As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 1994
                      Registration No. 33-_________
________________________________________________________________________

                   SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                         WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                             ______________


                                FORM S-8

                         REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                  UNDER
                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                             _______________


                              THE DIAL CORP
         (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Delaware                             36-1169950
  (State or other jurisdiction of              (I.R.S. Employer
   incorporation or organization)            Identification Number)

      Dial Tower, Phoenix, Arizona                    85077
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)            (Zip Code)



   DOBBS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC. BARGAINED EMPLOYEES' 401(k) PLAN
                          (Full title of plan)

                             _______________


                           L. Gene Lemon, Esq.
                     Vice President-General Counsel
                              The Dial Corp
                               Dial Tower
                         Phoenix, Arizona 85077
                 (Name and address of agent for service)

                             (602) 207-4000
                 (Telephone number, including area code,
                          of agent for service)

                             _______________
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                     CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
________________________________________________________________________
 Title of    Amount    Proposed Maximum  Proposed Maximum
Securities   to be      Offering Price       Aggregate      Amount of
  to be    Registered     Per Share       Offering Price   Registration
Registered     (1)           (2)                (2)             Fee     
________________________________________________________________________
Common       50,000      $ 20.25           $1,012,500.00     $ 349.14
Stock        shares
$1.50 par
value (1)(2)

________________________________________________________________________

(1)  Represents maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
     issuable under the Plan that are covered by this Registration
     Statement pursuant to Rule 457(h).  This Registration Statement
     also pertains to Rights to purchase shares of Junior Participating
     Preferred Stock of the Registrant (the "Rights").  One Right is
     included with each share of Common Stock.  Until the occurrence of
     certain prescribed events, the Rights are not exercisable, are
     evidenced by the certificates for the Common Stock and will be
     transferred along with and only with such securities.  Thereafter,
     separate Rights certificates will be issued representing one Right
     for each share of Common Stock held, subject to adjustment pursuant
     to antidilution provisions.

(2)  The amounts are based upon the average of the high and low sale
     prices for the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock
     Exchange on November 14, 1994, and are used solely for the purpose
     of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under
     the Securities Act of 1933.

     In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of
1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
described herein.
<PAGE>
                             PART I

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

          The information called for in Part I of Form S-8 is not
being filed with or included in this Form S-8 (by incorporation
by reference or otherwise) in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC").

                             PART II

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents previously filed by The Dial Corp
(the "Company") with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") are incorporated in
this Registration Statement by reference and shall be deemed to
be a part hereof:

     (1)  The Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company for
the year ended December 31, 1993.

     (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the registrant document referred to in (1) above.

     (3)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained
in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-B filed with
the SEC pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on February
25, 1992.

     (4)  The description of the Company's Rights contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the
SEC pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on February 24,
1992.

     In addition, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the
date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated in this registration statement by reference and to
be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be 
modified or superseded for purposes of this registration
statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in
any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

     Not Applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The legality of the securities offered pursuant to this
Registration Statement has been passed upon for the Company by L.
Gene Lemon, Vice President-General Counsel of the Company.  Mr.
Lemon owns, and has options to purchase, shares of Common Stock
of the Company.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate
of Incorporation") of the Company provides that each person who
is or was or had agreed to become a director or officer of the
Company, or each such person who is or was serving or who had
agreed to serve at the request of the Board of Directors of the
Company or an officer of the Company as an employee or agent of
the Company or as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise (including the heirs, executors, administrators or
estate of such person), will be indemnified by the Company, in
accordance with the Bylaws, to the full extent permitted from
time to time by Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter
be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the Company to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Company to
provide prior to such amendment) or any other applicable laws as
presently or hereafter in effect.  In addition, the Company may
enter into one or more agreements with any person providing for
indemnification greater or different than that provided in the
Certificate of Incorporation.

