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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1929)
maw sm a ifiie& ipmn Visitors are always welcome ai this plant lLEM has a great manv tilings of whiVh wo may all be proud. Salem city. The state buildings and grounds have contributed to this as has the development of our business and residence sections. And Salem is growing. With a population now approximating 30,000, we have three hos pitals, thirty-two churches, four banks, four theaters, our two excellent daily newspapers and three libraries. In and around Salem, within a radius of 25 miles, there are more miles of pavement than will be found around any other city of cur class and many much larger in the whole Pacific Northwest. On January 1 this year there were 285 miles of paved roads within this Salem trading area and 950 miles of macadam roads. Local industries are important and thriv ing. Pulp and paper making, logging and lum bering, the manufacture of woolens and linens: c these industries with their handsome payrolls are growing and helping Salem to grow. We are not inviting attention to the plant of the Cherry City Baking Company because of its size, for it is small in comparison to the Occupying the Corner of Market and Broadway , plants of our important industries, but for other reasons. One reason why w7e believe it is deserving of attention and interest is because, to a degree "not rivalled by any other institution in Salem, it is giving daily service to the people, the homes and the families of Salem and our sur rounding valley. And this relationship of the Cherry City Baking Company to the people of Salem and the Willamette Valley is a close and important relationship, for we are supplying them every day with an important part of their food their daily bread. It might be fair to say that bread is the most important item of human food. Every body eats bread and everybody eats bread at almost every meal. We eat bread about a thou sand times a year. 'No one will question, therefore, the serious importance of knowing that the bread we de pend upon so heavily for the maintenance of our health and strength, is made as it should be. It should be made by men who are proud of the privilege of making the bread for the commun ity men with that kind of business honor w hich means that they will not merely carry on their business for a profit, but that they will recognize their proper responsibility for giving to the community the best bread that can be made. That is the spirit of the Cherry City Bak ing Company. When it started business in 1916, it did not move some equipment into an old and perhaps unsanitary building. It built its ovn sanitary and scientific plant from the ground up. It was destroyed by fire in Novem ber, 1927. Promptly then work was begun on plan$ for a larger and even better plant and on March! 1, last year, the present Cherry City Bakery was completed and in operation. There are larger bakeries in larger cities, of course. There is no better bakery anywhere. Every improvement dictated by scientific . U . 1 y.vir J 1 ; study of the responsible business of making bread, developed in the American Institute of Baking or elsewhere, was made a part of the plans for the erection of this bakery and its equipment. In our daily operations, the most sanitary conditions are 'maintained and the most mod ern and scientific methods used. The flour and other ingredients are choice carefully select ed for their high quality and proven merit in actual use. Automatic machinery wraps our bread in a sanitary wax paper for its protection from our ovens to your tables. The products of the Cherry City Baking Company represent con scientious capability in plant, equipment and personnel SALEM, O Marfiet and Broadway (So Phone 1225 . XI