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March 24, 1982
Official says grain supply
low; Polish crisis goes on
United Press International
WARSAW — Authorities
warned Tuesday of spring
grain shortages and church
officials said Pope John Paul
II may cancel a planned trip to
his native land in the latest
signs the Polish crisis has not
eased.
In an admission that mar
tial law has not ended shor
tages that characterized Po
land’s economic crisis before
the Dec. 13 military crack
down, Agriculture Minister
Jerzy Wqjteck said the nation
already is eating into its grain
reserves.
Less than half the 3.6 mil
lion tons of grain expected
from Polish farmers has come
to market and the govern
ment is trying to arrange for
more imports, Wojteck said in
a statement broadcast on War
saw Radio.
The imports would pre
sumably come from the Soviet
Union, which faces its own
grain shortage, or other East
European allies.
National franchise may be
next in used car business
United Press International
NEW YORK — With new car
prices averaging almost
$ 10,000, there’s a great demand
for well-kept used cars, says a
Santa Ana, Calif., man who is
launching a national program to
franchise used car dealers and
upgrade their public image.
Jim Cummings and his part
ner, Art Bartlett, created and
built the Century 21 nationally
franchised real estate brokerage
operation. Their new venture,
Triex, is based on the idea that
nowadays a quality used car is a
big enough deal to be listed and
sold the same as a house.
Cummings said Triex will
open this spring with 40 franch
ised dealers in the greater Los
Angeles area and expand in
Texas, Illinois and Ohio later in
the year. He expects to go coun
trywide in 1983.
He said last year’s used car
sales in the United States ex
ceeded 10 million vehicles.
For several years now, he said,
new car dealers have been
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urging their customers to try to
sell the old car themselves in
stead of trading it in on the new
car. The new car dealer doesn’t
want to tie up money, on which
he must pay high interest, on the
trade-in car if he can avoid it.
Sixty percent of the used cars
sold in this country are not
trade-ins, Cummings said.
“I think people who sell their
cars themselves, whether or not
they are buying a new car at the
same time, ought to be able to
get as much for them as a dealer
will offer on a trade-in,” he said.
“But this is not the case. Trade-
in prices still are somewhat high
er on the average. By setting up
a network of 3,000 to 5,000 qual
ity franchised used car dealers
across the country in the next
five years we will close that gap.”
He said the person who has a
car to sell but doesn’t want to buy
another always has been at a
marked disadvantage in the Un
ited States but that should not to
be the case any longer in view of
the current national shortage of
good used cars.
Cummings said Triex is sell?
ing franchises for $10,000 to
“the cream” of the nation’s new
and used car dealers who have
their own used car lots. 'I here
are about 26,000 of these. . .
What Triex is selling is a na r
tional image created by advertis
ing and certain marketing aids.
The franchised dealers will pro
vide their own facilities and
working capital and obtain war
ranty and consumer sales
financing and servicing facilities
from regular channel third par
ties. ,
These franchised used-car
sellers will take other used cars
as trade-ins just as is done now.
Next to the Triex national im
age, Cummings said, the big
advantage of the franchise to the
dealer is that people will be in
clined to place their cars with
him for sale on commission and
he will not have to tie up money
buying cars at used car auctions
in order to maintain sufficient
stock to attract customers.
Cummings expects new car
dealers to purchase his franch
ises for the same reasons as used
car dealers and because the Na
tional Association of Auto
mobile Dealers has calculated
that, in 1981, the average new
car dealer was dependent on
used cars for nearly two-thirds
of his gross profit.
For the individual selling his
car, Cummings said, the big
advantages of the Triex plan will
be 24-hour-a-day display on a
lighted lot, not having to worry
about people calling at his home
and no personal advertising ex
pense or selling effort.
Civil War
storehouse
discovered
United Press International
WILMINGTON, Calif. — A
120-year-old adobe structure
used as an ammunition supply
station for the Union Army dur
ing the Civil War has been disco
vered inside a wooden building
being demolished.
The 1862 structure is one of
the few Civil War buildings in
existence and was discovered
during the weekend by two
brothers exploring the conde
mned wooden building being
torn down by a demolition crew.
Police Officer Rod Bernsen
said the men thought the adobe
structure was an old jail and con
tacted authorities Monday.
Demolition of the wooden
building was halted and a re
tired archaeologist from UCLA
was called to examine the find,
Bernsen said.
“It sounds extremely exciting
and extremely important,” said
Roberta Greenwood of the Cali
fornia Archaeology Society.
“It seems to be a powder
magazine that is associated with
a drum barracks and has been
declared a state historical land
mark. The barracks was the cen
tral supply station for the Union
Army during 1862-68.”
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