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Show I . - - . k ; A . 1 ' . ' ' " 1 -' V """ - f I ' '' - r 4 -J-.?-! yA WAYNE WINTERS Will speak at C of C Banquet Art Stueck Speaks At Kiwanis Club Meeting Monday Art Stueck, manager of the W. Whitney Stueck Co. of PI. Grove, was the guest speaker at the weekly Kiwanis Club meeting held Monday evening. President W. Cornell Haynie was in charge, and A. B. Gibson Gib-son introduced the speaker. Five members of the Provo Kiwanis Club were in attendance attend-ance at the meeting. W. Whitney Stueck, Inc was founded in 1947. It has grown slowly but fairly steadily since that time until it presently oc-coupies oc-coupies a building of about 14,000 square feet and employs around 20 men. The parent factory fac-tory is situated in Old Say-brook, Say-brook, Connecticut. Mr. Stueck said that expansion expan-sion was brought about by the fact that three product lines need to be produced that they have not been able to produce in the Connecticut facilities. He said that the advantages of situating in Utah are numerous. num-erous. The area is close to the west coast, yet the property and building rates are much lower than the coast itself. The desire of the state to encourage encour-age new industry has resulted in available financing. The existence ex-istence of technical schools also al-so means a good work force. Mr. Stueck said he had four men working and three of them are Utah Technical College grads, and the fourth, who will graduate in June, now works part time. Mr. Stueck said that Pleasant Grove was chosen because of the local development corpor-(Continued corpor-(Continued on page 6) Kiwanis Club (Continued from page 1) ation and city officials laying the groundwork necessary to get them here. Mr. Stueck said that another anoth-er week will see the company in full production on the first of the product lines to be manufactured man-ufactured here. By the end of the year, he said that they hope to be making at least one and possibly both of the other two lines here in Pleasant Grove. The machines being produced produc-ed by the company are used to shape and cut sheet metal. |