J - ' I tA ANNUAL REPORT EDITION BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE LT. GEN . LOU IS W. T RU MAN, Executive Director J U LI US F. BISHOP, Chairma n M ayo r Cit y of Athen ~ Athen s, Geor g,a KIRK SUTLI VE . . M anager Public R elat/ a1ls (R etired } Uni on-C amp Paper Corp ora tIOn Savannah, G eorgia B. T . BU RSON p ubli sher . Th e Camill a E~terpnse Camill a , Geor gIa AL LEN' M . WOODALL , J R . Presid ent WO AK Radio . c olu mb us, G eor gIa JOHN K. PORTER P res id ent J ohn K. Porter Comp any, Inc. Atlanta , Georgia EUGENE A. YATES Vice Presid en t Geor gia Power Company Atlanta , Georgia ROGER J. SCHOERNER Ex ecuti ve V ice President Southwire Compa ny Car rollton, Geo rgia J OHN P. PIC KE TT Pickett Ch evrol et Company Cedartown, Geor gia WILLI AM A. PO P E A tt ornev at La w Washington, Geor gia 30673 ALLYN J . MO RSE V ice President (Re tired ) Coats & Clark , Inc. Toccoa, Georgia BU DDY M . NESM IT H Pr es id ent Buddy M . NeSmith Oil Comp an y, Inc. Cochran, Geor gia 31041 JOHN E . PAR KE RSON Presid ent The Bank of T ifton T ifton, Geo rgia W. T . ROBER T S Alto rne}' at Law Montezuma , Geor gia CLARK E . HA RRISON , JR. Presid en t Clark H arri son & Company, Inc. Decatur, Georgia THOMAS G. COUSIN S P res id e nt Cousins Prope rties, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia JOH N R. H IN ES Hogansville, Geo rgia ALEX S. BOYE R, JR . SYlvania, Georgia 30467 WI LLI AM BAZEM ORE Pres id ent The First Natio nal Bank of Waycross Waycross, Geo rgia PRrAesLidPeHn W. r CLE VELAND G a ~nesvi ll e Milli ng Co mpa ny Gamesville, Georgia WALT ER G RAH AM Presid e nt ~I a r! e tta Co mmercia l Bank l an etta, Ge orgia 30060 CONTENTS VIEWPOINT . 5 FEATURES The Magic of Jekyll . 6 Carrollt on "On the Move" 8 A Win for the Hom e Team 11 SPECIAL FEATURES Stay and See Georgia 12 "Agribusiness"- Georgia's Fast-Growing Giant 22 Flying Partners in Progress . 24 ANNUAL REPORT . . 13 DEPARTMENTS Control Tower-Special Featur e 24 Gro wing Georgia 26 Tour Georgia. 28 GEORGIA SCOPE News at a Glance . 29 PHOTO STORY Wassaw-The Timeless Island . 31 MAGAZINE STAFF MAI~GA. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE P. O. BOX 38097, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334 Mailroom, a new regular feature of "Georgia Progress" is designed as a sounding board for opinions concerning "Georgia Progress," state qovernment, ind ust ria l development, community action, etc. We encourage you to share your opinions and criticism with us in the future. PAULA COSTELLO Ass istant Editor Paula CosteIIo, a native Kentucki an, came to the Georgia Departm ent of Indu stry and Tr ade in F ebru ary, 196 8. Prior to joining the Departm ent' s Publ ic Relations staff, she attended the University of Missouri where she received' a Bachelor of Journ alism degree. ED SPIVIA Managing Editor WILMA BURNS Art Director PHOTO CREDITS Front C ove r . . . Atl anta Skyline . . Fl oyd Jilson Beach Scene . Ru sty Mill er Go od Living. . . D on Nol an In side Lockheed Pl an t . . GAF Co rporat ion, Pan a-Vu e Slides In side F ront Cover . F urn ishe d by Hercules, In c. Inside Back Cove r . E d Spivia Back Cover .. . Cott on Bowl Floa t . . . La nny Will iam s Ro se Bowl F loa t Scoop Scrug gs Pag e 4 I was tal king to Roy Cooper (D irector of Recreat ion) , A tlanta Chamber of Co mmerce. He loan ed me your Georgia Progress ma gazin e and I truthfull y enjo yed it ver y much. Passed it on to the whole famil y down here and the y sha red my same feeling s. Donald R. Cannon , Sebring, Fla. *** I do want you to know how much I enjo yed th e Ge org ia Progress magazine which I thin k is excellent. You ar e certa inly to be commended for your efforts, and I parti cularly enjoyed the picture of the Atl anta H awk s on the fro nt cov er. Carl E . Sanders, Atlanta, G a. *** In moving from another state I wa s mo st impressed by a bulletin of thi s type being provided to the citizens of G eorgi a. I feel it gives one of th e most up-to-date coverages of ind ustrial prog ress in the state that I have ever seen . E. A. Bishop , Atl ant a, G a. *** I received a great surprise and let me say "sho ck" whil e attending the G reen Ca rpet Program when someo ne called to my atte ntion the wr ite-up in the last edition of th e Georgi a Progress about Henry County. I want to th ank you for taking tim e to corne to McD onou gh and taking a look at thi s area and for the fine story you have written regarding Hen ry County. Yo u people at the Ge org ia Industr y and Tr ade have been ver y helpful and ver y cooper ativ e to us in th e Henry County Chamber of Comme rce and I hope the occasion will arise when we can show our appreciation for what you good people ha ve don e. Fred Crumbley, McDonough, Ga. *** Of all the many publications you have released in your administr ation, th e second quarter Georgia Progress is undoubtedl y the best. It is superb in every respect and very effectively dep icts the progress which thi s sta te is m aking . It makes on e feel very proud to be a citizen of Georg ia. J . W. Fanning, Athens, Ga. *** We were deli ghted with the current edition of Georgia Progress. In its new format , this publicat ion should be outsta ndingly effect ive. Cert ainly , also, it goes without saying th at we appreciate the ar ticles about Grumman and The Sava nna h Plan which appeared in this edition. We hop e that our endeavours will produce more worthwhile editorial material in th e futur e. Alb ert J. Klingel, Jr. , Savannah, Ga . *** I have just read Georgia Progress, second quarter and to say th e least I am very imp ressed! Th is pa st A ugust I had th e pleasure of making my first trip to your fair state . I spent nine delightful, fun filled days on Lake Lanier just out side of Gainesville and two days in Macon. Never have I had such an enjo yable vacati on and a day doesn't go by without "Georgia" on 'my mind . R. Daniel Justice, Ravenna, Ohio " Viewpoint FEBRUARY '69 Julius Bishop, Mayor of Athens, Georg ia and Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Industry and Trade T he colored pages in the center of this issue are an annual report of the development of Indu stry and Tour ism in Georgia. Th e report paints a vivid pictur e of the progress that has been made in Georgia, and to me, gives strong indications that Georgia has broke n through the restraining influences which have, for many years, held Georgia and the South in an economic vise. Th e Chart on page 16 shows how new and expanding industries have invested in Georgia since 1959. Beginning in 1962, the Chart shows that each calendar year was better than the previous year and that the average increase per year was approximately 69 million dollars. 1968 showed an increase of 103 million dollars over 1967 . A projection of this Chart indicates investments should exceed 600 million dollars in 1969. A significant factor in the annual report is the numb er of industries involved in making up the total investment figure. Th e increase from 155 to 23 I in the new industry category was 10 times as great as the increase for the preceding five years , and positively indicates that the message is getting through to America that "Georgia's Got It." Th e figures for expanded industry are not as dramatic as those for new industry. However, the numb er of expanding firms increased from 256 to 272 to maintain a trend which started in 1963. Th e large number of ex panding firms gives a strong indication that Georgia's industrial climate .is indeed healthy. Another factor which stands out is that as the numb er of new industries increases, a larger base for expansion is established , and in 1968 this base covered the entire State. Certainly, " business goes where business is." Th e last six month s of 1968 did not maintain the record of capital investment levels established between Jul y I , 1967 and J une 30, 1968 . In particul ar the last quarter of 196 8 showed the effect of the period of uncertainty and watchful waiting which coincided with the presidential elections and had a dampening effect on the national economy. Indications are that the slowdown was only temporary and numb ers of industrial pro spects visiting Georgia in December, normall y a slow month , point to 1969 as a bann er year. Page 5 Sand castles on Jekyll's 9 -mile long white sand beach often become very gay and decorated creations. Bea ch combing is popular in winter. Swimming is enjoyed many days December-February but a stroll on the bea ch is pleasant at all times. Newest way to see Jekyll Island is with a beach buggy, In addition to its sandy beaches and beautiful scenery available for rental at motels. Jekyll also has something to offer the history buff. Page 6 t e magic of by Carolyn Cart er o Jekyll Island , once the ~Iay ground of million~ir~s , toda y I.S a favorite resort of millions . Th e nmemile-long island 's attractions are limitless- warm lazy days, broad, white, sandy beaches, comfortable new hotels, and, of course, golf. Golf has added to the luster of this one-time wealthy playground now owned by the State of Georgia. The story still circulates that when the late John D. Rockefeller (the richest man in the world) lost a golf ball here he spent as much as a day looking for it. He tipp ed his cadd y one of his proverb ial dimes. That was early in the centu ry when Jekyll Island was the site of the exclusive club of some of America's wealthiest men. The stories of their eccentricities, extravagance and what some regard as " stinginess" is record ed in ledgers of the old club. Signing in that ledger in the old days were, Jay Gould , William Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cyrus McCorm ick-to nam e a few. Today those ledgers are but part of the historic material viewed by 214 million visitors each year. The guest registration today is a tru e crosssection of America, including persons from every state. Winter attracts Canadians and those of colder climates who like to be able to play golf at least 350 days each year. Jekyll Island was purchased by the State of Georgi a and opened to the public in 1954 . Its number of year-ro und touri sts mounts each year. Jekyll is well-known for its excel- lent and picturesque golf courses. Two 18-hole cour ses have been opened within the last several yea rs and a nine-hol e course laid out for the millionaires is still played. Since J anu ary , 196 8, more than 125 ,000 golfers have played the courses-yet the fairways are not crowded. Jekyll has become a convention center, hosting num erous gatherings eac h week. It also is famed for its ocea n sports and its natu ral beaut y. Th e Men's Gard en Club s of America erected a plaqu e lauding the " noteworth y landsc aping and beaut ification of large are as of the island ." A rule enforced by the Jekyll Island Authority calls for flowers to bloom along the parkways every seaso n of the year. Th e island also is a wild life preserve where deer and wild turk ey roam among an ancient uncut growth of liveoak s, pine s and palms mor e than a century old. Jekyll Island is within an hour's drive of fou r well-stocked publi c quail pr eserves, though hunting is not permitt ed on the island. Temp eratures rem ain warm throughout the year, but there is enough variance to make life interesting. Th e island has more than 600 motel un its facing the Atl antic Ocean . It has over .400 private cottages, many of which are avai lable for rental, a well-equipped camp ground and an assortment of restaurants. Th e golf course , including its $400,000 club house complete ' with pro shop , is maintained by the state. There is an ind oor Olymp ic- size swimming pool open all year and indoor and outdoo r tennis courts all opera ted by the state. Lu xury motels along the ocean have a fully plann ed schedule of activities includin g morning coffeesher ry parties, dinner dances, complimentary golf for all guests, sightseeing tours to historic areas, and oyster roas ts. Th e island is blossoming this winter. A $2 million marina is und er construction on the Intracoastal Wat e rwa y. An all-weather fishing pier 20 feet wide is being built. Th e pier will augment fishing which has long been superb off-sho re. Chart er boats, long bridg es, beach es and river shore lines will have competition when the new pier, located at the north end of the island , is compl eted. It will be sha ped like a half-moon , covered from weath er and sun, prov ided with rest rooms and concession stands. Th e marina will be a floating par adise for boats of all sizes. Dredges and cranes are mo ving muck and earth to dig a lake which will be filled with fresh water so boats will not be hamp ered by the salt water mar ine life so troublesome elsewhere. Th e site is on the Jekyll River on the Int racoastal Waterway where thou sand s of pleasure craft pass each year en rout e north and south , as the season dictates. For man y, the charm of Jek yll Island is yet to be discovered . Perhaps this year is the time to contem- plate a restful island holid ay. Page 7 CARROLLTON "ON THE MOVE" "Federal money spent in an area like Carrollton is part of the solution to the nation's problems." Excerpts reprinte d from article which appeared in the Octobe r issue of "A ppalachia M agazine" o Locat ed in a marginal agricul- tural belt that runs around the south ern perim eter of the Appalachian Region are num erou s towns that have been adversely affected in the past two decades by the rapid shift of the Na tion's economy from agriculture to manufacturing. One such town is Car rollton , Georgia , located in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian range. Here only 51 miles from Atl ant a, a communit y of 13,500 popul ation has in the past several years been redeveloping itself from a declining cotton and corn tradin g center into a manufacturing town. In Carrollton the vigorous leadership of dedicated men and a strong spirit of community coop eration have made possible this redevelopment and the improvement of pub lic services so that Carr ollton can provide a hospitable climate for new industry. The water supply has been improved; urb an renewal has been undertaken ; edu cation al and recreational facilities constructed; an industria l park provided ; and an airport capable of landing jet aircraft and handling the overflow from At lanta's airport is well underway. The realization of what the town had to do and the discovery of how to do it was not an imm ediate oc- Page 8 currence. It took many ye.ars. In 1957 the City Council and the County Commissioner appointed a Carrollton-Carroll County General Planning and Zoning Enabling Act. The Act provided operating fund~ through Georgia's Department ot Commerce. Carrollton was the first town in Georgia to apply for and receive financial aid. The hard-working Planning Co m- mission soon discovered that an urban planning grant could be obtained from the Housing and Hom e Finance Agency, which provided the additional money needed for an initial planning survey. This grant, approved in 1958, also pe r~itted t.he Council to hire a profession a l city planning firm to help th e Plan ning Co mmission pre pare a survey. The survey, completed in A pr il 1959, became an overall gui de for the city's development and co nta ined the bas ic clements of a co mprehe nsive plan fo r Car ro llton. It also mad e the city eligible fo r parti cipati on in seve ra l Stat e and Federa l aid progra ms th at required towns to fo rmulate lon g-ra nge development plan s. Th e repo rt pr ed icted th at the stea dy but slow popu lation growth of th e city wou ld continue until a bout 1970 , at whi ch time Carrollton would mu sh room as a result of th e gro wth and p rosp erity of A tlanta , and th e co nstruction o f in tersta te highways 20 and 85 . T o pre pare for th is eventua lity, the report reco mmended enco ura gement of the eco nomic adjustment fro m ag riculture to ur banization. T he report suggested m ajor improvem ents in th e ce ntra l bu siness district. Imp ro vem ent s such as th e coordin ated rem od eling of buildin gs and plan ned parking areas were also recomm ende d. Th e report recognized that serv ice busin esses should be grea tly expanded and new ones develo ped. In add ition, th e report reco mme nde d th at th e city de velop an att rac tive profession al center to ofTe r medica l, lega l, engin eer ing, business , man agerial and other p ro fession al services . T o encourage ind ustry assoc iated with A tlan ta 's eco nomy to locate in th e Carrollto n urban area, the report recommended that hig hway co nnection s with th e inter stat e system and a major thoro ughfa re system within th e city be developed. It a lso recommend ed th at the city zone and develop industrial sites, co mplete with adequa te streets and util ities. Oth er publi c services, suc h as water and sewe rage sys tems need ed to be ex pande d. R ecr eati on faciliti es needed to be develop ed , future land use determined th rou ghout th e entire city, a street nam ing and numbering sys tem adopted , subdivision codes and standards enfo rced and urban renewa l un derta ken . Fi na lly, a ca pita l expenditures budg et needed to be prepar ed , along with a comprehensive plan. Wh ile the final rep ort was being pr epared , th e C ity Coun cil had been wor king with th e Planning Commissio n in developing and ado pting so me of th e more immedia te and easi ly ex pedited needs of the city, such as decisions on pla nning areas, building codes and zoning regulation s. A Hou sing Author ity was organi zed , and low-cost hou sing was built to take ca re of peopl e moved in an urban renewal efTort. In 1962 , und er a new admini stration by Mayor C. H . Lumpkin , a list of pr ioriti es amo ng p rojects to be co mpleted in th e first five years was co mpi led. Thi s list includ ed wa ter faci lities and a sewage treatment plant to be fina nce d th rou gh wa te r revenu e bonds and a F eder al grant, stree t and th orou ghf ar e impro vement s to be financed jointl y by th e city, the Sta te Highw ay Department and th e Federal Bureau of Public R oad s, severa l furth er urban ren ewal project s to be finan ced by city and Feder al grants, th e co nstr uctio n of a voca tio na l ed uca tion schoo l thro ugh local Sch ool Boar d fu nd s, the Stat e Dep artm ent of E duca tio n and a Federal gra nt. In add itio n, a lib rary, a publi c park, recr eat ion al facilit ies and th e renovati on and ex pa nsion of Page 9 the crowded city cemetery were plann ed. A secon d five-year program included construct ion of additiona l public schoo l facili ties, expa nsion of the hospit al, further urb an renewa l and stree t and thoro ughfare improvements. In addition , power, te leph one and gas system s were to be expa nded by private ind ustry. A third group of nine pr ojects was comp iled for the subsequent ten yea rs. T his list included the con struc tion of a new West Georgia R egion al Li brary Headqu art ers Building, improved airpo rt faci lities and more improvement s in the wate r supply, sewage treatment , ur ban renewal , schoo ls, roa ds, pa rking areas, recreati on and electric power. Du e to lack of funds, real progress in initia ting projects did not take place until 1965. T o raise matching local fund s th e City Co uncil recognized that it was necessary to raise business taxes, along with sewer, ga rbage and p roperty taxes. In addition, the City Council re-evalu ated pr op ert y and plann ed bond issues for publ ic facilities. "T here was wonde rful coo peration from the community," Mayor John Robin son , who has been Mayor since 1965, said. " In fact, no bond issue has faile d in th e pas t ten years ." Th e City Co uncil and Planning Commi ssion next turn ed th eir atte ntion to educa tiona l problems . Th e new, mod ern , co mplete libr ary, built th rou gh local funds, which was co mp leted in 1967 , is a regional facility, serv ing fo ur co unties, in addi tion to Ca rro ll Co unty. A major asse t of Car rollt on had long been its ro le as an ed ucationa l center in the region west of A tlanta . Wes t Georgia Co llege, located within Carrollt on's city limits, became a four-yea r instituti on in 1957 . For a long time, indu str y had urged the co nstr uction of a vocation al-technical school, and the city offic ials were co ncerned that the town 's popul ation in the past-h igh schoo l age gro up had dropped 14 percent in the past ten years. T he schoo l, which opened last fall , is designed to offer tr ainin g th at will dupli cate actua l co nditions of indu stry, as closely as possib le. It is estima ted that d ue to this new facility, stude nts will increase their ea rn- Page 10 Mayor John Robinson expresses hope for the future . " Fe d e ra l money spent in on area like Carrollton is port of the solution to the Notion 's problems ." ing power by 20-40 percent. Th e major thrust for initiatin g projects mor e directly gea red to attracting indu str y cam e from indu str y itself and Ch amb er of Co mmerce members in coo pera tion with City Cou ncil officials. A Carrollton Development Co rpor ation was fo rmed by these group s, which was resp onsible fo r th e developm ent of an indu strial park . Local ind ustry leaders and th e Ch amb er of Comm erce also urged the constr uction of a new airport that co uld acco mmo da te jet planes and serve surrounding co mmunities. Th e old Ca rrollt on airpo rt, located within the city limits, could not be expande d . Th e West Georgia Airport A uthor ity, compose d of th ree members fro m Ca rro ll and H aralson counti es, was o rganized to plan and ca rry out the pro ject. Wo rking with th e Fe dera l Avia tion Administration , a site was selected, located 15 minutes away from the largest town in eac h co unty. Situated north of Ca rro llton, th e ai rport will mak e possible th e ra pid access of goo ds and peopl e to th e new indu stri al sites being develop ed by the city. Planning assista nce for the indus tri al site, access road and airpo rt came fro m the Chatta hooc hee-F lint Area Plannin g a nd Developm ent Co mmissio n, o rganized by the State to promote eco nomic development in a nine-county a rea enco mpassing Ca rro ll Co unty. "Now we have the basic faci lities needed to attract indu str y," said Mayor Robin son , "but we don 't want just any company. We want comp anies that ca n come in a nd sta nd on their own two feet. We want them to be good and ind ependent citizens ." As to the future, everyo ne agrees they hope th e community spirit of coo pera tive developm ent will continu e. But an unu sual perspective somehow sett les over th e town's leaders. "O ur probl ems are closely related to curre nt nation al p roblems," Mayor R obinson recognizes. " If we don 't educa te kids properly, they go to Atlanta and look for a job they are not suited for. It is the obligation of a commun ity to provide ed ucation and eco nomic op po rtunity. If a man gra duates fro m a school in Carrollton , he ought to have a job here. Th e better job we do, the less problems Atlanta will have. So, you see , Federal money spent in an area like Ca rro llton is part of the solution to th e Nati on 's probl ems." Win For The Home Team by Pal/la Costello o Summertime and baseball arc as insepar able as little boys and puppy dogs. Nothing beats the excitement of a close home run or the noisy cheering of th e fans as their team scores again. But there's more to baseball than this, more than meets the eye. What goes on behind the scenes of one of the nation's most progressive team s? To find out, " Geo rgia Pr ogress" talked to Lee Walburn , Director of Public Relations and Rod Kimbl e, Director of Promotions and Special Events, for the Atl anta Braves. For the last two years th e Braves hav e spent their summer between-gam eand-travel-time implementing perhaps the most dynam ic program of com munity service in spo rts tod ay. The Braves Good Ne ighbo r Program was begun in 1966 to try to fill the recreationa l needs of both Neg ro and white child ren in the deprived areas surrounding th e Atlanta stad ium . Th e Good Ne ighbor Program helps children in two basic areas, educ ation and entertainment, and also pro vides facilities and equipment for recr eation al areas . Last summer th e entire Braves team , coach es and , sometimes, players from opposing Na tiona l League team s, co nducted baseball clinics and autographing sessions at playgro unds in the city, and a ma ss clinic was held in Jul y fo r children at th e Stadium. Also, in coop erati on with th e Atl ant a Publi c Library, the Br aves initiated the Indian Giver Program of lending books from a bookm obile which travelled through depri ved neighb orh ood s. As incentive, the Braves gave thou sand s of free tickets to those who read the most books in an assigned tim e. Children , 13 and ove r, who arc not physically ab le to participate in sports were also helped last summer through a three-month photography course, financ ed by the President's Co unciI on Youth Oppo rtunity, a nd ad ministered by the Braves and Clark Colleg e. To assure neighborhoods which do not have recr eation areas of wellkept playgro unds , the Braves have eq uipped and maint ain ed facilities at two neighb orh ood ball fi elds and equipped new park s in four other ar eas of th e city. " It's impossible to know how many children this prog ram ha s reached since its beginning," Lee Wal bu rn said. "Last summer alone we gave away over 100,000 free tickets to see the Braves and Chiefs. Ju st go to any Negro playground , and ask any boy there. He'll tell you what this pro gram ha s done for him ." Wh en a boy hear s Hank Aaron or Phil Niekro tell him to play fair , learn to be a part of a team , and try to be a winner in whatever he docs, he'll listen. " Athletes ca n get kids' atte ntion more rea dily than a minister o r teacher. Th ere's mor e rapport becau se these kids look up to them and will try to imitate," Lee Walburn said . R od Kimble summed up the Br aves' philosoph y of community acti on and expresse d a hop e for th e future. " We wa nt to be good citizens simp ly becau se we fee l an obligation to the community we're a part of. We'r e not sa ints-we just want to help make Atl ant a a better pla ce for all who live her e. Now we' re hoping oth er indu stries , oth er corpo rations will join us in our effort. " We've talk ed to some firms abo ut our ideas and so far haven't gott en any commitment s. But we' ll keep trying. Som eone has to ta ke the initiati ve and we' re enco uraging others to make the step with us. T ogeth er we could do so mu ch mor e." Th e effects of the Braves' community service do not stop at the edge of a ball field. Th e team spirit and desire for perfection learn ed by these children will becom e a part of th eir lives, permitting th em to become more useful citizens of th e community, better par ent s and mor e productive workers. With co ntinued help from the Braves and, hop efully, aid fro m other interested indu stri es, Atl ant a and Georgia will benefit. Page 11 by Mozelle Christian Stay and See Georgia, Y'all! Th at's what millions of touri sts are doing in incr easing numb ers each year. But the phenomenal boom in the tourist indu stry of Georgia is no happenstance. Onl y in the last decade has our State awakened to the potential of developi ng a. " top notch" touri st program. The travel indu stry is business-big business! And leaders in the business point to Georgia as a forerunn er in travel development and promotion. STAY & SEE GEORGIA leaders for 1968 - Bill Dawson , Travel Council Chairman , Georgia Chambe r of Commerce, and Director of Public Relations and Advertising for Six Flags Over Georg ia (le ft), and Earl Leonard, STAY & SEE GEORGIA Contest Chai rman and Execut ive Staff Representative, The Coca -Cola Company (rig ht). Why has Georgia rocketed to the top in a few short yea rs? One reason is that our State's trav el programs and their leaders have all received nation al recognition. We can boast of the top State touri st program administered by a state governm ent agency, the top tourism research program and the top State Chamber of Commerce touri st developm ent and promotion program. Our nationally known State Chamber program is Stay and See Georgia-a grass roots touri st development program for the local community, which was created six years ago by the Georgi a Chamber of ComPage 12 merce. Thi s progr am has received recogmtion and an award from the National Association of Travel Organizations (NATO) for being the first community touri st developm ent progr am in the U.S.A. Stay and See Georgia explains to the communities of our State the great profit potential of the touri st industry; provides communities a pr actical, inexpensive way to develop a highly desirable touri st indu stry according to a plan ; educates Georgians-our "number one" travel customers-on the attractions and points of interest of our State ; and makes Georgia towns attractive and interesting places to visit and live. This program is accomplished through an annual cont est among Georgia communities. The cont est is sponsored state-wide by the Travel Council of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and locally by a group such as a Chamber of Commerce, city government, service or civic club , or an organization formed especially for the purpose of administering the program. Stay and See Georgia sponsors organize and activate projects through the following five committees : "Cl ean-up and Beautification," to clean up the community and make it as attracti ve as possible to visitors; " Points of Interest," to develop and promote the communit y's points of interest ; "New Attractions," to create and develop new attractions ; "Courtesy and Hospitality," to make visitors feel truly welcome; and "Accommodations and Facilities," to compile and distribute up-to-date information on the accommodations and facilities in the local area for travelers, and to work toward making all places to lodge and eat "first class. " Through these committees the community undertakes projects of its own choo sing and at the close of the contest submits an Official Achi evement Record. Records are judged and the top tourist communities are visited by out-of-state trav el experts, who determine the winners. Prizes are awarded at the Stay and See Georgia "Carnival of Awards" Banquet held each year in conjunction with the Governor's Conference on Tourism. In 1968, the program's fifth year, 205 organizations in 81 counties participated. Waycross-Ware County was named the 1968 Stat e Champion, Butts County the Class I winner, Dari en the Class II winner and Statesboro the Class III winner. Brunswick won the "Winners Circle" trophy, Savannah won the special Convention and Visitor Bur eau Award and Charles Lipthratt, Brunswick, was nam ed "District Chairman of the Year. " Five special awards were presented this year to sponsoring organizations for specific original projects. The Women's Chamber of Commerce received a special citation for its "Atlanta Dogwood Festival;" Rome Area Chamber of Commerce, for the " Martha Berry" film; Gain esville Area Chamber of Commerce, for outstanding community development; Dalton-Whitfield Chamber of Commerce, for the Stay and See Cartoon Con- continued on page 21 nnual GReport 1968 AN PROGRESS The year 1968 was an exhilarating and chall e ngi ng one fo r th e Depa rtme nt of Ind ustry and Trade, becau se it w a s a yea r w h ich saw unparalleled growt h and p rog ress for the Sta te of Geo rg ia a yea r which points to ev e n g reate r ac hie vements in 1969 and beyond . It is, there fore, wi th great pleasu re t hat I make th is 1968 report to readers o f GEORGIA PROGRESS in orde r t hat all mig ht sha re with me the p ride in the accompl ishments .of a ll Georg ia ns . The Depa rtm ent o f Industry and Trade made great headway during 1968 in im p rov ing and strengthening its serv ices, in order that the Depa r tmen t might rnoke a g reater contribut ion to the orde rly an d co nti n uing g rowth of the economy of Georgia. Chang e s in Department operations were made, during 1968, in o rde r to ad just to and best use, the ever-increasing body of know led ge rel ate d to tec hniques of economic development. The rap id g rowth of development theory, coupled w ith the availab ility of ever more sophisticated and powerful development tools such as computers, makes economic developmen t intensely' more d ifficult and challenging than it has been in the past. Developm e nt scie nce is coming of age, and only those who are able to adapt to new methods and procedures will be s ucce ssf ul. The Depa rtment of Indust ry and Trade has ke p t pace w ith new idea s and te chni q ue s du ring the past year, and has establ ished a posi tion of st re ng th and confidence among othe r state developmen t a g e ncie s. This position will be maintained and strengthened through even better and more advanced techniques and procedu res in 1969. Among th e operational changes made in the Depa rtment during 1968, w ere a re visio n of procedures in the Industry Division , a comp lete re o rg a niza tio n of the Research Division, and improved se rvice s and p roc edures in the Tourist and Aviation Divisions. A new co m puter- ba se d prog ram of ind ustria l site sel ectio n was initia te d in the Fa ll of 1968, and w ill be in operation in early 1969. Pre lim inary res u lts indic a te that the advertising campaign fo r Fiscal Year 1969, currentl~ in progress, will be the most effective ever. All of these, plus numerous othe r improvements in Department ope rations, have mad'e the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade a leader among similar departments across . the Nation. EXECUTIVE DIRECTO R Louis W. Truman Lt. Gen. U. S. Army (Ret.) ...1 -"'" Page 14 STATEWIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT The Department of Industry and Trade, and other agenCi.eS, sponsored and/ or pa.rticipa,ted in several sl.gnlifreo nt activities related to industrio l development duurrilng 1968 . All of these activities contributed to the improvement of development activities in the State. On September 19-20, 1968, the Department sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development in Atlanta. The purpose of the Conferenc~ was to continue and accelerate the p rogress of industrial de- velopment in Georgia and to promote closer cooperation and communication between individuals, organizations and agencies work ing toward furtnering industrial development in Georgia. Four hundred twenty-five people from all areas of the State attended the Conference. These individuals represented statewide industrial development organ izations, city and county governments, chambers of commerce, local development committees, and other persons interested in industrial development. The Conference included discussions on the industrial developer's point of view, .ind ustry's point of view and the community's point of view. Small . discussion groups were conducted on the ' subjects of vocational-technical training, financial aids, area assistance, community preparation, local development companies, international development, agribusiness, airport development and community action programs. The Deportment also participated in the Red Carpet Tour for industrialists on April 8-11, 1968, and the Green Carpet Tour for plant location consultants on November 22 -23, 1968. Both of these tours were sponsored by the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce. INDUSTRY DIVISION The changes in procedures of the Industry Division made the Division's efforts in dealing with industrial prospects the most effective ever. Prospects are handled with much more efficiency, professionalism and thoroughness, and results have been extremely gratifying. The increased advertising campaign, directed to manufacturers, also contributed heavily to improved results in 1968. The number of responses handled by the Department has been significantly greater than in any other year. Part of 't he advertising effort has been made through meqns of research-related brochures which have been mailed directly to chief executives of manufacturing industries. The quantity and quality of the responses to these dir~ct-mail brochures have been most impressive. It is hoped that the General Assembly will provide the funds required to expand this successful advertising campaign during Fiscal Year 1969-70. . Many development groups in Georgia are also advertis ing nationally with good results, and' are succeed ing in locating many plants in Georgia through their splendid development efforts. The Department of Industry. and Trade cooperates with all these groups in a coordinated effort .to develop all of Georgia. Their efforts and ours have combined to give Georgia the greatest year ever in industrial development. During 1968, manufacturing concerns announced' plans to build 234 new manufacturing plants in Georgia, and 282 existing manufacturing plants announced plans for ' expansion. Preliminary data reveal that capitol investment will total approximately $300,954,715 for new plants and $225,662,272 for expanded plants; giving a total capitol investment of $526,616,987. A total of. approximately 24,193 new jobs, with total wages of over $100,000,000 annually, ' w ill ultimctely be created when all the new plants and expansions are operating at planned levels. The total capitol investment of $526,616,987 in new and expanded manufacturing facilities exceeds the previous record of $422,134;231, set in 1967, by approximately 24% . This rate of growth is expected to continue during 1969, which should give Georgia more than $600,000,000 in capital investments in new and expanded industries for the year. The following chart shows the capitol investment since 1959. Page 15 500 -MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 527 400 422 ..... 379 .... 300 200 CAPITAL INVESTMENT New Industries 123 r"" Expanded Industries 100 86 r"" lOT 11:[2itC . Tota l Capital Investment ~ trJ '- '- 1959 1960 1961 1962 225 r151 r- P..!- r- LL~~ ..... 1963 1964 314 r- I""'"" i- ti- t- ~ '"- 1965 r- i- ti- t- :- .... 1966 1.-' +, ~ r- V,; f-'- 1"1. ir: Ic- i- t::": '- '- 1967 J ~ :- ~ !o- ..... 1968 RESEARCH DIVISION Dire ctly related to improved performance in indu strial development is an improvement in re se arch ca p a b ilitie s of the Department of Industry c ndT rod e , The Research Division of t he De pa rtment was reo rga n ize d and expanded durin g 19 68 and has a ssu me d an increased role in s upport of the Indu stry and Tourist Divisions within the Department, and of other statewide agencies, as well a s local co m mu n ities through out the State, A major new program of the Research Division is the Eco nomi c Development Prog ram (EDP) for co m m u n itie s, This program invo lve s collection of basic economic information including -site and available bui lding data about all Georgia co m m un itie s and storing the information in a computer file. The computer system, when completed in early 19 69, w ill be used as a tool to ass ist in selecting the best possible sites fo r new ' plants based on the characteristics and requi remen ts specified by the ind ustria l prospect. Data collection began in th e Fall of 1968 with the assistance of the Ar eo Plann ing and Development Commissions. Data collection should be substantially completed by February, 1969, and th e compu ter Pag e 16 CtIlmalc Inllo'e11 flllle r\ IICIlUIlll. SEOlIIIA \..~..... tK OM u, Ol!lO/Iltl'llllltf OJl flilDlJll fly .-o r l t d f"~ IIlI"';,o rn~ ~ll r.,fIlRl ''''..-t: _$!l!'.y!>~!,''}l_ CltJ"'""t ........ tt*l" .. , "" I I"" pt; _ c.l,~~~.liIlt'tt . ( tP'J !o;tWlo'....lIIIi_".' .... ~"".!llfIY"w:f ')'t1 fK) .. ~:11}'Ol { 1 .. ...,;,..c.."..lMIl: t..l .... 1 1,,- 1 '1_ ~"".t. I" 'rft I , .. ~ ttttolll<" U"r (lI:ll't' i 1M ~ "" c.'....WUII ' - -..' . t-~_ ........... ""'licwllfolW1lN_D1Iof:(i'I_ f ltlll' -..~ '- ..\,.~ ~ .~ .~ ~ -.L.... -!L.....,!...;. T~i~I:.~f;'~~~i"~tlgQ.f1' Ill. jl>n-.l_lItl" . l .. l _ _~ ~ i)~ Pl ."''' . '"'~ ......., ~R'llJlUi.t9uLLJJ1$.h,..I,!ri_ -h.LU1.1lliluL.:.... ~ ~'L..-.-.-- ._..._.._-.::.'":.-:."=--.;.:.".::_~-~- 1'1_._ f_,...~ ...-,~ -, T,"_~ CooII... . .... ..,...J!.ti!!!l_~tm!.!'~~ ~"....m...\.I(ul<;lf' 12 J!lll" . b~.1.:.n.!.L..; Aa.c! t.~.lli! .u lU oU. N: AtJi oUllloUllL...-. ClW: ,,,,U0.l!-U."l(:U -''''1):- 1''1,,", .1 1. T... ~.'"'."'ltOI .t l '11"" l" l. capabil ities w ill follow sho rtly the reafter. This p rog ra m will _g rea tly enhance ind ustria l develop ment efforts as Georgia will be one of only fou r states to . have s uch a p rog ram and Geo rg ia's w ill . be th e most sophisticated and re sp o nsive prog ram developed to date. TOURIST DIV ISIO N \ The Geo rg ia tourist ind ustry, like Geo rg ia ma nufa ctu ring , ex p er i~ n ce d a nothe r rec o rd y e ar in 196 8 . Tho ugh com plete da ta ' a re not y e t ava ila bl e , that wh ich is .a va ila b le fo r 'part of the y ea r indica te s th a t g a ins of 15 % were mad e , and t ha t total ex pe nd itu re s by va ca tio n and recre a tio n t rcve le rs p ro ba b ly wi ll exce e d $6 50 ,0 00,00 0 durin,g the year . Ca p ita l o ut la ys by the tr a ve l ind ust ry for new b u ild ing s an d expa nsio ns d u ring the th ree-month pe riod of Ju ly-Se p te m be r, to ta (e d $ 12,80 0, 00 0 and w a s the g reate st q ua rte rly e x pe nd itu re since the Fa ll of 1966. During th e sum me r p e rio d alone, 241 new travel ind ustry firm s o pe ne d fo r bus iness. These 241 firms crea te d a to tal of 1, 256 ne w jo bs. Visito rs at tra ve l a tt ra.ctions in Georg ia ~, du ring the , sum me r pe riod tot a le d .10,20 0,0 0 0. person s, an increa se of 1,3 00,0 0 0 perso ns ove r the rec?rd for the su m mer of 1967. Th is in cre ase paralleled the growth in the n umbe r of vis ito rs to Georg ia Welco me Centers. During the first te n mont hs 'of 1968, 1,734,500 v isitors w e re re ce ived at the Welcome Centers. This represents a 16.5 % inc rea se o ver the sa me period fo r 1967. The five mi llio nth vi sito r ' to the Welcome Centers, a milesto ne of p rog re ss, was rece ived in .O cto b e r at the Ring g o ld Welco me Center. He is , Dr. Harry H. Waller of Bra d e nto n, Flor id a . He wos accompanied by his wife. The Welc om e Ce nte r at lavonia has been expanded to a cco m m o d a t~ t he increased number of visitors . Co nstructio n has begun on .t he eighth Welcome Center . in Au g usta, whi ch it is ho p e d wi ll be opened by Ju ly, 1969. Funds we re made availa b le by the 1968 Ge neral As sembly fo r th e co nstr uction of a ninth Welco me Center at West Point. How ever, in itia tio n of plans for i,ts construc tion have not bee n possible so far . The adve rt ising campaign for touris m has been e~ fleci a ll y effective as w itnessed by the inc rea se in to u rism in the State. In add ition to the pa id adve rtis ing , the State has received much f ree p u blicity a s a direct result of efforts by the Departme nt. Many featu re article s and o the r items of in te res t about Geo rgia att ractions. have been published in TRAyEl, as ' well as ot~ r magazines, follow ing contacts with editors a nd writers by pe rsonnel of the Tourist "Div isio n . On e of the most effective adve rtis ements d u ring the yea r came via national television on New Ye a r's Day. Georgia entered a . float in the Tournament of ' ~oses Parade and won the National Trophy, More than two minutes 'of exposure on all -th re e television networks gave Georq io priceless national advertis ing .