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Show Towns Called! Key I row4h by Robert Blanchard Tribune Staff Writer Utah's industrial development lies primarily with its communities, commun-ities, a state industrial planner, said Tuesday. Warwick C. Palfreyman, director direc-tor of the Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning, Plan-ning, said the interest of Utahns in industrial development was evident in the recent election campaign. "But it is initiative and organization organ-ization by the communities in the state which is going to bring more Industry into the state," he said. Mr. Palfreyman, whose committee com-mittee is devoted to expanding sources for jobs, said the state's economy can be kept strong- by stimulating and encouraging already al-ready existing industry while also seeking worthwhile outside industry. indus-try. Since an industry doesn't just settle In a state, but in a community, com-munity, "effective action for more industry must come from the community" which can receive assistance from the state. How does a community attract industry ? "If possible," he said, "local clubs and organizations should muster some financial support for a full-time or part-time secretary who would have the responsibility for continuity of effort and program pro-gram follow-up." Then, he said, to get to work, the community should: 1. Select potential industrial areas, survey them. They should not be limited by political boundaries. boun-daries. An economic area might be a basin, a valley, or several counties situated in a natural business area 2. Pick an existing organization or form onei, to act as a vehicle for the community's or area's action for industrial development. 3. Analyze existing- industry to determine if it can be expanded or Improved. Is there evidence that complimentary or satellite industry could be developed or recruited re-cruited to service existing- industry? indus-try? 4. Inventory the community's industrial location features. The community organization can obtain ob-tain survey forms from the state committee, Salt Lake City. 5. Analyze findings. It should point upneed for corrective action such as cleaning up, painting up and developing new community pride, securing better access roads, obtaining better transportation transpor-tation services, developing better schools, libraries and parks, a-mending a-mending obsolete laws and regulations regul-ations and in general making the community a better place in which to live. 6. If analysis of the survey indicates in-dicates the area has industrial possibilities, a report should be prepared describing the commun-. ity's advantages. The state committee com-mittee will assist after any community com-munity request. 7. Distribute report to selected industries which would be suited to economic features of the area. 8. Vigorously follow up leads or Inquiries. Make suitable arrangements arrange-ments to assure good impressions on industrial 'engineers or other company representatives who personally per-sonally inspect the area. 9. Occasionally further study is needed to determine a community's com-munity's economic advantage. There are many agencies, including includ-ing the Utah Conunittee on Industrial In-dustrial and Economic Planning, which can suggest ways to go Into additional study. |