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The Kansas City Slur Tuesday August 14 1984 Page 5 The labor scene Jim Schachter The Star's latxx writer Harzfelds puts wraps on 93 years as Bonwit remodeling proceeds ing a baby The employee said she understood the Mood was needed immediately Research supervisors listed other incidents in contending that the woman was fired for misconduct and should be disqualified from receiving unemployment compensation for six weeks But a Division of Employment Security appeals referee decided that the penalty was excessive claimant in most cases was trying to perform the job to the best of her ability but lacked either the ability or motivation to do the job the referee ruled The worker was denied one compensation Not all fired workers can claim their employers failed to give them a second chance Consider the case described in records of the Missouri Division of Employment Security of a that is a blood-sample terminated in November by Research Medical Center One day in May 1983 the employee took three Mood samples Her supervisor noted that one sample was labeled with the initials rather than the At first the employee rushed to relabel the vial without doublechecking the source 'of the an act she later denied She contended her supervisor assigned her another task before she could correct her mistake Ultimately all three samples had to be repeated and the phlebotomist was suspended from work for a week She was denied unemployment benefits for the period consequences of such errors might be tragic for a the Division of Employment Security noted After her return to work the employee was the subject of a complaint to Research Medical Center officials The patient alleged the blood-sampler tried three times unsuccessfully to extract a sample from her arm with a needle The employee denied the allegation In another case supervisors said the worker insisted on drawing blood from a woman being given an enema as part of the preparation for deliver on a cash- or American Express-only basis Mr Falk said proprietary charge card business was discontinued Aug 1 to provide a cut-off date for Harzfelds accounts receivable Harzfelds charge customers will be invited to reapply for Bonwit Teller cards Mr Falk said Harzfelds operated five Kansas City-area stores and one each in Tulsa Okla Oklahoma City and Columbia Mo Its Downtown and Blue Ridge Mall units were closed in January and its Corinth and Metcalf locations were closed Wednesday The Jones Store Co has announced plans to assume space vacated by Harzfelds at the Blue Ridge and Metcalf shopping centers The Downtown store will he part of the Town Pavilion retail and office development The Tulsa store is being converted to another Allied Stores retail property Brooks Brothers No plans have been announced for the other locations Mr Falk said two- to three-week clearance sales were held at each of the Harzfelds stores before all merchandise was brought to the Plaza employee hired is from the Harzfelds Mr Falk said The hiring includes the selection of a Harzfelds employee as Bonwit Teller's store manager its highest-ranking Kansas City position Mr Falk said The company has not yet officially announced who the new store manager will be Mr Falk who joined Harzfelds as president in February 1983 said he will not have a role with the Bonwit Teller operations here With a staff of 100 at the Plaza unit Bonwit payroll will exceed that of Harzfelds for the same location Harzfelds had about 65 employees at the Plaza Mr Falk said The Plaza close-out sale may run until Sept 1 depending on how quickly the remaining inventory sells the Harzfelds president said Mr Falk said no new inventory has been added since July and that none has been liquidated except through sales to customers were some fall things we were obligated to accept from vendors but we received many new Mr Falk said The close-out sale is continuing By Diane Stafford Stef bualnaaa financial writer ven as a 40-percent-off merchandise consolidation sale continues on the first and second floors of Harzfelds Country Club Plaza store remodeling is under way on the third and lower levels for the Bonwit Teller specialty department store that will replace it The 87000-square-foot Plaza store the first Bonwit Teller unit is scheduled to open Nov 1 Allied Stores Corp the New York-based parent company of both Harzfelds and Bonwit Teller announced in July that Harzfelds a Kansas City retail fixture for 93 years would be closed because of poor financial performance By Sunday store officials say all Harzfelds merchandise will be consolidated on the first floor In addition Donald Falk Harzfelds president said all Bonwit Teller hiring has been completed About 100 Harzfelds employees from its Kansas City locations have been rehired as Bonwit Teller employees for the Plaza store RETAIL SALES (Seasonally adjusted) Retail sales are down in July by 09 percent In billions of dollars no cline on cooler-than-normal weather in many parts of the country which depressed sales for such seasonal