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JULY 24
<br />1993
<br />FINAL
<br />EDITION
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<br />Claudia Schiffer of Germany and some of the world's
<br />other top models show off the latest Paris fashions.
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<br />RIPON LANDMARK: The Nescafe water tower is
<br />easily seen from Highway 99 as motorists pass
<br />through Ripon. It marks the site of the Nestle
<br />USA plant, which has been in the community for
<br />64 years, opening operations in 1929.
<br />Record pMtos by BEVERLY SHILLING
<br />END OF SHIFT: Longtime Nestle worker
<br />Castle Ketchum reflects on Friday's news.
<br />90 workers numbed by news
<br />plant to shut doors in 199.4
<br />By Art Lozano
<br />id'y diminishing manu` turfing jobs. In
<br />The Stockton Record
<br />Ripen, Nestle pa s f%Z$,12 to $16 per
<br />RIPON — The Nestle Beverage Co.,
<br />ho,ri, workers sTzl. 3
<br />one of Ripon's top employers, an-
<br />11 feel like the bottom has fallen out,"
<br />nounced Friday it will close in early
<br />said Edward Hoogeveen as he ended a
<br />1994, stunning its 90 workers and deal-
<br />day shift Friday.
<br />ing the city a major economic blow.
<br />"I'm too young to retire and too old to
<br />Officials of Nestle, an institution in
<br />Ripon since 1929, said a 17 percent drop
<br />get another job," said tate 52 -year-old
<br />he vie"s of
<br />eveen, echoing Some
<br />Workers
<br />in instant -coffee sales in the past four
<br />at the plants. workersnany said
<br />the average employee has been on the job
<br />years has prompted the parent company,
<br />about 20 years.
<br />Nestle USA Inc., to order the closure for
<br />the first quarter of next year.
<br />"I thought 1 had it made for life," Baia
<br />Local Nestle officials declined to co in -After
<br />Castle Ketchum, 46.
<br />22 years on the job, Ketchum
<br />ment, but a spokeswoman at Nestle's
<br />San Francisco headquarters said the
<br />said Fir day he was experiencing "a heart -
<br />company informed employees well in ad-
<br />breaking, sinking feeling." He described
<br />his job as "flaker op=rator," meaning he
<br />vance so they would have ample time to
<br />find other jobs.
<br />0
<br />crystal -like quality.
<br />But that brought little solace to em-
<br />"There's not much demand for flaker
<br />ployees left reeling as their positions be-
<br />operators," Ketchum said.
<br />come just another statistic among rap-
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<br />Ks'
<br />RIPON LANDMARK: The Nescafe water tower is
<br />easily seen from Highway 99 as motorists pass
<br />through Ripon. It marks the site of the Nestle
<br />USA plant, which has been in the community for
<br />64 years, opening operations in 1929.
<br />Record pMtos by BEVERLY SHILLING
<br />END OF SHIFT: Longtime Nestle worker
<br />Castle Ketchum reflects on Friday's news.
<br />90 workers numbed by news
<br />plant to shut doors in 199.4
<br />By Art Lozano
<br />id'y diminishing manu` turfing jobs. In
<br />The Stockton Record
<br />Ripen, Nestle pa s f%Z$,12 to $16 per
<br />RIPON — The Nestle Beverage Co.,
<br />ho,ri, workers sTzl. 3
<br />one of Ripon's top employers, an-
<br />11 feel like the bottom has fallen out,"
<br />nounced Friday it will close in early
<br />said Edward Hoogeveen as he ended a
<br />1994, stunning its 90 workers and deal-
<br />day shift Friday.
<br />ing the city a major economic blow.
<br />"I'm too young to retire and too old to
<br />Officials of Nestle, an institution in
<br />Ripon since 1929, said a 17 percent drop
<br />get another job," said tate 52 -year-old
<br />he vie"s of
<br />eveen, echoing Some
<br />Workers
<br />in instant -coffee sales in the past four
<br />at the plants. workersnany said
<br />the average employee has been on the job
<br />years has prompted the parent company,
<br />about 20 years.
<br />Nestle USA Inc., to order the closure for
<br />the first quarter of next year.
<br />"I thought 1 had it made for life," Baia
<br />Local Nestle officials declined to co in -After
<br />Castle Ketchum, 46.
<br />22 years on the job, Ketchum
<br />ment, but a spokeswoman at Nestle's
<br />San Francisco headquarters said the
<br />said Fir day he was experiencing "a heart -
<br />company informed employees well in ad-
<br />breaking, sinking feeling." He described
<br />his job as "flaker op=rator," meaning he
<br />vance so they would have ample time to
<br />find other jobs.
<br />operates a machine that gives coffee '
<br />crystal -like quality.
<br />But that brought little solace to em-
<br />"There's not much demand for flaker
<br />ployees left reeling as their positions be-
<br />operators," Ketchum said.
<br />come just another statistic among rap-
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<br />Ks'
<br />RIPON LANDMARK: The Nescafe water tower is
<br />easily seen from Highway 99 as motorists pass
<br />through Ripon. It marks the site of the Nestle
<br />USA plant, which has been in the community for
<br />64 years, opening operations in 1929.
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