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Page 8A Tuesday, October 31, 1995 Jacksonville, Leesburg facilities escape Fruit of the Loom layoffs 7 ing the North American Free Trade 'Agreement, or NAFTA, he said." The move to cut costs and consolidate operations mirrors a trend in the apparel-manufacturing industry in the region that has recently begun to affect Alabama. Vanity Fair Mills announced earlier this month it would close plants in Butler and Robertsdale in the next few months and lay off more than 1,000 employees. Last month, Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. said it would close plants in Clayton, Hartford and Qpp and cut about 1.000 employees from its state work force. The apparel industry employs about 55 percent Alabama's 100,000 textile jobs in nearly all 67 counties.

Star Business Editor Frederick Burger contributed to this Associated Press report. Loom facilities. Florence Mayor Eddie Frost said he hopes the dis-" placed workers will find jobs with the area's other textile manufacturers. The nation's largest underwear maker also will close plants in Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana and cut employment at pther Kentucky and North Carolina operations. A Fruit of the Loom plant in Brundidge, which employed 485 workers, was taken over by Russell Corp.

in mid-September, said Russell spokesman Fred Braswell in Alexander City. Braswell said the latest closings are partly the result of the "normal economic reversals," but that the industry is faced with a "new world market." The industry has became more competitive with the adoption of foreign trade agreements, includ From Staff and Wire Reports Massive layoffs and plant closings by Fruit of the Loom Inc. will not affect its Union Yarn plant in Jacksonville or its Leesburg Yarn Mill facility, the company said today. Of the company's seven Alabama plants, only its Salem Screen Printing operation In Florence which employs 350 is targeted as part of a five-state cutback program designed to ease lagging profits. The company's other Alabama plants are in Aliceville, Fort Payne, Fayette and Winfield.

The closings, which were announced Monday, will, take place by the end of this year and will eliminate 3,200 jobs nationwide, reducing the company's domestic work force by 1 2 percent, company spokeswoman Pam Blanken-shipsaid. The Florence operation will be consolidated into other Fruit of the AW "n.7 1 toj Itft I II i i ii II II ir A. Charlotte and Marvin Manlum speak to the media outside Washoe District Court in Reno, after the jury award was announced. Jury orders Dow to pay $10 million in damages in breast implant case Soldier accused in Fort Bragg shooting was always good kid By Mary Pemberlon Associated Press CLINTON, Md. Growing up, William Kreutcr was known as a great kid, taking care of neighbors' dogs, mowing neighborhood lawns and shoveling out snow from driveways.

He always wanted to join the military and serve his country. "He was a classic young American boy that anyone would love to have as ttecir neighbor or as a son," said Ralph Schreiner, who has lived next door to the Kreutzers since 1977. "I would take him as my own son." Krcutzer, however, now sits in jail, accused of killing one soldier and injuring 18 others in an am-. bush on 1 ,300 soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C... He has not been charged as the Army investigates Friday's shooting.

Kreutzer, 26, an Army sergeant, has a clean service record, adding little to the investigation. Why the attack happened is a key question still unanswered, said Maj. Rivers Johnson, spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division based at the fort. The Washington Post, citing unidentified sources, reported Sunday that Kreutzer recently had become hostile and had been seen by military psychiatrists. And at least one of Kreutzer's former schoolmates said the sergeant was a loner fascinated by firearms "He was always into guns," Johnny Mullikih told The News Observer of Raleigh, N.C.

But Schreiner and his wife, Vivian, said they saw no signs of trouble when Kreutzer was growing up. The boy took care of their dog and house while they went on vacations. "We really trusted him," Mrs. Schreiner said. "We knew he was a very nice boy.

We don't understand why he got into that kind of trou- blc." Neighbors on the quiet, tree-lined street in suburban Washington described the Kreutzers as "nice," but private. Lloyd Proctor, who lives across the street, said his son, Darryl, spent time with Kreutzer when they were teen-agers. "They studied, hung around and played basketball," Proctor said. "If there was a problem I would have heard about it." Effective Monday, October 30, 1995 I By Barry Meier New York Times Lordy, Lordy, Glenda Brooks ItV Closed Sun. ArMon.

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