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ivl nspT OF ARCH HISTORY COM? 0 BOX S71 JACKSON MISS 39205 81st Year No. 181 Greenwood, Monday, August 1, 1977 millioirii plaBtt 15C vl S2o5 planned for city 1 Officials of Genuine Parts Company, Atlanta, today announced plans for a $2M million nationwide distribution facility in Greenwood-Leflore County, Mississippi. Earl Dolive, vice chairman of the board of directors of Genuine Parts announced the company's plans at a meeting this morning at the Greenwood-Leflore Chamber of Commerce. He said the company plans to construct an automotive replacement parts distribution center which initially will employ 150 persons and which will probably grow to 250. The $2.5 million masonry and steel building will be located on a 11-acre site in the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Park near the Henderson-Baird warehouse.

Dolive expressed his appreciation to Greenwood and Leflore County officials and to members of the Greenwood Leflore Industrial Board and Chamber of Commerce members. He said the nationwide company deals with many communities across the country, and he said he has never met with greater cooperation and cordiality than in Greenwood. Dolive cited the strategic location of the area, the availability of labor and the "enthusiastic reception we received from everyone who worked with us" as factors in the company's decision to located in Greenwood. Dolive said almost all of the com pany's employes will be hired from the Greenwood area. "We can train everyone who works for us in a pretty short time.

We will do a lot of packaging, shipping, receiving, trucking, some computer work and sales work. There will be a variety of jobs available." He said he expects the plant's payroll to be in the range of $1 million, the groundbreaking on the plant to be in October and its completion to be in late fall of next year. Dolive said his company expects to have annual sales of a billion dollars when the firm celebrates its 50th anniversary in a few years. He said that couldn't have been accomplished "if we didn't treat our employes and our customers right." Genuine Parts does business in all parts of the United States aand in Canada and Europe. This is the fifth new industry to locate in Greenwood in the past 15 months.

New jobs offered by the industries will total over 1,000 and payroll figures are estimated at $8 million for the five new plants. Greenwood Mayor Louis Fancher Jr. and Ray Tribble, president of the Leflore County Board of Supervisors, expressed their appreciation to Gov. Cliff Finch, the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board, Mississippi Research and Development Center, Mississippi State Department of Education-Vocational-Technical Department, Delta Council Frank Long executive director; Earl Dolive, vice chairman of the board of Genuine Parts; and Earle Fisher, president of the Greenwood-Leflore County Chamber of Commerce. Mapping plans for the Genuine Parts Company's new distribution center in Greenwood are, Charlie Clark, NAPA general manager, Memphis; Alex Malouf, Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Board; John Lovorn, industrial board flm.

Villi ell employees staixe set if contract expires ARTIST'S RENDERING OF NEW NAPA WAREHOUSE To be constructed in the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Park Yazoo City postmark becomes popular collector's item and members of the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Board for making this project a reality. "We are delighted that Genuine Parts has selected Greenwood-Leflore County for the site of this major nationwide distribution center," Fancher said. "We are looking forward to a long and happy relationship with this outstanding company," he said. Tribble revealed that industrial development revenue bonds would be issued by the Board of Supervisors to finance the purchase of the site and construction of the distribution center. The bonds will be underwritten by the Robinson-Humphrey Company, investment bankers, Atlanta, Ga.

Genuine Parts will be solely responsible for the retirement of the bonds. "A public referendum is not required on this type of industrial revenue bond issue," Tribble pointed out. "The company will pay all costs involved." Genuine Parts was founded in 1928 and is primarily a distributor of automotive replacement parts and related supply items which constituted 74 per cent of the company's total sales during 1976. Sales in 1976 were $846,192,692. The company is a founding member of the National Automotive Parts Association (NAPA).

It operates 37 NAPA distribution centers which serve approximately 3700 automotive parts jobbing stores located in 43 states. pressured need something to benefit operators. If an operator is out sick for a certain number of days she can be suspended. They figure it as absenteeism and try to suspend her. "If an operator makes five billing errors in a year, they also try to suspend her.

