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Thursday, May 2, 1968
Textile Industry
Needs Job-Related
Training, Says GTMA
Hollywood-By-The-Sea, Flor
ida-If the Georgia textile industry
is to prosper, it must have better
educated workers, continued pro
duct innovation, and seek new
ways to serve the customer.
This is what outgoing presi
dent, Lewis Price, of the Georgia
Textile Manufacturers Associa
tion, told some 450 of the state’s
textile leaders and guests at their
annual convention in Hollywood,
Florida.
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He spoke at the group’s 68th
annual meeting.
"We need job-related training
and a higher priority on edu
cation to keep our industry com
petitive,” Price said. "For
nearly 200 years men have feared
that machines would destroy their
jobs, but machines only demand
higher skills of the men who op
erate them,” he said.
Price, who is an official of
Deering Milliken, Inc., Callaway
Division, LaGrange, Georgia,
said that industry can only op
erate in partnership with a big
government which is growing big
ger. “Our economy is a part
nership in which business must
insist upon reasonable freedom,”
he said.
Price spoke after the conven
tion was addressed by Robert
C. Jackson, executive vice pres
ident of the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute.
Congressman John J. Flynt,
Jr. (D-GA.) addressed the con
vention on Friday morning foll
owing a report on GTMA ac
tivities during the year by Frank
L. Carter, the association’s ex
ecutive vice president and sec
retary.
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BLOODMOBILE HERE
MONDAY 1-6 P. M.
Newton County people will once
again have the opportunity to
maintain their family coverage
and help keep the county covered
under the Red Cross Blood Pro
gram by donating a pint of blood
when the Red Cross Bloodmobile
visits in Covington at the First
Methodist Church on May 6, from
1:00 to 6:00 p. m.
The Covington quota, set by
Red Cross, for this visit is 150
pints, and it is necessary that
this quota be met if Newton Coun
ty is to keep its coverage under
the Red Cross Blood program.
The Covington visit by the
Bloodmobile in January fell short
of the 150 pint quota. This was
recognized by Red Cross to be
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at the aforementioned intersention. No one was seriously injured 1 । ay.
partly due to the bad weather at
the time of the visit and there
fore this visit is expected to go
above quota in order to make up
the deficit.
The Ladies of the Covington
Service Guild will again be in
charge of aiding with the work
required during the Bloodmobile
visit. This has been a club pro
ject for several years and Ser
vice Guild members have ren
dered a great service to their
community in this capacity.
Mrs. Louis F. Courchaine,
Service Guild Blood program
Chairman, will again be in charge
of publicizing the Bloodmobile
visit by distributing posters thr
oughout the town and to the diff-
erent industries and businesses.
She will also make arrangements
for personal calls to be made to
prospective donors on the morn
ing of the Bloodmobile visit.
“I don’t know how the Red
Cross Blood Program in Newton
County would continue to func
tion if it were npt for the Cov
ington Service Guild members
who work tirelessly to keep New
ton County covered under this
program,” said Leo S. Mallard,
Newton County Blood Program
chairman, “these ladies have
promoted this program for years
and they deserve the credit due
for keeping the people of Newton
County covered with Red Cross
Blood.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Work Accident Cost
$3.4 Million Per Hour
WASHINGTON-Every working
hour the United States economy
loses $3.4 million from on-the
job accidents. The eight-hour
work day costs $27.2 million-a
whopping $6.8 billion every year.
Industrial accidents are even
more costly to the American
working man and woman-a life,
a limb, an eye.
Each year 14,000 to 15,000 die
in on-the-job accidents, over 2
million are disabled-many per
manently, and 7 million plus are
injured.
The American worker loses
$750,000 in wages each working
hour-$6 million each eight-hour
day.
In recent testimony before the
Congress on behalf of the pro
posed Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1968, Labor Secre
tary Willard Wirtz declared:
“We can only determine the
Georgia’s Economy
Continues Expansion
Georgia’s continuing expansion
last year is reflected in an 8.8-
percent increase in personal in
come, “one of the few signi
ficant indicators recording a
growth rate better than the pre
vious year’s and better than the
nation’s,” reports a Federal Re
serve Bank of Atlanta economist.
