Newsletter, Georgia Department of Commerce, 1954 November

DEPARTMENT OF [DMMEU[E
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NEW LETTER
NOVEMBER
1954

NEWSLETTER

Novembe r 1954

'NE WSLETTER

Published monthly by

GE O RGIA DEPT. O F COMMERCE 100 State Ca pit ol

* H ER MAN E. T ALM AD GE
Governo r
BO ARD OF COM MISSIONERS

EM O RY L. BUTLER

Chairman

Lonni e A. Pope, V. Chm.

Y. F. Geeslin

Ben J essup

Hoke Peters

* NELSON M. SHIPP

Secretary

Vol. 6, No. I

November 1954

State Guard Builds
38 New A rmo ries
Georgia' s Nationa l G ua rd building program, now in full swing, ca l.ls for a tot al of 38 new armories, Adj ut a nt
Ge neral Geo rge J. H earn revea ls.
Armories at M illed geville, Perry an d Bainbridg e h av e been complete d, an d one at Springfield is nea ring com p letion. Seve n more a re under construction a t Winder, Washin gton , LaG range, R eidsvi lle, Thomson, Americus and Ceda rtown.
Sixteen othe r cities a re sla ted to receive a rmo ries in th e nca r fut ure, Genera l H earn said . They ar c Alba ny, Elbert on Swa insboro, D awson, Douglas, Statesboro, J ackson, Waycross, Griffin, Dublin, T homasville, M oul trie, M onroe, H aw kinsville, Waynesboro and Co rdele.
Approval is also expec ted on a n additi onal 11 ar mo ries submitted to th e R eserve Forces F aciliti es Co mmittee for approval by th e Nati onal Gu ard Bureau.
Total cost of th e 11 armories const ruc ted an d under cons truction will be $ 1,029,270.

thaGt eothr~eiaNnos

w ill be vemb er

inte rested to kn ow 14th issue of the

Philad elp hia En quir er Sunday M ega-

zine section featu red a do u ble page

spread of color phot ograph s of Georgia

made p ossibl e by th e Georgia D epa rt-

m en t of Co m m erce.

Cover Photo
Lake Winfield Sco tt in northeast Georgia is a favorite scenic an d fishing site with Georgia ns a nd out-of-state visitors alike. H igh in th e mountai ns, a nd only a few miles from Voge l Sta te Park, it is an a utumn treat th at no one sho uld miss.-Ph ot o by C aroly n C arter.

Many pim ientos are grown in Middle Geor gia . H ere ar e pimi entos bein g canning in Griffin.

Monticello: Geor gia Easter Lil y Bulb Grower s, J asper County court house aud itorium, Nov. 16.
Augusta : Geor gia Baptist Conv ention , Bon Air H otel, Nov. 16-18.
At lanta: Georgia Banker s Associati on , Oper ati ons C linic, Biltmore Hotel, Nov. 17-18.
At lanta: Southern O ccu p ati onal V ision Workshop, Geor gia T ech, Nov . 18.
Atlanta: Sou theastern Sporting Goods Show, Dinkier -Plaza , Nov. 20-24.
Macon: Shrine Circ us, City Aud ito rium , Nov . 22-27.
Atlanta : American Con tract Bridge Leagu e, Biltmor e H ot el, Nov. 27D ec. 5.
Au gusta: Georgia Conf eren ce on Social Welfa re, Bon Air H ot el, Dec. 1-4.
Savannah: Georgia Can ners Association, H otel DeSoto, D ec. 2-3.
Atlanta: Georgia You th Assembly, State Capitol, Dec. 2-4.
Augusta: Georg ia Bottlers Associa tion, Bon Air H ot el, Dec. 5-6.

Atlanta: Georgi a Farm Eq uipment Association, Biltmore H otel, D ec. 6-9.
Macon: Georgia Sta te L ivestock Association, Dempsey H ot el, D ec. 8-9.
Augusta: Georgia Pest Control Associa tion, Bon Air H ot el, Dec. 9- 10.
Atlanta: Am er ican Managem ent Associa tion, Biltmor e H ot el, Dec. 9-10 .
Atlanta: Geo rg ia E lectric M embership Co rporation, H en ry Grady H ot el, D ec. 13-14.
Atlanta: U. S. Army Engineers Lumber Au ction, Biltmore H ot el, D ec. 13- 15.
Savannah : B'Nai B'Rith, H ot el DeSoto, Dec. 26-30.
Short courses at Abraham Baldwi n Agricultural Co llege, Tifton:
Peanuts, Nov. 19. Public Sp ea king , Nov. 20. Tobacco, Dec. 2. Corn, Dec. 3. F ar m production a nd marketing ou t-
look, Dec. 8. Poultr y, Dec. 10.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

November 1954

HISTORY OF CiEORCiIA'S FARM PRODUCTS

REVEALED IN NEW STATE PUBLICATION

W at erm elons, app les, peach es, p imientos, peanuts, p ecan s a nd lots of othe r

"good eating" produ cts of Geo rgia's soil a re so plentiful, and hav e been for such a long tim e, that m ost of us assume th ey h ave been with us always.

H owever, a new booklet Geo rgia H is-

torical A gricul tu ral D ata, discloses th at th at man y of the fru its, vegetab les and farm crops for whi ch Georgia is famous a re not nati ve. The booklet, comp iled by th e State Dep artment of Agr iculture, is bein g given nationwide distributi on by th e Geor gia Dep artment of Commerce as one of its series of publica tions to acqua in t oth er sections with

Beginning wit h this first issue of the six th year of this pu blication by t he Georgia D epa rtm en t of Co m m erce, th e NEWS LET TER w ill appea r onc e each m ont h, rat her th an twice; in the interests of econom y and incr eased effec tive ness of research and repo rting .

Geor gi a .
T ak e th e wat erm elon, for exa mple. The booklet points ou t th at wh ile Georgia grows more wat erm elons th an a ny other sta te, th e waterm elon ca me to us fro m Purita n N ew En gland, which got it from th e Florid a Spaniar ds, who pro bably im ported it from Africa .
Egypti an pain tings d ating back to the Pyramids depict th e wa termelon , bu t it remai ned for Georgia ns to perfect th e ancient gree n cuc urbit to its modern state of lusciousness. The R attlesnak e, Tom W atson, Stone M ountain a n d Irish G ray ar e some of th e great names in th e watermelon wo rld th at were developed in Georgia. Last yea r we ga th ered 13,320,000 wa termelons th at brou ght our fa rm ers $6,033,000.

port ant cro p before th e Wa r Betw een th e Sta tes. H . R . Stat e, of D em orest, sta rted th e first comme rcial orchard in 1896 ; unab le to dispose of young tre es which h e had im ported for sale, he set th em out on h is own fa rm. Author ities say th e Sta te' s ap ple industry has grown conside rably since 1950, wh en th e U. S. Ce nsus reported a 1,500,000 bu shel crop valued a t more than $3,000,000 .
Georgia virtually h as a corne r on Am erican pimiento p roduction, but this tasty pepper is a comparatively recent gift fro m Spain. S. D . R iegel, of Ex perimen t, pla nt ed th e first imp orted pepp er seed in 1903, and from his experi ments grew today's $6,000,000 p imiento industry. Ei gh t tho usand Georgia farms last year produ ced 25,000

The a pp le- "K ing of Fruits"-was tons of thi s sca rlet delicacy, whi ch was

brought into No rth Georgia ea rly in th e eigh teenth cen tu ry, and was an im-

pro cessed by 15 m odern plants. "H oney p each es" ca me to Florida

with th e Spa niards in 1791 and were br ough t up the rivers to Georgia by th e India ns. I n 1850, Cook Plan t, a M acon banker, obtai ned severa l budded trees of th e C hinese Cling variety, which he gave to Co l. Lewis Rumph, of M ar shallville. Seed from cross-pollinated pla nts were saved and planted by th e latter 's grandson, Sam uel H enry Rumph, and from one of th ese cam e an original seedling that is world famous today. It was named Elb erta, after Rumph's wife.
There was a good -sized planting of peach es in Geor gia as ea rly as 1850, but it was not until the post-W orld War I period th at th e industr y really began to blossom. Last yea r Georgia led th e nation, with th e excep tion of California, in peach p roduction . Our harvest sold for $8,950,000.
M any leading var ieties of peach es were developed in Georgia. Besides th e Elberta, some of th em ar e th e H iley, Geor gia Belle, H iley Belle, Dixi gem and Dixired .
The pecan, a $ 10,000,000 Georgia crop, is a nati ve nut, but wh ere it originated on thi s con tinent is unknown . The Indian s used th e word " Paea n" to designate any nut that was hard to crac k. F ossilized pecan s h ave been found in T exa s a nd De Soto rep orted th e nut growing along th e Mi ssissippi
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EORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLET T ER

N ovem ber 1954

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Expansion Under Way
An expansion of th e N ew I deal Sp ra yer Co. plant at N ASHVI L LE, is now u nder construction. The add ition of 10,000 sq uare feet of floor space will a llow for p rod uction of the concer n's n ew Tygart tob acco h a rvester. M achinery and eq uip me n t will be insta lled and within a few mon ths em -
ploym~nt is expected to double. The
firm also makes sp rayers, du sters a nd other farm m achinery.
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Chamblee Display Co.
Al R. W endt is p resid ent of Customs C rea tions, I nc., a firm of 15 peop le engaged in m ak ing comme rcial d isplays, at CH AM BLEE.
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Blakely Firm
A new pl ant has been establish ed in BL AKELY for th e m aki ng of washable a ppa rel. T he Blakely M anufactu ring Corp ., unde r th e m anagership of Alb ert M oore, is beginning opera tion s thi s m ont h an d expects to em ploy nearl y 50 peopl e.
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New Hosiery Mill
DO U GL AS has been chosen for th e site of a new hosiery m ill owne d b y M elvin S. Gordon , Z . S. Go rdo n and N . G. Sto ne, of M assachusetts. The K a ren Dale Mi lls, Inc., wi ll occ upy a bu ilding now u nd er co nstruction a nd employ abo ut 75 in th e m anufacture of seam less hosiery.
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Marietta Firms
Two ad d itio ns to M ARlET T A'S list of indust ries a rc F urniture C ra ftsme n, I nc., a nd th e Grem land Co.
Furniture C ra ftsme n is head ed by v\' .
.J. H obbs and Pet er Brown . There a rc
10 em ployees m aki ng rep rod uc tions of Eigh teen th Ce n tury fu rn iture.
T he Grem lan d Co., unde r J oe F . Grem land, m ak es scr ew m ach in e p rod ucts.
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Box Manufacture
T h e Rock C ity Box Co . recen tly establ ish ed a plant in NO RCROSS. Arth ur M orris is p residen t of th e compan y of 50 people whi ch m ak es foldi ng and co rruga te d paper boxes.

Camilla Mfg. Plant Sta rts P roduction
A ga rme n t m ak in g pl an t h as been esta blished in CA M I L LA a nd began op era tions on th e fi rst of thi s m onth. Draffi n M anufacturing Co., owned by J oe Draffin, em ploys some 25 wom en in m aking women 's sportswea r- pedal pus hers, shorts, etc. The com pany occupies a building of 3,000 sq ua re fee t.
Ed Fr ein d
Gov ernor Talmadge bu ys hi s R ed Feather with a con tr ibution to th e Community Chest. Th c Govcrnor pr esented hi s check to Mrs. Stuart G . Bla cksh ear, ( I), and Mrs. John A. Dunlap, (r ).
New Riverside Plant T he R iversid e M anufa cturing Co .,
M O ULTR IE, h as announce d plan s to build a m od ern ga rme n t pl ant there. R ep resen ting an investm en t of $250,000 , th e building will be read y by J uly, 1955. T h e fi rm spec ia lizes in m aking ind ust rial uniforms. N ow em ploying 250 peop le, th e conce rn plan s to double p roducti on a nd number of em p loyees wi th in the next five ya rs.
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Vinings Company Edmunds-Hill, In c., is a new com -
p an y in V ININGS wh ich em ployes eigh t people m ak ing furniture a nd wood en broiler coo ps. N orm an F . H ill
is president, an d .J. B. Edm unds, vice-
p resid ent .

GEORGIA DEPART M ENT O F CO M M ERCE

Metal Company
T he .J. H owa rd H olan Corp., of C le-
velan d, Ohio, h as chose n GR I FFI N for th e locat ion of a sou the rn plan t. T h e conce rn ma kes m et al pa rts for u tility co m pa n ies, a nd th e Southe rn Bell T eleph on e Co. is one of its custom ers. The co rpo ra tion h as bou ght a site of 18 acres a nd will sta rt out by b uildin g a 30,000 sq uare foo t plant. Gri ffin wi ll a lso be its sales h ea dq ua rt ers fo r 15 southe rn sta tes, Ce n tral and South Am eri ca.
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W aynesboro Plant
WA YNES BO RO wi ll soo n be th e site of a new saw a nd planing mi ll, owne d a nd ope rated by H a rold Stone. Approximat ely 30 peop le will be em ployed at th e plan t a nd 60 more in logging ope ra tions.
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Atlanta Developments
A firm ca lled N ella Fashi on s, owned by Thad Allen , recen tly m oved from Mi am i, Fl a., to Atlanta . Ab out 15 people are em ployed m aking h an dbags, desk accessories and wastebaskets, all fro m wood.
T he Br ookh aven C abine t Co . h as been esta blishe d in Atlanta by B. S. C rurn , J r., to produce custom -made bath room , kitch en and othe r hou sehold ca binets.
T he AAA M anufact uri ng a nd D ist rib ut ing C o. is a new A tla n ta firm m ak ing sea ls, stam ps, stenc ils and oth er m a rkin g devices, m et al tags and n ame plat es and num bering machines. H . B. M assell is in cha rge .
S. L. N elm s is the presid en t of th e Sp ring tite Sc ree n M anu fact urin g Co. wh ich rece n tly establishe d in Atlan ta [or th e m an uf acture of alum inu m scree ns.
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Two Decatur Firms
Th e R . L. Dupont M anufacturing Co . has esta blished a pl ant in DECAT U R to process belt oil for textile m ills. The concern a lso m ak es oil a pplica tor s. The firm m oved th ere [rom T oledo , Ohio.
Anot her DECATUR newcom er is th e So uthe rn Sc reen Prod uct s C o.. I nc. J oh n W . D Uel'S is hea d of th e company which em ploys ab ou t a d ozen peop le m ak ing a lum in um scree ns.

NEWSLETTER

Walker County,in Lookout's Shadow,
Famed for Beauty, Farms, Industry

Walker Co unty, 121 years old , is hi gh ly div er sified fr om m any sta ndpoints. Th e terrain vari es fr om lofty Lookout M ountain to level vall ey land interspersed by th e C ha ttooga R iver a nd m any lesser strea ms. I n addi tion to scenic bdautv th at d raw s thou sands of tourists th e )"Car rou nd, th ere a re n umerous fine fa rms an d m any hu mming industri es.
The bow and a rrow of th e C hero kee huntsman in W alk er Co un ty was followed by th e roa r of ca nnon during th e W a r Betw een th e States, wh en the fier ce Battle of C h ickama uga w a s fou ght in 1863. T his historic field is now m arked by a museum , m onuments, tabl et s and a rtillery pieces.
\Valk er was crea ted bv a n ac t of th e L egislat ur e on D ec. 18, ' 1833, and was named for M aj or Freem an W alker , of Au gu sta, wh o also serve d a s U nited Sta tes Sena to r. Populati on in 1950 was 38, 198, a gain of 7,174, or 23.4 per cent over the 31,024 of 1940.
In 1953, "Valker' s cotton p roduction was 2,060 bales, g rown on 4,000 acr es. Other important crops a re hay and gra in. There a re m an y livestock farms th at specialize in d ai ry and beef ca ttle a nd purebred hogs and poultry is a key farm ind ust ry. Pul pw ood a nd IUIllber a lso boost th e rura l in com e.
While th e farmer is bu sy, th e roa r of mach in crv is consta nt in th e m an v textil e industr ies in th e co untv. Th es~ includ e th e LaFayette Co t t~n Mills, Barwick Mills, (ru gs) a nd LaFayette H osier y Mills, a t LaFayette ; C rystal Springs Bleach ery, Inc., a t Ch icka m au ga ; Peerl ess W oolen M ills, Ri ch mond H osiery M ills, Sta ndard-Coo sa-

That ch er C o. (ya rn s) , Southla nd Che ni lles, Inc., H osiery Processing Co. , Inc., Bryan Full-Fashion ed Mills, Inc., a t R ossville. Yat es Blea cher y Co . is a t Flintston e.
R ossville's newest en ter p rise is Byrd Plastic Arts., In c., mak ers of souvenirs a nd novelti es.
La Favette was named for th e F ren ch gene ral.' It was m ad e th e county sea t in 1835 under th e name Ch a ttooga wh ich lat er was change d to Benton , and lat er still to LaFayette. A marker placed by th e Geor gia Historical Commi ssion and a city park honor LaF ayett e. Populat ion of LaFayette in 1950 was 4,844, wh ile nearby Linwoodt own has 858 peopl e.
T her e a re three clini cs in LaFayette a nd th e Tri-County H ospital , serv ing \Valk er, D ad e and Catoosa counties, is a t Fort O glethorp e. The Che rokee Libr ary, a t LaFayette, also op erates a bookmobile. Banking service is provid ed by th e Bank of LaF ayette.
U . S. Hi ghwa y 27 tr aver ses th e county, and motels include M or gan's C abins, Co rn ett' s M ot el, and Ni ch olson' s M ot el, all in th e LaF ayette area .
T he H' alk er Co un t)' J\1 e ss e n g e r, weekly newspaper, is published a t L aFa yett e by E. P. H all , a nd C. E. Carter publ ishes th e R ossville O pen Gat e at Rossville. Mr. C a rter is also publisher of th e Ca toosa C ou ntv R eco rd a t nearby Ringgold in Ca to~sa Co unty.
LaFayette civic clubs include th e R ot ary a nd Li on s.
Other town s in th e coun ty a re Ch icka mau ga, populati on 1,747 in 1950 ; part of Fort O gleth orpe in W al ker , an d

November 1954
Rossville, population 3,892.
R ossville has a n umber of manufacturing plants, a nd her e a lso is th e Happy V alley D airy , ope ra ted by J ohn L. Hutch eson , Jr., one of th e largest in North Georgia.
Two branch banks at Rossville are provided by th e Hamilton National Bank a nd th e Am er ican Trust & Banking Co., both of Chattanooga, T enn. R ossville civic clubs are th e Kiwanis a nd Exch an ge clubs, a nd th e R ossville Library h as a wid e patronage.
R ossville was named for J ohn R oss, long h ead of th e Cherokee Nation .
The C entral of G eor gia and th e T ennessee, Alabam a and G eorgia R ailroads tr averse th e county.
More than 9,000 pupils are enrolled in Walker schools, and a two -million dollar school improvem ent plan is proposed for th e co unty. The ch ur ch bell rin gs loudly throu gh out th e co unty at numer ou s ch urche s.
Much W alk er Cou n ty land is in th e Cha tta hooche e N ati on al For est, and th e off ice of th e fo rest ra ng er of th e Armuchee Di stri ct is in L aF ayette. The forest a re a includes 52,490 acr es in the coun ties of Catoosa, Chattooga, Flo yd, Gordon and W alk er.
Walker Co unty officers include: Or-
dinary, J. C . K eown ; Clerk of Court,
H arold C leme nts; Sh eriff, W . F . Harmon ; T ax Co llec tor, W. C . K emp ; Tax R eceiver, J ohn Brock ; Schoo l Supe rintendent, F . D. Leak e ; Sur veyo r, Ben
.Justus ; Coroner , Hill Pop e ; m ember s
of th e L egislature, Alb ert Campbell and R . E. Coker ; Co m m issioner, R oe Mosely.
County Farm Agent, J. P . Bak er ;
Home D emonstration Agent, Miss H elen Autry.
Walk er is in th e Lookout M ountain C ircuit, Superior Court. .Judge Freeman M cClure presides and Earl Self is So licitor Gen er al.

Tri-County Hospital at Fort Oglethorpe.

Walk er County Courthouse at LaFayette.
GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

November 1954

Highway 27 Group
Elects Coppedge
Warren Coppedge, Rome oil distributor, was elected president of th e U . S. H ighway 27 Association of Geor gia, at the organizat ion's annua l meeting at Ida Cason Gardens, Oct. 14.
H e su cceeds Larry Castleberry, Lumpkin industrialist and motel oper ator.
Other officers elected were: Fel ix Patrick, Columbus Nehi Bottling Co. exec u tive, first vice pr esident ; O. A. Kitchen gs, J r., Bainbridge m otel own er, second vice president, and Douglas Brittingham, LaFayette serv ice station owner , trea sur er.
Elected to the exec utive committee wer e th e officer s and Earl (T ige) Pickle, Blak ely motel own er; James Strickland, Cuthbert druggist and motel own er ; W. P. Robinson, Columbus
mo tel owner ; .J. J. Milam, L a'Grange
re altor, and C. W . W est, LaFayette service station own er.
Agricultural History
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in 1541 ; it was a favorite ornamenta l tr ee in George Was hi ngton's tim e, an d it was domesticated in Louisiana in th e Nin ete enth Century.
Georgia led th e Nation in p ecan production in 1951, 1952 and 1953. The 1953 crop was 7,692,000 pounds.
Peanuts, believed to be of African origin , have apparently been grown in Georgia sinc e Co lonial days. Records show th ey were being ha rvested for export prior to 1850. Since 1950, Georgia has pro duced about one-third of the total United Sta tes peanut crop. The State's peanut ac reage in 1953 was 536,000 and th e crop was valued at $5 7,352,000.
" Georgia H istorical A gricultural Data" , prep ar ed by th e Sta te Departm ent of Agricu lture at th e request of th e State H istorical Commission, is being distributed to libraries throughout th e State. I t treats wit h many other agr icu ltural and rela ted topics, including Georgia's $100 ,000,000 commercia l broil er industry, commercial hatcheries, coastal .Bermuda grass, Dixi e crimson clover, 'cotton, Sea Island cotto n, th e cotton gin, dairying, Georgi a Experiment Stations, first orga nized for est fire protection, slash pine planting, th e H erty Nursery, mu scadine grapes, Herefords and Jerseys, blue lupin e, paper

Georgia Highway 17
Meet Held At Helen
Beautiful mountain scene ry a nd th e go rgeous lake in new Unicoi Stat e Park gree ted members a nd visitors at th e fa ll session of th e Georgia 17 Hi ghw ay Association on O ctob er 25.
Pr esident Milton Ard en, of Gu yton , presided, and repo rts on cond ition and p rogress on th e h ighw ay were made. It was p oint ed out th at th e entire route through Georgia from th e North Carolina line above Hi aw assee. is now h ardsurfaced , except for some 'six mil es, and th at section is soon to be p av ed.
Ed Cashore of Savannah , chairm a n of th e advertising comm ittee, reported on p lans to issue att rac tive ad vertis ing matter soon . Irvin g A. M etz, J r. of Savannah, secretar y-treasurer , m ad e an extensive repo rt on activities since th e sp ring m eeting.
The highw ay through Georgia extends from H iaw assee th rough H elen, C la rkesville, T occoa, Lavonia, R oyston , Bowman, E lberton, T ign all, Washington, T hom son, Wrens, Louisville, Wadley, Midville, M illen, Rocky Ford, Halcyondale, O liver, Gu yton , Pineora, M arlow, Bloomingdale, Pooler, Savannah an d Savannah Beac h (T ybee) .

State Bank Deposits 1'wo Billion Dollars
Georgians at th e end of June of this year had on deposit in their banks a tota l of $2,030,084,000, an average of a pproximately $570 for every man , woman and ch ild in th e sta te .
This was a 2.7 per cent increase over th e $ 1,976,436,000 on depo sit at the same tim e last yea r, and an ad vance of some 17 per cen t over th e $ 1,724, 116,000 on J un e 30, 1951.
The figur es were compiled by the Fed eral D eposit In surance Corporation from reports filed by a total of 40 1 opera ting banks in the State, the nation' s 14th la rgest number of such inst itu tions.
Of th e tot al on deposit in th e Sta te, $ I,5 74,989,000 was classed as "business a nd person al" of which $ 1, 168,307,000 was in chec king accounts and $396 ,889,000 in sav ings.
Assets and liabi lities of the 401 banks were listed as $2,23 1,925 ,000 .
D eposits in th e Georgia ba nks were third largest in t h e Southe ast an d twenty-third in the United States.

State Contracts for $33.6 Million in October

Georg ia bu siness fir ms in O ctober sold g oo d s and serv ices valued at $33, 674,712 to th e United St ates Go vern me n t. This amo unt is about 71 p er cent of th e va lue of all goods and services bought by the Fe deral Government in the Sout heast du ring the month, accor d ing to th e Atlanta field office of th e U. S. D epartment of Commer ce.
One of th e largest aw ards was to Lockheed Aircr aft Corp., M a rietta, $30,000 ,000 for airp lanes.
O ctober 's awa rds in th e sta te, brought th e cumula tive total for the yea r in Geor gia to 201 con tracts va lued a t $123,468 ,540, and two other s classed on a n "indefini te" bas is.
Latest con trac t awa rds ar e:
LaGRANGE: Newman Construction Co. , wooden amm un ition packing boxes, $ 128,800 .
ATLANTA: Walk er Elect rical Co. ,
m akin g, rural electrifica tion, soil conservation, ero sion control, turkeys, cattle tick control, tung oil and tobacco .

Inc., switchboa rd an d control -indicators, $74,83 2.

ATLANTA : Robert and Co., archi -

tectural a nd engineering serv ices, $32 -

000 .

CH A T T A H O O CH EE: W hi t tier Mi lls Co ., wool serg e clot h, $39, 786.

A UG USTA : Sou thern Construction

Co ., construction of seven barracks an d

miscellan eous uti lities at Fort Camp-

bcll, K y., $2,629,984.

ATLANTA: Georgia T ech R esearch In stitute, resea rch on qu artz cr ystals, $25,975.
COL Ulvf BUS : H ewitt Contracting C ompa ny, str engthening of runway, C raig Air Force Base, Ala ., $89,627.
ATLA NTA : John J. Harte Co .,
arc h itec tura l and engi nee ring ser vices, Redstone Ar sen al, Ala ., $29,350.

CO LU1vf BUS: Wri ght Contracting Co ., airfield paving an d water mains, M cGi ll Ail' Force Base, Fl a., $497 ,677.

GEO RGIA D E PAR T M ENT O F COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Famous Montag Social Stationery, School Supplies, Made in Atlanta

M ont ag Broth ers, Inc., of Atlanta, one of th e wo rld's largest m akers of school supplies and social sta tione ry, mov ed into a h and some new plant last sp ring, th eir sixth h ome since the found ing of the firm 65 years ago .
T h e plant covers seven acr es of a 22-acre tract on High la nd Avenu e, once known as th e " circus grounds." T h e building is laid out for smoo th opera tions-h uge rolls and reams of paper a nd supplies for th e m anufacturing processes ar e received by rail from all over th e U . S. on on e side of th e building. In th e n ext section th e p aper is p rocessed, and in th e th ird it is

fine qua lity a nd beautifully decor at ed social sta tionery th ey p rodu ce. F rom th e gay and flippan t to th e m ost elegan t a nd conservative, pap ers a re designed, pro cessed a nd boxed at the plan t in Atlanta.
Processes In making th e Blue H orse schoo l
tablets, 1,000 poun d rolls of pap er a re cut, ruled a nd th en th e sh eets counted, all on one machin e- th e "L" ruling machine. T he cut, rul ed a nd counted she ets are th en cut agai n a nd put into tablet, filler or notebook form with a Blue H orse cover or wr apper.
A well-in tegra ted combination of

N ovemb er 1954
M on tag uses eno ugh pap er in one year to circle the earth at its center 13 t im es.
Officers
Those in charge of th e compa ny's operations incl ud e H arold E. M ontag, chairm an of th e board ; M orton L. Weiss, president ; H arry Garey, vicep resident ; Edward R ex N eely, vice pr esident and secreta ry ; Sa m L. Suga rma n, vice pr esident a nd Blue H orse sales ma nager ; R icha rd A. Guthman, vice-p reside n t a nd treasurer ; M urr ay R. Eisner, sales man ager ; J oseph A. Smollen, production ma nager ; Ph ilip Shu lhaffer , vice-president in ch ar ge of personnel ; C lyde Swofford, office manager, and Sidne y Greenbl att, plant man ager. Mi ss M axin e Yalovit z is designe r of all M ontag sta tione ry, and M iss Bar ba ra LaLand is h ead of public rela tions.

Making box es for Montag stationery .

M arvin Mitchell
The new plant of Mont ag Brothers, Inc., covers seven acres.

packaged for sh ipme nt. Then most of th e goo ds go a matter of a few feet, out th e doors on a nother side of the bu ilding, int o trucks to be distribu ted th rou ghout th e nat ion.
Products Montag Brothers, Inc., sta rted in
1889 with a sta ff of six employees. T oday it employs 400. It ma jored for a long tim e in m akin g scho ol notebooks and fillers, and still makes qu antities of th ese fam ous Blue H orse pr od uctsnot ebooks th at a re bou nd , glued or wir ed into every shape a nd size.
T h e compan y is a leader also in th e field of pap etrie. T his is a flossy sou nding word for writi ng p ap er an d match ing enve lopes th at a re boxed togeth er. But it' s an approp ria te word for th e

complica ted machi ne ry and deft h and work produced M ontag sta tione ry. Paper and enve lope s a re cut to size, p rocessed for various effects such as a linen weave or cr ushe d bond or a smoo th vellum ; edges a re trimmed, -decklcd or beveled by h and ; designs a re printed, eng raved, embossed or verkotyped. En velopes, after goin g through th ese same processes to match th e paper, h ave glue a pplied for sealing, a nd then a re lined.
M ont ag also mak es its own boxes for sta tione ry. Cardboa rd is cut, folded, tap ed a nd covered with approp ria tely design ed cove r pap ers. Paper and envelopes ar e counted, a nd ribbon bows a re hand-tied a ro und p ackages that fill th e special box es.

Planners Meet
The Georgia D ep artment of Commerce thi s mon th was h ost, in Augusta , to a joint m eeting of th e Southe rn Association of Sta te Planning a nd D eveloping Agencies a nd th e South east Chapter of th e Am erican Institute of Planners. Discussions wer e held on touri sm and ind ustry in th e South east, a nd an ame ndme nt was p assed to allow Chambers of Co mme rce to becom e associate memb ers of th e SASPDA. N ew
SASPDA offic ers elected for 1954-55
were Frank S. W alsh e, J r., presid en t ;
Nelson M . Shipp, vice-p resident a nd
Wa rren Zit zmann, secreta ry-treasurer.

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New State Judicial Building Dedicated
Cornerstone laying ceremonies for th e Judicial Building, second Stat e building under construction on Capi tol Sq ua re, were h eld O ct . 11.
Gov. H erm an Talmadge was spea ker, and Marshall A. Chapma n, of Dublin, gra nd master of th e Grand Lodge of Geor gia, was in charge of M asonic
ce re monies. The building will house th e Law De-
partment, Sta te Library , Supreme Court, Co ur t of Appeal s, Lab or Department , Public Service Co mm ission, regents of th e U niversity System and parts of th e Education Department a nd H ea lth Department.
A similar bui lding on th e other side of the Square, begun at the sam e time an d dedicated severa l months ago, will be th e home of the Agriculture Dep artment.
The two structures, built principally of Geor gia mater ials, will cost $9,800,000, Governor Talmadge said.
"T hey have been need ed for a long tim e in ou r Sta te and will relieve congestion th at ha s been growing yea r by year," he pointed out.
Others taking part in th e ceremonies, besides th e Govern or a nd me mbers of th e Grand Lodge, were m embers of th e Sup reme Cou rt a nd Sta te Cour t of Appeals; Lt. Gov. M arvin Griffin, Sta te Auditor Ed Thrasher, Atty. Gen . Eu gen e Cook and C hief Justice W . H . Duckworth of th e Suprem e Court, all m emb ers of th e Office Bui lding Authority.
Associate Justice Lee B. W yatt was pr esiding officer.

Georgia Coin Banks on Display

Below is a pho tog ra ph of a n exhibit of coin banks from Geo rgia whi ch was on display for five weeks recently In th e lobb y of the Iowa Sta te Bank in Des M oines.
C lare nce T . Sim mons , D es M oines ba nker, is owner of th e collection of Georgia ban ks, as well as abo ut 6,000 othe r coin bank s from every sta te in th e nat ion an d some 80 for eign coun-

tri es. Behind th e exh ibit sta nds M r. Simmon's gra ndson, Don ald Lee Ga ra nson ; in th e ba ckground are ph otographs of Geo rgia scenes and a map of the State.
A vari ety of literatur e about Georgia was avai lab le nca r th e display for Iowa ns to browse th rough . T ravel broc hures, ind ustrial booklets a nd to ur ing m ap s were included.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

DEPARTMENT OF COMMEnCE
NEW LETTER
DECEMBER 1954

NEWSLET T ER

December 1954

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by
GEORGI A DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capit ol

* HERMAN E. T ALMADGE
Gove r n or
BOARD O F COM l\U SSIO NER S

EM O RY L. BUTLER Ch airman

Lon nie A. Pope, V. Chrn. Ben J essup

Y. F. Geeslin Hok e Peters

* NE LSON M. SH IPP Secretary

Vol. 6, No.2

December 1954

Gi rl Scouts Obtain Founder's Early Home

The Girl Scou ts of th e U SA hav e a nnounced th e pur cha se of th eir found er's birthp lace a nd childhood home in Savannah, the Juliette Gord on Low home, know n as th e Go rdo n H ouse.
I t is one of three histori c buildings in Sav annah with special meaning for th e Girl Scouts. The ot he r buildin gs a rc wh er e th e first Girl Scout meetings wer e held, and th e Low man sion wh er e Mrs. L ow lived af ter her ma rriage and for mu ch of th e time wh en she was establi sh ing th e Girl Scou t mov em ent.
As a result of th e purchas e of th e founder 's bir thp lace, Sava nn ah will have a new na tional Gi rl Scout cen te r. The hom e is one of th e oldest a nd mo st histori c houses in th e coastal city. T he orga niza tion is plan nin g to restore a large p art of th e h ouse to the way it was wh en Mrs. Low lived th er e as a young girl. Other secti ons of th e hou se and grounds will be modernized to provid e m eet ing room s a nd oppo rt un ities to develop a nd displa y new activities for Gi rl Scouts all over the nation . Severa l Georgia citizens a rc serving on th e commi ttee for th e restoration of th e birthp lace.
The house where Ju liette Gordo n L ow was born was built betw een 18 19 and 1821, a nd was design ed by th e a rchitec t Wi lliam J ay. M emb er s of th e Gordo n fam ily owned and lived in th e hou se un til it was purch ased by th e Girl Scouts this year.
COVER PHOTO
J ekyll Cr eek brid ge, fra med in tr ees adorne d with moss whi ch are typ ical of th e coastal region . Sec a rtiele, p age 5.
- Photo by Ed Friend

Birthplace and childhood hom e of M rs. J uliette Gordon Low in Savanna h which has been purchase d by the Gir l Scouts of th e USA an d will be restored for the ir use.

Atlanta: Antiqu e Sh ow, Municip al Au dit orium, J an . 3-7.
At hens: Georgia Athleti c Federation of Co llege Women, University of Georgia, J a n. 14-1 6.
Sea Isla nd : L adi es' In vitation Open Golf Tournam ent, Sea Island Golf C lub , J an. 15-16 .
Augusta : Geo rg ia Optometric Associa-
tion , Bon Air H ot el, .I an. 16-18.
Atlanta: Sou thern J ewelry Show, DinkIer Pl aza H ot el, J an. 16-19.
Atlanta: Thrift Foru m, At lan ta Di vision, University of Geor gia, J an. 17.
Atlanta : Georgia Associa tion of Agricultu ral F airs, H enry G ra dy H otel , J an. 17.
Atlanta: Southern Pu lpw ood Conserva tion Association , Biltm or e Hotel, J an . 18-20.
Sea Isla nd : Annual Sen iors' I nvitation Golf T ournament, Sea Island Go lf C lub, J an. 20.
Atlanta : Adv ertising and Circu la tion Clin ic of th e Geo rg ia Press Association, Atla nta Divi sion , U niversity of Geo rg ia, J an . 21-2 2.

Atla nta: Ameri can Can cer Societ y, Biltm ore H ot el, J an. 21-22.

Macon: Georgia Vet eran s of F or eign War s, Demp sey H otel, J an . 23.

Atlanta : Southeastern Egg a nd Poultry Associat ion , Municip al Auditorium, J a n. 24-26.

Athe ns: Georgia R ad io and T elevision In stit ut e, Universit y of Georgia, J an . 26-28 .

Ca mellia Shows:

Co rdele

Valdosta

T homasville

D ublin

T ifto n

M oultrie

Savannah

St . Simo ns

Fo rt Ga ines

Macon

Albany

Fort Va lley ... T homaston Atlanta Marsha llville

J an. 8-9
J an. 13
J an . 15-16
J a n. 15-16 J a n. 19
J an . 22-23 J an. 22-23
Jan. 26 J an. 27 . J an . 29-30 Fe b. 5-6 ... Feb . 16 ...... Feb . 17 F eb . 19-20 F eb. 23

GEORG IA D E PARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

D ecember 1954

Georgia's 1954 Industrial Growth Shows High Level and Diversity in All Areas

All of G eor gia is proud of th e gro wth of th e sta te in 1954. It ha s seen a large number of new industries sp ring up in a ll sections : industries inv olvin g new em ployment for th ou sands, increasing th e in com e and enriching th e daily life of every one in th e sta te. M et al en terprises, garme nt mak ers, furniture produ cers, food p ro cessors and pap er pr oduct s manufacturers a re on ly a few of th e types of new fir ms th at have est abli shed h er e, giving a healthy div er sity to th e economic picture, making broader usc of our own n atural resources.
A number of new industries h ave moved to G eorgia fr om th eir o riginal h eadqu art ers or h a ve est a b lish ed bran ch p lants. Others develop ed in th eir local es fro m th e need for th e pr oduct a nd th e initiati ve of local cit izenry.
The list published in this issue in cludes conce rns whi ch have anno un ced their pl ans in 1954 for establishmen t. Those that were alreadv under construction in 1953 but began op era tions in 1954 ar e not includ ed . Nor does it include expan sions, of whi ch th er e have been many. It presents a good ly number of Georgia's new ente rp rises. Serv ice ou tle ts, distribu tion a nd sto rage wareh ou ses are not in clud ed .
Th ere a rc doubtless new manufacturing concern s th at a rc no t listed , an d th is department would conside r it a rea l favor if th eir nam es wer e rep orted by th ose persons wh o kn ow of th em . T hree of th e industries are new in th e sense th at h avin g been closed for some tim e, th ey h ave been revived under new n ame a nd mana gemen t, a no ther sign of Georgia' s en terprising advanc e in industry and comme rce.
Th e Geo rgia epa rt mc nt of C om m er ce has been bu sy this yea r telling th e n at ion abou t our sta te's grea t advantage s as a locat ion for ind ustries. It h as ca rr ied thi s inf orm a tion in to th e adv ertising colum ns of nation al m agazines read by th e industrial a nd investment worlds. The response has been h ighly sa tisfa ctor y. It has also p romot ed reading m at er ial in these m agazines a nd wid ely circulated newspapers th at discu ss th e economy of th e nation an d its sections.

Location
Acwor th Alban y Albany Alb an y Alb an y A lle n h u r st Am ericus Am eri cu s Athen s Athen s Atl anta At lanta At lanta Atl anta Atl anta At lanta At lanta Atl anta Atl anta Atl anta Atl anta At lanta At lan ta
Atla nta At lanta At lanta Atlan ta
At lanta Atlanta A t la n t a Atlanta Atl an t a Atl anta At lanta At lanta At lanta Atl anta At lan t a
At lanta
At lanta
At lan ta At lanta At lanta At lanta Au gu st a Aug usta Bax ley Bla k e l y Bluffton Bowdo n

I ndustry
St a-Hot H eater Corp. Durham Scr ap M et al Co . G eor ge A. H ormel & Co. L ykes Bro s., Inc. M axw ell Box Co. Allenhurst W ood Yard Rhymer Co. W alker Co. General Time Cor p. Luminou s Processes, Inc. AAA Batter y Co . AAA M fg. & Di st. Co . Airkem Sou th eastern Serv o A & M Cabine t Co., I nc. J . E. Ander son Co . Billie Girl F rocks, Inc. BMR L ab or ator ies, Inc. Bottlers' Associat es, In c. Br ookhaven Cabinet Co. Brooks Pap er Co . Philip C arey Co. College P ark Mfg. Co. Ch ampion Wood
P rocessing Co . Columbia Bedding Co . Co nvenien t F ood s Co. D eco-Rock, Inc. D elt a Orn am ental Iron
& Awning Co. Di xie D eco-C rafts Co . F iberl ite, I nc. R obert G ai l' Co. N ella F ashion s Novelties, Inc. P recision Rubber P lat e Co. R af er, Inc. J oan R aye L ab or at ori es R elian ce M old ed P lasti c Co. Sh op At lanta, Inc. Southern M et a l Trea ting
Co. of Ga ., I n c. Southern St ates Iron &
R efri ger ati on Co. Sp rin gtite Screen
Mf'g , Co., Inc. Sun Vcrti kal, Inc. U nip ress Co rp . Vi ckie-L ee, In c. W alker M fg. Co . Inglett & Co rley, Inc. Pet Mi lk Co. Miller W est ern W ear , Inc. Blak ely Mfg. Corp. A. D . R eeves Co. O zier' s F eed Mill, Inc.

Product
fittings, p lumbing fixtures scra p metals meat processing meat p ro cessing corruga ted boxes pu lpw ood wooden pall ets nai ls clocks lu minous clock di als wet cell batteri es ma rk ing devices industrial deod or ants cus tom made cabine ts can opene rs gi rls' dresses medi cin al p roduct s sta rch custom mad e ca binets cellopha ne conversion asbestos products wood en p allets wood shaving p rocessing
fea th er pi llow s fr ozen coconu t flagston es, blocks
or namen ta l ir on displ ay fixtures fib erglass aw nings corr uga ted bo xes office furnitu re m o cc a si ns pr in ting p lates inf ants' wear beauty cream pl asti es p u b l i sh er s
metal treating
met al p roduct s
tension screens su n blinds laundry ma chiner y dr esses, spo r tswear hyd raulic jacks weighing & bagging machiner y mi lk processing child re n's clo thes a p p a rel pou lt ry processing feed s

(Con tinued on P age 4 )

GEORGIA DEPARTMEN T O F COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

New Industries (Con ti nued fr om Pa ge 3)

Location B r u n swi ck
B r u n s w i ck Br un swick B r u n swi ck
Bull ard C airo Calhou n Camilla C arrollton C arrollt on C arter sville Cartersvill e
Carter sville
Ced artown C h a m b lee Chick am auga Chip ley Co chran Co chran C o r n elia
Cornelia C ordele
C o r d ele Columbus Covingt on C u m m ing Dalton
Dalton
D aws on D ecatur D ecatur D ecatur
D o u g las Douglas
Duluth E a s t m an Elb erton E llavill e Fairburn Fairburn Fi tzgerald Fitzgerald 'Flow ery Bran ch Forsvth Fort 'Vallcv G ain esvi lle' G a i n esv ill e
Gainesvill e G ainesvi lle Gainesvill e

I ndust ry

P roduct

Brunswick Br ead ed Shrimp Co .
Gibbs Sh eet M etal Works G lvnn Iron & St eel Co. R .' 1. Peck M a chin e
& Tool CO. , ,\Ta ld o Bradlev C o. Gra co 'F e r ti liz~r Co . M & M Millin g Co. Draffin Mfg. Co .
.J. R. N ewell Co.
Printed F abri cs Co., In c. Atlanta U tilitv W orks Cartersvill e U ~ de rocra rme n t
Corp. Red Comb Pion eer Mills,
In c. Ced a rtown Ha tch eri es Custom Creations, Inc. H eirl oom Carpet Mills, In c. Sh ep ard Handle Co . Co chran Indust ries, In c. Col oni al Feed & Seed , Inc . Habersh am Meta l
Pr oducts Co . Karmon Mfg. Co. Crisp County Cab inet
& Millworks Mun cie Ge ar W orks
.1 . D crum Co.
Porter Brown Limestone Co . Wil son & Co. D ec's Adhesives &
I Ch emi ca ls Co . T exti le Rubber &
Chem ical Co . D aw son Milk Co. Dairy Queen Produ ct s, In c. R . L . Dupont M fg. Co. Southern Screen
Produ cts, Inc. K ar en D al e M ills, Inc. Southeast ern Chemi ca l
Corp. Thurmond Mfg. Co . E astm an Mfg. Co. Mfg. Co. St even s W a rehouse Co. Hudson Mfg. Co . Kwick St eak Co . Dix ie Peanut Co. Fi tzger a ld U nd crwcar Corp. Di xie Pride Mi lls, Inc. Artloom Carpet Corp. H aut's Cookies, In c. Central Bag & Burlap Co . G ainesvil le Sporting
Goods Co . Gra in Elevator Co . Ralst on -Purina Co. T ev, Inc.

fro zen sh rim p m et al product s m etal produ cts
met a l product s plywo od fer ti lizer feed s wom en's a ppa rel novelt y ya rns tab le cloths oil mill ma chiner y
underwear
feed s chic ken h at ch c rv comme rc ia l d isplays ca rpe ts wood produ ct s farm imp lem ents fee d s
met a l doors west ern st yle shir ts
cab ine ts, t ab les ou tb oard m ot or s ca binets crushe d ro ck pou ltr y processing
adhesives, che mica ls
rubber p rodu ct s milk produ ct s mi lk pr odu cts texti le belt oil
a lu m inu m sc ree ns hosier y
disinfect ants shirts snowsuits, p aj am as, ja cket s apparel fertilizer mf rr picture mo lding froz en food peanuts & gram u nd er wea r feed s ca rpe ts & ru gs cookies burlap & co tton bags
fishing eq uip me n t feed s feed s lawn mowers

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GEORG IA DEPARTM ENT O F C OMMERCE

D ecember 1954
Government Contracts
COLUM BU S : Hugh McMath C onstruc tion C o., conc rete flooring, Fort Benning, $3 0,695.
LA GRA NGE : C alla way Mi lls Co. , cotto n du ck cloth, $7 15,350 .
ATLA NTA : Capita l Construc tion Co ., construc tion of bu ildings a t Buford Dam, $ 133,46 1.
SA V ANNA H: Spa n-Altm an C onstruc t ion Co., In c., construc tion of bu ildings a t Hunter Air For ce Base, $285,55 0.
ALBANY: A. C . Samford, Inc., constr uc tion of wareh ous e extension a t Turner Air For ce Base, $ 166,5 72.
ATLANTA : .J. A. Jones C onst ruc-
tion Co. , constr uc tion of shop bui lding a t R ed ston e Ar senal, $389,618 .
CO LUM BU S : Wright Co n trac ting Co ., Inc., flood protecti on and navi gation proj ect a t An acostia R iver Basin , $ 735,84 7.
A U GUSTA : Sou the rn Ro adbuild ers, In c., a irfield paving a t Pin ecastl e Ai r For ce Base, $ 1,8 17,09 1.
STATHA AI: Sta tham G a I' m c n t Co rp., m en's cotto n t rousers, $44,900.
ATHENS: Dixie C an ne r C o., ca nni ng eq uipme n t, $18 ,48 4.
CE DA RTO W N : Ce da rto wn T extile s, Inc., a rmy unifo rm cloth, $2,577 ,500.
DAWSO N : C inde rella Fo od s, peanut butter , $300 ,000 .
ATLA NTA: Am er ican Cotton Cooper ative Association , cotton, $3 5,860.
EA ST POINT: William Armstrong Smith Co., paint, $ 12, 798.
GRIFFIN : Pomona Product s Co. , pimi entos, $16 ,136.
ELLIlAY : Southe rn Lumber and M anufact uring Co ., pa llet s, $11 ,600.
SAVANNAH : Co lonia l Oi l Industri es, Inc., fu el oil, $15,400 .
lONESBOR O: G e o r g i a M ap le Block Co. , top s, $28 ,067 .
ATLANTA : Ander son, C lay ton & Co ., (two con trac ts ) cotton, $428,855 .
SA VA N NAH : Savannah Sug a r R efinin g Co rp., (two con t rac ts) sug a r, $30,655 .
ATLA NTA : C ook & Co., Inc., cotton , $71,320.
MARlETTA : Lo ckh eed Aircr aft C or p ., m odification of planes, $258, 140.
ATLANTA : Geor ge H . M cFadden & Bro s. Agen cy, cotton, $35 ,680.
C OLUM BUS: Wright C onstruc tion Co ., const ruc tion of barracks at Fort
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NEWSL ETTER

D ecember 1954

Jekyll Island Bridge Opens Gate

, 0 Fabulous Georgia Playground

With the ded icat ion of th e $800,000 J ekyll Creek toll bridge on D ecember 11, Georgi an s were giv en ready ac cess to Jekyll I sland , th eir new est a nd mo st gla mo u rous St at e Park.
Governor H erman T almadge, GO\'rrnor-clcct M arvin Griffin , members of th e Georgi a cong ressional del egation and numerous other di gnitaries were on h a nd for the ceremoni es that lin ked th e fab ulou s form er mi llionaires ret rea t to the ma in land . J ekyll has been a St at e Park since 1947 , but until th e bridge was built across th e tid ewa te r creek and th e M arshes of Glynn, it was accessible only by boat.
The isla nd has been idl e while the bridge wa s u nd er cons t ruc tion ami sta te cre ws wer e repairing th e ex te nsion of U . S. R oute 84 which leads to it . M eanwhile, convict labor, wor king under direction of th e .Jeky ll Is land St ate P ark Authority, has been read ying th e island for th e public.
A m aj est ic four-lan e highway h as been paved ac ross th e wai st of the island lea d ing from th e b ridge to the
Visitors Inspect Clark Hill Station

beach 3,100 feet aw ay , and 13 mile s of p erimet er road and severa l arrt-ss ro ads are under cons truc tion. Pa rt s of th e island haw been sta ked off for resid ential and bu sin ess sites, bid s for whi ch a rc in th e hands of th e Au tho ritv. M ot el a nd hotel sites a rc included in" th e latter gro u p, and , in ad d ition, th e Authority plans to lease th e pala tial j ekyll Island C lub house a nd scveral of th e "cottages" - mu lti -room pa laces erecte d b y the R ockcfcllcrs, V anderb ilts, P ulitZlTS an d M or gans- for the accommod ation of gues ts.
J ekyll, wh ose hi story goes back bevond the d av of white m en in Am eri ca. ~\" a s fir st se'tt led by Sp ani sh mission ~ a ries, lat er became a n outpost of O gle th orpe's colony, p assed to Fren ch owners, and fin all y, in 1887, was bou ght by a grou p of 100 soc ial and bu sin ess tv coons from th e North . 'For more than 50 vears it was th e m ost exclusive soei ~tv re nde zvous in the world. T he Sta te' of Georgia ac q uired th e isla nd for a pa rk in 1947.
The island, nine miles long a nd from one -fourt h to on e and on e-h alf mil es wid e, lies ncar th e cen ter of th e Georgia co astline, seven and one-ha lf w at er mil es sou theas t of Brunswick . I t is separa te d from th e m ainland by J ek yll

Creek on th e west , while on th e ea st lies th e Atl anti c O cean. On th e eas tern shore is a ha rd , firm bea ch hundred s of fee t wid e a t low tide, ex tend ing th e entire leng th of th e island and rat ed as one of th e best bea ch es on th e en tire sou thea ster n sea boa rd . On th e west, numerous tid a l rivers in terla ce th e marshes a nd su pp ly some of th e fin est fishing in th e cou n t ry.
Gov ernor T a lm adge hail ed th e new park as Georgia' s fines t sta te-owne d playground a nd ric hest tourist asset. Complet ion of th e T ur tle River Bridge next ye a r will, he pointed ou t, bring th e island par adise st ill closer to th e peop le of th e sta te and th eir gues ts.
Georgia's Baby Crop
Geo rg ia sta nds tw elfth in th e nation in babi es, and n inet eenth in "o lds ters," th e Atlanta field off ice of th e U. S. D ep art ment of Com mer ce re ports.
L at est figure on " b road ag e gro ups" comp iled by th e Bureau of Cen sus a nd ana lyzed "and released h er e by M errill C . Lofton, Commerce Department m an ag er , credited G eorgia wit h a to tal of 430,000 toddler s below th e agp. of fiv e, a nd some 236 ,000 per son s 65 years old a nd over.
In th e schoo l ag e group , or those from 5 to 17 years old , Georgia was given a total of 924,000 in the latest est im a t e.

