Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-07-30

business here. The entire city
will profit by it. We are tickled
to DEATH"
Frank harrington, Sears RO-
buck manager: 'It seems to
call for a celebration, having
something like that dropped in
to city's lap. 1t really arOus-
ed the town. We look for
substantial increase in busi-
ness"
Charles Hirsch, manager of
the Fashion: at is bound to help
the town and increase business"
Harold E. Pierce, Cornell's:
"It's a fine thing for business
and the town in general. | look
for an increase in business of
anywhere from Is to 25 per cent" ."
Herbert j. Murphy, grocer:
"It's going to be a life saver. We
have been very hard hit. Hun
dreds have gone to other cities to
find work, leaving their families
here. We want them all to come
back and the new plant will make
this possible"
To the husband and housewife
on the street:
D. B. Whitehead, married, faith
er of two and rubber worker:
Darn good thing for the town.
We have needed something like
this for a number of years"
J. l.. Adams, married, father
of two children and a plumber:
'It's almost too good to be true.
We haven't had any new plants
here for some years."
Mrs. Katherine Rosebraugh,
mother and housewife: 81 think
it's one Of the biggest things
that's ever happened to Newark.
We surely needed it."
Ellis Pipes, father of three boys
and a laborer: 81 worked as
press operator at the Stove COM
pany for rs years before things
got slack. Now | am working in
Columbus. 1t will be big thing
for Newark"
BOON TO NEWARK
Why did Newark need a war
plant-why did it think it was
worth trying to get?
Well, last spring Newark took
stock of things, and found that
the picture wasn't very bright.
What it found was a bit SINH
lar to the situation in Mansfield
today.
Factory employment was down
Newark industries weren't of
the type that could convert quick
ly to war work, it seemed. Con-
struction workers were leaving
the city for Columbus and other
cities to find work. Retail sales
were off.
This briefly, was the picture.
With population of 1,487 as
compared to Mansfield's 37,154,
Newark found it's employment in
factories down to 500 in March
of this year, as compared to it's
high of 1861 in May of last year.
That was a loss of 2,046, about
% per cent.
Newark's retail business was
as badly off as industrial employ
ment. Prepaid sales tax receipts
for Licking county for the first
six months of this year were
$154,766, as compared to $187,148
for the same period of 1941. That
is a drop of $32,382 from which
it can be figured, estimating the
sales tax straight at per cent
that retail business was off al
most a million dollars in that six
month period.
Newark found it had 200 va
cant dwellings-that some thous-
and persons had left the city to
find work elsewhere-and that
of that number some 600 were
construction workers, who ordin-
arily receive better-than-average
pay. But there was no work for
them in Newark, because of the
restrictions on building.
That was what Newark lead
ers found when they looked a
round them to see what the war
was doing to Newark. They found
other indices that were about as
gloomy. What they found prov
ed they'd better do something
and do it fast. They did.
There's no one in Newark who
takes the credit for bringing the
$22,0O0,OO0 Aloca plant there.
But lot of people had hand
in it. And to them and to all of