     The Bylaws of the Company (the "Bylaws") provide that each
person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a
party to or is involved in any action, suit, or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a
"Proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she or a person
of whom he or she is the legal representative is or was a
director, officer or employee of the Company or is or was serving
at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to
employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such Proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer,
employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a
director, officer, employee or agent, will be indemnified and
held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by
Delaware law as the same exists or may in the future be amended
(but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that
such amendment permits the Company to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Company to
provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability
and loss (including attorneys, fees, judgments, fines, ERISA
excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith and such indemnification will continue as to a person
who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
will inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and
administrators; however, except as described in the following
paragraph with respect to Proceedings to enforce rights to
indemnification, the Company will indemnify any such person
seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding (or part
thereof) initiated by such person only if such Proceeding (or
part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Company.

     Pursuant to the Bylaws, if a claim described in the
preceding paragraph is not paid in full by the Company within
thirty days after a written claim has been received by the
Company, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit
against the Company to recover the unpaid amount of the claim,
and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant will be
entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claims. 
The Bylaws provide that it will be a defense to any such action
(other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses
incurred in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final
disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required,
has been tendered to the Company) that the claimant has not met
the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Delaware
Law") for the Company to indemnify the claimant for the amount
claimed, but the burden of proving such defense will be on the
Company.  The Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws provide
that any such determination will be made by independent legal
counsel selected by the claimant, approved by the Board of
Directors of the Company (the "Board") (which approval may not be
unreasonably withheld) and retained by the Board on behalf of the
Company.  Neither the failure of the Company (including the
Board, independent legal counsel or stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such action that
indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set
forth in the Delaware Law, nor an actual determination by the
Company (including the Board, independent legal counsel or
stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable
standard of conduct, will be a defense to the action or create a
presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard
of conduct.

     The Bylaws provide that the right to indemnification and the
payment of expenses incurred in defending a Proceeding in advance
of its final disposition conferred in the Bylaws will not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or may in
the future acquire under any statute, provision of the
Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, agreement, vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.  The Bylaws
permit the Company to maintain insurance, at its expense, to
protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of
the Company or another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss,
whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such
person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware
Law.  The Company has obtained directors and officers liability
insurance providing coverage to its directors and officers.  In
addition, the Bylaws authorize the Company, to the extent
authorized from time to time by the Board, to grant rights to
indemnification, and rights to be paid by the Company the
expenses incurred in defending any Proceeding in advance of its
final disposition, to any agent of the Company to the fullest
extent of the provisions of the Bylaws with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors,
officers and employees of the Company.

     The Bylaws provide that the right to indemnification
conferred therein is a contract right and includes the right to
be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending any
such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition, except that
if Delaware law requires, the payment of such expenses incurred
by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or
officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is
rendered by such person while a director or officer, including,
without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in
advance of the final disposition of a Proceeding will be made
only upon delivery to the Company of an undertaking by or on
behalf of such director or officer to repay all amounts so
advanced if it is ultimately determined that such director or
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under the Bylaws or
otherwise.

     The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with
each of the Company's directors.  The indemnification agreements,
among other things, require the Company to indemnify the officers
and directors to the fullest extent permitted by law, and to
advance to the directors all related expenses, subject to
reimbursement if it is subsequently determined that
indemnification is not permitted.  The Company must also
indemnify and advance all expenses incurred by directors seeking
to enforce their rights under the indemnification agreements, and
cover directors under the Company's directors' liability
insurance.  Although the form of indemnification agreement offers
substantially the same scope of coverage afforded by provisions
in the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws, it provides
greater assurance to directors that indemnification will be
available, because, as a contract, it cannot be modified
unilaterally in the future by the Board or by the stockholders to
eliminate the rights it provides, an action that is possible with
respect to the relevant provisions of the Bylaws, at least as to
prospective elimination of such rights.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not Applicable.



Item 8.   Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number         Description
______         ___________

3.1       -    Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
               Registrant filed as Exhibit (3)(A) to Registrant's
               1991 Form 10-K.* 

3.2       -    Bylaws of the Registrant filed as Exhibit (3)(B)
               to Registrant's 1991 Form 10-K.*

4.1       -    Dobbs International Services, Inc. Bargained
               Employees' 401(k) Plan.

