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OCT 14 '65

CONTENTS
Director's Message & Policy Statement ___________________ ____________________________________3 Georgia Expansion ---------------------------------------------------------------_4, 5, 9, 12 & 13 New Industry ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------6, 13 T ourist Topics ----------------------------- _______---__________-------------------------_____________________8 Archives: Commemoration to Immortality ----------------------------------------------- 9 Aviation Advances -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 International Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Here and There --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12 Cover: The photograph of the new Sunbeam Corporation being constructed in McRae, Georgia. The plant is expected to be completed by January, 1966.
Vincent Jones ____________________________________________________________________-------------------Editor Rosser Smith ________________________________________________________________________Managing Editor Dona Ademy ______________________________________________________________________Editorial Assistant GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.

THE QEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

L. to R .-Vincent Jones, Editor; Dona Ademy, Editorial Assistant; James H . Nutter, Executive Director of the
Board of Industry and Trade; and Rosser Smith , Managing Editor; go over details of the first publication of G eorgia Progress.

liRECTOR'S MESSAGE

\ Statement of Purpose

'

by

Jam es H. Nuller, Jr.

With this issue a new chronicler of state-wide events,

ntitled appropriately " Georgia Progress' " is born .

:xcepting a brief period when the Georgia Develop-

lent News was co-sponsored, it marks the first venture

1 publishing a monthly report by the State's promotion-

! agency since the Georgia Newsletter, issued by the

ld Georgia Department of Commerce, was discon:.

nued in February, 1959.

It fills, we believe, a rather gaping void in the vital

eld of communications. As the Department became

1creasingly involved in the coordination of federal

rograms, and the initiation and stimulation of state

nd local programs of economic development, the need

)r a Department publication that would inform, guide,

lotivate and inspire was obvious.

I. GEORGIA PROGRESS will attempt to be newsy, Wl~hout being nosey ; factual , without being dull ; authori-

tative, without being sanctimonious; challenging, with-

out being pushy and well-written, w;thout being erudite. ~s it strives for these lofty goals, its staff asks your

patience and tolerance, your support and cooperation.

Should it be on target, we would welcome evidence

of your approbation. Should it miss the mark, we beg

your constructive cntcsm. GEORGIA PROGRESS is dedicated to the progress of Georgia. The only empire it will ever attempt to build is the Empire State of the South.
We wanted you to know what kind of publication we are launching, what our hopes for it are and what its goals and strivings, in our opinion , should logically be. We hope you will like it.

POLICY STATEMENT

Our state is explosively expanding in many diversified

directions, and the growth is so fast and furious that

occasiomilly it is difficult to foster its many develop-

ments. The Department of Industry and Trade, with

this the first issue of GEORGJA PROGRESS, inaugur-

ates a monthly publication covering a wide variety of

topics and fields.

Through the monthly publication of GEORGIA

PROGRESS, we aspire to keep you informed of in-

dustrial progress, tourist expansion, international trade

developments, and progress of the state aviation pro-

gram-as well as providing you with .

on

numerous other areas of expansio ~ u ~iVEt:.;~,

As a growing publication re ~ve of a growi

LiBRARIES Georgia, we welcome your sug s Ions and comments
about GEORGIA PROGRESS

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Claytone

Atlanta

Hogansville

Barnesville

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Milledgeville

Pine Mountain

Macon

Warrenton
Louisville

Marshallville Abbeville

Claxton
Glennville

Blakely

Homerville
Valdosta

GEORGIA EXPANSION

INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CHARTS GEORGIA'S EXPANSION

Coronet Industries, Inc.
Coronet Industries, Inc.; one of the nation's fastest growing tufted carpeting and rug manufacturer, has announced a $1 .million expansion program for its Dalton operatiOn. Coronet now produces 3.5 per cent of the nation's tufted carpeting. This figure will be increased with the additional space to increase production and warehousing capacity requiring between 30 to 40 new employees.

Thompson Industries
The completion of additional facilities at the Valdosta plant of Metal Products Division of Thompson Industries will create 100 new jobs. The 70,000 sq. ft. structure provides additional space for fabricating automobile trim and molding manufactured by the firm .

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EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:

359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households
91 additional school a1e children 97 more motor vehicles 165 more persons workinl in trades servicin1 the main industry $229,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes

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Aldora Mills

General Tire & Rubber Company has let a

contract eorgia.

toAex4p0a,n0d00itssqA. ldfto. rbauMildililnsgatwBilal rninecsrveiallse~

!Aldora Mill's manufacturing area -to almost 250,-

!l000 sq. ft. increasing their employment by some

persons.

Pacolet Industries Inc.
A giant weaving operation, Pacolet Industries, Inc., will locate soon in Lavonia. The firm , a subsidiary of Deering-Millikin, will construct its third plant in Georgia-a 500-loom weaving mill. Reports say between 500-600 persons will be employed.
Continued on pg. 12

NEW INDUSTRY
Riegel Plant Forgin g Ahead on Construction
$5.1 Million Jackson Tubing and Conduit Plant Underway
Construction is proceeding on the new Riege l Textile plant near Cornelia, Georgia. The new $ 11 .5 million mill will manufacture fabrics. Some 400 persons will be employed when construction is completed late in 1966. The mill will be located on a 320 acre site south of Cornelia at Alto, Georgia.
Riegel to Build New Mill In Cornelia-Alto Area
Foundations are being constructed near Blakely, Georgia, on the new $5.1 million Jackson Tubing and Conduit plant. The plant facility is expected to be completed in August of 1966.
The new manufacturing operation, located on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River nea r U. S. Highway 84, will be capable of making tubing and conduit at the rate of 40 feet per minute.
The 24 hour per day operation of the plant is expected to use some 100,000 tons of steel per year when operating at capacity. So:ne 75 people will be employed initially-with employment expanding gradually to approximately 285 to 300.

H . B . " R ed" Ja ckson, President of Ja ckson Tubin g, welcom es l'isitors to groundhreak ing cerem onies of ne w plant.

''It's only th e he~inning ," say left to right Jam es F. Hollingsworth . R egional Director of tile Sma ll Busin ess Administration; Th omas J. Crawford, V ice President of Ja ckson Tubin g; John Holman, Blakely banker and President of Early County R ede 1e/opment Corporation; Jam es H . Nuller, Jr., Executive Director of th e Department of Industry and Trade; and Ed Do H'n s, Area R edevelop m ent A ssociation Fie ld Representative.

Scaffolding structures soon to be new Sunbeam Plant.

New Sunbeam Plant to Locate
In McRae
The announcement early in August that a new Sunbeam Corporation plant would be constructed in McRae, sparked a flurry of activity in Telfair County and the surrounding area. So far, more than 1,200 applications for jobs have been received for employment at the new plant.
"We've never seen anything like it," exclaimed McRae civic leader Stanley Brooks. "The city and even the whole county has been buzzing since Governor Sanders and Sunbeam Executive Vice President, John Dahm, announced that the plant would be built in McRae. Everyone in the community did an unbelievable amount of work in assembling everything needed for getting the plant located in McRae."
The local citizens in the McRae area raised over $100,000 to purchase a site for the plant. Most contributed without knowing who the actual plant owners would be. The site was acquired and bought back from local people by Sunbeam.
While the main plant is being constructed, Sunbeam has leased a 12,000 sq. ft. facility for training workers for actual production. Some 500 to 700 persons will eventually be employed at the plant and will manufacture a variety of Sunbeam appliances. The construction ~n the main building is scheduled to be completed by January, 1966. As units of the main plant are completed, production will be moved out of the temporary facility to the new building.

Th e Ringgold W elcom e Station is proof to tra velers of Georgia's southern hospitality .

TOURIST TOPICS
Ringgold: Official Host
To Georgia Visitors
Georgia now has five welcome centers in operation in the state with the opening of the newest center in Ringgold in August. The new tourist center is located on Interstate Highway 75 near the Georgia-1 ennessee border, and is expected to be one of the busiest in the state. Recently compiled research shows that I-75 is one of the most traveled high~ ways in the state.
In addition, to the Ringgold Center, there are welcome stations open at Savannah, Columbus, Lavonia, and Sylvania. Valdosta will soon boost of a center located on I-75 n e a r the Georgia-Florida border which is scheduled to open by the end of the year.
The Tourist Division of the Department of Industry and Trade installed traffic counting systems at all welcome centers in August to tabulate the number of center visitors. A total of 81,000 people visited the centers during this month, according to figures from the new system. Some 41,817 people actually signed the guest registers during August, which is a new record for the welcome stations. Studies have shown that about half the people stopping at the centers do sign the registers.

Exposure of the Canadian Exposition

The State of Georgia was represented and promoted recently at the biggest show in Canada, the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto. The C.N.E . closed September 6, after being open for more than
two weeks. "More and more tourists from
Canada are coming to Georgia and we make the initial contact with many of them at the Exhibition," comments Bill Hardman, manager of the Tourist Division of the Department of Industry and Trade. Mr. Hardman added, "We will be promoting Georgia at a number of trade and travel shows in the United States beginning early in 1966."
The attendance at this year's Canadian Exhibition p u s h e d the

three million mark. A total 2,962,500 people at t e n de d C.N.E. "After standing on feet for eight hours and <>n<:UJPr
questions about Georgia, you that all three million people by the Georgia display," co1mn1ertte( Sara Harrison, manager of Welcom< Center personnel for the Touris Division.
Young ladies from the Welcom< Centers passed out 243,321 piece1 of literature on Georgia, gave awaJ 24 cases of Georgia peanuts anc answered an uncountable number 0' questions about the state. Two nam< entertainers, Victor Borge and Bot Hope, headlined the grandstam show at this year's C.N.E.

Georgia Hostesses Greet Visitors at Canadian Exposition.

HISTORIC EVENTS

Archives: Commemoration to Georgia's Immortality

Standing proud and magnificent as a towering protector of the

priceless historical records it houses, is the newly constructed build-

ing of Archives and Records. This $6.6 million building replaces

the former A. G. Rhodes home-once designated as the official

keeper of Georgia's historical records, and repository for the state's

myriad number of genealogical maps and data.

Through the dedicated work of State Archivist, Carroll Hart,

and her competent staff, the transition period of moving and re-

organizing is nearly terminated. Official dedication of the Archives

and Record building will take place October 11 .

The State Archives and Records have known many varied and

scattered homes since the Department was created in 1931 and

placed under the Secretary of State's office. However, with the

completion of the new building, All Archives and History activities

are housed under one roof.

The building's architectual splendor is enh&nced by the white

Cherokee Georgia marble which encases the exterior of the 17-story

edifice. Four underground vaults tomb the catalogued and pre-

served state records of deeds, pre-Revolutionary land grant rec-

ords, and old land-grant maps of the first settlements in Georgia.

Four levels of underground parking will accommodate 1,100

automobJes and can eventually be converted to office or display

space for future expansion.

. The various Archives departments afford all inquirers and

mterested visitors extensive and complete research facilities. It

boosts of having as complete a record library as most individual

County Public Records Departments. 'fl:te Re~earch Department maintains the Microfilm Section, a

pubhc service and photoduplication service, which contains 14,000

reels of county historical records, land records, superior records ~ estates, marriage, and the Federal censuses. Also, within the ~ earch Department is the Search library which houses a 3,000

und volume collection of published works.

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of the Archives. and is responsirecords within

e Archives collection. The County Records Department is

re ponsible for preserving records sent in by counties for microfilm-

ing. More than one county has been aided by this department when the old county courthouse burned. The County Records Department had .the county's records on microfilm. This service is available free to any county that desires to have its priceless records preserved.
The Civil War Records Department is responsible for maintaining and servicing the records of original state surveys and recorded original deeds or plats of land. This Department also maintains an extensive collection of information dealing directly or indirectly with the Civil War.
The Surveyor General Department under the auspices of Secretary of State, Ben W. Fortson, Jr., maintains records of original state surveys, recorded original deeds or plats of land. This Department also maintains the Archiv~s cherished map collection.
The Publication Department executes the publication of all Archives data, but its main function is the compilation of GEORGIA'S OFFICIAL AND STATISTICAL REGISTER - published biennially by the Archives for the Secretary of State.
GEORGIA EXPA~SION (Continued)
Three Louisville industries are now about to expand from their incubation stage and are to be launched into full operation. Thermo King Corporation, a division of Westinghouse, making refrigeration units for the trucking industry and air conditioners for automobiles, is increasing its floor space by over 30 per cent. The company now employs 180 persons in three shifts. Jefferson Shirt Corporation recently acquired land across from its plant to be used as parking space, and later to facilitate expansion plans. J. P. Stevens Company, Inc., a woolen and synthetics finishing plant, revealed plans to add 24,000 sq. ft. of floor space to its plant.
The U.S. Rubber Company at Hogansville announced a $400,000 expansion and modernization program for the local plant. The expansion will enable the Hogansville firm to offer a wider variety of products at a greatly increased volume.
Auto Ventshade, Inc., has purchased a five and two-tenths acre tract of land in Chamblee to be used for future plant expansion. Increased demand for Ventshade products indicate additional production and warehouse space will be required in the near future.
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WORLD'S LARGEST-Lockheed-Georgia Company of Marietta, Ga., will build the world's largest tandem wind tunnel-for testing vertical take-off, landing aircraft design models, and conventional fight modes.
AVIATION ADVANCES
Tand urn Wind Tunnel Going
Up At Lockheed
To supply advanced facilities for manned aircraft testing, the world's largest privately owned wind tunnel for testing design models of aircraft will be built by the Lockheed-Georgia Company on its property near Marietta, Georgia.
Besides being the largest such installation in the world, the new facility is unique, in that it is designed for the handling of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and for short take-off and landing (STOL), as well as conventional low-speed testing modes. lt also sets a precedent of being the only wind tunnels specifically designed and constructed for the testing of vertical andfor short take-off and landing (V/ STOL), aircraft.
The first section of the new facility has been designed with "outsized" dimensions, to permit the testing of V/ STOL models in the transition region. The second test section in the tandum setup is also larger than normal designs, to permit the testing of models simulating full scale conditions for accurate low speed drag evaluation and for determining aero-dynamic data in the area up to and including maximum lift.
Lockheed-Georgia decided to build the tunnel after a six months study of V/ STOL testing requirements and a preliminary design study of such a facility by the firm of Sverdrup and Parcel. Construction of the new test facility, occuping a two-acre site adjacent to the Lockheed-Georgia Research Laboratory complex, will begin shortly to be completed early in the fall of 1966.
Lockheed is also currently competing with three other companies for a $1 billion plus contract for the construction of the C5-A supersonic jet. If Lockheed wins the present Air Force contract, the new wind tunnel will be used for testing the design models.

Visual Approach Indicator
The "Visual Approach Path Indicator," a new device to land aircraft in the darkness, will provide small airports with efficient and inexpensive runway safety precautions.
Pilots flying at night will find the new gadget, designed by A. D. Brown of the Lockheed-Georgia Company at Marietta, a radar rescue in landing approaches on unlit runways.
The battery-powered VAPI unit is installed on the airport runway. The approach indicator requires no instruments in the aircraft. It is visible for three miles and operates on a lens system of three colors. If the pilot approaches an unlit runway at night and sees a red beam, the indicator tells him he is coming in too low. An amber beam alerts him to "clear all obstacles" for a normal landing approach.
The low-priced unit, produced by the Lockheed Industrial Products affiliate in Atlanta, is designed primarily for flight safety at small airports where no landing aids are available for pilot assistance at night. There are some 9,200 such airports in the U.S., most of which are not equipped with runway lights.
FAA Announces Georgia Airport
Allocations
Georgia, for the second year in a row, will be building or expanding more community airports than any other state in the nation. The Federal Aviation Agency announced early this month the federal grants-in-aid to airport projects. The Federal aid, along with anticipated state and local funds, will go to develop 14 community airport projects in the state . In addition to the community air facilities, the FAA gave grants to nine metropolitan airport projects for improvements during the 1965-66 fiscal year. With a total federal grant of $5,768,693, Georgia will be constructing more than $11 ,898,449 worth of airport improvements at 22 airports.
New community airports will be constructed or runways paved at Baxley, Blakely, Butler, Pine Mountain, Calhoun, Eastman, Jefferson, Louisville, Millen, Monroe, Nahunta, Nashville, Thomaston, and Wrens.
Additional improvementswill be made at the following metropolitan airports; Atlanta, Fulton County, Columbus Municipal, Muscogee County, Gainesviile, Macon, and Marietta (McCollum) . Airports have been completed or are under construction at Sylvester and Jekyll Island. Improvements will be made at the Sylvester airport and a new airport has been completed at Ashburn with one under construction at Jekyll Island.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES

R1 IL A RE ROLLIN G - Tom C. Campbell, President _of E C of Chamblee, stands amid the railroad wheels whrch

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Georgia Businessmen Plan

Far Eastern Trade Miss ion
A group of Georgia businessmen will be leaving November 25 to travel to the Far East on a trade mision. The mission was arranged by the International Service Unit of the Department of Industry and Trade in cooperation with the U .S. Commerce Department. The mission will journey to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Manila with the full aid and cooperation of the Commerce Department and the Foreign Service. All of the businessmen will pay their own expenses a one of the requirements for governmental approval of the trade travel group.
One of those participating in the mission is Tom C. Campbell, President of the Southern Iron and Equipment Company of Chamblee. Southern Iron and Equipment makes ra;lroad cars and giant gantry cranes for unloading railroad freight. Mr. Campbell hopes to sell the e cars to the railroads visited during the tour. Iron and Equipment currently builds railroad cars for several railroads in this country, and hopes to expand operations into the International market.
Others included in the Far East expedit=on are: Dr. Fred W. J. Liu, Continental Trading Company, Atlanta; Peter S. Knox, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Industry and Trade, Knox Homes Corporation Presid';!nt, Thornon; W. R. McKelvey, Lamex, Incorporated President, Norcross; I. H . Friedland, President of The Spesco Company, Atlanta; and Dr. George Friedlander, Director Zep International, Atlanta.
The group is scheduled to return to Georgia on December 22.

Results of South American
Mission Still Upcoming
The first trade mission sponsored jointly by the Board of Industry and Trade and the U.S. Commerce Department returned to the state in July. However, the ~e ults of the South American Mission are still coming
10 .
"It is difficult to determine the tangible results from

a trade misson because the benefits continue to be

felt over an extended period of time," said Mrs. Virginia

Allgood , director of the Industry and Trade Depart-

ment's International Services Unit. "So far, two mem-

bers of the mission reported in-hand sales of nearly

$10,000 while another received a $200,000 order after

he had returned to Georgia. Still another company

est mated at least $500,000 in sales would be realized

over the next twelve months and another firm estimated

annual sales as a result of the trade mission contacts,

to exceed $'150,000. A sales potential of $1 million

for Georgia companies has been foreseen within ~he

next two years, rising to $1.5 million by the end of five

years," Mrs. Allgood added.

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Another aim of the South Amencan Mission was t<:>

present 30 individual proposals from Georgia firms to

businesses south of the border. A total of 100 con-

tracts were reported by these 30 firms. Four companies

were asked for quotations which, if accepted, would

amount to 260 to 330 thousand dollars worth of busi-

ness. Overall, a total of 93 trade opportunities were

received during the Mission and they were referred to

127 Georgia firms.

3rd Annual Georgia Exposition

Scheduled For November

The Georgia Exposition, now ~nter.ing its 3r? _year,

has become one of the most distmgmshed exhibits of

its kind in the Southeast. The Exposition attracts more

than 50,000 persons annually. This year's exposition

is scheduled for November 2-7, at the new Atlanta

Marriot Exhibit Hall with more than 56,000 sq. ft. of

display space devoted to the promotion of Georgia's

economy and business climate.

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The Georgia Exposit!on is further. designed to ~tu~m

late Georgia's economy by reflectmg and ach1evmg

these direct benefits :

To encourage more active trading among the

business concerns of Georgia and Southeast.

To make all the State's citizens more aware of

the products, services and technology available

within Georgia.

Continued on pg. 12

Georgia Exposition to be presented at the 3rd Annual Georgia Exposition.

HERE AND THERE
Paper Companies Merge
Stockholders of the Great Northern Paper Company have overwhelmingly ratified a merger with the Great Southern Land and Paper Company of Cedar Springs. The merger becomes effective October 1st, and the new company will use Great Northern's name. This merger paved the way for immediate construction of a $30 million addition that will nearly double the capacity of the Great Southern mill at Cedar Springs by early 1967.
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Nashville lndustrial Park, the result of negotiations between the Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, the Berrien County Industrial Building Authority and a group of Nashville businessmen, will be developed into a Municipal Airport and industrial complex. Encompassing more than 100 acres, the Industrial Park will accommodate healthy expansion for future plans to advance Berrien County. Proposed improvements of the tract will reach a total cost of $195 .000.
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The Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority aqd two Macon contractors, Dixie Metal Company and Amerson Construction Company, will invest more than $50,000 for a new 20,000 sq. ft . building. "We have had several inquiries from firms interested primarily in completed facilities," said David W. Thornton, Chamber Industrial Committee chairman. "This new shell building will enable us to handle such requests, while the design is easily adaptable to expansion of special design to suit individual firm needs."
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A spacious industrial park and its first manufacturing plant were recently dedicated in Ocilla. The dedication was staged inside the new 20,000 sq. ft. building which houses Irwin Manufacturing Company; Inc.
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A Florida investment goup, Diversified Enterprises, has bought some 123-acres on South Cobb Drive in Atlanta for a reported $2 million and plan a total investment of $2 million in its development. The program calls for construction of a community of 1,200 apartments, a regional shopping center, motel, restaurant and auto service center.
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The Rohr Corporation is now observing its 25th anniversary. Rohr's plant is located east of Winder and provides service to the Lockheed-Georgia Company as a major subcontractor to aeorospace industry.

Georgia Employment
at Prosperity Peak
Georgia's employment record for July shows a prosperous improvement for the third consecutive monthly business report. Nonfarm employment was a a record high of 1,23 3,100 which is an increase 0 5,100 over the previous record high in June. Th average weekly industrial earnings were $82.81 , an in crease of $1.43 over June and an increase of $5 .26 ove July, 1963. Manufacturing employment in July totale 394,000, an increase of 1,700 over June. Georgia Stat Employment predicts that another increase in em ployment and a reduction in unemployment will char acterize September employment statistics.
International Services (Continued)
To "sell" companies by exposing them to th tens of thousands of people who visit the Ex position and to the other exhibits.
To attract more businesses from outside th State by demonstrating Georgia's varied indus trial capabilities.
To reflect the healthy economic climate of the State throtlgh a foreign trade seminar and dis play of Georgia's food products.
Exposure of the Exposition is being promoted throug a concentration of advertising promotion beginning i , mid-October. Further publicity will be centered in th television, radio, newspapers, and other news mediaincluding trade publications.
By channeling publicity through mass communica tions, the Exposition is assured of a large attendanc1 by the general public and school children. But stil another phase of advertising will be directed to co~ merical interests. Throughout Georgia, groups of busl nessmen will also be invited to visit the Exposition In addition, special invitations will be issued to indue purchasing agents to attend the Exposition to recogniz Georgia's unlimited potentials.
Space may be reserved for the 1965 Exposition b1 contacting Robert B. Brown, general manager, Georgi) Exposition, 835 Merchandise Mart, 240 Peachtr~ Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Telephone : 688-0953
GEORGIA EXPANSION (Continued)
Textile Industry Adds to
Georgia Expansion
Callaway Mills Company recently revealed an e pansion program .that will add approximately 125 ne jobs to its payroll in LaGrange. The expansion is es mated to increase the company's payroll by one h~ million dollars annually. The program is aimed at ~ creasing production of Callaway towels to meet t marketing demand.

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Rossville Spinning Corporation, ~ newly organized subsidiary of Rossv~lle Yarn Pro~essmg Company, has

$1 million expansiOn program m progress. W. Frank

Hutcheson, head of Rossville Spinning, said the new

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The newly opened firm of Nota_sulga S_portswear of Pine Mountain has begun operatiOns wtth some 50 employees. Employment is expected to increase to 100 by the end of the year.

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Bibb Manufacturing Company -of Macon has announced the purchase of 415 acres of land in Monroe County for expansion. The land will be used to facilitate a new pillow case fabricating plant.

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The Garland Knitting Mills in Warrenton has announced plans for a 25,000 sq. ft. expansion. The expansion will involve the hiring of 200 additional workers to step up production of skirts, slacks, and shorts. The finn now employs 400 persons.

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Horace C. Jones, President of James Lees and Sons Company, a Division of Burlington Industries, announced plans for an expansion of the Rabun Plant located in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Approximately 70,000 sq. ft. of floor space will be constructed for additional finished rolled. carpet storage, rearrangement, and additions of !llachmery and other operations. The expansion will mvolve an expenditure of more than $1 million.

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Preferred Industries Georgia, ?pened their

and Investments sewing plant in

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recently Wtth 35 machines in operation. More machines

and operators are to be added in the near future.

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industry that at capacity.

will employ Barrow

anufactunng Company, a Winder industry, is schedul-

ed to open a plant manufacturing boy's and men's clothing.
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Star Finishing Company of Dalton has announced a $1 million expansion program that is scheduled to be completed in January, 1966. Star now has 120 employees and is expected to increase its work force to 160 by January. The company dyes and finishes tufted textiles and has a new shearing service. Star anticipates the doubling of production with the new expansion program.
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Construction is underway on Hartwell Mills expansion program that will provide more office space in a new two-story office building. An increase in production through the addition of 66 wide looms will provide additional employment and more training for present employees.
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Destined For Viet Nam
The Department of Defense awarded a $1,099,400 contract to the Dowling Bag Company of Valdosta. and Savannah to manufacture 4.5 million sand bags for the war in Viet Nam. The Savannah plant is not expected to hire additional personnel for its share of the work since the contract is termed a "small" one and terminates in January.
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The Southport Paint Company, a division of Hunt Foods and Industries, Inc., is planning an estimated $75,000 expansion of its Abbeville plant. The expansion wal include purchase of production equipment and construction of a new warehouse and shipping building.
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United Biscuit Company of America plans expansion of its Strietmann Bakery in Macon at an estimated cost of $830,000. Sharing in the increased production will be the bakeries at Cincinnati, Denver and Philadelphia. This development follows the company's decision to terminate production at its Melrose Park, Illinois plant.
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The Claxton Poultry Company has completed installation of $60,000 worth of new equipment. Twenty new employees were added to the payroll with an expected increase in production, and 105 to 110 additional workers are expected to be hired.

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Constr~c~ion is expected to begin soon on a 20,00(

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sq. ft . bmldmg for Hehr Products Corporation, maker of mobile home windows. The $73,000 plant will ~

used to expand services and operations of the LO!

Giant In Augusta Area

Angeles based company. This announcement launche;

the first activity at Macon's new Airport Industri~

Olin Mathieson, one of the largest chemical manu-

Park.

facturers in the U . S. is preparing to officially open

their $20 million chlorine and caustic soda production facility in the chemical complex south of Augusta.

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Official opening is scheduled for October 1st. About 80 persons will be employed with employment eventually climbing to 125. The Augusta Ol;n facilities will yield some $8 million dollars worth of chlorine and caustic soda annually. The payrolls, expenditures for transportation, maintenance and other necessities of the operation will yield large economic dividends for

Thomasville now boosts being constructed in the

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Canada Dry Bottling Company of South Georgia Fair.

cloth Brothers represents the new $227,000, 20,00(

sq. ft. construction being built. Approximately 2~

persons, mostly men, will initially be employed.

th'e Central Savannah River area. The regular monthly meeting of the Commissioners of the Department of

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Industry and Trade is being held October 1st in Augusta

to coincide with the opening of the Olin Mathieson plant.

Standard Container, Inc., of Homerville contracted $1 .3 million with Frankford Arsenal of Philadelphia for manufacture of ammunition boxes. The newest

contract calls for 1.2 million metal boxes for 7.62

caliber rifle and machine gun ammunition, plus some

Southern Gas Pumping $2

for other ammunition.

Million Into New Project

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Southern Natural Gas Company of Birmingham, Alabama, is building a pumping station near Milledgeville at an estimated cost of $2 million. The purpose of the pumping station is to increase the pressure of the natural gas in this area. Presently, 50 men are engaged in the project. Upon completion, there will be six permanent employees.

GEORGIA EXPANSION (Continued)
The Small Business Administration has approved a loan of $164,000 for the Glennville Development Corporation. The money will be used to construct a new building for the manufacture of uniforms and will create 75 new jobs.

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Scripta Inc., has purchased the first site in Fulton County's new Great Southwest Atlanta Industrial District. The 72-acre purchase terminates a diligent twoyear search of the metropolitan Atlanta area for a tract of land that would satisfy certain basic requirements which the company had established as necessary for its future potential manufacturing operations.

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Gwinnett County announces the building of a new million dollar industry which will initially employ 50 persons. The plant will house J. M. Tull, a steel tubing mill, and will be located near the Southern Railway industrial area. The Tull firm now serves more than 18,000 customers and employs nearly 500 persons.

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Cedar Springs industrial complex has a new industry entering its park project. Couch Construction Company of Dothan, Alabama, will build a ready-mix asphalt plant. The company will initially employ six or eight people with the primary purpose of serving new industry underway in the Blakely area.

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CONTENTS
Director's Message "GEORGIA'S INDUSTRY WITHOUT SMOKESTACKS" ------------------------------------------------ 3
Georgia Expansion __ ------------------------------------------- __________________________ 4, 8, 15 New Industry ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- 4, 12, 15 "Story of the Man Behind the C-5A" ----------------------------------------------------- 5 "George Howard-Georgia's Mr. P.E.P." ------------------------------------------------ 6 "SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS TO FLY OVER ATLANTA" ________________ 7 Historic Events "Fort Frederica Park" ------------------------------------------------------ 8 Tourist Topics : "Southern Travel Directors Council Meeting"
"Southern Governors Council Meeting" ______________________ 9 "1964-65 PARK ATTENDANCE FIGURES" ---------------------------------------- 9 Aviation Advances : "NASAO" ---------------------------------------------------------- 9, 14 Here and There: "GEORGIA GIFTED WITH WORLD'S
LARGEST ELECTRONIC-CARILLON '' __________ 10
"GIANT ON WHEELS JOINS SOUTHERN'S RAILROAD FLEET" ----------------------------------- -- 11
"DC-9 HOMEWARD TO DIXIE" ____________________ 13 International Services: "Business EXPANSION ACROSS
THE CONTINENT" ------------------------------------ 10 International Services: "BUSINESS EXPANSION ACROSS Georgia Progress in Action ------------------------------ __________________________ 10, 13, 15 Georgia Exposition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 "OLIN BOON TO GEORGIA'S INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY" __ _______ 12 GEORGIA PROGRESS IN ACTION ------------------------------------------------------ 13 BUSINESS PROFlLE -------------------------------------- __________----------------------------- 14
Vincent Jones ________________________________________________________________________________________Editor
Rosser Smith -------------------------------------------------- _____________________Mana-ging Editor Dona Ademy ______________________________________________________________________Editorial Assistant
GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.

BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

IRECTOR'S MESSAGE

ourism-- Georgia's Industry

ithout Smokestacks

By James H: Nutt~r, !~.

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The promotion of Georg1a tounsm IS mo~mg ahead

several fronts. The welcome ce':lter proJect of the

of Industry and Trade IS one of the most facets of the program. Some 81 ,~00 people

the centers during the record-breakmg month

A~nggust-as

st.abAulnateadddiotinonraelcecnentl~yerinlostcaaltleedd

traffic on the

,...nro~: ~-r da line near Valdosta w11l be open by the

of the year. With the completion of. <?eorgia's

nterstate highway system, some 500,000 v1s1tors are

lcxtoectea annually at the Centers.

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Southern Travel Directors Council (Bill Hard-

mrcacne~tlDy irmecettoranodf.

our Tourist forn:'u.lated

soDmiveisicoonncrise~ae

member) plans for

pr moting travel m D~x1e. More about th1s 1mportant

meeting appears later m the PROGRESS.

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In another development, three states have umted to advertise and promote winter golf in the so~th. The three tates, Georgia , North and South Carolm~, h~":e

tarted an advertising campaign based around the D1x1e

G ld Circle Tour" theme. The advertisement points
to the 425 golf courses available this winter i~, the th~ee tate . The ads also incorporated the theme Vacat~on

in the Sunshine" and mentions a few of the outstandmg

acation areas in Dixie such as St. Simons, Jekyll and

a Lland in Georgia.

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veral projects promoting tourism are commg up

n. "Make Georgia Beautiful," a beauty contest for

the whole state, begins in January. The annual project

i ponsored jointly by the Tourist Division of the IT Department and the Cooperative Extension Serv!ce ~t

the niversity of Georgia. This year, the contest w11l

for a full month instead of one week. As a result

Ia t year's week of promotion, 413 ,762 dogwood

tree were planted in the state along with 94,272 orna-

mental plants and an anti-litter campaign cleaned up

e 927 miles of highways and streets.

The fall " leaf tours" of the state began October 15.

any_hundreds of residents and guests of the state are

tra ehng to the mountains and other areas to see the

hanging of the season reflected in leaves. The Georgia

R ilway Hi torica I Society is sponsoring an "A wmn

f Special" train tour on two separate days during

leaf cason. The tours are usually sold out well in ance of the departure dates.

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underway is the Chamber of Commerce "Stay c Georgia" contest for cities in the state. The

ty .doing the mo t to promote itself and the state will

1 e a pccial award . The judging is scheduled to be plcted oon .

.rgia rta d

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tourist attractions are actively. The results are

being being

thetoeucnontosmcyombeenteofittshegrsetaattley.in increasing numbers

Sara Harison, Supervisor of Georgia's Welcome Center.

Georgia Welcome Center Hostess

A very important part of the tourism program of

the Tourist Division of the Department of Industry and

Trade are the Welcome Centers located throughout the

State. Regally reigning o":er the _Wel~ome Centers as

official hostess for Georg1a tounsts IS Mrs. Sara A.

Harison. Mrs. Harison has been acting supervisor of

the centers since July of this year.

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Prior to joining the Tourist Division, Mrs .. Har_1son

was Public Relations Coordinator for Columbta Nitro-

gen Corporation - a multi-million dollar nitrogen

complex in Augusta.

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As supervisor of the Welcome Centers, Mrs. .Han-

son's duties including training of all emp l oy~es m t~e

Centers, maintaining adequate and progress1ve t~u:1st

promotional materials and information and prov1dmg

beautification programs for all th~ centers. .

Another important part of th1s program IS repre-

sentation of Georgia at various trade and travel shows

throughout the country. Mrs. Harison sponsors the

Welcome Center hostesses on these trips answering the

many questions people ask about Georgia.

At a recent managers meeting cited in the photo-

graph, the hostesses were greeted by Gove_rnor Sanders

and oriented on recent state facts and f1gures. Mrs.

Harison stated that "These meetings are an invaluab!e

aid in keeping the girls well informed about Georg1a

and it also helps to coordinate our pro~ram; thereby

making our Georgia Welcome Center proJect one of the

most successful in the country."

Gathered around Governor Sanders for the conference of the Manager' s of the Georgia Welcome Centers _are (1. tor.) Peggy Paine, Columbus; JoAnne L yons; Rmggold; Bea Kiley, Savannah; and the Honm:able Govern~r Carl E. Sanders; Ether/ Dance, Lavoma; and Jackte Herrington of Sylvania.

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EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY IND UST RIAL EXPA NS ION CREATES THE FOLLOWI NG:

359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional sc h ool age children

97 more motor vehicles

16 5 more persons working in trades servicing the main industry
$ 2 29,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes

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NEW IN DUSTRY

Kellos Buil ds Addition To Babcock & Wilcox
BABCOCK & WILCOX manufacturing complex in Augusta has been expanded again to provide adde.d facilities for the Kaowol segment of the company. Thts is one of several sections constructed by A. J . Kellos Construction Company. This particular unit is a Varco metal building exemplifying the flexibility of steel building construction. It demonstrates how a structure can be extended time after time to provide a building of any size for any industrial or commercial need . Kellos is a service offering quick construction of a building to provide space to meet emergencies. It also oversees maintenance and major repa irs of the building.
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Fifty new jobs have been created by VIDALIA GARMENT COMPANY'S big move into their new 58 ,500 square foot modern building in Vidal ia. New equipment has been installed to operate the pressing equipment at peak efficiency.
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A $2.5 million contract was awarded to CALLAWAY MILLS of LaGrange for 1.5 million yards of "cloth" to be worn by our soldiers in Viet Nam. This clothing is called ballistic cloth since it is a protective apparel used as human armor to protect areas of the body and head during battle.
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MARKS CUSTOM DRAPERIES, INC., of Augusta will expand with a new plant employing some fifty persons. The new building will house office and manufacturing facilities for the custom-made drapery firm.
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Rise of New Industrial Park in
Tifton
Tifton Industrial Park welcomes another Industrial Park to its area with the announcement that the ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD plans to establish such a faci lity adjacent to Interstate 75 . Construction will begin as soon as the final development arrangements are made.
Giant Firm Pu rchased by Fuqua
Controll ing interests of Great Lakes Industries, Inc., Monmouth, Illinois, was bought out by FUQUA INDUSTRIES, INC. of Augusta with an eye on the big gest controlling block of stock in Natco Corporation, an industrial firm listed on the New York Stock Ex-, change and describes it as the nation's largest producer of glazed structural clay products and underground clay conduit used by telephone companies. Governor San ders will be secretary and director of the company and Mr. J. B. Fuqua, state Democratic chairman, will be li sted as president being the sole stockholder at this time. Fuqua Industries owns WJBF-TV, Augusta; KTVE TV, Monroe, Louisiana ; community antenna televisions systems at Brunswick and Elberton and Claussen's Bakeries with plants and distribution in Georgia and South Carolina.
Da lton-Whitfield Industrial
Boom Area
DALTON-WHITFIELD COUNTY proudly displ~ys a record-breaking number of 114 industries employ.ng
a total of 12,700 persons. Employment by these 65
industries averages more than fifty persons per pl~nt and are mostly related to the tufted textile field varytng in size from small operations to mills employing 1,120 persons. These facts were revealed in a recent report by the Industrial Development Division of the Enginee~ ing Experiment Station of the Georgia Institute Technology.
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FEATURE STORY The Man Behind The C-5A

EDITOR'S NOTE:

With the announcement that Lockheed-Georgia

Company at Marietta had ~on the contract ~o b "ld the world's largest mrplane, all Georgw

:.U~les.e

toThaeppelcaoundoLmoicckih'e!"epda~'st

outstanding performon_ the state and the

Atlanta-Marietta area ts still bemg calculated. But

many wondered just how did Lockheed go about

developing the successful proposal for the huge

plane? To find the answers, the editors of GEORG!A
PROGRESS interviewed Tom May, the man behind the story of the C-5A. Tom May is the director in charge of the 1700 man C-5A development team. Mr. May, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in busines administration. He flew fighter missions in a P-47 fighter over ltaly during World War Tl. He was shot down some 400 miles behind enemy lines, and aided by ltalian peasants, walked to safety in a long hike lasting
six weeks. After working for Fairchild Engine and Air-
plane Corporation for some time, Mr. May joined Lockheed in 1951 as an accountant. Before the C-5A development, Mr. May was Vice-President in charge of the C-130 program.

Q. Do you have any idea how many man-hours went into the development of the C-SA during the study and competitive stages? 2.8 million man-hours.
Q. How much did Lockheed spend developing the plane before the contract was awarded and how much did Lockheed spend above the government allocations? During the years 1964 and 1965, Lockheed spent some $21 million developing the C-5A .airplane up to the award date. This does not include the many preliminary design studies that were done prior to that time. Of the $21 million, the Government allocated some $7 million. Therefore, the net Lockheed resources amount to an access of $14 million.
Q. There have been suggestions that the C-SA would reduce the balance of payments problem by enabling the U.S. to reduce troop commitments ~ad and still keep up the defense posture by ..vmg a fast transport for large numbers of troops IUid weapons. Do you agree with this theory?
A . Yes, I certainly agree that the C-5A should have
a most favorable impact on the balance of payments problem.
Q. WllaC.t was the darkest hour for you and Lockheed
zSA development team?
The entire Lockheed team and particularly those
us engaged in the C-5A development had absotely no time for dark hours during the busy months. that preceded the award.
Row did you assemble the 1700 man team that ,.. together the Lockheed C-SA proposal?

Lockheed Vice-President Tom R. May
A . The first order of business was to hand-pick a select top management team for the program. Thereafter, we assembled the entire team through the effective use of our already available internal manpower resources, through calling on our sister divisions within the Corporation to help us man this tremendous effort, through the use of contract engineers available to us and by judicious use of technical personnel from within the industry provided to us on a temporary loan basis.
Q. Are sales of the plane to any other countries
contemplated? Are any commercial firms interested in buying the C-SA?
A. It is somewhat premature at this date to speak to
the subject of sales to other than to the U.S. Government; nevertheless, there have been indications of high level commercial interest as well as interest on the parts of other countries.
Q. Have you a nickname for the new plane yet?
A . No, we do not yet have a name for the C-5A airplane. In the final analysis, this is a prerogative of the Air Force and the Military Air Transport Service, and we will jointly with our customer develop plans for the naming of the airplane as the program moves ahead.
Q. How much cheaper was the Lockheed plane than
your nearest competitor's aircraft? A. Lockheed's airplane was not cheaper than its near-
est competitor, merely more economical. Seriously though, I am not privy to detailed price estimates of our competitors, but it does stand to reason that with the tremendous background of experience Lockheed-Georgia has from the C-130 and C-141 programs, our projections may well have been more competitive than those of the other two companies involved.
Q. Was this job tougher on you than when you were
shot down in World War II and had to walk six weeks to safety? A. There is really no basis for comparison between the two situations, but there is certainly one thing in common between the two. In both instances, they were wonderful experiences after the fact , but one would have to think long and hard about exposing oneself to any such circumstances in the future.
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P. E. P. PROGRAM George Howard .... Georgia's
Mr. P. E. P.
George Howard, coordinator of the Personalized Engineering Program (P.E.P.)
The letters on the door of George Howard;s office read, "Industrial Training Coordinator." Working for the Vocational Education Division of the Department of Education, George coordinates with the Department of Industry and Trade and companies expanding to Georgia the Personalized Engineering Program or P.E .P. Under this Vocational Education and Department of Industry and Trade cooperative venture, qualified companies building plants in the state can begin
GOOD NEWS FOR INDUSTRY=
P. E.P. ... Personalized Engineering Program ... a complete package of engineering and technical services that eliminates many of the problems involved in plant relocation.

full operation the day the plant opens its doors for first time. The P .E. P. program train s workers for specific jobs they will be doing in the new plant practically no expense to the company. There is waiting to train workers while the plant is in the months of actual production. When the facility the workers are ready.
"We have had an enthusiastic response to the P.E.P program," George declared . "We think it will Georgia a real plus factor in industrial deve and we are coordinating training programs for seve plants already," George added.
Spending some thirteen years at Lockheed as training specialist and supervisor made George tionally well qualified for the top man in the P. training program . George has had a number of and articles published including one on '' Learning cipals" which he delivered to the American Training Directors. Another article, "Getting Maintenance Men" that appeared in TEXTI WORLD in 1961.
Under the heading of notable accomplishments George's resume are several items like:
" Developed and implemented a pre-hire training program for personnel inexperienced in aircraft assembly. These people were productive the day they went on the job and within six months were outperforming people doing like work with an average of five years experience." Other George Howard accomplisments read: "Originated a series of Home Study Courses for Lockheed employees. These courses have an enrollment of over 1,000 people." Another topic: " Lockheed was first in the industry with a complete training program for tool programmers and maint~nance of numerically controlled machinery." With George Howard and the Vocational EducationIndustry and Trade cooperative program, P .E.P. truly means GOOD NEWS FOR INDUSTRY coming to Georgia.

The P. E. P. system can help management accurately forecaststart-upcostsof a new planl. It's available to any qualilied comp.ony for the asking.
Now you can have industry-tramcd. relocation-oriented engineers work with your own staff planning your next move. This is a vital pa.rt of P. E. P.. . a free ser\'ice that includes in-plant engineering analysis, setting-up manning tables and the l'i!Cruiting and crash-training of all new employees. Everything is done at our expense. You sim ply select your future plant site in Georgia and lea\'e the on-schedule start-up to P. E. P.

Like to know more1 Write or call Carl E. Sanders. Governor, or James H. Kutter. Dir..

Ga. DepL. of Industry & Trade. 100 State Capitol.

Atlanta. All im1uiries kept in strictest conftdence.

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TOURIST TOPICS

Six Flags Over Texas to Fl\

Over Atlanta



Great Southwest Corporation has purchased 3,000

of land at a price in excess of $5 million to form

the new, wholly-owned subsidiary, Great Southwest

tlanta Corporation. The land will be used for the

lopment of an industrial district in Southwest At-

!-nta i~ Fulton County. This marks the largest single

llldu tnal real estate transaction in the history of the

theast.

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. Geo~gia hails this progress as a symbol of Georgia's

IIICrea mg ~ourist and industrial growth. The announcement of .t~1s complex, which will eventually result in a

mdhon development, was issued by Angus G.

ynne, Jr., President of GSC. Mr. Wynne made this

nouncem~nt at the INN of the Six Flags to a group

out tandmg Georgia civic and government leaders

by Governor Carl Sanders, Mayor of Atlanta

Allen, Jr., and the Fulton County Commissioners

James Aldredge, Archie Lindsey and Harold
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lGy SenOtevretarm!m~xeanst c~einthterrisdiemsilaanrdtoattthreacftaiomnosusrepSrIeX-

1 r:n .add1t1onal. mvestment of $7 million. Work

.mIy park will start in the near future and the

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Pope Inc.,

n
tzen

d~ ItSoSutln~letlran)

fmancing is being handled by National Bank of Atlanta. The

~~=t~on Will be c~o.r?inated by John C. Hunt,

dent of Acqu1s1t1ons for GSC. Scripta, Inc.

recently announced the first site acquisition of a 72-

acre tract adequate for future expansion.

The district is destined to be the focal point of indus-

trial development for the entire Southeast with its

unique building standards, median boulevards, land-

scaping, lighting, and off-street loading and unloading.

Scripta, Inc., has already purchased the first site in

GSAC with aspirations for future expansion.

Georgia's dream of prosperity can be projected into

the story of Great Southwest Industrial District's suc-

cess. Today, there are over 170 companies which

manufacture and/ or distribute from GSlD. They em-

ploy approximately 9,000 people and occupy 97 build-

ings for a total of 4,063,862 square feet of building

space. The total payroll exceeds $80,000. Some picture

for Georgia's future!

Continued on pg. 14

GREAT SOUTHWEST ATLANTA INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

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HISTORIC EVENTS
~ ,, ~ '
\

"The King's Magazine" at Fort Frederica National Monument , St. Simon's Island, Georgia. Fort Frederica, built in 1736 by General James Edward Oglethorpe, was Britain's Southernmost outpost against the Spanish threat in Florida . The dramatic story of Fort Frederica is unfolded by exhibits and dioramas in the Museum at Fort Frederica National Monument.

Fort Frederica Park

Fort Frederica, a monument enshrined to the birth

of a new nation, was a part of the earliest settled colony

in the U.S. Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1733, one

of the youngest of the 13 colonies. He constructed a

fortress as a buttress against the Spanish in Florida.

This fort became surnamed Fort Frederica after Fred-

erick, Prince of Wales.

As the protector of this infant colony, Fort Frederica

was strategically located amidst a high bluff where the

Indians had cleared a 30 to 40 acre field. The river

approached the bluff and made two right angle turns-

a perfect site for a fort and town.

The Fort, located at St. Simon's Island, became a

bulwark against the Spanish troops that attempted con-

trol of this Georgia-Florida-Caribbean area in the battle

known as The War of Jenkins' Ear. In American his-

tory this was known as King George's War and was to

merge into the continental War of Austrian Succession

(1740-48). Later came the famous battle of Bloody

Marsh when the Spanish fleet entered the harbor of Fort

St. Simon to the noisy welcome of British bastions and

batteries opened in retreating defeat. After winning

this seige, the Spaniards took possession of the fort at

St. Simons. General Oglethorpe pulled his forces back

to Fort Frederica and at the Battle of Bloody Marsh,

a British force sent Montiano's army back to St. Augus-

tine. This marked the turning point in the struggle

between Spain and Britain for control of the southeast-

ern part of what is now the United States.

Fort Frederica National Monument was established

on September 10, 1945, and contains 250 acres admin-

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istered by the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. It is located on St. Simon's Island ,

twelve miles from Brunswick, Georgia and U. S. 17. The

park is open daily and there is no admission except the

enjoyment of the people who visit there.

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EXPANSION (Continued)

Southland Planning Giant St ep Forward

SOUTHLAND MANUFACTURING COMPA is planning a giant step forward to expand their rna factoring facility in Cordele. The comparatively n firm has made rapid progress in the manufacture farming instruments by sub-leasing the building form ly occupied by Armor Manufacturing Company. building will be used for storage of manufactured pr ucts and for new production lines when the comp goes into peak production early in November. Southland Manufacturing Company was formed by group of local men with the assistance of the Uni Industrial Development Corporation.
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New Riegel Plant on "Rush"
Order

RIEGEL TEXTILE CORPORATION of Corne

is on "rush order" schedule to get construction of

huge spinning and weaving plant into operation

September of '66. The Asheville Contracting Comp

is doing the grading work on a contract for $107,

and local area folks are paying most of the bill as th

contribution to bringing the big job-producing pi

into this area.

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Adel Reaching Peak Developmen

INTERSTATE MANUFACTURING, INC., a cent newcomer to Adel, Georgia, is literally making i self "right at home. " The manufacturing firm is huf riedly constructing prefabricated homes for Adel ci zens at the present rate of three per week and the tential goal of one every eight hours. Construction the Adel plant includes prefabrication of pieces ~ ho:~ses, apartment units, motel units, and other varieti of construction in that line.
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60 Jobs Created by Armour
Expansion

ARMOUR AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL COM PANY is presently working on a major $1 million ex pansion of its manufacturing facilities in Columbus. The expanded operation will increase the annual .P~Y roll threefold to an approximate high of $1 mdhoD tripling their production rate of 35,000 tons of fertilizered per year. The new Armour facility will be complet by the first of the year and operating at maximuJil capacity by February 1. Included in the project is the erection of a new advanced design chemical complex for the manufacture of granular fertilizers ; enlarged storage and office facilities; a new quality control Ia!">" ratory; modern loading and unloading equipment; ~~ proved rail facilities; the modernization of existing un~ which produce sulphuric acid and superphosphate; a
the installation of a progressive effluent control.

****Continued on pg. JS

So(}JuUtShTeTrOnPITCSra(~CeonltinDuedir) ectors

Council Meetmg

. .

Southern Travel Dire~tors. Council 1s a group

The
eleven

.menFl~rriodmaotiSnogutthouCnsamrolminat,heNsooruththeCrnarostlainteas,

~if~lrlnglJaM~iasnsdissAirpkpain,saL.so.u. iTshiaenag,oaTlesnannedsseaesp, 1.Kraet'1:l0tnusckoyf,

ball1 composing this Important caucus concern the

aor,:a~bae brnienloifttyouorifsmtheaisr the third meeting

it benefits the growth
respective states. . of the STDC held m

and eco~shev1l. le ,

orth Carolina, August 1.2, 1965, many 1mpor!ant

t~ oP,ICS avnEedasctphartoesj'tesactaetsddvweirreetricestiondrgisgpcaurv?sesgeradamparnefdosernp1trao9tJi6?O5en-ll6e6odnwm~itIt.hos

: n~inllewHaidrdeamsainn,

tra.vel promotion.. Director of Tounsm

of

the

Depart-

t of Industry and Trade, presented to the members

crux of Georgia's tourism promotion for the year.

He elaborated on some of the highpoints of the program

such as the "Vacation Planning ":'eek" , an annua}, event

iD Georgia which focuses, attention .on travel, M~ke

Georgia Beautiful Week' and a ~IIIboard c.ampa1gn

which will supplement regular medm pro~otwn.,

Ernrnet Riordan of Governor Buford Elhngto~ s of-

fice in Washington and John ~err, represe~tat,I,ve of

Bpaomb ,Shporret~nCtheadirmthaen

of the Federal

"Discover program

AinmTernac~ael

proan,d

Recreation and how it affects the states. Mr. Riordan s

olfic:e as liaison to the states from the Federal Govern-

ImDednt~'sfoostdeoress

regional cooperation such as the STDC some coordinating of state problems at

the federal level. This marks the first time any of the

members of the council have received a breakdown of

what federal programs were available and from what

n:e.

One of the major aims of the STDC is joint adver-

. g. At the meeting of the council last April, several

mapzines made proposals to the council. This program

IDd the specific proposals were discussed further at

the August meeting and final decision s will be reached

when the council holds its next meeting on November

12 in Dallas, Texas.

Presently, the various states have adopted a joint logo.
The official emblem for the STPC will be a suitcase with an arrow superimposed with the words "Travel South!"
outhern Gove*r*n*or*s Council

eeting

The governors council held in Sea Island in mid-

. mber met with mild reactions and positive action.

L-the 31st conference, resulted in an article featured

uc October II , 1965 issue of U. S. NEWS AND

RLD REPORT concerning the Negro's future in

lOUth.

~ Othesrsedtorpeiscoslut~iiosncsuspseerdtaianminogntgo

the governors ena variety of subjects

lbenuclear energy to highway safety. Most pertinent
n...._,~owth ?f the state and high in the interest of
:-";"PI 5 to~nsm population was the panel on the

of tounsm. This was the first time the topic of -.~an....warranted such prestigious concern among the

A special tourism panel was presided over by Governor Frank Clemens of Tennessee. The three main speakers composing the panel were : John Black, Director of the United States Travel Service, Washington, D. C.; :Bill Hardman , Director of Tourism with the Department of I & T; and Dick Pope, owner of Florida's famed Cypress Gardens.
Governor John B. Connally of Texas introduced a resolution approved by the governors which proposed regional cooperation among the southern states for the collective promotion of a "Travel South" program for the purpose of selling the South as a vacation destination. The resolution further concluded that the SGC establish a task force committee to work in cooperation with the travel coordinators of the southern states for the furtherance of these goals.
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1964-65 Park Attendance Figures
Horace Caldwell, Director of Georgia State Parks, announces the attendance and revenue figures for 1964-65. The attendance report from 36 state parks totaled 5,551,184 visitors during the past year. Total revenue is $350,939.49 as compared to the 1963-64 figure of $275,860.30. The future for Georgia Department of State Parks looks good as some 17 new projects for the 1966 season are in the midst of being completed. The picture also looks good for the past year as Ralston B. Lattimore, Superintendent of Ft. Pulaski National Monument in Savannah verifies. "We are having a very successful season, and in July, we had the largest total number of visitors of any month since the monument was opened to the public - there were approximately 38 ,500 people."
AVIATION ADVANCES
Nasao
Some 250 aviation officials gathered at Jekyll Island during the last part of September for the annual convention of the National Association of State Aviation officials. Arrangements for the 34th annual convention were coordinated through the Aviation Unit of the Department of Industry and Trade.
A number of topics were discussed at the meetings ranging from a special report on the new airplane designed to replace the DC-3 to the value of aircraft accident investigation by state aviation agencies.
Those attending the convention saw the premier of a new film sponsored by the NASAO and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. "Come Fly With Me, Darlene," depicts a wife's fears about her husband's flying and how she overcomes these fears.
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Atlanta to be Haven for
Eastern's DC-9
Eastern Airlines designates Atlanta as the site for major maintenance on their forthcoming newest and largest jets, the DC-9 twinjets, when they are put into service early in 1966. Eastern will eventually operate 24 DC-9's with the first fifteen leased from Douglas Aircraft. Eastern is also expanding outward and upward with the future acquisition of five Boeing 727
Continued on pg. 14
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HERE AND THERE

An artist's rendering of the tower which will encase the magnificent 61 0-bell carillon gifted to the State of Georgia by Coca-Cola from their World's Fair Pavilion
in New York.

Georgia Gifted with World's

Largest Electronic Carillon

The beautiful sound of music will be heard for many

miles when the carillon of Coca-Cola's New York

World's Fair Pavilion arrives to fill Stone Mountain

Park with songs of a million bells.

Coca-Cola has made the State of Georgia the happy

recipients of their 610-bell World's Fair showcase. The

bells in the carillon are actually tiny rods of bronze

which produce pure bell tones capable of projecting the

sound of the carillon as far as twenty miles. The beau-

ty of its sound will be captured and complimented by a

special steel tower approximate in height to a 9-story

building. The tower will be sheathed in redwood and

constructed of aged Stone Mountain granite.

The carillon-tower will then reign supreme on a

peninsula located near the center of the mountain's

main lake. The world 's largest electronic carillon will

hopefully be ready for Stone Mountain visitors by

spring of this year.

Continued on pg. 11

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES

Business Expansion Across the
Continent
"No man is an island entire to itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a parr of the maine."
John Donne expressed it appropriately; International Service Division of the Department of Industry and Trade applies the expression effectively.
It is not enough that world leaders caucus and converse on universal problems of mankind, world relations must also progress individually as well as collectively. This is the endeavor of Virginia Allgood , Director of International Service. Her quest is in the interest of Georgia for the overall progress of the various states.
The program of the International Service Di vision is organized primarily to serve the needs of the smaller manufacturer and agriculturist. The division attempts to project the potential profit possibilities inherent in

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international trade and to help these busin esses se their products in expanding world markets.
Increasing exports can result in expanded operatio and a subsequent increase in employment often achiev through a more efficient utilization of existin g facilitie This theo ry lists the following as objectives :
1. Advise and assist in development of export ma1
kets 2. Explore advantage of locating foreign plants
Georgia 3. Promote G eorgia's tourist attraction s abroad 4. Assist foreign companies to secure outlets
Georgia 5. Provide a personalized approach throughout t
relationship These objectives are carried out through the yea
activities of the Intern ational Service with the full c
operation C'}.nd active participation of Georgia busines men. Such activities include:
1. Twice-yearly trade missions, strictly on a Govc ment-approved basis, with cooperation of U.S. Depa ment of Commerce and Foreign Service posts. Th trips include a trade group to Western Europe last fa Latin America this spring, and the Far East trip schc uled for the latter part of November.
2 . Business Proposal Service initiated on Lati America Mission for use of companies unable to go the mission. This service offers contacts with interest parties and also develops trade opportunities abroa which are, in turn , passed along to Georgia firms.
3. Develop export intermediary potential and e courage wider use by companies not in a position to up their own export department.
4. Prepare biennial revision of Georgia World Tra Directory of Georgia firms engaged in, or interested in, export-import activities.
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GEORGIA PROGRESS IN ACTION

Work on West Point Dam

Underway

Work on one of the largest projects in the state, !
$64.2 million dam at West Point, Georgia is proceed1~ rapidly. The U.S. Corps of Engineers, Savann~h D1. trict , supervisors of the dam construction , let b1ds I~

month on the hydraulic turbines for the West POl.

project. Construction on the Reservoir as a whole IS

schedu led to get underway a round the first of the year.

The supply contract calls for the design , m.anufactu

and delivery of two 55 ,000 horsepower ftxed bla.

propeller-type hydraulic turbines. Delivery of the equl

mentis scheduled for July, 1968.

.

Buying of land for the huge West Point R eservod' is already underway . Some 825 separate pi eces o.f pro~

erty totaling 57 ,000 acres will have to be acqutred January 1. Almost one-fourth of the total land ~rea

in Troup county will have to be acquired for the P~~JC

In addition, the government will purchase an add1t10n

6,000 acres for a recreation area park.

**** Continued

Bank of Georgia Changes Name

The Bank of Georgia has officially received approval

from the Comptroller of the Currency to change its

name to '"The National Bank of Georgia. " The reason

for this change is to allow for " more flexibility and

furth e r expan sion in the future , in keeping with the

bank 's rapid growth in recent years ."

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THERN 100, Southern Railway and Aeronca's 1 and largest railroad hopper car.
thern Railway and Aeronca aerospace engineers delivered a giant on wheels-~he. wo:Jd 's newest large t railroad hopper car. DtstnbutiO_n through
rtation by the SOUTHERN 100 wtll present problem for heavy weight and efficiency runs of modi ties. You lose markets and we lose business ," says D. . Brosnan, President of Southern Railway Sys_tem in erring to the cost of getting pro~ucts to po111ts of
mption. This is one of the mat~ reaso~s for the 'ping of the new prototype four-umt alum111um h~p
car. Its size is astounding, its tonnage capactty 'ng- it has an overall length of I 05 feet with a ity of approximately 9,000 cubic feet. The mamcar weighs 40 tons and has a carrying capacity 60 ton with a loaded weight of 300 tons. Initially, the new units were designed, developed and PI'CICIUiced from the rail up to extend exceptional cost 1 advantages of unit-train operation within the materials handling field. This, in turn, relegates 1111m~r,d service and rate reductions . In summa tion,
!'"' hopper car is designed for extremely high
lion, economical operation and fast turnaround and the new aluminum-bodied car can be loaded unloaded while on the move.
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lanta Winning Fight Over
erty

ta ha been chosen as a shining example to other

the U.S. of the success of Sargent Shrive r's war

ce ....-.

......anAWtl~a~nhtiangotffoinc,ialDs .wCe.r,e

feted at a large whereupon they

press were

an addttJOnal $6.3 million to continue the

poverty stricken areas in Atlanta.

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Georgia Exposition

Purchasing representatives from some eleven Feder~!

Government Agencies will be at the annu_al Georgta

Exposition scheduled for November 2:7 111 Atlanta. The government representatives will be on ha~d to

answer questions and distribute literature to busmess-

men interested in selling under government contract.
The purchasing representatives will also. advise .c~m panies on the procedures to be followe? 111 s~bm_1tt111g

bids for government contracts. They wtll advtse 111ter-

ested parties on the forms required and, in general, how to sell goods or service~ to the Federal govern11;1~~t. .
The importance of 'this facet of the Exposttt~n ts heightened by the first opening in Atla~t~ of ~ regtonal

office of the Defense Contract Adm1111stratton . The

DCA office handles contracts for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Supply Agency and the National Ae~o nautics and Space Admini stration . The Atl~nta offtce

will serve the states of North and South Carolma, Georgia , Alabama , Florida, Tennessee an~ !"fississippi.
So far, 140 organizations have exhtbtts ready for the

annual show. One of Georgia's newest industries, the At_J~nta
Braves, will be actively participating in the exp~sttt?n.

Brave fans will have an opportunity to get thetr ftrst

real close-up leok at the Brave's National League

players.

.. .

The National Aeronautics and Space Adm1111stratton

and Armed Forces displays will feature many models
of space vehicles and launch equipment. T~e Air ~o:ce is planning to exhibit an 80 foot A~lanta gutded m:sstle,

the Atlas ICBM , which played an Important part 111 the

Gemini VI rendezvous mission this fall.

The "Georgia Supermarket" section of the Exposition

will feature foods and agricultural products grown or

processed in the state. Several new food products are

scheduled for their first public showing. A taste-test

kitchen will adjoin the food display whereby recognized food purchasing agents may sample dishes prepa~ed

for their connoisseur's taste. A super-demonstration

kitchen , operated by home economists, wi!l use newly

innovated appliances including an electromc oven that

can roast a frozen turkey in only 23 minutes . Displays at the Exposition are from the field~ of

transportation, heavy industry, aero_space , texttles,

foods , utilities, furniture, and the vanety of services that keeps Georgia on the move every d~y.

The Georgia Exposition will be the ftrst large show

to be held in the exhibit hall of the new Mariott Motor

Hotel and presumes to be quite a successful one.

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Continued on pg. 13 11

Governor Carl Sanders was the main speaker at the ceremonies officially opening the Olin Mathieson plant. Last June, Governor Sanders' wife, Betty, participated in the groundbreaking for the plant.
This electrical power sub-station supplies the electrolytic that makes the chlorine. Rectifiers change the 120 volt AC power to 300 volts DC at 125,000 amps. The plant uses some 1,000,000 kilowatts of electricity in a single day; enough power for a city of 330,000 people
Olin Boon to Georgia's
Industrial Economy
Another plant has been added to the growing number in Augusta's chemical complex located near the Savannah River. On October 1, the Olin Mathieson company formally dedicated its Augusta Works. Utilizing some 58 Mathieson electerolytic cells, the facility produces 220 tons of chlorine per day and 250 tons of caustic soda a day. Besides being transported to other parts of the country on special railroad cars, the chlorine will soon be delivered from the Olin plant to a nearby paper manufacturer by direct pipeline. The chlorine is used to bleach and purify the wood pulp in the paper production process. Mr. J. C. Rivenbark is the manager of the Augusta Works. Ground was broken for the new facilitey on June 19, 1964.
NEW INDUSTRY (Continued)
Regional Defense Contract Office Locates in Georgia
A regional office to consolidate some 1,300 military and civilian personnel of the three military services and the Defense Supply Agency has located in Atlanta. Defense Contract Administration Service administers defense contracts to seven southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Regional offices are in Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, Boston, Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The eleven regions employ approximately 20,000 persons and handle about $45 billion in defense contracts. The Atlanta office is expected to employ some 550 persons.
Defense contracts will be administered for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Supply Agency, National Aeronautical and Space Administration and to some other governmental agencies.
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Olin Mathieson's $20,000,000 Augusta plant as it from the outside. The chemical facility, located 200 acre site, will eventually employ some 125
Services of the DCASR include pre-award of contractor's capabilities, security clearances for and personnel, payments to contractors, ass quality and similar functions required during the facture and maintenance of defense material.
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New Trailer Plant for Dougl as
GOLDEN ISLES TRAILERS, INC., plans recently for a new trailer plant to be built Douglas making this the fourth trailer manufactu locate there .
The company will manufacture camping and ation trailers and franchised dealers will be throughout the Southeast for retail sales. models are to be manufactured at this plant and be named for the Islands on the Georgia coast.
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Moore Carpet Moves into
Industrial Park
MOORE CARPET DISTRIBUTORS, INC. is ing a new plant in Whitfield Industrial Park in Dalton. The building containing 27,750 square floor space will be used in the firm 's production carpet and such related lines as cut order work, tract twisting and winding.
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New Plating Service Offered
to Industria Iists
Working closely with the Augusta Committee 100, Trex Bolick and Jim Taylor, prominent industrialists, recently opened AUGUSTA COMPANY, a shop to provide m_etal plating to local and area industry. The firm will initially vide chrome, nickel and copper plating but will include cadmium and zinc in the near future. term plans include expansion into plastic coating metallic spray applications. This new firm will the necessity of shipping work to distant cities in costly delays in operations and expense of and transportation.
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(Continued)

A

L"nes Stewardess Carol Koberlein "DC'-9 with water from 20-od.d ctttes

christens
that wtu

"'C--9 schedules in Delta's initial service pattern.

.g Homeward to Dixie
nts of a number of cities now ~eing_ served by powered airliners will see a new sight 10 ~he next
month . Delta Airlines has accepted dehvery _of
first Douglas DC-9 short to medium range pure jet

first DC-9 arrived at the Atlanta Airport amid of "Dixie" and a real red carpet welcome . the flight were Donald Douglas, Sr. , Chairman Board of the Douglas Aircraft Company, Delta nt, C. E. Woolman , Jr., and a number of other rie from Delta and Douglas. 30 DC-9's, representing an investment of more 100 million, have. been ordered by Delta. The
ry ahead of schedule for _the first pl~n e i~ ~he
will assure that Delta will be the first airhne the new craft. The 65 seat plane is scheduled in service by December. The first craft will be initially for pilot and crew training. DC-9 made the two hop trip from Long Beach, ornia (the location of the Douglas plant) to Atin four hours, nineteen minutes. The DC-9 is to operate economically on flights from I00 I 000 miles. In the Delta configuration, the plane
carry 45 tourist class and 20 first class passengers
gat 540 miles per hour at altitudes up to 35 ,000

ood News for Georgia Industry

future is optimistic for possible tax concessions

ltract industry. The Senate Industry Study Com-

under the chairmanship of State Senator Mike

tt plans to confer with industrialists and civic

. 4cross the state in looking for possible new



Tlhioen~etonermaalkeAsGseemorbgliya

more attractive to indushas already exempted cer-

w mdustrial and farm equipment from the state

Virginia Allgood, Director of International re.cently returned from a New York trip to
busmess proposals and research Japanese busi-

ness contacts for the upcoming Georgia Trade Missions to the Far East. Mrs. Allgood dealt largely with Hitachi, LTD, one of the leading Japanese business officials of the Phillippine Association and with officials of the New York Jap~nese Trade Center.

C&S Forms International

Corporation

Foreign trade cannot exist without capital to supJ?l.Y

and support it. Therefore, the announceemnt that Citi-

zens & Southern has become the first International

Banking Corporation in the south received welcome

acclaim.

Citizens & Southern International Corporation will

primarily concentrate on the lending ?f assi~tance to

customers establishing joint ventures With foreign com-

panies. The Corporation transactions will e_ncompass

foreign correspondent banks of the InternatiOnal De-

partment in over 120 countries.

.

It was not feasible for banks to engage extensively

in international banking until growth of markets and

industrial production in foreign countries, along with

general increase in international trade, warranted ex-

pansion . These new developments have led many large

banks to create "Edge Act Corporations." International

banking corporations in the United States ar~ titled,

"Edge Act Corporations'' since Senator Edge 10 1919

sponsored an amendment to the Federal Reserve A~t to

permit national banks to charter separate corporations

for the purpose of engaging in foreign investments and

foreign banking.

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GEORGIA PROGRESS IN ACTION (Continued)

The Appalachian Regional Commission has approved

two new projects for Georgia, a 2 .5 mile access road

in Hall County and funds for establishment o~ a lo-

cal development district. The access road WI!l c?st

$200 000 $ 1 4 0 :000.

with The

lothceatiofendoefratlhegroovaedr nwmilel nitmpcroonvtenbauctc1~0ssg

to the Ducketts Mill Recreation Area on Lake Lamer

from Georgia 53 near Gainesville. The grant for estab-

lishment of a local development district in Georgia's

Appalachian counties will . total $87,000 and will be

used by the Georgia Department of Industry and

Trade's Planning Division to prepare plans for develop-

ment of this region . The grant is now waiting approval

by the Secretary of Commerce. Geo~gia is the secon.d

of twelve Appalachian states to receive fu_nds for this

purpose . Georgia was also fortunate to receive ~pproval

of her two projects since only four new projects re-

ceived any affirmation .

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The Urban Renewal Commission has announced that 24 counties and cities will receive aid in a comprehensive plan for growth and development in Georgia . Among the counties gaining appropriations are : Adel, $3 ,750; Cecil , $2,345; Lenox, $3 ,250 ; Sparks, _$3 ,575; and Cook County will receive $7 ,525. There will be no further cost to these counties on the match-fund contract since their contributions have sufficed to meet their obligation.

****Continued on pg. 15

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BUSINESS PROFILE (Continued)
Left to right-]. Leonard Reinsch, president, Cox Broadcasting Corporation, and Edgar F. Kaiser, president, Kaiser Industries Corporation.
Cox and Kaiser Consolidate
Stocks soar as companies merge to produce KaiserCox Corporation. Cox Broadcasting Corporation and Kaiser Industries have consolidated to create a company for the production of market community antenna television equipment.
Cox Broadcasting Corporation has shown a 42 % increase in net income and a 41 % gain in operating revenue for 1964. This new subsidiary of the company is certain to expedite additional stock gains on the market in the following fiscal year.
The company will be based in Phoenix , Arizona with warehousing facilities and district sales offices in Portland, Oakland, California, Atlanta , Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Kaiser-Cox will primarily function as a doorstep distributor of equipment, and a technical assistant to cable television owners.
Cox Broadcasting, headquartered in Atlanta , owns and operates five television stations, five AM radio stations and five FM radio stations in Atlanta , Dayton, Ohio, Charlotte, Miami , San Francisco and Pittsburgh. The company also operates community antenna television (CATV) systems in 20 communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, Oregon and California and microwave service in Illinois and Indiana.
The newly formed company of Kaiser-Cox Corporation will be jointely owned by Cox and Kai se r Aerospace & Electronics Corporation , and no stock will be sold publicly.
Georgia Given $520 Million in Gov't Contracts
Georgia was awarded prime contracts from the federal government over the past year for military goods and services valued at a total of $520 million dollars. Georgia received 2.1% of the total budget awarded the nation as a whole. 82 % or $430 million went for airframes and related assembl ies and spares. $17.7 million
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went to construction , followed by $16 million for site and space systems; textiles, clothing and $13 million ; services, $12 .9 million, and su $10.5 million. Georgia also received $19.6 mi military experimental, developmental, test and work.
Unemployment Figures Low
Despite this being the first year of the huge baby crop turning eighteen, unemployment figures tinue to remain low. The nation's unemployment below 3 million in the last month , 4.5 % compa 5.1% in August 1964. These figures represent est statistics since 1957. The future looks even er with unemployment progressing toward the istration 's interim goal of 4 % at a faster ex pected .
$164 Million Increase in Retail Sales
Retail sales for Georgia for the second quarter 1965 totaled a $164 million increase over the sponding quarter in 1964. Sales for the second of 1965 were $1,836,404,671.
AVIATION ADVANCES (Continued)
" quick change" passe nger-cargo Whisperjets. 1-'r,... the company is using the fifty standard type 727's. estimated cost of the acquisition will be $28.7 and will be used during the daytime for schedu les and at night to carry airmail , air express general freight.
* * * * A contract has been awarded to J. R. McCall,
tractor of Denton, for construction of the Airport runway extension. The extension will be by 75 feet and the amount of the contract is $38 When completed the airport will be able to handle four engine plane and the smaller airline jets. plans for improvement include installation of navigation beacon to enable instrument approaches replacement of the present low intensity lights medium intensity lights. The primary purpose of improvements is to make Hazlehurst capable of dling the jet traffic now being used by many facturing firms.
DeKalb Airpor*t*E*x*pands to the
Tune of $2 Million
A $2 million , all-weather traffic and control is scheduled to be built at the DEKA TREE AIRPORT early in 1966. This rejuvenation part of a ten-year improvement plan for the ai The 5,900 foot runway will have an electronic eye guide planes home to safety during foul-weather hazardous landing conditions.
The Federal Aviation Agency will entirely the endeavor and the project will meet agency tions . Presently, the airport is a general aviation accommodating business, private and corporate planes.

PROGRESS IN ACTION (Continued)
Banks County Benefits
tate highway 75 is bringing business to Banks Inters So far , two large motels and two servi~e sta-
ty. scheduled to be located along the I-h1ghway a~e Howard Johnson and Holiday Inn plans to Ban ,a motel and restaurant each along the super
ru~e Riegel Textile. Company's new mill wi.ll fur-
~dd to employm~nt m the county and other mdushavc expressed mterest.
**** Aint River Development Project
One of the largest public works project ever authorfor the State of Georgia was recently approved by House of Representa~i~es . The project calls for ropriations of $151 million ~or the development of Flint River three-dam , multi-purpose complex . In-
cluded in the development will be Lazer Creek, Lower
uchumpkee, a.nd Spewrell. ~luff. The estimated cost the project w1ll be $63 million for Spewrell Bluff and other two dams for $88 ,653 ,000 with $40,378 ,000 Lazer Creek and $48,275,000 for Lower Auchump. The financial benefits to be derived calculated on fifty year period will exceed costs by $55 million .
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Georgia's share of a $1 ,765 ,635 ,000 military conlion bill signed by President Johnson will amount
more than $40.6 million . Eight military bases in the te will share in the construction with more than half
allotment going to Ft. Gordon and Ft. Benning Army bases. Ft. Gordon projects will amount to .$18,1 3,000 and Ft. Benning will get $5 ,875,000.
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mericus has been granted $I 0,476 to aid in the prehensive planning and growth of the area . The l i a part of $52 ,758 made available to the Georgia rtment of Industry and Trade by the Housing and
e Finance Agency. The allotments will be used
a neighborhood analysis and further planniqg for r housing in Americus .
INDUSTRY (Continued)
Marshallville Gets First Major Industry
arshallville feted the official opening of MARALLVILLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY a l manufacturing all-weather coats. The new drm ~tly employs some 45 persons with an annual pay-
.$175,000 and further plans are made to expand Irons as soon as sales make it fe asible. Stock in cityc:ompany ~s being offered area residents making it . -owned mdustry working for and with the com-
ty~.he!Mpalras~htasllvloilclaetedMiannuGfeaocrtugriain: gFrCanokmlipna,nLyowheaJJs n.nagd.rlla wrth a fifth one to open at Ft. Gaines in
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LOOK PRODUCTS, INC. , door and window manufacturers , will open a plant in Millen to employ 130 persons with an annual payroll in excess of one-half million dollars. The $400,000 building wiJJ house production of sliding glass doors, sliding aluminum windows and awning windows. Initial employment will be about 130 with most of the employees coming from the area excluding some fifteen key personnel transferred from the home plant. A contract for the building has been issued to the J. S. Singletary Company and it will be located on a site east of Millen on the Sylvania highway .
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Montezuma recently celebrated the formal dedication of the COMMODITY REFRIGERATED STORAGE , INC., warehouse which is one of the most modern and complete frozen warehouse facilities io the county. The total capacity is six million pounds of frozen products and consists of 22,000 square feet or 500,000 cubic feet of storage space. The Commodity Refrigerated Storage has six permanent employees and four temporary employees.
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EXPANSION (Continued)
TWO BAINBRIDGE FIRMS BUILD
Thompson Industries Plans Expansion
The BAINBRIDGE WIRE DIVISION of Thompson Industries, Inc., has acquired the former plant of the Pan Herk Corporation and will expand from 300 to 600 employees. Bainbridge Wire makes electrical wiring harnesses for two major automobile manufacturers. The plant is located in the Bainbridge Industrial Park.
Southern Nitrogen Augments Facilities
An outlay of approximately half million dollars will more than double bagging facilities for trucks at the SOUTHERN NITROGEN plant in Bainbridge. Construction of an additional bagging tower and related equipment including a 15 ,000 square foot warehouse will result in a temporary employment increase of from thirty to forty employees . This is the first expansion for the year old plant.
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GARLAND KNITTING MILLS announces its first major expansion with employment now at 700 persons, a record for the plant. Its yearly payroll will increase from approximately $1 million to $1 .25 million . Garland is supplanting its present working area with a 50,000 square foot building at a cost of $150,000. The actual employment increase as a result of the expansion will be 250 and most of the employees will be sewing machine operators hired from the Warrenton plant area. Garland manufactures sports clothes for women and its merchandise is distributed throughout the U.S.
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CONTENTS
Director's Message, "PLANNING GEORGIA'S FUTURE" __________________ 3 Feature Story, "MAXSON ON THE MOVE" ---------------------------------------- 4 Georgia's Expansion ----------------------------------- _______ ------------------------------------5, 9 Georgia's New Industry ------------------------------------------------------------5, 11 , 12, 14 "GEORGIA'S EXPOSITION ATTRACTS RECORD
NUMBER OF VISITORS" -------------------------------------------------------------- 6 "ATLANTA FALCONS 0 0 , ECONOMIC IMPACT ON
GEORGIA'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Historic Events, "CUMBERLAND ISLAND PART OF
GEORGIA'S FUTURE" ------------------------------------------ 8 Education & Economy, "EMORY BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE"__ 9 Aviation Advances ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 International Service, "INTERNATIONAL FAVOR
EXTENDED TO FOREIGN VISITORS" ______ 11 Business Profile, "AIRLIFT SEEKS TO EXTEND ROUTE" __________ 12, 13 Georgia in Action -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13
Rosser Smith __________________________________________________________________________________________Editor Dona Ademy __________________________________________________________________________Managing Editor Vincent Jones __________________________________________________________________Editorial Consultant GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 303340

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DRGIA PROGRES
BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

L. toR. John Beck, Chief of Outdoor Recreation Plonning, and Bob Steubing, Dire~tor of Planni'!g, cite pottntial areas to be developed m the Statewtde Plan.
IRECTOR'S MESSAGE

Planning for Georgia's Outdoor

Recreation

Outdoor recreation, important to the growth of Geor-
Jia, ha a new planning program under way on a state-

'de basis. To provide adequate outdoor recreation

area , a program of organization and planning was

needed on the state and federal level. To meet this

need, Congre s created the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act in 1964 and activated it in 1965.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act estab1' bed a grants-in-aid fund to assist the state and federal

,&encie in meeting present and future outdoor recrea-

hon. need . The Act has two purposes. First, it au~f'!z.es federal assistance to states in planning, ac-

q~auc:.th!tt!eo.n

and development of needed land and water through the grants-in-aid program. Second,

It proVJde funds for the federal acquisition of certain land and other areas.

The programs established under the Land and Water

Inten~ntodrrv.oaotironRFeucnredatAiocnt

are administered by the under the Department

Bureau of the

Geor~ia i currently engaged in developing a com-

DJin:h~e.n

ve This

plan for plan is

outdoor recreation on a being developed by the

statewide Planning

. ,

:sa ..

o~unt~ooforthRe ecDreepatairotnmeUnnt itofofInthdeusItry&

and Trade. T Planning

h~n 1 prepa.ri.ng the comprehensive statewide plan,

tt! prerequ1s1te to the grants-in-aid funds. are measuring the supply of our resources and

te , mand for outdoor recreation facilities in the

nm. gcom"AmfetenrteddetJeorhmnm. m.Begcko'urCehxie1.fs.tmogf

Recreation and future

needs, we will develop a plan of action to meet these needs," Beck added.
Preparation of the Statewide Comprehensive Plan will take an estimated two years to complete. Meanwhile, to qualify the State for participation in the Grants-in-Aid Program, an interim plan is being developed. The interim plan will be less detailed than the final statewide plan, but will determine the needs for outdoor recreation over a five-year period. The final Comprehensive Plan will be much more extensive in Scope and will contain longer range projections into the sphere of 2020 A. D.
Revenue for the Grants-in-Aid Program will come from three sources: net proceeds from the sale of surplus Federal real property: existing Federal tax on motorboat fuels ; and, admission and user fees at federal recreation areas which meet certain specifications. Forty per cent of the annual appropriations will go to federal agencies involved in providing outdoor recreation facilities . Sixty per cent of the annual fund appropriations will be made available in the form of grants-in-aid to the states.
A portion of the funds are distributed equally to all states. However, most of the money that goes to the states is apportioned by a formula that weighs the share given individual states on the basis of: total population, urban population, out-of-state visitor, and the extent of Federal recreation area within the state. As a result, annual allocations will varv from state to state and the allocation to an individual state will vary from year to year.
Georgia's allocation for the fiscal year 1966 is slightly more than $1.4 million. Georgia may contemplate a siight increase in its annual apportionment in the years to come. The long-range Comprehensive Statewide Outdoor Recreation Plan will provide guidance and establish criteria for the wise investment of the grants-in-aid funds for subsequent acquisition and development projects.
Hines, New I & T Commissioner
A new Commissioner for the 20-man Constitutional Board of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade has been announced by Governor Carl E. Sanders. John R. Hines of Hogansville has been appointed to the Board which is composed of leadership in Georgia in the fields of commerce, industry and finance.
Mr. Hines will represent the Sixth District on the I & T Board succeeding the late C. Jay Smith of Newnan.
Mr. Hines' past record reflects his superlative contribution and dedication to the State of Georgia. Previously, he was Sixth District Representative on the State Highway Board. The new Cormnissioner has served as mayor, city councilman and chairman of the board of education in Hogansville. Mr. Hines was elected to the Troup County Commission and served as chairman of the board of managers of the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia.

FEATURE STORY

Maxson On The Move

One of the country's leading missile makers, Maxson Electronics Company of Great River, New York, now has a major aerospace manufacturing plant at Macon, Georgia.
Maxson purchased the giant Naval Ordnance Plant located in Macon for $6,760,000 in October, and officially took over the operation December 1st. The Naval Plant had been previously declared surplus. With the transfer of the Macon facility to Maxson, the Company received a $16 million contract for government ordnance work.
The 343-acre site at Macon includes 121 buildings, and manufacturing equipment which will be implemented by the new missile plant.
Maxson will continue to employ the staff of 850 people previously manned by the N. 0. P. under government operation. According to a company spokesman, employment at the Macon Division will double within two or three years. This will be due, in part, to the future production of civilian as well as military items at the Maxson Missile Plant.
Maxson might be called the "friendly giant killer" of the missile world. The company began as a supplementary supplier of the Bullpup. Eventually, in competition with companies several times larger, Maxson emerged sole supplier and manufacturer of the missile. Maxson is one of the few manufacturers of its size that produces an entire operational missile.
In addition to Bullpup, the multi-plant operation produces a number of diversified items under three major classification groups: electronic, components, and computer services.

The largest division,.Maxson Electronics at New y and Scranton, develop and produce ordnance missiles, drones and electronic navigation
The Unimax Switch Division at Wallingford, necticut and Hopkins Engineering Company at Fernando, California, manufacture components for pliances and business machines for space and use.
Telemax Corporation, part of the lished Maxson Computer Services Group, is de,rel<lDiD a communications computer network that will instantaneous reservation systems for hotels, car rentals and travel agents.
Established in 1935, Maxson reported $15,911 ,000 in 1964 and is listed on the Stock Exchange.

W. E. Beal (standing), Chairman of the Board, and
W. L. Maxson, Jr., President of Maxson Electronics Corporation.

Joseph Hoinowski, Vice-President and General ager of Maxson Ordnance Division in Macon.

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DAHLON;GA
* DAWSONVILLE

GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION AND NEW INDUSTRY

* A TI.A fA

* CONYERS

* MO:-JTJCELLO
* BAR:-;ES\'ILLE

* WA RNER ROBINS
* MONTEZUMA

* ALBA NY
* BAINBRlDGE

*FITZGERALD
* TIFTON

* JESUP

* ADEL *VALDOSTA

* HOMERVILLE

XPANSI ON
ddition to Aldora Mills
Some 50 employees will be added to ALDORA ILLS in Barnesville when the General Tire & Rubber Company expands its plants there. The new 400,000 square foot building will be used as a treating unit at the tire textile plant and will increase Aldora's manufiCtUring area to almost 250,000 square feet.

Government Contracts Awarded

STANDARD CONTAINER COMPANY has been

awarded a contract by Frankford Arsenal of Phila-

delphia for $1",780,672 to provide 1,927,134 ammuni-

=boa boxes. Production will take place at the Homer-

YiUe plant of Standard Container. This is the second contract t~ be awarded by Frankford Arsenal to Stand-

12~CC.o8omn6t0pamanaeymr mdreuucrmein~tvgieodntheabpocaxosentstrtawfcootr

months. In August, for $1,352,119 for -diversified use in

.~ge of small arms ammunition. The new contract

10b0cppeaotpesle.the additional local employment of about

* * * * of ~rgia has a new defense project which will boost Wi~~al payroll of more than $700,000. The proj-

y l~i Jh d

a at

NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS the Marine Corps Supply Center

UNIT at Al-

. will ~onsored by ~he Navy Department. The new

1luCI.V.Jl~ioa~r.neemepffloecyteiveepoaynroJlalnoufarsyo,m1e96$666a5n,0d0w0 ilal P 5 a military payroll of about $45,000 annually.

