Georgia progress

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF
INDUSTRY AND TRADE
LT. GE . LOUIS W. TRUMAN, ExecutilJe Director
JULIUS F: BISHOP, Chairman Mayor City of Athens Athens, Georgia
KIRK SUTLIVE Manager Public Relations (Retired) Union-Camp Paper Corporation Savannah, Georgia
B. T. BURSON Publisher The Camilla Enterprise Camjl1a, Georgia
ALLAN M. WOODALL, JR. President WDAK Radio Columbus, Georgia
JOHN K. PORTER President John K. Porter Company, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
EUGENE A. YATES Vice President Georgia Power Company Atlanta, Georgia
ROGER SCHOER ER Executi\'e Vice President Southwire Company Carrollton, Georgia
JOHN P. PICKETT Pickett Chevrolet Company Cedartown, Georgia
WILLIAM A. POPE Washington, Georgia
ALLYN J. MORSE Vice President (Retired) Coats & Clark, Inc. Toccoa, Georgia
BUDDY M. NESMITH President Buddy M. NeSmith Motors, Inc. Cochran, Georgia
JOHN E. PARKERSON President The Bank of Tifton Tifton, Georgia
W. T. ROBERTS A ttorney at Law Monte.zuma, Georgia
CLARK E. HARRISO ,JR. President Clark Harrison & Company, Inc. Decatur, Georgia
THOMAS G. COUSINS President Cousins Properties, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia
JOH R. HI ES Hogansville, Georgia
ALEX S. BOYER, JR. Sylvania, Georgia
WILLIAM BAZEMORE President The First National Bank of Waycross Waycross, Georgia
RALPH J. CLEVELAND President Gainesville Milling Company Gainesville, Georgia
WALTER GRAHAM President Mariella Commercial Bank Mariella, Georgia

CONTENTS

VIEWPOINT.

5

FEATURES

Macon "On the Move"

6

The Town that Cared

9

The Savannah Plan .

14

Georgia Restores Architectural Gem

16

Petroleum Council "Treats" Georgia Tourists

18

Georgia's Got It-for Aero Commander and Grumman 20

SPECIAL FEATURES

Carpet Capital, U.S.A.

8

from Newsweek Magazine

Why Atlanta Grows .

12

by Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.

PHOTO STORY

Governor's Conference on Industrial Development .

. 26

DEPARTMENTS

Control Tower

22

Growing Georgia

23

International Trade

27

Tour Georgia

.28

GEORGIA SCOPE

ews at a Glance

.30

ABOUT THE COVER "Growth Sign" depicting record $625 million spent by new and expanding industry in Georgia during Fiscal Year l1968.
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MAGAZINE STAFF

ED SPIVIA Managing Editor
A native of orth Carolina Ed Spivia a sumed duties on May I a Director of Public Relations for the Department of Industry and Trade. Mr. Spivia came to Georgia in 1965 from orth Carolina where he had worked for five years in radio and broadcasting. Prior to joining the Department, he was employed for three years by WGST Radio in Atlanta as a news reporter covering the Capitol.
PAULA COSTELLO Assistant Editor WILMA BURNS Art Director
PHOTO CREDITS Inside front cover . . Bob Veri in Inside back cover . . . Ed Spivia Back cover . . William Birdsong Page 8. . . . Charles Henry Page 14. . . Gerald C. Lubenow
Newsweek Magazine
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MAI~~GA._
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE P. O. BOX 38097, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334

Below are excerpts from letters Gen. Truman received from participants and attendees of the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development held September 19 and 20 in Atlanta (story on pages 26 and 35).
In future issues, "Georgia Progress" will publish letters to the editor in Mail Room. We invite you to send your comments-and criticisms-to "Georgia Progress."

Just a line to let you know that I thought

the conference on Industrial Develop-

ment wa excellent in every respect. The

Conference was conducted in a business-

like manner and certainly each and every

program wa interesting and informa-

tive. eedless to _ay, the keynote address

by Dr. Langdale et the pace.

I per onaJly came away with several

ideas which might be beneficial to us in

the future, together with renewed enthusi-

a m for seeking indu try in our area.

Jesup, Ga.

***
I want to offer you my congratulations

on what I feel was a mo t successful

Governor's Industrial Development

Conference which the State Board of

Indu try & Trade so ably put on.

We of the Georgia Agribusine s

Council were particularly proud to have

a small part in the program. Judging

from the comments I heard, the confer-

ence should bear fruit for a long time

to come.

Atlanta, Ga.


The conference on Industrial Develop-

ment, which I wa privileged to attend,

was a most informative and well con-

ducted meeting. You and your staff are

to be congratulated for putting together

such a fast moving and efficient concen-

tration of knOWledge in a two-day

program.

Calhoun Ga.

**

This was one of the best conferences on

industrial development I have attended

anywhere. The peakers and subjects

covered were out tanding. Enthusiasm

among tho e pre ent was quite evident.

There is no question but that this

conference was regarded a a highlight

among the other out tanding accomplish-

ment by the Department of Industry

and Trade during the last year.

Certainly this conference was an

indication of better thing to come in

development program for agribusiness,

rural industrialization and community

improvement.

Atlanta Ga.

I would like to express my thanks and

gratitude for the opportunity of attending

the luncheon and hearing Governor

Lester Maddox's addre s at your Gover-

nor's Conference on Industrial Develop-

ment.

Ontario, Canada
* :;:: :+:

I benefitted greatly from your Governor's

Conference and have already ent copies

of your program to Tennessee and

Virginia.

Atlanta, Ga.

**

Thank you for an effective conference.

I know you had to put much "over and

above the call of duty" effort into it.

Becau e of it, we did not come away, as

we so often do, feeling that our time

was wasted. We also know that your

speakers were able to obtain the attention

of everal that we have not gotten to

so far.

Camilla, Ga.

I want to tell you again how much I

enjoyed participating in the Governor's

Industrial Development Conference

last week.

You certainly had an excellent pro-

gram lined up both days and I particu-

larly appreciate your letting me have a

small part in it. I believe the conference

will continue to pay dividends to all of

us interested in the further development

of Georgia and I commend you and all

of your a sociates for a job well done.

Atlanta, Ga.
**

Congratulations on a successful

Governor's Conference on Industrial

Development.

All the attendee I have spoken to

about the Conference have enthusiasti-

cally endor ed the program and are

looking forward to next year.

We appreciate your efforts toward the

development of all of Georgia.

Baxley, Ga.
**

I feel that it is one of the finest confer-

ences T have ever attended and that it

will do much toward attracting industry

to our state.

Douglas, Ga.

Viewpoint
NOVEMBER /68

EDITOR'S NOTE: Our guest columnist this issue is Mr. Ed Bodenhamer, Director of the Research Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade.
O f the many and varied tasks assigned to the Research Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade, one of the most unique and most interesting is the responsibility for collecting and maintaining information about the growth of manufacturing industries in Georgia. Keeping up with announcements of new manufacturing plants and expansions to existing plants and obtaining facts about the number of square feet of floor space in the plants, the investment in buildings and equipment, the number of workers to be employed, etc., offers a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of the researcher unlike that of any other research projects. Utilizing a variety of information gathering techniques which have been developed and perfected over a period of years, the Research Division now maintains records which are very accurate and complete. The State of Georgia benefits greatly from these records.
One of the chief benefits of the records of growth of manufacturing industry within the State is the insight that developers receive relative to industrial growth patterns. An analysis of these growth patterns can point out strengths and weaknesses in the development program and give indicators of areas which should receive more or less emphasis in subsequent development activities. The analysis may identify additional sectors of industry which should receive special attention from developers. Too, the analysis may also assist in isolating community characteristics which appeal most to industrialists and, thus, give guidance to other communities seeking to improve their image and attractiveness to industry.
Another benefit to the State, especially when business is booming as in recent months in Georgia, is the image given to industrialists considering a Southern location. Most companies are interested in locating in a state with a healthy, vibrant, industrial economy; one in which other companies have also demonstrated an interest. The fact that other companies have shown enough confidence in Georgia to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new plants in one year serves to inspire other companies to do the same. Success breeds success, goes the old cliche, and the more success we have, the more likely we are to be even more successful. It is important then that every bit of this success be reported in order to present to industrialists the true picture of opportunity in Georgia.
The reasons outlined above are sufficient to justify the extensive activities of the Department of Industry and Trade in collecting information about industrial growth in Georgia, but in addition, the Department is also specifically charged by legislation to maintain such records. However, the Department must rely on voluntary submission of information by companies involved or obtain the information through other sources. The processes employed are thorough and exhaustive, and, as stated above, give accurate results.
The primary sources of information about new or expanded manufacturing facilities in Georgia are the companies involved. Each time a new plant or expansion is announced, the company is asked to complete a questionnaire giving important facts about the plant. The company is assured that the information about the plant will be kept confidential if it is so desired. A high percentage of the companies provide the information requested, and, of those who do, nearly all require the information to be kept confidential. For this reason, the Department of Industry and Trade will disclose no data about an individual plant or company.
continued on page 33
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MACON
"ON THE

"A city where the growth of business and industry constantly changes her skyline . .. a skyline that is moving up in every direction."

by Totsy Nichols

An architectural rendering of the new $4.5 million Macon Junior College opened this fall.

o Macon, Georgia-a city on the
move. A city that is rapidly growing in population, industry, education, culture, transportation, and community facilities. A city where the growth of business and industry constantly changes her skyline; a skyline that is moving up in every direction; the 15-story Georgia Power Building in the north; the multi-million-dollar Packaging Corporation Industry in the south; the $4.5 million coliseum in the east; and the new Junior College in the west.
Macon in 1968 continues the industrial boom that led experts in the field to predict another period of growth similar to the one which

brought the city to its present stature. A new industrial park at the Macon Municipal Airport which was in the planning stages in 1964 now has 11 industrial buildings at an investment exceeding $9 million. Seven already are occupied by new firms moving into the area or expansion of local firms, two are under construction, and two shell buildings are being offered to industrial prospects. They are designed for immediate completion to meet the specific requirements of an industrial tenant.
The airport park is one of several major industrial sites being developed on various sides of the city. One, developed by Fickling and

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Walker, Inc., is divided into two areas of 25 and 30 acres. This area of land is located on Mead Road and is bounded by the city limits. Thornton Realty Company is developing another 150-acre site on Emery Highway just outside the city limits of Macon. All industrial sites are in prime locations, amply served by rail, highway and utilities.
Industrial expansions by local firms and operations moving into Macon recently have added millions of dollars in community investments, as well as additIonal payrolls and new products. Maxson Electronics Corporation-$6.8 million acquisition of the Naval Ordnance Plant; Mead Corporation-$500,000 plant; Southern Electronics Engineering Corporation-$250,000; Hehr Products Corporation-$200,000 plant; Tumpane Company$100,000 expansion; Home Federal Savings and Loan - $1 million building; Southern Bell Telephone -$2 million expansion; First National Bank and Trust-$250,000 expansion and major modification;
Southern Railway freight yard$12 million; Baconsfield Shopping Center - $500 000; Town and Country Shopping Center-$200,000 expansion; Riverside Shopping Center-IO-acre site; Armstrong Cork Company-50 percent expansion of production capacity; Dillard Paper Company-$250,000 plant;

Macon Billiard Supply Company$286,000 plant and expansion; Burns Brick Company-$1 million expansion; Timberlake Grocery Company - $375,000 expansion; Inland Container Corporation-20 percent expansion.
Recent announcements of new industries and expansion by existing ones are solid indications that further gro~h is taking place; National Cue Chalk Manufacturing Company$250,000; Packaging Corporation of America-$4.4 million plant and an additional $2.2 million expansion; DuPont Company-purchase of 1,400 acres of industrial land for future manufacturing use; Bibb Manufacturing Company-$8 million plant; White Stores-Eastern division warehouse and district office; Art Furniture Manufacturing Company-$4.4 million plant; and Southern Bell Telephone Company's $1.7 million accounting office and division center.
Industrially, Macon is among Southeastern leaders. The city has 164 diversified manufacturing plants employing approximately 14,100 people. Textiles employ 18 percent of the area's manufacturing personnel with food processing a close second with 17 percent. Robins Air Force Base, 16 miles to the south, is Georgia's largest employer with over 24,000 people earning close to $153 million annually. Other major industries include manufacturers of lumber and wood products, brick, apparel, fabricated metal products, chemicals, machinery and furniture.
Located in the expansive "cotton country" of the South, Macon is a center for the textile industry and for associated production of apparel and linens. Middle Georgia is among the nation's richest pulpwood areas, supplying Macon-area industries producing Kraft paper, container board and structural insulation. Other valuable resources in raw materials include large quantities of hardwood and a majority of the nation's supply of kaolin and Fuller's earth.
Authorities believe that Macon's industrial development is just beginning. They see the Southeast as the nation's favored region for industrial expansion-and Macon is strategically located in the center of this great area.

