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Show Manti Parachute Plant and Workers KSL Broadcasts Pay Honor To The Manti Parachute Plant and its workers were twice honored last week in two special broadcasts. broad-casts. Dr. Adam S. Bennion Thursday evening saluted this war industry in his broadcast titled, "When Two Generations Meet," and on Friday evening the Auer-bach Auer-bach company's, "Pioneers of Progress" broadcast again featured fea-tured the Manti plant. Dr. Bennion's complete address appears on a full page elsewhere in this issue. His comments followed fol-lowed a visit to the Manti plant some weeks ago, during which he made a complete tour of the plant, addressed the chute workers and a public meeting at Manti. The "Pioneers of Progress" broadcast was one of a series in which the Auerbach company pays : tribute to a pioneer of yesterday and a modern pioneer. Tine dramatic dra-matic presentation was broadcast Friday evening at 10 o'clock. The old pioneer salute was to Andcr Theiry Anderson who, as a boy, made a 112-mile water ride to warn settlers of Circlevillc against an attack by Indians. The salute to the mrxlorn pioneer pio-neer hailed the women workers of the parachute plant, and dramatized dram-atized an actual escape of eight Army fliers in chutes niacin at this plant. Mrs. Kalie D. May let I represented her fellow workers on the broadcast, and in an interview inter-view following the dramatic fxjr-tion fxjr-tion of the broadcast said: "We wanted to do our share in the war, and this work has given us our chancre. Our sons and brothers and many of the hus-(Continued hus-(Continued on page eight) Parachute Broadcast (Continued from first page) bands and fathers in our locality have gone to war quite a number of them when the National Guards were mustered into active duty. Work at the plant, too, has kept our younger women at home, too, given them something to do in and near their own communities. Every chute we make means that we are giving our fliers a device with which they can save their lives in time of emergency and distress." Mrs. Maylett also made a plea for other women of southern Utah to join in this vital war job. In this connection, the plant an-ounced an-ounced it would continue to hire women this year until Nov. 20th. Hiring will be resumed Jan. 1st in order to maintain a full Work ing force for a large contract for bomb parachutes which has bee awarded the plant. n See ad on page six for Dr Bennion's address. |