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S.G.—Industries-\/y|ooI Indush-y
ExcitedLS,
By RANDOLPH S. HANCOCK
Observer Agricultural Editor
JOHNSONVILLE. S. C., May 1
This town of 1.500 persons, in
w heart of the Pee Dee. is
(straining at the leash in anticipa( . * , _.'
*,- 3J'
Ition of the textile industry schedluled to start operations here some
(time this summer.
Already it is feeling growing
I pains, and the townspeople are
loud in their praise of the WellIman Combing Co, for having sellected Johnsonvitle for the site of
(the first mill of its kind in the
! state and perhaps the South.
According to present plans of
[the Daniel Construction Co., of
Greenville, the 150,000 square foot
plant will be ready for oc
jcupancy "in early summer."
C. S. Carter, in charge of the
[construction work of the $3,000,000
(plant, said "it should be ready for
i* installation of machinery this
{summer and operations can be
(started then."
Mr. Carter described the work
I to be done as "turning grease wool
[into yarn ready for the weavers,"
le added that the wool would
Icome from South Africa. South
(America. Australia, and "some will
I be domestic wool."
By "grease wool." he said, he
(meant it was wool that comes dijrectly from the sheep's back be
|
fore the lanolin is removed from
it.
Ground for the single story pro*
ject was broken last Febrauary IS.
However, Mr. Carter said, plans
,for construction were actually
started on Feb. 6.
The plant is so designed that it
can be enlarged any time the de
mand for its products increases
It will employ some 250 local per
sons who will be trained for their
jobs by engineers which the Well
man company will send here.
Mr. Carter said that it was hie
understanding that Walter Rohifi
soa of Lowell, Mass., will be the
manager of the plant and that Mr
Robinson is scheduled to arrive
here next week.
The plant is located about a halfmile north of Johnsonvilie on the
Mullins highway. The site was an
old farm and there is room for
any type of operation a well as
expansion of the plant.
The Wellman company, a sub
sidiary of Nirhols and Co., select
ed Jnhnsonville, Mr. Carter said
because of the fine port facilities
t Charleston and because of the
[excellent supply of and type of la
|bor to be found here.
Lock wood Greene Engineers o
York. Boston and Spartan
Ibnrf. S. C., is the architect or
project.
following them the woolen and
worsted spinning and weaving
plant* for which -South C'aro- , j
Una hatt so many natural advantages to offer. This will
further diversify our great tex
tile Industry and bolster It
evea IBM1* against
shocks.
i
Other Industries coming to South I
DIXIE'S FIRST PROCESSOR OF 'GREASE WOOL' RISKS NEAR JOHNSONVILLE
Carolina during the year include
industry in South Carolina, hasJTic Tax Company, Inc., at Cam-1
said it "could be one of the most I den. manufacturers of children's
significant boosts to South Caro wear; Runnymedc Corporation,
lina's economy in half a century." new worsted plant at Pickens; Un
Mr. Gable said yesterday that ion Bay Chemical Company, Inc.,
the Slate Development Board feels of Cambridge. Mass.. at Green
the woolen processing plants here ville; United Testing Company at|
will result in the establishment of Laurens; and others.
spinning and weaving of worsted
-ind woolen plants in the state.
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST
With this latest development, we lo Columbians was the announce
can offer the availability of wool ment early this year that Ameri
in the more profitable manufactur can Cyanamid Company had ac
ing atmosphere of South Carolina, quired title to a 1,110-acre tract
Development Board officials said. near Columbia in Lexington Coun
"The coming of wool (o
ty. The site is at Dixiana nearj
South Carolina will at*o have
Cayce. Present plans of the com-i
a marked effect In financial
pany is for a plant to be con-1
circles, because of the largn
structed for the manufacture of a
banking transactions Involved
new acrylic fibre, however, no
In the Importation of wool
further announcement has been]
throughout the raarketn of the
made by the company.
world," official* added.
This year, up to Dec. 1, more!
