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VOL. 12, NO. 6 JUNE-JULY 1979
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This three story dollhouse is one of Chuck Holcomb's most unusual woodworking jobs. He
built it for Betty Marvin of Hendersonville, who has been planning it and collecting furnishings
for several years.
R 6l D's Holcomb
Discovers Small World
"Scientist" is a title often seen, sel
dom considered by many people. It
somehow conjures up visions of a man
in a white coat, a plotter for world
domination or the guy who gets the girl
at the end of the monster movie.
Chuck Holcomb of R & D is a scien
tist who is working toward a career as
a woodworker, and for the last several
years he's been moving into that second
career as he looks forward to retirement.
Over the years he has collected the
tools of the trade, and his basement
shop is well equipped.
He has built a sizeable clientele as
he has built cabinets and chests; one
person tells another and the business
grows. That's how Betty Marvin came
to call on him to build her dollhouse,
and how Chuck discovered a small
world he had never suspected.
"It's odd," says Chuck. "You would
never think about all the things people
do unless something like this dollhouse
job comes along and makes you take a
look. It's a whole new world of its own."
The job looked simple enough when
he started; after all, a doll house is just
® box, isn't it? But things got tougher
as problems arose.
A house this big is going to need
‘^“P'lestic help," said Betty,
ere are going to have to be some
co°'i?^ on to accommodate the
k ° niaid, and there will have to
honc°^^-them to get into the
a don going outside. We need
house°T^^I
course " allowing for privacy, of
Chuck ^ changes like that," says
realized that this was not your
ordinary woodworking job. She was
talking about it as though it was a real
house, and before I really noticed it, I
was in a lifestyle that's one inch to the
foot."
It was necessary that the house be
wired, of course. The function of the
rooms had to be considered in order to
place outlets for the greatest conven
ience; Betty had lamps in various styles
and sizes which would need to be plug
ged in after her furniture had been
arranged.
There were changes, additions and
new ideas. Slowly the project took
shape; at last it was done. A special
cabinet had to be built in Betty's home
to accommodate the toy. Chuck called
on his son Brett and friend Bill Lowe
to help him load and deliver the struc
ture. Then he asked a couple of neigh
bors to bear a hand, also.
"That thing is heavy," said Chuck.
"There are almost four full sheets of
half-inch plywood in it, along with the
other stuff! I built a special 'stretcher'
for it to ride on, so we all could get a
hand on it."
The dollhouse was three stories high,
over seven feet long. Betty Marvin
watched as the housemovers put the
basic structure into a long bed truck;
the front porch and other parts went
in another vehicle.
"It's going to be good to have my
house at home," she said. "I can hardly
wait to start decorating!"
"We got it moved OK," said Chuck
the next day. "Had to wrap it in poly
ethylene; it started to rain .. ."
(Cont. Page 6)
DuPont Quits Dye Business
Du Pont announced June 5, 1979
plans to withdraw from the Dyes bus
iness by mid-1980 and to discontinue
manufacture and sale of its Isocyanate
products in the United States. The
Company said both businesses had
become unprofitable.
The Company said it has been los
ing money on the Dyes Business for five
years and recent studies offered no
promise of turning the business around.
The Isocyanate Products Group has not
been profitable during eight of the last
ten years.
Du Pont manufactures Dyes and Iso
cyanates in the United States at the
Chambers Works, Deepwater, New Jer
sey, and Dyes at Manati, Puerto Rico.
The Company is seeking buyers for the
Dyes Business including the Manati
Plant, which is owned and operated by
Du Pont Puerto Rico, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary.
In Mexico, Du Pont operates Color-
quim, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary that
produces dyes primarily for the Mexican
and Latin American Textile, Paper and
Specialty Industries. This operation is
profitable and will be continued.
In the Isocyanates business, Du Pont
has negotiations under way to license
patents and technology relating to the
undistilled Toluene Diisocyanates and
Aliphatic Isocyanates businessses.
Du Pont employs approximately
1,650 people in the manufacture and
sale of Dyes and Isocyanates. The ma
jority of these employees will be trans
ferred to other assignments or will leave
through normal turnover during the
phaseout period. However, it is expected
that it will be necessary to terminate in
1980 about 200-250 employees at the
Chambers Works and about 250-300 at
Manati. The Company will make every
effort to assist these people in finding
employment.
The Company will absorb a charge of
$35 million against second quarter 1979
net income based on the currently
estimated cost associated with withdraw
al from the Dyes Business. This is equi
valent to 24 cents per share of common
stock after the three-for-one stock split
which was effective May 30. The Iso
cyanates action will have no significant
impact on 1979 earnings.
STATE GOLF CHAMPIONS: This DERA golf team finished first in this
year's Industrial Golf Tournament. Left to right, they are Gary Gillespie, Voiney Tinsley,
Jim Parley and Dick Hensley, (story, page 2)
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