Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 14, 1993 TAG: 9308160302
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
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EAST AURORA, N.Y. - Toymaker Fisher-Price Inc. is recalling 420,000 dolls whose cloth caps may present a choking hazard to children.
The company said it had received reports of five children choking or gagging on a pom-pom attached to the nightcap from its Snuggle Lights doll, which has been on the market since February 1992.
Fisher-Price is replacing the dolls with a new model in which the hat is sewn to the doll's head to eliminate the danger.
Consumers can get a replacement doll by cutting off the pom-pom on its cap and returning it with the product label to Fisher-Price Consumer Affairs, 636 Girard Ave., East Aurora, N.Y., 14052. - Associated Press
SCC won't view C&P easier-rules request
RICHMOND - State regulators have declined to consider C&P Telephone Co. of Virginia's request for looser regulations on some of its rates and profits.
The State Corporation Commission said it is too early to review the Richmond-based company's plan to substitute a system of temporary price caps for traditional regulation of earnings based on the cost of service. A state law that took effect July 1 allows the SCC to adopt alternative regulation for telephone companies.
Commission officials said regulators must first complete an evaluation of a 4 1/2-year experimental plan for relaxing control over the state's five largest telephone companies. - Associated Press
Spiegel to purchase New Hampton Inc.
NEWPORT NEWS - Spiegel Inc., the nation's largest catalog retailer, plans to buy New Hampton Inc., a New York-based mail-order company that employs about 1,000 people in Virginia, company officials said. New Hampton Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors.
Chicago-based Spiegel said it is providing financing to keep New Hampton operating until the sale is approved by a bankruptcy court. - Associated Press
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