Show Outlook Favorable for Reopening Manti Mant Textile Plant Worker Recruiting Gets Underway A new textile manufacturing industry in Manti is the topic of many conversations throughout Sanpete these days and according according according accord accord- ing to Governor Herbert B B. B Maw v the outlook for getting a new plant is good The Governor flew to Manti Sunday and met with representatives from the entire county to talk over the iossi- iossi possibility i ossi- ossi of a new manufacturing industry for Manti and Sanpete The Manti ManH plant offers many ad advantages advantages advantages ad- ad vantages to a prospective industry but it also has a few draw The two principal disadvantages are the lack o of a centralized group of workers work work- ers which brings up the other disadvantage disadvantage disadvantage dis dis- advantage the lack of transportation n for workers who live in outlying towns of the county Mayor Jensen has made arrangements arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments for a survey on workers to tobe tobe tobe be carried out in Manti and has gone through the rest of the county and North Sevier to have similar surveys made He reports that many potential potential potential poten poten- workers have expressed a desire to go right to work and feels confident confident confident con con- that at least operators can be arranged for Three hundred is the number of workers a new plant would require to be available before starting operations here Would Purchase Buses Members of the Manti ManU Business Association As Association Association As- As are taking steps to obtain and operate buses for a new plant A meeting of members was held Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night and it was decided to form forma a profit non-profit corporation among members members members mem mem- bers of the Business association and sell 25 shares at each This would be sufficient to purchase the two buses now owned by Reliance and would leave a working capital large enough to get the buses in operation A third bus would be needed to carry workers if and when a plant gets into a full production schedule and it is hoped that this bus can be financed by business members from the north end of the county This move was suggested by a representative tive of one of the cities to the North which formerly had a good number of workers employed in the Manti ManU plant This then would solve the transportation problem and it seems almost certain that the goal of workers can be reached in the county Four Firms Interested Four national firms Governor Maw reported are interested in Manti as asI I Continued on page 4 n OUTLOOK FAVORABLE FOR REOPENING REOPENING RE RE- OPENING MANTI I TEXTILE PLANT PLAN Continued from Page 1 a r. production center three of them lo located located located lo- lo in New York and one in Calif Calif- ornia Each Ec requests not less than women women When Reliance Manufacturing Manufacturing Manufacturing turing Co closed it employed persons and had applications for I work on hand j jA A major factor in closing the S 7 W. W satch plant of the Reliance Comp was high freight rates in of raw materials from the east is ah c then shipping the finished prods prod back to eastern markets A firm fine 2 western distribution centers it is f fi fd would be able to avoid this to a great degree J AI |