- The 7th Annual Governor's Conference on . Tou rism in Savannah in October attracted 226 .representotives from Georgia 's ' travel ind ust ry . , Workshop sess ions at the .co nfe re nce included use of photography ' in ' trave l promotion, how to develop '> tours, what's new in " Sta y and See" travel developments, and local and State cooperati,on in a?vertising and promotion. r Page 11 AVIATION DIVISION Activities in the field of aviation during 1968 continued at the strong pace that has kept Georgia . in a period of general aviation leadership for the past several years. Two new airports were constructed and eleven airports were expanded during 1968. Total expenditures for the new and expanded airports was $4,478,i 24 which does not include the Atlanta Municipal Airport. These new and expanded airports, along with many other excellent airports existing in the State, continue to place Georgia among the national leaders in general airport development. Georgia's airports are invaluable aids to the industrial development of -the State because of industry's - increasing. reliance on executive and business aircraft and on air cargo shipments. . Air' passenger traffic at Georg ia terminals continues to show a rapid increase also. In Atlanta alone, air passengers increased by more than 19% in 1968. Air cargo increased even more rapidly with a growth of 52% above 1967 figures. \ The Aviation Division continued to increase an d improve services to the aviation industry during the " year. Among the important activities co-sponsored by the Division were the First Georgia Flight Instructor Revalidation Course, and a Flight Clinic. Publications, developed by the Aviation Division, included the Georgia Airport Directory and the Georgia Aeronautical Chart. Both of these are used extensively by general aviation p ilots. The Aviation Division is cooperating with the State Planning Bur~au in the preparation of a State Airport Plan, which will develop criteria to be used in the long range development and improvement of the : state system of airports. ECONOMICS OF GROWTH The economic development activities of the Department of industry and Trade, during the past year, have been described in the' paragraphs obove, and some information about results in specific sectors of the economy, have been d iscussed . However, to limit a d iscuss ion of economic growth to those factors alone would be inadequate. We must look 'a t a broader spectrum of economic indicators to realize just how successful the development effort in Georgia has been. During 1968, employment in Georgia . grew by 48,400 and unemployment dropped to an all -time low of 2.8 %. Of ' the 48,~00 new jobs, 15,000 were in manufacturing Industrles and 33,400 were in non-manufacturing jobs. Average weekly ecrninqs for manufacturing employees rose to $103 .36 from $92.74. Average hourly wages increased from $2.24 to $2.43 . Personal income in Georgia grew at a rate of 11.3% to rank ninth ' among all states. The national average rate of growth was 9.2% . Preliminary'figures indicate that personal income in Georgia incre~sed by mo re than one billion dollors in 1968 to a total of $12.7 bill ion with a corresponding increase in per capita income from $2,541 to approximately $2,761. In 1967, per capita income in Georgia was 80.4% of the national average. Preliminary indications are that the 1968 per. ca pita income in Georgia increased Page 18 PERSONAL INCOM E GROW TH co iii' sal: .... -0 0- 0 e0 I&. l- "-0 0- 0 ~ ezn 0 :E . 0 llI:: C) .::.:.:.i Dl: iii I&. eaun 0 W C) ~ au :E 0 u av "Q-fg~~ S,r-> y p.~O ~ rr ~ :l> 100 State Capitol A tla nta. Georgia 30334 BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PA I D ATLANTA, GA . Permit No. 707 GEO~aIA STATE LIBRARY 301 Judica1 Building Capitol Hill Station At1~nta, Georgia 3 J334 1.) COpL3 Ga . i'ro~. MAY, 1969 OARD OF COMMISSIONERS B OF THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE GEN. LOUI S W . TRUMAN, LTi x fcuti"e D ir ec tor J ULI US F. BISH OP, Cha irm an ~~;'O~f Athen~ Athens, Geo rgIa K~IRnKagS"UPTuLbIliVc ER elations (R etired ) urti on-camp P a~e r Corpora tion Savannah, Geor gIa B. T. BURSON p u bli sh er The Camilla E~terpn.se Camilla, Georgl3 ALLEN' M. WOODALL, J R. President . WI) AK RadIo . Columbus, Geor gIa JOHN K. PORT ER JPorhesnidJe{n, t Porter. Company, Inc. Atlanta . Georgl3 EUG ENE A. YAT ES Vice Presiden t Georgia Power. Company Allanla, Georgl3 ROGER J . SCHOERN ER Execlll il'e V ice Pr esiden t Southwire Compan y Car rollton, Geor gia JOHN P. PI CKETT Pickell Chevrolet Co mpa ny Cedartown, Geor gia WILLI AM A. POP E A u orn ev at Law Washington, Geor gia 30673 ALLYN J. MO RSE V ice President (R etired ) Coats & Clark . Inc . Toccoa, Georgia BUDDY M . NESM IT H P resid e n t Buddy M. NeSmith Oil Com pany, Inc. Cochran, Geor gia 31041 JOH N E. PA RKE RSON Presid e nt The Bank of Tifto n Tifton, Georgia W. T. ROBE RT S Att orne}' a t La w Montezuma, Geor gia CLARK E . H ARR ISON JR Pr esid e n t '. Clark H arrison & Comp any, I nc. Decatur, Ge orgia THOM AS G. COUSIN S Pres id e n t Cousins Properties, Inc. AtIanta, Georgia JOHN R. H IN ES Hogansville, Geor gia ALEX S. BOYE R JR SYlvania, Ge orgia '30467 WILLI AM BAZEMO RE Pr eSident ~e First Na tional Ban k of Waycross ayeross, Geo rgia PRrAesIt;dPeHnt W. CLEVELAND Ga~nesv ~ll e Milli ng Co mpany GainesvIlle, Ge orgia W~praAersL!iedTlelEnatRCoGmRmAeHrcAiaMl Bank an etta . Geo rgia 30060 CONTENTS VIEWPOINT . SPECIAL FEATURES A Kind of Paradise Workers On Wheels FEATURES Fitzgerald "On the Move" The Asphalt Oval . Big Indu stries Grow Hamilton Village Square 263 . DEPARTMENTS Internation al Trade Control Tower Tour Georgia Growing Georgia GEORGIA SCOPE News At A Glance PHOTO STORY Cochr an Invention Spurs Business 5 6 --- 11 8 12 14 16 20 18 19 22 23 . 24 . 26 ABOUT THE COVER The Department of Industry and Trade moved in February to its new home in this recently-completed State Office Building in Atlanta . In this aerial view, the build ing , faced in native wh ite Georgia marble, gleams in the spring sunlight. Page 3 MAGAZINE STAFF WILMA BURNS Art Director Wilma Burn s, artist for the Department of Industry and Trad e, joined the Publ ic Relations staff in Jul y, 1968. Mrs. Burn s has been an exhibiting artist with the Atl ant a Artist Club since 1964 and a member of the Club 's Board of Directors since 1967. Pri or to joining Indu stry and Trade she was employed by the Georgia Department of Education as a commercial artist. Mrs. Burns lives with her husband, Neilan, and two sons, Robert and R aymon , in Dekalb County. ED SPIVIA Managing Editor PAULA COSTELLO Assistant Editor PHOTO CREDITS Front Cover . Bill Murph y In side Front Cove r . C. P. Scruggs In side Back Co ver . Back Co ver . Ed Spivia Ed Spivia Pu b lish ed Quarterly by th e Geo rgia Department 01 In du stry and Tr ad e. Volu me V , Number Tw o. Page 4 MAI~GA . c-==t ~ . J~~-'-=====::::-, U.s.POSTAGE: '~----1. 1 GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE P. O. BOX 38097, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30334 Ma ilroom, a regular feature of "Georgia Progress" is designed as a sounding board for op in ions concerning "Georgia Progress," state government, industrial development, community action, etc. We encourage you to share your opinions and criticism w ith us in the future. We want to tell you how much we app reciate th e oppo rt unity of worki ng with you -all on your new and rea lly fine publ icat ion . The oppo rtunity you -all acco rded Delta was certa inly splendid and was well received out here. If th ere is any way th at we can be of assista nce to yo u, at any time, don 't hesitate to let us hear from you. Delta Air Lines , In c. Your article quot*es "*F ro*m Welfar e Roles to Work Force" depictin g th e strides th at are taking place in D ublin , Georgia. Th is is most gra tifying to person s who have put forth an effort toward acco mplishm ent s at the local level. T his article depicts man y of th e situa tions th at exist th rou ghout the South east and clearl y indicates that m uch of the development foc us is at the local level when concerned people become active. It is not ed th at th e City of Dublin, Laurens County, has pro gressed fro m a redeve lopment designated area to one known as an E conomic Development G row th Ce nter in th e Heart of Georgia Pl ann ing Developm ent Co mmission. T he arti cles in the Fe br uary issue of Georgia Progress are mo st enlightening and you are to be commended for efforts in gett ing Geo rgia's developm ent story to the publ ic. U.S. D epar tment of Co mmerce Well-or gan ized . Beaut ifull y writt en . E mpha tically intere stin g! Th at's wha t the Id ea Excha nge thin ks of your wonderful Feb ruary, 1969, issue of Georgia Progress. We are especia lly impresse d with your subdue d, no "too t-too t" approach to the pro motion of Georgia. . . . So many sta te publ icati ons self-defeatingly bla st away abo ut their advant ages, that it is indeed refreshing to rea d an informative , low-keyed publ icat ion such as yours. Co ngratulatio ns on a fine job! William Ru ssell Burn s, Jr. Advertising Department Ide a Exc ha nge S. D. War ren Com pa ny *** I feel th at I just mu st wri te to you to congratul at e you and your staff up on the February editi on of Georgia Progress which represents th e annua l report of the D epa rtm ent of Industry and T ra de. Th is is an exce llent report , is easy to rea d and und erstand and very att ract ive. M y congratulations on a job well done and one of great credit to you, your staff and the Departm ent of Industr y and Trade. J. W. Fa nning, Vice President for Serv ices, Uni ver sity of Georg ia NINE INNINGS WITHOUT A HIT Georgia communities lost industries last year because of one or more of the following reasons. In most cases the community had the capability to make corrections. 1. Price of housing inc reased after an industry made initial commitments. 2. Community sewage system was inadequate or non-existent. 3. Unattractive junkyard at the entrance to town and business center. 4. Educational facilities inadequate. 5. Water supply inadequate . 6 . Industrial development authority non-existent. 7. Cooperative civ ic leadership lacking . 8. No qualified plant sites. 9. "Speed trap image." Did your community strike-out? Viewpoint MAY'69 THE IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT By lester Maddox Between 1910 and 1920, for the first time in the nation , there were more urb an dwellers than rural dwellers, and the United States became more heavily geared toward city life and its partner , industry. Th is trend has been going on for the past 100 years when the demand s of industry in the Nort h and, to a lesser degree in the South, drew workers off the farm and into the plants. Towns grew larger because until recently a man had to live within either horseback range or walking distance of his work . Industry still demand s this proximity of the labor force, but the automobile has widened its range considerably, giving rise to large metropolitan areas surrounding conglomerations of industry. Georgia arrived late at the industrial table, and we had to sit "b elow the salt." But we're moving up , and our goal is to sit at the head of the table someday . Th e Wa r Between the States left us with our budding industry crushed, our rail lines destroyed , our rolling stock smashed, and many of our cities in a ruined condition. While other sections of the nation went into the industrial era with a sturdy capacity for expansion, we, in Georgia and the South east, had to build on ruins. Our currency was worthless, destroying our basis of investment capit al as well as our bankin g hou ses. Georgia went back to the farm , and largely stayed on the farm until the necessities of the first World War brought an influx of indu stry into the State. Mor e came in during World War II , but in the years between the wars, Georgia had rough sledding particularly with industrial growth , because of several deterrent factors and barriers, among them, unequal freight rates, unavailable investment capital, lack of skilled labor, and the absence of any meaningful effort on the part of government to attrac t new industria l citizens to Georgia. While the population of the United States as a whole has shifted to 70 percent urb an and 30 percent rural, Georgia, in the 1960 census, had 45 percent urban as opposed to 55 percent rural. Th is has changed slightly, and at the beginning of 1968, Georgia had 46 .8 percent urb an, 53. 2 percent rural. However, although better than 50 percent of our people still live in rur al areas-some 2,375 ,000 in localities of less than 2,500 people-only some 300 ,000 of them make their living by farming. Farms are growing fewer and larger, and are using less and less of a labor force as they become more heavily mechanized. Indu stry offers those who are displaced from farms and those who live in rural areas, the best oppo rtunit y for making a substantial livelihood. However, for many years there has been a lag between the time a man leaves the farm and the time he finds employment in one of the urban areas. During this time-lag the unemployed man has often placed a serious burd en on the cities. He has been a burd en on law enforcement, health and welfare agencies, and has contributed to a decline in property value which is the mainstay of city tax revenue. Happily, today, we can point with pride to some solid accomplishment in halting this unemployment trend. We ha ve spa red no effort in our programs to bring new industry to Georgia. Th e period' between Jul y 1, 1967 and December 31, 1968, showed more gain in new and expanded industry than in any previous year, with much of the industry being located in rur al areas which helped to lessen the flow of unemplo yed people to the cities. Th ey found jobs at home. Continu ed on Page 23 Page 5 "A place where all may find beauty, inspiration, knowledge, and wholesome recreation." CASON J. CALLAWAY, SR By ED STONE Public R elations Dir ector Calla way Gardens D Seventeen years ago a kind of paradise was born in Georgia . .. gently rolling foothills, lakes , flowers in abundance and recreation for every age, every month of the year. Unique in many ways, Callaway Gardens, nestled in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians 85 miles south of Atlanta, distinguishes itself from many resorts by being a private enterprise, rather than a state-owned one. It was founded by Cason J. Callaway, Sr., as "a place where all may find beauty, peace , inspiration, knowledge and wholesome recreation. " At first planned as a haven where his retired business friends could live, Mr. Callaway turned the 2,500 acres of worn-out farmland into a lovely garden. He took one cool, flowing creek and dammed it so that 12 shimmering lakes were created. Around them he planted some of the most beautiful flowers to be seen anywhere and built a nine-holf golf course. With the project well on its way, Mr. Callaway realized that the area needed a vacation spot where travelers from every walk of life could rest and recreate, so he revised his plans and decided the garden would be open to the public. His dream was fulfilled in 1952 when visitors from all over the country began stopping to view the results of his work. Before his death in 1961, he had brought in clean white sand to form the longest man-made beach in the world, had the beginning of the secluded chapel in the woods built as a memorial to his mother, Ida Cason Callaway, set aside a lake for fishing and constructed a 50-unit motel for overnight guests. His ideas are now materializing under the supervision of his wife Virginia and his son Howard. Through the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, the horticultural and educational work at the Gardens is carried out. The profit-making organization, Gardens Services , Inc. continues to expand the activities and services offered to guests. Now the hundreds of thousands of visitors who stop each year to see the Gardens can choose from the luxurious 365-room Holiday Inn or from the 155 quaint cottages for accommodations. Even if they don't spend the night, a passing visitor can get a "taste" of the Gardens by dining Southernstyle in either the Plantation Room of the Inn or the 17th-Century English Provincial Gardens Clubhouse. Fresh vegetables from a 71h-acre garden provide homecooked meals. Robin Lake Beach is the center of attraction with every sort of activity from swimming and water skiing to novelty rides on a miniature train, tiny Mississippi River steamboat and paddleboats. The annual MASTERS Water Ski Tournament is held here each July. Florida State University Circus students spend each summer here as performers and counselors. They thrill audiences with everything from daring trapeze acts to entertaining clown skits daily under the Big Top, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. they supervise a recreation program for children of guests staying in the Callaway Cottages. A golfer can spend four days at Callaway Gardens without playing the same course twice. With 63 holes there is little chance for repetition! Three 18-hole courses and a nine-hole course meet the needs of golfers in any skill bracket. From November 1 through February the Golfer's Special is the chance for a perfect vacation at a minimum of expense. A sportsman can enjoy not only the briskly cool winter days on the golf course, but also he can fish on the 175-acre Mountain Creek Lake, ride the mountain trails on horseback , play tennis or head for the hunting preserve to flush big coveys of quail or shoot skeet and trap. Recreation is only a small part of what Callaway Gardens has to offer. Its deep woods and lakes are intertwined and surrounded with native flowers blooming in every color imaginable . Even during the winter, the woods are ablaze with 400 varieties of holly. While at the Gardens, tourists can also visit the Gardens greenhouses, the picturesque fieldstone chapel, the old covered bridge, the pioneer log cabin and the Gardens Country Store where delicacies from Callaway Gardens and places all over the world are sold. Page 6 FITZGERALD "ON THE MOVE" "From textiles to irrigation equipment ... garments to missile parts, wood products to plastics, the area's economy, both present and future, offers great promi se." Mayor Gerald Thompson (I) and Chamber President Paul E. Reid o Once a smug, satisfied railroad- textile-fa rm center, Fit zgerald , a small (pop. 9,500) centra l South Georgia city, admi ttedly has faced its share of problems. T went y-five yea rs ago the town was dealt a crippling blow when its industrial mainstay- railroad machine shops- were closed an d hundreds of families were force d to move . T hen, like other rur al areas Ben Hill Cou nty bega n losing popul ation because of fa rm mechanization. La ter 1-75 bypassed Fitzgera ld by abou t 20 miles, giving fur ther pessimism to po pulation projections. Page 8 Th e community attitude was far fro m op timistic and with reaso n. However, somewhere along the way, city and county leaders made an honest self-appraisa l, saw a bleak future, and laun ched an effort to brighten that future. As leaders began moving, so did the area. One of the first expressions of confidence was made within the business community, where sizable investments for prop erty improvements virtua lly lifted the face of the tow n. An oth er significa nt developm ent was the pioneering of a new sewage disposa l system by the Fit zgerald Water, Light and Bond Commission, which built three huge oxidation ponds with a capacity which is still twice that of present needs. Thi s was soon followed by the installation of a complete natu ral gas distribution system . Nex t came an expa nsion of the city electrical system and the erec tion of a 500,000 gallon elevated water storage tank and new mercur y vapor lightin g th rou ghout the business district. T he expans ion of city utilit ies takes on new meaning when coupled with the astounding fact that all pr ojects were paid for upon compl etion with accrued funds, a record which can be ma tched by no ot her city in the nation. A lso ea rly in the era of progress came the $300,00 0 renovation and expansion of the Ben Hill County Hospital. A lready a fact-finding comm ittee is at work studying the feasibility of a new Hill-Burton hospita l to augment the existing facilities. A large area of the city has been redeve loped under an Urban Renewa l project for future school and church use. A new million-dollar countywide high schoo l and a Baptist churc h compl ex are now on the drawing boa rds. Subsequentl y, the city's workable program has been recertified, qu alifying it for even more ambitious urb an renewal projects. At the same time the Chamber of Co mmerce organized an indu strial com mittee, and made 1,500 acres in industria l parks and sites avai lable to prospective industry . Th e committee also formulated what has proven to be a competent and effective industria l development program. To lend support to the committee's program ove r 100 citizens organized the uniqu e On e Hundred, Plu s One. Another major turning point came when Ben Hill Co unty joined eight othe r South east Georgia counties to form the Slash Pine A rea Planning and Developm ent Commi ssion. A more recent developm ent , the city's qu alification for EDA funds to fina nce projects resulting in additional jobs is still another reason for a rebirth of optimism. ,~ .. ~ ,,.-... Wo rld w id e netw o rk of dealers gathered for sales course recently at Ra inbow Manufacturing Company, man ufa ctu rer of irrig a tio n equipment. From a meager beginning, Rainbow now enjoys sales in all parts of the worl d . In add ition, the Fitzgerald Civic Corporation and Fitzgerald-Ben H ill County Development Au thority have assisted in the financing of many industrial expansions over the past few years. These org anizations finan ced four expa nsions during 1968. Several additional proj ects are now in the planning stages. More recently, the Ch amb er has launched "Expansion Fitzgerald1969," a program aimed at doubling the Chamber budget and providing for a more professional program . An application has been filed with the FAA to lengthen and widen the paved runwa y at the city-county air port to accommodate executive jets. The Georgia Legislature has passed a bill which will autho rize a referendum on th e consolid ation of city and county school systems in 1971. A county schoo l is cur rently undergoing a $200,000 expa nsion for a coun tywide facil ity for th e elementary grades. The hea lthy attitude toward recreation for all ages is perh aps best reflected by th e $30,000 park and 25-acre lake cur rently being developed by the city and county, not to mention the countywide summer recreational pro gram. Over 20 residential subdivisions are being develop ed by 12 different owners, which should be sufficient to meet anticipated needs. H eadlining recent progress is the history-m akin g Ben Hill-Irwin Vocationa l-Technica l School soo n to be constructed four miles south of Fitzgerald . Thi s is Georgia's first example of what can be acco mplished across county lines, and it may initiate a new era of statewide progress and inter-county cooperation. Already these and man y other developm ents have paid rich dividend s. Th e ar ea is teeming with health y, diversified indu stri es, eight of which have announced p roposed expansion for 1969 . Two new indust ries have been an nounced since J anuary 1. From textiles to irrigation equipment, metal fa brication to mobil e ho mes, foo d processing to farm implement s, gar ments to missile part s, woo d produ cts to plastics, the ar ea's eco nomy, both present and future, offers grea t promi se. If F itzgerald and Ben Hill County continu e to grow at the rate local leaders expec t, it will com e as a well earne d reward for the prepar ations their citizens have mad e. Certainly the pessimism of the past ha s given way to a well deserved optimi sm. One of most recent community assets is Fitzgerald Savings & Loan Association building , erected on beautiful Central Avenue in 1968. Page 9 FOCUS ON THE FUTURE o The City of Atlanta and the Ur- ban Life Cent er at Georgia State College have been designated as the site of one of six Urba n Ob servatories in the United States. Mayor Ivan Allen mad e the announcement saying, "We anticipa te these six facilities will be the focal point for major research into the entire urban environment in future month s and yea rs." He continued , " Money is not the total answer. Kno wledge must be the key to solving the urb an prob lems." Th e selection of Atl ant a and Georgia State College from among fifty-one cities and uni versities was made by officials of the United States Departm ent of H ousing and Urba n Developm ent , the United States Department of H ealth , Education and Welfar e, and the National League of Cit ies. Oth er cities and schoo ls selected were: A lbuquerque, the University of New Mexico and the University of Al buqu erque; Baltimore, Johns Hop kins University and Morgan State College; Kansas City, the University of Missouri and the University of Missouri at Kansas City; Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin and Mar qu ette University; Nas hville, Va nderbilt Unive rsity, Fiske Unive rsity and Peab ody College. Th e basic function of the Ur ba n Ob servatory will be the collection, Page 10 Artist's drawing of six of the existing and projected buildings at Georgia State College. analysis and dissemin ation of data concerning urb an problems. Plans ca ll for the Ob servatory at Georgia State to study problems related to transport ation, housing, land use, huma n resou rces developm ent, revenue systems, publ ic health , employment , sa nitation, water resources, social welfare function , the many facets of the crimina l justice system and oth er subjects of critical concern to urb an areas. Urba n Observatories will permit the aca demic community to focus and act more easily on urb an problems. President Noa h Langdale, Jr. , of Georgia State , said, " the announcement is a response to the dedication of the lead ers of this grea t city and to the determination of the faculty, staff and students of Georgia State to assist the city in every appropriate way to find solutions to its pre ssing problems. We must find solutions to the grea t urban dilemm as which face us or be destroyed by them." The six Obser vatories will link together to form the beginning of a nationwide data center for the study of urb an problems. Th ey will condu ct joint resear ch proj ects that will be of national significance as well as research projects which will be designed primari ly to meet the needs of the individ ua l cities invo lved. Th ese Observatories will be support ed by funds from the Depart- ment of Housing and U rba n Development and the Department of Health , Ed uca tion and Welfare, and it is anticipated that major pri vate foundat ions will also support their work. Th e Urban Ob servatory will be one of the components of the Urban Life Cent er which has been established at Georgia State College under the lead ership of Dean Alex B. Lacy, J r. In addition to research projects on urb an problems, the work of the Ur ban Life Cent er includes training in form al degree programs as well as in informal, non-credit semina rs and worksho ps. Dean Lacy noted that " the estab lishment of the Urban Observatory at Georgia State will add a significant new dimension to the resea rch, trainin g, a nd serv ice areas of the Urb an Life Cente r." Oth er publi c and pr ivate colleges and universities in the metropolitan area, includin g Georgia Tech , Emory, and Atlanta U niversity, and schoo ls throughout the State pa rticipate in the work of the Urba n Life Cent er and will also participate in the work of the Urb an Ob servatory. Mayor A llen emphas ized that the Ob servatory was designed to assist all governments in the metrop olitan area, and to make ava ilable to public officials all the resources of education to solve urb an pr oblems. ORI( ERS N WHEELS by LoU A NN B ASHAM . PIIhiI'C R elations ' L ockheed-Georgra Company o The jet and space age may ~e Lockheed employees hail from all bringing Timbukt~, and the Man .10 four corners of the state-Dade, The Moon only a teeny weeny mil- Stephens, Glynn, Decatur. Though limeter" away, .but employees of the numbers become more sparse in Lockheed-Georgia Company are the South and Southeast counties, stretching the miles from where they more and more Georgians from all live to where they work in increas- over the state are finding out Lock- ingly large numbers. heed in Georgia is a good place to When the employment level was work. about 18,000 in 1964 , employees Not all employees commute from lived in 70 of Georgia 's 159 coun- such distances as Union and Lump- ties. kin in the North, but one employ ee Lockheed-Georgia, in Marietta, ha s been driving the 160-mile round now employs 25,868, and counties trip from his home above Dahlonega represented have increased to 85- in Lumpkin for five years. He makes or 53.4 per cent of the State's 159 the 80-mile trip down with eleven counties. Tod ay, only Rabun is still others in about an hour and fifteen a firm hold-out on the northern minutes riding in a Ford Panel boundary. Dade has joined the Wagon. Some 68 employees live in Lockheed-Georgia family with about fifteen employees commuting to the Cha ttanooga Fabrication Plant. In 1964, the line down the Alabama border was solid from Walker to Muscogee, with Carroll, Floyd, Haralson and Polk counties sending nearly 800 employees east to Cobb County and Lockheed. As of November, 1968 , this number had grown to more than 1,400. Metropolitan Atlanta's five-county area accounted for 77.9 per cent of the total Georgia labor force in 1964. As business at "Airlift Center USA" has increased with production of the U.S. Air Force's C-5 Galaxy and more Hercules rolling off the lines in both military and commercial versions; continued demand for our 4-engine corporate Lumpkin and Union Counties. Another employee comes 95 miles from another direction - near LaGrange in Troup. And oth ers, from Gordon County in the Northwest, have solved the distance problem by commuting in a limousine bus. Another employee, from 200 miles away in Vidalia, maintains a temporary residence in Cobb during the week and commutes homeward over weekends. He has 12 years with the Company, and says, "I've lived ther e for years , and that's where my roots are. On the whole, it's cheaper to , live outside the Metropolitan Atlanta area, and if working in aircraft is " in your blood like it's in mine , the distance traveled between home and work balances out." JetStar and other aerospace prod- Lockheed-Georgians do make ucts, employment also has grown. good use of car pools and the Com- More than 7,868 additional men pany has set aside 900 parking and women have become Lockheed- spaces in desirable locations . Em- Georgia Company aerospace work - ployee Service maintains an IBM ers, and of these , nearly 6,000 have kardex file to assist employees look- Come from Metropolitan Atlanta. ing for rides. The " impact" of Lockheed-Georgians on the communities in which they live is found in the paychecks they take back home , and the resulting economic growth of the area . Not all employees joining the Company are , of course, entering industry for the first time, but it is a fact that Lockheed-Georgians receive wages and benefits in excess of the average. An incre ase of 10,000 employees over the past four years -with Metropolitan Atlanta contributing almost 6,000-has a strong "economic impact" on communities wherever they live. While the Company has grown to be the largest single industrial employer in the Southe ast , diversification in employment opportunities has also expanded. "R osie The Ri veter" and " The Bomber Plant," as Air Force Plant No.6 was known throughout the State during World War II days, are unfamiliar term s except to a hundred or so Bell Aircraft employees who joined Lockheed's Georgia Division when the plant was reopened in January, 1951. Projects at "Ai rlift Center USA " now include nuclear products, ground support and handling equipment; research in a multi-million dollar Research Laboratory; testing of vertical takeoff and landing vehicles as well as conventional aircraft in the world's largest privatelyowned tandem wind tunnel, in addi tion to designing and building giant airlifte rs. Lockheed-Georgia has job opportuniti es in hundreds of fields, and its scient ists, researchers and designers are continually seeking new opportuniti es and projects to pro vide mor e jobs for more Georgians, wherever they live. Page 11 THE ASPHALT OVAL by ED S P IVIA o Multi-million dollar Atlanta In- ternation al Raceway, the nation's third largest asphal t oval for automobi le racing, is located in Hampton, Georgia, 20 miles south of At lanta. Th is raceway opened in Jul y of 1960 and since that time has developed into one of the largest tourist and sport s attrac tions in the Sout heast. T he track is 1\/z miles a round and th ree gra ndstands and a 67 \/z acre infield allow for maximum spectato r enjoyment. "Georgia Progress" Editor Ed Spivia recen tly interviewed H al H amri ck, assistant to the president of At lanta Internation al R aceway, ab out the economic impact of the track and the futur e of automobile racin g in Georgia. Q : What abo ut the economics of A IR as far as H enry County and the At lanta area are concerned? D oes au tomobile racing emp loy and attrac t a lot of people? A : As far as yea r round employment , we don't have a large staff. However, the raceway is one of the ten largest taxpayers in Henr y County. As far as sports in Georgia are concerned, automobile racing is one of the largest. As far as tourist money, or spectator money that is bro ught into the Atlanta area , I think we far exceed any of the other major sports. R acing fans don 't just come for the day. We hav e a large percentage of fans who come in for two days, three days and somet imes a week. So, as far as the economy is Hal Hamrick, assistant to the president of AIR, surveys the track in prepa ration for the next race August third. Page 12 concerned, we feel that the boost that we give th rough brin ging people into the area is great. We have the record of having the largest crowd for any spectator sport in the State of Georgia. We had a real test of this in 1966 when the Braves played their first exhibition gam e. They were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers and Sand y Koufax was pitch ing. On the same Sund ay the Masters Tourn ament was being held in Au gusta and we were having the Atla nta 500. It is reported that more peopl e were turn ed away at the Atlant a R aceway than attended the baseball game for the Atl anta Braves. We also ha ve a large area of ticket sa les-about 35 states and Canada-so we get to qu ite a number of people. Of course , with large numb ers of people atte nding the races, we have traffic problems which we hope can be eliminated in time, or at least lessened. Q : Could you tell us about the recent merger between AIR and the Michigan Speedway Compl ex? A: Th is includ es Michigan Internationa l Speedway which is about a five to six million dollar installation , the A tlanta Raceway, Ri verside R aceway, which is already in existence in California and a new six million dollar track to be built here in the E ast. This represents 30 to 40 million dollars in automobile racetracks owned by one complex . Th ere will be separate stockholders, of course, in each of the cities, but basically one gro up backs it up with money. Thi s is the first time that someo ne outside racing has really w.lPWnuog-ctr.tIrvIdeiaeIisrnbt'lgijaghumgtsetoosnutthnretathscenieontxfgh.trcmefoseomhwnopelydyIeexa0irnfm.st.ho it. avtIi e Q ' How does Atl anta Interna- . '1 tiona R aceway compare ? with other major racetracks. A : Atlanta is considered .to be one of the major race trac ks m the world. The Atlanta R aceway :vas designed with the spectator m mind , t\\u'lrtnhs short which sbtrrainigghttahwe aaycstr.oanndcIolsoenrg. Q : What about acceptance? H as this 'track been accepted as well as you would like it? A: Yes, it has been accepted by the manufacturers and the fans . Indianapolis Speedway, of course, draws the largest cro wd each year in the United States for an automobile race. Daytona is just barely abo ve us, and this, of course, is a classic which is held each Fe brua ry. Th ey topped 100,000 this past February. We're hoping to hit 100,000 very soon. Q : Is this tra ck used as a test facility? A : It's used quite a bit as a test facility by the major automobile companies, when they have a new part, or a new chassis or engine. A lot of the testing on the track is not known to the general public. Of course, we have both the major tire companies tha t service racing come in here each year for each event , and they are on the track for a week or two testing their new tire s for the upcoming event. Q : What ca n you say that racing has done to aid the general public? A : The basic quality that has made America what it is today is the competitive urge that is within its people. Competition, of course, has a lot of different outlets. We feel that by having organized competition , under the strictest and safest of conditions, we actua lly deter on-thestreet competition which creates death on the highways. Thi s is on e way in which we feel we are helping. Other ways are in the testing of safety devices. The first rear-view mirror was on a race car at Indianapolis. At one time, they had two drivers in the ca r, one man to drive , Aerial view of Atlanta International Raceway the oth er to watch for traffic. On e man got the bright idea that if he put a mirror up there, he could see the comp etition, thereby eliminating 175-200 pounds to mak e his car lighter and faster . Tires, br akes, suspension systems, seat belts . .. practically everything that you have on automobiles origin ally was work ed out on the speedways. Th ese safety devices eventually find their way to the automobile manufacturers. Thi s is a great factor as far as the public is conc erned. Q: I und erst and that AIR has a new airstrip. A: We have opera ting for our races an airstrip which is 4,200 feet long. Th e tie-d own area actua lly is just as close as the park ing lots. We have attenda nts who par k your plane and as soon as the race is over, we have personn el who will move you right back to your plan e. We think this is another step forwa rd as far as automobile racing is concerned. On e of the oth er racetrack s had 300 planes at one of their last events, and I und erstand there were 400-500 planes in Da yton a for the Daytona 500 . Th ese are pri vate air- planes fro m all over the United States. We just feel this is ano ther way to better service ou r customers . Q : Do you thin k auto racing has reached a point of prestige where it is on a parallel with other major sp o rt s? A: We have a lot of things working on our side. Th e biggest thing that we have in auto racing is the fact that the youth market is automobile orie nted, and to be automobile oriented, it consequently takes to racing. By 1970 over 50 per cent of the popul ation will be unde r 25 yea rs of age. 111is is why industry has spen t such vast amo unts of money in au tomobile racing . On e of the officials of Ford Mo tor Company recently stated that you could sponso r footba ll games all day, but few people thought abo ut buying a footba ll on Mo nday morning. But if people go to an automo bile race on Sund ay and they see "X-brand" win, how many more ar e inclined to bu y that brand beca use it has proved its powers on the speedway. Because of this factor and many others we feel aut o rac ing will grow not only in stature but in att endance. Page 13 FROM LITTLE TREES by ED SPIVIA Page 14 Inte rior of Griffin lumber Company, Cordele, Georgia lumber by-products being shipped to market o Georgia forestlands are a rich and bountiful natural resource. With more than 69 % of the State 's land area- 26 million acres--covered by forests, Georgia has the largest area of forestland of all 50 state s. Georgia timber is the base for several of the State's most profitable industries - the large pulp and paper, furniture, nava l stores and lumber industries. Georgia presently is the largest lumber producing state east of the Mississippi R iver. "Georgia Progress" recently focused on the success of one of the State's many lumber companies. Griffi n Lumber Company, located in Cordele, Georgia, owned and operated by W. H. Griffin, Jr. , processes 15 million board feet of lumber annually. The modern allelectric operation engages the services of a total of 135 people, 35 at the lumber yard itself, 50 at the threc sawmills and 50 loggers . . Griffin Lumber Company specializes in making important use of what formerly was considered waste material in the lumber business. The company, in addition to processing lu bcr board, sells chips to Union ~amp Corporation's paper operations in Georgia and will supply -sh avings to the Georgia Pacific paperboard facilities in Vienna, Geor- gia when production begins in the next year. W. H . (Bill) Griffin, who bears a striking resemblance to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller , comes by his love for the lumb er business naturally. His father, W. H. Gr iffin, Sr., owns three lumber mills in Cochran, Georgi a, which produce 12 million board feet of lumber each year. Dres sed in cowboy boots and a sporty golfing sweater, Bill Griffin sat in his unique new office, equipped with a built-in-desk-model flushing spittoon, and discussed the lumber business. Bill Griffin's employees are paid on a contract basis, a form of incentive plan, to which he attributes the fact that his mills produce 15,000,000 board feet annually without any semblance of labor troubles. Bill Griffin sees the future of the lumb er industry as very bright, despite the increased use of