Friday, October 18, 1985
Retailers say
farm economy
could effect
holiday sales
By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
As Christmas displays begin to
appear in Lincoln stores, some mer
chants are wondering what effect
Nebraska's troubled agricultural
economy will have on holiday sales.
Store owners said they hope retail
sales will increase this year. But
some said th3 unstable farm econ
omy makes such predictions diffi
cult. "The farm economy is a definite
problem," said Wayne McChesney,
manager of the Sears Roebuck and
Co. store at Gateway Shopping Cen
ter. "We've felt it more than the
recession here in Lincoln," he said.
Phillip Marple, merchandise
manager for K-Mart Discount Store,
4601 Vine St., said lower revenues
and increasing competition during
recent years make it hard to expect
sales increases this year. But Mar
ple said he is optimistic.
According to the UNL Bureau of
Business Research, total retail sales
were down 6.4 percent from June
1984 to June 1985. Charles Bare,
UNL research associate, said that
although figures are decreasing, it
will take several months of data to
establish a trend. But if farm prob
lems continue, holiday sales will be
effected.
Gary Svec, manager at Richman
Gordman Department Store, 4600
Vine St., said problems in any agri
culturally driven economy will affect
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All these "other hands" have proba
bly shredded the old Reagan certainty,
taking him a long way from his Kitchen
Cabinet days when he and his financial
backers had answers for everything and
questions about nothing. The entire
Achille Lauro episode is nothing but a
testament to the cynicism of world
politics, more evidence that right and
wrong are either irrelevant or impossi
ble to know. Only self-interest matters.
The Egyptians do what they have to do.
The Italians do the same. The Israelis
and the PLO play their deadly game
and, God knows, we play ours.
But, as with Tevye, there is a point
where sophistication must stop, where
a kind of a core belief asserts itself, and
the president knew where that was. A
U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, was
murdered in cold blood and there was
not an American who did not emotion
ally ride along with the Navy posse that
captured his killers. Too bad for Egyp
tian sensibilities. Too bad for the
Palestinian cause. Too bad for Italy's
relations with the PLO and even too
bad if it comes to that for the
so-called peace process. The face of
Marilyn Klinghoffer said it all.
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retail sales. But Lincoln merchants
benefit from the local economy,
which is stabilized by many indus
trial and state government em
ployees, he said. Lincoln stores
probably won't suffer as much as
those in smaller Nebraska towns,
Svec said.
Several retailers identified
changes in gift-giving trends.
People have become more sophis
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want quality for their money, said
Kelly Anderson, gift buyer for Miller
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For example, Anderson said peo
ple are buying more U.S.-made brass
products rather than imported brass.
Mixed metal items of brass, copper
and silver will be popular this sea
son, she said.
Svec said people have been buy
ing more clothes in the last few
months to give as gifts. Several mer
chants identified shaker-knit sweat
ers as popular gifts.
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Ag experts say aid
could stimulate sales
By Kim Vavrina
Staff Reporter
Americans should commit them
selves to helping feed people in the
Third World because those countries
eventually will buy large amounts of
U.S. grain, a UNL agronomy professor
said.
"It is one world, after all, and we all
have to live in it," said Robert Olson at
a world hunger panel discussion on
East Campus Wednesday.
The discussion featured four UNL
faculty members, known internation
ally for their work in developing new
crop varieties, farming methods and
food products.
Dale Anderson, an agricultural eco
nomics professor with experience in
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p.m. on East Campus. The law day pro
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Minorities who either are in UNL's
law college or have graduated will
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international grain markets, said the
university has several reasons for help
ing solve the problem of world hunger.
"Aside from the moral aspect, it is in
our own selfish interest," to help Third
World countries develop and solve their
hunger problems, he said.
Anderson said the growth of Third
World countries is the United States'
best hope for expanding its interna
tional grain markets. He said this
would add more customers for United
States' grain surplus.
"Less developed countries offer a
potentially large market, but only if
they can afford to buy," he said. "It
must begin, ironically enough, with
their own agricultural sector."
Olson, the first speaker of the panel,
agreed, adding that negative incen
tives decrease the effectiveness of pro
grams designed to help world hunger.
He said farmers in less developed
countries need better erosion control,
markets for their produce, improved
transportation, and fewer "grandstand"
projects, like skyscrapers.
The panel, moderated by Dr. Roy
Arnold, vice chancellor of the Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
met as part of Nebraska Media News
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