake Rabun, Lake Nacoochee, Tallulah Lake, Lake Tugalo, Lake Yonah, Lake Lanier and Allatoona furnish fishermen with an abundance of bass, bream, crappie and perch, to Billy's Lake in the dark and picturesque Okefenokee Swamp, fishermen enjo y an gling in productive water, found in few places in th e nation.
Cl ark Hill R eservoir, which borders Sou th Carolin a near Augusta, is one of the state's top fishing spots . H ere, fishermen from all over th e nation find bass, bream an d crappie very coope rative in filling their stringers.
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FURTHER SOUTH, La ke J ackson and Sinclair give th e people of middle Georgia an oppor tu nity to fish for th eir favo rite game fish. Bar tlett's Ferry and Goat' s R ock L ak es, which border Alab ama on th e west , and th e new Jim Woodruff R eservoir join the

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PROOF THAT THEY BITE! -After a little better th an an hour's Iislung, nus triO gre w weary of hauling in sea trout and called it a day. They ar e Ed Gayner, IlL, pr esident of Brunswick Pulp and Paper Mill , M rs. Ed Friend , wife of NEW SLETTER 's photographer, and little Donna Friend . The scene : Geor gia 's grea t fishing coast near
Brunswick.

network of reservoirs and offer game of all sorts.
These are th e major lakes. There are more. Blue Ridge Lake, for example, and Lake Blackshear are two spots frequently visited by men with baited hooks.
All of th ese lak es playa great role in Georgia's fishing story . In most cases, tourist facilities ma y be found on the apron of all th ese lake s. Motels, fishing camps, boat docks and bait houses are conv eniently placed in certain spot s on the shore so fishermen may set up camp or purchase needed items with a minimum of trouble.
In th e great O kefenok ee, fishing is excellent. Through th e narrow passageways of growth -invested cha nnels a fisher man may find a clear pool where bass, bream, stump -knocker and ot her native fish abo und .
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WITHOUT R I V E R S , Georgia's lakes and impoundments wou ld be impossible. From its mountaino us north ern end to th e sea, great rivers spri ng up and grow until th ey empty their con tents into salt wa ter .
The Chattahoochee, of which Sid ney Lanier wrote, the Etowah, Savannah, Ogeechee, and Altamaha rivers offer largemouth and smal l-

mouth bass, crappie, br eam and other fish. Smaller, yet equally productive riv ers, furnish sport fishin g for millions of anglers each year.
Farm ponds in Georgia are multiplying swiftl y each year. Now, th ere are over 40,000 stocked ponds in th e state where fishing privileges are extended to anglers. So far in 1957, fishin g has bee n exceptional in ponds, especially in the central plains region .
'From th e flounder to th e acroba tic blue marlin of tropica l waters, Georgia's salt water fish ar e game and cocky. T arp on, wea dfish, stri ped bass, cha nnel bass, kingfish, blu efish and flounders follow th e coastal waters to Georgia fro m point s as far away as Maine and California.
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COASTAL FISHING along Georgia's sout hern bor der compares with any in the Atlantic. H und reds of species roam in th e briny wa ter , mak ing it possible for fishermen to land load s of salt-water lovers every day.
The Georgia G ame and Fish Commission plays an importa nt role in Georgia's fishing story . With out the research an d administr atio n provided by the com mission, th e state's abundance of ga me and fish would not ap proach wha t it is today.

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GE ORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

M ay, 1957

GEORGIA AND DIXIE BUSINESS HITS NEW PEACETIME RECORDS

State's Gains In 1956 Better Peak Year '55

Major segm ents of Georgia busi ness hit new p eacetime high records last yea r, according to fin al figures ju st released by the Atlanta field office of th e U. S. D epartment of Com-

merc e.

The gains made in 1956 substan-

tially exceeded those of 1955, re-

garded as th e "peak" business yea r

since World War II, the fed eral

agency said.

F ed eral R eserve member ba n ks in

Georgia had on dep osit some $ 1.6 bil-

lion as the year closed, and loan s ou t-

standing approximated $821.6 milli on ,

with dep osits in creasing 2.2 per cen t

over 1955 and loan s 9.3 per cen t.

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THE 13 PRINCIPAL C IT IES in th e sta te recor ded bank debits at $26.3 billion , or 6.6 per cen t above those of 1955, with nearl y all of th e area s registerin g gains.
Georgia's ret ail mer chants shared in a ra ther gene ral advance in sales as tr an saction s in th e South, exclusive of th e lar ge chains, excee ded th e $39.7 billion level, or 3 p er cent better th an th e tot al of th e pr evious year.
In addition, four of six large citi es - Atlan ta, Macon, Rome and Sa vannah- saw increases in department

store trade with the state as a whole realizing a 2 p er cent gain in that division of trading.
All lin es of wholesaling in the region were on th e uptrend, ranging from a 1 per cent gain in electronic parts to as high as 14 per cent in electrical appliances and drugs.
T elep hones in oper ation skyro cketed to nea rly three-qua rt ers of a m illion, with increa ses not ed in number of both residen tial and bu siness ph ones.
The nu mber of wage aqd sala ry wor kers in manufacturin g pl ants ' was also up , th e yea r closing with 334,300 produ cing th e man y goods turned ou t in Geor gia's m anufacturing industries.
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THE YEAR brou ght mor e th an 2,000 new bu siness corpora tions to th e sta te, a gain of mor e th an 4 per cen t ove r 1955, an d th e producti on of electri c enc rgy for utility and industri al purpos es excee de d 9.7 billion kilowa tt hou rs, also a sharp ri se over 1955.
Georgia's customs district, com prising the ports of Savannah, Brunswick and Atlanta, led th e Southeast in rate of gain in total value of products handled to and from other countries, and in importations, while exports passing through the three ports were also 27 per cent gr eater than in 1955.
Railroads serv ing the state experienced a 5 per cen t gain in freight revenue and a 3 per cent rise in passenger traffic.
Georgia con tinue d to lead th e nati on
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SUCCESS ST O R Y- I n this ne w plant at Mt. Zion, Ray Sewell Mfg. Co ., is em ploying 40 Carroll Countians in th e manufacture of m en 's high-grade slacks, and will soon go from one to two production lin es. The plant wa s obt ained through th e efforts of Mt. Zion D evelopment Corp., whi ch solicite d funds from th e to wn' s 250 r esid ents to start th e building. The 7,000 sq uare-foot plant with equipme nt is valued at $40, 000. Mt, Zion believes it is th e small est incorporated town in G eor gia to acquire suc h an industry.

Federal Survey Finds Economy Of Area Soars

Final figures on 1956 business

operations in the Southeast-Geor -

gia , Alabama, Florida, Mi ssissippi ,

Tennessee and th e Carolinas-show

new high marks in most of the re-

gion' s economy, the U . S. D epart-

ment of Commerce says.

Federal R eserve banks in five of

the states, G eor gia, Alabama, Flor-

ida, Mi ssissippi and Tennessee, re -

ported increases in both deposits and

loans. The average gain in deposits

wa s 4.5 per cent and that of loans,

11 per cent.

Debits in all of th e seven sta tes

showed a 9 per cen t rise.

In retail trad e, th e region enjoyed

a 3 per cen t adv ance in dollar volume

ac tivity . N ea rly all division s of re-

tailing particip ated in th e tot al of $39.7

billion in sales.
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WHOLESALE SALES were gener ally up ward , increases ranging from 1 to 14 per cent in various lines.
All of the states reported gains in department store sales.
The number of wage and salary workers in manufacturing increased by 2 per cent, and at the yea r's en d 1,750,000 pe rsons were working in the region 's industries.
The yea r br ought 17,000 new business corpo rations in th e Southeast , a 10 p er cent rise over 1955.
The number of business and residential telephones, another criterion prosperity trends, rose from 8 to 10 per cent, respectively. Nearlv 4.000,000 telephones were in op eration.
O verall cash receipts to fa rmer s in th e region adv ance d 2 per cent. T he seven sta tes coun ted more th an $4,000,000 ,000 in cash returns fro m crops and livest oc k .
R ail ro ad s repo rted gains in both freight and p assen ger reven ues, th e former tot allin g nearl y $1,250,000,000.
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in comme rc ial chicken production , it s h at ch eries turning ou t 233.8 milli on bab y chicks for broiler and other pu rposes, a rise of 17 per cent over 1955.
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COM M ER C I A L slaughtering hou ses in the sta te wer e busy, too, more th an two and a h alf million hogs, cattle a nd calves moving to th e kill to supply mea t for the table. T he nu mb er of hogs slaug h tered, one of th e nation's largest number, showed a sha rp rise over th e pr eviou s year, but slight declin es came in ca tt le and calf slau ghterings.
Cash returns to farmers for their products wer e down a sha de, dropping from $655.9 million in 1955 to $655.3 million last yea r. In th e construction field , whil e th e year brought a sligh t drop in th e overall picture, contractors were kept bus y. In th e first 11 months, th e va lue of all construction reflected in building permits was placed at $237 .1 million. In the year as a whole, 16,275 permits were issued for new dw elling units in areas requiring such permits. Construction contractors employed 54,600 persons, an 8 p er cent rise over 1955.
Pine producti on a nd shipments wer e off some, as wa s ac tivity in the tex tile field, and a sligh t rise in gener al unemployme n t ca me with a 4.8 per cen t gain in weekly insured un employment. The consump tion of pulpwood in pa per -m aking in th e region was up .
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struction whi ch began in 1955 continued th rough out ~10s t of 1956 with th e result that the region showed a loss of 16 per cen t in numb er of new bui ldings a uthorized a nd a 2 per cen t dr op in tot al construc tion va lue .
The upward spiral in output of electric ene rgy con tinued as industri alization of th e region was accelera ted. An 11.2 p er cen t increase was shown over the p receed ing year.
In for eign trad e, th e six custom distri cts, Geor gia, 'F lorida, M obi le, New Orlea ns a nd th e Carolinas, sha red a 23.6 per cen t ga in in value of expo rts an d an advance of 9.2 per cen t in im port va lues.

M ay, 1957

FAST-GROWING INDUSTRY-Plant of Sou thwire Co ., Carrollton, which began with 10,000 square feet in 1950 and has now grown to 200,000. The firm , th e only one in Georgia manufacturing wir e and cabl e, turns out aluminum, copper an d steel products for the electrical industry. The plant employs 262 persons, has an annual payroll of $800,000 and its sales last year totalled $12,000,000. Roy Richards is president.

Griffin Allocates
$971,000 to Mend
Dome of Capitol
The dome of Georgia's Cap itol, b atter ed a nd weak en ed by th e winds an d rain s of 68 years, will soon be rebuilt better th an new.
Gov. Marvin Griffin has allocated $9 71,000 to rep air and mod ern ize th e Capitol building, a nd some $600,000 will be used to r ebuild th e dome.
Agreeing with th e Old Gu ard R egiment of Atl an ta's historic an d social Gate C ity Gu a rd , whic h p resen ted a n eloque n t pet ition on behalf of th e do me, Govern or G riffin declared "we must retain thi s hi stori c shrine."
RECORD-SIZE VESSEL
The N avy tanker Maumee, largest ship ever to enter th e Port of Sava nna h, recently a rr ived to disch a rge 185,000 barrels of jet fuel. The 614foo t-long vessel, docked with th e aid of th ree tugs, set a port recor d for ton na ge, len gth and wid th.
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BAKING FIRM BUILDS
Carroll Baking Co ., M acon , is erec ting a commercial building in th e 3800 block of Broadwa y, at an estima ted cost of $25,000.
NEW COATING FIRM
Atlan ta M etal Coating Co., 510 Ed gewood Ave., N .E., Atla nt a, is a new industry emp loying 18 p erson s. T he firm spec ializes in all types of coating on tanks and textile m achin ery to prevent corr osion, abrasion and wear.

LITHONIA CHOSEN FOR NEW WOODMAN MACHINERY PLANT
\Vood man P a c k a gin g M achinery Co., In c., a new firm to manufacture high -speed weighing a nd p ackaging mach inery for th e food industry, is th e lat est industri al ac quisition of Lithoni a .
D aniel E . Wood m an , of D ecatur, veteran m achiner y design er and industrial consult a nt, head s th e firm , which will occupy a mo dern buildi ng with 25,000 squ a re feet of floor spa ce.
The plant will be equ ipped with the latest typ e of m achine tools a nd ot her equip men t.
M r. Woodma n was form erl y presIdent of Wo od man Co ., Decatur .
GUM PLANTS PURCHASED
Sou th eastern Gum Processing Co., T ift on, has been purch ased by Turpentine & R osin F actors, I nc., of J acksonville, Fl a., a nd the L an gd ale Co., of Val dosta, and will be operated und er th e name of T ift on Gu m P rocessing Co . The new opera tors also h ave acqui red Southern Gum Processing Co.' s plant at Fitzger ald.
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NEW LEAF WAREHOUSE
A new tobacco wa reh ou se, to be known as Swain sbor o T obacco Warehou se, will be completed at Swain sboro in time for th e tob acco seasonal sales in J ul y. W . L. H ussey, J r., of Wallace, N . C ., and W . M . Sh ou ns, of Dam ascus, V a ., will oper a te the wa rehouse, a brick a nd steel st ru cture on th e U. S. 80.

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M ay, 1957

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

General Electric's Rome plan t has received an or der for trans for mers to cost $500,000 . . . Griffin's city limi ts extension added 5,472 people .. . R adio St ation WR F C, Athens, has increased its pow er fr om 1,000 to 5,000 wa tts . .. Cordele's d aily newspaper, The Di spatch, is in a new , modern plan t.
Macon H ousing Authori ty pla ns a 350-u nit project for Negr oes . .. Farmers T elephone Co., Sp rin gfield, will insta ll di al phon es . . . Gulf Life I n surance Co. has opene d a district bu ild ing in Waycro ss . . . H otel T ybee, Savannah Beach, is making extensive improvements . . . A M asoni c T em ple building at Americus will cost $85,000 .. . Douglas County is erec ting a new cour thouse at Douglasville to re place one that bu rn ed . . . Cook County's first Industrial Exposition, held at Ad el, attracted wide attention . . . W. F rancis Forbes, of Perry, Fla., is new manager of Moultrie Ch amber of Co m m er ce.
Canton T elephone Co. has installed dials .. . Barnesville is mapping a $300,000 sewage disposal pl an t. . . Gov. M arvin Griffin dedi ca ted Bleckle y County's new $65,000 H ealth Center at Cochran . . . Atlanta Gas L igh t Co. will distr ibute natural gas to East Thomaston and Silvertown . . . Georgia Highway Exp ress Co . is erecting a $50,000 terminal in Columbus . . .M . L. Lester has purch ased th e F red R ob er ts Hotel, Dublin . . . U nion Carb id e & Carbon Corp. , Savannah, has acquired 3,000 acres on Am elia Island for min er al mining . . . Sea I sland Bank, Statesboro, was awarded th e R obert St rickland M emorial aw ard for serv ice to agriculture.
Swainsboro's 12th annua l Pine T ree Festival was a big success ... Li kewise Thomasville's 36th ann ua l R ose Show. . . . Governor Griffin was pri ncipal speaker as Georgia Power Co. dedica ted $25,000,000 Plant M cM anus at Brunswick.
Bids ha ve been asked on a 72-unit hou sing project at Summerville . . . A building is being erec ted at Thomaston for occupancy by Life Ins. Co . of Vi rgin ia . . . Richland 's new dial telep hone system will be housed in a handsome new brick bui ldin g . . . DeSoto Beac h H otel, Savannah Beach, has a dded air -con di tioning an d swimming pools . . . General O glethorpe H ot el, on Wilmington Island, is ma king ex tensive improvements .
Sumter County vot ers okayed a

GO O D LUCK, FELLOWS!-President Eisenhower bids goodbye to Geor gia State Hi ghway patrolmen who stood guard at th e vacation White House at Au gusta National Golf Course, during th e President's recen t visit. The officers ar e, left to ri ght: Trooper
J. L. Livin gston , Sgt. R. L. Knight, Capt. H. C . Langston and Trooper C. A. V ea\.-
Wide World photo

$740,000 bond issue for a new cou rt house at Americus .. . State H ighway Dept. has alloca ted $75,000 to pave the roa d to the top of Brasstown Bald, high est mountain in Georgia, in Towns County ... A shopping cen ter to cost $3,00 0,000 will he built a t Piedmon t Rd. and M orosgo D r., N E, Atlanta.
Macon News & T elegraph has acquired a site on which to bu ild a new p lant .. . West Point's First Federal Savings & Loan Co. is in its new bui ld ing . . . Atlanta and Fulton County voters ap proved a multi-purpose bond issue of $86,940,000 . . . Seat rain Li nes In c., has leased 28 acres for fu rther expansion a t Savannah.
Meriwether County Hospital, a 32bed facilit y costing $500,000, is near completion at Warm Springs . . . Aluminum Co. of Am erica (AL CO ) has a new build ing on Atlanta's Pea chtree St. . . . Bor den Co.'s new prepared biscuit plan t at East Point is in opera-

tion . .. Stokely-Van Camp , Inc., is ex pan ding its pimiento-pac king plan t a t Griffin to inclu de sweet pot at o ca nnin g. The add ition will add 50 employees . . . Acworth and Kennesaw are getting na tural gas service . . . Stewart D . Brow n M emori al Clinic, Ro yston , is open . .. J enkins County's th ird ann ua l dairy festival will be held in Mill en Ju ne 13 . .. Athens Gener al H ospital has op ened a new addition .
STANLEY ATLANTA UNIT
St anl ey Building Specialties Co. has opened Southeastern district offices, showroom and wareho use a t 950 Ashby St ., NW , Atl anta, to handle th e firm's line of alum inu m windows, doors, tub enclosur es and th resholds. The com pa ny is a who lly owned subsidiary of the Stanley Wo rks of New Brittain, Conn ., makers of too ls and hardware for more than 100 yea rs.

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NEWSLETTER

June, 1957

NEWSLETTER

M emb er Geo rgia Pr ess A ssociat ion
Pub lished mon thly by GEO RG IA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Gover no r BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLE R
Chairman T . C. BRANSON, j R . H O KE PETERS
BEN JESSUP T RAMMELL MciNTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLE R Secretary
FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 8, No.8

june, 1957

TEXAS PILLOW CO. IN MACON PLANT
Perl Pillow Co., of Houston, T exas has op ened a branch p lant a nd warehouse in a new modern bui ldin g at 527 Fifth St. , M acon .
The firm is th e old est bed pi llow man uf acturer in th e South, it s produ cts in clu ding feather , down and syntheti c-filled pi llows.
M aurice Dubinski, vice-president of th e company, said th e Macon facility will also warehouse the product s of an aff iliate firm , P erl Foam , l e a d i n g man uf acturer of foam rubber bed a nd decorator pi llows.
81 MILLION TOURISTS SPENDING $17 BILLION

SALT ON BRINY DEEP-The Cecile Erickson inboun d at Brunswick with salt .
SALT SHIP SAILS 6~OOO-TON CARGO TO GLYNN PLANT

T hi s yea r 81,000 ,000 vac ationists ar c spe nding mor e th an $17,000 ,000,000 seeing th e United Sta tes, says th e Am eri can Express Travel Survey.
L ast year, according to th e agen cy, tourists spent a tot al of $16,257,78 1,368 .
COVER PHOTO
Cattle on Speer's R anch in T homas Co unty browse contentedly in a moss-dra ped pasture while in the dista nce is seen smo ke from a n industry in T homasville. A noted Georgia grower te lls in this issue the story of the state's rapidly exp anding ca t tle industry.
- photo by Ed Friend .

They used to bui ld spec ial sh ips to haul Glynn County timber a nd th ey'v e been tai loring shr imp boats to local needs for yea rs - but pi ctured above is th e design for Brunswick, 1957.
This is th e Cecile Eri ckson, inbound to th e Solvay Chemi cal p lant on h er maid en voyage ca rrying bu lk salt in th e cave rno us hold th at lies ben eath th e hatch seen running nearly th e length of th e craft .
The sh ip, just built in a Japanese yard and regist ered in Liberi a for th e job of hauling salt from th e Bahama Islands to Brunswick, is riding low in th e water as she sails through O glethorpe Bay. The view wa s made from a tower of Sidney Lanier Bridge.

Two cra wler- type cra nes, seen folded over th e fr ont end of th e hatch, scoop ed out some 6,000 ton s of salt onto Solva y's conveyor belt in just 50 hours, and th en th e sh ip was off to another run .
Wilbur Epting, Solvay p lant m anager, said th e unl oading tim e was 10 hours fewer and th e ca rgo 1,000 ton s larger th an possible with th e ships that had been used previou sly to deliver salt.
The emp ty weight of th e Erickson is 3,000 tons. Sh e is owned by W est India Sales, In c., Mi ami , th e salt supplier . She will a rrive in Brunswick every 11 days with salt for five or six trips, th en will go on a twice a month sche dule.

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June, 1957

BARGE MAKES BAINBRIDGE

PORT DREAM A REALITY

Bainbridge's dream of becoming Georgia 's first inland port cit y is a reality.
The dream came true at 11 a.m., Tuesday, June 4, with arrival of the first barge to travel up th e Flint Ri ver since constru ction of th e Jim W oodruff L ocks and Dam.
Scor es of D ecatur Coun tia ns were on hand to gr eet th e 200 x 50-foot Abaco-Louisville and her towboat, the Bayou LaFitte, as th ey came in with 10,500 barrels of asphalt for th e Am erican Bitumals & Asphalt Co .'s new Bainbridge terminal. The ca rgo left AB& A's refiner y a t M obile, Ala ., T hursday, M ay 30, a nd was scheduled to reach port during th e weeke nd. H owever, th e tug, after averaging 7.7 miles per ho ur fro m M obi le to Pan am a C ity, F la., developed eng ine trouble wh ich slowed progr ess to less th an two m iles p er hou r. Capt. Ed dy M clen eon , skipper of th e towboa t, said normally the trip would require tw o or three days.
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THE TWO CRAFT were tied up a t Bai nbridge about six hou rs, while th e ba rge's ca rgo was unl oad ed a nd the tu g's eng ine repaired, th en Captain M elen con a nd his eight -ma n cre w took off to M obile for ano the r load .
The barge a nd towboat are owned by the Oil Transport Co ., of N ew Orleans, who se boats are known as th e " Bayou Fle et " sinc e all of their names are prefixed by the word " Bay ou." The Ba you LaFitte is a trim twin-engine craft with radar and other navigational equipment ca pa ble of traveling around the clock.
Jo e Wadsworth, resident manager of AB&A, and Bainbridge Mayor R. A. (Cheney ) Griffin, expressed deli ght over th e success of th e initial barge delivery. Mayor Griffin said the event definitely marks th e rebirth of Bainbridge's once-thriving river traffic.
M r. W ad sworth said th e new terminal, firs t comme rcial install a tion a t the inlan d port, had been comp leted a month ahead of schedule. I t now is p repared to distribute a complete line of asp ha lt th roughou t Georgia, northw est Florid a and sou theas tern Alab ama.
The terminal, adjace n t to Georgia State Port fa cilities now under con-

HISTORY IN MAKING-The Abaco-Louisville, first barge to arrive at Bainbridge, Geor gia's first inland port, and th e first craft to pass through th e new j im Woodruff Locks and Dam, comes in with 10,500 barrels of asphalt for th e American Bitumals & Asphalt Co. The towboat is th e Bayou LaFitte.

str uetion, has a sto rage ca pa city of 87,000 barrels, or 3,654,000 ga llons of asp ha lt.
Speaking at the dedication of Jim 'Woodru ff Lo cks and Dam last Feb ruary, Go v. Marvin Griffin hailed that installation as "a key to the inland waterway navigation program involving three riv ers, the Apalach icola, th e Chattahoochee and the Flint."
The multi-purpose Woodruff installa tion represents an exp enditure of $50,000,000 by the fed eral govern ment and required nin e yea rs of

work for its completion. "Woodruff D am provi ded a nin e-
foot channel to Bainbr idge," th e Governor said . " W he n other new dams a t Colu mb ia, Ala., and Fort Gain es, Ga., are fini shed , p robably with in th e next five yea rs, n avigation will be extende d as far north as Columbus. Without looking into th e too distant fu ture we ca n visua lize n avigation on th e Chattah oochee as fa r north as th e gre at city of Atlan ta . Indeed, within our lifeti me we m ay see ocea ngoing barges tied up at docks in th e Atl an ta city limi ts."

GOVERNOR ALLOTS FUNDS

TO RESTORE INDIAN SITES

Gov . M a rvin Griffin has authorized th e Georgia Historical Commission to spend a pproximately $100,000 on th e sta te's histo rical I nd ian p rojects.
T hi rt y thousand dolla rs will be used to begin restoration of New Eehota, the Chero kee ca pital near Calhoun. Projects the re include rebuilding of th e prin ting p lan t of th e Cherok ee Ph oenix , th e on ly Indi an newspap er in America; restor ati on of th e hom e of th e R ev. Sam Worcester, which is th e on ly or iginal bu ild ing standing on th e site, a nd installation of a sewage disposal system.
Fifty th ousan d dolla rs will go to constru ct a museum at E towah Mounds ncar Ca rt ersville, wh ere a la rge collection of Indian a rtifac ts h as been recovered .

The remainder of th e alloca tion will be used to comp lete resto ration of the mansion of Chief J oe V an n, a t Sprin gplace.
Gov. G riffin said th e restored India n a tt r ac ti o ns w i l l mean mill ions for Georgia in tourist appeal.
JACKSON SELECTED FOR NEW STONE PLANT
J ackson has been chosen as th e site of a stone works pl ant.
W . M . Breedlove, of M acon, own er of Dobson Ston e Works, pu rch ased nin e acres of la nd a nd th e bui ldin gs fro m Jackson Box & Lumb er Co. for th e plant.
The plant will employ 25 to 35 men .

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NEWSLETTER

June, 1957

PAVING IN NEW GEORGIA ROADS WOULD COVER DECATUR 4 TIMES

Just what will it take in th e wa y of mo ney an d materials to build Georgia's 1,170-m ile share of the 14,000 mile na tiona l network of new roads ?
T he Georg ia H igh way D epartm ent has come up with some ans wers to th is question. They almos t defy the imagi n a tio n .
F irst off, the eost of the new roads in the sta te, seheduled to be built over a period of 13 to 16 years, will come to $900,000,000. That's so close to a cool billion bucks tha t the difference ha rdly cou nts. It amounts to slightl y more than all the cash received for all of the sta te's farm products in a year and about one -fourth the value of all manu factured products. It is equivalent to $242 for every man, woman and ch ild now living in Georgia.
If strung ou t in one road, th e new mileag e to be bu ilt wou ld stretch from Atlanta to D enve r, Colo.
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PREPARATION for th e new roads will req uir e excava tion of 375,000,000 cubic ya rds. T his is enough material to m ak e a p ile of dirt and rub ble one half again as big as Stone M ountain . T o haul it would requi re a train of 12,500,000 freight ca rs.
Five and one-half million linear feet of culvert pipe up to 60 inches in diameter will be needed. With this cu lvert three pipelines could be built side by side down Georgia's greatest length, 215 mi les.
Smaller cu lverts in the system will require 276,000 cubic yards of con cr ete, 24,000,000 pounds of reinforcing steel and 58,000,000 cubic yards or 2,000,000 freight car loads of subbase materials.
The tota l paved ar ea will be 50,000 ,000 square yards or sligh tly over 10,000 acres. This a rea is more than 33 times as big as the M ed iterr an ean pri ncipality of M onaco, recen tly in headli nes beca use of a bab v born to an ex -movie ac tr ess and the' coun try's playboy p rin ce, or closer to home, it is abou t four tim es th e corporate area of th e City of Decatur or app roximately three tim es th e size of th e City of G riff in .
Shoulder s a nd othe r a reas to be grassed will amount to 100,000,000

NEW IN GWINNETT-Gwinnett County Publie Works Camp building at Lawrenceville, whi ch is th e lat est word in det ention-type st ruc ture s. The H- shaped building , of solid conc re te ma sonry, has til e floor and fir eproof roof , show er and bath faciliti es, a large modern kit ch en and freezer locker , and gas-fire d hotwater heating. Its capaci ty is 100 men. Adequate recr eational faciliti es for th e pri soners are to be added soon.

$37Million AtlantaShop Center
To Be South's Biggest~ Finest

The biggest and fin est shopp ing center sou th of N ew York Citv is to be built on a 72-a cre tract at the corn er of At lanta's Peach tree a nd Lenox Road s.
T o be know n as Len ox Sq ua re, the center, located on the old J ohn K . Ottley estate, will con tain app roxi mately 800,000 square feet under roof , and will provid e p a rkin g for 6,000 ca rs. Officials of th e No ble Founda-
squ are ya rds. Th at is enough grass to resod Ga. T ech 's Grant Field tw enty thousand tim es.
The new road system will require 1,310 bridges. Into them will go 830,000 barrels of cem ent, 361,000 tons of coarse aggregate, 170,000 ton s of fine aggregate, 50,000 tons of reinforcing steel and 145,000 tons of structural steel.
The estima ted cost figure for the interstate system in Geor gia does no t inclu de many mor e millio ns of dolla rs in federal aid funds to be expended on improvement of the primary and secon dary road net works, or th e vast amo unt of 100 p er cen t sta te fun ds for roa d imp rov ement , suc h as th e Griffinsponsored $ 100,000 ,000 Rural R oads Authorit y progr am , Roger H. Lawson , State Hi gh w a y boar d ch a ir m a n , pointed ou t.

tion , principal developer of the project , ~s t i ma te 4,000 peop le will be emp loyed In th e a rea .
L argest un it in th e cen ter will be occupied by a bran ch of R ich 's, Inc., At la n t a department store. K resge, Food Fair Stores, In c., and other nation all y kn o wn m er ch an ts w i ll b e amo ng ten ants in th e 70-odd other separa te sho ps.
Constructi on is scheduled to start thi s summe r, a nd the open ing of th e projects will be delayed until all units a re comp leted in th e fall of 1959.
SAVANNAH COOKIES BAKE IN NEW PLANT
Byr d Cookie Co ., 10-yea r old Savanna h firm, has begu n opera tions in its new $75,000 pl ant recently complet ed on Norwood Ave.
The modern bakery, located on a 3Y2-ac re tract , con tains 6,000 squa re feet. Wi th four ovens an d two a utomatic cutters, it is ca pab le of tu rn ing ou t 800 doze n cookies pe r hou r. The fir m ma rkets its p roducts by tru ek deliveri es to more th an 1,000 reta il ou tlets in sou the aste rn Georgia .
Ca rleton W . Byrd and B. T. Byrd , jr., own th e firm .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

June, 1957

IN GEORGIA



CATTLE INDUSTRY BOOMS

BY BEN T. SMITH

When anything pro sp ers and grows, there ar e always basic reasons. The cattle ind ustry ha s grown steadily in Ge org ia in eac h of th e last 10 years in spite of drastically lower nationwide cattle pri ces. Happil y, cattle pri ces are showing improvem ent in 1957.
The exten t of Georgia's gro wth as a n impor tan t ca ttle p rodu cing sta te is show n by the following sta tistics:
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ON JAN. 1, 1947, th er e were 1,111,000 ca t tle on Georgia farms; of these, 50 1,000 were beef ca t tle. Bv J an. 1, 1952, these numbers had grow~ to 1,247,000 and 666,000 head respec tively. I n th e last five years, growt h has been even grea ter. On j'an. 1, 1957, th ere were 1,546 ,000 ca t tle on Geo rgia fa rms of wh ich 1,040,000 were beef ca ttle .
Some of the rea sons for the cattle industry's growth are disclosed in G eorgi a's wond erful climate, pro du ctiv e soil and annual rainfall of 50 inches. The a verage temperature per yea r is 62.2 degre es; th e average summer temperature is 78.6 degrees ; t he average temperature in winter (D ecember, January and February ) is 45.5 degrees.
T o Geor gia' s ca t tle in du stry, th ese fact s mea n mor e and better grazing mon ths per yea r. A very wide ra ng e of p astu re, hay, grain a nd silage p la nt s prosper in Georgia's soils and climate. Nit rogen-produ cing legu mes suc h as all th e differen t clove rs, lespedezas and alfa lfa s grow well in pa st ure mixtures with a wide variety of grass es suc h as Bermuda, O rch ar d, D a llas, F escu e, Rescue, Bahi a an d man y others.
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MARKETING CONDITIONS a rc gro wing better as the cat tle indust ry grows. No Georgia farm is ver y far fro m one of th e sta te's n earl v 100 well-distributed livestock auction h am s.
Georgia ha s a very progr essive de partment of agriculture, of untold help to all phases of its agriculture. Currently to name onl y one, the cattle industry is ben efiting from th e departmen t' s statewide program for brucellosis eradication. I t's veterinary department is modern and cooperative, as well as it's feeds, mar-

HIS M AJESTY IS A GEORGIAN-Windsweep Victor, popularly ca lled Zip, produ ced by Ben T. Sm ith on his 3,400-acr e Windsweep Farm in U pson County, was shown last season in nin e of th e nation 's largest shows and was poll ed H ereford cha m pion or reser ve cham pion in eigh t of th em. H e al so won th e 1957 Fort Worth championship. Mr. Smith, who pr epared th e accompanying articl e, maintain s a herd of 100 register ed and 300 comm erci al poll ed H ereford brood cows.

keting, seed, ch emist ry and insecticide branches. Latest information and fre e ad vertising sp ace for his products is mailed fr ee on request to every farmer, through the de partment's weekl y market bulletin, which ha s wid e circulation.
Geor gia' s uni versity system provides, in addition to exce llen t a nimal hu sbandry fa cilities, one of th e most progressive research and expe rime nta l programs a nywher e in th e n at ion . I mproved p la nt va rieties a rc constantly being br ed and developed . An example: a revolutionary va riety of Bermuda grass develop ed a t th e Ti fton expe riment sta tion named Coastal Bermuda, which is a won derful pasture, h ay and silag e grass ca p able of produ cing ten ton s of 16% prot ein highqu ality h ay per ac re per yea r.
INCREASE in the qua lity of Georgia cat tle has kept pace with th e growth in nu mbers. T he p acking industry is receiving ann ually more a nd more h igh- qua lity ca ttle as well as steers finished to grade h igh choice and prim e. In spite of a nationwid e slump in ca ttle prices of app roxima tely 50 per cent since 1951, the dolla r value of catt le sold in Geor gia jum ped fro m

$22,000,000 in 1945 to $40 ,500,000 in 1955 .
Georgia's purebred ca tt le industry consists of some of the nati on's fine st herds. Every breed is well represented with breeders who a re producing quality animals abl e to hold their own in national shows all over America . The beef herds are sup plying purebred bulls of top quality to neighboring states and Georgia commercial herds, as well as seed stock for other purebred herds in th e U nited States and foreign coun tries.
T h e Geor gia ca tt le industr y is ju st beginn ing to realize th e tremendous adva n ta ges of th e sta te's wonderfu l tempera tu re climate, p roduct ive soil a nd ab undant n atural wat er sup ply. T he po ten tial for expanding econo mica l ca ttle production is tremen dou s. I pred ict th e in dustry will mor e th an double in th e next decad e.
DAWSON PLANT STARTS
Constru cti on is und er wav a t D awson of a $200,000 gr ain eleva tor for Dixie L ily Milling Co. The plant will comprise six tanks with a combined storage ca p acity of 115,000 bushels. Dixi e L ily is a leading producer an d distributor of corn meal.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

June, 1957

BROILER INCOME AT $130 MILLION;

GEORGIA BREAKS OWN TOP RECORD

ATLANTA WINS MILLION DOLLAR CHRYSLER CENTER
Chrysler Corp. has chosen At lanta as a site for a company tr aining cen ter, th e firs t to be bu ilt ou tside th e Detro it area, which will cost mor e th an $ 1,000,000.
The cen ter, to tr ain dealer sales and serv ice personnel, will be built on a 4~ -acre tr act on South Expressway. Completion is scheduled for Feb ru ar y.
T he two-story fa cility, approximately 300 x 100 feet , will con tain 54,000 square fee t of floor area .
Douglas & Lomason Expanding Planf
Dou glas & Lom ason Co., manufactu rer of au tomo bile trim whi ch loca ted its plant in Carr ollt on two years ago, w i l l co ns tr uc t a n e w 17 , 00 0 square-foo t buil din g on p roperty acquited fro m th e Carroll Cou nty Development Corp.
The additio n will be completed by th e end of summer , at which time employment in th e plant will be incre ased by a t least 25 per cen t, W . K . Lom ason, president, said.

BIG CONTRACTS BRING EXPANSION AT SZEKELY UNIT
O . E. Szekely Associa tes, Inc., Commer ce electro nic ma nufa cturer, is inaugura ting an expansion p rogram allowin g for mo re assembl y roo m and a testin g building.
O . E . Szekely, president, said th e plant has received $3,100,000 in new Air Force contrac ts. The contrac ts in clude H ammond tr ailers, which are used for transport at ion of jet engi nes, an d gro und ma intena nce generator sets.
The compa ny expects to ad d abou t 60 peopl e to its present payroll of 280.
LINK-BELT PURCHASES FUTURE PLANT SITE
Link-B elt Co ., nationally known manufa cturer of pow er transmission and material handling equip ment , has purchased 4 1 acres in Clayton County as a possible fu ture pl ant site.
R od S. Galloway, th e firm 's Southeastern man ager, said th e tr act was th e first sold in th e new 2,000- acr e Morrow Industrial area, 11 miles south of Atlanta.

Georgia's income from the broiler industry in 1956, according to statistics just released, was a record high of $129,836,000.
This was $4,136,000 more than the crop brought in 1955 and an increase of some $41,000 ,000 over 1952 when the state took th e in dustry's national leadership away from D elaware. For every seven dollars paid in th e product ion ma rket for broilers, Georgia p roducers now receive one dollar, figures th e U . S. D epartment of Commer ce.
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ONTO THE state' s p roducti on lines wen t 222,780,000 broilers in 1956 weighing an estimated 690,6 18,000 pounds live weigh t.
The $129,836,000 paid Georgia growers for their broilers wa s about one-se venth of the total of $829,662,000 received in the U nited States as a whole.
The 222,780,000 birds that Georgia headed for the deep fry represented about one -sixth of the nation's 1,345,302,000.
The approximate total live weight of the Georgia broilers was nearly one -seventh of the 4,275,350,000pound U. S. total.
L ast year's rece ip ts recor ded for Georgia wer e by far th e n ati on 's lar gest. The near est any othe r sta te could come to th at figu re was T exas, whi ch reported $59, 169,000.
Georgia' s bro iler in come has been zooming like a jet pl an e since r ight af ter World W ar II. Wh en receip ts were a p alt ry $20, 171,000. In 1947, they ad van ced to $24,191 ,000, in 1948 to $29,108,000, in 1949 to $32,977,000, in 1950 to $45,433,000, in 1951 to $68,530,000, in 1952 to $88, 6 10,000, in 1953 to $93,95 1,000, in 1954 to $ 101,95 1,000, and 1955 to $ 125, 700,000 .

NEW DORAVILLE INDUSTRY-Aerial view of Southern Pipe Coating Coo's
$300,000 plant in Doraville, wh ere transmission pipe for the gas and gasoline industries are coated and wrapped. The new firm , located on a 17-acre tract, is equipped to process 12 mile s of pipe a day , and will eventually operate on a three-shift , 24-
hour-a-day schedule. J. C. Matthews, sales manager, said th e installation is th e first
maj or plant in the Southeast equipped to coat and wrap pipe for underground use.

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CRUCIBLE'S NEW HOME
Cru cibl e St e el C o . of America' s sou the ast ern bran ch is in its new home - a 25,400-squ are-foot sta in less steel ware house-office building at 3400 M aIone Dr., Ch amb lee. O fficials fro m th e firm's Pittsburgh headquart ers and 500 regional industri al ists and bu sinessmen at tended recent dedication ceremonies.

NEWSLETTER
PREMIER OPENS MILLION DOLLAR CHAMBLEE PLANT
Pr emi er Autowar e Co ., of C levelan d, Ohio, h as op ened its new plant a t 2124 J ohnson F erry Rd., N .E ., Ch amb lee, where th e firm' s produc ts for th e en tire sou th eas tern ar ea will be p ackaged a n d distribu ted .
The comp any is a leading distributor of au tomo tive a nd heavy-duty eq uip ment replacem ent p a rts. Its factory a nd p rincip al offices ar e in C levela nd.
T he handsom e new build ing, containing 5 1,000 square feet, is an au to nom ou s operation wi th a complete inventory of Au towa re 5,000 - produc t line. With exp ansion in mind, th e facility is design ed for th e addition of 100,000 square feet.

J une, 1957

Ruberoid Starfs Felt Operation, Adds 100 Workers
Ruberoid Co.'s n ew felt pl ant a t Sa vannah is in producti on.
E. J. Sh offn er, dir ector of eng ineer-
in g for th e company, said the mi ll started wi th abou t 100 additiona l em ployees on th e Rubcroid p ayroll.
Constructi on of th e felt mill, a n addition to th e firm 's hu ge aspha lt roo fing fac ility a t Savannah, was begun last Sp ring. Its cost was app roximately $3,200 ,000 .
FARM MACHINERY OUTPUT UP 620/0
V alu e of fa rm machiner y and equ ipme n t produced in Georg ia's m anufacturing plants h as risen 62 per cen t in th e post-wa r years.
V alu e of su ch commodities in t he pas t n ine years wen t from $5,148,000 to $8,376,000 annually, says the U . S. D epa rtmen t of C om mer ce.
The ga in ca me in Georgia in th e fa ce of declines in man y sections of th e country, ran ging as high as 43 p er cent in th e E ast N orth C entral area . The n ati on as a whole r egistere d a reduction of 30 per cent in th e value of farm m achiner y shipme n ts.

NEW M ISS GEORGIA- Jod y Shattuck, 20-ye ar- old Atlan ta blonde, receives her cr own from Ro salie J a ne Mo rris, 195 6 winner , at the an nua l state beauty cont est spo nsore d by the Co lumbus J un ior C hamb er of Commer ce. M iss Shattuck, who lives in Atlanta an d is a sop homore at the University of Geo rgi a, en tere d the cont est as M iss Athens. She will rep res ent Ge org ia in the 1957 Mi ss Ame r ica pagea nt .-Wid e World photo.

PLANT IN NEW HOME
M r. an d M rs. N at L ease hav e moved th eir Alm a Garmen t Co. into a brandnew, a i r - co n d i tion , daylight-lighted plant a t Dougl as. T he brick facility covers 20,000 square feet of space, con ta ining offi ces, stor age facilities, recreation roo m and th e fitting, layou t and machine a rea .
NEW SAND PIT
A commerc ial san d pit in th e sou thwest secti on of Sp aldi ng County whi ch h as a pot ential of 500 tons of san d a day is being develop ed by W . P. H olmes, of H olm es Bros., G riffin bui ldin g sup p ly firm . M r. H olmes sa id an investm ent of som e $50,000 is being m ad e in develop ing th e pit.

