The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 15

illic'IonraalTlnjcs! Nissan factory brings growth pains the Journal Timet, Monday, Mar. 25, 1985 Racine, Wit. 53 I meet somebody I know, it's a surprise. There are just so many people walking down the street you don't know." There are also widespread fears that despite the failure of unions to make even the slightest inroads in the Nissan plant, it is only a matter of time before they do. And that, for many residents, spells trouble with a capital "I'll tell you what these ol' country boys in Middle Tennessee do when the union tells them to blow up somebody's house," said Carl Montgomery, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who Is one of Smyrna's most prominent businessmen.

"They go out and put a stick of dynamite behind the water heater and another outside the garage just to make sure. "So whenever the unions start coming in to Nissan and they will you'regoing to find it isn't going to be safe for anybody here." Montgomery, like the mayor a World War II veteran, once led an unsuccessful petition drive to have the access road to Nissan named Pearl Harbor Boulevard. And on another occasion, he took out a half-page ad in the local newspaper saying: "Nissan's here, trouble's a-coming, I'm a-leaving." Skepticism about the new prosperity is perhaps strongest among those whom it has least benefited. The jobless rate for Rutherford County in January, the latest month for which statistics are available, was 6.4 percent. That is well below the statewide average of 9.4 percent, but also well above the 4.2 percent in neighboring Davidson County, which includes Nashville.

Not all businesses have profited from Smyrna's growth either. "Mom-and-pop" stores are under particular strain from the growing number of chain operations. "There was one little grocery store a half block off the main drag that had been open for the past 30 or 40 years," said Mike Woods, Smyrna city clerk. "But it folded and is now a church." By David TrvtattwaH Lob Angelas Tims SMYRNA, Tenn. When the first Nissan car rolls ceremoniously off the assembly line Tuesday at the Japanese automaker's sprawling plant here, Sam Ridley Is certain to be in the forefront of all the hoopla and ballyhoo.

And for good reason. Ridley, a 65-year-old veteran of Patton's Worjd War II campaigns, has been Smyrna's mayor and chief economic booster for nearly 40 years. Ever since he first took office, he has dreamed of bringing business to Smyrna in a really big way and transforming this rural community just southeast of Nashville into a genuine boom town. The 1660 million Nissan plant the largest foreign-owned automotive facility in the entire nation is the jewel in the crown of those efforts. In the 4 1-2 years since Nissan first announced the selection of Smyrna as the site of its U.S.

plant, the town has prospered beyond even the mayor's wildest expectations. "When I came back to Smyrna after the war," Ridley said, "we didn't have a sewer system, we didn't even have an adequate water, system and many of the streets were But I had a vision of what this community could be. Now, when I look out at Smyrna, I feel like Moses must have felt when be looked over into the Promised Land." But not everyone shares the mayor's exhilaration over the changes in Smyrna since the advent of Nissan, which first began producing trucks here in mid-1983 and decided just last May to build Sentra autos as well. In fact, many townspeople believe that the arrival of the Japanese has been at best a mixed blessing, bringing as much in the way of problems as it has in progress. Such an attitude toward the community's new-found riches may seem perverse at a time when a growing number of rural Southern towns are seeing their businesses and industries decimated by overseas competition.

But Smyrna is a textbook case of the agony that often accompanies the ecstasy of rapid economic growth. On the plus side, new shopping centers, fast-food restaurants, banks, convenience stores and filling stations are sprouting up along U.S. 40-71, the town's once-sleepy commercial strip. New subdivisions are being carved out of the surrounding farmlands, including one project along a nearby lake where homes will have 1150,000 price tags. The city-owned recreational park is adding 35 acres to its present 45 acres of baseball diamonds, tennis courts, jogging trails and picnio pavilions.

And a new clubhouse is in the works for the municipal golf course. The city treasury, which expects to collect around $675,000 from Nissan this year, now boasts a surplus of $5.5 million or enough to hand $500 to every man, woman and child in town. And the local property tax rate remains at 75 cents per $100 of assessed value the same as it was when Ridley first took office in 1947. That is not a bad record for a town that only a few years ago was literally little more than a wide spot in the road, famous only as the state's worst speed trap. But the achievement has a price.

Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Smyrna's splraling development is the rapid erosion of its small-town atmosphere. Traffic jams, overcrowded schools and the unabating onslaught of fortune-seeking strangers are replacing the old order. Recent population projections for the town predict an increase of around 80 percent in the current 10,500 population by 1990. "It used to be that you could walk down the street and know everybody you'd meet and call them by their first name," said one elderly resident, echoing a common complaint. "Now if Compiled by David PltEStl 341 ,42) job recratLuimg 1904 Dostsolling paperback lishcr i 1 I Ballantine'Del ReyFawcett were an easy leader of the 25 publishers whose paperback books made The New York Times bestseller lists in 1984.

They had 42 titles on the lists for a combined total of 341 weeks. Bantam was next best at picking the winners, with 27 books on the lists for 195 "book weeks." TOP TEN BESTSELLINQ PAPERBACK PUBLISHERS (MASS MARKET ANO TRADE PAPERBACKS) Combined totals ot weeks on yp (27) pi CANADIAN BREWERIES REOPEN: Ontario's three biggest breweries have lifted their lockout at five of six plants, ending a one-month drought that drove many beer drinkers to border states to quench their thirst, an industry spokesman said. "As far as I know they're all operating now," Bob Woolvett, spokesman for the breweries, said Sunday. During the lockout, Pabst Brewing Co. and other U.S.

companies sent beer to Canada to relieve thirsty beer drinkers, the Associated Press reported. La-batt's Ontario Breweries Molson (Ontario) Breweries Carling O'Keefe Breweries and Brewers' Warehousing locked out about 4,000 workers Feb. 26 in a contract dispute. The companies decided Saturday to lift the lockout at 8 p.m. Sunday for about 3,600 workers after the 11th of 12 union locals ratified a new three-year contract.

"In these circumstances, the industry feels that it is in the best interests of all concerned to resume the production and sale of beer," said Larry Bertuzzi, chief negotiator for the breweries. HIRED: William M. Carpenter, a former senior vice president of Houston-based Tenneco has been named managing director and chief of staff for the ALS Association, Houston. ALS, a nonprofit organization, said it is "dedicated to finding the cause and cure of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease." Carpenter is a former Racine resident. At Tenneco, he was in charge of public relations.

TOOL ORDERS ROSE: Orders for U.S.-made machine tools totaled $237.6 million in February, up 17 percent from $202.9 million a year earlier, the National Machine Tool Builders Association said. February orders, however, were little changed from the pattern of the previous six months and about half the monthly rate of 1979 and 1980. HUNDREDS TO LOSE JOBS: More than 300 full-time and part-time food service workers will lose their jobs at the Madison-area Rennebohm-Walgreens stores in June when a $9.5 million expansion and renovation project begins, Walgreen Co. said. Waldo Narr, district manager for the Madison-area stores, said late Sunday that the project includes closing 14 food service operations in the district's stores and discontinuing its catering service.

Nan-said the closings, scheduled for June -2, will affect about 200 full-time and 200 part-time food service employees. Food service employees were informed about the plans in meeting at five locations Sunday. Ed Cudworth, Walgreens regional vice president, said declining food sales and profits prompted the closings, but that workers will be considered for new jobs created by the larger, remodeled stores and laboratory job openings. He said the company has about 850 employees at its 20 Madison-area stores. TO BUILD BRANCH: Ronald F.

Goodspeed, president of Bank of Racine, said hopes to begin construction of a third branch office late this spring on two acres of land it owns on the northeast corner of Douglas Avenue and 4 Mile Road. The 3,500 square-foot building will have three teller stations and should be ready for business by late fall, Goodspeed said. Mil's main office is at 441 Main Street; branches are at 1501 Washington Ave. and 5101 Spring St. 1 KENOSHA PORT CONTRACTS: The Port of Kenosha has been awarded contracts to handle three shipments of food totaling 17 million pound to drought-stricken Africa, U.S.

Rep. Les Aspin, D-East Troy, said today. "Kenosha won three major contracts to ship U.S. Department of Agriculture cargo during the opening weeks of the season and it would have had more if there'd been enough warehouse space," Aspin said in a news release. The shipments will leave the port between April 21 and May 5.USDA is sending 5.4 million pounds of corn soya milk to Ethiopia, 9.6 million pounds of the soya milk to Niger and 2 million pounds soybean salad oil to Ethiopia, Chad and Somalia.

