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A-13 Town Talk. Alexandria-Pineville. Monday. September 22. 1975 Yule Wishes Total 7,000 BUSINESS and FINANCE SMk i4.

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Ind. iji Tidewater Marine 35 Time J4' United Tech St' United Co. 14' U.S. Steel 69' Westinghouse 14' Wickes 9' Over the Counter (Representative inter -dealeV quotations of approximately 9 o.m. from the National Assn.

of Security Deolers. Prices do not Include retoll markup; morkdown or commission.) ranging from Ben Franklin to John Steinback. A handbag, with a built-in battery burglar alarm, that sounds a warning when the flap is A 10-speed bike with hy-. draulic, braking, bright sealed-beam headlight and gear changers you can pre- shift with the bike standing still. A cross-stitch print sampler design created exclusively for Sears by leading needlepoint artist Erica Wilson.

The pattern can be used as is or the color-keyed design can be embroidered with- your own thread. the track with two diesel train sets a sewn-unit freight set pulled by 'a red-white-and-blue locomotive and a six-unit set hauled by a Union Pacific engine. Pong, a fast-paced electronic "table tennis" game you play on your own. TV. A control panel to your TV antenna terminals and lets you move your "paddle" up or down to smack the ball back to your opponent.

You hear the sound oi action whenever-your paddle makes contact; and the score is electronically tallied on the screen. The American Story, a book containing eyewitness-accounts of how American grew, looked, played and worked since 1728. Produced by The Saturday Evening Post, the book has 350 illustrations and the writings of more than 90 If you were to order one of everything from the 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book, it would cost you $92,408.92 excluding sales tax. And you'd have close to 7,000 items to squeeze under your tree, according to Sears officials here. This year's Wish Book, now being distributed to some 13.5 million U.S.

families, has 616 pages and devotes much of its space to the things that are part of a child's world. Up front, for instance, are 77 pages of fashions for the younger set from party togs to PJ's, in the back are 174 pages packed with games and toys, and throughout the book are notable and novel gift items for everyone in the family. Here's a look at some of this year's offerings: For nostalgia buffs, American Flyer, is back on Selected Stocks Friday's NY. Stock! Close Allied Chemicol 35' Alum. Co.

Amer. 47 Amer. Broods 36 American Can JH American Motor 5H Amer. Tel 4 Tel 45. Anoeondo 17 Belden Corp.

IS1 Bethlehem Steel 38 Boise Coscode 54' Carolina 17' Cessna Aircraft CI ID UH Chrysler Cities Service 43' Cleco 17 Columbia Gas 27' Credit Thrift Fin. 3 Crown Zellerboch 38 Delta Air 314 Dresser Indus. .47 Dupont ll' Eastman Kocok 92'A Eckerd 214 Entex. Inc. 21 Esmork 37 Exxon Wh First.

Miss. Corp. 13' Ford 364 General Elec 44' Gen. Foods 23' General Motors SWe Goodyear 19 Gulf Oil 21' Holiday Inns 1IH IBM. IW'A Inter.

Paper S7 Kresge La. Pocilic lis Mo Poc RR 13' Mobil OH 43' Panhandle Pipe 294 Penney. J.C. 4 Pennzoil United 20V IS Reynolds Indus. iS't Seabd Coastline II' Sears Roebuck 62' -Southdown 14 Combined Ins.

Of Amer. Excfi. Oil Gas Guoranty Corp A Hughes Supply Lowe's Co. Ocean Drilling Ocean Oil ft Gas Offshore Log Peniuoil Offshore Plato S. African Land And Dev.

Texas Intl Air Tronsoceon Oil HJ. Wilson Directory of Fraternal Orders MIXANMI IODGC No. 546 rO Hi intend 4 tliundoy ai 1 30 Albert J. DucoM. font Hromadko, StacMfy Mutual Funds Allstate Anchor Growth Chemical Fund Colonial Income Commerce Fund Fidelity Trend Ind.

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Inv. Growth Mass. Inv. Trust Pioneer Fund USAA Cap Growth mum 10.74-11 SI 9.62-10.37 11.03-12.05 7.06- 7.06 Checklist It would cost you $92,408.92 excluding sales tax to order one of everything from the 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book. And you would have close to 7,000 items to squeeze under your tree.

The new Wish Book is; now being distributed to some 13.5 million families nationwide. The Six Year Certificate of Deposit Federal Regulations, require substantial penalty for early withdrawal of certificates. Busing, Other Controversies Snag Appropriation Measure Bunkie Firm Enters Low Bid on Project Lemoine Bros, of Bunkie submitted the low bid for modernization of the Carver Village low-rent housing project here, according to the weekly bulletin of the Central Louisiana Associated General Contractors. Other low bidders last week included IDC of Natchitoches, $465,000, activities building for First Baptist Church in that city; Sharpco of Monroe, $68,421, recreation facilities at Nebo; Tudor Construction of Alexandria, $1.9 million, area vocational-technical school in New Iber ia. Contracts awarded included Liliedahl Mitchel of Bunkie, $104,277, fire district sub-station at Lawtell; George C.

