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Show SUNDAY. 3B FEBRUARY 3, 1958 Sunday Herald Utah Valley Highly Suitable For Industrial Development By JIM FOUSHEE erage. between cities and locali ties for industry, those who can show something physi- art cai have the def said Mr, Benson, The valley was above average m, of ed_cat are nu- living condi e valley that report. Th industrial cf i's v pmen indi wane the f Benson. water, sew- willing to learn and show en: age, power 2 e site before thu: asmfor the work; qualities they move in, not romises to of which industry is apprecia- industry, said Mr. Benson $s put them in later tive,” Therz are over 200 people With competition keen The geographical location of in this area who are involved in the industrial de- fabrication and n by P.D.M velopment program on a part-time basis, commented the Uvida manager. With a large base such as tiis we can expect the image to be reflected from that many more people, This is important COMPLICATED becaue future developers investigate local opinions. | Oneindustrialist was told by a person “look out for this alley, just when you get set up | 86 you can’t back out they raise |the taxes.” According to Mr, Benson, this has never been the case in the valley and the person making the comment was making an unfair and un- founded statement. Needless to Say, that industrialist went elsewhere to establish his companyand someother area profited from the indiscretion of one who didn't know, “We make a concentrated effort to get more people involved, it is their community and their future which can be affected.” | Part of the program of com- | munity involvement is establishing locai development corporations. The communities form corporations and sell shares, ‘The moneyis used to buy or | option land for industrial de- | velopment, Payson and Orem are the first two communities in the valley to establish de- | velopment corporations. Other | cities in the area are in varicus| stages of establishing their own corporations, “Industry doesn’t want just a plot of ground to build a factory upon, They want a site that has at least the utilities on| the property. If the property has gutters, landscaping and a| building, so much the better,” observed Mr. Benson. Uvida is telling its story to the communities in the valley through a threephase program. First establishing the need of industry, | then what the community can do (the Blue Print for action) and finally what the valley can expect as the result of industrial development, The “Blue Print for Action” is a seven-point program for stimulating total community | LARGE TANK is being welded by skilled workman in plant of Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company in Provo, Firm is one of the Intermountain West’s important steel fabricators, participation in Utah Valley’s program for economic growth | — industrial development.| PDM Is Major Steel Fabricator; sis « ria Large Tanks HeadList of Products . TV COMING TO TURKS seeing television for the first time early this year when that medium is to be introduced in Ankara, Projections are to jexiend the system to Anatolia | Des/and Istanbul in 1969. No com-| With an annual sales volume the western division with of- eastern division; and of over $7 million the Pitts- fices in Santa Clara, Calif. Moines, Iowa; central division, mercials burgh-Des Moines Steel Com- Otheroffices of erie| General manager of the Pro-|the first pany in Provo has 100 em- Moines are in Pittsburgh, Pa.,!vo plant is Richard J. deJong.| ation, will be permitted for| three years of oper-| Things Have ChangedIn St. Louis ployees. Its payroll was about $500,000 in 1967. Theplant fabricates anything} that uses plate steel over three-sixteenths of an inch thick, according to Richard L. Marshall, district sales manager. Most (over 50 per cent) of the contracts come from the construction of municipal water tanks and other municipai structures requiring plate steel. Test Chambers The rest of the contracts come from industrial and private construction such as environmental test chambers for What mustrank as one of the most difficult structural engineering feats of all time reachedits climax on October 25, 1965, when PDM put the final prefabricated segment of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch in place. Ended were literally hundreds of man-years of work in design, calculation, development of radical techniques and equipment plus, of testing equipment and men for outer space. The improvements in technology and equipment at the Provo plant have meant contracts for the construction of these testing facilities, said ir. Marshall. Plans for 1968 include more such environmental chambers and the construction of a ten million galon water storage tank in Portand, Ore. Fund Cutback “With the cut-back of government funds to cities for municipal development, last year, our work force has been reduced from the 1966 figure of 125 employees with a corresponding drop in volume sales from $8 million and a payroll of $550,000, he said By buying 9 per cent ofits steel locally, from Geneva, PDM further coniributes eco-| nomically to the Utah Valley. The Provo plant is part of course, actual fabrication and erection of the structure. Still ahead were some five months of fina! finishing including recovery of the creeper derricks, stabilizing struts, exterior rails and cleaning and polishing operations. The arch will take its place among the world’s most awe-inspiring and beautiful monuments. PDM is extremely proud of its contribution. CSU—A School For The Individual in CSUisn't able to offer “Mark Hopkins on one end of a fog and a student on the other,” but we do Specialize in individualized attention. 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