Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1962-10-31
Tabor Industry
Hunters Combine
Mid West Stufes

Tabor City'S industrial dele
taiion in quest of expanded
payrollS for Tabor City is COM
hing the midwestsrn States i'm
AN effort To secure some much
needed local industry.
Ben Nesmith, Jr., Jimmy Di-
Gus and Al Whitehead left Ia
Dor City early Sunday morning
ion Ohio, Illinois and Wiscon-
SIN where a fistiull of out
standing prospects have been
provided by the North Caro-
Ina Department of ConServa-
ton and Development.
Hunter Poole, a member of
the c & D department, flew
To the midwest 10 meet the
local delegation and has ac-
companied them on their
rounds of interviews wit,
prospects.
The local delegation called
The Tribune Tuesday after
room To report that five pros
poets had been contacted thus
Tar and that the meetings have
proven interesting and profit
able" They pointed out that
they have no ironclad prom
lSes from their prospects but
several have expressed a great
ocal of interest in Tabor City
and have asked for additional
information regarding this sec
ton.
Several of the prospects have
called in their highest echilon
Ci management To hear the
Tabor City representatives
Present their case.
Poole has noted that the
Tabor City men have gone on
the 27OO mile jaunt we'll pre-
pared with StaNstics, pictur7s
and facts and" that they have
made an impressive proposal
tc all the prospects contacted.
NcSmith, who is using his
own automobile TO take the
group To see the prospects,
pointed out in the phone call
Tuesday that the people they
are seeing are high type in
duStrialiStS and that Tabor
City would be proud to have
any one of the group contacted.
He noted that they did not
expect To get yes or no answ-
,rS from the prospects when
they left Tabor City but mere
iy hoped TO lay the ground
work for possible relocation or
expansion of those plants in
this area in the future.
DicuS and Whitehead like
wise noted that the prospects
have appeared interested in
the Tabor City community and
that some had requested addi-
tional facts, indicating their
real interest in the area.
Among the types of pros
poets contacted are a sheet
metal working plant and a
meat processing plant. Some
of these prospects had been
talked with by phone or con-
tacted by mail by the Tabo"
City Merchants Association
prior To- the personal visit now
being made.
w. Horace Carter, president
of the Merchants Association
who planned to make the trip
but could not because of sud-
cen illness, said today" These
L.en are certainly due a great
zeal of local commentator for
their strenuous efforts to bring
us more industry. They repre-
sent the Merchants Associa-
ton in these States that they
%re calling on, and am sure
TO better delegation could be
found in our community"
II think it is asking a great
deal of businessmen to take
off from their work to make
such a trip and | am thankful
that these individuals were
willing TO make the sacrifice,
Carter said.
The Board of Directors o:
Our association did not expect
these representatives to bring
i'm a whole handful of contracts
and sure things in making this
trip. We have felt that it would
lay the ground work for bring
ing us more industry. The con-
versation with them this morn
ing verifies the fact that they
are representing us well and
that we have an excellent
chance to- secure one or more
oa,I