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(Vol. 23—No. 184) TRYON, N. C.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER-20, 1950
Columbus Gets New Mill
Weather Thursday: High 70,
low 60, rain 1.97 . . . The most
welcome news in Polk County to
day is the announcement that
Deering Milliken Co., will erect a
woolen mill -in Columbus. This
will be a &reat asset to the entire
section. The newcomers will find
a royal welcome and the hearty
cooperation of all civic leaders
throughout the county. We con
gratulate Columbus on its great
acquisition. Mrs. Thompson of the
iryon Chamber of Commerce has
bed hundreds of pages of infor
mation for the local committee
working to bring this mill and
others to the county. State officials
and others have had many nice
things to say about Deering Milli
ken and we are sure their offi
cials will not regret choosing Co
lumbus as the site for their new
plant. -
... A group of the civic leaders
of Polk County are sponsoring
an informal dinner this evening
at Oak Hall in order to meet and
to welcome some of the key men
of the new plant and the engineer
ing staff of Deering Milliken.
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Roger Milliken, president of
Deering, Milliken & Co., Inc., an
nounced today that Deering Mjlli
ken, Inc., will construct a fancy
woolen mill at Columbus, which
will be known as The Hatch Mill
in honor of Harold Hatch, direc
tor and vice-president of Deering
Milliken,, Inc. It will be a one
story building and will cost a^ es
timated two million dollars. The
new building will be constructed
by Daniel Construction Co., of
Greenville, according to the most
modern designs and will -be air
conditioned throughout the entire
production area.
rhe Hatch Mill will be equipped
with the latest and most modern
equipment available and will manu
facture raw stock dyed woolens,
primarily for dress and sportswear
trqdes. The operations involved
in the manufacturing processes
will be raw stock dyeing, carding
spinning and weaving. The wooden
pieces woven at The Hatch Mill
will be finished at Excelsior
Mills No. 1 at Union, 9. C., and
Excelsior Mills No. 4 at Pendle
ton, S. C.
It was also revealed that The
Hatch Mill will provide employ
ment for about two hundred peo
ple in southwestern North Caro
lina. (Local cilvic leaders Estate
that this mill should be of wide
spread interest to the people of the
Tryon and Columbus area and the
State ,pf North Carolina as a
I whole, since it is anticipated that
most oti the Jobs will be filled by
residents of Columbus, Tryon and
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