Continued on pg. 9

EACH 100 ~EW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPA"'SION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional school age children 97 more motor vehicles 165 more persons working in trades
servicing the main industry $229,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes
Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. ...
NEW INDUSTRY
Dow Chemical to Locate in Dalton Area
DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY has acquired a 400acre site on the Consauga River south of Dalton with plans to build a multi-million dollar synthetic latex plant. Dow will produce styrene-b.utadiene latexes which will supply materials for the carpet industry in Dalton . About 50 persons will be employed.
Plant to Reopen
SUNNY MORN MEATS, INC. has been named to organize the reopening of a modern, meat-packing plant at Calhoun . The plant was originally built with an investment of approximately $566,000 by the ARA, including some $80,000 by local citizens. The plant will be operated to promote and expand livestock production of fat cattle and top grade pork for the purpose of giving livestock .growers a good and profitable market. Principals of the new firm were disclosed only as "reliable financial sources."
Million Dollar Plant to
Locate in Adel
CAROLINA FOREST PRODUCTS CORPORATION of Wilmington, North Carolina has announced 'the construction of a new particle board plant at Adel. The estimated cost of the plant will exceed $1 million. The plant will employ some 50 men and is expected to have annual sales of $2 million. Carolina Forest Products produces particle board which is used principally as an underlayment for tile floors.
Continued on pg. I I

GEORGIA EXPOSITION ATTRACTS RECORD NUMBER OF VISITORS

Georgia Ports Authority piles a $1,000 a day into the State's economy.

N.A .S.A .'s exhibit offered visitors a trip to outer spac~::.

Small Georgia businessmen received individual ernment purchasing counseling from expert ment procurement officers.

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When the doors to the Marriott Hotel exhibition hall closed at 10:00 p.m.,

Sunday, November 7, some 25,826 people had come to the third annual Georgia

Exposition. The display of Georgia industry opened November 2. Some of the

displays are shown on this page. N.A.S.A.'s model of space capsules used for

"out of this world" travel was of interest to all age groups. Government purchasers,

with some $2 billion worth of contracts, were also on hand to confer with small

businessmen wishing to do business with the Federal Government. The Georgia

Ports Authority had a display of their contribution to the economy of the state.

"1

The Georgia Department of Industry and Trade booth, manned by Dona Ademy

and Rosser Smith of the Information Unit and others from the Department

passed out more than 126,000 pieces of literature about Georgia.

ATLANTA FALCONS. ECONOMIC IMPACT ON GEORGIA

EDITOR'S NOTE

In a personal interview with Rankin Smith,

owner of the A tlan~a . Falcons, the edit~rs. asked

him questions pertammg to the economzc zmpact

~1tthSetamteajoofr

Gleeaogru?eiaf.ooWtbeallwteeraemn~otn

Atlanta and surprised to

find its monetary rmpetus on sportmg goods sup-

pliers motels and hotels, bus companies, airlines, roilr~ds, restaurants and espe_cially ~he w_orking

force in the area. The followmg article, rn Mr.

mith's words, proves what the editor's felt to

~ the importance of Atlanta fast-becoming the

"SPORT'S CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH."

Georgia's newest tourist industry is the Atlanta Fal. F. L. football club. Rankin Smith, owner of the
team, comments on the economic impact his new ture is expected to make. "We expect to have an annual payroll of about $1 million , employ 45 to 48 yers and have an office staff of 25," the genial insurance executive told GEORGIA PROGRESS. "I think the arrival of the National Football League in tlanta, along with the Braves, will make the city a much re attractive tourist as well as convention town ." r. Smith expressed his pleasure over the success of
n ticket sales thus far. "We have already sold 0 400 tickets on a season basis. A large number of out-of- tate inquiries have come from South Carolina, and I _uppose this is due to the completion of the Inter-
highway. We also have had several hundred tickets . red in a number of cities, including, Dalton, BirmmJbam, Columbus, Macon, Chattanooga, Albany and
course, Atlanta."

Life Insurance Company of Georgia Vice-President, Rankin Smith, owner of the Atlanta Falcons. The papers on his desk are evidence of the immense amount of work required of him, as Mr . Smith alternates between a businessman's hat and a football helmet.
Transportation and motel companies are also inquiring about season tickets. "We have had interest expressed by both Greyhound and Southern Airways about tickets for use in package deals ; football weekends, that is."
Perh aps the most enthusiastic group that has contacted Mr. Smith's office are some Augusta businessmen. "This group in Augusta says they are buying two buses and converting. them into mobile lounges so they can travel to Atlanta for the Falcon games. They also bought about 200 season tickets."
What will the buses be doing in the off season? "The men told me, " Mr. Smith added, " that they will use the vehicles to transport their wives to Atlanta for shopping trips ."
That's one economic pro-football impact the Atlanta city fathers probably never dreamed of!

A~ _aerial view of the Atlanta Stadium, " H ome of the Falcons. " The $18 mrllron stadium will seat 57,000 spectators for the major League games.
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HISTORIC EVENTS

Cumberland Island--

Part of Georgia's Future?

A few miles off the Gold Coast of Georgia lies

small, picturesque island almost entirely deserted of

civilization. The beauty of Cumberland in its na

state is one 30,000-acre

of the main attractions o~ the island. frontage could offer Georgia tourists a

1

cation paradise for swimming, picnicking, camping

fishing. With more leisure time available to Georgi

park and recreation officials have felt a need for

such an area.

Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, took a v

tioneer's stroll around the island recently to reconno

the area for possible national acquisition.

Mr. Udall stated, "I'm amazed at the beau

scenery, and I think that this would certainly make

very outstanding addition to the national park syste

The reason for Mr. Udall's visit is a possible pro

for the federal government to buy the 22-mile island~

use as a national park. Majority of concensus fa

preservation of the island in its natural state. Udall su

gested three approaches toward acquiring the isl

1. Acquisition of the portions owned by people w

wish to sell if there is not a great deal of red ta

involved.

2. The "life estate" method of assuming control o

'

after the owner's death.

3. Securing scenic easements from property own

who wish to retain homes and some portion of th

Interior Secretary Stewart Udall gets sand in his shoes

island .

on the beach of Cumberland Island.

The southern half of Cumberland is inhabited by

tumbled-down castle of Dungeness, built by Thom

Carnegie in the 1880's. Thomas Carnegie, brother

I I

steel magnate Andrew, died leaving the three-story, 1

''

room mansion empty for about 25 years before a

swept through the old hermitage in 1959 destroying

completely.

.

The island cemetery echoes the historic past of ReY

lutionary War heroes, General Thomas Jackson

General Light Horse Harry Lee. Their faded inscripti

on decaying grave stones echo the solitary habitation

, I

Cumberland.

Various opinions have been thrown into the ring

decision over the future of Cumberland. Some feel

State should buy the island and develop it. As an e

ample of the cost of such an endeavor-the purchase

Jekyll was $600,000 and since then, $20 millio~ .

been spent in its development with another $3 milli

in the offing.

U . S. Representative, J . Russell Tuten, who

worked for a year and a half to get Secretary Udall

vi sit the island, represents opposing factions who a

dicate federal acquisition of the land for a state P.

Representative Tuten expresses his opinion , "It's a h

bit of a bigger project than the state can handle."

then cited attendance figures at other national pa to support his backing of the national park pl~n . "In ..~. year 1964, 7 million people visited Blue Ridge ~~

way. Great Smoky Mountain National Park was VISit
5 by 51fz million and 21/z million people saw Yellowst~
National Park. Thirteen parks had an average of 2,2

000 visitors last year and the average attendance WI

4; 6,100 each day throughout the year."

.

Whatever acquisition differences factions may

A view from the air of Cumberland Island showing the sent over; most will agree that the beauty and solemn

Intracoastal Waterway south of Jekyll Island.

of Cumberland should remain in its natural state.