The Macon Hilton Hotel, a $6 million, 300-roam facility, will be located in downtown Macon and is scheduled to open in early 1970.
The Citizens & Southern National Bank's $30 million shapping complex is scheduled for completion in late 1971.
An aerial view of Packaging Corporation of America's $4.4 million plant located in Macon's Airport Industrial Park.
Each issue of "Georgia Progress" will contain an article featuring a city or area on the move. Persons interested in seeing their city featured in this section should submit stories and accompaJ1,ying photographs to "On the Move," Georgia Progress Magazine, 100 State Capitol, A tlanta, Georgia 30334.
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Excerpt from story which appeared in NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE.
o "Bedspread Boulevard" it's
called, the stretch of Atlanta-Chattanooga highway in the red-clay country of Northwest Georgia. One roadside stand after another displays chenille bedspreads emblazoned with gaudy peacocks, or throw rugs decorated with the Smoky Mountains' black bear. But the sign outside the once-sleepy mountain town at the heart of the area tells a prouder story. "DALTON," it says, "Carpet Capital of the World."
The title, unlike some roadside boasts, is one that few could dispute. What started in Dalton as the pin-money project of a cabin housewife named Catherine Evans in 1895 has exploded, in the last two decades, into the billion-dollar tufted-carpet industry.
The tufting process used by Catherine Evans and the mountain women of Dalton consists basically of poking a continuous thread through a jute backing, up and down, to form small loops on the surface (the quality of the product depends upon the density of the loops). Eventually, crude needle machines replaced the hand labor of the women, but it was not until after World War II that the potential of tufted carpetingas opposed to the long-established weaving and knitting process-began to be felt. Today tufting accounts for 90 percent of all the carpeting produced in the U. S. Last year tufted-carpet sales were $1.1 billion against only $215 million for woven and knitted products. And Dalton, the cradle of the industry, turns out two-thirds of all the tufted carpets (plus bedspreads, too). In Whitfield County, of which Dalton is the seat, there are currently 7 plants producing carpets and rugs, many individually owned, and about 100 others connected with the industry, such as fiber pro-
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Pictured here is tufting in one of its earliest forms. The production of chenille bedspreads was the forerunner of Northwest Georgia's large carpet industry.

ducers and dyers. Forty-four were built in the last five years.
Boom Town: Inevitably, the boom has brought a huge influx of newcomers into the Dalton areamillworkers from mountains and farms, including a number of Cherokee Indians, on the one hand, and a flood of executives and administrative personnel on the other. There is also money in the air. It is estimated that the Dalton area's 39,000 people (up from 14,000 in 1940) include 50 to 60 millionaires. The story is told of one textile executive who decided to settle in Dalton and asked a local lawyer to arrange a mortgage for him on a new home in the $100,000 range. The lawyer gulped and said that Dalton wasn't used to that kind of money. "In that case" said the executive, "I'll pay cash. "
Today expensive homes are no rarity in Dalton. In the Brookwood section $40,000 to $70,000 houses abound among the piney knolls, and swimming pools are commonplace (the real status symbol is now a

backyard putting green). But for the labor force, growing at the rate of 1,000 a year, a place to live has become a pres ing problem. "Decent hou ing i practically impossible to find," says a recent study by Georgia Tech's Industrial Management Center, "and people are having to commute from as far as 60 miles away." Many of the new workers live in trailer parks which have proliferated to such an extent that the city council has had to legislate restrictions. Traffic is a problem, too, with Whitfield County's 45,000 residents owning 30,000 cars, most unusual for a Southern community.
Dalton estimates that sales should pass the $5 billion mark in the next five to ten years. A study recently ordered by TTMA President Art Lauman revealed that a distressingly large number of housewives had no idea what the Tufted Textile Manufacturers produced. Recently, Lauman has been drumming up support for changing the organization's name to the Carpet and Rug Institute.

"We're a nation of hopkeepers and the trend is still in that direction." The e words came from Mr. John P. Latimer, Regional Director of the Small Business Administration, and although thi tatement may come as a urpri e to the majority of Americans, it i true.
The 250,000 giant corporation with their front-page storie of merger and splits, production and labor disputes, receive the publicity, but it i the 4 750,000 relatively un publicized mall bu ines e in the U. S. that are the u taining bread of life for a community. It was for these small businesses and their problems that SBA was created in 1953 and for them that it continues to operate successfully today.
The impact SBA can have, and ha had, on communities i great. In Georgia alone, SBA is as i ting over 1,000 busin sses which are, in turn, substantially aiding the State's growing industrial climate.
In a recent interview with "Georgia Progress," Mr. Latimer explained the purpo e and many facets of SBA's varied operations.
The Small Business Admini tration, an independent government agency which reports only to the President, has two main functions. Financial a istance i one. Management and procurement is the other. SBA make available financial asi tance in the form of five types of loan programs which are explained in comprehensive pamphlets published by SBA and which are available upon request.
The Regular Loan Program is directed toward bu inesses and other profit-making organizations that have an equitable net worth, good profit picture and some collateral. The Disaster Loan Program come into play

when a natural disa ter has detroyed an area. The Displaced Business Loan Program aids businesses that have been uprooted by urban renewal or federal highways. The Lea e Guarantee Program, under the SBA, will guarantee a mall bu inessman's lease to a landlord so the business can occupy a prime location. SBA's 502 or Local Development Program sponsors LDC (Local Development Company) loan . These loans are designed to increa e and improve the economic condition in communities by providing funds for expan ion of existing indu tries and fixed assets for new indu tries.
One of the mo t striking examples of good that can come to a community, as a result of SBA as istance, i found in Ellijay, Georgia, a mall, friendly town of less than 2,000 people, nestled in the mountains of North Georgia. Though still largely an agricultural town, Ellijay has added, in the last 12 years, three new industries and helped one to rebuild after a devastating fire, with the aid of SBA' "502 Program," making it one of the most outstanding Georgia communities to take advantage of SBA loan. At pre ent, the Gilmer County Development Company i working on curing a loan for yet another industry, Ellijay Spinning, Inc.
Ellijay, however, was not always this pro perous. In the 1950's its future seemed stagnant-jobs were carce and indu try wa non-existent. Harold Hefner, County Commissioner and President of the Gilmer County Development Company, mark the change to better times with the coming of SBA.
"I don't know what ,we would have done without SBA. A lot of people were out of work in the 1950's. Unemployment lines were long and we were losing our high cbool graduate to more prosperou communities. A questionnaire we sent to the high school indicated that all student wanted to tay in Gilmer County. In fact, they said they would be willing to take a alary cut ju t to stay home. But we just didn't have any jobs to offer."
It took several concerned citizens to get the ball rolling toward indu trial development-seven men who were tired of the status quo and who

had faith in Ellijay's potential. The e seven who cared formed the Industrial Development Committee of the Ellijay Lions Club in 1958. P. T. McCutchen, County Attorney and attorney for the Gilmer County Development Company, wa one of the original even.
"We rai ed 20,000 in four hours in order to sponsor the 10callyowned Davenport Hosiery Mill. We were in a hurry to get thing moving," he aid. This company paid back the loan in just five year because of its success. It began with 100 people on the payroll. ow its employment ha reached 325. Since its start, Davenport has expanded twice, financing it own expansion each time.
In 1959, the l49-member Gilmer County Development Company wa formed, incorporating the evenmember Lions Club Industrial Committee into its ranks. The cofinancing of the Georgia Broiler Plant, a locally-owned poultry proces ing operation, was it first effort and it wa a succe .
'We first went to see SBA," Mr. Hefner aid. CoThe '502 Program' (started in 1958) hadn't been estabIi hed very long but SBA told us how to do it. It took just 36 days to ell the idea to the citizens of Ellijay."
Georgia Broiler originally employed 200 people, but .today. with improvements and expansion , the plant employs 300, and has a daily output of around 90,000 chickens. According to Bill Fall, Manager, in the pa t five years the organization has grown from a $6,000 weekly payroll to one of $18,000.
In 1965, the Gilmer County Development Company undertook the financing of another local plant with SBA as istance: Hampton Mill, manufacturer of rug and bathmat , which began operation in 1956. Thi bright, modern facility ha increa ed it work force from 100 to 140 since 1965, when it started production in its new plant, and ha recently completed a large expan-
ion program. Two year later, another plant
wa born through Development Company-SBA cooperation-Davis Carpet. which manufactures indoor, and ome outdoor, carpets. Again, following the trend of the other
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Appalachian Southern Corporation, a hardwood manufacturer, was rebuilt after a fire by local and SBA capital.

plants establi hed in Ellijay, Davis plans to increase its payroll from the 50 people now working to 75 this year.
In 1967, SBA again stepped in to aid an already established business which was partially destroyed by fire. The Appalachian Southern Corporation, a locally-owned wood pallet, warehouse and hardwood manufacturer, was rebuilt after the fire through local capital an"d SBA funds. In the aftermath of the fire, the company changed hands and the Local Development Company then worked with the new owners to help them utilize assets not de troyed by fire. The 48 exi ting jobs were saved and an additional 20 job have been added.
Through the diligent work and cooperation of the citizens of Ellijay and Gilmer County, the Local Development Company and SBA, Ellijay has made a large step on the climb to economic stability. Industrial development has left its mark on other facets of the community with a gradual strengthening of it financial base.
At present, the advent of industry has added 700 new jobs to Ellijay's payroll. The town square is dotted with new retail establishments and drug stores and the main roads into and out of town are lined with new service stations and a new hospital and health care center which have
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been built in the last few years. Since 1960, an apple grading and packing plant wa built to handle Georgia's largest apple-producing county's produce. The new, modern bank has more than doubled its total resources and these resources are now increasing at a rate of one million dollars a year. There are, at pre ent plans for establishing cable television, and the newspaper, which has also felt the surge upward, now has expanded its operation to selling office furniture.
In Gilmer County, as another significant sign of progess, the salary scale ha improved to such a degree that now almost all workers receive more than minimum wage.
With industrial development has also come an improvement in utilities and a pride in community beautification. The Ellijay Telephone Company in a new building and location, has doubled its ervice and, in May, dedication ceremonie were held for the Gilmer County Airport, a paved, lighted facility which will increase air service to the area. A clean-up program has also been initiated and lum houses and junk yards are di appearing to make room for parking lots and new busines es.
Ellijay is an example of what a community. can accomplish with initiative, citizen involvement and an SBA helping hand. Thus far,

