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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 17, 1969—PAGE 5 Owens-Illinois honors two local salesmen Lloyd A. Hauser of Greenville has been honored by the Owens- Illinois Forest Products Division as one of the division’s top sales representatives for 1968. Mr. Hauser is a salesman for the company’s Newberry corrugat ed box plant. At a special awards dinner held during a recent two-day meeting in Owens-Illinois Toledo home offices, Mr. Hauser was inducted into the exclusive O-I Sales Builders Club. Alec M. Turner, O-I execu tive vice president and general manager of the Forest Products Division said, “An O-I Sales Builder has proven himself to be a thoroughly professional packaging salesman, serving not only the best interests of the company, but of his customers as well.” While in Toledo Mr. Hauser toured the company’s develop ment center and participated in a series of marketing and pack aging seminars. Mr. Houser is a 1965 grad uate of the University of North Carolina. Newberry's Pork Production: Swine are easily incorporated into most farm operations. Hogs are efficient in feed conversion and can offer a ready market for farm-produced grain. With land and labor cost con stantly increasing, pork produc tion conforms easily to confine ment operations and automa tion. The key to pork profits, as with all farm enterprises, rests with management. The manager must constantly be aware of si tuations that will reduce or el iminate his profit. He must al ways be concerned with rations, disease and breeding. Pork production can be pro fitable but it takes planning, work, and management that keeps abreast of new techni ques. Labor Management Problem It is the time of year when farmers are beginning to feel a labor squeeze. There are the fields to be plowed and planted and the need for competent farm labor will increase in the next several months. The labor market has chang ed. No longer can a farmer ex pect workers to come to his door. Non-farm firms offering year-round employment oppor tunities are bidding farm labor plans. If the schedule calls for away from the farm. Farmers who hire labor profitable are learning to cope with the labor situation of today. Who is a good labor mana ger? A good labor manager will make the job easier for the worker and get more productive work done at the same time. A good manager (1) plans the work; (2) tells and shows each worker what to do; (3) super vises the work; and (4) treats all workers fairly. A good labor manager sche dules the farm work, makes weekly and daily work sche dules, lists the jobs to be done, and tells the employees about plans. If the schedule calls for longer hours than normal let the workers know ahead of time. If a worker must have time off, it should be worked into the schedule. Impress workers with the importance of getting crit ical jobs done on time. Be sure the wage rate, the pay day and withholdings from the pay are clearly understood at the time the worker is hired. If farm produce and housing are provided an employee, show him what it would cost to provide these from his paycheck. Getting and keeping adequate farm labor is not an easy task. The good labor manager will use. the guides suggested above. The good labor boss will be firm, fair and consistent in his dealings with all employees. Asks drivers to stop speeding In a personal appeal, Colonel P. F. Thompson, commander of the S. C. Highway Patrol, has called on South Carolina drivers to reverse the trend of what he has pointedly labeled ’’wholesale disregard for our speed laws.” He noted that: —Speeding was the No. 1 con tributing factor in 375 out of 831 fatal accidents on South Carolina streets and highways during 1968.“ —Year in and year out, speed ing is the leading contributing violation in all traffic accidents. —In the eight months ending on February 28, the Patrol issued 54,562 warnings and made 78,- 388 arrests for speeding. “It is clearly evident that in the interests of traffic safety, South Carolina drivers need to slow down and discontinue the wholesale disregard for our speed laws,” the veteran Patrol officer said. The Highway Patrol intends “to do everything within its pow er to curtail accident deaths re sulting from unlawful speed,” including maximum use of rad ar and unmarked cars, he said. “And with posted speed limits and signs telling about the use of radar and unmarked cars, no one can reasonably complain they weren’t warned.” “We expect to be fair, but we will rigidly enforce the speed laws. We will make every ef fort to apprehend those who are disregarding the safety of oth ers. The Fire Report On March 26, Chief J. E. Ha zel and Captain C. T. Mill- stead met with the fire brigade of Mollohon mill. They showed the group two films on fire pre vention and the operation of sprinkler systems in industrial plants. If we could get every citizen of the City of Newberry as in terested in fire prevention as the members of the fire bri gade at the Kendall Company Mollohon plant we would have a more fire-safe City in which to live. We at the Newberry Fire Department would like to take this opportunity to salute Mr. Hursey and the Fire Brigade of the Mollohon plant. March 25: Friendly Fire De partment answered a call to a brush fire on the property of J. C. West, three-fourths of an acre burned. They were as sisted by the State Forestry Commission. March 26: Friendly, Prosper ity and Consolidated answered a call to a house on the proper ty of D. L. Ruff. Occupant was Sallie Elkins. Total loss estima ted damage $2,000. March 26: Friendly along with Newberry Fire department ans wered a call to a shed fire on the property of Pete Roton on Highway 121; minor damage. March 28: Prosperity along with Fairview answered a call to the property of Rufus Kit chens of the Stony Hill commun ity. Equipment shed was burn ing, estimated damage, $3,528. March 29: Silverstreet and the Friendly answered a call to a tenant house on the property of Thomas Walker, occupant Dav id Hiller, total loss to house. 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