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New Industry Emerges In Sumner Under Tight Security
A Sumner plant quietly assembles highly secretive equipment under contract for the government. Plant manager J Walter Wickersham, formerly of Lancaster PA, says secrecy is essential to avoid international repercussions and community risk. The operation employs 16 with eight more openings. production averages three units weekly. Workers commute in closed air conditioned vans to conceal plant location. The firm will soon seek additional staff as it expands. Lens O Knutson of Iowa Falls notes one hundred one great grandchildren in his family records. He is a retired railroader with nine children and 37 grandchildren.
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Secrecy, Incorporated
J. Walter Wickersham
Lancaster
Wickersham
Sumner
Lens OQ
Knutson
Iowa Falls
Mr. Knutson