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


ton to the towns industrial
family.
What the plant will make, New
ark doesn't know except that OBJ
viously it will be something
made from aluminium. But New
ark isn't too curious about that
it's satisfied to let the answer
be "a military secret when it
stops to think what the plant
will do for the city.
1t knows that the plant will
cover, at first, so acres and la
ter will need part of $50 more.
The land has already been obtain
ed.
But the important thing is
Newark got the plant.
You hear predictions that New
ark's population will jump any
where from 5000 to 10000 in
the next few years; that business
will increase 10 or 20 and even
80 per cent, and that all the
workmen who had gone outside
the city for jobs will be coming
back.
Newark knows too, that the
Newark of tomorrow is going to
make other cities of Ohio set up
and take notice-"even Mans
field" they tell you around here.
Down here, folks think pretty
we'll of Mansfield. It's bigger
than Newark, has more than it's
share of fine homes, an attractive
business section-and it had more
industry than Newark.
So when tOwnsfOlk tell you
that "even Mansfield" is going
to have to take notice of them,
they're pretty sure they've got
something"
Newark is making plans, too,
to house the 5000 workers who
will be on hand when the plant
swings into production. 1t has
already drawn up war housing
plan. Approval of that is ex-
pected in short order. Many of
the homes will be in the $4,000
class.
That, it is figured, will go a
long way toward taking care of
the 5000 workers ultimately ex-
pected to be employed.
There's the problem also of
housing construction workers,
but Newark has that figured out.
They point out that there are
some 1000 cottages at Buckeye
lake, nine miles away. Most can
be used for year-round residences
and Newark figures the owners
will be glad to rent them.
If the plant calls upon New
ark to arrange for a supply of
water from the city's source
the Licking river-Newark is
prepared for that, too.
Word here now indicates that
the plant plans to drill it's own
wells. Licking county has vast
untapped water source in this
area.
But if the plant wants to con-
meet with the city's water sup
ply, the city will extend it's mains
about half mile to the plant, ev-
en- if it's only to provide the plant
with auxiliary service. The city
also stands ready to expand it's
filter plant.
Newark is confident that when
the war is over it will still have
a big industry. The city's lea
ders have been told that a $22,-
100000 plant will not be allowed
to stand idle after the war. Alum
mum products are in great de-
mand now in the war effort and
will continue to be so after the
war.
Newark now has three major
industries, the Owens-Corning
Glass company, the Newark
Stove company and the Pharis
Tire and Rubber company.
The glass company's fiber glass,
along with other markets, was
used by Westinghouse in Mans
field while it was manufacturing
refrigerators. 1t was hit by the
shutdown on some products of
consumer goods, but it now is re-
ported to have returned to near
peak production manufacturing
it's product for war goods.
The Newark Stove company is
now converting into war produc-
ton. 1t is reported to be operat-
ing at about 40 per cent of capac-
ity and is expected to be entirely
converted by September.
The Pharis Tire and Rubber
company, it seems, all Newark
credits for tiding the city over
during the depression has been
busy with tire orders in war pro-
duction.
Meanwhile, what does the town
expect in the not too far distant
future, as the result of the ar
rival of the new plant?
Here are opinions from mer-
chants, housewives and the man
on-the-s street.
Ross Davidson, manager of
Carroll's department store: at