Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 88

Republic photos bv Lud Keaton heavy-duty truck facility. Southwest Kenworth's headquarters and shops at 2625 S. 19th Ave. are the country's bif Big rigs plant's specialty Kenworth is nation's largest service facility for heavy-duty trucks and king-size trailers I fm president directs operations of six other sales and service facilities in Tucson, Paso, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Reno and Casper, Wyo. Biggest feature of SKI's Phoenix truck complex is a block-long double series of bays that will accommodate 40 heavy-duty trucks at a time.

Behind the bays a transmission and engine rebuilding room, 40 feet by 112 feet, that has five traveling cranes to handle the big engines and transmissions. Adjoining the heavy-duty truck facility a trailer shop with room to handle ten 45-foot trailers at the same time. "All of this big equipment means that our mechanics can spend their time being mechanics instead of roustabouts wrestling engines and transmissions," explained Paul Busch, executive vice president of SKI. "Power equipment multiplies the men's strength and saves time." Adding to the SKI capabilities here is a paint spray bay and a fiberglass bay capable of handling the big rigs. The SKI facility also has equipment for straightening frames and axles of both trucks and trailers.

Ralph Haddox, service manager, calls the big complex a one-stop service for heavy-duty trucks and trailers and adds he has the equipment to reduce the overall cost of repairs. SKI started out and still is a sales facility for Kenworth Truck Seattle-based manufacturer of heavy duty trucks. At SKI, Dick Hamlin is vice president of highway sales and Dan Vance, vice president of off-highway sales. S-j Udmm.m wrJ AM station steps ahead KHCS Radio's transmitter here is 1st all-solid-state unit in commercial service Dick Hamlin Joe Cole Business and financial farm to table 16 out of those 65 items in the food basket, based on 1974 levels. The report shows wide variation in the costs of the marketing functions such as processing, transporting, wholesaling and retailing, depending on the product.

It shows that some elements of the cost of moving food from farm to table have risen at least as much as food prices fuel, power and light, for instance, have gone up 141 per cent since 1967, and containers and packaging materials have gone up 76 per cent. The aspect of Report No. 343 is revealing enough, but it's perhaps more instructive to look at which middleman gets what, based on the 1974 figures. For a pound of choice beef (average of all cuts), the report shows, the retail price was $1.39. The farmer, took 86 cents, leaving 53 cents for the in-be-tweeners.

(All these numbers had profit and taxes built in Assembly and procurement getting the beef to the processor took 1.7 cents, processing took 1.3 cents, intercity transportation 1.5 cents and wholesaling 8.2 cents. Retailing handling that pound of beef after it got to the store took 33.2 cents, or 63 per cent of the marketing spread. A dozen Grade A or AA large eggs cost (Section D) Page 14 Sunday, August 29, 1976 Ad 2 Phoenix to give award for top person A deadline of Sept. 20 has been set by Ad 2 Phoenix for nominations for the J. Terry Groener Memorial Award for Advertising ManWoman of 1976.

The award is presented annually by the organization, formerly the Phoenix Junior Advertising Club, to an individual who has contributed significantly to the advertising industry and the community. The award will be presented at noon Oct. 4 at a joint meeting of Ad 2 and the Phoenix Advertising Club at Beef Eaters Restaurant. Nomination forms are available from Ad 2 at P.O. Box 2589, Phoenix 85001, said Ron Cooper of Associates, an Ad 2 official.

The award, first presented in 1959, was renamed in memory of Groener, a past president and honorary life member of Ad 2, after his death in 1973. By CLARENCE W. BAILEY At sunrise June 7 a new radio voice began broadcasting in central Arizona the new, all-transistorized transmitter of longtime Phoenix religious radio station KHCS. It is probably the first all-solid-state AM broadcast station in the world to go on the air in regular commercial service, according to Jack Stuart, general manager and chief engineer. KHCS will boost its current 500 watts of power output to 1,000 watts early in September, but already its signal has an apparent "loudness" greater than other Valley radio stations, Stuart said.

It isn't a religious miracle that's responsible for this. Rather, it was the ingenious audio engineering contributions of Ron Jones, an Arizona radio broadcast engineering consultant and manufacturer of broadcast audio components. "Ron Jones did a lot of original design work and provided us with audio processing and audio quality which is at least the equal of that to be found in any major radio station or network in the country," said Stuart. Audio processing, he explained, is an electronic technique for modulating or filling the radio station's carrier wave In addition to Kenworth; SKI sells Great Dane, Wilson and Beall tank 1 trailers, Dart front-end loaders and log stackers, and Euclid earth-moving -equipment. Completing the corporate team' are Gordon Purl, vice president of finance; Dave Sanderson, treasurer; and Carman, secretary.

Southwest Kenworth, was formed in January 1966 when Crayton bought -Kenworth dealerships in Phoenix and Albuquerque and an off-highway facility in Salt Lake City. Crayton began an association with Kenworth in 1952 when he took over management of the Phoe nix branch of J. T. Jenkins Co. In 1 9 6 9, Kenworth became an independently operated subsidiary of Southwest Forest Industries.

Stuart Jones with a maximum amount of audio', power, at the proper voice and music -frequencies, without generating distortion. Jones handles the major engineering work of a number of Valley radio stations, and also is president of Circuit Research Labs, 3920 E. Indian Stuart said the result of the enhanced audio power at KHCS is powerful, "pri-. mary service" coverage of Mesa, Tempe. Avondale Glendale, Sun City, Chandler, Apache', Junction, Wickenburg, Maricopa, Palo Verde, Rock Springs, Tolleson, Goodyear and Casa Grande.

