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Show Young Southeast Veterans Open Cusicra-Msde Pbstics Business Outgrowing Basement Shops, Men Ojjen Business Manufacturing Over 200 Items Two young southeast reside nts with a million dollars wortn of ambition, talent and ideas recently opened a plastics manufacturing manufac-turing business at 2371 South State Street, having long since out- been working on the average of four hours per night perfecting perfect-ing their craft. They decided -they had better find store space when they discovered that then-two then-two basements would no longer hold all the machinery they 'had been accumulating. Their present machinery and tool inventory in-ventory includes: a two-ton laminating press, two circle saws, one 10-inch saw, four power sanders (dry), and three wet sanders, three jig saws, one jointer, one shaper, three power polishing heads, two engraving and carving machines, two drill presses, two hand drills and a heat oven. Their flame polisher is the only one of its kind in the state. Materials they work with most commonly are plexiglass, plexi-glass, lucite and finite. Developed Xew Drill They have develoDed a new grown their basement work shops. The men, Jack Howard, 33, and John L. Babcock, 24, have been seriously engaged in the plastics business for 10 months, making costume jewelry, furniture, fur-niture, desk sets, lamps, shields Ol other custom - made ns. All told, they manufac-uire manufac-uire over 200 custom-made objects. Brick Building The new business enterprise, Custom Plastix Co., is housed in a brick and cement building, 40x90 feet, formerly occupied by Neoplastix Co., plastic tile manufacturers. At present, the new business is occupying the entire plant and storage quarters quar-ters in the rear of the building and is sharing front office and display room with former occu-' occu-' pants. In the near future a complete com-plete display room and hobby drill for internal carving, an operation which they worked on for eight months. In general, gen-eral, Mr, Babcock does the carving carv-ing and coloring and Mr. Howard How-ard does the finishing and polishing pol-ishing of the products. There are two other workers in the shop, in addition, and there is a sales staff of five men representing represent-ing the new company. Material used at Custom Plastix Plas-tix Co. are the finest to be had, Mr. Babcock stated. Plexiglas manufactured by Rohm and F-Iaas. cellulose ascetate from "Monsanto Chemcial Co. and Incite In-cite from duPont Co. are materials materi-als most commonly used. Sheets of plastic w hich they work with in manufacturing the various 'pstoiii items range in size from one,;, 01- ;in j,-,,.)-, to f0UI. inches thick. Sheets come in 36x60-inch 36x60-inch pieces. Popular Items no of the most called-for it; ins at Custom Plastix Co. right now, Mr. Babcock said, was their laminated activity center will be set up at front of the store, Mr. Howard explained. explain-ed. The partners propose to give instruction and training in plastic fabricating and carving. Before they combined forces Ost December, the men had en developing ideas and methods meth-ods in working with plastics on their own. Each had become interested in the work during the war years. Babcock served 39 months in the U. S- merchant marine and Howard wras a member mem-ber of the U. S. Army for a similar length of time. ' Became Partners I When they were released from the service in the Fall of If) la -they were employed at Rheem Manufacturing Co., where they decided to combine talents after working together in the designing and manufacturing manufac-turing of a plexi-glass machine Guard. They plan to further develop de-velop this line in their new business, incidentally. Since that time they have and identification cards. Bv placing a card between two sheets of plastic and laminating it through a special heat and stamping process, the card is literally sealed in plastic. Special jewelrv pieces are also popular items, lockets, earring sets, pins and brooches are manufactured to the customer's explicit desires. Through the development of their new drill the men are able to produce fine internal carvings which heretofore hereto-fore were thought impossible. The partners are running their business in the evenings They both hold responsible jobs outside their business. Jack Howard is head of the machinery machin-ery line at Gallagher Machinery Co. and John Babcock is foreman fore-man of the construction depart-ent depart-ent shop, Utah Oil Co. Mr. j Howard, his wife and child live at 2063 McClellend. Mr. and Mrs. Babcock and their daughter reside at 1193 Stringham Ave. 1 |