November 1957 page 11

[photograph of a building]
A & P's big new meat warehouse on Chemway Rd.
is expected to be finished sometime in January.

A & P Meat Warehouse
Is Nearing Completion

THE million-dollar 77,000-square-foot
meat storage and processing plant
for A & P located in the P & N's Chem-
way Industrial District in Charlotte is
rapidly nearing completion.

The main portions of the big facility,
which is being constructed by the P & N
for lease to A & P, are scheduled for
completion early in December. Some ad-
ditional contractural work undertaken by
A & P will be finished shortly thereafter.
The company expects to begin operations
in January.

The modern building will be head-
quarters for meat distribution to A & P
food stores located throughout the Caro-
linas. Carload quantities of meat will be
purchased from various packers and
shipped to the warehouse for cutting,
packaging, and distribution to the stores.
Also there will be local processing of
such items as sausage and poultry.

The meat warehouse is the third major
facility to be completed in the Chemway
Industrial District and is the largest.
The interior rail siding springs from the
service track which also serves the B. F.
Goodrich Company warehouse and Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing Company.

TIME IS MONEY

"Time is money" is a truism in the
business world, but on the railroads the
value of time is above measurement in
dollars and cents. Railroaders realize
that in their work a minute or less may
mean the difference between safety and
sorrow, and they "keep time" to a de-
gree unsurpassed in any other field of
activity.

All railway workers whose duties are
closely connected with the movement of
trains are required to provide themselves
with watches conforming to high stand-
ards of accuracy. They are further re-
quired to present their watches at in-
tervals to an inspector for comparison
with standard clocks. If a variation of
more than fifteen seconds a week is
noted the watch must be repaired or
adjusted.

Standard clocks are provided in round-
houses, yard offices and other localities
where they will be convenient to em-
ployees subject to the time-service require-
ments. About the last thing done by the
engineer and fireman of a train before
taking out their engine is to compare
their watches with the standard clock.
Similarly, the conductor, flagman and
brakeman of the train compare their
watches with the standard clock in the
yard office just before taking charge of
the train. Members of the train crew
also compare watches among themselves
before the start of each trip.

This close attention to accuracy of
time is typical of the painstaking care
with which the railroads safeguard the
operation of trains. This is one reason
why traveling on trains involves less risk
of injury than almost anything else one
can do.

The railroads bear the entire cost of
the unemployment and sickness benefit
system administered by the Railroad Re-
tirement Board

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