synth etic products such as plastic and aluminum. " Lumber is in short supply this year because the demand is so great. With more demand and less supply, price s are naturally being forced up. As a result, financially we are having our best year ever," Mr. Griffin said. The recent hou sing boom is also ha ving its effect on the lumber industry, however, Mr. Griffin anticipate s this could be short-lived. "Even with the market demanding more houses , the Federal Government can hurt the lumber business by allowing interest rates to creep up. This is bound to slow down the housing boom," he said. The lumber business is changing, becoming less complicated and more attuned to today's fast pace. " Most of the lumber today is sold directly to lumber yards (retailer). In the past, a broker would buy all the lumber he could find and resell it. Today, because of better transportation and communication, there is no longer a need for the middle man, or broker. There is no place for an artificial position in any business," Mr. Griffin said. Mr. Griffin, in closing, commented on the future of the lumber industry in Georgia. He said , "Th e lumber industry is perhaps the most unsung of Georgia's many industries. However, lack of publicity does not diminish its importance in the State's economy. Its impact is substantial and it is an indu stry which is full of opportunities and open to continued growth. " Page 15 . Hamilton's hardware store is a nostalgic reminder of the "Good Ole' Days" A stroll down the streets of the past awaits Hamilton's visitors Page 16 Music Museum revives the me lodi medleys of the era by HANNA LEDFORD o It's a modern-day, Twentieth Century appreciation. of .the pa~t that is causing Georgians In Hams County to turn ~ack the hands of the clock to the times of yesteryear. By recreating the Hamilton Village Square that was the ~ub .o.f activity in the early 1900 s, citizens there are hoping to encourage an influx of lucrative tourist trade to the quaint little Georgia hamlet. The plan, which includ es the restoration of the old general store as a museum , an authentic blacksmith's shop, a carriage shop, antique shops, an apothecary and an ice cream parlor, is quite an ambitious undertaking for a town with a population of 396. But Mr. Allen Woodall, the man at the helm of the picturesque restoration, is confident that the tourist attraction is the very thing Hamilton needs to get its share of visitors from nearby Callaway Gardens and the Little White House at Warm Springs. All three locations are within a relatively short distance of each other and are easily accessible, and should be mutually supporting. Hamilton itself is crisscrossed by U.S. 27 and Georgia Highway 116. "Imagine a large sign, 10 by 30 feet, with Callaway Gardens shown in one corner, the Little White House in the other corner and the Village at Hamilton Square depicted on the same sign, in full view of motorists," Mr. Woodall exclaimed . The actual reconstruction of Hamilton's Village Square is the realization of a dream Mr. Woodall conceived several years ago. He first visualized it as a means of benefitting his native state and began a widespread search for antique appliances and other memorabilia to make his brainchild authentic in every detail. In the meantime, Mr. Woodall put his promotional talents to work to lure tourists to Callaway Gardens. "I always plug Callaway Gardens everywhere I go. I hand out literature about it to everyone I see," Mr . Wood all explained. "This is my way of indirectly boo sting the State through tourism," he added. Mr. Woodall has traveled to Virginia , New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other states and major cities to view similar projects. He has tirelessly gone from one historical spot to another to gather information that he thinks might be helpful in making the restoration of Hamilton Village Square authentic. While some of the buildings there in Hamilton are merely being restored to their original design of some 60 years ago, others are being moved to the site from distant locations. "We are not sparing any effort to move structures of the era to the Square," Mr. Woodall said. "For example, from Woodland, Georgia in Talbot County, we are acquiring a split-log, two-story building that was built in 1820. " "If a building meets our specifications for the era and can be used effectively to tell the story we are trying to tell in Hamilton, distance is no obstacle in moving it to the site," Mr. Woodall added. The Hamilton Village Square is being built around the four sides of the little town's business district, which is already in the shape of a square. It is being recreated by skilled craftsmen in accordance with an architect's conception of the original square. Visitors will find the leisurely pace of the square perfect incentive to browse among the antique shops , sample bits of tasty old-fashioned stick candy and peruse the village newspaper, which, incidentally, is printed in the style of the era. During their stay they will be invited to watch the village blacksmith at work and to view the horse-drawn buggies that will be housed in the local carriage shop . In addition to a Studebaker motordriven hunting "brake," visitors will see three different types of hearses , a town and country Brougham and a two-wheeled sulky. There will also be a music museum filled with the "largest public display" of antique automobiles east of the Mississippi River. Along the way, tourists will be lured by the curiosities of a "turn of the century" barber shop , a haberdashery, an early U.S. Post Office and a dressmaker's shop. These and other buildings around the new square are illuminated by authentic reproductions of period lighting which has been developed and installed by the Georgia Power Company. Mr . Woodall, a Georgia broadcaster who owns WDAK Radio in Columbus, said the Village Square, which was officially opened to the public in April, is being operated by Hamiltonians who dress in period costumes. "We have a couple who moved here from Alabama to open a Ceramics Shop and the Music Museum is being operated out of Atlanta, but otherwi se, most of our employees are people native to the community. The Village Square is a project of the townspeople of Hamilton," Mr. Woodall said. "I am operating some of the attractions on the square myself, but I am leasing others. It's definitely a community project." Mr. Woodall said that based on figures for Callaway Gardens, he expects the Hamilton Village Square to draw some one million visitors annually. Page 17 GEORGIA PRODUCT GO INTERNATIONAL o Georgia's economy and indus - trial base continues to grow at a rapid pace and requires new and expanded mar kets. At present , one of the grea test marketing potentials for Georgia produ cts is E urope. On Sept emb er 25 , 196 9, 50 Georgia businessmen will depart on a three-week intensive E uropean marketing trip, sponsore d by the Georgia Departm ent of Indu stry a nd Tr ade, as memb ers of the GeorgiaEu ropean T rade Fair. Th e group will visit Bru ssels, Frankfurt and Mil an . Th e Eu rop ean economy, probably the most pro sperous next to the United States, has a population of nearly one-ha lf billion people. With a popul ation of this size, the needs of the people and industry are virtually unlimit ed. Of the tot al U.S. exports in 1967 , over 30 per cent were consumed in Europe. Certainly it is very realistic to say "A pr oduct which sells in the United States will sell in Europe." Adva nce arrangements for the T rad e Fair will include an aggressive advertising and promotion campaign covering a lar ge port ion of Eu rop e by radio , television and newspapers. Business appointments will be arra nged in adva nce and displays will be constructed, shipped and set up by staff members of the Tr ade Fair. Th e purpose of the GeorgiaEuropean Tr ade Fair is to provi de an op portunity for Georgia manufacturers and businessmen to personally make contac ts and establish lines of business com munications which will increase their sales and their profits. Page 18 Italy: Mila n, The Duomo It is stro ngly urge d that Georgia businessmen fully invest igate the potential offered by the T rade Fair to expand or furth er develop the sale of Georgia products in the E uro pea n market. A nyone interested in becomin g a part of the E uropean Trade Fair sho uld contact John D. Welsh, International Trad e R epresentative, Georgia Departm ent of Industry and Trad e, p.o . Box 38097, A tlanta, Georgia 30334 , for further details. TRADE FAIR ITINERARY September 25 Leave Atlanta September 26 Arrive Brussels September 29 Official opening of Trade Fair by Governor Maddox, U.S. Amba ssado r and Belgian Minister of Trade October 2 Trade Fair close s October 3 Follow-up of individual cont a cts October 4 Leav e Brussels , Arrive Fra nkfurt Octob er 6 Official op ening of Frankfurt Fair Octob er 9 Frankfu rt Fair closes O ctobe r 10 Follow-up of contacts Octob er 11 Leave Frankfurt, Arrive Milan October 13 Milan Fair opens October 15 Milan Fai r closes O ctober 16 Arr ive Atlanta - FAA Holds I CONTROL TOWER Revalidation Course Col. Ha rold A. Dye, Assistant Executive Director of the Department of Indu stry an d Tra d e , was a guest speaker at the Flight Revalidation Course banq ue t, atte nd e d by 250 instructors and guests . Christian B. Walk, Jr., FAA New Yo rk Area Manager, also spoke. o The second annual Instrument Fl igh t I ns t r u c t o r R evalidation Course, sponsored jointly by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade and the Federa l Aviat ion Administration, was held Mar ch 1113 in At lanta. Th e course was conducted by an FAA Flight Instructor team fro m the FAA Acad emy in Oklahoma City, Okl ahoma. The FAA requires revalidation of a Flight In structor's Certificate every two yea rs. Two hundred and seven instructors who comp leted the three-day course received on-theSpot revalidation of their instructor certificates. The course offered the following opportuni ties: ( 1) to revalidate flight instructor certificates in accordance with FAA regulations; (2) to earn Gold Seal Instructor's Certificate which will be used in the future development of the certification program; and (3 ) to review past instrument instruc tor expe rience in the light of newly-d evelop ed instru ction techniqu es as passed along by the top avia tion educa tors. Eastern Makes It Easier o A new Atl ant a R eservations Cen- ter serving a five-state region has been presented to the publ ic by Eas tern Airlines. Staffed by 400 people, it is equipped with the most mod ern high speed communications and information retrieval systems to handl e up to 1,500 ca lls an hour in peak periods, and up to 15,000 calls a day. Th e facility is the fourth and latest in a new network of regional centers tied electro nically to a reservations network operated by Eastern Airlines in the Unite d Stat es, its territories, Ca nada and Mexico . The new $2 .3 million building is located nine miles nort hwest of downtown At lant a on the Northwest Ex pressway . Each reservations position in the new cen ter is equipped with two new modern devices replacing a multitud e of books, records and handwritte n forms. Th ese devices are : ( 1) a television-l ike cathode-ray-tube unit , called a Passenger Na me R ecord system (PNR ) , linked directly to a bank of IBM computers in Miami , pro viding instant information on flight availability and schedules. It also records new reservations by the individual passenger's nam e. (2) A Houston-Fearless CARD unit which pr esents I up to 73 ,000 pages of additiona l information to answer passengers' qu estion s on a variety of subj ects such as schedul es, serv ices, destin ations , tours and connecting flights. "F or the first time in the jet age , reservations procedures will ha ve caught up to the expansion of air tra vel. In developing the new reservations system, Eastern has created the world 's largest real time comput er opera tion," Todd G. Cole, Eastern Airlines Vice Chairman and Chairma n of the F ina nce Committee of the Bo ard of Directo rs, said . Eastern's new computerized PNR system currently serves Miami , Ch arlott e, San Juan , Pu erto Ric o, and Atl anta. Befor e the end of the yea r new region al cent ers will be established in H ouston , Montreal, Tampa, Seattle, and Woodbridge, Ne w Jersey. Eastern 's new Atl anta reservations center which employs 400 Atl ant a-area residents, is expected to be op erated by more than 600 employees in 1973. In addition to the Atl ant a area, it serves 15 cities in five South eastern states including Alb any, Columbus, Macon , R ome and Waycro ss in G eor gia . Pa ge 19 by Paula Costello o The heritage of every American is rooted deep in the soil of his country. In the land can be seen the history and dreams of the first settlers. From the land comes our culture, our economy, our very way of living. Our hope for the future is cradled in the use and preservation of this same land, now speckled with the modem signs of progress. Over 770 million acres of land in the United States today are owned by the Federal Government. Not all of this vast area is suitable for outdoor recreational purposes, but a great many acres have extensive tourist-recreation potential. Much of this potential is still untapped. Because a vital part of the outdoor heritage of all citizens rests on the diverse opportunities for using these lands, the Federal Government has instituted programs, 263 in all, which aid outdoor recreation activities, including natural beauty, fish and wildlife, water usage, highway beautification, community action programs and others, which are carried on by Federal agencies adminis- Page 20 tering federally-owned land and resources. Many of these programs consist of grants which are beneficial to small communities that would like to develop their tourist resources. Other programs offer loans to communities for economic-recreational projects. It is with several of the federal grant and loan programs that this article will deal. Federal grant programs, also called grants-in-aid, cost sharing, or financial assistance, are cash payments or "payments in kind," such as land or property, which aid the local community, or state , in carrying out certain programs or activities. One program assists in building and beautifying the nation's highways which are vital to the recreation and travel of all citizens. They are a link between all Americans and the wonders of their country. Because these highways are very often an integral part of the beauty they cross, and because they should not detract from the appreciation of this beauty, the Bureau of P ublic Roads assists states with High way Beautification Aid in controlling outdoor advertising and junky ards along the Interstate and Federal-aid primary systems. It shares with these states in the cost of removing signs along highways and in blocki ng or removing junkyards. The state must, itself then, provide for a system to control the outdoor advertising and junkyards to be eligible for this aid. The Federal Government will also help to landscape these highways, as a further effort to make traveli ng through the United States as pleasant and exciting an experience as possible. Georgia is well-known for its many lakes and rivers which are excellent recreational potentials. Most of these waterways provide good facilities for boating and other water sports, but for those waterway s which are lacking in facilities for development into major tourist attractions, there are Small Boat Harbor Grants provided by the Army Corps of Engineering. The Army Co rps of E ngineers develops and constructs sma ll publi c boat and refuge harbors at interstate, coastal and Gr eat Lakes projects found sound from an engineer ing and econo mic sta ndpo int. Th e Federal Government will pay up to 50% of the cost of water improvements alone, which provides for facilities which may include a safe entrance channel, pro tected ancho rage basins, protected turning basins and major access cha nnels lead ing to anchorage basins or locally developed berthi ng areas. Th e Fe deral Government then pays for the up keep for these naviga tion facil ities. Local sponsors in these Corps of Engineers pro jects mu st be state or city agencies authorized under state law to partici pate in Fe deral projects. Local sponsors must provi de both cash contributions and doc ks, landings, piers, ber thing areas, boa t stalls, slips, mooring faci lities , launching ramps, access roa ds, parking areas and int erior access ~hannels neede d for maneuvering Into berths, as well as, all land s, easements, right-of-way, spo il dis- posal areas , utility altera tions and all service facilities including policing of the area. Thi s type of grant can be a grea t economic boost to a community that has access to a waterway which could be developed into a touri st attrac tion. Most of Geor gia's natural histori c assets have been built into successful popul ar touri st attractions . H owever, there are grea t touri st potentials within th e state which have been hind ered from developm ent by lack of funds. T o aid sma ll communities which may not be able to acc umulate th e necessary fund s th emselves, the F edera l Government extends loans under the Farmers Hom e Ad minis tra tion to deve lop recreational faci lities. Th ese R ur al Group R ecreational Loans are made up to $4 million for th e developm en t of recreational projects by non-p rofit orga nizations, sma ll co untry town s of 5,500 popul ation or less, and othe r ru ral political subdivisions. Rural Gr ou p R ecreational Loans may be made for the development of pond s, lakes, park s, sports areas, golf courses, ski slopes, camping facilities, hiking trails, hunting ar eas and preserves, fishing and boating facilities and access roads and parking areas. Th e cases menti oned ab ove are just a few of th e ways th e F ederal Government can act to help states and their citizens to increase their already-ava ilable rec rea tion potential. With more peopl e taking to th e roads eac h yea r in the sea rch of new and different vaca tio n sites , it is no won der th at more presently untapped touri st reso urces are being eyed for development. In 1967 vacationers spent a recor d $5 70. 7 million in Georgia, a hea lthy boos t to a ll commun ities concerned . Figures for 1968 ind icate that Georgia experienced an II % increase in gross travel sales. With Fe deral aid and the coopera tio n of local agencies , even more co mmunities which or dinarily would not have the opportunity or th e funds to deve lop outdoo r rec rea tional faci lities, could benefit from , and share, the substan tial grow ing Georgia touri st dollars. P age 2 1 GEORGIA'S OWN ~~ GRAN D CANYON" D Many Georgians are confident that a tre mendous chasm in the earth's surface in Stewart Cou nty has great potential as a future tourist attraction. Thi s awe-inspiring display of color and power is known as Providence Canyon . Members of the Georgia Senate passe d a resolution during the recent session of the Gen eral Assembly authorizing a Pro vidence Canyon Study Committee to "study all matters relating to the development of Providence Canyon as a major touri st attraction and recreational center." Th e resolution was introduced by Senator Hugh Carter of the 14th District who acted on behalf of a numb er of citizens in Lumpkin, Georgia. They have been campaigning hard and long for the past twenty years to make the canyon a state or national park. Located seven miles northeast of Lumpkin, the 250-foot-deep twin canyon s are accessible on Georgia Highway 27. Some say the canyons follow an old Indian trail and that the erosion started when countless Indi an moccasins wore away the covering vegetation on the then gently sloping hillside . Others insist that the canyon began when rain trickling off the roof of a barn start ed the first small wash. One old-tim er used to say the first gulley was made by the overflow from a sprin g. In any case, the canyons are really the product of 19th and 20th century erosion . Th ey expose multi colored clay laid down over a million years ago when the Providence Hills were the shore line of a great inland sea. No one in Stewart County is sure how the canyons actually came about, but everybo dy there is familiar with the legend of how they came to be called Providence Canyon. Pag e 22 Some one hundred years ago, a local church known as Provi dence Methodist Church stood on a spot that has since been swallowed by the big canyon. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War , the building was moved to its present location on the crest of a nearby hill, pr esumably for secur ity. Now , a hundred years hence, members of the Providence Methodist Church are looking aro und again for another site for their house of worship . R avenous gullies are threatening the building from both sides . In one place , only the dirt roa d running in fro nt of the churc h sepa rates the church cemetery from the growing tip of a chasm that is alrea dy eating away at the red clay of the road bed. A woode n rail that has been erec ted for protection is actually little more than a warning to motorists. Because of its strik ing similarity to Grand Ca nyon, Arizona, Providence Ca nyon is also called "Little Grand Ca nyon." The land itself is privately owned by a number of different people and is not policed or regulated. Local residents and sta te officials are optimistic tha t the newly for med study commission will produce a favorable report for developing the site as a tourist attraction. They have been asked to report back to the Georgia Senate next year. See back cove r for a picture of Providence Canyon . Tom Feltenstein, Publ ic Relations Directo r of Historic Stone Mo unta in, expla ins the park's p romotional prog ram for this spring and summ er season to Welcome Center managers and recep tionists at a two- d a y m e e ting rec ently held in Atlanta . From left to right, o n the far side of the table a re : Virginia Taylor, Manager of Columb us Welcome Center; JoAnne Lyons, Ma na g e r at Ringgold ; Virg inia Christmas, Receptionist at Columbus; and , on the near s ide of the table, Gail Whiten, Reception ist at Lavonia ; Rubye Warl ick, Manager at Valdosta; and Mary Jean Geer, Manager at the At lanta Airport. GROWING GEOR - VI EWPOINT c ontinued from Page5 Gov e rn o r Ma d d ox For the foresee able future, Georgia's well-being is tied closely to her ~bility to attract industrial jobs and construct an economy capable of expanding to meet a growi ng population as well as the rising expectations of her peo ple. I think we all know tha t new industrial jobs create other supporti ng jobs, raise the per capi ta incom e, create more ba nk depos its and mor e purchasing power an d gives Georgia a much imp roved tax base which means better schools and bett er services. Bette r schools and bett er services, as well as a better paid market, attract new indu str ies creating more jobs, starting aga in the cycle which will place Georgi a at th e "head of the ta ble." These are the pri me clements of progress and prosperity as we pr actice the Ame rican system of pri vate free enterprise. Go vern ment has th e duty to do its best to see that its citizens are offered the opportunity to work, to join in the progress of a peaceful, and orde rly and a free society. Our aim is to make every Ge orgian as self-sufficient as possi ble, and to this end, we pla ced th e great majority of our hopes in indu stry. There is abso lutely no turning back. We are pos itively committed, and upon our success as a growing, a viable, and efficient industrial State lie the dre ams and fa tes of millions of present Georgians as well as millions yet unborn. Multi-million Dollar Plant for Toccoa D A new multi-million dollar plant for the production of woven polypropylene fibers , located six miles fro m T occoa, has been completed and in partial op era tion since midApril. The plant was bui lt by Th iokol Ch emical Corporation for its Dawbam Division. When fully operational in 1970, the 25 4,000 square foot plant is expected to supply jobs for over 400 people. Th e T occoa plant is designed to augmen t Dawbarn 's ca- pacity to respond to the needs of the rapidly expanding southern carpet ind ustr y. Th e new facility will also provi de T hiokol with flexibilit y to investigate new markets and applications for Dawbarn polyp rop ylene fibers which presen tly ser ve the aut omotive, cordage, baggi ng and indu strial markets. At full ca pac ity the plant will be cap able of prod ucing 100 million squa re yards of woven fabric annually. Plant Manager for the operation is Mr. John R . Tinnell. Continued Faith in Georgia D Union Camp Corporation has re- vealed plans for the erection of two new Chip-N-Saw mills in Georgia, one at or nea r Folkston and one in Mo ntgomery County near Vidalia. Details of the compan y's expa nsion of its Georgia facilities were announced by J ohn N. Camp, J r., general man ager of Union Camp's building product s division hea dquartered he re. T ogeth er the two mills will employ a total of approxima tely 100 persons with an annua l payroll expected to approximate half a million d oll ar s. Ca mp also announced the form ation of a new operat ing group within his division-the Georgia divisionto be headed by John Gr abar. F ormerly the assistant to th e general man ager of the building produ cts division, Mr. G rab ar has been named op era tions manager of the new facilities. He will headquart er in F ol kst on. P age 23 G@rq~n@l ~@jp) news at a glance Page 24 UEP National Offices In Atlanta United Egg Producers, the first nationwide federation of producers, has selected Atlanta as the location for its nati executive offices. Other cities under consideration were cago, New York , and Cincinnati . United Egg Producers is composed of five regional produ cooperatives which effectively cover all major egg marke operations from coast to coast. UEP functions as a cornm cations center and clearing house for most of the nation's producers. Its objective is.to achieve a more stabilized rna for the benefit of both producers and consumers. Mr. Ge] Faulkner, an Atlanta egg industry executive, has been pointed General Manager of UEP. Georgia Welcomes Hordis Stone Mountain Industrial Park, Stone Mountain, Georgia, the location of a new $500 ,000 plant for Hordis Brothe Incorporated. The 50,000 square foot facility will initi employ 21 people, increasing to 60 within a year and a h Hordis Brothers is a division of Combustion Engineeri Incorporated, and manufactures tempered glass for the arc tectural market. The Stone Mountain facility is the sixth pI operated by Hordis Brothers. Others are located in Mia Hous ton, Chicago, Anaheim, California and Tennsacken, Ne Jersey . A seventh plant is being built in Tampa, Florida. Office Park Announced For Columbus Plans have been announced for a multi-million dollar Executive Park to be located in Columbus, Georgia. The new facility containing approximately 12 acres of land, will be locate between the Cross Country Plaza and the new soon to opened Lindsey Creek By-Pass . The developers of Cross Country Office Park stated tha their purpose is to provide the most up-to-date facilities in prestige office park with abundant free parking and easy access Plans call for a complex which may contain up to 250,00 square feet. In addition to office facilities, there will be a large, modern cafeteria and a multi-story motor hotel containin approximately 150 rooms. HAPPY DAYS- Go verno r lester Maddox a nd re pres e ntat ives of the Ge o rg ia travel indust ry indi ca te the ad ditiona l num be r of lo ng weeke nd hol idays to begin in Geo rg ia in 1971 , a fte r the Gove rn o r 'sig ne d in to law the Mo nd a y Hol id a y bill. Geo rg ia became the first state this yea r to e na ct the leg islatio n a nd se cond sta te to a do pt the pro p osa l, providing th at W a s hing ton's Birthda y, Memo ria l Day, Veterans' Day an d Co lum bus Day be o bse rve d on Mon da ys ra the r tha n a s pecific cal e nda r date. The bi ll was in tr od uce d by Se nator Ford Sp in ks of Tifto n, Cha irman of the Senate Tourist Stud y Co m m itte e (se co nd from rig ht). O the rs are (I to r) Eric Holme s, Pet ro le u m Council of G eo rg ia ; Re p . J o nes lane, Sta te sbo ro , who m an aged the bill in the Ho us e ; Glenn Antho ny, Geo rg ia Sta te Cham ber o f Comme rce; Glen n McCull o ug h, Georgia Pre ss Associa tio n a nd Cha irma n of the Gov e rn o r' s Adv iso ry Com m ission on Tra ve l De ve lo p me nt, an d Cliff Sweazea, De lta Air lines. Georgia Headquarters For Kearney Division Kearney-National, Inc. has announced that the national headquarters of its E lectrica l Products Group is moving to T ucker, Georgia, the present locat ion of the company's B & C Meta l Stamping headqu art ers and plant. The offices will be housed in a new $500,000 building where between 100 and 130 people will be employed. Kearney-National, Inc. was formed in 1965 by Dyson Kissner Corporation. Th e company is orga nized into three major product groups-electrica l equipment, measurement and contro l of fluids and industria l prodUcts. Other company divisions are located in Missour i, Arkansas, Ca liforn ia, Ohio, Pennsylvan ia, New York , Connecticut, Te nnessee and Ca nada . Beaver Enterprises Expands Beaver Enterprises, Inc. ha s announced the construction of a new 68,000 square foot mobile home plan t in Fitzgera ld, Georgia . This new facility will emp loy an estimated 90 men on the assembly line, completing one unit per hou r. This is . the second expa nsion this year for Beaver E nterprises . Th e company occupied a new 29 ,250 square foot building in the Forward Fitzgera ld Industria l Park in Fe bruary fo r its first 1969 expansion. Th is fine new building is util ized to pre-cut travel trai lers for distri bution to other Beaver assembly plants as well as to manu facture the new line of " pick-up campers" and mobile homes. Beaver Enterprises will ultimately manufacture a minimum of 1,000 travel trailers each year , according to John W. Brist er , President. Sprague LPG Increases Operations Georgia can now claim the largest production facility for liquid petrol eum gas (LPG) cylinders in the n ation. Sprague LPG, a division of Textron, at Cedartown, Georgi a has expe nded over a million do llars in expanding its plant facilities and installing a production line for 200, 300 and 420 pound cylinders. Sprague no w produces a full line of the LP gas cont ainer s ranging fro m the six pound to the huge 420 pounders. Th ese are now being mark eted all over this country and exported to many for eign nations. Aft er acquiring the plant from the Weatherhead Comp any in 1966, Spr ague officials redesigned the existing production lines and began to install newlypurch ased equipment to enable the firm to sub stantially increase its labor for ce. Spr ague cylinders are subjected to rigid tests at the Ced artown plant , and each unit is pressur e tested at twice the norm al wor king pr essur e to assure safety and quality. P age 25 COCHRA INVENTIO SPUR BUSINES o Practically everyo ne has heard the story of "the man who tried to build a better mousetrap. " It is sometimes told to boost the morale of one who wishes to try his luck at something new, otherwise just to glorify A merican ingenuity. In Cochr an , Georgia, the ingenuity and the drive to " build a better mous etr ap" has resulted in the growth of an alrea dy-existing business and the promise of mo re jobs for the community. Cochran , 40 miles south of Macon, is typical of any small town trying to find a way of improving the living conditions of its people. It has attractive residential sections and it has a slum section. Th ere is an airport on the outskirts of the town, a railroad through the town and a major interstate highway less than 30 miles away. At the invitation of Mayor Buddy NeSmith, "Georgia Progress" visited Cochr an to meet the men who are behind the new business which re- Page 26 suIts from an invention that is "a better mousetr ap ." Howell Manu facturing Company, owned by J . C. Har ris, W. H . Howell and Harvey (Red) Pu rser, began as a hard ware store which specialized in agricultural equipment. After discovering there was a grea t demand for spraye rs, they decided they could manuf acture a better one. R ed Purser developed the device and they soon were ready to enter the ma rk et. Today, Howell Ma nufacturing Company, located in an old barn , pro duces ten of the new spraye rs per day, but if everything progresses as well as indicated, they will soon move into new quarters in the Cochran Indu strial Park and will doubl e produ ction. With this plann ed move, they will also manu facture a new type of hole-digger, a rotary cutter and a new three-po int boom for farm tractors. An increase in employment , from the present 10 to a total of 50, is expected. by ED SPfVIA Capit al investment involved in Howell Manu facturing Comp any is describ ed by joint owner John Harris as very small, less than $25,000. However , according to Mr. Harris, this figure will reach a total of $250,000 with the projected expansion. Before the expansion becomes a reality, however, financing must be discussed and settled. Accord ing to Mayor NeSmith, several methods of financing are being explored. One possibility is the Cochran Indu strial Developm ent Authority and another und er consideration is the Small Business Adm inistration. Alth ough Howell Manuf acturing Comp any has already had offers of distribution from several outsiders, the company will handl e its own distribut ion in Georgia, South Carolina, Ala bama, Florida and Tennessee. Presently, it appears that Cochran's newest invention has a bright f ut u re . II I I ,Il- DEP"q/? 4Jo~l0 t~,.~~ .(!J ~ .-\ o UJ "1\ C " ~'J, '1- Q-<:r 4 f G . 0&Srl"'>y ~~O ". ~ ~~.'~~""'~i'~ ~." ~Cil P.O . Box 38097 l ~r 6 At lanta . Geo rgia 30334 BULK RATE U . S. POSTAGE PA I 0 A T LANTA, GA. P ermit No. 707 Acqui s i t i ons Divis ion Uni ver s ity of Georg ia Li or arie s UN IV ~R 3 rr Y OF GSOnulA Athens, Georgia 3J oJ l BOARD O F CO M M ISSIO N ERS OF TH E GEORGIA DEPA RTM EN T OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE LT. GEN. LOU IS W . T RUM AN, xecUtl ,"e Di rec to r J ULI US F . BIS HO P, Cha irma n stovor Cil)' of Athen~ Athens, Georgia KIRK SUTLIVE Mallager Public R elatio ns (R etired ) Union-Ca mp Pap er Corpo ra lion Savannah, Geo rgia B, T. BUR SON Pllbli Jh er The Ca milla E ~ t e rp ri se Camilla, Geo rgIa JOHN E. PARKE RSON Presid ent The Bank of T ift on T ifton, Georgia AL LEN M . WOO DA LL, JR . Pr esid e n t WDAK Rad io ColumbUS, Geo rgia W. T. RO BE RTS A tt or ney at L a w r-.l ontezuma , G eorg ia J OH N K . PO RT E R Presid ent John K. Port er Co mpa ny, Inc. Atlanta, Ge orgia CONR A D J . S EC H LE R C hairm an o] the Boa rd Tucker Federa l Sav ings a nd Loan Associ ati on T ucker , Geo rgia EUGE NE A. YA T ES Vice Presid ent A tlunta D ;v;.\";OIl Georgia Power Co mpa ny Atlanta, Ge orgi a TII OMAS J . WE S LE Y. JR . Clnu rm un o] ' he Hoa rd Alla n-G ra yso n Re a lt y Co mpany Atlanta. Gc oru in ROG E R J . SC HO ER N E R Executive Vice Presid en t Southwire Co mpa ny Carrollton, Georgia JOHN R. H INES, SR . Hogansville, Geo rgia JOH N P. P IC KE' IT Pickett Chevrol et Co mpa ny Cedartown, Geo rgia WALT ER E, (j RA H A M Presid ent Marietta Co mme rcia l Bank Marietta. Georuia RUDDy M. NESM !T II .\ l a ro; (:it), of Cochran Cochran, Ge orgiu A. W. JO N ES JR President '. Sea Island Company Sea Isla nd . Geo rgia IV. RIC HA RD AC REE Presid ent !\ crcc Oil Compa ny f occoa, Geo rgia RALPH W. C LE VE LA N D Pres Id ent g ainesville Milli ng Compa ny alnesvIlle. Georgia ~~,I LI:I A M A. PO PE ashlngto n, Geo rgia ALEX S. ROYE R JR SYlvania. Geo rgia ' . CONTENTS VIEWPOINT . 5 SPECIAL FEATURES Building Brid ges to Indust ry 12 H elen is Stopping Traffic Nowad ays 14 FEATURES G eo rgian s G o Beyo nd the Milky W ay 6 A no ther G eo rgia First 8 Mi lledgevill e On the Move 9 G ive Your T own Som e Col or 17 The G ood Ol e' Days. 18 No rth G eo rgia Happening 20 DEPARTMENTS G ro wing G eor gia 22 T our G eorgia . 27 GEORGIA SCOPE News At A Gl an ce . 28 ABOUT THE COVER The wonders of the celestia l un ive rse unfold da ily in the Fernban k p lanetarium th rough the mag ic of the Ca rl Ze iss Ma rk V p laneta rium pro jecto r: The planeta rium is the th ird larg e st in the United States a nd seats 500. vis itors under its 70 foo t d ia mete r do me . Page 3 MAGAZINE STAFF HANNA LEDFORD Assistant Edito r H ann a Led ford join ed the P ublie R elat ions Staff of the Georgia Department of Indu stry and Trad e in April. A nati ve Geor gian, she is a graduat e of the H enr y W. Gr ad y Sch ool of J ou rnalism at the University of Ge orgia. Pr io r to joining the Depa rtm ent , she was emp loyed as a news reporter for the Ma riett a Dai ly Journa l. WILMA BURNS Art Directo r ED SPIVIA Managing Editor PHOTO CREDITS Front Cover . . . Fcrnba nk Scie nce Ce nte r Inside Front Cove r . . . . Bryan- Young Photographers In side Back Cover . . . . T ourist Division. G eo rg ia Dep artment of Industry and Trade Back C ove r . . Lann y William s Ar tist Ren derings . Jo hn Koll ock Publ ish ed Qu art erly by tile G eor gia Dep artm ent of Industr y and Tr acie. V olu m e V , Numb er T h ree Paze 4 The Hewards 01 R eprint ed with permission of the U.S. Cham ber of Commerce Apathy has a lot going for it. It is easy to catch and is painless. You ' can ignore it and nothing happens. The stronger it gets the less you feel you need to do about it. It becomes more noticeable when it begins to spread over a large area . When it does, the individual usually feels it belongs to someone else. Another appealing thing about apathy is the warm glow of nothingn ess it gives. The temptation is to leave it alone and it will go away.. With this attitude it may stay. Apathy demands a special treatment for it will not go away alone. The treatment starts with a good dose of involvement followed by long periods of action . It may be hard to get a confirmed apathetic to take the cure. And then it isn't permanent. Action must be rewarded while apathy is to be condemned . Since it is easier to condemn than to praise, it stands to reason that apathy is here to stay. It is needed by those who would rather condemn than act. Apathy has a lot going for it, but action is more fun. It must be. Have you ever heard anyone say, "Let's go where the apathy is?" Viewpoint AUGUST 1969 EDITOR'S NOTE: Our guest columnist is Bill Hardman, director of the Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. T he Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Indu stry and Trade was established in 195 9 and since that time has played a major part in helping more and more travelers discove r Georgia's vaca tion land s while encoura ging Georgians to take adva ntage of the grea t potential of the travel market. From its birth , the Touri st Division has mad e grea t steps toward matu rity. Th e $646 .8 million spent by vaca tion/recreation travelers in Georgia in 196 8 compa red with $29 7 million spent in 1961 , the yea r the first resea rch was compiled, is positive pro of that the state is comin g of age in the world of tr avel. Th ere are more than 21 ,000 firms in the Georgia trav el industry with a tot al employment of 109,600. Th ese firms have and continue to realize the wants and needs of the traveling pub lic and are atte mpting to furn ish the necessary services to insure a return visit by the vaca tioner. Th e ultim ate success of the tr avel indu stry hinges on the foresight of these businesses and the hospitality and efficiency their employees exhibit. In 1968 , sales to all travelers in Georgia, regardl ess of the purpose of the trip, tot aled $9 11.8 million . Thi s mon ey reach es most every famil y in Georgia in one form or another, whether it be in salaries or services provided by the state paid for by the tax fro m these sales. Last year, 6.7 per cent of the total state revenue ca me from travelers' spending. More than 39 million travelers chose to "See Georgia First" last year, by aut omobile alone. Of these trip s, 47.5 per cent were mad e by out-of-state tra velers while 52.5 per cent were taken by Georgians enjoying the beaut y and exciteme nt of their home state. All of these incr eases indica te that the adve rtising campaigns of the Touri st Division, the local communities a nd attractions are paying hand some dividend s. The seven Welcome Centers operated by the Tourist Division have been of inestim able value in spr eading the word about Georgia and her myriad of attractions. Th e Cent ers, strategically located on " tourist rout es," offer informa tion, a friendly recept ion to Georgia and refreshm ent s to the traveler. Last year more than 1,967 ,000 people visited the Cent erspro ving that the soft sell works! While the story of the state's travel indu stry grows bri ghter each yea r, the Tourist Division and the travel serving firms continue to make big plans for the future. Improvement s and new and imagin ative developm ents are being planned and executed th rou ghout the sta te. F rom the construction of a new marin a and fishing pier at Jekyll Island to a town-wide facelifting at Helen, Georgians are seriously seek ing an even grea ter share of the tra vel business. Page 5 The back -up satellite for the AT&T Telstar launched several years ago is on permanent display at Fernbank. by H ANNA LEDFORD o At Fernbank Science Center in Decatur, taking a trip to the Milky Way and points beyond is just like taking a walk through the nearby primeval for est. "Actually, astronomy is a nighttime version of a daytime nature walk," explained Andrew J. Olsen, assistant executive director of Fernbank . Mr. Olsen, who was conducting a tour of the ult ra-m odern three million dollar science cent er which is being opera ted by the DeKalb County Scho ol System, went on to describe the academic philosophy which crea ted the uniqu e education al facilit y. "Fa miliarizing one with his natural environment is our basic goal. Thi s is an educa tiona l center, not a resear ch institution. Th e amount of scientific discovery that is taking place toda y is so great , that we feel there is a definite need to bridge the gap between discovery and practical application . "We ar e in an envious positionour center is on the edge of 70 acres of virgin forest-a rari ty in the midst of a sprawling metropolis like Atl ant a. "Th is forest is trul y a living laborator y. In the physical sciences, our facilities include a meteorological laboratory equipped to display world weather patt ern s, a modem seismogra ph, an electron microscope lab oratory, a controlled environment room, the nation 's third largest planetarium and the largest astronomical observatory in the Southeas t . " By coupling these physical resources with the best hum an resources ava ilable and dedicating the entire effort to educ atin g the public we have been able to create this fabul ous learn ing center right here Paze 6 Georgians Go CCBeyond the Milky Way" in Dekalb County," Mr. Olsen ex- claimed . He said programs at th e ce nter run the ga mut from public plane- tarium show s and adult lay courses in astronomy to in-s ervic e teacher training and sophisticated rese arch conducted on the graduate level by students who ha ve outgrown their parent educational institutions. Public res ponse to Fernbank has been tremendous, according to Mr. Olsen. "Public and student demand for use of the forest, particularly, has been so grea t that satellite nature centers are being esta blished on existing school prope rties," Mr. Olsen said. He indicated th e for est is left tc care for itself. "All we ha ve done is establish trails throughout th e forest. We do not attempt to mai nta in the for est in any manner other th an to keep car s out of it and ma ke sure visito rs do not disturb it." " If we see aphids on an American Beech, we lea ve them there because they are a product of the continuous life cycle of th e fo rest and we don't want to dest roy it," Mr. Olsen reported. He told of ho w th e for est anima ls cooperate with th e staff member s and teachers who bring cla sses there for nature study. "There is one particular tree in the forest that has been inh abited by a woodpecker fo r as long as we've been taking clas ses through th e forest, We've been able to esta blish quite a rapport with thi s littl e creature. When someone knocks on the tree, he comes out in full view of th e children. What bett er way can you teach them about nature?" he mUsed. . Back at the ce nter itself , a larg e Circular exhibit hall is filled with outer- spa ce paraphernalia and facsimile space ships, displays of natural roc k and hundred s of stuffed animals in th eir natural hab itat. " Instea d of displ ayin g a whol e series of a cert ain species of animal , we have tried to show th e anima l in relation to other animals in the forest. We also give the children, and adults for th at matter , th e opportunity to tou ch various exhibits- a proc edure which is rar ely follo wed in othe r mu seums," Mr. Ol sen sa id . He pointed to a stuffed allig ator in th e cent er of the hall which wa s on a pedestal within easy reach of a sma ll child . " Mos t children have see n pictures of a lligato rs, but how man y ha ve had th e op po rtunity to touch one? Th at 's what thi s is here for and we hope soo n to have an elephant on displ ay for th e sa me purpose," Mr. Ols en added . He reported that so me 1,500 to 2,000 visito rs com e to the ce nte r daily to visit the for est , atte nd planetarium sho ws and observe the stars through th e ob ser vat ory telescop e. " In the last year, we have co unted 337 ,135 visito rs. Of th ese, 106,573 wer e with scheduled classes and 230,562 were members of th e genera l public," Mr. Olsen recalled . He indicated extreme satisfac tion with th e way Georgi ans and peopl e all over th e Southeastern regio n have supported the center. " T his demand ha s stimulated an active program for planned ex pansion which will include th e addition of a biological sciences building to hou se additional exhibit area and teaching lab oratori es, ex pansion of current botani cal gardens and gree nhou se faciliti es and the construction of a major marine aquarium ," he concluded. The Fernbank telescope, represented here by the bright dome on top of the DeKalb science center, monitored the flight af Apollo 11 on a nationwide television hookup. Page 7 ANOTHER GEORGIA st o In 1959, Georgia took wha t many tho ught a dari ng step an d beca me th e first state in the nation to experiment in a litt le known conce pt of economic developm ent called the " area ap proac h." What the state ac tua lly did th at yea r to implement th e "a rea approach" was to go into th e remote, und evelop ed areas of the northwest Georgia mountain s and set up an Area Planning and Developm ent Co mmission (A PDC) . T he new commissio n's two-fold purpose was to help member com munities realize the need for industrial and eco nomic developm ent and to point the way toward orde rly growth. Th e basic idea of the new ar ea ap proach program was the belief that any Georgia co mmunity would be able to show eco nomic growth once it began a concentrated, aggressive effort to mak e itself attra ctive to industrial scouts and touri sts traveling through th e state. E vidently, the new idea was a goo d one. T od ay, th ere are a tota l of 18 APDC's which have been crea ted voluntarily by 153 of Georgia's 159 Area Planning and Development Commissions in Georgia help small communities spot unique ways to draw attention to themselves. This eye-catching sign at Pelham capitalizes on the town's location and gives the distance to practically every corner of the world. 