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What Is Link Between Fll And Vocational Workshop?
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At first glance, It might
seem far-fetched to believe
that there Is a direct rela
tionship between the
Shelby pUnt of Fiber In
dustries, Inc., and the
Rutherford Vocational
Woikshop In Splndale.
Fn-Shelby Is a private
enterprise operation
geared to mass production
of polyester fibers by
highly trained personnel
working with sophisticated
machinery tuid equipment.
The workshop, partially
siq)ported by the United
Way, provides training and
employment for
physically, mentally and
emotionally handicapped
residents of Cleveland,
Rutherford and Polk
countlea.
The plant's central
storeroom Inventories
about 8,000 different Items
needed to keep It running.
It la from there that the
plant-workshop rela
tionship springs. The
workshop’s current force
of about too people
produces a number of the
plant's essentials, aprons
tor operators, scabbards
tor operator knives and
scissors, cloth bags for
Janitorial carts, bulletin
boards and picture frames.
Purchases from the
workshc^ are Included In a
total of about 87.S million
the Shelby Plant spends
annually with Cleveland
County suppliers. The
workshop's share la not
particularly large,
relatively speaking. But
the prospects are good that
the woricdiop’s share of
those goods dollars will
grow. Ken Crawley,
purchasing and stores
superintendent at FII-
Shelby, has found the
workshop to be a llrst-class
supplier that earns the
support It gets.
"Everybody needs some
help and support,
especially In a situation
like this. But, we’re not
running a Santa Claus
relationship with them,"
Crawley says. "There’s
something very special
about the workshop, the
job It Is doing for our three-
county area and the people
who are Involved. What
makes It work are com
petitive prices, high
quality and pride In the
work they do.”
Buddie J. Hewitt, direc
tor of the workshop,
agrees.
"R has been a long, hard
struggle to get people to
accept the tact that handi
capped people have a place
In society as useful,
productive cltlsens,”
Hewitt says. "It has been
only In the past 60 years
that we have moved
positively to help them,
and we’ve made more
progress In the last five
than In the other 46 put
together.
"A workshop such as this
one, which has strong com
munity support In all three
counties, gives the handi
capped Individual tre
mendous Initiative. We use
work as therapy. Our
people are earning a good
wage, and they are paying
their own way. They are
supplying useful goods and
servlcese, and they aren’t
totally dependent on so
ciety tor support.
"They know why they’re
here — to learn, to
produce, to be self-
sustaining to the fullest
possible extent."
The Rutherford
Vocational Workshop Is
one of 64 member or
ganizations In the North
Carolina Association of
Sheltered Wortcshops. It’s
one of 88 such organiza
tions In the state with adult
developmental programs.
It has one of the strongest
records In North Carolina
In the training of handi
capped people and placing
them In competitive jobs In
business and Industry,
averaging 88 for each of
the past six years.
Hewitt, current presi
dent of the state associa
tion, has no Illusions about
what he’s up against.
“There’s a connotation
to a place like this that a lot
of people don’t like. They
tend to think of It as an ex
tension of Broughton
Hospital or something like
that. Among the clients
(the handicapped per
sonnel), there’s some diffi
culty In getting some of
them to take outside jobs
tor which they 're qualified.
For many of them. It’s the
first place ever tor af
fection, attention and
discipline.
"But It’s our job as a
staff to create awareness
of the potential of handi
capped people and of the
workshop. It’s our
responsibility to learn how
to do various things, then
to teach others and to
create the enthusiasm and
the Initiative to take an
outside job. We have
failures, of course, and
some of our people will be
here the rest of their lives.
But when they fall, we feel
as if we have failed, and we
start all over."
currently, the workshop
has training and produc
tion programs In sewing,
woodworking, furniture
refinlshlng, basketmaking,
bobbin-stripping, leather-
work and driver education
tor the handicapped. There
la no charge to the handi
capped who are placed In
the workshop’s programs.
Their wages are derived
from contracts for their
goods and services. There
are 73 current contracts
and Hewitt Is looking for
more. He does the looking,
because there Isn’t a salei
force.
"We can do all the train
ing In the world and create
the most enthusiasm
possible, but It’s no good
without contracts," Hewitt
says. "I believe most
people really care about
thd handicapped, but so
many of them are just not
aware of what can be done.
The contracts with Fiber
Industries are good
examples of what can
result from awareness of
what our people can do."
Oawley concurs with
Hewitt’s latter ob
servation. He first learned
of the lO-year-(rid
workshop’s potential
through an associate at the
Shelby plant. The first
contract, still active, la for
aprons and scabbards
formerly purchased from a
shoe shop In Salisbury. The
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cloth btigs for janitorial
carts haa been bought in
the past from a company In
Tennessee. The Hat of
contracts haa grown
ateadUy.
