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Rebate or free Mod ule will be sent in 6 - 8 weeks. OR $10 OFF AN HP-12C. I I HEWLETT PACKARD ©1987 Hewlett-Packard Company PG 12703 ALL RECORDS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ONLY OPEN TIL MIDNIGHT $2.00 OFF ALL $14.99 AND UP CD'S I Unffwrstty Drffvo - N«xt to McDonalds 72S-B Unlvorslty Drive •46-1741 Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, Septenm i 9,198 Resistol compa survives hat crc%ci< flourishes in trad(| :)e At\d many employees have be- ''"'W: MANAMA GARLAND (AP) — A1 Luiz says he’s glad the urban cowboy craze is over. “Our business is not like it was during the crazy years,” he says. "It's back to normal." For Resistoi, a leading maker of cowboy hats, the late 1970s and early 1980s were hectic and heady times. Everyone in the country wanted to wear a cowboy hat, says Luiz, vice president for manufacturing. And Resistol was tfie cowboy hat that John Wayne and Lyndon Johnson wore. Today it is the hat of choice for Ronald Reagan and "J.R. Ew- ing.” The company’s 50-year-old sub urban Dallas plant was on douhlr shifts trying to keep up with a de mand that was almost twice that of today’s annual 500,000-hat produc tion. Finding enough materials — the beaver, rabbit and wild hare skins that go into felt hats and the woven imported forms that are shaped into straw hats — was difficult, Luiz says. He says the quality that makes Re- sistol the headgear of choice among real Texas cowboys probably suf fered during that time, too. Originally developed by a Texas immigrant from New York City in the 1930s and marketed as “the most comfortable hat ever made" with a “sweat-proof” band, this Texas icon fell on hard times for a while when the urban cowboy era ended. “When it died, it died suddenly," Luiz says. “It was like somebody turned off the light. It really hurt us for a long time." But after the company's Western store customers sold down theit overstocked inventory, Resisiol was back doing what it does best, serving its core group — the working cow boy. It is found in thousands of U.S. Western stores, racked under the roofs of tens of thousands of pickups driven by working cowhands, and on the heads of hundreds of thousands of spectators at rodeos across the West. “The guy who makes only about $100 a week wot king on a ranch w ill go out and pay two weeks’ salary for a good beaver Resistol," Luiz says. “The people who know Western hats will always buy a Resistol." Ranging in price from about $45 for a summer straw standard to $5,000 for the top-of-the-line chin chilla felt version, Resistol hats are made to order on decades-old ma chinery at the sprawling Garland plant. “None of these machines has been made in 25 or 30 years and some of them are much older than that,” Luiz says. Resistol has its own machine shop to fabricate parts to repair those ma chines, as well as its own print shop with more than 45,000 separate cus tomer dies, he says. It also has its own fur-cutting fa cility in Newark, N.J. — a port loca tion to receive imported skins from Canada, Europe and South America — and a fur-forming plant in Long view where a water supply is plenti ful. | in het 8 said its war pi h( | I ! ' Tuesday nigl land oil term I uiz says in the Persia --'•in-sisv fore a U.N. { 1 ^ |,u ' gio'> The offici said two “la — HV' 4 ' usual! identity the v ll $1U() j net! independent <>n ,t much will;*™!: {hv u '' , fjgpf. jllil PO\ ' week' Jlraq’s ann< , r the number since Aug. 2d 7 ‘he I« ' WpU jpefore the ?T S v U.N. cease-f buy a Resistol. 4/ L vice presm nnwafsai A/c on i ' I lv 1900s. 1917, the Roinicfove hat renovation shop WASH 1 \ ( Dallas. In l! 1 :. 1 ->•..•• Vice Preside cei\ed a stre Lt. Col. 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Wa a ran teed i idem was not I fi’’ pm i a group of c Byer-I ness w Rol allow But Lutz who know sistol.” Rolnick downtown in Garlan boomed, at producing« In 1968, Koret '■•pan' unsavory co a t with tin charging the mate and supplies tion was unj ture.” Although ll- y The words iKTicnU; tras" appear i the i Bush by his st i ...I head-to pose of a me wet e to have , pli, Mo, Felix Rodrigt dui ko fore the Iran ilk alxiut ihi public last yea But Wat so Bush’s nation to sav am.: the congressic has the tigating cor iu.si geneiii statements tal i ist gets nfft it is a mystery thing lie got into the d< stetson.” leased Tuesc itet ates ti: scripts of theii i stern hats: The memo identifies Rod Ci d C by 1953 he illion hats aw othing mart trnia boughi® md in 1979, Led sure based Koret ael of RichtiiCo? obo DS. n r og r Compa :ol rep Up to 150,000 gallons of water are sistol ha t except in a Westertj used daily in the process that c on- he said. “Most of the better verts fur into the shaped felt foi rms stores at e exc lusively Resists that are shipped to the Garl; and The < company is active8] plant to be made into finished h ats. promoti on, and it lias Luiz says. strong t ies with the enteH* The woven forms that are m ade industry . Rolnick put Resisi 11 ' into straw hats are imported dire ctly map by convincing movie k from South America, chiefly Ec- Wayne ; md Glenn Ford A uador, Luiz says. The weaving pi hats. ess, he says, can take half a day f< Dr a “Thei e’s some romance standard straw hat to as long as six hats, an< 1 that’s part of the K weeks for a fine Panama. business ,” Luiz says, notiif Resistol also makes a wide var iety fitted L inda Gray and W of dress hats in Garland. “About the man for their “Dallas" head? only kind we don’t make are top took Bo Derek on a plant hats,” Luiz says. she pic ked up her spe® He says the plant’s inventory in- bowler. eludes about 8,000 different trim While ■ Resistol is intern® WASHING : l!i,i ,k|11 who visited a they were um the 1972 An a v has kepi p ra j se( l the S strong tl 1 : secret facility. “This was a They spent a superpower The Reaga dar is designe The Soviet: items and more than 2,000 separate hat styles. The 400 or so employees in Gar land are paid on a piecework basis used throughout the garment indus try in which the more a worker pro duces, the more money he makes, Luiz says. The Resistol workforce is stable, procuring its materials, ip:5 generally is confined to it 1 ’ States, Luiz says. That could change tp [l | ownership. “There’s no telling yfl' l|, l Joel will do,” Luiz says, strongest marketing man" with Resistol in recent hisC Tyler football playe struck by lightning during daily practic TYLER (AP) — A high school football player was struck by light ning on Tuesday afternoon and was taken immediately to a nearby hospi tal, officials said. A hospital spokesman said Micah Zapata was listed in critical condi tion. Zapata was practicing about 3:20 p.m. with the junior varsity of Tyler Robert E. Lee High School when coaches and staff began to worry about the weather conditions. Coaches ended the practice and told players to get inside when a bolt of lightning struck in the area of the practice field. But another bolt struck practice field before the i could get to the dressing roe- officials said. J It was the second bolttK pata, they said. Six other team players wty to Tyler’s Medical Center! after they complained of headaches following the li(| strike. The players were held fo ( vation. Officials said there were parent storms in the area be 1 lightning struck. BU 11