Clark H ill D am, which stre tches across th e Savannah River a t Augus-
ta to South Ca rolin a , recentl y ope ne d th e d oors of its power pl ant to visitors ,
All th e cons tructio n a t Cl ark H ill by
th e U . S. Corps of Engin eers has been co mple ted . They have been working
on the project for nine years. Clark H ill Re servoir, a lak e of 70,000 a cres , has 1, 100 mile s of sho reline .
The lak e is a popular pl a ce with swim me rs, ca mpe rs, fishing en th usiasts a nd picni ck ers. The power hou se ge nera tes ele ctric ity , a vailable to both South Carolin a an d Georgi a , a nd th e wh ole project is of aid to th e ar ea in flood con trol and soil conse rva tion, as well a s power product ion a nd r ecrea t ion .

C lark HilI D am , a p roj ect of the U .S. Co rps of E ng inee rs, locat ed near Aug usta on th e Savanna h Ri ver .

G EO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE

NEWSLETTER

D ecember 1954

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Baby Chicks in a Georg-ia hatchery.

Georgia Counting Chlckens Hatched

Georgia, th e nation's leader in the hatching of ch ickens for commer cia l purposes, will br eak her own record th is yea r.
In th e first ten months of 1954, com mercia l hatcheri es in th e st a te had produ ced an estim ate d 139,361,000 baby chicks. This is upwa rds of 8,000,000 more than the output for th e entire year 1953, a record br eak er up to that time.
This ye ar's ten-month production of comme rcia l ch icks in G eor gia was far in the lead of all other St ates in the United States, say t he U . S. D epartment of Agriculture and th c U . S. D epartment of Commer ce.
The nearest othe r state to G eor gia' s mark was Indiana with an output of 101,384,000 chi cks.
In th e firs t ten months of 1953, Georgia's production wa s 110,974,000 ch ic ks.

Champion Home Towns
Top honors in the Georgia Pow er Company 1954 Champion Home Town Contest went to Mon ti cello as sweep stakes award winner. First place winners in th eir population groups were Swainsboro, Sylvester and Greenvill e. A total of 40 a wards wer e made to comm unities for civi c improvements.

New Industries (Con tinued from Page 4)

L oca tion
Gillsv ille Griffin Griffin J esup L awren cevill e L awren cevill e Lumpkin M cDonough Macon M a con Manchester M arietta M arietta Ma rietta M arietta M etter Mi llen Milledg evill e Monroe M onroe Monroe Monroe Moultrie Moultrie M yr tle
Newnan Nor cro ss Quitman R ed O ak R o ch e lle Rome Rome Rome Rome R utled ge Sandersville Savannah Savannah Savannah Savannah Savannah Sav annah Sen o ia Sp arta St atesboro Suwa nee Sv lv a n i a S~lvester Tifton Tifton U nive te r Valdost a Vidalia V i d a lia Vida lia
Vi enna
Vinings
Waverly Hall
Waycro ss

Indust r y
H ewe ll Pottery Co.
l Howard Holan Co rp .
St owe-Woodward, Inc. Pig Green Acr es Feed Mill Bctt cr-Bilt Product s, Inc. Ohio Table Pad Co. Mallard Fram e Co ., Inc. Southern Saw Works, I nc. Borden Co . Dep endable Lumber Co. Internation al L a tex Corp. Furniture Craftsm an , Inc. G riml and Co . National Core Sto ck Co . Zipp & K leven Frozen Foods M etter Mfg. Co . W ade Woods Co . Milledgeville 'F eed Mi ll Carwood Mfg. Co. Driwood Corp. Chas. W. H enson Mfg. Co. L. F. Swan son Co . A. G. Cl em ents Co. ' Varn er Bro thers Co. Southea stern Seed
E levator Co . International Latex Corp. R ock City Box Co . Br ooks County H osier y Mill Southern States F eed Corp. Ro chelle Mfg. Co . E leam & Gran t L umber Co . V eri-Best Egg Corp. Yarborough Lumber Co . S & W Antenna Co. Thurmond Mfg. Co. G eorgia K aolin Co . American C yanamid Co . Bri ght Lumber Co. Hobbins Mi lling Co . E. W . Jackso n & Co . Kraft Equipment Co. R eadi Potato Co.
.J. Ben Sh apiro Co.
Sp arta Furniture Mfg. Co . Electronics Company D ewev H erndon C o. S. A. 'Allen Wood Ya rd Norman L ee Boat Co.
.J. W . Tindall Co .
Rank- W ell Enterprises T. B. Bradshaw Co. Oberman Mfg. Co. Collins Corp. Dixie Eggs , Inc. Vidalia M fg. Co.
J oiner Assembly Co .
Edmunds-Hill, Inc.
L. D . & H . B. R eeves Co .
P ier ce Sh oe M fg. Co .

Product
cera mic pieces metal products rubber products feed s metal and wir e product s tab le pad s picture frames la wn mow ers , saws dai ry produc ts lu m b e r infants' wear, pillows, gird les furniture metal product s furniture frozen foods apparel wood en too l handles feed s work p ants building p artitions work uniforms met al cabine ts, spec ialties metal products foundation garments
gra ms infants' wear, pillows, girdles p ap er boxes hosicr v feed s ' shir ts, slips lu mber egg processing lumber antennas shir ts kaolin chemica ls l u m b er feeds wood products paper making machiner y frozen foods pants furniture electro nic devices furniture lu m b e r boat bui lding meat p ro cessing pl asti c br ead trays feeds, poultry processin g appa rel soft drink s, .lolipops egg processmg women's underga rmen ts
wa ter pumps
furniture
chairs
sho es

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GEORGIA DEPARTM ENT OF CO M MERCE

NEWSLETTER

D ecember 1954

Monroe Represents Georgia's Growth
By Establishment of Four New Plants

Monroe, in Walton County, is one of th e state's mos t en terp rising towns of 1954. In on e year this commun ity of less than 5,000 p eop le ha s seen th e construct ion of four new manufacturing plants.
The new industries have adjacent sites on a sloping hillside along U. S. Rou te No. 78. The bui lding sites are in the pro cess of being landscap ed and will m ake a h andsome industrial bou levard as th e gateway to th e town .
Mu ch of th e cre dit for bringing this additional employme n t and payro ll to Monroe is du e to th e alert Chamber of
Commer ce whi ch is headed by .J. L.
M cGarity.

now , and as th e plant facili ties expand, so will th e number of th e sta ff. Some of Driwood's partitions have been used in th e Miami H erald bui lding in Miami, and in th e Lo ckh eed Air craft plant at Marietta . The comp any is in th e process of filling three government contra cts now . M . 1. Berger is own er of Driwood .
Another spr ing mov er to Monroe was th e Ch arl es W. H enson G arment Manufacturing Co., In c. This concern a lso has a plant in Lawren ceville. The compa ny makes "R ed Fox" work uni forms of m at ch ed shirts and pants. While th e ma jority of sh irts will con-

C lose on th e heels of these three, th e L. F . Swanson Compan y, In c., of Jamestown , N . Y., a nnounced its p lan s to move to M onroe. The bui lding, now under construction, will con tain 45,000 squ ar e feet , with a n additional bui ldin g of th e same size, to be erec ted in 1955. Six teen freight cars wer e required to bring th e comp any 's m achin ery used in making metal hospital and kit ch en ca bine ts, fish ing and tool boxes an d other m et al spe cialties. I BM and Westinghous e a re two major custom ers of th e firm . Som e 250 peop le will be emp loyed making Swanco produ cts, and three Swan son famili es will make their homes in M onroe to form part of th e administration of th e conce rn.
In addition to th ese four new industri es of 1954, Monroe is th e home of th e Southern Pou ltry Co ., whi ch began op -

The first of th e four n ew ind ustri es to settle in Monroe was th e Carwood Manufacturing Co . This garmentmaking firm already had on e p lant in downtown Monroe, one in Cornelia and

on e in Winder. This year they decided to exp and, and in th e exp ansion, in clude th e n ew h eadquarters. The new plant, whi ch has some 55,000 squar e

T he new pl an t of the Carwoo d Manufacturing Co. , ga rment makers.

feet of floor spa ce, houses over 100 em p loyees who have started th e m aking of men's work pants. The downtown

Monroe plant is con tinu ing operation on other garments. The firm is own ed by Clair Harris.

T he Chas , W. H enson Co. ma kes th e " Red Fox" lin e of work uni for ms.

Soon af ter Carwood, th e Driwood Corp., transplanted its home from P lainfield, N . ]., to Monroe. Its p la nt is a long, low, white building, and, though not yet comp lete, is alre ady being used for making the comp any's bui lding partitions. The partitions are made of steel, asb estos, wood and aluminum. Som e 75 p eop le ar e emp loyed

tinue to be manufactured in La wrenceville, the new Monroe plant will mak e the tro users and be th e shipping point for th e uniforms . To begin with, th e Monroe enterprise will emp loy up to 150 p eopl e, with a gradual in crease as op er ations ge t under wa y. The p lant begins its work this month .

erations th er e about 18 months ago. This p lant employs some 150 peop le wh o process 45,000 chickens per da y.
Other Monroe plants th at hav e been there for some tim e include two sewin g p lants, two large cotton mi lls, two fer tilizer p lants, an oil mill and three cot ton gin s.

Government Contracts

(Con tinued from Pa ge 4 )

Benning, $3,540,346.

ATLANTA : Eu gen e B. Smith & Co ., Inc., cotton, $89,550.

ATLANTA : Zac-Lac Paint & Lac-

F rom New J ersey came the D riwood Corp ., p rod uci ng pa rtitions.

qu er C orp., pa int , $19,260 . AUGUSTA : Southern Roadbuilders,
Inc. , paving at Moody Air Force Base,
V aldosta, $205 ,630. ATLANTA: Walker Electrical Co .,
switchboa rds, $382,848 . AUGUSTA : 1'. B. K ing Lumber
C o., lumber, $41,348. ATLANTA : Monarch Mfg. Co ., co-

T he L. F . Swanso n Co., form erl y of New York, makes metal products.

co beverage powder , $289,127 .

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O ne of the fin est yo u th cen ters in th e cou ntry was r ecently opene d a t Rock E agle Pa rk in Putnam Co u nty, a few mile s from Eatont on .
De dica tion of th e Georgia 4- H C lub ccn tel' took pla ce with colorful cxr-rciscs, wi th GO\TrI10r. Ta lma dg e mak ing th e dedi cation speec h and out lini ng th e hist or y of th e p roj ect. T he a cce p ta nce
of th e cen ter for the Agricult ural E xu -nsion Se rvice, U n ive rsity of Georgia , Co llege of Agricultu re, was spo ken b y D . C. Ad erhold, p res iden t o f th e Un ivcrsit v. .Jer ry Whit esid e, Stat e 4-H C lub Co u nci l president, was ma ster of cere mo nies, an d sta te a nd nati on al 4- H club lead er s spo ke.
Back in the 1940's 4-H club lead er s envision ed a cen tr ally loca ted spo t wh er e dub m embers could a tte nd su m mer ca m p to lea rn mo re a bou t farm-
in g . In 1948, the fir st ste p toward suc h
a pla ce was tak en when th e Geo rgia 4-H Found at ion wa s or gan ized to ITccivc and handle fund s for such a p roj ect.
In 1950 th e site for the cen te r was found when su pe rvisors of the Piedmont and U p per O cm ulgee Soil Co n scrva tio n Di st ricts agr eed to te rminate th eir lea se to 1,452 acres of land a nd the 110- a ClT la ke th at constitu te Rock E agle Parl,- T his per mitted th e U . S. Secr et ary of Agri eu ltu re to tr an sfer th e property to th e Boa rd of R egents of

th e U niversity Sys tem of Georgia for use in its 4-H progr am. A year la ter, g ro u nd-b re a king exercises wer e held .

Rock E agle Park is so-nam ed becaus e it is th e sit e of a huge outlin e of a n eagle, formed by an ea rl y people.

E ntranc e to the new 4- H cen ter nea r Eatonton whi ch was dedi ca ted on O ctober 30th.

New Industries (Con tin ued fr om Pag e 6 )

Location W a vr ro ss
Whitcston e Wood burv ' ''rens .

I nd ustr y
Springfield Bod y & T ra iler Co .
M arb le Product s Co. ' Voodb ur v Business Forms M artin Mi lling Co .

Product tank tr ailers
roo fing , terrazzo p rinted form s feed s

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NEWSLET TER.

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by

GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* S. MARVIN GRIFFI N Gov e r n o r BOARD OF COMMISSIO NER S

EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP

* SCOT T CANDLER Secre tary NELSON M. SH IPP
Assista nt Secretary
ALICE T. CREIGHTO N Editor

Vol. 6, No.3

January 1955

J a nua r y 1 95 ~)

1954 Industrial
Listings Inc rease
Industries whi ch established in Geo rgia in 1954 which were not included in th e D ecemb er issue of th e N ewslett er in th e new industries listing are :
Appalachian Minerals Co .-Monticello- feldspar.
Wm. Carter Co .-Thom aston-Under wear.
Crowe Printing Ink Co .- St. M ar ys - p rinting ink.
Dubs Machine Shop-Nashv illemet al products.
Fawn, Inc.- Atl anta-infants' wear.
Forrest Mills - Calh oun - cotton ru gs.
Keith Feed & Poultry Co.-Etonfeed .
Lunsford Bros.- Chatsw orth-feed .
Southern Wire & Iron Co.-Decatur - me ta l products.
Sun Styles of Georgia, Inc.-Hawkinsville- sportswear.
Thomson Co.-Harl em-pants.
Vickery Lumber Co.-Hartwelllumber.
West End Ice & Freezer Locker Co . -Quitman-poultry p rocessing.
Wilbert Burial Vault Co.-Maconburial va ults .
Wilco Co.-Newn an-Iumber .
H . G. Williams Co.-Ashburn- feed .

- C arolyn Cart er
" Couriers of Pow er"-high volt age wires fr om Pl ant Yat es, near Newna n, ca rry elect ric power through th e west central portion of Georgia .

Atl anta: Georgia Highway Co nferen ce, DinkIer- Plaza , Feb. 6-9.
Atl an ta : Sixth An nua l Georgia Credit Clinic, Atlanta Divi sion, U niversity of Georg ia , Feb ru ary 10.
Atlan ta: Georgia, Alabama, and No rth Carolina Co tton Ginners' Associa tion , Biltmor e H ot el, Februa ry 1516.
Atlanta: R ailway D evelopmen t Association, Dinkier -Plaza , Feb. 17-18.
Atlanta : T hird An nua l I nstitute for Secretaries, At lan ta Di vision, University of Georgia, February 17-18.
Au gusta: Geo rgia Sta te Flor ists' Association, Bon Air H ot el, Feb. 19-23.
Atlanta: Atlanta Graduate Medical Assemb ly, Biltmore H ot el, Feb. 2023.
Aug usta : Georgia Sta te H ospital Association, Bon Air Ho tel, Feb. 23-25.
Atlanta : Sou thea stern Federation of

Women's Clu bs, H enr y Grady Ho tel, Fe b. 23-24.
Athens: Georgia Press I nstitu te, U niversity of Georgia, Febru ary 23-26 .
Sa vannah : Savanna h Contract Bridge Tournamen t, H ot el D eSo to, Feb. 2527.
Atlanta : Georgia Society of Prof essional E ngin eers, Di n kier -Plaza , Feb. 26.
CA MELLIA SHOWS :
Albany-Feb. 5-6. F ort Valley- Feb . 16. Thomaston- Feb. 17. Atlanta-Feb. 19-20. M arshallville- Febru ary 23.
COVER PHOTO
T he plant of th e Sout hern Natural Gas Compan y a t Ellerslie mak es a dramati c indust rial view in this night photograph.-Phot o by Carolyn Car ter.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

J anu a ry 1955

SCOTT .CANDLER APPOINTED

HEAD OF COMMERCE DEPT.

On .J an uary 12, 1955, Scott Candler
too k th e oath of office as Secr et ary of th e Geor gia D epa rt men t of Commerce, th e pos ititi on to wh ich he was appoin ted by Gov ernor M arvin Griffin.

1\' '11'. Candler was born in Decatu r, DeK al b Co un ty, and is th e son of the lat e Ch arles Murphy Cand ler , form er cha irman of the Georg ia Publi c Service Co m mission.

Aft er a tte nding th e D on ald F razer Sch ool in Decatur, Mr. Candler went to D avid son Co llege in N orth Carolina , a nd af ter his graduation th er e returned to Georgia and attended th e At lanta Law School. F or years he pract iced law in Atla nt a a nd D ecatur, occup ying offices in th e H eal y building in Atlan ta .
Du rin g World War I Scott Candler served in the 328th regim en t of infan try, 82nd divi sion of th e Am er ican Expe dit iona ry Forces, holdi ng th e ran k of ca p tain. H e was awarde d th e silver st ar a nd th e Pu rpl e H ea rt for distinguished valor in service.
Returning to p rivate life, Mr. Candler was a D em ocr ati c E lector in 1936 a nd was a memb er of the St ate Dem ocra tic Ex ecutive Committee. H e was elected as a member of th e Cit y Commi ssion of D ecatur and was named ch airma n of th at bod y.
T hc new head of th e Commerce D epartment was elected DeK alb County Commissioner in 1939 a nd served until th e en d of 1954 as sale county com m issioner. D ur ing his service in th at office M r. Candler was t he cen tral figur e in the phenomenal developmen t of that coun ty which a ttract ed nati onwid e acc laim . From th e beginn ing of his ter m of off ice he carried ou t a pla n wh ich brought th e county 69 n ew in dust ries, distributing plants and p rocessing conce rn s.
When th e State P ark Authority wa s reacti vat ed in 1948, Governor T al-

- Kislek
Scott Candler
madge n amed Mr. Ca ndl er chairma n of th at group . Its chief purpose has been to develop Ston e M ountain as a nati onal memorial to th e Con fed er acy a nd as a tourist att raction, bringing visitors from all p arts of th e count ry.
Scott Candler is a memb er of the Board of Trustees of David son College and of th e Board of Trustees of Agn es Scott Co llege. H e is a memb er of th e K appa Alpha fraternity, M asons, Elks a nd th e Atl anta Athleti c Club. H e is a p ast St ate Com mander, D epartment of Georgia, th e Ameri can Legion , a nd Past Pr esident of th e Associa tion of County Commissioner s of Georgia .
Poultry Plant
The West End Icc & F reezer Locker Co. of Q UITMAN ha s opened a modern po ultry process ing pla nt , which wh en under maximum p roduction will be ab le to p rocess 600 broilers per h our, employing 20 peo ple. The processed poultry will be sold throughout south Georgia.

Candler Launches
State Industrial
Site Survey
To County and Municipal O fficials, Chambers of Commerce of Georgia and C ivic Clubs of Georgia:
Governor Marvin Griffin has given me th e pri vilege of serving in his administrati on as Secretary of the Georgia D ep artment of Commer ce.
In thi s office we hope to stimulat e th e flow of new industries and tourists into Georgia . In thi s way our local taxabl e va lues a nd ou r state revenues will be incr eased .
We can on ly succeed in this objective if we h ave the cooper a tion of all our coun ty a nd municip al officials, chambers of commerce and civic clubs.
We wish to comp ile an inventory of available industrial sites in Georgia, showing utilities suc h as electric pow er, natural or a rtificial ga s, and water. We should also know th e location of ever y building in Georgia that is av ailable for new indust ry.
We a re bringin g our files up to date in such material and earnestl y request th e aid of all Georgian s.
We shall commu nicate directl y with you soliciting your help and coop eration.
Yours re spectfully,
SCOTT CANDLER Secr e t a r y Georgia D epartment of
Commerce.
SHORT COURSES AT TIFTON
The following short courses ar c scheduled in February at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton. They a re sponsored by the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment St ation and th e college.
D ai ryin g-Feb. 1.
Bank er s Farm C redit-Feb. 2-3.
The Usc of Electricit y on FarmsFeb. 10.
Farm M achinery Maintenance Shop - Feb. 14-15 .
Pastures-Feb. 17
Beef Cattle-Feb. 18.
Swin e-Feb . 22. H ome Crafts-Feb . 24-25 .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

1anuary 1955

1955 FINDS GEORGIA

En tering 1955, G eorgia is in a Golden Age. H er swee p forwa rd in all field s of ende avo r a nd progr ess in recent years, espec ially during th e last decade an d a half , has been breathtak ing. T od ay, every sign po in ts to an even rich er fu ture.
The la test fed eral incom e figures mirr or our prosperity. T hey show th a t Georgians in 1953 received total in come of $4,245,000,000, th e high est on record . T his was a rise of nearl y a q ua rter of a billion doll ar s over 1952 . It was an increase of $3,289,000,000, or 355 p er cen t, in th e last quarter cen t u r y.
The 1953 total, four and a quarter billion dollars, reflects an income of $ 1,184 for every resident of th e state. In 1939 , Georgia's per capital income wa s onl y $329. Our increase over the IS-year period, 360 per cent, is the second highest per capita income gain in th e United States.
No t only ar e Georgians m aking mor e m on ey now th an ever befor e, but th ey a re sav ing m ore. This is sho wn by our ba nk deposits. Operating banks in the state a t th e beginning of 1955 carried deposits tota ling $2, 101,623,000. Compared with $50 1,000,000 on de-

posit back in 1940, this wa s a ga in of 420 per cen t. G eor gian s also h ave upward of $6,000,000 ,000 of life insuran ce in for ce.
Comparison s as striking as th ese a re evident in th e record of almost everv phas e of G eorgia life tod ay- agri cu ltur e, manu fa ct uring , comme rce, fina nce, ed ucation, welfa re, gover nment. In thi s review for th e sa ke of brevity, analysis will be limited to two of th ese fields-two t ha t a re highl y imp ortan t to th e sta te's economic pi cture- agri cu ltu re and industry.
AGRICULTURE
In 1939, sixteen yea rs ago , Geor gia's tot al cash farm incom e was $ 158,49 2,000 . In 1953, it h ad leaped to $651, 924,000 , a ga in of 395 pcr cent.
Of the 1939 total, $97 ,413 ,000 wa s from crops and $35,285,000 came from livestock and livestock products. Of the 1953 figure, c r 0 p s contributed $375,199,000 and livestock and livestock products amounted to $259,483,000. In other words, Georgia's livestock industry has expanded to such an extent it now brings our farmers a hundred million dollars more than they received for their entire production,

In specting broilers at a Georgia poultry processing plant.

GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

crops and livestock, sixteen years ago.
" K ing Cotton" still reigns suprem e amo ng our field crops, with 1953 receip ts for lint and seed tot aling $139,40 3,000. In 1940, wh en we harvest ed a pp roxima tely th e sa me acreage as last yea r, 1,400,000 acr es, our receip ts were $5 9 ,5 24, 0 00 .
Geor gia' s pea nut prod uction in 1953 wa s th e la rgest for an y sta te, a nd peanuts adde d $55,930,000 to ou r cash far m incom e. Peanu t receipts fift een yea rs befor e were $ 19, 193,000 .
Sp eak of peanuts in G eorgia, and our fam ou s peanut-fed hams come to mind . Our hog production receipts in 1953 wer e $59 ,3 11,000, a figure eight tim es larger th an receip ts from swine in 1940.
In 1939, Georgia coun ted 953,000 head of ca t tle a nd calves. I n 1953, our livestock population h ad risen to 1,439,000 head . In the same p eriod , th e value of our livestock sa les climbed from $6,484 ,000 to $27,298,000.
The valu e of Gcorgia dairy prod uct s rose fr om $29,663,000 in 1939 to $4 3,8 25,000 in 1953.
Poultry Leader
Ge orgia is the broiler capital of th e world, but this important industry was ju st getting sta r ted fifteen yea rs ago. At that time, we produced 3,500,000 broilers worth $1,495,000. Our 1953 production wa s 121,631,000 birds valued at $93,826,000. This was an increase of 8 per cent over the 112,621,000 broilers produced in 1952, and the 1953 valuation was 6 per cent above th e $88,610,000 figure for 1952. Nineteen hundred fifty-three was the third consecutive year Georgia led the nation in chicken broiler production, and the sixth con secutive year in which our own production and value records were surpassed. Since 1950, income from broilers has topped that of any other Georgia farm ca sh crop except cotton.
In addition to being th e world's ch ief broiler producer , Georgia lead s th e United St ates in th e h atching of chickens for commercia l purposes. In th e first ten months of 1954, we p roduced 139,361,000 ba by chicks. This is upwards of 8,000,000 more th an th e entire ou tpu t for 1953, which was a re cord brea ker up to that time. Besid es ninet ythree and a half million dollars from broilers, ou r eggs brought $30,6 11,000

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and our chicke ns $4,6 12,000, a total of $ 129,049,000.
Crop Receipts
Georg ia leads th e sta tes in th e n ation , excep t California, in cash receipts from th e sale of p ea ch es. Our 1953 crop brou ght $8,590,000. And we again d isti ngui shed ou rselves by bein g th e only sta te to produ ce pi mi ent o pepper s in comm ercial qu antities. The r cturn from our pi m iento cro p was $2,240,000.
Our tob a cco c I' 0 P receip ts we r e $69, 205,000.
R eceipts fr om othe r Georgia fa rm
crops and p roduct s in 1953 wer e: turkeys $2,3 16,000, corn $9,239,000, soybea ns $ 1,210,000, pot atoes, $245,000, watermelons $6,033,000, hay $ 1,940,000, oa ts $8,184 ,000, wheat $4,3 16,000, swee t p otatoes $2,050,000, snap bea ns $ 1,204,000, t all fescu e seed $367,000, p ecans, $7,272,000, for es t p roduct s $34,634,000, green ho use an d nursery product s $6,285,000, tomatoes, $4,050,000, sugarca ne for syrup $ 1, 138,000, green lima bean s $729,000 , cucu mbers $1,187,000, lupine seed $ 1,097,000, ca n tal oupes $ 1,029,000, lesped eza seed $ 1,0 13,000, cowpe as $822,000, crimson clover seed $749,000, cabbage $656,000, onions $228,000.
Georgia's total farm aereage today is approximately the same as it was in 1935, two and a half million acres, but its total value has jumped from $429 ,-

755,000 to $1,114,506,000, a rise of 375 per cent. In 1935, this acreage was divided into 250,544 sep a rate farm parcels, averagin g 101 acres in size, and eac h worth less than $1,700. By 1950, the date of the latest Federal farm cen sus, the total number of farms in G eor gia had shrun k to 198,191, but the average farm had grown in size to 129.9 acres and the average value had sp rung to $5,623.
Today, more th an 80 per cen t of th e fa rm s in Georgia ha ve electricity. T he re are 75,162 fa rm t ract ors in u se a nd 66,823 farm trucks. T he number of mo to r ca rs regis tered in our ru r al sec-

nating. Empl oym ent was 130,000. T h e pa yroll was $ 108,000,000. Our en tire manufa cturing ou tp u t was $677,000,000.
Today we in Georgia hea r th e wheels whirrin g in more th an 7,300 pla nts whos e en terprises are so diversified it would require a d ir ect or y to list th em. Our m a nufacturing em ploym en t has risen to 328,000 workers , a ga in of 2 18 per cen t ov er a d ecad e a nd a hal f. O ur presen t p ayroll is a m illion a nd a q ua rt er doll ars, an a dvan ce of 1,100 per cen t. Our p ro d uction in 1953 came to more th an fo ur billion doll ars.
Statistics compiled by the U . S. D epart ment of th e Census sho w th at Georgia manufacturers spe n t an esti mate d tota l of .$143,866,000 in new p la n ts an d eq uip men t in 1953, a n in crea se of 38.8 per ccn t ov er suc h expe nd itu res in 1952, and th e cigh th la rgest ra te of rise in th e nation . Th is is one hundred twcn tv- Iivc m illion doll ars m or e th an the t~ t al spent in new pl ants and eq uipmen t in th e state in th e eomparati vc period fifteen yea rs ago .

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tion s is grea ter th an th e number of fa r m s.
In 1935, 50 per cen t of t he fa rms in Georgia we re ope ra ted by ten ants. No w three of cverv fo u r fa rm s ar e operated by owne rs , T han ks to th e big rise in fa r m incom e and p roduction , m an y ten ants have bee n ab le to accumulate th e fin an cial m ean s to buy a farm of th eir own . M an y oth ers, p articul arly th ose located on margin al and un econ omi c farms, th e share croppers , have been afforde d the opportu n ity of bette ri ng them selves an d leavin g far ming en tir ely to fill job s in our expand ing bu sin ess and indust ry.
INDUSTRY
Fifteen years ago, Geor gia had abo u t 3,000 m anufacturer s of all kinds with th e tr ad iti on al co tto n mill pred omi-

Improvements
T he report listed $93,937)000 as having bee n spen t for im p rovem ent by esta blishmen ts in operations, incl uding $32,778,000 for new struc tu res and ad d it ion s, and $6 1,159,000 for new mach ine ry a nd eq uipmen t. Est ablishments under construc tion spe n t $49,929,000, of which $ 17,221,000 went in to structu re s a n d ad d itions, and $32,708,000 for new m a chinery and equip m en t.
The rate of in crease in industrial improvements in Georgia for 1953 over 1952-38.8 p er cen t- was far greater than that for the nation, which wa s est ima ted by the C ensus Bureau at 1.5 per cent, and also for the immediate southeastern region, which was placed at 8.6.
The va lue of Gcorg ia' s active in dustrial pl ants a nd the ir eq u ipme n t was more th an $850,000,000 in 1952. G eorg ians are confide n t th at the new gov ern me n t census of bu sin ess will find a consid er able in crease in thi s figure.
Georgia has been ad ding new industries a t th e rate of 200 a year sin ce the close of W orld W ar II . The an nual survey by the Georgia D ep artment of Co m merce, now in p rogr ess, shows th at
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Textiles, Food, Lumber
T ex tiles a rc still our chief man ufac tu re d product , a nd Georgia is ju stly proud of her gre a t cotton ma nu fa ctu ring indust ry. In 1953, ou r 300 texti le mills ga\'e employ me n t to 113,000 workers , wh ose p ay tot al ed four a nd a qu arter milli on doll ars. These mill s consumed 1.884.000 bale s of co tto n a nd turned ou t "fin ished p rodu ct s va lued a t $ 1,28::;,<JOO,000.
The seco nd most important of G eorgia' s now gre a tly di versifi ed industri es is th e m anufa cturing and processing of food . We liter ally set th e table- a banquet tabl e-for' th e world with our meats a n d dairy product s, c.m ncd . frost ed and dehydrat ed mea ts, vegetables a nd frui ts, prep ared gra ins. ba kery produ ct s, confec tions a nd beverages, The in finite va riety of food products pouring from Georgia plan ts in 1953 rea ch ed a tot al value of $843.000,000. This was a jum p of m ore than 600 per cent over ou r ou tp ut fif tecn yea rs befor e.
Food manufacture and processing is carried on in more than 800 plants all over Georgia, from the mountains to the seashore, and occupies some 34,000 regular employees. Their annual income in wages and sa laries is abo ve
S160,000,000.
Our third la rgest manufa cturing cnterprise is lumber. This classificati on includes logging, wood product s, container s and mi scellan eous wood p rocessing, but not pulpwood or furniture manufacturing. From 1939 to 1953, ou r lumber manufacturing ou tpu t mov ed up fr om $56,000,000 to $27 2,000,000 annually. Geo rgia now has a bo ut 3,000 plants in thi s ca tego ry . They em ploy 42,000 workers wh ose pa yroll tops $100,000,000.
Add to lumber m anufacturing our pulpwood ind ustry, whi ch prod uced $239,000,000 in 1953, a nd furniture m anufacturing, wh ose a n nua l output is $75,000,000, a nd one rea di ly sees wha t a gre a t revenue source arc our forests and woodlands. We h ave recently add ed three new pulp mill s, representing an investment of $100 ,000,000 . These bring to 14 the state's total of pulp a nd paper m anufacturing pl ants.
In n aval stores, a grea t by-product

- E d Friend The Kinsley Mill a t Thomson, fully air cond it ioned, mak es filament rayon fabrics.

of our pines, Georgia h as led th e country in produ ction since Colon ia l da ys.
New G iants
r\ com pa ra tive newcom er to Ge or~i a 's industrial field , hut now one of its giants, is th e manufacture of transportation equipment. This ca teg ory in cludes, airplanes, automobiles, trucks, sh ips, boats and railroad rolling stock.
In 1939, we had 16 t ransportation eq uipme nt pla nt s. T heir combined pa yroll was 2,325 wor kers wh ose an nu al wages wer e $3,005,190. Their to tal outpu t was $22,115,000 .
~ v 1953, we h ad 100 m anufa cturer s of transport ati on eq u ipme nt, including some of the biggest a irpla ne a nd au to mobil e assem bly plants in th e count ry . Their em ployees number mor e th an 25,000, eno ug h to populat e a fair sized city. Their annua l p ay is above $1 20,000 ,000 . The va lue of th eir ou tp ut is $4 16,000,000 . Geo rg ia's biggest p ayroll to d ay is an a irp la ne asse mbly p la nt.
D ivers ity
These are our big industries, but we have dozens of sm a ll ones that are proportionately va luable. More and more apparel manufacturers, metal processors, and ch emical plants arc "discovering" Georgia.
In th e fift een yea r peri od under d iscussion, a pparel -making establishme n ts have increased from 157 to 500. em plo ym ent in thi s field h as gone ' fr om 17,000 to 38,000, th e payr oll has gro wn

from $9,900,000 to $78,000 ,000, a nd th e ou tput is up fro m $ 14,900,000 to .$+2,000,000.
Geo rg ia 's industries p o u l' ou t a world's necessities and luxu ries in an unending stre am, for Geor gi a has no ex t remes of hea t or cold and th e wheels of indust ry can hum 365 d ays a nd nights in th e yea r. N ew manuf a cturers arc draw n bv th e sta te's a lmost inex ha ustible store of natural resources, by unlimited hydro-electric pow er , by a mod ern, fast tr an sportation system, by a system of tax ation th at has no coun terpar t in th e United St ates, for fairness to bu siness and progress.
But Geo rg ia's gre a tes t attra ction for indus try, perhaps, is her amazing suppl y of n at ive, fri endly, intelligent, will ing lab or . T en s of thousand s of Georgians wh ose fin ger s learned skill a t farm chores a nd hom e cr afts h ave en listed under th e new banner of industry, a nd th er e a rc other th ou sands aw aiting th e ca ll of the work whi stl e in their St ate's Golden Age.
Wayside Park
T he town of HARTSFIELD in Co lqu itt C ou nty will soon be th e site of a new waysid e pa rk. A q uarter-acre tr a ct of land h as been donat ed by Mrs. J osie Mi ms for th e p ro ject , th e county has used its m achinery to level th e land and th e citizens of Hart sfield are landscap ing th e a rea to m ak e it a scenic p icni c pla ce for th e conve n ience of motorists traveling through thi s region of south Geo rgia .

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N EWS LETTE R

J anu a ry 1~F}.'i

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Carpet Company
FO R SYTH has been chosen by th e Artloom Carpet Company for a branch plan t for th eir operations. A ha lf mi llion dolla r bu ild ing will be bui lt, with a n a rea of 80,000 square feet . T he com pa ny will em ploy abo ut 150 peop le in th e manufact ur e of ca rpe ts a nd ru gs.
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Hawkinsville Plant
An other new garment manufacturing plan t started op erations in J an ua ry at HAWKI N S VILL E. Su n Styles of Ge orgia, Inc., with hom e offic es in Hileah, F la., ope ne d a bra nch plan t under th e m anagership of H al Mi rsky for th e ma king of ladi es' sportswear. Under full p rod uct ion up to 70 peo ple will be em ployed by th e compa ~ ny. T h e firm is occupying the P ulaski Coun ty fa irgrou nds build ing.
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Vidalia Industry
Announcem ent h as been mad e in V I DA L IA of a new m anu facturing plan t of ladi es undergarmcnts. Prod uct ion wh ich has just recen tly gotten under way em ploys some 100 people in a tempor ar y bu ilding. The conc ern called th e Vidali a M anufacturing Co mp any, will occupy new qu arters as soon as they are construc ted. M athew O xley is th e manager of th e pl ant.
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Thread VVarehouse
A new thread wareh ou se, operated by th e D elt a Th read Co m pa ny of Nashville, T enn. and An da lusia, Ala ., has been ope ne d in V I DA L IA und er th e managemen t of Frank Allen . The new en terprise will fac ilitate th e needle ind ustry in th at area .
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VVarner Brothers Expands
It was erroneo usly rep orted in th e last issue of th e Newsletter th at W arner Brothers Co ., M O ULTRI E, was a ne w 1954 ind ustrv. That conce rn h as been in lvIoultrfe making women's fou nda tion ga rmen ts sinc e O ct ober 1952. An expa nsion of th e industry took place in Novemb er 1953, a nd plan s were anno unce d in N ovemb er 1954 for th e construction of a new 25,000 sq ua refoot building. T he new plant will be bu ilt a t a cost of $200,000 . Em ployment in the new bui lding will approxi mately doubl e the presen t staff so that nearly 300 p eop le will occupy the plan t.

Branch Plant to Open
T he Thom son Co ., ga rm en t manu facturers of T HOll-IS ON, p lan to op en a new branch plant in Harlem , Columbia C ountv. The fir st unit of the plant is expec ted to start operat ions in the end of F ebru a ry. \ "hen th e concern reac hes full prod uction it will em ploy some 140 people p rod ucing 9,000 pairs of pants per week.
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P u lpwo od Y a rd
GA INESVIL LE is the site of a ne w four a nd a ha lf acre-p ulpwood yard und e r th e managemen t of G. E. Sco tt. T he vard is a ffilia ted with the R om e and ~Iacon K raft Com pan ies and will ma ke reg ula r sh ipme nts of pin e from th e Gainesville ar ea to tho se firms . The new pu lpwood yard will also offer a man agem ent p rogram fo r ma naging t racts of wood ed la nd. T he yard is expect ed to be in full ope ra tion by summer .
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Adds Neui Plants
G uy T h urmo nd, pr esiden t of th e T hu rmo nd M an ufacturing Company, has announ ced t h a t the conce rns branch p lant in R U T L ED GE will reop en for th e manu fa cture of sh ir ts, rmploying; 70 per sons.
The T hurmond plant at M ONTIC l~L LO will be replaced with a new building th ere, to con ta in 17,500 sq ua re feet of floor space, to p rovid e for over 200 em ployees.
Th e T hurmond firm has al so op en ed a plant for shirt making in DUL UTH , which will em ploy 250 at maxi m um p rod uction.
H eadqu arters fo r the com pa ny a re in M ad ison .
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Kod ak Expan si on
Eastm an K odak C ompany offi cia ls in CHA 1HBL EE hav e announ ced plans for a n expa nsion of their bu ilding , com plete d less than a yea r ago, to facilita te th e ra pid growth in th eir bu siness. The existing bu ilding con tai ning 115,000 square feet of floor space will have an addition of 18,800 square feet to be com pleted in th e summe r. The staff of 125 em ployees will also be inc re a sed .

Third Carter Plant
T HOMASTON will be th e h ome of th e third Geor gia plant of th e Will iam Ca rte r C o., of N eed ham H eigh ts, M ass., makers of un derwear. Th e com pa ny has purch ased a bo ut five ac res of land in T ho mas to n wh ere plans a re underway for a m od ern , one -story 24,000 sq ua re-foot bu ilding whi ch will be constructed as soon as possible. The com pa ny will employ 350 people in the new plant of which Vest er Bu tler h as been named supe rint endent.
T her e are 350 em ployed a t th e Carter pla nt in Forsyth , a nd 900 in th eir opera tions a t Barnesville. The Thomaston plan t will fini sh th e goods ma de in Ba rn esville, and make possible a n expa nsion there.
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Odors Combated
Airkem Sou theas te rn Ser vice is a new ma nufact uri ng a nd eng ineering firm at 229 C entral Ave. (H wy. 4 1) , Atl anta, specia lizing in counterac tion of com mer cia l and indu strial odors. L arry Tighe, ma nager , says his peopl e alread y h ave cleared up odo rs afte r severa l fir es in the area , as well as offensive odors ema nating fr om disp osal pla nts a nd m anu facturin g processes.
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New Moultrie Motel
At th e beginning of th e month th e T own T errace M ot e I op ened in M OULTRI E on U .S. R oute 3 19, G eor gia No . 35. The n ew motel is of brick construction, an d has 30 units, all air conditione d . It is owne d by Sou th Georgia M otels, I nc., an d managed by M r. and Mrs. P. R. Carn ey. The style of th e m otel is mod ern in a rch itect ure, an d th e surro unding grounds a re landscape d .
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New St. Mary's Industry
Th e C rowe Printi ng Ink Co . of Phil ad elph ia, Pa ., is getti ng opera tions underway a t a new br an ch plant in ST . MARYS, Camde n Co unty, this month . T he finn is em ploying approxima tely 25 people in a building whi ch h as been renovated fo r th e new ind ustry. Mi lton Gerwitz is manager of th e St. M a rys plant .

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General Ins trument Co rpo ratio n Se lects States bo ro For L arg e Plant

Genera l In strument Corp., electronic: instrume n t manufacturers, will begin ope rations in Statesboro in June. An nouncement of the en terp rise was released bv Abrah am Blumen krantz, chairma n'of th e boa rd of th e compa ny which ha s its headqua rt ers in Elizabeth, N ew J ersey, and othe r pla nt s in M assachusetts, Co nnecticut, Illinois, a nd O nt a rio.
The Statesboro pl ant is being built a t a cost of a milli on and a half dollar s; it will con ta in 106,000 squa re feet a nd house a half-million dollar s worth of equip men t. The conce rn will emp loy some 800 peopl e, m aking rad io and TV electronic componen ts, when fu ll produ cti on ' is a tta ined .
Ge nera l In strument Corp. askecl a factory locating service in N ew York to find an a pp ropriate pl ace for a nother pl ant for th eir company. Some thi rt y locati ons in th e U nited States were analyzed but th e service eliminated all but Sta tesboro. With th at recommenda tion, Gen eral In strum ent officials visited Statesboro withou t anyone th ere rea lizing th e a rea was being looked over as a potential plant site. All thi s took place in ea rly 1953.
In September 1953, th e St at esbor o Chamber of Commer ce with Mrs. J acqueline R owell as ma nager, a nd the subsidiary Bulloch County D evelopment Corp. with Thad M orris at th e helm , in coope ration with th e Georgia Employment Serv ice office in St atesboro , sent out a lab or survey letter to citizens of th e a rea . With a promi sing respon se, th e development eorpor a-

tion began collecting m 0 n e y a nd pled ges in Februar y 1954 to help finan ce the p lant building.
Gener al In strument Co rp. put up mon ey, a loa n from an insuran ce com pan y was secure d, and Bulloch County citizens p ledged th ousands of dolla rs in good fai th - th ey did not even kno w th e nam e of th e industry th at was int erested in settling a mong th em .
It was not until last July th at th e fin al decision for th e Gen er al Instrum ent Co rp.-Bulloch Coun ty partnership was m ad e a nd negoti ations completed . Contracts for th e design a nd the building of th e pl ant wer e let , a nd construc tion of th e building is now under wa y, wit h initi al production schedu led for June.
As M rs. R owell says, " , ,yhen offi cials of General In strument visited us withou t our knowin g it, th ey already had mor e inform ation in th eir hands tha n we knew about ourselves. So when negotiation s go t sta rted and th ey began asking questions, we h ad to be hon est -they a lready knew th e righ t answers !"
This is th e success storv of St atesboro and Bull och Cou n ty. Statesboro was judged on no glamo ur ous p rop aga nda- the town was chosen without anv inducemen ts from Statesbor o citizcn ry. Gen er al Instrument was allow ed to hav e th e site th ey wanted, a nd Bulloch County citizens coopera ted in every way, incl ud ing ra ising mon eyth ey own stock in a goo d investment, and th e company will lease th e p lant with th e op tion to bu y.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Government Contracts
lvfARIETTA : Lockheed Aircraft Co rp., modification of B-47 aircraft, $ 263,638 .
EA ST POINT : William Armstrong Sm ith Co., exterior tr affi c p aint, $5 1,000.
COLUM BUS: Valley Construction Co., crash fir e station a t Greenville Air Base, Mi ss., $60,fi03.
A T LANTA: Georgia T ech R esearch In stitut e, resear ch and development for inv estigati on of mu ltiple target resolution, $49,800.
SAVANNA H : Artley Co. , constru ction of three squad ron operations buildings, Hunter Air F orce Base, $168 ,689 .
ATLA NTA : Fuller and Pea cock, In c., two h igh explosive magazin es a t Cecil Fi eld , Fl orid a, $71,900.
DECATU R: H enry N ewton Co., construction of two-mil e creek brid ge at Buford Dam, $94, 180.
MA CO N: Croft-M ullins Electri c Co ., replacement of two p rimary electr ic feeders a t C he rry Point, N . C ., $70,35 1.
A UG USTA : G uy C. Sm ith Construction Co ., wea ther sta tion, $4 14,840 .
SAVANNA H: Colonia l Oil Industri es, In c., fuel oil, $29,400.
ATLA NTA : Li vsey & Co., In c., construction of heat plant addition building, R obin s Air Force Base, $ 114,271.
ATLANTA: M cD onough Construction Co ., airme n's dormitory, D obbins Air Forc e Base, $447,855.
}o/fA CON : Stillwell Co nstruction Co., combined crash and fir e sta tion , R obins Air Force Base, $108,03 1.
ATLA NTA : C rown Food Products, mayonnaise, .$20,156.

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NEWSLETTER

Februa ry 1955

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by

GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* S. MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COMMISSIO NERS

EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP

* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary

ALICE T. CREIGHTON Editor

Vol. 6, No. 4

February, 1955

Georgia Ads Beckon

Industry and Tourism
J anuar y and F ebruar y were m onths of int ensive ind ustrial ad verti sing for th e Geor gia D epa rtment of Co mmerce . O ur bid for th e economic betterm ent of the sta te th rough n ew ind ustry- and wh at Georgia has to offer new industry -was advertised in five nati onal m agazines . Tim e, Bu sin ess We ek, U. S. News & World R ep ort, Na tio n's Bu siness, an d N ewsw eek were th e publications that told our story .
Both U. S. N ews & W orld R ep ort and N ewsw eek will carry our adve rtisements in M a rch . The industr ial p romoti on will also a ppear in April in th e Blu e Book of Sout hern Progress.
April will also begin our touri st promo tion with an ad in O ut door L if e whi ch will ap pea l especially to fish ing enth usiasts. In M ay, more touri st appeal will be mad e in O ut door L if e aga in, Coron et, H olid ay and th e Nation al Geogra phic.
Look for th ese advertiseme nts to see what your D ep a rtment of Com me rce is doin g for th e promo tion of both indust ry a nd tourism for Georgia .
COVER PHOTO Along th e blu ff of th e Savannah R iver, ab ove th e wharfs behind Bay Street and F actors' R ow, a re th ese old retain ing walls which hav e a p atchwor k-quilt ap pearance. The walls a re made from stones brought from England as b allast in th e early sailing vessels.
- Photo by Carolyn Carter.