BIG MOTOR HOTEL SET FOR ATLANTA
A five-stor y mot or hot el, with 200 guest units and parking spa ces for 200
ca rs, will be erec ted on a 200 x 400 foot lot at th e southw est corne r of Peachtree a nd Seventh Sts., Atlanta.
T o cost $3,000,000, th e fa cility will be know n as Atlan ta C ab an a M ot or H ot el. It will be of con tempora ry design with a South Am er ican motif.
T he developers are J ay J. Sarno
and Sta n ley A. M alin & Associa tes.
Constructi on will be started abo u t O ct. 1.

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NEWSLETTER

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June, 195 7

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

H eard Co unty M emorial H ospital at Franklin is bui lding a $200 ,000 addition . . . Atlanta will ha ve a new seve n-story p ar king gara ge a t M a riett a a nd Broad St s. . . . Two watermelon festivals a re scheduled thi s month - MeRae, June 21 and Cordele, June 27-29 . . . New Walton Co unty H ospital to be erec ted a t Mo nroe will cost $750,000.
L ookout M oun tain H ot el in Dade County is being renovat ed , an d will be ren amed Castle in th e C louds . . . Savannah's water filtration p la n t will ge t a $300,000 enla rge me n t . . . Statesboro's Fi rst F ederal & Loan Assn. is in a n ew build ing ... Geor gia Power Co. has insta lled a gian t tran sformer a t Bonaire . . . Elberton's new N a-
tional Gu ard Arm ory is open . . . .J. .J.
Newberry's store at Macon has been remo del ed . .. Waynesboro is pl annin g 50 additional hou sing units.
Cumming has d edi cat ed it s new Post
Office Bldg . . . .J. B. Pound H otel
Co . has sold Savannah's D esot o H otel to a New York group ... Sout hern Bell T elep hon e a nd T elegr aph Co. is adding to it s main bui lding in T homasville .. . Waycross' new Public Libra ry, built a t a cost of $100 ,000, is in opera tion.
Atlanta Gas Li ght Co. will erect a $500,000 propan e gas pl ant a t Augusta . . .Gibson Building Corp. h as been orga nized to prom ot e indust ry for th e Glaseoc k Co unty city . . . Claxton H ou sing Authori ty will erec t fl.2 new units, 22 for whit e occ upants, 20 for N egr oes . . . Putnam County's fift h a nnua l D airy F estival, of whi ch Mi ss M arl en e J ordan was queen, was a hu ge suc cess a t Eatonton.
Two Gainesville motels, th e Gain esville, owned by Claude Peck, a nd th e Queen C ity, owned by C eorge Gowd er , a re adding to th eir fa cilities . .. Evans County F orestry Unit is bui ldin g a headquarters near C lax ton .. . An estima ted 30,000 peopl e a ttende d th e Georgia Poultry F estival a t Gainesville, a t wh ich Mi ss Ruth L ycan , of Atlanta, was crowned "Miss Geor gia Chick" . . . Am ericus a nd Sumter County Develop ment Corp. has pu rch ased a 368-ac re tract for fu ture new indus try.
.J. P. St even s & Co.'s new addition
at Milledgeville, housing th e finishing plant, is ope n . . . J am es L. Asher was nam ed ma nager of Br unswick Port Au th ority . . . Georgia St ate Patrol bar racks at Cartersville has been occupied . .. Housing units to cost mor e

than $300,000 ar e to be erected at Americus.
Burke County voters app rov ed a $36,000 bond issue to provide a new coun ty library a t Waynesboro ... N ew H ot el, Brunswick, is to be conver ted into a n offi ce bui ldi ng . . . Coast al States Li fe Insur a nce Co .'s buil d ing on Peachtree St. , Atlanta, is to be extend ed . . . Thomasville Chamber of Commer ce will erect a new building . . . H er ty L abora tory is under construc tion a t Savannah, a t a cost of $200,000 . . . Two 50-u nit hou sing projects, one for eac h race, a re un der wa y a t Gainesville.
U nion Bag-C amp Paper Co. h as acq uired 42,000 ac res of timberl and in Georgia and South Ca rolin a, all within 25-mile radi us of the Sa vannah plant . . . A shopp ing cen ter th a t will cover 30 ac res is to be bu ilt a t 'Varner Robins . . . Clarkesville's new recrea tion cen ter is open . . . Jubal W atts Hospital, Bowdon, is adding a n annex . . . M ercer U niver sity, Macon, has leased a tract of land to th e federal govern me n t for a proposed $600,000

N avy and M arine training cen ter .. . R adio South, In c.. new Dublin d aytime sta tion, has received FCC a p proval . . . Bothwell & N ash, Marietta ar chitectura l firm, is drawing pl an s for DeKalb County's new 200-b ed hospita l.
Ever, Two Adults In State Have Car
Geor gia has a mo to r vehicle registered for a bou t every two adults in th e sta te. T he Sta te R evenue D epartment sa ys th a t 1957 registration, not yet tabulat ed , will be abo u t 5 p er cen t grea ter th an last yea r, wh en th e tot al was 1,335,948 . According to lat est Bu rea u of Census figur es, Georg ia h as 2,167,000 p ersons 17 yea rs old a nd over.
NEW PRINT PLANT
T yson Print Sh op , 47-yea r-old Emanuel County firm , is in a mod ern new 2,000-squ ar e-foot pl ant next to th e City H all in Swainsboro. J ohn E. an d W illia m C. T yson ope ra te the firm.

NEW DeKALB I NDUSTRY-This handsome mod ernistic struc ture of redwood, brick, aluminum and glass is th e new hom e of Kenrow, Inc., Motorola and F edd er s distribu tors for Georgia, at 2818 E. Pon ce de Leon Ave., near th e Decatur city limits. The bui ldi ng con tains 168,000 cubic feet of wa rehouse space whi ch is served by a 65 -foot four-tru ck loading dock and an 80-foot railroad siding . Display rooms, genera l offices and sales offices occupy th e fron t of th e facilit y.
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NEWSLETTER

July, 1957

NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Pres s A ssociation

Published monthly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman
T. C. BRANSON, j R. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP
TRAMMELL MciNTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary
FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 8, No.9

july, 1957

NEW PERRY PLANT STARTS BUILDING
Perry M anufacturing Co., a new sewing industry whi ch will emp loy some 150 white wom en, is ere cting a plant building.
That ch er Watson, of M acon, was awarded a $217 ,984 construction contract by th e Perry Industri al Development Corp., whi ch is spon sorin g th e new industry.
Mayor St anl ey Smith, who also is president of th e development gro up, said th e new firm will be Perry's largest industry, with a n a nnua l p ayroll of a bou t $500,000 .
The plant is bein g erec ted on a 170acre tr act on the ou tskirts of Perry.

A-PLANT DATE SET
The hu ge nuclear aircraft research laboratory now being constru cted in th e North Georgia mountains near Dawsonvill e, is sch eduled to be in opera tion by th e end of 1958, Carl Kotchi an , Lo ckh eed Aircraft Corp. vice-president said. Lo ckh eed will oper ate th e lab oratory in conjunc tion with th e Air F o r ce .

COVER PHOTO
T he J uly sun may be warm, but these Boy Scou ts found the water icy in their swimming ho le in C lou dland Canyon, Northwe st Georgia's scenic wonderland. And just think how cold that king-size shower must be!
- photo by E d Friend.

INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE-At an Atlanta breakfast arranged by Georgia

Trucking Assn., state officers of the Future Farmers of Amer ica meet officials of govern-

ment agriculture and transportation. Left to right: Tom Gregory, executive secretary to

Gov.' GTA

Marvin Griffin' Agriculture Commissioner Phil president, and' FFA President .lim Thomas, of

C~aatmteprbseolnl,,

Clinto n L. Sanders, yice-I'r.esident Billy

Denson, Summervill e, Treasur er Naylon London, Cornelia, and Vice-President George

Norman, Was hington.

CAMILLA SHIPPING 20~OOO CROSSTIES TO EGYPTIANS

B. H. Simpson Lumber Co., of Camilla, is working full blast on a hu ge shipment of railroad crossties for Egypt.
Mr. Simpson said his schedule will be aro und 800 ties per week until th e first of th e yea r to turn ou t some 20,000 ties.
The crossties, whi ch a re to be used in sandy desert cou ntry, ar e diff er ent fr om th e American sty le. They measure 6 x 8 inchs and a re 8Y2 feet long,

wh ereas th e sta n da rd U . S. tie is 7 x 9 in ch es and 9 feet long.
All of th e ties a re of oa k. They a re ironed on each end to keep th em from sp litting wh en creosoted, and each tie has a n iron boit with a n " S" sha ped head sunk in either end. The bolts a dd str ength to th e wood .
The Camilla plant is shipping th e ties to a creosoting concern in Pensacola, F la ., whi ch in turn tranships to Egypt.

WEST GEORGIA BUYS WHITESBURG MILL
West Geor gia Mills, In c., of Car rollton, has purch ased th e Virginia Mfg. Co., of Whitesburg, and will continue th e manufacture of cotton and synth eti c br aid ed cord age, cott on ya rns and p ackaged br aid ed specialties.
The mill , whi ch h as a 10-year history of successful opera tion, employs about 120 peop le on a p ayro ll of a pproximately $5,000 a week.
Gib son LaFoy is pr esident and tr ea sur er of West Georgia Mi lls.

Manchester Radio Salutes Roosevelt
M an ch ester 's new radio sta tion salu tes Franklin D . Roosevelt every tim e it nam es itself on th e air.
WFDR's last three ca ll letters a re in memory of th e late Pr esident, who dearl y loved th e rollin g woodlands a round M an chester a nd Warm Springs.
The new sta tion, an ind ep endent, opera tes on 1,000 watt power a nd 1370 kilocycles fr om sunup to sundo wn.
M an chester is six miles east of W arm Springs wh er e FDR's Little White H ouse is a nati on al shrine .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

July, 1957

GEORGIA JET-TRANSPORT AGE

TO FIRECRACKER PROGRESS

The jet age dawns in Ge org ia in two short yea rs.
Aviation and industrial expe rts agree that th e new era of swifter air transportation will brin g a boom like a giant fire cracker to th e economic ad vancem ent of th e sta te and area.

D elt a Air Lin es will launch the whiz-

zing era when it tak es deliver y of th e

first of an $86 ,000,000 fleet of jet

tr an sport s on j un e 1, 1959. T ha t dat e, a pp ropria tely, will be th e 30th a nni-

versary of th e Atla nta-based compa ny's maug ura tion of passenger serv ice across

th e South. Delt a pla ns to be operating

jetliners over it s major rou tes by mid-

summe r of 1959.

Cap ita l, Eastern an d Na tion al, the other maj or airlines ser ving Georgia,

all have jets on or der for delivery in 1960.
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THE TOTAL V ALUE of jet aircra ft now on order by th e four lines is in exce ss of $600 ,000 ,000.
Delta's order includes eight 550mile -per-hour D ou gl a s D C-8 jet transports and 10 Conv air 880 jets whi eh will cruise at 617 mil es. The DC- 8 will seat 118-140 pas sengers, while the Convair 880 will accommodate 80.
Capital's order is for 14 Bri tish Comet I V jetliners. Capital already ha s in operation British V iscount turboprop planes, powered by tur bines which drive th e propellers.
Eastern's jetliners will be 20 DC-8's.
National Airlines wh ich serves Savanna h and V aldosta, will enter th e

LOOKING AHEAD-C. E. Woolman, presid ent and gen eral manager of Delta Air Lines, smiles as he studies a model of th e DC-8 jet transport with which his com pany will launch Geor gia's age of faster fligh t and fast er indust ri al progr ess.

jet field with DC-8's.
O fficials of th e airlines emphasize that all of th e jetliners which will oper at e in Geo rgia skies on commercial sche dules will be eq u ipp ed with soun d supp ressors. Advanced design mufflers will reduce engine noise to " ac ceptable levels," th ey said. No ne of th e commercial je ts will be eq uipped with after-burn ers, which prod uce mu ch of the noise associa ted with milit ar y jets.
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THE NEW JET SERVIC E will sha rply redu ce flight schedules between Georgia eities and maj or air cen ters to which the sta te is link ed by

the a irli nes. Atla nta to N ew York City will be a fligh t of 1 hou r a nd 4 1 minII tes. Dallas will be on ly 1 hour 37 min utes away. Fl yin g time to W ashington will be 1 hou r and 20 minu tes. Savannah will be on ly a 30-minute fligh t from Atla nta .
Ge orgia citi es are gearing for the jet age. Construction is already underway on a $ 19,000,000 expansion program at th e Atlanta Airport, scheduled for completion in 1959. A new $1,000,000 terminal is planned for Savannah, and major impro vements ar e in the works for a number of other airports in the state.
C. E. Woolm an , p resident an d gen-

eral man ager of Delta , said air tr an s-

po rtation has helped to spa rk th e twin revo lutions in agricu lture and industry

which have taken pl ace in th e South. " As the O ld Sou th's growth was

R EADYI NG FOR JET AG E-Architect's model shows Atlanta's new air terminal, part of a $ 19,000,000 expansion progr am now in progr ess, as it will look wh en com plete d .

lin ked to an expanding rai lroad system, so is Georgia's boo ming indust ry tod ay tied to th e air t ra nsport indust ry. Goo d scheduled air service h elps attract new industri es to the sta te. Last vea l' more th an 300 new manufactur ing plants160 of th em ma jor firm s- spr an g up in Georg ia . T he needs of th ese ind us tri es are gea red to air transporta tio n.
" I n th e fut ure, comme rcial air tran sport will play an incr easing ly important ro le in our industr ial developmen t," he deelar ed .

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1957

GEORGIA BOOM AT NEW HIGHS,

FEDERAL TRADE SURVEY SHOWS

M ost m aj or segm ents of Geor gia's bu siness economy a re soaring to new levels, says the Atlanta field offi ce of th e U. S. D epartment of Commerce.
In its report on the first quarter of the year, just released, the agency says bank deposits, debits and loans, retail and wholesale trading, cash farm income, poultry production, output of electric energy for industrial and utility purposes, chartering of new businesses, airline operations, and installation of new telephones for business and residential purposes all zoomed above last year's peak business activities, while in some other lines considerable acceleration or
stability prevailed.
D ep osits in F ed eral R eserv e member ban ks a t th e end of March of this year
reached a high mark of more than 1Y2
billion dollar s, loans at $828 million, and checking accoun t withdrawals at $6.6 billion, all topping 1956's op er ations by substa ntial margins.
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THE STATE SHARED in a halfbillion dolla r rise in retail sales in the South, a nd also a 4 per cen t uptrend in wholesa le sales in th e imm ediate southeastern ar ea, with most lines of business p articipating in th e ga ins.
Nearly three-quarters of a million hogs , cattle and calves were slaughtered in Georgia's abattoirs to supply meat for the table, and off production lines came 67.8 million chickens for broiler and other purposes.
Manufacturing employment reflected a degree of stability, with this year's activity declining only a fraction of a per cent from last year's. When the quarter ended, nearly 333 ,000 persons were engaged in production work.
While othe r sou the astern st at es were feeling a pinch in ca sh farm receipts, Georgia's farmer s coun ted some $ 10 milli on more in re tu rns in th e first two months of th is yea r than th ey did in th e same peri od last yea r, collecting a total of $76.6 million.
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ELECTRIC ENERGY produced for industrial and utility purposes tot alled nearly 2 ~ billion kilowatt hours, substa ntia lly above last year's output, and nea rl y 600 new business incorporations

came into th e state, a 5 per cen t rise over 1956.
Georgia sha red in a $323 million freight revenue reported by railroads serving the area, and in increased passenger revenues and cargo handled by airlines with headquarters in the Southeast.
The value of foreign commerce passing through the customs districts of Savannah, Brunswick and Atlanta was placed at more than $47 million, which was a 15 per cent rise over the first quarter of 1956. The increase was reflected mostly in exports, since the value of imports declined slightly.
At th e end of th e qu arter , mor e th an 80(1,1)00 business and residential telephones wer e in operation in th e sta te, both typ es of bu siness showing ga ins over last yea r.
There wer e a few dark spo ts h ere and th er e as some lin es became ra ther thoroughl y satu ra ted. This was especially true in department stor e tr ading, which was off fr om 2 to 17 per cent in th e sta te's maj or cities, in th e construe-

tion field where in most a reas fewer building p er mits were issued for new dw ellin g units, a nd in lumber production and ship me n ts wh er e a downward movem ent in sympathy with declin es in new building operations took pl ace. Also, th er e was some cur tailmen t of textile manufacturing, and a 33 per cen t rise in insur ed un employm ent, but all told th e general bu siness picture in th e state this yea r rema ined exceed ingly fa vorable, th e Commer ce Dep artmen t said .
WAYNESBORO PLANT ADDS 150 WORKERS
W ayn esboro Gar me nt Co., W aynesboro, is in its new 75,00 squa re-foo t building and is adding some 150 ern p loyees to opera te newly installed equipment.
Allen Steinberg, pr esident, said th e new facilit y cost approximately $ 150,GOO an d is compietely air -conditioned.
With the add itional em p loyees, the firm's payroll will be 450 wor kers.

RACING THE RAIN-A combine crew works apace to get the crop in ahead of a threatening shower, as the grain is harvested in South Georgia.-Ed Friend photo.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

July, 1957

GEORGIA POPULATION GAIN

WOULD OVERCROWD VERMONT

Geor gia adde d a tot a l of 389,000 per sons to it s civilia n popul ation in th e 10-year period ending last yea r, according to th e U. S. Bur eau of th e Censu s.
This was mor e than th e equivalent of th e entire populat ion of either V er mont, W yoming or Nevad a.
Latest census estimates show that Georgia's civilian po pulation rose from 3,246,000 in 1947 to 3,635 ,000 in 1956.
If mil itary personnel in the state is counted, the gai n for the period is still more impressive-440,000. This fa r exceeds the present gross populatio n of D elawa re. It also represents more population than the federal Metropolitan Cens us of 1950 cre dited to Akron, O hio, the AlbanySchenectady-Troy ar ea in New York, and more than 100 ot her of t he nation's leading u rban population cen ters.
The census bureau estima ted Georgia's gr oss population - civilia n and militar y-as 3,712,000 as of last J u ly 1 against 3,272,ODOon July 1, 1947.
Annu al p opulation esti mates by th e Georgia Dep artment of Pub lic H ealth, whi ch include both civilia n and military personnel, pl aced th e sta te's populati on in 1947 as 3,233,000 a nd in 1956 as 3,793,000, ind icating a gain of 560,000 for th e decade.
WHEREAS THE U. S. dcciminal census of 1950 showed th at Geor gia' s population th at yea r-3,444,579-consisted of 2,380,578 whites a nd 1,064,001 non wh it es, th e 1956 fed eral estima te is not br oken do wn acco rding to race.
The Georgia Department of Public Health's annual estimates do take account of race.
The health agency's reports show that in 1947 Georgia had 2,139,300 wh ite and 1,093,700 nonwhite resid e n ts.
On July 1, 1956, the count ha d risen to 2,673,000 whites, an increase of 533,700, and 1,120,000 nonwhites, a rise of 26,300.
Analysis of the Bureau of the Cen sus' annual est imates show that in some instances Georgia 's civilian population gai ns over the past 10 years excee ded the national average.

This happened parti cu larly between 1949 and 1950, wh en th e sta te's in crease was 4 pCI' cen t whi le th e nation's was 1.8 per cent. Again , betw een 1950 a nd 195 1 Geor gia's advance was 1.1 per cent and th at of th e nation less than 1 per cent, and last yea r th e gain in Georgia over 1955 was 2.7 per cen t, whi le th e nati on al ga in was 1.8 per cen t.
In th e past 10 years , th e federal sta tisti cs show, th e seven -state South-
BEACH BEAUTY-Carol Langston, 19yea r-old University of Georgia sophomore, who was named quee n of the annual Sunshine Festival at St . Simons Island. Her home is St . Simo ns. T he festival is sponsored by the Islan d Chamber of Com merce.

easte rn region - Georgia, Alabama, Florid a, Missi ssippi , T ennessee and th e Carolinas-through births and in-migration, netted th e addition 01 mor e than 3,000,000 pers ons to its civilia n population .
CONTAINER FIRM TO BUILD PLANT AT HOMERVILLE
Standard Container , In c., Montclai r, N . j ., manufa cturer of sprayers, metal con taine rs and other products, will locate a Geor gia affili ate in Homervi lle.
Dr. D. B. T erry, president of th e Clinch County Industrial Assn., In c., a nonprofit development group or ganiz ed by th e Homer ville L ions Club , mad e th e annou nce me n t.
H e said th e industry will be hous ed in a $200,000 plant built by community interests and slated for comp letion in th e fall.
The p lant, to be situated on a 12acr e sit e on U . S. Hw y. 84 west of Homerville, will contain 30,000 square feet of floor spa ce. Employment will be about 100 peopl e.
BOGART PLANT ENLARGES
Benson's Bak er y, on e of Northea st Georgia's oldest bakery businesses, has enla rge d its plant at Bogart to handle its fruit cake and oven biscuit manufac ture . Officials of th e Ath ens-bas ed firm said th e number of employee s a t Bogart would be incr eased to 100.
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POULTRY PLANT REMODELS
Allied Poultry Co., big poultry pro cessing plant at L awren ceville, has resum ed op erations after several months of extensive remodelin g. Pr esident Johnny johnson said 85 workers ar e employed. The plant has a ca pacity of 6,000 boilers per hour.
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NEW JEFFERSON MOTEL
Crawford W . Long Inn , named for th e town' s famous physician who was first to usc an esthetics in surger y, is open in J efferson. John Coram, formerl y of Sylvester, is manager of the 15unit, air-conditioned accommodation.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1957

ANACONDA FOR HUGE
A mult i-m illion- dollar plant which will employ fro m 150 to 200 workers at t he outset, will be built at Watkinsville, county seat of Oconee County, by Anaconda Wire & Cable
Co. W illiam E. Sprackling, Anaconda
pres ident, said construction of the fac ility will beg in as soon as land purchases, now in negotiation, are completed.
It is estimated that the plant will be completed within a year.
The plan t will be located on a 175acre tr act on Barnett Sh oals Rd ., cast of Watkinsville a nd half in a nd half ou tside th e town's city limits. The site is served by the Cent ral of Geo rg ia Railw ay.
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THE LOCATION is a ppro xima tely seven miles distant from Athens, bustling C lar ke County sca t.
In iti al plan s call for a plant containing 150,000 to 200,000 squa re feet , but An acond a officials indi cated th e fa cility might be enia rged conside rera bly.
An acond a Wire & Cabl e, one of th e top firm s in its field , now opera tes seven manufacturing p lants in New York , Mi chigan , Indian a, California, Illin ois a nd M ontan a . The firm is contr olled by th e An acond a Co., th e wor ld' s lar gest produ cer of copper.
The Watkinsvi lle installation, whic h will be Anaconda's first p lant in the Sout h, will produce various types of cop per an d aluminum wir e and cab le for the electrica l, telep hon e and telegraph utilities an d for t he building industry, a compa ny sta te ment said.
A company spokesma n said th e Oconee Coun ty loca tion was chose n " in preferen ce to many ot hers offered by competit ive areas. "
He added th at several p rominent Geor gia lead er s and indust rialists were instrument al in influencing th e compan y on th e loca tion, including Gov. M ar vin G riffin, St at e Comme rce Secret a ry Scott Candler , E. A. Yat es, Jr., man ager of Georgia Power Co.' s indu strial dep a rtment, th e W atkinsvi lle town council, head ed by M ayor L . E. Weatherf ord , and th e O con ee County commission, head ed by Ch airman H erm an C. M ich ael.

