Show ijutow Ogden Z3 Standard-Examine- r Thursday Evening July 19 1979 3A O 1V1 I curator u rai ?r) (k A DtRECTOPOVIPSCCt? KEEPER Oft CUSTODIAN OP A MUSEUM UBftARV ZOO itmasiEP-aiHa- a or other Similar institution rr Hoi — Demand For Fans Way Up MEMPHIS Term (AP) — For a company that wouldn’t believe fans had gone the way of the buggy whip President Carter’s call for energy conservation is icing on a cake already layered by nostalgia Electric fans are selling so fast the 1100 employees of Memphis’ Hunter Fan Division of Rob- bins and Myers Corp are having problems keeping up with demand Joe Harriman Hunter’s fan product manager said this week “Our business is 68 times what it was just a few years ih tn ago” One reason for the fan’s revival today is simple economics “You can operate a ceiling fan for the same money as a 60-wa- tt light bulb” said Harriman “They supplement air conditioning You can set your thermostat on 80 degrees like the president wants us to do and a fan can make it seem like 72” PART OF DECOR Company policy prevented him from saying just how' many fans the firm pro- duces But he said the biggest seller is a ceiling fan straight r conout of the pre-ai- ditioning days when they were part of the decor in drug stores and neighborhood groceries “It’s hard to believe” Harriman said “The energy SAVE TO 40 OEM SUEMBEAEV3 GOOSE DOWN PILLOWS SAVE TO 50 OEM TWO TOWEL STYLES BY CASMEMOEM EVE1LLS W7 2$5 Reg 23 Reg $42 standard size Reg 699 bath size 3499 Reg 4499 Reg 399 hand size Reg 199 washcloth $65 king size Discover the luxurious comfort of plumply filled all white goose down pillows covered with fresh white on white floral ticking - now at substantial reductions in our Budget Domestics department Machine washable and dryable with color-fas- t down-proo- f covering Come in see for yourself or use our convenient phone or mail shopping service Terrific savings on first quality and slightly irregular matched sets (slight imper- fections are hardly noticeable) Your choice of two popular styles in conventional looped 100 cotton terry with dobby border: Cannon Lido Stripe in gold green brown or blue Cannon Rex Solid in brown parchment pink blue green or ruswith 20 down set Budget Domestics No mail or phone - simply lay-it-awa- $55 queen size y crisis didn’t precipitate this but it isn’t hurting us at all” Hunter has been making electric fans of all types since 1903 The ceiling fan has been its mainstay all along But until recently most of them were sold abroad “We exported most of our ceiling fans to Africa and India” Harriman said “It may have been our fans you saw in the (Humphrey) Bogart i&t t&n movie ‘Casablanca’” The electric-fa- n business was becalm- air conditioners became be- ed when common People gan closing their windows and learned to get along without the soothing hum and cooling breezes of a fan Harriman said But about 10 years ago the bug began biting “I can’t explain it but all of a sudden in the early 70s people started buying ceil- FAMOUS MAKER CLEARANCE IN BUDGET SPORTSWEAR TWO & THREE PIECE PANTSUITS A Super value for fall Dressy or casual styles sizes 0 STRETCH OR PULL-OPANTS 999 C Reg $16 stretch Bendover or pull - on styles in fall colors sizes 8 8-1- was nostalgia” 399 Enjoy Day Robber Says CHICAGO (Alb — Reg $6-$- 8 LADIES' COORDINATES 599-99- 9 ter a robber entered a Reg downtown savings and loan office and handed a teller a note T-TO- PS stripes or solids S - M - L A Minneapolis man has been arrested af- fk N SUMMER company expects the fan boom to go right on booming 8 B Reg $12-$3long and short sleeved in prints solids stripes and more 10-1- 8 fans” Harriman Harriman said the 8-1- BLOUSES 599-- 1 399 ing said “We think it 0 tops $8-$2- 6 in sizes skirts jackets pants and 8-1- 8 that demanded and added money “Thank you and have a nice day” John Olsen 25 who was quoted by FBI agents as saying he wms an unemployed disc jockey was arrested in connection with the robbery at the First Federal v ‘i Saving & Loan Association authorities said Police said $5364 handed over by a tel- lor wps recover'''! V f' |