OTHER NEWS - Jan. 9, 1996

Wells Fargo & Co. said shareholders of record as of Jan. 15 will be eligible to vote on its proposed $10.7-billion hostile takeover of First Interstate Bancorp. No date has been set for a shareholders meeting. . . . The Treasury Department auction of $28.0 billion in three-month and six-month bills was postponed Monday because of the blizzard and was rescheduled for today. . . . Donald Trump’s publicly traded Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. said it has agreed to acquire the Taj Mahal casino hotel in Atlantic City in a deal worth nearly $900 million. . . . Santa Monica-based advertising agency Kovel Kresser & Partners said it will handle Countrywide Funding Corp.’s $10-million direct-response account.