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ANSION (Continued)
Defense Departm~I?t. stat~s that Geo~gia no~ has 'I'he major military facilities With a combmed mihtary
fiftceD. ilian payroll of $611,766,000 annually. Main-
111(1 CIV and operation adds another $193,032,000 a
aeoaD~ Georgia's economy.
~d ptation of the existing buildings at the Marine a will be about $1 million and annual operating
~~~ould be about $300,000 in addition to personnel

saJanes

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A tOCCOA CAS~ET COM~ANY ~as been selected one of 78 compames evaluatmg a umque new wood-
.,aastic material called "Lockwood" . The process transforms wood and plastic into a new material by using fl(liation. The development was pioneered by the Lockbeed-Georgia Company's nuclear research facility at
Dawsonville. The Toccoa Casket Company is one of tbe firms chosen from 180 applicants to test the new

aaaterial. After conversion at the Lockheed lab, the Atomic
Eaergy Comm!s~ion w~ll tum specim~ns of the. product r to the individual firms and they, m tum, Will manu-
facture products out of the Lockwood for evaluation
aDd testing.

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CHAMPION INDUSTRIES, INC., formed by a poup of Fitzgerald investors, is manufacturing fertilizer
spreaders at the rate of one every two days with an increase projected for spring. The plant is in a temporary
location until its new building is completed in the ACL IDdustrial Park. Champion has an authorized capitalization of $100,000 with equipment valued at $25,000 already installed. Under the "Champ" emblem, farm grain wagons, special truck bodies and related items are produced. Three full-time men comprise the task force
"th six to be employed by spring.

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JAMES LEES AND SONS COMPANY, a division ~ Burlington Industries, Inc., plans a $4 million ex-
plOSion of their Pine Tree woolen and synthetic carpet yarn plant at Dahlonega.

I &T Tou rism Director

Elected NATO President

Bill Hardman, tourist division director of I & T, has

elected president of the National Association of

ravelI, Organizations. His nomination took place at

0 s 25th annual convention in Dallas, Texas,

ber 16.

TO~pretosiudn~sntt

, Hardman will be and travel promotion

responsible for programs during

:;mmg year through 1966. He has previously served

asurer of NATO and was second vice president
Year.

ATO is a non-profit association which represents segments of the country's travel industry. It has
most effective in. uniting promotion, research and .,..an,"'ent relations efforts among its more than 700
ted members. The executive staff of NATO is uanered in Washington, D. C.

EDUCATION and ECONOMY
Emo~y Building for the Future
Education is the bulwark of a state's stability and growth. Consequently, the announcement by Emory University in Atlanta of long-range development plans to further their educational facilities meets with approval from all Georgians.
This project will be called Emory University Merit Program and will be headed by William R. Bowdoin, prominent Atlanta bank~r and a member of Emory's Board of Trustees. Mr. Bowdoin's words aptly express a progressive State educational program : "The rapidly developing and prosperous Southeast deserves a university of the first rank by any standards. Emory proposes to be such a university."
In 129 years, Emory has progressed from a small liberal arts college to an outstanding university with 23,000 alumni in 50 sta!es and 57 foreign countries.
The Emory Merit Program is designed to extend over the next three years with goals projected to strengthen the schools endowment; consequently, offering more attractive salaries to teachers, more scholarships to deserving students and overall enriching the school's program.
The building fund has been substantiated by a federal grant of $1.7 million to be used toward the construction of a $5.4 million library for advanced studies. The library will be a major step forward in the development of graduate education which is a catalyst to the academic growth of any university.
As funds become available, the following building constructions will take place : a fine arts building, nursin& building, science building, enl~rgement of the gymnasiUm, medical administration building, addition to Emory Hospital, renovations at Crawford Long, a law building, additions to the School of Business Administration, a theology chapel and many more such improvements.
Mr. Bowdoin asks for "increased resources-not for the university itself but for the service and opportunity that can be provided for those young people who come into her orbit and for what can be accomplished through them to build a better world."
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State Education Receives TV
Production Center Grant
Georgia has become the proud recipient of a federal grant for an educational television network-the largest federal grant of its kind .
The State Board of Education will receive a $863,891 grant to construct an educational television production center in Atlanta and to activate a new station at Wrens, Georgia. Total cost of the entire project will be $1 ,604,616.
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AVIATION ADVANCES
Airport Boom in Georgia
Governor Sanders has put special emphasis on building airports in smaller Georgia communities as an added attraction to new industry. This is part of the new move to mobile business in a mechanized world.
By the end of the year, Governo.r Sanders announces the planning of 99 paved airports with 61 of them having been built during his term in office.
As an example of airports attracting industry, the Ashburn airport warrants mentioning. Three new industries have located adjacent to the air facility at Ashburn representing an investment of $1.5 million and employment for 500 people.
More Good News for Lockheed
Lockheed HERCULES MODEL 382B has been granted final type certification by the Federal Aviation Agency. The Hercules is the first commercial cargo version of a Lockheed prop-jet military transport. Continental Air Lines ordered the first civilian versions of the Hercules. Continental bought two of the planes for cargo service at a cost of some 6 million dollars.
Delta-Pan Am Plan International Flights
The distance between the United States and other countries is diminishing at a fast pace with the announcement by DELTA AIR LINES and PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS of a daily jet flight to Frankfurt, Germany from Atlanta.
The flight will depart Atlanta daily at 4: 50 p.m. EST and, without a change of flight, passengers will arrive in Frankfurt at 10:45 a.m., local time. Washington and London will be stops en route. The daily European flight will encompass an excess of 4,500 miles in less than twelve hours flying time.
Lockheed Funded New
Research Lab
A $3,500,000 research laboratory, the first of its kind in the southeast, signifies another boost in the aerospace industry for Georgia.
LOCKHEED-GEORGIA plans to coordinate activities of their new research lab with the laboratories of many southeastern colleges and industries. Tests will run the gamut from scientific experiments in gas kinet ics, metal physics, energy conversion and aerolasticity to corrosion, electronics, computer-aided design and human factors . The research laboratory is located on twenty acres adjacent to the Lockheed operated Air Force Plant 6 aircraft production facilities.
Governor Appoints Delegates
To Flight Seminar
Through the appointment of Governor Carl E. Sanders, two outstanding youths represented Georgia at the recent 1965 Hight Seminar for Youth held in Okla-
10

homa City. Robert Williams of Athens and John mundsen of Cartersville attended the seminar wb stressed the impact and influence flying has on the p ent social and political life of our nation. The attend youths were warned that they must do their utmost condition tomorrow's citizens to the intensely compe tive world of future flight.
FAA Chooses Georgia for
Airport Study
The State of Georgia, due to its energetic pr of airport development, has been selected by the Fede Aviation Agency as the first State in the South United States for a prototype study of long-range port needs in a community.
s This will be a coordinated program between the
of Georgia, Aviation Unit, and the FAA's Regi Office located here in Atlanta.
The inter-relationsliips between general aviation, 1 service and major air carrier airports will be studi This, in addition, to the above-named aviation un' will involve the Area Planning and Development C missions throughout the State.
The effort here will be to up-date the planning g on a five-year and beyond program. December 3, 1965.
Air Marking Program to Identify
200 Georgia Communities
Individual identification of 200 communities will promote aircraft safety in the State of Georgia, nounced I & T Director, James H. Nutter, Jr.
The Aviation Division of the Department has sel . various Georgia communities to be incorporated ~ gigantic Air Marking Program which conststs of P ing the name of each town on the roof of a strate city building.
The letters will be painted in chrome yellow and measure 10 feet in height with a stroke of 1. foot, inches. Under good flying conditions, the ptlot passengers of the aircraft flying at an altitude of 3, feet will be able to identify the "call" letters of towns .
Brechtel, Inc., of Des Moines, Iowa, bas
awarded the contract for the Air Marking Progr~m. tl
Bob Brechtel will personally assist in the selec.tton suitable location for the marking and in secun~g 8
lease from the owner of the building. !he .entt~e tu
will be absorbed by the State of Georgta wtth t cooperation of Governor Carl E. Sanders.

NTERNATIONAL SERVICES
International Favor Extended to foreign Visitors

Pktur~d about the International Welcome Center in rlw lobby of the Dinkier Motor Hotel in Atlanta are {kft to right): H. 0. Lindberg, District Sales Manager,
orthwest Orient Airlines, Vincent Auletta, General QIIQger of the Dinkier in Atlanta, Mrs. Virginia W. Ugood, Director, International Service for the Georgia IHpartment of Industry and Trade and Miss Noriko IIWiikoriyama, recently appointed Japanese /nternaIIOIIGI Representative of Atlanta's Dinkier Motor Hotel.

International Trade is the result of imagination and

rch. These were the key words spoken at the

~nt

Atlanta World Trade Council Dinner sponsored Chamber of Commerce. The Dinner was held in

JUnctio? with the opening of the World Trade Coun-

nter m New York celebrating World Trade Week.

A. Pulver, President of Lockheed-Georgia and

.- peaker at the dinner, stressed that Atlanta is be-

:;'g the South's center for international trade and ~n Re earc~ speaks for itself by exposing and

ng 135,000 JObs for Georgians for every $1 milInwonh. of foreign trade.
te~~tonal trade imagination is behind a project

de . mkler International in Atlanta. The program

tJ!d

gn~edthteo .tm~oa~kseanfdosreoigf nyeerasrlfyeetrl a"vaetlehrso mfreo~"

It is other

ho VISit m Atlanta for pleasure or business.

As pictured at the left, the International Center, is situated in the lobby of the Dinkier and from this booth, the Southern welcome mat is extended over the language barrier between Japanse, French, German and English. Such a service in Atlanta, creates a favorl_!ble and lasting impression upon the foreigner.
Flags from every country herald the visitors' arrival and a registry of foreign residents in Atlanta make fellow-countrymen feel more familiar on strange soil.
Other outstanding features of the program include an Int~rnational Shopper's Card , guided shopping tours, an International cuisine menu, a hospitality suite accessible to foreign visitors at all times, and the international b~llroom decorated in the flair and fauna of many countnes.
I~ternational displays will feature foreign countries, foreign products and other things of an international flavor. This will also interest Georgians since they are both informative and interesting.
The Dinkier International Programis designed to accommodate foreign visitors with services suited to their needs, to add comfort, and convenience to their visit and to facilitate their business transactions.
.With a little research and a lot of imagination, the Dmkler International Program has both procured good international relations and secured an economic bond between Georgia and other foreign countries. It was created through imagination with an eye to the future . The statistics prove its success as research displays the ~c?~om!c bene~its of all Georgians who encourage and m1t.ate mternatlonal trade and solid foreign relations.
NEW INDUSTRY (Continued)
Underground Communications
for Southern Bell
SOUTHERN BELL is planning the construction of an underground blast-res istant communications center to serve as a connecting link for a long distance cable route betwee n Miami, F lorida and B oston , Massachusetts. The communication center will be located five miles northwest of Monticello.
The new building will cost ap proximately $2 1/2 million and total expenditures in Georgia for all phases of the new communications system will be about $26,000,000 . The labor force operating the center will number about fifteen people .
After the giant break-down of the electrical system in New Y ork and seve ral other large northern cities, the need for a communications center immune to such disasters is more imminent. The underground , two-story structure will be designed to withstand hurricanes, tornadoes and indirect nuclea r attack. In emergencies, the center cou ld generate its own power and emergency Jiving quarters are manned with survival rations and facilities .
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COLLIER BROTHERS SPREADER SERVICE announces plans for the construction of a liquid fertilizer plant in Jesup . This new company represents an investment of over $40 ,000 employing three to four additional persons . The plant will be built by the Southern Fertilizer and Chemical Company of Savannah and will be the first plant of its kind in South Georgia to produce liquid nitrogen.
Continued on pg. 12
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BUSINESS PROFILE
Expenditure Increase for Industry
U.S. industry plans an 8 per cent increase over 1964 in expenditures on new plants and equipment for 1966 according to a recent survey in Business Week Magazine. Current estimates call for the spending of nearly $55 billion next year which is nearly $4 billion more than estimated for this year and nearly $10 billion more than was actually spent in 1964.
The two major factors in capital spending plans of manufacturers are current rates of operations and anticipated sales during the sixth year of the post-Korean boom. The following factors support and substantiate the above assertion:
1. Manufacturers expect one of the best sales years in history-an increase of 6 per cent in sales next year.
2. Manufacturers also plan to spend $23.7 billion next year on new facilities and rejuvenation of old. This is $5 billion more than was spent last year.
3. Airlines have allocated increased amounts for new aircraft and equipment. Next year's capital investment will be 22 per cent over the $1 .1 billion spent in 1964.
4. Commercial businesses (wholesale and retail trade) plan to increase their investment from 3 per cent to 4 per cent making a total expenditure of $12.2 billion in 1965.
5. The automobile industry capital spending will exceed $2 billion for the first time with electrical .machinery manufacturers' spending approaching $1 billion setting a precedence for themselves.
Two Firms Approve Merger
Two clothing manufacturers have reached agreement on pooling of interests merger. GENESCO, INC. and SALANT & SALANT, INC. approved the plan and it was submitted to Salant & Salant stockholders for their verification .
Salant & Salant manufacture shirts, pants and jackets and have resulted in estimated sales this year of more than $60 million. Genesco, with Georgia plants in Atlanta, Carrollton and Lawrenceville, manufacture and distribute apparel and shoes with annual sales of from $400 to $500 million annually.
Construction Gains for Georgia
F. W. Dodge, division of McGraw-Hill, Inc., announces contracts for future construction in Georgia totaled $94.7 million-up 25 % over September of last year. For the first nine months of this year, the total was $856 .2 million, a 2 % gain.
Unemployment at Record Low
National unemployment figures are at the lowest ebb in the past eight years, reports the Federal Labor Department. Figures show unemployment dropped in October to 2.8 million persons or 4.3 % of the civilian labor force , the lowest level in eight years.
Further Bureau of Labor Statistics announcements indicate civilian employment was 73 ,196,000 for the
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highest October level on record . Itemized, the figu
designate unemployment of one million adult men rea
million adult women and 800,000 teen-agers. ' 011e

Georgia's compare favorably to na~i?nal figures. Tbe

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insured unemployment.

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NEW INDUSTRY (Continued)
C & D Battery Locates in Conyer
The official opening of C & D BAITERY charged with celebration when Conyers citizens rec: ly welcomed this new division of Eltra Corporation to the area. The new, 7~,000 square foot plant was built at a cost of approximately $1 million and now emplOJI some forty persons with a weekly payroll of $5 000
C & D is a division of one of the nation's' lariec manufacturing organizations making numerous proc&. ucts along the line of equipment for the printing indu~
and large batteries for diesel locomotives. C & D Bai
tery Division of Conyers will specialize in manufacturing industrial batteries, telephone and diesel batteries.
John L. Dawkins, plant manager, stated the aspita-
tio~s of C & D. "The ~ew C & _D Battery plant il designed to keep pace With a growmg Georgia. It was
designed for expansion and in the next five to ten yean, we expect to double in size."

Georgia Kraft To Open New Mill
GEORGIA KRAFT COMPANY, an affiliate of Inland Container Corporation, is revealing expectations~ the completion of the company's new $45 million mil at Mahrt, Alabama, projected for operation early iD 1967. The new facility will be known as the Alabama Kraft Company Division of Georgia Kraft CompaDJ and will supplement present productive capacity of 2, 300 tons per day by an additional 800 tons.
Georgia Kraft, as a result of continuous expansioa programs during the past seventeen years, has timber land holdings now exceeding one million acres. 1be company operates two containerboard mills at Rome,
in addition to the original Macon Mill. Georgia Krall
employees currently number some 1,600 and will exceed 2,000 with the completion of the Mahrt Mill.
* * * * LORDCASTLE -SHIRT COMPANY, INC., shirt
manufacturers, plans to move its Macon plant ~ Warner Robins . The company presently employs VII persons with a yearly payr9ll of $200,000. The ~ ployment will eventually be 125 people which will raiiC the payroll to $400,000 yearly~ Many of the ~~ employees will relocate in the new plant with add1booi recruitment to take place in the Warner Robins area.

Expanded Power in Georgia

of

The 98

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY industries representing a capital

irenvpeosrtts~eantto.CdII

$70,400,000 located on its lines during the f1rs~

months of 1965 . These figures were released by ""'-

Smith, manager of the company's industrial develop-

ment division.

Continued on PI 14

I EsS pROFILE (Continued)

Airlift cargo to and from Atlanta has included a number of unusual items, including a menage':ie of animals that cannot be shipped by usual means. Monkeys go to the U . S. Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center near Decatur and Airlift has hauled alligators , rats, tigers and seals on its cargo planes.
The company is currently engaged in upgrading its ground handling equipment including new lift trucks, power units for aircraft starting and airplane tugs. Be sides freight and cargo, Airlift is certified to carry U . S. Mail.
Airlift has applied also to the C. A. B . for permission to acquire control of Aerovias Sud Americana, Inc., an American company currently holding a mail and allcargo operating certificate for Miami, Tampa-St. Petersburg, St. Thomas, V . 1., Lima, Peru and various intermediate points. A. S. A. currently is in bankruptcy court and Airlift officials are hopeful that the C. A. B . and the court will both act favorably on the Airlift application.

1rlift Seeks to Extend Routes
'rlift, International, Atlanta's only scheduled allair line, has applied to the Civil Aeronautics
rd to extend its western route from New Orleans n Francisco with intermediate stops at Houston Los Angeles. Airlift was formerly known as Riddle Line . If the route extension is approved by the . 8., Atlanta would become Airlift's airfreight cen-
of the Southeast. 'rlift proposes to put four engine DC-7CF (car) aircraft on the New York , Atlanta , New Orleans 5an Francisco route . Currently, th e air line operates DC-SF (cargo) jets, 14 DC-7CF and 18 C-46 pror airplanes. Each DC-7CF plane can carry some ,000 pounds of cargo. Last month , Airlift hauled
than 8,700,000 pounds of airfreight. The October was the most ever hauled in a single month in the ~ny's 20-year history and represented a 28.4 per mcrease in business over October of 1964. 1be top freight items in Atlanta and Georgia shipare automotive parts, machinery, cosmetics, wearapparel and carpets. However, District Manager udc Sellars adds, " We will haul anything th at is rly crated and will fit in our airplanes."
ST. THOMAS

GEORGIA IN ACTION
I &T Receives Appalachian
Grant
The Department of Industry and Trade has received a $65,505 federal grant which will pay administrative ex penses of the local development of 35 Georgia counties in the Appalachian Region.
Airport Bonds Approved
The voters of Bacon County have approved the issuance of some $75,000 worth of bonds to finance paving of a 3200 foot runway at the Alma airport. The bond funds will be coupled with Federal and State grants.
Approval of the airport improvements paves the way for the county to purchase additional ai rport property and make other improvements. The state will add $25 ,000 to the local bond funds and the Federal Aviation Agency will provide an additional $93 ,000. The airport is located nea r the Alma city limits and has a radar station manned by ten men.
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Winners of "Stay &See Georgia"
Contest Announced
Four outstanding cities in Georgia won awards at the recent "Stay & See Georgia" Award celebration at the Atlanta Americana.
The purpose of this statewide project sponsored by the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce is to encourage various state communities to increase and substantiate their economy by capitalizing on their tourism attractions. This, in turn, increases civic pride and community spirit while working for the betterment of the economic potential of the town 9r city.
Champion of this year's contest was Fitzgerald, a unique and historical Georgia community. Ed Chapin, Chairman of the Travel Council, Georgia State Chamber of Commerce, presented the trophy to Fitzgerald on the merit of outstanding community clean-up, visitors information, expansion of its Civil War Museum and the initiation of a plan to restore the remarkable Lee Grant Hotel built in 1895 .
Columbus was awarded the Circle Trophy for past winners with the best continuing programs. Dublin was the winner of the " Courtesy and Hospitality" Award for the best four photos of tourist attractions or scenic beauty spots in the community.
All community contestants were judged by the following team of travel experts : Mrs. Jean Allen, Travel Editor, Fort Lauderdale News, Florida ; Sando Bologna, The Waterbury American, Waterbury, Connecticut; and Myron Glaser, Manager of the Travel Department, The Washington, D . C. Daily News.
NEW INDUSTRY (Continued)
This compares with 88 new industries, with an investment of $102,770,000 that began operation in the utility's service area during the first nine months of 1964.
These new plants and industries are manufacturing or processing plants, each with a minimum capital investment of $50,000 and employing at least ten workers. In addition, 138 existing industries expanded their operations during the first nine months of 1965. Total investment of these expanded facilities was $125 ,500,000. This compares with last year's figures of 91 manufacturing plants.
Postive Reaction to New
Chemical Plant in Augusta
Augusta's rapidly expanding chemical complex was given another boost recently with the announcement that MORELAND CHEMICAL COMPANY plans to build a new distribution center on a 10-acre tract purchased from Columbia Nitrogen Corporation.
Paul C. Thomas, company President, stated that, "We had served Augusta area industry for many years from our Spartanburg plant but with the significant industrial growth of Augusta, it is more than good business to have distribution facilities in the community that supplies it." Moreland's expansion will provide 14,000
14

square feet of warehouse space. The facility Will house a tank storage for numerous liquid chemicals.
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William H. Frey, President of the CHEMICAL COM~ANY OF ATLANTA, - .....vum"""' the purchase of a thirteen and one-half acre tract in ...... Fulton County Industrial Park for the construction fl-...; one-million plus plant, home office and laboratory. 1
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Fulton Industrial District is the site chosen .._ SHIRLEY OF ATLANTA, INC. , to begin constru "' on a 190,000 square foot office and distribution ctial Some 2,000 persons will be employed in this upon its completion in mid 1966.
Southern Now Based in Atlanta
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM is now operatiat from a new $30,000,000 control and coordinating c._ plex located in Atlanta. The Center, one of the oa1y
facilities of its type in the world , has already added 30D
new employees to its payroll. The Center will expedite greater utilization of rail~
cars with a gradual decrease in freight rates, as well
providing an elaborate system of communications on tbe location, destination and loading data on many cf
Southern's freight cars.
More Government Contracts
The AIR FORCE has authorized bids on $1 ,690,000 in construction projects at MOODY AFB at Valdosta. Contracts will be awarded for construction of a bale communication facility , flight training building, warehouse , bachelor officer quarters and other work wbel the funds are released.
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Plans for the addition of 500 new jobs at tbl WARNER ROBINS AIR MATERIEL AREA ROBINS AFB, Georgia has recently been annou~ for 1966 by the Air Force Logistics Command. ThiS part of the relocation plan implementing the Secre~ of Defense's directive of November 19, 1964 closilll several bases throughout the U . S.
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EDITOR'S NOTE The Economic Unit of the I & T Department
has recently published a statistical story on theG profile of Georgia entitled, DE VEL 0 PIN GEORGIA. The booklet contains the most recent ly accumulated statistical facts on the St~te a~-~ whole, its cities, market geographical regzon ana comparison of Georgia's economic status to othtrp states. For further information about DEVELO lNG GEORGIA , contact David Baird, Econom ic Unit, Department of Industry and Trade, 181 Washington Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

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ORGIA PROGRES
BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE Volume 2, No. 1
AERO COMMANDER INC.
COMMANDER LANDS IN GEORGIA
also featured this month
AVIATION HAS DONE FOR GEORGIA

CONTENTS
Director's Message, ADVANCING AVIATION FOR GEORGIA ___ _ 3 Georgia's Expansion ---------- ----------------------- -------------------------------------------------4, 6, 13 Georgia's ew Industry ______________ ------- --------------------------------------- ____________4, 12, 13 Feature Story, AERO COMMANDER ______ ___ _____ -------------------------------------------- 5 Business Profile, ECONOMIC RETURNS FOR 1965- D avid D. Baird .... 6 Airpark Concept, BUSINESSMEN GET THEIR Wl 1GS ________________________ 7 Historic Evwts, STONE MOUNTAIN ECHOES EVENTS 0 F THE PAST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Toutist Topics, GEORGIA WELCOl\IIE CE TERS EXTEND BORDER TO BORDER ______________________________________________________________ 9 Georgia in Action, GEORGIA SELECTED WINNER OF S. l. R . AWARD.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 International Service, FAR EAST TRADE MISSION MEETS WlTH SUCCESS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Here and There--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12
Rosser Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor Don a Ademy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Managing Editor Bob Alford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art Consultant Sarah Conner --------------------------------------------------------------------------Con tri buti ng Editor GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled month ly by the Georgia Depat' tm e nt of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

ORGIA PROGRESS

BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUST' RY AND TRADE

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OVANCING AVIATION R GEORGIA
J hn Bmnett, Director of I & T's Aviation Div ision,
~parrs for take-off on another phase of Georgia's otwrwl Aviation Plan.

junction with area planning and development commissions located throughout Georgia. These commissions develop population statistics and highway planning data which Aviation utilizes to coordinate statewide community planning.
Furthermore, airport planning must coordinate with the developing plan of Georgia's Seven Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SSMSA) . An airport plan should be developed within these areas where 82% of the urban poulation and 63% of the based aircraft are located. An example of such programming is the airport to be built under the provisions of the 1965 Appalachian Development Act at Ellij-ay. The Appalachian Regional Commission has approved $47,091 in supplemental funds for this airport which will serve Ellijay-Gilmer County and the surrounding area. Total cost of the airport is $156,970 with matching funds of $25,000 coming from the state, $6,394 from Gilmer County, and $78,485 from the FAA. The Aviation Divis.ion has helped develop this program by assisting in site location and application procedures.

orgia' emergence as the top state in the nation

ommunity airport development is the result of a

e ful formula. Federal and state participation as

II a the most important ingredient-community

ant re t-have made business aviation available to more

nd more areas of the state.

he modern businessman is using the private airpi n increa ingly as a means of solving the problems

m_crea ed time demands, required trips to far-flung

ling plants, or launching a search for new manu-

turing and di tribution sites.

ero Commander, Armor Homes, Pet Milk, Karson

lndu trie and many other companies have stated that

lniJ>O~tant rea on for their building or expanding

an . orga was the availability of an air strip near ar facilitie .

Thr Aviation Division of the Georgia Department

lndu tr and Trade is headed by hard working John
Benn. ll. The Aviation Division assists local commun-
m ~c.uring state and federal participation in airl ~rOJ~ClS. Planning and development of future air D 111~ I another function of the Aviation Unit.

ur;n_g_ the 1965-66 fisca l year, some $5,768,693 in

~be' ca~irpwoitrht

funds were disbursed. local and state funds,

These monies, will total $ 10,-

h, t

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ttnmcm has appropriated $45 million which has

Jta>Ie>nIt1.

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airports 1961

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COMMUNITY AIRPORTS

NUMBER OF AIRPORT PROJECTS =

FEDERAL FUNDS

-

LOCAL FUNDS

STATE FUNDS

$494,774
6~ 1963
The Aviation Division works closely in coordination with the Federal Aviation Agency in promoting statewide opportunity and potential for Georgia. Concentration of education and promotion have insured our state of receiving the benefits that modern aviation offers in economic development. Federal funds are allocated for construction of small airports on a 50-50 matching basis. To qualify for this aid, a community must be included in the National Airport Plan annually revised by the FAA. The Aviation Division assists Georgia communities in their efforts to be included in this plan and in preparing a request for aid which is forwarded to the FAA. The I & T Aviation Division works toward the development of a statewide system of airports which will benefit not only the aviation industry but all presons living in the state.
The State of Georgia has been selected by the Federtal Aviation Agency as the first state in the southeastern Uni ted States to present a model program of long-range community airpol"t needs..
contznued on page 13

GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION AND NEW INDUSTR Y

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*ROME * ATLANTA

*LAWRENCEVILLE
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*MANCHESTER
COLUMBUS

* New Industry
-tr Expansion

EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional school age children 97 more motor vehicles 165 more persons working in trades
servicing the main industry $229,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes
.Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. . ..

* * AMERICUS CORDELE

* ALBANY *BLAKELY
*PELHA.M

*DOUGLAS * VALDOSTA

EXPANSION
General Electric to Spend
$11 Million on Expansion
Rom e's New Year go t off to a good start with the news tha t G enera l Electric Company is planning an $ 11 million expansion o[ its Medium Transformer Department.
In m a king the announcem e nt, D. B. Lawton, R ome Dep artm e nt Ma nager, sa id plant facili-ties wou ld be increased by 156,840 square fee t. Construction is sched uled to begin this spring with completion and full operation expected Dece mber, 1967. A laboratory for product design and development and a receiving storage area are included in building plans.
Within the next few years the company's work [orce shou ld in crease from 200 to 1,700.
General Electric's R ome p la nt opened in 1954 a nd beca me a d epartment two years la ter. Its product line ranges from 501 kva to 15,000 kva-rated transformers and will ex tend to 2S,OOO kva once the expansion program is completed.

Cox Expands Into Largest

Broadcast Plant 1n Nation

The home of Cox Broadcasting will be humming

with the sound of construction as it expands its

facilities by an additional $ 1 million investment. This

expansion of the company's White Columns ante-

bellum building is a result of Cox acquiring control-

ling interest in United Technical Publications of

Garden City, New York, for approximately $4 million.

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continued on page 6

NEW INDUSTRY
Continental Can
Enters New Field
A $ 1 million industry is coming to Augusta. Con nental Can Company will begin operation of th new plant by mid-1966 manufacturing molded pulp egg c-artons.
The SO,OOO-square-foot pl a nt will produce ome million molded cartons annua lly a nd will be the only
molded pulp facility producing egg cartons in the
Southeast. Continental Can 's decision to laun ch its entr inco
the molded carton market hom Augusta was baed oa sta tisti cs showing tha t egg producti on in North and South Carolina, Georgia , and Florida is gTowing the fastest rate of any area in the country.

Pepsi-Cola to Build
New Plant in Valdosta
.James B. Somerall, president of the Pepsi-Cola pany, announced late last mon~h plans [or a bottling plant in Valdosta to serve a large area
nPr- south Georgia and north Florida. The facility'
mated cost is $ 1 million, and some 30 to 50. wi.JJ be added to the current work force of 35. said about seven sma ll bottling plants in r_he . to be served by the enl arged Valdosta umt w1l converted to warehouse and distribution center

Two New Plants Going In to

Douglas' G&F Industria l Pa

A new plant for the Kerr- l'vfcGee Fertilize!

will be located in a 99-acre industrial tract 111 owned by the Georgia & Florida R ailroad . ~h

000 facility is described by manager Carl K

a "modern, push-button opera tion. " A new bulk

mill for Rite-Diet Feeds, Inc., is also under

tion east of the Kerr-McGee installation.

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ERO -COMMANDER'S GEORGIA LANT BEGINS OPERATION

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.\.ero Commander, R. k.well-Standard

Incorporated, Corporation,

a subsidiary decided to

lilt
bu1hi an

o,.0vt1e1-d1)!afanet.

manuf:actun.ng In November,

f'ao'l'ny 1.11 f \.lbany, 1964, ground was

dun 111tor the new plant. lmm edi?tely after the

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beg.an

to

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out

uth and clear the land.

lh e:nt aane arrived last February and bega n as-

'11'1. , the huge 700,000-pound hydro-press; the

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in the p Iant. fe~t into the

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the

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he an erecting them to form the skeleton oi

thr nc,\tr Commander J~la_nt. As t11e mam. b u1'Ic,m. p-

1 w,1 going up, tram111g classes for the plants

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nth pteviously as em bled toolmg and tram111_g buJ!c~

n \tro Commander took advantage of Georg1a s

11,dited Engineering Program (P.E.P.). P.E.P. omluned by the State Department of Vocational

ucation and pre-trains workers in actual job situ-

u n . \\.hen the main building was completed, P.E.P.

h d work. force ready to begin building airplanes.

B' June, products began flowing out of the plant.

In t fiberglass assemblies and wiring harnesses

re hipped to the Bethany, Oklahoma, plant of

ro Commander for use in airplan e production there.

t .\ugu t, the Albany plant's bread-and-butter

1u1 .\ero Commander's model 100 and 200-

n to take hape. By last August, seven model 200's

nd l"i!J a cmblies for other plants had been pro-

duu:d at th 150,000-square-foot facility in Albany.

\\'htne' cr company officials present a model Jet

nmt.lllder lapel pin to a visitor, they caution the

.~ r to "be_ ure the nose of the plane always points p I !11 t _pJf-i ~ the attitude of company perso nnel-

!" " look111g up!

ru Commander built a large plant quickly, had

Ae1ial view of the new Aer-o Commander plant in Albany.
the facility in production in record time and used workers unfamiliar with aircraft production to turn out a quality product.
The "nose up" philosophy continues. Now that plane production has begun, a new 55,000-foot service center is currently under construction. This modern design building will house the sales and optional equipment installation functions of the plant. Special radio and electronic gear, often ordered on many airplanes, will be installed in this center. A special stopover lounge for pilots in making delivery of planes is also included. Both the main building and service center of the Albany plant are connected directly to the municipal airport runways by a taxi strip.
In addition to the 100 and 200 models, Aero Commander also makes the famous Twin Commanders (model 600 and Grand Commander), the turbo-prop Turbo Commander and the afore-mentioned pure jet Jet Commander.
The Company has just acquired the rights to the Snow all-metal, agricultural (crop dusting and spraying) ship. The Snow will be intergrated into the Company's program and alow Aero Commander to offer a full line of planes from the single engine model 100 to the renowned Jet Commander.
The Georgia facility currently employs about 400 people and is scheduled to expand to 1,000 employees by the end of 1966. Some 1,000 airplanes per year are scheduled to eventually roll, or rather fly out of the Albany plant.

tramed Aero CommandeT peTsonnel so that pro-
~on 1 ~ the plane plant begins the moment the "'g 1S completed.

The new plant was built around this giant 700>000pound hydr-o-press.
5

EX PANS I0N(continued from page 4)
In November's issue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, the merger of Cox Broadcasting and Kaiser Industries into Kaiser-Cox Corpor-ation was announced. This consol idation created a company for the production of market community antenna television equipment.
Architecture, engineering and construction of the 34,000-square-foot expansion is contracted to Austin Company of Cleveland. This will give Cox Broadcasting almost 100,000 square feet of working area after remodeling and additions to make White Columns one of the largest broadcasting plants in the United States.
Lithonia Lighting
Expands Again
Lithonia Lighting, Inc., of Conyers is undertaking a major expansion to increase production capacity and also to relieve crowded conditions, according to company president Robert]. Free man . The existing plant has 313,000 square feet .
The fluorescent manufacturing firm released a first half report in November showing sales of $ 16,179,000 during the first two fiscal quarters ending September 30, 1965.
Goodman Plans Million
Dollar Addition
H . Goodman and Sons, manufacturers of ladies' hair care products, has announced a 56,000-square-foot addition to its Manchester plant. The $ 1 million extension, which is scheduled for completion in June, 1966, will provide jobs for approximately I 00 more employees. The firm bega n operations in fanchester in 1964.
Blakely Apparel
Firm Expands
Brew Schneider, Blakely apparel manufacturer, is constructing two new buildings totaling 13,000 square feet to accommodate in creased production activity. The new facilities will be used primarly for storage, releasing space in the compan y's prese nt building for 50 additional machines. -Employment is expected to increase to approximately 300.
Origin ally called Blakely Manufacturing Company, Brew Schneider has been in operation 11 years and took the parent company's name in 1960.
Ely & Walker to Make
Permanent Press
Construction has begun on an addition to the Ely & Walker plant in LaFayette. The manufacturer of men's shirts will use the new space for a "permanent press" process for shirts. No increase in employment was announced by company officials.
6

BUSINESS PROFILE

Economic Returns for

The year 1965 set new records for economic

in Georgia during the present expansion which

in 1961. Employment and income increased to

that set 1965 apart from nhe past couple of

nual employment increased by approximately

~1ew jobs. over the 1964 average. Not only has

mcrease 111 employment absorbed the major

tion of the new entrants into the labor force but

also served to lower the rate of insured employment

recorded for the state. As well, above average iucrea.

in employment have been widespread throughout

state.

Judging by employment reports from the

labor market areas and ~he state, the increase in

ployment has not been completely dominated by

metropolitan areas. While the Atlanta area ha

tinued to increase its proportion of employment nmn- .-

the state, increasing

the other five metropoli their employment, have

talonstarpenaosp, ~oarltuio1~11,11a1J1l1i..

.
.

their collective share of employment within the

Continuing this study of employment trends, we

~hose parts of the state outside the metropolitan

fluence receiving their share of the new

opportunities occurring in the state,

comparison to the five smaller metropolitan

Total personal income has increased eight per

over the past several years. This is due to

Security benefits, increased working hours and

per employee tied to higher employment, h

ket prices for the farmers' production, and a --''"---

increase in personal income.

Construction activity as reported by F. W.

Company continues to be a leading economic indica

in Georgia's economic expansion with annually

justed contract awards averaging $95 million am

On a yearly basis, this indicates contract awards

over one billion dollars ~hrough. November, the

year in a row that this figure has been reached.

The figures available for capital investment in

and expanded manufacturing facilities indicate

Georgia went over $200 million again this year cPrVI,.I

to equal or exceed the experience of 1964 and 1965.

Generally, the thought may be expressed that
gians may look with pride to the economic gro

which took place during 1965.

DAVID D. BAIRD

I & T Economic Research flit11J14111

continued on page

Egg Processing Plant

Completes Expansion

Mountain Cove Farms has completed a new.

square-foot egg grading and packing plant at 1.U

0' Morning Division in Noble. EqUipped w1th

latest automatic machinery to wash, size and

eggs, the plant now has a capacity to process

cases per week. Top 0' Morning

eggs

have

been

mark~ted :. ~

Chattanooga, Tennessee, and north Georg1a ar

15 years and also in chain store outlets in New

Philadelphia and other eastern cities.

P" ~

continued on "&-

PARK CONCEPT
ow It Benefits Georg ia 's
dustrial Growt h

u
l

:_\ 1 thtrelr1e1.

rJf~~tel1onpdmuensttr.i

al It

Park is a new concept in has resulted froi!-1 the fact

are oveedl 3fo0r' 00b0usaiinrecsrsaftpiunrptohseesU. mTtheedseStaatte.rs-

beln u ize (rom the smallest smg1e engm e atr

ft
p

tO11u'leIlIl1ewest 500-mile-per-hour b usm. ess J. et sueh

... Lockheed jet tar.

.. .

.

I'n" t hc wkackoencoe[ pGt einotreggiara'stens sam1rg tmradnuspsotnrataltwgrnowatnhd,

uonatrnJou?aafn1rt1heoepaeanriadrtpiaoernxkcebosyfsft.evmresindfitr.mreet.igczthint~gcccegossrstosu.tonTdthhteeraaln1.asryprooourrtt

by either a private taxi stnp to each locauon, entral apron constru~ted in the center of ~ev

andu trial ite . Execuuves no longer_ waste tnne muting to city airports, and_ plant-~o-atrport_ truck.

t are eliminated by tmmedtate loadmg of

u l from the assembly line to the freight terminal.

oda more and more firms are shipping their fin pr~u ts or components by air freight. Accord

to the FAA, air cargo increased 118% between 1952 196~. For industries shipping via air freight, the

trial airpark offers a distinct advantage in elimi-

ung unnecessary distribution costs.

In choosing a site for an industrial airpark the following conditions should prevail:
The ideal site should consist of a 100 to 1,000acre tract of land under one ownership, if pos sible.
The tract should have a frontage on a major high way with easy access into the park.
The airport should be adjacent, with taxiways to each industrial plant site.
A railroad should be along one border, giving the industrial park three modes of transportationair, rail and highway.
Preliminary plans for an airpark in Columbus have been approved by FAA and final plans call for bids from industries in March or the first part of April.
The Columbus Airpark will have 120 acres for industrial use. Almost adjacent to that is another indus trial site which lays next to the Chattahoochee River.
Preliminary plans for the airpark call for a 4,000foot runway with an administration building and hangar space centrally located on the main strip. Tee hangars will be added as needed, and taxiways wiYl branch out according to plant locations.
The future use of air tr-ansportation by industry and business is appropriately summed up by H. McKinley
Conway, Jr., President of Conway Research, Inc., of
Atlanta- an expert in the planning and design of industrial airparks-"Air transportation will influence future location trends as m-arkedly as residential communities have influenced the location of shopping centers." That's Georgia progress for you!

7:u?.,s~10_wi~g the _proposed Columbus lndust1ial Airpark. Transportation by aiT and highway a1e shown-
) nlzttes are zn the offing to run along the noTthwest bou.ndmy of the Ai1paTk.
7

HISTORIC EVENTS.

Alth ough initial work on the. carving was stan

19 15, on ly rece ntly h as the proJeCt been resumeded

readied for completion. The carving meas ures 190

by 305 feet or a total of 57,950 square feet. The

famous sta tures of R ameses ll, carved by th e Egypt'

more than 3,000 years ago, are o nly 65 fee t high

O ver a relatively short period of time, hum an

ha ve m ad e Stone Mountain into a natural element

educational excitement and entertain me nt. fi r

of modern-day mech a ni zation take you back to an

bellum clays and the Golden Age of tra nsportation

see the Maxwell a t the a ntiqu e car museum or

"Ge nera l" and "Texas" trains of -the Civil War peri

After the excitement of th e wild frontier, the wh'

I

of the Robert E. L ee stea mboa t h era lds the depan of the boat from the Marin a clock as it sa il s acros

beautiful 4 16-acre Stone Nfo untain Lake past the Old

/!

Grist M ill, the Covered Bridge, the Children's F'

ing Po nd and right into the lecherous ha nds of

Pira te Raft a nd a surprise raid by treas ure-hu nti

pirates.

The childre n will be in a wonderland of fan

when they board the sm all er steamship to Mark Tw

Land wh ere they ca n visit Huck Finn's cave and

Sawyer's tree h ouse. The Stone Mountain Game

a nim als are ta med to offer children the unique

tunity of holdin g and cuddling nature's wildli

all the an im als a t the R anch are native to the

of Georgia-includin g the three buffalo who pi

graze in a small fenced pasture.

G.JGANTIC HEA D OF ROBERT E. LEE is being

carved w o r ld's pleted.

Til'lhml~o~asfmitgnwwitaeer-oI<fatoLfeSestrouins!ep90tui\m!fefmel tmmhtatiginihs

w h e re th e being comand 40 fee t

at its widest. His h ead is 12 fe et by 1-f fee t and l?lS left

ann m easures 38 fee t. Th e ovcm /1 carving of th e figures

of L ee, J efferson Da v is and Stonewa ll ] arl<son wi ll

After a full clay of touring the myriad attracti offered at Stone Mountain, campers can enjo family cam pgro und . For those who prefer the grad hospita lity of old Southern Plan ~a ti on life, the Mountain Inn offers ante-bellum a tmosphere in tee nth century surroundings with twe ntieth cen accommodations.

cover an area. larger than an acre of land on th e side

of Stone Mountain.

Stone Mountain Echoes
Events of the Past
Stone iVIounta,in M emorial P a rk, located a few miles eas t of Atla nta, is fast becoming o ne of the outsta nding tourist a ttractions in the U. S. T h e skylift a nd view of the ca rving were rece ntly feat ured in a fullcolor ad vertisem ent by Libbey-Owe ns-Ford Glass Compan y which ap p ea red in several na ti onal magazines.
Th e histor ica l backgrou nd of th e park d a tes back severa l million years ago wh en the forces of nature crea ted the monolith. Another hundred mi llion years we nt by in silen t in cubation before th e ston e became visib le.
\!\lith the completion of th e gia nt carv ing on the sheer north sid e of Stone Mountain, Georgia will boast of h av in g the world 's larges t piece of sculptural art. The comple ted carving will feat u re an entire army on horseback a nd foot carved in the round and following the con tour of the mountain.
8

FROM MEMORIAL HALL AT STONE

T AIN, th e visitor ge ts a p anoramic view o_t. ..t.h.h,rt:u

larges t work of sculpt um l art now betng

the face of hist01ic Stone Moun tam , thew

I

gmnite monolith. In side Memorial H all is one 0

nation's finest Civil War museums.

URIST TOPICS

orgia W elcome Centers

tend Border to Border

. red carpet of hospitality now extends rg1a border. There's a Tourist Welcome Center er~..lOll'l.a3jo0r1eins tGryeom rgt?ia,tshpew.snta~teer. Welcome Center,

~n~. :1cdof inthe196T2a, lmneaadrgeSyl~ve-ma_moa:;iaoln.

U. S. Bridge

17A at is the

nnah 'ration; ColumbhusLfacih~y SIS 0~ u. s .d280

~. Inter tate-85 has t e avoma tatwn; an on

31S j{:'~ggaollddogrtae,etws hmicohto~riilsltsswoohno

enter open,

from Tennesto extend the

hand to Florida ~ounsts.

.

ra\cler in Georgia are greete~ by we!l-tr~med,

ti,c ho tes es who know Georgia from Its h1s~ory

tht he t fi hing spots. They serve free soft d_n~ks

uch corgia products as peanuts and peach JUIC~,

new delicious concentrate made from Georgia

he . 'ome centers feature cotton plants for visitors

" w clo e range. All have comfort facilities, picnic and a broad selection of brochures and maps of

tate. H tc c warm baby bottles, walk dogs, give road

tion and information about the bes-t places to t All, of our e, with a special invitation to stay

Georgia. ch Welcome Center is staffed by a manager, chief

tioni t and receptionist, as well as a custodian maintain the center and its four- to eight-acre

aped area. tgUrc from the Tourist Division, Department of

tr) and Trade, which operates the Welcome Cenlhow the facilities -are effective.

ore than 0,000 persons a month stopped at the ntcr in operation during peak summer months-

rage of 3.44 per car. The visitation report for I ,5 interim period shows an excellent pattern of ptancc of the Georgia Welcome Centers on the

or the travel public. It is quite impressive that Umated total of 491,000 people visited the centers

Augu twas the peak month for traffic with an m te<~ I ,700 persons visiting at all five centers.

oma deem the honorary position of being the traver cd center. There was an estimated 176,000 to1 ~an average of 2.8 per car in 67,344 motor

light! le than half of these were Georgiabound.

light more than half spent at least one night
an .Georgia.

oun t Divi ion Director, Bill Hardman, reports

lt fund averaging $50,000 per center were ap-

tded for four centers-Lavonia Ringgold Vaidn ,lvan1a The s avannah and' Columbus' units
onatcd b local civic clubs.

~W~erlcyom_dee

Centers themselves are primarily of ign, utilizing glass, concrete, Georgia

d: ld marble wherever possible.

ilnrnsth3 e0

r0 Ce_nter
progorragmla. an

will feature d will be t

a he

room most

for showcomplete

arpert three-quarters of a million VISitors at ""n' nheaxtb ear, ., S~I'd Mr. Hardman. "So far,
een ternfic. Columbus did not open

until June and Ringgold until August; yet visitors totaled on e-half million for 1965. We ask our guests to complete a mailback questionn aire card so we can evaluate our service ami hopefull y improve it. They usually say nice things about Georgia and give us valuable suggestions."
The Welcome Center hostesses are prepared for the unexpected. Frequently someone asks for food which they don 't serve. Once a man pulled up, rushed in and said:
" Give me two cheeseburgers and a cup of black coffee to go."
The hostess explained all the W elcome Center had was soft drinks and peanuts- both free. H e thought a moment and replied: "Then I'll take some of that."
Then there was the time when a man carne in the door singing "Show me the way to go home." The hostess did.
'Make Georgia Beautiful Month', A Winning Campaign
The OutdooT AdveTtising Association of GeoTgia is certainly enhancing the beauty of Gemgia with Lee Ann DenrnaTk helping them place 300 "Make Georgia Beautiful" posters throughout the state.
"Make Georgia Beautiful Month" is a two-year-old project initiated by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service and the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade Tourist Division.
Preliminary results of the 1966 campaign point to the most successful campaign thus far. During the first week of "Make Georgia Beautiful Month," 514,000 trees and s-hrubs were ordered for home -and community landscape development. The amazing number of dogwoods, redbuds and nursery shrubs is expected to total 750,000 by the end of January.
In addition to an expanded program of activi-ties, "Make Georgia Beautiful Month" will h-ave a much larger group of supporters and cooperating sponsors. The Georgia Forestry Commission, State Highway Department, Nurserymen's Associa~ion, Garden Club of Georgia, Women's Clubs of Georgia, Associated Industries of Georgia and the State Department of Education youth groups have been represented at statewide meetings in Atlanta. Petroleum Council of Georgia has pledged aid in beautifying their strategically located service stations on Georgia state highways. Also aiding in making Georgia beautiful are various 4-H Clubs and 159 organized counties in Georgia.
9

GEORGIA IN ACTION

GEORGIA'S INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY 1963-1965

NEW MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

I

MANUFACTURING EXPANSIONS

1963-IJEJ 1964-11111111 1965- 11111111

$1~5

179

$14U9

130 125
i
'u NUMBER

i(j;t $10 2.6
$79 .1
I
I
INVESTMENT !millions)

9.3 8.9
d. l
EMPLOYMENT
I thousands)

120
w84; ~~
NUMBER

$105.5
$n
ADDEO INVESTMENT
!millions)

105
M. l ADDEO
E~h~"~~~;r

Georgia Selected W inner of Society
Of Industrial Realtors' Annual Award
For Industrial Development
The State of Georgia has been selected for the 1965 Professional Trophy Award, presented annually by the Sooiety of Industrial Realtors to the state or Canadian province with the most effective industrial development program.
An independent board of judges named Ohio runner-up and voted an honorable mention to the Province of Ontario, it was announced recently by James E. Henson, Newark, New Jersey, society president. All fifty states and ten Canadian provinces are invited to submit entries for the award.
The Professional Trophy was presented to Georgia Governor Carl E. Sanders at a luncheon January 28 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D. C., during tJhe society's 25th anniversary midwinter meeting. Governor Edward T. Breathitt of Kentucky- the 1964 award recipient- made the presentation.
This is the sixth consecutive year the society has presented the award. Previous winners have been North Carolina, Maine, Manitoba, Texas and Kentucky.
The Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, under the direction of Executive Director, James H. Nutter, Jr., conducts the state's industrial development program which experienced noteworthy growth and success during the past year.
The board of judges cited Georgia for the excellence of the new educational and vocational training program established this year called the Personalized Engineering Program. P .E.P., organized with the cooperation of the State Vocational Education Department, will provide industry with a comprehensive range of employee tra-ining personaHy engineered for specific plants.
Another aspect of Georgia's broad program which the judges cited was that I &T, with per capita expenditures for industrial and tourist development among the lowest in the country, has spearheaded the creation of some 19,000 new jobs in the state with capital investment of about $2 20 million for 1965.
In next month's issue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, a supplement of the actual report presented to S.I.R. wil'l be published.
10

Georgia Leads South and Ra nks lOth National ly in Military

Contract A wards

Business goods a nd

firms in Georgia in fiscal year services to the United States G

Jg 65

for military purposes va lu ed at $662,4 17,000 to

~ II Southern sta tes and place tenth national) ,

mg to vhe Atlanta Field Office of the U.S. De\

of Commerce.

P

This re a_nd 56 %

porve~sren1t9s63a

gwahienn o$f 5227~~0moilvlieorn fiascnadl

y~~~

hon, respec tively, were spen t 111 bhe state by the

era! Government for defense purposes.

Georgia's sh ar~ of the national total of 26.6

spen t was 2.8 % 111 1965 compared with 2. 1 in

an d 1.7 % in 1963.

0

EXPANSION (continued from page 6 )
L&N 's High-Speed Flyer
To Serve Southeast
The ~ouisville &_I-:Jashville Railroad is adding second hi gh-speed Dixie Flyer Piggyback train to the South and Southeast.
The new Flye r train will operate via the R ailroad between Chicago and Evansville, twee n Evansville and Atlanta, and the At lantic Lin e R ailroad between Atlanta and Jacksonville.
The new schedule will be comparable to that the original Dixie Flyer Piggyback inaugurated two years ago and will give shippers the ame day or night schedule.
William L. Bonnell Campa
Sold to Ethy I
Controlling common stock interest in the William Bonnell Company of Newnan has bee n acquired the Eth yl Corporation as p art of the latter' and divers ifica tion program. ~I a nufac turing of the Ethyl Corporation, which a l o operate a in LaGra nge, include petroleum chemical, and paper produ cts. The latest acquisition give entry into the a luminum t:abri ca tion field. Bonnell ploys about 1,200 peopl e and had a ale volume over $28 million last year. It will co ntinue to operated as a sepa rate compan y.
Henson Doubling
Lawrenceville Plan t
The Charles ' "' H enson M-anufacturing vV''"r'-"' makers of work clothes and leisure slacks for boys, is doubling the size of its Lawrenc~vil The company, which is headquartered. Ill completed a new building in Lawrenceville onl year.

ERNATIO NAL SERVICE
East T rade Mission ts Wi t h Success

American products needed by Far Eastern countries. The Far Easterners displ ayed definite good taste and a swee t tooth for American chocolate an d peanut brittle.
Individual members scored personal success in acquiring business agreements: Dr. Lieu in the fi eld of chemica l qistribution ; Mr. Knox in prefabrication; Mr. l\IcKelvey with a process of making plastic shoes ; and Mr. Dudley with new types of plants and new ideas for growing things.
Anuga Exhibit Promotes Georgia
Products Internationally

I

Trade Mission's first stop was

n, D. C.,

the U. . Department of Commerce briefed them

llle manners and mores of the Far East.. Standing 1 to right) are jim Hall, I & T Industr~al .Repre

twe 1111 d Ben Canmchael, R esearch Dwtszon Dt of 1 T. Seated are (left to right) Ralph A.

ley; Peter . Knox, Chatrman of the I & T Board

Commis ioners; john T. Conner, U. S. Secretary of

merce; Dr. Fred W. Lieu, and W. R. McKelvy.

third trade mission from the State of Georgia

in Tokyo to the acclaim of the Far Eastern

media. The japan Times welcomed the group travelers headed by Virginia Allgood, Director International Service. This public recogniulled in many supplemental bids from Far

manufacturers. e group of Foreign Business Administrators met uhington, D. C., preceding the trip to attend a
conducted by the U. S. Department of Com The eminar consisted of briefings discussing
nt information dealing with the economy, exlations and procedures and etiquette of the
ual countries visited.

. iately after the mission's first stop in Tokyo, lll!'era~y took them to Osaka to meet trade rep-
ll e m the industrial center of Japan. Their

then led to Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore n. back to the States via Honolulu.

Dla. Allgood led the task force as the only

. nu ary. he brought with her five licensing

joint _venture proposals, six purchasing proposals,
ran~ of ervices, and 28 sales proposals. She ~ored by being the only Westerner to see

I!IIIC8iinIttree~me

nev_er bef_ore tromc devices.

exported such Mrs. Allgood

as fiber artifared well in

er goal of "obtaining two-way trade." As

Japane e newspapermen in Singapore, "You nd we help you."

.-,...,-ttowaoanlfder

thuechpu_rImpopsoertsofas

the mission food stuffs,

to the Far a deboning

ucbhiogtetrh~apnpoghritceqauari.stpsmgeei.qfntut,iI.ptpememaesnnut tasan,ndodihl,ainmndeiracelrtauafrntnsd' Ptt~n ng root, rotary gear pumps, food items,

and poultry were high on the list of

At the Anuga Food Exhibit in Germany, all hands across th e table - served with Southern fried chicken of course. Fraulein K eucher offers Swiss visitors Georgia poultry.
Georgia's best known food products were exhibited to over 200,000 visitors at the third Anuga ln ternational Food Fair at Cologne, Germany.
The Anuga show is the largest food show in the world, with visitors gathering from the food trade centers all over the world. The Georgia exhibit was the larges t display of American food products ever seen a t Anuga. R eports are th a t sales were active during the promotion ; and as a result of the show, shipments to the port of Rotterdam were heavy during the month of November.
The exhibit was sponsored by Stone & Company of Savannah, one of the major food exporters in the Southeast. Georgia firms whose products were featured at the exhibit included the Trade Winds Company of Savannah; Castleberry's Foods Company of Augusta; South Georgia Peca n Shellers of Valdosta, and Gold Kist Poultry Growers of Canton.
According to Richard L. Grosse, Director of the Export Division of Stone & Company, "Participation in a foreign trade program has resulted in our company attracting distributors an d customers in 46 coun tries overseas. Business in Europe became so promising that we established our own office in Du esse ldorf last year. The proof is in the putting of foreign trade in Georgia business, large or small."
11

HERE AND THERE
Hercules Flown on 25,000 Mile African Tour

~eorgia _Area Planning and Development

swn, estima tes that northeast Georgia co ld

$tw.36n.7 amndillipornocaenssn.muagllpyobteynrte1.aaIc.hiTnghiists dtoimesbuer the secondary value of timber in such 11

structural components, furniture parts toys

elties.

' and

The Lockheed-Hercules will participate in an ex-

periment to prove the commercial feasibility of transporting copper by air to the East African coasL

NEW IN 0USTRY (continued

The new commercial airfreighter recently flew on a 25,000-mile demonstration tour of eight African

Look Products Open for

nations to such countries as Angola, Zambia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, Nigeria, Tanzan~a and Mozambique.

-----

This tour demonstrated the heavy commercial cargo-

carrying capabilinies of the prop-jet air cargo transport,

and was sponsored by Zambian copper companies and

Lockheed. The companies have been giving close con-

sideration to the practical and economical possibilities

of air transport. Such outstanding characteristics as

its capability of transporting 20,000 tons per year; its

use as a rugged and dependable cargo aircraft; its specialized loading equipment providing ease and

Look Products, In c., of Millen officially opened

speed of on-load and off~load handling; and its short

doors for busine_ss. this month. The $400,000 plant

take-off and landing capabilities make the Hercules

m_anufacture shchn_g gl a~s doors, sliding anrru--

especially suitable for remote or limited facility areas.

wmclows and awmng wmdows. Initial

I I

will be 130 with a payroll of h alf a million

Most of the employees are recruitment from

BUSINESS PROFILE

Millen area with some fifteen key personnel rin g from th e home division of Rusco Inc!

(continued from page 6)

of Bedford Heights, Ohio. Look Products will vicing Georgia and the eastern part of the

Polaris Proposes Merger With Netco States.

A proposed merger would unite Polaris Corporation of Milwaukee and Netco Corporation of Augusta.]. B. Fuqua, Netco board chairman, announced that agreement involves exchange of Netco convertible preferred stock for Polaris common stock. Headquarters of the Milwaukee firm wriU be moved to Augusta if the proposed merger is approved. Polaris is a publicly owned company with $44 million in assets and 3,000 stockholders. Included are three television stations and four radio stations, interest in leasing, warehousing and real estate. Netco has about 2,200 stockholders and manufactures construction products in ten plants in the United States and Canada.
New Industria I Pork for Jesup
An industrial park site valued at $66,264.56 was purchased by the Wayne County Industrial Development Authority which hopes to develop 331 acres into a manufacturing complex.
The area is quickly being developed with MidSouth Frozen Foods, Inc., purchasing the first tract for construction of a p lant to employ some 600 to 800 people. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad will construct a spur track between the park and the main line. Access highways and a bypass connecting the park with U . S. Highways 82 and 301 are also in the planning stages.
Potential Economic Return
There's food for thought in the theory that there's gold for Georgia in the .rimber potential of our s.rate. "What Can Be Done," distributed by the Northeast

Americus Scores With
Three New Plants
Three new manufacturers-all suppliers to the bile homes industry-have located in Americu. Manufacturing Company will produce electrical tures a nd related items for mobile home . B Indu stries will make mobile hom e frame which will used in assembly by Mobile Home Products Co1npl. .
Each of the companies will be housed in square-foot buildings. Estimated total inuP<rrnPnl the plants is $225,000 with initial em ing 135; 75 at Excel, 25 at Mobile and 35 at B & L.
Americus is a n important center of mobile_ production and approximately 1,300 people ~ area are employed, directly or indirectly, by th dustry.
West Point Plant
Resumes Production
Troup Indu stries, closed ~ince June 30 of lasfl has resumed production following agr~emen t 0 month contract with Falcon International. officials say employment is to reach 85 b Workers will. be making men's and boy ' parka and a second con tract for madras-type jackets pected.

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Pelham to Erect Building
For Prospective Industries
Pelham Development Corporation and the Industrial Committee of the Pelham Chamber of Commerce have completed plans to erect a building to attract new industry to their area.
The shell construction will contain 42,000 square feet of floor space and will be designed to give the tenant the prerogative of deciding the final layout of the building.
Pelham businessmen have shown 100% support of this project and total investment by participating firms or individuals is expected to total $25,000.
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Expansion
1 ng the lines of advancing aviation, Lockh ~ed1a will 1110ve the1r J e tStar progra m June 1 mto
ulumillion-clollar production building tha t will 11"1.000 quare feet. Th a t's a building big enough
1, rh~ .\tlanta Falcon s a playing area the size of football fields. h~~d Georgia space requirem ents for the C5-A thtl proorams necessitated the 1.7 million exn of the J et tar division . Th e J etStar was the
produced by Lockheed in the company's B-1 buildth l.uge t airplane manufacturing pla nt in the ld homed under one roof. More than 80 J etStars, admg military Cl 40 versions, have been sold to
11 ial firms, governments and heads of state m nation and in such international m arkets as
the Middle East and the Far East.

CING AVIATION (con tinued)

model program will be a coordinated project n the tate of Georgia, the I & T Aviation
on <md the FAA's Regional Office in Atlanta. tud,_ to b presented to FAA will involve inter-
bon _hp' between general aviation, local service m JOr c~rrier airports. 1t will also involve the
Plannmg and Development Commissions hour the state.

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Sp ea k ers at th e opening of Cavalier Hom es we1e (left to 1ight), stand ing, R obe1t Fmnks, Plant M1;nager.
Seat ed are ]ames H. Nuttn, Jr., Exewtive Director of
I & T , and Paul Zimmer, P1esident of P1incess Ho mes w hich is th e pa1ent company of Ca va lie1 Hom es.
State Officials Attend
Cavalier Homes Dedication
The new Cavalier Homes plant at Cordele was formally opened Saturday, November 20. Following dedication ceremonies, the public was invited on a tour of assembly facilities . Cavalier, which is headquartered in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, looated in Cordele last summer. The company expects an average employment of 100.
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NEW INDUSTRY (con tinued from page 12)
$25 M illion Boost to Economy
The Economic Development Act of 1965 has allotted $6 million to Liberty County for construction by
T. J. K. Corporation of New York of a $25 million
paper mill. The new plant will crea te some 500 new jobs in the Savannah and Riceboro area where the plant will be loca ted . An addition al 1,000 persons will be affected by the new paper mill-including those involved wi th the timber h arvesting opera tion s. The plant expec ts to produce 600 tons of unbleach ed linerboard da il y with initial prod uction to be 400 tons daily.
New Mobile Home Complex
To Locate in Douglas
Fleetwood Trailer Company of Georgia, Inc., a subsidiary of Flee twood Enterprises, Inc., announced plans for an additional mobile home manufacturing complex in Douglas. The new plant will be Fleetwood's largest and most modern facility. The building will be constructed on a 10-acre tract and production and office buildings wi ll account for more than 70,000 square feet of the land allocation . Production of the Fleetwood plant in Riverside, California, will be transferred to the Douglas plant. Spokesmen for Fleetwood Enterprises attributed the expansion in Georgia to the increasing demand for mobile homes throughout the nation plus the need for expanded, more modern production facilities.
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Goodman and Sons of
Manchester Plan
J obs for some 100 persons are expected with ,~.._
p letion of a 56,000-square-foot addition t "'C
Goodm an a nd Sons ma nufacturing plant in ter. The $1 million addition will provide for. receiving, storing and shipping raw ma fimshed good.s. Funds for co n ~ tru cti on will be through Menwether County mdustrial bonds.
Bradley Industria l Park
Thr iving
Bradley Industrial Par k is reaping the Prrlnn-:ward of good indu strial park planning. Located of Columbus, Bradley already has one new and exp anded facilitie.s for two ex isti ng inn......... Part of the park plan IS the new 1 million of Columbus Iron vVorks, In c.-the larges t of i ever buit in the U . S. Continental Can Compan a new $300,000 flexible p ackaging plan t located Pascoe Steel Corporation plant. Pascoe Steel i ing by adding some $ 130,000 worth of new a'-'"'1.111:1.
Mead of Macon to Expand
Mead Corporation will exp and its new plant Macon's Airport Industri al P ark by 30,000 square for increased manufacturing space. The original ing was completed last July with an eye toward growth. The new expansion is expected to employment by 150% and cost approximately 000. The Mead plant in Macon cu ts and rewinds paper for production of paperboard containen in the packaging industry. A major factor Mead's expansion is their central accessibi plant's main source of supply, the Mt!aa-anllll Georgia Kraft Company mill also located in Macoa.

Fitzgerald Mi lis Progress ing
Toward $Y2 Million Expansion
Fitzgerald J\!fills modernized and expanded their plant las t year a t a cos t of $350,000. Construction work for 1966 is schedu led to begin soo n on a large addinion to the mil.J and other improvements representing a capital inves tm ent of some $ 150,000. The addition will include an 80' x 80' weaving room which will hou se a ll th e plant's looms. These improvements will mean the addition of a number of employees with a markedly increased payroll.
General Motors Adding
To Doravi lie Plant
General Motors Corporation is adding 44,55 0 square feet to its GM Assembly Division p lant as part of their exp ansion program an noun ced in 1964. When current construction is co mpl eted, the facility will have a total of I ,806,500 squ are fee t.
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NEW CONTRACT

New $1 Million Contract

For Ashburn Plant

J aco Pants, Inc., at Ashburn has been awa~ed
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ORGIA PROGRES
LED BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE Volume 2, No. 2
1960-. 'ORTH CAROLINA-u.rmER H.H<XX7FSGOV. 1961- MAINE- JOHN H REED- GOV. 1962- MANITOBA HON. G. EVANS-MlNISTER 1963-TE.tXAS- JOHN B CONNALLY -GOV. 1964- KENTUCKY EDWARD T BREATHITT-GOV. 1965-GEORGIACARL E SANDERS -GOV.
A-TOP INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STATE
also featured this month
BILE HOMES INDUSTRY BOOMS IN GEORGIA

CONTENTS
DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
New and Expanding Industry_________________________________ _____________4, 13, 14, 16
FEATURES Georgia- Top Industrial Development State_____________ _______________________ 5 Mobile Homes Industry Booms in Georgia________________________________________ 7 Rome Gets $50 Million Stimulant From G.E.____________________________________ 9
BUSINESS PROFILES Georgia's Economy Well Diversified____________________________________________________ 6
AVIATION ADVANCES Blanche Noyes: Ace Female Pilot__________________________________________________________ 8
TOURIST TOPICS Fran Tarkenton Promoting Georgia________________ ____________________________________ 10
INTERNATIONAL SERVICES Georgia Pecans Go InternationaL________________________________________________________ 11
HERE AND THERE --------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- 12, 15 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
S.I.R. Presentation Brochure_------------------ ----------------------------------------- 17-22
Rosser Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor Dona Ademy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Managing Editor Bob Alford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art Consultant Sarah Conner -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Con tri bu ti ng Editor GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
Cover: Pictured on this month's cover is the Society of Industrial Realtors Professional Trophy Award presented to Georgia as the outstanding industrial development state in the U. S. and Canada. The February and March editions of GEORGIA PROGRESS have been combined so an expanded issue containing the special S.I.R. supplement could be published. GEORGIA PROGRESS resumes monthly publication with the April issue.

GEORGIA PROGRESS

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S. I.R. Award: Million Dollar Promotion for Georgia
2S'"' ANNIV
HANDS ACROSS THE T ABLE as Southern neighbO?s shake on sharing the wealth of the S.I.R. award. Katherine Peden, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Commerce and last year's winner of the award, congratulates Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. Senator Herman Talmadge, seated in the center, was one of the many dignitaries who attended the luncheon .

clue to last-minute business in the Kentucky legislature. Kent_ucky w~s the winner of the award last year. The prevwus wmners have been North Carolina, Maine, Manitoba, Canada, Texas and Kentucky.
The award was conceived and donated by Clinton B. Snyder, S.l.R.'s 1959 President. Serving on this year's Board of Judges were Robert E. Boley, Washington, D. ~ - , Director of Industrial Program, Urban Land Institute; H. M. Conway, Jr., Atlanta, Publisher, Conway Publications; Richard Preston, Boston, Executive Director, American Industrial Development Council; Howard Norworth, Cleveland, Publisher, Industrial Property Guide, and Clinton B. Snyder of Hoboken, N. ]., Past President of S.I.R. and founder of the award.
Th~ award is made on the basis of a presentation compiled by all state and provincial industrial development ~epartments interested in the project. The presentatiOn is developed around a rigid set of qualifications and standards set down by S.I.R.
The competition for the highly coveted award grows more intense each year. This year Ohio was the runner-up and the Province of Ontario was voted an ~onorable Mention. Kentucky received a special citatiOn for the continuing industrial development program in that state.
We in the Department of Industry and Trade look upon the S.I.R. Award as recognition for the fine cooperative effort shown by all industrial development groups in the State. The united effort made by the
continued on page 5

We in the Department of Industry and Trade are ex tremely proud that Georgia was ch osen for the Professional Troph y Award of the Society of Industrial R ealtors. The Trophy has been awarded for six consecutive years, and each year the award gains more prestige. The presentation came on the 25 th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Ind ustrial Realtors. This outstanding group of men from all over the United States and Canada was organ ized in 1941 a~d _the firs t president was Mr. Walter Schmitt of Cmcm nati. S.I.R. h as con tinued to grow and curren tly has 1,035 members with Mr. William B. West of Cleveland serving as president.
T he award itself was presented to Governor Carl panders at a luncheon in Wash ington. Miss Katherine
eden, Kentucky Commissioner of Commerce, made the presentation in the absence of Governor Edward Breathitt. Governor Breathitt could not be present

Mr. j ames H . Nutter, ]r., Director of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, accepts the 1966 S.I.R. award from Katherine Peden of Kentucky as Governor Sanders pmudly stands by.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

0DALTON

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MARIEITA DULUTH

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EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional school age children 97 more motor vehicles 165 more persons working in trades
servicing the main industry $229,0<Xl in additional bank deposits $710,0<Xl in additional personal incomes
Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. . . .

*DOUGLAS
0 THOMASVILLE
EXPANSION
Cabins Crafts Acquires
Additional Dalton Property
The American Thread M.ill property in Dalton a 60-acre site with 250,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehousing units- has been acquired by Cabin Crafts, Inc. Cabin Crafts will use the addition al space for expansion of its Redfield Company. Production is scheduled to begin in late spring, and will be an outgrowth of the company's automotive carpet division. Company officials expect R edfield's employment, now at 350, to increase by 100 within the next 12 to 18 months.
Augusta Candy Maker
Plans Expansion
Fine Products Company, the Augusta candy and confectionery maker, has applied for a $500,000 building permit to cover the construction of a four-story addition to its present facility . The company will add approximately 26,000 square feet to the building and the additional space will be used for refrigerated storage, additional manufacturing and regular storage space. The addition will add approximately 40 new employees to the company's payroll. According to company officers, the addi tion to the existing buildings will provide for expansion of the Hollingsworth and Nunnally's candy lines. The expansion will double the company's production capacity within five years. The new wing will give the company approximately one-third more refrigerated storage space.
continued on page 13
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NEW INDUSTRY
Duluth Plant to Employ 250
The J. J. Finnigan Company of Atlanta is construct-
ing a plant to manufacture and repair railroad cars. The building is located on a 30-acre tract off Highway 23 south of Duluth on the main line of the Southern Railway. Company officials expect to employ 75 people initially and eventually reach an employment level of 250 within a 12 to 15-month period. The first unit, containing 10,000 square feet, houses an overhead crane and railroad tracks. A second 15, 000-square-foot building is in the planning stages. The Finnigan Company began operating in 1888 and re activated its railroad equipment repair services in 1962. The company's line of pressure vessels and steel plate fabrication will continue production at Atlanta.
New Industrial Park Planned
A Chicago corporation has purchased a 440-acre tract in Douglas County for the development of an industrial park. The Corinthian Corporation of Chicago paid approximately $500,000 for the tract of property near the Chattahoochee River. The tract also has frontage on Campbellton Road. According to D. Wendell Fentress, president of Corinthian, "With the opening of Interstate 20 West, Douglas County will boom industrially." Mr. Fentress added, "Also important is the nearness of the site to down town Atlanta; only twelve to fifteen minutes from the central business district." Some of the principals in the Corinthian Corporation are also officials of the Achilles Corporation, another Chicago based firm that purchased a 428-acre site in Douglas County last October. William C. Bartholomay, board chairman of the Atlanta Braves, and Thomas R eynolds, an attorney and Braves executive, are associated with the Achilles group. Some 3,500 apartment units and a 60-acre shopping center with a total value of $30 to $40 million are planned for the Achilles development.
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GEORGIA-TOP INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT STATE
IN THE NATION
Georgia is many things to many people. Georgians take exceptional pride in the wealth and growth found in their State. There is a good reason for this pride.
How has Georgia built itself into a leader of the new South? By concentrating on building an industrial, cultural, transportation, communications and di tribution center where employment and entrepreneurship flourish.
For these reasons, the Department of Industry and Trade saw Georgia as a potential winner of the 1965 ociety of Industrial Realtors Award- a symbol of the uccess of Georgia's endeavors. The winning of thi award wri ll mean millions of dollars for the State in industrial expansion and new industry. It is a free promotional-announcement to all states that Georgia has the most to offer in a state development program that aids industries in finding the proper plant sites, available manpower, transportation facilities for distribution and a ready market for the manufactured goods.
There were many outstanding features of Georgia's industrial development program that made Georgia winner of the S.I.R. Award.
The board of judges cited Georgia for the excellence of the new educational and vocational training program established this year called the Personalized Engineering Program. P.E.P., organized with the cooperation of the State Vocational Education Department, provides industry with a comprehensive range of employee training personally engineered for specific plants.
The Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, with per capita expenditures for industrial and tourist development among the lowest in the country, has helped spearhead the creation of 22,400 new manufact uring jobs in the State with capital investment of about 245 million during 1965. These figures compare to $207 million worth of new and expanded mdustries and some 14,000 new jobs for the entire year of 1964.
.In the first nine months of this year, 145 new industnal firms located in Georgia. The Department's Industry Division has expanded in the past eighteen months from one full-time industrial representative to five.
Other aspects of Georgia's broad program, which the board of judges cited, include:
An extensive airport development program which planned for 49 commun ity airports to be built or Improved this year or next.

Establishment of a program to prepare uniform "Economic Profiles" of large and small communities throughout the State.
The State's leading role in regional planning. There are seventeen Area Planning and Development Commissions in Georgia to coordinate regional planning.
Preparation of labor surveys, preliminary feasibility and market surveys as well as an "Industrial Development Study" to help attract new industry which can assist in supplying r:he needs of existing companies.
Sponsorship of three foreign trade missions during the year.
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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE: continued from page 3
Georgia industrial developers has resulted in the creation of some 14,446 new jobs and a building and construction program in all fields that topped one billion dollars for the third year in a row.
The Department of Industry and Trade has been growing also. Eighteen months ago, we had one fulltime industrial development representative on our staff; today, there are ftve. The total emp loyment of the Department has grown from 75 in 1964, to a present staff of 121 people. Many of our new employees have been added to staff the 'Velcome Centers that are now located border to border on Georgia's main highways.
The I & T Department will not rest on its laurels now that it has captured the top industrial development award in the nation. We will endeavor to make Georgia the pacesetter in industrial growth and expansion in the new South.
The actual S.I.R. award booklet presented to the board of judges is included as a supplement to this month's GEORGIA PROGRESS.
JAMES H . NUTTER, JR.

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The diTectoTs of the thTee oTganizations c1ted faT

economic development by the Society of IndustTial

R ea lton look oveT the Pmfessional TTophy. Fmm left

to right they aTe Stanley ]. Randall, Minister, Ontario

Department of Economics, Honorable Mention; Fred

P. Neuenschwander, Director, Ohio Economic Devel-

opment DepaTtment, Runner-up; and james H. Nut-

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BUSINESS PROFILES
Investment Figures Show
'Well-Diversified' Economy
Investments in new and expanded manufacturing operations during 1965 indicate the growth of a welldiversified State economy. Although the chemical and paper and pulp indtistries were again important investors in Georgia's future, there was an unexpected rallying of a previously dormant industry. Georgia textile firms demonstrated their strength by investing significant funds into new and expanded facilities throughout the State.
A striking factor concerning capital expenditures by manufacturing in 1965 is the widespread sharing of the increased State total. Previously, the high capital industries - chemical and pulp and papers - were proportionately highest on the list of investment expenditures. Although the textile industry again ranks among the leaders in capital investment, their significance in the overall State total of investment for 1965 has decreased as a result of expansionary investment by smaller, but equally important manufacturing industries.
The furniture, apparel, transportation, and metal fabrication industries all contributed increasingly in larger State total capital investments. All other manufacturing industries either increased or maintained their general rate of investment, allowing for larger individual investments to upset past trends.
The generality of the expansionary forces at work within Georgia's economy is causing the large increase in the number of establishments which were new or expanded during 1965. Whereas the number of establishments reflecting c-apital expenditures in new production facilities was approximately 200 in 1964, this total rose above the 300 figure in 1965. Textiles, apparel, and fabricated metals composed the bulk of this increase of affected establishments. Thinking along another vein, although the number of new manufacturers increased over 1964, the most important increase was in expanding facilities in both establishments and capital investment.
The benefit of this increased rate of capital expenditure is beginning to show in the level of employment. Recently revised figures released by the State Department of Labor show that the annual average of nonmanufacturing employment during 1965 was 1,250,300, indicating an increase of 63,600 new employment opportunities. Manufacturing contributed 22,400 new jobs of the total Georgia employment record of 400,300 for 1965.
The most important aspect of the growth of manufacturing in 1965 was the widespread sharing of this growth by all manufacturing categories, through investment and employment. In keeping with the upward swing, the factors which brought about this growth in 1965 are still present in 1966, indicating continued increases in both investment and employment again this year.
DAVID BAIRD
I & T Research Division
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Arrow Knitting Mills Sold
l. B. Kleinert Rubber Company of New York has announuced the purchase of the Arrow Knitting Mills Inc., and its subsidiary, Pembroke Manufacturing Company, Inc., at Pembroke. Pembroke manufactures and sells boys', children's and men's underwear and children's and boys' polo shirts. Kleinert will operate Arrow and Pembroke as wholly-owned subsidiaries with an expansion of the present line.
Kleinert is now operating its College Point, Long Island, factory at fu ll capacity manufacturing infants' and notion items, girdles, swim caps, resort bags, and shower curtains. Kleinert also has manufacturing facilities in Toronto, Canada; London, England; a warehouse in California; and sales offices throughout the world.
Mr. Herman Kiel, manager of Pembroke Manufacturing, will remain under contract to Kleinert.
Gainesville Gets Mobile
Home Manufacturer
Vintage Homes, Incorporated, will build a 50,000square-foot mobile home plant in Gainesville. When the new plant is completed, Vintage will produce 10 homes per day and employ 100 persons by the end of the first fiscal year. The firm is now operating in rented quarters and is building about one home per day.
Allied Products Purchases
Alabaster Lime Firm
An undisclosed price was paid by Allied Products Company for Alabaster Lime Company, Inc., an Alabama firm. Allied, with headquarters in Atlanta, plans an immediate, modern expansion program which will provide Allied with more diversification for continued service to the Southeast. Allied owns and operates twelve concrete pipe and prestressed concrete plants in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.
Pure Oil Pours More
Money Into Georgia
Atlanta and north Georgia will get the largest share of the $8 million capital improvement program to be initiated by Pure Oil Company this year. The program is designated for its four-s tate Southeast market ing division. This includes the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina and most of Florida. Another Pure Oil program will be an additional advertising and merchandising campaign for 1966 - the largest in the company's history.
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MOBILE HOMES
Georgia-Mob ile Homes
Manufacturing Cen te r
Of the Southeast
T he old days of trailer homes and trailer parks are traveling ou t of the picture of the modern-day mobile home industry. Today, the mobile home is a "manian on wheels." This new image in luxury living is co ntributing to the large eco nomic gains made in the Sta te of Georgia.
T he mobile home manufacturing center of the outheast is now finding its way into Georgia after first centeri ng its operation in Florida. Georgia was hosen as the new Southeastern base because its central location provides shorter hauls to the surrounding Southeastern states of Alabama, Tennessee, North and South Carolina.
Georgia, in a relatively short period of time, has risen to ra nk third in the produc tion of mobile homes. Indiana is the top producer of mobile homes and Ca lifornia is second with a production rate only slightly greater than Georgia's.
Mobile home building was estimated to be a billiondoll ar industry in 1964; now it is estimated to be a two- billion-dollar business with some 37 manufacturing fir ms in the Sta te. This two-billion-dollar figure represe nts su pplier's products, service, financing and insurance figures. While providing a sales outlet for ma ny establ ish ed ind ustries, the mobile home field has brought to Georgia several unique manufacturing opera ti ons catering only to the manufacturer of mobile homes a nd recrea tional vehicles. Among these are door and window manufacturers, steel and aluminum roof-
GEORGIA STATE PARKS
COMPARATIVE ATTENDANCE

ing, undercarriage, frame coatings, couplings and hitchings.
Georgia has a bright future ahead in the manufacture of mobile homes. Expansions reHeat the creation of a number of satellite suppliers who will manufacture products never before used in mobile homes. These products will include: complete air conditioning, providing heating and cooling through one unit (an economical and effec tive application of the heat pump principle) ; complete plastic plumbing systems providing supply as well as drainage; and a practical sandwich construction panel providing both support and insulation. These innovations represent new industry and economic gain for Georgia.
Another facet of this dynamically progressive industry is the new, modern vacation mobile home park. Travel trailers, along with other recreational vehicles, have grown in popularity by leaps and bounds in the last few years. This is evident from the included chart indicating that state parks have shown increased receipts clue to more mobile home parking faci lities and an increase of money being spent within the State. R ecrea tion vehicles such as travel trailers, truckmount campers and tent campers produced in Georgia in 1964 amounted to 14,7 00 units.

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A TTENDANCE AND RECEIPTS are still on the upswing in Georgia's State Parks. The above chart exemplifies this growth in 1964 and 1965. The phenomenal increase in receipts from tent and trailer sites is ~tte, .in large part, to the increased number of camptng st tes made available to the public. The increase in recetp ts from cabin and mobile home 1entals is due Prim~ri ly to the tremen dous increase in Georgia's mob!le home industry and use of mobile homes.

The Fleetwood T railer Company of Douglas exhibits two of their mobile home mode ls fresh off the assembly line. Fleetwood, a subsidimy of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc ., has recently announced plans for an additional mobile home manufacturing complex in Douglas. Spokesman for Fleetwood attributed the expansion in Georgia to the increasing demand for mobile homes throughout the nation.
Mobile Home Market
The mobile home market has become the haven for newlyweds and the retired couple, as well as men in the armed services and people engaged in the construction business. The mobile home industry provided approximately 25 per cent of all the new homes sold during the year 1964 and possibly during 1965, although these 1965 figures are not yet available. An anticipated growth of 10% is expected for the next five years and perhaps higher with the growing pbpularity of the expensive models.
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AVIAll ON ADVANCES
NITs. Blan che Noyes, the D ean of Women Pilots, prepares for take-off in her task of smveying air nw1ken ronstructed for various Ge01gia communities.
Blanche Noyes: Aviation's Ace Pilot of the Female Set
She flies through the air with the daring and dexterity of an ace pilot. The one time she lost her balance was to force-land her burning plane on a mesquite desert, dousing the fire with .sand and then finishing the flight with damaged landmg gear.
This adventurous woman is Blanche Noyes, the Dean of Women Pilots, who has a flying record and award collection equally as outstanding as her many exciting experiences. Mrs. Noyes has more flying experience than many ooher women in av<iation, and few men pilots can equa l her in flying hours. She is the on ly woman federal executive whose position demands rhe flying of government aircraft as an integral part of being in ch arge of all community air marking throughout the United States and its territories.
Mrs. Noyes has saved many lives by expertly devising proper locations for air marking cities and towns as safety warnings and identification for pilots. Among her many accomplishments is the writing of the Air Marking Guide and Air Marking Bulletin No. 12.
Mrs. Noyes began her public life as a dramatic leading lady in the theatre and motion pictures. She switched roles upon marrying an airmail pilot, Dewey L. Noyes. Her husband taught her to fly in 1928 and since then, she has become the starring lady in the field of airfligh t, winn ing some 23 awards for her outstanding aviation accomplishments. The FAA has awarded her twice with their "Federal Woman's Award." In 1956, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks awarded a gold medal to her for exceptional service and outstanding contribution to public service. Mrs. Noyes is the first woman to have received this award. In 1964, she was named "Woman of the Year in Aviation" by the Woman's Aeronautical Association, and in 195 3, when aviation pioneers assembled from throughout the world to be honored in Washington, D. C., Mrs. Noyes was the only active woman pilot to be included in a roster of such great men as General James Doolittle, Admiral Rich ard E. Byrd and Willie Messerschmidt.
Active participation in some 13 aviation associations, setting speed records in Hying competition,
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acting as demonstration pilot for av1atwn, and ful. filling guest speaker commitments comprises the busy schedule of Mrs. Noyes, an outstanding woman of our time.
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Flying Executive Doubles

Profits of His Home-Grown

Georgia Industry

Georgia businessmen are actively promoting and

profiting as Hying executives, transacting their business

via their private airplanes and company airstrips.

John Bennett, Director of I & T's Aviation Division,

recently received an interesting letter from one of our

readers; ]. Glenn Fisher, Manager of the Fisher Divi-

sion, National Vulcanized Fibre Co., at Hartwell. Tes-

tifying to the economic benefits of commercial avia-

tion and the dire need for individual or collective

county airports to attract expanding or new industry,

Mr. Fisher sta ted, "I found that the use of an airplane

working out of my back-

yard airstrip, the Fisher

Farm Airport, has enabled

me to double my business

in the past five years. It has

increased my payroll from

25 employees to approxi-

mately 90 people at the

present time. This was due

primarily to the fact that

I had to se)l a product that

moved in a competitive and

saturated market. I was

able to meet with our sales

engineers throughout the

Southeast, the New England territory, Canada, Mexico and Texas territory with the Cessna Skylane that I now oper-ate."
He went on to say that the following companies in

]. Glenn Fisher, manager of Fisher Division, NVF, is one of many Georgia businessmen who have joined the ranks of "flying executives."

his area use airplanes for executive travel: Monroe

Auto Equipment Company, the Deering-Milliken Cor-

poration, the Bellcraft Corporation and on some oc-

casions the Hartwell Garment Company.

lVIr. Fisher started Fisher Manufacturing Company

after World War II in a building which he rented for

$50 a month. Through the partnership of James N.

Fisher, vice president, and Robert M. Matthews, vice

president, the ]. Fisher Company was formed and

later expanded into a new location and the size in-

creased by 30 per cent. This home grown Georgia

company is now a million-dollar business that has

become part of a national textile manufacturing fir~.

National Vulcanized Fibre Company (NVF) of Wil-

mington, Delaware, acquired Fisher Manufacturing

Company in 1961. NVF is a major supplier of metal,

vulcanized fibre, fibre-glass and fibre-armored mater-

ials for the Southern textile industry. With this mer-

ger, Fisher became a division of NVF. Previously, sales

had been held at a level of approximately a half-

million dollars or less. Visions at the Fisher Division

have now been broadened and progress is contantly

being made in the company.

G. E. PLANT EXPANDS
GE Expansion Offers $50-
$55 Million Reward for Rome
The $ 11 million expansion of the General Electric Plant in R ome will mean a $50 to $55 million economic stimulant to the area.
The present payroll of the GE plant is $ 11 million and the employment level is 1,500 with an anticipated increase to 1,700 when the new addition is completed. The growth of Rome's GE plant is a reaction to the booming in creased demand 111 the transformer market in the U. S. a nd abroad. The GE plant was built in Rome in 1954 to provide additional capacity for production of medium transformers. Following its start a a satellite operation to GE's Pittsfield, Massachuetls p lant, the Rome plant became a separate department in 1956; whereupon several n ew product types were added to the operation. In 1960 and 1961, products produced were 10,000 KVA tr-ansformers, and in 1964 it was again changed to include up to 15,000 KVA transformers. With the shift toward larger transformers, the Rome plant extension will keep pace with thi movement by increasing their production to inJude 25,000 KVA transformers by 1968.
The major feature of <the multi million dollar expanion plant is the construction of a building that will cover a total of 84,900 square feet. In addition to this new building, the following expansion and modernization plans for the Medium Transformer Department wi ll take place:
e Construction of a new building for a receiving and
torage area and a new laboratory. The building will cover a total of 47,540 square feet.
A new laboratory for product d evelopment and deign equipped with modern and up-to-date equipment.
Extension of the Core Shop.
Addition to the Motor-Generator Room.
This expansion represents a 24% increase to the size _of the existing Rom e GE Plant. 1twill provide the eq u1pment and facilities that will enable th e department to better serve its in creasing customer requirements and bui ld larger products required by the in-
its business in Georgia.

is an artist's conception of the $11 m

t

expansion fo r General Electric's Medium Transformer

Depmtment at Rome. Constmction is scheduled to

begin this spring, with December, 1967, the target date

for completion.

Macon Becoming 'Fly-In'
Industrial Center
GEORGIA PROGRESS reports a most successful airparlt program. The Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce announces that they are now offering over 3, I 00 acres of prime industrial land located in five areas around the city, all served by utilities and ample transportation. Five industries located in two of the areas in 1965, and all are receiving attention from industrial development interests.
There is no doubt that airports will play a major role in the industrialization of our State as evidenced by Macon's outstanding program. During the past year, four firms located in Macon's Airport Industrial Park: Timberlake Grocery Company, 80,000 square foot warehouse, $350,000; Hehr Products Corporation, 22,000 square foot plant, $200,000; Southern Electronics Engineering Corporation, 25,000 square foot office and shop, $250,000; and the Mead Corporation, 20,000 square foot plant, $250,000. Mead is now constructing a 30,000 square foot addi tion with an investment of $250,000. Local developers also invested $50,000 in a 20,000 square foot industrial shell building, which is now being offered to indu strial prospects for immediate occupancy.
The impressive industrial progress taking place in Macon is being reflected by the location of Dillard Paper Company in the McElrath Industrial Tract, with a 250,000, 33,000 square foot building under construction. One of the greatest single industrial achievements in 1965 was the conversion of Macon's Naval Ordnance Plant to private industry. Maxson E lectronics Corporation purchased the plant for $6.7 million, employing some 900 skilled workers from the Macon area.
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As GEORGIA PROGRESS went to press, another company located in the Macon Airpark.
Packaging Corporation of America has announced plans to build a $4 million, 200,000 square foot, molded pulp products plant in Macon's Airport Indu strial Park.
W. H. l\Iapes, Jr., senior vice president of the Molded Pulp Division, said the 900-foot-long plant will be in operation in 1967. The plant will be on a 23-acre site in the heart of the park and will manufacture "filler flats"; cushion-like trays used in the bulk packaging of eggs and retail egg cartons.
The facility will also serve a Southern and Middle Atlantic market with other molded pulp products, including meat, fruit and vegetable trays, and pie plates.
The Southeastern sales headquarters of the P. C. A. Molded Pulp Division will be located at the Macon plant, near the heart of the Southeastern egg-producing market.
Massive, 200-foot-long molding machines in the new plant will produce millions of individual molded units every year. Packaging Corporation of America, one of the nation's largest paperboard and packing firms, maintains nine paperboard mills and a national network of corrugated container and folding carton plants.
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TOURIST TOPICS

Fran Tarkenton Now

Promoting Georgia Tourism

There's a star on the team of the Tourist Division o[ I & T. Francis Tarkenton, known as Fra n to his footba ll fans, is now ca lling plays for Burke Dowling

Adams Advertising Agency as account executive for the I & T's Tourist Division.

D uring the pro football season, Fran is the quarterback for the Jvlinnesota Vik-

ings and for three consecutive years has ran ked as their most valuable player. Also, in 1965 he was voted the Pro Bowl's most valuable player.

Fran graduated from the University of Georgia School of Business Administration

in 196 1 and that year joined

. .

the All-Pro rookie team. While at the U mvers tty, h e

won many athletic honors such as: All-Southeastern

Confere nce 1959-60; All -American 1960; most valuable

back in the SEC in 1959; and capta in, Georgia foot-

ball team, 1960.

Fran, his wife Elaine, and their you ng daugh ter,

Angie, are now making Atlanta their hom e.

Tourist Supplement to
Run in 150 Papers
The 1 & T Tourist Division and the Georgia Press Association are co-sponsoring a full-color newspaper supplement to debut during Vacation Planning Week in Georgia.
More than 150 Georgia newspapers, weeklies and dailies, will insert the supplement giving it approximate circulation of 500,000. The Georgia Welcome Centers will distribute an additional 100,000 copies to visi ting Georgia tourists.
Enclosed in the 16-page tabloid is a letter by Governor Sanders endorsing the success of the "Vacation Georgia '66" campaign.
The tourist industry in Georgia is expanding about 15 % annua lly, and 50 % of the tourist _dollar comes from residents within the State. Therefore, the supplement is being concentrated on tha t group to compliment the nation al and regional program. R adio, television and billboard promotion wi th the "Vacation Georgia '66" theme will be fea tured in every neighboring state, major metropolitan daily newpapers and national magazines.
Production and distribution date will be two week prior to the campaign date of May 29.
VACATION GEORGIA 'EIEI
A specia l supplement of The Georgia Press Associat ion.

DELTA SAYS "FLY TO DIXIE." Displays, such as the one pictured above, are n:ow ~eing .shown throug_hout th e country in Delta Azr L znes tzcket office wzndows. Th e Dixie Golf Circle Tour advertisement featuring th e official ST DC logo invites northern visitors to come South, where "Win ter Golfing I s Great." Delta is now sponsoring these disp lays in such major cities as Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Georgia Pecans Go I n t e r n a t i o n al
"Knack en ny not i jul- en pecan not!" was the logan greeting Scandinavian visitors from a large di play window at the U. S. Trade Center Building in Stockholm last December. The display, pictured above, introduced Swedish consumers to the Georgia pecan. Commenting on the success of the venture, frank Stanford, sales manager of Georgia Pecan Sales Company, Albany, writes: "Our representative in weden stated that 1965 was the largest year in total ale of our pecan products . . . and they are very happy over the situation, which together with the prominent display in the U. S. Center will create interest and more volume in the years ahead." Stanford has already booked the same display window for the coming Christmas season.
One of the most dynamic promoters of pecans in Georgia, the Albany firm alread y exports to several European countries and continues to seek new outlets in other areas. Stanford plans to develop repreentatives in New Zealand and Australia, besides following up contacts made in Hong Kong and Japan by the recent Georgia Trade Mission to the Far East. . anta Claus' advice, by the way, translates to Engh h a "Crack a new nut this Christmas- a PECAN nut!" Pecan, of course, is the same in both langu ages-
wed en doesn' t have a word of its own for pecans.
New Trade Mission
To Scandinavia
:'.!rs. Virginia Allgood, Director of the 1 & T InternatiOnal Service U nit, announces plans for a Georgia Trade Mission to Scandinavia in September, 1966. In a recent survey made by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and the
etherlands, the following products were shown to be the most saleable: Va.rious types of packaging and assembling ma-
chmery.

E lectronic control and measuring devices and equipment.
Ch emicals, ch emical products and plastic raw materials.
Automotive servicing and maintenance equipmen t. Graphic arts machinery, photographic equipment
and supplies. Leisure goods and sporting equipment. Textiles and wearing apparel, including shoes. Construction and mining machinery. Metalworking machinery and machine tools.
J\!Iachinery for the pulp and paper industry. Hospital and medical equipmen t. Laundry and dry cleaning equipmen t. Ma terials handling equipment. Water and air purification equipment.
A particular demand for forest products should make this mission desirable for many Georgia firms. Conducted under the guidance of the U. S. Department of Commerce as part of a program of industryorganized, government-approved trade missions, this will be the fourth of its kind for Georgia. Georgia leads all other states in the successful completion of this type of mission, which offers the fu ll cooperation of Foreign Service posts overseas and the best available business contac ts in each area .
Businessmen who are interested in joining the mission in September shou ld write or call 1rs. Virg inia Vv. Allgood, Director, International Service Unit, Georgia Departmen t of Industry and Tr-ade.
Bids from Far East
Favor Georgia Products
Far Eastern businessmen who met with the Georgia Trade Mission to the Far East last November have found a great deal to write letters about. Georgia pecans rate high on the list of items for export, as do peanuts, peanut oil, frozen chickens and other food products. Among other items requested are chemicals, ch emical products, lumber, logs, pulpwood, naval stores, marble, kaolin and machinery of all typesparticularly for the textile industry.
Georgians received many offers of goods for import, including transistor radios, tape recorders, ceramic gift items, specialty wearing apparel, construction materials, sporting goods, novelties, and even a new bakery product- a cake that utilizes large amounts of egg whites. International Service is turning all these proposals over to Georgia firm s.
Several firms in the Far East are now considering locating sales and buying offices in Georgia as a result of the mission. One Hong Kong contact has already sent a man to Atlanta for a week's visit to investigate the possibility of opening a regional office here. If the operation materializes it would be advantageous to businessmen in the Southeas t who are interested in buy-sell arrangements with Hong Kong or in joint ventures to markets throughout South Asia and the Commonwealth.
International Service plans to open a Display Center featuring Far Eastern products offered to the mis-
continued on next page
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sion for distribution in Georgia. A wide variety of items will be on display in the proposed showroom in the office of International Service, among them rattan furniture, toy wooden animals and brocade pin cush ions from Hong Kong; pewter and batiks from Singapore; embroidered blouses and ceramics from Japan; wood carvings, pina and banana fibre from the Philippines. Some of these articles have never been exported to the United States, but many should find a ready market in Georgia, and they will give Georgia businessmen first-hand contact with some of the many products from the Far East that are available for importing.
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HERE & THERE
C-SA Program Getting Ready for Take-Off
More than 300 C-5A design engineers and support personnel have become the first occupants of the Lockheed-Georgia Company's new C-5A Project Building at Marietta.
The engineers designing the wings and empennage systems for the world's largest aircraft occupy the west half of the 54,000 square foot first units of the allsteel building. The next groups scheduled to move into the building will be 200 engineers in the fuselage functional design department.
After the expansion is completed, the one-story building is scheduled to embrace 300,000 square feet and will accommodate over 3,000 people engaged in designing and developing the C-5A.
The new addition to Lockheed, pictured below, will be known as the "Inland Modular Structural Building." Architects are Heery and Heery of Atlanta, designers of the Atlanta Stadium.
Industrial Development Corporation Forming
The Claxton-Evans Chamber of Commerce has announced plans to form an Industrial Development Corporation in a project to actively seek new industry for their area.
President C. E. DeLoach, Jr., announced that Small Business Administration funds are available for construction of industrial buildings.
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Pelham Making Bid

For New Payrolls

The Industrial Committee of the Chamber of

merce and the Pelham Development Corporati

launched an all-out campaign to attract ind on

their area.

Ustry

They have built a 42,000 square foot buildin

has already the industri tails of the

at al
b

tra bu uil

idcltidenidgn.gse~ivnheecrslaueldpeirdnoss2ep,r0et0sc0tsw.leePrttereormsm~0g~1.~e:d'

prospects across the natiOn.

Yates Named to I & T

Board of Commissioners

Eugene A. Yates, Jr., of Atlanta, was named

I & T's 20-man Board of Commissioners by Gov

Carl Sanders. He suceeds John J. McDonough

recently resigned.

'

Mr. Yates is vice president of the Georgia p Company.

additiona l story, page 1

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BUSINESS PROFILES

Small Firms Gain $3 Million
Small business firms in Georgia received 3 mi in assistance loans in August and September from Small Business Administration.
Due to this exceptional amount, October and following months have shown a relative decrease loans. Such assistance fmm SBA has rescued Vl:l...... firms from bankruptcy and profit loss or provided ita! for innovation and expansion.
The largest portion of the $3 million suppl went to Riverside Mills at Augusta, a woolen synthetic yarn manufacturing firm. A complete of the firms and their allocations can be secured the SBA or the offices of the Department of Ind and Trade.
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Royal Crown Directors Declare 111
Consecutive Quarterly Dividend
The Royal Crown Cola Company of Georgia, has declared a dividend of 15 cents of common stock. The dividend is payable 1966, to stockholders of record March 17, ment of the dividend will make the Ill th cortse:UU"
quarterly dividend paid by the company; a period
resenting nearly 28 years. On February 3, the company president reported
sales had set a new all-time record for the up 13 per cent over the previous year to 53, an increase of $6,058,634. Earnings for the amounted to $4,690,770 after federal and state of $4,538,000, a gain of 24 per cent over 1964.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
EXPANSIONS continued from page 4
Winbro Plans Larger Plant
Winbro Division of Northern Indiana Steel Supply Company, which has been operating since August in Thomasville, is planning to move into a new fabricating plant on the U.S. Highway 19 By-Pass. Winbro manufactures steel roofs for mobile homes -and expects w increase production to 75 roofs per day when the expansion is completed.
Two Poultry Plants to Expand
Allied Mills, Inc., has purchased a tract near Pendergrass for a poultry processing plant and Marell Fanns, Inc., will move its Gainesville operations to Murrayville, according to company president, T . T. Folger.
Plants by both companies are in the preliminary stage and no details on employment, investment or size have been released.
Huston Adds Warehouse
To Columbus Plant
The Tom Huston Peanut Company has revealed plans for a $750,000 warehouse and shipping department near its present facility in Columbus. The new building will contain 76,000 square feet and will house storage for finished goods, offices and shipping and receiving docks.
Revenue Certificates Finance
Columbus Mills Expansion
An 80,000-square-foot addition to Columbus Mills, Inc., will provide a dye plant and facility for cutting and binding rugs. The expansion will create 100 jobs and incre-ase the company's annual payroll by $500, 000. A $1.2 million issue of industrial revenue certifi cates has been authorized to finance the project.
Bendix Expands in Cobb
The Eclipse-Pioneer Division of the Bendix Corporation will occupy some 8,000 square feet of floor space in the Cobb-Marietta Industrial Park, according to Sol D'Amico, manager of the Marietta Bendix facility. The company has been supplying LockheedGeorgia for several years on a limited office basis. The new Bendix plant will employ some 20 people and the new building will be ready for occupancy e~rly in March. Headquarters for the Bendix EclipsePwneer Division is Teterboro, New Jersey.

World Carpets, Inc., Expands

World Carpets, In c., of Dalton, Georgia, is currently in the midst of th e largest sin gle expansion th e rapidly growing company has ever undertaken. The current addi tion to World's mill is expec ted to be complete by mid- 1966. Construction was actually begun late in 1965.

At the north end of the building, the new addition wi ll rise 55 feet above East Morris Street, and the ~ace o~ the building will be highlighted by a large fountam of d rama tic design. It features casc-ading ~ate rfalls 60 fee t wide with several pools, one flowin g mto the other. The building will be set back 26 fee t from the street to allow for landscaping and for the fountain.

A large pink dogwood tree has been carefully protec ted from the ravages of bulldozers during the early stages of constr uction, and will become the focal point for the landscape design on this side of the building.