Local Development Company loans have created 3,542 jobs in Georgia, an ample financial boost to any community. Industry in an area, as Ellijay's story proves, can mean the difference between growth and prosperity, and stagnation and economic death. If a community can provide the re ources and initial momentum for change, SBA can provide the answer.
In addition to Ellijay, two other Georgia communities have used the "502 Program." They are Wrightsville and Ashburn.
The "502 Program" begins by setting up a corporate structure, chartered under state laws, with a minimum of 25 interested citizens as stockholders. These stockholders form the Local Development Company. If this development company can locate an identifiable small business, SBA will assist in providing the finances. "In a community of less than 5,000, the local development company injects 10% of the total project cost for fixed assets only and SBA, with the help of local bank, will consider financing 90%. In communities of over 5,000, the ratio is 20% for the local development company, 80% for SBA and banks," Mr. Latimer said.
o individual may own more than 20% of the local development company, including the small business which is being financed. These finances are for the exclusive purchase of real estate, buildings, machinery, fixtures and equipment. These fixed assets are owned by the
Approximately 90,000 chickens a day are processed by Georgia Broiler in Ellijay.

local development company anl are leased to the small bu ine either on a traight lease or on a lease with the right to purchase. The small business being aided, which need not be a member of the local development aompany, must provide its own working capital. The lease money is first paid by the small busin ss to the local development company which in turn pays it to SBA to return the loan. SBA may lend up to $350,000 for each small bu iness to be aided, for up to 25 year at 51/2 % interest. If a participating bank will charge a lower rate, SBA ~ill match it to 5 % .
The criteria for determining a small business under the "502 Program" are more liberal than those determining smalJ bu inesses in other types of SBA loans. A small busine s covered by the "502 Program" i one whose net worth doe not exceed 5 million in assets and $2Y2 million in net worth and whose net profit after taxe for the past two years doe not exceed 250,000 including tax loss or carry-over.
Under the other SBA loan programs the criteria depend on the size and type of the bu ine s. A retail and service bu ine s is considered small if gross sale for the previou year do not exceed $1 milJion. A bu ine s is con idered wholesale if its gro s ales are not over $5 million a manufacturing concern if average employment does not exceed 250 people. Thus far in Georgia, SBA has financed 7,781,344 in "502" loans.
One of the ju tification for SBA's existence is its ability to make longterm loan , loans which most banks cannot finance from demand depo -
John P. Latimer, - Regional Director of the Small Business Administration.

Hampton Mills, whose new plant was built with SBA assistance, recently completed a large expansion.

Davis Carpets, another plant built with SBA aid, plans to increase its payroll from 50 to 75 people this year.

its. SBA loans, for working capital and equipment, can extend to six years and for loans where construction is involved the payment period is 15 years. During this time, the business may contract another loan, without having completed payment on the first. The only limitation is SBA's dollar limit.
Besides financial assistance, SBA makes available other types of programs to aid bu ines es in stabilizing their po ition through its second main function, management and procurement.
SBA' procurement capacity is discussed in its pamphlet entitled, "Selling to the U. S. Government, ' and its management, or counseling, function is explained in full in

'SCORE, Coun elor s Guidebook," "Small Bu iness Admini trationWhat It Is ... What It Does ' and " ew Idea? A k SCORE."
With all this help available, it seems improbable that any bu iness in any town should ever fail. Occasionally, however, there are obstacles, in the form of opposition from community leaders. 'These leaders often own property and businesses in the community. They're atisfied with the status quo and are afraid SBA bu inesses will take away their labor market or at least spread it thin. Actually the labor market is complemented by new industry and the community as a whole reaps the benefits," Mr. Latimer said.
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by Ivan Allen

What is the secret of Atlanta's amazing success?
What i the formula that has enabled Atlanta to ri e, in 104 years, from the a hes of wartime destruction to its pre ent high tatus as one of America's new national cities?
What is the combination of factors that has made Atlanta the all around progress pace setter for the Sou thea tern region of the United States, with limitless potentials for future growth stretching out before it?
All through my six and a half years as Mayor, hardly a day has passed that I have not been asked these questions by visitors from other cities, other states, other countries.
I believe that my father, who came to Atlanta in 1895 and was very active in business here for more than half a century, had the simplest and best answer to these questions. He said the secret to Atlanta's success is a combination of altitude and attitude--our Godgiven altitude of I 050 feet which provides a year-round stimulating climate, combined with our long establi hed business-oriented attitude of seeking and welcoming new citizens and new businesses who want to grow with Atlanta.
I would like to expand thi tried and true basic formula with three other factors which I believe have
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been prime movers during Atlanta's first century of progre and which will be increasingly powerful during the second century of all around advancement on which our city now is excitingly embarked.
Three factors, in my opinion, are: I. our strategic geographical location which makes Atlanta a natural hub of rail land and air transportation; 2. a long e tablished conviction on the part of Atlanta business and industry that the nation and the world must be kept accurately informed of all the advantages which Atlanta has to offer, and; 3. most importantly a realization on the part of businessmen that the growth of Atlanta is dependent upon the growth and progress of the entire State of Georgia and of our whole Sou thea tern region.
To paraphrase an old saying there is now and alway must be an understanding on the part of our city our tate and our region that we are all interdependent, that we must hang together for progress or be huno up s.eparately. In short, for Atlanta to pro per, the State of Georgia and the Southeastern region must pro per.
This interdependence has been dramatically demonstrated during the nineteen sixtie , the years that have been a period of tremendous advancement for Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast.

It i true these nineteen sixties have been our years of greatest progre s for Atlanta, for Georgia and for th Southeast.
The foundation for this progress wa built up over more than 125 year previously. The first step was the designation of the site of the pre ent City of Atlanta as the Southea tern terminus of a pioneer railroad. The determination of this strategic geographical location led to the tiny village of Terminus becoming first a key railroad junction point, then a great highway crossroads, lastly, and most vitally, one of the major air transport interchange points on the North American continent.
However, strategic location, important as it is, would not have done the job all by itself. That's where attitude came in, to welcome new bu ine ses and, very importantly, to let the re t of the nation and the world know about the advantages and opportunities Atlanta has had and alway hall have to offer to business commerce and industry.
ow, in the last years of the nineteen sixties, we may think of the very effective "Forward Atlanta Campaign" launched by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in 1961 as being our first great effort to make Atlanta's advantages and opportunitie known around the nation and around the world.

The record shows, however: that this' Forward Atlanta Campaign" is simply the latest and greatest move on Atlanta's part to tell our story, clearly and forcefully, to the rest of the United States and the rest of the .world.
This has been going on, with increa ing effectivene s, for more than 80 years. In fact, it was in 1881 that' Atlanta busine smen started the "Know Atlanta' program with the International Cotton Exposition.
That was a very good beginning. Then, in 1895 Atlanta put on the show that establi h d our city firmly on the bu iness map of the world. This was the Cotton States and International Exposition, held in what is now Piedmont Park.
Then in the mid nineteen twenties, Atlanta stepped out in front again by putting up more than $700,000 for the first 'Forward Atlanta Campaign." That campaign gave tremendous impetus to the growing city and the growing, but still largely agricultural and very rural, Southeast.
All of this laid the groundwork for our record breaking progress of the nineteen sixti s.
Again, it was a tremendous Atlanta-financed promotional effort that got the nineteen sixties progress show on the road. This was the second "Forward Atlanta Campaign" launched by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in 1961 with an underwriting of more than $1,600,000 by businesses and industrie . This very effective campaign, originally planned for three years, now is in its third three-year phase, repre enting an investment in the future of our city, our state and our region of more than $4,500 000.
In addition to being the years of greatest progress, the nineteen sixties have been a period of tremendous change. These years saw the balance of population in the Southea t shifting from rural to urban.
For example, in 1950, Georgia's population was more than 50 percent rural. As the sixties started, Georgia's population had become 55 percent urban-and it is getting more urban every year.
More than one-third of the state's population now is located in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Along with thi change of popu-

lation came increa es in manufacturing and urban jobs, with more and more people leaving the farms and the mall towns where economy depended on fanning.
Thi shift has been very trikingIy demonstrated in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Today, more than a million and a quarter people live and work in this area. By 1983 it is estimated that there will be two million in our metropolitan area. By 2000, it i estimated that another million will be living and working here.
Let me call your attention to just a few figures which tell the story of the progress of Atlanta and the fivecounty mvtro area during the five years of greatest advancement from 1962 through 1967.
The most striking evidence of progre s is shown by the dramatic gains in employment.
Ivan Allen, a progressive mayor of a progressive city.
Here are a few compari ons in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
In 1962, the total labor force numbered 470,000. In 1967, this had increased to 612,600-a gain of 31 percent.
In 1962 total employment was 453 400. In 1967 this had grown to 595,400-a gain of 31.3 percent, almost triple the national increase of 11 and one-half percent.
In 1962, the unemployment rate was 3.5 percent. In 1967 this had declined to 2.7 percent, a drop of 23 percent. By contrast, the national unemployment rate was 5.5 percent in ] 962 and 3.8 percent in 1967.

Here are two very significant comparisons.
In ]962, the gross average weekly earnings of factory production worker in our metropolitan area were $88.80. In 1967, this had jumped to $108.63-a gain of 23.3 percent by contrast with national increases of ] 9 percent.
During this five-year period, salaries for office and clerical workers in our area increased by 23.1 percent by contrast with the national average of 16.4 percent.
I am happy to point out that for each of these five years new jobs created in the Atlanta metropolitan area more than doubled the high goal of ten thousand per year set by the "Forward Atlanta Campaign."
I also am happy to note that the late t figures show more than 605,000 people employed in the Atlanta metropolitan area, an increase of more than 15,000 from the same time last year.
There are many other stati tics that I could roll out to show gains achieved so far in the 1960's, but I think just one more figure is most significant. More than one billion dollars have b en i sued in building permits by the City of Atlanta in
the 1960's. These included 95 new office buildings whose occupants will be serving the entire region.
I also would like to point out that Atlanta has demonstrated that it realizes its responsibilities as a regional capital by providing an $18 million municipal stadium that has brought major league ba eball, football and soccer to the Southeast. In this same spirit, Atlanta just put into the regional service a $10 million civic center and exhibition hall. Our jet-age airport, the nation's fourth largest, is embarked on a $200 million expansion project. Along with these public improvements, the magnificent Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, representing an investment of more than $15 million, ha been completed.
In conclusion, looking ahead as we get into our econd century of increasing progress, I envision advancements and achievements in the years ahead for Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast that will far eclipse all our progress to date, remarkable as the past attainments and present successes are.
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~SAVANNAH PLAN

The Savannah Plan, the first urban clean-up operation of its kind in the country, was carried out with. the cooperative effort of the citizens of Savannah, Georgia, on the weekend of May 25. Its remarkable suc-
cess story is told below. The Savannah Plan was designed
as a practical demonstration to show that any community can revitalize its living and business environment on a do-it-yourself basis with no government assistance.
Mills B. Lane, President of the C&S Bank, and formulator of the Savannah Plan telIs how it began.
"Over the past year on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I've cruised the lum areas of Savannah street by street, lane by lane. Streets are unpaved backyards are filled with the rubble and accumulation of years of trash. This includes old ru ted automobiles sitting on concrete blocks obsolete refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, automobile tires. Trash and litter dominate the scene. Fences for the most part are make-shift affairs, mostly made of leftover sheeting.
"One morning last fall I met with a group of twenty business and professional egroes, both men and women. I told them the story of my cruises of Savannah's slum areas, suggested that instead of u demanding this and that of the government, we undertake jointly a master cleanup of the existing slum areas as a first step toward a do-it-yourself revitalization of living conditions. From this meeting and subsequent meetings developed a plan for what we call 'Spring Cleaning in Savannah.'
"In the execution of the plan we folIowed the well-tried and successful community type of house-tohouse, street-by-street, block-byblock organization.