PICKS WATKINSVILLE WIRE-CABLE PLANT

WHI RLI~IRD NE ST-A Bell H -13 helicopter r ests at th e doo r of Aero C orp., at Atlanta AIrport, wh er e a for ce of 100 to 300 work to keep the Army's helicopters on
th e wing. The firm was re cently awa rd ed a big over haul contract by the T ransportation Supply and Maintenance Command.

TV To Control Union Bag-Camp
Huge New Boiler
One of th e la rgest pow er boilers in the pulp a nd p ap er ind ustry is under construc tion at th e Sav ann ah plant of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.
H oused in a st ruc ture equivalent in height to a 12-story bu ildin g, th e hu ge fa cilit y will be capable of produ cin g 450,000 pounds of stea m every hour. It will usc as fu el n atural ga s and bark from th e plant's pulpwood . The plant genera tes its own pow er.
A special television ca me ra will be located in th e boi ler's arch roof , enabling th e oper ator, with a viewing scre en, to keep an eye on th e flame inside th e boiler. An eleva tor is bein g installed to ca r ry personnel up and down th e towering str uctu re.
Compan y offi cials expe ct th e new boiler to be in oper ation by O ctober.

12-STORY BOILER

BOWATER OPENS OFFICE
Bowater Pap er Co. , In c., lar gest newsprint manufacturer in th e South h as open ed a br an ch office at 1330 Pea chtree St .,NE., Atlanta. R alph E. Watt is in cha rge.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEW SLET T ER

July, 1957

GOVERNOR WOOS PITTSBURGH

FOR GEORGIA STEEL INDUSTRY

Georgia is ripe for a big integrated steel plant to help supply her own fast -expanding industrial needs and tho se of her sist er states, Gov. Marvin G riffin told Pittsburgh .
In his role as the state's No. 1 Indu stry Ambassador, Governor G riffin informed 100 key industrialists and finan ciers of the steel cit y area that Georg ia is considering a detailed study of location pertinent to th e establishment of su ch a facilit y.
H e said th e study would be a followup to a Geo rgia T ech survey whi ch show ed cond itions a rc favor abl e for th e development of th e steel industr y in G eo rgia.
Gove rno r Gri ffin was accompanied to Pi tt sbu rgh by two scor e Georgia indust rial leaders. T he t rip, sponsore d by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, was the fift h of a series to spr ead the Georgia stor y in the nation's important industrial hu bs. Earlier visits wer e ma de to New York, Chi cago , Detro it a nd C leveland .
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GEO RGIA'S steel mill, said th e Governor, would employ th e newes t hy drogen process for reducing eithe r V enzu elan or L iberian ores .
"Our ports," he told the steel capital , " are ideally situated to handle imports from both countries. A source of hydrogen is already available in Savannah and bulk-handling facilities will be installed there in th e near future . Bru nswick offers cer tain advantages in term s of its harbor and ship -handling potentials and could read ily be equipped to support a steel installation."
But th e Geo rgia exec utive was prom pt to disclaim a ny a tte mp t to "pirate" a ny of Pittsbu rgh 's existing indust ry. "To th e con tra ry," he said, "we wa nt to see you r part of th e n ation grow as ra pidly as our section. We want to share our mu tua l progress."
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HE TOLD a luncheon meeting at the Duqu esne C lub th at so many plan ts ha ve come to Georgia th at it now stands foremost in th e Southeast an d fourth in the nati on in th e establishment of heavy industri es since World War II.
Last year alone, he said $ 165,000 ,000 was spent in adding new

GO V ERNO R I N AC T ION- Gov. Marvin Griffin, who led a large gr ou p of Ge org ia ns to Pittsburgh to see k new industries for th e sta te , is pictu red as he made his sales ta lk to Ben Mo rre ll (left ), cha ir ma n of th e board of J on es & L au ghlin Ste el C orp., and Gw ilym A. Price (righ t ) , chairm a n and presid ent of West ingh ouse Electric C orp. They ar e seen at th e D uqu esne C lub wh er e Go vernor G r iffin and hi s party wer e lunch eon gues ts of leading easte rn industriali sts.-Wide World photo.

manufacturers large and small, not including numerous additions to established plants, mod ernizat ion and re-equipmen t.
As an inducem ent for a continued influx of new capital, he plac ed con struction costs in Georgia 20 per cent lower than in New York and about to per cent under the national level.
Ge org ia's county unit electoral syste m, the Gove rn or brought out, engenders a con servatism in govern ment conducive to business operation. " W e have no radicali sm of any kind in our gove rnme nt," he dec l a red .
Official Pit tsbur gh hosts for the Georgia mission wer e th e Westinghouse Electri c Corp. and M ellon N ationa l Bank & Trust Co .
Westinghou se president a nd boar d chairma n, G wilym A. Price sha red welcom ing duties with Otis O . Rae, Westing house regional vice-presiden t from Atla n ta . Westingh ouse is now bu ild ing a hu ge pl ant at Athens to ma nufa ct ure tran sform er s.

Rich a rd K . M ellon, ch airma n, and Lawren ce N. Mur ray, president, wer e hosts for th e M ellon bank.
CHIPLEY SIGNS SPORTSWEAR FIRM
D acul a Sportswea r, Inc., ma nufactu rer of ja ckets, has signed a five-year lease with option for renewal with th e C hip ley Develo pm en t Corp., for th e cld Schwab p lant .
Opening with a force of 35 to 50 wom en, the new industry has an employm en t goa l of 100.
Dacu la Sp ortswear has two other Georgia plants, on e at Dacu la and the other in D uluth .
ROOFING FIRM EXPANDS Sout hern States I ron Roofing Co . of
Atla nta , now operating from a 78,000squa re -foot manufactur ing a nd warehouse faci lity at 1530 Ellsworth Drive, N .W ., has leased 18,000 addi tiona l square feet for expansion purposes.

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NEWSLETTER

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July, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Georgia's flue-cured tobacco ma rk et s ope ned July 18 . . . Grady County REA has secured a $540 ,000 loan ... Fulton County F ed eral Savings & Lo an Assn., Atlanta, is in a new 10-story bui ldin g near Five Points . . . Ronald Grady was na med ge nera l man ager of Savannah's DeSoto H ot el . . . Rome Bank & T ru st Co . will erec t a new building.
White County celebrated its cen ten nia l . . . Smyrna is in a sewer exp an 'sion pla n th at will cost $350 ,000 . . . Ba tson-Cook Co., West Point, received a $3,550 ,000 con trac t for cons tr u ction at Dobbi ns Air Force Base, Marietta . . Georgia-C ar olina Bro ad ca stin g Co. will erect a $100 ,000 TV studio in Augusta . . . Washington County H ealth Dept. is in a new $ 100,000
str ucture at Sandersville . . . Ben J.
M assell is erecting a $750,000 building on 14th St ., Atlanta . . . Southwest Georgia Milk Co. and W. B. Mill er & Sons Mil k Co. h ave mer ged as Southland D airies, Inc., Bainbridge.
Brooks County H ospit al, Quitman, will add a wing . . . R adio Station WDAX, McRae, has a new building . . Georgia Pow er Co. ha s a hu ge new tran sformer in Commerce . . . Buena Vista vot ers approved a $75,000 sewerage bond issue . . . Swainsboro's Central Bank is in a new building.
Pea chtree-Roxboro Corp. is erecting an apartment building on Atlanta's Peachtree St. , a t a cost of $800,000 .. . U nadilla pl an s wa ter wor ks a nd sewer system improvements . . . A new health cen ter to serve Walker, Catoosa, Dade and C hattooga Cou nties is op en at LaFayette.
S. J. Cu rry Co., Albany, will build
Macon's $2,000,000 sewerage disposal plant . . . Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plan s a building in Co lumbus.
Pomona Product s Co. , Griffin, is building a $60,000 stor age war ehouse . . Pure Oil Co. has established a 12-state region al marketing headquarters in Atlanta . . . Maryon H osiery Mill , Carrollton, is enlarging . . . Cartersville E lks Club will erect a clubhou se.
Emory University received a $3,300,000 loan for hou sing un its . . . R ohr Air craft Co . is expanding its plant at Wi nder . . . Dou glas has acq uir ed 28 acr es of land con taining 16 buildin gs used as a World War II av ia tion training cen ter . . . Associated G ro cer s Cooper ative, In c., Atlanta, is building a 220,000 -square-foot warehouse in East Point.

PICKING A WINNER-Phil Spooner and son John study th e calv es on their farm near Donalsonvill e, as th ey debate whi ch one to selec t as entrant in th e 1958 Fat Cattle Show.- Ed Friend photo.

Worth T obacco W areh ouse Co., In c. has a new warehouse in Sylve ster .. . Commerce's new ra dio st ati on is WJJ C
. G ran ite City M otel h as opened 16 ai r-cond itioned un it s in Elberton . . Belk will erec t a mod ern dep artment store in Belmont Hills, Smyrna . . Trenton h as inst alled a 100,000 ga llon tank and is extending its water system . .. Brooks County is pl anning to celebra te it s centennial in 1959 . .. Lehman H . Franklin has completed a two-story, 2-4--unit motel at Statesboro a t a cost of $ 100,000.
Thomasville dedi ca ted it s $255,000 YMCA bu ilding . . . Georgi a Light Co., Columbus, is building a $360,000 pro cessing pl ant . . . Toccoa's new whiteway is shining . . . W hit field County and th e Dalto n H ealth D epartment pl a n a health cen ter in Dalton . . Oberm an M fg. Co., Valdosta, will erec t a warehouse . .. Georgia For estr y Commission will establish a 140- acr e tree farm in H ouston Co unty.
Am eri can Bitumuls & Asph alt Co.

will establish a storag e and distribution terminal in Savannah . . . R. L . M oore Co., Richland feed mill, is enla rging . . . Wilcox County is plan ning a medical center . . . Irwin County RE A has re ceived a $ 100,000 fed eral loan .. . Blairsville Industri es, In c., pl an s to ere ct a bui lding for prospecti ve industr y ... Yan cey Bros. Co ., Atlanta tractor dealer, has op ened a Macon bran ch .
BUFORD GENERATORS START PRODUCTION
Limited production of hyd roelect ric power has begun at Buford D am on th e Chattahoochee Ri ver.
The power is bein g delivered to Georgia Power Co . under a cont ra ct with th e fede ral govern me nt.
T he Buford insta llation, 35 miles northeast of Atl anta, is bein g completed by th e Corps of En gin eer s a t a cost of appro ximately $40,000 ,000 .

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Vo l. 8, No. 10

Aug ust, 1957

LUGGAGE PLANT TO OPEN SOON IN TIGER AREA
Co nstr uction ha s begun ju st sou th of T ign O il a p lant to ho use Rabu n Co~untv' s n ewe -st indust ry, Rab un Pr oduct s, l nc., wh ich will manufa cture luggage.
The pla n t is sched uled to hr in opera tion by O ct. 1.
Georgc F . K rivskv, Andre w G rin-
son a nd M ax \Vinz, .1 1'., a n: prin cipa l
stoc kho lde rs in th e company . They estim at e th at 25 to 35 per son s will be em ploye d wh en th e fa ctory begins oper at ion but more than 75 are expec ted to be Oil the pa yro ll by th e end of the vcar. . O rigin al building pl an s ca ll for a pl ant 52 x 200 feet , but th e man agemen t sai d the structu re will be expand ed to 300 x 200 in th e nea r fu ture.
Both Mr. Krivskv a nd M r. Grier son a re Rabun Co u n ty resid ents.
COVER PHOTO
Fo rt Frede r ica Nation al M onument , St. Simo ns Island , whe re a new a rchaeo logica l p roject has jus t gotten under way. J oel L. Shine r, Pa rk Service a rc haeolog ist, kn eels on spot where the outer wa Il of one of Genera l Ogletho rpe 's storeho uses
is bein g uncovered . In the back-
grou nd, overloo king th e Frederica Ri ver, are the ru ins of the cita de l. (Story on page 5.)

GROUND BREAK ERS- T earing up th e ear th at the site of Ca rr Cons olidat ed Biscui t
Coo's new plant at Va ldosta are, left to right: J ames W. Blan chard, industrial cha irman of the Va ldosta & Lown des County Cha mber of Comme rce; A. D. Davis, president
Dixie-Winn St ores; Gove rnor Griffin, John W. Lastin ger , chamber pr esident , and B. L. Thomas, Dixie-Winn vice-pres ide nt.

GOVERNOR BREAKS GROUND

FOR NEW VALDOSTA PLANT

With Gov. Marvin Griffi n setting the pa ce, a disti ngui shed crew hefted shovels to break gro u nd for Carr Co nso lidated Biscuit Co.'s big new bak ery at Va ldos ta .
The Governor, p rin cipal spe a ker a t th e exe rc ises held Jul y 18, ou tlined th e llla n y ad vantages Ge org ia has to offe r indust ry a nd congra tulated th e officers and employees of th e Car r firm fo r loca tin g in Va ldost a.

" Let me ass u re yo u," he said, "t ha t

your choice of V aldost a for th is plant

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A. D. D AVIS, presid ent of WinnDixie St or es, In c., whi ch owns th e Carr firm , respond ed to th e welc om e from th e Govern or. H e pra ised th e V al dost a & Lowndes Countv C ha m be r of Commer ce for secu ring th e pl ant a nd sai d th e "co-ope ra tion found amo ng a ll th e citizens pla yed a n extr em ely import ant part in selec ting the

city" for th e new ind us try.
H e noted Govern or Griffi n's work a lllong th e ind ust ria lists in the N orth a nd East in interesting th em in Ge org ia location s.
The C ar r bak ery is moving to Valdost a from C h icago .
" T here is no reaso n," Mr. D avis sa id, " for a peanut to be gro wn in Georg ia , sh ip pe d up north to be p rocessed and retu rned to Georgia to be sold as a man uf actu red a rticle. "
The Ca rr pla n t will occ u py 75,000 sq ua re feet of floor space on a 13-a n c tr a ct of land serve d by th e Georgia & F lor ida Railro ad . It is ex pec ted to employ 150 peop le wh en ope ra tions 1)('gin ea rl y in 1958.
The plant will man uf a cture "s weet goo ds," includ ing coo kies an d cr a ckers, for th e 460 Dixie-Winn ret a il ou tlet s in nin e sou theas te rn sta tes.
J ohn W . L ast inger, president of th e cha mber, p reside d a t th e grou nd brea king ce remon ies. St at e Sen. J ohn Lan gd ale presented th e Governo r, a nd M ayor Em ory Ba ss ga ve officia l welcome to the city's newest ind ust r y.

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NE WS LETT E R

August, 195 7

NEW GEORGIA PLANT MAKING

GLASS FROM DIXIE MATERIALS

G eorgia 's fir st glass p lant is 111 op eration.
Owens-Illinois Glass Co.'s new installation on Sylvan Rd. , near At la nta, featuring automatic forming ma chines fed by th e world 's most modern glass-sme lting furna ce, ha s begun produ ction.
Harold Ottensen , manager, sa id a seco nd furnace now under con stru ction is sched uled to sta rt produ ction late thi s yea r. Official ope ning of th e plant will be held ea rly in 1958.
With its tw in fu rnaces going, th e pla nt will have a ca pa city of mor e tha n 300,000,000 bottles, jars and ju gs a nnua lly.
I t will em ploy 650 person s and have a yea rly payroll of nca rlv $:1,000.000.
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THE 619,000 sq uare-foot pla nt is locat ed on a n 85-ac re tr act between East Point and H a peville. two miles nor th east of Atlan ta Mun icipal Airpo n . It s 142-foot " ba teh house," wher e ingredien ts a rc mixed , is eq uivalen t in heigh t to a I :I-sto ry bui lding.
R aw materials used in making glass-silica sand, soda ash and lim estone, will be from southe rn a reas, M r. Ottensen sai d . Som e 2,500 ca rloads of sa nd will be brought fr om Thomasville, Ga., annu all y. Six hundred fr eight ca rs of soda ash will be sh ip pe d in fro m Sa ltv ille, Va., and Baton R ou ge, La. , each yea r, and 500 ca rs of lim eston e

FIRST BO TTLE-Harold Otten sen , m an ager of th e new O wen s-Illinois Glass Co . pl ant , inspect s th e fir st bottl e to come fr om th e factory near Atla nta Municipal Airpo rt.

from Ande rson, T enn.
The plan t will p rod uce na rr ownecked bottles a nd wid e-mouth jar s for packaging ca rbona ted bever ages, pickles, pim ientos, baby food, sa lad a nd coo king oils, dr ugs, peanut bu tt er, solubl e coffee, beer , fru it, vegeta bles and

hou seh old che mica ls. In size, th e item s will ran ge fr om tin y med icine bott les to one-ga llon con ta ine rs.
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THE INSTALLATIO N is Ow en sIlli nois' 15t h plant, 1:1 of which man ufactu re glass contai ne rs, and is the firm' s fift h Geo rg ia facility.
Na t iona l Co ntainer Corp., a n 0 -1 subsidia ry, op er at es a hu ge pulp a nd paperboa rd mill a t Va ldosta a nd ha s a multiwall bag division in that city . Na tiona l Container opera tes a 27mile railroad in connec tion with its Va ldosta facilities and in addition owns or leases th ou sands of acres of timberl and in sout hern Georg ia.

FIRST I N GE O RGIA - Lo ca ted on an 8S-acre t ract north east of A tla nta M unicip al Air port, thi s 6 19,OOO-foo t pl ant of Owen s-Illinois Glass Co . is th e fir st g-Iass-ma king facilit y in th e sta te. Its ' towerin g- " ba tch hou se" is at upper left .

Na tiona l Co n ta ine r a lso man ufa ctures corruga ted shi pping boxes in an Atla nta plant a t :1 200 Lak ewood Ave.
At lan ta also is sou the rn sales headqua rte rs for 0 -1's G lass Contain er Di vision . L ibbey Glass Di vision and K imble G lass C; ., in consolida ted offices a t 1330 W est Peacht ree St.

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

NEWS L ETTER

Augus t, 19.')7

AMERICUS GETS TRAILER PLANT;
WORK TO START JAN. 1 WITH 100
Construction of a 65,OOO-square foot hou se trailer manufacturing plant to employ more than 100 persons by Jan. 1, is ge tt ing under wa y in Americus.
Completion of plans for th e pl ant , which will have a "unique" straight q uarter -mile-long p roducti on line, were a nno unced join tly by T ommy ' Va rren, indust rial committee ch airman of th e Ame ricus-Sumter Co un ty Chamber of Commer ce, a nd official s of M arl ette Coac h Co., Marlette, M ich .
A six-building facility will be er ected on an ind ustrial site adja cent to th e Amer icus city limits on U. S. Hwv. 280. Thc i ract was purch ased last May by th e Am eri cus a nd Sumter County Development Corp. , afte r M arlette officials a pproached local citizens abou t locating th e plant .
The development or gani zation, headed by H. Phil J ones, rai sed $ 150,000 toward fin an cing the plant within two da ys after th e ca ll was made to the corpora tion.

TWO FIRMS EXPAND Two Ri ch land firm s a rc makin g im -
portant expa nsions. H . L. M oore Co .. furniture manu facturer. and th e Rich land Box Co ., manufacturer of wooden boxes, eac h a re putting $40,000 in new facilities. Th e two expa nsions will ad d 25 work ers to th e industrial payroll of th e Stewa rt County center.
Savannah Sugar Marks 40 Years
Savanna h Suga r R efining Co rp.. wh ich went int o production July 17. 1917 . celebrated its 40 th a nniversa ry with ' a n employees' barbecu e a t th ~ Port Wentworth plant.
A pioneer in th e now thriving industrial sector of Sav an na h' s upper ha rhor, th e refinery gives em ployment to hund reds of persons di rectly and ind ire ctlv.
The' refin ery has a ca pac ity of 3" 000,000 pounds of suga r dail y, three tim es th at of th e original plant. Deliveries last veal' tot aled 377.900 sho rt tons, according to th e compa ny's annual report.
Th omas Oxnard, president of th e corpora tion. is a son of th e refinery's fou nd er.