This addition will add 135,000 square feet to the plant to be closely foll owed in the second quarter of 1966 by an addi tion al 440,000 square feet. It has required the moving of a considerable portion of a mountain to achieve this growth in the present location , but, fort un ately, the mountain is being put to good use as a new playground for one of the local schools where a hillside loca tion had previously been a limiting facto r.

In the twelve short years that World h as been in business, the plant has grown steadily. In 1954, the original operation consisted of only 15,000 squ are fee t. In 1957, 10,000 squ are fee t were added, followed
?Y a 30,000-squ are-foot addition in 1958. Then again
111 1959, another addition of 20,000 square feet was constructed. In 1960, a 30,000-foot carpe t warehou se addition was made. This was quickly followed in 1962 by a 40,000-sq uare-foot addi tion a nd during 1964, 110,000 squ are fee t were added, raising the total to 255,000 squ are feet.

This las.t addition included a n exciti ng new ceramic mural wall, which occupies the focal point of the building's west wall facing onto Green Street. The mural and addition were dedi ca ted in the spring of 1965 and ' 1\Torld Carpets was honored to have Governor Carl Sanders prese nt for the d edication.

When the curren t additio n is complete, the total build ing will be more than one-quarter of a mile long. The new faciliti es allow for additional manufact uring expansion and for raw materials storage areas, and allow for future growth in some office areas as well. A I 0,000-square-foo t office addition was made in 1965.

The plant building, including the fountain and

mural, were designed by Mario Biancu lli of Bianculli

& T yler, Chattanooga, T enn essee, and is an outstand-

ing example of contemporary architecture in fast

growing Dalton.

continued on page 16

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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
NEW INDUSTRY co.ntinued trom page 1
Avon Will Be 'Calling'
From Cobb County
Avon Products will build a $6 million sa les and distribution cen ter in South Cobb County. The installation also will serve as a new regional headquarters for the cosmetic finn.
Groundbreakin g is expected in mid-1966, with completion scheduled for nine to 12 months la ter. Betwee n 400 and 500 people will be employed a t the n ew fac ility.
Douglas Gets Fifth
Mobile Home Plant
Broadmore Mobile Homes has become the fifth mobile homes manufacturer to locate in Douglas. T his so uth Georgia city is rapidly becoming the center of this industry in the State. T h e Coffee County Indu strial Authori ty said Broadmore will employ 150 people in the production of an ex tensive lin e of mobile homes.
* * *
Ga. Power Has Record Year
The Georgia Power Company reports that some 71.5 billion kilowatt hours of elec tricity were used by company customers during 1965. This represents a 12.7 per cent increase in electrical consumption over 1964.
The compa ny's residential customers continue to exceed the national average for use of electricity. In 1965, the aver age Georgia Power residential customer u sed 5,650 kilowa tt hours of electricity; 14.7 p er cent above the national average.
During 1965 Georgia Power invested almost $85 million in constructing new facilities. Included in the building program was a new unit at Plant H a rllee Branch at Lake Sinclair near Milledgeville with a generating capacity of 250,000 kilowatts. The building program also included 316 miles of n ew tra nsmission lines and 634 miles of new distribution lines.
West Point Dam Bids Opened
The \!Vest Point d am project is moving ahead r apidly. The Holliday Construction Company of Gree nville, Ga., was the apparent low bidder for the contract for building the huge embankment for the dam on the Chattahoochee River. Holliday bid $ 1,03 1,274 on the project.
Bids on construction facilities and temporary offices a t the dam site will be opened April 14 and bids will be taken in March for construction of the first stage cofferdam and excavation for the p erma nent d am and powerhouse. The West Point dam is three miles north of West Point, Georgia, and will impound a 25,000-acre reservoir upon completion. President Johnson's 1967 fiscal year budget requests $5.2 m illion for the project.
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Vending Manufacturer Moves
MarVend, Inc., h as moved into new quarters in the Marie tta Industrial P a rk. The facility, located on Hayes Industrial Drive, h as 12,000 squ are feet of floor spa~e. MarVend designs and bui lds automatic vend ing equipment.
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MOBILE HOMES continued from page 7
Mansions on Wheels
How h as the old " trailer" revolutionized into a prosperous in dustry of "mansions on wheels?" Designers took the box-like, one-room structure and turned it into a palace on wheels complete with modern a llelectric conveniences, large living areas and spacious bedrooms. Our popu lous h as become more mobile than it was 15 or 20 years ago and high er incomes have resulted in more leisure time and a demand for more quality goods. This is one of the main reasons the mobile home industry h as bloomed into one of the most prosperous industries in the United States.
It gives the home bu yer more for his money in the way of convience. A n average mobile home sells for approxima tely $5,000. You get not only a h ome for the unit price, but also all the furnishings including the beds, the mattresses, stove, refrigerator, living room furniture, draperies, everything except the sheets, pillowcases and cooking utensils- and .with a little "dealing" this can be arranged with the mobile home dis tributor.
What Is a Modern Mobile Home?
l\tl a ny mobile h omes today are really only semi mobile. Some of the larger models provide up to 1,500 square fee t of living space and the "doublewide" (two units joined together after delivery to the homesite), offers even more sp acious quarters. The average length of these homes is a bout 55 feet with two bedrooms and two or three bathrooms. An awning can be added, forming a carport or a screened porch to provide extra storage or to further expand the mobile home.
We quote R. B. Hoit, Executive Director of the Douglas-Coffee County Chamber of Commerce, the cen ter of Georgia's mobile home industry, " It might be said tha t th e mobile home industry is a brand new industry tha t h as come into its own during the past years and wi ll con tinue to grow for a grea t m a ny years. All of Georgia should ta ke adva ntage of this new indu stry and support it in every way possible."
EnnoR's NOTE: You are invited to visit th e first Atlanta Southeastern Exposition for Mobile Homes, Travel Tra ilers, Campers, Suppliers and Se1vices- Atlanta State Farmers Market, April 28 - May I , 1966. T he success of this show is already assured with some 185 manufa cturers indicating their participation in the show.

HERE AND THERE
con tinued from page 12
McDonough Retires
From Georgia Power
John J. McDonough, Georgia Power Company's
chairman of the board and chief executive officer, retired February I, after 39 years service. A native of Savannah, Mr. McDonough holds directorships in the Southern Company, Mead Corpora,tion, West PointPepperell, Inc., Central of Georgia Railway and Geor gia International Life Insurance Company. Mr. McDonough was also a Commissioner of the Department of Industry and Trade.
Associated with Georgia Power and its predecessors ince 1927, Mr. McDonough has filled various engineering and management posts in Dublin, Athens, Brunswick, Douglas, Augusta and Atlanta. In 1940, he was named vice president of the company and in 1950, he came to Atlanta as vice president and division manager.
In 1951 Mr. McDonough was named executive vice president, in 1961 he became president and in 1963, he became chairman of the board and chief executive officer.
Mr. Edwin I. Hatch was named to succeed Mr. McDonough as chief executive officer of Georgia Power. Mr. Eugene Yates, vice president of Georgia Power, was named by Governor Carl Sanders to succeed Mr. McDonough on the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Industry and Trade.

Alaska Airlines Buys
Lockheed Hercules
The Lqckheed-Georgia Company has completed arrangements for delivery of a Hercules L382B airfreighter to Alaska Airlines. The craft is designed to bring jet-age delivery of outsized cargo ~o indus-trial developments in the Alaskan interior. The low-slung airfreighter can land on hastily prepared airstrips on frozen tundra and frozen lakes with a 25-ton payload.
Alaska Airlines is the first company operating in Alaska to bring jet-powered, all-cargo service to users of heavy equipment and outsized cargo for the remote areas of our forty-ninth state. Crews of Alaska Airlines flew a Lockheed Hercules on a 21-day lease program and last week completed the largest air lift of oil well drilling equipment in the history of Alaska. During the 21-day period, crews flew around-the-clock, often in temperatures that plunged to 50 below zero. Included in the cargo was a dismantled oil rig that was flown to a site 330 miles north of Fairbanks. In 18 flights over a 10-day period, more than 874,000 pounds of heavy equipment were airlifted from Fairbanks to the drilling site.

john]. McDonough

Edwin I. Hatch

E. A. Yates, ]r.

ALASKA AIRLINES L382B Hercules airfreighter
rolls out of the Marietta plant. Th e 77y2-ton aircraft
is capable of landing on snow and ice-covered tundra and froz en lahes while carrying a 50,000-pound payload.
Cox Newsprint Mill
Begins Operation
Production will begin in late March or early April at the new Cox Newspapers' newsprint plant in Augusta. The $30 million facility will produce 120,000 tons of newsprint annually, with plans later to increase production to 150,000 tons per year. The widest newsprint making machine in the United States is being installed at the Augusta plant, and space is being reserved for installation of another such machine in the near future. The huge machine will run 2,500 feet of newsprint per minute. Some 150 people will be employed at the plant.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
EXPANSIONS continued from page u
New Plan t fo r
Geo rgia Paci f ic
The Georgia Pacific Company is building a new $3 million plant in Savannah. The new facility will provide employment for approximately 200 people. Some 60 million square feet of three-eighths inch plywood will pour out of the plant each year. Raw materials will come from the company's timberlands around Savannah and from other sources. While the new plant is going up, Georgia Pacific recorded a good year in I965. A preliminary annual report, issued by Company Chairman Owen R. Cheatham and President Robert B. Pamplin, showed sales during I965 reached $575 million, an increase over I964 by 7.5 per cent.
Frontier Manufacturing Co.
Moves Warehouse to Georg ia
The Frontier Manufacturing Company of Dallas, Texas, has moved into Georgia with a branch warehouse to better serve the company's customers in the Southeast. Frontier makes steel office equipment, including shelves, work benches and parts bins. The company's Georgia operation is located in Atlanta.
Rome Tool and Die
Expands to New Plant
The Rome Tool and Die Company, makers of dies, jigs, special machinery and fixtures, recently moved into a new all-steel building containing 9,100 square feet of manufacturing space located on a six-acre tract that is available for future expansion. The company currently employs twelve people. Rome Tool and Die was incorporated in 1955 and is the only facility of its kind within a fifty-mile radius of Rome.

Armstrong Expands
M acon Plant
Plans for a subs.tantial expans.ion of Armstrong Cork Company's plant in Macon h ave been announced by
.J. V. Jones, Vice-President and General Manager of
the Company's Building and Industry Products Oper. ations.
The added facilities, which will increase the produc. tion capacity of the plant by about 50 per cent, are expected to be completed within the next two years. Some of the new equipment will probably be placed in use during 1966, Jones stated.
Armstrong's M aco n plant manufactures ceiling rna. teria ls and other building products made of wood .and fiberboard.
To be constructed at the plant are new pulp preparation facilities and an additional forming line.
Armstrong's added forming equipment will be housed in a new building of some 90,000 square feet. The present plant occupies about one million square feet on a 128-acre tract south of Maccn. It employ about 1,000 m en and women . E. A. Worm is Manager of the plant, and A. H . Guritz is the Assistant Plant Manager.
No shutdown of existing production lines is anticipated as a result of the expansion, Jones said.
Most of the Company's production operations at Macon have been running at fu ll capacity for more than a year, he stated. Jones added, "The main purpose of the expansion is to increase our production cap acity at Macon. However, the modern new equi p me nt we're adding will also broaden our capabili tie to produce new types of products. The result should be still b e tter service for our customers around the world."
Engineering design work for the new plant facilitie will be started immediately, Jones announced. Con struction will begin "as soon as possible," h e said, and some portions of the new additions are expected to be completed in early I 966 . The remainder will be placed in use la te in 1966, he added.
Armstrong's announcement of increased facilities at Macon is the latest in a series of expansions. Since the Company began fiberboard production at Macon in ea rl y I 948, its plant has more than doubled in phy ica1 size and production capacity.
In total, Armstrong has 17 p lants in this country and 11 outside the United States. The company manufac tures ceiling materials, resilient flooring, and ot~er building products; industrial special ties; pack~gmg materials, and home maintenance and convemence products.

Rome Tool and Die's New Facility.
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NoTE: Th e Editors of GeOTgia Progress welcome information and/ or pictures from any manufacturing or warehousing company locating or expanding opemtions in Georgia . Material should be add1essed to: Rosse1 Smith, Editor, GEOR GIA PROGRESS, 100 Stat e Cap itol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334 .
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RODUCTION OF THE BROCHURE OUTLINING T OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

HE AS

ECONOMIC SUBMITTED

TO THE SOCIETY OF I DUSTRIAL REALTORS.

FIRST PLACE
1965
PROFESSIONAL TROPHY AWARD
SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL REALTORS

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I. THE DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY OF THE STATE OR PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
A. Major problems.
Most of the major problems hinderin g Georgia's indu stria l development program are directly related to growth and change.
During 1954~61, the scare was classified near the bottom of the li st fOr economic development. Since 1961, economic g rowth in both industrial and comme rcial areas has bee n on the upswing and has brought about s hort ages of ski ll ed labor, acce lerated popu lation migration from rural to urban areas, and unemplo yment problems in spots.
RURAL MIGRATION The change in Georgia's economy from agriculture to industry ha s caused underemployment in some areas, increased th e population migration from rural to urban areas and introduced many urban problems.
A dominant problem hampering develop ment efforts in Georgia (and ocher parts of the South) is the comparative standing in median school years completed: Georgia, 9.0 -- U.S., 10.6. Moreover, Georg~a's vocational educat ion program is o nl y now getti ng underway on a sracewide basis, whereas many scares have operated s uch programs for years.
Georgia is handicapped by its low income, especial ly where market-oriented fi rm s are co ncerned. In 1964, the state's per capita in come was Sl,943; at the same time, the national figure was $2,566.
INDUSTRIAL DIVERSITY Another pressing problem is a long-standing lack of indusrrial diversity. Georgia is a leading textile-producing state and chis is a cwo-edged swo rd, as the New Engla nd states know. Because of rhe seasonal narure of many elements of chis industry, it automatically creates underemployment problems. Furthermore, modernizing of processes and equipment begu n recently has created employment problems in some small and medium-sized cities depe nding solely on chis type of industry.
ECONOMIC CHANGE The drastic change of the economy, the recent rapid growth and the subsequent influx of labor into th e urban areas have created anothe r problem. Many industries want co locate outside the congested metropolitan areas and finding qualified labor has been difficult in many rural areas. (More than 25 per cent of the scare ' s 4.2 million people live in the Atlanta metropolitan area a nd over 50 pe r cent live in six metropolitan areas

throughout the state.)
BUDGETING Th e Department of Indu stry and Trade's development efforts have been slowed also by low budgeting. The budget for the 1963- 1965 biennium was S2 million for th e whole Department. However, the last session of the General Assembly doubled the appropriation to S4.l million in the 1965-1967 fiscal period. However, even the increased allocation leaves Georgia far behind most other competitive states for indu strial and and tourist development on a per capita basis.
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~~""~ .,.,, ../ ~ PER CAPITA EXPENDITURES FOR INDUSTRIAL AND TOURIST DEVELOPMENT
S.59

$. 40

S.1 5
I

$_20
I

$22
I

$.25
I

I IS.29

ALA.

GA.

N.C.

TENN.

FLA.

S.C.

KY.

_ Source =long 's Marketing Advertising Report- 1965

FINANCING
One of Geo rgia ' s long standing problems has been and still is the lack of a statewide financing agency to handle s ite purchase and bu ildin g const ruct ion for new expanding firms . ~lore about thi s problem and how the Department of In dustry and Trade proposes to solve it appears under Section VI.

Still another pressing difficulty is the lack of adequate maps for development purposes. Other than the Hi ghway Department's str ip maps and other charts of small areas made by private agencies, there are practica ll y no maps suitable for industrial development purposes. The best maps of many areaS have 50 foot contour intervals which obvious ly cannot be used for locating plant s ites.
B. Principal long and short-range objectives of the development program.
1. Long-range. The ultimate objective of the development program of I & T is to brin g about th e gainful and worthwhile employme nt of the labor force in a balan ce of the various phases of the econom y, so that no one part i s overbearing or underemphasized; the maximum utilization of all the natural resources of the state; and, hence, the state ' s proper and rightful contribut ion to the nation's economic growth and stability.
2. Short-range. Naturally , all of the short -range objectives of I & T are integrated into the long-range programs.
I & T is promoting, both within and without the department , educa~jonal and vocatio nal training programs des igned to achieve the "gainful and worthwhile" employment of Geo rgia' s labor force. A new I & T program char emphasizes this activ it y is the Personalized Engineering Program, known as P.E.P. The basic concept of P.E.P. is to provide a qual ity industrial train in g program personally enginee red for a spec ifi c operation. P.E.P . helps compensate for the sho rtage of trained workers brought about by rhe quick eco nomic g rowth cycle and the shift from an agricultural ro an industrial economy. More about P.E.P. under Section V.
LABOR SURVEYS
I & T is e ndeavo rin g to attract industry to outlying areas of the state in order to provide the type of jobs that will slow or hale the increasing migration to the urban areas . In cooperation with Georg ia Tec h and the Stat e Labor Deparrment, a number of s urveys have been conducted to update l abor statistics a nd determine the true labor potential of some rural areas in Georgia. In several cases, this has resulted in the discovery that e noug h qua lified labor is available or will commute to the area if proper jobs are provided.
AGR I BUSINESS In a n effort to develop the maximum sho rt- run utilization of the agricultural resources of the state, I & T is stressin g a new drive to develop agribusiness operations the state. Also, I & T is promoting the potential for raising beef cattle in Georgia.
MINERALS An extensive survey is now underway co identify the location and best use of minerals in che state.

MAPPING Along these same lines, Governor Carl E . Sanders has indicated he will ask the next session of the General Assembly for .S500, 000 co fin an ce an aerial mapping program for Georgia.
As is evide nt, the problems mentioned before and the long-range objectives of I & T are kept in mind when s hort-ran ge plans are formulated and implemented.
II. THE EFFICI ENCY OF THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORT IN RELATIONSHIP TO FINANCIAL RESOURCES.
A. Own funds available.
The Department of Indu stry and Trade was allocated some $2 million for aU ope rations duri ng the 1963-65 biennium. The last session of the General Assembly in creased the budget to S4.1 million for t he fiscal years 1965-67. As indicate d previously, Georg ia still has a lower per capita and lower total budget than mo s t of her competitor s tates.
B. Marching or other private funds ava il able .
Georgia receives no private funds, and matching funds are available only from the Federal Government and local governments under some programs .
C. Ocher financial resources (federal, cou nt y, local, etc. )
REGIONAL PLANNING Georgia is one of the nation' s most advanced states in endorsing regional planning. Under th i s concept, several counties join together co form an Area Planning and Development Comm ission which is partl y financed by state and federal funds. There are seventee n Area Planning and Development Commissions in the scare involving 139 cou nties.
AIRPORT FUNDS Georgia has moved to take advantage of federal funds available under [he National Airport Plan. During the 1965-66 fiscal year, some S5, 768,693 in fede':' l airport funds were disbursed. Th ese monies, combi ned wirh local and state funds wJH total S10,848,025. In November, Georgia was the first state granted airport aid under the Appalachian Program.
APPALACHIAN PROGRAM The Appalachian Regional Commission allocated some $47,091 in supple-

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:~~t

al fun ds $25,000

co the coming

afriormportthea. tStEaltlei,jay$6. ,3~T4hefrtoo~talloccaolsta.oufthoth~iecipesroajencdt

will be .$78,000

3156,000 from the

federal Aviation Agency. This was the fnst airport proJeCt 1n the nauon to be granted

funds under the Appalachian Program.

Thirty-five Georgia counties are eligible for funds under the Appalachian Program and, through it s planning div i sion, I & T has distributed $14,657,383 in funds

so far.

The Planning Division of I & T uses federal financing of its "701" progra m.

Under chis program, cwo-thirds o f the money for plannin~ assi.s~a~ce co local communities

co~oecsalfrocmomthmeunFietdieesraalnGd ofvuerrnnimsheenst.

The I & a number

T Planntng Diviston works under of services including population

contract studies,

~~nd use plans, traffic and parking st udi es and zoning ord in ance models .

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\ ~"i ~. PLANNING
DIVISION "701"

$944,!100 TOTAL

LOCAL PLANNING ASSISTANCE Pf!OORAM

M.MSEROFCITYAtll COONTYI'RIJ..I:CTS
FEOOIAI.fUtflS UX:AlfUNOS STATIFUNOS

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$630.000

$103.800 TOTAl
~ $51,900 $49,000 $2,900 ""'

$2110.000

D. Use of inducements, concessions and ocher devices .
The State of Georgia uses no tax concessions or similar devices in attracting industry.
Ill. SCOPE AND BALANCE OF THE PROGRAM
A. Integration and cooperation with other elements of the state economic development .
The Depanmenc of Industry and Trade's development programs are not limited to certain areas, but are statewide in concept and application . I & T cooperates with many other development agencies in a number of ways, but ody a few examples will be cited here.
AREA PLANNING The concept of multi -county area planning a nd developmen t is one of the prime objectives that I & T has promoted. Georgia is no w one of the natio n' s leaders in area planning and developmenc. Th ere are seventeen active multi-county com mi ssions in the state today. Of Georgia's 159 counties, 139 presently are members of commissions (over 94% of the state's population lives in these counties).
At the request of several cities in the state, I & T has organized orientation seminars expl ai ning how commu ni ties can create local industrial development organizations.
LABOR SURVEYS Worki ng with the Georgia Labor Department and the Industrial Development Division of Georgia Tech, the I & T Department has conducted several special labor su rveys in the state. (As a result of one of these surveys , Mohasco, In c., decided to build a new nylon carpet plane at Dublin, Georgia, instead of placing the plant in another location.)
INDUSTR Y WEEK Along with Associated In dustries of Georgia, I & T and the Georgia Jaycees have part i cipated for several years in th e annua l observance of "Georgia In dustry Week." A.l.G. and I & T are planning tO salute existing indusnies in a nother program, "Industry Appreciation Week."

MANUFACTURING DIRECTORY Again, wo rkin g with Associated Industries of Georgia, I & T is revising the DIRECTORY OF GEORGI A MANUFACTURERS. Some 6,000 copies of the next edition will be dis tributed free to all firms Ested in the book.
UN IVERS ITY OF GEORGIA l & T a l so cooperat~s with the Un i ve rsity of Georgia o n a number of projects including a s tu dy o f Georgia's tourist attraction program and the prepara ti on of a n informati ve booklet INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCING IN GEORGI A.
I & T Exec utiv e Director, James H. Nuccer, Jr., is active in the Georgia Industrial Developer's Association and works closely with t he Geo rg ia Chambers of Commerce Exec uti ve Association.
I & T cooperated with a number of development groups in formulating a proposal to the Atomic Ene rgy Commission for locatin g i ts multi-million do ll ar accelerator project in Georgia.
The Indu st ri al Development Division of Georgia Tech i s another key agency I & T works with in many endeavors. For example, Georgia Tech prepares most of the prelimi nary feasibility and market st udies for I & T.

B. Organization of the Industrial Development Agency in cluding chart.

1. Activities of various divisio ns and their relationships to each other.

The long-range policies of the Department of Indu stry and Trade are made by a 20-man Board of Com mi ssioners, two from each Co ngressional District, who are appointed to Staggered te rms by the Governor. The Execut ive Director of I & T, James H. Nutter, J~., handles the day- by-day ope ration under guidelines set down by the Board of CommisSIOners. I & T has five mai n divisio ns: Administrative, Research, Planning, In dustry a.nd Tourism. Two divis ions have apdit iona l units Airport Developmem, Fiscal, Information, Printing and Mai I under the Exec uti ve bra nch, and International Service unde r the Research Division.

INTERNAL STRUC T URE

.

The Fiscal Unit, the Informaci on Unit, and the Print in g and Mail Unit serve all

~lve divisions of I & T . The Research Division works closely with rhe In dustry Division

10 preparing presentations for i ndustrial prospects . Th e Fiscal Unit handles the dis-

persement for the Department while Information prepares and dist ri butes brochures,

releases and ocher publications. These news releases and brochures gene rally handled through the Prim in g and Mail Unit a re for all the divisions of I & T. The Prospect In-
formacion Center in the Research Division handles the duties of prospect presentation ,

utilization and feasibility studies, industrial location factor surveys and special labor surveys.
2. An organizatio nal cha rt accompanies these data .
[ GOVERNOR
r.--- I 20 MAN CONSTITUTIONAL L _ao_ARD

FISCAL l G
INFORMATION PRINTING &MAIL

IRAENCDTOR I
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

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PLANNING

RESEARCH

INDUSTRY

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TOURISM

IV. AMOUNT OF PROGRESS MADE DURING THE CURRENT YEAR COMPARED WITH PROGRAMS OF PREVIOUS YEARS.
INDUST RY DIVISION GROWTH The Industry Divis ion is the fastest growing unit in I & T . Eighteen months ago the In dustry Division had only one ful l- time industrial representative and now ha s a s taff of five experienced industrial rep resentatives wich another to be added soon. The

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Division's budget for the 1963-64 biennium was $179,000; this has been increased co S334,000 in the 1965-67 fiscal period.

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GEORGIA 1.0"r""

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DEPARTMENT

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INDUSTRY

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EMPLOYEES

BUDGET

$2,050.000

73
I

1964

1965

SI.OOO.OOO
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1964

1965

t here h~v~ been 16,466 new jobs created in the s tate , with a capital investment of almost $200 mtllion!

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~..,., ...-- GEORGIA'S INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY

1963- OCTOBER, 1965

I NEW MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

MANUFACTURING EXPANSIONS

= 1963

1964 111111 1965 111111

$118.5

130 111'
111

$101 .6 $73.7'

9.3 8.1'

5.3

138 ' 110
84

$115.5' $105.5

$11.3

8.4 ' 5.1

NUMBER

T

NUMBER

ADDEO

I

INVESTMENT

!millions)

- Represents First Ttne Quarters Of 1965 Only

ADDEO EMPlOYMENT lthousand$1

INCOME IN CREA SES
Rapid in dus tria li zation has s hown up on the per capi ra in come charts a lso. In 1964, Georgia ' s per capita income was $1,943, compared to $1,829 for the previous year. Althoug h Georgia is still we ll below the na tio na l average of $2, 566, the per capita in come is rapidly app roac hin g the national ave ra ge. Income has ri sen from 57. 1 per cent of the national average in 1940, to 75.7 per ce nt of the national average in 1964.
INDUSTRIAL EXPANSIONS
In 1964, Geo rgia had a total of S207 million worth of new and expanded industries and some 14,000 new jobs were c reated. During just the first three qua rters of 1965,

INDUSTRIAL ADVERTISING
Th e first s us tained nati onal adve rt isi ng program for t he In dustry Division has been created and is now appearin g in the Wall Stree t Journal, Busi ness Week , :tnd lL..1:_ News and World Report and other re lated media.
INTERNATIONA L SERVICE International Service - one of the younge st, fastest growing units has organized three trade missions to fo reign countries in 1965 and one in 1964, its first year of operation.

AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT
Georgia builds more community airports chan any othe r state in the na tion . The state first began supporting ai rport developme nt in 1964 . During 1965 and 1966, 49 airports will either be built or improved.

COMMUNITY
= NUMBER OF AIRPORT PROJECTS
FEDERAL FUNDS LOCAL FUNDS STATE FUNDS

AIRPORTS

TOURIST ADVERTISING
The advertisi ng program for the T ourist Division a lso has been stepped up. Last Biennium's advertising budget totaled $100,000; th is year it has been raised ro $150,000. To make the advertising dolla rs go as far as possible , Georgia has joined with two ocher states, Nort h Carolina and South Ca rolin a, for a coope rat i ve tourist prom orion prog ram.
DIRECTOR HONORED
Bill Hardman, Director of th e Tourist Division, was recently voted Pres ident of the Na tional Association of Tra ve l Organiza tion s (NA TO) ac the annual meeting in Dallas in Novembe r. This exemplifies th e Division's policy of s upport of all worthwhil e travel organizations.
BROCHURE S DISTR IBUTED
Brochure pri nting and distributio n by the Touris t Di vis ion also has been in creased. The Divi s ion rece i ved reques ts for so me 60,000 brochures in 1964 . So far this year, some 80,000 individual requests for litera ture have been filled. In addition to this, so me 1,296,000 pieces of travel brochu res have been supp li ed in bulk quantity to AAA clubs, trave l clubs, oi l companies, rour gui de services, chambers of commerce a nd oche rs. Although accurate figu res are not availab le, this rep resents a significa nt increase over previous distribution.

$494.774

3
D

~

1963

1965

1966

TOUR IST DIVISI ON
The Tourist Divi s ion of I & T has also shown a great dea l of growth. The developme nt of Welcome Ce nters at the sta te borde rs is one of the biggest projects of the Tourist Di vi s ion. The first center was dedicated in Sylvania in 1962 and three othe rs were opened duri ng 1962-64. This year, three. addit io nal centers opened their doors to the trave ling public within four months. Georgia ' s Welcome Cente rs are expected to serve some 500,000 visitors annuaJly when th e project is compl eted. Future plans incl ude a welcome cencer to be located at th e Atl ant a Municipal Airport.

V. THE NUMBER AND KIND OF NEW PROGRAMS INITIATED THIS YEAR
Georgia's Personal ized Engineering Program , P.E.P., is the single most important new prog ram initiated chis year . l & T , in coope ration with the Georgia Department of Education's Vocatio nal Education Division, organized P.E.P, to provide industry with a comprehensive ra nge of employee training personally engineered for specific planes new and expandi ng un its.
P.E.P. is designed to s upplement, not sup plant , existing vocational tech ni cal se rvices by providing training tailored co the speci fi c needs of indiv idual cOmpanies . The training is car ried on at area Vocational Technical Schools or at other facilities, if the program calls for them.
In th e case of a new plant, the training cakes place while the building is being constructed. Workers are trained on the same type ma chines chat will be used when the plant is in actual operation. All of this is provided at no cost co the company the state furnishes che training and the local communit y provides the space for any special

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programs if they are needed. Equipment not on hand at the Vocational Techn1cal schools is rented or leased by the state .
The Industrial Train ing Coordinator for the Department of Education is George Hov.'a rd, a veteran specialist who served as a training consultanc at the LockheedGeorgia Company for over 13 years .
P .E.P. makes poss ib le full production of the plant when the doors first open for business, eliminating slow production stan- up which many new operations experience. Already, the new program is being or ha s been used by Su nbeam, the Ethyl Corporation and ochers.
P .E.P. is presendy the ma1n theme in Georgia's national advertising program and , so far, some 250 inquiries have been received requesting information about P.E.P or Georgia's industrial advantages.
PROSPECT INFORMAT ION In che past it was necessary to assemble spec ifi c data for site-seeking industrialists from several places. To eliminate this time-consuming proce_dure, I & T recently ened a prospect Information Cente r as a single source from which co obtain material
0
r:levant to a company's prospective location.
An extensive reference library is being organized with reporrs aud publications available for dissemination. The Prospect Informati on Center will be open to all the development agencies in Geor&Ja.
ECONOM IC PROFILES Adequate and current community information for 1ndust nal prospects is one of Georgia's most critical needs. In tJ:le past, other statewide agencies have shouldered the primary respons ibili ty for preparing community s urvey s, and approximately 125 cities and towns have published them .
Since there are many advantages in standardizing community data and presenting a more attractive package of information , I & T began a program this summer to prepare uniform community "Economic Profiles". The project is being conducted in cooperation with th~ Georgia State C hamber of Commerce; the Industrial Development Division of Georgia Tech; and local development groups.
Initially, the program involves updating the oldest community su rveys on file, sending teams into the towns co collect current data. Aher analysis and editing, I & T

publishes the material, using a s tandard outline. Besides using uniform "Economic Profile" se ries covers, the reports are illustrated with aerial shots of indu strial sites and photographs of civic buildings, churches, sc hools and ocher community facilities. In addition, each profile features economic base maps of Georgia showing airports , railroads, major highway!i, electric power and natural gas transmission systems.
VI . INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM A. Relations with and aid to new industry. As is the case with most s tate developmem a,e:encies. many services are provided

to nn. industry and only an outline will be presented here . In all relations with new industry, the personnel of l & T have one over-riding principle co follow -- that of assuring that all contacts with and all data provided to prospective industry officials are factual a nd, equally important, ethical.
Prospective industry executives are given personal assistance by the industrial repres~ntatives of I & T in all stages of the investigation. The Indu stry Division also provides basic data on the location factors and, additionally, gathers and collates data from other sources for the prospective industry official.
MARKET STUDIES I & T provides further assistance in the form of preliminary feasibility and market studies, when it becomes apparent that additional specific data is needed for screened companies. A number of these studies have been prepared by the Indu s trial Development Division of Georgia Tech under contract to I & T.
P.E.P . The P.E . P. program described earlier is an important service prOvided to new Industry. Natu rally, all the development programs outlined elsewhere in this report are available to new industry.
Almost all new industry officials must be in contact with other development oHicials, such as the utilities, railroads and banks, and I & T brings thes~ officials Into the negotiations when the industry official indicates that the time is appropriate.
JOINT CONFERENCES Representat ives of I & T also arrange conferences with officials in other state departments and agencies so the prospective industry official can discuss and confirm s~cific items, such as taxes, labor surveys, and highway access. As with other states, this is an important part of 1 & T's assist ance co new industry.
MARKET STUDIES Frequently , I & T assists industry even when it isn't actively seeking a location for a new plant by financing the preparation and publication of preliminary feasibility ~r ma rket studies that outline possible opportunities for expansion for specific types of IQdust ry in G~orgia.
NEW FIRMS During the firs t nine months of 1965, some 145 new industrial firms located in Georgia and almost all of them received some form of assistance from I & T.

B. Relations with and aid to existing industry.
Thi s year existing industry in the state has been informed that .!ll_services of I & T, including chose designed for new industry, are available to those firms already operating in Georgia. For exa mple , the P.E .P. program was discussed with existing industry before the program was announced nationally -- and the first company to utilize P.E.P. was Transco Industri es in Macon. Transco needed and used the specialized training services of P.E.P. in their railroad car manufacturing operations.
SATE LLITE INDUSTRIES Attracting new companies to Georgia has been made an assistance program for existing industry in the state! As a result of a "satellite" research study, I & T has helped locate a number of firms in the state to supply the expanding mobile homes industry already established here. With an eye toward maximum economic growth, 1 & T is helping get quicker service and faster delivery for the mobile homes manufacturers already here (a nd encouraging these firms to expand because their operations are now smoother and more profitable), while at the s am e time attracting new firms to the state.
Another study currently underway is exploring the poss ibility of satellite industry to s upply the new Anaconda Aluminum Company plant announced for Georgia earlier this year.
Already, some 60 of these preliminary stud ies have been prepared covering various types of operations. The information resulting from these studies is distributed first to the firms now operating in the state, so they can investigate the possibility of expanding into some of these new fields, and then outside the state.
INTERNATIONAL SERVICES Another aid co existing industry is the International Service Unit established in the Research Division. The programs of International Service ar~ gear~d co aiding firms in Georgia which wane to initiate or expand trade in international markets.
Three trade missions have been organized this year and one has already r~sulted in n~w business for Georgia firms. As a result of the Latin American Trade Mission, one firm rec~ived a $10,000 order while still on tour. Another received a $200,000 order upon returning to Atlanta. And one company oHicial estimated that at least $500,000 in sales would be realized during t he coming year! A third company ex~cutive who ac companied the trade mission estimated that his company's annual sales would be in creas~d $150,000 -- as a di rect result of the mission .

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OTHER AGENCIES Th e Georgia State C hamber of Commerce and the Associated Industrie s of Georgia both have extensive programs for existing industry. I & T not only has a long-s tanding polic y of not competi ng with or d uplicating these efforts, but the Depa rtm ent enthusiasticall y coo perates and assists with many of these programs and those of other development groups.
In coope ration with oth e rs (notably AIG), I & T assists with the Georgia Expos ition , a st atewide trade s how for Georgia manufa c turers. "Georgia Indus try Week " is a public relation s program salu ting industry an d is s pons ored jointly by AIG and I & T . "Indus try Appreciation Week" is a similar program s ponsored by AIG, the Georgia Junior C hambe r of Commerce an d I & T.
Through the Georgia Ind ustrial Develope rs Association, I & T works with ocher deve lopme nt organi z ations to promote and assist exist ing industry and to emphasize the major role in the sta te ' s economy that existing industry pla ys . Al so, I & T st res s es to the s ta te ' s development organizations the fact that a great majority of th e new industrial jobs created each yea r co me from man ufacturing firms already operating in the s ta te.
C. Anraction of new industry .
I. Promotional activities.
The advertising bud get for the ln dus u y Division was increased t o $1 50,000 this yea r from $100,000 in 1964. Th e stat es firs t c oordinated, long -range national adverti s i ng prog ram curren tl y is be ing carried on in s uc h publications as Business Week , ~ News and Worl d Report Foitune. th e Wall St reet Journa l and ot hers. P.E.P. has been the main theme and 250 inquir ies regarding th e possible use of the P.E.P . programs ha ve been received as a res ult of th ese ads. Moreover, the advertising c ampa ign did not be"in until July , th e s tart of the fisc al year.
RED CARPET In coopera t ion with the Georgia Stat: C hamber of Commerce, I & T also promotes new in dustry via the annual "Red Carpe t Tour" of th e state. A se lec t g roup of nati onally important industrialists is g iven a week' s tour of t he s tate . The y are briefed on the industrial potential of Georgia and then actend th e Masters Golf Tournam ent, on e of th e state's oucstanding tourist attractions .

ADDITIONAL REPORTS I & T has al so contracted for a number of promotion reports on the variou s potentials of the sta te. Copi es of the most recent s tu dy, an in-depth look a t t he re se arch facilities in Georgia , now are be in g mailed to potent i al prospects.
Lik e mos t ocher i ndustry promotion programs , I & T's involves a bala nce of activities, includin g di rec t mail to selected lis ts using specific reports or brochures. In addition , I & T has its indust~ial ~e.p rese matives make perso~al .calls on prospective industry, both as a fo llow up on tnqumes and as a method of flndwg prospects . Long distance telephone is used exte nsively, mostly in follow-up contacts a nd co make appointments for pe rsona l ca ll s.
CONFERENCES Participation in and attendance at conferences a re also me thods of promotion uti lized by I & T . Re prese ntatives are sent to both area-oriented confere nces and to certain manufacturing trade shows.
2. Financ mg .
The state presently does not fwa ncidly ass ist in locating new or expanding ind ustry, but I & T keeps in close contact with bank s , insura nce companies and others involved in indust ri al financing and coordinates the securing of the necessary capital.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS Officials of I & T also keep in touc h with the officers of the many industttal development corporations th roughout th e s tate . Over half the countie s in the state and man y local communities have corp ora t ions to promote new and assist exis t ing ind ustry. Th e primary activity of th ese c orporations , .act ua l ly, is t he developmenc of 1ndusuial si tes , speculative buildings and , in some cases, financing of equ i pme nt.
In addition, many cities and cou nt ies have approved local constitutional amendments pe rm itting the operation of public ind ustnal a uthorities. These authorities can cons truct , lease or se ll buildings and offer certa in ocher assistance to tndus try, us 1ng reve nue anticipation bonds to finance projects.
PR OPOSED L EG ISLATION I & T is preparing tw o financial meas ures to be s ubmitt ed to the next legisla tive session . One suggested bill would c reat e a Busi ness Development Co rpora tion capitalized by insu rance companies a nd other lendi ng agencies. This private corporation would lend money Cor machinery or materials purc ha sed and for operat ing ca pital.

The other proposed bill would c reate and fund the Georgia Industrial Corporation , a public agency whi c h would be permitted to le nd money to nonprofit local groups to buy and option sites and build industrial facilities,
VII . THE PRO GRA M'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETHICAL STA T URE AND PRA CTI CE OF INDUSTR IAL DEVELOPMENT.
A. E thic al stan da rds.
It is the official policy of I & T to insis t not only on factual information in all presentations (in cluding advertising ), but als o co demand chat comple te information be inc lu ded. Hones ty and fairness is expected of all employees in all dealings, especially with in dus trial prospects or area developme nt groups. Moreover , ge ne ral ities will nor s uffi ce in presentations , wr iu en or oral , wh e th er directed at one indi vidual or a mass audience. Spec ifi cs are th e base of I & T' s cl aim to hig h ethical s tandards.
B. Indoctrination of own and other personne l engaged in indus trial development.
Eac h indus trial deve lopment repres entative of I & T is requ ired to undergo an e xamination by the Georgia Merit Sys tem before he can be employe d on a permanent ba s is. This exam ina tion which the Department worked out with th e Georgia Merit Sys tem s tresses a numbe r of et hi cal factors suc h as truth in presenta tion and empha sis on fact ra the r than ge neralities wh e n contacting i ndus tria l prospects.
CONTACT WITH OTHER GROUPS Other personnel who are in contact with the public are encouraged to observe high s tandards of integrity in all th e programs of I & T. One of the mos t important programs is a se ries of area planning and developmen t con ferences inaugurated chis year. Thes e conferences are "What To" and "How To" work s hops dealing with planning and development of multi-coun c.y area s . I & T encourages the use of up-to-da te, factual s tatis ti cal information and verifi ed pre s entations in all of th ese conferences.

chis is a good way to discoura ge any first-rate industrial prospects."'

AID TO OTHER COUNTRIES

In a wi der sc ale , I & T has helped promote et hi c al s tan dards in other pans of the

world. Th e Uni ted States Department' s Agency for In terna ti onal Development has as one

of its man y glo bal responsib ili t ies the Alliance for Prog ress and is providing technica l

assistance programs in the development field. Unde r this effort , Latin American develop-

ment officials are brought to th is country to learn the basics of industrial development. I & T has mad e presentations to seve ral groups of these officials from different countries ,

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and in all of these orienta t ion programs th e sa me high s tandards of J & Tare stressed to

th ese officials.

C. Recomme ndations for raising e th ic al s tandards ge nerally.

Perhaps the best way co rai se ethical standards generally in this complex business of industrial developme nt would be to de fin e speci fica lly what is conside red eth ical and wha t is noL Everyone can be against si n, but when ic comes down t o spec ifics, it' s often a different story.

A clearly defined declaration of what is ethical in th e conduct of bus iness in the developme nt field , wh a t s houl d be done and wh at s hould not, certa inly would be one good way to promote et hical sta ndards.

The Society of In dustrial Realtors woul d be ideal for chis; SIR could form a com mittee to formulate such a creed and promote its use through its members and publications .

I & T also has a presentation it makes to local g roups concerning the organization and activation of a loc al indu s uial development program. Ethics , again, are stressed in thi s pre semation. One of the s tatement s indicates the tone of the presentation: "Think posi ti vely; boost your town and ics advantages. Don't downgrade other places , because
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RGIA PROGRESS
THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE Volume 2, No. 3
EEP GEORGIA NTHE GROW
Qtso featured this month
ATLANTA STADIUM

CONTENTS
VIEWPOINT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
New and Expanding Industry __________________________________________________4, 12, 13 FEATURES
Tribute to Georgia Industry ---------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Atomic Wood - New Economic Asset ----------------------------------------------- 7 Atlanta Stadium- Big Business -------------------------------------------------------- 9 BUSINESS PROFILES Georgia Construction Exceeds $ 1 Billion ---------------------------------------- 6 AVIATION ADVANCES Continued Airport Development --------------------------------------------------------- 8 INTERNATIONAL SERVICES Import Market Items on Bid -------------------------------------------------------------- 10 TOURIST TOPICS Year-round Project: Make Georgia Beautiful ---------------------------------- 11 HERE AND THERE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14
Rosser Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Editor Dona Ademy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Managing Editor Robert Alford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Artist Sarah Conner -----------------------------------------------------------------------Contributing Editor GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
COVER: This month's cover depicts the tremendous upward surge of industry in Georgia. As part of the Georgia Industry Month promotion, sirnila:f window posters were strategically placed throughout the State to "Keep Georgia on the Grow."

PILED BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDI,JSTRY AND TRADE

VIEW POINT
EDITOR'S NOTE:
This is the first in a series of articles dedicated to industrial pmmotion. It is the purpose of these articles to explain the techniques th e State of Georgia employs in encouraging and en listing new industries. Initially, the guest editors will be I & T's industrial representatives. We hope in this way, our industrially oriented readen will become acquainted with th e men who can best serve them in any facet of Georgia development, secwing new firms, expanding present facilities or solving employment problems.
This month's guest columnist is Robert G. Worden, recent ly named Director of the Industry Division of I & T. Mr. Worden, a native of West Virginia, came to Gemgia as an executive with Associated Industries of Gemgia, whe1eupon he was named to his presen t post.
Bob Worden's wide experience in industrial and community development work made him a natural choice to head up the important team of industrial representatives who specialize in making Georgia the pacesetter of th e South. Eighteen months ago, I & T had only one full-time industrial representative and now the Industry Division has seven such industrial developers.
We hope this series will enlighten you on the program going on in th e I & T Department in its function as an important agent of the people.
Importance of
Industrial Development
As Director of the Department of Industry and Trade's Industry Division, it is my job to promote the development of new manufacturing plants within the State and to encourage the expansion of the plants now located in Georgia. This activity is carried on by an assistant director, six industrial representatives and six interrelated divisions of I & T.
A functional and effective industrial development program depends on many things and many people. In one way or another, nearly everyone in Georgia affects Robt. G. Worden Georgia's success or failure in ac9uiring new business. With this number of people Involved in the outcome of industrial development,

we can see the importance of h aving coordina ted -and cooperative industrial development organizationsorganizations with the interest of every area of the State in mind.
There are a number of organizations working full time to acquire new industry for Georgia. These organiz-ations are chambers of commerce, banks, educational institutions, railroads, utilities and area planning commissions. Also, many private associations work full-time to maintain a profitable business climate.
Georgia needs new industries for the following reasons: the decline of 95,000 farm jobs since 1955; the average increase of 32,780 people entering the labor market yearly; added revenue for government services; and an increase in per capita income.
Most areas in the State are uncrowded and therefore, lend themselves to indus-trial development. Previously, manufacturing concerns have hesitated in locating industries in rural communities because of a lack of recreational and cultural -activities needed to attract and hold technical and management people. This is no longer the case. Proximity to the workman's job allows him more leisure time to take advantage of Georgia's excellent recreational facilities.
The community must play its part in industrial development by putting its best foot forward and maintaining an attractive community; providing good public facilities; planning and developing industrial sites; educating a civic-minded community; and promoting a healthy business climate. The result will be a balance in residential, industrial and commercial activities necessary for steady community growth.
The Industry Division's main concern is locating new manufacturing plants in Georgia, as well as assisting the existing industries. While the selection of a new industrial site is the final decision of the industrialist, our industrial representatives make every effort to assist the prospect in locating in a community that will best meet all his requirements. If one community is unable to land the prospect, then every effort should be made to locate the industry in another area- thus everyone in Georgia benefits. Intrastate competition for industry is good, provided the ind~s try locates in Georgia regardless of which commumty is chosen. Conclusively, a cooperative effort among the various organizations and communities throughout the State will result in a profitable and prosperous fu ture for all of Georgia.
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EXPANSION
Southern Bell Announces
Large Expansion
More than $86.5 million will be spent in 1966 for expansion and capital improvement programs by Southern Bell Telephone and T elegraph. The large outlay of funds marks the seventh consecutive year the company h as earmarked a record allowance for expansion in Georgia. Two of the projects included in the 1966 expansion budget are already under way. Construction began during J anuary on a $3.5 million electronic switching center in A tlanta scheduled to start service in midl967. This will be one of the first facilities of its kind in the nation.
The second project under way is a $2 million addition to the company's office building in Macon. Other building additions have been approved for Albany, Americus, Valdosta, Thomasville, Madison, Marietta, Barnesville, Carrollton and Savannah.
Gainesville Expands Airport
The Gainesville City Council has adopted plans to expand the city's airport and to construct an industrial park on the airport property.
Construction and land acquisition at the Gainesville airport is expected to amount to $ 1.5 million over the next ten years. The money will be provided through city, FAA, Appalachia and the new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing funds. Approximately $95,000 will be spent during this year on repai-rs and acquisition of land.
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EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state
100 more households 91 additional school age children
97 more motor vehicles
165 more persons working in trades servicing the main industry
$2l29,000 in additional b:tnk deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes
Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. ...
NEW INDUSTRY
New Plant for Lawrencevi lie
Industrial Park
A new Lawrenceville plant, which will eventually employ 60 workers, will be located in the Lawrenceville Industrial P ark. The company, Georgian Art Metal Manufacturing, will be housed in ,a 15,000square-foot building. Construction of the building will begin this month and is expec ted to be finished in ninety days. Georgian Art will move from its present location in Chamblee. The company produces metal electric lanterns for homes, businesses and hotels.
Kinnett Dairies Breaks
Ground for New Plant
Kinnett Dairies is pl anning a new milk plant and general office building for H arris County near H amilton. The facility will occupy approximately 40,000 square feet and will cost an estimated $500,000. The anticipated date for completion has been set for October 15. The need for expansion has been a result of Kinnett's con tinuing growth in the milk business. According to company officials, 1965 was the biggest year in history for milk sales by the company. At present the company produces 28,000 qu arts per day in an existing plant in Harris County and the capaci ty of the new plan t is designed for 200,000 quarts of milk daily. The exact number of new employees has not been determined at this time.
Crews Pour Foundation
For Riegel Textile
Workmen have started pouring the concrete foundations for the giant Riegel Textile Company mill scheduled to begin operation at Alto near Cornelia this fall. Riegel expects to move into the new building late in the summer and its spinning and weaving machines are scheduled to be ready for operation in September. The mill will employ some 400 people when it begins operation.
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s A-pr1"I .1n Georg1.a Is pe II ed "I -n-d-u-s-t-r-yII

Industry comes in for a double measure of attention in April with the 1Oth consecutive observance of GEORGIA INDUSTRY MONTH and the
6th annual RED CARPET INDUSTRIAL TOUR of the State.

Georgia Industry Month
In recognition of the important role industry play? in Georgia's economic progress, Governor Carl E. Sanders has proclaimed April as GEORGIA INDUSTRY MoNTH. This year's salute to industry will be held throughout the entire month of April; the nine previous observances were week-long.
The purpose of Georgia ln<;lustry Month is to emphasize the impact of industry upon the State's economy; to stress the necessity of maintaining a healthy business climate; to create an awareness of the quality and quantity of Georgia-made products; and to support and encourage the men and women working in Georgia industry.
Georgia Industry Month is sponsored jointly by the Associated Industries of Georgia, the Georgia Jaycees and the Department of Industry and Trade. A number of the 178 Jaycee organizations in the State have pledged to promote Georgia Industry Month programs in their localities.
These activities include plant tours; exhibits and displays of Georgia-made products; a month-long observance proclaimed by the mayor; media coverage of local projects and o~her special promotions. Instruction Kits were distributed to the Jaycees by A.I.G. and the Industry and Trade Department outlining p11ocedures for a successful local program. The two agencies also are providing attractive 24-sheet outdoor billboards and window posters (see cover illustration) urging citizens to "Keep Georgia on the Grow."
In his proclamation, the Governor called "... upon all citizens to give personal encouragement and support to everyone working in Georgia industry, particularly during this month-long salute to the most vital factor in the progress of our State."

Red Carpet Tour
While Georgia Industry Month was getting under way, 32 executives from some of the country's major industrial corporations were taking a three-day RED CARPET TouR of the State.
Originated in 1960, the Red Carpet Tour offers participants a combined ground and aerial inspection of Georgia's industrial advantages. The guests were accompanied by more than 40 Georgia businessmen who, along with Governor Carl Sanders, served as hosts.
This year's itinerary, which covered 75 communities, began in Atlanta and ended in Augusta where guests saw the last round of the famed Mas.ters Golf Tournament.
The Red Carpet Tour is sponsored by the Industrial Development Council of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce, the Department of Industry and Trade and more than 20 other statewide agencies active in industrial development.
Companies represented on the 1966 Red Carpet Tour were: Ajr Reduction Company; Allied Chemical Corporation; Anaconda Aluminum; Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation; Beech Aircraft; Boss Manufacturing Company; Brunswick Corporation; Dow Chemical; General Time; Green Giant Company; Gulf Oil; Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing; IBM; International Paper Company; Jantzen Southern; The Kendall Company; Kimberly-Clark; Kordite Corporation; Maxson Electronics; Mobil Chemical Company; Monsanto Company; National Gypsum; New Jersey Zinc; OwensCorning Fiberglas; Packaging Corporation of America; Pet Milk; A. G. Spalding & Brothers; United-Carr; U. S. Steel; Valspar Corporation; and Whirlpool.

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BUSINESS PROFILES
Georgia Exceeds $1 Billion
Level 1n Construction
For the third consecutive year, Georgia exceeded the $1 billion level in construction awards in 1965. This was accomplisheq while being one of only two states to h ave an increase in construction awards over 1964. North Carolina was the other. Both residential and nonresidential construction increased during I965, while non-building awards decreased . It appears that construction awards for the total building category will exceed $1 billion in 1961:i for the first time. This category has nearly doubled betwee n 1961 and 1965 with equal gains scored in the residential and nonresidential areas.
A similar note occurred in the nonresidential category throughout the State; nonresidential construction increased by 2.3 per ce nt between 1964 and 1965. However, with the six metropolitan areas, this category decreased by 3.7 per cent. This meant that the rest of the State contributed 18.7 per cent toward the nonresidential category to provide the increase in sta te awards.
Another trend noticed during 1965 was in residential building throughout the State. In grouping this type of construction for the six metropolitan areas, it may be noticed nhat while this category increased, that part of the Sta te outside or exclusive of the metropolitan areas increased significantly more. It is the difference of 1.4 per cent for the metropolitan areas versus a 20.7 per cent increase for the rest of the State. Statewide, the increase was 9.6 per cent. One has to remember the amount of substandard housing existing in the State which needs replacing as well as the degree of mobility and growth of the population within the State.
The decentralization of construction awards outside the metropolitan area is encouraging. It indicates a more widespread prosperity throughout the entire State with no loss to the growth of the metropolitan centers.
(The data upon which th e above is based was comp iled by F. W. Dodge Company.)
Recent Farm Labor Trends
Farm labor decreased in Georgia again in 1965, as reported by the United States Department of Agriculture. The annual average of farm workers reached a new low of 139,000 from the 152,000 estimated in 1964. Surprisingly, the greatest impact appeared in the hired workers category with a net decrease nearly as great as family workers, which involves over twice as many people. The state figures for 1965 by category were 139,000, total farm labor; 101,000 for family workers, and 38,000 for hired workers. Comparable figures for 1964 were 152,000 for total farm labor; 108,000 for family workers, and 44,000 for hired workers.
The significance of this information is that practically all of these workers who dropped out of the farm labor force had probably been marginally employed as marginal farmers or farm help. Whereas, if these
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members of the labor force h ad been gainfully employed elsewhere, they might have made a greater contribution to a more fully employed economy. This is the basic difference between employment and undere m p lo ym e n t .
DAVID BAIRD
I & T R esearch Division
General Electric Will Hold
Stockholders Meet in Atlanta
General Electric will hold its 74th annual meeting of share owners in Atlanta April 27, 1966.
The event, scheduled for Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium, will mark the first time that one of the nation's top five industrial companies has held its share owners' meeting in Georgia's capital ci ty.
It will also be the first annual meeting of the big electrical and electronics firm to be held in the South and the fifth to be held outside of New York State.
The meeting is expected to draw upwards of 1,500 G.E. share owners from Georgia and neighboring states.
General Electric is the world's largest electrical equipmen t manufacturer and fourth ranking among U. S. industri al companies.
R egion al Vice Pres iden t T. K. Edenfield said G.E.'s decision to hold its annual meeting here was based on the "Southeast's growing significance as a major market for electrical products .. . Georgia's enlightened political leadership and excellen t economic climate . . . and Atlanta's importance as the business and cultural center of the new South."
Moreover, h e added, "A tl anta is situ ated in the geo graphical heart of an area in which our company ha been expanding rapidly in terms of employees, payrolls and facilities, and in which significant numbers of G.E. stockholders reside."
Pointing out that more than 35,000 G.E. share owners live in the seven-state Sou.theast, the G.E. spokesman said that scheduling the 1966 annual mee ting in Atl anta is in line with the company's policy of making it possible for share owners in various areas of the U. S. to participate in the important business activities of the meeting.
Two Atlantans, J. Paul Au stin, President of Coca
Cola Company, and Dr. Edwin D. Harrison, President of Georgia Tech, now serve on G.E.'s Board of Directors.
Rohr Awarded $40 Million
Lockheed Contract
Rohr Corporation h as been awarded a subcontract valued at more than $40 million by Lockheed-Georgia Company. The contrac t is for production of engine pylons and nacelles fur the C5-A Fanjet transport. R ohr will produce the pylons and nacelles at its Chula Vista, Calif., and Winder plants. R ohr won the subcontract in competition with North American Avia tion and the Con vair Division of General Dyn a mics .

Atomic Wood New Economic Asset

l n the quest for new industry, the State. of Georgia
has hit upon a ne~ natural ~esource ~h1ch has the potential of beco~ung on.: of 1t~ most m!"p<>rtant ec~ nomic assets. Chnstened Atom1c Wood, the combi-

nation plastic and wood material, has recently been

perfected by the. Atomic Energy Co~missio~.

.

Atomic Wood 1s best adaptable for mdustnal appli-

cations by using radiation to harden a plastic after it

has been impregnated in liquid or gaseous form into

the substrate of wood. This new wood-plastic combi-

nation emphasizes the best qualities of wood and plastic, while .dimi~ishing the undesirable character-

istics of both matenals.

Several species of wood can be combined with many

kinds of plastics to create a multitude of new and dif-

feren t alloy materials. These go beyond replacing

wood in manufacturing; in many instances, they com-

pete favorably with metal, solid plastic and other

materials in fabricating a variety of products.

The wood-plastics offer great potentials for resi-

den are

taialsl ~

industrial and commercial construction. They well suited for production of such diverse

items as golf club heads, caskets, school furniture,

baseball bats, boats, automobile parts, warehouse

pallets and railroad crossties.

More than 75 Georgia industrialists recently at-

tended a one-day meeting in Atlanta to discuss efforts

of the U . S. Atomic Energy Commission to develop

and commercialize new wood-plastic combination

(WPC) materials. The meeting was sponsored by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, th~
Georgia State Chamber ? Commerce an~ the ~ngi
neering Experiment Statwn of the Georgia Instltute

of Technology. The group of distinguished Georgia

industriaHsts was briefed by A.E.C. officials and Bud

Ruhl of Pan American Consulting Corporation on the

potentials of the revolutionary wood-pla&tic process.

justin Bloom, Chief, Radiation Applications. Branch, Division of Isotopes Development, .U. S. Atomzc Energy Commission, discusses the propertzes of W. P. C. materials with Phil Flynn of WA~A-TV n.ews.. A number ~f items made of wood-plastzc combmatwn were dzsplayed at the meeting.
The results of the meeting proved the potential , success of incorporating and promoting such an industry in Georgia. Questions covered every facet and potential of the product. The results brought.out the following points of interest from those attendmg:
The A. E. C. representatives stated how far the commission would go toward engineering and financing the building of atomic wood plants.
Mr. Joseph E. Machurek, A.E.C. spokesman, pointed out that.the _commission w~mld offer a coo~er ative program with mdustry to bulld a demonstration plant for wood-plastics.
Mr. James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive ?irecto~ of I & T , emphasized that the State of Georgia was m a leadership position in a new fi~ld: He said ~ha~ "the process is as important to existmg Georgia mdustry as it is in the creation of new industry." ~~ Nutter further stated that "the I & T Research DIVIsion is moving ahead to develop a program of industrial assistance in this new technology."
Georgia is tentatively on. the ~reshold of cr~ating a great new industry if Georgia busmessmen and mdustrialists throughout the State support the consensus expressed at this one-day meeting.

Left to right: Dr. Wyatt Whitley, Director of Georgia T ech's Engineering Experim~nt Station, .and Buford R uhl, President of Pan Amencan Consultmg Croporation, and james H. Nutter, ]r., Executive Directm, Depmtment of Industry and Trade.

joseph E. Machurek, Assistant to t~e_l!irect?r! .Planning and Evaluation of Contract Actzvztzes, Dzvzswn of Isotopes Development, Atomic Energy Commission, addressing the businessmen gathered for the W. P. C. evaluation meeting.

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AVIATION ADVANCES
Airport Development
Continues in Georgia
The State of Georgia presently has seven airports under construction. These are widely scattered and represent a cross-section of the communities in the State. In various stages of completion are:
Pine Mountain-Callaway Gardens Airport at Pine Mountain, Harris County; Claxton Airport at Claxton, Evans County; Madison Airport at Madison, Morgan County; Cedartown Airport at Cedartown, Polk County; Telfair-Wheeler Airport at McRae, Telfair County; Jackson County Airport at Jefferson, Jackson County; Louisville Airport at Louisville, Jefferson County.
There are thirteen other community airports projecting improvement and expansion for the coming year:
Calhoun, Gordon County; Eastman, Dodge County; Ellijay, Gilmer County; Nahunta, Brantley County; Nashville, Berrien County; Baxley, Appling County; Blakely, Early County; Butler, Taylor County; Millen, Jenkins County; Wrens, Jefferson County; Thomaston, Upson County; Monroe, Walton County; and Columbus Municipal, Muscogee County.
Adding their names to these projects, the airports of Alma-Bacon County and Waynesboro-Burke County are about to begin construction, having opened bids for their construction work.
Those which have been completed and are now awaiting dedication include:
Carrollton Municipal, Carroll County; Fitzgerald Municipal, Ben Hill County; Thomson-McDuffie at Thomson, McDuffie County; Cairo-Grady County at Cairo, Grady County; Cochran Municipal, Bleckley County; J esup-Wayne County, Jesup, Wayne County; Metter Municipal, Candler County; Washington County at Sandersville; Cherokee County at Canton; Roosevelt Memorial at Warm Springs, Meriwether County; Gwinnett Cqunty at Lawrenceville; Jekyll Island Airport, Glynn County; Newnan-Coweta County at Newnan, Coweta County.
Georgia has corr1e a long way in the development of these small community airports with a total of 27 counties participating in this program. The formula of State and Federal participation plus community interest and enthusiasm, is fast making aviation available to more and more areas in the State.
Funds Ready for
Columbus Airport
State and Federal matching funds for the proposed $243,940 Columbus Industrial Airport are all set according to John Bennett, Director of the Aviation Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. The new airport will be constructed by the City of Columbus on a site adjacent to the present municipal airport on Victory Drive and will have a 4,000-foot runway. According to Mr. Bennett, the next step in the preconstruction program is for the city
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government and its engineers to draw up specifications and present them to the Federal Aviation Agency for approval. The airport will be in the center of an industrial airpark and will be one of the few industrial si,tes in the nation with access to air, water, and rail transportation. The total Federal funds for the project have amounted to $121,790. State government will put up $25,000 and the city will provide the remainder of the money.
The Federal Airport Plan
Sharing the Wealth Program
Georgia's outstanding record in airport development can be attributed in large part to the Federal Airport Act of 1964 which provides financial assistance to states, local governments and public agencies. The specific purpose of the Federal Aid Airport Program is to assist any community in the development of its airport so that it will qualify as part of "a system of public airports adequate to anticipate and meet the needs of civil aeronautics."
There are four separate Federal grants which apply to specific community airport programs. Allocations may be used for advance planning and engineering. They provide for airport development in the areas of land acquisition; site preparation; reconstruction of runways, taxiways, aprons and certain roads within airport boundaries; and the major job of adequately lighting and marking the runway.
Besides the 50 per cent Federal and 25 per cent each, local and state, there is also a Federal Airport Grant that will cover up to 75 per cent of the cost of specified landing aids at major airports. Finally, there is a 100 per cent Federal grant which may be allocated to major airports for safety installation of mechanized landing equipment.
Applicants, called "sponsors," may include states, counties, municipalities and other public agencies. To be eligible for the program, airport plans must meet the requirements of the National Airport Plan. This plan is revised annually by the Federal Aviation Agency.
The Aviation Division of I & T has been instrumental in the acquisition and dispersion of many such grants throughout the State. This State agency works closely with the local sponsor in the formative stages of a project and is helpful in obtaining State matching funds by keying the sponsor's application to FAA requirements.
Under the amount of Federal money available, $75 million annually has been authorized by Congress for fiscal years 1965 through 1967. Each year, $25 million in Discretionary Funds is budgeted for statewide competition.
With a minimum of $900,000 annually, Georgia actually received $5,768,693 for the fiscal year of 1966. A large part of this money was awarded Georgia from the Administrator's Discretionary Fund.
Further information concerning airport development can be obtained from Airports Branch, Atlanta Area Office, Federal Aviation Agency, P. 0. Box 29636, Atlanta, Georgia 30320.

Big Business Booming
At the Atlanta Stadium
There is a flurry of activity at the Atlanta Stadium as preparations are made to host the thousands of fans expected to cheer the Braves during their first season in Atlanta.
It's no easy task to seat and satisfy the great influx of people who will attend the forthcoming spectator sports at the stadium. Some 1,200 people have been hired for the peak season to serve capacity crowds of 51,424 baseball fans and 56,990 football fans. This represents a tremendous economic boost to part-time and full-time employment in the Atlanta area.
The Stadium Club level which houses the Stadium Manager's offices, Falcons' and Braves' offices and press facilities.

Above: The gigantic structural steel girders project a modern-day Parthenon of architectural beauty.

Th e stadium pictured against the background of the State Capitol and the booming downtown Atlanta area.

Final preparations being made for the opening of a new era in Georgia sports.
The big business boom at the stadium started with its construction in 1964. The building of the facility involved an $18 million sum which was an actual economic return to many Georgia businesses and industries. Owned by the Atlanta and Fulton County Recreation Authority, the stadium was designed by two Georgia architectural firms: Heery and Heery; and Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal.
The construction contract went to Thompson and Street Company of Atlanta and Charlotte for $13,247,000. The gigantic transformers, which power the intricate lighting system of the stadium, were constructed by the General Electric Medium Transformer Plant at Rome. Fifteen G. E. transformers provide the electrical power needed to light the huge stadium.

Empty silence surrounds the stadium until the onrush of anxious fans arrive to welcome major league sports to Georgia.
One of the largest food catering services in the nation will be handling the project of feeding and quenching the thirst of the multitude of fans. Automatic Retailers of America, Inc., will have 500 people engaged in running 32 buffet-style refreshment centers and three gourmet centers.
With the Coaches All-America Game, the Falcons football season, and other entertainment programs planned for the coming year - thousands of people will flock into Atlanta and Georgia. This activity at the Atlanta Stadium is not merely a game of fun; there's big business involved for all of Georgia.
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INTER-NATIONAL SERVICE

The workshop will meet at Georgia State College on Tuesday nights from 5:30 to 8:30, with a recess foe dinner. Interested persons should contact Mrs. R ose Cunningham of the World Trade Council, At. lanta Chamber of Commerce a_t 521-0845.
Fee for the course and basic reference materials is $25.

A glimpse of the traveling Georgia ambassa_dors w~o journeyed to the Far East wzth the ob7ectzve of zncreasing foreign trade within the State . From the happy fa ces, it must have been a successful venture. Hong Kong was the third port-of-call on th e monthlong mission. From there they went to Manzla, Tokyo , Osaka and Singapore, returning to Atlanta on Decem be1 23. Plans are now under way for a similar mission to Scandinavia in th e fall . Th e distinguish ed Georgia emissa1ies standing, left to right, are R alph A . Dudley, PeterS. Knox, Virgin ia Allgood, W . R. M cKelvey and Dr. Fred W . L ieu.
World Trade Council
Sponsoring Export Seminar
The World Trade Council of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce begins an export trade seminar for Georgia businessmen this month. Members of I & T and the U. S. Department of Commerce Field Office wi ll cooperate with the Chamber in presenting the eight-week workshop, which begins April 19 and runs through June 7.
Designed for businessmen interested in initiating or expanding their international trade, the course offers expert information on export marketing and shipping. Topics for discussion include foreign trade restrictions; federa l, state and looal assistance available to exporters; export financing; freight forwarding; marine insurance, and international licensing. Gen eral moderator for the Workshop is Cui Govaert, Chairman, Workshop Committee of the World Trade Council.
Experienced specialists in the various aspects of international trade, representing federal and state governmental agencies as well as private industry, will compose the panels to speak at each meeting. Moderators for the weekly panels are Dale Henson of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Ernest Ogram of Georgia State College; Arthur P. L eonard and Francis Martinez, U . S. Department of Commerce Field Office; Bill H ernandez of the C & S Bank; and Colonel Victor Alden.
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Items Open for Bid
On the Import Market
J. R . W. Greenwood, Commercial Officer for the British Consulate-General in Atlanta, has announced interest on the part of a British firm in manufactur. ing in the United States under a licensing agreement. The company has developed a self-contained por table machine for mixing and applying polyurethane foam, which is used primarily for foam insulation in building domestic and industrial refrigeration equipment, motor vehicle bodies, and for thermal insulation in processing industries. Georgia firms interested in the proposal should contact the British Consulate-General, Atlanta Merchandising Mart, for further details.
Beginning in April, the British Consulate will publish a periodical list of NEW PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES developed in Britain and seeking agents for distribution in the United States. Following is a selection from recent items on the list:
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - Combines large depth of focus with resolutions down to 200 angstroms.
GLANDLESS PLASTIC P uMP - Withstands constant boiling water.
Low-PRICED TELEMETRY EQUIPMENT - Has unique design features.
SAFETY SAw BENCH - H andles wood, asbestos and bricks.
FoRK LIFT CLAMP - Grips unpalleted bricks of unequal size.
INTERSETTER INsTALLATION - Designed for web offset presses.
VERSATILE GARDEN CuLTIVATOR - Fits household power drill.
HosPITAL STERILIZER - H as low-vacuum, high-efficiency operation.
FLASH STRIPPER - Finishes butt-welded pipes and bars faster.
L uxuRY HoME ON WHEELS - H as garage for minicar and chauffer's quarters.
ELECTRONICALLY- CoNTROLLED DRIVES - For DC motors.
TWENTY-EIGHT-POUND ALUMINUM WHEELCHAIR Folds and dismantles for easy h andling.
AEROSOL SPRAYS - Makes trouser creases and skirt pleats permanent.

TOURIST TOPICS
Tri bute to St. Patrick's Day
More than Irish eyes were smiling at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Atlanta when lovely "Miss See Georgia First," L ee Ann Denmark, donned the traditional festive green and marched with other leprechauns down Peachtree.
Georgia Tourist Figures Much Higher
Attendance at major travel attractions in Georgia in 1965 exceeded nine million, an increase of 16.2 per cent over 1964 visitation. This is the largest single year increase in a five-year period of canvassing travel attractions in a Georgia Travel Barometer survey for the Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Over the five-year period, attendance jumped 45.2 per cent at these attractions, an average annual increase of 11.3 per cent.
"We are pleased and thrilled in seeing more and more tourists visit Georgia every year," commented Bill Hardman, Director of I & T's Tourist Division. Mr. Hardman added, "We look on the ever increasing tourist business in the state as the result of cooperative projects conducted by a number of tourist promotion agencies."
The Travel Barometer survey began in 1961 with 13 major Georgia attractions scattered all over the State, and was expanded to 17 attractions and changed from a quarterly to a monthly report this year. Attractions cooperating in the survey include: State Parks of Georgia, Georgia historical attractions, Stone Mountain Park, Callaway Gardens, Cyclorama, Dahlon ega Gold Museum, Fort Frederica, Juliette Gordon Lowe birthplace, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield, the Little White House, Stone Mountain Plantation, Fort Pulaski, Rock City Gardens, Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad, Stone Mountain Skylift, Lake Spivey and Tanners Beach.
Estimates for the Travel Barometer survey are prepared for the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade Tourist Division by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research of the University of Georgia as part of the Bureau's con tinuing research in tourism.

Museum to Be Monument
To Ra iIroad Industry
The Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society has announced the creation of a new museum to be designed after the old Atlanta Union Station, which was destroyed by Sherman during the Civil War.
The museum will be named the Southeastern Railway Historical Museum and will display such relics as Civil War period locomotives, passenger and freight cars, streetcars and one old bus which the society now owns.
The railway attraction will be located on a 12-acre tract located on U. S. Highway 23 at Lake Berkeley Road, about 500 feet from the Southern Railway mainline.
Governor Carl Sanders, who announced the gift, said the museum would "create a permanent monument to the employees of the Georgia railroad industry." The museum is expected to be one of Georgia's most popular tourist attractions. A 1964 traffic count revealed that 5,116 cars passed the site each day and on adjacent Interstate 85, three miles away, some 16,434 cars were counted during the same period.
Make Georgia Beautiful
Year-Round Project
The 1966 "Make Georgia Beautiful Month" has resulted in the most successful program thus far. Through the sponsorship of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service and I & T, 708,000 trees and shrubs have been added to the Georgia landscape.
Dogwoods, redbuds and other ornamental trees were planted throughout the State by some 2,086 community clubs and organizations. Miles of roadsides were scavenged for litter by statewide 4-H Club members and 65 cooperative beautification committees.
The advertising campaign ran at full speed during the entire month of January with the radio, T.V. and newspaper media promoting the program. "MAKE GEORGIA BEAUTIFUL" billboards were set up at 310 strategic highway locations encouraging traveling motorists to participate in the program.
As part of the expanded program of activities for the 1966 campaign, a much larger group of supporters and cooperating sponsors joined in the campaign. The Georgia Forestry Commission, State Highway Department, Nurserymen's Association, Garden Club of Georgia, Women's Clubs of Georgia, Associated Industries of Georgia and the State Department of Education youth groups were represented at statewide meetings in Atlanta, pooling their resources to make Georgia one of the most beautiful states in the South.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

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Rome Antenna Firm

Ri vers ide Mfg. Expands

Planning New Expansion

The Riverside Manufacturing Company at Riverside will expand its main plant and increase the production of permanent press uniforms by possibly 35 per cent. The contract has been let to the Barber Contracting Company of Moultrie for .an addition to the plant, which will increase the floor space by 23,000 square feet. The new building will expand the River-

Plans for an expansion of Kay-Townes Antenna Company are expected to be completed within a few weeks. This is Kay-Townes' third major expansion in the last ten years. The company is currently negoti. ating with Superior Electronics of Montreal, Canada - a large independent maker of television picture tubes - to distribute Kay-Townes Antennas.

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side plant to a total of 93,000 square feet upon com-

The Rome plant, which presently employs 90

pletion in July. Some 25 to 30 people will be employed

people, would supply Superior with television an-

by Riverside when the expansion is completed. Rivco,

tennas until Superior's new plant is completed at

a Division of Riverside Industries, is now engaged in

Montreal. The antenna company also revealed plan

doubling its production of pants for marketing to

for another major expansion of facilities in the near

industrial laundries for rental purposes. Rivco pro-

future. The new operation would probably be sched-

duces pants for the industrial laundry trade while

uled to be based somewhere in the Southeast. Details

Riverside Manufacturing Company manufactures the

were also disclosed for a proposed Kay-Townes man-

shirts. Some 25 to 30 new employees will be needed

ufacturing plant in Puerto Rico announced in 1965,

when Rivco completes its accelerated operation. River-

but operations have not begun yet. Part of the expan-

side's equipment expansion will allow the plant to

sion is attributed to the fact that larger antennas are

produce an additional 7,500 garments per day.

now being used, not only in fringe reception area ,

but near broadcast stations because they result in

better color reception. Kay-Townes operations began

Delta Jet Ba se Expanding

a t th e Rome plant ten years ago with 20 employees. The company operates from a 25,000-square-foot build-

Construction is now under way on the 372,360square-foot expansion of Delta Air Lines' "Jet Base"

ing that was last expanded by 6,000 square feet in 1965.

located at the Atlanta Airport. This expansion repre-

sents a 90 per cent increase of the present facility and will accommodate the "stretched" version of the DC-8

$2 Million Expansion Planned

and DC-9. C. E. \1\Toolman, Chairman of the Board and Chief

By Chicopee Manufacturing

e a

Executive Officer, stated that the $6,200,000 project is

The Chicopee Manufacturing Company of Gaines-

a

scheduled to be completed in the early spring of 1968.

ville has announced plans for a major expansion of

The program is being financed with City of Atlanta

its cotton mill operations. Chicopee's parent company,

Special Purpose Airport Revenue Bonds, with prin-

Johnson a nd Johnson, h as approved the $2 mill ion

cipal and interest payable entirely by Delta.

expansion . Approximately 150 new jobs will be cre-

When the maintenance center is completed, 18

ated. An additional 100,000 square feet will be added

acres will be housed under one roof .and subdivided

to the present building and production capacity will

into six major departments: Maintenance, Engineer-

be increased by approximately 25 per cent. Machinery

ing, Inspection , Stores, Technical Operations Facilities

installation is scheduled to begin at the new plant in

and Technical Operations Planning. Employment is January or February of 1967.

expected to total 2,751 at the end of 1966.

Delta's fleet of jets has expanded from nine to a fleet of 94 with 29 more on order.

H. R. Kaminsky Expands

begins on $6 million

One of Ben Hill County and Fitzgerald's largest

industries, H . R. Kaminsky and Sons, will increase

thei1: production of quality men's trousers by some

50 per cent. An addition will be added to the present

building which houses the Fitzgerald firm. The plant

now employs more than 75 workers in its operation.

The company is represented throughout the United

States, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Netherland

Antilles by a sales force of some 30 men who call on

retail stores, department stores and specialty shops

throughout the country. Kaminsky has been part of

the Ben Hill-Fitzgerald economy since 1937 when it

began as a 15-employee industry.

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WINDUSTRY continued from page 4
1dustrial Park for >u th Cobb County
he 120-acre industrial park, to be located near erstate 20 and the Chattahoochee River in South rb County, is to be developed by Allan-Grayson ilty Company of Atlanta. Above is the artist's con~ ion of the futUTe park which the Grayson Com'Y says will offer sites for purchase or lease, will ld for specifications, and immediate availability. e main reason for the park's location in Cobb is the ximity to 1-20, th e Perimeter Road, and the ; that it is only 10 minutes away from Atlanta. FulCounty Airport is also nearby. Cobb Commissionhave been working fo r several months to ready the 7. for the industrial pmk, pointing out th e many anlages Cobb will receive from such a facility.
ant to Locate in Gainesville
:argill, Inc., one of the nation's major agricultural !ducts manufacturers and processors, will build a ~e soybean plant in Gainesville. Construction of
facility will begin immediately. The Gainesville ility will be the Minneapolis, Minnesota, firm's first olly-owned plant in Georgia. Cargill has a franchise j mill opera ting in Donalsonville. The first phase :onstruction is scheduled to be completed this fall l will include an elevator for receiving and storing beans. The plant adjacent to the elevator is exted to be completed in 1967, and will be designed to !cess 15 million bushels of soybeans a year with a .l of l 0 million bushels for the first year. About 60 sons will be employed by Cargill when the plant iins operations. According to Cargill Vice President D. McVay, "This plant will service Cargill's broiler l egg producing customers in north Georgia and Carolinas by providing them with a source of high tein soybean meal for their feed." Cargill and its tted companies have facilities in the United States l 26 foreign countries. The century-old firm oper; 200 plants and offices in 33 states in the contittal U . S.

$25 Million Riceboro Plant
The Interstate Container Corporation of New York has announced plans to build a $25 million kraft linerboard paper mill in Riceboro between Brunswick and Savannah. Over 300 people will be employed directly at the mill, -about 1,000 others within a radius of 150 miles will supply pulpwood and 200 more will furnish services directly connected with mill operations.
The mill will be operated by the T . J . K. Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Interstate Container. Construction of the facility will begin immediately, and the mill should be in operation within 18 months. With the completion of the linerboard mill, Interstate will be able to manufacture corrugated shipping containers from start to finish.
With the plant located on a 1,900-acre tract, "This means that we will have a firm base for future expansion, an opportunity to provide better service, -and to double our sales," commented Saul L. Epstein, I. C. C. President.
Interstate is a major producer of corrugated shipping containers -and folding cartons. The company operates plants at Glendale, New York; Harrison, New Jersey; New Haven, Connecticut; Lowell, Massachusetts; Reading, Pennsylvania; and Baltimore, Maryland.
The new T. J. K . mill at Riceboro will initially produce 400 tons of linerboard per day and 600 tons per day when the mill goes into full operation. Maximum production will be 210,000 tons of linerboard -annually.
Some 224,000 to 336,000 cords of wood per day will be required for production at the plant. Total payroll and pulpwood purchases for the mill will amount to $8 million per year. Economic estimates indicate that the mill should have an economic impact of $50 million per year in Long County and the surrounding areas.
The Riceboro mill will use 10 million gallons of water daily drawn from wells. The mill's wastes will be treated in a series of ponds covering 600 acres and capable of holding 900 million gallons. Wastes will be stored and treated for 90 days and -aerated before being channeled into the Newport River. The company pledged itself to a continuing research program dedicated to the treatment of wastes.
Some $3 million is scheduled to be spent in the Liberty County area during construction. A large part of this sum will be allocated for labor.
An artist's rendering of Interstate Container Corporation's $25 million Kraft linerboard mill to be built at Riceboro.
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Truck Transportation
Center of the South
Truck sales are expected to reach a peak in the Southeast in 1966. E. M. Estes, General Manager of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors, said that truck sales in the Atlanta zone are running 9 per cent ahead of the national average and sales for the Southeast will be better than the nation as a whole.
The increase in truck sales is a reflection of the increase in total business activity. Estes further reported that "We've always found in the industry that a good year of truck sales is followed by a couple of good years of passenger car sales." Estes said that Chevrolet car sales are also up 27 per cent but the comparison is a little high because of the 1964 strike against General Motors which affected production during the model period. Chevrolet's market in the Southeast has increased by 70 per cent in the past five years, according to Estes.
Industrial Park Aids Economy
In the Dalton Area
An industrial park that stands out as one of the most successful industrial promotions in Georgia is Whitfield Industrial Park at Dalton. The fruits of this community's labors have borne them tremendous economic wealth and community development. The following is a list of some of the firms which have bought land in Whitfield Industrial Park: The Singer Company; Talyor-Maker and Southern Binders, Inc.; Southern Railway Piggy-back Terminal; Sentry, Inc.; Moore Carpet Distributors; Gowin Card Company; Manly Jail Works; World Carpet.
The primary industrial site at Whitfield was a 228acre site. Plans are now being made to develop another 185 acres joining the Industrial Park.
Air Force Buys More
C-141's from Lockheed
The Air Force will purchase some 19 additional C-141 cargo airlifters from Lockheed. The planes ;will be constructed at the Marietta Lockheed-Georgia plant. The 19 additional planes will be bought at a cost of some $60 million, according to the Department of Defense.
Contract Let for
Jackson County Airport
A contract was awarded for construction of Jackson County's $200,000 airport this month. The Tugalo Construction Company of Toccoa will do the paving and grading on the project and the Bentley Construction Company of Quincy, Florida, will provide the electric-al facilities. The new airport has received approval of the Federal Aviation Agency and plans for it were coordinated by the Aviation Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade.
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I & T to Lead Georgia's
Outdoor Recreation Project
The Department of Industry and Trade's Planning Division will have an integral part of the $115,000 planning grant given to the State by the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. The planning grant was announced by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall and is to be used in the development of Georgia's comprehensive outdoor recreation plan.
The total cost of the project, which is being projected for December 31, 1967, will amount to $230,000. The State of Georgia will match the Federal grant with an equal amount of its own funds.
Horace G. Caldwell, Director of the Department of State Parks, State Liaison Officer to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, will supervise the project. John Beck, I & T Division of Planning, is in charge of developing the plan.
Folkston Competes for New Business
Folkston has purchased a 30-acre tract within the city limits and turned it over to the Charlton County Development Authority to attract new industry to th(lir area. The Development Authority took the barren tract and made it into an industrial park complete with highway, rail facilities and all public utilities. The city and county governments have thrown their facilities into a concerted campaign to make available all the services required of perspective industry choosing to locate in Folkston. The local groups are working closely with I & T, Georgia Tech's Indu trial Development Division, Slash Pine Area Commission and the railroad and power company's industrial development divisions.
Ben Hill County Also
Makes Pitch for Industry
Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County now have 850 acres of choice construction sites available for new business and industry. Clayton Jay, Jr., 1966 Chairman of the Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce, says that over $190,000 was invested in these potential sites during 1964 and 1965.
Oxford and Wright Merge
Manufacturing Markets
Oxford Manufacturing Company of Atlanta and Wright Manufacturing Company of Toccoa have announced an agreement to merge through an exchange of stock.
The addition of Wright's equipment and manpower will greatly increase Oxford's importance in the slacks market. Wright operates manufacturing and distribution facilities in Toccoa, Bowman and Monticello. The company employs some 1,100 persons with a sales volume in 1965 of more than $5 million. Oxford specializes in men's slacks, but with the merger, its market will be expanded.

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VIEWPOINT Revenue Bond Financing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3
GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry ______________________________________4, 12, 13, 16, 17

FEATURES Grumman Aircraft Plant to locate at Sava nnah -------------------------------- 5 Owens-Corning Builds Fiberglas Plant a t Fairburn -------------------------- 7 William L. Bonnell Compan y - Homegrown Success Story ____________ 9

BUSINESS PROFILES Georgia Income Reaches New Heights ____________________________________________6, 14

AVIATION ADVANCES Dedication of Roosevelt Airport ---------------------------------------------------------- 8

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES " America Week" and International Trade ---- ------------------------------------ 10

TOURIST TOPICS

1966 Tourist Campaign for Georgia -------------------------------------------------- II

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GEORGIA IN ACTION -------------- ____ ----------------------- ------------------------------ 15, 18

Rosser Smith --------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------~--------Editor Dona Ademy __________________________________________________________________________ ______ Managing Editor Robert Alford -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------~-------- Artist Sarah Conner --------------------------------------------------------------------------Con tri bu ti ng Editor GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
CovER: Featured this month is the prop-jet Grumman Gul.fstream and the pure-jet Grumman Gulfstream II. The Gulfstream II is scheduled to make its maiden flight this summer or early this fall.

IEORGIA PROGRESS
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VIEW POINT

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Our guest columnist this month is Bob King, industrial representative of I & T's Indust ry Division. Bob attended Georgia Tech as a major in industrial management and worked in the Atlanta area in various sales and administrative positions before joining th e Georgia Department of Industry and Trade_

Revenue Bonds-Financing -or Industrial Development

Authorities estima te that there are somewhere between 30 and 38 states that issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing industrial development. These bonds are generally tax exempt, carry a low interest rate, and are not general obligation in nature. In the South, Arkansas and Alabama have been the leaders in this method of financing ; Alabama financed $ 1.6 million in 1961 , and did over $135.1 million in 1965.

In view of the recent popularity of revenue bonds, it behooves us to investigate the arguments concerning these tax exempts and how to relate industrial developmen t efforts in Georgia.

Bob King

In the November general election, an amendment to our Constitution will be offered to the voters and if approved, it will give the General Assembly broader latitude in setting up Industrial Development Auth-
orities for those areas in Georgia that do not now ~ave an Authority and desire to be empowered to Issue revenue bonds. (This bill is H .R. 20-44.)

. Currently, there are over 100 counties and/ or towns 111 Georgia that are constitutionally set up to issue revenue bonds for industrial development. All of the arguments on either side of this issue have been pres~nted more intelligen tly by experts than I could posstbly explore. As industrial representatives, we in the 1ndustry Division are exposed to businessmen across the country. Permit me to relate some of their arguments.

Generally speaking, to qualify for this means of fi_nancing, a firm must have "bala nce sheet justification"- that is, its credit appraisal and net worth coupled with its earn ing power should be solid enough so that the firm could borrow the needed funds through

commercial lending channels. As a result of the strin-

gent qualifying requirements, those states and/ or

counties with R even ue Bond Authorities, can offer

a very attractive financial service to top-rated com-

panies.

By using revenue bonds to finance a new plant or

an expansion, a firm does not have to dilute the stockholder's equity by the issu ance of new stock or

debentures. In fact, the debt itself can be carried on

the company's books either as a lease or as long term

debit. This has obvious accounting advantages.

Secondly, by entering into a lease-purchase agreement, the firm can reap the benefits of the investment

credit ruling. For a highly mechanized or automated

plant, this can result in a substantial savings.

Since income from revenue bonds is exempt from

taxes, many firms are able to buy up a portion of their own bonds. A tax exempt bond with a 5<_7o yield to

a firm in the fifty per cent bracket offers the same

return as a non-tax exempt bond yielding 10<_7o .

Further exploring the tax exempt status, we under-

stand that under revenue bond financing, the physical

building and machinery is theoretically exempt from

ad valorem taxes since title to said property is vested in the Development Authority, a quasi-municipal

body. In many cases, however, industry does not object

to making "in lieu payments." This sum is usually

negotiated between the county and firm involved and

has several advantages. To the county, a predetermined

amount of revenue is forthcoming annually to help

defer the cost of services provided to the new plant

and to the families of its employees. To the firm, these

fixed payments in lieu of taxes can be more easily

budgeted than can the often times varying tax valu-

ations. It, in essence, acts as a buffer between the firm

a nd changing political attitudes.

A more subtle aspec t of "in lieu payments" is that

no respectable firm wants to locate in a community

at the expense of existing industry. New industry

wants to carry its fair share of the burdens and "in

li eu payments" will satisfy this requisite.

R evenue bonds are a fast method of getting "money

on the table" for industrial development. The normal

period, once the lease is drawn up, is about 90 days

for validation. For a market oriented company desir-

ing to keep on top of changing markets, thio has

obvious advan tages.

In brief, the arguments against revenue bond financ-

ing, insofar as industry is concerned, stem from indus-

try's reluctance to obligate themselves to a given comm unity at the expense of ex isting industry. As

mentioned previously, "in lieu payments" sa tisfy any

objection along this lin e.

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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

0DA LTON

*0 Expansion New Industry

* LAWR ENCEV ILL E O ATLANTA

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* COL UMBU S

* WRIGHTSVI LLE * JEFF ER SONVILL E
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(.)FORT GAI NE S * ALBANY

EXPANSION
Fisher Division at
Hartwell Expands Again
In the February-March issue of Geo1gia Progress, Fish er Division at H artwell, a subsidiary of NVF Compa ny, was featured as an outstanding example of one of Georgia's successful priva te enterprises.
Aga in, we are pleased to a nn oun ce a no ther expansion of thi s tremendously progressive company. Plant :Ma nager Glenn Fisher a nn ounced a $200,000 expansion in the physical facility. The new building will enclose 32,000 squ are fee t upon completion .
The doubling of the pl ant facility will in corpora te a seve n per cent in crease in empl oyment and sp ace for additiona l a utoma ted machin ery.
Fisher Division now empl oys 100 persons. The compan y manufac tures more tha n 250 different items using a va riety of materia l, including fibreglas, pl as tics, vulca nized fibres a nd woods.
Austin Lee to Double
Plant at Fort Valley
Austin L ee Company, a subsidiary of Na tional Factor & Inves tments Corporation, is planning to double its prese nt size fro m 36,000 to 72,000 squ are fee t.
The new additi on is expected to make Austin L ee one of the larges t tail ored bed spread factories in the co un try, and the only man ufac tu rer completely vertica li zed fro m the manufactu ring of the Garnett batting to the fi nished bedspreads.
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EACH 100 ~EW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPA~SION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional school age children 97 more motor vehicles
165 more persons working in trades servicing the main industry
$229,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes
Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. ...
NEW INDUSTRY
Coke Plans New Bottling
Plant for Gainesville
Coca-Cola officia ls recen tly a nnoun ced the construction of a new plant in Georgia. The new Coca-Cola Bottlin g Comp any will be constructed on Browns Bridge R oad a t Gain esville.
T h e pla nt will be modeled after a new Coke plant in Phoe nix, Ariz. -one of the mos t modern in the nat io n. T wo million cases of Coke will be produ ced yearly proving that " thin gs go better with Coke." Th e Aoor sp ace will cover 80,000 squ are fee t of the total two-acre site. Architects, God win a nd Becket of Atlanta are designing the ma in building, which will accomm oda te an 88-ca r parkin g garage a nd a 60-truck ga rage. Pl a ns also ca ll for a n ad vertising dep artme nt a nd an assembly room.
Co nstruction is scheduled to start within the next two months.
Kaolin Plant to Be Built
At Jeffersonville
Cyprus Mi nes Corpora tio n of Los Angeles will bui ld a clay process ing plant at J effersonville, which will produce 120,000 ton s of wet and dry process kaolin cl ays per year for the paper industry.
The pl a nt, schedul ed for completion in 1966, will repl ace a n existing smaller factory at Macon. T he new pla nt will be loca ted on a 90-acre site in Jeffersonville about 20 mi les southeas t of M acon.
New Garment Plant
For Savannah
L oray Corporation, garm ent manufacturers of women 's and children's cl othing, h as recently started produ ction a t Savannah.
The new firm is now oper a tin g in the O ber I ndu trial Park . The initial work force is 150 with plans to in crease the number to 200 within two years.

GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT TO LOCATE PLANT IN SAVANNAH
Another well-known name in the aircraft industry Grumman -joins two equally important Georgia producers zn
the aeronautics field - Lockheed and Aero-Commander.

The Grumman Aircraft and Engineering Corporation of Bethpage, Long Island, N . Y., has acquired 110 acres of land at Savannah's Travis Field for future development. The property purchase was announced by E. Clinton Tow!, Grumman president.
According to Mr. Towl, the purchase of the property is in keeping with the corporation's long-term diversification plans. Among the products Grumman is considering manufacturing at the Savannah facility is the Gulfstream series of business and military aircraft (including assembly of the all-jet Gulfstream II) and underwater research equipment.
Grumman took options on the Savannah property last year after an extensive study of the best possible sites in the Southeast. Grumman officials pointed to the excellent transportation facilities, skilled labor market and a climate lending itself to year-round flight tests as some of the prime reasons for locating in Savannah. Other features that appealed to Grumman were the sea access to Cape Kennedy, airport facilities and additional land being available for future plant expansion.
Some 500 people are expected to be employed initially at the Grumman Savannah facility. The company has its main plants at Bethpage and Calverton, Long Island, N . Y., and has subsidiaries at Athens and Marathon, N . Y.; Stuart and Cape Kennedy, Fla.; H ouston and Sherman, Tex.; White Sands, N. M.; Bristol, R. I.; Sturgis, Mich.; Washington and Los Angeles.
As one of the nation's leading aerospace companies, Grumman is currently building the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) which will land two astronauts on the moon by 1970 and the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OEO) for the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration. In the aircraft field, Grumman is producing for the Arm ed Forces a num~er of different types of planes including the F-ll!B variable
Below: The Grumman Gulfst1eam pmp-jet, all-purpose business airplane, one of the planes possibly manufactured at the new fa cility.

wing fighter; the A-6A " Intruder" all-weather attack bomber; the E-2A "Hawkeye" early warning aircr-aft; as well as the V-I "Mohawk" reconnaissance/ surveillance aircraft. In the business field, the company produces the Gulfstream I and II and the AG-Cat agricultural crop dusting and spraying plane.
Grumman also builds hydrofoil boats, pleasure boats, aluminum canoes, fiberglas sailboats and aluminum truck bodies and is actively interested in the field of oceanography.
Above: The Lunar ExcuTSion Module being built for NASA will be instrumental in landing ouT excursion flights to the moon. Below: The F-IllB, one of the many aiTcraft produced by Grumman and Genem l Dynamics for the ATmed FoTces.

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BUSINESS PROFILES

GEORGIA INCOME REACHES NEW HEIGHTS

The income of the people of Georgia increased again during 1965 to new heights. Total personal income for the .State reached $9.4 billion and per capita personal income averaged $2, 156, both of which were the most impressive gains experienced during the eco nomic cycle beginning in 1961. Considered historically, these income growth figures bear out the economic progress which has occurred in the State during recent years.
Total personal incom e increased by 9.2 per cent over 1964 for the highest rate of gain in this decade. It is also significant to note (see table below) that this rate of gain has steadily increased each year. Th e capability of the economy to generate successively larger gains is indicative of the developing economy of the State. ln current dollars, the increase of $2.9 billion in total personal income since 1960 has been almost the equivalent of the growth between 1950 and 1960 which was $2.9 billion. Realizing that the economy has had only one minor fluctuation in this decade, the annual growth rate of income has been higher and less sporadic than was experienced in the turbulent fifties.

Of course, total personal income is only as important as its effect on an _individu~l's income: R~al progress, as shown by the mcrease 111 per capita mcome, has been evident in recent years. With an increase of 7.6 per cent over 1964, per capita income of 2,156 was notably more than the 1960 income of $1,639 and more than double the 1950 income of $ 1,025. Since 1961, when the increase in per capita income began to accelerate, the increase has averaged $ 100 a year.
Probably the most significant criteria of income is indicated by per capita income shown as a per cent of th e national level of per capita in come. Looking back, in 1950 Georgia's per capita income was only 68.5 per cent of the national level. By 1960, progress had bee n made until per capita income in the State was 74.0 per cent of the United States average. Since 1960, with Georgia's per capita income increasing at a rate higher than for the United States, per capita income has reached 79.1 per cent of the national average.
It remains to the future to appreciate the ex tent of the progress which has been and is to be accomplished.
DAVID BAIRD
Research Division

Pe rsonal Income 1n Georgia: 19 50 - 196 5
(Current Dollars)

Year

TOTAL INCOME

Amount

Percent

(000,000)

Change

PER CAPITA INCOME

Percent Percent

Amount

Change of U . S.

1950

3,545

1,025

68 .5

1960

6,48 7

83.0

1,639

59.5

74 .0

1961

6,761

4.2

1,679

2.4

74.2

1962

7,302

8.0

1,777

5.8

75.0

1963

7,905

8.2

1,879

5.7

76.7

1964

8,604

8.8

2,003

6.6

77.8

1965 (p)

9,395

9.2

2,156

7.6

79.1

(p) Preliminary

Source: U . S. Department of Commerce, Office of Business Economics, Survey of Current B usiness) . pril, 1966.
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OWENS-CORNING TO BUILD FIBERGLAS PLANT AT FAIRBURN
Some of the finest fibe rglas materials for insulation, industrial, commercial and residential construction will be
produced at the first fiberglas plant to locate in Georgia.

The Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation has an nounced plans to construct a new multi-million dollar plant in Fairburn near Atlanta to serve expanding markets in the South and Southea!:lt. The new facility is part of a three-year, $ 125 million ex pansion program for the company.
Construction of the plant is scheduled to get under way in the next several months. The initial stage of the plant wi ll contain some 200,000 square feet. More than 200 p ersons will be employed when the initial phase of the plant is completed .
The facility will be built on a 132-acre site about 20 miles sou thwest of Atlanta and one and a half miles south of Fairburn. It is estimated that the new plant will add approximately $3 .5 million a nnually to the local economy in the form of payroll, local purchases and taxes.
According to H arold Boeschenstein, Owens-Corn ing Chairman, the most modern electronic controls

will be used in the manufacturing operation, including direct computer control of the glass melting operation to insure precise control and product quality. OwensCorning pioneered the development of this highly comp lex system and first introduced it last year at its Newark, Ohio, plant. The system is considered one of the most advanced methods of production efficiency and quality control in U . S. industry.
The plant will produce fib erglas building insulation for industrial, commercial and residential construction; roofing insulation for commercial and industrial buildings, acoustical materials and other products.
The Fairburn plant will permit overnight delivery to customers in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, the Carolinas and parts of Virginia and Kentucky.
According to John P. Kern of Atlanta, Vice Presi dent for the Southeastern Marketing Region of OwensCorning, approximately 60 plant sites in Georgia and northern Florida were surveyed before Fairburn was
selected for the new plant. The major factors considered in selecting the Atlanta area for the plant were availability of railway and truck service, adequate la bor supply, adequate water supply, excellent highways, availability of utilities, proximity to the Atlan ta Airport and the exceptional cooperative attitude of area leaders.
A furnace capable of melting 100 tons of batch materials per day will produce glass for the fiberglas products. Ample area for future expansion is provided a nd the building is designed with this in mind, according to Mr. Boeschenstein.
Owens-Corning Fiberglas has headquarters in Toldeo, Ohio, and plants in Aiken and Anderson, S. C .; Barrington and Berlin, N . ].; Ashton, R. I. ; Huntindo, Pa.; Kansas City, Kas.; Newark, Ohio; Santa Clara, Calif., and Waxahachie, Texas.

Propos~d new multi-million dollar genera l products plant to be built in Fairburn, Ga., by the Owens-Corning Fibe1glas Corp. The 211 ,000-square-foot plant will be on a 132-acre site on U. S. 29, about 20 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Th e Marietta plant of L ockheed-Georgia has the world's largest roof-more than 47 acres. This roof is composed of a built-up roofing system developed and manufactured by the Owens-Corning Fib erglas Corp. With th e new OwensCorning plant at Fairburn, similar roofing insu lat ion will be made in Gemgia.