50 W{I;, .l,51;> " . l. e.'.-, "", .'f'1 ;.'\.. : "~ ,. . --~~ ." ~-, ! .:=-~~ ,/,. ; 1~ '." f.:;, jJ'> .~ ABOUT THE COVER No rth Georg ia 's Anna Ruby Falls is a beautiful sig ht to see a t an y time of t he year, b ut t he lux u rio us shades of Au tumn add a s ple nd o r t hat is u nma tch ed by o the r se a sons and ma ke it a " m ust" on the t radition al Fall leaf tou r. NOVEMBER, 1969 by BILL B URKE Dir ector, Indu stry Division Geo rgia Departm ent of Industry and Trade Indu strial developm ent leaders in communities thro ughout the Stat e of Georgia hear a grea t deal about preparation for new industri al plant s. Th ey hear how vital it is to have a choice of indu strial sites for consideration by comp any officials looking for a new plant site, to have city utilities and services available at those sites or to be able to commit these services for the sites at a definite time , to have locati onal maps, aerial photos and topogr aphic maps, to know the facts abo ut the lab or force includin g wage rat es, skills and availability of potential employees based on the experience of existing industry, to know the facts about technical training avai lable in the community both at the area technical schools and through special programs offered by the State Department of Education. Local industrial developers are told over and over again the value of having an att ractive downtown area, residen tial areas, park s and schools. Thousand s of dollars are spent each year in Georgia paving the way for new indu str ial plants which will broaden the economic base of the state through increa sed payrolls and higher per capit a incomes for Georgians. At the same time, statewide industr ial developm ent and local development agencies spend additional sums of money to produ ce indu strial prospects for the sites, cities and areas which ha ve been prepared. And yet, it is all too easy to forget that all of the pr eparation and pro spect developm ent efforts lead to the supreme mom ent when an official, or officials, of a company looking for the ideal place for a new facility arrive in our communities to find the answers to their needs. Th e prospect expects us to be businesslike in all of our dealings with him. He does not like to be overp owered by sheer numb ers of people when he visits a community. Each local official in the host committee should be there for a rea son, to contribute special knowledge and inform ation related to his interests. Th e local community developer's office or the area used for business sessions with the prospect should be neat and attractive. Th e local professional develop er and his staff should be professional. Th e pro spect' s time is extremely valua ble- the sequence of events and subjects discussed durin g his visit should be logical and in line with his requ irements. The pro spect expects the community to put its best foot forward. He is disappointed if his hosts are not eager and enthusiastic to serve both his need s and thos e of the community they represent. He resents attempts to reveal his identity when he has not chosen to do so himself . We may rightfull y conclude that a tho rough job of preparation for indu strial developm ent includ es the form ation of a small team of capable and interested individuals to represent their community with indu strial prospects , and the training of these individual s in the best possible methods of accomplishing the task which is delegated to them . All the preparations, all the effort, all the hopes for attai ning a new indu stry lead to that final mom ent of truth , when the prospect meets the local team-my advice to each of you is to " Be R eady." In addition to meeting the requ irements set forth in the preceding paragraphs, your community should also be able to answer "yes" to a majorit y of the questions posed on page 24 of this issue of Georgia Progress. Page 5 P age 6 THOMASVILLE'S FIRST BUMPER CROP by HA NN A L EDFORD " I' m interested in mak ing bumpers, not decorating offices," explained Th omasville indu strialist Lam ar Davis as he led the way to a neglected pa neled cubicle which would have been completely empty but for two worn office arm chairs an d a desk covered in dusty clutte r. Within moments, howeve r, the shabby room had a dazzling addition-a shiny, new 70-pound steel tru ck bumper-and Mr. Davis was deeply engrossed in a detailed account of his efforts to design, manu facture and mark et it across the country . Th e affable South Georgia car dealer said it all started a little over a year ago, in the Fall of 1968, when he became dissatisfied with the qu ality of bumpers he was having to sell as propri etor of the Th omasville Dodge Company. " I' d sell a tru ck, and the bumper, which is optional, and within a month, the tru ck would be back at my place and I'd be replacing or repairing the bumper becau se it had been pulled loose fro m the truck. " T he heavy far m equipment that is hitched to the rear of these truc ks is just too stro ng for the bumpers I was having to bu y and they were coming apa rt. So, I got to thinking and 1 figur ed out a way to improve upon them and make them stro nger, but I couldn't get any of the bumper manufacturers to build it the way I wanted it," Mr. Davis recalled. "I'm no engineer , in fact , I didn't even finish high school, but I went to Detroit with my designs anyway and showed the m to officials at General Motor s. T hey suggested that I go ahead and said they would buy them fro m me. " I came back hom e an d started pricing equipment and Thomasville industrialist Lamar Davis says the re wi ll be 1296 shiny new heavy duty truck bumpe rs like the ones in the foreground of the abo ve picture when the stack of steel behind them has been depleted. The die-press at left is one of the mach ines Mr. Davis adapted for use in his shop . It actually presses the midsection of the bumper into shape. Roland Ferrell is the operator. Page 7 found out it was sky high! I would have had to spend something in the neighborhood of $ 120,000 just t o buy the machinery I needed to get started. That almost made me give up , but I was so determined ... " Mr. Davis' overwhelming determination and inventiveness eventually led him to where he is right now: the proprietor of Thomasville Automotive Parts and the mastermind of a boom ing bumper business that is currently turn ing out some 500 heavy duty tru ck bump ers a day. Before he got there , however, the former mechanic and welder had to fall back on the skills he learned as a teenager and had not used for some 20 years. " I ended up designing and building most of the machiner y we are using here in the shop now, and it's worked well for us to this point, but I have already begun thinking about mor e efficient machinery for the future. " For instance, I think I can design a machin e that will roll both ends of the bumper and punch the tag holes all at the same time. Now, we're having to use separate steps to do all three of these things. "1 also have in mind a hydraul ic press which would cut the time of pressing the steel by a minute or more, but like I say, these are all in my mind." He surveyed the spacious warehouse that surrounds his tiny office and spok e of future plans to expa nd the operation. "Right now we are spray painting the bumpers over in the right hand corner of the building there, but I want to eventually get to where I can put the bumpers on a conveyor belt when they are completed and send them out to the warehouse behind this one, which is just a few hundred yards away, to be painted. "I want to set up a vat in that building so the bumpers can be dipped and dried in a matter of minutes. That way we can do all of the construction in here and the painting and shipping from the other building ... but that is all part of the dream , too ," Mr. Davis sighed. 'T here are other things we want to do, but I don't want to get into them until I get them done," he added, referring to a safety device he has invented which is now under considerat ion at General Motor s. Th e Da vis truck bump er is ad- vantageous, accordin g to its design_ er , because it can be installed in six to ten minut es with the use of only four bolts. Th e bumper does not have any exposed welding and is heavier and . stronger than other tru ck bump ers. "We make two types of bumpers -one fits a Chevrolet exclusively and the other fits Ford, Dodge and General Motors tru cks. At first I thou ght General Motors might be my biggest customer , but I'm finding out that the demand from dealers is just as great. At any rate, we're staying busy," Mr. Davis declared. It takes some 17 welders and ironworkers to actu ally make the Davis bumpers and five salesmen are currently selling them in 11 eastern stat es. "We are trying to mark et the bumpers as far as Ohio , with a central location for our tru ck delivery in each state. Th en, of course, the bump ers will be shipped to their final destination . "As for myself, I'll stay here and do whatever needs to be done to get the bump ers on the road. Like I said before , all I'm interested in is making bumpers, I don 't care much for the selling end." ':'' {:' ,i -'} " :.~~<~:.~ t_:~: .. '.~!.; Page 8 .1' -- ..:'::" -~.~-~~:~;::{'" J. E. Wh itley, for left, is busy roll ing the ends of the bumper while Tommy Tate performs the task of cutting another steel section that forms the bumper, left. The finished product, above, has just been spray-painted and is drying before sh ipment. ... . ON THE JVIOVE Th ere was onc e a tim e when the " Carpe t Capital of the World" was kno wn, simply, as th e City of Da lton . Th at was almos t half a century ago, however , before th e adve nt of the mammoth mon ey-m ak er known as the tufted textile industry. T he successful development of that highl y techni cal industr y has since brou ght the little mountain community th at bore it a degree of prosperity that is unequ alled by any other community of its size in the sta te, and few in the nati on , fo r tha t matt er. Billed as one of the top three urban area s in the sta te, Dalt on leads the other urban areas in household growth , effective buying incom e, retail sales, total employment, the amount of finished wate r pumped by the city and the amount of new investme nts and sav ings in saving and loan associations. Dalton and Whitfi eld County as a whol e rank first in the sta te in per capita gro wth and fourth among th e 159 G eorgi a counties in industrial employme nt. Whil e other commuruties in th e South have show n a declin e in popu lati on from the ea rly 1900' s to the pr esent , Dalt on and Whi tfield Co unty have shown a stea dy grow th. In 1910 the U. S. Census Bureau reported that Whitfi eld County had a popul ati on of 15,93 4 . In 1960 the popul at ion had leap ed to 42, I09 and is now estima ted at 53 ,800 . An E conomic R esearch Study conducted by the firm of No blin R esea rch shows a conservative estimat ed populat ion growth for Whitfield Co unty to be 70,300 in 1980, 9 I ,00 0 in 1990 and 117 ,000 in the yea r 2000. The big att rac tion, of co urse, is th e tufted texti le indu stry and th e sup port industries that have spr ung up around it. In 1960 the total tufted rug and che nille produced in the United Stat es was $525.25 million and Dalton's sha re was $3 15.2 million . In 1968, Dalt on 's produ ction totaled $9 38 million of th e nati onal tot al of $ 1.8 billion . Th is ph enomenal grow th of the tufted textile indu str y has fostered the growth of finishing and dye plants, che mical and latex plants, ya rn mills and tufting and lat ex and applicatio n and dryi ng mach inery p lan ts. A ll togeth er , there are 64 plant s in Dalt on and Wh itfield County which employ over 50 peopl e and 136 which empl oy und er 50 peopl e. O f these, there are also cha ir, co ncrete an d da iry and pou ltry manuf acturing plants. Wh itfield Co unty is Georgia's fourth lar gest pro duc er of poultry and pou ltry pro ducts, a distinctio n well wort h notin g in view of the fac t th at the sta te itself ran ks first in the nati on in poultry production. Plant s which started with 15 or 20 thousa nd square feet and ten to 25 emp loyees 17 years ago now have one million square feet of manufactu ring space and ove r 1,00 0 employees, therefor e it is a lmos t impossible to list, in detail, a ll of the expansion proj ects which have recently tak en place in Dalt on . However, th e rat e of grow th is pa rtia lly indicat ed by the total dollar value of building permits issued in Dalton in the pas t 20 months. Permits for co nstructio n totaling $ 12,909,557 were issued during the first eight months of th is yea r, while construction amounted to $ 15,3 11,303 in 1968. Th ere are seve ra l fac tors responsible for the ph enomen al indu strial growth Dalt on has experienced in the last four decad es, but the one that stands ou t the most is the nature of the peo ple who nurtured the development of the tu fted textile indu stry. One of the many industrial expansions taking place in Dalton a n d Wh itfield County. Page 10 A young mountain girl named Catherine Evans is said to have sold the first hand tufted bedsp read in the Da lton area in 1900 for $2 .50 . The independence of character, personal courage and endurance of th e mountain peopl e who preserved Miss Evans' ar t is largely responsible for the curre nt status of th at industry. Dalton industries enjoy harm o- nious labo r-ma nagement relations because of this congenial and industrious spirit of the peopl e who make up a great perce ntage of the labor force and the community, in turn , benefits fro m indu str y contributions of talent and financial aid in civic projects. Daltonia ns respect the exec utives of their industries as major initi ators of change so th at indu strial fossilization does not have a chance to set in and th ere are no " po wer blocks" to hind er the emergence of new leaders. Another prim ary factor in D alton's growth has been th e exce llent planning and management of local utilities, particularly water . Dalton is second only to Atla nta in the use of finished water, a reso urce which is invaluable to the local textile industries. Recently; a new $4, 000,000 expansion of the city water system was financed by th e accumulated earnings without necessitatin g a raise in the city water ra te, which, incidentally, is considerably lower in Dalton than th e ave rage for towns of comparable size. Th e new expansion enables th e city to produ ce 30,000 ,000 gallons of finished water daily. Dalton's health y industrial climate is matched by an equa lly wholesome civic, cultura l and community enviro nment. Hamilton Me morial Hospital is typical of Dalton' s super b community faci lities . On e of th e best equipped hospitals of its size in th e nation, Ham ilton Memorial operates In tensive and Coron ary care units. The 150-bed hos pita l has been designated a regional medical center and is now waiting approval of an application for a $6 .5 million gra nt to more than doubl e its present facilities. As a regional medical center the expanded hospital would serve Mur ray Co unty, in addition to Whit- Dalton's Recreation Center offers 38 programs in which more than 400,000 participate annually. field Cou nty, and would complement th e services offered at num erou s other sma ller hospitals throu ghout th e extreme Northwest section of G eor gia. Em ployees for th e prop osed medica l center wou ld come primarily fro m Dalton Juni or Co llege, where a plan is und erway to offer a num ber of health related degrees. T he comparatively new jun ior college is part of the University of Geo rgia System and sits on a beautiful ca mpus right outside of Dalton. It is easily accessible from Interstate 75 . Th e Dalton Creative Arts Guild and the Dalton R ecreation Department serve as mod els for similar organiza tions th rou ghout th e Southeast. Th e recreation department alone offers 38 programs in which some 400,000 particip ate annua lly. With all of its prosperit y, Dalton also has a few probl ems, but city and co unty officials are working diligently to allevia te them , pa rtic ularly in the areas of housing and traffic cont rol. A un iqu e self-contai ned village complete with 2,0 00 individua l housing and severa l shopping cen- ters is being built to help solve th e probl em of low cost housing. Th e self-cont ained village will be loca ted 11 miles north of Dalton on th e Cleveland Highway and is to be called "E vanston." Two hundred additiona l new housing unit s will be ava ilable in Dalton in 1970, while 600 mor e units are being plann ed for constru ction in the ncar future in the city's Wh itfield Acres Sub division. An oth er project to construc t some 600 units is underway for th e South Ri verb end R oad area. A s for the traffic control problems in Dalton , which are resulting largely from th e increase in traffic from the recently comp leted Int erstate near th ere, city and cou nty officials are going ahea d with plan s to widen and resurface downtown streets. City officials are also in th e process of negotiat ing with officials of the State Highway Department for a bypass for Dalton. Specific downtown projects include the widening of Th ornton Avenue to make it a four lan e thorou ghf are and extending the six lanes of E ast Walnut Avenue in a wester ly direction to Interstate 75. Page 11 Know the. SCORE by WILLIAM T. DAVIS Chairman , Atlanta SCORE Chapt er and JOHN D. SEWELL Chief , Mana gem ent Division, Small Business Administration Three men who know the Georgia SCORE, and know it well, are Tommy Shaw in Augusta, Jack Wingate at Lake Seminole near Bainbridge and J . F. Clark of Eulonia . As proprietors of outdoor recreational camp sites, Mr. Shaw, Mr . Wingate and Mr . Clark also know a whole lot about outdoor recreation and its potential as a growing Georgia industry. Recently, all three outdoorsmen have been in close touch with SCORE, which is formally known as the Service Corps of Retired Executives, a group of men and women who have successfully completed active business careers and are now offering their services grati s to help iron out the problems which plague small businessmen. Together with the local area planning and development commissions and the Atlanta office of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Georgia SCORE is able to provide a number of different services to small businessmen acro ss the state. In the case of both Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wingate, the SCORE service was an in-depth analysi s of each man's outdoor recreational facility . The analysis, which included things like the areas' potential for additional employment, expansion and cash projection, was worked out from specifications drawn by the two area planning and development commissions involved in the projects. Tim Maund, executive director of the Central Savannah River Are a Planning and Development Commission (CSRA), is eager for his staff to help Mr. Shaw because of the location of his camp site on the Clark Hill Reservoir. "The Clark Hill Reservoir, created by the construction of Clark Hill Dam in 1954, represents possibly the greatest recreational asset of the region and should be developed to its full potential," Mr. Maund said. "Although most recreational development of the Clark Hill Reservoir is the result of public investment, ther e are some private individuals involved in projects designed to increa se the area 's recreational capability," he expla ined . "Tommy Shaw is one such individual. With the CSRA Commi ssion assisting him by designing a long range development plan for the camp expansion and an annual capital improvement program, in addition to financial asistance from the SBA, Mr. Shaw will soon realize a much larger camp and the Clark Hill Reservoir will offer increa sed recreational facilities to the sports men of the CSRA," Mr . Maund added. Little River Sportsman's Camp After five years ' experience with a sporting good s company in Atlanta, Tommy Shaw went to Clark Hill R eservoir in 1954 with "not much more than the love of fishing and the outdoors and a helpful and understanding wife." The 60 acres of land he bought near the community of Leah were little more than dense river bank scrub when Mr. Shaw christened them "Little River Sportsman 's Camp." Today, after 15 years of continued expansion and improvement s, the Shaw camp site is a rambling outdoor haven with rental cabin s, a marina , a restaurant and a bait-and-tackle shop . The development include s 34 tran sit trailer spots , ten tent and camper areas, an additional open dry boat storage, picnic and recreational areas and a playground and gym equipment for the childr en. Upon the completion of planned improvement s in 1970, Little R iver will be capable of housing 20 additional transit trail er units and 20 additional tents and camp ers . It will also boast an und ercover stor age for some 60 boats and a forklift for launching them . Dock storage in the water will be expanded to accommod ate 35 additional boats. Thes e additional facilities are expected to be adequate to handle a large amount of overflow traffic from nearb y Mistletoe State Park. A new development which will eventually encompass 2,000 acres, Mistletoe is already equipped with two large comfort stations and 70 overnight camp sites. Wingate Fishing Lodge It's a long way from the Mistletoe State Park on Clark Hill Reservoir to the Wingate Fishing Lodge on Lake Seminole-316 miles, to be exact-but avid sports enthusiasts declare it's well worth the trip. Fishermen from all over the United States go to the Wingate camp site each year to participate in the Bass Anglers Sportsmen's fishing contest, to say nothing of the hundreds of bow shooters who travel there especially to shoot at carp in the shallow waters of the man made lake on the Wingate property. Hundreds of pounds of carp, a type of trash fish that is not usually consid ered edible , are brought in during the fun filled "Carperee," an annual event scheduled during the month of April. Jack Wingate began his versatile outdoor operation in 1957 and has since developed facilities which pre sently include four double brick cabins , a dormitory which will house 24 campers, a restaurant and a total of 104 feet of undercover wet storage for boats. The camp site also includ es six acres of space for wild duck shooting and dove and quail hunting grounds are accessible in the immediate area. A unique feature of the Wingate camp is the Wingate Fishing Camp for Boys which is run weekly during the summer months of June and July . Mr. Wingate says he started the boys' summer activity to give youngsters a chanc e to learn to "shoot, swim, fish, camp and get along together." Recently having purch ased an Arrowhead Camp Ground franchi se for overnight camping facilities, Mr. Wingate is now in the process of developing the area to meet the latest specifications. The Wingate restau rant and oth er facilities are to be improved upon and expanded in accordance with a five-year plan that has been developed by the Southwest Georgia Planning Commission (SGPC) in cooperation with SCORE and SBA. Carroll C. Underwood , executive director of the SGPC, reported that his staff had developed a sketch plan utilizing Mr. Wingate's background, Page 13 A n aeria l view of Spo rtsma n's Ca mp. topographic information furni shed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, soil information developed by the Soil Cons ervation Service and resear ch conducted by commi ssion staff memb ers. Included in the concept plan are pro visions for additional lodge type hou sing, camper facilities, boat facilities and additional food and concession facilitie s. "The commission has participated with Mr. Wingate and SBA repr esentatives to develop cost data and has advised Mr. Wingate, along with SBA man agement specialists and SCORE volunteers, on his management needs and meth ods . We supported the Wingate expansion proposal befor e the Corp s of E ngineers, from whom he leased th e La ke Seminole property. In addition, we plan to add emphasis to th e expa nsion project by including the facilities in a future touri st and recreation prom otiona l brochure," M r. Und erwood explained. The latest outdoor recreation area in Georgia to receive aid from th e local area plannin g and developm ent comm ission , SBA and SCORE , is just getting und erway on the Sapelo Ri ver. Indian Mound Camp Ground Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clark are alread y living on the 25-acre site th at is destined to becom e " Indian Page 14 Mound Camp Gr ound" sometime in the near future. Th e camp ground, which is the fulfillment of a lifelong dr eam for the Clark s, is located on Highway 99 near E ulonia and will be acces sible from Int erstate 95 when the highway is completed. Th e area gets its name from a large Indi an moun d that is locat ed in the cent er of the 25 -ac re tract. Mr. C lark's bro ther, C. W. , is helping him with the construc tion of the camp ground . T he two expert mechanics have recently completed sink ing a well for the prop erty. T he Clark bro the rs are receiving assistance in plannin g fro m th e Coas tal Area Plannin g and Development Co mmission (C A PC). M r. David S. Maney, exec utive director of the CAPC, said the easy access and other factors "ce rtainly would make this one of the most popul ar overnight and short stay campgro unds that will be used by touri sts passing through Georgia and th ose who wish to stay a little longer than anticipa ted." Officials of the SBA and SCORE have indicated they are in consta nt con tac t with the Clarks and th at they will be advising them on th e project as it pro gresses. A spok esman for SBA ind icated that outdoor recreatio nal businesses like Wingate's, Little R iver and In- dian Mound " cannot help but succeed" if they take ad vant age of the ser vices of government agencies like the area planning and development commissions, SCORE and SBA. In the word s of Bill Babb, outdoor edito r of the Au gusta Chronicle, " the outdoo r business is small as businesses go when you compare it with larg e corpo rations like U. S. Steel, but the general public's demand for mor e and more outdoor facilities is making it grow and no one is more awar e of it than the Small Business Administration. "So, the SBA has gotten toget her with a non-p rofit, non -salaried group and togeth er , they are letting th ese sma ll outdoo r businesses know just what the SCORE is." A big catch fr om Jack W ingate's lake. RIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY by ED SPIVIA On the morning th at Piedmont Solicitor Floyd " Fuzzy" Hoard was bombed to death , J ack son Co untians, par ticularly th e resident s of Jefferson , the county sea t, prob ably experienced the kind of feeling you and I would get from rounding a dark corner and suddenly being hit squarely in the face . In the first hours of th e morning, reaction to the bombing of one of the community's best loved citizens ran the gamut from pained grief to raging anger and disbelief. Shock ed J ackson Countians were saying to one another th at "yo u hear about things like this happening in Chicago or New York , but who would have ever thou ght it could happen here?" J ackson Co unty, with its peaceful rolling hillsides and green pastures and Jefferson, with its freshly painted comfortable-looking hom es and quiet streets, are definitely not the type of settings for the bizarre murder which took place there in th e early mo rning hours of what began as a calm Indian summe r day two years ago. To the contrary, J ack son County and the City of J efferson look mor e like they are just getting ready for the momentous discovery which revolutionized medicine and actually took place there over 100 yea rs ago . On March 30, 1842, a J efferson physician, Crawfo rd W. Long , first used ether as an anesthetic and virtually revolutionized the practice of medicine. Ironically, this discovery, which jolted the surg ical world, had very little immediate effect on th e little No rth Georgia community in which it was mad e. Unha ppily, Jefferson 's jolt was not to co me unt il some 120 yea rs later , with th e untimely death of M r. Hoard. Th e solicito r of the Piedm ont Ju dicial District, Fl oyd H oard had vowed to break up th e boo tlegging and car the ft ring ope rating in Jackson Co unty. A horrible tragedy which will long be remembered by th ose who knew th e devoted law enfo rce ment agent and admired him for his co urage, Fl oyd Hoard 's death seems to have wake ned the peopl e of J efferson and J ackson County. A s one local spokes man has said, " We don 't know if the investigation which result ed fro m his murder has compl etely eliminated crim e in this area, but one thing can be sai d for sure- when th ey put th e dynam ite und er Floyd H oard 's ca r, th ey put dynamite und er J ackson Coun ty." An editor ial in th e J ackson County Herald shor tly after Hoard's death reflected the feelings of th e community more specifica lly: " In this tragedy, we as a community were jarred to an anger, an awareness, a determina tion, a unit y which we had not known befor e." A visit to the North Geor gia community is testimony th at the edito r's proph ecy has becom e truth . Whil e progress in J ackson County might seem insignificant in compa rison to that of larger Georgia counties, one can easi ly see that grea t str ides have been made th ere in the last two yea rs. T wo hundred and fifty new job s have been added in J efferson since the summer of 196 7 th rou gh ex- pansions at J efferson Mills, th e ope ning of th e Sta ndar d CoosaTh atch er-T extile plant and with th e recent opening of the new trailer manufacturing plant , Celebrity Mobile H om es. Th is increase in demand s by existing industry has spurre d the hop es for new industry and prompted the City of J efferson to co nstruct a new wat er system at a cost of $ 1,250, 000. Upo n completion, thi s new system will crea te a 50-acre lake and tripl e the present water supply. Th e new system will add 12 miles of water lines and two elevated water tank s with ca paci ties of 250 ,000 gallons of water eac h. In addition, the city has recentl y comp leted a new $180,00 0 sewer system. According to Mayor Bobby Bailey a new apartment complex has been built and an addition is being planned. A golf course which will be located just off Interstate 85 is in th e plannin g stages . Land ha s been purchased to build a new city hall. A program to give a face-lift to the downt own section of J effer son is und erway. Thi s will include constructing new sto re front s, paintin g all downt own bui ldings and destru ction of those which ca n not be repaired. New stree t mark ers have been placed along city streets and city govern ment is in th e process of numberin g all houses in the city limits of J efferson . Th e J efferson air port , serving sma ll aircraft, was dedicat ed last summe r. A ccording to Ch amb er of Co mmer ce President W . O . Coo per, Page 15 Jefferson High School rank s in the top five per cent scholastically . Standard Coosa Thatcher Text iles , pictured above , and Celebrity Mobile Homes, pictured below, recently located in Jefferson . Page 16 Unique in design, the new ex pa nsio n at J ferson Mills features cable roof supports i stead of interior columns which would ha occupied valuable floorspace. there are other thing s which reflect the attitude of the community, such as "a schoo l system which ranks in the top five percent of all schools in th e sta te scholastically. Our school has a new cafeteria which is air conditioned and carpeted , and our band has received a superior rating in sta tewide competition and our track team s have won statewide track mee ts. It is our hope that with the new jobs being mad e availa ble in Jefferson, the fine yo ung peop le being produ ced by our school system will be able to stay in Jefferson and co ntrib ute to the further imp rovement of our city." As a fina l note, Mayor Bailey pointed out th at J effer son voters had recent ly approve d the sale of beer in th e city limit s, and said he felt this was an indi cati on tha t the peo ple there wanted to do all they could to en d bootlegging operations in the area. He said proh ibition didn' t work for the nation and there is no reason to believe th at it should work in Jefferson . Speak ing with a determ ination in his voice , Mayor Bailey add ed, "We may not have always done as we shou ld. We may not be doing as we should now . I do not thin k anybody is perfect, but I ca n tell you one thing, the peopl e of J efferson are t ry ing. " eveloping llie Coastal Plains by TONY N. MAGOULAS Program Officer Coastal Plains Re gional Commission The Coastal Plains Regional Commission (CPRC) is a new force on the horizon working toward the economic development of the Coastal Plains of Georgia and her sister states of North and South Carolina. Governor Maddox earl ier this year in a statement to the House and Senate Public Works Committees, said of the commi ssion , " I see it as the mean s of achieving a vita lly important cooperative relationship among our three states and as a means of creating a new and constr uctive form of Federal-State partnership . . . we mu st go beyond a purely statewide effort to solve some of the most stubborn of our problems and to realize some of our brightest oportunities . . . where problems and opportunities ar e regional in nature, only regional solutions and regional plans can deal with them. " Th e concept of economic development on a regional basis is an innovation not fully recogni zed until the latter half of this decade. Th e Appalachian Developm ent Act of 1965 was the first major experiment in attacking structural imbalance on a regional scale. Thi s program was designed to bring the federal government into an effective allianc e with state and local governm ents in ord er to launch a full-scale effort to pull an economically lagging region into line with the nation's progress. Recognizing the significance of the Appalachian program, Congress subsequently included in Title V of the Public Works and Economic De- velopment Act of 1965 an authorization for the designation of oth er economic development regions and the creation of federal-state commission s. On December 20, 1966, the secretary of commerce, acting und er the authority vested in him by the act and at the request of the thr ee governo rs, designated 159 counties east of the Fall Line, 86 of which are in Georgia, as the Co astal Plains Region. The Commission was officially chartered on Jul y 29, 1967 and immediately began to formul ate a comprehensive plan for orderly and accelerated growth. Governor Maddox is currently serving as state co-chairman of the commi ssion. H e and his fellow commission memb ers , Govern or Robert E. McNair of South Carolina and Governor Robert W. Scott of North Carolina , share equ al respon sibility and authority with federal cocha irman G. Fred Steele in the formul ation of commi ssion policies and program strategy. Each of the governo rs has an altern ate who is responsible for coordinating the commi ssion's activities within the state. H. Oliver Welch , state plannin g officer , serves as Go verner Maddox's alterna te. Th e State Planning Bureau , of which Mr. Welch is director, plays a vital role in assuring the success of the CPRC programs in Georgia. Th e commission headquarters are in Washington, D. C. The staff is headed by Charles W. Coss, executive director, who is assisted by pro- gram specialists and administrative personn el. Field offices, each staffed by a field director and an assistant , are located in each state capital to assist the alternates in pro viding effective liaison and working relat ions with the state executive and planning staffs and the pub lic and private sector throu ghout the region. After initial ana lysis, the commi ssion concluded that the most meaningful way to express the regional problems was in term s of the "i ncome gap. " In the aggregate, residents of the region ea rned about $5.3 billion less person al income in 1965 than their same numb er ea rned on the average throughout the nation . In per capit a terms , Coastal Plains people lagged almost $ 1,000 behind the country's averag e per capita incom e. In the Coastal Plains portion of Georgia, the incom e gap in 1965 was $9 77 per capit a below the national average. To redu ce, and eventuall y to eliminate this gap is the fund am ent al goal of the commi ssion partn ership . Th e stra tegy devised by the commission to attack this problem is predicated on : 1) the highest economic payoff and maximal resource developm ent for the publ ic investment ; 2 ) reliance on private investment as the prin cipal means of closing the gap; and 3 ) developm ent of the man ageable resources of the region and the creation of new basic acti vities. In order to achieve this goal the commi ssion has selected six target Page 17 a reas for intensified effort to produce acce lera ted grow th. They are : I. Ed uca tion and manpower 2. Indu str ial developm ent 3. Agriculture and fores try 4. Tourism and recreat ion 5. Marin e resources 6. Transport ation Th ese action planning areas have been determ ined to warra nt pr io rity efforts from the standpoint of anticipated eco nomic return on the publi c investm ent. Th ey are considered of key importance to the developm ent of the region . Th e hum an resource is th e region's greatest asset and the commission has assigned it the highest priority for development. In coope ration with federal and state agencies, a series of regional manpower centers is being develop ed in the region. Through the joint efforts of th e State Department of Education , the State Plannin