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BUSINESS Wednesday, May IS, 1968 17 Business Mirror Riggs To Leave Retailers Should Aid Official Says NEW YORK (AP) The nation's retailers "can't stay at the same old stand and wait for, the next eruption" of violence in the streets but must become active in leading the hard-core unemployed to jobs. If they says James J. "they stand to lose the retailer is right in the front line." Bliss is the executive vice president of the National Ketail Merchants Association, a trade group for the department chain and specialty store industry. Its 2,000 members operate about 17,000 stores and annually account for about $30 billion of retail sales, "We "first taking an actively Increased interest" in bard-core unemployed last summer when the riots began, Bliss said in an interview. "So many of our members' stores were looted and burned, it became very apparent the overtones for retailing were getting very dark." Since the retailer stands "to lose the all of the business community," Bliss wid, "he sould be the most involved in trying to axlu- to urban violence.

"The important thing," he "is that the retailer has to accept as moral principle that the root causes of facial tension are basically wrong, and he has to do something about it. Unless that moral commitment is made the outlook is going to be bleak." In an effort to get this message to its members, the association has begun issuing a newsletter devoted to the retailer's role in the interracial cli- of his community. Much of the newsletter, called "Crisis 'details examples of how retailers around the nation are handling the problem of recruiting the hard-core unemployed and training them to hold jobs in their stores. "Many of the hard core are not educated," Bliss said. "Many of them live in a welfare envi-onment and in a home where they never saw a person gainfully employed and where the idea of working for a living and standing on their own two feet is an alien one.

To many of them having to work is an entirely new concept." Much of the work in preparing the hard core for jobs is being done by government agencies, Bliss said, but some also is being handled by the merchants themselves. "A number of New York stores, for example, have banded together to develop the facilities needed to give this. feeder training to these people," Bliss said. "It aims at getting them to overcome their distrust as well as teaching them how to behave in the business world and the white world." An example of how bridge building can pay off happened recently in an Eastern city where two stores of similar size and clientele hired about 100 slum dwellers who had been trained in the same job opportunities program. One store lost about 90 per cent of these employes in about three weeks.

The other store managed to keep most of them on the payroll. "The reason the one store lost out was that it just decided to start recruiting Negroes without deciding how to accomplish this," Bliss said. "The other store went about it in a well organized way. It knew it had to make the Negro himself as well as the people already in the store aware that the management was serious." "Many retailers are successful in keeping their hard-core recruits," he said. "But more has to be done, a lot more.

It's going to take time. You are not going to see immediate results." Bliss said the association's interest in the problems of the hard-core unemployed had aroused strong interest. "Of all the things we've he said, "nothing has excited more interest on the part of our members. HOPEWELL Robert L. Riggs is retiring as manager of Allied Chemical Corporation's fertilizer plant here, James B.

Prendergast, agricultural division president, said today. Riggs, an Allied Chemical employe for 42 years, will retire August 1. C. L. Jones manager of the company's agricultural division plant in Omaha, will succeed Riggs.

Riggs joined Allied Chemical in Syracuse, in 1926 as a research chemist, following graduation from Yale University with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering. He helped start the Hopewell plant in 1928, and served in a variety of posts until being named general superintendent in 1949. In 1953 he became Omaha plant manager, returning to Hopewell as plant manager in 1957. Except for his four years in Omaha, Riggs has lived in Hopewell since 1928.

An active participant in civic and business affairs, Riggs has been president of the Hopeweft Manufacturers Association and the Jordan Point Country Club; a director of the Virginia Manufacturers Association, State Chamber of Commerce, and the Richmond James River Association. His community service also has included membership in the American Chemical Society, Ft. Lee Advisory Board of State- Planters Bank, and a past membership on the Hopewell School Board. Jones also has spent his entire career with Allied Chemical, starting in 1936 in the Hopewell plant where he served for 30 years. A native of Fremont, N.C., Jones began work at the Hopewell plant the day after graduation from North Carolina State University with a B.S.

degree in chemical engineering. From that time until he became Omaha plant manager in 1966, he heM ROBERT L. RIGGS production and administrative posts throughout the Hopewell plant. In Omaha, Jones is a member of the Omaha Industrial Forum and the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. He is on the official board of Omaha's First Methodist Church and is president of the Men's Club and the Adult Bible Class.

Regulations Bring Contract Changes WASHINGTON Various fed- eral and state labor and welfare am apparently caus: business firms to and work is performed by inde- 3 er fields pendent contractors rather than is growing A lumber pendent contractors, rather than employes Reports' from to the continuous field survey of the National Federation of Independent Business indicate that some firms are releasing employes, but then awarding the work to Independent contractors. This ap- panentliy is most prevalent in the sales field where directly controlled sales forces are eliminated and in their place, sales personnel are set up as independent agents. Water Loan Authorized WASHINGTON Approval of a $581,828 grant to help expand a water system and to help itinv ulato economic growth in Dkk- enson County, was announced today by the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The project will consolidate water service in the Clintwood area of Dickenson County by purchasing two small existing systems and by building treatment, storage and supply facilities to serve five rural communities.