Golfing and Georgia are synonymous to most peopl e, and thousands of Geor gian s and out-of-state golfing fans will gather in Augusta for the Women's Title Holders Tournament , March 10-13, and th e M asters Golf Tournament, April 4-10.

Savannah: Southeast ern Confer en ce of Community Chests a nd Councils of Am eri ca, D eSot o H ot el, M ar ch 2-5.
Atlanta : 1955 Conf er en ce on El ectrical Applica tion for th e T extile Industry, Georgia T ech, March 3-4.
Columbus: Bixler T ours, R alston H otel, M ar ch 3.
Augusta: Georgia H om e Econ omi cs Associa tion, Bon Air H ot el, M ar ch 4- 6.
Atlanta: Southeas tern Sports and Boat Show, Muni cip al Au ditor ium, M arch 5- 12.
Atlanta: Georgia Bankers Associa tion, H enry G rad y H ot el, M a rch 8-10.
Augusta: Georg ia Societ y, DAR, Bon Air H ot el, M ar ch 9-11.
Atlanta: Third Annu al Phot o 'Forum, Atl anta Di vision, University of Georgia, M a rch 10.
Augusta: Wom en 's Title H old ers Go lf T ournament, M ar ch 10-13.
Macon: Middle Geo rgia Li vestock Exp osition, Cen tra l City P ark , M arch 17.
Atlanta: R efrigerati on and Air Conditioning Sh ow, Biltmore H ot el, M arch 17-19.

Atlanta: Sixth Annual Atl anta Ad vertising Institute, Emory University, M ar ch 18-1 9.
Columbus: Georgia St ate El ks Co nvention, R alston H ot el, M a rch 1920.
Atl3;nta: Dixie H ai r an d Bea u ty F ai r, Biltmore H ot el, M ar ch 20-22 .
Savannah: Sou theas tern Secti on, American Waterworks Association, H ot el D eSoto, M arch 20-23.
Macon: Geo rgia L eagu e of N urses, D empsey H ot el, M arch 23.
Atlanta: Nationa l M ot el Sh ow, H ot el Biltmor e, M ar ch 22-24.
Savannah : Southeastern Zo ne, Garde n C lub of Am er ica, H ot el DeSoto, M a rch 23-26.
Atlanta: Atlan tic Cotton Association H enr y Grady H ot el, M arch 24-2 6. '
Atlanta: Business Ar t Semi na rs and Institute, Atla n ta Division, University of Georgia, M arch 24.
Augusta: Nationa l Sta tione ry a nd O ffice Equipmen t Association, Bon Air H ot el, M ar ch 25-27.
Augusta: Georgia Fed eration of Music Clubs, Bon Air H ot el, M a rch 29-3 1.

GEORGIA D E PART M EN T OF CO M M ERC E

NEWSLETTER

February 1955

Local Industrial Development Corporations Invigorate Economy, Hold Vast Potential

The state of Geo rg ia h as been t aking vita m in p ills for th e p ast few years, building up its economic streng th, an d is now flexing it s mu scles like Atlas . Co mmuni ties: th rougho ut th e sta te h av e been dosing "themselves quietly da y by day, a nd th e phenom en al revit alizati on is now sho wing it s effec ts.
Vitamins A, B, C and D consist of comm unity ana lysis, bu sinessmen 's organ iza tio n, coope ra t ive ac tion a n d drive.
Ci tizens hav e looked a t th eir hom e town s, discu ssed th e econo mic fa cts, and, if th ey have seen th at a new p ayroll was need ed to give job s to mor e p eopl e, in crease ret ail trad e and brin g revenue for com munity imp rovemen ts, th ey have written th em selves an R x.
Businessmen have organ ized local d evelopment corpora tions with legal cha r ters, a nd becom e stockholders in industrial investmen ts.
I n M oultrie, for inst an ce, th e One Hundred Club has been organized as a pa rt of th e Chamber of Co mmerce . M emb er s invest $ 100 ea ch to becom e a shareholder in a comp any wh ich will p ay fa r-r eaching dividends. Som e of th e M oultrie fund is in vest ed in th e land purch ased for th e new W arner Brothers p lant th ere. 'V arner Brothers h as h ad a sewing plant th er e for over two yea rs and th e constr uc tion of a n ew pl ant which will allow for double employmen t sho ws th e success of th e M oultrie-' Varner Br others partner ship .
The M ou ltrie group is only one exa mp le of over forty sim ilar operations throu gh out th e state .

Co n tacts with industries looking for new sites and lab or sup ply are mad e in m an y and div er se ways. Once a con tact is made, and the industry and town find ou t about each othe r, negotia tions pr oceed . A labor survey is condu ct ed a nd other special requirem ents discu ssed . If conditions a re sa tisfa cto ry to both p arties, terms of an ag ree me nt a re worked out.
If th er e is alre ad y an un occup ied building in th e town whi ch would be app ropriate fo r a new industry, it ca n be reno va ted for th e specific need s of a p articul ar com pa ny . Often th ere is an ap propria te land site where water , electricity, railroad fac ilities and gas would be available.
T he mon ey collec ted by th e member s of th e industrial development corp ora tion ca n be in vested in improvements in an existing bu ilding, into lan d, or in th e constr uc tio n of a pl ant. The industry it self makes an inv estment in th e town so th at th ey form a working partners hi p for th eir mutual improveme n t.
Suc h is th e sto ry of G eneral Instrument Corp., whi ch is now establishing in St at esboro as published in last month's NEWSLETTER.
One of th e ea rl iest organ iza tions of an industrial development corporation was in D eK alb County in 1947, wh en th e Chamber of Commer ce organized a subsidia ry group, th e D eKalb Indust rial Boa rd, Inc.
Through th e in iti ative of th at board, industrial site s were prom ot ed and contact m ad e with th e L ennox Furn ace

Co ., th e world's largest m anufacturer of air -heating furn aces. The parent plant of this com pany is in M a rshall town , Io wa , and now has eight other plants in th e United St at es and C an ada. At th at time the comp any was looking for a pl ace to establish a pl ant in th e Southeast . The D eKalb Industrial Boa rd put its bes t foot forward , showed th e tran sportation , taxation and utilities advan tages, h elped in selecting th e right pl ant site and in finan cing th e building.
L enn ox Furnace Co., started ou t with abou t 25 em p loyees. T od ay there a re 55, product ion has mor e th an doubled and an annual payro ll of appro ximately $ 150,000 is sprea d throu gh out th e coun ty by it s emp loyees wh o live in severa l di fferen t communities in th e cou n ty.
In E astman , th e D odge County Indu strial D evelopment Corp., erected a $60,000 building last yea r af ter esta blishin g a contract with a N ew York firm for th e manufacture of apparel.
The m an y enterprises th at th ese develop men t corpora tions h ave invested in h ave a vari ety of products and a re of untold valu e to th e Georgia economy. Som e of th e fund groups h ave begun not just one con cern in th eir locality, but two , or three, or more.
O n Page Si x is a listing of th e industrial fund group s in Georgia. A s new ones are organized thro ughout th e state, they will be announce d in th e NEW S L ETTER .
(Con tinu ed on Page 6 )

The Lennox Furnace C o. in D eKalb C ou n ty is on e of th e fir st industri es to sett le in Ge org ia through a de velopment co r p or a t ion .

GEORGI A D EPARTM ENT 9.F CO M M ER CE

NEWSLETTER

February 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Pre-Fabrication Company
A new firm h as been incorpora ted in Fulton Co unty whi ch is constr ucting a bu ilding for its ope ra tions ju st south of COL L EGE PARK. Pr e-Stressed Co nc re te of G eorgia will use an inn ova tion in processing stee l and conc rete as building mat erials. Us ing th e spec ial process, it will manufact ure pre-t ensione d roof an d floor sla ps, beam s, wall pan els and parking decks. It will also mak e post-t ension ed and pre-cast products for th e bu ilding tr ad e. The com-
pan y will begin ope ra tions in june, J.
A. Hi ggs is president of th e corpo ra tion,
a nd W alt er J. H olland will be pl ant
m a n a ge r.
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DeKalb Developments
T he Dunlap Tire and Rubber Co mpa ny of Buffalo, Ne w York , will bu ild at CH A M BLEE a 35,000-sq ua re-foot warehouse as a distribution cen ter for the South easte rn states.
The Ideal R oller a nd M anufacturing

C o., of Chicago, Ill inois, will constr uct a pl ant of 25,000 sq ua re fee t on Peachtr ee Industri al Boul evard for manu facturing printing rollers. H . N orris Lo ve is president of th e concern.
An other DeK alb industr y will be the L ee Overalls Co., m ak ers of ove ra lls, du ngar ees and other like garments. The conce rn will bu ild a 20,000 squa re foot plant for th eir ope ra tions.
Allied V an s, nati on al tr an spor ters, will hav e a new Southeastern hom e in DeK alb Co un ty. Plan s a re underway for th e construc tion of a 20,000-squ arefoot air-co ndi tioned dispat ch ers' offi ce and depot to h andle th e tr aff ic of th e company in thi s area.
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Crystal Firms Merge
The Pan-Elect roni cs Corp., of A TLANTA a nd th e Z-Bar Co. , of GR I FFI N have m erged into one company. The Atl anta ope ra tions will move to Griffin wh ere an expansion progr am is

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-l-H mem be rs of Elb ert Co u nty are erecti ng granite m a rk ers indicating the n umber of m iles t o their cou nt)' seat, El bert on . Wh il e incl uding a we lcome to t heir area from the 4- H cl u b a nd he lping th e motorist , t he markers also advertise th e fact that E lbe rt Co u nty is famou s for its g ran ite . Gran ite compa nies in t he count )' a re co ntri buti ng t he ma rke rs. In the p hoto are: l-r , Mrs. B et ty T'yler, [orm er assista nt ho m e demo ns tration age nt ; Miss M a ry Neal. h o m e dem o nst ratio n age nt; Wilbur H oo ver of t he H oo ver Granite C o.; J oh n A. Starke, cou nty commissioner ; H orace S tower s, vice -pr esiden t of the Elber t Count y .f--H Coun cil : Naomi B rown, -l-H presi de nt , and lam H od ges, cou nt y agen t .

GEOR GIA DEPARTMENT O F CO MM ERCE

planned . T he new firm will ret ain th e nam e of Pan-Electronics Corp. John M . Ziegler , head of th e G riffin concern , is pres ide nt of th e new corpora tion .
- oLeary Pulpwood Center
A new p ulpwoo d receiving station has been establishe d in L EARY, Calhoun Co un ty, for th e Internati onal Paper Co rp. Eighteen acres of land along th e Ce ntral of G eorgia Railway h as been mad e availabl e for th e p roject. Some $300 ,000 worth of pulpwood will be shipped from th e a rea yea rly for th e pa per com pa ny. O scar Whitch ard a nd h ey Cha mbers a re m an agers of th e ya rd.
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Georgia Power Co.
Announces Program
A th irty-two milli on dollar construction pr ogra m for 1955 has been announced by Harllee Branch , presid ent of th e Geo rgia Power Co m pa ny. Th e progra m includ es improvem ent, resea rch and expa nsion at Plant Yates, C la pp's Fact or y Dam, Plant H ammond nea r R om e, Goat Rock D am above Co lum bus ; tra nsm ission lin es betw een W ayn esboro an d Sta tesboro, Millen and Alexa nder, Alexander a nd W aynesbor o, W ellston and Fort Valley ; substatio ns a t Au gusta, Bufor d, Dou glasville, M eR ae, Do uglas and Atlanta ; expa nsion a nd improvement of its electrica l dist ribution system to serve 21,000 new c u st o m ers.
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Atlantic Steel Program
An no unc ement has been m ad e by Robert S. Lynch , p reside nt of th e Atlantic Stee l C orp., of ATLANTA , of a ten-million-do lla r expa nsion and impr ovem ent progr am . It will include th e construc tion of a $8, 735,000 merchan t bar an d ro d mill , th e addition of a second electric furn ace costing $750,000 a nd th e construc tio n of a new adm inistr at ion building a t a cost of $45 0,000.
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Dahlonega Secret
Ground h as been broken at DAHL ON EGA fo r a new large industrial pla nt. By ag reeme n t with th e industry officials no det ail s of th e plant, it s operations or prod uct or th e con structi on of th e building a re being disclosed at this tim e.

NEWSLETTER
u. S. Government Contracts Awarded
To Georgia Firms Worth Millions
.. UNITED 9T TES AIR F.

Februa ry 1955
Winder Plant
Nego tia tions a re nearl y com plete betw een Rh or Aircraft Co rp., of Ch ula Vista and R iversid e, Calif., and Wi n der, Georgia, for th e esta blish me nt of a plant in l1'I NDER for assemb ling " power pac kages " for th e C- 130A turbo-p rop eng ine plan es mad e in M arietta by Lockh eed .
The parts for th e power packages will be mad e in th e Rh or Ch ula Vista plant and shi ppe d to Wind er for assem bling . It is ex pec ted tha t a few technician s will be bro ugh t from California but th at abo ut 100 peop le from th e Wind er a rea will be employed a t th e plant. The ope ra tions will tak e place at th e Winder -Barrow Coun tv airpo rt.

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Major Allen C. H ar t, U SAF, talks wit h fli gh t ins pect ors, mecha n ics and te chnicians at the Lockheed fligh t ha ngar in Mari etta. Lo ckheed Air craft Corp., the lar gest em ployer in the state of Georgi a, is cur re n tl y working on a ba cklog of over four hundred m ill ion dolla rs worth of gov ernment con tr ac ts for our national defens e p ro gr am .

ATLANTA : Thom pson a nd Stree t

Co ., constr uc tion of three wa reh ou ses

a nd ra ilroad. R obin s Air Force Base.

$3,4 15,453 . '

ALBAN Y : A. C. Sa mfo rd, In c., con -

str uc tion of eng ine build-u p shop and

exte nsion of night ligh ting va ult at

Turner Air F orce Base, $225 ,29 7. A T L ANT A : So utheas te rn Constr uc-

tion Co ., m iscellan eou s buildings at

Do bbins Air Fo rce Base, $168,000 .

CO LUiHBUS : W righ t Co n trac ting

Co m pa ny, casting a rticu la ted concrete

mattress, $754 ,320.

ATLA NTA : Chicago Brid ge a nd

Iron Co ., tanks at U .S. N aval Ce nte r,

G ulfpo rt, M iss., $36,300.

SA VANNA H: Southe rn Sta tes I ron

Roofin g Co ., drums, $389 ,799.

CO LU}v1 BU S : Hugh M cMath Co n-

struc tio n Co ., roa d cons tructio n a t Fort

Benning, $ 118,728.

A UG UST A : Tri-St ate Co nst ructio n

Co. , installati on of ward serving diet

kitch en at Camp Gordon H ospit al,

$25, 724.

A T LANTA : Atlan ta Tool Co ., hold-

cr assemblies, $ 10,000 . A U GUSTA : Pat chen & Zim merman,
arc h itec tural and eng inee ring services for Bollin g Brid ge, Buford R eservoir, $30 ,000.
AT LANT A : Georgia Institute of T echnology, I' e sea I' c h in porcela in enamel coa tings , $27,162.
A U GUSTA : C la ussen, Law ren ce Co nstruc tion Co ., roa d resur fac ing a t C ha rlesto n Transporta tion Dock , S.C ., .$26, 160.
S T A T H A M: S ta t ha m G a rm ent Co rp., trou sers, $29 ,526.
A T LANTA: M acD ou gald Co nstruction Co ., a ir field pavin g, R obin s Air Force Base, $3,6 12,992 .
CO LUM BUS : Wri ght Co ntrac ting Co. , construc tion of airfield pavin g and m iscellan eou s faciliti es. T urne r Air Force Base, .$3,239,222.'
A L BANY: K een an , '\relding Supplies Co. , oxygen gas and services, .p6,340 .
A T LANT A: W orthingt on Co rp., com pressors , $867 ,118.
DO U GL AS: Do uglas Corp., fa tigu e uni form s, $4 15,355 .

Cordele Plant
A bui lding is under construction in CO R DE LE whi ch will be th e home of a new conce rn ca lled Co rdele Industries. Th e building , to cost .$65,000, will contain nearl y 20,000 sq uare feet. Co rdele Industries wi ll assemb le a new type of hom e air-condi tion ing unit under contrac t a nd license fr om th e M arvair Co rp ., part of th e Muncie Gear W orks of Muncie, Indi an a. Last yea r a p lant was esta blishe d in Co rdele by Muncie Gear W orks for th e assembling of Ne ptune outboard mot ors. The new assem bly p lant for air-co ndi tione rs will start ope ra tions in th e latter part of April.
Georgia Ranks Fifth
In Auto Output
According to a rece nt survey in Automotive N ews, Geo rgia was th e nation 's fifth ranking sta te in th e fortyeigh t in au to mob ile producti on in 1954.
Georgia's three a uto mo bile assem bly pla nts turned ou t 4.8 per cent of th e country's cars . Ther e were 266,695 a utos pr oduced by th e Buick-O ldsmobile-P ontiac plant in Doravi lle, th e Atla nta Che vro let pl ant and the Ford plant in H ap eville.
The four sta tes ah ea d of Georgia in producti on and th eir percen tages of last yea r's U . S. total outp ut a re Michi gan , 32. 1; Mi ssouri, 9.5 : Ca liforn ia, 8.7 an d New J ersey, 6.2.

G EO RG IA DEPART?vfENT OF C O M M ER CE

N EWS L ET T ER

Industrial Development Corporations
(Continued fro m Page 3 )

County

Organization

Headquarters

Appling _ __ ___ Ap pling Indust ries, In c. _ _

Ba xl ey

Ba con Ba rt ow

__ __ __ ___ Alma Board of T rad e Cartersvi lle Industries, In e. ____ _

Alm a Ca r ters ville

Carro ll..

C arroll Ser vice Co u nciL _________

Carrollto n

Mt. Zion Industrial Committee

Mt. Zion

C hattooga _ ___Summer ville Industrial Dev. Co rp ..; _

Summerv ille

C herokee

__Ball Ground Industrial Dcv. Co rp.

Co lq uitt _ ___ T he 100 Club _____

Cra wfor d

_K iwa nis Club ind ustri al fund group

C risp

_Mutu al Pr ogressive Com mittee

DeK al b

DeK alb Ind . D ev. Board, In c.

Dod ge

Dod ge County Industri al D ev. Corp.

Rhine I ndustrial Co u ncil

D ooly__

Unadilla D evelopment Corp. ______ _____

Ea rly_________ .Bla kely Builder s & M anufa cturers Co rp.

Elb er t..

Elb erton D evelopment Company

Ball Ground M oultrie
R oberta C o r d ele Decat ur E a s t m an .R hinc _ U nadilla __ Blak ely Elb ert on

F loyd ___ _ C ave Spring Industrial & D ev. Assn.

Gi lmer .... _ _E llij ay I ndustri al D evelopment Co rp. _ _

Gordo n

Gor do n Cou nt y Pro mot ion & Dev. Assn .

H ab er sha m _ C la rkesville Industrial D cv. Co rp . __ _

Hall _

_ Gain esville D evelopment Co rp.

J asper _
.ren kins

J asper Co u n ty D evelop ment Co mpany .Jen kins County Development Co rp.

.J en kin s

M illen De velopm en t Corp .

L an icr..

L ion s Club I ndustri al D ev. Committee

L ownd es

V ald ost a Industries, Inc.__

Cave Spring Ellij ay Calh oun Cl arkesville G ain esville M onticello Millen M illen L ak eland V ald ost a

M arion .__ .__.... M a rion County I mp rove. & D ev. Corp .

..__Buen a Vi sta

M eriwether __ G reenville Industrial D ev. Corp.

G recnviIIe

M an ch ester Industrial D ev. Corp.

.._M an ch ester

M it ch ell....

Camilla Development Corp .

....Ca rnilla

M on roc..

Ch amber of Commer ce Ind. fun d gro up . . F orsyth

M organ ...

Boa rd of Trad e . . .. .__. .. .....__...._. M adison

Muscogee Pea ch Pierce __ ._ ._. Polk Pul aski

C ha mber of Commer ce Ind . fund group

.. F ort V all ey Ind . D cv. Corp. ._.__

. Blackshear Boa rd of Trad e

. C ed a rt own Industri al Dev. Corp.

.__Pulaski Develop ment Corp . ._. _. .. .

. .__Columbus F ort V all cy
... Blackshea r .__Cedar town H awkinsvill e

Semi no le Stewart

_._ Dona lsonville D evelop ment Corp. Lumpkin D evelopment Corp.

_ Don al son ville Lumpkin

T alb ot

_ Junction C ity Indu strial D cv. Club

Jun cti on C ity

Ti ft

_T ift on Industri al Corp. _ __ ___ _ . T ifto n

Turn er

__ C ham ber of Co mmer ce In d. Com.

_ Ashb u rn

Twiggs

_ ..Twiggs County D ev. C or p. _ _

__J effersonville

U pson _ _ Thomaston an d Upson Cou nty Ind .

Bureau of th e C ha mber Com merce _

_T ho maston

W alk er ....

.. L aFayette Ind . D ev . C orp.

_ LaFayette

Walton __.

M onroe Industri al Dev. Corp..

___ M onroe

W are _ _____ _ _ W are County Dev. Au tho rity .._.._.__ . .__ _ W aycro ss

W h i t f i eld

D al ton-Whitfield County Ind. D ev, Corp.

.D alton

GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

February 1955
How DeKalb County
Created A Successful
Development Corp.
T en yea rs ago, DeKalb C ounty was an a lmos t wh olly agricult ural comm unity best kno wn fo r dai rying. T od ay it is ra pidly becoming one of th e m ost industri al ized centers of G eor gia.
L argely responsible for this tr ansfor ma tion is th e D eK alb Industrial D evelop ment Board, Inc.
I ncorp ora ted in 1947 as a n ad junc t of th e DeK alb Co unty Chamber of Agr iculture and Commer ce, th e D eK alb Industrial D evelopm ent Board was cha rte red for tw o spec ific pu rposes :
1. T o adver tise th e resour ces of D eK alb Coun ty.
2. T o p rovide fun ds for the acqui-
O ther G eorgia comm unities int erested in learning how D eK alb Co unty goes after ~1ew indus tr ies soon will be able to borrow a mot ionp ict ur e tha t tells th e story.
Title d "Hey, What' s Do ing?", th e picture was prod uced for th e D eK alb C ham ber of Agricultur e and Commerce by \'\' . S. Kirkpat rick, former man aging editor of th e Atlant a J ournal. O n 16 mm film complet e wi th color and sound, it ru ns 25 minutes.
Prints of th e picture wiII be ava ilable soon at th e D eK alb Cham ber, 124 Atl anta Ave nue, Decatur. M rs. G uy H ud son is the Chamb er 's secreta ry.
Jaycees fro m all over th e country will view th e pi cture during th e nation al Junior Cham ber of Com mer ce conv ent ion in Atl anta, Jun e 20- 24 .
sition of p rop erty and th e construc tion of buildings for sale or rental to induce in d ustry to locat e pl ants in th e coun ty.
At th eir first meeting, h eld Nov. 17, 1947, th e tru stees of th e boa rd implemented th eir now hi storic ca m paign to repl ace th e cow pastures of D eKalb with job-making, tax-p aying, prosperitycrea ting ind ustri es. They auth orized th e purch ase of a prop erty on East Pon ce de L eon Aven ue and exec uted a loan for $ 110,000 on beh alf of th e corporati on for construction of a plant for th e L ennox Furnace Compa ny. This firm , one of th e coun try's leading ma nufac tur ers of it s kind, occupied it s n ew h ome th e following yea r.
Since th at tim e, more th an th ree

NEWSLETTER

Febru a ry 1955

score new industri es, including th e gia n t Gen era l M otors at D oraville, h ave been placed in D eK alb .
The expe rienc e a nd fa cilities of th e D eK alb Industrial Develop ment Boa rd are availa ble with out cost to any industry. T he board is a non -p rofit orga n ization, m a naged by seven t ru stees wh o a re nam ed by th e Chamber of Agr iculture an d Comme rce.
An ind ustry wh ich desires to build its own plan t may h ave th e adv ice a nd assista nce of th e board in fin ding a suita ble locat ion an d securing th e n ecessa ry utilit ies an d p ublic im proveme nt s.
If an industry sho uld need finan cing for its plant construc tion, the wid e experienc e of th e bo ard is availa ble to help secure th e mo st favor ab le terms an d th e lowest interest cost.
The boa rd also h as develop ed a p lan wh ereby a respo nsible com pany m ay ac quire a plant u nder a long term lease with an option to purch ase. U nde r th is p lan ti tle to th e site is ac q uired by th e board , wh ich then negoti at es for the const ructio n of a sui tab le bui ld ing an d obta ins n ecessa ry fina nci ng . Sim ultan eously, a lease is n egotiated with th e ten ant com pany providing for rental paym ents sufficient to amo rtize th e loan . This lease also gra nts th e ten ant an op tion to pureh ase th e plant at cost, less th e princip al payments on the loan .
Other county industrial boards, or counties interested in organizing such boards, m ay ob ta in copies of th e by-laws an d charter of th e DeKalb Ind ustrial Develop ment Board, Inc., by writing to th e Georgia D epartment of Commerce, 100 Sta te Capitol, Atlanta 3, G eorgia. This service is with out charge.
A m oti on pict ur e illu strating D eK alb's drive for industr y h as been prepared for th e DeK alb C ha m ber of Agricu lture an d Co mmerce, an d will soon be availab le for exhibition to oth er coun ty groups. T itled "Hey, What's Do ing?" it is a sound produ ct ion in color on 16 mm film .
Ga. Adds 215,000 Persons Since '50
G eorgia' s tot al p opulati on rose 215,000 p ersons between 1950 wh en th e regular decen nial census of p opulation was taken and th e middle of last year, ac cording to th e At lanta field office of th e U. S. D ep artm ent of C ommer ce.
The incr ease, wh ich includes personnel of th e a rme d forces sta tion ed with in the state, was fr om 3,444,5 78 cou nted in 1950 to an estimated 3,660,000 on July 1, 1954.
The ra te of ga in in Geor gia in th e

Valley Recreation Center Completes Airport Facilities For Visitors' Use

Airplane h angar at Ida Caso n G ardens wh ich has r ecen tly been completed .

An airport, com plete with a 3,000foot r unwa y and a spacious h an ga r, h as been constructed a t Ida Cason G a rdens, which , in less th an three yea rs, h as gro wn in to one of th e la rgest recr eation centers in th e South .
The airpo rt is a long-tim e dream of Howard Callaway who directs ac tiv ities for th e Gardens.
L ocated nea r th e la rge inland sand beach a t R obin L ak e, th e airpo rt ca n accommo da te upwards to 100 plan es on specia l occasions such as fly-in b reakfasts an d air events. F ou r small pl an es can be h oused in the h an ga r.
As man y as ten plan es ea n be ti ed down p ermanen tly in a parking a rea adjacent to th e runway. The runway h as been sodded with Bermuda grass whi ch will be up in th e sp ring. Th e strip is 150 feet wide. Few Minutes From City
M r. Ca lla way, son of C ason C allaway, Cha ttahoo che e V alley industri alist who bui lt th e G ar dens, pointed ou t th at th e const ruction of th e airpo rt m ean s th a t th e pla yland is only a few
four-year p eriod , abo ut 6.2 per cent, was th e second hi gh est in th e imme dia te southe aste rn region of Alab am a, Florida, Geo rgia, Mississipp i, T ennessee a nd th e C arolinas . F lorida' s 27.1 per cent was th e la rgest.

short mi n utes from Co lumb us by a ir. The Gardens ha s plan s for a big fly-
in of plan es fr om several poin ts in th e SOl.lth a t a later dat e, possibly in th e sp n ng.
The G a rd ens' h an gar alread y is th e home for two plan es-Howard Callaway's and one belongin g to C. F . C legg, well kno wn Pin e M ou n tain V alley pou ltry ente rp rise exec utive.
More Wayside Parks
Three new wayside pa rks have recen tly been completed in Georgia . At Pou lan , W orth Co unty, th e Chas e O sborn p a rk was officia lly op ened on th e 95th anniversa ry of th e birth of C has e O sborn , a form er Pou lan resident wh o was a t one tim e govern or of Mi chi gan.
In T errell Co un ty, on Hi gh wa y 55 betw een Pa rr ott and D awson , th e Yeom an 's W ayside Park h as been built on prop erty dona ted by C. A. H au tm an .
Just outside of Richl and in Stewart Co unty, on U .S. H ighway 280 a nd Georgia R oute 55, a nother wayside pa rk h as been com pleted.
T hes e p a rks, like the man y othe rs th rough out th e sta te, a re mad e possible th rou gh th e efforts of local citizens and city offi cials in coopera tion with th e Sta te H igh way D epa rtm en t.

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Spring Tours Lure Visitors

Marietta May 1

Atlan ta

Athen s
April 21-22

April 1 6- 1 7

Cov ing ton

April 23-24

25-26-27

Statesboro
March 9
7955 rour
(Jeorgia }{omes asd (Jardelts
St . Simons March 12- 13

GEO RG IA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

Visitors in Georgia in M a rch , Ap ril and M ay wi ll find themselves particu la rly fortunat e, for during th e sp rin gseaso n wh en Geo rgia's ga rde ns a re at th eir height, th ey w ill be able to enjo y inside views of the ma ny beautif ul hom es a nd ga rde ns for whi ch thi s sta te is famou s,
Georgia ns in eigh t towns and cities will op en th e doors of their homes and the ga tes of th eir ga rde ns for the sixt h Geo rgia T our of H om es and G a rd ens. Th e spec ific da tes of th e tours in th c va rio us localities a re in dica ted on th e map at th e left .
Both an te-bellum and co n tem po rary hom es will be includ ed on th e tours. Coasta l plantat ion s, homes of histori ca l value and in ter est, bea utiful fu rnis hi ngs a nd Georgia 's well-cared-for foli age at its bloom will offer pl easure to a ll pa rticip an ts of the tours.
T he tours a rc spo nso red by the G arden C lu b of G eor gia for th e benefit of seve ra l cha rita ble organ iza tio ns, and prices rang e from one to three d ollars.

DEPADTMENT OF [OMMEnCE
NEW LETTER
MARCH 1955

NEWSLETTER

March 1955

NEWSLETTER

P ublishe d monthly by

GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF COI\IMISSIONERS

EM ORY L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP

TRAMMELL McINTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary

FRED D. MOO N Editor

Vol. 6, No.5

March 1955

Feed Mill Industry
Thrives In Geo rgia
"Georg ia's fast -spreading feed mill industry is p roving a boon to th e sta te's No. 1 ag ricu ltural need: St abiliz ed far m in come," says th e Gr a in & F eed J ournal, of Chicago .
"Some $5,000,000 in feed mills presently locat ed in th e sta te also pl ayed a large p art in th e sta te's p oultry pi cture last yea r besides providing a tr em end ou s ma rk et for Georg ia grain cro ps .
"T h e p ast yea r saw a n unpreced ented bui lding p rogr am fu lfilled in th e feed milling industr y. Su ch large feed manufacturing com pa nies as R alston Purina Co., Pill sbury Mill s, In c., a nd Allied Mill s, In c., constru cted lar ge pl ants in Ga inesville; M cMillen F eed Mills, Di xie Pride M ills, In c., a t Fl owery Bran ch ; I-Iales & Hunter Co ., R ed Co mb Pion eer Mills, In c., a t Cart er sville; O zier F eed Mi lls, Inc., at Bowdon, and Brad sh aw Mill s a t Cummin g."

TRAMMELL MciNTYRE NAMED

TO STATE COMMERCE BOARD

T ra mme ll McIntyr e, of Atl anta, has been appoin ted by Governo r M arvin Griffin to th e board of commissioners of th e Georgia D ep artment of Commer ce.
Mr. McIntyr e, a memb er of th e At lant a firm of McIntyr e R ealty Compan y, realtors, is a native Atl antian . H e was educated at Atlanta Boys Hi gh Sch ool and Emor y Universit y, and serve d four yea rs in th e N avy during World War II. H e is m arried to th e former M ar gar et Bleakl ey an d th ey h ave two dau ghter s, Car olin e N eal an d Laura Anne McIntyr e. The family resides at 258 Pea chtree Way, N.E ., Atlanta.
Other m emb ers of th e D epartment of Commer ce board are Em ory L. Butler, Camilla, chairm a n ; Y. F . Geeslin, Atlan ta ; Hoke Pet ers, Manch ester , and Bcn j essup , Cochran .
Scott Candler, secre ta ry of th e dep artmen t, com me nde d Governor Griffin on th e selection of Mr. McIntyr e, p ointing out that th e Atlantian is particul arly inter ested in th e development of th e beef catt le a nd meat packin g in d u s t r ies.
"T he food industry is th e second ra nking m anufacture of Geor gia, being

TRAMMELL McINTYRE
topp ed onl y by textiles, and we ar e rap idl y becoming a leader in th e produ ction of beef ca ttle," Secr etary Candler said. " With Mr. M clrityr e br inging his know ledge and expe rience in th ese industries to our board, we ar c certain that th e Dep artment of Commerce will grea tly broaden ac tivities in th ese fields."

Cover Photo
A N orth Georgia grower smiles over a tri o of broilers as h e sta nds before h is ch icken house that sh elte rs th ousands ju st like th em. Broil ers a rc a $100,000,000 bu sin ess. - Photo by Ed Beazley, Gain esv ille .

$290 ,000 MOULTRIE PLANT - Architect's sket ch of the Warner Brothers Co ., plant bein g erected at Moultrie for operating about August. The firm, from Bridg eport, Conn., manufacturing women 's founda tion garments , now occupi es rented qua rters in Moultrie. 250 to 300 workers will be employed in the modern new plant .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSL ET T ER

Mar ch 1955

Georgia Again Nation's Top Broiler State

154,471,000 Birds Ring Up $101,487,000

Those mi gh ty sounds of crowing and cac kling th at you're hearing mean tha t Georgia is lead ing the na tion in chicke n broiler prod uction for the fourth consecut ive year.
. Georgia produ ced 154,471,000 bird s in 1954c- valued at $ 101,487,000, says the. Agri cultural Marketing Service of the .U: S. Department of Agri culture, whose happ y chore it is to count th e country's drum sticks every yea r.
Arkansas came second in outpu t, with a production of 78,525,000 broil ers valu ed at $48,371,000. Following in ord er of production rank were T exas, Delawar e, Virgin ia and M ar yland .
Georgia showe d a 27 per cent increase over th e 121,631,000 broilers produ ced in 1953, and th e 1954 valuation was 8 per cent above the $93,826 ,000 figu re for 1953.
T his marks the sevent h consecutive yea r in which all previous pro -
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STA RT TOW ARD SKiLLET - Scene in one of Ga inesville's poultry pro cessing plants, where drumsticks by the million are prepared for shipment.

GEORGIA BROILER PRODUCT ION, VALUE

Year
1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954

N um b e r
(00 0)
500 800 1,100 1,300 1,600 3,500 6,000 10,000 17,000 24,000 29,520 22,435 28,717 33,025 45,5 74 6 2,89 2 88, 6 78 112,62 1 121,63 1 154,471

Value
(000)
$ 230 384 539 611 676
1,495 2,775 5, 152 12,198 19,1 16 24,466 20,171 24,191 29, 108 32,977 45,433 68,530 88,610 93,826 101,487

F EATHERED GO LD - Inside one of th e hu ge broil er hous es in Nort h Geor gia. T he

sta te produced 154,471 ,000 conunercial broil ers in 1954.

Ed Beazley Photos.

20 YEAR TOTALS

765,364 $571,975

GEO R GIA DEPARTM ENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

M a rch 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

DODGE IN PRODUCTION
Dodge County M a n ufactur ing Co., EASTMAN'S newest in dustry , began operations March 1. At a luncheon a t which Ea stman and Dodge County offi cials wer e gues ts, officials of th e company annou nce d th ey were beginning m anufact ur e with sports sh irts for M arT an , Inc., of New York Ci ty, using 50 machi nes. W ithin a few m on th s, 150 m achines a re ex pec te d to be in op eration .
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UNADILLA SEEKS PLANT
Unad illa D evelopment Corp., ca pital ized for $30 ,000, will receive its cha rter thi s month. The City of UNA DIL L A h as obtaine d an option to buy 10 ac res between th e So uthern R ailway and Hi gh way 4 1, and will excha nge the land for sto ck in th e new ind ustryseeki ng corpora tion .
- HIGHLIGHTING

CLAYTON WATER ACT

Created hv legisla tive T ON CO UN TY W at er

aAcut~hao

rCi tLv

A Ywill

issue water revenu e ce rtifica tes to 'build

both a wat er sewer system coverinz

mos t par ts of the county. Leaders sav

suc h a developm en t wiil help C la yton

rea lize its in dus trial po tential.

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VIDALIA'S NEW INDUSTRY

V I DA L IA 'S newest indus try, W. A.

Steve ns Co ., In c., a tool and d ie-ma k-

ing concern, will erect a new bui ldin g

conta in ing 17,500 sq uare feet of floor

space.

- oCARROLL FIRM ADDS

G . M . Thom as, owner of th e Carroll

M~ oautnt creesss

Co., CA R ROL L TON th e 'fi n n is building a'

annew

fir e-proof structur e wi th a glass fr ont

to hou se its man ufacturing an d uphol-

ster ing depa rtments.

- OUR PROGRESS

D eKalb County build ing perm its for February tot a led $4,21 1,000 for 462 buildi ngs , com pared with $1,519 ,000 for 192 permits in F ebrua ry 1954... . J oseph W . Andrews, J r. has been n am ed p ro ject s manager of the Macon Chamber of Commer ce . . . L eon Sm it h, ed ito r of th e Thomaston F ree P ress, ha s been named a member of th e board of di rect ors of th e W est Centr al Gco rgia D evelopment Association . . . T h c Thomaston Publishing Co. h as a dde d a nothe r au to m atic job printing press ... R oy H . Pru ett, Sr . h as bou ght th e inter est of J a ck Wilson in Pruett M ot or Co. at Thomaston; Mr. Pruett sold the origina l Pruett M ot or Co. building to H arvey G reen e for use bv th e Greene Propan e Ga s Ser vice. .
Georgia Power Co. is construct ing a heavy-duty tra nsmission line th rough J enk ins County, whic h w ill connect Statesboro and Wayne sboro via Millen . . . Wi llia m S. Morris, publisher of the Augusta Chron icle, has purch ased th e Au gu st a H er a ld for $ 1,517 ,000 . . . Washington Pro du cti on Credi t Assn. is const ructing a new office buildi ng in that city ... Permit has been issued in Columbus for a five-st ory, 100-bed citv hospit a l to cost $ 1,635 ,000 .. . Ameri'cus and Sumter County Ch amber of C ommer ce has ad de d th ree d irect or s: J immy Carter , of P lains; Sp en cer Pr y-

or , of D eSot o ; Arch H elms. of Thalean commun ity. J ack M oses i ~ new p resi-

den t of the ch amber .

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A new wild life area in Rabun Countv

has been set up by th e supe rvisor 0'[

the Ch attahoochee Na t ional Forest .. .

Charl es S. H a rr ison Post No . 35. American L egion , Columbus, will buil~1 a new

hom e, Comma nder G . F rank Thomp -

son announces . . . T he mayor a nd citv

counc il of Waynesboro hav e accep te d

th e new natural gas syste m fr om th e
cont ra cto r . . . Dr. .J. A. Thrash, direc-

tor of Cit y H ospi tal, Co lumbus, is th e

new ~re ~id ent of th e Georgia H ospital

Associa tion . ... L. R . Tucker , of R oys-

ton, has been elected pr eside n t of th e

Gcor gia Crop I m p ro vemen t Associa -

tio n . . . Prud en tia l L ife I nsu ra nce Co .

of Am erica has offi cially op ened its new

build ing in Macon .. . F. & A. M .

Lodge No . 21 7 a t Coehran has a n ex-

pansio n program tha t includes a d in -

!ng room, kitch en an d ge ne r al remodel -

mg.

George H . Au ll, J r. ha s been named

Elberton's first city m anager . . .Ch el-

sea Ap artm ent s in Savannah have been

sold for $ 786, 125 to M avn a rd-Savan-

nah H ou sing, Inc.

Work is proceeding at Byron on a

new $60,500 schoo l lunch roo m and a

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10 Cities , 0 See Cieorgia & Florida

Irrigation Train

T he Georgia & Fl orid a R a ilroad in

cooperation with th e G eorgia Ag ri cu l-

tu ex

ral h ib

E it

xt rtaeinns,iotnheSe" rBveictte~ r

w ill run an F a rm Sp ec -

ial ," th e week of M arch 21 to fea ture

irri gation . The tr ain will ma ke sto ps

of two hours ea ch a t V ald ost a Nash -

vi lle, M ou ltrie, Sp a rks , Willa (:oochee,

Do ug las, H azlehurst, Vida lia, Sw ain s-

boro and Midville.

D uring stops ther e will bc demon-

stra tions of va rious method s and bene-

fits of irrigation . The sta te has 792

irrigation systems and a tot al of 27.701 aCl~es under irrigation , ac cord ing to a

19:J4 su rvey.

A representa tive of Geo rg ia Bankers

A ~socia tion accompanyi ng the tr ain

wil l explain financing of eq u ip me nt,

and spec ia lists from the Geor gi a E xt en -

sion Servi ce will present information

on irrigation an d soil conserva tion, ir-

r!ga tion of to ba cco, m et hods of irriga-

tIOn: A: d l'T~lOn s tra tion of irriga tion

eq uipme nt will be condu cted .
Inclu ded on th e p rogr am arc J. P. Blcvin , ch ief opera ting officer ; v,i. K.

Beebe, industrial devel op ment age n t,

an d G . P . J ames, ag ricultural a nd for -

estry agent, Geor gia & Fl or id a R ail -
road; .J. W . Blan ch ard, cha irman rc -
s~a rc h com mi ttee on irri gati on , Geor-

gIa Stat e Ban ker s Association , V a l-

dosta ; O . D . H all , assistan t st a te con -

s e r v a t ion Athens ;

ist, So il W illis

Co E.

nserva tio H u st on.

xSteernvsiicoe~

engineer , Athens: J ohn Preston. ex-

ten sion tob acco specialist , Tifton ; a nd

Graha m Daniel , ch airm a n Sprinkler

Irriga tion Associa tio n, Athens.

The sched ule of th e spec ia l tr a in' s

sho w is:

Mrmd av. ~ l a l c h 2 1

Valdost a

9::l0 A ~ l

:\" a ~tl\' ill r

2:30 PM

Tu esda y. M a rc h 22

~[ o u hr i r

9 :30 A ~ l

S p a r k.

2:30 P~ l

Wed nesday . M a rch 23

W ill a co oc h e e

9 :30 r\ ~ l

Dou glas .

2:30 P~l

T hursd ay . M a rch 24

H azleh ur st

9 :3U A~r

Vida lia

2:30 P~(

F ri da y . M ar ch 25

Swa in sboro

9 :30 A ~l

~ li(lvi ll c

2:30 P M

GEORG IA D E PARTMENT OF C OMMERCE

N EWS L ET T E R

M arch 1955

500 Bulloch Citizens Buy Stock To Assure Huge Electronics Plant

bui lt a $23.000 plant for them . The garmen t firm is leasi ng thi s p lant at $ 100 a month for t hree years, wi th a n op tion to b u v a t th e end of th a t period. It employs 50 to 100 wor kers ,

Fiv e hundred citizens of Statesboro and Bull och County a re bona fide partner s in the General In strument Corpor at ion 's hu ge elec-

M r. M o rri s ou t lines th e corporation 's ste ps towa rd ohta ining the Gc n ora l I nst rurnr -nt p la n t as follow s:

tronics plant , and ther ein lies a dram atic sto ry of comm unity plan -

ning, ente r p rise and faith.

Sta tesboro. like dozen s of other progressiye c i t ie~ in Georgia , wanted a big

The G I plant is the second ind ustry obtained for St at esboro by th e D evelop-

ind ustry. I t took stock of itself. learn- m cnt Corporation in tw o years, th e

ed wha t it had to offcr (it had pl en ty ), first bei ng M a ry d cllc Styles, a garment

fou nd a prospec t and m ad e an att ra c- m an uf act urrr.

tivr- present a tion of its cas e. T he pros-
pect was wily a t first, as p rosp ects
usu a llv arc. but Sta tesboro had m apped its sa l ~s ca mpaign we ll, a nd soo n th er e was th e signa tu re on th e dotted line.
Wh at really cinched th e deal, sa ys
Thad .J. M orris, dynamic chairman ~f
the Bulloc h Co unty D eve lopment Corp., was the citizens' " ha rd doll a r" demons tration of fait h in th e en te r -
prise. F in ' hu ndred of th e.m subs cr ib-

' '''hen th e D ev elopment Cor poration was organized , Mr. Morris exp lains, Bu lloc h County was lOOper cen t agricultural. The tw elve men who secu red the charter subscribed $ 100 each, but the char ter was soon am ended to in cre ase th e capitalization to $200 ,000 . N ature of the corpora tion's bu sin ess is tha t of "secur ing indus-

ed fro m $10 to $3,000 apIece to buy $ 175,000 wor th of shares in the pl ant !

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A..-

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$ 1,500,000 Plant

Now the bui lders arc putting th e

finishing touches on th e $ 1,500, -

000 plant, one of the handsom est

and most modern in Georgia. In a

few days a half-million dollars

worth of eq u ip men t for manufac-

turing r adio and tel evision parts

will be moving in. A training

cou rse for worker s arranged by th e

County D epartment of Education

and State Department of Educa-

tion, will start next month and the

factory is scheduled to begin op-

er at ions in June. When full pro-

duction is attained , 700 to 1,000

emp loyees will be bu sy.

Purchase Bi~ Sit e
A factory- locating sc rvi r-c was fu rnish ed a complete picture of Statesboro as an ind ustry site. a fter which offi cials of th e e!cctl:onics firm, traveling incog nito, made a thoro ugh on -the-spo t su rvev of t h e communi tv. Sa tisfie d that 'Sta tesboro was th e ioca tion desir ed. the compa ny d isclosed its identity and the Dev elopme nt Co rpo ra tion negoti a ted th e p u rc hase of a 33-acrc site nca r the Sta tesboro a irport.
"Gene r a l In strument at first to ld us they wer e not interest ed in a bri ck .'a n d - mo rta r inves tme n t," Mr. Morris sa id, "s o we sta rte d out by agreei ng to provid e th em with

" ' Ve p icke d Statesboro for our new pla nt a mong severa l sit es avai lable beca use of the ca libe r of its people," says Abraham Blu menk ra n tz, cha ir ma n of G I' s boa rd of d irectors , " T hey hav e m ad e Sta tesboro 'Ge o rgia's Best H ome T own' a goo d p lace to live and a goo d pla ce to wor k, 'V e hop e to mak c it an eve n mor e a t t rac t ive hom e town by provid ing johs nr vr r before a va ila ble to its you ng pcoplr-. "
Genera l In stru men t, head qu a r tered
a t Elizabet h, 1'1. .J.. and w ith five ot her
bra nch plants in th e Uni ted States a nd Canada, makes componen ts for a lmost evc rv major tel evisio n a nd radio set man~ fac t urcr as well as electronic eq uip m en t for th c a rme d ser vices.

PRIDE OF ST AT ES BO R O - Million-and-a-half dollar pl ant of Gen eral Instrument Corp., nearing com pletion at Sta tesboro. I t will manufacture electronic components for radio and tel evision sets and cq uipmc nt for th e armed scrviccs---dtcrgen & Berg en , Ar chitect s, Sa van nah.

t ri e s , procuring manufact uri ng plants and other bu sine ss establishm en ts in S ta tes boro and Bul loch County, th e erection of build ing s in con nec t ion with the for e~oi ng to h e lea sed or sold for th e lise of suc h industries."
M a rvdclle. th e first man ufact urer to locat e, ' starte d with $30 ,000 capit al a nd the D eve lopmen t Corporation

a 50,000 sq ua re -foot plant to cos t $ 150,000. Aft er such a pla nt wa s blueprint ed , they d ecided th e y want ed a larger a nd finer str uc ture. Aft er further negotiation, th e present plant design was ag reed upon, with G I joining m the const r uc tion costs." U nd er th e fina l agree me n t, M r.
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Georgia Leads In Exports, Candy,

Chicks, Pork, and U. S. Contracts

Georgia lead s eithe r nationall y or regionally in five differen t im porta nt lines of

industry, a nd is a prospect ive lead er in a sixt h, according to final reports from

1954 bu siness operations no w com ing in.

An alyzing th e figures, M errill C . ings in all other sout he rn states.

Lofton, man ager of th e At lanta field office of th c U. S. D epartment of Commer ce, says Georgia's lines of definite lead ersh ip a re confec tioner y manufactu re, commercial hog slaugh terings, commer cia l chick hatchery pro duction, com mer cial broiler p roduct ion, and gov~rn men t con tr a cts for goods and serv ices ,
The pro spect ive leadership, which wou ld be for th e nation as a wh ole, is in th e r at e of incr ease in 1954 over 1953 of shipments of goo ds to for eign cou ntries th rou gh th e state's customs district .

In cid entall y, it might be said here th at Geor gia also stood second in th e Sou th as a who le in beef ca t tle slaug hteri ngs, with a total of 533,000 . Only T exas' 1,725,000 excee ded that number.
It isn't news any more th at Georgia exce ls in th e field of comme rcial poultry produ ction , but for th e records it could be said th at in comme rcial chick h atchings last yea r th e sta te turned ou t 157,867,000 ba by chicks for pan and po t. No other sta te could come even nea r th at ma rk . T he best th at Indian a, th e runnerup, cou ld do was

Gcorgia's ca ndy mak er s led th e 111,718,000.

South in rat e of in cr ease in sales In 1954 over 1953, a nd stoo d second In th e U ni ted St a tes in suc h ga in.
Candy Sales Ri se

Chicks and Broi lers
Bab y ch ick h atchings mu st not be confused with th e broiler industry, wher e Georgia is also the nation's No .

