Company Announces
Plans For Suburban
Shopping Center
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110 Acres Bought Near Chicago
For Proposed $15-Million
To $20-Million Project
Marshall Field & Company is mak
ing plans lor a $15 million to $20 million
surburban shopping center. The Com
pany has bought 110 acres, 16 miles
northwest of the Loop in Chicago’s
fastest growing suburban area. The
location was carefully picked with an
eye on the higher-class trade that lives
north and west of the city. The Com
pany estimates that the store will serve
a trading area that now has 500,000
population.
The proposal was announced in Chi
cago last week-end by Hughston M.
McBain, chairman of Marshall Field &
Company. Mr. McBain said Company
executives had visited important shop
ping centers throughout the country to
get ideas for the project.
Plans for the center include three
main buildings, one to be occupied by
Marshall Field & Company. The Field
store will be much larger than any of
the three suburban stores that the
Company has been operating for years
In Evanston, Oak Park and Lake For
est, 111.
Parking for 6,000 Cars
All buildings will have air condition
ing and escalators. Other features of
the center include a double row of shops
along a central mall, parking space for
6,000 cars, shuttle bus service between
parking areas and the center, a truck
tunnel and underground loading plat
forms.
Start of construction will depend on
completion of plans, said Mr. McBain,
and also, of course, on the international
situation and the effects on our national
economy. He made it rather clear that
completion of the project is not an
absolute certainty at the moment, point
ing out that in the months ahead, the
Company “hopes to perfect its plans
for the center and to reach the point
where the final decision to complete
this project can be made.”
The Company in the past five years
spent $13,500,000 to modernize and irn-
Prove the State Street store “which is
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Free Chest X-Rays
At Fieldcrest Mills
Fieldcrest Mills employees in Leaks-
ville and Spray will have an opportun
ity to get tree chest X-rays within the
next two weeks. The State Board of
Health’s mobile X-ray unit will visit
the mills on a schedule that will allow
employees on all three shifts to get
X-rays.
It will be the first such X-ray survey
for tuberculosis control at the Leaks-
ville-Spray Mills since 1945. Surveys
were held at the Draper mills and the
plants in Fieldale, Va., within the past
year with a large majority of employees
taking advantage of the free chest
check-ups.
Regular chest X-rays are one of the
most effective method of tuberculosis
control. A chest X-ray will reveal
tuberculosis in the very earliest stage.
Early tuberculosis can be cured if treat
ment is started in time.
It takes less than one minute to get
a chest X-ray. You do not need to re
move your clothes.
The free X-ray service is being offer
ed through the joint efforts of the Coun
ty Health Department, Fieldcrest Mills,
and the State Board of Health.
Schedule Given
The schedule of the X-ray unit fol
lows:
August 28—Rayon Mill Parking Lot—
12 noon to 5 p. m.—10:30 p. m. to 1
a. m.
August 29—Parking lot near Finishing
Mill gate—12 noon to 6 p. m.
August 30—Parking lot near Finishing
Mill gate—9 a. m. to 12 noon—3 p. m.
to 6 p. m.
August 31—Parking lot near Finishing
Mill gate—12 noon to 6 p. m.
September 1—Karastan-Bedspread Mill
lot—10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
September 5—Karastan-Bedspread Mill
lot—1 p. na. to 5 p. m.—10 p. m. to
2 a. m.
September 6—Karastan-Bedspread Mill
lot—12 noon to 5 p. m.
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fieldcrest exhibit
Employees of the Tri-Cities as well
as Fieldale, Va., are extended a cordial
invitation to visit the Fieldcrest Mills
product exhibit at the Henry County
Exposition in the New Warehouse in
Martinsville August 21-26.
Spray Citizens Start
Program To Secure Fire
Department For Town
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Assistance Is Given by
Spray Civic Association
Through Donation of
Truck To Community
A movement is under way by Spray
citizens to secure a volunteer fire de
partment for the town. Informal dis
cussions have been carried on for some
time by interested persons. At a meet
ing of a citizens’ committee August 9,
John W. Price was elected chairman of
the group and was appointed purchas
ing agent for the construction of a fire
station. Ed Hubbard was elected secre
tary-treasurer.
The project grew out of an offer by
Spray Civic Association to donate a
fire truck to the Spray community if
certain conditions were met. The Spray
community would need to organize a
volunteer fire company and provide an
adequate building to house the truck
and equipment and install an effective
alarm system. The building facilities
would include a proper heating ar
rangement to prevent water stored in
the tank from freezing.
$3,000 Needed
At the meeting of the interested
group, Ed Hubbard reported that in
vestigation by a committee indicated
approximately $3,000 would be needed
to provide the building, the alarm
system, firemen’s equipment, and other
expenses necessary to starting up the
fire company.
The group went on record for the
adoption of the plan and prepared for
a community campaign to raise the
necessary funds. It is planned to make
a thorough canvass of all homes and
business establishments in Spray. De
tails of the finance campaign are to be
announced shortly.
Members of the finance committee are
Gordon Turner, chairman, Leon Shrop
shire, Roy Burcham, Robert Turner.
The following are members of a com
mittee which will obtain names and
contact individuals interested in be
coming members of the fire company:
White Reeder, I. H. Shively, David
Cook, Roy Burcham, Harry Hudgins,
L. C. Lawson, and J. F. Law.
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