Shipments of government food slipped to 40.5 million pounds in 1984 from 55.8 million pounds the previous year. bestseller lists tor all titles published (Number ot titles making bestseller lists in parentheses MADISON (AP) A surplus of job applicants has led to a curtailment in recruitment and testing for most lower-level state jobs until after July 1, officials have reported. Susan Christopher of the Department of Employment Relations said most of the lower-level jobs clerical, maintenance and secretarial, for example will not be recruited again prior to July 1. Those jobs attract so many candidates, sometimes 3,000 or 4,000 applicants, that the state cannot afford the cost of testing them all in this fiscal year, which ends June 30, she said. "We will not be announcing many vacancies," Christopher said.

Officials believe applicant numbers have increased mainly because the state no longer screens most candidates for training and experience prior to testing them. Christophr said the agency's aggressive recruitment of minorities also nets more non-minority applicants as well. Joseph Cissell, coordinator of state recruitment, said the numbers reflect an increase in the number of permanent jobs being filled by the state. In 1982-83, the state hired 1,039 people into permanent non-university classified positions, Cissell said. In 1983-84, that number in- creased to 1,603.

He said the figures also reflect an increase in minority hiring. In 1983-84, 11.1 percent of the new classified employees were minorities, while minorities represent about 6.6 percent of the state's population. In 1982-83, 10 percent of the new hires were minorities and in 1981-82, 9.7 percent were minorities, Cissell said. Because of the cutback in recruitment and testing, state agencies will have to work from established lists of candidates for those jobs, instead of testing "new" individuals, Ms. Christopher said.

Positions that will not be opened until after July 1 are stock clerk, storekeeper, clerical assistant, research technician, secretary, medical technologist, tax representative, educational loan collector and aviation consultant. Last week, the Department of Employment Relations asked the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee for $126,400 in emergency funds to cover increased costs in 1984-85 of the large number of applicants. The committee approved $74,600 after the Legislative Fiscal Bureau said only $74,600 of the $126,400 deficit was due to increased job applications. The remainder resulted from a deficit in other division operations, it said. fl48 jm (20) 132 Wm Nix surcharge: report most efficient (exporting) industries to less efficient (import-competing) industries that will be partly protected by the trade restriction," said a study prepared by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Imposing a surcharge is one of the ideas legislators and government officials have been studying as a way to stem the flow of imports into the United States. WASHINGTON (AP) A surcharge imposed to stem the flow of imports into the United States might have some short-term benefits, but overall it would result "in a net loss of worldwide economic efficiency and welfare," congressional economists conclude. "In general, the country that imposes a restriction on its trade is likely to be one of the major losers as resources shift away from its Note: compiled The New York Times 1984 bestseller lists. SOURCE: BP Beporf. Knowledo Industry Publications einfoGrophicsl985 Dollar, gold LONDON (API The dollar edaed hloher State depositors pressure Ohio today amid conflicting signals on the health of the American economy.

Gold prices war mld. Dealers said trading was moderatly active and the dollar smd to consolidating after last week's tumbl from Its record heights. The selloff, which Included the U.S. currency's biggest on-day plunge In 14 years, was blamed both on the Ohio savings and loan crisis which forced some 70 thrift institutions to close temporarily and a new government estimate of Grots National Product, which seam-ad to indicate a slowing of the U.S. boom.

But dealers noted that on Friday, other figures showed the U.S. Inflation rata easing to 4.2 percent and durable goods orders down by 0 2 percent In February, about what the market had eipectad. "Last week's Indicators are seen at contradictory," said a FrenKfurt trader. But he added: 'there still is strong demand for the doller." In Tokyo, where trading ends before Europe's business day begins, the dollar gained to a closing 2S6J5 yen from Friday's 254 90. Later, In London, the dollar was guoted at 256.30 yen.

Other dollar rates in Europe at mldmornlng, compared with lata Friday: West German marks, up from 3.2200. -2 7373 Swiss francs, up from 2.7265. -a 1570 French francs, up from WOO. -3 6591 Dutch guilders, up from 3 6305. 00 Italian lire, up from 2.040 50 Canadian dollars, up from 1 3750.

