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NEWSLETTER

November, 1957

NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Press Association
Published mont hly by GEORGIA D EPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARV IN GRIFFIN Governor BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS EM O RY L. BUTLER
Chai rm an
T. C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PET ER S BEN JESSUP
TRAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Secre tary
FRE D D. MOON
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Vol 9, No. 1

November, 1957

GARMENT PLANT TO START DEC. 1 AT CARNESVILLE
Carnesville's first industry is sched uled to be in p rodu ction Dec. 1.
L adies Sportswear , Inc., will begin manufacture of wom en 's ga rmen ts under a lease sign ed with Carnesville In du strial Assn., In c.
The City of Carnesville ac qu ired th e old Franklin County H igh School and th e industrial associa tion is renovating th e building to mee t th e industry's needs. All partitions in th e second story of the struc ture have been remov ed to provide a 10,00 ::1 square-foot sewing room . The down sta irs portion of th e build ing will be used for storage .
L. M . Gill espie, p resident of th e associa tion, said local citizens bought $ 10,000 worth of stock in th e association to finan ce th e renovation.
COVER PHOTO
Cities Service M iami, longest vessel ever to ca ll at Savannah, is seen passing un der the Eugene Talmadge bri dge. The successful docking of the 661 -foot ta nker was hailed as one of two outstan ding events in the history of th e port, t he ot her being the movement of the first vessel to the Sa vannah Sugar Refinery 40 years ago . Four tugs handled the huge tanker as easily as if she had been a ca noe. -Jim Bisson photo

NEED SOME KAOLIN?-No wonder the Kaolin Festival at Sandersville was such a giant three-day success! Her e th e qu een of th e event , Loui se Kimsey (lef t ), tak es the
lad ies of her cou rt right into a mine to shovel samples of Washington County's $2 mil1ion-a-year "crop." T he oth er beauties, left to right: Joann Avant , Barbara Newsome, Fay Fr ost, Sue Smit h, Lanett e Avant, Ga il Smith and Angelia Avant.

Atom-Powered 'Savannah'

To Honor Famed Steamer

Ameri ca' s first a to mic-powere d mercha nt ship will be named "N . S. Sava nnah" in honor of t he first steame r to cross th e Atl antic.
In announc ing th e nam e for th e $39 m illion vessel, President Eisenhower explained th at th e initials " N.S.," a new abb reviation in th e m aritime world, will sta nd for " nu clea r ship."
Although th e United St at es already has two nuclear-powered submarines - th e Nautilus and th e Sea wolf th ere is no official nu clear design ation preced ing th eir names.
The new 21,000-t on Savannah is scheduled to be comp leted in 1960. Sh e will be 598 feet long and 79 feet wid e at th e beam , and will have a speed of 21 knots. Sh e will acco mmodate 60 passen gers and be able to carry 9,600 tons of ca rgo.
The original Savannah, built with funds p rovid ed by th e Geor gia Legislature, stea med ou t of the city whose

name she ca r ried on M ay 22, 1819, and 22 days la ter docked a t Liv erpool, En glan d. Although steam - propelled craft had previou sly been used on rivers a nd in ha rb or tr affic, she was the first vessel to underta ke a tran socea n voyag e by steam.
EXPERIMENT MILLS ADD WEAVE SPACE
Dundee Mill s, Ex periment, a re enla rgin g and imp rovi ng th e weave room section of th eir No. 1 M ill.
The project includes construc tion of a one - story - and - bas em ent str ucture 56 x 234 feet. I n addition to new weaving machinery, new h eating, lighting and venti la ting equipme n t will be insta lled .
President J. M. Cheath am said th e
constr uc tion is sche du led to be compl eted in six months.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSL ET T ER

November, 1957

NEW GEORGIA FARM MARKET WILL BE BIGGEST AND BEST

Georgia 's n ew State Farmers Market will be th e largest and finest installation of its kind in the world.
To be complet ed next yea r, th e new market, whi ch is costing $ 10 million, sp rawls over 146 Clayton County acres along the U . S. Hwy. 41 six mile s sou th of Atlanta.
The new ma rk et will be a far cry fro m th e old -time shed -t yp e fac ilities. Plan s for it were not dra wn until th e arc hite cts h ad visited mod el ma rk ets throughout th e U ni ted Sta tes an d even ma de one trip to Can ad a .
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"EVE R Y FEATURE recommen ded by th e U . S. Dep a rtment of Agriculture, as well as specifica tions of ou r own a re included," State Agricu ltu re Commissioner Phi l Campbell says. "We ar e ende avo ring to make the ma rket th e fin est anywhe re. We h ave not been lavish, but neither have we stin ted in quality ."
The market ha s extensive footage along th e four-lane South Expresswa y as well as along a side ac cess road . It is located on the east sid e of the superhighway immediately south of the intersection with State Hwy. 85 which com es from Fayetteville.
Ther e will be 16 farmer sh eds 320 feet lon g with a 60-foot wide dri ve through the center. A 12-foot-wide display platform will run down each side of th e dri ve-through and the roof will exten d ou t past the platform far enoug h to offer cover for trucks loaded with produce. Each shed is pl anned to accommodate 62 trucks.

WORLD 'S L ARGEST-Arch it ect's drawin g shows th e new St ate Farme rs M arket , now und er construction, as it will appe ar wh en com plete d. It's cost: $ 10 million.

Virtuall y all cons truc tion is of fireproof, time-resist ant conc rete. In th e vicinity of the dealers' bu ildings, wher e hu ge tractor - trailer r igs will load , p avem ent will be heavy-duty eightinch concrete.
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BUILDINGS for produ ce dealer s an d brokera ge houses will be 585 feet long with 26 units of 1,350 squa re feet to each bu ild ing. A 25-foo t-wide pl atform will run down the front of eac h bu ilding wit h a 15-foot -wide p latform with rai l facilities at th e rea r. Between the fronts of th e bu ild ings, wh ich will face eac h othe r, th ere will be a 220foot- wide conc re te apron with a park ing isle in th e cen ter.
The dealer buildings will be on a high er gra de than th e farmer sheds. In th e direct center of the ' market th e administration building will be

located. This building will house a restaurant, rest rooms, a barber shop and other service faci liti es. Similar facilities for Negroes will be located in another building. A garage and filling station will also be located on the site for the benefit of truckers The entire market site will be com plet ely fenced with sep a ra te ga tes for fa rmers and deal er s leading directl y into their respecti ve ar eas. T he ga tes for en try and exit will be located on the access roa d know n as Georgia Ave. wh ich will be imp roved into a fou rlan e ro ad .
$300,000 MOTOR COURT
Co nstr uction is under wa y on a 42uni t mo tor cou rt on Gord on H wy. four blocks sout h of Augu sta city limits. The facility, to be known as Alamo P laza, will cost $300,000.

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LOADI NG AREA-Eight-inch conc re te is being laid in th e area wh er e hu ge tract or tr ail er ri gs will unload G eor gia far m produce.
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GEORGIA DEPART M EN

NEWSLETTER

Novem ber , 1957

GE GIA LEAD S NATION IN

INDUSTRY, 2 2 OTHER FIELDS

Geo rg ia is outst ripping th e nation in man y phases of

economy a nd is far ahe ad of the country as a whole in t he developmen t of industry .
A survey ju st comp lete d by th e U . S. Departmen t of Co mmerce shows th at in the 10 yea rs since " 'orl d ' Val'
II , G eorgia surpassed th e na tion al aver age ra te of adva nce-
men t in 23 out of 28 maj or field s of bu siness a nd economic
act ivity .

ECONOMIC FIELD

New Plants and Equ i p m e n t
Employment in Manufacture

GA. 133
I 33

% GAl N 1946-56

S.E.

U.S.

52

37

22

9

In th e realm of indust ry th e su rvey sho ws, expend itures for

new pl an ts a nd eq uipment 'd uring the' 10-yea r per iod in cr ea sed Ma !'lufacturing Payrolls

136

127

113

in G eorgia 133 per cent against 37 per cent for the na tion . Value Added By

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Manufacture

91

82

77

Em p loym ent in ma nufact uring advan ced 33 per cent in

G eorgia a nd 9 per cent in the U ni ted St ates as a wh ole.

Gross Personal Income

80

78

71

G eorg ia manufactu ring pa yroll s increased 136 p er cent whi le those of the na tion gai ned 113 per cent.

Per Capita Income

58

54

47

V alue of manufactu red products in G eorgia advanc ed

Life Insurance in Force

165

162

107

9 1 p er cent while t he na tional gain wa s 77.

The followi ng ana lysis, prep a red by the Commer ce Dep art- Wholesale Sales ment's At lan ta field office, com pa res th e Geor gia and U . S.

44

43

30

ga ins in the oth er 24 division s covered by t he survey:

Reta il Sales

41

38

30

Gross person al incom e, 80 per cent for G eorgia and 71 per

cent for the nation.

Serv ice Trade Receipts

143

Per ca pita incom e, 58 and 47 . Va lue of life insuran ce in force. 165 and 107.

Retail and Wholesa le

Employment

I 31

Wholesale sale s, 44 a nd 30. . R eta il sales, 4 1 a nd 30.

I Retail Trade Payrolls

40

Service trad e receip ts, 143 a nd 174.

R eta il a nd wholesale trade em ployme nt, 3 1 and 20.

Bank Deposits

43

R et ail trad e p ayroll s, 40 and 34. Ban k dep osits, 43 and 4 7.

Industrial and

Commercial Firms

42

Number of industrial and comme rcial firm s in bu siness, Value of Construction

4-2 and 23.

Contracts

141

Value of construc tion con tr act s, 14 1 a nd 57.

Co n s t r u c t i o n

Construct ion employment, 5 1 and 53.

Em p l o y m e n t

51

M otor vehicle registration, 94 and 72. T elephon es in operatio n, 126 a nd 116.

Motor Vehicle

Registration

94

168

174

37

20

43

34

52

47

I 47

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23

177

I

57

I 57

I 53

104 ...~ ,.

72

Elect ric ene rg y produ ced, 180 a nd 153. V a lue of wo rld trade, 50 a nd 117.

Tel ephon es in Operation

126

133

116

Airl ine p assengers, 305 a nd 212. Airlin e freight ca rg o, 266 and 155.

Electric Energy Produced 180

221

153

Ca sh farm income, 57 and 18. Beef ca tt le on farms, 144 and 46 . Va lue of comme rc ia l bro ilers, 550 and 212. Chickens ha tched commercially, 534 and 67.

Value of World Trade

50

125

117

Airline Passengers

305

252

212

Va lue of miner als pr od uced , 8 7 and 82. Number of residents , 14 a nd 19.

Airline Ca rgoes

266

234

155

I n the seven -sta te Southeast-Geor gia, Alabama, F lorid a. M !ssissippi, T ennessee and the C a rolin as-Geor gia' s rat e of

Cash Farm Income

I 57

38

18

ga m bested th a t of th e region in 15 of the 24 ca tego ries. Geor gia's leadership in the Sou th east was :

Beef Cattle on Farms

144

118

46

New plants an d eq uip ment, Georgia 133 and th e Sout heas t 52.

Value Commercial Broilers

550

461

212

Employm en t in man uf acture, 33 and 22. M a nuf acturing payro lls, 136 a nd 127.

Ch ickens Hatched

Commercially

534

366

67

V alue added by manufact ure, 9 1 a nd 82. Personal income, 80 and 78.

Va lu e M inerals Produced

87

88

82

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Per ca pi ta incom e, 58 and 54. (Con tinued on Page 7)

Number of Residents

14

19

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GEQKG L'\ D E PARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLET T ER

Novemb er, 1957

IO-YEAR GAIN ON ECONOMY FRONT IN GEORGIA~ SOUTHEAST~ NATION

ECONOMIC FIELD I

Georgia

1946 1956

New Plants and Equipment Employment in Manufacture Ma nufact ur in g Payrolls Value Added By Manufacture Gross Personal Income

$84,320 Thousand
252.0 Thousand
I $457 Mill ion
$1,016 Million
$2,890 Million

$196,161 Thousand
$ 3 3 4 .3 Thousand
$1 ,080 Million
$ 1 , 9 37 Million
$5,196 Million

Per Capita Income

$884

Life Insurance in Force

$2,989 Million

Wholesale Sales

$3,147.4
I Million

Retail Sales

$2,103 .1 Million

Service Trade Receipts

$130.9 Million

I Retail and Wholesale Employment

167 Thousand

Reta il Trade Payroll s

I $206.7 Million

Bank Deposits

$1,702 Million

$1,400
$7,923 Million
$4 ,547 .5 Million
$2,963.2 Million
$ 3 1 8 .5 Million
219 Thousand
$288.8 M illion
$2,434 Million

Industrial and Commercial Firms Value of Con struction Contracts Construction Employment Motor Vehicle Registration

34,160
$196 Million
I 36.0 Thousand
649 Thousand

48,662
$472 M illion
54.3 Thousand
1,258 Thousand

II Southeast

I 1946 I 1956

$512,565

$780,722

Thousand I Thousand

I 1,465 .6
Thousand

1,783.7 Thousand

$2, 6 47 Million

$6,009 Million

$5,947 Million

$10,852 Million

$17,227 Million

$30,739 Million

$870

I $1,337

$15,873 Million

I $41,529 M illion

I I $15,019.9 Million

$21 ,549.5 Million

I I $12,970.1 Million

$ 1 7 , 8 5 9 .3 Million

I

$735 .1 M illion

I $1,973.6 Million

949
I Thousand

1,304 Thousand

I $1,192.1 Million

$1 ,709.7 Million

$9,833

$14,973

I I Million

Million

I 206,717

I

$1 ,132 Million

II 216.8 Thousand

3,995 Thousand

I 304,114
$3 ,140 Million
I 341.2 Thousand
8,133 Thousand

I Un ited States

1946 1956

I $6,003,873 Thousand

I 15,555.0
j Thousand

I

$36,476 Million

I $7 4, 3 4 2 Million

$189,077

I

Million

I
I $1,316

I $199,199 Million

I $180,619.1 Million

I $130,520.5 M illion

$8,578.1
I Million

9,301
I Thousand

I $13,567.9 Million

$155,901

I

Million

I 2,141 ,807

I $15,532 Mill ion

I 1,982.0 Thousand

37,360 Thousand

$ 8,2 3 4,54 2 Thousand
16,885 .8 Thousand
$77,629 Mill ion
$ 13 1,4 33 Million
$324,281 Million
$1,940
$412,630 Million
$234,974.4 Million
$169,967.1 Million
$23,487 .4 Million
11,144 Thousand
$18,198 .6 Million
$228,579 Mill ion
2,628,901
$24,413 Million
3,040.0 Thousand
64,437 Thousand

Telephones in Operation Electric Energy Produced Va lue of Wo rld Trade Airline Passengers Airline Cargoes Cash Farm Income Beef Cattle on Farms Value Commercial Broilers Chickens Hatched Commercially Value Mineral Products Number of Residents

344,452
3,488 M illion KWH
$116.5 Million
302,171
2,267.0 Tons
$ 4 1 6 .4 Million
427 Thousand
I $20 Million
36,875 Thousand
$30 Mill ion
3,242 Thousand

780,15 1

1,779,862

9,752

33,783

M illion KWH M illion KWH

$174.5 M illion

I $1,402.0 Million

I
1,223,679 I 1,521,638

8 , 2 9 0 .5 Tons

I

7,741.5 Tons

$655 .3 Million

I $2,962.8 M illion

I 1,040
Thousand

3,217 Thousand

$130

$51

Million I Million

233,829

120,415

I Thousand

Tho.usand

$56 Million

I

$313 Million

3,712 Thousand

19 ,373 Thousand

4,141 ,998

27 ,829,000

108,388 I 269,609
Million KWH Million KWH

I $3,151.1
Million

$14,531.6 Million

I 5 ,354,846

13,060,372

25 ,845 .9

165,365 .9

I Tons

Tons

$4,082.9 Million

$ 2 5 , 3 2 2 .9 Mill ion

I 7,004
Thousand

41 ,560 Thousand

$286 Million

I

$269 Million

560,786 Thousand

1,265,538 Thousand

$589 Mi llion

$7 ,706 Million

22,983 Thousand

140,054 Thousand

60 ,200,000
682,496 Million KWH
$31 ,571.1 Million
40,752,563
422,517 .7 Tons
$29,998 .6 Mill ion
60,708 Thousand
$840 Million
2,112,672 Thousand
$14,033 Million
166,325 Thousand

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GEO RG IA DEP ARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

November, 1957

300 GEORGIA CRAFTSMEN MAKE

ALUMINUM DOORS FOR NATION

One of th e two principal manufacturers of aluminum entrances in th e U n ited States-and th erefore in the world-is American Art M etals

feet of ma nufacturing space, th ousa nds of aluminum door s, bea ring th e label "Amarlite," are shipped to stratcgically loca ted warehous es in Georgia, Ncw J ersey, Ill inois a nd T exas. From thos e four di stribution points, th e At lanta products find th eir wa y through plat e glass deal ers to th eir fina l destinations in banks, schools, stores, hotels, cour thouses - a ll typ es of buildings, throughout th e coun tr y.
In addition to do ors a nd frames, th e Amarlite line includes th e complet e kit of st ore-fro nt metal: sash, jambs, mouldings and the rest , all fashioned from ex tru de d aluminum allo y.
With its main office located at 433 Highland Ave ., N E, America n Art M etal Co.'s Atla nta ope ra tions employ over 300 Georgians. Originall y op erated as a partnership com posed of Walter L. Clifton, Jr. and Maurice May, the company, now a corp ora tion with over 400 stockh old ers, continues under th e leadership of th e same two men as president and execu tive vice-president respecti vely.
Am eri can Art M eta ls Co . was or ga n ized in 1937 an d for about 12 yea rs

manufactured a va rie ty of indust rial, defense a nd architec tural met al product s. In 1949 th e comp any began concentra ting on th e manuf acture an d marketing of standardized a luminum en tra nces, and since that date, Amarlit e en tra nces ha ve enjoye d incr eas ing acce p ta nce in th e exp and ing building industry. A la rge p art of th e com pany's success is attributed to its key geographi ca l loca tion.
In words of Amarlite's president: "Georgia's favora ble bu siness climate h as been a big fac tor in our progr ess. I don 't believe we could h ave h ad th e same growt h had we been located in an y part of the coun try."
ELLAVILLE GETS GARMENT PLANT
A new gar m en t factory, W ayn e Manufact uring Co ., is in op eration at Ellav ille.
T he firm will specialize in work clo thing , including shirts an d pan ts.
The op eration started with a dozen em ployees, bu t a spo kesman said pl an s are to increase em ploymen t to 50 ill th e near fut ure.

GEORGIA MADE-J. W. Mozley and Harry B. Neal of American Art Metals Co., inspect doors made by their firm at Atlanta's Architects & Engineers Institute.

Co. , a horn e- grown, hom e - owned G eorgia industry .
In recent yea rs, p ractica lly every new shopping cen ter, offi ce and institutional bui lding h as been eq u ipped with an aluminum en tra nce . An d th e trend is in cr easing. I n better than seven ou t of 10 remodeling jobs on c o m me rc i a l a nd pu bli c bu ildings , aluminum en tran ce doors are speci ficd. Proba bly th e biggest rcason for th e popularit y of alumi num doors and frames is their beau ty ; however , their ease of insta llation and lack of maintenance expc nse resu lt in a long range economy which is an influen cing fac tor in many cases .
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Every month, fr om two Atla n ta p lan ts to talling over 100,000 squ are

NEAR COMPLETIO N-Fort Benning's new Martin Army Hospital, shown in this aerial view, is 90 per cent complete, with the opening schedule next May. The 500-
bed installation has five floors above ground and one floor below, and is air-conditioned throughout. Located midway between the main post and Harmony Grove areas, it
was named in memory of a former Infantry School graduate and Medical Corps offi-
cer, Maj. Gen. Joseph I. Martin. Estimated cost of the hospital is $6.5 million.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

November, 1957

BESTWALL PICKS SAVANNAH

FOR 250JOB INSTALLATION

Bestwall G ypsum Co . will soon begin construction of a multimillion dollar gyp sum board, lath and pIas ter plant at Savannah.
The installation is expected to be in op eration with 250 emp loyees by late 1959. It will have an annual pa yr oll in excess of $ 1 milli on .
L. C. M cClurkin, chairm an of the Savannah Di stri ct Authority, and A. K . D ea ring, cha irma n of the authority's indust rial development committ ee, estima ted th e cost of constr u cting th e pl ant at $4 m illion.
Bestwall officials said th e pl a nt will have an a nnual ou tpu t ca pa city in excess of 250,000,000 square feet of gypsum board and lath , requiring 300,000 tons of gypsum ore in p rod u ction.
Rawson G. L iza rs, Bestwall p resident, said the p lant " rep resen ts the sta rt of an exp ansion program which will include several more product ion fa cili t ies."
Sit e of th e pl ant is on th e Savannah Riv er , in an ever-growing indust rial section abou t th ree miles west of th e city. The 25-acre site was mad e available to th e company by th e Savannah & Atl anta R ailway, a subsidiary of the Central of Georgia R ail way, distr ict authori ty offi cia ls said .
Bestwall has been in the gypsum business for more than 50 years an d the firm is now the thi rd largest in th e nation, oper ating seven pl ants in th e Unit ed St ates and one in Can ad a.
GEORGIA LEADS INDUSTRY GAIN
(Continued from Page 4)
L ife insurance, 165 an d 162. W holesa le sales, 44 and 43. R et ail sales, 41 and 38. Airline passe ng ers, 305 a nd 252. Airline ca rgo , 266, 234. Cash farm incom e, 57 and 38. Beef ca ttle, 144 and 118. Co mmercial broilers, 550 and 461. Chickens h atched commercially, 534 an d 366. The accompanying tables compare th e percentage gains of Georgia, th e Southeast and the na tion as a who le, and also show th e economic advancemen t of th e th ree segme nts in the 28 div isions surveyed .

DAHLONEGA BOUND-With the hands of time turned back more than a century, thi s group of participants rod e to Dahlonega's t hird and biggest Gold Rush Day in a steer-powered cart of the era when the Lumpkin County city was the scene of North Am erica's fir st and maddest gold stam pede. Mrs. Cecil Parks and W. O. R eese occupy th e driver's sea t, and th e youngsters are Margaret Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Moore, Jr., and Rickey and Jon Moore, sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moore. Dahlonega Ch amb er of Commer ce is already making plans for th e next Gold Rush.

NEW PEARSON PLANT TO MAKE MESH BAGS
A new pl ant m anufacturing mesh bags for th e fruit an d vege table industry is sta rting in Pears on .
The firm, Cad y-W ebb Bag Co., was esta blished by Willi am H. Cad y and Earl G. Webb, an d began operations wit h 10 emp loyees. The owners expect to increase the p a yroll to 35 pe rsons when additional m ach inery is installed .
M r. Cad y h as been associa ted for th e p ast eight yea rs with D owlin g Bag Co., Valdosta, a s sales supervisor. Mr. Webb wa s form erl y in th e transfer and storage business in Pompan o Bea ch, 'Fla .
CARGILL ELEVATOR
Cargill, I nc., Mi nneapolis, Mi nn ., one of the nation's leading grain h an dling an d processing firms , has leased th e 320,000-bushe l pl an t of Southeastern Seed & El evator Co., in Perr y, Ga.

FIAT METAL CO. CHOOSES ALBANY FOR PLANT SITE
Fiat M et al M fg. Co. , a leading producer of building product s, will soon be operating in Albany.
A Georgia subs idiary, to be known as Georgia R ecept or Co., Inc., has acq uired a lO-a cr e site on Maple St. a t th e Georgia Northern R wy., and expec ts to have it s plant bu ild ing comp leted by J an . 1.
Compan y officials said th e ope ra tion will begin mod estly, but th ey hope to exp and even tua lly to a p ayr oll of 100.
Fi at (no connection with th e Italian automobile ma k er ), m anu f a c tur e s show er cabinets, show er doors, p recast terrazzo show er floors an d me tal toilet partit ions in four existing p lan ts in Los Angel es, F ranklin Park, III., Long Island City, N . Y , and Ontario, Canada.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETT ER

~l

November, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Atlanta ' s Ful t on N ati onal Bank will erect a $ 100,000 bran ch building a t 4 11 F lat Shoals Ave., SE . . . M ou ltrie I ro n & Steel Co . is a new firm a t l\loult rie . . . North Folksto n has a H owa rd Johnson R estau rant . . . Pro g r ess iv e T el e ph on e C o op er ati v e , R entz, has bough t th e Du dley Teleph one Co. in Laurens and will install a dial system . .. Ge orge tow n has a 75,000-galion water tank and is laying new ma ins.
Sears, Roebu ck & Co. has opened a new department store in Mariett a . . . Ancho r H ot els, I nc., has leased the John C . Colem an H otel a t Swainsboro and n am ed R ay M addox as general ma nager .. . C laxton Mfg. Co., manu factu rer of women's un derw ea r, ded icated its plant at Claxton.
Mancheste r is pon dering a new sewage d isposal pl an t . . . Peach Co unty H ospital, Fort Valley, plan s expa nsions . . . Ringgold is bu ilding a Ci ty H all . . . Lumpkin County H ealth Center a t Dahlonega was ded icated . . . Atla nta will spend $5 million on wa terworks improvemen ts . . . C itizens T elephone Co. is improving its facilities at Leslie and Plains.
B la ir s v i II e I nd u s t ri e s, In c., has erected a modern fa ctory building and is seeking a ten an t . . . Amer ican National Bank of Brunswick is in a new, modern bu ilding . . . Stu ckey's I nc., Eastman, repor ts a ga in of five new sho ps th is year, now operates 72 . . . Houston Co unty voters approved a $4 75,000 bond issue for a hospit al .. . Geor gia R ailroad Ban k & T rus t Co., has a new branch in Augusta.
Wi nn -Dixie Co. has a new su per market in Gainesville . . . WSB-TV, Atlanta, will spend $500 ,000 on facility i mp r o v e m ent s . . . E lb ert on M anu factu rin g Co., Elberto n, has occup ied it s new plant ad dition . . . T ift College, Forsyth, dedicated a new dormitory . . . Sixt y-two housing un its arc sla ted for Alm a.
Ci ty of Austell is ins ta lling a $ 135,000 p rop an e gas pla n t . .. Earl Pickle, Blak ely, is new p resident of U. S. H wy. 27 Assn.. .. Wilcox Co un ty will observe its centen nial in D ecemb er .. . R adio St a tion WMVG, Milledgeville, is in its new bui lding . . . The new buil ding of Med ica l Ar ts Assn., I nc., Bru nswick, is complete.
Aug usta pla ns a $600,000 librar y a t Ninth a nd Gr een e Sts. . . . Atlanta's 14-story Cit y H all will be air-condi tioned . . . D ecatur County H ospit al

GE T T ING THE " D O PE "-Gov. M arvin Gr iffin , visiti ng th e new J esup installation of Rayon ier , Inc., is an int er est ed list ener as offici als ex pla in th e op er ation of th e hu ge cellulose pl ant. Left to right in photo: David S. Price, J esup , m emb er of th e State Rural Road s Authority; Fred B. Doherty, gener al m anager of the plant; Russell F. E rickson, vice presid ent ; Governor Gr iffi n ; W. A. C aw ley , Ra yoni er san itation enginee r, and Sheriff Cla renc e Reddish, of Wayne Co un ty.-Broad hu rst St udio photo

Autho ri ty has purchase d a site in Bainb ridge for a city-coun ty hospital.
Geor gia Power Co. is comp leting a 20-mile tran smission line fro m Millen to Sylvania . . . M use's a nd P a rksChambers, In c. will h ave bran ch stores in Atla nt a's new Len ox Square shop ping cen ter . . . Cit y of Griffin has acq uired 75 ac res for industrial developme nt . . . Geo rgia St at e Patro l celebra ted its 20th birthday . . . Waco will bu ild a wat erw ork s system . . . . Ame ricus M asons are pr oud of their new $75,000 templ e . . . U nadilla city council va lidated $66,000 wa terwork s imp rovem ent cer tificates.
Swainsboro's Citizens Bank is in en la rged quarters . . . W e stmini st e r Schools, Atlant a, acquired 52 ac res

for exp ansion .. . First N ational Ban k of La wrenc eville plan s a new bui ldin g . . . Ca rt ersville h as a new Colonial store .. . Cl arkesville h as a new water ta nk of 150,000 -galion cap acity . . . Summerville T elephon e Co. will enla rge its facilities and build a new dial excha nge in Menlo . . . M arist College is moving from its downtown loca tion to a 59-acre tr act north of Atlanta . . . Buena V ista is installing la rger water m ains . . . New n an H ousing Authority has let con tracts to erec t 55 un its . . . Intern a tional La tex Co. has occupied its new permanent pla n t building at L aG ran ge . .. First Na tional Ban k of Atla n ta h as acq uired land for a Ponce de Leon expansion.

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100 State Capitol
* MA RVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman
T . C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS BEN JESSUP
TRAMl\lELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary
FRED D. MOON
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Vol. 9, No.2

December, 1957

Decemb er , 1957

ASHBURN BUILDS PLANT FOR NEW PAJAMA MAKER
Manhattan Shirt Co., Patter son, N . ]., has signed a lon g-t erm lease contr act for a $300,000 manufacturing plant in Ashburn, and Turner County Enterprises, Inc., has let th e contract for const ruction of th e building.
More than 250 stockh old ers, most of th em Turner Countian s, have subscrib ed to stock at $25 a share in Turner County Industries tow ard financing the building.
The Ashburn plant, which will put Manhattan operation in eigh t cities of the nation, including a 20-year-old plant at Am eri cus, will be a modern bri ck industrial stru cture, air-condition ed throughout. Lo cat ed on a 20 acre site, it will con tain 40,000 squa re feet .
The plant will manufacture pajamas. Construction will be completed by next April, and opera tions will start with 250 employees.
COVER PHOTO
B'rer Fox didn't exactly live up to his reputation for slyness when he took ref uge in the top of this sapling, because the dogs had only to wait until the hunters came up an d shook him down. Then the chase went on and on through the piney woods of South Georgia, until, finally, the red quarry found a smarter way to outwit his foes.-Ed Friend p hoto.

BUILDING A GIANT-Aerial photo shows progress on the $94 mil\ion Hartwell Dam on the Savannah River near Hartwell, Part of the river bed has been dried for installation of cofferdams and other preliminary foundation work. Sch eduled for completion by October, 1960, the dam's total length, including earth embankments and the concrete portion, wil\ be 17,935 feet, and maximum height will be 204 feet abov e stream bed. Georgia and South Carolina congressional delegations recently inspe ct ed the project with the U . S. Corps of Engineers.-Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Daily Mail photo.

60~OOO CHEEPING CHICKS LAUNCH NEW TIFT INDUSTRY

Some 60,000 cheeping baby chicks have inaugurated the broi ler industry in Tift County.
John Lodge, Tifton Purina dealer, said his store has placed th e chicks under cont ract in eight broiler hou ses over th e coun ty. The hous es accommo date 6,000 to 10,000 birds each.
Mr. Lodge said his store is furnishing th e ch icks and all feed and eight farmers ar e providing th e broil er buildings and all equipmen t. The p roducers will be pa id on a per-pound basi s, the price being set when th e chic ks ar e deliv er ed. This is th e type of dealer-producer arrangement whi ch led to deve lopment of the fabulous broiler business in North Georgia.
The Ro yal Poultry Processing Co., Camill a, will handle the Tift output of broilers. Mr. Lodge said officials of the firm ha ve indicated that they will locate a branch processing plant in th e

Tifton ar ea if th e volume becom es lar ge enough. An output of 600,000 to 100,000 boilers would be needed for a plant.
Ano ther aspect of th e new industry, he said, was th e hatchery ph ase. Two hat cheries have alread y indi cated that they will locate branches in Tifton .
JESUP SHIRT PLANT UNDER NEW SETUP
J esup 's shirt factor y, now th e Pascal Corp., is rolling.
Until rec ently, th e plant was owned and ope rated by Sea Island and Tempest Shirts, In c., of New York. The new corporation is locall y fin anced .
R obert Pascal, pr esiden t, said th e plan t will contin ue ma nufact uri ng shirts for Sea Island as well as other nati onal brands.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

Decemb er , 1957

GEORGIA BUSINESS BEST YET,
U. S. 1957 CHECK UP SHOWS

The year 1957 will probably go down as Georgia's best in the field

of business to date. The Atlanta office of the U. S.

Department of Conunerce says its

preliminary figures on activities in various major segments of the state's

business operations indicated un-

precedented high levels.

H ere ar e some highl ight s of th e 1957

bu sin ess picture, subject to revision up

or down when final dat a are known .

sometime next Spring:

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GEO RGI ANS had on deposit in all
banks aro und $2Y2 billion.
D ebi ts, or withdrawals from chec k-

ing accoun ts, which are a good measure

of consumer spending, were expected to

tot al aroun d $27 billion in Federal R eserv e memb er ba n ks in 13 of the larger

cities, Alb an y, Atl anta, Au gu sta , Br uns-

wick, Columbus, Elb erton, Gainesville, Griffin, M acon, Newnan, Rome, Sa-

va nna h and V ald osta.

Georgia shared in record-breaking retail trade conducted throughout

the South. Transactions in food, apparel and other lines, exclusive of

the larger chain establishmen ts, were

around $40 billion. More than 300,000 workers were

employed in Georgia manufacturing

plants. These plants produced goods val-

ued at about $2 billion. Around 850,000 residential and busi-

ness telephon es were in operation in

NE AR COMPLETION-Unusual photo shows th e interior of th e 26,000 square-foot plant under construction for th e Wiligree Mf g. Co. , new industry at Camilla. Vi ew is acro ss th e main sewin g ar ea, wh ich is 160 x 100 feet without an y obstruction. The walls and doors in back gr ound ar e th e gen eral offices and rest areas which will comprise about 2,000 square feet of th e pl an t' s ar ea.-Camilla Enterprise photo.

th e stat e.
Som e 2Y2 million head of beef cattle,
calves and hogs wer e slaughtered in Geor gia to provid e red meat for the American tabl e.
Off p roduction lin es came Y2 billion
chickens hat ched in commercia l hat cheries, most of whi ch were dest ined for b r o ilers .
Although Georgi a sha red with the nation in a definite tapering off of new const ruction work, some 15,000 building permits wer e issued in areas requi ring th em .
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RAILROADS serving th e stat e and

region again realized more than a billion dollars in fr eight and p asseng er revenue.
Airl ines headquartered in Georgia and th e Southeast handled around 5 million passenger s and flew some 50 million ton-miles of exp ress and fr eight.
Electric energy production was expected to soar to some 10 billion kilowatt hours.
More than 2,000 new businesses were seen incorporated in the state during the year.
Although farming in 1957 was not as profitable as it was in 1956, still the total realized in the market from crops and livestock was expected to exceed $600 million w hen final figures are known.
The va lue of goods handl ed to and from other coun tries th rou gh th e port s of Savannah , Brunswick and Atla n ta may exceed th e $200 million mark.

L AGRANGE'S NEWEST-Aerial view of the half-million-dollar plant of International Latex Corp. near LaGrange. The 53,000 square-foot , air-conditioned stru cture was erected by LaGrange Industries, Inc., a citiz ens group, and leased to th e manufacturer. Dedicated by Gov. Marvin Griffin last month, th e plant officials said, will ultimately employ 500 work ers in th e product ion of brassi eres.-photo by Sti etenroth.

FOUNDRY EXPANDS AT WEST POINT
W est Point Foundry & M achin e Co. is moving its foundry oper ations int o a new plant stru ctu re on St at e Line Rd., abou t one mile north of W est Point.
T he firm's ma chine shop operations will contin ue on an expanded scale in the present downtown facilit y.
The new plan t, of fabricat ed steel, con ta ins 20,000 square feet of floor space.

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NEWSLETTER

December , 1957

CENTER OF I ND U STRY- South Georgia Bro iler, In c., h as pu rchased t his newly const ructed feed m ill on H wy. 38, south of Blackshear, and moved its entire ope ration the re. The plant serves the broi ler ind ustr y of Pierce Co unty.-photo by H end ry.

Waycross Broiler Firm Moves To New Plant At Blackshear

South Geor gia Br oiler, Inc., formerly of W aycr oss, has purch ased the rc-
ccntly constructed J. C. W alk er Milling
Co. pla n t nca r Blackshear, a nd moved its en tire operation to th e new loca tion.
L annis Thom as, man ager, sa id th e mov e wa s prompted by th e tremendou s growt h of the broil er indust ry in th e Blackshea r a rea, particula rl y Pier ce
County. Pier ce Cou nt y has app roximately
100 fa rmer s in a broil er program produ cin g 1,000,000 birds a ycar.
South Geor gia Br oiler, Inc., was

founded at W aycr oss six ycars ago by Ray H . Fechtel, of Atlanta . In th e first year of opera tion, th e firm handled th e fin an cing, pr odu cti on , a nd market ing of 60,000 broilers. Mr. T homas sa id th at in 1957 th e cor pora tion will handle 2,000,000 bird s, with an increase of ano ther m illion in sigh t next year.
Acquisit ion of the new milling p lan t will ena ble th e firm to prod uce the fced n ecessary for it s expandi ng program . Mr. Thom as said pla ns ca ll for purchase of 300,000 bu shels of corn a year fro m local farme rs .

CLAXTON PLANT FORMALLY OPENS
Several hundred visitors who attended th e form al op ening of C laxton Mfg. Co ., C laxton's new industry, sa w 80 per son s bu sily turning ou t wom en' s under garrnen ts.
Con gressman Prince Pr eston of th e First Di stri ct, wh o wa s speaker a t th e dedi cation ceremo n ies, said, "We h ave come a lon g way fro m th e cot to n field economv to th is new and mod ern, aircondi tioned, sanitary plant th a t is offering th e answer to our sick farm eco n o m y."
H e lauded Albert Parker and Ed Perry, Cl axton bu sinessmen who finan ced cons tr uction of th e building th at hou ses th e plant.
PLANT ADDS WORKERS
Roberta Mfg. Co ., Roberta, has add ed 50 workers, bringing it s payroll to 200 em ployees. The firm m anufactures child ren's ap pare l.

FURNITURE PLANT SET FOR METTER
A new firm organizcd at M etter, M etter Furnitur e Mfg., Co., Inc., is sche duled to begin produ cti on within a few w eeks ,
Gcorge L an e is a tto rney for th e corpora tion, whi ch wa s formed by a gro up of Candler County citizens and some outsid e inter est s.
Plans a re to bcgin producti on with chairs and sofas in th e med ium price field, but other item s of livin g roo m furn iture will be adde d later.
A leading sales orga niza tion in th e South will handle th e en tire ou tpu t of th e fac to ry .
CAP FIRM EXPANDS
Camp Cap Co., Vill a R ica, ma r ked its tw enty-fifth anniversa ry by purchasing th e Be M el di vision of Camp Hill Industries, Camp Hill, Ala., and moving th e la tt er firm's stock and eq uipme n t to Vill a Ri ca . C amp Cap manufactures milit ary and work caps.

MILLER & MILLER BOX PLANT ADDS ON DEKALB SITE
Mill er & Mill er, Inc., Atl anta box
an d lab el m a nu fa cturer , is building an
$800 ,000 addition a t its plant nea r
St on e M ounta in preparatory to mov-
ing a ll of its facilities to DeKalb
Co un ty.
Thc add ition, to con ta in 61,000
sq u are feet, ad joins an exist ing 18,000
squa re -foo t plant, an d is sche duled to be completed in February. It is of
jumbo bri ck construc tion . Among oth-
er new eq uipme n t, it wi ll hous e a five-
color printing press measu rin g 72 feet
lon g, whi ch cost $375,000.
The pl ant site, on O ld St on e Mt. Rd . at Goldsmith Rd. , conta ins 36 acres . President R . S. Miller said th at six acres will be develop ed in to a recrea tion a rea fo r em ployees with swimming pool, baseb all di am ond, tennis courts and barbecu e pits.
MilicI' & M ilicI' moved from T acoma, W ash., to Atl a nt a in 1938, loca ting a t 136 M arietta St., N.W. All fac ilities of th e firm will be moved to th e Ston e M ountain locati on in F eb r u a ry.
M r. Mill er said th e new plant will require 50 additional worker s, bringing th e firm 's payro ll to 350.

NATION'S FIRST ALL-STEEL-POLE POWER CIRCUIT

The nati on's first all -st eel-po le trans-

mission lin e is under construction bv

Georgia Pow er Co .

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The 36-mile lin e originates a t P lant

Yates, near Newnan, a nd terminates at

M or row , 13 mil es sou th of Atlanta,

tra vers ing Coweta, Cl ayt on a nd Fulton

C o u n t i es.

Use of tubula r steel poles for tran s-

mission lin es h as been avoided in th e

past becau se of th e cost. However ,

lines of 230,000 volts must be set a t a

far greate r height than lin es carryin g

a lower vol tage, and wooden pol es suf-

ficicntly long enough are diffic ult to

obtain . Also, engineers po int out, po le

rep lac ement costs will be lessen ed over

th e years with th e use of steel.

G EO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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NEWSLETTER

Decemb er, 1957

FIRST BIRTHDAY FINDS HERCULES FLYING TO ALL EARTH'S CLIMES

By P ETE ROTON Ed ito r, Lo ckh eed Southern Star
MARIETTA-Monday, D ec. 9, was th e fir st anniversary of th e da y Marietta-built H ercules join ed th e U. S. Air Force.
It wa s truly significa nt to th e Air Force and to Lockheed 's Georgia peopl e alike, because it ma rk ed the da y the Air Force received it s fir st J et Age , ca rgo/ t roop prop-jet transport for op erational use; and th e fir st delivery of H ercul es by th e Georgia Division .
During the past yea r the Air F orce has added m any new recor ds to its impr essive list of accomp lishmen ts as it put H ercul es to work to streng then and exp and its globa l movem ent of troops a nd sup plies.
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HERCULES , even before its fir st birthday in servi ce, has d isch a rged its assignments into th e four winds , with credit to Air Force personnel a nd the peop le of th e Geor gia Di vision .
H ercules headed north and performed magnificently in the frozen Arctic, in weather too cold for a n Eskimo lass to fill her date with it.
Both th e Ski-130 and th e C -130A configura tions returned from th e cold weather tests after establishin g new performance records for th e Air Force.
On Air For ce assignments to th e sou th , H ercul es clip ped 10 hours off th e usual m ilita ry tran spor t fligh t tim e to Pan ama . It flew m aj est icall y over the Andes mountain s on it s Sou th Am eri ca n tou r of nine n ations. In the South Amer ican air sho w in Ar gen tina, H ercules by it s J et Age capabilities com man ded a nd received the p raise of military and air tra nspor ta tion officia ls visiting th e show.
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IN FLIGHTS eas tward, th e Strong man of th e Air Force, H ercul es took th e Atlantic in a skip a nd a jump. I n so doing, it chalked up a new non stop, over water distan ce record of 2,596 m iles in 25 minutes less th an eight hou rs.
H ercules, by its performance in less than a single year, is a familiar name to memb ers of th e NATO countries.
On flights from Paris to North

EVERYWH ERE-Durin~ its fir st year in military service, th e H ercul es, built in Georgia by Ge org ians, cast its swift shad ow on fou r con t ine n ts. It won praise everywhere.

Africa , H er cul es hu stled fr eight over th e Alp s as it cru ised speedily along, high above the weather.
Westw ar d H o! - H ercul es spanned the Pacific from C alifornia to Honolulu , in eigh t a nd one half hours, and landed with 3Y2 tons of fu el to spare. It cru ised th e 2,465 miles a t 25,000 feet carr ying a 15,000-lb. pa yload a t five-m iles-a-minut e speed . It returned to California in only 7 hours and 36 min u tes.
AND SOON HERC ULES will be seen in areas wh er e th e fa r west meets th e fa r east wh en it join s th e P acific Air For ces ea rly next yea r and later when it sta rt s wor k in th e R oyal Australian Air Force.
At home, H er cul es has been undergoin g almost innumerable tests in months of grueling acti vit y, setting new reeords in distance, tonnage of aerial drop s of men , supplies and equipment, and " in -commission" service at Air Force ba ses.
H ercules ha s distinguished itself as a fir st -line troop, cargo, and litter transport, and has taken on addi-

tional duties as a in-flight re-fuelin g tanker for fast flying jet Iighter aircraft, a Ski -130 for use in Arctic climates, and as an aerial map maker known as a See-130.
The C-1 30 " B" ver sion is no w in th e wor ks. And L ockheed has offered airlines a commercial fr eighter H ercul es.
In celebra ting H ercul es' first inserv ice bir thd ay it m ay be well to recall a sta temen t made by an Air For ce official after witnessing drop tests a t Pop e AFB, "H ercules does everyth ing claimed for it."
SYLVANIA BUILDS PECAN PIE PLANT
A 1,750 square-foo t addition to th e T own H ou se R estauran t th at will be used as a p lan t for produ cing T reado's Georgia pecan pies is under const ruction a t Sylva nia.
T he p la nt will con tain a 12 x 16-foot oven, wh ich will be cap able of bak ing 200 pies every for ty minu tes, or abou t 3,000 a day, owne r Charl es Tread o sa id .

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De cember, 1957

RABBIT-BOX RANGER BUILDS BROILE,R PLANT

DAWSON FORESTRY HOME NEW INDUSTRY

F rom building rabbit boxes to erec ting a fores try head qu art er s is a big jump- bu t D awson County Ranger Noa h Cothran m ad e th e hop success fu lly .
If one need s pr oof, he ca n tak e a look at th e unit's bri ght new hom e ou tside D awson ville on H wy. 53.
R an ger Co thran, with help fr om his assista n ts, ran ger s from neighb or units, and local fri ends, h as put th e fin ishing tou ch es on his seven -room off ice-homega ra ge.
"I didn't know whe ther I'd eve r finish it or not," he said. " I'd never bui lt a ny thing bigger th an a rabbit box befor e."
Construction of the headquarter s, begun ea rly in 1956, was stopped entirely several times by fire sea sons and othe r causes, but now it stands virtu all y completed. It cost th e Georgia For est ry Commission only $2,400 for materials, but to R an ger Cothran and
'PANORAMA' TO BRING YOUTH TO CAPITAL CITY

his h elp ers it rep resents several m ash ed thumbs a nd a lot of sweat. It con ta ins th e un it offi ce, a spaciou s storero om,
-Gainesville Daily News photo. DAWSON FORESTRY UNIT
lar ge ga rage and a tw o-bed room ap ar tment.
Land on whi ch th e building was erec ted was donated by For estry Boa rd Chairman Roscoe Tucker, of D aw sonville, and form er D aw son Co un ty Com -
missioner J. C . Slaton con tribu ted th e
gr a d in g. MEIRER CORP. MOVES
M eir er Mfg. Corp., wh ich m anufactures school and institution al furnitu re. has moved fr om its former location at Tucker to a plant at 19 J oh nson St ., Lithoni a. The firm has a payroll of 25 peopl e.

NEAR CLAXTON
H. T . Cavender and W . M . Gartrell have launch ed a n ew br oiler plant near Cl axt on th at h as a capacity of 30,000 bird s.
One of th e Gold L eaf Tobacco Warehouses on Hwy. 30 1 was converte d into a pl ant by dividing it into 10 sections, each cap able of handling 3,000 broiler s.
Plan s now are to ship th e broilers to pa cking pl ants in other section s, bu t the owners said th at if th e venture creates enoug h interest a processing pl ant will be built in Claxton. Ther e are sever al gr owe rs in Evans County, but additi onal producers will be need ed to afford processing fa cilities.
GEORGIA 4TH IN U. S. IN PAPER PRODUCTION
Georgia h as moved into fourth pl ace in th e nation in th e p roduct ion of p ap er and p ap erb oard.
The sta te' s output of 1,840 ,000 tons in 1956 wa s exceede d only by produc tion in New York , Wi sconsin and Louisian a .
The bulk of Georgia's ou tp ut con sisted of paperb oard, whi ch totalled 1,345,310 tons .

An influx of young visitors from Geor gia an d neighboring states is expected in Atl anta during th e com ing Spring.

The attraction is " Atla n ta Pan ora ma"- a new program launch ed by th e Atlanta H ot el Assn., th e Atla n ta and Georgia Chambers of Commer ce, a nd th e Geor gia D ep art ment of Commer ce. A special phase of this p rogram is directed towa rd high schoo l classes whi ch mak e annua l pil gr images to points of interest a pr oject during th e closing months of th eir schoo l term .

