The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 95, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1966 Page: 9 of 18
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Friday, Pscsmbtr 9, l*** 1
$40 Million Bond Sale Is Planned By HLPCO
HOUSTON — Dlrectorsof
Houston Lighting k Power Co,
has authorized filing a registra
tlon statement with the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission
preparatory to selling $40,000,-
000 first mortgage bonds.
The 30-year bonds are to be
offered for sale at competitive
bidding In January, 1967.
Company officials stated that
the net proceeds from the bond
sale will be used to continue the
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Hock's Pharmacies
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construction include three gener-
ating units totalling 1,580,000
kilowatts of new generating ca-
pacity; three new service cen-
ters, the company’s 27-story cen-
tral headquarters building In
downtown Houston, and a system
wide program of rebuilding and
upgrading distribution and trans
mission facilities.
Goodwill Industries
company’s extensive Project En-fiefs BuiltiM GHHlt
terprise expansion program at •
Its accelerated pace. HOUSTON - Goodwill Indus-
Major projects currently under trie, ti , recipient of a work-
Try Sun
Classified
shop improvement grant from
the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
The total cost of the project
for new equipment comes to
$35,431 of which the federal
share is 90 per cent or $31,888.
Goodwill Industries, a voca-
tional rehabilitation center for
handicapped people, will use the
equipment in its new buildings
which will be under construction
shortly after the first of the
year.
A shake's
tooth
fang is an eye
TEXANS BUYING LOTS AND BUYING EARLY FOR Y
- v - • ---- ----- young married couples, and "are taking advantage of Most
By TOM STUCKEY
Associated Press Writer
The long-blooming Texas
boom, helped by pleasant shop-
ping weather, roared on into the
Christmas season with worries
on tight money and Viet Nam
shoved Into the background.
Merchants In all sections of
the state said in an Associated
Press survey that Texans are
buying a lot and buying early
this year.
"We’ve got a boom economy
on," says Lee Goodman, execu-
tive director of Downtown Fort
Worth Association, In explaining
his city's glowing sales reports
with more than two weeks of
Christmas shopping left
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A spokesman for Leonards, Corpus Christl nad a record
Fort Worth’s largest department vear In 1965, and merchants be-
store, says business is running lleve this year will be even bet-
rbout 12 per cent above last ter by the time the last weary
year, “probably because shop- shopper rushes hom« Christmas
pers have more money to spend Eve with one final present t o
and are buying better goods." thrust under th« tree.
Similar reports came from "Another record-breaking sea
other sections of Ihe stat. son is In progress," Paul Haw
"A real nice increase this *■ ,“bu*?.n
year," said Bill Foster, manag- f>P*rtment Store, aald
er of Sage, a suburban discount People seert to be shopping
store In Austin. He estimated more are more ow*fe of
sales were nmning 25 to 30 per romparatlvepriclng. They are
* ■ - ----- holding on to their money a lit
{er of He more than last Christmas
Penney’s downtown Austin and you have to give them good
store, reported sale, up 19 to 14 values But they are willing to
per cent during the first part of PNh he •*|jA •
the Christmas shopptng season. “j,
hants Association, said Christ-
mas buying "started off very
well and is continuing at a good
fast clip.”
"I haven't heard any of our
members complaining," he said.
A spokesman for a large Dal-
las downtown department store
said business "Is holding up
quite well. This does not mean
we are running way ahead of
ourselves. It does mean we are
doing a generally good Job of
holding our own."
Merchants aren t as sure of
the reasons for the boom as they
are that there Is one.
Sales certainly have been
sparked by the unusually good
weather Texas nas enjoyed
since Thanksgiving, some
agreed.
Several merchants mentioned
the fact that there are more
shoppers than ever before and
< ho do lots of buying
nu uu Him ui ou;ui*. ■ r--—y*
And the Viet Nsm war is seen their Christmas buying
in Corpus Christ! as an incentive
for more buying and not as i
damper on the business climate
Business leader* say *“
creased activity at the Corpus goods
,. But Leonards in Fort Worth
a says customers are "optimistic
found them to be less hesi-
tant, mor* inclined to better
Christl Naval Air Station and at
the- Army’* aircraft mainte- manager* say they have had
ranee depot ha, put more over- trouble hiring clerk* to handle
time dollars In local pocket*
And a good deal of the extra
money la spent on holiday buy
in*. ^
Despite high interest rates and
assurer«■; ar- jvSis
rapid dip
“I don't find any significant
change," said ■ Dallas depart-
ment store spokesman. "Sates
are holding up quite well in all
area*.”
One of the moat popular big
items this season is color tele-
vision.
•Color TVs have really bedh
selling," said Morris Lichten-
stein Sr., president of Lichten-
stein’s Inc., a Corpus Christl
department store. 'I mean the
big eats in the $600 to $1,000
range."
A difference of opinion de-
veloped In El Paeo, where man-
agers of exclusive shops report-
ed shoppers buying expensive
Items, while representatives of
discount houses noticed a con-
tinuing trend toward buying low
cr-prioed Item*.
An Odessa retailer said shop-
pers are buying more selectively
High achool students help fill
the g*P *t Medallion, a Dallas
discount house.
But not all stores were hav-
ing personnel problems. "We've
had less trouble this year than
■ver," said Brower about his
Penny's store in Austin.
