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Louisburg. N C., Tuesday, December 22, 1964
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(Ten Pages Today)
96th Year? Number 87
New Plant Opens Here, Produces Eirst Chair
Firm Hires Key Local
People For Training
Harold Talton, Fund Drive
Chairman, has issued a request
for all pledges on the Gay
Products Plant construction, to
be turned In Immediately. He
said his organization was to
close out the contract this week.
Much of the pledge money.has
already been received accord
ing to Talton, but those who
made pledges and have not turn
ed In their money are urged to
do so at once .
The new Gay Products Plant
here Is employing all local peo-,
pie to man their operation. Ed
gar Plttman, plant manager,
who moved to Loulsburg a few
months ago from Texas, said
the entire staff Is to be made up
of local people.
At present, the company has
a training plan In operation.
Plttman indicated that there
would be some changes from
time to time, after It Is de
termined where an Individual
could do the best work. Em
ployees received a test before
being hired and have been as
signed according to their test
results.
Key personnel and the posi
tions for which they are now
training are Frank Rose, form
erly a bookkeeper for Wheless
Sales Co. here, now acting as
Sales Coordinator and Office
Manager; Darrell Perry, form
er National Guard official, In
training for Plant Superinten
dent, Ralph Beasley, former
Deputy Sheriff, In training for
Receiving Foreman; Eugene
Underhlll, training for Shipping
Foreman. Harold Pettry of
Loulsburg Is Plant Maintenance
Foreman and is also the tool
and dye mm. His assistants
are: Bob Goswlck and Homer
Barnes Walter Phelps Is train
ing (pr Production Foreman.
' Gay has 13 women employed
at the present. Last Thurs
day, thdse 13 produced 13
chairs. The same force pro
duced 100 chairs Friday and
stepped up to 250 chairs Mon
day, Indicating their efficiency
as they learn more about the
Jobs assigned them.
Gay can produce 4,000 chairs
In an 8-hour shift under the
present set-up. Work tables
and machinery are being in
stalled to produce their lounge
line. Plttman was high In his
prartse of the personnel thus
far employed. He also spoke
very favorably of being located
in Loulsburg.
Talton Rotary Club
Man Of The Year
\The Loulsburg Rotary Club
imned John Harold Talton, 35
year-xjld Loulsburg banker as
Its Man o t The Year for 1964
at the anrnj^l Christmas ladles'
night moetlng^here last Thurs
day. night. \
Talton, seventh" recipient of
the annual award, Is a former
Spring Hope mayor, coming to
Loulsburg In August, 19fc^. He
took over as managier oK the
Flrst-Cltlzens Bank here upbc
the retirement of the late A. E.
Henderson.
The new Man of the Year was
a former msnT>er of the Spring
Hope Town Council, a graduate
of Wake Forest College and
a past President ci the Lions
Club at Spring Hope. He 15
presently a member of the
Loulsburg Lions Club. Talton
Is a Mason, a member of the
Loulsburg Baptist Church and
Vice Chairman of the Franklin
County Industrial Development
Commission.
Talton, as President of the
Franklin Building Corporation,
a non-profit organization,
spear-headed the drive for
funds to finance the building
for the new Gay Products plant
which got under operation
*here this week.
notary' s past president, W. J.
Benhm, made the presentation
to Tahiti Thursday night, stat
ing, "Theseltlzens of Loulsburg
are Indeed fortunate to have as
a comparatively new resident a
See TALTON Page 4
Officials View Opening
Officials are shown above at
the new Gay Products Plant
here last Thursday; Top photo:
Harold Talton, president of the
Franklin Building Corp., left, is
seen receiving a check for
$140,000 from Milton Maddox,
attorney flor the Small Business
Administration, as a loan from
the federail government to help
financ.e tne plant construction.
Looking o^ at the ceremonies
are, left to right, Roy workman,
president of the Gay Company,
W. J. Benton, County Industri
al Development Director, and
attorney E. F. ' Yarborough.
Bottom photo pictures , Work
man, right, showing the first
chair produced here to the
group, left to right, Talton,
Benton, Maddox, Yarborough,
Plant Manager Edgar Pittman,
and Workman. Staff Photos.
Check For $140,000 Presented
For Plant Construction
The new Gay Products plant
west of Louisburg began op
erations last Thursday under
the eyes of plant and local of
ficials. The first aluminum
folding chair came off the as
sembly line around 2 p.m. The
plant ' will m inufacture casual
alumlnlm tyrnlture.
Mr. Roy- Workman, president
of Gay Products, Inc., was on
hand to see the first work turned
out by the new plant. Harold
Talton, president of the Frank
lin Building Corporation, local
non-profit organization which
worked on the plant project,
Industrial Development Direc
tor W. J. Benton and Industrial
Commission attorney Edward
F. Yarborough were on hand for
the start of operations, repre
senting the local community.
Mr. MUtofi Maddox, attorney
for the Small Business Admini
stration, was present as an In
terested observer. His office
presented Talton a check for
$140,000.00, a loan by the
Building Corporation, which
aided in the financing of the
new plant.
Actually, the operation Is in
the training stages at present,
and the first chair was to dem
onstrate to the group how the
plant operates. Several pieces
of machinery were not in place
at the time. Some have since
been put Into operation.
The beginning of operations
culminated a long period of work
by local industrial hunters and
workers, it also ended a year
and a half effort on the part
of the company to locate a
factorv in Addition to the ones
already established in Clear
water, Fla., and Waxahachie,
Texas.
