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/ VOL. XX; NO. 36 CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY. JANUARY II. 1931 - ■ ■ ..-.. . Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Tear 1950 Sees 31 New Industries Locate In N. C. North Carolina’s industrial wealth will be enhanced some 1104,000,000 as the result of selections of sites for 31 new manufacturing industries during the year 1950, according to Paul Kelley, head of the Division of Commerce and In dustry of the North Carolina State Department of Con servation and Development. Mr. Kelly conducted a survey of the State’s rapid increase in industrial capacity during the year just closing and, according to his estimates, the new industries will employ approximately 9,715 employes with an annual payroll of $24,739,000. in* survey reveals new textile establishmnets are predoniinant, but with diversification in this field among cotton, synthetics and woolen divisions. Oth*" new in dustries range from electronics to furniture. , Principal new industries for th* State, which already leads the nation in the production of tex _ tiles, tobacco and wooden furni ture, with announced or estimat ed value, include: Frank lx 4 Sons, Burlington, $1,000,000 weaving plant; Riegel Paper Co., Acme, $13,500^000 pulp plant; J. P. Stevens 4 Co., Inc., Wallace, $2,000,000 fabric* plant; Western Electric Co., Greensboro, $1,500,000 electronic equipment plant; Burlington Mills Corp., Lillington, $5,000,000 textile plant; Belding Hemingway, Inc., Hen dersonville, nylon and orlon thread, $2,000,000; Robbins Mills, Inc., Raeford, textile plant esti mated at more than $10,000,000. E. L. duPont de Nemours Co., Kinston, $24,000,000 plant for manufacture of “Fibre V;” Deer iag MUliken Co., Columbus, $2, 000,000 woolen plant; Copland Fowler Industries, Inc., Hopedale, $1,500,000 lingerie; Empire Man ufacturing Co., Statesville, $1', 500,000 textile plant; Kroehler Manufacturing Co., Charlotte, $600,000 furniture plant; Mexi can Petroleum Corp., Wilmington, $$,500,000 oil refinery; Woon socket Falla Mills, Wilmington, textile p—$. Sandhurst Mtitt, Inc. Rocking ham, $500,000 hosiery; W m. Crab 4 Co., Swaaaanos, $$50,000 textile pins; Asaericoa Houses, Inc., LumbertoM $71,000 houses; Henry Vann Industries, Clinton; $250,000 Inc.; Piagah Forest, $20, 000,000 cellophane plant; Bertie Peanut Co„ Aulander, $2004>00 peanut plant; Engineered Plas tics, Inc., Gibsonville, $1004)00 bobbins; Southeastern Concrete Products Co., Swannanoa, $150, 000 pipe plant. j| Lancaster Looms, Inc., Boiling Springs, $125,000 textile plant; Tyner Southern Corp., Greens boro, $100,000 resins; Wyandotte Worsted Co., Lakeview, $4,500, 000 woolen plant; Cargill Inc., Wilson, $7504)00 granary; Dup lan Corporation, Burnsville, $$, 000,000 nylon-rayon plant; Fred erick Tailoring Co., New, Bern, $75,000 men’s clothing plant; Ready-To-Bake Foods, Inc., Char lotte, $200,000 bakery and Green ville Mills, Inc., Greenville, $350, 000 woolen plant. CHEST WORKERS Get Boost In Par Cheater, S. C.—The highlight of the first meeting of the Ches ter City Council for 1961' was a six per cent salary boost for the municipal employees. City Man ager Hood C. Worthy pointed out to the Council that the employees had not had a raise in salaries since January, 1948 The council voted unanimously for the 1961 pay raise. Former Mayor Reheat PiaSer, former president of the Palmet to district of the Boy Scouts, asked the Council for a financial contribution for the Chester Boy Scouts for the new year. • City Manager Worthy stated tiie city is now paying the Duke Power Co. 6657 a month for lighting the streets of Chester. Councilmen mentioned that some of their constituents had spoken to them relative to additional light in some sections of the mu nicipality. Seventy per cent ef the 1960 city taxes has been collected, Mr. Worthy said. Be remarked that the collection ef city taxes had The Council adopted the budget for the ensuing year, which totals frrejx*. Pay In Steal Mill Is Up Five-fold In Twenty Years Twenty years ago an employe of an Eastern steel mill received $2.28 per day, swinging, as he worked, the hage, nearly white hot doors of an open hearth fur nace. Today he gets $1.45 in one hoar instead of $2.28 fbr a whole day, because increased productivity due to modern plant and technique in steel-making, with consequent in creases in sales adds