Under th e panorama pl an , all members of th e h otel group have devised special minimum room rates for groups of stude n ts an d their teacher s or chap erones, and G ra y Line Sightseein g Tours Co. offers low-price conduc ted tours of th e Capital C ity area' s numerous attractions, shrines an d pl aces of cultural, educational and civic interest.

School tea ch ers and officials m av

obtain informati on abo u t the p ano-

rama from the Atlanta Hotel Assn..

Henry Grady Bldg.

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428 FIRMS RECEIVE SBA AID IN YEAR;
GEORGIANS GET 300;0 OF $18 MILLION

During the last fiscal year, the Atlanta Regional office of the Small Business Administration approved 428 business loans totaling $18 ,066 ,000.
About 125 of these loans, or more than 30 per cent of the regional total, were made to small firms in Georgia, says Regional Direct or James F. Hollingsworth. " But," he added, " we feel that m an v operators of small firm s in Geor gia are still un aw ar e of th e opportunity to get need ed capital th rough SBA." Mr. Hollingsworth exp laine d th at SBA ca n m ak e loans to firms to p rovide op er ating capital or fund s for use in plant exp ansion or the purch ase of need ed equipme n t wh ere term credit is not av ailable through comme rc ial banks or private lending sources. Col lateral and cre di t require me n ts ar e about th e same as th ose required by an y sound banking operation.

In addition to it s loan activity, the Atlanta SBA office assists small firms in th e Southeast in th e p ro curem ent of gove rn me n t contr acts. During the fiscal yea r 1957, m or e th an $30 million was channe led to firms in th e southeas t as part of thi s progr am.
Produ cti on facility records of about 2,500 small firms in th e sou theast ar e maintain ed in th e Atl anta SBA office. This informati on en ables th e age ncy to refer many items of government purch ases to th ese firms for sub mi ssion of bid s. An av era ge of 350 such it ems, with an estim ated value of mo re than $25,000,000 ar e refer red in thi s manner eac h month, Mr. H ollingsworth said . Sm all firms are encouraged to register th eir produc tion facilities with SBA in ord er to take adv antage of this service.
The Atlanta SBA office is located at 90 Fairli e St. , N .W .

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NEWSLETTER

Decemb er, 1957

CHURCH-OWNED FURNITURE FIRM IN BRANCH PLANT AT VALDOSTA

A $ 10 million manufac turing firm th a t is owned by a churc h has located a branch plan t at Valdosta.
Harris Pine M ills, Inc., of Pendelton, O re., which makes furniture, boxes an d other lumber products, is in 27,000 square feet of leased space in a warehouse near the ACL an d Southern Railroads.
The Harris firm is owned by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Officials of the compa ny said that th e V aldo sta installation will be primarily a warehousing oper ati on at first , serving five Southeastern sta tes, but in th e near futur e it is expected to become an assembly po in t for fu rni ture. Employm ent th en is expected to be abou t 60 wor kers.
C . J. Nagele, vice president and gen-
eral manager of th e com pa ny, said H arris Pin e Mills is p robably th e only completely integrated furn itu re manufacturer in the world . The firm own s and operates its own timber tr acts, does all of its logging, hauling and sawmilling, and processes some 40 mi llion feet of lumber annually. V aldosta is the fifth division bran ch th rough whi ch the compa ny distributes its 100-odd differ ent pieces of read y-to-p aint wood furniture. In its entire oper a tions, H arris has mor e than 600 employees, Mr. Nagele said.
Clyde Harris, firm founder, in 1951 gave all of his holdin gs, which amount to con trol, to th e churc h. H e ma de the gift wit h th e stipulation, "The company should be ope rate d as a denominational en terprise, th e profits to be dedi cated to th e ex tension of th e gospe l message proclaiming th e gloriou s second com ing of Christ to ea rth."
The furnitu re pl ant brings th e to tal of new industries located in Valdosta this year to three. The other two are Griffin Lumber Co ., a unique sawmill opera tion, and Carr Consolidated Biscuit Co ., which will emp loy 150 when in operation.
TEXTILE PLANT HIKE
H awk insville division of Opelika Mfg. Co rp. , will insta ll addition al loom s J an . 1 th at will incr ease production by 5,000 pounds of cloth weekl y. The in crease will hi ke the plant's payroll by abou t $ 1,200 per month, offici als say .

WH O'S AFRA I D?-The deer season is going bang!, ba ng ! in the Georgia flatl ands, but Ed Friend, who made this photo, thinks th ese deer had not heard the news. But mak ing their pictu re wasn't simp le-the photographer lay in h iding for hours.

BOAT FACTORY TO START SOON AT NASHVILLE
Larson Boats of Georgia, Inc., new ind ustry at Nashville, is scheduled to start production Feb. 1.
T. C . Perkins, Nashville businessman, is president of th e corporation, which includes 250 Berrien County stockhold ers. The firm is a subsidiar y of a Little 'Falls, Minn., company.
A building formerl y occupied by L-Gee Mfg. Co., a ven et ian blind man ufacturer , will serve as plant for the boat concern.

ABBEVILLE PLANT BUILDS ADDITION
An addition to p rovide 7,500 square feet of work space is under constr uc tion a t Wilcox Garm ent Co ., Abb eville .
Berry Rouse, man ager, said th e cu tting room wou ld be mov ed to th e new ar ea, whi ch will also hous e th e storage and shipping departments . The space now occupied by th e cu tt ing department will be in corporated into th e sewing room .
The plant, manufac tur ing men's sport and dress shirts, now has 130 employees. M r . Rouse said 30 to 60 new work ers will be added wh en the enlargement is completed.

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GEORGI A DEPAR T M ENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

December, 1957

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Social Circle dedi cated its new u . s.
Post Office . . . Co lonial Stores' expanded sup ermarket at Gainesville was open ed . . . Ti ft on Radio Station WWGS incr ea sed broad cast pow er from 250 to 5,000 watts . . . A n avigation sur vey of the F lin t Riv er from Albany to Ba inbridge is planned .
Ro yal Po ultr y Co., Camilla, is adding to its plant . . . An aconda Wire & Cable Co. will break ground in J a nuary for its mi llion -do llar plant at Watkinsville . . T ift County Hatch eries is a new plant at T ift on . . . Upson Co unty H ealth Center a t Thomaston wa s dedi ca ted . . . Pr ot ection P roduct s Mfg. Co., of Ka lam azoo, Mi ch ., is buildin g a branch p lant at Co nyers to manufactur e che mical preser vatives.
U n ited Oi l Corp. has a new $200 ,000 tire a nd applia nce cente r in Co lumbus . . Ground was broken a t Americus for a new $750,000 Sumter Co unty Courthouse . . . Brunswick's Sta te Bank & Trust Co . received its cha rte r . . . W. 1'. M cDaniel, of J esup , is presiden t of th e newly formed Geor gia Pulp & Paper Assn. . . . M organ Drive Away Co ., Elkhart, Ind. , purchased a plant site at Americus.
Co lumbus Bank & Trust Co. is in its new bui lding a t Columbus . . . Camilla dri lled a new cit y waterw ork s well . . . California Spray Chem ical Co ., Tift on , has a new wareho use . . . Alph aretta's new city hall was ded icated . . . Ellijay T elep hon e Co. received a loan of 148,000 to expa nd fa cilities.
Li thonia will erec t 44 housing units . . Bla kely's Bank of Early (County) is expanding . . . A celebr ation at Alpharetta m arked th e 100th anniversar y of old Milto n Co unty, whi ch mer ged with Fulton Co unty in 1932 .
A bu lk milk conde nsing plant to cost half a mi llion dollars is sla ted a t Eatonton . .. Univer sity of Geor gia open ed its new $325,000 Poul tr y Disease R esea rch Center at Athe ns .. . Colquitt REA h as received a loa n of $48 ,000 to exp and s e I' vic e s in Col quitt, T ift , Broo ks, Worth, Low n des, Coo k and Berrien Co unties.
J ohn P. Duncan, jr., of Quit man, was nam ed president of Georgia Farm Bur eau F ed eration to succee d H. L. Win gate, of Pelham . . . D ecatu r is bu ilding a $340,000 recreation center in Scott P ark . . . G eorgia W ann Springs Foundation dedi cated its Polio H a ll of Fame . . . Screven Co unty's new H ealth Center at C lax ton is in opera tion . . . Waynesboro D evelop ment Corp. set a goal of $50,000 to seek new industries for the city . . .

ON THE OCEAN - New motel, called strictly deluxe, which is under const ruction on .~t: Simo ns Island at a co.st o~ $230,000. It will hav e 26 units, all wit h cooking Iaciliti es, plus a snack bar , swunnung poo l and landsca ped r ecreation al area. A. Pierce
Wa de, of G len R id ge, N .J ., is th e own er. It will be called the Sai lfish .

Emory U niversity is add ing a $1,200,000 dormitory for women stude n ts.
St at e Highway D epa rtment h as acquired sites at Gainesv ille and Cartersville on whi ch to erect new divisional headq uarters . . . Trailmobile, In c., has opened a $400 ,000 br an ch in Atla nt a . . . Co-operative Mills , Inc., opened its F lowery Branch mill . . . Seventy hou sing units to cost $780,000 will be bu ilt at M onroe.
O'Nea l Steel Co. is building a big warehouse in Atlanta . . . Augusta's secon d $2,000,000 housing p roj ect for Negr oes is slated . . . At lanta Ga s L ight Co . set a const ruc tion bud get of $9,581,000 for its plants in Georgia . . . Taliaferro Co unty h as a new fir e tower .. . First N ational Bank of Valdosta has remod elled its home . . . Governo r Griffin dedi cated a $375,000 classroom structure a t the State School for th e Deaf at Cave Sp ri ng.
Standard T elephone Co., Cornelia, has insta lled dial system s at new ex -

changes in Cleveland and D emorest . . . L umpkin Co un ty citizens dedica ted a new p ark ato p Crown Mountain at Da hlonega . . . Chevrol et Mo tor Co . will spe nd $10,000,000 on enla rge me n t of it s Atlanta assem bly p lant.
Talbotto n has ac quired a site for a 20-unit housing pr oj ect .. . M ontgom ery -W a rd Co. has esta blishe d southern region al headq uarter s in Atl anta . . . A new libra ry slated at Wrens will cost $25,000 . . . A five-pla ne h an gar is being built at Fitzgerald M uni cipal Airport . . . Southern Bell T elephone Co. is in a new building at Bru nswick . .. Baldwin Co unty Airport at Mi lled geville will cost $ 100,000 . . . C hew Brothers ha ve purch ased th e Crawfordville H ot el and plan extensive remod elling.
Georgia Power Co. will bui ld new substa tions at Fargo and Tarver . . . Atlanta's Georgia Baptist Hospital will add a $500,000 nurses home . . . Northwest Geor gia Exp eriment Station a t Calho un will get a new building .

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NEWSLETTER

M emb er Georgia Press A ssociat ion
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* MARVIN GRIFFIN Go ve r n o r BO ARD OF COMMISSION ER S EMO RY L. BU TLER
Chairman
T . C. BR ANSO N, JR. HOKE P ET ER S BEN J ESSUP
T RAMMELL McINTYRE
* SC OT T CANDLER Se cre t a r y
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Vol. 9, No.3

january, 1958

Leaflet Shows
Georgia Gains
Lead Nation
. Geor gia Department of Commer ce, usin g th e result s of recent Fed er a l surveys, has prep ar ed a handsome new leaflet showing how Geor gia' s progress leads th e nati on in 23 ou t of 28 major fields.
Geor gia' s lead ership is in new plants, fa ctory employees, plant pa yrolls, value of manufact ured good s, per son al and per c a p ita income, lifc insurance, who lesa le an d retail sales, ret ail payro lls, trade emp loyme n t, new business firms, construction value, motor vehicles register ed, telephon es, electric ene rgy , air passenger s a nd air ca rgoes, farm cash, beef cattle, broil ers, hatchery chicks and minerals.
Copi es of th e leafl et a rc ava ila ble at no cha rge a t Geor gia Dep artment of Commer ce, Scott Candler , secre tary, 100 St ate Capitol, Atlanta 3, Geor gia .
COVER PHOTO
R a yonier's " mirror" p I a nt s at J esup a re exact duplicates. The newly com plete d mill is in foreground in this ph oto with t he digester housing at left a nd recovery uni t a t rig ht. The twi n stacks (new one by tank) a re 250 feet high. The origi nal mill was built in 1954; the new one h as ju st gone in to p rodu ct ion. (A n other photo on Page 5 )

GEO RG IA PRO DUCTS- jean Ca rter, Atlan ta redhead who was elected 1958 Mai d of Cotton, waves from the balcony
of her hotel as she ar rives in New York to begin an international tou r as good will and fashio n am bassador of the American cotton industry. H er bou quet is a
bun ch of cotton bolls, and she wears a cotton velvetee n leop ard prin t coa t with hat to match.-Wide World photo

ASPHALT ROOFINCi PLANT LOCATES IN DOUCiLASVILLE
A new industr y, Pied mont Co ., IS erec ting a p lant in Do uglasville and is scheduled to begin th e m anufacture of asp.ha lt roofing products in th e ea rly spn ng .
The pla nt is located adjacen t to th e Cr acker Asph alt Co.'s facilit ies.
L. D. Sherida n, .Jr., vice-pres ide nt of
th e new firm, said th e company will manufac tur e aspha lt shing les and bui lt- . up I' a a fin g materia l for ind ustrial bui ldin gs. M ateri als to be used will include asp ha lt from th e Cracker plan t and stone gra nules fr om North Georgia .
The company's expansion plans ca ll for installa tion of its own felt mill. wh ich will enable it to m an ufac ture from all-Georgia ra w materi als.
Piedmont's off icers include, besides Mr. Sh erid an , D r. C. B. F . Young, pr esident, and Louis C . Trousdale, secre ta ry-t reas ure r. Dr. Youn g is also pr esidcn t of Cracker Asphalt .
Plan s ca ll for em ployme n t of 25 to 30 peopl e for th e initial ope ra tion, whi ch is sla ted to start April 1.
BANK SITE SOLD
S. H . K ress Co. has pu rch ased th e form er First N ational Bank building at Brunswick, and will raz e it to make room for an addition to its store. T he pri ce invo lved in the dea l wa s $80,000 .

RHEIN FURNITURE FACTORY

NEW INDUSTRY AT ALBANY

Rhein Bros., Inc., wit h h ome offices in C hicago, is beginnin g p ro du cti on of a complete line of mattresses , sofa beds, upholstered ch airs and other upholst ered items in a new bran ch plant in Albany .
Irving Rh ein, vice-president of the compa ny a nd gene ra l manager at AIban v, said th e inst allati on sta rted with aho~t 40 wor ker s, male and fem ale.
The p lant is located at 629 Roosevelt Ave.
The compa ny was started in Chicago in 1905 by Jos eph Rhein , father of Irving Rhein and his brother, Symon , who is now president. Its products have been distribut ed primarily

in th e Middle West until th is tim e, but th e expa nding Southern market brou ght th em to Geor gia .
Irving Rhein said Albany wa s selected as a plant site because of its strategic loca tion as a distribution poin t for Geor gia, Alabama and Florida .
" Working closely with th e Chamber of Commer ce, we found her e all of th e necessary facilit ies for goo d bu siness operations," he said. " \Ve found th at th e schoo ls. churches and recr eati onal facilities w~ re ou tsta nding . We found an atmosph er e of fri endliness and a spirit of cooperation . Albany gives us a feeling of solida rity."

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NEWSLETTER

J anuary, 1958

GA. TOPS IN INDUSTRY GROWTH; 1958 SEEN AS RECORD BREAKER

By SCOTT CANDLER Georgia Secreta ry of Commer ce
Ninet een hundr ed fifty- seven was a year of tremendou s indu'strial pr ogress in Georgia .
Nineteen hu ndred fifty - eigh t, all signs indica te, will be a year of even grea te.r advance .
In reviewing the old year on which we are now closing the ledger, we find that Georgia maintained her lead as No. 1 industry-getter of the Southeast.
She added nearly 250 new manufacturing payrolls.
This gain, we have no doubt, will assure our state retaining her position as one of th e two or three top " new industry" states of th e nation. Our new industri es an no unced in 1957 repr esen ted tot al ca pitaliza tion of some $ 135 mi llion. T hey will provide jobs for approximately 10,000 work ers . Their annua l payrolls aggrega te close to $30 m illion. I n addition, during th e yea r, 125 of our larger established industries undertook extensive expansion programs. T heir expenditures for enla rge d pla nt fa cilities and new eq uipmen t add an other $50 million to th e yea r's ca pita l outlay. As a result of expa nsions, it is estim a ted our industrial community adde d a nothe r 8,500 new work er s and increased th e a nnual manufacturing pay ro ll by a nothe r $22 million.
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TAKEN TOGETHER, 1957' s new indust ries established a nd th e expan sion of existing industries, represen t capitaliza tion of close to $L85 million, provi de almost 18,500 new jobs a nd put some $5 2 milli on a year into th e

economy of th e state in th e form of wag es an d salaries.
In connection wi th wag es and salaries, it is int eresting to note that the annual report of the State De partment of Labor shows Georgia's non-farm pa yroll s soared to $3 billion in 1957. This all time recor d was a gain of $ 100 million over the previous year.
Another r ep 0 r t refl ect ing the state's unprecedented progress and prosperity comes from the U . S. Department of Commerce. It shows that at the end of 1957 the banks of Georgia had on deposit approximately $2,286,300,000. This represents an increa se of $ 13.4 million over 1956, th e previou s peak money year, and wa s $584 million more than wa s on deposit at th e close of World War II.
T he U. S. D epartment of Commer ce's At lanta field offic e recently completed an exhaust ive study of the national economic scen e, whi ch shows that Georgia is leadi ng the entire n ation in percen tage gains in 23 out of 28 major phases of activity. Geor gia' s ~e~d ership, the F ed eral age ncy shows , IS in:
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NUMBER OF NEW manufa ct uring pl ants; factor y employme nt , p ayr olls and va lue of manufactured goo ds ; persona l and per cap ita incom e, life insurance in for ce, wh olesale a nd retail sa les, retail payrolls, trad e employmen t, new bu siness fir ms incorpor ated , va lue of new construction, number of motor vehicles, telephon es in opera tion, electri c energy product ion, air passenger s an d air ca rgoes, farm cash income, min er als, beef ca ttle, broilers and

hatch ery chicks. O n th e basis of 1957's recor d, Geor -
gia ns who a re concerned with th e industrial growth of our state have every reason to expec t 1958 to set even higher m a rks of ach ievement.
The Georgia D epartment of Commerce and the va rious industrial promotion factors with wh ich it is closely associated-the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and its 200 local units, th e utilities, banks, railroads, civic gro ups, county and munici pa l ind ustrial development corporation s throughout the state-already hav e definite commitments from several large out-of-state concerns which will establish plants in Georgia ea rly in 1958. These new plants represent capital investment of millions of dollars and will provide hundreds of new jobs.
The Georgia Departmen t of Commerce has on h and more tha n 200 inqu iries from manufact uring conce rn s nor th of the M ason-Dixon line, who exp ress defini te in ten tion of moving so~ t h . M a ny of th ese tell us th ey pr efer Georgia, and it is our hope that we and th e va rious agencies with whom we work will be ab le to influen ce all of them to locate here thi s year.
M anufacturers in other sect ions are prima ril y interested in Geor gia becau se of our lab or a nd our equ itable tax es. Georgia lab or , both skilled and unskilled, has pr oved high ly ada p ta ble to spec ia lized tr aining, and th e word has sp rea d th at her e working men and women a re still willing to give a full d ay' s work for a good d ay' s p ay. Geo rgia's industrial tax structure is th e most favor abl e in th e Southeast a nd one of the best in th e n a tion .

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ST ART ED AT WATKINSVILLE-Architect 's drawing of th e Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. pla nt, whi ch will cost mor e than $ 1 million to complete. Gov. Marvin Griffin and Richard B. St einm etz, Anaconda executive vice-pre sident, recently broke ground for th e insta llation. The plant will be rural O conee County's first m ajor industry.-Drawing courtesy Ath ens Banner-Herald.

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Januar y, 1958

NEW INDUSTRIES HUM IN GEORGIA

Following is a list of new industries announced in 1957.
The list was prepared by the Georgia Department of Commerce with the assistance of utility firms, railroads, banks, city and county officials, and Chambers of Commerce and industrial development corporations throughout the state.
Ad van ce F inishing Co ., D alton, T extile D yein g.
Aeroso l of Georgia, In c., Atl anta, Pressure P ackaging.
Air Co ntro l Products Co ., Atlan ta, Aluminum Awnings, D oors.
Alam o Shir t Co ., Alamo, Shirts. Alban y Lim es t o ne Co., Alb any, L i mest on e. Am erican Bit umals & Asphalt Co ., Bainbridge, Asphalt. American Coach Co., M illedgeville, M obile H omes.

Atl as Mfg. & M achine Wor ks, Atlanta, M ach ine Parts.
Au toma tic Car W ash Equipment Co., Atlant a, Auto L aund ry Equipmen t.
Bad ger M eter M fg. Co., Atla n ta , M et ers.
Bak er Lumber Co ., Coolid ge, Lumber.
Ba rr ett Mfg. Co ., M acon , Pillows. Ba rr y Asphalt Pl ant, M acon, Asphal t. Ba r's P r odu ct s, In c . , Logan ville, C hem ica ls. Bell, G. W. Feed Mill, El bert on , F eed . Bestwa ll Gyp sum Co., Brunswick, Wallb oard , Building Laths. Bishop , W . R . F eed Mill , Locust Grove, 'Feed. Bryson Bros . Co., R aymond , Wood Product s.

R EADY TO GO!-Newly completed hom e of P erry Mf g. Co ., at Perry, a .sewing oper ation th at is gett ing set to begin op erations. The m asonry and steel building contains 46 ,000 square feet, and th e work ar ea is air-conditioned. The plant will start with 75 workers, and th e pa yroll is slated to r ea ch 250 within a few month s. The pl ant was er ect ed by P erry Industrial D evelopment Corp., with a loan of $ 147,000 from th e State Employees' Ret irem ent Sys tem. - photo cour tesy Houston Home Journal

Ame rica n Indust rial Clays, In c.,

Sander sville, K aolin .

Am ericus Conta iner Corp., Amer i-

cus, Meta l a nd Wood Crates.

Anaconda Wi re & C able Co.. W a t-

kinsville, Wi re, Cabl e.

.

An derso n, Newt on & Co. In c., M a-

con, In du strial Chemi cals.

Andy - Craft Products Inc., Alma,

Boats.

Associated Fu r nit u I' e Mfg. Co. ,

Hi ram, Wood F urn iture.

Atlanta Co n ta iner Co rp ., Atlan ta ,

Corrugated Contain ers.

Atla nta Fi ne Co lor Co.. Atla n ta ,

Printing Ink.

.

Atl anta O ak Floorin g Co., Locust

Grove, Wood Products.

Atla n ta Steel Erectors. In c.. Atl anta.

F ab ricat ed Steel.

..

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Atl anta Utility Wor ks, Carter sville,

I ron F ound ry, Machine Shop.

Bur ch T rading Post, Clarkesville, F eed .
Bur el Printing Co. , F ayetteville, Prin tin g.
Cady-Webb Bag Co., Pea rson, T extile Bags .
Cald well Packaging Co. , Atla nta, Cellop ha ne.
Capitol Aluminum Produ cts Co ., Atlan ta, M et al Awn ings.
Carr Con solid at ed Biscuit Co ., Valdost a, Cookies, Crackers.
Ca rt er, L. B., Buf ord, F eed.
Casa M an an a Corp ., W aycr oss, M obile H omes.
C & D Sp ort wea r Co. , Adel, M en' s, Boys' Sh irt s.
Clark Mfg. Co., Lincolnt on , Women's Wool Skirt s.
Cl axt on Mfg. Co., Cl axt on, Ladi es' U nderwea r.

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Clover Mills, Inc., Douglasvill e, Rug Yarn.
Compressed Stee l Co., Augu st a, Steel Produ cts.
Concord Mill s, Cartersvill e, Chenill e Produ cts.
Canwood, In c., Atlanta, Millwork . Contou r R otary M ower, Inc., Alm a, F a rm M achinery. Coo perative Mill s, Gainesville, Feed. Co rdele F eed & F arm Supply Co., Corde le, F eed . Cordel e U nifor m Co., Cordele, Uniforms . Corley M achine W orks, G rovet own, Industrial Ca rt s, Go lf Cart s. Cox V eneer Co., Pom on a, Wood Pr oducts. Crawford Mfg. Co., C I' a w f ord , M en 's T rou ser s. Crown Chemi cal Co., M ountain Vi ew, San it ary Chem icals. Cro wn C henille Mfg. Co., Chat swor th, Chenill e Produ cts. D a c u I a Sportswear Co. , Duluth, Spo rt J acket s. D acul a Spor tswear Co., Chipley, Sport J acket s. D ale & Carter M fg. Co., D awson, Conveying M achinery. Dana Stewart Co., College Pa r k, Leather H ats, Pocketbooks. D an-Howa rd Co ., In c., Alma, M atern ity Garme nts. D elene Li ngerie, In c., Cart ersville, Linger ie. De L ux T ypesett ers, Inc., Atlanta, Typography . D emorest Garmen t Co., Dem orest, Shir ts, Blou ses. Di amond Furniture Co., Swain sboro, Woo d & Upholstered Furniture. D imensional Lu mb er Co., Swainsboro, Furniture F rames . Dixie Di e Co., Atlanta, Stee l Rule Cu tti ng Di es. Di xie Feed & Seed Co., Comer, Feed . Di xie Lil y Milling Co., Tifton, Corn M eal, Grits. Dodson Stone Works, J ackson , Concre te Pr oducts. Douglas Lumber Co., Dou glas, Mf g. L umber. Douglas W oo d Preserving Co., Do ug las, Wood Treating. Dunba r & L ayt on Mining Co., Inc., Lump kin, I ron Ore. Durh a m & T aylor, Alpha retta, Sep tic T anks. Eagle Brid ges P aint Co., M acon, Paint.
(Con tinued on P age 6 )

N~WS LETTER

January, 1958

JESUP PULP PLANT'S NEW TWIN BRINGS RAYONIER JOBS TO 725

R a yonier, Inc., has formally open-

ed its second 100,000 -ton chemical

cellulose and wood pulp plant at

Jesup.

The new mill, smack alongside

the earlier installation which was

placed in production in mid-1954, is

a " mir ror image" of the original

Georgia plant.

T he tw o pl ants ca n wor k in con -

junction with eac h ot her, simulta ne -

ously producin g the same p roduct , or

one unit can be producin g wood pulps

for th e p ap er industry whil e th e other

ma nu factures a specia l new cellulose

for ra yon hi-tenacit y tir e cord.

The two mill s, whi ch form th e .Jesup

division of th e R a yoni er chain, have

a combined annual production capaci-

ty in exce ss of 200,000 tons. T he J esup

install ation's work force now tot als 725

with an annual p ayroll estima ted a t

$4,000,000.

* -If If

R U SSELL F. ERICKSON, R ayonier exec u tive vice -p reside n t, says th e new mill , th e firm's eighth in th e U ni ted St a tes and C an ad a, exp resses R ayoni er's "c onfidence in th e enormous future growth of th e cellulose world ." Its ope ra tion will boost R ayonier's annual p roducti on capacity close to 1,000 ,000 tons.

To supply the two Jesup mills with basi c raw material, nearly 500, 000 cords of southern pine and hardwood will be required annually. Some of this wood is supplied from Rayonier's 700,000 acres of pine plantations in Georgia and Florida. However, a sizeabl e portion is purchased locally from private tree owners. Last year, purchases of wood for just the on e Jesup unit amounted to approximately $6,400,000, most of the wood coming from within a 50-mile radius of th e plant.
T he new m ill, like the first on e, h as unu sual flexibility and bu ilt -in opera tional efficiencies, M r. Erickson explained . It a lso u tili zes "significa n tly new pro cess develop ed by Ra yoni er resea rch and eng inee ring ."
The second pla n t is ph ysically int erconnec ted with th e ori gin al mill in some departments. Steamlines ca n be tied across, for example, as ca n th e wa ter systems.
+~ -:+ ~::.

THE ORIGINAL fi n i sh i n g and

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TWIN KILNS-Her e is a sec tion of Rayonier, Inc.'s Ge org ia divi sion at J esup, where a brand-new ch emical cellulose plant has just been complet ed alongside th e original plant installed in 1954. The two plants ar e exact duplicates in almost every respe ct. In ba ckground of th e photo a sec t ion of the woodyard m ay be seen. The cove r photo on thi s issue of Newsl etter is another scene at Rayonier 's hu ge Georgia installation.

wa reh ousing building has been ex tended rather th an duplicat ing thi s already vas t roo fed area.
The lagoon ing system for handling disposal of was te materials has been en larged. The resulting new sewage system is cap able of h andling 50,000,000 ga llons of water d aily through a split system. One section ha ndl es black liquid was tes and includes a ret ention basin for settling and stor age for up to 90 days. The other section provid es settling capacity for th e 49,000,000 ga llons of wash wat er daily.
The new water supply system pro vide s 24,000 ,000 gallons of water per day, bringing the total daily supply to 48,000,000 gallons.
Incoming wood arrives at the mills 'round-the-clock by both truck and rail. Pulpwood storage is design ed for a maximum inventory of 20,000 cords.
Six new chip silos were bu ilt ad jacent and ident ical to th e ea rlier ones. A new conveyor feed was erec ted which can supply either th e existing or new digesters .
THE BLEACH PLANT is also th e sa me as th at cons tructed for th e first

unit . H owever, addit iona l pulp sto rage tanks h ave been built to provid e more ca pac ity an d bett er blending.
The pulp m achines of th e two mills are iden tical.
T he fini shing building has been greatly extended with additional equ ip ment identica l to th at origin ally inst a lle d.
The power plant has been redesigned and power output boosted with two new generators, each producing 9,375 KVA. These are turbine-driven by stea m gen erated by burning bark and waste liquor, and on occasion heavy fuel oil. All power for the two mills is self-produced.
A new power boil er, having a ca pacity of 200,000 pounds of steam per hour, was installed. It op erates on either oil or bark. An additional reco very boil er , nominally rated at 459 tons of kraft pulp, will also be in stalled.
The stack of th e new mill duplicates its twin ; both are 250 feet tall.
The sta r t-up of th e n ew unit was excep tiona lly good , achieving the p rodu cti on of fir st-grad e pulp imm edi at ely, acco rding to F red B. D oh er ty, resident m anager of th e J esup division .

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GE O RGIA DEPAR T M ENT O F CO MMERC E

NEWSLETTER

J anuar y, 1958

PLANTS,PAYROLLS,PROSPERITY

(Continued from Page 4 ) En glish Bros. Lu mb er Co., Swa insbo ro, M fg. Lu mber. F arm ers Milling Co., O cilla, F eed . Fed eral Pacific Elect ric Co., Cham blee, Pan elboa rd s, Switches, M o t 0 r C o n t r ols. Flint Ri ver M ills, Wh igh am, Gri st, F eed Mill. Gen er al Arma ture Mfg. Co., Deca tu r, Armatures, Genera to rs. Gen eral M edi cal Supply Co. , D eca tur, H yp odermic Syring es. Georgia M ad e Cab inet Co., Vill a Ri ca, Wood Pr odu cts. Georgia R eceptor Co ., Alban y, F abricated M etal Product s. Georgia Window Corp., Atla nta , M et al Product s. Giles & H odges, In c., U na dilla, F eed Mill. Glen co Steel Co., Brun swick, Struc tural Steel F ab ricat or. Go odner Lumber M ill, Don alsonville, Lu mb er. Gordon M ose Lumber Co., Comm er ce, Lumber . Gray Mfg. Co ., Jon esbor o, Truck Bodi es. G reensboro K nitting Mill s, Greensboro, Swea t Shirts.

G riffin Lumber Co .. Valdosta. Wood

Paving Blocks.

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H ab ersham Ga rm en t Co., Cornel ia,

Shirt s, Blouses, Coa ts.

H all M illing Co ., H ahi ra, Feed .

H am Printing Co ., Cordele, P rinting.

H ammond Sheet M et al Wor ks. M a-

con, Sh eet M et al Wor k.

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H arrell Sau sage Co., Bainbr idge,

M eat Pr oducts.

H arris Pin e Mill s. In c.. Vald ost a.

U npa in ted Furniture'"

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H ar ris Print & Sup ply Co ., L aw -

ren ceville, Prin tin g.

Hill's Quality M eat s, In c., Cum-

ming, M eat Packer.

H olloway-Ha yes Lumber Co., Aus-

tell, Lumber, Pl aning Mill.

H owa rd P rodu cts Co ., Atl anta,

'F oam Rubber Produ cts.

Hubbell St eel Co ., M a rietta, Steel P rodu ct s.

Integr at ed Product s, In c., R om e, Ya rn.

Interch emi cal Corp. , Atl anta, Chem ical Produ cts.

International L atex C a I' p ., L aG ra nge, Found ati on Garmen ts.

Iron City Milling Co., Iron City, Feed .

GROWING GIANT-National Container Corp. near Valdosta, one of th e state's big industry that is constantly expanding. Industrial expenditures for enlarging plant facilities and installing new eq uipmen t amounted to som e $50 million in 1957.

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I rwin Packing Co., O cilla, M ea t P r o d u c t s.

J anyjo, Inc., But I e 1' , Chenille Sp r ea d s.
J & N Prin tin g Co., Ced a rt own, Printing.
K ellett & H aselrig, LaF ayette, Sau sage.
K elley Carpet ce., Franklin, Car-
peting .
K & H M fg. ce., Kingsland, Boat
T railers.

King M ach ine Co., D alton , M achin e P a r t s.

Kitch ens & T ondie, Ba inbridge, Printing.
K ocht on Pl ywood & Ven eer Co., Am er icus, Plywood .

La Gran ge T extile Ap ron Co., L aGrange, T extile Apron s.
L am b, C. B. & Sons, M idville, Lu m ber .
L amLite Screen Co., Sm yrna, Alu minu m Doors, Windows.
L angford Ga rment Co., Cra wfor d, A p p a r el.
L ani er Lu mb er Co., W rightsville, Mfg. Lumber.

Lewis Lumber Co ., Cairo, Mfg. L u m b er.
L in colnton Lumber Co., Lin colnton, Mfg. Lumber.

Lindsa y, J oe Co ., Atl anta, Wood

P r o d u ct s.

Litho Print Co .. Atlanta, Lithog-

raphy .

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Logan ville Pants Co., L ogan ville, Trou ser s.
Long, H . V . Ca ndy Co., Ath en s, Candy.
Long, H. C. Furniture Factory, T oomsboro, Wood Furniture.
Lowndes En gin eering Co., In c., V aldosta, Agri culture M achiner y.
Lyn craft Co ., D alton , Chenille Rugs, M ats.
M alco Enterprises. Gloster, M et al Produ cts.
M an ch ester Mfg. Co ., Woodl a nd , Infants' Wood Playp en s.

. M anhattan Shi rt Co ., Ashbu rn , P ajamas .
M ar-Lee Ink, In c., Atlanta, Ink. M a rlette Coach Co., Am ericus, M obile H omes.

M athis Cer ami cs. Warner R obin s.

Potter y.

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M cAfee Ca ndy Co., Franklinton .

Candy.

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M eier Mfg. Co., Lithoni a, Pl astic Fabri cator s.
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NEWSLETTER

.Janu ary, 1958

Marvin Griffin Building, handsome new classroom -auditorium structure at Georgia School for the Deaf at Cav e Spring.

DEAF SCHOOL'S NEW BUILDING HONORS GRIFFIN

Georgia's llO-year-old School for

the Deaf at Cave Spring has a new

classroom-auditorium bui lding that

is the "last word" in design and

equipment.

.

The T -shaped building built of

brick and as nearly fireproof as can

be possible , was constructed and

equipped at a cost of about $375,000.

I t is named the Marvin Griffin

Building in honor of Georgia's Gov-

ernor.

Governor Griffin, making th e dedi-

catory address, said :

" T his honor, above all else, will for-

ever rem ain as th e most cherished

memor y of my service as your Chi ef

Ex ecutive."

The new building has 13 classrooms,

a uditor ium , library, lab orato ry, sound -

pr oof testin g room, conference room

and princip al' s office. It occupies th e

site of th e old Conn er Building, whi ch

was er ected on the campus in 1885

and condemned a few years ago for use

* as a dormitor y. -1( lE-

EACH CLASSROOM in the Griffin Buildin g is equipped with group hearing aid s for use by children wh o ha ve any residu al hearing. The classroom s also are equip ped with fulllength mirrors for use in speech training th rou gh studying lip movements.
Audio-visual venetian blinds on windows and skylights make it possible to darken the classroom for the showing of motion pictures. One large room is equipped as a laboratory for science classes. The testing

HONOREE-Gov. Marvin Griffin, speaker at dedication of the new bui lding at Georgia Schoo l for th e Deaf, at Cave Spring, poses with group of students.

room is equipped with instruments for measuring hearing losses.
A different color scheme is carried out on the walls, chalkboards and furnishings of each room.
T he aud itorium sea ts 526 peopl e. It has a " dro pped" ceiling wi th indirect lighting, stage and moti on picture projection room.

T he libr ary, 24 x 52 feet in size, is adjoined by th e conference room, for use of tea cher s in counseling with student.
An inter-communica tion system connects th e prin cip al's office with all classrooms. An aud io-visual fire warning system of red lights and horn s extend s throughou t th e building.

Georgia Banks Ho/d $2.3 Bi// ions; Deposits Average $618 For Everyone

Georgi ans have more money in th e ban k th an ever before.
On deposit a t th e start of th e yea r wa s a total of approximately $2,286,300,000, an average of $6 18 for every man, wom an and child comprising th e

sta te's civilian population. The total represented an in cr ease
of $13.4 million over 1956, th e previous peak mon ey year, and $584 million more than was on deposit at th e close of World W ar II, says the U. S. Department of Commer ce.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

J anuary, 1958

MORE INDUSTRIES, PROSPERITY

(Continued from Page 6 ) Mil es Fabricating & Machine Shop, H azlehurst, M achin e Shop . M il Wh ite, Bainb rid ge, Full e r s Earth.
M ilam Con crete Products Co., Cornelia, Concret e Products.
Minor Mfg. Co., College Pa rk, Air Conditioning Equipment.
M onarch M fg. Co ., Atlanta, Foo d. M oore Mfg. Co., Adairsville, Chenille Products. Mount Yonah Lumber Co., Cleveland, Lumber. Murdock Pr eserving Co., Atlanta, Food .
Myers, J. C. Mi ll, Lu mber Ci ty,
Wood P roducts. M yLu Carpet Corp., Cartersvi lle,
Carpeting. National Kaolin Co., Wrens, Kaolin. Nixon Supply Co., Atlanta, Printing
Ink. North Foundry Mold Co., Calhoun,
Foundry Molds. Ogeechee H 0 s i e r y Mills, Union
Point, M en's Socks. O 'Neal Ste el Co., Atlanta, Steel Fab-
ri ca t o rs. Paconnee Pr odu cts Co., Cairo, 'Ful-
lers Earth. Palm er & Bonn er Mill , Carrollton,
Fabricated Metal Products. Paschal Corp., J esup , M en's Sport-
wear.
Pasley P I a s ti c s, Atlanta, Plastic Produ cts.
Peach State Awning Co., Fairburn, Awnings.
Peer less Wool en M ills, Tifton, Woo len Fabrics.
Perl Pillow Co., Macon, Foam Rubber Pro du cts.
Perry Mfg. Co., Perry, Ladies' Wear. Pfizer, Charl es & Co., Decatur, Drugs. Ph arr Foods, In c., Atl anta, M eat Pr oducts. Pickle Feed & Seed Co., Conyers, F eed. Piedm ont Co., Douglasville, Asphalt Shingles, Roofing.
Pine Mt. Peach Growers Assn., Woodbury, Peach Pa ckers.
Pittard M achine & Tool Co., Atlanta, M achin ery.
P ol y c o , In c. , M a ri ett a , M olded Pl astics.
Posey-L ynn Co., Atlanta, Tran sport ati on Equipment.
Prager Bru sh Co., Atl anta, Pain t Bru shes.

Printpack, In c., Atl an ta, Cellophane Produ cts.
Product ion En gineering Co., Austell, La wn Fu rniture.
Protect ion Produ cts Co., Con yers, Ch emical Pr eservati ves.
Proxmi re Mfg. Co., Fairburn, T arpaulins.
Pr y Weldin g Corp., Warner Robins, Welding Equipment.
Pu lli Awning Wo rks, Dublin, Metal Awnings.
Quality Concrete Co., Athens, Con crete Blocks.
R abun Products Co., Tiger, Leather Pro ducts.
Rand, A. G. Co., I nc., Hawkinsville, Electrical Products.
R ed Barn Mill , Thomasville, Grain
Mill. R edwood Specialit y Co., Norcross,
Wood Products. R eed Bros. Milling Co., Butler, F eed . R eed Concrete Products Co., Cor-
dele, Con crete Products. R esile Shirts, Inc., J esup , Sport
Shirt s. R estaurant Equipm ent M fg. Co.,
Douglasville, Stainl ess Steel Pr odu cts. Rh ein Bros., In c., Alban y, Furnitu re.
Rhodes, J. M . M ill, .M acon, Wood
P rodu ct s. Ri golit e Industri es, In c., Atl anta,
Wood Products. Robbins Pa cking Co., Statesboro ,
M eat Pa ckers. Ro yal Crown Bottling Co., Bruns-
wick, Soft D rinks. Ro yal Mfg. Co., Sandersville, Shorts,
Shirts. Rutherford Bros. Lumber Co., Clax -
ton, Planing Mi ll. San co Mfg. Co., Atl anta, Auto
Parts. Sanders Paint Co., Tucker, Paint. Sand ersville Builders Supply Co.,
Sandersville, Millwork. Schun Co., In c., Decatur, Sheet
M et al Products. Scott Fa rm Sup ply, Claxt on, Feed . Sheph erd Construction Co., Ston e
Mountain , Asph alt.
Sikes-Clinch M fg. Co., Cl axton, Sawm ill M ach inery.
Smith & Hunt M achine Wor ks, Athens, Knitting Mill M ach inery.
Somers Construct ion Co ., Vidalia, Co ncre te Blocks, Pipe.
Southeastern Coating Co., Atl anta, Met al T reating.
Southeast ern Color plate Co., Atla nta, Printing Plat es.

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Southeas tern Fib er Drum Co., At -

lan ta, Pap er Products.

Sou th eastern M etal Coating Co.,

Conl ey, M et al Coating.

Sou th eastern Pipe Coa tin g Co., Nor-

cross, Pipe Coating.

Southern Construction Co., Bruns-

wick, Asph alt.

South ern J oy Rid es, Con yers,

Amu sement Rid e M achin er y.

Southern Lat ex Co., D alton, Rug

Backin g.

Sou th ern Peanut Storage Co., Dub-

lin, Feed.

Southern Pip e Coating Co., Dor a-

ville, Pip e Coating.

Southern Shell Homes, In c., Syl-

van ia, Pr efabricat ed Homes.

Southern Stat es Grain Processing

Co., Forest Park, Feed .

Southern T oy Co., Con yers, T oys.

Southland Pecan Co., Waycross, Pe-

can Packers.

Smith Op tical Co ., M acon, O pti cal

Laborat ory.

Spalding M fg. Co., Atla nta , W o-

men 's, Ch ild ren 's Sportswear.
Specialty Produ cts ca . : Douglas,

Venetian Blind s.

Sport swea r, I nc., Carnesville, L adies'

Spor twear.

Springfield H e r a I d , Springfield,

Newspape r, Printing.

S & S Prin tin g Co., J onesboro, Print-

ing.

Standard Cap & Seal Co., Ch am-

blee, Bottle Caps.

Stand ard Contain er Corp., Homer-

ville, M etal Containers .

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St an ley Products, Inc., Bremen , Fab-

ricat ed M etal Products .

Ste e-Wall Co., Thomson, Sportwear.

Stockton I ron Works, Atlanta, Steel

Fab ricat ion .

Szekely, O . E. Associat es, Maysville,

Elect roni cs.

T allap oosa B e a co n, T allapoosa,

Newspape r, Printing.

T echsteel, Inc., Atl anta, Steel 'Fabri-

ca tor.

Terrell Gr ain & Eleva tor Co., Daw-

son, Feed.

Trailmobil e Co., Atla nta , Truck

T r a i lers .

Vamco C h e m i c a I Co., Atl anta, Ch em ica ls.

Vida lia Garment Co., V idalia, Appa rel .

Wager Sept ic Tank Co., R oswell, Septic T an ks.

Walk er Feed Mi ll, Blackshear, Feed .

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NEWSLETTER

J anuar y, 1958

NEW $7 MILLION GYPSUM PLANT

TO EMPLOY 250 AT BRUNSWICK

Approval of a port-improvement bond issue has assured Brunswick a huge new industry.
Bestwall Gypsum Co. , of Ardmore, Pa., chose Brunswick as site for a $7 million plant, on condition that dock facilities be enlarged and improved. Brunswick and Gl ynn County voters trooped to the polls and approved th e neces sary monies---$2 million-by a whopping majority.
The im p roved wharfi ng facilities will be leased to t he gypsum company .
The site of th e new pla n t will be a 30-acre tract bein g purch ased from th e Bru nswick Port Au thority . The prop er ty adjoins th at on wh ich th e bond commission will bu ild a 500-foot dock and ca rgo h andling fa cilities for Bestwa ll.
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THE NEW PLANT, which will make wa llboard, p laster and gypsum lath, will emp loy 250 work ers. It is sla ted to be completed by late 1959.
The plant will req uire ab out 300,000 tons of imported gypsum rock annually. The ships bringing thi s cargo will be larger than any that have ever used the Brunswick port, 15,000 to 20,000-ton capacity.
Best wall , third largest gypsum producer in the world, is a spin -off

corporation from Certain-teed Products Corp., which already has a plant at Savannah. The management of both are the same and there are some common stockh olders, but in 1956 Bestwall became a sep arate entity.

T he comp any dr aws it s gypsu m rock from a 100 mi llion -ton deposit in Nova Scot ia .
The Bru nswick p lan t is to turn ou t 250 milli on square feet of gypsum boa rd p rodu cts a yea r. R ock and p aper a re th e basi c ingr edi ents.

5 Million Syringes A Month Goal Of New DeKalb Plant

General M ed ical Supply Corp., a newly organized firm, h as begun operation at 5346 Covingt on Hwy., D ecatur, pro ducing calibrated syrin ges ma de of pl astic m at erials and sta in less steel.
W orking 60 peop le on two sh ifts at pres ent, the pl an t is alr eady expand ing and plan s to in crease its employme nt to 110. A payroll of $250,000 an nu ally is predi cted by Will iam E . H oge, pr esident.
"We are now making more th an 3,000,000 syringes eac h month, and will in crease p roduction to 5,000,000 by Apr. 1," M r. H oge said .

T h e firm was featured re cen tly In Business W eek M agazine.
T he plastic syr ing es, which ca n be sold cheape r th an glass products, m ay be sterilized an d th e needl e sh arpened . The cost to hospit als is abou t 15 cents each, th e produ ct ret aili ng for 25 cen t s.
T he firm's fa cilities a re loca ted in a .buildin g of 7,500 squ are feet and include pr ecision m ach inery and h igh pressure ster ilizing un its.
O ther officers of th e com pa ny ar e M orris Br an do n, vice-pre side n t, an d M iklos Spe rling, secreta ry- treasurer.

PLANT DOUBLING AT HAZLEHU,RST
Ero Mfg. Co. is comp leting a new bu ilding at it s pl ant in H azlehurst, a nd will p ractically dou ble both its work force an d produ ction ou tp ut.
T he pla n t is a bran ch of a C hicagobas ed firm whi ch owns and operates six plants fr om coast to coast. Ero is one of th e natio n's largest manufactu rers of au tomobile sea t covers and other ca r ac cessories.
T he new facility, rep resenting an investme n t of more th an $500,000 in constr uc tion a nd equ ipment, will provide 50,000 additional squa re feet of wor k and wareh ou se space, H oward F. Leopold, company president said.
The H azlehurst pl ant produces ab out 25 percent of Ero's seat covers.