An example af community action, Savannah citizens went to work to make their town a better place in which to live.

"We asked the president of Savannah State College, which is egro, and Armstrong State College, which is predominantly white, but integrated, to serve as two of the general chairmen of the spring cleaning in Savannah undertaking.
"Each college pre ident met with his student body, reviewed the background and detail of the plan, and enlisted students as volunteer work-
ers. "Meantime, two areas of Savan-
nah were laid out one on the east side of town one on the west side of town. A temporary office was opened in downtown Savannah and staffed by volunteer workers. In this office, full maps of each of Savannah's two areas were laid out showing each street, each lane, each house. These houses were then identified as either owner-occupied or tenant-occupied.
"The volunteer students at the two colleges paired off in teams of two--one team member from Savannah College, one team member

from Armstrong College. Each team was assigned one street. The assignment of the team was to call house by hou e on both those who signed a participation card and those who had not signed.
"While this was going on a presentation of Cleaning Up Savannah' was presented in a half-hour television program and at civic clubs. The volunteers then solicited all businessmen in Savannah who have automotive equipment and a ked each to furnish one or more trucks for the clean-up.
'Arrangements were made for a central dumping area for all trash except junked automobiles. With the cooperation of barge owner junked automobiles were put on barges and towed out the Savannah River to a point offshore where they were dumped to create an offshore fishing area.
'The entire clean-up effort was based on the premise that young people can and should work together, that many hands make light

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"From this project we hope will (ome mutual understanding and trust as well as a sense of awareness of (onditions and problems in the community . .. II
Mills B. Lane, President of C&S Bank

work and that the entire operation could be fun for everyone concerned. From this joint exercise we hope that they will develop mutual understanding and trust for each other. and a sense of awareness of conditions and problems in the community as well as a desire to take advantage of this opportunity."
Mr. Lane continued, "In the crujsing I've done of Savannah's
back streets, I've seen a great need for garbage dispo al containers and better fencing. So funds were provided for the purchase of 5,000 garbage cans and aluminum box container for garbage cans and, as well, a con iderable amount of aluminum fencing. These items were offered to each house occupant for installation on a do-it-yourself basis and a pledge to clean up and stay cleaned up.
"In Savannah, as throughout the State of Georgia, less than 5 % of the low income group own or are buying their own home. Because of low incomes, individuals have not been able to accumulate savings to make down payments on homes and hence, be able to obtain first mortgage money for home financing, and yet, the level of rents paid is sufficient for mortgage payments. It will be the plan of the Citizens and Southern ational Bank-sponsored Communjty Development Corporation to provide down payment money in the form of second mortgages so that first mortgage financing can be obtained. The Citizens and Southern ational Bank itself has dedicated an initial $10,000,000 for long-term mortgage home financing for low income groups.
"Two demonstration projects are being undertaken by the Development Corporation. The first is the purchase of some existing but reclaimable rundown slum area property. The second experiment is the design and building of a brand new

housing unit complete with all fixtures, equipment and furniture that can be sold and financed.
"We believe at the present time that low income hou ing landlords are being squeezed on the one hand by urban renewal and slum clearance, and on the other side by public housing. We hope that our plan for home ownership will add a third force in the form of competition that, in effect, will require low income housing landlords either to improve their properties to meet competition or see them go by the board."
Mr. Lane continued, "Through the schools and the churches in both Savannah areas we expect to offer as istance in the improvement of existing recreation facilities and the addition of new ones.
'On a do-it-yourself and participating basis, we expect to start pilot
day care units for small children, staffed by volunteer workers. It's important that young children not be left to roam the streets unattended, but be given some chance for training and direction. It's insufficient to attempt to tackle the juvenile problem at ages 16 to 17. It must be started earlier."
Mr. Lane concluded, "The beginning of the Savannah Plan and its future extensions are based on helping people help themselves. The difference in this approach and others is best expressed by quoting the
egro Mayor of St. Louis who said on 'Meet the Press,' 'How can people pull themselves up by their boot straps if they don't have any boots?' In the concept of the Savannah Plan, we're going to provide the boots. We're going to offer opportunity and hope and try to create an environment where there is mutual trust, under tanding, and respect, where the basis of human re-
lations is built on the dignity of man, the Golden Rule and the con-

cept that it s what a man is, not who he is, that matters."
The initial thrust of the Savannah Spring Cleaning drive was an overwhelming success. This success can be measured in the estimated 150 tons of debris hauled out of the project areas. It can be measured in the tremendous re ponse by the citizens of Savannah (about 10,000 participated) turning out to assist 31 businesses donating trucks, wreckers and cranes, in the three churches spreading and helping distribute more than 10,000 sandwiches and cold drinks, in the better than 1,000 volunteers turning out to help the 3 100 families living in these disadvantaged areas to help themselves, in the three or more similar projects spurred in outside areas of Savannah on May 18 and in the several additional areas, and in the cooperation pledged by the city and county sanitary departments for continuing greater efforts in the performance of their daily jobs.
The activity of the weekend of May 25 i only the beginning of the most ambitiou private long-range program in community revitalization known. The program to provide home renovation loans and first mortgage loans by the Citizens and Southern National Bank and the Carver State Bank was developed and loans are now available. It is the hope of the project that in-
creased home owner hip, increased community participation and responsibility will be the natural outgrowth.
Perhaps the greatest success of the Savannah Spring Cleaning drive wa the establishment of block leaders and coordinators ... the opening of communications lines heretofore nonexistent. From these lines of communication, small block training and educational programs are planned so that continuity to the weekend effoz:ts will result.
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Georgia Restores Architectural Gem

by Carolyn Carter

White-columned houses with a history have become a symbol of Georgia. The state boasts a vast assortment of ante-bellum homes, many in excellent repair and lived-in today.
A leader, a superb example of Greek Revival architecture, is the old Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville-built in 1838 for 50,000; restored in 1967 for $500,000-and worth several times the combined figure if, indeed, it could be replaced.
The tructure, completely redone and furnished, is open to visitors now. It attracts many who fancy all type of houses. It draws even more sionificantly from a select group of d;sign authorities who consider it one of the most perfect examples of Greek Revival architecture in the South.
After the Georgia Legislature authorized construction of the house in 1835, two architects were paid a fee of $100 each "for the best plan of a residence of a governor." They were John Pell and C. B. McClusky. Builder was Timothy Porter of Farmington, Connecticut.
Patterned after Palladio's Villa, designed for the Fo cari family at Venice, the mansion's outside walls are ma onry covered with stucco, recently restored to their original condition. The color of the e walls was once described as "a lovely pink-tinged sunset, just deepening into crimson." A more prosaic statement, although no les valid, is one which de cribes the hou e as appearing to spring naturally from the red hills of the Georgia Piedmont, of which it is an indigenous part.
The Executive Mansion is sixty feet square. The commanding feature of its interior is a central rotunda
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lighted by a skylight at the top of a dome which is plaster coffered with gold decoration on ornamental mouldings. A circular top-floor balcony with cantilever upports projects into the central rotunda.
Ten governors occupied the mansion between 1839 and 1868. The house was intimately associated with Georgia history during the antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction periods. It throbbed with the life of many families who occupied
it, being the scene of births, marriage and partie .
General W. T. Sherman used it as his headquarter in ovember, 1864. It was there that Georgia Governor Brown was arrested by Federal soldiers in 1865.
Executive minutes of the various ante-bellum Governors how that the mansion's original furnishings were acquired slowly over many years, and when the building ceased to be used as the Governor's Mansion, these furnishings just as slowly were moved from the house and passed into oblivion.
Like its elegant furnishings, the Mansion, itself, fell upon evil days. During the 1870's the State rented the building to various local people. At one time, it was used as a flophouse where one could obtain overnight lodging for as little as 25 cents. After the Georgia Military College was chartered in .1879, the Mansion came to receive institutional care as a dormitory for cadets.
Ten years later, the State transferred the building and grounds to the trustees of the Georgia College at Milledgeville, originally known as Georgia Normal and Industrial College. When the college opened its doors in 1891, President J. Harris Chappell and his family occupied the main floor, while the second floor

became a dormitory for twenty girls. For more than fifty years, the Mansion held the distinction of serving as a dormitory as well as the President's home and reception center.
The Board of Regents of the Univer ity System of Georgia supervised the restoration and named a committee to locate and select furnishings.
"We looked for things that might have been used by a family in Georgia living in a house like thi at that time in history," Chairman John D. Harris said.
The committee is proudest of an English Regency sofa covered in ro e, green and beige striped satinfaille silk in the drawing room and a Regency cabinet with rich, burlwalnut veneering in the same room.
, The only problem we had," Mr. Harri continued, "was that we decided to concentrate on the Regency period, which we didn't realize was such a short period. Victorian and Chippendale, for example, lasted mueh longer. So things that fall into the Regency period are scarce and it made the search more difficult."
Some Georgia pieces were chosen including a walnut Sheraton sideboard which the committee located near Savannah.
Carpet for the mansion were hand woven in France, as they would have been for a fine borne in the 19th Century. Three chandeliers for the long drawing room of the mansion were specifically designed and made.
Mis Mary Jo Thompson and a staff of tour guides welcome visitors from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Sunday. (Charges: $1.00 Adults; $.50 Children. Groups by special arrangements.)