C an dy producer s in the state reported sales during 1954 a pproximating $ 18,974,000, which was some 5 p er cen t gre ater th an th e previous yea r. Only in th e sta tes of Washin gton and Oregon was th at ra te of rise bettered .

1 produ cer. F inal figures on br oiler pro duc tion for 1954 sho w Georgia p rodu ced 154,471,000 broilers worth $ 101,487,000. This ou tpu t pl aces th e sta te in first pl ace nation all y for th e fou rth consecut ive yea r.

Georgia led the South in comme rcial hog sla ugh terings by send ing to th e block a n estima ted tot al of 1,480,000

For four and a half yea rs now the Federal Gov ernment has been bu yin g goo ds an d serv ices in a ll states in th e

a nimals to provid e pork product s for th e Am erican tabl e. This was safely ahead of T exas' 1,411,000 hogs sla ug htered, a nd was fa r a head of sla ug h ter-

nati on to p rosecute th e national program of defen se. The goods run th e ga m ut of from boot s to bombs, a nd th e serv ices fro m ar ch itec tu ra l design s

GALITE ON THE MOVE - Section of a 14-carload train being loaded for shipmen t at the Georgia Lightweight Aggregate Co. , plant at Rockmart. GaIite is made from slate dep osits in the area.

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to heavy duty construction in main ten ance of th e nation's milita ry installation s.
L ast yea r, Georgia led th e Southeast in dollar volume of sales of th ese goo ds a nd services. Fi rms in th e st ate received a tot al of 235 contracts on an adv er tised, negot iated an d non classif ied basis aggrega ting $ 138,274,403 in va lue.
Total Over Billion
This brought the gra n d tot al of goods a nd serv ices sold by Geor gia firm s to th e F ed er al Go vernment since th e K orean war sta rted in June 1950 to well above the billion an d a half dollar mark, seventee nth I a r g es t amo un t left in all states in th e n ation .
Three of th e bu siest spots in Geor gia th ese da ys are its ports in Atlanta, Brunswick and Savannah, comp rising th e sta te's customs district. Especiall y is this true in th e exporta tion of goods to oth er coun tries .
Last year, th ese p orts collectively led all customs distri cts in the United States in rat e of incr ea se in va lue of expor ts of goods to other coun tries a t th e end of th e first ten months of th e year. Estim at ed va lue of th e goods shipped from J anua ry th rough O ctober was pl aced at $63,000 ,000, whic h was 122.6 per cen t gr ea ter th an th e va lue of such goods han dled in that p eriod in 1953.
I mpor ts on Gain
Only one other cus toms dist rict in th e United St ates came nea r th a t rate of rise. Rhode Island re ported a 116.7 per cent ga in.
At th e same tim e, th e sta te a lso recorded a sligh t increa se in va lue of goods received at its ports from othe r coun tries. Th e value du rin g th e 10mo n th period of 1954 was placed a t $49,300,000, wh ich gave th e sta te's customs district a grand total of a round $112,000,000 in value of goods going both ways through the ports .
As additional final re ports on 1954 a re received, it is expected that Geor gia bu siness will eithe r lead in other lines, or will be amo ng th e lead er s, th e Commerce D ep artment predicted .
PAIL PLANT GROWS
Jones & Laughlin Stee l Co rp. , of Pittsburgh , whi eh open ed a container div ision plant in ATLANTA a year ago, h as expa n ded it s assembly line production of stee l ship ping pails. The plant, la rgest of its kind in the Sou th east, furnishes pails for the paint, food, oil, che mical and kindred industries.

NEWSLETTER

March 1955

Georgia Power's Survey Swells

State Roster Of New Industries

Geor gia's industrial empire is growing so ' fast th at th e various ag en cies charge d with coun ting th e n ewcom er s a re having to p ant to keep up.
NEWSLETTER devoted most of it s December issue to listing manufactu rers and processors who esta blishe d in th e sta te in 1954, and th en found it necessary to publish a supplemen ta ry list in January. No w comes th e G eorgia Power Compan y with a final sum m ary of th e new industries th at wer e added to its custome r roll s during th e ye a r.
The Pow er Company coun ts 136 new firms in its Athens , Atl anta, Au gus ta, Columbus, M acon a nd Rome districts. They represen t ca pi ta l in vestme nt of $2 1,609,000, em p loy 7,608 work er s a nd have a $ 19,100,550 an nu al payroll.
Following are firms list ed in th e Power Compan y's summ ary whi ch have not appea re d in NEWSLETTER tabulation s.
Ace Mattress Co. - Gainesville Mattresses.
Allied Mills, Inc. - Gainesville F e ed.
Alsob ro ok Lumber Co . - Newnan - Wo odw or k.
An gus Mfg. Co.-Athen s-Apparel.
Atlanta Ornam ental Iron & Foundr y-Atlanta-Met al Products.
Atlanta Shirt Co. - Atlanta - Ap pare l.
Bateman Ca n ning Co ., In c.-Macon - C anned Food s.
Blue Plate Food s Co. - At la nta Food .
Bu rch T rading Post-ClarkesvilleFeed .
C abin Crafts - Dalton - Co tton Rugs.
Coastal Pipe Coating Co. - Atlanta - Coa ted Pip e.
D ainty D ebs, Inc. - At lanta-Hand Ba gs.
Del-Rub Chenill e Co. - Dalton Chen ille Rugs.
Dumas-Caine St eel Co . - Atlan ta - Fa brica ted St eel.
V . C. Ellingt on -Con yer s-Feed . Ev an s Box & C ra te Co.-Eva nsBox Frames. Fabro, Inc. - Athens - Dog Food.

F arm & Ind . Chemi ca l Co. - Atlanta-Chemi cals.
Farmers Enterprise - Alma - Feed . Flournoy' s C abin et Works-Atlanta - Ca binets. G eorgia M apl e Block Co. - Jo nesboro-Meat M a r ket E quipmen t. H al es & Hun ter Co.-Cartersville - Feed. B. B. H all & Son-Wadley-Feed . Paul H an son - Athens - Con cret e Blo ck s. H ewell's Potter y Co .-Gain esvillePotter y. H olan Thri ft Line Co.- GriffinTruck Bodi es. J ett Screen Co.-Atlan ta-Aluminum Screen s. J . D. J ewell, Inc.-Ga inesvilleD og Fo od . L-Gee Blind Co.-Nashville-Ven eti an Blinds. M cN eil Boat Works-ScottdaleBoats. Master s M fg. Co.-Atlanta-Auto Seat Co ver s. C. H . M athews & Son s-Ta lbotton - Peach Pro cessing. J. N . M oore & Son-CartersvilleM achine Parts. N '1c Pr oducts, Inc.- l\-forrow-Toys. Nease Lumb er Co .- C laxton--Lumbel'. O 'Dell & G illela nd Co. - Gai nesVIlle-Concret e Products. Pactic Ab attoir - Vid ali a -- M eat Products . Pea chman Mfg. Co.- Atl anta-Appa rel. R a ym er Lumber Co.- Am eri cu sL u m b er. R obinett Mfg., Inc. -- Shellman Furniture. Sewell Prefor ming Co.- Au stellMilk Carton s. C. O . Smi th G uano Co . -D oug las - Guano. W. A. St ephen s-Athen s-Machinery . S. P. St even Feed Mill-RegisterFeed . U niversa l Window Corp.- At lan taWi ndo ws. V & H F eed Co.-Canton- Feed. W est ingh ou se El ec. Corp.- - Atl an ta - T ransfor mers. Zotti Box Mfg. Co. - Atl a nta Boxes.

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M orris says, th e Bull och Development Corporatio n's particip ation in th e proj ect is $ 140,000, including cost of th e land . GI it self is putting up th e bala nce of th e funds, exce p t for a $500,000 loan obtaine d from th e Aetna Life In suran ce Company.
D esigned for Sp eed
The pla n t itself-a on e-story a lumi nu m, glass and bri ck structure 40 0 x 270 fee t, of latest architectu ral design - is patterned fo r complete production flexi bility plus m aximum employee comfor t. The inn er walls ar e of insulat ed a luminum p aneling, noi se is minimiz ed by spun glass ceilings, th e build ing is com pletely ai r conditioned and sp rinkled a nd has full flu or escent lighting. In lin e with comp any expecta tions for con tinuous growth, th e building pl an s a llow for expa nsion wh en req uir ed, witho ut a d ay's loss of produc tio n. A fea ture of th e pla n t is a mod ern em ployee ca feteria .
Mr. Morris sai d local sharehold ers in the p la nt -the citizens who la id the ir do llars on the line - are guaranteed a net return of 2.5 p er cent on their investment. The cost will be amortized in 15 years and GI has an option to buy at the en d of 20 years.
"G I will be a goo d citizen of St a tesbor o a nd Bull och County, ju st like th e rest of us," Mr. Morri s said . "T he Compan y as ked no concessions of th e city or county, a nd we offe red non e."
Macon and Royston
Development Groups
In a listing of Georgia ind ustrial developmen t gro ups in th e Februa ry issue of NEWSLETTER, th e Macon Ar ea Development Commission , Inc., and th e R oyston D evelopment Corp. wer e in adverten tly omitted.
The M acon comm ission is one of th e oldest in th e sta te and it s corpora te charter gives it very broad po wers in a II types of ind us tr ia l development. Tom Green e is exe cu tive di rector.
The R oyston D evelopment Corp. recent ly secured Quality Sewin g Plant whi ch emp loys 300 worker s a nd is now negoti ating for additional industries.

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du ctio n and va lue records in th e bro iler field have been surpassed by the state . Average live weig ht per bird was 3,0 pound s compared with 2.9 pounds in 1953 and 2.8 for the previous two yea rs. Aver age price per pound live weight was 21.9 cent s compared with 26.6 in 1953 and 28.1 cen ts in 1952, For th e past fou r years income fro m com mercia l broiler s has topp ed t h at from a ny other Geor gia farm ca sh commodity excep t cotton . Form erl y i-it hcr tobacco or peanuts occupied this posit ion, bu t th e heavy expa nsion of recen t yea rs has placed br oilers well above th ese crops. In 19:)5, when th e ro n u m-rc ia l broi l-

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build ing to house a dial-system tclcphone servi ce is under wav. The citv is also considering ad ding to its wa tel:-
wor ks ca pa city, M ay or H . .J. William s
er pr oduct ion for the entire nation was 4:\000,000 bird s va lued at $25,00n ,000, Georgia pr od uced 500,000 b roi l('rs wh ich bro ught $230,000.
In th e twen ty year p eriod 1935 th rou gh 1950, Georgi a has p rodu ced 765,364,000 broilers th at have br ought our growers a total of $571,975,000 .
T he' acco mpa ny ing tab h-s show the vc ar-hv-vr-ar growth of Georgia's grea t broiler indust rv a nd illustrate h ow Georgia looms ' over till" fifteen othe r k ading b ro ilr-r p rodu cing s ta tt -s of tlu nati on .

BROILER
Sta te
G EO R G IA Ar k. T ex. Del. Va . Md. N. C. Ca lif. A la . Mi ss. Ind. M ain e W. Va. Conn. Fl a . O regon T O TAL

PRODUCTION N u m b er Produced (thousan ds) \54,4 71 78,525 71,790
69,820 :>9 , : t) 2 58,367 56,827 50,0 17 4 7,739 40,308 :;6,368 30,677 25,4 34 25,099 11.736
5,525 82 2,035

AND GROSS Pounds Produced ( thousands) +63,413 2 19,870 208, 19 1 2 16,+42 18:),929 180,9:)8 16+.798 160,05+ 1+:).217 11 2,862 11 6)78 \ 0 7.:)70 8 1,389 90,356 :)5,208
16,575 2,500.990

INCOME
Price P er Lb. (cen ts)
2 1.9
- 22.0
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22.6 22.5 22.6 23.\ 26.2 22.8 22.2 23.2 22.2 22.9 233 24 .6 25.2 22.8

1954
G r oss In com e ( thous. dol. )
101,48 7 +8,:1 7 1 +8,925 18,9 16 4 1,384 40,892 :;8,068
4 1,934 :; 2,653
25,05 5 27,000 23,836 18,638 2 1,053
8,66 1 +, 177 5 7 1,0 50

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sta tes . . . The $ 1.0 18.000 bac helor officer s' qu arters building ha s been completed for th e Combat I n form a tion Center School a t Glync o, ncar Brunswick . .. T he first ut ilit v truck bod ies assembled at th e new "H ola n Thrift L ine Corp. at Griffin, will be delivered to th e Ci ty of G riffin. George H . Eckles, vice p resident of th e compa ny, IS man ager of th e p lant.
Gen er al Shi rt Corp or a tion 's p lant a t Louisville is in fu ll ope ra tion. It replaces th e plant destroyed by fire some tim e ago . . . Cinder ella Food s of Daw son announces th e a rmed for ces a nd a comme rcia l firm have pl aced orders for approxima tely one million poun ds of pean ut but ter . . . Dr. Alfr ed Col-
qu itt , Jr. is const ructing a n $85,000
M ed ical Ar ts Buildin g in Marietta ... Va ldosta and Lowndes Co unty Ch amher of Commer ce has issued a n a ttra ctin: br ochure, " 1954, a Year of G ro wth" .. . T extile M achine Works of Read ing, Pa. recen tly bou ght the K eller M achine Co., of At he ns,
Ch arl es H ill, of Step henv ille, T exas, ta kes over ma nagemen t of Alprod co, In ('., a t D ub lin . The firm ma nufa ctun 's aluminum ga tes, TV tower s, etc. .. . Southern Bell T elephon e Co . is expa nd ing its service in th e R oopville a nd Centralhatchee a reas of Carroll Co unty . . . L ife Insu ra nce Compan y of Georgia is erec ting a $50,000 bu ildin g for its offices at Columbus . . . T homasto n p lan s a $250,000 wat erw ork s expansion pro gr am. ' . . N at ion al Bank of At hen s has begun its 90 th yea r of oper at ion . . . Construction of a lar ge bui ldin g to house the Southern Auto Stores, Inc., a nd th e Sav annah Paint M a nuf actu ring Co., has begu n at Sa v a n n a h.

NEWSLETTER
APRI L . 1955

NEWSLETTER

NEWSLE1TER

P ublished mont hly by

GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARVIN GRIFFIN Gover nor BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

H O K E PE TERS

BEN J ESSU P

TRAMMELL MciNTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary

FRED D. MOON Ed itor

Vol. 6, No.6

Apr il 1955

April, 1955

Ga. Farmers Co unt
$ 170 Minion More'
Than Ten Years Ago
G eorgia's farmers have expe rience d an in cr ease of nearly $ 170,000,000 in ca sh receipts from th eir marketings in th e past 10 yea rs, or fr om $397,140 ,000 in 1945 to $566,353, 000 last yea r.
Georgia's some 42.6 per cen t rise in farm income between 1945 a nd 1954 wa s th e nation 's eigh tee n th la rgest rate of gain in th e decad e, th e U . S. D ep artmen t of Agri cul ture says. It wa s excee de d on lv in Rhode Island, Connecti cut, New ' J ersey, Ohio, Indiana , Illinois, Iow a, Mi ssouri, Nebraska , Arkansas, T exas, New M exico, Arizona, Nevad a, F lorida, Mi ssissipp i and North Carolina.
R eceipts fr om sa les of livest ock a nd its product s rose 116.4 per cent in Georgia in th e 10 yea rs, or from $121 ,686,000 to $26 3,270 ,000 , a volume advan ce of $ 141,58 4,000, largest in th e Southea st. This wa s du e primarily to th e high po sition th e state ~old s in th e field s of pou ltry marketmg and animal sla ug h te rings.
R eceipts fr om crop marketing rose 10 per cen t, or from $275 ,454,000 to $3 03, 083, 000.
But for last yea r's record drought, th e F ed eral dep artment points out, th e state wou ld h av e shown mu ch larger rates of in cr ea se in doll ar s and volume in both crop and livest ock receipts.

SPRING BU RSTING OUT-Dogwoods an d tulips vie in this sce~e in the Druid H ills section of Atlanta, where Apri l's beauties attract home folk and tourists by the tho usan ds.

Jaycees to Film Georgia Saga

At National Jamboree in Atlanta

On June 20th, 8,000 member s of th e United St at es Junior Chamber of Commer ce and th eir wives will pour into Atlanta for th e organizat ion's 35 th annua l convent ion . The del egat es will represent all 48 states of Am eri ca plus H aw aii , Alaska a nd man y foreign coun tries .
Georgia and Atlanta Jaycees have emphasized two th em es in promoting th is hu ge even t, "See th e South" and " Mee t M e on Peachtree." The response thus far indicat es th at thi s will be th e la rgest Jaycee convent ion in th e histor y of th e organization.
Som e of th e main features of th e four-d ay m eeting will be a get ac qu ainted part y a n d str e et dan c e , spon sored by th e Co ca -Cola Co .; keynote speeches by prominent n at ion al figures; a p a I' a d e of states, with bands, floats and marching delegations from each st ate; sta te parties and st at e display booths; forums and business meetings ; elect ion of nation al officers for th e coming yea r; an d a lun ch eon for th e conve ntion spo nsored by G ain esville J aycees and th e Georgia poultry industry.

The conven tion will put th e spot light of national publicity on G eorgia for a whol e week . The press, newsree ls, rad io a nd television will cover thi s meeting as on e of th e most newsworthy even ts of 1955 . At lanta is th e fir st Southern city, exce pt Miami, to be chosen for th e annual Jaycee Jamboree.
During th e conve n tion th e Jaycees, with th e co-ope ra tion of th e Georgia Dep artment of Commerce and G eorgia and At lanta bu sin ess leaders, will produce a film in color tellin g th e story of G eor gia's industria l greatness a nd showing th e state's scenic, agricultural and bu sin ess attractions. This film will be circ ula ted to th e more than 2,750 J aycee cha p te rs, for showing to th eir m emb ers and fr iends.
COVER PHOTO
Gen . Robert E. W ood , cha irma n of th e finan ce comm ittee of Sears, Ro ebuck a nd Co ., welcomes Go v. Marvin Griffin to Georgia-boosting luncheon a t Chi cago.
- Photo by Ed Friend .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April , 1955

'Come Down South and Grow With Georgia!' Griffin Bid to Big Industry at Chicago Meet

" Come down South and grow wit h Georgia !"

That was th e invi ta tion Governor M a rvin Griffin extended to Mid-

west industriali sts in Chicago on M arch 14. Hi s listen ers, rep resent-

ing more th an 100 of th e biggest busin esses in Am eri ca , saluted th e

Georg ia exec utive with a sta nding ova tion a nd greeted his add ress

enthusias tica lly .

Hi s C hicago a pp ea ra n ce, at a lun cheo n a t the C hicago C lub sponsored by Gen. R obert E . Wood , chairman of th e fin an ce comm itt ee of Scars, R oebu ck a nd Co. , was Gov ern or Griffin's second bid to Northe rn m an ufa ct u rers to com e to Georgia. H e issued a sim ila r inv ita tion to a ga the ring of New York exec ut ives in J anua ry.
Progress in the Sou th since th e end of the dep ression , the Gov ernor said , ha s been " withou t parallel in the annal s of our cou n trv."
He declared th~t de centralization of industry " was th e best thing that could ha ve happen ed. " While it did not materi all y injure th e great manufacturing centers, he added , " it did bring prosp erity and th e full dinner pail to the people in those sec tions where myriads of manu facturing ente rp rises have been recently located. "
Georgia 's share of the new industrv , he con tinue d, " h a s rapidly brou gh t a bo ut a t ran sform ati on from a n allagricult ur e sta te to a sta te where agricultu re is bal an ced with indust ry."
.:-:.
Govern or Griffin told th e gro up th at Georg.ia led th e en tire South during 1953 111 the num ber of new industries established with 270 new or expa nde d p lants. This, he sa id, added $50,000,000 ann ually to pa yro lls in th e sta te .
As a n ind ucem ent for th e industrial ists to consider Geor gia for p lant sites, th e G overnor cited these natural resou rces: C limate. a n ab un dan ce of labor. t ransp ortation , low bui lding costs and fav or ab le tax structure .
" Georgia does not offer 'c he a p labo r' as a lu re," he em phasized . " O n the othe r hand . thos e wor kers ava ilable for jo bs a re willing and eager to give a n hon est day' s wor k for an honest day's p ay."
Ge org ia's ports sta nd fir st in th e Southeast in the volume of both ex -

ports and impor ts, and he sa id, " Ber th for berth, the state own s and op erates at Sa vannah th e besteq uipped ocean terminal on th e South Atlantic."
H e sa id a mple supplies of electricity and water with super ior rail. truck and air transportation round out G eorgia's indust rial ad vantages. H e added: " Geor gia welcomes new citizens. Georgia welcomes pa rt icu larl y men of vision and execu tive abi lity wh o ca n sec th c opportunities we possess an d help us rea lize them fo r further expansion."
Geor gia a nd Ch icago a re a exec utives invited by Gen eral Wood to hea r G overnor Griffin incl uded :
Ivan Allen , J r. , president , Iv an Allen Co ., Atlanta; J ames R . Addington , pr esiden t, Am eri can Rock ' ''' 001 Corp.; J ohn H. Armstrong, partn er, A. 1'. Kearney & Co .; Crowd us Bak er , vice pr esiden t an d comp t roller, Sea rs, R oebuck and Co .; Gregson L. Ba rker, ex ec. vice pr esident, VA RCO Inc.; W illiam B. Basile, president, Ri ch ardson Co. ; Ellis C. Ballin , vice president, Continen ta l Ba kin g Co .
Georg e Bazemor e, president, 'F irst Nationa l Bank. Wa vcross. Ga. : David
Blai r, president, Bla'ir Co"rset c e., J o-
seph L. Block, pr esid ent, I nla nd Steel Co.; R . E. Brooker , v i c c presiden t, Scars, Ro ebuck ; H a rold E. Brooks . gene ra l man ager, Armou r & Co.; ' V. A: Brown, j r., p resid en t, L iquid Ca rbonic Co rp .; M orris Bry an , president, .Jef-
ferson Mi lls, .Icffcrson, Ga .; Thom as
' \' . Bryant, comp tro ller, Cun eo Press, I nc.
D. H . Burr ell III , vice p resident, C he r ry- Burrell Corp.; Rob ert K. Beck, president, Apex Smelting Co .; C larenc e B. Caldw ell, vice pr esiden t, Sears, Roebu ck ; W alt er C a tes. exec. vi c e president, Georgia S tat~ C hamber of Commerce , At lan ta; Scott Ca ndler ,

sec reta ry, Georgia Dep artment of

Commer ce, At lanta: "i ce president, K raft's

P a ul Food

CCoh.a; nHd loerr~

ace. Ca ldw ell, president, R adiu m

Spnngs Corp. , Albany, Ga .; Erie

Co cke, .J r., vice president, D elt a- C &S Air Li nes, At lanta .

Ar thur R. C ahi ll, trea surer, In ternati on al Minerals and Che m ica ls; H enry W . Co llins, exec. vice pr eside nt ,
C elotex Corp .; Edward .J. Co ndo n,
vice pr esident, Scars, R oebuck ; T revor K . C ramer, president, Plastene Corp., Crawfor dsvi lle, I nd .; F. A. Crocker, secre ta ry , Bea r Brand H o-

sier y Co .; Erie Co cke, cha irman of the board, F ulton National Bank, Atl anta : Wend ell C. D av is, p resid en t, Cribben and Sexton Co. ; .John W. Dent, exec . vice pr esident, Geo rgia M a rble Co., T ate, Ga.
.J. E. Di et zgen , pr esident, Eu gene

Diet zgen Co.; W esley M . Dixon , pr esident, Contain er Corporati on of Am er ica ; E. M . Dodds, president, U nited Stat es Cold St or age Corp.; E . A. Egan ,

tr ea surer, J ohn Sexton & Co .; H. V . Engh, president, Pyle-Na tional Co. ; H a rry Fant e, vice presiden t, R ockw ell

Spring & Ax le C o.; R obert F au rot , production manager, W estern Felt Wor ks; R obert H . Flem ing, bur eau

chief, Newsw eek .

Lloyd A. Fry, president , Lloyd A.

F ry R oofing Co .; R obert W . F ran ce, assista n t treasu rer, Beatrice F ood s Co .;
Ed ward .J. Forio, vice pr esiden t, Coca -
Cola Co ., At lan ta ; A. G. Feld ma n, pr esident, Stork line Fu rn iture Cor p.;

F. M . Gi llies, p resident, Acm e St eel
Co .; .J. M . Gi llet , assista nt to the pr esi-
den t, V ict or Chemi ca l Works; H arry

Griswold, assista n t directo r, '''' algr een Drug St o res; E. Sm yt he Gambrell, past president , Geo rgia St ate Ch am ber of Comm er ce, At lanta; Edward Gudcrn an , vice presid ent, Scars , Roe-

bu ck .

Phi lip H . H a mp ston, fin an cial ed itor , Chicago Tribun e ; Geor ge H a r ris, chi ef corresponden t, Time & Fort une ;

J oseph F. H eil, chai rman of the board , H eil Co. ; 1'. i'd . H in es, president, O co-

nee Clay Prod uct s Co., Mi lled geville,
Ga . ; Lou is J. H orwich , pr esiden t, H .

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April, 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

CALHOUN PLANT GROWS
Forrest Mills , In c., Calhoun broadloom carpeting manufacturers, is adding between 10,000 and 20,000 square feet of floor spa ce to its pl ant to accommodate two new tufting mach ines and mor e dyeing and finishing equip ment, to more than double cap ac ity. The own ers, John H . Boston, Jr. , and Lu ke Spink, point out that this is th e second m ajor expa nsion of th e p lan t sin ce its establishme n t.

RAYLE ELECTRIC HOME
The Rayle Electric M ember ship Corp.. serving th e cou n t ies of Lin coln . Oglethorpe, Green e, Taliaferro and Wi lkes, and parts of H an cock, M organ a nd C lark Counties, is buildin rr a large and handsome new office build ing at Washington, just outside th e city limits on th e Athens road. The bri ck structure, costing $131,000 , will ac commodate th e co-op's headquarters and warehouse.
BRUNSWICK BOAT BUILDER
A new Brunswick firm , O lsen-Mont gome ry, In c., has been form ed to produce custom-bu ilt boats. Th e firm , composed of O . H. O lsen , Sr., and O . H . O lsen , Jr. , of Brunswick, and Geor ge Montgom ery, At lanta, will manufacture a 26-foot sports cru iser priced at $11 ,000, turning out 24 of the craft a year. Employment : 20.
LiTTLE WHITE HOUSE
Visitors totaling 110,223, including 43,6 11 Georgians, regist ered at the Little White H ouse, vacation hom e of th e late Pr esident Franklin D. Roo sevelt at Warm Springs during 1954. The year's guest roll represen ted every state and many for eign coun tries.
UNION'S TALL OIL PLANT
A new ta ll oil disti llati on p lant with a processing ca pacity of 15,000 ton s of cru de oil annually is under construction at th e Savannah p lan t of Union Bag and Paper Corp. The term " tall oil," G . W . E . Ni cho lson, Union executive vice president, exp lain s, is of Swedis h origin, me ans "oil of th e pine tree." T he p lan t, sep arating cru de ta ll oil into resin and fatt y acids , will be the on ly operation of its kind in the coun try.

OFFICIAL SALUTE-Gov. Marvin Griffin doffs his hat as the first prod uction USAF C - l30A Hercules rolls out of Lo ckheed's Marietta plan t. With him are Dan
H aughton , Lockheed gen eral manager, and Col. E. J. M cRay of th e Air Force.

Lockheed D elive rs
Hercules Transport
Am erica's first qu antity-production Air Force comba t transportation-the C1 30A H er cul es turbo-j et-has ro lled from the Lo ckh eed Air cr aft Corporation's plant at Marietta.
Production-design ed and built in th e M arietta p lant, th e nation's la rgest aircraft factory under one roof , th e H er cules is classed as a "me dium combat transport." The wingspread is 132 feet , th e fuselage 95 feet and th e vertica l tai l 38 feet.
Pow ered by four Allison -G en eral Motors 56-A -l turbo - prop engines, the craft will airlift up to 20 ton s of c a I' go. Each engine will develop 3,750 hors epower-enough to pu ll a 40 ca r fr eight train .
Gov. Marvin Griffin was on hand wit h Lo ckh eed and Air Force offi cia ls to gree t th e first H er cu les wh en it ro lled ou t of the plant months ahead of schedule.
FLINT ELECTRIC EXPANDS
Flint Electric M emb ership Corp., headquartered at Re yno lds, has mov -

cd into a $1,352,47 5 exp ansion program th at will provid e a n over-all 80 per cen t more power for usc by its
10,374 memb ers, Manager S. .J. Tank-
ersley says. The Flint serves main po rtions of M a con , Pea ch, Crawford and Taylor Counties; parts of Sch ley, Marion , Muscogee and Bibb .
PERFECT PANTS TO DOUBLE
Backed by the Fitzgerald Civic Corportation and businessmen of the city, th e Perf ect Pants Mfg. Co . plans immedi at e construc tion of a new plan t to ena ble it to double produ ction. The stru cture will cost between $80,000 and $ 100,000.
LATIEX EYES INCREASE
Expansion of its N ewnan plant to in crea se th e number of operators from 500 to 800, was pr ed icated by John Frederi chs, division manager of International Latex Corp., in a talk before th e Newnan Ki wanis Club . He said cap acity of the firm, whi ch manufactures br assier es, is "tax ed to the limit and we cannot put in another sewing ma chine." N egotiations for additional p lan t space are under way.

GEO RGIA D EP ARTMENT O F COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April, 1955

Georgia Enjoys Another Big Business Year; Many Lines of Activity Jump, U. S. Reports

Geor gia had ano ther big bu siness yea r in 1954.
Fed er al R eserve memb er banks had nearly a billion and a half dollars on deposit, fa rm er s collec ted mo re tha n h alf a billi on dollars in eash for th eir p roduct s, mor e th an 1,600 new bu sinesses wer e incor po ra ted in th e state, telephon e usage was at a new high , construction was on th e hum, and other maj or segmen ts of th e st at e' s econom y were in a gener ally hea lthy cond ition .
All of thi s is reflect ed in th e fift ysecond qu arterl y summa ry of business cond itions in th e state, ju st released by M er rill C. L ofton , field man ager of the U . S. Dep a rt ment of Comm er ce in Atl an ta .
Federal Re serve bank debits near-

ed the 22 billion dollar mark, more than 8 billion kilowatt hours of elec tricity was produced for industrial and utility purposes, over 300,000 were working in factories, railroads serving the area collected nearly one an d a quarter billion dolla rs in revenue, airlines carried upwards of 10.7 million rev enue passengers, and corresponding progress was reflected in various lines of business, suc h as textiles, lumber, and pulp a nd pap er.
In some respect s, th e level of bu siness act ivity in G eor gia in 1954 even excee ded th e pea k bu siness year 1953. For exa mp le, bank d eposit s were 3.5 per cen t greate r; loan s, 11 per cen t; debits, 3.7 per cen t; new bu siness incorpor at ions, 30.6 per cent to lead th e

G RIFFIN GROWTH-Construction has been completed on Stowe-Woodward, Inc. (upper right), and the Ho lan Thrift Lin e Corp. plant (lower left ) is well und er way . W. F. Johnson's cotton warehouse buildings are at right. Stow e-Woodward, manufacturing hard rubber rollers for textile and paper mills, has begun operations, employing 40 workers. The H olan firm , manufacturing metal parts for utility companies, wiII employ 200. The Griffin and Sp aldi ng County Chamber of Commerc e secured these two new in dustries without any financial output .-Warb eck Studio photo.

Sou theast in rate of ga in; residentia l telep hon es, 67 per cen t ; business teleph on es, 5.3 per cen t; bu ildin g perm its issued in metropo litan a reas, 37.6 per cen t; a nd shipme n ts of sou thern pine, 1.7 per cen t.
In th e field of tran sporta tion , a irline p assen ger revenue was up 16.3 per cen t, a nd number of fr eight ton mil es flown was 4.1 per cen t gr ea ter. Express ton miles also sho wed some ga m .
More than 16,000 bui ld ing per mits were issue d in the larger urban areas of the state, which was an increase of 37.6 per cent over 1953, and in the At lanta area alone, a rise of 16.4 per cent in number of workers employed by construction con tractors was recorded.
A particula rly br ight spo t was the sta te's showing in wo rld tr ading. At th e end of th e first 11 mon th s of 1954. its custo ms d ist rict continue d to lead th e nation in rate of increase in va lue of goods sh ippe d to other countries over the cor responding period in 1953, with a n adva nce of 117.8 per cen t.
In trading, conside rable aet ivity wa s also reflected . R etail merch ants saw th e yea r end on a high not e of Christma s bu sin ess, dep artment store tr an sacti on s wer e 2 per cen t better , and in whol esa le sa les, deal er s in th e region rep orted substan tial gains in such lines as a u to motive goods, furniture and hom e furnishings, lum ber a n d constru ct ion m at eri a ls, industri al machinery, dry goods and apparel, tob acco product s, a nd o ther commodities.
Although cash farm income was off some 12.5 per cent, due to a great degree to the almost unprecedented drought, farmers in the sta te still counted some $566,353 ,000 re ceived from their crop and livestock products.
Employment wa s a little off key du ring th e yea r. The aver age number of persons em ploye d monthly in th e sta te's plants dropped a little over on e per cen t, th er e was a sha rp rise in number of insured unemployed , and in th e constru ction industry a sligh t decl ine came in em p loyme n t, in th e state as a whol e.

G E O R G IA D EPARTM ENT O F C OMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April, 1955

Macon's Mighty King Circus Georgia Envoy In Colorful World of Elephants and Clowns

Hold your horses-the elephants are coming!

King Brothers Circus, a Georgia institution and th e second la rgest

organization of its kind in the world, is pulling out of winter quarters

in Macon's Central City Park. Its 1955 tour will include 21 states

and six provinc es in Canada.

The hu ge circ us, ca rry ing 17 elephants a nd a ll th e other rar e beasts of a n A-I men ageri e, travels in its own fleet of 65 double-len gth tru cks a nd tr ai ler s. Thi s motoriz ed eq uipme nt is eq uiva len t to a 50-ca r rai lro ad show.
Two Georgia citizens, F loyd King a nd Arnold M al ey, ar c co-owne rs of th e circ us, a nd th ey h ave with th em on e of th e ablest sta ffs of outdoo r showmen found an ywh er e.

Robinson a nd th e Hagenb cck- Wa llac e

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Mr. King is a former news pa perman who once worked wit h Paul Stevenson and other Georgia jou rna list ic not ables on the old Atlanta Georgian. He foun de d the circus 35 years ago after serving as press ag-ent for many of the big circuses of the country, incl uding J ohn R obin son's Ten Big- Shows , HagenbeckWallace, Co le Bro thers, and R obbin s Brothers.

M r. M alev a lso has been connec ted with many ~ f th e larger circ uses, and was business man ager of th e Co le show. The King Brother s Circu s recen tly purchased all th e sho w proper ty of th e old Cole outfit, including 30 of th e fam ou s Cole hor ses.

April 14, Dalton.
Th e King orga niza t ion is a rea l Georgia booster, and ('\'C ry copy of th e circus' program ca rr ies a full-p age " ba llyhoo" about th e sta te. M r. K ing and Mr. M alev a rc colorful a m bassadors of Geor gi'a to th e world of out door ente rtai nme nt.
The circus i.as spe nt eigh t winters a t M acon . wh er e th e orga niza tion em ploys hund red of work ers a nc! purchas es la rge a mo unts of supplies Irom Georgia mer ch ant s.

King Brother s is th e on ly mod ernday circ us giving a street p ar ad e throu gh the downtown business section a t 11:30 a. m. on circ us da y.
In its parade it fea tu res old -time d ispl ay wagons and wi I d ani ma l cages, a ll elaborately carved and shining- with pai nt and gilt. One of t he s e is t he original Barnum & Bai ley band wagon bui lt in 1882, and formerly drawn by 40 horses. Another Kin'g parade v~hicle that is famous in circus an nals is the stea m ca lliope that used to tootle along at t he en d of the Adam Fo urpaug h an d Sells Bros. Circus parades;
Two cha riots used in the King hippodrome races a nd a lso featured in th e street parade, date ba ck to the

R EFRESH M ENT-Big Bertha gets a drink as the King Bro th ers Ci rcus prepares to pull out of winter qu arters at Macon on its annual national tour .

QE0R.-GIADEP.ARTMENTOF. COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

April, 1955

350 Home Builders Form State Chapter

GEO RGIA HOME BUILDERS OFFICERS-Scatcd: R ober t L. Fclt, secre ta ry; Eu-
gene A. Baylis, president; T. Z. Standard , treasurer. St and ing, Vice Pr esid ents B. A. Martin, Lon C. Ganuuage, C layton H. Powell. T he ~roup has 350 members,

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

Sam Burns, founder and former president of th e Burns M anufacturing Co., of Louisville, announces the firm has been sold to Whiteh ead Woven Wire Co., of Covington . . . Con st ru cti on of a $97,2 14 N ati on al Gu ard Armor y is under way a t Waynesboro, to be comp leted within six months . . . A 50-bed a nnex has been completed at K ennestone H ospit al a t Marietta at a cost of $750,000 .. . A new $400,000 offi ee a nd warehouse building for th e Southern St ates Iron R oofin g Co. has been completed in Atlanta.
Building permits tot alin g $526,950 issued during February a t R ome included one to Echota R ealty Co., for const ruc tion of a new sto re for Sear s, Roebu ck Co., to cost $300,000. A per mit for Southeastern M ills to construc t a $50,000 storage mill a t Rome wa s issued . . Pevton S. H aw es, distr ibu tor for T exas Oi l Co. products a t Elberton , has under const ruc tion a new bulk plant war ehou se and sta tion.

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th ority a t Milledgeville announces

p lan s h ave been approved for con -

stru ction th ere of a three-stor y, $ 1,-

200,000 H ill-Burton H ospital, W . C . M assee is ch a rm an of th e a u thority . . . The 18-unit Mill ed geville M ot el has been opened in Milledgev ille under man agem ent of M rs. Charles Weathers . Owner s ar e Mr. a nd Mrs. Tom O. Horton . . . A former p roduce warehouse at Adel has been tran sform ed into an attractive dep artmen t store, new hom e of B. C . M oor e & Sons . W . H . H ughes is man ager of th e store . . . The F armers Feed a nd Seed Sto re, under managem ent of Paul H ouse, ha s op ened at Lyons.
Sixty thousand copies of a new travel folder seeki ng tourists is to be issued soon covering Northeas t Georgia territory ex tending a pproxima tely from Chatsworth, on the west, to Toeeoa a nd Tallulah Falls on th e east .. . Washington C hamb er of Commerce Pr esident J ero me Stover has mad e a n appeal to th e citizens of Washingt on and 'Wilkes County to co-oper ate in an effort to brin g new indust ries and bu siness expansion to th at ar ea .
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Fort Valley has buil t a modern $300,000 sewerage disposal p lant . . . An increase in capita l a nd surplus of th e Citizens & Southern National

The H ome Builders Association of Geor gia , composed of 350 ch ar ter members from four local home bui lders gro ups, was formed a t a meeti ng in At la nt a on M a rch 5.
Eu gen e A. Ba ylis, of Atlanta , was elected p resident of th e new orga niza tion. whi ch will be aff ilia ted with th e Na tiona l Association of H om e Build ers. Other officers a re T. Z. St and ard, M acon , tr easurer, and R obert L. Fett, Atl anta, secre ta ry. R egion al vice presidents are B. A. M artin, At lanta ; Clayton H . Powell, Savannah ; J ack O . Grant, M acon, a nd L on C. Gammage, Columbus. Di rectors a re J ack Y. Anderson , R. W . J ohnson, Jr., a nd Dick Doetsch , of At lanta ; Cecil H . M ason , Savannah ; \V. A. Ca rlt on , Macon ; R aymond M . Wright, Columbus; Pau l B. Bailey, Augus ta , a nd R alph A. Brow n, Cai ro. Lewis Cenker, Atl anta, was named na tion al director.
Presen t to assist in th e orga niza tion were J err y M ad igan, mem bership and field service director of th e na tiona l association ; R obert H athawa y, edi to r of " Corr cla tor," NAH B m agazine, a nd J ack Beatty, Mi ami , regio na l NA H B vice president.
Princip al a im of th e N AHB, which has 33,000 members, is to wor k toward better design ed , better construc ted hom es in a t tra ctive communities.
Bank from $ 17,000,000 to $25,000,000 was recommended by th e director s of the bank a t a meet ing held in Savannah . . . The Savannah agen cy of th e Prudential Lif e I nsura nce Company ' of Am eri ca is to occupy a new office building, built for th e comp any by th e Sav annah Riv er In vestment Co., In c. .. . Atlanta Gen eral Dep ot , a t Co nley, is to ge t a $250,000 airstri p, Brig.-G en . A. \V. Beem an a nnounces.
C. H . M eeks was success ful bidder on th e citv clin ic a nd doctor s' offi ces to be erec ted a t Pearson . .. F red C . Wilson, district ma nager of th e Georgia Power Co., a t Brunswick , has been nam ed president of the BrunswickGlynn County Cham ber of Com merce . . . Manchester's new swimm ing pool will be read v for th e season soon to open . .. Th~ St andard T eleph on e Co. has installed a d ial system a t Clarkesville . . . The Athe ns Milling Co.'s new feed m ill is under construc tion.

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L. F ric dlen & Co. ; Peyton Hawes, president, H aw es Co., Elb erton, Ga.; T . V . H ouser , cha irma n of th e board, Sears, Ro ebuck ; Charles E. Humm, member fin ance comm., Sears , Roebu ck and Co .
W. E. Judd, assistant to the president, St ewart-Warner Corp.; Charles H . K ellstadt, vice president, Sears, Ro ebu ck, Atlanta ; H . A. K ern, president, National Aluminat e Corp. ; Sid -
ney J. K lein, vice president, Waleo
Products ; Mi lls B. L an e, J r., president, Citizens & Southern National Bank, At lanta ; A. L. Ledbetter, chairm an of the board, Central of Georgia Ra ilroad, Savannah, Ga .; Howard F. Leopo ld, pr esident, Ero Mfg. Co .; H . C. Lewis, vice pr esident, Geor gc Nangen & Co.
Edward C. Logelin, vice president, U . S. St eel Corp.; John W . Lastinger , president, Geor gia Pow er & Li ght Co ., Valdost a, Ga .; Donald R . Long, assistan t vice president, EKCO Products Co .; Char les L appen, vice president, En glander Co ., In c.; D onald B. Lourie, presiden t, Q uaker Oats Co .; H. Norris L ove, president, Id ea l Roller a nd M anufacturing Co .; John M eade, vice president, Fansteel M etallurgica l Corp.; Donald MacArthur, treas ur er , ' Sears Roebuck ; J ohn L. McCaffrey, pr esident, International Harvester Co .
Fow ler B. M cConnell, president,
Sear s, Ro ebu ck ; J. J. M cDonough,
president, Georgia St ate Chamber of

Commerce, At lanta; R. L. Milligan,
president, Pure Oi l Co .; G . J. Mor gan,
vice president and assistant to the ch airma n, U . S. Gypsum Co.; Edward F . Mulhern, pr esident, Birtman E lectric Co.; John M cW ethy, city editor, W all Street Journal ; Edward V. O eh ler, vice president, Briggs & Stratton Corp., Mi lwaukee ; Alva W . Phelps, chairman, O liver Corp.; Louis Putz e, president, Soren g Produ cts Corp.
Charles E. Pain , Jr., pr esident, Wi ll Ros s, I nc., Mi lwaukee ; R . W . R eneker , vice p resident, Swift & Co.; W . E. Rob erts, exec. vice president, Bell & Howell Co .; Lawren ce K . Schn ad ig, president, International Furn iture Co.; Robert B. Schner ing, president, Curtiss Candy Co .; John G . Sevcik, p resi-
dent, Burton-Dixie Corp.; Carl J.
Sh arp , ch airma n of th e board, Acme St eel Co.; J ames F. Stil es, J r., chairman of th e board, Abbott Labo ratories.
John A. Sibley, chairma n of th e board , Trust Company of Geor gia , Atlanta; J. L. Singlet on, vice president, Allis-Chalmer s Mf g. Comp an y, Mi lwaukee; F . P. Slivon , secreta ry tr easur er, Libby, M cN cill & Libby ; Solomon B. Smith, exec. vice president, Northern Trust Co .; Otto M . Smucker, finan cial editor, Chicago Sun-Times ; R . M . Sp an g, comp troller, Hotpoint, In c. ; Fred eri ck P. Stratton, gene ral sa les mgr. , Briggs & Stratton Corp., Mi lwaukee ; F reem an Strick-

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lan d, vice president, First Nation al Bank of At lanta .
J ack T arver , vice pr esident, Atlanta Newspap ers, In c.; Fred eri ck S. Upton , vice president, Whirlpool Cor-
poration, St. Jos eph, Mi ch .; Ellis J.
Waller , president, Boss Mfg. Co.; Ches ter O . Wanvig, chairma n of th e board, Globe-Union In c., Milwaukee ; Edwa rd Fo ss Wilson, ch airm a n of th e board, Wi lson & Company, I nc. ; J ames C. Wo rth y, assistant to th e chairma n, Sears , Ro ebu ck ; J ohn P. Wright, chairman of th e bo ard, F lorence Stove Co.

THOMASVILLE SET FOR 1955 ROSE FESTIVAL

Thomasville's 1955 Ro se F estival

will be held Friday, Apri l 22, starting

with a spe ctacu lar parad e and com ing to a clim ax with the annual Ro se Ball. Tours of th e city's famous rose

ga rde ns will sta rt at 9 a. m. on festival da y and con tinue throughout th e

weekend. Gardens to be visit ed in clude tho se of Labrah, Chinquapin, Greenw ood , Mi leston e, M illpond , Boxhall, Winstead, Springw ood a nd Hjort plantations. Forty floats and a score

of bands will particip at e in th e p arade on Ros e F estival Day.

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NEW HOME FOR PACIFIC

Plans for construc tio n of a new $ 100,000 two -story bui lding for th e At lanta br an ch of P acific Employer s Insurance Co. ar e announced by J am es W . T a ylor, resident m anager. Th e stru cture will be erec te d on a lot acquired by th e com pa ny on Columbi a Ave., N .E.

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M ay, 1955

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARV IN GRIFFIN Governor BO ARD OF COMMIS SIONERS

EMORY L. BUTLER Ch airman

Y. F . GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN J ESSUP TRAMMELL McINTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER
Secre ta ry
NELSON M. SHIPP
Assistant Secretary
FRE D D. MOON Editor

Vol. 6, No.7

May, 1955

1,400 Draw $8 5,000 Elbert Granite Pay

With Elb ert Coun ty's gr anite industry paying 1,400 employees $85,000 a week, no wonder Elb erton is called th e Granite C ity !
G ra nite is not th e onl y industr y in Elbert, but as Bill K elly, gene ral manage r of th e Elb erton Granite Association, p oints out, it employs 70 p er cent of th e county's non-farm wage earners. Their tot al pay, $4,400,000 a yea r, am ounts to $245 for every man, woman and ch ild in th e county.
Ther e are 67 indep endently own ed an d op erat ed companies in th e Elberton ar ea devot ed exclusively to granite . Fifty-six are engaged in qu arrying, manuf acturing a nd ret ail opera tions. There a re 21 active qu arries and 42 she ds th at shape th e rough stone into fini shed monuments and bui lding m at erials.
Because some of th e 67 firm s ope rate under addition al trade n am es, the a reas ros ter actu ally list 97 gra nite compa nies. In addition 6 supply hou ses serve th e needs of th e industry a nd th er e a re 2 truck lin es that h au l gra ni te .

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M ountain Industry - The plant of th e Clayburn M fg. Co., nestles at th e foot of th e Blue Ridge in Cl ayton. Its nam e is a combination of C layton and R ayburn (County) , its product, shirt s. - Ed F riend photo.

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PRIDE OF CRISP COUNTY-County-owncd hydro electric plant at Lake Blackshear, near Cordele , whic h will be expanded by a half-million dollar bond issue just approved. - Roy Simmons photo .

