BEFORE ACTUAL CANNERY:
Local cannery started May 1943.
O. B. Utley & Son Gin of Fairfield represent largest cannery in East Texas (peas Wanted) in 1946.

CANNERY:
Kimbell Food Products Company cannery (Kimbell interests of Fort Worth)
locations in Fairfield, Athens, and Timpson

SEASONALLY OPEN:
Only open seasonally, closing usually around start of August.

PRODUCTS:
Tomato focus in 1949 (Closed for the season in Aug 1, 1949). Canned 5,000 cases of tomatoes in 1951.
A little berry canning in 1949. Canned a lot of berries (8,000 cases from Teague) in 1950.
Installed pea canning equipment in June-July 1950 with volume of 3,000 cases of peas daily.
Canned 12,000 cases of peas in 1951.

BUILDINGS:
March 1949 land secured and plant to be built.
New pea building 24x76 feet joined original building.
New warehouse 50x120 feet.
Packing Plant added by the 7-11 Allied Food Store for butchering and processing 
  in 1959 by H. L. York and C. L. Carroll


PEOPLE INVOLVED:
cannery operator: N. B. Hall (1946)
superintendent: Olin Vaughan (1949)
owner: Mr. Kay Kimbell (1950)
local plant manager: A. C. Meadows of Fort Worth (1950)
construction manager: H. C. Meadows of Timpson (1950)
local manager: H. C. Meadows (1951)
worker: Fletcher Willard (1953)
overall manager: H. C. Meadows of Timpson (1953)
1954 still operational

Requiring 150 to 200 employees