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has completed 10 new mills in recent
years, bringing their total in South
Carolina to 21; J. P. Stevens & Co. has
expanded their operations to include
20 miles; Owens-Corning is in full
production with its multi-million dollar
Fiberglass plant at Anderson; Singer
Manufacturing Co. is turning out thou-
sands of lightweight sewing machines
at Anderson; Textron-Southern is ex-
panding rapidly in Anderson County;
Julius Kayser has built five plants in
two years; the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion is spending one and a half billion
dollars on the giant H-bomb plant near
Aiken; Charleston is booming as a
manufacturing and shipping center.

South of the border

L. W. Bishop, director of the S. C.
Research, Planning and Development
Board estimates that the State's post-
war industrial growth has reached a
fabulous $822,000,000 and has created
over 103,000 new jobs. Since 1945 more
than 1,000 new names have been added
to South Carolina's impressive roster
of manufacturers and there have been
1,100 major plant expansions.

The textile industry in South Caro-
lina is the biggest of course. But in-
dustry is expanding in other fields,
too. The Draper Corporation at Spar-
tanburg, Hunt Loom and Machine
Works at Greenville, B. L. Montague
Company at Charleston and Sumter,
Aldrich Machine Works at Greenwood,
and others have been greatly enlarged.
The Singer plant at Anderson is an-
other new metal-working industry.

Statistics and lists are important
yardsticks for measuring industrial
growth, of course, but they do not tell
the full story. Here is the way Direc-
tor Bishop of the Research, Planning
and Development Board summed it up
in his annual report: "The benefits
which accrue to the State from new
industrial development are almost im-

[image: manufacturing plant]

DUPONT went to Camden, S. C. to build this
giant Orlon plant which is still being enlarged.

possible to measure. They affect, di-
rectly or indirectly, every citizen of
the State in many ways. In addition
to wages, industry must expend money
for raw materials, services, utilities,
taxes and many other items which in-
directly affect the livelihood of our
citizens."

North of the border

Things haven't been exactly quiet in
the Old North State either, according
to a recent report from Paul Kelly of
the N. C. Department of Conservation
and Development. For instance, last
November Westinghouse broke ground
on a $12,000,000 electric meter plant
at Raleigh which will employ 2,500
persons. Western Electric, the nation's
principal manufacturer of communica-
tions equipment, began construction
early last November on a new 405,000
square-foot plant in Winston-Salem,
the Twin City's fifth Western Electric
plant. This one will cost over $4 mil-
lion and will have 2,500 production
employees, bringing the company's
N. C. employment to more that 12,000 in
seven plants.

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