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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Jan. 20,1972
Lockheed-Georgia seeks
jobs for 672 employes
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) -
The Lockheed-Georgia Com
pany says it will use its “em
ployment-in-reverse" program
in an attempt to find jobs for
672 employes who will be cut
off by the closing of CsGalaxy
subassembly plants in four
states.
The job eliminations are the
result of a declining work load
on the giant cargo airplane pro
gram, the company said.
Increasing jobs overseas
SINGAPORE (UPI) - The
president of the Lockheed Air
craft Corp, said today that
while the firm is cutting back
operations at home, they are in
creasing overseas, although on
a smaller scale.
A. Carl Kotchian, in Singa
pore to promote the sale of the
new Lockheed L-1011 Tristar
passenger plane, told newsmen
the aircraft industry is more
active overseas than in the
United States and “we take our
knowhow where the demand
is.”
Lockheed is expanding faster
overseas, he added, because
“there is more activity through
out the world” than in the
United States.
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The biggest loss will be at
Chattanooga, Tenn., where a
subassembly plant will be shut
down soon and the building sold
to the Koehring Company of
Milwaukee. A total of 287 jobs
will be eliminated at the plant
which employed 658 at the
height of the program.
Other plants to be phased out
are at Martinsburg, W. Va.,
with 132 employes, Logan, Ohio,
with 120 and Uniontown, Penn.,
with 133. The Martinsburg plant
Lockheed Operations in Singa
pore recently expanded from a
former British air base to a
second base at Changi, which
is equipped with a 9,000-foot
runway.
Kotchian said Lockheed’s
small Singapore military main
tenance base “is increasing its
rate of growth quicker than the
company’s U.S. operations.”
“Lockheed Aircraft Service
Singapore (LASS) has expanded
its operations significantly,” he
said at a hotel news conference.
“It has grown into an aircraft
service base of some 300 peo
ple and is still growing.”
Dorman Veirs, manager of
the Singapore Lockheed base,
said the company has secured
will close in March and the
others in May.
“The declining aerospace em
ployment in the Southeast has
been drastic since 1969,” said
L.O. Kitchen, president of Lock
heed-Georgia, in announcing
the closings.
“Lockheed-Georgia’s payroll
has dropped from 33,000 to
16,000 today and is still fall
ing,” Kitchen added.
The announcement, which
said the cutbacks were part of
four new U.S. military main
tenance contracts for the Singa
pore operation where ‘ ‘operating
costs are far below U.S. costs.”
“The direct labor rate is less
than half here what it is in the
U. 5.,” Veirs said.
Veirs said the four new gov
ernment contracts provide for
the repairs and maintenance of
U.S. Air Force and Navy air
craft. They are Cl3O Hercules,
Cl4l Starlifters and Cl2l Super
constellation planes, used for
surveillance and cargo missions
over Vietnam and elsewhere in
Southeast Asia.
Kotchian predicted an im
provement in the economic con
dition in the U.S. airline indus
try this year.
a drastic reduction in work
force and consolidation of fa
cilities by the company, made
no mention of specific cutbacks
at the main plant here.
But Kitchen said “employ
ment at our main plant at
Marietta, which is the techno
logical base for the aircraft in
dustry in the Southeast, and at
sub-assembly plants in other
states has been declining since
the number of Cs’s on order
has been limited to 81.”
Kitchen said the Air Force
originally indicated that it
would order 200 of the Cs’s, the
world’s largest cargo plane. It
would up ordering 115 and sub
sequently the order dropped to
81, he added.
The subassembly plants were
opened in Chattanooga and
Logan in 1966 and in Martins
burg and Uniontown in 1967.
The Chattanooga plant will be
turned over to Koehring before
July 1.
They were part of the larg
est subcontract and work dis
persal program in history that
spread the work on the C 5 into
45 states, the District of Co
lumbia, Canada and the United
Kingdom.
Lockheed-Georgia Company
is a division of the Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation, headquar
tered at Burbank, Calif.
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Knowles, co-chairman; talk about the upcoming feature.
Utility Club begins
Follies rehearsals
Rehearsals are under way for
Follies, 1971, “It’s A Riot”, to be
presented Feb. 3, 4 and 5.
Casting was done on kick-off
night held at the Elks Club and
hosted by the Utility Club.
Following a presentation of
skits, Howard Wallace, emcee,
introduced the show’s director,
Chris Goodyear, a member of
the Cargil Company and direc
tor of more than 70 of such
Follies all over the country.
A veteran of stage, screen,
radio, and T.V., Mr. Goodyear
holds the bachelor of arts
degree from Columbia and a
Masters in direction from Yale
Uriveraty.
The Ohio native has served as
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York City Opera Company and
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He has toured the Middle and
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To promote enthusiasm
among some 200 people at the
kick-off, skits were presented as
arranged by the talent com
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The Music Club Chorus,
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and the “Twelve Days of Re
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“There’s Nothin’ Like A
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which included Bob Proctor,
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Also performing were the
Follies Dollies, a group of
highsteppers assembled by
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