The applicant, the Big Caney Water Corporation, says the new system will boost the tourism potential of the area. Dickenson County has become more popular as a tourist and recreation area since the establishment of the Breaks Interstate Park, In addition, the new system will-enable about 15 service and commercial organizations to expand and hire additional em- ployes. A proposed hospital. will employ 35 persons and a new vocational school will create 18 according to the application for EDA assistance. In addition to the EDA the applicant wiH provide $581,836 from other sources to complete the total cost yard in a small Midwest town which had formerly followed a practice of also construction work, reports it las dismissed the crew that did his phase of the work.

Instead, they now operate of the yard as private contractors. "The arrangement," the proprietor resorts, "creates considerable savings in government controlled assessments, and liability insurance." The owners of an East coast 'inn engaged in sales engineering and installing of electronic equipment reports dismissing all employes. Tiie modifications needed on equipment received rom the factories is let out to qualified craftsmen as subcon- Irators. The owners comment, 'We made this change because of the complexity in the required vU paper work to have employes of brokerage customer relation- 1 i our own. EDA was established under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of IMS to help create new jobs aad iaooma to lagging The afeocy't programs inchxW i grants and lomt, and and plaoninf This eliminates payroll taxes, necessity of with- Summer Program Set By Bankers WASHINGTON The Investment Bankers Association of America and the New York Stock Exchange are again jointly sponsoring a concentrated resident two-course training program, July 8-Aug.

10, on the Evanston (Illinois) campus of Northwestern University, for trainees entering the se curities business. Fundamentals of Investmen Banking (Course FIB) scheduled for the four weeks, July 14-Aug 10, provides the general knowl edge of securities, securities markets and investment princi pies, practices and analysis ea sential for a person training to become a registered representa live so that he may creditably represent his organization and ef fectively serve individual and institutional investors, accordinj to George M. Ferris managing partner, Ferris Company Washington, D. and EBA vice Pfresident for education. The other course, Stock Ex change Operations SEO), will be offered during the week July 8-13, followed by four hours of classes each week, at irregular intervals, during the four weeks of fundamentals investment banking.

Stock Exchange Operations is designed to acquaint the registrant with tiie. rules, practices and procedures of the organize exchanges with particular reference to the New York Stock Ex change. It also covers the regu lations of the Securities and Ex change Commission and the Na tional Association of Securitie; Dealers pertaining to marke and brokerage office procedures with emphasis on sound busi ness practices essential to gooc 'ships. Atlanta Man Homed To Position In NAM ATLANTA The National Association of Manufacturers has named Frank Steinbruegge, Atlanta, to the position of vice president-division manager. Steinbruegge has been manager for the the Southern Division of NAM with headquarters at Ml Peachtree Atlanta.

This Division embraces the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, plus Puerto Rico. A native of St. Louis, Stein- was reared in East Cleveland, Ohio. He later attended Emory University, Atlanta, where he received his degree in political science IMS. During his college days be a sports writer for The Atlanta Journal.

In 1951 he joined the NAM staff where he was soon made assistant to (he manager of the Southern Division. From 1956-50 WM to Houston, managing the to Aflaota in aad WM division manager to 1961 lie aerves in this position and was appointed vice president recently. Steinbruegge is a past secre tary of the Atlanta Professions Chapter of Sigma Delta Ch. journalism fraternity; a mem ber of ODK, Pi Sigma Alpha, po litical science fraternity; Alph Delta Sigma, advertising fraternity; a past president of th Atlanta Alumni of Phi DelU Theta fraternity; and a pai member of the Church Counc of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The new vice president pres ently serves on the Public Edu cation Committee of the Georgi.

Heart Association. He was ac live with the Emory Merit Pro gram as chairman of District Eight of the Greater Atlanta Campaign. He served in World War II the U.S. Army Field Artillery He received a Purple Heart a tl crossing of the Rhine Rive at Remagen Bridge and was a member of a battalion which re ceived the Guerre. Belgian Fleur Elephants vanished from Nortl America about 10,000 years ago May Be Steal teed, 28 gross tons of light steel 40,000 pounds of aluminum all slightly battered ant xarred? The Smoky Hill Bomb an.

runnery Range of the Air Forct las the metal for sale. Seale ids are welcome. Drivers May Renevy Auto Policies For Life CHICAGO drivers will be able to renew their automobile insurance for life under i new plan announced by the Kemper Insurance Group. The plan becomes, effective May, 15. Announcement of the lifetime renewal program was made by Vorris C.