g Bureau and the Southwest Georgia Ar ea Pl anning and Developm ent Commi ssion , one of the first centers will be located in Albany. Th e facility to be constructed will serve as a vocationaltechni cal training center for a 17county section of South west Georgia. Th e 76 ,800 squa re-foo t buildin g will be used to conduct trainin g progra ms for adults, schoo l drop out s and high school stude nts. Th e center will recruit train ees from th e rank s of th e hard-co re un empl oyed , primaril y displaced farm workers, and instru ctional pro gram s will inclu de basic educa tion and courses aimed at motivation . Th e center is being financ ed by a $6 00,000 gr ant from CPRC, $400,000 from the Dou ghert y County Board of E duca tion and $400,000 from the Department of Health , Education and Welfare. Wh en completed , the center is expec ted to attract higher paying industria l emplo yers and also to pro vide the surrounding sma ll towns and rur al areas with imp roved services and opportunities. Industri al development is a cornerston e for the CPRC' s ove ra ll stra tegy. Th e commissio n, of co urse , is cognizant of the successful efforts being put forth by the state indu strial developm ent agencies in attr acting indu str y of all types. T otal ca pita l expenditures in Geor gia for P age 18 Data on high technology industry were discussed at a recent confere nce sponsored by the Department of Industry and Trade and CPRe. new and expa nded industry in 1968 excee ded $526 million , a 25 per cent increase ove r 1967. For the same yea r, over 24 ,000 new indu strial job s were crea ted, representing an increase of some 4 ,000 jobs over the prev ious yea r. Thi s impressive reco rd amply demonstrates the results of the intensive efforts being put forth by the State of Georgia in the area of indus tria l developm ent. Recognizing the fact that the income gap is du e mor e to underemployment than to unempl oyment , the CPRC has elected to sup plement these efforts by orienting its indu strial developm ent program toward att rac ting high techn ology indu str ies which: I ) emp loy a high percent age of profession al and techni cal worke rs ; 2) pro vide higher wage levels; 3) expe nd grea t sums on research ; and 4) have above average growth potenti al. A recent study conducted for the co mmissio n by th e Batt elle Memo- rial Institute identified and ana lyzed the region al assets and barri ers to attracting high techn ology industry. At the same time, Batt elle identified pros pective indu str ies which are desirable and have potenti al for locating in the region . Th e Department of Indu stry and Trad e recen tly sponso red a series of indu strial developm ent seminars in Geor gia to dissemin ate the Battelle data on the assets and barri ers to high techn ology indu str y for interested gro ups around the state. In the short span of time since the commissio n received its charter, grea t str ides have been mad e in the formul ation of plan s and programs designed to acce lera te growth in the Coastal Plain s Region . Clos ing the incom e gap is an ambitious underta king. O rdin ary meth od s will not do the job . Th e CPRC has developed a strategy which, if fully and boldly carried out, will permit the peopl e of the region to participate in and enjoy the nat ion 's economic p r osp erit y. Why Be Certified? The inability of municipalities to take an objective look at them selves has been identified as a fundame ntal weakness in the statewi de industrial developme nt program . Th e Geo rgia Certified City Program was devised especially to m eet this need through the use of Civic Progress Standards, a set of rigorous but practical standards for m easuring the ph ysical resources and service capabilities of a mun icipality . Actua lly becomin g a Georgia Certifi ed City isn't easy, but it is well worth the effort , according to the testimony of spokesmen for several Georgia cities which have alrea dy capture d the coveted Bronze Certified City Awa rd. Amo ng other thin gs, being a certified city mean s that a muni cipality has taken carefully measur ed steps to overco me deficiencies which previously hind ered economic growth, and , in many instances, curtailed the quest for new industry. For example, the City of Gainesville entered the Certified City P rogram in 1964 , but did not receive a rating that yea r due to a numb er of defi ciencies which were pointed out by program administrators. "Community appea rance rated low, and Ga inesville received the criticism of being a 'dirty' city. T his criticism had the adva ntage of rea lly pointing out how our city appeare d to others and stirred the city and community to action to alleviate this image," explained R ay Keith , city administra tive assista nt. "As a result of this we have ado pted a more stringent sanitation code, und ert aken a rat contro l progra m, have been and are presently carry ing on a program of removal of jun ked automobiles, purchased new street cleaning equipment and ad opted zoning controls for junk yar ds. " Although we cannot definitely state that the Certified City Award we received in 1966, after two yea rs' work, actua lly caused any of our new indu stri es to locate her e, we do feel that the city and community efforts resulting from the effort to win it have played a highly significant part in their decision to locate here," Mr. Keith added. John Walker, city man ager of the south Georgia community of Cairo, went a step further with the declar ation that , "The Georgia Certified City Award was exploited locally and elsewhere as a big new tool for attracting new enterprises, etc., and it has proved to be just that , having increased the numb er of industrial prospects, with one significant success, and spurred other worthwhile developm ents, including a modern 64-roo m chain motel." Mr. Walker referr ed to an offstreet park ing facility whose construc tion was one of the factors that won the Bronze Awar d for his city and told how the construction of the par king lot also led to the transformation of the appeara nce of a block of business esta blishments. "Second front entra nces were provided at the rea r of each store and a paved sidewa lk was added to increase the convenience to sho ppers. Th e renovation was a result of commu nity effort which took place after we actua lly won the award. Thus far, use of the new rear entra nces , like the improved appearance of the area, has far excee ded all expectation s ." Joseph T . Bell, Jr., administra tive assistant for the City of Newnan , writes that the Certified City Program has " prove d valua ble to Newnan for more reasons th an the fact that the city has attrac ted additional indu stries and bu sinesses since receiving the awar d." "This program also pro vided persons involved in muni cipal government with an unbiased and detailed description of deficiencies in the governm ent. It provides an honest evaluation of all phases of mun icipal governm ent even where there are no deficiencies. By making government aware of its needs, the progra m has been beneficial to all our citizens," Mr. Bell concluded. Th e first city to be designated a winner in the Certified City competition , Newnan has set its sights on becoming the first city in the state to receive the Silver Award , the next highest acco lade in the community improvement competition. Newnan city officials have competition in the race , however. Th e City of Marietta, which was a 196 8 Page 19 The construction of a federal building improved the appearance of a city block in downtown Newnan, while the construction of a $75,000 Municipal Maintenance Garage improved city facilities. The completion of a long-term $300,000 outdoor development program is considered a major factor in La Fayette's selection as a Georgia Certified City . Pictured above, the Municipal Park Recreation Center features a health club and steam room. This slum dwelling in downtown Rossville was demolished and the new Federal Savings and Loan Building, also pictured below, was constructed on the site. recipient of the Bronze Aw ard, is already in th e running for th e Silver Award . Wa lter Brown, city man ager of Marie tta , reports th at his office has been worki ng toward th e Silver Award for th e past yea r, but th at the city still has some "g iant steps to take" in order to win agai n. "We've been to ld we need to do more in th e way of downt own ap pearance and we are presentl y wor king with U rb an R enewal on this phase of the program. In another area , we will nee d to set up a merit svstem for hiring city employees, " Mr. Brow n ad ded. Altho ugh the Certified Cit y Program has been in existence in Georgia for five years, there are only 14 ~iti e s in the sta te which have been able to qua lify as rec ipients of th e Bronze Award and th ere are no recipients, to dat e, of th e Silver Award. Another awa rd, th e Gold Award of City Cert ificati on , is the top honor in the competition, and it, like the Silver Award, is still waiting to be won. Sponsored by th e Community Developm ent Di vision of Georgia Power Co mpa ny, th e Indu strial Develop ment Division of Georgia Tec h and the Georgia Muni cipal Association, the Certified City Program is especia lly designed to aid the industria l grow th of Georgia cities and towns th rou gh civic im provem ent . "T he Georgia Certified City P rogram not only recognizes and pro motes the vita l relationship between comm unity attractive ness - both physical and governmenta l - and industria l deve lopme nt, but it also provides an effective promotiona l too l th r ou gh th e ce r tifica tio n awards ," explai ned D r. George I. Whitla tch, specia l pr oject s cha irman for the Tech Indu strial Development Division. " In sho rt, the cer tification of a Georgia city is recognition of its superiority as a location for industry and business, as a forwa rd-looki ng community dedicat ed to the good life. The cer tified city, is, indee d 'A City of Distin ction'," he added . Any legally incorp or at ed Georgia city which has an active govern men t is eligible to enter the Georgia Certified City Program . In order to enter, city officials mu st complete a questionn aire supplied by the pro- gra m adminis tra tors . The completed question naire is then scored and the subjec t city is inspec ted by a team fro m the Georgia Tech Industrial Developm ent Division . A ll cities that participate in th e program rece ive a written app raisal of their local situa tion , based up on th e findings of th eir entry . R ecommended act ions for the imp rovement or elimination of community weak nesses or deficiencies are outlined, and th e professional guidance of the Georgia Tec h Urba n Develop ment Services Section for the implemen tation of such corrective actions is avai lable witho ut charge to the municipality. Any entrant city that fails to achieve a rating in its initial try may contin ue to seek cer tificat ion by agreeing to correct selected deficiencies revealed in th e initia l evaluation. A two-year period is allowed fo r the completion of such an improvement. La Fayette , a 1969 Bro nze recipi ent, was one of the first cities to .enter the inaugural certificatio n progra m five years ago , but fai led to get a ra ting. La ter , La Fayette reentered the program as a participant in the two-year follow-up and won cer tification . R . A. Du ke, act ing city ma nager of La Fayette, listed several major correc tive actio ns the city un dertook to beco me certified . A mong them are the elimina tion of ou tdoor toilets within the city limits an d the tr aining of fire dep artm ent personnel. "The kind of progressive attitude an d pe rsistent effort displayed by the city gove rnme nt of La Fay ette is one of several insta nces th at , over the past half decade, have evidenced the success of the program's primary objective- the stimu lation of desirable community improvements as an accompanimen t of economic progress ," Dr. Whitlatch commented . "Certain ly, th e many corrective actions requ ired of Georgia mun icipalities as a conditio n for cer tification will favorabl y affect both local an d sta te ind ustrial development efforts in the lon g run ," he adde d. H . B. Lovvorn, city ma nager of La Grange, reports that some of the corrective actions his com mu nity undertook to rece ive certification resulted in continued act ion on the part of local citizens to achieve th e goals and objectives of the program . " By applying the program's civic progress standards , the findings of our own self appraisal, and the eva luation and recommenda tions pr epared by the Industrial Deve lopment Division of Geo rgia Tech , the City of La Grange jointly with ot her government jurisdictions has completed th e following pro jects : I . a complete new city charter; 2. a Municipa l R efuse Or dinance; 3. Adoption of Land Use, Ma jor Thoroughfare , Co mm unity Facilities and Capital Improvements prog rams; 4 . ap proval of a new tax re-evaluation and mapping program which will be completed in early 1971 fo r Troup and surrounding counties; 5. constr uction of a 136-space dow ntow n parking lot. According to Mayor Paul E llis of R ossville, th ere are two ou tstanding results of the Certification program in his city. "We were ab le to bui ld a new Federal Savings an d Loan Bank on property whe re slum dwellings had once stoo d. T he property, befo re the dwe llings were raze d, had bee n condemned. We were also ab le to see the renovation of what was for merly the 'ugliest building in our en tire city.' A warehouse , th e building is in the dow ntown area. R em odeling cost ap prox ima tely $ I 28 ,000. "In addi tio n, we now have stree t signs and markers throughout the city , a pro ject which was undertaken in order to become cer tified and one which has meant muc h to our citizens," Mayor E llis said. A ltho ugh Mayor Ellis was speaking in term s of one Georgia city, his sta tement has a great deal of statewide significance. When an industrial scout traveling th rou gh Geo rgia spo ts the fam iliar "Georgia Certified City" sign that appears on the outskirts of th e commu nity, he knows that he is enteri ng a city which has already distin guished itself as a dynam ic, forwa rd looking communi ty with a healthy industrial clima te . In othe r words, becom ing a Georgia Certified City will not guarantee that a community will automa tica lly at tract every ind ustry that comes along, but it will definitely increase the community's chances in th is endeavor. P age 2 1 , CONTROL TOWER _ -- "BABY ACE" Lockheed te st p ilot Jack Dunn, the " Ba by Ace" and pretty Jenny Wiley, Miss Lockheed 1969. Th e best way to find out how well you've learn ed your lessons is to give yourse lf a test . R ecently, a gro up of students enro lled in Geo rgia's voca tional educa tion tr aining program did just that, and passed , with flying colors. Th e students, enro llees in an air frame and power plant mechanics course co-sponsore d by the MariettaCo bb Vocational Tr aining Schoo l and the Lockheed-Georgia Tr ainin g Departm ent , got together on their free tim e after regular classes and built an 850 pound mon oplane to test their newly acquired knowledge. Th e result of their efforts, a Co rbin designed airc raft called " Baby Ace," took to the skies on an initial ten minute fl ight last summer and was to have been registered with the Lockheed Squadron of the Civil Air Pat rol (CA P) at McCollum F ield in Kennesaw following additional flight testing and cer tification. T he tiny airc raft is 18 feet long, has a wing span of 26 feet and is powered by a single 65 horsepower Continental engine. Cruise speed is 100 to 105 miles per hour , range is 270 to 38 5 miles, altitude is 12,000 feet and landi ng speed is 45 miles per hou r. After the plane was officially released to the CAP , it was to have been equipped with an electrical system, genera tor and two radi os and used for search and rescue operations for genera l aviation in North Georgia, Tennessee and No rth Carolina . In return for the " Baby Ace ," the rescue unit will purchase another Co ntinenta l 65 horsepower engine and wing kit which will be delivered to the training laboratory for con- str uction by future students enrolled in the program . In the meantim e, the builders of the "Baby Ace " are participating in bigger and bett er thin gs, nam ely, the construc tion of the giant C-5A Galaxy , world 's largest airplane. All of the students are employed at Lockheed-G eorgia and many are already build ing part s for the tremendous 76 5,000 pound aircraft. Upon sucessful completion of the two-year prep aratory course in air frame and power plant mechanics , enro llees are eligible to receive air fram e licenses and power plant tickets from the Federal A viation Administration . To date, 191 students have completed one or more phases of the program and 74 curre ntly are in trainin g. F ifteen have been awarded air fram e licenses and nine hold power plant tickets. P age 22 -- I CONTROL TOWER With 35 employees now on the job, Ma ule manufactures various Sylvania Airport Dedication versions of the M-4 STOL which Mr. Ma ule first began developing in the early 50 's . STOL is an abbrevia- Draws Crowd of 3,000 tion for "short take off and landing," a trait that is particularly adva ntageous in dusting, glider towing, ski and T he Sylvania-Screven County Airport was the scene of one of this year's most successful airport dedicatio n ceremonies earlier this Fall. Some 3000 Georgians , including a number of city, county and state government officials, gathered for the event, which was held in conjunction with the statewide observance of Georgia A viation Day. The official ceremoni es mark ed the reactivation of the airpor t, which has been in existence since Wo rld War II, as "P lantation Airpark ," and the beginning of a long-term development which includes plans for an industrial park and resort area. First District R epr esent ative G. Elliott Hagan and Lieutenant Governor George T. Smith headed the list of dignita ries present for the ceremo nies. Governor Lester Maddox, unable to atte nd the dedication due to a pri or commitment, was represented by his executive secre tary, Zell Miller. Ot her specia l guests includ ed for mer Gove rno r Carl E. Sand ers and his da ughter, Betty Fo y Sand ers, Representatives Paul Nessmith and Wa lstein Parker, Senator Joe Kennedy, Chester Wells, area manager of the Federal Aviation Administr ation , Harold A. Dye, assistant executive director of the Georgia Departm ent of Indu str y and Tr ade and John H . Bennett , director of the Aviation Division of the Department of Indu stry and T rad e. Members of the Board of Di rectors of the Departm ent of Industry and T rad e who attended were A lex S. Boyer of Sylvania and Buddy NeSmith of Cochran. Dedicatory activities scheduled duri ng the day included a static display of military aircraft fro m Hunter Ar my Air field in Savannah and a flyover of helicopters and observation airc raft provi ded by Fo rt Stewart. Th e Sylvania-Screven Airport Au tho rity was create d by an act of the 1968 Georgia General Asse mbly and is compose d of four memb ers including H erbert A. Williams, E. K. Overstreet, J. Knapp Boddi ford and Sidney Jenk ins. float operations and rescue mission flying. " The unu sual thin g about our aircraf t is its sta bility and maneuver abilit y at slow /lying speed s. Thi s isn' t just our opinion, some of the world's leadin g avia tion experts have confirmed it," said Mr. Maule. "Colonel Lindbergh, for one, has flown our aircraft and was very impressed with its maneuverab ility. Rescue pilot Jerry Wetzel is another grea t admirer of our produ ct," Mr. Maul e adde d. T he Mau le M-4 Rocket has been hailed for its rema rka ble shor t-field performance. Th e Rocket takes off in 360 feet or less, depending on wind; land s in 400 feet or less at 40 mph . Mr. Ma ule says it is idea l for operations fro m unp repa red strips of farmland . T he Ma ule M-4 Jetasen can easily be adapted for using the world famous Sorenson Sprayer , as can the M-4 R ocket. Th e new Maule M-4 Strata cruises up to 180 mph and land s at 40 mph . Gro ss weight is 2300 pounds and the load capacity is over 1000 pounds. Th e Maul e R ocket Sea- plane has a cr uise speed of 135 mph e Flew All the Way and a large roo my ca bin with removabl e rear seats and cargo doo r. Th e R ocket Seapl ane is ca pable of F om Michigan to Moultrie taking off from the water's surface in seven seco nds . T he relatively new M-4 aircraft series has brou ght Mr. Ma ute finan- Belford D. Ma ule's first major in- Th e plant , which bears its found- cial success in the field of avia tion , vention- the bird like ornithop ter er's name-Maule Aircraft Corpo- but it was his first invention , the bird which had flapping wings- did n' t go ration-was transplant ed to its pres- like orn ithopter, which has given very far, but Mr. Maule did, and ent southern location in October of him distinction as the father of un- Georgia aviation has pro fited grea tly 1968. usual aviation developm ents. from his successful air travels. Th e versa tile avia tor who brou ght Th e wing flapping ornithopter was Since the days of the ornithop ter it here said he is pleased with the successfully flown for several min- almost a quar ter of a century ago, transfer and soo n hopes to be ab le utes in 1944. A sort of mechanical Mr. Maule has come all the way to produc e at least one airp lane bird which has been classed as a from Michigan to Moult rie, where daily, instead of one every two glider, the ornithopter is believed to he is head of Georgia's youngest air- weeks, which is his present pro duc- have been the only successful air- craft manu facturing plant. tion schedule. craft of its type. Page 23 GROWING GEORGIA ~ Penney's Dedicates Regional Catalog Distribution Center In a major move toward achieving a nationwide cata log order system, J . C. Penney Company, Incorporated recentl y ded icated its second regional cat alog distr ibution center. At the same time, the company announced further expa nsion of other Atl ant a facilities. Pr esiding at the dedication of the new 2.2 million squa re foot distribu- tion center south of A tlanta, Penney President C. L. Wright announced plans for a ten-story office bui lding in downtown Atl ant a plu s major new retail sto res in the proposed Northlake and Perim eter Malls. Govern or Lester Maddox welcomed the new Penney facility to the capital city. Th e new ten-story office building The huge center will serve 26 sta tes from Maine to Florida to T exa s. In welcoming the new facility to Georgia, Govern or Madd ox noted that the distribution center will employ some 2,500 peop le and will gener ate an annua l payroll of some $ 10 million . He said the fact that the center will serve 26 states furth er strengthens Georgia's image as a state with growing regiona l and nation al economic influence. In addition to the distributi on center, the area contains a 104,170 squa re foot outlet store, a 24 ,000 squa re foot, free-stand ing auto service center and a 92 ,3 13 two story sq ua re foot office building. An aerial v iew of the new Penney Catalog Distribution Center in Forest Pa rk. Inset a t rig ht shows d edicatory guests touring the mammoth bu ilding. will cont ain 351 ,6 13 squa re feet. It will house region al credit operations, rea l estate and district offi ces. Mr. Wright said that by the end of 1969, some 4 ,000 Penney associ ates will be living and wor king in the Atlanta area. Th e compa ny has nea rly 1,700 sto res from coas t to coas t and did $3 .3 billion wor th of business in 1968. Penney's has the largest num - ber of retail departm ent stores und er one name in the world. " Our p lans are to make our catalog operation nationwide by the mid-seventies," said Mr. Wright. Mr. Wr ight said the new distribution center is the biggest and most automated struc ture of its type ever built. T he roof area , which covers some 52 .5 ac res, wou ld easily accommoda te some 35 football fields. RATE YOUR TOWN Not every community in Georgia can be expected to answe r " ye s" to every question in t he fo llo w ing . quiz, but the more " ye s" answers your community can give, the better the chances of att racting new ind ustry. 1. Is the tax ra te att ractive to new industry? 2. Do local schools offer high q uality education? 3 . Is the hous ing situation good, is there enough adequa te housing a vailable to accommodate newcomers? 4. Is there an ample supply of good water? 5 . Does the sewer exten s ion prog ram keep pace with local expansion? 6 . Is there a chamber of com me rce with a live-w ire manager? 7. Does the bus iness section have a modern, prosperous look? 8. Are the entrances to the community free from junk, rundown bu ild ings and othe r u nsightly eyesores ? 9 . A re streets paved and sidewalks in good shape? 10. Are t he bu siness estab lish ments attractive and well stocked with re ta il goods? Page 24 ..... cG Page 10 The mobile home industry was the second big success story in the saga of Dou g la s. - Until recently, the City of Douglas was an agriculturally orie nted commu nity with little pro spect for expansion in other areas . Agricultural mechanization after World War II had caused a steady outmigration and the community suddenly woke to find itself drying up. By the late Fifties, there were 206 vacant houses and apartments in this compa ratively small South Georgia town of 6000. P rop erty values were in a rapid state of decline and the people of the community were becoming increasingly apprehensive about the economic future of the area . City officials decided to take a critical look at the problems in an effort to see what could be don e to make Douglas a more attractive place for people to live and for industry to operate. Th ey realized that the key to the entire effor t would be attra cting enough indu stry to abso rb the farm surplus labor that had been created by the cha nges in agriculture. They reasoned that new industry would also mean that new citizens would be brought in to occupy vacant houses, that incomes would be improved and housing would be upgraded. In short, new indu stry would mean that the City of Douglas would begin to grow again. City officials then decided that planning was the first logical step. In 1955, a planning commis sion was appointed and a Workable Program was initiate d. A heretofo re demoralized and disorganized group of citizens joined hands in a dete rmined, well organized effort to move forward und er a sound program of work ado pted by the Chambe r. Th e Ch amb er program , which had ACTI ON as its theme, placed industrial development as top priority and initia ted a vigorous program of promotion. R ealizing that the Coffee County Chamber of Comm erc e Indu strial Corporation, an organization created to finance and build indu strial buildings, needed more money, the citizens' group organized a plan for pledging to the corpora tion. Th e campaign netted some $2 74,000. Legislation was then secure d to enable both the city and county governments to levy a tax for indu strial promotion . Th e Dougl as -Coffee County Industrial Authority was formed to administer this fund. A tract of land and several buildings forme rly used as an army primary trainin g base for pilots du ring World War II was purchased and develop ed as an industrial park. Th e Douglas-Coffee County Ch amb er of Commerce, thr ee indu stries and an army reserve unit were placed in the park imm ediately. Th e efforts of the people of Douglas were not in vain. Several new industries located in the city immediately and others have indicated an interest in moving there. Fe deral Corset Co mpa ny was the first major industry to come to Douglas as a result of the ACTION movement. Federal Corset initially employed some 140 people and later expa nded to employ 30 0. Simultaneously, a survey of Douglas reached the hand s of to p execu tives in the central office of Swift and Comp any in Chicago and led to the establishme nt of a Swift pro cessing center in Douglas. Th e survey showe d that Douglas was at the geographical center of the area in which the company had contracts with poultry farm ers who raise chickens for processing. Th e survey also indicated that the area would be a good place to raise pou ltry in the future. So, in 1959, Swift and Comp any decided to locate in Douglas, a decision that has been hailed as the sta rt of someth ing called "g rowth" in Douglas. Th e Swift processing plant drew two more chicken related industries, Douglas Foods and Crider's Poultry, whose specialties are preparin g ca nned chicken products for grocery shelves all over the country . Th e Swift Co mpa ny, which more or less sta rted the trend , now employs over 200 Coffee Countians. Th e th ree chick en plants togeth er empl oy over 800. Thi s emergence of the chick en industry caused some local businessmen to consider the needs of poult ry farmers and resulted in the addition of feed mills and chicken supply houses. Other merchants alrea dy involved in the farm supply business were able to expa nd their services in response to the poultry raising market. Each issue of Georgia Progress contains an article featuring a city or area in Georgia which has recently show n itself to be "on the move." Persons interested in seeing their city featured in this section should submit stories and accompanying photographs to "On the Mo ve," Georgia Progress, Post Office Box 38097, Atlanta, Georgia 3033 4 . Page 11 Farm ers in the six county area who are basically responsible for this success have earned a total of $7.5 million annu ally raising poultry. The y, too, have been able to expa nd their facilities. In 1965 , Dougl as chicken pro cessing plants produced 23,476,000 pounds of hens and 26 ,412 ,000 pounds of fryers , in addition to some 750 ,000 pounds of chicken necks and 150 ,000 pounds of frozen eggs which were used in commercial baking. Industrial growth in Dougl as did not stop with the chicken business. In 1962 , officials of the Fleetwood Trail er Comp any of California noticed a labor surplus in the area of Douglas and Coffee County and decided to locate there , bringing jobs for some 45 people and a whole new idea for indu stry. Two more mobile hom e manufacturing plants came to Douglas on th e heels of Fleetwood and local businessmen, again realizing the value of a concentration of a certain type of industry, went into action. Through their efforts, thr ee addition al mobile hom e plants were financed during the mid-Sixties, thereby registering another indu strial success story for the DouglasCoffee County area. Dougla s, which recently drew its seventh mobile home plant, now produces 50 mobile home units a day. Over 44 ,000 mobile hom e units have been built in Dou glas since 1962. In addition, there is one travel trailer comp any in Dougl as which produces five units a day. Th e mobile home and tra vel tra iler industry together emplo y some 750 persons . As in the case of the chicken proc essing industry, the arrival of the mobile home industry has resulted in the addition of several mobile hom e suppl y plants which produce frame windows and doors for mobile homes. Pr esently, there are five of these supply compani es employing a total of 250 people in Dougl as. With increased industrial activity in Douglas there came an awareness of the need for expa nded pub lic facilities. The city adopted its first budg et in 1955 and initiated a capital impro vements program at that time. Several pro jects which needed immediate attention were provided for under a $300 ,000 bond issue. Two elementary schools have been built in the city, one on the east side and one on the west to serve the needs of the growing neighborhoods and a sizable building progr am is in progress at South Georgia College. Included in the college additions are a 200-bed women's dormitory, a classroom building, and a student center-dining hall combination. Interest in making Dougla s a better city brought about a better understand ing of urb an renewal and sustained the effort to redevelop a large port ion of the substanda rd residential area. The citizens of Douglas began to see slums as tax consuming liability. A Negro Neighborhood Betterment Committee was organized and F.H .A. long range financing was made available to encourag e better housing. The project, which started in 1959, has replaced 552 unsightly and substandard housing units with modern brick stru ctures. Since plannin g is a process rather than a product, the Wor kable Program must be re-evaluated each year to determin e if objectives have been met and establish new goals. The people of Douglas enthusiastically welcomed an offer by the federal government to use the city's planning progr am as a demonstration. Thou sand s of copies of a public ation entitled "Loo king Over Douglas' Shoulder" have been distributed throughout the United States and foreign countries publicizing the city's initial efforts to improve its economic outlook some ten years ago. Th e city now looks to the next ten years with expect ation s of continued growth in the mobile home and poult ry proc essing indu stries. Local officials expect to see diversification, in the years ahead, of food proces sing of fruits and vegetables and the addition of mor e mobile home supply indu stries. Prospects seem even brighter for increased activity in producing processed lumber, an industry which may be the third in a series of success stories in the saga of Dougla s. Humanities Classroom Build ing - One of the new buildings recently constructed at South Georgia College. Page 12 RT PROGRESS In 1962, Georgia had $109 million in capital investment in new and expanded industry. Since that year, the capital investment for each year has been greater than that of the preceding year. The year 1969 has been another record breaker with a capital investment of $554,467,713. This amount exceeds that of 1968 by more than $25 million, a very important fact when it is realized that the increase was made in spite of tight money, restrictive revenue bond legislation, and a very definite effort on the part of the federal government to dampen the economy. While the continued increase in capital investment is a significant indicator that Georgia is moving ahead even under trying monetary conditions, an even more sign ificant sign of progress is the increased number of jobs created in industry in 1969. Over 34,203 jobs were created by new and expanded industry in Georgia i'1 1969 as compared to approximately 24,000 in 1968 . By October of 1969 the new jobs created in nonagricultural activities in Georgia had reached the very high figure of 1,506,800, over 51,600 higher than the same month of 1968. Increases in manufacturing, construction and services were indicative that Georgia was moving ahead at an accelerated rate. One reason for the substantial increa se in the number of new jobs in Georgia is that the large number of comparatively small industries create a greater ratio of jobs than the extremely large, often completely automated giant industries such as refineries, where the capital investment in buildings and machinery greatly overshadows the number of jobs created. In 1969, Georgia had 619 new and expanded industries with a capital investment of $5,000,000 or less. This is an increase of 133 over 1968. The trend for 1969 has been a larger number of smaller industries with more jobs created per dollar of investment than ever before. This is a very hea Ithy sign showing great diversification of locations and types with resulting flexibility and independence. There has also been an upgrading in technology in 1969 in that there are more higher paying jobs than ever before. An indication of this increase in number and quality of jobs is the continued increase in tax revenues for the state. Each month of 1969 saw collections exceeding the same month of 1968 by ten percent or more. More tax revenue means more for schools, water and sewerage systems, roads and government services, which, in turn, creates an atmosphere conducive to more development. Industry was not the only record breaker for 1969. The Georgia travel ind ustry continues to make EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Louis W. Truman Lt. Gen. U. S. Army (Ret:) ~..~~ ...--- impressive gains. Many of these ga ins are discussed in the Tourist Report on page 17. There are still other vital areas of economic improvement in Georgia that are not generally listed in the industry and tourist categories. For example: British Petroleum has opened its operational headquarters in Atlanta . Gulf Oil will handle its eastern United States credit card operation from a location in metropolitan Atlanta. Southern Bell is constructing a long-distance switching facility at a cost of over $30,000,000, in Smyrna . The public utilities are expending hundreds of millions of dollars and many distribution and research facilities are being planned or are under construction in Georgia. Not only do these operations afford new jobs to Georgians, but they help to create the economic mix that is vital to the orderly growth and prosperity of Georgia. Every bit of statistical data points to the fact that 1969 was a record breaking year in all phases of economic development and these same facts indicate that 1970 and the years following it will be even greater. Georgia is ideally situated in the middle of the great Southeast, an area which is setting the pace for progress and development in America. National economic slowdowns are being felt less in the Southeast than in any other section of the United States. This is perhaps the best single indicator that this section of the country will continue to move forward. There is every reason to believe that Georgia will not only move f~rward with it, but that our state will be a pace setter for the entire area. Page 14 &I> RT STATEWIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Dur ing 1969, the Depa rtment of Industry and Trade worked very closely with all development agencies in the state, including the ut ility firms, banks, rail roa d s, port authorities, area plann ing and development commissions, state and local chambers of commerce and other industrial development groups. Evidence of multiple participation in statewide industrial development is the fact that the state has the largest number of members in the Southern Industrial Development Council (SIDC) of any state in the organ ization . W ith 92 members in the SIDC, Georgia has almost a third more delegates than the next two largest membership states of Florida and Tennessee. Georgia, indeed, has the finest statewide participation, at all levels, in its industrial development efforts. On September 12, 1969, the department sponsored the second consecutive Governor's Conference on Industrial Development. A total of 325 industrial developers from all areas of Georgia attended the conference d iscussions on Agribusiness, labor Resources, Professional Resources, Coastal Plains, Regional Commission Activities, Handling Industrial Prospects, The Community and the Developer, Area Development, Technical Support and Small Business Administration Financing. The department also assisted in preparations for the 1969 Red Ca rpet Tour for industrial ists and the Green Carpet Tour for plant locat ion consultants, both of which were sponsored by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Department representatives accompanied Governor lester Maddox on visits to industrial ists in six major U. S. cities during 1969. In March, the department contracted with The Fantus Company of New York, an internationally known plant location consultant in New York, for 24 individual reports on the locational advantages of Georgia for specific industries. In each of the studies, the advantages of Georgia were compared to those of an area selected as representative of competitive conditions within which the industry now operates. The Fantus Company has furnished the department with an effective strategy for presenting the advantages of Georgia to specific industries, in terms of sales efforts, direct mail campaigns and personal prospect calls with these locational cost analys is reports. INDUSTRY DIVISION The Industry Division of the Department of Industry and Trade is charged with the responsibil ity of promoting and attracting new industry and business to Georgia . To fulfill this responsibility, the staff follows up on all leads generated from national advertising, industrial development organizations and other sources. The staff also informs industrial prospects of Georgia 's advantages in markets, transportation, labor and educational facilities and informs existing industries of facilities that are available to them for expans ion . A significant improvement in the number of qualified advertising responses received during 1969 contributed greatly to the overall activity level of the Industry Division. Much of the increase has resulted from the Fantus locational advantages studies. The Industry Division responded to requests made by exist ing industries and assisted each with expansion problems such as site location, financing and worker training information. In add ition, a program was initiated to have Industrial Representatives from the Industry Division call on Georgia industry to offer assistance wi th the expansion of facil ities or extension of trade from with in and without the stote. There has been a steady increase in international corporations' investigating plant site locations in the southeastern United States. As a result, several have located in Georgia. In order to encourage further expansion of international business in Georgia, the department, in cooperation with other agencies, has sponsored international trade sem inars in five cities throughout the State of Georgia to stimulate interest in increased exports and internat ional investment in the state. Under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Commerce, the State of Geo rgia has formed an alliance with the State of Pernambuco, Brazil to im p ro ve international relations and trade. The four areas of joint interest are commerce, agriculture, public health and education. A 12-member delegation from Brazil v isited Georgia last year to develop areas of mutual interest. Also, a close working relationsh ip has been established between the Department of Industry and Trade, the international departments of several Georgia banks and the U. S. Department of Commerce to assi st Georg ia firms to expand their sales into the international market areas. A stead ily increasing number of Georgia compan ies are actively expand ing their international operations. The following chart shows the capital investment since 1959. Page 15 RT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 5001------------------------ TOTAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT 400~---------------- ---__;;_:;~ 3 0 0 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - 2001-------------- 100 1959 1.960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 RESEARCH DIVISION Industrial development requires extensive collection and processing of statistical and socio-economic data . As the info rma tio n center for the entire department, the Research Division maintains an extensive library and prepares a number of industry related publications. During 1968, the Research Division implemented plans to increase its role as a support unit for the Industry and Tourist divisions by placing a greater emphas is on compu ter applications . The most significant development in this effort is the Economic Development Program (EDP), a unique system of selecting plant location sites in Geo rgia. The mainstay of the EDP is a data bank of economic statistical information on some 500 Georgia communities and information on more than 800 industrial sites and 300 industrial buildings available in Georgia. Within minutes, the computer can select the communities in Georg ia w ith available sites or build ings which most nearly fit the requirements of an industrialist interested in locating in Georgia . As an additional phase of the EDP, the Research Division pr ints an Economic Development Profile, which is availab le upon request, on every commun ity in Georgia included in the economic data bank. The new site selection program, believed to be the only one of its kind in the South, is an impartial, quick method of giving the industrialist accurate answers to his site selection questions. In addition to the EDP, the computer has been used to compile information for the publication of several comprehensive reports including the 1969 Manufacturing Directory, the Directory of Available Industrial Buildings in Georgia and the "Survey of Manufacturing Wage Rates, Georgia 1969." Several other computer oriented publications are in the planning stages. Another responsibility delegated to the Research Division during the last 12 months has been the review of industry location cost analysis studies produced for the department by The Fantus Company. The Research Division has also been responsible for co-ordinating the promotion of these studies through direct mail, again utilizing computer techniques. During the coming year, the Research Division plans to continue expanding its services to the department d ivisions as well as to other industrial developers, chambers of commerce, area planning and development comm issions and ind iv id ua l commun ities in order to contribute to the total Georg ia industrial development effort. Page 16 ,EfeI> RT TOURIST DIVISION 1969 was an especially sign ificant year in t he history of the Tourist Divis ion . It marked the tenth ann iversary of the d ivision and e stab lish ed ne w records f o r Georg ia 's travel ind ustry. Altho ug h complete data are not yet available, growth fig u re s for 1969 show Georg ia is ke ep ing p ace with the nation and in many cases su rpa ssing the nationa l averages. Preliminary figures indicate that g a ins of approximately 12 percent were made in Georgia and that total expend itures by vacation and recreatio n t ravele rs will approximate $ 72 5, 0 0 0, 0 0 0 during the year. Impressive gains were reco rded du ring the summe r of 1969, in spite of unusual weathe r. The g reater increase was scored in the area of employment. A total of 1,767 new jobs were created by 294 newly open ed travel serv ing firms . This is an increase of 40.7 percent ove r the same three month period for last yea r. These businesses include hotels and motels, restau rants a nd lou ng e s, re cre a tio n and amusement areas and automotive firms . Summe r sales by all travel serving firms inc reased by 13 .3 percent to a total of $272 .6 mill ion in 1969. A tota l of 10,880,089 persons visited Georgia's vacatio n and recreati on areas during the three month period. Attendance at historical sit es operated by t he Georg ia Historical Commission had an impress ive 69 perce nt increase for the summer. Foll o w ing the growth t rends of other segments of the Georgia travel industry, the number of visitors at the w e lco me centers has shown a 20 percent increase in 19 6 9. More than 2,113,000 persons stopped at th e seve n centers in operation f ro m Ja nua ry un til No vember. Geo rg ia lead s the nat ion in the n u m ber of visitors a t its welcome centers. The ei ghth cente r was opened in November o n Interstate Highway 20 nea r A ug usta . Th is m odern fa cility is e q uip ped with dis plays, re st room s, pi cnic ta bles an d g rills. The To u rist Div ision's ad ve rtis ing campa ign du ring 196 9 g enerated t ho usa nd s of in q ui rie s fo r va ca tio n informati on f ro m throughout t he United Sta tes and many forei gn co untrie s. The campa ig n includ ed ra di o and te le vision s pot annou ncem ents, sp ec ial news pa p e r supp le me nts and magaz ine adve rtisements. The Tou rist Div isio n staff has been successfu l in secu ring a tre men d o us amount of fre e publ icity in the form of e ditorials e nd featu re a rticles in ma jo r newspapers a nd m a g a zin e s. For th e third co nse cutive year, the State of Georgia en te re d a float in t he Tournamen t of Roses Pa rade in Pasadena, Ca liforn ia. The parade was televised na t ionw ide on New Year's Day and beamed th roughout the world via satellite. Georg ia rec e ived p rice less advertising from t he two minutes of publicity as the float passed the television cameras. The Tour ist Div ision participated in five travel shows held in ma jo r citie s in the eastern Un ited States in 19 6 9; conducted a " Fly Around Georgia " tour for 12 of Ame rica's lead ing t ra ve l editors; supplied film and sl id es for television shows in the United States and Ca nada ; prepared and presented bids to secure conve ntions fo r Geo rgia cities and resort areas; cont inued to ta ke an act ive role in the Southern Travel Directors Council and supplied hundreds of sto ries a nd pictures fo r newspapers and magazines. The completion of the Stone Mountain Memo ria l Carv ing , th e wo rld 's largest sculptured art, w ill be commemorated in national dedicatory ce remonies this spring. Page 17 RT AVIATION DIVISION The close of 1969 marked the end of an historic decade in the story of Georg ia aviation . Du ring the Sixt ies , Atla nta Airport became the thi rd bus iest a ir terminal in the nation and the number of aircraft registe red in Georgia almost tripled. In 1960, the Atlanta Airport was number ten in terms of the number of passengers enplaning. Today, it holds the distinction of being the th ird busiest airport year ' ro u nd and the bus iest a irport in the world during the lunch hou r period . Aviation progress throughout the state has been equally dramatic. The number of registered aircraft in Georgia has increased from 1,446 in 1960 to 3,820 in December of 1969 and the number of paved airports has increased f rom 51 in 1960 to 102 in 1969. Other Aviation activities during the year included a survey of the Nat ional Business Aircraft Associa tion to determ ine presen t and future ne eds of th is segment of the flying community and sponso ring an exhibit at the annual meetings of the National Bus iness Aircraft Association and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association attended by some 6,500 pilots. In the area of publ ications, the Aviation Divis ion mailed some 40,000 new four color Georgia Aeronautical Charts to eve ry state in the nation and several foreign countries including Canada, Vietnam, Brazil, Sweden and West Germany. In addition , a new loose-leaf airport directory for Georgia was printed and distributed. A second printing of 500 copies of the directory will be available for distribution during 1970. The Airport Development Program, a special project sponsored by the Aviation Division, continued to progress during 1960 w ith two new airports constructed and 23 airports undergo ing improvements. The total cost of the program in 1969 was $3 ,496,369. Of this amount, a total of $716,452 in state funds was processed through the Aviation Division. To complement the Airport Development Program, the division conducted a course for Instrument Flight Reval idation which was taught by a flight instructor team from the Federal Av iation Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. later in the year, some 187 pilots from all over the Southeast attended the division's Fifth Georgia Aviation Seminar. The seminar was conducted by personnel from the Atlan ta office of the United States Weather Bureau. YARDSTICKS OF GROWTH FLYING IN GEORGIA * 1969: 3,820 aircraft PASSENGER ENPLANEMENT *1969: 9,781,420 *1960: 1,6aircraft * 1960: 1,306,297 Page 18 RT ECONOMICS OF GROWTH The e conomi c development activit ies of the Departm e nt of Industry a nd Trade, d ur ing the pa st ye ar, ha ve bee n b riefly desc ribed in the pa ragraphs a bove. Howe ver, to limit a d iscu ssion of economic g row th to thos e fac to rs alone w o uld b e ina deq ua te . We mu st look a t a broader spectrum of economic 'ind ica to rs to real ize just how succ essful the d evelop ment effo rt in Georgia ha s been. During 1969, employment in Georgia g rew by 54,700 and unemployment continued at a n all-time low of 2.8 percent, according to the latest figures ava ilable from the State labor Department. Average weekly earnings fo r manufacturing employees rose to $108 .21 from $100.19. Average hou rly wages incr e a sed from $2 .42 to $2 .62. Pe rso na l income g rew a t a rate of 11.3 pe rce nt to ra n k fou rth a mong a ll sta tes . The na tio na l ave rage rate of g ro w th w a s 8.7 pe rcen t. Pre lim ina ry fig ur e s in di cate that persona l inco me in Geo rgia increased by more th an $ 1.4 b illion in 1969 to a to ta l of $1 3 .9 bill ion , wit h a co rresponding incre a se in pe r capita in co me f rom $2 ,743 to app roxima tely $2,99 2. Geo rgia's population is presen tly incr ea sing a t an annual rate of almost two percent and now sta nd s at approxima tely 4,660,000. The ra te of growth is expected to continue inc reosi nq due to the reduct ion of the rate of out-m ig ration. The prlmory reason fo r this reduction is increased economic opportun ity through the crea tion of thousands of new jobs annually. PERSONAL INCOME GROWTH 13.9 iai.:i:' S.... 0 C II. 0 zlit 0 C) :..:.i. D=: 0w C) . u.I :E 0 U Z .... < Z 0 lai.:t: ua..I 0-0 0- 8.7% 0 l- -co -0 0- :E 0a.:: II. u.I CJ) CJ) Q) ~ oOJ ~ 0- ro c >- . --f---J C ::J -f---J o~ Q. oQ. '+o- >- -f---J U Q) s: I- ~ Which came first, the " new look " for the Alb any Ch amber of Commerce or a noted urb anologist's prediction tha t the city would be one of the fastest growi ng in the nation duri ng the Seventies? R egardl ess of the sequence of events, both announcements seemed momentou s as the South Georgia community of some 60,000 people began its prepar ations for the new decade. Both announcements were herald ed in the inau gur al edition of a monthl y newsletter publ ished by the chamb er last Nove mber. "With the first issue of 'Albany'," the newsletter read, "the Albany Ch amb er of Commerce inaugurates a new image. Mo dern, up-to-date designs with a striking insignia that will ada pt to many uses have been created for stationery and printed materials. "A long with the new insignia and the newsletter , the slogan, 'The City of Opportunity in a Pr ogre ssive State' , will be promoted extensively through rad io and television station br eaks and in many other ways. "T his will be the first major change in Alb any Chamb er of Com merce stationery and publi cation insignia in many years, and will reflect the city's status as one of the most progressive and fastest growing cities in the nation ." A news item on the third page of the newsletter qu oted a prediction by Wyatt Jones, an urb anol ogist at Brandeis Uni versity in Ma ssachu setts, that Alba ny is one of 20 cities in the United States which ha s been forec ast as having "the best cha nce of rapid growth in the Seventies." To arrive at his predicti on, Dr. Jon es used a computer to compile inform ation on 315 cities with popul ations ove r 50, 00 0 . Th e top 20 cities were determin ed by using the computer to analyze a variety of growth indices including median age of population , percent of single dwellings, growth of local industry and personal income. Included in the list of 20 "boom" cities are nine Texas communiti es-Abilene, Am arillo, Corpu s .Christi, Lubbock, Midl and , Od essa, Pasadena, T yler and Wichita Falls. Oth er cities nam ed were H ampton , Vir ginia ; Hayward , California; High Point , No rth Carolina; Huntsville, Alab am a ; Jackson , Mississipp i; Lake Charles, Louisian a; Lawton , Oklahoma; Monroe, Loui siana ; Newport News, Vir ginia and Warren , Mich igan. Page 23 CONTRO I L TOWER __ Forty Days at the Atlanta Airport If the constru ction crews and engineers who rebuilt the 9L-2 7R runway at the Atlant a Airport had not decided to work continuously, day and night, weekends and holidays, rain or shine, the mamm oth project might still be und erway. " Fo rtunately, we had remark ably good weath er the whole time , with only a few days of rain to cont end with ," report ed Robert W. Richards, manager for one of the most ambitious construction proj ects ever undert aken in a single 40-day period . Th e proj ect was to rebuild almost two miles of runway which had deteriorated and was becoming increas ingly dangerous for air tra vel. Before actual construction of the new surface could begin, however, the original concrete had to be broken up and remo ved. Both procedures had to be compl eted during the 40-day period which began Octob er I and ended November 10, 1969. "T he project was, indeed, a first. There is no precedent for it anywhere. As a matt er of fact, it was simply unh eard of," Mr. Richards declared . A professional engineer who is employed by Atlanta Airport Engineers, Mr. Rich ard s went on to describe the pro cedures. " We removed 325 ,000 square yards of pavement, which is equal to 45 footb all fields, and reconstructed the runw ay with a 16-inch Atlan ta Mayor Ivan Allen became th e first passenger to take-off on th e re co nstructed runway when this DC-3 took to the skies on "Runway Reopenin g Day." Airplane at left shows project's proximity to active ru nway . In real life, this pretty " p ro je ct engineer" is Miss Carla Culbreth , a stewardess for Delta Airlines. thickness of reinforc ed concr ete pavement together with a complete und erdrain system and in-pavement lights. Th e concret e is over a six inch compacted stone bas e which is over a six inch thickness of cement stabilized soil," Mr. Richards explained. He said the construction crew consisted of 500 men working on two 12-hour shifts. An additional 75 people worked on the proj ect site as engineers , surv eyors and testing personnel. "At all times , the proj ect was cros sed by one active runw ay. Air traffic was further maintained, with relatively few delays, by utilizing oth er runways intensively," Mr. Richards added. The project was compl eted at a cost of $7 .8 million to the City of Atlanta, owner of the Atl anta Air.port. At the conclusion of the project, on Monday, November 10, Ivan Allen, then Mayor of the City of Atlant a, marked the occasion by proclaiming "R unway Reopening Day" during special ceremonies at the construction site. Page 24 --- CONTROL TOWER Coastal Plains Studies Georgia Aviation Iii ,~~(r ~r. The C-5 Galaxy has plenty of room for the crowds that gather to inspect it. ThousandsView C-5 Interior Thousands of Atlanta area residents who had watched for months in awe as the world 's largest airplane sliced its way through the skies recently took advantage of an opportunity to inspect the interior of the marvelous mechanical bird . The occasion was an Open House hosted by officials of LockheedGeorgia Company, builders of the C-5 Galaxy, the only plane in the world big enough and fast enough to transport heavy Army equipment and supplies, along with .large numbers of men, directly from the United States to crises areas anywhere in the world . Some 100,000 Georgians walked through the display aircraft while overhead two other C-5's circled in test flight demonstrations. The display aircraft, which was the tenth off the production line since the C-5 Air Force program began over a year ago, will become the first C-5 to be used for squadron operations. A spring delivery to Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina is scheduled for the tenth C-5. Its predecessor, the ninth C-5 off the production line, was delivered to Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma in December for crew training purposes . Some of the marvels the C-5 Galaxy has performed during test flights are flying at a gross weight of almost 800,000 pounds; landing in 1,200 feet, a space only five times its length ; flying at a true air speed of 611 miles per hour; climbing higher than 40 ,000 feet and operating at temperatures of 60 minus degrees and 125 plus degrees Fahrenheit. Some 20 Georgia cities are being studied to determine whether existing air transportation services need to be improv ed upon or expanded. The air transportation study, which is being conducted for the Coastal Plains Regional Commission, has been initiated because recent findings by the commission indicate that a lack of adequate air service in the Coastal Plains Region has been a major ba rrier to the attraction of industry and a hindrance to the full developm ent of the tourist and recreational potential of the entire region . The Georgia cities in the survey are located in the south ern half of the state , beginning with the geographic fall line that runs along the north ern boundaries of Muscogee , Taylor, Bibb , Wilkinson, Washington , Glascock and Richmond counties. AIl of the counties below the falI line are part of the three state , 159county area known as the Coastal Plains Region . In addition to Georgia, the region includes portions of South and North Carolina. The commission , which was created to bring about accelerated economic growth in the region, "seeks to stimulate private investment through a systematic progr am of public investment in specific target area s including transportation, tourism and industrial development." When the air transportation study is completed, the commission wiIl provide the demand data and recommendations for possible rout e structures to private investors interested in air transportation. The commission has retain ed the J . E . Greiner Comp any, Incorpoated , of Tampa, Florida to conduct the study . Page 25 GROWING GEOR Calibration Services OfferedGeorgia Industry A Weights and Measures L aboratory to serve Georgia ind ustry is now in business at the Atl ant a F arm ers Mark et. Th e labor atory, operated by th e Georgia Department of Agriculture, ha s been called a "little bureau of standards" becaus e it maintains prototypes of nation al and intern ational sta nda rds in length , mass and volume as approved by the National Bureau of Stand ard s in Washington , D.C. According to the director, Th omas E. Kirby, the Weights and Measur es Laboratory is ava ilable to any industry, business, or institution in the sta te which requ ires, or desires, that pr oduction or laboratory standards be as close as possible to nominal weight values or what is known as Cla ss " F" weight tolerances. "But the labor atory can be especially helpful to the quality control labor atories of gra in milling and textile industries in solving probl ems of weight ca libration to meet fede ra l requirement s for the certification of their weights," Mr. Kirb y added. " Hav ing federal standa rds available at the sta te level makes it possible to comp are different sta ndards of length , mass and volume used in industry, commerce, educa tional institutio ns and the businesses on the co nsumer level," he explained. Geor gia 'law requires th at eve ry weight used on a set of sca les, balances, or any other weighing device, or used as a piece of testing equipment in the installation , repair , overhau ling, or servicing of sca les by sca le mechanics or the sca le indu str y be inspected , tolerance tested, ad- justed and sealed annua lly. "Experie nce has show n that as many as 50 percent of the weights inspected are not within the required Class "F" tolerances. Th ese indications have implications for many different peopl e. Fo r the sca le owner, it can mean his scale won' t pa ss inspection when the inspection team comes aro und. Further , it means that everyone is not getti ng a fair measure, includ ing the consumer." M r. Kirby explained th at inspection team s a re provi ded with standa rds of mass, the most nearly exac t of any in the State of Georgia, and th at these standa rds are returned to th e labor atory periodically, where they are tested, adjusted and recalibrated to maint ain the highest level of accuracy. Research Loses Director, Pelham Gains Industry Th e Georgia Department of Industr y and T rade may have temp oraril y lost a Resear ch Director , but the South Georgia community of Pelham has gained a new industry in th e shuffle . T he switc h came late last yea r when R . E. Bodenh amer resig ned his position as Director of the R esearch Division of the department to take over the presidency of a newly incorpor ated mobile home manu facturin g plant. TBR Hom es, Inc orpor ated is scheduled to begin opera tion in Ap ril in a bu ilding which is now un der construction in the Pelham Industri al Par k. Mr. Bodenham er, who had bee n associated with the Department of Indu stry and Trade for 18 month s as Re search Director , said he is pleased to becom e a part of the Pelham business community and hopes to "contr ibute to the future develop ment of the indu stri al family th at makes Pelham its hom e." H e said that TBR will employ in excess of 100 persons at peak produc tio n and that the annua l payroll will be approxi ma tely $700,000. Th e fac ility will be designed to produce 1,500 mobil e hom e unit s annu ally. In the meant ime, H. W. " Ri p" Wiley, a form er memb er of th e Indu strial Development T eam of th e Indu str y Division of the Department of Indu stry and T ra de, has assu med duties as Director of R esearch. Mr. Wiley ca me to the depar tment in May of 1968. A na tive of Denver, Co lorado, he has been a resident of the A tlanta area since 1940. He pr esently resides in Avonda le Es tates with his wife and childr en . A Navy vetera n of World Wa r II , Mr . Wiley holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Indu str ial Manageme nt fro m the Georgia Institute of Technology and is sche du led to rece ive a Master's Degree in Ma rch. Before join ing the Ind ustry Division of the departm ent , Mr. Wiley was vice president and plant manager for Fl exible P rodu cts Co mpa ny of Mari etta. Th e new Research D irector is currently a member of several professiona l orga nizations including the Georgia Industr ia l Developers Asso ciation, the Southern Industri al Development Co uncil, the Society of Plastic E ngineers and the Society of Plastic In stitut e. Page 26 Tourist Ambassador Extraordinaire Twe lve Georgi ans who are constantly in touch with the tou ring public were named Touri st Amb assador Ex trao rdinaire by Governor Lester Ma ddox during special ceremonies at the 1969 Govern or's Conference on Tourism. The Conference, an annual event sponso red by the Georgia Tr avel Commission, was held in Au gusta and coincided with the dedicatory ceremo nies for the sta te's eighth welcome center em 1-20 near Au gusta. The first Georgian to be named Tourist Ambassador Ex traordinaire for 1969 was Brian Jenne, bell cap tain for the At lant a Marriott Motor Hotel and recipient of the 1969 Interna tional Bellman of the Year A war d . Others nam ed were Th elma Scarbrough, retail clerk at R ock City Gardens; Jackie Harrington , welcome center hostess for the Department of Indu stry and Trade ; Susan Marre, teleph one operator, Southern Bell Tel ephone Company; "Bell ma n of t he Year" in a ction a t the Atla nta Marriott. Bria n Jenne presents cita tio n to Mrs. Jacki e Harring ton , manager of the Sylvania Welcome Center. Wend y Kneen, ticket clerk , Six Flags Over Georgia ; Capt ain Harry Schmid , Decatur Police Department ; Mel And erson, bus driver , Gr eyline Tours; Clayton McElroy, tru ck dri ver, Georgia Motor Trucking Association ; Tony Foster, service station atte nda nt, P etrol eum Coun cil of Georgia; Ju ne Roman , registr ation clerk , Holiday Inn of Atl ant a ; Gr ady Smith , bellman , Georgia Hotel-Motel Association and Lenna Brown, waitress, Georgia Restaurant Association . Each received a citation and a gift of $ 100. Jenne, who acted as master of ceremonies for the present ations, won his additional honor , the coveted Bellman of the Year Award , in the fourth annu al cont est conducted by the Am erican H otel and Motel Association and the Sam sonite Corporation . Entries for the cont est were submitted from 35,000 member hotels all over the wo rld. At the age of 26, Jenn e is the youngest man to receive the awa rd. Th e 1969 Bellman of the Year has packed a lot of accomplishment into his thr ee shor t yea rs' experience as a bellman. Alth ough a compa rative newcomer to innkeeping, Jenne handl es all V IP's who stay at the Atl ant a Marri ott . H e recalled that dur ing the tragic period of Dr. Mar tin Luther King's funeral " so man y V IP's were staying at the Marriott that essentially there were no V IP' s." " You can imagine ho w hectic it was as we tried in vain to issue V IP treatm ent to literally hundreds of guests. And , in addition, I was to oversee the delivery of food for around 500 peop le to the King home. With all the acti vity at the hote l, it was really necessar y that I be there 'round-the-clock-a responsibility I welcom ed as one of the most rewarding in my career ," Jenne exclaimed. And wha t does a bu sy bellman do in his off-ho urs? Bachelor Brian Jenne, for one, is writing a book . Its title? Th e Bellman Speaks to Wom en A how Gratui ties. Page 27 Canada Discovers Georgia Millions of Canadian television viewers have been given a guided film tour of Georgia's leading resorts, attrac tions and golfing areas via two nationally broadcast television shows . Th e programs, seen in December, originated in Toronto and featured color film and slides and commentary by Lanny Williams, coord inator of publicity and promotion for the To urist Division. Th e television shows were timed to comp lement a special Georgia section in the Toronto T elegram . Th e newspaper supplement prai sed Georgia's winter climate and variety of attrac tions. T he television shows and the newspaper supplement are one phase of an intensified camp aign to encourag e the Canadian tr aveling pub lic to "See Georgia First." lanny W illia ms urg es Canadian b roadcaste r to " See Georg ia First." THE GOLDEN HUNTING HORN is the highest award prese nted by th e Discover America Travel Organiza tion. It was won this year by t he Southern Travel Directors Coun cil, a travel promotion group co m posed of travel representati ve s from 11 southern states . Picture d here admiring the coveted awa rd are, left to right, Ramsey Pollard of Resort Management Magazine, Bill Hardman, director of the Tourist Division of the Department of Industry and Trade and Willia m Toohey, chairman of the Board of Discover America Travel Organiza tion . Mr. Hardman is a form e r president of the Southern Trave l Directors Council. Page 28 G(Q)IT'!ll ~r.to.; are sta rting to get out of hand. " Th at's exactly what the man said, and, mort als being what they are, it isn't hard to believe that a proj ect like covering a mountain with snow could get somewhat tediou s. But that' s not exactly what the man meant. " "We believe that we have the technolo gy of making snow down to ~, perfection. We've been taking daily . , ." ".~,..,}}/'" ":~'<.t tempe~ature s for month s, we've had " . . snowiengineers down from New Hamp shire ... as a matter of fact, we've already covered the moun- tain , and people have been skiing on it. But it turns out that this was only the beginning! "The next task, and probably the most involved, was to develop the slope into a real ski resort. We be- gan by converting an old barn on the site into a ski lodge where skiers could relax and observers could ' come and relax, too. Now , we are in the Process of purc hasing merch an- dise for a k' shop. Next will be to develop hom e sites along the slope , and then, someday, we )lope to be able to build a golf c tI ~ . --- ~ o- ---_ -- _- --'-' - .... ... _ ...... c.-... _~ ..... _ ~- . . _ _ . _ - ---_--.-..-..-.------------_- ... ______u ..-.- ..-........ .. _ ........... . ._- _ - ... .... ........ __c._ e.--ot"- _.-__ .-.--~ ~_ Page 7 2 1 markets across the co untry, including N ew York , Ph iladelphi a , Cincinna ti, Clevela nd, Det ro it, Chicago , St. Loui s, San Francisco , O akland, Holl ywood and Los An geles. The tour ist co mmercial was show n on 35 television statio ns in Tenn essee, No rth Ca ro lina, South Ca rolina , Flo rida, Alabama , New O rleans, and Washin gton , D . c., and was awa rde d a Silver Med al at th e 1969 Atl ant a Int ern ati on al Film F estival. Both commercials, which were show n at prim e tim es with top p rogra ms, were filmed by Storer Studi os of A tla nta and utili zed a mutipl eimage tec hnique which perm its man y different action scenes to appea r on the scree n simultaneously. Three minut es of inform ation o n G eor gia ind ustry and tourism were actually pre sented in each of the one- minute films . "Georgia. th e U nspoi led" has been chose n as the them e for th e 1970 advertising program . Based on the fact that indu strial pollution in Geo rgia is far fro m bein g the th reatening men ace th at it has become in othe r states. the cur ren t adve rtising ca mpaig n is desig ned to prom ote th e relati vely clean air. water. and land ava ilable in Geo rgia fo r industria l purposes as well as for who lesome recreation and good living environm en t. Under this pre sent program, Georgia is the first state in the na tion to use network televi sion and radio to pr omote ind ustr y and tourism. Beginning in J anuary, the state spon sored a three-month sequ ence of comm ercials o n the popular N BC "Today" show. Th e commercials, whic h were filmed in Geo rgia, were acco mpa nied by live na rration from memb ers of the " Today" tea m, includi ng F rank Blair, J oe Garagiola, Barbar a Walters, and H ugh Downs. T he " Today" ser ies received a big send-off in J an uar y when Frank Blair came to G eorgia to expl ain the comme rcials, and the scope of the "To day " show , to me mbers of the Georgia Ge neral As sembl y meeting in regular sessio n at the ca pito l in A tlanta. A few month s la ter, in May, th e sta te bega n a summer series of tou rist or iented radio co mmercials on the ubiqu itou s "Mon itor " weekend pr ogram. These spo ts were also narrated by memb ers of the "Monitor" staff. The fam iliar voices praising G eorgia vacations and many attr acti on s across the sta te, incl uded th ose of Ge ne R aybu rn , Bill Cullen , Joe Garagiola, Murry th e "K," T ed Brown, and J im Lo we. Peter H ackes, popular NB C television person al ity, was in A tla nta to kick-off the "Mo nito r" ca mpa ign. Hackes, appea ring befor e a gathering of members of the Geor gia tr avel ind ust ry, bro ugh t a set of "Monitor" tapes which were pr ep ar ed es pecially to welco me visitors to the sta te's eight welco me cent ers. Th e tapes, recorded by "Monitor" personalities, to ld of attractio ns in, around, and near , the areas served by the individual welcome centers. As the sta te adve rtising pr ogram goes into the ninth month of its third year, In du stry and Trade officials remai n con vinced of its value whe n it com es to mark eting indu stry and tourism in Georgia . " I wa nt to emphas ize that th ere were other fac tors , besides advertising, th at have co ntributed to our industry and tourism growth . But, I do believe th at a part, and a large part, ca n be attr ibuted to th e influence of adve rt ising," G ene ral Truman said. " We are of th e positive opinion tha t a stro ng advertising approach is one of the best mean s th at we have of stay ing ahea d of our co mpetition and, at the sa me time, still re aching deeper into the nati on al and internation al mar kets," he concluded. P age 8 PE RY The ability of a city to attract the young is an indication of its ability to attract new industry. When one hears, upon visiting a city of 8,000, that there are 'lots and lots ' of young people there, one can be relative ly sure , without knowing anything else about the community, that there is a sub stan tial amount of industry flour ishing there and th at the city is definite ly "on th e move ." Take the City of Perr y, for instance. T he presi den t of th e Cha mber of Commerce is To m Dan iel, an affable, 3 1-year-old lawyer fro m Athens who had already dec ided to start practice in Atlanta when he d iscovered Perry. " We just came down on a lark, knowing that things were already settled in Atla nta , and ab solutely fell in love with the town and the people," Da niel recalled. "That's exactly how we happened to co me here," inter jected his pretty wife, Celia, also a former Athen ian. "Since we've been here, " she added , "we've been amazed at the number of yo ung people who are he re also. There are just lot s and lots of wonderfu l peopl e in our age group. Mo st of them are natives who have gone away to school and then come back to Perry to establi sh homes of their own ." O nce a sleepy farm community with one claim to fa me - a hospitable hotel with exceptiona lly goo d home cooking - thi s Middle Georgia community is now an overni ght mecca for thou sands of south bound touri sts and the home of what is expected to be one of Georgi a' s most lucrative indu stri es. Some 800 hote l and mot el rooms have sprung up in and around the city since the New Perry Hot el began to serve its fa mous fare 45 years ago , but the stately traveler s' rest remain s as popul ar as ever. In fact, local people who frequ ent the hot el d ining room like to compare it with Atl ant a restaurants, whe re on Saturday night you have to stand in line, or mak e reserv ations, in order to get served at an early hou r. Perry's location at the 'cr ossroads of Georgia,' where U. S. 41 and Interstate 75 South weave in and around one an oth er, is o ne of the primary reason s the cit y has ga ined such a large sha re of the hotel and motel industry. A nd, Perr y's location at the fall line at the beginn ing of the P iedmont Plateau and betw een th e Flint and Ocmulgee Rivers is one of the primary reasons the cit y was chose n by Pabst Brewing Company as the site for the headquarters of its southea stern op erations. The sprawling, 20-acre br ewer y, which is being built six miles southea st of Perry, is exp ected to turn out 1,500,000 barrels of beer annually. The brewery, and the adjacent Con tinental Can Company, wiII employ a total of 500 persons at full prod uction. Pabst's arrival on the scene in Perry has been accompanied by a gradual increase in indu stri al activity that is destined to reach eve n grea ter proportions in the near future. In quieter tim es, Perry could boa st onl y three major indu stri es Tolleson Lumber Compan y, PennDixi e Cement, and Perry Ven eer. Since the late Fifti es, this list has grown consider abl y larg er with the acquisition, in add ition to Pab st in th e late Sixties, of Georgia Decor , a di vision of Kellwood ; M agee Carpet Compan y, a Penn sylvani a based plant ; the N ati onal Motor Coach Company , a hom e own ed and op er- Pa ge 9 The new hardwood band mill at Tolleson lumber Company can produce 30,000 board feet of lumber per eighthour shift. Mayor Malcolm Reese is also chairman of the Industrial Committee of the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce. Page 10 Chamber President Tom Daniel, right, also a flying enthusiast, accepts his pilot license from Jim Brown , operator of Perry-Ft. Valley Airport. ated indu stry; Mullins Homes, a construction compa ny which is also home owned and opera ted, and the Vesely Company, distributors of world famous Apache ca mping tra ilers. Th e Perr y Indu stri al Development Co mmission, formed in the late Fiftie s, is given credit for having landed Georgia Decor , makers of tailored bedspreads, dr aperies, and curtains. Kellwood , Georgia Decor 's pare nt compa ny, has more th an 20 plants scattered throughout the country. The Perr y operation alone employs some 450 people. In 1967, Magee Carp et Comp any, with headquart ers in Bloomsburg , Penn sylvania, constructed a plant in Perr y which has alread y been expand ed twice. Magee represents an investment of over five million dollars and employs over 100 people . In the fall of 1968, William Purser. form erly of Ft. Va lley, moved to Perr y and founded the National Motor Coac h Company, which builds and installs the interiors of luxur ious family campers. Using a standa rd General Motors chassis and a body built to specification by a Texas manufactur er, Nation al installs a compl ete water system, septic system, and electrical system, in add ition to a modern kitch en with oven, refrigerator , double sink, and storage cab inets. Since it began opera tions a little over a year ago, National has sold coaches in Californ ia, Louisiana, Mich igan , New Jersey, and Penn sylvania. Established in J anuary , the Vesely Company acts as a warehou se and distribution for its Michigan based parent , Lapeer. Plans are now under way to set up a production line for manu facturin g the Apache campin g tr ailers at the Perr y site. At least two of the old er existing industries in Perr y ha ve kept pace with the indu strial developm ent of the pa st two decades. A multi-million dollar expansion and modern ization program has just been compl eted at Penn-Dixie Cement Corp or ation and the To lleson Lumb er Comp any has recently com pleted a new hardwood band mill. The new co nstruction at PennDixie includ ed a co mplete modernization of the plant th at was orig i- nally built in 1925 near what is known as one of the best limeston e deposits in the state, just six miles south of Perr y. The new facilities, which include a separate cru shing plant across the highway from the main plant site on U. S. 34 1, mark ed the pa ssing of an era in the cement industry, for it replaced the picturesque little narrow gauge trains that formerly haul ed the limerock in to the main plant for crushing. A modern conveyortype operation now straddles the highway and moves cru shed stone at a much faster rate . The new cru sher is being loaded by one of the largest rubber-tired, front- end loaders available. Its total capacity is nearly 15 tons or" limerock at a bite . At Tolle son, the new hardwood mill ha s the distinction of having one of two, eight-foot saws in the State of Georgia. The only oth er saw of this size in the state is located at Geor gia-P acific in Savannah. The recent addition at Toll eson brought employment to 150 with payrolls exceed ing $600,000. The hardwood plant is designed to produce 30 ,000 board feet of lumb er per eight-hour shift with only three men on the production floor. Th e new plant has been called a 'model of efficiency' by lumb er expert s throughout the South. Last year the Tolleson Comp any was chosen one of the five recipient s of the 1969 Georgia Agri-Industry of the Year Award , an annu al recognition by the Georgia Ch amb er of Commerce. The company was also honored last year with a visit from some 150 memb ers of th e South eastern Lumber Manufacturers A ssoci at ion. Perr y's recent increase in industrial developm ent has been accompanied by an increase in city services. A number of improvements, initiated under the admini stration of former city mayor and form er president of the Georgi a Municipal Association, Rich ard B. Ray, are being continued und er th e present administration headed by Malcolm R eese. Included in the improvements are the expansion of the city water sys- tem and sewerage system and the constru ction of a new public school and the Houston Recreation Center. Another need local officials are trying to fill is th at of a doctor for the new 45-bed Perry-Houston County Hospital. "We have four excellent general pr actitioners here now, but two of them are trying to taper off their practice, and the medical needs of the area are rap idly requi ring another man," said El wyn McK inney, executive vice pr esident of the Perr y Area Chamb er of Commerce. Th e hospital, which is a little over a year old, repr esents a $ 1.2 million investment for the citizens of Per ry and Houston County. It is 34 ,740 square feet in size and is a modern general service facility which includes two specially con structed rooms for the isolation techn ique in care of patients. Perr y, onl y 17 miles from Robins Air Force Base at Warner Robins, counts among its 8,000 resident s about 1,000 who make their hom es in Perry and work at the base. Often referr ed to as one of the "bedroo m" cities of Robins Air Force Base, Perry is neverth eless the thriving governm ent seat of Hou ston County, which also embraces the City of Warn er Robins. McKinney, one of the few local officials in Georgia who is pleased with the results of the 1970 census, proudl y reports th at Perr y gained a total of 30 percent in population, according to the census report. "Th is is without any ann exat ion to the city limits," he added. One of the city's larger indu str ialists, W. G . Mullin s, pr esident of Mullin s Hom es, is busily pro viding housing for Perr y's increasing population. One of Mullins' most un ique pro ducts is a packaged home which he manufactures in his plant and delivers to the home sites in two sections. These homes sell anywhere from $ 14,000 up . Three new shop ping centers also attest to the growth of the City of Perr y. One of them , E astgate Shopping Center, will includ e Sears and Piggly Wiggly and a dru g store , dr y clea ners. and coin-ope rate d laun dry. Another shopping cente r which has recentl y been completed includes a dentist office, beauty shop. and dru g sto re . Page 11 FLORICULTURE ~:/A Growing Georgia Industry .. ".').,~:':.I' ............~ . at the site of an a ba ndo ned 4-H "-..:::C amp,fo r their first tr aining sess ion . .....__,,?'