BEAUTI ES TH ER E, TOO-W. H. Glenn, pr esiden t of Nehi Corp., and Mr s. Glenn. with two of the most popular guests at th e Columbus plan t dedi caton. Sea ted at left is Jody Sha tt uc k, "Miss Georg ia 1957," while at the right is Bunn y Cooper, " M iss Roy al Crown Cola." Mor e tha n 35,000 visitors saw th e new plant.
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BIG DAY AT COLUMBUS-Nehi Corp.'s new sup er-mod ern $ 1,000,000 bottling plant and part of th e crowd that par ticipated in its dedi cation . Li eut -Go vernor Ernes t Va ndiver was th e spea ker in thi s scene .

$270,000 HANGAR
Ea stern Air Lines will const ruc t a metal frame hangar at Atl anta Airport at an estima ted cost of $270,000. The struc ture will have 17.000 squ are feet of space.

LAKE SEMINOLE OKAY
The Sena te Publi c Work s Committee has a pp roved a bill to nam e th e reser voir created by Jim Woodruff Dam on th e Apalachi cola R iver in Geor gia . Florid a and Alab ama " La ke Seminole."

G EORGIA DE PA R TM ENT OF COMM ERCE

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NE WSLETTER

Augu st , 1957

OLD FORT FREDERICA GIVES UP

MORE GEORGIA HISTORY GEMS

"Vhen Di xie's govern ors con ven e th e 23rd annual Sout he aste rn Gov ern o rs Co nfere nce at Sea Island in Septe mbe r, th ey will find in progress, on nearby St. Simo ns Island, one of th e most int er esting a rc haeologica l p rojects ever under tak en in Ame rica.
With $359, 000 ea rma r ked for explor ation and renov a t ion, th e N ation al Park Service is fu rt her enhan cin g Fo rt Frederi ca Na t iona l Monumen t, one of Geo rg ia's mo st prized historic possession s. The project is expec ted to br ing to light m uch additiona l in formati on a bou t the fort. th e model town whi ch su rro unde d it, and th e br ave and hardy peop le who helped Gen . J ames Edward C?glcthorpe sett le and preserv e Georgia .
O GLETH ORPE built hi s fort a nd military town, both named Fred eri ca, in 1737, for th e p urpose of protecting Georgia a nd Britain's ot her colonies from Sp ani sh enc ro ac hme n t. Hi s purpose was ful filled J uly 7, 1742, wh en Fort Fred erica' s ga rr ison of 900 men ma rched out acr oss th e walled town's moa t to cru sh a force of 3,000 Spaniar ds in th e Ba t tle of th e Bloody M a rsh .
Soon afte r thi s victory, th e regiment was disbanded , th e fort dismantled and th e town that h ad she ltered the military men and th eir families was grad ua lly abandon ed . The fort site wa s acquir ed by th e Geo rg ia Chapter of Col on ial Dames in 1903, and the wor k of conserving the few ruins th en rema ining got under way. It was con tin ued by th e Fort Fred eri ca Assn., wh ich added 80 acr es, includin g th e town site and graveyard, an d donated th e ent ire tract to th e fed eral gove rn me nt in 1945. R ea lizing that th e ruins above ground indicated a wea lth of histor ic evide nce ben ea th, the Pa r ks Serv ice star ted, in 1951, th e first of a ser ies of a rchaeologica l explora tions. Mrs. M arga ret D avi s Cate, a n a ut ho rity on th e histor y of G eor gia's Golden Isles, pav ed the way for the project by her long and ca refu l resea rch . Pa rk s Serv ice archaeologist C ha rles H . F ai rba nks was in cha rge.
TH E FIRST DIG GI NGS un cover-

ed, exac t ly wher e Mrs. C at es' studi es indi ca ted , th e foun dations of th e Hawkins -D avi son hou se. Dr. Thomas H aw kin s was a ph ysician who a lso maintained an apotheca ry sho p in his hom e. a nd Samuel D avi son ope ra ted a tav ern

FR ED ERIC A HOME-The H awkin sDavi son H ouse as conce ived by architect s fro m resea rc h at hist or ic St. Simo ns.

in his side of th e duplex dw elling. Mrs. H aw kin s is not ed in Georgia histor y for ca usin g tro ub le betw een Oglet horpe a nd J ohn and Ch arles W esley, t h c M ethodist pion eer s, and on on e occa sion she mad e an a tte m p t on th e life of J oh n Wesley.
Ex cavations at the H a wkins--D avison site proved Mrs, C at es' content ion th at O glethorpe's town wa s wr ll-built a nd tha t its people lived good. This two-unit hou se had been three stories high, built of En glish brick a nd th e win do ws were glazed . Amo ng artifact s found on the floors wer e fr agments of stemme d goblets whi ch held within th eir ste ms th e famous " tea rd rop" bubble, bits of fin e Chinese porcelai n , En glish Delft firep lace tiles, wine and grog bottl es of var ious sizes a nd shapes, a nd many sma ll medi cin e via ls from th e a potheca ry shop .

I n th e ashes on th e hearth of Dr.

H aw kins' home wer e found the frag-

ments of a stemme d wine glass. It is

not ha rd to spec u la te that it might

hav e been thrown th er e afte r a toast to

King G eor ge, perhap s in celebra t ion

of th e Bloody Marsh victory .

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INFORMATION G AI N ED fro rn th e H a wkin s-D avison hous e ena bled th e arch aeologists to defini tell' establish th e land lot lin es of th e town and loca te th e boundaries of Broad St ., th e

main thoroughfare. L a ter th e loca tion and size of th e tow n ga te was det er min ed and in th e north part of the for t th e tabb y found at ion s of a th reesto rv s to reho ~lse wer e un cover ed . T he thi rd floor of thi s bu ilding was used as a ch ap el; both of th e Wesleys pr eached th ere d ur ing th eir stay at F red erica .
Seve ral mon th s ago explora tions under th e d irect ion of Arc haeologist J oel L. Shine r revea led the ru jn s of a bla cksmith shop a nd br ick forge within th e fort enclosure. From thi s site, Park Supe rinte nde nt W. H . G lover has recovered more th an 500 pounds of metal objec ts. They show that the blacksmi th , whose principl e busin ess was th e ca re of th e weapons and horses of O glethorpe's soldiers, also mad e hoops a nd straps, nail s, sp ikes and hin ges, and even found time to rep ai r household items suc h as scissors, spoo ns, and iron ke t t l es.

As soon as the bla cksmith shop wa s un earth ed , Mrs. Ca te was to supply th e nam e of th e " kine 's a rmo u rer" who was in cha rge th ere in th e 1740' s. He was J ohn St on ach, a Scot . St onach 's assist an t was J ohn Bull , obv ious-

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200 YE AR S OLD- Ar e th ese artifac ts found in recent arc hae ologica l exploration a t For t Fre de ric a. T hey include buttons, thim ble, scissors, hinges and other h ousehold ar ticles, as well as nails. spikes and metal and wood-working tools recover ed from th e blac ksm ith shop site.

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GEORG IA DE PA RTMENT OF CO M MERCE

NE WS L ETTE R

Au g ust , 195 7

HISTORY GEMS

AT FREDERICA

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Iy an En g lishman.

In th e cu rrent program of exc a-

va tions, just sta r ting , the floor of

th e fort itse lf will be carefully ex-

a mi ne d, al on g with the foundation s

of a seco nd store ho use whi ch stoo d

in th e sou th part of th e enclosu re.

This bui lding, lik e the on e in th e

no rth, wa s 20 x 60 feet and three

st ories high.

T he archaeologist s will also go in -

to th e sou the ast bastion of th e fort,

wh ich has not ye t been explore d,

a nd after that, more of th e town

lot s on eit her side of Broad St. wiII

be exa m ined. The first of these

lots to receive attention will be th at

owne d a nd occupied by Cap t. Mark

Carr. Carr was on e of O glethorpe's

" r igh t hands," and became th e fir st

white sett ler on the peninsul ar now

occ upied by th e C ity of Brunswick.

The 'For t Frederica proj ect is part

of th e N ation al Park Servi ces' " M is-

sion 66," whi ch ca lls fo r th e develop -

men t of nation al parks a nd monu -

ments

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BESIDES ar chaeologica l a nd n-st ora tion wor k, th e St. Simons d evelopment incl udes a visit ors ' center. a lready nearing completion, whi ch ~\'i ll h ous;~ a m useum , offices for park per sonnel and u tilit v a nd rest rooms. T hen- wi ll a lso be more d ispl a ys, ex hibits and signs , a nd aud io-visua l devices to help Su perintendent G lover a nd his staff to int erp ret the even ts which took plac e at th e la ndma r k more tha n two rr-nt urirs ago.
Fort Fred eri ca is 10 mil es fr om Brunswi ck and may be rea ch ed by th e Brunswick- St . Simon s Hwv. or th e inland watcrwa v. T he monu;nent area comprises the fort site. th e wa lled a rea of th e town and th c bu ryin g g ro u nd to the east. T he moat su rrou nd ing the town, portion s of th e citadel, a nd part o f th e ba rra cks, constructed of b ric k, or ex ta nt. Gi ant live oa ks and tall Georgia pin es. a ll heavily bearded with flowing Sp ani sh mo ss, make th e monument a rare beauty spo t. The cita d el over look s th e ma rshes of G lvnn. whi ch inspired Sidney La nier's Iamou s po em . T he battlefield of Bloodv M arsh lies four mi les to the sou t he~ s t. Tourists bv th e ten s of tho usands visit the a rea e~c h yea r.

$500,000 ROSSVILLE CENTER,

PEERLESS MILLS GIFT, OPENS

Ro ssville' s new comm unitv cen ter. built by Peerl ess M ills a t ~ cost of

$500,000 , has been turn ed ove r to th e

ci tv.

Peerl ess is a d ivision of Burl ington

industri es.

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Officials of Peerl ess a nd Burlingt on ,

CAMILLA PLANT IN LARGER HOME

Rossville and Walker County participated in d edi cating th e cente r, whi ch is design ed for usc of Peerl ess em ployees and th eir families. com m unitv orga niza tions and th e schools of th e "a rea.
J oh n H . H utcheson, J r., chairma n of the Peerl ess board and senior vicepr e sid ent o f Burlin gt on , offi ciall y turned th e building OVlT to th e ce n te r's board of trustee. It was ac cepted by H . L. Brot herton. Rossville school super intend en t. .

Dr affin M fg. Co ., Cam illa , ma nufac tu rer of women's cas ua l wea r, is moving in to a new loca tion whi ch a lmost d ou bles the size of its op era tion .
The fir m has leased the Royal Bld g., con ta ining 5,000 sq uare feet of space , a nd is remodeling it into a thorough ly mod ern insta llation . The plant's presen t quarter s con ta in on ly 3,000 squ are feet.
J oe Draffin, presid ent. sa id th e movr will me a n doubling th e firm 's present payroll of 40 peopl e.
SARDIS PLANT ADDS AREA AND WORKERS
Fa cilities a t th e Sardis M fg. Co .. Sardis, a rc bein g enlarged by 10,000 sq ua re feet. to bring th e floor area of th e drap ery-mak ing conce rn to 27,000 sq uare feet.
T he new construc tion wi ll add 44 employees to the firm 's pa yroll, which now nu mbers ~l O workers.

JEKYLL TO GET 30-UNIT MOTEL
Visitors to J ekyll I sla nd, Georgia's sem i - tro pical pla yground , wi ll fin d modern motel faci lities awaiting th em next seaso n.
J ekyll Isla nd Authority, whi ch ope ra tes the stat e-owned resort, has a pp rov ed a n agr eem ent with Coasta l Estat es, Inc., to complet e a 20-unit motel within th e vear. N ext vear, 10 ad d itiona l units arc to be com pleted. H . K . Ru shton , of Vidali a , head s Coasta l Estat es, In c.
$ 22,000 ,00 0 D A M JOB L etting of a cont rac t approx imately
$22 ,000 ,000 for construction of th e concre te H a rtwell Dam. near Elberton. mean s resumption immedia tely of work that wa s ha lt ed la st December bv a la nd dispute wit h C lemson Co llege: A group of W ester n fir ms secured th e con tra ct.

Georgia Farm Value $11/2 Billion; Allin New England Worth Less

Geo rgia' s farm land a nd b ui ld ings a re now val ued a t mor e than a billion and a half doll ars-more th an th e worth of a ll sim ila r properties in New En gland .

The valu e of Georgia's fa rm p rop erties is $ 1,5 71,400,000, sa ys a jo in t IT port of th e Bu reau of th e C en sus and th e U. S. Dep artment of Agri culture.

This is an increase in va lue of $ 1.-

091,1 00 ,000 since 1940.

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The lat est va lue p laced on all farm la nd and bui ldings in th e en tire N ew En gland region , whi ch is comprised of M ai ne, New H a m psh ire, V ermont,

M assach usetts, R hode Isla nd and C onnecti cut, is $ 1,369,900,UOO.
Where as G eorgi a 's farm properties inc reased 227 per cen t in va lue since 1940, th at in New En g land ad va nce d only 85 per cent. The nati on al rat e of in crt -asc was 21 7 per ccn t.
C ENTR AL ORDER S CARS Ce ntra l of Georgia Railway has
pla ced an orde r fo r 500 70-t on ope n hopper ca rs whi ch will be used in th e movem ent of South Alabama brown or c. Railroad h ea dquarter s in Savannah sa id the or d er approximat ed $4,150,000 .

G EO RG IA DEP ARTM E NT OF COM ME RCE

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NEWSLETTER

August. 1957

30 NEW BUSINESS FIRMS A DAY

IS DIXIE SCORE SINCE WAR'S END

Eve ry da y since W orld War II ende d, the Sou th east has incorporated an aver age of 30 new business firms a da y.
The seven-sta te region of Georgia, Ala ba ma, Florida , M ississipp i, T ennessee a nd the Ca ro lina s has adde d 110,89 1 corporations to its busin ess field in th e lO-year period of 1947 throug h 1956, says t he At lant a field office of the U. S. Depa r tm ent of Co mmerce.

More than 80 per cent of th e new firm s incorporated in the a rea have tak en domicile in four of the states, Georgia, Florida, North C aro lin a a nd T ennessee, whi ch hav e received a tota l of 90,068 during th e decad e,
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GEORG IA incorporated 14,523 new firms , F lorida , 48,998 , North Ca rolina, 14,916, and T ennessee, 11,63 1. I nt o Alabama went an additional 8)49, Mississippi, 5,080 , and South Ca rolin a, 7.5 94 .
Last year, with 16,855 new businesses incorp or a ted in the seven sta tes, th e increase over 1947 of 43 per cent substa ntia lly excee de d the 25 per cen t ga in reco rde d for t he nation as a who le, a nd during all th e yea rs in which adva nces were shown, th e ga ins in th e So ut heast ha ve generally excee de d th a t for the n ited States.

L ast year's overa ll rise in th e region

over 194 7 was d ue prima ril y to an up-

trend of :)4 per cen t in Ge orgia and 122

per cent in F lorida . Otherwise, the

incre ases were nominal, o r slight de-

clin es ca me .

The post -war expa nsio n reg iona lly

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between 1951 a nd 1956, the analvsi s

sho wed . In 1951, th e region illl:or -

porated 8,213 firm s, in 1952, 9,273, in

1953, 10,633, in 1954, 12,211. in 1955.

15,293, and in 1956, 16,855.

TUFTED HEADQUARTERS
Construction has begun a t Da lton OIl a nationa l head q ua rters buildi ng for the Tu fted T exti le Mfgs. Assn. Sche duled to be com pleted by th e end of th e vear, th e bri ck struc ture will hou se ofIices, la bora tories a nd other facilities of the giga n tic G eorgia-center ed tufted textil e ind ustry.

OCCU P IED-Cons t ruction eng ineers at th e Savan na h pl ant of U n ion Bag-C amp Pa per Corp. hav e moved into their new home-th is han dsom e brick str uc ture . Th e building, com ple tely mo d ern with it s alu min um and glass br ick tr im, co nta ins 15,00 0 sq ua re feet of wor k space a nd houses 11 privat e offices as well as tw o la rge dr af ing roo ms. There are 80 eng inee rs a nd draft sm en , and 10 clerical wor kers.

DI.XIE GOVERNORS GATHER

AT SEA ISLAND SEPT. 22

Georgia is host to the Southe rn Gov erno rs' Co nference thi s veal' and on Sept. 22 th e chief exec~l tives of 16 sta tes will ga the r a t th e C loiste r on
GOVERNOR NAMES
INDUSTRY GROUP
A commit tee a ppo inted by Gov. M arvin Gri ffin to assist him in promot ing G eor gia' s industri al a nd ag ricultura l pot ential is planning a spec tac ula r exh ibit for th e Nation a l Wa tcrshed Co ngress and th e Sou theastcrn Fair thi s fall,
The exhibit will ca rrv ou t th e th em e, "Georgia T od ay [or i'omorrow." .
M embers of th e Govern or' s committee a rc Sta te Commerce Secret ary Scott Cand ler, Agr icult ur e Commi~sion er Phi l Campbell, Dr. C. C. Murra y, dean of th e U niversity of Geor gia College of Agri cu lture, C ecil W . Ch apman , sta te soil conse rva tion ist. and E. Lee C artcron, genera l ma nager, Sou theas te rn Fair.

Sea Isla nd for th eir 23r d ann ua l session.
Gov. Marvin Griffin will be host governo r, whi le Mrs. Griffin will head up th e pr ogr am for th e visitin g gm 'ern ors' lad ies.
Gen. Curtis E. LeM ay, comma nde r in chief of th e Strat egic Air Co mmand . is sched uled to be pr incipal guest speak er at th e four-day confere nce.
Govern ors wh o will a tt end th e confer en ce, accom pa nie d by th eir famili es a nd aides, include:
J ames E. Folsom , Alab am a ; Orval
E. Fabus, Arkansas; .J. Ca leb Boggs.
Delaware ; LeRov Co llin s, F lori da : M arvin Griffin , 'Georgia ; Albert B. (H a ppy ) Chandler , K entu cky; Ea rl K , Lon g, Loui sian a ; Theod ore R. M cK cldin, M a ryland ; j a mes P. Co lema n, Mi ssissippi ; Luther H . H od ges, No r th Carolina ; R avmond C a ry, Ok lah om a : Geor ge ik ll 'T immerma;1, j r., Sout h Carolin a ; Frank G . Clement, T enn essee ; Pri ce Daniel, T ex as ; T hom as B. St an ley, Vi rgini a, a nd Cecil H . U nde rwood , West Virgini a .
Govern or H odges of North Carolina is Southern Go verno rs Conferen ce cha irma n .

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GEOR G IA DEPA RTMENT OF COMM ERCE

NEWSLETTER

August, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Fulton County is ex tending water mains to Fairburn ... Terrell County H ealth Cent er, Dawson, is op en . It cost $ 120,000 .. . Bainbridge will celebr ate In land Port D ay Sept. 12 .. . A 24-unit housing proj ect is under way a t Edison . . . Southea stern Pou ltry & Egg Assn. will move headqua rt er s to Atlanta from Ri chmond , Va .
An a nnex will be added to Marietta's Kennestone H ospit al . . . Six new shops a re open in Augusta's D aniel Vill age Center . . . Southern Bell's newest Atlanta-ar ea excha nge, DI amond, to be located on F airburn Rd ., will cost mor e than $ 1,000,000 . . . Macon's First Nationa l Bank & T ru st Co. plan s a br an ch bank building a t Wes leyan Ce nter . . . Decatur will erect a rec reation cen ter on Svcamor e St. , a t a cost of $320,000. .
Bui ldings recently renova ted in Valdosta include S. H. Kress Co., Service Drug Co., First Nationa l Bank and Sma rt & Thifty Shop . . . The St at e Pat ro l is occupyi ng a new barra cks nea r Cartersville. .. Meriwether County H ospital a t Warm Springs is ncar completion . . . Dalton has new stree t markers . . . Nation al Ban k of Fort Benning is open in a $ 100,000 building.
j effe rson Mi lls have donated a site in Jefferson on whi ch a public hea lth cen ter for J ackson County will be built . . . Carrollton Ch amber of Comme rce has moved int o its new building . . . K roger has a new stor e in Rome . . . Floyd County Hospit al, Rome, has added a wing wh ich cost $ 1,200,000 . . . Quitman Lions Club
THRONGS TO SEE '57 FARMORAMA AT DEEREACRES

dedi cat ed it s new h ome. Carrollton will p av e 20 stree ts a t a
cost of $ 130,000 . .. Waynesboro Housing Authority will erec t 50 units . . . Gen eral Gas Co. will bui ld a bu lk pl ant in Kingsland . . . Genuine Parts Co . is in a handsom e new bui ldin g on Piedmont Ave., N. E., Atlanta . . . Dixie Gas Co. has opened a n a pplia nce store in Glen nville . . . Eighty-six units of housing a t Cairo will cost $935 ,000 . . . A modern downtown parking ga rage is sla ted for Rome.
South Geor gia T elephone Co. is improving it s p lant in Folkston a t a cost of $25,000 . . . Cairo Banking Co. is remodelin g its bui ldin g . .. A modern ska ting rink is open at Turner County R ecr eation Center a t Ashburn . . . Camilla h as sold a $ 100,000 bond issue for city improvem ents.
An eigh t-story office building, to cost $2,500,000 is p lanned for Atlanta's Buckh ead a rea . . . Crisp County marked th e 27th anniversarv of it s coun tvowned hydro elect ric plant near Co~ dele . . . Schley County is planning its cen tennia l celeb ra tion . . . Carrollton voters approved a $45,000 bond issue for city hall improv eme n ts . . . Gray is spend ing $75,000 to en large its wat er plant . . . Farmer s T elephone Co. has installed a dial system for Springfield.
Cedartown H ousing Authority will

bui ld 20 fami ly-t yp e units on seven sites in th e city . . . Calhoun city coun cil h as voted to pip e wa ter to Plainville . . . Standard T elephone Co., Cornelia , plan s to erec t new buildings in Cornelia, Dahlonega, Blairsville, Young Harris, acco rding to Mi lton Stewa rt , pr esident .. . A new Hall County Libr ar y is planned at Gainesville . . . The St at e Fish H atch ery at Summerville will be enlarged.
Elberton Mfg. Co . has exp ande d into a new win g th at cost $75,000 . . . C ircle Plaza Shopping Cent er, Savanna h, will bui ld 20 sto res on a 20-acr e tract . . . Columbus is pointing with pride to a new Municip al Auditor ium a nd a new wing to Muscogee County Courthou se . . . Coloni al St ores have new superma r kets a t West Point and Brun sw ick a n d i s re m o de lin g th e Gainesville store.
Two housing proj ects to cost $36 1,000 a re under construction in Claxton . . . Southgat e P laza, In c., Augusta, will build 28 stores at a cost estima ted at $888,000 . . . Bainbridge H ou sing Author itv has con tracted for 36 addition al u ~its . . . Buena Vista vot ed $75,000 for sewag e system improvements . . . With work bet ween L ouisville and Midway now under wa y, Ga . 17 from Hiawassee to Savannah will soon be full y pa ved .

