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is 2AA The Alabama Story 1X7 D-SDOErQ, Future Brig 1 a IT OH' mm I .11.1,1 JL nessee Valley is as good an indication as you can get of the growth that lies ahead for areas around the state's other waterway systems. Agriculture is still a substantial part of Alabama's economy with cotton remaining a king-sized value crop. Value of production in 1961 was $104.5 million, an increase of $25.3 million over 1957. As controls have curtailed cotton productions. Alabama's farmers have turned to the farming acitivities.

Poultry and have recently become large contributors to Alabama's expanding economy. Commercial broiler income has risen from about $12 million in 1951 to $87.5 million in 1961. There is some indication that a leveling off period on income has been reached. I believe this period to be temporary and I have been working on this matter By SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN Many favorable economic factors point to a prosperous future for Alabama. Surging activity has characterized the state's business scene in recent years.

As industry and commerce move ahead, Alabamians can justifiably be pleased with their own progress in helping to lead the South toward a brighter economic future. Significant indications of prosperous things to come lie in the fact that (1) Alabama's per capita income is steadily rising; (2) more and more plants are opening or expanding; (3) development of Alabama's waterways is coming along quite favorably; and (4) agriculture remains a key factor in Alabama's economy. Alabamians received nearly $5 billion in personal income last year, according to the Department of Commerce. Per capita income in 1930 was $868. In 1961 it was $1,478, a substantial rise for the 11-year period.

With the steady influx of new industries and stepped-up waterway development, it is a safe bet that this rise in per capita income will continue. Between 1930 and 1960 a total of 928 new plants and 817 plant expansions V-, pa I sus (I960)," Mr. Horton said, further predicting an increase in the number of brood cows from 670,000 to 1,500,000. He also says it is entirely possible that Alabama will be in the top five states in beef cow numbers by 1970. Alabama's rich coal and oil deposits contribute much to the state's future economical potential.

The advent of the coal pipeline concept could supply a boost to Alabama's coal economy. It could result in a cut in the cost of coal as a fuel and thus increase demand for coal which now constitutes 64 per cent of the fuel burned for the production of electric power. Alabama coal production fell from 19 million tons in 1948 to 10 milllion in 1954. The decline was caused primarily by a i 1-road dieselization. However, shortly thereafter coal-using electric, utilities began to expand and-Alabama expects to produce about 14 million tons this year for shipment to 33 states, Mexico, Canada and several other foreign nations.

To me writing about Alabama's economic future is a most interesting project. I could go on and on, but I know that newspaper space limitations prevent it. In summary, I do want the Advertiser's readers to know that I am optimistic about our future, that economic opportunities are practically unlimited in Alabama, and that I am going to continue to work in the Senate in behalf of projects which will enhance Alabama future. SEN. SPARKMAN plant and the plant expansion record of with my Small Business Committee.

We the Fifties shattered by a ood margin have succeeded in opening up poultry during the Sixties. markets in West Germany. American Waterway development is laying the poultry has been well received there. I I groundwork for the coming of more in This good reception indicates to me that other markets will open up eventually. Alabama ranks 24th nationally in the number of cattle and calves on farms in 1962 at 1.7 million, an increase of 2 per cent over 1961.

J. E. Horton dustries to Alabama. We have a long way toward full development of the Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway and the Chattahoochee River. Work is getting underway on the Coosa-Alabama system and appropriations for the first con- Alabama Cattlemen's Assn.

president, were announced in Alabama. These new struction work on the Tennessee-Tombig' said recently that Alabama is only on the threshold of entering its greatest era plants represent a total investment of bee are expected soon, In addition to all of the current wa- of beef cattle production. $1.6 billion. Alabama's potential for providing adequate locations and good terway development, we have the Ten- "I believe that in the next decade cash nessee River already full developed. The receipts from cattle can rise to $250 mil- I workers has hardly been tapped.