4.2       -    Rights Agreement dated as of February 15, 1992
               between the Registrant and the Rights Agent named
               therein filed as Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant's Form
               S-8 Registration Statement for The Dial Corp 1992
               Stock Incentive Plan.*

5         -    Opinion of the Registrant's General Counsel as to
               the legality of securities offered under the Dobbs
               International Services, Inc. Bargained Employees'
               401(k) Plan.

23.1      -    Consent of Independent Auditors, Deloitte & Touche
               LLP.

23.2      -    Consent of Counsel (contained in the Opinion of
               the Registrant's General Counsel, Exhibit 5
               hereto).

24        -    Power of Attorney (included on signature page of
               this Registration Statement).
_______________________________
*    Incorporated herein by reference.


Item 9.   Undertakings.

     (a)  The Company hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or
     sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
     Registration Statement:

               (i)    To include any prospectus required by
          Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
          events arising after the effective date of the
          Registration Statement (or the most recent post-
          effective amendment thereof) which, individually, or in
          the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
          information set forth in the Registration Statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
          change to such information in the Registration
          Statement;

          Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
     (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be
     included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
     is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant
     pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
     that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
     Statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability
     under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
     amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
     relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering
     of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-
     effective amendment any of the securities being registered
     which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

     (b)  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to
the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Act and is therefore
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of
any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of
its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.


Experts.

     The consolidated financial statements and the related
financial statement schedules incorporated in this Registration
Statement on Form S-8 by reference from the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993, have
been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors, as
stated in their reports (which reports express an unqualified
opinion and include an explanatory paragraph referring to the
Company's change in the method of accounting for postretirement
benefits other than pensions in 1992), which are incorporated
herein by reference, and have been so incorporated in reliance
upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as
experts in accounting and auditing.


                              SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Phoenix, and
State of Arizona, on the 17th day of November, 1994.

                                        THE DIAL CORP

                                        By: /s/John W. Teets
                                           John W. Teets
                                           Chairman, President and
                                           Chief Executive Officer

                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below hereby authorizes and
appoints Richard C. Stephan, as his attorney-in-fact, with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, to sign and file on his or her
behalf individually and in each such capacity stated below any and all
amendments and post-effective amendments to this Registration
Statement, as fully as such person could do in person, hereby
verifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, or his
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signatures                  Title                    Date

Principal Executive
Officer
/s/John W. Teets            Director; Chairman,      November 17, 1994
John W. Teets               President and Chief
                            Executive Officer

Principal Financial
Officer
/s/Ronald G. Nelson         Vice President-Finance   November 17, 1994
Ronald G. Nelson            and Treasurer

Principal Accounting        
Officer
/s/Richard C. Stephan       Vice President-          November 17, 1994
Richard C. Stephan          Controller

Directors


/s/Joe T. Ford
Joe T. Ford                                          November 17, 1994

/s/Thomas L. Gossage
Thomas L. Gossage                                    November 17, 1994

/s/Donald E. Guinn
Donald E. Guinn                                      November 17, 1994

/s/Jess Hay
Jess Hay                                             November 17, 1994

/s/Judith K. Hofer
Judith K. Hofer                                      November 17, 1994

/s/Jack F. Reichert
Jack F. Reichert                                     November 17, 1994

/s/Linda Johnson Rice
Linda Johnson Rice                                   November 17, 1994

/s/Dennis C. Stanfill
Dennis C. Stanfill                                   November 17, 1994

/s/A. Thomas Young
A. Thomas Young                                      November 17, 1994


                               THE PLAN

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Trustees have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City
of Memphis, State of Tennessee, on the 16th day of November 1994.

