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Business New Haven
2/9/1998
By: BNH
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Testing Their Metal
Reporter Kevin Wheeler adds parenthetically to her December 29, 1997 article on NewCo. No. 40 that the metalworking industry in New England means “metal components for the aircraft industry.”
This is simply untrue.
There is a large, vibrant, productive, diverse metalworking industrial segment throughout Connecticut and, I believe, in the other New England states as well. Dresser Instrument Division, for example, has four Connecticut plants with 830 people busily making instruments for the world - with only a tiny fraction for the aircraft industry.
The characterization of Connecticut manufacturing as serving a single, sometimes troubled industry does a great disservice to the tens of thousands of people and their companies who provide the state's most stable, productive and important economic foundation.
We intend to grow our manufacturing businesses in Connecticut and will need qualified people to do so. Misstatements like the one quoted tend to discourage talented people from training for technical employment, as well as to discourage the legislators who have provided great support for the industrial revival that is occurring in our state.
I urge you to correct the misstatement.
- John W. Caldwell
President
Dresser Industries Instrument Division
Stratford
Salvation Redux
In response to the letter from E. Henry published in the December 29, 1997 edition of Business New Haven regarding the attempted purchase of the Easter Seals-Goodwill building by the Salvation Army, I suggest that the only thing “fishy” about the deal was that the Salvation Army was willing to pay more than a million dollars above the assessed value of the building. I remind the Salvation Army of this every time they ask me for a donation.
In addition, [the letter writer] admits that he or she does not know the particulars. Perhaps he or she should have found them out before attacking the “narrow interests of the neighbors.” As a neighbor who objected to the sale, I would be glad to discuss the reasons with anyone who wishes to know them.
- Jack Knies
President
Standard Tile
New Haven
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