Ac-g cordingly, 1 expect to see the new amazing economic growth of the Ten- lion from the $86 million in the last cen By SENATOR LISTER HILL As we look forward to Alabama's prosperous future, let us pause and reflect and give thanks for the truly remarkable progress which has been made in our state. This story of growth and improvement, with its many blessings for our people, has cast a refreshing new look on our countryside. As we ride through Alabama these' days on modern highways and farm roads, we see progress in the green fields and terraced hillsides where once we saw ravaged earth and eroded clay. We see progress in ponds and lakes and woodlands conserving our soil, adding to our timber resources and our recreation facilities. We see in green pastures and prosperous farms.

After nightfall we see it in electric lights gleaming in virtually every farm home. Alongside the roads, we see it in the rural telephone lines that bring closer the friendship of neighbor and summon quickly the doctor or the minister in time of family need. All of this is part of "The Alabama Story" which has greatly enriched our lives just the past 20 years. This progress has not been wrought without vision and sacrifice and courage and fortitude. 5-Cent Cotton We, who have experienced the wrath of five-cent cotton and low farm prices, have seen our farmers making the story with hard work, experimentation and efficiency.

We have seen them fight adversity by diversifying Alabama's agriculture, expanding into cattle and dairy and 1 1 and by greatly im-proved methods of farming. Progress pays off. This year our farm income will reach some $618 million. One of the most significant breakthroughs for Alabama progress came with the removal of freight rate discriminations which had for decades penalized Southern industry. I had the honor of participating with two other Montgomerians Marion Caskie and Haden Alldredge in this freight rate breakthrough.

In 1942 Congress passed my amendment to' the Transportation Act directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to eliminate freight rate discriminations, and in nel in 1940 to more than 20 million tons today, and Mobile is the fifth port in tonnage in the entire nation. Development of our waterways is going forward with new construction at Jackson Lock and Dam on the Tombigbee, Holt Lock and Dam on the Warrior, and Columbia Lock and Dam and Walter F. George Lock and Dam on the Chattahoochee Rivers. These multimillion dollar projects will greatly expand Alabama's waterway capacity. Encouraging progress has been made in completing the surveys and drafting specifications for work on the Ala-bama-Coosa and Tennessee-Tombigbee systems, and further improvement and modernization in the Warrior-Tombigbee and the Tennessee Rivers.

Defense Role Alabama plays a vital role in the national defense through the many military installations over the state. Two of these Redstone Arsenal and Brookley Air Force Base rank among Alabama's three largest industries. The combined employment at Redstone Arsenal, including the Space Flight Center and the Army Ordnance Missile Command, is nearly 20,000 with an annual payroll of $141 million. The combined operation spends approximately $218 million a year in Alabama for services and supplies. Brookley Air Force Base the Mobile Air Materiel Area is one of nine such areas in the United States and manages one-third of the total Air Force inventory.

Brookley provides jobs for 15,600 civilians and 800 military employes with a total payroll of nearly $96 million a year. Brookley spends about $138 million a year in Alabama for operations and maintenance. Maxwell AFB and Gunter AFB in Montgomery now have a combined payroll of some $44 million a year and spend about $22 million on maintenance and operations. Other military installations in Alabama, Fort Rucker, Fort McClellan and Craig Air Force Base, provide thousands of jobs and bring another $100,000,000 to the Alabama economy. Throughout our state, we in Alabama wth our great nat-' ural resources are turning our dreams into records of progress.

We have made and are still making a better, place for free PENSIONS, HIGHWAYS, EDUCATION IMPROVE Gov. Patterson Cites Gains Of Administration and U.S. Property and Fiscal Office. A new Police Academy 1 has just opened its doors. Several legislative reforms have been made.

After a bitter floor fight a tough' small loan SEN. HILL ball and chain from the leg of the South." In the two decades since the freight rate amendment 2,000 new plants have come into Alabama representing capital investment of two billion dollars and Alabama is one of the nation's leaders in new plant investment. Other Gains We have seen tremendous progress throughout Alabama in education, in housing and public works, in social security, employment security, veterans benefits, and programs for the aged, blind, crippled and disabled. Alabama is a leader among the states in hospital and health facility construction through our Hill-Burton program. We now have some 300 hospitals, health centers, and other medical facilities completed in Alabama or under construction.

