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Show Bill Garst Speaks at Kiwanis Club Meeting Last Saturday William Garst, plant manager manag-er at the Bayly Manufacturing Co., stressed the reasons that Bayly came to Pleasant Grove and their progress since establishing estab-lishing their plant here at a Kiwanis Club meeting held last Saturday. William Petersen look charge of the meeting, which was presided pre-sided over by President Elvin Carson. Special guest was Richard Millar, local manager of the American Timber and Trading Co., a new plant in Pleasant Grove. Stability of labor, inventory tax structure, community atti-ude atti-ude and cooperation and cooperation coop-eration of State Employment Service in conducting labor surveys, sur-veys, were the main factors in Bayly's decision to construct a plant in Pleasant Grove, according accor-ding to Mr. Garst. Areas of concern to them were such items as heavy union un-ion in the area (US Steel's Geneva Gen-eva plant and teacher's strike at that time), and the high level of education here. The latter wo were definitely advantageous advan-tageous as it turned out, according ac-cording to Mr. Garst. The Pleasant Grove operation of Bayly Mfg. Co. began operations oper-ations in January 1963 with 15,000 sq. ft of building. The plant has undergone a transition transi-tion from the manufacture of work clothing to leisure apparel, appar-el, such as golf slacks, etc. Golf slacks are now being manufactured manufac-tured at the Pleasant Grove plant. In June of 1963, the first shipment ship-ment of pants was sent from the local plant, at which time they were producing 2,000 pair per week. As of last April 1, they were shipping 23,000 pair of pants per week. At the present pres-ent time they are using 56,500 sq. ft. of space. They make extensive use of the post office for their shipments. Pleasant Grove and American Ameri-can Fork supply 41 per cent of the labor force for the Bayly plant, 9 per cent comes from Lehi, 25 per cent from Orem, 20 per cent from Provo and 15 per cent from Heber, Cedar Fort, Salem and Santaquin. Mr. Garst stated he felt this year would be a good year for the company, and it may be possible to employ 450 persons at the local plant. |