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AVIATION ADVANCES
Roosevelt Memorial Airport Is Dedicated
Flags fluttered in the brisk spring breeze, and the band played with enthusiasm when officials and guests gathered at Warm Springs on April 12 to dedicate the new Roosevelt Memorial Airport.
First on the agenda was a short talk by Chester W. Wells, Manager, Atlanta Area, Federal Aviation Agency, Southern Division. Mr. Wells congratulated Meriwether Countians on their finished product and commended them on being among the exclusive group of 2,400 communities in the United States with paved airports.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., and the youngest son of the late President, followed Mr. Wells. Mr. Roosevelt said he was glad to participate in ceremonies in an area which his father had loved. He congratulated Governor Sanders on his program of establishing community airports throughout the State, saying the creation of airports opens up remote areas where new industry can bring employment and a better economy.
Governor Carl E. Sanders was presented as principal speaker by Senator Render Hill of the 30th District of Georgia.
The Governor called attention to the fact that the airport is named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
/'' .J I'
Governor Carl E. Sanders gree-ts the many officials who attended the Warm Springs dedication of the new Roosevelt Memorial Airport.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, ]r. (right), Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission congratulates Governor Carl E. Sanders on his outstanding community airport program for the State of Georgia.
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pointed to Roosevelt as one who fully recognized that industrial and technological changes required equally great social and economic changes. Georgia's Chief Executive recalled that by the end of 1966, 60 new airports will be built in Georgia and this growth will lead to opportunities of development in other fields. Industries come to communities where there are airports. Airports, in turn, develop a community and make it a better place to live.
This new airport was constructed at a cost of $150,000 through a county-wide bond issue and assistance by the State of Georgia and the Federal Aviation Agency. In contrast to the old runway, which was only 2,000 feet long, not paved, -and had no lights, the Roosevelt Memorial Airpol't's main runway is 3,000 feet long and 75 feet wide with crushed stone base and plant mixed asphalt paving. There is a paved taxiway and a paved parking area 150 feet by 300 feet. An illuminated wind cone, rotating beacon and field lights have been installed to facilitate night flying.

Airports Essential

For Industry

The following editorial has been reprinted from the February 27 edition of the Columbus Ledger.

The busy business executive of the je-t age no longer travels by train, car, m- scheduled airline. In most cases he, or his c01pomtion, have wings of their own.

Anyone who's seen line after line of executive aircraft pmked on the tarmac at Augusta, Savannah, or Rome, during regional sales meetings, production conferences, and planning sessions called by the industries that have settled in these areas, knows that a good airp01t is a prime asset for attracting industry these days.

Many communities me eliminated as possible industrial sites because they have no airport, john Bennett, of the Aviation Division of Georgia's Department of Indust 1y and Trade, told Chattahoochee Valley civic and business leaders last week.

The first concern of one out of every five industrial pmspects visiting Gemgia to view possible relocation
sites is whethe1 those sites are adjacent to an airport, said Bennett.

For those civic and business leaders who believe that establishing an airport is too expensive, and too much trouble, Bennett stated that in most cases a community can recover its investment within a year.

There are a numbe1 of communities up and down the Chattahoochee Valley whose opportunities for industrial development would be considerably enhanced by the addition of an adjacent airport.

M01e people are flying than ever before, and if

ou1 communities are going to keep up with the ad-

vances of the jet age they must pmvide the necessary

facilities.



In many cases, aid pmgrams and various forms of financial assistance can be readily obtained for airport developmen-t, ~nd we would urge civic and business leaders in the Chattahoochee Valley to explore these programs on behalf of their communities.

WILLIAM L. BONNELL COMPANY-HOMEGROWN SUCCESS STORY

Th e world's largest independent aluminum extruder - Bonnell has grown into one of Georgia's most successful home-grown industrial enterprises.

Georgia's growth is often times measured by the number of na tion al industries tha t establish plants within the State. Yet the ac tual homegrown success of companies started in Georgia tells a large part of the story of a prosperous Georgia and its unlimited opportunities for development.
The story behind the success of the William L. Bonnell Compan y, Inc., is an example of Georgia business that has bloomed into a n industry of national and international importance. The story begins with the late William L. Bonnell, who originated and marketed the first alu minum mouldings in 1927. Mr. Bonnell remained with an Ohio firm until 1952 when his compa ny purchased a small one-press operation in Newnan tha t employed approximately 35 persons.
Although the initial operation was small, it began to thrive a nd show promise of expanding into a profitable enterprise. By 1957, Trimedge of Ohio was known as Trim ed ge of Georgia and employed some 400 p eople.
In December, 1955, the G eorgia plant was purchased by Mr. a nd Mrs. William L. Bonnell and a small group of associates. The N ew nan plant then became known as the William L. Bonnell Company. Growth and expansion co ntinu ed and by 1960, the Newnan plant covered approximately six acres and employed over 800 people.
Upon Mr. Bonnell's dea th in !960, Mrs. Bonnell became president and by December, 1965, the company covered over eight acres, employed over 1,200 em-

ployees and had faciliti es capable of producing over 70 million pounds of ex tru sions annually.
Ethyl Corporation purch ased Bonnell in 1965 as a manufacturing unit. Ethyl has begun an extensive program of expanding into diversified areas of industry and the Bonnell acquisition p aved the way for its en try into aluminum fabrications, increasing Ethyl's participation in the building and construction field . Ethyl already operates a polye thylene film pl-ant at LaGrange.
Bonnell Company is now supervised by T. M. Smylie, Presiden t. The phenomenal grow th of the Bonnell Company as the largest independent extruder in the world, is a tribute to its management and emp loyees, to Newnan, Coweta County and the State of Georgia.

Right: The mighty tractor troop of th e Bonnell Company distribut es some 80 million pounds of alumin um ex t1usions yearly to markets as far south as Miami; as far north as Maine; and as far west as Denver and El Paso. Tw en ty-one tractors and 26 trai lers symbolize th e tremendous expanse of th is operation-one of th e largest independent ex truder com panies in the world.

Below: Th e William L. Bonnell Co m pany typifies th e success of individual en trepreneurship. Th e modem plant covers eight acres, em ploys ove1 1,200 people, and is capable of pmducing over 70 million pounds of aluminum ex tntsions annually.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
'America Week'-Gateway
To International Trade
"America Week" is the magic phrase that opens doors and broadens horizons for U. S. businessmen in international trade these days. Last fall, Rich's Department Store in f\tlanta launohed the season with a gala Italian celebration displaying Italy's finest products from gift wrappings to .bedroom trappings. Striking realistic reproductions of the Four Seasons greeted shoppers on the ground floor and a new Ferrari awaited them at the end of each escalator ride. "Italia Magnifica" lasted only one week, but the favorable impression it evoked will encourage Georgians to buy Italian imports for years to come.
February in Atlanta, brought authentic English models sporting "Mod" fashions for a British festival
at .J. P. Allen's. Hand-in-hand with samples of Britain's
best in fashions came replicas of the Kingdom's finest possession - the Crown Jewels.
Parisians enjoyed a similar exchange in March when Galeries Lafayette, a French department store, ran an "American Week" campaign aimed at introducing French consumers to U. S. merchandise. Favored products ranged from kitchen gadgets to babywear. Galeries Lafayette's campaign received the support of the Bureau of International Commerce, U. S. Department of Commerce, under a new program to stimulate exports of U. S. consumer goods through overseas department store sales. BIC helps direct the overseas retailers to the broadest possible range of products and helps them find displays, exhibits and decorations appropriate to the theme of their "America Week" campaign.
Galerias Preciados, Spain's largest department store chain, also made an appearance on the American scene with a "Life in America" promotion that began March 21, and ended April 5. Three stores in Madrid and branches in Barcelona, Bilbao and Seville imported some $300,000 worth of U. S. products for sale.
Au Bon Marche, a Paris department store, bought $250,000 worth of U. S. goods for its production in March, and the Paris variety chain, Prisunic, displayed $2.7 million worth in April. BIC supplied cowgirl costumes, authentic reproductions of "Reward" posters, American flags, and U. S. travel posters to carry out the stores' Wild West theme.
The retailers themselves initiate their campaigns, and can enlist BIC support by buying a minimum of $100,000 worth of U. S. goods.
* * *
Distributor Demand
In Import-Export
"There is a place for the distributor in exporting," said Mrs. Virginia W. Allgood, Director of I & T's International Service. "We would like to see more manufacturers' agents in Georgia branch out into exporting their own."
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Mrs. Allgood's statement echoes the tenor of dis. cussions at the Fifth Florida World Trade Confer. ence, held April 14-15 at Fort Lauderdale. Highlighting the opening session was a panel of four manufacturers and one distributor, who related experiences in exporting their companies' products.
The fifth member of the panel, the distributor, represented a general metal warehousing operation. The company. operates in 5_7 countries, has 27 foreign agents, With sales offices m Europe and Puerto Rico.
"When foreign mills and domestic plants began to raise their minimum order requirements, he found that he was able to sell even though his prices were never competitive," said Mrs. Allgood. "He commanded higher prices by providing more rapid delivery and smaller shipments than the manufacturer, and acting as a 'one-stop' source of supply for a number of individual items - all presented on one invoice with one bill of lading."
Conflict with his own suppliers did not develop, even when suppliers had representation abroad in identical areas. His services were not duplicated, and the manufacturers were pleased with sales they would not have otherwise counted on.
"In fact," said Mrs. Allgood, "this gentleman cited a $2 million order obtained by his company in a country with direct representation from the factory. Had he, as a large distributor of the primary article in this country, sold the products of a competing manufacturer in this instance, his relationship would have been injured or even severed completely. Under the circumstances, everyone was entirely satisfied with the transaction."
"Many distributors in Georgia may find that the answer to their future diversity and growth lies in a careful investigation of the potential for their products and then active participation in expanding world markets."
Other members of the panel represented pharmaceuticals, steel fabrication, fiberglas boats, and lumber products. Their methods of overseas operations varied - some sold only on a confirmed letter of credit basis, others on open account or credit terms. But all agreed that their international operations were a vital and expanding part of their plans. One manufacturer in a highly competitive field said that the opercentage growth of profits in their exports considerably exceeded that of their domestic business.
Attendees at the meeting included James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive Director of I & T, State and local Florida dignitaries, and officials of the U. S. Department of Commerce in Washington. Florida's Governor Haydon Burns delivered a luncheon address following the opening session of the two-day conference.
Climaxing activities of the conference was a speech by E. J. Forio, recently retired Senior Vice President of the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. Mr. Forio spoke on "Advertising, Public Relations and Sales," not only in relation to exports but also as a philosophy of life.
PEGGY BARTON
International Services

TOURIST TOPICS

V acation Georgia '66

Radio advertising will saturate 14 Southeastern markets including Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, North

"Georgia's advertising program for 1966 will reach millions," announced I 8c T's Tourist Director Bill Hardman.
"We answer thousands of inquiries about Georgi-a every month and to further acquaint and inform the traveling public on the State, we are launching a 1966 national campaign in almost every media - including newspa.~ers, magazines, radio, billboards and bro-

Caro!in'a and South Carolina. Well-known personalities in the sports field will encourage fans to come to Georgia - "The Sports Capital of the South" to see major league baseball, NASCAR racing, professional golfing, National League football, and the Masters water-skiing. The major markets are: North Carolina- Charlotte, Asheville; Tennessee- Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville; Florida - Jacksonville, Tallahassee; Alabama - Montgomery, Birmingham,

chures.

Florence, Dothan, Huntsville.

There will be an intensive saturation of the Mid-

In addition, Georgia has joined with ten other

West, Southern .and Eastern travel markets luring the

Southern states in launching a major national adver-

tourist traffic to stop in Georgia and encouraging

tising campaign. Th e Southem Travel Director's

tourists to make Georgia their vacation destination.

Council will sponsor a full-color advertisement in

Through the spring of

the monthly publication of

1966, the Tourist Division

Holiday magazine which

newspaper advertising will

started in March and will

be concentrated in many

run until February, 1967.

large metropolitan cities

Members of STDC are

east of the Mississippi. The

Georgia, Florida, Alabama,

total circulation reached

Arkansas, Kentucky, Louis-

will be 89,619,302. The

iana, Mississippi, North

eight-inch ads will feature

Carolina, South Carolina,

some of Georgia's outstand-

Tennessee and Virginia.

.ing attractions and will be

Each state will have a

strategically placed on each

monthly insert featuring

page of the newspaper

photographs and a map of

travel section.

their state following the

The newspaper ads will

theme, "See What's New

appear in New York, Chi-

in the Old South." Georgia

cago, Boston, Detroit, Balti-

will be spotlighted in the

more, Philadelphia, Wash-

February, 1967, edition.

ington, Cincinnati, Dayton,

Delta Air Lines also

Columbus, Toledo, Nash-

sponsored three-dimension-

ville and Charlotte.

al window displays at such

In the overall magazine

major cities as Washington,

campaign, the advertising

New York, Philadelphia

dollar will be spent on a

Georgia - Sports Capital of the South

and Baltimore.

gcmeral program that will

As part of the all-out

be seen in National Geographic, Holiday, Better

ca mpaign to sell Georgians on vacationing in their

Homes and Gardens and Redbook. It will be aimed

own state, the Tourist Division joined the Georgia As-

at the Midwest and Eastern markets to attract the

soc iation of Broadcasters in advertising the State's at-

traffic that passes through Georgia.

tractions by sending taped spots to all radio stations in

Special interest groups are being aimed at by an

Georgia. Georgia newspapers have been showing scenes

advertising breakdown of the various sports that make

of Georgia's historical spots and tourist attractions.

Georgia the outdoor playground of the South. The

In cooperation with the Georgia Press Association,

overall theme will be introduced in True, Sports Illus-

a 16-page full-color tabloid will be issued to some

trated, Popular Mechanics and Southem Living.

one million people. More than 150 Georgia news-

The camping advertisements will be featured in

papers, weeklies and dailies will run the supplement

Better Camping, Camping .Joumal and Spmts Afield.

entitled, "Vacation Georgia '66."

Fishing in Georgia will appear in Sports Afield, Sports

The 1966 advertising campaign sets .another prece-

Afield Fishing Annual, Tnt e's Fishing Yembook and

dent for ~he Tourist Division. For the first time, a

Southem Outdoor. The great golfing Georgia offers

major poster program will be introduced to the public.

will be advertised in Esquire, Golf Digest, Golf Mag- The promotion will use 12-foot-long posters and

azine and Better Homes and Gardens. Georgia attrac-

smaller easel stands for window displays featuring

tions and resorts, with airport facilities for flying en-

state parks, golfing, and other attractions. The full-

thusiasts will be aimed at the private plane owner

color scenes are ide-al for travel bureaus, clubs, ticket

through A.O.P.A. Pilot, Flying and Flying Annual.

offices and trayel organizatio!1S

Several hundred billboards will be placed on the

The last phase of the "Vacation Georgia '66" cam-

State's most traversed highways during the summer

paign is the dis-tribution of five new Department bro-

months. The billboard program will concentrate on

chures - The 1966 Calendar of Even ts, Driving

promoting Georgia's parks, historical highlights,

Thmugh Georgia, Fishing, Dixie Golf Circle and

beaches, best golfing areas and other vacation spots.

Golf Booklet.

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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
EX PANS I0N continued fro m page 4
Eastern Reveals Plans for
Atlanta Airport Facility
As part of a strategic program to make Atlanta a ke y city in its transportation route to the Pacific, Eastern Air Lines has revealed plans to build a multi-million dollar facility at the Atlanta Airport.
Construction plans call for a $ 1.5 million cargo center and a maintenance building for its twin-jet DC-9 planes, which will cost from $5 million to $ 10 million.
Eastern has recently asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to establish great circle routes crossing Atlanta, to Asia and Australia. The airline expressed confidence that CAB will give them the green light on the flight extension.
If the application is granted, Atlanta will become the hub of routes linking Florida, Seattle, Tokyo and Singapore and connecting New York, Mexico City, Tahiti, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia.
The nation's fourth busiest airport will also become the crossroads of an air cargo system whose major routes will run from New York to Houston and Chicago to Miami.
By the latter part of this year, Eastern will have I 0 new Boeing 727 jets, costing about $60 million and 40 to 50 new DC-9's will be serviced in Atlanta.
Delta to Add Training School,
Stewardess Trainee Housing
Delta Air Lines has announced plans for a new Ground Training Center that will contain more than 50,000 square feet for classrooms, faculty offices, conference rooms, a technical library and stewardess trainee housing.
The new facility will be developed for and leased to Delta by International Park Corporation. The school will be located adjacent to the Atlanta Airport property and will be incorporated in a complex of apartment buildings near the Ramada Inn. The school is expected to be completed in early 1967.
Delta has also announced another expansion in Georgia with an extension of its southern transcontinental service from Atlanta. With the inauguration of DC-9 jets to Washington a nd a substantial addition of night coach service to all points, Delta will have a total of 14 jet flights between the Southeast and the West - 12 of which will serve Atlartta.
In addition, the "Early Bird" service will provide a heavy concentration of early morning service with economical flights scheduled for between 6:25 a.m. and 7:50 a.m., assuring an arrival before 9 a.m. in almost every part of the country. The official logo of the new "Early Bird" specia l is a rooster crowing at dawn announcing the new service in newspapers, radio, television and billboards in one of the most
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extensive campaigns ever conducted by the airline at a cos t of $ 150,000 in the Atlanta area alone.
The new schedule will increase Delta's operations at _the Atlanta Ai_rport to 21:14 arrivals and departures daily, a record lugh for the seven carriers that serve the city. It is an increase of 32 total daily operations. . The . overall expansion will create 268 new jobs, mcreasmg the total number of Delta personnel to 1,120; up 43 per cent in 12 months. Delta's Atlanta employment exceeds 5,800 with an annual payroll of more than $48 million.
Delta Air Lines' new Ground Training Center, more than 50,000 square feet for classrooms, offices and st ewmdess trainees' housing, will be located in a new complex of apmtment buildings near the Ramada Inn jus/. off Atlanta Airport property. Expected to be ready for occupancy zn emly 1967, Delta's gTOund school will be located in the uppa right apartment building.
World Carpets Expanding To Meet Retail Demand
Shaheen Shaheen, President of World Carpets, an nounced another major expansion program for World Carpets this year.
The expansion wi ll co nsist of 125,000 square feet and will be utilized by an enlarged carpet storage and shipping department. The extra space will enable World to stock an additional 30,000 rolls and triple the prese nt number of shipping docks to accommodate the ever-increasing demands by the retail trade for the manufacturer to do the stocking and carry the inventory. The expansion will also enable World to continue its single-line flow of production and provide unmatched same-d ay shipping of carpet on hand to customers.
An extra fourth floor will be added to the current north addition for raw material storage, sales and production . This will make World 's building over 60 feet high, the highest building in Dalton.
In addition to the four-story building, which adds 160,000 square feet to the plant, a 40,000-square-foot addition is being constructed for coating and finishing facilities. This fin al expansion has almost doubled the size of World Carpets.

GE ORGIA DEVELOPMENT

NEW INDUSTRY continued from page 4

Ta lon, Inc., to Locate Pla nt 1n LaGrange

Lewis Walker, President of Talon, Inc., Meadville,

Pa., has announced that the company will construct

a plant at LaGrange for spooling, labeling and pack-

ing thread.

Talon has agreed to purchase approximately 40

acres of land and will construct a single-story, brick-

faced masonry building containing approximately

25,000 feet of floor space, Walker noted. He said that

"building plans and specifica-

tions for bidders are in the

course of preparation, and

management hopes that

ground can be broken within

a month, with the plant ready

for occupancy about August

1st."

"Initially, 10 to 15 persons

will be employed, and by the

end of this year the employ-

ment level should increase to

perhaps 50 people," Walker

added. Talon, Inc., is the

world's largest manufacturer of zippers. The company's

Lewis Walker

Zipper Division produces metal and filament fasteners

and Shu-Lok fasteners, in addition to its thread line.

Talon entered the domestic home sewing thread

market about two years ago when it established a

substantially similar operation at VV.est Springfield, Mass. Walker stated that acceptance of Talon-labeled

thread has exceeded expectations, and that the new

facility at LaGrange will enable the company to

keep pace with the increased demand from the home

sewing market. Donahue Sales Corporation which dis-

tributes Talon packaged fasteners for home sewing

is also the sole distributor of its spooled thread.

Following a program of diversification undertaken

in 1955, Talon operations now include other divi-

sions manufacturing non-zipper items. The principal

non-zipper operations are Gibson Electric Company

Division, manufacturing precision metal parts from

powdered metal for the electrical industry, with plants

at Delmont, Pa., and Luquillo, Puerto Rico; Para-

mount Die Casting Company Division with plants at

St. Joseph, Mich., and Seymour, Ind., producing alum-

inum, magnesium and zinc castings for diversified in-

dustries; Seneca Plastics Division, operating at Cam-

bridge, Ohio, and South Haven, Mich., making in-

jection molded parts for the automotive and home

appliance trades. In addition, Talon operates two

divisions which produce special tools for industry.

They are Southeastern Precision Tool Division, Gas-

tonia, N. C., and Gentry Carbide Tool Division,

Indianapolis, Ind.

Talon employs approximately 5,000 persons in its

consolidated domestic operations, with 20 manufac-

turing plants in ll states and Puerto Rico. In addi-

tion ~here a_re about ~ight plan_ts employing 800 persons m foreign countnes, of which approximately 600 are in Canada.
Walker expressed his company's appreciation for
the efforts and cooperation of J. S. Thomason, Jr.,
and Howard Leiter, industrial representatives of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade; Charles E. Franklin, Executive Vice President of the LaGrange Chamber of Commerce; Glenn Long, President, LaGrange Chamber of Commerce, and Publisher of the
LaGrange Daily News; also Mayor J. Gardner New-
man ; H . B. Lovvorn, City Manager; C. Wyman Hughes, City Engineer, and Lamar White, Assistant City Engineer.
Augusta Site for New
Chemical Complex
U. S. chemical companies are planning increases over last year's expansion programs. Georgia is getting a share of this wealth with the announcement by the Tennessee Corporation of a new $3 million sulfuric acid plant at Augusta.
The new plant is another unit of a chemical manufacturing complex developing in Augusta and is scheduled to be completed by early 1967. The chemical plant, with initial capacity to produce 125,000 tons per year of l 00 per cent strength sulfuric acid, will manufacture all commercial concentrations of acid including oleui?, the highest strength acid.
Tennessee Corporation's expansion into Georgia is part of an over-all program of the parent Cities Service Company to grow and diversify in its basic fields of energy chemicals.
Fiber Textile Plans Offers
New Carpet Design Process
Texture-Tex, Inc., has been created as a subsidiary of Crown Cotton Mills and construction of a 60,000sq uare-foot building will begin immediately at the plant site in Albany.
The Texture-Tex plant will process bulked continuous filament yarns by a twisting and heat setting process. The resulting products will be used in the tufting of carpets.
Through this new process, avenues of design and diversification will be opened in the construction of textured effects which oan be achieved with filament yarns. It also makes possible the use of continuous filament yarns in the production of textures such as freize and saxony and shag effects, previously adaptable only with cut pile yarns. Many other avenues for styling are also available through the use of combinations of nylon types to obtain differential dyeing effects and the use of other thermoplas-tic fibers.
The plant is scheduled for completion in approximately four months, and it is anticipated that initial employment will be in the neighborhood of 100 persons.
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BUSINESS PROFII_ES

STATE OF GEORGIA

Summary of New and Expanded Industries: 1965

NEW INDUSTRY

SIC

TYPE INDUSTRY

No. Firms

I4 Mining ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 20 Food and Kindred Products ------------------------------------ 8 22 Textile Mill Products --------------------------------------------- 13 23 Apparel and Related Products -------------------------------- I9 24 Lumber and Wood Products ---------------------------------- 3 25 Furniture and Fixtures -------------------------------------------- 6 26 Paper and Allied Products -------------------------------------- 8 27 Printing and Publishing ------------------------------------------ 4 28 Chemicals and Allied Products -------------------------------- IO 30 Rubber and Plastic Products ---------------------------------- 7 32 Stone, Clay and Glass Products ------------------------------ 3 33 Primary Metal Industries ---------------------------------------- I 34 Fabricated Metal Products -------------------------------------- I8
35 Machinery, Except Electrical ---------------------------------- 8 36 Electrical Machinery ------------------------------------------------ 4 37 Transportation Equipment -------------------------------------- 17 39 Miscellaneous Manufacturing --------------------------------

TOTAL

I34

Capital Investment
$ 4,100,000 6,224,000 3I,605,000 5,191,000 420,000 542,000 30,095,000 52,000 5,580,000 520,000 680,000 50,000 8,639,000 8,397,000 2,325,000 6,384,000 60,000
$ II 0,864,000

Firms Additional R ep orting Employees

4

180

7

654

12

1,308

I4

1,510

3

350

6

272

8

913

3

13

8

244

4

48

3

35

15

555

6

86

3

483

I5

958

40

--

II 3

7,649

INDUSTRY EXPANSION

SIC

TYPE INDUSTRY

No. Firms

Capital Investment

I4 Mining ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I 20 Food and Kindred Products ------------------------------------ I7 22 Textile Mill Products --------------------------------------------- 34 23 Apparel and R elated Products -------------------------------- 31 24 Lumber and Wood Products ---------------------------------- 2 25 Furniture and Fixtures -------------------------------------------- 8 26 Paper and Allied Products -------------------------------------- 8 27 Printing and Publishing ------------------------------------------ 7 28 Chemicals and Allied Products -------------------------------- 10 29 Petroleum and Coal Products ---------------------------------- I 30 Rubber and Plastic Products ---------------------------------- 4 3I Leather and Leather Products -------------------------------- 2 32 Stone, Clay and Glass Products ------------------------------ 6 33 Primary Metal Industries ---------------------------------------- 3 34 Fabricated Metal Products -------------------------------------- 16 35 Machinery, Except Electrical ---------------------------------- I2 36 Electrical Machinery ------------------------------------------------ 6 37 Transportation Equipment -------------------------------------- 6 39 Miscellaneous Manufacturing ------------ ------------------- 4

$ 800,000 3,994,900 38,653,000 5,077,300 3,016,000 657,500 55,I43,500 I,365,700 4,640,000 400,000 2,I23,000 450,000 1,735,000 3,650,000 3,460,000 1,467,000 5,132,000 4,550,000 545,000

TOTAL

178

$ 136,859,900

Firms Additional Reporting Employees

1

30

7

162

23

1,661

20

1,314

2

206

2

57

4

146

7

100

6

96

1

15

4

96

10

I

56

2

4IO

14

414

10

20 1

5

195

4

1,620

3

77

116

6,886

TOTALS

3I2

$24 7' 723,900

229

Source: Research Division, Georgia Department of Industry & Trade, March 15, 1966.

I4,535

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GEORGIA IN ACTION

N ortheast Georgia Development Map

size, it will not only depict exzstmg conditions but will also present some futu re development possibilities for the area. Th e fmnt will include detailed instructions for using the map, and an illustrated tex t describing the people, land and transpmtation of th e area - as well as th e Commission, its staff and board memben - will cover the back.
A p1eliminmy mailing of the map will precede th e Commission's fi.rst annual meeting set for May 20.
Lat er, a special display, including the relief model and mounted color ove1lays of the various map sections, will be exhibited in the Athens Citizens and Southern Bank and will tow the Commission's nine counties.
A detailed presentation of this unique map will be featured in a subsequent issue of the APDC News.

Bwton spare1 (right ), Executive Di1ector of the
Northeast Gemgia APDC, and Donald 1. Bloema,
C'hainnan, a1e shown with a topographic model and a six-foot map of th e 2,622-square-mile mea served by the Northeast Georgia Commission - including Barrow, Clmke, G1eene, Ja ckson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton Counties.
The first of its hind to he constructed by an Area Planning and Development Commission, the five-footsqua1e relief model pmtrays cz tzes, countzes, buzlt-up population areas and transportation facilities of th e area, as well as such natural features as streams, lakes and parks.
Partly financed by Federal funds, and requiring nearly fow months of planning and work by an Atlanta consultant firm, the exhibit was shown early this year in the lobby of Athens' First National Bank, of which Mr. Bloemer is executive vice president.
The Commission is now preparing a final version of the above map, which will be published in co_lor and distributed thoughout the State and the natzon as an examp le of how an Area Commission plans and encourages multi-county cooperation and development in Georgia.
To be entitled " The Area Development Map of Northeast Georgia," and 38 inches by 40 inches in

German Officials Visit U. S.
On General Aviation Tour
Twenty-three representatives from various departments of the West German government toured Georgia and the United States for ten days in April to study the facilities, operations and economic impact of non-scheduled air transportation.
The tour was sponsored by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Germany, which is affiliated with the Interna tional Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the German Aero Club. A study of navigation, communication and meteorological services available in the U. S. was coordinated by the Office of General Aviation Affairs of the Federal Aviation Agency.
The tour was intended to further and supplement the knowledge of those concerned with the growth and safety of aviation in Germany. Wolfgang Trinkaus, Secretary of IAOPA and European coordinator of the tour, said: "A study of conditions prevailing in a cou ntry where aviation is most advanced, the United States, will enable us to determine to what extent working practices and ground services can be applied to similar conditions in Germany for the benefit of all concerned." Georgia was a prime example of advanced aviation programming by being the leading state in community airport development and the first state in the Southeast to present a model program of long-range community airport needs.
The group Hew from Germany to New York and from there began their 4,532-mile trip to the busiest airports in the world as well as small community air facilities. Their itinerary took them to Pennsylvania, then down the East Coast through Washington, At lanta and through Florida. From there, they proceeded to New Orleans and the Gulf states, Oklahoma City and the Midwest and then back to New York and into Canada at Detroit.
The visitors studied air traffic control procedures, airport development, aviation service facilities and other aspects of general aviation, as part of the total air transportation system.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPM.ENT
EX PANS I0N continued fmm page 12
Georgia Power to Spend
$114 Million in Georgia
Georgia Power Company has announced the largest construction budget in the company's history for 1966 - a scheduled expenditure of more than $ 114 million, an average of nearly half a million dollars for each working day of the year.
Edwin I. Hatch, President, announced that the company's 1966 construction budget is approximately $35 million more than the combined investments of the 125 new industries which located on the company 's lines last year.
Of the total construction budget, $23 million will be allocated to extending Georgia Power's transmission system by 764 miles and a further strengthening of state border connections which form part of a vast transmission grid system covering many states.
A big portion of the 1966 budget will be spent on work at Plant Harllee Branch between Eatonton and Milledgeville. The expansion allocation calls for the installation of the largest turbo-generator ever activated by Georgia Power. The Harllee Branch turbounit will have a generating capacity of 490,000 kilowatts and will cost $5 2 million. When the fourth unit is completed, Plant Harllee Branch will have a generating capacity of 1,539,000 kilowatts with a total plant expansion allocation of $170 million.
Distribution and improved customer service will be a part of the 1966 budget plan for Georgia Power. Improved distribution facilities, including the addition of 700 miles of distribution lines, will be constructed at a cost in excess of S29 million . Other facil ities for serving REA, wholesale, industrial and municipal customers will cost nearly $6 million. Major substations will also be built throughout the State at a cost of $3,234,000.
Majestic Mills Expands
Dalton Plant
The surging growth of Dalton's carpet industry has been reflected in another mill expanding to meet the tremendous demands from the consumer market.
Majestic Carpet Mills, Inc., is expanding to the tune of $400,000. This expansion will result in putting the company's distribution market on a national scale through company distribution centers, franchise distribution and exclusive sales agents.
Presently, Majestic employs some 45 people. When the new plant is completed, there will be approximately 100 persons on the payroll with plant production increased four times the capacity of the old plant. Expansion plans also include the tripling of the plant's equipment and the addition of several new processes that have previously been subcontracted by the mill.
Mr. Herb Schottenfeld, President of Majestic Carpet Mills, commented on the mill's growth by saying: "The carpet industry's growth in Georgia reflects the State's emergence as a center of the national carpet industry."
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Columbian Peanut Company
Announces Expansion
One of Fort Gaines' oldest industries, Columbian Pea nut Company, has recently announced plans for a $ 100,000 expansion which will extend the plant's produ ction period by three months.
This longer work season will benefit the 50 employees presently on the payroll, but will probably not affect an increase in employment. Columbian presently operates from August until January. Upon completion of the expansion, the work period will be ex tended three months - resulting in an additional S30,000 to the annual payroll of $90,000.
Previously, the firm has shipped about 7,500 tons of p eanuts to the edible trade markets. Once the construction of an additional cleaner for "farmer's stock peanuts" and increased drying facilities and storage space is added, the tonnage of production will be increased to about 10,000.
Columbian Peanut Company is an example of the treme ndous growth taking place in the State. The company has grown from a single storage building started in 1920 to a complex of five storage and manufa cturing areas.
Forsyth Industries Plans
Addition to Plant
Forsyth Industries, Inc., is planning a 6,000-squarefoot addition to its plant located near Cumming.
Forsyth manufactures ladies' sportswear for distribution all over the world. This prosperous clothing industry began its operations with only 28 sewing machines and a few workers. Today, there are over 200 machines operating and 225 persons employed with an expected increase of 70 workers when the new expansion is completed.
James Harrington, president of the company, says he looks forward to a very prosperous year with a predicted 35 per cent increase in business volume.
Latex to Expand
A million dollars annually will be added to the LaGrange area by a $250,000 expansion recently a.nnounced by Latex Corporation, manufacturer of girdles and brassieres.
The expanded plant is expected to add 250 additional workers to its present employment of 450 persons, increasing the annual payroll to $1 million.
The construction schedule calls for completion of the addition in four months; whereupon, 100 wor~er will have been trained to start immediate produ~u~n and an additional 150 workers will be trained w1th!O the year.
The announcement was made by S. V. Makuta, Vice President of the Corporation's Sewn Produ.cts Division at Newnan. LaGrange Industries, Inc., which owns and leases the present facility to International Latex, will finance the new addition.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
NEWINDUSTRY continued tmm page 13
Bradley Industrial Park
Welcomes Fourth Plant
Shampaine-Wilson, Division of Affiliated Hospital Products, Inc., will mark the fourth plant and the third major expansion in Bmdley Industrial Park at Columbus.
Formerly known as Wilson Manufacturing Company, the Division is reputed to be one of the world's largest manufacturers of stainless steel and aluminum alloy hospital furniture and operating room equipment.
The 31,000-square-foot plant will represent an investment of some $200,000 and will raise employment from 35 to 70 persons.
Michael A. Chalverus, a Vice Presiden t of Affiliated Hospital Products and Work Manager of the Shampaine-Wilson Division, stated that the Division plans another near-doubling of its facilities within a year or two with a payroll that should eventually reach about 150 employees.
Work is scheduled to begin immediately on a fouracre tract located in the northwes t section of the Bradley Industrial complex that now includes the foundry of the Columbus Iron Works Company, Continental Can Company and the Southern Division of Pascoe Steel Corporation.
Til e Firm Builds in Johnson County
A million dollar a year ceramic tile industry is being added to Wrightsville's fast growing industrial park. Tom Gibbs, President of Doric -corporation of Ohio, has announced that his company will move its plant and offices to Wrightsville as soon as possible. Doric Corporation manufactures glazed ceramic tile and will initially employ 50 to 60 persons with a $300,000 yearly payroll. The new industry will also utilize raw materials, particularly clay, from counties surrounding Johnson.
The Small Business Administration granted a $295,000 loan to the Johnson County Development Corporation to build a 4 1,000-squ are-foot structure for the industry. Doric's reloca tion in Wrightsville will bring some new families into the community when the company moves its headquarters. The new plant in Wrightsville will replace the on e destroyed by fire in Wooster, Ohio.
The company h as another plant at Byesville, Ohio, and warehouses and offices located in Cincinnati. After the plant has relocated in Wrightsville, warehouse and office facilities are scheduled to be cons tructed in Macon. The Wrightsville-Johnson County Industrial Park already contains the main plant of Builtwell Homes, Inc., and other buildin gs housing the ElectroMech anical Corporation, Buckeye Industries, Shurmont Homes, and Feathertouch Windows. Construction on the Doric plant is scheduled to begin immediately, and the building is to be completed in two and a half months.

New Electrical Plant
For Toombs County
Federal Pacific Electric Compan y, an electrical equipment manufacturer, announced the building of a large fac tory for the production of electrical distribution products in Toombs County between Vidalia a nd L yons.
The new, 170,000-square-foot plant is expected to employ about 200 persons when it swings into full production. Bernard B. Tremblay, Vice President of the company, announced that the firm is expanding its plant facilities to manufacture new, low-voltage elec trica l distribution control and protective equipment, as well as to provide better service and distribution of its products to their East and Southeast markets.
Federal Pacific now has Southeastern area plants in Atlanta, Edgefield, S. C., and St. Petersburg, Fla., ma nufacturing elec tric hea t products and assembling panelboards, switchboards, co ntrol centers and other special elec trical distribution products for the Southeast.
The compa ny's annual volume is in excess of $120 million and h as 14 plants in the U. S., six in Canada and several in Europe.
New Fabric Plant for Lawrenceville August Fabrics, Inc., of Fairview, N. J., has an-
nounced the May opening of a new $250,000 plant near Lawrenceville.
The manufacturers of Schiffii embroideries and laces are expected to employ 36 persons within the year. The 22,000-square-foot structure is loca ted on a four-acre site which houses three executive offices, two general offices and a complex of large machinery eq uipment. With the plant's maximum amount of machinery installed and in operation, the facility will represent a capital investment of $750,000.
* * *
VIEWPOINT continued from page 3
Many commercial lending institutions have taken a most adamant stand against the tax exempt features of revenue bonds and this might cause some indu!>tries to avoid this financing for fear of antagonizing normal commercial lending facilities. This is a matter of company fiscal policy and there are no definite rules to follow here.
In summary, revenue bond finan cing is well thought of by industry and is a modern tool for industrial development. Yet, it is only one of many factors involved in any plant location consideration. If any two areas are equally suitable for a plant location and in the final analysis one area has a revenue bond authority, the well-rated company would most likely prefer the revenue bond area over the other on the basis of pure economics. That is what is happening today; tomorrow might bring a different situation.
17

CONTENTS

VIEWPOINT

Page

P.E.P., Training to Produce____________________________________________________________________ 3

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry _____________________________________________ ___4, 14, 15, 17

FEATURES American Pimiento Industry Starts in Georgia ---------------------------------- 5
Portals of Georgia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6, 7 Star Manufacturing Expands Into Georgia ____________________________________ 10, 11

AVIATION ADVANCES Georgia- Airlift Center of the World ------------------------------------------------ 8
TOURIST TOPICS Savannah - Creating a Campaign -------------------------------------------------------- 9
INTERNATIONAL SERVICES CWP Farms Wins "E" Award -------------------------------------------------------------- 12
BUSINESS PRO FILES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 GEORGIA IN ACTION ------------------------------------------- ____________________________ __ 16, 18

Rosser Smith ____ ____________________________________ ______ __________________________________________________ __Editor Dona Ademy ________________________________________________________________________________ Managing Editor
Robert Alford -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist Sarah Conner ______________________________________ ____________________________________Contributing Editor
GEORGJA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
CovER: Pictured on the June cover is one of the many freighters that frequent the harbors of the Georgia Ports. The feature this month tells the fascinating story of the Georgia Ports, gateway to international importexport trade.

EORGIA PROGRESS
PILED BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

VI EWPOINT

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Featured as cont1ibuting W1iter this month is .fames D. Hall , .Jr. .Jim is another of the industtial 1epresentatives bom and raised in Georgia, a native of Tifton and a graduate of the University of Georgia. His background is in the rnarke.ting and industrial real estate field . .Jrn now Tesides in Atlanta with his wife, Marian, and small son, .fames, Ill.

P.E.P. Training-to Produce

Only yesterday, training of new employees for immediate plant production was one of the major problems confronting the industrialist moving into Georgia.

Previously, the problem

was solved by hiring workers and keeping the initial

production volume at a minimum. Consequently,

profit was expectedly lower

and the full economic benefit of the new industry in

the community was also kept at a minimum.

But no longer must pro-

duction be kept below capacity and no longer is the

payroll of a new industry

.Jim Hall

entered into the cconom)'

on a piecemeal basis. It is now possible to pick a

favorable site in Georgia, designate the preferred date to start production and leave the rest to the

Georgia Personalized Engineering Program.

P.E.P. is a program sponsored by State agencies w?ereby a complete package of engineering and tech?lcal trai~ing service eliminates many of the problems mvolved 111 plant relocation.

Once a company decides on a site in Georgia, a representative of the Georgia Vocational Education

?ivision visits with the key personnel in an exist-

mg plant the company has in operation and studies

their practices and procedures. From this observation, prod~Iction job descriptions are acquired and each JOb 1s evaluated on the spot. vVith the advice and assistance of company personnel, the P.E.P. representative then plans a training program to be com-

pleted by the plant dedication date.

After a training plan has bee1i completed, the local conununity then swings into action. The Georgia Department of Labor sets up scre.ening stations with the community's help for selecting potential candidates for training.
The building used for training is usually provided by the company and oftentimes eventually becomes the enlarged version of the actual production line ~uilding. After the machinery is set up and training mstructor: are approved by the company, the job of prepanng people for plant production begins.
How are the trainees acquired? Advertisements are placed in the paper with the general description of the jobs to be filled. Then personnel forms are completed and aptitude tests are given and evaluated. The best potential candidates are offered an opportunity to join the training classes knowing that they will not be on the payroll until actual production begins. This training time is strictly their expense. Actually, this situation in no way deters the quality and quantity of employees recruited, since most of them appreciate the opportunity to learn a trade and gain the knowledge attributable to a higher income bracket.
Equipment, unless completely unique, is provided by the Vocational Education Division. The finished products completed by the trainees during the schooling period may not be sold on the open market. However, State institutions may utilize most of the products as non-profit organizations. After the desired roster of trainees have finished training, the company selects the candidates he desires. An evaluation sheet is kept on each trainee to provide the company personnel manager with background for selection or rejection.
When the ribbon is cut to officially dedicate the plant, activity begins and plant production starts at its maximum capacity. With the help of P.E.P., the economy of the community, area and State experiences a substantial boost, and the company can reap the benefit of their investment at plant completion.
P .E.P. is a tool for improving opportunities for a better way of life for Georgians. While it is a great advantage for industrialists, it also offers potential workers a chance to better themselves.
The efficient execution of P.E.P. depends upon the several State agencies and most importantly, on the local Georgia communities.
3

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

ROME
0

ALTO-CORNELIA*
o* GAINESV ILLE

MARIETTA

*LAWRENCEV ILLE

O 0ATLANTA

0 CARROLLTON

0 MADISON

*0 Expansion New Industry

0 BARNESV ILLE

* H A M I LT ON

0MACON

EACH 100 NEW JOBS OFFERED BY INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION CREATES THE FOLLOWING:
359 more people added to the area and state 100 more households 91 additional school age children 97 more motor vehicles 165 more persons working in trades
servicing the main industry $229,000 in additional bank deposits $710,000 in additional personal incomes
Issued by Chamber of Commerce of the United States. ...

0 AMERICUS 0 ALBANY

0 FITZGERALD
RICEBORO*

0 RI V ERS'IDE

NEW INDUSTRY
LaFayette Selected for Million-Dollar Tile Plant

THOMA SV ILLE
0

0 VALDOSTA

A $1 million ceramic tile plant that will eventually employ 300 persons will be built in the LaFayette

area of Walker County by Imperial Management Cor-

EXPANSION

poration of Atlanta. Herman E. Mason, Corporation President, said,
" Walker County was chosen as an ideal location for

the 21-acre plant after a careful study by the Com-

C & S Milling Co. Plans

pany's industrial development committee." These studies exposed the possibility of the Southeast area

Expansion of Facilities

producing $ 1 million in sales volume for the first year. One of the reasons for such an open and profit-

Douglas Swift and Company officials and officials of C & S Milling Company recently announced plans

able market is that there are no ceramic tile plants in production in the State of Georgia.

j

to expand their manufacturing facilities at the present C & S plant in Douglas.

Rainwear Manufacturer to

The new structure will house an additional 100HP gas-fired boiler and a new 100-HP Sprout-Waldron

Open Plant in Fitzgerald

Pelleting System to allow new and more modern pro-

duction methods.

Cable Raincoat Company of Boston, Mass., which

C & S has contracted with Gulf States Construction,

operates Lemar of Douglas, will open a new plant

Incorporated, of Atlanta to build the new facilities.

in Fitzgerald to manufacture all-weather coats. Pilot

This is the second expansion for the company since

production is already under way in temporary quar-

operations began in January, 1960. Construction will

ters, pending construction of a 35,000-square-foot plant.

begin during the last half of May with completion

The company has acquired five acres east of the city

date expected in November.

for a new building. Lemar of Fitzgerald eventually

will have 200 employees, 10 per cent to 15 per cent

Manhattan Shirt to

male.

Expand Jesup Plant

Weyerhaeuser Company

Manhattan Shirt Company has submitted a letter of intent to the Wayne County Industrial Authority to lease a new building in Jesup. The Authority plans to construct a 43,000-square-foot facility in the new in~ustrial park with financing arranged through the sale of revenue bonds. Manhattan will lease the plant for a 25-year period. Fulfillment of the company's commitment is contingent upon extending the Jesup city limits to include the building site and providing city services.

Announces Plant in Lithonia
A $3.2 million shipping container plant will be built in Lithonia by the Weyerhaeuser Company which now has a leased warehouse in that town. The new 130,000-square-foot facility, designed to supplement the company's production units in the Carolinas and Florid a, will be in operation in October with 125 employees. The Georgia plant will have an annual capacity of 20,000 tons.

4

PIONEERS OF THE AMERICAN PIMIENTO INDUSTRY

When a Georgia farmer saw a can of imported Spanish "pimientos" on a grocery shelf fifty years ago, he made up his mind to bring the product of
"perfection" to America and make it a borne product of the Georgia soil.

Georgia P1og1ess editors recently received a letter from Mr. Hugh Hunt, Vice President of Pomona Products Company, a division of Stokely-Van Camp, calling our attention to the fact that Pomona Products was observing its 50th Anniversary. Enclosed in the letter was an attractive brochure telling how the pimiento industry started in Georgia.
The message related in the booklet was more than promotional literature.- it t~ld ~ su_rprising story of an industry that had 1ts begmnmg m the Amencan market here in Georgia. The following facts are taken from the history presented in the brochure. The story of pimientos in Georgia, and probably in America, began in 1911 when three ambitious farmers from Griffin saw a can of Spanish pimientos in a grocery store and decided to make the delicacy a homegrown product.
George Riegel, his brother and father were commercial vegetable growers with a f.arm near Griffin and together they worked to est-ablish a choice plant which would grow in the Georgia soil. Through the Ameri-

can Consul in Spain, the Riegels secured six ounces of pimiento seed and in 1912 grew enough plants to cultivate one-and-a-half acres which bore fruit so perfect in shape, size and color that it was given the name "Perfection."
Because of the tough skin of the "Perfection" pimiento, Riegel tried another approach to marketing the product- canning the Spanish import after the skins were immersed in a lye solution, cleaned and canned in salt -and vinegar.
When the use of lye proved to be too tedious a process, the help of the Spanish Consul was again employed. He reported that the skins of Spanish pimientos were removed by roasting the pimientos for several minutes in a hot oven and wiping off the charred skins with clean cloths.
After finding the new roasting process satisfactory and after inventing a mechanical roaster in 1914, the Riegels continued their research in a small shed on a farm near Pomona, a few miles from Griffin. When a wholesale grocery company in Griffin marketed an
entire pack of pimientos and discovered the economic possibilities of the product, the grocer offered to provide the financing for expansion which changed the small shed into the million-dollar Pomona Products Company. By 1918, the plant was processing the pimiento crop from 100 acres outside of Griffin.
By 1920, the Pomona Products Company began to assume an important economic share of the American food market. During that year, Walter Graefe became president of the pioneering company. He moved the plant to Griffin -and concentrated on making it the successful industry it is today.
In 1955, Pomona Products Company became a subsidiary of Stokely-Van Camp of Indianapolis. It employs some l ,000 workers -and produces 20 different fruits and vegetables which are distributed and sold through the U. S. and parts of Canada.

Times have certainly changed. As depicted above, wagon wheels bmught the farmer's pimiento cmps to the old Pomona plant. Today, huge tractor trailers transport the Stokley- Van Camp food products to every section of the country. At right is the Pomona Products Company plant as it appeaTs today. Located in Griffin , it is one of the South's major food pmcessing facilities.

5

It is difficult to visua lize the over-all economy of a state. A true perspective of progress is as varied and widespread as the many facets of the economy.
However, there is one place in Georgia where this tremendous upsurge of economic progress is visible; the ports of the State. A look at Georgia's bustling ports sets the stage for action as ships from all over the world enter the portals of worldwide trade.
The Savannah portal is a fascinating ga teway of international trade leading to the Southeast and Midwest and expanding to many exotic foreign ports-of-ca ll. Savannah's port-oriented industry has unlimited deepwater sites for importing, exporting, process- 1r ing, manufacturing and distribution.
The Georgia Ports Authority is a main artery of transportation. From these outlets pass the raw materials for processing or manufacturing into commodities. Its assembly line works on the basis of supplying raw materials to industries accessible to the seaport and providing a channel whereby fin ished goods flow inland to purchasers.
The physical properties of the ports boast of three great river systems presently navigable- the Savannah, the Chattahoochee and the Flint. These huge inter-related waterways link much of Georgia's complex of cities and towns with surrounding industrial areas. The Savannah Garden City Terminal provides more than 3,000,000 square feet of commercial warehouse dry storage area, a nd additional space is available at Ocean Terminal. Storage and handling is provided for such items as general cargo, liquid petroleum and related products, molten sulphur, vegetable oils, naval stores products, latex, molasses, bulk fertilizers, ore and steel products
The Garden City Terminal has a new .~65 0, 000 cold storage warehouse. This modern refrigeration plant covers 39,656 square feet and provides 520,312 cubic feet of cold storage area . Operated by the Atlantic-l'vlunford Company of Atlanta, one of the largest such warehou se owners in the South. The facility handles a large variety of frozen commodities for both import and export.
The Georgia Ports Authority reports that both incoming and outgoing tonnage is on the upswing. In the ten-year period of 1955 to l 965, tonnage has more than doubled, and 1966 figures are expected to far exceed prior years.
Paper and paper produ cts, some of Georgia's most imortant products, are being exported all over the world at a record rate. Naval stores, long an important item in the State's economy, have progressed from the
ship caulking era to the sophisticated world of chemicals. Pine resins and other produ cts of Georgia's forests are being shipped internationally in great quantities. Georgia kaolin is also in trem endous demand overseas for the coating of printing papers.

Th e Port at Savannah has become an important centeT fo1 the impoTt of foreign-made automobi les, especia lly those made in Europe by Genera l Mot ors.
jute fmm India is imported in great quantities to Gemgia for use in the carpeting indust1y. Pictured is a mll of jute bein" loaded on a truck to be"" shipped to a Dalton carpet mill.
Part of the new warehouse and beTth construction going on at th e Port of Savannah.
Another Georgia first took place recently at the Savannah ports when $3 0000 worth of cattle were shipped to L e Havre. The cattle shipment marked the first time that live American beef has been impor.ted by France. The cattle. belong to the Ralston Purina Company.
Paper pmducts a1e one of Georgia's most important economic resources and Union Camp one of the State's main producers. ReTe, Union Camp ships its products overseas to be used in box and carton manufacturing.
Two other important Georgia pmducts, naval stores and lumber, are among the exports vital to countries in Europe.

From all over the world, Savannah has become the mecca for foreign imports. Huge shipments of jute arrive from 1ndia to be used for backing on carpetssome 75 per cen t of the jute imported in the United States comes through the Port of Savannah. Automobiles from. Europe are also being imported at an accelera ted rate - from 1964 to 1965, automobile tonnage rose 25 per ce nt.
With th e grow th of import-export activi ty in the Sta te, the Georgia Ports Authority is taking a farsighted look a t the future by preparing for the eve ntual expansion imperative to the Port's growth. Some 145,000 square feet of warehouse space is currently under construction at the Garden City facility. Ports Authority Officials expect the new space to be filled within five days after com pletion.
At the O cea n City terminal in downtown Savannah, .~4 million of new construction is going on , including the addition of two new berths and renovation of a third. The Georgia Ports Authority is also looking to the future with the acquisition of Colonel's Island near Brunswick and whitehall Plantation property at Sav-annah.
Colonel's Island is one of the few remaining tracts of land on the Atlantic Coast tha t offers both large acreage and direct access to deep water. The Brunswick River that flows by Colonel's Island is 300 to 400 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
The Whitehall Plantatio n property, recen tly acquired by the Ports Authority h as 388 acres ideally suited for industrial development. Facing the Savannah River, this prime piece of property also adjoins the Garden City Terminal in Savann ah. Besides the deepwater facilities at Savannah and Brunswick, the Georgia Ports Authority operates inland barge terminals at Columbus, Augusta, and Bainbridge.
The Port at Savannah recently recorded an interes ting first. Fourteen beef cattle, valued a t almost $30,000, were shipped to France so the American bred cattle can "beef up" the French brands. The animals, owned by Ralston Purina Company Board Chairman R aymond E. Rol and, were brought from Bellville, Missouri, by truck for shipment overseas. The cattle will be transported to the Ralston Purin a experimental farm near Le Harve. vVhy are American ca ttle going to France? "They want some good steaks over there," commented Mr. Roland. The arrangements for the transfer, including special permits from both American an d Fren ch governments, took over a year to complete. The cattle traveled in special pens lashed to the deck of the Holland-American Lines freighter Gasterdyk under the command of Captain Walter Lundenberg.
As Georgia's business activity moves upward, the bustle of activity at Georgia ports is pushing the profit graph upward. With the area being served by two major railroads and over 20 truck lines, prime industrial tracts are being developed with deepwater access to all markets, overseas and domestic. One estimate shows the ports anri allied activities contribute .$1 million per day to the State's economy.
All of these important features of the Georgia ports have tended to motivate and increase the State's importance as an industria l leader both in the United States and throughout the world. From steamboats to nuclear ships, Savannah and its ports facility are reflective of the new upward trend in transportation, international trade and foreign investment.
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AVIATION ADVANCES.

Georgia-Airl-ift
Center of the World
"The manufacturing of the mammoth n ew C-5A cargo pl a ne coupled with the manufacture of the C-141 Starlifter and the C-130 Hercules, two grea t airlifters already oeing built h ere in Georgia, makes the State of Georgia the airlift manufacturing ce nter of the world." This statement by Dick Pulver, President of Lockheed-Georgia, reflects Georgia's important rol e as a leader in the engineering and d esign o f three of the larges t airplanes in the world.
Though we are moving into a new realm of transportation and communication, Georgia and its people have not only kept p ace with innova tion , they have helped to create it.
Air cargo type aircraft is the specialty at LockheedGeorgia. The world's largest transport, the C-5A, weighing 700,000 pounds and looking much bigger, is now under contract to the U. S. Air Force. The magnifice nt C-5A will be able to move 130 tons of freight, bulk or containerized, at 500 miles per hour.
There's another big plane being manufactured in Georgia, the propj e t C-1 30 Hercules, capable of making long-distance airlift missions with cargo weighing 16 to 25 tons.
The third giant in Georgia's air cargo taskforce is the purejet C-141, nearly half as long as a football fi eld and cap able of liftiing a maximum of more th a n 94,000 pounds of cargo, traveling at 550 m.p.h.
Georgia is also an integral part of the air cargo transportation industry. In the last six years, according to Federal Aviation statistics, air cargo volume in Georgia has doubled. In 1960, total air cargo volume

was I 2,317 tons; in 1964, it rose sharply to 23,266 tons.
According to the R esearch Division of I & T , dur. ing 1964, 9,823.61 ton s of airmail and 23,266.3 1 tons of air freight and express originated at the Atlanta Airport. A gre a t majority of this cargo was shipped by seve n p assenger airlines based in Georgia, including Delta, Eastern, Southern, Piedmont, United, Northwest, a nd TWA. In addition, three air ca rgo carriers maintaining operations in Atlanta account fo r a considerabl e portion of the total cargo circulation.
Air! ift Intern a tional , fea tured in the December, 1965 iss ue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, is the only scheduled :l!l~ cargo ca rrier which averages a pproximately 425 tons of_ cargo_ a month on _12 .scheduled daily flights . Flying Tiger Lm es, the nation s largest all-cargo airline, has cen tered its Southern R egio nal Sales Office in Atla nta, and Zantop also serves Atlanta almost daily with 20 to 40 flights p er month.
Georgia's crossroads of transporta tion link us to every state in the nation a nd make us a close neighbor to every country in the world.

(Above, right ) Th e M ilitary Airlift Comrnand soon will be usin a its most modem transport, th e C-141 StarLifter, to recycle th e Mi,;:uteman missile from Strategic Air Command depots and bases. (Right ) This cu taway model shows a typical load fo r th e U. S. Air F01ce's C-5A airfreighter, now under development at Lock heed-G eorgia Company, Mmietta. (Below ) Shi C-130 Ha cules loading heavy steel beams for use in building opemtion Dew Line.

8

TO URIST TOPICS
Sava nnah .
Creat ing a Campaign
"A Share in Savannah." This imaginative slogan has Jed to the creation of a campaign that may result in a $35 million a year tourist trade for Savannah.
City officials, community leaders, the Savannah Chamber of Commerce and the citizens of Savannah have joined together to promote and bring to life the city's outstanding historical attractions. The Tourist Development Fund campaign for this venture is set at $200,000.
Norman McGee, fund chairman, stated that the money will be used to invest in Savannah's future by advertising and promoting the city's tourist attractions. This is where the slogan, "A Share in Savannah," sets the scene. Investment certificates are being offered with the theme, "One gets you 7," referring to every tourist dollar that comes into the Savannah economy means an average of $7 worth of business to merchants in the community.
The $200,000 fund will allot 63 per cent for advertising, publicity and promotions; 22 per cent for special events; a nd 15 per cent for administrative cost. The Visitors Bureau of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce will have the money to expand its over-all campaign for more effectiveness in reaching the prime tourist markets. This initial total investment will mean a 25 to 30 per cent increase in the flow of dollars in the community.
Savannah hopes to develop a tourist trade bringing in $35 million a year. The city and county have already pledged $25,000 in cash to the Savannah tourist fund and some 2,500 businesses have been asked to invest in Savannah's future.
Through this initial investment Savannah's century-

old Yamacraw Bluff will come alive and history will relive itself when the shores of the Savan nah River once again echo the sounds of the first white settlers landing in Georgia. R emembrances of a quarter of a cen tury regained when President Monroe came to the Savannah riverfront for a maiden voyage on the new steamship Savannah two days before her historic first successful transatlantic steam.
Contributions for the campaign, so far, bring the total to $ 121,669. If another $38,000 can be raised, a promised " com1i1itme nt" of $40,000 will be don a ted.
Georgia Welcome Center
To Open at Nation's
Fourth Busiest Airport
Georgia's seventh welcome center is sch eduled to open in July at the nation's fourth busiest airport.
Through the cooperation of the Atlanta Airport Terminal and the City of Atlanta, the ce nter will be loca ted at the Atlanta Airport whereby every passenger entering or leaving through the main lobby will pass by the welcome center.
The exhibit display will feature beautiful, backlighted color scenes of Georgia tourist attractions with push-button maps showing their exact location in the State. The exhibit is designed to interes t and attract the three million people who traverse this important transportation hub which accounts for nearly 87,000 scheduled aircraft departures annually.
Lovely I & T hostesses will greet those meeting or leaving planes and encourage airport patrons to visit points of interest in the Atlanta area and the State itself.

CHIPPEWA SQUARE ... Distinguished by monument to Gen. james Edward Oglethorpe, founder of Gem-gia. Bronze statue is work of Daniel Chester French.

The above artist's rendering depicts two different views of the welcome cen ter and the Georgia theme which will be displayed.
9

BRIGHT STAR IN GEORGIA'S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

B

s

... FOR COMPANY PRIDE AND PROFIT

A company providing a first-year .)50 million impact upon the economies of Georgia and the Southeast will move into the State and be in operation by January.

Star Manufacturing Company, the nation's fourth

largest steel buildings fabricator, manufactures com-

puter-designed steel buildings used widely for auto

dealerships, grocery stores, churches, schools, and a

myriad of other uses.

The firm has climbed from twentieth to fourth position in the industry in less than five years. Combining

its home plant with the new Georgia facility, Star will

be second in the nation in production capacity for

pre-engineered steel buildings.

,

A Star spokesman said the Oklahoma City firm is expanding in Georgia to further tap the $ 107million steel building market on the eastern seaboard. He

added Star has had its eye upon the presently unex-

plored markets developing in the Caribbean- partic-

ularly Puerto Rico and the Bahamas- and is looking

for outlets in Brazil and Nigeria. "Georgia sits in the

center of what we believe to be our greatest region

for rapid growth," he said.

Star, although beginning its operations on a relatively modest level- initial employment will be a

little over 100 persons - states its impact on the area's

economy will be noteworthy. "We will initially have over .~ 1 million annual payroll; spend over $4 million

in the area of operations and ship $5 million in goods

over state rail and trucking lines. These goods will

be used by our dealer organization to construct $40 million worth of facilities for their customers," the spokesman noted.

Star's 153,000-square-foot plant, built on a 27-acre

site in the Cedartown Industrial Park, will fabricate

Pictured above is the mammoth 153,000-square-foot plant to !Je built on a 27-acre site by Star Manufacturing Company at Cedartown. Const1uction will start on the plant in ]uly and production is scheduled to begin the ji1st of next year.
10

A BIG DAY FOR CEDARTOWN AND ALL OF GEORGIA:

A number of representatives from newspapers, radio and television were on hand as Governor Carl Sanders made the official welcoming announcement of Star's expansion into Georgia.

Management team for Star-Georgia includes (left to ri[Jht) Cedartown Plant Manager Bob Uh en, Executive V1ce President Bob Hall, President Bill Voss and Sales Vice President Lon Shealy.
LOOKING AHEAD:
A CONTINUOUS RISE
IN ECONOMIC
BENEFITS FOR
THE STATE.
enough steel next year to produce 15,000 automobiles. Plans are to double its production capacity and work force within two years.
President William B. Voss said groundbreaking will take place this summer and regular production will commence the first of the year. A cadre of foremen and draftsmen, recruited from the Cedartown area, will be sent to Oklahoma City for a 90-day training program. With a few exceptions, the entire work force will be drawn from the Georgia labor market.
Star President William B. Voss, commented, '"We looked for a plant site in the Southeast for months -but after we consulted with the Department of Industry and Trade about the advantages of Georgia, the only question that remained was where in the State would we locate."
Mr. Lon Shealy, vice president of sales, stated that one of the reasons Star is vital to the nation and to Georgia is that "with our present rate of economic growth, by the year 2000 the United States will have to maintain and repair every building now standing and then duplicate all of these buildings simply to keep up with the needs."
Manager of the new Cedartown operation will be Robert Uhen. Mr. Uhen was formerly manager of the Steel Building Division of the Inland Steel Corporation in Milwaukee. Sales will be handled by an expanded network of builder-dealers directed by Lon Shealy, Vice President- Sales, Oklahoma City.
Georgia-made Star buildings will be sold by these dealers in every state east of the Mississippi, according to Mr. Shealy.

Star President William B. Voss, Vice President for Sales Lon Shealy and Cedmtown banker W. D. T1ippe anive at Cedartown. Seaboard Vice President Howmd Toxey accompanied the party to the plant location in a special Seaboard Railroad car.
Star Presiden-t William B. Voss (cen ter) and Industrial Rep1esentative Ken Roberts (left) along with ]ames H. Nutter, ]1"., Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, look over a rendering of the new Star plant in Ceda1town.
In Retrospect
In retrospect, what does a company like this company mean to Georgia and why is it considered so beneficial? Construction will begin in July aDd the plant will
be in full-time operation by the first of next yearthis means immediate, as well as long-term profit for the State. Its major impact will not be limited to the initial investment, a reflection of the firm's past and fast growth insure that it will expand rapidly and effectively in the future. What benefits the industry, benefits the Sta te. Georgia may someday be the focal point from which Star branches out to the untapped markets of the Caribbean, Africa and South America.
11

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

CWT Farms Receive

Request for Catalogues

President's "E" Award

From Singapore

CWT Farms, Inc., of Gainesville has become the twelfth Georgia firm to earn the President's "E" Award for export. Raymond H . Burch, Vice President of CWT, accepted the award from the Honorable Phil M. Landrum, Representative from the Ninth Congressional District, during a presentation ceremony in Gainesville June I.
An invocation by ]. M. Tankersley, President of
J. M. Tankersley and Associates of Gainesville, opened
the program. John L. Cromartie, Mayor of Gainesville and President of CWT Farms, gave the welcome, after which Max Ward, Treasurer of CWT, recognized three distinguished guests who were invited to make short talks: the Honorable Phil Campbell, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture; Hermon Miller, Direc-

Singapore's Economic Development Board has registered a request with International Service for catalogues and brochures from Georgia manufacturing firms. The Board, one of the most progressive in the world, undertook development of the Jurong Industrial Estate in 1961. Situated in the southwest of Singapore Island, the 16,000-acre area will provide sites and facilities for industries, as well as a new township of a half a million people. A natural deepwater harbor with 9,000 feet of wharfage for ocean liners will make .Jurong a center for international shipping.
The Light Industries Division of the Development Board_ has a~ e~uipment ~atal?gue lib~ary for use by local mclustnaltsts requestmg mformatwn on various types of equipment and products. Georgia firms inter-

tor of the Poultry Division, Consumer and Marketing

es ted in being known in the developing Singapore

Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture; and James

area should write:

H. Nutter, Jr., Executive Director of I & T and mem-

Light Industries Services Division

ber of the Atlanta Regional Expansion Council. Abit

Economic Development Board

Massey, Executive Vice President of the Georgia Poul-

Post Office Box 1595, SINGAPORE

try Federation and member of the Atlanta REEC,

Attn: Mr. Sithawalla

introduced several other guests and the principal speakers.

International Business

Thomas S. Morgan, Chairman of the Atlanta REEC and the U.S. Department of Commerce, explained the

Op po rtu nit ies

significance of the "E" Award, which recognizes outstanding export accomplishment. The award consists of a citation signed in the name of President Johnson by Commerce Secretary John T. Connor and, in this case, also by Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman; an "E" pennant and "E" lapel buttons.
Following Mr. Morgan's speech were remarks by

No.

IMPORT OPPORTUNITIES

100-Indian manufacturer seeks distributor for hand-

made brassware.

101-Japanese exporter wants distributor for yard and

garden tools.

102-Spanish company desires to contact importers of

sea sponges.

David R. Strobel, Director of the Dairy and Poultry

103-Italian firm wants to contact decorators, whole-

Division, Foreign Agriculture Service, U .S.D.A. Mr.

salers, and sales agents interested in importing

Strobel is responsible for export market promotion of

plants, tools and fittings for display purposes.

U. S. dairy and poultry products.

I 04-Italian exporter desires outlets for wigs and wig-

After accepting the award, Raymond Burch and

lets of human hair.

W. F. McDonald of CWT concluded the program with

LICENSING AND JOINT VENTURES

the raising of the "E" pennant to the flag of the United States, and the assembly adjourned for a

105-A machine tool manufacturer in Italy, making copying lathes and turret lathes, is offering to

chicken barbecue luncheon.

manufacture suitable American products under

CWT Farms has built a substantial export market

license.

in the Latin American and Caribbean areas by devel-

106-An Australian has developed an automatic toilet

oping specialized refrigeration and shipping procedures for hatching eggs. The procedures have overcome losses formerly encountered by concerns shipping baby chicks into the southern countries to build poultry stock.
The company started in the export business by furnishing one breed of high grade broiler chicken stock. Now it furnishes hatching eggs for 12 breeds or crosses of chicken and breeds of turkey and duck.

system allied to domestic flushing cisterns and wishes to license their manufacture in this country. l 07-Manufacturer of precision plastic optical len~, prism, and reflecting mirror and of ultra preCIsion metal finishing process, holding U.S., United Kingdom, Swiss, and Japanese patents, wishes ~o locate plant in Georgia on a joint venture basis. 109-A French firm, based in Paris, wishes to represent manufacturers of electronic measuring instru-

CWT is the first hatchery in the State to be singled

ments and systems. They also offer laboratory,

out for this coveted award. Two other agricultural

maintenance and repair facilities.

firms, Gold Kist Poultry Growers in Canton and Mar-

For further information, contact International Service,

..

Jac Poultry Company in Gainesville, have also re-

Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol,

ceived the "E."

Atlanta, Georgia.

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BU SINESS PROFILES

Ma xson Electronics Shows Increase for First Half of Year
Sales a nd earnings for the M axson Elec tronics Compan y h ave increased for th e first six months of the 1966 fi scal year th a t ended March 31, William L. i\Iaxson, J r., company president, a nn ounced. Sales for the first h alf of the fiscal year rose to $ 13,2 10,000 from 7,393,000 for th e corresponding p eriod las t year. N e t income in creased to $26 1,000 or 33 ce nts a share from 25 1,000 or 31 cents a sh are for th e first six months of 1965.
"The profit in crease did not keep pace with the sizable ga in in sa les," Mr. Maxson sa id. This was a direc t res ult of the la rge selling proposal, estima ting and administrative expenses. "These outlays were necessary," h e said, " to equip Maxso n to handl e, on a sustained basis, a far larger volume of business. "
"vVe expec t the rate of in crease in sa les to continu e for th e bala n ce of th e year," Mr. Maxson added, "with a considerably better profit p icture." The Ordn ance Division of Maxson E lectronics is located in Macon.
Georgia, Atlanta, and G-E VI P's Confer
Chief execu tives of Georgia, Atlanta and General Electric Compa ny confer prior to the big electrica l fi1m's 74th annual meeting of share owners in Atlanta April 27. L eft to right: Fred ]. B orch, G-E president and chief execu tive officer; Gerald L. Phillipe, G-E boa1d chairman; Mayor I van Allen, ] r., of Atlanta; and T . K. Edenfi eld, G-E regional vice p1esiden t. Th e G-E annual meeting, first ever held in Georgia by one of th e nation's top five industrial com panies, drew some 1,500 G-E share owners from around the coun try to Atlanta's Municipal Auditmium.

Texa_s Company Bought
By Atlanta Firm
Nationa l Services Industries, In c., has bought L one Star Towel and Un iform Service in Fort Worth, Texas. Preside nt Milton \1\Teinstein an n ounced immedi a te plans for expa nsion of the $350,000 operation by es tabli shing Lone Star as a unit of the National Linen Service Division thereby forming its third industrial renta l operation. National has two rental operations in A tl a nta a nd Denver.
A tl a nta-based National Service Industries also opera tes Zep Man ufacturing Company and AECO Produ cts.
RoyaI Crown Cola Earns
$1 Million in Winter Quarter
For the first time in its history, Royal Crown Cola Company, the nation's third largest soft drink producer, has ea rn ed more than one million after-tax dollars in the traditionally slow winter quarter.
William E. Uzzell, president of the soft drink compan y, sa id earnings in the quarter ending March 31 to taled $ 1,016,781 -after provision had been made for $972,000 for federal and state income taxes. This represe nts a 26 per cent increase over resta ted earnings of $804,7 12 for the ~ame period in 1965, after providing $775,100 for federal and state income taxes.
Based on 3,712,303 sh ares of stock outstanding, earnings for the p eriod were 27 cents per share, Uzzell said. First quarter earnings in 1965, based upon 3,702,597 shares outstanding, have been restated to 22 cents per sh are.
The company president said tha t first quarter sales and profits were above p rojec tions and that he expects 1966 to con tinu e to es tablish substantial gains over 1965.
Georgia Railroad Elects
New President
Donald D. Strench was recently elected president of the Atlanta a nd West Point R ailroad Company and the Western R ailway of Alabama. Mr. Strench suc-
ceed ed J. Clyde Mixon, who has retired from the
position. The new president, formerly director and executive
vice president of the two companies, also succeeds to the ge neral managership of Georgia Railroad, where h e was former assista nt general m a nager.
H e also became director of Atlanta Terminal Company, director and president-elect of Augusta Union Station Company, Augusta and Summerville Railroad Company, Savannah River Terminal Company, Augusta Belt R ailway Compa ny, Milledgeville Railway Compa ny, Monroe Railway Compa ny, Georgia Highway T ra nsport Company, and ch airman of the board of control of A tlanta Joint Termin als.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EX PANS I0N continued from page 4

Carrollton Chemical Firm

Norville Routes Growth

Announces Expansion

In Last Ten Years

E. F. Houghton and Company is adding 7,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space to its

Norville Supply Company, formerly Textile Supply Company divisioQ of Twistex Corporation of Dalton, is now completing 5,000 square feet of additional warehouse space.
The company houses yarn, burlap, cotton goods and other products sold to the tufting industry. Norville has been in business about 10 years devoting its production to sales of raw material needs to rug, carpet and bedspread manufacturers. Norville now ships in

Carrollton plant and will begin construction of new offices in June. The company, which makes lubricants and industrial chemicals, reported production in its Carrollton plant in 1965 up 40 per cent over the previous year. Part of this increased volume was attributed to the acquisition of more processing equipment during the period. An average of a half-million pounds of industrial chemicals is being shipped weekly from Carrollton.

the millions of pounds annually throughout the

Southeast. About 2,000 square feet of office space, plus Two DeKalb County Firms

about 20,000 square feet of warehouse space are required presently to handle the large volume of pro-

Report Expansion

duction.

The company has four outstanding salesmen as well

Cutler-Hammer, Inc., is building a new 78,000-

as a full y staffed office and warehouse to provide quick

square-foot assembly plant and regional warehouse on

service and prompt delivery. Customer service is

McCall Drive in the 1-85 Industrial District. The

further extended through ownership and operation of facility will be completed in August.

a company plane. Mr. Z. S. Norville, Jr., told Georgia

Marine Drives Systems, producers of marine engines,

Pmgress editors that " to keep pace with competition, we bought a Cessna 172 airplane four years ago prior to purchasing the present twin-engine Apache."

fiberglas boats and marine inboard-outboard drives, is locating into an existing 16,000-square-foot building in the Ponce de Leon Industrial District at 211 DeKalb

t
I

Industrial Way.

Mr. Z. S. Norville, ]r., President of Norville Supply Company, stands beside the twin engine Apache that has contributed to his fi,1m's "keeping pace with the competition."
McDonough Plant to
Enlarge Facilities
McDonough Power Equipment has let a contract for 67,000 square feet of additional floor space, increasing its plant nearly 50 per cent. The company manufactures riding mowers and is the leading producer of this type of equipment, supplying nearly 25 per cent of the market. McDonough now employs 235 and expects to enlarge its work force to 350 when the addition is completed.
14

Maxson Macon Gets
New Air Force Contract
The Air Force has awarded Maxson Electronics a $1.7 million dollar contract for fuse assemblies for aircraft bombs; the work will be done by the company's Macon Ordnance Division. This is the fiftieth contract Maxson Macon has received since taking over the facilities of the old U. S. Naval Ordnance Plant last December. Under Maxson, the work force has been expanded from 500 to 700, and Joseph Hoinowski, Vice President and General Manager, said this latest order will boost employment still further.
Claxton Lingerie Firm
To Add More Employe_es
Officials of the Claxton Manufacturing Company are planning to increase production space by 12,000 square feet. The additional facilities will call for 65 new employees.
Poultry Plant Rebuilding
The Perkins Poultry Company plant in Stillmore, which was destroyed by fire in January, is being rebuilt according to owner Wynne Perkins. Construction is scheduled for completion around June I when 70 persons will resume work.

GE ORGIA DEVELOPMENT

NEW INDUSTRY continued trom page 4
Federal Pacific Builds Multi -Mill ion Dollar Plant

Utility Tower Plant
May Locate in Monroe
The Monroe-Walton Company has voted to raise approximately $70,000 toward development of a new industry- the Monroe-Walton Fabricating Company. Fred Henninger of Atlanta, who will head the operation, said the company would use 75 men in manufacturing galvanized steel transmission towers for power lines. Utility companies are now using these in place of wood poles.
The entire plant will be capitalized at $350,000. In addition to the Monroe-Walton Company's share, capital will be acquired through the sale of stock, part of which is to be subscribed by a group of Atlanta industrialists. Negotiations are in progress to purchase an ll-acre site south of Monroe adjacent to the Georgia Railroad for the plant. At full production, the Monroe-Walton Fabricating Company expects to be shipping I 00 carloads monthly.

The above picture is an artist's rendering of the proposed Federal Pacific Electric Company being built between Vidalia and Lyons.
Last month, Ge01gia Progress announced the expansion of the nation's largest electrical equipment manufacturer into Georgia. After many months of construction planning, the contract on the 170,000square-foot building was awarded to Rea Construction Company. Completion is scheduled for October 15.
B. G. Tremblay, Federal Pacific Company Vice President, said they chose Georgia for their new plant site "in order to better competitively service the evergrowing markets in this area." He further stated that "Vidalia, in particular, was chosen because of its strategic location in this area and its attractive community environment of moderate size capable of supporting our operation with potential expansion."
The modern manufacturing building will be constructed of steel, concrete, and brick. It will be designed in every detail to provide maximum efficiency. The plant will be equipped with the most modern heavy manufacturing equipment for mass production.
vVith a capital investment of aproximately $3.5 million, the plant should employ approximately 400 people when in full operation. The employment will tentatively be split 60-40 male to female.

New Industry for Ashburn
Interstate Manufacturing, Incorporated, which has a plant in Adel, will begin production of prefabricated homes, trusses, walls, decks and other building structures in Ashburn. The firm also manufactures store units for service stations and other complete buildings, motel and apartment units. Interstate is leasing a 144,000-square-foot building from the Turner County Development Authority for a 15-year period and is scheduled to begin operations in Ashburn .June I. The company expects to hire 100 men initially and triple employment within six months.
Textured Products to Locate
$1 Million Plant in Elberton
Textured Products Company, an Atlanta-based firm, announces plans for a $1 million plant in Elberton to manufacture cement-bonded wood fiber deck boards and planks. The automated operation will use a specialized technique and custom-built equipment developed by the Van Elten Engineering Corporation of Holland in producing the roof deck materials. Robert G. Megaw, President of Textured Products, said the company will employ about 40 persons with initial production scheduled in September. The estimated capacity of the plant is 40 million board feet.

Furniture Plant to
Locate 1n Lawrenceville
A drive by local businessmen to obtain financing for a new furniture manufacturing operation will mean bet.ween I 00 and 200 new jobs for Lawrenceville area residents. The firm is expected to occupy a building in the city's industrial park.

Another Industry Opens in
Douglas G&F Industrial Park
Rite-Diet Feeds has opened a $150,000 push-button mill in Douglas, specializing in feeds for all types of poultry operations and offering truck delivery to farm customers. The plant, which has a capacity of 20 tons hourly, will use locally grown grains in season.
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GEORGIA IN ACTION
New Concept in Mobile Homes Parks
A DeKalb County structural engineer, Carver Hunt, President of Carver Hunt, Inc., is developing plans for a high-rise mobile home park. Mr. Hunt already operates a conventional park and preliminary plans for the revolutionary concept call for four wings radiating from a central core that will contain all utility lines and elevators. A swimming pool, sunbathing area, and landscaped grounds are also included in the proposed plans.
One problem retarding the development of the "mobitel" has been the uniqueness of the structure itself. Building and housing codes, when drawn up, never allowed for a building like the multi-story structure. However, Mr. Hunt feels the code problems can be resolved.
One of the early concepts of Caroe1-Hunt; Inc., for a multi-story mobile home park. Working with the manufacturers, the firm's p,-esident, Carver Hunt, has evolved even moTe evolutiona,-y designs. The wheels and unde,-can-iage of the home units would be Temoved befoTe the unit is installed in its cubicle. The large elevator tha-t would lift the homes is shown on the side of the "mobile/."
Scouting the Southeastern Mobile Home Exposition
The first Atlanta Southeastern Mobile Homes Exposition, hosted by the Georgia Mobile Home Association, met with satisfactory and successful results according to the mobile home dealers and firms who participated in the show held at the Atlanta Fanners Market.
John B. Manley, Jr., Executive Director of GMHA, proudly announced that the 1967 exposition would again be held in Atlanta since Georgia has become an important hub of the industry.
Many dealers testified to the tremendous results of the exposition as GMHA reported that one dealer's order exceeded % million dollars and another dealer experienced sales that would require total plant production through July.
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Overmyer Expanding Atlanta Warehousing Operations

Dan H. Overmyer, Board Chairman of D. H. Overmyer Warehouse Company, revealed his company's plans to spend $ 12 million

for 1.5 million square fe et

of additional warehousing

facilities in the Atlanta area

by I 967 - more than dou-

bling Overmyer's present

investment locally.

Overmyer opened its first

Atlanta warehouse in 1958.

It now has nine buildings providing 900,000 square

Dan H. Overmye,-

fee t of space and another six under construction. The

company pioneered in the development of long, one-

story warehouses with oversized 30-foot ceilings.

New Key Management
For Singer's Dalton Plant
A new management group is being added to the Cobble Division of the Singer Company at Dalton. Plant Manager Herman Hall explains the organization expansion as part of "the company's continuing efforts to provide the finest service possible for the tufted textile industry."
Further plans were disclosed for a new Technical Service Department; a Quality Assurance Department; a program of factory training for technicians servicing various control systems; and plans to purchase two service trucks equipped with two-way radios.

Cloclls are ve,-y important to General Time Corporation PTesident B. K. Wick-$lmn (left) and Board Chairman Don Mitchell. General Time held its first annual meeting at the Westclox Division plant in Athens.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
EXPANSION
T rent Tube Company
Plans Another Addition
A 24,000-square-foot addition is planned by Trent Tube Company in Carrollton, the firm's fourth expansion since 1962. The new building is to house a Trentdesigned mill which forms and welds various widths of stainless steel in a single, continuous operation. Trent's work force, which numbered 90 at the end of last year, may go above 100 with the latest expansion . A division of Crucible Steel Company of America, Trent Tube produces stainless and high alloy pipe and tubing principally for the paper, chemical, food and petroleum industries.
Calhoun's Regent Mills
A nnounces Major Expansion
An expansion program-calling for the addition of I00,000 square feet of floor space by June I, 1967 is being undertaken by Regent Mills, Inc., Calhoun. The company manufactures area and scatter rugs, room-size rugs and broadloom carpeting. Spokesmen said the first phase of constructing a 25,000-square-foot building is to be completed by the end of June. Several modern tufting machines and other automated equipment will be added as construction proceeds.
United Cotton Goods
M oving to Larger Quarters
A Griffin manufacturer of institutional textiles and uniforms is building a new 52,800-square-foot plant. United Cotton Goods expects to be in the enlarged quarters by December. Officials of the company, which has been located in Griffin for 33 years, say the expansion program nearly doubles present facilities. United Cotton Goods now has 150 employees, and President AI Blanton indicated that this number may be increased when operations are moved.
W inder Plant Converting
Production Line
. Beacon Manufacturing Company, Winder, i~ spendmg more than a half-million dollars converting its old Sachem Division into a production unit for carpets and rugs. Yarns for the floor covering operation will ~orne from the company's Spinster Division. Beacon mitially will produce a popular-priced line of tufted ~catter rugs and bath mats, then expand the line to Include room-size rugs and wall-to-wall broadloom carpets. It is estimated that 200 people will be employed by both divisions with the annual payroll reaching $1 million by the second year of production.

NEW INDUSTRY
Egg Basket of the Nation
Gets New Plant
Commercial Cold Storage, Inc., announces the completion of their egg processing plant located in the midst of the "Egg Basket" region of the nation, Doraville. The Standard Brands, Inc., plant will produce Fleishmann's Frozen Eggs for distribution to bakers and other food processors. The plant will utilize the most modern processing equipment of stainless steel throughout the production operation.
Fuel Tank Manufacturer
Locates 1n Lithonia
Manchester Tank and Equipment Company has moved its new 16,250-square-foot plant into the Lithonia Industrial District. The firm, which is headquartered in Lynwood, California, produces motor vehicle fuel tanks.
Monterey Campers Produced
In Charlton County
Chiles Engineering Company, makers of the "Monterey" campers which are mounted on pick-up trucks, began manufacturing in Charlton County in April. The plant is located off the St. George Highway near Folkston. Employment this year is expected to reach 25 and increase to 40 in 1967 when output is up to 25 units per week. Manager John R. Chiles said the company plans later to expand its line with a pulltype camper and other products.
Kordite to Put $500,000
Plant in Covington
Kordite Packaging, a division of Socony-Mobil Chemical Company, soon will begin construction on a plant near Covington to produce plastic film for institutional and service uses, including garment bags for laundry and dry cleaning; bags for produce -and bakery goods; and receptacle liners for wastebaskets and hospital containers. The company expects to be manufacturing by fall using 100 employees when full capacity is achieved.
We Goofed!
In the April issue of Georgia Prog1ess, we reported that the Georgian Art Metal Company was moving into the Lawrenceville Industrial Park. Mr. Irwin B. Winer informs us that this is incorrect and that Georgian Art Metal is moving into the Central Gwinnett Industrial Park.
-EDITORS
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GEORGIA IN ACTION
C&S Bank Uses Helicopter
For Transporting Checks
The Citizens and Southern Bank has solved slow transportation problems by adding a helicopter to its staff. The helicopter will be used to speed movement of bank deposits and other mail for 30 of its branches, affiliates and correspondent banks in the area.
C & S is one of the first financial institutions in the nation to use such an approach. A heliport, located a top its Mitchell Street branch and operations building, will be midtown Atlanta's first such facility.
Traffic jams, as well as the problems of geographical spread, prompted the C & S officials to purch~se the five-passenger helicopter. Rountree Youmans, VIce President, estimated that on an average banking day, over 257,000 checks and drafts were trickling into downtown operations at a snail's pace.

located multiplexers will enable many separate bits of information for the computers to be relayed from many telephone lines to a single circuit.
When the Qualimax Telemax system becomes operational, reservations and confirmations can be made in less than five seconds.

C & S Bank's new helicopter comes in for a landing at the bank's Mitch ell Street heliport.
Quality Courts Holds
Atlanta Meeting
Some 150 members of the Quality Courts Motel Association recently held a two-day regional meeting in Atlanta.
Quality devoted the entire session to training members in the operation of the new Telemax computer reservation system which will be in operation so~n. Telemax is a subsidiary of the Maxson Electromcs Corporation which also has a military ordnance and manufacturing facility at Macon.
Using the Telemax system, Quality Courts will have a central reservations system that can be constantly updated by computer control. Besides being able to make reservations by member motels, Telemax hopes to eventually equip all travel agents, cruislines, rent-acar and airlines with the system. Other motel chains have also signed up for the service.
Because of the location of the Quality Courts property, the first multiplexer or message concentrator for Telemax will be located in Georgia, probably in the Atlanta or Macon area, according to Willia.in L. Maxson, Jr., President of Maxson Electronics. When completed, Telemax will be the largest privately owned communications system in the world. The regionally
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At the Quality Cowts Motel Associa tion 1egional rnee tinrr in Atlanta, six-year-old Gina Bosch operated th e T elemax Un ite/ resenJa tions unit after receiving instructions from (L to R J Richard Brown, T elemax vice president for sa les; Bob Boisseau, training dilector, and Elrol Davis, Telemax regional sales manager from Atlanta. Gina's gmndmother, Mrs. ]. F. Bosch, is secretary of th e Emerald B each Motel in Biloxi, Miss.

I & T Introduces New Industrial Representative

The Georgia Department of Industry and

Trade proudly introduces Tom Linder, Jr., who

has recently joined the Industry Division as an

Industrial Representa-

tive.

I & T is proud of its

excellent staff of indus-

trial salesmen who

work diligently at en-

couraging prospective

industrialists and man-

ufacturing firms to ex-

pand into Georgia.

Born in Hawkins-

ville, Tom graduated

from the University of

Georgia and later re-

ceived his Juris Doctor from the Cumberland

Torn Linder

School of Law at Samford University. He has

three years of industry background in legal re-

search and investigation.

.

Mr. Linder now resides in Powder Springs with

his wife, Carolyn, and son, :Mark.

ORGIA PROGRES~

D BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

1966

Volume 2, No. 6

Hft a tfor;OEP.tt~,
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CENTER OPENS
also in this issue
VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA

CONTENTS
VIEWPOINT FACTS AND FIGURES IN COMMUNITY RESEARCH ............ 3
GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry .............................................. .... 4, 14, 15, 17
FEATURES Vocation-Technical Education in Georgia .............................. .... 5, 6, 7
Welcome Centers Greet Georgia Travelers ......................................10, 11
AVIATION ADVANCES NASO/ FAA Holds Regional Meeting in Atlanta .. ................................ 8
TOURIST TOPICS New 1966 "Miss See Georgia First" Chosen .................. . . ........................ 9
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Effective Approach to International Trade ................................................... 12
BUSINESS PROFILES ............................................................................................................ 13
GEORGIA IN ACTION ................................................................... .........................16, 18

Rosser Smith

. . . . Editor

Dona House .

Managing Editor

Robert Alford

. . . . . Artist

Sarah Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributing Editor

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

CoVER: Governor Carl Sanders prepares to cut the ribbon officially opening the new Georgia Welcome Center at the Atlanta Airport. Flanking the Governor are : (1 to r) Lee Ann Burgess, Airport Receptionist, James H. Nutter, Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, Richard Freeman, Chairman of the Aviation Committee of the Atlanta Board of Aldermen, Sally Brown, Airport Receptionist, and Grady Ridgeway, Airport Manager.

E .ORGIA PROGRESS
COMPILED BY THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE

VIEWPOINT

EDITOR'S NOTES:
Industrial Representative Jim Hall is again the guest writer this month for GEORGIA PROGRESS. Mr. Hall wrote a most authoritative and interesting article last month and the editors felt that his enthusiasm and knowledge of industrial development in the State warranted a return to the guest editor's spotlight.

Know Your Facts and Figures

Correct and vital information about one's own com-

munity is a must when an industrial prospect starts

asking pertinent questions. On many occasions, a com-

munity will be in a position of strong consideration

for an industry if adequate

and current information is

provided for an evaluation.

It is our own experience

that prospective industries

will tend to lose confidence

in a community if given a

wrong answer or no answer

at all to a reasonable ques-

tion.

An industry with a big

water demand was recently

seeking a plant site in the

Southeast. From existing in-

formation in our files, we

Jim Hall

selected several towns which

.

met or could meet the water requirements of the plant.

While visiting potential sites in one of these towns, the

prospect asked the question, " What is your water

system's capacity and what is the peak demand on this

system?" The community representative replied, "There

is plenty of water." While this may have been true, it

did not satisfactorily answer the question and conse-

quently introduced to the prospect some doubt as to

whether his plant would have the resources it required

for full and efficient operation.

Community representatives must be prepared for not

only general questions but also for questions which

s~em insignificant. What might seem an unusual ques-

tion might turn out to be the very inquiry that proved

to be a stumbling block for another community.

The Department of Industry and Trade has found

the need for exact information so important that pre-

parations have been made to use computers for filing

and storing pertinent information on communities. In-

dustrial development has reached this degree of sophis-

tication.

Each month the Industrial Developers Council of

Georgia meets to discuss the overall problems and progress of local development. Represented at these meetings are eighteen statewide development agencies as well as local chamber of commerce officials. One frequently recurring topic is that of having correct information on hand at the local level. While many suggestions are put forth, the only feasible solution arrived at during these meetings seems to be that those dealing with prospects must know the facts about their own communities. If certain facts are unknown, then they must know where the information can be found .
This often leads to a dilemma on the part of local representatives: should an answer be offered, even though it is an assumption or a complete guess, just for the sake of answering promptly? The answer is clearly no! Industrial prospects realize that they have questions which cannot be answered immediately. They do expect the local representatives to call in people more closely associated with the particular problem to provide an answer. When this is accomplished, . it tends to strengthen the community's position by a direct show of the capabilities of the community as a whole.
One of the most important things we as industrial developers have learned, is that we answer only those questions which we are sure of and the answer to which can be backed up by facts. If an answer is not known, we say so, with the promise that the information will be forthcoming.
Those communities in Georgia which have economic audits or profiles at hand should study them and keep them up to date. Those communities without this type of information are urged to do everything possible to acquire a profile of their communities in order to be prepared for the keen competition associated with industrial development.
The Research Division of I & T in cooperation with the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce and the Industrial Division of Georgia Tech prepares and updates community statistics throughout the State in authoritative reports entitled ECONOMIC PROFILES. The surveys are accurate and precise due to local cooperation with government researchers in ascertaining what is conceded to be the most pertinent data on the area.
Basically, the program involves updating the oldest community surveys on file and sending teams into the towns to collect current data. After analysis and editing, I & T publishes the material in standard outline. Thereby, through joint time and effort, Georgia communities have an economic profile of their area readily available for industrial prospects.
New industry judges community preparedness on the ability of the community and its leaders to effectively and honestly project a favorable image.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Ca rtersvi lie Cement Firm Enlarging
Construction is under way on a new plant for Harris Cement Products, Inc., Cartersville. The company, which manufactures concrete blocks, precast concrete products, and ready-mixed concrete, is spending more than $200,000 for building and equipment. The expansion will increase capacity 50 per cent. Frank Harris, president of the firm, indicated additional personnel would be employed to handle greater production.
Macon Trailer Firm Expands
Johnson Trailer and Equipment Company, manufacturers of custom Johnson trailers for the pulpwood industry, has announced a $150,000 expansion of facilities. An 11-acre site adjacent to Macon's Airport Industrial Park has been acquired for construction of two buildings of 13 ,380 square feet and 1,240 square feet. The company began making custom designed trailers for pulpwood users and producers three years ago.
Tumpane Adds to Macon Plant
The Marietta-headquartered Tumpane Company of Georgia, Inc. , is undertaking an $80,000 expansion of its Macon operation to provide the worldwide corporation with a support point for business it is planning in Viet Nam. A 20,000 square foot building on a 7acre site in the Airport Industrial Park will be completed in July, and the firm, which now employs 115 locally, expects to hire 20 more workers.
Tumpane is engaged in machine tool rebuilding; fabrication and manufacture of special machinery, parts, accessories and special equipment; repair and overhaul of all types of industrial equipment. The concern works under U. S. Government contracts in countries throughout the world.
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NEW INDUSTRY
Mobile Home Supplier
Locates in South Georgia
A new firm has opened in Thomasville to manufacture upholstered furniture for mobile home dealers in seven Southeastern states. The company, Taylor Made, Inc., also supplies end tables, coffee tables, beds and dinette suits for customers.
The locally-initiated, locally-financed operation anticipates reaching a full work force of 50 employees within the next three months. Leon Taylor, Jr., President of Taylor Made, announced that negotiations are proceeding for construction of a 50,000 square foot building. The company currently is in production in leased quarters.
Aluminum Distributor
Announces Warehouse
In Clayton County
A leading distributor of steel and aluminum tubular products, Tubesales of Los Angeles, is going to construct a 100,000 square foot warehouse in Clayton County. The facility is located on a 16-acre site off the South Expressway. It is scheduled for completion in mid-August, with occupancy set for October. The Georgia facility is Tubesales' first regional unit serving the Southeast. The Atlanta warehouse will be operated as an autonomous division of the California corporation.
Baby Furniture Plant
Announced in Metter
Thomas C. Gilchrist, President of Babee-Tenda Safety Products Corporation, has announced his company's plans to begin production of infant furniture in Metter. Estimates of initial employment were indefinite, but eventually 100 workers will be needed.
Babee-Tenda, formerly a Cleveland, Ohio, organization, was acquired recently by interests in Atlanta. The Babee-Tenda line includes more than 600 items including furniture, wheel goods, toys and soft goods.
Feeding tables, cribs, chests, youth beds and other baby furniture will be manufactured in Metter.

VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION
AN INVESTMENT IN PEO PLE

AREA SCH<X>LS
located to Serve Growing Georgia

Stole Techn ical anrVoco tional Sc;hools E9 Area Vocotionol-l chnico l Schools Already In Operation
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Over a decade ago, M. D. Mobley, then Executive Secretary of the American Vocational Association, predicted that "The states that do the most to develop and improve vocational-technical education programs in the 60's will be the states that will lead the nation in economic growth and in providing work opportunities for their people in the 70's."
. His W?rds impressed educators and political leaders m Georgta. In 1957, the State Board of Education; the State Superintendent of Schools; the Governor; members of the General Assembly; local boards of education and their school superintendents; and many other interested citizens began formulating plans for establishing a system of area Vocational-Technical Schools unlike any in the United States at that time.
The conditions which prompted this action were not unique to Georgia, but were generally characteristic of the South in the years immediately following World War II. Urbanization and industrialization were rapidly changing the economic patterns of the region. Agricultural mechanization released a surplus of farm workers who looked to the cities for employment, but had few saleable skills. Those who found work at all often had to settle for unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.
At the same time, industries were finding that the lack of properly trained workers and/ or adequate training facilities hampered expansion. Continuous changes in industrial methods and technology compounded the twin problems of unemployment and skilled manpower shortages, and the thousands of graduating high school seniors with no plans of going to college further complicated a difficult situation.
Georgia's leaders recognized that conservation of these precious human resources could only be accomplished through a training program which offered every citizen the opportunity to equip himself for a useful, productive life. And this would also give the state an availability of trained workers to hasten industrial development.
After much research, consideration and planning, the State Board of Education in June 1958 released policies for establishing and operating an Area VocationalTechnical School system in Georgia. The Board stipulated that ( 1) the local school system in which an Area V-T unit is located must furnish an adequate site; (2) the local school system must provide 50 per cent of the cost of buildings and equipment, with the State absorbing the remainder; (3) the State Board of Educationassumed responsibility for salaries of instructors and administrative personnel at the Area schools; and (4) the cost of operations and maintenance at the schools is paid by the local system.
Area Vocational-Technical Schools are situated on large tracts with easy access to existing and pianned highways. Building interiors are designed to be expanded readily when the need arises. Laboratories can be modified easily, and equipment relocated to meet demands for new or expanded training. School plants, including equipment, range in cost from a quarter million dollars to more than six million dollars.
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TECHNOLOGICAL AND BUSINESS TRAINING ..
(Left) Business and office education training is helping to fi ll one of Georgia's most important emp loyment needs. These students are taking dictation fro m a synchronized electronic tape. (Below left) Th e two-ywr Drafting and Design Technology course prepare.!. students for occupations in many fie lds, including architecture, civil engineering and tool and die design. (Below) Electronic Tech11ology is one of the most sought-after offerings in the Vocational Technical Program. After completing two years of training, graduates may earn up to $150 weekly starting salaries.
There are plenty of jobs waiting for graduates of the Medical Laboratory Assistant course. A major skill survey made in 1963 forecasts a great need for automobile mechanics in Georgia. This student is learning wheel alignment as part of a two-year course which balances classroom study with practical application.
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M odern Facilities . . .
Georgia's system of 23 Area and two State VocationalTechnical Schools puts job training within reach of every citizen . Vocational-Technical plants are designed with flexibility and can readily be expanded when the need arises. Buildings often are U-shaped (above) or have separate units housing classrooms and laboratories (below).
Counseling and
Job Placement . . .
A II V ocation.al-Technical Schools have pupil personnel services for administering aptitude tests upon admission, offering guidance and counseling during training, and placing students in jobs upon graduation.

The Area V-T schools are tuition-free for qualified Georgians and serve three major groups:
Unemployed youths and adults able to attend school on a full-time basis. (Classes are conducted six hours per day, 30 hours per week.)
Employed people whose jobs are nearing obsolescence or who wish to train for better positions. (Part-time preparatory classes for these workers meet 12 to 15 hours per week at night.
Employed workers who need additional training to keep up with changing requirements of their jobs and for general upgrading and updating in their work. (These classes may operate from 1 to 6 hours per week, depending upon requirements of students. )
Most students attending the Area Schools are high school graduates. Applicants must be at least 16 years old, and must either be high school graduates or have been out of school for more than a year. Each applicant is tested for aptitude and is assisted in selecting a program in which he or she is interested and shows ability.