up to mon pay for employees. Insurance Factor In 1929 he had no security, health, or hospitalization insurance. Today this steel worker, receiving only 83 cents less for an hour’t work than he did for a day’s work 20 years ago, has .insurance and hospitalization for his entire fam ily. ♦ If he should get killed or die while employed, his family receives $4,000 from a group insurance pol icy costing $1.93 a month. He and his family are covered by a com pany medical plan which pays hos pital coa(s and sick benefits of $15 a week up to 13 weeks, at a cost to him of $281 a month. OUR INDUSTRY The $100,000,000,000 industry has invested to improve, replace, and expand its plant -and equip ment since 1939 may be the means of saving our nation if the Korean crisis touches off a third World Wir. Some of these huge nnr plants already have converted to war goods under our partial mobilisa tion. Others can convert without too much disruption because their civilian goods moot the needs of the Armed Forces. As a result, war—if it comes —will mean nowhere near the gi gantic conversion task that it meant after* Pearl Harbor. Be sides, our manufacturers acquired a lot of know-how during World War II. Josef Stalin and the other con nivers in the Kremlin know this if their spies dare report the truth. If they do know it, they’ll take a long, long think before they start the Red Army rolling. WIVES, WIDOWS The untruth of collectivist prop aganda to the effect that Amer ican manufacturing companies are owned by men who sit around club: and banka clipping coupons, was made obvious by recently released statistics on the distribution of shares in many of these firms. The fact is that American women own approximately half the share* in the larger companies. The femi nine group includes widows, girls for whom trust funds have been established, school teachers, libra rians, and housewives. Ownership Widespread One company revealed that half of its shareholders owned 20 share* j or less, and that approximately 56 per cent of these shareholders were women. ‘The shareholders include house wives, merchants, farmers, clerks, mechanics, bankers, teachers _in short, mm and women in all the economic areas of American life,” the company said, adding: "No such individual owns ai much as lA per cent of the out standing stock." Women Held Central The railroad industry, it was an nounced, is 47 par cent owned by women. Women also own more than half of one of the nation’s largest public utilities, 40 per cent of one of this big electrical goodt manufacturers, and 40 per cent or more of several big chemicals conipaaies. "Women own 70 per cent ef all privately held wealth in the United States,” said one spokeswomen "As stockholders, they have plural ity ef voting power. That’s aae Mp Wo." Management should “listen” to; employees, finding what they wan ; to know about business, insteav. of merely telling tnem manage merit's story, says a new employe ! relations guidebook published bj I the National Assoaiation of Manu facturers. The booklet, “Employee Com mu nications for Bettor Understand ing,” is addressed particularly ti smaller manufacturers. It say every good communications p.t gram has a two-direction flow. Methods Suggested Among methods suggested fot discovering what employees think and wish ta know Ire personal coi. tacts yrith workers by top manage ment; consultations with foremen; an employees’ suggestion plan, “exit interviews”; and polls of en ployee opinion. „ As s result of experience in em ployer-employee relations, and es~ peciahy from 160 communication: "clinica” held by the NAM in co operation with the National la 34 iiTormahon dustrial Council, the guide lists the nine most important areas wh 're niployees want specific informa tion. Employees want to know, i, »ays: About the company, iu background, and present organiaa lion; its products, how they’re made; where they go; the com pany's policies, especially new poli i«5s. as they affect employees; ad vance information about and t*ea sons for changes' in methods; ad vance information on new prod ucts; what is expected of them am now they treasure up; how their ,obs fit into the scheme of thing* and chances for advancement; out look for business and pros parts o. steady work; company income profits, and losses and advanc. information on layoffs and indiviu uals affected. Scott Catches Conservatives In • i