CRISP OKS HALF MILLION

TO EXPAND HYDRO PLANT

C risp Co unty, p roud th at it is th e first cou nty in th e U nited Sta tes to own a hydro-elect ric p ower plant, h as vote d to spend ano ther h alf-m illion dollar s to expa nd th e pr oject .
The p lant and dam on th e Flint R iver-the dam form s 8,000 -acre Lake Blackshear- were construc ted in 1930 after a statewide vote app rov ed a constitu tional ame ndme nt permitting th e C risp C ounty Power Comm ission to issue bond s for th e en terprise.
The pl ant, ten mil es southwest of Co rdele, was formally opened Au gust 1, 1930. The or iginal bond issue was for $ 1,250,000, all of wh ich h as been paid off except $ 144,000 not yet du e. Assets of th e comm ission were $3,707,459 on Feb ru a ry 28, 1955.
Appro xima tely 1,055 mil es of electrica l lin es hav e been construc ted by C risp Co unty an d in addition 39 miles of highvoltage lin es provide electricity for th e C ity of Co rdele. The p roj ect serves 5,433 custome rs ; 98.9 p er cen t of th e h omes in th e cou nty receive cu rre nt from it.
D an Sincl air, proj ect m an ager, said th e $500,000 bond m on ey will be spen t for a fou rth wat erwheel generato r at the plant an d to bui ld additional lin e facili-

ties. T he new gene rator will provid e 25 per cen t more electricity and th ereby tak e care of p resent and a nticipated increases in popul at ion and addi tiona l in du strial development.
Sam Bundrick is chairman of th e C risp Power Co mmission, which in cludes H. E. W alt on as vice chairman, and Dutch \'\' ilkes and M. C . McKinney. T he C risp Co unty Co mmission is ma de up of D r. L. E. William s, chairman , and H om er D orough and R . C . H a rris.
Geo rgia Peat A dds
To U. S. Blossom Fete
T hir ty tons of Georgia p eat contri buted to th e glitt er of th e fifth annual Na tiona l Fl ower and Ga rde n Show in Washingt on, D. C.
A fr eight ca r load of p eat m ined on th e R. P. M ar sh, J r., p rop ert y a t Go ose Pond , nca r Ludowici, Long Co unty, was used exclusively in th e M ami e Eisen h ower exhibit at th e milli on -dollar festival. F ollowin g th e sho w; thi s exhibit, peat an d all, was removed to Pr esident a nd M rs, Eisenh ower's fa rm h ome in Pennsylvan ia.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COMME R CE

NEWSLETTER

May, 1955

Farmers Eye 'Push-Button Rain,' Seed Clouds

To Insure South Georgia Drought Belt Crops

I t takes more tha n drought, even

such a record-shattering drought as that of last fall, to daunt Geor gia' s farmer s. Now, lest N ature fa il th em aga in, th ey ar e eXl?erime n ting with making th eir

own ram . E verywh ere one goes in th e sta te,
from mountains to th e sea, one is im -

pr essed by th e ac tivity th at is in progress to insur e crops, livestock, hom es and comm unities a g a i n s t recurring

drou gh t. Lakes an d ponds by the h undreds have appea red, an d many more are bu ilding. An intense inter est in irri-

gat ion systems is manifest. I n a t least on e locali ty, experime nts are being conducted with cloud-seeding to bring down m oisture from th e skies.
Spea rhea ding th e move to beat future droughts th rough scientific irrigation is th e Geor gia & Flori da Railroad . Last autumn the southeas tern counties served by this line were hard hi t by the dearth of rai nfa ll, and during th at tim e th e rai lroad provided a pub lic service by furnis hing tank ca rs of water whi ch were p laced on sidings and made avail-

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DRI NK FOR TH E CABBAG E-Irrigation equipment, pond, workmen are seen in th is ' view of overhea d ir rigation of a Geo rgia truck farm.-Ph otos cou rtesy Russell D ani el Irrigation Co., Athens.

ab le to everyone. More than a million ga llons of wat er were d istributed in thi s manner .
While a rra nging for th is service J. P.
Bevin , chi ef opera ting office r of th e

road, noticed the increasing ta lk abo ut irr igation among th e farmers. Most of the m, however, had never seen an irri ga tion system outside a photograph,

knew little or nothing abo ut the ar tificial ap plication of water to fields an d crops.
"Why not," said Mr. Bevin, " get toge the r some irrigation equipm ent and experts to exp lain it, put them on a special train an d tak e th em to the peo-

pl e ?" T h e U niversity of Geor gia Agr icultu-

ral E xtension Serv ice was enlisted in the p lan , th e Sout heas tern Sp rink lers Association furnished the eq uip-

ment , an d th e Geor gia Sta te Bankers Association joined in and arranged to have speakers on th e program explain-

ing how irrigation might be fin anced . Late in March, a Geor gia & F lori da
spec ial train con sisting of locomotive,

two boxcars and a fla t ca r loaded with equipment a nd a tank car filled with wat er, assembled at Do uglas. D ur ing th e next five days, it visited ten Georgia

cities, demonstrated metho ds of " push button rain" to h undreds of farmers.

Meanwhi le, Fi rst District farm lead-

ers were h olding their parasols in anticipation as a Colorado firm continu ed rain-making expe rime nts by seedin g th e

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MAN -M ADE RAI N-Irrigatin g corn with portabl e pipe and sp rinklers at th e Southern Piedm ont Co nservation Expe rime nt Station, Watkinsville.

clou ds with silver iodide particles. R e-

sults in selected ar ea s were ' reported as

highl y satisfac tory.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE '

NEWSLETTER

May, 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Armstrong Cork's Huge Macon Plant Doubles Capacity

Enlargement of th e Arm stron g Co rk Company's hu ge M acon plant to almost doubl e its present size will begin thi s summer.
E. A. Worm, J r., manager, says th e expansion will provide 300 new jobs. The company now emp loys 500.
T he construc tion will include enlargeme nt of th e present buildings from 300,000 to more than 500,000 square feet and erection of a new board mill and severa l min or structures. Warehou se and shipping facilities will be doubled, mu ch new equipment will be added, and a wat er recovery system will be inst alled to allow re-use of water th at is now drained away.
The pr esent plant, located on a 90acre tract, was begun in 1946 and produ ction start ed in 1949. The new construc tion will req uire about a year to com p lete .
The compa ny's decision to enlarge its Georgia facilities " is a real tribute to th e ability an d loyalty of our M acon employees and to th e co-operative attitude of th e community," M r. Worm stated .
H e said th e 60,000 acres of timb erland owned and man aged in middle Georgia by Arm strong Cork Georgia Tree Farms, Inc. , coupled with more purchases from pulpwood producers, will pro vid e an adequa te supply of raw mat erials for th e expanded operation. The plant manufactures insul ati on and accoustical materials.
The M acon plant is one of 28 Armstrong installati ons located th roughout the country. The company employs 16,000 persons in its overall operations. I ts sales last year exceeded $200,000,000.
GEORGIA STATE DIRECTORY
The 1955 editi on of th e Georgia Capitol Di rectory and State Guide, issued by Dixie Directory Publishers, 1481 Stok es Ave., S.W., Atlanta, is now available at book stores and from th e publishers. The gu ide, coverin g th e state' s history, official s, boards, commis sions, etc., is designed for home, industry and tourist.

MACON GIANT GROWS-Dotted lines on this aerial view of the Macon plant of the Armstrong Cork Co . illustrate how the already huge plant is doubling its capacity.

TEV DOUBLING PLANT
Tev., Inc., GAINESVILLE firm that manufactures power lawn mow ers for Sears, R oebu ck and Company, is building a 40,000 squa re foot addition that will double its plant. The company occupied its plant, whi ch was financed through bonds sold to citizens by th e Gain esville-H all Co. Industrial Corp. , 14 months ago. It currently employs 50 production and office work ers.
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Atlanta Counts
17 New Factories
In Three Months
Sevent een new manufacturing plants which ultimately will provide 1,017 additional jobs were established in Atlanta during th e first quart er of 1955, th e Indu strial Bur eau of th e Atlanta Chamber of Comm erce reports .
In the same period, 35 more offices and warehou ses were set up and an ad ditional 24 resident repres entatives of out-of-town fir m s establi shed headquarters in th e city.
Altogether, th ese developments since J anuary 1 will add 1,403 new job s and increase pa yrolls by $5,300,000 annually, the chamber says.

CARLING BREWERY SET
The Carl ing Brewe ry Co ., of Cleveland, Ohio, will constr uct a multimilli on dollar br ewery in ATLA NTA in th e near fut ur e. Ian H . Dowi e, p resident of th e compa ny, said th e plant will employ several hundred peopl e and will have a payroll in excess of a million dollar s annua lly. The firm has opt ion on th ree industrial tracts in Atl anta, one of whi ch will be selected for th e building site .
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ROHR AND WINDER SIGN
Rohr Air cra ft Corp , of Chuta Vista and Ri verside, Calif., and th e City of WI NDER and Bar row Co unty have signed a contract for th e firm to open an assembly plant at th e City-County Airport. M ain fun ction of th e plant in its initi al operat ions will be to assemble power packages for th e C-1 30A, new turbo-prop military cargo plane now in production at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., at M ari ett a.
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ROCHELLE PLANT IN HIGH
R OCH ELLE Manufactur ing Co., whi ch went into operation only last October, is now on full production schedule, turning out 1,500 ladi es slips each working da y and 200 dozen mens spor ts shirt s a week. The fact ory, Rochelle's first real industry, was esta blished with local bu sinessmen taking part in th e financing. It employs 50 operators, pa ys out $ 10,000 a month in wages.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

M ay, 1955

CUSTOMER UNCLE SAM SPENDS $2,000 A MINUTE IN GEORGIA

The United States government is buying goods an d services in

Georgia and the Southeast at the ra te of more than $2,000 a minute.

Purchas es made in Georgia, Ala - 349; Lo ckh eed Air craft Corp., Mariet-

barna, 'F lorida, Mississippi, T enn essee ta , modification of B-47 typ e aircraft,

and th e two Carolinas since 1950 total $146,568 ; Pittman Construction Co.,

mor e th an five billion dollars, or an av- Atl anta, paving, $174,214 ; Cinderella

erage of $2,156 every minute of the Foods , Dawson , peanut butter, $51,360 ;

night and day.

Lo ckh eed Air craft Corp., M arietta,

Government bu ying in the region in pro curement of one C -130, $455,980.

March of thi s year on an advertised,

H . C. Chambless, Ri ch land, repairs,

negot iat ed and nonclassified basis in- USAF s tor ag e branch, Savannah,

volved 146 contracts va lued at $23,- $28,605 ; Georgia T ech R esearch Insti-

887,000, bringing to 335 contracts with tute, At lanta, research on electronics,

a value of $76,947,000 th e cumulative $25,000 ; Valley Construction Co., Co-

total for th e first three months of 1955. lumbus, construc tion, Elgin AFB , Flori-

March's purchas es included 26 con- da , $95,500 ; also constru ction at Tyn-

tracts aw arded in Georgia for $2,911,- da ll, AFB , Fla., $235,507 ; Dresco Me -

700. In th e three-month period of th e chanical Contractors, At lanta, air con-

year, Georgi a received 61 contracts ditioning, $1 1,179 ; A. C. Sanford, Inc.,

totaling $18,870,500.
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Albany, construction, Turner AFB , AIbany, $63,898 ; Agn Contracting En gi-

Followin g ar e th e purchases Uncle neers, In c., Atlanta, air conditioning,

Sam made in Georgia in March with Patton H all, Ft. McPherson, $88,674;

names of firms , goods or services

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bought, and valu e of contracts:

A. D ubie Clark Co., Inc., Toccoa,

A. B. Lee Plumbing and H eating Co., sip for guards, $ 102,295 ; Valley Con-

M acon, repairs a t Robins Air Force str uc tion, Columbus, construction, EI-

Base, Georgia, $29,896 ; United Build- gin AFB, F la., $63,755; Livesey and

ers, Thomasville, married officers' Co ., Inc., Atlanta, construction, Ft.

quarters, Marine Corps Supply Center, Campbell, Ky. , $262,531; Chi c ago

Alban y, $49,290; R . H . Smalling's Sons, Bridge and Iron Co., Atlanta, wat er

M acon, alte ra tions, Rob ins AFB, $44,- storage tank , $51,700 ; Yearwood Mo-

COLQUITT GROUND BREAK ING-At site of American Junior Plant are G. E. Bush,
J. A ..Drake, Baughn Wilkin, F. E. Fudge, H. R. McK instry, R. J . Alywar d, E. J. Willis, Clyde Calhoun , I. B. Bush, J r., an d Charl es Wade.- Bill Kn ight photo .

tor s, In c., Warner R obins , vehicle repairs, $100,000 ; R. W. Didschuneit, At lanta, construc tion, Ft. M cPh erson , $1,061 ; William Armstrong Smith Co., Ea st Point, paint $44,970 ; Southland Coffee Co., Atlanta, coffee, $16,626 ; Wright Contractin g Co., Columbus, construc tion, Pope AFB, 'F t. Bragg, N . C., $232,251; Douglas Corporation, Douglas, cotton uti lity shirts, $229,422 ; Egan Cotton Mill s, Atl anta, laundry padding, $ 12,039, and Colonial Oil Ind., Inc., Savannah, fuel oil, $295,100.
Dress Plant Rises To Insure Colquitt All-Weather Pay
Drought insurance in the form of a mod ern dr ess factory is nearing completion in Colquitt.
Aft er th e record dry spell that caused vast damag e in agricultural southwest Georgia last year, Colquitt and Mill er County leaders determ ined to secure payrolls t hat wou ld "weathe r any weather." They form ed the Miller County Developm ent Corporation and opened negotiations with the Rhea M anufacturing Co., of Mi lwaukee, which alr eady had a plant, th e American Junior Co., in operation at Bainbridge. With finan cial backing of Miller citizens, Rhea is now putting th e finishing touches on anothe r American Junior p lant at Colquitt.
The accompa nying photograph shows R . H . McKinstry, president of th e Mi ller Industrial Corporation, lifting the first shovel of earth as construction of th e plant star ted March 3 1. Others ar e, left to right: C. E. Bush, secretary-
tr easurer ; J. A. D r a k e, attorney;
Baughn Wilkin, dir ector ; F. E. Fudge,
vice pr esident ; R. J. Alyward, manager of Bainbridge Am erican Junior ; E. J.
Willis, division manager of the Georgia Power & Li ght Co.; Clyde Ca lhoun an d 1. B. Bush, Jr., development corporation dir ectors, and Charles Wad e, contractor .
The building, rising on a one-acre
plot leased from M iller County, is 60x80
feet, of masonry construction. Its cost
is $50,000.

GEORGIA D EPAR T M ENT O F COMMERCE

NE WSLETTER

May, 1955

Georgia's Economy Skyrockets Since War, Many Businesses Outstrip National Growth

Georgia's economy, soa ring like a jet plane since the end of World nationally.

"Val' II , is surpass ing in m an y instances the increase regist ered by

the na tion as a whole.

Income, number of bu siness firms in opera tion, retail sales, production of electric energy, life insur an ce in force and man y other lines of activity are zoom ing, th e U . S. Dep artment of Commerce reports.
H ere is wha t the federa l ana lysis shows in the way of Georg ia ga ins in the lO-year period:
N um ber of residents, from 3,242,000 to 3,660,000.

Pro duction of beef catt le, 627,000 to 8 13,000.
Va lue of broi ler output, $20,171,000 to $101,487,000.
Commercial production of chickens, 36,875,000 to 163,970,000.
Valu e of minerals produ ced, $30,454,000 to $48,509,000.
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Georgia's rise of 17.8 per cent in manu facturing employment compared

Other comparative gains-the Georgia percent figur es being given firstinclud e:
Telephon es in operation, 94 an d 89.8 per cent ; electric ene rgy pro duce d, 132.8 an d 102; retai l sales, 93 and 78.2; income pa yments , 65.4 and 59.8 ; per capita income, 46.4 and 42.4 ; cash far m income, 36 and 18.3; number of bu siness firms, 53.9 and 11.9; bro iler production, 365.2 and 202.7; commercial production of chickens, 344. 7 and 48 per cent.

Income to individ ua ls, from $2,567,- wit h th e nati onal gai n of 11.5 per cent ,

In keeping with th e tr end of the

000,000 to $4,245,000,000.

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while salaries an d wag es paid in such tim es, ta xes hav e gon e up also. Federal employment stood a t 55.1 ag ainst 52.8 collections rose from $405,373,000 to

Bank deposits, from $ 1,702,100,000 per cent.

$690,599,000, an d sta te tax paymen ts

to $2,030,084,000.

The sta te's increase in motor ve- went from $93,308,000 to $225 ,000,000.

L ife insur an ce in for ce, $2,900,000,- hicles r egister ed was 94.8 per ' cent T hese rises were accomp an ied by an at -

000 to $5,581,000,000.

against th e national average of 71.2 tenda nt increase of from $ 160.85 to

Number of business firm s in opera- and life insur ance in force grew by 86.7 $254.98 in federal and state per capita

tion , 48,800 to 75,100.

pe r cent in Georgia and 52.8 per cent tax collections.

Value added by manufacture of

Waycross Gets $1,500,000 goods produced, $1,016,000,000 to
S1,545,467,000.
Number of employees in manufac-

turing, 249,900 to 307,700.

British Felt Dryer Plant Salaries and wages paid in manufac-
tu rin g, $484,246,000 to $848,075,000. V alue of const ru ction, $ 195,737,000

to $252,800,000. Employment in building operations,
36,000 to 50,800. Electric energy produced by util ities
and industrial establishments, 3,400,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 kilowa tt hours.
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Construction is under way at W aycross on a $1,500,000 plan t for Sca pa Dryers , Inc., a British-Can adi an firm recently formed to produ ce cotton and asbestors dryer felts used in paper making.

M r. H indl e said th e plant will be in opera tion before th e end of the year, employing 60 workmen. Wh en full produ cti on is attai ned, emp loyment will go to 250, he said .
The finished pro duc t of the plant

Number of bu siness and residen tial teleph ones in operation, 344,400 to 671,000 .
Motor vehi cle registrations, 576,000 to 1,122,000.
R etail sales, $ 1,427,000,000 to $2,700,000 ,000.
G ross postal receipts, $ 17,333,000 to $30,660,000.
Re venu e 0 f railroads ongmating within th e sta te, $50,090,000 to $63,285,000 .
Number of passengers handled by a irl ines in th e state, 320,000 to 893,000.
Air cargo, 2,267 to 5,630 tons.

The plant, sponsore d by Sca pa D ryers, Ltd., of Blackburn, England, in association with Ayers, Lt d., of Lachute, Que., is loca ted on a 100-acre wooded tract at the Waycross and Ware County Airport. T he city an d county have deeded th e site to th e firm .
The pl ant str ucture will be a singlestory, air-condi tioned bui lding with a 375-foot front age.
T homas Hindle, of Blackb urn , pr esident of th e firm , atte nded groundbreaking ceremonies at Waycross Ap ril 18, accompa nied by Donald M . Brass, of Londo n, executive vice president , who will be manager of th e Waycross

will be cotto n-asbestos felts used in th e process of drying paper. Some of th e felts will be 300 inches in widt h.
~IIr. Hindle said Wa ycross was selected for Scapa's first American plan t site becaus e it is located in the center of the Sou th's growing papermaking ind ustry.
DRIWOOD PLANT ADDS Driwood Co rp ., whi ch recently
moved to Monroe from Plainfi eld,
N. J., has begu n work on an extension
to its new plant which will add 6,000 square feet of floor space. The firm, now employing 30 people, is con templating adding a nigh t shift . It has con -

Incom e fr om farm marketing, $416,- plant, and Edward H. H all, treasurer of tracts with th e Federal government an d

400,000, to around $650,000,000, weigh - Mo rey Paper Mill Supply Co., Fitch- General Electric Company for a million

ed as a result of last year' s record bu rg, M ass., th e firm whi ch is sales rep- dollars worth of partitions and mould-

drought.

resenta tive for th e Georgia. ente rprise. ing.

GEO R Gii\: 'D EPART M ENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

May, 1955

Monticello -Made Bobbins Put Hum In Dixie Textiles

BOBBI N MA KER-Ernest Key of the Mo nticello Bobb in Co ., demonstrates a bobb inturning machine said to be the only one of its type in the world.-Macon News photo.

- HIGHLIGHTING OUR PROGRESS -

T he $5,500,000 Coats & C la rk, Inc., thread plant at T OCCOA has been named "o ne of th e ten m ost significan t plants comp leted in th e U. S. in 1954" . . . M alc om R eese is new man ager of th e FITZGERALD Chamber of Comme rce . . . Fi rst National Bank of TH OMSON was presented th e R obert Strickland awa rd, sponsored by th e Trust Company of Georgia, for outstan ding service to Georgia ag ricult ure .
Sava nna h's Whitney H ot el has been sold to th e K arnell h otel chain . . . R obert E. Weeks is new supe rin tende nt of th e gas system at WR EN S . . . Nationa l Co ntainer Corp., near V ALDOSTA , held "o pen house" recently at it s hu ge new plant .. . ELBERTON M anufacturing Co . is com pleting a 12,000- square foot building . . . C itizens F ederal Sav ings & Loan Associati on of R OME h as mov ed into a new pla nt .. . H a rvey R. Brown has assumed duty as executive secr eta ry of th e Georgia F or estery Asso. . . . H aley M otor Co. pl an s a new building at ALBANY.
The Sta te of Geo rgia has sold 3,2 10 ac res at ALBANY Wildlife Experimen t Station to C . M alcom C line for $ 125,000 . . . Will iam C . Cla ry, J r., presiden t of the Bank of WA DLE Y, is new p resident of th e Georgia Bank ers

Asso. . .. Red Com b Pioneer Mills at CA R T ER SVIL LE is in stalling a pellet mill . . . Georgia Pow er Co. is in a $ 16,500,000 expa nsion plan .. . C itizens & Southe rn N ati onal Bank will increase its ca pita l a nd sur plus fro m $1 7,000,000 to $25,000 ,000 .
Thomas T extil e Co ., In c., of WHITEHALL, near Athens, m anufacturing infants and ch ild rens wear, h as complet ed 25 yea rs of operation . . . M erger of Colonial Stores, Inc., h eadquartered in Atl anta, a nd Albers Super M a rkets, based in C incinna ti, is announce d.
LaGRANG E H om e Builders & Loan Asso. has purch ased th e T err ace H otel for $52,000, will raze it and build an office bu ilding on th e lot. . . . Collins & Aikm an , of DALTON, weav ers of upholstery fa br ics, h as p urchase d th e M a yfai r Chennille Co ., I nc., at CA L HOUN.
M arbleseal Prod ucts, In c., pai nt manufacturers, h a s opened a pl ant in CH AM BL EE . . . M anhattan Shirt Co . h as let a cont rac t for const ruction of a $ 155,000 addition to its AMERICUS plant.
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T he Scovill Manufacturing Co., of Waterbury, Conn., is cons tr uc ting a new offi ce-warehouse on T ech wood

Geor gia's on ly bobbin manufacturing pla nt , located in M onti cello, turns out 2,000,000 bobbi ns a year for the Sout h' s great textile industry.
The M onticello Bobbin Co. produ ces about 100 diff eren t type bobbins from fou r basic pa tt erns an d serves mi lls from Florida to V irginia a nd Ok la homa, as well as textile pla nts throughout Georgia. It is on e of about a dozen such fir ms in th e nati on .
T o handle its expanding bu siness, th e compa ny h as ju st adde d a 100 x 50-foot building to p rovid e more kiln an d storage space.
E rn est D . K ey, J r., exec utive vice presiden t an d ge ne ral manager of th e firm, quo tes Webster's descripti on of a textile mill bobbin : " A spoo l or reel with a head a t one or both ends and some times with a hole th rough it s length, used to hold ya rn or thread , as in sp inning machi nes, looms, etc."
Bobbins p rod uced by th e M onticello fac tor y are made of map le imported from Vermont. R ock or suga r maple is best for bobb ins beca use of its hardness and adapta bility, M r. K ey explains.
The Monticello Bobbin Co . is compl etel y Southern -own ed, and several of its em ployees a re stockho lders . It has 60 workers .
Besides M r. K ey, J r., the othe r officer of th e com pa ny is Ern est D . K ey, Sr. , pr op rietor of th e Atla nt a Beltin g Co mpany and th e well-kn own H itch cock M edi cin e Co mpany of At lanta.
Drive, N .W., ATLANTA. The $8,600 ,000 financing for con -
stru ction of a 402 -m ile pipeline to provide natural gas to 15 Sout h Georgia a nd North Fl orida cities wa s completed recentl y in A T LANTA . . M axwell U . M ar sh is th e new p resident of th e MA CON Cha m ber of Co mme rce . .. Arno R. Tagge, pla nt ma nage r f o r R alston Pur ina Co. , is th e new h ead of the M a nufacturers Bur eau of t h e A/A CON Chamber of Commerce . .. Noe l Ga rvin h as assume d his duties as supe rintende n t of weav ing in Burlington' s Brighton p lant at SH ANNON, ncar R om e.
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Georgia Fair Group To Boost Iudustrv; Schools and Farms

With a renewed pledge to serve th e industry , agriculture and educa tion of th e sta te, th e Georgia Associat ion of Fairs is planning its new season of outdoor amuseme nts.

E. L ee Carter on, who was elected

pr esident at th e forty-second annual

meeting in Atl an-

ta, said th e organi-

zat ion will moni-

tor a n d rate all

amusements an d

concessions t h is

year to insure high

stan dards of oper-

at ion . Mr. Carte-

ron is g e n e I' a 1

manager of the

Southeastern Fair,

Atlanta.

E. Lee Carteron

Directo rs of th e association, representing th e sta te's ten congressiona l distr icts, are : Doug Strohbehn , Co astal Empire Fair, Sava nnah; Coy Dekle, Colquitt Cou nty Fair, M oult rie ; Clarence H air, M acon County Fair, Montezuma ; R. F . Armst ron g, Butts County F air, J ackson ; Mr. Cart eron ; R. M . Penl and, Georgia State Fai r, M acon ; Paul H enson, Coosa Valley Fair, Rome ; H oward S. H all, South Georgia Fair, Valdosta ; Paul S. Hos ch, Barrow Cou nty Fair, Winder, and 1. V. Hulme, Elberton Fair, Elb erton.

Mr. Armstrong is vice president of th e association and J oe Pruett , Macon, is Secretary-treasur er.

Cleveland's Woolen Plant Clothes U. S. Army;

Workers Called 'Superior' , 0 New Englanders

The new Ames T exti le Corp. plant at Cl eveland is helping to clothe the United States Army.
Bill J enkin s, plant man ager, said the Am es organizat ion submitted low bid to weave one mill ion yards of olive drab mat eria l for unifo rm s.
"T he Cleveland plant will turn ou t 600,000 yards of this contract," he said, " while th e corporation's plant in Southbridge, Mass., will weave th e remaining 400,000 yards. We'r e working on the ord er right now, and th e Army will start wearing th e new uniforms in 1956."
Addressing an inter-civic club mee ting at Cleveland, Mr. J enkins praised

th e calibr e of workers in th e White County plant which began production last June.
" O ur workers are far sup erior to those in New En gland," he said.
The Cleveland plant receives woolen " tops" from another plant of th e com pany, weaves it in to worst ed yarns, th en ships it to th e organization' s fini shing plant in Massach usetts. Mr. J enkins described th e Georgia plant, which cost approximately two million dollars, as " the best of its kind in th e world ." The company's plans, he disclosed, call for eventually increasing th e present pay roll of 140 persons to 300.

- Highlighting Our Progress -

(Continued from Page 7)

Corp., at TR I ON . . . Albert E. Forster, Wilson & Co.'s new pou ltry pro cessing

pr esident of th e firm, told th e BRUNSWICK-GLYNN COUNTY Chamber of Commerce th at H ercul es Powder

plant at CUMMING has 50,000 sq uare feet of spac e, will employ ab out 175 peop le and have cap acity of 6,000 to

Co. last year spent $ 13,000,000 at its Brunswi ck plant for pa yrolls, raw materia ls and sup plies, in contrast to a total pa yroll of $ 160,000 in the first year Hercul es operated the plant th ere in 1920.
The Atlantic En gin eering & Con tr acting Co. has been issued a GLYNN CO UNTY perm it to erect a $25,000

7,000 chick ens an hour on its process-

ing line.

Gordon

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Ma ys, Jr.

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has

been

n a m ed

pr esident of th e JE NKI NS COUNT Y

Chamber of Comm erce a t MILLEN.

. .. The DO UGLAS T eleph one Co.

plan s a $325,000 expa nsion and mod -

ern ization pro gram . . . S. C. Johnson

plant at BR UNSWICK to manufacture & Son, Inc., has mov ed its southeaste rn

conc rete products . .. Oman Construc- distri ct office and war ehouse into its

tion Co., of Na shville, T enn ., has begun construction of a new brid ge across the Chattahoochee Ri ver on the GA INESVIL LE - DA WSO NVILLE h i g h -

n ew 13,500-squar e-foot building on Donnelly Ave., S.W., ATLANTA . . . The W INDER National Gu ard unit has move d into its new mo dern quar-

way, across the future Lake Lanier . . , ters .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ER CE

DEPAnTMENT or [DMMEnCE
,
, .':':NEW LETTER
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JU NE
. 1955

NEWSLETTER

j un e, 1955

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by
GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Cap itol

* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governo r BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

EMORY L. BUTLER

Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP

T RAMMELL McI NT YRE

* SCOTT CANDL ER Secretary NEL SON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary

FRED D. MOON
Editor

Vol. 6 No.8

June 1955

If Tornado Comes,
Give It the Road,
Hit the Deck Fast
This is th e tornado season, and if you see one coming get out of its wa y.
T hat is th e crux of a set of "sa fety rules" comp iled by th e U nited States Wea th er Bureau.
If you are in th e op en when a twister appea rs, move at right a ngles out of it s path. If th ere is n o esca pe, lie down on th e gro und. Get in a ditch if you can ; otherwise, tak e advan tage of a ny depression in th e ea rth.
If in a city or town, seek sh elter in a strong bui lding, preferably on e that is steel-rein forced. If a t home, t he southwest corne r of th e lowest floor or basem ent is th e best pl ace. S t an d against an inside wall or lie down on th e floor. St ay aw a y from windows an d doors.
Tornadoes come more freq ue ntly in th e Sou th, th e Mi dw est a nd the Cen t ral St ates, and from March th rough September. The n ational aver ag e is 153 tornadoes a yea r.
COVER PHOTO
This is "b usiness expansion," too,
says Ed Friend, who usually turns
in photos of n ew industries to the
Ne wsletter. H e snappe d th e p roud
hummingbird mother and her babies
on an outing near Stone Mountain.

Colquitt's Murphy Parleyed Mule to Tractor, Now Jaycee's Honor Farmer of Georgia for'SS

Vaden L. Murphy, of R oute 2, Coo lidge, wh o p arl eyed a one-m u le farm into a Colquitt County showpl ace, is Geor gia 's ou tsta n ding fa rmcr of 1955.
--------_ En try of the Mo ultrie Junior Cham......... ~
VAD EN L. M URPHY

her of Co m mer ce in the Geo rgia J a y-
cee's ann ual contest, M r. Mu rphy r e-
ceived a tr ip to Minnea polis to a na-
tiona l J aycee fet e hon orin g th e ou t-
stand ing fa rm ers of the Un it ed St ates.
A pan el of state fa rm leaders head ed by Agri culture Co mm issioner Phil Campbell chose M r. Murph y for th e title all bas is of h is lead ershi p a nd man y communitv ca n tr ibu tions. H e has been far m ing since h igh schoo l da ys, excep t for tim e spen t in the armed forces in World War II. I n high schoo l, he was selected a n Am er ican F armer by th e Future F a rm er s of Am erica. H e is chairma n of the soil conservation steering com m itt ee in his county, was presiden t of th e Col quit t F arm Bureau in 1954, is a tru stee in his community schoo l a nd ac tive in ch urc h affa irs.
St arting ou t on h is father's farm in 1939 with 210 acres an d a mule, Mr. Murphy soon trad ed in the mul e as dow n payment on a t ract or. H e no w owns farm machiner y and equipme n t valued at $12,000. H e h as 120 ac res in cult iva tion a nd two tobacco barns, but his main in terest is pure-bred H ampshir e hogs.
Rufu s W . Cood y, J r., of Coch ran ,
was ru nner-up for the 1955 sta te titl e,
and Don Selma n, DcK alb County, was
th ird . The three winners received en-
graved pl aqu es from th e J aycees.

Ohio's Perfection Sets Waynesboro Opening; Knox Trailer Firm Eyes New Plant Locations

Pe rfection Industries, I n c., of Cleveland , Ohio, formerl y th e Perfecti on Stove Co., has purch ased th e Wayn esbor o pl ant of th e Knox M etal P rodu cts Co., and is preparing to begin operations immedi ately.
D . S. Smi th , Perfection president, said th e plan t will produc e cooking a nd heating appliances for th e sou the rn market. Employment will be 200, and all excep t key personnel will be selected from th e Wa ynesboro a rea .
The Knox firm wh ich manuf' ac-

turcs hou se trailers, has headquarter s in T homson . It employed 100 workers a t th e Wa ynesboro unit. P. S. Knox, J r., president, said th e sale of th e \ Va ynesboro pla nt docs not m ea n th at th e comp any will d iscontinue ope ration s, but that a new pl ant would be established in t he cen tral Sav annah R iver Valley a rea.
M an ager of the Perfecti on p lant will
be J oh n Gard ner, vet eran of 34 yea rs
serv ice with the compa ny, and who
for the p ast 11 yea rs has been indus-
trial relat ions dir ector of th e firm .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

J une, 1955

Charles Collier Farm Electrification Building Dedicated at Georgia Rock Eagle 4-H Center

T he Charles A. Collier F arm Elect rifica tion Buildin g, design ed to aid fa rm boys and girls for gen era tions to come to imp rove th e economic life of th c sta te, is opcn a t th e Georgia 4-1-1 C lub cen ter at R ock Eagle Par k.
The stru ctu re, named for the fa nner director and vice presiden t of the Geor gia Power Co., was dedi cat ed M ay 23. I t was present ed to th e sta te by H a rlcc Bran ch, .Jr., p residen t of the Power Co ., a nd accep ted by R obert O . Arnold , cha irma n of th e Boar d of R egen ts of th e U nivers ity System of Geor-
gIa.
A crowd of 500 peop le, including rcp resen ta tivcs of th e u n iver sity, Geor gia F arm Bureau Fed eration, 4-H C lubs, R E A Co opera tives and sta te, coun ty and city gm'ern mcnts a ttendc d th e dedi cati on exercises.
' V. A. Su tt on , associa te d irector of th e Sta te E xt ension Service, who presided, poin ted ou t tha t Geor gia h as more boys and girls in 4-1-1 Club work th an any sta te excep t one. H e said th e support of bu siness firms throughout Georgia in equipp ing th e R ock Eagle cen ter was largely responsible for m aking it th e largest youth cen ter in th e
world . The F a rm El ect rificat ion Building,
whi ch con tains every elect rica l m ach ine and device designed for th e modern farm a nd farm home, was describ ed as th e best equippe d of a ny simila r str uctu re in the nation .
M r. Collier , featured spea ker a t the dedi ca tion, comp ared economic con dition s in Geor gia tod ay wit h the scene in 1909 wh en he en tere d th e electric industry. H e pointed ou t tha t th e sta te th en had no p aved road s ex cep t in th e la rger cities, no rural schools except one-ro om frame sh acks, no r u ra l hospital s, no indu st ry exce p t cott on ma nufactu ring, a nd no agr iculture ex cep t th e gro win g of cotton . Electric service th en, he said, ex iste d in only the larger cities, and some of them h ad no dayt ime cur rent.
T od ay, he pointed ou t, every town a nd h aml et a nd mo re th an 90 p er cen t of th e fa rms in Georgia have elect ricity. H e pred icted immeasur abl e future adva nce s for the sta te as a resul t of it s 4-H and educationa l ac tivities.

ELECT R IC CENTER- The Char les A. Colli er Building at Rock Ea gle 4-H Club cen ter where Georg ia farm boys and girls ma y find every electrifi ed farm device.

ROBERTA GETS NEW ENGLAND

WOMEN'S SPORTSWEAR PLANT

W orker training is keeping pac e with constr uction at Roberta, wh ere a N ew En gland fir m is bu ilding a subsid iary pl an t with th e assistance of C rawford Co un ty ca pital.
The Eastern Sportswear M fg. Co . expec ts to h ave th e p lant in operatio n by Autumn, producing women's an d ch ild ren's spo rtswear. One hundred f ifty work ers will be employed at fir st, a nd when fu ll production is under wa y, in about two yea rs, th e payro ll is exp ect ed to double.
The plant, a on e-story, air -conditioned stru cture con ta ining 27,000 squa re feet of work space, is being erec ted a t $ 100,000 cost by th e n ewly formed Crawford County D evelop ment Corp.
A Crawfo rd County cor pora tion, th e

Roberta Mfg. Company, will operate th e plant.
Sam Segall is president of Eastern Sportswear. H e selected Roberta as the location of th e subsidia ry p lant af ter a survey of Georgia industrial sites a rrange d by th e State D ep artment of Commer ce.
GEORGIA WOOL MARKETS
Open ing of a woo l market by the
.J. P. Stevens Co ., M illedgeville, brings
to two the nu mb er of Georgia ou tlets for wool p roduced in the state. T he Peerl ess Woo len Mills, a t Rossville, has been bu yin g Georgia wool for some time. Prices p aid are ac cording to grade an d a re ba sed on quotations on the Boston, Mass., woo l market.

GE ORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

June, 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

SWIFT DISPOSAL PLANT Swift & Co., M oultrie, has aw arded
a contrac t for th e insta lla tion of a $150 ,000 sewage treatment and disposal system a t its meat packing plant th ere.
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SEMINOLE FORMS GROUP Seminole Indust ries, In c., with 105
ch ar te r m emb ers, has been in corporated to seck new indust ry for Seminole Countv. Donalsonv ille Mayor P. E. Shingler is president of th e group, Julian Webb a nd E. P. St apl et on a rc vice p residents, Dr. W. H . Minter, scc rc tarv, and R oss Thom as, tr easurer . Directo; ; a re D . F. Wurst, H . O . Cum-
min gs, J. B. Gibson, A. J. Jons, Windy
Bivin gs, Arthur R eynold s and C. D . Thomas.
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PATTERSON FEED MILL
Patter son Milling Co., a t P atterson , in Pi er ce County, has a new feed mill under construction wh ich will have a capac ity of 5,000 bu shels per day a nd will provide eleva tor capacity for ove r 100,000 bu shels of corn sto rage. F ifteen to 20 men will be emp loyed . The milling com pany is owned by C. C. Hyer s and J ohn H. H a rr is, both of Patter son.
- oCARROLL MILL EXPANDS
An expansion progra m is under way at th e Maryon H osiery Mill , Carrollton , whi ch will inc rease th e number of em ployees to 125 by th e end of June. T ed Hirsch, president, said additiona l machiner y is bein g inst alled a nd some 25 more workers will be adde d to th e pr esent payroll.
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WAYNESBORO'S NEW INDUSTRY
Wayn esboro's newest industry, th e pl aning mill of H . W. Stone Lumber Co ., has sta rted operation in a new 60 x 80-foot conc re te and stee l building n ear th e Sav a nnah a nd Atl anta R ailroad . It s pa yroll is $2,000 a week.
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OJAY EXPANDS AGAIN
An additio n being comp leted at Ojay M ills, In c., C alhoun, manufacturer of tu ft ed and woven bedspr eads and scatter ru gs, will give th e firm 12,000 square feet for new equip me nt and storage . This is the Gordon County plant's fifth maj or expansion since 1949 .

MODERN DESIGN-Typical of Johnson & Johnson manufacturing plant con struction is the beautiful home of its Chicopee Mfg. Corporation's Lumite Division at Cornelia.
Johnson & Johnson, world lead ers in the manufacture of surgical dressings and allied product s made of cott on, operates six plants in th e South.- Ed F riend photo.

Beef Production
In Georgia Leaps;
Cow 'Census' Up
Yo-yo , cowboy! Geo rgia is stampeding toward the top in beefsteak production.
In the seven-yea r period of 1949 to 1955, th e beef cattle population of the state went from 427,000 to 813 ,000. The rate of increase, 90.4 per cent, was seventh highest in th e U nited States.
In the same period, the number of milk cows in Georgia ad vanced from 555,000 to 626 ,000, a gain of 12.8 per cent, the nation's twelfth biggest.
These figures are based on a new " census" of cattle ju st completed by the U . S. Department of Agricul hue.
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HAWKINSVILLE SHIPS First dir ect shipme nts to bu yers
fro m th e newly-added sh ipping department of Sun St yles of Georgia, In c., a t H awkinsville, went to M ar yland, Massachusetts and W ashington, D . C., according to Mi ss Anna Mussi, ma na ger. U ntil recently, wome n 's spo rtswea r produ ced by th e pl ant was sen t to Mi am i for distribution.
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TYBEE CAMP AVAILABLE Youth groups th at desire a n esta b-
lished camp for th eir summe r ac tivities arc invit ed to consider th e Chath am County 4-H Cam p a t T yb ee. County Agent D ougl as W. Strohbehn says th e camp is available to gr oups of 50 to 110. Additional information m ay be obtained from Mr. Strohbehn, P. O . Box 1066, Savannah, Ga .

NEW FOUNDRY IN VIENNA
A new foundry whi ch will produ ce gray iron cas tings is coming to Vienna . A spo kesma n for th e concern asked th a t th e n ame of th e industry be withheld . but said a lO-acre building site has been purch ased northwest of th e town beside th e Atla ntic Coas t L ine Railroad, and th at construc tion pl an s a rc und er wav. Offi cials of th e Georgia -Pacific Pump Co ., whi ch speci alizes in well pump eq uipme nt, motors a nd va lves, said th at finn pl an s to mak e usc of th e new fou ndry's castmgs.
Stevens To Build
New Textile Mill
A t Dublin Plant
T he J. P. Steve ns & Co. 'will expand
its faciliti es a t Dublin by erec ting a mod ern tex tile pl ant that is sche duled to begin partial operations by next J anu ar y 1.
J ohn P. Baum, Steve ns vice president, said th e new m ill will b e located adjacent to th e present Dublin plant. Con ta ining 220,000 squa re feet, it will be comp letely integr ated, with all op erations under one roof.
The new plant will m an ufac ture stock dye woolen fabri cs. Approximat ely 350 additio na l employees will be required by Steven s whe n full operatio n is reach ed . Employm ent at th e p resen t St evens' inst allation is 600.
H eadquarters of th e St evens Co. is New York Cit y. T he firm' s woolen and wor sted division consists of six plants in th e N ew England ar ea and three in th e South. The southern un its ar e a t Dublin and Mill edgeville, Ga. , and R ockin gh am , N . C.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

June, 1955

GEORGIA ENJOYS LION'S SHARE OF $100 MILLION FEDERAL PLUM

O f th e mor e th an $ 100,000,000 worth of purch ases m ad e by th e F ed era l go ve rn me nt in the Southea st in th e first four months of 1955, Georgia received th e lion 's share.
Nearl y five h undred con tracts valued at $ 103,508,500 wer e aw arded to firms in the ar ea for goo ds and services rangi ng from foo dstuffs to heavy construc t ion work. T he a wa rds, by sta tes, were: Georgi a $29,222,000 ; Ala ba ma , $i ,690,800; 'Flor ida, $ 15,826 ,000 ; Mississi p pi, $4,582 ,400 ; North Carolina, $20 ,249 ,300 ; Sou th Ca ro lina, $ 12,268,900 ; and T en nessee, $ 13,668 ,iOO .
I n April, the gove rn me nt let 118 defin ite con trac ts in the seven-sta te a rea va lued a t $25 ,561 ,500. Of these, G eor gia re ceived tw enty-nine awa rds tot a lling $ 1035 1,500 . April cont racts in th e othe r states were: Alab ama, 19 for $2,306,500 ; F lor ida , 1i for $2.ii9, :{OO; Mis sissippi, five for $5 10,500 ; North Ca rolina , 19 for $3,608,400 ; South Carolin a. 11 for $2.54 6.500 : T en nessee, 18 fo r $4,458,600." " ,
Fo llowing a rc th e April a wa rds for Georgia with names of con tractors, goods o r serv ices bo ught , a nd va lue of ea ch con trac t:
Georgia Power Com pan y, At lan ta, e I c c t ri e serv ices, $25 ,09 4 ; L ivcscv S: Co ., Inc., A tla nta, work a t Robi ns AFB , $ 109,485 ; M cD on ough Co ns truction Co . of Atla n ta , constr uc tion a t D obb ins AF B, $ 1i9,i 38; M . O . Seck ing er Co. . Sa vannah , work at Pa rris I sla nd , S. C ., $ 11i ,i09; H enry C . Beck Co ., Atla n ta , construction at NAS, J a cksonville, $2, 16 1,582; W righ t Con tract ing Co ., Co lum bu s, paving, $46 ,591 ; Gordy T ire Co. , At lanta, batteries, $10 ,000 ; Erickson's, Savannah, work a t Ch arleston , S. C ., sh ipyard, $39,45 0 ; Tri-State Associates, Sav annah, design fa cilities at H unter AFB, .$ 1:),500 : Murphy Equipment Co., D eca tu r, wor k at H unter AFB a nd Turner AFB, $46 ,061 .
N ational Contra cting &. En gin eering Co. , I nc., Alm a, work at H unter AFB, $ 12,896 ; Southern H a rd wa re Lumber Co. , Atlanta, lu mb er, $31,1 95 ; Southern Sta tes I ron R oofing Co ., Savan nah , steel d r um s, $ 129,000 ; Carroll D aniel Co nstruction Co., G ain esvill e, construction at Pi necastl e A'FB , F la.,

$833,33 0; H arry Bennett Con structi on

Co ., Alma, fen ce at NAS, Gl yn co, $2i, -
950 ; S. .J. Curry & Co., Albany, con -

struction a t T urner AFB, $11 i ,658;

M a ri ne & I ndu st ria l C ontractors.

I nc., Brunswick, d ryd ocking, $18,i46 ;

Law-Barrow-Age e L aboratories, In c.,

Atlanta, com me rc ia l test ing lab SCI"\" -

ices, $50,000 .

So ut hern Wood Preserving C o., A t-

lanta, trea ted po les, $2i ,95i; G a . T ech

R esea rch I nstitute. Atla nta. fab ricate

and assemble so k ~ de\'iccs: $ 105. 180 :

E . V . Ca mp Steel W orks, A tla n ta , ste el

prop ellers, $48,000: W m. Arm stron g

Smith Co., East Point, paint, $39 ,062; Willi ams C on struction Co., M a con, construc tion at R obins, AFB, $684,850; Go rd y T ire Co., At lanta, retr ead a irc ra ft cas ing s, ca ll cont ract; \\' right Con tra cting Co., Columbus, const ruc tion a t Bufo rd D am , $260,289 : R av ;\1. L ce Co.. At lanta. const ruction' of hospita l a t I~ t. Bragg, 'N . C ., S5,5 ii .956 : Art ley Co ., Sav an nah,
const ruc tio n a t Hu nt er AF B, $294,-
04 1; and C hica go Br idge &. I ron Co.,
At lanta, wo r k at Robins AFB , $-19,-
900.

EGGS BELOW!-Giant Navy crane built by LeTourneau-Westin ghouse cracks eggs with a F9F-7 Cougar jet plane at Floyd Benn ett Field. The crane's " brain"--elec tr ical con trol syste m- was built at Toccoa. - U . S. Navy ph ot o, cour tesy The Toccoa Record .

GARGANTUAN NAVY CRANE

HAS TOCCOA-BUILT 'BRAIN'

A new mobil e cr ane, stu rdy enough to h eft a 40 -ton bomber bu t so delica te as to operation th at it ca n set th e same bomber down on an egg wit ho ut smashing it, has been deliver ed to th e Navy by L eTournea u-Westi ngho use Co .
The hoist, whi ch cost $45,000, was assembled a t th e fir m's p lant in Peoria, I ll., but th e com plete elec trica l system - the steel mon ster 's "brain"-was built by Georgians at th e L e'Tou rn cau Westingho use p la nt in Toccoa .
To illu st rate th e feather -touch q u ality of th e controls in a demon st ration a t Fl oyd Ben nett Field , New Yor k C ity, a n egg wa s pl aced a to p a con e. The cra ne th en pi cked up th e bom ber, a F 9F -i Co ugar, and plunged it to-

ward the egg. T he cra ne operato r a llowed th e bomber' s wheel to crac k the egg but no t break the shel l.
The cra ne weig hs 80,000 pounds, is 34 feet hi gh a nd has a maxim um len gth of i5 feet. The 325-ho rsepo we r eng ine, encased in a fr am e su pporte d by eig ht-foot tires, h as 10 forward gears and tw o re verses. I t ca n trav el a t 40 mil es a n hou r. I ts four tir es cost $5,000 each .
A major fea tur e of th e lifting mech anism is th at it enables regu lar safety chec ks of th e hydraulic land ing gear systems of a irc raft. No end jacks or outrigg ing lin es a re necessar y in handling heavy p la nes.
T he navy has order ed 25 of th e hu ge cra nes .

G EO R G IA DEPARTM ENT O F C O M M E RCE

NEWSLETTER

NE W D ALTON PLANT-Portion of th e two- st or y compo un ding area of D ee's Adhesive and C hem ical Co. , wh ere lat ex backi ng is pre pare d for the Geo rgia tufted fl oor
cove r ing ind ust ry.-\\'ard Ph oto Se rv ice.

DEE'S NEW LATEX PLANT

IN OPERATION AT DALTON

Dee' s Adhesive an d C hemi ca l Co ., New En gland firm, making rubber latex, has its south em division opera tion going at D alton .
T he new two-storv bri ck a nd steel plant, furnished with'the most modern equ ipme n t, is produ cing la tex backing for the tufted floor covering industry wh ich centers in W hitfield Co unty.
H om e office of th e company is in L ynn, M assachusetts, where D ec's was esta blished in 1890. The firm has been in con tinuous operation under th e fami ly nam e since that tim e, accor ding to George M . D ee, p residen t. The D a lton un it is th e compa ny's fir st bran ch plan t.
D ee's has been represented in th e Southern tu ft ed textile a re a for th e past eigh t yea rs, wareho using it s products in Chattanooga. Three years ago a branch office was open ed in D alton, and last winter constr uction on th e new p roduct ion p lan t wa s begun.
T he plan t has a compound ing floor area of 14,000 squa re feet, and in fu ll

opera tion h a s a capacity of 5,000 dru ms mon th lv. Converted into d rv pounds, th is a'mounts to two milli o;l pound s of latex eac h mon th. T he latex is used in ba cking tuf ted ca rpeting a nd ru gs.
Crisp Group Adds Air Conditioning Plant at Cordele
Throu gh the coopera tion of Cordele a nd C risp Co unty citizens, a new indu stry will soon op en at Cordele.
Pa rt of Cordele I ndustries, I nc., th e new pl ant will produce residential ai rconditioning u nits. J . S. Shaffer, gen eral ma nager , said 50 to 60 worker s will be employed, a nd th a t productio n will be 100 air cond itioners a day. P ro du ction a nd p ayro ll are scheduled to be doub led in abo u t 18 mo n ths.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F CO M M ER CE

June, 1955
INLAND'S ROME MILL TO ADD 300 AT MILLION PAY
Con struction has begun in F loyd Co un ty on a new box manufacturing pl ant to be opera ted by th e Inl and Contain er Corp .
H . A. K idd, vice pr esident a nd general manager of th e Rome K ra ft Co., drove a sta ke symbolizing the sta r t of the pla n t on May 18. T op-fligh t officials of R ome Kra ft, In lan d a nd th e M ead Corp., a trended th e ce remony a long with officials an d rep resen ta tives of F loyd Co unty, the Ci ty of R ome, a nd bu siness, civic an d indu strial lead ers of th e are a.
T he new plan t is locat ed on a n eleven-ac re site adjacen t to th e R om e K ra ft p lant at Kra nner t. ten m iles west of Rome. ] t is schedu led to be completed a nd in opera tion by September. One sto ry h igh, of br ick and steel construc tion, it will contain 150,000 squa re feet of floor space. Its equipmen t will rep resent every modern phase of the box making industry.
T he pl ant will emp loy 300 work er s a nd h ave a payr oll of more th an a mi llion dolla rs a vca r.
I nla nd Con'tain er and th e M ead Corp. a rc joint own ers of th e R ome K raft Co. Mr. Ki dd said th at p art of R ome K raft' s output of containe r boar d will go di rectl y to the new I nland plant for manufact ur e int o corruga ted boxes and shipping con tainers.
NEW CASKET FACTORY T he D avis Casket Co ., Americus'
newest indust rv, has const ruction of its plan t un der w',;y a nd expects to start opera tions June 15. T he 60 x 144-foot st ruc ture, bu ilt of brick and steel, one story high a nd thorough ly mo dern throughout , will house fa ctor y, offi ces and showroom s. says Presiden t 1. B. Davis. A fu ll line of both metal a nd wooden caskets will be m anufactu red .
- oINK PLANT SLATED
J. M . Huber Corp., will op en II. new
ink blend ing p lant nea r th eir present kaoline op er ations 15 miles south of M acon . Ph ilip L. Courn ey, p lant man age r, said the installa tion will be housed in an existing bui lding. The clay division of H ub er em p loys 250 workers on a 24-ho ur bas is, m anufact uring filler and coa ting cla ys for use in th e ' paper indust ry.

