SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 1960

Dixie Corp. Shuts down two aluminum plants

The 10-year-old Dixie Aluminum Corp. plant at Rome is being closed, it was announced Saturday.

Dixie President Brett D. Holmes said the company has suspended all operations and will liqui-date in total its assets in Rome and Hattiesburg, Miss.

Dixie is a manufacturer of aluminum extrusion products. Its recent employment level has been about 135.

Announcing the shutdown Saturday, Mr. Holmes said, “Adequate funds have been made available by secured creditors to pay off all unsecured creditors in full provided only that such unsecured creditors cooperate fully and in an orderly manner.” There may be, in addition, “a substantial final dividend to the shareholders,” he said.

Holmes said the Dixie plant office will remain open until final liquidation is complete. All manu-facturing operations have been halted.

Employees have been notified of the decision and the company will make every effort to help them find other suitable employment, Holmes said. All due payrolls will be met in full, he added.

Dixie Corp. was founded in Rome by Holmes in 1950 and later opened a Hattiesburg, Miss, divi-sion. Its plant on Hanks Street in west Rome turned out various extruded aluminum products.

The company hit its peak in 1955, producing and shipping 11 million pounds of aluminum prod-ucts to 40 states and 15 foreign countries. That year the company was in 10th place in production in the country for similar aluminum products.

The company has gradually curtailed its workforce in recent years.

MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 1960

American economy this Labor Day holiday is said like an iceberg

WASHINGTON (AP) – The American economy this Labor Day holiday is like an iceberg – seri-ously cold, beautiful and attractive on the surface.

But below the surface lurks danger.

Looking around this 1960 Labor Day holiday, you will find prosperity. People are enjoying them-selves; food and shelter are abundant and good; more people are employed at better wages than ever before.

The topside of the iceberg is deceptive.

Underneath you find high unemployment, steady rising living costs, increasing foreign competi-tion to American-made goods, factory production running at less than capacity, labor-management unrest and a declining labor union movement.

Labor Days in the past were like this. There were good and bad factors.

There are now close to 70 million people with jobs. Generally speaking, these are better paying jobs than ever before.

But there are four million people – men and women – willing to work – without jobs. Put another way, more than 5 out of every 100 persons wanting work can’t find jobs.

Economists generally agree that inflation has been slowed down. This has largely been accom-plished by controlling credit, although the government has recently been relaxing credit controls.

One of the biggest problems facing the country - workers and sales in this country.

Fewer sales means fewer jobs edged to new peak levels, while labor and management blame each other for this situation.

Probably the biggest unsolved problem on the industrial scene in American is the situation caused by the machine, the expedited process, or automation.

It is a boon in the sense that it enables greater production, more profits and higher wages. It is a bane in the sense that it eliminates jobs and therefore, customers, for the increased production.

Solving this machinery displacement of men needs to be accomplished if the nation is to be ac-complished if the nation is to melt much of the hidden part of the iceberg.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 6, 1960

Darlington lacks depth; strong at tackle posts

With two-a-day drills scheduled through Wednesday, Coach Jim Doss’ Darlington Tigers appear to have strength in at least one new position, as they face the 1960 season with one of the smallest squads in the history of the school.

Although school will get under way officially Thursday, a number of the grid players are already here and have been working out since Friday night.

Coach Doss said he returns only eight players from last year’s team. Several newcomers and boys moving up from the ‘59 junior varsity round out the squad.

The Tiger mentor said one of the brightest spots to date is at tackle. In addition to holdovers Bob Woodruff and Tom Harris, three new hefty Tigers are in the field, including Charlie Thwaite (260), of Atlanta, Johnny Gillam (200), of Cartersville, and Albert Nixon (200), of Thomaston.

Other returnees include backs Alec Wyatt, Douglas McFalls, Allen Bins and Bill Stutts; ends Terry Bradshaw and Frank Johnson.

Bud Suddath, West Rome Chieftains standout last year is on hand, as is Mill Fletcher, East Rome scatback in ‘59, and quarterback Ed Brewster, of Cedartown.

Junior varsity members expecting to play a lot this season are Mac Foster, Bill Scoggins, Bus Smith, Ernie Watkins, Guy Hunter, Comer Turley and Tommy Jones.

The Tigers open the season on Friday, Sept. 30, and appear in their first home game on Oct. 15 with Columbia Military Academy.

After Wednesday the Tigers will go to one-a-day drills.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1960

Community fish fry to draw a big throng

Some 1,000 persons are expected to take part in the big community fish fry Saturday, Sept. 10 from 4:30 til 7:30, at the Morrison Camp Grounds. The community event is expected to be the biggest success of any one project ever attempted by the school community.

A corps of ticket sellers is canvassing the community, and since this is a fund-raising project sponsored jointly by the Ruritan Club, the Boosters Club and the PTA, all patrons and friends of the school are being asked to participate through the purchase of a ticket.

Proceeds from the fish fry will go toward purchasing new uniforms for the Johnson teams.

Opportunity will be given all the patrons interested in joining the Boosters Club to do so at this time.