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Show r XV h !' . f s 1 , ,; 3 " k - 1 -J ; -V READY TO GO Looking over plans for new building ready to go are Uvida President Wayne Winters, Mayor Paid T. Fordham, Ford-ham, George Davis, contractor, Development Corp. President Bill Garst, David Faux, C of C President and A. B. Gibson, Pleasant Grove Uvida representative. Building is started now and will house new industry for Pleasant Grove In near future. "Ground Breaking Monday At Pi. Grove Industrial Pork After laying dormant for many months, the old Pleasant Grove Canning Co. area "west of the tracks" in this community commun-ity came alive again last Monday Mon-day morning. Heavy equipment began leveling the ground for the construction of a new man ufacturing enterprise. The ground breaking Monday Mon-day morning was the first phase of a cooperative effort which will culminate in a local industry which is expected to employ 30 full-time workers. Housing the industry will be a cinder block wall, concrete floor building of 20,000 square feet area. Davis Construction Co., Provo are the contractors, working under a low bid of $107,000, Mayor Paul T. Fordham Ford-ham said. He added that no part of the construction cost would be paid by Pleasant Grove City taxpayers. taxpay-ers. The project will be financed finan-ced by a loan from the federal Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. When completed at the end of the 120 contract days, the building will be leased to King Window Enterprises with headquarters head-quarters at Dunkirk, N.Y. At the Pleasant Grove plant the King Company will do rough work on window and door frames, fram-es, which will then be shipped to a company plant at Canton, Ohio for fimshing. Ponderoso pine from the forests for-ests of Utah and Idaho will be used as the raw material for the frames, Mayor Fordham explained. According to official reports, the King Company has negotiated nego-tiated an eight-year lease on the soon to be available building, build-ing, with a five-year option for renewal. Local city and Chamber of Commerce officials have cooperated coop-erated with the UVIDA organization organ-ization to attract new business and indutsrial enterprises to Pleasant Grove. Motivating organization or-ganization for the new enterprise enter-prise was the Pleasant Grove City Business Developmtnt Corporation, Cor-poration, which arranged the financing. The new building will be so located, that existing warehouse ware-house facilities which were not torn down, may be utilized. |