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Raleigh chamber working for growthBy ELORIA NEWELLStaff writerany small industry,” he said. “We are trying to bring in small businesses so the local economy itself will support the town.”Ted Musgrove, a member of the Raleigh Board of Aldermen, said town officials are presently talking to a prospective new business for the Raleigh area.“We are looking for a plant that would employ 200 or 300 people,” Mr. Musgrove said, adding that a new business being built in nearby Puckett will heb the employment rate of the area some. “Our biggest goal is to secure an industry for this town.”“If we could get two or three plants, small or large, in the next 10 years, I would say we’ve done a good job,” Mr. Bounds said.Mr. Bounds added that although it is tough for small towns to attract industry, Raleigh has some good stable businesses.He said the Raleigh Co. on Highway 18 West has been instrumental in the growth of the area and is expected to continue throughout the 1980s.“The Raleigh Co. has been and still is the backbone of Raleigh,” he said, adding that the Smith County company makes mostly women’s apparels, and has been in the Raleigh area since the late 1950s. He said the company employs about 400 people from Smith, Jasper and Scott counties.Don Sullivan, plant manager for AB Enterprises in Raleigh, said the company hopes to be able to purchase the building it operates in during the next decade,Mr. Sullivan said the plant, which remanufactures starters, presently functions in a town-owned building on Highway 18 West in Raleigh’s industrial park.RALEIGH — Economic development authorities and local officials hope to attract new industry to Raleigh during the 1990s.Don Bounds, president of the Raleigh Area Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber would love to attract two or more plants into town.Mr. Bounds, who operates his own pharmacy, said the chamber, founded a year ago, is trying to upgrade the town.“Our main goal is to promote the area and town so that industries will locate here,” he said. “We’ve got a good school system and the vocational center is able to produce a good employee.”Mr. Bounds said the chamber, which is working on improving the town-owned industrial park, will also be working to attract small businesses into the town.“We are always on the lookout forTED MUSGROVE
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Thu, Mar 29, 1990
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