These Alabama facilities include 87 general hospitals and 55 public health centers, as well as rehabilitation centers, diagnostic and treatment clinics, tubercular sana-toriums, nursing homes for older people, and education and training facilities for the handicapped and mentally retarded. We have seen the tremendous growth of North Alabama through the development of the Tennessee Valley. Expansion of the Port of Mobile and continued development of Alabama's river systems is hastening further economic growth for the entire state. Phenomenal Benefit checks to old age pensioners average more than $70 this month for the first time in the state's history. Of all the accomplishments of his administration, Gov.

John Patterson is proudest of increases in public assistance higher payments to old folks, medicare care plans for both pensioners and indigent non-pensioners, additional benefits for dependent children, the blind and the physically handicapped. "It is heartwarming to help these persons when they need help the most and to know that they are now better able to meet their needs," the governor said. When ve was campaigning for the governor's office, payments struction, the state is rounding out a mammoth building program costing some $540 million over the last four years. This is almost twice as large as any previous administration's program. Air Port Program In airport-building, Alabama is often singled out.

The state claims the nation's most extensive airport construction program: a pilot flying over Alabama is rarely more than 20 miles from a first class airport. In the governor's opinion, industry follows airports much the same as it follows highways and waterways. In recent years, Alabama has enjoyed rapid industrial law was passed in 1959. The state's competitive bid law was tightened in 1961, embodying Gov. Patterson's recommendations.

Alabama's conservation program was augmented with the addition of two new county lakes and several large hunting areas. To supervise and control boating, a water safety division was created. Most state employes have received salary increases. State departments such as the State Docks, which had previously operated at a deficit were put on a business-1 ike basis. After Gov.

Patterson per sonally called on Wall Street brokers, Alabama received an A-i "credit image" for the first time. As accomplishments, too, the docks at Mobile, the nation's ninth largest port To develop more tonnage for the Port of Mobile, Gov. Patterson led a 15-day trade mission to Central and South America earlier this year. In 1960, he took a state yacht to Puerto Rico where he personally greeted some 4,000 island shippers aboard the boat The trip led to the immediate addition of a third weekly sailing between Mobile and San Juan. In other areas of state government, there have been these developments: Tourism has been promoted regularly, through the publication of new full-color brochures and through exhibits, for the first time, in regional travel shows.

Committees are now at work on plans for a first-class Alabama exhibit at the forthcoming New York World's Fair and for the return of the U.S.S. Battleship Alabama as a permanent memorial at Mobile. Several new buildings are under construction in the Capitol area, including a State Highway Building (with agencies occupying quarters at 711 High Street taking over the present Highway Building), Industrial Relations Building to Alabama 100,000 old age rumcinnor. onr0U nniu nhrait expansion. New records are GOV.

PATTERSON After an address by space scientist Wernher von Braun, the Alabama Legislature approved a $3 million bond issue for the construction of a University of Alabama research facility at Redstone Arsenal. Now under construction, the center gives scientists a place to continue their studies while at work here on various space $38 a month. some almost every year in new nensioners in ereatest need al- Flants and expanded plants governor cites such things as May 1945 the Commission with Mrs. Caskie and Mr. Aldridge growth of the Port of Mobile dom and opportunity and secur- "good labor-management rela- i programs.

tne state, Morf tnan 400 new plants have located in Alabama in the last four years. The governor is convinced that Alabama's industrial potential is dependent, in large measure, on waterway development. He points to the fertile Tennessee Valley as an example of how waterway and industrial growth go hand in hand. 7. In 1960, Gov.

