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Hong Kong Becomes Dirty Word in Vocabulary
Manufacturer
New York m - Once upon
a time Hong Kong was a
name that suggested romance
and glamour to Americans-including
even the most prosaic
businessmen.
Today "Hong Kong" is just
about the dirtiest word many
an American manufacturer
can think of. It makes him
fume just to think of Hong
Kong.
The huge city and crown
Top Students at
Phoenix High Are
Listed by School
Phoenix - Jack Hoffbuhr
has been named valedictorian
of the Phoenix High school
senior class, and Miss Joyce
Hunter, salutatorian, accord
ing to school officials.
Hoffbuhr, a member of the
National Honor Society, has
been active in many school
activities. He was a member
of the state champion debate
team for 1959 and 1960, was
elected most valuable football
player last fall, and has been
active In the Future Farmers
of America program.
He was selected by the
Medford Elks lodge to receive
their most valuable student
scholarship award for the
Medford area. He was also
selected by the local section
of the National Association of
Engineers as their scholarship
candidate.
He will attend Oregon State
college, where he is planning
to enroll in civil engineering.
Honor Society
Miss Hunter, a member of
National Honor Society, has
also been prominent in school
activities. She has served as
secretary of the student body
for the past two years, and
has been this year's editor of
the "Pirate Log," high school
annual.
She was a member of the
1959 state champion debate
team and was selected by the
Phoenix Thursday club to at
tend Girls' State at Salem
last year. . She will enroll In
secondary education at South
ern Oregon college next year.
Phoenix High school com
mencement will be held Tues
day, May 31, in the high
school gymnasium at 8 p.m.
Dr. Arthur Kreisman of
Southern Oregon college will
deliver the commencement ad
dress. Baccalaureate will be
held Sunday, May 29, at 8
p.m. In the First Presbyterian
church in phoenix.
Ashland Bowling
Lanes Are Sold
Ashland - The sale of the
assets of the Ashland Bowl
ing Lanes to Ron Maxwell and
Don Crouch was announced
this week by Jamet Harris,
owner of the lanes.
Maxwell and Crouch are
building a new 12-lane Rondo
bowling alley adjacent to
Gateway Shopping center, Sis
kiyou blvd.
Harris said he will continue
to manage the Ashland lanes
until the new lanes are com
pleted about Aug. 1. The old
lanes will be moved from the
building at that time, but the
skating rink on the top floor
will continue to operate.
colony on China's south coast
Is a British enclave which ex
ists by the sufferance of Red
China; a generation back it
existed by the might of the
British navy and British com
mercial and financial genius.
Hong Kong still is ruled by
the British, but its commerce
and light industry are run by
Chinese and commercial ad
venturers from all over the
world who take advantage of
the fact that Hong Kong is
filled with millions of starv
ing refugees from Communist
China who will work long
hours for almost nothing.
As a result a huge textile
and garment industry has
sprung up in Hong Kong that
is flooding the U. S. market
with cheap garments and
playing havoc with many sec
tors of our garment industry.
This mushrooming Hong
Kong garment industry has
grown enormously since the
United States negotiated
agreements with Japan by
which the Japanese voluntar
ily limited their exports of
cheap garments and textiles
to our markets.
Hong Kong isn't making all
the cheap garments that are
giving American manufactur
ers so much trouble. Formosa,
Korea and the Philippines
have moved to take advantage
of the Japanese voluntary
limitations and get a bigger
share of the American mar
ket. But according to Howard
Simon of Simon it Mogilnor
of Birmingham, Ala., the
country's largest maker of
children's wear, Hong Kong
garments are the ones to be
feared the most. For Hong
Kong is an artificial industry
that thrives partly by buying
subsidized U. S. surplus cot
ton for 8 cents a pound less
than the U. S. manufacturer
has to pay for it, making it
into garments and shipping it
back to the U. S.
"Often American manufac
turers finance and direct
these Hong Kong operations,"
Simon said. "Some of them
they have to manufacture in
Hong Kong to stay in business."
Simon said last year's im
ports of garments from Hong
Kong and .Japan totaled 128.5
million valued at wholesale
at $285 million and by Ameri
can standards represented the
output of 24.000 workers in
about 97 average-sized Ameri
can plants.
"This is bad enough," said
Simon, who at 28 directs
sales for the biggest business
of its kind in the country,
"but the thing is growing. The
textile and garment people re
alize that underdeveloped
countries can create textile
and garment industries more
easily than heavier industries
and they are bound to invade
our markets to some extent.
"But Hong Kong is not an
underdeveloped country. It is
an artificial, special situation,
a sort of a cancer on the
world's textile and garment
industry. So we think Wash
ington should take drastic
measures against it."
Simon said Increasing tar
iff duties couldn't control the
flood of Hong Kong's goods.
"The wage difference is too
great-10 cents an hour
against our dollar an hour
and there are other factors
that couldn't be controlled by
tariff boosts.
"What is needed is quotas
to compel Hong Kong to lim
its exports of garments to the
United States. I can't speak
for all the sections of the gar
ment and textile Industry that
are hurt by the Hong Kong
flood," Simon added, "but in
children's wear we would be
satisfied Just to hold Hong
Kong imports at their present
level. I personally wouldn't
insist on cutting them back.
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Other sections of the industry
may feel differently."
Simon said tightening the
rules of Japan's voluntary,
export limits also are needed.
"Why should we permit the
Japanese to indulge in such
gimmicks as pinning the poc
ket on a man's shirt instead
of sewing it on so they can
claim it is not finished and
then export to us over the
agreed limits?" he asked.
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