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Show Manufacturing concern selects local site for shipping center Townspeople were elated this week to learn that a new industry is coming to Springville, and while it will not be a mammoth operation employment-wise, at present, it .could develop into in-to an important industry, according ac-cording to Mays Anderson, Chamber of Commerce - pres. The Arthur Imerman Undergarment Under-garment Corp., which is one of eleven of the Johnathan-Logan, Johnathan-Logan, nation's largest gar-men gar-men manufacturing c oncern, has selected Springville as a shipping distribution site. The north end of the 330 by 60-feet 60-feet celery plant, at Fourth West Seventh South St., will be utilized for the new operation. opera-tion. Art Adamson, owner of the plant, has already begun work on renovating and remodeling the building for the company which has taken a one-year lease. The new operation will distribute dis-tribute undergarments from this site to retail stores, principally prin-cipally Penneys and Sears, serving ser-ving as a distribution center for the company's factories in Sparton, S. C, Montreal, Can., and Brussels, Belgium. The operation will employ approximately seven people at the beginning of the work. The number may increase at a later date. Warwick Palfreyman of Salt Lake City, director of the Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning, was in Springville early this week and verified the starting start-ing of the operation. He said that company officials looked over the site early this spring comparing it with one in Ariz, and ethers in the west. . The shipping venture will be on an experimental basis at present and "if it is successful, the company may establish a manufacturing plant here, company offcials indicated to the Chamber of Commerce. This would mean a much larger larg-er buildng and employment of two or three hundred people. The new operation is seeking seek-ing competent employees including in-cluding a new manager familiar famil-iar with children's lingerie and sleepwear, to work at the shipping site. Mr. Palfreyman said that he had talked with officials at the Employment offce in Pro-vo Pro-vo and reported local men would be employed in the new plant so far as possible including includ-ing a manager. Workmen will be employed through the employment em-ployment office, it was stated. |