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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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of contact dermatitis, t Icomir
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be appreciably higher," tht
port said.
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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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