Continued on Page D-17 'g XX' By A. V. GULLETTE Associate Business and Financial Editor The country's largest heavy-duty truck facility is in operation in Phoenix a $3 million complex at 2625 S. 19th Ave. The facility is Southwest Kenworth, independent subsidiary of Southwest Forest Industries, the Phoenix-based forest products company with operations in 33 states.

Kenworth's "big plant for big trucks" has 111, COO square feet of facilities under roof and 367,000 square feet of graded and drained concrete and asphalt-paved parking on a site of 12.2 acres. In the facility is the corporate headquarters of Southwest Inc. (SKI), from which Lee G. Crayton as editor is all uphill 78.3 cents, 53.2 of it to the farmer; retailing took 10.3 cents, or 41 per cent of the total marketing cost. A half-gallon of milk retailed at 78.4 cents, 40.9 cents, or 52 per cent of it, to the farmer.

For a 6-ounce can of orange juice, retail was 25.8 cents, a mere 8.5 cents of it to the grower; processing took 6.5 cents, retailing 5.8 cents. Looking at some other basic items: A head of California lettuce retailed at 42.4 cents; 6.3 cents went to the farmer, 8.3 cents to the processors, 6.3 cents to intercity transportation, 3 cents to the wholesaler and 18.2 cents to the retailer (those produce sections are expensive to maintain). A 1-pound loaf of bread: 34.5 cents retail, 8 cents to the farmers (for all ingredients), 9.9 cents to processors, 9.8 cents to wholesalers, 5.8 cents to the retailer. A pound of margarine: Retail 57 4 cents, farm value 27.7 cents, processing 16.5 cents, retailing 9.6 cents. Ten pounds of potatoes: $1.75 retail, 67.5 cents to the grower; the processor takes 24.7 cents, the shipper 15.5, the retailer 63.4 cents.

The list goes on. The point should be apparent now. When you feel like cussing out the farmer for high food prices, remember to distribute the load fairly. handsteered machines he has on the job. The Master carries an operator aboard, like a riding lawn mower, and has three sets of 48-inch circular blades whirling around to finish the concrete.

Steel will be on site the second week of September. The building will be prefabricated Marathon Mettalic with more than a million pounds of steel including side sheeting and doors, reported Lufkin, who is the Marathon-Metlalic dealer-contractor here. In addition, another 267,126 pounds of pallet racks will be built down one entire side of the building. A mezzanine office will overlook the storage area and the structure will be served by a railroad siding. Lufkin said the warehouse will be only a small unit in the nuclear plant.

"Any building with more than live acres of floor space is a pretty fair size building," he said, "but when Palo Verde Is completed, we're just going to be one little component in a tremendous pattern. "You may have to follow the rnilrnad track to find us." El is is Lee G. Crayton Paul Busoh From After reading Agricultural Eco- i Report No. 343 of the Economic Re search Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we have lost our appetite.

No. 343 is entitled "Cost Components of Farm-Retail Price Spreads for Selected Foods." It tells us, basically, that the farmer gets about two-fifths of our food dollar, and everybody else all those beloved middlemen gets the other 60 cents. It also tells us that the farmer actually gets a little more these days than he did a decade ago 42 cents in 1974, up from 40 cents in 1965. What that really says, in part, is that the farmer has kept right in step with everyone else in the march of inflation. That march p'haps stampede thunders out of the 66 pages of Report No.

343. The governmment statisticians use a "market basket" of 65 food items to spell out some of the cost elements over the years In 1965, based on average consumption levels, a year's supply of the items in the basket, for a household, cost at retail. The farmer's share was 1416.34. In 1973, the retail cost was $1,875.99, and the farmer's share was $782.82. The middleman's chunk what the report calls "marketing functions," or the farm-retail price spread was $1,093.58 In 1975.

That's more than the whole basketful cost only 10 years ago. In other words, retail food costs, as gauged by these 65 representative items, have gone up nearly 81 per cent in those 10 years. Of the increase, nearly 53 per cent has occurred in this decade. (The pace has slowed but only a little this year.) That's only for openers. The bulk of the report is an analysis of cost factors National effort is suggested to teach metric conversion WASHINGTON (UPI) Teachers should be trained for metric education only as part of a national plan for conversion to the metric system of measurement, a National Institute of Education report suggests.

The report cautions that without a coordinated national effort, teacher training for metrication could become a patchwork of haphazardly arranged programs. in Giant equipment used to pour concrete for 5-acre building Caravans of concrete trucks, a spreader that puts down a 100-foot wide strip of paving, a troweling machine so big the operator rides it like a small tractor. These are features as Lufkin Construction Co. puts down the concrete floor for a warehouse that will cover more than five acres at the site of the Palo Verde nuclear plant, near Winters-burg 50 miles west of Phoenix. Dean Lufkin said tlie $2 million-plus warehouse should be ready by Christmas.

To pour the concrete for tlie project, he made these arrangements: United Metro has a caravan of 15 trucks, each with 12 yards of concrete, shuttling between its new batch plant in Buckeye and Palo Verde. The state's first Gomaco concrete spreader was extended from usual 70-foot-wide cake to 100 feet and is laying between 30,000 and 32,000 square fect a day. With this much concrete going down, Lufkin brought in a Master troweling machine, three times the size of the 1 kin' uprcadrr lay tlmwi 100-fool wltlc lri of rourrctr for wan-homr al mu lrur ilr. 1 I..