Patterson led a as members handed down its has accompanied freight rate ity and progress for afl. Guided equality and a 36-foot channel by the vision, the determina tions, excellent law enforcement, 7'Aiabama has an important increased unemployment com- role in the nation's space ef-pensation and an enlarged civil says Patterson, defense program." "This is significant, I think, of At the same time, Alabama the great future in store for our is looking to the future. state and our historic decision putting an end to this economic penalty on the South. The late Grover C. Hall wrote in the Advertiser: "This is like the removal of a tion and the tireless efforts of our wonderful people, we look forward, with God's help, to an even greater future.

te accommodate deep water shipping. Mobile tonnage has risen fivefold, from four million tons with a 20-foot chan- large group io Washington in MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR-ELECT support oi uie ioosa-Aiaoama Waterway project Subsequent 'We Shall Be Governed By The Old Fashioned Virtues' allace i Or ready receive $75 or more. Alabama's rate of increase in pension payments during the last four years lead3 the nation. In addition, benefits to pensioners confined to nursing homes been increased from a maximum of $110-a-month to $175-a-montn. Medical care programs have been inaugurated which provide up to 30 days free hospitalization a year and up to three post-hospital doctor's visits.

For the state's new fiscal' year, just started, the Department of Pensions and Security is operating under a record-breaking $115 million budget. Gov. Patterson forecasts continued increases in all areas of public assistance in the months ahead. Under a new program, mental health received $2.5 million in the last fiscal year. Next year, the prospect is even better.

During the last four years, the state has also seen progress in the fields of education, highways, industrial development, inland waterways and docks, tourism promotion, airport-building and trade expansion. School Building In the summer of 1959, Gov. Patterson called the first special legislative session ever to study exclusively the problems of education. The session approved measures which brought a $20 million-a-year increase in education appropriations and also authorized Alabama's first statewide school construction program. Financed by a $100 million bond issue, new school facilities are now in use or under construction in every county and in most municipalities.

In the field of highway con- other states in recent years have copied this plan for use in their own states. Despite the great industrial strides made by Alabama in the post-war years, this state still ranks third from the bottom of all states in per capita income. This can be corrected only through further industrial expansion. Since my nomination to the office of governor I have travelled thousands of miles and talked to leading industrialists from California to New York. I have been greatly encouraged at the reception I have received and I am convinced that with the help of the incoming Legislature and the sup-, port of all the people that during the next four years our state can make great strides in industrial development.

PROBLEMS ECONOMIC Most of the problems facing our state, counties and cities could be solved with addition public office, as a member of the Legislature, I determined to do what I could toward providing more industrial jobs for the thousands of Alabamians who could no longer earn a living on the farm. Many factors are considered by an industry before it constructs a new plant, and one of the most imporant is the availability of an adequate force of skilled workers. I sponsored what is known as the Wallace Trade School Act which resulted in the construction of five new trade schools in Alabama in Mobile, Napier Field, Tuscaloosa, Decatur and Jefferson County. 50,000 WORKERS More than 50,000 men and women have since been trained at these schools. Later it was my privilege to introduce and secure enactment of the Wallace Industrial Act, a plan which has been used in bringing more than 100 new industrial plants to Ala- ly, Congress gave the project the go-ahead and work is now underway to provide a navigable stream from Mobile to Rome, via Selma, Montgomery and Gadsden.

Within a few months, the Chattahoochee will be navigable as far north as Phenix City. During the last year, Gov. Patterson has served as chairman of a three-state authority promoting construction of the long-planned Tennessee-Tombig-bee Canal, linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers. Congressional approval is expected next year. Jamelle On Tour To call public attention to the advantages of Alabama's second-to-none system of waterways, the State Yacht Jamelle is now making a month-long series of port calls on the Tennessee River.

The governor plans to board the boat later this month and make official calls all the way from Waterloo to Bridgeport. In connection with waterway improvements, the state is building a series of inland docks and public warehouses to facilitate water shipmentsm The program is also designed to benefit the state-operated long run work to the advantage of the South. People throughout the nation were shooked by this brazen mis-use of power by the federal government. The Kennedy Administration, in my honest opinion, was the big loser at Oxford, and I believe history will so record that fact I have said many times that the restoration of states rights goes hand in hand with a restoration of faith in our local governments and local officials. RESTORE FAITH We must restore confidence in our state government.