Flanagin, chairman of the Kemper companies, the first in the industry to provide such a plan aimed exclusively at the senior On making the announcement, Flanagin said, "This is a logical extension of our. companies' traditional objective of retaining long ttine: policyholders. The middle age or even young driver now will have the additional.as- surance of our promise not to refuse renewal of his insurance during his retirement years." The Kemper companies' lifetime program will apply in all states. Operational tests were initially conducted in California, Connecticut, Illinois and New York. YLVIA PORTER: YOUR MONEY'S WORTH Vacations Becoming Longer In Prices effective thru May 18, 1968.

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Where are today's vacation holiday trends leading? The non-profit Southern Cali- ornia Research Council recently predicted, on the basis of an extensive survey of trends in leis- This projection may seem exaggerated. But don't be so sure. Instead, let it be a warning you to start thinking how you would spend a 25-week vacation meaningfully, what you would do with your days if you worked a 22-hour instead of a 40-hour week, and how you would handle "retirement" at age 38. Are you prepared or preparing to enjoy this leisure time? Or will it become an agony of boredom? A. A v-fuj.

a j. twi vi jJd ent of all office firms and a ure time, that by 1985--only 17 jeak one out of four factories years from now-the i a otlaf wSnT Stief ffi wffl have month or in July, over the Me- chmce of a 25-week vacation, morial or July 4 holidays. retirement at age 38, a 22-hour Both holidays fall on Thursday or doubl bis year and some companies ire granting two long weekends ather than "waste" either midweek holdiay. The trend toward longer va- and more liberal vaca- ion policies continues without etup, according to a new Pren- ice-HaJl survey. To give you an dea of how your own leisure fane compares, here are more of 'rentice-Hall findings and facts 'rom other current surveys on oday's vacation-holiday trends: Longer vacations are mow be- ng granted after shorter periods of service.

The majority of U.S. companies i workers, three out of five, grant two-week vacations after one year of service, and virtually all allow a two-week vacation after wo years of service. The ma- iprity grant a three-week vacation after 10 years of service and one in 10 offices grants a vacation after only two years of service. Growing numbers of employes are getting four-week vacations after 15 years of service. Where employes are coverec by union contracts, the five anc six-week vacation is spreading rapidly, and some unions have won a seventh week of vacation for long-term employes.

More and more paid holidays also are being granted. The United Auto Workers will get a 10th paid holiday this year, and an llth holiday in 1970. On average, the U.S. worker now gets seven or eight paid holidays year. Today, the great majority of companies.

allow employes to take their vacations at just about any time during the year--and allow employes to split their vacations into, say, a summer week off and a winter week off. Some companies give employes their birthdays off; some provide extra "floating holidays" which can be taken at any time an employe wants, often to make a long weekend; some award- "bonus" weeks off after their 5th 10th, 15th and 20th years of service to the company; some give bonus pay during vacations. These figures and trends be- all the more dramatic when you consider that as recently as 1940, two paid holidays were the rule for roost workers. As recenHy as 1941 only one in four employes gol a paid vacation at elL If they jot one, it was usually one week per year. Only a few yean ago, the FRYERS Choice Your CHoico Shop And Compare Our quality Of Meats And Prices CHUCK ROAST (First Cut) or I CHUCK I STEAK ONLY Luter's BACON Probe Of NLRB Being Sought WASHINGTON The nation's referee in business and labor disputes, the National Labor Relations Board, has been hearing boos and catcalls from many on the business side lately.

Frequent charges that recent NLRB refereeing has been slanted in favor of labor unions has prompted Representative John M. Ashbropk of Ohio to introduce a resolution for a House investigation of tlie five-man Boaixi. The Board has the quasi-judicial function of interpreting labor relations law passed by Congress. His call for an inquiry is overwhelmingly endorses by the nation's independent businessmen, says the National Federation of Independent Business, which has just completed a poll on the subject. It found 83 per cent of the responding proprietors favor an investigation, 9 per cent oppose it, and 6 per cent have no opinion.

The poll shows a substantial majority of affirmative votes in every state. In Virginia, 92 per cent favor an investigation, three per cent take a negative view, and five per cent are undecided. The resolution by Congressman Ashbrook states that "there is increasing evidence that instead of objectively and impartially administering the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board has assumed the rola of as antagonist for organized labor, and fa iti decisions, orders, regulations and administrative procedures consistently tends to favor, the tide of labor unions at the expense of Wafer Thin Leon Tasty 69 Oscar Mayer All Meat B1 9 Red I FRANKS I SMOKED FRANKS I 65 Ib. I I 39 fo. SNAPPING FRESH PRODUCE The resolution calls for a committee of six House members to conduct an extensive hearing, delving Into past decisions, and to report to Congress before the year ends.

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