Expansion to boost
Thomaston sales
Thomaston Mills is looking
toward expansion of the Griffin
plant to increase sales in the
current fiscal year to more than
|IOO million. Sales for the year
just ended were $98,160,823.
William H. Hightower,
chairman of the board, reported
to the stockholders that 160
looms will be added at the
Griffin facility. “This should
increase our operating rates as
a percentage of capacity. They
. (the looms) should also give use
increased sales dollars in the
new fiscal year,” he said.
“Our plans call for sales to
cross the SIOO million mark for
the first time in history during
this new fiscal year. Perhaps it
is worth noting that our sales
dollars per employee were
$28,600 in 1977 compared with
$14,400 in 1970. We have felt that
maximum production of capital
and labor was one of the best
ways to cope with inflation,”
Hightower said.
Thomaston added styled
quilted bedspreads and drapes,
comforters, dust ruffles and
pillowshams to its household I
products during the year. It also
introduced its New Era sheets.
Added to the apparel line was
the indigo denim and several
new products were added to the
industrial line.
Hightower praised the Carter
Bloodmobile
scheduled
here Aug. 29
The Griffin Chapter of the
American Red Cross is
preparing posters at the office
here to publicize the blood
mobile visit scheduled for Aug.
29.
Mrs. Mildred (Ma) Holleman
said one of the posters to be
placed in local businesses will
read, “Someone gave Mark a
valuable gift last year — his
life.”
The bloodmobile will be at the (
First Baptist Church from 12
noon until 5 p.m.
Stork Club
MASTER HOARD
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hoard
of 718 West Taylor street,
Griffin, announce the birth of a .
son on Aug. 18 at the Griffin- ,
Spalding County Hospital.
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Deputy injured
in yard mishap
Spalding Sheriff’s Deputy '
David Taylor had some good
advice for residents who use a
new type weed trimmer. 1
“Wear goggles,” he advised
from his bed at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Taylor is in the hospital
recovering from a serious eye
injury he suffered Sunday while
working in his yard.
He said he was trimming the
grass around a utility pole when
the line attached to the weed
trimmer picked up an object
which hit him in the eye.
Doctors have not yet deter
mined the extent of the damage,
however, his vision is affected,
he said.
“Wear a . helmet, safety
goggles, face shields, anything.
. .It’s not worth the risk without
them,” he warned.
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administration in his report to
the stockholders:
“Our hopes have risen
somewhat with President
Carter’s efforts in the area of
government fiscal and political
responsibility and we ap
preciate them and wish them
well. It is high time that the
value of confidence and trust by
business executives and its
effects upon the nation’s
prosperity were recognized.”
He also expressed confidence
in the company’s employees:
“Your company has a fine
group of skilled and competent
executives and we are grateful
to each of them for their
dedicated work. We are, as
always, most appreciative of
our thousands of skilled and
loyal employees. We shall
continue to be mindful of their
interests and well being.”
Hightower reported to the
stockholders that the net in
come per share was $3.82 this
year, compared with $2.11 a
year ago.
Crime
Thief gets
4 hubcaps
Griffin police were in
vestigating the theft of 4 wire
wheel hubcaps from a car
parked in the Thomaston Mills
lot Wednesday.
The auto was owned by
Harold Phinazee, 625 Johnson
street.
James D. Crane, 110 North
10th street, reported someone
put nails under the tires of his
car while it was parked at his
home. There was some $7 worth
of damage, he said.
Two teenagers have been
accused of burglarizing the
home of J. T. Nichols, 918 Lake
avenue, on Aug. 12.
Terry A. Brown, 18, of Clark’s
Trailer Park, and a woman, 16,
were arrested Wednesday in
connection with the incident.
Jewelry and clothing were
among the items taken, police
said.
A Spalding County resident
was arrested Wednesday by
sheriff’s officers in connection
with a burglary charge by Bay
County, Florida, lawmen.
Barry Mitchell Eubanks, 21,
of Barnesville road, off High
Falls road, will be returned to
Panama City to face the
charges.
Church begins
construction
of new building
Fellowship Baptist Church
has begun construction of a new'
building to be used for open air
revivals, gospel singings and
other open air events.
The church at 919 North Ninth
street is hoping the building will
be ready for the pre-labor day
singing.
The all-metal Inryco building
will be 50 feet wide and 160 feet
long. It is being constructed by
Weatherup Construction Co. of
Griffin.
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R.W. MASSEY
R. W. Massey
completes
bank course
Ronald W. Massey of Griffin
has graduated from the
Institute’s School for Bank
Administration at the
University of Wisconsin.
He is vice president and
cashier at First National Bank
in Griffin.
Massey majored in general
administration. He was one of
379 banker-students who suc
cessfully completed the 3-year
course.