items as air conditioners Sales of durable goods those expected to last three or more years fell 14 percent and nondurable goods sales were down 06 percent The declines included a 39 percent drop in sales at general merchandise stores including department stores the largest decline in this category since July 1976 Automobile sales which had advanced for three consecutive months were down 21 percent Part of the decline was blamed on the lack of availability of popular domestic and foreign By The Associated Press Sales by US retailers dropped 09 percent in July the first decline in four months the government reported today The Commerce Department said sales fell to a seasonally adjusted $1078 billion following a 05 percent increase in June It marked the first decline since a 15 percent drop in March and was taken 3s a further signal that the economy which has been steaming along at a supris-ingly strong clip in 1984 is beginning to slow The strong surge in consumer spending has been a key force driving the recovery from the 1981-82 recession Some analysis blamed the de Souroe: Commerce Department Star chart Dryness pushing crops to crisis stage resulting in light poor quality kernels when the crop is harvested Soybeans are starting to drop pods rather than fill them a sign that they also are under stress The Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service reported Monday that row crops are in fair to good condition over most of the state Dry weather threatens non-irrigated production particularly late-planted fields and areas where soybeans or Eain sorghum was planted after rvesting a wheat crop rain it looks real said Larry Bonczkowski crop protection specialist with the Kansas Cooperative Extension Service in Manhattan Kan milo and soybeans followed wheat if it came out of the ground a long shot at best They need to be up and growing or they may not do anything (produce a crop) before frost the Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service Many livestock producers had hoped for ample grazing and hay production this year because their forage supplies were reduced last year by drought a government crop reduction program that reduced the amount of crop stalks for winter feed and a long stressful winter that depleted many hay supplies The Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service issued a report Monday showing that the crops had deteriorated substantially from lack of rain during the past week The report indicated that 68 percent of the corn crop 65 percent of the soybean crop 59 percent of the grain sorghum and 97 percent of the pastures in the state are in fair to poor condition Mr Bay said corn plants that are critically short of moisture may fail to fill developing ears By Ann Toner The Star agribusiness editor Dry weather has forced Missouri and Kansas crops to a crisis Unless most farms in the two 1 states receive rain soon crops planted under muddy and wet conditions this spring may paradoxically wither and fail to pro-I duce much of a harvest for lack of dealing a further blow to financially pressed farmers in the states Livestock producers also face a crisis because the dry weather has stunted the growth of summer pastures bitten deeply into summer hay production and threatens the grain crops as well Some stockmen have had to feed hay to supplement grazing of their cattle and stripping the farms of some of their precious hay supplies according to Eton Bay state statistician for IBM jnvites you to a business seminar on personal computers SHR 104 104 PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICES 104 PUBLIC NOTICES Notice to Qualified Bidders Invitation to Bid ERTIJEMENT FOR BIDS jled Wde tar MAINTE NANCE AND REPAIR AD SUBLEASE AT ARRY TRUM STATE PARK For HARRY MAN Hotdog maker to build plant in Columbia Mo By Ann Toner The agribusiness editor The Oscar Mayer Foods Corp plans to break ground for construction of a hotdog plant this fall on a 30-acre site in Columbia Mo Officials of Oscar Mayer Foods hope the 55000-square-foot Columbia Foods plant will be making hotdogs by December 1985 Employment is expected to reach 100 persons when the plant is operating at capacity Jim Eehl public relations manager for the company said in a telephone interview Monday The largest hotdog maker had several reasons for locating a wiener plant in the Columbia area Mr Eehl said They include a pool of labor access to interstate transportation availability of local utilities capable of handling the needs and nearness to meat sup I plies from the many beef and pork packing plants The hotdog plant is one of several single-product meat plants the firm has established in recent years for efficiency Mr Eehl said The company operates 20 meat plants The firm also operates sales distribution centers in Overland Park and St Louis as part of its national distribution network Wieners and frankfurters made at the plant likely will be distributed in much of the Missouri and Kansas area and areas to the I 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