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...still King Cotton here," says William Place, mayor of Wilmot, Ark., as he drives the short distance from his house to the aging Deyampert Gin. Most of the cotton trailers that are used to haul the bolls to the local gins sit idle in the fields, their fenced wire walls speckled with tufts of white. Route 165, running north-south through this part of the cotton belt, is littered with cottontail puffs left over from the fall picking season...
Wilmot (pop. 1,202), just five miles from the Louisiana border, is a farm town: cotton, beans, rice and some cattle. A railroad track runs down the main street past a pair of gas stations, an auto-supply store, Jane's Grocery, the Wilmot Bank, the Bennett Pharmacy and Aunt Martha's Antique Shop. Next to the police station (one chief, two patrol officers) on the west side of the street is Lake Enterprise, so low in this drought year that the tangled roots of the cypress trees are visible above the water line. One lone fisherman pilots...
Cornell and Columbia each placed two men on the first team. Tackle Victor Kaminski and punter Eric Blattman rose to eminence from Morningside Heights, while star running back Joe Holland and defensive back Virgil Cotton represented the Big Red from way up North...
Last year 43% of the cotton products bought by Europeans were made abroad, in many cases by firms set up by European manufacturers. The most prominent suppliers were Hong Kong and South Korea. All these countries were simply taking advantage of the high wages earned by European textile workers. In Belgium the average hourly wage is $9.17; in West Germany, $8.80; in Italy, $5.78. Textile workers get 98¢ an hour in Hong Kong and 62¢ in South Korea...
Textiles. Still the biggest employer on the Continent (2.9 million workers), the textile industry has suffered the most. Over the past five years, at least 3,500 enterprises have been closed and more than half a million jobs lost. In Ghent alone, home of Belgium's cotton industry, unemployment levels have reached 11%, roughly equal to those in France's eastern Vosges region. In all, a million more workers are expected to be laid...