March 7, 1961
Looking Over Site--Officials of Norwest Fabrics, lnc., five card woolen mill which possibly will be locating in McMinnville, looked over proposed site for the mill last week with McMinnville Industrial Promotions and chamber officials. Shown at the six-acre plus site adjoining the county fairgrounds are (left to right) Willard Cushing, chairman of the chamber industrial commission; Robert C. Pickens, president of Norwest Fabrics, Clyde F. Wagner, chief engineer of the woolen firm and R. H. Windishar, president of MIP. The mill would employ about 90 area residents with an annual payroll of half a million dollars.