Curricula for the Area Vocational-Technical Schools is carefully planned by advisory committees in each locale, working with the State Education Department. These committees, representing industry,- business, employment services, educators and civic groups, evaluate economic trends in their areas to determine which courses should be offered in the local VocationalTechnical Schools.
The schools now open, and those to open later, have day and evening classes in machine shop practice; mechanical technology; drafting and design technology; electrical and electronic technology; data processing; aviation mechanics; appliance repair; sheet metal working; welding; practical nursing; various construction trades; chemical technology; industrial electricity; business education and other subjects. Courses . may run from periods of six months to two years.
By the time the entire network of VocationalTechnical training schools is completed in mid-1970, Georgia will have spent nearly $50 million on the program. Total cost of building the 23 Area Schools, plus the two State Schools, is $27 million. Local education systems have invested approximately $1 million in school sites, and the State Board of Education is committed to spending $21 million on instructional equipment.
Yet even before the program can be completed, four schools-in Columbus, DeKalb County, Marietta and Rome-already have expansions underway which will add 122,000 square feet of floor space to their plants and cost in excess of $2.1 million.
Since the first Area Schools opened in September 1961, enrollment .has skyrocketed. In the 1963-64 school year, 9,000 students were attending day and evening classes. This number grew to 12,000 the following term and passed 18,000 in 1965-66. Total enrollment in the 1969-70 school year is anticipated to exceed 43 ,000, including 20,000 employed workers taking upgrade training.
Georgia's Area Schools, along with the two State Schools in Americus and Clarkesville, have graduated
(Cont. on page 18)
7

AVIATION ADVANCES

NASAO/FAA Southern
Region Workshop Meeting
The Aviation Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade was host to the National Association of State Aviation Officials and the Federal Aviation Agency in a Southern Region Workshop held in Atlanta on June 8 in the Conference Room of the FAA Southern Region Building.
The annual meeting of NASAO hosted the Aviation Directors of seven Southeastern states and the Virgin Islands. These annual meetings are designed expressly for the purpose of providing a channel through which the directors may voice their problems in state aviation development and the hindrances presented them by excessive rules and regulations. The caucus also affords the various states a chance to compare programs and benefit from each other. As C. Leyton Willis, F.A.A. Chief of Airport Planning states, "The Southern Workshop is a 'problem solving' meeting whereby trouble areas are discussed and solutions evolved." He also added, "Of course, good points are always welcomed in the discussions."
At this particular meeting an important facet of effective state aviation programming was discussed and developed-that of coordinating state planning with state aviation development.
Mr. V. R. Steubing, Director, and Mr. Charles Fortson, of the Planning Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, were on the program to discuss Airport Planning. Georgia's presentation was praised by those attending for its cooperative effort and foresight in combining aviation and planning to produce the first complete, in depth, statewide area planning program.
The moderator for the morning session was Mr. G . C. Merchant, Jr. The subject of CFA financial assistance for construction of administration buildings, hangars and other improvements was presented by Mr. Jack Willingham who is Public Facilities Operations Officer of the Economic Development Administration. Discussions on the Public Warks and Economic Development and the Appalachia Regional Development programs as supplements to the Federal Aid to Airport Plan (FAAP) were conducted by Mr. John H. Bennett, Sr., Director of Aviation Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, and by Mr. William M. Flener.
Following a break for lunch, Mr. Flener was Moderator for the afternoon program. Subjects of this session included: fiscal year-'67, FAAP: Priorities, Programming Criteria and Availability of Funds; FAAP Programming Procedures-Delays, Coon;lination, Problems, Allocations and Appropriations. Mr. C. Leyton Willis, of the FAA, discussed the National Airport Plan,
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Criteria, Procedures and Revisions. Mr. Herbert

Areas. Spencer took up Airport Design, Standards SJ>ecifica,.

tions, State Requirements and Problem

Ml

Clifford Rosacrans talked on Airspace, Procedures Coa

oCr:dFinea~tiohna,d

aPsrohbisle~mubsj~actndAiRrpeoqrutiCrehmaertnitnsg.

Mr. J ' and coC::

L1censmg, Coordmatmg, Auto Racing, Paracb

Jumping. Mr. Edward F. Tamas discussed State lid

Regional Defense Airlift.

Following these discussions there was a geDerl(
question and answer period. Mr. Flener gave a brier
summary concluding the workshop and promised
balanced program" on the part of the Federal Aviatioa
Agency. The highly successful meeting again pointed ap
Georgia's leadership in the development of small COID-
munity airports an dthe respect with which the State
regarded in planning and procedures to accomplish
objective.

In adjourning, the consensus was that regional meetings should be held more often in order to facilitate communications between state and federal agencies.

Georgia Gets First EDA Gran
For Airport Development
Georgia is the first state in the nation to recei
a supplemental airport development grant from the
Economic Development Administration of the U. Department of Commerce. The construction grill will be used to finance the building of a commullitJ airport in Waynesboro.
The terms and conditions of the assistance from EDA will be set forth in a formal offer and administered by the Federal Aviation Agency. The designated fuadl will be a supplement to Waynesboro's basic grant.
This is the first public works project under EDA to be approved for an individual state. Instead of tbe usual 50 per cent grant for community airport development appropriated by the Federal govemmeal. Waynesboro will receive a complete 60 per cent graDI with the F.A.A. allotting 50 per cent or $86,339
E.D.A. 10 per cent of the total funds or $ 13,300; and
the State of Georgia contributing the usual 25 per
cent or $25,000. The total amount of funds allocated for the Waynesboro project is $114,639.

Two Airport Dedications
Scheduled in July
The new airport in Louisville was dedicated
Governor Carl E. Sanders on Thursday afternoon, JulJ
21 at 3 p.m. The Governor also is participati~g in ceremonies at the Newnan-Coweta County Airport tbO following Wednesday, July 27. A barbecue is planned part of this program, which begins at 2 p.m.

RIST TOPICS
Miss See Georgia First

1be

w 1966 "Miss newill be among

See Georgia those .seeing

thFeirsetn,"tirBe ev~te.raltye

m CiriiOID, during the forthcoming year of her eXCiting

as Georgia's beautiful ambassador of tourism.

~veearr's2718othyeerarlovoeldly

queen from contestants

Dawson was in the annual

.aiiCU sponsored by the Tourist Division of I & T and

Georgia Association of Broadcasters.

Miss Carlson, formerly Miss Peanut Princess of Ge?r-
was selected during the annual G.A.B. ConventiOn at Jekyll Island. As "Miss See Geor~a First,': s~e travel throughout ~he State representmg Georgta m

tourist promotiOn programs.

Television station WALB of Albany sponsored Miss U :ldiOD in the contest. Runners-up were Christia Bell
Marcia Platt of Atlanta, Pat Dixon of Kings-

Belva Cole of Carrollton. Miss Carlson

Miss Lee Ann Denmark of Acworth, who

last year's official tourist queen.

contestants faced a most distinguished panel of

....-.- including Mrs. Desree Jenkins, Mrs. America Columbia, South Carolina; Mr. James Autry,
.llliUI~S Editor, BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
: ::: Des Moines, Iowa; and Mr. William Toohey, 1 Vice President, Tourism Council of Greater
Qiicqp, Chicago, Illino...i..s,.....,.....,....,........,........,.,

Hardman said 34 cents of each tourist dollar went for food, aoout 20 cents for lodging, almost 25 cents for automobile expenses, with entertainment and gifts accounting for the remainder.
He estimated that travel contributed $35.4 million in state tax revenue. Travel service firms added 3,620 new employees.
"Almost 10 million vacation-recreation trips were taken by private automobile in Georgia last year," Hardman said. "Travelers totaled 27,918,000."
The annual survey on tourism was conducted by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Georgia.
New Calendar of Events
SPECIAL EVENTS IN
GEORGIA
..JULY - D C IV1B l=l, 19 6

ourist Income leaps

Million Over '64

Tourists m Ge~r~a spent $429 million last year, an

-=

n11:&l4se

of $45 mtlbon per cent.

over

1964.

It

was

a

record

gain

""This is the largest gain since our Tourist Division
...-.-.c.r_e, af:e<I," BiJI Hardman, Division Director stated.
In Georgia, by Georgians and out-of-state - - 15 COnstantly on the rise."

The Tourist Division has recently published the new 1966 July-December Calendar of Events. The attractive booklet, illustrated above, presents the outstanding attractions and happenings which will take place throughout the State in the next six months.
This detailed itinerary will effectively guide Georgians and visiting tourists to the best places to go, special events not to be missed and unusual sights to see.
The booklet is packed full of the exciting events taking place in Georgia during the peak summer, fall and winter season.
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The architecture of the Columbus Welcom1

Center differs somewhat from the model de-

sign of the centers. This center is refiectiw

of the people of Columbus who sponsored anc

I

created the center through civic funds.

II

"Welcome to Georgia", reads the greeting sign on all of the six Georgia welcome centers. This Savannah hospitality center is located at the foot of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge-entrance to Georgia from South Carolina.

I
I I
A State fund averaging $60,000 was used to build the Sylvania Welcome Center located on U.S. 301. Sylvania was the first center to be built by the State of Georgia.
Another $60,000 was appropriated by the State to construct the station at Ringgold. Just south of the Tennessee line on 1-75, Ringgold was completed and opened in August, 1965.

GEORGIA SAYS WELCOME IN A BIG WAY

Lavonia was the most traversed center last yea1 with an estimated 176,000 visitors. A recora number of 176,000 people visited the center due to its central location on I-85-an average of 2.8 persons per car in 67,344 motor vehicles.
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THE SIX INNS OF GEORGIA HOSPITALITY

The twentieth century version of the Old South's

riTneotnuoor~w.stnhteeDd ~tvs.toesu~totchnoemroenf

Choesnptietraliptyroghraasmbeiennitiaintecdorpboyratte~de
I & T. To the delight of Georgia

vacatiOners, the old Southern custom of helping travel-

ers has evolved into a modern tradition of statewide

welcome centers, housed in contemporary buildings of

glass, concrete and Georgia woods and marble.

The~e are six Georgia Welcome Centers located on the pnr~ary highways of the state. By being help~ul and telling travelers about the attractions in Georgia, many .vac~tioners are encouraged to stay and "See Georgia Ftrst."

l1?9cT6a2h~,eedatfcirSesynt~tveWar neoilapcoeamnneedd

center opened last month the at the Atlanta

on Januar~ 20,
sixth strategically
Airport, the na-

tiOn s .fourth busiest airport. The seventh welcome cen-

treoradws tlalr~oppeanveidn

Valdosta on I-75 as soon as access to allow passing motorists to stop for

information and refreshments served by one of the

eighteen lovely Georgia hostesses stationed at Georgia's Welcome Centers.

The. welcome center hostesses greet tourists, dispense

cgoiampp~laimnuetnst,aroyr

refreshments such as soft drinks, Georchilled peach nectar, and answer any

q~uaecshtiOhnosstetshse.1straavterlaeirnemdasypehcaiavleistreingatrhdeinagrtthoef ms~taette.

mg people and making them feel welcome. The gtrls

take several preparatory courses after being selectively

chosen for their duties at the centers. First the future

hostesses take a two-week tour of Georgia to acquaint

then:tselves With the many points of interest appealing to

tounsts. The hostesses are encouraged to become .ex-

perts on the state-its tourist attractions historical sites

and recreational areas.

'

After touring the many attractions in Georgia, the

hostesses go through a one-week, five-hour per day

cs~t~gvmn~rcsufelintoaulnreethxaaenmdhiinsctaootmiroymno.efrcDteheeatarsietlastaelosffootlthlaoeuwgsehtdat tbeiny's

an extenindustry, the train-

mr~gad7prrso,racmap. abTleheofgirrolsuteinvgenthbeectroamveeleprrsoftiocieannty

"map loca-

tion m the state.

bErao:cfchhheu~reecns~eenrate~trossusttaalfmsfoeadjodbriysttrraiabvmuetalenaactgtoeruarn,cttcliehosinsesf

numbers of in Ge.or&ia. recept10mst,

rece:J:'tiOrust, and a custodian, who maintains the center

and Its four to eight acre landscaped area.

~t.sApellnosceadt.iobnys

for the

the building of the station is state but in some cases, civic

usually groups

m a spectfic community raise the funds to build the

center.. The Savannah center, on U.S. Highway 301,

wfas buEtlt by the local community under the leadership 0 the xchange Club of Chatham County and donated

to the state for use as a tourist greeting point. Another

center, at Columbus on U.S. Highways 27 and 280, wa originally the Lions Club Golf Course Clubhouse. I was renovated by the Columbus Jaycees and donate< to the state. These two centers, like the four in opera tion, are operated by I & T .
The Georgia Welcome Center at the Atlanta Ai~p.or is designed to attract a great segment of the 7.7 mtlhm people who frequent the aityort annually. The newe~ center is located on the mam concourse at the Atlant. Airport, and is believed to be the first airport cente~ it the nation to be operated by a state agency. The proJec has the full cooperation of both the Atlanta and Geor gia Chambers of Commerce.
Last year, the centers gree.ted almost half a J?illior people. The Bureau. of Busmes~ a n~ Economic Re: search at the University of Georgta estimated a total o. 492 000 people visited the centers during 1965. T.h( peak month for visitors l.ast year was August, witt some 81 ,000 people stoppmg at the centers. The La vonia station, on I-85 , greeted more than 176,00( people during the entire year.
"We are extremely pleased with the way travelen have been visiting our Georgia Welc~me ~enters ,' commented James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive ~trector 01 I & T. "Soon welcome centers will be operatmg on al. major highways in the state ~nd ~ith the new ce~ter ~1 the Atlanta Airport, Georgia will l~ad the n~t10n tr this important area of tourist promotwn-makmg peo pie welcome to the State of Georgia."

Governor Sanders looks very pleased wit.h the ne

Geor ia Welcome Center ciall/when surrounded by

atthrteh~eloAvtellayntGaeoArzgrwpo~rteaes~P~.e~

(l. to r.) Sara Harison, Supervzsor of the Georgw W

come Centers, Sally Brown and Lee Ann Rogers, e

come Center hostesses.

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
The Right Approach to
Internationa I Trade
Helpful Suggestions from the U.S. Commerce D epartment
World trade last year reached a total of $164 billion. But it couldn't have been done if sellers had required an irrevocable letter of credit. Best procedure is to ask the Department of Commerce Field Office or a local bank for help after receiving an order, advises the department's weekly, " International Commerce. " Asking for an irrevocable letter of credit beforehand may scare off a prospective buyer.
Responses to trade leads should always include all necessary information in the first letter. The following points are vital:
Your unit of sale-whether by the foot or the ton - and what kind of ton. Detail s of various price lines avai lable if you have such distinctions as " utility," "stand ard" or "delu xe." Your price, including discounts for qu antity and for prompt payment, and conversion rate if an agent is involved. Your delivery schedule. Your catalogue or other appropriate literature. Inserts in the trade leads section of the magazine list other potential difficulties. For instance, only the United States, United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth countries use the English system of measurement. Therefore, listing specifications in English .rather than metric measurements only confuses the issue.
Sending quotations f. o. b. to a foreign buyer leaves him with a puzzle-he still doesn't know how much he will have to pay for insurance and freight rates. The Department of Commerce urges sellers to quote their prices on a c. i. f. basis-including inland insurance and freight to the domestic port, and marine insurance and ocean freight to the buyer's designated port. Omitting the latter steps would mean loss of insurance and shipping business to American firms , and consequent loss in the U. S. balance of payments.
Far Eastern Companies Look At
Trade Potential in Georgia
Representatives of three Far Eastern companies have called on the Department of Industry and Trade since the Georgia Trade Mission to the Far East last fall, reports Mrs. Virginia W. Allgood, Director of International Service. All three were in Atlanta to talk with banking concerns and manufacturers.
Mrs. Allgood met with Mr. Frank S. Hsu, overseas representative of the Winner Company, during the Georgia Mission's stay in Hong .Kong. As a result of the conference, Winner revised Mr. Hsu's previously planned itinerary to include a two-day stop-off in Atlanta during February.
Mr. Hsu reported finding excellent exporting and importing relations possible in Georgia, and extended
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his stay to a week. He also expressed interest in setting up a joint trading operation in Atlanta to provide direct contacts for two-way trade in the area.
A second visitor, Mr. Haruo Kodera, spent a week in Atlanta and also traveled to Savannah, Columbus. Dalton, Carrollton, and Jacksonville. Mr. Kodera is Executive Vice President of Sogo Boeki New York, Inc., a trading company based in Tokyo.
Possibilities are excellent for developing a substantial two-way trade between Georgia firms and Japan, said Mr. Kodera. He met with Trade Mission members Ralph A. Dudley and PeterS. Knox, Jr. while the mission was in Tokyo, and returned the visit during his stay in the state.
Mr. Sadao Taura, Chief of the Textile Import and Export Division of Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha , Ltd., made a two-day visit to Atlanta in May. The Osaka-based trading company is a member of the Sumitomo Group, one of the largest and most conservative concerns in Japan.
Japan is second only to Canada as a market for American products. It is the largest customer for agricultural commodities, which constitute about 1/ 3 of annual U. S. sales to Japan.
During his visit to Atlanta, Haruo Kodera, (r), Executive Vice President of Sogo Boeko New York, Inc., met with William de la Riestra, General Manager of Tull Export Sales Company.
Delta Award Given to I & T
Delta Air Lines has honored Mrs. Virginia W. Allgood, Director of International Service, with the Order of the Flying Orchid. Mr. Ed Preston, Assistant District Sales Manager of Delta in Atlanta, presented the award at a luncheon in March. The feminine counterpart of the Flying Colonel Award for men, the Flying Orchid honors women in business, the professions and the arts who have furthered the cause of aviation by their own patronage and their influence on others.
Mrs. Allgood was recognized for her work in the state's Trade Missions program which has taken Georgians to Western Europe, Latin America and the Far East, stimulating private business trips and reciprocal visits by foreign businessmen.

BUSINESS PROFILES
Georg ia to Share Economic
Benefits of New Paper Mill
In South Carolina
Kimberly-Clark Corporation--one of America's top five paper companies-will build a pulp, paper and paper products mill at Beech Island, South Carolina, across the Savannah River from Augusta. No official estimates of capital expenditures were made by the company, but knowledgeable sources indicated initial investment could reach $50 million and may eventually go as high as $100 million.
A spokesman termed the facility as the " . .. most ambitious project ever undertaken at a single location." The plant may require between four and five hundred employees, and with suppliers and others, the work force might reach 2,000 when full production is achieved. Many of these will be drawn from the Augusta area.
A kraft pulp mill will be installed to complement production of consumer tissue products. Facilities for producing newsprint and other printing and business papers also are being considered.
Development groups in Augusta assisted in locating the plant. Some 300 acres of property purchased by Kimberly-Clark are in Georgia.
Lockheed Wins
T'NO New Contracts
The Defense Department has awarded LockheedGeorgia Company a $1.4 million contract for 1,425 cargo trailers. The pallet trailers, measuring 8 feet by 9 feet and weighing almost a ton each, service the loading system for Lockheed's big cargo planes, the C-141 Starlifter and the C-130 Hercules. The work will be performed by the Lockheed Industrial Products Company in Atlanta.
Lockheed-Georgia also won a $2.5 million contract to equip the HC-130H Hercules aircraft with a retrieval device for picking up atmospheric sampling device in midair.
Delta Makes Giant
Move in Cargo Service
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has ordered three Lockheed L-1 OOs, becoming the first trunk carrier to reveal plans for employing the new commercial version of the Hercules in all-cargo service. Value of the transaction, which was announced jointly by C. E. Woolman, Delta's Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and W. A. Pulver, President of the Lockheed G_eorgia, exceeds $8 million. Deliveries begin in August, With scheduled service inaugurated in the early fall.
The four-engine project L-1 00 is the most advanced version of the world famous Hercules family. The planes ordered by the airline will incorporate numerous Delta developments, including an entirely new concept in mechanized loading. The L-100 has a total useable

volume of 5,020 cubic feet for cargo and can handle containers up to 8 x 8 x 40 feet.
With the L-100s, Delta will provide the first direct all-cargo service from its California terminals in Los Angeles and San Francisco to New York (through the Newark terminal), Philadelphia, Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Chicago, Orlando and Miami.
The airline carried in excess of 53 million ton miles of freight in 1965, using passenger aircraft and four allcargo C-46s. The addition of the L-1 OOs will add approximately 60 million ton miles of capacity to Delta's freight system.
Some 25 tons of cargo can be loaded in the L-100 and transported non-stop from Atlanta to San Francisco at 350 miles per hour.
Valdosta Man Named To Industry and Trade Board
Governor Carl Sanders has appointed Richard M . Stewart of Valdosta to serve on the Board of Commissioners of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, representing the 8th Congressional District. He succeeds the late Stanley Brooks of McRae.
Mr. Stewart, an accounttant, just completed a term as Mayor of Valdosta and previously served on the City Employees Retirement Benefit Board. In welcoming the new commissioner, James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive Director of Industry and Trade, said "Your background and experience will contribute greatly to our efforts."
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
Conyers Coca-Cola Bottling
Company to Relocate
Officials of the Conyers Coca-Cola Bottling plant have announced plans for a new plant on a 10-acre tract on Interstate 20. Construction of the facility is expected to start in three months and will require another eight months to complete.
Plans for the enlarged Conyers bottling plant make it one of the most modern in the country. Three buildings, connected by paved drives and courts, and capable of being expanded to almost twice initial size, will house the operations.
Bottling works, offices and employee service facilities will be located in the main building; a second contains vending machine storage and repair facilities, and the third is for sales and service vehicles. All total approximately 40,000 square feet.
Goodman to Add $1 Million Building to Plant
A $1 million, 72,000 square-foot expansion of the H. Goodman and Sons plant in Manchester is expected to be completed by October 1. In addition to providing additional space for manufacturing purposes, the new building will house the latest techniques available for receiving, storing and shipping of raw materials and finished goods. The new addition will create approximately 100 jobs for the community.
Brunswick Firm Moves to New Site
Sea Harvest Packing Company, formerly Jekyll Island Packing Company, is moving its operations to a 24acre site four miles north of Brunswick on U. S. 17. A 23,500 square foot prefabricated building will be completed by mid-August, with occupancy scheduled September 1. W. R. Wells, Sea Harvest President, said 100 additional employees will be needed eventually, doubling the present work force.
Thomasville lingerie Plant
To Add 100 Employees
Construction has started on a 15,000 square foot addition to the Warner Brothers plant in Thomasville. The $200,000 project will house cutting and sewing operations and permit regrouping of certain operations for better efficiency. One-hundred more employees will be needed when work is completed in four months. Warner Brothers, which began productio nin Thomasville 20 years ago, is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, manufacturers of women's foundation garments since 1874.
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Hartwell Coca-Cola Bottlers Add Warehouse
A 5,300 square foot warehousing addition to the Hartwell Coca-Cola Bottling Company is expected to be completed and equipped by June. The Hartwell plant, which has 21 employees, serves Hart and Franklin counties and parts of Elbert and Madison counties.
Forsyth Industries Enlarging Plant
Forsyth Industries of Cumming has revealed plans to add 6,000 square feet to its garment plant. Forsyth Industries manufactures ladies sportswear - skirts, blouses, slacks, shorts and matching suits. New equipment, including an oven to bake creases in permanentfinish fabrics, will cost $75 ,000 according to owner James Harrington.
Arbiser Moves to Stone Mountain Industrial Park
Arbiser Machine Building Company, presently located on Pine Street in Decatur is planning a new 10,000 square foot facility in the Stone Mountain Industrial Park for a general machine shop.
SeaPak to Expand Seafood Production
SeaPak Corporation recently announced a million dollar expansion of its processing facilities on St. Simons Island. The new 45,000 square foot plant, scheduled for completion in October, will be used primarily to expand production of frozen fish sticks and portions. The size of the new operation makes it SeaPak's largest plant. The company also has processing units in Thunderbolt, Georgia and Brownsville, Texas.
Elberton Plant Expansion Announced
A contract for adding 8,000 square feet to the Elberton Manufacturing Company plant has been awarded, and the expansion will create 50 to 60 new jobs when completed. The company makes women's blouses.
A CORRECTION! Texture-Tex, Inc. will build its 60,000 square foot
plant in Dalton, not Albany. We reported in the May issue of Georgia Progress
that Texture-Tex, Inc. would locate its new plant in Albany. We have been informed that Dalton is the site of the new plant.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
Jefferson to Get
Multimillion Dollar Firm
Governor Carl Sanders announced recently at a special luncheon in Jef[erson that the city will get a new multimillion dollar industry and predicted it would have a widespread economic effect on the development of the Jackson County area. The finn , Standard-CoosaThatcher Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is planning a $4 million combed yarn mill which eventually will employ between 700 to 1,000 people.
Attending the luncheon at which the Governor spoke were city, county and state officials, as well as representatives from the company and from industries in Jackson County.
Construction of the 152,000 square foot building begins July 1 and is to be completed by March 1, 1967. Initial employment is expected to be 125.
The 20,000 spindle facility, named "Barlow Plant" in honor of Jack Barlow, co-founder of the company, will produce combed yarns in cotton, polyester and blends for the knitting and weaving industries.
Standard-Coosa-Thatcher and its subsidiary, Boaz Spinning Company, are leading producers of mercerized yarns, sewing thread, textured yarns and carpet yarns. Officials stated that there were many reasons why they chose the Jackson County area, the most important being its new airport improvements, access to Interstate 85, and the spirit of the local people.
The company's other plants are in Chattanooga and Rossville, Georgia and in Piedmont, Boaz and Guntersville, Alabama.
New Lavonia Mill Named
For Company Official
Pacolet Industries, Inc., has named its new weaving mill in Lavonia for Allan B. Sibley. Mr. Sibley, who resides near Milledgeville, was for many years an executive in the predecessor companies which merged in ~ 962 to form Pacolet Industries. The Lavonia facility Is one of the most modern weaving mills in the world and has 180,000 square feet of manufacturing area. It began operating in December, 1965 and now employs 130.
Columbia Nipro Termed
\\Operationa I"
The Columbia Nipro Corporation's Augusta plant is n?w operational according to company officials. Columbia N1pro produces caprolactam both in molten and flak~ form, and the Georgia facility has an annual productiOn capacity of 44 million pounds.
Columbia Nipro is a joint venture of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and DSM Holland of the Netherlands a~d is managed by its sister company Columbia Nitrogen Corporation.

Nati.onal Manufacturing Firm Locates Branch in Thomasville
Sealy of Indiana has started construction of a 30,000 square foot plant in Thomasville's Rose City Industrial District to manufacture furniture and bedding-including Sealy Posturepedic mattresses. An estimated 100 people will be employed in South Georgia facility. The company is a major supplier to 85 mobile home and travel trailer manufacturers throughout the nation. The new Thomasville plant will serve markets in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
The above aerial photograph shows the site of the maker of the famous "Posturepedic" mattress.
400 in Perry Area to
Be Needed in New Plant
Magee Carpet Company, the country's sixth largest carpet manufacturer, has revealed plans for a 100,000 square foot plant in Perry which will employ 400, about 90 % of these men. The building will be located on a 100 acre tract on the old Fort Valley road. Local officials involved in locating the plant said Perry was one of more than 20 towns in five states considered by Magee for the new facility. Construction is expected to get underway in September with production scheduled by January, 1967.
New Agribusiness in Cairo
. Cairo Grain Company, Inc., has begun manufacturmg feed and processmg soybeans and small grains in a !lew 2~,000 s9uare foot building in Cairo. The first plant m the 1mmed1ate area processing soybeans, Cairo Com~anr represent~ ano~her . step in Grady County's contmumg growth m agnbusmess operations. The $250,000 firm provides 10 !lew jobs,. with !his number expected to grow. J. S. W1ght, Jr. 1s president of Cairo Grain Company.
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GEORGIA IN ACTION
Georgia Pro ised by
Chairman of Appalachian Commission
The Chairman of the Federal Appalachian Regional Commission, John L. Sweeney, had high praise for Georgia recently. Mr. Sweeney addressed the annual meeting of the Georgia Section, American Institute of Planners recently in Atlanta. Here are excerpts from some of Mr. Sweeney's remarks.
The progress of the Appalachian program its first year is the best example yet of government by initiative. In the passage of the Appalachian Act, a great deal more was asked of the states involved than was promised to them.
No claims were made that every unemployed Appalachian would get a job; that every depressed area would get new industry; that every town would get needed facilities. Instead the Act merely directed that "investments be concentrated in those areas with a significant potential for future growth and where the expected return on public dollars invested will be the greatest."
That direction involved some tough decisions in 12 state capitals. It also involved a hard look at the economic facts of life in 373 counties and 647 towns and cities in the region. It involved a great deal of planning-of setting reasonable goals.
And to any critic who says it can't be done, we say "look at Georgia." What has been done and what has been planned by Georgia is what the Appalachian program is all about.
Four months after the Appalachian Commission was organized, the State of Georgia submitted a plan to control water pollution in the northwest portion of the state. It was a comprehensive plan aiming at the elimination of domestic and industrial pollution of the Coosa, Etowah and Chattooga rivers and the Allatoona Reservoir. Primarily , that plan called for the construction of 5 sewage treatment plants.
Those plants have been designed and funds applied for. Three plants have been approved and funded and construction will begin shortly.
So far, the Appalachian Commission has approved 22 projects in Georgia in addition to the 95 miles of its part of the Appalachian Development Highway System. Those projects-vocational education schools, colleges, airports, hospitals, libraries, land stabilization and access rC!JldS, represent more than $16 million of which almost $3.5 million is in Appalachian funds.
There is no doubt that Appalachian funds being invested under the Georgia State Appalachian Investment Plan are being invested wisely.
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This State and more important the communities involved have shown the initiative on which Appalachian success depends.
Your efforts have been successful because your planning has been sound and comprehensive. You have shown that plans are much more than hopes-and that a plan for community can contribute to a plan for an area, for a state and ultimately for a region. That, to use an old phrase, is the name of the game.
Five years from now, they can begin to write the history of the Appalachian program-for in June of 1971 the Commission will go out of business. Whoever writes that history cannot find all his source material in Washington-he's going to have to spend a lot of time in those 12 state capitals because that is where the history will have been made.
. .. and he'd better bring a sharp pencil and a lot of note paper when he comes to Atlanta.
Robert Stuebing (L), Director of the Planning Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, greets John L. Sweeney, Chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission as Mr. Sweeney prepares to address the annual meeting of the Georgia Section, American Institute of Planners. At the same meeting, Mr. Stuebing was elected President of the association; Stanley S. Kidwell, Director of Regional Planning for I & T, was elected Vice President and John R. Joyner, I & T's Chief of State Planning, was named Treasurer.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
Preferred Industries Opens
Newest Plant
In May, Preferred Industries & Investments, Inc., held open house at its new plant, Roosterville Manufacturing Company. The facility which produces ladies' sportswear is located in Roosterville community in Heard County.
Preferred Industries and Investments was chartered in January 1964 and started its first plant the following June in Franklin, manufacturing yarn for the carpet industry. Other operations include Lowell Manufacturing Company (men's and boys' dress slacks), Unadilla Manufacturing Company (all-weather coats) and plant No. 4 in Marshallville (all-weather coats). A sixth unit is to be built in Fort Gaines.

Natiqnal Car Rental Opens District Office in AtIa nta

Alum inum Extrusion Plant
locates in Tifton
Tifton Aluminum Company, Inc., has occupied a 70,000 square foot building in the Tift County Industrial Park and is fabricating extruded aluminum shapes for the building and construction trades; transportation, recreational equipment, furniture and other industries using aluminum as a structural or decorative material. The company's initial work force had 15 employees; this number is expected to reach 60.
Frank D. Koran who has had 20 years experience in the aluminum business, is president of the new company.
Unadilla Cotton Gin
Nea ring Completion
Construction of a new cotton gin, Farmers Cotton Gin Company, Inc. , in Unadilla is expected to be completed in August. The $250,000 all-electric plant was purchased from Continental Moss/ Gordin Gin Company of Prattville, Alabama and will be housed in an all steel building. All types of cotton can be handled at a rate of 12 to 12 bales an hour, maintaining the highest quality turnout and staple, and officials say the plant is so designed that capacity can be increased by 50 per cent within a 48-hour period.

National Car R ental System recently opened a worldwide reservation and district office in Atlanta. Jack Folliott, National Sales Manager, cut the cake for the opening as (l to r) Ron Craddock, Southeastern Zone Manager; Elizabeth Liggin, Reservationist; Ben Carro, Corporate Zone Manager; Marie Archer, Reservationist; David Fischer, District Sales Manager and Bonnie Jones, Reservationist Supervisor, look on. "National opened this office in Atlanta to give better service to our growing number of customers in Georgia and the Southeast," commented Mr . Fischer. National is currently introducing its V.l.P. Credit Card System in the Southeast.
Stone Mountain Industrial Park
Gets Two New Firms
Dodge Manufacturing Corporation of Mishawaka, Indiana, has contracted for a 15,000 square foot regional office and warehouse for automotive transmission equipment, a Massachusetts firm , William E . Wright & Sons Company, plans to use a 20,000 square foot facility for distributing sewing notions, trimmings, ribbon and bows.

100 to Be Employed by
Savannah Garment Plant
Maazol Manufacturing, Inc., has leased a 10,000 square foot building in Savannah and begins production of sportswear and uniforms July 12. Plant owner, ~~~han Tanenbaum, said the firm will employ 100 IDltlally and increase this to 140. The work force should do~ble within two years when the company expects to
butld a new plant. Ben z. Altman, Vice President of
Production, will manage the facility.

Feed Concentrate Plant
For Tifton
Work has started on a new million-dollar feed manufacturing plant in Tifton owned by the Central Soya Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The mill, which begins production early next year, will make concentrates for mixing by feed companies in south Georgia and Florida. The Tifton plant will have a capacity of 7,500 tons monthly. This is enough concentrate to feed 7.5 million layers or broilers.
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GEORGIA IN ACTION
Satellite Tracking Station
Near Woodland Proposed
Four communications companies have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for authority to build a $6 million' ground control satellite tracking station in Talbot County. In their request, the Radio Corporation of America, International Telephone and Telegraph World Communications, Western Union International, and American Telephone and Telegraph stated the favorable climatic conditions at the Georgia site make it more advantageous than a similar facility the Communications Satellite Corporation wants to build in another state.
The four companies have taken an option on 40 acres near Woodland, and, if their petition is approved, will employ about 50 highly trained technicians at the station.
Macon, Statesboro Recognized
For \\Georgia Industry Month"
Pa rtici potion
The Macon and Statesboro Jaycees have won trophies from the Associated Industries of Georgia for their outstanding participation in this year's GEORGIA INDUSTRY MONTH observance.
GEORGIA INDUSTRY MONTH, held in April, was proclaimed by Governor Carl E. Sanders to emphasize the impact of industry upon the economy of the State. The Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, the Georgia Jaycees, and the Associated Industries of Georgia sponsor the annual event.
The awards were presented to representatives from the Macon and Statesboro Jaycees during ceremonies at AIG's 51st Annual Meeting at The Cloister, Sea
- - - - - - - Island, Georgia, June 8-10.

Georgia Gets $59,000
Federal Grant
For Local Planning Assistance
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted Georgia $59,250 under the Urban Planning Assistance Program to aid comprehensive planning in eight localities in the state. The funds are payable to the Planning Division of the Department of Industry and Trade, the State agency which provides community planning assistance to Georgia cities and counties.
Under terms of the grant, $17,945 is allocated to Cherokee County and $13,326 to Columbia County. Jasper, in Pickens County, receives $5,680. The remainder is distributed among five communities in Cherokee County; Ball Ground, $4,205; Canton, $5,795; Holly Spnngs, $4,318; Waleska, $3,184; and Woodstock, $5,356.
The federal share covers two-thirds of the total cost of planning work for each recipient, and this is supplemented by $29,625 in State and local contributions. The money will finance comprehensive planning activities for two years.
The grants will be used in counties and small communities to help pay for preparation of base maps; analysis of land use, population and economic conditions; preparation of Comprehensive Development Plans and regulations to implement these Plans.
Continental Can Plans
Travis Field Office
The Woodlands Division of Continental Can has been negotiating with the Savannah Airport Commission for a lease of three acres at the Travis Field Industrial Park in Savannah. The company plans to construct a $60,000 office building-the first such building to be erected in the park.

The Macon Jaycees trophy was accepted by Bill Snow at the 51st annual meeting of the Associated Industries of Georgia which was held June 9 on Sea Island.
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Area Schools
(Cont. from page 7)
more than 8,000 students since 1962. The average beginning salaries of these people have been more than $4,100 annually, with some starting as high as $7,800. In addition to the graduates of preparatory courses, th.e schools have provided upgrading training for approXImately 20,000 employed workers since 1962, and many of these have received substantial pay increases following their instruction.
At the same time, the state has experienced unprecedented industrial expansion and economic development. Certainly much of Georgia's Prosperity can be attributed to the Area Vocational-Technical School program which is giving Georgians a chance to build and to share that prosperity.

CONTENTS

e VIEWPOINT Target! Total Development
e GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and E xpanding Industry .
e FEATURES Planning the Ideal State .
Hercules, An Industrial Giant Moves to Georgia
Warm Springs Becomes Million Dollar Resort .
e AVIATION ADVANCES Women Take to the Air in Powder Puff Derby .
e TOURIST TOPICS Progress in Georgia's State Parks .
e INTERNATIONAL SERVICES Atlanta Airport Designated Port of Exit .
e BUSINESS PROFILES .
e GEORGIA IN ACTION

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COVER : Hercules, Incorporated, a multi-million dollar giant industry, announced its expansion into Georgia on the eve of our first color cover. This marks a double celebration for Georgia Progress in its tenth month of publication.

Rosser Smith

. . . . Editor

Dona House.

Managing Editor

Robert Alford

. . . . . Artist

Sarah Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributing Editor

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

ORGIA
RCJGRESS

Volume 2 Number 7

August, 1966

VIEWPOINT

ED ITOR'S NOTE:
In V IEWPOINT this m onth, James H. Nutter, Jr ., Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, examines some interesting patterns in Georgia's industrial development and how these relationships affect over-a ll economic growth in the State .

Target: Total Development

The decision by Hercules, Inc. , to build a new plant in Covington vividly illustrates the old maxim, " Industry Begets Indu stry."

There are many outstanding examples of this phenomenon in Georgia, one being the great number of companies locating in the State to supply the rapidly growing mobile homes industry with items ranging from furniture to decorative trim.

The Dow Chemical Cor-

poration will complete a

multi-million dollar facility

in Dalton late this year to

supply latex for the textile

carpet, paint and paper in-

dustries in the area.

James H . Nutter, Jr .

The various type.s of

chemical indu stries are good customers for each other

and often find it convenient to locate in close proximity.

T his fact was largely responsible for the vast chemical

complex which has developed along Augusta's "Miracle

M ile." An impressive list of corporations have plants

there: Procter & Gamble , Co lum bia Nipro, Du Pont,

Mon anto, Olin Mathieson, Columbia Nitrogen, Allied

Chemical and others.

Lockheed-Georgia, one of the nation's biggest aircraft manufacturers, offers another case in point. This company subcontracts 60 per cent (by weight) of its ~o m pon ents, and m any of its suppliers have put plants m Georgia to serve Lockheed more easily. Now Hercules continues this pattern with its new operation.

Georgia has long been recognized as the carpet center of the world , and this influenced Hercules to produce the olefin fiber "H erculon" in Covington for the carpet mills located throughout the State.

But one new industry cannot only attract satellite or

supporting plants; it can encourage expansion or diversification by older, established manufacturers.
When Cox Newspapers, Inc., announced plans to build a $30 million newsprint mill in Augusta, this sparked a $22 million expansion program by neighboring Continental Can Company. Continental increased its capacity for pulp production to supply the raw material for Cox's operation.
This unique interaction among industries in Georgia has been a vital force in advancing the State's economy. An average of 26 industries located in Georgia or expanded existing facilities and spent over $20.6 million for new plants and equipment during each month of 1965. In all , 134 new companies initiated operations in the State last year , whi le 178 others reported expansio ns. Combined capital expenditures by the 312 manufacturers was in excess of $247. 7 million.
The growth in the number of manufacturing firms has produced a corresponding rise in Georgia's manufacturing employment, which has increased 17.4 per cent since 1960. Total nonagricultural jobs in the 19611965 period rose by 199,600 to 1,250,000. This is a 19 per cent change for the five years, and Georgia is second among seven Southeastern states in the percentage growth of nonagricultural employment.
The availab ility of better, higher-paying jobs also has been reflected in Georgia's impressive advances in per capita income. As recently as 1939, the State was suffering from a "per capita gap." In that year, the individual Georgian's income was one-half the national average. By 1965 , however, this "gap" had been narrowed to within 80 per cent of the national level. Last year, per capita income among Georgians was $2 ,156. This represented an eight per cent gain over 1964, while the country's rate of increase was only six per cent.
A comparison of per capita growth in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Alabama from 1961 -1 965 reveals that Georgia , along with South Carolina, has enjoyed the greatest percentage gain in per capita income- 28.4 per cent.
Industrial activity also has stimulated more construction - for plants, warehousing, homes, schools, commercial and rental establishments and non-building construction including highways and bridges.
In fact , there is no area of Georgia's economy untouched by industrial development, and given the special relationship which exists among manufacturing operations, this influence on Georgia's economic expansion will most certainly continue.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Metalux Extends Market
Coast-to-Coast
Metalux Corporation, a homegrown fluorescent lighting fixture company which began operations in Americus 18 months ago , will have more than tripled its facilities with the new expansion phase now being completed.
In the short time that the manufacturing plant has been in production, two expansions have been necessary to keep pace with the company's growth . The second of these expansions will increase the plant's size to 65,000 square feet .
"We began operations here with nine employees," said Larry Comer, President of the Corporation, "and presently, we have 80 employees. Within approximately two months we expect to increase our employment by about 20 per cent."
Also reflective of the firm's tremendous growth is the fact that sales have been extended all over the country and future plans include markets in Hawaii. All transactions are made through electrical wholesalers with about 50 salesmen presently handling the product.
Officials predict a 10 per cent annual increase in sales during the next several years.
Aldan Mills Plans Biggest
Expansion to Date
Aldon Rug Mills of Calhoun will launch the "biggest expansion program in the company's 27-year history," Herbert Barg, President, announces.
The program will cost close to $4 million and will give the carpet manufacturing firm an additional $20 million production capacity annually. The expansion is scheduled to be completed next spring.
The expansion of the Calhoun plant calls for a 43 ,000-square-foot enlargement of the present factory spa~e. The newly acquired Calhoun plant will have a $6 million to $9 million annual production capacity after it is modernized and new equipment added.
Aldon also has purchased a four-acre plot of land adjacent to the Calhoun plant from the Southern Latex Division of the Stanley Warner Corporation.
Plant officials predict an $80 million annual volume by 1970.
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NEW INDUSTRY
Georgia-Pacific May
Double Size
A spokesman for the Georgia-Pacific Corporation disclosed plans by the nation's largest manufacturer of plywood to build its fourth facility in the Savannah area.
The long-term plans are under way to increase the capacity of the Savannah operation by utilizing hardwood taken from Georgia-Pacific's newly acquired timberlands in Brazil. As a result of the acquisitions in Brazil, officials indicated that it could lead to "substantially increased shipping" through the Port of Savannah, and that more local use of the Brazilian hardwoods would also increase local transportation tonnage figures in other modes of transportation.
It was further indicated that a greater capital investment would be made here and the labor force in the new plant would be 72 employees - bringing the total company's operation to 1,000. The Savannah plant manufactures mostly hardwood plywood used as decorative paneling in commercial and residential construction.
The corporation is currently constructing a pine plywood plant, which is scheduled to begin operations this month, adjacent to its hardwood plant. The new plant will provide 200 new jobs and cost approximately $3 million.
Sherwin-Williams to
Build $5.5 Million Plant
Ground has been broken for a new $5.5 million paint plant near Atlanta.
The 260,000-square-foot plant, scheduled to begin production at Morrow next spring, will be the second largest of the 19 U. S. production facilities of the Sherwin-Williams Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
The new plant will employ more than 200 and will produce five million gallons of paint products annually. It is being built on a site at Industrial Boulevard and Highway 54. Distribution will be channeled to eight Southeastern surrounding states.
Michael A. Jordan has been named manager; Eastern Engineering Company, Atlanta, is architect, and Ira H. Hardin Company, Atlanta, is general contractor.

PLANNING THE IDEAL STATE
With all the extensive planning to expand our boundaries into outer space, the utilization and development of our available nationa.l and st~te re~ources is worth some immediate and senous consideration.
Coupled with a great deal of insight and long hours of research, the development of our State could well become a model plan of action for other states to follow. The model plan would consist of many of ~he same basic principles that the Northeast Area Plannmg Commission and the Atlanta Region Metropolitan Planning Commission used in their "Plans of Action."
These plans consisted of a five-part , coordinated approach involving area planning, local planning, research , resource development, public information and special services. The end result - an effective long-term program correlated to the entire State's growth in relation to the national economic climate.
The chain reaction is the formula from which each community and county is not only equal but depen.dent upon the whole region. Not only one town or a smgle
Water pollution is a pressing problem in community development. Without a proper statewide sanitation program, Georgia's waterways would become channels of refuse instead of powerful streams supplying life to industry.
Georgia's available natural resources are yet to be fully cultivated. More than 69 per cent of Georgia's total land area, some 25.8 million acres, is in forest land which produced over $1 billion in timber resources last year.

county benefits from long-term planning, but the entire region reaps the rewards of the best possible production from a specific area. Perhaps, industry would find one community favorable for expansion and one county more suited for agribusiness or another more attractive to the tourist trade. For instance, although County A is affluent in timber land, County B is more suited to dairying since the rich lands offer the cattle lush grazing grounds, and County C is perfect for fruit production because of population density and central marketing and utilization availability. The result of area planning studies may show such things as opportunities for certain areas to grow experimental crops to substantiate the economy by a boost to personal income.
The Northeast Planning Commission used the Atlanta area development plan to uncover the potential resources of its nine-county area which encompasses some 1,678,080 acres. Two years of systematic study resulted in one of the most comprehensive area planning maps ever developed by a state. The physical layout of such a map is comparative to any ordinary map with the addition of explanation and prediction.
The first step involves a frank , over-all look at the area and what it has accomplished, what it is doing now and what the potential of the area could be in the future.
The second phase of the program deals with an illustrated map of the geographic and topographical characteristics of the land. Included are state parks, private forest lands, industrial districts, airports and other outstanding physical properties of the area. Watersheds, large lakes and major roads that are not constructed or developed become part of the projections included in the map.
The third dimension of the planning map is the text which describes some of the population trends and explains the area's economic opportunities, problems and potentials.
Prediction is the by-product of area planning. Without a complete analysis of the population trends for an area and a complete synopsis of the people such as their number, education, skills and quality- a plan of action would be futile. The Northeast Planning Commission therefore included in their resume a population study following an outline presented by the University of Georgia including the following points:
Does the area have a falling, stable or rising population?
How large a population will the area have in 1980? Where in the area will people live? What changes are urbanization and rural decline rriaking in the area? Is the area able to provide suitable employment for its people, or must they move elsewhere to find work? What hardships does population decline bring to a county and how can an area or county adjust to such a decline? Will our schools be ready to provide suitable education for the number of people the area will have in the future? Can the counties and towns provide sufficient services of adequate quality for the expected population? There are essentially three main dimensions incorporated in the ideal area planning program; a resume of what has been done in the past, what is being done at the present and a conclusion of what needs to be accomplished for a prosperous and profitable future.
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HERCULES TO BUILD GIANT 'HE

At a cost of $50 million and with a total employment of 1,500- the Hercules plant at Covington represents one of the largest industrial developments in Georgia.
John M. Martin , Vice President, and Paul Johnstone look on as Governor Carl E. Sanders greets Elmer Hinner, Vice President, Executive Committee. Paul Johnstone, General Manager Fibers and Films Division, and Dr. Robert W. Cairns, Director of R esearch responsible for the miracle fiber , demonstrate Herculon carpetinf?.

Governor Carl Sanders and officials of Hercules Incorporated, have announced plans for constructio~ of a new olefin fiber plant in Covington. The plant will manufacture both staple and bulk continuous multifilament "Herculon" fiber. The new Covington Georgia plant will bring Hercules' capacity for olefi~ fiber production to more than 100,000,000 pounds per year. At a morning conference at the Capitol on August 1, Governor Sanders told newsmen the cost of the new Hercules facility would amount to more than $50 million, and total employment could exceed 1,500 in the near future.
In welcoming the Hercules officials to Georgia, Governor Sanders commented, "I cannot emphasize the value of this important addition to Georgia' s - and Covington's - industrial family. When completed , the Hercules plant will represent the largest new industrial investment in Georgia since 1956."
Scheduled for completion in late 1967, the new plant will employ approximately 500 people initially.
Hercules' first olefin fiber plant, which also manufactures "Pro-fax" film for packaging and other industrial uses, is at Covington, Virginia. As an indicat ion of Hercules' growth in this area, the Virginia plant started operations as a research and development facility in 1960 with employment of some 100 people . Today, it employs more than 1,800. The increasing acceptance of Herculon olefin fiber, primarly used in carpeting, has resulted in the location of the second plant in Georgia and the further expansion of the Virginia plant. Besides carpeting, Herculon is being used in a number of other applications. Sweaters, socks for extreme cold, boot lining and even brief cases and luggage are being made from the solid Herculon . Carpets made of Herculon are so durable they are being used for pool-side and patio coverings.
Location of the Georgia plant was influenced by Hercules' desire to serve the carpet industry, which is centered in Dalton, Georgia , with a number of other carpet-making plants also located around the State. Four-lane highways connect the plant with the Dalton area. These factors , plus an ample labor force, and the financing available were cited by the Hercules officials as the prime reasons Covington was chosen as the plant location.
Discussion centers around new Hercules plant. Paul Johnstone , Elmer Hinner and John M. Martin surround the Mayor of Covington, Walker Harris.

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LON' FIBER PLANT IN COVINGTON

Paul L. Johnstone, General Manager of the Hercules Fibers and Film Department, said that construction on the 120-acre site near Covington would begin immediately through the availability of a $50 million industrial bond issue by the Newton County Development
Authority. The basic material for the fibers to be produced in
Covington will come from the company's Lake Charles, Louisiana plant.
The Covington, Georgia plant of Hercules will be the third one for the company in the State. Two of the company's first plants are located at Brunswick and Savannah. Both were built in 1920 soon after the company was organized .
The Brunswick facility employs some 850 people and is engaged. in the manufacture of pine and paper chemical products. The Savannah plant employs some 165 people and makes fatty acids, pine and paper chemicals. Products of both plants are important to the chemical industry and the paper and pulp industries especially.
Hercules Powder Company, as it was known then , began operations in 1913 as an explosives manufacturer with headquarters at Wilmington, Delaware. At that time, there were 1,000 Hercules employees operating two dynamite plants, nine blasting and sporting powder units and six sales offices.
Now the company has 40 plants in the United States and 38 sales offices. Subsidiary and associated companies operate nine plants in the U.S.A. and 28 plants and 18 sales offices in Puerto Rico and 14 countries outside the U .S.
Hercules is eighth in size among chemical manufacturing firms in the United States and is listed in the top 25 per cent of the largest industrial firms in this country.
More than 23,000 people work for Hercules around the world and one in six holds a college degree, while over 3,000 are trained in one or more areas of science. Hercules has nearly 26,000 stockholders and, in addition, some 10,000 employees now participate in stock ownership through the company's savings plan.
Some 10,000 customers buy Hercules' basic chemical materials, and the United States Government is an important customer for motors and propulsion systems for space and defense programs.

Above: This mammoth construction at Hercules' Brunswick plant is instrumental in the production of paracymene, used in the prevention of food spoilage . Below: The Savannah Hercules Plant produces fatty acids, pine and paper chemicals.

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AVIATION ADVANCES
Wanted:
Trained Pilots
A recent article which appeared in the July-August issue of Wing Tips, published by the Texas Aeronautics Commission, very aptly presented an issue which will soon become a pressing problem unless proper procedures are utilized to solve it. Aviation needs qualified pilots and traint<d technicians in the field. Such an -available labor force could be supplied by a supervised course in aviation in secondary or vocational-technical schools.
As an example of the effectiveness of such a program, we have reprinted the following article from Wing Tips telling of such an aviation program tested in their schools by the Texas State Education Agency.
"An 'experimental' class is being held this summer at Reagan High School in Austin that may lead to the teaching of aeronautics in many of Texas' high schools.
"The guinea pig class has an enrollment of 19 students , including one girl (who has ambitions of becoming an airline hostess).
"Among educators there is some question of whether aeronautics is a science or a vocation but for want of a better name the course being taught is presently known as 'aeronautical science.'
"Actually, the course embraces more than that, for in addition to receiving the same instructions given in a normal pre-flight ground school, the students are given a fundamental background on aviation as it relates to business, industry and tourism.
"About half the class has hopes of becoming pilots, the rest are being given a background that will fit them for work close to the planes such as administrative, dispatching, maintenance, weather and cargo.
"Aviation classes have been conducted before in Texas, but this course is looked upon as the beginning of a movement for aviation education in the public school system on a statewide basis. "
Two New Airports
Dedicated
It has certainly been an exciting month for John Bennett, Director of the Aviation Division of I & T with two airport dedications taking place in July.
At the festivities were people on the go - important executives in the aviation field and flying Georgia businessmen and politicians. There was much excitement involved in each celebration as old planes flew in to display the nation's first flying vehicles and balloons and flags were displayed amid the visiting dignitaries' planes.
Governor Carl E . Sanders was one of the most enthusiastic members of the dedication parties which honored the opening of the Louisville Airport and the Newnan-Coweta Airport. This is indicative of the tremendous advancement in aviation and community airport development that the State of Georgia has made over the last few years. Georgia's community airport program rates as one of the best in the nation, commented the Governor. He further stated that the progress thus achieved will continue to make the State of Georgia one of the most advanced and industrially oriented states in the Southeast.
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The above illustration portrays the 10 foot markers which are being painted on outstanding buildings in various Georgia communities to provide guiding landmarks for pilots. This newly initiated program has won the commendation of pilots throughout the country .
\\Powder Puff Derby"
A Stop At Augusta
The full title is the "All Woman Transcontinental Air Race," but it is best known as the "Powder Puff Derby," the longest and largest air race for women in the world. This year, the Derby celebrated its 20th anniversary and Bush Field , Augusta, was a "must" stop on the route. The 1966 race terminated in Clearwater, Florida, after beginning some 2,765 miles away at Seattle, Washington. There will be no stops in Georgia during the race next year, but in 1968, the contest will terminate in Savannah . In honor of the race visiting Georgia this year, Governor Carl Sanders proclaimed the week of July 2 through July 9 "Women in Aviation Week.''
Some 81 planes arrived in Augusta during the two days the racers passed through. The contest began on July 2 and all planes had to be in Clearwater by July 5 at sundown. First prize was $1 ,000, but the prestige achieved is far more valuable than the prize money, with names like Jacqueline Cochran and Amelia Earhart associated with the tradition of the race.
The winner is determined by the elapsed time a plane makes between two given points, figuring in a hand icap system designed to make the lower powered planes comparable to the high-powered craft. The judging system puts a premium on pilot, co-pilot skill and cooperation . Although most planes have two ladies in the cockpit, some fly alone and prizes are offered to individual competitors.
The race has been referred to as the "sounding board of general aviation" and each year the race rules reflect the basic trends in general aviation development.
Aviation minded Georgians, especially .women in the State, will be looking forward to the 1968 edition of the "Powder Puff Derby.''

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TOURIST TOPICS

Progress in Georgia's

parks. Special attention is being given to developing the overlooks and trails for hiking purposes. Two self-

State Parks

guiding nature trails have already been completed at Fort. Mountain State Park at Chatsworth and Indian

With new announcements made each month by the

Springs State Park near Jackson. The hiker on these

Parks Department, Georgia's State Parks system is

trails is able to identify various forms of wildlife by

rapidly becoming one of the finest in the nation. Progress

matching the numbers on the trees with the corres-

and growth in the State Parks are evidenced by the

ponding numbers on a chart. Stephen Foster State Park

growing number of parks being added to the system

offers a guided tour of the Okefenokee Swamp by boat.

as well as by the continuous development of the facilities

Another guided tour is available at Georgia Veterans

already available.

Memorial State Park at Cordele. Here the visitors are

As an added enticement to encourage visitors to use guided part of the way by foot and the other part by

and enjoy the parks, the Parks Department is offering

boat. Many of the parks in the system have hiking

a free , two-week vacation in any of the State Parks

trails and the Parks Department is now undertaking

where overnight accommodations are available. Upon

the development of horseback trails.

registration, a receipt is given each visitor for payment

Still in the planning stages is a project to further

of accommodation charges. A drawing will be held in

enhance the recreational facilities of the State Parks.

January and in order to qualify, the winner must be

The Parks Department is considering the construction

able to show his receipt. Employees of the Parks

of two types of playgrounds throughout the various

Department are not eligible to win.

parks. One playground will utilize conventional play-

The State Parks Director, Horace G . Caldwell, an- ground apparatus and will be designed for all ages. It

nounced that progress is now under way to broaden

will be located near the picnic and swimming area. A

the recreational facilities offered in the parks system . place for dancing will be provided for teenagers while

Little Ocmulgee State Park, just north of McRae city

the older set can engage in such activities as shuffle-

limits, has a new nine-hole golf course in operation. An

board and horseshoes .

18-hole golf course is currently under construction at

The second type of playground now in the planning

Hard Labor Creek State Park, about two miles north

stages can be termed a "rustic" playground and, when

of Rutledge. The course will be expertly landscaped

constructed, will be designed for children only. The

and designed and its completion is expected by next

activities in this playground will be built to carry out

January.

a particular theme, such as a western town. With this

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The newest park to be added to the system will be Blackburn State Park in Lumpkin County. This park will feature a unique facility for all visitors - a gold

theme, most of the apparatus in the playground will be made out of logs. A facade of store fronts could be constructed so that the imaginative children could have

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mine. The 193 acres of gold-bearing land were donated by a former Georgian, Wayne W. Blackburn, to the

real western type shoot-ups. Indian teepees, covered wagons, and log fortresses could be built to further

State of Georgia for use as a State Park. Included on

portray the theme. Advantages of such a playground

the property are a fully furnished home, a grounds

are numerous. Present plans are that the playgrounds

maintenance shop, office equipment, a truck and com-

will be ready by next spring.

plete mining and placer equipment. The parks director

There are presently 43 state parks in operation or

stated that the recreational facilities should make it one

under construction; 33 of these have comfort stations

of the most popular parks in the system. Construction

with hot showers. Improvement in the parks system is

of camping facilities is expected to begin immediately.

continuing at a rapid pace and with the great advances

On completion, the park will offer camping, picnicking and the opportunity for all visitors to pan fo~ gold on
their own state park.

in facilities available, the number of visitors from both Georgia and out-of-state should be accelerated.

Moccasin Creek State Park on Lake Burton and

High Falls State Park near Jackson were transferred

recently to the Parks Department by the State Game

and Fish Commission. Both areas are popular fishing

spots. Moccasin Creek State Park is located near a

well-stocked creek where fishing is reported to be above

average. Facilities are to be developed more fully for

campers.

Cabins are now available at Black Rock Mountain

State Park near Clayton, Cloudland Canyon State Park

north of LaFayette and Magnolia Springs State Park

near Millen. In addition, new cabins are available at

Amicalola Falls State Park, Fort Mountain State Park

and Vogel State Park. These new cabins will house

up to 14 persons in the larger types and 10 persons

in the smaller types. Rates are slightly higher for the

new cabins, but the capacities are greater and the

furnishings are above average.

The Parks Department is putting much emphasis on

improving and adding to the facilities offered in the

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Georgia is becoming the "Playground of the South." Resort areas throughout the State are being extended in fastidious fashion with facilities boasting of luxurious, leisure-time accommodations - so reflective of our affluent American society.
Great Southwest has launched construction on their multi-million dollar playland and industrial area in Fulton County. This fantastic project will not only attract tourism and industry into the State but will complement the future Disneyland development in Florida.
Tourist figures are reaching new highs with receipts for 1965 recorded at $429 million- a record gain of 11.4 per cent. The rise of recreation resort areas in the State is a direct result o( almost 10 million trips being taken in private automobiles in Georgia, not to mention the 10 million air line passengers traversing the Atlanta Airport last year.
Presently, Georgia's tourist industry is a picture of prosperity. Georgi a's emergence as the "Sports Capital of the South," with major league sports in full parade, will skyrocket the State into an elite position of being one of the most excellent and exciting vacationlands in the country. Not only will domestic tourists flock to the State , but international visitors will be certain to include Georgia in their U. S. itinerary.
Riding high on this wave of tourist development is a $7 million project initiated by White House Inn, Inc., certain to result in Georgia's being one of the outstanding health and recreation areas in the United States. The White House Inn project at Warm Springs will contribute approximately $500,000 per year in payrolls for some 400 Georgians. The over-all capital investment will be tripled with the amount of tourists Warm Springs will attract into the State. Also, the

WARM SPRINGS C EATES HEALTHY CLIMATE
FOR GEORGIA TOURIST INDUSTRY
THE WHITE HOUSE INN RESORT

poration is composed of a Board of Directors and an Advisory Board under the chairmanship of Pierre Howard of Atlanta, a senior partner in the firm of Howard and Byrd. Other Georgia businessmen who are 'officers of the firm are Robert D. Kirtley, Vice President; R . W. Marin, a Director, and Henry Van Landingham, Director.
With four professional size baseball fields and football fields located adjacent to Falcon Inn, one prominent area of promotion will be sports and recreation. Therefore, many of the directors and members of the advisory board are famous people in sports. Such notables as Bob Turley, Bitsy Grant, Bill Dooley, Bill Mathis and "Doc" Ayers will be promoting the success of this project.
The beautiful site of the new resort inn was chosen through many feasibility studies as to the traffic pull of the area and the potential of such a resort in the State. The success of Callaway Gardens, Jekyll Island, Sea Island, St. Simon's and the many state parks and recreation areas were proof enough of the feasibility of such
a venture. The new Roosevelt Memorial Airport, located less
than three miles from the site, will prove to be an excellent drawing card, attracting flying tourists to the resort, and its prime location in the State affords travelers easy access via Interstate Highways.
The first official stockholders' meeting of the White House Inn, Incorporated, met during the first part of August in celebration of the groundbreaking ceremony of the Warm Springs Resort at Pine Mountain. The formal opening is tentatively scheduled for next year.

The beautiful Falcon Inn will be located down in the valley at Warm Springs. Two outdoor swimming pools are located directly behind the Inn-one cold water spring and one warm spring. Four athletic fields for football and baseball will be available for special sports events, conventions or seminars. Other resort facilities such as an archery course, tennis courts and an indoor tennis court will make the White House Inn at Pine Mountain one of the finest resorts in the nation.
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Springs resort is being promoted internationally on an exchange basis with many tourist-affiliated agencies.
Warm Springs has long been one of the country's most popular therapeutic centers - actually since the Creek Indians soothed their war-torn bodies in the recuperative springs at Pine Mountain. The Springs won national recognition when it became a restful clinic for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1925 . Since then , the Little White House of F.D.R. and the museum have become one of Georgia's favorite tourist spots with April visitors totaling 11 ,088.
This tourist figure will be magnified many times over when the White House Inn, a $3.6 million motel, is completed as part of a motel-recreation resort being built at Pine Mountain . Such a private enterprise is not only complementary to the business atmosphere of the State but beneficial to the total tourist revenue.
William E. Bippus, General Manager of the firm , stated that the project will be developed on 66 acres of land on the crest of Pine Mountain just south of Warm Springs on Highway 85W. An additional tract of 500 acres of land adjoining this property has been leased from the City of Manchester. The White House Inn will be built on the new site and the Falcon Inn

will be developed on the original Warm Spri'ngs site. The proposed Warm Springs enterprise will include
many ingenious features such as 35 separate duplexes - each facade resembling the home of a past President of the United States- situated on the beautiful grounds of the White House Inn. Thomas Jefferson's beautiful Monticello estate and George Washington's Mt. Vernon will be among the entourage of estates lining the golf
gree~.
The entire motel will have 160 units, an enclosed 18-hole miniature golf course, an Olympic-type swimming pool, two medium-size outdoor pools, one cold water spring and one warm spring, a nine-hole, par-3 golf course lighted for night time enjoyment, five indoor clay tennis courts with seating for 2,000 people this will accommodate the regional and national indoor tennis tournaments planned to be held at the Springs two outdoor tennis courts, and bath houses which will contain facilities for private recuperation of guests visiting the Springs for therapy.
This resort operation is being developed and planned by a group of well-known businessmen and sports personalities with the idea of catering primarily to conventions and seminars for business groups. The cor-

Thirty-five duplexes, each named after a past President of the United States, will be situated on the beautiful grounds of the White House Inn. Each of these will have a front designed authentically like the president's own home, such as: a Monticello front for President Thomas Jefferson's duplex, a Mount Vernon front for President George Washington's duplex, and a log cabin front for President Abraham Lincoln's duplex .

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Foreign Commerce Through
Georgia Custom s Rises
Foreign commerce through the Georgia Customs District cleared 58 % more business in the first quarter of 1966 than in the same period last year reports the Atlanta Field Office of the U. S. Department of Commerce.
A total of $92.3 million in imports and exports passed during the first three months of 1966, Exports amounted to $43.5 million, 111 % higher th an for the same period a year ago. Imports amounted to $48 .8 million, up 29 % from last year.
During the month of March, exports through Georgia ports amounted to $18 .8 million compared to $17.4 mill ion of a year ago , for an 8% increase. Imports amounted to $19 million , down from the $30.9 million level of March, 1965 . Gains in this year's March exports should be compared in the light of catch-up shipments due to the Longshoremen's strike in January and February of last year which prevented shipments leaving Savannah and Brunswick during those months.
International Business
Opportunities
Import Opportunities
liD-Manufacturer of hand embroidered emblems, badges and crests in Pakistan wishes to appoint agents. for distribution in area.

Ill-French company seeks agencies for advertising gifts: small bottles of perfume, giftware, etc.
112-French company offers AM and FM transistor radios for distribution.
Export Opportunities
113-Well-known distributors of chemical products with agents throughout France, warehouses, technical department with research and testing laboratories, seeks representations of American producers of chemicals and related products especially for the following industries: paint, printing ink, plastics, rubber, pharmaceuticals.
114-French distributors in Western France seek representations of American manufacturers of agricultural equ ipment and/ industrial products.
Licensing and Joint Ventures
I 15-Belgian manufacturer of precision machine tools wishes joint venture to expand in related field . Will also take on new agencies.
116-Manufacturer and printer of packaging materials seeks licensing agreements with American companies for production in France of new types of packaging (cardboard , folding boxes, etc.). Also interested in packaging machinery presenting new characteristics.

ATLANTA AIRPORT DESIGNATED PORT OF EXIT
The great industrial growth of the Southeast is evidenced by the recent announcement by V. S. Customs designating the Atlanta Airport as a Customs port of exit for international air freight shipments. Officers and directors of the International Trade Association of Atlanta are shown at a recent business meeting during which they fo cused their attention on the details of the announcement and its effect on trade and industry from the State of Georgia. Shown seated, from left to right: Sidney Wolf, Ballard & Curren , Director; Victor Alden, Lockheed-Georgia Co. , President; Marvin Botnick, First National Bank, Vice President; Mrs. Louise Sievers, Southern Saw Service, Director. Standing, from left to right: Walter Bunzl, Textile Paper Supply Corp., Director; George Gaskin , Air France, Vice President; Arthur Leonard, Department of Commerce, Director.

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BUSINESS PROFILES
Maxson Predicts Employment Jumps at Macon
Mr. William L. Maxson, Jr. , president of the Maxson Electronics Corporation, predicted in a recent speech, that the organization's Macon plant will more than triple employment within two years. In an address to the Society of Financial Analysts in Atlanta, Mr. Maxson also said the Macon plant would eventually branch out into non-military production.
Maxson purchased the facilities of the Naval Ordnance Plant at Macon last October and production started on December 1. The plant has military production contracts of approximately $17 million .
"I see no reason why the employment in Macon in two and one~half years should not go up to 3,000 or 3,500," Mr. Maxson told the Analysts. Present employment is 922, and is increasing at the rate of 20 per week.
The corporation's plan for the Macon plant, he said, is to expand military production for a while and "when we're operating on a good , efficient basis, branch out into non-military production ." Mr. Maxson added that the company will analyze the types of commercial items created in the next year or so to result in peak efficiency at the Macon plant- and then branch out into producing these items.
Mr. William L. Maxson addressing the Society of Financial Analysts in Atlanta. He predicted that employment at Maxson 's Macon plant would be tripled within the next two years.
Hi-Pa ls to Make 150,000 ''Boots for Walking"
Hi-Pals Footwear, Incorporated, of Darien has received a contract from the Defense Supply Agency for the manufacture of 150,000 pairs of tropical combat boots.
The contract will amount to $1,700,000 and will

result in full employment for their 300 employees until August, 1967. Hi-Pals has received two contracts previously, one for 104,000 pairs and the second for 145,000 flairs of the combat boots which will be used to a large extent by fighting men in Viet Nam.
Toccoa Company Awarded
$2 Million Government
Contract
The Dubie-Clark Company of Toccoa has been awarded a $2 million government contract to build missile containers.
As a result of the new contract, the firm will be operating full and over-time until the latter part of 1967.
Army Awards Contract
To Centen nia I Industries
Centennial Industries of Columbus, a subsidiary of Douglas Lomason Company, a Detroit automotive parts manufacturer, has been awarded a $1.2 million contract for fragmentation bomb casings, metal parts and cluster adapters. The Department of Defense awarded the contract.
Centennial has manufactured the bombs since November, 1965 .
Economic Development
Administration
Loan Aids Industry ...
EDA has approved a $119 ,491 loan to help rebuild and expand Rabun Products, Inc., at Tiger. The project is expected to help Rabun re-employ 42 workers who were laid off after a plant fire in J anuary. The expanded operations are also expected to enable the firm to employ an additional 10 workers. Rabun manufactures iron and wood products.
The project will cost $183,833 and the EDA loan will run for 18 years at an annual interest rate of 41/z per cent. Local investment will complete the financing .
The project will include purchase and improvement of land, construction of buildings, and the purchase of machinery and equipment.
Savannah Authority Awards
Industrial Building Contract
The Savannah District Authority has awarded ao $86,035 contract for construction of an inaustrial shell building in Chatham Industrial Park to Paloma, Inc.
The flexible shell building, consisting of 40,320 square feet , will be located on a seven-acre tract in the industrial complex on Crossgate Road in Port Wentworth.
The architectural firm of Jones and Fellers designed the building to be adapted to the tenant's specifications. Several parties already have indicated an interest in the building. Construction is scheduled to be completed in about three months.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION

Armour $1 Million Expansion

Program In Production

Armour Agricultural Chemical Company recently announced that their fertilizer manufacturintg plant in

Columbus has completed a $1 million expansion

program.

.

The expansion was completed in February and the

plant is now employing over I00 factory personnel and

salaried foremen. This represents an additional payroll

of 60 employees. The plant has increased operations from 35 ,000 tons
of fertilizer a year to an annual capacity of 150,000

per year. The prediction is that the Columbus plant will soon
become the hub of Armour operations in the Southeast, serving Georgia, Alabama, and parts of northern Flor-

ida. The Columbus plant will also be supplying the rice fields of Louisiana and Texas and the wheat fields of

Kansas and Nebraska. On international scale, Armour Agricultural is negotiating with the government of India

for shipments of Columbus-produced fertilizers next

year.

Aldora Mills Paces Growth
Of Tire Industry
As part of a $2 million, long-term expansion program by The General Tire and Rubber Company, Aldora Mills at Barnesville is growing.
The additional space is needed for the installation of new looms, twisting and weaving machinery. By the time the long-term expansion pro_gram is completed, the Barnesville plant will experience a substantial increase in employment.
Aldora Mills has been General Tire's principal fabric processing plant since it was acquired in 1931. The product quality and productivity achievements at Barnesville are the big reasons why the company is expanding there instead of building additional facilities elsewhere, according to General officials.

Changing to Keep Pace
With the Times
Rome's oldest industry, Fairbanks Company, is currently working on a $280,000 expansion that will include the construction of three new buildings.
The Fairbanks Company, established in 1887, is now constructing a 4,000-square-foot steel storage addition which will be used to house about 150 different shapes and sizes of steel.
The old foundry building will be demolished to make way for a new 16,000-square-foot rubber plant. The largest building to be constructed will be a 34,000square-foot foundry expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The Rome plant manufactures wheels and parts for industrial casters and trucks, and assembles the parts before shipping. The Fairbanks Company is a national organization with plants in two other states which manufacture related materials.

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U.S. Rubber in Thomson
Adds New Line
The Thomson U. S. Rubber plant plans an expansion program that will increase the fum's annual payroll by approximately $120,000 and increase employment by some 30 to 35 persons.
Construction of a 30,000-square-foot addition will be used to manufacture sponge rubber rug backings, a new line for the local plant. The plant, which now makes U. S. Keds and other footwear products, currently employs approximately 350 persons at an annual payroll in excess of $1 .2 million.
The rug backing section of the expansion should go into production in early January. This addition will bring total square footage of the plant to 130,000.
Canton Mi lis Votes
$3 Million for Expansion
Canton Textile Mills, Inc. , will embark on a $3 million project in equipment allocations for expanded operations.
The allocation came as a result of the firm's decision to accelerate the completion of Canton's equipment changes for manufacturing quality sportswear fabrics.
The $3 million will be used during 1966 and 1967 for the colored yarn mills at Canton. Further detailed figures will be announced as new plans regarding blended fabric operations are decided.
Vidalia Garment Plant
Nearing Completion
Jack Fields, manager of the Vidalia Garment Company, reports that his company will move into its new quarters on North Street Highway in late August. The impressive 205,000-square-foot building will accommodate all of the local sewing operation, cutting department, warehousing space and offices. The first section, consisting of 58 ,500 square feet, was constructed last year. An additional 130,000 square feet, plus 16,500 square feet of office area, were started earlier this year.
Vidalia Garment currently employs 650 in the production of men's dress and sport shirts, and this number is expected to increase to 725 following relocation. The company's old quarters will be converted for use as Oxfora Shirt Division staff offices and for machine storage .
Multimillion Dollar Program
Slated In Columbus
Officials of the Glen Arden Company and its subsidiary, Swift Manufacturing Company, have announced a capital investment program in Columbus which may total $25 million. Plans call for a new industrial fabrics plant to be built on a 100-acre site north of the city, which eventually will employ 400, and the renovation of the existing Swift plant.
Swift, which was founded in 1882, produces industrial fabrics, apparel and decorative materials. It was purchased by Glen Alden in 1962.

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
NEW INDUSTRY
New Motel Chain to Build
In Georgia
A newly organized motel chain to be named "ChekInns" will be headquartered in Atlanta. The chain now has under lease a number of motel sites dispersed along the Interstate Highways in Georgia and Florida.
"Chek-Inns" are presently under construction and others will begin construction in Macon; Jennings, Florida (across the Georgia-Florida line on 1-75); Perry, Georgia; West Palm Beach, and National Gardens, Florida.
Each motel will have 150 rooms, a 60-seat coffee shop, a restaurant capable of seating 125 people, and a meeting room. A swimming pool and color television in every room will also be outstanding features of the new chain. The buildings will be of reinforced concrete, steel and brick, with each spacious room measuring a minimum of 31 0 square feet.
An artist's rendering depicts the standard design of the "Chek-Inn ," motels, ' to be built along the Interstate Highways in Georgia and Florida . The headquarters will be located in Atlanta.
Potter and Brumfield
To Occupy TEV Plant
The country's largest manufacturer of electrical relays , the Potter and Brumfield Division of American Machine and Foundry Company, will move into the 90,000-square-foot building now occupied by the TEV Divison of AMF Western Tool, Inc., at Gainesville.
Potter and Brumfield is one of four divisions comprising AMP's electrical products group and has its headquarters and main plant in Princeton, Indiana. The company manufactures a wide range of electromechanical and solid state relays and precision snapaction switches. Products are used extensively in consumer, industrial, military and aerospace applications.
Production is tentatively scheduled to start early next spring, and employment will increase to 425 over a three or four-year period. Extensive building modification at a cost of about $600,000 is planned including rewiring and air conditioning. In addition, more than $200,000 worth of manufacturing, assembly and test equipment will be installed.

Warner Robins Announces
New. Equipment Plant
BECO, Inc., of Brewton, Alabama, will start production in its new Warner Robins plant in August. Employment is expected to peak between 75 and 100 persons.
BECO specializes in electronics, hydraulic, pneumatic and general mechanics covering the broad field of aero- nautical ground handling equipment.
The annual payroll of the new Warner Robins plant is estimated at $580,000. Company President, Charlie L. Williams predicts that within the next year, BECO will employ some 300 people with a payroll in excess of $1 million annually.
Great Northern to Build
At Cedar Spri nqs
Great Northern Paper Company plans to build a $4.4 million softwood plywood manufacturing plant at Cedar Springs.
The facility will be called the Chattahoochee Plywood Corporation and will be a subsidiary of Great Northern. Its construction cost involves a $2.7 million loan from the Economic Development Administration. The new division is expected to be in operation by July of 1968 and will have a rated capacity of 60 million square feet capable of being expanded to a rated annual capacity of 120 million square feet.
Employment will be provided for approximately 325 persons. Great Northern is one of the nation's largest producers of newsprint, coated and uncoated groundwood printing papers and kraft linerboard.
Road master Moves Into
Georgia
D. J. Williams, President of Roadmaster Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Arlington, Texas, announces the expansion of their operation into Georgia.
Roadmaster has temporarily leased a 6,000-squarefoot building in Gainesville until a 15,000-squarefoot manufacturing facility is completed. Their new quarters will be constructed with potential to be expanded another 20,000 square feet when the Southeastern market demands it. The expected initial production rate will be 30 trailer truck units per day at capacity. The new plant will employ 50 to 70 men and will represent a capital investment of approximately $100,000.
Tucker Pia nt Celebrates
Forma I Opening
Technicarbon Company, Inc., formally opened its new Tucker plant located at the Stone Mountain Industrial Park .
Technicarbon produces a complete line of processed sheet and stock and custom roll carbon paper. The parent company is based at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
The 10,000-square-foot plant will be served by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. All employees can be drawn from the metropolitan area.
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GEORGIA IN ACTION

Lockheed-Georgia May
Get Some SST Work
If the Lockheed Aircraft Company's California Division is successful in obtaining the contract to build the U. S. Supersonic Transport, indications are that some of the parts will be built at the Lockheed-Georgia Plant at Marietta. Lockheed President Daniel J. Haughton, presiding at the unveiling of the SST mock-up in California, said although the major construction of the craft would be handled at Burbank and Palmede, California , there is a "good chance of putting some of it in the Lockheed-Georgia plant."
Lockheed and Boeing both have submitted designs to the Federal Aviation Agency for consideration. The FAA is expected to decide on a contractor by the end of 1966. In the design proposals, Lockheed employs a double-delta fixed wing, while Boeing uses a movable wing in order to attain different configurations for landings in supersonic flight .
The Lockheed SST is designed to fly at 1,800 miles per hour, cruise at 70,000 to 80,000 feet and carry approximately 250 people . The plane is scheduled to be put in service by U. S. airlines by 1974.
According to Lockheed officials, the company has spent some $5 million of its own money, plus $5 million from a government grant to design the proposed plane.
Industrial Park Being
Developed Near Atlanta Airport
The new South Perimeter lndustrial Park , located close to the Atlanta Airport, is now under development. The site of the industrial park is located near the Airport Connector Freeway and the South Perimetertwo major arteries in the Atl anta area.
One of the attractive features of the new industrial center is its proximity to the airport which allows for ideal transportation access for passengers and freight . In addition, the park is serviced by the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and over 70 motor freight lines. Rail sidings are available throughout the tract and connect with 13 major rail lines serving all areas in the nation.
The first building has now been located in the South Perimeter Park. Economy Auto Stores has constructed a 150,000-square-foot distribution center. RACO General Contractors now has under construction a distribution center for Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, and a 32,000-square-foot office-warehouse building.
The project is owned by Real Estate Investment Trust of America, a Boston firm with real estate operations throughout the nation . Scott Hudgens Realty and Mortgage, Inc., of Atlanta is acting as developers and leasing agents for the South Perimeter Industrial Park.
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Hydro Plant on Augusta
Canal Proposed
The Georgia Power Company and the City of Augusta have made joint application to the Federal Power Commission to build a $2.5 to $3 million, 12,000kilowatt hydroelectric plant on the Augusta Canal. FPC approval would mean a new source of electric energy to meet the growing industrial, agricultural and residential needs of the Central Savannah River Valley area.
The new plant also would serve as an important new link in the Power Company's statewide network of eight steam-electric and 18 hydroelectric facilities now serving Georgia.
The historic Augusta Canal, completed in 1847, originates at a dam on the Savannah River, seven miles above Augusta and roughly paralleling the Savannah on the Georgia side. The canal provided power for one of the first cotton textile manufacturing plants in the South and was also instrumental in Augusta's development as a textile center.
The proposed new installation, to be located at the lower end of the canal, would consist of an outdoortype power house, a 12,000-kilowatt turbine and generator, transformer and switching equipment to deliver electricity into the Georgia Power Company system.
State's Non-Farm Employment
Continues to Gain
Georgia's nonfarm employment continued to shatter all previous records in June, according to a report released July 28 by the State Labor Department. A total of 1,326,600 workers were gainfully employed in occupations other than farming; this represented an increase of 14,500 over the previous high reached in May and was 77,000 more than in June, 1965.
Manufacturing employment has increased steadily throughout the year with production workers averaging $2.08 per hour. The steady increase in employment over many months has been accompanied by a decrease in the number of workers qualifying for unemployment compensation. For the week ending July 25, 1966, the insured unemployment rate in Georgia was 1.2 per cent.
$4 Million Allocated For
Expansion of Ocean
Terminal Docks
Robert C. Norman, Chairman of the Georgia Ports Authority, has announced plans for a $4 million expansion of the Authority's Ocean Terminal in Savannah. Slip No. 3 will be filled and new general cargo facilities built across the outboard end along the Savannah River. Included in the improvements are two marginal berths, a transit shed, two warehouses, an open storage area, utilities, railroad and truck service. In addition, the Terminal's gantry crane rails on Berth 18 will be extended upstream to serve the two new berths.

BUSI NESS PROFILES
GM Sets Third Production
Record at Doraville
The General Motors assembly plant in Doraville wound up 1966 model production after setting a new record for the third consecutive year. Output of 1966 models reached 179,275, edging the previous high of 178,700 set last year, according to plant manager R. J. Howlett. Average employment for assembly operations during the period totaled approximately 3,500 hourly-rated workers.
Production at Doraville resumes in late August. During the changeover, ~,000 hourly-rated employ_ees a:e being furloughed while another 400 are retamed m making preparations for the 1967 models.
RC Reports Record
Monthly Sales
Georgia-headquartered Royal Crown Cola Company reported a first-half earnings increase of 18 per cent and the establishment of an all-time monthly sales record . William E. Uzzell , President of the Columbus soft drink company, said earnings in the first six months of 1966 rose to $2,820,075 or 76 cents per share as compared with restated earnings of $2,397,286 or 65 cents per share for the corresponding period last year. Shares of stock outstanding in the first half numbered 3,720,773 . Sales in June were the highest ever recorded for a single month in the company's 62-year history.
Mr. Uzzell said Diet-Rite Cola posted significant gains and maintained its position of industry leadership . However, the company's greatest increase in the first half came from sales of Royal Crown Cola.
\\Zero Defects" Resu Its In
100 Per Cent Effort
The billboards at the Lockheed-Georgia plant urging "Zero Defects" on all Lockheed production work has scored a bulls eye.
The United States Air Force has recently praised the Lockheed Company for its error-free workmanship and the high quality standard of its product with the USAF Zero Defects Achievement Award. Lockheed President Dick Pulver accepted the award on behalf of the company's 23 ,000 employees from Major General Charles Terhune, Commander of the Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, at WrightPatterson AFB , Ohio. The announcement of the high honor was previously made by General B. A. Schriever, Commander of the Air Force Systems Command .
Alluding to the company's Zero Defects slogan, "Do It Right the First Time," General Terhune made the award on the basis of the outstanding job Lockheed workers are doing in "providing our fighting men with the quality and reliability they must have to do the job, and do it right, the first time."
Lockheed began its intensive "war on errors" 18 months ago after a two-year study of methods of implementing the program. Georgi a Governor Carl Sanders and representatives from every branch of the services and industry leaders were on hand to propel the program into motion.

Mr. Pulver told General Terhune he was accepting the award in the names of the 23 ,000 interested workers in every branch and division of this plant who, over the past 18 months, have dedicated themselves to the principles of Zero Defects and have made this philosophy a part of themselves and their daily activities here.
Noting that Zero Defects is a "way of life" at Lockheed, Mr. Pulver said, "We have only to look to our rework rate today in assembly, as compared to that of the previous year, and note the reduction of an estimated 42 per cent for the C-141 , 33 per cent on the C-130 and 38 per cent in the JetStar."
In concluding, the General said , "Lockheed's pride in its work is a model in the aircraft industry, and all of you are to be commended for your constant efforts to refine th at spirit even furth er. 'Guaranteed Perfect by Georgia People' is one way of saying it. "
TOP AIR FORCE AWARD-Major General Charles H. Terhune, center, commander of the Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio, presents the Air Force Zero Defects Achievement A ward to President W . A. Pulver of L ockheed-Georgia Company , Marietta. He accepted it in the name of the company's 23,000 employees. The award was for their excellent quality craftsmanship and for meeting the high standards of error-free work. Looking on approvingly is Col. Ralph H. Harrington, Air Force Plant Representative at the Marietta , Ga. , aerospace plant.
Fu Iton Industries Listed On Pacific Exchange
Fulton Industries, Inc. , an Atlanta-based diversified industrial manufacturing corporation, was listed July 28 on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange in ceremonies at Los Angeles. The company is already on the New York Exchange with the ticker symbol FI.
The corporation has five operating divisions which make cotton processing and heavy manufacturing machinery, pre-engineered metal buildings, nonferrous metal die castings, compression and injection molded plastics, industrial textiles, and a broad range of tufted products .
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SEPTEMBER, 1966
AUGUSTA
One City with Three Areas of Industry Progressive and Prosperous Borne by a Committee oflOO Supported by the Wealth of Georgia's Natural Resources

CONTENTS

e VIEWPOINT

Measuring Industrial Growth

3

e GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 15, 16

e INTERNATIONAL SERVICES

Scandinavian Trade Mission

8

FEATURES Dymo Industries Augusta's Miracle Mile Committee of 100 . .

9 10, 11
12

e AVIATION ADVANCES

CAP in Georgia . . .

13

I & T Aviation Safety Program

13

e TOURIST TOPICS

Readings from the Travel Barometer

14

e BUSINESS PROFILES .

7

GEORGIA IN ACTION

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CovER: "Progress by the People" is sometimes a coined phrase one hears among Augustans when they speak of the industry they helped build in their community. As pictured on the cover, progress aptly describes the pulse of the industrial activity taking place at the many chemical and paper plants in the city. The deep yellow color illuminating the chemical flasks at Proctor and Gamble is reflective of their quality control laboratories. An abstract view showing P & G towering above the Augusta skyline is the other cover photo.

Rosser Smith . . .

. . . . Editor

Dona Ademy House

Managing Editor

Robert Alford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist

Sarah Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributing Editor

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Volume 2 Number 8
VIEWPOINT

SEPTEMBER, 1966

EDITOR'S NOTE:
This month Industrial Representative Bob King has some thoughts on Georgia and how she stands in the overall picture of industrial development in the Southeastern states.

How Do You Measure

Industrial Growth?

Recent reports about Georgia's industrial standing

among her sister states reveal that she ranked anywhere

from fourth to sixth in new capital investment last year.

The variation can be traced to the person, state, or

agency that is doing the re-

porting and what point they

were trying to convey. What

are the reasons for this ap-

parent poor showing? And

does the single measure,

new capital investment, ade-

quately reflect Georgia's ef-

forts in industrial develop-

ment?

Hardly a month passes

without a news release from

one of our surrounding

states heralding that par-

ticular state's latest industrial plum: a 50 million

Robert R . King

dollar paper mill; a 45 million dollar miracle fiber plant ;

or a 90 million dollar chemical complex. By compari-

son, our one or two million dollar plant announcements

seem rather puriy and anti-climatic.

Do geography, natural resources, and growth patterns

for a given industry have anything to do with these

gigantic plants that our neighbors seem to land?

The textile industry has grown southward from New

England and as it has expanded further into the South,

supporting industries and, in recent years, fiber plants,

~ave followed suit. Accordingly, as Georgia's textile

md~stry reaches the degree of sophistication .as that

re~hzed by neighbors up the line, she too will get her

fair share of these new textile industry plants.

':Vater sites and nearness to wood resources are gov-

e.rnmg factors for pulp and paper mills. Georgia's best

Ites were taken many years ago, and those that would

not h~ve rated a cursory glance ten years ago are being

exammed very closely today by nearly every major

paper company. If our neighbors have better resources

and a better site, then no salesmanship can change a

prospect's mind. By today's standards, we have three or four paper mill sites left. When they are gone-and they will be-others will be "discovered." The law of supply and demand works just as well on paper mill sites as it does in economics.
Gulf coastal areas, by virtue of their proximity to oil fields, lend themselves to chemical complexes that require enormous capital investments. How can one sell against nature?
If this sounds apologetic, don't be misled. It is not. However, a single unit of measure, such as capital investment, when thrown around with reckless abandon, cannot relate the entire story. Oversimplification is one of the oldest fallacies , and the "facts as reported" are not always what they seem to be.
One of Georgia's largest plants was announced this year. Initial employment is expected to reach 400. Right on its heels, was a one million dollar plant announcement with employment of 300. It would appear that measure of capital investment completely ignored the number of jobs created. Is it not better to see ten one million dollar plants each employing several hundred people located than one ten million dollar plant employing, say, three hundred.
Various companies doing industrial development work need to oversimplify their reports to relate their progress to stockholders. The power companies often use the number of new subscribers gained in a given period. The railroads use the amount of new rail revenue generated as one of their indicators of accomplishment. These are their yardsticks and for obvious reasons.
In spite of the high cost of money and governmental requests to curtail new capital investment, Georgia is now eight months into her best year ever. With all of her assets, Georgia has just begun to "feel her oats" in industrial development. But, like oats, seeds were sown many years ago by many different people, and what is done today may not realize fruition for several years hence. And when we do achieve our rightful "place in the sun," look to new jobs created, the increase in per capita income, the average hourly wage of our workers, along with new capital investment for your yardstick of Georgia's progress.
Perhaps one amazing facet about Georgia's progress is that it has been realized without benefit of giveaway programs: ten year moratorium on taxes; free-spending training programs; state participation in industrial site preparations; or other state-sanctioned, tax-underwritten " incentives." Our industries will be here long after those which find such programs essential to their location. Georgia industry does not need subsidies to operate
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Columbus Mills
The Muscogee County Commission has awarded Wright Contracting Company of Columbus a $395,000 contract for an 80,000 square foot addition to Columbus Mills. This is part of a program being financed with $1.2 million in industrial revenue bonds issued by Muscogee County. The bonds will be secured by a 20-year lease calling for monthl y rental payments by Columbus Mills to the County in an amount sufficient to cover the principal and interest.
The expansion of the mill's rug manufacturing division is to provide a dye plant and facilities for binding and cutting. Nearly 100 more jobs will be created, adding $400,000 to the company's annu al payroll. The mill now employs 400 people.

NEW INDUSTRY
Joint Announcement
The Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce and I & T announce the construction of a new manufacturing plant that will produce industrial coatings and caulking compounds for the auto, mobile home and railroad industry.
The J. W. Mortell Company of Kankakee, Illinois will start construction on a 22,000 square foot building within sixty days. The company also operates other plants in Michigan and New Jersey.
Production is scheduled to begin in early 1967 with an employment of 15 persons with immediate plans for expansion of both workers and manufacturing space as the company sales increase.
Distribution will be centered throughout the Southeast and along the east coast.

U. S. Plywood
U.S. Plywood is further expanding its present plant at the Bradley Industrial Park: The expanded operation will replace the quarters now being occupied in the Southern Railway warehouse.
U. S. Plywood has been distributing its full line of plywood and allied products from the present location since 1959 . The New York-based manufacturer rose from 161 st place in the market in 1964 to 152nd position in 1965 in Fortune Maga zine's directory of the 500 largest U. S. industrial corporations.
With 1965 sales of $448,678,000, U.S. Plywood had net earnings of $18,757,000; assets of $36 1,438,000; invested capital of $166,662,000 ; and employment of 16,224 at the end of the last fiscal year.
Big Peerless Mills
Expansion of Peerless Division of Thomaston Mills began last month . A 400 foot addition will lengthen the plant to 1,100 feet and add 185,000 square feet of area.
The addition will increase production by 40 per cent and the modernized plant will be completely air conditioned. Frank Binford Construction Company has been awarded a contract in excess of $1,250,000 for the addition.
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Johnson and Johnson
The new Johnson and Johnson plant at Royston is under construction . The facility is an expansion of the Moore Fabrics Division, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which was acquired last year by Johnson and Johnson as a division of Chicopee Manufacturing.
Johnson and Johnson will manufacture woven narrow elastic webbing for use in women's undergarments.
Approximately 100 persons will be employed at the plant initially with production scheduled to start in early 1967.
$50 Million Center
The DeKalb County Commission partially approved a new $50 million shopping center project on a 225acre site in northeast DeKalb. The project is being developed by Pope and Carter Company of Atlanta and Trammell Crow of Dallas.
The complex will be the largest of its kind in the Southeast and includes a $22 million shopping center of one million square feet , a $23.5 million office park and a $500,000 private club. A $4 million apartment complex is pending, waiting zone approval of the Commission.

COMMUNICATIONS GO 110NDERGROOND''
An 1,800-Mile Underground Cable System from Boston to Miami to Strengthen the Nation's Defense
Above: Cut-away drawing shows typical layout of underground communication centers. On upper level from left to right are: the standby emergency power control units; battery equipment.; telephone transmission units; and the administrative office. On lower level from .left to right are: ventilation and air-conditioning facilities; maintenance, storage and classroom area; and additional telephone transmission units. There will be fifteen such centers along the I ,800 mile route. Below: A center under construction near Monticello, Georgia.

In strengthening our country's national defense against natural and man-made disaster, Southern Bell has started diggipg an I ,800 mile underground communications network from Boston to Miami.
The expansion of our population and the emergence of an enterprising society made the supplemental underground system a necessity. The Boston-Miami route is also being constructed to insure continuity of communications in times of emergency. It is designed to withstand hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes and nuclear attack, short of a direct hit.
The L-4 system, as the project is designated, is being developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and manufactured by Western Electric. Total cost of the project will be $I82 million and $88 million will be allocated to Southern Bell areas. Over I ,000 miles of the 1,800 mile route will be in the Southeast with $38 million being spent in Florida; $26 million in Georgia; $I5 million in North . Carolina; and $9 million in South Carolina.
The advanced cable system is the largest construction project ever undertaken in Southern Bell territory. The L-4 coaxial cable design has greater capacity than anv long distance broadband system now in commercial use, including microwave radio. It can transmit 32,400 voice channels over routes several thousand miles long, using transistor repeaters every two miles.
The multiple appendaged cable connects with fifteen underground communication centers; four of which are to be in the Southeast .and completed in 1967.
The underground centers are deep under the earth's surface with only portions of the heavily reinforced concrete buildings above the ground to permit entry.
There is an a,ura of "James Bond" intrigue as you enter the fallout decontamination room before reaching the operations area. Everything inside the underground center is designed for exact, split-second performance. All vulnerable . equipment, including amplifiers, will be shockmounted on coil springs and rubber cushions and flexible piping will be used for all utilities. Each center's ventilation system will be controlled by a sensing device that would automatically close blast valves if nuclear detonation were detected. Filtering units would then cut in to prevent fallout from entering. Additional monitoring equipment will constantly be calculating radiation levels.
Emergency living quarters are housed within the center for operators, technicians and maintenance men. In case of emergencies, the center can generate its own power and provide reserve water, food and fuel to permit sustained operation for about three weeks.
The first step in installing the cable involves digging a trench to the desired depth.' A reel tractor then lays out cable along the route at a depth of approximately four feet. A single reel can carry up to 1,750 feet of cable and weigh as much as nine tons.
As a follow-up, long lines splicing te.ams make about four cable splices per mile. With the cable laid to rest, a third machine is used to cover it and fill in the trench. In favorable terrain the machines can move afong at a rate of about two to three miles per day.
The underground communications cable project will take many days of patient labor to see its successful finish but it promises much for the future of the nation's communications.
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Filler Products Add American
Flavor to International Cuisine
One of the world's largest specialty snack houses is located in Georgia-Filler Products, Inc., an important trademark in the manufacture of snack foods in the national and international food market.
Filler Products, Inc., of Atlanta began with one man's idea and thirty years of experimentation and perfection of a product. Fro.m three basic products, Bakon Krisp, Tortees and Cheez-Trix, Filler Products has developed a host of snack foods which are sold by franchised dealers from California to the Atlantic, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Europe, Caribbean, Central and South America.
I. J. Filler, president of the company, designed his success around two basic principles : offer the public a variety of products in a variety of package designs and make the product available throughout the world .
SNACK CONSUMPTION UP
In 1965, $2 billion worth of snacks were consumed by the American market. Little wonder the snack food industry is growing faster than the retail food market as a whole. It is the tenth fastest growing food item and the eleventh most profitable.
I. J. Filler was somewhat responsible for this when he created the corn chip and became the first to commercially produce and market fried pork rinds under Federal government inspection.
FILLER BEGINNINGS
Mr. Filler's success story begins almost a quarter of a century ago when he conceived the idea of manufacturing the corn chips while he was eating tostados , a toasted or fried tortilla, in a Mexican restaurant on the Texas border. The idea occurred to him to mass produce and slice tostados , cut them into triangles and retail them in bags. The first production process was primitive in comparison to the automated assembly line production now in use . The first Filler products were made by grinding and forming masa, the basic ingredient of tostados, in a garage in Dallas, Texas.