Although buying trends change
from year to year, two aspects
or Christmas stay the same —
Santa Claus and shoplifting.
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special sales probably to boost
With few exception!, store
Ihe Christmas rush
"There is no difficulty find-
ing bodies,” said a manager of
a Dallas discount store. “It's a
robtem of finding capable In-
tuit
have the
Corpus
the situation !
ably there >
cooperative shpllftei
system.
If a known shopli
piclous looking pent®
Ui one store, other miuen m
the area are notified. Men and
women security employes go
from store to store looking for
shoplifters.
Several’ Corpus Christl mer-
chants also attended a seminar
shoplifting at Texas AAM
University and have set up
classes to train their workers In
how to spot a theif.
Santa Claus continues to be
Ui institution, and a popular
one, at many large store*.
There are a few gimmick*.
Some Santas arrive by helicop-
ter, while one Abilene store had
St. Nick come In by parachute.
And an El Paso store has a
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus.
. But retailers generally stick
with the traditional Santo Claua
sitting in a chair so kids
lem,” said a Dallas department perch on hi* knee while
store executive. "The problem
has not been eliminated, nor has
it been reduced. The more peo-
you get under one roof,
more shopliiting you have
pour out
dreams.
As one
their Christmas
Dallas department
the store spokesman say*.
Claus just goes on and
TO ELIMINATE GEORGE C. Scott as Ms powerful com-
petitor for tho love of Vim* U»L Tony Curtis pretends that
Scott died la an Ate Force crash apd stages a phony funeral
ceremony for the girl la a scene from “Net With My Wife,
Yen Don't!” ptoyiag through Saturday at the Brunson.
ipoofy Comedy1
creen AtTheBr
A spoofy oomsdy of two Air Wife, You Don’t!" and (tors
Force buddies and one gorge-
ous girl promises a lot of laughs
this week at the Brunson Thea-
It’s titled, "Not With My
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BAY ha:
Tony Curtis, George C Scott
and an Italian beauty, Virna
List.
Curtis and Scott compete In
the air for glory and on the
ground for all available1 women.
Curtis is a general’s aide who
value* hi* wife and hi* career
about equally. Scott, a two-time
Academy Award nominee for his
screen portrayals, has his first
romantic comedy role as a
tough air commander.
Curtis encounters Air Force
nurse Vlma Lbd during a brief
France May in a service hospital, it
|T' | ' | smitten and proposes
Gromyko, Kosygin
Enfoy Bird Hunt
In French Forest
RAMBOUILLET, France |
| (AP) — In a setting of royal deeply
| i luxury, the Communist premier to her. His best friend, Scott.
! of the Soviet Union masses put iearns of virna and launches
; on black leather hoots today and an aU-out campaign to win her
{ went pheasant hunting in woods for himself. Tony, however, tri-
t once owned, by .lhe kings of umphs and weds Julie, Scott
| France,’ , does not give Up and through
Alexei N. Kosygin killed six gome fancy work has Tony ex-
birds, but turned out to be not Ued to Labrador,
as good a shot as his foreign The bulwark of die movie is
minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, about ^ caperg of Scott and
who after the half-hour hunt Curtis' wife
^m^ve^'l.read^icating Th6i« 1340 Mme unuiu*1
to • screen gimmicks - reminiscent
he had killed 10. gatman on TV. When Cur-
■ President Charkro deGaulle’s )lg. mtscullne radar picks up a
personal hunter led the party - ^
into the cold, damp woods be-
Hushed pheasant* and rabbits tiSr'^riJS
as^they tramped through the ^ jg J jtog
shStinfsuitTnd'lar^infhS
own double-barreled shotgun, stely about somebody.
wasing^HumorAt^start
arsrajsrs Boy Stands bAr M
Sstrawsw i» Milita7 Ceremon»
! joked about the *h~t withGro- ^ MONMOUTH, N.J. (API
myko, who wore ruWzer lwote, a _ patrlck LyonSi stal(
tiBinws s“it fn^lfel*. sergeant’s stripes on his
.u u !Uw, ( sleeves, stood taU and proud as
foe hunt but turned otrt for the # genehli pinned a, Purple Heart
display of game afterward, with oak leaf cluster and a
Kosygin had driven to fois
‘C!d “tolkfwlth dTG*ulfena Thomas is 7 year, old. The
rjfurrsi»ssB-rjaftna
Cong
France.
be Kennedy Undergoes
Minor Surgery On SMn year-bid weapons squad leader
BOSTON (AP) - Joseph P. «ho ^
Kennedy, father of the late he cleared an enemy bunker of
President John F. Kennedy, un- booby traps. .
derwent minor surgery Tuesday The 18-year veteran died June
at the New England Baptist 18, two months after he arrived
Hospital for removal of skin in Viet Nam.
lesions from his chest. As Maj. Gen.
The former ambassador Is a, commander of Ft Mart-
remaining at the hospital for mouth, pinned the medals^
several days for a checkup. he boy’s heart, Lyon s
He is scheduled to fly to his widow, Marge,
winter home in Palm Beach, were her three c
Fla., at the end of the week. gte, 14, Laura, 12 r
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 95, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1966, newspaper, December 9, 1966; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061839/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.