Agriculture leaders are hopeful
than
$70 million was spent or al
that the wool processing plants
located
for industrial development]
will bring an additional cash in
WOOL COMBING PLANT FOB; 9C: Here Is an artist's drawing of the Ha n tec River Wool
in the state during 1954, according
come
to
South
Carolina
farmers
Combing Company plant being built for the Amedee Prouvoat mud Company of France at
to figures released by the State I
Jamestown. Construction was begun in November by the Daniel CoimtrurUon Company from the production of raw wool. Development Board. The totaJ is I
of Greenville and marks the second mien plant to enUbiish operation* In South Carolina. The Well man company already is basrd on Incomplete estimates
The other, the Weliman Combine Company plant, a part of Nlchoto and Company, Inc., experimenting in an attempt to
began operations this pant hummer at Jotuionnvllle.
find a sheep adapted to South from data In the board's office,
Carolina and the Southeastern and may change slightly when the
United States. Under the Wellman! final returns are in, Mr. Gable
research project, Pollworth sheep j MldTh« yemr substantially booatwere brought here from Australia
*d the tremendous post-war
by Noel Dennis, a Victoria, Aus
Industrial growth of the Paltralia farmer and breeder of PollBy WILBtR McCARTHA
state was the culmination of many Company's is being constructed by worth's. The project is in charge
metto state. Mnce IMS, ap
South Carolina's tremendous years of work of the department. the Amodce Prouvost and Compa of C. H. Mudge, herdsmaji.
proximately $933.000,000 has
postwar industrial expansion, The board had long realized that ny of France. It will be named
been spent In South Carolina
which has been near the top in development of our woolen and the Santcc River Wool Combing
RECENTLY
ILLUSTRATING
for new plants or expansion of
worsted
Industry
would
depend
in
the nation, continued at a sub
Company.
the
great
demand
of
wool
that
existing plants, not Including
stantial pace during this year, large measure on securing the
Wellman Combing Company
Sloan W. Gable, acting director of basic wool processors, who have received lt» firtl shipment of South Carolina farmers will help the A EC Installation near
Aiken.
the State Development Board said traditionally been located near the raw wool during the. aprln*. II produce, Mr. Madge said at pres
wool port of Boston," the report Man the first raw wool to enter ent there were 50,000 sheep in Mr. Gable said it Is virtually 1
yesterday.
North Carolina and the Wellman Impossible to measure in full the
the Port of Charleston and
From the standpoint of long- said,
plant in Johnsonvillc could use the benefits accruing to the State from
ua*f brought from South
range development of South Caro
wool produced from these sheep new industrial development. Every
THE FIRST OF THE WOOL Africa.
lina's industrial economy, the most
citizen Is affected, directly or in
significant occurrence of the 1953- processing plants, the Wellman
directly. Based on dollar expendi
54 fiscal year Ka« doubtless that Combing Company, a part of Niture, the existing industries which!
of thr coming of two wool process chols and Company, Inc., began
have expanded will add an esti
ing plants to the state, the Plan operations this past summer at
mated 46,500 new jobs and will
said
it
to
easy.
to
ning Board reported in its new Johnson vi lie. The plant cost ap In excess of 230 persons. It is exannual
pected
to
eventually
enlarge
tol
foresee"
a
southern
woolen
indUspay
annual report.
proximately J3 million.
,350,(
about four times the capacity of I try "ranking in importance wit hi excess
"An announcement that Nirhols
Construction on a second wool
that ofNew^Kntfand and perhaps I newJ-nnual wages of over
and Company of Boston and Prou- processing plant got underway in the initial plant.
overshadowing it."
l*> .«» which have accrued to ***\
vost and Company of France, the November at Jamestown. This
benefit of the state and its people)
"Other wool treatment plants
two largest wool processors in the plant, costing about the same GOVERNOR BYRNfcS, comsince the war," he added.
almost snreto come, and
world, would build plants in the
ine on the developing woolen]
it as the Wcllmaii Combii
Twa Wool Combing Plants Significant Part
-saazab -^ 1\St^e_y. <&& /.PS&P , „
,.
OfTnaustnal exansion
in south Carolina
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5-2-1956
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