European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Not Only in Penny Candy gone Tut what s happened to the Price at Alt those other Nickel and dime treats Gainesville and the nearby town of Hawthorne. Everything else is at least a Nickel or said Kathy Weldon a clerk at the store. One of her most faithful Candy customers Woldon said is a Little Hoy who comes in every Day Sells a few pop bottles then buys 50 cents to a Dollar s Worth of Candy. Hell stand Here and look and say How much More Money have i got " she said and hell slay till every Penny is from an adult s perspective the size of 3-Cen Candy these Days May Best be described As insignia cant. How Apt the name bit of Honey to even Call in a bile of Honey would be to grossly overstate it Bazooka is phasing out its 3-Cenl chunk of Bubble gum and going to a fractionally larger size. But the accompanying Cost increase is far from fractional. In the Corner of Bazooka s traditional red. While and Blue wrapping right in the "3 it " spol where Long ago it said "1 it ". It now says set " a Price jump of nearly 67 percent. Today s Candy aisle continues to Lealure a lot of yesterday s brands but like Bazooka they be shrunk in size and expanded in Price. The Tootsie Roll is svelte As a Pencil Loday. Charms suckers Are a dime sometimes t5 a cols. Salt pops. The colourful suckers with die Loop handle Are no longer a Penny but 5 cents each. A Toolsie Roll pop whose chewy chocolate Core has made it a Lavonte or decades is a dime in most stores. R 24, 1988 i paid 20 cents for one yesterday Al another Benton said with an incredulous look. Kills and smarties More old friends Are a Nickel Al some stores two for 15 cents at others you can i even get a Good Nickel Candy Cigar anymore. Pink owl and other Bubble gum cigars Are at least 15 cents each. These Are my said Michelle Thomas t. She picked out Pixie Stix. Those striped straws filled with a Langy Sweet powdery concoction. But in s hard to find Pixie six offered individually anymore. In a59 cell package there Are Only 12 Pixie six. Making their Flor lax Cost More than a Nickel each the fastest Selling Candy at any Price Many retailers agreed is the 10-cent now & later. Kids Call them Nihil tors or. As Michelle Calls them. grape is one of the most popular flavors. Benlon s store is on a route to Howard Bishop Middle school and Metcalfe elementary. During she school year he said there Are Aboul five Bishop boys who buy $5 or $10 worhol the 10-Cenl packages of Nihil Alors every Day on their Way to school. They Lake them to school and sell them for �5 cells a pack he said. They make a lot More on them than i do Nathaniel White a 59-Yeaf-old Mattman recalled she Days when a Candy bar thai should Cost a Nickel actually did. I remember when you could buy a Bulle Finger for a Nickel and in was a lol bigger than this he said pointing to a so cell bar. Popping love talk Kis settes into the Boom Box by Vernon Scott United press International just when you thought there was nothing new under the Sun in show business creative minds have come up with Kis settes romantic novellas on audio la pakis settes ate 55-Minule-Long dramas Hal Listone s can pop into Shnir Boom Box. Walkman or Home stereo systems to hear an original love Story torn snarl to finish the new wrinkle in entertainment is the invention of Call productions brainchild of one of the country s richest women. Susan Tisch of the Tisch family and he partner Dana Vatery Calalano Tisch is nol the sort of woman Content with Topping around in any of the International hotels owned by her family skiing Iho Alps sunning on the Riviera or Louring the soviet Union Allol which she does. A wife and Mother her husband is Andrew Tisch she s happiest Linding Success in the business world Tisch gladly volunteers that she s a romantic at heart and Kis Edos Are As satisfying creatively As they Are financially. So tar we be produced 10 Kissellis irom original scripts she said. They Are sort of a combination of an hour Long romantic radio drama and a Short novel of the sort Danielle Steele and Barbara Carland write they re sexy and romantic. But nol really racy each cassette is performed by professional actors usually five of six speaking roles plus a narrator. Sound effects and music which is written and Sung by Catalano. There s a formula we follow and Wornon just love she said to to sold mom than 25.000 kisses los in two years. The protagonist in every Story is a woman usually Between 20 and 35 and of go tool Breeding she can be a working girl widow or Divorcee bul never married or a Mother. Sometimes she s a Garcal Beauty sometimes Plain to have logo for Broad Appeal among our women customers so we provide heroines they can identify with the sort of women they would like to tie. The Man is always a wonderful gentleman who becomes the Kis settes go for Sophis Licarion Savoir Faire Champagne and flashy cars. Four writers one soap opera author one novelist and two radio mystery writers provide the scripts which Are imply combed by Tisch and Catalano. Every script is exactly 72 pages Tisch went on. Thai s what it takes to come out at exactly 55 minutes the narrator establishes the woman Fust and then her encounter with the marvelous Man who will become the Horo in the course of the Story the heroine makes love twice and gels married at the end there Are love scenes including kissing and heavy breathing but nothing approaching porn the listener hears what she wants to hear and then allows her imagination to provide the visual pictures. They can envision whal they Tisch said Kis Soltes cannot be purchased in Rosail outlets. They Are sold through mail order advertised in National magazines and supermarket tabloids. Is to like the Book of the month club a continuity organization where customers sign up for iwo Kissellis a month for $13 90 plus shipping and handling she said. We be been approached to Start producing our stories Lor video tape. Bul i Don t know enough Aboul Itiat business to think about Tho complexities of she said for the time being we re concentrating on expanding our audio romances the stars and stripes Page 15