NEWSLETTER

GEORGIA ROLLS OUT MAT

FOR RECORD TOURIST YEAR

"Abo u t 60 milli on Am eri can s will clamber into 20 milli on ca rs this ye ar for jaunts ran gin g from exte nde d tou rs to on e-d ay va ca tions."
That' s wh at Newsweek magazl11c sa id, qu oting th e Am eri can Autorn ohile Associati on .
Geor gia tod ay sta nds in a golden position, with its own n atural a nd hi stor ica l a tt rac tions to visitor s from th e other 4 7 sta tes, plus being th e " f ron t do or ," so to speak, to th e n ation' s No . 1 to uri st sta te- F lorida.
In all parts of th e nation, trav el promotion is fast becom ing im porta nt as a fun cti on of city and sta te govern ment, coup led with keen inter est on th e pa rt of all typ es of busin ess con cern s a llied directl y or indirect ly 'with tr avel.
Thi s is th e vea l' wh en th e ex per ts a re predi cting 'a " buyers' mark et" in t r a vel.
Thi s is th e yea r for Geor gia to extend even mor e cour tesy and gen uine sou thern hospit ality to mot ori sts with out-of- state license p lat es.
Georgia's sta tewide highway im provem ent program is progressing with new fou r-lane routes, wid er bridges, safer curves, better route m arkings.
The state's la w enforceme n t age n cies a re abreast of th e times. Sp eed law s of necessity a re being strict ly en for ced , to save human lives and p roper ty dam age, but ver y few instances of un ethi ca l activities or lack of cour tesy a nd fa ir pl ay a re on record so far thi s yea r.
Georgia ns could well ado p t a p er man ent sta tewide slogan some thing like " We lcome, visitors- st ay with u s a few days or severa l weeks-stay long enough to see a ll of G eorgia ."
The a ver age va ca tioning couple will spend some $30.00 p er day wh ile awa y from hom e for food , lodging, gasoline a nd oil, en ter ta inment and in cid enta ls. For a fam ily of four, th e daily figure is pla ced conservatively a t $40 .00.
Thus, if a m an a nd his wif e fr om Wi scon sin, or a ny other sta te, toured G eorg ia just one week, th ey wou ld hav e to spend a t least $210 .00 with Geor gia bu siness firm s. If th ey bought th e best of ever ything, th eir tota l expenditure for one week wo uld come

closer to $275.00.
Georgia has everything to offer th e tourist-industry, m anufacturing, agr icult ure, sea coas t a nd beach es, swim min g, hunting, fish ing, boating, wat erskiing, sa il boat ing, mountain s, ideal clim at e, good ro ad s, fin e hotels a nd mot els, excellen t ea ting ac commod ation s, every mod ern means of transportati on , nation al p arks, sta te p a rk s, beautifu l citv and suburba n residen ces, outsta nd ing 'chu rc he s and gov ern men t bui ldings, a m ple water supply, and historical mus eums, to th e ex ten t th at a visito r wh o stays in th e sta te even a shor t time is bound to retu rn home hu mming th at old tune " Ca n' t Get Georgia Off M y Mind ."
But it's up to th e p eopl e of Georgia to sell Georgia to th e visitor s whi le th ey are with u s.
L et 's all be cou r teous to Georgia's

H OBB Y-M r. an d Mrs. Atwell Bell, who own t he J on es Co unty Freezer L ocker at Gray, h ave a h obb y that stems from a bypro duct of th eir business. T h ey tan cowhid e r ugs for fun an d profit. -Mrs. J . A. Barker photo.
tourists! Extend th e hand of welcome! Help th em to enjoy th eir stay in G eorgia, and urge th em to come aga in !
- Behind th e Wheel

Lees Rushes New $200,000 Dahlonega Plant To Make Tufted Carpet Yarn in Old Gold Area

James L ees a nd Son s Co ., Bridge-
port, P a., carpe t ma nufac tu re r, is ru shin g com pletion of its new $200 ,000 plant at D ahlon cga . Operation is sche du led to sta r t by mid-summer.
New Dress Plant, Pride of Elberton, Starts With 150
The Elberton M anufacturing Co ., whi ch more th an 100 citizens of the city an d Elbert County h ad a part in fin an cin g, h as most of its eq uipmen t in p lace and 150 wom en workers have been em ployed.
By July 4, th e m an agem ent say s, th e p lant's fu ll comp lement of 150 sewing mach ines will be in op eration . The p ayr oll a t th at time is expec ted to rise to 200. The p lant turns out women' s clothing from p iece goods to th e finished ga rment.
The p lant is housed 111 a n ew on e-

N am ed th e Pine Tree Co., th e unit will spin ya rn for L ees' tufted ca rpe t division a t Bridgeport.
The pl ant, bui lt on a low m ountaintop a t th e Dahlon ega city lim its, is a mod ern one-story bri ck and steel structure con ta ining 82,000 sq u are feet. It is rifl e-shot distan ce from th e celebra ted Fi nd ley Chute, cen te r of th e grea t North Georgia gold ru sh of th e early 1880 's.
J oseph J er vis, wh o will be general m anager of the op er ation , said th e pl ant will emp loy 100 to 175 work er s, abou t half of th em wom en .
sto ry bri ck bui lding con taining 12,000 square feet of work space, loca ted a t th e Elberton a irpor t. The time in which it was erec ted and pl aced in op eration is believed to be something of a state record. The ga r men t m anufact uring concern agree d to loca te in th e city in J anuary, and in a little more than three months pl an s were d rawn and approved, mon ey was r aised for th e cons tr uction, an d th e building was put up.

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Co n tract for th e power plant a t Buford D am on th e C ha ttahoo che e R iver in th e BUF ORD -GAIN ES VILLE area h as been let to I vey Brothers Co nst ruction Co ., Inc., of ATLA NTA , for $3,076,12 8 . .. J efferson Shi rt C orp . h eld dedi cati on exe rcises on M ay 26 a t its new p I a n t a t L O UI S VILL E, Ga . . . . The offic e and labora tory fo r th e n ew clay p lant nea r SA .NDER SV I L LE h as been com pleted .. . Sing O il Co ., In c., is canning and p ackin g oil at its PELHAiv/ plant.
Th e $75,000-Southern R egion al Poultry T esting Sta tion h as been dedi ca ted at th e Experim ent Sta tion of th e U niversity of Georgia, ATHENS . . . SATILLA REA anno unces a new loan of $ 1,900,000 with whi ch to grea tly expand its serv ices in th e eight South G eorgia counties it serves . . . Sha nno n H osier y Mi lls of CO L Ulvl BUS h av e been acquired by C ha d bo urn H osier y Mi lls of Cha rlotte, N . C .. . . A $99,000 Nationa l Guard Arm or y is bein g bu ilt a t WA Y CR OSS . . . A n atu ral gas system is under construction a t TH OMA S VILLE .
Hugh R . Pap y h as sold h is interest in SA VA NNAH I ron & W ire W orks to a group of associa tes; Albert M . M oren o is new president of th e firm . . W ood son Paint & Blind Co., a t TH 0 1V1ASTON, will p rodu ce who lesale aw nings a nd blinds, an d th e Vining-L ewis Sho ps th er e will p roduce wrought ir on . . . F ed eral Power Co mmission, W ash ington, has issued a prelimina ry permit to Geor gia Power Co . for a proposed hyd ro-electric proj ect on th e C ha rta -

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h ooch cc river in M USCO GEE CO UNTY, Ga ., and L ee Co unty, Ala. The p ermit is for surv eys and .inv estiga tions.
A $ ]50,000 tobacco wareh ou se is planned a t SWA INSBO RO . . . C raft Carpet M ills, In c., will erec t a 30,000sq ua re-foot wareh ou se on a nin e-acr e tract a t FORT OGLET HO R PE . . . CON Y ERS plan s a new wat er plant a nd sewerage extension pr ogram to cost $233,280. . .. R ockw eavc laundry p rod ucts a re in full pr odu cti on at th e ivl AN CH EST ER plant of th e C allawa y Mills Co . . . . KING SLA ND post office will u nd erg-o com plete ren ovati on , M rs. Julia Casey, postm aster, a nnoun ces . .. M orris M . Bryan , Jr. , of ]EFFER SON , is th e new pr esid ent of th e Co tton M an ufac turers Associa tio n of Georgia .
Pip e is being laid in A L BAN Y for natural ga s service . . . Ralph E. Sease has been nam ed general m an ager of th e Ce nt ral of G eorgia R ail road . . . L and has been p urchas ed a t BAINBR ID GE for th e site of a mod ern Decatur Countv H ea lth Cen ter to rep lace th e pr e' s e n t facilities . . . . ATLA NTA Blue Print & Supply Co . is erecting a n ew bu ilding on Sp ring St., N .W ., to rep lace its plant destro yed by fire last fa ll . . . GA I N ES VILL E Box Co., manufacturer of boxes for th e p oultry industry, h as been bou ght by the C entral Co n ta ine r Co ., operator of plants in Geor gia a nd Alab am a .
TH OMASTON h as voted to don at e a site to U pson County for th e new $ 100,000 D istri ct H ealth O ffice . . . .
BARNES VILLE'S wa te r system has

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Southern to Build New Atlanta Yard; Cost $15 Million
T he Southern R ailw a y will spend mo re th an $15,000,000 on a new fr eight ya rd in At lanta .
Presid ent H a rr y A. D eButts told th e com pan y's sto ckh olders at th eir a nn ua l meeting in Ri chmond, Va ., M ay 17, that th e insta llation will be " an electr oni c pu sh-button ret a rd er yard" whi ch will expedite fr eight traffi c with " television scan ning, rad a r speed sensing, autom a tic swit ching a nd ana log compu tes providing ove r-a ll con trol."
The new pu sh-button yar d will be integrat ed in oper a tion with th e Souther n's Inman Yards in th e northwest sectio n of th e city. Alr ead y th e largest fr eight and p assenger classification center in th e Sou th, Inman has mor e th an 50 tracks a nd ca n handle 5,000 ca rs a day. It is tw o m iles long a nd h alf a mi le wide.
been expande d by addition of an 80acre lake a nd th e insta llation of a new labora tory . . . A gra in elevat or is planned at WA DLEY . . . C in derella F ood s a t DAvV SON , h as been given an order by th e Qu arterm aster Co rps for 400,000 pounds of peanut butter, th e contr act involvin g m ore th an $ 100,000.
Stowe-Woodw ard Inc., h as dedi cated its Southern plant a t GR I FFIN . . . A new bui lding to serve as th e eigh tsta te South eastern a rea h eadquarters of th e Am eri can R ed Cross is to be erected in ATLANTA .
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DEPARTMENT OF [OMMEU[ E
NEWSLETTER
JUL Y 1955

NEWSLETTER

july, 1955

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by

GEORGI A DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MA RVIN GRIFFIN
Go vernor
BOARD OF COMMISSIONER S

EMO R Y L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HO KE P ET ER S

BEN JESSUP

TRAM l\IELL McI NTYR E

* SCOTT CANDLER
Sec re t a r y
NELSON M. SHIPP Assistant Secretary

FR ED D. MOON Editor

Vol. 6 No.9

Jul y 1955

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Cupid's Business
Booms in Georgia ;
Stork on Job , Too
Georgia sta nds first in the Southeas t in nu mb er of ma rr iages in th e first q uarter of 1955 a nd ninth in th e U nited Sta tes.
M arriages in Georgia from J anuar y through M ar ch numbered 11,553, whi ch compares with 10,86.0 in th e corresponding period last yea r, says th e U . S. Department of H ealth, Educati on and Welfar e. Only Mi ssissippi , T exas, Pennsylvani a, Ohio, Indiana, Ill ino is, a nd Californ ia excee d thi s number.
T hirty-one sta tes reported decreases in marriages this year over last, and Geor gia , Florid a and Sout h Ca rolina a re the on ly Sout heastern sta tes to experi ence gains.
I n At lanta a n increase of from ~ 71 to 39~ marri ages was record ed .
In th e same peri od of thi s year ther e wer e three live births for eve ry death in Geo rgia, lea ving a substa ntial net in populati on gro wth . Th e number of live births was 25,205 and th ere were 8,5 11 deaths. Births, however, were down a bout 1,400 from th e first qua rter of 1954 and deaths wer e up slightly.
COVER PHOTO
The Fulton N ational Bank's new skyscra pe r hom e near s completion in downtown Atlanta, dw arfing th e H enr y Grady monument in left foreground . Workmen were adding th e giant lett ers of the bank's nam e as this picture was made.-Lan e pho to

LOO KING TO FUTURE- Ha rllee Branch, J r., pr esiden t of the Georg ia Pow er Co. , exami nes model of atomi c power plant. He pr edicts Georgia may have such a plant withi n the next 12 years to serve homes and indu stry.
GEORGIA A-PLANT LIKELY IN 12 YEARS, BRANCH SAYS

T he Sout h's first a to mic power plant Illa y be built in Georg ia with in the next 12 years.
H arll cc Bran ch, J r., president of the Geo rg ia Power Co., a nd the newly elect ed pr esident of th e Edi son Electri c Institu te, says th er e is a possibility t hat plans for suc h a p lant will be fonnu luted by 1960.
Atom ic development eve ntua lly will mean "ch eap er power for th e peop le an d industry of Georgia," he decla red .
M r. Bra nch said his forecas t is based on Georgia Power 's pa rti cip ati on in a $45 ,000,000, 100,000-kil owatt expe riment al a tomi c ene rgy-fueled power plant to be in opera tion by 1959 in Mi chi ga n.
By th at tim e, he pointed ou t, th e Georg ia ut ility will ha ve spe n t $880,000 on a tomic ene rgy a nd development.
Alab ama Power Co ., second lar gest ope ra ting subsid ia ry of th e Southern Co ., will hav e spen t a like a mount,

while the sma ller Mi ssissippi and G ulf Power unit s will hav e spent $220 ,000 eac h.
In acldition , the Southem Co . wiII underwrite $500,000 of a proj ect ed bank loan on th e expe rime n ta l p la nt.
The Southern u tiliti es' part in th e work of Atomi c Power Development Associat es, In c., a gro up of mor e th an :~ o utility, engineering a nd industria l firm s whi ch p lans to build th e Mi ch iga n experimen ta l plant, was a nno un ced recentl y.
Elb ert Dress Plant
A d ds 4 0 Machines
The Elb erton M anufactu rin g Co. has installed 40 mor e sewing machines, bri ngin g its tot al to 85 a nd incr easing its pa yroll to 100 wom en.
The Georgia State Emp loyment Office is training ope ra to rs for the new ga rme nt p lant.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT O F COM M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1955

Georgia's $2,198,876,000 Bank Deposits

Average $617 for Every Man, Woman, Child

With $2,198,876,000 in th e bank , Geo rgia ns toda y ha ve more " rea dy monev" th an eve r befor e.
Th ~i r deposits ave rage a record $6 17 for eve ry m an , wom an an d child in th e sta te, says th e Fed er al Dep osit Insu ra nce Co rpo ra tion.
A lot of th at cash is sa lted a way for a rain y day, too- Georgian s now ha ve $ 112,583,000 mor e in sav ings accoun ts th an th ey did a t th e close of W orld W a r II in 1946. Ti me deposits, includ ing post al sav ings, on .Janu ar y 1, tot alled $425,383,000.
T he FDIC report shows that not on ly ha ve Georgia ns been "putting aside" about $14,000,000 an nually since th e war in the form of sav ings , but deposits in che cking accounts a lso are heavy.
At th e start of 1955, th e sta te's ope ra ting ban ks had near ly h alf a billi on dollars more on dep osit th an th ey did in 1946.
The re po rt lists 40 1 ope ra ting banks in th e sta te, whi ch , by th e wa y, is th e nation 's fourteenth lar gest num ber.

Geo rg ia's per ca pita dep osits as a wh ole have risen per ceptibly since th e wa r's en d wh en th ey stoo d a t $544based up on a popu lati on th en of 3, 129,000 .
In the seven sta tes of th e Southeast - Geo rgia, Alaba ma , Florid a, Mi ssissippi, Tennessee a nd th e tw o Caro linas - dep osits tot al $ 13,397,449,000 with time deposits, or sav ings ac counts, register ing $2,858,172,000.
Average per cap ita deposit for th e Southeastern area com prising ap proximately 21,954,000 residents, is $610. T he 1946 av erage wa s $523.
The FDIC tabulation, wh ich is for the 1,730 operating banks in th e seven states, cred its Alabama with total deposits of $ 1,555,6 17,000 ; Florida, $2,955,024,000; G eorgia, $2,198,876,000; Mi ssissippi, $964,895,000; North Carolina, $2,325,488,000; South Ca rolina, $838,998,000 , a nd T ennessee, $2,558,551,000.
Per capita deposits th rou gh out th e Sou theas t a rc well over those of 1946.

Besides rising from $544 to $617 in Geo rg ia in th e eight-yea r post-wa r period , th ey went fro m $436 to $502 in Alab am a, $788 to $860 in Florida, $366 to $443 in Mi ssissippi , $505 to $559 in North Carolina , $355 to $386 in South Ca ro lina , a nd $628 to .$765 in T enn essee.
GRIFFIN OPENS NEW SHIRT PLANT AT LOUISVILLE
Gov . M a rvin G ri ffin a nd Lt. Gov . Ern est Vandiver head ed a list of distingui shed visito rs a nd wer e princip al spea kers whe n th e J effer son Sh irt Corp. ope ned its new hom e a t Louisville on M av 26.
Gove rno r Griffin sa id he was proud to dedi cat e th e enla rge d pl ant to th e progr ess of J effer son Co un ty and th e econo my of Geo rg ia . Lt. Go vernor Van dive r outl ined th e progr ess of man ufacturing in th e state.
Herman R askin , man ager , sa id th e fac to ry , which has 25,000 sq ua re feet of floor space, has a ca pacity of 500 do.zrn men' s a nd boys' dress and spo rts shirts a d ay. It em p loys 170 person s a nd uses 110 of th e most modern sewing machines and o ther eq uipme n t. The new bu ilding is a one- story bri ck structure a nd is eq uipped with a ir condit ioning.

A viation Elnploy s 50,000 in Georgia

WAVE-LAPPED PARADISE - T he bathhouse at j ekyll Island State P ark, nea r Brunswick , Georgia's newest and most beautiful park. The sem i-tro p ical island, form er pirate strongho ld, was th e wo rld 's most exclusive m illionaire's club befor e Geor gia acqu ir ed it .-Ed Friend photo

Fift y th ou sand Geo rg ia ns mak e th eir living in th e av ia tion industry and thi s number will incr ease yea rly, R . R . K r- a rt on , assista n t genera l man ager of th e Geo rg ia Divi sion of Lockh eed Aircra ft Co rp., told th e Geo rg ia Pr ess Association conve ntion in Savannah.
"T oda y, a t M ari ett a alone," Mr. K earton said, " almost 18,000 peop le a re engaged in manufacturing a irplanes for th e Air Force. Ninety-tw o per cent of th ese peop le are native G eor gian s."
" You r fellow Georgia ns a re good indu stri ou s a irc ra ft builder s," Mr. K earton added .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1955

GEORGIA GETS U. S. CONTRACTS
WORTH $38,496,700, LEADS DIXIE

Geor gia led the Southeast in U . S.

gO\'ern me nt bu ying both in the month

of M av and in th e cumu la tive tot al for

th e fil:st five months of thi s vear. ac cor d ing to th e Atlanta field 'off i~ e of

th e U. S. Dep artment of Commer ce.

Purchases in the state in May

totaled 19 contracts for good s and

services approximately $9,274,600,

bringing th e cumula tive total for

1955 to 109 contracts with a value of

$38,496,700.

T his was far grea ter t h an th e

a mo un ts spen t in th e other six South -

eas tern states. In th e J anuary to M a y

peri od , firms in Alab am a wer e awa rd -

ed 67 con tracts for $8,744,300, F lor ida

received 90 for $21, 173,000, M ississippi,

24 for $5,102,800, North Carolina, 11 1

for $24,463,300, Sou th Carolina, 57 for

$ 14,264,300, and T enn essee, 85 for

$ 17,365,900.

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W ith Georgia' s 109 contracts worth $38,496,700, th e area's score is 543 awards tot alling $ 129,610,800.
In addition, Georgia a nd Alab am a

eac h received one con tract, Mi ssissippi two and No rth Ca rolin a l Oin whi ch no a mo unt was spec ified.
Three million-dollar-plus contracts ar e listed among the Georgia awards posted in May. One of them, for $3,497,700 went to Wright Construction Co., Columbus, for con struction at J ohn son Air Force Base, Goldsboro , N. C., and another, for $3,076,100 was a wa rde d to I vey Bros. Const ruction Co ., Atlanta, for work at Buford Dam. Wesley Construction Co., also of Atlanta, rec eived a con tract for $ 1,021,200 for work at Robins Air Force Base, Marietta.
Following a rc th e M ay a wards made in Geor gia:
Lyon M etal Product s, Inc., Atla nt a. clothing lockers, $41,288; Walker Electrical Co., Inc., Atla n ta , switch boa rd, $3 1,559; Prather & Ca rter Constr uction Co., H arlem , cons truc tion a t Ca mp Gor don , $9,240; Smith & W all Co., Augusta, air condi tioning at Camp Go rdo n, $84,055 ; Dozier Plum bin g & Electri cal Co ., Thom son , pi ping at

Camp Go rdo n, $ 166,704; Wright Co ntractin g Co., Colu mbus, run wa y a nd apron a t Seym our J ohnson AFR , Go ldsboro , N.C. , $3,497,704.
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Southern Construction Co., Augu sta. barrack improvements at Ft. C ampbell, $203,935 ; Weslcv Con struct ion Co.. Atlanta , construc tion a t Robins AF R. $ 1,02'1,215; Will iams Con structi on Co.: Columbus , construction a t Ft. Benning; $358,599 and $259,502; Layne Atlanti c Co ., Savannah , water supply fa cilities, Kings Bay, $ 167,886 ; National Contracting & En gineering Co., Alm a , airfield lighting, Turner AFB , $17,382 ; Georgia T ech R esea rch In stitute, At lanta, research on fr equ en cy con trol of signa ls, $28, 158 and modification kits for sca nning system , $27, 151.
Ivey Bros. Constructi on Co., Atl anta . construc tion at Buford Dam , $3 ,076, ~ 138 ; J am es C. Wise, Assoc., Atlanta, a rchitect enginee r serv ices, $29,600 ; Nunna lly & M cC rea , Atl anta , cotton trousers, $51,025; Waycro ss M achine Shops. Waycross, containers, $178,000, a nd Sa vannah Sug ar Refin ing Corp., Savannah , sugar, $25,488.

FITZGERALD GIANT-New qu arter-million dollar peanut and grain storage plant of th e U nion Cotton Oil Co. at Fitzgerald. Another Fitzgerald firm , th e Dixi e Peanut Co. , is constructing a simila r e1evator.- Albany H erald photo.

You ng Harris Gets
First Tow ns County
Ind ustrial Pla nt
T own s C o u n t v in m o u n t a i n o us No rth Georgia, is get ting its fir st modern industry. The Brumby Knitting M ills, In r ., of Murphy, N. C., is establishing a br an ch plant at Young H a rri s.
St at e Sen ator W . K . D ean , of Youn g H ar ris, says E. H . Brumby, of Murph y, president of th e manufa cturing concern, who was in Young Harris to sta rt a tr aining program for futu re em ployees, disclosed that th e plant would emp loy 75 persons.
B. G. Brumby, of M a riett a, Ga ., and C lea rwa ter, Fla., vice-p reside n t, said th at a con trac t would be let immed iately for th e construction of th e plant. He said plan s call for a fift y x 150 ft. building of conc rete and bri ck constru ction. ai r-cond itioned and thoroug hly modern , to cost $100,000.
B. G. Bru mb y said th e Young H a rri s plan t will be in op er ation by Janua ry 1st, pr oducing kn itted und er wear a nd T -shi rt s.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1955

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SAV ANNA H DEVELOPMENT-Architect's sketch of a warehouse to be built by th e U . S. Plywood Corp. on a new industrial site being developed on a five-a cr e tract by T. P. Stafford. The Savanna h District Au thority said th e brick and ste el st ruc ture will conta in 10,000 squa re feet of floor spa ce.

RAILROADS SPEND $64,938,512 IN GEORGIA DEFENSE PROGRAM

Sixteen Georgia rai lroads a rc pa rt icipating to th e tune of a lmost onefour th in th e q uarter of a billion doll ars tha t Southea ste rn rail ca rriers ar c spe nd ing in impro ving their faci lities.
Total expenditures by railroads in the seven-state area over a five-year period com e to $267,360,710, of which Georgia 's share is $64,938,5 12, according to the Office of Defense Mobilization. This nearly doubles the amo unt being spent by lines in Alabama, Dixie's second highest state in expenditure. 'Fro m. the beg inn ing of the K orea n W a r in June 1950, to date, 36 rai lroads in Alabama, Florida. Georgia , M ississip pi, T enn essee an d th e two Carolin as have been granted cer tif ica tes of necessity by th e O D M for th e purc hase of d iesel eng ines , new ro lling stock, im provem en ts and ad ditions to tr ackage, and othe r proj ect s to st reng the n th eir ope ra tion . The cer tifica tes a re granted wh en th e expansion a nd im provem ent ac tivities are design ed to fur ther the progra m of nation al defense.
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O f th e $267,360,710 in cer tifica tes assigne d in the Southeast , $6,429,889 is listed as not confined to anyone p articular sta te, but to ro ads operatin g

within th e seven-state a rea. This indudes th e Seab oard Ai r Line, $3, 188,142 ; South ern , $ 161,505 ; Atl antic Co ast Li ne, $1,420,809 ; G ulf, M obile & Ohio, $ 1,626,783, a nd Illinois Cen tra l, .$32,650.
Expenditures specifica lly assigned to the states are $64,938 ,512 in Georgia; $36,713,284 in Alabama; $11,369,456 in F lori da; $ 1,939,648 in Mis sissippi; $98,071,488 in North Carolina, $5,216,387 in South Carolina, and $42,682,046 in Tennessee.
H ere a re th e gran ts spe cifica lly as signe d to Geo rgia, na mes of th e rai lroa ds a nd the amount of expend itur e for eac h :
C entra l of Georgia, $32, 195,19 1; Southe rn , $ 15, 195,885; Sa vannah & Atlanta, $8,054,805; Seabo ard Air Lin e, $3,30 1, 154 ; W estern Railway of Ala bama , $ 1,970,488 ; Atlantic Co ast Line, $ 1,570,457; Atlanta & West Point, $795,55 1; Southern & Florida, $574,377; St. M ary' s Railroad , $331,689 ; M a con , Dublin & Savann ah, $209,626; Georgia, Florid a & Alabama, $165,572 ; C ha rlesto n & West ern Ca rolina , $154,941 ; N. C . & St. L. , $ 120,000; Georgia No r the rn , $ 113,571; Sander sville Railroa d Co ., $ 104,950, and L & N $80,255.

State Industry Growth Booms Home Building
Four new hom es are sp ring ing up in Geo rgia tod a y wh er e one rose a few yea rs ago , th anks to th e influx of new ind us try a nd t he record expa nsion of th e sta te's established bu sinesses.
In 1939, ju st before the start of World War IL, the va lue of all construction in Georgia was $64,800,000. Last year it was $267,800,000. The rate of gain , 313.3 per cent, easi ly sha des the overall 272.5 per cent increase registered by the seven -state Sout heast during the fifteen year period.
In Atlanta . va lue of constru ction wor k wh en fr~m a prew a r $ 15,000,000 to $167,000,000 in 1954, a leap of 1,0 14.7 per cent. The number of bui ld ing permits for d welling un its in th e capita l city increased fro m 3,263 to 12,539, a r ise of 284.3 pcr cen t.
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Analysis of building permits in th e Southea stern sta te s and th eir metropolit an area s reveals th a t Georgia is runncrup to Florida, with Atl anta second only to Mi ami in constr uction va lue, Florid a 's total moved from. $92,200,000 in 1939 to $649,700,000, a 604.7 per cen t ga in, whil e build ing in M ia mi advanced fro m $ 16,300,000 to $234,400,000 or 1,338 per cen t.
Co nstruc tion records in th c ot he r Southeastern sta tes are:
Alabama, $42,300,000 in 1939 to $135,800 ,000 last year, 221 per cent ; Miss issippi, $3 1,600,000 to $62,400,000, 97.5 per cent; North Carolina, $68,400,000 to $181,600 ,000, 165.5 per cent ; South Carolina, $41,000,000 to $67,300,000, 64.1 per cent , and Tennessee, S82,300,000 to $209,900,000, or 155 per cent.
The region 's total for th c period
s moved from app ro xima tely $422,600,-
000 to 1,574,300,000.
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Fi gu res on Birmingham a nd M emph is, th e region's two other metropolitan areas , sho w th at th e forme r's construc tion va lues rose from a prewar $8,200,000 to $50,900,000, som e 520.7 per cent, while those of th e latter wen t from $ 10,300,000 to $81,300,000, about 689.3 per cen t.

GEORGIA D EPAR T MENT O F COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

July, 1955

GEORGIII PIIRIIDE Of PROGRESS

JOHNS-MANVILLE
PICKS SAVANNAH FOR HUU'-E PLANT
T he J ohn s-Manville Co rp. will build a .~ 3 , 000 , 000 asp ha lt roofing plant a t Sa va nna h which is slated to be in production by th e Autumn of 1956 . Th e proj ect will em ploy mor e than 100 peopl e with an annua l pa yroll of $400,000 .
Site of th e plant is a 58-ac re tr act near th e Traffi c C ircle on U . S. Hi ghway 17, north of th e city, near th e plants of th e Union Bag & Pap er Co., Ce rta in- tee d Produ cts Co . and Am erica n O il Co . The area is served by th e Sava nna h and Atlanta Railroad .
A. F. Fisher, J ohns -Manville pr esident , said th e plant bu ildings will cover mor e th an 100,000 square feet of floor space. They will include a boiler house, service buildings, war ehouse, storage area, garage and repai r shop, a nd roofing plant.
"T he Savannah pl ant is J ohns -M anville's first manufacturing mo ve int o th e Southeas t," Fisher said . "T he decision to bu ild in th e territor y followed th e tr em endous expa nsion of th is pa rt of th e country since World Wa r II , a nd th e unpreced ented dem and for building products ."
BALDWIN INDUSTRY
Baldwin' s newest industr y, th e Baldwin Ga rme n t M anu facturing Co ., has begun pr odu ction with Davy C roc kett sh irts for th e sma ll fry. Aar on G. Penick, owne r, said th e plant sta rted with a personn el of 20 pe rsons in charge of M rs. Eu la Adam s.
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NEW ASPHALT PLANT
Wor k is und er way on a plant to house Douglasville's newest industry, th e Cracker Aspha lt Corp., whi ch will develop crude oil int o asphalt for roads, roofs an d othe r purposes, and m anufacture a number of by-p roducts. N ine tee n hu gh sto rage tanks a re being erec ted along with a 40 x 270-f oot all-stee l building and a 40 x 80-foot office structure. Dr. C . B. F. Young, of Leonn e, N . J., wh o is a native of Birm ingh am , Ala ., is principal own er of th e firm. The plant will employ 35 person s.

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feaxcptaunridngitsG uAllibstaanny tuplfatendt coanrpaetst,h rweiel-l acre site acqu ir ed from th e city for
$30,000. George Paul es, general manage l', said additiona l prod uction facilities and a n office building will be erec ted. The expansion will req uir e a sizeable addition to th e plant's employed p ersonn el, h e ad ded .
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ELLIJAY GET S PLANT Dav enport H osiery Mill s, In c., of
C ha ttanooga, is constructing a plant in Ellijay to produce seamless nylon
stoc kings. .J. T alley J ohnston, Daven-
port pr esident , said th e new unit, situa ted on a 12-acre tr act , represents an investm ent of $ 1,000,000 and will em ploy 125 to 150 workers. The pl ant, of br ick-faced conc rete block construction , will h ave 10,000 squa re feet of space and will be ai r-condi tioned .
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DOCKS ADD GRAIN TANKS A 750,000 - bush el gr ain eleva tor
wh ich will give Geo rgia fa rme rs direct access to foreign ma rkets will be adde d to th e docks at Savannah. The Sta te Ports Authority said a syndi cat e head ed by V . C . R au smu ssen , of Atlanta, pr esident of th e Geo rgia G rain Elevat or Co., will build th e eleva to r at a cost of mor e th an $2,000,000. It is expected to produce addi tiona l net inco me for th e sta te ports of $25,000 a year.
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ADAI RSVI LLE PLANT A new p lant building of concre te
block const ruc tion con tai n ing 15,000 square feet of work space, is rising on th e site of th e old C ity H all in Ada irsville to house th e Penfi eld C he nille Co . and pro vide employme n t for some 50 persons. W . E. Penfield says th e new firm will begin manufacture with che nille sp rea ds a nd rugs. T he old municip al building, retained by th e city, has been move d to a new location a nd will be used for sto rage .
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McKESSON & ROBBINS The che m ical dep artment of M c-
K essen & Robbins has esta blishe d a dist rict office at 805 Peachtree St.. N. E., Atlanta, to hand le th e ware ~ housing and distribution of industrial che micals and feed suppleme nts in th e Southeas t. Lee A. Enberg, who has been with M cK esson- Ch emi cal since 1946, has been ap pointed district m a n a ger.

CSRWEASITNOSNBOPRLOANGTE;TS
TO EMPLOY 600
A new knitting mill design ed to employ upward of 600 per sons h as selected Swainsboro for its location.
A joint announ cem ent, mad e by L eRoy H . Wi lliam s, man ag er of th e Swa insboro Ch amber of Commer ce, and Philip Rosen, president of C reston Knitting Mi lls, said initial construc tion ca lls for a 35,000 square -foot, air-conditioned bui ldin g and th e possible subseque nt erec tion of two mor e simila r pl ants.
The initi al unit, to cost mor e th an $350 ,000, will cu t, mak e and t rim boys' polo shirts and boys' and girl s' paj am as. Eventually it will pr oduce boys' and girls' knitted wear.
The new plant will be erec ted on a 53-ac re tr act for whi ch th e Ch amber of Commerce holds an option. The land belongs to Emanuel Industries, In c., a development organiza tion formed to attract new industries to th e ar ea .
T rain ing of personn el for th e p lant will sta rt immed iat ely, th e spo kesme n sa id.
HUGE AUGUSTA PLANT
Th e T exas CO.'s new Augusta wat erfront sales term inal, with storage ca paci ty of 1,529,640 ga llons, is read y for opera tions. On a nine-ac re site front ing on th e Savannah River , th e plant, in addi tion to seven hu ge sto rage tank s, includes a combina tion office - war ehouse, tank- car and tank-tru ck loadin g rac ks and a dock.
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$100,000 WAREHOUSE
Bass a nd Co ., In c., of H opk insville, K y., will bui ld a $10 0,000 br an ch war eh ouse in Co lumbus for th e distributi on of bu ildin g mat erials and plumbing and heating supplies in Geor gia and South eastern a rea . It will employ 12 persons in add ition to a tr avelin g sales personn el force.
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ATLANTA GM TO ENLARG.E
The Atlanta Fisher Body plant of Ge ne ral M otors Cor p. will be enla rged by almost half its pr esent size und er a half-billion dollar expa nsion plan a nnounce d by GM . The At lanta plant will add 9 1,000 sq ua re feet .

GEORG IA D EPAR T MENT OF COM MER C E

NEWSLETTER

July, 1955

Blakely Honors Peanut, Source of farm Wealth,

Cites Advantages of Section to New Industry

In Blak ely, on th e northeast corner

of th e Ea rly County Court H ouse

Squ a re, sta nds th e fir st a nd only mo nu-

men t to th e pean ut.

The monument will be formally ded i-

ca red during the Early Co unt y Fa ir

a nd Pean ut Festiva l th is fall, ac cord ing to C hamber of Commer ce President D .

H . M cDo well.

With th e excep tion of th e peanut

which caps it, th e marker is of selected Oglethorpe blu e grani te. The pea nu t

is of T ennessee ma rble wh ich more re-

semb les th e natu ral color of th e Famo us Georgia "goobe r." T he monumen t i ~

eight feet in heigh t and fou r feet wid e,

an d th e depth is two a nd a half feet. The inscription reads:

"T he peopl e of Early Co unty, th e largest peanut pr odu cin g county in

th e world, ha ve erec te d this monu -

ment in tribute to th e peanut whi ch is so largely responsible for ou r gro wth and prosp erit y. No t only ha s

it contributed to th e high er living sta ndards of th e peop le engaged in its producing, manufacturing a nd

marketing, but ha s also becom e im-

portant to th e better health of th e peopl e of t he world as it is th e sou rce of our most nutritious and ben eficial

food s."

Fun ds for const ruc tion of the mon u-

ment were con trib u ted by th e Ci ty of

Blak ely, th e Early Co un ty Boar d of Commissione rs, a nd Blakely business-

men .

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" You Can Find It In Bla kely" is th e title of a new brochur e pr epared by th e Bla kely C hamber, which exto lls the coun ty's scenic bea uty , fav orabl e climat e, good roa ds, ample labor a nd industria l sites.

Early County, as the booklet poin ts ou t, is situa ted in th e sou thwes tern p a rt of th e sta te bordering on th e Chatt ahooche e Ri ver-the Alab ama line- and ab out 30 miles north of Flor ida . It was crea ted in 1818 and nam ed fo r Gov. Pet er Earl y. Blak ely, foun ded in 1826, was nam ed in honor of Capt . J oh nston Bla kely, U . S. Navy, heroic comma nder of th e sloop Wasp in the War of 18 12.

The county is predominantly agri cultural, and of its total area of 526 sq uare miles or 336,640 acres, 142,-

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TH f. P[/)PLI.Of EARLY COUlfTY,llt f.
LARGEST PEAN UT PRODUCllfGC~N
INTilt: WORLD. HAVE ERECTED THIS
MONUMENT IN TRIBUTnOllltlt\1 ut .
WIIICti I. SO LARGELY RESPOHSIBll f ,R UR. GROWTIi AND PROSPERITY. N T NLV HAS IT CONTRI eUT ED TO THE ltIGIifRLIVING STAHDARD50r
rnr PE PLE ENG~.Gt:D 1M ItS PR.OOOCING,
MAN UfAcrUR.ING. AND MAltKETING, DUT It..:> ALSO BCOMf [MPORTANT
TO nre BnTER. HtALl'H PTHf. PfJ)PLF.
Of THEWORLD AS I L r ut SOURCE
Of SOME Of OUl( MOST NUTRltIOIJS AND BENEfICIAL rOOD .
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PEAN UT MON U M E NT- Unique ma rk er on th e Cour t H ouse Sq uare in Blak ely Early County, the country's leading p eanut prod uci ng coun ty.

122 acr es a re under cult ivation. In 1953, th e latest figures avai lable, 33,3 10 ac res, or 23 per cent of the tot al under cult ivation, produced 15,839 tons of peanuts valued at $3,6 05,000. Other agricu ltural crops, cott on, corn, pecans, fruits and vege -
tables, together with rapidly expand-
ing cattle-raising and pulpwood in-
du stries, produce a total ann ua l rev-

enue in excess of $9,000,000.
The pop ulation of th e county is 17,393, and of its 2,226 farms, 1,209, or 54.3 per cen t, a re elec tr ified. Blak ely, altit ud e 270 feet, ha s a pop ulati on of 3,234 within th e city limits a nd 5 12 in the suburban ar ea . O ther town s in th e county ar e Damascus, J a kin, Cedar Spr ing s and H ilt on. The coun ty is
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- HIGHLIGHTING
The mach iner y a nd eq uipme nt of th e My -T-Pure flour division of Puritan Mills, ATLANTA , has been purch ased by M artha White Mill s, Inc., of N ash-
ville, T enn . . . . J. A. Cam pbell Co .,
ATLANTA , has been nam ed to handle th e sales and promotion of Welch G rap e J uice . . . Knox Co rp., of THO kJSON, plan s to set up a plant in Co lumbia, South America, to produce 10,000 pr efabri cat ed houses a nnua lly . .. Coggins Granite and M arble Indu stri es, In c., of ELBERTON, ha s launched a nati onal adve rtising ca m-
paign . Richard H . Ri ch, of ATLA NTA , has
been elected a di rect or of Southe rn Bell T elephone & T elegr aph Co. . . . SCHLEY CO U NTY Industrial Corporation has been granted a ch a rte r to promote expa nsion of industr y . . . GEORGIA last yea r cut 3, 100,000 cords of pulpwood to tak e a wid e lead in Dixie production , th e U. S. For est Service rep orts. CL INC H COUNT Y supplied 150,000 cords.
WARE COUNT Y citizens have approved an $833,000 bond issue for th e construc tion of a new courthouse in WAyCROSS... . WAY CROSS has let a con tract for erec tion of a new $75,000 Ci ty Library to Plant Co nstru ction Co .
. . . H arll ee Bran ch, .I r., pr esident of th e
Georgia Power Co ., ATLA NTA , has been elected pr esident of th e Edison Electric Institute . . . Ground h as been brok en by EMORY UNI V ER SI T Y for construction of a $ 1,000,000 medical clin ic . . . D ani els Co nst ruction Co., of Greenville, S. C ., ha s th e contract to
ere ct a woolen mill at DUBL IN for J.
P. Steve ns & Co . The plant will conta in

- OUR PROGRESS
225,000 sq ua re feet of spac e and will employ 400 peopl e.
Lockh eed Air craft C orp's. plant at M ARIETTA, is " working in th e field of nucl ear-power ed airc ra ft," R . R . Keaton, assistant gene ra l man ager, told th e Rotar y C lub at ROME, saying th e plant h as a peak employme nt of abo ut 18,000 peopl e, with a weekly payroll of .$ !, 700,000....
Homer Ray, Jr., of J'vIO ULTRIE, is th e new pr esiden t of th e Southeast ern Association . . . The postoffice at FLOWERY BRANCH is occupying a new and modern building . . . H owa rd Rinn has been nam ed distr ict man ager of Georgia Power Co ., a t CA R ROL LT ON . . . A new }"IORGA N COUNT Y Health Ce n ter is being erec ted at }vIADISON at a cost of $80,000 . . . Geo rgia Power Co. has put in operation th e third gene rator at its Plant H ammond at ROkIE, on th e Coosa river.
Ca llaway Co mm un ity Foundati on at LAGRANGE has built and ded icat ed a modern librar y, nam ed for th e lat e Ch ilton W . Colema n, who for m anv year s was welfare and educa tion dir ec'tor for th e Ca llaway organization .. . Two hu ge warehouses ha ve been completed at R obins Air For ce Base, south of MA CO N , built at a cost of $5,500 ,000 ...
Id eal Roll er and M anufactu rin g Co. , In c., of Chica go, manufacturers of printing rollers, is erecting a new plant on Industrial Boul evard, north of A 1'LANTA . .. ATHENS Co-Operati ve C rea me ry, orga nized in 1930, is celebr ating its 25th a nniversary . . . Liston Elkins of Waycross, has been re-elected pr esident of U .S. Highway Assn. No. 1.

Honor Peanut-
(Continued Fr om Page 7) gove rne d by a five-ma n board of commission ers elected every four yea rs.
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Blakel y, situ at ed in th e cen ter of the county, is fourteen miles cast of the Ch attahoochee Riv er on U . S. Highway 27, eigh ty -five miles north of T allah assee, Fl a., and on St ate Hi gh wa y 62, thirty-two miles eas t of Dothan, Ala., and fift y-two m iles west of Alban y, Ga . It is serve d by th e Central of Georgia Railro ad , Trailwa y Bus L ine a nd sever al trucking lines. Ther e a re nin e chu rches, six white and three colored .
Financially, the area is well served by the Firs t State Bank and the Ba nk of Early. As of Dec. 31, 1954, the two ba nks had comb ine d dep osits of $4,550,503 a nd tot al resources of $4,982,147. The weekly county newspa per, the Early Co unty News, is 95 years old . T he city 's water and sewage systems have recently been extended an d a sewage disposal pla nt installed, a nd a two million dolla r schoo l expansion program is being complete d. Health needs are met by a county health center, a pri va te hospit al an d two clinics. Blakel y has two hotels, two motels an d five tourist homes . K olomo ki M ounds St ate Park, containing some of th e most unusual Indian mounds in th e coun try, is five miles northwest of Blak ely. Further ing th e ind ustrial pro gr ess of th e coun ty a nd city is th e Blak ely Builder s and M anufacturers, In c., orga nized with a cap ita l stock of $125 ,000 rai sed by public subscrip tion, to pr omot e new industr y.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMEnCE
NEW LETTE
AUGUST 1955

NEWSLETTER

August, 1955

NEWSLETTER

P ublished monthly by

GEORG IA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARVI N GRIFFIN Go ver n o r BOA RD OF COMMISSIO NER S

EMORY L. BU TLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOK E P ETERS

BEN JESSUP

TRAMMELL McI NT YR E

* SCOT T CANDLE R Secre tary NE LSON M. SH IPP Assistan t Secre tary

FRED D. MOON Edi tor

Vol. 6, No. 10

August 1955

Working Gals, Suh ?
A tlanta A rea Has
100,800 on Payroll
An At lanta bel le who "worked ou t" was unheard of wh en Scarlett O'Hara crashed th e bu siness scene in " Go ne With th e Wind" days-but ju st coun t th em now!
Uncle Sam did, a nd he reports th at th er e ar e 100,800 wom en now employed in th e Atlanta metropolit an a rea. This is th e lar gest number of salary and wa ge-earning fem ales in Dixie.
These 100,800 working belles represent 32.9 per cent of th e ar ea' s total 306,500 nonf arm worker s.
In 15 yea rs, nonfarm employme n t of wage a nd salary work ers in th e a rea embracing Fulton, D eK alb and Cobb Counties incr eased by 108.5. In 1940 an estimated 147,000 suc h work ers wer e emp loyed. In th e p ast five yea rs, a round 75,000 have been adde d.
More th an 60,000 w o m en hav e joined the nonfarm wage and sala ry group in th e 15-year p eriod . Back in 1940, th er e wer e 40,600 employed on th e di staff side.

COVER PHOTO Thar 's gold in th e hills aro und D ahlonega, and R . D . H ogu e pro ves it every day to tou rists wh o visit hi s diggin gs. There's $700 worth of gold in hi s p an in thi s picture, but h e admits th at it didn't all come up in one dip. H owever . h e gua ra ntees a tr ace of "co lor" in every pan .

D OUGLAS COUNTY PLAN T-The feed mill of Mac Aber crombie & Son at Douglasville, which ground its way from a home industry to a big business.- Billy Jay photo.

