These Were Among Scenes Sunday As Carolina Sportswear Held Open House
Hermenia Alston attaches a short collar at Carolina
Sportswear during its open house Sundav- Looking on,
from left to right, are Clyde Edwards, Mrs. W. S. Hicks,
Pete Jones, W. S. Hicks, Jack Harris and Mrs. Billy
EcertoB.
Wilma Hawkins conducts a tour of visitors around
Carolina Sportswear during open house Sunday.
Attending Carolina Sportswear's open house Sunday were (left to right) Senator
James Speed, John Andrews, plant manager; and Senator Dallas Alford.
(Staff Photos ByFerruccio)
Economic Development Meet
Scheduled For Warren County
Citizens from Warren
County will have a chance to
say how they think state
government can improve
the economic situation here
at a public conference
October 31 at 7 p. m. at the
Warren County Court
House.
Plans were announced by
Charles Hayes, county manager
and a member of a
local steering committee appointed
by Gov. Jim Hunt.
The conference, which is
open to the public, is one of a
series of meetings on
balanced growth and economic
development being
held throughout the state
during October by Governor
Hunt.
"These will be information-gathering
sessions,"
Hunt explained. "We want
the ideas and thinking of as
many people as possible as
we draw up an effective
Williams Given
Firm Promotion
William T. Williams,
formerly of the Inez community,
has been promoted
to Meat Warehouse Superintendent
by Safeway Stores
In Landover, Md.
: Williams joined Safeway
Stores in 1968 as a management
trainee and was
promoted to supervisor in
1969.
He graduated from the
john R. Hawkins High
School in 1957, Cortez
Business College in Washington,
D. C., and was
Awarded a B.S. Degree in
Business Administration
from Strayer College in
Washington, D. C., in 1972.
He lives in Pomfret, Md.,
economic policy for the
state. We need to know what
problems relate to the needs
of each individual county in
terms of growth and
development."
State government representatives
will join W. P.
Jones, chairman of the
Warren County Board of
Commissioners; W. A.
Miles, mayor, Town of
Warrenton; L. B. Hardage,
Extension Service chairman;
Butch Meek, secretary
of the Warren County
Planning Board; and Hayes,
who also serves as director
of industrial development in
Warren County to discuss
the specific issues facing
Warren County.
Participants will divide
into three sub-groups for
round-table discussions on
agriculture, ihe manufacturing
and processing Indus
WILLIAMS
and is the son of the late
Baldie and Georgia Williams
of the Inez community.
try and service industries,
including transportation,
finance, wholesale and
retail sales and tourism.
The purpose of the conference
is to find out what local
communities believe are
their own economic problems,
and what they suggest
local, state and federal
government should do to
help solve them.
During October, similar
conferences will be held in
each of the state's 100
counties. Reports coming
out of these local county
conferences will feed into a
larger statewide gathering
on balanced growth and
economic development in
January 1978. and will be
used by the State Goals and
Policy Board for advising
the governor on North
Carolina's future economic
policy.
Discussion of North Carolina's
economic status
comes at a time when the
state only recently moved
ahead of Mississippi as 49th
in the nation in average
hourly manufacturing
wages. The state ranks 39th
in overall per capita
income.
Governor Hunt has committed
his administration to
improving the economic
base in the state, and is
seeking to attract high-wage
industry.
While the state is still
considered poor by national
standards, it is growing substantially.
What the Governor
hopes to do in the local
conferences, and eventually
at the larger event next
year, is to ask North
Carolinians for their ideas
on how^the state can best
achieve quality growth.
Setting the sleeves and closing the sides of shirts at
Carolina Sportswear is Dorothy King.
)
Hattie Williams of Carolina Sportswear sews as (left to
right) John Andrews, Clyde Edwards and Mrs. Clyde
Rod well look on.