The new plant is equipped
with the most modern equipment
for handling the receiving, man
ufacturing and "shipping of the
products involved in its opera
tion. A giant hoist is located
at the rear of the building,
where an unloading ramp will
accommodate two big vans at
onetime for unloading.
The building is well-lighted
and heated. Most of the ma
chinery operates on com
pressed air which is supplied
by two massive air compres
sors, located in a room sepa
rate from the work area. The
all concrete floor mikes lining
up of the tables and machinery
easy and the work area is well
organized.
Some last minute construction
work is now being completed and
the grounds are to be land
scaped as soon as possible. The
plant has a large parking area
at the rear jof the building for
employees. At present opera
tions start daily, five days a
week, at 7 a.m. and end at
3:30 p.m. with 30 minutes al
loted for lunch with a coffee
break^yin the morning and in
the afternoon.
There is a large storage area
which runs parallel to the Sea
board railroad siding from
where shipments are being
made to customers of the com
pany throughout the country.
Mr Workmm said he was
pleased with the way things
have gone In getting the plant
started here and he paid a par
ticular compliment to those em
ployees Who were In training In
the plant last Thursday. Mr.
Edgar Pittm&n, plant manager,
said Monday, "We are very
happy with the people we have
employed. They are Interested
in what they are doing and they
are anxious to learn. Their
willingness to work, m sans -a
great deal to me."
>150,000 Fire Hits Dunn
Wood Yard Sooday Morning
An early morning (Ire did
an estimated $150,000 In dam
ages to the Bunn Chip and Lum
ber Co. near Bunn last Satur
day. Willis W. Nash of Louls
burg, operator of the company,
said he had no Idea how the
fire started.
The blaze was discovered
around 3:30 a.m. by Dr. Wal
ter F. Cole, Bunn physician,
while out making a call. Cole
reported the fire to Bunn Fire
Chief H. D. Mitchell, who lr;
turn alerted the Bunn and Jus
tice Fire Departments.
Nash expressed his apprecia
tion to m?n of both depart
ments for their work in bring
ing the blaze under control In
17 degree weather. He said.
"These men ire truly dedi
cated to their work."
The Chip and Lumber Co. is
part of the Bunn Wood Yard
owned and operated by the W. W.
Nash and Company, Inc. firm,
and is situated a half mile east
of Bunn Just off N. C. Highway
58. Nash said the loss was
partially covered by insurance.
Most of the lumber on the yard
was undamaged and the
pulp wood operation of the firm
was not halted by the fire.
Some of the machinery con
tained in the building destroyed
can be salvaged according to
Nash. He said that firemen
moved the hoists and lifts used
to move the lumber, away from
the blare savins damage to these
machines.
Nash also said, "We had Just
taken %ver a contract which a
firm in Battleboro was unable
to fill due to a fire therte, It
was one of the largest we haVe
had." He added, "This *was
the worst time it could have
happened. This is our busy
season."
When asked if he Mtould build
back, Nash replied, "We'll have
to do something." Later, he
talked of completely rearrang
ing the structure when he does
bulul back.
Personnel were busy Saturday
clearing away the debris, which
covered a wide area of the
massive wood yard.
Man Of The Year
Pictured above Is Harold Tal
ton, local banking official, be
ing presented the Louisburg
Rotary Club's annual "Man of
the Year" award last Thursday
night, by Rotary's past Presi
dent, W. J. Benton. Mrs. Tal
ton looks on. This is the sev
enth year the local club has
presented the award.
College Trustee Passes
The Rev. William Albert Cade,
77, a Trustee of Loulsburg Col
lege and former Raleigh
District Superintendent of the
SfSthodlst Church, died la^f&t
urday morning In Rex Hospital
In Raleigh.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 11:30 a.m. at Hayes
Barton Methodist Church In
Raleigh conducted by Rev. Dr.
Paul Carruth. Burial followed
In Montlawn.
He had served the Eastern
Methodist Conference of North
Carolina for over 50 years as
superintendent for the Raleigh,
Fayettevllle and Wilmington
districts. '
He was a graduate of Trinity
College and a member of the
RalelgTrHSrary Club, the Exe
cutives Club, the Methodist
Mlnlster?fa.BraaHa?;t Clwl. the
Raleigh Board of Missions and
Church Extension.
He Is survived by two" daugh
ters, Mrs. William Erwln of
Columbus, Ga., and "\lrs.
Charles Close of Wellesley
Hills, MasS.^ one son, Albert
Cade, Jr.,i of Atlanta, Ga., two
brothers, W. M. Cade of San
ford and C. S. Cade of Fuquay
Springs; three sisters, Mrs.
J. L. Covlngtonof Sanford, Mrs.
Paul Abernathy of Fuquay
Springs, and Mrs. J. L. Pearce
of Raleigh; and eight grand
children.
Post Office
To Close
Dec. 26th
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?Edward L. Best, Loulsburg
Postmaster, announced today
that the post d(fice windows will
be closed Sati^gy, December
26, and thit "there will be no
ln-town delivery of mall. Rural
routes will be served, however,
and dispatches of mall will be
made on regular schedule.
Best said that the order from
the postal authorities as gen
eral and that. It would be tn ef
fect in all post offices In the ;
area, according to his under- '
standing. This would Include
Bunn, Frankllnton, and Youngs
Tllle. i
Bunn Fire
Scene above shows part of
$150., 000 fire damage at Bunn
Wood Yard early last Sunday
morning. "Origin of the blaze
[s undetermined. Bunn andjus
tlce Fire Departments 'fought
the flames in 17 degree tem
perature, containing the dam
age to the mill itself.
-Times Staff Photo,