                                   DOBBS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC.
                                   BARGAINED EMPLOYEES' 401(k) PLAN

                                   By: /s/William R. Bowers
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 1994
                      Registration No. 33-_________
________________________________________________________________________

                   SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                         WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                             ______________

                                FORM S-8

                         REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                  UNDER
                       THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                             _______________

                              THE DIAL CORP
         (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Delaware                             36-1169950
  (State or other jurisdiction of              (I.R.S. Employer
   incorporation or organization)            Identification Number)

      Dial Tower, Phoenix, Arizona                    85077
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)            (Zip Code)

   DOBBS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC. BARGAINED EMPLOYEES' 401(k) PLAN
                          (Full title of plan)

                             _______________

                           L. Gene Lemon, Esq.
                     Vice President-General Counsel
                              The Dial Corp
                               Dial Tower
                         Phoenix, Arizona 85077
                 (Name and address of agent for service)

                             (602) 207-4000
                 (Telephone number, including area code,
                          of agent for service)

                             _______________
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
________________________________________________________________________
 Title of    Amount    Proposed Maximum  Proposed Maximum
Securities   to be      Offering Price       Aggregate      Amount of
  to be    Registered     Per Share       Offering Price   Registration
Registered     (1)           (2)                (2)             Fee     
________________________________________________________________________
Common       50,000      $ 20.25           $1,012,500.00     $ 349.14
Stock        shares
$1.50 par
value (1)(2)

________________________________________________________________________

(1)  Represents maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
     issuable under the Plan that are covered by this Registration
     Statement pursuant to Rule 457(h).  This Registration Statement
     also pertains to Rights to purchase shares of Junior Participating
     Preferred Stock of the Registrant (the "Rights").  One Right is
     included with each share of Common Stock.  Until the occurrence of
     certain prescribed events, the Rights are not exercisable, are
     evidenced by the certificates for the Common Stock and will be
     transferred along with and only with such securities.  Thereafter,
     separate Rights certificates will be issued representing one Right
     for each share of Common Stock held, subject to adjustment pursuant
     to antidilution provisions.

(2)  The amounts are based upon the average of the high and low sale
     prices for the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock
     Exchange on November 14, 1994, and are used solely for the purpose
     of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under
     the Securities Act of 1933.

     In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of
1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
described herein.
PART I

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

          The information called for in Part I of Form S-8 is not
being filed with or included in this Form S-8 (by incorporation
by reference or otherwise) in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC").

                             PART II

       INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents previously filed by The Dial Corp
(the "Company") with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") are incorporated in
this Registration Statement by reference and shall be deemed to
be a part hereof:

     (1)  The Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the Company for
the year ended December 31, 1993.

     (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the registrant document referred to in (1) above.

     (3)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained
in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-B filed with
the SEC pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on February
25, 1992.

     (4)  The description of the Company's Rights contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the
SEC pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on February 24,
1992.

     In addition, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the
date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated in this registration statement by reference and to
be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

     Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be 
modified or superseded for purposes of this registration
statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in
any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

     Not Applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The legality of the securities offered pursuant to this
Registration Statement has been passed upon for the Company by L.
Gene Lemon, Vice President-General Counsel of the Company.  Mr.
Lemon owns, and has options to purchase, shares of Common Stock
of the Company.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate
of Incorporation") of the Company provides that each person who
is or was or had agreed to become a director or officer of the
Company, or each such person who is or was serving or who had
agreed to serve at the request of the Board of Directors of the
Company or an officer of the Company as an employee or agent of
the Company or as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise (including the heirs, executors, administrators or
estate of such person), will be indemnified by the Company, in
accordance with the Bylaws, to the full extent permitted from
time to time by Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter
be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the Company to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Company to
provide prior to such amendment) or any other applicable laws as
presently or hereafter in effect.  In addition, the Company may
enter into one or more agreements with any person providing for
indemnification greater or different than that provided in the
Certificate of Incorporation.

