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June 25, 1996 Page 15

Winchester Star (Newspaper) - June 25, 1996, Winchester, Virginia Business the Winchester Star june 1996 b3 a new personnel staffing Busi artwork personnel ser vice has opened an office at 2142 pleasant Valley in Apple Blossom Corners shopping hours Are 8 to 5 monday through its Telephone is two members of the winches Ter chapter of professional secretaries International at tended the 42nd annual meeting of psis Virginia division at Nat ural Bridge in Laura Frap Pollo represented the chapter As with Nancy Dillon As another Wincheste chapter member Brenda Caton received an award for her efforts establishing workshops and examination places for the certified professional Secretary cps at her work the veterans administration Hospital in Apple Blossom mall recently presented its april we care program recognized were Angela this end As retailer of the month Carolyn As restaurateur of the month and Faith this end As sales associate of the Sarah Maclellan has joined the winches Ter real estate broker age George Glaize As an associate she has 23 years of experience in All areas of Maclellan estate and is licensed in both Virginia and West Kathie Dee Bauser Man and Tess of Era Jim Barb realty attended the Joe Stumpf event real estate marketing seminar in Arlington june Julie and Bob owners of Wisecarver Communia recently re turned from the 46th International design conference in Thomas Pecora has been appointed a sales representative for Valley Bio medical products and ser vices he joins the company Pecora from a sales position with scan a reference Laboratory providing Spe Fialty services to the pharmaceutical he will be responsible for developing Market ing programs for the expansion of Valley biomedical original equipment manufacturing Divi Tad masters the Northern Shenandoah valleys Only club affiliated with toastmasters International will hold its next Reg ular meeting at noon july 3 at the main conference room of the army corps of engineers build 201 Prince Frederick the meeting is open to the Public and will in clude a full Agenda of prepared and Impromptu for Call Lou 6653701 or Libby 665 Plumly lumber recently presented length service awards to employees at the annual company picnic at Clearbrook Carl Lee was honoured for 40 years Betty Kerns and Melvin Armel were honoured for 20 years with the Dale Elliott received a 10year award and Sandi Fritsch and Charles Mcdonald were recognized for five years of Sally Bennett has joined the office of Suzette associate broker with Webber associates by Bob Fliss please Send business news items and coming events to Brief the Winchester 2 Kent Winchester Pho tos will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed in there is no charge for items appearing in old facility to shut Down from Star stall reports Star photo by Scott Mason sizes total Quality control by keeping As much of the work in House As Chris Latshaw operates a talus homemade keyboard switch Assembly the company production philosophy Emp a Quality control a talus recipe for Minicomputer starts with homemade parts by Bob Fliss the Winchester Star it was economist Schumacher who coined the phrase Small is mean ing that economic systems dont necessarily require massive infusions of capital to increase the trick is finding the appropriate techno for in a third world farming Economy might mean youd be better off with a rot Otiller than a John Deere that slogan has made the rounds Over the last 30 years or to the Point where its often bandied about without a lot of thought to what was originally for Winchester computer hardware manufacturer data Lux Small is indeed Beautiful both in the Way its products Are designed and in the Way its factory which has its main facility at 155 aviation makes miniature computer sys monitors and there designed to fill a Market Niche be tween notebook computers and a Normal per Sonal computer work the thrust behind All our products is saving explained James chief financial officer for the so anywhere someone needs a computer system where a notebook is inappropriate for one reason or another is a potential Niche for our in this Means where there never seems to be enough particularly in patient Bland As medical records become increasingly Auto theres a definite advantage to having a terminal in each room where a patients data can be looked up with a few but a full sized pc is just too Bulky for such data Lux equipment is finding applications in places where notebook computers cant take heavy around in the front seat of a police for Bland data Lux moved to Winchester in president and chief executive officer Bob see data Lux Page b5 Lucent technologies announced monday that its would close its distribution Center the closing will affect 58 pm who Are being offered either separation benefits or the Opportunity to Transfer to other Lucent technologies Lucent is the former net work it is one of three successor companies to organized As part of a restructuring announced last the closing is part of Lucent continuing strategies and actions designed to increase competitive Ness and efficiency resulting from the the company said in a statement from its Mur Ray the facility on tables station Road South of Martinsburg serves As a Ware House and distribution Center for Lucent products and network the work being done at Martinsburg will be Consoli dated into other material distribution with the vast major Ity of the work going to Montgom employees at the Martinsburg location knew that their jobs were threatened since when the company announced that its restructuring plans involved consolidation