TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 15, 1952
BRICK INDUSTRY MEANS MUCHTOTHIS SECTION
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NORffOOIi.\SD HIS FOREMAN Just as in any other manufacturing plant, the process begins at
the drawing »oard. Foreman Durwood iwyrick, veteran employee, is shown here with Plant Manager
Mask Norwood as they worked on a problem at the board. ,
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PLAIT OWNER SHNTRR John Aaron Senter. member of one of Harnett’s lead** famHtes, is
shdwnW standing Mir one of the Wg Mim a* «*Pj*“‘ Mr. Sedter, son of Mrs. David Henry
tfte Ate Mr. Senter, owns and operate* hfc Plant. He is also president of the Bank of
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THE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, N. C.
Harnett Brick Firms
Well Epuipped For
Quality Production
(Continued From Page Four) FOUNDED BY FATHER
George M. (Mack) Norwood, Jr.,
an automatic machine cuts the col- has made his home in Lilling
umn of clay into proper brick on j or til? past four years is the
length by means of piano wires, general manager of the Norwood
This is the time, if special text- Brick comoany which his father,
ures are decided that attchments George Norwood of Raleigh estab
are applied which will brush, ij ahed and sU n owns,
scratch or otherwise roughen the Mack Norwood, who is the old
face of the clay stream as it leaves est 0 f the {our sons 0 f Mr. and
the die. Mrs. Norwood, was bom in Golds-
MOVED BY CONVEYOR boro and attended Mars Hill Col-
From the cutting table the new- legs, the University of Virginia and
ly cut brick are depositted on a was graduated from the University
continuously moving conveyor belt of North Carolina in 1942 with
where the “green bricks” are in- a major in chemistry,
spected by "hackers.” Hackers are He is married to the former Miss
the men who stand beside the Zabelle Corwin of Charlotte and
moving belt and take off the bricks, they have three children. Corky,
one in each hand, and place them Mart and Geoffrey,
on little flat cars. Each car is In Lillington, Norwood is a mem
lbaded with 516 bricks each at the ber of the Rotary Club and presi-
Senter plant. dent of the Parent-Teacher Asso-
These carloads of “green bricks” ciatfon. He is a past member of
moved on small size rail tracts to board of directors of the Cham
the 18-track drying shed for the next ber of Commerce and formerly serv
basic step in manufacturing the et * on the board of governors of
drying process. As they rest on their the Community House. He is a
tracks under the shed they are member of the Lillington Methodist
dried, that Is the moisture removed Church.
by evaporation, by hot air which is John Aaron Senter, owner of the
waste heat from the kilns An eight- brick company, which brers his
foot underground tunnel takes the n a? le . ls president of the Bank of
hot air from the kilns to the drying Lillington and also has extensive
shed which is just across che walk- interests in Western Har
way from the row of kilns. ne “ County.
At the Senter brick yard, the bur H . e wa , s . born *? Chalybeate
mg, which is the final process, Springs, t * le so “ . ,° f . r !,, D .? vl “
takes place in eight kilns. Two Henry Senter and the late Mr. Sen
oil-burners, the the others, fired f« r - **e attended Campbell Col
by hand, burn coal. Each kiln is !? ge ant L w .? s graduated from Wake
fired at prescribed heat four and Forest College in 1935, assuming
half days and left three days to management of his farming inter
cool before it is opened. ®f*' s ‘ n Waste™ Harnett at that
During the burnings process tlm e. For two years he
an optical barometer checks the \ n J tl } e Bank of LiHington
heat. The kilns, all onical in snape Was Ja ? *■ 1948 that the brick
are arranged in one long ro£ ™mpany he operates was opened
n” FORMER COMMISSIONER
other P son c senter served two years on the
Harnett County board of commis-
To the brick maker, process S j o ners during which time he was
of unloading the kiln after the the county purchasing agent. He
cooling is an important as the was elected twice to two-year terms
burning. This operation is known on the Lillington town board, and
as drawling. From the kilns at has served as an officer t)f the Lll
i the Senter yard the brick are grad- ilngton Girl Scout association and,
jed and loaded directly into trucks. Bs a member of the board which
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out a daily average of 49,000 bricks Center. He is a member of the Lil
a day and usually employs around hiigton Baptist Church.
30 workers. In each of the cone Mrs. Senter is the former Miss
shaped kilns can go around 85.000 Vida Lee Peede of Creedmore and
bricks. Preston Matthews is the Oxford. They have four daughters,
general foreman of the Senter Ida Carroll, Penelope, Mary Fran
plant - ' cCs and Lydia John Senter.
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TRACKS USEFUL Doit* narrow gunge tracks like thh go the
transfer cart With the green Mck headed lor the horning Ulna.
These trafcks are at both plants.
ChairiferT*
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. A special portion of the psogram
the dinner will be selections
by Miss Catherine Stephensolk
popular Dunn singer.
SMITH TO PRESIDE
TtR guests and members will be
made welcome by retiring president
E. W. Smith. He will also make a
report of the progress of the or
ganisation during the year be has
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the wilt be prtweritedi with a*
of-the year among hft> sex by Lin- »
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Manager' Buttles will introduce
the IMU guests jest prior ft» the
atfMfe' by the form* NAM pr*a
dent, whwtHb. be introduced by at
torney I. ft. Willi Its 1
NSW officers WIH be lnstaEWl to
Sferi* during Ute coming year at
the cSReIuMW of the at&rtss. The
closing dartthony will fIT in charge
ot Rev. R. R. Gammon, pastor o(
the Dunn Presbyterian Church.
“We feel highly honored by the
fact that Mr. Ruffin has consented
« Ms <WF MNMkdr fSf this event,”
BURNING PROCESS After thorough drying, brick are ready for burning. They move into a 't
kiln designed for the burning process. The kiln is built entirely of brick and has a hemisherioal _ '
crown. Here is the top of that crown from inside.
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GREEN BRICK An anger machine forces the toft clay mass through a die into a steam known p*
a column. As this column, or ribbon of clay, passes over a cutting table, pfctm wires Cut the day rib-. '**
bon into brick lengths. Foreman Preston Matthews holds a green brick in Hand Art front is a fdhr
that can scratch or otherwise decorate the plain brick. To the right is the coihtJW belt on which the " r
bricks are sent to the “hackers.” Beside th belt, the hacker or inspector picks up a brick hr each had*' ..
and transfers them to the carts -waiting to the far left. Each flat car can hold 516 brick*. .. ~
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