General'Assembly Off Guard By SCOTT SUMMERS RAL£IGH, N". C., Jan. 10—Governor Kerr Scott’s bien nial address to the Legislature, followed by his budget mes sage, caught conservative forces off-guard. At first, their reaction was a chortiing “he’s lost his steam” or “we’ve got him where the hair's short.” But they are suddenly awaken* ltg to the faet that the Haw River dairyman has outmaneuv ered them again, and what wor ries them the most is that what-' ever course they take they wilt build up campaign material for the liberals in the coming 1992 Statewide campaign. The budget^ recommended, by like Advisory Budge# Commiesieu —stacked faor to three in favor of the coanirvatives — called for $303,000,0<ff to be spent by the General Fund during the next two yean. Rising costs, plus some "must” increases in staffs to take care of authorised serv ices caused even economy-minded Frank Taylor of Wayne, Larry Moore of Wilson, Grady Rankin of Gaston and Edwin Pate of Scotland to recommend a budget that is some $26,000,000 higher than the one for the current two years. Governor Scott in his budget menace noted that this was line, as far as it went, but called for raisinc and appropriatinc anoth er $38,000,000 to meet what he considered “necessary” services and expenses. This extra money is needed, as said, to raise teacher pay to the $2,200-$3,100 minimum for “A” grade teachers (some $17,000); to continue the merit pay raise system for state employees (ap proximately $2,000,000); increas ing raaerves of the retirement system ($1,000,000); state aid for construction of local hospitals (some $6,000,000); a fund to sup plement permanent improvements already authorised and meet ris inc costs ($10,000 000); with the remainder to go for a psychiatric hospital at .the University of North Carolina and better train ing for mental hospital person nel. To do this, the Governor point Y$9 Cm Ihlp, 7h i Pamolia ONeal (loft) help* her elder eleter, Patricia, edjuet the ~M!.h r*k*..n *?w,bl# ,or *® we'k again after a aevere ^He attaek. Pa me I la alee wai etrieken but recovered completely. Mareh ef Olmee fimde paid for treatment for both thooo daughters "•ft •"* Mr*- C* H- O'Neal, of Raleigh, N. C. Mora than 12,600 wao paid by the local March of Dimea Chapter toward I— - - - - Ld out, more' revenue is needed. *ie recommended elimination of a’.es tax exemptions and replac ngr the sales tax on theaters For the benefit of the legisla tors pledged to “no new taxes,” he cave them an out. He labeled his revenue-producing; recommen dations ai not "new” taxes, per sh the thought, but as an “ex tension of present taxes” in Che case of the sales tax exemption and as “restoration of taxes” in the theater department. All of this, the Governor dumped in the legislators laps. He didn’t “ask” for anything. He told them what he thought nay ought to do and how to do it. Worried conservatives are faced with these possibilities: If they go along with the Gov ernor’s recommendations, and they generally admit that the suggest ■ V ■ "Lend me a hand ” Aliens Envious Of U. S. Freedom Aliens want to mm to America because this country guarantee) citizens rights and opportunitiei either non-existent or precarioai elsewhere, says an Eastern maim lecturer in a public statement. Picturing throngs seeking admis sion to the United States, the state ment says they seek: The right to edacation, to choose (.heir place of worship and theii place of work, the right to earn more, to promotion on merit, and u» live where they please; and th« opportunity to own more of the good things of Ufa ed appropriations would be fine if they "only had the money”— it will be a victory for the lib eral forces, headed by the Gov ernor. This would make nice cam paign talk for the liberal guber natorial candidate in 1952. If they stick to the policy of no appropriations other than those advocated by the Advisory Bud get Commission, and the voters decide within the next two years that the appropriations recom mended Vf the Governor should have bean made, there, too, they’ve cot their political throats. This would give the liberals a better talking point, actually, than would the conservatives go ing whole hog for the Governor’s recommendations __1 And, of course, anything In be tween the two extremes would be a partial ‘ victory for Kerr Scott and the liberals of the Demo cratic party. So, you can see why the con servatives are