I sincerely believe that political plundering, loose ethics, waste and extravagance in our own state government has contributed more to the gradual loss of states rights than all the various initial organizations you could name. The Wallace Administration will be governed by the old fashioned virtues of honesty, efficiency and economy. I do not say that mistakes will not be made; in an operation as big as Alabama state government such a claim would be ridiculous. helps the economy of the entire state. It would be my hope that in the years to come when historians assess the Wallace Administration that they can say that during the 1963-67 quadren-nium that Alabama experienced it's greatest industrial growth in history.

I could say a great deal here about my views on the rights of the sovreign states. I could say very, little here that I have not said and re-said before. This trend cannot and must not continue. I pledge to you now, as I did throughout my campaign for governor, to react vigorously to outside meddling. We shall fight the federals in the arena of an increasingly sympathetic national public opinion.

We shall fight them in the arena of our courts by interposing constitutional questions involving the sovereignity of this state and the constitutional prerogatives of its chief executive. I am convinced that the tragic development at the University of Mississippi will in the. By GEORGE C. WALLACE Governor-Nominate The next four years in Alabama history will be written in large part by my administration. I am aware of this, and this awareness makes me both humble and grateful.

I am humbled by the fact that the people of Alabama should so greatly honor me with this high office. I am grateful with the knowledge that an overwhelming number of Alabamians endorsed the program which I outlined in my campaign. Every man who has dedicated himself to a life of public service can usually be identified with one theme or endeavor which has been paramount in his career. I come from an agricultural background. I grew up on a farm and know what it is to plow a mule and chop cotton.

I learned many years ago that Alabama would never realize it's full potential as long as there existed a serious imbalance between agriculture and industry. During my first service in WALLACE I do say that should any member of my administration be guilty of any such misconduct I personally will take steps to see he will no longer be in position to repeat his mistakes. I know full well that alone I could accomplish little, but with the help and support of all Alabamians the greatest people on earth our state will move forward into an era of prosperity and good will. al revenue and the best way bama which in turn have made to get this new money is through available thouands of new jobs. Industrial expansion.

A new It has been particularly pleas- plant, be it located in Baldwin Ing to me that a number of County or "High" Jackson, GROWTH CONTINUES UNABATED mmmmmmmmmm 1 20-Year Boom Changes Alabama From Agricultural To Industrial State By JOHN M. WARD Executive Vice President Alabama Chamber of Commerce The industrial development which has taken place in this state during the last two decades has transformed Alabama from a basically agricultural state to a rapidly developing Industrial state and has broucht about remarkable economic progress. This is reflected in increased income to our people, increased revenue to the state of Alabama, increased revenue to schools and in many other ways. The shift in population from rural to urban areas because of mechanization of agriculture, expansion of the livestock industry together with the migration of certain elements of our population out of the state point up the necessity for an increasing number of industrial Jobs each year if we are to keep within our state the population released from the farms and the large number of graduates from our high schools and college each year. It is conservatively estimated that Alabama will need the creation of approximately 20,000 new jobs annually.

There Is much in the Industrial development that has taken place in the last 20 years to give pride and satisfaction and, also, bright hopes for the future. A few figures will show this progress. Twenty years ago there were approximately 2,000 manufacturing plants in the state employing 116,800 workers and turning out products valued at $575,000,000 annually. Today there are 4,500 plants employing workers and turning out products valued at $3,800,000,000. During this 20-year period the percentage gains in plants, wage earners and value of manufactured products have been greatly in excess of the National average and compare favorably with other Southern states.

Along with this industrial development there has been a corresponding increase in total volume of business and retail trade and per capita income, slate revenues and in total purchasing power, etc. Reasons For Development There are sound basic reasons for this Industrial development: LABOR: We have a rapidly increasing population comparatively young, native-born, quick to learn, loyal and efficient. They have proved their adaptability and efficiency in many lines of industrial production. Our people constitute our greatest single resource. RAW MATERIALS: The state is blessed, with an abundance and wide variety of raw materials both inorganic and organic materials.

