Additional memo from Mr. Gumbinner 24 New plate plant sites

Mr. Halpern started to look for a site which to move the plate lines.  I went with him to various paces in Sullivan county.  We met a builder in Newburgh who showed us possible sites.  We also saw a  farm on 200 acres , a house and a large cow barn  near Poughkeepsie that I liked.  We also went to Hazelton Penn. Where they made a strong pitch for us to locate there.  We sent our plant manager Leo Golusinski, who had been a foreman at the Alexander Smith Carpet works, to investigate Hazelton. He told us do not move there.  The workers were bitter coal miners and we would have labor troubles.  We went to Raleigh North Carolina and met the man in charge of industrial development.  He took us to Asheville where we saw several possible sites, one along the Swanannona  river.  He took us to Grove Park hotel we had lunch on the terrace overlooking a nine hole golf course.  He said there were sites in Winston Salem but our staff would not be comfortable there.  He then showed us places near Raleigh.  We sent Leo Golusinski to Asheville.  He reported favorably. He said there had been a police strike but it was not a labor union problem. The only other Alexander Smith worker who I know worked at Polychrome was Jack Roberts who ran the multigraph press in the lab to test the plates.