NOEL TIME-Day shift employees at Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Georgia Di vision at Marietta, as they assembled to sin g carols and hear a Christmas message from their boss, Vic e-President Carl Kotchain. Night work ers held a similar party.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Janu ary, 1958

SOUTH'S WORK STOPPAGE LESS THAN NATIONAL RATE

Only about 3 per cent of the 4.7 million indus trial workers in the Southeast wer e involved in work stop pages last year.
This was 1 per cent lower than the nation al av erage, 2 p er cen t less than in th e Middle Atlantic ar ea , 3 per
NEW FEED MILL IN GAINESVILLE
North Georgia's newest poultry feed suppleme nt pl ant is hu mming a t Gain esville.
Consolid ated Pro ducts, a division of National Dairy Products Corp. , has opened it s mod ern corn - p lus - m ilk blending plant in whi ch two men, at push-button controls, can turn out six tons of feed per hour.
The mi ll also includes a grain elevat?: .of 3,900-bushel capacity, sto rage faciliti es for 10,000 gallons of milk byproducts, and 1,800 square feet of warehouse space.
T he new p lant repl aces Consolidated ~acilities whi ch have been in ope ra tion In the Hall County cit y since 1945, Manager H . L. Coker said.
BOVVATERS PULP YARD OPENS AT JACKSON
J ackson h as added another new in dustry with th e op ening of a pulpwood yard that will spend about $ 1 000 a d ay for its timber pu rch ases. '
L oca ted by Hiwassee L and Co., for estry organization of Bowatcrs Southern Pa per Co ., of Calhoun, T enn., the ya rd is handling pulpwood for the firm's newsprint output.
Wi lliam Moorad.ian, who is in
charge, said th e yard will provid e employm ent for about 100 men.
NEW AMERICUS FIRM
K ochton Plywood & V en eer Co., of Chi cago, ?n e of th e nation's lar gest plywood firm s, has op en ed a plant in Am eri cus to serv e its Southeastern territory. The firm will also furnish plywood for M arlette Coa ch Co., manufa cturers of mobile homes, which recently beg an op eration in Americus.

cen t less than in th e East North Central section, and 1 per cen t lower th an th e Mountain region. It was th e sam e as th e rate in New England a nd 1 per cent more than on th e Pa cific coas t.
Of 376 stoppages in th e Southeast, Georgia had 40 effecting some 13,000 worke rs. I n th e ar ea's other sta tes th e score wa s: Alabama 101 stoppages idling 63,000 ; Fl orid a, 68 a nd 12,000 ; M ississippi 20 and 6,000 ; North Carolina, 22 and 10,000 ; South Carolina, 12 and 5,000 ; T ennessee, 111 and 33,000 .
LOCKHEED SECURES $100 MILLION JOB
Lockh eed 's Georgia Di vision has been awa rded a $ 100 million contrac t to produce 53 multi-p urpose " B" model H er cu les combat tran sports for th e Air For ce.
Ca rl K ot ch ian , Lockh eed vice-p resident and gene ra l man ager of th e M ari etta facilit y, said the initial allo cation is $22 million.
BILLIONTH PINE PLANTING MARKS GEORGIA'S LEAD
The nation's billionth pin e seedling is growing in Georgia as a symbol of th e sta te' s lead ersh ip in reforestation.
The seedling, a Georgia-grown loblolly, was deli ver ed by helicopter by " Smoky th e Bear" and pla nted at the Geor gia Forestry Ce nter near Macon b y Gov. Marvin Griffin and Jody Sh attuck, 1957 " M iss Georgia ."
The U . S. Forest Servi ce selected Georgi a to plant the billion th seedling beca use thi s state has p lanted more tr ees-a total of 750,090 acres-th an a ny othe r.
Geor gia 's record last yea r was 750,000 a cres p lanted . . She also produced 175,000,000 seedlings.
SCHERING BRANCH
Schering Corp., Bloom field, N. J.
ph armaceutica l firm, has op en ed a bran ch d ist ribution cen ter in a 12,000 squa re-foot structure at 3467 Pierce Dr. , Chamblee.

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CALHOUN GETS MOLD PLANT
A new industry, North Foundry M old Co., is slated for Calhoun.
John North, of Atl anta, said the company is constructing a bui lding a nd furn aces for the manufacture of silica sand molds.
The fac ility, consisting of two furnaces a nd two sand cr ushing m achines, is located on a tw o-acr e p lot north of M cD aniel St ati on on th e L. & N . Railro ad.
The mold s to be fab ricated will be for all typ es of met al castings.
The firm plans to ope ra te around th e clock, working four or five men per shift in the beginning.
NEW TECH BUILDING
Con struction has sta r ted on a $1,749,000 classroom a t Georgia T ech, which is schedu led for completio n in June, 1959. The three- a nd four- story structure, of conc re te a nd brick veneer , will have 141,700 squa re feet of floor area. It will conta in 68 classrooms , th ree conference rooms and 134 offices for th e psychol ogy, social sciences, mod ern la ngu ages, English and mathem ati cs dep artments.
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KINGSLAND MOTEL
M aj esti c Oaks, a 15-unit ultramodern mo tel, has been opened at Kingsland by owners O. P. Middleton, Sr. and O . P. Middleton, Jr.
NEW INDUSTRIES
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Wallis Sup p l y Co ., Dawsonvi lle, Con crete Products.
W alton Pants Mfg. Co. , Loganville, T r o u sers .
Ware Aluminum Window Corp., De" catu r, Aluminum Pro ducts.
'Wascom Box & Crate Co ., Wrens, Wood P rodu cts.
Weav er Milling Co., O cilla, F eed .
West Ch emi cal Co ., Atlanta, Chemi cal Products.
Weston & Brooker Co ., Macon , Aggrega tes .
Whitehurst Ca sket Co ., J effersonville, Coff ins.
Woodlin M etal Co., Am eri cus, Mobile H om e Components.
Woodman Packaging Machinery Co., Lithonia, Packaging Machiner y.

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January, 19~8

FEDERAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC CO.

BUILDS $500,000 DEKALB UNIT

Federal Pacific Electric Co. has
begun construction of a $500,000 manufacturing plant at 5745 Peachtree Industrial Blvd ., Chamblee.
The installation will be the com-
pany's first complete manufacturing facility in the Southeast.
L ocated on a lO-acr e site, th e plant will hav e 45,000 squa re feet of floor
spa ce, .of whi ch 30,000 squa re feet will be devot ed to th e produ cti on a rea . Plan s a lso ca ll for a warehou se and
offices to house th e firm 's Southeastern
sales region, now located in Atl anta.
The pl ant will fabricate a nd assem-
ble panelboards, swit chboa rds, mot or con trol cen ters and special enclosure s. I t is scheduled to begin oper a tions in
Ap ril, 1958.
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FEDERAL BACIFIC, wit h head-
q uarter s in N ewark, N. J., alrea dy
mai nta ins pl ants in Sa n F ran eisco, Santa Cl ar a, Cleveland, St. L oui s, D allas, Scr anton, Irwin , Pa. , Bethleh em , Pa . and Lon g Island City, N . Y.
" We see th e new installation as providing better serv ice for th e area and helping it me et it s rapidly incr easing electrica l requirem ents," said T. M . Col e, execu tive vice-presid ent.
He poi nted out that t he industrial expansion predicted for the Southeast in the next 10 years calls for an 84 per cent increase in electrical generating capacity. This, he esti mated, is 10 per cent hig her than expansion forecast for the nation as a whole.
" Federal Pacific intends to become a good citizen of the South and a partner to its economic growth," Mr. Cole said.
H e called a tt en tion to th e company's basic poli cy of purch asing locall y, wherev er possible, m achiner y, ma terials, equipme nt, tool s and lab or skills.
M an ager of th e new plant will be S. T . Stendera, native Atlantian a nd ~rad ua te of G eorgia T ech. W. L. Sullivan will be regional sales manager , and D. P. Lacock will manage apparatus sales to uti liti es.

RISING IN DEKALB-Architect's sketch of Federal Pacific's new plant rising' on P eachtree Industrial Blvd. A lO-acre site allows amp le room for expansion.

SPATOLA FOOTWEAR PLANT DOUBLING AT WAYCROSS

S. C . Sp atola F oot wea r Co., division of th e Pier ce Sho e Mfg. Co. is doubling th e size of its Wa ycross plant.
Richard D . Germano, partner in th e firm , said 25,000 sq uare fe.et of floor
GEORGIA POWER 1958 EXPANSIO,N AT $58 MILLION
Georgia Power Co . will spe nd $58,800,000 on expansion s in 1958.
The const ru ction budget , lar gest in th e company's histor y, compa res with abou t $52 million spent in 1957, presi-
dent J. J. M cD onough said .
Am on g th e larger item s in th e construction budget are:
Completion of a 125,000-kilowa tt stea m-electric un it a t Plant Yates; continuation of wo r k a t Ol iver Dam, 60,000 -kilowatt hydroelectric plant ; con tinu ation of work on a 75,000-kilowatt steam-electric unit at Plant M eM anus.
Nearly 900 miles of new transmission and dist ribution lines will be built.

space is being adde d to th e present str uc tu re on Bruncl St.
H e said 100 new worker s will be employed as soon as th e constr uc tion is completed a nd new equipment installed . Pr esent emp loyment is about 200.
E. J. Ungar and Jo e S. Spatola ar e
partners with Mr. Germano in th e firm , whi ch operates factori es a t Waycross and Blackshear.
Mr . Spatola , who acts as plant manag er , said th e construction will cost approximately $125 ,000 . It is slated for comp letion by May 1 with mach inery to be installed soon th er eafter.
STATE PAYROLLS REACH RECORD THREE BILLION
Georgia payroll s soared to a new high of $3 billion in 1957, State L abo r Commission er Ben T. Huiet rep orted.
The 1957 figure was a ga in of $100 million over 1956.
Average weekly wage of production worker s ro se $2.50 to $59.67 and hourly pa y gained nin e cents to $1.53, th e labor ch ief said.

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Janua ry, 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Tufted M an uf actu rers Assn. will ope n its new head qu a rt ers building in Dalton on M a rch 14 . . . T a llapoosa 's new lO-room hosp ital is in ope ra tio n . . . Augusta Mill Su p ply Co. a nno unces a $ 160,000 ex pa nsion . . . Pet M ilk Co ., Wash ington, will double ca paci ty this yea r.
Moultrie H ousing Aut horitv plan s 6~ ad di tio na l unit.s . . . La G range El ks will r emodel their lodge hom e dam -
aged by ~ire . . . Lud~wi ei 's Exch ange
Ban k IS 111 a new b uild ing . . . F red Lamb was named citv ma nager of ~arte.rsville .. ' .D r. R ob ert P. Cogg ms IS const ru cu ng a doctor's office bu i l~ ing opposite K enneston e H ospital , Manetta . . . H ab ersh am R EA received a $500 ,000 loan for exp ansion .
Sta ndard T eleph on e Co., Cornelia , ?as comp leted new rura l line p roj ect s III Ban ks an d H abersham Co unties whi ch bring service to 350 new subscribe rs . . . Wor k is under way on the $3,750,000 R obert M . Hit ch V illage hou sing proj ect a t Savannah . . . Cobb Co un ty W a ter Authority is insta lling a 16,000 ,000 -ga llon pump . . . M a rks O xygen Co. , Augusta, has begun construc tion of its new p lant . True tt Lom a x is new m a nager of Mo ult rie Chamber of Commer ce.
Pru dential I nsura nce Co . is erec ting an offi ce bu ildi ng in A tlanta's Bu ckhead section . . . Kimball's D airy of Fitzg erald, has acq uired C lough D ;i ry. Dougl as . . . Loan s of $500 000 for Am ica lola RE A, Jasper, and $450 000 for M idd le G eorg ia REA, V ienna , have been ap pro ved . . . Lawrenc eville has ac qu ire d a lo t fo r a new city ha ll . . . Ga inesville's Fi rst Savings & L oa n Assn . is in a new build ing.
Alm ar M fg. Co., Washing to n, has expa nsion p lans . . . Bids on ~ $4,500 ,000 p roj ect to widen a nd deep en the Sa va nn a h R iver between Sava nnah a nd Aug usta will be o pene d April 3 . . Clay ton Co un ty's new H ealth Ce n ter a t J on esboro is op en . . . Summe rv ille T eleph one Co. has a new build ing .
H ousing proj ects in P ea rson and W illacooc hee are nea ring com pletion . . Two dormitories to hou se 1,000 stude n ts are sched u led for th e Univer -
sity of Georgia a t At hens . . . J. E .
H an ger, I nc., A tlanta m an uf acturer of ar tificia l limbs, is bu ilding a new p la nt .. C risp Co unty Power Co. is in a new offi ce buildi ng a t Cordele . . . H ea rd . C 0 u n t y M emorial H osp ital , Fr an klm , has opened a n a dd ition . . . W oodbine ob ta ined gov ern ment approva l of a $ 140,000 loan for wa ter-

" D IS C O VERED"-Cochra n F a I I s in C hattahoo chee Na tiona l Forest , 18 mil es from D ahlon ega, was vir tually unkn own to th e outside world un til recently wh en Mr. and Mrs. H ugh Moore, who operat e the Ch erok ee M ot el at Dahlonega, began orga nizing trips for th eir guests. T he falls ha s a d rop of abo ut 80 feet , th en cascades down th e m ou nta in for anot her 650 feet. Fo rest r ange rs say it is even a bi t h igh er th an Am ica lola Falls, anothe r D awson C ounty att rac tion .
work s imp rovemen ts . . . Atl a nt a is insta lling a $5,000 ,000 wa ter-t re a tm ent a nd pu m ping sta tion.
Cha tha m County M emoria l H ospita l, Sa vannah, wi ll ex pa nd to the
tune of $ 1,250,000 . . . A Big Apple su pe rma r ket ha s opened in R om e .. . D ahlonega pla ns 30 hou sing uni ts . . . Governor Griffin dedi cat ed Screven Coun ty's H ea lth Center a t Sylvania . . . Powder Springs vot ers a pproved bonds for a $32,000 recreat ion cente r . . . Macon's new Breezv Hills fir e dep ar tm ent su bsta tion is ope ra ting .
Two hou sing project s a re underwa y in T ifto n .. . Nash ville-Berrien Co un -

ty Chamber of Commer ce has a new hom e a t Nashville . . . Macon YMCA will ge t an a dd ition cost in z $500000 .. M Iidd ie Geo rgia L ives"t'ock Fe, st ival will be held a t Dublin in Ap ril .. . A hou sing project has heen a pp rove d for Crawfordville.
' Va ter a nd sewer improvem en ts a t M illed gev ille will cost $ 727,000 . . . M eriwet he r Co un ty M em or ial H ospital at Warm Spring s was dedi ca ted .
Gordon 'Foods' new $3,000,000 plan t near At lanta is nearing completion . . . Fort. V alley has nam ed a hou sing authon ty .. . E ro Mfg. Co., H a zlehurst , is ad d ing a bu ild ing . . . Cochran's new wat er filtration plan t is completed .. A R a ndolph County office building will be erected in Cuthb er t .. . Co lum bus Ba n k & Trus t Co. has open ed its new five-stor y bu ild ing, com plet ed a t a cost of $ 1,250,000.
Ea ton ton H ot el, ren ovated a nd re decor at ed, has reop ened . .. R oy M ar-
tin , .Jr., is new presid ent of Co lumbus
C hamber of Commerce . : . Li fe of Geor gia I ns. Co. is in its flew d istrict office build ing a t T hom asville . . . W ayne Co unt y H ospital, a Hill-Bur ton fa cility, is under cons t ruct ion in J esup . . K ennestone H ospita l, Marietta, is ad d ing a four-stor y a n nex.

CiOODRICH BUYS SITE AT AUCiUSTA

B. F . Goodrich Co., has purch a sed

a p pro ximately 274 ac res of land in

R ich mond County nea r Au gu sta for

po ssible fu ture development.

An no uncement of t h e purch ase,

ma de by Au gu sta 's Com mi tt ee of 100.

industri a l development g ro u p, d id not

locate the tr a ct or di sclose anv p lans

for its use.

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ATLANTA 3 , GEORGIA
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The Univera1.ty of Geor gia Athens. Ga.

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M I G H TY MO NOLITH-Her e's S tone M ountain, Geo rg ia's newly aut hor ized state pa rk, as it appears from the sky, sprawling in all its pondero us beauty against th e wood ed landscap e of D cK alb C oun ty . The big roc k is 686 feet hi gh , two m iles lon g and h as a circ umfere nce of more th an seven mil es a t the base. In th is view, th e unfinished C onfede ra te M em orial , whic h will be pushed to complet ion as the corners to ne of th e new park , is at upper left (a dri ve-out from th e road ma kes an arr ow th er e ). The white lin es running up the m ountain from the base at lower right are tr ails wo rn deep by gene rat ions of hik ers and picn icker s. H wy, 78, whi ch
will be rerouted around th e park, snakes upw ard across th e picture. The ambitious park program includes ad ministr ation building, mu seum, fishing and boating lak es, recr eation areas, r estaurant, riding and hiking facilities for Geor gians and tourists alik e.

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February, 1958

FIRST DESIGN-Gutzon Borg lum 's model for the Confederate M emorial is superimposed on th e face of Stone Mountain in this composite photo. The man in for eground is Borglum himself.

SECOND DESIGN-Augustus Lukeman's carving was much stif fer in concept. This is the figure now on mountain.-photos courtesy State Department of Mines, Mining & Geology.

STONE MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL TO SYMBOLIZE SOUTH'S IDEALS

The State of Georgia has been a u thorized by legisla tive act to acquire Ston e Mountain , and Governor Griffin is now bu sy with plans to develop the huge granite dome and a wide area adjoining it into a state park.
First on the Governor's agenda is completion of th e memorial honoring the Southern Confederacy. T his tribute, deeply carved in the gray stone of th e monolith, has been a cherished dr eam of Georgians and Southe rn ers for half a century.
" Suc h a memorial," th e Govern or said, " will be of everlasting benefi t to th e present gene ra tion an d all fu ture citizens of thi s state and the Southland. Now, whe n attemp ts arc being m ad e to destroy our very way of life, it will serve as a rallying p oint for all of us who believe in pr eserving th e ideals for wh ich our forefathe rs fou ght."
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THE MOUNTAIN, lyin g in D eKalb Co un ty ncar the Gwinnett County line, 16 miles east of dow n town Atlanta, is th e la rgest exposed block of gra n ite in North America . Georgia ns proudly po in t to it as the Eighth Wonder of th e Worl d .
T he mountain rises 686 feet above

the plain on whi ch it sta nds , is abou t two miles long, and h as a circum ference of more th an seven mi les a t th e base. Th e mass appearing a bove ground is estim ated to weigh one and one-ha lf bill ion ton s. Bald excep t for fri ng es of stunted pin es, th e smoo th surface of th e gr ea t rock is given a gree nish cast in spo ts by a profuse growth of moss and lichen; elsewhe re , it is streaked and stai ned fr om iron oxide carr ied down by rain water from the top .
Plants th a t grow nowh ere else in the world ar c native to the mountain . T races of most of the kno wn min er als, including gold and uranium , are found in it .
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LONG BEFORE Europ ean s came to Am erica the Indian s used th e mounta in as a lookou t post and signal sta tion, and a peopl e believed to an tedate the red men are credited with building a fortif ication th at for merl y guarded the slope s. In 1790 when Alexand er M cGilli vray, the h alf-b reed Creek chief, set out to conclude a treaty with Pre sident Washingt on in New York, he counselled with his tr ibal lead ers a t Ston e M oun tain .
By 1825 a colony of whites ha d

settled at the ba se of the mountain, which at that time was the northern terminal of a stagecoach line running from the coast. Later, a hotel was built and the village became a popular su mmer resort. An enterprising citizen named Cloud bui lt a wooden tower 165 feet tall on the mo untaintop; he is reputed to have done a thriving bus iness with the tourists of the day, un til a windstorm blew h is tower away. T he present town of Stone Mountain antedates Atlanta by many years.
Vari ous owners held th e moun tain, or parts of it , until abou t 1880, whe n th e late Sa mu el H oyt Ven erable ac quired th e ent ire prop erty. His interests qu arried th e gra ni te for m an y yea rs.
In 1915, M rs. H elen Plan e, president of th e United D au ghter s of th e Conf eder acy, conceived th e idea of ca rving a liken ess of R obert E. Lee on th e mountain. Gutzon Borglum, in ternati onally renow ned scu lptor, was consulted . H e suggested instead a cav val cad e of equestrian figures rep re sen ting a dozen or so of th e Confederacy's most famous lead ers - to be "c arved " on th e sca rp with dynamite !
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NEWSLET T ER

February, 1958

NEWSLETTER

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Vol. 9, No. 4

February, 1958

CHEMICAL FIRMS SET $14 MILLION GEORGIA GOAL
The che mical industry will invest some $1 7 million for new faci lities in Georgia du ring 1958 and 1959.
T he Manufacturing Chemists' Assn., projecting its program for th e two year period, announced from Washington that $2,054 ,000 ,000 will be spent for domestic cons truction of new chem ica l produc tion faci lities.
Georgia's share of thi s amount , a bout $17 million, represents five p roj ects in four communities in th e state, the associa tion said. T he projects were not identified .

Vestal to Rebuild Burned Out Plant
Vestal Lu mber Co.'s pl ant at Sardis, demo lished by a $500,000 fire , will rebuild, Pa rk G. Vestal, president said .
T he blaze, destroyed th e 15,000square-foot p lan t bu ilding, in cluding equip ment. H owever, 5,000 ,000 boa rd feet of lumb er stored on the yard escaped damage.
The mill employs some 140 workers.

COVER PHOTO
Carolyn Carter , well known Atlan ta photographer , presen ts t hi s v ie w of Stone Mountain, as seen fr om H wy. 78.

GE ORGIA-NO T M ARS-Her e's an arc hitect's drawing of the unique outd oor dining pavilion being added at Ida Cas on Ca llaway Ga rdens. It will be com plete d M ay I.
Callaway Gardens Building Unique Outdoor Pavilion

A huge ou td oor dining pavilion

ca lled on e of th e most unusual struc -

tures of its kind in th e world , is under

construc tion at Id a Cason Call aw ay

Gardens, ncar Chipley.

.

The structure, composed of 19 steel a nd con crete " mushrooms" whi ch tower 20 feet in th e air, will provide d ining spa ce of 1,000 p ersons , protected from sun and rain . The pavilion will con tain 25,000 squa re feet .

Design ed by Ri chard Aeck, At lanta a rchitec t, th e pavilion is bein g installed a t th e north end of R obin Lake in th e a re a linking th e cast and west bea ch es. Co st is expec ted to be approxima tely $100,000 .

Howard H . Callaway, exec u tive di-

NEW FIRM TO MAKE TWO ITEMS AT TIFTON
A new industry at Tifton, Tift Mfg. Co. , is schedu led to begin producti on soon of two wid ely diversified product s.
John R . Gu est, pr esident, said th e comp any would bui ld a rocket rid e for childre n a nd a new-t yp e hydraul ic pr ess.
The pr ess, he said, is designed for bali ng ligh t me ta ls, cotton, rags , and ot her ligh t materials. The rid e is a rocket device sim ilar to a merry-goround.

MciNTYRE ELECTED
Trammell McIntyr e, Atl anta, m ember of th e Geor gia Commer ce Commission. has been elected exec u tive vice-president of Gu aranty Title Ins. Co. , At lanta.

rector of th e garde ns, said th e unique struc ture is scheduled to be completed bv M av 1. Beer s Con stru ction Co.. At lanta, is th e con tractor.
GEORGIA STATE PLANNING UNIT AIDING TOW,NS
The Georgia State Planning Com mission , an adj unct of th e Georgia D epartment of Commer ce, has launched its pr ogr am of assisting sma ller cities of th e state in planning t heir growth and eliminating slum s.
Federa l funds up to 50 per cent ar c ava ilab le to cities of under 25,000 population whi ch qu alif y for planning.
Commer ce Secret ar v Scott Candler sa id 20 cities have e~ t e red th e pro gram to dat e.
Cities may ob ta in details of th e program fro m Secret ar y Candler , 100 State Capitol, At lanta.
WOODWORK FIRM CHOOSES DAWSON
A new industry employing 30 to 40 work er s will soon be op er ating in Dawson .
Geor ge Robinette, of Sh ellm an , has obta ined a site off th e Columbus Hwv. a nd is sta rti ng construction of a p lant.
I-Ie said th e fac ility would eng age in woodwork .

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(Continued from Page 3 )
THE IDEA of the giga ntic memori al swep t th e coun tr y like wildfire, not only th e sta tes of th e old Co nfederacy hut sections whi ch had been most hostile to th e South. A Stone Mountai n M onu mental Assn . was orga nized, th e Ven er abl e family deede d th e northeastern side of th e mo untain for th e work, an d th e det ails of orga n ization and fund- raising go t underw ay.
The carving was interrupted by World War I, but on Jan. 19, 1924, Borglum's head of General Le e was complete. Its dedication, a gala and patriotic affair attended by representatives from every part of th e nation, spa rked th e sale of Stone Mountain half dollars. These com memorative coins, the fed eral government's contribution to th e project, were sold at a premium for th e ben efit of t he memorial.
In 1925 dissention over Borglum's progress sp lit th e gro up backing th e memorial, and th e scu lp tor qui t. In a hu ff, he wrecked his sup erb m odels whic h represented a fortune in effort an d cost, a nd fled th e sta te.
ANOTHER SC ULPTOR, Aug ustus Lu kem an , was em ployed . H e submitted an en tirely diff erent design for th e memorial, blasted Bor glu m's work off the mountain side, and sta rted from scratch. Lukem an's study of Lee's head was un veiled in 1928, but by thi s tim e th e memorial associa tion was p ennil ess.
F ro m 1929 to th e present tim e various p la ns for com p leting th e mem orial were sugges ted . T he city of Atl anta considered under writing th e job, WPA assis ta nce was so ug h t , th e Ston e M ountain P ark Authority was formed to ap ply for a federal loan . All th ese efforts ca me to noug ht.
In 1956 a citi zens group acquired portions of the mountain property, but was unable to finance its development. Go vernor Griffin then appealed to th e p eopl e of Georgia, and the response was an overwhelming demand th at Stone Mountain be bought and developed, with th e Confederate Memorial to be completed as soon as po ssible. The General Assembly concurred, and legislation authorizing the Governor to acquire the property and implement the development through a Stone Mountain authority, was passed by

February, 1958

$150 MILLION BROILER CROP MAKES STATE CROW AGAIN

Georgia, the nation's champion broiler state for seven years, broke her own record in 1957 by producing 261,000,000 birds which brought $ 150,336,000.
Georgia's production was 151,000,000 birds over Arkansas, the second ranking state. North Carolina ranked third, Alabama fourth and Texas fifth.
Georgia's gross broiler in come, $150,336,000, was an in crease of $20,500 ,000 over th e figure for 1956.
The Geor gia C rop Rep orting Service

says last year's broiler inco me excee ded th e re turn fr om a ny othe r agricultura l commodi ty in th e sta te. It was six times th e inco me fro m broil ers 10 years ago a nd mo re than 280 times th e broiler tot al 20 yea rs ago.
The year's p rices ra nge d fr om a high of 21 cents a pound in July to a low of 15 cents in D ecemb er.
Geor gia' s m ain broil er produc tion coun ties are C herokee, H all , For syth, Whitfield , Lumpkin , White, J ackson , Gw inne t t, F ranklin, Pickens, Fulton, H ab ersham and D awson .

a record vote in both houses.

T housan ds of visito rs from all po in ts

of th e compass come to see Stone

M ountain as it is tod ay. With de-

velop men t, Govern or Griffin says, th e

M emorial P ark should p ay for itself within a few yea rs an d th en becom e a

self-pe rpetua ting tou rist an d rec rea tion

fac ility.

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THE AUTHORITY created by th e Legislature to develop th e mountain prope rty , to be kno wn as th e Ston e M ountai n M emorial Assn ., is composed of fou r cons titu tion al office rs of th e

sta te and three appoin tees nam ed by

th e Governor.

The consti tu tiona l officers a re Sec-

retary of St ate Ben W . F ortson, J r.,

Attorney Gen eral Eugen e Cook , Chai r-

man M att L . M cWhorter, of the Pub-

lie Service Commission, and Secret ar y

of Agri culture Phil Campbell.

The Gov ernor's appoin tees are S.

Price Gilbert, J r., Atl anta, retired vice -

preside nt of Coca-C ola Co., M rs. L.

H. Lyle, J onesboro, president-gen eral

of th e G eo r gi a Div isi on , U n i te d

D au ghters of th e Co nfed eracy, and

Comm er ce Secreta ry Scott Candler,

D ecatur.

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LINKINl7 TWU STATES-Work on Louie Morris Bridge across the Savannah River just belo w th e Hartwell Dam site is progressing rapidly, with the tall , graceful plategirder span reaching furthe r from Georgia toward South Carolina every day. The bridge will be completed in May, but will not be open to th e public until the dam is fini shed. -Anderson (S.C.) Independent photo.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMEINT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Februar y, 1958

HOMERVILLE'S NEW CONTAINER PLANT

PROOF THAT COMMUNITY EFFORT PAYS

Any Geo rg ia community th at feels timid ab out making a n all-out dri ve for industry should look at H om er ville.
This Clinc h Co unty town of 2,000, deep in th e pin ey woo ds at th e edge of th e Okeefenokee Swamp, has a new manufacturing plant as proof that local effort to land an industry does pa yoff.
The plant, a branc h of Standard Co n ta iner Corp., of New J ersey, h as op ened with a n ini tia l work for ce of 25, mos tly women, manufact u rin g insecticide sprayers for hom e usc. O fficials of th e firm sec a fu ture emp loyment of 150, and alrea dy they have indi cated an expansion of fac ilities.
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GOVER NO R MARVIN GR I F F I N, who headed a gro up of no tables a t th e dedi cation of the plant, pointed to it as a n exa mple of what community cooperation ca n ac h ieve. H e exp la ined how th e 300-member Clinch County I nd ust rial Corp. rai sed $50,000 locally toward erec ting the bui lding and obta ined more funds through loans toward its completion.
The Govern or told th e gathering of more than 500 persons that Standa rd Co ntaine r is one of many n ew industries mo ving to Georgia "be-

INSECTICIDE SPRAYS--Scene in th e plant of Standard Contain er Corp., H omerville' s new industry which community effort secu red.-Valdosta Times ph oto.

cause th ey have found that Geor gians will give a dollar's worth of pay."
W. M. Vogal, Sr. , p resident of Standa rd , respon ded to the Gove rn or by tellin g the crowd he wished his

firm had heard of H omerville yea rs ago.
H e praised the community for its hospitality and co-operation, and said, "we mus t shor tly construct a n addition to this pl an t."

MOUNTAIN VIEW HOLIDAY MOTEL
TO COST MILLION
A Holiday Inn M ot el to cost more th an $ 1 milli on will be built a t M oun tain Vi ew, sout h of Atla nta , th e Cl ayton County Chamber of Commer ce an nounced .
The installation, to con tain 102 u nits, will also feature a convention hall and convention rooms : restaurant a nd swimm ing pool.
It will be loca ted on th e ea st side of the Sou th exp ressway, one-half m ile south of th e Atlanta city limits.
H olid ay I nn, th e la rgest motel chain in th e worl d, says the Clayton County facility will be in op eration by mid summer.
MERCER EXPANSION
A $ 150,000 science cen ter will be built on the M ercer U niv ersity campus at Macon .

NEW $525,000 POULTRY PLANT

TO BOOST INDUSTRY IN COFFEE

A $525,000 b r 0 i I e r processing plant to be built at D ouglas is being hailed as a tremendous boost to the rapidly growing poultry industry of Coffee and adjoining counties.
The Coffee Co un ty Chamber of Commerce Industrial Corp. will build th e plant for lease to Swift. T o be located on a five-a cre tract, it will be a on e-story struc tu re of concrete block and tile. The equipment will be the most mo dern available.
T he plant is schedu led to be com pleted about O ct . 1. It will start with 100 emp loyees, and, when full ca pac ity is reach ed, is expected to employ 200.
The pl an t will be on e of th e fir st of it s type in southern coun ties of Georgia.
The Douglas chamber poin ted ou t

that th e broiler industry is growing ra pidly in South Geor gia, du e to acreage curtai lme nt of tobacco and cotton.
LITHONIA WELCOMES NEW MANUFACTURER
Li thonia is welcoming another m an ufa cturing firm, Brake Bonding Co., which has begun operations in a plant bui lding shared with another newcomer, M eier Mfg. Co.
The Bond compa ny, wh ich makes a nd refini shes automobile brake shoes, employs 20 p ersons. J oh n Clifford is general manag er.
M eier , a p lastic mo lding fir m , recently mov ed to L ith oni a from Tucker.

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MOBILE HOME PLANT DRAWS OTHER FIRMS TO AMERICUS

M ore new in dustries ar e already loca ting at Americus, to be near th e Marlette Coach Co ., whi ch went into ope ratio n recently, producing mobile ho m es.
F red V. Gen tsch Co., of D et roit, Mi ch ., will construc t a 60,000-squarefoot p lant near th e M arlette installation, for th e manufacture of furn iture, bedding an d draperies for mobi le hom es.
Other new ma nuf actur er s closely allied with th e mo bile hom e pl ant, who hav e recently begun operation or a re ge tt ing ready to start, ar e K ochton Plywood & Veneer Co ., Woodin M etal Products Co., an d Cla rk Supply Co. In ad dition, th e M organ Drive Awa y Co. and Nation al Trailer Convoy Co . mov ed in to h an dle exclusively the delivery of M arlette's p roducts to nine sou th eastern sta tes.
M a rlet te mov ed to Am er icus from Marlette, Ind.
The Gentsch b I' a n c h ope ra tion, which will be known in Georgia as Gen tsch Bedding Co., will employ 60 to 70 men an d wom en.

FR O I\I GEORGIA TO J AP AN-A gian t prop-jet H ercul es, bu ilt at Lockh eed Air craft Corp.'s Geor gia facility at Marietta, cruises past Mount Fujiyama, extinct volcanic mountain on Honsu Island in Central J apan. Fuji, 12,395 feet high , is world-renowned for its beautiful symm etry, and th e Hercules is gaining world fame for global airlift feat s.

NELSON PLANT DOUBLING SIZE, CREW, OUTPUT
Nel son Mfg. Co., Alb an y, pl an s im media tely to begin construc tion of a new pl a nt building whi ch will enable it to dou ble both its payroll an d it s ou tput.
The firm builds low-bed trailer s. Vidali a Bu ilding Corp. will erec t the stru ctu re, which will conta in 7,200 squa re feet, for lea se to th e tr ailer manufa cturing firm .
Hawkinsville's Rand Buys Window Planf
A. G . R and Co., H awkinsville, h as pu rchased a window unit indust ry and added it to it s othe r manufac turing fac ilities.
The new op er ation added 30 employees.
Awn ing-t ype aluminum window s ar e being produced .

SOUTHERN STATES BEGINS

EXPANSION AT HAMPTON

Southern States Eq uipmen t Corp. has launch ed a major building p rogra m a t H ampton .
Included in th e new fa ciliti es, wh ich a re scheduled for completion within six mon ths, is an addition adjoining the p resent pla nt str ucture which will pro vide 25,000 square feet ad ditional for man ufact uring an d assembly spa ce.
W. C . Mitch ell, vice-preside n t, said tot al expenditures will exc eed $250,000. H e pointed out th at thi s is th e second expansion th e firm h as underta ken wit hin five years.
Sout hern St ates man ufactures high volt age elec tr ical equipme n t, textile
FIRST CARLOAD LOT
First carload lot of furniture m ad e a t H a rri s Pine Mills, In c., new Valdosta industr y, wa s shipped to con signees in Miami, Fl a . The pl ant went into pro du ction in D ecemb er, produ cing 2,500 to 3,000 pieces of wood fu rniture pe r month.

machinery and gene ral mach iner y. I ts sales are worl d wide.
CASTLEBERRY PLANS PLANT ENLARGEMENT
Clem S. Castleb erry, president of Cas tleberry's Food Co., Au gusta, has an nounced th e purchase of two ac res of land for expansion of th e present pl ant.
Con structi on of a brick extension will get und er way about mid -summer , he said . Its fa cilit ies will be used for packaging five new pr oducts to be added to the firm 's nation ally known line of sau ces an d relishes.
Castleberry 's now emp loys a bou t 150 men and wom en an d th e yearly payro ll is over $500,000.
CLYO BRIDGE OKAYED T he U . S. Corps of Engineers h as
given final approva l to pl ans for a bridge across th e Sav annah R iver betwe en C lyo, Ga ., a nd Ga rn ett, S. C .

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-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

R ockw ell Mfg. Co . celebra ted its second year of operations a t Statesboro . . . Blackshear Industria l Corp. was organ ized to seck new industry for Blackshear . . . Chandler Sh oe Stores and M vron E. F reem an , Jewelers, a rc in new' hom es on Atlanta's Peachtree St . .. . M cAfee Candy Co. will close its plant in Indian a and move a~ l . op e.ra tions to a new $500,000 facility in Macon . . . Westinghou se Electric Co.' s hu ge tran sformer plan t is nca r completion at Athens.
Cairo pl an s a hou sing project of +3 buildings with 86 units . . . ~obb Co unty REA is in its new $22:>,000 bui ld ing at Marietta . .. Co loni al Stor es, Inc., and Kroger have ope ned supe r ma r kets in Augusta's Sou th gate Plaza . . . Brantley T elepho ne Co ., Nahunta, is expa nding ser:'ices in Brantley and Charlton Counties.
Barnesville has acqu ired a site for a hou sing proj ect . . . A new Bur ke Co unty Library is slated at Waynesboro . . . V ida lia will expe nd $330,000 on water and sewage systems . . . \V. R . Sa lter has bou ght th e 20-room Go ld Leaf H otel, Hahira, from M rs. R . T. H od ges a nd Mrs. Su e Kingston . . . Hapeville High Scho ol will add a $400 ,000 gymnas ium .. . City of .Athens has op ened a down town parking ga ra ge.
Ge neral Oglethorp e H ot el, Savannah, has acquire d th e 12-story Drayt on Arms Apa rtments . . . Lyons pla ns 20 additiona l hou sing un its . . . Dalton's new R ecr eation Center is op en . . . DeK al b Co unty Board of Educat ion sold $ 1,605,000 school bonds . . . Tallulah Falls Schools will build a girls' dormitor y, to cost $200,000 .. . Six new hou sing units a t Midville will cost $76,000 .
Lamar County REA, Barnesville, will enla rze facilities . . . 'F. W. Woolworth C;. has ope ned a self-servi ce sto re in At he ns . . . Co bb Co unty pl an s $1 milli on worth of water lines extensions . . . Ban kers H ealth & Li fe In s. Co. , Macon, is bu ild ing a district office home in Savannah . . . Ci tizens Ban k & Trust Co., Bainbridge, is in a new building . . . T wo dormitori es to cost $325,000 will be built at R einha rdt Coll ege, Waleska .
Baxley is building a sewage disposal pl ant to cost $350 ,000 . .. J ohn son County will celebrate it s cen tennial th e week of M a v 11-17 . . . M r. and M rs. David Suppes, of Ga rd en City, Mi ch. , have purch ased th e Bartow Motel, near C artersville, from Mrs . Homer Cox

EVERYTHING ( !) COMES IN BOXES-or so cont ends Inland Corp., on e of G eor gia 's big manufacturer s, wh ich present s thi s Georg ia " peac h" as Exhibit No . l. She is Fran ces Tate, an em ployee of th e Citizens & Southern National Bank, Atlanta, whe re th e Inland diorama-depicting Georgia pine from for est to fini sh ed con ta ine r- was on di splay.

. . . Put nam County will hold it s sixth a nnua l Dairy Festi val in June . .. Con structi on h as begun on Button G winne tt H ospital, Lawrenceville . .. La Grange dedi ca ted its new Clark Holder Cli nic.
Both th e Savannah M orning News a nd Evening Pr ess issued specia l editions to commemora te th e 225th birthd ay of Geor gia . . . Brunswick Pulp & Pap er Co., Brunswick, has adde d a chlorine diox ide plan t . . . A 10-story clinical resea rch building whic h will cost mo re than $1 m illion, will be erected a t th e M edi cal College of Georgia, Augusta.
Moultrie vot ers approved $735,000

bonds for city improvements . . . A $550,000 terminal building is sla ted for Travi s Municip al Airpo r t, Savannah . . . Atlanta's new G ra dv M emoria l Hospita l, built a t a cost of $26 million and covering 26 acr es of la nd . was offi cially op ened.
Ch arles H. K ellstad t, head of Sea rs, Roebu ck & Co.'s At lanta op er ations, was named president of th e hu ge nationa l Sea rs orga niza tion . . . Wadl ey Developers, In c., has been organized to promote ind ustry for Wadley . . . Newnan Hospital, Newn an , will enla rge.
Dedication was held a t Canton for th e R. T. J ones M em orial Librar y.

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M em ber Ge orgia Press A ssocia ti on
Published mon thl y by G EO RG I A DEPT. OF COMMER C E
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Vol. 9, No.5

M ar ch , 1958

ARMATURE PLANT OPENS IN DEKALB
Gener al Armature & M fg. Co., D eK al b Coun ty newcomer, has opened for business a t 2832 E. Ponce de Leon
Av e. T he firm , formerl y locat ed in Atlan -
ta, re ma nufa ctu rers an d rebu ilds gen era tors, sta rting mo to rs, a rmatur es a nd
field coils. T he p lant occupies a new br ick
building of 8,600 square feet, plus a 1,200-squar e-foo t ra il do ck.

$1.4 MILLION ORDER FOR CLEVELAND AMES
Am es T ext ile Corp., C leveland, h as received a n Air Fo rce con trac t for 494,000 ya rds of wool uniform cloth a t $2.84 a yard, W . R . J enkins, man ager, annou nced .
T he p lant is cu rr en tly weavin g 158,000 vards of wool uniform m at erial for the :1vfar ine Corps and 38,000 ya rds of khak i for the Army .
COVER PHOTO
D etail of Battle of Blood y M a rsh diorama, feature of the new museum a t Fort F rede rica National Monu m en t, St. Simo ns. It and othe r displays faithfully portray the ambush in which Georgia ns under Gene ra l Oglet horpe wip ed ou t Spain's invading forc e and change d th e course of histo ry in North America.-Gil Tharp photo. Story on Page 3.

BI G MOME NT- Governor M arvin Griffin administers th e oath of offic e to memb ers
of th e Stone M ountain M emorial Assn., ch arg ing th em to complete th e S tone Mountain Confeder at e M emorial and mak e the propert y Georgia's No. I park. Left to righ t: Pri ce Gilbert, Jr., Conune rce Sec re ta ry Scott Candler, M att L. MC\Vhort er , chairman of the Public Se rvice Conun ission , who was elect ed to head th e gro up; Agric ult ure Secret ary Ph il Cam pbell, M rs. L . H . Lyle, of Jon esboro , pr esid ent -gen eral U n ited Dau ghters of th e Confeder acy, and th e Governor. Sec retary of S ta te Ben For tson is seated. Atto r ney Ge nera l Eugene Cook , seventh memb er, was not pr esen t.-Lan e Bros. photo.

Americus Shows Sister Cities

How To Get New Industries
Americus ca n be tak en as a n exa mp le of what a determined citizenry can do to ge t new industr y to help bolster th e econom y of a city and section.
The Sumter Co unty seat tod ay is observ ing Indust rial Progr ess Day, a nd the p eopl e really have somet hing to celebra te. Highli ght of th e day will be th e gro und-bre a king for a no the r new industry. It will be th e newest of mor e th an a half dozen industri es a nd bu sinesses to set up shop in approximately an l 8-month peri od.
Ame ricus and Sumter C ounty long dep end ed chiefly on fa rming for th eir pro sp erity. Lik e many othe r cities in thi s tim e of sh ifting economy , it became evide n t that a du al economy of both agri culture and industry wa s necessary for progress to be continue d.
Once th e idea took ho ld, citizens organized a driv e for indust ry on a firm foundation. They set up th e Americus-Sumter Co unty Industrial D evelop ment Co rp. an d subscribed stoc k to finan ce it. Later, a 368 -ac re tra ct was bought so that sites would be available to offer to indust ry.
First industry attracted and assisted with a loan was a con cern to make refrigerated truck bodies. Later , th e Marlette Coac h Co ., of Marlette, Mi ch ., located a br an ch fact ory there employing ab out 100 men .
The coach compa ny h as been th e fa ctor responsible for attracting at least six other rela ted industri es a nd bu sinesses, including th e one for which ground is being broken du ring to da y's celebra tion .
O ther cities who have not been so successful in their efforts to ob tain new industries to bolster their sagging econo mies should study Ame ricus' m eth ods. T hey probabl y could learn a lesson in th e value of concerted and progressive coop eration of citizens.
- T he Colum bus L edger, Feb. 14

CHICK RESEARCH CENTER
U nivers ity of Georgia 's new Poultry Research Center at Ath ens h as been forma lly opened . T he facilit y cost $325,000 to bui ld a nd equip .

CLO ISTER EXPANDS
M ore th an $250,000 worth of bu ilding imp rovem ents an d enla rgemen ts have been ma de at T he C loister H ot el, Sea Island, duri ng th e past year.

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VISITORS CENTER-New Fort Frederi ca st ruc ture con tains interpretive mu seum where exhibits, m ap s a nd diorama tell the
dramatic story of Georgia at th e tim e when Oglethorpe battled Spaniards. The edifice cost $200,000.- photos by Gil Tharp.

TRAVELED FARTHEST-Mrs. E. W. G. Chapman , of Ne w Brunswick , Canada, who came farth er th an any of th e oth er 100 Fort Frederi ca descendants, op ens th e new museum for Supt. W. H. G lover and Conrad L. Wirth, director, National Parks Se rvice.

BLOODY MARSH DESCENDANTS

DEDICATE FREDERICA MUSEUM

The Spaniards thought th e ca mpaign wa s over , that th ey had th e war won. Their adversaries had fir ed on e volley ; th en th ey had turned tail and sca ttered into the scru b like so many frighten ed partridges. Let th em go- they weren 't worth ca pt uring , an yway. And besid es, it was

lunchtime.

T he officer ca lled an order an d the

300 grena diers stepp ed out of the road

a nd neatly stac ked th eir guns. It was

stuffy hot in th e moss-hu ng swamp.

T he men doffed th eir steel helm et s a nd

loosen ed their br eastplates. Vi ctuals

were broken ou t. As th ey a te, spra w l-

ing on t he white sa nd, th ey were con fi-

dent th at th eir next meal would be a

vict or v


feast

in sid
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F red eri ca.

THE G R EN AD I ER S, an elite detach men t fr om th e for ce of D on M anuel de M ontiano, gov ernor of F lor ida,

had test ed th e met al of Gov ernor J ames Ed ward O gleth orp e's Georgia force a nd foun d it-so they th ou ght- lau gh ab le. T hey expec ted the defenses of F red erica, a mi le or so further up th e trail, to be as weak.
None of th e Spaniard s saw a lon g pol e, a Hi ghlander 's cap on th e end, rise ca u tiously out of th e palmettos. Many of them n ever heard th e roar of mu sketry that an swered th e sign al. Of those who realiz ed th ey wer e caught fa st in a trap, only a few esca pe d. For now Englishmen and Scots wer e upon them with bayonet and sword, and behind th e soldi ers carne Indians with hatchets and

( See Cove r Ph oto)

knives. This wa s th e Battle of Bloody

Marsh. It took place July 7, 1742, on S t. Simons Island. It last ed but a few minutes and involved less than

500 men on both sides. But it was

on e of th e most important military eng ageme n ts in Am eri can history. It

det ermined t hat N or th America

should be English inst ead of Spa nish .

T he other day, a t Fo rt Freder ica Na -

tion al M onu men t, an unusual group of peop le dedi cated a n unusua l histor ical

displ a y.

These peopl e were 100 descend ants of th e little ba nd of heroes wh o help ed

O glethorp e ro ll back the Span ish tid e

mor e th an two centu ries ago.

The exhibit was a ser ies of dior amas, a mazi ng ly lifelik e a n d pa instakingly

acc ura te, whi ch tells the sto ry of St.

Simo ns,

F red er ica
->:-

a*nd

Blood y
-x-

M a rsh .

THE DESCENDANTS of the 130

original set tler s a nd soldiers of the

island ca me from all pa rts of North

Am eri ca. To the one who had t ravel ed farthest, Mrs. E. W . G. Chapman , of

M on ct on, New Brunswick, Canad a,

was given th e honor of ope ning th e

$200,000 mu seum whi ch the National

Parks Service built a t th e monument.

" Bu t for th e effort her e, yo ur coun -

tr y might be a Sp anish rep ub lic like

th e nat ions of Sou th Am er ica," said D.

