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The Anniston City Council met today after recessing its regular meeting Tuesday and unanimously passed a resolution agreeing to lease property in the industrial park to Sweet-Orr and Co., a uniform manufac turer, for 57 months at $500 per month. Sweet-Orr is a division of Bates Manufacturing Co., which makes bedspeeds and uniforms for the Boy Scouts of America. Abe Cooperman, who will be Sweet-Orr’s Anniston pliant manager if they move here, said the company would begin by employing 50 workers on a five-day-a-week basis. Sweet-Orr is currently negotiating with Lion Uniform Co. which now holds the lease the city has agreed to sell to Sweet-Orr. Lion now employs 50 to 55 workers for two or three days a week, according to Anniston Chamber of Com merce Executive Vice-President Frank Akers. The Tuesday meeting was recessed until today to give Ward 1 Councilman Jimmy Gardner time to study the nine page lease agreement with Sweet-Orf attorney Charles Doster. Gardner abstained at the vote on the resolution Tues day, saying he had not been notified in time to attend the briefing Doster gave the other councilmen two weeks ago. Doster said it was his fault Tuesday that Gardner had not been briefed in the meantime. Gardner said Tuesday he had not known until that day the matter would be the subject of a resolution at the regular Tuesday public meeting. Under city statute, a resolu tion such as the lease agree ment must be read and passed at two city council meetings if not passed unanimously at the first one. The recess of the Tuesday meeting until today was to give Gardner a chance to cast his vote in this session and avoid the delay of waiting until a second meeting. The lease which the city is offering to Sweet-Orf would run for four years and nine months with two five-year options for additional leasing. The city would lease its building and land at the industrial park for $500 per month. In addition, the city would install an air - conditioning system costing $34,353 for Sweet-Orr with the company agreeing to reimburse the city for its investment. The lease agreement also gave Sweet - Orr the option of buying the land and property leased for $120,000 on or before Nov. 15, 1975, for $138,000 on or before Nov. 15, 1980, and for $175,000 on or before Nov. 15, 1983.
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Wed, Jan 20, 1971
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