December 1953 page 9

DIRECTORS' TOUR
25 Directors and Officials give South Carolina
Division a quick and approving inspection tour

EARLY this month a group of 25
Piedmont & Northern Railway direc-
tors, officials, and several other interested
persons boarded a special train in Spar-
tanburg and inspected the railroad be-
tween Spartanburg and Greenwood.

The special tour was arranged by
President W. I. Rankin on December 3,
in order to acquaint members of the
board of directors of the substantial
industrial progress along the division
and to bring them up to date on the
physical condition of the railroad. The
tour included stops at the Lee steam
plant of the Duke Power Company near
Pelzer and inspection of a number of
facilities at Greenwood.

Directors James C. Self, Sr., and James
C. Self, Jr., were hosts to the directors
at Greenwood. There the group boarded
a special bus and visited the Harris plant
of Greenwood Mills, the modern 179-bed
Self Memorial Hospital, and the big new
Durst plant of Greenwood Mills. The
latter is the newest addition to Green-
wood Mills and is now beginning the
production of cotton print cloth.

Luncheon was served to the directors
and officials in the hospital cafeteria.
Guests were taken on an inspection tour
of the $3,000,000 completely modern in-
stitution. Self Memorial Hospital was
built by Mr. Self and is operated by the
Self Foundation for the benefit of the
citizens of Greenwood County and the
surrounding area. Hospital Administra-
tor W. W. Lowrance was in charge of
the tour.

During the afternoon the group had
an opportuity to visit one of the hun-
dreds of modern houses erected for em-
ployees of Greenwood Mills and spent
the better part of an hour looking over
the new Durst plant. The building is a
single story structure which measures
about 1230 feet in length and is approxi-
mately 356 feet wide. It covers about 10
acres of land.

After completion of the tour in Green-
wood the group returned via train to
Greenville.

On hand for the tour

Directors making the trip included:
J. W. Arrington, Jr., vice-president,
Union Bleachery, Greenville; F. J. Blythe,
president, Blythe Bros. Co., Charlotte;
N. A. Cocke, president, Duke Power Co.,
Charlotte (also vice-president, P & N
Railway); Frank Dowd, president, Char-
lotte Pipe & Foundry, Charlotte; Alester
G. Furman, Jr., partner, Alester G. Fur-
man Co., Greenville; R. E. Henry, retired
textile executive, Greenville; W. P. Ligon,
vice-president, Reeves Bros. Inc., Spar-
tanburg; W. S. Montgomery, president,
Spartan Mills, Spartanburg; C. C.
Pearce, Jr., president, Pearce-Young-
Angel Co., Greenville; W. I. Rankin,
president, P & N Railway, Charlotte;
James C. Self, president, Greenwood
Mills, Greenwood; and James C. Self, Jr.,
treasurer, Greenwood Mills, Greenwood.

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