These are the products or our mines, forests and farms. TOWER AND FUEL: Our state occupies a favorable position in the production of able to industry and conducive to further legislation aimed at industry. Success And Profit Our greatest advertisement and inducement for new industry to move into this state continues to be the successful and profitable operation of those industries already located here. Twenty years ago Alabama's major industries fell within three general groups: namely iron and steel or metal working industry, textile industries and forest products industries. Developments within each of three fields during the past 20 years have contributed much to the state's industrial progress.

In the field of iron and steel there have been tremendous expansions in production facilities both for basic products and for new products on the part of both major steel producing companies. The expansions and diversification of fabricating and structural steel plants have been outstanding. There has been great development in the field of machinery of many kinds, Including farm implements, air conditioning equipment, etc. While the state has long been a leader in production of cast iron pipe the production of steel pipe has come into the picture and, also the production of copper tubing on a large scale. While there have been few new cotton electric power, coal and coke.

Natural gas is available in almost every section of the state and the state is devloping a substantial production of oil. TRANSORTATION: Transportation facilities are excellent including rail, highway, air and water with one of the nation's most modern ports and port facilities. MARKETS: While transportation facilities give Alabama manufacturers easy access to domestic and foreign markets, the state is located in the center of the south and the Southern states constitute one of the most rapidly developing markets in the country. CAPITAL: While outside capital is most welcome in the state and has played an important part in this industrial development there is more local capital available today than ever before. Alabama citizens are participating in.

the financing of industry as well as seeking new industrial capital. FAVORABLE TAX STRUCTURE: The tax structure of the state is reasonable and compares favorably with that of other sections. The total tax burden on industry in Alabama places us in a competitive position. Alabama's need in this connection is not more taxes on corporations but more corporations to tax. FAVORABLE GOVERNMENTAL CLIMATE: The attitude of government at the local, county and state level has been favor built in the state during these years, tremendous modernization and expansion programs have been carried on by many of the existing textile mills and new fabrics and products added to their lines.

The most outstanding development in this field has been the widespread establishment of garment and needle work plant throughout the state. A number of these are plants of nationaf concerns serving broad markets and turning out some of the best known national products. Development in the basic industry of forest products, have been marked by modernization of plants, new products from waste material, the expansion of the furniture manufacturing business and especially the further expansion of the pulp and paper industry. There are now seven large pulp and paper mills manufacturing a variety of products and the prospect of several more. This period has been marked by development in a number of field comparatively new to the state.

There have been several large developments in the aluminum field including ore reducing plant, alloy plant and aluminum plant. These plants were followed by such industries as aluminum tubing, aluminum furniture, alumninum window sash, utensils, etc. One of the large automobile companies and a large trailer company have established plants In Alabama converting aluminum to automobile and truck parts. There have been important developments in fibres with the establishment of three large manufacturers of synthetic fibre. The chemical industry has undergone con-siderable development.

The discovery and development of large salt domes north of Mobile brought about the establishment of a family of chemical plants based on chlorine derivitives. Another series is based on phenols and the production of nitrogen fertilizers has expanded enormously based on hydrogen gas generated as a by-product in coke ovens. This is in addition to the increasingly important coal chemicals de-rived from the same source. Alabama is rapidly coming to the front in the chemical Industry. A feature article in Chemical Engineering several years ago dealing with Alabama was entitled "A Chemical Giant Arises in the Southeast." Development in the.

electrical industry has been marked by the establishment of three plants In Alabama by the two largest national concerns In this field. Electronic tubes, electric light bulbs, welding rods and other products are being made. A sub-stantral electronics component industry has developed in connection with the Marshall Space Center and the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville. Plants for processing farm products, ex-snsive food production plants, meat packing and poultry dressing plants, feed mills, fertilizer plants, have been established..