"We’re not the work
shop’s largest customer,
by any measure," Crawley
says. "We may never be,
but the relationship la
growing. They do good
WORKSHOP PRODUCT - Ruddle I. Hewitt (left)
and Ken Crawley examine an apron produced for the
Shelby Pbmt of nber Industries, Inc., by Marsha Earp
of the Rutherford Vocational Workshop in Splndale.
Hewitt la director of llie workshop and Crawley la
purchasing and stores auperlntendent at FH-Shelby.
Broyhill Fights Big
Governmental Budget
By
Coogresaman
James T. tt4>yhlll
Last September, the
Congress approved a
record-breaking spending
celling of $418 billion for
fiscal year 1977. This Is far
above what then-Presldent
Ford had recommended
and far In excess of
estimated revenues.
I stron^y opposed the
budget resolution at that
time because of my grave
concern over the effect the
additional spending and
$60 billion deficit would
have on Inflation. Now we
are witnessing the spec
tacle of the Oongreas, at
the urging of a new
President, scrapping the
spending plan adopted last
fall and increasing
spending by another 820
btUlon.
The new budget process,
whereby strict spending
ceilings are adopted prior
to the beginning of a new
fiscal year. Is on trUil. The
purpose of the new budget
process, which I hiul a
hand In setting up, was to
establish some discipline
over the irresponsible and
excessive spending habits
of the Congress. Instead of
demonstrating some dls-
ctyUne, the majority Is
rising the spending levels
halfway through the fiscal
year. It’s obvious they
can’t make a budget and
live by It like moat
American families have to
do.
The resolution Increases
the deficit for this current
fiscal year (1V77) by $20
billion, as a result of a
qulck-flx tax rebate, a
public service and a public
works job program, all of
which have proven In the
past to be Ineffective in
reducing unemployment.
Indeed, the joba programs
proposed by the Congress
exceed President Carter’s
recommendatlm by $1.7
blUlon.
Some believe that a one-
shot $60 tax rebate will
significantly Improve
consumer spending. In all
likelihood, our nation’s
working men and women
will uae the rebate to pay
oft existing debts or to pay
for Increased fuel bills. If a
national goal of economic
atlmulua la to be achieved,
I believe It will only occur
If the Congress scraps this
temporary program and
enacta permanent
reductlona In the tax
burden of the American
people.
Out of an overall
Ocngreaslonal-stimulus
psuikage of $17.8 billion, the
only permanent tax reduc
tion proposed by the
majority and the Presi
dent’s advisors is a small
change in the standard
deduction, which will only
reduce taxes nationally by
$1.2 billion. I believe a
substantlzd permanent tax
reduction would aid our
economy In three ways:
First, It would IncrecMe
disposable Income emd
consumer buying; Sec
ond It would Increase
the Initiative to work by
assuring the woricer of a
large share of the Income
from his efforts; Third, by
directly stimulating In
vestment, the tax cut
would produce new,
permanent jobs.
The majority’s approsich
Is clearly to spend the
nation Into economic pros
perity but. Inflation and
the accompanying coat-of-
Uving wage Increases have
pushed Americans Into
higher and higher tax
brackets. As a result, the
Federal government
receives a larger and
larger share of the nation’s
gross national product.
The Oongresslonal Budget
Office recently estimated
that a one percent Incresiae
Inthe infiatlon level resulta
In a 1.2 percent Increue In
government revenues. The
big spenders In the
Oongress have no desire to
reduce Infiatlon or taxes,
because It would deprive
them of their control over
an ever-lncreaalng share
of the nation’s wealth.
Those who advocate the
continued philosophy of
Increased government
spending would be wise to
heed the words of Eng
land’s Prime Minister
Callaghan, who recently
observed, “We (In Britain)
used to think that you could
spend your way out of
recession. I tell you In all
candor that that option no
longer exists. If ever it did
exist. It only worked by In
jecting bigger doeea of
Inflation Into the economy
followed by lilgher levels of
unemployment. That la the
history of the past 30
years.’’ The leader of
Britain’s labor party haa
realized his country’s
miatzdie — regretfully, the
majority of the Congress
aeema insistent on taking
ua down that dlsastroua
road Brltidn followed.
Tax rebates and ad
ditional spending on make-
work jobs programs are
not the $miwer to our
economic problems. We
c$ui get our economy
moving again. We can
achieve Increased em
ployment and hold down
Inflation. These goals must
be achieved through a
permanent tsuc reduction.