Commanding feature-a central rotunda coffered with gold decoration and lighted by a skylight.
The Board of Regents of the University System of Geargia supervised restoration of the Milledgeville house and named a commiUee to locate and select furnishings. Chosen were items which a family in Georgia living in a house like this at that time in history might have used. This is the drawing room.
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PETROLEUM COUNCIL "TREATS" GEORGIA TOURISTS
by Jay Jenkins

Georgia has no towering derricks or gushing oil wells-de pite numerou efforts to strike oil around the state-but the Georgia-Florida Oil and Refining Company has announced plan for construction of a $55 million oil refinery on Colonel's Island, near Brunswick.
The refinery will receive crude oil from Texas and Louisiana refine it, and ship it out to domestic markets.
Marshall A. Jeffers, president of the oil company, says the facility will employ more than 200 persons initially, with others to be added to the payroll as expan ion warrant. He indicated that construction of the refinery will begin early in 1969, with completion expected within 22 months.
"The refinery which we propose to build will be a highly-automated and ophi ticated, 40,000-barrelsa-day operation" said Jeffers.
The economic benefits of such a refinery are obvious, but few Georgian outside the petroleum industry really are aware of the impact that petroleum already has on their daily lives.
Petroleum fuels-oil and natural
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gas-provide nearly three-quarters of all the energy u ed in the United State. Directly, and through hundreds of derivative and by-product , the oil industry i becoming an increasingly important factor in the state and national economy, not to mention the vital role it plays in national defense.
More than 18,000 Georgians are employed in the refining, pipeline transportation and marketing of petroleum and oil products, and petroleum marketing, refining, and pipeline payrolls in this state exceed
59 million annually. More than 40 percent of the ton-
nage handled by the ports of Savannah and Brun wick is made up of petroleum and its products and about 22 percent ( 117.8 million in 1967) of the state's total tax revenue is derived from taxe imposed upon petroleum products. (petroleum taxes amount to more than 117.8 million of the state's total annual tax revenue of 548.3 million).
While some 3,000 products (everything from detergents and lipstick to nylon, orion, dacron, fiberglass and plastic) are manufactured directly or indirectly from petroleum,

the average person probably thinks of the ervice station as hi only contact with the petroleum industry.
There are more than 5,000 service tations in Georgia and the petroleum industry's number one priority insofar as marketing is concerned, is upgrading and improving the image of these outlets. Oil companie are spending million of dollars in the construction of new and expanded service station facilities, complete with landscaping for the esth tically-minded customer.
Certainly the service station often is the first and la t contact tourists have with Georgia. Ordinarily they stop for gasoline and service sometime after entering the state, and perhaps again before leaving.
With this in mind, the Petroleum Council of Georgia this year launched an ambitious new person-toper on tourism promotion, "Tourist Treat Week."
TrW was designed to better acquaint vi tors from other state with Georgia' people and her touri t attraction . Six cities took part in the program on a pilot basis, but in 1969 every city in the stat6 will be invited to develop a TIW program.
Briefly, the idea was to shower elected touri ts with Georgia hospitality. The tourist families were chosen at random at State Welcome Centers. They were given free overnight motel accommodations, com-
plimentary meals, free car care at local service stations, gifts, souvenirs, and guided tours of local sceruc and historic attractions. Thirty families from 19 states were honored during the July festival, proclaimed by Governor Lester Maddox as Touri t Treat Week in Georgia.
Atlanta, Brunswick, Columbus, Macon, Valdosta and Savannah ho ted five TrW families. The program generated considerable favorable publicity in the Georgia pre s, but, more important, TTW reaped wide pread coverage in out-of-state newspaper, travel magazines and industrial publications because each of the TTW families was interviewed and photographed for feature articles that were sent to their hometown papers and employee publications.
The TTW guests were under-

tandably surprised by the attention lavished upon them in Georgia, but also quite appreciative and many actually have become goodwill ambassadors for Georgia in their home states.
Kentucky schoolteacher Royce Cruce wrote the Petroleum Council upon his return home after being a TrW guest in Macon: "We were amazed and overwhelmed by the ho pitality we received in Macon."
'I wa most pleasantly surprised by the cenic beauty of Georgia," said Reverend John Eugene Griffith, a Methodist minister from Ohio.
Said Mr . Franklin Hitzeroth of Iowa: "We have been singing the praises of Georgia ever since our visit. I don t think we shall ever forget our delightful evening."
While news of the proposed oil refinery at Brun wick has stirred justified excitement along the coa t, the petroleum indu try already is very much a part of the lifeblood of Georgia's economy-and, the experts ay, will be for some time to come.

Georgia Ports Authority Chairman A. M. Harris Sr. (L) of Brunswick, and John L. Raulerson, General Manager of ,the Brunswick Ports Authority, inspect the 400-acre Colonel's Island site of a proposed new $55-million oil refinery to be built by the Georgia-Florida Oil and Refining Company.
(Photo by Pat Taylor)

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hunsucker and sons Norman Jr. and Joseph were welcomed to Savannah by Welcome Center hostess Linda Sweeney. The Hunsuckers are from Greensboro, N. C.

Valdosta Mayor James Beck (r) and Miss Valdosta, Wynn Carswell (center) are flanked by the Don Peters family of Livonio, Michigan. The children are Susan and Gary.

In Valdosta, the Allan Troutmans were greeted by Mrs. Ruby Warlick and Miss Stay and See Georgia, Linda Garrett. The Troutmans are from Brandenburg, Kentucky. Boys are Kevin and Gary.

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Georgia's Got It for Aero

When a company decides to locate in a state, the reasons behind the deci ion usually go beyond mere love of the land. Although this loyalty may result later, as the company becomes an integral and powerful part of the community, the initial factors are rooted in economics-the knowledge that this state
is best suited to meet the demands of production at, hopefully, the lowest cost to the producer.
These were just the drawing cards that prompted Aero Commander, Inc., to locate one of their aircraft divisions in Albany, Georgia. And today, over two years after the plant began production, Aero Commander joins the long list of plants that are now satisfied and happy residents of the booming Georgia industrial community.
Two members of Aero Commander, Roy Tucker and Bill Brodbeck, recently told Georgia Progress why they chose Georgia and why they will plan to stay and eventually expand, perhaps even double production.
Both were quick to point out cost of operation and production, manpower availability and climate as main reasons for selecting Georgia.
A company's profit and loss ultimately depend on the efficiency of the employees, and Georgia manpower availability, trainability, and productivity were found by Aero Commander to be of superior caliber.
"The people of Georgia are some of the best we've found," Tucker said in reference to ease in training for aircraft production.
In the beginning stages of production at the Albany plant Aero COJ!lmander initiated a training program, in connection with Georgia's vocational training schools, to teach its first 300 employees the aircraft production business. These 300 became the hard-core base for on-the-job training which is now used. Today, Aero Commander employs apprmcimately 490 people.
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I AERO COMMANDER INC.

The Tough Birds of Aero Commander

Women have also entered the Aero Commander picture in an unusual-and big-way. After hiring and training one woman welder, they discovered her work equalled, and, in some cases, surpassed the work of her male counterparts. Today. what began as a lark, has resulted in a 90 percent employment of women welders.
Aero Commander credits a large measure of its success in Georgia to the cooperation it received from all state, county and local officials.
"It's been a close-knit operation -you feel like homefolks when you work with these people," Tucker said.
The future of Aero Commander in Georgia is a bright, promising one. And with the past two years as an indicator, Georgia can expect to see this "new" citizen grow rapidly and continue to demonstrate its faith and satisfaction in the people and resources of its adopted state.
Grumman
Little more than one year after Grumman Aircraft Engineering Cor-

poration began production in Georgia, ':Georgia Progress" magazine went to Savannah and talked with Plant Manager Fred Eckert about the success of Grumman in the State.
Mr. Eckert pointed out that production of the company's large, new, elite, executive jet, Gulfstream II, is being shifted from the Bethpage, New York plant to Savannah. "At the present time, approximately 75 percent of the work involved in the change has been completed. The schedule that we set for Savannah has been closely met," Mr. Eckert said.
Grumman first began its Savannah operations approximately 18 months ago with a work force of 50 people. At present, Mr. Eckert pointed out, employment bas risen from this initial number to around 1 000.
With this great increase in personnel will come a natural expansion in production. The Gulfstream II has proven so popular that, at present, it is almost impossible to meet the large production demands.

Commander and Grumman

"We are building two airplanes a mon,th but we expect to increase this to three planes by the end of the year. We hope to level off at that rate and stay there," Mr. Eckert
added. Often when a new industry has
made the move into a tate, even one with a large accessible labor force such as Georgia, it finds a shortage of employees who have been trained in its field. Georgia provides a solution to thi problem.
One of the things which Grumman did when it began operations in Savannah was to utilize the service of the Georgia State Employment Service and the Savannah Area Vocational-Technical Schools in training its key per onnel. Was this program successful in helping Grum-
man meet its production schedule? Mr. Eckert thinks so.
"I think we can say it's been very beneficial. If we had not had this training program, I venture to say that we would have been two to three months behind schedule."
Many other factors influenced Grumman Aircraft's choice to come to Georgia. Some of those mentioned by Mr. Eckert were the personnel potential from nearby Hunter Air Force Base which was closing, the excellent municipal airport, Travis Field, serving the Savannah area on which Grumman located which provides the facilities needed for production, flying and testing of new aircraft, the sparsely populated area around the airport eliminating noise abatement problem, and the coastal climate which provides good flying weather nearly all year-round.
Though all the things mentioned by Mr. Eckert were prime assets which made Savannah a favorable set-up for Grumman' location, there was till one other "plus" which Mr. Eckert felt came as a highly appreciated bonus. That 'plu "wa the people of the Savannah area.
"They have been delightful. I don t think anybody can ask for

more than what the Savannah people have done for us. Although Grumman ha done a lot for Savannah, Savannah has also done a lot for us. This has been a mutual admiration society that I hope continues."
Mr. Eckert also praised Grumman's women employees who have played a big part in its success in Savannah. "When Grumman first located here, we were apprehensive about hiring women for shop work. However, after hiring a few who were trained by the Savannah Area

Vocational-Technical Schools, we found they worked out quite satisfactorily, much more so than we anticipated. '
With employment at Grumman Aircraft at the 1,000 level, and with practically the entire Gulf tream II production facilitie in transition to the Savannah plant, Fred Eckert and his employees are looking forward to the day when they will pick up the total work load from the Bethpage plant. All indicatioQs are that the total transition will be a mooth one.
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I
CONTROL TOWER

Lockheed Rolls Out Two New Planes
The XV-4B Hummingbird II, a vertical take-off and landing research aircraft, has been rolled out by the Air Force and the Lockheed-Georgia Company. It is the only U. S. development using direct jet lift.
The new plane resembles a conventional midwing monoplane jet fighter with provisions for a twoman crew.
Brig. General Raymond A. Gilbert, Director of Laboratories for the Air Force Systems Command,
Washington, D. c., said the XV-4B
will enable the Air Force to more fully explore vertical and short takeoff and landing technology and develop control systems for future aircraft.
The XV-4B is 33 ft. 9Y'2 inches long 12 ft. 3 inches high, and has a wing span of 27 ft. 1 inch. It bas a T-type tail and retractable tricycle landing gear, and the gross vertical take-off weight is 12,580 pounds.
Maximum design speed for the XV-4B is 410 knots.
The XV-4B research aircraft incorporates a fty-by-wire dual redundant automatic stabilization system and has a zero-zero ejection sy tern, which has a reaction time of approximately three seconds from actuation of the ejector to fully opened parachute.
Safety is built into the system through a feature which enables the co-pilot to instantly disengage the variable stability sy tern and manually control the aircraft.
Lockheed is in the process of flight te ting the XV-4B for about fiv months to demonstrate its airworthiness, prior to delivery to the Air Force.
In January, 1969, the XV-4B will be turned over to North American Rockwell Corporation for instrumentation and flight research at Edwards AFB, California.
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Historic Flight-U. S. Air Force/Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, largest airplane ever built, spreads her 223-foot-span wings and flies for the fir t time. Designed and built by Lockheed-Georgia Company, the 728,000-pound tran port, with tail height equal to a six-story building, will nearly quadruple the payload capacity of any other military jet cargo carrier.
The Galaxy, 268 feet long in this test configuration, used only half of the 10,000-foot Dobbins AFB runway near Atlanta for take-off and landing. Developed under direction of the Air Force Systems Command, Aeronautical Systems Division, for Military Airlift Command service, C-5 has a normal maximum payload of 110 tons. Under emergency operating conditions payload can increase to 132 tons.
Lockheed-Georgia Chief Engineering Test Pilot Leo J. Sullivan led the five-man Lockheed/Air Force first flight team.
New kind of vertical rising jet-The U.S. Air Force's XV-48 Hummingbird II, only American development with direct jet lift, was rolled aut in ceremonies at lockheed-Georgia Company. With the Hummingbird is lockheedGeorgia Pilot 8. J. Dvorscak.