ABERCROMBIE HOME FEED MILL CiRINDS WAY TO BICi BUSINESS

By P . D . MAT HEWS
Editor, Douglas County Sentinel
Little did M ac and C laude Aber crombie dream several yea rs ago wh en th ey first began grinding feed and mi xing formulas for th eir own livestock, th at th ey would have to purchase molasses by truck loads from N ew Orleans and Sav annah and corn from th e Midwest to meet th e demand for th eir feed .
The Douglasville firm, M ac Abercrombie & Son, wa s started in 1948 to m ak e feed for th e Ab ercrombies' own livesto ck and do a lit tle custom grinding for th eir neighbors .
C laude was called into servi ce in 1950 and Mac was kept pret ty bu sy as sheriff of D ouglas County. But in 1952, after 20 years in office a nd with a reputati on of never ca rrying a gun to a rrest even th e hardest of crimin als, Mac refu sed to run for re-election in orde r th at he might devot e his tim e to th e feed business. Soon th er eafter , C laude was out of un iform. As dem ands for mor e feed grew, th e fath er an d son settled down to th e task of enla rging th eir pl ant.
The mill whi ch started with a small hammermill and one sma ll corn mill has gro wn to two lOO-horsep ower ham -
mermills, a corn shu cker and two 1Y2-
ton mi xer s. Aside from making feed for th eir own herd of 70 Holstein cows th e Aber crombi es' m anufact ure feed comme rc ially for hogs, ca ttle, hor ses and other farm stock.
Into this feed goes 3,000 gallons of molasses per week br ought by tank

trucks from N ew Orlea ns a nd Sa vann ah . Corn, purch ased from Indiana and other mid-western s tat e s , is br ought by trailer trucks with capacities of 450 a nd 600 bu shel s p er load. M ac stated th at th e trucks th at bring corn to th e mill load up with Georgia produce that th ey ca rr y back to th e western sta tes.
In coming or outgoin g trucks a re correctly weigh ed on on e of th e largest sca les in th e coun ty with a weigh t ca p acit y of 50 ton s.
They supply feed for Wi lson, Armour, St ar , White and other packin g compa nies in Atlanta . They also supp ly feed for th e d airies of D ouglas C o u n t y.
Aside from manufacturing and selling feed, th ey supply milk to an At lan ta dairy and have a sto ek of th e fin est western saddles. M ac said tha t sin ce last O ctober th ey sold 200 saddles a nd bridles m ad e by th e Bona Allen Co., of Buf ord, Ga.
The Abercrombi es own a herd of 70 Holsteins and av erage sellin g 225 ga llons of milk p er day.
CAMILLA EXPANSION
Mixon Mi lling Co., CA M IL L A, is expan ding its plant and equipment to allow th e firm to do twi ce as mu ch feed grinding a nd mixin g in h alf th e tim e, according to Manager Al Bradley. N ew machin ery includes anothe r 125-h orsep ower grind er, a nother threeton dr y mixer a nd an ad ditional molasses mixer of a new type.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERC E

NEWSLETTER

August, 1955

Du Pont Spots Huge Paint Plant at Tucker,

Adds Sales Warehouse in Chattahoochee Hub

The worldwide E . 1. du Pont de N emours & Co . will add two more units to Geor gia's booming industriai scene wh en it bui lds a huge p aint manufacturing plant at Tucker and a new service war ehouse in the Chattahoo chee industrial district of Atlanta.
Co nst ruction of th e p aint pl ant at Tucker , in D eK alb County, 13 mi les northeast of At lanta, will begin thi s fall and opera tions th er e a rc expec ted to sta rt late next summer, says Charles P. Culp, regional sales m anager of th e compa ny 's Finishes Division .
The plant, to be built by DuPont's engineering department, will emp loy about 80 p erson s. The location is a

refinish usc. Embodying th e most advan ced idea s on equip me n t and layou t, th e plant will consist of a two-level manufacturing and warehouse building of steel frame construc tion with bri ck wa lls. This bui lding will comprise 80,000 square feet of floor space. In ad dition, th er e will be one-story buildings for offices, cha nge ho use, servi ce facilities, garage and thinner manufacturing ar ea. Two rai lroad sidings will be provid ed to serve both upper and lower p lant levels. There will also be a tank farm for storage of raw m ateria ls.
The new sales office and war ehouse bui ldin g will repl a ce th e region al sales

cised recently. Lea se negoti ati on s wer e h andled by R obert M. H older , Atl anta rea lto r.
D ecision to proceed with the two pr ojects at thi s tim e, M r. Cu lp said, was spurr ed by th e vigor ously expand ing economy of th e Southeastern ar ea , for whi ch Atlanta is th e maj or sales, m anufacturing and distribution cente r.
DuPont, long a leader in th e fini shes field, is not ed particularly for its developmen t of "D uco " nitrocellu lose lacquer s, whi ch revolutionized th e process of au tomobile fini shin g, and that of "D ulux" alkyd resin enamels, of equal imp ort an ce in appliance and gene ra l industrial fini shing, as well as

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62-a ere site purchas ed by DuPont in 1945. It fa ces State Highway 14 1 at th e intersection of U. S. Highway 29.
Cost of th e p lant is estim ated a t six million dollars.
The p lant will manufact ure paints, enamels, a nd thinners for ho useho ld, industrial, automotive, and automotive
CORK CONTRACT LET
Thompson & Street Construction Co. , of Charlotte , N. C., has been awarded the contract for extensive expansion of th e Armstrong Cork Co.'s MACON plant. A 300,000 square-foot addition will double the capacity of the present plan t, provide 350 ad dit ion al jobs.

offi ce and paint servi ce warehouse now op erated at 619 -21 Peachtree Street . It will be a one-s tory, 30,000 squarefoot bui lding on a two-acr e site on the east side of Book er St. n ear Chattahoo chee Ave. abo ut four mi les from th e downtown retail district. I t will also have a partial baseme nt of 5,000 square feet. The most modern materials handling equipmen t will be installed to rend er the best possib le CU $tomer service, An ample parking ar ea is also p lanned.
The offi ce-warehouse will be built by the McDonough Construction Co . of Georgia and leased to Du Pont. T he Adams-Cates Co ., realtors, arran ged th e purch ase option whi ch was exer-

in th e au tomotive refini shin g and con sume r paint fields.
The Finishes Divis ion of th e comp an y's Fabrics and Finishes D ep artment now op er ates p lants a t Chicago ; Ever ett, Mass.: Flint, Mich. ; F ort
M adison, Ia. ; Parlin, N . J.; Philadel-
phi a ; South San Fran cisco, Calif.; and T oled o, Ohio.
ALBANY WAREHOUSE
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., In c., is establish ing a wh olesale wa reho use at ALBANY to serve the firm's dealers in 45 South Geor gia counties. E. E . Pound, At lanta, district ma nager, said th e plant will b e op erated for Go od year by D obb s-Ad ams T ire Co.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMM ERCE

N EWS L ETTER

August, 1955

Georgia's Growth Has Uncle Sam Panting; 'Official (ount' Amazing, But Far Behind

Georgia' s bu siness and indust rial empire is mu shrooming so fas t th at not even th e F ed eral govern men t ca n keep abreas t of it . The " la test" official score is mor e th an a yea r and a h alf old , but it gives an ama zing pi ct ur e of th e

sta t'C's gro wth .

Between th e veal' 1946 and 1953, Georgia added some 38,400 new finns, increased employment rolls by around 253,800 , and hiked wages and salaries paid to workers bv almost two billion dollars an nually, according to statistics com piled jointly by th e U. S. Bureau of the Census and th e D ep artment of H ealth, Education and Welfare.

Nea lished

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th e eigh

n ew t-yea

firm s esta br spa n wer e

engaged in m an uf acture, 2,000 in con-

tract cons truction, 900 in fin an ce a nd

allied lines, a nd a bout 10,000 in trad e,

savs a recent release from th e two F ~d e r al agen cies.

The sta te's ove ra ll bu siness and in-

du strial population rose from 34.548

fir ms in 1946 to 72,989 in 1953. T he

pantin g 'F ederal enu mera to rs ag ree t he

pr esent cou nt will fa r excee d tha t

figure.
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T hey number ed 5.906 m anufact ur-
ers in i 953 aga inst 4,4 19 back in 1946.
The 1,487 new pl ants reflect an incre ase of about 33.7 p er cen t in th is field and was substa n tiallv ahea d of the n ati on 's 24.7 per cent ga in.
Accompan ying th e increase in th e number of manufacturers was a 118 per cent rise in pa yrolls in thos e esta blishme nts and a 26 per cen t increas e in employme nt. Factory pa yroll s in 1946 wer e estimated at $371,132,000 annually and employment wa s 245,0 18. Eight years later, sala ries and wag es had more than doubled to an estimat ed $809,072,000 and em ploym ent was 308,836 .

I n other lead ing lines of activity, contracting construction firm s increased fro m 1.630 at the close of World Wa r II to ' 3,643 in 1953, finan ce, insuran ce and real esta te, fro m 2,489 to 3,395, a nd reta il, wholesale and service trades, 23,406 to 33,231.
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The num ber of ret ailers in the tr ade

field went from 12,187 to 17,879, wholesalers, 3,329 to 4,427, and service tra des, from 7,890 to 10,925.
Following a rc the adva nces wh ich took p lace in number of em ployees a nd a nnua l payr olls paid in th e maj or field s du rin g t he eight-year period :
Manufacturing employees, from 245,018 to 308 ,836 and payrolls, $3 71,132,000 to $809,072,000 ; con tract construction, 22,599 to 47,663 and $36 ,572,000 to $ 125,648,000; public ut ilities, 31,754 to 43,661 and $50,580,000 to $ 110,588,000 ; wholes ale trade, 42,229 to 57,106 and $90,804,000 to $ 199,032,000 ; retail trade, 94,827 to 138,838 and $ 129,080,000 to $292,696,000; service trade , 50,477 to 64,121 and $68,760,000 to $129,228,000 ; and finance, insurance and real esta te, 23,597 to 34,375

and $50,580,000 to $110 ,588,000 . x- .;.:. -::-
Forty-two of the businesses added in the 1946- 53 per iod emp loyed mor e th an 500 wor kers, ra ising th e sta te's to ta l in th is category from 103 to 145. No other sta te in th e southeas t a nd only 11 elsewhere in the nation a tt raet ed so ma ny la rge type esta b lishmen ts.
Fourteen thou sand on e hundred and eighty-four of th e new firms were small establishm ent s, employing not more than 19 workers. Their addition brought th e total of suc h esta blishme nts to 44,972. By listing 44,94 2 sma ll firm s in its business po pula tion, Geor gia reflected a preponderance of s rn a 11 business opera to rs in it s eco nomy, this lat est repor t points out. I n fact , nearly 90 per cen t of the sta tes businesses a rc in th e sma ll business ca tego ry.

LOOKING FOR A PE AN UT ? There ar e bill ion s of th em along with plenty of grain in thi s new plant of th e Dixie Peanut Co. at F itzge rald. T he fourteen lOO-foot bins plu s th e star bin s have a storag e ca pac ity of over 500,000 bushels,

GEO R GIA DE PART M ENT O F COlvl M ERC E

NEWSLETTER

Au gu st, 1955

BUSINESS HUMMING IN GEORGIA;

FEDERAL SURVEY CITES "HIGHS"

Georg ia bu siness is in th e mi dst of

one of its best sea sons in re cent years

a nd ac t ivitv in so me lines is a c t~la l h'

topping t h ~ peak s.

T he first th re e mon ths of 1955 sa w

re cord high lev els in suc h oper ations

as ban k deposits a nd loan s, debi ts, mer -

cha nd ising, n e w bu sinesses, const ruc -

tion and tr a nsporta tion , rep orts M er-

rill C . Lofton , m an ager of th e U. S.

Dep artment of Co mm erc e's At lanta

field offi ce.

I n hi s 53rd qu arter ly a nalysis o f eco-

nomica l cond itions in the Sout hea st,

the vet eran Fed era l officia l a lso not es

sign ifica n t ga ins in Geor gia' s poultry

and liv est oc k field s, consum pt ion of

co lton, pQ\\T r produ ction , pa per ma n u-

facture a nd for eign trad e.
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D ep osit s in Fe d e ra I R eserve Banks a t th e end of M arch th is vcar wer e $ 1,422,700 ,000 , an ad ~'a nce of 3.9 per cent over th e $ 1,. 369,800,000 on dep osit on th e corres pond ing d at e last year.
Bank loan s for th e co rres po nd ing period s were $68 1,400,000 and $608,700,000 , a 11.9 per cen t ad -
va nce. Ba nk debits m 0 v e d fro m $5 ,-
259 ,200,000 in th e 1954 qua rter to $5 ,833 ,300,000 th is year, a n increase d of 10.9 per cen t. Ret ail tr ad e in th e Atl ant a a rea a d van ccd 18 per cen t, d ep artment sto re tr an sa ctio ns jumped 20 per cen t in six of th e sta tes' principal cities, a nd wh olesa le t rad e ga ined 12 per cen t. Bu sin ess telephon es in opera tion in creased nearly 6 per cen t and resid en tial telephones, 7.3 per cen t. Geo rg ia now h as 201,567 bu sin ess and 48 1,200 residen tial telep ho nes in usc,
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T he first quar ter of 1955 found 3 17,300 Georg ia ns em p loye d in manufa cturing pl ants, a 3.2 per cen t in cr ea se over last ye ar.
New bu sinesses in corp or at ed in th e cor res po nd ing qu art er were 4 16 in 1954 and 55 1 thi s year, a ga in of 32.5 per cen t.
In the first th ree months of this year, the Atlanta, Aug usta, Co lumbus, 1\1 a con a nd Savan nah u rban areas issu ed a total of 2, 829 building permits, a n increase of 34.4 per cen t. A 5 per cen t in cr eas e was reflect ed

MOU NTAI N BEAUTY-Lake Russell , three mil es from C ornelia, is loca ted at th e foot of C he noce ta h M ountain in th e Ch a ttaho ochee Fores t Game and Fis h M anagem ent Are a. Ncar th e int ersecti on of U . S. Hi ghw ays 23 a nd 123, it is a mecca for fish ermen , pickn ickcr s and visito rs wh o want lovely vistas and pure moun tain air.

in th e 2,066 ,518 ,000 kilow att hours of electri c ene rg y th at Georgia produ ced in th e qua r ter.
Airl ine tr ansport a tion con tinue d to sp ira l, th e number of re ve nu e p assenge rs incr easin g by 22.3 per cent Q\Tr the fir st qu arter of 1954, number of ton mile s of exp ress flown , 14.3 per cen t, a nd ton mi les of fr eight han dl ed, 7.7 per cen t.
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Co m mercial hatch eries tu rned out 14 p er cent m ore bab y chic ks, 7 p er cent more cattle were sla ugh tered, 26.4 m ore cotton was con sumed b v the mill s o f the sta te. A 5.4 ris~ was see n in the p roductio n and sh ip me nt of pine, a nd grea te r a cti vit y was reflected in the manufa cture of paper a nd its product s.
Exp ort of goo ds to for eign cou n tries throu gh Georgia's ports rose by 17 per cent, a nd imports from th ose coun tr ies by 44.2 p er cen t. Ex ports for the p eri od totalled
$2 1,900,000, im ports S18,600,000.
T he employ me nt pic tu re was b right er, too. T he re wer e 18 p er cent less un employed under the Fe de ra l-Sta te com pe nsa t ion pro-

gram in th e first q ua rt er of this yea r than the sa m e period in 1954. There wer e tw o weak spo ts in the genera l m a keup to m a r Georgia's otherwise rosy bu sin ess situ a tion . C ash farm in cOl;lc con tin ue d to decl ine, a 6.2 per cen t decrea se com ing a t th e end of th e fir st q uarter due to advers e weather con d itions. And a sligh t d ip in rai lroad freig h t re ve n ue wa s recorde d, wit h a mo re per ceptible rc duc t ion - 9.3 per cen t- ta king pla ce in rai l pa ssen ger re ven ue, in a period wh en labor di ffi culties ro se on one m aj or Iin c . In several inst ances, th e r ise in va ri ous seg men ts of th e sta te's economy exceed th at of th e nation a l ave rage , Mr. Lo fton sa id . This was espec ially true in bank d ebits, d ep artment store tr ad e, retai l a nd whol esa le ac t ivity, m anu factu ring em ploymen t, a i I' l in c tr an sportation , a nd som e of th e la rger lines of ind ivid ua l bu siness opera tions .
CHAMBLEE PLANT OPENS H. D. Lee Co., overa ll m a nufactur-
ing con cern, h as ope ne d its new 20,000 sq ua re-foot wa reh ou se a t CH AiHBLEE. The cen ter, sta rting with 35 em ployees, will serve seven Sou theaste rn sta tes, Robert Corn ell, sa les m an ag er said.

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF C O :M M E RC E

NEWSLETTER

Aug ust, 1955

GEORGIA PARADE Of PROGRESS

Huge Expansion Set
At General Motors'
Doraville Plant
Gen era l Motors Corp. will spend an estima ted $2,500,000 to exp and its Buick - Oldsmobi le - Pontiac assembly plant a t D or aville.
An a d d i t i on containing 150,000 squa re feet will be added to th e present 1,560,000 squa re feet. The plant was
built in 1948. Last month , Genera l M ot ors a n-
nounced p lans for a 91,000 square-fo? t addition to its F isher Body p lant 1Il Atl anta . T he bod y plant was built in
1928 . T he D or aville assembly plant em-
ploys 4,2 18 work er s. Its 1954 p ay:'oll amo u n ted to $ 14,500,000 . In th e first six months of thi s vea l', it assembled 105,684 cars, some '11,000 mor e th an its tot al 1954 p rodu cti on .
SOUTHLAND EXPANDS Constr uction is underway on two 80,-
OOO-ba rrel float ing-roof sto rag e tanks at th e South land Oil Corp.'s terminal plant at SA V AN NAH. The company, owned by 30 Geor gia ns, was chartered in 1950 and h as alr ea dy expan ded three times. Th e new tan ks will bring its storage facilit ies to 21 hu ge units.
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BUENA VISTA PLANT A br oiler p rocessing plant th at will
sta rt with a pay roll of 30 p eopl e will open at BUENA V IST A about Sept. 1.
It will be operated by J. L. D ent, wh o
op erates V alley Industri es in Pin e M ountain V alley, in conjunc tion with th e ice plant a t Buen a Vi sta own ed by E. N . Murray. Mr. Dent said th e plant will m ean a $1,400 weekly payr oll for M a rion Co unty.
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NEW GWINNETT PLANTS Gwinnett Co un ty h as two n ew in -
du stri es, Ideal By-Pr odu cts, manufacturing fertilizer, a nd th e M cMillan Stave Co ., whi ch will m ak e barrel h ead s and staves fr om locally grown white oa k blocks. Both are at LA W RENCEV I LLE. Th e former, a division of th e Wi lson & T oom er F ertili zer Co ., of J acksonville, Fla., opened with 20 work ers and a p ayroll of $ 1,000 a week. T he second firm will employ 15 p eople with a weekly p ayroll of $700.

NORTHEAST ATLANTA PLAZA SHOP CENTER TO COST $5,500,000

H EADS MA RKET GROUP- Hugh S. Ahern, of the Atla nta field office, U .S. Depa rtm ent of Commerce, is th e new president of th e Georgia Chapter, American Marketing Association.
KNOX FIRMS MERGE
Knox M etal Produ cts, In c., manufacturers of tr ailers and other heavy m etal fabricat ed produ cts, and th e Knox Corp., manufacturing pr efabrica ted h om es, h ave merge d th eir facilities at th e latter firm 's TH OMS ON plant. Knox M et al Products former plant at Waynesboro was sold recently to Perf ection Industries, In c., of Cl eveland, Ohio, nationally known stove manufacturing concern.

A $5,500,000 shop ping cen ter, said to bc one of th e lar gest and fin est in th e South, is scheduled to be built in Northeast At lanta.
Locati on is a 42-acre tr act of land off Piedmont Avenue, N .E., a t Morosgo D rive, and near th e eas t leg of th e Atla nta -Bufor d Hi ghw ay Expressway.
T o be called Broa dv iew Pla za, th e cen ter will cover most of th e large tr act and will provid e p a rking space for fr om 2,100 to 3.300 au tomo biles. T here will be 2,562 f~et of sto re frontage, and 4 12,000 square feet of airconditioned buildings. Pa rkin g will be on three diff erent levels, with esca la tor s to stor es th at will h ave two or mor e floor s.
T he sponsors of th e pr oject, Broad view Pl aza, In c., say offices will be pr ovided for pr ofession al tenants, a nd a ll told , th ere will be 140 ten ants, consisting of both stores a nd offices.
MOUNTAIN FAIR
The Georgia M ountain 'F air, ga la a nnual event at Hi awassee, will be held Augu st 16-21. All Georgia mountain coun ties join in th e even t, whi ch a ttra cts upwa rd of 25,000 p ersons eac h ye a r.

A t h en s Atl anta Augu sta Bainbrid ge Brunswi ck C a r t er sville Co lumbus C on y er s Co rdele D alton E lb e r t on G riffin H ah ir a H a r t w ell M acon M an ch ester M etter Montezuma Savannah Sw ain sboro T h om a st on

- GEORGIA FAIRS 1955

Athens Agricu ltural F air Association Southeast ern F air Ex ch an ge Club Fall F ai r D ecatur County F air Association Exch an ge Club 'F air .. Ba rt ow County Am erican Legion Fair Chattahooch ee V alley Exposition R ockd ale County Am er ican Legion F air Central Geor gia F ai r North Geo rg ia F air Association Elb erton F air Associa tion Sp alding County F air Associati on H ahira Community Fair H art County Agr icu ltural F air Geor gia State F air T ri-Co un ty F air Association Candler County Fair M a con Countv F air Association Savannah Ex ch an ge Club F air Association Em anuel County F air Association West Central Geor gia F air Associa tion

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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COM M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

August, 1955

GEORGIA TOPS IN SALES TO U.S.;

1955 CONTRACTS AT $50,000,000

Georgia for the third consecu tive month led th e Southeast in June in va lue of purch ases of goods and serv ices mad e by the Federa l gov ernment.
During th e month , 38 contra cts wer e let in th e state for $ 11,4 15,399, bringing cumu la tive purchas es on a n advertised, n egotiated and classifi ed basis in th e first half of 1955 to nearly $50 ,000 ,000 .
Total U. S. purchases in th e Southeast in th e six-month period aggregated $165 ,105,800 and involved 727 contracts. Georgia's sha re was $49 ,912,144, while Ala bama received contracts worth $ 14,893,109, F lorida got $24 ,429, 549, Mis sissippi, $6,098,097, North C a r 0 lin a , $29,514,067, South Ca rolina, $ 16,300,985, and T ennessee, $23,957,924.
June con tracts let in ad di tion to Georgia's $ 11,4 15,399 were: Alaba ma, $6, 148,733, Fl orida , $3,256,333, Mississippi , $995,212, North Carolin a, $5,050,744, South Carolina, $2,036,663, a nd T ennessee, $6,59 1,980.
ALLIED VAN LINES' CHAMBLEE DEPOT TO SERVE SO. EAST
Allied V an Lin es, In c., th e world's lar gest mo ver of household goods, is building a new terminal on Peachtree Industrial Boul evard in C h am b 1e e wh ich officials say will be a mod el for th e tru cking industry. I ts cost is set at approximately $250,000 .
On a tract of four an d a half acres, th e two -stor y str uc tu re will have a tot al of 13,000 squ are feet of floor space. The buil di ng will con tai n th e latest in comm uni cations and dispat ching equipme n t, gene ral offices and various emp loyee conveniences. Other features will include a 50-foo t, 100,000pound capacity sca le to be used in weighi ng mot or va ns before and af ter load ing, a surfaced parking ar ea and 16 rooms eq uipped wit h twin beds for use of drivers overnight.
R obert R . Pr escot t, Atlanta dis trict manager, said the termina l will serv e Georgia, Alab am a, Florida, Mi ssissippi , T ennessee a nd th e Ca rolin as.

Followin g a rc Geo rg ia's June con tr acts with firm s and amoun ts in volved:
L illiston I mplemen t Co. , Albany, mowers, $39,076 ; T umpane Co. of Ga ., In c., M acon, rep a ir an d overh aul coolers a t R obins AFR , $26,000 ; Chi cago Pneu ma tic Tool Co., Atlanta, pn eu mati c wre nches, $109 , 186; Hugh J ackson, Savannah, constr uction of ammunition shop, Hun ter AF B, $58 ,03 7; L. A. M ann Builder & D ecor a tin g Co., Atlan ta, mailing vestibule, pl atform and dri veway facilities, $ 19,800 .
Co tswold Fib res, Inc., Colu mbus, patch es and cloth, $50,751; Kuhl ke &
Wad e an d R aymond J. Gauger , Au-
gusta, a rchitec t engineer design serv ices, $16,300, Westi ng house Electric Corp., Atlanta, elevator for pow er house at Bufo rd Dam, $27,492 .
H all Const ru cti on Co ., Atl anta, ad ditional faciliti es at Mi ami U . S. Court H ouse, $203,758 ; D ouglas Corp., Douglas, pon choes $643,500; Georgia Tech R esea rch Institute, Atl anta, resea rch, $26,829 ; Diamond Co nstruction Co ., Savanna h, rep ai rs at Cape F ea r R iver , N. C ., $28,5 13; Georgia F actory for th e Blin d, Bai nb ridge , mattresses, $47,230 ; Callaway Mills Co ., L aG ran ge, towels , $70,000; Ed wa rd s & H eery, Atlanta, design of gua rdhouses a t Ft. Benni ng and 'F t. M cPher son , $42,000; Patch en & Zimmer man , Au gu sta, design of buildings, $25,000; H owa rd H ill, In c., Augu st a, acco ustic al tr eatment of ceilings a t Robins AFB , $ 17,160.
J or da n Co., Colu mbus, constru ctio n of hospital a t Ft. Benning, $6,030,260;

Co tswold Fib ers, Inc., Columbus, barrier m at eri al, $39,111; Sou thern En ginecring Co., At la n ta , design of bu ildings a t Dobbins AFB, $2,000; Toombs, Am osano & Wells, At lanta, design at Dobbins AFR , $ 15,000 ; Southern Eng inecring Co ., At lanta, design of build ings at Mood y AFB , Valdost a, $3 7,500; E. F. Gunn, Sav annah, design of facilities at Hunter AF B, Savannah, $2,500 ; Dennis & D enn is, M acon, design of buildings at Turner A'FB, Alba ny, $26,000; D elt a Air L ines, Atl anta, p a rt s $54,962; M ontag Bros. In c., Atla nta, mem o p ad s, $33,396.
Di xie T all yho, Inc., Fairburn, mo tor lift s, $72,990; T umpane Co. of Georgia, Inc., M acon , rep air of weld er assem blies, $46,080 ; V alley Construction Co ., Co lumbus, cons tr uc t chape l at F t. M cCl ellan, Ala ., $155 ,276; Foremost-Internati onal Dairies, Savannah, mi lk a nd cheese, $44,072 ; Pan Electroni cs Corp., Atla n ta , crystal un its, $45,99 1; Burger & Burger, Sava nnah, design of buildings at Hunter AFB , $45,000; T homas & Hu tton , Savanna h, design of fa cilities a t Hunter AF B, $ 11,2 18.
Diamond Cons tr uction Co., Savannah, construc tion of wharf and approaches, K ings Bay, $2,490,464 ; Abreu & R obeson, Atlanta, design of build ings at F t. Benn ing , $ 159,000; H ays H ea ting & Plu mbing Co ., M acon, construc tion of steam systems a t R obin s AF B, $99,400; W . T. And erson, In c., T homson, bank restoration, $43,525, and R . G . Foster & Co., Wad ley, construct brid ge at Buford Dam, $5 11,022.

MODEL TRUCK CENTER-Architect's sket ch of th e n ew terminal Alli ed Van Lines, In c., is building at Ch ambl ee. The terminal is locat ed on a four and a half acr e tr act.

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- HIGHLIGHTING
HAR T WELL voted a $60 ,000 bond issue to erect a new Ci ty H all . . . O pening dat e of the Bank of Dade at TR EN T ON h as been set for O ct. 1 . . . A $350,000 improvem ent bo nd issue h as been va lida ted at CA R RO L LTON . . . FO RSYTH has let a con tract fo r expansion of its wa terworks pla nt to cost $ 180,355 . . . U niform Pr inting & Sup . ply Cu ., a t GA INESVI L LE, is expa n ding its plant.
STATES BO RO M ayor W . A. Bowen says na tur al ga s serv ice is expected to be turned on the re by O ct. 15 . .. Georgia M ilita ry Aca de my a t CO LLEGE PARK is bu ilding a $ 75,000 two-sto ry an nex to its main aud ito rium .
Robert M. Holder~
Industr y Gett e r,
On Ports Board
Robert M . H old er , Atla n ta real est a te develop er, has been named a member of th e Georgia Po rt s Au tho r ity by Gov. M arvin Griffin.
Mr. H old er is cre d ited with doin g more th a n an y ot her individual in the development ~f Atlanta's na tio na llyfamo us Pea chtree Indust ri al Bou levard . H e ha s been instrumental in bringing man y of th e nat ion's largest ind ustri es to that area .
M r. H older, who was born in Forsyth an d lived in T ifto n during his schoo l d ays, suc ceeded W. R . Bowdoin , Atlan ta banker, who resigned from th e a u thoritv .
Mr. I-Iold er is president of th e U p per Cha tta hoo chee D evelopment Association .

OUR PROGRESS -

A Sena te com m ittee in Washin zt on

has approved pla ns for a $ 12,330:000

laborat or y fo r th e U.

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rte lt h

rSs ebrvuiicledion~rr

a I5-acre tract nea r EJ'vlO RY UN I -

V ERSITY .. . Georgia Power Co . h as

opened a new sto re and off ice bui lding

a t CE DA RTOWN . . . Eigh th annual

Sou theas t T obacco Festiva l will be held

in M O ULTRI E Au g. 24-27 . . . Coats

& Clark, I nc. has ai r-con diti on ed its

pla nt a t TH OMA S VILL E.

Floyd Co unty H ospita l a t R OM E is

to add a $ 1, 100,000 uni t . . . Ri ch a rd

R. th e

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been nam ed m Co -ope ra tive

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tion

CEDAR al Gu ard

TO WN'S Arm ory

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Naded i-

ca ted . . . Berv cn So uthe rn Mills, Inc.,

has begun opera tions in its second

plant at DALTON . . . C larence J ohn -

son, Jr. , of DALTON , is new presid ent

of Geo rgia Sta te Ex ch an ge C lubs . . .

CA L HOUN plans to enla rg e its wat er

system .

BOWD ON has completed a n ew

100,000-gall on wa ter tank a t a cost of

$60 ,000 . .. M ayor T. C. Cows er t, of

L O GA N VILL E, sta tes th at city will in -

stall a mod ern sewerage system to cost

ab?ut $1~0,000 . . . A new armory is

being built a t lvlON ROE . .. C . H.

Doe, of GR I FFIN, is new presid ent of

G eorgia Association of Pe troleum R e-

ta ilers, Inc. . . . Dr. O . B. K ent h as

jo ine d staff of Ston e M ount ain Grit

Co ., LITHONIA as consultan t. The

firm produces poultry grit.

Ame rica n Cyana m id's new plant a t

SAVANNA H sh ipped its first output

ea rly in July to a custo mer in New

J er sey, cigh t hundred 50-po un d bags of

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

Schley Countia ns

O rganize to Seek

Industrial Plant

A new industry look ing for a con-

ge nia l home is invited to <ret in tou ch

wi th th e Sch lcv Co unt'';' I ndustrial Corp., recently f~rmed a t Ellaville. T he

gro up is raising a p~,OOO fund to help

provide plant fa cilit ies for a wort hv

m an ufa ct ur er.

B. E . Pelha m, p ulpwood broker , ba nk er and memb er of the Georgia H ou se of Representatives, is p residen t of th e co rpora tion ; H ank Popiel vice presiden t, Paul T ond ce, tr easurel:, a nd lvII'S. J ean ette Pccdc, secre ta ry .
The corpo ra tion's board of ~lirecto rs
consist of th e ele ct ed officers a nd W. H . V an L andingh am, T. H. St even s, J r., Pau l G ill, A. H . Ri ch ardson , Di xon H ogg a nd Ra ym ond Dun can .

un ita ne, titanium dioxide pigm ents . En gineering & Equipment Co. has op ened its new off ices and wareh ou se a t A L BANY . . . M cN eel M a rble Co ., In c. a t AJA R IETT A has cha nged ownership. M organ M cN eel, presiden t, an no un ces he has bou ght th e inter est of his brother , Fra nk McNccl. w ho is retiring . . . L. G . H a rd ma n, Jr., of CO M ME RCE, ha s been named' cha irman of the membership com m ittee of th e Am erican Co tt on M a nu fa ct ur ers I nstit ute. H e is the son of th e la te Govern or H ardman . . . CANTON'S new wat erw orks plant is expecte d to be com plet ed in O cto ber.
M ein er M anufact ory, wi re a nd met al fa bricating plant a t FITZGER ALD, is ex pa nd ing its p rogr am .

DEPAnlMENf OF [DMMEU[E
NEWSLETTER
, II
SEPTEMBER 1955

NEWSLETTER

Septem ber 1955

Published monthly by

GEORGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* MARVIN GRIFFIN Governor BOARD OF CO;\I:\lTSSIONERS

E1\lORY L. BUTLER

Chairman

Y. F. GEESLIN

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP TRAl\ll\lELL l\lclNTYRE

* SCOTT CANDLER Secretary NELSO:\' 1\1. SHIPP
Assistant Secr etary
FRED n. 1\lOON
Editor

Vol. 6, No. 11

September 1955

Allied Chemical Corp.
Selects Brunswick
For Dixie Plant Site
Solvay Pro cess D ivision , Alli ed Chem ica l & D ye Corp., will shortly begin constr uc tion of a mercury cell ch lorine -ca ust ic soda pla n t on a 700acre site on th e T u r tle R iver, near Brunswick .
Carlto n Bat es, Solvay pr esident, sai d th e n ew pl ant is expecetd to be in produ ct ion by Decem be r 1956.
Initi all y th e pl ant will p rovid e em ploym ent for a bou t 125 peopl e an d will have cap ac ity to produce 100 ton s of chlorine and 125 to ns of ca ustic soda per day. At full opera tion, a nnual sales valu e of p rodu cts to be manuf ac tured in th e new plant wo uld be in excess of $4,000 ,000 .
Solvay said it selected Brunswick as th e site for thi s lat est addition to its ch lorine -ca ustic soda p roducing faci lities beca use of its proximit y to consuming markets, pa rti cularl y th e pulp an d pa per, text ile and chem ica l plants in th e South eastern Sta tes.
The pl ant will be serve d by th e South ern and Atla ntic Coast Line R ailroa ds.
COVER PHOTO
The C hief Vann H ou se, fame d Che ro kee N ati on landma rk, wh ich was purc has ed by Chatswor th Enterprises and is being resto red by th e G eorgia Hi stori cal Co mmission . See sto ry on thi s p age.

DECAYING SH R IN E- T he old Chief Vann Hous e, ncar Ch atsworth, as it app eared
befor e restoration began. Compare thi s pitiful scene with the cover photo of th e man sion as it is today.

CHIEF YANN HOUSE REGAINS

SPLENDOR OF CHEROKEE ERA

T he C hief V ann H ou se, lon g-neglected architectural gem. of the Chero kee N ati on , is begin ning to glitt er aga in .
T he red bri ck mansio n with its ornate ca rvings, secret compa r tmen ts a nd m ysteri ou s "swinging" sta irway, is being restor ed down to th e finest det ail. In ano ther yea r, wh en th e restoratio n is comp lete, it will be eq uipped as on e of th e finest Chero kee India n m useum s in th e coun try, says C . E. Gregor y, execu tive secretary of th e Geor gia Hi stor ical Co mm ission .
The Vann House stands on an elevation overlooking the Cohutta Mountains at th e village of Spring Place, in Murray County, three miles west of Chatsworth, the county seat, and U . S. Route 411. Ev en in th e saddest years of its neglect, when it was the abode of tenant farmers, the old mansion drew a surprising quota of visitors; now that it is being restored, th e influx of gue st s is so great that an attendant is required on th e premi ses da y and night. When the mu seum is op en ed , Mr. Gregory

predicts that the house will becom e on e of G eorg ia's leading tourist attractions. Chatswo r th En terprises, a n agg ressive gro up orga nized to p rom ot e Chatsworth and M urray Coun ty, pu rch ased the V ann H ou se from its p rivat e own er for $5,000 an d deed ed it to th e State of Geo rg ia. T he H istor ical Commission is restori ng th e prop erty a t a cost of $40 ,000 . A large collec tion of Cherokeean a, now being assem bled , will be displ ayed when th e hou se is reopen ed to th e public as a museum .
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THE HISTORICAL Co mmission also is ma king pl an s for a g rand tour of Northwes t Georgia for resid ents of th e state a nd as well as visitors from distant pa rt s, th e climax of th e junket to be th e V ann H ou se. St arting a t Atlanta, th e ro u te will in clude M a rietta a nd K enn esa w Na tiona l P ark, Carter sville and th e famou s Et ow ah M ounds (now being exc ava ted), Adairsville, Calho un and New E ehota (cap ital of th e C herokee Nation , soon to be restored) , Spring Pl ace and th e V ann
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GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NE WSLETTER

Sep tem ber 1955

Chatsworth, Georgia's Talc Capital, Invites New Industry to Share Rich Land of Cherokee

Cha tsworth sits in the middle of th e rich old C her okee N ation , and every work da y thin white puff s may be seen rising betw een th e br igh t litt le city and its backdrop of blu e-gr een mount a ins.
Those puffs aren 't Indian smoke signals. They'r e talc du st.
Chatsworth is th e talc cap ital of Geo rg ia and on e of th e nation's leading producers of thi s indispensable min eral. Thanks to talc we hav e tires on our car, paint on our home, toothpaste, newspapers, bug spray , roofing, crayons, baby pow der and milady's lipsti ck . T alc , which is known to science as magnesium silica te, but wh ich th e I ndian s a nd old-t ime whites called soap sto ne, is necessary to coun tless mod er n ma nu facturing processes. It has a p a r t in ag ricult u re, che mist ry, meta lworking, text iles, p lasti cs, cosmet ics, rub ber, found rying, stee l, insecti cides, ar t, leather, electrica l eq uipme n t, lin oleu m, p ai nt a nd lacqu er, ceramics, pap er, roofing, ink , medi cine, den tistr y, por cela in, ship bui lding, weldin g, steel fab rication and const ru ction .
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THE U N IT ED STATES produces some 600,000 to 700,000 tons of commercial t a lc a yea r, and of th is total Cha tsworth con tribu tes a litt le better tha n one- ten th, or a bout 68,000 tons.
However, C ha tswort h's annual producti on total includes some 25

to 30 tons of a finished talc product, cray ons. Soapstone cr ayons arc vita l to many phases of th e metalworking industry, since markings mad e wit h th em are unaff ected by intense heat. Soapstone crayons shipped from Cha tsw or th are used in fou n d ries, sh ipy ards and steel plants around th e world. T he Cohu tt a M ountains, sou thernmost spurs of the G reat Sm oki es, which rise tw o or th ree miles cast of Cha tswor th , a re rich in talc. T his M urray County soapsto ne is of a handsome gra yish-green color. O paq ue in th e solid, wh en cut in to thin sections, as for cra yons, it is tran slucen t in the bet ter specimens. When gro und, the pow der is a n off-whi te color. T alc occurs in veins up to 100 feet thi ck, often sta nding vertica l or sla n ting, in d rift s th a t ex tend deep in to th e mo un tains. I t is a nonmet allic, met amorp hi c rock, m eanin g that across long geologic eras, un der th e action of heat, water and pr essur e, it h as ch anged fro m ot her kinds of roc k- limesto ne or gra nite, for exa m ple. T alc occurs in va rying degrees of h ar d ness, but genera lly can be hacked ou t with an a x or pick an d shape d wi th saw or knife.
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THE CHEROKEES work ed th e surface ou tcro ppin gs arou nd C ha tswor t h to get soaps tone from which to ca rve p ots, bead s and cere mon ial pipes, a nd

in pion eer times a mo ng th e white settlers, on cold wint er nights, chunks of soa ps to ne wer e hea ted a nd stowed under the bla nk ets to keep the sleepe r's feet warm. O ld timer s also applied pul veri zed soap stone to their oxcarts to silence the scr eeching of wooden wheels and axles. An other ea rly u sc of th e ma teri al was for ta ble top s in labor atories, becau se it was not affected by a c id .
Commer cial development of the Cha tswort h talc a re a began in 1872, more than half a century before th e town was found ed a nd long before Murray County had a railroad. However , sinc e the principal usc of the st on e at that t ime wa s for met a l-marking, mining effo r ts were sma llscale and spordaic, Chunks of talc wer e hacked out of sha llow m ines by hand and g ra ded on th e spot for spec ime ns that could be sa wed into crayons. The sa w talc was ha uled over land to a mill at Dalton , in Whitfield Co un ty, a d istan ce of 20 miles, wh ile th e less p erfect sto ne was d um ped near th e mines. Many years la t er, when powdered talc came into its own in in du str y, these old talc d umps were sa lva ge d . M odern minin g methods now sin k shafts 700 feet in to the depths of the
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GE O RG IA 'S T AL C CAP ITAL-The pl ants of th e Cohutta, Geor gia and Sou th ern Talc Companies at Chatsworth, as seen from th e mou ntain r idge wh er e th e materi al is m ine d . The Murray Co unty Courthouse is the doomed stru cture in t he right backg round.

GEOR GIA DEPAR TMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

Sep temb er 1955

$1,000,000 COMMERCE PLANT

SPEEDED FOR DEC. 1 OPENING

W ELCOM E TO GE O RGIA! -Gov. Marv in G riffi n welcomes O. E. Szekely, Philad elphia electro nic m anufactu rer who is movi ng his pl ant to Commer ce. In thc photo, left to ri gh t, fr on t ro w: W. L. New and Sen. W . N . Hardin, of Commerce; R obert M . H old er , Atlanta realt or ; Gove rnor Gr iffin and M r. Sze kely , and J oe H urst, Co mmerce. Back r ow: Bill W ri gh t, Sam H ood , A. D . Bolton, E . E. Ruffin and D r. Paul Scoggins, all of
C o m m e rce.

Chatsworth, Georgia's Talc Capital, Invites New Industry to Share Rich Land of Cherokee

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mountains with tunnels prob ing the vein s of talc in all dir ections. The min es are electrified a nd eq uippe d with water and air pumps, and mechanica l devices perform mu ch of th e labor . Ap pr oximately 100 workmen are em ployed under gr ound in th e area .

T HE MODERN PLANTS of Chats-

worth's three talc firms-Southern

T alc Co., G eorgia T alc Co . and Co -

hutta Talc Co .- arc lined up a few

hundred feet apa r t alon g th e main lin e

of th e Louisville and Nashvi lle Rail-

road , a t th e eas te rn boundr v of th e

town. The plants a re similarly equip -

ped to process and grind th e talc , whi ch

is haul ed in fr om th e mines by truck

an d tran sferred directlv from th e mills

to th e railro ad .

In t he plants' crayon departme nts, skilled workme n saw, split an d shape the crayo ns, while women handle th e chore of inspecting and packing th ese p roducts. The crayons are shipp ed in stu rdy

woo den boxes whi ch are m anufacture d locall y.
The plant s' milling division s, eq uippe d with every labor-savin g, sani ta ry a nd safety device, pulverize talc to order. The p owd ered talc is packed in heavy kraft bags for ship men t.
\Vhy, Chatsworth reasons, sin ce evcry grain of powder ed talc th at Chats worth prod uces is sen t to manufacturers in other parts of the coun t ry-why shou ld not that city and section be idea lly suited as a loca tion for sueh man ufacturers ?
W ITH THIS THOU GHT in mind . a development organization, Ch ats~ worth Enterprises, has been form ed . With fa cts and figures that prove th e community 's climate, resources, labor supply and other advan tages, and with an almost u nlimi ted choice of in du strial sites to offer, this live-wi re group is laying down the red carpet of welcome for new industry in Chatsworth and Murray County. Any of th e m u ltitude of indus tri es that req uire talc

is especially in vit ed to share th e wealth of th e old Chero kee Count ry.
\\' ork is being ru shed a t C ommerce to com plete a pl ant for a new mi llion dollar industry to begin humming December 1.
St at e Sena tor Wi llis N . Harden , presid ent of th e J ackson County Industr ia l Develop ment Co rp., says O . E. Szekely & Associat es, I nc., is sche d uled to begin opera tio ns on th at dat e. The firm , manufacturing mech ani ca l electron ic and elect ro-mechani cal eq uipment, will begin movin g from its presen t loca tion in Phi ladelphia, Pa ., on Nov. 15, and opera tion of th e new Co mmerce p lant will sta rt tw o weeks la ter.
The p lant will open with a payr oll of 150 men , a nd emp loymen t is slated to jump to 350 by th e end of th e yea r.
A bond issue to rais e th e a pproximat ely $400,000 required to construc t th e plant reach ed $275,000 by th e time ground was br ok en , S en a tor H arden sa id . First mortgage owner ship bond s in den om inati ons of $10 0. $500 a nd $ 1,000 a re being offere d b)' th e Industria l D evelopment Corp.
The new building, containing 65,000 sq ua re feet, is rising on a 24-acr e tract abo ut one m ile from C ommer ce. on th e Southern Rai lroad and adjacent to St at e Hi ghway 98.
On a visit to Gov . M ar vin Griffin . wh o officiallv welcom ed th e new fim;
to Georg ia, O. E. Szekel y announced
th at 25 of th e firm's key per sonnel wi ll move to Commer ce. H e adde d th at recr uitme n t of employes for th e p lant will begin soon.
R obert M. H older, At lanta rea ltor. hand led th e loca ting of th e plant, and E. J ack Smith, At lanta con t ra ctor is th e construc tor.
Ne w na n, Bainbridge
loin List o.f Fairs
Autumn is fair tim e in Geor gia, a nd in addition to th e list of fai rs furni shed th e N ewslett er last m onth by th e Georgia F air Associati on , th e editor has received noti ce of two m ore fairs.
The Co weta County Fair will be held a t Newn an th e week of Sep tem be r 19.
Th e Flint Ri ver Exposition will be held a t Bainbridge N ov. 7-12 .

GEORG IA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETT E R

Sep tember 1955

'Belk's Makes A Town Prosper' Proves True In 49 Georgia Communities Boasting Stores

Sin ce 1929, when th e fir st Bclk departmen t sto re in G eor gia was ope ned, this g roup of ind ep endently-op erat ed stores has thr ived and m ultiplied . 1'0 cl a y 49 stores p ract ice th e Bclk svstc m of mer ch an d ising in this sta te, with p romise of even more to come.

These Ge orgia stores ca te ring to th e mercantile needs of th e en t ire famil y are sor t of " cousins" in a

family of 344 related Belk department stores that now spread throughout 16 southeastern states. Associated with the Rclk name in

th ese companies are tho se of L eg~ett, G alla nt, Hudson , Pa rk s, S imp s o n , Matthews, T yler,
Rhodes, H agin s, G riffe th , an d sev-
eral others. In no way ca n th e ~ro up be considered a chain, for each store ope ra tes as a sepa ra te

entity. Ther e is no corporate structure uniting th e stores, and th e sto ck own ership in each varies.

There is no central management - ea ch individual store is run bv its own manager, who in mo st cases is a substa n tia l part own er.
The beginning of th is a ma zing suc -

DE C AT UR "COUSI N"- Handsome Belk- Gall ant dep artmen t store at D ecatur, a lively memb er of the famous south ern mer ch andising famil y that has 344 related stores, 49 of which are in Georgia. The oldest Geo rg ia Belk's is at Elber to n.

cess saga of th e South sta rt ed back in 1888, wh en W illiam H enr y Belk ope n ed his fir st sto re in M onr oe, N. C . H is capita l wa s $750 which he had saved from 12 yea rs work as a clerk a nd $500 wh ich he bor row ed a t 10 p er cen t in ter est. With thi s sma ll ca p ita l and th e

sloga n, " Bclk Sells It 'For Less," the 26-vea r-old Belk la unch ed h is new busincss, ca lled "T he New York R acket. " At the end of seven mo n ths he was able to rep ay th e $500 he h ad borr owed , had no ou tstanding debts, an d coun ted a

net profit of $3,300.
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SE A SO N E D STOREKE EPERS shook th eir heads over young Bclk 's metho d of op era tion . At that time practicall y a ll gene ral mer cantile establish-

men ts sold goods on a tim e basis. Bu t Mr. Belk had decid ed to sell for cash. Not only th at , he sa w th at every piece

of mer ch an dise bor e a plain ly ma r ked p rice t ag. All clerks were instructed never to vary from the marked pri ce. This a lso was con tra ry to a \Try popula r policy a t that time- tha t of haggling bet ween merch an t and custome r.

ReIk's po licy wa s to sell good

mer chandise and, wh en ever possible, to sell it for less. To thi s he added cour teo us serv ice and a gen -

uine desir e to p lease his customers and sec th at th ev were sa tisfied in ever y r esp ect. It wasn 't long

before p eopl e in th e M onroe trading area reali zed that wh en th ey bought an article a t M r. BeIk's

FI RST BELK STORE-Established at Monroe, N. C ., in 1888 , it began th e succe ss saga of William H enry Belk, who revolutioni zed retail mer ch and ising.

store th ey could depend upon th e (Continued on Page 6 )

GE O RGIA D E PARTM ENT OF C O M M ER C E

NEWSLETTER

September 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

PIMIENTO FESTIVAL
W oodbury will stage its sixth annual Pimi ento F estival on O ct ober 12. One firm in th e city, th e Dromed ar y Co., now under m an agem ent of th e N ation al Biscuit Co ., con t rac ts for and p ro cesses abo ut one -th ird of th e en tire pimiento cro p of th e U nite d State s.
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NEW DACULA PLANT
A new ga rme n t plant , Dacul a Spo rtswea r, In c., is in ope ra tio n at D a cul a , m anufacturing cotto n herringb on e jack-
ets an d tr ou ser s. T. J. LaR occa , of D e-
ca t ur , is p resid ent, an d H . R . H ale, also of Decatur, is supe rin ten den t. The new firm sta rte d with 40 em ployees and a wcckl v pa yroll of a pp roxim a tely $2,000 .
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RINGGOLD'S NEW FACTORY
T h e Sw eetwa ter Ru g Co . is construc ting a ha nd som e n ew pl ant a t Ringgold to sup pleme n t its present fact or y which bas been in opera tion five yea rs. The new un it , a br ick str uc tu re of m od ern d esign , with 55,000 sq ua re-fee t of flo or spac e, will ad d from 50 to 100 m en and wom en to th e payroll, accord ing to Sa m Amsterda m, m an aged . I t is sched uled to go into opera tion abo ut J anuar y 1. T he Swee twa ter firm m anufactures tufted rugs.
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CRISP TO CELEBRATE
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
A color ful pageant " Gold en H er itage," depi cting life in th e area fift y years ago, will be a m ain feature of th e Go ld en Jubilee celebration of th e cre ation of C risp Co un ty to be held a t Co rd ele on Sep tember 18-21 .
Th e coun ty was crea ted on Au gu st 17, 1905, by a n ac t of th e Geo rg ia L egislature a nd was named for C ong ressman C ha rles F . C risp, of th e Third Distri ct , who was spea ker of th e H ouse of R ep resen ta tives.
Th e pagean t was written a nd is bein g direct ed by M iss M arj ori e R oyal, of Cordel e. M or e th an 500 characte rs will depi ct dress style and custo ms of th e 1905 era.
Gov ernor M ar vin Griffin an d Fo rm er Governor H erm an E . T a lmadge will be a mo ng th e spea kers hi ghlighting th e fes tiva l.
The pageant will be given three ni ghts, Se p tem ber 19-20-21 .