worried. They are determined to regain control of the Democratic party in 1952, and this will influence legislation in this General Assembly to a great extent. -, But Kecr Scott’s maneuvering has left them in the middft. They stand a good chance to lose ground, whichever way they turn. That’s the way It looks right now. Bnt a lot of things can happen before the Battle of ’52. After a little listening, around and taking a couple of looks into the old crystal ball, here’s a thumbnail prediction of what the Legislature will do and not do: t. Take away some of the |30, 000,000 in permanent improve ments not yet spent by the vari ous agendas and swap around the money that ia left. Economy Leader Grady Rankin of Gaston Indicated this course when he naked fan and got the joint ap propriations committee to have a sob-committee named to “restudy this unspent balance.” The hope Green Calls For Aid In Polio Drive William Green, president of the American Federation of La* bor today urged the organise* tion’s multi-million members to support the 1951 March of Dimes in Jdhuary and declared that “the American public cannot afford to relax its vigil against the dread* ful toll of this disease." In a message to Basil O’Con nor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis, Mr. Green asserted that the membership of the AFL is keen ly aware of the havoc wrought by the 1950 polio epidemic, sec ond worst in the nation’s history. “We appreciate the excellent services of the Labor Service Di vision and the local chapters of the National Foundation," he wrote. “Our members and their families stricken with polio are the chief beneficiaries of your program.” In his appeal to AFL com ponents, Mr. Green referred to the recent announcement by Mr. O’Connor that the 1951 March of Dimes must raise at least |50, 000,000 to meet the current stag gering costs of polio patient care —the result of three consecutive years of record-breaking polio epidemics. is to eliminate the Governor's re quested extra $10,009,000 for permanent improvements. 2. Restore the merit pay raises, either by upping revenue esti mates or money whacked from permanent improvements. 3. Build the psychiatric unit at Chapel Hill and raise salaries of mental institution personnel by the spine method. This is def initely in . the “maybe” class, 4. Again pgf teacher pay raises on the “contjiajirency” basis — they'll get the >2£00-$8,100 pay scale “if” there is a surplus. 5. Add 109 men to the high way patrol—that would come out of the fat highway fund balance. . 6. Refuse to pass stream pol lution, or sanitation, measure. Too much high-powered lobbying plus a distaste for creating more power-laden commissions is against this oae. ?. Refuse to pass a state-wide liquor referendum. A dry vote would send the boys looking for $11,000,000 to replace the boose beer tax income. County-option advocates no longer talk of the “right” of the county to control its liquor policy—they speak in stead of liquor tax revenues. 8. Defeat the motor vehicle in spection measures. The “folks back homo” still recall* too vi vidly the long waits in line, plus the complicated checkup system and arbitrary rulings on cracked window-glasses. Recent editorial comment Is interesting—the big city editors are clamoring for • motor vehicle inspection law; tha weekly and small town editors generally are against it. The lat ter have an ear closer to tha ground. 9. Refuse to enact any “new” taxes, or increase or restore any old ones. There very likely will be some juggling that will allow some ef the big corporations slight cuts. 10. Probably refuse to set up a commission to study state gov ernment with a view to consoli dating and saving where possible. This has been studied before* with no action being taken on recommendations. Any luck study obviously would recommend elimination of some agencies and taking away some of the powers of others, and the jobholders will fight this tooth and toenail. This one could go either way, however* That about sums it op, except for this. Chances for the legis lature finishing up before the end of March are practically non-ex istent. It will be mid-March be fore an accurate estimate of in come tax returns—one of the big gest sources of revenue—can be made. And this could cause an upward revision of income esti the heat off the mates that would take
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