Fashion House Warns of French Copy Tide Doom for U.S. Designers
Designer Oleg Cassini warns American fashion faces a $1 million drop next year as stores flood with French copies and ready-mades. He says Paris silhouettes drive hysteria, prompting stores to press American designers to imitate French styles, risking local labels to decline or fail.
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Big Three Will Build More Cars
Domestic auto makers plan about 100000 more cars in the June quarter, lifting the total for the second quarter to around 1800000 as Stude baker-Packard remains firm and American Motors runs a three shift six day program. The calendar year’s third millionth car was produced last week. Wayne O Wallace MD in Atchison was named president of the Kaw Valley Heart Assn at a Lawrence meeting with Ottawa attendees including Mr and Mrs R M Clogston Mr and Mrs Homer Henning and Mrs Bill Osburn county health nurse.
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Florida Voters Polls Open In Tight Democratic race
Florida voters faced a Democratic primary runoff amid a battle between former House Speaker Farris Bryant and State Sen. Doyle Carlton Jr. as Gov. LeRoy Collins lends support to Carlton. turnout was expected around 800,000 with emphasis on the lower East Coast and Tampa Bay regions and major cities like Jacksonville and Orlando.
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Missouri Woman To Start Term
MONETT Missouri Mrs Gladys Ellis 58 year old Monett businesswoman has reported to Cummings State Prison at Grady s Ark to begin a five year sentence. Ellis operated garment factories in Missouri Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma after a Marshall Arkansas jury convicted her in April of obtaining money under false pretenses. Marshall residents raised 51000 to help start a local factory but the plant closed within 30 days. She was arrested in January and her attorney plans further appeals.
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Independent telephone industry serves over half the nation
Kansas City Kansas AP report notes the independent telephone industry serves more than half the United States area and has strong growth potential. McHenry, president of United States Independent Telephone Assn., cites growth from five million customers in 1945 to 11 million now, with suburban expansion boosting business. Ben Smith of Southwestern Bell remarks on shifting preferred telephone locations from living room to kitchen and then bedrooms. The Kansas Missouri convention ends today.
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