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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1962
Page
15
An editor's note explains how a factory move can bring gains to one area and heartbreak to another. The Borg Warner Norge division shifted from Muskegon Michigan to Fort Smith Arkansas last year, illustrating the regional impact of corporate relocation.
Fort Smith now hosts Norge division of Borg-Warner after moving from Muskegon. The $20 million plant created 2,100 jobs and adds to 6,500 local jobs in two years. City officials credit Norge for elevating prestige and attracting other industry while investing in schools and a civic auditorium. Plant employs about 1,800 former Muskegon workers with retraining completed. Plant manager cites available manpower as key to location.
C R Burden 65 has whittled for 45 years averaging five hours weekly turning blocks into items like chains coffee tables guitar cases chests and a model log wagon with oxen He owns 75 knives and claims a cedar chest he carved has 10 268 pieces and was offered 1 009 Burden distinguishes a whittler from a carver calling whittling an art not technique and says his work remains a hobby he can start and half a day slips by.
About 300 veterans disable job prospects after Norge division moved to Fort Shawne. DeWayne Pickard notes age barriers hinder reemployment while the Michigan Employment Security Commission cites a 40 year limit for foundry work. Some workers found town jobs or moved nearby but the plant’s payroll and tax losses push Muskegon Heights to cut budgets as a shopping center plan nears.
In Turin Italy fifty cars and trucks collided in a fog bound chain reaction on the Milan Turin highway. Twenty five people were injured with one in grave condition. The wrecks followed a heavy truck ramming a car and subsequent pileups as vehicles emerged from the fog.
In Phoenix at Williams AFB hospital nurse Mrs. Dal Bailey received an emergency call from a man asking about a birth. The caller learned the intended recipient was not the mother but her husband. The mix up led to an improvised but successful delivery.
Manhattan Savings Bank hosts weekday noon piano recitals in a public lounge attracting office workers and the elderly. The bank notes four years of asset growth from about 100 to 446 million while stressing a human, depositor-friendly approach. Denton, a former auto plant worker, recalls hard times shaping the policy.
In a fortress like bank interior with marble pillars, musician Helena Kaprielian performs from noon to 2 30 p m amid a continuous medley of tunes. Friday's set includes Stormy Weather Stardust Great Day and Im An Old Cow Hand as snow swirls outside.
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