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Medford Tribune SECTION C MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1962 PAGES 1 to 8 Crater Students Take Ribbons at Oregon State Fair The Crater Future Farmers of America chapter in Cen tral Point took several rib- Student Asks Delay h Murder Case Corvallis - OIPO - The de fense for Damrongsak Siri mungkla, 26 -year -old Thai lander charged with the first degree murder of his sweet heart, Tuesday asked for more time in which to enter a plea to the charge. S. B. Lewis Jr., court ap pointed defense attorney, told Circuit Judge Fred McHenry that, because of the language barrier, he had been unable to communicate with Sirimung kla sufficiently to determine Sirimungkla's mental condi tion at the time of the slaying. Sirimungkla, who had en rolled at Oregon State Uni versity but had never attend ed class, is accused of the fatal stabbing of Suvana Paka suta, 26, the girl he had plan ned to marry but who had refused to marry him. Both were from Bangkok. She had been attending classes at OSU (or six months. bons and awards at the Ore gon State Fair in Salem. Clint Gibson took third and seventh places, with his Suf folk ewe lambs. Alan Bray placed second with his junior Angus bull and fourth in Angus showmanship. In the livestock holders' contest, Dick Field placed first in Hereford holding, Lloyd Toner, second in Angus holding, Ron Stith, second in Guernsey heifer holding and third in Guernsey cow hold ing. Ross Conger placed second in the Suffolk wool fleeces contest. Taylor on Panel for Insurance Seminar R. Ren Taylor, Ren Taylor insurance, Medford, will be one of the panelists during a series of four half -day pro fessional education seminars highlighting the 34th annual convention of the Oregon As sociation of Independent In surance Agents in Portland Sept. 13-15. Taylor will discuss "pro duction" with various other insurance agency representatives. -?"V! : KARL'S CLASSICS MISSIES' Upper combines black nylon velvet topped with black, smooth vamp. Also in black smooth with alligator-print vamp. Sizes 122-3. . o BOYS'-YOUTHS' Moc-oxford with the famous UNISOLE which is guaranteed to outwear the upper , , , won't mark floors and is waterproof. Also available in side-zipper or 2-eyelet styles. Sizes 13, 4.99. Sizes 3'2-6, 5.99. Sizes 8'213'2. I BWEHTS l 3" BOYS'-YOUTHS'-MEN'S Black, side-hook oxford. Sizes 8'2-3, 3.99. Sizes 3,-6, 5.99. Sizes 6V4-12, 799 MEN'S -BOYS' Black or brown oxford. Sizes 3 2 -6, 4.99. Sizes 6'212, Vs X- VSHOES 230 E. Main 773-9081 OPEN FRIDAYS 'TIL P.M. There are over 300 Karl's shoe stores in the West Terry Bezoff took blue rib bons with his cantaloupes, watermelons, sweet corn and sixth place with his tomatoes. Jim Caldwell placed first with his tomatoes. Pat Neal placed second with his sweet corn and seventh with his white oats. Larry Ford took second place with his table beets, third with his carrots and first with his tomatoes. Dick Field placed second with his slicing cucumbers, fourth with his table beets, fourth with his carrots and sixth with his zucchini squash. Bob Marshall took fourth with his sweet corn and eighth with his tomatoes. Union of South Africa Faces Agricultural Surplus Problem Eflttar'i Note What to dn about farm surpluiea ii one of the most lonf.sundln problems before the I'-S. Congress. Airl cultural excesses also have been causing a mountlnf crisis In some parts of Western Europe. Now. corn and butter surpluses ara beflnnlnc to cause alarm In Af. rlca. specifically the t'nlon or South Africa. Br MICHAEL KEATS Johannesburg - IUPD - South African farmers, alarmed at a steadily rising production surplus of maize (corn) and butter, are threatening a po litical crisis for the govern ing National party. The Nationalists, who lean heavily on the support of the farmers to stay in power, are under fire for spreading the unpalatable truth that grow ers can expect little help from the government in the face of massive over-production for which there is little hope of markets. The question of farm sur pluses here is just as explos ive as in the United States. South Africa has a present WM Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. GENERAL MOTORS' OF THE GARMENT INDUSTRY? The bankruptcy last month of Grayson-Robinson, the 212- store retail chain with $102 million of sales In 1961 alone has helped reinforce the hackneyed notion of the U. S. ladies apparel industry as consisting of thousands of family type father-son businesses operating on a modicum of capital and enormously susceptible not only to the whims of fashion but also even to modest economic blows. For it is a fact that thousands of smal' apparel manufacturers are among Gray-son-Robinson's creditors. If the chain can't find ways to pay off its debts, many of these will be badly, perhaps mortally hurl by this largest bankruptcy to hit the garment industry in its history. Yet. even as this concept of the SI4.9 billion a year women's and children's garment industry is reinforced, a rev olution is quietly occuring within it which signals dramatic changes ahead. Multi-million dollar corporal enterprises are tmtrging. "Right now there are about four companies doing about $200 million of tht business and 10.000 others doing th rest," says Lewis B. Cullman, head of an investment man agement firm bearing his name and an expert on tht gar ment industry. "I think the 10,000 are going to dwindle and you're going to get a 'General Motors' in this industry." Mergers are taking place at an accelerating pace. While at its 31st annual convention in May, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union's Executive Board declared the industry continues to remain the mainstay of small business operations," the ILGWU also emphasized the up surge in mergers with larger producers acquiring smaller firms to expand and diversity their output, to cut down costs of designing, selling and other non-production activities, to "rationalize their inventory and sales policies. Simultaneously, more apparel firms than ever before now have stocks traded either on a recognized stock exchange or over-the-counter. In February, there were 6S publicly-held corporations in the industry, of which 35 had sold shares In 1960 and 1961 alone. In development today are individual corporations which will have sales of $100 million or more a year, will be able to write off without trouble losses resulting from a major customer's collapse. Back in 1956. David Schwartz, chairman president of Jonathan Logan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of women's apparel, said "1 won't live to see it but there'll be companies in this business doing $100 mil lion in another 20 years. Schwartz underestimated his own company. JOL's sales in 1962 are estimated at $75-$80 million, could, predicts Cull man, easily hit $100 million by 1964." Of course, styling always will play a key part in making or breaking an apparel manufacturer and since no company can have a monopoly on styling, it s likely there always will be a large number of small enterprises in the garment field. But the forces pulling the industry toward bigness are power ful and will continue so. Big companies selling to as many as 12,000 retail outlets can afford largt-icalt promotion and advartising campaigns and can imploy big tales forces - a whole ntw idea in an industry whtrt buytri traditionally have had to comt to tht tellers btcautt Ihtrt hat been no alternativt. Big companies could market the entire output of a chemi cal company or fabricator in a particular fabric or fiber, getting the extra benefit of the fabricator's advertising and promotion effort. Big companies can use and increasingly are using ad vanced computers to control styling, inventory and deliveries -thus getting the jump on smaller competitors and winning the all-important recorder business from large department stores through the country. Big companies can minimize the styling hazard by offer ing something for every type of taste and can afford to em ploy the best in designing talent. Finally, big companies are in a superior position to keep getting bigger through their own financial strength and through merger. There long have been "Fords" in the fashion business -lingo for the widely copied success dresses of the year which you can see on almost every other girl.. A 'General Motors' of garments some day too is not nearly as far-fetched as you might think. surplus of 23 million bags of make inroads on the present maize and 22 million pounds of butter. The government is spending about $16.5 million on maize subsidies alone, and this does not include subsidies to com pensate for export losses. In other words the South African authorities are digging into their pockets to help out far mers just as does the Amer ican government. South African farmers have lost an export trade in maize worth about $14 million a year through a four-fold in crease in the duty on process ed maize in Western European countries. Worse still, France is be coming an increasingly bigger supplier of maize to Common Market nations, which could South African export figures to Europe. Two cabinet ministers, Dirk Uys (agricultural economics and marketing) and P. K. Le Roux, (agricultural technical services) have been stumping the "platteland" farm belt warning farmers they can ex pect a "new and revolution ary" system of agricultural administration. "Many people will get hurt" said Uys. Forced Out of Business The m.nisters said that un less farmers cheapened their production methods to a more competitive level, some would be forced out of business. Taxpayers no longer can carry the inefficient farmer and farmers cannot expect Village Variety & Garden Shop Hunting I Fishing licenses Issued PAY ELECTRIC BILLS HERE "Medford's Only Independent Variety Store" Next to "Piggly Wiggly" 1 Day Photo Finishing Service POST OFFICE ALWAYS OPEN 771 Stewart Avenue 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. 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Salem, N.H. - A first grade student, explaining why he was crying at the start of the school year: "I like school but I'm afraid, t don't know how to read or write or anything." protection behind high sub sidy walls to go on indefinite ly, said Uys. Irked farmers grumbled even more when Uys said no solution to the surplus prob lem was "foreseeable." One farmer complained "all we have been told is that there is no immediate solu tion, and that we must make more sacrifices." Others wailed that Le Roux had stated that farmers should not seek the cause of their troubles with the government, but with themselves. They wanted to know why only 4 million pounds of the South African butter surplus could be exported to Britain. "Some of the dairy farmers are beginning to have serious doubts about South Africa's withdrawal from the Com monwealth" said one farmer. The whole question of sur pluses will dominate proceed ings when the National party starts its provincial confer ence series in the Orange Free State next month. Starvation Level In the meantime, opposition circles have been vocal in their advice to the govern ment and have been quick to point out that a prolonged drought in the Northern Transvaal province has re duced the lot of thousands of African tribesmen to stana-tion-level. "These so-called surpluses do not really exist" trumpeted the Rand Daily Mail newspa per, which supports the oppo sition Progressive party. "Tney are the creation of an economic system which puts the prices of many essen tial foods out of reach of the majority of the population." "The answer is to get the 'surplus' food to the underfed, not only by famine relief in acute cases, but by a studied economic policy. 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