GROWING GEOR

THE HENRY COUNTY STORY
In response to a recent letter by General Louis W. Truman to chambers of commerce, inviting them to take advantage of the service of the Department of Industry and Trade, came a letter from Mr. Fred S. Crumbley President of the Henry County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Crumbley pointed out that there had been no plants or major expansions for quite a while in Henry County and that h would like to see this changed.
Mr. Crumbley told General Truman, "Believe it or not, we are going to take advantage of your oifer." Thus, the wheel began to roll.
General Truman asked the Aviation Division of Industry and Trade to look into the possibility of getting Federal funds for an airport in Henry County. At this time an investigation into the feasibility of this is

NEW TOWN BORN

A new town was born in South Georgia and it was named after its largest and best-known re ident, Pabst Brewing Company. The town, Pabst, Georgia, i located six mile east of Perry Georgia, in Houston County. Thi site was chosen because the abundant supply of artesian well water found in Houston County is the finest in the South.
The 800,000 sq. ft., $40 million plant, when completed in the summer of 1970, will service the fastgrowing Southeastern market including Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama Virginia and Eastern Louisiana. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1,500,000 barrels.
Jame Windham, President of the Pab t Brewing Company, said 'Houston County, which enjoys a year-round favorable climate, has an abundant labor supply." He also

cited the exc lIent transportation facilities. Perry is serviced by the Georgia, Southern and Florida division of the Southern Railway System, and is six miles from the 1-75 expressway.
The building will be of famed Georgia brick, locally produced. The completed building will contain an admini tration building, manufacturing and warehousing units, a bottle shop, rail and truck loading facilities, a fermenter and storage unit, a power house, a brew house, and a grain silo. These will be one or two-story units. The brew house will be four stories high.
Approximately 20 of the 700 acres acquired by Pabst will be occupied by the brewery. The area is serviced by two miles of railroad iding and there will be parking facilities for 500 cars.

under way. He also asked other divi ions of the Department to be on the lookout for ways to help this county.
As editor of "Georgia Progress" I decided to go to McDonough and meet with Mr. Crumbley and let him tell me just why Henry County should be the site for a new plant. And tell me he did. He explained that first of all, McDonough had a good labor supply-approxi.mately 5,000 people are potentially available. Mr. Crumbley explained that people who now drive to distant areas would certainly much rather stay home and work than commute.
He then showed me hundreds of acres of open land available for building. Several sites were located adjacent to railroads and the 1-75 expressway which is due to be completed soon. In addition to the railroad, two intrastate trucking firms now serve this area and seven interstate firms are authorized to provide service. And les than 20 miles to the orth is the Atlanta Airport, the fourth busiest in the world.
Even with all this, Mr. Crumbley wasn't finished; he wanted it understood that Henry County wanted industry but they wanted to be cautious about the kind of plants which located there. He explained, "We have a good balance here; we have all the conveniences of living in a big city, but we have the pleasures of country living to go along with it.
"We want industry, but we want it to be the kind which will be good for the community. We have a lot to offer here' good churches, fine schools, good houses and fine recreation facilities, and we re getting more; a new golf cour e and two new motels (Holiday Inn and Quality Courts) are now either in the planning stages or under way. We believe that if our story can be told, industry will locate here."
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ATLANTA INDUSTRIAL PARK WINS AWARD

Humpty-Dumpty Would Be Happy

A new concept in egg packaging has been brought into reality by Doleo Packaging Corp. of Lawrenceville, Georgia. According to Plant Manager J. R. Mathieson, the product i a new egg carton. The containers are manufactured from a polystyrene foam sheet. The manufacturing of these cartons is a joint venture between Dow Chemical Company and 01 on Brother ,Inc. the country's largest egg marketers.
As to why Doleo selected Georgia as a site, in addition to the available labor upply and a favorable industrial climate, they al 0 saw an opportunity to fill a need in supplying egg cartons to the nation's second largest egg-producing state.
Mathieson also cited the easy accessibility of his products to the consumer becau e of the fine transportation system, which is afforded by this area. How does J. R. Mathieson, who was originally an out-oftater, like the Lawrenceville area? He told the Department of Indu try and Trade that when he first came to Georgia, he anticipated problems in getting the right type of people; today, the apprehension is gone and he says he finds the people most cooperative and always willing to help.
According to Mathieson, his plant will not be able to supply all of the egg carton needs of the Sou thea t becau e the dcmand is one billion, 300 million cartons per year. His plant is now producing only 200 million cartons.

Production began in August at the Lawrenceville site and already plant officials say they are considering an expansion.
This plant will ultimately employ between 80 to 100 people. Of the people already working there, Plant Manager Dick Mathieson had this to say "They are all good people." Like so many others, Mathieson and Doleo are happy they have locaten in Georgia.
The BOO-room Regency Hyatt House in Atlanta's downtown Peachtree Center, has announced plans for an immediate 200-room expansion. The exponsion will be a unique, free-standing, 25-story, circular bronze glass tower, to rise obove the aresent grand ballroom of the Regency. It will cost about $3 million, with completion scheduled for 1969.

The Atlanta Fulton Industrial Center has received the first Certified Industrial District Award given by the Georgia Industrial Developers Association.
The Center is located off 1-20 West in the Fulton County Industrial District near Fulton County Airport.
GIDA initiated the Georgia Industrial Certification Program in an effort to give proper recognition to those developments that truly conform to the definition of an industrial district or park. This new statewide program, originated and administered by the Georgia Tech Industrial Development Division, evaluates a district or park on the basis of a set of exacting standards, developed from the commonly accepted criteria and practices of operating indu trial districts throughout the country.
Those developments which are successful in obtaining a rating will be publicized by the Georgia Tech Industrial Development Division, thereby giving industrial management a reliable and impartial guide to the best-developed industrial districts and parks in Georgia.
NEW INDUSTRIAL PARK FOR AUGUSTA
Plans for the development of a new industrial park to serve the Augusta area have been announced by the Committee of 100.
The North Leg Industrial Park will contain 44 acres and represent a capital investment of more than $2 million, according to the William B. Kuhlke Company, owners and developers.
The complex will include 50,000 to 60000 sq. ft. of office and sales areas. To the rear of this section will be a warehousing and distribution area of approximately 150,000 sq. ft. of floor space.
In addition to space for offices, sales, warehousing and distribution, ] 6 acres in the southern portion of the park will be developed as a modern mobile home park.

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TIRE ROUNDS OUT CELEBRATION
Production of one tire is u ually not cau e for excitement or concern but in Albany, Georgia, one tire became the star attraction of a celebration. In July officials of the new 53 million Firestone Tire and Rubber plant presented the first tire produced in their 1Y2 million square foot Albany facility to the Chamber of Commerce as a token of their gratitude and confidence in tpat community.
Robert A. Brown, plant manager, presented the famous Firestone "500" tire, the first of an anticipated 20000 tires which will be produced in the plant per day, in "recognition and appreciation for the encouragement and critical assistance which enabled this plant to be located in Albany." The plant will eventually employ 1,000 people.
Chamber officials said the tire, emblazoned with a gold production number, would be displayed in a place of prominence at the Chamber offices-a worthy tribute to the newest member of Albany's industrial family.

On hand when font tires were removed from Firestone curing molds were (from left) Walter R. Brown, Executive Secretary of the Albany Chamber of Commerce; Robert A. Brown, Firestone Plant Manager; Charles T. Oxford, President of the Albany Chamber of Commerce; and Russell E. Kaliher, Immediate Past President of the Chamber.

DOUBLE BARRELLED SENDOFF FOR RELIANCE
Reliance Electric Company has announced plans for a second major production facility to be located in Athens, Georgia. Reliance announced the first plant for Athens in February.
One hundred and fifty businessmen representing Athens, Atlanta and the State of Georgia attended the ground-breaking.
Governor Lester Maddox applauded the project's "double-barrelled send-off that shows the kind of enthusiasm and spirit typical of this entire region's progress."
The two plants and a connecting office and employee service building (40000 sq. ft.), will comprise the Athens Division of Reliance. The complex will total 325,000 sq. ft. and ultimately employ 800 people. Construction of the three units will proceed simultaneously. The location of the complex is a 40-acre site in the Athens Industrial Park

This million-square-foot warehouse is now under construction on U.S. 23, between Norcross and Duluth, Georgia. Thought to be the largest pre-engineered structure in the world, it was designed and is being fabricated by Dixisteel Buildings, Inc. for the Southeastern Land and Leasing Corp., of Nashville, Tennessee. When completed in January, 1969, it will be leased to the General Services Administration for a regional supply depot.

on the outskirts of Athens. The first plant will produce elec-
tric motors of 10 to 200 horsepower.
The second plant will be 100,000 sq. ft. in area and will produce standard adjustable peed drives and electronic control for industrial operations. These control , like the motor controls, are key components in Reliance drive sy terns used by

all types of industry for automating a wide range of processes.
Production will begin in March of 1969.
The project will be financed by a $15 million Athens-Clarke County industrial revenue bond issue underwritten by Courts & Co., Atlanta, Georgia. Eastern Engineering Company of Atlanta are architects and engineers for the project.
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GROWING GEORGIA
Industry and Trade Hosts
Industrial Development Conference
Four hundred twenty-five Georgians interested in the industrial development of Georgia attended the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the Regency in Atlanta on the nineteenth and twentieth of September.
Response to the Conference has been enthusiastic, and all indication from the individuals who attended are that the Conference should be continued on a yearly basi .
It is difficult, in retrospect, to pick any high spot of the Conference simply because the program was filled with out tanding speakers beginning with the keynote address by Dr. oah Langdale Jr., pre ident of Georgia State College, and ending with Senator A. W. Holloway, chairman of the State Industry Committee. Certainly the Governor's addre s at lunch on the nineteenth was a highlight. The success stories by Milt Folds, executive director of the Committee of 100 in Augu ta, and by LeRoy Williams of Swainsboro, were indicative of what communities' on the go" could accomplish. Those two stories offered a challenge to every community in Georgia and were accepted as a challenge by alI who heard them.
All conference speeches will be reproduced and each person who attended will be sent a copy by December 1.
(Additional pictures on inside back cover.)