A. Batwell, British co nsu l a t Atlanta,

who rep: esent ed Great Brit ain a t th e ceremome s,

" A fantastically good job and an

excellent wa y to bring history alive,"

comme nted Alfred Jones, p resid ent of th e Fort Fred erica Assn., as he exam ine d th e displays.
The exhibits wer e planned by Mrs. Marga ret Davis Cate, noted historia n and author of Ge org ia's coas tal section, a nd Albe rt M anucy, Pa rk s Ser vice hist orian at St. Aug ustine. Thev were built in the serv ice's spe cialty shops, and employ the latest in electronic and lighting teehniques.
T he Blood v M arsh diorama is exact do wn to th e pi n k Iichon on th e livcoa ks, the swa ying Sp anish moss over head , th e spiked pa lmettoes out of wh ich O gleth orpe's men sp ra ng to slaugh ter th e inv ader s.
Co nrad L. Wirth of W ashin gt on , director of th e Nat iona l Parks Service, pointed out th at th e new museum " ma kes histor y real ," an d culmina tes yea rs of local eff or t to preser ve th e Geor gia shrine. H e wa s parti cula rly proud of new techniques of di spla y employed .
Fred eri ca, Britain's most power ful cita de l in Coloni al Am eri ca, was in dan ger of bein g oblite ra ted un til th e Fort Fred eri ca Assn . acqui red th e proper ty in 1941, a nd la ter inter ested th e fed era l gove rn me nt in preservin g it as a nation al shrine . Situat ed in one of th e lovliest scenic spo ts in the coun try, th e site is now being excava ted and th e ruins restor ed .
The m useum a nd other new facilit ies will enha nce t he monument's a ttraction for tou rists, tho usa nds of whom a lread y visit it eac h month:

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FI RST MOB I LE H O M ES-C ome off the assembly lin e at Ame rican Coach Co., new industry at M ille dgeville. Exchang ing cong ra tula tions a re (I to r): W . K. Ho lt, mana ger M ille dgeville- Ba ldw in C hamber of Commerce ; H. l\L Woodard , C hamber pr esid en t ; V ince Niese n, vice -p res ide nt of the coach company ; Fran k H an son, Newson-Kansas Homes; Norman C . Wo lfe, p resid en t , American Coach Co ., Cassapolis, Mich.; Milledgeville Mayor J im Wrayj J ohn P arker , head of the M illedgeville- Ba ldwi n Develop. Corp ., and J oh n Ga rne r, vic e-p res. Exc hange Ba n k of Mill ed gevill e-M acon Telegap h photo.

McAFEE PLANT PAYS

$600,000 AT MACON

MrAfec C and y Co.. of M a con a nd Indianapolis, Ind ., wii l consolid a te a ll of its op er ations in it s new p lant a t M a con .
As th e firm moved in to a $500,000 plant recently ere cted a t R iggin s M ill Rd ., C . O . M cAf ee, J r. , announced th at consolid a tion of th e Indian a plant will be eff ect ed before th e end of th e cu r re n t yea r.
The new 115,000 -squ ar e-foot fa cilit y will ena ble the com pa n y to double th e output a lm ost immediately and wi ll incr ease the ca pa city f or producti on three or four tim es, Mr. M cAf ce sa id .
T he com pa ny 's two plants have been producin g 8,000 ,000 pounds of candy ea ch yea r for shipment to m arket in :\''j s ta tes.
C hoc ola te ca nd ies were form erl y prod uced in th e Indi anapolis pl ant and hard ca nd ies a t th e M a con pl ant, but the new p lant has facilities for both .
Mr. M cAfee sa id on e of th e fa ctors in th e d ecision to consolida te th e m an ufac turing in Georgi a was th e labor situa tion. " Both th e supply and qu ality of labor is exce llen t her e," he exp la ine d .

The consolidated plant's payroll of 200 persons will tota l .$600,000 annu a lly, he sa id.
TlnON HATCHERIES STEPPING UP OUTPUT
Tifton's C hcmc ll H atcheries a rc un dergoin g an exp ansion program which will more th an d ouble th e ou tpu t.
Manager L. D . Whitmire sa id 1,500 sq u are feet of flo or space is being in stalled to acc om mo da te six new hatching u nits.
With th e present four units, th e plan t is pr odu cin g 60,000 ch icks a week . The enla rge me n t, M r. W hit mire sa id , wi ll increase produ cti on to 150,000.
OGLETHORPE EXPANSION
O glethorpe Univers ity, Atlanta, will br eak grou nd thi s sp ring for a $200,000 gy mnasi u m, constr uc tion of whi ch will tri gg er a ca mpus development plan whi ch wi ll cost $3.5 mi llion .

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GEORGIA SCORES 5th BIGGEST U. S. LIVESTOCK GAIN
G eorgia thi s yea r reg iste red th e nation' s fifth gr eat est rat e of post-war increa se in value of ca ttle a nd ca lves on fa r m s.
G eor gia' s 40 per cent in 1958 over th e 1944-1 953 av erage, or from .$85 ,123,000 to $ 119,042,000 tied Loui siana for fifth position a mong a ll st a tes, being exce ed ed only by Florida' s 63 per cen t, Mi ssissip pi's 61 per cent, South C a rolina's 52 per cen t a nd I daho's 45 per cen t, says th e U . S. Department of Agri culture.
Va lue of livestock and pou ltry on Georgia' s farms at th e beginning of this yea r was est ima te d as $ 178, 134,000.
AUGUSTANS BUY 3 STATE HOTELS
Three well-known G eorgia hostelries. E lberton's Samuel Elbert H otel, Hartwell' s Nancy H art Hotel , and John C . Co leman Hotel, Swainsboro, ha ve been a cquired by An chor H otels, I nc., of Augusta.
The An chor gro up is head ed by a gro u p of Au gus ta hotel execu tives.
u.s, DISEASE CENTER
Henry C . Beck Co ., Atlan ta , a nd an assoc ia te firm, Utah Constru ction Co ., have been awarded an $8,790,000 contract to bui ld a Communicab le D isea se Center at Ernorv Univers itv for th e U . S. Public Hea it h Servi ce. '
BUTLER SAND CO.
But ler Sand Co ., a new en te rp r ise in Taylor Co unty, is op er ating fu lltim e and th e owner s, L ew is W atson , Jr. and J oe Brown, a lre ady ar c plan ning to ex pand . The pits a rc loca ted three miles north o f Butler on H wv. 19. Modern equip men t ena bles workers to produce hundred s of tons of high-g rad e washed sand per d ay.
NEW PULPWOOD YARD Di xie Pu lp & Hardwood Corp., one
of Pi erc e County' s newest bu sinesses, has op ened for bu siness just sou th of Patterson on Hwv. 38 and th e Atlanti c Coast L in e R v. . Officers of th e firm
arc J ames R .' Russ, presid ent; .J. .J.
Ritch, vice-presid ent, and W . B. Bothwell, secre ta ry -treas u rer.

NEWSLETTER

M ar ch, 1958

GEORGIA ADDING 4 FIRMS A DAY; 2,124 NEW BUSINESSES LAST YEAR "

Fo ur new businesses in corpor a te

in Georgia every day in the year.

The U . S. Department of Com -

m erce deter min ed this average from

a st udy of t he 1950-1957 period

which saw a total of 12,694 new com -

mercial and in dustria l firms estab -

lished as corporations in the state.

L ast

ve al'

J

'

savs .

th e

abzencv, '

th er e

wer e 2,124 new corpor a tions. This

number a lmos t d oubled th e 1,259 IT-

corde d in 1950, th e fir st yea r cove red

bv th e studv .

, And th at ' Georgia bu siness is sound

bu sin ess is ind ica ted bv th e fact th at

of 46, 186 conce rn s ope ra ting in th e

sta tc during th e per iod , only 797 fa iled ,

or a n ann ua l average of app ro xim ately

one ou t of every 459.

KELLEY CARPET PLANT .STARTS AT FRANKLIN
K elley C arpet Co., of Ga ., new indu stry a t Franklin, has go ne in to produ cti on .
The plant m anuf actures regul a r and novelt y throw ru gs.
Melvin Brobst, m anager, said produ ct ion fa cilities will be ex pande d un til som e 25 worker s are regul arly em ployed .
The buildin g hous ing th e new plant was erected bv th e Franklin Ch amber of Commer ce.'
DEKALB PICKS SITE FOR HUGE HOSPITAL
D eKalb County H ospital Authority has ap prove d purchase of a 30-a cre site ncar th e inter section of Scott Blvd . a nd L aw ren cevill e Rd ., on whi ch to build th e coun ty 's new p ay hospital.
The 200-b ed structure, to c o s t $4,000,000, cou ld be read y in 12 to 15 months, Julius A. M cCurdy, a u thority secreta ry, said.
10-STORY BUILDING
A 10-stor y bui lding will bc erected by th e F ir st Nation al Bank of Atl anta at Pea chtree St . and North Ave., N .E ., to rep la ce th e p resent North Ave. branch bank.

PROUD WO RKERS-Employees of Larson Boats of Georgia , n ew in du stry at Nashville, pose with th e first boat that came from th e produ ction lin e. Th e plant is turn ing out several fibre-glass models and will in cr ease both its scop e and production with th e approaching outdoor season of boating, fishi n g and wat er spor ts- N ash ville H erald photo.

CiROUND BROKEN FOR $8 MILLION

LONCi-LINE CENTER IN ROCKDALE

Con stru cti on ha s begun in Rockdale County, near Con yers , on Am eri can Telephone & Telegr aph Co.'s new $8,000,000 region al lon g-distan ce teleph on e center.
Turnin g th e first spades ful of ea rth on th e 13-acr e site wer e J a ck Turner, presid ent of Con yers Ch a mb er of Com-
CHEMICAL FIRM MOVES PLANT TO ATLANTA
W est Chem ica l Product s, In c., ha s moved its manufa cturing plant and di st rict headqua rt er s fro m Birmingham, Ala ., to Atlanta.
C .L. Powell, dist r ict m an ager, sa id th e move was decided on becau se Atlanta is th e focal poin t of distribu tion in th e Southeast .
The firm has occu pied a new onesto ry bri ck bu ilding a t 1248 Zonolite Rd ., NE . The 12,600 sq uare - foot struc ture is locat ed on a one-acre tr act which also provid es pa rking for 25 cars.
The firm manufa ctures sa nita tion and m ain ten ance p roduct s.

mcr cc, a nd Harold K . Ki ser , supe rintendent of AT&T's G eorgia plants.
Sch edu led to go into ser vice la te in 1959, th e cen te r will fac ilita te th e flow of lon g di st an ce calls in and out of eight sou the as te rn sta tes. It is a lso p art of AT& T's n ation-wid e plans for handling di al ed lon g-distance ca lls direct from subscribers' ph on es.
The new fac ility is designed to handle up to 40,000 con nec tio ns a day. It will be headquarter s for 75 technician s.
$500,000 DECATUR 'Y'
Pr eliminary plans for a new plant to hou se th e D ecatur-D eK alb YMCA have been ap proved . The struc tur e will be erec te d a t Cl ai rmont Ave. and M a ed eris St ., D ecatur.
INDUSTRY ON WHEELS
T he number of trucks in ope ra tion in Georgia is a goo d ind ex to th e sta te 's ind us tria l gro wth, says Geor gia M ot or Trucking Assn., Inc. In 1920 th ere wer e 12,000 trucks, whil e tod ay th er e a re 248,000 .

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GEORGIA DEPARTMEINT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

M a rch, 1958

GEORGIA CITIES LEAD U.S. BUSINESS GAINS

Georgia's six la rger cities-Atlan ta, Augusta , Colu mbu s, M acon , R ome, Sava nna h-left the na tion far behind in ra te of pos twar trad e, accor ding to th e Atla n ta field off ice of th e U. S. Department of Commerce.
For exa mple, in retail tra ding, compared with a 3 per cen t adva nce in number of firm s in th e nation as a whole, Atl anta register ed a 23 per cent gain, Columbus 13 per cent and M acon, 12 per cent.
In volume of ret ailing, th e U. S. ga in was 32 per cent, whil e Atl anta ga ined 46 per cen t, Augu sta 69, Columbus 37, M acon 44, and Sav ann ah

33. I n th e who lesale field , Col um bus re-
corde d a 42 per cent rise in number of firms compared with 28 per cent for th e nation, wh ile Atla nta ga ined 42 per cent in volume of wholesali ng done aga inst 32 per cen t for th e nation.
In th e service trad es, suc h as persona l, bu siness a nd rep ai r serv ices, th e nati on recorde d a 16 per cen t advance in number of establishme n ts, whil e Atl anta had 30 per cen t, Augu st a 29, M acon 27 a nd Rome 26. In volume of service bu siness don e, Atl anta recorded a 9 1 per cent rise, whi ch compared with 86 per cent for th e U. S.

CHER R Y PRINCESS- Isabelle Collier , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perrin N. Collier , LaGrange, who represents Georgia in th e 1958 Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington thi s month.
MONSANTO BUYS GEORGIA FIRM'S ROSIN PLANTS
M onsanto Chemi cal Corp., of St. Loui s, M o., has purchased th e ph ysical asse ts of Filtered Ro sin Product s, In c., Georgia pin e gum firm based a t Bax ley.
The acquisition will operate under a new titl e, Rosin Pr odu cts Co., and will emp loy th e per sonn el of th e former company .
Robert M . M orris, of St . Louis, assista nt ge ne ra l m an ager of M onsanto' s organic che micals division, head s the new compa ny as pr esiden t. J ohn S. Law s, of Baxley, vice president a nd gene ra l ma na ger of Filtered Rosin Produ cts, In c., con tinues in th ese ca pa citi es un der the new organization .
Fi lter ed R osin Products, In c., asset s acquired by M on sa nt o incl ude d facilities at Bax ely for gum collection, p rodu ct ion of gum a nd rosin an d turpentin e a nd th e manufac ture of paper size ; at D ouglas, Ga ., for gum collection a nd the p roduction of gum rosin a nd turpentine, a nd at Alam o, Ga ., for gum co llec t ion.
The three facilities employ 100 workers.

MORMON CHURCH BUYS

HUGE TRACT IN SUMTER

The Church of J esus Ch rist of L atter -D a y Saints ( M ormon ) has purchased a 3,344 tract in sout heas tern Sum ter County, for develop ment into a ca ttle ra nc h.
O fficials of th e Sal t La ke Ci ty, U ta h, headqua rt ers of th e chu rch, said th e tr act, ncar Ameri cus, would be used as a recei ving sta tion for cattle sen t to Georgia fr om a chu rch-owned ran ch in Breva rd County, Fl a.
The land was purch ased from Milmat Timber Fa rms, In c., an Indiana corpora tion.
Church spo kesme n said th e property will be oper ated as a livestock feeding sta tion, with an ult im at e ca pacity of mor e th an 25,000 head per year. It will be a full tax-payin g bu siness, th ey said.

I mp rovemen ts p la nned for th e immediate fu ture were announced as being in excess of $500 ,000 . In cluded will be 1,100 head of H erefor d breedi ng and feed ing stock.

NEW RECORD AT SAVANNAH PORT
A tot al of 1,491 vessels with a n alltime reco rd net tonnage of 4,864 ,3 14, entered Savannah ha rb or dur ing 1957.
T he tot al exceed ed th e 1956 ship weight by 220,037 tons.
H owever. th e number of vessels enterin g took ' a dr op. The number ca lling in 1957 was 1,491 as compared with 1,626 in 1956.
SCHLEY PLANT ADDS
Wayn e Mfg. Co. Ell aville ga rme nt firm , is building a n ad dition to provid e mor e manufacturing space.

NOT GEORGIA-Had this Ski130 H ercules been around the Lockheed plant in Marietta re cently, it would have found almo st thi s mu ch ice. The photo how ever , was made in Minnesota, where th e Georgia craft set a ski-lift re cord of 62 ton s.
FORD PLANT ENLARGES TO ONE MILLION FEET
Ford M otor Co .'s Atla nta assern blv plant is now one of th e la rgest au tomobile factories in th e world.
Work has begu n in a new 407,000 square-foo t add ition wh ich brings th e plan t' s tot al work area to mor e th an 1,000,000 squa re fee t.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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N EWS L ETTER

M a rch, 1958

CALIFORNIA MOBILE HOME FIRM TO BUILD PLANT AT DOUGLAS

NEW AT DOUGLAS-Daniel Feed Co .'s new install a tion at Douglas, where feed gra in is un loaded , collec te d, mixed , weighed and reloaded automatically, for the growing p oultry industry of Coffee and surro und ing counties. - photo cour tesy Coffee Coun ty Progr ess.

'Fleetwood Managem en t Co., of An ah eim , Calif., has chose n Do uglas as the site of the fourth in its chain of mob ile home p lants.
A three-building factor y containing a tot al of 25,000 square feet will be erec ted on U . S. 44 1, one- half mile north of Douglas.
D avid T. Skinner , Fleetwood vicepresident, said th e p lant wou ld emp loy 40 workers, most ly men . Pla ns a re to turn ou t two comp lete luxury type hou se tr ailers a day, 10 units a week.
F leet wood ma nufa ctu res s e ve r a I model t railers, 35 to 45 feet in length a nd conta ining one, one and one-ha lf and two bedroom s.
] ac k K adera will be ma nager of th e new plant, and Bill Ducas, plant p roduction man ager.
M I". Skinner said D ouglas was chosen as th e pla nt's loca tion becau se of its pr oximi ty to the great sou theastern mobil e home market.

GEORGIA'S FIRST GLASS FACTORY PUTS OUT JARS IN MILLION LOTS

Owens-Illinois Gla ss Co. has offi ciall y open ed it s hu ge new Atlanta plant, th e first of its kind in Georg ia and th e la rgest in the Southea st.
It will produce scores of millions of bottles and jars yearl y, ranging in size from half-ounce vials to ga lIon jugs. Glass for th e con tainers is melted in two of th e largest furnaces in the world.
The con ta ine rs will be used to pack an endless va rie ty of produ cts, inclu ding food , bever ages, drugs, chem ica ls and paint.
H arold O tt esen, man ager of th e new plan t, a nd F ran k J ones, J r., 0-1 regiona l sales man ager, were hosts a t th e dedication ceremo ny.
J. P. Levis, chairman of th e 0 -1
boar d, said location of the p lant in Georgia is p roof of th e firm 's faith in th e futu re of th e south.
"You have an ample lab or supply of ca pable intelligent peopl e," he sa id, " you have a dep endable transportation syste m, th e serv ices and utilities that industry requires, an abundance of ra w materials, and

markets for the fini shed product." The new p lant is on an 85-acre tract
on Sylva n Rd., between H ap eville and East Point on the sou the rn fr inge of Atla nt a. It is near th e municipal airp or t.
MI". Levis said th e labor for ce of th e inst a lla tion will be about 800 persons a nd th e annual payro ll approxima tely $3 ,500 ,0 00 .
MEAD CORP. BUYS ATLANTA TRACT
M ead Corp., of Da yt on, Ohio, has pu rchased a 24 - ac re tract on th e northeast leg of th e At lanta Expressway, nea r th e in tersection of Piedmont Ave. a nd L ind bergh D r., N E.
Officia ls of th e firm indicated th e tr act , whi ch cost a pproximately $ 150,000, will be used as a site for one or mor e war eh ouses.
M ead merged last yea r with the Atlan ta Paper Co. The corporation also has operations in Rome, M acon a nd Brunswick.

NEW AT L AGRAN G E-Home of R adio St at ion WLAG , owned and ope ra ted by LaGran ge Broadcast ing C o., whi ch was ded icat ed recentl y. It hou ses offices, studio s and AM and FM transmitters.
AUSTRALIA BUYS LOCKHEED FLEET FOR $35 MILLION
The Royal Australian Air Force is purch asing 12 Lockh eed C- 130 H ercules p rop jet tran spor ts to give speed a nd mo bility to th e movemen t of troops, eq uipmen t a nd supplies.
This is the first foreign sale of its aircraft by th e Georgia divi sion of Lockheed Air craft Corp. a t Marietta.
Total order for th e 62-ton ca rgotroop ca rr iers, in cluding spa res, crew training and suppo rt equipme n t, is in excess of $35 million . Delivery is schedu led for late 1958.
CROWN ENLARGING CHATSWORTH UNIT
Crown Cheni lle Co ., Chatswor th, has a nnounce d a 20 per cen t enla rgement of its ope ration, and plan s to even tua lly em p loy some 100 additiona l w o r ke rs.
Crown Ch eni lle is a subsidia ry of Crown Cur ta in Co ., Phil ad elphi a, one of th e coun try 's largest an d oldest textile fir ms.
T he compa ny's ca rpe t making activities a lso a re cen tere d in Georgia , plants being located a t D alton an d Fort O glethorp e.
$641 MILLION FARM CASH
Georgia fa rme rs in 1957 realized a n estima ted $64 1,071,000 in cas h receipts for their ma rke tings, of which $293,970,000 was from sale of crop p roduct s a nd $34 7, I0 1,000 fro m livestock and related commodities.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

N E WS L ETT ER

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M ar ch , 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

T he little city of Chipley has been ren a med Pine 'M ountain . . , G ibson ha s been allotted eight hou sing un its . . Kroger has a new sto re on Athens' Prince Ave. , . . T he St andard, Cedartown d ail y n n vspaper , is in a new hon~ e . . Piedmont College, Demore st , will bui ld a scien ce hall .
Ca p t. Robert N . Bowst rom is new exec u tive direct or of Athens C hamber of Co m merce . . . Macon T elegra ph & News has acq uir ed sit e for a new pla n t . . Rome Bovs C lub received a don a tion of th ree a cres of land for a clu bhou se . . , C um ming s Enterp rises, In c., Washington, received a c h a I' t e l' to m an uf acturc ad ve r tising signs . . . Six tv- six hou sing units- 22 for white, 44 f~r neg roes- will be buil t at Madison . . , Seab oard Airline R a ilr oad has absor bed th e 93-mile M acon, Dublin & Sav an na h line fro m Macon to V idalia . . , Bainbridge has adde d a second fir e statio n .
Summerville ha s a $200 ,000 recr eat ion cen te r sla ted . , . Lavonia vo ters ap proved a $200,000 bond issue to hu y th e gas system owne d by Toccoa . .. B. F , Goo d rich's new sto re a t Albany op ened , . . Chatsworth has a new . library building . . , Twen ty hou sin g units h ave been ap proved for G lenn-
ville.
Phill ips I nsur an ce Agency, Tifton, erecte d a new hom e . . . Dexter vo ted $20,000 for wa terw orks . .. A. girls' dorm it or v will be ad ded a t G eor gia Indu st rial H om e, Macon.
Standard T elepho ne Co ., Cornelia, ha s inst all ed a d ial system a t Dawsonville . . . A natu ral science building a t M er cer U niv ers itv, Macon, will cost $90 ,000 to build. '.. West Point ad d ~d a m illion-ga llon storage tank to Its wa ter works syste m .
Ca m eron & Barkley Co . pl an s a new warehouse a t Sa vannah, for ind ustria l su pplies . . . D uard Thurmond was electe d presiden t of Morgan County Chamber of Co m merce . . . Marietta Daily J ournal & Cobb County T ime s is ren ov ating its plant . .. Chattooga Countians a p pro ved a $300,000 schoo l bond issue . .. 'F ifty hou sing un it s a re sla te d a t Douglas . . . Crisp County Cha m be r of Com mer ce' s new hea d is E . W . M athew s, pu blisher of th e Cordele D isp at ch . . . Athens' new Beech wood Sh opping Center will occupy a 10- acre tr a ct.
Washington County vot ers approv ed $4 75,000 wo r th of bo nds to a pply to a $ 1,200,000 Hill-Bu rt on hospit al . . . T ru ett-M cC onnell College, Cleveland,

th ev will build four $30,000 service sta tions in Cobb County . .. Rhod es, In c., Augusta fu rn itu re firm recently damaged by fire, will buil d a la rger , modern store .. . Macon 's Fi rst N ation al Ban k & Trust Co. h as a new br a nch a t W esleyan shopping cen te r . . . Improvemen ts to cost $40,000 a re und erway a t Souther Fi eld Airpor t, Ameri cus . . . U nad illa has com plete d a wa terwo rks imp ro vement proj ect.

G RO UND BR EAKIN G - At Ge ntsc h Bedding Co . plant site, Ame r icus. L-R: Frank My er s, C hamber of Commerce; Earl Swett, M arl ett Co ach Co .; Fr ed Va len t ine G en tsch ; M ayor Fred P . Bow-
en; Mrs. Gentsch , J. P. Luther , Don Farr.

wi ll re p la ce a girls' dormitor y, recently burn ed, with a $ 150,000 structure . . . G eorgia Teachers College, Statesboro,

will add a new dining hall and other un its to cost $600 ;000 .. . Metter will build 34 hou sing units to cost $400 ,000 .

Thomasville's intern ation all v fam ed Rose F estival is set for Apri l ' 25 . . .

Gwinne tt County vo ters oka yed $550 ,000 bonds for schools . . . Barnesville h as rem od eled its citv hall . . . 1. M. Sh effield Bld g., to qua rter doct or s, is

near completion a t 1938 Pea chtree Rd .,

Atlanta . . . J ack P . Schl eifer, New York , purch ased For est H ills Ap ts., 60unit str ucture a t Au gu sta . . . Lenox is

in vesting $40 ,000 in wa ter wor ks im provem ents ... Dr. L ee Battle is new president 0 f Rome-Floyd County C hamber of Com merce.

Southern Bell T elephon e & Telegraph

Co. is erec ting a $300,000 building at

C a r tersv ille

W esleyan Co llege,

Macon, is com plet ing a $ 100,000 InIirrn arv . . . S. A. White O il Co . a nd Sincl a i'r R efining Co . eac h an no unce

EGLESTON HOSPITAL STARTS ON NEW HOME
Abo u t one yea r from now, H enriett a Egleston H ospital , A tla nta hosp it al for ch ild re n, will be in a new hom e.
Work has begun on th e new fa cility, located at Emory U niversity , wh ich will cost app ro ximate ly $2,000 ,000 . It is schedu led for com pletion nex t O ct ob e r.
The p resen t hospital is locat ed a t 640 Forrest Rd ., N .E .
Egleston wa s founded in 1928 with funds left by Thom as H . Egleston , A tlan ta insu ran ce exe cutive, a nd was n amed in mem ory of his mother.
CONTRACT FOR PLANT
Am ericu s En gineerin g & Co nstr uc tio n Co. was awa rde d th e con tr ac t to build a pl ant for Gentsch Bedding Co., new Americu s ind us tr y. T he 54,000 sq ua re -foot-struc tu re will cost abou t $200 ,000 .
FIRST TROOP SAILING
Savann ah' s fir st m aj or role as a port of embar ka tion was com plete d with th e recen t sa iling of th e U . S. S. R a nd all and mo re th an 2,000 members of th e T hir d Ar mv D ivision a nd th eir fa mi lies, for Brem er ha ven, Ge rma ny .

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NEWSLETTER

M em ber Geo rgia Press A ssociat io n

Published monthly by GE O R GI A DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman T . C. BRANSO N, JR. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMl\IELL MciNTYRE
* SCOT T CANDLER Secretary FRED D. MOON
Ed itor

Vol. 9, No.6

Apr il, 1958

BIG ARMY ORDER UPS OUTPUT, PAY AT WRIGHTSVILLE

App a rclcralt, I nc., Wri~htsvi ll~ .ga r-

ment ind ust ry, has received military

con tracts wh ich will keep th e plant

op er a ting a t full cap ac ity throu gh O c-

t ob e r.

The two most recen t orders, M an -

age l' Gordo n C. Stephen son said, to-

tal 318,000 pai rs of trouser s.

T he add itional work will p ush em-

ploymen t up from 270 to abou t 350,

a nd th e payroll from $ 13,000 to $ 16,-

000 a week, he added .

Appa rc lcra ft opened last fall wi.th

an of

tororli~asienrasl.

contrac t for 225,000 pai rs This orde r has been filled ,

th e pl ant is wor king on two s u b seq u~n t

orders for 48,000 and 168,000 paIrS.

and now come two new con trac ts to-

taling 3 18,000 pairs.

" I n seven months time we ha ve

mad e a n am e for ourse lves as a sup -

plier of th e Qua rtermaster Corps,"

M r. Stephenson comme n ted .

COVER PHOTO
In broiler houses like th e one on ou r cover, Georg ia gro wers last year produced 261 million birds whi ch netted th em $ 150.3 million. Thanks to r e s ea r ch proj ects , th e No . 1 broiler sta te of th e nation will pro du ee bigg er and better broi lers faster at less cost. (Stor y on page 3 )

AT TTMA DEDICATION-Mrs. Catherin e Evan s Whitener, found er of Geor gia's fabu lous tuft ed textil e industry , cuts the ribbon to officially open th e new national headquarters building of th e Tufted Textile Manufacturers Assn. at Dalton. Govern or Marvin Griffin and W. H. Sparks, TTM A pr esident , stand by.-Gulledge photo

2ND TRAILER MAKER

COMES TO AMERICUS

Americ us is fast forgin g to th e fron t of Georg ia 's industry-getting cit ies.
New Moon H om es, In c., of Alma, Mi ch., is th e latest manufacturer to sla te a plant in th e fast -growing Sumter County cit y.
Amer icus, as rep or ted in NEWS LET TER for M a rch, has a lrea dy secur ed six maj or ind ustries in a n 18month per iod . The p ar ad e of new pla n ts began when M a rlette Coach Co., mobile hom e mak er of M arlette, Mi ch ., located a br an ch ope ra tion em ploying 100 men in a 368-acre industri a l area developed by Am ericusSumter County Develop ment Corp.
New Moon, one of th e country's top 10 manufacturers of mobile homes, will build a 40,000 squa refoot pl ant a nd a 40 x 70 foot offic e st ru cture.
The plant is scheduled to be ready for produetion by June 1. Employing 100 workers whe n in full operation , it will turn out five fini shed mobil e homes per da y. M on ey to fin an ce constr uc tion of th e p lant was subscribed by Am ericus citizens who formed a private investment compa ny. New M oon has signed a 20-year lease on the bui lding, with options for renewa l. D on F a rr , industrial rep resentative

of th e Am ericus-Sum ter C ham ber of Commerce, said New M oon will import a gene ral man ager , purch asing ag ent a nd pla nt super intenden t for th e bran ch opera tion. All other employees will be recr uited a nd trai ned locall y.
PERRY INDUSTRY IN FAST START
Perr y M fg. Co. Per ry's newest indu stry, is moving ra pidly tow ar d full
pr oduction after on ly two mont hs 0:"
ope ra tion. Sta rt ing with office and supe rvisor y
personnel of six peop le, th e p lan t now has 70 men a nd wom en on th e pa yro ll. T he working force is being increased as fast as mach inerv and materials a rr ive, and is expec ted to reach 200 when fu ll ca p ac ity is reached . Ult ima te payroll will be $350,000 .
Th e p I a n t manufactures b ed sprea ds, draper ies and cu r ta ins.
AUGUSTA INN ADDS
Augu sta's Ho lid ay Inn is star ting construction of a 40-unit addition. whi ch will br ing it s ca pa city to 85 un its.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE

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NEWSLETTER

April, 1958

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AT DULUTH - Part of sprawling Van tress F arms, wh er e a broiler breeding research program of almost fantastic proportions goes on continuously. More meat on less food is th e obj ect.

AT LOGANVILLE - Am erican Cyanamid Co o's new r esea rch farm where experiments cover poultry nutrition, pathology and br eeding. H er e scientists work to produce better broiler s.

RESEARCH PROMISES GEORGIA MORE AND BETTER BROILERS

Georgia, the nation's No. 1 broiler

state, will witness an investment of a

million dollars during 1958 in re -

search and experiments designed to

produce more and better broilers.

A su rvey discloses a host of pro-

gra ms und er way with tw o m aj or ob -

jectiv es: ( 1) T o p roduce healthier bird s

in less tim e a nd on a minimum of

feed , and (2) to ent ren ch more st rong -

ly th e sta te's leadership in th e broiler -

fryer field .

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AL GIBSON, secr eta ry of th e G eor gia Poultry Fed er ation , for ecasts th at Georg ia , whi ch has led th e nation in produ cti on for seven consecutive years. will net still bigger prof its und er new developments in th e ind ustry . That th e Geo rgia growers alrea dy have a lot of " know-how" is indicated by th e fact tha t in 1957 th ey pr odu ced 261 million bird s whic h netted th em $ 150,1 % ,00 0 .

Po ultry research in the sta t e is growing rapidly in both scope an d in t en sit y .
One of the new deve lopments is the establishment of a regional research far m near Loganville, by Am erican Cyanamid Co . This actually represents a transfer of the com pa ny' s program from Gainesville, sa ys James R. Sizemore, who is supervising the project.

Wher eas America n Cy anamid carried ou t its tests a t Gainesville with flocks of a bout 10,000 birds, th e num ber of pen s will be in cr eased a t Logan sville and tests will be rep eated mor e frequently to assure th e utmost accu ra cy in results. Mr. Sizemore said .

Resea rch will cover nutrition , p atho-

logy a nd br eeding. M or e ways will be

sough t to redu ce disease losses, to

add weight and more efficiently a nd

qui ck ly to increase egg produ cti on.

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AT DULUTH, Ch arl es Vant rcss con tinues to cond uct a br oiler br eed ing research progr am of a lmost fa ntas tic prop orti on s. On 400 -a cre s V antr ess F arms, scores of resea rch ers a re pr oceding apa ce with refin em ent of th e V an tress Dom in ant Whit M ale Line, develop ed espec ia lly for crossbreed ing for meat . V an tr ess males will sire ap p roxima tely 1.5 billion Van tress C ross ch icks in th e next 12 months. M ales for cross - breeding s t o c k arc shipped a t one-da y-old to meat chick pr oducers throughout Nort h a nd Sout h Ameri ca.

Mr. Vantress th ink s over-all re search will result before long in th e production of a t hree-pound bird in seven weeks on 1.75 pounds of feed per pound of meat.
Current experiments at Vantress Farms shows it requires 2.2 to 2.5 pounds of feed pe r pound of weight. Despite over production which h a s plagu ed th e industry recently, Georg ia expe r ts ag ree th at production will increase in th e yea rs a head. This, says Go rdo n Saw yer, secre ta ry of th e N ation al Br oiler Co uncil, G ain esville, will be du e princip all y to effor ts now under wa y to in cr ease consump tion, coupled with th e fact th a t chicken is th c cheapes t meat available.
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THERE ARE severa l o ther poultry br eeding resea rch fa rms in th e sta te. Nicho ls R e s e a I' c h F a rm s of New Hampshire opera te a lar ge proj ect near Dah lon ega, V a n tr ess h as a second farm of 3,000 acres a t J asper , A. W . Thompson has a resea rch farm a t H oschton ,
and J. D . J ewell, In c., has a man age-
ment and feed research farm betw een G aine sville and Athens.
Of major importance to th e industr y also is th e huge new Poultry .Disease R esearch Center recently opened at th e U n iversity of G eorgia Co llege of Agriculture at Athens.

CHAMPION - C harles Vantress, shown wi th on e of his p riz e breed ers , predicts a th ree -pound broiler in seven weeks on 1.75 pounds of feed per pound of meat.

PULP MILL TRACT Brunswick citv commission has ac -
cep ted a $40,000 ' offer fr om th e expan sion -m inde d Brunswick Pulp & Pap er Co. , for a 40-acre tract ad joining th e mill prop erty. The mill pl ans to build a pulp fiber p lant on th e land .

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETIER

April, 1958

BOX MAKER SLATES PLANT IN CLAYTON
Southern Bag & C rate Co . now opera ting in At lan ta , will bui ld a new pl an t in C layton Co unty.
.J. F. Conway, president, sai d a sev -
en -a cre site has been pu rch ased on H ighwa y 85 extending th rou gh to th e South Expressway, oppos ite th e new St ate F a rm ers M arket. Constructi on of a 60,000 sq ua re -foot bui ldin g will begin this summe r.
The p lant, equippe d to fabricat e and prin t boxes a nd con tainers of va rious typ es, will begin operation with about 20 employees.

WA RNER ROBI NS AI R FO RCE BASE-This giant installation, 11 miles south of Macon has 16,000 civilian empl oyees an d provid es Mi ddle Georg ia its biggest payroll . In th e cen te r and for eground are th e sprawling warehouses containing Air F orce ma terial used around th e world . The big hangars and shops are in the ri gh t backgr ound. H eadquart ers building of th e Warner Robins Air Mate r ial Are a, fr on tin g on th e fourlan e Warner Robins-M acon hi gh wa y, is visible in the ext reme left background. The sim ilar building n earb y is th e headquarters of the 14th Air Force Base.-Air Fo rce ph ot o

CARLING STARTS BREWING AT $10 MILLION FACILITY

Pr oducti on of beer has begun a t Carling Brewing Co.'s new $ 10,000,000 pl an t near Atlan ta.
T he brewery, located 0 11 Sout h Expressway n e a I' th e Fulton - Clay ton County line, is op eratin g on a regu lar sched ule following a number of test br ews, L t. Gen . A. R. Bollin g, p lant manager a nd Carling's region a l vice presiden t, sa id .
Due to the req uir ed ag ing process. sh ipme n ts from the pl ant will not begin until abou t May 1.
The plant ope ne d with 75 emp loy rcs, bu t will step up the work force to
$30 MILLION LOAN
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp has a rranged a $30 million loan with Eq uitab le Life Assurance Societ y to finance its current expansion progra m in Savanna h and Frankli n, Va . I mprovements incl ude a new h ard wood pu lp mill at th e Sa vannah fac ility and an addi tiona l paper ma chin e a t eac h location .

150 wh en its capac ity of 350,000 bar-

rels per year is reach ed .

T he beer now being produced is th e

fir st mad e in Georgia since th e At-

lan tic Co . closed its At lant a br ewer y

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GORDON PLANTS GET $10 MILLION ORDER FOR RUGS
A na tional cha in of variety stores has on or der $10 million wor th of ru gs from Gordon County plants.
C . M . Jones & Co., Calhoun, received th e bulk of the order fro m F . W . Woo lwor th Co . T he rugs ar e to be delivered du ring the rem aind er of 1958.
C. M . J on es, pr esid ent, said hi s company woul d split th e o rder with other Gordon County rug plants.

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NEW HOME FOR BLIND Geo rg ia Assn. of W orkers for the
Blind , In c., has purch ased a large build ing a t 890 M emori al Drive, S.E ., At lanta, for usc as a sta te headqua rters. T he stru cture wa s for mely occupied by Kraft Cheese Co.
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DRUG FIRM TO BUILD M er ck, Sh arp & Dohme, a di vision
of M er ck & Co. I nc., na tion all y kn own ph armaceut ica l firm, p lans to build a $250,000 wa reh ouse an d office building in Cla yton County, near South Exp ressway.
BRUNSWICK FIRM SLATES NEW PLANT
R. L. Peck T ool & Di e Co., Brunswick, will erect a new plant structure in t he new ly establishe d Mo l' r e II Knight ind ustria l a rea.
The concre te block and steel build ing will con tain 5,000 square feet of floor area and is expe cted to cost abou t $30,000. Air condit ione d offi ces will be inclu ded .
PLANT FOR INDUSTRY Indian H ead Mills, In c.'s surp lus
plant a t Douglasvill e h as been ac q uired by a group of Douglasville investors wh o are offering the faci lit y for lease to industrial ten ants.
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STAPLETON EXPANSION Sta pleton Garment Co ., St ap leto n,
is exp anding and add ing new eq uip ment whi ch , says Ell i o tt S erott a . comptro ller, will increase emp loymen t fr om th e p resent 250 to 300. The firm pr oduces trousers a nd spo rtswea r.

NEWSL ETTER

April, 1958

SOARING AIRLINE BUSINESS ECHOES GROWTH OF GEORGIA

Ge orgia's 12 major airport s served by commerc ial scheduled airl ines a re roaring with bu siness.
Nea rly 600 comme rc ia l landings a nd dep a rtures are being reco rde d in th e state dail y, including passen ger a nd all- cargo flights.
Atl anta, with 268,115 ai rc ra ft movements a year , ra n ks as th e tenth bu siest airport city in th e nation . L ast yea r, 2,700,000 pa ssenger s were emplan ed at Atlant a, pla cing the city in eigh th posi tion nationa lly for com mer cia l pass eng er activity.
Savannah in 1957 had 148,278 a ircra ft 0 p er a t i o n s, whil e Augusta cha lked up 5 1,4 15.
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In th e seven-sta te Sou theas t- Georgia, Alabama, Fl o I' id a, M ississippi , T ennessee and th e Car olinas- 31 key a irpor ts recorded a 12 p er cent gai~ in ac tivity during th e yea r. The nearly five m illion airc ra ft opera tions in these sta tes rep resented approxima tely one-fifth of the tota l reported for the U .S. a nd its possession s.
All ca rri ers serv ing Geo rgia increased both th e number and fr equ en cy of their flights during th e year, boostin g the tota l to 360 dail y fligh ts. M aj or trunklines operating in Georgia are Cap ital, D elt a, Eas tern and Nationa l. Sout he rn Airlines, a local serv ice ca r rie r, and th e all- ca rgo fr eight ca r rier Riddle Air-

lines, also serve th e sta te. Delta Air L ines, wh ich has its head qu arters a nd prin cipa l m ainten an ce opera tions cen te red in At lan ta, boosted cargo services inaugura tcd last fa ll, linking Geor gia with th e system's 10,675 mile routes in th e U. S. a nd six Caribb ean coun tries.
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MORE THAN 1,000 new fac tories spra ng up in th e Southea st in 1957 incl ud ing mor e th an 300 in Geor gia - and in the words of Delta presiden t C. E. Woo lma n, th ese industries "a rc gea red to air tra nsporta tion."
"Sa les an d managem ent personnel of th ese new indus tries tr avel by air, machine parts a nd raw mat eri als arc shipped by air, a nd man y of th eir finished products move to ma rk et by plan e," he pointed ou t. " Goo d sched uled air transportation has becom e as importa nt to industrial growth as water, pow er , lab or a nd ade qua te commun ity servi ces."
Mr. Woolman b el i e ve s that th e stea dy shift of indust ry b e low the M ason -Dixon Line may in time re verse th e traditional d irection flows of air ca rgo, wh ich have been north-south a nd cas t-west.
NEW CONCRETE PLANT
Potts Con cret e Co ., a mod ern new read y-mix conc rete plant, is a new industry at Newnan.

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FU R FLIES - Raccoon coa ts, a r evived cam pus fad , arr ive at Atl anta airp or t, and
one is m od eled by Ste wardess .1 0 Ann
Marshall. C ha rlotte M affett is assisti ng .

STATE AIRPORTS CiET $1.2 MILLION

ALL ABOA R D- Passengers enpla ne at Atlan ta M unici pal Air port, one of the bu siest in the world. L ast yea r 2, 700 ,000 passen gers passed through this ro ari ng terminal.

Of th e record $8,435, 169 in fede ra l funds to be spen t begin nin g .July 1 for airport improvem ent proj ects in the seven-sta te Sout heast, Geor gia's share is $ 1,032,000 .
Atl anta gets th e lion 's sha re of th e fund, $ 1,032,000 .
Alban y will receive $45,750, Columbu s, $ 132,000 , Lawren ceville, $58,400 a nd M acon , $ 17,500.
The funds, to be administere d by CAA , will be match ed by th e sta te.

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GEORGIA DE PA RTMENT O F COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April, 1958

HUNTER BASE SPENDS $40 MILLION A YEAR

Hunter Air Force Base, Savannah, as a business exp end s more th an $40 million a yea r . N early all of thi s sum finds its way into local bu siness cha nnels..
T he annual ou tlay covers payr olls, const ruction, maintenance and purchase of supplies and eq uip me nt, reports Lt. Col. Clayton M. Doherty, comp troller of th e 38th Air Divi sion . M ilita ry p ay accounts for $22,170,.13 2, of whi ch a n estimated $21,062,052 is spen t in th e Savann ah a rea. Practica lly alI of th e civilia n pa yroll, $ 1,630,000, is spen t locally. Con tractural services, tran sportation , c1 c c tri ~i ty, comm unica tions, property I' c p a I r s , laun dry, etc., accoun t for $824, 127 a nd in add ition Hun t e l' spends la rge sums th rou gh Di stri ct En gin eer cha nnels. En gin eer con trac ts a re almost always completed by subcon t ra cts a nd lab or ers fro m th e area. The base's ba lan ce sheet , also compi led by th e division comptrolIer, shows Hunter's assets well over $400 million . There a re 502 families living on the base a nd 3,48 1 fa m ilies living off th ebase. A total of 13,940 militar y dependent s a rc listed on base records.
$44 MILLION MORE FOR HARTWELL DAM
An additiona l $44 ,300,000 for furth er construction of th e H a rtwell D am Reserv oir, on th e Savanna h Ri ver between H artwell, Ga ., and And er son . S. C., has been approved by Congress.
T he alIocation b rings fu nds provided for th e proj ect to $93,300.000 which is the estima ted cost.
STATE ACQUIRES ETOWAH MOUNDS SITE FOR MUSEUM

Officers sta tioned at Hunter own 1.-

985 ca rs. ai rm en own 3.443 and civii-

ians , 994.

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The ba se incl udes 5,435 own ed acres

a nd 5 1, 112 leased acres . It was offi-

cially opened in M ay, 1940, a nd re-

activated on Sept. 30, 1950. It is th e

on ly base named for a living man,

Gen . F ra nk O 'D riscoll Hunter, Sa-

vannahian and ''''orld ' ,Val' I ace .

VIENNA PUMP FIRM DOUBLING PLANT
Vien na' s home-grown an d ope ra ted industry, Georgia- Pacific Pu mp Co.. will over flow soon into new quarters t ha t will more th an double its size.
An addition, a 54 x 100 foot st ruc tu re of conc rete block a nd glass, is bein g joined to th e present 4,00D squa re-foot building .
Roy C. J oiner, who foun ded the firm four years ago , said th e addi tio na l space wilI enable the p la nt to produce on a n assem bly line ba sis up to 100 pumps a day.
The company has recently begun p roduct ion of a new line of mu lti- stage deep well jet pu mp s tha t lift wa ter 200 feet or more.

WALTER GEORGE DAM

Walter George Lock and D am is

now th e official na me of th e huze river

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proj ect un d el' construction on th e

C ha tta hoo chee a t Fort Ga ines.

$45,000 FOR PARK POOL Govern or M a rvin Griffin appropri-
at ed $45,000 for imp rovements at Reidsville Sta te Park, and construc tion is bein g rushed to complete a new swimming pool in tim e for th e seaso n's opening .

PLANTATION EXPANSION
$2.4 MILLION
Pla nt ation Pipeline's Georgia facilities a t Brem en, Dorav ille, ' V i n d e r. Athens and H artwell wilI share in a $2,440 ,000 expa nsion progra m which th e comp any is getti ng under way.
Officials of th e Baton R ouge, La . company said p lans calI for the in sta lIation of la rger pu mps, mo tor s and a uxilia ry equipme nt at various sta tions , which will increase th e system's ca pacity for the transporta tion of petr oleum p rodu cts to 334,000 barrels a day.
Asphalt Terminal Open At Savannah
The new Savannah terminal of Ameri can Bitumuls & Asph alt Co. is o pe n .
Located at th e river end of Grang e Rd . a t Port Wentworth, th e faci lity has a storage cap ac ity of more than 250,000 barrels.
200-UNIT MOTEL DUEATCOLUMBUS
A 200-unit motor hot el is being bu ilt in down town Columbus at a cost of $2 m illio n .
I t will cover mo re th an half of a city block on 10th St . between 3rd and 4th Aves.
The builder, E. D . M artin said th e fac ility wilI be nam ed th e M a rtinique an d will c a I' I' V a C ar ibb ea n decor throughout. .
AlI gues ts rooms wilI be on secon d a nd th ird floors, with th e gro und floor s hou sing off ices, restaurant, coffee and gift shops a nd othe r facilit ies, M r. M a rtin said .

Geor gia H istorical Commission has

acq uired Iivc acres of land at Et owah

M ounds, ne-a r Ca rt ersv ille, on whi ch

to build a mu seu m.

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Gove rno r M a I' v i n Griffin mad e

funds a vai la ble for th e str ucture, which

\ViII cost a ppro ximately $50 ,000 .

The mus eum will serv e as a perman-

ent display for hund reds of artifa cts

remov ed from the a ncien t In di an

m o u n d s.

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GIANT FOR BR UNSWICK-Architect 's sketch of th e hu ge plant which Bestwall Gyps um Co . will erec t at Brunswick. The facilit y will cost $7 million, and will provi de 250 jobs .