Adams of Alexandria, $147,661, additions to parish house for St. Timothy's Episcopal Church; Edgar M. Williams of Alexandria, $30,149, Tioga High parking lot. Plans are on file in the AGC plan room here for the following projects: New manufacturing plant at Church Point; bids to be received Thursday at 2. p.m..

Goldonna Elementary School; bids to be received Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Maintenance of England AFB railroad tracks; bids to be received Sept. 30 at 10:30 a.m. Sewerage main extensions at Chicot State Park; bids to be.received Sept. 30 at 2 p.m.

Mobile home spaces at Fort Polk; bids to be received Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. Expansion and renovation of football stadium at Northwestern State University; bids to be received Oct. 7 at 2 p.m. N.O.

Firm Signs Contract For Oil From Dutch Shell to ban use of federal health funds for abortions. Once the Labor Department HEW bill is passed, the Senate, is scheduled to take up a bill aimed at averting a natural i. gas shortage this winter, It would allow interstate; pipelines to buy any surplus, in the intrastate market; over the next eight months. The House continues starting Tuesday on an omnibus energy conservation bill it has been debating since July. The measure would impose tough price controls on domestic oil' production through a three-tiered system.

These would roll back present oil prices. Republicans said President-Ford was certain to ve-to the, bill unless it is -changed drastically in a Senate-House conference. last week after the Senate adopted an amendment of Sen. Joseph R. Biden, designed to prevent HEW from pushing busing, Civil rights group became alarmed that his language would nullify Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring grants of federal funds to states and local governments which practice racial To meet the fears of civil rights supporters, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, and Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey, proposed an amendment Friday to overturn the Biden rider. Byrd offered his proposal as a substitute for the Scott-Humphrey measure, -i The bill also attracted riders last week that would limit the enforcement of the occupational health and safety law. Many businessmen have protested to Congress about the expense and paperwork of complying with the new law. The bill's managers say they may be faced this week with amendments WASHINGTON (AP) A appropriation bill is turning out to be a lightning rod that attracts such controversial issues as school busing, the occupational health and safety law and abortions.

The debate, which is resuming today, has delayed the measure which Senate leaders had hoped to pass last week and then turn to legislation dealing with natural gas. The bill would provide funds for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Labor Department. Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, the Democratic whip, says a new busing amendment being offered by him would prevent HEW from using the threat of withholding funds to force schools to initiate busing to achieve racial balance.

None of the antibusing proposals under consideration would prevent the court orders which have led to most of the busing now under way. The busing issue flared 4007 JACKSON STREET ALEXANDRIA. LOUISIANA 71 You'll like saving at the GROWlN' AVe pay more interest than any bank. TIA Notes Dip in Boardings Texas Texas International Airlines today announced it boarded 189,824 passengers during August, compared with 220,008 passengers during the same month in 1974. Available seat miles (capacity) were 137.5-million this year, compared with 152.9-million last year.

Revenue passenger miles (one fare-paying passenger flown one mile) were 75.8-milliort, as contrasted with 83.2-million RPM's during the same period a year ago. Load factor (percentage of seats occupied) for the month was 55.2 percent versus 54.4 percent last August. (Special to The Town Talk) NEW ORLEANS, La. ECOL Ltd. of New Orleans has signed a contract with an affiliate of the Royal DutchShell Group for a five-year supply of 60,000 barrels per day of foreign crude oil beginning the second half of next year, according to Frederic B.

Ingram, board chairman. The 200,000 barrel-per-day ECOL refinery, under construction in Garyville about 35 miles up the Mississippi River from here, is expected to on-line in mid-1976. It represents an investment of more than $300 million, according to Ingram, and when completed it will be the largest refinery every built in a single construction phase in the U.S. It will also be the largest independent refinery in the U.S. Refugee Expenses Told FT.

CHAFFEE, Ark. (UPI) Officials at the largest Vietnamese refugee center in the United States say the relocation program is costing about $10 a day per refugee. "From the time a refugee comes through the front gate until he is released, it costs about $1,300 or $10 a day per refugee," said Ira Carr, State Department official. The cost figures include the salaries of all civilian and military personnel working at Chaffee, the up to $500 the federal government pays voluntary agencies for each refugee placed with a sponsor and all the living costs incurred by the refugee while in camp, he said. Clip Dwellers Pueblo Bonito, an apartment complex sin New Mexico's Chaco Canyon National Monument, once sheltered 1,000 Indians in 800 terraced rooms.

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