University Daily Kansan, September 7, 1982
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C of C seeks factory sites, employment opportunities
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
In a strong attempt to lure more businesses to Lawrence, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to its members last week asking for help in its search for industrial park sites, a chamber official said recently.
Land sites must be available for companies that wish to develop or expand in Lawrence, said Gary Toeben, executive vice president of the chamber, and having them available will enhance a jump in competing cities.
"Industry is sort of like a homeowner you have to have a variety of sights in your house said if we have to use jobs those jobs, if we have to those sights available."
Because so few companies are expanding, those that do expand can afford to be choosy, Toebben said.
Toebben said that for many businesses, "it's not a case of expansion. it's a case of survival."
LAWRENCE CANNOT take growth for granted in an adverse business climate, he said.
"We're really competing in a new market. Decision-makers are going to be a little more cautious in terms of their decisions for the future."
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"General job growth' is not going to be nearly as easy to come by as it has been in the past," he said.
roebbent estimated that companies looking at Lawrence as a place for expansion were also looking at 30 to 40 other communities. A business expansion in Lawrence would have benefits for other businesses in the city, he said.
"If the pie is growing, then the businessman has a better chance of getting a bigger slice of that pie," he said.
because as more people came in, other businesses could expand.
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The chamber is looking for three main types of land sites that could be developed, he said.
THE FIRST TYPE of site would be for what Toebben called "pure research." The firm or firms using such a site would be concerned only with research, he said, and no manufacturing would be involved.
The second type of land site the client is seeking would be for a mixture of research and light manufacturing that might include some assembly of electrical components, he said. Texas Instruments and Hewlett-
Packard are examples of companies such a land site might attract, he said.
The third type of site would be for a company involved in manufacturing and might be classified medium-industrial, he said. A land site for these medium-industrial firms would require access to a railroad. Toebben said.
Toeben said that one of the results of business expansion would be to help to bring down the unemployment rate, which has risen in recent months, he said.
Though the chamber does not intend to buy any land, the chamber would act as an intermediary in seeing that land sites were available, he said.
"A lot of plants are just not hiring new people," he said.
THOUGH THE RATE is low relative to the rest of the nation, it is higher than it was at this time last year, he said.
Job Service Center, said the unemployment rate for Douglas County was 5 percent in July, the latest month for which figures were available.
The unemployment rate should decrease from 5 percent to about 4.5 percent now that KU students have returned to school, he said.
Ed Mills, manager of the Lawrence
However, the unemployment rate in the construction industry has remained high. Mills said. Figures from the Kansas Department of Human Resources show that the construction industry in Douglas County during July, "Normally, that ought to be 1,200 or 1,300," he said.
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MALCOLM BALDRIGE SHARES
SOME BULLROAR
Remember Malcolm Baldridge? The Secretary of Commerce is one of the most mesmerized of the supply-side contingent. When on campus last March for Kansas University's Conference on U.S. Business and Economic Relations with Eastern Europe, he predicted a midyear economic recovery which he described as "an unprecedented inflation, high interest rates caused by the inflation, and recession caused by the inflation." This prophecy—which on March 31st I described as being "known only to the full-fledged victory"—is now being subjected to some supply-revisionism. In an interview found in the August 20th issue of *Report*, Malcolm Baldridge offers the following annual forecast concerning our national
Spending by consumers this summer will probably be felt in the nation's factories in the October-December quarter. We won't see a significant decrease in unemployment until then. It will take another four to six months after that firms start investing in new plants and equipment.
Secretary Baldrige shows us that his flexibility is not limited to the speculative when, in response to the charge that the Reagan Administration's economic policy is a failure, he says:
We are now seeing signs of recession seating and interest rates starting to come down. What problems we have are the withdrawn symptoms of a very serious problem.
situation that we imminent.
"Withdrawal sympathy for any serious situation that we inherited" from the Carter Administration. "It is the policies of the Reagan Administration which have resulted in this country's experiencing both the highest business failure and unemployment rates since the Great Depression."
Secretary Baldridge claims that "The Carter Administration kept shifting soars, so that we had high inflation or deep recession...(but) the Reagan economic program simply called for a slow and steady growth in the money supply... reductions in federal expenses... tax reductions—and is following on through all of those three things."
How can the Administration be "following through on all three of those things" when, according to Milton Friedman, our "monetary growth over short periods has become much more erratic" while this year's estimated deficit and tax increase are the largest ever considered before? No one can see the Reagan Administration of these shifting gears, many do feel that the prolonged recession which has remained from their remaining so long in reversion is pretty convincing evidence that the national vehicle is pro-
When asked why the Reagan Administration was seeking a $98.3 billion tax increase Secretary Birkenfield patient explained that:
W'd rather not have the tax increase. We would rather cut the budget deficit by cutting expenditures. But it was not politically possible to get the budget cuts that were proposed in Congress.
The August 30th issue of Time reached some quite different conclusions when discussing the passage of this tax bill:
(President) Reagan, who had come to Washington preaching a gospel of tax cuts, hainted from an election-edgy Congress a huge tax increase that is expected to raise $83.3 billion over the next three years... Continuing his remarkable streak of legislative victories, the President had detrimentally corroded Congressmen of both parties into approving a contradictory but much-needed correction to his economic policies... In supporting a tax increase, Reagan caused a within his Republican ranks and fractured the monarchy in Congress that had formed the Republican party as a successor. What caused that breakup with the economy essential and nearly ten million Americans unemployed, was a crippling fear that deficits over the next years could reach $500 billion if no adjustments were made in his program.
Whether Secretary Baldary's willingness to fabricate is a function of his zealology or some genetically-based condition is something about which honest people can disagree. However, few would say *n* if Secretary Baldary another victim of the machine-gun syndrome, has long since forgotten that, as Georges Braque put it: "It truth exists, only because he was wrong."
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