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NEWSLETTER

April. 1958

$122.6 MILLION ROAD FUND
GIVES GEORGIA DIXIE LEAD

Georgia leads the Southeast a nd is nin th in t he nation in the amount of fund s com mitted under the federal in ters tate highw a y program , says th e U . S. De partme nt of Co m merce.
Georgia 's fu nd s, $ 122,66 1,000, a rt: committed to cover construc tion of 108.5 miles of lim it ed acce ss expres sway type int ers tate roa ds.
In add ition, since th e int er stat e p ro gra m began in 1956, Georgia has a uthorized con tracts for 42.4 miles of such roa ds costing a pproxima tely $ 19,22 1,000 . This a u thorizati on includes the At lan ta Expressway System .
(T he ter m "com mitte d," exp la ins th e St at e H ighw ay Dept., refers to moni es ea rma rked for specific construc tion pr oject s. " Con tracts authorized" mean s funds pr eviou sly com mitt ed and now invo lved in construction ) .

AT LANTA EXP RE SSWAY- Par t of Georgia' s int erstat e roa d pro gr am , is seen in thi s airv iew approaching the city fr om the nor th . Peachtree SI. a t Br ookwood Sta tio n is th e ex ac t cente r of th e lower for egr ound. T he ex pressw ay leg lead ing to Marietta fork s off tow ard th e lower lef t, and the leg leading toward Ga inesv ille swings out a t ri ght. The three br oad streets a t left a rc Peachtree, West Peacht ree and Sp r ing. Atlant ic Steel Co . is at ri gh t. In the fa r di stant is the downt own a rea .

Thomaston Gains 3,500 Citizens Through Merger
With a ga in of 3,500 citizens through merger with Silvertown, Thom ast on has jumped to 26th place population wise among th e cities of Georgia .
Thomaston 's new popu lati on is estim ated a t 11,100.
T he Upson Co un ty seat leapfrogged 13 cities for it s new sta nd ing . They are H ap eville, Cordele, Ced artown , Mill ed geville, D ouglas, Newn an , Carrollton, Fitzgerald, Bainbridge, Fort Val l e y, Cartersvill e, T i f ton a nd Toccoa .

ELECTRIC POWER USE AT 8.6 BILLION KWH
A record was set in th e use of electri c pow er in Geor gia du ring 1957, th e Georgia Power Co.'s annual report revea ls.
The compa ny's tot al electric sales were 8.6 billion kilow att-hours, a 10.4 pCI' cen t incr ease over 1956.
$500,000 MOTEL Work is u nderw ay on th e new 45-
unit M edi ca l Center M otel, Augu sta . Opposite T alm ad ge M em ori al Hospital, th e modern, two-stor y install ation will be comp letely fireproo f with masonry walls, a nd will fea ture a rest aurant sea ting 100.

GEORGIA'S com mitt ed tot al, says the federa l ag ency, tops all sta tes in the U nit ed St ates excep t Ca lifornia , Illinois, M ichigan , Mi s so u I' i , New York , Ohio, Penn sylvania a nd T exas.
Co mmitme nts mad e up to Fe b. 28th of thi s yea r in the seven -sta te Southeas t tot a l $6 17,647,000 on 1,156 miles of high wa ys.
T he Southea st's total mileage lea ds all ot he r reg ions, a nd t he expe nditure leads all exce pt th e Eas t No r th Ce ntral a rea (O hio, Indiana, I llinois, Mi chigan a nd Wisconsin ) and the P acific Coast area of Washing ton, O rego n a nd Californ ia .
The sta nding of th e sou theas tern sta tes as of Feb . 28 was:
G eor g i a, $ 122,66 1,000; A l ab am a , $ 72 ,96 5 ,000 ; Florid a, $87,50 1,000 ; M isissippi , $82 ,718 ,000 ; North Ca rolina , $9 1, 179,000 ; South Carolina , $60,919,000 and T ennessee, $99,704.000.
Mil eagewise, th e tot als a rc:
G e or gi a , 10 8. 5 mi l e s ; Alab am a. 179.9; 'F lorida, 5 1.2; Mi ssissippi 197 ; North Carolina , 387.8; South Ca ro lina. 174.4 a nd T ennessee, 57.2.
COLLEGE PROJECT
Georgia Milita ry Coll ege, Mill edgeville, will spend $225,000 on improvements a nd rehabilitation to cam pus str uctures during th e summe r.

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NE WS L ET T ER

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Ap ril , 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Governor Marvin Griffin provid ed $375,000 to build th e world' s fir st forest fire resea rch laborator y a t Geo rgia -Forestry Cen ter, Macon . .. A $200 ,000 seed testin g lab or at ory is also sla ted for th e cente r. . . . Citizens & Southern Nationa l Bank will build a 12-stor y pa rki ng garage-office build ing a t th e northwest corn er of M a riet ta and Broad Sts., Atlanta.
Radi o St ation W AZ A is on the a ir at Bainbridge . . . White is inst alling a new wa ter syste m . .. Johnson County's cen tennial will be celebra ted a t Wrightsville M a y 11-16 . . . Perry vot ers app rov ed a $ 250,000 w a t e r sewer bond issue .. . Superior Aluminum Awning Co., Atlanta, is in a new pl ant. . . . Belk-Mat th ews is a new department store a t Vidalia . . . Coca- Cola is now ava ilable in three bottle sizes. . . . Brooks County H ospi tal, Quitman is adding a win g cost ing $60 ,000 . . . . Chas. Pfizer & Co ., che micals, has 0 p e n e d sou theast ern head qu arter s a t Chamblee.
St. Marys R a ilroad will ex tend its line fro m Kingsland to Folkston, 21 miles . . . Woodbine is drilli ng a new wa te rwor ks well . . . Ashburn is expanding water and street faciliti es . . . Tom E. Greene is new president of Macon Ch a mb er of Co mmerce . . . Sixt y hou sing un its a re sla ted a t Cartersville ... Rich's Inc., Atlanta, pl ans a three-stor y serv ice buildi ng a nnex .
Southern Bell is constructing a n exchange building at Cartersville . . . Exp an sion loan of $498 ,000 has been approved for Snapp ing Shoal s REA , Covington .. . South Georgia Poultry Suppliers, Inc., has a new feed mill a t Camilla . . . Henry County voters ap proved $250,000 schoo l bond issue.
F u Ito n County will erect a $ 1,750,000 bu ildin g ad jacen t to th e cour t hou se in Atlanta . . . D avid R othschild Co . is erecting a $300 ,000 office-ware bou se struc ture a t Columbus . . . H erniles P ow d el' Co ., Savannah, has added a $ 100,000 office uni t . . . A din ing hall- student cente r a t Georgia T eachers College, Statesboro, is slated to cost $600,000.
Co lonia l St ores, In c., Atlanta, purcha sed Mike R ose Food Mfg. Co.. In c., Nashville, T cnn . . . M ar y J a ne Shoes new Atlanta store a t 77 Whitehall St. , SW , is th e cha in's 126th unit. . . . A $700,000 addi tio n to Hall County H ospit al, G a inesville, nears com plet ion .
Fulton County received a fed er al gran t of $250,000 tow ard a new sewage tr eatment pl ant . . . Stephens Fed eral Savin gs & Loan Assn. is in

JEKYLL ISLAND MOTEL - Now nearing completion, this 96-unit facility is sch eduled for op ening this spring, sa ys builder Walter Williams, Jr. Each unit, facin g directly on the beach with slid ing glas s wall, contains two sleeping areas, dressing room , kit ch enette, sitting terrace, bath and closet. The motel is named the Wand erer, for the ship that brought the last load of slav es to th e United States, landing on Jekyll.

its new building at Toccoa . . . U niversity of G eorgia is building th ree units of its six-b ui ldi ng $ 12 million Scien ce C ent er a t Athens.
Augusta's Southga te Sho p ping Center opened . . . Madison has sla ted 66 new hou sing units ... Flint Gas Co., Vienna, is enla rging its pl ant . . . Dallas' new post office is occup ied .. . Abr ah am Baldwin College, Tifton, will ge t a dormitor y additio n .. . Thomasville Cha m ber of Co mmerce dedi ca ted its new headqu a rt er s . . .Baxley is cons tru cting a $350,000 sewage disposal plan t . . . Loui s H. Coo k has tak en over as city man ager of Douglas.
. .. .J. T. W arnock, Tarrytown, has
purch ased th e New Vi d ali a H ot e I, Vidalia . . . A $56 6,000 nurses hom e is being erec ted a t St. Fran cis H ospital, Columbus . . . Citizen s Bank & Trust Co ., Bainbridge, is in its new h om e .

General M ot a r s is expa nding its tr ain ing cente r nea r Atlanta .. . General T eleph on e Co . is erecting a new exchange building a t Dawson . . . K ing and Prin ce H ot el, St. Simons I~land , h as ac qu ire d land fa:' ;::~: p an sio n.
M ark s Oxygen Co., Augusta, h as com pleted it s new pl ant . . . Lavonia's new landing field h as been named Shuford Municip al Airport . . . Par ham M ot el, n ear Commerce, has been boug ht by M r. and M rs. Chester P.
H olt . . . .J. C. Griffin, Inc., is in a
new store buil din g a t Bowdon.
Springfield, G uy ton an d Rineon ha ve signed up for natural gas New Paulding County M em ori al Hospital, Dallas, will op en in June . . . M ather Bros., Inc., has opene d a sto re in Marietta's R oswell St . shopping center . . . Forsyth vo ters favored $75,000 for city lighting im prov eme n ts.

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NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Press Association

P ubli shed mon thly by GE O RG IA DEP T . O F COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MA RV I N GRIFFIN Gover nor BO ARD OF COM M ISSION ERS EMO RY L . BUTLER
Ch airman T. C . BR ANSO N, J R. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMMELL MciNTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER
S e c r e t a r y
F RED n. I\IOON
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Vol. 9, No.7

May, 1958

BIBB PURCHASES MILL IN FORSYTH
Bibb Mf g. Co., M acon , has bou ght th e p lant of th e old En sign T extile
Mi ll in For svth R obert T;ain, Bibb presid ent,. sabid
a woole n fiber spi nn ing system Will e inst alled and that th e mi ll wou ld reopen in th ree or four months. Employmen t will be pro vided for 100 to 125
worker s. The pl ant was last opera ted by
Burlingt on M ills, but h ad been closed
sin ce its sale three yea rs ago.

DOUGLAS & LOMASON ENLARGING PLANT
An addition to th e plant of D ougla s & Lomason Co., C arrollt on, au to trim manufacturer , is under cons truc tion.
M an ager V. L. Cashen said th e on ethird enlarg eme n t of th e work a rea plus new equ ipme nt will incr ease ou tput considerably.
COVER PHOTO
Kid in Paradise mig ht well be the title of thi s photo showing a youngster happily fishing in C lam Creek, Jekyll Island. The island, Georgia's fast-developing seaside playground, is opening the season with new motels, bath houses, picnic an d play areas, restaurant. A big shopping center is under construction, along with an auditorium, golf house and other new facil ities.-photo by Marvin Mitchell.

BOTH CHAMPIONS-Otis Pruitt, 17-year-old vocational agriculture student and Future Farmer from Banks Co unty H igh School, Homer, with his Angus steer and th e Governor's Trophy at the recent Georgia Fat Cattle Show and Sale in Atlanta. The steer, grand champion of the show, was pur chas ed by Colo nial Stores, In c., for $2.0 1 per pound, th e highe st price ever pa id for a Geor gia-grown animal. There were 260 entries in the show , of whi ch 34 were judged prime, 122 choi ce an d 94 good .

GEORGIANS GET BARGAIN

IN STATE GOVERNMENT

Georgians last year paid an average of $ 125.54 eac h to run th eir state government, one of th e nation's lowest per capita expenditures, says th e Atlanta field office of th e U. S. D epartment of Commerce.
Onl y 13 other sta tes in th e n at ion h ad lower per capita av erages - N ew J ersey, Indiana, Illinois, Wi sconsin, Mi ssou ri, N ebr aska, Ark an sas, T exas, M ississippi , T ennessee, th e Carolinas and K entucky.
Ann ouncing results of a study of Bureau of Census figures ju st releas ed on sta te finan ces in th e fiscal yea r 1957 ending last June 30, th e fed eral age nc y said th at Geo rg ia during th e p eriod paid ou t a tot al of $464.4 million in all form s of sta te gov ern men t exp endi-
tu res. Georgia' s tot al was 17th fr om th e top
in th e nation , ra nking behind Florida, N orth Carolin a, M assachu setts, New York, New J ersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi chigan , Lou isian a, T exas, Wa shingt on, C alifornia, Wisconsin a nd Virgin ia.
Georg ia could also boast of being amo ng 32 sta tes to op erate on a " ba la nced budget" in fisca l 1957 ; th at is, in spending less th an th eir revenues. Geor gia ende d th e yea r with a $ 13.1 milli on "bala nce ."
The calcu lation as to per ca pita exp enditures was based on civilian popu-

lati on in Georgia as of July 1 of last yea r whi ch was placed a t 3,699 ,000 , the ag ency said .
$500,000 ORDER FOR TV CABINETS
Nunn-Better C abinets C o., M arietta, has received a $500,000 order for television and hi -fi cabine ts fr om Ol ympic R ad io & T elevision Corp .
Pr esident Barney Nunn said th e or de r would mean doub ling th e pl ant's produ ction du rin g th e next 12 m onths.
Nunn-Better also produces cabine ts for M agn av ox and H alli cr aft er s video a nd hi-Ii sets.
PIEDMONT PAPER CO. BUILDING NEW PLANT
Piedmont Pap er Co. is erecting a new office a nd war eh ou se structure on Atl anta's No rtheast Expressway. T he firm is now located at 337 Elizab eth St. , N.E.
T o con ta in some 30,000 squ a re feet of floor spa ce, th e new one-sto ry steel a nd masonry pl ant will be entir ely sprin kled, with th e office area air conditioned . I t will hav e a five-car rai lroad siding in addition to truck loading faciliti es.

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N EWS L ETT ER

M ay, 1958

CHEVROLET'S HUGE NEW UNIT

SYMBOL OF FAITH IN DIXIE

Continued growt h and pro sperity over th e long- ra nge future for metropolitan Atlant a, Georgia and th e Sout heast a re envisioned by one of t he nation's leading producers of a utomo biles and trucks.
E dw ard H. K elley, of Det roit, gen eral manufacturing manager for Chevr olet Motor Di vision of Ge neral Motors Co rp ., made th e forecast a t dedi cation ceremonies for Chevrol et's new supply depot at Doraville.
M r. K elley cited th e 285,000 squar efoot depot and a 385,000 square-foot additio n bein g construc ted a t C hevrolet' s At lan ta assembly p la nt as evide nce of C hevrolet's confiden ce in the economic fut ur e of D ixie. H e also mention ed the 149,000 squa re-foo t expansion recently completed a t Fi sher Bod y Di vision's Atl anta plant, whi ch supplies bodies to Chevrolet.
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THE D ETROIT execu tive addressed a ga the ring of 100 civic, bu siness and indus tria l leaders of DeK alb a nd Fulton Cou n ties at a lun ch eon whi ch followed a ribbon-cutting and plant tour a t th e new facilit y.
In a response to Mr. K elley's a ddress, Scot t Ca ndler, Geo rg ia Sec re tar y of Co mme rce, said th e new supply dep ot " is an important addition to th e industrial life of D eK alb County and also a grea t addition to the industrial life of Geo rg ia, p ro viding many jobs and making it possible for ou r peopl e to secure quick serv ice for th eir needs in connec tion

ANOT HER D EKALB G IANT-Aer ial view of th e rece ntly com pleted C hev rolet supply depot at D or avill e. Approximately 24,000 differen t au tomobile and tr uc k pa rts ar e stocked at this new facili ty. The structure also houses the Atla nta zone sales office .

with GM au tom obil e equipme nt."
Secre ta ry Candler not ed that CM's C hev ro let and Fishe r Bod y plants at Atla n ta and the BuickOldsmobil e-P ontiac assembly plant at Do ra ville provid e jobs for more th an 7,000 Geo rg ia ns.
Describing as "am azing" th e growth and pro gr ess of the metropolitan ar ea , Mr. K cllev reca lled that wh en the first C hevrolet ' rolled from th e local assembly pla nt in 1928, th e pop ula tion was estimated at 270,000 perso ns, com-
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par ed with almost 1,000,000 tod ay.
During th e 30-year inter im, he said , Chevrolet has b u i I t ap p roxima tely 2,161,800 ca rs a nd trucks her e, with pa yro lls at Chevrol et and F isher Body mu shrooming from $1,640,000 th e fir st yea r to a bout $18,700,000 in 1957.
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" W E AR E CERT AI N that the tr emen dous growth of Atlan ta and th is a rea will con tinue over a long term," he said, add ing th a t th e new warehouse is " the first step towa rd even gr eater growth an d prosperity for both the -a rea a nd for Chevrolet."

s COATS CLARK'S
NEW AFFILIATE OPEN IN TOCCOA

AT D EDIC ATION-Claude H. Blount, Sr., chair ma n of th e D eKalb C oun ty Commission, cuts a gold ribbon to adm it Leonard F. Coy le (ce nte r), ma nager of Chev rolet's Atla nt a plant, and L. Ralph Mason, of D etroit, to the new Do ravill e supply depot.

David son Industri es, In c., new aff ilia te of Coat s & Cl a rk, In c., has begun opera tion of its manufacturing and sales faciliti es in th e new C & C mill at T occoa.
Product s of th e affilia te a rc th e Davidson sp ring, used in packa ge dyeing, and othe r texti le equipme n t. Until recen tly, Davidson springs wer e manufact ur ed exclusively by a firm in En gland ,

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

May, 1958

MAGIC CIRCLE TOUR SPOTLIGHTS NORTH GEORGIA AREA FOR NATION

Those who have seen only the sunand-surf shore of Georgia, or the moss-hung beauty of Savannah, owe themselves a trip to the northern part of the Peach State, an area of infinite variet y for every member of the family.

Here are great man-made lakes, mile-high mountain peaks, cascading waterfalls, turbulent trout streams, miles of floral trails, forest-fringed fairways for the golfer, the cosm~ politan tempo of one of the Soud: s largest and friendliest cities, colonial homes and primitive Indian mounds.

Atlanta is th e cente r of a M agic

Circle of pl easant ro ad s to ~hese a ~

tracti ons. To better a pprec iate this gracious city, sta r t \~ith th e view fr~m

eithe r th e observa tIOn tower of city

hall or from th e 230-foot dom e of th e

Sta;e Capitol, wh ich is pat tern ed after

th e n ational cap ito l building in Wash-

ing to n. Not onl y do you get a pano-

rama of Atl anta but a good view of

hist oric Stone M ount ain , 16 mil es

away. The Capitol is set off by vivid

flower pl beautiful

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THE WHOLE F AMILY will like your next stop at Grant Park, with it s appealing zoo a nd th e wor.ld-fan:ed Cyclo rama. H ou sed in a spe cial building, th is circula r p ainting of th e Battle of Atl anta is a n awesome 400 feet aroun d, 50 feet high and weighs 1 8 ,~00 pounds. The very real effect of bem.g right in th e midst of th e battle IS create d by use of three-dimensional figu res, scene ry and " props" whi ch seem to carrv th e acti on fr om th e "flat" ca nvas to th e a re a right in front of your eyes. Plaster soldi ers merge so skillfu lly with th e painting, you scarcely ca n see wh ere th e p ainting and the for eground meet .
In con trast is "Wren's N est," home of Jo el Chandler Harris, ori ginator of "U ncle Remus and Brer R abbit." Many of Harris' p er sonal effec ts and ori gin al editions are now on display.

We spun a penny to decide which of the Magic Circle tours we would take out of Atlanta. The Indian head pointed east, so we drove (U. S. 29) toward Athens, stopping enroute

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at Stone Mountain. Rising 686 feet above the countryside, this mighty monolith is the largest solid body of exposed granite in the world. Wellworn trails lead to the crest, site of rituals by prehistoric races; today it gives even small boys that "king of the mountain" feeling.
Athens offers little boys ano ther thrill - th e chance to see th e onl y double-barrelled ca nnon in ex istence . Now on Coll ege Ave., it was made for th e Confed era cy in th e Sixties. Home of th e University of Georgia, this great
THE TOUR Magic Circle Travel Clinic, a public service division of Ethyl Corp., each week outlines a scenic motor tour centering around some U. S. city. Highlighting points of scenic, historic, industrial and cultural interest which may be covered in an easy drive, the tours are popular with tourists and local motorists alike. It was the pleasure of the Georgia Department of Commerce to assist Young & Rubicam, Inc., Ethyl's public relations representative, in preparing this and subsequent Georgia tours.

educa tional cen ter also is noted for it s an te-bellum homes in th e Greek R evival mod e, with tall columns and spacious ver andas, surrounded by lawns dotted with magnolias to make th e city a delight to th e visitor's eye.
From Athens, U. S. 129 leads you through Gainesville, where 75 million broiler chickens are processed every year. Your destination is a city where the streets are paved with gold-bearing rock, and whose Chamber of Commerce makes equipment available so that you can "pan your own. " The city of Dahlonega, from an old Cherokee term meaning "yellow metal," is said to be the scene of the first important discovery of gold in the United States. For nearly 40 years a U. S. mint was located there. Now a gold panning park, a museum and a lighted mine are open to visitors. They will tell you that some local boys are supported in college today by the gold that their families pan in the area.
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WHETHER you find gold or not , th er e's another pl eas ant "discovery " 18 mil es on from Dahlonega-Cochran Falls in Chattahoochee National For-
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NEWSLETTER

May, 1958

'Lh e Rocks look like m et eors Iroiu space rained d own on C off ee Cou n ty. D ou glas Ent erprise staf f ph ot os by T om Frie r J r.

ROCKS OF COFFEE MAKE WEIRD SCENE

Long Way Down

A little known, hard-to-get -t o show place in Co ffee Co unty is a n ar ea some 17 m iles north of D ouglas kno wn as "T he R ocks."
T ak en th er e blind -folde d, up en opening your eyes you wou ld wag er a small fortune that you were somewhere in the North Georgia mountains instead of in the South Georg ia f l a t l a n d s.
Ther e is appro xima tely 150 ac res of la nd involved a nd th e ro cky area stre tches some three mil es northwa rd beginnin g at a wat erfalls.
In his "Geological Survey of Georgia," th e late S. W . M cC alli e, former sta te geologist, mad e off icial refere nce to th e p hen om en a:
" At The Rocks, nin e miles northea st of Broxton , th ere is 20 feet of finegrained, alum inous sands tone and cla ystone expo sed in a na rr ow, ru gged ra vine. The rock bea rs no fossils, and its stratigra phic pos itio n is det ermined entirel y by its lith ologic resemblan ce to indu ra ted phases of th e Alt am aha a t ot her locali ties."
The la nd th at includes The Rocks is now owne d by Gail' Woodlands Corp. of Savannah .
Natives of th e section estimate that th ere ar e millions of ton s of th e rugged ro ck formation , but warn that it is not as sim ple to fin d it as one migh t think.

S parkling w a te rf alls.
M any diff erent trai ls lead from the d irt road s to th e ro ck a rea , bu t it is easy to ge t lost on th em. I t is easier still for a ca r to bog down a nd ge t stu ck, especially in wet weather.
There a re smo ked -up caves in th e a rea , and old tales tell of draft dodgers h iding out ba ck duri ng th e Wa r Between the States. Som e folk tell of moon shiner s who found refuge th ere. Wh eth er you ag ree with the stories or not , The Rocks is a good p lace to hide - a nd get lost, if you're not ca refu l.
CEREBRAL PALSY GRANT
U . S. Dep a rt ment of H ealth, Education & Welfare h as granted $209 ,790 to th e At lanta Cerebral Palsy Center , for a reh abilita tion facility.



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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

M ay, 1958

GEORGIA MAGIC TOUR

(Con tinued fr om Page 4) est. Sp otted by a low-fl yin g plan e, th ese specta cula r fall s wer e unknown to th e outside world un til rcccnt lv. Thev are now easilv accessible. T he fall s' h ave a d rop of '80 feet , th en cascade down th e mountain for ano ther 650 feet. Forest ra ngers say that Coch ran is eve n a bi t high er th an Ami cal ola F alls, whi ch you will visit enro ute to Ellij a y (G a. 52 ).
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FROM ELLIJAY th e roa d (U . S. 76 ) wa nders th rou gh beautiful For t M ountain St at e Pa rk , with its magn ificent mountain-top lak e. Every turn of th e ro ad reveal s a br eath-t aking view.
Three miles past Chatsworth, at the tiny town of Spring Place, you will want to visit the Chief Vann House. Chief Vann wa s the halfScott and half-Cherokee Indian who became a tribal chief. The com manding home that he built about 1799 has been restored and is op en to visitors.
The area enroute west to Dalton is the world's center for th e manufacture of candlewick bedspreads. A nearby plant offers a fascinating tour of the industry, and roadways are lined with a clothesline art show of the colorful spreads, mats and rugs.
If your tim e permits, det our west to th e state's border for Loo kout M ountain and the aptly nam ed Clo ud lan d Can yon State P ar k. You will be rewarded with maj estic vista s of ca nyo ns a nd clo ud -tipped p ea ks.
Your M agic Ci rcle trip now curves sou th, via U. S. 27 to R om e, site of th e Berry Sch ools a nd its 32,000-a cr e ca m-

pu s, largest in th e world. The log ca bin in whi ch this pi on eering ven tur e in self-ed uca tion began h as been rep la ced by mo de rn un its.
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AS YOU T URN EAST on U . S. 4 11, you will be ama zed by th e number of ca rs with boat tr ail er s a nd water skis. All a re head ed for Allatoona L ak e, reputed to be th e South's largest inl and ya ch t basin .
Three miles southw est of C artersville you will feel as if you a re driving ba ckwa rd s in history. H er e a t th e Et owah Indian M ounds you will see archa eological stude n ts bu sy a t work excavating evide nce th at her e wa s an ancien t Am eri can civiliza tion th a t reigned some wher e betw een 500 a nd 1500 A.D . The exc ava tions ar e ope n th e yea r a round, as is th e m useum wi th In dian ca rvings a nd impl em ents, ceremo nia l masks, trinket s and p otter y.
The 42-mile a r c a between th e mounds a nd Atl anta is rich in military histor y. If you secre tly believe you cou ld have been a tacti cal gene ral, you' ll want to sto p a t K ennesa w M ou ntain, site of what has been ca lled th e ou tstanding ba ttle of Sherman's cam pa ign to ca p tu re Atl an ta and Georgia. En compassing 3,000 acres, th e N ational Battlefield Park contains a museum of relics a nd recor ds a nd a mo untain pea k ove rloo k whi ch may be rea ched by ca r. T ren ch es a nd forti ficati on s a re well-pr eserved and th e ba tt lefield area appears m uch as it did more th an 90 yea rs ago . R ecords of th e action a re so com plete th at man y visito rs ca n be sho wn within a few feet of wh er e an an cestor fought.

BASKETMAKER-H. G. Helms, 01 Cl eveland, show s his artistry with white oak "splits" at the Southeast ern Hotel Exposition in Atlanta recently. The G eor gia State Chamber of Commerce booth in the ba ckground promotes authe n tic Georgia souven irs for sale in hotels, motels, restaurants and tourist attractions.
sWln HATCHERY SET FOR DOUGLAS
An other indust ry for Dou glas was chalked up when Swi ft & Co . signed a lease for buildi ngs at th e city airport to be used for a hatcher y.
The hatchery, whi ch will hav e a ca pacit y of 300,000 chicks, will em p loy 15 local peopl e in additio n to tec hnica l per sonnel.
The hat ch er y is a separate op era tion fro m a la rge broi ler p rocessing pl a nt Swift is now bui lding in Dou glas.

FIRST IN WORLD-Architect's drawing shows the Southern Forest Fire Research Laboratory which is under construction at Macon, the first facility of its kind in the world. To cost $375,000, it is being financed en tirely with state funds, but will bring into Georgia $250,000 annually from th e federal government for research purposes.

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$300,000 MOTEL SLATED AT DOUGLAS
V . W . Co ok has purcha sed a t ract of la nd on U. S. 44 1, north of Douglas, on whi ch to erect a 35-u nit brick mot el with swimming pool. Cost of th e facility is estima ted a t $300,000.

NE\VSLETTER

M ay, 1958

GEORGIA INDUSTRY GAIN TOPS,

TENNESSEE SURVEY SHOWS

More new industrial job s-18,500 were created in G eorgia in 1957 than in an y other sta te in the broad Southeast.
G corgia had mor e new industries esta blished - 250 - than any other sta te in th e reg ion.
Ge orgia's inv estments in n ew plants during th e yea r - $ 135 mil lion - exceede d that of an y other sta te.
T hese fa cts ar c reveal ed in a summa ry on th e sta tus of indust ri al develo pmen t in th e Southeast com piled by th e Industri al & Agri cultural D evelopment Comm ission of T ennessee, just released.
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THE SURV EY covers 10 of the 11 sta tes of the region , Georgia, Alab ama, Arkansas, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Mi ssissippi, North C arolina. Sout h C a ro lin a, T ennessee an d Virginia.
Data on Florida, th e II th State, was not included, says George I. Whitlatch, executive director of the

SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT 1951

Statc
Geor gia Alab am a Arkansas F lorid a K en tu ck y Loui sian a M ississippi N . Carolina S. Carolina Te nnessee V i rg in ia

N ew P lants
250 67 69 * 48 51 69 170 47 135 47

Investment ( M illions)
$ 135,000 14,96 2 51 ,400 * 18.6 15
125,254 *
134,999 34,7 42 50,500 40, 154

New Jobs
10.000 3:582 7.007
* 3, 745 2,559 4,78 1 11, 778 2 ,6 30 7,900 3,505

Expansions
125 49 39
* 33 89 34 14 3 52 2 13 63

Investment ( M illions)
$50 ,000 8 8 ,9 53 13,400 * 10,17 8 114 ,0 0 5 * 56 ,0 17 32,32 7 71,500 69,070

Nc w Jobs
8.500 4:2 13 3,196
* 1.6 68 2;451 2,228 4,45 1 1,750 7,400 1,245

*Not Reported .

Co m piled by Industrial & Agri cultural D evelop ment Commission, State of T ennessee.

commission, because that state's report had not be en compiled.
G eorgia, ac cording to th e survey, added 250 new plants during th e year, representing capital in vestment of $135 million and provid ing 10,000 jobs.
Also, du rin g th e year, 125 established G eorgia industries in vested $50 milli on

in pla nt expansions an d new eq uipmen t, adding 8,500 more job s.
I n jobs crea ted by new ly op en ed ind ustry, combined with job s crea ted by expansion of established indus try, G eorgia top ped th e area with 18,500 new jobs.
T he accom pa nying tabl e sho ws th e compa ra tive sta nd ing of th e stat es.

GEORGIA FIRMS SELL U. S.

EXPANSION TO ROSWELL Cagle & H enderson F eed Co. , Inc.,

$222.3 MILLION IN YEAR

R oswell is insta lling a feed conce ntra te unit whi ch will incr ease ca pacity of it s mi ll to 50 tons a day.

G coruia busin ess firm s last yea r sold years is $8,285,475 ,000 , of which Gcor-

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$222 ,306,000 worth of goods an d serv - gia rece ived th e la rgest share, $2,226,- NEW MINE SHIPP ING

ices to th e federa l gov ernmen t.

305,000.

K aolin is bein g sh ippe d fro m Ameri -

This was th e third la rgest amoun t

Sal es to th e govern men t ra nge from ca n Industrial C lay Co.'s new mine,

spen t in th e Sou thea.st by U n<;le Sa m, food to elec tro nics, and in addi tion in- largest in W ashingt on Coun ty, six mil es

a nd th e 20t h la rgest 111 th e nation .

elude man y con tracts for th e construe- west of Sandersville. The facilit y will

I n th e Sout heas t - G eorg ia, Ala- tion a nd mainten an ce of military proj- soon reach a n ou tpu t of 40 railroad

barn a , Fl orid a, Mi ssissipp i, th e C aro- ects.

ca rloads a da y.

lin as a nd l~n n cuee-the yea~s tot~ - - -- - - - - -- - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -

was $1,134,466 ,000 . North Carolina

led wit h $292,24 1,000 a nd Fl orida was

second with $232,798 ,000 .

The cum ula tive tota l of business

awa rde d in the a rea over the pas t ten

STATESBORO PACKER EXPANDS FACILITIES
Robbins Packing Co ., St a tesboro , is in a n expa nsio n program which will do ub le the size of the cooler space and g rea tly enla rge the assembly a rea .
Charles R obbins, J1"., vice-presiden t
of th e meat packin g firm , said the bui lding add itions will be of masonry, conc re te a nd steel. with inside wall s of sp ectra-glaz ed tile:

NEW AT DOUGLASVILLE-All of Dougla s County is proud of this mod ern courthouse, ju st complet ed at a cost of $4 50,000, to replace th e old st ru cture that burned a year ago. The black marble facade mak es a fram e for th e county's historic Confederate mo nument, whi le the glass-fronted wing at right is shaded by an an cient tree.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

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May, 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Brunswick a nd th e Glynn County Comm ission ers sold $750,000 port bonds to New York an d Atlanta firms . . Haralson County received a $25,000 fed era l gra nt towa rd a $75,000 health cen ter to be built a t Buchanan . . Fulton County will invest $ 1,750,000 in a new jail in At la nta . . . Jasper-Morgan-Putnam Counties Regiona l Librar y a t Madison has been rena med Uncle R emu s L ibrary . . . Co nstr u ction pr oj ects sla ted a t Robins Air Force Base nca r Macon, total $26 m illion .
Fulton N ation al Bank, Atlanta, has acquired a Peachtree St. sit e for a northside br an ch . .. Glennvi lle Mfg. Co., Glennville, has begun producti on of sh irts . . . Sou th ern Cotton O il Di v., Wesson O il & Snowdrift, Inc., is bu ilding two new wareho uses a t McRae .. . John H . Brooks is new pr esident of Millen-Jenkins County Chamber of Commer ce . . . Tucker Drug Co . purch ased R osscc' s pion eer drugstor e at Eatonton . . . The annual K aolin Festival a t Tennille-Sandersville will be held N ov. 12-14 . . . A New York syndica te headed by Sa m Sp at z has acq uire d th e Wynne H ot el, Atlanta, for $300,000 . . DeKalb Bui ldin g & Loan Assn. is in it s new $800,000 bui ldin g in Decatur.
Ci vil Aeron autics Administr ation will erect a $5 million ai r tr affi c con trol tower nca r Atlanta Airp ort . . . Rome a nd Flo yd County ar c pl anning a YMCA center in R ome, to cost nearly $500, 000 . . . Georgia H osier y M ills, Inc., has established an an klet pl ant in Cave Spring.
W alt er F. George Lock and D am , $86 m illion proj ect on th e C hattahoochee Ri ver a t Fort Gaines, is 86 p er cent complete . . . FH A has okayed th e first 70 un its to be erected in Macon 's $2 milli on hou sing project . . . Thom son Co ., Thomson, is adding a service center at its p lant.
Georgia M ountain s Assn., Hiawassee, is issuing a tourist di rect ory of North Georgia . . . Tri-St a te REA h as re ceived a $446,000 loan for expansion in Fannin County, Ga ., a nd Polk Coun ty, T cnn. . . . LaGrange's new police dep artment-j ail building, built at a cost of $300,000 , is open . . . Jenkins County D ai ry F estival is slated at Mi llen M ay 15 .. . Clayton Ho spital will add an annex.
H ill Dred gin g Corp. , Atl a ntic Ci ty, N . j., received a $3 18,000 con trac t to construct a turning basin a nd improve th e ch a nnel in Savannah's river harbor . . . Fayette County is bui ldin g a new jail at Fayetteville.

GROWING-Artists' sketch show s how th e plant of So uthern States Equipment Corp., at Hampton will appear when an expansion program now underway is completed. More than 32,500 sq uare feet are bei ng ad ded . The firm produces electrical eq uipment.

Governor M arvin Griffin a llocated $325,000 for a classroom building and a library annex at West Geor gia College, Carrollton . . . Pace Acad em y has acq uired 20 acres on West Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, for a schoo l site . . . V . E. And erson Mfg. Co., O wensboro, K y., has opened an aluminum plant in Rome . . . J esup is digging a new deep well a nd inst alling a water tower . . . Pa rks Ave. Bank, Valdosta, is in a new bu ilding . . . Tignall is adding four new housing uni ts for wh ites and four for negroes.
Chipley R eview, weekly newspap er, changed it s name to Pin e M ountain Review when th e town of Ch ipley became Pine Mountain . . . Bank of Covington is receiving congratu la tions on its remodeled building . . . Washington is bu ilding 40 negro a nd 10 white housing un it s . . . Belks-M atthews Dept. St ore is in new qu arter s a t Valdosta.
NEW BLOCK PLANT
A new conc rete block pl ant capable of tu rn ing out 20,000 blocks a day h as been added to th e facilities of th e Athens Con cret e Product s Co., Athen s. \V. A. Mathis, own er , said 15 new employees will be added .

CABIN CRAFTS IN $1 MILLION EXPANSION PLAN
Cabin C raft s, Inc. is in a $ 1 million expa nsion program for its floor coverings division .
Ther e is to be a 75,000 sq ua re-foo t addition to th e relatively new Springdal e plant, expec ted to cost $500 ,000 . O ccupa ncy has ju st been completed on a $ 180,000 addition to th e Springd ale facility , whi ch incr ea sed space by 25,000 square feet.
The firm's ya rn mi ll will have in vested by th e end of 1958 app roximately $350,000 in long st apl e a nd new processing equ ipmen t, accor ding to Robert G. M cC am y, p residen t.
In addition to the Sp ringd ale pl ant, Cab in C rafts has three other pl ants devot ed to th e ca rpe t op eration, p lus a sep ar ate spinning mill.
NEW POLICE BUILDING
Constru ction h as begun on a new ad minist rat ion bu ilding for the Atl an ta Police Dept. Adj oin ing th e p resent p olice station, th e building, five stories in height, will cost $ 1,200,000.

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M em ber Georgia Press A ssociation

Publish ed monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIO NERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman T. C. BRANSO N, jR. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMMELL McI NTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Se cretary FRED D. MOON Editor

Vo l. 9, No.8

j un e, 1958

Metter Draws Shoe Factory;
200 Jobs Seen
A Iormer New England sho e manu fa cturer, rein corporat ed in Ge orgia , has begun a progr am to tr ain 200 worker s for a new plant at M etter.
Fourteen van load s of m ach in er y have a rr ived in th e C a nd ler Cou nty city a nd temporary work ing qu a rt er s have been set up . The corpo ra tion immedi at ely will begin construction of a 30,000 sq ua re-foot plant bui ld ing. Th e fact ory is sche d uled to be in ope ra tion within four months.
T he new firm, Carefree Footwear, Inc., will manufacture wom en 's casual shoes, according to M a yor Hin es L. Brantley a nd B. G . Bower s, j r., president of th e M etter Cha mber of Com m er ce.
COVER PHOTO
Georgia's beautiful sea t of govern ment a nd At la n ta's City H all sha re thi s splendid new a erial photograph made by Joe ~Tray, flyin g ca mera man of Atl a nta, wh ose files of 7,500 negatives include almos t every city , t own a n d indu st rial installation in G cor g i a . Grouped aroun d the do me d Sta te Capitol are t he Lab or , La w, E ducation, a nd H igh wa y Buil dings (r ight) a nd Agricult ure Buil ding (u pper left ). A tla nta C ity H all is th e slen der building at left.

Ju ne, 1958

FILMS OF GEORGIA STORY

THRILL AT WORLD'S FAIR

People from every nat ion , including even tho se from beh ind th e Iron C lII'tai n, arc ge tt ing th e Geo rgia story first ha nd at th e Worl d's Fair in Brussels, Belgium .
Three color motion pictures m ad e by the G eorgia D epa rtment of Co mmerce are bein g shown a t the exposition .
The pictu res, " La nd of the Ch ero kee." " O ur 13th Co lonv" a nd " Ever Sin ~ e O gleth orpe," a lrea dy a rc fami liar to hundreds of clubs and g I' 0 up s througho ut Georgia , and the D epartmen t of Co m merce is now presen ting th em on television sta tions a ll over the U nited S ta tes.
M ay 9 was Georgia D ay a t th e Brussci' s fair, an d th e Geo rgia sta te flag flew ove r th e U . S. pavilli on . Two

Geo rgia guides, Nan cy G reen, of Au gus ta , and Nan Rai ney, Eatonton, participat ed in the cerem ony.
Gov ernor M arvin Griffin issued a spec ial G c o r g i a Day proclamati on , whi ch was read during th e p rogram .
CAMILLA OIL ADDS HUGE PEANUT UNIT
Camilla Cotton O il Co., Cami lla, is a dd in,u., a h uco c new unit to furt her ex pa nd the fa ciliti es of th e M itch ell County peanut m arket.
U nder construction a re four new bui ldin gs whi ch will h ou se cleaning a nd drying fa cilities of th e m ost m odern design .

DRUG PIONEER PFIZER

IN NEW DEKALB CENTER

PFIZE R'S NEW HOM E
C has . Pfi zer & Co., In c., 109yea r-old d rug a nd che m ica l firm, is in its handsome new sou theastern d istribu tio n cen ter on Peachtree In d ustria l Blvd ., Chamb lee.
Pr esident J ohn E . M cK een and ot her Pfizer execu tives were hosts at recent dedi cat or y ce re monies a ttended by 500 civic and bu siness leaders and m ember s of medi ca l, hospital , pharma cy, che m ica l a nd ag ricult ura l gro u ps in th e Atl anta met rop olit an a rea.
Georgia Commer ce Secr et ary Scott C and ler , M a yor Wood ie B. M a lon e of Ch amblee, and DeKalb Commission er C la rk H a rr ison jo ined in openi ng th e new pl an t.
The Com pa ny , headqu arter ed in Brookl yn , N . Y.. ha s ope ra ted a sm a lle r

branch in Atla nta since 1952. Mr. M cKeen tr ace d Pf izer 's lon g-
st a nd ing relationsh ips wi t h drug co nce rns in thi s a rea, some of them da ting ba ck mor e th an a cen tury. Starti ng as a sup p lier of ca mphors, mecu rials, bism ut hs and ot her 19th centu ry med ical fa vor ites, P fizer is to day a lea ding manufa ctu rer of antibiotics, vita mi ns, h OI' m 0 n e s , packaged ph arma ceutical specialt ies, chemica ls a nd product s for animal health an d nu trition. T he new Pfi zer p lant, an a ir-conditioned brick building, con ta ins 32,000 sq ua re feet. I t is locat ed on a th ree-a cr e land scaped lo t. Sp eciall y design ed eq uip me n t permi ts sto rage, quick p acking a nd ship ment of suc h a nti biotics as T erramvcin . Cosa -T ct ra cyn , peni cillin a nd other ph arma ceuti cal prep aration s ava ilable to th e medi ca l profession . P f i z c I' chemica ls for food , bever age, medi cin al a nd ind ustria l use, and prod ucts for a nim al healt h a nd n utrition , a rc a lso di stributed fro m th e cen ter.
HWY. 82 RESTAURANT Green Ga ble R estau r ant. east of
Pearson on Hwv. 82, has h een formall y opened . M erri ll, O vid a nd M ayna rd H iggs own th e fa cility whi ch is qu artered in a n imposing new twostory bri ck bu ilding.

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.I unc, 1958

GEORGIA LEADING NATION

IN MANUFACTURING GAINS

Georgia is p a cin g the nation in m ost seg me n ts of its in dustri al eco n om y.
S tudy of fa cto ry operations for 1956 co m pared wi th 1955 shows the rate of ga in in Georgia well a he ad of th e U n ite d States ave rage in va lue a d de d by m anu fa cture of goo ds , nu mber of workers a nd wages.
G eo rg ia indust ry p roduced $2, 144,156,000 worth of a ll types o f m anu fact ured goo d s in 1956. Th is was an II per cen t rise ov er the $1,937,169,000 worth p roduced in 1955.
G eo rg ia 's II per cen t gai n co rn pared with a 3 pcr ce n t a dva nce ov er
. th e nation as a wh ole. .:.:-
I N NU M BE R of production work ers, G eor gi a ga iru -d 2 per ce n t, th e number go ing from 2 8:~ ,662 to 288,727. The na tiona l gain w as I per cen t.
In wa ges paid th ese w 0 I' k e r s , Georgia's tot al in the t wo yea rs we nt from $ 738.2 million to $ 788.9 m illion, a 7 per ce n t rise. The na tio n h ad a 5 per ce nt in crease.
Foll owing arc co m parsio ns in va rio us lines of m anufacturing in G eo rg ia a nd th e n at ion , with Geo rg ia lead ing t he n at i on a I ga in in a lmos t eve ry ca tegory.
TEXTILES - Georgia 's p rod uction value rose fro m $44 7 millio n to $4 77.5 million , a ga in of 7 p er ce n t; the nation's gain, 3 p er cen t. Waf.{es, Georgia fro m $24 7 million to $253.8 mi llion, u p 3 p er ce n t; na tio n u p 1 p er ce nt. \ Vorker s in t h is industry d eclin ed in Georgia from 100,535 to 99,0:n , 1 pe r cen t; nationall y the reducti on wa s 2 per ce n t.
APPAREL - G eorgia, p rodu cti on . :)133,9 m illion to $157.9 million , up 18 pe r cen t : nation up 6 per cen t . \ Vo r k-
EDITO R'S NOTE : O fficial [cd e ral .III rveys necessaril y mu st be delayed unt il reports f rom all seg me nts of the nation can be com jnled an d anal yz ed . This repo rt has just ball released by t hc Atlanta fi eld offic l~ of t h.c U nited Stat es D epartment of C om m erce. Alt h ough. it cove rs th e sit uation at 1111: begin ni ng of 1957, it present s a signijicant p i c 1 11 r e of Geo rgia's forwa rd st rides in the field of indu st ty.

$4 1 MILLI O N PLANT -Plant H ammon d, hu ge new steam-electric generating unit of the Georgia Pow er C o., situated on th e Coosa Ri ver ncar R om e, whic h h as been officia lly ope ned . It has a 300, 000-kilowa tt ca pacity , enoug h to ligh t 500, 000 hom es.

ers , 38,506 to :~ 9 , 509 , up 3 p er ce n t ; na tion , I per cent. \Vages, up 9 p cr cen t from $ 75.5 million to $82.3 mil lio n : nation ga ined 6 per cen t.
L LJ ,\UmR - G eorgia , $ 115.6 million to $ 12 1.8 m illion, 5 pe r ce n t ga in : n a tion up 2 per cen t. W ages, $55 .9 m illion to $60 .7 million, up 8 per cen t : U .S. up 4 per ce n t. Workers d eclined :\2,8 19 to 32,682, less than I per cent : U. S. increa se, 6/ 10 p er cent.
FU RNIT R E & F IXTU RES Georgia , $35 .5 m illio n to S43.9 m illion , 24 p er ce n t up ; U . S. ga in 9 per cen t; W orkers, 7,032 to 7,256,
3 p er cent rise ; nation up 2 p er cent. Wages, $16.8 million to $ 18.2 m illion , 8 per ce nt; n a tio n , 6 per ce nt.
P U L P & P APER - Georgia, p rod uct ion va lue up 13 p er ce n t from $ 196.5 million to $222 .7 million; U. S. gain 9 p er ce n t. Wor kers, 12,718 to 13,266, up 4 p er ce nt; n ation up 2 per cent. Wages $46 .7 m illio n to $52 .3 million , 12 p er cent;
nation, 7 per ce nt .
C H E ~vfIC AL S - Stat e' s produ ct ion ad va nced 24 per ce n t from $89. 1 mi llion to $ 110.2 m illion: nation , u p 8 pe r ce n t. ' Vo r kers, 7,852 to 8,285 , up j pc r cen t : U . S. ga in 1 per cen t. W ages, up 13 ptT cent, $20.9 million to $2:\.6 mil lio n: U. S. g-a m 7 per rr -n t .
L EA THER GOO DS - G eor g ia u p 18 per cen t in va lue, $ 12.:) m illion to

$ 14.5 m illion : n ation , up 6 per ce n t. W ork er s, 2,371 to 2,991, 26 per cen t; U. S. down fra ct ion of a per ce n t. W ages, G eo rgi a up 24 p er cen t, $5 .5 m illion to $6.9 mi llion ; na tion clown 27 per cen t.
STONE, CLAY, GLASS - Georgia value up 9 pe r ce n t, $54,3 million to $59 mi llion : n ation al ga in 8 p er re n t . W ag es, $18 .2 mi llion to $ 19.5 mi llion , 7 per ce n t : na tio n, 6 pe r ce n t. W or kers, G eo rg ia in slig h t d ecline, 7325 to 7,271 ; U. S. up 2 p er ce nt.
FA BR ICATED MET A L S S ta te's va lue up fro m $3 1.8 million to $4 1 million , 29 p er cen t; n ation rose 5 p er ce nt. W orkers, Georgia up 14 p er ce nt , 4,49 2 to 5, 122; U. S . dow n ~ per ce nt. Wages up 17 p e r ce n t, $ 13.3 mill io n to S 15.5 mill ion ; li. S. '1 p er ce n t.
M A CHI N ERY - S ta te 's o ut p u t ~a i nc d :H p er ce n t, $48 .6 million to $65 m illi on ; n ation up 17 per ce n t. Workers, 5,90 7 to 6,660, up 13 p er
cen t ; rise in . S. 7 p e r ce nt. \\Iages up 18 p er ce n t, $ 19. 1 million to $22 .6 million ; U . S. a dv a nced 13
per ce n t.
T RAN SPORTA T ION EQUIP~'IENT-G ('o rgi a o u t p u t from $30 7.5 m illion to $334 .5 million , up 9 p er
ri-u t : U. S. decl in ed 2 per ce n t. WorklTS. 22,295 to 22,556, 1 per cen t ga in :
nation dropped 4 p er ce n t. W ages. Sla te 's in cr ease 2 per cen t, from $ 102. 1 mi llio n to $ 1m .9 milli on : nation d eclined 1 per cent.

