ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, August 6, 1996                TAG: 9608060081
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: B-5  EDITION: METRO 

PLANT OPENING

LENGTH: Short :   28 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  Gary Clark, general manager of Fleetwood Homes of 
          Virginia, speaks Monday to a crowd in the company's new 
          manufactured-housing plant in Franklin County-Rocky Mount Industrial
          Park. The $7.1 million facility is the company's second in Rocky 
          Mount. Fleetwood is a unit of a Riverside, Calif.-based producer of 
          mobile homes and recreational vehicles. The company has said the new
          plant, which will employ more than 200 people, will allow it to 
          double production, from 60 to 120 homes a week. Fleetwood, which has
          had operations in Franklin County for 28 years, employs 280 at its 
          first plant in Rocky Mount. Mod-U-Kraf Homes, another 
          manufactured-home producer in Rocky Mount, opened its expanded plant
          in the industrial park last month.