NSA Group Maps Work On Purchase Card Plan

An NSA committee, which met over the weekend in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House, is now ready to start subscribing stores to the Purchase Card plan.

The committee expects to have several stores contracted by Christmas. When the plan is in operation, students with purchase cards will be entitled to 10 to 20 percent discounts at all stores in the program.

Representatives from nine colleges in the Boston area attended the meeting. The delegation from each college was assigned a line of business to enlist in the program.

The meeting decided to ask some member of the Business or Law School to advise them on the program. A resolution to obtain written Students from Business School professors on why the plan is beneficial to merchants was also passed.

The members of the committee received instructions in the technique of convincing businessmen to join the program from the Harvard delegation, which studied the operation of the plan in Buffalo, where it has been going successfully for a year with discounts running as high as 30 percent.

Two sessions were held over the weekend: a policy meeting at 3:00 p.m. Saturday to make up agenda and full meeting at 2:30 p.m. yesterday.

When the purchase cards are issued, they will bring discounts not only in the Boston area, but in all parts of the country where NSA committees set up the plan. At least eight large cities are being brought under the plan along with Boston.

The Harvard group will handle move houses, legitimate theaters (exclusive of burlesque) and some department stores as well as leading the program in the area. Simmons and Regis will approach the women's clothing stores, and Radcliffe will do gift-shops and help with women's clothing.