P&G NAMES HEAD OF NEW CAPE PLANT

Robert L. Cleek has been named plant manager for the new Cape Girardeau Procter & Gamble tissue and towel plant that will be built adjacent to the P&G plant north of Cape Girardeau.

Cleek, currently on special assignment for P&G, will assume his new duties here Thursday.

P&G recently announced a $350 million expansion at Cape Girardeau, which included construction and equipment for a new tissue and towel factory.

The Cape Girardeau P&G plant manufacturers disposable diapers and feminine hygiene products in a building that contains 1.3 million square feet, or 30 acres under roof.

The new tissue and towel plant, to be constructed just north and west of the facility, will include 20 acres, or more than 870,000 square feet of space.

Cleek, a native of Winchester, Tenn., and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, joined P&G in June 1979, at Albany Ga.

He has held various positions of increasing responsibility at Albany, Cincinnati, and Green Bay, Wis., where he was tissue and towel plant manager the past five years.

Kathleen A. Brown, manager of the Cape Girardeau plant, will maintain responsibility for the entire Cape Girardeau site.