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Top left and right: Governor lester Maddox, addressing the Conference, delighted the group by mixing serious discussion with his wellknown humor.
Center: At the Department of Industry and Trade's exhibit, Governor lester Maddox stopped to help Mrs. Paula Costello, an employee of the Department, distribute literature to attendees of the Conference.
left: State Senator Albert Weston Holloway, Chairman of the Senate Industrial Committee.

TRADE MISSION TO STUDY GROWING INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

Frankfurt, Germany ... exterior view of the U.S. Trade Center.

A growing interest in Georgia's international busine s activity has prompted the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade to sponsor an International Trade Mission to Europe in 1969. Here is a brief sketch of the countries and cities to be visited and some export facts concerning them.
Belgium - For the first quarter of 1968 the U. S. share of the Belgium market was 8.5% compared with 7.7 % of the ame period in 1967. Brussels, Belgium s capital and largest city, has a population of ),040,523.
Netherlands-In 1968 the Dutch economy is showing renewed vitality which will make it an attractive market for U. S. exports. Total imports from the United States in 1967 came to $886 million, representing 10.6% of the total Dutch import

market. Amsterdam, the capital of the etherlands and port city, has been called "the door to the industrial safe of Europe."
Germany - Germany imported 2,139 million worth of U. S. goods in 1967 which gives the United States 12.2 % of the total import market that year. Since 1945 Frankfurt has become the most important city in Germany as far as banking and stock transactions are concerned - with approximately 500 firms doing bu ine there. One of five U. S. Trade Centers is located in Frankfurt.
Italy - The United States is Italy's third largest supplier. For the fir t four month of 1968, imports from the nited States to Italy were up 9% over the same period in 1967. Milan i situated in Italy
important commercial, indu trial,

and financial triangle. The U. S. Trade Center in Milan serves as an effective howca e for U. S. products and draws buyers from all of Italy and urrounding countrie .
A an indication of the scope of international banking activity in Atlanta and Georgia, an informal survey of three Atlanta banks with extensive international departments, how that they have a total of 29 account relation hips with banks in the four countries to be visited by the Georgia Trade Mi sion. Account relation hips imply that funds are actually on deposit either in the European banks or Atlanta on a permanent basis.
Atlanta, the international financial capital of the Southea t, moved
5?,719.794 worth of export goods through its ports in 1967 consigned to firms in the four countries to be vi ited.
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Welcome Centers ... a driving force of Georgia tourism

One of the driving forces behind the success of Georgia's travel industry is the Welcome Center program, directed by the Tourist Division.
The increa e in attendance at the seven Welcome Centers is amazing even to those who expected the program to be successful. Last year's figures provided the most decisive proof of the effectiveness of the Welcome Centers. Attendance more than doubled in 1967 over the same period for 1966; 1,660,000 visits were logged in 1967 compared to 820,000 in 1966.
A major portion of the increase can be accounted for with the opening of the Welcome Center at Valdo ta and the inauguration of an attendance recording system at the Atlanta Airport. However, even without these two factors there was an increase of 24 percent.
The number of visitors at the Welcome Centers continued to climb during 1968.
The primary purpose of the Welcome Centers is to assist the traveling public and provide information that will make the tourists' stay / more enjoyable. The service includes marking highway maps, serving free refreshments, answering questions about travel attractions and most of

all, providing a warm greeting to vi itors to the State of Georgia. The effectivene s of the staff at the Welcome Centers is partly responsible for the increase in repeat visitors. Many travelers stop at the centers each time they enter the State to inquire about detour, possible new routes, new attractions and general highway conditions.
In an effort to determine the public opinion concerning the State's vacation areas and Welcome Centers, the Touri t Divi ion in cooperation with the Bureau of Business and Economic Research provides questionnaires at selected centers. The result ha been overwhelming praise for the program. Th.e written remarks include:
"Your Welcome Centers along freeways are excellent and most enjoyable . . . The lady was very helpful . . . Your visitor center is great . . . Wi h California had a service like that ..."
In addition to que tions about the Welcome Centers, the questionnaire is designed to determine the hometown of the traveler, his ultimate de tination the amount of money spent in Georgia and the reason for the trip.
The information is used by the

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Touri t Division to help predict future needs, and improvement , not only for the Welcome Center program, but also in the State's travel industry.
As can be expected, the staff at each center must be well trained in Georgia history, geography, and in ju t about every field related to the State.
As part of their orientation training, the receptionists tour the entire State, are given a "crash" Georgia hi tory cour e, instructions on how to give highway directions and even learn to read a highway map upside down for the convenience of the vi itor on the other ide of the counter.
The even Welcome Centers are open every day of the year with the exception of Ea ter Thanksgiving and two days at Christmas.
Georgia Buys Sapelo
The State of Georgia has purchased Sapelo I land--one of the "Golden Isles" off the Atlantic coast-for one million dollars.
A sales contract between the Georgia Game and Fish Commission and Mrs. Richard J. Reynolds,
fourth wife and widow of the tobacco millionaire, was signed in Atlanta recently.
The State will finance its hare of the co t - 250,000-by tran ferring 150,000 from the Game and Fi h Commi ion's operating fund to capital inve tment.
The additional 100,000 will come from the State Board of Regents as a contribution for research projects and the Marine Life Research Center on the Island.
Sea Island, which lies between St. Simons and Sapelo has been developed into one of the world's most famous and luxurious resorts.
The Game and Fi h Commis ion plan to use Sapelo for the production of deer and wild turkeys.

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An elaborate $3.35 million expansion of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial has been approved, adding illuminated metal towers and a quarter-mile of landscaping to the monolithic attraction.
The Stone Mountain Memorial A ociation gave formal approval to plan of a Mas achusetts sculptor, Walker Hancock, and a Pittsburgh land cape architecture firm for the expan ion.
Included in the plans are two 130foot illuminated bronze or aluminum tower to frame the mountain's carving of Confederate heroes and a land caped mall covered with memorial from the 13 original Confed rate States.
The idea of the Stone Mountain Memorial Park was born in 1956 when the State purchased 3 000 acre surrounding the 783-foot mountain and allocated $5 million to build the park. However, other features added later and still being added will bring the total cost to orne 15 million.
In the 1920's a giant memorial to the Confederacy was planned. Heroic figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davi were to be carved on the mountain's face similar to the Mount Ru hmore Memorial in the Black Hills.
Today, completion of the carving i under way. The three figures are the largest ever sculptured in the ancient or modern world. Lee's figure i 138 feet from his hat's crown to his horse's hoof. His sword is 58 feet long and four feet wide, and if
it could be detached, would weigh 100 tons.
Atop Stone Mountain a vi itor can stroll leisurely around the Plaza of Flag with its reflection pool and

climb the 85-foot observation tower. An Alpine Skylift ascends the
north side of the mountain, and youngsters can enjoy the Scenic Railroad a standard gauge 19th Century railroad which circles the mountain. The engines are replicas of the by-gone era, one being the 'Texas' of the great Civil War railroad chase fame.
Equally fascinating to adults is the Stone Mountain Plantation, the most authentic and mo t lavish example of a Deep South ante-bellum plan ation in existence today. Most of the buildings and furnishings are originals. 1)1e over eer's house actually was a plantation manor at Kingston, Georgia, built in 1815, and the ' big hou e," dating from the 1840's, once was the manor house of Spring Creek Plantation near Dickey.

SEA ISLAND PRAISED BY LEADING MAGAZINE
Sea Island was ranked as one of the world's leading resorts in the July, 1968, "international resort issue" of Town & Country magazine.
The other resorts in the United States are Aspen, Colorado; Southampton, Ma sachusetts; Kamuela, Hawaii; ewport, Rhode Island; Palm Beach, Florida; Pebble Beach, California; Santa Barbara, California; Saratoga, ew York; Scottsdale Arizona' Vail, Colorado, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
The magazine praised Sea Island for its 'low key pace gentle charm and miles of uncrowded beaches."
Only The Cloister, the Del Monte Lodge at Pebble Beach, and the Greenbrier at While Sulphur Springs received specific mention as hotels of choice among the United States resorts.

E. W. Griscom, a vice-president of the Sinclair Refining Company, presents enlarged copy of national advertisement on Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp to Governor lester G. Maddox. The advertisement commended the citizens of Waycross, Georgia, for their conservation efforts in protecting the wildlife and preserving the natural beauties of the Swamp. The ad appeared in six nationally-known magazines, Audubon, National Geo!,raphic, Natural History, Saturday Review, Sports Illustrated and U.S. News and World Report. The entire cost of producing and printing the four-color advertisement was borne by the Sinclair Refining Company,
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Cochran, Claxton Dedicate Airports
About 700 people turned out for airport dedication ceremonies in Bleckley County Georgia, which featured Governor Lester Maddox, Colonel Harold Dye, Assistant Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, and the U. S. Third Army Band.
The crowd which toured the plu h, new lounge area and business office of the airport heard both Governor Maddox and Colonel Dye explain that the airport will mean more than just a place to land and service planes.
Colonel Dye said he viewed the installation as an industrial tool and related that similar landing strips in other parts of the State had led to indu trial developments.
Governor Maddox aid the airport could mean the difference between stagnation and growth of the area and pointed out that Georgia i a leader in the development of new community airport . He cited the fact that Georgia has over 100 such lighted and paved facilities and that the State ranks first in the Southeast and fifth in the nation. in the amount of federal money received for the improvement and development of airports.
Al 0, in keeping with Georgia' record airport growth, a new airport to erve Claxton and Evans County was dedicated in May.
Thi airport was built as a joint effort by the City of Claxton and Evans County from general funds of the two local governments. Assi tance was given by the State government and the Federal Aviation Agency.
The total co t of the installation amounted to $195,527. Governor Le ter Maddox dedicated the airport.
Future plans call for extending the runway to 4,000 feet in length, installation of low intensity lighting, construction of an administration building and hangar.

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Dedication ceremonies in Bleckley County, Georgia.

Georgia Gets Aviation Academy
The first of October marked the beginning of the atiomtl Aviation Academy operation of the Gardens-
Harris' County Airport in Pine Mountain, Georgia. The Academy, a school for pilot training, wa
founped to satisfy a need in aviation-that of professionally qualified civilian trained pilots. It has obtained FAA approval to operate a program v hich exceeds minimum FAA standards, empha izing instrument proficiencies in all phases of training.
This program operates 28 airplane and has 78 employees. In terms of statistics, the Academy flies over 45,000 training hours per year, more than some airlines fly in scheduled service.
The operation at Gardens-Harris County Airport is being organized as Gardens Air Services, a division of the ational Aviation Academy, and will be headed by Robert E. Foster, formerly assistant chief pilot for the Academy's operation in St. Petersburg.
Garden Air Ser ice is a complete fixed base operation, which pecializes only in flight training.
View of airfield from interior of Gardens-Horris County Airport.
New Air Service for Northwest Georgia
Universal Aviation, Inc., a newly-formed Georgia corporation, has begun additional air service for the
orthwest Georgia area. Headquartered in Rome, Universal caters to busines es and private customers over a multi-county area. According to the corporation s officials, Universal will supply a twin engine plane-and pilot-for bu inessmen, sportsmen, vacationers, students, sports spectators, freight shipments, aerial photography and ambulance ervice. niversal will have access to more than 6,000 airports all over the United States. Universal now supplies customers with the Piper Aztec and plans to add other aircraft in the future.

