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etc. Battalion/Page 12 June 9, Post Oak (continued from page 1) corporate policy. Despite the drop in sales, non- Post Oak merchants see a silver lining. “The new mall will eventually be an asset to this mall (Manor East), Binford said. “It’s an asset to the community, and anytime you have that, you reap some of the benefits. Post Oak will pull in additional county residents who now have no reason to go to Houston, Austin or Dallas to shop. Any time you can keep them in town, you’ve got a shot at them.” Zale’s manager Dale concurs. “The new mall will eventually help everybody, because it will keep more people here in town, instead of going to Austin or Houston to shop,” he said. Another reason for mer chants’ lack of despair may be the local economic situation, which is far better than else where: Texas Employment Commission figures for the first quarter of 19.82 show Bryan- College Station’s unemploy ment averaged 4.4 percent, as compared to 5.8 percent for Texas and 9.5 percent nation wide. “Post Oak is doing very well, even better than we were expect ing. We had a very good turnout at the February grand opening, but things are never going to stay at that level. Sales leveled off to a certain extent after the grand opening — people wanted to try us in the beginning because we were new.” However, she said the atmos phere and the variety of stores in one location have kept many people coming back. Polites echoes the sentiments of non-Post Oak merchants ab out the effects of the new mall on the area. “I think in the long run we’re going to help the whole community.” Post Oak created between 2,500 and 3,000 new jobs, Po lites said, and more jobs will open up when a Foley’s depart ment store opens in the fall of 1983. The two level, 100,000 square-foot facility will be the fifth department store in Post Oak Mall. Even morejobs will be created when the second phase of mall construction is completed in 1985, adding one more major department store — expected to be a J.C. Penney’s — and about 37,000 square feet for smaller stores. One facet of the new mall’s operation that has exceeded ex pectations is the Gourmet Court, 16 over-the-counter eateries opening onto a central area that can seat more than 300 people. “It’s working out excellently,” Polites said. “Peoplejust love it.” The new mall, however, is only the most obvious facet of the continued expansion of the Bryan-College Station area, growth that made the Twin Cities part of the fastest-growing Standard Metropolitan Statistic al Area in Texas, sixth-fastest in the country. Cotton industry pushing natural blend for shirts United Press International NEW YORK — The two-year- old campaign of the cotton in- :ry to sell natural blend fab- dustry rics with 60 percent or more cot ton to American males seems headed for a resounding triumph in the Father’s Day sales this year. About 30 percent of the shirts that will be sold for the Father’s Day season ending June 20 are expected to be natural blend, says Cotton Inc., of New York. That’s up from last fall’s 15 per cent share and way up from last Father’s Day. Men’s shirt sales in the Un ited States bulge heavily twice a year at Christmas and just be fore Father’s Day, when shirts are bought by the millions as gifts. In the month before Father’s Day 1981, shirt sales were 18.2 million, about 40 percent above the monthly average for the year. Textile manufacturers, gar ment makers and the garment industry trade press agree that natural blend is taking over in the better class shirt market. However, it is not affecting sales of the cheaper 80 percent polyester-20 percent cotton shirtings that are the backbone of the trade. Rather, the blends are cutting heavily into mixtures of 65 percent polyester and 35 percent cotton and into the lux ury all-cotton dress shirt mar kets. ton fabrics the durable characteristic that helped the high synthetic blem popular in the first place. The campaign of Cotton Inc., a trade organization financed by southern and western cotton planters, to sell natural blend to textile and garment manufac turers, fashion designers and re tailers has been helped consider ably by the development of new jmethods^of^ivm^thehighcot- Burlington Industries,! River Mills, Springs Mills, Stevens and West Point I perell all are making the natural blend shirts andst many smaller manufacturtt Designers and makers finished shirts including Q ire sar Peabody (Arrow Shirts),! Am hattan Shirts, HenryGrethd pf whs signer line, Van Heusen, Hathaway also are goiiij heavily for natural blend. Th 114-1C arade And merchants seldom com plain when the scales of supply and demand are tipped in their favor, as growth tends to do. Manor East Beall’s manager Binford was quite positive about it: “We all benefit from growth.” Pursuit of beauty can cause skin-deep inflammation: study Now You Know United Press International NEW YORK — The pursuit fei Post Oak’s marketing dire ctor, Maria Polites, attributes the mail’s continued success to this economic situation. “Bryan-College Station is something of a boom area,” she said. “The recession has not affected this area as much as the rest of the country. United Press International CLEVELAND — A new mar ket study by a Cleveland firm indicates the United States will rebound to more than 90 per cent self-sufficiency in energy consumption by the mid-1990s. In 1995, the U.S. will pro duce more than 91 percent of its energy needs, according to the Predicasts, Inc. survey. Coal consumption will dou ble by 1995, the study indicates, and nuclear, geothermal and other energy sources will also be used more, while petroleum products and natural gas decline in importance. of beauty by males and females sometimes causes a beastly reac tion — contact dermatitis. The skin reactions from us ing products that beautify or cause the body to smell good can include burning, stinging, itching, swelling, oozing, peel ing and blistering, according to a report in Dermatology, thejour- nal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The report was based on a 40-month investigation of 487 patients with contact dermatitis, cause unknown — until many tests were done. The study was conducted by doctors in San Francisco, Cleveland, Portland, Ore., and Washington who are members of the North Amer ican Contact Dermatitis Group. to a dermatologist came as a sur prise to approximately half the 487 patients. They had not sus pected a beauty product. G€T INVOLVED! MSC OP€N HOUS€ NEEDS YOUR HELP! All committee chairmen and committee members needed INT€R€ST€D? Come to the first organizational meeting — Wednesday, June 16 at 6:3( p.m. in room #216 A of the MSC or call Sandra Secrest at 845-1515 or 260-0319 “different spokes for different folks” 403 University (Northgate) Open 10-7 Mon.-Fri. 10-5 Sat. 846-BIKE Authors of the report include Dr. H. J. Eiermann of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. W. Larsen of the University Oregon Medical School, Port land. Eighty percent of the reac tions were caused by allergies to ingredients. The face, eye and upper arm were the most in volved sites. Skin care products, hair preparations, and facial makeup products were the most commonly involved product categories. Love a Th icason NBA f nd St For NBA l ; was an the fir For loints “Pir Erving (any ot Anc 50 fee ship w “Th They estimated that the cosmetic industry uses about 4,000 raw materials and about an equal number of fragrance ingredients. The finding that ingredients in cosmetics — skin, face or hair preparations aside from color ings — caused the skin problems severe enough to cause referral Fragrance, preservatives, lanolin and lanolin derivatives, p-phenylenediamine, and prop ylene glycol were the most com monly identified causative agents. The doctors said the nearly 500 cases represented only 6 percent of their contact dermati tis caseload over the 40-month period of the study — a relative ly small percentage. It was even smaller — 0.3 per cent — when figured as:j centage of their 179,8(1) tients with all kinds of derm ogy problems, induding over the study period - 1977 to September “We believe that themci® of contact dermatitis, t Icomir cosmetic anti noncosmetic,i t j ie p ]r be appreciably higher," tht port said. “The majority of ad« reactions probably are brought to the attentionol matologists but are solved consumers themselves by continuing use of a prod® by other triaf-and-ei methods. “This applies particular! cases of subjective irritation burning, stinging or ilcl without inflammation.” The fragrance ingredie causing troubles in affected tients were listed as bent benzyl alcohol, and benzyl It zoate. 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