Newspaper article:Page 1 of Dalton Gazette,published in Dalton, Ohio on Thursday, December 6th, 1956 - Dalton Gazette December 6 1956
- Article title
- Another Industry For Dalton. Yost Co. In Operation Here
- Newspaper title
- Dalton Gazette
- Date of publication
- 1956/12/06
- Page number
- 1
- Organization
- Industry
- Manufacturing > Nonmetallic Miner Product
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2 articles: "Another Industry For Dalton. Dalton's industrialization approached the boom stay this week with the announcement that another new company, the fourth in less than a year, will be organized here.
Latest addition to the growing industrial family is Deco-Tile, Inc. a manufacturer of glazed wall tile which expects to begin operations here sometime in February.
Deco-Tile has already least the plant of the Waneta Pottery Co. and ordered its equipment. The first machinery will be installed shortly after the first of the year.
Paul Bungard of East Sparta, a verteran of 10 years in the ceramics business, will be the plant manager. He is one of the organizers of the new corporation, along with the Holmes Lime & Clay Co. of Berlin and several others. Holmes Line & Clay will be the major supplies of materials for Dec-Tile.
Officers of the concern, elected Monday night, are E. E. Mullet of Berlin, president, A. E. Mullet of Mt. Easton, vice president; and Melvin Mullet of Berlin, secretary-treasurer.
Bungard said the company expects to employ between 12 and 15 persons, including eight or ten men and the rest women. All will be hired locally, but the company will accept no application until after Jan. 1.
Deco-Tile plans at first to confine itself to the production of 4 1/2 incb square tile for use in the bathrooms and kitchens, which will be marketed throughout the eastern states. It may broaden its line alter on.
The Waneta Pottery plant, owned by B. J. Crawford of Dalton, is located at 102 E. Main St. It has 5,000 square feet of floor space, including offices.
The only major installation in the present plant that can be used by the new company is the kiln. All other equipment, including a giant 6,500-pound press, will be purchased.
The press will have a capacity of from 12,000 to 13,000 tile per day, enough to cover 1,500 to 1,700 square feet. The blocks will be pressed out four at a time and made in eight or 12 different colors.
Bungard helped to organize the Dover Ceramics and Salem China Co. plants and has been associated with the Sparta Ceramics Co.
"Yost Co. In Operation Here. After many delays, the Yost Candy Co. finally began operations in its new $250,000 plant here last week.
The Yost company moved here from Massillon where it had outgrown its small downtown quarters.
The modern brick plant is equipped almost entireely with new machinery. Only the machines that wrap the Yost Kiddi-Pops were moved from Massillon.
Manager of the plant is Johnny Roll of Massillon, who formerly operated the bus station restaurant there. Owner Earl Yoder was stricken with a heart attack during the construction and has not fully recovered.
This is the company's slack season, so neither the production nor the payroll are at their peak. Only two of the plant's three production lines were in operation this week, and the rate was being held to 175 lollipops per minute on each.
Operating at capacity, the plant will be able to turn out somewhere near 288,000 Kiddi-Pops per day. At present there are 20 persons employed.
Packed 960 to the carton, the Kiddi-Pops are distributed throughout the United States. The first shipment from the local plant went out by truck last Friday."