Even though a customer may have given her a wrong number, it's the operator's fault because the customer is always right. We say if an operator makes only five billing errors, that's 99 per cent efficiency." Greenwood office business manager John Helms said management and the union "are still bargaining and we anticipate reaching an agreement." E. E. Robinson, a South Central Bell supervisor who is P. P.

Robinson's brother, said "the news I've got is that if we don't come to some kind of agreement by Saturday the union will strike." commercial fishing areas, must first inform a state regulatory agency giving the exact locjtion along with the rates of the chemical to be used. Mississippi counties granted permission' to use the emergency chemical include Bolivar, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Hinds, Humphries, Issaquena, Copiah, Jones, Smith, Covington, Holmes, Monroe, North Panola, Scott, Oktibbeha, Lee, Itawamba, Leake, Leflore, Madison, Panola, Quitman, Rankin, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tunica, Warren, Washington, and Yazoo. VJoatifoor MID-DELTA FOOTBALL players working for the upcoming season can expect partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures through Tuesday. Tonight's low will be 65 degrees with Tuesday's nigh expectedto be 89 degrees. The winds will be northerly at 10 to 15 miles per hour.

Sunday's high in Greenwood was 88 degrees and the low was 73 degrees. This morning's low was 73 degrees. The extended forecast through Thursday calls for rain Wednesday and Thursday with the high 92 degrees and the low 72 degrees. eluding peanuts, for us to stamp," he said. "Some people also put fancy decorations on them." The postmaster said requests came from as far away as Oregon requesting the postmark.

"People ust sure trust the post office because hundreds of letters came in with $2 bills enclosed for us to stamp and return," he said. "The bank also sold out of $2 bills during the visit because people were getting the bills and bring them down for us to stamp." McGraw said numerous scrapbooks and baby albums were also stamped. YAZOO CITY, Miss. (UPI) Baby diapers, dog horns, $2 bills and fans were all stamped by the U.S. Postal Service in an avalanche of requests seeking the postmark of this usually quiet city during the recent visit of President Carter.

"We just couldn't believe it," Postmaster Hugh McGraw said. "We had requests to postmark about 10,000 items on the Thursday and Friday the President came here." McGraw said the items stamped with "Presidential Visit, Yazoo City, July .21, 1977" ran the gamut. "A woman called and asked if we could stamp cloth. I said 'yea, but what kind of She said a baby diaper and I couldn't believe it," McGraw laughed. "She did take the baby out of the diaper." Farmers warned to scout pests By HARRY MERRITT Staff Writer SOME 300 South Central Bell employes, members of Local 10507, Communications Workers of America (CWA), will join a nationwide strike against American Telephone and Telegraph if agreement on a new contract has not been reached by Sunday.

Local 10507 of CWA includes workers in the Greenwood, Lexington, Durant and Winona offices of South Central Bell Telephone, a subsidiary of Some 250 of the 300 members of the local work in the Greenwood area. Local 10507 is affiliated with District 10 of the CWA, which includes 48,393 communications workers in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Kentucky. Nationwide membership in the CWA is approximately 500,000. being applied for worms. In the northern half, infestation is spotty, with control measures being applied on a field-to-field basis.

Hamer said 30 counties have applied and received permission to apply emergency-use materials that were approved earlier this year by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He said, however, not all the fields are at the emergency level, but the designation allows those producers with heavy Infestations to take measures. Although the counties have received the designation, many farmers have apparently built their control programs around standard chemicals I because of a shortage of the expensive I chemicals. The state was allowed only enough chemicals to 400,000 acres. Faulkner film to be CARROLLTON 'The Waltons" television star Will Geer will come here in September to film William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily." In 1960 Geer was in Carrollton when he played in Faulkner's "The Reivers," which was also filmed here.

Geer will portray Dr. Peabody, a nosey town doctor who will be the central character in the film. According to P. P. Robinson, second vice president of the local, disagreement on a new contract centers on three issues an adequate cost of living increase in wages, additional health and retirement benefits and a reduction in job pressures on telephone operators.