JEWELL POULTRY PLANS

GAINESVILLE EXPANSION

.J. D. J ewell, In c., nation ally known
poultry packin g firm of Gainesville, plan s a $250,000 addition to its plant - a move th at will provide employment for 50 additional persons.
J esse D , J ewell, board cha irma n, said th e compa ny also is conside ring moving its fr ozen p ie plant fr om Fl oren ce, Ala ., to a newly ac quired site at Gain es-

ville airport. Th e pou ltr y plant addition, whic h
will provide a n assembly-line operation to p rocess J ewell' s new lin e of p recooked chicken, will add a weekly payroll of $2,500.
The pie plant, if rebuilt at Ga inesville, would mean an add itiona l 125 workers to th e com pa ny's payroll.

DeereAcres, th e J ohn D eer e Plow Co.'s 1,000-acr e tr aining farm at M onroe, is being readi ed for th e biggest dem onst ration of fa rm equ ipme nt ever to be held in th e Sou th east.
T he exhibit Sep t. 5 is expec ted to top by th ousands th e estima ted 30,000 visito rs wh o at tended th e " Fa rrno ra rna" last year.
The U pper Ocmulgee Soil C onservati on Distri ct and th e Citv of M onroe will again co-opera te with ' ./ohn Deere Plow Co., of C ha mb lee, in staging th e sho w .

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, 00 S TATE CAPI TOL
ATLANTA 3. GEORGIA

EP ~
DEPAnTMENT OF [OMMEU[E
NEW~

SEPTEMBER 1957

GEORGIA IN RICHEST ERA,
GRIFFIN REPORT REVEALS
Marietta Jet Freighters First For Civilian Lines

NEWSLETTER

NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Press As soci ati on
Publis he d mont hly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COM~ISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman
T. C. BRANSON, JR. H O K E PETERS BEN JESSUP
T RAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLE R Sec re t a r y
FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 8, No. 11

Sept ember, 1957

September, 1957

Homerville Gets Standard Metal Plant
Standard M et al Corp., of M ontclair, N . J., is erecting a met al -fabrication pl ant at Homerville.
The installation, conta ining 32,000 squ are feet, will m anufacture met al containers of all typ es.
Sch eduled to begin operations O ct. 15, th e pl ant will employ 100 worker s per shift.
FURNITURE PLANT CHOOSES COLUMBUS
A new industry, Sun craft of Ca liforni a, will locate in Columbus O ct. J.
The firm will employ abou t 25 workers in th e manufacture of ou tdoor furniture for Southeastern distribution .
COVER PHOTO
"J et-Age Freighters Iro m Georgia, " the photo cover, shows Marietta -built Lo ckheed 130s in forma tion. This is the famous military Hercules. An even more pow erf u l cargo ship, also to be built at Marietta, will be the world's first civilian jet fre ighter.

SOUTH GEORGIA GOLD - Scenes like this were commonplac e in the state's tobacco belt a few weeks ago, as growers picked one of their favorite money crops. T he 1957 tobacco crop netted $46 .5 million.-Carolyn Carter photo

TOP-GRADE TOBACCO NETS
GEORGIA $46.5 MILLION

The 1957 tobacco sales seaso n enriched Geor gia leaf farmers to th e ex tent of $46,518,333.
They sold 82,729,563 pounds for a record pri ce average of $56.23 per hun dred .
T ot al sales on th e Geo rgia market , including out-of-sta te tob acco, was 93,919,567 pounds selling for $52,808,683.
Peak prices for Geor gia-gr own tobacco saved th e d ay for th e sta te's growers. H avin g tak en a 45 per cent acreage cut since 1952, th e volume of pounds market ed was th e smallest in 14 year s, but th e ideal soil and clim ate of th e tob acco belt , plus selec t plant varieties, p lus th e know-how of th e South Geor gia farmer, wer e all reflected in th e high qu ality of th e leaf. Georgia flu e-cured tobacco is regarded as amo ng th e finest in th e world, and is mu ch in dem and by th e domestic and internation al market.
Although tobacco was one of th e fir st crops grown by O glethorpe' s colonists, it was slow to reach its present position as one of th e state's top mon ey crops. I t was not un til 1918 th a t toba cco really a tt aine d a position of sta bility a nd importan ce in Geor gia

agriculture- that yea r 3,000 acres produ ced 2,500,000 pounds selling for $ 1,000,000 .
Ninet een fift y-five was Georg ia' s record tobacco yea r . That season 27,772 gro wers in 68 coun ties ha rvested 100,000 acres, and th e 167,000,000 pounds sold on th e sta te's war ehou se floor s br ought $ 152,500,000.
BRUNSWICK PULP EXPANSION PLAN AT $3 MILLION
Brunswick Pulp & Pap er Co., Br un swick, announces plant imp ro vem ent facilities to cost $3, 145,000.
The pr oject, shifting to ch lorine dioxide blea ching of pu lp from th e present hypochlotite system, will p rodu ce a whiter, stro nger a nd cleaner
product, E. .J. Gaynor, president, said.
The changeover will not increase outp ut of th e plant, excep t during th e construc tion pr ogr am , Mr. Gaynor said .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

September, 1957

GEORGIA PROGRESS GREATEST

IN HISTORY, GRIFFIN REPORTS

The Sta te of Geo rg ia is mak ing more progress in all fields of endeavor th an at a ny ot her time in her history.
Georgia is "so lvent a nd sovere ign" a nd is " tr uly on t he march," says Gov . Ma rv in Griffin in a report coveri ng the first two a nd one- half years of his admin ist ration .
The review, ju st released , points out th at the most imp ortant divisions of sta te gove rnme n t a re educa tion, hig hwa ys, publi c welfar e a nd public health. The Governor 's report lays par ticu lar . emphasis on adv ances ac hieved in th ese sphe res, but he also stresses th e pro gress mad e in othe r departments.
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" IN T HE FIELD of education, our adva nce me n t has been ph enomen a l," he declar es. " We a re now spending $164 mi llion per yea r for all phases of educa tion as compare d to $12 1 million in 1955.
"A $500 salary inc re ase for schoo l teach ers has been p rovided since 1955 and the allocation for teach ers salaries has inc rease d from $83,008,000 to $99, 125,000.
"Teache r ret irem en t has incr eased
from $5 million to $7Y2 million an-
nua lly. Other tea cher ben efits provide d during the p eriod were the $ 100 per month minimu m pension for 35 yea rs of service and additio nal sick leave p rovisions.
"T here is n ow a high schoo l edu cation wit hin reach of every ch ild in Geo rgia.

" Pup il transportation has mov ed

from $9,555,000 to $1 1,005,000 , and a

1956 legislative act esta blished a mini -

mum guarantee of $100 per month for

school bus drivers on a ten-month basi s.

" Allocations for vocational educa -

tion h ave moved from $ 1,778,000 to

$2,85 1,000."

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T URNING TO th e University System of Georgi a, Governor Griffin point s ou t th at his administration ha s seen an increase in appro pria tions from $ 11,8 10,000 to $22,250,000.
" I n add ition," he said, " we tr an sferred $7,840,600 to th e Board of R egen ts last yea r in order that th e gian t new $ 11.3 mi llion scien ce cen ter might be completed a t th e U niversity of Geor gi a ."
In th e realm of Hi ghw ay Dep art-

G O L D P ANN ER-Gov. M a rvin Griffin, wh o recou n ts Georg ia 's golde n progr ess in a rep ort on thi s p age, tr ies for a nugget in Da hlonega's fam ou s Go ld M useum .
ment ope rations, he ca lls a tt ention to suc h symbols of imp rovement as th e new St at e Hi gh wa y Building and th e mor e than 3,000 miles of st at e roads

constructed since 1955. " T he state's a ppro priation for the
High way Dep a rtm en t' s operations has advanced from $48,43 0,090 in 1955 to the present $70, 112,00 1. T he tot al program, inclu ding federal, state a nd local funds, increased from $66,557,687 to $ 160,728,397," he said.
"T he rural roa ds program, launched in 1955 is now over one -ha lf complete wit h fou r bond increments tota lling $65,000,000 p roviding mo re tha n 3,124 miles of roa ds already having been constructed or let to contract.
"T he new Federal Aid Hi gh way Act ca lls for t he construction of 1,171 miles' of ex pressways in Georgia du rin g th e course of th e n ext 12 years , and th is pro gram is off to a subs ta nti al start."
" I n the field of public healt h," Governor Griffin con tinues, " we have complet ed, placed under construc tion, or a pproved 18 new Hi ll-Burton hospi tals since 1955- at a cost of over $17 million in sta te, local and fed eral fundsadding over 2,000 beds to our hospital
(Con tinued on Pag e 6)

GENERAL TWINING GUEST

OF GOVERNORS SESSIONS

With Gen . Nathan F . Twining, new chairman of th e Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, as th eir guest, th e 16 governor memb ers of th e Southern Govern ors Conferen ce will go into session Sept. 22 at Sea Isla nd .
Gen eral Twining will address th e conference 's annual state dinner , wh ich will assemble some 300 dignitari es, Mond ay evening, Sept. 23.
Go v. Luther H. Hodg es, of North Carolina, is chairma n of th e con ference, a nd Gov . M ar vin Griffin will be host on behalf of Geor gia.
The C loister will be headquarters of th e gove rno rs, th eir famili es and aid es, and all business sessions of th e four-d ay conference will cen ter th er e.
Atten ding th e confe re nce besides Gov ernors H odges and Griffin will be Gov . J ames E. Fo lsom, of Alab am a ; Gov . Orval E. 'Faubus, Ark an sas; Gov.
J. Caleb Boggs, Delaw ar e ; Gov. LeRoy

Co llins, F lorida ; Gov . Albert B. (H appy ) Ch and ler , K entucky ; Gov . Earl K . Long, Louisian a ; Go v. Theodore R . M cK eldin , M aryland ; Gov . J am es P. Col eman, Mi ssissippi ; Gov. R aymond Gary, Oklahoma ; Gov . Geor ge Bell Timmerman , Jr., South Carolina ; Gov . Frank G . Clem ent, T ennessee ; Gov. Pri ce Daniel, T exas ; Gov . T hom as B. Stan ley, Virgin ia, and Gov. Cecil H. Unde rwood, W est Virgini a.
Ed ucation, industrial development, highways and nuclear ene rgy ar e amo ng th e subjec ts th e govern ors will tak e up a t th eir discussion sessions, in addition to th e ever-absorbing topic, " Can a Southerner Be Elected Pr esident ?"
Gov ernor Griffin said a n elabora te pr ogr am of ente rta inme n t and recreation has been a rra nge d for conference g ue sts .
M rs. G riffin will be hostess a t lun ch eon for th e visiting First Ladi es Tuesda y.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Sep tember, 1957

GEORGIANS EARN FIVE BILLION; PER 'CAPI TA INCOME AT $1~400

Georgians last yea r received an

estimated $5,196,000,000 in personal

income from all sources, reports th e

U. S. D epartment of Commerc e.

For th e some 3,712,000 residents

of th e state, thi s was an av erage of

$ 1,400 for every man , woman and

ch ild .

.

T he 1956 inco me. including all forms

of wag es and sala ries, as well as pay-

ments received from pr opri etor ships

a nd other media . was $297 million gr ea tcr th an it w ~ s in 1955 a nd $779

mill ion mor e th an in 1954.
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THE PER C AP IT A gain last year over 1955 was $62 per person and $ 183 greater th an in 1954.
In th e seve n-sta te Southeast last vear, rcs idcn ts received tot al incom e ~s t i l;la ted at $30,739,000 ,000-$1 ,80 7,000 ,000 mor e tha n in 1955, a nd a n increas e of $4,432,000,000 over 1954.
Besid es Georgia's $5, 196,000,000, th e incom e in Alabama last yea r ap proximated $3,854,000,000 ; Florida, $6,64 1,000,000; Mississippi , $2,047,000 ,000; North Ca rolina, $5,770,000 ,000; South Carolina, $2,665,000,000 and T ennessee, $4,566,000,000;
For t he some 22,983,000 residen ts of the seven sta tes, this was a per ca pita of $ 1,3:)7, whi ch compa red with $ 1,283 in 1955 a nd $ 1,406 in 1954.
Last year's per capi ta incom e in th ta rea was: Georgia , $ 1,400 ; Alabama , $ 1,2 29; Florid a, $ 1,762; Mi ssissipp i, $946 ; North Ca ro lina , $ 1,305 ; Sou th Carolina , .$1, 1:1:1 and T enn essee, $ 1,3 17.
The $ 1,337 per cap ita incom e av er age in the Southeast was $60 3 less tha n th e U . S. average, which was placed a t $ 1,940.

Crown Petroleum's DeKalb Plant Open
Crown Cen tr a l Petroleum Co rp.'s new pipel ine termina l in Doraville is in opera tion.
S. K . Wat er s, Crow n pr esiden t, said th e DeK alb Coun ty insta lla tion cost a pprox imately $250,000, a nd th at expan sions amo un ting to nearl y $2,000,. 000 a re p rojected for th e next yea r a nd a half. An addi tiona l $2,000,000 was mad e on construction of th e pi peline.

NE W AT ROME - Ar ch it ect 's drawing shows th e new building of Home Federal Sav ings & Loan Assn. , whi ch is under constructi on at Rome. Lo cated at 307 E. 2nd Ave., the colon ial typ e struc tu re of conc rete, bri ck and ste el con rains 5,000 sq ua re feet. It ha s a drive-up window an d offstreet parking for 25 ca rs.
CiEORCiIA NEAR NATION'S TOP IN INCOME CiAIN
Geo rg ia's increase in tota l person a l inco me [rom $2.7 billion in 1946 to .$5.2 billion last yea r amo unted to a n 89.3 per cen,t up tr end.
T his not onlv exceeded th e nati on al a verage by aro~lll d 4 per cen t, bu t was 17th amo ng all states in rat e of pr og-
IT SS.
Georgia's advan ce of 65.9 per cen t ill per capita in com e, or [rom $844 in 1946 to $ 1.400 in 1956. no t onlv bettercel the n at ional average by ' more th an 10 per cen t, bu t exceeded th at of a ll but five states,

GEORGIA AGAIN TOP PULPWOOD PRODUCER
Geo rgia still leads th e South and th e Sou th still lead s the nat ion in pro du ct ion of pul pw ood .
T he state inc reas ed its lead ership ill 1956 by produci ng 11 pe r cen t mor e pu lpwood th an during the previous yea r, says th e For est Serv ice, U , S. D ep a rt men t of Agriculture.
Georgia cut 4,000 ,000 cords in 1956, whil e th e 12 sou the rn sta tes tha t com p rise th e top pu lpwood a rea cu t a

TALL OIL PLANT-This distillation unit recently pla ced in op eration at Union Bag-C amp Paper Corp., Savannah. is on e of th e lar gest a nd mo st effi cie n t in th e industry. T aU oil is a by-product of th e kraft process, is used in th e manufacture of linoleum , soa p, paint.
tot al o[ 20,000,000 cor ds , Clin ch Cou n ty led Geo rgia's p roduc-
tion with 183,000 cords , Other high producti on counties were Cha rl ton , W are a nd W ayne,

GEO RG IA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ERC E

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NEWSLETTER

Septemb er , 1957

GEORGIANS TO BUILD FIRST

CIVILIAN JET AIR FREIGHTERS

America 's first jet age com mercial a ir freighters will be built in Georgia by Georgians.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. a t Mari etta a nnou nces tha t its huge, powerful, versati le Hercules, or igina lly designed for th e military, is now available to th e world ai rl ines.
C arl K ot chi an , vice -preside n t a nd ge ne ra l man ager of Lockh eed 's Geo rg ia Division , sa id th e 16,200-hors cpower propj et H er cules freight er will he the first commer cia l plan e ever produ ced a t t hr huge M arietta factory.
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C IT ING AN INCREASE of nearlv

one-third in the comme rcia l air ca rgo

lift ed d urin g th e fir st six mon th s of

1957, Loc kheed officia ls sa id a full -

sca le sa les effo r t is underway on th e

commercia l H er cules.

.

Design ed fro m th e beginning as a

true a ir fre ighter, th e turbine- pow -

ere d H ercul es will be the first U . S.

commerc ial plan e using "straight -in"

truck and dock loading. It is read ily

adaptable to th e high -speed mech -

a nized ca rgo-ha ndling systems fore-

seen in th e nca r fut u re.

T he new mer chant ship is ca pa ble

of lifting more th an 22 tons for a

non -stop distance of 1,750 sta tu te

mil es, wit h normal fuel rese rv e.

Cru ising spee d will be in th e 350 -

miles-p er-h our ra nge a t altitudes to

30,000 feet.

The commerc ia l freight er has been

design ed as Lock heed' s production

mod el 282A and is act ua llv a civilia n

version of the C -130A mod el military

t ransport, th at has been in Air Force

RI GHT I N T HE DOO R-Artist conce ption illu str ates how t he low-slung- Lockheed Hercules comme rcial fre ig- ht er is adaptable to present -day freig-ht handl in g- aids .

op er ati ona l se rv ice Sill CC last Decem-

her.

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T HE C IVILIAN Hercul es will have

considera bly grea ter ra ng e a nd heavier payload ca p abilit ies th an cur ren tly

ope ra ting C-1 30s. Power ed by four 5QI -D 22 turbine
eng ines, th e fr eighter will use 13Y2

ft ., four-blad ed prop ellers inst ead of

th e IS-ft. , three-bl ad ed prop ellers on th e C - 130A . Fuel ta nks will ca r ry 6,900 U. S. gallons- l ,900 mor e gallons tha n th e C - 130A.

The heavy-h aul craft has a ca rgo floor only 4 1 inches off th e g round . An integral tail loading ramp is gY2 feet long by 10-feet wid e. This ramp ca n be lowered to th e ground for driveon ca rgo or used in th e level posit ion .
" I t is design ed to ca rry th e goods of the'\Vorld a nywhe re, anytime , from any place." Lock heed offi cials say.
MILLEDGEVILLE AMERICAN 'COACH

PLANT RISING

PROPJ ET H ER C ULES - The j ust-right ang le of th is photograph spotlights th e pow erfu l fou r-blad ed propell ers tha t pow er th e room y air freight er . This is the C- 130 m ilitary ca rgo ca r rie r; the new merch an t sh ip will be mor e powerful.

Con st ru cti on is under wa v a t Milledgcvillc on a plant bui ld ing to hou se the American Coach Co.
T he fin n pu rch ased a IO-acre tra ct a t th e old airport site no r th of th e city on which to locat e its 52.000 sq uare-foo t build ing . The str uct ur e will be of steel a nd concre te .
Am er ican Coach builds IO-foo t wide hou se tr ail ers in th ree lengths. 45, 42 and 36 feet.
T he plant will emp loy a bou t 150 skilled and un skilled laborers wh en in full pr od ucti on .

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GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

HONOR TO 'T H E BO SS' - This impo sing memorial to E. H. Crump, nationalI y known T ennessee poli tical leader, was dedicated recently at th e M~mphis O verton Park .
T he $ 100,000 tribute was produced by M cNeel M arble Co ., Manetta, Ga .