I PC Opens New Mill
A new paper mill co ting $27 million has been dedicated at Riceboro, a tiny town south of Savannah with a promi e that it will make a multi-million dollar impact on the region.
Governor Lester Maddox poke at dedication ceremonies for the Interstate Paper Corporation mill. The plant is equipped with the most advanced ystem of water pollution control in the paper indu try.
The mm will employ about 250 persons with 200 mope indirectly employed in providing service directly related to the mill operations.
About 250 others will be involved in the harvest of pulpwood to feed the mill. The payroll has been estimated at $8 million annually with an overall impact set at $50 million for the area.
Howard Epstein, who heads Interstate Paper said the new mill i firmly committed to protecting natural resources. It is fir t in the pulp and paper indu try to apply color removal treatment to wa te water.
Georgia - Pacific Adds New Plants
R. B. Pamplin, Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Pacific Corporation, has announced the planned construction of two new Georgia-Pacific Corporation facilities in Georgia. The first plant, to be located in Vienna, Georgia, will manufacture particleboard; the other facility which is to be a southern pine plywood plant, will be located in Central Georgia. The exact site has not yet been determined and i dependent upon finalization of timber commitments.
The investment of the two plants will be approximately $5 million each, or a total of $10 million. The combined operations will employ approximately 400 people, with an annual payroll of approximately $2\12 million. Construction of the particleboard plant in Vienna will begin as soon as possible and will be completed in late 1969.
According to Mr. Pamplin, the particleboard plant will furni h a market for shavings produced by sawmill operators in the area, many of whom have been burning the shavings as waste. Georgia-Pacific pioneered the southern pine plywood industry and built the first such plant approximately five years ago.
Other Georgia-Pacific operations in the state are in Augusta, which is the Southern Divi ion headquarters, and a building materials distribution center; Savannah, location of the Savannah pine plywood plant and hardwood plywood plant and a distribution center; Port Wentworth, location of a hardwood lumber plant and the Savannah River import dock' Brunswick, location of a gypsum products plant; Baxley, site of a eneer plant; Atlanta, where there is a distribution center, and Albany, also a di tribution center.
With assets of $1 billion, Georgia-Pacific is a major manufacturer of forest and gypsum products with mills and ales branches in every major geographic region of the United States and several foreign countries.
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Bigelow-Sanford to Expand Operations
An 18 million dollar expansion program for its operations in Chattooga County has been announced by Ormond Roberts, Plant Manager for Bigelow-Sanford, Inc.
The expansion project will be carried out in three pha es. Approximately $6 million will be expended in 1968-69 to cover the first phase to include a new plant at Lyerly on company property adjacent to the present Bigelow-Sanford facility.
The Lyerly facility will increase the tufted carpet manufacturing capacity of Bigelow by approximately one-third and double the present employees from 650 to 1,300.
Bigelow-Sanford already has a plant in Summerville, Georgia where 650 worker are employed.

Dillard to Triple Space
The Augusta Committee of 100 has revealed that Dillard Paper Company plans to build a new warehousing and distribution center in Augusta's Miracle Mile Industrial District.
The new facility, containing 35 000 square feet, will be built on a seven-acre tract fronting Marvin Griffin Road. Completion is anticipated by February 1, 1969. The expansion will triple the company's present plant space in Augusta, which now employs approximately 25 people.
The Augusta plant is one of the sixteen divisions of Dillard Paper Company whose home office is in Greensboro, orth Carolina. The company distributes industrial and printing papers, plastic films and packaging materials throughout the Southeastern states.

A Gainesville beauty, Miss Stephanie Watkins, became the 1968 Miss Georgia Teenager at the Miss Georgia Teenager Pageant, held near Carrollton in August. Shown here with first runner-up Miss Cynthia Goldin (left) and second runner-up Miss Sharon McDonald (right), Miss Watkins, IS, also was a finalist in the National Miss America Teenager Pageant, where she was voted Miss Congeniality.

Patchogue Plymouth Announces Growth
Limited production has begun at the new multi-million dollar Patchogue Plymouth Company plant at ashville, Georgia.
The country s leading producer of synthetic carpet backing, Patchogu'e Plymouth expects that the new plant will increase its production of Poly Bac, woven of polypropylene yarns, by 50 per cent. The plant will be a fully vertical operation, from the extrusion of polypropylene yarns to weaving and finishing industrial fabric, including not only its well-known carpet backing, but material for the bag and bagging industry.
The ashville plant is about 65 miles southwest of Patchogue Plymouth's first plant at Hazlehurst, Georgia where Poly Bac was developed and perfected. ashville was chosen as the site because of its accessibility to Southern tufters, and becau e of its progressive community leadership. The new plant will be Nashville s first major industrial facility and was built on a site measuring more than 162 acres, which will permit expansion in the foreseeable future.
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Our Cover Girl
"Georgia Progress" salutes this statuesque beauty from Valdo ta, Linda Kay Garrett, who wa crowned Miss Stay and See Georgia First. (Photo on back cover.)
Miss Garrett, 19, is a fre hman at Valdosta State College, a former Mi s Valdosta, and Miss Gum Spirits of Turpentine.
She was crowned by Anne Thompson, Miss Stay and See Georgia First of 1967.
First and second runners-up were Sandra Lee McPhee of Rome, and Zoe Ann Irvin of Baldwin.
Alternates selected were Cathy Crunkleton of Toccoa and Nancy Lee of Lakeland.
The fifth annual contest was sponsored jointly by the Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade and the Georgia Association of Broadcaster, Inc. which held its annual meeting at Callaway Gardens.

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When a company declines to provide the requested information, other sources are u ed. Among the many sources consulted are other developers, private utilities, railroads, bank, chambers of commerce, construction companies, industry publications, and many others. Often as many as twenty different people may be contacted before comprehensive information about a plant is obtained. Eventually however, by piecing together many bits of information from different sources, an accurate statistical picture of a plant can be obtained. If re earchers are satisfied that the information is valid it is included in the records, but if information is too scanty to be verified, no statistical information about the company i included in official report. The information gathering procedure is often exciting, often di appointing, but never dull, and is not unlike good investigative procedures employed by private detectives.
Reports of new and expanded industries are included in the year in which the new plant or expansion is announced. There has been periodic questioning of this procedure over the years. It seems that some would prefer to ee plants reported only after they have commenced operations. Obviou ly, however, such a procedure could result in as much as three years lag in reporting the deci ion of a company to build a new Georgia plant; a decision which represents the confidence of the company in Georgia at the time of the announcement.
In addition to the questions concerning reporting data, there has been some discussion concerning the difference in the amount of industrial growth reported by varying agencies and organizations. Both of these topics merit discussion here.
In examining the reports of new and expanded industries, it is readily

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seen that methods of reporting are almost as numerous as there are agencies generating reports. The reason for this is explained by the fact that each agency generates its reports to fill ome specific need of its own, and since different agencies seldom have identical needs, their reports seldom have identical format and methodology. Thus, the report of a tate development agency differs from that of a private utiljty which in turn might differ from the ;eport of a railroad. The important ::onsideration in each case is the purpose for generating the report. And since purposes always differ, reports of different agencies will always differ.
Despite the foregoing, however, one who examines reports of new and expanded indu tries released by true state-wide organizations, such a state development agencies and state chamber of commerce, whose interest spans the entirety of the State's economy, immediately detects a trong current of similarity in one facet of their report; the time the report is made. This was borne out by a study conducted by the California State Chamber of Commerce in June of 1967.
In the California study, all state agencies and all state chambers of

commerce were a ked to respond to a questionnaire concerning the collection of information about new and expanded industries. Thirtynine tates re ponded to the survey. One question dealt specifically with when information is reported on a new or expanded facility. In answering, sixteen respondents stated that they report the new or expanded plant when announced by the company eleven when expenditure is contemplated (i.e. before the official announcement), and one when announced by F. W. Dodge Company. Thu , twenty-eight of the re pondent report new and expanded indu tries at the same time as, or before, the official announcement by the company.
A recent telephone survey conducted by the research divi ion of state development agencies in Florida, orth Carolina South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee revealed that all of them also report new and expanded industries as of the date of announcement of the new plant or expansion. Thus, Georgia s procedure is the same as the majority of states and no change in procedure could be justified.
The growth of industry in Georgia during the past ten years has been great a is hown by the charts below. These figures vividly tell of a growing indu trial economy with challenging opportunities for manufacturers of many types. They inpire the reader to confidence in the State and challenge all developers to be even more productive in the future. We in the Re earch Division are confident that our workload in reporting new and expanded industries will continue to increa e rapidly becau e Georgians will continue to build our State at an ever increa ing rate that will include industrial growth of greater magnitude than ever before imagined. With this in mind, we look forward with much anticipation to our future task.
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CALENDAR YEAR BASIS SINCE 1958

Year
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967

NEW INDUSTRIES

o. Firms

Capital Investment

158

$ 83,020,000

137

34,573,000

86

22,923,000

91

24,935,000

103

60,429,000

111

128,564,000

130

120,000,000

133

178,000,000

145

235,458,500

155

174,965,176

EXPANDED INDUSTRIES

o. Firms

Capital Investment

88

$ 45,339,000

84

51,780,000

66

29,680,000

167

98,858,000

188

48,787,983

84

22,306,425

120

105,461,180

179

136,909,000

211

143,178,791

256

247,169,058

TOTALS

Total o. Firms

Total Capital

246

$128,359,000

221

86,353,000

152

52,603,000

258

123,793,000

291

109,216,983

195

150,870,425

250

225,461,180

312

314,909,000

356

378,637,291

411

422,134,231

FISCAL YEAR BASIS SINCE JULY 1, 1965

NEW INDUSTRIES

Year

No. Firms

Capital Investment

Fy'66* 169

$145,856,000

FY'67

154

172,583,676

FY'68

181

320,175,523

EXPANDED INDUSTRIES

No. Firms

Capital Investment

225

$170,239,133

222

105,629,131

283

302,419,310

TOTALS

Total No. Firms

Total Capital

394

$316,095,133

376

278,212,133

501

625,805,448

'-'July 1, '65 to June 30. '66.

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THE GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE IN PICTURES
At the two-doy Governor's Conference on Industrial Development, these were just some of the "stars" who highlighted the program.
Clockwise: Lovely Burma Davis, Miss Georgia, added beauty to the subject of Industry-and all 425 present were delighted. The lucky men with her are, from left, William A. Pope, member of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Industry and Trade, Allen H. Douglas, Resident Vice President of Southern Railway System and Lt. Gen Louis W. Truman, U.S. Army (Ret.), Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade.
Col. Harold A. Dye, Assistant Executive Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, gives Julius Bishop, Mayor of Athens and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Industry and Trade, a mock serious pat on the back to the amusement of Governor Maddox and Gen. Truman.
Governor Maddox, in a serious moment, praised the State, and the industrial developers who attended for the great strides Georgia has made in industrial growth.
Miss Georgia thoroughly charmed her audience - and fellow speaker, Gen. Truman.
Harold Clotfelter, President of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce, gave the group "Community's Point of View" in the field of industrial development.
And Leonard Yaseen, Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of The Fantus Company, presented an interesting discussion of "Industry's Point of View."
Mayor Julius Bishop made the introduction for the Conference's guest of honor, Governor Lester Maddox.

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