In 1932, after adapting the product to American tastes , Filler was granted a trademark for the name Corn Chips by the State of Texas and in 1935, he was granted a U.S. trademark for the name Corn Chips.
OTHER COMPANIES BEGUN
After solving many problems, Filler formed the Filler., Corn Chip Company at Cincinnati in 1939, started mass producing Corn Chips and resumed work on another product idea-the manufacture of fried bacon rinds. Today, after developing a process whereby the bacon rinds are reduced to dehydrated pellets, Filler Products processes most of the nation's bacon rind products.
The next phase of Filler Products, Inc., marks the company's expansion into another area of the snack food industry-supplying raw or processed snack products to franchised dealers . In the beginning, Filler sold franchises in Kentucky , Ohio and Tennessee. He then decided to center operations in Georgia, which Filler predicted would become the industrial hub of the Southeast.
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" Filler Products are distributed around the world," points out I . f . Filler, President of Filler Products, In c. to Joe Torre and Mack Jones. The Braves players are advertising the snack specialties throughout the country.
In 1941 , Filler bought a plant in Atlanta and immediately began supplying Gordon Foods with the finished product. The next two years were stagnant for the new company while Filler served his time with the military service .
POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT
After stepping back into his role as head of the company in 1946, Filler Products, Inc. , became an official Georgia corporation. The quality of the products was improved and business started to boom. At the end of its first year, the new corporation had sales of $233,000.
By 1954, the Addison Development Company of Chicago, Illinois was incorporated and leased to Bacon Products Corporation , which is controlled by I. J. Filler for the preparation of smoked pork rinds from a pellet form. This is the same product now being shipped to Filler licensed franchises all over the world.
PROMOTION IDEAS
It was in the bag for Filler Products, Inc. , of Georgia with introduction of the thirty-nine cent cellophane snack package. A little zest was added to sales with the inclusion of a sealed packet of Mexican hot sauce dip in every large bag of Filler Products. Simultaneously , foreign franchises were spanning the European continent and it seemed that everyone was joining the snackwagon. Today, Filler products are sold in 41 countries and 48 states with eight foreign franchises.
Among the more famous Filler names used through~ out its distribution points, are Bake-N-Krisp, Bakon Krisp, Bakon Bits, Bakorn, Bakon Fry, Corn Chips, Tor-Tees, T'zers, Trixees, Cheez-Trix, Pepitas and Tor-te-a's. The products appear on retail shelves in cellophane bags, vacuum packed cans and jars. Invention and innovation have not stopped at Filler Products; the Georgia plant is constantly researching and developing different and new tastes to further expand its market and make it first in the snack food industry.
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BUSINESS PROFILES

WIDESPREAD EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The economic development occurring throughout the State has been remarkably widespread. Its effect has funneled from the larger cities to the smallest communities. A comparison of employment, income and popul ation for various counties grouped by size vividly points out the degree of economic change.
The table indicating insured employment between 1960 and 1965 illustrates the relative lack of variance in growth by any grouping of counties with the possible exceptions of the 300,000 and over which is FultonDeKalb counties. Of particular interest is the rate of growth by the county groups with the least employment. Regarding the relative percentage share of total state insured employment, little change is noted to indicate a fairly equal rate of development for all the groups.

Table I

INSURED EMPLOYMENT BY GROUPS, 1960 AND 1965

County Groups

1960

1,000 and less

31,856

1,000-2,999

66, 141

3,000-4,999

62,817

5 ,0 0 0 -9 , 9 9 9

72 ,265

10,000-19,999 104,526

20,000-300,000 148,799

300,000 and over 258,401

State

752,331

1965

Percent

Total

of

Difference Change

Percent
of Total 1960

Percent
of Total Pop. 1965

38,756 6,900 21.6

4.2

4.2

80,644 14,503 21 .9

8.8

8.8

74,764 11 ,947 19.0

8 .3

8.2

87,162 14,897 20.6

9.6

9.5

123,379 18,853 18.0 13.9 13.5

179,582 30,783 20.7 19.8 19.6

324,843 66,442 25.7 34.3 35.5

914,599 162,268 21.6 lOG.OO 100.00

Sourc e: Georgia Department of Labor, a1erages compiled by Georgia Department of Industry and Trade.

The widespread effect of economic development is also reflected in population estimates for counties. Many counties which had been losing population over the past several decades were able to stop this outflow and gain in population. This is shown in Table 2, where again, grouping the counties by size shows this general trend. The group of counties with less than 10,000 population has had a dramatic reversal, having a 3.6 percent increase over four years after losing 9.2 percent between 1950 and 1960. The 10,000 to 25,000 group, which lost population between 1950 and 1960, more than regained lost population by 1964.

Table II

Counties
Less than

1950

POPULATION

1960

1964

Percentage Change
1950-1960 1960-1964

10,000 (1964) 448,910 407 ,782 422,000 -9.2

3.6

10,000 to 25,000

(1964)

1,001,413 991 ,011 1,050,363 -1.0

6.0

25,000 plus

(1964)

1,994,255 2,544,207 2,822,037 27 .6

10 .9

State

3,444,578 3,943,000 4,295,000 12 .6

8.9

Counties
Less than 10,000 (1964) 10,000 to 25,000 (1964) 25,000 plus (1964)

Percent of State

13.03

10.34

9.83

29.07

25 .13

24.45

57.89

64.52

65.70

Note: County groupings held constant til' determined by 1964 data.
Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, GEORGIA STATISTICAL ABSTRACT, I965 .

The income picture as presented by the same group~ ing of counties indicates a similar growth trend. Looking to Tables Ill and IV, the county grouping of less than I0,000 population has the lowest rate of growth in total personal income. Yet the increase of per capita income for this same group exceeded the rate of increase for the State, due to a lower rate of increase in population. The closely grouped rates of increase in per capita income demonstrate an equitable distribution of incom e to the various county groups.

Table Ill

TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME

County Groups
Under 10,000 10,000 -25,000 Over 25,000 State

(000)

1960

1964

$ 429,847 1,541 ,916

$ 542,561 1,199,925

4,738,228

6,260,523

6,368,000

8,345,000

Percent Increase
1960-1964
26 .2 28 .5
32.1
31.0

Source: Bureau of B1uiness and Economic Research , GEORGIA BUSI-
NESS. June. 1966: Bureau of Business and Economic R esearch. GEORG IA STA TI S TI CAL ABSTRACT, I 965.

Table IV

County Groups
Under 10,000 10,000-25 ,000 O ver 25,000 State

PER CAPITA INCOME

Amount
$1,054 1,210 1,862 1,942

Percent
of State
65 .26 74.92 115.29 100.00

Amount
$1,283 1,467 2,218 1,615

Percent
of State
66.06 75.54 114.21 100.00

Percent Increase
1960-1964
21.7
21.2
19.1
20.2

Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, GEORGIA BUS/.
NESS. June. 1966: Bureau of BuJiness and Economic Resea rch, GEORG IA STAT ISTI CAL ABSTRACT, I 965.

It is a common impression that a disproportionate share of economic development accrues to the larger, more developed cities within the State. The above comparative information is an attempt to indicate th at currently the size of the community does not dictate economic growth. Often, the growth experienced by smaller communities may be less impressive than the growth of larger cities, yet the relative significance to the smaller city is equally important.
It wou ld be safe to assume that this is true, or else the many small cities and counties in the State would not be having population increases. This wou ld not occur unless new job opportunities were becoming avai lable. While this comparison is a beginning in this type of study, it should be recognized that a more definitive examination is required regarding the development of the State and its component economic groupings. Likewise, it is not an attempt to imply that each and every city is receiving its fair share. In effect, this is the need of the future.

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Netherlands- Scandinavia
Trade Mission Set
International Service is currently making preparations for the Georgia Trade Mission to the Netherlands and Scandinavia. It will be the fourth industry-organized, Government-approved trade mission sponsored by the State of Georgia. As a Government-approved mission it will meet the criteria set forth by the Department of Commerce including a limited number of members, no wives, and a complete orientation course in Washington, D.C. prior to departure. Through such compliance, the mission is assured the full cooperation of the U .S. Department of Commerce and the Foreign Service Posts at all stages. The former provides continuous assistance during the planning of the mission and sends a Government advance officer along to complete arrangements abroad, while the Foreign Service officers work on market surveys, set up definite appointments, etc.
The Trade Mission to the Netherlands and Scandinavia will arrive in Washington on Sunday, September 25, for the orientation seminar. On September 26 the mission members will depart for Europe, making stops in The Hague, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo. The mission will return to Atlanta on October 20.
Mrs. Virginia W. Allgood, Director of International Service, is Coordinator of the Mission, consisting of eight businessmen who will represent their own firms on the trip. The Mission members are:
Mr. William B. Griffin, Jr. Assistant Vice President International Department Citizens & Southern National Bank Savannah, Georgia Mr. Brook Reeve Executive Vice President and General Manager Great Dane Trailers, Inc. Savannah, Georgia Mr. Frank M. Kibler, President Feather Craft, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Thomas Berry, President Rome Machine and Foundry Company Rome, Georgia Nfr. Roy B. Sewell, Jr. , President Sewell Manufacturing Company Bremen, Georgia Mr. Tom C. Campbell, President Southern Iron and Equipment Company Chamblee, Georgia Mr. James G. Rees, Agent Southern Iron and Equipment Company Chamblee, Georgia Mr. E. A. Anderson, President Southern Saw Service, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
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While these men will devote their time to studying markets and seeking distributors and agents or investigating licensing possibilities, the Mission Director, Mrs. Allgood, will carry on interviews with local businessmen interested in two-way trade with Georgia and will present the 45 business proposals that she carries with her from Georgia firms.
An expected highlight of the trip is planned for October 3 in Roosendaal , Netherlands, where the Trade Mission will be the guest of Mead Packaging, Atlanta, at the dedication of their new plant, Mead Verpakung. Other guests at the dedication will include Governor Carl E . Sanders and Mayor Ivan Allen.
Mrs. Allgood is presently in Europe making advance arrangements for the Mission .
Members of the Trade Mission to Scandinavia stand before a model of the transcontinental Pan American clipper that will jet them to the Netherlands to seek foreign markets for their products. Front (l. to r.) E. A . Anderson, President, Southern Saw Service, Inc., Atlanta; Frank M. Kibler, President, Feather Craft, Inc., Atlanta; and Thomas Berry, Rome Machinery and Foundry Company President. Back (l. to r.) Art Leonard, International Trade Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, Atlanta Field Office; Jim Hardy, Assistant Director of Research at I & T; Virginia Allgood, I & T International Service Director; Tom C. Campbell, President and General Manager of Southern Iron and Equipment Company, Chamblee; and Assistant . Vice President of Citizens & Southern National Bank at Savannah , William B. Griffin, Jr.

A Dynamic New Industry for Augusta
Dymo Products Stretches the "Miracle
Mile" a Little Further by Becoming
A New Member of Augusta's Family
Of Industrial Giants
The "Miracle Mile" has been extended with the announcement that Dymo Products Company. a division of Dymo Industries, Incorporated of Berkeley , California will build a $1 million plus plant at Augusta.
The groundwork for the plant has already been started along the Savannah River industrial district in the vicinity of the Procter & Gamble plant. The new facility will occupy some 100,000 square feet of floor space and will employ approximately 300 people-a high percentage will be women. Dymo purchased 15 acres of choice property.
The new Augusta plant will manufacture, assemble, and ship one of its more popular hand-operated identification machines, which quickly produces an identification label by a hand-operated dial system. The machine allows the user to emboss any combination of letters or numbers on a plastic-type tape. The tape can then be placed directly on any article by a self-glued backing.
Dymo Industries was founded in 1958 as a producer for "on-the-spot" identification systems, and has grown from a one product line company to a diversified international company with annual sales in excess of $50 million. The Augusta plant will be in strumental in the company's expansionary growth and will facilitate distribution-since 80 per cent of their sales are centered along the Eastern coastline. It will also provide facilities

to manufacture the plastic parts which the firm currently purchases from other companies.
Other major areas of the company are Modulux, a manufacturer of relocatable structures; Elliott Business Machines, which manufactures addressing and mailing processing equipment and systems; and Transwestern Service lodustries, one of the largest dry cleaning and laundry operations on the West Coast.
Dymo's manufacturing and marketing organization expands throughout the world under the direction of the firm's International Division.
According to John Dean, President of Dymo Products Company, the location of the new Augusta facility will result in lower production costs, improved customer services, and lower shipping costs to the company's major markets east of the Mississippi.
A staff member of the Augusta Herald demonstrates Dymo's best known product, the Dymo /abe/maker. The machine makes raised letters on a plastic tape precoated with adhesive backing.

The Dymo Industries Executive Offices at Berkeley, California. 9

From Cotton

Although Augusta has ramified its reputation as the tranquil Southern town of the Cotton Empire, its change has been one of combining the best of the new and old to produce a potpourri of progress and prosperity.
COTTON CHEMICALS
The old King Cotton center has given way to the automated chemical and paper industry. Monsanto, Columbia Nitrogen, DuPont, Cox, and Procter & Gamble, are only a few of the industrial giants lining the $183.5 million Miracle Mile, the Continental Industrial District, and the Nitrogen complex east of August a, as yet unofficially named.
The influx of nationally known industries in Augusta was prompted by its central geographic location in the Southeast, accessibility to the Savannah River and its outlet to the sea, and abundant labor supply. The Augusta "Golden Circle" saturation market encompasses a 150 mile radius with an annual basic purchasing power of over $6 million. These natural resources alone provided the chemical and paper market with an "ideal" location.
Although the opportunity was there-without a need the industrial development of the area would have remained temporarily dormant. The initial stage of industrial growth began around 1956 when it became necessary and vital to redistribute a large working class.
ORGANJZATION NEEDED
When the curtain closed on the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River project, 40,000 people would be jobless. With time, coordination , and cooperation, Augusta leaders formed a committee to curtail this threat and in doing so created an industrial empire.
The greatest natural resource-people-was available. Combined with Augusta's geographical location and navigable river, it was not difficult to sell industry. Milton Folds, Executive Director of the Committee of 100, comments on Augusta's labor supply by stating, "Augusta has been fortunate in bringing highly automated industry into the area, and thereby making the capital investment per man tremendous. With this diversity, no one industry or company monopolizes the labor supply or becomes sole support of the entire community. " He further explained that, "although Continental Can invested some $70 million in their Augu sta plant, the highly automated production process did not drain the labor market." Such automation has resulted in a better trained, more skilled working class with less underemployment, due to the workers' accelerated education.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION
There is method in the sometimes mad competitive race for new industry. The Committee of 100 has been diligently working to provide industry with a model community for industrial development and the success of this program is reflected in an optimistic, approving and profiting Augusta.
"It is sometimes difficult in the beginning to create a positive attitude among the people of a community
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who fear the negative aspects of becoming an industrial city ," commented Mr. Folds. "We .incorpo.rated the new im age of industry and succeeded m creatmg an urbanized industrial city.
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS NOW COVER
A LARGE AREA
The various plants are languidly spread out amid abundant acreage around the city. A tour of the various industrial complexes is certain to take you down a country road where lackadaisical cows graze in the plant's adjacent acre. The contrast is a pleasant change from the days of smoke stacks and unsightly buildings. Today, industry expresses its importance by designing architectural buildings of prominence and beauty.
The problems of pollution of the air and water supply have almost become non-existent. The various chemical and paper mills have developed their own processes for purifying the refuse and contaminated water so it is not filtered back into the air or rivers surrounding the area.
Augusta has reached a plateau that most developers strive for-satellite companies are now being attracted to the area . This will mean some diversity for Augusta by accommodating new industries not entirely dependent on the valuable river resources.
Business growth was given further impetus in 1961 with the formation of a 13 county Central Savannah River Area Planning and Development Commission (CSRA) , and by 1964, through the concerted effort of the Committee of 100 and CSRA, Augusta boasted of an outstanding roster of manufacturers including: Continental Can, Procter & Gamble , Monsanto Chemical Company, Pittsburgh Plate Glass (Columbia Nitrogen), Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation , S. H. Kress & Company, DuPont, Amerotron, Shuron, Textron, Riegel Textiles and Deering-Milliken. In 1963 , Graniteville Company located in Aiken County, a multi-million dollar electrical fitting and equipment factory was announced by Pyle-National , and Owens-Corning Fiberglas expanded for the second time.
CONTINENTAL CAN EXPANDS IN 1964
Augusta flouri shed under the wave of new industry and expansion . By 1964, Continental Can increased its facilities at a cost of $22 million and 175 to 200 permanent jobs were created. Simultaneously, Olin M athieson Chemical Corporation constructed a $20 million pl ant south of the city and Columbia Nipro Corporation established its $10 million Nitrogen Product plant in Augu sta. Cox Enterprises entered the industrial family with Cox Newsprint, a $30 million mill-the only newsprint manufacturer in the State.
Augusta has undergone a considerable amount of change since the days of the cotton gin . Success and economic security have been attained with expectations of more to follow. The indu strial development of Augu sta is just beginning and under the able guidance ~f the Augusta Committee of I 00, industry will contmue to seek Augusta as the perfect place to build and grow.

Pictured above is the spacious operation room at Cox Newsprint Company, the only newsprint manufa cturer in Georgia.
(Right) Raw timber is conveyed through assembly line production to be converted into pulpwood.
(Below) The new image of industry is pictured in the beauty of the Japan ese rock garden at the A 11gusta Procter & Gamble plant.

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The Committee of 100
And A Growing Augusta
There is an old story told about a man who bought an acre of land which was full of weeds, thorns and bushes. After a time-and with a lot of hard work and moneyhe turned the acre into a beautiful garden.
People from miles around came to marvel at his accomplishment. One person remarked, "It's astounding to see what you and the Lord have done together." The man replied, "Yes, but you should have seen it when He had it alone!'
This is a tale people in Augusta-population 73 ,400 -like to repeat when asked about their city's blossoming prosperity. Not that Augusta ever was in an economic briar patch. Quite. the contrary. The city had been thriving since the end of World War II, and the boom was greatly stimulated when the Atomic Energy Commission began building a mammoth facility on the Savannah River between Augusta and Aiken, South Carolina.
The AEC had committed more than a billion dollars to the project, and construction required more than 40,000 men. Obviously, this one activity alone was a dynamic influence on the Augusta area, and the city was geared to several years of bustling economic growth .
But all things come to an end. As the nuclear plant neared completion, the progressive-minded leadership in Augusta began thinking about the future. An economic vacuum would inevitably follow the decline in construction work unless steps were taken immediately to prevent it.
Clearly the answer lay in accelerated industrial development. After evaluating the area's rich potentials and resources, the leaders decided that Augusta showed great promise for becoming the center of a chemical/ paper complex.
Several factors dictated this decision. Augusta is situated 200 miles up the Savannah River and 160 miles east of Atlanta. The area has all the basics for chemical/paper requirements: good sites; adequate labor reserves, plus the facilities of a State area vocationaltechnical school; abundant water supply; raw materials; power; natural gas; markets; and a transportationdistribution system complete with a navigable inland waterway.

To promote Augusta's attractive advantages, it was necessary to develop an effective organization. After much searching and comparing, the city's leaders decided the best approach was to create the Committee of 100.
Organizationally patterned after the Committee of 100 in Birmingham, Alabama, the Augusta agency is an independent, incorporated body supported by local businesses and individuals in the area. It serves all counties in the central Savannah River area, along with eight others across the river in South Carolina.
The Committee's 24-man board of directors , headed by Josef C. Patchen, represents a good cross-section of the area's business and community leaders . Eighteen of these are from Richmond County and the remainder from other counties. Since 1963 W. Milton Folds has served as executive director.
The Committee of 100 has an average membership of over 300 firms and individuals. Each pays a minimum of $100 annually (hence the name Committee of 100) and some contribute up to $3,000 per year.
When they were first promoting their idea, the late Patrick Rice, vice president of the Augusta newspapers (and first chairman of the board), Patchen, and the other organizers were convinced that the Committee must be properly funded and given time to demonstrate its value.
The response to their appeals was excellent. Banks, utilities, industries, businesses and individuals agreed to subscribe for a five year period, and in late 1956, the Committee of 100-with an annual budget of $50,000 -was in business.
Allen Douglas, now vice president of industrial development at Southern Railway , was the first executive director of the Committee . During its critical form ative years, Douglas laid a solid foundation on which to build a long-range industrial growth . Data on the area were collected, economic analyses made, and a vigorous development program initiated.
Success was not long in coming for the Committee of 100. In 1958, Continental Can Company located a pulp plant south of the city. Soon, Olin Mathieson, Philadelphia Quartz, Cox Newsprint, Columbia Nitrogen, Procter & Gamble, Columbia Nipro, Monsanto, Du Pont, and Southern Glassine joined Augusta's already impressive industrial family .
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Seven acres of soap and detergents are shipped every two weeks from Procter & Gamble's Augusta plant. Besides making Tide, Cheer, Dreft, Dash, Duz, Bold, Oxydol and Salvo, the plant's warehouse also serves as the Southeastern distribution center for P&G products. Approximately 225 people work at the facility . Directly behind Procter & Gamble is the Monsanto plant, and to the right is DuPont. The "X" marks the location of the new Dymo operations.
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AVIATION ADVANCES
A Look At The
Civi l Air Patrol
A small private airplane with four persons
aboard is reported overdue on a flight from
A tlanta to Jacksonville. After determining its
last known position, an intensive search is or-
ganized. The wreckage is spotted near Way-
cross and a ground party directed to the site
finds all passengers uninjured.
A variation of this hypothetical situation could become a reality at any moment. Americans are perhaps the most airminded people in the world , and the number of privately licensed pilots in this country continues to climb. It is a happy fact that while more people are flying today than ever before, the number of accidents has correspondingly declined. Yet should trouble occur, it is comforting for flyers to know that the Civil Air P atrol is ready to come to their aid.
Probably one of the most unsung-and one of the most vital-agencies serving the cause of aviation safety, the Civil Air Patrol is the only trained, organized force for search and rescue operations involving private airplanes. (Missing military and commercial planes are under the jurisdiction of the Air Force.)
The CAP had its origin back in the early days of World War II. It was formed in 1941 as an auxiliary of the Army Air Corps principally to spot enemy submarines along the U .S. coastline. Then, as new, the CAP was manned by volunteers.
Following the war, there was a growing need for a strong national capability for tracking down missing civilian aircraft. With the skills, techniques and training it already had developed, the Civil Air Patrol was obviously well suited to assume this responsibility. Subsequently, it was weaned from the military and incorporated as a civilian agency .
Today the CAP has a wing (its administrative unit) in all 50 states and is headquartered at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas. Although a strictly civilian body, it remains closely identified with the Air Force. Volunteers wear AF uniforms with the Civil Air Patrol insignia. The Air Force assigns liaison officers who work with each wing of the Patrol, and the Air Force also ~valuates the CAP's performance levels in periodic exercises.
The Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol is headquartered at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta. Wings are composed of a varying number of squadrons (the basic field unit) and there are 27 of these in Georgia. Major Paul Potter is Director o( Emergency Services and Major Dave Barton is Search and Rescue Coordinator.
While search and rescue remains the primary function of the Civil Air Patrol, it has expanded its activities. A cadet program for young men and women promotes their interest in aviation and encourages the pursuit of aeronautical/aerospace careers.

Three years ago, the Civil Air Patrol was designated the air arm of Civil Defense to support it in times of local, state and/ or national emergency.
Despite its relatively short affiliation with Civil Defense, the Georgia Wing was given a 100% Effectiveness Rating by the Air Force.
The Patrol is hoping to repeat this achievement in October when a search and rescue mission will be held in Savannah as part of another national Air Force evaluation. In this exercise, CAP volunteers will look for a " missing" plane concealed by the Air Force and given a specified amount of time to find the wreckage .
These simulated alerts keep the Civil Air Patrol prepared for the real summons. In one year, the Patrol saved more than 100 persons nationwide, 100 who owe their lives to the efficiency, dedication and selfless spirit of CAP volunteers.
Conceived and born in a time of great national crisis, the Civil Air Patrol carries forward in the finest American tradition.
Aviation Division Inaugurates
The Aviation Safety Program is one of the important additions to the plan of work and programs of the Aviation Division. The Division has long been aware of the need for a flight safety program on the local level. With more industries and businesses purchasing planes, air traffic has greatly increased and, by the same token , hazards have increased.
The addition of an Aviation Safety Representative, William G . Benton, to the staff of the Aviation Division on July 1, was a major step forward in securing a sound air safety program for Georgia.
As Aviation Safety Representative, Mr. Benton will work with Mr. Lee Mercure, Supervising Inspector of the Federal Aviation Agency to coordinate the program. While the long range program is still in the making regular physical checkups, refresher courses and ings using movies , slides, speakers, or panel discussions; setting up seminars and workshops; and evolving patterns for safety programs. By contacting the fixed base operators throughout the State and working through them to reach individual flyers and aircraft owners, the Division hopes to further the program and make known its benefits.
Mr. Benton has begun his travels through Georgia to promote the program. Questionnaires have been sent to all Georgia aircraft owners to determine their needs and gather suggestions. One of the main objectives established so far is the need for instructor standardization. In addition, other needs have become apparent, including regular physical checkups, refreshes courses and periodic proficiency flight checks (in which a blindfold check of the cockpit is advocated) . The latter would provide knowledge of controls, instruments and radio layouts .
Every effort will be made to organize the communities of Georgia to fit into this important safety program. By doing so, Georgia hopes to lead the nation in accident prevention as well as community airport development.
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TOURIST TOPICS
Readings From
The Travel Barometer
Since 1960, the I & T Touri.st Division has sponsored a continuing survey of the tourist/ trave l industry in Georgia. The study is conducted for the Division by The University of Georgia Bureau of Business and Economic R esea rch.
One instrument developed to measure the growth and impact of touri sm in the State is the Georgia Travel Barometer. In July the Bureau began publishing the Barometer quarterly , and reports on travel-related activiti es in the State will be appearing regul arly in J anuary, April , July and October.
D ata for the Georgia Travel Barometer are contributed by Hi sto rical Commission sites, National Monuments, State parks, fi ve recreation areas-Call away Gardens, J ekyll Island , Stone Mountain Park, Lake

Spivey and Tanner's Beach-and eight other attractions in the State. The Travel Barometer records attendance, sa les and receipts, and , in the new quarterly series, introduces figures showing the valu e of tourist/travel facilities under construction.
The first qu arterly Barometer reveals some interesting facts. For instance, attendance at travel attractions thi s spring was 3,355,492 as compared with 4,291,236 visitors counted in the winter months (December 19 65February 1966).
Other readings from the July Travel Barometer showed th at 154,700 touri sts visited the Sylvania, Savann ah , Ringgold , Lavonia and Columbus Welcome Centers in March , April and May , 1966. Eighty-four construction projects initi ated in the spring were valued at $ 15,962 ,000, and sales and receipts at travel attracti ons in the same period increased to $305.4 milli on
from $285.3 million reco rded the previous three
months.

ATTENDANCE AT SELECTED TRAVEL ATTRACTIONS IN GEORGIA AND NUMBER OF VISITORS AT GEORGIA WELCOME CENTERS

Attraction

Travel Attractions
Winter 1966

Spring 1966

Historical Commission sites National monuments Recreation areas State parks Other attractions

6,632 284,437 551,365 368,438
80,364

14,480 507,907 1,374,778 1'181 ,533 276,794

Area
Columbus lavonia Ringgold Savannah Sylvania

Welcome Centers
Winter 1966

Spring 1966

12,200 42,400
25,00 26,200 22,100

13 ,900 54,500 33,800 33,900 18,600

Total

1,291 ,236 3,355,492

Total

127,900 154,700

SALES AND RECEIPTS AND ADDITIONS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BEGUN IN THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY AND RELATED FIELDS IN GEORGIA

Type Business
Eating / drinki ng lodging Recreation / amusement Automotive

Sales and Receipts

Winter 1966 ($000)

Spring 1966 ($000)

69,600 24,100
9,500 182,100

75,900 27,400 13,500 188,600

Construction Projects

January-March 1966

Number

Value ($000)

April-June 1966

Number

Value ($000)

23

1,237

8

2,827

12

4,821

32

2,957

17

719

4

1,041

22

12 ,762

41

1,440

Total

285,300 305,400

75

11,842

84

15,962

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GEORGIA DEVElOPMENT
NEW INDUSTRY
Modern Meat Plant
To Open at Calhoun
One of the newest and most modern meat plants in the industry will open soon at Calhoun when A. D. Griffith and Associates, Inc. begin operation of the Azalea Meats of Georgia Company.
As soon as the plant is working at full capacity in the cutting operation, an area for process ing and packing will be added. Provisions are also included for facility expansion to accommodate increased receiving and holding of livestock.
Officials of the company have great expectations for the Calhoun plant since it is in a prime market location with the Atlanta and Chattanooga population centers within a radius of 70 miles, connected by completed or planned superhighways.
Griffith also has plants being readied for production at Orangeburg and Greenville, South Carolina and New Bern, North Carolina. The firm now operates plants at Palatka and Okeechobee, Florida.
Clothing Mill for Donalsonville
Donny Mills, based in New York City, is going to manufacture clothing in Donalsonville . Donny Mills will produce children's lingerie , pajamas, shifts, housecoats, robes and other wearing apparel.
One of the factors influencing the company's location at Donalsonville was a labor survey conducted in Donalsonville by the industrial committee of the Seminole County Chamber of Commerce. Over 500 people responded to the survey. Initial production will start with about 20 women and increase from 150 to 200 persons when the 135 machine capacity plant is at its maximum production rate.
Donny Mills will utilize local people as supervisors and key personnel. The facility will do its own designing, cutting, layout and repair work. Distribution will be in chain and department stores throughout the country.
Peanut Warehouse
Built in Millen
The John C. Wilson Company, Inc. , is constructing a peanut warehouse on Old Sylvania Road in Millen. The facility will offer cleaning, drying and storage services for farmers in the area. Warehousing capacity is 2,500 tons.
Perry Gets Plywood Pia nt
Tolleson Lumber Company, Perry, will build a $2 .2 million plywood plant near its lumber mill, marking the firm 's entry into plywood manufacturing. The new facility, which will have an annual capacity of 40 million square feet of 3/ 8-inch plywood, is scheduled for production in the latter part of 1967. J. M. Tolleson, Jr., ~ompany president, said he expects to employ 150 men
m the plant.

Another Industrial Giant
in Georgia
Fort Gaines has been chosen as the site of a $5 million plant which will employ 250 persons and provide an annual payroll of $1.5 million. Gulf States Container Corporation of Albany revealed details of their expansion plans during the monthly meeting of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley Planning and Development Commission.
The firm has acquired approximately 2,500 acres along the Chattahoochee River south of Fort Gaines which will provide space for three major plants, five medium plants and seven small plants. The multimillion dollar complex when finished will produce varied types of linerboard containers.
The construction schedule designated October or November for groundbreaking and construction on the million square foot facility will begin immediately thereafter. Plant completion is projected for the fall of 1967.
The history of Gulf States Container Corporation dates back to December, 1963 , when the company was organized to produce bleached and unbleached linerboard containers as an independent converter for the food and apparel industries. Gulf States also produces glass and plastic containers.
Pou Itry Pia nt Prepares
Opening at Monroe
Following approval of a $224,000 loan from the Economic Development Administration and the Department of Commerce, the Southco Development Company announced final plans to build a blast freezing unit and cold storage warehouse at Monroe.
The facility will be used to produce flash-frozen breaded and precooked chicken which can be shipped out of the plant within six hours after processing time.
The new product is expected to be exported to all parts of the globe. The flash process will make possible the delivery of farm fresh poultry at a reasonable price to underdeveloped countries throughout the world.
When operating at full capacity, the new plant will employ about 100 persons for specialized hand labor. Total cost of the plant will be $400,000, occupying a half-acre adjacent to Southern Poultry. The new plant will serve the entire North Georgia poultry industry and will be separate from Southern Poultry .
Production is scheduled to begin by this fall.
New Warehouse
Distribution Center
The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company has recently contracted to build a new material warehouse distribution center at the Tucker-Stone Mountain Industrial District.
The company has contracted with Pattillo Construe tion Company for the new 20,000 square foot facility. Carey Manufacturing is presently located in Atlanta but will start operations from the new warehouse by March, 1967. Initial employment will be 16-17 workers.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
EXPANSION
Ovema Expands
A new addition is planned for the Ogeechee Valley Egg Market facility at Millen. The new addition to the Ovema Plant will add 2,880 square feet to the existing building, more than doubling the size of the building.
The addition will be used to enlarge the scope of operation at the Egg Market to include a cracking operation which will enable the market to use more eggs. The operation involves extracting and placing the eggs in containers and freezing prior to being sold.
Employment will be increased by some four to six employees with additional possible increases at a later date.
Oberman Man ufactu ring
Oberman Manufacturing Company of Valdosta has announced the completion of a 3,000 square foot addition to its plant which will result in additional employment of 100 people. The plant now employs 600.
The expansion included plant construction and installation of a bake oven and steam press equipment. Oberman, which manufactures trousers , is a subsidiary of the Levi Strauss Company.
Oberman President Roger Budd explained that the equipment and expansion will enable the plant to complete the entire phase of trouser production from sewing to permanent creasing to pressing. Previously, the plant had shipped sewn merchandise to Memphis, Tennessee for the pressing and baking operation.
Oberman Manufacturing Company has been operating in Valdosta since 1954.
Carpet Manufacturing Plant
A modernization and expansion program is being undertaken at the Statesboro plant of Gulistan Carpet, Division of J. P. Stevens and Company, Inc., at Statesboro.
Plans for the Statesboro plant call for modification of the plant and repl acement of outdated machinery in order to keep up with technological improvements m the carpet yarn manufacturing processes.
Sanford Company Moves
To laFayette
The Sanford Company of Vernon, Alabama will locate in Peachtree City in Fayette County . Sanford will be moving its operation from East Point by November.
The company manufactures prefabricated building components.
The all steel building will contain 15,000 to 18,000 square feet of manufacturing and operating space on a four-acre plot. An office building for sales and administrative purposes will be located adjacent to the plant.
Sanford will move in six families of administrative, supervisory and permanent personnel. Initial employment calls for the hiring of from 10 to 15 workers locally with future plans for some 40 additional persons.
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Bramco Goes National and
Internationa I
W. T . Bradshaw, President of BRAMCO INC., of Canton, Georgia has announced the acquisition of the Oakes Poultry and Hog Equipment product lines from FMC Corporation of San Jose, California, effective August 1.
Mr. Bradshaw stated that the Oakes line, which consists largely of egg production and egg handling equipment, was a natural complement to the BRAMCO line of broiler growing equipment.
All manufacturing operations will be performed in Canton where additional plant facilities are now being completed .
BRAMCO's distribution activities have heretofore been largely concentrated in the Southeast. This move enables the company to broaden its operations nationally, as well as internationally, through the Oakes distribution system.
Mr. Bradshaw predicted a continued and accelerated trend to automation by poultrymen.
BRAMCO Research and Development Engineering, Field Service and Marketing Divisions are all being expanded to meet the growing needs of the highly specialized poultry industry.
Janyjo Expansion
A new 25,000 square foot addition to the CrownJ anyjo, Inc., plant at Calhoun is nearing completion. The new addition is located adjoining the present Janyjo plant.
The expansion is being administered on the basis of anticipated continued growth of the textile industry and will house the increased operation of the scatter rug operation of the plant.
After completion of the project, Janyjo will encompass some 200,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space in the Calhoun and Chatsworth plants.
Irving Ostum, President, started the manufacturing concern in 1957, in the basement of a former automobile dealership building with 5,000 square feet of work space. A new building was constructed at the present site in 1960, the first of six major expansions. The plant manufactures products comparable with the Janyjo plant. Dyeing and finishing are done at the Chatsworth division .

Georgia Industrial

Relations Conference

The site of this year's annual Georgia Indus-

trial Relations Conference will be Callaway Gar-

dens at Pine Mountain - the theme ; Cost . and

Profitable Aspects of Industrial Relations.

The Associated Industries of Georgia will act

as sponsoring host to the organization's sixth an-

nual conference to be held October 12th through

the 14th.



The conference will feature many outstanding

Georgia businessmen who will stimulate discus-

sions on various aspects of Georgia's present busi-

ness climate and future industrial trends.

GEORGIA IN ACTION
Big Planes,
Perhaps Big Ships
A new industry may be floating on the horizon of Georgia-the engineering and production of Navy Fast Deployment Logistic ships (FDL's) . The availability of excellent inland ports and an adequate labor force make Georgia a possible construction site for the Navy's billion dollar shipbuilding contract.
Governor Carl Sanders supported this contention when he recently disclosed that Georgia will put in a bid to land the proposed billion dollar Navy shipbuilding project. The Navy program calls for the construction of 15 to 40 FDL's that will cost from $30 million to $40 million each. The total value of the project is estimated to be as high as $1.6 billion .
This specific shipbuilding project is so technically advanced and automated that mass production methods will allow the successful bidder to build a shipyard from scratch . The proposed shipyard would be capable of turning out a fleet of FDL's by using standardized parts and automated conveyors to funnel whole sections of a ship together for final assembly. This new technique could revolutionize the shipbuilding industry since the method differs so strikingly from the old practice of custom building ships from the keel up.
Governor Sanders held a conference the first of August to discuss the project with representatives from the coastal areas, railroads , utility companies,bankers, the Georgia Ports Authority and I & T.
The Navy awarded three contracts of $5 ,275 ,000 each last month to Lockheed, Litton Industries and General Dynamics to draw up initial plans for construction of the freighters, which are expected to be up to 800 feet long. These proposals are to be submitted by January 31 , 1967 and the Navy is scheduled to name the winner by the following June.
Reports indicate that each of the companies' search for a shipyard location has been narrowed to the South Atlantic Coast.
The $150 million yard, which will employ about 5,000, will be paid for by the contract winner but amortized over a period of years .
Republic of Zambia
The Republic of Zambia in Africa recently announced the purchase of two Lockheed Hercules propjet airfreighters. The two aircraft were accepted at the Marietta plant by Zambian Ambassador Mbilishi on August 18th.
The world-famous Hercules air cargo carriers are to be put into immediate service, with direct technical assistance of Lockheed-Georgia Company flight and ground crew personnel. Flyaway of both Hercules from Marietta was scheduled for the end of August.
Two Hercules airfreighters of Zambian Air Cargoes, Limited, have been operating between Ndola, Zambia, and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, since mid-April. These planes have already moved more than ten million ton-

miles of cargo and are now operating more than 12 hours each daily, making possible a massive movement of copper exports and petroleum imports.
When 'the Republic's new Hercules start operations in late August, the land-locked nation will double its airlift capabilities. Lockheed pilots and technicians will operate the aircraft seven days a week, on schedules similar to those already in effect for Zambian Air Cargoes, Limited.
By pioneering in the use of turbine-powered air cargo transportation, Zambia may well be setting a pattern for other emerging African nations. Instead of waiting for the construction of more roads or railr:>ads on the vast African continent, Zambia is jumping right into the air cargo age.
Nation a I News Features
On Savannah
In the June issue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, Savannah's facelifting campaign was featured as an example of outstanding community planning. The Journal of Commerce has also featured the Savannah story in a series of three articles which appeared July 13, 14 and 15.
The Journal of Commerce is sometimes referred to as "The World's Foremost Business Newspaper" and is seen by almost 100,000 leading businessmen. Such recognition and coverage speaks well for Savannah's successful six-year program to rebuild the city and to attract tourists and new industry.
The articles mention the fact that "with only minor changes made in the old city, industry is showing an interest in the port city. The executives of some of the nation's big industrial plants have indicated they would like to look further into the 'Savannah Story,' a tale most civic leaders agree is 'the nation's least known.' "
The Journal of Commerce article is divided into segments covering the three faces of Savannah-"the old, the new and the booming port which virtually built the community."
In the same issue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, tourist topics featured a story on "Savannah-Creating a Campaign." Soon afterwards, U.S. Camera Magazine contacted the editors to inquire further into the story of Savannah's new tourist campaigns which they will also run as a photo feature in a forthcoming issue.
Transcontinental Gas
Asks for Southern Extension
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation has asked the Federal Power Commission for the authority to add $10.7 million to its $66.4 million expansion program for 1966. The proposed addition would parallel parts of the company's existing multi-line system in Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama.
The Houston-based natural gas transmission firm has lines extending from Texas to Brooklyn.
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FILLER PRODUCTS (continued from page 6)
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
I. J. Filler has opened many international doors for the Filler Products and the State of Georgia. Since 1960, when the Common Market was formed, foreign operations of Filler Products have been circling the globe. Such international flavor is good for Georgia and is one of the primary reasons that Filler Products had a $3 million economic effect on the State of Georgia last year and sold $1 / 2 million worth of consumer products last year.
As Mr. Filler stated to a group of French newsmen , " Foreign business has doubled in three years. Our company began looking overseas in 1956, but the momentum was not really set in motion until last year. Now we can see business everywhere - Europe, South America, Japan , Australia."
INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISES
Filler coordinates its foreign franchises by providing 75 per cent of everything needed to produce its products. Just about all the licensee needs is a sales force and administration. Included in the contracts are machines which produce Bakon and Corn products, in addition to six different products from each basic snack food . Technical representatives are also sent all over the world to supervise the initial start-up of a new company and provide services. Filler is the most widely known snack food name in South America as a result of the firm 's vigorous pursuit of international businessand future plans include enjoying the same distinction in Europe.
Thus far, franchise agreements have been made in Madrid, Spain, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Breda, Netherlands. Filler franchise producers have also been contracted in Peru, Mexico, Panama, Finland and many other foreign countries. Contracts are currently being considered in Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Uraguay, Trinidad, Portugal, Norway, Surinam and Canada. As a result of this expansion, a 20 per cent growth is expected in the next year in international and national sales.
R. J . REYNOLDS ACQUIRES
Filler Products, Inc., was recently acquired by R. J. Reynolds as part of its plans to diversify into the food market by creating a grocery division. Filler has subsequently been merged with Penick and Ford, Ltd., which is also a newly acquired subsidiary of R. J. Reynolds.
In order to independently expedite the immense growth of the Filler operation, the Atlanta plant has been expanded some 40,000 square feet to a total of 100,000 square feet.
As Filler Products emerges as an outstanding industry in its field, all four of its companies will simultaneously grow at Addison, Illinois; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the two main plants at Atlanta, Georgia.

VIEWPOINT (continued from page 3)
profitably. We assist in finding the profitable location rather than subsidizing an unprofitable one.
Our per capita income in Georgia is second only to Florida's among Southeastern states. Yet, the percentage difference has remained nearly constant since I940. Consider Florida's booming space-age business and long-standing tourist industry. With competition like that, how can anyone say that we have done so poorly?
When we lose a plant to another state, it is not by default as it may have been in the past; geography nature or industrial evolution has had a significant rol~ in the final decision.
The burden of developing Georgia is now a team responsibility , and, like any team, we solicit your support and encouragement. All of Georgia's industrial developers have but one goal-To sell Georgia together and make her the industrial giant of the Southeast.
COMMITTEE OF 100 (continued from page 12)
In a few years' time, th~se major companies have invested close to $200 million in the Augusta area. And still they are coming. Allied Chemicals is doubling its fertilizer storage and distribution facilities. KimberlyClark has acquired a I, 100-acre site on Beach Island, across the Savannah River from Augusta, for a paper products plant.
To improve further the economic climate of Augusta, the Committee of I 00 and the Richmond County Commission have established several policies especially beneficial to the chemical industry. One example is that special purpose plants are not assessed for industrial taxes under the regular formula.
The Committee does not offer tax inducements as such, but new and expanding industries can benefit from a special city-county tax program covering the first five years of plant operation.
The people in Augusta are very enthusiastic about their city's future. While a continuing development of the paper/ chemical complex is indicated, the Committee has not neglected other types of plants.
Dymo Products Company, a division of Dymo Industries, has just announced plans for a $1 million facility to produce identification making devices. Babcock and Wilcox Refractories Division has completed an $1I .5 million expansion. S. K. Kress Company has a large distribution warehouse in Augusta.
Executive Director Folds feels that Augusta's growth will extend westward along Interstate 20 and south along the river, here primarily because of land availability and an increasing need for waterborne transportation.
Taking their resources and working in a cooperative manner to develop them, the Committee of 100 and the citizens of Augusta have indeed made this northeast Georgia spot a very lovely acre.

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:ORGIA

CONTENTS

VIEWPOINT

Resolving November's Constitutional Resolutions

3

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 16

INTERNATIONAL SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

FEATURES The Automotive Industry in Georgia .
Atlantic Steel Celebrates a Birthday

0 9, 10, 11

6, 7 0

0

0

AVIATION ADVANCES DeKalb-Peachtree Airport Gets New Tower, Runway Extension . 12

TOURIST TOPICS

Savannah to Get Country Club of the South .

13

BUSINESS PROFILES .

8

GEORGIA IN ACTION

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CovER: Atlanta, the "Motor City of the Southeast," has made October's cover a kaleidoscope of color as one of a myriad of cars passes through the infra-red paint drying chambers in the diversified and complex assembly-lines at one of several automotive plants in Georgia. Automobile making and its effect on the State's economy is one of the feature stories in this month's magazine.

Rosser Smith . . .

. . . . Editor

Dona Ademy House

Managing Editor

Robert Alford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artist

Sarah Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contributing Editor

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

EORGIA
ROGRESS

Number 9

Odober, 1966

VIEWPOINT

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Our guest editors this month are members of the Department of Industry and Trade Board of Commissioners. William T. Roberts, an attorney in Montezuma, represents the Third Congressional District. John K. Porter, President of John K. Porter Company, Inc., represents Georgia's Ninth District. Both men are well qualified to present the following information on the forthcoming constitutional resolutions.

William T. Roberts

John K. Porter

Resolving
The Resolution
This article is written as a matter of information for the readers of GEORGIA PROGRESS and the people of the State who agree that industry is the backbone of the State's economy.
There are two resolutions that will be on the ballot presented to the voters on November 8th. One is referred to as H.R. 20-44 and the other is H.R. 39-55.
H.R. 20-44 proposal states that the General Assembly will be designated to create industrial revenue authorities with the power to issue revenue obligations for the purpose of developing industrial facilities; and ~uthorize the various counties, municipalities and politIcal subdivisions to issue revenue obligations for such purposes. This resolution will be in position number two In the Constitutional Amendment section of the ballot on November 8.
Previously, industrial revenue authorities have been created by means of a local referendum. If H.R. 20-44

is approved by the voters, referendums will no longer be necessary to establish an industrial revenue bond authority.
Bond counselors have stated that this legislation is valuable as a vehicle to establish industrial revenue authorities where court decisions may prove existing authorities invalid. It is the bond counselors' opinion that this resolution will stand up staunchly in a court test.
The following question will appear on the ballot:
The ballot submitting the above proposed amendments shall have written or printed thereon the following:
"YES 0 Shall the Constitution be amended so as to
authorize the General Assembly to create pubNO 0 lie corporations with the power to issue reve-
nue obligations for the purpose of developing industrial facilities and to empower the General Assembly to authorize the various counties, municipalities and political subdivisions to issue revenue obligations for such purposes?"
The second resolution, H.R. 39-55, will propose an amendment to the Constitution authorizing the General Assembly to exempt from all taxes facilities installed for the primary purpose of reducing air or water pollution.
If approved by the voters, legislation may be enacted that will result in a two-fold benefit for industry and state: (1) encourage industry to install this equipment and create a more favorable climate for industry using these devices to locate in the State. (2) Accelerate the cleaning up of the State's streams and atmosphere.
The Federal Government also recognizes the benefits of encouraging industries to install this equipment by allowing a 7 per cent investment tax credit. The plan to suspend this credit for 16 months, according to legislation pending in Congress, does not apply to air and water pollution abatement equipment.

The ballot for H.R. 30-55 will read as follows:

"YES 0
NO 0

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide
for the exemption from taxation of all facilities installed for the primary purpose of reducing air or water pollution?"

The Board of Commissioners of the Department of Industry and Trade is on record supporting these two resolutions.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Draffin and Camilla
Cotton Oi I Expand
Draffin Manufacturing Company of Camilla is in the process of completing a 10,000 square foot expansion program. The company specializes in women's sportswear. The new space will be used for production and storage. Portions of the new building are already in use.
The Camilla Cotton Oil Company is also completing an expansion that will double the capacity of the plant. Included in the new equipment will be a 100 ton per hour unloader, capable of unloading peanuts from tractor-trailer trucks as well as farm pick-ups. An electric eye inspection system is also being installed to assist in identifying damaged peanuts. The current expansion is the largest the company has undertaken in some time. Several years ago, Camilla Cotton Oil modernized all its production machinery.
Olin Mathieson Announces
Expansion At Augusta
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, an Augusta industry not yet a year old, is planning a major expansion that will lead to a substantial production increase.
Jt is expected to add 400 tons a day of chlorine and 450 tons a day of caustic soda to the company's present production capacity by 1969. Additional electrical equipment will also be installed to increase the capacity of the Olin E-ll electrolytic mercury cells at the plant. The plant now utilizes four times the amount of electric power consumed by the entire city of Augusta.
Shipping Firm Enlarges
The Stephens Shipping and Terminal Company in Savannah is enlarging its facilities. Plans call for two slips to be dredged and for warehouses and wharves, equipped with modern loading and discharge equipment, to be erected. Rail facilities to the slips will also be added. Existing roads will provide truck access. Charles Ballard, executive vice president, termed the expansion "a substantial addition to the facilities of the Port of Savannah for handling ocean-going cargo from all parts of the world."
4

NEW INDUSTRY
New Insulator Plant Annou nced
Plans to build a new plant in the Sandersville-Tennille area that will employ 125 persons in the manufacture of high-voltage porcelain insulators have been announced by Lapp Insulator Company, Inc. , of LeRoy, New York.
The capital investment of the new 85,000 square foot plant has been estimated to be more than $2 million .
Construction will start in a few months and the full operation peak should be reached in less than two years. The Sandersville-Tennille area was chosen because of its abundant supply of kaolin. The plant will use this local supply of clays in production.
Lapp Insulator is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of high-voltage porcelain insulators.
Lapp's main plant in New York employs some 1,300 persons.
Work Wear Locates in Pel ha m
A new Work-Wear facility at Pelham will manufacture heavy-duty work clothes and will initially employ 300 people. Most workers will be hired locally. Employment will increase to 500 when a new building is completed, and eventually employment is expected to reach 600 to 700.
Work-Wear has purchased a 42,000 square foot shell building in Pelham, and the structure is scheduled to be completed to the company's specifications within 60 days. A manager for the new facility has not yet been named. When the new building is completed, WorkWear will have an initial capital investment exceeding $250,000.
Work-Wear, then known as the Cleveland Overall Company, first began working with the Department of Industry and Trade surveying possible sites in 1959. The search ended 7 years later with the company choosing Pelham as the location for the new manufacturing facility. Production at the new plant is expected to begin as soon as the building is completed.
Work-Wear already has another Georgia division, the Brew-Schneider Company with a plant in Blakely.

GEORGIA EXPOSITION

Georgia's Wealth to
Be Displayed at '66
Georgia Exposition ...
Opens November 1st in Atlanta
It's that time of year again when Georgia businessmen and industrialists gather to display their industrial accomplishments to the people of the State.
The fourth Georgia Exposition is scheduled to open November I st at the Marriott Motor Hotel in Atlanta. Georgia's outstanding commercial and industrial companies will set up exhibits indicative of the various products and company operations throughout the State.
Last year marked the most successful year of the Exposition. When the doors of the Marriott Exhibition Hall closed on the last night, some 2.:i,826 people had visited the various exhibits-impressed by the informative and educational excellence of the entire show. The Departmental booth alone distributed more than 126,000 pieces of literature about Georgia.
As Governor Carl Sanders stated, " The Georgia Exposition has grown into a giant trade fair that reflects our lively commerce and affects every corner of the State and its role in the growth of the Great Southeast."
The Exposition is jointly sponsored by the Department of Industry and Trade, Associated Industries of Georgia, Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce and the State Chamber of Commerce. The show will be free to the public and will run from November 1-6. All exhibits w~ll be contained on one floor and utility connections Will accommodate even the most elaborate displays.
Last year, N.A.S.A. erected an enormous space capsule which fascinated the visitors who entered the model for a simulated space trip . This year, the 110 foot Titan II r?cket and the Mercury Capsule, Sigma VII, which earned Astronaut Wally Schirra into outer space, will be featured. The Red Ball Special, the winning car in the 1966 Indianapolis "500" is also expected to be a popular attraction at the '66 Exposition.
Such outstanding exhibitors as Atlantic Steel Company,. Lockheed-Georgia Company, Savannah Sugar Refimng Corporation, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Bibb Manufacturing Company and the Atla.n~a Braves and Falcons are already scheduled to participate in the 1966 Georgia Exposition. All those who desire further information or wish to reserve space may contact Marty Duggan in the Atlanta Merchandise Mart.

A review from last year's Georgia Exposition at the Atlanta Marriott Motor Hotel features a mock-up model of the Saturn moon rocket, sponsored by N.A.S.A. (Below) Georgia was represented with a display illustrating various facets of economic growth in the State.
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ATLANTIC STEEL CELEBRATES A BIRTHDAY
Atlantic Steel In Its 65th Year
As Georgia's Only Steel Mill

Atlantic Steel Company gave quite a birthday party to celebrate their 65th year of progress as Georgia's only basic steel mill.
Many people poured into the company parking area where buses waited to transport the visitors on a tour of plant operations. School children arrived dressed in their finery, and many distinguished businessmen, briefcase in hand, gathered for an inquisitive look at the fascinating business of making steel. Tour-guides wearing steel helmets bearing their names became official narrators making the story of steel come alive for both children and adults.
The Atlantic Steel Company is a publicly owned, all Georgia industry producing high quality carbon and alloy steel products. The plant facilities cover 180 acres spanning from the North Expressway to Northside Drive. To maintain the production rate of 400,000 tons of ingot steel for 1966, 1,800 persons are employed earning $15 million annually. Atlantic Steel is the largest consumer of electric power in the State--the two electric melting furnaces at the plant will amass a $1,500,000 electric bill during 1966.
As the tour-guides covered the stretching steel complex, one was amazed at the size and intricacy of the operation. The audience was told that such modern products as appliances, furniture, buses, trailers, airconditioner and refrigeration equipment, as well as machinery of all types and even concrete steel reinforcing bars used in building today's skyscrapers are direct results of the conversion of scrap to high quality steel.
Great pyramiding piles of scrap, some 400,000 tons, line the mill yard at the entrance to the electric melting furnaces. To actually produce the tonnage projected for 1966, 11 ,000 carloads or 800,000 tons of steel scrap will be used for raw material.
There was a slight delay before resuming the tour of the mill, while one of the younger set made a swift dash for a more personal tour of another facility. Once again unified, the party was transported up a freight elevator to observe the conversion of scrap into melted steel ingots.
The initial process started with a giant crane transporting the scrap into the melting shop consisting of two electric ovens capable of melting 180 tons of steel every three hours. Each one uses more than nine million kilowatt hours of electricity per month. These modem electric furnaces in 1952 replaced three open hearth furnaces which had been in operation since 1905, and which had a combined capacity of 175,000 tons of steel annually.
Three graphite electrodes are lowered into the furnace and heat is radiated at a temperature in excess of 2,850 F. for two hours to melt the scrap down. Precise quality control is maintained by frequent analysis with a vacuum spectograph. The second step in the steel processing cycle involves pouring the chemically ana- lyzed steel into ingot molds. After being moved through the stripping area where the molds are removed, the ingots are readied for further processing.
Before the ingot can be rolled into a smaller workable shape, it is reheated to a uniform temperature of about

2 300 F. in "soaking pits." When the desired temperat~re is reached, the ingot travels to the nearby "blooming mill table," which consists of electrically-operated rolls. The rolls squeeze and reduce the thickness of the ingot while increasing the length until the desired size is obtained.
At this state, the ingot is known as a "bloom" and is ready for the billet mill. The billet mill consists of a line of water-drenched rolls which reduce the bar to a smaller diameter and greater length. Now referred to as billets, the steel is cooled and then stored in the billet yard until needed by the finishing mills.
The quality processed steel is now ready to be used for anything from giant steel beams to small nails. Such a successful operation is the reason for the celebration at Atlantic Steel. Over 65 years have passed since the corporate body that started with a capital of $50,000 began operations as the Atlantic Steel Hoop Company. Today, it is an industry with sales of $53 million. It supplies the Southeastern United States with a framework for the future providing the raw steel material that will build tomorrow. The State of Georgia gives tribute to Atlantic Steel Company on its 65th year of progress.
(Right) More than $300,000 has been invested in a dust collection system to trap and eliminate the dust and smoke which was previously discharged into the atmosphere. This system operates like a vacuum cleaner. Dust laden air is drawn out of the furnace through fiberglass where clean air passes leaving the smoke and dust solids on the inside. (Below) In approximately two hours the melting process is comp lete and the molten steel is poured through a spout into the ladle, whereupon it is moved and "teemed" into ingot molds.

BUSINESS PROFILES
Southern Nitrogen To Merge
With Kaiser Aluminum
J. R. Riley, President of Southern Nitrogen Company, Inc. , of Savannah, recently announced plans to merge with the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation .
The merger is Sl\bject to the approval of the board of directors of both companies, but as Mr. Riley says, "For all intents and purposes, it's already done."
The main offices of Southern Nitrogen will remain in Savannah and an eventual increase of employees is planned since the merger is expected to make Southern Nitrogen a stronger and bigger organization. Distribution will cover the globe; whereas, the company's main market areas are now in the South and Midwest.
Last year, Southern Nitrogen had a net income of $1,867,000 on sales of $58 ,821,000 and earned $1.01 per share on common stock.
Kaiser had net earnings of $37,194,853 last year on sales of $576,472,950 with earnings of $2 .10 per share of common stock. Kaiser is the nation's third largest producer of aluminum. It began a diversification program into chemicals five years ago.
Southern Nitrogen has major plants at Savannah and Bainbridge, Georgia; Tampa, Florida; and Cincinnati, Ohio . A new mixed fertilizer plant is now under construction at Acme, North Carolina following the purchase of Southern Fertilizer and Chemical Company lasr year.
Dodge Reports Building
F. W. Dodge Company, marketing and information specialists, states that June contracts for future building in metropolitan Atlanta totaled $46.4 million, a 51 per cent gain compared with June of last year.
The areas included in "Atlanta" are: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Clayton and Gwinnett counties. A breakdown of the figures shows future residential construction contracts up more than 100 per cent, to $34.9 million, and nonresidential down 15 per cent, to $11.5 million .
June contracts increased the total for the first half of this year to a high of $267 million, up 31 per cent over the total for the first six months of last year. Nonresidential was up 61 per cent, to $137.2 million; and residential was up 9 per cent, to $129.8 million.
Southern Airways Reports
August Traffic Gains .
Southern Airways, Inc. , carried 95,601 passengers during the month of August, a 23 per cent increase over the same month last year, according to Frank W. Hulse, President.
Southern's passenger miles (one passenger carried one mile) for August were 19,984,000, a 41.5 per cent increase over August of last year. The seat mile capacity on Southern increased 12.7 per cent during August.
For the eight month period January through August of 1966, Southern has carried 28 .5 per cent more passengers and generated 30.3 per cent more passenger miles than the same eight month period in 1965. Its seat miles for the same period were increased 10.9 per cent.
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Delta Elects New President
and Begins L-1 00 Service
The Board of Directors of Delta Air Lines has designated President Charles H. Dolson as Delta's new chief executive officer. Mr. Dolson succeeds Delta's founder and longtime chief executive, C. E. Woolman, who died
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preside at meetings of the company's directors. Delta has also launched its new air-cargo service,
using a Lockheed-Georgia built L-1 00 Hercules. Initially, service will be between Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando, and Miami. Two more L-100's will enter service within 60 days expanding all cargo schedules to 11 cities, including Detroit, New York, Charlotte, New Orleans, Dallas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Savannah Sells $7.5
Million Worth of Bonds
The City of Savannah and its airport commission have
sold a $7.5 million revenue bond issue through negotiations with underwriters led by Lehman Brothers; Johnson, Lane, Space, Smith Corporation; Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. , and Varendoe, Chisom and Company.
The proceeds from the sale will be used to build a plant for Grumman Aircraft and Engineering. Grumman will build corporate jets at the plant, located on a 111 acre site adjoining the Savannah airport. Construction will begin immediately and the plant will be ready for production in April. The plant will be leased to Grumman for 20 years and the rental will be used to retire the bonds.
More Natural Gas
For Atlanta Area
The Federal Power Commission has announced it has approved proposals by two pipeline companies to provide another 50 million cubic feet of natural gas to the Atlanta area. The companies will lay more than 37 additional miles of pipeline in the metropolitan area to supply the Atlanta Gas Light Company.
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company of Houston, Texas was authorized to construct a 12 and 16 inch pipeline from its main line near Monroe to Ball Ground, Georgia, north of Atlanta.
Southern Natural Gas Company, of Birmingham, Alabama, will build about 23 miles of 14 inch line terminating near Marietta. The Marietta line will also serve Austell and Atlanta.
Martin-Marietta Announces
$5 Million Expansion
Georgia has been included in acquisitions by MartinMarietta Corporation to spend $5 million in expansion and modernization of its printing ink operations in the United States and Canada. Specific plans included property purchases for replacement facilities in Atlanta and Savannah. No further details have been announced.

ATLANTA
Motor City of the Southeast ...
Atlanta might aptly be called the "Motor City of the Southeast" with General Motors and Ford plants in the Atlanta metropolitan area producing a substantial percentage of the total number of cars made by both companies.
Last year, General Motors and Ford drove some 575,000 cars and trucks off their Atlanta assembly lines. To emphasize the vastness of such a production figure - consider that if each of these automobiles were driving at 50 m.p.h. on the 17,000 miles of highway in the State, 65 per cent of our highways would be attractively covered by 1966 GM and Ford cars and trucks.

The Automotive Assembly Line

The change-over season at the GM and Ford plants in preparation for the 1967 debut of the new models presents a dynamic industrial story. Production at the various plants stops only momentarily for machinery retooling and production line training, and any slow down or production problems are minimal.
For instance, production at the Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants was completed on July 29, 1966; the GM Assembly Division plant at Doraville ended the model year on July 7, 1966; and at the Ford plant, 1966 production ended on July 29 , 1966. 1967 production was resumed the last of August. During this interim period between production schedules, salaried employees are not affected. Except for those involved in preparation for new model production, most employees are furloughed unde'r benefit plans until the official 1967 starting dates are announced. Consequently, only a short period of inactivity takes place at the plants as the mammoth machines bid farewell to the old and wait to welcome the new.
Jobs for Georgians
General Motors Corporation and Ford Motor Company provide a large number of jobs for Georigans. The Ford Motor Company at Hapeville employs some 3,200 with an annual payroll of approximately $25 million. The cumulative employment figure for the three GM plants in the Atlanta area is 8,850, making it the second largest private business employer in the State next to Lockheed.
The production and employment figures stated are not the only indication of the widespread impact that the auto industry has upon the entire State. The various facets of the motoring industry require that many related industries be involved. For instance, suppliers, warehouses, disrtibutors, sales, service, etc., are an important part of the marketing process. A dealership alone employs many workers as the end operation of the automotive assembly line. As an example of the economic impact of Ford Motor Company on the State, John R. Scamehorn, Southern Public Relations Office Assistant Manager, pointed out that approximately $23.5 million in revenue was circulated throughout the State last year with some 394 Georgia firms supplying the Ford automotive industry. General Motors 1966
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expenditures throughout the State totaled $43,800,000 for goods and services, according to Bob Cunningham, Southern Public Relations Regional Manager for GM. The number of suppliers totaled 588.
The largest operations of the auto industry in Georgia are conducted by the General Motors Corporation. As a decentralized organization, GM's 40 operating divisions and subsidiaries serving the U.S. and Canada manage their own affairs and can be compared to independent agencies. There are 127 GM plants throughout the United States in 18 states and 70 cities. Seven plants are located in Canada with assembly, manufacturing, or warehousing operations in 22 other countries. Georgia shares this wealth with three plants and 20 sales, finance, service, and warehouse operations located in the State.
GM in Georgia
General Motors automobile production began in Atlanta on April 13, 1928, although sales and finance offices have been in Atlanta since the founding of General Motors in 1908. The Atlanta Branch of General Motors is a pioneer of the Old South-it was opened in 1919. The Chevrolet Motor Division's assembly plant and adjacent Fisher Body Division plant produced the first Atlanta-built Chevrolet-a green and black, four-door sedan.
On December 2, 1947, the third GM plant moved to Georgia-this became the well-known Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac plant. The name was changed in 1965 to GM Assembly Division Plant, since the plant production is now centered around larger Chevrolets and Buicks. As the largest of the three Atlanta operations, the GM Assembly Division Plant at Doraville has grown rapidly and only last year a 660,550 square foot expansion was completed.
The Atlanta Assembly plant of Chevrolet Motor Division produces Chevelle passenger cars and Chevrolet trucks. The adjacent Fisher Body plant builds passenger car bodies for Chevrolet. Chevrolet Division assembled 216,770 cars and trucks for the 1966 production high; the GM Assembly plant produced 179,275 passenger cars last year for a total of 396,045-a production record for GM in Georgia. And since 1928, approximately 5,500,000 passenger cars and trucks on

the nation's highways rolled off the Atlanta assembly lines bearing the Georgia GM emblem.
Georgia-made GM products are distributed to General Motors dealerships throughout the South and some models are shipped to other states of neighboring regions as the varying models are demanded,
Production at the Ford plant in September was in full gear as the first 1967 models were welded, painted, and groomed for their official public debut.
Ford In Georgia
It's a fascinating story, the making of an automobile. Along the Ford assembly line, new models were being smoothed into the sleek body design of the '67 motoring line. From the bare skeleton of a frame, came the beautiful metallic colored vehicle constructed, upholstered, and tested, for distribution. Ford and Fairlane cars are produced on a double shift schedule initiated at the Ford plant in 1965. The Atlanta-made Ford is then distributed to the 10 Southeastern states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
1,852,388 Fords of many models and designs have passed through the Atlanta Ford assembly line since the first plant was built on Ponce de Leon Avenue in 1915-seven years after Henry Ford produced the first Model T. From a small converted wagon factory in Detroit to the assembly line of today, Ford has been an innovator in the industrial revolution.
The company has now diversified into the Ford Motor Credit Company, the American Road Insurance Company, Autolite Division , and Philco Corporation. In 1965, North American factory sales of Ford Motor Company cars and trucks amounted to 3,303,365 units -2,719,231 passenger cars and 584,134 trucks. International market sales were a record 1,029,527 for 1965 and worldwide tractor sales totaled 108,025.
The Atlanta Ford plant is now the sixth largest producer of Ford's 17 assembly plants across the nation. The present plant at suburban Hapeville was opened in 1947 and expanded in January, 1965 to 1,400,000 square feet . It now spans some 82 acres along Atlanta's expressway leading south at Hapeville. The multimillion dollar expenditure increased the present plant and ware-

house facilities , as well as activating the second shift which resulted in 1,500 additional workers. This expansion was part of a three year, $1.6 million worldwide capital investment program started by Ford Motor Company in 1964.
Georgia is proud of being an important part of the transportation industry. The rewards are aesthetic as well as monetary. Civic pride and community participation of GM and Ford through charity and active leadership has helped in the development and well being of the State.
Ford Community Relations
At GM, community relations are the concern of two local management committees, the Plant City Committee and the Field Relations Committee. The Plant City Committee, composed of the plant managers, comptrollers, and personnel managt;rs, meet regularly to discuss matters concerning local GM activities and community relationships. The program consists of corporate support of such community projects as the Atlanta Memorial Cultural Center, Atlanta Speech School, and "Forward Atlanta." Through its aid to higher education program, GM provides university and college support in Georgia. Contributions also include equipment donations to schools for driver education classes.
The Community Relations Committee at Ford Motor Company is composed of the managers of each Ford Company facility in Georgia, working in close conjunction with the 50 to 60 Ford dealers throughout the State. The Ford Community Relations Committee has benefited a variable number of different interest groups such as the Atlanta Art Institute, the Memorial Culture Center, Georgia schools, and Atlanta Safety and Traffic Council. From supplying band uniforms to the Hapeville PTA to donating Ford Times paintings to schools across the country, community participation is encouraged by all Ford personnel.
The many facets of the automotive industry have made it an influential sociological, as well as economic factor in the growth of the U.S. From the beginning of the Model T, our nation has accelerated from a crawl to a fast run-to supersonic speed. Communications and transportation have been an integral innovator in this pattern of automation . And as the "Motor City of the Southeast," Atlanta has become a center for both.
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AVIATION .ADVANCES

I & T With Other Agencies
Sponsors Pilots' Seminar
The first week in September w~s proclaimed Aviation Safety Week in Georgia by Governor Carl Sanders. As part of the continuing state aviation safety program, another special function was held in October.
Some 200 pilot~ from all over Georgia participated in the fourth annual General Aviation Education Seminar scheduled October 8th at Callaway Gardens. The one-day Seminar was sponsored jointly by the Aviation Division of the Department of Industry and Trade, the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the Federal Aviation Agency. Program topics were: " INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULE PRODUCERS FOR GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS"
H ENRY R. McQUEEN, Met eorologist in Charge , Atlanta Weather Bureau
"GEORGIA AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTSCAUSES AND CURES"
L. J. MERCURE , Supervisor, G eneral A viation , Federal Aviation A gency, Atlanta
''AVIATION PROGRAMS FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA"
JoHN BENNETT, Director, A viation Division, Georgia D epartment of Indu stry and Trade, Atlanta
"WEATHER BRIEFING-PRACTICAL ASPECTS IN YOUR 'GO' OR 'NO GO' DECISION"
MARK ELL ETT, Quality Control Officer, W eather Bureau , Atlanta
"YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PILOT"
S. M. MAXWELL, Director of Aviation , Burlin gton Industries, Greensboro, North Carolina
"PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HIGH AND LOW ALTITUDE FLYING"
JOHN W . ELLIS, Assistant Flight Surgeon , Federal A viation A gency, Atlanta

DeKa Ib-Peachtree Airport
Gets New Tower and Runwa y
A new Air Traffic Control tower was dedicated, and a new runway has been announced for the DeKalbPeachtree Airport. The Aviation Division of the Department of Industry and Trade has offices at the DeKalbPeachtree air facility. The new ATC tower, erected at a cost of more than $100,000, is in operation at the airport. The tower was financed almost entirely by the F .A.A. It replaced an older one that had been used since World War II.
Also at the tower dedication, ground was broken for a new runway and other improvements to be made at DeKalb-Peachtree. The advent of the business jet has made more room necessary. The new runway at the airport will be 5,000 feet long so as to accommodate small-medium size jets such as the Jet Commander, JetStar and the DC-9. The field improvements, excluding the new tower, will cost $2 million . Of this amount $1 million will come from the Federal Aviation Agency: $100,000 from the State of Georgia, and ~900 ,000 from DeKalb County.
In addition to the new runway, the airspace has been set aside for future installation of an instrument landing system at the air facility. With the completion of the 5,000-foot runway, DeKalb-Peachtree will be able to qualify for an F.A.A. instrument system.
The DeKalb-Peachtree field is used primarily by business aircraft and last year recorded 154 164 landings and takeoffs. Operations this year a;e running well ahead of last year, and a total of 170,000 is expected. According to manager H . F. Manget, in the near future , scheduled local service air lines are expected to use the facilities for scheduled flights. The field can presently accommodate prop-jet airliners and with_ completion of the 5,000-foot runway, short to medmm range pure jets can land and takeoff.

GOVERNOR SANDERS SIGNS AVIATION SAFETY WEEK PROCLAMATION
Left to right: Governor Carl E . Sanders, seated; standing are Mr. Jack Barker, Public Affairs Officer, FAA ; Mr. John H. Bennett, Sr ., Aviation Director, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade; Mr . L. J. Mercure, Supervisor, General Aviation District Office, FAA ; Mr. William G. Benton, Safety, Aviation Representative, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade; Mr. James G. Rogers, Regional Director, FAA; Mr. William M. Flener, Deputy Director, Southern Region, FAA .
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The shaded area indicates one of the improvements, a new 5,000 foot runway, that will be made at the DeKalb-Peachtree field .

TOURIST TOPICS
Corps of Engineers to Establish
Resort Concession Areas At
Cla rke Hill Reservoir
The Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has called for bids on resort type developments at the Clarke Hill Reservoir. The land will be leased on a long-term basis to concession operators with the best proposal for development of the sites. Three other concession areas are currently in operation on the huge Jake north of Augusta.
The larger of the two sites, a 109 acre tract, is located off Georgia Highway 150 about two miles from the Clarke Hill Dam . The engineers are proposing a $500,000 facility with a 25 unit motel to be built during the first year of operation. Additional facilities to be added during the second year of operation include an 800 square foot sales and service building, open and closed docks for boat storage, boat and motor sales and rentals, fueling docks, marine repair shop, a picnic area with tables, grills and water fountain. A nine-hole golf course and putting green, along with a fishing dock and cabins are in the plans for future development.
The second development tract is approximately 23 acres in size and is located off Georgia Highway 43 near the Little River section of the Reservoir in McDuffie County. The initial development for this concession specifies a 600 square foot sales and service building, snack bar, picnic facilities, and rental of boats and motors are scheduled to be provided by the operator of the development during the first year of operation.
According to the engineers, there is a great public demand for a modern motel on the 70,000 acre Clarke Hill Lake as well as for additional marinas to serve the many boating on the lake. More than four mmion people visited the Reservoir last year to make it the fifth most popular Corps of Engineers Reservoir in the nation.
New Resort At Sa vannah
A group of Savannah businessmen have fo~med a corporation to develop a $5 million resort hotel facility on Wilmington Island near Savannah. The new venture, the Savannah Inn and Country Club, will open its doors early next year. The tourist-oriented complex, including a country club, is being constructed on the site of the former General Oglethorpe Hotel and the surrounding 215 acres. The property was purchased in May, 1965 by a group of 15 Savannah investors headed by William Latimore. According to Mr. Latimore, "The facilities are of a quality which will assure the Inn and Country Club the reputation as one of the best resorts in the nation."
Golfing on an 18-hole championship course, designed by golf course architect, Willard Byrd of Atlanta, will be available to tourists and country club members. The course will cost an estimated $360,000 and feature a par of 72 with a total length of 7,200 yards, including 76 bunkers and 10 water holes. The course will occupy some 154 acres. Touring pro and former PGA champion Bob Rosburg has been signed as a playing professional and will represent the Savannah

Inn and Country Club on the pro golf tour. Other sports available will be fishing, swimming, water skiing, hunting, skeet shooting, and tennis.
Located on the Wilmington River portion of the intracoastal waterway, the Inn will have marina facilities featuring two grades of gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, and telephones available at dockside .
The manager of the new Inn and Country Club is Charles H. Currier, formerly manager of the Disneyland Hotel at Anaheim, California. The new resort will employ some 225 people by the time it begins operating. A number of varied accommodations will be offered including 115 hotel rooms in the main building, 21 units in six cottages, and 48 rooms in two villas . Meeting room facilities will accommodate 15 to 1,000 persons. The development will have a total guest capacity of 500.
Artist's conception of the $5 million Savannah Inn and Country Club , now being developed on Wilmington Island. The rendering shows the hotel proper with the golf course lying directly behind and to the right of the main building. In the lower center portion of the sketch, along the waterfront is the olympic size swimming pool. The marina is located in the lower right corner of the rendering.
Booklet for Autum n
A booklet, distributed by _the Tourist Division of the Department of Industry and Trade, is becoming more popular this time of year. The color publication, A Leaf Tour Through Georgia, is available free and contains pictures and descriptions of all leaves found in the State.
The Georgia fall leaf season is usually at its peak between October 15 and November 15. The free booklet is available at any Tourist Welcome Center or by writing the Tourist Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol , Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
Motorists from eight states flock to the North Georgia mountains during the leaf season to see the autumn splendor. Also during the autumn , a number of tours by railroad cars are conducted through the North Georgia hills.
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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Foreign Exchang.e of Friendship
International Service means friendship as well as business. Each week the office answers several miscellaneous letters from foreign countries. The most common request is for tourist information. These letters arrive most frequently from Canada, South America and Europe. Often they are written in Spanish, French and German. To answer these, International Service has available for mailing an eight-page resume of Georgia in each of these languages: Along with the resume, a tourist kit composed of maps and pamphlets is sent from the Tourist Division.
Although most of the requests are fairly routine, some of the writers distinguish themselves by their use of the English language. For instance, a boy from Brazil wrote:
"I am a student and I want have best informations [sic] than I have here from GEORGIA STATE. So, I would be happy if you send me magazines, post card and maps about GEORGIA STATE. My English is bad. Don't repair." A Japanese boy wrote: " ... I am very yearning after American life . . . "
A Nigerian began his plea with: "My aim of writing you this letter is because I heard from a reliable source that you people of this state supply maps and booklets, poistures [sic] and pictures of your State."
The same "reliable source" must have gotten into India from whence came the letter: "I shall be obliged if you will send me your 32-page free book ... all about the good life ... living and working in GEORGIA."
Even though their English is unique, their message is understood!
Another group of letters comes from students who write for "urgently needed" maps and booklets for school projects. A German student wrote : "Our English teacher ordered us to write a pictorial report about your State."
Obviously, the intent of instructors is to enlarge the world of their students.
From Greece came the statement : "In order to become better acquainted with other countries which many hope to visit-the Pierce College students are planning an 'International Week' with exhibits, lectures, and various kinds of informative programs."
A Canadian teacHer phrased it differently as she spoke of the four R's, the fourth being the "Romance of travel."
But school projects do not always concern geography. From Belgium came the following letter:
"At the beginning of this school year, our teacher asked us to realize a projet [sic]. I chose 'Sports in America.
I should be very pleased if you could send me as much documentation as possible about all sorts of sports and games practiced in your country."
Since tourist information would hardly have satisfied this need, the Atlanta Braves generously sent a copy of their booklet, and the Falcons sent literature on the N.F.L.
A Polish youth wrote with the hope of furthering a hobby:
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"Y [sic] am creat follower of all motorisation [sic] and so. Y [sic] will be please if you send me colour cataloque and thotographs [sic] of your products at the same possible could you please send me an banner and trade mark of your firm . Y [sic] am studing of mechanicar [sic] part of politechnic [sic] and itake [sic] a deep interest in the models of care produced all over the world.
Yours faithfull [sic]"
To answer him, several Atlanta automobile dealers kindly donated brochures of their respective products to International Service to be forwarded to Poland.
The most unusual and touching letter to be handled by International Service came from Robert in Gh ana:
" I have the honour most respectful beg to ask you my needs today. Please I am a boy of about sixteen years and I am in elementary School. Well , I am a poor boy and have no properties on Books and Bible or New Testament to be used in School. So when I got your address l was very happy to write you and to help me. Please l beg you today to help me in my difficulties. I hope you will help me. May God bless you.
Yours Son"
The Salvation Army was notified of the boy's need and promptly responded with a Bible.
Even though these letters are only a small part of International Service, each is considered individually with the hope that the end result will be greater world understanding.
FUTURE CLIMATE ABROAD
Cotton Import and Export
Market Trend
The Agriculture Department in Washington reports that domestic use of cotton in the 1967 marketing year will show a slight increase from the 9.5 million bales used during the last season.
The announcement can be summed up by predicting that the total use for domestic and export markets would be the largest since the 1960 crop year. Washington did state, however, that half a million bales would be cut off a previous forecast that 5.5 million bales of U.S. cotton would be exported during the marketing year ending next August.
U. S. Firms Plan to
Spend $9.16 Billion Abroad
The Commerce Department in Washington announced that U .S. firms plan to spend $9.16 billion abroad for plant and equipment this year. The figure is increased 21 per cent from 1965 and slightly above the estimate made earlier this year.
In an attempt to reduce the deficit in the U .S. balance of payments, capital outflows from the U.S. for direct business investment will decrease somewhat.
The Department of Commerce has also let it be known that many firms plan to borrow funds overseas for foreign investment.

GEORGIA IN ACTION

Georgia Power Begins
New Building
Completes Transmission line
The Georgia Power Company has announced plans for a new 15 story building in Macon and completion of a 230,000 volt transmission line. The new all electric building will serve as headquarters for Georgia Power activities in the 36 counties comprising the Macon division. The company will occupy three floors of the new building, including 9,000 square feet on the main floor that will house sales, merchandising, and bill paying facilities . The remaining twelve floors will be leased for office space. Three parking decks will also be part of the new structure. The building, scheduled for completion in 1967, will cost an estimated $5 million .
The $4 million 230 KV transmission line originates in Vidalia, crosses the counties of Appling, Toombs, and Brantley and terminates at Sterling, Georgia, seven miles north of Brunswick. With the completion of the new line, Georgia Power's 230 KV transmission lines in the state now total more than 1,000 miles. The rapidly expanding economy of the coastal area resulting in increased electrical demands made the construction of the new line necessary.
Lockheed on Schedule With C-5A
Lockheed-Georgia recently began on-schedule parts fabrication for the C-5A.
Production of the first parts for the huge plane signals a major milestone in the company's program to fill an initial order for 58 of the huge 728,000-pound transports for the Military Airlift Command.
The next big step leading toward initial flight in June, 1968, will be the start of structure subassemblies next January. Final assembly of the first C-5A begins in November, 1967 and the mammoth airlifter is scheduled to roll out the following February.
While the world's largest aircraft plant under one roof gets ready to manufacture the world's largest airplane, subcontractors throughout the United States and Canada are working on the same C-5A schedule.
Lockheed-Georgia's procurement department said major subcontracts valued in excess of $250 million have been awarded in support of C-5A development and production since January.
The company's C-5A procurement policy follows a pattern established by the highly successful C-141 Starlifter program which assigned about 60 per cent by weight of production responsibility to outside firms.
Under a separate Department of Defense contract, General Electric is developing the C-5A's 41,000pound-thrust class engines and is to deliver the first set of four powerplants in late 1967.
In addition to the 58 transports on order, the Department of Defense holds a firm option for transports to equip three additional squadrons.
Lockheed-Georgia is developing the C-5A, an aircraft designed to carry the Army's largest pieces of field equipment intact and deliver them to semi-prepared fields, under direction of the Air Force Systems Command.

Georgia Power's new 15-story office building in Macon. The structure is scheduled to be completed in late 1967.
New Water Facilities for Perry
The construction of a new 250,000 gallon water tank and 12 inch water main has been tentatively approved by city officials in Perry. The new water facilities will serve an industrial area and a growing motel section near Interstate Highway 75. The tank and new water main will cost an estimated $125,000 and revenue from customers will pay off the cost of the tower and pipes in 30 years. The biggest user will be the Magee Carpet Company, which will begin construction next month on a carpet making plant. Magee has proposed a guaranteed monthly water usage amounting to $750, although the company's water bill is expected to be $900 to $1 ,000 a month. Final approval of the tank and water main project is expected soon. Other industrial sites in the area will benefit also from the additional water available in the area.
Atlanta Hotel Books
$20 Million in Advance
The Regency Hyatt House, a new luxury hotel under construction in downtown Atlanta, already has $20 million worth of business on its books according to Sales Manager William F. Hughes. The high-rise hotel is scheduled to open in the next few months. This preopening booking is thought to be the largest for a hotel outside New York City. According to Mr. Hughes, the huge advance bookings for the Atlanta hotel have come pouring in during the past months, although the Hyatt chain has made no special effort to promote the hotel as a convention facility. "We think it is shortsighted to pre-rate a modem hotel as primarily a convention house," Mr. Hughes added.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPME.NT

EXPANSION

Southern Natura I G_as

Expansion Program

Southern Natural Gas Company, a wholesale supplier

of natural gas , is cyrrently co~p~etin.g a .$25 milli~n

expansion program. Some $9 m1lhon IS bemg spent m

Georgia for new facilities . Construction is expected to

be completed by January, 1967. Georgia's portion of

the expansion is: 62 miles of pipeline from Rome to

Chattanooga ; 22 miles of pipeline from Macon to 12

miles south of Griffin; 49 miles of pipeline from South-

ern Natural's main line near Heflin, Alabama to Rome,

Georgia; two new compressor stations, one at Tho~as

ton and one between Milledgeville and Sandersville.

The addition of the Rome to Chattanooga pipeline

will enable Southern Natural to sell to Intercoastal Gas

Company for initiation of natural gas service to Ellijay,

Ranger, Fairmount, and Chat~worth:

.

In addition , Atlanta Gas L1ght w11l also be supphed

from a new delivery point at Ringgold for delivery to

several northwest Georgia communities. Southern

Natural operates some 5,700 miles of gas transmis~ion

lines in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carohna,

and Mississippi.

Frozen Food Plant To Allow
Farmers To Double Acreage
A $2.6 million federal loan for a Mid-Land Frozen Foods, Inc., plant at Jesup is expected to have a million dollar impact on the southeast Georgia economy and will allow that area to double its amount of acreage in vegetables.
Eighteen varieties of vegetables are to be pro.cess.ed by the plant and will be grown on a contract basts wtth farmers mostly within a I 00 mile radius of Jesup. Area farmers will also be given the advantage of knowing what price to expect for their crop.
The processing plant will employ up to 700 persons and provide a market for 64 million pounds of south Georgia vegetables. The $2.6 million loan from the federal government was approved by Eugene Foley, Director of the Economic Development Administration. Mid-South has made arrangements to secure the remainder of the $4.3 million needed. Operations are expected to begin at the plant in the spring of 1967 .

Dundee Mills Begins
Expansion
Dundee Mills, Inc., has contracted with Fiske-Carter Construction Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina to build a 90,000 square foot addition to their No. 5 mill at Griffin.
The new addition will be a refrigerated controlled humidity and temperature mill, housing 8,500 spindles and 100 wide terry looms with matching auxiliary equipment. The new facility will require about 125 additional employees. Construction will be completed by late May, 1967.

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$1.3 Million Piggyback Ride
For L & N Railroad
A $1.3 million piggyback expansion program, announced by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad , will benefit five key cities in the L &N transportation system.
Tilford Yard in Atlanta is included in the expansion plans, as well as piggyback facilities at Louisville~ Birmingham, Nashville, and New O~leans: There 1s no breakdown available what each c1ty w11l be allotted. However, a L & N spokesman said that the Atlanta program was the largest of the individual expansions by verifying that, "The piggyback growth in Atlanta warrants an expansion program to be initiated immediately in order to handle future growth anticipated in the area."
The Tilford Yard piggyback area will be enlarged and equipped with two additional double-end tracks, each with 20-rail car capacity. A gantry for loading and unloading will also be installed, and the parking area at L & N's piggyback depot will be enlarged.
L & N will begin work in Atlanta and New Orleans as soon as blueprints have been completed and a general contractor selected. Construction has already begun at Louisville, Birmingham, and Nashville. Louisville's automobile handling facility will be enlarged to accommodate storage of 950 cars. The piggyback-automobile storage in Birmingham will undergo changes, a~d Nashville will get four acres added to its auto handhng area, providing space for 40 more cars. New Orleans will undergo similar modernization and expansion.
Walthourville Plant To Add
Approximately 100 Workers
Ground has been broken for a 32,000 square foot addition to the ACS Industries plant in Walthourville. The expansion will enable the company to hire 80 to 100 additional workers in the next six months and eventually expand employment by 120. The company currently employs approximately 100 people. The pla~t produces plastic webbing and strapping for lawn fur~l ture and other applications. The ACS Company, wtth headquarters at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, currently holds the second largest contract with the U.S. Army for strapping used in parachutes, cots, etc.
Burt Lumber Adds New
Facilities At Washington
The Burt Lumber Company is completing a $125,000 expansion program at its plant at Washington. Burt Lumber buys pulpwood logs from tree farmers and sells them to pulp and paper processors such as Continental Can Company, Union Camp, and Georgia Kraft. New equipment installed by Burt Lumber includes a de barker, chipper, and conveyor. These three components form an assembly line where a whole tree can be un loaded from a truck, processed, and the finished log loaded for transport to customers in a continuous opera tion.

GEORGIA IN ACTION
Two New Announcements
From Lockheed:
Major Expansion Scheduled
The Lockheed-Georgia Company recently announced plans to invest more than $36 million in new buildings and equipment at its manufacturing complex at Marietta. The new expansion will bring Lockheed's investment to more than $100 million. Total capital investment, including government participation, will be raised to $212 million. Approximately half the additional space will be used for the new C-5A engineering test center. Other additional space and facilities will go for JetStar manufacturing and wind tunnel operations. Some one million square feet of covered floor space is scheduled to be added.
Lockheed officials also revealed that for the first time, back orders have exceeded $ 1 billion as compared with $74~ million some 18 months ago. 1966 sales are expected to total $690 million compared with $321 million two years ago.
Three Engineers Win
Wright Brothers Medals
Three Lockheed-Georgia Company aircraft engineers recently received the coveted Wright Brothers Medal awarded by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Given since 1924, the award is "for meritorious contribution to aeronautical engineering." The winners are Dr. W. C. J. Garrard, Marietta; George K. Williams and William W. Williams, both of Atlanta. The two Williams are not related.
The three won one of aviation's top prizes for a group paper presented in October, 1965, on the development of soft and rough field landing gears for aircraft. The medal is for the best aeronautics paper presented at SAE meetings during the year 1965 . It was presented October 6th at SAE's National Aeronautic and Space Engineering Meeting at the Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Garrard, manager of the Georgia company's preliminary design division , said the award rightly hould be credited to all Lockheed engineers who have helped develop landing gears for the Lockheed-Georgia family of airlift aircraft, the propjet C-130 Hercules (including a new C-130J assault version proposed recently) , the faniet C-141 StarLifter and the C-5A which is now under development and will be the world's largest jet.
T~e paper is a summary of company engineering studies over the years on soft and rough field landing gears for large aircraft.
~r. Garrard, who holds a Ph.D. degree from the Uniyersity of London, joined Lockheed-Georgia Company m 1954 as an operations research scientist, coming from C~ance-Vought. He formerly was with Canadair, and With Saunders-Roe, Ltd.
W. W. Williams came to Lockheed-Georgia eight years ago. He is a native of Joplin, Missouri, and re-

ceived his B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan. Coincidentally, he once met one of the Wright brothers. Shortly after getting his degree in July, 1934, he stopped in Dayton, Ohio to have his automobile brakes adjusted: The dealer introduced him to Orville Wright who happened to be in the showroom at the time. "Mr. Wright seemed very interested in my educational background," Williams recalls, "and encouraged me to pursue a career in aircraft design and development."
G. K. Williams, a native of New York City, was a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology before coming to Lockheed-Georgia 13 years ago. He received his degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
First Tenant Moves Into
Early Industrial Park
The Merchants Refrigeration Company of New York City has become the first tenant in the new Early County Industrial P.ark.
The Park, organized by the Early County Redevelopment Corporation, contains 96 acres and is located one and one half miles from the center of town. Water and utilities are available at the Park, along with railroad and highway access. Merchants Refrigeration is presently constructing a refrigerated storage warehouse in the Park.
Kawneer Has $300,000
Expansion In Clayton County
The Kawneer Company, Inc., manufacturer of architectural aluminum .products, plans to complete the second stage of a $300,000 expansion program in October. Kawneer operates a plant in Clayton County and is a subsidiary of American Metal Climax, Inc. With the completion of this new expansion, Kawneer now occupies some 150,000 square feet.
Million Dollar Modernization
Program for Pendergrass
J. D . Jewell, Inc., has initiated a million dollar modernization program for their by-product Pendergrass plant.
The Pendergrass facility is the largest. poultry byproducts plant in the world. The Jackson County operation takes poultry feathers and other material mainly from the Jewell processing plant and converts it into poultry feather meal and poultry by-products meal for use in animal feeds.
The million dollar expenditure will be allocated to modernize and automate the plant to meet State and Federal air and water pollution laws and regulations. It will also provide rapid handling of materials, thereby improving the finished product and contributing to elimination of odors.
Completion is projected for next year.
17

GEORGIA IN ACTION
First Cloth From Riegel Plant Comes Out of MiH's Alto Looms

Savannah Aids Expansion of
Great Dane Trailers
The Savannah City Council initiated plans to improve drainage in the area of Great Dane Trailers, Inc., in preparation for expansion by the industry.
Great Dane plans a $2 million expansion program to be accomplished over a 12 to 18 month period. The addition will increase production at the plant by 50 per cent.
The Council has approved an engineering contract with the firm of Thomas and Hutton to design a drainage system for the Great Dane area and two other drainage projects.

"Construction began January 17, and 155 possible working days later the first cloth came from a loom," said Bill Pittendreigh, manager of the new Riegel plant at Alto.
Th e cloth rolled off a Picanol loom from Belgium in the presence of plant officials, officials of Davis Constructors and Engineers, other industrialists, and members of the industrial committee of the Cornelia Chamber of Commerce.
"This will be the first mill with a complete installation of these looms," Pittendreigh said, explaining that the loom speed is 195 picks per minute, and that the loom weaves between five and six yards of this cloth per hour. A combed cotton polyester blend for ladies' sportswear came from the loom.
In attendance were (reading from left to right): Den Hull, general plant superintendent; Ernest Greer, superintendent of weaving; Lin Wilhite, general superintendent, Davis Construction and Engineers, Albany, builders of the plant, and Bill Pittendreigh (far right).
Also present were the following Habersham County people, who were in volved in getting Riegel to establish in the county, or who provided materials and services for the construction of the plant: Jack Bradley (fourth from left) , Mayor of Cornelia when the plant was conceived; Tom Harris, Alto Mayor; Lewis F. Ree ves, President, First Nationa l Bank of Cornelia; Thomas J. M cGahee, McGahee Funeral Home; John C. Foster, Chamber of Commerce president at the time; Nathan Burgen, Gold's Department Store and Commercial Hotel; Paul J. Reeves, Hab ersham Hardware Company , and Carroll Milam , Jr ., of Milam Concrete Company.
Pittendreigh said 284 similar looms were "in place," that all looms in the plant would total 520. "All looms are in except the 90 which are somewhere between Charleston, S. C. and Alto," he said.
Cost of the plant is estimated at more than $14 million .
The Department of Industry and Trade coordinated the location of Riegel in the Cornelia-Alto area.
18

\\Georgia Manufacturing
Directory" Available Now
The new Georgia Manufacturing Directory, prepared by the Department of Industry and Trade, will be available by the end of October. The new book will contain listings for more than 5,000 firms making products in the State. The data in the new Directory contains the name, location, president, sales executives, and purchasing agent of the companies listed. In addition, new information has been added including the breakdown on the number of male and femal e employees as well as the total employment, and a new listing indicating whether the company's products are distributed locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally. The companies are cross listed by product, name, and location.
The Computer Center at Georgia State College, working under contract for I & T, was engaged to store and catalogue the data on Georgia manufacturers and furnish the computer print-out for use in printing the book. The R esearch Division of I & T, over the past several months, has been gathering the data through questionnaires sent out to companies. Each organization listed in the Directory will receive a free copy, and others will go on sale to interested individuals at a cost of $7.50 each. The new Directory is being prepared in the standard 81h." by 11" size.
"We are pleased to be able to provide this Directory for industries and others who are interested in Georgia manufacturing operations," commented James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade. "In the future, updating the Directory will be much easier and quicker now that we are using computers to sort and store the data," Mr. Nutter added.
Aiding the Department of Industry and Trade in preparing the Directory and distributing it is Associated Industries of Georgia.

...., E O R G I A
I ROGRESS
NOVEMBER, 1966

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRY AND TRADE
JAMES H. NUTTER, JR. , Executive Director
PETER S. KNOX , JR. , CHAIRMAN President Knox Rea l! y Corpora ti on Thomson. Georgia
KIRK SUTLIVE Vice President U ni on-Camp Paper Corporation Sav a nn a h , Geor~ia
B. T . BURSON P11blisher Th e Cami lla Enterprise Camilla. Georgia
ROBERT T . DAVIS. JR. Presiden t Swift Spinni ng Mills Col umbus, Georgia
JO HN K. PORTER
Pre~ ident
J ohn K. Porter Company, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
EUGENE A. YATES Vice President Georgia Power Company Atlant a, Georgia
ROGE R SCHOERNER Executil e Vice President Southwire Company Carrollton, Georg ia
JOHN P. PICKETT Pickett Chevrolet Company Cedartown , Georgia
RICHARD M. STEWART Stewart. Bra ndon & Gi les. C.P.A. Va ld osta. Geor~ia
ALLYN J . MORSE V ice Pre.,ident (Re tired) Coats & C lark. Inc . Toccoa. Georgia
JAMES A. C ROCKETT Financial Vice President Pi~gl y Wi~~l y Sout hern . In c. Vidalia. Georg ia
JOHN E. PARKERSON
Pr e~ ident
The Bank of Tift on Tifton , Georgia
W. T. ROBERTS A ttorner at Law Montezl1ma. Georg ia
C LAR K E. HARRISON. JR. President Clark H arrison & Company. Inc. Decatur. Georgia
THOMAS G. COUS INS President Cousins Properties . Inc . Atl anta. Georgia
JOHN R. HI NES Hoga nsville . Georgia
W . A. PULVER President Lockheed-Geo rgia Company Marietta . Georgia
WILLIAM BAZEMORE Presiden t The First National Bank of Waycross W ayc ross. Georgia
RALPH CLEVELAN D President Gainesville Milling Company Ga inesville. Georgia
JULIUS F. BISHOP Mayor City of Athens Athens. Georgia

CONTENTS

VIEWPOINT How the Department of Industry & Trade Works With Other Deve lopment Agencies

. 3, 17

GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanding Industry

. 4 , 15, 16

FEATURES Th ank sgiving Turkey Nourishes State's Poultry Indu stry Hudson Wire Sparks Georgia's Economy Geo rgia Starts Sea Exploration R esea rch : Six F lags Over Geo rgi a- " The South Shall R ise Agai n"

6, 7 5 9
10, 11

GEORGIA IN ACTION GEORGIA PROGRESS Places 1st In SIDC Publication Contest

8, 14, 18

AVIATION ADVANCES

12

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Pari sians Praise Georgia

13

CovER: Thi s Geo rgia turk ey will probably be on someone's table in the near future . The bird on the cover was raised at Still's Turkey Farm, near Winder, Georgia.

Rosser Smith Dona Ademy House Robert Alford Sarah Conner .

Editor Managing Editor
Art ist Contributing Editor

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compi led monthly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

Number 10

November, 1966

VIEWPOINT
INTERGOVE RNMENTAL
DEVELOPMENT
How the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade works with other developmental agencies in fomenting economic growth for Georgia .
