SHADOWUNE EXPANSION—Production tea begun In the former warehouse »m «t the Sbsdow
Mne pint In Bdoob, Tte shipping facilities at tbe pint were moved to ■ lAngantoa plant, Staff
Shadowline Expansion
The Boone plant of ShedowUne,
Inc„ hu completed in in-plant
aapanelon program tbatcalls for
the swantnni addition of 100 regu
iar employees.
Rant Mauger Hal Johnson
■aid the nHtHniei employees
will be housed in the plant area
formerly occupied by the storage
and shipping department.
The shipping department hu
been transferred to the Morgan
ton plant, Johnson said, provid
ing the local plant with an addi
tional 10,000 swarefeetoffloor
space for production.
This represents the fifth ma
jor expansion cf production area
■Inna the plaid was started as
an hdut training project in
1957. A 10,000-squre-foot ad
dition for production la pro
jected tor 1970.
The present egauHnn calls
for toe addition of employees
In three steps—50 new em
ployees fay Jan. 1, 1970, 25 In
January and 25 la February.
The Boone Shadowllne opera
tion employees some 500 peo
ple, all in toe production of
women’s sleepwear, lingerie and
panties.
. Johnson said toe transfer <&
toe shipping department to toe
parent Shadowline plant in hlor
gaition will afford better ser
vice to Shadowline customers.
The Shadowline line is one of
the leading brands of women’s
wear In the nation.
Johnson said that In-plant
training will be provided all new
employees. The in-plant expan.
sinn Hill add some *232,000 to
the plant’s present annual pay
roll of nearly *2 1/2 million,
Johnson said.
The Boone plaid began its
operation in Goodnight’s cab*
bage warehouse when Shadow
line came to Boone in 1957.
Later that year, when it moved
into its new, 12,000-square
too* plant, it had 21 employees.
Shadowline was started in
Morganton in 1940 hy Sherrod
Salisbury. The Boone plant is
its sole branch.
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Grant To Help Upgrade Existing
ASU Computer Terminal Facilities
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A two year grant bom the
National Science Foundation will
enable Appalachian state Uhi
verslty to employ computer
techniques to streamline learn*
iig in each of its 26 academic
departments.
The grant provides $16,944in
NSF funds which will be com
bined with $21,500 tromtheunt
veraity to upgrade existing oom*
puter terminal faculties on the
campus.
Through the new computer
equipment to be rented with the
NSF funds, faculty and student
research problems can be fed
through two IBM 1050 computer
terminals at Appalachian Into the
sophisticated computer facili
tie* at the Triangle Universities
Computation Center. Reside
will then be wired back to the
local terminal instantaneously.
Director of the project is
Clark Trlvett at ASH’S mathe
matics and computer science
faculty. Explaining the new fa
cilities, be said, “The terminals
and key punch Installations will
aid instruction in any campus
department by providing data
collection, computation, or
stored curriculum program
ming.
“literature students, for ex
ample, could use s word and
phrase bank through the termi
nal to trace the Influences of
one author upon another. And
students In eeonomlea could
we toe computer to help them
make tnteal management de
cisions," Trlvett continued.
In addition, tfae grant Kill
facilitate tfae teaching of com
puter oriented mathematics to
Appalachian freshmen and will
make possible a new course In
Computer Calculus tor tfae Mas
ter's Degree Program In Mathe
matics Education.
17-MILUON REFUGEES
There are non 17,318,320 ref
ugees in toe world—almost
double toe 1964 number—ac
cording to a report preparedfor
toe two-day National Conference
on World Refugee Problems.
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Auto Tags Arrive
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A total of 15,698 North Caro
lina auto tags for 1970 bars ar
rived in Boone for sale at the
Chandler of Commerce’s auto
license bureau.
Mrs. Barbara Ragan, bureau
manager, said the tags are ex
pected to be put on sale Friday
Jan. 2,1970. ,
Tags for all automobiles will
be $14 each tor 1970. This is a
$3 increase over the current
price.■
Tags for 1999 ranged from
$11 for most cars to $14 for
heavier cars.
License tag prices were upped
tUa year tor the legislature to
provide more money for the .
roads program,
Mrs. Ragan said the 1970
license colors will be red on
During the latter part cf be-'
e ember, the Department of Mo- .
for Vehicles mill mall out regis
tration cards to be used for the!
purchase of 1970 tags. Any per
son who does not get Ms cards
«fc.ring that period should write
the motor vehicles departmeo*.
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