GEORGIA IN RICHEST ERA

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system .
" Eighty-nine health cente rs an d a ux ilia ry health cente rs h ave been complet ed, pla ced under construc tion or app roved since 1947, a nd 34 of th ese have been comp leted since 1955."
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" IN THE FI R ST fiscal year of th is ad ministra tion," th e Governor goes on , "mor e fun ds wer e provid ed to match feder a l welfare fu nds, and the progra m swelled to a n a ll-time high of $65,084 ,888 . In 1956-57, welfare ap propriation s rose to over $7 1 million , wit h the sta te pu tting up a record $ 18,237,000. T he number of person s receiving welfare ai d has increased from 148,645 in 1954-55 to 156,395 in 195 6-5 7.
"T he av erage monthly paymen ts for old ag e assista nce have jumped from $37.5 1 to $4 2.90 ; for aid to depend ent child re n, from $26 .9 1 to $29.28 ; for a id to th e disab led , from $41.90 to $46 .48. T he ma xim um mon thly payments for th e aged , blin d an d disab led wen t from $55 to $60. T he ma xim u m fa mily assista nce was raised from $ 114 to $ 124."
In th e esta blishme nt of new in du stry, Governor G riffin declares, " we ha ve made amazing progr ess. \ Ve are now the indust ria l lead er in th e Sou theast. Georg ia sta nds fourth in th e entire nation in th e number of ne w heavy industries establishe d since th e en d of W orld War II. More

than 600 new manufacturers ha ve esta blished in th e sta te sinc e 1955; in 1956 alone, 337 new industries were located. These industries represent a ca pit a l in vestment of many millions of dollars and ha ve adde d thousands of G eorgia workers to their payroll s."
Ci ting other milestones of progr ess, Gov ernor Griffin's report men tion s th e new $10 million farmers mar ket now nearin g com plet ion nea r Atlanta, th e expa nding soil and wa ter conserva tion program, Georgia's great tr ee-p lan ting a nd for estry program and enla rgeme n t of the sta te patrol to further high way sa fe ty.
" We a re living well wit hin our income ," he concluded . " Ge org ia is solvent a nd sovereign. We ar e truly on the ma rch. By working together we can continue this era of brigh t prosperi ty and progr ess for our peopl e."
NEW THOMSON FIRM TO MAKE RAINWEAR
Stee-W all Sportswear, Inc., manufactu rers of rain wear a nd spo rtswear, is a new ind ustr y a t T homson.
M rs. H ar rv W allen s, a native of M eDuff ie Co unt y, owns and op er ates th e firm, which is housed in the upp er story of a bri ck bu ilding owne d by Wilson Furnitur e Co .
Mrs. V..,raliens said she expects to employ 40 or 50 peop le wit h in th e next few weeks.

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Septemb er , 1957
INDUSTRY SPUR SEEN IN AUGUSTA OXYGEN PLANT
Geo rg ia's first liquid oxyge n plant will be built at Au gu sta a t a cost of more than a million dollars.
Industrialists see this development as a ste p toward establishing th at city as the foremo st ind ustria l gas center of th e Southeast.
Pierce E. M a r ks, Sr. , president of M a rks O xygen Co., sa id his firm is sta r ting construction imm edi at ely on a pla nt to be loca ted on a six-a cre tra ct just off U . S. Hw v. I .
T he new pla nt ' will be ca pa ble of produ cing 18,000,000 cubic feet of liqui d ox ygen a nd nit rogen and 425,000 cubic feet of o rgon gas a month.
NEWNAN PACKER IN EXPANSION
Beav ers Pa cking Co. , Newn an , IS 1Il a plan t expansion which com p any officials say will boost em ployme n t by 40 per cent and sa les by $ 1,500,000 .
Some 50 workers will be adde d to the firm 's cu rre nt payro ll of 125.
The expa nsion will incl ude a sa u sage kit chen and new cooling a nd fr eezing facilities.
BUILDING INDUSTRY IN BUSY SHOWCASE
A busy spo t in Atlan ta th ese days is th e newly op ened Bui ldin g I ndustry Cen ter, 230 Sp ring St. , N . W .
T here, packed into 80,000 square feet on the four floors of th e structur e for merl y occ upied by th e Am eri can R ed Cross , one ma y inspect, exa mine a nd com pa re ju st a bou t a ny and every thi ng that pert ain s to the buildi ng science .
T he cen te r represent s the long-time dr eam of the Georgia Engineer ing Socictv, whi ch is ma de up of memb er s of 3'0 tech nical socie ties, and the G eor gia Chapter, Am eri ca n Inst itu te o ~ Ar ch itect s, to hav e a cen tra l home 01 their own.
T hese gro ups formed the Ar chitects & Eng ineers In stitu te, In c., to purchase the buildin g a nd opera te it as a no n-profi t fa cility.
T he center is op en to th e pub lic witho u t cha rge .

NEWSLETTER

September , 1957

JERUSALEM CHURCH, AT RINCON,

BEARS SCARS OF BRITISH SHOT

J erusa lem C hurc h, sta nding in th e

du st of the long-d ead tow n of Ebe -

neze r, is not on ly the oldest Luthera n

C hurc h in Geo rg ia bu t is t he oldest

colon ial bu ild ing in t he sta te .

In terms of modern geogra phy,

190-yea r old J eru salem is a t R incon ,

near Sp ring field, in E f fin g ham

Co u nty.

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No bu ildi ng in Sav annah , Georgia 's oldes t city , is quite as vene ra ble as his church, says its pastor, th e Rev Charles J . Sh ealy, nor will one find m an y st ruc tur es along the Atlantic Seaboa rd that a nted a te it.
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J ER USAL EM was built bv th e Salzburgers, a gro up of devout 'Luther an
families from Salzburg, Austri a, who ,~.c ce p t ed th e invit at ion of Georgia' s first go vern or, J a mes O glet horpe, to find religious freedom in the New World .

1.'he Sa lzburge rs settled in 1734, a nd th eir town , Eben ezer, was for man y years one of th e lar gest a nd most im'portant rr-nters in Geor gia .

Co nstr uc tion of J eru salem C hurch began in 1767 a nd was com pleted two yea rs later.
Ser vices ha ve been held regu larly all th ese yea rs, exce p t for a time du ring th e R evolutionary Wa r.

"T he British ca ptur ed th e town in I 779, and mind you, th ey used th e churc h as a sta ble," says th e Rev. Mr. She aly. "They nearly ru ined it." T he British razed E ben ezer , too and the town was never restored .
There a rc abou t 275 member s in th e J erusalem cong regation tod a y, m an y of th em descendants of th e bui lders.
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INSIDE TH E CHURCH, Pastor Shea ly will show you-in the balcony - the hand-made pews that wer e insta lled when th e church was built.

"T he pews down stai rs ar e 'new' ; they were bu ilt in 1851, a nd th e 'new pu lpit '- gr aceful, isn 't it?-was set up th a t same year. But th e br ick floor has been her e since th e Salzburgers put it dow n in 1769."

T he Rev. Mr. Sh ea ly bids you listen to th e mellow ton es of th e two bells in th e tower. The sma ller bell, he explain s, was th e gift of George Whitefield, th e eminen t En glish eva ngelist, who ca me to Geor gia in 1738.

J ER U SAL EM-G eorgia's oldes t Lutheran churc h an d th e old est colonial bulding in the state, still ser ves a fait hful cong regation at R in con . It s stu rdy wa lls have withst ood the winds, rains and wars of n early tw o centu ries. -C ar olyn Car te r photo

Dahlonega Ready For Gold Rush Day
D ah lonega is bu sily po lishin g its nu gget s for its th ir d annua l Go ld Rush Day, O ct. 5t h.
T he one-day fiesta, descr ibed by a leading na tional magazine as " Georgia 's most colorful fall eve nt," is devot ed to pa gentry and folksy fun , a parade and fidd lers' contest. T her e is no speaking or formal program.
T he even t commemorates the stir ring era of th e 1830's when Lu mp kin Co un ty was th e scene of th e firs t gold rush in Ameri ca an d Dahloneg a was th e site of th e first branch U. S. Mint.
BLUEBIRD ADDS HEATERS Bluebird Body Co., Fort Vall ey,
wh ich turns out 20 school buses a day, has ad ded a spec ial depa rt ment to manufa ct ur e heaters for it s buses.
AMERICUS HATCHERY Ch em ells H atch er y, Gain esville, one
of th e la rgest hatch eri es in th e world, has opened a branch plant at Am eri cus to produce 60,000 chicks eac h week.

ERO TO DOUBLE AT HAZLEHURST
Ero Mlg. Co., Hazlehur st, will dou ble th e size of its plant an d payroll.
C. H. Brezinski said a new buildin g, 100 x 400 feet , of block a nd jumbo bri ck construction, will be erec ted adjoining th e pr esent plant structu re.
The new building, scheduled to be completed by th e end of Nov ember , will be used chiefly for wareho using ra w and fin ished produ cts, allowing for expansion of the working ar ea in th e old structure.
Er o manufactures a uto mo bile sea t covers.
ARMORY HONORS COOPER
T he new N a tion al G uar d Armory un der const ruc tion at Rome has been named for Gen . M ark A. Cooper , Sr. , a Geor gia milita ry leader since World War I. The $ 100,000 pr oj ect will house Rome's Compan y A, I 63rd T ank Battalion.

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GEORGIA D EP ARTM EN T O F CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

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Se p tem ber, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Sy lvania has 50 hou sing units under

constr uc tion . .. Morgan County cele-

brat ed its 150th bir thd av with festi vi-

ties a t Mad ison . . . The Navy's mil-

lion-dollar tr ain ing cen ter at Georgia

T ech, was ac tiva ted .. . Cha t tooga

County H ealth Ce n ter will cost $75,-

000 . . . Co lonial St or es superma rt

a t Rockmart, rece ntly dam aged by fire,

is being rebuilt.

Georg ia POWl'!' Co . is insta lling a

line int o Cuthb ert to cost $ 165,000 . . .
.J . B. Hinson bou ght th e 20-unit Azale a

M otel a t Folkston . . . A new livestock

building has been added by Coosa V al -

Icy Fair Assn., Rome . . . Paulding

Counry will build a 25-bed hospital a t

Dallas a t a cost of $400 ,000 .. . M r.

a nd Mrs. H om er Cox have acq uired

Bartow M ot el, north of Cartersville

. . Macon 's eight new waterw ork s

filter s, install ed a t a cost of $400 ,000 ,

a re in opera tion.

Governo r G r i f f i n was p rin cipal

spea ker as Co lquitt County's rebuilt

cou r thouse was dedi cat ed a t Mo ultrie

. . O. B. Da vis, Fo lkston, pl an s to

erec t a 56-uni t mot el . . . Barnesville

will ge t 60 low-r ent hou sing un its to

cost $676,000 . . . Schley County will

mark its cen tennia l No v. 20.

Homerville T elephon e Co . is in its

new $92,000 bui lding .. . Conyers

Hou sing Authority will build 40 units
. . J. P. Allen & Co ., Atlanta, has

com pleted a milli on -dollar rem od elin g

proj ect . . . Valdosta is ad di ng a sub-

urb an br an ch post office . . . Thom-

as ville C hamber of Co mmerce has a

new hom e . . . Monroe Co unty H os-

pit a l a t Forsyth is in ope ra tion.

Davison- Pa xon Co ., Atlanta, plan s

a br an ch department sto re in new

Lenox Sho pping Ce nter . . . Do uglas

has a new radi o sta tion, WSIZ . . .

Talbotton is get ting a hou sing pr oj ect

. . For syth County H ospit al, Cum-

ming , was ded icat ed . . . T he Sta te

Highway D ep artment is in its new di-

visiona l headqua rt er s in Tennille.

Geo rgia PTA will built a head qu ar-

ter s in Atlanta .. . Hall County H os-

pita l, Ga inesv ille, has comp leted a new

win g.

Cuthbert vo ted $40,000 bond s for

wat er and sewerage improvem ents . . .

Cra wford W . Lon g Museum at Jeffer-

son is open . . . Warrenton has a 28-

unit hou sing project under way . . .

Ware County is building a milli on -

do lla r cou rt ho use in.Waycross . . . The

Bank of Harris County h as been or-

ga nized a t Hamilton

M etrop oli-

tan Lif e In s. Co . will erec t a $150.000

building at Augusta.

Glascock C ounty's cente nnia l celebr ati on is set for O ct ober 27-30 . .. M or e th an 500 d wellin g un its to cost

a pprox ima tely $7,000,000 will be built

at ..

M. Loaoud~vensAiCr ouFnortyceH

Bas e osp i;

Valdosta al, Dublin ,

will add a 25-b ed unit . . . Marietta

Co un try C lub is building an a nnex

costing .$75,000 ' " Cobb County

vo ted $ 1,000,000 roa d-building bonds

. . . S. G. Car swell is buildin g a mot el

a t Abbeville.

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Pri ce Lib rary, Macon, has adde d a

$32,000 unit ' " G lennville's new

Health Cent er is open . . . Douglas

Pul pwood Yard is a new Coffee Coun-

ty industry . . . Geo rgia Power Co . is

constructing a substa tion a t Alpharetta .

Co lonial S tores will erect a supe r-

market a t Toccoa .. . M em ori al Ho s-

pit al, Savannah, will add a nurses hom e

and schoo l to cost $600,000 .

SENTINEL - Mr. Eg re t " freezes" to a tt en tion as th e photogr apher butts in on hi s solitude on th e coast ncar Brunswick . Great birds ag ainst th e mo ss-draped trees add to th e sem i-tropical char m of Geo rgia's coast. -Ed Friend photo.

CROWE PRINTING INK OCCUPIES NEW PLANT
C rowe Printing Ink Co., St. M arvs, moved in to its mod ern new plant on Rt e. . 40 without missing a day' s pr odu cti on, St anl ey Spann, man ager said .
Th e new building, of red ju mbo brick wit h awn ing ty pe wind ows, i, 60 x 90 feet. In addition to a 60 x 70foot manu fa cturing a rea, it con ta ins offices a nd labora torv .
Plant eq uipme n t i ~dud es th e most modern mixing an d millin g eq uip men t availab le, Mr. Spa nn sa id.

BUFORD DEDICATION

Buford Dam will be dedi cat ed O ct.

9, at a tiviti es

full d av of th a t 'will

ce rem o br ing

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afde~s-s

from 10 northeast Georgia coun ties to

the hu ge installa tion near Buford .

Scns. Ri cha rd B. Ru ssell a nd H erman

E. Talmad ge, Gov . M arvin G riffin.

Reps. Phil L and ru m a nd J am es C: D.av is, ~ nd offi ~ ia ls of th e Arm y Co rps

ol En gm eers will participate.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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DEPAnTMENT OF OMMEnCE
NEW LETTER
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N E WSLETTER

O ctober, 1957

NEWSLETTER

M em ber Georgia Press Associat ion
P ublished monthly by GEO RGIA D EPT. O F COMMERCE
100 State Capi tol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN' Governo r BO ARD OF COMMISSIONER S EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairm an
T . C. BRANSO N, JR. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP
TRAMMELL McI NTYRE
* SCOT T CANDLER Secre tary
FRED D. MOO N
Edito r

Vol. 8, No. 12

October, 1957

GOVERNORS JOIN TO START DIXIE EDUCATION HOME
Visiting ch ief execu tives bound for th e Southern Govern ors Confer en ce a t Sea Island , paused in At lanta to join their hos t, Gov . Marvin Griffin , and dig nit ari es of th e Sout hern R egion al Ed ucation Boa rd a t ground-breaking ceremo nies for a new headquarter s bui ldin g for SRER
The struc tu re, a modern two-stor y bu ilding, is bein g erec ted a t Sixth St ., N .W ., at th e Expressway.
Florida's Gov . LeRoy Co llins, SREB ch airm an, made the dedicatory add ress.
R epresenting an allocation of $250,000 m ad e by Governor Griffin to the Board of R egents of th e University System of Geor gia, th e building will provide a rent-free perman ent hom e for SRER
Sixt een sta tes form SREB for th e purpose of mak ing better use of colleges and un iversities by sharing resources for professional, technical and gradua te education.
COVER PHOTO Thompson 's Bridge over the C hattahoochee Ri ver on State Rou te 136 nort h of Gainesville, illu stra tes the vast road improvem ent progra m now in fu ll swing all over Geo rg ia. Co m merce Secretary Scott Candler says these new ro ads are the greatest boost ever given Geo rg ia indust ry. (Story on Page 4).

GIFTS FROM GEORG I A-Gov. Luther Ho dges, of Nor th Caro lina , cha irma n of th e Sout hern Govern ors Conference , and Georg ia's Gov. Mar vin Griffin, who was host to the Dixie chief exec utives at Sea Island last month, exam ine some of the gifts to th e gro up from Georg ia man ufac turers and businesses. The governors unanimously declared th eir Georgia session was the most enjoyable ever.-Ed Friend pho to.

MOULTRIE LUMBER PLANT STARTS BIG EXPANSION

An expa nsIOn program is under wa y at M oultrie' s big Beadl es-Justice Lumber Co ., whi ch will provide one of the largest and most mo dern insta lla-
BOB DANIEL HEADS MOUNTAIN BOOSTERS
Bob D ani el, T occoa min er al a nd gem expert, is th e new president of th e Geo rgia Mo un tain Assn., lO-county organizati on devoted to tourist promotion .
H e succeeds Mi ss M ar iann Kidd , pr oprietor of Clea r Lak e Lodge, Cl evela n d .
Other new officers ar e A. H. Brannon , H iawassee, first vice president, and Mrs. F ran k Sut tle, C larkesville, second vice pr esiden t.
GM A represents th e counties of Ban ks, H all, H ab er sham , White, Union, Towns, Lu mpkin, R abun, St ephens a nd Fannin .

tions of it s kind in th e Southeast.
Owners C lar en ce V . Beadles a nd
William J. Justice said a new plant, lo-
ca ted in th e northeast industria l ar ea of th e city , is schedu led to be complet ed in abo ut a month .
The $100 ,000 inst allation will be ac tually a three-in -one op er ation . It will include a deb arking pl ant, chippin g p lant a nd a sawmill.
The debarking plant will remove bark from logs an d also salvage st rips a nd slabs which will be run throu gh the chipping p lant. Chips from th e latter operation, au tom atica lly scre ened for size, will be utilized for th e production of pap er a nd cellu lose produ cts.
HAZEL-ATLAS GLASS H azel-At lan ta Glass Di v. of Cont i-
nental Can Co . has leased 40,000 square feet of wareh ouse space in Atla n ta's Chattahoochee Industrial Di strict. Lease negoti a tions were handled by George K enned y of Ad ams -Cates Co.

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N EWS L ET T ER

October, 1957

'PEAK' BUSINESS 'EVEN BETTER'

IN GEORGIA, U. S. SURVEY FINDS

There is lit tle or no letup in Geor-

gia's bu siness activity thi s yea r.

A surv ey of op erations in the fir st

half of 1957 ju st comp iled by th e

Atlanta field office of the U. S. D e-

pa rtmen t of Co mmerce reflects in-

cre ase d acti vit y over last year's peak

levels in most segments of th e sta te's

economy .

The sum rnarv s h ow s "a liberal

sp rin kling of plu s mar ks" in suc h lines

as banking, tr ad ing, f a I' m incom e,

tr an sportati on , incorpor ation of new

busin esses, comme rce w it h foreign

countries, meat and po ultry produc-

tion, telephone inst allations, and p ro-

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EVEN THE FEW downward trends developing were eithe r so slight as to place them in th e ca tegory of " stability," or wer e p art of a pattern set by th e na tion as a whole, th e report said.
In the field of finance, Geo rg ia's Fed eral R eserv e bank memb ers a t th e end of th e fir st half of 1957 re-
ported deposits excee ding $ 1Y2 bil-
lion a nd loans of $83 1 m illion, both of which topped last year's trans-

ac tions. Withdra wal s from chec king ac-
coun ts in the same banks approximated $ 13Y; billion and we re 5 p er cent grea ter.
Geor gia p articip at ed with th e remainder of th e Southea st in a continued acceler ation of tradi ng.
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RETAIL M ERCHANTS in the region ra ng cas h registers to th e exten t of more th an $20 billion for an increase ove r last vea l' whi ch excee de d that of the nation' as a whol e.
Compa rable ga ins wer e shown in many lines of who lesaling.
Department store tr ad ing was up by 3 per cen t over 1956.
Cash receipts from farm marketings were do wn in five of the seven states of th e Southeast, but in Georgia th ey were up by 2 per cent. Georg ia farmer s in the six-mont h peri od collected $228 million in cash for th eir commodit ies.
Airlines and railroads serving the state and area experienced continu ed pro sperity. The airlines handled 2Y; million reve nue passengers and nearly 25 million to ns of ex -

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1957 I ND USTRY QUEEN-Her M aj esty, Ann Ewing, rides roy ally atop th e beauty floa t in par ad e op ening the Butts C ounty's a nnua l Industr y Da y cele br ation at Jackson . At left is Peggy M cC lure, who was chose n 1958 qu een. The oth er m emb er s of th e court a re Brend a Bail ey, Agnes R utl ege, Myrna War ren, Christine M itc he ll.

TWO NEW PLANTS GIVE BUTTS COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CELEBRATION REAL BANG

' 'YOI'd th at two important new payrolls a re soon to be esta blished in ] ac kson put real boom in Butts County' s fourth annual In dustrial Day celeb ra tion.
T he Butts Count y Development Corp., of which P. H. Weaver is pr esident, announced th at two rela ted industries, Gatewa y L uggage Co . and K ansas City Plywood Corp. , will begin opera tions in J ackson abo ut ] a n. 1.
The two concerns will employ some 250 men and wom en for an annual pa yr oll of mo re than half a milli on dolla rs, Mr. Weaver said .
The development corpora tion will finan ce p lant bui ldin gs for the concerns, costing a pp ro xima tely $ 150,000, th e st ructures to be bought by th e manufacturers over a period of years.

A pa rad e, ba rb ecu e a n d beauty pageant highl ighted th e annua l event. Peggy M cClure, petite blond from Covington, was cro wned " M iss I ndustry of 1958" .
BAINBRIDGE GETS LIQUID GAS DEPOT
A major barge terminal for distrib uting liqu efied petrol eum. gas to Georgia, Alab am a a nd South Carolina will be built on an 18-acre site on th e F lin t River at Bainbridge .
H al S. Phillips, preside nt of Gen eral Gas Corp., said th e faci lity wil h ave a 600,000-gallon cap ac ity. It will cost $500,000.

