friday, february 11, 1977
daily nebraskan
page 9
Two Lincoln businesses respond to energy plea
Only two Lincoln stores have rpcnnndorl tn Ua nnti AM
wide plea to conserve energy by shortening their business
hours.
Hinky Dinky stores began closing two hours earlier last
week. Jerry Roberts, assistant manager of Hinky Dinky at
Van Dorn Plaza, said the stores went back to their usual
closing time (9 p.m.) on Wednesday because the weather
turned warm.
The decision was made for all Lincoln locations by the
Hinky Dinky home office in Omaha. Roberts said he was
unable to determine how much energy was saved in such
a short time, but the Van Dorn store does not use much
energy for heating because it has a heat recovery system,
which feeds off the air compressor.
"We have not lost an exceptional amount of business
because of the shortened hours," he said.
He said the store temperature during the day is 65 de
grees and 55 to 60 degrees at night. Roberts said it is pos
sible the Hinky Dinky stores will change back to
shortened hours if the weather turns cold again.
Ben Simons also has cut its hours in an effort to save
energy.
"We'll definitely continue this through February and
possibly March," said Bill Bures, downtown store
manager.
The new hours for the downtown store are 1 1 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. every weekday. It is opening one hour later in
the morning and will not be open Thursday evenings. The
Gateway store hours are 12 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and
Wednesday and 10 to 9:00 p.m. ether week nights.
"We're an employe stock holding company," Bures
Bures said because the downtown store's heatinn svs.
tern is a by-product of the Lincoln Electric System, it was
hard to measure the savings in energy. But he said there
had been a "big reduction" in energy consumption at the
Gateway store.
Bures said Ben Simons has suffered no loss in business
since the new hours went into effect Thursday.
Ben Simons contacted other downtown merchants, he
said, to investigate the possibility of a joint effort to cut
back on energy usage. Among those contacted were repre
sentatives from Miller & Paine. Hovland Swanson. Masees.
Hospes and other music stores.
"We did not get a good response," Bures said. "The
comment we ran into most often was 'the energy shortage
doesn't affect us.' That's not the way we feel about it.
Whatever we can save can be used by someone else."
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