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IMPROVEMENTS - Mayor Robert Trammell checks over a map showing how changes in the city's water
Would affect Luthersville.
ing Boom Town
or Not, LuthersviUe Poised for Growth and Prosperity
Mayor
Trammell hopes Ford
Company is, indeed,
and an estimated
Jobs _ some 2,000 of
the plant itself - to a
site in the Tri-
Industrial Park
Grantville.
knows it's com-
the case for every-
he reasons, fl
of people in
, Mich.
be a few high-
of Georgia indus-
Ckaowledges, but not
coming any-
is on the verge
down a $1.6 million
'eXpand and improve
distribution center,
adding three new
ells.
new wells will also
Atlanta and Columbus
regions which ignored
Luthersville for many years
"after Interstate 85 By-
passed us."
THE MAYOR, a native
whose family first boqght
land here in the 1840s, says
there are two major reasons
Ford would be so good for
Luthersville and the area:
It would provide "good
employment in this county."
He envisions perhaps hun-
dreds of vehicles heading into
the county every morning,
bringing Ford employees to
work, rather than just the exo-
dus of Meriwether County
people every morning head-
ed closer to Atlanta to their
jobs.
And the plant would add
substantially to Meriwether
County's tax base, "so busi-
ness and landowners don't
have to pay everything."
He winces every time he
hears of people today having
to sell off Meriwether County
land their grandparents
worked their entire lands to
purchase in order to pay their
taxes.
"I'm hopeful" Ford's com-
ing, but either way, Trammell
says, "I believe the attention
Ford's brought to the county
will bring something else
good to us in the near future
if the economy turns around.
That may be the biggest hang
up of all."
MERIWETHER and the
'lYi-County Industrial Park "is
nearest to 1-85 and Hartsfield
International (Airport) and to
rail service and you just don't
find that in many places,"
Trammell said, noting the
advantages of the industrial
site Ford here has high on its
priority list compared to one
in Morgan County that the
automaker is also said to be
considering.
"Is there a negative side"
to the possibility that Ford
will bringa plant that will pro-
vide some 2,000 jobs and
"spin-offs" such a suppliers
that might mean another
2,000 jobs, the mayor asks,
rhetorically.
"The only thing I can think
of is when I' retired, I antici-
pated myself in 20 years tool-
ing around Luthersville in a
pickup truck, as my dad and
grandfather did
"If Ford comes, that might
no longer be possible."
It's obvious the retwed 34-,
yem .... employeoj .-of ..... the,
University System of
Georgia, who spent last 29 as
an English professor, chief
academic officer and vice
president of academics and
dean of the faculty at Macon
State College, won't consider
that a major sacrifice.
Whatever comes,
]¥ammell expects the atten-
tion focused on Meriwether
by speculation about the com-
ing of Ford to be a good thing.
"You couldn't have bought
that kind of attention," he said
in an interview last week.
• sville of con-
of the city's exist-
wells which the
by
the main
in dry-cleaning
put a Band-
fix on that problem
f by installing
ilters which extract
the town's
Water, but Trammel
anticipated new
n by
is not
you want to live
EXPANDED and
water system,
a 300,000-gallon
tank will also allow
.to serve more cus-
)rove fire protec-
allow for a two-or
' backup if the deliv-
should fail short-
growth is
it the moment pri-
Atlanta proper"
people who
opted for the
and Coweta
10 years ago but
to get "a little far-
md away from
congestion.
cites some 14
construc-
flete-in
zmrous other
as proof that
arrived even
might
I expected.
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