In one way or another , nearly everyone in Georgia affects Georgia's success or failure in state development. The many bodies and organizations devoted to the realization of Georgia's potential are interwoven with cooperation and coordination to produ~e . t~~ fine guide line which governs the pace and possibilities of Georgia's growth.
No one body or organization takes full credit or responsibility for Geo:gia's a?v~ncemen~ in sta~e planning, tourism, education , aviation , ~usm~ss, mdust~y and the many other facets of the States entire economic picture . Nor is Georgia isolated from the other 49 stat~s in the Union. It is interdependent upon the economic cl imate of the entire United States. Therefore, whatever action is taken in the State must be compared and scaled to the economic trends of the Southeast and the nation.
The following article delves into how the Department of Industry and Trade correlates its development program with that of other similar bodies.
There are a number of organizations working full time in the myriad facets of Georgia development. Chambers of commerce, banks, educational institutions, railroads, utilities, area planning commissions and other private associations are only a few. The Department of Industry and Trade works closely with every one of these bodies.
INDUSTRY DIVISI O N - INTERRELATIO NSHIP
IN STATE DEVELO PMENT
There are many areas of coordinated programming that benefit I & T's industry recruitment program. Associated Industries of Georgia and the Georgia Jaycees together with the Department sponsor Georgia Industry Month to emphasize the impact of industry upon the State's economy; to stress the necessity of maintaining a healthy business climate; to create an awareness of the quality and quantity of Georgia-made products; and to support and encourage the men and women working in Georgia industry.
The Red Carpet Tour is a major. state promoti?n which the Department co-sponsors With the lndustnal Development Council of the Georgia St~te Ch~mb~r and more than 20 other statewide agencies active m industrial development. Originated in 1960, the Red Carpet Tour offers participants a combined ground and aerial inspection of Georgia's industrial advantages. The guests include the country's major businessmen.

There are seventeen various area planning and development commissions throughout the State. The Industry Division works in close liaison with each of these organizations in procuring industry integral to the economic stability of the particular area. In turn, I & T relies on local developers to introduce industry to their community.
The Personalized Engineering Program (P.E .P.) carried on by the Department of Industry and Trade in conjunction with the Vocational Division of the State Department of Education and local school officials and industrial developers provides the needed training p~o gram for new Georgia industry. P .E .J_>. is set up to g.1ve specialized training to workers who will start productiOn immediately upon completion of the plant construction.
The outstanding educational institutions in the State have become bulwarks in the Department's quest for State improvement by providing statistics, computer programming, research studies, manpower and many other important services.

PROMOTING TOURISM

In 1965, the Tourist Division of the Department of

Industry and Trade issued invitations to ten other

Southern states to organize a Southern Travel Directors

Council. The purpose of this Council is to promote the

South as a region and to exchange ideas in travel-_re-

lated promotions and development. Many outstandmg

promotions have generated from the Council such as

the "Travel South" slogan now being used in national

ads, brochures and in travel displays. A $110,000 co-

operative program was kicked off in HO~IDAY MAG-

AZINE with eleven different ads promotmg the South.

A "Sell the South" tour to Europe is planned for next

April and a photo contest was recently completed with

opvaiegrn.60~0h0o0cenatlrsioes

as part of convinced

the the

Travel South camCanadian National

Exhibition to have a "Travel South" wing at the 1966

exhibit displaying the wealth found in the Southern

United States.

Without the assistance and cooperation of our High-

way Department, the six welcome centers built on the

major access byways of the State would have been an

impossibility. It has provided, on the interstates, land

and roadways for the centers. In addition, picnic a:eas

and year-round maintenance is furnished by the High-
way Department for all of the. Geo.rgia welcom~ centers. Beginning in 1960, the Umvers1ty of Georgia st~rted

tourism research for the State. The Bureau of Busmess

Research of the University of Georgia not only supplies

the Tourist Division with statistical reports on their

progress, but also collaborates closely with many of

I & T's other divisions.

Continued on Page 17

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GE.ORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Sprague Meter Expands
At Cedartown
The Sprague Meter Company has announced an expansion of the company's Cedartown production facilities . A 33 per cent increase in the number of employees is expected. Sprague Meter is a division of the Textron Company. The Cedartown plant makes liquid petroleum gas tanks. The company will be adding some 22,000 square feet to its present building to provide facilities for making valves, regulators, and accessories to be used in the manufacturing of LPG tanks. Textron, Inc., the parent organization of Sprague Meter, had 1965 sales of over $850 million, and 1966 sales could top $1 billion.
Cordele Uniform
Company Enlarges
Construction has begun on a $175,000 addition to the Cordele Uniform plant that will add some 33,000 square feet to the plant. Included in the new space will be a cafeteria for employees. The latest enlargement of Cordele Uniform is just one in a series that began soon after the plant began operation in 1953. When the new addition is completed , the company will have 123 ,500 square feet of manufacturing space in use. Four hundred persons are now employed at Cordele Uniform, and some 75 to 100 are expected to be added when the expansion is completed.
Plow Manufacturer Plans
Major Expansion
The 30-year-old Blanton Plow Company has announced a 10,000-square-foot expansion in Rome. The new addition will house the company's welding department, provide space for materials, and contain the company's experimental work. Some 45 production workers are employed at Blanton . The company specializes in steel products for cultivating and preparing farm land for use.
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NEW INDUSTRY
Southern Cross Constructs
New Facility
A diversified Atlanta bedding manufacturer, Southern Cross Industries, Inc., has begun construction of a new plant on an 11-acre site in Conyers. The new facility will produce a product called "Cotton-Flote." The product, which has been processed under a pilot program in Southern Cross's main plant, was developed by a number of cotton trade organizations and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Cotton-Fiote is made by combining conventional cotton batting with resin and latex, drying and curing. The resins react chemically with the cellulose in the cotton and enhance the tiber resilience. The latex assures interfiber binding at points of tiber contact, contributing to dimensional stability, coherence and tensile strength. The product has been tested by rolling a 275-pound roller across the mattress 400,000 times with no signs of deterioration in the mattress, according to Southern Cross officials. Initially, the Southern Cross plant will cover a 24,000-squarefoot area with provisions for expansion, and is scheduled to be in production by March, 1967.
Augusta Wins New
Service Industry
The Committee of 100 in Augusta announces a new service industry with plans for a 20,000-square-foot modern plant designed to clean, repair and package uniforms. Donald F. Waggoner, President of Rental Uniform Service, Inc. , of Greenville, South Carolina emphasized that the initial structure, designed by architect Charles J. Liles, is to be the first phase of a longrange plan for a 60,000-square-foot building.
The facility , to be erected on a 4.5-acre site, will process uniforms for business and industry within a 75-mile radius of Augusta. Offering employment to approximately 75 persons, the plant will have an an- nual payroll of $250,000.
Estle A. Wallace, former plant superintendent of the Greenville plant, has been named General Manager of the Augusta plant which will be the fourth facility opened by the company.

NEW YORK WIRE
FIRM TO BUILD
PLANT AT TRENTON
The Hudson Wire Company, of Ossining, New York, will build a new facility at Trenton, Georgia. A total of 20 acres has been purchased and initial plans call for an air-conditioned, 40,000-square-foot plant. The primary product to be manufactured will be precision fine and ultra fine film insulated magnet wire for aerospace and other sophisticated applications.
All operations needed to produce this wire will be included in the plant. These include fine wire drawing and insulating equipment and special "clean room" facilities to maintain high quality control. Some of the ultra fine wire is so small, only 100 pounds would be long enough to wrap around the world.
Initially, the firm will employ some 55 people, and employment is expected to reach 225 people by the end of the tenth year of operation. The initial investment by Hudson Wire in the Trenton plant will exceed $1.5 million and increase proportionally with employment. The plant is scheduled to be completed by the spring of 1967.
Leaders of the community, officials from Hudson Wire, and a number of industrial development representatives attended an announcement dinner for the company recently in Trenton. James H. Nutter, Jr., Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, officially welcomed the company to Georgia. Hudson officials expressed thanks to the Department of fndustry and Trade, Georgia Tech's Industrial Development Division office at Rome, working under contract to the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Devel-

opment Commission, for their aid in helping the company find a suitable location.
Hudson Wire Company was founded in Newark, New Jersey, in 1902 to manufacture fine wire for use in electrical coils, windings, and other electrical and mechanical products. The company moved to Ossining, New Yo~k , two years later. Here it was able to develop a much larger facility, and was incorporated as Hudson Wire Company in 1907. At Ossining, the company
pioneered many of the wire making machines and processes that are in general use today.
In 1931, a division was established in Winsted, Connecticut, through the purchase of Winsted Insulated Wire Company. Winsted is among the very few facilities in the country producing a full range of fine and ultra fine magnet wire, including some sizes many times smaller than a human hair that are almost too small to see without a microscope.
The complex world of electronics circuitry depends upon precision manufactured wire in myriad forms, shapes, and sizes. Without these speciality wires, there would be no television, computers, and space programs, nor could civilization exist in its present technological, sophisticated state.
Hudson Wire Company, therefore, plays and will continue to play a vital role in our scientific economy as a basic supplier to these space age industries. Its products wind up in some of the most sophisticated developments in existence all over the world.
For example, wire produced by Hudson is aboard the 515-pound Mariner 4 which was launched from Cape Kennedy and took 21 photos of the surface of the planet Mars from an altitude of only 7,000 to 10,500 miles above that planet. Hudson is also proud and honored that its wire played a part in the success of the "Surveyor" project.
Today, the company employs over 450 people in its plants, warehouses, and sales offices throughout the country. Perhaps an impression of the company from the employees' standpoint can be seen from the fact that approximately one out of every four Ossining factory employees joined Hudson over 25 years ago-and the average of those who attended the 1966 "Quarter Century Club" annual dinner was 38 years of service.

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An artist's rendering of the new Hudson Wire facility at Trenton
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GEORGIATURKEYS HAVE THEIR DAY

Thanksgiving Gives Big Boost
to State's Multi-Million Dollar
Poultry Industry
The turkey that is traditionally associated with the holiday season provides a delicious meal and also a large industry for Georgians. But the era of turkey available on a year-round basis is here and year-round growing is not far off.
This year, Georgians will produce more than 1.6 million turkeys and the raising of the big birds is just one facet of the huge Georgia poultry industry. During 1965 when producers raised 1.2 million turkeys, the gross income from the production of the birds was $5.2 million. This year's total income is expected to be much higher.
Turkeys are produced in almost all areas of the State as the accompanying map shows. However, the biggest producers are centered in the northeast section. Production varies from 5,000 to 10,000 birds per farm. However, one producer is raising almost 120,000 gobblers this year.
Turkey production in Georgia has risen since 1929 when the first records were kept. In that year, only 191 ,000 turkeys were grown in Georgia; 1963 was the first year production topped the one million mark.
Gross income in 1963 was $4.8 million.
The total economic impact of the turkey industry in Georgia is difficult to calculate. Besides the income the growers get, there is money circulated when growers buy feed , pay for transportation of the birds, labor at the producer's farm, and improvements made to their property. For instance, the producers pay hatcheries 65 cents apiece for the small turkeys called "poults." The producer then grows the poults to maturity and markets the birds.
Officials of the Georgia Turkey Association estimate that more than 1,000 people in the state earn their living directly or indirectly from the turkey industry. There are some 120 turkey producers in the state.
Tom turkeys are ready for market in 23 to 25 weeks,
while hen turkeys go to the processing plant in 19 to 20 weeks. Most are grown so they mature in the late summer, mainly because of growing season requirements. To have year-round turkey production, the second season would begin when the weather is cold , and young poults cannot be put out in February weather.
"We expect that within three to five years, producers will be growing turkeys on a yearly basis," predicts Henry Massey, head of the Agriculture Extension Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia. Mr. Massey is also an advisor to the Georgia Turkey Federation. Since turkeys grow much better in the open, producers will have to construct houses for the small birds to retreat into during the cold winter nights. Most producers do not now have these facilities , but are expected to add them within the next few years. However, Georgia producers have a better climate for raising the birds than growers in the nation's number two turkey
producing state, Minnesota. Heated pipes have t? ~e
run under the ground to keep it from freezing sohd Ill this northern state.
Although Thanksgiving to Christmas has been traditionally thought of as the turkey season, the tasty birds are available year-round with the advent of mod-

ern processing and freezing techniques. In fact, the National Turkey Federation receives a sizable contribution from Georgia growers and organizations in other states for the "Eat More Turkey" promotion that bas been carried out on a nationwide scale. In Georgia, the turkey raisers and processors, through the state assocition, have been quite successful in selling the idea of making the delectable poultry available year-round . Large restaurants and cafeteria chains and school lunch coordinators have been using turkey in their menus for some time. In fact, 25 per cent of all turkeys processed go on to what is called "further processing," that is for use in frozen turkey dinners , pot pies, and soups.
The turkey industry is a part of the huge Georgia poultry complex. The Georgia Poultry Federation estimates that a total of 32 ,000 people are engaged in poultry growing operations in the state, while another 160,000 make their living from some facet of agribusiness. Georgia processes an average of five million pounds of chicken and more than one million dozen eggs each day. Poultry products from the state are shipped to 40 countries. Poultry (including the turkey industry) now accounts for more than one-third of the total farm income in the state.
So when you sit down to a holiday dinner or dine on turkey in a restaurant or cafeteria, remember there is a large industry supplying the delicious meal.
The map at right shows the distribution of turkey prodAction in Georgia, and the figures indicating the number to be produced in 1966.
(L.) From fertilized eggs, the new-born poults are carefully scrutinized at the Sun Hatchery Company at lla. The young poults are now ready to be shipped to the turkey farms where they are fed and fattened for your Thanksgiving table. (R.) Mark Andrew Still is main guardian and defender of the Still Farm's turkeys near Winder.

GEORGIA IN AC.TION

Georgia Wins Awards For
State Publications
The Southern Industrial Development Council (SIDC), composed of the 16 Southern states and local industrial developers, has concluded its 21st annual meeting in Austin , Texas. The annual conference was attended by 25 outstandipg Georgia industrial developers including four of the Department of Industry and Trade's industrial representatives. The Georgia entourage was the largest representative group at the meeting.
As an integral part of the conference agenda, awards for literature produced by industrial agencies were pres~nted. G~ORGIA PROGRESS, the monthly maga~me compiled by the Department, was given first prize m the newsletter category from among 16 competitive states. There were 170 entries in the literature contest with nine categories ranging from "general interest'' to "best advertising" category. The Georgia New York Times supplement, sponsored by the Department, won !he acclaim of the judges and was awarded first prize m the advertising competition.
"Competition was keen throughout the judging," commented Robert G. Worden , I & T Industry Division Director. "We won first place in two categories and a superior rating on the GEORGIA MANUFACTURING DIRECTORY, which tied with five other states since the excellence of all the entries declared no first place winner." The Georgia Power Company was also awarded first place in the "specific asset category" with their COST DATA INDUSTRIAL BUILDING IN GEORGIA brochure.
Georgia's winning in four out of nine possible SIDC categories is due recognition of the State's concerted effort and success in creating, designing and publishing an attractive, factual and comprehensive literary presentation of its achievements in economic development.

Record Breaking Year Seen

For Georgia's Economy

Georgia's ever expanding economy will apparently

break all records this year. Through October, a record

$275 million has been allocated for new and expanded

industrial operations. The 1966 capital investment in

Georgia industry has already far exceeded the 1965

total of $248 million.

The economic gains of the State are also reflected in

i~creased manufacturing employment. During the first

SIX months of 1966, manufacturing employment in-

creased to some 419,000, second in the Southeast only

to North Carolina with 604,000. Alabama and Florida

ranked well jobs gained

behind Georgia with 285 ,000 respectively. Georgia has

gaanidne2d64s~0m0e0

78 , ~00 manufacturing jobs since 1962, ranking only

behmd North Carolina (95 ,000). All comparison figures

are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Re-

search Division of the Georgia Department of Industry

and Trade.

The latest Georgia Department of Labor fi~ures

show that nonfarm employment in Georgia as of Octo-

ber 31 totaled I ,318,300, a gain of 49,200 over the

same month last year.

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Industry and Finance
Prediction For '67
F . W. Dodge, marketing and information specialists, report that construction activity will increase again next year but not as rapidly as the previous record. This is probably a reflection of the new moves to cool off the economy, say F. W. Dodge economists.
Predicted total contract value is estimated at $51 ,975 ,000,000 which will be up three per cent from 1966. It will be the first time in four years that the gain has been less than five per cent.
Business construction will level off, public projects will be stretched out and housing will pick up in the second half of 1967, predicts George A. Christie, Dodge's chief economist. He also prophesizes that apartment construction will bear the brunt of the suspension of accelerated depreciation with the intention to inhibit capital spending. Some commercial and industrial building also will be restricted.
Mobil Chemical
Begins Operations
The Mobil Chemical Company officially began operations at the company's new multi-million dollar Covington plant on October 31 . Even as the first products were being produced, other new lines were being installed. Plans for duplicating the new facility adjoining the present facility are also being prepared and may become a reality in the near future. Five production lines are currently running at the plant. Two are producing can liners, meat and poultry, produce shirt bags, and finally, sandwich bags. A line of fertilizer bags is expected to be added in the near future. The plant occupies some 80,000 square feet and officials plan an open house ceremony for January.
Industrial Airpark Planned
For Cobb County
A 1,000-acre industrial park near McCollum Airport in Cobb County has been announced. Along with the development of the industrial sites, improvements will also be made at the air facility. A proposed instrument landing system and extension of runways to 5,000 feet are included in the plans. The new park will be served by two four-lane highways-Interstate 75 and U. S. 41. Officials developing the area indicate all necessary utilities, plus sewerage connections and rail facilities will be available. Approximately $35 to $50 million will be invested when the park is completed.
Compton-Highland
Expanding At Griffin
An expansion of the weaving facilities of the Compton-Highland textile plant at Griffin has been announced. The addition will cost approximately $500,000 and is scheduled to be completed by next spring. The weaving room modernization is expected to cause a slight increase in employment at the plant.

SEA EXPLORATION CENTER

Oceanographic Institute
To Make Georgia A Leader
In Exploration of the Sea
The Georgia Science and Technology Commission has spent the past seven months studying the possibility of creating a major oceanographic center in Georgia. Governor Carl Sanders had designated the Commission as the official agency to coordinate individual studies of other state agencies.
Through the Commission's studies, certain features were found to be indigenous to the function of the Oceanographic Institute. The oceanographic center would need to include a graduate research institute that would explore the continental shelf and other oceanographic phenomena of the Atlantic Ocean. Currently the University of Georgia's Marine Institute at Sapelo Island is studying the State's estuaries and bays. The new institute would take up where the University leaves off. The proposed institute would serve all of the State's public and private universities and colleges as a graduate oceanographic school to produce marine scientists and engineers.
A docking facility would be included in construction plans for the use of the institute and center's tenants.
Additional service facilities such as computer service, an oceanographic library and consultant services by the institute's faculty will serve not only the center's tenants but other ocean-oriented industry attracted to the State.
Governor Sanders made the official statement regarding his enthusiasm of the project in a news release to the press last month. The Governor stated, "I have allocated $10,000 from the Governor's Emergency Fund for the purpose of the oceanographic study. The location of this new Federal Laboratory in our Center would provide a unique opportunity for Federal-State cooperation. It would also open vast new opportunities for special studies and research by Georgia's colleges and universities."
Two sites for the oceanographic center are under consideration, one at the northern tip of Jekyll Island and the other on the northern end of Skidaway Island at Savannah. These two sites were the only ones considered in the State because this type of center must be within commuting distance of a large urban area and have adequate space to construct deep-water docking facilities as close to the ocean as possible.
To date, no oceanographic center in the United States offers land to federal agencies and private firms with the supporting activities described above. This center would make Georgia a leading contender in the race among Atlantic coast states for the future billion-dollar oceanographic business.

The two circled areas indicate the proposed locations for the new oceanography center. Skidaway Island, near Savannah, is the upper area and Jek yll is the lower. The area within the square is the location of the University of Georgia's oceanographic research facility on Sapelo Island.
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There will be some fl ag-waving next June, when SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA di spl ay~ its mighty wealth ove r 27 6 acres in south Cobb County, strategically located off 1-20 along the Ch attahoochee River.
Thi s behemoth project is exempl ary of the T exas way of doing th ings-big, very big! The offspring of Texa n Angus G . Wynne, Jr. 's Great South west Co rpo ration, the total Great South west Atl anta Co rporatio n pu rchase amounted to the largest indu stri al real estate transaction in the hi sto ry of the Southeast. The entertainment center is estimated to cost $9 million, not including the economic return s fro m the 3,000-acre indu stri al di strict which will extend some fi ve miles along Fulton Indu stri al Boulevard.
Those acqu ainted with its T exas counterpart , Si x Fl ags Over Texas in the D all as-Fort Worth area, have a preview of the vast new G eorgia development. The park , under the direction of Ch arles T . Thompson, will employ a large full-time staff and offer some I ,500 college students summer employment to fac ilitate the two millio n people ex pected to christen the park thi s summer. These Georgia coll ege students have alread y spent a summer at the Texas Six Fl ags ga ining experience and training for the premiere showing of Six Flags Ove r Georgia. Pl ans are already being made for a large motel across the lower Rive r Road from the park , and other satellite businesses such as shopping areas.
The amusement area will offer children and adults alike the full gamut of fast-paced fun and entert ainment . An old , one-room Jog cabin which once qu artered some of Sherm an's army has bee n moved to the Si x Fl ags site. M any other attractio ns refl ectin g the drama of G eorgia's hi story will provid e a living example of textbook history. A train will enci rcle the park passing an E ngli sh vill age portray ing 17th Century E ngli sh architecture, a Georgia-style community, and a m ighty Spanish fortress. A course for a large river th at will carry visitors through the park on ri ve r boats is now being engineered . Some other Georgia attractions featured at the park will be a roller-coaster Jog flum e th at will carry brave riders over river rapids; an antique H anson ca r and sports car rides; " Br'e r R abbit Adve ntu re L and ;" Confederate Hill ; and a mine train indicative of the Dahlonega gold rush days.
A unique example of the community spirit to be rallied at Si x Fl ags Over Georgia is the " Back to School D ay," tentatively pl anned in ho nor of the Greene P ionee r School Club, donators of th e Cl em Greene school house. F estivities will include costumes representative of the period , spelling bees from an old Blue-B ack Speller and just a good old-fashioned time fo r eve ryone who vi sits Si x Flags O ve r Georgi a.
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AVIATION ADVANCES
Georgians At NASAO
Georgia's dynamic rise to' a leadership position in aviation on the national level was again emphasized when four outstanding Georgians were invited to participate in a Training-Education-Safety panel at the National Association of State Aviation Officials Thirtyfifth Annual Meeting. The meeting, which was held at Wheeling, West Virginia, was attended by approximately 200 people representing 41 states.
R epresenting Georgia on the panel were John H . Bennett, Sr. , Director of the Aviation Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, who presided; Mrs. Betty "Georgia" Eidson, of Gray High School, who teaches the flight training program in the Atlanta School System; Mr. J. Hampton Manning, III, Director of Aviation for the City of Augusta and Manager of Bush Field at Augusta; and Mr. Jess Childress, President of Southern Airways Company at Atlanta Municipal Airport, well known throughout the nation as "Hangar One ."
Mr. Manning, manager of one of the nation's fin er airports, spoke to the group on airport management and Mr. Childress talked on airport operation. Both men are highly respected and well known in the aviation indu stry.
Great interest was shown during Mrs. Eidson's talk on Aviation Education and Flight Training for credit in high schools. Everyone in the industry realizes the importance of such a project but until now no one has been successful in getting such a program into the nation's schools.
Some high schools do have a program going whereby ground instruction is given to students, but so far as we have been able to determine, the only school system in the nation giving actual flight training to high school students is the Atlanta School System with programs now under way at Grady High School, Price High School and Dykes.
The appearance of these aviation minded Georgians did much to improve the image of Georgia on the national level.
Speakers at NASAO meeting were (Left to Right): Mr . Jess Childress, Mr. Charles Lynch, Mrs. "Georgia" Eidson, Mr. J. Hampton Manning,Ill, and Mr. John H . Bennett, Sr.
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Wilson Wilkes Visits Convention of Nationa I Business Aircraft Assn.
Mr. Wilson Wilkes, Director of the State Budget Bureau, recently visted the international display of business aircraft during the 19th Annu al Conve ntion of the National Business Aircraft Association in St. Louis, Missouri. Among the 2,200 persons registered we re 30 well known Georgians represe nting many segments of business aviation.
Attending were representatives of the LockheedGeorgia JetStar Division ; Aero Commander, Inc. , of Albany, Georgia; Hangar One; Exec utive Aviation, Inc. ; Jefferson Mills; the Dumod Corporation; and the Georgi a Department of Industry and Trade.
Mr. Wilkes also rece ived briefings relative to the advantages of Lockheed-Georgia's JetStar, Aero Commander's "200," and the Grumman Gulfstream, which is soon to be manufactured in G eorgia.
State Budget Director Wilson Wilkes shows k een interest in Georgia-built Aero Commander "1 00".
Washington County Airport Dedicated
The Washington County Airport at Sandersville was dedicated on October 12, 1966, under bright autumn skies. The honorable Thomas C. Carr, R eprese ntative from Washington County, was Master of Ceremonies. The Georgia Air National Guard's C-97 Boeing Stratacruisers flew over the festivities to christen the new airport as the Washington County High School Band played the National Anthem. Governor Carl Sanders became the hit of the show when he flew over Sandersville in a P-51 which performed acrobatic feats to the delight of the many spectators who attended.
A short welcoming address was given by Mayor Warren Hall of Sandersville after which Mayor Augusta Lawson of Tennille introduced the guests on the platform. Mr. Chester W. Wells, Atlanta Area Manager, F ederal Aviation Agency, commended the people of Washington County on their new airport and urged them to continue their progress in today's jet age.
The airport dedication occurred at a most opportune time for the people of Washington County-it was thei r eleventh annual Kaolin Festival as the "Kaolin Center of the World."

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Parisians Visit Georgia

When Frank and M arlene Pilko from Paris, France. entered the offices of I & T and requested a tour guide to show them Atlanta, your magazine editors became official Geo rgia Goodwill ambassadors. Actually, no one expected the interesting events to occur which followed their arrival.
" We speak but a little English but we would very much lik e to see the Atlanta of Gone With the Wind." It was surprising to know th at this famou s story of Southern America was held in such esteem by these two people.
Frank and Marlene learned much about the new South although perh aps they were a bit disappointed th at palati al mansions , rustic log cabins, and Scarlett O'Haras were not present on hi storic Peachtree Street.

Instead, the foreign vi sitors were co nfronted with the new image of Southern life-a city full of growth , skyscrapers, and traffic. From M arlene and Frank , we learned a wealth of things about the French. DeGaulle may dislike us, but the French people think Americans
tres jolie. What do yo u pay for a loaf of bread in Paris? It took you five years to get a phone in Paris and there are 80,000 arti sts in the city. This was an exa mple of the information cross-fired between the French couple , Bob Alford and myself. It was such an ex perience for all of us to have the opportunity to lea rn about each other's country and customs.

Marlene and Frank have a 16-month-old baby , an apartment in Paris , and an old country house on the outskirts of Paris. Th e small country home has bee n completely redone except for some modern conveniences not available in the rural area. Both are students in the arts but because of the over-abundance of artists in Paris, they have found alternate aesthetic fi elds in which to make their living. Frank makes beautiful costume jewelry and paints colorful silk scarfs which he sells in America. ''We mak e enough money to sati sfy our wanderlust for travel and to live happily in our two Paris homes. When we pack our equipmt;nt for our sojourns, we rent the Paris apartment and live nicely on the annuities ."

As our international party toured Atlanta-the Cyclorama, Stone Mountain, Atlanta Art Museum. and particul arly the Georgia homes di stincti ve for their architecture , the comparative figures on property and cost
of building or owning a home entered into the conversation.

" I am collecting on film an image of th e life we see in the many countries we visit ," said Frank. "Someday ," he continued, "I hope to have a complete picture of what I wish to express about the people and pl aces we have visited."

Although our tour only lasted a few hours , we had

gained a truer impression of each other and our respec-

tive countries. As we sa id good-bye to our French

fri end s, they extended a cordial invitation to come to

Paris. Humbly, Bob declined, expl ai ning th at with

80,000 artists in one city, the competition was too

threateni ng.

The Editors

On the steps of the State Capitol in Atlanta, the French visitors from Paris stopped long enough to allow an admiring audience a glimpse of the jewelry which Frank Pilko makes for his wife, Marlene. From left to right Bob Alford, artist at I & T and Dona House, informational assistant.
Japan Exhibits At Southeastern Fair
The J apanese External Trade Orga nization (JETRO) recently showed some of the prod ucts made in J apan at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. The displ ay was a large one and occupied more th an half of the International Building at the fairgrounds . According to Mr. Takeshi M auro , E xecutive Director of th e Japan Trade Center, New York , the purpose of the participation is to acq uaint the people of Georgia wi th th e newest and finest in J apanese products and show what life in J apan is really like tod ay . JETRO , the organizer of the exhibit, is a se mi-gove rnment age ncy th at o perates five trade centers in the United States.
Mr. Mauro emphasized th at trade between the U. S. and J apan is a "two-way street. " "From the State of Georgi a alone,.. he dec lared , we bu y millio ns of doll ars worth of goods a year." Wood pulp and chemicals are among Georgi a's chi ef exports to J apan.
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Visitors to the 1966 Southeastern Fair in Atlanta saw one of the largest exhibits from Japan. The Japanese products occupied most of the International building at the Fair . Of prime interest, especially to men, were t.._he several types of automobiles made in Japan and exported to the United States. Governor Sanders proclaimed the week of October 2-8 as "Japan-Georgia Trade Partnership Week ," recognizing the two-way trade relationship between Japan and Georgia.
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GEORGIA IN ACTION
Holiday Inn of Callaway Gardens Builds Addition
Convention and banquet facilities to accommodate 1,000 people are being added to the present Holiday Inn of Callaway Gardens. Construction was awarded to Newman Construction Company of LaGrange and work began recently on the new addition, announced Alvin S. Davis, President of Gardens Services , Inc.
The new addition will combine the present Holiday Center building and the Gardens View sect ion. It will include 120 bedrooms with several recreation rooms, a beauty salon, barber shop and gift shop. These new additions will bring the number of guest bedrooms to a total of 364.
According to plans, the new convention hall can be divided into five separate meeting and banquet rooms. Nine other meeting rooms of various sizes are included in the new add ition. A new swimming pool will be added, which will be three times the size of the present pool. Adjacent will be a wad ing pool for the small children.
"We are pleased with the number of individuals, families and groups that visit us at Callaway Gardens and are delighted to add these facilities to better serve the people of Georgia," stated Mr. Davis. "The founder of Callaway Gardens, the late Cason J . Callaway, had as his purpose to establish a garden and educational facilities of such excellence, beauty and extent that it would be inspirational to those who visit. These facilities will help us to accommodate more of our friends who come to enjoy Callaway Gardens."
Pride and Joy of Franklin County
The people of Frank lin County are justifiably proud of its newest community industry. The Chicopee Plant, announced in the September issue of GEORGIA PROGRESS, is now under construction and will offer Frank lin County a two-fold benefit. It represents a large employment figure for the area and the attractiveness of the building provides industrial prestige for further deve lopment. Future employment is expected to reach 700 to 800 as the Royston plant successfull y develops. Approximately I 00 persons need to be employed and trained for initi al operation.
Th e Chicopee plant wi ll be completely heated and air-conditioned. As pictured above, the new plant is expected to cover 98,000 squa re feet of floor area.
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Chicopee is an expansion of the Moore Fabrics Division of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, founded in 1921 . The Pawtucket plant was acquired last year by Johnson and Johnson as a division of Chicopee. The firm now employs 550 persons.
Narrow elastic webbing which is used in women's undergarments will be produced at the Royston plant.
Mr. Thomas J . Brightwell, Jr. , of Maxeys, Georgia has been named manager of the Chicopee plant.

The Chicopee Plant now in construction stage at Royston.

Georgia Leads South In

Community Development
The latest release from the R egion II Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development announces that Georgia leads all other Southeastern states in the number of cities which have "active" and "approved" workable programs for community improvements. This includes all the programs aimed at the elimination of slums and blight.
The Department of Industry and Trade, and especially the Planning Division, is particularly proud of this outstanding record since local planning assistance by the Department has made an important contribution to the workable programs of most of these cities. The following chart points out Georgia's status compared with other Southeastern states.

DHUD - REGION Ill

STATUS OF WORKABLE PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT

September 1, 1966 - September 30, 1966

State

T otal

Active

Initial *Recerti-

Active Programs Program s ficatfons

Programs Appro1ed In Process In Process

Awaiting Additional
Data

Alabama 41

28

15

3

Florida

26

17

2

7

6

GEORGIA 51

39

1

14

8

Kentucky 48

38

11

5

Mississippi 10

8

2

2

N. Carolina 43

32

1

12

5

S. Carolina 8

7

2

Tennessee 46

31

3

16

8

Total 273 200

7

79

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Sunbeant Plant Officially Dedicated

Production at the McRae Sunbeam

Location in Georgia of the Sunbeam plant was announced in August, 1965, by Governor Sanders and

Plant was a double celebration for the

Sunbeam Executive Vice President John J . Dahm.

State of Georgia. Immediate production

Vacuum cleaners and other household appliances will be produced at the facility.

began with the official opening as a result of successful P. E. P.

Commenting on the new facility, Mr. Dahm said, "The South's importance in our planning couldn't be over-estimated. We at Sunbeam believe the South's

employee training.

industrial potential has only been scratched. And we believe you are providing an industrial and employment



Sunbeam Corporation's new $4 million Georgia plant near McRae was officially dedicated October 15 . Governor Carl Sanders was the principal speaker at the occasion, and a number of Sunbeam officials were present. Governor Sanders told those present, "The hard work of everyone concerned in bringing Sunbeam to McRae will mean much for the future growth of this area. In addition to Industry and Trade, we must pay

climate which permits a corporation the freedom to realize its own potential ... and thus serve the public interest here as well."
Mr. Dahm added, "In the months and years ahead, Sunbeam and your community will work closely together for our mutual economic benefit. I feel confident you will come to feel real pride in the accomplishments of your new industrial resident and corporate citizen."

particular tribute to all of the citizens of this com-

munity. By raising over $100,000 to purchase this site,

you showed that you not only have a true interest in

community development, but that you would make

personal sacrifices for the good of the whole com-

munity."

The Governor continued, "We are particularly proud

of this firm because it is one of the first major com-

panies to use our new Personalized Engineering Pro-

gram-which we call P .E .P.

.

"Through the cooperation of Georgia's Department

of Industry and Trade and the Division of Vocational

Education of the Department of Education, future em-

ployees of Sunbeam were given the necessary training

for work in the plant before it was fully completed.

Sunbeam leased a 12,000 square foot building to house

the training activities."

He concluded, "The Sunbeam plant here, which will

manufacture vacuum cleaners and other household

items, consists of a $2 million building, with $2 million

worth of equipment and a $4 million inventory-or, in

other words, it represents a total initial capital invest-

ment in Georgia and Telfair County of $8 million."

As a special feature of the ceremony, flags from the

12 countries where Sunbeam plants are located dec-

orated the speakers' platform.

The recently completed 200,000 square foot facility

is located on a 50-acre site one mile south of McRae.

Governor Sanders addresses company, local and state

Some 300 specially trained workers are currently em-

officials at the official opening. The flags on the speakers

ployed, and approximately 750 people will be employed when full production is achieved.

platform are from the 12 countries where Sunbeam has

p~n~.

.

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The cotton fields where the $2 million Lapp Insulator plant is being built will soon be producing a dynamic ne11 product-high-voltage porcelain insulators. The new 85,003 square foot plant located in the Sandersville-Tennillt area because of its abundant supply of kaolin which will be used in production.
October 12, 1966 was the big day for the official groundbreaking ceremonies which Governor Carl Sander. attended. Brent Mills, President of Lapp Insulator Company, was also present to turn the first spade. The ground breaking celebration took place simultaneously with the dedication of the Washington County Airport and the annua Kaolin Festival Week.
After 50 years of progress, the expansion into Georgia was an appropriate celebration for Lapp's golden anniversary. Lapp contributions in ceramic technology and product design have been widely followed by others in tht industry.

A 1,400-acre tract four miles southeast of downtown Macon is being acquired by the DuPont Company as t possible future plant site.

Company officials emphasized that the site had been purchased in connection with its long-range plannin!

and that no manufacturing facilities will be built on the site for several years. No decisions have yet been madt

as to the type of product which may eventually be made on the property, they added.

The land, which is located on the Ocmulgee River at the intersection of Routes I-16 and U.S. 129, hm

been under option to DuPont for the past several months. The company conducted extensive engineering studieJ

before its decision to purchase the property. Most of the land involved is being purchased from the White Elk Sprin&

Home

owned b the descendents the late author

Stillwell Edwards.

VIEWPOINT-

Division works closely and cooperatively with the State's

(continued from page 3)
The Tourist Division has a well-coordinated working relationship with the Parks Department, the Jekyll Island Authority and the Stone Mountain Memorial Association in the overall promotion of these three State agencies. As the State agency dedicated to encouraging visitors to "See Georgia First" and "Stay in Georgia," most tourist-oriented businesses or organizations receive the complete cooperation of I & T's Tourist Division. The Georgia Association of Broadcasters gives the State of Georgia untold advertising allocations in the State promotion campaign and public service programs.
The Georgia Press Association is a great contributor to the tourist economy of the State. The GPA jointly published the 16-page GEORGIA VACATION SUPPLEMENT which ran in 175 Georgia newspapers.

Executive Department, Health Department, Education Department, Highway and almost every other department of State government concerned with the physical, social and economic development of the State.
In discussing the benefits of the Appalachian Program . and its strong emphasis on cooperative action , Governor Sanders aptly describes the functions of Planning and its interrelationship with other agencies: "I feel confident that by 1971, when the Act expires, Georgia's Appalachian region will have moved from the economic backwaters into the mainstream of our society. However, economic development is only one of the many benefits we expect to receive from the Appalachian program. It is now serving as a pilot project for statewide comprehensive planning activities. Because of the Appalachian program, we have developed more effective lines of communication with many of the federal agencies in Washington . Most important,

AVIATION ADVANCES THROUGH STATE

we have proven that the states can play an effective,

AND NATIONAL COOPERATION

dynamic and responsible role in carrying out national

Georgia's advanced status in airport development can be attributed in a large part to the Federal Airport

policy set by Congress. The Appalachian program is a unique experiment in regional economic development,

Act of 1964, which provides financial assistance to states, local governments and public agencies. Applicants for this assistance may include states, counties, municipalities and other public agencies. To be eligible for the program, airport plans must meet the require-

but if is also a unique experiment in government itself. I am sure that many of the things we learn and many of the ideas we develop during the course of this program will last well beyond the duration of the Appalachian Act."



ments of the National Airport Plan. The Aviation Division has been instrumental in the acquisition and di s-

RESEARCHING THE FACTS
The Research Division of I & T calls on many other

persion of such grants throughout the State . The State works closely with the local sponsor in the formative stages of a project and is helpful in obtaining State

State agencies in its attempt to provide information on a variety of topics, in multiple forms-from statistical graphs and charts to lengthy verbal reports. It is the

matching funds by keying the sponsor's application to FAA requirements.

Division's job to research and equip the Department with the reason for its action. Requests for information

Again the Highway Department is a major contributor to the success of the Department's program. The Highway Department maintains continuous liaison with the Aviation Division in this area of airport development. The Highway Department has the authority to

come from outside the Department as well. Industrial prospects are supplied with data .concerning such areas as forestry , water resources, industrial sites, population, labor supply, transportation facilities, economic trends, etc. Presentations are prepared, reports are

spend money for airport development and, therefore, acts as administrator of State funds in the absence of such authority for the Division.
It also assists aviation in other areas of airport development including soil testing and soil analysis,

written, studies are made, and information is researched. In most cases, this could not be done without the assistance of various educational institutions, libraries and local community research teams. As a clearing house and tabulator of Georgia's growth, the

airport inspection during construction, and occasionally assists with engineering and surveying. By providing access roads to newly constructed airports and directional marking, the Highway Department is indispens-
able to the Department in developing Georgia's airports.

Research Division calls on a myriad of State agencies such as: Agriculture Department; Comptroller General; Education Department; Forestry Commission; Health Department; Highway Department; Labor Department; Mines, Mining and Geology; Revenue Department; and Secretary of State.

The Federal Aviation Agency has employed the State of Georgia as a prototype study of long-range airport needs in a community. The Aviation Division works quite closely with FAA to coordinate an aviation safety program for the State.

The International Service Unit of the Research Division has become an important vehicle of the United States Commerce Office in Washington. By working as a liaison between Georgia businessmen and foreign importers and distributing bids to accepting companies

in an exchange program-the State of Georgia has be-

STATE PLANNING- A METHOD FOR DEVELOPMENT

come an important center for international trade. The

The Planning Division of I & T was described in the Georgia Ports Authority is therefore one of the State's

May, 1966, issue of the GEORGIA MUNICIPAL greatest promoters and economic benefactors by pro-

JOURNAL as the agency "which probably has the viding some of the finest shipping facilities in the world

most extensive connections with local governments of for import and export provisions.

any agency in state government."

By sponsoring several trade missions to foreign

The Planning Division is working closely with the countries, Georgia has not only economically benefitted

State Parks Department and other state agencies con- itself, but the good relations and friendships that have

cerned with natural resources in developing a statewide resulted from these trips have given Georgia business-

comprehensive outdoor recreation plan for Georgia.

men a distinct economic advantage over other states in

In its program throughout Georgia, the Planning securing international and national tourism and trade .

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GEORGIA IN ACTION
Emory Receives $3.5 Million
For New Denta I School
A $3.5 million grant has been awarded to Emory University by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare . The grant will be used to finance the building of a new dental school for Emory. Emory has been a leader in dental education for years with four-fifths of the dentists now , practicing in Atlanta trained at the college.
Emory's President Sanfmd S. Atwood said the university plans to build a multi-purpose $6.8 million dental center. The difference between the grant and the total cost will be raised by Emory's $25 million capital campaign. The $3.5 million grant, the largest Emory has ever received from the federal government, will pay half the cost of the five-story building at Clifton Road and Dantzler Drive.
Commenting on the grant, Dr. Atwood said: "We at Emory are delighted to receive this substantial grant, which will advance our dental school in the direction planned by our faculty and trustees. We are particularly pleased at the recognition it gives to the high quality of Emory's educational program."
The 170,000 square foot dental center will be designed in stucco to match the other buildings in the Woodruff Medical Center. Robert & Company of Atlanta is the architect.
Dr. Atwood also pointed out that the expanded facilities will allow Emory to increase its dental research, to increase programs of graduate training and to enlarge classes as the demand for dentists increases . Emory will now be able to initiate programs to prepare auxilary dental personnel such as dental hygienists.
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Artist's rendering o.f new $6.8 million Emory Dental Center.
Two Additional Grants For Emory
The Mead Corporation announced recently a $100,000 gift to Emory to be used toward the University's $25 million MERIT Program.
The first $25,000 portion of the gift was given to Emory by Mead Board Chairman H. E. Whitaker. William R . Bowdoin, Atlanta banker and head of the MERIT Program, received the gift for Emory.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also has announced a $100,000 grant to Emory University scientists. Dr. Bryan W. Robinson and Harold Warners are studying the effects of electrical stimulation on the brains of monkeys and large apes.
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The research involves the direct stimulation of areas of the brain by electrical impulses through electrodes implanted in the brain and the analysis thereof.
NASA has been financing the research because of its implications for biological research in space but more important for its potential in the field of mental health.
Farmers Coming to Market
From Across Country
Farmers from Florida to Arizona will gather at Atlanta's Marriott Motor Hotel November 21 and 22 for the 33rd annual meeting of the Cotton Producers Association .
The convention will host such outstanding Americans as Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, noted author and Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York City; U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; and U. S. Senator Herman E. Talmadge.
D. W. Brooks, General Manager of CPA , reported that "Cotton Producers Association has just completed the most successful year in the history of the Association." Volume during the past fiscal year was $223 ,924,605 ; net margins moved up to $6,175 ,432 after paying one per cent on capital investments of members and net worth of the Association rose to $43,455,007.
Fort Gordon To Build 64
Buildings For Training Facilities
The Savannah District Army Engineers announced recently the expansion of training facilities at Fort Gordon near Augusta. The contract will call for the construction of 64 new buildings to serve 2,500 troops.
Bidding on the contract, started in late August, specified the following: 25 prefabricated barracks, six mess halls, 12 company administration buildings, two battalion headquarters, a dispensary, two battalion storage buildings, a dental clinic and 15 classrooms.
Some of the buildings will be heated and air-conditioned. Other work will include site preparation, roads, parking areas and expansion of the existing sewage treatment plant. All work is to be completed within 120 calendar days.
Another Industrial Park
Continues Growth
In DeKalb County
The Southeast DeKalb Industrial Park, a $20 to $30 million development near Lithonia, continues to grow. According to the developers , approx.imately 70 industries have built or are planning to construct plants in the 800-acre facility. Already located in the park are Weyerhaeuser Company, Dart Container Corporation, Eleen Metal Products, and Manchester Tank and Equipment Company. Three buildings have been finished to date, and three more are under construction. The park has highway access from Interstate 20, rail facilities, and utilities available.

.2E- ORGIA
RCJGRESS DECEMBER, 1966

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRY AND TRADE
JAMES H. NUTTER, JR., Executive Director
PETER S. KNOX, JR., CHAIRMAN Presideut Knox Realty Corporation Thomson, Georgia '
KIRK SUTLIVE Vice Presid en t Union-Camp Paper Corporat ion Savannah , Georgia
B. T. BURSON Publi>-her Th e Camilla Enterprise Camilla, Georgia
ROBERT T. DAVIS, JR. President Swift Spinning Mills Columbus, Georgia
JOHN K. PORTER President John K. Porter Company, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
EUGENE A. YATES Vice Presiden t Georgia Power Company Atlanta, Georgia
ROGER SCHOERNER Executi1 e Vice President Southwire Company Carrollton, Georgia
JOHN P. PICKETT Pickett Chevrolet Company Cedartown, Georgia
RICHARD M. STEWART Stewart, Brandon & Giles, C.P.A. Valdosta, Georgia
ALLYN J . MORSE V ice President (Retired) Coats & Clark, Inc. Toccoa, Georgia
JAMES A. CROCKETT Financial Vice President Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. Vidalia, Georgia
JOHN E . PARKERSON President The Bank of Tifton Tifton, Georgia
W. T . ROBERTS Attorn ey at Law Montezuma, Georgia
CLARK E. HARRISON, JR. President Cla rk H arrison & Company, Inc. D ecatur, Georgia
THOMAS G. COUSINS President Cousins Properties, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
JOHN R. HINES Hogansville, Georgia
W. A. PULVER President . Lockheed-Georgia Company Marietta, Georgia
WILLIAM BAZEMORE President The First National Bank of Waycross Waycross, Georgia
RALPH CLEVELAND President Gainesville Milling Company Gainesville, Georgia
JULIUS F. BISHOP Mayor City of Athens Athens, Georgia

CONTENTS
e VIEWPOINT Georgia's Industrial Development Transition .
GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT New and Expanded Industry
FEATURES Training for Industry A City Within a City Christmas in Georgia
GEORGIA IN ACTION Multi-Million Dollar Foundry
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE Exports Mean Profits
AVIATION ADVANCES AOPA Clinic Elberton's Airport
TOURIST TOPICS Governor's Conference on Tourism "Stay and See Georgia" Winners

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CovER: This month's cover, a Georgia winter scene, was taken by Atlant Journal photographer, Joe McTyre, near Dillard, Georgia in January, 1965 The Sylvan Lake Grist Mill overlooks Wolf Fork Valley in the north Georgi mountains. When the picture was taken, it was ten below zero with so twelve inches of snow on the ground . A national magazine has an option o the picture for use in a futu re issue.

Rosser Smith Dona Ademy House Robert Alford Sarah Conner .

Managing Edito1 Arti s
Contributing Edito

GEORGIA PROGRESS is compiled monthly by the Georgia Department o Industry and Trade, 100 State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia 30334.

ECRGIA
ROGRESS

Number 11

December, 1966

VIEWPOINT
After World War II, Georgia and the South began a rapid transition from an agricultural to an urban, industrialized area. In the rush to attract industry, many communities made allowances to manufacturers to gain new plants, and this became an accepted pattern of industrial development throughout the region. Free land , tax moratoriums , interest-free loans, and other concessions helped foster an image which has persisted until today.
The Department of Industry and Trade contends that industry does not desire sustenance, but would rather have the assistance to pay its own way. Proceeding with this philosophy of industrial development, Georgia has created bold new programs to erase the old "give away" image. These include P .E.P. (Personalized Engineering Program), industrial development authorities, and industry-requested research. Such new projects, along with a genuine desire to locate industry in a community where the manufacturer feels he can make the best profit, have become major considerations in handling prospects. These methods of industrial development eventually will remove the old concept that brought some manufacturers to Georgia looking for a "free ride ."
What is industrial development today? It's a hard sell campaign incorporating facts , statistics and lay-iton-the line tactics. Whatever the presentation, it must be accurate because a $1 ,000,000 or even $1 ,000 enterprise will find out the economic climate of an area in due time and then the loss is more than monetary. Today when officials of a company come to look over a potential site for a new plant, it's all business. These researchers are not interested in being entettained regally and they don't care who wins on the golf course. They came for facts, and the local people, as well as the State, better have such information available; such facts as the water supply available, the transportation accessibility by land, rail, truck and air and certainly figures on labor and data about training possibilities.
The company representative works on a tight schedule , with maybe only two or three hours time allotted to a visit. This is when the hard sell approach becomes evident in industrial development today-they have no time to waste and for every question, and there are many, they want an accurate answer.
Certainly, deorgi"a wants jobs for Georgians and that means more industry and expansion of existing industry. But giving gifts is no longer the way to lure industry.
Does this mean obselescence of concessions? No, however, it does mean that more selectivity should be exercised before offering an industrialist concessions. Free land for an industry providing good wages, stable employment, and a growing impact on the local economy can be justified after careful evaluation. These

guidelines should be the key to determining successfully when to offer allowances. Nonetheless, consessions should be the exception rather than the practice.
What about concessions on local taxes? These are perhaps the most tangible taxes we pay. This is money which remains at home and its uses can be observed in many ways: in schools, police and fire protection; water and sewer facilities ; some utilities and other important services supported by local taxes.
Because an industry is a corporate citizen of the community, the Department of Industry and Trade feels there should be no exemption from paying local taxes for it. And where revenue anticipation bonds are used to construct a plant and buy equipment, something in lieu of taxes should be paid. One suggested alternative might be a graduated scale of taxes over a five-year period while the plant is established and profitable operations developed.
Obviously the Department of Industry and Trade does not have the authority to offer or deny concessions. This is a decision of the community leaders. When concessions are granted, this often introduces to the prospect an opportunity to go to another town with a "see what your neighbor offered me" approach, giving the prospect bargaining power to see which town can give him the most.
The Department of Industry and Trade has set down certain goals by which it provides jobs for Georgians. These goals are attuned to the functions of local developers and are three-fold;
Georgia goes out of the State seeking new industries, preferably those which would tie in with agriculture, minerals and timber. Basically, these are considered the State's best assets.
I & T offers assistance in finding new markets and new products for industries already within the State. It was found that 80 per cent of the new jobs becoming available were from existing companies undergoing expansion.
The Department takes full advantage of homegrown industries which local citizens developed . This includes helping new businesses get started.
Responsible leaders can helo a prospect acquire land, staff his plant, provide facilities for pre-production training, furnish utilities, arrange good transportation schedules and collect up-to-date information. These are some of the services which can elicit from a prospect a favorable decision . Industry and Trade's job is to get the prospect to the community; the leaders must do the selling. If it is the kind of industry the community wants, then it is the local leaders' responsibility to make concessions or other satisfactory agreements. We can only recommend t~at in the area of concessions, the community be as selective as the industry.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT

EXPANSION
Coca-Cola Builds
New Home Office in Atlanta
The Atlanta-born Coca-Cola Company has released design details of the new multi-million dollar soft drink syrup plant to be built in San Francisco, California.
The floor area of the main building, covering approximately 93,000 square feet, will manufacture CocaCola, Sprite, Tab, Fresca and the Fanta flavors. Location of the plant will be in a perfect distribution area near California's Candlestick Baseball Park and the Bayshore Freeway-and served by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The new plant will feature the most up-to-date designs in syrup manufacturing and material handling facilities to assist in shipping the ever-increasing demand for Coca-Cola and other soft drink syrups to bottlers of Coke and wholesalers for the fountain trade in northern California, Utah and Nevada.
The Coca-Cola Company operates ten additional syrup plants in the United States. They are located in Atlanta; Baltimore; Kearney, New Jersey; Chicago; St. Louis; Dallas; Los Angeles; New Orleans; Portland, Oregon; and Honolulu .
The Coca-Cola Company has also announced the construction of a new 12-story home office building in Atlanta. The Atlanta headquarters of Coca-Cola houses the main executive offices of the Company. Because of the corresponding growth of home-office personnel to meet the market demands of the Company's 250 different products, the need for a larger central office facility became a necessity.
The office building will be built on a site adjacent to the Company's present home office building, adding approximately 300,000 square feet to the Coca-Cola complex. In addition to the home office headquarters , the present site includes the Atlanta Branch syrup plant, which manufactures all of the Company's soft drink syrups for distribution throughout a seven-state area in the Southeast.
Architects for the new facility are Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothchild and Paschal of Atlanta. Contractor for the project is Daniel Construction Company of Georgia.
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NEW INDUSTRY
Azalea Meats Reopens Pia nt
The official reopening of Azalea Meats of Georgia, Inc., took place in October at Calhoun. Local developers and Seventh District Congressman John Davis were present to make the announcement.
The plant began slaughtering cattle to supply the parent company's five processing plants located in Florida, North and South Carolina and Virginia. When pork processing has been added to the full operation of the plant, 300 cattle and 800 hogs will be marketed daily. Management expects to employ 85 people at the plant which will operate under the U. S. Government Inspection Program.
New Company to
Boost Inco me
Atlantic Creosoting Company, Inc., has purchased a 50-acre tract of land from Spurgeon Peacock on the west side of the Georgia-Florida Railroad at Vidalia.
The new operation is being used as a processing yard for poles and pilings.
Lumber for the production of the poles will be purchased in a 100-mile radius of Vidalia and will add to the income of timber owners in this section. Starting employment will be approximately 10 employees.
Georgia's Timber Market
Being Expanded
With the announcement by Rayonier that it plans to construct a chipping plant at Fitzgerald , Georgia's abundant timber resources will undergo further economic development.
The tree length chipping plant will be located o~ a 50-acre site just east of Fitzgerald at an installatiOn cost in excess of $750,000. More than 50,000 cords of tree length pulpwood will be produced annually at the new facility. The plant is expected to provide a more convenient local market for the timber grown in the Fitzgerald area. The timber will be harvested within an area 35 to 40 miles from Fitzgerald and transported _by truck to the new plant for debarking, chipping and sh~p ment by rail to the Rayonier Jesup Division. Rayonter will employ from 10 to 15 people.

INDUSTRY+
TRAIN--INPRGOFIT

The new vocational-technical training being offered in Georgia today has benefited the state in not only procuring new industries but encouraging existing industry to expand. The In-Plant training program coordinated by the Atlanta Public Schools VocationalTechnical & Adult Education Division is a new 15month-old program which is successfully operating for Georgia business and industry who request in-plant training for their employees.
A company realizes the urgent necessity to increase production and incorporate modern technological methods of production to keep pace with the times . Purchasing the needed equipment for the automation is an easy matter, but how do you efficiently train the workers for job proficiency and production? This is one of the major. problems facing industry and business today in the m1ghty surge of technological innovation.
Vocational-technical education has offered industry some relief and private educational institutions have designed programs to alleviate the burden of specialized labor demand (as written in the July issue of GEOR~IA. PROGRESS), but addi.tional vocational training IS still needed to fill the v01d. Industry and business h~ve been crying for some sort of program that trains h1gh school students and adults for specialized jobs that run the gamut from sheet metal molding, sewing, commercial art, appliance servicing, lathing and plastering, to diesel mechanics and practical nursing. People and not machines or computers run industry. . Out of this need ~a~ evolved a new era in cooperation between Georg1a mdustry and the Atlanta Public Schools Vocational-Technical & Adult Education System. The name of the program, "In-Plant" training, which is just what the name connotes. Trained per:.. sonnel from the Division visit the company requesting the program and after a comprehensive analysis of the individual and specific training needs of the company, prepare an Employee Development Program. This "Tailor-Made" training program is designed to progress along a professional developed course of study for the company employees. Qualified instructors, those who are craftsmen in their trade, are made available at the cost of the Atlanta School System. Instruction classes can be held at any time requested by the employer-during working hours or evenings. In-Plant Training is flexible, it functions through the prerogative of the employer for the convenience and betterment of the. ~mployees. After the company provides a specific trammg need , classroom or lab facility and a minimum of 15 student employees. In-Plant Training does the rest.
"The philosophy of this new program is based on the premise that industry plus training equals profit.

Profit in terms of up-graded and up-dated job knowl-

edge and skills for the participating student-employee.

Profit in terms of additional trained manpower plus

profit dollars for industry, and profit in terms of over-

all economic growth and social stability for a growing

State of Georgia," stated Mr. Clarence R. Tunmer

Assistant Director of In-Plant Training.

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Employees of industry and business are offered

courses in instruction in divisional classifications: trade,

!echnical, business and supervisory development trainmg. !he co~rses are no~mally short-termed, thirty to fifty mstruct1onal hours m length. But with the flexi-

bility of the program, according to the type and com-

plexity of the course, the length of the class may be

adaptable. The course can progress in depth and knowl-

edge to higher levels and last indefinitely, or it can

be less comprehensive. The decision rests with the

industry.

Since the. program's inception in the fall of 1965, it has met w1th overwhelming enthusiasm. Forty-three

firms are currently participating and , through the Atlanta Public Schools, some I ,800 new students have been reached through I 10 classes utilizing 70 instruc-

tors. The Atlantic Steel Company in Atlanta reports

that they have continuous year-round classes going on

and due to the success of the program among their

employees, a special building has been erected and a

Training Director appointed. The program is not only

beneficial to the company worker, giving him an occu-

pation and skill to increase his standard of living-

it is also profitable to industry with increased produc-

tion and quality controlled supervision.

To further their Vocational-Technical Adult Train-

ing Program, the Atlanta Public School System is plan-

ning the largest vocational-technical school in the South-

east to be located in Atlanta. The new school will ac-

commodate some 2,000 students and will have two

air-conditioned buildings with a total of 300,000 square feet of parking area for 600 cars. Scheduled for completion in early 1967, the institution will provide train-

ing specifically designed to develop necessary knowledge

and skills for technical and commercial job require-

ments. Programs will also be available to adults who

wish to prepare for new jobs or who wish to up-grade

their present skills. The curriculum will include techni-

cal and trade programs as well as programs in health

and business occupations. More than 45 separate pro-

grams will be offered in the new facility involving a staff of approximately 300 instructors.

Atlanta Vocational Education is doing its part to

equalize the race between the modernization of our

economic machinery and the modernization of our

manpower.

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"In Atlanta we find the great city of the South , a city of enlightened people who are creating giant industries, powerful financial centers, world-wide distribution facilities, outstanding housing complexes-a city that is alive." These words were spoken by Raymond D . Nasher, nationally prominent land developer of Dallas, Texas in conjunction with his announcement to develop a colossal $200 million " inner city, an urban complex of the future with megastructures, buildings which encompass all forms of living and work activities" in downtown Atlanta.
The development, to be known as ParkPlace/ Atlanta, will rise on an 18-acre tract of land, in the heart of downtown Atlanta. This property is not only rich in historical significance dating beyond Georgia's antebellum period , but it is also one of the rare , strategic inner-city sites remaining to be developed in a major dynamic American city today. Owned for more than I 00 years by the First Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia and its predecessors, the land is adjacent to Atlanta's downtown businesS' center, to the State Capitol area, and within sight of the new Atlanta Stadium. The mammoth center will run from Decatur Street to Hunter Street on the south , on the west by Washington Street and on the east by Interstate Highway 85.
" We will attempt to put all of the services, utilities , parking and vehicular traffic under a great platform. We'll come up to the park area by escalators or other mobile devices," Mr. Nasher explained . "In this park atmosphere , we shall build a great hotel with the finest accommodations, convention facilities , restaurants. meeting halls , ballrooms, night clubs, and recreation areas."
Department stores, boutiques, specialty shops and service facilities in a controlled environment, and entertainment and recreation facilities will be a part of the Park Place/ Atlanta development. A feeling of space and affluency will prevail at Park Place/ Atlanta, with restaurants and sidewalk cafes scattered throughout the plaza. The entire inner city is like a wonderland, the plush surroundings to be accented by towering buildings available for those who des ire to live in the heart of a vital city.
Raymond D . Nasher Properties has acquired the ISacre site under a 99-year ground lease from First Georgia Development Corporation, a subsidiary of First Railroad and Banking Company in Augusta.
Nothing will be missing in the pul sating Atlanta metropolis. Lavish grass , trees, flowers and fountains

will be sprinkled amid the many outdoor plazas of the complex. In addition to large plazas, will be contiguous small areas of green linking the towering building into a homogeneous city.
By "controlled environment" it will be possible to move apout comfortably in all kinds of weather because arcades, overhangs, and tree patterns will be designed for protection against the elements.
Even moving sidewalks will be engineered to accommodate shoppers and tenants. Elevators from one floor to upper garden terraces, eating places, hotels, swimming pools, etc., situated on separate levels, almost fits th e picture of " World 2000." "This garden city must not close when employees leave their working world at 5 o'clock. It must be alive and vigorous and important, because a true metropolis does not dry up in the evening," expounds Mr. Nasher. "This must be a combination of the great St. Mark's Square in Venice , Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, the Champs Elysee in Paris, of Fifth Avenue in New York , and even of our own creation in Dallas." If the actual masterpiece fits the design, this will make Atlanta the most distinctive city in the Southeast..
Texas may have found oil but Georgia is getting its barrel share of the wealth. Texas industries digging in rich Georgia soil have developed such gold mines as the Great Southwest Corporation, the Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and now ParkPlace/ Atlanta.
The dynamic man behind the idea is Raymond D . Nasher, one of the nation's leading real estate developers, fin ancial and civic leaders. Mr. Nasher is President of Nasher Properties of Dallas, which includes his latest development, NorthPark Shopping Center, the largest climate-controlled shopping center (1 ,3 00,000 square fe et) in the world , located on 9 prime acres in Dallas. Other Nasher projects currently in progress include: NorthPark East, a multi-million dollar sister project to NorthPark Shopping Center, which will include high and low-rise apartments, entertainment areas , medical facilities and office buildings. The Grand Prairie Development is a major shopping center to be built between Dallas-Fort Worth. A Florida project is another continuing residential city of over 5,000 completed homes , including all utilities , located in the Miami area.
A lot of things are happening in Atlanta all rightthings that would cause a major land developer like Raymond Nasher to take special notice of this dynamic center of the Southeast. They are happening for many reason s-location , economics and Georgia's fantastic growth.

(Opposite page) The proposed platform city of ParkPlace/ Atlanta. (Below) Raymond D. Nasher , prominent land developer of Dallas, Texas and his award winning Riverside Apartments in Tulsa , Oklahoma. (Right) Th e old A. & W.P. and Georgia R.R . (I 865) is the site of the Nasher A rlanta development.

TOURIST TOPICS
Sixth Annual Governor's Conference
On Tourism ..... Organized Travel
Industry Sought in Georgia
Delegates attending the recently concluded Governor's Conference on Tourism at Callaway Gardens held November 17-19 have appointed an interim committee to deterqtine methods for consolidating the tourist promotion efforts of Georgia's entire travel industry. Some 200 representatives of hotels, motels, travel attractions and various travel organizations from all over the State attended the Conference.
In 1965, vacation/ recreation travelers spent $429.9 million in Georgia. This represents an 11.4 per cent increase over the previous year, while the national gain averaged only six per cent to eight per cent. It is felt that a permanent organization, responsible for integrating all tourist development programs, can most effectively maintain this momentum and encourage the continuing expansion of the State's multi-million dollar travel industry.
Temporary chairman of the group is Glenn McCullough, Executive Manager, Georgia Press Association. Others serving are Fred Zapico, Manager, Wanderer, Corsair and Carriage Inn Motels, Jekyll Island; Ed England, Executive Vice President, Georgia Restaurant Association; Liston Elkins, Manager, Okefenokee Swamp Park; Dick Borden, Director of Outdoor Advertising, Rock City Gardens; Mrs. Mozelle Christian, Manager, Educational Department and Travel Council, Georgia State Chamber of Commerce; Steve Styron, Executive Vice President, Georgia Hotel and Motel Association; and Eric Holmes, Executive Director, Petroleum Council of Georgia.
The first meeting of the committee was held the week of November 27. According to Chairman McCullough, a report is to be submitted within 60 days.
Valdosta Welcome Center
Formally Dedicated
by Governor
The seventh Georgia Welcome Center opened its doors to travelers December 14 at Valdosta. Governor Carl Sanders and other local and State officials were present to extend a warm greeting to the Center's first visitors, and the dedication address was given by the Governor.
The Valdosta Welcome Station is expected to be one of the busiest Centers in the State. Located on Interstate 75, between Valdosta and the Florida line, it will be in a strategic position to encourage thousands of travelers to stay and see Georgia.
There is no doubt about the Center being thoroughly Georgian - almost all the materials used to build it were produced in the State of Georgia. Red brick from Georgia clay, marble from the State's worldrenowned quarries, exposed beams of Southern pine. and pecan wood paneling enhance the architectural beauty of the building. Ultimate plans even call for the Center to be completely landscaped with trees and flowers native to the State.
Valdosta is the largest of the seven stations operating
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and boasts spacious grounds which accommodate am pie picnic, parking and rest room areas overlooking scenic lake.
A special feature of the Valdosta Welcome Cente is the small movie theater which presents a continuou run of Georgia attractions on film and slide-includin "Susan Hayward Invites You to Georgia."
The New Welcome Center at Valdosta
$50,000 for Fort King George Museum
The Coastal Empire in Georgia will relive again thi adventurous seafaring days when Spanish-America1 battles took place off the Georgia shores. Governor Car E. Sanders has allocated $50,000 to the Georgia His torical Commission for construction of a museum a Fort King George at Darien, once a bastion for th1 English against the Spanish in the early 18th Centur The fort itself, whose ruins still stand, will be restored
The Fort King George project is the newest of sev eral revitalized historical centers in the coastal area Fort McAllister, Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski and For Frederica on St. Simons Island have been restored wit! museums and are some of the State's leading attraction1 along the Coastal Empire of the State.
Augusta Welcome Center Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony
Georgia's eighth Welcome Center had its officia groundbreaking ceremonies November 23 at Augusta Governor Carl Sanders shoveled the first spade of eart1 for the strategically located center.
Augusta's Welcome Center is located on the south bound lane of I-20 between the Savannah River ano Washington Road. This particular site on 1-20 wa! chosen on the basis of the greatest attraction and need for such a rest stop by the traveling public. The prop erty was purchased through the cooperative effort o the City of Augusta, Richmond County and the State of Georgia. The architecture of the Augusta station wil be similar in design to the Lavonia, Sylvania and Ring gold Welcome Centers.
Augusta has one of the State's biggest industrial complexes with chemical companies spanning the affluent "Miracle Mile." There are many attractions in the city and the location of a welcome center will serve as a tour guide to the traveler-informing him of the historical sites, golfing accommodations and beauty of Augusta and Georgia.

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Five outstanding Georgia communities have been named winners in the 1966 "Stay and See Georgia" program sponsored by the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce. The Stay and See Georgia citations were presented at the Governor's Conference on Tourism at Callaway Gardens, November 18.
The winners in the contest's five classifications are Augusta, Brunswick, Montezuma, Jesup and Rutledge.
The Stay and See winners were chosen by five judges who spent 10 days touring the various Georgia communities. The team of travel experts included: Mrs. Lucile Kirk, Regional Editor, Parents Magazine, New York ; Miss Dee Allison, Editor-Georgia Edition, American Motorist Magazine, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Betty Hughes, Travel Editor, Cleveland Press, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Ann E. Lewis, Editor, Georgia Magazine, Decatur, Georgia ; and Hampton Dunn, Editor, Florida Explorer, Tampa, Florida.
Stay and See Georgia is a statewide program extended to promote tourism in Georgia. It encourages local communities to develop their tourist attractions, thereby supplementing the economy of their area.
Participants entering the program set up their own local Stay and See committees and launched a project in one of the five possible categories. Augusta, competing in the cities over 60,000 population area , offered a program of beautification. In "Points of Interest," Class II, Brunswick impressed the judges by "not sitting back and waiting for greater success to come to them , but energetically going out to get it," chamber officials said.
Montezuma captured top billing in Class IH (Accommodations and Facilities) on the basis of beautification and modernization of the downtown area, creating a four-color brochure listing attractions of the county, and developing the 216-acre Whitewater Park area.
Judges commended Jesup on its "visible solidarity of community spirit in planning, implementing and expanding a sound and well-conceived program for developing and improving Jesup's tourist potentials."
Rutledge won its award in the "New Attractions" category for "its alertness and awareness, enthusiasm and initiative, determination and hard work, civic pride and involvement of the entire community," stated the judges . Jesup had some very creative and interesting projects to spark community spirit such as a brochure entitled, "Wonderful Land of Progress," a nursery project to teach young people the art of horticulture, "Tourist for the Day" and a "Garden of the Month" award.
(Upper left) Fitzgerald Chamber of Commerce delegation at the "Carnival of Awards." Ma yor Etheridge Paulk , STAY AND SEE FITZGERALD Chairman, holds trophy iust received as Fitzgerald is cited tops in the I966 STAY AND SEE GEORGIA "Winners Circle ."
(Middle left) Tim Maund, Executive Director, Central Savannah River A rea Planning and Development Commission, Augusta, receives the STAY AND SEE Area Organization troph y from Mrs. Mo zelle Christian, Manager, Travel Council, Georgia State Chamber of Commerce.
Governor Carl Sanders speaking at the Governor's Conference on Tourism, during which the "STAY AND SEE GEORGIA" winners were announced.
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Jiltmhr ...
Suddenly it's the e nd of the year, and now it see ms to have gone all too quickly .
For most of us, 1966 h as been a good yea r, a nd in this, the fin al month , we p ause to refl ect on all th at has happened, what we accomplished , and what was left undone.
For each of us , too , D ece mber holds special meaning. To excited youngsters, it is a long-anticipated recess from school ...
. . . to grandparents , it me ans that the children , and their children, will all be coming home ...
. . . for the bu siness man , it may be a time for tak in g inventory and reckoning accounts ...
fn D ecember, mayors worry about decorating their towns for th e Holid ay Season ... and store owners are busy dress ing windows with gift suggestio ns.
D ece mber is a time when the trees are bare, yet the promi se of spring's renewal is in the chill air ...
December is a spec ial dinner, long in plannin g and preparation ... it's bright colored candies, fresh baked cookies. oranges and apples and nuts.
For many se rvicemen, thi s December find s the m in lands whose names a re difficult to pronounce.
During thi s month , too , we will be getting a lot of cards in the mail.
D ecember is a time when we look forward to the coming year, wondering how many of those Reso lution s we will keep .
D ece mber is all these things . ..

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT
OF
INDUSTRY AND TRADE

AVIATION A.DVANCES
AOPA Flight Tr~ining Clinic
The success of the recent AOPA Flight Training Clinic held at Callaway Gardens was an outstanding example of why the accident rate of general aviation is so low. Most of the pilots attending and participating in this Clinic were businessmen who owned their own planes and who use them for business purposes. Six flight training cdurses were offered at the Clinic aimed at upgrading the pilot's proficiency in aviation. Men attending took time off Jrom their work to upgrade their flying skill and did so at their own expense.
Two Georgia State Senators participated in the Clinic. One was Brooks Pennington of Madison . The other was Frank Etheridge of Waycross who received his Instrument Rating at the completion of the course.
This AOPA Flight Training Clinic was co-sponsored by the AOPA Foundation, Inc. , Callaway Gardens, and the Aviation Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Traffic was handled by traffic controllers from the Federal Aviation Agency, which furnished a mobile control tower. It was a busy three days for the new Gardens-Harris County Airport with 85 aircraft converging on the facility . Approximately 50 to 60 students were expected to enroll. Instead, 92 from 12 states and one foreign country (Germany) registered.
Mr. Ralph Nelson, Project Director of the AOPA Foundation, Inc., voiced his satisfaction with the Clinic: "Although we had more students than we had planned on , the magnificent cooperation by the Aviation Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade and the entire staff of Callaway Gardens and the Federal Aviation Agency made this one of the finest Clinics we have ever had." He said that the beautiful GardensHarris County Airport added that certain touch which helped to make all the hard work of the students just that much more pleasant. He concluded that they were hopeful of coming back to Callaway Gardens for another Clinic in the very near future .
State Senator Frank Etheridge on the right beams proudly as he receives his "Instrument Rating" at the AOPA Clinic from Doug Moore (left) , Area Supervisor of the General Aviation District Office of the F.A .A .
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Ever See
An Aircraft Accident?
Viewing vivid color slides showing the tragedy of an aircraft accident, the audience at the fourth annual Georgia General Aviation Education Seminar at Callaway Gardens gave its full attention to Mr. L. J . Mercure, Supervisor, General Aviation District Office of the F.A.A. , as he spoke on "Georgia Aircraft Accident ~ and Cures."
As each illustration appeared, Mr. Mercure explained the cause of the accident and the cure. One slide showed a plane with its engine demolished. This craft had not been used for two years and was in the process of beinng renovated. One evening a man and a woman decided to fly it. The result-demolition of the plane and the death of both passengers. The cure-more precautionary scrutiny before piloting a plane.
Another slide showed a plane standing on its nose in a field with the wings sheared off. This one had given out of gas, been unable to make it to a runway , and landed in a clump of trees. The cure-keep a careful check on the fuel gauge.
The next slide pictured scattered rubble which had once been a plane. This accident was caused by a student pilot who had borrowed a two-passenger plane without the owner's consent and took two of his buddies on a flight to death. Because of the urgency to return the plane without the owner knowing it had been gone, he did not wait for the weather to clear and the flight ended in the wreckage of the plane and the death of all three boys. The weather cleared up in a short time and had he waited, his only punishment would have been the wrath of the owner. The cure-wait for good flying weather and don't fly three people in a two-passenger plane.
A fourth lesson in flying safety showed a plane which had crashed upside down and resulted in a fatality. The pilot, who was on his way to a safety meeting at the Fulton County Airport , was in the habit of fastening his seatbelt around the controls. This particular night , the seatbelt had jammed the controls in a climbing position. The distressed plane finally stalled, flipped over and crashed. The cure-check your equipment before take-off.
Mr. Mercure cautioned that urgency is involved in many plane accidents. The business man has his mind on business more often than on his flying. The accident rate of doctors is four times that of general aviation pilots! Accidents are caused by lack of knowledge and/ or the failure to follow correct procedures. Accidents are also caused by skill versus flying conditions, pride, and weather.
Of the 97,720 aircraft in the United States, 95 ,519 of them are general aviation aircraft. Georgia has about 1,500 aircraft owners.
Reading about these accidents in the paper is one thing, but seeing them on these color slides made a deep impression on all who viewed them . With the slides, the accidents seemed very real-and they were.

Elberton's Patz Field-
Community Airport Sucess Story
Parked on the runway amidst Cessna 21 O's, Skyhawks and Aero Commanders stands a white station wagon with the inscription , "Elbert County Airport, Elberton, Georgia. " A gift of an Elberton citizen, the airport courtesy car is a matter of great pride to the people of Elberton and is regarded as a big vote of confidence for the airport project.
The airport complex of Elberton contrasts with the early days of the city when post riders brought the mail over the Old Post Road , now one of the main streets of the town.
In the beginning, the first step towards the realization of this busy airport was a gift of 47.6 acres to Elbert County by Mr. and Mrs. Crayton Phelps. The second step was the approval by the State of a $22 ,118 county contract to grade and pave a roadway to the airstrip from the Calhoun Falls H ighway. The ro ad was made possible also by a gift of property for rightof-way by Mr. and Mrs. Peyton S. Hawes. The County Commissioners then purchased 75.5 acres at $1 00 per acre to enlarge the airstrip size and to make adjacent land available for industrial use . This was in December, 1963. The airport was dedicated in 1964 as Patz Field in honor of Mr. Louis Patz, another civic leader.
After initial construction was completed, apathy stagnated further development of the airport until December, 1965. The airport badly needed lights, telephones, a plane rental facility and flight fuel in order to attract aircraft to the strip. The field also needed hangars, flight training and an office and communications operator. An Advisory Committee made up of community aviation enthusiasts was appointed including: Chairman John Harris Bailey, Sr. of the First National Bank of Elberton; Dr. Jack B. Hanks , and Dr. John O'Neal.
Through the determination of this Committee and the support of other interested citizens, the airport became a challenging project. The Elberton Airport now has a fixed base operator, Barry King, who together with his partner, Milford Higginbotham , offers plane rental , tie downs and flight training with a certified commercial pilot and flight instructor availab)e at all times .
There are phones at the airport and a mobile home which has been converted into a passenger lounge and office to accommodate airport patrons. The facility is attended daily during daylight hours and 80 octane gas is available for refueling. A small hangar at the corner of the field is the first of several planned hangars which will be for rent. The parking lot is becoming a reality and eventually an administration building will go up adjoining the parking lot to replace the present office .
Then came the problem of proper lighting. Because Canton was the nearest airport with lights, planes had to fly into Canton after dark and drive to Elberton . The Elbert County Commissioners became aware of this problem and furnished $1 ,200 for lights, the City of Elberton furnished equipment and some of the labor and local electricians did the work of installing them . Consequently, the airport now has a good installation of low intens ity lights and a 10-inch revolving beacon . No longer do the Elberton folk have to fly into Canton after dark! In addition, the county has agreed to take action in d!gging a well , equipped with an electric

pump, for the airport. Promotion is achieved by advertisements run regu-
larly in the local papers offering airplanes for hire , for business or pleasure, and calling attention to the time saved by flying as compared to other transportation methods. Pictures of airport activities are often published: The people talk airport.
Messrs. King and Higginbotham have eight shirt tails tacked up on the wall of the office, bearing witness to the fact that eight student pilots have soloed. Since December, 1965, seven people have received their pilot's rating and there are at present 17 student pilots.
City Manager C. A. Brown speaks enthusiastically of the airport. In the short time since these activities began, there has been a definite impact on the economy of the area. Textured Products Company, which is a subsidiary of the Daniel Construction Company, has built a plant near the airport. Besides administrative personnel, this company employs about 45 workers and has an annual payroll of about $275 ,000. The company manufactures roof decking, a combination of concrete and wood pulp, and expects to use 10,000 cords of wood in the first year of operation .
Seaboard Railroad has just completed a spur line to the Textured Products plant and around the airport. Other sites will now be more attractive to industry with the availability of rail as well as air transportation . Area land owners have reportedly agreed to make property available for right-of-way for spur line to tract.
At present, Mathis Construction Company, in Athens, has a contract to build an addition to the local high school. These workers commute by private aircraft as did employees of the Davis Constructors and Engineers of Albany when they were building the Textured Products plant.
M & Y Refrigeration Company also uses the airport facilities for transportation to jobs in Dawsonville, North Carolina and Florida. They thoroughly endorse the airport as a means of employing Elberton labor on out-of-town jobs and flying them home at night to be with their families .
The granite industry, the largest in Elberton, regularly flies executive personnel in and out.
When the X-ray machine at the hospital broke down , an Atlanta company flew in a repairman who completed the work and left in record time . The availability of the airport saved the hospital a good deal of money in shortening the travel time.
Mr. Brown also called attention to the fact that Elberton is becoming a recreational area. With the future Trotters Shoals Dam to built on the Savannah River and the existing Clark Hill Dam not too far away, more and more weekend flyers will be taking advantage of the Elbert County Airport and flying in with their friends and families.
Mr. Doug Hollomon, County Clerk, pointed out that due to the availability of transportation by air, rail and motor lines and available utilities, the area is ideal for the development of an industrial park.
The enthusiasm of these air-minded Elberton people is contagious. Talk to any one of them and you will learn at once that they are planning a prosperous future for their community. No more waning interest. No more neglected airport. Plans for action are being made constantly. The construction and use of this airport is just beginning to bring about the economic changes which its planners dreamed . They feel sure they are just beginning to go places!
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I I

GEORGIA IN ACTION.

Southern Airways Third
Quarter Financial Report
Southern Airways, Inc., President Frank W. Hulse, in a report released to the company's 3,500 stockholders, said the Atlanta headquartered local service airline had net income before disposal of property of $300,034 during the third quarter of 1966.
This compared with $232,072 in the third quarter last year.
Southern also had a $33 ,364 net profit from disposal of five DC-3 aircraft, resulting in a total net income of $333,398, or 33 cents per share on the 1,005 ,000 shares outstanding.
Net income per share in 1965's third quarter was 23 cents.
For the nine-month period ended September 30, Southern had net income of $658,434 before disposal of property, and net income of $36,583 from disposal of DC-3 aircraft, resulting in a total net income of $695,017. This produced net income per share of 69 cents. For the same period in 1965, income was $687,248 before disposal of equipment, $26,885 from sale of phased-out aircraft, for a total net income of $714,133 or 71 cents per share.
Southern's total operating revenues for the third quarter of 1966 were $5,873 ,113 , compared with $5,053,285 in the same 1965 quarters. For the nine-month period, operating revenues were $16,513,120, up from $14,589,838.
Planning Program Progressing
for Franklin
The Planning Division of the Department of Industry and Trade has recently completed the second phase of a three part comprehensive planning program for Franklin, Georgia . The first part of the program consisted of collection and analysis of population trends and economic growth. The studies just completed contain the Future Land Use Plan, the Major Thoroughfare Plan, and the Community Facilities Plan. Part three, which will be ready in the near future , consists of recommendations for a Public Improvements Program, Recommended Zoning and Subdivision Regulations, and the Continuing Planning Program.
The studies are prepared under contract by the I & T Planning Division for the Franklin City Council and its Planning Commission. The program is financially aided through a federal grant from the Urban Renewal Administration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Urban Planning Assistance Program authorized by Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 as amended.
Magee Carpets Lays
Groundwork for $3 Million Plant
Company and State officials gathered in Perry recently to attend the groundbreaking ceremonies of the new $3 million Magee Carpet plant. It was a festive occasion for the citizens of Perry; the nation's tenth largest carpet manufacturer is expected to employ some
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400 people, adding greatly to the economy of the surrounding area.
Mr. James G. Law, President of Magee Carpet Company of Bloomsburg Pennsylvania, said that he expects production to begin in the second half of 1967. Machinery will be moved into the plant during the second quarter of 1967 and initial production will start with between 100 and 125 employees.
Mr. Law explained that the building, expandable from all four sides, will have 180 acres in which to grow as production demands.
Magee Carpet has been in operation for 77 years. has 1,800 employees in Bloomsburg and has buildings covering 1,300,000 square feet.
James G. Law and other Magee officials launch construction at Perry.
Applach ian Approva I for $5.2 Million
The Appalachian Regional Commission has approved more than $5.2 million in grants for Georgia projects in Forsyth, Trenton, Blairsville and Canton .
Ninth District Representative Phil M . Landrum announced approval of a $5,047,000 grant for construction of two sections of the Appalachian Highway near Forsyth.
Purchase of rights-of-way for the 14.3 miles of road will begin in fiscal year 1967, Landrum said. Construction will start shortly after.
Banking Notes
Georgia's second and third largest commercial bank s. the First National Bank of Atlanta and the Trust Company of Georgia , report operating profit increases of 21 per cent for the first nine months of the year. The Trust Company also broke ground for the 26-story-plus main office building scheduled to open in two years. The Trust Company's new 500,000 square foot building will be located next to its present facility and will cost $15 million.
Saks Fifth Avenue Moves to Peachtree Address
A $38 million prestige shopping center on Peachtree Road , Phipps Plaza, will be the new address for Saks Fifth Avenue of Atlanta. The shoppinl? complex will be located across the street from Lenox Square, the largest shopping center in the Southeast. Sak s has purch ased 100,000 square feet for its Georgia store to open in February, 1968.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Bigger Profits Through Exports
"Bigger Profits Through Exports" was the subject of an export workshop held in Savannah on November 15. "Exporting is good business," stated H. W. Jervis , Director of Traffic for Hercules, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware, which is one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the United States. Hercules has two plants in Georgia at Brunswick and Savannah and a new $50 million operation is being constructed in Covington.
Mr. Jervis further advised that a company should never base its entry into foreign countries on the basis of creating a surplus market but, rather, should create the market as an important needed customer. Should there be a need for allocation of production, domestic customers should participate along with foreign customers instead of channeling total production into the domestic field at the expense of foreign markets. In other words, Mr. Jervis favored planning on the basis of global countries which happen to be headquartered in the United States. On the other hand , suppose a company is operating at only partial capacity. Selling in foreign markets to increase the operating level to 100 per cent-or even 110 per cent of capacitycould improve unit costs by perhaps as much as 18-20 per cent which could then be transferred to domestic sales.
After warning that exporting would be "aggravating only when poorly prepared ," Mr. Jervis made the following suggestions:
1. Establish the need and desire for your products through market surveys, participation in trade missions and trade shows, in other words , extend your domestic procedures abroad.
2. Don't lump everyone outside of the United States in a general category-"foreigners."
3. Never be condescending, but suggest the possibility of working together. Above all , create a common relationship, acknowledging the sophis tication of a culture far older than ours .
Using his own company as an example, Mr. Jervis refuted the argument that the establishment of foreign plants would result in reduced exports. Ten years ago Hercules had four overseas plants; now there are 23 , and parent-to-subsidiary shipments- exports- have increased from $29 to $57 million, accounting for approximately one-fourth of total export sales. Nor did the establishment of overseas plants mean any job losses in the United States ; domestic plants were employing more and more workers .
Mr. Jervis also emphasized the necessity for buying abroad in addition to making investments overseas. This makes dollars available and enables other countries to buy U. S. products and services.
"Doing Business With Eastern European Countries" was discussed in depth bv J . Mishell George, Special Assistant to the Director, Bureau of International Commerce, U. S. Department of Commerce. Some of the adverse factors hampering East-West trade were: the U.S.S.R . is the only Eastern country with gold capacity to pay for its more lucrative imports; the lack of foreign currency convertibility; the obstacles to credit availability; and the lack of a wide range of goods produced in the East which can compete in America.

On the positive side, Mr. George stated that in 1965 total trade with Eastern European countries amounted to $11.3 billion, of which more than two-thirds was with the United Kingdom and Western Europe, while trade with the United States amounted to only $277 million, or less than three per cent. For the first eight months of 1966, total trade with our country was at an annual rate of around $350 million. The amount of U. S. goods sold through third country participation into Eastern Europe is not included and the significant growth in technical data does not show in such statistics.
Mr. George expressed the view that the outlook was favorable for a modest improvement under current conditions , while substantial improvement could result from an easing of some of the adverse factors now present. More than likely there would continue to be a favorable trade advantage to the United States for many years to come though such trade would still account for only two to three per cent of total U. S. trade. Much will depend upon the interest and effort expended to overcome complicated and archaic trade barriers.
The recent Georgia Trade Mission to the Netherlands and Scandinavia found trading companies interested in representing and assisting American companies in selling to the Eastern bloc. Whether their higher degree of sophistication in dealing with such countries would be the answer to the apparent frustrations of direct selling would be a matter for individual determination and experience.
Georgia Foreign Aid
Exports Reach $7.9 Million
For the first nine months of this year, foreign aidfinanced exports from Georgia were valued at $7 .9 million, the U. S. Department of Commerce reports. Comparative figures for the other Southeastern states during this fiscal period were reported as follows:
Florida, $12 million ; Alabama, $4.5 million; South Carolina, $3.4 million ; Tennessee, $3 million; and North Carolina, $2.6 million. Approximately $1 billion worth of American goods are sold abroad each year under the foreign aid program.
Trade Mission Returns
Filled with enthusiasm which helped to overcome the rigors of the trip , the eight members of the Georgia Trade Mission to Scandinavia and the Netherlands arrived home to follow up the many contacts made during their stay abroad. Mrs. Virginia W. Allgood, Mission Coordinator, reports a highly successful trip with some contacts which "could result in headlines" if preliminary interest carries over into the anticipated agreements.
A number of trade opportunities and trade leads were developed on the Mission, many of which have already been passed along to those participating in the Business Proposal Service. Others will be made available through direct correspondence and through announcement.
The complete report of the results will be made available at the earliest opportunity. Plans for future Mission trips will be forthcoming shortly.
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GEORGIA DEVELOPMENT
Growing DeKalb County
The Industrial Committee of 100 of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce reports the following new industries and expansion in their area:
The GREEN GIANT COMPANY of LeSueur, Minnesota , will begin operation soon in its new 60,000 square foot distribution center at Tucker-Stone Mountain Industrial District.
Neighbors at the Tuc-ker-Stone Mountain Industrial District will be CHESEBROUGH-POND'S, INC. , of Clinton, Connecticut. The Atlanta Division will move into a 33,000 square foot building which will serve as a sales and warehousing facility employing 16 workers .
A 30,000 square foot office and warehouse facility is being constructed at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard by CATHCART ALLIED COMPANY of Atlanta.
BEKINS VAN & STORAGE COMPANY, the world 's largest moving and storage firm, has completed a new 18,600 square foot wa rehouse in the I-85 Industrial District. The new structure contains 12,800 square feet and employs 15 people. The company warehouses paint spray equipment.
Expansion Announcements
MAGNOLIA PLASTICS, INC., manufacturer of custom formulated epoxy resins, is expanding by 7,400 square feet at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Chamblee.
B & W TOOL AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., has moved its Atlanta operation into a 19,500 square foot building in the Southeast DeKalb Industrial Park.
Multimillion Dollar Foundry
Announces location in
Bulloch County
Blackstone Corporation of Jamestown, New York has announced plans to build a multimillion dollar foundry in Bulloch County at Statesboro along the Central of Georgia Railroad.
Mr. Reginald A. Lenna, Blackstone President and Chief Executive Officer, says that plans for the new foundry are already on the drawing boards and that it will be one of the most modern in the country. The very latest equipment will be installed in the Statesboro plant, and employees will be schooled in the most modern practices of the trade.
Actual construction of the plant should begin early next year and the physical structure of the new plant will be approximately 1,000 feet long and 285 feet wide, providing 285,000 square feet of total plant space.
Blackstone Corporation is reputed to be the oldest manufacturer of home laundry appliances and the largest independent producer of automotive radiators and heater cores. Other divisions of Blackstone include the Jamestown Malleable Iron Division and the Flux Division of Jamestown. The subsidiary corporations are Blackstone-UltraSonic, Inc. , at Sheffield, Pennsylvania; Blackstone Industrial Products. Ltd ., of Stratford , Ontrio, Canada; Majac, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
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and O'Conner Machine Company of Sheffield, Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of Majac.
The Bulloch-Biackstone plant site will be on a main high tension line of the Georgia Power Company since it w!ll initially install six . electric furnaces requiring considerable power. The City of Statesboro will install a gas main to the site to furnish ample natural gas for the needs of the operation.
The Blackstone operation is especially beneficial to this part of the State. It not only utilizes the abundance
of available labor in Bulloch County, but also the tremendous natural resources of timber in the State.

Top Officials Announce
Expo nsion of
Lavonia Operation
Plant Manager Winnon Smith of the Lavonia operation of Franklin Industries, Inc. , released plans to double the size of the present plant facility only 18 months after initial production began.
The expansion will increase the plant size to approximately 30,000 square feet and will result in the need for additional employees. The Lavonia plant now employs 38 people in the manufacture of high-speed industrial sewing machines widely used in the textile industry. The Franklin Industries subsidiary is slated to be the finest equipped and most modern machine shop in this area.
Construction on the new addition is to begin immediately.

Fulton Creates
4 New Su bsid ia ries
Fulton Industries, Inc. , of Atlanta is branching out again. This time, four new divisions have been established by its subsidiary company, Continental / MossGordin. The 134-year-old cotton ginning machinery manufacturer has decided to expand in order to diversify its operations, stated Jay Levine, Fulton board chairman. The four new divisions are producing machinery for textile mills, environmental control equipment for wholesale and retail food distributors, drying equipment for food processors, and harvesting machinery for farmers. Each division has developed and is manufacturing specialized machinery that is new in its field. Continentai/Moss-Gordin has plants in Prattville, Alabama, and in Lubbock, Texas.

R and R To Revamp

Expansion of R and R Manufacturing Company has

started at the Auburn sewing plant. A new 29,000

square foot building will be constructed adjacent to the

Seaboard Railroad and Highway 29. The new building will alleviate the present ~rowded

conditions, increasing the company's production rate

and employment.

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The R and R Manufacturing Company has been Ill

operation since 1941 and has furnished regular employment to people of Auburn and Carl a; well ~s the

surrounding areas of Barrow and Gwinnett Counties.

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D E L T A A I R L I N E S nance, said that unaudited figures showed net income of $ 16,862,000, or $2 .65 per share, a 160 per cent

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increase over the same period last year, when earnings after taxes were $6,4 89,000, or $ 1.02 per sha re after the adju stment fo r a 2-for- 1 stock split on D ece mber

GROWTH

13 , 1965.
"Of the' $2. 65 earnings per share for this yea r's first qu arter, it has been estim ated th at the strike (aga in st

fi ve trunk-lines for 43 days in Jul y and August) ac-

Delta Air Lines has announced th at it recently exer-

co unted fo r $ 1.1 I , but, even without the strik e wind-

ci sed options on 12 "stretched" D C-9s and seven

fa ll ," Oppenl ander sa id , "Delta's earnings growth for

"stretched" D C-8s th at will cost $ 105 ,000,000.

thi s quarter would have equ alled the 50 per cent

Ch arles H . Dolson, Pres ident, sa id th at deli veri es of

achi eved in th e fi scal year 1966 over 1965 ."

the Douglas-built jets are schedul ed for 1968 and

Freight revenues reached a new monthl y high of

1969 .

$ 1,323,000, up 11 per cent. Thi s was due in part to

"These aircraft , plus 31 D C-9s and fi ve 'stretched' DC-8s still undelivered under prev ious commitm ents and our present 48 jets will res ult in a jet fl eet of I 03 aircraft by th e end of 1969 ," Dolso n sa id. "The fl eet

in augurating Lockheed I 00 all-cargo service on September 15. Service with three a ircraft was to be increased on November I to 11 cities, fo rmin g a coastto-coast and Midwest-to-Fl orida network .

will then consist of 14 stand ard DC-9s (65 passenge rs) ,

In connection with the announcement by D elta o f

40 'stretched' D C-9s (89 passengers), 21 standard DC-

its new pl anes, ground breaking ceremonies for a

8s ( 13 3 passe ngers), 12 'stretched' D C-8s ( 195 p asse n-

$6,500,000 ex pansion to Delta Air Lines' maintenance

gers), and 16 Co nvair 880s (96 passengers) ."

center were held recently.

Dolson sa id th at 55 Douglas jets to be delive red

Mo re recently announced is D elta Air L ines' pro-

through 1969 will cost more th an a qu arter billion

posal for four nonstop and three one-stop fli ghts weekl y

doll ars. Fin ancing will be through intern al ge neration

from Atl anta to Honolulu , in addition to daily service,

and the present $45 million revolving bank credit.

either direct or via connections, to H awaii and majo r

"We expect our fir st 'stretched' DC-8 in earl y 1967

cities in th e F ar E ast.

and hope to have three of th e a ircraft in se rvice by mid-

The schedul es were fil ed with a Civil Aeron autics

year," Dolson sa id. " We are approaching the comple-

Boa rd Examiner in Washin gton . Thi s major new route

tion of the first year of D C-9 operations and now have

proposal is incorporated in the CAB's Transpacific

II of th e twinjets in scheduled service. "

R oute Investigation , scheduled for public hearings ea rl y

Accompanying the aircraft announcement at the reg-

in 1967.

ul ar Board of Directors meeting was the fin anci al re-

Delta 's propos al would link its present southern and

port fo r the new fi scal year's first qu arter, July 1 - Sep-

Caribbe an route system with through-pl ane service to

tember 30. R obert Oppenl ander, Vice President-Pi-

H awaii , J apan , Korea, Hong Kong, and th e Philippines.

(T op) Th e stretched version of Delta's new DC-Bs, one of 19 Douglas-built jets scheduled for delivery for 1968 and 1969 . (Bottom left) Charles M . Dolson, President o f Delta, announced that Delta will have a jet fl eet of 103 aircraft by th e end of 1969 . (B ottom righ t) M odern groundbreaking for the $6 ,500 ,000 expansion to Delta Air Lines' main tenance center.
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