EXHIBIT 10.C

                    RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE
                      BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
                          THE DIAL CORP
                         AUGUST 18, 1993
 

     RESOLVED, that the Dial Companies Supplemental Retirement
Plan, which covers employees of this Corporation and various of
its subsidiaries, be amended as follows:

          The second sentence of Schedule B of the Plan
          shall be as follows:
          
          The Benefit shall be subject to no reduction
          if the Eligible Employee retires on or
          following his or her 60th birthday; and a
          reduction of .25% for each month his or her
          retirement precedes his or her 60th birthday.