Billiard jobs coming, while tent jobs going

PORTLAND, Tenn. (AP) ? Olhausen Billiards Manufacturing Inc. said on Wednesday it expects to have up to 200 employees within the first year of operation at its new headquarters.

The company announced in April it was relocating its headquarters, manufacturing and distribution operations from the San Diego area to Portland, about 30 miles north of Nashville.

It is transferring 75 people and hiring 80 locally, with plans to have nearly 200 employees working in the first year, according to a Wednesday news release.

Olhausen sold almost 30,000 billiard tables a year from its former 140,000-square-foot facility in California, according to the company?s Web site.

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CARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Tentmaker Camel Manufacturing Co. announced layoffs of 150 employees at its plants in Fentress and Campbell counties, citing the loss of a federal contract.

The plants, which employ 450 workers, are in Jamestown and Pioneer. Each will lose 75 workers. The layoffs began Aug. 14 and will end Sept. 1. The workers are not represented by a union.

Three workers were arrested last week after four small chemical bombs exploded in the Jamestown plant?s parking lot. No one was injured, and it was unclear if the explosions were related to the layoffs.

April Harris, president of the company, blamed the job losses on the cancellation of one of the company’s federal contracts.