-9l:ie gro up co ns isted of low-in- " Why, man , it means I count for co me ad ults with an average ed uca - so me thing . I feel goo d . I kn o w I can tion level of fourth gra de . Som e do it. I know I can get help whe n I co uld ne ith er read nor write , so me need it." were jobl ess, and othe rs we re under- T h is heartwa rming decl ar at ion em ploye d . co mes fro m a Geor gian who is par- Th eir firs t task was to build th e tic ipa ting in o ne of th e most unique gree nho uses wh ich we re to be th eir gove rn me nt self-he lp project s eve r classr ooms, and ad jace nt buildings co nceived . which were necessar y to carry o ut Ca lled th e Floriculture Project , th e program. the new pr ogr am selects peopl e a nd " T h is gave th e tr ain ee an o ppo r- tr ain s them to rai se qu ality flow er s tunity to practice ea ch ste p in th e a nd pot pl ants. con struction o f a gree nho use so th at Th en , when th e trainees h ave he would be cap abl e of con structin g mastered th eir 17-week , in-h ou se hi s own whe n the tim e cam e," ex- course, th ey are eq uippe d with a pl ain ed C ar son Porter , di rect or of gree nho use of th eir own and a co- the Heart of G eorgia Area Pl anning o p th rou gh which to sell th eir a n d D e v el opm ent C ommi s sion pr oducts. (A PD C). A ll of thi s is bein g acco m plishe d Th e 26 -ma n cr ew qu ickl y built th rou gh th e Heart of G eor gia Plan- five gree nho uses 30 feet by 100 feet nin g a nd Development Comm ission , at th e fo rme r 4-H Ca m p site . The seven o ther state age nc ies, a nd seve n hou ses were co nstr ucted of wood federa l age nc ies. a nd plastic with heati ng and ventila - Alt ho ugh the Fl oriculture P roj ect tion co ntrolled by th ermost at and was first envi sioned two years ago. lighting by elect ric ti mer. Th ey we re it was not un til this spr ing th at cv i- equ ipped with sma ll lead er tubes fo r den ce of the pro ject began to bloom. ind ividu all y wa te ring each pot. Th at's whe n 26 p ilot tra inee s Afte r con st ruction was co mpleted, fro m co unties in the Heart of G eo r- th e tr a inees began to learn th eir gia Area - Bleck ley, Dod ge. L au- trade, sta rt ing with the ste riliza tion rcn s, Montgom ery, Pul aski . T el fair, o f the so il and foll o wing th rou gh Trcutlcn , Wh eeler, a nd Wilc o x - with planting see d and lat e r, potting a rrived in Dublin (Laure ns County) plants. Horticulturist J ak e J ost a nd Vocati on al In structor R oger U sser y of th e Heart of G eorgia APDC guide d th e tr a inees th rough th ese ste ps . In structi on t ags indicating the a mo unts of fe rtilize r, wa te r, and othe r eleme nts need ed for each pl ant were used as visua l aids during th e training process. Train ees who could not read we re supplied with colorco de d instructi on tags. J ost , rep orting on th e succes s of thi s first gro up of tr ain ees, sa id, "T he o bject ive ach ieveme nts kn owled ge and sk ills in pl ant growing - are o utsta nding, but the achi evem ents in th e subjective area s ar e much more significa nt. "This gro up is a clear-cut demonstra tio n th at people with diff er ent ed ucatio na l and cultural b ackgro unds , whe n br ou ght to gether for th e first tim e, can find ways of livin g and wo rki ng togeth er for a co mmo n purpose in a rel ati vely sho rt tim e," Jost ad ded . T wenty-on e o ut of th e ori gin al 2 6 tr ain ees finished th e project and are in the proc ess of se tti ng up the ir ow n gree nho use o pe ra tions . Ac cord ing to L a rry Barnett , on e of th e sta ff member s of the H eart of G eorgia APDC, gra d ua tes o f th e flori culture course ca n mak e as much as $ 10,000 a year, before taxes. "T h is, o f course, is for a 'Mam aPapa' op er ati on , but it sure beats Page 12 being on welfare, as some of our tra inees were." said Barn ett. T he co-op th rou gh which the novice florists will sell their prod ucts is an o rganizatio n formed . un de r A PDC supe rvision. by growe rs who have comp leted their training. Some 200 Geor gian s will be tra ined un der the pr esent flori cul ture program. At the end of th at time , the D ublin floricu lture cent er will be maint ain ed by local peo ple under the auspices of th e Heart of Geo rgia A PDC. Federal agencies which have participated in the proj ect are Hou sing and Urban Development, Health , Ed ucatio n and Welfa re; Economic Development Administration, Office of Econo mic O ppo rtu nity, Dep artment of Labor, Co asta l Plain s Econom ic Develop ment R egion, and th e Department of Agriculture. Sta te age ncies involved are the Departments of Education, Family and Children Services, Industry and Trade. Labor, Agriculture, the Boa rd of R egents, and the Sta te Pla nning Bureau. Eage r m inds, bu sy hands work together to till the so il and bring beau ty and economic security to those who are lucky enough to possess a g ree n thumb and live in the Heart of Georgia Planning and Developm ent Area . 7 "Mr. UUtson, by H . G. C AT ES Public R elations Manager, SOli/hem Bell Expecting the dem and for its telephone service in Geor gia to nearl y doubl e du ring the next ten years, South ern Bell Teleph one and Telegra ph Co mpa ny has embarked on a $500 million state-wide con struction program for 1970 , 1971 and 1972 . In 194 9 there wer e almost 3.3 million peopl e in Geor gia with a total of abo ut half a million Southern Bell teleph ones serving th e state. Tod ay the popul at ion has grown to abou t 4. 7 million , with the number of company teleph ones expected to increase to two million by the end of this yea r. T hus, while popul ation increased by 42 perc ent during the 20-year period , teleph ones increased by 30 perce nt. In other words, they qu ad rupl ed. Southern Bell for ecasters predict as much teleph one incr ease in the next ten years as in th e last 20 . Th ey say more th an 1.5 million new teleph ones will be installed , hikin g the present tot al by 85 perc ent. Thi s expansio n will mean not onl y that more people will be served by telephones, but also that the individua l teleph one user in 1980 will have con sider ably more phon es ava ilable to him at the turn of a di al or the push of a few button s. C urrent ly, each teleph one in a Geor gia home or business is ca pable of reac hing any one or more tha n 100 million pho nes nat ion -wide, plu s th e million s located in other count ries. Every telephone in the future , as now, will be capab le of reac hing virtually every other telephone, so more peopl e will have th e oppo rtu nity for mo re dir ect co ntac t th an ever before. And each teleph on e custo mer will still get any necessar y repair work Come Here " on his phon e at no additional cost. H is teleph on e will be gua ra nteed to wor k for as long as he has it-a gua rantee th at com es with few products today. In the last 20 yea rs, tot al plant investment by Southern Bell in Georgia has incr eased from $125 mill ion to $96 1 million - by 699 pe rce nt. Th e compan y's investm ent benefits Georgia in man y ways, not th e least of which is taxes. In 1969 Southern Bell paid over $20,92 6,000 in city, co unty, and state taxes in Georgia. South ern Bell also makes a grea t investment in the state through the employment of its citizens. Onl y one other pri vate co mpa ny employs mor e Geor gian s th an the 17,700 who work for Southern Bell. And South ern Bell' s annua l payroll is $ 150 million . Addition ally, Southern Bell has 3,280 vehicl es in operation acros s th e state - a lar ger fleet than an y other comp any . Th e vehicle s represent a $ 10,8 00,000 investm ent. Considerin g the million s of telephon es in use tod ay and their expected increase ove r the next decad e, it is rem ark abl e th at less th an a cen tur y ago - on Jul y 30 , 1879the first teleph one excha nge in th e South was opened at Au gusta, with 78 subscribers. Shor tly th ereafter , exchanges were opened in Atla nta and Macon . South ern Bell acqu ired the Atlanta exc ha nge, con sisting of 131 teleph on es, for only $ 15,000 in 1881. It was pu rch ased fro m J oseph E. Brown, Julius L. B rown and B. W. Wrenn of the Western and Atlan ta R ailroad. In 1882, three years after Geor - Mayor Henry (Bud) Crye of Hamilton-on-the-Square makes the first call from an antique telephone booth Southern Bell recently installed in the old town square. Jack Leech , Southern Bell district manager, and Mrs . Patricia Callahan listen. The booth was fashioned out of two old ones that had been in storage. Page 14 gm s first teleph on e excha nge was placed in service, th e state's first long distance teleph on e line was cons tructed between Atlanta and Ma rietta. T he first con ver sation ove r the initial tr an sconti nental teleph on e line betwe en the Un ited States' east and west coa sts originated on J ekyll Isla nd in 1915. Theodore N. Vail. pres ident of Am erican Teleph on e and Telegraph Compan y, was on Jek yll Island and put th e lin e in service by plac ing the call to San Fra ncisco. Al so participating wer e President Woodrow Wil son in Wash- ingto n, D. c.; A lexander Graham Bell. inventor of the telep hon e, in New York ; and Th om as Wat son , Bell's ass istant. in San F rancisco. Th e first auto ma tic Bell teleph one offi ce in Georgia was b uilt in A tla nta in 1923. Savann ah was ch an ged to dial in 1929 , fo llowed by Augusta in 1940 and Columbus in 1942. Now all telephone companies in Geor gia offer di al service to all of their customers. And thu s, the telephone story. It was 1876 when the first int elligibl e message -"Mr. Wat son , come her e, I wa nt yo u"- went through a teleph on e circu it designed by A lexander Grah am Bell. Bell' s message went only as far as ano the r room in the sa me bui lding. Now a telephone message can go nearly anywhe re in the world- and perhap s President R ich ard Ni xon's lon g distanc e ca ll last summer to the Apollo I 1 astronauts on the moo n is an ind icatio n of th ings to co me. " Reach out for someone. To com municate is the begin nin g of un der sta nd ing," says a recent advert isement of th e T eleph on e Company. As Georg ia moves forwa rd, its citizen s are findin g it necessary to " reach out" fo r one anoth er and the world. Southern Bell 'and oth er telephon e compan ies are provid ing th e means to do it. It's a reciproc al arra ngeme nt: As Geor gia grows, Sou thern Bell gro ws, and vice versa . We ste rn Elect ric , ma nufa ctu ring and supp ly un it fo r t he Be ll Sy stem, is constructing th is new cab le p la nt in Gwi n ne tt County. Capitol Complex Converts to Centrex Georgia's state capitol complex in At lanta , aft er its con ver sion to Ce ntrex and electro nic switching on No vembe r 29, will be a mod el of so me of Southern Bell's most sophisticated communications services. Th e more th an 3,000 telephones in the cluster of buildi ngs in and around the capitol are now operated by 28 switchboards, each of which requires on e or mor e ope rato rs. A per son on one switchboard dials the code digit "9" plu s the entire seve n-d igit number to call a telephone on anothe r switchbo ard. Incoming and inter switchboard call s are routed through the oper ators. Und er Centrex, all call s will be controlled automatic ally by Southern Bell's new central o ffi ce on Courtland Str eet. Call s within the capitol compl ex will be placed by dialing onl y the last four digit s, and o utside ca ller s will dia l all offi ces dir ect. In add ition, th e electronic switching syste m will mak e it po ssible for th e recipi ent of a call to hold his call er on the line whil e he con fers with a third part y. to talk to both parties simulta neo usly, o r to transfer the o rigina l call to the th ird part y for a two-w ay con - ver sation . No op er ator assistanc e is necessar y. Electronic switching, wh ich uses computer programming techniques, is on e of the latest developments in teleph one technology. Currentl y avail abl e at on ly a few locati on s in the nation , Centrex will eve ntually offer numerous cu stom services to large num bers of Bell system cu stom er s. Th e Courtl and Str eet electro nic central office in Atl ant a, which will serve other downt own areas as well as the ca pitol co mplex, represents an invest ment of nine m illion doll ars. Page 15 GEORGIA CLAY YIELDS GEORGIA PRODUCT P age 16 T ake th e knowledge of a Geor gia born and educated enginee r, throw in a substantial amount of good old Georgia clay, a dash of vinyl resin, a con siderable chunk of capit al from one of the state's largest indu stries, add 15 Georgia indu strial wor kers, and what do you hav e? Ass uming th at the Geor gia born and ed uca ted enginee r is Bobby Rowland of Burwell ---=-- a sma ll Georgia community near Plow share - another small community near Ca rro llton - and th at the capit al is comin g from th e multi-million dollar tills of the Southwire Compan y at Car rollt on , the product you are bound to get is " Poly Vinyl Chloride," or PVC, a kind of coating South wire uses extensively in its manu facture of wire. Sou thwire has been turning out its own PVC for several months now, ever since management discovered it could save around $500,000 by doing so. For yea rs the Georgia clay has been shipped out-of-state for processing, returning to th e point of origin in the form of PVC. Southwire managem ent , reali zing that shipping was a grea t portion of the tot al cost of manu facturing PVC, assigned South ern T ech gr ad Bobby Rowland the task of investigating the feasibilit y of compounding PVC right there on the premi ses of Southwire . Th e result was a $2.5 million capital investment in the three-story plant th at is now used to produce th e necessar y supply of PVc. Jimmy Sullivan , a grad uate of West Geor gia College in Carrollt on , is one of th e man ager s of the new fac ility. He explained th at the PVC -process begins on th e thi rd floor of the plant. "T he raw mat er ial is mixed and dropped by chute into th e second level where a dr ying process take s place," Sullivan said . "This is also the locati on of th e quality co ntro l lab - which constantly mon itor s and gra des th e PVc. Th e whole operation ca n be controlled electro nica lly by one man at a central co ntro l pan el," he added . T he fina l step of th e process takes place on the first level of th e plant. " There the finished product is fed through large roller s and compressed into a thin , rubber-l ike sheet. F rom th is it is cooled and pul veri zed before go ing thro ugh large conveyo r pipes to the two million pound ca- pacity storage silos whe re it is kept unt il ap plica tion to the wire takes place," Sullivan concluded . Th e compounding plant is cap able of turning out 10,000 pounds of PVC per hour. R oger Scho ern er , vice pr esident for pr oduction at Southwire, feels the proj ect has been a complete success. "Actually, thi s is only th e beginning. Plans are alrea dy un der way for add ing anothe r production line in the near future. and becau se of the doubling of production capability, we feel th at satellite industri es are bound to locat e here," Schoerner said. Whil e Southwire initi ally will use th e majority of PVC th at it produc es, th e compan y has alrea dy sta rted selling it to other indu stri es. " In fact ," Schoerner said, " we are supplying on e sma ll industry th at loc ated here in Carrollton just to be near our supply." "Since we are able to do custom compound ing, too, it is re ason abl e to assume th at plastic pip e manu fac ture rs, pl astic product manufactur ers, such as th ose who produ ce garbage cans , floor tile, and toys, will wa nt to be near their supplier of raw materi al and th is could ca use a significant influx of th ese industri es to th is particul ar area, " Schoerner adde d. Acutely awa re of wha t it tak es to mak e a stro ng co mmunity eco nomy, Schoern er concluded by pro udl y declar ing that th e new product ion at Southwire is " a G eorgia product, don e with Geor gia brainpower , for and by the peopl e of Geor gia." P age 17 port some four years ago. At the same time, officials of Bowden, Villa Rica , and Haralson County decided they needed airport facilit ies, too. When these needs became apparent to officials of the Aviation Division of the Departm ent of Industr y and Trade and to officials of the Federal Aviation Administr ation (FAA), an area airport facility seemed to be the logical solution. An airport commi ssion compo sed of three men from Haralson County and thre e from Carroll County was formed to purchase the airport site, build the airport, and maint ain it upon compl etion. In an effort to pick the most accessible spot in th e area th at would be close to all participating communities, FAA chose a 400-acre trac t of land six miles north west of C ar ro llto n . What follo wed was about thre e years of paperwork , during which time the FAA, the App alachi an Regional Commi ssion , the State of Geo rgia, and the participatin g governments lined up fund s for the actual construction of the airport. Th e App alachian R egional Commission , a federa l agency which has already played a major role in securing a regio nal libr ary and vocational schoo l for the area , both of which are located in Carrollton , pai d $2 12,000 on the new airport. Th e total cost for the propert y and the con struction was $76 3,580. FA A was an even bigger partici pant , funneling a total of $38 1,790 into the pro ject and making the total federa l allocation more than half the total expendit ure for the entire p roj ect. Th en the State of Geor gia came along with $ 100,000, leaving a local share of less th an $60,000 to be p aid. Why such enthusiasm on the part of the state and federal government s? "These agencies kno w that air transportatio n is just like any other facet of the community-it's got to be good, or the community can't be a suitable location for indu str y," Crosson stated. "The first four thing s a pro spective indu strialist asks me are (1) what kind of air tr ansportat ion facilities do you have, (2) how much water and what quality is it, (3) what type sewerage , and (4) what is the cost and ava ilability of your land ," Crosson added. Although he will take none of the credit for having secured the new jetp ort, Roger Schoern er, vice pr esident of the Southwire Comp any, says his comp any will definitely make use of it. "Ma ny of our customers, and our competitors who also have occas ion to visit us here, have jets of their own. I'm sure, they, like a num ber of other executives in indu stry, are eager for the opp ortunity to fly privately. The congestion at most metropolitan airp ort s today makes these area jetports both realistic and worthwhile to the industrialist," Schoerner said. " In our particul ar case, the new airpor t is str ictly a comm unity ef- fort. Indu stry, as far as I know, had nothin g to do with pr omotin g it. except th at we are a part of the community," the Southwire execu- tive add ed. The new West Georgia airport is destined to become a secondary air terminal for nearby Atlanta Airport. Pag e 19 GRO W I N G GEOR - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - INDUSTRYDIVISION REORGANIZED T he Industr y Di vision o f th e Georgi a Dep artm ent of Indu str y and T rade has rece ntly been reor gan ized to p ro vide fo r a M ark eting and Advertising Secti on to handle the Georgia marketin g progr am and adve rtising and direct m ail respo nses, and a Co mm unity D evelopment Section to handle in-state matter s. H. W . "R ip" Wiley, th e new direct or of the division, re places Bill Development Sect ion ar e John D. Welsh, Area III representative, who will also serve as re p rese nta tive for Int ernation al T ra de; J ohn Gilli land , representativ e for Area V , Dave Gl adn ey, representative for Area II, and Lee Eubanks, A rea I. In add itio n, Du ke wiJI double as represent ativ e for Area IV and Wiley will represent Area VI. Thi s group will manage all active ind ustrial location project s and call tivities of existing Georgia ind ustry . Thi s functi on will be ex pa nde d during the next two years . Industri al rep resentatives who ha ve been ass igned to the new M ar ketin g and Adve rtisin g Sectio n are To ny R eed and Mike Easte rly . Th ey, a long with Sect ion Di rec tor G lenn Co rne ll, are pre sently wo rking in areas th rou gho ut the Sta te of Geor gia to ga in first-hand kno wl- Members of ne w Com m u n ity De velopm ent Sect ion a re, left to right, Gran t Du ke , J oh n G illi land , J ac k W el sh, and Dave Gl a d ne y . Not p ictured , Le e Eub an ks. Membe rs of ne w Ma rke tin g a nd Adv erti sing Sect ion a re , left to rig ht, Mike Ea st e rly, Glenn Co rn e ll, and Ton y Reed . Burke who res igned ea rlier thi s month in orde r to becom e Direct or of the Univers ity of Georgia R esearch Par k in Ath en s. I Wiley's assista nts are Grant Duke, assistant di rector for Co mmunity Develo pment, and G lenn Co rne ll, assistan t directo r fo r M ark etin g and Advert ising. Ind ustr ial represent ati ves who hav e bee n assigned to th e var ious ar eas of the state in th e Co mmunity o n community leaders throughout the sta te to assis t them in prepa ration and ad van ced activities connected with industrial development. Th e in-state sta ff will also call on ex isting indu stri es and handle expan sion projects for thi s particul ar cat egory . T he Intern at ion al T rad e position is con sider ed an in-stat e funct ion becau se it is closely tied to the ac- edge of sta tew ide ind ustrial devel opme nt factors and to gath er informati on for use in th eir fut ure work with decision -m akin g indu stry officials th rou ghout the country. On e o f the prime ob jec tives of thi s gro up will be to est ab lish and maintain per son al ra pport with the appro priate officials of the firms in the Fortune 500 list and other stro ng and growi ng co mpan ies. Page 20 GROWING GEOR NEW ASE ON LIFE A va lua ble new source of wood fiber fo r the manu factu re of p ap erage d tr ee stum ps re ma ining from the virgi n for ests of yello w pin e whic h o nce blan ket ed th e Southeast-has bee n developed by two Georgia ind ustr ies. Beginn ing J an uary I, 1971 , I ntersta te Pap e r Corporatio n w ill use 125,000 ton s per yea r of ye llow pin e stum pwoo d , commonl y ca lled " lighte r wood" in th e lower South , as a wood so ur ce for the production of liner boar d at its R icebo ro mil l. while He rcules In co rpo rated will pro vide th e stum pwood to I ntersta te fro m its B ru nswick plant. H ercu les ex trac ts pin e chem icals fro m th e stum pwood a nd at p resent bu rn s th e residu e as fuel. Ho ward D. Epstei n, president of I nt er stat e, said th e stumpwood wo uld pro vide up to 30 percent of I nt er stat e 's pulpwood req ui re me nt s for th e next 10 yea rs a t present pr oducti o n levels. He sa id processed stum pwood would be mi xed w ith gree n pin e chips fo r co nve rsion int o pulp. " We believe th e use of stumpwoo d for pulp and pap er m anu facture will be an imp ort ant ste p in th e fulle r ut ilizati on and co nser vati on of o ur forests a nd wood resou rces," At t he Interstate Pa pe r Co rpo ra tio n plant in Ricebo ro , wet pulp moves across t he scr een of the paper m a chine where w ood pulp fibe rs bond to g e the r to fo rm line rboard. Mr. E pstein sa id. "Th e stumpwood we pl an to use eac h ye ar will amount to 8 6, 00 0 cord s of gree n pulpwood cut fro m the living for est. "This is th e eq ui valent of th e average a nnua l growth of 175,000 acres of G eorgia fo res t land to dayo r more th an half th e size of Liberty Coun ty." he adde d . " In ot he r wo rd s, we will ex pand the tot al fo rest reso ur ces of th is region by th at much throu gh the util ization fo r paper pulp of stum ps from tr ees th at m ay have been cut 10 0 or 200 years ago." When th e oper ati on gets under way in J an uary, 1971 , th e stumpwood will be transported th e 50 m iles from Brunswick to Ri cebor o by a fleet o f tractor-tra ilers o perating around-the-clock . H ercules, whose B ru nswick pl an t began operation s in 192 0 , draws stum pwood fro m a four-state a reaGeorgia, Fl orida , North Carolin a a nd South C arolin a. It is estimated th at th ere is a t least a 20-yea r sup ply of stumps rem a ining to susta in the B runswick operation. In ad d ition to B ru nswick, H ercules o pe ra tes a sim ila r stump ch emica l ex tractio n plant in H atti esb urg. M ississip pi. Two sma ller pl an ts e ngaged in the indu stry are located in F lor ida. H ercul es is a diver sified chem ica l man ufactur ing pl an t w ith 4 8 m ajor pla nts in the United Stat es and pla nt s in 18 fore ign countries. Interstate p roduces linerboa rd at its Ri ceb o ro mi ll for use in m aking corruga te d pap er boa rd for shipping co ntai ners. T he com pa ny is a subsidia ry of Interstate Contain er Corporation of ew Y o rk, largest m an ufacturer and marketer of corru ga ted boxes in th e Northea st. The compan y o perates box plants at R eading, Pennsylvan ia ; B alti mo re. Maryland ; Lowe ll, M assachu setts; cw H aven. Co nn ect icut ; Gl end ale. New Y o rk, and H a rr iso n, New J e rsey . Page 2 1 TOURIST DIVISION HAS NEW DIRECTOR T he T our ist Divi sio n of t he G eor gia Depart me nt o f Indu stry a nd Trad e has a new directo r. A ltho ugh he h as been with the divi sio n eight ye ars , R oy Burso n o nly recentl y assume d d uti es as head of th e di vision. He succeeds Bi ll T. Hardma n, who resigned in J uly to e nte r privat e bus iness . Bu rson . a grad ua te of the Georgia Institute o f Techno logy, joined th e T o uri st Divi sio n in 1962 as A ssistant Directo r. He is a membe r o f th e M ak e Geo rgia Beautifu l Co mmission, the Ad ve rt ising Co mmi tte e of the Southern Travel D irec to rs Co unci l. a nd th e Discover A merica T rave l O rganizati on . Burson a nd his wife. the form er June Sm ith . ma ke th eir ho rne in Vill a R ica . In h is new posrtion , Burson w ill direct the ad vertising and promot ion ca m paig n fo r the sta te's n um erous tou rist att rac tions and supe rvise the ope ra tion of th e state's eig ht welco me cent ers, whi ch a rc o wne d b y the Dep a rtm ent of Indu stry a nd Trad e. Bur son 's new ass ista nt is L anny W illiams, fo rme r WS B-TV newsman who has bee n with the T ouri st D ivisio n th ree yea rs . W illiams. who has se rved the d ivision as Info rmation Officer and T our ist R eprese nt ative, is a grad ua te of the H enr y W . Grad y Schoo l o f J ourn ali sm at th e U nive rsity of G eor gia. H e is a member o f th e Board of Trustees of th e M iss A tlant a Pageant and Sigma Delta Ch i, nati o na l jo urn alism fr aternity. A native of Ca nto n, W illiam s make s his ho rne in M a riett a. A s Assista nt D irect o r o f th e T ouri st D ivision . Willia ms will be in cha rge of p rom oti o nal ideas a nd p rogra ms. wo rki ng closely with tr avel write rs and ed ito rs . H ardm an . wh o termi nat ed a n I 1yea r career with the Tourist D ivision with h is resignat io n. sa id h is new co m pany, Har d man T ravel Indu stri es. will offer tr avel investme nt opportu nities. tr avel prom otion fo r attr action s and cit ies, and sell o rga n ized tours o f Geor gia and the So u th. Since 1959 , th e G eor gia travel indu st ry has gro wn from a $247 milli on business to more than $704 mill ion. In 1969 a lo ne, spe nd ing by all t rave lers o n bu siness and pleasure trips in G eor gia amo unted to $992 m illio n. I P age 22 I ~O Roy Bur son, left, accepts directo rsh ip of th e Tou r ist Divi sion from Bill Hardman. GEORGIA t!\AYL~ Mis s Melissa Douglas, re p re se nting the Tourist Divi sio n of the Georg ia Department of Industry a nd Tra de, conducts a private tour of the "Tra ve l So ut h" e x h ib it in the American Pavilion at Mon trea l's Man and His World . Her guests on the tou r are Guy Huot, commissioner-general and dire cto r of Man and His World , le ft, and the Ho no ra b le J ean Drapeau, mayor of Montreal. The "Tra ve l So uth" ex hi bi t wa s sponsored by the So uthe rn Travel Directors Council, of which the Sta te o f Georg ia is an active member. "W e took a wrong turn or we would have bee n he re e a rli e r," was the comm ent of lt. Co lo ne l Wi llia m E. Moore, the five -m illio nt h guest to visit Six Flags Over Georg ia since th e fam ily en terta in me nt pa rk first opened in Jun e, 1967. Col. Moore, hi s wi fe , and ch ild ren Ca ro l Ann a nd Billy, who are stat ioned at Reese Air Force Ba se in lubbock, Texa s, v is ite d Six Flag s w it h t heir aun t, Kat hl e e n Cu m be e of West Po int. The late arri val pa id off as Six Flags g re e te d t hem wi t h gi ft s inclu di ng a tr ip to ei t he r Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington , or Six Flag s O ve r Mid -Am e rica, d ue to o pen in May, 1971 , nea r St. louis. Page 23 G@IT'~n@ ~@]p) news at a glance Page 24 Lake Lanier Leads List With nearly 11 million recreation VISItS last year, Georgia's Lake Lanier swept popularity honors among U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' 189 man-made lakes and navigational pools across the nation. The Corps of Engineers said that Lake Lanier, formed by Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee River, topped attendance at all other projects with a total of 10,954,200 visits. Three other Georgia projects were among the top ten-Allatoona Reservoir on the Etowah River, third with 6.2 million visits; Hartwell Reservoir on the Savannah River, eighth at 4.8 million visits, and Clark Hill Reservoir on the Savannah River, tenth at 3.7 million visitors. Albany Announces NewPlant Albany will soon become a major center for the manufacture of business forms, according to a recent announcement by R . W. Hamilton, vice president and general manager of Moore Business Forms, Incorporated , Southern Division. Hamilton said his company had purchased 16 acres of land in the Seaboard Coast Line Albany Industrial Park for the purpose of building a 65,000 square foot plant in which to manufacture business forms. The new plant will be one of eight manufacturing centers in Moore's Southern Division , which has its headquarters in Denton, Texas. Construction on the new plant is expected to be completed by February of 1971. Employment is expected to reach 125 the first year and expand to over 250 within three to five years. tlVtlJlJltllt ''A Special Kind of City" by C AROLYN C ARTER Tourist R epresent ative , Ge orgia Departm ent of Industry and T rade Sav anna h is a special kind of city. It is sce nic and it swings. It is his toric, and it is festiv e. It is o ne of the finest spots in all of Georgia to spend a mem orabl e holid ay. Ex ploring Savann ah is an e nchanting experience- mu ch like being able to touch ano ther wo rld . Th e city's specialt ies are so unique th at visitors spe nd not just hours, but days, discovering the no velt ies th at await th em . For, this Col ony Cit y, the birthplace of Georgia, is ac tua lly four Savannahs wr apped int o o ne . It is a mod ern met ropoli s, a city of bu sin esses, financi er s, tr ad esmen, and indu stri alists. It is a growing re sort wit h splendid golf co urs es, saltwate r fishing, boa ting on th e inla nd waterwa y, a nd superb ga me fish ing in th e Gulf Stream offshor e. Th e cit y is o nly a short di stance from th e Atl antic Ocean and th e seas ho re community on T ybee Island kn own as Sav ann ah Beach . It is a bustlin g port ci ty, gateway to Europe, A frica , South A merica, and th e Ea st. whe re boat-watching is a fasc ina ting p astime. It is a city of th e Golden Age. specializing in its ow n br and of h istory. a rt, a nd culture. T here a re othe r ways o f looking at Savannah, too. Th er e's th e ca refree da ytim e Savann ah, th e adventu ro us nighttime Savann ah , th e ma n's merch ant c ity. th e wo ma n' s shopp ing mecc a, a nd th e gentle tow nsh ip th at is a ch ild's p a radise of lazy su mme r da ys. But th e key to it all is th e way Historic Facto r's Walk g i ves a v isitor a rare v ie w of th e City of Savannah and Savannah Ha rbo r. Gener al J am es Edwa rd Og lethorpe look ed at th e co astal wilde rne ss when he la nded in Fe bruary o f 1733 with a gro up of E nglishme n who were to becom e the first per ma nent sett lers o f Geor gia . Gen eral Oglethorpe e nv isioned a city with a n orderly syste m of squa res a nd park s. T od ay, Savann ah is ju st that , and histor y co nsciou s citizens wouldn 't th ink of cha nging it. Du rin g th e yea rs, th e streets aro und the pa rks h ave all been widen ed to acc o mm od ate th e inc reas ingly heavy tr affic, b ut th e par ks the mselves have re ma ined un touched . Graced with giant sha de t rees, gush ing founta ins a nd a uste re mon ume nts, th e co mfor table pa rk be nche s are filled with reflect ive old men , rom anti c young co uples, fri sk y ch ildr en, a nd a host of hungr y pigeo ns who are for ever n ibbling han do uts of popco rn and peanut s. Th e pa rks in Savan nah arc surro unde d by many s igns of h istory which local resident s h ave been ju st as ada ma nt a bo ut pr eser ving. M o re than a th ousand o f the 18th and 19th Ce ntury struc ture s have been deemed " histo rically significant " and almo st 800 have been resto red to th eir origina l beaut y and style. Th e co nstruction now un der way to restore th e rest is a goo d match fo r the buildin g act ivity taking place in the co mplete ly new sectio ns of th e cit y. A mong so me of the most famou s of these str uct ures a re the Green- Page 25 Th e G re en -Me ld rim House in Sa va nna h served as headqua rte rs fo r G ene ra l W . T. S h e rm a n du rin g th e Civ il Wa r. Meldri m Hou se , the O wen s-Th om as House. th e D avenport House, and the J ul iette Gordon Low H om e. An exee ptio na l exa mple o f V ictorian Got hic a rch itecture, th e Green-Me ld rim Hom e was the pe rso nal headqu ar ters of Gener al W illia m T. Sherm an d uri ng th e occ up atio n of Sava nn ah following hi s famo us M ar ch to the Sea in 1864. T he Owens-T homa s House is th e most bea utifu l exa mple of E nglish Regen cy a rch itecture in A mer ica. Designed by Willi am J ay a nd built 18 16- 181 9 , the hou se features indi rect ligh ting, curv ed wa lls a nd doo rs. a nd a b rid ge to th e up stai rs hall. T he M arq u is de Lafayett e staye d ther e on h is visit to th is cou ntry in 182 5. Isa iah Davenport, master bu ilde r of Savann ah , built th e D avenp o rt House 18 15- 1820. Of late Geo rgian architectur e. th e house rank s amo ng th e grea t Georgi a n hou ses of A merica. Its drawings are kept on file at the Librar y o f Congress . Now a Gi rl Scout p rogra m ce nte r an d mus eum fo r me morabi lia. th e Ju liett e Gordo n Low Hom e in Sava nnah was bu ilt by Wi lliam J ay. H und reds of tourists a nd sco uts fl ock the re every yea r to pay tribu te to th e arc hitec t. and to M rs. Low, the found er of the Girl Scouts of A merica . T ours of Savann ah a re popul ar. too. Th er e's a 17-m ile dri ving tour. a wa lking tou r a ro und th e cit y pro per. a nd lighted eve ning tours each spring. Visitors to Savann ah wa nder to the wa ter front almo st as soo n as they a rr ive. T here o ne may see Fac tor's Wa lk. th e p lace wher e. in days of old. co mmerc ial age nts met to excha nge business; the Og letho rpe Ben ch whe re th e founder is sa id to have sat a nd pondered h is plan for the city; a nd th e Wash ingto n G uns, two bro nze ca nno ns which were captured from Co rn wa llis at Yor ktown a nd presented to th e C ha tham A rti llery by the nati on 's first pr esiden t. Along R ive r Street. between F ac tor's Wal k a nd the river itself. are man y un ique a nd colorfu l restau ra nts and bars. in add ition to th e Sh ips of the Sea M ariti me Mu seum . M oored nea rb y is the C ruz del Sur. a sa iling ship meticu lou sly restor ed to tempt presen t-d ay p irates o f all ages. A no the r favorite haun t for men of the sea is the Pirates' Hou se. a 200-year-o ld structure through wh ich th e gho st of Ca pta in F lint o f "T rea sure Island" is sa id to h ave roam ed . A gour met restaura nt now specializing in coa stal di shes, th e Pirates' Hou se is just o ne of th e man y outsta nd ing ea ting esta blishment s in Savann ah. A ll serve delicious entrees, and man y have atmosph eres ju st as intrigu ing, lik e, fo r exa mp le, th e co tto n wareh ouse and the o ld city mar ket wh ich h ave both been turn ed into restau rant s. Th e T ru stees' G arden, located adjac ent to th e P irat es' Hou se, was esta blished as the first eco no m ic ga rden in the wo rld . It was beg un by the colon ists and nurtured imm en se ag ricultura l ex perime nts with p la nts and her bs fro m all over the world. Th e garden 's most famo us p roducts were the fam ed cotton and peac h crops wh ich la id th e ba sis fo r Georgia's ea rly economy . With a h istor y dati ng back to th e ea rliest pe riod of Colon ial tim es, it' s not suprising th at Sava nnah is full of forts. F ive of th em a re now ope n to touri sts, and Fort Pul aski , th e first fort to be fired up on by rifled cann on in 1862 , is a photograph er 's delight. Loc at ed o n Co ckspur Island . it is bet ween th e C ity of Sava nnah a nd Savanna h Beach . Steeped in t radition th ough it is. Sava nn ah is no t all h istory. Th e city will soo n h ave a $7. 