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.r un o, 19:iB

S15 MILLION TRADE MARKET TO BE BUILT IN GWINNETT

$15 MILLION MART - Here 's an architect's rendering of the new Southeastern Merchandise Mart to be bui lt in Gwinnett County, 21 m iles northeast of Atlanta. The main bui lding at ri ght is an l l-story struc ture of on e million square feet whi ch will house showrooms and sales offices. At lef t is th e expo sition pavillion.

A multi-million-dollar trade market which will focu s th e attention of
th e bu siness world on the Atlanta
metropolitan area, is announced for
G win nett County.
Robert M . Holde r , president of Sou theast ern Merchandise Mart, I nc., recently formed by a group of G eorgia businessmen, sa id the market, to cost more than $15 million, will be th e finest installation of its kind in th e nation .
Co nstruction is sche d uled to star t th is fa ll a nd wi ll be completed in a bo u t
TRAILER PLANT FOR SWAINSBORO
V iking Mfg. Co ., In c., m obil e hom es manufa ctu rer of An aheim , CaIiL, ha s chosen Swa insbo ro as th e loca tion for an ea ste rn br an ch pl an t.
Le k oy H . \Villiam s, man ager of the Swa insboro C ha mber of Co mmerce, sa id th e firm env isions a Geo rg ia unit ca pable of producing fiv e mo bile hom es ea ch working day. Initial em ployme n t would involve some 80 work er s bu t th e Ia cilit v wou ld even tua lly rcqmre 200 em ployees with a n an n u;ll payroll of a pprox ima tely $600,000 .

two years .
THE FAC ILITY, to be kno wn as th e Southeast ern M erch andi se M ar t. will be loca ted on a 150- acrc tr a ct at the juncture of th e ne w U . S. Hwvs. 29 an d 23. twen ty-on e m iles northea st of Atl ant a. The 'sitc is a p proxima tely where th e new N ortheast E xpresswa y to Gainesv ille, now under constr uc tion. crosses Geo rg ia Rte. 120 between La wrenceville a nd Duluth . T he m art w ill be approx ima tely tw o m iles from D ulu th a nd eigh t fro m La wre nceville. th e Gw innett Co u n ty sca t.
THOMSON PLANT DOUBLING SIZE
Stewa ll Spo rtswea r, In c., T homso n ma n ufac tu rer of wom en 's spo rtswea r. will double both its spa ce a nd out p ut. accord ing to Virgil Steele, p resid ent. T he ex pa nsion w ill m ean a considerable increase in em ployme nt ,
Th e finn , locat ed on th e seco nd floor of a bri ck buildin g on Stovall St.. has ac q uired th e fir st floor a rea as well. N ew m achiner y is now being insta lled ,
CAIRO PULP YARD Cairo Pulpwood Yard , a d ivision o f
Secrest Pulpwood & T imber Co .. ha s opene d for bu sin ess in Ca rio.

The mart will con t a in showroom s and offices of nationl, regional and local manufacturer s and provide a on e-stop buying cen ter for merchan ts througho ut the sout heas t.
" It will offer manufact urers and the ir customers con veni ence h it her to unknown a t the country's major markets, including th e famous Chi cago 1\1 e re han dis e Mart," Mr. Ho ld er said.
T he m ar t' s ma in building to be 11 stories tall , will con ta in a pprox imately 1,000,000 sq ua re feet of displ a y and office spaec. Adjoining it wi ll be a conve n tion and exposition ha ll whi ch will have 350 ,000 sq u a re fee t and sea t up to 25,000 peopl e, whi ch is eq ual to the combine d perm an ent sea ting ca pa ci ty of New Yor k' s M adison Square Gard en and th e San F ran cisco Cow Pal a ce.
Pa rk ing a r eas t o a cco m mo da t e 10,000 ca rs will ad jo in th e fa cility.
ELECTRONIC FIRM
OPENS AT GRIFFIN
Electron ics So utheastern . Inc.. th e first pla nt in Georgia to ;Tbu ild T V t ubes, is open at Griffin .
M a chin ery for th e pl ant \\'as moved from G len Ell vn , Ill.. a nd insta lled in
a bu ild ing on S. S t. .
Ga le H ollinger, of G len Ell yn , one of th e inco rpo ra to rs, said that eq uipmen t for other elect ron ic itern s be side tub es will be ad de d .
OWENS METAL CO. MOVES TO MACON
Owen s M et al Product s Co .. of K ansas C ity, M o., is csta blish ing 'a b ran ch plant a t M acon to m anufactu re hou se tr ail er pa rts.
T he br an ch will bc know n as Owen s i\Hg. Co rp . of Georgia.
Alumi nu m windows a nd frames for m ob ile hom es will be p roduced in a 10,000 - sq ua re - foot building a t 1546 !~fth St. Th c payroll will consist of .) wo rkers.
T he plan t is be ing m ov ed to M acon from Pu ert o Ri co, wh er e it h as becn in op eration for abo u t a ye ar.

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june, 1951\

Ch emis tr y Building

SOUTH'S FINEST SCIENCE CENTER

T he finest, most extensive Sc ience Ce nter in th e Sout h, perh ap s in t he nation , is rising at the U n iversity of Georgia.
Including six new buildings wh ich a rc to cost mor e t ha n S12.5 milli on , th e center re presen ts th e la rgest ex pansion project in th e 157-yea r history of th e Athe ns institution. All of th e building a re sched u led to be read y for use ea rly in 1959.
FINANCING of th e cen ter was mad e possible by gra nts of $7,800,00n in sta te funds mad e by Governor M aryin Griffin, plu s $3,628,000 in bond fun ds a ut horized bv th e U nivcrs itv System Board of R egents and a gra nt from th e U , S. Public Heal th Ser vice,
T he cen ter is being erec ted on 40 acres of wood ed hillside on Sout h Ca m pus, overloo king Sanford St adi um .
The Ph ysics, C he mistry a nd Foo d T echno logy D epartments of th e U n i-

versitv will be hou sed in t hree of t he buildings. A M a th ematics Building will also accommod a te the department of G e 0 l o g y a nd Geo gra phy . The Biological Sc i e n c e Build ing will con tain fac ilit ies for the divisions of zoo l o g y, botany, ento mology and ba ct erio logy. P oult ry , dairy a nd a nimal hu sband ry wiII sha re th e Anima l Sc ience Building,
Equipment for th e new buildings wil] cost $2.5 milli on .
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OF GOVE RNO R Griffin's alloca tio ns to wa rd th e en ter. U niversitv President O . C. Aderhold sa id. " th (s marks a new era in th e life of till' state's univcrsitv. It dem on strat es GO\,crn or Griffin's 'gcnuine interest in th r cduca tion of the young men a nd women of Geor gia , a nd it revea ls his un der standing of th e value of scient ific ed uca tio n in th e developmen t of th e resources of ou r sta te,"

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DAHLONEGA GOLD TO GLITTER ON STATE CAPITOL'S DOME

( S l'e F ront Co ccr)
Go ld [rom Lumpkin Co unty, scene of the first and mo st colorful gold rush in North Am eric a , wi ll crown th e d ome of the St at e Capi tol now bein g rebuilt.
With th e sloga n " Ca pitol's Peak or Bust." lead ers of the coun ty a nd Dahlon ega, its seat, a rc und ertaking to am ass th e 42 oun ces of na tiv e vellow met a l whi ch a rchitec ts estima te \~i ll be required for th e jo b.
Plans ca ll for go ld lea fing th e band arou nd th e bottom of the dome. the 16 b road rib s leading upwa rd 'from th e band , a nd the sm all dom e a top th e la rge one .
Gov ernor Griffin a nd othe r sta te officia ls h ave indorsed the plan, whi ch was suggested by Gordo n Price, for mer Lumpk in Co u n tia n now of Atla n ta ,
Altho ug h gold ha s not been mi ned comme rc ia lly in the Da hl onega area for man y years, man y residents own qu an tit ies of the a re a nd eve n today visitors frequen tly pick u p sma ll n ugg~ts in th e tailings of th e old min es. M or e th an hal f eno ugh gold a lrea d y has been donat ed for the dom e proj ect, an d Dahlon ega a nd Lumpkin hav e issued a n invit at ion to a ll Geor gians to come up and help pa n th e balan ce requi red fo r the job .
Dahlon ega Junior C ha mber of Co m mcrcr has d esign at ed J une 21-22 as "G old R ush 1958 ." ' a nd on th ose two days a ga la progr am is pla nned . It will incl ud e a to ur of th e hi storic m ines o f th e a rea, gold pan ning in th e moun tain strea ms. sq ua re dan ce, sun rise ch urc h service a top Brasstown Ba ld.

Georgia's high est peak , a nd ot her ac tivitics. A fcc will be cha rged visito rs, a ll p roceed s to go to th e dom e-gilding project. T hose wh o fin d gold - an d many will - may co n tribu te it or keep it : as th ey choose.
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PASSES WHIP UP WARE'S INTEREST IN OKEFENOKEE
N ea rly 1,000 person s, represen ting 300 fam ilies of W aycross a nd W a re Coun ty, wer e spec ia l guests a t Okefenok ee Sw amp Pa rk during M ay, a nd for a special rea son .
T hey a rc th e homefol k who m eet tourists a nd wh o ca n tell th em fir st hand wh a t th er e is to do and see in " T he La nd of Trem bling Earth. "
R epresent ing th e fami lies of eve ry state, coun ty and city police office r, every wait ress a nd serv ice station attendant in \ Va re C oun ty, th e guests \\'er e a dmitt ed on spec ial pas ses issued bv the tourist com m itt ce of th e \Vayc;'oss-\ Va re C ham be r of Co m me rce . .
" T he more o ur own people know abo ut th e park, th e better prepared th ey a rc to tell visitor s abo u t it." said Arthur Gi llat. chairm a n of th e p roj ect.
JACKSON PLANTS START
Co ns tr uct ion is un d erw a y a t J ack son on buildings to hou se tw o new industries, Gateway Lu ggage Co . a nd an alIi lia ted p lywood pla n t.

J une, 1958

J &B SMITH CO. PLANT

ATLANTA DRUM

RENEWAL FIRM

IN NEW HOME

The new $400,000 plant of J & B

Smith Co. In c., At lanta , is now in fu ll

opera tio n a nd ca n reco ndi tio n u p to

4,000 steel d rums a week.

H ighl y a uto ma ted , th e facilit y has

22,000 sq ua re feet of floor space a nd

30 em ployes. It is on a tr act of four

ac res at 690 H um ph ries St. , SW .

T he eq uipme n t used in the unu sual

act ivity of recond itioning d rums in-

cl udes m ach ines whi ch clean th e d rums.

stra igh te n out d en ts, sea l leak s a nd

coa t them insid e a nd o ut to fill spe-

cific purposes.

J oh n Sm ith , p resid en t, sa id th e fir m

can su pply steel d ru ms to a ny tr ad e in

Georgia . Ala bama, Fl orid a. Loui sian a .

Tel1l~ ess~e . an d the Ca ro l i ~ as .

.

The com pa ny was sta rte d in 1912

by th e late H . Sm ith. fa ther of the

pr esen t pr esident. to make wood en bar-

rels. Co ca -Cola a nd N u-C rapc wer e

a mo ng its ea rly custo me rs. I t began

expe rime n ting with recon di tioning steel

drums in 1941 . a nd is now th e lead ing

dr um cond itione r in the Sou theast.

SE E ING TH E TOWN - Hi gh school stud en ts from Lipscomb. Ala . on e of the many sch ool ~ro u ps pa rri c ip at imr in th e At lan ta Panoram a. pr ogr am featurin ~ week end tours of t he Atlan ta a rea a nd spec ia l hotel ac commo da t ions. Sc hools th rou ghou t Georg ia
a nd su rro und ing sta tes en joyed th e ed uca t iona l a nd en te rtain me n t features of th e cit y
thro ug h th e pr our am spo nsored by th e Atl anta Hotel Assn .. Ge org ia Department of Com me rce and th e Ge org ia St a te a nd Atlanta C ham be rs of C om me rc e.

G EO RG IA C I-IA?vI BE R OF C O ~vI M E R C E

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COLUMBUS TO GET DR. PEPPER PLANT
r. Pepp er Co ., Da llas, T exas, will
ope n a co m pa n y-owne d bottli ng p la n t in Co lum bus.
Th e Columb us Iacilitv will be th e fo ur th Dr. Pep per plant 'owned by the com pa n y wh ich norma lly ope ra tes und er a fran chi se syste m .
GORDON RUG WINS
A n -vcrsi b h- che n ille rug p roduced by Russell-La cey M fg. Co ., o f Fai rmont. Gordon Countv. wa s chose n fo r hon o;'able nu -n tio n in't he 1958 nat ionwid e H ess Bros. design con test.

N EWSLET T ER

.T un c, 1958

GEORGIA SADDLE AMONG LARGEST

Northeast Ge orgia 's lea th er a n d

sa d dlery industry, wh ich h as d om in-

at ed in it s field sinc e T edd y Ro ose-

velt ro de up San Ju an Hill, is to day

ga llo p ing a long fa ster than ever

b efore.

A t lea st two-t h ir ds of th e sa d d les

in th is co untrv arc ma nufactured in H a ll a nd G ,~'i n n e tt Cou n ties, and

even a la rger percen tage of sad d le

trees, the raw -h ide- covered wood en

f rames on w hich sa dd les arc con -

struc te d, arc made in D emorest.

In ad d it ion, one o f the sa d d le firm s,

Bona Allen , In c" Buford, receiv es

a bo u t 700 ca tt le hides eac h d ay for

p ro cessing in i ts tanner y, using some

of the p ro du ct itself a nd selling the

rema ind er a ll O\Tr the U .S.. M exi co

a nd C anada,

I n th e lea th er goods field , a p la nt

a t F lowery Bran ch , Ll oyd D orsey,

m ak es a ll stvlr-s of harn esses a nd dog

co lla rs .

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INDUSTRY IN WORLD

E DWAR D F LOR CO., Dem orest , is the la rgest a nd old est sa d d lc trcc m anufa cturer in th e world . S ti ll owned bv d es c e n d an t s of th e ma n who f~u n d ed it in 1883, it h as lit er a lly tho u sa nd s of model s fr om sm all pony sa d d les to E ngli sh and heavy W estern st yles, Starti ng with yello w po p la r a n d w hit e pine cu t in th e forest s by its own sa wm ills, Fl or fabr ica tes th e co mp lete tree, or sad d le skelto n, wr aps it in r aw h id e for stre ng th, an d sh ips a ll ove r th e wo rl d ,
D emand stays fai rly co nstan t, sa ys Frank Nelms, F lor manager, and la st year the firm's 60 em p loyes turned ou t 40 ,000 sa d d letre es. A la rge sh a re of t h eir product ion goes to Bona Allen and to Ear I Va n ce C a., Gain esville.
R ecently Earl Vanc e r eceived a lett er from a n O h io n ewsp a per, in qu iring, "Why arc saddles such a big it em in yo ur regi on ?"
" 'Ve know how to make them a nd the bu sin ess d eveloped here," Mr. V an ce replied .
M r. V an ce's p I a n t mak es mo re than 2 1.000 sa dd les a vcar a nd sells them throughout th e co u n try. M a n y a rc sold in the \Vest bu t a lo t go to nort hern ridi ng a ca de m ies, rodeos and p riv a tc in di vid uals. Some of them a rc

R AI LRO AD TO SEA-So S. Se at rai n Sa va n na h putting out from her hom e berth a t
Savan na h, bound for h er northern terminal a t Ed ge wa te r, X. J. T he Sc a tra in car ries
100 railroad f rei ght ca rs, which are lo ad ed a nd unload ed by hu g e cra nes. This Ce n tral
of Ge org ia R ai lwa y fa cilit y, also op er at es to Ne w Orlean s and T exa s C ity. T exas.

fan cif u lly tooled a nd d ecorated wit h silver or' sta in less stee l a nd the price range a t retai l runs fro m a bou t $80 for a p la in po ny sad d le to .$650 an d more for a sh ow sa d d le, Ab out ha lf of th e V an ce ou tp u t goes to Scars. Roebu ck and Co m pa ny for di st ribu t ion,
T he V a nce wo r k 1'01'1'1' IS 100 p tTson s,
BONA A L L E N, I N C ., em p loying bet ter th an 550 per sons , bestowed on Buford th e n ame of " L ea ther C ity ,"
Star ting a s a tanner y in 18 73 'by Bon a Allen , wh o chose th e site beca use it was nca r th e chestn u t b ark formerl y used in t he p ro cess, th e fir m tod a y is one of th e world 's leading pro d ucers a nd processors of lea th er. Fr om its own lea ther it makes a ll typ es of sa d d les, br id les, pon y harness, skir ting, straps a nd ri gging, a nd it supp lies lea th er to othe r ma n ufact urer s to be mad e in to q uality shoes, luggage an d numerous o ther items ,

The \Vild West is not so wild now . a nd a lot of modern co wboys ri d ~ je eps, b u t th e western hom ed ' sadd le is st ill th e horsem an 's favorite. Georgia sa ddle m ak er s turn ou t a bo ut 1,000 o f th e wes te rn type to one Eng lish pa d sad d le,

BOOM IN DIXIE
DELTA TELLS U.S.

Del ta Airlin es is cur re n tly running

a series of full page ad ve rtiseme n ts in

m ajor U, S, d a ilies to report D ixie's

ind ust ria l boom to the nati on ,

"T he So uth eas t ha s been (00 bu sy

to n otice a ny se rio us eff ects from th e

gen eral bu sin ess slow-do wn," th e At -

lan ta -based a irl ine is telling th e na-

tion ,

G eorgia cities cited for p rog ress in th e ad seri es a rc At lanta , Au gu sta ,

Brunswick. Colum b us. M acon a nd Sa-

van nah .

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G EO RG IA C H AlvIB E R OF C O M ~IIE R C E

NE WS LET T E R

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j une, ]958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

C lay ton C oun ty's new H ill-Bu rt on H eal th Cen ter is ope n a t J onesboro . . So ut h ern Hell T elephon e Co . h as orc up icd .its new $3 mill ion plant in Bru nswick . . . G ra dy Cou nty H ospita l

Authority is sla ting a mod ern n ew hospit al a t C a iro . . . G ood yea r Tire &: Rubber C o . h a s leased a new build ing being erec ted in T homaston . . .

Alba ny's new Fed er a ted Bank ope ne d .

Ray Williams h as I' c 0 p en c d th e Nas h ville H ot el, Nashville .. . Pulaski Cou n tia ns v 0 t ed $90 ,000 wort h o f bonds for a new jail a t H a w kinsvill e . . Alma has 62 housin g uni ts sla ted.

. . The hu ge T own a nd Co un try Sh opping Ce n ter ncar Marietta is ope n .. . C a r rollton dedi cated it s re-

mod eled city h all . . . Ba con County

vot ers a p p rove d a $ 195,000 schoo l

bond issue.

C r isp County's W a tcrrn clon F est iva l

will be held Ju ne 23-24 a t Cordele.

. . A bu ild in g is being erecte d in C a rrollton for D & L Pl ating C orp . .. Regents of th e U n ive rsity of G eor -

gia System a u tho r ized a j un ior college a t Co lumbus. .. . Winn-D ix ie opened a supe rma rke t in Atlanta's P eachtree :btt:c Shop pi ng C en ter . . . Standard Oi l will erec t a n ew sta tion at Sparta

. . j asp er County celeb ra ted Industry App recia tion D ay a t Montice llo.

\ Va re Cou n ty 's govern men t h as occu pied the new cou r tho use in \Vaycross. . . . G eorgia I ndustrial H ome,

M acon, is ad d ing a n $85 ,000 dorm itory

.. I m peri al M ill, Eatonton, d edi ca ted its n ew com m u n ity ce n te r. . . . M cRae ha s a new rest aurant - T he Planta-

tion . . . G ove rno r M a rvin G r iffin

ded icated C oo p er Ar mo ry, $ 105 ,000 Na tional G uard fa cili ty a t R om e.

Atlanta's F u lt on N a tiona l Ban k h as

ope n ed an East Atlanta br a n ch . . . . An arc haelogica l m use um costing $45 ,-

000 is bein g erecte d a t E towa h M ou nd s ncar Carter sville. . .. Lumpkin C oun ty

wi ll b ui ld a schoo l a u d itoriu m -gym a t Da hlonega to cos t $9 4,000 . . .. T ifton's

ex te n de d citv limits will ad d 3,500 residents. . . .' Satilla RE A received a $ 100,000 ex p ansion loa n . . . . Buc hana n

\Vom an 's C lub h as built a cl ubho use.

. . C hrysler C orp . dedi cated its $ 1 m illion tra in ing ce n te r n car Atlanta .
Smyrna will bu ild a n ew city h all . . L. B. H a rr ell P a r k, ' Va ycross, was d edi ca ted . .. . R h od es F urni ture C o .,

Au gusta, is in a new $200 ,000 store

bui lding

C a rtersville's A& P h as

en la rged

' Vood bine has a new

wa ter wo r ks well. . . . Fullers District,

C obb County, h as a $25,000 fire sta-

tion .

EV E RYT H ING'S CHICKEN - When Govern or a nd Mrs. M arvin G riffin en te rta ined state off icer s of th e Fu ture F a rme rs and Future Homem ak er s a t th e Ex ecutive M an sion recentl y, th ey served barbecu ed Georg-ia ch ic ken and th e Gov ernor wor e an apron proclaiming " It's Chickenque Time." Shown with the m a t th e g-rill are S tewart Blood worth , of P erry, FF A president, and J oyce Cryder, Elberton, FHA presid ent. FF A and FHA cha p te rs spo nsor ch ic kenq ues to promote Ge org-ia 's great poultry indust ry.

Rayoni cr, In c., h a s open ed it s hu ge pi ne seed ling nursery a t Gl ennville. . . . W . C . V ereen, Jr. , of Moultrie, is ne w p resid ent of the Cotton M an ufa cturers Assn . of G eorgia . . ..Fulton Co un ty sold $10 ,865,000 w 0 I' t h of bo nds . . . . H ampton 's new hea lth clini c opened .
Atlanta h as sta r ted bu ild ing a $5 mill ion water treatm ent pl an t. jackson's new city h all will cos t $65 ,000 . . . . D r. Pepper -7 -U P Bottlers of At la n ta p lan s a n $800,000 pl ant. . .. L incoln L ife Ins. Co. of G a . will erec t a $ 70,000 d ist ri ct off ice str uc ture a t A ugus ta.
J oh n A ndrew s p u rchased Thomaston 's H o tel U pso n . . . . Hartwell's

A rm y R eser ve unit is in it s new $ 70,000 a rrn o rv . . . . A $.100.00 0 sho p p ing center will be bu ilt in Rossville. . . . Co nso lida te d T elep hone Co ., Moultrie, has rem od eled its bu ild in g .

Colon ia l St ores ope ned a supermar-

ket in Lawren ceville. . . .Gene G ille-

la nd h a s bui lt a l -l-unit mo tel nca r

Dawson ville. . . . Frank G reco, of

j esup, has p u rchased G ree n la nd 1'\1' 0-

tel, nca r Fo lkston

C la r kston w ill

bu ild a new city ha ll.

Sewell Mfg.

C o., Br em en , has sla ted a no the r pl an t

there to m an u fa ct ure m en 's coa ts. . . .

Fannin County a p p roved a $40 0,0 00

schoo l bond issu e.. . . Six hou sing u n its

arc sla ted at Mid vill e.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
100 STATE CAPITOL
ATLANTA 3 . GEORGIA
Ac 'ui s~t1 n s i lsi s The U ver s1t y L bra~ie
'1'be Univel' S ty of Geo!1!~ Athens Ga.

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NEWSLETTER
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NEWSLETTER

J uly, 1958

NEWSLETTER

M ember Georgia Press Association

Published mont hly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol
* MARV IN GRI FFIN Governor BO ARD OF CO MMISS ION ERS
EMORY L. BUTLER C h air man
T. C. BRANSON, JR. HOKE PET ER S
BEN JESSU P
T RAMMELL M cINT YRE
* SCOTT CAND LE R Sec r etary FR ED D. M OON Ed itor

Vol. 9, No.9

J uly, 1958

TRIO SCHEDULE MINE, INDUSTRY NEAR LAFAYETTE
Three Florida bu sin essmen h ave purch ased a 6,500- acr e tr act in Wa lker Count y, ncar LaFa yette, and p lan immedi ately to develop it int o a limesto ne mining and manufacturing a re a.
The bu yers arc D ave Turner a nd W . Dou glas H andley of F ort Lauderd a le,
and John H . C ampbell, Jr. , L argo. M r. H andley, spo kesman for th e tri o,
said th e opera tion will star t with th e opening of a min e a nd erec tion of a plant "to pul veri ze lim eston e. This
ph ase will provide abou t 50 jobs. The property, form erl y known as th e
Close F arm, lies in th e rich limestone belt of Northwest G eor gia. G eologists estima te th at th er e is sufficien t min eral in th e tr act to last for 150 vea l'S with th e mining of 200,000 ton s per month .
Limeston e is a key ingr edi ent in th e a tomic ene rgy , che mical, pap er and
pulp ind ust ries.

COVER PHOTO

Vogel State Park, in the hea rt of

the C hattahoochee Nationa l Forest

ncar Blairsville, su mmer retreat of

thousa nds of Georiga ns a nd out of

state visitors. The la ke is bea u tiful

Trahlyta, nam ed for t he heroine of

a n Indi an legend ; the mountain is

Blood , second highest in the state. A

photograph of Brasst own Bal d , Geor-

~ia's high est peak, appears on Page

7.

P ho to by J oe Wray.

DAI RY FESTIVAL ROYALT Y-Uyvonna Copeland (ce nter ), who was chosen queen of Pu tn am Co unty's Sixth Ann ual Da iry Festival, is shown at the Eatonto n event with her dairy princ esses, Starr Walker (left) and J an et Smit h.-Macon News Photo .

AUGUSTA WINS GE PLANT;

TO MAKE TV PICTURE TUBES

Gen eral Elect ric Corp. is op ening a plant a t Augu sta for the man ufacture of television picture tub es.
Henry F. DeL on g, gene ra l manager oi th e compa ny 's Cathod e Ray Tube Dept., sa id from Syracuse, N . Y., th at th e new facilit v is believed to be th e first of its kind 'in th e South.
T o em ploy abou t 70 person s, th e plant will manufacture tub es for GE' s dist ributors in nin e sta tes.
GE ha s tak en over a nd is enlarging

th e Thom as & Howard W ar eh ou se, 548 Calhoun St. , for use as a pla nt. Som e 10,000 square feet is bein g added to th e 50,000 square foot st ruct ure.
Ex cept for a few key personnel to be transferred from Syracuse, a ll job s will be filled loca lly, Mr. DeL on g sa id.
GEORGIA MOVES TO TOP IN WOOL,

PENNINGTON GRAIN IN HUGE EXPANSION
Pennington Grain & Feed , l nc., of M ad ison, has acq uire d 12 acres a t Vi dali a for expansion of its plant in th at city.
Brooks Penningt on , pr esident , sa id a 103,000 square-foot wa reh ou se will be built to hou se th e ope ra tion.
Penningt on , organized in 1950, is one of th e largest wh olesale seed concern s in th e cou nt ry. With its hom e plant in M adis on , it has br an ch es in Vid ali a and Columbia, S. C.

WORSTED YARNS
Georgia, in addition to its dom inant positi on in th e cotto n text ile industrv, tod a y is th e nation' s fourth la rgest produ cor of woo len a nd worsted ya rns.
At th e end of 1957 th ere wer e 125,568 spindles in pla ce in th e sta te in th e produ cti on of th e tw o commodities. This, says th e U. S. Dep artment of Commer ce, w a s exceeded only by M assa chusetts' 213,822 , Rh od e Island 's 188,332, and North Carolin a' s 16\7 96 .
Geor gia had 49,524 spindles ill plan ' on th e woolen system and 76,044 in th e prod uct ion of wor sted va rn.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE

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N EWS LETT ER

J uly, 1958

GRIFFliN 5EE5 RIVER ERA IN BAINBRIDGE DEDICATION

Bainbridge, Ge org ia' s first inland port, has been officially dedicated , but it did not let th e cere monies interf er e with business.
While G overn or Marvin G riffin, Robert Frankenfi eld, chairman of th e G eorg ia Po rt Authority, Br axton C a r r, presid ent of the American Waterways Assn., Bainbridge Mayor Che ney G riffin a nd othe r dign it aries " opened" the Bainbrid ge Port and S ta te Do cks, barge cre ws went right along unloading shipments of ch emica ls, asp halt and other products

wh ich had been brought up the F lint Ri ver fr om th e G ulf of M exico.
Gov ernor G riffin , a resid ent of Bainbridge, said his hometo wn por t is only th e . firs t of mor e inland ha rbo rs to come to Geo rgia.
Completion of the develo pment pr og ra m for th e Cha tta hoo chee, Flint and Apalach icola River s, he sa id , may br ing inla nd ports as far nor th as Ga inesv ilIe, :\:)0 miles fro m the G u lf.

HOMETOW N BOY- Go vernor M ar vin Gr iffin spea king a t th e dedi cation of Ge org ia 's fir st inland port at Bainbridge, wh ere he is a newsp ap er publish er in pri vat e life.

TH E G OVERNO R reca lled before th e throng of 3,000 celebrating I nla nd Port D a y th at it had been ju st a lit tle more th a n a yea r since he p ar ticipa ted, with officia ls from Georgia, Ala bam a a nd Flori da, in the ded ica tion of th e

giant $50 m ilIion j im Woodru ff D am at the confluence of the C hattahoo chee a nd Fl in t.
" Now," he said, " we ca n see th e fruits produced by this ambitio us construc t ion program."
But th e plans to develop Geo rg ia 's

rivers a nd strea ms will not stop wit h the sou t hwest section, he went on. Federal projects are now in p rog ress ca lling for constru ction of dams a t C olumbia, Ala ., and Fo rt G aines , Ga. When th ey are com plete d a nin e-foot cha nne l will be a vail ab le as far north as Co lum bus.

" W hen these improvem ents arc insta lled ," Go ver no r Griffi n said, " the q uestion will no longer be th e develop-

men t of th e Chattah ooch ee fro m as far no r th even as Gainesville to the sea . I t will be bu t the com pa ratively sim ple pr ob lem of ma king the st ream n avigable."

I n ad dition to th e inestimable do llars and cen ts va lue of th e river development to industry, he ad ded, the la kes crea ted by th e new dams will open up vast recrea tio nal a nd fishi ng facilities.
.J ust befor e the Go verno r began his
addr ess, a p ressure ba rge loaded wit h

400 ,000 ga llons of propane gas cased up to the Pro pa ne Corp. do ck next to the sta tc do cks. O ther ca rgoe s in the por t wer e co rn, salt an d pavi ng mater ials.

T he sta te docks a t present includ e a 6,000 squa re-foot transit shed, a 400 foot dock, a nd abou t $ 100,000 wor th of lea di ng an d han dli ng eq uip ment. T he

.: WORK GOES O N-Whil e thousan ds ga t he red for th e for mal ope n ing of the Bain bridge _por t, th e Corps of E ng ineers' paddle-wheel dred ge toil ed right on .-Ed F r iend pho tos.

a ut hority is wor king now on a new wareho use, offi ce an d ma int enance bui ldin g a nd other fa cilities.

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G EORG IA C H AM BE R OF C O M M ERC E

NEWSLETTER

Jul y, 1958

GA. ECONOMY REMAINS STRONG

DESPITE SLUMPS ELSEWHERE

G eorgia's business is st rong and acti ve in th e fa ce of slu m ps in man y ot her sections.
A review cove ring th e first quart er of 1958 , ju st rel ea sed by th e l . S. Department of Commerce, finds Ge org ia's econom y in a st ro ng position, despite some sags from last year's ex tre mely high levels in a few lin es.
Hr- rc a re th e highl ights of th c qu arterl y su rvey:
T wo a nd a half hillion doll a rs was on d eposit in a ll ope ra t ing han ks. Fr-deral Reserv e member banks had on loan $826.:) milli on , a nd had che ck ed out up wards of $7 billi on for consu me r hu yin g an d other purposes in 16 Geo rgia cities, Alb an y, Athen s, Atla n ta , Au gusta, Brunswick, Columbus, Elb erton . Gai nesvi lle. Griffi n, L a Gra nge, M a'co n. M a rietta. N ewnan, Rom e, Sa van nah and Va ld'osta .
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MORE THAN 850 ,000 telep hones were inst a lled in resid enti a l and b usiness houses.
M o re th a n 300.000 workers we re turn ing ou t upwa rds of $:) bi llion wort h of goods in the sta te 's fa ct ories.
N earlv 600 new busin esses were incorpora ted.
Around 6 million feet of lumber were produced and 4.4 million were ship pe d to market.
Two and seven-ten ths billion kilowatt hours of electric energy wer e produced .
In commercial hatcheries, nearly 79 million chickens were produced for broi ler and other purposes, far more than any other state.
Farmers recei ved an estima ted $ 100 m illion in cash receipts for th eir products, including around $80 mi llion for livesto ck and related com modities.
Commer cia l sla ug h tering h 0 u s c s sla ug h te red more tha n 600 ,000 heef ca tt le, ca lves and hogs.
M ore than 4,000 pe rm its were issued in the sta te's metropolitan area s fo r new homes.
Arou nd $40 milIion worth of p rod uct s pa ssed throug h the state' s port s.
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RETAIL MERCHANTS ran g up 1I10re th an a billion doll ars in sa les.
Airl ines serving th e reg ion ca rr ied

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FOOTE & DAVIES' $ 1,250,000 PLANT

FOOTE eft DAVIES BUILDING $1,250,000 PRINT PLANT

Foo te & Davies, I nc., 72-year old
At la n ta prin ting firm, is hui ldi ng a
huge new plant on M ia m i C ircle nca r
the Northeast leg o f the Atlan ta ex-
p re sswa y.
Alher t Love, pr esid ent , sa id the hu ild ing a nd its eq uipmen t wou ld cost $ 1,250,000.
1Yt million passengers and handled
11.3 milli on ton- mil es of freight a nd exp ress, and rail road s collec ted $:)12 milli on in freight and pa ssen ger rcvcnu es.
Compared with th e fir st quarter of 1957:
Bank deposits were up 3 per cent and Federal Re serve member loans were about th e sa me as last year. Withdrawa ls from checking accounts a dv anced 3 per cen t. Retail trade was slightly below 1957's record bu ying. Department store trade wa s down 1 per cent. The number of residential and bu sin ess phones ro se 8 and 6 per cent, resp ectively. Number of manufacturing workers deelined 7 per cent and number of new bu sinesses incorporated 2 per cent. Production of sou thern pine ros e 16 per cent, but ship me n ts were off 5 per cent.
T en per cen t 1I10re ele ctric energy wa s p roduced a nd 14 per cen t more chickens hatch ed . Cash receip ts from fa rm m a rk etings were abo u t the sa me ,

T he 82,000 sq uare-foo t st ruct ure will he com plete ly air-cond itio ne d , wit h con stant hu mid ity con tro ls for a ll working ar eas . It s eq u ipmen t wi ll represen t one of the mos t co m p lete and mod ern p ri n ting opera tions in the Sou th.
Foote & Da vies is p resentl y loca ted a t 1090 Capitol Av e., S.E.
beef ca lf sla ugh terings were up :) per ce n t, but beef ca tt le a nd hogs handled were down 14 and I 7 per ccn t, respectively. N u m be r o f building perm its for new hom es incr ea sed 5 per cen t. T he va lue of imports hand led rose , but expor ts wer e off . Airline tr an sportation was 2 per cen t up in passen ger s, but 9 per cen t down in exp ress a nd freight, and rai lro ad fr eight and p assen ger reven ues were off 10 and 20 per cen t respec tively. The ge ne ra l em ployme n t situa tion worsen ed a little wi th a rise of 68 per cen t in wee kly ins ured wor kers.
SUMTER ELEVATOR SOLD, EXPANDED
St andard El evator Co., of Indiana polis, Ind ., has sold its elevato r at DcSota , Su m ter County, to D eser et F a rm s, In c:
Deseret is now building tw o new met al grain sto rage bu ildings with a ca pa city of 500 ,000 bu sh els of she lled corn and build ing feed p en s to hou se 10,00 0 steers.

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NEWSLETTER

J uly, 1958

FUELING R EAC T OR-En gineer M. A. Dewar uses a long ha ndl in g too l to insert a fuel element into the gri d of the test reactor, at the bottom of photo, in Dawson A-p lant.

of ma in reactor Fo rce Plant 67, Co unty footh ills.

DAWSONVILLE PLANT STARTS TESTS TOWARD ATOMIC PLANE

Prelimi nary operations ha ve start ed at the Air Force's hu ge nuclear la boratory in Dawson County.
T he faci lity, sa id to be the only one of its kind in the worl d, is devoted to deve lopment of an atomic-powered a ircraft.
R . W. Middlewood, ma nager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. ts N uclear Laboratories, sai d full-sca le operations will start t his fa ll.
The lab or at ory , known officia lly as Air For ce Plant 67, is loca ted in th e mid st of a 10,000-acre tract in th e Blue R idge Mountain foothills abo u t two miles sout hwest of Dawson ville.
Mu ch of th e proj ect is still in th e: construction stage. Wh en com pleted, it will represent a n investm ent of $50 to .~ I 00 million . It is exp ect ed to em ploy a bou t SOO scient ists, engineers a nd technical personnel.
TH E PLA NTS " zero pow er" test reactor, whi ch pr oduces less th an 80 degr ees of hea t, has been insta lled and is in ope rat ion. It s pu rp ose is to pr epare for opera tion of a 10-m egaw att reac tor within th e next few months.

M. A. Dewar, gro up engineer in charge of the zero, or critical test reactor, is carrying ,ou t a ser ies of ex periments to det ermine the nuclear properties of the fuel elements so the high-p owered main reactor ca n be operated efficiently an d accurately.
T he nuclear fuel elements, weig hing ap proximately 13 pou nds each, are aluminum boxes containing a number of fla t plates about three feet lon g. Each of these plates is a "sandwich" wit h an aluminum covering for the "meat" whic h is a thi n slice of uranium-a luminum alloy.

T ests a rc cond ucted in a concre te

pool 20 feet long, filled with clea r de-

miner aliz ed water. The rea ct or and

othe r eq uipme n t is mad e of steel and

pure aluminum.

T he test facilit v is I;>eing ope ra ted normally by thre ~ engmee rs. Ex cept

wh en cer ta in critica l expe rime nts a rc

in pr ogr ess, th ese men a rc able to move

freely a bou t th e rea cto r.

With th e critical experiments under

wa y, hundreds of othe r work er s a re

ru shin g to com plete th e othe r nucl ear

lab or at ori es, offices a nd othe r buildin-rs

comprising th e installati on.

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224 RURAL ROADS IN 138 COUNTIES

COMPLETE $100,000,000 PROJECT

A tot al of 224 rural road proj ect s loca ted in 138 counties have been selected under th e sixth in cr em ent of ru ra l road bonds, th e Geor gia Hi gh way Department announced .
The sixth increm ent is sched uled to be sold Ju ly 27, and will com plete th e $ 100 million Rural R oad s pr ogram whi ch was crea ted a t th e beginning of Gov ernor Griffin' s ad ministra tion.
The first five incr em ents of bonds

tot aled $82.5 milli on a nd included construction of over 4,000 miles of rura l road s. The sixth incr em ent will to ta l $20,892,2 16.
Roy F. Ch alk er , cha irma n of th e Rural Road s Authority, said th at th e
a utho rity decid ed to re-issue $3,392 ,. 2 16 in bond s whi ch had a lready been
retired . T he a u tho rity is au thorized to
ma in tai n a $ 100 mill ion inde btedness.

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NEWSLETTER

ENT RANCE TO LILLISTON IMPLE1'"IENT PLA NT, ALBANY .

ALBANY'S LILLISTON WINS PROGRESS BOW

( C ond ensed fr om Farm E qu ip m ent R et ailin g, j un c, / 958 )

The " Forward Look" may have originated with automobile design er s in D etroit, but its application to a way of doing business is nowhere more evident than in th e farm equipment industry.
From th e g iants in th e indust ry to the sma ller manu fa cturers of specialized farm eq u ipme n t, th ese manufa ctu rer s a rc dem on strat ing th eir fa ith in th e futu re of agr iculture. They a re tr an slating thi s fa ith into new product s, new a nd mor e efficien t design s for older product s, a nd into mo re efficient m anufacturing methods intended to lower pr oduct ion costs an d th us keep prices from skyrocketing beyond th e abilit y of th e farmer to p ay.
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LILLISTON IMPLEMENT CO., of Alb an y, G a ., is a n exa m ple of th e man y com pa nies which a rc applying th e " Fo rwa rd Look " to produ cing too ls for ag r icultur e.
Lilliston manufactures peanut harvesting eq uipme nt and rotary cu tters. The peanut eq uip men t is, of course , sold onl y in th e peanut producing areas of th e U nited States whi le the rotary cutters are distributed a nd sold nation -wid e.
Company officials arc under stand ab ly proud of th e fa ct that their organization stresses old fashioned virtues in its rel ations wit h em ployees. They ha ve developed a spi rit of "Togetherness" whi ch is outwardly expr essed in a IS -minute devotional p eriod participated in by all employees on each Thursday morning and whi ch is reflected in individual employee attitudes toward th eir company and their jobs.
Th er e ca n be no doubt th at these

a ttitudes ex te nd to th e q ua lit y of th e p roduct s th ey produ ce a nd co nt ribute to th e fact th a t Lilliston sa les in 1957
were 15% ove r those for 1956 a nd th a t
a 30 % incr ease is a n ticipa ted for 1958.
TO MEET the a nticipa ted sa les increase, Lilli ston has just com pleted another step in its ca ref u lly pl anned ope ra t iona l p rogram which is based on a n optimistic 'Forward Look . T he lat est a dd ition is a stee l a nd conc re te struc tu re whi ch increases plan t ca pac ity by some 26,000 sq ua re feet, pr act icall y d oubling th e previou s ca pacity .
New m achi nery a nd eq uipme nt will occ u py part of th e plant a nne x.
John T. Phillips, president, sa ys that ther e are five ba sic reasons bchind the en largem ent of the plant. The first of these is to augment and up-date plant facilities, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs of operation.
N umber two is to m ak e possible th e develop men t and produ cti on of better tim e a nd lab or saving product s with wh ich to meet th e urgent need s of th e modern farmer.
T hird , a nd possibl y of most in terest to dealers, to offse t rising cos ts by elim in a ting waste of t ime, motion, a nd m at erial , ther eby insuring low est po ssible pri ces on high est qu a lity pr odu c ts.
The four th is to provid e q uicker (kliven ' serv ice to distr ibutors. dealer s a nd 'end user s by main ta ining larger sto cks of finished goods for shipme nt ,
The fifth and final rea son is to m eet th e in crea sing dem an d for the compan y's p rod uct s in this country a nd in man y foreign a reas through g rea te r prod uction volum e.

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Jul y, 1 ~) 5 g
BANK DEPOSITS $50 BILLION; ALL-TIME HIGH
Geo rgia ban k deposits soa red to $2,506 ,000 ,000 a t t he end of 195 7, rising $ 72.600,000 over 1956,
T his, sa ys th e Feder al D ep osit Insu ra nce Corp ., pl aces the sta te in 22nd pla ce in th e nati on in amo unt on deposit a t th e yea r's end.
Since 1946 ju st a fte r Worl d War I f, Georgia dep osits have risen by $804,700,000 , or 47 per cen t. T his ra te of ga in falls just 2 per cen t sho rt of th e ga in for th e nation as a who le.
Ban ks in th e seven -sta te sou thea ster n a rea-Geor gia, Ala ba ma , Fl orid a, Mi ssissipp i, T en nessee and th e Ca rolin as - a t th e end of 1957 had on dep osit a record $ 15,57 1,700,000 . This was $598.9 million mor e th a n was on deposit in 1956, and an in crease of $5,738,600 over 1946.
Georgia Produeing 3 Chieken Dinners For All Amerieans
Geo rgia' s ann ua l br o iler output is eno ug h to put three fried chicken dinners befor e every m an , wo m an a nd child in th e U nite d St at es.
With upwa rd of 261 m illion br oilers per yea r, th e Geo rgia cro p comes to a bou t 3 " half" -fr ies per person for th e nation 's 170 m illion peopl e.
Lead ing thi s coun try and th e wo rld in broiler p rodu cti on , Georgi a gro we rs last yea r pocket ed $ 150,336,000 for th eir output.
SAVANNAH ADDS ASPHALT PLANT
Sa va nna h T ermin al s, Inc., is con structing a new asp ha lt blending pl an t at th e Savann ah St ate D ocks.
H . H amilton C la r k, president and gene ra l ma na ger, sa id a dozen sto rage tanks with a n aggrega te ca pacity of 110,000 barrels are to be erec te d on a four-a cr e tract leased from the Geor gia Ports Authoritv.
T he pl a nt ,'vill h andle sto ra ge an d blending of aspha lt fo r Sh ell Oil Corp. for th e entire sta te of Georgia .
T he fac ilitv is sched uled to be com plet ed and h an dl e th e fir st as pha lt tanker from V en ezu ela a bou t N ov. 15.

NEWSLETTER

July, 1958

ASHBURN AND TURNER HAIL

$300,000 MANHATTAN PLANT

All of Turn er County made a holida y of t he dedication of Manhattan Shirt Co .'s new plant at Ashburn.

The $300,000 facility, described by industrial experts as one of the most modern factories in the entire South, was hailed as a tremendous boo st to the economy of th e city, county and surro un d ing rich agricultural area .

"This is th e kind of pl ant we want ," declared G eor gia Commerce Secr et ary Scott Candle r, princip al speaker a t dedi cator y exerc ises a tte nde d by 3,00 0 per son s.
" I t is a fin e example of th e r apid strides Georgia is m aking in th e field of industria l development."
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SYLVAN GEISMAR, of New York City, M anh attan presid ent, said th e new p lant is th e finest yet built by his co m p a ny.
"T h e suc cess we had with our fir st Geor gia plant, in opera tion a t Americu s since 1936, convinced us th at thi s is th e sta te for ind ustrial expansio n," he sa id.
T he Ashb urn plant, which will manufacture the nationally famous Manhattan line of p aj am as, will emp loy 200 to 250 people. It will even tua lly turn out 1,200 to 1,500 pairs of paj a m as a week.
Mr. Geismar predicted that the plant would ha ve to be expanded to double its present size within 10 years, and ventured a forecast that within that time Georgia will be in the top t ier of the nation's industrial states.
Opening of th e 40,000 sq ua re -foo t plant, whi ch is built of bri ck and aircond itioned th r ou gh out , c l imaxe d ab out fou r yea rs' work by th e Turner Co u nty Chamber of Commer ce to secure a top-flight ind us try .
Turner Coun ty Enterprises, a g ro u p of local bu siness lead er s, pu t a bou t $ 152,000 into th e plant building.
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J O H N ROGE RS , a member of th at

g ro u p and ch a irm an of th e C ha mber's

Industri al Prom oti on Co m mittee, sum-

med up th e sto ry when he said:

" V irt ua lly every m an , wom an a nd

child in Turner Co un ty ha s partici-

pat ed in thi s fin e aehievemc n t, from

helping on th e la bor surv ey to putting

th eir goo d, h ard- ca rm -d InOJl l'V in tu i l

as a n inv estment."