of its material distribution but the exact closing Date want known until when corporate officials came Down from new Jersey to break the since 35 employees have accepted transfers to other Lucent this leaves 52 no management and six management personnel at the Martinsburg separation benefits for the Man agers include Lump sum payments see Lucent Page b4 Hester industries embroiled in Patent infringement suit the Washington Post Hester industries is crying the Winchester based poultry processor has sued Stein claiming the Ohio equipment manufacturer is infringing on Hesters Patent for a High spiral Stem cooker for processing Stein is supplying our competitors with these which hits us below the financial said Jeffrey president of family owned they Are getting a free ride off our which Stein is making available to Hester but Hester does not have dibs on the steam cooker said Mark steins Patent it is one of steins positions that there Are prior patents and literature by the other individuals in the Watkins Hester products of which Are Best known under the Pierce foods invented the cooker in the mid1970s and was issued an original Patent in the cookers High humidity enhances the taste of the meat and reduces shrinkage during Hester before filing the lawsuit re Hester said he tried to set the with but the company feathers were ruffled again when Stein file its own lawsuit last claiming Hesters Patent is not Stein is seeking a judgment by the court that the Patent owned by Hester is not valid and non Watkins and even if it were found to be it does not infringe on the ovens Hester Potomac Mills no sure thing Dale City a the fast growing shopping Mecca at Potomac Mills mall May have grown too fast for some retail ers the mall one of the nations largest is ringed by vacant stores that had hoped to Cash in on the mall in the past Potomac Mills gained a reputation for being As close to a sure bet As a retailer could Many National chains that set their sights on the Washington such As Home depot and incredible to the Potomac Mills area the huge discount mall in Prince William which opened in has become Virginias most popular destination for out state and strip restaurants and other enterprises proliferated around its stores inside the mall Gener ally perform but for those in the outlying shopping centers its not so Safe a retailers and analysts the most notable failure among tenants of these Perim Eter malls was incredible uni the electronics Mega store closed abruptly in seven months after other vacant storefronts include a total beverage Beer and wine store that also closed recently after about a year in operation and a Best products store that never that the american youre going to have some fall said David director of Virginia real estate for the rite Aid drugstore which recently closed its Only store in the Potomac Mills the Potomac Mills area re Mains a prime real estate mar with expensive rents and a dwindling amount of develop Able land around the but the Region is overbuilt with too Many stores Selling the same kinds of real estate and retail analysts in not hearing any of my retailers rave about their Potomac Mills said Ken Neth a retail analyst with Davenport in Rich they went in thinking it was going to be a slam Dunk Success and i think they found quite to the Gassman these locations Are certainly More competitive and maybe less productive than some of their other the Bottom Jones Low s77061 i highest close june i996 6150 5975 5800 5625 5450 5275 5100 stocks Rise but investors hesitant june 1996 High Low highest close 14 700 660 640 620 600 a new York a stocks Rose but retreated from a stronger rally As investors remained hesitant before this weeks economic reports and next weeks Federal Reserve meeting on interest the Dow Jones Industrial average Rose to Down from an afternoon gain of about 37 the barometer of 30 big companies has now advanced for four straight rebounding by nearly 90 Points from its recent slump on inflation and interest rate broader measures finished but also retreated from the sessions highs in the absence of firmer convictions about the Economy and investors Are jockeying for position were going to see this mixed action until the fed said Bob manag ing director of technical analysis at Dain Bosworth in a flurry of new economic readings is scheduled for this including reports on consumer Home durable goods and Overall economic in recent new reports have spurred far less Market movement than in the Winter and with Many investors preferring to await the Federal reserves interpretation of the latest there is considerable concern that when the feds policy makers meet next tuesday and they will raise Short term lending rates As a preemptive strike to thwart inflationary the resulting increase in borrowing costs and slowdown in consumer activity can Hurt corporate a fed hike already seems to be factored into the that Why weve seen weakness in the past few said Dickey Many analysts attributed mondays and Vance to technical factors following fridays quarterly expiration of Stock related options and futures which typically spurs an unusual surge of on trading resumed the sluggish Pace of recent advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 4to3 margin on the new York Stock where volume totalled Mil lion shares As of 4 Down sharply from fridays the noses composite Index Rose to the Standard poors 500stock Index Rose to and the american Stock exchanges Market value Index Rose to snapping a nine session los ing the Nash a Market continued to recover from its recent slide As key technology is sues recovered further from worries about Slack demand in the computer