5 mill ion civic ce nte r with a symphony hall , a sports a re na , ban quet ro oms, and displ ay a reas . A ir por t tr affic is swelling, activ ity at th e port is grea te r th an eve r, a nd indu stri alists arc looking towa rd th e city with imp ressive plan s for the future. But through it all, sem i-trop ical Savannah, festoo ned in moss and lavish ly decor ated in laurels of th e pa st, will rem ain a special k ind of city. Her pop ul ace will see to it. P age 26 P.O. Box 38097 Atlanta. Georgia 30334 BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE ::::---~-2P A I D A~Qu1s1tlons Divis10n University of Georgia Llb~~rla9 UNl ViR3ITY OF GEOR-GlA thens, Georgia 3J6)1 Washington-WIlkes Unl-que Air Terminel The newly dedicated a ir terminal in Wash ington features cedar sh ingles, handmade brick chimneys, and a breezy front porch . It is actually an 18th century Georgia farmhouse which was moved to the airport from the backwoods of Oglethorpe County. Through j ( lt~ lt, ~ IJ\ _____ ~ ~ ~ ~l ~ \ t~ '" Georgia Whether it peeks mischievo usly from th e makings Th en, in one split-second of fascinating of a wait ing bon fire o r grins broad ly fro m th e art ist ry, th e melodi c voice begins to swell to happy face of a Harvest moon , Geo rgia's fall cresce ndo with th e sweet scarlets and playful message is always th e same . . . purples of magnificent persimm on, sassafras, Foll ow me. black gum, and sumac-filled for ests. As if in monum ental gest ure to the yea r which is about to leave us, Georgi a takes each of the last dying months and turn s th em into a rage o f bri ll iant co lor. Against a background of rolling mountains and hillside st reams, Georgi a's beauty is a whisper hich echoes a th ousand time s over as th e sycamore, yellow popl ar, sweet birch, and elm spread rays of golden loveliness across th e tawny land scape. Fart her along the way, where t he landscape begins to flatten, a sea of lush pines sways with Georgi a's message, which has again become a whisperin g beauty, gent ly trippin g th rou gh coo l green pastures and long, lonely fields. Here, the trees no lo nger fo rm a partn ership o f color , but are an island unto th emselves, proud ly displaying a splotch of chest nut bron ze here, and bow ing graciously with a touch of tup elo red th ere. Page 3 LESTER MADDOX Governor of Georgia GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE LT. GE NE RA L LOUIS W. TRUMAN , U. S. AR MY ( R ET. ) Ex e cutive Direct o r BOARD OF COMM ISSIONERS OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE JULIU S F. BIS HO P, Ch a irm an At hen s, Ge or gia T enth Distri ct JO H N K. PORTER, Vi ce Ch airm an At lanta , Georgia Fo urth Distri ct KIRK SUTLIVE Sav ann ah , Georgi a Fir st Distr ict ALEX S. BOYER, JR. Sy lvani a, Georgia Fir st District B. T . BURSON Ca m illa, Ge orgi a Se cond Distr ict J. E. PARKERSON Ti fton , Georgia Se cond Distri ct ALLE N M. WOODA LL , JR . Colu mbus , Geo rgia Thi rd Distr ict W. T. ROB ERTS Montezum a , Georgia Th ird District CONRAD J. SECHLER Tu c ker , Georgia Fou rt h Distr ict E. A. YATES , Jr. Atl anta , Georgia Fifth Dist ric t T HOMAS J. WESLEY, J R. Atl anta , Georgia Fifth Distr ict JO HN R. HI NES , SR . Ho gansville , Geo rgia Si xth Dist rict R. J. SC HOE RNER Carrol lt on , Georg ia Sixth Dist ri ct JO H N P. PICKETT Ced artown, Georgi a Seventh Distr ict WALTER E. GRA HAM Mari etta, Georgia Se vent h Distri ct BUDDY M. NeSM ITH Co chran, Georgia Eighth Dist ric t A. W. JONES , JR. Sea Isla nd , Georgi a Eighth Distri ct W. R ICHARD ACRE E Toccoa , Ge orgia Ninth Distri ct RA LPH W. CLE VELAND Gainesvi lle , Geo rgia Ninth Distr ict WIL LIAM A. PO P E Was hingto n, Georgia Tenth Dist rict Page 4 EORGIA rogress CONTENTS ViEWPOINT 5 SPECIAL FEATURES Round Pegs in Round Holes 9 Pete 12 Claxton Takes the Cake 14 The Perfect Vacation 26 FEATURES Savannah on the Move 6 Agribusiness is the Answer 16 A12 0 3: The Great Debate 17 Georgia Babies Had to Wait 18 DEPARTMENTS Growing Georgia 20 Tour Georgia 22 Control Tower 24 GEORGIA SCOPE News at a Glance 25 PHOTO STORY Follow Fall Through Georgia 3 ABOUT THE COVER Georgia' s new ly ele cted to p gove rnment offic ials a re the su bjec t s of th e co ve r of thi s iss ue or Georgia Progress. Pict ured s ho rt ly af te r th ey we re declared winn e rs in th e Nov ember Gen er al Ele ct ion , Governor-e lect Jim my Ca rte r an d Lieu t en ant Governo r-elec t Les te r Maddox will team u p in I an uary to provide t he leade rshi p for t he s t ate d ur ing t he next fo u r yea rs. MAGAZINE STAFF ED SPIVIA Managing Editor HANNA LEDFORD Assistant Editor WILM A BURNS Artist PHOTO CREDITS Ed S p ivia an d Tourist Divis ion, Depar tment of Indu stry an d Trad e. Published Quarterly by the Georgia Departm ent of Ind ustry and Trade Print ed by Nationa l Graphics, Inc. Volum e VI, Number Four NOVEMBER 1970 by H. W. Wil ey Director, Industry Division Georgia Departm ent of Industry and Trade Georgia communities which have been most successful in acquiring new manufacturin g payrolls within th e past few years have one thi ng in common strong, solid community leadership. In every plant location project, company officials ask themselves two quest ions: Wh ere can our plant make the most profit and which community will provide both the business and personal climat e best suited to our needs? The att itu de of everyo ne in the community, particularly the at titude of local leadership, provides th e answer to both of these question s. Take, for example, the comment of an industrialist who recently located his company in Mill edgeville. He said, " We locat ed here because the people of Milledgeville demonstrated by their attitude that they wanted us." Communities which genuinely want new industr y are those which are willing to acquire options on industrial sites and provide these sites with wate r, sewerage, and other public utilities, and are anxious to assist the industry acquire financing, labor , and housing. Moreover, these communit ies are able to project a local climate that is health y fo r industry. Industr ial prospects invariably contact executives of existing plants before making the final decision to locat e their own plants. If the local leadership has not exte nded a helping hand to the existing industry in th e form of assistance with financing for expansions, providing equitable taxes, or by finding the people to adequately staff present industries, the commun ity cannot count on the local executives of industry to speak well of it. If, on th e ot her hand, local leadership has fostered friendl y relations with existing industr y, officials of these plant s can be among the best salesmen in the communi ty. They do not fear comp etition from a new payroll, and they believe the community can easily sustain additional industrial growth . Atti tudes like these, however, do not develop overnight. They are the product of years of effort o n the part of several dedicat ed men who are prepared to overcome every obstacle that comes in the path of progress. . In many cases, concern over declining census figures, the migration of young people, and th e lack of job opportu nit ies at home have been incentives for strong community leadership. In large cities, this leadership has taken the fo rm of active Chambers of Comm erce and special committees, like the Committee of 100. In smaller commun ities it has ofte n been an informal group, consisting of half-a-dozen or more influential businessmen who have ta ken the initiative to prepare the community for new industr y. In all cases, these groups have been the cornersto nes of success, serving as a found at ion for all of the ot her building blocks necessary for industrial developm ent. Page 5 SAVA ON THE If the way the Past has t reate d the City of Sava nna h is any indic ati o n of th e way the Seven ti es will han dl e it, th ere's a brigh t future in sto re for th e people who live, work and vacation there. Alread y, " Histo ric Savannah " , with its capti vating co bblestone stree ts and sta t ue-lade n city squ ar es, is racin g tow ard its 238 t h year with a n indu stri al vigor th at is matched by few ot he r Am erican cit ies. A fitting heir to th e significant events th at have ch aracteri zed Savannah 's place in th e a nna ls of Geor gia 's histo ry, t his re ma rka ble indu stri al vigor has endo wed the cit y wi th t he wo rld 's lar gest pap er mill , o ne of th e largest suga r ref ine ries in th e South east, a nd o ne of the nat ion 's most imp or tan t sea po rt s. From th e days of its fo u nd ing in 17 33 wh en Gen eral Jam es Edw ard Ogleth orpe a nd his English fo llowers land ed in th e wilg ern ess th at was to becom e th e f irst city of Geor gia, Savann ah has been "o n th e move" . It was here, du ring t he ear ly years of th e co lo ny, t hat Geo rgia 's famo us peach a nd cotto n crops were first intr oduced. Th e handsom e Savann ah Cotton Exch an ge Building, now t he hom e of th e Savannah Area Ch amber of Commerc e, sta nds as an impressive remind er of th e days wh en Cotton was King and th e city was th e tr ading center fo r th e seco nd largest cotton a nd naval sto res ma rk et in th e world. Tod ay, Savann ah is the heart of the Coastal Empire, a nd serves some 500,000 peopl e iil Georgi a a nd South Carolin a. Savann ah boasts 210 diversified indu stri al a nd manu factu ring esta blishmen ts, a nd is t he hub of bu sin ess a nd cult ura l act ivit ies fo r severa l nearb y militar y installations including Hun ter Army Air Field in Savann ah , Fort Stewart 40 miles to t he sou th west near Hinesville, t he Marin e Corps Recruit Dep ot at Parris Island , So ut h Car olin a, and th e Marin e Air St ati on at Beaufort, South Car olin a. Lumber, pap er, a nd che m icals are th e Page 6 chief produ cts th at co me fro m Savannah 's indu strial arena. Th e sout h Geo rgia acreage of magnifice nt pin e and har d wood resou rces surro u nd ing Savann ah give bir th to t he city's lumber and pa per indu stry a nd now play a majo r ro le in t he local c he mica l indu str y. Chi ef pap er produ ct s are kraft pap er, pap er bags, kraft liner board and contain ers, whil e lumber production is vari ed , with th e prin cipal finished products bein g plywood and pre-finished pan eling and wood en box es. Most of th e rou gh lumber produced locally is destined for th e lar ge Eur op ean mark et eas ily acce ssible through th e Savann ah port. Th e real giant in th e pap er indu stry is th e Union Camp Corpor ation, whi ch maintain s the world's largest pulp- toco ntainer plan t o n t he o uts kirts of t he city. Seven pap er machines wh ich are eac h as lon g as a n average city block daily turn o ut over 3,000 to ns of pap er and pap er-board . Empl oyment curre ntly averages over 5,000, with an annual pay roll of approx ima te ly $39 milli on. Union Camp became th e first paper mill in th e world to reach the millionton level in produ ction in one year in 1966 when it produ ced a recor d of 1,001 ,202 tons o f paper and paperboard at the Savannah plant. Fertilizers, rosins, titan ium dioxide, aluminum sulfate , sulphuric acid, paint, asphalt compounds and household chemicals are the major produ cts of Savannah' s chemical indu stry. Two fact ors-the turp entin e and gum rosin produc ers' dependenc y on forest resources, and th e ferti lizer plants' reliance on waterborne, raw mater ial imports- have made Savannah t he natural sett ing for rapid grow th in the chemical indust ry. In 1969 alone, American Cyanamid Company estimat ed it would spend more than five million dollars on an expansion at its titan ium dioxide manu factu ring plant in Savan nah. Ot her indu strial ex pansion taking place last year in Savannah included a $1,0 00,000 addition at Gru mman Ae r0 s p ace Corpo ration, a major $3,000,000 addition to th e pine plywood plant at the Geor gia Pacific Corporat ion, and a $3,000 ,000 industrial waste treatm ent plant at Union Point. Sub stantial additions have also been completed at Sears Roebuck and Company warehouse facilities, th e Derst Baking Comp an y, Lowe's Comp anies, Hixon Bat tery, Abbott and Bridges, Savannah Electri c and Power Compan y, and th e Pure Oil Com pany. All of this constructio n too k place last year in the shadow of a $20 million, thr ee year improvement pla n at Savann ah Harbor, and th e construction of a nine million dollar ult ra- modern, two berth dry bul k handling facility at the Georgia Ports Auth ority. Both improvements, designat ed for completion in 1971, are expected to have a posit ive effect on the tremendous volume of port commerce th at daily passes through Savannah Harb or. Presently, th e principal exports of clay, wood pulp , pap er-board a nd paper produ ct s, naval sto res, iron and steel scra p, machin ery, oil seeds, and vegetable oils, and major imports of residual fuel oil, gypsum, and raw sugar flow in and out of th e harb or at the rat e of $1,000,000 a day. Th e city's newest manu facturer, L. B. Foster Comp an y, has recently complet ed const ruct ion of a pipe plant at th e Garden City Terminals of th e Georgia Ports Authority at a cost of approximately $800,000. The plant, which employs about 25 people, will Exports and imports valued at $1,000,000 flow in and out of the Savann ah Harb or daily. - ..... -- ... Page 7 ON THE MOVE be shipping pipe to several foreign mar kets and all points in the Sout h. The Savannah Port Auth ority , created by the Georgia General Assembly for the purpose of conducting a program of industrial and port development , reports that some 100 indust rial sites are available with many o n; or near, deep water terminals. Several miles from the cent er of this busy downtown hub lies yet anot her drawing card for industry. Ofte n called Savannah 's newest front ier, the Ocean Science Cent er of the Atlantic Commission is the South's first serious att empt to explore the unt apped resources of the ocean and investigate the development of sea oriented industry. The center's 680 -acre site sits on a highland fronting Wilmington and Skidaway Rivers. Its Skidaway Institute of Research, a part of the Uni- versity System of Georgia, is equipped with an ultramodern aquaculture labora tory . As for th e center itself, construct ion of a deep wat er terminal with ocean access is now und er way. This facility, coupled with an industri al research park which is now being planned, promises to launch the City of Savannah, as well as th e Stat e of Georgia, into an exciting new era of industr ial technology and ex ploration. The Savannah Sugar Refining Corporation, above, manufactures the famous Dixie Crystals brand of granulated sugar. The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, right, is headquartered in the old Cotton Exchange Building in downtown Savannah. Page 8 the commu nity development organizatio n. "Before a communit y sets its sights on a particular ty pe of industry, it would be well if it looked into its available labor capabilities. For example, a communit y with a large female labor force should try for a ty pe of industry that would use primarily female laborsuch as a clot hing manu factur er or an electronic assembly plant." Reed also commented on site development. "Site selection is becoming more and more sophisticated. Industry is becoming more concerned about zoning pro t ec t ion and ot her restrict ive feat ures which are vital to good, modern, and profitab le operatio nsinclud ing water and air quality sta ndards." "Transporta tion is another area with which communi ty leaders should become thoroughly familiar," Gladn ey said. " Local people should know exactly what truck lines serve them, and they should be aware of the importance of access roads to good highways and interstate systems. All of these facto rs are important, and as John Gilliland has said, it takes businessmen who have the time to devote to industrial developm ent, and men who are willing to work diligently for the bett erment of all the community. " Also, I believe commun ities which can afford to should hire full-time professional developers to guide their efforts," Gladney said. " We could give you a large numb er of cities in Georgia that have professional eco nomic developers, chamber of commerce managers, committees of 100, etc., that are doing an outsta nding job in industr ial development, and you can detect this immediate ly by observing the central business district and the resident ial areas of these cities." " This full-time professional can do much to help th e community development organization communicate with the ot her citizens of the city," interjected Michael Easterly. Page 10 Public Utiliti es Fair Ta xation Su itabl e Sites Labor Facts Rec reati on Fac ili ti es A ttractive D owntown Adequ ate H o usi ng Financing LEADERSHIP "The Cornerstone of Industrial Growth" "T he local peo ple must be so ld on t he ir commu nity, t hey mu st be kept informed of what the develo pm ent gro up is atte mpting to do, if an industrial develo pment effort is to act ua lly succeed," East erl y explaine d. " Once a co mmun ity acqui res adeq uate sites, t he re rem ains t he need to pr ovide high qu ali ty ed uca tio n and adequa te rec rea tio nal a nd medical fac ilities for t he peopl e who will be moving in with new ind ust ry. available sites, fine ex isting indu str ies, att rac tive residen tial areas, a nd adeq uat e recr eati on al fac ilit ies. " To ur participa nts , in additio n to my colleagues f rom t he dep ar tm ent, were r ep r e sent ati ves of the Geo rgia Chamber of Commerce, Georgia T ech, and various utili ties, railr oad s, a nd ban ks which have industri al developmen t dep artmen ts-in othe r word s, all th e peo ple who are most likely to co me in co nt act with t he indus trial prospect firs t. " I ca n t hi nk of no better way to inform stat e-wide ind ust rial devel op ers of local reso urces, and I highl y recommend to urs of this t ype to co mmun it ies whi ch are genuinely interested in getting t he ir message to prospecti ve new industry," Cornell co ncluded . " Once yo u get th e enti re co mmunity involved , many t hings will fall into plac e rather naturall y . . . but co mmuniti es sho uld no t be deceived by thi s. Th ey mu st rem ember t ha t co mmuni ty lead ership is ac t ua lly th e ingredient th a t mak es th ese ro und pegs fit into round holes," Easterl y caut ioned. Lee Euba nks ca lled city beautificati on an exa mp le of a co mmunity wor king togeth er. " There ar e a number of Ge or gia co rnmu nities which at o ne time had ru ndown bu sin ess dist ricts th at are now quite att ractive. Mo re th an any thing else, clea n citi es sho w th e indu stri alist th at th e peopl e are energet ic, receptive to ch an ge, a nd th at th ey are striving to ma ke th eir cit y a better a nd mor e att ract ive place in whi ch to live a nd to rear th eir families." Once th e co mmunity has acco mplished th e tas ks necessary to prep are it fo r new ind ust ry, it is a goo d id ea to invite state-wide indu strial develop ers to co me a nd lo o k th e co mmunity over. Glenn Cornell descr ibes tours of thi s ty pe in which he has particip ated. " I have been o n som e very e nlightening to urs in several Geor gia cit ies recently. Most of th em had good WHAT 100 NEW MANUFACTURING JOBS CAN MEAN TO A COMMUNITY An increase in popul ation of 360 100 new households 91 more school childr en $410,000 increase in personal Income $229 ,000 increase in bank deposits $331,000 in retail sales 3 more retail outlets 65 industry rel ated jobs u. Courtesy S. Chamber of Commerce Page 11 PETE an artist at work If all you had to do to get a National Basketball Association championship was to set your sights on one, Atlanta's Pete Maravich would have 22 of them by now. But, playing professional ball is quite a contrast to playing college ball, and it requires adjustments for even the best of players. No one knows this better than Pete Maravich. "When you play basketball all your life, you have to pinpoint one lifetime goal .. . that goal, for me," says Maravich, "is winning the championship." Suprisingly, Maravich, the 22-year-old super-star who led the nation's colleges in scoring three times, was an all American three times, and was voted college basketball player of the year last season, hasn't been on a championship team since he was in high school. "These Hawks are real professionals. They have been playing together as a team' quite a while, and they have their system worked out. I'm going to have to learn to play with them as well as to learn to play against other professionals," Maravich said. Although he has made his reputation as an outstanding shooter, Pete's number one asset, as far as the Hawks are concerned, is his passing and ball handling ability, which a Hawk spokesman has described as 'fantastic'. "Pistol-Pete", as the fans call him, readily concedes that the reported million dollar contract he signed with the Atlanta Hawks has been somewhat of a consolation, but sheepishly adds, "I hope I'm going to be part of a team that wins the NBA championship this year. I know I'm going to do my portion and contribute what I can toward it." With his 11 NCAA records, 16 South eastern Conference marks, and 22 school records, few doubt that Maravich will do just that. Having scored 3,667 points for a career average of 44.2 per game while playing three years under his coach father at Louisiana State University, Maravich is expected to be the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year honors this season. A great crowd pleaser, Pete has always "packed 'em in" wherever he has played and this year's Hawks schedule, with more than half of the home games falling on the weekend, is practically tailor-made to fit his popularity. And his popularity is practically tailormade to enhance Georgia's tourist trade. Not only will the Hawks benefit, at the gate, from having the Pistol, but so will the City of Atlanta and the State of Georgia. Those who come to watch him on the court will undoubtedly take in some of Atlanta's numerous other attractions during their visit, and while it is impossible to determine just how much a star like Pete Maravich can bring in additional tax revenues, it is true that before the season started, an increase in ticket sales had been attributed largely to Pete's having joined the team. Now that the season is a month under way, Atlantans who have been pulling for a new coliseum for the Hawks are convinced that the Pistol's popularity will be a factor in their favor. If Maravich has any knowledge, or is even aware, of this side of his popularity, he's not talking about it. "All they tell me to do is to play basketball. Of course, I know th ere's some talk about a coliseum, and it would certainly be great for the team and the City of Atlanta for other events, as well, but promoting it is not part of my job," Maravich added. "My job is to help win the championship for Atlanta." The 6 foot 5 inch Louisianian, who carries a bit of the brogue of the Carolinas where he spent his childhood, is pleased with his new Georgia home. "I was real happy when the Hawks drafted me. I strongly wanted to play with a team in the South . "Atlanta is a 'baby' right now,as far as basketball is concerned, but each year the fans seem to g~t more and more enthusiastic about the game and our team .. . "And the guys on the team have a real fine attitude-they .want a championship, too!" Page 13 CLAXTON TAKES THE CAKE The day Albert Parker decided that food is th e Number One Gift Item is the day that the Old Fashion Claxt on Fruit Cake began making friends all over the world. The affable Claxto n baker recalls that when people in his homet own began giving fruit cakes to each other for Christmas, he realized how popu lar gifts of food act ually are, and although Page 14 he doesn't admit it, Parker must have had at least an inkling of how famous his cake wou ld become, fo r today he proudl y advertises it as the Number One Food Item. The Old Fashion Claxto n Fruit Cake is, indeed, sold internati onally by civic clubs, church groups, and many other non profit organizations at the rate of six and one half million tons a year. In ord er to keep up with the demands, Parker and his crew of bakers, which number 75 at the height of the season, produc e 43 to ns of fruit cake every day. At least one piece of that daily baking is consumed by Parker himself, who vividly remembers th e days when he used to despair over his bakery because it was suffering from compet ition from larger manufacturers. Established in 1910 by an Italian immigrant, the Claxton Bakery specialized in candy and ice cream. " I wor ked there as a kid. Then the business seemed prett y good, but when I acquired it in 1945, it was fighting an uphill battle as a general bakery, so I decided to try my hand at old fashioned fruit cakes," Parker explains. He said he spent a considerable amount of time trying to find the right trademar k fo r his new product. " I knew I wanted to use a horse and buggy to illustrat e the 'old fashioned' part, but I couldn't seem to find the right pictur e. I searched and searched through the local library and finally decided upon the one we now use." He was referring, of course, to the familiar horse and buggy that still ride faithfully across the front of the red str iped package of each Old Fashion Claxton Fruit Cake. " I've changed the actual size of the package to make it easy for mailing, but I've never changed that trademark, and I doub t if I ever will," said Parker. He spoke in a tone of gratitude for the millions of friends and satisfied customers his business has brought him over the past 25 years. AGRIB USINESS IS THE ANSWER By Thomas Irwin, Commissioner Georgia Department of Agriculture Georgia is blessed with the climate, soil, and people necessary to prod uce a large portio n of the food consumed with in th e sta te, yet Georgians are act ually produ cing only a small percentage of t his food . And, ironically, much of what Georgia does produc e is shipped outside the stat e for processing and th en shipped back into the state for consumption. One would never suspect th at Georgia is the Peach State by loo king at the average shelves in Georgia supermarkets, because th ere are as many cans of peaches on sale from California and Indiana as fro m Georgia. A recent survey on canned and frozen fruits and vegetables in three major supermarket chains in the greate r Atlanta area show that more turnip greens and collards came from Texas, Arkansas, and Indiana, more sweet potatoes from North Carolina, Alabama, and even Illinois-in fact, more of virt ually all of the major foods sold in these stores-came from outside of Georgia. It has been estimated that th e South cou ld save $32 million annually in beef produ ction costs alone by merely shipping corn into Georgia from the Midwest, instead of shipping cattl e to the Midwest for feeding and then shipping the animal, or processed meat, back to Georgia for consumpti on. Based on these facts, it is evident that one of the great est needs in Georgia today is the development of a better food processing industry so th at more of the food crops produc ed in Georgia can be processed in Georgia. The location of more agribusiness in rural areas of the state will strength en the state's agricultu ral potentia l by offe ring new and expanded market s for Georgia agricultural products, and by creating new markets for new prod ucts Georgians are already capab le of producing. New agribusiness in Georgia will also broaden the tax base in the. state's rural areas, providing more funds for local services, and reducing freight costs the Georgia consumer now pays on many products he buys, th us helping to narrow th e inflationary gap between the price the Georgia farmer actually gets for his product and the price the consum er pays for it. In the final analysis, the location of new agribusiness in Georgia will help to stem the migration of rural citizens to urban areas by offe ring new local opportunities for employ ment. If rural Georgians are given the opportunity to retain their rural way of life, and at the same time increase th eir standards of living, thr ough rural, industrial employment, the entire State of Georgia will great ly benefit. Georgia is the number one peanut produ cing state in the nation, yet Georgia processes less than 20 percent of its own peanut crop. Georgians ship peanuts to New Yor k, Cleveland, and Philadelphia to be processed, and th en purchase th e finished peanu t product after it has been shipped back to Georgia for sale. Although tr emendous strides have been made in livestock produ ction in Georgia and the South recently, only a portion of the finished beef and pork consumed is produ ced here. Less than 20 percent of Georgia's peanut crop is processed here. Page 16 THE GREAT DEBATE Can Georgia kaolin reserves, which are rich in alumina, the aluminum oxide (A 12 0 3) that yields aluminum, serve as a pract ical replacement for bauxite, presently the world's chief source of aluminum? Officials of the Georgia Department of Industr y and Trade and the Georgia Institute of Technology explored this question recent ly by inviting members of the aluminum industry and members of the kaolin industry to a daylong seminar on the Georgia Tech Campus in Atlanta. Wi lli Gutmann, a Swiss sculpto r, chose "The Big One" as the name for this wor k 0 anodized aluminum at Atlant a's Peachtr ee Cent er. The lovely model is Diane Kent, a member of the staff of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Those atte nding the conference confirmed the conjecture that two major factors- the dwindling bauxite reserves in America, and the vulnerability of foreign bauxite supplies- have prompted a technological search for development of better and more economical domestic sources of alumina, and that many American companies are in the process of investigating the possibility of kaolin as a substitute. However, there are prob lems which must be overcome before kaolin can replace bauxit e as the prime source of alumina. Kaolin yields less aluminum per to n than bauxit e and it costs more to ext ract aluminum from kaolin than it does to ext ract aluminum from bauxite. Some of this differential will be made up by lower transportation costs for kaolin as compared to th e costs of shipping bauxit e from a foreign country, but this facto r alone will not make kaolin an economical substitute for bauxite. The Alumina Seminar sought to establish ot her means of making kaolin more competitive as a source of aluminum, such as more equita ble deplet ion allowances, tax credits for constr uction and research, and sales tax exemptions for energy as well as improved tec hno logy. Georgians at th e conference expressed a desire to see some of these measures approved so that the state's billions of tons of kaolin can be used for the purpose of ext racting alumina. Page 17 .~"r:.... / ,.J ~f' .\ ,; \ '\ ~\ i '" -. \I II {l / ..... ....... '.... , . 'I }. GEORGIA BABIES HAD TO WAIT Bein g th e exe m plary English no bleman that he is, the Lo rd of th e Manor Neath Cit ra was not about to let t he child re n of his na tive land sett le fo r second best. Upon reading abo ut a newl y pate nte d b ab y bottl e th at was abo u t to be produ ced in Geo rgia, th e Lo rd of th e Man o r Neath Citr a, who a lso do ub les as Ro nald Gou ld and an execut ive of t he fa mil y-ow ned Go uld Pharmacies, Limited , of Liverpool , imme diately pu t in a tr an satlan ti c ca ll to William Rice, vice pres ide nt of th e Co recto Page 18 Divisio n of Fitt s Cotton Goods of At lanta. Rice recen tl y reca lled th e text of t hat co nversatio n. " I was deeply invol ved in developin g a sales pr ogr am fo r t he United States a nd getting adeq uate sam ples of th e bottle off t he asse mbly line whe n I rece ived Lo rd Gould 's cal l. " Alt ho ugh I was d elighted to hear that he was interes te d in our new pro d uct, I explained to hi m t hat it would be several mon th s befor e t he bo ttl e wo uld be on t he Amer ica n ma rket," Rice said. Appare nt ly, th ese rem ar ks did not d iscourage Lord Gould in th e least , fo r he soo n arrived in Atl anta to d iscu ss mar keting' a nd manu facturing righ ts to t he new bo ttle. S ar a H a slett, in tern ation al trade special ist for t he At lanta office of t he U. S. Dep artm ent o f Co mmerce, a nd Jac k Welsh, internatio na l rep resentat ive fo r th e Geo rgia Dep artmen t of Indu stry and T rad e, wer e ca lled in to help iro n o u t t he d et ails, wh ich arc now neatl y t ied toget her in wh at is kn ow n as a " lice nsing agree men t" between Go uld Pharmacies a nd Fi tts Cotton Good s. It would be several mo nths, ho wever, before Gould co u ld pr ep ar e th e necessar y mold s and begin produ cti on in En gland , but he could , and did , begin mar keting r ight away from shipments Rice su pplied. "We we re capab le of man ufactu ring as man y as 200,000 bottl es a week , a nd o ur produ cti on has d oubl ed t hat no w, bu t t hen , we did no t have t he pro per packaging ava ilable, so we co uld no t ente r th e market here in A mer ica," Rice said. In the me ant ime , Ge orgia bab ies had to wait for a beneficial new product th at was invented and manufactured in th eir o wn sta te . Der iving its nam e from th e fact th at it act ua lly helps correct infant feeding pro blems, t he Corecto Nurs er has an angle nec k w hich per mits t he infan t to be in a n upright, rat he r tha n a supi ne, pos it io n t hrougho ut th e feed ing peri od . According to H. A. Th orn t on , th e Gr een sbor o ped iatrician wh o invented th e bo ttl e, " The su pine position of th e infan t durin g bo ttl e fee d ing resul ts in fo rce d fee d ing and ca uses t he infan t to st ra ngle, gulp, a nd swa llo w air. Th is pro duces cryi ng, co lic, a nd chro nic sp itting, and in some cases, a serious ea r ai lme nt which req uires surgery." Straight Neck Bottle Angl ed Nec k Bottl e Nip ple NOT Dep endent , Co mparable to Breast .--_ .- . -~ ' ~ ===; :- Fitts Cotton Good s, wh ich has bee n man ufactu ri ng bab y di ap ers at its Gr een sbo ro mill fo r th e past 34 year s, was the logical place for Th ornton to ta ke his inve nt ion. " We began institu tin g pat ent proced ures o n t he Cor ee to Nurse r in t he mid -sixti es, abo ut th e same tim e hospital resear ch was bein g cond ucte d o n it. Since th en , we ha ve acqu ired worldwid e rights to t he manu facture of th e bottl e. We ret a in Dr. Th ornton as o ur co ns ulta nt, " Rice said. "This bo ttl e is also t he fi rst plastic bottl e t o go o n the mar ket t hat ca n be heat ed u p to 300 degrees. Earlie r plastic mod els co uld not be ste rilized ," Rice adde d. T he Corecto Nu rser, inci de nta lly, is no w available, in plastic a nd glass, to bab ies all over Ge org ia a nd most o f the Sou th east. Pictu red discussing marketing details fo r th e Cor eeto Nur ser are, left to righ t, Sara Haslett , U.S. Dep artment o f Commerce, Rob ert E. Britt , presid ent o f Fitts Cott on Go od s, Jac k We lsh, Dep artment o f I ndustry and Tr ade , Lord Ron ald Go uld o f Go uld Phar macies, Dennis Payne of the Britis h Consul ate , and William Rice, vice presiden t of Fitts Co tto n G ood s. He po inted out that t he neck of the Co rect o Nurser is angled so that when t he bo ttl e is inverted for feed ing, the nippl e is hor izon t al at a right angle to t he u prigh t in fant a nd is co m plet ely rem oved fro m t he tota lly dep endent position now seen in th e st raight-nec k bottl es. Page 19 GROWING GEOR - Sun/firs ATLANTA INN One of Atlanta's ta llest high rise office buildings is having growing pains-a nd loving it! A 27-story Stouffer's Inn now under construct ion will ex pand the Life of Georgia Center fro m three to five acres, and exte nd t he one-block site, now bounded by West Peachtree, North Avenue, Spring Street, and Linden Avenue, across Spring Street to the North Expressway. The new hotel, Atla nta's first Stouffer's, and the co untry's tenth, will stand just head and shoulders below its imposing next door neighbor, t he 29-sto ry Life of Georgia Tower. Pedestrian bridges are being planned to connect the hot el and tower. It took six men to break ground for Stouffer's 27-story, SOD-room Atlanta Inn. They are, left to right, Atlanta Vice Mayor Maynard H. Jackson, Charles J. Tucker, president of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, Rankin M. Smith, president of the Life Insurance Company of Georgia, DeNean Stafford of Tifton, general partner of Center Investments, Limited; Robert Bruder, vice president of Litton Industries, and Thomas G. Stouffer, vice president and general manager of Stouffer Restaurant and Inn Division. Page 20 Rising 270 feet from a landscaped plaza which will feature a 9,000-squ are foot exhibit hall, the hot el will be construct ed of cast-in-place concrete to co ntrast wit h the marble facade of the Life of Georgia Tower. One entire floor has been designat ed as a con vention area, while th e floor above it has been planned to feature 28 luxury suites, includin g four with terraces and privat e swimming pools. The hotel will be topp ed with a gourmet restaurant with ceiling-tofloor glass walls providing a spectacu- lar view of the downtow n At lanta skyline. Scheduled for comp letion in mid '72 , t he SOD-room hot el is being built by Cent er Investment s, Limited, with permanent financing by Life Insurance Company of Georgia, owner of the Life of Georgia Cent er. Stou ffer operations already in Atlanta include a street-level restaura nt and the Top of the Mart Restaurant on Peachtree Street and a Grogshop at t he corner of Cain and Ivy Streets. GROWING GEOR Co mmittee of In view of recent events, a small community in south Georgia by the name of Arabi could more appro priately be called "Com mittee of 300" . That' s the number of peop le living in Arabi, and according to Carter McKinney, one of the town's most ardent suppo rte rs, that's how many people pitched in and helped the town get its first industry. "E verybody did his part, and everybody deserves recognition. I guess the reason I was chosen spokesman is because I might have worried folks more than anyo ne else," McKinney declared. He was no doubt referring to th e man y contacts he made this year with offic ials of the Small Business Administration, the Georgia Departm ent of Industry and Trade, and the Governor's Office, in an atte mpt to get aid for his comm unity . "We knew our town was diminishing and we wanted to do somet hing to keep our churches, homes, and businesses. We also knew our water system was inadequate. We had tried to get a grant for an expansion to t he present water system two years before, but Arabi was so small we were not eligible for th e usual Economic Development Administration grants," McKinney explained. "O ur mayor, Bill Green, and members of our city council called a meeting to see what could be done and ended by organizing th e Arabi, Crisp, Turn er Industrial Development Corpora tion (ACT) to serve this immediate area. The name Crisp comes fro m our county and the name Turner comes from our closest neighboring county ," McKinney said. "Besides," he added, "the init ials are an added incentive for us to act to solve our problems." McKinney neglected to mention that he was chosen to serve as the first president of t he organization, which immediately sold debentu res and acquired 22 acres of land for industrial use. "Then we started looking for industry, but we couldn't find any interested in Arabi, so we decided to sta rt an industry on our own," McKinney recalled. " What we actually did was to buy all of the stock in a modular homes firm in Wi nder. During the negotiations, the president of the company passed away, and for a while it loo ked like we were back where we had started," McKinney repo rt ed. By now, however, any chances of Arabi's drift ing backward are slim. State wide Properties, as th e new plant is called, has already brought four additiona l families to Arabi and at least 25 or 30 other families are expected when th e plant reaches full product ion of five houses per day. " It just goes to show what people can do when they all get toget her and push a project," McKinney proudly co ncluded. Page 21 --, Our Town And Welc()me T() It , \ \ } 't~ \ i , 1,1 \ " Tourist-conscious citizens in certain Georgia communities are handing out th eir own special brand of local hospitality these days, with the point of distribution being none other than a specially designed, locally operated, welcome center. Although much of their operation is patt erned aft er the state-owned Georgia Welcome Centers which have been established along the state line, the local welcome centers have a charm all their own. In the resort town of Brunswick, a treasure chest of local places to go and things to do emanates fro m a handsome white brick cottage, while further up the coast, in the fishing village of Darien, travelers are encouraged to ask for directions at the life-size replica of a tugboat which serves as the local welcome cent er. In Dublin, in the middle of the state, the headquarters for travel information is an invitingly rustic cabin nestled in a pine grove near the main highway. These three centers are receiving a porti on of th eir operating funds under a relatively new program sponsored by the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Other centers at Thomasville. Macon, Washington, and Peachtr ee Center in Atlanta, are now under construction and will be eligible for funds when they begin operation. ., I ', ( Page 22 First funded in 1969 by th e Georgia Gen eral Assembly, t he local we lcome center program provides a ppro priatio ns fo r use in co nnectio n with th e o perat ion of local welcom e cen ters which amo u nt to 50 percen t of th e o pera t iona l bud get , not to exceed $5,0 00 for a year 'ro und cente r, and not to exceed $2, 500 for a center opera t ing on a seaso nal basis. Accordin g to Lt. General Loui s W. Trum an, exec utive dir ect or of the Department of Indu str y and Trad e, co mmunities whi ch appl y fo r sta te fund s must meet crite ria befor e the ir a pplica tio ns will be appro ved by memb ers of th e Board of Comm issio ners of th e Dep artment of Indu stry and Tr ad e. For exa mple, local agencies o perat ing local welcom e ce nte rs are respon sible for th e maintenan ce of the building and gro u nds, keeping th em neat and free of refug e at all tim es, and making sure t hat t he general overall appea rance of th e ce nte rs enha nces the best interest s of th e State of Georg ia. " Our purpose is t o assist Geor gia communities in their effor ts to promote tourism in th eir respective areas, but we also have a duty to th e ent ire sta te to see that a favor abl e sta te image is reflec te d at an y of these centers," Gener al T ruman said. " Such local welcom e centers offer great potential for the touri st industry in Georgia. I hop e o t her communities and citi zens th erein will be enco u raged in t heir efforts and will tak e special ste ps to make visito rs to their com mun it ies welcome, " he concluded . Page 23 f >'-,-....,. .""-.. --~ . -'-- -, t.. --:-.-- THE LIST IS LONGER Page 24 Camilla and Cuthbert have recently been added to Georgia's long list of communities which provide paved airport facilities. The two new airports, which are within 70 miles of each other in southwest Georgia, raise the state's total number of paved airports to 105. Located one mile southwest of Camilla on the Bainbridge Highway, Georgia 97, the Camilla-Mitchell County Airport was a turf landing strip until this summer when a $138,340 paving project transformed it. The new paved runway measures 3200 feet by 60 feet and features a taxi area and parking apron. The new runway at the CuthbertRandolph County Airport measures 3200 by 60 feet also, and features a connecting taxiway, apron, and wind cone. It is located approximately five miles south of the City of Cuthbert on U. S. Highway 27. G@IfI~sil@ CC@jp) news at a glance GROCERY CHAIN CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY AIterman Foods, Incorporated, an Atlant a based supermarket chain, marked its 50th anniversary this fall by breaking ground for what has been called the " largest grocery warehouse in the South east" . The 750,000 square foo t, multi-million dollar facility, which will be locat ed in Fulton Industr ial Park, is scheduled for completion next fall. The new warehou se will house the company's business offices, dry grocery stoc k, maint enance garage, and carpenter and refrigeration sho ps. Futu re plans for expansion include the addition of a refrigerated distribution cent er fo r meats, dairy produ cts, frozen foods and produ ce. The Atlantic Preserving Company, a subsidiary of the Alterman Corporation which manufactu res jams, preserves, jellies, mayonn aise, peanut butt er, and relat ed items, will also be locat ed in th is area. Isidore Alterman, the current president and chairman of the company's board of direct ors, said 400 employees will be required to operate the new facility. The company already employs some 3,000 people in the various Big Apple, K-Mart Foods, Food Giant, Big A Drugs, and A. B. C. Stores in the Atlanta area. The Alterman Corporation, which does a $160,000,000 volume of business annually, was sta rted in Atlanta in 1920 when Isidore Alter man, and his fat her, Louis, entered the wholesale business. They esta blished the first Big Apple Supermar ket in 1933 and have since opened 71 sto res. Lt. General Louis W. Truman, executive director of the Georgia Departm ent of Industry and Trade, unearth s the first shovelful at Alterman groundbreaking while Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, looks on. Page 25 Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Mu rray of Long Beach, California are about to discover so me t h ing about Georgia which Georgians have known all along: The Coastal Tour of Georgia is a real winner! The tour, which the Murrays won as a part of the nation-wide 100 Perfect Vacations Contest, was chosen a perfect American vacation by members of the Discover America Travel Organizations, the sponsors of the contest. The contest featur ed 100 to urs from all over the coun tr y which were submitt ed by state travel organizatio ns. A spokesman for the Discover America Travel Organizations said the Georgia Coastal Tour was chosen for special recognition because of its "excellent accommodat ions, food, attractions, and scenery". The Murrays were picked, along with ot her contest winners, in a random Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Murray of Long Beach,California receive the GeorgiaCoastal Tour and gifts from Roy Burson, director of the Tourist Division, Georgia Department of Industry and Trade. Page 26 drawing from entry blanks which were available at airline ticket counters, service stat ions, and a number of other offices of members of the travel industr y. " Each state could submit as many all expense paid vacation tours as it wished. We were very proud of the fact that all four of our tours were chosen to begin with, and the n, to have one tour singled out at a national press conference was quite an honor," remarked Roy Burson, director of the Tourist Division. Burson was on hand to present the Mu rrays with their winning certificate earlier this fall at a special news conference during the Discover America Travel Organization s Convention in San Diego, California. "The Georgia Coastal Tour was the first and only one to be presented in a special national news conference," Burson explained. He said ot her gift s from Georgia were given the Murrays in honor of the special presentat ion. The Georgia Coastal Tour includes all three of the Golden Isles-St. Simons, Jekyll Island, and Sea Island-the City of Brunswick, Okefenokee Swamp Park, and the City of Savannah. Scenes From eorgia's Coastal Tour Pictu red, clockw ise, one of Savann ah's many char m ing city squares, t he historical Crane Hou se on Jekyl Island, Jekyll's uniqu e Aqu arama, and Fort Freder ic; on St. Simo ns Island . P.O. Bo x 3809 7 Atlanta. Georgia 30334 GUt and Exchange 3ec Uon University Li~rary Athens, Georgia 3J6')1 UNIV~,.SI1Y OJ,' GEOnalA 0 C2 B1970 Georgia, the unspoiled. An aerial view of the North Georgia Mountains near Dahlonega. ~ 1785