In London, the British pound was quoted at SI. 1701 compared with 11.1740 Friday. Gold opnd la London at a bid price of S314 30 an ounce, compared with late Fridays 131700. At mldmornlng. the city's five maior bullion dealers fined a recommended price of 1315.10.

In Zurich, the aeon bid price was 1314. up from S3IS late Friday. Earlier, Hong Kong, gold fell the equivalent of SI 77 to close at a bid S3I5 20 Silver' wes quoted in London at a bid price of S6 27 an ounce, down from Friday's S6.2U. loans have applied for federal insur-. ance.

Although withdrawals outpaced deposits Saturday, only four thrifts had to go to the Federal Reserve Board for cash, officials said. 1 An Associated Press survey showed that 50 opened Saturday for some type of business, including 10 that had received approval from the state to offer full service. Sixteen of the thrifts remained closed, with nine planning to reopen today. Telephone calls to three of (he institutions were nft answered. Problems in Ohio's savings anil loan industry arose after the March 4 collapse of ESM Government Securities a Fort Lauderdale.

securities firm that was! major lender to Home State anil held Home State securities as cof lateral. they reassured us we didn't have to get into the lines (during the bank run)." Home State depositors withdrew more than $154 million in the three days before it closed, and the was loaned more than $45 million by its private insurer, the Ohio Deposit Guarantee Fund, according to a report filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The thrifts Celeste closed also had been insured by the private fund, and the state created a fund March 13 to support deposits in all the thrifts except Cincinnati-based Home State, which is up for sale. The $750 withdrawal limit does not apply to thrifts that have obtained federal deposit insurance or merged with a company that already had the insurance. There were 18 such by Sunday, and McAlister said a total of 51 savings and ence in Columbus.

Home State's collapse March 9 triggered runs on the state's privately insured savings and loan associations, jeopardizing the insurance fund. That lead to the largest closing of financial institutions since President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a national "bank holiday" in 1933. But more than 2,000 Home State depositors jammed the Xavier University fieldhouse in Cincinnati on Sunday, crowding three-deep around tables with petitions urging Celeste and state officials to unfreeze their deposits and guarantee full payment. "They're bitter," said Mark Stachler, a depositor and meeting organizer.

"What we're trying to do is control that bitterness and redirect it at state officials because CINCINNATI (AP) Ohio officials are looking for the end to the nation's biggest "bank holiday" sjnee the Great Depression, and more than 2,000 angry depositors of the troubled Home State Savings Bank are looking for their money. Many of the 69 savings and loans closed by Gov. Richard Celeste opened their doors Saturday for the first time since March 15, with a state-imposed $750 limit on withdrawals. More were expected to reopen today, officials said. By Sunday, 18 of the institutions that had obtained federal insurance were given the OK to operate without restrictions.

"Instead of hot air about confidence, yesterday was the day we established confidence," Robert McAlister, the new superintendent of the state Division of Savings and Loans, told a Sunday news confer Local interest Courtesy Robert W. Balrd Co. Inc. Quotations of 10:30 a.m.: Not High Low Ust Chno Am Motors 3V 3 3W NC Amerltech 15' II II -14 Amete 2M4 26 26 Bucyrus 144 144k 141k- NC- OaneCorp 27 JM Jtlk -V Dayton Hud. Corp 37 37H 374 Emtr.

Eltc 7JV Evans 2 NC First WIS Corp '4 26 Ui M' NC Sn.SigCorp 454 45' 4JVi Goul tnc 23H 23 mart 34 33M 33 -v La 36 3a 3 Massey 21 2' 2 Vk Mattel Ine 13 13H 13H NC Mattel .30 XV, xvi -H Baxnord Inc 12 12 NC Soap-on Toots 34 34 34 4t Tannaco 41 40 41 -fit Teitron Inc 41 41 42 -Va Twin Disc It It It Vulcan Mat 77 76 74 Wfcor Inc 26 26 26 -v Wis 61 Pow 32 32V 32 WlsPSve 31 31' 31 Wis Pwr 4. JlVi 3114 31 NC Gram futures CHICAGO (AP) Futures trading on the' Chicago Board ot Trade Friday: WHEAT Mat kit. minimum; Dollars par bushel. Open High Low Last Chg. May 11 1M 34t 15a 3 32' 317 3 31 3 3tV 03 Sap 3 31 334Vi 3.30W 3V .03 Dec 3.41 344V 34IVi 3.44 .01 Mar 340 3JI 3 40 3 51 02 May 3 47 3 40 147 3.47 Pray, sales M.S4.

