The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1977 Page: 15 of 24
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, Dfmbr 5, 1977
Garment Industry Heading For The Sun Belt
Association, New York caters-
to highly experimental fashion
and California to extremely
casual styles but “‘Dalla*’
fame and fortune can be sum-:
med up as: Fashion that
rently apparel manufacturing
employs about 2,3 percent of
the labor force both in Texas
and in the nation,” she said.
The peak employment year
Employment in the apparel for apparel manufacturing both
industry in Texas has increased nationally and in Texas was
39.2 percent in the past 10 1973, Mrs. Bennett said, but the
years, writes Carol Bennett of dip since then “can* be ex-
the Bureap of Business Re- plained by the downturn of the
search in the new issue of economy in general, the closing
“Texas Business Review." of a few very large plants, and
Out of a national total of 1,-. in one case the lingering effects
299,000 apparel workers, more of labor disruptions, rather
than 72,400 are employed in than by any long-term indica-
Texas. . tions of reduced-profitability of
The growth of the industry in the Texas apparel industry.”
ovac hnu/Piw “ronrPSPnfci “The annarpl indnstrv hac al-
Texas style tends to be more
moderate in design and price
: The Sun Belt phenomenon holds
true for the garment industry:
plants and jobs have left the
northeastern states of New
York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, many of them toTelo-
cate in Texas, California and
North Carolina.” '
She said an important devel-
opment in the "highly com-
petitive” apparel business has
been the trend toward regional
trade marts, such as the one
established in Pallas in 1964. It
is the largest apparel marketing
arena in the world with 1,800
showrooms.'
“A future reason for the de-
velopment of regional marts,"
Mrs. Bennett said, "is the de-
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The
garment industry — as well as
others - is leaving the north-
east for the Sun Belt, a Univer-
sity of Texas reseacher reports.
than are styles and prices in the
other major producing centers.
“According to Marvin Segal,
executive director of the South-
I west Apparel Manufacturers sells.’
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population in |he South in're-
cent years.
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est state in the country in popu-
lation and fourth in apparel
manufacturing employment. I
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Hamill, who played farmer
turned space adventurer
Luke Skywalker in “Star
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Wars, ” -will step out in a new
adventure in a film titled
“Stingray.”
This production, which is a
‘buiSoh
bit more down to earth, is
being billed as a “car wars”
saga, cites Stariog maga-
zine.
Hamill plays a car-lusting
hero who is challenged by
hotrodder Kim Milford. Mil-
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The People Page
PERHAPS NO ONE captured the teen-dream surfing
spirit than Jan and Dean. Their 1963 song “Surf City”
hit the summer charts with all of the power of a 15-
footer. CBS will revive the sights and sounds in “Dead
Man’s Curve,” a film biography.of the singing duo.
Pictured above are Bruce Davidson (center left) who
plays Dean Torrance (far left); Richard Hatch (center
right) who plays Jan Berry; and Beach Boy Mike Love
(far right) who makes a cameo appearance. Berry, not
pictured, was totally paralyzed for over a year
following a 1966 car wrech which in effect "ended the
°s
December 18 — yVilly Brandt (1913- ), former foreign
minister of West Germany. An opponent of Nazism, be
spent many;years'm Norwpy.aod' Sweden^ returning, to
Germany after World War II. He was active in local polities,
serving as lord mayor of West Berlin before becoming
foreign minister.
December 19 — Minnie Maddern Fiske 0865-1932), a New
Orleans native who became one of the great stars of the
stage in the 1890s and early 1900s:
December ?0 — Branch Rickey (1881-1965), noted
baseball leader with the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn
Dodgers, and* Pittsburgh Pirates. He is best remembered
for having broken the- baseball color line by bringing
Jackie' Robinson to the big leagues.
December 21 — John W. McCormack (1891- ), a
Massachusetts state legislator who went to the.House of
Representatives in 1928 and served until 1970. He was
majority leader from 19X0 to 1961 and Speaker of the House,
for nine years. ,
December 22— Lady Bird Johnson (1912-), the widow of
President Johnson, she was an active and .influential First
Lady.■ ' „ -* ' ■
December 23 — Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the founder Of”
the Mormom Church in 1830. He moved West from New
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In clear English
President Carter is trying
to make good on his cam-
paign promise to simplify
begins, “As President of the
r.,______ v„ _____ United States, I direct...”
and better manage govern- *and 8oes on to c'dc the rules
ment. " *• in clear, comprehensible
In an effort to make the English: _
federal rule-making process ^
flow more smoothly, Carter | ..
recently made public an ex- ijjtgi Vj '.Wk
ecutive order requiring that fc/u-'
final rules be written in .. sJsBi
True to his own proposal, .
this new committment to / ^y !
the format of the executive
order. An executive order
tue of the authority vested in xT, I
me as President of the v V AH
United States...” and is fol- s'-‘vX mm
lowed by line after line of M&m
bureaucratic “legalese.” —L.JIT& MNBE
Vietnam Scars Still Linger In America
By JAY SHARBUTT |gram, ‘The Class That Went to war rallies, wrote a scathing Later: “We definitely f<
trayed by the governmen
lied to and manipulated .
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The* Bel1 covered the war at the
Vietnam war ended'more thanI Height of U.S. involvement in it.
two years ago and U.S. mili-1 Cierdau was in the class the
tary involvement in it more (show studies, the class of 64 at
than four years ago. The scars Chatham- High School in the
it left in America are slowly smah suburban town of Chat-
healing. Or*are they? ham. N'.J.
This is what ABC s Steve Bell ( A g°"d, <-0>nbmat.on, but un-
and producer Richard Gerdau ortunately, the result of them
set out to study recently. Some labors seeing oddly diffused. It
one told him the anti-war rally
has been canceled on-account
of peace.
I wish there'd been
in a one-hour ABC News pro-'
I wish there’d been more on
why Congress hasn’t better
helped the Nam vet who needs
help, withthe accused foot-
draggers called to account. And
more on the extent of post-Viet-
nam reconciliation in America.^
I kept wondering, for ex-
ample, if Fred Wasserloos, a
Chatham class of ’64 member
wounded in Vietnam, ever talks
about the war now with his old
classmate, Bob Bohl, who so
fiercely protested that war.
Well, at least the ABC pro-
■ welcome of the lot.
The class also produced sev-
eral anti-war activists, one of
whom is interviewed at length,
as are several of the class who
served in Vietnam. But no un-
expected insights occur...
The activist still feels he Was
right, Most of the vets still feel
that unlike the men of World
War II, they returned home al-
most as outcasts in their own
country. . ..
Disillusionment remains
dominant, along with sbmept-
terness, But the strongesf'out-
burst isn’t from* the Chatham
boys. It comes from an out-'"
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ROBERTHOliEY Wells, son
ly, truthfully, didn’t really «
about it at the time
of Mr, and Mrs. Holley Wells
ibout it at the time
of Baytown, celebrates his first
birthday Sunday? Grand-
parents/ are Mr. and Mrs.
James Dix of Huntsville and
Mrs. R. H. Wells of
There are four new referees
in the NBA for the 1977-78 sea-
son, Bemie FYyer, Milt Cooper,
Joe Crawford and Mel
white fighting in • Vietnam, he-
jpime'a familiar sight at anti- j
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 48, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1977, newspaper, December 5, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074304/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.