     The Bylaws of the Company (the "Bylaws") provide that each
person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a
party to or is involved in any action, suit, or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a
"Proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she or a person
of whom he or she is the legal representative is or was a
director, officer or employee of the Company or is or was serving
at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to
employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such Proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer,
employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a
director, officer, employee or agent, will be indemnified and
held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by
Delaware law as the same exists or may in the future be amended
(but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that
such amendment permits the Company to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Company to
provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability
and loss (including attorneys, fees, judgments, fines, ERISA
excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement)
reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith and such indemnification will continue as to a person
who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
will inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and
administrators; however, except as described in the following
paragraph with respect to Proceedings to enforce rights to
indemnification, the Company will indemnify any such person
seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding (or part
thereof) initiated by such person only if such Proceeding (or
part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Company.

     Pursuant to the Bylaws, if a claim described in the
preceding paragraph is not paid in full by the Company within
thirty days after a written claim has been received by the
Company, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit
against the Company to recover the unpaid amount of the claim,
and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant will be
entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claims. 
The Bylaws provide that it will be a defense to any such action
(other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses
incurred in defending any Proceeding in advance of its final
disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required,
has been tendered to the Company) that the claimant has not met
the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Delaware
Law") for the Company to indemnify the claimant for the amount
claimed, but the burden of proving such defense will be on the
Company.  The Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws provide
that any such determination will be made by independent legal
counsel selected by the claimant, approved by the Board of
Directors of the Company (the "Board") (which approval may not be
unreasonably withheld) and retained by the Board on behalf of the
Company.  Neither the failure of the Company (including the
Board, independent legal counsel or stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such action that
indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set
forth in the Delaware Law, nor an actual determination by the
Company (including the Board, independent legal counsel or
stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable
standard of conduct, will be a defense to the action or create a
presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard
of conduct.

     The Bylaws provide that the right to indemnification and the
payment of expenses incurred in defending a Proceeding in advance
of its final disposition conferred in the Bylaws will not be
exclusive of any other right which any person may have or may in
the future acquire under any statute, provision of the
Certificate of Incorporation, the Bylaws, agreement, vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.  The Bylaws
permit the Company to maintain insurance, at its expense, to
protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of
the Company or another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss,
whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such
person against such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware
Law.  The Company has obtained directors and officers liability
insurance providing coverage to its directors and officers.  In
addition, the Bylaws authorize the Company, to the extent
authorized from time to time by the Board, to grant rights to
indemnification, and rights to be paid by the Company the
expenses incurred in defending any Proceeding in advance of its
final disposition, to any agent of the Company to the fullest
extent of the provisions of the Bylaws with respect to the
indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors,
officers and employees of the Company.

     The Bylaws provide that the right to indemnification
conferred therein is a contract right and includes the right to
be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending any
such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition, except that
if Delaware law requires, the payment of such expenses incurred
by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or
officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is
rendered by such person while a director or officer, including,
without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in
advance of the final disposition of a Proceeding will be made
only upon delivery to the Company of an undertaking by or on
behalf of such director or officer to repay all amounts so
advanced if it is ultimately determined that such director or
officer is not entitled to be indemnified under the Bylaws or
otherwise.

     The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with
each of the Company's directors.  The indemnification agreements,
among other things, require the Company to indemnify the officers
and directors to the fullest extent permitted by law, and to
advance to the directors all related expenses, subject to
reimbursement if it is subsequently determined that
indemnification is not permitted.  The Company must also
indemnify and advance all expenses incurred by directors seeking
to enforce their rights under the indemnification agreements, and
cover directors under the Company's directors' liability
insurance.  Although the form of indemnification agreement offers
substantially the same scope of coverage afforded by provisions
in the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws, it provides
greater assurance to directors that indemnification will be
available, because, as a contract, it cannot be modified
unilaterally in the future by the Board or by the stockholders to
eliminate the rights it provides, an action that is possible with
respect to the relevant provisions of the Bylaws, at least as to
prospective elimination of such rights.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not Applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number         Description
______         ___________

3.1       -    Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
               Registrant filed as Exhibit (3)(A) to Registrant's
               1991 Form 10-K.* 

3.2       -    Bylaws of the Registrant filed as Exhibit (3)(B)
               to Registrant's 1991 Form 10-K.*

4.1       -    Dobbs International Services, Inc. Bargained
               Employees' 401(k) Plan.