Pre, day's open hit. 33.04. up 67. CORN S.OM en. minimum; Dollars par kushat.

May 77V, 2 11 2 76 2 7 0 Jul. 2 71 211 2 77Vi 210 01 Sep 70V, 2 71V, 2 6 2 71 Oec 2 63V, 2 65 2 62V, 2 64 VI 00 Mar 2 72 2 73 2 71 2.73 00V, May 2 7a 2 3 2.7t 2 7 00V, Jul 2.KV, .00 Prev. sales 32,744. Prev day ooen lm 120.771 oft 57.042. OATS MM k.

mtnMwm; Dollars par kusaeL May 70 1.71V4 1 70' 1 71V, OOvi Jul 167V, ID 167V, 161 Sao 1 64 1 64V, 1 64 1 64 01 .1 47 1 67 1 67 1.67 00 Prev sales 3.267 Prev 09 i open 3.251, off 50. SOYBEANS 5.000 kw. minimum; Dalian per bushel. t0 00v 604 00" Jul 6 12 It 13 -OIV, Aug a. 10 6 13 1 14 02V, Sep.

tliv, tor 6 07 -03 6 11 6 0S) 6 10 -03 Jan 71 24 21 6 71 -02 6 33 6151 6 6 JJ -02 May 6 41 t43 4 40 4 40 02 Prev. tales 27 H2 Prev. clay's open m. 65.51, up M0 Livestock Reduced reserves causing gas prices to rise MILWAUKEE (AP) Friday's cattle market: choice steers 54 00-57 00; choice hellers 53 00-56 00; good to choice Hotttein steers 45 00- 54 00, s'andard stert 37 00-41 00; dairy halfert 45 00-40 00; utility cows 41 00-43 00, carmen and cutters 34 0O-30 00; commercial bulls 47 00-50 00; common bulls 44 00-46 00. Friday's celt market: choice veal 60 00-75 00; good vmI 45 00-60 00 Fridays hog market: sows 300-350 lbs 30 00-40 00; 450-500 lbs.

40 00-42 00, over 500 lbs 42 00-44 00; butchers 220-250 It. 40 50-41 50, beert 34 00 and down No lamp market was established. Monday's ettimated receipts. NO cattle, M0 calves. 100 hogs and lambs.

instead have decreased their output in an effort to control prices during a worldwide oil glut. Lundberg said many refineries change their production priorities from beating oil to gasoline during the spring. Lundberg said the amount of oil imported into the United States has increased steadily over the past 12 months to about one-third of domestic use, the same level that was imported before the 1973 Arab oil pump, and a sellers' market for crude oil, he said. Lundberg's weekly survey of service stations showed the average price for all grades of gasoline was $1,169 Friday, up slightly more than three cents from the average price figured for the week of Feb. 22.

U.S. refineries depleted their stock in anticipation of increased oil exports from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Lundberg said. But OPEC nations LOS ANGELES (AP) Gasoline prices, which bottomed out in recent weeks, continued a steady rise nationwide and average about three cents per gallon more than a month ago, oil industry analyst Dan Lund-berg said. "OPEC is apparently holding the line on exports, and resources (in U.S. refineries) must be restocked at this time," Lundberg said Sunday.

The result is higher prices at the Lundberg said his survey shows that the average prices for gasoluje at self-service stations, which now control 75 percent of the retail market, are $1,045 for regular leaded: $1,123 for regular unleaded: aid $1,256 for premium leaded. The Consumer Price Index issutxi last week by the Labor Department noted a 2.5 percent drop in gasolute prices for February, and the pnije rise began later that month, Lundberg said. i Eggs cmicago API witcontiA't eoo market Fridev as seav Pt unOenoed price Supplies were edeouate. demand as slow to lair. Prices: Crede A large 41-44.

medium SI-St..