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GEORGIA'S H IGHEST-This family group moto red to the top of Brasstown Bal d,

Geo r gia's highest peak, via a newly paved roa d that was d ed icated re cently by Gov ernor

Marvin Griffin. T hey are sta n ding on th e hig hest point on the mountain top , looking-

eastward across th e sp u rs. Brasstown, on the lin e betw een Towns and Union Co unties,

rises 4,784 feet and overlook s h undreds of square mi les of beauty.-Joe Wray photo.

NEW AND ENLARGED WOOD PLANTS ADD lIS TO CUTHBERT PAYROLL

O ne hundred fift een new jobs have been provided a t C uthber t by th e a dd ition of a new woodwork p lant a nd th e ex pa nsion of a no ther.
Du lan ey Pl ywood Corp ., which bega n opera tions Ju ly I , ope ne d with 60 wo rkers on a pa yr oll of approximately $6,000 per week . Ed Dulan ey of Loui sville, K v., pr esident, sa id th e fa cilit y wou ld gradua lly incre ase its working for ce.
.J & .J Ven eer Co . also ope ned its plant enlargem en t .J uly I , adding 55
SAVANNAH LODGE SOLD
Savanna h M ot or L od ge, la rge lu xur y-t yp e motel on U . S. 17, four m iles sou th of Savann ah , has been ac q u ired by Irw in Development Co rp .

new em p loyees to br ing its tot al p ayroll to 170.
T he Du laney opera tion, qu arter ed in a new 120 x 80 -foo t all-ste el building, manufa ctures plywood doors of man y styles.
J. & J. wh ose $200,000 expansion in-
cludes tw o new steel buildings conta ining 15,000 sq ua re feet plus much new eq uipm en t, produces ' plywood panels for door s. It is a p rim e supplier of th e Dul an ey plant.
NEW ABAC DORM
Co ns tr uc tion of a $ 160,000 a nnex to Weltner H a ll, boys' dormitor y, is un derw a y a t Abraham Baldwin Agri cu ltural Co llege , Tifton . The two-stor y bri ck str uctu re will conta in 22 room s. .

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J uly, 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

R . H . Page, of Atlanta, will remodel

th e recently purchased Greenway M o-

tel and rest aurant in Ce dar town . . .

Edwin N . Co fer is new presid en t of

St. Simons Island C hamber of Com-

merce . . . Cordel e L oan Co ., Cordele,

has acq uired Cordel ia H otel in th a t citv, an d will remodel . . . Ame r icus M ~~ons an' in th eir new $ 100,000 tem -

ple . . . Calho u n voters a p p ro ved a

$50,000 schoo l bond issue . . . A Bov S CO~lt headquarter s building a t Co lum'-

bus is slat ed to cost $40 ,000. Home Savings & Loan Assn ., At-

lanta , bought the former Fulton N a -

tion al Bank sit e at 18- 20 M ari etta St. ,

a nd wi ll repl ace it with a hal f-m illion

do llar b uilding . . . Bentley, Awtrey

& Bartlett, M arietta legal finn, plans

a 14- room office bui lding . . . Brooks

Co un ty H ospital , Quitman, occ upied

its new win g . . . Milled gevill e Housin g

Authority pl an s 170 dw elling units . . . Ban k of Canton is rc mo dc llirr- .
Southland Oi l is erec ting '10 hu gr

pet ro -ch emi cal tanks at Sava nna h State

Dock s . .. Americus Times-R ecord er

has p urcha sed a new b ui ld in g that wi Il

do ub le th e size of its pla nt . . . T ech

Motel , 35 -un its, on No rt h Avc ., N \'\' ., Atla n ta , is o pe n . . . T hree bui ld ings

costing $300,000, to acc om mod a te

nurses' facilities, wi ll be ere cted a t Sa -

va n na h M em orial H ospita l . . . Val-

dosta Countrv Club. d cst roved bv firc .

will be rebuilt.

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St. Marys Am erican Legionnaires han' o pene d th eir new home . . . \ Vilkes

Cou n ty voters a pp roved $300,000 in

bon ds to ward a $ 1,000,000 H ill- Bur ton

hospital at Washington.

Governor Griffin wiIl be principal

spea ker wh en the Vann H ouse, histori-

cal Ind ia n m ansi on a t Spr ing Place, is

d edi cat ed Jul y 27 . . . 'F ive milli on dollars worth of scho ol bonds hav e b er-n

a pp ro ved in Muscogee Co un ty . . .

Whitfield Co u nty will bui ld a $200,000 health cen te r in D alton . . . Getz Ex term~nators , I nc., ha s a new b ui lding

on Piedmont Rd ., NE, Atlanta,

Region al headq uarter s for th e St ate

Fish & Game Departm en t wi ll be bu ilt

a t Fort Valley . . . Walton C ou n ty

Tribun e, Monroe, sa lu ted Georg ia's in-

du strial proglTss with a spec ia l 42 - pagt~

ed it io n

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A $ 117,000 Nation al Gua rd Arrnorv is sla ted for Lyon s . . . Sava n n ah':~ M c-Crory's d ep a rtment sto ri- ha s been

mod ernized . . . Douglas T elephone

Co. is ere cting a new building in Doug-

las .. . C loister H otel, Sea Island, ha s

com p lete d a $250,000 expa nsion prog ra m .

A branch post office ha s o pe ne d in

NE W HO.M E-Recently occupied by ~o~lle Bank & T rust Co ., thi s 13,000 sq uare-foo t

structure IS on e of th e Flo yd Co un ty City s handsom est structu res and a mod el bank in

th e Southeast. Organized in 194 5, th e bank no w ha s $8 million in assets. J . B. D odd Sr.

is pr esident, a nd exec ut ive vic e-president is ]. B. Dodds, Jr.

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W est R ome . .. Forest Park, bus tling C layto n Co u n ty town, celebra tes its 50 th an niversa ry on Au g. 8 . . . Pea ch Co unty H ospital , Fo rt Valley , will hav e a $ 175,000 add ition . . . Valdos ta Dail y Times is in a new bui lding and ha s a new press . . . Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Co., Au gu st a , is com plet ing expans ions costing $500,000 . . . A State Highway D epartmen t di vision office is sla ted for Tifton .
Alpin e Lod ge Motel an d Davis H ouse R est auran t are new ly op ened a t M aco n . . . Plan tation Pipe Line Co. will bui ld a new lin e paralleling it s p resent facilit y from Bremen to LaGrange . . . W inde r has a new 250,000ga llon water tank . . . M adison wi ll bu ild a 25- room hospit al to cos t $400,000 . . . W endell Burke is new president of Sta tes bo ro -Bulloc h C ou n ty C hamber of Commerce . . . Con tract for $286,000 has bee n let to erec t six new bui ldings a t So u them Picd mo n t Experiment St a tion , Watkinsville.
Yaarab Sh rin e T emple, Atla n ta , dedi cated its new ac tivities bui lding on Pon ce de Leon Av e., NE . . . Moult rie

Ho usin g Authority has sla ted 60 units to cost $ 726,000 . . . D alton has ope ned its new Recr eation Center . . . Arrvndale' s C la r kesv ille, ha s ad de d a 240 to n bu lk feed unit ... Aug ust a 's Orlin K . Fl et ch er Post , VFW, ded icat ed its new $30,000 home.
Sava~ nah's big De Renne Shopping C enter IS near com p le tion . . . Au ~ust a's First 'F edera l & Loa n Co. is e ~ec ti ng a .~IOO,OOO br an ch on Walton W ay . .. A Sta te Patrol b ~!Ta ck s is being bui lt ~ t N ewnan . . . Kmgsland wi ll expa nd Its w a ter syste m . . . Dou glas has a new A& P su perma rt ... Pi erce C ounty's new H ealth Cen ter is ope n a t Bla cksh ea r.
F . W . Woolw orth Co. will bui ld a region a l headq uarter s in At la n ta to cost $3 50,000 . . . Brunswi ck Li b ra rv is .in a ~'enovated hom e .. . Dr. Pepper will build an $80 ,000 bottling p la n t in Colum bus.
RECORD WOOL SALE At a d ist rict wool sale a t Sw ainsboro
~6 farmo rs sold 41 ,645 pounds of wool
tor better than $ 18, 000. This was a record for th e a rea.

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NEWSLETTER

M embe r Georgia Pr ess A ssociation
Published monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COI\IMTSSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman T . C. BRAN SON, JR. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOT T CANDLER Sec re t a ry FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 9, No. 10

August , 1958

SOUTHERN TECH CiETS NEW HOME ON COBB SITE
Southern T echnical In stitute will move from its location a t Chambl ee, in D eK alb Coun ty, to a new home to be bu ilt on a 93-acre tra ct in M arietta.
The regents of th e Univer sity System of Georgia decided on th e site aft er Cobb County offe red fr ee land, utilities, paving, hou sing p rior it y and recr eati on al fac ilities for th e college .
Governor Gr iffin h ad alrea dy ea rmarked $2 milli on to build a new plant, afte r it was a nnounce d that th e scheduled closing of th e D eK alb Naval Air Base, wh ose faciliti es Southern T ech now uses, would force th e schoo l to move.
With an average enro llme n t of 700-800 studen ts, th e institu te gives two-year courses to gradua te highl y skilled technician s in such field s as elect ronics, ra dio a nd construc tion.
COVER PHOTO
This blimp cruising out from the U. S. Naval Air Station at Glynco, seem s to be chasing its own shadow across the Georgia salt marshes. Joe Wray, of Atlanta, Georgia's bu siest flying photographer, caught the picture for New sletter. The scene is between Brunswick and St . Simons Island; the twisting stream is the Mackay River, in which pirate ships used to take cover when the Golden Isles were literally golden.

GROWING GIANT-Here's a photographic report on construc tion at Oliv er Dam, Georgia Power Co.'s new hydro-electri c project on th e Chattahoochee River near Columbus. To co5( $ 14 million, th e proj ect will hav e a capa city of 60,000 kilowatts.

$500,000 EXPANSION UPS GEORGIA BRICK'S OUTPUT

Georgia Vitrified Brick & C lay Co., Augu sta, has completed an expansion th at will tripl e its ou tpu t.
Geo rge C. C raig, vice-p reside n t and general m an ager, said the 56-year old firm had adde d $500,000 worth of new
EVERY THIRD GEORGIAN HAS AUTO PLATES
Georgia ns arc buying au tomo bile tags a t a ra te of about one for every three person s comprising th e sta te's p opulation.
L ast year th e sta te registere d 1,320,000 mot or vehicles, the nation's 17th largest number. Of th ese, 1,056,708, or 80 per cen t, were automob iles, and th e remainder bu ses and tru cks.
Through M ay of thi s year, th e M ot or V ehi cle Li cense U nit of th e State D ep artment of R evenue had listed 1,271,814 pl at es sold, 966,719 of which were for au tomobiles. Officials of the unit a re confide nt th at th e yea r's tag tot al will climb above th e 1957 figure .

buildings and eq uipme n t. T erra cotta pipe of all sizes is m anu-
factured and distributed to th e Southeas t.
The expansion in cludes a n ew pl ant section and th e m ost m odern ma chinery availa ble, incl uding a grinder with a capacity of 50 ton s a n hou r.
The produ ction roo m is ca pa ble of turn ing ou t six pipe sections per min ut e, ran gin g in lengths up to five feet, and from fou r to 12 inch es in di am eter.
The plant h as five ro oms for drying th e pi pe a nd 16 kilns for th e vitrifica tion pro cess.
The firm has been using clay a t th e pl ant site for m an y years and th e s u p pl y has scarcely been tou ch ed . Sh ale used in th e p roducts is mined at Bel Air, near F ort Gordon .
CORRECTION A cap tion in July New sletter placed bank deposits in Georgia a t $50 billion . We wish we'd been corre ct on thi s figure , but alas ! it was a typogr aphical erro r. Georgia ban k deposits a re $2.5 billion, as was sta ted in th e body of th e story . T hat is a new record .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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N EWS LETTE R

August, 1958

BO O T S FO R MILADY-Sc en es in th c plant of Carefree Footwear, Inc., n ew industry at M ett cr , as trainees turn out wom en 's casual shoes of many stylcs and matcrials. A handsomc ncw plant is bcin g built for th c firm whi ch will ultimately cmploy 200 Candler Countians.

GEORGIA ADDS 62,920 JOBS

AS NEW INDUSTRY POURS IN

Geo rg ia in 10 postwar years of industrial development pi c k ed up 62,920 production workers in manufacturing pl ants - the n at ion ' s fourth largest number.
Geo rg ia's addition of 62,920 fa ctory wa g e e a r n e I' s fr om 1947 through 1957 was exceede d onl y by California's increa se of 3 3 3 , 8 5 8, whi ch led all states, Texas' 104,036, and N ew York 's 92,736.
M errill C. L oft on, m an ager of th e U .S. Dep artment of Commer ce's Atlan ta field office, who su pp lied these sta tistics, poi n ts out that th e increase or decrease in produ ction workers is in th e fin al a n alysis th e real measur e of ind ustri al expa nsion r at her tha n the v a l u e of goo ds m an uf act ured, which is sensitive to price cha nges.

GEO R GIA'S G AI N in worker s for

th e per iod, he said, substa n tially ex-

ceede d increases of 59,843 in Ohio,

23,653 in In d ian a, 23,266 in Illi nois,

N22~ w747J

in W ersey,

iscon sin. an all in ' the

d 29.258 in t r a d i t i o n a lly

" highly ind ustrialized" ar eas of th e

coun try.

Sharp hik es in p roducti on ac -

tivities in several m a j 0 I' lines of

manufacturin g wer e respo nsible for

th e Georgia's extraordin a ry ga ins.

These included a 69 p er cent rise in

apparel a nd related products, 35

percent in food and kindred pro-

du cts, 42 p er cent in furni ture and fixt ures, 42 per cent in printin g and publishin g, 69 p er cent in fabricated meta ls, 25 per cent in produ cti on of ma chinery other tha n elec trica l, 11 4 per cent in pap er a nd related products, 16 per cent in stone, clay and glass, and a n inestimabl e gain in output of tra nsportation equipme n t.

Georgia's ga in of 62,920 work er s easily led the Southeast, in which tota l addi tions cam e to 257,108 job s.
T he factor y em ploymen t rise in the ot her states of the region was : Ala bama, 11,783, 'F lorid a, 45,93 7, Mi ssissip pi, 17,458, North Car olin a, 59,80 1, Sou th Carolin a, 23,191, and T ennessee, 36,0 18.

SAVANNAH POWER BUILDS

NEW $7 MILLION GENERATOR

A new tu rbo-gen erat or and ste am boiler to comp rise the No.2 uni t of its Port Wen tworth sta tion will be bu ilt by Savanna h Elect ric & Power Co .
Presiden t Lee M cC lurk in said th e
GENERAL TIRE BUILDS FACILITY IN DEKALB
Gen eral Ti re & Rubber Co., Ak ro n, O hio, is build ing a sizeable regio na l sales office an d wareho use fa cility on M alone D r., C hamblee.
The pl ant of steel, br ick a nd concrete, with the off ice ar ea completely air con dition ed, will more th an double th e firm's fa cilit ies in th e At la nta area.
Fifty people will be employed in the operation, H er b e rt L. C reecy, Gener al's area ma nager , said.

facilit y will cost $7 million. Construction will start next yea r a nd the u nit is to be comp leted in the spring of 1961.
I t will be of a bou t 50,000 kilowa tt ca pability a nd will doub le th e size of th e p resent p lan t now being p ut in to opera tion.
The Port Wentworth statio n, repre sen ting a n investme n t of mor e than $1 million, stands on the old fair gro unds.
PIEDMONT BAG CO. ENLARGES FACILITIES
Piedmon t Bag Co., M acon, ma nufac tu rer of bu rlap bags, has added 9,000 square feet to its plan t and inst alled new m achinery to increase p rod uction to 6,000 bags per day. Six new employees also were adde d, M anager H omer Pal mer said.

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GEO RG IA DE PARTMENT OF COM MERCE

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N E \ VSL ETTE R

Au gu st, 1958

10 MILLION PINE TREES GROWING AT GLENNVILLE FOR RAYONIER

T en million pine seed lings are being produced this ye ar at G len nv ille for use in reforesting the Ra yonier mill a rea a ro und J esup.

R avonicr Inc .'s sou theaste rn wood ('(' lI u l~se mi lls a t J esu p and 'Fern an-

dina Bea ch , F la ., togcther use oyer

800,000 cords of pulpw ood an n ually.

Much of thi s wood is bou gh t fr om p ri-

va tr landowners a nd con tracto rs, and

th e rest is d r awn fr om the com pa ny's

600 ,000 a cres in Georgia a nd F lorida.

T o ass ure a la rg e r aw m a ter ia l su pp ly

from its lan d s for th e fut ure, the com-

pany is p lanting mi llion s of pine seed -

lings on acr ea ge recently cu t ove r or

recl aimed from sn u b gro wth.

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R AYONI ER'S Gl ennville nursery. along with a n olde r nurser y a t Yule;', Fl a ., together wi ll p roduce some 20 mi llion seed lings a yea r for th is pu rpose.
The G lcn a ville nurserv was est ablished in 1956, when 25 a;:res of a 145acre fa rm were laid ou t in ir riga ted seed bed s, a nd bui ld ings wrrr: erec ted for processin g of cone s, seed s and seed lin gs. The nu rsery planted its fir st crop in M a rch 1957 , a nd produced seed lings th at were set ou t on gro wing la nds from Nov ember 1957, to M a rch . 19 58 .
The nurser y is divid ed into tw o eq ua l a reas of gro wing bed s each of whi ch is planted to pine ever y other yea r and to a cove r cro p of legu m es in a lte rna te years. By cro p rotation, fertilizin g, ir riga tin g and o the r soil prep arat ion , th e two a reas a re kept in top g ro wing conditio n. After the seeds are planted in M arch , th e b ed s are weede d , wa te re d, sprayed wit h che m ica ls if necessary

TRACTORI NG SEE DLINGS

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RAYO NI ER 'S PI NE SEE DLIl\'G Jli URSE RY AT GLENNVIL LE

a nd tended wit h g rea t care du ri ng the nin e-month growing peri od prior to transplanting.
W hen th e seed lings a n ' to be lift ed for transpla n ting, a tr a ct or is run a long th e seed bed , draw ing a stee l

blad e abo u t eig h t inch es inch es bel ow th e surface. This ope ra t ion loosens th e soil so that th e seed lings ca n be ea sily p ulled ou t by han d .
T he Glennville nu rser y is loca ted north of J esu p on U .S. 30 1.

WORLD'S LARGEST POULTRY BREEDER PUTS HUGE PLANT NEAR BLAIRSVILLE

Arbor Acr es F a rm. of Gas to nbu rv, Conn., sa id to be th~ world's la rgest producer of breed er pou ltry, is ins ta llin g a plant ncar Bla irsville wh ich will rep resen t a n inv estme nt of one -q ua rte r milli on d ollars when com pleted .
Alread y in place arc three br eed er hous es, 500 , 400 and 300 feet in length , a nd tw o 600-foot houses a re to be a dde d.
The hou ses co mp leted a rc stoc ked with 12,000 Arbor Acr es Whit e R ock pedi g reed hen s. An ou tpu t of 300,000 eggs per month is a n tici pa te d fro m th is stoc k..
T he plant, locat ed on 80 ac res a p-
NEW FEED PLANT FOR BLAIRSVILLE
M ountain Poultrv Co.' s new fee d pl ant in U n ion County, nea r Blairsville, is in ope ra tio n . T he in stall at ion cost $40,000.
The finn, now feed ing 275,000 b roi lers, turns ou t 7.560,000 pounds of feed per month.

p roximately three mil es north of Blairsville, is kno wn as Arbor Acr es F a rm of Georgi a.
INDIANA PLANT MOVES TO ROME; MAKES CASKETS
j arvis Bro s. Cask et Sh ell Co., of Ri chmon d, Ind ., is beginning op era tion s a t Rom e with a n initi al em ploy ment of 20 workers.
T he new industry has occupied th e plan t Iormcrly used by Abi lities fo r th e Blind , just sou th of th e city lim its.
The indust rial com m ittee of th e Romc-F lovd Co u n ty Cha mb er of Commcrce sai~l the j arvises, Alvis R . and W illiam C .. ar e b ri ng ing over 20 years of cas ket sh ell experie nce to th e area . The p la n t will asse mble stee l caske t she lls a nd furni sh th em in ro ug h form to tr im sho ps and distributors.

GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSL ET T E R

August, 1958

DELTA'S $10 MILLION BASE TO GREET JET AIR TRAVEL AGE

Delta Air Lines will build a jet
over haul base at Atlanta Airport in
time to receive the fir st of its jet -
liners arriving- next June.
The facili ty, to cost $ 10 m illion ,
will be con struct ed on a site a t th e
southeast corn er of th e ai rp ort nca r
old Sta te Rte. 85.
"We believe the base coupled with till' new At lanta passen ger terminal bui lding will insur e that the city has th e fines t facilities in the jet age," said C . E. W oolman , pr esiden t and general man ager of th e a irline .
M r. Woolman added th a t Del ta's At lanta pa yroll - now $ 15 million a year - will expand to more th an $20 mill ion in 1960 wh en t hr- base is in full opera tion. Sixteen hund red main ten ance cm p loyrt-s will be assigne d there .

THE BASE will com prise buildings in three adj acent a re as a nd provide a to tal of 356,3 20 sq ua rc feet of sp ace. T his is eq u iva len t to app roxima tely 8 Y2 acres.
The largest gro upi ng will include a tw o-sto ry ope ra tio nal sho p 120 x 420 feet ; eng ine shop 320 x 280 feet ; warehouse, plating- and accessory test sho ps, and a 71,500 sq ua re -foot hanga r which ca n accommod at e three Douglas DC-8 jet transports.
Two engine test cells, each meas-
DAIRY PRODUCTS NET GEORGIANS $50.5 MILLION
C ash income fro m dai ry p roduct s in Georgia in 1957 was $50,4 79,000 , says the Geor gia Crop R epor ting Service.
T his wa s a n in crease of $ 1,8 16,000
ove r 1957. Dairying is Georgia's third lar gest
livestock inco me source . Broilers last year brou gh t farmers $150 ,336,000 a nd hogs net ted $5 7,833,000 .
Tota l cash farm income from livestock in Geor gia was the h igh est ever last year- $354,929,000. This was l :i per cent (or $39,753,000 ) above the 1956 tot al.

JETS' GEORGI A HOM E- Ar chitect 's model of the jet overh aul ba se D elta Air L ines will bui ld a t Atla n ta Airpo rt in time to receive th e first jetl in er s a rr ivimr next Jun e.

uring 52 x 180 feet , will make up th e second area , and a utilities build ing, th e third .
Delta pla ns to con tinue using its present facilities, M r. Woolman sai d .
The line will rcrr -ive th e first of eight 570-mph DC-8 jetlin ers next j unr a nd the plan s to in augurate je t

passenger servi ce in th e fa ll of 1959.
In addition to th e DC 's, Delt a has on order 10 Co nvair 880 jet t ran sport s for dcliverv beg inning in 1960.
Delt a' s svstr-m hea dq uart ers has been loca ted since 194 1 a t th e Atl anta Airpor t, where approxima tely hal f of its 6,000 emp loyees a re based .

AUGUSTA STEEL FIRM BUILDING $250,000 UNIT
August M ill Supply Co. has started
construction on a new plant on a four -
ac re tr act on DcL aigle Ave., ju st off
Gor don Su perhighway and ad jac en t to
the Centra l of Georgia R ailroad .
T he fa cility, to consist of a main office and sup ply building a nd a steel wareh ouse bu ildin g, will conta in a total of 25,460 sq ua re feet. Cost of the plan t is sla ted a t $250,000.
The firm, th e oldes t steel supply house in Augusta , is now loca ted a t 636 Eleventh St.

MRS. NIXON LAYS SAVANNAH KEEL; 1ST ATOMIC SHIP
Waving a ra dioact ive wa nd , Mrs. Richa rd M . Nix on , wife of Vi ce President , set mach iner y in motion to lay the keel of the new Sav an na h, thr world's first a tom ic-powered comme rcial vessel.
T he sh ip is und er construction a t
Camde n, N. .J.
To be ca pa ble of ca rryi ng 100 passeng ers a nd 12,000 tons of ca rgo, th e Savanna h is named after th e first sh ip to cross the At lan tic und er stea m. I t will cost $3 1 million .

G EO RG IA DE PA RTM ENT O F COM M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

Au gust, 1958

UNION BAG-CAMP SENDS JAPAN

RECORD BOO-TON TALL OIL CARGO

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R ECO R D SHIPMENT OF TALL OIL ROSIN AT SAVANNAH.

T he lar gest shipment of tall oil rosin ever to move th rough th e port of Sava nna h-and on e of th e largest eve r handled in thi s cou ntry - was lift ed aboard th e S. S. Nonsuo recently, bound for Japan .
The rosin, whi ch is a by-product of th e kraft p ap er ma king p ro cess, was ma nu factur ed at th e Savanna h pl ant of U nio n Bag-C a mp Corp. T he plan t turns out 2,000 ton s of kr aft pap er daily a nd conve rts mu ch of its p roduction to bags and boxes.
The rosin shipme n t weighed 800 metric ton s, a nd was handled in 3,500 lar ge met al drums. T hi rt y railro ad ca rs were required to move th e shipme nt from th e pap er plant to th e docks.
Tall oil is mad e from th e resins and other or ganic materi al found in pine pu lpw ood . Aft er th e pin e fib ers, th e paper m aking medium, have been sep arated fr om th e resins th at bind th em together in th e wood, th e resins are put th rough refining an d dist illati on processes to p roduce th e light, am ber -

colored tall oil. T all oil is used in th is count rv a nd
abro ad in th e manufacture of Iin~leum . soa p, det ergents, p aint, va rn ish, pap er size and many othe r industri al and consume r products.
FIAT DEDICATES UNIT AT ALBANY
Fiat M etal Mfg. Co., producer of a sectional type sho wer bath , has officially open ed i~s new plant in Albany.
The openin g of th e fifth Fiat unit was m arked by th e presen ce of H owa rd N ilson of New York, pr esident.
Mr. Nil son, a bu siness optimist, refused to concede th a t th ere is a ny recession now or in sigh t - " the re is none with us," h e declared . "We a rc making plan s to adva nce , not retreat."
Fiat is th e nation 's leading ma n ufa cturer of " pac kage d" showe rs, precast shower floors and a pr eca st receptor.

OINK! GEORGIA LEADS DIXIE,

10TH IN U. S. HOG OUTPUT

Georgia is now the South 's leading producer of hogs a nd sta nds 10th in th e nation as a whole.
By increasing production fr om 410 million pounds in 1951 to 414 million last year, Georgia mov ed from 13th to 10th position in the United Sta tes, displacing K an sas, T exas and T en nessee.
Georgia now produces 2 per cen t of the nation's entire live weight produc-

tion of hogs which approximates 18,6 17 million pounds, says th e Agri cultural M ark eting Servi ce.
MILLEN CANNERY SOLD
J ohn C . Wil son Co. has acqu ired th e ca nne ry of th e K elly-G ardner Co., Mill en, a nd plan s a n exp ansion program that will include an au tom atic feed gr indin g system and seven 10,000bu shel gra in storage bin s.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE

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FIRST PILE-Jack E. Cay (in cab ) prepares to pull lever to drive the fir st pile for a huge new paper machine at the Savannah plant of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. Looking on are James R . Lientz, UB -C vice president ; Rob ert W. Groves, memb er of th e board of directors; A. K . Dearing, vice-chairman, Savannah Di strict Authority, and H. Y. Ch arbonnier , company manager. The new ma chine is part of th e firm 's $40 million expansion.
MACHINERY FIRM BUILDING PLANT AT CARIERSVILLE
Sp ecialty M achiner y Co., Inc., now located a t D alton, is construc ting a new pl ant at Car ter sville whi ch will employ 20 to 60 men.
T he compa ny spec ia lizes in engineering, designin g a nd constructing equipme nt for va rious mining and ma nufa ctur ing industries f or whi ch comme rcially pr oduced mach iner y is not av ailable.
The plan t building, on R ed Comb D r., will consist of a 16,000 squ ar e-foot fac to ry plu s 1,500 square feet of office.
MART MANAGER
Thom as 1. R obertson , of Atl anta, h as been nam ed vice-president a nd gene ral ma nag er of Southeastern M er ch andise M art, I nc., $ 15 million install ation to be bui lt near At la nta. H e h as established tempora ry head qu a rt er s at 230 Spring St ., N W , Atlan ta .

NE WSLETTER

Aug ust, 1958

SUTHERLAND PAPER PICKS ALBANY FOR HUGE PLANT

Sutherland Paper Co ., of Kala mazoo, Mich., will construct a large plant at Albany for the manufacture of paper cups , plates, produce trays, prepackaged meat containers and other specialty items. The p lan t will be located on a 50ac re site on th e Central of Geo rg ia Railway a nd South Slappey D r. The fir st unit to be cons tr ucted will contain 175,000 squa re feet of floor space. H or ace Caldwell, pr esident of Alban y Chamber of Commerce , said th e facilit y will h ave approximately 125 emp loyees, but th at thi s figure will rea ch in excess of 300 wh en a second ph ase of th e opera tion is opened .

SUTHERLAND was founded in 1917 by L. W. Su th erl and, present cha irman of th e board, and his younger brother , Frederi ck, now deceased . Its original ca pital was $10,000. T he firm' s invested capi ta l h as now gro wn to $3 7 mi llion. N et sa les last yea r am ounted to $61 milli on .
In 1950, the comp any established its first plant outside Kalamazoo, a converting un it at Santa Clara, Cal., an d in 1955 it acquire d the Fort Orange Paper Co., Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Today it operates five paperboard machines, four carton converting plants and a specialty converting plant in Kalamazoo; two paperboard machines and a carton converter at Castleton-on-Hudson, and a specialt ies con verting plant in Santa Clara. Total emp loyment in all thes e operations is 3,700 persons.
Sutherl and's products can be br oad ly classified in four groups : P ap erboard, th e larger part of whi ch is furth er processed by th e com pa ny; fold ing dr y cartons used by th e cereal, cigaret te, ph armaceutical, soap, ca ndy and textile indust ries; p ar affine ca rbon s for p ackaging butter, ice crea m and allied produ ct s; a nd a line of spc cialties th at includes hot a nd cold drink cups, pap er p lates, meat a nd produ ce trays, and egg ca rtons.
COFFEE FIRM EXPANDS M och a Coffee Co., 48 -yea r old At-
lanta firm, has comp leted a n expansion of it s plant for a tea baggin g operation. J ohn E. Dinos, m an ager , said tea bags a re p acked for both individual and in stitu tional use.

- -~ -. ARCHITECTS DRAWING OF SUT H ERLAND PAPER CO. PLANT

TOURIST DOLLAR SPLITS UP

TO BENEFIT MANY LINES

T ourists are a big Ame rica n industr y - they spend well over $ 12 billion dol lars a year.
What do th ose dolla rs go for ? The
CHICK HATCHERY OPENS AT MACON
Blanton Smith H at ch eri es of Georgia, In c., h as esta blishe d opera tions a t M acon with a capacity of 65,000 ch icks a week.
Th e finn, one of th e South's lead ers in p roduct ion of laying type eh icks, is producing a relati vely new white br oiler bree d at its new facilities on th e Pio N ono By-Pass.
Blanton Smi th also m aintains hatch ery plants in N ashvi lle, T enn. and Albertville, Ala.
H al Murray, who formerl y ma naged th e Nas hv ille plant, is man ager a t M acon. T he new Facility employs 15 persons.
TUFTERS NAME LAVEY E . D . L acey, president of Russell-
L acey M fg. Co., F airmont, wa s elected p resident of th e T uf tcd T extile Mfgr s. Assn, a t th e recent a nnua l meeting. H e succee ds W . H . Sp a rks, of D alton. N ational headquarter s of TTMA a re in D alton .

U nited Sta tes C ha mber of Comme rce

surveye d th e situa tion, and comes up

with th is breakd own :

Food a nd R efr eshm ent s

$0.27

T ran sportati on

.22

Lodgin g

.21

Retail Purchases

.14

T heat er an d Other

Amusem ents

.07

T ourist Attractions

.04

Laundry and Mi scellan eou s

Se rvice

.05

TOTAL

$ 1.00

HAWKINSVILLE UNIT GETS NEW MACHINES
Taking adva n tage of th e pl ant's annu al vacation shutdo wn, H aw kin sville Di vision of Opelik a M fg. Corp. insta lled three new roving frames of th e G 12C model, th e latest type.
The m a c h i n e s, costing approxi mat ely $50,000, are used in th e manufaeture of ya rn.
TALLEY HEADS COKE Lee T a lley, wh o h as been president
of th e Coca-C ola E xp ort Corp. sinee 1954, was elec ted p resident of th e Coca-Cola Co. at th e firm' s recent annu ally meet ing in N ew York .

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

N EW SL ET T ER

Au gu st , 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

A & P will build tw o new su permarket s in DeKalb County, on Covington H wv, and Buf ord Hwv . .. Sou the a stlT~ Co ns truc tion C~. , Atlanta, received $ 1, 134,750 con trac t for hou sing units a t th e new Nava l Air St a tion , M arietta . . . A roa d and d am proj ect to ret ain wat er in Okefeno kee Sw amp, nea r Waycross, is sla te d to cost $728 ,500 . . . Thompson Bros. Co. opene d it s re mo dele d furnitur e store in Sylvania . . . O othcalooga M a sonic L od ge, Calhoun, is erecting a new temple . . . White County's new a irport near Cl eveland is ope ra ting .

Ron ald F . Ad a ms is new presid ent

of Jesup-Wayne County C ham be r o f

Co m merce . . . Nashville has ad de d a

Tnehwoma60s~'0i0ll0e-g~'ai tllvonco

wat er mm

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tank . s s i on

.. sold

$525,000 pav ing a nd sewer bonds . ..

. . A. M . Seligm an is ere cti ng a new

building to hou se his Fa ir St or e in

Statesboro . . . Sixt y-two hou sin g un its
at Alma will cost $743,000 . . . .I & M

T ra ns porta tio n Co. is build ing a ter-

min al war eh ou se in Bainbridge .

L c'Tourneau - W estingh ou se pl ant at

Toccoa go t off a big sh ipme n t to

Arge n tina .

D . H. Ovcrrncvcr W areh ou se Co . is huilding a tern~ i n al on a Iive- acrr tr a ct in Atlanta's Ch attahooch ee In du strial Area . . . Ware County de d ica ted its new $ 1 million cour tho use a t Waycross . . . Carrollton Airp or t is hein g en la rge d a nd imp roved . . . South ern Bell Telep ho ne Coo's N or t h Geo rg ia h ead qu arters moved from Decatur to Rome . . . B. F . Good ric h Co . ope ne d a $ 100,000 store in Thomaston . . . Buena Vi sta h as ac q u ired a site for 32 hou sin g units to cost $300 ,000 .

Perry has ad de d anot her water tank . . A. B. Ne wto n & Co ., V id alia, received con trac t to build 62 housing units in Millen to cost $522,000 . . Georgia Power Co. is build ing a substat ion near Tifton . . . Villa Rica voted $40 ,000 reve nue ccr tifica tcs toward a $225,000 expansion of V illa Ri ca H ospit al. . . . A clini c build ing to hou se four physician s is be i n g ere cte d nca r Wayne County M em ori al Hospital in Jesup.

A wa ter wor ks improv em ent p ro\\Ta m a t Monroe will cost $250 ,000 . . Big Apple su perma r ket is being bu ilt in Forest Park. . . . A $485 ,000 REA loan has been ap proved for expansio n of S ik e s T elephon e Co., Reidsville . . . C ullu m 's, Inc., Augusta de pa r tme nt sto re, will enlarge. . . .

NEW BRANCH-West End off ice of th e Trust Co . of Georgia, whi ch is located on th e triangular plot adjacent to Stewa r t Ave., G len n SI. and Trusco Way, S. E ., Atl an ta. This recently op en ed regional bank is fully equipped to gi ve complet e banking servic e.

A 36-u n it hou sin g pr o j c c t to cost $48 7,000 has ber-n a pp roved for Lavonia.
Sailfish M ot el, 24-u nit Iac ilitv built a t a cost of $250 ,000, is ope n 'on St. Simons Island .. . . A & P pl an s a super m arket a t V a ldost a . . . . Butler ci ti zcns vo ted .$5 1,000 bond issue tow ard a sewage syste m . . . . A new buildi ng
a t Blairsville has been leased to .J 0 -
sep h Camp bell Co., of Cairo , for use as a pepper processin g pl ant, while th e st ru cture formcrl v used for thi s p ur pose has been ac q uired by Deep So u th Poultry & H atch ery, In c. . .. Jesup - Wayne County Chamber of Co m m er c e plan s a new hom e in j esup.
Co ns truction un dcrwav in Summerville in clu d es a housi ng ' project, teleph on e exc ha nge , health cen te r a nd recrea tion cen te r. . . . Slash Pin e REA, Homerville, was gran ted a $233 ,000 improveme n t loan . . . . A $ 1.5 milli on ex pansion is pl anned for Griffin-Spalding H ospital , G riff in . . . . Delt a Const ruction Co ., received contr a ct to build th e $ 1,2 20,000 D ecatur

Co un ty M em ori al H osp it al in Bainbridge. . .. A & P food cha in is ad d ing a store in Moultrie. . .. Cit y improvement bond s in th e amoun t of $840,000 we re vot ed a t Marietta.
$44 MILLION FOR HART RESERVOIR
A n approp ria tion of $44,3 00,000 for th e H art well Reservoir in North eas t Geo rgia has been signe d by Pr esident Ei senhow er .
In th e meanwh ile, viewi ng sta nds for th e public hav e been ope ne d on bo th th e Georgia and South Carolina sides of th e $94 m illion p roj ect .
Pouring of cem en t for th e conc re te portion of th e d am ha s begun and will be pu shed on a 24-hour basis.
NEW RADIO STATION
.Jen kins Broad cast ing System has
been gran ted a FCC perm it for a new radio sta tion at M illen . It will ope ra te a t 1570 kilocycles, 250 watts, during th e daytime.

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DEPAUTMENT OF [OMMEUtE
NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER 1958

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. GEORGIANS' INCOME -HIT . , HIGH OF $5.4 BILLION
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NEWSLETTER

NEWSLETTER

Member G eorgia Pre ss Associat ion

Published monthly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOA RD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman
T. C. BRAN SON, J R. HOKE PETERS
BEN J ESSUP T RAMMELL MciNTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary o FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vo l. 9, No . 11

Sep tember, 1958

Sep temb er, 1958

LAWRENCEVILLE'S DYNAMIC CENTER BUILDING PLANT
D yn ami c Cente r En gin eeri ng Co., In c., L awr en ceville, is star ting construction of a 100 x 200 squa re-foot plant bui ldin g on th c new four-lan e highwa y to p rovide more spac e a nd "growing room."
M anufacturing a balan cing instru ment for au tomobile a nd tru ck wh eels known as " F litc Positi ve," th e firm bega n produ cti on three yea rs ago with one unit a day. It is now turning ou t mor e th an 100 units d aily for customer s in most of th e 48 states a nd n ine foreign count ries.
The balan cer is th e br a inchild of W . C . R exro at, who is now president of th e corpora tion. Sim D . O 'Killey is th e firm' s secretary -tr easu rer . and sales man ager.
COVER PHOTO
Atlanta bound with 43 ounces of gold, a wagon train manned by L umpkin Co untians garbed in the costumes of a century ago, wends its wa y down the 73 long miles from Dahlonega. T he gold will be used to gild the ref urbished dome of the State Capitol. The Dahlon ega area was the scene of the first gol d r ush in North America in 1828. (Another picture on thi s page) .

GOLD FOR THE DOME-Mrs. Madeline Anthony, of th e Dah lon ega-Lumpkin County Ch amber of Commerce, and Mr s. Lou ella Moore, que en of th e gold train, deliver a strongbox containing 43 oun ces of gold to Governor Marvin Griffin on th e steps of the State Capitol. The gold will p ut a glitt er on th e Capitol's rebuilt dom e. Ed Wells, Sta te Hi ghway Dept . photogr aph er, mad e both thi s and th e cover photo.

PHONE INCREASE SHOWS UPSURGE IN HABERSHAM
Signing a con tract wh ich will bri ng dial telephones to Co rnelia, H . M . Stewart, p residen t and gene ra l m anage r of St anda rd T elephone Co., a nnoun ced th at th e number of telephones in H abersham Cou nty has in creased 200 per cen t in th e p ast 10 yea rs.
By th e time th e new system is readv , he said, th er e will be 3;000 phones il~ th e county a nd 1.600 on th e Co rn elia switchboa ;d. .
The new svstem will be th e " last word " in d i ~l switching, including au toma ti c time disconnect a nd two-f ive num bering. It will cost $250,000 to insta ll.

TIGNALL BUILDS PLANT TO HOUSE NEW INDUSTRY
Tigna ll Development Co ., Inc., newly orga nized citizens group , is const ruct ing an 80 x 150-foot pla n t bu ild ing at T igna ll in whi ch to house a un it
of .Jemeal Blou se Co ., of Elb erton and
Spa rta nburg, S. C.
.Jemeal will purchase th e building.
Officials said th e pl an t' s initial emp loymen t wou ld be 150 p erson s.
Sh a res in th e develop ment corporation, at $25 eac h, were subscrib ed in th e amoun t of $ 14,000 th e first dav th ey were on sale. T he com mun ity 's inves tmen t in th e new en ter prise will tot al abo u t $60,000 .

PAPER OUTPUT THIRD IN NATION
Georgia p ap er mill s last year p rodu ced th e nati on 's th ird grea test q ua ntity of p aper and board, 1,825,028 tons.
Only Wisconsin's 2,043,374 ton s and F lorida's 1,828,920 tons were grea ter .

FREEWAY MOTEL
H owa rd K an e & Associa tes, M iam i, hav e secu red a permit to build a 204unit mot el in Atlan ta . T he facilit y, to be pl aced on th e old Westm inster School site at Peachtree Rd . and No rtheast Ex pressway , will cost $783,000. It will be called T he Co lony.

GEO R GIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E

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NEWSLETTER

Sep tem ber, 1958

GEORGIANS' INCOME HITS $5.4 BILLION HIGH MARl(

Geo rg ians pocketed $5,407,000,000 in personal incom e from all sorces last yea r, an all-time record.
In a report ju st completed, th e U . S. D ep a rtment of Co mme rce says this was a n av erage of $ 1,43 1 for every man , wo ma n and child comp rising th e sta te's population of 3, 779,000 persons in 1957. This p er ca p ita also was an all-time high.
The tot al was some $ 170 million more than Georgia ns received in 1956, an d nearly half a billion dollars greater th an 1955.
P er cap ita incom e in 1957 averaged $19 mor e than th e preceding year.
Georgia's some $5.4 billion total was th e nati on's 20t h greatest and th e th ird la rgest in th e seven -state Southeast. T he tot a ls in othe r st ates of th e region wer e: Alab am a, $4.1 billion ; F lorida, $7.5 billion ; Mi ssissipp i, $2 billion ; North Car olina , $5.9 billion ; South Ca rolina, $2.7 billion , and T en-
nessee $4. 7 billi*on . .x. .'I.
TH E PER CA P ITA incom e of $ 1,43 1, however, p laced Geo rgia way down th e nation al list, to 42nd position . Per ca pita averages in th e rest of the

AMER ICUS-Whe n Marlette Coach Co ., of Marlette, M ich. , placed th is m odel br an ch pl an t in th e Ema nuel Co unty city a few mon th s ago , it acted as a leavening whic h caused a bumper crop of new industri es to rise in its vicin ity. O pe ning wit h 100 workm en , M arl ett e h as attract ed at least six other fact ori es allie d wit h th e t ra iler and truck field s. J oe Wray, Atla n ta flying ph ot ographer , mad e these splendid p ictures.

MILLED G EVILL E-Am er ican Coach Co. , located ju st north of th e Bald win C oun ty city, manufactures seve ra l typ es of mobil e hom es and ha s a payroll of app rox imately 150. This m odern pl ant, sit uate d in the hear t of the nation 's tr ail er market, is one of severa l th at are jo ini ng to make Georgia the mobil e hom es ca pita l of th e co unt ry.

Sou theas t wer e: Alabama, $ 1,324 ; F lorida, $ 1,836; Mi ssissippi, $958 ; North Carolina, $ 1,317 ; Sou th Carolina, $ 1,180 ; T ennessee, $1,383.
Ex p anding its study of Georgia in come , th e fed eral departmen t pointed out th at th e sta te has show n an asto nishing rate of p rogr ess over the yea rs. For example, its 433 per cent increase in total p ersonal inco me between 1929, whe n first figu res were comp iled, a nd last year was the nati on's 11tho
Bet ween 1950 and 1957, Georgia's 54 per cen t raise in gross incom e was th e nati on's 18th.
I n per ca pita income, Geor gia 's ad van ce of 309 p er cen t betw een 1929 a nd 1957 stooel th ird among all sta tes a long with Alab ama, and betw een 1950 and 1957 its 4 1 per cent wa s 11th from the top in t he U . S.
Geor gia's 433 p er cen t rise in total in com e betw een 1929 and 1957 topped the n ati onal av erage by 130 per cen t, and it s 54 per cen t adv an ce betw een 1950 and 1957 was 1 per ccn t over th e nation.

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GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

Sep tembe r, 1958

RUSHMORE INSPIRES GEORGIANS

TO COMPLETE STONE MOUNTAIN

"This convinces us," said Governor Marvin Griffin, "that Stone Mountain is the richest gold mine yet undeveloped in North America."
The Governor made his statement to the press as he and members of th e Stone Mountain Memorial Assn. completed their insp ection of Mt. Rushmore National M emorial, high in th e Black Hills of South Dakota.
The Georgian s were gues ts of North D ak ot a Governo r J oe Foss and th e Mt. Rushmore M emori al Assn ., th e group th at' h ead ed th e drive to ca rve th e Black Hills shrine .
" We mu st complete th e purch ase of Stone M ountain imm edi ately and provide wh atever moni es may be necessa ry to ge t it started as a Georgia state park," the Governor added. " I t will assure us millions of dollars a year in tourist reven ue."
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THE GEO RGI A GROUP was told th at Rushmore, which was inspired by th e original plan s for Stone M ount ai n, will a t tract more th a n a mi llion visitor s th is yea r. Yet , unli ke Stone M oun tain, which lies only 16 mi les from Atlan ta and in a densely popula ted a rea, Rushmor e virtua lly is an isolated spot. T he nearest metropolitan cen ter is D enver, Co lo., hund reds of m iles a way. In addition to this h andicap, th e severe win ter s of the D ak ot as restr icts th e Rushmor e tourist season to a little more th an fou r months a yea r.
A Sout h Dak ot a Hi ghw ay P at rol capta in wh o was sta tione d in Georgia du rin g th e war, told th e Geor gian s th at, in his opinion, more tou rist ca rs p ass St one M ountain in a d ay th an come to t he Rushm ore section in a week .
M embers of the Stone Mountain group who accompanied Go vernor Griffin on th e trip wer e, Chairman Matt L. M cWhorter, who is also chairman of th e Georg ia Public Serv ice C ommission; Secretary of State Ben W . Fortson, Jr., Attorney Gen eral Eugene Cook, Secretary of Agriculture Phil Campbell, Secretary of Commerce Scott Candler ; and Price S. Gilbert, Jr., retired Coca-Cola executive.
The visitors were told th at tourists a t Rushm ore spend upward of $30 m illion each season. The group estima ted

AT RUSHMORE-Governor Jo e Foss, host to th e Stone Mountain Memorial Assn. in South Dakota, discusses the carving with Geor gia Governor Marvin Griffin.

th e revenue fr om Ston e M ountain , once th e Confed er ate carv ing th ere is completed, will be man y times thi s su m .
Rushm ore, ca lled th e Sh rine of Democracy, was designed and begun by Gutzon Borglum , the original Ston e M ountain sculp tor. It consists of the head s of four Presiden ts, Washin gt on, J efferson, Theod ore R oosevelt a n d L incoln, ca rved on an outcropping of whit e gra nite nea r th top of th e mo un tain , abo ut 500 fee t a bove th e adjacent va lley. Each face is bet ween 60 and 70 feet high .
T he Stone M oun tai n carv ing, as or iginally plan ned , was to consist of an equestrian figure of R obert E. L ee 135 feet fr om the horse' s foo t to th e top of th e Gen er al's h at, surro unde d by a cavalcade of troop s to be 300 feet lon g.