"If the company doesn't come across with some new proposals we're going to strike," Robinson said. Robinson said present retirement benefits are insufficient for the "amount of service" required. Retirement age is 55, Robinson said, "and if you retire before then, the company subtracts from what little pension they give us." Benefits in general are skimpy, he added. "They only offer paid leave to a woman who is pregnant." Another union gripe is the "job pressures in traffic" operators must endure, Robinson said. "Operators are Hamer said the new chemicals range in cost from $6.60 to $17.00 an acre to apply.

As an example, he said "Ambush" runs about $128 a gallon, while "Bolstar" cost about $40 a gallon, with a range of price depending on the rate, of from $5 to $6.67 an acre. EPA granted Mississippi and 10 other states permission to use the restricted chemicals after July 20, but the agency said a strick set of guidelines must be followed for environmental reasons. The states have to monitor the use of the materials to see if they harm the environment, such as fish kills. They can only be applied by trained farmers or other trained applicators. Hamer said a farmer wishing to spray the restricted chemicals within a half mile of a pond, stream of shot in Carrollton H.

Kaye Dyal and Geer together form Folksay, which will be producing the film. John Houseman, an Academy Award winner for his role in "Paper Chase," is also reported to have been signed for the picture. Dyal said he hoped to begin filming in September, and the filming should take from two to three weeks. He plans to use local people in both acting and production of the film. Two radio stations to appeal decision McGraw said the five-man post office had more than 6,000 requests on Thursday when Carter held a town meeting with Yazoo City citizens and almost 4,000 on Friday.

The President included Yazoo City in a two-day swing through the Deep South on July 21-22. He also stayed overnight in the home of Owen Cooper, Mississippi industrialist and religious leader. "Following the town meeting one man brought in his dog horn used in deer hunting. He said he just couldn't resist having it stamped," McGraw said. McGraw said fans used during the town meeting because of no air conditioning in the hall where Carter spoke were the favorite item.

"People cut them in all kinds of shapes, in-. THE FCC said it agreed with Lozner that Leflore engaged in willful misrepresentation to the commission, and that the companies have no evidence in the record to support their contentions' that they have done a good job. The denial was the result of a petition started in 1971 by several groups protesting the changing of WSWG-AM programming from rhyth-m and blues to country and western. During that time, the station also replaced three part-time black announcers with a new full-time white announcer and a part-time white announcer. The commission also said even after the companies were notified of any mistakes, they were making, the licensees continued to operate in the same manner, failing to honor proposals made to the FCC and the public.

JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) Mississippi cotton farmers, feeling more pressure in some areas from the destructive bollworm and tobacco budworm, have been warned to scout fields at least twice a week over the next several days to keep abreast of the insect situation. "Because of the early crop this year, we may be at the end of the second generation of worms and the third generation may be coming up between Aug. 7-12. We just don't know," said Dr.

Jimmy L. Hamer, Pest Management Specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service. Because of the uncertainty, Hamer said farmers should not let insects get the upper hand. He said egg and worm counts are well above treatment levels in many fields, especially in the southern section of the state. "Normally, the last generation would have a greater precentage of budworms which many times have a greater resistance to standard control measures and are harder to control." said Hamer "The way the cotton is growing off, if we can get through the August generation we may escape some of the prolonged damage we have experienced in past years," he said in a telephone interview.

In the Southern section of the state, Hamer said control measures are LEFLORE BROADCASTING CO. and Dixie Broadcasting Co. licensees for WSWG-AM and WSWG-FM of Greenwood, plan to appeal in federal court the Federal Communications Commission's decision Friday to deny them license renewals. Charles D. Saunders of Greenwood owns both companies.

Keith Worrell, station manager for both stations, said today, "We have made the decision to appeal the FCC's ruling. By appealing the decision, we will be allowed to operate the stations for two more years. We have already been given a hearing, and we have presented an oral argument. Both were denied." Both companies have been given until Oct. 16 to finish any of the stations' business if no appeal was made.

The commission's four to one decision upheld a 1975 ruling by FCC Administration Law Judge Reuben Lozner..