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GEORGIA DE PARTMENT OF COMMERC E

NEWSLET T ER

O ctober, 1957

VAST GEORGIA ROAD PROGRAM

BIGGEST BOOST FOR INDUSTRY

Ge org ia's billion-dollar road-build ing program is the biggest boost for industr y an y st ate ever had.
Commerc e Secretary Scott Cand IeI' says th e development now goin g full swing , th e grea test in Georgia history, is opening up virtually every nook and corne r of th e state for new industry.
" ' Ve had th e clim ate. th e resources. th e peop le a nd th e know -how," h~ said, "and now we a re gett ing roads ever ywhe re."
" Mo dern industr y dema nds modern roa ds, a nd I dou bt if any sta te at any tim e ever ha d so ma ny new ones built

pating in Geo rg ia's vast road-build -

ing program, M r. Can dler points ou t

th at th e project actuall y began at t he

sta te level.

" I t started wit h Gov. Marvin Griffin

a nd th e 1955 Legislatur e," he recalled .

" Realizing th e need for imp roved roads

in th e r ur al sections. the Governor recommend ed and th~ legislators en-

acted a Rural R oad s Authoritv. This

plan wa s unique in th at it was f(nan ced

en tire ly by state fun ds. It was swiftly

pu t in to ac tion and ha s been assidu -

ouslv continued.

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" W E N O W H AV E over 3,000 miles

ized by proclamation to cover the

third increment inv olvin g 120 counties. The fourth increm ent, providing

$ 17.8 million for roads in 121 coun -

ties, was sold in J uly t his year .

T he to ta l amo un t of th e four bond

incr emen ts to date is $65 million cover-

ing 3,124 miles of roads in 159 coun-

ties. The rural roa ds program is sch ed -

uled for completion by th e end of

1958, at whi ch tim e it will invo lve

some $100 million for 5,000 miles of

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MAYSVILLIANS SMILE AS NEW PLANT OPENS
Folks in Maysville are smiling th ese days-their first indus try with a sizea ble payroll is sta rting to roll.
A division of Szekel y Corp., Commer ce electroni cs manufacturer, has sta rted operations with a p ayroll of 50.
Szekel y p ur cha sed the old M aysville school au di tori um a nd conv er ted it in to a plant, then bought four additiona l acres of land so as to guarantee plenty of room for future expansion.

AN OTHER GE O RG IA R URAL ROAD-From one end of the state to the oth er, new rural roads like this ar e opening up sect ions to local travel, tou rists, industry .

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sa nds of mil es of expresswa ys, post a nd farm-t o-market roads will, th e

comme rce ch ief said, " ac t as a tie to bind all of our assets in one big pack-

ag e." H e said both type s of roads are
vital-the superhighways to furnish

transport to industry, th e rural roads

to ena ble workers to get back and forth to th eir jobs.

Alt hough both the state and federal gover nme nts are now partici-

of rural roads comp leted or under construction. Ever y county in Georgia has received at least one road. By th e end of Gov ernor Griffin's adm inistration, we will have 5,000 miles of new ru ral roa ds rea ching int o every nook and corner of th e st ate."
State High wa y D epartm ent records show that by July 1955, six months after th e Rural Roads Au thority was activated, the first bond increment was set up to finance $ 14.5 million for ro ad s in 123 counties. The followin g M arch , $ 15.5 million was provid ed for const ruction in 114 counties, and in D ecemb er 1956, a n addition $ 17.5 was auth or -

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$1,125,000 MOTEL

A H owa rd J ohnson mo tor lodge and

resta urant, to cost an estim a ted $1,125 ,-

000, is to be er ect ed on At la nta's

Northside Dr. bv a n Atlanta busin ess group, Northsid ~ M otel, Inc. The fa-

cility will consist of 100 de lux e mot el

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ADEL PLANT HUMMING

C & D Sportswea r Co ., Adel shirt

manufa cturer, h as p lan s to expa nd p ro -

du ction from th e presen t 150 dozen a

day to 800 dozen, according to Presi-

dent Ben Dinnerman. T he pl ant, in

operation a year and a half , now em-

ploys 40 workers.

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VIDALIA EXPANSION

Vid alia Ga rme nt Co., Vidalia, h as

lea sed the form er Vann tobacco wa re-

house to provide 65,000 squ are feet of

additiona l spa ce for its storage and

shipping dep artments. Grady J ackson,

man ager , said 40 to 50 mor e workers

will be emp loyed .

NEWSLETTER

O ctober, 1957

TH EY'RE OFF!- Here 's the start of ano ther Geo rgia rura l road . The first wo rkme n are on the scene, getting the ro ug h work started . Every county in the state n ow h as new rural r oad s.

SMOOT H AS SILK-Down goes the blacktop as the n ew rural road t akes shape. All over Georgia, m u d dy, rutted roads are becoming h igh way invitations t o new industry, trade , to u rists.

(Continued from Page 4 ) U nder this colossal progr am , whi ch is fin an ced 90 per cent by th e national govern ment and 10 p er cent by th e states, Geor gia' s sh are will be 1,171 miles of expre ssway typ e sup erhigh ways. The fed eral proj ect is slated to run 13 yea rs, a nd engineers estimate it will m ean almost $1 billion worth of highways for Georgia .
T he fed eral h igh way act also ca lls for expansion and improvement of existing systems of prima ry, second-

ary and urb an roads, a nd Georgia's ma tching fu nds, on a 50-50 basis, are being provid ed to ta ke advantage of this phase of the p rogra m.
State and federal fu nds for t he entire program amounted to $40 million in 1956, will reach $7 1 m illion this year, go to $83 m illion in 1958, and $92 million in 1959. T he figure is expecte d to reach $ 100 million in 1960, then stabilize at that figure unti l the project is completed.
Pointing out th at Georg ia's indus-

tri al exp a nsion rea ch ed unpreced ented

proportions in th e past five years, Com-

merce Secr etary Candler predi cts still

more sta rtling growth now th at new

ro ad s ar e op ening up scor es of sections

th at were hitherto more or less iso-

la ted .

" W hen we go ou t to sell Geor gia to

manufacturers and bu sinesses in other

parts of th e coun try," he said , "ou r

new road s ar e going to be as tempting

to th em as th e che rr v on a dish of icc

cr eam .."

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EXPANSION PUTS SOLVAY'S GA. STAKE AT $20 MILLION

An exp ansion program doubling th e capac ity of th e Solva y Process plant in Brunswick, begun last yea r even before t he firm 's origina l facilit y was in op era tion, is now complete .
It is estima ted th at Solv ay's invest ment in th e new chem ical cente r now tot als abou t $20,000,000.
1. H . M onro, pr esid ent of Solvay division of th e Allied Chemi cal & D ye C orp ., says th e exp ansion puts th e new plan t in firm p ositi on to su pp ly chlorine and ca ustic soda to meet curre n t heavy dem ands throughout th e South.
Liquid caus tic soda (20 p er cen t N aOH ) is ava ilable in both regu lar and rayon gra des, and sh ipme nts arc bein g made fr om Brunswick by tank ca r, b ar ge and ship.
Employment of th e plant is a bou t 160.

The Gl ynn County facility is th e newest lin k in Solvay' s ch ain of plants serving major industrial ar eas. The comp any pr od uces mer cury cell chlorin e-cau sti c soda at Syracu se, N. Y. and Mound sville, W . V a., and chlorine caustic soda in di aphragm cells a t Syrac use a nd Baton R ou ge, L a.
WOODBINE ACQUIRES SITE FOR INDUSTRY
The City of Woodbine has purch ased a lO-acre tract of la nd to be used for industri al development. M ayor C . E. H askins said th e acreage, with a frontage of 1,045 feet , is loca ted between U. S. Hwy, 17 and th e Seaboard Air Line R ai lro ad .

IEP COMPLETES $800,000 PLANT
Zep Manufacturing Corp., At lanta, one of th e nation's largest m anufacturer s of mainten an ce and sanitation products, is in its new $800,000 plant a t 1310 Seab oard Industrial Blvd ., N .W.
The fa cilit y, housing labor a tory and manufact uring pl ant, contains more th an 100,000 squ are feet of insid e ar eas, p laced on two levels to take adva n tage of grav ity- flow of materials in processing. In addition , two lar ge tank farms supp ly 200,000 ga llons of storage for raw and fini shed liquid pr oducts.
The firm 's gene ral offices rem ain a t 560 Ed gewood Ave., N .E., At lanta.
JEKYLL SHOP CENTER A sho pping cen ter costing ap proxi-
mately $287 ,000 has been approved for J ekyll Island by th e J ekyll Island Au thority.

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GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF C O M M ERC E

NEWSLETTER

O ctober, 1957

NEW GARMENT, METAL INDUSTRIES

PROMISE HAWKINSVILLE PAYROLLS

A chi ldren 's a pparel manufacturing plant employing 100 workers is exp ected to be built and in ope ration in Hawkinsville in about six months.
Meanwhile, A. G. Rand Co ., wh ich proposes to bu ild five plants for processing of non-ferrous metals in and around the city , announced that its first un it is in limited pro d u cti on.
The garment firm , Kiddie Capers of New York, will be housed in a 30,000 squa re-foot bui lding to be erec ted by th e Pu laski County D evelopment Corp. The m anufacturer will purch ase th e

pla nt struct ure over a per iod of yea rs.
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KIDDIE CAPERS will h ave an a nnua l payroll of aroun d $200,000. M ost of its employees will be wom en.
H arry T ru ssell, ge nera l manager of the R and orga nization, said his firm's initi al un it, quartered in a building at th e fairgrounds, h as begun shipping au tomo bile batter y cables and die-cast plumbing fixtures. Fifteen men a re employed a t pr esent.
Mr. Trussell said more mach inery is being received a nd set up, a nd men will be trained for assembly-line pro -

duction of heavier items for the a utomoti ve and plumbing lin es.
The Rand interests plan to build five plants at the rate of one a yea r, each to employ 75 to 150 workers, mostly men.
Sin ce th e five-acre site selected for the ga rmen t p lan t lies outside th e city limits, H awkinsville lead er s a re studying a p roposal to extend th e limits in or de r to provid e city water for th e opera tion. Water improvem ents and expa nsions costing $ 100,000 already hav e been approve d by th e H awkinsville Ci ty Commission.

TESTER PACKS MILLION-POUND JAB;

IS GENTLE ENOUGH TO COMPRESS EGG

Lo ckheed Air craft Corp.Is Geor gia Division has a new machine that ca n exe rt a pu sh of a million pounds or squee ze so gently that an egg can b e compressed wit h 0 u t breaking th e she ll.
The devic e, the largest universal testing machine ever installed in the Southeast, enables research engineers
Brunswick Firm Ships Navy Firs' Pre-Fob Boiler
The first fa ctor y- assembled destr oyer-size m arine boiler ever mad e for th e U. S. N avy has been delivered by Bab coc k & Wilcox Co., Brunswick.
The 66-t on boiler, to be fed by oil. is 12 feet wid e, 19 feet long and 20 feet high. I t was shipped by barge to Philad elphia .
Until thi s one was made, marine boilers h ad alwavs been manufact ur ed in sections an d 'sent to the shipya rd or to the vessel for which it was designed, for assemblag e.
GEORGIA WORLD TRADE HALF MILLION A DAY
Shipments to a nd from foreign cou ntri es p assing through th e ports of Savannah , Brunswick and Atl anta in th e first half of 1957 totaled $ 106,900,000, or a n a verage of mo re tha n h alf a m illion dollar s a day.

at th e Marietta aircraft plant to make more extensive st rength -tests of C -130 H ercule s str uctural parts.
The huge ma chine, weighing 90 tons and stand ing 35 feet above floor level, is cap able of app lying tension or com pression load s u p to 1,200,000 pounds, measuring th em with precision compa rab le to th at of a chemical balan ce.
La rge aircraft compone n ts, suc h as wing pa nels, ca n be pu shed in com pression, pulled in tension, bent in flexure or load ed in manv wavs to simula te service conditions. . .
A ra d ica l piston ]Jump dri ven by a IO-hor sep ower elect ric mot or supplies hydrauli c fluid at 3,000 pounds per sq uare inch to th e m ain cylinder of th e ma ch ine . This pulls th e load ing head down , ex erting a trem endous for ce through a pow er stroke of 36 inches at a maxim um rate of 2.5 inc hes per minu te .
The availab le ene rgy in th e m achine is so delicately con trolled, it ca n be ma de to compress an egg withou t breaking the shell.
The $175 ,000 tester is equipped with num erous electron ic instruments for spec ialized cont rol a nd refine men t of test techni qu es.
'HEART' MOTEL ADDS Wo rk has begun on a $ 1,000,000 ad-
dition to th e H eart of Atlanta M ot el which will add 96 roo ms to th e pr esent 120, pr ovide a second swimming p ool a nd incr ease fac iliti es of th e Glass Hou se R estaurant.

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GENTLE G IANT - Lockh eed's n e w $175,000 un iversal teste r. I t can be tough or easy, at a finger's touch.

NEWSLET TER

October, 1957

SQUARE D IN 5500,000 PLANT;

POWER DEVICES TO SERVE DIXIE

NEW IN ATLANTA-Square D 's newest regional asse m bly plant, 1401 Marietta Blvd., N.W. , is strategically lo cated to supply the firm's el ectrical products to the Sou th east's rapidly gro wing industry. Th c plant con ta ins 31,000 sq ua re fcct of floor . ar ea.

CONTROLS FOR INDUSTRY-View into a section of the new Squa re D plant, wh er e electrical equipment ranging in size from midget gadg ets to multi-ton apparatus is assembled,
An imp ortant addition to Georgia's industri al emp ire is th e Square D CO.'s new electrical eq uipme n t assembly plant ju st ope ned in Atl anta.
R epresenting a n initial investm ent in excess of $500,000 and design ed to permit future additio ns, the 3 1,000 square foot fac ility is locat ed 1401 M arietta Blvd ., N .W ., in th e Chattahoochee In-

du strial Di strict. It required approxi mately one year to complete.
Squ ar e D is one of th e n ation's la rgest man uf acturers of electrica l equipment with sales last yea r in excess of $ 100,000,000. Its p roduct s ra nge fr om tin y switches an d relays th at can almos t be lost in th e p al m of th e h and to hu ge multi-ton switchboards and con trol centers serv ing indust ry an d commerce.
P resident Gordo n P atter son said th e new Atl anta pl ant will serve as base for expande d operations by th e firm in Geo rg ia, Fl or id a, Alabama a nd othe r sou the rn a re as.
The new pl ant hou ses Square D's region al headquarters offices previou sly located in ano ther sect ion of Atl anta, as well as facilities for the assembly of switchboards, circ uit br ea kers, contro l cen ters an d relat ed produ cts.
NEW PULPWOOD YARD
Bacon C ounty Pulpwood Ya rd has been ope ned a t R ockin gh am by J ohn Sha ckelford, of Blackshear.

'Top Business' Getting Better
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press and freight to set new records for activity. The railroads recorded nearly $700 million worth of fr eight and passenger traffic. A tot al of 1,154 new bu sinesses wen: incorporat ed in th e sta te from J anua ry th rou gh June, or 3 per cent mor e th an last year.
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TRADING WITH othe r coun tries exceede d $ 106 milli on in va lue, a ga in of 16 per cent ove r th e first six mon ths of 1956.
In the state's abattoirs, nearly a million hogs w e r e slaughtered, 59,500,000 cal ves, and 231,000 cattle, all three lin es of activity showing gains over 1956.
In Georgia's nation-leading broiler industry, 141.6 million baby chicks came off th e hatchery lines , a climb of 16 per cen t over last year.
T he tot al number of telephones in opera tion a t th e en d of the fir st half of 1957 was pl aced a t well over 800,000 for a 5 per cen t advance.
M anufacturin g emp loyment was abo u t th e same as last yea r, with aro und 330,000 wor ker s turning out p ro d u ct s.

READYING AT AM E R I C US-Arc h it ec t' s drawing of the plant which is being con -

struct ed for Marlette C oa ch Co . a t Ame r ic us. Buildings in center form portions of th e

quarter-mile assembly lin e over th e 30-acre area. Actual floor spa ce is about 65 ,000

'\'t.x, squar e feet . The plant is sch ed uled to go into op eration thi I -yWt;. 0 men .

- D ra win g courtesy The Ame ric us Times-Recorder.

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CHIEF VANN MOTEL Chatswor th has a ne w motel a nd
resta ur ant, th e Chief V ann, nam ed in honor of Ch ief J oe Vann, famo us Cherokee lead er whose nea rby m an sion is being restored by th e Geo rgia Historical Commission . W . C. Bradl ey and Cecil Bradl ey built th e 24-unit, ult ra- mod ern m otel. Kin K eeter is the resta u r a n te ur.

LIB RA RI ES EORGIA D EPARTM ENT OF CO M M ERCE

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NEWSLET 1'ER

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O ct ober, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Go v. M a rvin Griffin au thor ized transfer of $2 .5 mi llion from sta te su rplu s funds for a nu elea r rea ct or a t Georg ia T ech .. . Bid s will be op ened O ct. 29 a t Warner Robins for 27,l hou sing un it s . . . Alba ny 's H ome F ed era l Savin gs & Loan Assn. is in its new building . . . The new $500,000 Macon-Bibb Co un tv H ealth Center in Macon was d edi c at ~d .
Lou isville & Nashv ille R ail road has opene d its new $ 11,500 ,000 Atlanta fre igh t termina l . . . Berry School, ncar Rome, dedi ca ted a libra ry a dd ition . . . Milledgeville Banking Co. will have a new buildi ng with d rive-in unit . . . Geor gia Power Co . h as a new stor e in Au stell . . . A $ 750,000 office bu ildi ng is sla ted for th e Sla ton proper ty a t Buckhead, Atl a nta.
Two new brid ges will be built across the Savann ah Ri ver , one between Springfi eld, Ga . a nd G a rne tt, S. C. , the other a t Augusta ... LaG range's new police dep a rtment-j a il building cost $300 ,000 . . . Em pi re M er cantile Co., Sylv est er , has rem od elled . . . Liberty County H eal th Center a t Hinesville wa s ded icated . .. A log debar ker in ven te d by O . T . F ulgh um & Sons, Wadley, is h aving na tion al sa le and use .. . M . F . Br ice is erec t ing a building a t Vi dalia to be occ up ied by BelkM atthews Co.
lYfcK en ney's I nc., East Point, won a con trac t to rem odel th e Co lum bus Post Office a nd U . S. Courthou se a t a cost of $217,395 . . . Mitchell Coun ty's centen nia l celebra tion begins O ct. 27 . . . Emory University dedi cat ed its new H all of Bishop s, th eological cen ter costing $600,000.

Seripto, In c., Atlanta, is ad d ing a $ 100,000 bui lding a t its plant . . . Ro yston is st udy ing a wat er work s expansion p rogr am . . . Haber sham RE A will erec t a headqua rt er s bu ild ing a t Clarkesville to cost $ 145,000 . . . Peop les Furni ture Co., Thomasville , ha s opene d its new buildi ng ... Blairsville Industries, Inc., has been or ga nized to see k industry for U nion County .. . N at ional Ban k of Athens h as bought a site for a new banking home a t Bro ad a nd Lum p kin Sts. . . . Coloni al St ores, I nc., pl an s three new A tla n ta su burba n stores- in E ast At lanta , on M em oria l Dr., and on Bankhead H wy.. . . A Putnam County Indust rial Comm ittee has been orga nized a t Eatonton.
M assell Co mpanies a re constructing a 20-stor y off ice build ing a t 137 1 Peachtree St. , N .E ., Atla n ta, wh ich will cost $2,000,000 . . . Mitch ell County

REA ha s received a $5 15,000 loan for expansion in the nine coun ties it serves . . D ix ie T eleph one Co., C lax ton, has bou ght Ala mo T elep hon e Co., of Ala mo . . . M a ch in ery is arriving for constru ction of the concr ete portion of Hartwell Dam . . . Marietta's new $84 0,000 d isposal p lant is comp lete . . . Baxley V eter an s of Foreign W ars have a new po st home.
St a te Hi gh wa y D ep a r tm en t ope ned its new d ivision office building a t J esup as the city celebra ted M arvin Griffin D ay . . . Houst on Co unty will vote on a $4 75,000 hospi tal bon d issue . . Sa vannah Electr ic & Power Co . is build ing a 50,000-kilowa tt uni t a t Port Wentworth . . . Washington Co un ty REA, whi ch serves eigh t counties, has had a $450,000 loa n a pproved . . Fruit Growers Express will ere ct a bui ldin g on Atlan t a 's M ariet ta St.

Habersham Plant Open at Cornelia
A new industry ma nufacturing ladies' blouses and ca r coa ts and men's spor t sh ir ts, is in ope ra tion in Cornelia.
H a bersha m G arment Co., I nc., a loca lly fin an ced firm, opene d wi th 50 worker s and eve n tually w ill emp loy some 200 people, Mrs. H elen St ewar t, Cornelia Chamber of Commerce Secret ary, sa id .
Fred Scroggs and Aaron Penick head th e new firm .
T he H abersha m corporation pu rchased th e lea se on the plant bu ild ing formerl y occ upied by Gaco M anuf a cturing Co ., a nd also bou gh t th e eq uip ment and stoc k of the latter fir m .

UNI ON C OUNT Y I ND U STRY-Scen e at Jo seph Campbell Co. , Blairsvill e, as mounta in farmers arrive with their cro p of bell peppers. The plant processes 65 ,000 pound s of pepp er s a day and employs 100 wor kers during th e season.- photo by Hamby.

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