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...through automation. A strapping Michigan Dutchman, VerMeulen joined AmSeCo as an upholstery inspector upon his graduation from Michigan's Hope College. He decided early that he liked the company so well that he wanted to be president of it. Three years ago he at last succeeded Harry M. Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver), who had been president for 29 years...
Exit Waste. Even in the Taliaferro days, it was young VerMeulen who mechanized the AmSeCo foundry back in 1930. Automation is now so prevalent that plant ceilings are a tangle of intricate conveyors that look like a routing man's nightmare. The company employs 500 fewer workers than it did in 1926 when it was a fraction of today's size, and its standard chair-desk sells for just over $12 v. more than $13 ten years...
...pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is a suit brought by Tennessee city dwellers for a reapportionment of the state's antiquated election districts. In Georgia the politicians are grudgingly talking at long last about giving more power to the populous counties. But Taliaferro Countians will resist any such move. Confesses one county official: "That would mean...
...Passing Buck. Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting...
Says one Georgia expert on industrial development: "My guess is that unless some young buck gets his back up over the situation and takes the rest of the people along with him, Taliaferro is going to keep on going downhill." But nearly all the young bucks have headed for the city. "I love Crawfordville," says J. Paul Ellington Jr., a dry-goods dealer. "I was born a block and a half away from this store. But if the population drops anymore, there's nothing for me to do but follow the others...