Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1958-10-22
Behind
The Scenes
by Reynolds Knight

businessmen have for years con-
Sidcred politics dirty word.
a big barrier TO more business
participation in politics has been
the fear that it's "touchy sub
Jcct" and might ALLEVIATE the
segment of the working force
that doesn't see eye to eye with
the boss.
But lately the pendulum has
been swinging the other way =.
Some companies, big and small,
are urging their employees TO get
INTO politics at the precinct
level. They're urging their peo-
pie to. handle ''grasS-roots" pol
ltical jobs, everything from dis
tributing party literature and
money-raising to running for
local office.
One big Detroit firm has turn
cd over list of management
level volunteers to state chair
men of both major parties. A
Pittsburg company has a pro-
gram to encourage stockholders.
IcmploycS and dealers to take
part in local politics. Some COM
pany arrangements. admittedly
Republican, have called upon
their COP employees to help
master contributions - at the
same time challenging their
Democratic employees to do as
well as you can for your side"
Whether we like it or not"
says one businessman, "thc fut-
urc Of business is inescapably
dependent on politics"
MILESTONE OCCASION -
When two young immigrant
brothers from Europe launched
a diStllling business in Ktntucky
in 1872 and transported their
product over wooded trails on
horseback, little did they dream
that less than 100 years later
their burbon would be enjoy
led by passengers travelling to
Europe at a neutrality-suspicious.
pace high in the skies above the
broad Atlantic.
But SO famous and so popular
has their brand become in the
intervening years that it will be
the sole u. S. bourbon 10 be
Served aboard the first Ameri-
can jet airlIncr in passenger SER
vice.
When Americans Jet
lClIppCr America takes off from
New York'S IG!cwIu intcrna-
Itlunal Airport On October &c for
its first scheduled journey to
Paris, travellers viii De able To
enjoy | ". Harper straight
Kentucky bourbon - traditional
American brand that had its
origin sc years ago in the rent
free rear room OF a grocery store
in Paducah.
THINGS TO COME - 4 large
scale ComputCr system now ana
IlyzcS daily sales figures from
dealers of one popular make of
automobile, enabling the factory
TO ktcp tabs on customer pre-
fercncCs as to model. trim and
color and thus eliminate guess
work in production schedules
=. On the home front a manu-
facturcr has come up with a
wrench whose jaws grip auto
matically whatever size nut you
iarc tightening without finger or
manual adjustment Not a
Ido-it-yoursclf item, but avail
able to physicians is a plastic
Iglue for broken bones. II hard
ems within 30 minutes, binds the
Don't together, then diSsolves
into the blood.
! SMALL FIRMS SANTA-Thc
carly-l958 blues of many air
craft subcontractorS. hard hit by
Defense Department contract
Examinations. are vanishing with
the upturn in defense spending
that's expected to hit -46.5 bill
lion by spring 1859.
While defense production ac-
tivity has ebbed and flowc.
some aircraft supplicrs and sub
contractors have enjoyed a con-
siderable degree of stability
Their good fortune stems from
doing the major portion of their
selling TO prime contractors who
believe in supporting small bust
mess wherever possible.
Tnuical Of these prime con-
Typical of these prime con-
lcurrcntly building the big Flo
IsupCrsonic fightcr-bombcr for
Ithc Air Force. Republic ha
Steadily built up its own grour
Ioi outside SuppliCrs during tn,
past four years. Last year. Re
public did some l95.4l5.OOO WORT
IOf business with3.585 subcon.
contractors. Al least rs to 8C
/ per ctnt Of these arc by govern
Imcnt definition small bushes
$500 or fewer employees.
The policy Of sub-ontractin,
substantial portions Of aircraft
production is in line not only
with an Air Force wish 20 sup
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