MARBLE BRICK
PLANT TO MOVE
F reddie Sta ncil, p resident of St an cil Constru ction Co., J asper, has purchased the marble concre te bri ck pl an t of the Georgia M a rble Co., at M arbl e H ill, a nd will move it to J asper.
Georgia M a rbl e has discon tinu ed ma nufa cturing brick.
Mr. St an cil will continue using the same form ula of pow dered marble and cemen t to manufa ct ure th e highl y popul ar style bri ck.
ROGERS IN NEW PLANT
J ohn R ogers Co., 14-year-old Atl anta firm which rem anufactures a u tomo bile a nd truck engines, is in it s new pla nt at 1064 Huff Rd., N. W .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

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NEWSLETTER

Sep tem ber, 1958

GEORGIA PROGRESS SO FAST

RECESSION CAN'T CATCH UP

Recession? There may be such a

thi ng in some other states, but Geor-

gia's p rogress seems to be mov ing

too fast for a slump to catch up.

Ev idence that we ha ve felt the re-

ported economic decline less than

other parts of the country is found in

preliminary figures released by the

Atlanta field offic e of th e U. S. De -

partment of Commerce on bu siness

op erations in th e fir st half of 1958 .

Altho ug h fina l figures on activ ities

for th e first six months of the yea r will

not be available for some time, th e

fed eral statistician s came up with th ese

bri ght fa cts in th eir p relimin ary sur-

vey:
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G EO R G I ANS had some $2~ billion

dollars on dep osit in ban ks.

D epositors in F ederal R eserve mem-

ber banks had d raw n on th eir che cking

accou nts to th e exten t of around $ 14

billi on , mu ch of it going into market

ch annels.

Retail sa les wer e estimated at $2 ~

billion.

Manufacturing plants turned out

an estima ted $ 1 billion worth of

goods.

In the process of producing the se

goods, an av erage of 300 ,000 indus-

trial workers wer e em ployed month-

ly.

Federal government purchases in

Georgia on an ad vertised , negotiated

and non-classified ba sis approached

the $100 million mark in va lue of

goods and services.

Around $ 100 milli on worth of goo ds

passed th rou gh th e ports of Savannah ,

Brunswick a nd Atlan ta bo un d to a nd

from other coun tries of th e worl d.

Personal in come fro m all sou rce s wa s

a t th e $ 2 ~ bill ion level.

Cash farm income excee de d $200

million .

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AROUND 1,000 new bu sin esses wer e in corpor a ted fro m J anu ar y throu gh J u n e.
M ore th an 8,000 building permits were issued for new dw elling pl aces in areas requi rin g permits.
One and a quarter million motor vehicles were licensed.
Eight billion dollars worth of life insurance was in force.
Five and a half billion kilowatt hours of electricity were produced .
More than a million beef cattle,

I NDIAN SHRI NE-Visitors pour into th e magnific ently r estored Chief V ann House at Spring Place, near Chatsworth, which was dedi cated recently. H er e, Jam es V ann, a Sc otc h-C he rokee , lived wit h two wives, working his 4,00 0-a cr e pl antation wit h m ore th an 100 slaves, before th e C he rokee Nation was overthrown and its peopl e sca ttered . The mansion was r estored by th e Ge org ia Hi storical Commission at a eost of $70,000.

EASTERN CHEMICAL FIRM SETS CARROLLTON PLANT

A Pennsylvania ch emical manu facturer ha s chosen C arrollton for its first branch operation in th e industrializing Southeast.
E. F . Houghton & Co ., Philadelphia, has purchased th e property formerly occupied by Stylewi se Hosiery Mills and will modernize, enlarge and re -equip the buildings for making liq uid and paste type antifoam agents, used widely in the paper and pulp industry.
A rail road siding from th e Cen tr al of Georgi a will be bui lt to serve th e p la nt .
O th er p rod ucts to be m an ufa ctured
ca lves, and hogs wer e sla ug hte red . Around 150 million chicks were
produced in commercial hatcheries to keep Georgia at th e top of th e nation's broiler production list.
A million telephones wer e in op er ation.
R ail ro ad s serving th e sta te di rectl y a nd indir ect ly rea lized more th an half a billio n dollars in freight a nd p assenger revenue.
Airlines of the area ca rried two and a half million p assengers and flew 25 million ton -mil es of fr eight an d exp ress.

will include textile softe ne rs, defoamers, det ergen ts, warp sizes, waxes, conditioning agents, wetting age nts, process oils a nd lubrica n ts, cu tt ing oils, drawing compo u nds an d rust preventa tives.
or.
SETTLEMENT for the mill property, in volving a n undisclosed sum, was announce d bv the Carrollton Cha mbe r of Comme rc~ a nd D r. J a mes T. E aton, H ou gh ton vice-presiden t.
Houghton, founded in Philadelphia in 1865, shortly after petroleum was discover ed in Pennsylvania, now ha s plants serving many strategic indu stries in Chicago, D etroit , San Francisco, Minneapolis and T oronto.
At p resent the company is warehousing for th e South out of Cha rlotte, N . C.
Dr. E at on sa id establish men t of a sou the rn branch facto ry has been u nder discu ssion by H ou gh ton exec u tives for some time, beca use of th e rap id expan sion of ind ustry in th e region.
Carrollton was chosen for severa l reas ons, he adde d, p a r ticul a rly strategic location , favorable climate, a de q uate lab or supp ly a nd a fin e a t titud e toward industri al developmen t.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

N EWSLETTE R

Sep tem ber, 1958

BIG PLANT-PORT
PROJECT BOOMS AT BRUNSWICK

$ 15 MILLION ATLANTA MERCHANDISE MART PLANNED

Sh ovels in hand, Ge org ia's Gov ern or and th e president of on e of th e nation's leading manufacturing firms launch ed an $11 million development boom in Brunswick.
The ground-breaking marked th e sta rt of construction on a hu ge new plant for Bestwall Gy psu m Co. and a SOD-foot State Dock to serv ice it.
The twin projects are being sponsored jointly by Bestwall, Glynn County, including th e City of Brunswick , and the state.
Noti ng th at th e cere mo nies h eralded th e reopening of t he Port of Brunswick, Govern or M a rvin Griffin said the even t also symbolized th e p rogr ess th a t is ta king place th rou gh ou t Georgia in both industrial and waterways developmen t.

ATLANTA MERCHANT MART PLANS $15 MILLION HOME

Atlanta M erchandise Mart, whi ch in less than two yea rs has becom e an important factor in th e bu siness life of th e Southeas t, plans to have a handsome new skyscra pe r home in 1960 .
T he m art cor poration, of which
J ohn C. Portm an , Jr., is p resident, has
acqu ired a n 80,000-square-foot tr act a t Peachtree a nd H arris Sts., N .E., and pr op oses to erec t a 20-story building which will con ta in a m illion squa re feet of displa y and office spa ce. T he str uctur e, to be of rein forced conc re te faced with br ick, is expe cted to cost a pproxima tely $ 15 m illion .
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ing to H erb ert . Ma rtin , vice-president.
Lin es alrea dy signcd up incl ud e furnit u re , case goo ds, bedding, linen s and domestics, floor coverings, toys, jewelr y, milliner y, sporting goods, china , giftwa rc, lamp s, applia nces, decora tive accessories, housewa res, drap eries, fab rics, leather goods an d numerous other i tern s.
T he first floor of th e propos ed new build ing will be devoted to ret ail, an d it s en tra nce will be on Pea chtree St. The m ain en tra nce to the whole sale showrooms will be on H a rris St.

RAWSON G . LIZARS, Bestwall president, said th e speedy growth of th e Southeast as a grea t ind ust rial section influen ced his comp any to invest ma nv millions in Brunswick.
Both th e manufact uring plan t and th e dock will be ru shed to completion in 1959.
The Bestwall installation, representing an initial investment of $7.5 million, will have a capacity of 300 million square feet of gyp sum board and lath products a yea r. I t will use up to 300,000 ton s of gypsu m ore annually, th e ore to be deliv er ed by boat via the new dock. Employment is estimated at 250.
Gov ern or G riffin alloca ted $2 million tow ard building and equipp ing th e dock, a nd will alloca te the rema inder of th e a ppro pr ia tion as the project develop s.

THE T RACT ac quired is across H a r ris St . fro m th e Capita l Ci ty Cl ub . It extends the lengt h of th e 400 -lo ot block from Peach tree to Spri ng St. , a nd has 200-foot fr on tage on eac h of the la tt er th orough fa res.
The mart is now located in th e Belle Isle Building at 105 Pryor St., N.E. Mr. Portman said th e present mart is filled to cap acity and has a long waiting list for space.
R eser vations for space in th e new building already number ab out 400 and represent 50 per cen t of tenants who ca n be accommodated, accord-

BESTWALL PLANT AND NEW STATE DOCK FOR BR UNSWICK

GEO R G I A DE PARTM ENT OF CO M M ERC E

N E\"' SLETTER

Sep tem ber, 1958

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FORD MOTOR CO.

FILM PORTRAYS

OKEFENOKEE LIFE

T WO MORE H U G E P ROPANE GAS T ANKS FOR AT LANTA AREA

GAS FACILITIES EXPAND

TO MEET WINTER'S DARE

A 75 per cent increase in storage ca pa city for ga s in liq uid form is the Atlanta G as L igh t CO.'s answer to the ch allenge of on-com ing winter.
Co nstructio n of new faci lities cost ing $ 1,748,000 , n ow under wa y, is scheduled for completion before th e heating season begins.

The la rgest expa nsion in th e com -

pan y's system is a t th e Ri verd ale p lant sou th of At la n ta . T here two rcfri ger-

a ted stora ge ta n ks, ea ch hold ing 1,291,-

000 ga llons, a rc being added to th e one

no w in operation.

Gas for th e R iverd ale p lan t is de-

livered by tank ca r to J onesboro wh er e

unl oad ing and tempo rary storage fa-

cilities ar c being in creased. Tota l cost

of wor k for the two areas will be

$ 1,144,000.

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AT MACON, storage capac ity is almost tripling to 8 10,000 gallons. Addition al vaporizing equip men t is also being installed as part of th e $306,000 job .
In Aug usta $ 193,000 is being spe n t to add 10 mor e pressure storage tanks holding 27,000 ga llons eac h. The cost ther e is $500 ,000 .
R om e's faciliti es a re bein g doubled to 216,000 ga llons wi th th e insta lla tion of four new tanks. These an d other new equip men t represen t investment of $ 105,000 there.
Main purpose of such facilities in a na tural gas system is to provide a suppleme nt source which is added to

the n a tu ral sup ply during win ter peak use.
T he com pa ny 's to ta l storage after completion of the current work will be 8,676,000 gallons of gas in liquid form. T his is eno ug h to make the eq uivalen t of 78 1,000,000 cubic feet of natural ga s.
Na tural gas consump tion of th e com pa ny's 372,500 custo mers estima ted for the wint er wou ld usc 4 10,000,000 cubic feet on a day of 32 degree mean temperature.
The company has also a nnounce d agreemen ts with pip eline compa nies whi ch will increase its d aily na tu ral gas supply during th e cold season fro m 390,000,000 cubic feet to 446 ,000 ,000 .
BLAIRSVILLE GETS DOOR INDUSTRY
Perf ecti on D oor C o., J onesboro, h as p ur chase d a new building a t Blairsville a nd is moving it s ope ra tions to th e U nion Coun ty city.
T he p I a n t stru ct ure, loca ted on Ga inesville Rd ., 11'2 miles fr om Blairsville, was erec ted bv Bla irsville I ndustries, I nc., community group forme d to a t tra ct industry, a t a cost of $25,000.
Roy K elley, Perf ecti on president, said th e plant will sta r t with approx ima tely 75 m ale employees.
Perfecti on manufactures flush, p ~n el and screen door s, door u ni ts, window units, ladders a nd tab les.

A new motion picture featuring

the wonders of Okefeno kee Swa mp

Park , n ea r \Va yeross, is now a vail-

ab le for public showings on a free

loan ba sis.

Premiered at th e State Capito l,

th e 30-minu te color film was a p-

plau ded by Govern or G riffin a nd

othe r exec utives.

" We a rc pleased th a t th e Edsel Di -

vision of 'Ford M otor Co . pro duced

thi s fine picture of one of th e wond ers

of ou r sta te," commen ted the Govern-

or. " It sho uld prov e of interest to

d ub s, schools a nd chu rch gr oups ev-

ery whe re."

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T H E FO RD ca me ra crew whi ch

shot the film last fall found the O ke-

fenokee Swa mp a wesome and beauti-

ful. T hey also were del ighted wi th th e

hosp itality an d coope ra tion received

fro m Georgia ns who assisted th em .

T he mo vie, called " O kefenokee In terl ud e," tells t he story of a doctor and his wife who visit th e 700sq ua re -mile park in th e most memorable va cation of their lives.

T he film is av ai lable th rou gh th e F ord M otor Co . F ilm Libra ry, 16 E. 52d St. , New York, N . Y.

DOUGLAS EGG PLANT CONSTRUCTION STARTS
Constr ucti on has b e g u n on a n II ,OOO-squ ar e-foot pla nt at Do uglas to hou se a n egg p acking pla n t for Arm our & Co . Cost of the insta llat ion will be in excess of $100 ,000 .
Sponsored by R alston-Purin a Co ., th e p lant , leased to Ar mo ur, will oper a te under a local corpo ra tion, D ougla s Fr esh Egg Co.
Egg producer s and dealer s in th e Doug las a rea a rc get ting la ying flocks orga nized for prod uctio n this fall, wh en th e new p lant will be in op eration .

NEWNAN ON MARCH
A five-yea r progress chec k by th e Newna n-C owet a C ha mber of Commer ce revea ls the crca tion of 2,581 new jobs, with an increase of $5,006,000 in indu st rial pa yroll. During th e 1953-58 peri od fou r new indust ries sta r ted.

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-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

W esleyan College, Macon, has a new

$365,000 dormitor y . . . Gray-Had-

dock Telep hon e Co. a nnounce s a

$ 100,000 expansion progr am . .. Hart -

well H ou sing Authority will add. 24

units to cost $3 14,000 .. , U nion Bag-C amp Pap er Corp., Saval1I~ah, has acq uired cap ita l stock of M iller ~

l\l iller, Atlanta and St one Mount?m I a be I ma nufact urer . . . Brunswick

ded icat ed its new N ati on al Gu ard

Armo ry . Smyrna's new City H all has been
occupied .. . .J. A. Wi.n ter ~o: , I nc.,
qo- of M cWill iams, Ala ., IS bUl1dmg an
exce lsior m ill in Brunswick ; . .

loni al Stor es' new supe rmarket in 'V m-

der opened . .. J asper County Board

of H ealth is build ing a health cen te.r

in Monticello . . . N ati onal Rosin a ll

P rodu cts, I nc., Savannah, h as opened

a plan t ma nufact ur ing floorin g a nd acoustica l c c m e n t . . . Chatto~ga

Co unty's health cen ter a t Summerv ille

will cost $78,000 . .. L iberty County

Cou rthouse at Hinesville is being re-

model ed . Ri ch' s Atlanta, is add ing a thr ee-
stor y ser~rice annex b~ilding . . . Citi-

zens & Southern National Ban k, Au gusta , has a new $50,000 bran ch bui1~ ing a t T elfair a nd 7th Sts. : . . Ma~l

son sold $ 150,000 bond s to Improve Its

water and sewer systems. Geor gia' s one - millionth telephone

was inst alled in Homerville . .. H. G.

H astin gs Co., Atlanta, has bui lt a gar-

den cen te r on F airburn Rd . . . . Cov -

ington is extending its gas, water and

sewer systems . . . Gen eral .T elep hon e

Co. is building a new pl an t m Dawson.

Dade County pl an s a wat erw ork s

svstem . . . Pardue Constructi on Co.,

Commerce, will erec t th e $650,000

Banks - Jackson (Coun ties) -Commeree

H ospital . . . V aldosta's F irst Stat e

Bank is in its new bu ildin g.

Pet eet Co nst ru ction Co . is complet-

ing a $500 ,000 apa rtment project in

Decatur . . . A & P has a new sto re

a t Mablet on .. . Willow Springs M o-

tel near Stone M ountain, h as add ed 31

units a nd a restau rant . . . \Vilkinson

County Bank is in a new building in

Irwinton, having moved fr om Toombs-

boro . .. Granite City M ot el, Elber-

tCo0n1~p

a. dodpeedn

12 ed a

un its new

. .. U nited O il $200,000 bu ild ing

in Co lumbus. Gu yton is expand ing it s waterw ork s

service . .. Bru nswick Pulp & Pap er

Co . has pu t it s new $3 m illion bleach-

ery into operation . . . Cobb County

don ated to the sta te a 93-ac re tract on

wh ich to relo ca te Sout hern T echn ical

In stitute . .. 'F irst N ati on al Bank of

Co lumbus' Broad way br an ch, dam aged

ARCHITECT'S SKETCH OF GENERAL FOODS CORP. CENTER.
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GENERAL FOODS TO BUILD HUGE CENTER IN DEKALB

Ge neral F oods Corp. im med ia tely will erect a huge Sou th eastern distr ibution cente r in DeK alb Co unty.
T he plant, to contain 130,000 squ a re feet , will be locat ed on a 27-acre site on Old Peachtree Rd ., in Do ravi lle. T o be built of bri ck a nd stee l, it is scheduled to be comp leted next February.
Ch arl es G . M ortimer, Genera l Fo ods p resident , said th a t ill addition to fa cilities for han d ling a nd stor ing some

10,000,000 pou nd s of gr oce ries a mo nth, th e pl an t will conta in offices for reg iona l a nd dist rict sales forces a nd ac coun ting per sonn el.
The corpora tion's present region al a nd distri ct offices in downtown Atlanta will be mo ved to the new pl ant, as will wa reho using fa cilities now loca ted in C ha ttanooga.
The cen ter will serv ice Georgia, South Carolina, F lorida and portions of T ennessee and N orth Carolina, and is expec ted to p rovide 75 new jobs.

by fire, h as been rebuilt at a cost of $250,000 . . . A new gy mnasium, built a t a cost of $276,000, is open a t Georgia Academy for th e Blind, M?con.
LaGrange Elks op ened th eir new club house . . . Little R iver State Pa rk in Colquitt a nd Cook Counties is slated for development . .. Augusta's new M edi cal Center M otel , 45 units, opened . .. Bank of C hickamauga has remodelled . . . Dudley will build a new citv hall . .. K roge r has a second store in Au gusta . . . A hu ge br idge pr oj ect across th e O cmulgee Ri ver a t Hawkinsv ille ha s begun .. . At la nta's

ne w H oward J oh nson M ot or Lodge is open on Northside D r. . . . H op eful Peanut & Milling Co., Camilla, is enla rging . . . Fiv e units have been adde d by Lon e O ak M ot el, Toccoa . . . Dawson County Courtho use, Dawsonville, is gett ing a n add ition.
U nited States Rubber Co. will enla rge its Hog a n s v i I I e pl ant . . . Wrightsville will build 40 housing units to cost $48 1,000 . . . Waycross' Wa re Hot el has been rem odel ed . . . Woodbine is expa nding its wat er system .. . Griffin -Spalding (County ) H osp ital, G riffin, has sla ted a 50-ro om a nnex.

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NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 1958

N Ew s L ETTER

NEWSLETTER

M emb er Geo rgia Press A ssociat ion
Published monthly by GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE
100 State Capitol
* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS EMORY L. BUTLER
Chairman T. C . BRANSON, JR. HOKE PETERS
BEN JESSUP TRAMMELL McINTYRE
* SCOTT CANDLER Secr etary FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 9, No. 12

Octob er, 1958

ARMY TO BUILD NIKE BASES AT ALBANY, MACON
Ar my officials ar c survcying sites n car Alba ny and M acon on wh ich to set up N ikc-H erc ules guide d m issile in st all a ti on s.
Lt. Gen . Clark L. Ruffn er, 3rd U .S. Army Comm ander, said the two Georgia bas es will bc among th e first missile establishme n ts in the Sou theas t.
T he typica l missi le ins ta llation consists of a contro l a rea a nd a lau n ching ar ea, althoug h in some cases several launchi ng batteries may bc cont ro lled from a cen tral basco
A lau n chin g ba ttery con tai ns abo ut 100 men, an d control bases ar e ma n ned by up to 150 personnel. All t roops assigned to missiles ar e highl y skilled .

COVER PHOTO
U niversity of Georg ia, Athens, th e olde st cha rtered state university in the nation, at it appears at this very mom ent. Joe \Vray, Atlanta photograp her, made thi s remarkable ae rial photo espec ially to illustrat e "Geor gia Aim s E duca tion at Industry," in thi s issue. The old Geo rg ia camp us is at upper left ; at lower left is th e C o n tin uin g Education Bldg ., and construc tion of the n ew six-bu ilding, $ 12.5 milli on Scienc e Ce nter is in progress between Sanford Stadium and Conner Hall in th e center of the view. (See Page 4)

O ctober , 1958

VANDIVER PLEDGES INDUSTRY PROGRESS

Ge org ia's incoming state administration " will roll up its sleeves and go to work in earnest" to fu rther th e industrialization of the state, says Gove rn or -nomin ate E rnes t V a ndiver.
The young Lieutenant-Gov ernor, chosen for the top Capitol post in th e rece nt Democratic Primary, had in his platform a broad plank stressing industrial development, particularly in the rural areas.
H e pl edged sta te aid to th ese COIllmuni ties in securing new p lan ts an d payrolls.
" I n m any of th e communi ties in th e state th a t I h ave visited th e infusion of a sing le new payroll wou ld be a lifesaver," he said. "T h e trad e it would stim ulat e would help merchants, trad esmen, wa reh ousemen , seedmen, fer tilizer dealers, farm m achiner y peop le and others , for a steady payroll would provid e a rea l stim ulus to th e local econ om y ."
The state government, he pointed out, ca n serv e a useful purpose in co-ordinating the efforts of communities seeking new industry.
"We will roll up our sleeves and go to work in ear nest at the task," he declared. " For those communities that may have trouble financing th e constru ction of industrial plants, th e state will provide a reasonable amount of insurance for their loans just as was done for many individua ls under the GI Bill of Ri ghts and th e FHA housing program."
T he Gov ernor-nomi na te pointed to th e healthy climate of cooperation between ca pital and labor in Georgia,

ERNEST VANDIVER
and said his adminis tration will work diligently to m aintain it.
"I n th e field of fa rming," he said, "no sto ne will be left un tu rn ed to str eng the n and fur th er develop Georgia's ag ricultural poten tia l." H e pledged to con tinue effo r ts to im prove th e produ ctivit y a nd diversification of fa rms through bet ter crop methods, research and demonst rati on, to better mar keting p ro cedures, and "c once r ted effor ts to mak e fa rm life even more attractive."
Ga rla nd Byrd, Li euten ant Gov ernornominee, also ra n on a pl an k of indust ria l developmen t. Mr. Byrd in private life is associa ted with several corporations engaged in bringing new indu stries in to th e sta te's economy.

MOST BEAUTIFUL-Gen. James Lon gstr eet Memorial Brid ge, spa nning Lak e Lanier north of Gainesville on Hwy. 129, which has been designated by the American Institute
of Steel Construction as the most beautiful brid ge in its class open ed to traffic during 1957. Another reser voir bridge near Gain esville, th e Sidney Lani er Brid ge on Hw y. 53, won a similar award two years ago.-Photo courtesy Gainesville Dai ly Times photo.

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O ctober , 1958

GAIN OF NEW BUSINESSES

PUTS GEORGIA 4TH IN U.S.

Georgia added the nation's fourth largest number of commercial and industrial firms to its bu siness population from 1950 through 1957.
By incr easing th e number of such establishments from 46,585 in 1950 to last year's 51,002 , the state's gain of 4,417 firm s was excee ded onl y by T exa s, F lorida and No rth Carolina.
T he Atla n ta field off ice of th e U . S. D epartmen t of Com merce, which surveyed the eigh t-ye a r perio d, said th e coun t included bu sinesses engaged in such activities as ma nufa cturing, mining, construc tion, who lesale, retail and service trade, and tran sportation .
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EXTENDING THE STUDY, th e federal dep artmen t sa id Georgia added a to tal of 16,842 firms during th e pos twar year s of 1946 to 1957, inclu sive, whi ch wa s th e na tion's eighth grea test increase. Only New York, Pennsylva nia, Mi ch igan, T exa s, California, Fl orida a nd No rth Carolina cou ld poin t to a greater ga in for th e 12-yea r peri od .
'Vhilc many other states wer e recording declin es in number of firms in 1957 from 1956, Ge orgia wa s adding 2,340 for fifth place in th e nation in numerical gain. Only Massachusetts, Texas, California and Florida had more. Twenty-two other states showed de cr eases.
Back just after the war, Geor gia stood 20th in th e nation in the number of firm s. Last yea r, it had moved into 17th place by pas sing Kansas, 'Vashington and T ennessee.
TOBACCO SALES $61.5 MILLION AS PRICE SOARS
With th e a verage price p er pound of flu e-cured tobacco high er th an ever befor e, Georgia p roducer s t his year pocketed $6 1,54 1,380.
A total of 106,891,560 pounds was sold on th e sta te's leaf m arkets a t an average of 57.57 cen ts per pound.
T h is was 1.34 cen ts high er th an th e ave rage p er pound price of 56.23 cents in 1957, a nd a lmos t 10 cen ts above th e 1956 average of 48.46 .

BRAND NEW-Anaconda Wire & Cable Co .'s new plant at W atkinsvill e, whi ch goes into partial op eration this month. Initially , it will employ 100 wor kers. The fa cility was design ed to contain th e most mod ern manufacturing machiner y in th e wir e and cable indu stry. This splendid photo wa s made by Joe Wray , New sletter 's flyin g came ra m an .

STATE PORTS BODY BUYS RAIL DOCKS AT SAVANNAH

Georgia Ports Authority has contracted to purchase the waterfront terminals and warehouse facili ties of the Central of Georgia Railroad and Ocean St eamship Co . at Savannah.
The purchase price is $2,780,000.
R obert E. Franken field , aut ho rity chairman, said th e ac qu isition is th e firs t phase of a $25 mill ion developmen t of th e Port of Savanna h.
The propert y in cludes 180 acres of

la nd with 5,000 feet of fron tage along th e Savanna h R iver, a dozen steamship berths, tran sit sheds a nd bulk sto rage faci lities.
T he ag reem ent with the rail ro ad also includes an op tion to bu y Whiteh all Pl antati on , a 388-acre undevelop ed industrial tract adjacent to the present Savannah State Do cks. T he op tion, which expir es J an . 1, 1959, carries a purc hase p rice of $9 70,000.

KING SHRIMP CO. BUYS SHIPYARD
King Shrimp Co ., Inc., h as purch ased th e shipyard it occupies at Brunswick, and will expa nd, accor d ing to A. R . Sellers, owner.

IOWA FIRM LAUNCHES PLANT IN JEFFERSON
Pr odu ct ive Acres Mfg. Co., In c., of K eot a, Iow a, has open ed a manufa ctur ing and assembly plant in J efferson .
T he fir m p rodu ces bul k feed units and other typ es of far m equ ipmen t under the tr ad e name PAMCO .

COLUMBUS PAPER CO. PLANS NEW BUILDING
Columbus Pap er Co ., Columbus, will build a new war eh ouse and off ice bu ilding whi ch will cost bet ween $ 100,000 and $ 125,000 .

COLQUITT STOCK ARENA
A Co lquitt Coun ty livestock arena is under construction a t M oul tr ie, loca ted a t the fairgrounds just south of Adcl Hwy. T he structure will contain a showroom to sea t 250, pens for catt le and swine a nd grooming rooms.

GEORG IA D EPA RTIVlENT OF CO MM ERC E

NE WSLETTER

O ct ober, 1958

GEORGIA AIMS EDUCATION

AT BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

" H ow Geo rg ia Tailors Progress in Education to Serve Business and Industry" is emphasized under that tide in Management M ethods, nati onal bu sin ess ma gazine, in its O ctober issue.
The article, a roundtable discussion of the subjec t by Govern or Marvin G riffin and t op Georgia ed ucators and bu sin ess lead ers, occupies eight pages in the per iodical , and is profusely illustrated .
Particip ating in th e discussion with the Go verno r a rc D r. O . C . Ad erh old , pr esid ent, U niversity of Georgia ; R ober t L ynch, cha irma n of the board , At lant ic Steel Co. : D r. E. D. H a r rison. president, Georgia Institute of Te ch ~ nology ; O tis R ae, distri ct man ager, Westinghou se Elect ric Co.; D r. Noah La ngd ale, j r., presid ent, Georgia St a te Co llege of Business Ad mi nist rati on ; D r. S. W al ter M a rtin, presiden t. Emory U nivers ity; and G eor gia Secretary of Co mmerce Scott Candler.
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AFTER R EVIEWING bri cflv Georgia's econo mic growth, \\" hich ' is descri bed as ph en om en al in the nat ion . . the magazine ma kes usc of direct questions to obt ain a pict ure of the wa y in whic h the sta te is red esign ing

its ed uc a tiona l syste m to mee t p resen t needs a nd th e fut ure cha llenge of indu stri ali zation .
As exa mp le, in reply to " Wha t arc you doing in scien ce?" Governor Griffin rep lies:
"' Ve ha ve begun in Georg ia a trem endously ambitious prog ram to expa nd our scient ific research and ed uca t iona l faci lities. At Georg ia T ech we are building a radioisotopes lab orat ory and will soon begin constru ction of a nuclear reactor. The la tt er is being design ed not on ly as an educa tiona l tool but as a Iacilir v to ser ve this region 's ind ustrial, agrfcult ural and medi cal comm unities. At th e U niversity of Ge orgia we have under constr uct ion a mammoth new $ 12.5 milli on Science Ce nter - six buildings all devot ed to th e sciences, chemistry, physics, bio logy and so on ."
To th e q uery, " C a n you gi\T an exa mple of th e way suc h fa cilities m igh t serve ind ustry ?" Dr. Ader hold replies:
" Po ultry is a $206 mi llion industry in Georgia - th e la rgest agricultur a l ind ustr y we have. N ot long ago Gov ernor Gr iffin alloca ted $400 ,000 to the univ ersity for a pou ltry disease resea rch cen ter. The whole fa cility docs

nothing but resea rch in the diseases of poultry. L ast win ter th e poult ry regions in th is sta te were a t tacked by an un known disease. Our research cen ter went to work an d put its finge r on th e disease in less th an three weeks. H ad we not had suc h facilities, our en tire po ultr y indus try wou ld have suff ere d a disas tro us set hack ."
AT WHICH POINT T ech's D r, Ha rri sion takes up :
"An important unit op er at ed by G eorgia T ech is its Engineering Experiment Station, largest engine ering and industrial research orga niza t ion in th e South. Last yea r this unit spen t over $2 .5 million to aid bo th go vernment and industry through a program of fundamental and applied research. Among th e project s being ca rried out by thi s unit are such diverse items as the development of cera mic nose cones for rockets and missiles, elect ronic computers for na tional defense, and peanut sor ters a nd planters for t he p eanut industry in our sta te."
"At Emory," sa ys D r. M a rt in, " we have a sizable nu mb er of faciliti es devoted to the basic sciences. Gcncrallv. these a rc suppo r ting a rms of our Med'i ~

MARVI N GRIFFIN

DR. O. C. ADERHOLD

ROB ERT LYNCH

DR. E. D. HARRISON

OTIS RAE

DR. NOAH LAl'IGDALE, JR.

G EO RG IA DE PA R TivIENT O F CO M M ERCE

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SCOTT CANDLER

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O ctober , 1958

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SCI E NCE FO R PROGRESS-Her e is th e U n iversity of Geor gia' s new $ 12.5 mi llion Scie nc e C enter und er cons t ruction at Athe ns. G rou ped a ro und C onner H all , th e Physics Building (lower left ) , Che mis try Building (overlooking Sanford S ta d ium ), and Animal Sc iences Building (u ppe r ri ght ) ar e n earing comple tion . U nder cons t ruction a re th e Mat hemat ics, Biolo gy and F ood T echnology Buildings. Jo e Wray, Atlanta aerial photograph er , mad e this view as w ell as th e cover photo showing th e ent ire univer sit y plant.

cal, D ent al a nd N ur sing Schools. In th emselves, however, ou r science dep ar tm ent s have achieved individu al rec ognition for the quality and scope of th eir work . . . O ne of ou r cur ren t pr ojects in biology is th e study of rad iat ion on pl a nt s and an im als. T his pr oject is connec ted with th e development of atom-po wered airc raft a nd is being fin an ced th rough Lockh eed Air cra ft Corp ."
AS FOR THE ROLE th e educa tional institu tions p lay in bu siness, D r. L an gdale, whose school has a n enrollment of over 5,000, explains one p ha se of service :
"A bu siness firm ca n come to us with its problems, and we will wor k out a project ou tline and cost estimates. Our research staff is p rimarily our fa culty. A partial listing of th e areas whe re they are qualified to conduct research includes cost analysis, industrial relations, p ersonnel administration, industrial psychology, ma rk eting, production and materials con tro l. Among our curre nt projects a re suc h studies as th e effec ts of expressway-building on adjace n t land values; the effects of building h i g h wa y by-p asses a ro und small towns; and determining th e proper size of adve rtising budget for commercial banks."
R eplying to a qu estion abou t th e

recr uiting a nd tr ain ing of wor kers for new indu stry, Commerce Secr et ar y Ca ndler explaine d :
"T he Stat e Board of Educa tion a nd the local educa tion peop le will set up a training school. T he sta te will em ploy some of the incomi ng industry's supervisory p ersonn el to inst ru ct th e prospective employees. T he equip ment used is supplied by the industry. Lots of times th ese schools begin severa l months before th e pl an t is read y for opera tion. In addition , we op era te a nu mber of voca tiona l schoo ls th rou gh ou t the state. We also have t he

Southern T echn ical I nstitu te, an extension of Georg ia T ech, whi ch train s specialists in plant opera tions."
Summarizing th e worth of modern educa tional and scien tific fa ciliti es, suc h as Geor gia has, in close p rox imit y to industr y a nd business, M r. L ynch points ou t that 14 of th e 20 top jobs at Atlan tic Steel ar c held by peopl e from Georgia T ech and the U niversity of Georgia .
M r. R ae adds that the av ailability of th e resour ces and research of Georgia and T ech was a p rim e factor in West inghouse loca ting its new At hens p lan t.

FOUNT OF YOUTH DeSOTO SOUGHT WAS GEORGIA'S INDIAN SPRI NGS

Geor gian s have long maint ained th at I ndian Springs, nca r J ackson , was th e magic Fountain of Youth th at H ern ando DeSoto was seeking when h e lost his wa y and woun d up in Florida .
N ow th e Sou theast ern M useum Co nferen ce. which mak es a business of au thent ica ting historical cla ims, says this is so.
In its cur ren t bu lleti n, th e conference, discussing the Ch ief William M eInt osh museum a t Indian Sp rings, sa vs :
''' I ndia n Springs is the or igina l I ndia n 'Fo un tain of Youth' which DeSot o was seeking wh en he ca me to America . It was used for hu nd reds of

yea rs by th e Indian s for med icinal pur poses."
J. H . Elliot t, pr esiden t of the At lan ta
M useum, In c., famo us Peachtree St. showplace, also ow ns th e McIntosh. It is located in the sp ra wling house where the h alf-b reed ch ief a llegedly "sold ou t" th e C reek Nation.
T he mu seu m adjoins I ndi an Spri ngs St at e Park , site of the sp ring .
COBB POULT RY PLANT
T ip T op Poultry Co. has obta ined a Cobb Co unty bui lding permi t to erec t a dressing a nd processing plan t off H wy. 4 1, nea r M a riet ta . Cos t of con struction is estima ted at $30,000.

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NE \VSL ET T ER

O ctober , 1958
FOOD PACKERS MERGE, PLAN HUGE OUTPUT
Bat em an Frozen Foods Co.. M a con, one of th e South's pioneer s, ha's merged with Seab rook F arms Co., nati onal orga nization of N ew J ersey and Ida ho, and p lan s a huge increase in its output of Geor gia -grown p roduct s.
President Dewey Batem an and Joh n M. Seabrook said th e M acon's p lant's production of 8,000,000 pounds of food a yea r will be expa nde d to 12,000,000 poun ds.

ON DOTTED LINE - Gordon H. Ro gers , president, Viking Mf g. Co., signs contract to pla ce mobile homes plant in Swainsboro. Looking on a re R. B. Darling, presid ent , Emanuel Count y Development Corp.; LeRoy H. \\'iIIiams, manager Swainsboro C ha mber of Commer ce; and Scott Candler , sta te sec re tary of commerce.- J . ~1. Turner photo

SWAINSBORO SIGNS VIKING FOR MOBILE HOMES PLANT

A new industrv which wiII manufa cture one-and -two-bedroom homes is soon to begin operation in Swainsboro.
Gordon H . Rogers, president, V iking Mfg. Co., Anaheim, Calif., and R. B. Darling, president, Emanuel C oun ty Development Corp., announce th e sign ing of contracts whi ch firm ly loca te a southeastern plant of the California firm in the Emanuel County city.
Fifty-foot Vi king mobil e hom es will be completely furni shed wh en turned out as a finis hed product , and th e

firm expec ts to produce two complete uni ts a day in th e ini ti al ope ration.
Chamber of Commer ce Presiden t M a rlow D a niels said emp loyme n t in th e new pl an t is expec ted to begin with at least 80 men , a nd that even tua lly it should rea ch a tota l of 200.
Mr. Darling said that con struction of th e new plant, tai lored to V ikin g's specifications and contain ing 81,000 square feet , wiII sta rt im mediately. H e estima ted that it will represent an investment of approximately $500,000.

SUNWEAR OPENS GARMENT PLANT AT RUTLEDGE
Sunwear , I nc., of Georgia, is a n ew ga rme n t industry op ening at R u tledge. It will m an uf act ure men' s an d boys' walking shor ts an d swim trun ks.
Mr. an d Mrs. H orace Trui tt , wh o
were formerly wit h Thurmond M fg. Co ., and S. L. Leslie, M iami, own th e
corpora tion. T he pl an t' s initi al force will nu m-
ber 40 or 50, Mr.. Truitt said .

DONALSONVILLE BUILDING PLANT FOR BOAT FIRM
Construction of a pl ant to house a
sou theas tern bran ch of Crosby Aero -
ma rin e Co., Grabill, Ind., boat m anu-
facturer , is underw a y in Don a lsonville.
Donalsonville M a yor P. E. Shingler , pr esident of Seminole I ndu stries, I nc., said the local development group is bu ilding th e plant.
Crosby will manuf act ur e fiberg lass boat s for pleasure a nd fishing purposes.

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GEORGIA MARBLE TO FACE FRONT OF U. S. CAPITOL
Geor gia marble will add a glea m to the $ 10 million eas t fron t extension of th e U. S. C apitol now under const ruc tion in Washingt on .
Geor gia M arble Co., T ate, h as received a cont rac t for $2)83,650 for some 6,600 tons of marble, a nd William L. V an ce, vice-president, said quarrying opera tions a re alrea dy u nderw ay. H e estima ted 150 railroad ca rs will be necessar y to tran sport the marble to Was hin gton.
CHEMICAL PLANT OPENS AT CONYERS
D elta C hemi ca l Co rp., manufacturing and dist ributing firm , is in its new pla nt building at Con yers.
T he firm, produ cing clea ning compou nds, soaps , detergents, wax es and othe r item s, will have a payro ll of about 30.
WARNER ROBINS (iETS BLUE PRINT INDUSTRY
Sh elby Blueprint Co., a $ 100,000 indust ry employing 20 wom en, has begun ope ra tions at Warner R obins.
MACON SCHOOLS
Fiv e new schools and eight additions costing a tot al of $2.5 million have been constr ucted or a rc being complet ed as p a rt of a $4.5 mi llion schoo l bond pro gr am in the M acon - Bibb Co un ty schoo l system.

NE\VSLETTER

O ctober, 1958

SPARTAN HOMES ASSEMBLY TO EMPLOY 200 AT ALBANY

1928, a t T ulsa, a nd h as gained interna tiona l recogni tion as a ma nu factu rer of bu siness aircraft. In World War II th e company conver ted to fa brica tion wor k for mi litary a ircraft; then , to meet th e dem and for postwa r housing , it add ed th e manuf actu re of mo b ile h om es.

The compa ny is still active in the

avia tion field with its Spa rtan Avia-

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tion D ivision a nd th e Sp a rt an School

of Aeronaut ics, both a t T ulsa .
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MARCH START

SET FOR MART

Construction of th e $ 15 m illion

Sou theast ern M erch andise M a r t in

Gw inne tt County will begi n next

.'SPARTAN AIRC R AFT'S MOBILE HO~I ES PL ANT FOR ALBANY

M a rch, says R ober t M . H old er , At lanta, wh o head s th e corpora tion.
T h e giga ntic structure of 1,500,000

A new indust ry at Alba ny will assemble mobile hom es manufactu red

vest iga tion, including exha ustive sur veys of th e mo bile hom es market in

square feet will be bu ilt at the in ter section of th e new H wys. 29 a nd 23

in th e world's largest plant of its

th e Southeast, were undertaken be- free ways. An l l -story m art bu ilding

kind - Spartan Aircraft Co o's mo-

for e th e Dougherty County city wa s will be con nec ted with a coliseum th e

bile hom es divi sion in Tulsa, Okla.

selected for the plant.

size of five football fields which will

J. Paul Get ty, Spartan p resident ,

Sp artan Aircraft was founded in sea t 25,000 per son s, Mr. Holder sa id .

and H orace Caldw ell, president of Alban y Cha mb er of Commerce, said th e new pla nt , now under construc tion, will be ru shed to completion. It will emp loy 200.

LIBERTY COACH TO BUILD BIG PLANT AT COLUMBUS

T he fa cilit y, located on a 20-acre tract a t M ock a nd F lem ing Rds., will con tain 40,000 squa re feet of floor space and represe nt an investm ent of $300,000 , exclusive of p rodu ct in ven tories.
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C O M PA NY OFFICIALS said Sp a rtan 's Sp ar craf t line of hom es, fabr ica ted in th e 17-acre plant in T u lsa, will be shipped to Alba ny for assembly.
Also to be loca ted in th e Albany facility a re branch offices of two Spa rtan subs id ia ries, Minnchom a Finan cial Co., an d M innch orna I nsurance Co. T hese firms, togeth er with Sp ar tan 's sales division, will serve the eastern U n ited St at es.

Lib erty Coach Co ., Inc., Brem en, Ind., on e of th e top five manufacturer s in th e U nited Sta tes of mo bile hom es, will open a plant in C olumbus la te thi s year. To be housed in a $300,000 pl an t to be built on a 12-acre tract in th e Centr al of Georgia industr ial a rea sou th of Cusseta R d., th e inst alla tion will emp loy 150 persons a t the sta r t of op era tions, with a n an nua l payr oll of $500 ,000.
When prod uction reach es ca p acity, from 250 to 300 persons will be employed .
J oin t anno unce me n t of the new industry was made by Allen Sp en cer, L iber ty president ; A. H . C hapman , Sr., president of Co lumbus I nd ustri al D e-

Brem en in 1941, and lat er launch ed a second a t Syr acuse, I nd . Wh en the Co lumbus operation gets underwa y, one of th e Ind ian a pla n ts will be closed
The com pa ny manufactures th ree lines of mobi le hom es - th e L ancer, a n econo mica l model; th e Sp encercra ft, which con ta ins one to thr ee bed roo ms, and th e St yleliner, a luxu ry produ ct. Price range from $3,500 to $8,000.
STUCKEY'S SETS PLANT ADDITION
An expansion pr ogram to cost $100,000 will get und erway thi s fall a t th e pla nt of St uckey's, I nc., in E astm an.

Spart an official s praised Alba ny for th e fin e cooperation extende d th e

velop ment Corp., and R oy E . M artin,

W. S. Stuckey, president, said the en-

Jr. , president of Columbus Ch amb er lar ged fa ciliti es will mea l

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compa ny by m an y org anizations and of Commerce.

100 to 200 worker s to.., _,,,,,,""

individuals. They said months of in-

L iber ty opened it s first plant in of 125.

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G EORGIA DEPART M ENT

N EWSLETTER

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O ctober , 1958

-HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS-

Billups E astern Petroleu m Co ., Au gusta, purchased for $8,750,000 the assets of Billup s Petroleum Co., incl uding 120 service sta tions . . . Sout hern H atch eries, Gainesville, opened a branch in R ose Hill, N . C . . . . An auditorium office building sla ted a t U n iversity of Georg ia expe rime n t sta tion, Midville, will cost $65,000 . . . Ben F ranklin V ari et y Stores' first sou theastern uni t ope ned in T oco Hills Shopping Cen ter ncar Atlanta.
Wilcox County Pu blic H ealth Build ing a nd Wi lcox D octors Building were dedi ca ted a t Rochelle . . . Sout hern Grain Elevat or Co., nca r M etter, in sta lled an aera tion dr ying system in its 20 0 , 0 0 0-bu sh el storage facilit y . . Am ericus' daily newspap er , The Times-R ecorder , moved to its handsome new build ing . . . ' Voodbury's ninth a nnua l Pimient o Festival wa s held O ct. 15.
Dahlonega M ethod ist Chur ch has ad de d a $50,000 studen t een te r build ing . . . H ome F ed eral Savings & L oan Assn., Columbus, pl an s a $265,000 hom e ... Grady County H ospital, to cost $49 2,000, is under construc tion at Cairo . .. Augusta C hr oni cle-H erald issued a huge ed ition salu ting industrial progress in th e Savanna h V alley . . . An A& P supc rrn a r t is scheduled for Brunswick's L ani er Plaza.
W . H . ( Pa t ) J ohnston, Coweta County commissioner, is new presiden t of th e Nation al Assn. of Coun ty Commission ers, the fir st Geor gian to fill th e post . . . First Federal Sav ings & L oan Assn. of MeRae is in its new home.
Sikes Telep hon e Co., Glennville, let a $ 169,000 con trac t for expa nsion . . . U nion Bag-Camp Pap er Corp. , Sa vannah, dedi ca ted its tr ee nurser y in Evans Co unty .. . A 20-uni t motel to cost upw ard of $200,000 is sla ted for Fulton County Airp or t, ncar Atlanta . . C herry Street Pa rking, I nc., Macon , plans a $350 ,000 par king ga rage . . Byron T elephon e Co. re ceived a $6 1,000 REA loan for expansion . . . Coosa Cou ntrv C lub' s new hom e a t Rome will cost $200,000 . . . Ro ckmart vot es $40,000 bonds for improvemen ts including a new fir e truck.
A hom e for Ri chmo nd County's aged and indi gent, to cost $200,000 , will be erec ted a t U niversity H ospit al, Au gusta . . . E towa h M ounds M useum , near Ca rt ers vill e , was d e di c at ed O ct . 19 . . . Milledgeville will get a new p ostoffice costing $700,000 . . . Houston County will bu ild a 50-b ed

ST O NE MOUNTAIN P URCHASE - Mills B. L an e, Jr. (lef t) , r epresenting th e group controlling Stone Mountain, receives from Gov. Marvin Griffin th e State of Ge orgia's che ck for $1,100,000, th e purchase pri ce of th e property. Second from left is C laud Blou nt , chairm an of the D eK alb C oun ty Commission , who presented on behalf of that county 400 acr es adjoining th e mountain to t he new state park. C omme rc e Secre ta ry Sc ott C an dler , memb cr of th c Stone :\Iountain M cmori al Assn., look s on .
hospital in Warner Robins. Macon 's Dempsey H otel will add an
l L story p a rking facilit y . . . Augusta City Coun cil deed ed 80 ac res of Savan'na h R iver fron tage for the city's a n ticipa ted port . . . Toccoa Egg Co.'s Sunrise Acres F arm has begun t ruck shipme n t of eggs to eastern ma r ket s. . . . Frank J ohn son purch ased G riffin Hot el, G riffin . . . A& P will build a superrna rt in V aldosta . . . Quitman Co un ty will celebra te its centennial a t Ge orge town in December . . . Can dler Exch an ge Bank , M etter, has a new building.
T ri-C it y H ospital Au tho rit y will erec t a 2.5 million hospital in Ea st Point . . . Douglas has a new F irestone sto re . . . Carrollton's Peopl es' Ban k dedi cated its remodel ed build ing . . . W hit field Coun ty a pproved

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