R O CK ET S' R ED GLARE - Outsta nding fireworks displays wiII be an attraction ni ghtly during the Southeastern Fa ir at Atlanta's Lakewood Park Sept. 28Oct. 8.
WAYCROSS SHOP EXPANDS
Th e W aycross M achine Shop is ad ding 8,000 sq ua re feet of floor spa ce to its opera tio ns with a 40 x 200 bu ilding and is prep aring to m anufacture m etal truck sta ke bodi es for Gen er al M ot or s Corp. E . L. D ell, Jr. , ow ner, sai d th e new facility wi ll provide em ployme n t for 60 a d ditiona l m en and bring th e tot al of th e pl ant to 1;!-0.
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NEW LIME FIRM
A new firm , th e L add Lime Pr oducts Co ., h ead ed by W . W . Mundy, J r., of Ce da rtown, has formed to reop en th e famo us Bartow Co un ty lim e qua rri es tw o m iles west of C arte rsville. Th e old plant building will be enla rged a nd reeq uip pe d a nd la rge scal e p roducti on is expected to begin Oct. 1. Dan B. Simmons, who for 16 yea rs wa s supe rintendent of th e So uthe rn Sta tes Portland Cem ent Co . a t Rockmart, will be in charg e of th e new op er ation s.

BELK STORY
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quality being as represented and th e price as being fair.
In hi s ea rly years, W . H . Belk h ad help ed hi s you ng er b ro th er , J ohn M . Belk, secure a med ical educ a tion, and th e young d o c t o r was ga in ing di sti ncti on in his p r a cti ce in An son Co un ty, North Carolin a. H owever, after tw o ye ars he was persu ad ed by his b rother to come into th e rapidl y gro wing mer ca n tile bu sin ess wit h him in M onroe. The nam e of th e store wa s change d to " Belk Br others." a nd th e tw o m er ch an ts con tin ued 'to work a s a perf ect team from 1891 until th e d eath of Dr. Belk in 1928. At th at tim e th ere were 39 sto res ca rrying th e Belk name.
WITH THE AID of ca refu lly select ed asso cia tes, W . H . Belk con tinue d th e bu sin ess, a ll t he time ad di ng new stores. F or years he follo wed a consisten t pl an of wat ching for pr omi sin g young m en , m any of wh om lik e h imself came fr om th e coun try, and who wer e hon est , willing to work, and waitin g for a chance. With very few excep tions th e m en have proven worthy of hi s confid ence, and together they had built up a group of 320 sto res a t the time of th e death of Mr. Belk in 1952 .
Typical of these associates trained by the Belks is W . E . Gallant of Anderson, S. C. A native of M eck lenburg County, North Carolina , Mr. Gallant went to work for Belk Brothers in C harlotte. So well d id he lea rn the principles of m erchandising, that wh en the Belks decided to op en a store in Anderson, S. C., in 1919, they sen t him to run it. H e is st ill manager of Gallant-Belk Co. at Anderson, and from it has grown many other stores. The fir st Georgia Belk store was opened in December, 1929 by Mr. Gallant in Elberton. He opened another the same month in Athens. M any more stores have been opened in Georgia and So uth Carolina through his efforts.
Someon e once said, " If th e Belk s spe nd th eir m on ey fo r a sto re in a town, you ca n wat ch th at town p rosp er ." And th at's th e wa v it ha s work ed out for 49 Georg ia to{vns.

GEO RGIA DEPARTMENT OF CO M M ERCE

NEWSLETTER

Septem ber 1955

36 GEORGIA FIRMS RECEIVE $8,222,000 IN U. S. BUSINESS

Thi rt y-six Georgia firm s in July received con trac ts from th e F ederal govern me n t for goods a nd services valu ed at $8,222,000 , br ingin g th e sta te's cumu lat ive tot al for th e yea r to 185 va lued a t $58, 134,05 2.
Georgia con tin ues to lead th e southeast both in number of aw ards and total value.
Firms receivin g contr ac ts ar c: Sou th ern Sta tes E q uipment Corp ., H am pton, switchyard an d tran sform er yard steel struc tures an d equipme nt at Buford Dam , $ 107,091 ; T umpane Co. of Ga., Inc., Macon, repair of Air For ce equipme n t at Robin s AFB , $ 153,500 ; Westinghou se Electri c Co rp ., At lanta, welders, $66,386; C lassic C ity Ov erall Co ., I nc., Athens, men' s cotton trousers, $55 ,987 ; Nunnally & M cCrea Co ., Atlanta, m en' s cott on tr ousers, $59,600 ; M ech ani cal Specialties, I nc., Atla nta, install air conditioning units at Post Office, Atlanta, $ 16,286; A. G. N. Con tracting En gr. , Inc., Atl anta, ai r conditioning building at Ft. M cPherson, $3 1,287; Lockh eed Aircraft Co rp ., M ari ett a, fa brication of kits and mo dificati on of B-47' s, $428,832.
.J. E . Griner & Co. & Associates, Al-
ban y, design of items at Turner AFB and Robins AFB , $ 11,700; Fl oors, Inc., Atlanta, custodial services at Ft. M eC lella n, Ala., $54,777; National Contr actin g and En gineering Co., I nc., Alma, ai rfield lighting system, Seymour J oh nson AFB, Goldsboro, N . C ., $39,91 1; Alexa nder Co nstruct ion Co. , Atlanta, reh ab ilit ation of bu ildin g a t F t. M cPh erson, $53,333 ; Augus ta R oofing Co., Au gusta, rero of buildings a t Camp Gordon , $7 1,025 ; H enr y C . Beck Co ., Atla nt a, construct four h a ngars at M arine Co rps Landing F ield , Beaufort, S. C., $ 1,730,000 ; C roft-M ullins Electric Co. , M acon , alterations at Pin ecastIe AFB , $95,697.
C . Samford, I nc., Albany, construction at M a rine Center, Albany, $322,499 a nd $64 ,900; Spa n-Altma n Con struction Co ., Sava nna h, classroom buildings at Pa rri s I slan d, $33 1,048; Byck-Worrell Co nstruc tion Co ., Savannah , cold sto rage bui lding a t Pa rris Island, $48 7,343, Brock & Blevins Co ., In c., R ossville, const ruc t scra p m eta l faciliti es, Mi ch ou d O rdnance Plant, New O rlean s, $368,400; R ittenba um Bros., Atlan ta, wiping cloth s, $4 7,840 ; R obert & Co ., Atlanta , a rch itec t-engineer services for amm unitio n loadin g

terminal a t Point- Aux-Pins, Alabama, $26,800 ; H ugh J ackson, Savanna h, constr uction ammunition sto rage magazine, T ravis Field , $40,662.
J ord a n Co., Co lumbus, construc t sho p a t F t. Bcnning, $2 I 1,931 ; Wi lliam s Construction Co. , Co lumbus, construc t cha pel a t Ft. Benning, $ 178,0 I 2 ; Spa lding Co ncrete Co ., Griffin, constru ct swimm ing pool a nd ba th house, Atlanta General Dep ot, $ 137,62 1; V alley Cons truction Co., Co lumbus, const ruc t wa rehouse modi fications at Ft. M cC lella n, $65,679 ; Do uglas Corp.,
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Farm & I nd ustrial Che m ical C o. will build a new plant on Buckn er Road in COBB CO UNTY, to cost $20,000 . . . Associa ted Grocers Co-op, I nc., h a s br oken gro und for a new warehouse on a seven-ac re t ract at EAST POIN T. The insta llation, to serve the more th an 300 mem ber sto res of th e orga nization,
s will cost I ,500,000.
T estwo rth Lab orat ori es, Inc., an I llinois firm , has acquired a plant bui lding at CA R ROLLTON , wher e it will compo und backings for tufted carpeting and industri al fabrics . . . Go v. Marvin Griffin welcom ed I nt ern ational L atex Corp. to Geor gia wh en the ma nufactu rer held op en h ouse at its new MANCHESTER pla nt . . . Gay lor d Con tai ner Co rp. is er ecting a 30,000 squa re-foot war eh ouse on M cDonough Blvd ., S.E., ATLAN TA , to cost approxima tely $150,000 . . . An au tomobile safet y belt is being ma n ufactured in SAVANNA H by Sav-a-L ife Belts, I nc.
Walter B. Williams , Jr., will bui ld a six-acre shopping center at M I LL ED GE VILL E . . . The City of L ULA h as dedicated a new water system .. . H . 1. Lewis Stee l Works is building a new plan t at W RENS . . . H eadquar ters offices for the $94,00 0,000 H artwell Dam on th e Savanna h Ri ver hav e been opened at H ART W EL L . . . JEN KIN S COUNT Y will celebrate its Golden Anniversarv O ctober 2-8 . . . The First Nat ional Bank of ATLA NTA is bui lding a new branc h at Piedmont Rd . and Buford H wy . . . L ife of Geor gia In sur an ce Co. is occupying its new br an ch office build ing at COLUiVlBU S . . . GA INESVIL LE h as ad ded a $21,000 pum per to its F ire Departm ent equipment . . . Work on th e Navy's $9,000 ,-

Dou glas, ponch oes, $ 1,462,770 ; War ren Co ., Atlanta, refri gerat ors. $ 105,260 ; Sherida n Punar o Co., M acon , modifi cati on of wa reh ouse a t Robins AFB , $223, 136.
N . M . Bentley, M acon, painti ng a t Robins AFB , $ I 38,853; Em pire Gas En gineering Co ., Atl anta, liquid fuel pipeline, C ha rleston AFB , $ 105, 133, a nd aircra ft fuelin g facilities, H om estead AF B, Fla., $ 174,720 ; Sou thla nd Coffee Co ., At lanta, coffee $58,4 25 ; L. H . Sim pkins, Augusta , O ld H ickory Lock & Da m Reservoir clea ring, $489, 720 : Southern Sta tes C he m ical Co ., Atlanta , methanol, $ 1,3 12 : Gay lord Co nta ine r Co rp., Atla nta, sh ipping boxes, $5 7,5 16 ; Spr ingfiel d Body & Trailer Co ., Waycross, po le ha ulin g t railers, $ 146,9 16.
OUR PROGRESS -
000 supply dep ot at BYR ON will sta rt in O ctober.
H enr y C. Ball, exec utive vice president of the Tufted T exti le M an ufacturers Assn., DALTON , pr edi cts sales thi s year will total $275,000, 000 to $300 ,000,000. Tota l last year was $218,4 10,000 ... JEFF DA VI S COUNT Y mark cd the 50 th anniversa ry of its founding in Aug ust . . . GEORGI A ban k deposits on June 30 were $953, 656,932, A. P. Persons, sta te bank superintend ent, rep or ts. T h is was a ga in of $69,943,205 over last year.
J uli us Kayser & Co ., manufacturing wom en's hosiery, lingerie an d gloves, h as acq uired the H olep roof H osiery Co ., of M ilwauk ee. H olepr oof has a plant at M ARl!iTTA . . . R obert S. Lynch has been elected chairman of th e boa rd of th e Co ntin ent al Gin Co ., ATL ANTA . . . Th e U . S. Weath er Bur ea u h as estab lish ed a un it at ATHENS . . . Downtown Pa rking, I nc., is a new 340-ca r garage in SA V AN N A H . . . J efferson Shirt Co rp., L O U ISVILLE, h as adde d boys' d ress sh irts to its production.
T he Sava nna h H ot el, ren am ed th e M an ger , completely ren ovat ed and refurni shed, has opene d at SA V AN N A H . . . T OCCOA is in th e midst of a $2,000,000 bu ilding p r o g ra m . . . The WEST POI NT Mlg. Co., h uge Georgia texti le ma nufac turer, will observe its 75th anniversa ry in O ctober . . . CO R DEL E has signed a 99-year contr act with th e CR IS P COUNT Y Power Co mmission for city and consumer electri c curre n t.
ADAIRS VILL E has a new $25,000 C ity H all . . . Globe-Union, I nc., ATL AN T A battery m an ufact ur er, w i l l build a new plan t to cost $1,000,000.

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CHIEF VANN HOUSE RESTORED

(Continued fr om Pa ge 2)
H ou se, Cha tswor th and Fort ~10UIl tain St ate Park, Ellij ay, T alking R ock, J asper, T at e, Ball Ground, Canton and return to Atl ant a.
Ev ery point on th e list is deepl y etc he d 0 11 Georg ia's scro ll of histor y, either as a C hero kee landma rk or as a bat tlefield of th e War Betw een The St at es.
Plus a romantic history that is authentic, the Vann House is surrounded by innumerable legends and tall tales. It is said that just before the Am erican Revolution a wealthy young North Car?linian by the name of Van n killed a neighbor in an altercation and fled to the Cherokee Nation to escape arrest. This part of the story seems open to doubt, but there is no conflict to the statement that a James Vann was admitted to membership in th e tribe, married an Indian maiden , and went on to becom e an influential chief.
Chief .Iames Vann a nd his Indian
wife h ad severa l ch ild re n, one of wh om, J oseph, inh erited th e fa ther's trib al. title. Chief J oseph Vann was th e build('I" of th e V ann H ou se, th e finest mansion in a ll of th e C her okee Nation .
CHIEF JOSEPH V AN N , who wa s known to envious neighbor s as "R ich Injun J oe," was one of the outsta nd ing figur es of his day. H e was a m an of la rge mean s, own ing th ou sands of acres of rich land and 300 N egro slaves, op era tin g mill s and stores, and is describ-

cd as being more th an six feet in height .

That he was intelligent and progr essive

in his views is shown bv th e fact th at he gave land, mon ey ~n d encou rage -

ment to th e fir st mission aries, th e M or-

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a log mission a t a large spring nea r h is

hou se, and th ey ca lled th eir establish-

ment Spring Place.

Chief Vann built his house in 1806. Legend has it that the bricks and elaborately carved woodwork were shipped from England to Savannah and Augusta and transported into the wild erness by an anny of Indian warriors and slaves, but it now seems to be an established fa ct that the chief' s architteet was Robert Howell, a local briekmason, and that all of th e materials that went into the building were prepared on the spot.

T he hou se h as tw o m ain floor s and a coffin-shaped a tt ic, built over wh a t we would ca ll th e basem ent , but whi ch origina lly wa s construc ted as a dungeo n in whi ch V ann imprison ed his disobedi ent slaves. John H owa rd Pa vn e the au thor of "H ome, Sweet Horne," is said to h ave been kept prisoner in the dungeon wh en he was a rrested bv th e St at e M iliti a as a n India n sym pa th izer. This was. in th e 1830:s during th e disorders wh ich accompal1Icd th e F ed er al edict th at th e Ch erokees give up th eir lands and move ~o O klaho ma. The odd ly-sha ped a ttic was used for m eetings of th e Cherokee ch iefta ins.
One of th e most in teresting features

G EO RG IA DE PA RTM ENT OF C O M M ER CE

of th e hou se is th e "my ste ry " sta irwa y, whi ch begi ns a t th e back of th e sp acious hall an d follows th e right wall halfwa y to th e ceiling. H ere a t a small landing it mak es a complete turn an d, a ppa ren tly swinging in mid air, lead s on up to th e second floor. This is th e result of ingeniou s enginee ring, using th e ca n tilev er principl e, but it has my stified m an y visitor s throu gh out th e yea rs.
Beautiful fan-shaped glass transoms feature the outside and inside doorways downstairs in the home and the heavy doors are decorated with carvings and equipped with hand-wrought iron hinges and locks . Handsome mantels sp read from enormous fir eplaces to the high ceilin gs and arc hand-carved with snakes, birds and Indian sym bols. Beneath some of th e window s are secret compartments and drawers, several of which are large enough to con ceal a small man.
Durin g th e years th e old hou se was occup ied by itin erants, m uch of th e elaborate ca rving was dest ro yed or ma rred . Some of th e fir eplaces were kn ocked in and numerou s floor boards were pried up , presumabl y by treasurer hunters wh o h ad heard ta les of Ri ch J oe's gold . R ep air of this dam age: is a n important it em of th e rcstora n on processes now under wa y.
It was in 1834 t ha t Ch ief V arin ,
along with th e othe r Chero kees, was
dri ven fr om his fin e h om e in th e beau -
tifu l va lley wh er e he had spen t his life.
H e is believed to have lost h is life 10
yea rs lat er in a stea mboa t exp losion on
th e O hio Ri ver.

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O ctob er 1955

NEWSLETTER

Published monthly by

GEO RGIA DEPT. OF COMMERCE 100 State Capitol

* M ARVIN GRIFFIN Go v e r n o r BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
EMORY L. BUTLER Chairman

Y. F. GEESLI N

HOKE PETERS

BEN JESSUP

TRAMM ELL McI NTYR E

* SCOTT CANDLER Secre t a ry NELSO N M. SHIPP Assistant Secreta ry

FR ED D. MOON Editor

Vol. 6, No. 12

Oc tobe r, 1955

Georgia Farm Cash

Near $200 Million
Despite Spring Ice
D espite a Southwide Sp ring fr eeze th at did untold dam age to growing things, Georgia farmers fini shed th e fir st half of 1955 with nearl y $200,000,000 mor e cash for th eir marketin gs th an th ey received in th e first half of 1954.
Th e sta te's tot al farm m ark eting cash fr om J anua ry through June thi s year was placed at $ 196,9 14,000 by th e Agri cult ural M arketin g Service, U. S. Department of Agr iculture. This was sligh tly more than one per cent grea te r th an th e $ 194,945,000 received in the same period last year.
Th e increase in Geor gia was one of only 16 instan ces of ga in in 1955 over 1954 in th e entire nation .
A sh a rp rise in returns from livestock a nd its pr odu cts sold was respon sible for Georgia' s overall ga in thi s yea r, beca use ret urn s from crop produ cts dropped from $66,588,000 to $6 1,0 18,000, some 8.4 per cent. The increase in receip ts fr om livestock and its products was $ 128,35 7,000 to $ 135,896,000, or nearly 6 per cent.
COVER PHOTO
Battery of p acka ge dyein g machines in th e $7,500,000 Co at s & C lark thread fini shin g plant a t T occoa, wher e thread for industrial and home sewing is turned out in hu ge quantiti es. Story on pa ge 3.

AU T U MN WONDE RLAND-Scene in Vogel State Park, near Blair sville, on th e route

which th ousands of Georgians an d visitors are taking now tha t the mou ntai n woodlands

are bri ght in th e va ricolored splendor of Autumn.

- Carolyn Carter ph oto

GEORGIA "CHEAP" PLACE TO LIVE

FROM STATE TAX 'STANDPOINT

Georgia in th e p ast fisca l year collected a n average of $64.36 in tax es from eac h of its residents , but Georgia is still one of the "c hea pest" sections in th e coun try in wh ich to live from a sta ndpoint of state tax es, acco rding to th e Bureau of the Census.
Despite an increase of 300 per cent in total state tax collections in th e pas t 13 yea rs, fifth la rgest rat e of gain in th e nat ion, only 17 oth er sta tes collect less per ca pita tax es than Georgia last year, th e bureau says.
In th e Southe aste rn states- Georgia, Alab ama, F lorida , Mississippi, T enn essee and th e two Carolinas- the avera ge per ca pita state tax collected in th e fiscal yea r en ding in J une was $66.50 .
T his compared with $69 .07 in th e

New En gland region , $70 .79 in th e East North Cen tral, $71.22 in th e West South Central, $82 .46 in the Mountain zone, and $105 in the Paci fic ar ea, $65.69 in the Middle Atlantic an d $66.46 in th e West North Central.
I n th e United States as a whole, th e avera ge per ca pita tax paid to states was $72.25.
N ea rly 50 per cent of th e total collected in Geor gia last yea r was in sales taxes whi ch came to $ 107,044 ,000, sixth la rgest such amount rea lized in th e nation . Motor veh icle owners paid Geor gia $68,300,000 .
Among the 3 1 states collecting individu al incom e taxes, Georgia stood sixteenth from the bottom, with $ 15,112,000, an d her $507,000 in property taxes was th e nation's twelfth lowest.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

October 1955

Toccoa Coats &Clark Employees find Work fun

In World's Most Modern Thread Finish Plant

Probably no work could rightly be ca lled play, but if sm iles and pep a nd pride in a job well done mean anything, th e folks a t th e Coats & Cl ark thread fini shin g p lant a t T occoa surely mu st have lots of fun.

"T hey ar e th e fin est peopl e in th e
world," says A. J. M orse, vice presi-

dent and gener al m anager.

, Hi s 700 employes feel the same
away about A. J. When the big,

hea rt y man with rudd y face a nd

snowy h ead bobs up on th e plant's

bu sy acres, he is greeted on every

side. H e boas ts that h e kn ows ev-

ery man and woma n by name, a nd

of course , they all know him.

Theirs is a happy family-like rela -

tionship, ra ther than one of em -

ployes a nd boss.

" We operate as a team," he declar es.

" We ge t things done."

Outside work hours, Mr. M orse con -

tinu es to "ge t things don e." H e is a

forme r mayor of T occoa, recently re-

ceived a plaque designating hi m th e

city's Man of th e Year , and has been

a community leader ever since h e first

came to th e Stephens County cit y as
manager of th e old J. P. Coats thread

mi ll in 1937.

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THE C OAT S & CLARK p I ant ,

whi ch was p laced in operation last

year, is recognized by the tex tile indu s-

try as one of th e finest an d most mod-

ern th read finish ing pl ants in th e world .

It cost $7,500,000 to bui ld a nd equip.

PRIDE OF TOCCOA-Coats & Clark thread fin ishing plant , rep resenting a $7,500 ,000 investmen t an d recognized as one of the finest textile installations in the world .

Possessing a n ou tsta nding p acka ge dye installation , it a lso has th e ve ry latest equi pme n t available for gassi ng and warping, mer ceriz ing and winding thread, and many enginee ring facilities that ar e unique.
Built to finish thread shippe d fr om C oa ts & C lar k mill s a t Clarkdal e, Acw or th, P elham and Thomasville, Ga., as well as Pawtucket, R . I., the plan t is situated on a 95acre plot two an d a half mil es from Toecoa. The main building con tains 360,000 square feet , bu t alread y plans a re being mad e to

expand it.

Built of jumbo bri ck, th e pl an t' s ex-

ter ior h a rmonizes with the surroun d -

ing rollin g landscap e ; interior walls

a re of glazed tile with expose d brick

above. Basic construc tion consists of

steel beam s and pre-cast conc re te slabs.

A basem ent enables servi ce fun cti ons

to be rea ched off a regu lar op er ating

floor , rather than using pits or eleva-

tin g th e m achiner y abo ve t h e floor

level. The ar ch ite cture is modern and

functional with all processing s from

receiving to shipping arranged for

stra ight-line produ ctio n. The air-con-

ditioning system alone cost $500,000 .

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GIRLS AN D MACHINES-Scene in th e Co at s & Clark thre ad finishing pl an t, as wom en workers atte nd thread as it passes from creel through singei ng machines and is then ball ed in warps for deli very to the mcrceri zer.

GRA Y THRE AD ar riv e s at th e plant by truck an d rail, as do othe r mill accesso ries suc h as spools fr om th e company 's own spoo l m ills in Geo rgia and Maine, che mica ls, dyestuffs, etc. F ork tru cks a re used for handling every thing to a nd from th e plan t, and all tran sportati on a nd lift ing in th e mill is accomplished by fork trucks, movable racks a nd overhea d conveyors. Every crate and con ta ine r in use is designed for th e utmost utilitv.
Thread to be singed p asses through gasse rs and ball wa rps , five of which are in op eration . They produce double ball wa rps , wit h 378 en ds made on the fin e numbers and 189 on the coa rse.
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GEOR GIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

O ctober 1955

GEORGIA BUSINESS BOOMING

TOWARD NEW RECORDS IN 1955

W hen Georgia bu sinessmen pau sed to coun t th e cash in their registers a t th e end of the first half of 1955, th ey foun d they had rung up one of th e best periods of business activity on recor d .
N ea rly every major segmen t of the sta te's economy sho wed substan tial plu s signs over th e correspond ing h alf of 1954, wi th many lines even exceed ing th e peak yea r 1953. The tr end indica tes 1955 ma y be a no ther record br ea ker.
Merrill C . Lo fto n, Atlanta field manager of the U . S. D epartment of Commerce, in his 54t h quarterly survey of business activities in the Southeast, finds that Georgia had a high level of transactions in th e fields of finance, con struction, agriculture, transportation, and other major divisions of bu siness.
For examp le, dep osits in Feder al R eserve bank s totalled nea rly a billion

a nd a half dolla rs a nd were up 1.3 per

cent over the firs t half of 1954, loan s a pproxima ted $708 .7 mill ion with a n

increase of 14.4 per cen t, and deb its were mor e th a n $ 11.8 b illion , a n se

of 12.3 per cent.

or.

IN THE TRADE field , wh olesale

tra nsactions register ed a 12 p er cent

rise and ret ail sales adva nced to a simi-

lar level, a 16 per cen t ga in in th e At-

la nta a rea reflecting a typical exam-

ple. All of th e p rin cip al cities of Gcor -

gia registered like uptrends in dep art-

ment store sales, with a range of from

4 per cen t in Augu st a to 21 per cen t in

Columbus.

New bu sinesses incorporated in

the state in the six-month period

were up 31.7 per cent, or from 818

last year to 1,077 in 1955.

The number of workers employ-

GEORGIAN'S INCOME UP 253.4010; 1954 TOTAL $4,460,000,000

The av erage inco me of Geor gia residents has incr eased 253.4 p er cen t in th e p ast 25 yea rs, th e third largest rat e of ga in in th e n ation.
Georgia's per capita in come w en t from $350 in 1929 to $1,237 in 1954.
Total personal income for Georgians increased 339 per cent in the 25-year period, the I I th highest rate of ga in in the nation.
The approximately 3,600,000 re sidents of Georgia last yea r received an estimated total income of $4,460 ,000,000, about 2 per cent below the 1953 total. A drop in farm income caused by th e drought accounted for most of the decline.
Cover ed in the inco me estimates were wages a nd salaries, divid ends and interest, far m and real estate ea rn ings, a nd social security ben efi ts, relief p ayments and pensions.
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GEORGIA'S per capita incom e 'of $1,237 last yea r was th e second la rgest in th e seven- state Southea stern region comprising Georgia, Alabama, Florida,

Mi ssissippi , T ennessee and th e Ca ro lin as. Florida's $1,610 was th e la rgest per capita in th e region .
The nation al average per cap ita in 1954 wa s $1,770.
Of the $4,460,000,000 total in Georgia, an estimated $3,06 7,000, 000 represented income in the form of wages a nd salaries. T his in cluded $708 ,000,000 from federal, state a nd local governments.
From th e fed er al govern men t came $201,000,000 for civilia n serv ices and $293,000,000 for th ose in th e milit ar y, a nd from sta te and local govern men ts, $214,00 0,000 was received .
Georgian s engaged in farmi ng were paid $58 ,000,000 in wages an d salaries, min ing, $14,000 ,000, con tract constru ct io n , $ 148,000 ,000 , manufacturing, $88 2,000,000, who lesale and retail trad ing, $564,000,000, fin ance, insu ra nce a nd real esta te, $129 ,000 ,000, tran spo rt ation, $ 186,000,000, communications and public utilities, $90,000,000, and service trad es, such as barber shops, beauty parlors, laundries and th e like, $273,000,000 .

cd in manufacturing plants in creased 4.3 per cent, with an estimated 3 19,600 on th e job.Aecompanying this advance was a declin e of 24.2 p ercent in insur ed un employment in the state.

The number of new telep hones in operation continued to skyrocke t with a 6 per cen t rise. Geor gians now keep 48 1.826 residential and 204.163 business teleph ones bu zzing. .

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IN CONSTRUCTION, th e number of building perm its issued in th e sta te's five largest citics, Atlan ta, Augusta, Columb us, M acon a nd Sav an na h, increased 15.5 per cent. A tota l of 9, 145 such permit s were issued.

In transportation acnvrties, both railroads and airlines reported humming bu siness. Railroads registered a 2.2 per cent rise in fr eight handled ; airlines had a gain of 20.4 per cent rise in passengers, 20.7 per cent in express, and 12.7 per cent in fr eight.

A bright spot, too , was for eign commer ce. The first half of th e year ended with Georgia's ports clearing nearly $75 million worth of good s to and from other coun trie s of th e worl d. Exports alon e rose by 12.5 per cent over th e corresponding period last yea r.

Electric energy produ ced for indus-

tr y and utility purposes- 3,514,430,000

kilowatt hours-was nearly 10 per cent

grea tel' thi s year th an last.

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ALSO MOVING u p w ard to increa ses over last yea r were th e state's activities in ch ick h a tch ings, broiler p roduct ion , commerc ial sla ugh tering and th e produ ction of lumb er, pa per and cotton products. Even farm income, expec ted to be conside ra bly off beca use of th e late freeze th is yea r, actually was grea ter a t the end of th e first half of 1955 th an a t th e same time last yea r. Georgia' s farmer s from J a nua ry th rou gh june of thi s yea r sold p rod ucts va lued at some $ 196,9 14,000, whi ch was about 1 p er cent better than th e income of th e first half of 1954. The rise wa s du e primarily to a substantial advance in returns fr om livestoc k and livesto ck produ cts in wh ich Georgia is orie of the leading producers.

GE ORGIA DE PARTMENT O F COMMER CE

NEWSLETTER

O ctober 1955

Rayonier To Build Second Plant At Jesup;

$25,000,000 Operation Set To Rollin '57

JESUP GIANT TO GET A TWI N-Her e is Rayonier's huge cellulose plant at J esup , whi ch was placed in operation in June 1954 . The company announces plans to erec t a second mill, described as a "mirror image" of this plant, whi ch will cost $25,000,000 .

Rayoni cr, In c., will shor tly begin construction at J esup of a seeond chem ical cellulose pl ant to cost approxim ately $25,000,000.
Gov. Marvin Griffin was informed by Clyde B. Morgan, Rayoni er president, that th e new plant will be eompleted and placed in operation late in 1957. With an annual capacity of 100,000 tons, it will represent part of Rayonier 's $80,000,000 expansion program over the next three years.
1'.11'. M organ told th e Governor th at since th e anno uncem en t of th e firm's plans for a new mill, made at a director's meetin g a t Pa ris, Fr an ce, last M ay, th e comp any conside red man y locations in the United States and C ana da. H e said th e second location a t J esup was chosen p rimarily because of th e assu red ava ilabilitv of wat er an d timb er, th e two raw m'ater ials essential for chemica l cellulose producti on.
Other fact or s, such as th e availability of a skilled labor for ce, ad equate transportati on facilities, fin e coope ra tion from both community and sta te officials, plus th e advan tages of consolidated land m anagem ent and timb er procu rement operations, con tribu ted materiall y to th e site selec tion.
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HE EXPLAINED th at th e newest mill , wh en comp leted, will bring R ayonier's a nnual p roduction capacity to some 900,000 tons . It will in corp orate severa l adv ance d features of the pres-

cn t J esup pl ant as well as newer features recently develop ed by R ayon ier.
Mr. Morgan said that the new plant is in no wayan expansion of the Jesup facility as the new mill will be a completely self-containing manufacturing unit. It will provide complete flexibility with the existing mill to produce two different types of cellulose simultaneously. This will be an unusual achievement in chemical cellulose production, he said.
H e noted th at gr eatly in creased world dem and for such cellulose as Rayon , acet ate, ti re cord, cellopha ne a nd plasti cs was th e deciding factor in R ayoni er building an eigh th mill " ha rd on th e heels of ou r J esup pl ant which was pl aced in opera tion in June, 1954 ."
1'.11'. Morgan observed th at R ayonier's present J esup mill had been built to p rodu ce an en ti rely new, yea rsa hea d typ es of che mical cellulose. The newest unit will produce not onl y th ese adva nce d celluloses, but new on es developed by R ayoni er resear ch, whi ch a re yet un announced . H e adde d th at dem and for J esup p roducts is alre nd. a t a mill capacity of 100,000 ton s a n n u a lly .
ROSIN PLANT STARTS
K ylan Corp., a new firm manufacturing rosin products, has leased space from the Brunswick Port Authority and will soon be in op eration. Paul Thomas, of Spartanburg, S. C. , h eads the firm .

Capitol Art Honors
Gov. Geo. W. Towns
Gov . George \V. T own s under wh ose administration Georgia became th e m ost highl y industrialized stat e of th e ante bellum South, h as join ed th e ga llery of distin guished Georgian s in th e State C apitol.
An oil portrait, p resented by th e Georgia Sta te Society of Sons of th e Am erican R evolution and V eteran s of Fo reign War s, Post 658, Macon, was un veiled Sep t. 29.
Governo r T ow n s ' administration completed th e W estern & Atl an tic R ailroad in 1850, m ak ing Atlanta th e railroa d terminus and bu siness cen ter of Dixie. The rai lro ad, th e only sta teowne d rail road in th e count ry, is va lued tod ay a t $35,000,000.
The T own s portrait, by Atlan ta artist Glascock R eynold s, was un veiled by
Co rn elius J. Wor rell of Atl a nt a, and
M iss J ami e Ki ng, Dawson , grea t-grea tgra ndchildren of Gov ernor T own s. Secretar y of Sta te Ben \V. F ort son ac cep ted it on behalf of th e sta te.
Other descendants of G o v el' nor T own s p resent were, W. H . Worrell, J 1'., Mi ss Evelyn Smith, Co lumbus; Mrs. Jo siah Sibley, Atlanta ; Mrs. R oy Smisson, Columbus ; M rs. P. C . King, Sr., Ft . Gain es, and Mrs. W . H. W orr ell,
Sr., of Atlanta.

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

NEWSLETTER

O ctob er 1955

GEORGIA PARADE OF PROGRESS

Georgia Holds Lead With $1.3 Million U. S. Bids In August

D EDIC AT ED AT AT HENS-T he new q uar ter -m illion dollar h ome of the At he ns M illing- Co., re cent ly placed in operat ion . Its capacity is 400 to ns of feed- 8,000 bag-s-a da y.

Athens Milling Co. In New Push-Button Quarter Million Home
With State Agriculture Co mm ission-
er J. Ph il Camp bell as p rincipal spea k-
er, and a host of civic, fa rm an d livestoc k lead ers in att enda nce, th e Ath ens M illing Co . dedicat ed its new pu shbutton pla nt wh ich cost m ore th an a quarter of a milli on doll ars.
The plant, located three m iles southwest of th e city near th e Sea boa rd Air line R ailroad and th e T allasee R oad , is ultram odern in a ppearance and ultram od ern in fun ction.
Th e building conta ins 9,000 squa re feet of floor space on three levels to enclose offices, complicated automat ic feed m anufacturing m achinery a nd storage space. Construction is bri ck, steel a nd conc rete slab. Th e mill is 10cated on a 13-acre site.
The plant has a capa city of 8,000 bags of feed a day- 400 tons.
The wh ole int ricat e p rocess of ma king scientifica lly ba lan ced poultry a nd livestock feeds is controlled by one man sta nding before a pu sh-b utton con trol pa nel, says Sherm Applebau m, p residen t.
RICHLAND DAIRY PLANT
C . C . Miller, own er a nd operator of th e Mo ss Hill Dai ry Farm, is bui ldin g a processing plant in Ri chland at a cost of $50,000 . The plant, employing 10 peopl e, will pro cess hi s own mil k exclu sively, and will produce ice cr eam and other dairy products.

Georgia Ports Gain Over'54 Hit$75 Million
D uring the first six mo nths of thi s year, nearly $75,000,000 in im portexpo rt tr ad e passed th rou gh Georgia ports, an increase of 6.7 per cent over last year.
Exports dur ing th e period am ounted to $4 1,500,000, an increase of 12.5 p er cent over th e $36,000 ,00 tot al for J an ua ry through June 1954.
Exports thi s year were $33 ,200,000 aga inst $33,100,000 in 1954, a ga in of 3 per cent.
Ga. Farmers Milk
353 ,000 Cows Today
Geor gia 's farm milk cow p opu lat ion has grown from 329,000 in 1940 to a n estimated 353,000 in 1955, an increase of 9,000 or 7 per cent in 15 years says th e U. S. D ep artmen t of Agr iculture.
In th e same perio d , th e seven-sta te Sou theast experienced a rise of m ore th an 15 p er cent in milk cow production, or from 2,294,000 in th e ea rlier yea r to an estima ted 2,64 1,000 th is yea r. This was th e la rgest ra te of increase in th e nati on .
In Alab ama th e incr ease was 9 per cent, from 363,000 to 394,000 ; Florida, 50 per cent, from 101,000 to 152,000 ; Mi ssissippi, 17 per cent, 480,000 to 560 ,000 ; North Carolina, 11 per cent, 33 1,000 to 366,000 ; South Carolina, 6 per cent, 153,000 to 162,000, an d T ennessee, 22 per cent, 537,000 to 654,000 .

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Georgia firm s in August received 12 contrac ts from th e Fed er al gover nment ca lling for $ 1,380,646 worth of goods a nd services.
Thi s br ought to $59,5 14,698 th e cum ulative valu e of a wa rds mad e in th e sta te thi s vea l' on a n adve rtised . negoti at ed an~l non -classified basis, la rgest amoun t in th e Southeast.
From J a nua ry th rou gh Au gust of th is year , th e govern me nt awa rd ed 198 contracts to Georgia firm s.
Followin g a re th e awa rds mad e in August :
Ca rpenter Plu mbing Co ., Co lumbus, reha bilita tion of steam system, Ft . Bennin g, $83,900; Irvind ale Farms, In c., Atlanta. mi lk, etc., at Ft. M cPh erson, $9 1,655 ; Bins & Equipmen t Co. At lant a, steel clot h ing lockers, $ 12,045; P & L Co ., Atla n ta , partition changes, etc ., a t U. S. Post O ffice and Court H ou se, Atlanta, $ 10,935 ; Willi am Armstro ng Smith Co., East Point, p aint, $35,0 6 7.
Arkan sas Fuel O il Co rp., Atl anta, fuel oil a nd gasoline, $44 ,848 ; a contr act with no firm name given for th e construction of Wilkie Brid ge, T ot o Creek Brid ge a nd relocation of Geor gia Sta te R oute No . 136, Bufor d Dam, $439,445 : Y ea rw 0 0 d Motors, I nc., Warner Robins , servicin g vehicl es at Robin s AFB , $60,000 ; W estin ghouse Elect ric Supply Co ., Alban y, ligh ting st rips, $25,278 : Pomona Products Co ., Griffin, canned snap bean s, $40,775 ; Lockheed Aircra ft Co rp ., "Ma riett a, prod uction of C-130 aircraft, $226,688 : and Savan nah M achinery & Foundry Co. , Sav a nnah, sh ip rep ai rs, $3 10,000.
NEW BOX INDUSTRY
A fledglin g Savanna h industry, T imber St ruc ture s, In c., is in full production with 35 em ployees and is planning to increase its payroll. T h e firm , of whi ch Ed C . Rowley is president, man uf actu res knocked-down h 0 use ho I d goods boxes which a re being"shipped to moving and storage firm s in m ore th an a dozen states.

N EW SL ET T ER

O ctober 1955

SOUTHERN NITROGEN TO BUILD

$14,000,000 SAVANNAH PLANT

A new $ 14,000 ,000 chem ical pl an t

whose a nnu al ou tpu t will save th e

farmers of Georgia a nd the South

man y m illions of dolla rs on fer ti lizer,

is schedu led to be in operation at Sa-

van nah la te next vea r.

Gov . Marvin G riffin announced

that Southern N itrogen Co., Inc.,

will build the plant to p roduce

250 ton s p er day of a mmon ia

which it will conver t to nitrogen

solutions for fertilizer usc and

prilled ammonium nitrate. It will

be the first synthe tic nitrogen

plant to be located in th e large ni-

trogen-con suming area comp rising

th e South Atlantic sta tes.

The plant will employ ab out 200

workers with an a nnu al payroll

of approximat ely $ 1,000,000.

Sou th eastern Nit rogen Co . was or-

ga nized in 1954 by J oh n R . Ri ley, M al-

colm Smith, a nd Geor gc V . T aylor.

M r. Ril ey, president of th e new firm,

was for merly vice p resident of Sp en cer

C hemica l Co.

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MR. RILEY said that the plant's op eration wou ld mean a sav ings to th e Southea stern area's far mers and fer tilizer ind ustry of approximately $3,000,000 a nn ually in t ran spor ta tion costs. Sco tt Candler, secretary of th e Georgia D ep artment of Commerce, said Georgia farm lead ers had estima ted to him th a t, in Geor gia alone, th e sav ings wou ld a mo unt to $ 1,000,000 a
year. The site selec ted for th e ch emi-
cal plant is a 250-acre tract two miles north of th e Traffic Circle on High wa y 17, bounded by the Augusta R oad , P ipemakers Can al and th e Sa vannah & Atl a nta R ailroad. The tract also ha s access to the Sa vannah waterfront. Pl an s ar e for a completely in tegrat ed p lan t of the most mod ern design which will include a n a mmo nia pl an t with a ca pacity of 250 tons a day, and othe r un its to pr oduce nitric acid, urea, nitrogen solu tions and fert ilizer-gr ad e ammonium nitra te. N a tural gas, which will be the p rincip al ra w ma terial, will be supplied by th e Southern N a tural Gas Co., of Bir mingha m, Ala ., and electric power requiremen ts will be supp lied by the Sa vannah Electri c & Power Co. I n anno uncing final plans for th e

BqON TO FA RME RS -A rtist's sk~tch of $ 14,000, 000 petroch emi cal plant to be buil t at Savan na h by th e So u the rn NItroge n Co. It will produce 250 tons pcr d a y of
a nhy d ro us am mon ia for fertilizer use.

TOCCOA COATS &CLARK
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Maga zine cr eels behind the ball warpers are eq uipped to hold up to 12,000 pounds of thread wit h individual cones weighing eight pounds. The ball warps contain from 4,000 to 18,000 ya rds of th read with an ave rage weight of 500 pounds. Sp eed through the ga ssers, whi ch are equipped with electronic stop devices to prot ect the thread from th e flame sho uld an end break , is 180 yards a second.
H er e, as in the quilling an d windin g dep artments, mos t of t h c operators a rc women ; men a rc emp loyed la rgely in the mer cerizing and dyein g division s. Fem inin e pulchritude is not a req uisite of Coa ts & C la r k person nel, but the p lan t h as a full sha re of a ttractive girls. In print dr esses an d bri ght slacks, they m a ke a p re tty p icture against th e mo ving backgro und of va ricolored th read . Since the pla nt is as
pla nt , M r. Ril ey issued a sta tem ent th an king Governor Griffin a nd Georgia and Savannah off icia ls for th eir assistan ce to the firm in working ou t det a ils of its loca tion.

spa nking clea n as a hospit al oper a ting

roo m, person a l tidiness is no prob lem .

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FROM TH E GA SSE RS , the th read mov es to th e m erccrizer, a 440-foot, half-million dollar un it, operated by an electronic cont ro l pan el, whi ch per forms fantasti c fea ts. H ere th e thread undergoes multip le hot , cold and sour water t reat ments, th en is dri ed a nd warped , all a t a ra te of 2,400 pounds of th read - 48,000 linear yards or 24.4 miles- per hour.

Warps are next transported to quilling, wh er e th e warp ends a re sepa ra ted a nd quilled onto tapered paper tubes. These co n e s are packed in m et al co n t a i n e I' s which handle th e thread th rou gh th e dyeing p rocess. The pl ant is equipp ed to dye some 1,400 st a nd a rd and spec ial colors. F ollowing dyeing , th e thread is rewound on cones for ship me nt to the com pany's Atlanta warehouse or balled for the second C oa ts & C la rk mill at Toccoa.

Vi sitor s to the p la nt inv a riabl y a rc amazed a t the multiple processes thro ugh which th read . alreadv a semifinished p roduct wh el~ it a rri ves, mus t pass before it emerges in th e familiar sha pe in wh ich it is found on sales coun ters.

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- HIGHLIGHTING OUR Pf(OGf(ESS -

DA HLO N EGA 'S fir s t pageant, a nd seed storage and processing plant,

"Gold in Them ThaI' H ills," was pre- and will em ploy a bout 40 men . The

sen ted on October 8.. . Southern Bell T eleph on e Co . has completed a new build ing a t SA V ANNAH to house its Elgin Exchan ge which will begin service ea rly in 1956.. .. .lim H ovis h as

tract covers 35 ac res. . . . N atu ral gas has been installed at CAI RO, DAWSON, CO R D E LE, M OULTRIE, VAL DOST A and BA I NBR ID GE. . . . J ack M cKibbon , of GA INESVILLl~,

been nam ed man ager of th e Wh itney H otel in SAVANNA H . . . Che rokee Scenes, IIIL, <til 01 ~anizati on form ed to promote tourist a ttractions in e i g h t northwest G eorgia coun ties, has elected Tom Banks David, of CA L HOUN, pr esident , and selec ted CA L HOUN as hea dq uarters for th e organization .

was elected cha irm an of a lO-county tourist promotion organ izati on at a meeting held a t CLE VEL AND .
An Indu st rial Development Co nference, with representatives presen t fr om 17 northeast Geo rgia towns, me t at HARTWELL and discussed ways and means of a ttrac ting ind ustry to th e

J oh ns-M a nville Co r p . h as brok en
ground a t SAVA NNA H for its $3,000 ,-
000 asphalt roofing plant . . . D efense Secretary Charles E. Wil son inspect ed th e U. S. Naval Plant a t MA CON to det ermine if a $3,800,000 bui lding conditionally a pproved by Cong ress, should be bui lt th ere. . . . The 75th an niver -

area . . . AUSTEL L'S Fa ll F estival will be held on O ctober 22. . . . U . S. Hi ghw ay 27 Associa tion met a t Berry Co llege, R OM E, on Septem ber 30. . .. The new Penfield chenille pla nt has been com pleted a t ADA I R S V ILL E. . . . GA INESVILLE and HALL COUNT Y Chamber of Co mm er ce is sen ding out

sa ry of th e fou nding of th e West Point M anufactu ring C o., huge textile concern, was celeb ra ted at WEST PO I N T . . . Stone M ountain Grit Co . is bu ild-

a n att rac tive br ochure, an industria l pros pectus th at fea tures " Ga inesville as
agrCesist.lyveonfeTssr.a" ditio n, Cordia lit y a nd Pro-

ing a $25,000 research farm un it on a three-acre t ract near LITHON I A . Two po ultry build ings, a labora tory an d office will be erec ted . . . . Dial telephon e service has been insta lled at L U MPKIN .
M . Lowenstein & Sons, New York ma nu fact urers and converters of textiles, has pu rch ased the Coving to n M ill s , of CO V INGTON, Ga . .. . AMER IC US and S U MTER COUNTY C ham be r of Comme rce announces

A new H oward J ohnson resta ur ant is pla nne d for CO LUM BU S . . . . C. C . Bla lock, owner of th e plan er mi ll an d lum ber kiln of th e Southe rn Flooring Co mpany which bu rn ed a t H EL EN with a da ma ge of $200,000, a nnounces he will rebuild th e plan t. It em ploys 75 p e 0 p i e and processes h a rdwood flooring. . . . SA V A NN AH Elect ric a nd Power Co mpa ny bu ys a 25-acre tract a t SA V A N N AH as a site for future service faciliti es of th e firm . . . .

th at W . D . Felder & Co ., I nc., of Dallas, T he new 260-bed Pied mont H ospital to

T exas, has leased two la rge warehouses cost more th an $4 ,000 ,000 is being a t Southe r Fi eld , for usc as a cotton erected on Peachtree stree t, A T LAN-

r; GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

TA , acc ording to schedu le. . .. T he "m illionth" a uto mobile crossed th e new Eugene T almad ge Brid ge a t SA V AN N A H on Septemb er 24. The bridge was op ened on Sep temb er I, 1954... .

BUT T S CO UN T Y'S second ann ua l

Ind ustria l Day celebration was h eld at

JA CKSON on Sep te mb er 21, Gov.

Griffin being principal speaker of th e

occas ion

A pu lpwood ya rd ope ns

in IVR EN S

Dixie Pai nt & V arnish

C o. has bou ght th e T idewa ter plywood

pla nt a t BR UN S WI CK to bc used as a

paint man ufacturing pla nt, with increased p rod uction .. ..

H omer M eier announces the p ur-

chase a nd reop ening of th e veneer plant a t M ILLEN. . . . Wilgree M anufactu r-

ing Co ., mak er of " W ilsh ire Sh irts" pla n expa nsion of its plan t a t CAilvfl L L A an d a n incre ase in em ployees.

. . . G rou nd has been br oken for the new city docks to be bu ilt on th e Savan nah river, belo w A UG US TA . . . .

Pineview Development C orp. will erec t a modern new office bui lding in A LBANY. . . . Geor gia Departm ent of

Pub lic Defen se an nou nces 22 new

a rmories will be bui lt in Georgia cities.

. . . W arner Brothers Co. , Inc., founda-

tion ga rme nt manufac t ur ers, has op ene d

its secon d ncw, mo dern p lant in MO ULTRIE. . . .

The Sio ux H on ey Associati on is esta blish ing its so utheaste rn headquarters in WAYCROSS. I ts plant th ere will be equipp ed a t a cost of $50,000 and will em ploy a bout 20 peop le. . . . Gai nes-
ville Fryer, Inc., a new pou ltry p roessing plant, is und er construction in GA I NESVI L LE, to be ope ne d in Novemb er .. .. Dent Pou ltry Co., BUE NA V ISTA 'S newest industry, is processing almost 50,000 ch icke ns a week .

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