Reviewing the state’s perfor
mance in the Bank’s Monthly
Review for April, Miss Dorothy
F. Arp states that “not all sec
tors contributed equally to the
growth.” She points out the
complete reversal of construc
tion and agricultural activity
from the previous year. “Re
sidential construction made a
strong recovery, ‘all other’ con
struction abated, and the total
dollar value of construction con
tracts awarded showed almost
no growth.” In the agricultural
sector falling prices and increas
ed production held total cash
receipts from farm marketings
to about the 1966 level.
Employment increased but at
a slower speed in 1967, Miss
Arp continues. A deceleration
in nonfarm employment was
shared unequally by the manufac
turing and nonmanufacturing
May Is Senior
Citizens Month
Senior Citizens Month will be
celebrated in May again this year.
Proclamations by President
Johnson and Governor Maddox
have set the theme as “MEET
ING THE CHALLENGE OF THE
LATER YEARS.” Recognition is
given to the contributions made
by older people to their commun
ities and to the further contri
butions they could make, given
the opportunity.
Already plans are under way
across the state to honor our
senior citizens. Some commun
ities will choose an “oldster”
as honorary mayor, others will
single out distinguished older
people for unusual accomplish
ments and recognize these ach
ievements. Churches will hold
special services. Merchants will
invite seniors to luncheons. Pic
nics and outings, trips to bad
games, and a wide variety of
social events will be arranged
by service clubs, local Councils
on Aging, and Senior Citizens
Clubs. '
Governor and Mrs. Maddox will
hold open house at the new Man
sion, tentatively set for May 18th.
Several thousand older people
will attend, brought by motor
cade, bus and private cars from
throughout the state.
All of these activities are de
signed to honor the estimated
375,000 Georgia citizens who are
sixty-five years of age or old
er, and call attention to their
needs and accomplishments. The
Georgia Commission on Aging
is sponsoring these activities and
will lend assistance and mater
ials to any group interested in
participating.
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Vietnam Vets
May Secure
Gov. Work
“Are you a Vietnam veteran.,
with service since August 4,
1964? Have you had less than
one year’s education beyond high
school? Are you willing to get
more education, on a part-time
basis? If your answer is 'yes’
to all questions, and you are
otherwise eligible, you qualify for
preference for a job in Grades 1
through 5......... in the Federal
Government.
Appointments will be tempo
rary, or transitional, but if you
get one, handle your job satis
factorily and make good educa
tional progress, the appointment
could be permanent.
Eligibility is limited generally
to the first year after your sep
aration from the armed forces.
VA estimates 10-thousand to 15-
thousand Vietnam Era veterans
may work in transitional app
ointments at any one time••••••
500-thousand overall could hold
these Grade 1 through Grade 5
Government jobs.
Want to know more? Get in
touch with the Veterans Admini
stration Regional Office, 730
Peachtree St., NE, Atlanta, Geor
gia 30308, or call Area Code
404- 526-4584,” ~
economics of industrial accidents
by askingourselves what price we
put on a life, or a limb, or an eye
and is that price the same
for every member of the family
of America as it would be for a
member of our own families?”
The Labor secretary outlined
the need for a law which would
establish enforceable Federal
safety and health standards
throughout the country, would aid
the States to establish programs
for protecting workers and would
provide for information gather
ing, research and training pro
grams on work accidents and oc
cupational diseases,
In addition to the $1.5 billion
in wages lost annually from work
accidents, $3.8 billion is lost in
production and in destroyed pro
perty, and $1.5 billion in medical
expenses and insurance fees.
sectors. “On the brighter side,
both Federal and state and local
government employment climbed
impressively, and the total un
employment rate remained low.”
In spite of the slowdown in
employment, industrial growth
in Georgia achieved a record
in 1967. Defense contracts in
creased by almost 50 percent,
primarily because of the C-5A
military cargo plane.
Most measures pointed upward
at the end of the year, the eco
nomist writes. And after re
covering from some slowdowns
in early 1968, the state “ap
pears to be on her way to ano
ther year of exnansion.”
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3-Gallon Donors Receive Pins
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PRESENTING 3-gallon blood donor pins to two Covingtonians last
week was Blood Chairman Leo S. Mallard (right). Receiving the
pin is Rembert Kitchens (center), while the other blood donor
George Bailey looks on.
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Bring your youngsters in so that we may be
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