The Institute’s resident two
week school, held each summer
at the University of Wisconsin,
annually attracts some 1,200 to
the 3-year programs of con
tinuing education in bank
auditing, controllership,
operations, and general ad
ministration.
Some 4,000 people have
completed the study since it
began in 1953.
BIA is the nation’s largest
research and educational
association for banking with
8,500 member banks which in
turn comprise 95 percent of the
nation’s total banking assets.
Deaths
Funerals
Mrs. Treece
Mrs. Alden Kiser Treece of
408 Meriwether street, widow of
Mr. Fred Treece, St., died this
morning at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital where she had been a
patient for a week.
She was bom in Anniston,
Ala.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Grace Hudson, a son, Fred
Treece, Jr., both of Griffin;
brother, Floyd Kiser of
Brewton, Ala.; sister, Mrs.
Annie Mae Jordan of Elbe, Ala.,
6 grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday at 4
p.m. in Haisten’s Chapel. The
Rev. William Weaver and the
Rev. Hulet Smith will officiate.
Burial will be Saturday af
ternoon in Pinelevel Baptist
Church cemetery near Jay, Fla.
Haisten Funeral Home in
charge.
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Hospital Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Wednesday:
Ulys Gore, Betty S. Cham
bers, Ann N. Saunders, Mrs.
Frances Blanks and baby,
Robbie Powell, Evelyn Roberts,
Mary B. Coleman, Vera
Douglas, Mildred Ellis, Mrs.
Beth Whitehurst and baby.
Ruby Gibson, Gertrude
Kinard, James A. Gillespie,
Josephine Reid, Elnora
Newton, Robert A. Parker,
Russell Lee, Chung AE Byan,
Regina Eubanks, John
Beckham, Charles Chapman,
Margaret Weldon.
Man injured
on motorcycle
Samuel Starks, 26, of Chap
pell Hill road, Williamson, was
injured Wednesday night in a
motorcycle accident on Beck
street.
He was treated in the Griffin
hospital emergency room for
knee and shoulder injuries.
According to Griffin police,
the accident happened when his
motorcycle hit a curb about 7:35
-p.m.
Business inventories
on the increase
WASHINGTON (AP) - Busi
nesses increased their in
ventories by seven tenths of one
per cent in July, a slight decline
from the one per cent increase a
month before, the Commerce
Department said today.
The slower increase showed
that inventories are just about
keeping up with sales. Total
business sales increased two
tenths of one per cent in June
after a one tenth increase in
May.
The total business stock-to
sales ratio at the end of June
was 1.47, after a 1.46 ratio in
May and 1.50 for June, 1976.
If the ratio is kept low, it
means businesses will not ac
cumulate such a large backlog
that they will have to lay off
workers and cut production.
Sales actually decreased sev
en tenths of one per cent at the
wholesale level and 1.3 per cent
at retail. But sales among man
ufacturers went up 1.4 per cent.
Inventories rose $874 million
at the manufacturing level, $l9O
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million at wholesale and $1.2
billion at retail.
Total inventories, seasonally
adjusted, were $214.2 billion in
June, up from $213.8 billion in
May.
Total business inventories in
creased $8 billion in the second
quarter after an $8.2 billion rise
in the first quarter. Total busi
ness sales were up 2.8 per cent
in the second quarter after a 5.3
per cent rise in the first quarter.
Impressionists
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The
world’s largest collection of
French Impressionist paintings
is not in France but in Illinois
— at the Art Institute of Chi
cago.
The Art Institute also boasts
outstanding works of Oriental
art and sculptures, watercolors
and prints from the 13th centu
ry to the present, says the
Rand McNally “Traveler’s Al
manac,” which names the In
stitute one of America’s Top
500 Sights to See.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977
Gospel sing
A Gospel Sing will be held at the
Zebulon Auditorium Friday at 7:30 p.m.
“Terry Skinner and the Airs of Glory,”
“The Merritts,” “Elaine and Jimmy,”
and many others will be featured. The
sing is sponsored by the Pike County
Association for Retarded Citizens and
there is no charge.
Yard and bake sale
Trinity Baptist Church on North 13th
street will have a yard and bake sale
Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5
p.m. Proceeds will go toward church
repairs.
Nuclear power
HINSDALE, 111. (AP) - Al
most 10 per cent of the nation’s
electric power capability is now
nuclear, according to the Nu
clear News.
The magazine reports that
six more nuclear units started
operation in 1976, bringing the
U.S. total of nuclear units in
commercial operation to 59.
Ten more units are scheduled
for startup this year, while 80
others are in various stages of
construction.
Imperial Showtimes
7:17&9:NP.M.
Sunday
3:51 - 5:34, 7:17 - 9:00 PJH.
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