4.2       -    Rights Agreement dated as of February 15, 1992
               between the Registrant and the Rights Agent named
               therein filed as Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant's Form
               S-8 Registration Statement for The Dial Corp 1992
               Stock Incentive Plan.*

5         -    Opinion of the Registrant's General Counsel as to
               the legality of securities offered under the Dobbs
               International Services, Inc. Bargained Employees'
               401(k) Plan.

23.1      -    Consent of Independent Auditors, Deloitte & Touche
               LLP.

23.2      -    Consent of Counsel (contained in the Opinion of
               the Registrant's General Counsel, Exhibit 5
               hereto).

24        -    Power of Attorney (included on signature page of
               this Registration Statement).
_______________________________
*    Incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.   Undertakings.

     (a)  The Company hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or
     sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
     Registration Statement:

               (i)    To include any prospectus required by
          Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
          events arising after the effective date of the
          Registration Statement (or the most recent post-
          effective amendment thereof) which, individually, or in
          the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
          information set forth in the Registration Statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with
          respect to the plan of distribution not previously
          disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material
          change to such information in the Registration
          Statement;

          Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and
     (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be
     included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
     is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant
     pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act
     that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
     Statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability
     under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
     amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
     relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering
     of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-
     effective amendment any of the securities being registered
     which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

     (b)  The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

     (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to
the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Act and is therefore
unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of
any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of
its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

Experts.

     The consolidated financial statements and the related
financial statement schedules incorporated in this Registration
Statement on Form S-8 by reference from the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993, have
been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors, as
stated in their reports (which reports express an unqualified
opinion and include an explanatory paragraph referring to the
Company's change in the method of accounting for postretirement
benefits other than pensions in 1992), which are incorporated
herein by reference, and have been so incorporated in reliance
upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as
experts in accounting and auditing.

                              SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Phoenix, and
State of Arizona, on the 17th day of November, 1994.

                                        THE DIAL CORP

                                        By: /s/John W. Teets
                                           John W. Teets
                                           Chairman, President and
                                           Chief Executive Officer

                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below hereby authorizes and
appoints Richard C. Stephan, as his attorney-in-fact, with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, to sign and file on his or her
behalf individually and in each such capacity stated below any and all
amendments and post-effective amendments to this Registration
Statement, as fully as such person could do in person, hereby
verifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, or his
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signatures                  Title                    Date

Principal Executive
Officer
/s/John W. Teets            Director; Chairman,      November 17, 1994
John W. Teets               President and Chief
                            Executive Officer

Principal Financial
Officer
/s/Ronald G. Nelson         Vice President-Finance   November 17, 1994
Ronald G. Nelson            and Treasurer

Principal Accounting        
Officer
/s/Richard C. Stephan       Vice President-          November 17, 1994
Richard C. Stephan          Controller

Directors

/s/Joe T. Ford
Joe T. Ford                                          November 17, 1994

/s/Thomas L. Gossage
Thomas L. Gossage                                    November 17, 1994

/s/Donald E. Guinn
Donald E. Guinn                                      November 17, 1994

/s/Jess Hay
Jess Hay                                             November 17, 1994

/s/Judith K. Hofer
Judith K. Hofer                                      November 17, 1994

/s/Jack F. Reichert
Jack F. Reichert                                     November 17, 1994

/s/Linda Johnson Rice
Linda Johnson Rice                                   November 17, 1994

/s/Dennis C. Stanfill
Dennis C. Stanfill                                   November 17, 1994

/s/A. Thomas Young
A. Thomas Young                                      November 17, 1994

                               THE PLAN

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Trustees have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City
of Memphis, State of Tennessee, on the 16th day of November 1994.

                                   DOBBS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC.
                                   BARGAINED EMPLOYEES' 401(k) PLAN

                                   By: /s/William R. Bowers