MANUFACTURER GIVES CLOTHES TO AGENCIES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 31, 1992                   TAG: 9201310188
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Southwest bureau
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
MANUFACTURER GIVES CLOTHES TO AGENCIES
Donnkenney Inc. is contributing about 48,000 articles of clothing to social service agencies in Southwest Virginia.
The garments, mostly articles of women's clothing with small fabric flaws that prevent them from being sold in stores, were presented Wednesday to the Wythe County Social Services Department. It will offer them to agencies and clothing closets in 22 Southwest Virginia localities from Giles, Montgomery and Floyd counties west to the coalfields.
Most of Donnkenney's plants are in the region west of Montgomery and Floyd, said Ron Hollingsworth, corporate controller, so that seemed the proper place to make use of the garments. He approached Michael Hall, Wythe's social services director, about handling the movement and storage of the garments and Hall agreed.
The Alliance Tractor-Trailer Training Center in Wytheville loaded the boxed clothing in two of its trailers. It is now in the process of being moved into an industrial shell building belonging to the Joint Industrial Development Authority of Wythe County in Fairview Industrial Park.
Hollingsworth said the articles include about 37,000 pants, 7,700 tops, 900 shirts, 150 jackets, about 100 turtleneck shirts and assorted dresses and jump suits that had accumulated this year from returned or flawed pieces.
"I think it's just one more indication of what good citizens, both corporate and private, that we have here in Southwest Virginia," Hall said.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB