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■' ESTABLISHED Volume 1889 York reply to *. » . f Price j ' „ * ' • , < By Dr. Roy L. Reierson,* Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, Bankers Trust Company . and our society, and it is one to which a good deal of attention in the next regard it as a very serious problem. /■ upon our economy will have to 1 Paper discusses significant new money market developments give and how economy our ing men/3 ; ' •' ' ■ . -o*,;-*; *" ' • ' national rather than by domestic began to talk about Such, a word was "automation," and had a major influence the complexion and func¬ tioning of the market. They are virtually certain to affect the outlook for the money \ V;_\ r.'," as may in the year of dicative new a a In¬ ahead. 1961 in As 7 U. S. Government, Public : V the Tins IN trary tations, money a to respond to the strong business Other major actions included the introduction in the recession the money of other hand, however, the Treasury last increased the volume of its bills outstanding by some $4 billion and permitted its total market¬ able debt maturing in one year or less to rise by about $10 billion. Moreover, no effort was made to sell medium- or long-term securities for cash. This debt management (Continued on page 24) State, Municipal Housing Municipal Lester, Ryons & Co. ■ HAnover 2-3700 So. Hope Street, Los California 623 Angeles 17, Exchange Associate Member American Stock Exchange Members Pacific Coast Exchange The Nikko Securities Founded Co., Ltd. New York 5, • New York 15 Affiliate: Nikko Kasai Securities Co. LOS ANGELES Bond Dept. Net To T. L.Watson & Co. ESTABLISHED Active Teletype: NY 1-708 Markets Dealers, Banks American * * 25 BROAD - ' - , • <.' - ' — Pershing & Co. MANHATTAN BANK DIVERSIFIED CALIFORNIA BONDS & STOCKS On All STREET Automobile Teletype NY 1-2270 Assembly DIRECT VIRES TO 4, N. Y. * •' Correspondent CANADIAN Invited ; ' * Dominion Securities MONTREAL AND TORONTO Goodbody&Co. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE BRIDGEPORT;. New York CANADIAN DEPARTMENT Exchange \ NEW YORK < Southern Brokers Commission Orders Executed Canadian Exchanges Exchange Stock " .• • * THE Maintained and Canadian Securities Block Inquiries * Bond Division 1832 Members New York Stock on California Securities • • SAN FRANCISCO \ Inquiries Invited OF NEW YORK TOKYO Head Office: - Riverside, San Diego, Santa Aaa, Santa Monica, Whittier THE FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK NY 1-2759 U DIgby 4-7710 DEPARTMENT 30 Broad Street Notes Claremont, Corona del Mar, Oceanside, Pasadena, Pomona, Redlands, N. Y. Teletype: I ,Bonds and Encino, Glendale, Hollywood, Long Beach, Plaza Telephone: in a Agency Municipal Offices 1 Chase Manhattan 1824 business On the Members New York Stock BOND recent and Public SECURITIES .. the and year in today's Pictorial Section. 777,77 Securities 7 TELEPHONE: of 1954-55 borrowings, likewise remained almost unchanged. Housing, State and record subnormal exemplified by the approximately %% rate on three-month Treasury bills reached in 1954 and 1958. In addition, in the subsequent business re¬ covery and indeed until the last month or two of 1961, consumer credit demands had been sluggish, and bank loans to business, until the December tax 38th Annual Winter Dinner of ISSUE—Candid photos taken at the the lows markbt| rates for of reasons failed number with market rates had never approached the to precedent and expec¬ Securities Traders Association appear Boston Changed Environment recoveries of that fact through most of the The Federal Reserve ef¬ fectively developed a policy Roy L. Reierson designed to meet the divergent needs of the domestic and the international economic situation, and to this end -made substantial purchases of Treasury securities of considerably longer maturities than the threemonth bills which had hitherto been the almost exclusive instrument of open market operations. quoted in the New York Times,Ithe Labor Department points to the fact that the railroads (Class-1) in 1961 had operating revenues of some $793 (Continued on page 23) PICTURES A The recent This stable behavior is explained in part by was recovery Obvious Figures shake of the head and doleful countenance. savings deposits under Regulation Q. market cli¬ year. It is, of course, easy enough-to cite superficial figures with the Federal Reserve of higher in¬ ceilings on commercial bank time and rate spicuously , f; terest business the unusual behavior of interest rates; con¬ mate along be. ~7 7.rv/:77 .' ready provements, and partly because—and this is a major.,* (factor—the monopoly of labor has resulted in greater and; greater exactions for the men who do remain on the employes market entered 1962 after a year significant hew developments in the policy, Treasury debt operations and activities. These developments have al¬ money crowded with field of credit change has been very consid¬ erably accelerated in recent years, in part, doubtless as a result of remarkable technological discoveries and im¬ with'as few market rates to rise more rapidly money may cause Compares past with anticipated Federal Reserve moves. ' other kind of usage. The •payrolls, thus greatly increasing incentive to get higher rates will reach the end of 1959 peaks however, that the advent of serious dollar pres¬ higher than what domestic forces alone would cause. The possibly in any in common usage or nouncement by market sures before even money two previous 1958-59, when expansion in the economy was accompanied by a significant firming of rates in the money market. but warns, This process we a upon doubts son of producing more and more goods with fewer human hands at work was going on long before considerations." Dr. Reier- as past refutes the easy assumption that money market rates inevitably follow the direc¬ tion of business. Although the past 10 months saw a vigorous rise in economic activity from the lows of the recession to new peaks in income and output, money market rates through most of the period continued to move on an even keel. Only in recent weeks have they advanced somewhat in response, apparently, to the higher interest rate ceilings under Regulation Q and the renewed con¬ cern over the United States balance of payments. This broad stability of money market rates in the face of a strong business uptrend contrasts con¬ banking fewer and negotiable time certificates of deposit market instrument by the major commercial banks in New York City and elsewhere, and the an¬ expected to be influenced "more largely by inter¬ ures, are ' • they may fare under market tightening conditions. Upward pressure on short-term rates, and credit policy meas¬ is moving forward, we can absorb, this 1,300,000 even though, in particular industries, we may get special structural unemployment. We've seen that in steel, we've seen it in coal, we may see it in other industries: But if our economy is progressing as we hope it will, then we can absorb a; good many of these men and women." But I regard it as the major domestic chal¬ lenge, really, of the Sixties—to maintain full employ¬ ment at a time when automation,- of course, is replac¬ "If Copy a And Outlook for Interest Rates , a . decade. Cents • • _ fact that we have to find over a 10-year period 25,000 new jobs every week to take care of those who are .displaced by machines .and those who are coming into the labor market, /. This places a major burden we 50 question at one of his recent press confer¬ a the President said: "It is 7, N. Y., Thursday, February 22, 1962 AS WE SEE IT tg ences New 6136 Number 195 Editorial In Reg. U. S. Pat. Offie§ PERTH AMBOY 2 BROADWAY _NEWy0RK, 1 CORPORATION > NORTH LA SALLE ST. CHICAGO.. - r 40 Exchange Place, New York S, N. T. Teletype NY. 1-702-3 WHitehaU 4-8161 MUNICIPAL BOND DEPARTMENT BANK OF ARUEMCA \ . N.T. &S.A. SAN FRANCISCO • 7 .7 LOS ANGELES The Commercial and Financial Chronicle 2 For Banks, The Brokers, Dealers only offer Southern yourself to reach like Elox The entry into the . . . States 0f EDM COMMON MARKET, ^ expanded form of this economic system, will only accent the very real- problem real " ... .1 faced by "HANSEATIC." v i e r today: _ IS> to remain CORPORATION well American Stock Exchange markets every method WOrth York 5 BOSTON SAN FRANCISCO • ; Wire System Nationwide Private permits • , 1 of products blanking , d es, Robert D. Evans, . , tinne Monthly Stock economy n5h.«ine« of tne business. It has been took whole. a ,. .and—plasticdies, ppwde 6, N. Y. Telephone: BOwIinf Green 9-2B9S not offer or solicitation for an securities for any particular just little over a S. ..Larkin, Jr., John since Parts, engine rocket the corporation has in each snc management new the entl subs increased : BONDS VIRGINIA The shown a CAROLIN, CAROLIN which ^ ? tover $7 million Via the profit to tool has industry had 4CO RICHMOND; VIRGINIA 1959, the operation of equipment of the same Of machines ' 1. .' ■ • little • engineer's imagination." For those, over. $500,000. investors who scek long-term By comparison," . the / . J°x I i ,, • ■ ■ ■' ■' f ' ' \ ' '«#■ ' ,'*j ♦ Chemicals, Inc. ■ re- : ; 1 had to demonstrate educate | trade to the considerable • l„c, New York City Acceptance Corporation . travel busi- decade ■ t * Uris Buildings Corp. four \ \ — vestment, equal machin- lower capital of The 80 Pine TWX NY St., New York 5, N. Y. 1-4949 Tel.: mates ________ BO 9-6244 fast-as days work, ; and development program has ' been expensive. During just the past four years, Elox has spent approx- imately $114 million, / • a sum equal m a tor ine pays to exam- * the - dy-' namic aspects Ac- 1 "■ OF TAX .Send info., without obligation on Bonds Estero: M.I..D. FREE TAX ■-.Name Address . 4 *4 • • • City • ••••»•••••••••••••• Zone • a • State ; . • • •,a C &FC-262 home. HOC-f BLDG. SEATTLE 4, Ind WASH ond , MAm CO. CHERRY 2-6830 vacation ;>. -<* V details .of all Here, service- • ■ Over-the-Counter and the for for receives - its Quotation Services .. a v commissionr In this field as RCA, GE, Westinghousc i-TDternational, V ^ and already signed up^$20 .million vaV® -X'^rAom<ATfilw' ;c°fpo^te, giants • for 49 Years service' the largest factor ceptance Corporation (American Stock Exchange—9%); ~,T ' •; >'i. nothing £om th,e carriers. Tower is the: Diran m. Kaloostian of Tower v., GRANDE $300 of* million 46 from efficient Tower V ,under no : • *"J • • 1 '/'-V;. is circumstances to be construed as an offer to sell,or solicitation of an offer to buy, any security referred to herein.) t on away- more -V . FROM STATE INCOME CALIFORNIA contracting company than it could provide for. itself, The com pans; fThis ai AND -customei customer -total a Tower,;. resulting; in .better ." • FEDERAL travel arrangements for a particu-. lar. companv are * handled bv , or research -.'I Bonds.i;"i;^ EXEMPT INTEREST 'projected -six.'million six. million spend program. as in company's -Municipal: Another pioneering approach to travel by Tower is its corporate rise our 'its its million has times • families greater preci- "standard of * less time, "and living, is good lower labor cost per unit. To many reason for the industries, Elox guarantees sav- capital - gains'; ings of 40% to 80% in tooling minded invession costs. €asper Rogers & Co., Inc. in- Obligation v. mtUton $1 5 'partner. for each ? travel* seen volume conventional ing methods Lamtex Industries Inc. t ,, fo $350 000 ne s offers • ^ pending at the enormous rate- of comp^.e to a 7| average for the 20% a year yet is still in^lts;IfaveFaseiit Tt i? iriter^tinfancy <.accurately describes the ing to note here that Ward estV advantages which Elox equipment over -..v eVr°ofynapmoC fi^vearand fLrprofit -t metal Virginia Dare the and General Street-Sewer-Water Tower- KALOOSTIAN;:|-.i;;-mum to maximum sales expecta- s.-This, plus * the fact / spend substantial amounts -that the past;, foregone conclusion. In order to achieve this acceptance, Elox has - A $5 billion industry that is ex-,- new a customers cannot be considered as to ' • - President, D. J. Sinqer & ;; revolutionaryconcept, acceptance by the trade and potential Corp. ; r DIRAN M. • a ■ v;, r a pioneered the EDM to where, today, they are As is often the case in ... Del E. Webb milling; In patents throughout the world. and IMPROVEMENT DIST. •; in gross sales after heavy promotional and start-up costs, a mini- J 150; Tower >' Hydrocarbon ' this stock and its potential. con¬ ; < ■ *■ * # Z should not be MUNICIPAL V ESTERO , and process SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA AREA 8% tax credit for, money spent on whelming balance remaining vir-: p]anf equipment. There is no way .tually unchanneled. ^Indicative of measuring the total effect this perhaps of the anticipated success Electro- decade Elox has a INCOME change abroad I feel this condition will ' t Aerovox Corp. ' over fined i ^ \* •,/'{ > TAXFREE . was fused with chemical Primary Markets in: 4 : OFFICE: Telephone: BEekman 3-3622-3 tbis vear> and decidediy So4 when . introduced the metal and • NEW YORK 149 Broadway, New York 6, N.Y. and $3 billion at home, Of. ths total, only 8% was handled -presicient Kennedv puts through in-1960 by organized travel agenbis tax meaSures which ihclude'an cies and tour, operators, the over. rn^hfni^ rotJ nJ-nnJ f iiIpq caPital appreciation, i? I , feel - the. ward partnership has calculated! fn Srnivt ? Jpfinn tn rim p" same statement might be made of a break-even point of $1 million • Securities Co., Ltd. ,v • : , anchy A have on the'industryy but I of the Tower-Ward effort to bring was lntro* jeej gafe saying that a lot' of organized tfavel to the great mass drill, or shape, tool buyers will be looking'at of ., our.-, population Vis, Tower's ; holes with the accuracy of thQ E10X equipment;,when they enter branch office, inthe world's J^rgfinest diamond grinding and made ^their orders. :v: i'•;v;;v^C'X'^st'department store, Macy's-r34tHElox equipment competitive witK -v has been stated that ^,EIoxVStreet, wMch two years Rafter its conventional machining processes, ^limits are: only "the limits" of an inception- recorded gross sales of series Also w j the in months been duced which could ! DAI of age or older, According 1 Th.e size of the market aimed article, people in the at by these partners is tremen-, machine tool trade consider that dousy-It has been, estimated by'. such .machines have pretty-, well, ti e Department of Commerce that "had it,"; particularly when you Americans are spending $5 billion are talking about precision work, annually on -travel, $2 billion" the process, new . t jq years ten-thousandths of: an an •- SECURITIES making, meant that domestic and foreign tours would be packaged; by Tower, sold through the Ward oatalog and lj 189 retail and,cata?-.log sales,'.stores, financed by the literally in the doldrums gijjcg the mid-fifties and, this fact and the equipment, was improved to where yonventionally-trained: machinists could perform precision work measured VIRGINIA . JAPANESE July, ' been. the outlook of the entire industry. ' - its was v! $3*5 million-in receivables, which the current orice machine Tb that required intenthe perequipment was 75% operator's skill. Several developments made by Elox changed «f : branch offices our j0rity interest., Tower's attraction for this and formance We maintain . * when a New.-York purchased a ma- i96i, byery. year since itH^g substantiated by / a . report incorporation in 1950. Elox, today, Garrjed in* Business Week which Ward -credit plan and operated is the producer of EDM equipment stated that about 60%. of -the under "the supervision of Tower's superior in .performance to any machine tools in this country were'-Fugazy. Travel Division. --Vs EDM SOUTH NY 1-1557 Birmingham, Ala. Mobile, Ala.'-* -•* Direct wires .to ... eng be^abput 9^! ^ sive operator training as NORTH HAnover 2-0700 New Orleans, La. - consumers finance n^ acquisition, for stock, of another V* loan'comDanv • rFor the fiscal year.< ending small-loan company. April 31, 1961, the company reHowever, Tower made its singuported sales of $3,600,000 - and larly important move later that foiintpr market control of this company over Prior WEST ■= ' pany of like nature produced anywhere in the world. MUNICIPAL Exchange e 19 Hector St., Hew York 6, N. Y. ' The capitalizaiori of the com- and Montgomery. Ward, jointly ls composed solely of 634,- announced plans to introduce 387 shares of common stock, which travel to the American public 10 >are traded in the Over-the- on a giant-scale. This decision,* . equipment For Stock share lion's lfons shara ' and, in his capacity as President, The Nomura Securities Co. Ltd. orders Stock American buPsin^ss gr^up ed ci Helds ., I feel it should suffice to say 61 Broadway, New York New Members / • . . 25% thereafter5,'< the receive to years the Japanese as , . Digest, and our other report! that give you a pretty clear picture of . nurhiree Machines "fEDM^nro- 180%,'re^ec"tively7 o7er"the prioi and of the three largest packr agers^yen^cf travd m^e IN JAPAN our . Jr.; earnings 0f $q.39 per share ;(R&D same month when it acquired the CHEAPER, expense ' represented ' $0.63 .< per international known Fugazy FASTER, and BETTER. For many * Travel Bureau, Inc., the", oldest inHnc+ripo thp USe.Of Electrical and one of the three largest packr one ines (EDM) pro-^0%>^esp<: agers and vendors of travel in \thp »r nnH ft ox nf year. For tl._ v vides the ^currentjiscalyear, countryf Almost immediately MICHIGAN, ■ as • the pioneer and in «?alps and 40% in earnings ' " thereafter, on;Aug. 8, 1961, Tower leader in this field,-should conm sales> ana *u /0 in "18S; • v ' ' - - - Opportunities Unlimited for , 1 forging -• Write \ . : parts and machining of uranium. the production (Page 2) to jet be used which CHICAGO • PHILADELPHIA Members as: available must Teletype NY 1-40 4-2300 ^ ^ STEINER. HOUSE & CO Singer & Co.,-Inc., New York ** "VUuJL Exchange W VV. York , meiaLl ^leS'specialized C°*H £4 and many over¬ as , .die cast extrusion drns, as seas, 120 Broadway, New of: fields our Bought—Sold—Quoted and- accounts for. the ,lion 6 share fa(>tor in the travel field began m of sales m the. broad and varied A -J . ♦dies, domestic, Westing- Tower Acceptance Corp. —Diran substanM. Kaloostian, - President, E». J. equipment .in these huge, City. "and are holding—-— ,. , com¬ petitive in Established 1920 Associate Member (Page Calif. operating departments. "and small loan company with of* T r^LilyLw^Tifees' throughout'• the Southeast, ay +x is iffJ ? Tower's transition, into .a major many In order, Hanseatic Angeles, - „ are EDM can manufacturers . Motors, advocating the use of' equipment throughout their Originally a they • Am YORK and established Log regular schooling sessions in whicn - NEW q0 2) organizations an Call General as have D. Evans, Jr.,; First" California - tial departments to study the use... , , avera§e dollar. As his has been, com- Electric General house United the of such panies Corporation of Michigan . vast Over- the-Counter structure. as expensive Company, Los Angeles, California broad markets in any seg¬ ment, of, the Analytical Department, Division, First California of Michigan—Robert Elox Corp. ~ *V9olpe^aresales ?r 11.8% of the * of helping buyers and sellers Louisiana Securities ~ jr u r\n x,, ROBERT D. EVANS, JR. Manager, Their Selections ; favoring a particular security. participate and give their reasons for 41 than more Alabama & • field from all sections of the country in the investment and advisory of experience years is Thursday, February 22, 1962 . This Week's • week, a different group of experts x This . Forum Participants and "41 Bid" We • • A continuous forum in which, each , . (922) Allied •. Schenley Industries, Re ',*/• 'Continued Stores p u b 1 if on page •• 21 National Quotation Bureau Jpcorporated • ; - 16 Front Street 5HICAOO . :Established 1913 - V"V>,. Hew York 4, N. Y. SAN FRANCISCO Volume 6136 Number 195 Commercial and Financial Chronicle The (923) 3 CONTENTS Wages, Non - Wage Benefits LlCHTEnSTfin US. COMPANY By Jules Backman,* Research Professor of Economics, New York Writer well calls tacitly — the to growing cost and recognized New Money Market non-wage forego part of a wage increase to accommodate a higher level of t" * benefits. Analyzed in detail is the latest non-wage benefit protection against the adverse effects of technological change upon labor. financial various discusses developed measures the employee; on Economist The ameliorate to non-financial the short-run steady s io expan- . variety noii of benefits and their size. The have added annual Thus, we increase provement factor in by ' be have had the an plus costs. improvement non-wage This approach been Jules Backman extended through the adop¬ tion of long-term further trical equipment, agricultural im¬ aluminum. Since thesp industries together with the automobile industry tend to estab¬ There plements^ lish for the of pattern force settle¬ wage one increases in other industries which have not , into willing been contracts for. to V-Y'vr;rv",'' year. Lv.; At- the , enter than more ; and at ■ time, so-called fringe benefits, were being.negotiated on a small scale starting first with holidays and-vacations and .theft spreading ta pensions, nual rest were unemployment tract since have and tended about to cost 20% payroll for J or more of ex¬ these of eause . ,6 or the 1961 cents L. mackie, & ; HA 2-9000 Weiner— See It and inc. 40 Exchange Place, N. Y. Teletype NY 1-1825 & 14844 19 ;; v Cleveland St. Louis # (Editorial) Insurance Los Angeles San Francisco Washington Cover Stocks— ! ///:'■■jvf ( '• .'. *> -"-•V-'.r/,;. f.>u -j ■;swish*. basic i>: v ; Investment , -r; *• : 48 -«>■'•><•.{-ri/* ». -.i Dealer-Broker 23 — v Coming Events in the Investment Field .. s Recommendations properties "a" : . 8 amer. building Einzig: "How We Are Contributing to the Decline of the West" 10 maint. industries itf ! From fi j ■, ;u y Washington Ahead of the News—Carlisle Bargeron____ ft r:-'.; ^ 2, ; ~ . ■ ..y 17 \ .'j ' /"■' J——29 Indications of Current Business Activity,5— ;y allstate , - properties and You <The)—Wallace Streete.— . ! 17 Funds.———— lance inc. 22 _:/■ y NSTA Notes. 28 and Bankers About Banks News sabre-pinon 18 similar is Wilfred Observations—A. with reached May 1^-— receive to Reporter Governments!—-20 on J.F.Reilly&Co.Jnc. * , 39 contract GM 4 •• Public a Utility Securities-—!: 10 — Broadway, New York 5 DIgby 4-4970 hour plus an although this is an clause Motors sought to place to that ; Securities Now in Registration—! :■ Prospective tion of this is trend recent elimination clauses. variance Security I Like Best (The). v Security —2 Salesman's Corner __l — .— *13 Southern Gulf with the toward or ————!247 cost of on The continua¬ provision in the. auto at !!-L-y 30" —— Offerings-———. I ceiling, similar a found in steel, contracts Security — unsuccessfully living,, increases., in- State either of Trade and Industry (The) — 15 limitation of these Utilities * ...;.. . Market—Donald D. Tax-Exempt Bond . Mackey The 6 agreement provides for an increase in supplemental unem¬ on Washington ployment benefits to 62% of gross pay (before taxes) plus $1.50 for price index. Thus, wage Y . 5 - Continued on page and Twice Weekly Copyright 1962 by William B. Dana Company " FINANCIAL U. Reg. 25 , S. DANA WILLIAM.B. Founded ^1868 48 The COMMERCIAL and PREFERRED STOCKS Spencer Trask & Co. You 26 Published ; 14 manufacturers.-. continue General designed to change wages changes in the specialized in Singer. Bean ' v Liberman other of which agreements escalator in accordance with have Electronic Int! Cap. Ltd. • '____„„T„ 12 _— V. modified in the first year as will be noted later. In the negotiations, such increases have been escalator For many years we Telecomputing Corp. minimum annual increase of 2%% programs Superimposed Electronic Capital 11 — been automobile workers " consumer be can ■■ have Under - clauses Bank a Our two This, has. been Baird Atomics . an-- General Motors Contract adopted. Thus, } the ailnual; increases in & wages were largely designed to make: possible worker participation in our expanding national productivity. for these pattern contract the other benefits—has been the wage - inflation in h$rent inv the} As We Mutual to the HFeeent „.years. :J 9 ———_ Regular Features Market Motors the developments — annual increases in wages and burgeoning costs of non-wage Hoel -—Robert termi¬ term ' combination Oil Recovery 5 Lefkoe However, so how see YORK > Harris, Philadelphia piled on top of wage increases is well illus¬ trated by the recent General and "fringes" no longer provides an adequate description of these payments. Thus, to measure the gains ob¬ tained by labor, one imust consider both wage and non-wage benefits. The V V NEW WHitehall 4-6551 Direct Wires to companies many hence'' the to STREET, - The manner in which noft-wkge million of allowed adjustments benefits workers. These non-wage benefits now command. industries. con¬ been two R. since the industry in nego¬ tiation at such t times faces the benefits introduced in the Ford WALL r de¬ be steel and automobiles);, it as difficult periods, etc. Ift 1955,' supple- mentary Obsolete Securities Dept. 99 3 _ nated funds, and a host of lesser benefits. such as jury duty, paid ' BID STUFF M Chicago wages. established (such is H. —Joseph • long-term contracts which overlap v, ' . Proposals to Improve Investor Protection - < the leading industries have as welfare r union's time no higher long same ."H - pushed with all the the is will increase labor costs. one ' •„ "Option Selling: Challenge, Opportunity and Hazards Accordingly, labor costs are being increased; in good times and bad. Yet. a period of recession is the wrong time th for many other industries, result has been annual wage M. —Per breathing spell. ' E v e n * during periods of;; decliningf economic activity, unions continue to press increases manded ments i year contracts, usually three years, in a number of key industries including steel, elec¬ » 1 * .—_ Sizing Up the Export Problem and Its Solution ; is too large,. impossible to compensate .for the excess by [ making no adjustments in the fol¬ lowing year. On the ' contrary, postwar experience indicates that ; has V "Antibusiness" Label and Administration's Record — benefits., If the amount' one ^ difficult if not it is eral Motors in 1948. The inflation. annual granted in ; *; .v improvement intro¬ „ factor. aggravated by annual adjustments in wages and factor -i Chrysler Revs Up—Ira U. Cobleigh—— annual im= instead of This situation is duced by Gen¬ ->•* • - labor The result has been wage formu- was unit to annual an wage rates lized to '—Reese - -wage »' Collective Investing for Banks' Agency Accounts? large enough to compensate for the rise in living costs plus, the rise in productivity. On top of these in¬ creases, there has been added the cost of non-wage benefits. With v. the gains in productivity more than used up to pay wage in-*creases, the non-wage benefits in the n » Cover effect 'A had have ' . I ■ C, _ Telephone: i increases the postwar years two outstanding developments in col¬ lective bargaining have been the annual increase in wages and the ' —Jules Backman- r to protect the worker 'not the job.'" During i Reierson Wages, Non-Wage Benefits and Technological Change - and and warns that "any program adopted must be 'U'.designed ' • . QUEASY Developments and Outlook for Interest Rates—Roy L. j non-wage using THAT they willingly —viz. still Page arguments importance of by unions when even We're Articles and News experienced in labor-management economic attention benefits University Park Place, ' REctor CLAUDE D. , WILLIAM CHRONICLE Patent Office COMPANY, Publishers' Reentered New York 7, N. Y. 2-9570 to 9576 second-class Treasurer 1 matter Febru¬ Subscription Rates Subscriptions - SEIBERT, President. DANA SEIBERT, as ary 25, 1942, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Possessions, in United Territories States, and U. Members S. • of W! V. FRANKEL & CI. Pan-American Union, $65.00 per year; in Dominion of Canada, $68.00 per year; Other Countries, $72.00 per year. . v Members New York Stock GEORGE Exchange J. 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Note—On the Publications4 (Foreign account of the — Monthly, Postage extra). exchange, remittances for subscriptions and advertisements made in New WHitehall 3-6633 - fluctuations in of York funds. - Teletype NY 1-4040 A 1-3540 4 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (924) it OBSERVATIONS... 3S ' f BY A. tested accurately be can Wholly apart from the ultimate outcome of the government's tax against the Chairman of the York Stock Exchange's Board of Governors, surely its case preliminary offensive via the press has been most unfairly damaging :v;; A the accused. First,1 government (at a high level) rather vaguely very the its im¬ minent intention to bring charges of tax fraud against "an uniden¬ tified individual who is promi¬ "leaked" the to How just to press inside positions to the detriment of investors; and. fur¬ their of com¬ pensation may lead them to fail nently associated with the Stock to report income, or if they do Exchange." Soon thereafter, the report, to claim false tax benefits. Internal Revenue and the Justice Department publicly specified the government's evidence in accusing "an" Exchange Governor (still individually unidentified) of fail¬ ing to report all his incQme and of inflating his tax deductions for business expenses and contribu¬ tions to charity. A few days later (Feb. 13) the Internal Revenue, disclosing its actual turning-over " of "the evi¬ dence" to the Justice Department for presentation to the Grand Jury, named the accused. Surely such a press offensive should have awaited the ther, that their manner Perhaps the Commissioner has intention But his gating ket. in Cheating Tax V-: "Tax Abuses Cited in Stock following a stock boom, Wall Street is fair Art this or . . but Price still in¬ triguing query captioning a week¬ advertisement, we fortunately current items coming to timely haye based on for had Union SOme time. The latest owners answers hand.. We have just received, ^yia messenger from a startled security analyst, a brochure from the Elec¬ tronic Stock Evaluator Corpora¬ computer techniques (including cross-correlation, dynamic pro¬ circumstances suffers an irrepa¬ whatever the ultimate gramming, curve fitting, selflearning, and self - adoptive programming) to quantitatively evaluate the potential of any com¬ outcome. The blatant publicizing of action is evidently an¬ tak-fraud nual routine, pre-filing prominent individual (last year it was a doctor and the year previous a prominent hotel executive); and claimed to be justified as a public warning to "go honest." But the fact that "this is nothing personal" against the present ac¬ cused, or the financial community, surely cannot afford much solace to him or his family. season, in versus * More In on * mon . ing drum-beating the a . was program for each in¬ have news of Look Maga- Trend - tributor Evaluator of not gov¬ DOES Survey," planatiori thing of commodities AMG continues. is depend "Since dis¬ the automated and does on human ' i , f! i< t f. ■'% t. ; • t* i i. . above established for at least which there is a - to not mention judgment pvpt- . If you chart the nation's birth rates you will be able to forecast when marriages will be at their peak. We were in such a period a few years ago. This resulted in . the great demand two-bed- for room market* Easy Tenns for Purchasing of Tsic l aHists in YAMAICHI SECURITIES CO., LTD. . frend whose are nat- ctose the endosed eiiciosea declined now to ag men combine sharp a on the probabRitv in recovery recovery i . xt.. in tne . . , with art lems gether in sublimating value the technicians to the effect that past future. performance Should a the by his own especially to your former employer. Be "above board" in all your transactions with your real —and estate agents and with the store- Build up good credit wherever you are and save a keepers. little money each month Harvard Bus. Adm. newly married Program oi the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. In the class will be the first woman business executive to be selected for the course—Julia M. Montgomery, general partner the Jederal FHA writing Public the In- gn "S®"* the youngest woman partner of a New York Stock Exchange member firm Wood, Walker Branch foolish move some other city, some branch office at 116 Canal Street, ones do hesitate not out sometimes at to under the direction of R. Ross, night and mar¬ via We maintain active public's skepticism away by the explanation that it wasn't the fault of the system, but his own as a "bonehead" interpreter. As a matter of fact, these "systems" in both the stock and art fields, in evidencing the need for interpretative "playing-byear," furthers the conclusion that in their forecasting, science has been reduced to an art. " ' trading markets in: Marlene Industries his or Seaboard Life Insurance Pavelle Corp. Common Stock BOUGHT—SOLD—QUOTED Prospectus " Investors Company opened a branch office at 141 Broadway, New York City under on request Bobbins, Clark & Co., inc. Trading Corp. 82 Wall Street, New York 5 has the direction of Judah Lefer. of ?mP°rtant fir®f }P her *Uh?.?fLe °f.F' discloses annoyance after paying your insurance premiums, which should be a MUST, »•-"?'«■—JiSrt to- move to any of the "systems" go wrong, the "technician" readily rational¬ izes the upon from its correspondent banks in the city you are leaving. So be sure to establish good credit. Be able to refer to you^ school principal and your minister or priest D' C'; ov a locaI FHA facbasic forecast in report formation Office, FHA, Washing- , dopesters^ are also to the Housirlg. Administration). You ^ ^t information on your prob- of °Treiid i'ri,,-,Ri1ng1?na"JnfnnL'in and check a MrS' Sver neaJ near the monthly city will get y0ur you X Cons. Inv. Branch COrtlandt 7-5900 estate couples do a little figudng they the Washington Investment Bankis no more than they would pay Washington W * C°—> D c print ['resistance point' may we ask?] they offer an interesting peculation When men* Art Art Consolidated BROADWAY, NEW YORK 6 real associations which report to another. The bank where you a pew resident will be cash- School Admits severely cut. A veteran can "buy" a h°use without putting any money down' while any y°ung couple can get a home for 10 % down, and a small monthly pay- in where TOKYO, JAPAN 111 The one houses has not yet been History was made Feb. 18, with broken in most sections; but the the enrollment for the 41st Sesterms of purchasing have been sion of the Advanced Management their he avoided indicate thev (coveredTn 111 have its Affiliate of to cant to the beainnina of cvclical rlimhs credo Brokers and Investment Bankers couple The offering price Tor new va- decade." a tons should and terns ket's of NEW YORK, INC. married a married without money; but they should have an insurance policy (upon which they should never borrow)—and good credit. tors and their salesmen, "m-iv cyclical to^ Svor tors YAMAICHI SECURITIES COMPANY or — reputation for honesty and reliability. This is very important. Young people may get llcensed real- JaHon. * "The a Japanese Securities young a new include " pnntimiP«! thp close he in. i for jng "rvrfnin hiffh-oririp nrtic+c IV f* *■■■ dealers repossess a Bad Reputation ;•* The above program is being followed continually by young nets. only artists for whom a permanent (and a per¬ probably manently rising) market has been » . the Beware of wheat, corn, and other farm prod- urges Rankings. of recommendations THE WORK?" The no more . , - shortage now is parking space!) Even President Kennedy has excess stockpiles of metal and other to go up, some at a much more rapid pace than others." dsts WELL note stating that they will make a deal with some truck driver to take their furniture some night to the new location when they have "bought" another house, everything else, however, a shortage is followed by a surplus. (The as^ Lr examnle^ PAST PERFORMANCE "HOW relocate. establish stock. EVALUATOR credit poor may houses should soon be cheaper, Ten years ago there was a'shortage of one-family houses to sell for $10,000 to $15,000. Like almost the Art Market Guide and Forecaster, "and you will see gains up to 61,900% just since the war many artists for whom gigantic rises have already been recorded will-continue [emphasis original] developed to . new dividual $ demonstration stock. ESE prove that the same prediction techniques used in missile and space vehicle performance predic¬ tion could be applied to the stock market automatically comput¬ Wall Street "Cheats" another advance the some ease monthly "payments can be expected! The furniture has mostly been bought on instalment pay¬ ments. This they fere willing to shingle houses. This situaThe subscriber is here treated tion caused development comto a master table of PURCHASE Panics to be formed—especially tion. ■: ,/ v.:'' RECOMMENDATIONS listing in the suburbs of almost every This latest electronic wonder, in two artists in four groups with city. More real estate agents per the words of its promoter-inter¬ the data for each covering 'recent M00 of population exist' today preter r "is a special purpose prices, the current AMG Index, than at any previous time. They computer designed solely for and percent gain since 1946. Ap- now average about 75 real estate stock evaluation. It uses advanced pended to the table is this Ex- salesmen for each 10,000 of popuvilification, the accused in these rable smear, - . home buyers who think nothing of their reputation. But it is wise only . end newspaper postponements, announced Cape Canaveral^ V ;/ ' ,n And unfortunately for the ac¬ cused, irrespective of the extent of his injury, no libel suit may be brought against the govern¬ ment. (This principle having been recently re-confirmed by a Cir¬ cuit Court of Appeals decision.) ;. As a result of the government's exploitation of a defendant's lack of legal remedy against public ing from . . Science?" perennial, enclosed the at . Those foolish enough matter where they no Surplus of Small Houses up "Glance "MARKET ANALYSIS • Upon checking up with other states I find a surplus of small homes almost everywhere. Such Trend-chasing, including devotion to Dow Theory philosophy, pervades the painting market too. SCIENCE THAT ARTFUL will follow them a .■■■:: —THOSE "NEW TOPS"— :!: v . reminded that their are zine have bought into the General Development Corp.—probably the largest builder of small homes and the creator of Port Charlotte, the Florida city which was started from scratch. TREND-CHASING HERE TOO. >■*-'\>y «h ■ be financed, Mr. Babson warns young home their payments on Teamsters over is that the again, game! To of public interest second only series of pre-orbit- the. latest on the stock market." Thus market may large real estate development near Lake Wales, Fla. purchases have been going Dow-Jones stock mar- Market." ,, they Such the Art Market for paint- . the how 975% since 1946—and up 65% in the last year alone versus only 241% and 174% for Justice tery atmosphere created a build¬ . . ings is Stock Market" and . not to impair their credit reputation. taken depicted by the distributing dispensable as the Averages are to the ( - A few weeks ago I wrote about leave a a advisers, "The AMG Averages provide for the Art Market a continuing price-trend index as in- Investi¬ Service which~ ^arS °n ther in — technically. as elicited the fol¬ remarks "Revenue bearance with a who-dannit mys¬ up bounds well as lowing headlines in our most re¬ spected metropolitan newspaper: Department's actual indictment proceedings. Supplanting such proper fore- to within remained ' out run reputation bow to scientific analysis, but as applied to paintings instead of stocks, the Art Market Guide & Forecaster, with "comprehensive" forecasts for the coming "market years," introduces ."the first of the AMG [i.e. Art Market Guide] ART MARKET AVERAGES." As fur- who have taken unfair advantage - owners question. Making v. to forecasting service causing something of a stir, But catering to would-be speculators it ls-it • Noting the surplus of small homes almost everywhere and the • CHARTING ART as - . Another "following with inter¬ est" the SEC's investigations. He voiced particular concern about possible "tax chiseling" by under¬ writers, and by corporate officers of By Roger W. Babson con¬ as with which published over the weekend, Internal Revenue Col¬ lector Mortimer C a p 1 i n was accounts quoted Thursday, February 22/1962 on vote our "Science" market analysis? in strued cast we can other than for the ''Wall Street" on investment bankers. In newspaper New to off sounded . ... ages." ernment tax authorities have , Tests back to 1929 (reveal that) the Stocks rated 95% by the Evaluator have per¬ formed an average of 18% per year better than the market aver¬ past data. WILFRED MAY UNFAIR BREAKS . Phone WHitehall 4-0296 & 0180 Teletype NT 1-4004 Joseph Volume 6136 Number 195 . . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . ing that authority is that collective investing is the best way, in my Collective Investing for Banks' Agency Accounts? opinion, to agencies of By Reese H. Harris, Jr.,* Executive Vice-President, Manufacturers for have to it. If urges gap" in banking services. at with enough Let management fee cost. Mr. Harris would prefer to a add of trust common funds, and small then I "yes," with emphasis and say enthusiasm. The main reason why I authority to pool invest- for Our; inability ac¬ with the range considerable Reese H. Harris, Jr. ' ^ small managing agencies. The first evidence of it appeared in the many small religious and chari¬ table funds managed by individual and trustees, who bank help in investing. The common /trust sought dle we were can be some-of they most the have we we can promising cus¬ there isn't that do for have somehow much as them obviously-ideal Funds for counts of lately we managing charitable agency funds. limit device of led $25,000 could be I have witnessed the well publicized experiments of several imaginative and progressive banks feel , trust common many regretfully turned of away us a we funds worked ment the economies the the of success this beginning of operated 421 of with assets to participate in fund, our device, <&t important;'I must also admit liquidations,' with that the. forced the trust funds resulting capital which the common whose that But despite of the the demonstrated device, cannot we apparently take full advantage of it for our customers and ourselves, and all because in the beginning we said it was only to solve the problem of the small account. At probably lot of money have matter is demand fund owning and the same a . and I A- • •/•»> • -AH; -: : agency that the only practical method of handling them is by pooling. However I should we be privileged to pool investments of all sizes of managing agencies because col¬ investing is the best lective way to invest customers' funds in most realize that this probably operating open-end invest¬ I cases. means ment trusts for selected customers, perhaps eventually for the public. I am willing to accept this to permit us to take care of the and needs of our existing customers and, in addition, serve others who may enter the doors of never departments a them as *An 43rd service if New do we Of address by Mr. Harris before We are pleased to announce that '•Association, City. A York Feb. V New York Stock Exchange Zimmerman are registered as associated now represen¬ tatives. The John firm G. also Manos announced is now investing of - with their Clearfield, Pa. office as a registered Abraham ated with also as a representative Warshawsky their New registered is York of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission the is an majority of excellent trust tive. EST. and method or me us. to Southern February-21. 1962 \ a we lot come. do, and more The we are of it in going to 'A - ;.-:—--- diversification pos¬ sible in a pooled account is ob¬ viously better than that available account likely to be par¬ ticipated, and diversification is very] important; A?' '"v. * h But it isn't just diversification. It is the day-in •from OF INVESTMENT SECURITIES the decade for any Building, Washington 5, D. C. UNDERWRITERS AND DISTRIBUTORS that collective investing is the best do Johnston, Lemon & Co. throughout the United States and Canqda agency My experience in the trust business has convinced has become associated with Correspondents inprincipal cities accounts, and size doesn't have too much to do with it. day-out attention top officers that the pooled Dominick ' & Dominick • • Members New York, American .& Toronto Stock Exchanges 14 WALL STREET and associ¬ office representa¬ 1870 supervising the investments of : that associated for many good reasons, including size. What I do say is that pooled CLAY RISK formerly Associate Director invested, and seph F. G. Buehler, and Albert E. with them investments for all agencies. Many must separately ' r other leading exchanges, announce that Martha Tennant-Brian, Jo¬ that or 1962, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —H. A. Riecke & Co., Incorporated, 1433 Walnut Street, members of the manage trusts 7, H. A. Riecke Adds way remain SHARON not claim do I the mid-wii^ter trust conference, Ameri¬ . investing is the only course pooled not appeals to they accumulate an estate. Advantages of Pool Investing to our that Bankers can . ••'.Ij./V. of that, banks believe have liquidation. And the difference between a customer many miles away who had a managing agency participation in a fund like a com¬ trust of managing out person no indi¬ one this on accounts fund should be transferable with¬ mon be size . ' success owners the you views there trust share of our least the Federal Reserve Board mutual fund would tend, in my in standardized savings-type trust thought $25,000 was a 'has not acted yet on our request,, opinion, to become non-existent. arrangements participating in and sufficient in size to interest and all the indications are that The problpm might be likened to us.. Frequently common trust funds* These ex¬ such persons are the difficulty the savings and loan we will continue to be limited in periments reflect a demand which young corporate executives whose our use of this medium. associations have in maintaining I think is growing. I know of one employers are among our bank's the theory of their "share" ac¬ I don't criticize our predeces¬ investment adviser who has de¬ best customers. If we can serve counts. It might get to be all veloped a standardized, no-frills, them at this time, they will be sors, many of them still active, originally approached the theory and no substance. service for small committed to our trust who managing firmly services when they are older and subject of collective investment so agencies. A. Conclusion have estates of substantially cautiously. All progress has to be Many investment advisers re¬ made with caution. What I say is, So, somewhat reluctantly, I have greater value. gard their own mutual funds as let us not make the same mistake come to believe that we might as the answer to this problem. The twice, and with much effort, get well organize and manage our Strong Argument phenomenal growth of the Mutual authority to pool only small man¬ own mutual funds for pooling the Fund industry in the last five But, while the need for a device aging agency accounts when we for years from $9,000,000,000 to $22,handling small managing know now that collective invest¬ 750,000,000, despite a 5% to 7% agencies is the usual reason for ment is probably the most useful loading charge and annual invest¬ pooling the investments of such innovation in the trust field in ment service charges, is attribut¬ accounts, the best reason for seek- our time—for any size account. accounts limit administer small - about investment service for small managing- would investing for managing agencies. To summarize, I believe gains taxes, billion; in proach requires are powerful rea¬ 1960 alone, 48 such] funds; were sons for going the mutual fund started. With much effort we got way. I think, too, that there are the original $25,OOO limit increased many sound reasons why particiby two stages to $100,000. -pating interests in a collective inquiries could par¬ with there pooled trust fund ap¬ $2.8 over vidual's believe pooled must enter into you But, while these considerations are 1961, 288 banks common trust like to make those participations non-transferable, and not avail¬ able as security for loans. subsequent in a ticipation must be liquidated, and you go away with cash. I would trust funds and I personal relationship with the department, and when that rela¬ tionship is terminated, your par¬ administration. To give some idea of approach. a brilliantly, both in invest¬ results fund to there So, form of Regulation F trust tion F funds. I would like to insist trust funds. common at a purely mutual implies. I like the philosophy which prompts the no-advertising, no-solicitation rules for Regula¬ for a long time we apologetic about com¬ know me customers which so, been history: how have tax-exempt participations. fund we Bankers A until along and reason department's losing the personal relationship with its agency mon - sure dislike to accept the amount participated in makes some common us on trust fund. And while as substitute. prefer that have ac¬ More of fear of the collective in¬ our vice, and accumulated fixed-income a first combination had something of a guilt complex about the economies of operation inherent in the de¬ $100,000,,, Thus they medium, but either go to a broker^ whose com¬ usually* the >law -prevented the trustees from delegating their pensation depends upon activity in trading, or to mutual funds trust to the. bank to satisfy the re¬ where they are "locked in" by the quirement of Regulation • F that selling cost or loading charge for only where the bank is trustee can its Common Trust Fund be many years. Of course, we can suggest a small trust fund invested used. Hence arose the request, in our common trust fund, but the now approved by the Federal Re¬ lack of bona fide fiduciary pur¬ serve Board subject to amendment of the Internal Revenue Code, for pose and the necessity of legal services makes this an impractical authority to utilize Common Trust an too the was investing, So, most of us have to admit to tomers ticipate agencies any would give the participants better small accounts. The Ordinary trust accounts instinctively from servatism It common invested, income. fund which would aim for evenly spaced maturities out to 30 years. con¬ believed hardly afford to han¬ many very well not bankers many to fund. our fund might well be Innate which investment small a cannot account and much funds But that will draw back expect comparative participating accounts. Investment policy in the equity fund would, I think, be geared to growth and be considera¬ F common trust fund. vestment that, investment in equities is in¬ dicated. certain am blamed the collective we now could some value. The bank would charge the a management fee, and would have no other compensation from equity can per¬ funds. our fund So, if collective investing is this good, what is holding us back? I a of reserve basis. There is boards breach of trust for — these those be no "load": that is shares would be sold at market tions apply just as well to agency accounts as to trusts. with participating mortgages it was and still is a between And is not There would be pooling device that strays too far from some form of Regulation So, Typically banks savings accounts, man¬ savings account is a sufficient for emergencies; above a experi¬ poor underwriting and lack i of marketability for mortgages which really caused those difficulties. ac¬ customers. in recent balance eliminated. to as open- There could we we with up strangers in have them. aging agency accounts, and trust accounts. For most people, $10,000 on an then end the fixed income and why selective But, because the shares would be participating mortgages for our troubles, when in fact that had little or nothing to do with a economical leave-it because nature of service we now offer to have the enough, anything managing agency our well demand for save conspicuous gap in the a now trust small accounts invested small counts is funds—so that be to were trustee to mingle the investments of different trusts. Strangely Services do to of normally in modest amounts for in diversified equity in Bankings' Gap having common people many We we trusts. reason transferable, specialized A allequity, all-bond, all tax-exempt funds;' that' maj or obj ection * to pooled investing — a take-it or frightened by the device of investment, both be¬ and portfolios. that as can of desire managing same - submit that it is due also to the for agency counts is to wellefforts;- but course, salesmen's accounts. that now fund, managed like investment very ants that makes collective invest¬ moment was trust cause investment have nients of part, rewarded regularly should banks in able a income mitted to participate in idio¬ of co-trustees, benefi¬ ciaries, and miscellaneous consult¬ collective ence pooled funds be permitted for managing agencies? a think back for us UI managing agencies. would begin; with an allequity fund and, if there were enough demand, have an all fixed- no remoteness from unfortunate ^ y/e end syncrasies common • • cally and well the investments of repeated in pooling investments for managing agency accounts. Should ' available mistakes will not, be hopes the same with ' sometimes ing better. And and the drawbacks past timidity with regard to collective investments in collective funds' the we trying to develop a device for administering economi¬ managed like open-end investment trusts. The author notes banks' \ be fix same industry all-fixed income tax-exempt fund— an the to the mid-thirties when the trust equity fund geared for growth and not income and, demand, not trust funds. type of no-load service for those accounts desiring to pool their start off with an into to appear steps be taken to allow banks to provide a mutual-fund investments moves when they should be made and not weeks or months later. It is perhaps the excuse an careful, we will, with managing agencies, get York City. New York banker would fill a "conspicuous have to are we ourselves He administer managing any size. I believe we too apologetic .about investing. We always make investment collective 5 accounts receive; their spotlighted position before the bank's manage¬ ment, its board, grantors, benefi¬ ciaries, and their /lawyers. It is. also the ability and motivation to entirely are seem Hanover Trust Co., New (925) NEW YORK The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . Thursday, February 22, 1962 < . (92G) 6 TAX-EXEMPT BOND MARKET DONALD D. MACKEY BY nating was : ; ; The '3.2094%. second * • J x municipal supply relatively ually i buyers quiet during the past few sessions rvp SE Although the state and bond market has been ex+ent that e 1 yield from 1.70 to list the business being fall with and mer country for the Delaware and Maryland | Toll.revenue issues which were publicly, offered the following day by the Alex. Brown &' Sons syndicate. These issues argely done bids rather than "F on at list prices. tb Investors Alternative No a.m. 2:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 1964-1992 11:00 a.m. 1965-1986 Eugene; Oregon 22—-;1,850,000 bought by the were 8:00 p.m. 10:00 1964-1992 1966-1991 ._ which 2:30 p.m. 1963-1991 1963-1976 1983-1987 3,500,000 '1,350,000 g nay's reported balance was $25,- "Fremont High Sch. Dist,, Calif— - 1,900,000 may-cautiously consider Harrison County, Texas——— 1,500,000 600,0G0 their purchases without fear of and even showed signs of tiring, Sioux City, lowa___^.___ The only other sale of i impor¬ 3,200,000 being priced out. Any further in¬ particularly last Friday, the un¬ tance last Thursday consisted of Feb. 27 (Tuesday) derlying tone was improved Mon¬ ventory build-up will likely invite $7,500,000 Salt Lake City, Utah a return to the buyers' market '1,500,000 day afternoon by a broad expres¬ various purpose (1904 -- 1982) Douglas County S. D, 66, Neb.— that persisted through last sum¬ sion of demand all over the bonds of bond issues Feb. 26 (Monday) • Columbus,' Ga."„__—— Council Bluffs, Iowa-i— 3.50%, this issue attracted good bank t portfolio buying.: Yester- erad- ha?hppn we - - Reoffered to x in the following tabulations Chase •> Manhattan $1,000,000 or more for which specific sale dates have been set. by...The. <up Larger Issues Scheduled For Sale :; desig¬ made by the Bank. , of cost bid - interest' ofi 3.232% syndicate headed net a interest net at/a Bank ; 11:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. 1,350,000 1968-1992 27,702,000 1985-1977 11:00 40,000,000 1,800,000 Kissimmee, Fla., —_ Maryland (State of) syndicate - are Lehman Brothers, Massachusetts (State- of) —__—__~ John Nuveen & Co., White, W'eld ^MidMetown, R. L Halsey, Stuart & Co.,- Inc. group. Other major:-members nf this 1963-1982 Noon t 1963-1982 11:00 a.m. V a.m. 2:00 p.m. 1,096,000 2,687,000 1963-1983 2,400,000 .1964-1982 -7:30 p.m. 6,000,000 1963-199.2 12:30 p.m. 1,105,000 1982-1984 1:30 p.m. 1,378,000 innumerable investors, -nf > QQ9<& Rf>nf fprpd tn viold from •' -School District N°. 3, N. Y._— ™~ TY£ .2,215,000 with waiting for growth Calif. investors coast to coast as rela--stocks to create capital gains, are ?h^;^L.sFlorida--Development" Commission.- ^5,000,000 tivplv ,i uun, Florida State Board of Admin^Af 11,897,000 tively rhpan Both thA ct.atoe nf "daily turning to tax-exempts as « 6 & coupon, mis issue nas not -pirrida SfatP Board nf Admin—.2 cheap. Rnth the states of daily turning to tax-exempts as iDelaware and Maryland levy in- the s'_ " fhe stark alternative in a rather .thus far^ generated nresent- Hal- MkUand School District) Mich..,— 2,250,000 much hnvin^ intprost • the'- very 1963-1982 Roosevelt and Co. & increasing inventories. With Cross. & from? 1.75% ,t0 Mt. Gilead S chDis t. ,Qh i o "Nashua;:N. H— — _____ 11:30 1963-1982 a.m. Premium Maryland Bridge and Tun¬ With nel, close selling 3s revenue ^semnT^ub^aXalTv -munic'ipal bondTteMsltiu Bridge** Continental Illinois NationaTBank.; .and Trust Co., TheFrrst National make above their call price the new compelling sense from almost any Delaware-Maryland bonds, repre- investor's viewpoint and, in senting the protect extending be- Connection, it seems valid to Point the me tween tween and tunnel luimei tho wi»- mm that out bridge, unus*e, ' Feb. 28 (Wednesday) ; School District, Texas._2 .Savings inc. at and Halsey, Stuart Amherst, Cheektowaga & Clarence Bank a net interest cost .... & Co., ^ Anc- ai a < weary : avidly sought by institutional were (State of)—i__ 3:00 p.m. 10:00 1963-1982 a.m. —— 2:00 p.m. 1989-1991 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. 1963-1967 , taxes come barren area.,- that each issue will so : ^ being about $17,155,000. ance have particular value for tax- 1 Moreover, the nation's economy, payers in their respective states. 2 although functioning at a -gener- Moderate Financings : These issues to bid were tempo improved ally sub- is unfor- V-Ji;.;. Tuesday; .2?? • did not sales An institutional interest in the loans. ™m Yield Index ^ Unchanged submitted to Congress. As evidence of the slow-down in v»lr a4 n+n + ri 21 v\i <-*<! general market state and municim n A vi wi n ,"-2 Financial Index shows aged [Negotiated v no The ago. duration. weeks Individual ^ apparently^<1® we now . . , to be underwritten by First Boston - « major. : members Illinois Co,, National Mellon « . frightening; it is to -*411 hoped that the program will resisted. As a matter of fact, i be offer¬ be are .4-u~4.--4.u~ j immediate ■ t l ,700,000 11,237,240 •2,000,000 r Trust a*** *.. i" % ''* ' - '•( ; yield from2Stamfprd, Conn. 1.85% .to 3.05%,; about $6,335,000 Taylor Township Sch. Dist.,'Mich. of Tennessee— 0f the bonds have been.sold;• ; v,: University ties Corp."Scaled" to ■ : * 1963-1991 T964-1998 1932-1981 35,000,000 1963-1991 2.850,000 1983rl982 r 4,932,000 ; 1963-1982 3,500,000 1965-1990 2,000,000 1963-2000 , - the munity a to brought -> on an Maryland chusetts issues and Turnpike the ' ' Massa¬ Extension sues. All have reached ' , As a measure of the increase, the Bine List hank easy Feb. is- volved in our nwWho ,1 i are in totaled 31. discount trick On of 3,123% offered bonds yields is side for about up since Dec. no 1 i 3 05% as fbrSee^S rates so as rhili Cpn Gates & Chill, Len. » ^ n VY close the to the do the a.m. p.m. am. a.m. 11:00 a.m. long-term Fed's cessful bond purchase City o>: York the Bank 2:00 p.m. 1.645,000 3,000,000 1983-1985 11:00 3,500,000 3,165,000 - 1963-1982 Noon 1963-1981 10:00 a.m. ; 2,865,000 2.865,000 1954-1983 6,716,000 ; 1963-1983 a.m. 8:00 p.m. • 1964-1983 * 1,820,000 4,712,000 Bloomingtcn Ind. S D #271, Minn. ... ,T ^ Clarkstown Central SD #1, N. Y. -DeWitt, Pompey, Onondaga, Security syndicate. members of the Lafayette & Man.lius, N. Y suc¬ Los First National Chemical Bank New group Bank, by ' -• 8:C0 p.m. 11:00 a.m. (Wednesday) S. net interest npHnimi made Other major net .interest a 3.135% a National First inevitably lead are , Angeles, California—^ March 8 Trust Co., Smith> Barney & Continental Illinois National . 1,480.000 16,000,000 7:30 p.m. L965-1992 1963-1981 1963-1992 11:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. a.m. (Thursday) 1984-20011983-1982 - Co., Bank Trust and Gustavus Adolohus Co.,. competitive' for lon National issue new the at least, have been eagerly sought new high levels. New York. City awarded $89,400,000 various at purpose (1963-1992) bonds last Thursday Feb. 15, to the group headed by the First National City ; Scaled Bank and Trust Co. .yield>from 1.85% to 3.25%, about half the bonds have been spoken for. Tuesday's only . : other v 1964-1988 1,000.000 3,900,000 .1982-1991 ,: Hidalgo County Road Dist., Texas issue,rof . note was $5,000,000. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania school district North Little Rock, Ark.^^^^-r- ' : : TVlav^b . (1963-1987) bondsV which were'Aldine School District, Texas bought by the First National City Allegheny County, Pa.———. Bank syndicate. Reoffered r to ;Denver»vColo. — yield from .1.70% to 3.25% all J>ut Henry; Hudson Reg. S. D/, N. J.^_ 334% 1980-1982 3.20% 3% 1978-1980 3.15% 1978-1979 3.10% Laurel SD No. 7 & No. 7-70, Mont, Northridge School District,- Ohio__ carried a Vs of 1% coupon and (Omaha, Neb.——:— 3.10% 3.05 %: were sold at a 4.45%• yield. Here<lWashington Fublic Power Supply again large bank buying was in 2.95% System, Wash. 1974-1975 2.90% 2.75% 1978-1979 3.15% 3.00% 3^% 1977 3.15%" 3.00% sale 1980 Asked . $400,000 of the bonds have be^n sold. The two . single important $7,000,000 City of Antonio, Texas park and exinvolved 1978-1980 3.40% 3.25% San 1980 3.30% 3.15% pressway 3.25% 3il0% 3V?% 1980 1979 - 1977 • 3vll 3% ' v r 1980 February 31, 1962 Index~3.123% 3.50% 3.45%' o on page 16 10:00 a<m.' 7:00. p.m. 1,700,000 7,710,000 15,000,000 . ■ 1,245,000 .1,217.000 ..1.021.000 . 1 'j — 1933-1992 1972-1999 1933-1987 1983-11982 r 11:00 aim. 11:00 a.m. 8:00 p:m.' 8:03 p.m. Noon 1963-1982 ; 5,700,000 10,500,000 -it o o at 1.850,000 1963-198L 2,900,000- 1963-1989 8:00 p.m, u Lnf A n' /'m 1 ' ur '- Joint Sch- Dist- No. 1, Wis.,— ; - Franklin net interest cost. Priced to yield, Louisiana Continued ^ Pascack^allw+1^ c"' 1 r":+" =ch D?s* N^J improvement (19 6 5- •• 1882) bonds which were awarded.: 3.35%> ,;3.25%i to the :Harris Trust and Savings 3.40% 3.25%' Bank and associates at a ^.059^ 1963-1982 March 14 (Wednesday) Wednesday's 3%% 3Vi% - maturities evidence. 3V4% "'"7"rr" last 2:00 p.m. 1^» 3.40% 3.30% * March Id (lliesday) 1978-1980 Bid 1:45 p=m. 1963-1982 3%% __III Noon" 1.000,000 Fort Pierce, Fla.... ........ , 3%% Y~) 1983-1984 —10,800,000 Dallas, Texas 3% G~td.II 19S2-1999 1,050,000 March 12 (Monday) f ■ to 3JA% I V 1,060,000 10:00 . Maturity "38®®? Ramapo High Sch. Dist., N. J.~ —-- bonds to the Ramapo,;Reg. High S. D., N, J.,.; ^•IPe^Aca N. -Tv & S. A;-Ventura Junior College Dist., Calif. designating past week has been light but the notable issues the Pennsylvania (State) Vermont (State) New Housing Auth. (N. Y., N. Los Angeles, Calif a.m. 10:00 1963-1982 1962-1991 1.200,000 (State). New Jersey Highway Auth., New York (State) a.m. 1.000.000 Calif.__ il il. #1, N. Y. (1964.1982) 'an<^ associates at to help might higher or schedule a in the in¬ Baltimore, Md.__ Cincinnati, Ohio New Orleans, La Chicago, 111...,. New York Cty, N. Y..._. trict ease.1®3?^ monetary yet not surmised. rate to The rise (State) 2-11:00 ^ 11:00 ,11:00 '■ 7:30 .-11:00 • Antioch Unified Sch. Dist., the L-- - 512.C00 City Unified' School Dis- MARKET ON REPRESENTATIVE SERIAL ISSUES Connecticut *V . 1,100,000 ♦ (approximately five Moreover, California 'to l 65% 8,500,000 1,837,000 (State of) Albion, New York__: Reoffered ;to 2.50s. and f * - as Hazelwcod Sch. Dist. R-l, Mo..„. Merrill -lona College, N. Y.____. consequent mcnetization of same. Lynch, Pierce, Fenner- & Smith Ncble Sc-ool District, Ohio—.. u •?,. Inc.V Dean Witter & Co, and Mel¬ -Recent Awards' ,'1 doubt partially accounts the recent attrition vestors' appetite. lor .v 11:00 a.m. ?;Noon 2'v : 4:0Qp.m. 1964-2001 1 College, Minn. high half market's I spectacular points) ^ld that increasingly large amounts of long-term Treasury bonds with point during this three week pe¬ riod of rapid inventory increase. The negatives^3Syi,2%s be effected but it would either would indicate that the market's the Holding bill of state and yield Index averaged 3.165%. The current level grade group headed Guaranty Trust Co Morgan cost-was our at by. Alabama '."Bonds to the. • balance of navmonfs can bill rates is just three weeks later, offerings total $516,175,658. build-up of inventories began when j nnsit.ion raservp there 21, these • • i. SSBt inventory municipal bond offerings only $260,363,000 on Jan. This i to some extent offset by the are t j bond, market How this Investors Resting out i These premium-"-decrease a ' bid. 1 Fed's Problem ' The ,"W incipient inventory problem. The turnpike issues are the aforementioned Delaware and 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. . com- new high level ;of Vtirlrlincr bidding ' that has i»ctiA issue npw new investment a.m. 8:00 p.m. . a x . porized,, four highly successful negotiated turnpike issues have been publicly reoffered and have a.m. il:00 3,006,060 ; Bank American Haupt 11:00 1963-1992 revision Milwaukee, Wisconsin, another March 2 (Friday) perhijps serve the nation ,borrower. with the highest of University of Miami, Fla:__1 *, • 2,871,000 and its citizenry bettei. It might... cred;t ratings, sold $8,000,000 even be good politics. ^ March 6 (Tuesday) : Corporate « purpose (1963 - 1974).; some. would . While the market has thus tem¬ stimulated Ira : (Thursday) > . - boondoggle March 1 : a.m. Noon.:. 1974-1992 1,150,000 Corpus Christi Sch. Dist., Texas__ and- Georgia Highway Authority, Ga. Securi- Shawnee-Mission H. S. D. 6, Kan. and National and Co. Trust Bank of a.m. 11:00 Corp., 5,678,000 this :Brevard Co. Spec. Tax D. #1, Fla.: group include The> First National Colonic School District NoM, N. Y. Sank r of-Chicago, : Continental Columbus, Ohio ~ " to ther Other spending if Congress concurs. The inflationary aspects of this old ings have varied but the Index is unchanged, . .. < r . A ^ lie yield for 13 preselected grade general obligation offerings is now of - two bond 11. .1 i. sterile additive of large scale pub- 3.123% ' Enlarge"!? defense""spending has- .headed by The First Boston Corp. - and average high financing r0W€r which rcarries;the highest V/ayne Township, N. J.__— credit rating, sold $8,740,000:sewer. Wayne Township Sch. Dist., N. J. 2bonds due 1964-1982 to the group . growth that is politically desirable Chronicle's^yield change since aver¬ week a ri5*ntiv ^ce^tly not enlivened the economy pal bond activity, the Commercial and County, Va.______ 10:00 tunately causing Administration Tuesday- witnessed the sale of & Co., and B. J. Van' Ingen & Co. and Associates] economists to be defensive con- four moderate sized : issues. ^at ■; 2,600,000 .1963-1992 evVsbary,? Mass. for group ac- cerning the growth predictions ;competitive biddingf The city of Tennessee "(State of)__w—— 12,275,000 1963-1982 1963-1992 nearly satisfy made over the past year qr more. ^Greenwich, Connecticut, a bor- Wayne Township, N. J— 5,678,000 allotment 50% count . Puerto Rico Water Resources Auth. -":2 stantial premiums soon after the offerings were made public since the William Prince on 1962-2001 10,000,000 1966-1991 2,500,000 1963-1982 2,225,000 35,000,000.. 1963-1998 Board, La—; J Orleans Parish:.Sch. Oxnard, Calif. . • - •; County, Bond & 1,125,000, 196.3-1982 . 2:00 p.m. March 15TThur$day> Tenn._ _ .1. j. 1,900,000 "1963-1967 ...15,000,000 1963-1987 Bldg. Comm Osseo Ind. S. D. No. 279, Minn.__ 1,000,000 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a an. 8:00 p,m. "Volume 195 Number 6136 .... The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . (927) 111 New Issues $89,400,000 llllft£ ifyAof;|Nevyl||or kM&tr-y ; : \V;7v. • A/-7-V t : : :r - Dated March * 3.40%; 3% and ;2V^% Serial Bonds '-Vv A-'" * ? •' ; : , • I, 1962. Due March 1, . t i r . •, = •••" • <* , , ;• A; .. _ • • • -t. - , k 1) payable in New York City at the Office of the registered Bonds in denomination multiples thereof, but not interchangeable.. s or * v-..'"' -r '• '• . .v ' , Exempt from: Federal-and New York State Income Taxes, under •• - ~J. 'Existing Statutes and Decisions Legal Investment for Savings Banks and Life Insurance Companies in the State of v / '-k denomination of $5,000, convertible into fully of $1,000 - - • Interest =iiE:'- • w shown below. Principal and semi-annual interest (March 1 and September as City Comptroller. Coupon.Bonds in • "• ' •-V V*. :? V'; - New* York- and; for Executors, Administrators, Guardians and others holding HI ,§3 .y • \ Trust Funds for Investment under the Laws of the State of New York AAA AMOUNTS, MATURITIES, RATES AND' YIELDS OR PRICE $47,000,000 3.40% Bonds due March 1, 1963-92, inclusive $32,200,000 3% Bonds due March 1, 1963-77, inclusive ^ ; $10,200,000 2Vi% Bonds due March 1, 1963-67, inclusive Prices v:''V ."'V. •'v •. •1 ;• • A "r r] Prices to Yield; Maturities . ;? ; - to Yield Maturities - 1963 ^ 1.70% 1964 ::;2.00aMrS-19 rim. 9 2.90 2.20 ■&/* Cf!972 A9:2S)5IM: 1973-74 ;A2.00'\Jy ;::2.3 £$0 1965 1966 1970 ^ 302.8O%:'Ca 1978 r H 975 2.50 ' • }l 3.25 1983-84 t 3.35- 1985-87 :, IOO 1988-89 : • x 3.20% - 1981-82 ,3.05 :>2.60^:f^:® 1976^5® -3.10 ^ 2.70 ^; 1977V r 3.15 1968 Price or 1979-80 t ^ 1967 ' 1969 Yields ; . • Malurities 3.45 1990-92 • - 3 ' <3.50 (Actfued interest to be added) The above Bonds ore issued and received First National City offered, subject to prior sale before us, or after appearance of this advertisement, for delivery when, 'r'A A:--Vi v v A s 555 Incorporated • . |H HI r Company 35 ; - 'V: - '' •' Hayden, Stone & Co.; Incorporated ; < . .. • v .* L. F. Rothschild & Co. Ira Haupt & Co. Shearson, Hammill & Co. Wood, Struthers & Co. Fidelity Union Trust Company i ; Eldredge & Co. . ' * C. F. Childs and Company * • of Rhode Island of Long Island < Bank of California : ' G. H. Walker & Co. t Bramhall, Falion & Co.; Inc. R. James Foster & Co., " . Inc. ; ! - < Dreyfus & Co. < K Shelby Cullom Davis & Co. ' • The Franklin National Bank Buffalo Fabricand & Co. ,.r Glickenhaus & Co. ,, Boland, Saffin, Gordon & Sautter v - Spencer Trask & Co. Incorporated Industrial National Bank Fitzpatrick, Sullivan & Co. Incorporated Francis I. duPont & Co. T Newark . Estabrook & Co. Incorporated .Incorporated Incorporated Incorporated February J6, 1962. Company White, Weld & Co. Clark, Dodge & Co. •. Roosevelt & Cross ..... Coffin & Burr Dick & Merle-Smith Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company M '.A ■" °f Oregon R. S. Dickson & Company » > Braun, Bosworth & Co. _ = and Trust Phelps, Fenn & Co. "• . ' | Stone & Webster Securities Corporation The First National Bank i F. S. Smithers & Co. - Robert Winthrop & Co. 2 555 4 Mercantile Trust Company Mellon National Bank > and Trust Company of Chicago .. • - Incorporated 4 *' ..... First of Michigan Corporation , Dominick & Dominick =55- " of New York ' ~ i Geo. B. Gibbons & Wk A*O Continental Illinois National Bank Shields & Company /' ', •. - Kean, Taylor & Co. 555 . Morgan Guaranty Trust Company Smith, Barney & Co. Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc ■ •" Y.-\ V-: A+S-p x • ; "" ;' - v r; .• > Salomon Brothers & Hutzler ; Salomon Brothers & Hutzler /- X ; Kidder, Peabodv & Co. Peabody - W. H. Morton & Co. , SEE-'''"V* 2 ^ f :?t*. Bankers Trust Company ;':h' C. J. Devine & Co. A A ■■■ :: The First Boston Corporation and if as and subject to the approval of legality by Messrs. Wood, King, Dawson & Logan, Attorneys, New York City. Bank New York ■ by V. ^ Stern, Lauer & Co. t ^ „ Republic National Bank of Dallas - Model, Roland & Co. 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Works, Shimadzu Seisakusho Ltd., Yama- Review with — Electric Hokushin Ltd., Columbus available Merrill Electric Discussion— Richard Ney and Associates, 170 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. Also available is a discus¬ Banking: Industry ; "7 Rubel & Associates, Financial and Management Consultants, 53 West. Co. and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, 111. phone. MENTIONED WILL BE PLEASED THE FOLLOWING LITERATURE: FIRMS THE THAT UNDERSTOOD IS ' „ Small panies 1962 New York 5, N. Y. Also availableMite Corp.-^Analysis—Estabrook is a report, on Kaiser Steel. & Co., 80 Pine Street, New York nig Rear Stores Co. -Analysis^N. Y.7 <7: ;7-.fr — Manhattan, Plaza, New ,York 15, IT Thursday, Februsry 22 % ■ » CITY 7, N. Y. STATE. [ Volume Number 195 6136 . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . . $11.49 • and Dividends Chrysler Revs Up in 1952 and the forward look at on Chrysler, stimulated by new manage¬ industry better of corporate motor the enterprise than industry. 1900, Since over biles and sensitized and recall 'the nostalgic the departed: few a have of its State, Dort, Dorris, Everett, Glidden, Jacksorip Locomobile, Moon, Even thin some bined debit great with years such ones that so units Chrysler The Not the from 1957, dreary So, in motors we've grown ac¬ that gave the crown for shares in one in motor, 1925, share. the has ' Chrysler above line — year. 20% seems Chrysler, Recovery to valid long- a ter From 1957, Chrysler has been struggling. In 1958, it lost $3.88 a share, in 1959, 62 cents. A modest recovery (to net earnings of $3.61) was made in 1960, but 1961 dipped again to a meek $1.23 per share. This last figure, how¬ ever, was better than it looked, as is It contention our Corp. Chrysler now hitting Other Chrysler for such an ?• a ; 1961, there was United the same of the ficer. He of M. .-v mains Chairman Coal, which not of 'r y* ; Carbide as-: Bank. He and re¬ . analyst .. of New a •;; was security analyst , associated with Babson's and a and manager of the York Stock Exchange contributed to their Reports as a investment the the fortunes. : cars in Merrill, Turberr Name Officers : CLEVELAND, Ohio — Merrill, Turben & Co., Inc., Union Com¬ merce Building, members of the New and York Walter M. Brauer ST. Exchanges, have elected Lewis C. Clark, Vice-Presidents Mr. liams have Melody also Executive the been insurance All Committee. in cently, have been with the firm for many the securities businesses. he Sandson as Mr. Melody a^( manager department, manager partment manager of Stock Clark of the municipal Gawne as Mr. the trading a (Special to The Financial Chronicle) that, he LOS in the St. Louis general ment. agent area, and staff of E. 623 South been added to the Hutton & Company, Spring Street. This ; announcement is neither & Company. an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus. • February 21, 1962 . American 1 ' ■ ; Building Maintenance Industries Capital Stock (Without Par Value) Price $16 per Share Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained in any State from only such of the undersigned and the other several under' writers as may lawfully offer the securities in such State. Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Sutro & Co. Incorporated Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Stockholder's Boettcher and Company stockholder's view¬ year, A. G. Edwards & Sons Loewi & Co. Shearson, Hammill & Co. J. C. Bradford & Co. 1957,-; but the second best 1955, When the stock earned Johnston, Lemon & Co. Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood Incorporated Stern, Frank, Meyer & Fox Prescott & Co. Actually-, Dittmar & He was formerly w^th Shearson, Hammill a Concordia for ANGELES, Calif.—James B, D. Barrett has was general agent for the Lutheran pany Dorothy Account E. F. Hutton Adds re¬ with Brotherhood Life Insurance Com¬ depart¬ — an announced. Sons, New York Exchange member firm in St. Louis. Previous to de¬ and of Mr. Pa. named Co., Inc., Parking Plaza, Verne C. Sowash, Resident Vice-President, A. G. Edwards & sales was and Most associated was Company Executive for Lenchner, Covato & Mr. Brauer has had considerable experience Insurance GREENSBURG, Kansas and Southern Il¬ linois for Hugh W. Long and Company. to named — been souri, the of Life Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. With Lenchner, Covato Walter M. appointed a representative in Mis¬ has regional Mr. Wil¬ and LOUIS, Mo. Brauer Executive Vice-Presi¬ dent, and Thomas A. Melody, Harry J. Gawne and William H. Williams, firm. in Long Company Repr. Stock Midwest Mutual App'd the but operates its ten year low, 37 %,• !was reached in Janu¬ ary of this year, while the high, IOIV2, was reached, not in the best year, senior counsel publications. only has nation¬ assembly and provided plenty of market ac¬ tion, and. has responded quite sensitively to changes in corporate inciden¬ ; was stock Society for motor point, Chrysler common (Stock Exchange symbol "C") has always of Consolidation company, Assurance department , Mr. Griffin securities which .'.."'.v; From distinguished record prior successes as Chairman of A. Hanna Co., and of Con¬ Pullman, Union Mellon National member firm. Life common .'•••• Viewpoint a solidation Coal Co., and a member of the Board of General Electric, Equitable research 151,000 Shares Sept. 21, and, at new supervised Tamlyn, prior to joining National, the domestic • extensive builder missiles with States, From time, became Chairman brought to his with he ..n Africa. Board and chief, policy of¬ signment - . where Company stock. both manufacturing and assembly plants in Canada and Australia; and assembly plants in England, Holland, Venezuela and South level, and poor esprit de corps throughout the organization. Then came the big change. Mr. George H. Love, one of the most distinguished busi¬ ness executives in America, went on to ; , Products an facilities distribution management the Board the Chrysler wide great stockholder disquietude, un¬ satisfactory performance at the on of ings ficient manufactories in the busi¬ early he assignment prove Love's it has been identified. expenditures* and Chrysler today has probably one of the most ef¬ In leadership new unlikely lost. labor Mr. military tanks and trucks, and has played a major part in the space program, achieving a high percentage of successful launch- In the past ten years, ;about $100 share has been spent on capital ness. seems his to previously with State Mutual Life Insur¬ was Massachusetts investments.- Chrysler to fail. managerial brings of Co. ance certain Mr. Love to come : Mr. Greenwood has, Chrysler is ^ . not it is are Manager of the Portfolio Review Division, analysts George S. Tamlyn and Daniel J. as securities Griffin. in of ask, is the basis opinion? Consider the , Similarly, E. R. Greenwood accessories. may following. went coached engines, powdered metal products. Cycleweld cements and building panels, and, of course, a complete line of motor parts and and may be in a position to display, during the next two years, a dramatic im¬ provement in its earning power. you he senior and to Columbia to fail." come team Geo. S. Tamlyn Jr. $560 million National Securities Series of mutual funds Elisha R. Greenwood 1934 to the Rose Bowl and won.) (The marine that turned the corner, What, the stantially restyled.';; definitely has did not plans already call for the market early (late August or early September, 1962) with, a 1963 line of models, sub¬ all earned in the last was and manages Company however other strings to its bow' besides motor quarter, and represented the sur-v cars. It makes Airtemp air con¬ mounting of a deficit of $20.5 mil¬ ditioning, refrigerating and heat¬ lion for the first nine months of ing equipment;, industrial and the year." since it sponsors investment, one-quar¬ an the Simca of Daniel J. Griffin Lou Little, the talented coach, came to down¬ trodden Columbia in the 1930's, he made a prophetic remark: "I the holds which company an¬ 61. football years, target, but for the next two sales in the 12% zonri; ac¬ companied; by higher operating efficiency, should substantially expand~net profits. Chrysler also distributes Simca (French) cars and trucks in North America, and Struggle Joining the investment about been 120 Broadway, ago. range equip¬ have by National Securities & Research Corp., New York City. now may at common When years, 1 The . V, ler's -peak for, and history of, cor¬ porate greatness. It now seems on the verge of attaining it once again. ' industry sales in 1961, as against 25% of. domestic sales in Chrys¬ ment • (preceeded by $250 million General Motors, how¬ The - Chrysler million. Further, $34 Dodge, Plymouth and the compact Valiant—accounted for \V-k% of be, we conclusions appointrnents to its investment staff new nounced of cor¬ created debt). shares. showed it and 40% a 1958 among magnificent earner it when, in 1957, its net sales soared to $3.6 billion, creat¬ ing a net income of $13.75 per a could in increase must spread its net earnings 282,978,000 outstanding shares and Ford, among 54,998,000 company, . what Equally, decline of 500% ever, arid the next year to another. In this kaleidoscope of varying fortunes, Chrysler, third largest producer, has assayed rather high in vola¬ tility. It scored many "firsts" over the years, leading off with Pits introduction of the high speed to a along these lines, Chrysler has outstanding 8,976,000 common competi¬ high style, performance,' engineer¬ ing advance or salesmanship, one year in earnings. deficit a iri Chrys¬ 1956 and National Adds Three to Inv. Staff Three 33% increase in sales vol¬ a resulted ume 1959. volume race years The Factor enough appreciated is leverage example, in For in tive production. in powerful ler. the Rambler. race—a begin now can Leverage well a dividend. from $6 low of $1 9 First, Chrysler has apparently emerged from its nadir. Second, a newlyenergized" direction, topside, has substantially improved company morale all along the line. Third, the stock may very well record a 200%. gain in net earningsfor 1962, which improvement'should find significant reflection in the market price of .the common. Fourth, Chrysler, like most major industrials,. is entitled to sell in today's market, at a much higher multiple of earnings than five did American Motors' stardom waited customed to the point, at around 800,000 annum per till the appearance of • break-even to make money com¬ 1958 and as under way. seems lower much a and Chrys¬ years, ler, which emerged in 1925 the ashes of Maxwell, has now A reduction in costs has created five, there have been plenty of ;ups and downs. General Motors was no blue chip in 1920, Ford ^had years, been re¬ engineering excel¬ for for r dealers these among of Two lence, has not done as outstand¬ ing a job in dealer distribution. More aggressive training .and more extensive financing of 1900, over 800 different ..motor companies were hopefully formed—the "growth" stocks of their era! Today, there are but five surviving corporations, with three of them turning out most cars. men styling and to beef up organization. Chrysler has, nowned Since the dealer which ,Mercer, Metz, Overland, Premier, Pierce Arrow, Reo, Stutz, Velie, etc. Where are they all' today? of associates, Ford, brought in to animate been Chrysler Bay Apperson, as competence and ability. executives "formerly, -with memory of names attract, certain Chrysler tally, now owns about 1% of the stock in Chrysler Corp. Mr. ■ Love is the kind of top executive to inspire confidence has vicissitudes the different makes of automo¬ have come and ; gone. A 2,000 can America in illustrated 1953, to volatility, draw ment, improved efficiency, and revitalized corporate morale. No $4 a ranged From this capsuled saga porate Comment paid have share in 1961. per By Dr. Ira U. Cobleigh, Enterprise Economist (929) Company, Inc. 10 The Commercial and. Financial Chronicle (930) Thursday, February 22, 1962 .. ment in the United States is many times higher than in Britain, .even How We Are • allowing tor the difference-in the ' size' of tne working population. , To the Decline of the the. existence cf between 'five and six million unemployed should affect their bargaining po¬ OWEN ELY sition. NPr is there in the in the / By Paul Einzig States United political a party Central & South West Corporation witli the British Labor Party that would support the excessive wage demands .of -trade Y comparable excessive labor de¬ mands add up to a dismal future for the West vis-a-vis the Communist bloc. Dr. Einzig scores the squandering of foreign aid to undeserving uncommitted nations and urges, instead, the Western countries to concentrate on their own economic growth before they are outpaced foreign aid for tha wrong reasons and Years of BY Surely in unions And, • bloc's industrial expansion. In rebuking labor for fostering non-stop inflation, Dr. Einzig expresses his puzzlement as to why American labor should be as avid in their demands as British labor. The Government, employers, and the public, too, are repri¬ manded for taking the line of least resistance of either "paying the price" or of "foregoing expansion." * as antv\erc Central ^ South West, one of the increasing, in the past decade by political sphere, ten important holding companies 125%; the average annual rate of as/! can. see "fropi tu - the electric utility business, increase has exceeded 9% com- the far Atl6n+1> --Hia OnirirrmnlST. • • Vin>. : x ' j 41-- i- 1---jl by the Communist v:'.- ... England ■ r—:.: Notwiththeir grave balance of LONDON standing difficulties, the United Britain continue" to pour year after year billions of oollars into economic aid to uncommitted unfriendly nations. payments and States and with some measure of disinability and un- trust lies in the of a two the call willingness ments to absurd tional govern- to this of their na- halt squandering resources. to any The conventional answer - living of underdeveloped 'can be raised they will ; . the United Secretary of Treasury in the Truman Administration on the occasion of visit, London .irm. and even reverse .this Unless the - U n i t e d States and Britain emerge from their relative stagnation it will be impossible to Keep pace with -the. industrial expansion of the Communist bloc. > to check progress. he remarked: i i _x Our Slowed Expansion Kate ■ Eeprima^^urse of Least . dustry during the past two or three years, were ; contributing "tectorsi 'Unfavorable weather has also been a factor. During the e£pecially hot summers of 1954 and 1956, revenues for those years in1 creased 10.6% and 12.3%, respeclivelyp but "in ■ the past- four years the' lower rate of growth in reve- Inl^ffrst f;- The slowing down of expansion • • -. . -i !<-w Pennsylvania. The-companyis mne months of 1961 the company and Britain T^® tr°nble is .Jh^t ni ./ both not dependent on rural areas but added only 5600 new Residential is almost entirely due to the in- ^Britain Ohd .the United: Statesth® derives its business principallyeustomers, as contrasted' to 8800 ability-of these two countries to employei^^ana the from the^ rapidly-growing cities *n thek?me period of 1960—a figinc uqe their organized labor to public /prefer to take .tnev line ot an(j towns -scattered throughout ure which reflects the recession ai.opt the sensible attitude. A least- resistance. Bince m exist-gervice area; about half of the andthereadjustments of the oil Swiss journalist friend of mine i« population is. within city limits or industry, +u in the United States • + u _ ; . States his Britis^h serve electricity to a population workers. Finally, in spite .of heavy of about 2,700,000 in Oklahoma, gold losses suffered ,in- recent Arkansas,-\Louisiana and Texas, -years the United States would be, About 57%, of revenues are obin case of a Showdown, in an tained in Texas, 30% in. Oklaincomparable better position than homa/9% in Louisiana and 4% in Britain "to face the effects of •; a Arkansas. : prolonged major strike .on .the •* Jn .Vail, the area served covers balance of payments. ~ : about 150,000 square' miles Which < . turn Communists. When in 1947 I discussed this argument with Mr. Snyder, nearly as workers r as^ among, stam the unless that is centyears. The'recessions of 1958 equalitarianism Oklahoma, Southwestern Electric and 1960, coupled with the unstrong among Airieri- power and -West Texas Utilities, favorable situation in the oil in- tim en ta 1.. senseless this of criticism British; trade unions^ Nor Vis power & Light, Public Serviceof canr, , thT°doufr\ IS even upon in s en x__ replied "We all fnfong- those who that two, and two make -the Jme of . least This is precisely what is; pay'ng that price Switzerland. want.;to . take t6 He resjstance by and tnose wno it) in the past 20 while"about 35%, a bigger reserve than years, despite the fact that construction budgets had been cut ignored by American and British want to take^the line of jeastye-pphhe tfie area is largelv aari- hack *neach of..-the previous four trade unionists. If it is too much sistance by • foregoing-expan^om^^ervibntatns %ide'years- -However, with only an to expect them to be familiar with Those "r favor of taking a firm q "n »g»v 80.000 kw unit planned for 1962, elementary economics (Spart from.}me\with trade; un»ns;»n.;«,rder. a 175,000 kilowatt, unit to be »«. tn hriii? them to -their senses, "and sp»» S»U1P."U1* vUdij syp&um, lofiQ oo+ii-no+^/iknow . four." x*. —i i - ay numbef 'otherY cities; of have ' necessary — than doubled. more r Estimated _ per .'seems to convince"statesmen who 'ought • t*> know better. The Italian experience ought to have opened their eyes to the futility of trying to resist Communism by raising the standard of living. For the first time since the 16tli Century arithmetic:"If they did "they would the only Ihto if the* know that the"sum- total of their-fjiise: their standard of.Iivipg, 'aWt0ld year load should the next two ;I"!'The fconstruction budgets unable, to influence the at • industrial 23% and miscel-small,*. in 1961 only titude of the governments :and of, ^ mlSCet about $47 million was spent, the There is, of course, an explana- employers in- favor of; resisting • U . .. . : , • . smallest amount in. a decade, and tion, though not an excuse, for the excessive demands for higher pay Revenues frpim oil and gas m-. about $55 f million has been Italy has become really prosper- attitude of British trade unionists.- and shorter hours. •^ ;• dyste^eS; contribute some 40% of budgeted for 1962. With this modous. Notwithstanding, this the An abute scarcity of labor exists- —Unless this attitude can beDespitestrict: erate program, the system has few country is moving rapidly towards in almost every British industry , changed it is impossible to. fore- -ahowabies ana^tne less tavorable. financial_ needs to. worry about, the Left. The same is true about and this, together with the powersee anything but. stagnation. * HV?the. 01Lin®ustryj.n : The, equity ratio, of nearly .38% is Japan. Let the uncommitted na- ful political support of the Labor Minor recoveries would inevitably years, revenues^.trpm^ this considered to be. on the high side tions stew in their own juice and Party, maikes their bargaining be followed by recessions.-Above« to. increase. and hence there appears no need let the Western countries con- position .extremely strong, The all no amount of juggling with great.:many_ of equity financing until 1964 or centrate all their efforts on rais- more moderate among trade union international reserves would pro-, JvipihiUpi ilow weiiSj snhiprt tn',1965. ; ,Bank, loans are expected to .wnicmape tnp ar»H rinf to. which sistance stagna-. are means tion. ' < r . : . . . .. • . .TL.r j x; ^ : . .1 j. _ _ j , .1 numn jjik J, ing their own productive capacity of sacrificing their prog- leaders pressed needs this instead adopting extreme af+ some stability for the sake of undeserving beneficiaries. influence ress and Continental 'western Eu rope had in recent years a more satis- factory record of expansion than either the United States or Britain. Italy the Leftward But and m growing the internal France threaten in disturbances swing are of but small the well-organized what has.always puzzled, me is why the position to ofAmerican squander part any economic assistance to trade unions is, if anything, even and stronger. countries. After all, ^^s.' y^^C^ Both coUntries will then^ need' all the reserves they Iraye; f6r withstanding such attacks Pn their currencies. ; "They pan ilj^ affOrd and militant Communist and Trotskyite minorities within the movement. ;,, ; ' ^ unemploy- ungrateful of " it ^^^' .. the oil on ^ v - the -Pontrihiitionjs and'gas ^ of, now been di- net original cost for rate-making t'ted"M a^esuit ot new Indus-: purposes. The company now has Jries c.oming lpto the apea, includr fuel adjustment clause's appli^ niills, petrOchemichl cable to all customers which- helps Tf.'}plants, cotton gins, (Q maihtaih.profit margins, Retura piliSj zip0 smelteps and' fhili- Gn< solicitation of an offer to buy these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus. '.f, ' y': i lYi.- -■ MidrContinent j 1 ■■L 40,000 Shares vl950^60-'some «' and Sinclair, 2G0 'hew- In j „ "Y':- ■ Dumbs 4,OCO. may were connected - +1^^i? ^ .Jf^^ ^ an^: " Y ' be obtained • , " ^ " '' , : * (\ I 1 IZ i* ** current rate ^rnft A Jar . {- V .bomes, .. W: 1 r.^ th^ next few years. The dividend on ihe: lines, each consuming some ispeciat to the financial chronicle) 25,000, kwh er more per annum; BEVERLY. HILLS, Calif. —- Har- ■■4 MOORE & CO. -«.} ^hofrrJ Resistance heating devices "bronze, '* 1961 about 30 times f i ~ thhstock yields 2 4% and sells at compared -with only f 15,900 • kw three s years agoY At the end 0f earnings. . «v.; 1961.there were about 1,800 <?gold. / medallion" or all-electric hohies; -Warvey, KObertS Upens " . in aire also becoming popular and the load now approximates 70,000 kw. Price: $7.50 Per Share Irom the undersigned. T ~ nf : (Par Value $1 Per Share) ' , a 1 West's-^bsidi-; space heating. It is estimated that sonie 1,200 central unit heat ^ n. - ^ f^ plants; nf aries have been actively. promoting tesidentiai water-heatihg r;M Michigan Corporation) ": Copies of the Prospectus . ? 1 A''Common-Stock ;averaged nn^nr1t, ^l^inds^were ;put^;ia .operation^' another^20hte^isting--=plahts >' ; CentraL&-South . v 5 carried putrexpansion -prbgrams.^■' Berry Door Corporation property: has in recent years. ?^ cn?if t New Issue 1 net installations. Several ; big e.5% petrochemical" plants ; located in ! c, the company's - area ; during the 1950s--Celanese, ' DuPont, Union. 9 Carbide, Texas Eastman, Sunray tary nor a reg^ industry, formerly1 predominant, have unfriendly uncommi ^ However ruc -company's • sition; appears^ sound:: Rates ;ih ^ JwSen Aece^ry' ar-e.' U. medallion" vey Roberts & Co., Inc. has been Each pf 'the four subsidi-^formed with offices at 315.South ;adqpted specialpromo- Beverly J5riye, to .engage in ,a aries has tionM;; electric, be aitJhg.,-.rates, securities i which rapge YPeh .kwh. between; lc: and 1.5jc business.. Officers are Robert ,M. Kolo.dkin,;, President; „ ..i Harvey Deutschman, Vice-PresiCenthal & South West has en- dent and Secretary, and Robert J oyed rapid; growth^ with revenues; Friedman^ Treasurer. * >; • -; .... ^ . i-A .t *■ • r iJU, V* .'i n•/■-n-r*y - SsaaEfflSSISiSES hw 1 Number .6136 .". .The Commercial and Volume 195 i/N J'j'i .1 "* ;;M Financial Chronicle 11 (931) 1" ' - ' , , ' y ■' : • « % r ; ' , ii government, de- nomic stabilization and growth, with (2) Federal direct lending, and governments of other countries in credit guarantee programs, and "v ah attempt "to prevent disruptive '"(SI the structure and regulation currency movements." ^ In other, of. private financing, institutions he goes on to scribe the periodic meetings The "Antibusincss V-P . Of Blair & Co. ' ■ ^ords, if the fiscal, and monetary these ■ f >*: By M<- Ri Lefkoe, Lt>s- Angeles, Galif, v " - Blair Sc Co. ' policies of the United States Gov- three points evidence 'in itself is to sufficient Street, New York City, members that prove' Incorporated, 20 Broad of the'New York Stock Exchange, protestations to the, contrary nothas announced the election of Norhave: good reason to suspect a withstanding, Mr. Kennedy is ,«■' bert A. Mc^ severe inflationary period ahead, "antibusiness" in the literal sense < Kenna as vice our government will have to act of the word. : * • " / :: president. Mr. -Tin: such a'way as to prevent action There- remain but two possible McKenna re¬ : being, taken by these individuals conclusions, viz;, either Mr. Keneriiment are such that individuals , Writer concludes President Kennedy is nomer as "antibusiness in the: literal ; . . . (1) the word "free" is a complete mis¬ sense of the word." He finds: . employed several times in the phrase "our free economy'! - Report to Congress! (2) his economic proposals and - (3) the lecon6mlc' knowledge ^ ^ displayed is far from adequate, ^ ' -v w: I in the Economic :<uv done his best in recent; mOnthsTo ';||V^ry;qh^ as- they had. 0P^a.^eSi fellow members of. the /OTganiza- - " his Development in setting Acommori recent Economic for target Re¬ ; port to Congr essvwill economic .growth ^To-^ pledged we Ourselves gether P? to charges in the national- and international 1* ;®k°r .5Jur mj60J[' conclusion. IK. poiieits aimed at increasing ihe .tadUstries jvjll accept the produc , combined - output of the Atlantic, f betchmark as a guide to . I Community by 50% between 1960. wage oh]ectives; and if. manage- LeWlS and 1970." [Italics minel Who is. ment .will practme equivalent re- weeks to | the adopt oba b "1 y pr spur f li t the r o financ . ,:. , . . ; • , tal his activity in that 'post, Co. In ; come; that the Pres¬ ident tile ness, hos¬ is r Kenna's responsibilities with Blair J will be primarily in the development of retail sales, and sales personnel. • • During World War II, he was Chief of the Pulp, Printing and Publishing Branches of' the War Production Board and Chief of his critics J 1T ^^™^ WOOQ, Walker be a brimanx 7 ; "not in the public interest" and .mate the-money available-for the subject to anti-trust prosecution^ machines which make an increase The "we" mentioned by Mr. Ken- 111 -prodiietivity possible, are for- M. R. Lefkoe not accus¬ are the , ing him of at¬ Co. & . The New York Stock Exchange rations? No, such action pn theirmember firm of John H. Lewis & part would have beep considered IIta1 l^(£^+£2'' Co. will be dissolved effective Feb- t: busi¬ to to.' in -we"' referred above quotation? Groups ,of im TGa.r®. aneaa will ;' dividual oi^epreneuxs or corpo^^^^^:^ claiming from a of - - lxr he partner Reynolds' & 1943 -to 1958. -Mr. Mcwas Norb^rt A. McKenna . ; Financial GoTp. Prior to - . V. a s Intercontinen¬ •' . TO :J 0111 ' e President of ■ serve as a t activity in .international or 'P^-hUps, us'iR- really, the attempt to gain ever, if1; J ? science of eco- increasing * control over the econasfr^e irl ie :? omy. To state that the latter seems Tn6most jBlOQueiit testi-r -the' mosti likely possibility is the to this is hts statement that most polite way of stating our ■■ an4 tion of Economic Cooperation tpr Wall after ; three years of. ii. mistakenly, : postwar antibusiness" label which has been pinned upon him and his Aclministr ation, v;v ;; .-'V '| Street he, has, and con¬ production as fast tinues : to. use. it in -conjunction during the ^early^ ?periodj Questions President's Economic with his interventionalist policies he states that InNovember of s.:. .V.'""Qwieag^-v^.^. ■ vi:v,in the hope of disguising what is - last year, we joined with Cui 19. Although) President Kennedy has counteract the | turns 'to self »defense^ Thfe, according; to nedy has never consulted the .die-' Mr. Kennedy, is how an "un- tionary "to learn 'the -meahing of counter to a "free" economy \ n run ruary 28.y It is understood that Mr, Production of. Motor LeWjs wjp become associated with the •^0O(j> Walker & Co., 63 Wall St., of the Army Before the war, tempting a Transport for United States. Mr. McKenna was partner of Eastrrfan, Dillon & Co. business from 1936 until h^e resigned from ~a^a if • »»*** that partnership to enter the war individual company sets its own serviceeffort. ■;.' ' : *'; policies in accordance with mar*;fo Mr. ' Wisner H. Townsend, partner McKenna, except for his ket conditions,-or is-it'an-example- wage, hikes order to -earni^ charge of John H. Lewis & engagement in the war effort and viz., a free economy. If the Presi- of government intervention in Purchase ?°'s provi<Jence, Rottice Will' international finahce, has been-in dent were to point out that -he which; the government decides become /associated w 11 h ; C. B: the New York Stock Exchange and ing .that his.policies will ultimately destroy the framework which all businesses; require fit order to function, prosper, and survive —j-—~ rv%Q« ■■ ■■ *1™ ^to^ phrase,, "our free econ- how much will be produced. and. SI omy,":.several, times during hi Report, his critics will then have demand? . ' - : " 1 mi " an Example of the freedom to hct L not the p..?. i!?.1; - us: „.iNolies ««ntrnaiction -:r :: In accordance With otm's ownmtbLi ,v-„ President knows what or Richards; & Co. the used crf^s w!!1 ^-er? l!?ve the words T,- mean. ■ In . 1-^ Dictionary. Disiiftrces WiJt the discussing o-r,qpof l/>.• • *. 7 he J^ail^eatlC Citizen Advisory ^^roVhraVcord^ AppOlIltS TWO will, biUion $11 increase' in revenues which, -fh ^vprnmpnt suctions'"? During the postwar period, waS;,idtiVe,as a member of the 1930. e an . investment banking business since Committee to the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency under Senator Homer. E. • be obtained through taxation dur,• ^. , + ; " } New York Hanseatic Corporation, Capehart in the operations of the ing the next fiscal year, the Presi- " * Perhaps .the most blatant ex-t 12p Broadway, New York City, dent ; claims that he ' expects a ample - of AvG r^Sidents antir ^as :,announced that Henry < J. Export-Import Bank of Washing¬ of being -"free" as: "charaetei'ized surplus; of about $500 million.' This; ousiness; attitude can be found in Ki^per. a: Vice-President,, has ton and the International Bank for by political liberty; having liberty surplus; 'according; tP-iMr/KKen^ -hls supP?rV of the Keport pi,^tne:p^en^ appointed' manager of- the Recoristruvtioh. and pevelopment. Presidents Usage . \ The dictionary defines the state , ' follow to one's alsor lists such own clmice."; Itf hedy, is "a, forrn pf saving," How synony rn s us: "nrir- does he reconcile an' Increased tax ffe - . Money and Credit.; ^^^{ Municipal imPortant. ^psnes ^ nrieht; - and that Bond ' Depart^ Clarence W: bas jbiried the corporation the Corporate Bond Depart^ cheeked, i unhihdet ed, Uidrnpe"ded, burdeh lipoii jhdivlduais and sav^- -of; public policy covered unobstructed, unrestraitved''^each ^ings enforced by the goyernment^fn a concept referring tb the ftbsctice'with the right'of .each* individual-' ^erldf ;thaf' ^J^sress: givej of coercion. If the objective mean- to decide how much he will spend careful consideration, ,copsid-;.v v.r: system nomic where vidual has the own is:u" ^andn;uc^lie wisaj^?S^ each indiTnva" ffpp woiPrriv ooninanifQ legislative.ana oxecuyye aciioiis. ■ right to "niake-^ his- independent economic choices wF,6tr^£, t^ci"0^ .. . . - ^ * ciated with Peter Morgan & requests action on are - (among B, Barton h^s become associated is others): "(l) the objectives and with California Investors, 2601 F they think are in greatest demand begins his Report by taking credit for a number of laws which were passed by Congress last year and which gave the government greater power over, the economy in whiCh 1'thoie - product^ produce ,v Wlth^CaMLInvestors:- ) G. Lathrop Vermilye, formerly of :Vermilye Bros.; has become asso¬ The three issues that Mr: Kennedy BAlCERSPlELD, Cahf. George ^ by consumers, as it they will export their products to those countries which can afford and which are interested in pur- York ' Manhattan City. ' I ■" ; chasing their products. Businessmen would need no government incentives to export their goods This announcement is neither an Shares. The offer to'sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy-any of these offer is made only by the Prospectus. , his recommendation mum the Wage Act minimum plcyers arid> . must was. which wage the Mini- thbri anxious to find new.markets, increased whether in this country or abroad, which 210,000 Shares* em- However, in the "free economy" their workers, {pictured by .Mr. Kennedy, busithe numbers of, nessmen have ..to- be "encouraged. pay extended workers covered under the pfevi- He states, '^o. encourage AmeriIgnoring the economic, can businessmen to become more fallacy involved, is this a law export minded,, we have inauguwhich Mr. Kennedy would expect rated a new export insurance proto find in an "unhindered and gram under the leadership of the unobstructed" economy? Export-Import Bank, and have i bus . February 21, 1962 . If Standard Industries, Inc. . , law. t .. .| - |:'T 'A'. . ;| ' | V ''' < v . •'! ' . • . COMMON STOCK (Par Value 75tf per Share) V . stepped up our export promotion to influence the passage of this drive by improving the comraerand other bills, he indicated that cial services, abroad of the U. S. he issued several executive orders Government. ," Thus* money which didn't require specific ap- provided by all the taxpayers will proval. Among these edicts were be used. to. insure. the exports of an acceleration of Federal pur- a few companies and, in addition, chases and procurement, highway niore tax money will be spent by fund distributions, and expansion the government to "promote" the of the food distribution program, acceptance of American products Not only was the President able . . . and an- increase - in farm price supports. All of these executive orders involved govern m e n t spending of money taken from individual - by foreign countries. At times the Price . *183,000 Shares is re- these edicts in keeping, with society "characterized by politic were liberty"? After ducers being offered by the Company and 27,000 Sharet a selling stockholder being offered by Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained from the undersigned. growing government. Intervention citizens . cal Share ; freshingly direct in describing the through taxa- pursued, under his ,direction. In tion, while the latter also con- Discussing short - term. capital tributed to increased food .prices, movements, he states, that "for,the Would Mr. Kennedy claim that first tirhe' id a a per 7 ; President are are $6.50 ., , oAllen r generation\the Treasury is helping to stabilize the dollar by operations in the inter- .national exchange market." And, chiding, the country's pro- not content with havipg American for not increasing their businesses regulated by their own , r ' J j - ; • , I V- & Company : • Plaza, . - attempt "to .restore momenturn to the American Economy," as they would bb governed by the Among the many bills passed on profit motive.and would be more an Chase 1 1"C-£s.7'„sSS He ; - Woiild v.; - v;; ■ Vermilye With Peter Morgan Co. • Co., New • - 12 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (932) . ' t ' . . . Thursday, February 22, 1962 * ally and externally r—,far. out,.of Congress to give him discretion¬ proportion to what several West ary powers to encourage—through European governments tax their YGATT and world trade agenciesown "export happy" companies. specific trade and tariff agree¬ (The Netherlands, for example, ments with the Common Market with 26%—against our own 4%—. and other less developed, markets. , Sizing Up the Export Problem and Its Solution her of By Per Hoel, Professor of International Commerce The American Institute levies for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Arizona deijived but, to para¬ phrase Mark Twain, no one knows what to do about it. Professor Hoel sizes up the current disagreement as to what is causing the problem, offers his assessment of it, and then prescribes what should be done to improve our export position. He favors pre-determined specific tariff-trade agreements, a preferential tax and depreciation policy to stimulate sales, and extension of a subsidy during the tradefreeing period to provide the inefficient firms with an opportunity to produce competitively saleable products. As a long run policy, how¬ ever, he opposes artificial barriers to maintain an indefensible pro¬ tection situation, and hopes that our firms will have sense to con¬ centrate on goods containing a minimal amount of labor. of the land come voices clamoring variously: "We must increase our exports— corner we've got or of 4% "only competitive; be to labor what's matter 9 6 % ?"; balance trade is reduce recognized might grumblers of voices: "How can we exports and exporters?" the number increase our of our The chant of the chorus all but as the U. S. manufacturer, much disturbed by the seeming dilemma embodied inexplicably agreed to the estab¬ lishment of the Western Hemi¬ sphere Corporation, a capitulation that produced a 14% corporate in¬ come reduction. Then, suddenly, industry saw a limited incentive to expand arid to export, and, in the Western Hemisphere, it did Y"''.''' / ' Y"last 15 years, the Gov¬ For the ernment always its own most inept apologist—has benevolently conferred all and voices as are the dis¬ raising the hue and cry. But he is almost as powerless as his tormenters to solve a problem now so acute that it recently moved the President of the United States to deposit it the criticism articulate their impracticable tariff of: (1) restric¬ tion; (2) the unreasonable export income tax levies; and (3) the ab¬ sence of liberal depreciation al¬ lowances (especially today when desperately needed). so Tax and Cost Structure Found , Comijnerce) for years. He that the aware remaining 4 %—composed of the industrial giants and several hun¬ dred smaller companies — have had a "corner" on the productive capacity for the foreign markets and, therefore, on the markets themselves since Faulty reactionaries Lobby-pressured in the Government go stolidly on taxing U. S. corporations—intern¬ U. on industries S. a succession of programs that to it has deceptive¬ "subsidies" (amounting called ly no more of than the redistribution tax are World War II. the close of monies). These, of course, modern government's tools for in centage, for (This limitedYperis responsible itself, about 50% of all U. S. Y',J:Y; facturing.) ;YY Y■ Small wonder effort export Y;' that has been years S. industries the to if immediate U. S. confined to 4% look we of back postwar period when the Marshall Plan and other U. S. in motion. subsidy programs set were Then, the only indus¬ tries instantly capable of answer¬ ing the demands of the shattered "pump-priming", and they betray foreign economies the sub-conscious defensiveness of who has were the titans been fulfilling govern¬ the Government. They- Unques¬ ment Qontacls with war materiel. tionably assist a beleaguered ;With size and capital, technical Cconomy or industry, but at the khow-how'arid productive capac¬ same time, they offer no healthy, ity, and producers' goods already the prob¬ Worse, they tend to embar¬ the recipient manufacturer hand (for example, heavy ma¬ perdurable solution to on lem. chinery), they had a natural ad¬ vantage over 96% of their busi¬ rass by branding him Too as inferior. industries like cadavers great an that, left without artificial support, would properly have collapsed from the dead weight of their spent productiveness. U. S. industry needs a stimulus foreign markets and to produce goods for them. The President is right when he urges that the present protectionist to explore tariffs be cut across "subsidy" concept had swiftly met, and the giants some at Irish wake—weak industries no of the needs American ofterij this governmental to be permissiveriess has propped has kin. The ness the board. He alternative than to ask the smaller ready and manufacturers a duty and a profit sense—to move in the front were bound door. :y, Y'with Even for in — our ments current balance favorable a YY' ' able balance country It of trade for the is not surprising that these companies, in the normal course of greater expansion, be¬ gan to utilize their vast capacities same the production and export of lighter, non-essential items in competition with other, purely domestic producers; to cite one, for This announcement is neither an offer The to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy offer is made only by the Prospectus. These securities are offered as a any of these securities. razor speculation NEW ISSUE February 23, 1962 blades. The front doors to Europe and Asia were open; the freight was ready; the exporters dispatched their vans to the wharves. We must acknowledge, too, that the bill for exporting to bankrupt economies abroad was paid by 90,000 Shares* ; ; ■ v Inpak Systems, :..lY" Y.Y - Y / ... >-Y■ :, ; Ing.y '.YY:YY.-. YY,;V. Common Stock (Par Value 1^ per share) Price $4.25 per *As set Share forth in the Prospectus, the Underwriters have reserved up to 18,000 shares for sale, at the public offering price, to employees, officers and associates of the company, and to others who have indicated an interest in the Company's affairs. The number of shares available to the general public will be reduced to the extent that shares are so purchased. Copies of the Prospectus may including the undersigned, Stearns & Co. as be obtained from only such of the underwriters, may lawfully offer these securities'in this State. Joseph Nadler & Co., Inc, States United the Without tariffs — and competition, did — remain Thoise climates were ab¬ Today they cannot pre¬ vail, for the climate is now equable for genuine foreign trade. No longer can the U. S. dictate to industrially renascent nations what items they should buy from high. normal. They are in a sound position to order and pay for exactly what us. they need and want. Motivating The 96% to Export Right now is the time when the ingenuity, productive genius, and marketing-research acumen of the U. S. industries in the "96%" bracket can exert themselves experienced who would be its The other have foreign crawled debris of industrialists from beneath the dusted themselves off, and hastened to the nearest agency doling out American aid. Armed war, wth cash, credit, and de¬ termination, time in they have lost no buying the American- . produced new equipment neces¬ sary for building plants. With a studied haste and a resourceful¬ reminiscent of American in¬ dustry's mettle earlier in the cen¬ tury, these manufacturers have begun to produce goods of quality in quantity. Today their native genius has brought forth, in some instances, products better — and certainly cheaper — than several that Americans had always birthright. Here and there, some foreign industries have turned out competing items of better quality with automation we thought were our processes more efficient than ours. is It questionable that most Americans, however deep their in¬ in volvement matters of foreign really awake to the unprecedented transformation of trade, are markets from overseas into a vacuum strong, healthy, and fierce¬ ly competitive consumer's market. a Would Add A Special Incentive In the glare of these uneasy circumstances, it well behooves Government 96% to the United restraining and give takes of fast to loosen the move to export. Not the inhibited them an incentive until the Congress basic actions two can U. S. industry even start to get itself into shape for profitable export¬ ing: (1) The legislators of our waning free enterprise economy must grant more substantial de¬ preciation allowances (even if in the unlikely form of bonuses on manufacturers' equipment used solely for the export effort) (2) They must substantially reduce the tax now imposed on the man¬ ufacturers' income derived from exports—a far cry from the pro¬ posal to increase the tax burden on U. S. international business by taxing profits earned overseas in the year of earning. Overnight Government. foreign could establish¬ the export . bonds the years. across these the Meantime, European, Japanese, and the favor¬ rich export machinery is obsolete; the outlook of the executives, old fogyish. Both are out of practice from 15 years of disuse. '' ' ' V •! : y.'Y- States a local grown neither nor administrators concern pay¬ hungry right today, have executors. of must acknowledge that we these firms did maintain store ronisms ness the during the last 15 U. manu¬ the have here. As a natural consequence, this great body of production geniuses has let its export establishments grow rusty/ Scarcely more than anach¬ had not exported was and know-how cording to the U. S. Department cf in tents markets ments 4% of U. S. Firms Export — Peculiarly, they have been readily identifiable all the time, but no one has been practical enough to search for them, in the proper to tariffs unnerves the Federal Tax collection agency ready-and-willing nations and foreign economies (some contrarily say 'raise' Per Hoelr them)"; or "we've got to I": a precincts of the economy. join the European Common Mar¬ Basically, at least, the muchket—else we'll lose our overseas damned "selfish and provincial" markets"; or "unions will have to big businessman is not the cul¬ become less demanding — if not, pable party. they'll price us out ofthe run¬ It is questionable that many of ning'^; > or "both management and America's potential exporters labor ought to declare a truce— (96%) have been aware of a otherwise, the instability in their "problem". And logically, they sphere is sure to create an infla¬ have not been probing for tionary spiral that's bound to im¬ "causes". But a large segment of pair U. S. competitiveness." those potential exporters have An urgent American problem demonstrated an alert conscious¬ emerges from this' medley of ness of the export problem by who is Justice as the offending instruments. The last tax advantage granted the U. S. exporter was in 1941 when Department of light of day whenever the causes of the problem could be identified. — substantial tax more allowances for1 equipment depre¬ ciation). ...Y turers, he was faced by an audi¬ ence whose majority (96%, ac¬ the well analyze clinically the anatomy of this problem. There is a solution and it has been ready for the im- ilea we've got per the lem, o r exports and , the existence of some sort of prob¬ "our favorable tending potential exporters, such those mentioned above (partial freedom from the income tax on as When President Kennedy de¬ livered his recent address to the National Association of Manufac¬ of days and failed, have • long since motivation for developing overseas markets. Once readyand-willing to export anything anywhere, they found themselves stymied. Sensibly, they pitched their our . lost authority to provide benefits be¬ yond the primary tariff reductions Service and the anti-trust division bewildered. that they have Now with other the Congress . Government its chafing tactics, with the Internal Revenue Nobody — neither politicians, nor economists, nor professors— seems to agree what caused the are the U. S. exporter, the stubbornly pursues hopefully in the laps of both big business and big labor. lem the in, dollars than their "European and" Far Eastern that, of "the. 96%" group, many of whom tried in the early for deliberately to compound inhibitions of the potential the vitally concerned with the prob¬ — amounting to several than must concede to. the President the As if exporting are U. counterparts. problem. It is apparent that even certain governmental departments States profits more West More exporting, on exports.) At the S. industries, from costs times manufacturers United tax shackled by two decades of sub¬ stantial wage hikes, are paying Exports, like the weather, have everyone concerned every income time, same From manufacturers no facturers U. be born. incentive would industries long in an S. of modern, timelabor-saving equipment and plant expansion could lift their production standards to critical need and of broad meet well-entrenched the com¬ petition from up-to-date foreign enterprises. With their known ca¬ pacity for adaptation, U. S. manu¬ facturers would orient themselves a gigantic, progressive concept of exporting. Before long, they could dispatch U. S. salesmen on the road in areas around the world where every nation but the U. S. has had them for more than toward 5 years. And, by and large, those American salesmen would be of¬ fering a greater variety of better- profitably by supplving ordinary goods for competitive sale and for which there exists a normal, selective demand by the average qualified products at competitive prices. Our dilemma would begin consumer. pontificate about the "incalcula¬ ble tax losses to the Government" must come the realization'that no In his speech before the NAM, President failed to point to the one that arresting fact of business life we cannot ignore: The manu¬ to dissolve. To the short-sighted who will tax losses can possibly be caused by what is today a. void. In- the Volume normal 195 Number 6136 of events, the in¬ give impetus to our potential exporters (who will modernize and expand their in¬ stallations) to put U. S. products .course will centive into active circulation around the globe. The final efficacy of the incentive is the inevitable creation of much-craved favorable a bal¬ of payments. ance Into this rationale delicate a point insinuates itself. U. S. busi¬ must ness effort concentrate the on its export manufacture and shipment of goods that contain minimal amount of labor. a It is clear that the U. S. wage-andprice level is disproportionately high in relation to its ability to compete in foreign markets. Die¬ hard economists, manufacturers, and legislators must face up to the fact—rat least for the present — foreign labor is cheap and the prices of goods correspondingly Once they accept this fact of the life of the immediate economic present, they will more easily un¬ derstand why it is impractical for the S. U. to sustain high tariff wall just to protect industries now, for various reasons of their own, unable to enter competition without This a government protection. simply that those U. S. means manufacturers whose products en¬ tail much labor and are endan¬ gered by the pressure of competi¬ tive imports from abroad should . .The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . "free enterprise." If the free entrepreneur—part and parcel of concept that has always repre¬ sented the competitive spirit — is of tors CORNER ignore the impossibility of competing with his product against the lower forr eign standard of living and of wages, he will doom himself. For¬ tunately, he has the recourse of quick-rwittedly confronting the challenge from abroad with in¬ tensive product research and im¬ proved production methods. If he chooses to ignore the recourse, the unhappy entrepreneur — by the so near-sighted to as A: of business. the depreciation same schedules advantages as the strong exporters. A subsidy? Yes, but a natural one. A - If we but can elements are that assume agreed upon all re¬ a duction of our tariffs, we must go accomplishing the diminu¬ about tion with reasoned First, let us multi-lateral ents with bi- and agreemarkets in world they beneficial to are both (or all) parties on specific product groups, In these ex¬ changes, U. S. products will ob¬ viously be those containing min¬ a imum of labor. On the other hand, the imports will tend to be those products with created consider- ably labor. more In the negotiation of agreements, none of may matic trading cating the gesture; They will have no alternative, for they will not the with which to shop in our markets. It is irrefu¬ table logic that our denial to for¬ eign nations of the possibility of selling their products to us will keep out of their pouches the have money pect us ucts could . ex¬ which to buy any of those prod¬ they happen to make more competently or easily (by automation) than we. We should hope to see tariffs on both their products der the and then, as tariff-trade only agreements, within the time A'AW;''-- Such pre-determined tariff-trade agreements markets. In be exclusion market" specific would from the form portunities, new businesses, and an even higher standard of living., V We Americans tend to regard Only the immediate and direct " ef¬ gradual disappear¬ non-competitive manufac¬ in the face of lowered of turing tariff had better look to We barriers. to ourselves educate the benefits. are ; the up with each country other Mr. of ■? with 1 '■ ' • >V ■ ' ' ' V ' ' • ' - ■ 7 • • , ' 1 ' , . • • comes No one can deny the prejudicial impact these accords would make on the not U. S. learned economic industries that have to adapt to changing patterns. Provision would have to be made—as men¬ tioned ary earlier—for their tempor¬ protection until their experts could feel their way into the pro¬ duction of a competitively sale¬ able product. The "subsidy" sug¬ in a foregoing paragraph give them enough security for the transition period. The whole process would not .be pre¬ gested Charles — Edward Dowling will become Vice-Presi¬ 522 Fusz-Schmelzle of dents & Olive Street, members New York Stock other Exchanges. resents the firm Co., of the and Exchange Mr. Meno in Benld, rep¬ 111. Richards & Co. to would ; But then, some bitterness and self-pity will come -as a natural consequence of so unprecedented -r-. andvabrupfrT^^an. action,,The "little guy shoved out into the cold" Our is bound answer to be outraged. lies in-a re-definition Pa. — cf Pittsburgh ;Maf cfi - Stock i J* will Standish firm. the to . . New York Exchanges, and on admit' Peter'IVfe'C. partnership in in the ** n nwu _ 'T 1 TVinvo J- IIUI O Aj , 5? ai? + ~ T m?ran^' at 1 Liberty Street, New York City, has announced the election of Jay ~ E. Thors as Vice President it where it hurts — in his ' . . w^dpn to In Co Presidents of Weeden & Co., In- the corporated, with headquarters in As publicity develops for legislation compelling a withhold- the New York office, 25 Broad St. the This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an any offer to buy of these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus. February 20, 1962 101,667 Shares securities that profit (in income) their net yield after offer on Universal Electronics many com¬ stocks at current levels, and the this aspect alone, is often enticing. * , (3) They seek a type of invest¬ ment that during the next two to three years mune Laboratories Corporation > Common Stock from substantial down-side at least, will be im¬ risk, and if there is another buy¬ opportunity ing at realistic more then to attractive certain go back common stocks prices they can tax-exempt bonds once again into such stocks as they desire to purchase, when, and if, such a situation exists This again. is the hot they will be or issue; time will take care important to the dealer salesman aware of correct is not the point at -What is ment thinking- experienced investors at this proyen is that (Par Value $.10 Per Share) . " into Price $6.00 Per Share their reconvert time. Whether Richards & Company,- Union Trust Building, members ■ a would many Admit Partner PITTSBURGH, cipitate, but gradual. investors tax-free what . On March 1, and Meno C. individual inves¬ many on "switch" LOUIS, Mo. V7AA1AVAO TQT7 TT N^TYIPQ \ Those num. Fusz-i ST. t also nnQ emotions. these of higher tax brackets therefore have opportunities of obtaining net in¬ from agreements. will ;> ( ,h income credit to his account of feel tax-exempt bonds. They accomplish; several ob- A give ;them ' the as tors, even those with modest (tax¬ able) incomes of $12,000 per an¬ mon s ' uneasy Some of these in- reinvestment to stocks to taxes • are the possibility that this leg- isiation net return on taxbonds is often several. the net yield on common over Two V.-Ps. for Others $2,000, it will much different when # • p,. vestors ,have been ddmg this for he receives : only $1,600; even Sinclair. bimOIl the past year or morA iThey have though in the former* case he paid ■ . . ' lightened their coihmitments in his proper income tax and dey Uq WPPflPTI stocks that in their opinion have clared it in his report. The stockv x "P*. V+ * * become over-priced, are no longer holder who receives a dividend Edward C. Sinclair and William attractive, or where the future check for $40 instead of $50 will E ejmon have been elected Vice- .times in firm. the over source. an stocks more common year progresses. exempt charge of the industrial bond de¬ partment the motivating come,. The Stock is • percentage of their dividends (1) Capture paper profits. (2) Replace these investments with securities that will provide them with greater spendable in¬ leading Ex¬ Salisbury factors jectives: Dillon, Unicn Securities & Co., 15 Broad Street, New York City, and be to sell expect to Salisbury New York ^beri^nce" With to their requirements rewarding if put into Effect at this time. The timing for such a campaign appears favorable and it should be kept in mind that people who may be interested in tax-exempt securities are .often substantial investors who make very desirable customers, should and receiving only 3.2 /o, or what• D , service ^nd'Contact ever it- may be. The person who tirm s Dealer bervice ana L.onxacx has $50,000 at interest now sees Department. turned William H. Salisbury Will acquire of the had *'s6hie a at Many of these individuals have Eastman Dillon to members the of funds in •Admit of in helping both novice sophisticated investors in selecting the most attractive issues suitable tax-exempts, there is also a growing number of individual investors who are now looking for a tax haven that did not do so until they read in the press that the Administration is pressing for legistlation that will compel the withholding outlook has become obscure. k ;; The Novice Is Looking has as- sistance and In addition, to the investor who it individual investors offering . fects from the ance , experienced grow. successfully handle a portfolio,.Of securities, are now waiting further selling opportunities and expect countless job op¬ of ■ , , and investors. to . ; prof its,, pul^ting throughout the entire body of the U. S. economy which it is able to negotiate these bi- and multi-lateral tariff-trade * tax-exempt from profits derive^froi^Jncrease^ ex ports. They will remain.in semidarkness until they feel these any effect, the U. S. would its own "common setting flow will that changes. Markets our enough to see eyes the many Exchange Country -by -Country Common prevent perceptive with their own salutary benefits become and ours frame of the agreements. ■ until they calm economy down a membership in the New York bargained Stock Exchange and on March 1, sub-paragraphs un¬ ;"will become a partner in Eastman and specifically "free" , substantial continue advertising the attrac¬ of tax-exempt bonds to of Childs Se¬ are coming face to face with the curities Corp., heavy hand of taxation as it inits subsidiary .exorably reaches out and wrests dealing in corfrom their savings the governand memories of past bull markets- ment's "take"; even porate and before they real estate fito guide them; is the apparent have had an opportunity to fairly nance. M r. staleness and duration of the long- report this income on their reguThors will be term bull market we have today. *ar income tax returns. There is in charge of Starting in July, 1949 the upward also a psychological factor ins y ndication trend of common stock prices has volved here. Many of these people and trading of continued with the usual interrup- have honestly reported their divitions-—but never before have we dend and interest income, although corporate se¬ witnessed the length and strength some individuals (as the goyerncurities. of any bull market, that compares ment claims) have not done so. Mr. Thors was previouswith this present one. But there is a difference in going Jay E. Thors 1 y Based associated upon past experience, to the bank, giving them your many experienced investors who pass-book, seeing interest credited with Asiel &Xo., members of. the have proven they know, how to at ,4% and doing the ^same thing New Yorfe .gtock Exchange, in the One %■AA A;..;A;*'A products. x. should experienced investors who have large investments in common stocks, large long-term profits, buy dollars that would otherwise Our in that for tiveness apply to the funds they now have in savings vestors who may be considering accounts, government bonds, and this type of investment for the in savings and loan institutions. first time in their lives, or reconsidering it again. . Many of these people are now becoming emotionally disturbed Reasons for Developing Trend over this prospect. Some of them prag¬ friends - be, From indications that ap- pear to be prevalent at this time, special our whatever investment A ! and my own limited experience during the past month, there is We do not hold a brief for the a possibility that investor preferbereft "little guy" who whines ence may be swinging to taxthe Congress into> partisan blind¬ exempt securities more strongly ness. If the U. S. establishes arti¬ than at any time during recent ficial tariff barriers to maintain years. If my assumption is correct, an indefensible situation like this, then an inviting opportunity is it stands to reason that other na¬ now unfolding to open accounts tions will not be long in dupli¬ with substantial individual in- These pur Of type '/.A;"'..; potentially greater indirect results. ■ . certain categories of securities are in favor and the public is more receptive to offerings and sugges¬ tions pertaining to that particular Less Exports in tariff-trade all where areas thoroughness. negotiate when broad be and income tax Exempts Now A times are investment an provide them with income completely exempt from such Tax There interested be may taxes Protection Means Resort to who switching to will Plans force of circumstances—will have to go out JOHN DUTTON BY 13 ing tax on stock dividends, as well as savings banks and other interest at the source, the individual inves¬ SECURITY SALESMAN'S a ; .The. disembodied voices that artificially patronized. Of .wailed in the beginning of this course,- it would be unjust to dissertation will continue to fret abandon manufacturers so; help¬ about lowering the tariff walls lessly "out-classed" by the com¬ and the effects upon employment petition. Certainly they ' deserve and the ultimate ruination of our not (933) and that this the , Clark, Weinstock & Porges Elmaleh & Co., Inc. of that. invest¬ security they shoulcf be type of thinking is becoming more Stearns & Co. apparent among Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained from, such of the undersigned only in such States where the securities may be legally offered r 14 f The (934) t. it Or-be could- express hia-bull^ \ ishness in, , posite; ,yii$w4: lias: 'itV:'that' , the; same -stock by sell-yshouicl* a February t2, 1962 . which has .call a By Robert Liberman, President, The Technical Fund, Inc. Newton main Options and investment Well versed the on subject of "puts and calls," Mr, Liberman ex¬ plains the not too well understood intricacies of option selling which he with contrasts option buyer needs a fairly large move in a stock before he can j. vi r- to Cos. large is enough, to him* to sell options when wants to and on the stocks permit he that he wishes to option.. ' Ayhatever - may : have * been ; the status of option. demand a decade ago, today the demand is clearly large enough to support very large op¬ the option- seller who refrained . op tions for as •Still other option sellers employ the notion., that the i public's. de-f ; gain whereas the. option of methods and combinations,-tax and;other advantages, and hazards-.. nf ntitinx oallina Cteaccorf ie ik iicafiiliiaca in-AhlaihiiiD1 ebnitfll. Mins of option selling. Stressed is its usefulness in obtaining capital, gains or income which corporate dividend policies or market action of the % stock might;not support. v.[;v[ '*: [■[ '<![' .. viewed be free to produce, buying, The author, points out why the option in; theseiler!s investment return to such can will a Key. ^'Underlying much of the option Seller s activity, or course, is the question of whether the demand .purse.:,Trier.bessiOnai option,seder ha$ aycom^ a seller«palling repiy.' He, notes, and the including not statiiiicsv. are on his side, that only the premium but- also the most • call options- are not exerreturn that his $4,5Q0 .-commit^; ;cised, ; in 7which cases the prement in other securities remained;- represent a ne t. [ profit • to L. L. M. Boston University School of Law, Boston, Mass. • Mass. and Professor of Law, S. B., often been;, arid" .^uccb&iuT.qbrif'dli'b' managenteht. . stpck at" or 'above; the [-exercise:. is,, in .^effect, Va short seller, and price, the Option will not-be-ex-^ exposed tp[ loss in the event the erased and the premium will re-- stock rises. Here, too,- the proCenter, so probaDiy[cpAAtipue to bO, sold" unless the never be is- owned, put option' on it and-taking) stock tor wnere tile position ;m the stock-JWith -the^ seller [does not own the stock he -ing< no Financial Chrorii&e * .the stock. He also ^?n options are rexet-: tion seUitfg'[^||d'raffbhK[ AV ealthy.* time When^th'e'matKet*'[Tti'ci^idi.tfiais"?* vhi'ioUs insuraiice "^dlue 'Of*"the' "stobk" is above the company portfolios '. -have emi* .vtSrSi; cMed "at'a .• - * :r , sale; Withipi -three regis-." the tered investment, companies have premium [acquired. the power to - sell; op•--V1 .'V-: as in the case where he! was a ove.r-au f¥» from tb?se two cate- [ tions.- An excellent study by the The last ten years have seen short seller ol the -shares. : ' "r; '-jS'ec uri ties['and-;^^ExchahgeCorni[; probably more;y$ynamic changes misishn, X)iv ision of" Tradin g and Seller, -Needs[ in the stock market than any ■ on Stock Move » ; - Wpuld entail adjUOOloss for each rdsesubstahtiallyarid on which Exchanges, entitled "Report comparable prior • period. The drawback of course lies pomi a .ve J exer^lfe r pFlce/ he has - sold call options without Put and Call Options" (August, sharp increase ^ I b course, lies mucb as in the case of a short owning the stock And it must p 19.61, at page 20), places the vol¬ mmmm ,in tne fact that the option buyer gpll(ir ,Qn thp other hand 'should £™ XS,?£9i* 'w I riw in the num¬ needs fl fairiv hie-move in the ?2uer2rn me pm,er:;nana> W bo cooeedetf that to the extent the ume of options sold during 1960 neeas a raniy pig move m xne the option seller's; judgment be./seller ha§ limited himself to stable at* 1.12 % * of ; the volume of all ber of stocks .stock before he reacnes his break- vindicated bv the stock remaining- f .i-7.*'^ siaoie trade d," the ' onint in nnr pvamnie theYc oytnesiocK reniaining -isSUeS. aEid..reframed from semng NYSE trading; for; that year, more •®Y®n P°Jnt,?Hf example, tne dormant or declining, the; pre-r.calls onithe J<sDecs '' his reasoning than twice the .50% figure for growing pub¬ .$45 stock would have; to.rise to mluBg would remaTn ; in ^toe lic interest in : 1950. And -more ltoly to be recently, : in¬ $50 before formed option brokers- have es¬ stocks, and a the^buyer of the call .sener's purse and would represent re^ • ;a; t; ; ; 1 option approaches his break-even a sustained bull profit. undiminished by any -, • \ ' timated that there are 'periods ^ Tax Advantages • " • market in key > when from 2% tb 5% of the daily of the put Jot only does the option seller NYSE : trading volume is option issues have * mant stocks therefore are hot ;'Intei'esting,; combinations • be- enjoy the possibility, of profiting oriented. combined to [ ; '■*["'; ■y:/.'y •. ■'[orofit -makers for option' pur- come possible, and are actually, from stocks that more little, but ; ihH . em and is sustained enough spawn;many > ployed y tne- repi-esents.^The the last option two years, s^al"optionranTnot toSse X^ • . ... . , . . ——^ - . . _ .p,.pn f MOTen^feS - Option purchaser?Dor- - these, and one which; may well to be than a „ . '... O'h'v employed. An option - seller < may certain .tax. advantages • .. ... But while the . well , option purchaser : more ; f not. Robert Liberman ft ' +Vx°P irr .s?{ usually, tne seller ot n COver if +u it easier1 to move the discover little than to dyuamic un- and movers, one need only review the major steel, chemieal, and oil issues dUr- tne call will own 109 shares of x small find stocks that needs a substantial move to make out turn "::S chasers things. One of ; ^°rporapays^ nim $500 • . may abo Premium dol- to; encourage the. /larger option broker, to buy an option from an lars. taken" in .by the seller receive .^option •• sellereven prior, to the their-'•ihcorrie" or "capital gain" .broker's obtaining a bid from a open, up for him. label only at the; end of the tion period when it op- customer- who seeks to v buy the particular 'Option. The; o p t i on be deter- can jng Re past bull market decade-mined whetheh the option has or -contih-ued •• •- price.-' stability,^^ the has :notvbeen exercised.^^ The ex, seller in such a -case gets an "intion when Smith for the call. Aware that most op- number and quality of stocks that ercise of a call ootion on a sto^k ventory" rather than a "live" bid, tions are exercised, if^at all, on have; moved ; little. Anticipatirig c held - for -'more: than six months ana tne premium will be smaller. the last few days of the option continued price- stability, the permits-the option-premium to ;*But through either the inventoryperiod, the•• seller^.can expect sener may acquire 100 shares of qualify for long-term fcapital gain bid; or. liverbid route, an eptiop Smith to call, for the stock if it a $50 stock ^anid sell tw<y call;op- treatment.:* The exercise of a put seller.^ sell options is then selling above $45i.,The re- ,.tions for $600 apiece,^ or >a^^totab option that vjhe^ market on ariy reasonably; active Big turn on the seller s investment is 0f .-.$1,200. A rise in - the "stodk -price- of^jthe stbek dipped below •Board stock fof a vpremium run; qipg from between. 15. and -40% sloofcTte option buyer's position $500 for the six-month period of above $50 will entail •a,i$l.O0.ipe*t^ is simple enough. Smith, an opof the value of the security.,; com¬ the-option, which, considenng his p0jnt iOSg becayse: of the one call ;t|un ^ptemiuni can^- be; treated tion buyer, may pay $500 for a V $4,500 " commitment J during that option on which he does not ,own neither as income nor as capital puted on an annual basis. of the investment future, is option selling into an investment device capable of exploiting in rather unusual ways the income and capital gain potential of stocks. ; Option selling, unlike option buying, is not too widely under- wave the emergence of t . . , . . "call" option on 100 shares of X Corporation at $45, hoping stock ability will to present a time, would be about 22% ^h.e-annual basis_actuailV stock, an on basis .actuaUy . somewhat $4,500 check higher; owing to his receipt of the it does, and a beeause declineMow ^ gain v t^t^imply^a ;v y $100 per point loss. :°f,;the r cost pt the stock which :of bis/ownership. -ot TOO ;the>;pptiph writer is obliged to wilt entail somewhat his If rise. a sbares. But having received Stock; worth more than that V; •y..% y? f -^y Optibn; selling is by, no. means /wit! out its hazards. Ari .investor who- buys 100 shares of .a $45; premium that $i^00 hpy- Jk^yl^ h® te^^h 'thaf stock c*nr#->k : for :1 ± profit" -/stock, sells a call option on it for area ^caived• out 'rbe1ween ■?^ then^be;^;^nhelized;~into ; I accrues • and sees the .p r :{ v , r.^ - . ^: , ;$38; andc$62, e tiradiiig^rarige ;oufJithe vlong4.term rcapifab gain :cat^ ; $500, derives verystock d ecline to the same $100-per-pomt rate as $20, small comfort ^ •, of which many stocks have been xu w' from; the fact that; $5Q0 of his in the case where Smith owned ' - Variety of Methods ; -unable to emerge for ten years,-' Cn the Other hand, premiums qn :.$2,500 loss is cushioned by the the shares outright. Or, Smith A wide variety of methods are and^^out of.which the^cptiori .sdler^unexercised, options are treated I i ' w4Ue. variety, ui- meinoas a^e Drchahlv reasonahl^ in! thinkas ordinary income and become [premium. The option seller must may instead buy a put option open to the. option seller,. As in }n<, obviously have an i n t i m a t e the stock will not* emerge °f interest to persons seeking to on 1C0 shares of X Corporation at the foregoing example, he Can ex- during the ootion oeriod inppmerpiqduction^icu^ •knowledge of; the "stocks he emj $45, hoping the stock will drop, press his bullishness on a $45 ' ' ' ' . : : : . . whether the premiuni is treated ploys. He must \ be able to *dis'tinguisli, arid - With fairly consis¬ and if it does his gain will accrue by purchasing 100 ; : V « tent accuracy, the stable'from the at the same $100-per-point rate and selling a call option against i .®e^.'nS<>f'One's Owned end of the option period to deter- [ speculative [ stock. He must [ have : t ' the appropriate tax label the seasoning* that permits; one to 11 r witness. Hf or 20 .point' swings; hi |> ■* e. veaati..^-. *' ' •' } i? p.:' M;' * !.Z*{ Jfp'x «v; i ni8 jpiques /is; free ' from conlroyersy. ^deferVialr e § u 11 s. . and on six- 1 either-; direction without giving RdyerJisement is neither jiu. qffpr to sell nor a sdlidtation i; i i One view-; of an offer to h■! for example, thas," wav:; to/ delectjoh or.; elation. And Jiuly^ the buy any of these securities.1 The offering" '-", V' [that a - Call -should * never ?spld deferral period, would- be in the with all this, he should als,o be i/ is'made only by the Offering Ofretiklf: ^ y ;: , J'i on stock that is/ owned. : Advo- neighborhood of 2i months. [ - ; familiar with the tax implications NEW ISSUE i cates of ■'this. view stress■ 4he -fact ; ;'\}:\a:;;* ■ ;'' ;h of the option premiums he is re¬ | that * the profit is limited to -the > ^1 ceiving and know how to .adjust ! option premium, ♦ and; contend In the. hands of a sophisticated his 'program from [time to time in ! that the main reason. for / own- -. investdr trained in the 'art. of opt¬ line with his changing tax status. ing a stock is to participate ip tion selling,, the eptiop sale .device [: -These charactertistics are not ; the possible large rise in its value [ has-. ai unique set.-. of advantages ; eashy .come by, and only rarely means: that that means gain gain his Ins accriiPs Tt than at the end of the option at pe• j • . , lek. *^>3;= . ■■■ • fc *1 • * "* # , - * s j - 48,300 Shares , dr. they CAVALIER RADIO & ELECTRONICS -ron. combine in a single perreward^ are attrac¬ 'Riit .the tive, We are To CORPORATION this- the probably iri an era optionVP^Pducing vehicle.Sv even; in/ a [pe- where;, foreign competition, - baly -replies.' He 'riotes,'C:riioci ci;-siable-pr declining Pfiaiv, ance-of-payments .problems, labor. ; first,' that while a few stocks in'r'ket pnee. adiqn., 1 : costs, Aw j - extendedcapacity, ra" large portfolio may"^urn,/in a \Secondly; it permits P portfolio rising interest charges, and abun-. tsensational performance,V enoUgh/^P ^Qhtairt pj'qushio^ against:p dant suppl'es of basic commodli will perform badly ^d- that ehb declining market, for- where the [ties[cornbine to dampen the boom [over-all matching of = gains and Market price of :a stock' op which prospects ; of many diyers/fied, : losses will rarely -disclose a per-.'a, GaH is* sold ;is above the exerwell * managed.' and [high' quality ; seller has - confirmed tw.o , - Common Stock (Par Value • 5 One Cent Per Share) :: - y .1 >: . : ! - Copies of the Offering Circular may be obla ned from the undersigned. '< ; cl^e- Price, the stock may decline - companies,. Ahd[ in such an era, "re-; [ opt;on: selling cpuld well .become . [option . v seller. ^ And, " secondly. >tof the exercise price: without j there is nothing :to prevent., the -duciPgythe .h^ asset value pf . the aipopuiaf-and-usefuldeyice.fqr .»option seller from limiting, his yportfolio. . •;; v / 5 obtaining- the income of capital option activity to stable issues-of ^Thirdly, it enables the portfolio gains which corporate diy'dend 1 companies with heavy capitaliza- :to .ob'taih the benefit of [a cora■policies*.-or the market ac'.ion Of i tion. and which are; engaged in • ppupding effect, since the option the stocks qf .theseJ:companies : OFFERING PRICE: $5.00 PER SHARE formance that betters that of the- : „ . | highly competitive businesses, i.e. yPremiums ^r^ taken in at the ber might -not support.v : " ?>V companies on which, most' ip-'ginningpf thesoption period" and' The technique is an infant to¬ I vestment analysts would -; agrees "can ba put to " in vestmehf use by day;; But the investment: climate ! that steady annual growtli rates,°ptiopsellerPt qnqe.; ?/• j [[ of ..the: years [ ahead - m ayinvite- it ] of 20%' or, even less %re'.iiqirl6nger;T '^,.f,qurthkly^sipce'options are to/ mature^and. to mature quickly. ] likely,:pnd-tq commit .the^balance^Vcxeccised ; of his portfolio'fp^issues Qri^wllid^^Tiser^and 1 are not exef'cised -on ; New; 3ecKnian ^Branch -: options ywould. not be soldr .and ^ stock&:;whieh; have dioped; option • - I '"! Oeneral Securities Company, Inc. * 101 rte*t 57:Street . . •;.• [ ?;New~York 19; Ni-Y.. j .parUc^ation::Th:,ftha-^selHngyteifds!^^ fd pxoduce^a/port^ 'REPDiNC^Jalif.-^ Jeckman.J[ hoped for, *'big inove-^y^Terhaip^^f1olip,AcfKa't'-^Jiarw eliminating [stocks ;€b,y Inc. Iras opened, a[branch, 6fr I possible.. where:. full t f. t L\ ... - y -J- [ ; :[od rises-and accunsiulating stocks [fice, at11301 Court-St.": under; .the op-v, that "rare -depressed,, a tendency management of W. C. Carx..-,[ ^ . Another, and diametrically . 11tv jt-ui'.' '/liix.;"-;- Volume 195 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle 6136 Number 7(935) • 15 f! " * :' ? Steel Production v,Production will be slightly more than the,. 2*470,000 tons, that the • , Electric Output Carloadings-f * Retail ,Food TRADE and INDUSTRY . -metalworking V-- week, Productions Business Failures ...... c ; r "7 ; .. . -:7 "i" I7 V//77/: •' „ ... ■; ^ . Commodity Price .7 : r Sales publication - industry ;•;4 last ^ - ♦ have, dropped check a producers' have copper with unions scheduled. Union talks ■ sharply tin and unions are held ■ 1961. have adding own users mil¬ 5 are inventory 1: million tons ments steel about their to Steel ■- steel in¬ on why— 7 Steel mills added lion, tons no Evidently, the waiting for the facts some that snow ventories none have demands not yet been made, due stocks at month. a in currently the rate of Snip- rise about to 10% March. Orders point to further are outcome. in Steel scrap prices continue to decline: a$ buying fails to pick up. and peaceful solution of the steel ■ But summer. JHere afe by Steel reveals the aluminum and esti- poured >■ expire this L, the last three weeks because users index iare -beginning to feel that an early . *- the 7 .- mates Price Index Auto ~ V 4 Trade NonferTous labor contracts also . gains in April. * * 7 i • Relating this 4o negotiations,, ■ labor problem is possible. 7 /Industrial production declined somewhat; after; increas- 7 declined : j-pne \ - miU that booked or- Steel's steelmaking scrap price in January.7; Nonagri-/ ing substantially- in-December,.^1? at ,400% of-its shipping cacomposite was. down $1.33 last employment,;, personal "and lead has been ^reduced/Prices pacity/last .month; is now booking week to $35.67 a gross ton. 7 7 (income, and retail sales edgedv of fuel oils have increased -sea^ttieih; aty75.%^,; Another mill has •down. ..Construction activity was sonally and some paper products ££en itsbookings* skid from .a J^n-y Government "Pressure" on maintained at an advanced level. :have been advanced.?- Prices of qary rate of 93% to 60% pf the Steel-Labor Negotiations •The unemployment rate, declined, most other industrial; materials corresponding ..date"'in February. This week the steel, companies •The average money supply /de- and products have- remained {'.'.Makers of sheet steel are watchclined somewhat more than se'ar7stabieA7ing'automotive sales closely. The will try to nail down some kind of a cost figure On demands of sonally while time deposits; at 7,; ',:77"77777-;1 next:two or three weeks may be commercial banks rose sharply. r "an Credit and Reserves . significant.' ; ; While - /automobile the steelworxers, "The Iron Age*' In elaborating/ on the foregoing/4 ' Total commercial bank •;credit,-sales in January were above those reports;; V''.r./XV.4• -7'77</>-7: > Until this is done, there can't economic trends, the Federal Re- which had increased sharply in rth January/ 1961,/they fell below serve Board's National Summary December, declined somewhat in expectations, not equaling sales In be any serious negotiating on the new labor pact. Tnis is in spite ot of Business Conditions dated Feb. January. Net credit expansion November and December, 1961. As outwardly •15 reported as follows: over the friendly atmos¬ two months was larger a result, dealers have high.inven- the somewhat • this f dislocation tlian Industrial uary production in aver- point below the record December level, "- Output of both age—one final products down little a and in materials was 7" Auto assemblies declined 10V 'i« t7? asse™Dlles declined 10% in January from the near record December rate and were f0u0wlng other eluding slightly, staples consumer television, while maintained was- ;, vanced. levels. ™ in- reduced production ductions in of of Among Januaiy luel and Uutput and • other some ma• 7 Cnnctniptinn 7' ; ^ w activity^ was January, at . annua! Was a rate V; 7. . r • -• very r seasonally adjusted of _$60, billion^jund tq^^nuary40. a new ■ ■"'Qharnlv fn Nnv^mhil'' declined fluctuations volume while State -...Seasonally .ment. in J large. adjusted nonfarm was ^ on: a r and - stock prices I ; • / // the market has signs of a level¬ although < at a high level. establishments 1.9% Bank 7 Corresponding Bank a > moderate decline in transporta- ' equipment ".and 4small de'creases-in most other lines. Aver-4 • rdown. some the the The trade and seasonally . • • in government, • December to ••*'-'7.- , • : in rose adjusted ■ Unenlplovment rate declined from 6.0% -in . country during reporting period,-but retail > of areas v v t -/. r 5.8% '.'• ; in January, RetaiL :sales ' . Distribution . . . : : ? declined . in durable decrease 7 1961 Week set¬ a re¬ intensity of the bargain¬ few a days opened.;:. after nego¬ ; union The security is attempt to gain an some floods of orders from all sometime in ers / if the ture is not going well will be The strongly. tain be inventory not ; hesitate if pressure to talks Feb. ended compared-with a year-; ; February ; arid for ,the week ended •; Saturday,Feb, 17,. clearings from all cities the period through Feb. 18, 1961. The Institute concludes with of Ingot Production byDistricts for week ended Feb.47,. index 1962, follbws: as vlobi , -"v* ■/' 1 .: • ,, ,k . ""Index of Ingot Production for, • ; 7'V Week Ended ■ 144 122 Youngstown Cleveland ' r:• - again, as he was in 19597 David J. McDonald, USWA presi¬ 136 Cincinnati ; _» '{ V St. Louis 777-125 4 p7; 7Southern is on trial. The rank-ahdfile i.s more militant, about job security than is indicated in out¬ dent; of the United States from which it is- possible to. obtain weekly clearings'.?■ Will- be- 1.9% below thoseupf ;the-corresponding week last year.; Our preliminary totals stand at, $27,400,700,474 against,, $27,929,022,090 for the.same week in 1960. Our comparative sum-. mary lor some of the; principal centers follows: w«ek End. —-(ooos - \y ; -: year. - } 7 Western - /' </• - •* • /. • 1 775 926 ward ■' i, 501,208 1,072,-oqo - ; - 7'7' •'•• 117 ?: • /.125.. 7 .• .. " ~ are ment. Continued / This announcement is neither • .' " ' ■ : ■ offer an on to sell nor a soli citation of an offer to buy any of these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus. ' NEW ISSUE February 23, 1962 ' *. -•••• V . ' / ' 1 • .-v • ; •;•• ; '• •' ; ; ■ • ' .* ' *■' ' > • * ? *■ . . *% * ' Caribbean Shoe Corp. ' Common Stock 7 7 (par value U' per r7 share) 7 t. z ',*••• • v' ;.••/ 7 7 . • v V Vy. ■;•'••-. • :—: •; '• - • .• Price $6 per share^-y /--yy.7. . ; ipai- $14 877.944 . - - r|::7 / ; omitted^Tr-^-.;,^.- -1..099 000 V, , ——135 Chicago 7 r « 153 Detroit to y 156 — ,r 134 77 Buffalo Pittsburgh even Once * Feb. 17, liXJ'J North East Coast— 127 ; bogging down. *7 .-// / /, v . ju Copies of the. Prospectus 7. 2,5 1 /■ 803,55$^.. 3.4 . may be obtained only in such States where the securities may be legally offered. 498,713 ..+ -0.5 • Changes for Peaceful. SetUemeM '-';• —rt Of Steel Contract: Termed •;. .remained to 16,671,000 60.2% above 77"77?% 135,127 Shares/;a7:7/7v; cities of the country, indicate .that „ through year } .ab0lU"fan8ed;i: ...." i 4 Commodity Prices this amounted (*127.8%), or 17, tons to ob¬ appear In¬ 10. / •Production Admin¬ use Steel and production for the week ended Feb.-17, 1962, was 2,454,000 tons (,:,131.7%), as against 2,446,000 tons (*131.3%) in the week early start in negotiations. an will It Iron stitute, government enters the pic¬ more istration used its influence 7 the . American 4 j While "early negotiations were 1 4 marked with smiles, the first sign all for Week Ended Feb. 17. 1962 the ity workers from layoffs. that 7/ Data According to data compiled by which .vo.'? consum¬ April. Production Steel labor pool within each company would protect high-senior¬ a ; unless there is defi¬ nite progress in the labor negotia¬ tions, the dam will burst with Feb. hard on point is kind of One setbacks by or ' users. However, ^ driving measures. cancellations some major hopeful of doing. a 77 7 - the eighth Consecutive week/this ^ slightly below the level-of a year - week reflecting the - order, peak "earlier... Since: the. beginning of reached ...early in January, Steel -the-tyear steel scrap/prices "have .magazine said on Feb; 197/7 >/";v early that mean by I At the same time, both sides, Factory " car output - outpaced* pressing for • an early settle¬ dealer sales during the Feb. 1-10 They know they have to have the contract signed in March period, carrying the new car in-; up to the 969,000-unit7 if they are to avoid a dislocation ventory mark from 944,000 on Jan. 31, of v.the market. This they are .7 4 ,The wholesale commodity price 7 T « ' ' ^Excellent 7 iridek was stable i£rJanuary and 'J- Steel production ^will1 risef for • not caused page 28 " figures/compiled by,the Chronicle, based upon telegraphic"1 advices -ft,6m the fchief goods1:' stores : decreased phiiadeiphia %,-. although' sales of;. auto's ; in-1 Boston 4:0 creased;, nondurable.igoods^ sales - Ktpsas city yre does been Below ' clearings this week show January and were 2% below the -Feb. 17—":1962 record -/November rate.' Sales- at.*: JJfT Yorki_ $14558.355 2 full has cents, sub- ago. Preliminary monej^ '1% the this of hopeful tone of the opening negotiations. But there have been * more r hours of work also -were Employment declined further in construction, reflecting in part unusually severe weather in <age Some the way of definite large. Clearings ing, been by for any spe¬ might come up of an offer change that might the a Meanwhile, ably three. The expense of wage and fringe1 concessions may reach 3%- Of present costs, or about 12 declined remained This tiations "lasting, at least expects a contract The magazine two years, prob- - sequently recovered to about the mid-January level. Thewblume of trading have •.. of after on r? Total -J--—--1-- 131.77 ♦■•.'•=•.; •• • /y.y■;-> signs. In the last recession, ■■ ■ > • ; y employment dropped /by ; more J '"Index: of production basedon average . -■•/ / their-/.target date- of- settlement than '400,000. The workers have .Vecltly production for (Feb. 28); the odds are good that job security foremost in their Auto Sales Show 30% Increase " they- can-sign;.comfortably ahead minds. -/"7'\77::'/ 7;' Over 1961 Level $2.9 billion of the late January, but officials consideration ing only °nly $448 million or, 0f the.June 30 expiration date, Common top drag in the year. later shown that ; radical a indus¬ steel the point, the worse becomes the prospect of a severe letdown stand move flect the - onov year further, in tioh , - within ,ra feW or the tlement is at hand. But it does • demand than industry, "The Iron Age" says.-' by the end of March, .v nego¬ more !;■17/;:' ,:"7■'7:-.:■•/.- companies to deserve Result: No significant drop then in ..steel 7 . eSh2.StUring issuas were "ot :'' employ- ! was down slightly in January to .54.4 million. Among manufactur.ing industries, increases in pri: mary metals and-electrical ma¬ chinery were more than offset by a or a new note- anH -777V- , say andigas drillers. -government ..financing steel cial bonds .ing >4%'.^vPrivate investors^7acrquired " $3.4 billion of: the : new in facilities highway - activity, ^changed r.little in January1 7 £77*" •-. ; 7; Employment the l."7.y:. new laboF level oficonsumption. QtafiP and 7."7;;;•; alerted two -new issues—i won't come as quickly and easily certificate yielding.-as some; predict. While it is un3y2% ;and a* 4^-year-note .yield* likely the two-sides can agree by •and • Jan. Icbntraci, is reached securities- into a December military in agreement -4jweeks, USWA •■• Nevertheless, maturMLof Go^r;;mtp,UtfwiU drop quickly to the government certificate >i«pn the try. mean railing oraers ior suddenly in were on was expiration of the contract between Treasury refunding in level.''y<^::4.y. ^Febfuary,*VihV1estpFs../.\.cq^-.i';:::says chances4or. li peaces >verted- $11.3 billion of maturing if lit settlement are excellent, but' it jn . construqtiop, iactivity: ..rose . they The date four months ahead of the June 30 falling orders for mean the first week of of tiations. early 7,/o above g year earlier. Pfi- Tvate jocai " local °^i• ^Ohst^uctioh , little changed than •77 7/;.4 moderate ,-c -- phere has de7y Liquidation of / inventories will clined on balance between midrf be largely offset by increased dejanuary an(j mid-February while mand from users whose consumpThose on corporate bonds changed tion will go up seasonally—struclittle. Corporate security finance -tural fabricators,.; ro'4d builders, jng obtain new capital was in canmakers, farmers,1 and oil and an(j and declined. ment will 7 , m rose reserves nn in materials, aht° production ^. Security MairKfets' Yields hiiall business of auto , . l0Win&». maintained. .equipment parts, terials output after 7 /If and steel4 construction rise denosits holdings securities.: Excess . further power ,was of ongmal truck increased and and a?p A® wa * Tories at the end of March will be of u. b. -Government, :aj |east three million tons larger industrial iron production tories been cut back. ycere^..apr,-dered.more steel than they expect sorbed through decreases in golduse this quarter. Their invent machinery and trucks and some other : transportation equipment, •offset only in part by ..increases in output of commercial equipment eq"ipm,entmaterials Time ^cf^rdpey. .inflow-anq at 7ad- In business equipthere were re- output substantial . industries ment in repay- deposits aose steel Worsening prospects for-a / • • ' v " .Peaceful settlement will trigger an x'-; Total.reserves and required re- order .upswing and renewed inserves of member banks declinedyiventory buildingsomewhat m January. -Reserves s - Buyers have covered their short wer®. supplied principally through 'term requirements and have.ort more goods, was a onnfmpr Tatp nearly in line with the improved rate of dealer sales Output of some declined . '77" January. Loans ments of temporary year-end borNews on the .steel . labor talks rowinS by businesses, security going on in Pittsburgh, of course, Je^,e.rs' an<J Sna2ce comPanies- will have more effect on the steel Holdings of U. .S. ; Government market than auto sales,-interna-/ securities increased. The season- tional developments, the weather, ^ adjusted average money sup- or anything else. 7>'7 -P1^ deflmed somewhat in January . v Rising hopes 0f an early agree- Jan- unir of the!957 114% was usual. January, reflecting mainly in. * > eventual market." The an that _ Production tor. a/set¬ pressure longer negotiations , Industrial added impossible to prevent •, . is tlement by March 1. If talks drag out beyond that point, it will be cultural Robert L. Ferman V * ; ' * 7 7 MIAMI, FLA. - v y * Company & Incorporated ; y 1 y ' v ' ,'1 NEW YORK, N. Y. V *7 •'; . t j 16 Financial Chronicle The Commercial and (936) DIVIDEND NOTICES DIVIDEND NOTICES DIVIDEND NOTICES . Caribbean Thursday, February 22, 1962 . . Tax-Exempt / Bond Market Shoe Corp. .Common Sold Continued from AMERICAN Initial CYANAMID today Company quarterly dividend of and one-half cents share on the out¬ standing shares of the Company's 3'/2rU Cumulative Preferred Stock Series D, payable April 2, 1962, to the holders of such stock of record at the close of business declared March February 15, 1962 on §§ clared has 1962. .< of the par payable stockholders are March 31, 1962 to of record the close March 5, DIVIDEND t Company today quarterly dividend of < 40«) per share on the outstanding shares of the Common Stock of the Company, 25 of March 30, payable 1962, 29, record at business on 1962. ^ SCHNEIDER E. at the 1, R. S. record March KYLE. Secretary BRIGCS & STRATTON The Board of Directors of CORPORATION COMPANY XBbiggs&Stratton): at INDUSTRY the Company First on follows: as Quarter — 35 able March EASTERN today, declared quar¬ the Common Stock of meeting held a terly dividends WITH ESSENTIAL BASIC PRODUCTS of record per share pay¬ 1962 to stockholders cents 15, business close of the at GAS Second FUEL June of record ASSOCIATES June 1, 1962 be business of '' on < A regular February 19, 1962 : March 15, March , mailed. Directors share per 2, fifty of to — dividend to 1962, 1962. Corporation, stockholders of :: ' PREFERRED L. G. St., Boston 16, Mass. "*1 Vv: ■ earlier 15. A week at 3.72%. In the dollars a Board share Symbol is IiFU. redistribute turn mon- COPPER KENNECOTT the on 87ylit close also as $1.50 share • share April on quarterly interim dividend 1962, payable March 14, holders of 27, bution of $1.25 a M. Kahn & Inc., 000 business of close business on de¬ sells certain and boys such the and trousers. 27, sells record of stockholders to for at February and V-,.;:.,;. 1962. 1962. to items for men shirts,-pajamas - regularly 5,000 customers, in¬ .as Marlene > over cluding national chain, mail order and department stores. Its prod¬ PAUL.B: JESSUP, Secretary P. S. DU PONT, Secretary York 23, 1962, ucts in sold 1 are Joseph Nadler through the, offering of 90,shares, at $4.25 per share. • Net approximately 40,000 stores throughout the U. S. the finance proceeds from ing will be used for research and development; .repayment of shortterm loans; royalty payment pur¬ suant to a patent licensing agree- shares of Marlene Industries City, is a major pro¬ ducer, importer v and distributor of women's, misses and children's apparel. In addition, it imports Cor¬ was Co., 'Corp., at $7 per-share. Of. the total,nd50,000 will* be sold by the company and <the remaining^ 75,,- New and Co., Inc., New York City, are making the initial public sale of common stock of Inpak Systems, , ment; " andfor;;'advertising and development. The balance market the of proceeds will be added to J cash distri¬ share per & Co. & .000 by certain stockholders; .- v The company of 141 W. 36th St., of Board clared, payable on March 1962, to Stock¬ close of record at the February on poration held today, at 1962; the Common Stock on of the meeting Directors of Kennecott Copper April record 10, y- February 16, 1962 the At the Preferred payable of 4^nd! treef.New York, N. Y. S this Stock—$4.50 on both stockholders business a the first a Series, to of Preferred v 1962 declared has Hi Stock Offered retail outlets. Stearns CORPORATION February 19, Directors of 1962, the . in who Stock Offered 161 East noted. were Inpak Systems also sells to wholesale cus¬ Marlene Ind. - . day regular quarterly dividends of $1.1 25, New York Stock Exchange... Del., Wilmington, Stock—$3.50 the ments February 20, 1962 ' <msD J*", Series and February 15, 1%2 on flo¬ stores to record Secretary REGNER, Milwaukee, Wis. E.I.DU PONT DE NEM0URS&C0MPANY The TIBOLT, President Our stock is listed easier \ A 1962. 2 50 Stuart little a stood Feb. Index Inc., Time-Life Bldg., Rockefeller Cen¬ ter, N. Y., is offering 225,000 com¬ regular quarterly of $1.12 H a share, P. cor¬ basis) Bernard Eayable of record1962 to shareolders April 1, February 26, R. been a (on an exclusive shoe chains, department tomers payable the shareholders of record CUMULATIVE STOCK \ . company pany ($3 February 26, 1962. 4'/2% had issues until the Delaware-Maryland and other retail outlets. The com¬ cents stock capital the a quarterly dividend of 40 cents a share, payable March 28, 1962 and products : declared has dividend on of value) par • John Corcoran, v Vice-President & Secretary DIVIDENDS (50c) stockholders to close the at 1962. Checks will — 14, of quarterly regular Quarter — 40 cents per share pay¬ able Board The March 2, 1962. y STOCK being 3,127 are to DIVIDEND on - COMMON . . ... revenue this represents a %ths point gain. in Miami, Fla., January revenues for many cf the vis engaged in the toll projects represent gains over 'design, manufacture and distri¬ -January, 1961. bution of custom-made, popular With the Kentucky, eastern and priced shoes for women, both in western toll roads well under dress and casual categories. The construction, a resolution hailing company, which has direct manu¬ Kentucky's Governor and its facturing facilities in Haiti, and commissioner to con¬ subcontract facilities in Italy, highway struct a Kentucky central toll produced and sold approximately read from Lexington to Eliza1,000,000 pairs of shoes for the connecting with the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1961. Jjethtown, Kentucky Turnpike, was ap¬ Sales of the company are made through eight sales representa¬ proved by the Kentucky House. Industrial and tourism require¬ tives who distribute the company's COAL AND 3 32,000 company • Headquartered February 20. 1952. HOME AND total, the working capital and other the CONSOLIDATION SERVING the for Toll Bonds Stronger - The toll road and other porate purposes. 1962. New York. $1,385,000 presently remains in account. on for Broadway, New York 4, N. Y. 1962, to the stock of business of such close of holders of S • 'V/'viV" Secretary and Treasurer " a per cents forty Of shares for share, per of of R. Cyanamid ican declared March stockholders to David M. Park . (500) capital stock value of $50 payable February 27, 1962. on its on Directors of Amer¬ The Board of Corp. is - \ balance -a tation on Tuesday. With these selling stockholder, y AVs% issues quoted,»-at 102Fg.Net proceeds from the sale of 102%, as we go to press, and with its 132,000 shares will be used by U. S. Treasury issues much im¬ the company to repay certain ex¬ proved from Tuesday's lows, the isting debt obligations; expansion markets for most of the long-term of plant facilities in Haiti; for toll and other revenue issues are inventory build-ups; and for ad¬ moderately improved/ The Smith, vertising and merchandising. The Barney & Company turnpike bond balance of the proceeds will be Index averaged at a 3.70% yield added to general funds and used dividend a Cents Fifty share Treasurer COMMON today declared dividends Both 1 COMPANY ANACONDA 5% stock dividend. a February. 21, 1962 sold per 1, common ■of The Board of Directors of THE de¬ time the Board of Directors a eighty-seven (87'/2f) of Shoe through the offering 135,127 shares, at $6 per share by Robert L. Ferman & Co., Inc., New York City. NO, 215 .. If declared the regular quarterly |H dividend of 50c per share. if STOCK DIVIDEND: At the same DIVIDEND of Directors of Amer¬ cyanamid ican DIVIDEND The Board of DIVIDEND: Directors m. COMPANY The Board sale 6 page 3.25% .being made m CASH PREFERRED public of Caribbean stock from 2.15%' to working capital. . • '~ v Inpak of 441 Lexington. Ave,, York, N. Y., is engaged in the; designing, developing;v and New leasing of automatic packaging machines; the sale of specialized packaging machinery on a com¬ mission basis; and the perform¬ ance of consulting services through its packaging agency, "i/.r The company's -stretchable packaging machines are manufac¬ tured pursuant to its specifica¬ tions under patent application li¬ censed exclusively to the com¬ TEXAS GULF Cavalier Radio SULPHUR & Electronics.. wide Common Offered ;; package in factory - fresh condi¬ tion. This form of packaging helps Vv These machines allow a of consumer items to locked into a transparent film pany,. Public Service Electric and Gas FLORIDA... COMPANY.I Company Consecutive 162nd AMERICA'S NEWARK. N.J. General The dividend EVERY MONTH of Board Directors of. 25 10,020,000 cents per of shares declared has share on a the OF THE YEAR to QUARTERLY DIVIDEND NOTICE FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT P.O. BOX 1-3100 A for the MIAMI, FLORIDA quarterly dividend per on • of 28c share has been declared the Common Stock of the Company, payable March 20th, 1962 to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 23rd, 1962. robert h. fite * close : •, following dividends quarter ending business ' I'; * f ■.' ;;V. at the 1962. used, - Class of the - proceeds company , will for, - be new : Austin St., Hills, N. Y.; is engaged in engineering, design, manufac¬ "u the Cumulative Preferred Series . . ture and distribution at the whole- ■/';) $1.02 . Series .... Series ..... Series . Series .... . , UTILITIES 1.045 1.075 COMPANY DIVIDEND .55 payable on or The Board declared of a per share FLORIDA... holders of record March 1, 1962. of the SPACE AGE J. Irving Kibbe FUTURE FOR Secretary NOTICE Directors today dividend of 56 cents on the Common Stock and model payable EAST Manager ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — Lewis Winokur has been appointed manager of Bache Central at Harold April 2, 1 962 to stockholders of ner record Pier, L. & Co.'s according em¬ .. . V; Alkow Resumes , Alkow "that it > Co., Inc. has announced has resumed operations as & security brokers and underwriters from ."offices - at " 50 Broadway, New York City. Midwest Exch. Members on Feb. Bache, managing the close of business an 6 Secretary ^February 16, 1962 J manager. Mr. 1950. R. • Winokur „ pany, & H. the follow¬ Floersheimer, Company; Abraham Donald & Com¬ and Walter B. Peterson. White, Weld & Co. Name Dept. Mgr. White, Weld & Co., 20 Broad St., New York City, members of the New York Stock Exchange, have announced that Harry E. Dewdney *' V joined Bros. Gerstenzang, part¬ Shields, is associate ; Sutro by of the world-wide investment Edward D.W.JACK Stephen ing: office to firm. at PUBLIC SERVICE THE Branch announcement Company, March 1, 1962. BUSINESS AND OF table of V;^.; portable AM and FM radios, and •CHICAGO, 111. — The Executive qf "stereophonic" and convention¬ Committee of the Midwest Stock al phonographs. Exchange has elected to member¬ Named .35 . before March 31, 1962 to stock¬ CROSSROADS level V .while -... ship in the Exchange 1.32 ....... are ■> 1.2625 . $1.40 Dividend Common sale , ferage of the product, of phasizing- visibility. J equipment, and work¬ - deter tampering, infestation or contamination, damage-, and pil¬ to $5 The company of 66-02 Dividend Common Net ing capital. Per Share 4.08% 4.18% 4.30% 5.05% 5.28% by additional Secretary. March Stock v 101 Inc., City," of- product development, purchase of - HAROLD B. KLINE, , :•• Co., Forest All dividends INDUSTRY > February 26, share. per dividends, payable March 15, stockholders of-record to of entitled and 31, 1962: Preference President 1962, DIVIDENDS The Board of Directors has declared the COMPANY receive outstanding St., New York 57th J". fered publicly 48,300 shares V this firm's" common stock at Company's the , stock capital Securities W. Quarterly Dividend VACATIONLAND be range has Bache in been the firm's appointed manager of Foreign Stock and For¬ eign Exchange Department. v T G * • ; - . do with They has although there bidding for - defense issues the country - reasserted its mild when rates the - It far was should ticular sistance :720 disappoint¬ a into run some .have, been. under study but company.^ is confident that ** V . the industrials in par¬ that ment from . they are fair.^% 7 ability to compete in space feats. ' , author as article of the only.] BY CARLISLE were in listed to , Vice-President, over¬ the trading on ports. than Corporation, 15 Broad Street, York New C i t y, -actly for ' cash to. assure future Steels Confusing ; time has been the some growth. 20 some over Center for government search., Not port those - of in included such are Health Service, Fed¬ employes injured at work, leprosy patients and narcotic ad¬ eral Small the the The re¬ Business .There . attention to the was some tiations was that new steel orders section, helped started to dwindle as steel users by the manned orbit shot cut back on their inventory build¬ country. Some of the auto ups which provided little in the shares were in occasional demand,' way of incentive to followers of .'Chrysler notably through its ap¬ steel. stocks.% ■/ ;:X.--r- -/-V;, defense-electronic along of this oh the new highs list.! pearance for mos; of. spectators, February being written off as !no clear-cut decision so contrast to tion being; for a already period of a With a . panies ;sltp>v.ed.a good pickup, but others showed a definite lag in and- only - week, their "results! shortening this, holiday !';i partial week a left before February this' year, there were also confusing results shown in year's final quarter when pro fit' Statements: of some com¬ early last the market over the years. ; V Apart from the strike threat, misleading inventory buying some period's reputa¬ pool" month for the ' and was although the far this month was in rebound c V*/ market the /V But runs" out, the ' Competing metals and continued traditional plastics Administration's Adloans to cost from for construction of medical facili¬ at the start. ties; the college housing program medical which under struction housing tional of are loans are for interne made; Defense loans makes Act made .to the and or billion without Even the payments, social security will cost 9% by 1968. The social security payments would run up to $300 or $400. The Kerr-Mills act passed in the last year of the Eisenhower con¬ nurse the Na¬ which under medical $1.5 to $2.5 stu¬ Administration is dents, etc. Because of the inabil¬ ity to separate medical from enforcement activities, the appro¬ priation for the Bureau of Nar¬ in 1933 and School in effect in 16 of Business Ad¬ states. It government employes, more than two million, have the option Harvard means test Virginia it has been about to run operates under Federal matching grants to the states. Supporters of the Kennedy plan charge that this plan requires the Wohlford V.-P. of Calif. Investors is not joining health included. any of the be several before assisted under a person it. In can West out of funds. for which they pay half and the government pays half. Other plans administered by programs The still and nia Investors, 3544 Olympic Boule¬ the government, such as the rail¬ means Committee. The last vote vard, members of the Pacific Coast road employes, are paid for by on reporting it out was over¬ Stock Exchange, announced the the employes and the employers. whelmingly against. Strangely election of Glen L; Wohlford as All Veterans are entitled to enough, the bill is not arousing Vice-President in charge of the treatment at a Veteran's hospital. any unusual flow of mail to mem¬ company's; central California of¬ If the ailment is not service con¬ bers of Congress. What mail they do get is about 50-50 for and fices. nected, one is supposed to sign against. This, in spite of every a paper that he cannot afford the Mr. Wohlford M$"been in the securities business f 11 years, join¬ expense, but such papers are a effort of Administration forces to stir it upir ing California Investors in 1959 mere formality and in no way involve a pauper's oath. as Resident Manager of the Com¬ LOS ANGELES, Calif. —Califor¬ pany's Fresno offices. He will con¬ tinue in his present capacity as Resident Manager, in addition to supervising the activities of the company's Bakersfield office. ; , to^nibble- away at the uses of steel,, and for¬ ; stalled in proposal House is Ways Election of C. Richard Blake and Alaska and all Indians in the U. S. Ralph E. Case to the board of reservation. a directors, The but the Named Directors The government provides medi¬ Eskimoes in cal treatment for all on Kennedy government participates in, not pay the whole bill Tubing Cor¬ poration, has been announce# by does <^Yith McDonnell & Co. Flexible of programs costing $5,107 million Frederick K. Daggett, President. 7 heavy overhead resistance leVelV* eign competition was stiffening (Special to The Financial Chronicle) 7 and the beneficiaries of these pro¬ Mr. Blake is a general partner of a general spirit of indecision pre- » steadily. ; There was some dispo¬ grams total six million. vailing and little in the way of an E. R.. Davenport & Co., Provi¬ LOS ANGELES, Calif. — William sition to hunt for the better val¬ overall bullish sentiment showing, ■ At the National Health Insti¬ D. Muir is now with McDonnell dence, R. I., and Mr. Case is senior ues among the smaller companies there was much caution showing tute at Bethesda, Md., a suburb of associate in the management con¬ particularly since the 41 % decline & Co., Inc., 615 South Flower St. on all sides. .7:. 77 ' ':?.*?*' .7'; V" Washington, a person with an un¬ in profit by U.- S. Steel last year ' " 'A'.W* Vv'k .* ,*V He was previously with Dean usual disease can enter free, if he sulting firm of Stevenson, Jordan v, Analysts Optimistic 7, v: over 1960. was hardly heartening. Witter & Co. ' V"V agrees to stay a certain period of & Harrison, Inc., New York. Meanwhile Crucible Steel: was Most market analysts were still ' hopeful although many would boosting its profit 58%. Some of the others, while not prefer that the list either hold in This announcement is not an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities* Crucible's good per¬ a consolidating phase for a much equalling ■ ;■ ■ medicare would tie medical benefits to social security. It is estimated plan as All wage Ameri¬ Coast Guardsmen, in the Coast and Public the agen¬ loan; programs mini'strationV which- cotics the of for in¬ is It the re¬ Steels dawdled pending sults such cases, rumors service which dicts. Army, Navy and Marine estimated that approxi-, Hospitals take in all members of mately 40% of- the money goes the Armed Forces including their for treatment - and 60% for re¬ families, even maternity cases. 7 negotiations which were starting at the earli¬ that Sinclajr will expand its est time prior to a contract ex¬ holdings have cropped up repeatpiration in the history of the in¬ zed ly, and undoubtedly will con¬ dustry. The only concrete result tinue to do so. //.v' of the seemingly favorable nego¬ is usual in But, of its shares. holder of 29% Vas seamen, day a Geodetic Survey and members of cies,. 80 % of the -7 increase over going to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, from $20 professionals re¬ It is spread last year - for vides medical can is Con¬ Medical cludes board, room and treatment. The Public Health Service pro¬ . search and; treatment: ministration in 1935. t \ of of lege Graduate candidate since Sin¬ new a clair ex- ;, V The •'appropriation was - not , Members re¬ This is $609 million more appropriated for fiscal , studies. gress can enter Bethesda was 1961. the medical personnel can so the facilities, ton a is medical -health utive Committee of The First Bos¬ no , Coal make American Medical Association which did well enough last year— charge ; of the • increasing its earnings more than corporation's group/but, with a.listless .11 % on a .5% sales, gain.. More¬ market ' behind ? them, 7 weren't Underwriting. over, its profit to sales is one of Department. .prominent enough to be described the highest in the7field. 7,7 '"J. i\ Mr. Glavin,; .as vigorous leaders. The-wavering The keynote.; for Von's manage¬ who j oined the items were Ihe merger candidates ment is expansion, the 75 markets Charles C. Glavin which had done well independ¬ organization it now runs- now up to 75 and in 1935, was ently earlier. In the latter cate¬ slated to increase to 84 this year elected a Vice-President in 1945, a gory were such as General Ameri¬ can Oil, Texas Gulf Producing,- by company estimate. This inten¬ director in 1950 and a member of tion assures that its dividend will the Executive Committee in 1956. General American Oil and Texas remain conservative as it uses the He Pacific Coal & Oil. • graduated from Harvard Col¬ Pacific time director and member of the Exec¬ whelming demand. One issue that they approached the arrived so it - caused little con- ' The Federal Government has ap¬ propriations of $4,437 million this fiscal year ending June, 30, for Of First Boston ;Oils were: slowly emerging .as. a./; Texas BARGERON Glavin Sr. V.-P. -favored " ...Ahead of the News "Chronicle.*' those cern. i. 17 „ time coin¬ any of the Charles C. Glavin, ; V New Food Arrival 1 Food shares re- as area, those presented are New York Stock Exchange pretty elected a sen¬ Utilities, despite some sell¬ mucli after the/food share popu-. ior Vice-Pres¬ ing squalls;1 continued /to show larity had waned, is Von's Grocery ident of the better action although- it was far* Co.- As a consequence, it has had corporation on 'short of being : any "rousing per¬ a mundane trading life since it Feb. 15, 1962, formance. ; Rails,: as Usual, were was listed, holding in a range of it has been an¬ meglected and did little decisive; % aroundseven / points./ :f Itis a nounced. ' Mr; California s upermarke t chain Oils Favored -KV; Glavin is in ; ; - (937) . the ways, general stock market generally purposeless week, growth earnings good a record, is one of the higher-yield¬ held to a ing items in the section, available path this recently at a 4% yield. This could .be due in. part,to the fact that its was some both moves necessarily, at not cide ualistic • tionship to expand its new, worldvista. •.' •[The views expressed in this WALLACE STREETE Apart from some highly individ¬ \ • wide /,• • BY Chronicle-*•. V-The Commercial and Financial Number 6136 195 Volume . . test successfully formance, still showed thoroughly to build up a respectable gains including the 33% improvement in Allegheny -broader base for an expected re¬ Ludlum and the 15% boost in covery coincident with the spring profit reported by Inland Steel. pickup in business generally.longer time, the January or The offer is made only by the Offering Circular. ., low, NEW ISSUE February 19,1962 84,000 Shares , On the the Debate" Great "The steel shares have been heavy! plus side is the fact that raging debate, was oven for many months, hence are more it /will be new groups reasonably priced than other ma¬ that will pace a market upturn, jor industries, and the yields in or .whether 'it is more logical to general are well above average, expect a snappy rebound in the a few even showing as much as items that have been so well a 5% return at recent prices, as The whether in line and for regarded as some sort of Youngstown, Republic COMMON STOCK " (Par Value l(ty Per Share) Steel and Bethlehem Steel. large, were the issues that would by Utilities, in \ : deflated recently. be Lido Corporation , Popular re¬ Offering Price: $3.25 Per Share Metal Issue Minerals & Chemicals Philipp whatever happened else¬ in where in the market, primarily Corp. was highly regarded because of their high quality and some metals circles both because of its merger with the privately assured growth potential over the long pull. American Electric held Philipp companies, world¬ wide trading group, and because Power, serving an area that, in¬ It is well cludes seven states where indus-_ its earnings trend is up. trial expansion is pronounced, was deflated below the peak of recent 1955. one of the more highly regarded- years, which was posted in It expanded its' horizon signifi¬ because of its consistent earnings, gains." Despite some evident new cantly in an $8 .-million control bound, popularity,' the shares are still available well below their 1961-62 peak. • - \ . 1 ,v - . colossus of Montecatini Sbr that utility issues were statistically...cheap has not it acquired a 4%j interest in Min^! erals .& Chemicals ' whic^ ; ^jSo yet returned despite their recent selloff. Duquesne Light, which * points to a closer .working- relaThe - • purchase of a Chilean iron, ore property last year while appear¬ ing attractive enough to theJtalian day when Copies of the Offering Circular may be obtained from the Undersigned and from such dealers as may legally offer these securities in this state. Flomenhafl\ Seidler & Co. ., i \ "VS \ r I i I *» 11) t r ♦ i< I f i INCORPORATED J , ■ I . > ( s ! The Commercial and Financial Chronicle 18 . v . (938) State The N. bany, NEWS Feb. Bank of. Albany* AL--en Feb; vT. by-the Office of Y.,/received "approval Comptroller of the Currency. York the New from 2 1962 Thursday, February 22, the land, Garland,, Texas, increased its common capital stock from $600,000 State to $650;000 "br Stock tlivi- a- to'Certifi-,\The Office of the Comptroller of .dend and from $650,000 to $750,cate of Amendment, of Certificate the Currency on Feb. 7 approved 000 by the sale of. new stock, efGf Incorporation./ofrestate. Bank cf/the application of The First Na- fective Feb. 2. -V ^ ,; ; . v: .Albany,/providing for a reduc- tional Bank of Fredericktcwn, : * *' ' ,~ tion of capital stock from $8,222/- Fredericktcwn, Pa., to. purchase common capital stock of The 650, consisting of 822,265 shares of .the assets and assume the liabili- First National Bank of Holbrook the par value of $10 each, to .$7,-, ties of First National Bank iii Holbrook' Ariz was increased Banking-Department • ■ > . Branches New Conso lidatic New • Officers, etc. • Revised Capitalizations ' — ——— ■ ' . : , h , Bank New Feb. 9 announced the apCity National First Fork on i j§ ■; ./ ■ ... .772,265, Brownsville. .Brownsville; Pa. / effective Veb.'.6*' from $250,000 of $10 _. $375,000 by a stock dividend.» M to ' , Vice-Pres- each and on'Feb. 5 the Depart- -The Farmers and Merchan s Bank •• f : ment gave approval to-increase its. nf Linesyille, Linesville, Pa/ was ^ 'I ." York Trust Company,-it was an- capital stock -to .$8,108,790 cpmT absorbed by The Merchants.NaCo.mp- • nounced by Chairman Harold H, listing of" 810,879: ;shares "of th^ tional Bank and Trust Company of fh^Fir^Sern Helm. ' •/ ••t:;- • • same par "value.V. ,h* of Meadville. Meadville,\Pa. application of the first Secuxity Bank of Utah, National Aselected Assistant been % :1 ■■ . David Shaw, Douglas M. Smith 722,650, co n s i s ti n g of and Thomas W. Southworth have shares of. the par value Chemical -Bank-New idents * of - ** . H.' }'///•.~J* Mazanec," Arthur H. Posner, and Stockholders James * Raymond Faust, C. formerly As- Trust •€< sistant Managers, have also been proved .-a- ^b;/?-*sn&re.: ragpxs^-inr/ .Pleasant, Utah. ^ appointed Assistant Treasurers. ; fering -of- $10 par, capital ..stock/;-$200,00"0,--vto $25h,000 • by a stock W'/.. o.i- f.v: * : "■ ? v;-r •/; • •* ' * ''... * '<«/•* Rights to subscribe to-the "new "dividend-and. from $250,000 to A .charter was issued on Feb. ,2 by "* li'ir* " j J. A 1. ' XToii'nnoi ctr»r>lr in '-flYo r-d+in rvf ''nnp ' ni^W ""$300*000 -by, Sale. Of Hew stock efThe Meadow Br« ok National stock, m the; ratio pf,. one ,ne\y of-new . the Comptroller of the Currency J. .Randall,, Harold " ■ .. mi n . City, N. It; incapital stock Bank, New York creased-its-common a .' William M. Batten, Director. a «/ « York also was ' t ' ' * ■ City National First York, : New Bank, nounced the appointment of Mjl" New Streets ©n 5th Avenue i _ ; . . mr. ; shares of the 1 Tchafge'oAhe S Champion; Chairman George of Chase Manhattan Bank, Ne^ partment, head and W; Smith!, Philip instalment credit dir the of • also announced 4-Lp nrAlYintinHS A-f TlnnJlTH "Qpfltt Jr. e nromotions of Donald Scott, Tt* and and aIpy Alex H H. tn par -value. named ;'in rs directors New re^- a • — ~ • o-Fo- is Chairman;and Chief Executive Officer. v.s^ ■ .outstanding from financial ; and planning .G.-Cobb-was named Vide- M. Comptroller, Snyder, ■ -prcioi(-iorv+ tViA-'"hbniT'incf inx riorv-rf Officer^ Ralph ' J. and previously .had , Senior.Vice-President of the in- Savings Bank, Chicago, 111. Salt formerly of Lake banking been Trust / Company - , «..* * ■////';:;;/3 > , . i of Board Trust, New ..v-,r 'U. of City, Utah, he. entered in T927 with- Central ^elected 'Effective "-Feb.. .2 "fhe, common. aIX'put Vice-President and Treasurer to •capital stock of The Farmers and vt h Four years later this-com^ .qucpopd .Tnhn Goldham who. effecRank nf ruui icuei uu> cum wi succeed John Goldham who, effec- •Merchants ; National pany. m e rged with the -First tive March 1, will retire. • r .-;Nj^ludlie,; non -Security organization. Mr. Steffen• George Zabriskie, Jr., has'beep,fcreased;-from $50,000 to, $150,000 -™"was ^ named Assistant SecreFirst Security Trust Com- elected Vice-Presidept andstock dwidend>T :'v.f;>sTib ':i':;tarv. of Fi trollef; :' ^ o'-; *''■ -J ■ • «'•- * - ^ - ^^anv in 1938 Secretary in" 1942 ry , '* , • * .. * ,^v .The; application of -the- S t a t e Vand Vice-President in T<>44 He -Leonard P, Groves, Vice-Presi- Savings Bank of Carleton, Carle became Vice-President of First has National The State Bank 4hb ; for ton, Mich., to merger into M nu- itv q Hayes Federal/charter and title of Manufactur- bank's Circle, and Spring-.-ers National Bank of Detroit, of the United .field Avenue offices. vestment. division been penior Vice-President N. A; A native of Utah, of First Security Bank I Ralph W. Berrey and-William P. .states JDubendorfer, both of the invest- York merits dent to President and Chief Ex- * -i"ecutive Jean Mauze has been elected a of Newark, ;N. J., has been ap- Jacturers National Bank of Dend AlUbvCC of tub "Untj W >UlXQ.t>X Trustee UA the Brooklyn Sayings ;; JJUUxICtr Cl jllutllUcI Wi the xlwy lbUl J ;V 1>X'trJLI'jrv/- l/C W wl.t,'' Mich., yunder ; all" /;1951^ pointed a member of vXl" Advisory ;troit;> Detroit, -the Vice- „ . nc ! William" -:y -y •.. -President. * . , The National Bank of Toledo, To- Comstock from President to Vice- stocH of the stock from $10 to $5 per share. Ardrey, Jr. to Vice¬ Bank, Brooklyn, N. ,Y.-/Mr. Mauze is Tr Ardrcv Wallace Danahan; Jr. Directors. ' • T and vated from Executive Vice-Presi- ._ dent Champion J./, Jeffery ^Walter A >nai«h* to $2,711,270 consisting of 542,254 shares of the same vision. Mr mailed to -rprtifioato will and the , M, elected 000 and reduction of the par value ™ • io value of $5 each, oar organization'of the American VnHr SarhiiA'l York, has announced the promo- Trust Co., New York, are Samuel li f tion to Vice-Fresident of John C:. 'D. May, Arthur Kahr, Maurice y Lawrence of the bank's Times Goodman, Seymour Edelman, M. tS q u a r e4;branchvr ' William ? J. Peter Schweitzer,- John F; Petitt -»«• ^Schifiidt bf "the''Metropolitan de- and J. A.- Melnick. :• Mr.-Melmck the 5 spUFtwo shares for one. :r»rv Mornw surplus of bank oL$2°uL°d0-„®P£„® $200,000/The President 4s' Wm. ;R,T McCormick effective Feb. ^ be stock County,, Utah. :The .«drtificate willbfrjna led to st pkr ledQ Qbio> increased its .common Chairman of the- Board of First record -al; theL^os^ .capital stock effective Feb. 6 from Security Bank of J-Idaho,-N..-A;v.busmess ^on ^ .rateet^an'^T ^,1.62,5.09 . to $3,450,000 by a Boise, Idaho.' -<}ei^iiic^tes will stock dividend.; iwrr stpffpn^n nam? th-Enisp ' from ; crease in the number, of .^shares ., ^ ; . Mr. Stettensen came tp.Bois.w as increase" its capital stock $2,337,300' consisting of, 46,460 PresMent is in cnarge 01 ine new rresiaenx, branch. Bank's the ^ •; ' . . _ , Newark, rNi- j^ that Grand /; Cashier, Jerry Havel. /_ / ^ ; •; '* .Saving's -5Bank of Balt^nior6, lVId., v*/ ■ r. -. stgfisns6n• hss been gig^ Fidelity ./'Union Hoe, located at 40th .Street..; a mbn capital stock y"f£rV.2 from $300,000 to $400,000. of; Stockholders voted 19. ine facility between 34th and 42nd , Trust/ Company,- i°n Colin as Vice-President at the bank's 355 Lexington Avenue of- branch at 37th St. V 1 Cf + R ir-nrf Dp ■;,"5' ■ '.rV-9; '/ ■ ,• • The New York State Banking DeThis is First National City's partment gave approval on Jan. 89th branch in greater New York 29 '.to the Itoy.al State Bank of and is the only commercial bank- New York, New Yoik,. N^ ,Y.,/,to opened Feb. on 15, 1962. an- of Lauiel,/Ma will-expire March stock new do the Moab National Bank, Moah, stock The Cit- A ..La"r'1' increased its com- will be $40 a share!. The'rights to Sterling National Bank & Trust Company President. appointed share for each 11 shares .held-was .'iecuve.r.eD, z. ^ issued to stockholders of -record. j* of new the pointment of Fred A. Stecher as Vice Febt 8. William M. Batten Fred A. Stecher a effective dividend stock ■ A -approved-:by^ the--Off ice ,thp n/r r*u n Uc • m/hai^HnT,« l aPinnrr1' Fch 7 'v . , , TTtah f r • in the of 1952-59 Duriflg 1Q48 bank in he - served Vice-President. Senior as was , * the of Comptroller, of5the. Currency -• p Director - ... . „ 'The -Board-of Governors_of-the._ cn • - Federal Reserve'System Feb. 1£> ': ^^<> announced" its approval' of / the ;- - National ; , Bohners *oa' ""'Won 'Feb. *««,,•«« 2 York from'the■ New ■•moted'to"Sstant V^ce Presid^nf Stale Ranking Departmrat to $8,inits capital, stock from moted to Assistant Vice-President, crease cfmirr;^B~Hkgins";s"a Emeritus. -Hilhard • Farber*-Donald W For- *492,540 •;consisting;,/of 1,698,508 -syth Bruce C ;Hyldahl and Ray-, shares of the par value of $5 each, mond C. Lauber, all of the invest- -to $8,917,170 consisting 6i' ment and financial planning ^fAssSant Treasurer ' de- T. McCullough, 434 a£^Wte^.; shares of the same par Value, ;> Leese, Thomas E. J. Arnold Rhode, NEW announcement '* rTb®;aPPbP&Hp^_,pf Tb^e XJnw .By. /jr.:;-.//;-; ; v •c r- - .. . . : r. A. Kent, Vice-President of,., 3:Bank of; America, San Francisco^ • dividend' ; effective the tconimoh-capital stock ; 'Stock: a jHonal Bank of. Eittsbtirgh/ JPilti-^Ffeb/1 burgh,; Pa., to 'ConsoUdate'%ith >of The Calif- retires at'the -end ofvFeb.* National-Bank3-i4<-During the" 30 American -had he -years headed the-Bank's Bond Invest- Trust ..Officer of^National Bank of and title of The Union National y.V leader r* - * - V. ':J'' Westchester, White The Plains, N. Y. Bank of Pittsburgh " is neither offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy The offering is made only by the Prospectus. an any was approved -i: of fhese securities../ ISSUE ./• The-First National Elk y . ; ; February 20, 1962 ; Okla., , increased /consultant." a/.stock $200,000 ' by .!« ;; « »« / . common -capital -stock of Union Planters National Bank .Memphis, 225,000 Shares $10,000,000 •sale of Marlene Industries Corporation ; / common stock ; .i: Citizens =:= :. « - - 3 Atlanta,- Ga„ * has / as : a "Ashley - part of the Cashier's depart- - Vice-President and the/^a^er Clarence H. Baumhefner, an<^ of • announced appointments. - tne - following ; --. r : David L,.Grove. Vice-President from v and former ; - head - of the- Bank's Economics / •/department, -has* been named, to o n a : Bank's gqyernmept bond portfolio as /Vice-President. i/ administerAthe elected Senior Vice- a a * Robert W. Gi.lmore, now Assist- and William C. Banks, ' ant Vice-President ' in the; Bond ;; Executive Vice-President. 'Investment department; has been *' * A. ■ advanced to Vice-President and an Fan Offering Price: $7.00 Per Share American elected Fla., Bank Dan of Miami, W. Eastwood,; Vice-President of- 'Will supervise the Bank s governmen-t:'bond operations./,'^ • / ♦ / *;••• y v.-,. of California, N. A., Chicago, III., President and Chief San Francisco, Calif., opened its Executive Officer. He ' succeeds'27th office Feb. 9, 1962 at" 1004 B formerly Harris \ G. xi Trust James * ... & Savings Bank Hughes,'who ; .signed. \ • v *-" * has - - . re-: - . * ' - The of / Bank Main Street, corner of ward; Calif. 1 in Hay- > - ' UThe Executive Staff of the new stock, the Hayward office, is Dean G;. Quinstock of The. Ian, Manager and Manuel GonGroos National Bank of San Ansalves; Assistant Cashier. / ; By the sale common & Bank President Jr., Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained from the undersigned and from such other dealers as may legally offer these securities in this state. still by -the, International Relations Southern Nat i '& the will \ President, S. ment, under ;was 6 $11;000,000 stock.; - ; new Thomas C. (Par Value $.10 Per Share) Bernard M. Kahn Tenn., to ; Bank, - Memphis, \ increased ''effective- Ffelb. . He bond activities will 'now operate : as , The , - Feb. 2.' effective . field. his available- to Elk 1 be of Bank in Clark capital /stock/Trom: Beise said the Bank's government City, $1.00,000 -to v ;dividend / * . Boise, Idaho y City, v Ferry, "an®, into Bank of Idaho, f- com- w,, J-ts /common This its . capital stock", from. $868,000 ; -to $976,500 effective Feb. 6. Bridgeville National Bank,«of vKimball, Kimball,, Neb.* was Ceorge R. -Hall has-been etectedi' Bridgeville. ^der the .barter ^ ^00 to. $200^ * -William i;783?- Director -Niles,"JMich.;. increased ^;■;'-■■ Co., Inc. of new capital" , tonio, San Antonio, Texas, was increased; from' $900,0004 to ,125,000 effective Feb. 20 $1,- •. The 4 -' * * * \ First National Bank in Gar- * ' * - *" "'. By the sale of new stock the Pacific National Barik; Of San Fran- cisco,, San Francisco, Calif., in-. creased its common capital stock * .11 •_<;/' 'i, i>,», v xfi'rb U is't.-.n "•- v°»r!' u< . ,v from Volume $5,960,880 to ,• V - v , . The has title its also ' B k, a n , ^ ; to continue bank's serve the as will remain the on :' well as as additional "legislation... Maintains that the American Stock Exchange and marketplace. < gional exchanges should Kelly, , First; VicePresident, has been advanced to . citizen function the Board will and of the dent., : r • has been V• has Senior a been ; /.:/•/ massive ' > * ..... Spencer cific * National Bank Carr * States and rectors. of > National Bank H. V, * know affairs. of¬ ferings te.rings , of o i sibility Joseph L. Weiner common stock of - * ■ . It , for cash m the,first 10 months of ; • * * - borne in many The incipient should be not home come feel that it has San viego, increased aan its uiego, capital common emiOff te1&4 850 OM iv 612,500 to $4,850,000 by of stock. new Board Federal the mutual funds which ■■last' / /year / ' Governors sold net (that is, ufter /redemptions) $1.7 billion of '/new the of Bank; . Los shares.Their American ses, ; /*. /■ .V -common -ts t o e Security corporation'travel^ j in reTdhed?rtore an^ more; being income n0* elected Richard P. Hawaii, ■ wwe look te •we „ a';locus of The of Bank N. fax, S., Nova-Scotia, a,list of the portfolio securities, ton Lkw'as well Hall- the ,ap- iprobably consider themselves pointment of two Assistant Gen- luan/wfm/cMeeki CrOCk" b/n' charged branch; Mr. Supervisor, the investment is as D. onslv a QUSiy . Halifax -nailiax, doubt/ is thouSh these fands beoe . +lh • are -rpppintQ investing in rnmmnn 5f% of their receipts in common HabfaTmafn b?anch Manag6r °f funds are noW almost as large as those of the^mutual funds,., and thQy are SrowinS at a faster rate- Mr J A Mr. J. sistant G Bell -formerly Manager^ of 'branchy ^as xlaliiax. * / . formation Scotia Nova , . * The Limited, quarters in Nova new / of of with Kingston, Scotia. The by head- Jamaica, Bank of Bt.; Robert L. Dales; Gibson; Kenneth A. Keith; Robin McAlpine, C.B.E.; Bernard Sunley and E. Leslie Hammond, LLZB, (Hons.) who is Managing Director. - Joins Ira . Haupt • (Special to The Financial Chronicle) •" Haupt Drive. & - Co.; He 166 North Canon -formerly - with ;w,as Hayden, Stone & Company. "/ . - SveSone it^ such publte offers both an- practical and a sewe hope- a field Th* Npw - York and- their It exoeri an any one IlUl. UC . IfUU/ "-1? • Stork Fvrhanpe requirements interpretations cover a Prog^ss as has been made in lifting wporate standards in the past ^ivil^es, their and LueS arl hv:a r„,„ ■ ?if pmntv In canvas ,/ * hlrk the has been the federal means con- an offer to sell nor a .n 01 sections Securities 1 ; affords. It ttotttS' dUtoenfe'Mween "Sted andr, U""Sted kn0w 1 Unless an .issue which such case formation a corporation , under -the it comply must of their benefiprobably do not own a single share of stock directly, so that they are not usually included future solicitation of an requirements offer to buy any of '//"* Aceto Chemical Co. Inc. Common Stock that of security and (Par Value .Oltf per share) to ' - This vast and constantly * ... may be obtained from the undersigned and other dealers only in those States where they may legally offer these securities in compliance pf ex-; panding ownership of corporate securities, embracing more and more persons in the lower income. Copies of the Prospectus /. share with the securities laws of the respective States. - The, Phenomenal Expansion Share Ownership Price $5.00 per KAREN SECURITIES v ' CORP. FABRIKANT with Act, the of Section the Securities Exchange Act. - 88,000 Shares in estimates of stockholdings. Yet their 20 registers Securities FEBRUARY 16, 1962 • - hea,rt ?f such ,;on.tinujng..inv,estoI^ these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus. NEW ISSUE >. u, ana 10 ot tne Exchange Act/ ' <the Pr°tectl°n as that laws are the product of /// Zs a°miln/f social of /Zco/ as a .• c .,.'•/ ... Model Cor- This announcement is neither The' majority V - si>read "ev6n further-' BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Martin Blum has joined the staff of Ira corpo- The no. this a?tea,( Its listing and purposes gone. In the private trol which followed the collapse corporation sector, it is now pos- of 1929 and after. They supple- ciaries common stock ownership. In time, the number of persons directly or indirectly owning Corporate securities may not be too far from .those owning, life insurance. If variable annuities should in the course of time become widespread—and I have no doubt they will—this/participation will Douglas is, of believe the problem of corporate standards becomes acute pro- The other consideration which agajnsj. purchases of $800 million include: F. William Chairman; Sir Brian . 1 m, their families is intimately related Mountain, J. a W4U • „n„n-H poration Law, both sponsored by for example, they pur$1.7 billion of equities as The directors of the company Nicks, swer I by the investment companies. /;•■' "• Bank Company improvement ^960, cbased 7 _. * of Trust announced jn To tan to appointed JVIan; : Jamaica, was As- A.^G. Ben, lornae iy an As •ager at The that an as . tion laws Montreal. He is succeeded by Mr. J. F. McRae ^mnniitin^a' that -uri/es Pinv//d ^a/d /t Supervisor,' comes for standards? ment were to spread there might , rdle. they have no idea of the corporation is to .all intents Toronto at that, they regard themselves as Merrick,;.previ--;ommon stock, investors, reven A.- Y.-: be mav of As previously Montreal, will take Meek, Sunervisor supervisor, sued rate have Suppose this venture had 'sp/^nr/hefr / Commissioners on Uniform groundP/re only Indirect.'Con- // prod/ce/many/an/6 The Inlus?^ General6 Office'in Mr. ■ Leaving aside, is the extension of federal law the only path which can logically be pur- substantial no a.".« extending through the 20s of were more, attractive, rn announced objectives. . 1 . its these other objectives ful instrument for advance in this in an i.„c of one onf^the5 fringe^f those considerable gamut of matters that rornoration/witR^^^ concern the security holder. Inprimarily^ corned namelv deed' U may sald ?a? s"ch for govern- com- and greater protection of investors would have been only merce, only when there are public curity holders. In that case engages which This of touched point to the state of incoraora- \to* extension have the machinery of the organjzed markets. In my opinion it - , . k for prises engaged in interstate its of any other state. But the North as^I aHn^rospTrny then^^afe proposals federal law so as to occupy more of this field. The more far-reachfaith and credit .ing of these proposals looked to means entirely federal incorporations. Of enter- poration, and is more closely identified with the business life of North Carolina than with that a sor that From time to time there have been ^ic^a?^^ock™ Hono; Bank. adversity standards ex- activity in the state of its incor*- been Smart, jQhnJI..MagOOn, Jr., and /QV ty.... r 7 .•» .* »hwuiu» .wv novc snau -..many ntuv* Hideo Kawano, Directors.,/ //,:;;' ' The investment company share- Model"/corporation laws, include ' / * * * holders, who receive periodically ing a proposed Uniform Corpora- . ' corporate mately three million shareholders in sale sale * / * of ,indirect /ownership ^rather':thhn ltesgve;;System Feb.; 16 holdings, at current market prices California lulu, tee the -. :*•:'/ The win., With which danger- situation if the followers of revolution corpo- companies. The "pseudo-foreign Corporation" was defined as one pos- dismissed, a the mind'/ other than an investment comto furnish an annual reincorporation/port to its stockholders; neither other fields/ does Delaware. doctrine, ' by no obsolete today, which allows it to contingency a of stockholders. eral laws deal only gingerly, we cation of the full income remote, the its in would of is the know, out of state even though its affairs may be entirely domestic. And there is an applias corresponding months of betrayed. '••' ■'/ $2^8 billion as against $1.46 These considerations lend force, I?6? Y < While such, is, moreover, always ous Di- last .'/ .,*or Pe Ridder, ^ be must > this may now appear relations the other relations—what have at times been called the internal affairs of the corporation—the fed- * i t interest that new Calif., elected John E. Daniel pub-. to Y°u /. • > may latitude some foreign clothing. - An interesting challenge to from a shift of interest from the this doctrine was attempted some pay envelope-: to the dividend years ago by the draftsmen of the check. At the same time, we must North Carolina Business Corpo-be aware that any serious decline ration Act. They undertook to -in the size of the dividend check,. subject what they called the ; let alone, collapse of the enterprise, pseudo-foreign corporation to the is likely to result in bitter ques- protective provisions for stocktions concerning the conduct of its holders applicable to domestic .In this m a y Fran- *. v -l - San Pa- makes of We which .'which Operates that statutes as in ,t. development possible, we must not exaggerate its implications. We are a long way • connection been of which . time, has \ /'>/ * San Diego, / * : Cisco, Calif. Vice- /Y . Vice-President a United : Murphy A. elected First > , proud of the diffusion li e participation in new. securities at the p r e s e n t Vice-President,, designated President. , r .! from public, and to outstanding secall this, with in metaphor, the these There is-a kind of Gresham's Law, Pany would have been difficult to irm . Joseph F. Hogan, who likewise 4, which .. corporate Second Principal ;/< ;: v ' v.>/Y statements Emmett G. Solomon, who since awaiting proc1960 has been a Senior Viceessing is one/ President, has been named Presi- sign o f t h e as Officer. is/ a groups, 'Y' ' .phenomenon ' curities. the to in ration and investors,' there sup- prevailed 'before ^cept for special situations -such as models, and "which'was the public utility holding- com;• demonstrated to be so deficient". Pany and the investment company. Before^we condemn this out of For example, there is no federal /hand there are two considerations law which requires a corporation securities,, agine-during the 1920s. It is a particularly equity securities. The phase .of what Adolf Berle has backlog of. ■ : " -called the "capitalist revolution." •While we have-every reason to be registration " created office of Viceof Y/Y vi:'/'. .-i'/.'-f «"• ".. Every year witnesses an increase in the ownership by the ordinary ^ its respects ;::;.the ,nfew .. .. to little' difference very re¬ . Executive Committee. Chairman "ration Market, Mr. Weiner calls for regulations similar to'those'of exchanges. . trading the v. 'situation adopt listing and trading rules affording ,... the newly * /an adequate measure of protection." Reviewing the Over-the-counter , of. the jPaul;/R. external - Proposing listing and trading requirements some provisions applicable to the sale of a public sector, however, that is, the relation of the corpo- " for over-the-counter securities, he recommends that oompanies whichv fail do meet legitimate investor needs should -be barred from the director-. member a as in securities In mora . ate taxed this on The .Public Sector . principal officer. ; ' Mr., Crocker has been named and Regulations and legislation ' *■ ,Jv/' •'/'<• «.'♦> /'/• */;4 • •.'// u: '■* ' ;r safeguards for investors, Mr. Weiner offers suggestions for improving their protection under existing machinery and without ; active honorary Chairman of the Board .J Urging ,San Francisco, Calif, JMr, Hoover will be tributions by Carlos Israels. By Joseph L. Weiner * Former Director, Public Utilities Division, SEC, and SpeciaLConsultant to the Commission on ^ Hoover; lintil now Presi¬ dent and-Chief: Executive. Officer,' has been appointed to the post of?. Chairman of'the Board, succeed¬ ing W. W.-Crocker, who has retired from active duty by the J. National to and 19 plant state law. As you well know, the federal laws have extensive The law and pracsubject have been ably discussed by O'Neal and by Hornstein, with some notable contice E. Crocker-Anglo choose to merit a partnership. to Wells Fargo Bank.; Paul practically all the partnership, with liability to boot, and of limitation of San... Francisco, changed have to incidents . Fargo Bank American iCompany, Calif., (939) ■ Wells Trust The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . sible .. .. .. V. '■ I . $7,153,080, ef-. fective "Feb.; 2. O . Number 613(1 195 SECURITIES CORP. 13 in in¬ of The Commercial and Financial Chronicle 20 Market Bond Our Reporter on surprise move terms of its fifth advance refunding which was made to .holders of five out-*, standing issues, namely, the 3s due Feb. il5, 1964; the 2%s maturing Feb. 15, 1965 and the three in The Treasury a last week announced the of Sept. 15, coming 2Y^s 1972. 15, Dec. and 15 June due offer to the owners aforementioned securities The exchange the of of made up was 4% bond new a Aug. 15, 1971, along with the outstanding marketable issues of the 4s due Feb. 15, 1980 and the due Feb. due obligations 3 M>% two- £. 1990 and Nov. 15. 1998. 15, ■ eligible issues were allowed to exchange them for one or two of the four issues in the advance refunding five Holders of the offer, with individual owners having through Feb. 28 to cornplete the operation. . There are nearly $19 billion of eligible ing ' ; < . interest Rates to Harden Even though aj^ears to b >• fll higher in the not too distant futoo. rr^t ln^e'cnnnW supply of . .. i, , . still predieting a rise in the discount rate to 3%%. along wUh a„ upping It if lvfd™t that are increase'In an the Central Bank rate, and a rise (jrrGGIl JN OW members , ohnrf in+n ;C0I1^0 . • the for phia for bee "use of lhe liquidity factor and the maturity dates. Balti¬ - Stock more going I t ment.: nve s Assn. / Philadel-v of Harry F. Green, Jr. phia, for¬ 1 with. Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & was merly Merrill Cwiill. be determined by the non-Federal borrowers since it is rather-evident that the iTreasury is not going to use higher borrowing rates will make loans more attractive to the de- more than an f f sector the Jong-term , tfte Doncl market '•Ttinnvv.X'wn+n/l ' S. C. Risk Joins , forward refunding operation. to buy any nor a ' These securities are offered as a speculation. February NEW ISSUE 20, 1962 75,000 Shares o i"g He will act qniltbprn as This Lmhpr member Df of ($.05 Par Value) tions as World Officer Groun II* he War Assistant Groun fvm of and the to the market in which , f trainin„ in market that fr.' +n /////////// ZTlhl tJL requirement of adequate protec- Af oi A ^ /////„ /SaUonshfn g relatlonsnip between +£^ them. The between responsibility for the en- forcement of this principle in the «w OnersT over-the-counter market rests at Bomb the Present time on the National theAssociation of Securities Dealers. mand tion China. Price $2.00 per share tion the counter OKLAND, Calif.—John W. O'Neill Copies of the Offering Circular may be obtained from the under¬ signed in any State in which the undersigned may legally offer these securities "in compliance with the securities laws of such State. 80 Wall Street, New York 5 Telephone HA 2-6113 to Securities the SACRAMENTO, Calif. — market, just the auction markets. for both is the same, / /*"*" as Max, Los ~ , eligible for trading. The for trading eligibility presumably be strictest on after be namely, self- regulation with only residual gov¬ ernmental powers. ... Stock York New Exchange, extension of these wherever appropriate to gradual standards make for improvement. It would support the pattern of cooperative the other markets would continued regulation Securities the underlies which Exchange Act. And it service to would make for better ever-growing the of army in¬ vestors. address by Mr. Weiner before Practicing Law Institute, the New York City. '-/"."J .!/' '" '-.'I'*-,'"' /' ■;■/.■ / '■ ■ Aceto Chemical Common Offered An offering at $5 per 88,000 common Chemical Co. Inc., of shares of Aceto share is being made by Corp., and FaCorp., both of Securities Karen Securities brikant New York City. be used Net proceeds will by the company for ex¬ ing capital....' The the ex¬ The concept The success of this concept obviously ! has opened offices at 1619 Molinos Way to engage in a ^ upon the effectiveness of securities business.regulation. i-+ Baum - public would be justified if securities would not there¬ motion and advertising, and work¬ underlying the legislative pattern ^ ("Special to The Financial Chroniclb) the organiza¬ guardian of the over-the- Inc., 360 Twentieth Street./ , standards indicate pansion of inventories, sales pro¬ changes are made the guardians of .1 to Ex- recently opened office of McDonnell & Co. the Max Baum Opens Keene & Company, Inc. 15A change Act—makes this Joins McDonnell Staff with the *An wh'ch wishes its affairs to be prU vate should remain private; ,if {t has <<gone public" U must accept responsibilities to that public, not ..tA.-t +u_ The 1938 iegislation—the so-called Maloney Act, which added Sec- associated serve underwriting since it would be a rare case where an -offer to for but securities are traded, nor the meth- vanced Echelon Detachment of the is also the Headquarters 20th Bomber Comin applicable to quotations is equally applicable to trading. A company which fails lo meet legitimate in¬ vestor needs should be barred from the marketplace. differ- 40th with companies to be included in quotations must furnish fi¬ nancial information. The principle the such auction ence does. Neither the York, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the American Bar Durine finally, me market the investor which diner to snouid maxe tne it now magna fhf r!i the Bar connection it has been stated that would the State of New service stockholder without standards Association. common stock brings Market counter rather than on an mnrkpt should make the & n a for , will claim that trading over-the- RnHdfnj*' fill of out-of-the- Over-the-Counter laude irom Princeton Univer- ic is market voted/ or intro¬ option plan for be stock a over-the-counter market. No one sity, where he majored in economics, Mr. Risk received his law 'de- Ha He a places. The exchanges could, The a ystems in©. improvement meetingsbeheld at places reaspn- foined he SEcFn 1957 the AssociateHMre^tor of the Cohfhi^ ^o^s oldest and largest dfviSon onle / of ably accessible for stockholders, Director of Regu- ing Department. UAl,;,1rt a "d Holding an A.B. degree areas J and will also be identified with the Underwrit¬ cum ex- and should, require that annual Aharon P D way Compliance latory to are executives ovumnltt' ntViovc xxrill nn ^nitKf nr>_ example; others will no doubt oc¬ cur to you. Most large corpora¬ tions today attempt to encourage attendance at annual meetings. A few still follow the archaic prac¬ poration Finance of the Securities and - Exchange Commission, has become associated with the invest- J solicitation of these securities. The offering is made only by the Offering Circular. / / offering to sell one having smaller of directors for whom names ducing of investors. I will mention one . an the corporate standards in the interest tice of holding them at Johnston, Lemon w aqhfntpton other .for Clay Risk, formerly the Associate - Director of the Division of Cor- occasional senior What' hand. at of / ;...'• ' ohahge has dpne, the others may« approval?/. / //•;/ / A slight step .in the direction Iwell follow. / 1 which I have indicated was taken I This is not to say that the list/irig requirements of the New York■; when the N.A.S.D., accepted spon¬ Stock Exchange are the last word. sorship of published quotations as That organization could consider a "vital part" of its work. In that "This means that in the Smith Incorporated. to to an . the/ Traders * is amount ' ' Green,-an of tion , . Excha nges. bring about an ^^aUon in.. ^ a^wed of affording without enterprise public position they officer in the risk the Mr. • v the participate by their votes. The machinery for ending this situa- something AnilQii7otinn _n of invite to in Philadel¬ long dura- is this However, Treasury bills will have to meet this competition in the short-term sector of the money market since This announcement is neither Exchange stockholders the ordinary right to and issues into snonobligations because" of the of bewsecunties -M rate Stock the number - enterprises if they had to meet, at the outset, the size standards of the leading exchange. Such differences are already recognized in the listing requirements of the various ex¬ changes. On the other hand, there must be some minimum require¬ ments if we are to speak of a security as having a market. And there are many other standards which are applicable regardless of size. Surely it is no longer nec¬ essary to justify a requirement of regular publication of financial reports, or timely disclosure /of important developments. Is there any excuse for the solicitation of proxies without even disclosing the New York trom iong-ierm going to 'have a hardening infiuence on all other -loaning rates. There is no question but what loan American and newer solicitation. proxy ,; the as can of purpose Exchange share main, long-term interest rates are the Stock which requiredifferent be things be freely traded, and the like. It would defeat the statement. York New have-to size of the company, of stockholders, the stock protection. listing the will adequate an investor Obviously, information the proxy control Liberty Bldg.,; Trust be, switches will there largest and best credit risks that the commercial banks do business with, is in of achieve of with respect to such TT i . Co., rise in the plus a- rate, r^lMnnpv and rtn tion since sector to the other will the movement of funds cial community. Money, wn'rt capf one market experts need very to ments certainly, and the regional exchanges probably, should follow „ in the dis¬ which should not be of ital . -\T * signed require¬ is often solicita¬ required for the now.; requires ll3,rrV sympathetic rise in * long-term , . in most a measure situations, how¬ stockholders may be account of itself.. iyj* bank rate will bring about t/ £s coincident with a nf of credit, thp the the money market—and espe- ture, that ever, in exchanges have theirs. They need tion. It is in these The TT from J°"g-term lssues lnto sho?" ^erm artfnn aj3|e return near-term securities. that would be availaction ^etter-n , for meetings, it practical to avoid proxy the * long-term sector of the market has been giving a - quorum Maloney Act not be identical but should be de¬ now prime no low ment The long-term rates go, it a * - - q /n suit. Still another requirement of biggest might For by the amount and the size of the With Hecker & bo. fhe extendedexchange others. well •••>'/! be to the "ew offerings 5 Harry F.- many years the former has dePHILADELPHIA, Pa. Jax exempt bonds that pome nto Green, Jr. is * ::: / clined to list non-voting common the market for sale. There stocks. It is contrary to every associated question but what higher short- with Hecker & equitable concept of corporate count •; is : real sense an or¬ ganized market. It/ too, should have listing requirements appro¬ priate for its activities just as the avoided by a , limited solicitation or none at all. Where a parent company or the management owns a substantial amount of stock, and there result of the a also those provisions but the impact of Section 14, dealing with the solicitations of proxies,' can often be "Equalization" Expected term rates, an increase ' change m the thinking that interest rates will likely trend be though short-rates are going to tions, remain on the firm side for bond foreseeable future. good as as As " and the organization of the NASD, the over-the-counter market is r obligation • is able tqVToffer is; as favorable if not more so. ;< v gations has kept the rates of the However, unless there is a very former from going up too much,* complete change in the interna- while the yields on the latter tional balance of payments deficit bonds have gone down sharply (this would be a very welcome because. of;; the special case of development) there is no doubt commercial bank buying.'ln addibut what near-term interest rates tion, to be sure, the monetary are going to continue to be on the authorities have kept the longfirm side. This is one of the ways term' area buoyant through the in which the gold problem might open market purchase of issues be solved and the international that come into that classification. position of the dollar is going to Thus, in spite of the continued be defended. Therefore, it appears upward trend of economic condi¬ Rate .4* . bills would seem as though^e^trend there will be determined mainly w ' posit banks than Treasury would be unless the rate of return that the most liquid Government As far obligations involved in this advance refunding and the financial district is very much interested in the outcome of this undertak- Well Acting Therefore, agairt the Indications;, are that the trend of rates in the .capital,market will be very much s. affected "by -the' amount- of new corporate and tax-free bonds that are offered. The corporate bond Continued from page 19 v \ ■ flotations, according, to present exists. How many who do know indications, > are not going to be the difference can tell, when they large, although tax-free bond read lthe financial pages, which emissions show no signs of* slow¬ companies are listed and which ing down from the torrid-pace ... they are being put on the market, are not. This* situation has preHowever, in-both oases the de- Vailed since 1934/it is surely time mand for corporate bonds as well t° end it. Again, the listed com¬ as the need for tax sheltered oblibanies are of course subject to V CHIPPENDALE, JR. BY JOHN T. issues Thursday, February 22, 1962 , *.(940) rence gaged of company in 40-40 the purchase and industrial by-products icals. of Law¬ St., Flushing, N. Y., is en¬ sale chemicals, chemical and research chem¬ For the year ended 1961 it had sales of June 30, $1*512,748 and depends net. earnings - of 21-cents; per the self- share, against $1,235,311 and 5,• ..j /.,., cents, respectively, in 1960. Volume Number 6136 195 i ; . The Commercial and Financial '. (941) Chronicle 21 , V r* OF LIFE INSURANCE IN FORCE mm®, mmm- mm M ERICA SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN 1S61 DIRECTORS MlM -IMUM ITME11 Ml F111 .|?j FTY-SEW Member Dibrell, Dibrell & Greer,- General Counsel LOUIS J. DIBRELL, CRIS Ideal President DOBBINS, Cement Life Insurance in r President ECCLES, S. First . . on Security;: ord of recent, years. V , ./ National can • S. MARCUS .• v > V :^ , - GREER, Vice Chmn. Board of First- . City Nat. Bank; Houston, Texas LEACH, SAYLES J. $131,705,089 of 5.9% over the $124,391,427 total for 1960 Total Premium Income in 1961 Texaco, Director, Inc.; ;This Houston, Texas JR., Senior Vice Pres. Lykes Steamship Co.; Houston, Texas M. J. Income ; , Financier, Galveston SHEARN MOODY, JR., nruv Bonds ;..V.'.r:; Board of Chmn. RANDALL, JR., Medical National - Public & Pres. WATSON, Vice American National 20,952,868.11 . 119,664,597.62 Utility 127,950,444.04 Industrial & Miscellaneous V. ; 136,009,667.31 Preferred -or- Guaranteed;?::.,--v. 283,082,640.72 Mortgage Loans on Real Estate.T.T.:;^.' 1 '- Residential & Business 279,396,069.31 'X: dation,- Galveston. ^ 122,804,389.60 -18,640,575.87 < $ 17,369,091.44 COmfribil; Board., Moody Foun- TV WHAYNE, Sec, to 960 $3^4,869^.68 657,335.48 Stocks Treas. Asst. J-*-.: 78,821,774.53 33,705,018.62 Municipal (U. S.) Provincial & Municipal (Canada) Railroad ■ 0. A. d T Director American earned 43,877,293.50 ................ State & Pres. American National W. L. VOGLER, W. : v • Canada of Dominion T Retired (Ex Pres. Am. Service Bureau); Chicago, III. LEE N. PARKER, E. — $425,629)331.90 ^ .... United States of America Moody.Nat. Bank; Galveston ; interest 1 9 >/lj, NORTHEN, M. MARY - Pres. & Sec. Ameri¬ MOSELE, Vice National ' LEONARD MRS. $171,312,138 $161,494,143 total IV, Rancher, Bracketville, Texas W. L. MOODY, can ' Investment & .......... Up 6.1% over the for previous year. • Financier, Galveston ROBT. L. MOODY, increase an Premium Total LYKES, Bros. is of rate - 359,168 (5.7-%) in the previous year.'• "• •• net been .... - • ; 4.38% climbing steadily during the past decade. Surplus at End of 1961 $96,049,210 v An increase of $9,722,368 in the year after paying all operating ' costs,, divi¬ dends and increasing reserves. Capital and Surplus Combined $129,049,210 This represents surplus protection for policyholders over and above statutory reserves. With this total the Company balance sheet shows $116.12 of Assets for each $100 of Liabilities and con¬ tinues to maintain one of the highest such ratios among major companies. $929,492,118 -V;The-new total indicates a; gain of $75,^ 661,184 (8.8%) over 1960 and compares T -most-favorably'with the gain of $46,- Vice President, Ameri- The 1959. has , R. A. FURBUSH, Exec. Earned . Assets at End of 1961 Pres. & Treas., American I. FOSDICK, Vice National Interest Investments Compares very favorably with the 4.16% rate in 1960 and .the 4.0% rate of Corp.; Salt Lake City, Utah K. of Rate Net $6,017,718,863 . The gain to 6 Billions in force came only '. two years after reaching the 5 Billions v level and continues the accelerated rec'V Denver, Colo. GEORGE Force : Co.; 278,335,098.26 -- £a;F0rm-t 3,686,571.41 Lpiph's«fid:\- ;>■; President L. VOGLER, PHIL B. NOAH', ^'■ ^ Home Office K. I. FOSDICK, : > course of 23,346,380.20 $853,830,933.87 $692,147,184.51 $643,903,500.59 4,003,089.91 3,674,796.94 3,926,283.10 6,149,754.53 91,803,470.70 .2,413,125.94 3,663,464.10 .?/"•)-. -epllectioir;r.Hvt;:..r!r.v.4:/.Vr;X accrued .Interest due and "• Other Assets Vice Pres. & Treasurer .r.X:. T.8:1 J ' total 7,035,604.29 3,919,571.77 NICOL, Vice Pres. & Actuary W. K. C. E. BROWN, W. L111IL1T1EI Vice Pres. & Asst. Treas. W. 0. WATSON, W. 25,827,691.02 7,938,464.48 3,537,629.90 477,984.79 594,145.13 . Premiums deferred and in - Vice President• ' •' L^MOSELE, Vice- Pres. & Secretary" buildings btate;:.^v:::'.^!::v^;f.\-::, 1,520,867.04 Other Real • .^ , Exec;* Vice President R. A: FURBUSH, • ■ Real. Estate :V-. W. 3V,397,923.38 11,644,5.15.90 ' f Cash ' V;"w;. ' 35,463,462.28. 9,888,218.97 2,115,012.17 $929,492,118.75 Company's Policies - OFFICERS Vice Pres. & Asst. Treas. CHERRY, & Pres/ Vice - ■ Policy Ind- Supt. Reserves ..... Premiums & Interest | ' Agencies. BAILEY writing : t r>-rif Mgr.; Under* •' ; * . Division I Vice ordinator of Sales Claims Not Yet Completed or . ;: Reported Reserved for . ............ Security Valuation Reserve iOther Co¬ T. A. J. Capital Stock Surplus Surplus Protection ENGELKE, Asst. Vice President EAVES, Asst. Vice M. JOCKUSCH, Asst. President Vice Pres. . & , ... ; TAVENER,, Asst. Vice-Pres. & Asst. : , Vice President H. F. TAYLOR, Asst-. C. 4,931,954.13 ' 800,442,908.69 734,504,092.53 33,000,000.00 86,326,841.34 129,049,210.06 119,326,841.34 $929,492,118.75 $ 33,000,000.00 96,049,210.06 Policyholders' $853,830,933.87 RESERVES SURPLUS . .. ... Vice President ..Actuary R. . Asst. Vice President C. J. SKARKE, JR., E. ' *' 5,062,156.20 73,268,220.57 KIRKPATRICK, Asst. Vice President M. A. POLZIN, Asst. L & ' W . to TOTAL Supt. Ord. Agencies R. R. • LIABILITIES RESERVE V. . R. C. \ • . Liabilities TOTAL & Pres. ; .v............. Taxes , ' ;' Asst. •r'-'T CHRISTOPHER, GEO. - Pres. & Mgr. Real Estate HOOD, Vice. 0. 'Paid in Advance . GRAY, Vice Pres. & Claims Mgr. H. W. J. V Vice, Pres.; & CLARK, Asst. WEAVER, Vice '\y & will .be'sent-upon request: Asst. Pres. & Copy of American National insurance --Company's 57 th Annual Report Asst. Pres. .Secretary J. W. WILKINSON, Secretary A. C. Asst. Vice • BRAJKOVICH, Asst. Secretary L;, A. C, SCHUESSLER, Asst. Secretary ; / H. PEACOCK, Asst. Secretary DIBRELL, DIBRELL . '>*!•:* t'vifi<j} nx -<A:x<"»Y>ii*i & GREER, Gen. Counsel DR. E. RANDALL, JR., Medical Director FOUNDED 1905 GALVESTON, TEXAS 22 (942) The Commercial and Financial Chronicle ; " With Dean Witter SACRAMENTO, Calif. B. Condy has Combined Century Charles appointed — been JOSEPH BY C. POTTER . Twentieth in Sacramento. missile range detecting General His Electric appointment visor followed intensive course as systems Company. Account Ad¬ completion six months of an training at Dean Witter & Co.'s San Bank vides Fiduciary Fund pro¬ legal investment medium a advancing 6% while Bethlehem was losing 16%. Bankers, widows, orphans and, indeed, all investors have prime need of diversification,, however, much their need may differ, on for trusts, estates and guardian¬ ships administered by banks in State the formed of by New the York. New It was York, State Bankers Association in 1955 as other the first such mutual trusb investment the in company Francisco headquarters. country. It counts. A young man income and' his sizable a earnings now ahead years may: i has NASHVILLE, Tenn. of name Branam The —" firm Investment Co., Inc., 612 Davidson Road, has been changed Southern to Security the pal is traditionally conservative bankers, who have not been slow to recognize the values of diversi¬ fication, sold shares for $100 in 1955. had At latest Looking Planning Service. of SERIES... fund a In for the" item message need widows Bullock there Ling- Wrigiey, Lionel, None the of described above come stress citizens,; for princi¬ value 2.3% the for share of In- a the up after paying from investment year (lO cehts) loan small woundearnings of $97,156, or 16 cents per share on the 624,179 shares oucstariding at ,as Investors increased 19.2% to 1155.08 each of that .em¬ income and 5.6%♦ (24 cents):from ' company, with year ;W time. As , ; for fiscal1962, In October v'" an'd ,November' of 1961/ Tower /realized vsecurities /profits over same period, •/ //v //.'>//, acquired/; $11 million- in/ travel 4 */.///;>I'/;business through the take-ever of://; system of portfolio . f. "Don't Nation-Wide with that they don't if they own pity Securities. demonstrates jcb that The the fessional rily for income possibili¬ ties. Send today for Free whose prime concern is preserva¬ tion of capital that can never be and descrip¬ management replaced. tive literature. hold The least at stated - for people policy is to one-third of assets on ! / : / -/■• . -'/• . " •• ■' ;■ . . Dec. 31, according to the annual The Funds Report report. This 062,996 /'•/ ar¬ be performed by pro¬ can Well over/ ' $22 billion? standout securities selected prima¬ a value per of 1861 earlier/ f / --/;• " //;j.■ Atomics, Physics & Science Fund,? year Inc. in r its semi-annual puts total net assets as report from $6.50 currently approaching $40 million a in • •, . -//■/ '; sales excluding any/business from its arrangements with Mont¬ gomery Ward. This is more tha'n double the $17 million recorded by Fugazy in the 12 months prior of Dec.'31: at $58,642,873, compared * with] $51,923,160 a year'earlier,: Net as¬ set value at the close of an- $17,- other $3 million in sales. year earlier. Net asset / All this has raised Tower's genshare increased to $7.97 eral travel business to a rate end the at business, representing surance with compares . Haas, Koch: Co. to its acquisition by Tower. ' / Big business now, travel's 20% share, against: De'C.)31', 1960. : : -I Jay 'Richard! Jacobs! has joined annual expansion rate is almost thirds of total assets may be in¬ Haas, Koc|f & Cp„ Ipft, 120 Broad- unparalleled by other industries. vested in common stocks. It adds: Delaware Fund announces: if Way,;]New^ YoFk City; as a senior Moreover, several, factors J Will "Despite this conservative ap¬ si ; j •n-jikvi ; 'j i iu/ .:^i presumablyv make it grow even has added a block of/ 100,000?' proach to L /' investment, however, shares' of ilii K^ifrvolam^aster in the future. As Gross NaMassey - Fergusbn, ■ Ltd.; Nation-Wide has often been able /" tional Product and disposable per¬ to its holdings. ' ""■•/./'' / S //I; to record substantial gains in pe¬ sonal income increase,, more / *'-• ./F/' riods of generally rising- common .; money will.be available for plea$/ Fidelity Fund investment ; in, stock prices. The fund has paid ure and business travel. Further-// common stocks at -the close : of? quarterly dividends, in varying /' more, .as the work week, shortens, / 1961 amounted to 93.1 %,; com-/ amounts, since organization in travel expenditures are likely to / 1932." .-,...,// pared with 83.8^ a year earlier. • soar even higher than those for " The five most important industry .The Bulletin • also in RESEARCH CORPORATION Established J 930 Broadway, New York 5, N.Y. bonds, preferred stocks at NATIONAL SECURITIES & 120 fund broad-based February headed: is , anyone's ticle Prospectus Electronics, & Winfield Growth Industries several independent agencies in getting a Fund, Inc. in its semi-annual re- Connecticut,/New. York, and. the /. and top-" District of Columbia. Also in No- drawer investment counsel with port states that total net assets at Dec. 31 reached .$7,665,104, a vember, Tower sold 21 of its small only a moderate investment of new peak and an increase of 199% loan oifices in the South to Gen-/ funds. Incidentally, the record in ayear, Net asset value per eral .Acceptance- Corp,' for $2.5 indicates the public is mot un-! share of $8.78 at the close of 1961 million in cash to raise the monies / aware of this. HoW else 'can you; compares with $6.44 !a year.earl/,/necessary ;to/follow' through on explain the fact that in the -space ier. ! }. ■ / . j; its travel program. In December, // of two decades there has arisen; '; * * * ■ : ; Tower acquired Mercury Internain this country a business whichjNet assets/of Wisconsin Fund tional Sales and Service Co., a has 5,500,000 Shareholder accounts;, were at a new high of $21,998,684 leaaing factor in the air trip inand total net assets of tual simi¬ Weep for the Widows and Or¬ phans." //////////:/://:/;//// fund • u. S* Rubber and General Fooas. diversification.;/;>r / w///»'* the. no one yet has come up With a formula to equal:'the mu¬ $119.30. somewhat Calvin bright a Its mutual of : • INCOME a as orphans.. Bulletin is is asset And report the shares value after trade and Telephone Temco-Vought, Vestors of record Dec. 31. The net best need lar interests is Nation-Wide Secu¬ NATIONAL with objective;/may 2 Steel, Foster-Wheeler, RKO General, Litton Industries, ; General A /25% stock distribution events had any reflection in sales was /paid to stockholders of ancj earnings for the fiscal year Twentieth Century Income In- ancl November, of 19ol," Tower phasize income. But all-investors rities, which the Calvin Bullock people note is a conservative, bal•anced fund, often referred to in the prime a 30.3% , market a senior I Continued from page In¬ Income year. whom relative stability of of Now Southern Sec. 55 stockholders, representing banking institutions. This fund growth:! and 53 ; increased gain -was experienced by Twentieth Century Growth, Investors after adjustment for the 3.6% paid from realized securities profits. Each share increased 26.7% to $9.50 for the Bankers, Widows & Orphans The Century A vestors. Before joining Dean Witter & Co., Mr. Condy was a systems specialist in experimental long- Twentieth of $6,808,617, a rise of 170% dur¬ ing 1961: Significant gains are re¬ ported in the value of Twentieth Century Growth Investors and Co., 924 J Street, it was announced by Edwin Witter, Resident Part¬ for assets Investors, Inc. to account advisor of Dean Witter & ner Thursday, February 22, 1962 . all times. No cash or than more two- equal to $4.88 $5.69 1961 was; a on r . , . , . . • offers Investing in ik common stocks trained over the years, investment ; drive home- the Dow-Jones counsel. lesson, it folio the Whatever industrials. Beginning ,/with,;- and a est;single investment inthe-portrl To uses was - International /:///;/ built h; around, its Fugazy Travel Divi.siohj; Tower. is making a bid for / and cosmetics,] petroleum and automotive. Larg-t lion's share of this multi/billion dollar Business; prize.- Although , .promo- - tional expenses and Machines,, followed by American/ Telephone & Telegraph, Ford,; else /•' /• • equipment,- drugs , selected for possibilities of growth in income and capital othef leisure-time activities. / / / groups as of the end of 1961; were; financial and/.investment;: office; worthwhile lesson for those go-italone folks who think that buying the quality stocks will accomplish the same end as reliance on FUNDAMENTAL INVESTORS, a start-up costs / may be/ heavy in its programs, Tower still anticipates respectable earnings on its 679,179 shares cui- rently outstanding. These expenses and costi Ore understand-;- -, might be said of that index, ; FMC Corp. and General Motors. ; trader none will Mi Jacobs(was previously question the quality: v■)//./? / wjth Droulia & Co^, Hayden Stone •label. "•"/ .; '///■/ •1 ' -v"/."' /; Directors of Massachusetts In-l & Co. and Bear/Stearns & Co. and Yet it notes that the percentage vestors Growth Stock Fund havei has had] oyer ten change from the 1955-57 highs to year?' experience able, in/view^ of the huge p :ofit ; announced: a two-for-oner split of - in Wall Street./* / / e ;U_//./;/ the close of 1961 leaves 15 stocks potential,/which oh- the companyfs-.../ the shares.Stockholders will re-? higher and 15 stocks" lower, Nor modest/capitalization could bring r ceive one - additional share for. is it a case of one a sales and earnings pattern in- -/". industry faring . Well DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENT FUND,* with an and fell Procter major stakes Gamble,; food, food field, its value. . . Nop .Thus, is actually '■/ this while lost ' 18% Texaco - was . .; ; .National of 28.(/r:-.^ & of with compares ican or 72 cents 1960 .net a of; share. / a School of Business University./ * As at Stanford director of succeeds tKd a North.-American,: he Graduate late J;. Hugh Jackson. / f business Glass from pubUc companaesj . .. of its company seekingshareholders possibilities / growth of capital reasonable current income. long-term and a Prospectus 4 Hugh W. Long and Company , ^« ' \, , Securities. In^.. whollyrt" owned ) subsidiary j ofi the parent comoany. / j' ? past six & ' New Ydrk — .Atlanta ^ Chicago — years - * , Re- y.V! ' positions Founded in 1928... - 7H Glass, 31, joined the staff of / Cr.E.C. -as. ~- a Securities, mutual Inc., in salesman;. He /yanced/to- sales and Z originated *.11 1959/. ad- i / More than of division. Los Angeles —: Now Corporation ' > /P e r's o n a l TnvestorA Co., > 4325 Broadway, New Ynrk City> is now/; as a 335,000 i-n to stock ofdrecord corporation/../ t)0/r l>bcr(t ) thiV* dividend ' li-.f owners Wellington Fund will payable March /31//1962; • San Francisco net v -' manager in 1960 the firm's over--/ share" > share, from a investment income upon requests I'- , consecutive *'' Continental Planning Com¬ pany,^predecessor company of ^doing business J the Building. ; Co., and for, he has been the-counter securities Lord,- Abbett & Co. Incorpauted in Bank • for G.E:C. Mr. An, investment for Murray securities First Common, Stock Investment Fund j. of£ices NatiQnal active in the investment securities • a Mr.i Glass will direct underwritings and securities sales field.*;-/.,■',* • conducing Mr/ Kaschewski will coordinate /' ;pdliq!y bf'subsidiary mid Affiliated /- the • Joel |s Vice-Presidents, it was?announced with W. R., Grace Fund JEliiabath, New Jersey and dynamic /' )' /.] truly Texas-Willis Schueth New,York.City,:haye elected Karl Kaschewski - W. M. Schueth Opens Economics- DALLAS 62a Madison Avenue for 2i years in executive A any ;//Mr: Kaschewski w?ts associated ) development. «. V.-Ps. Corporation of growth stock. director Of North Amer-*; by Leonard I. Axelrad, President. fields of scientific and Wertmimter at hrktr ... Investment Corp.- He. is pro¬ fessor. of finance at the was dicative $961,532,,or 84 cents per.share.;. Directors ;oD General Investing for long term growth of companies] economic Gen. Economics Research; |possibilities in securities in many :/ //• Securities A. over Steel /$ Dr. Herbert E. Dougall has been Cali¬ span, Feb.. on: $ ' 1 & Corp. reports net income for 1961 $826,816, fall¬ was the S. .. of case. declining 9,%. And U. ■ , This rising fornia \yas same / : elected isolated., an .62%, Standard of Jersey ing 16%- and Standard DIVERSIFIED GROWTH STOCK FUND, * were standout performers among the Dow stocks during 1he period. -At the same time, Swift & Co., which has a hefty stake in the ; eatch share ^held General & in lean' on example, the , stocks. As Foods A balanced investment in bonds, preferred stocks and' common while' another days. i • >o. i) j Mardn ^ * Volume Number 195 t 6136 . The Commercial and Financial . Chronicle (943) 23 r the AS WE SEE IT ! . Continued from page 1 ; ; - . ^ [ of New Deal. course, One of them, is the stimulation million with a labor forca of .What of "Full Employment"? 1 of the utmost in unionization " This Week only 780,500, while in 1950 it Now what of all this when - of workers, and another is the • Insurance Stocks required 1,211,000 employees considered in conjunction ' varied program of encourag¬ to handle $789 million in with the so-called full "em-" ing home ownership by the business. "Basicsteel"—what.ployment act and various pol- ; great, rank and file thus set- - INVESTMENT TRUST HOLDINGS OF INSURANCE STOCKS ever that is—employed 655,- icies. pursuant to that law?; ting up. extensive, commit¬ The spectacular market performance of insurance stocks in 1961, ments to 000-workers in 1947 to turn immobility. Thus, ' is clearly pointed out by the annual study of investment company Well, in the first place if "the out 84,900,000 tons of steel, Management results conducted by Arthur Weisenberger & Co.,". major domestic chalpoints up—as more/abstract J New York City. -f., .while in I960 "r roughly. the reasoning has not been.able • lenge of the Sixties" is by no means as simple same number, of workers pro- -to do. for sa as is some- -■;» — Among 35 mutual funds whose principal ob.iective is growthmany—the ab- > of-capital; Life Insurance Investors was clearly the leader with a times apparently supposed. / duced nearly 100 million xons % 1961 -surdity of ''full employment';' ; * — : - | of ■ coal Bituminous steel. 0r maximum ' employ-; even is, of course, a well known ment as a national economic Phila. example, of the same sort of goal of any sort; If we must * Inv; Ass'n . r • gain in net asset value per- share plus capital gains (rein¬ vested)- and income dividends taken in cash of 102%. The average' net change for the group was 25% for the year. Similarly, in theJ study of funds whose investment objectives are both appreciation and satisfactory a income, the of performance "goal"—and NamesCommittees Trust, with better than 90% of its assets composed of insurance years.- From the national ao/|t is questionable whether we equities, was significantly better than the other 59 funds studied." PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—John J. F. counts., prepared -and The Eoston-b'ased fund had a gain of 57% for the pub- jshould spend too much time Sherrerd of Drexel & year compared', Co., Presi- 'i with an average of 24% for the group. ■lished by the-Department of with such paternalism — it , dent of The Investment AssociaInvestment funds continued to actively trade insurance equi¬ Commerce much broader sta- "should obviously be directed ^ tion " of. Philadelphia, announced ties during the fourth quarter. Putnam Growth Fund added to its •; tistics can be cited to show at maximum production, of the appointment of various comGovernment Employees, mittees of the Association to serve - holdings of American General Insurance, the same trend. All manufac- useful goods, and the tech-• for the ensuing year. Insurance and United Services Life during its fourth quarter, while " V turing in 1960 accounted for nique for promoting- such a * HarryJ. Kirby, Jr. of BIyth & reducing its holdings in Continental Casualty. The George Putnam some ; $121.5 billion in na- goal should be that of creat-; C<X, Inc. has been- named Chair- v Fund of Boston also reduced its holdings of Continental Casualty and established a substantial profit with its estimated cost of 315 man of the Program Committee. tional income with some ,16 mg and maintaining a general per share on its holdings. United Funds, Inc. added to its Travelers Other committee members are: million employes (full time, .climate in which private inand U, S. Fidelity & Guaranty and reduced its holdings of Security Richard Drayton of Smith,: Bar¬ equivalent), while as recently dustry can be expected / to ■ ney <Si Co.; Nicholas D. Meyer of " Insurance (New Haven). Madison Fund, eliminated its holding of Government Employees Insurance during the final quarter of 1961 • as 1950 national income pro- function most effectively and ' Hornblower & Weeks; F. Stanton by selling 8,230 shares. Dreyfus Fund added 1,500 shares of Han¬ duced in these industries vigorously. In such circum- Mayer of Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & ~ Co.; and John D. - over Insurance bringing its total holdings to 16,500 shares at year came to some $74.4 billion stances, such matters as. the , end. Fidelity Fund made an: initial commitment of 13,000 shares in. transformation in recent have some such Century Shares . : . . full million 15 with time number of and men Wallingfordfof Jennings, Mandel & Lorigstreth. ' .V Robert J. Caul-field of Equitable Securities Corporation has been named to head the Membership women Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Other insurance stocks pur¬ investment funds during the fourth quarter included • equivalent: employes. same in : Th e , trend is to be observed almost: all indeed, not in all of them.; production be engaged in and where and how if, industries, to to be they are .could engaged , Committee. Other members by Insurance Insurance and sold were U. Life .while S. balance. on Franklin Life and Home * , are: During the fourth quarter and throughout 1961, investment funds were buyers rather than sellers of insurance stocks on bal¬ Bailey of Hallowell, Sulzance. The management of the funds apparently continues to feel1 berger, Jenks, Kirkland; & Co.; V. Henry McK. Ingersoll of Smith, -- that insurance stocks represent fair values at present prices and Barney & Co.; Joseph E. Labrum.' are inclined to purchase or hold their insurance equities rather ,of Butcher & Sherrerd and Cam¬ than realize their sizable profits through sales. ' ? should be left to take care of * Aetna . and other highly itself. * - ' / 'significant facts in these comNow the President i and pilations which are not so fre- many of his advisers appear quently quoted; or even no- to suppose th^t-'thd ^hl^ol^ ticed by those •'who have so.; tion of this problem of fuller much to say about this mattes employment, - particularly as % But there chased Omar are . ■ ■... Thompson of The First Bostop,Corporation., " ; % .Tames. P. Roberts of Bicker, eron . • •' V •."•••• •• * 1 •# * • •■- . ■ • . ■ W ••• .'v f • ■,$ f -■■■';■ ,'.••• •. * of decreasing employment per thb 4 labor iorC& constantly° unit of output. As against a grows and as machinery -is 10% decline in the number steadily replacing hand; opof employes from 1950 to erations, is something they FOURTH Weeks & Co. and Norman T. Wilde ' of Jan.ney, Battles & E, W. Clark, QUARTER FIRE AND CASUALTY™^ • | i UNDERWRITING RESULTS Each the underwriting results oi the fourth quarter of insurance companies tend to be lost in the report- ! ing of the results for the full year. While the results of the first bers are:! Roger B. Decker of Dethree quarters of the year are given ample publicity, analysts tend Haven &, TownSfend, Crouter & .1960 in the automobile indus- term growth or expansion of Bodine and Robert S. March of ^ to pass over the results of the final three months in favor of study¬ ing the reported results for the entire year. Nevertheless, under¬ try, we find that those who the total productive mechan- Schmidt," Roberts & Parke. T writing results for the final three months are equally as significant contmued to work m this in- ism/ Nor does it The Auditing Committee con¬ appear to be^ as those of the first three quarters, and they are often the deter-; dustry. drew down 57% more very important in the official sists of S. Carter MbCall of Paine,' ..mining factor .as to whether the year's underwriting as a whole is/ ..Webber, Jackson & Curtis and Ed"- * /toted pay . Many rpf_ profitable or not. The figures are also invaluable in determining view as to how this growth, ward Roddy of Blyth & Co., Inc.;. >current trends in underwriting results. A " - ' •••; 1 manufacturing industries, qs be stimulated or reached, Inc. are co-Chairmen of the Enter- tainmeht Committee/ Other , // mem- * year fire and casualty the othfer , even when there has been no We in our minds; are"? 0wn 1961 of- •-decline in the total;humber qUtte Certain that .this.; is a ; employes,,., present ,|ho same vastly oversimplified view of;picture. Take chemicals-and the entire matter; Much moreallied products for example required than the public a rise of but 26% in the numattitude appears to believe— ber of employes and nearly a and much that is apparently 122% increase in the total thought to be necessary paid out to employes. Makers should be of food and kindred products plague. their payrolls in 1960, but paid out well over 60% more for what they got from their employes. All this seems .to place the so-called labor-saving devices Not Simple a broad of we come economic what There to consider the implications has; .been is Tittle going on. - as no ^compared with what thev might have had to pay had they not taken whatever steps " : is not to reduce labor costs much as merely to reduce ameliorate .inevitable .what was in Hartford , the Midwest Stock Exchange's two puter, more old I. Kramer. of by organized labor. ,,v factors for the business - : 0.5 8.5 3.0 11.5 15.8 —1.7 11.3 9.5 -2.1 .1 3.8 ,1.3 -4.8 9.0 —2.0 20.4 —6.8 9.4 0.8 Boiler Steam 11.9 —14.1 , , —9.3 1.6 3.3 —2.6 _ —1.9 - -2.0" .v \ name Mr. as -they Franklin were Roosevelt made them part and parcel of LOSSES FIRE exceeded ; $1 billion for the fifth consecutive year. Last year's total of $1,209 million represented an increase of 9.1% over 1960. Contributing to £ totals were the severe weather conditions expe¬ the country in the early months of 1961, the November fire losses in Los Angeles County and the continuing , last year's record rienced throughout expansion' of values in the nation from both dnflatian, and physical ' expansion. r. value, the National Fire Protection; Association estimated that 11,700 persons lost their lives in fires in the nation in 1961. The total represented an increase of 350 over . In addition to the loss of the previous and was the highest toll since 12,100 perished in year fires in 1954. , . - BANK LIMITED from offices in YORK CITY NEW / Office: * > " BANK Nin the Head 26, BISHOPSGATE, STOCKS London LONDON, E.C.3. Bulding under the .firm of Securities of Puerto Rico. Branches McFeely was formerly with Breakdown Portfolio & Government Sources of 54 13 Bond Income ST. JAMES'S S.W.I. PARLIAMENT STREET, SQUARE, S.W.I. I.;R. E. Investors Corp. most tor be as politicians at 1961 Estimated fire losses in the United States during 1961 Brothers Bulletin (Special to Thb FinangialChronicle) Request Bankers to Laird, Bissell & Meeds Members New York Stock associated "Shearson, Hammill;& Co. formerly Bakersfield -manager for Evans, MacCormack &/Company. T.v._ t Stock Exchange 12ft BROADWAY, NEW , He", was Telephone: Bell ■ * the Government in: UGANDA, Branches ADEN, • ZANZIBAR in: Exchange ~ Members Ameriean with • on -• BAKERSFIELD, Calif. —: Gerald G. McNutt has become Available KENYA. With Shearson, HammiUU appear the Washington 5.6 19.0 — _ St. Paul Fire & Marine BAYAMON, P. R. — Thomas McFeely is conducting a securities part grow either directly or when Year" 1.2% * NATIONAL AND GRINDLAYS wage earner less, rather more mobile just at a icies which done to them 6.5% -1.1% —1.0% Opens in Puerto Rico indirectly out. of public - poF conseauences Full 3rd Qr. ■ cant since the recent death of Har¬ quite, arbitrarily. now and which tend to make the to 2nd Qr; •' Peerless Insurance bility sacred - . so th^ Reported 1 EsthnatccI1- 0.2% -•/ National Fire operating subsidiaries—the Clear¬ ing Corporation and the Service ' • ' Corporation, James E. Day, Presi¬ dent of the 'Exchange, has an¬ Problem \nounced;-The appointment is ef¬ will accom- fective immediately. ;/..., v : .;: Profit Margins : -1st Qi\ - * • —3.0 CHICAGO, 111.—R. John Cunning¬ the or degree a / (consolidated) designed to do .centralized flexibility, in the adjustment of individ-- bookkeeping for member firms in various cities, around the country. uals to their own problems v The post of President of the and prospects are a sine qua Clearing Corporation has been va¬ these * ham has been named President of than were, available to -them to time avoid the horrible b u r d e n when a maximum flexibility that modern labor union tac- and mobility appear to be of .ties place upon them.- It is the utmost importance. And clear, however, that what They have succeeded in doing . Fidelity & Deposit. ground for/doubt that employers gen- non. There are a number of ' erally have saved labor costs factors which limit this Alexi¬ or - Continental Casualty Cunningham . 0f labor and - Aetna Insurance.--. Obviously, it plish little or nothing, for exMr/Cunningham has been chief ample, to retrain skilled consultant on centralized book¬ workers if they are to remain keeping for Arthur Young & Co., the Exchange's long-time auditing in places from which industry firm.; Hehas been i.n.:.charge pf and V1t 'automationn it'S^ll for one reason or another has the planning and installation of in a'somewhat different light fled.^ Much greater mobility the Service Corporation's com¬ when ;>■/. i. • . , on - . 1.5% fewer carried less than like avoided Underwriting —« ■ YORK 5, N. Y. BArclay 7-3500 Teletype NY 1-1248-49 Specialists in Bank Stocks INDIA,. PAKISTAN, CEYLON, KENYA, BURMA, TANGANYIKA,, ZANZIBAR, UGANDA, ADEN. SOMALI REPUBLICNORTHERN AND SOUTHERN RHODESIA * 24. -The Commercial *and Financial Chronicle (944) /"/Thursday, February^22, 1962 trends the and home . in inters : nomic ^activity,,,the! expansion-;of widely vagr^ed; that ' progress / at favored* r the '-business. Joans feven Jpftbellitter bjpst Hs Jikely4o«be slow and" grad¬ degree of partyof the year may be at least ual. Meanwhile; the signs point stability in the money- market, -seasonal proportions, v. ' ;: •'?' Jo /another large deficit in 1962, In sum, therefore, ^demands for particularly present prospects both - on the since Jmports: have domestic scene and in our;, inter¬ consumer credit, real estate loans "already increased sharply in re¬ national accounts suggest a tight¬ and loans Jo business wall may, be cent months in -response to the Continued from page 1 prevent them from responding to ening of market conditions and. d expected 'to display considerable hiigher level of, industrial; activ¬ / • policy, was strikingly different the basic forces of the market firming .of rates, in 1962. strength; * In addition; currenf in¬ ity and 'are, expected to; continue The Business Background "O It dications " are that Jhe ? from, that followed during 4the re- P^iee. These generally satisfac- national; ^finance of maintenance • » .fair a ' ; - coveries from results make it reasonable when- the-;te xexpetJdhat the new open mar- 1953-1954 and the tory , Treasury Upward hS'the ekpa:nsion in busi- is widely though not unanimous¬ .will- be ; a net borrower 'ifi Jhe "5ness cohtinues. r" •; ' ; ly agreed that-the course of husi- market this calendar ^yeaF .Jo the This ; development . Jaisesr^ the ness activity is: likely- to. continue extentbi hazard .that foreigmreeipients;wOf" upward for the next six months more,' *or "almost -asymueh- as - ift dollars may / prefer ;to transfer , 1957-1958-reeessions,. /Treasurjr actively endeavored: to vket technique/ will continue to lengthen the maturity of its in- be employed as a tool of policy, debtedness through new cash ofRegulation Q Another new at least. This conclusion' is sup¬ ferings. In addition, the new ap- factor m the money market is the ported by: the record of the past proach to the market on the part permission granted insured com- and 'by- the behavior of the vari¬ of the Federal Reserve entailed mercial banks, effective Jan. 1, to ous forecasting devices, including important sales of short-term se- pay up to 3/2% on .sayings de- especially the "leading business " - , curities through much of the year, Open Market Operations -— Tne market technique al- new open lowed the Federal Reserve in posits, and on time deposits and certificates with a maturity of 612 months, and up to 4% on deposits 3nd certificstes held 3t lcsst successfully with a one year The previous maximum policy objectives ra e had been 3%. which has become increasingly The purpose of this move, acfrequent in recent years. At home; cording to the Federal Reserve's the slack in the economy and the official announcement on Dec. 1, absence of inflationary psychol- w„as (1) to increase the freedom ogy suggested that credit should of action of commercial banks m 1961 deal to divergence of indicators," which suggest that a cyclical expansion is con¬ tinuing. It is also supported by the current rise in expenditures in various strategic sectors of the normal J economy. Looking beyond mid - 1962, opinions become more divergent. A minority of economists foresee an early end to the curret ex¬ pansion, with signs of weakness appearing as the year wears on. Opposed to this is the view that remain readily available in order to encourage and assist in the ex- competing for time and savings deposits; (2) to enable the banks pansion of business activity. International financial conditions, however, indicated the propriety of holding money market rates at levels sufficiently attractive to avoid encouraging an outflow of funds to foreign centers. to compete more vigorously for the economy is embarked upon a deposits held by foreigners, who boom which may gather momen¬ otherwise withdraw their tum and persist well into 1963. funds from the United States in Majority opinion, however, en¬ search of better returns abroad; dorses the expectation of a sus¬ an<* ^ IP^.e it possible for tained economic e xp a h s i o n the commercial banks to provide through the current year, but c_. fi,0 continued folfow to added incentive for the sav- an Rucuvuu the poticy of aggressive credit ease which it pursued in the 1960-61 business million level, thereby mofb-oriixr \xrUu consfderable cieffollowed fn ■ this is period ahead h3nk an™™ jeTof ,0,Jh?r rates on savings deposits c"ies have.a'f their con«ah of the advance in the latter half; to 1958* the new ceiling, but many other 59 when the rise In business banks, reluctant to add to their activity was ^companied by ma- £sts' .have as f*taken n0 actio.n' 195A 55 and pattern broadly compar¬ in the previous two business cycles. able a to At that the view moment, supported hand. by majority this be to seems the best one evidence the at Consumer goods buying is unlikely to remain strong beyond if that long; the housing market is showing signs of satu¬ reserves The ease in is to the market' interestingly enough, wfw LI ir has been to reduce yields on ration; and except for an inter¬ iheri demonstrated. by the .excep- jong _ term tax - exempts as the national crisis, a big rise in gov¬ ernment spending appears to be banks strove to offset the prosthe adverse state of io MHmotS 1 ' pective increases in their interest ruled out byof payments. Devel¬ ave ex~ costs through greater investments our balance ceedea tnat ot ?Q^R in such securities/ Obviously, opment- of a vigorous and. pro¬ However; the Federal Reserve however, it is still too early to tracted econopiic advance would was able to maintain easy credit depend' '"largely upon the, determine how or whether" the thus without significantly depressing banks will actually succeed in achievement of a sizable increase the general level of money marin business investment outlays, recouping their added costs, and ket rates. In fact, until it bought what the ultimate effects which appears doubtful unless upon terial reductions in net 7116 free immediate in consequence a year, credft Hpnniita I • short terni - months to market offset npf maturing in seasonal pressures, cnn^mfnn« tons securities , the recent changes in the tax laws and rul¬ ings provide some effective in¬ Thus,, the most reason¬ ther innovation was tne decision able business outlook upon which of the commercial banks in New to base an appraisal of the money J ~York and other leading cities market is that of a gradually or less, early in 1961 to accept time denever- Dosj+~ from business cornorations moderating uptrend though 1982. «Anpnenf {„ !>«! xraL in one year the money market, money Federal Certificates oj Substantial reserves were theless supplied to the market through purchases of, Treasury of. longer maturity. mid-February 1961-which incidentally marked the low month in business activity-Jo securities From the end of Reserve the the Federal year, made estimated net ac- quisitions of nearly $2 billion in the 1-5 year maturity range, of some $600 million in the 5-10 year bracket, and of more than $100 million in maturities r*. It L of is exceeding 10 • course termine whether .. . , , impossible to deor not this oper- ation effectively encouraged investment activity in 1961. The data do not permit ascertaining whether the proceeds of longer term .Treasury securities sold to Federal Reserve did in fact enhance the demands for real the estate mortgages and corporate bonds, or whether the proceeds on balance were placed in shortterm obligations, thereby substan- tiaUy neutralizing economic "W °Pen market technioue tecnnique. In the event, however, market developments have been consistany o , Objectives ot the Credit Federal Reserve. available in remained all sectors of tne mar- will be. ' Deposit—A fur- „ Well as Dublirbodies from as interest-bearine an™ Even this view of S m^- fle^ andtheneedof to^omnete^ ^-Lively tlm for Sff 5 .of ae- te4 wearshavebeen olmonev instruments TrLsurv in - bills V" rkmS, but In mainlv the New the'certtiicates have been issued in large denominations, usually of at least $1 million. A these and market for has developed working satis- secondary certificates seems to be factorily. - While banks oractices to vary conduct certitioate of to at was not long-term attempting interest pre-determined levels peg rates or to With the - road having recently their buying ©f auto¬ consumers pects up that. instalment are will increase and the credit materially demand for in 1962, real estate credit, including construction loans, is likely to respond to the higher volume of. residential building and commercial con¬ struction presently under way. .. In addition, demands for loans are likely to strength¬ substantially- this year. Busi¬ to business most en ness - : *• - vert ' apparent that the deposit increase spiral. been Jhe practice * of the moner suredly, the commerciar banking^ system appears in a fairly ;good tary authorities of several im¬ An even more position to meet these prospective portant countries. borrowing requirements. / The serious risk is that the resulting outflow of gold from the United commercial banks have behind States may lead to renewed ques¬ them a year of huge deposit growth. Although tlie; figures are tioning of the dollar abroad and still approximate, it ' is already further losses of gold in a vicious 1961 of of the economy. This cial " Some months of may duous testing Unlike the in innovations that well face more arin the year ahead, the economic., recent available huge growth in commer¬ deposits has facilitated an improvement in loan and de¬ posit ratios. Bank holdings of Treasury obligations last year are about to have $51/2. .. increased billion. by be Moreover, when maturity, the commercial banking system has achieved a significant shifted to London However, it should be kept in that,- - with the issuance ■ * of negotiable certificates of deposit, fluctuations In . the money ket affect not merely bank assets but to a heightened " extent' now also bank liabilities/ The international accounts and restor?- outstanding at the end of 1961 was about $1 bil¬ lion for the New York City, banks, informed almost as for banks estimates much . was outstandin g outside New York. pered tainty by as Al¬ continuing uncer¬ whether further in¬ market' rates accompanied by addi¬ the tional increases ceilings in interest time to enable the • past, when environment at and favorable less of the 1960-61 at the As a in the recent past, to credit policy prompted more largely international rather than by measures commercial by banks to considerations. domestic cates States, balance * Implications for There! gold. During the latter half of nominal, reached . a g a are as effect for the /past 18 months or However,, conditions in the. so; fortunately are materially :improved over those that prevailed, in the; latter half of 1960 and. the early months of domestic economy 1961, when the strain oh the dollar most pronounced. This greatly narrows the divergence between was the domestic and international ob¬ jectives of Federal Reserve policy and allows credit policy a freer hand in dealing with renewed pressures on the dollar, should Jhey materialize in the year ahead. Prospects 1961, in substantial /proportions. o no e to for and financial to Restraint — At be sure, the business scene, at home does suggest the.need for an actively, restrictive to the first half of 1962, policy. There given in the economy, However, Efforts are being made to redress continuing rise in eco- this disequilibrium, but "it is Credit Policy j yet no indications of a shift away from Jhe policy of credit Case that has been in not a than "run." market in the period ahead may well find itself exposed, to a greater degree than Q, in keep the deposit certifi¬ competitive > with other money market instruments, r As long as the uncertaintv .persists, the possibility of significant de¬ in Congress, credit Federal Reserve result, the money rate under Regulation might be .necessary Which order trend to be and : the policy nevertheless have major implications for gold movements. Should pressures on the dollar in¬ tensify in 1962, they would find gold reserves smaller, short-term liabilities to foreigners larger, and the basic balance of payments in' money would confidence the dollar rests with the Adminis¬ tration though this is still a small amount relative to corporate holdings of some $20 billion of Treasury ob¬ ligations, the more aggressive promotion of certificates is ham¬ creases international ing that -conditions are uncovered Consequently, while, basic re¬ sponsibility for redressing our - volume of such certificates and on an relatively high interest rates pre¬ vailing there since last summer. mar¬ fairly of loan demands from the second . basis in order .to benefit from the mind steel and shifting yield Furthermore, not all short-term qf its;'•liquidity. This : suggests that: unless the Federal investors cover their, risks. The cost' of hedging against Reserve tightens its policy mate¬ foreign rially, the commercial banks, as exchange rate fluctuations; may a group should be able to absorb vary within a wide margin; al¬ the higher loan demands in pros¬ though high coverage costs have pect qver the • months to come in recent months greatly reduced without the development of sub¬ the net yield advantage in the stantial pressures or stringencies British market, nevertheless siz¬ in the money market. able funds have reportedly been ; present, some of gold; stock tends to subside. ?.■ rebuilding ing in the United midyear, York to differential is nominal, the pressure on the gold the the balance of payments deficit, which earlier in the year had been strike' at of New out attracted of a Treasury contribute to the outflow the this could result in British on since the added government secu¬ rities have been largely of short of payments position and Jhe re¬ sumption of a significant outflow period immediately ahead by the building of inventories by steel users as a precaution against United bills, after allowing for the cost of covering the foreign exchange risk, significantly exceeds the rate on Treasury bills in the New York market, sufficient funds seem to bank estimated upon and hence in Prospects Ahead the States demands for business loans may be accelerated the of short- importantly af¬ fect the movements of gold. The data indicate that when the yield , Conceivably the flow bearing term funds-to and from the deposits, and of the money supply in general, is adequate to meet the current liquidity needs onthlc'ertifioates The strategic conclusion that the volume of de¬ ft . money of are mand TVoaaflJhln' exceptionally robust. market conditions influence. The comparative returns available in foreign ir oney markets, and above all in London, have a decisive Here exceed the record $14 billion rise registered in 1958. Moreover, Over two-thirds of last year's expansion was in the time deposit category, supporting the may . be substantial portion, of these dollars into gold," as has a- added Banking adiuTt mLket " means;; rj;' As^ The Tmonev have emerged in the money market in the course of the past 12 Reserve - mobiles and other durables, pros¬ their market rates fluctuated within eral of debnsit with other money market instruments but below the new ceilings, a - business in: 1962.' pressure corporations u ad e r t o o k heavy tax borrowings last De¬ business as maricet oDer- cember, and their borrowings in posit losses to the commercial banks cannot be wholly ignored. aUon and to ra es to the next several months are ex¬ The Payments Problem —• In¬ chanees in monev rates pected to 'be: boosted by the liSu j'ThJ financing requirements of con¬ creasingly in recent years, inter¬ yield , the year end the pre-' tinuing. inventory : accumulation national monetary 4 developments and higher receivables as well as have become a potent considera¬ vail in e rates by were the ceiUngs permitted by and the rise in outlays on plant tion in the- money market/ The equipment, currently in progr "dollar problem," which; emerged Regulation Q, namely, 2y2% on ress. .Past maturities between 90 days and experience suggests conspicuously- in the latter part 6 months, and .3% on maturities that When -business inventories of 1960 but abated early in 1961, and investment expenditures are has in recent months in excess of six months. Since the -moved start of the 1962, quotations have both expanding, as they are to¬ closer to foreground once been raised to levels competitive day, loan demands are likely to more with the renewed worsen¬ aDDear neeotiable ket, the capital markets met even a record pace of corporate borrowing in the spring of 1961 without significant congestion, and bond yields as well as money relatively narrow, range. Moreover, it is evideiit that the Fed- middle the outlook, however, implies a significant ex¬ pansion in short-term credit re¬ quirements in the months ahead. stepped fove^ market more shon Prospective Credit Demands and certifi- ■ eotiabie centives; their /receipts demands iirtply^ that • basic mar¬ pace slowing down tinguedNetVlLcrtu:rSmhoauVndCthn,; $500 the with abroad- j- which selling tfreir. dollar. holdr ket forces " are ' likely v' to- - place zings to their /eehtral banks—and short-term rates judder ^upward that the, eehtral banks will con¬ 1961.These -increafsed for credit, a shift' credit is still some slack both in manpower ly and higher than would, be ex¬ pected on domestic grounds alone. industrial prices in arid facilities; aggregate are still fairly stable;' credit demands to * tlate have riot been unduly vigorous; there is little evidence of a spread¬ the * read at the annual meeting of the American Finance Asso¬ ciation, New York City, Based on a paper (945)- Chronicle Number 6136; .The Commercial and Financial 195 Volume American Stock Exchange Elects ' To Board of Governors American Bldg. ' Maintenance Ind. Edwin Posner . inflation psychology. However, current trends in busi¬ ness activity and in short-terrii financing requirements make it unwise to expect credit policy to remain easy for an extended peing boom or American ' !nod..It'^ohl^l certainly be impru¬ dent, if hot dangerous, for a credit * --i & Allen New Francisco Co.j New York City, is tries, Inc.. through the offering of 210,000 shares; at $6.50 per share. , strengthen,' and when the invironment may be less resistant to inflationary tendencies. • • ./.*• ^ - , to • could well scene dent and director who preted by some as evidence that flexible credit policy has been im¬ inspiring further paired, thereby the concerning anxieties shares of com¬ upon . inter¬ be number total the Of offered, 183,000 are being sold for company, and 27,000 for the account of A. Ray Smith, Presi¬ the Failure of the Federal Reserve respond to the changed eco¬ nomic * dollar. pletion of the sale, will own 687,188 shares, or 75% of the com¬ pany's then outstanding stock. from the sale of its 183,000 shares will initially be Net proceeds added the to associates a held Feb. one-year term as governors .Chairman of the the at 12.; * members' " . specialist and partner in Andrews, Posner & Roths- of¬ are Building Maintenance Industries capital stock at $16 per share. This stock of Standard Indus¬ common and A stock elected to Exchange board of fering 151,000 shares of American y making.' the> ioitialvpublic sale of policy designed to meet a reces¬ sion to be carried over into a period when the economy is ex¬ panding to ever higher peaks, when upward pressures on com¬ modity prices are likely to Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Inc., York City, Sutro & Co., San was Stock elections annual Carl M. Standard Indust. ; Common Offered ■' 25 is the first public offering of .the stock of the San Franciscobased company, .which provides janitorial, window cleaning and building maintenance services. The company, business founded to a ago in successor 52 years San Francisco, and its subsidiaries, operates in 66 American and Cana¬ dian communities istered under trademark, Janitor." The for counts Pacific 70% some the "The reg¬ Giant Coast of ac¬ its Wm. P. S. Earle, Jr. Harold F. Driscoll Edwin Posner rev¬ enues. Company's general American Building Maintenance Subsequently, is selling 40,000 of the shares. The¬ the company intends to use the odore Rosenberg and Sidney J. proceeds to reduce its accounts Rosenberg, Chairman and Presi¬ latedly, will need to be quick and payable, and to reduce the por¬ dent, respectively, are selling the drastic, thus hindering a smooth tion of its equipment purchase remaining 111,000 shares, while and gradual shift; this might not notes due within one year. The jointly retaining 79.6% of the com¬ only unsettle the credit markets balance of the proceeds will be pany's capital stock. funds. corporate Moreover, it would create the risk that restrictive action, taken be¬ the and when it occurs, generate fears of future economy but might the in unsettlement and bond markets even while credit money policy remained unchanged. The prospects for credit tighten¬ ing are supported also by develop¬ world ments in policy can Credit markets. contribute to the de¬ first, by help¬ fense of the dollar, restrain the development excesses in borrowing, spending ing of to and investing, which to some de¬ are an inevitable concomi¬ tant of expanding business activity, gree which but to deficit the to add international our ^ dollar; be against the credit policy pressures Secondly, used foster to level a in and payments can of money in the United States market rates designed to make it more attrac¬ . used increase to working capital. Tulsa, Okla., operates its through three divisions. in Headquartered Standard business The Industries Division Construction agencies, covering construction of highways, roads, streets and air¬ fields. The Aggregate Division produces . and sells r sand and crushed limestone products and the background continuing large deficit i h our balance of payments, it would not of a be if the Federal Re¬ surprising the in serve of course 1962 1961, giving effect to certain busi¬ pronounced concrete of ture lime. The Division agricultural and Ready-Mix produces and Concrete sells con¬ crete which is mixed in company- concrete and be sold: to is builders, small individuals. *" the to This used. large industrial contractors, home transit general - accounts, contractors • ' K '■* - were der not only to attraction ket but or¬ increase the yield the New of to also in measures York give mar¬ clear and positive proof of its determination to defend the dollar. / nues ended Oct. 31, 1961, com¬ pared with $25,943,423 in the pre¬ ceding fiscal year. Consolidated net income from ations Stock Sold 1958-59, the Federal Reserve by the the con¬ shifted its policy in response to the behavior of the economy. In the former period, restraint was imposed slowly and, according to some critics, be¬ of latedly; in the latter period, the spicuously and So tising, new product development and working capital. ; . the pal products of the far has been cited current as a business in contrast to the two earlier plastic it upward, appears that bank re¬ assume to prevent market forces from exerting upward pres¬ sures as on money, However, unless . market rates. full-fledged a boom should take hold—which present to seems likelihood — the the be Federal at lesser Reserve be expected to favor a gradual rather than am abrupt may shift to more a restrictive policy. Consequently, the best company cowboys, are soldiers, Bonds Marketed First National conclu¬ Form Herbert of Weissberg Sees. ing group which on Feb. 15 pub-^ licly offered $89,400,000 3.40%, 3% tion 680 Fifth Avenue, City, publicly-held hotel organization, has announced today the formation of Weissberg (OTC), York Securities f Corporation an as underwriting organization for the acquisition of income-producing real estate properties. Mr. Weissberg said that Weiss¬ berg Securities Corporation had been formed to underwrite syndi¬ sion at this time is that basic fac¬ cations tors point to higher money market such as rates, but it is unlikely that credit trial properties, will and other tighten 1959 or reach the that the end as drastically interest rates high peaks set of as that -year. in will around Even so, should pressures on the dollar as¬ sume serious proportions, market rates may rise more money rapid¬ of real estate properties shopping centers, indus¬ office buildings prime real estate hold¬ ings in various parts of the coun¬ try. These acquisitions will be made in addition to properties in. the hotel field in which the Weissberg Corporation the B. E. Teichgraeber general obligation vari¬ bonds, due March 1, 1992, inclusive, at prices to from 1.70% to 3.50%, ac¬ cording to maturity. ous Robert A. Podesta Norman M. Leff . and 2 l/2% purpose 1963 to • yield members group the of under¬ include: Bankers Trust Co.; Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York; The First Boston Corp.; Smith, Barney & Co.; Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; First National Bank of Chicago; Continental Illinois Na¬ •; tional Bank and Trust Co. of Chi¬ cago; y National Mellon Bank Trust & child, Mr; Posner was elected President pro tern of the ASE on exchange member since 1921, he was first elected to the board in 1925. He was Vice-President in 1932 and 1933, is major national chains. H. R. one & Co.; Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Phelps, Fenn & Co.; White, Weld & Co. V. a; ' -1 ■ . ■■■'.■' Jan. 22, 1962. An Vice-Chairman in 1942, 1943 and 1944 and Board Chairman and \• President pro tern in 1945 and 1946. Mr. Posner has served a total Berry Door Corp. ; Common Offered of & Co., South 501 Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Net pro¬ ceeds will be used by the company for the of repayment debt and of 23 years as a governor. The company Birmingham, Rd., manufactures commercial for doors and Mich., distributes buildings, and an auto¬ matic garage door operator which includes a portable transistor unit permitting the opening of doors garage from closing" inside an member ■ governors • .■ were the past. non-regular member governors were as Emil J. Haus¬ Baker, Weeks & Co.; Solomon Litt, Asiel & Co.; Podesta, Cruttenden, Podesta & Co.; W. Allen Taylor, E. mann, & Co.; resi¬ and dential regular as Mr. Brown have served in Elected of 2400 East Lin¬ * William P. S. Earle, Jr., independent commission broker; Norman M. Leff, stock specialist; William F. Neubert, Cowen & Co. commission broker; John C. Turner, stock specialist; William C. Willis, Jr., Bache & Co. commission broker, all for three-year terms, Harold F. Driscoll, independent commission broker; Bernard E. Teichgraeber, Thomson & McKinnon commission broker, both for two-year terms and Phillip W. Brown, Smith, Barney & Co., for a one-year term. Messrs. Earle, Leff, Turner, Willis, Driscoll and Teichgraeber were elected to board posts for the first time. Mr. Neubert and Elected working capital. coln William C. Willis John C. Turner Co.; C. J. Devine & Co.; Salomon Brothers & Hutzler; Kuhn, Loeb Moore R. Weissberg, President the H. R. Weissberg Corpora¬ New- City Bank of New York is manager of an underwrit¬ Offering of 40,000 common shares of Berry Door Corp., at $7.50 per •share is being made by Raymond ex¬ in 1962 will be provided so liberally trucks, horse and rider sets. and pansions. Obviously, with business continuing illogical to 58 or . The company of 321 Rider Ave., New York City, is engaged in the the policy makers. too abrupt, cycle, the Federal Reserve has not yet moved to a policy of restraint, serves short-term in this reproach and share, a cents in fiscal 1960. for the reduction bank loans, adver¬ to rapid was continuing oper¬ period was 1961 company design, fabrication, assembly and marketing of a widely varied line of approximately 350 plastic toys, games and novelties. The princi¬ response the $523,749, equal to 75 cents compared with $403,715, writing for Interest Rates —• expanding phases of the business cycle in both 1954-55 and Outlook In in W. Allen Taylor Emil J. Hausmann year Other Lido Corp. Flomenhaft, Seidler & Co., Inc., 63 Wall St., New York City, is of¬ fering publicly 84,000 common shares of Lido Corp., at $3.25 per share. Net proceeds will be used ' discontinued, showed reve¬ of $27,517,290 for the fiscal ness to be confronted with the nchd to take and five af¬ asphaltic concrete,' used in the building of dams, highways, roads, streets, airports, bridges and buildings, and the manufac¬ to abroad.; Against en¬ governmental local and state hold funds here and to owned trucks, in . reduce incentives to transfer fund#, -site where it is to tive is gaged in the performance of con¬ struction contracts, substantially all of which are with Federal, The consolidated earnings state¬ ment of the company filiates merged into it on Sept. 27, Robert A. F. Hutton all for three-year terms. Messrs. Hausmann, Podesta and Taylor were elected to board posts for the first time. Mr. Litt has Elected to a three-year term served in the past. as trustee of the gratuity fund John A. Ludlow, J. A. Ludlow & Co. was or automobile. J. M. Lishan Co. Opens Now Corporation (Special to The Financial Chronicle) BEVERLY ST. HILLS, Calif. M. Lishan is ties business from Wilshire name PAUL, — John Smith engaging in a securi¬ Blvd., under " now firm the business cers M i n n.—Robert L. Pioneer Building, is conducting 8530 offices at of J. M. Lishan & Co. Co., are as a its investment corporation. Offi¬ L. Smith, Jr., Robert President and Treasurer; I, L. Smith, Secretary; Jerry H. Cole¬ man, and Thomas C. Savage, Vice-Presidents; C. A. Brown, As¬ sistant Secretary, Smith III, and Robert L» Assistant Treasurer. 26 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (946) vided Wages, Non- that 2 cents improvement tne of year used to health about ment officials Continued from page 3 each dependent maximum to four. up weekly SUB welfare payment In introduced income weekly scheduled and a short The fits pension plan increases bene¬ to $2.80 month per year of a service. This is of the highest amounts in any noncontributory pension program in manufacturing industry. For the steel industry, one minimum:, $2.50 pension month for a service through thereafter. The benefits each 1959 GM and maximum extended also for This The 1960 steel benefits tract the pattern contract. in to For con¬ be example, rise be td shifted is payment of $580 is provided. No comparable provision is found in the The contract. automobile negotia¬ taking place, President Kennedy asked the steel industry to increase Oct. 1, 1961 in wage without up increasing steel was impor¬ prevent any inflationary tant 1960 in steel wages follow similar a connection Spring. with One procedure wages may ask cents next two the in was current in cost to finance the of living adjustment was to be made, the Union claimed that in 2 cents next due while U. S. Steel was actuaries amount estimated the entire the fits. costs, whv did it not warn against the magnitude of the automobile ating, the parties finally agreed that the cost of living wage in¬ settlements? crease appears While difficult precise to esti¬ obtain, elear costs bv between productivity that a that they did not speak out i7ations next ways the than pious general-* concerning what it will Spring. Steel is not al¬ bellwether that govern¬ of carefully the game established are written into bargaining agreements. a basis for contract • - agreed upon, they would be met in part by reducing the annual improvement factor some lower from 2M% to figure agreed upon by the company and the union. General Motors agreement The pro¬ principle is - . job.peded. as and attention In " seems, logical inflationary limits. * technology very c • nholders. * . Impact Technological Change In the past few years, there has been increasing emphasis The upon new non-wage against effects * of technological workers. upon the as labor adverse result a the of change cri-rron where even snort short the faTls change automation ot of ,4 ™ automation ' .. c, far fal . ■ Numerous illustrations could be of the growing concern in cited collective bargaining with, probcushioning the shock of of new; technological For and the developments, example, the General Electric Westinghouse i960 contracts provided rate each for of at termination week's one of year with * service least In pay at wages for for three those years of the recently signed agreements by Armour and Swift, provision was made for income- protecting arrangements where jobs disappear due to technology, employees with at least Those five years' seniority receive either may severance elect to pay or technological displacement pay based on length of service. Over tte past six yearssupplemental: unemployment benefit plans have been introduced bile, steel, dustries. In in rubber, the and automocan in- longshoring, in-New Provision on the payroll for to -. for The cause. em¬ The tected. to leave the sons stitutes " to .employer does not replace * employees* who job for any of the rea¬ ' noted workers are a b e.' Moreover, replaced by sub- o v not during . vacations^, holbperiods of illness. • The result /is.: a ; .-steadily ; declining days, - or of number workers retained for. the designated positions. - ^ Adjustment through- ^attrition .. Cost fired have adaptation 40 on dies, retires, transfers to ah. job, quits voluntarily, is or provide/more can ~be passed til he ployee rather than the job is pro*- accompanying .mimimizes the adverse effect of technological change upon the worker... Workers employed prior loss in competi- ..to a -specified date—usually the economies ; date of the notice abolish of intention to the contract between Southern Pacific Railroad combined to proposals ease the the forced shall hot be retained. provision have .been short-term with ing that workers older desigpatedr; age . (e.g., 60 logical developments. Various telegraphers. a program may ment of older workers by pr0§rams d<?3igoed,to cushion the unemployment impact of techno. made the and Howeverr such £>st a,nd Position, These Sf^ J13*16. A easier to bear the burden involved in concern- ing automation, new impetus has upon.. smaller a uncovered is the case Technological changes, ?n other hand, yield benefits However, to a company by improving its fears ■! 'ally, the employee is retained un^- Such " provisions contracts/ - adversely by technological change retained :to be long have been included in scattered ■• job—may be assured n0 ™eans °f ^nancing unemploy- •a job for a designated period of : years or for life as in the recent Pro&rams. Just the contrary benefit, namely, protection to adjustment affected jesses attending !"lve P°sltton or cyclical declines in volume since the latter proy.de • a /- labor force may be achieved with no adverse effect on the existing " .technological developments must be distinguished from revenue of • " Any healthy development and help to consumers and to the . workers m keep labor cost increases within /an/industry as well as to stock- Cushioning the ' *.•. Attrition ,.-v.v • less and men. so that the benefits of new annual a accept this keynote must;,be benefits adjustments" would ' be a veto connection, the •designated periods of time or un¬ shorter work week is no solution; til certain events occur even it would only spread partial emthough their jobs have been en¬ ployment. -Moreover, a company gineered out of existence/ Usu- insur- of become , union alternative job opport¬ to plan their finan¬ cial affairs with the impending >-layoff in mind. It also gives the company and the union as well as a community time to adjust to the transition and to find new job for the -displaced opportunities given to the and> non-wage a sole Prior changes. Advance notice, how¬ •» clear. gives program ^adopted must be • designed to protect the worker, not 'work force by attrition; thai [ .the i is made for employees developments may mark trenddn labor negotiations seniority. industry this the cost of the non-wage benefits This would appear to be better evidence of the administra¬ do rules pensions vyithin-the framework lems provides that if the funds available from profit sharing are not adequate to meet in¬ intent be Motors creases. tion's the cents. same principle has been recog¬ nized in the contracts agreed upon in 1961. Thus, the American against cost negoti¬ industry ex¬ it abundantly In the automobile the inflationary labor makes that IV2 Otnerwise they become additional bargaining. spreading finance steel collective President and the Secretary of Labor requested the negotiators to avoid a strike. But these be recent when such offsets of this rate of increase from the pattern setting automobile indus¬ try would undoubtedly create additional wage inflation. It is true to of insurance bene¬ considerable should must 5% and 6% for first year. This is so far be¬ yond the national rate of increase the in cost After perience that the automobile agree¬ increase total labor will ments high The it required was to unusually large Propor- Protection^ fora^worker with long during the life of the con-'seniority than foi-a worker with A further integration of ;fhort/ seniority, v The^ underlying of of >■ ~ the proposed technologi- over unities .lowcaL.change?, w.q^fe^e^inir such cal not ever, gives some of the-affected workers the time to seek out and assume wage In December cents - must which power shifting fromrfnumber of jobs is frozen, techno- benefits more tract. hour in each of insurance program. Then in Octo¬ ber 1961, when the most recent cost been .:v : r the remain must the' jobT To; the " exfept arrangement. ; The an ■ One ex- '' ' new the increase wage an 3 of about excessive increases in labor are to cost, the expense used was not too many years was and : device bene-Hnuraker.°M°]3S,ls frozen...-It. also ex¬ question in this connection. If this administration really is concerned mates It new consulation of are, informational. concerning - / cost of liberalized non-wage fits where those benefits threaten' steel "settle¬ years. full workers naive a can¬ living allowance due to the steel next Spring when a new contract will be negotiated. In effect, Mr. Ken¬ nedy was imposing jawbone price control on prices and promising to e then living to 3 t. movement fringes insurance part at the of prices. He also said it to of cost There manner. installation machines and equipment are course, These could be financed in whole excess or of some Deci¬ be of adverse / i m p a c t of technological ' change upon empioyees should be cushioned in is package that consultation and function of management. by new technology, Accordingly, there has been a growing body'of opinion that the non-wage increases/IL wage adv- of purpose notice should fected spiralling such with benefits. Tuere January'"196U of the cost the were the to primary * sions ^as no obligation to persons who iave not worked for it nor does it total cost of an agreement and {i?ve.an obligation to maintain provision made for a shift from ^he. strength of the union Such wage increases to financing the obligations are implied when the a a provided that to the extent cost cess absorb of higher a beneiits, it has necessary to ..tie them in closely with wage increases. ment the current steel union's part The vance Protect the Worker Not the. Job ; non-wage been the that it would have been Witn the increasing importance of * tions al¬ more the in ance. ignored in determining the overallnmpact; of a settlement. between plants and the marital status of the worker; A maximum to the to Advaqce Notice and Consultation can. ke granted in short-term Y emphasis has not be plant relocation related limit a being reality recognition that a important measures .may,, be helpful. ■ ■/.:;; '; ' diverse opinions as to what programs should be adopted. to has been recognition of the fact tu'at these While forego iong one is is increase However, been tremely difficult, it not impossible, to commit the union members ar¬ bargaining to finance 1961 miles tions to pro¬ another.. This lowance collective the from wage protection, agreements has been the moving take important. ago Offsets level of non-wage time, Motors are SUB diver- straight wage increases wage increase de*- are of vision. in 40 such '. One of the recent developments some They measure. more are en- society.-Technological unemployment> however, has been an acCOmpanying development which bas been viewed with concern despite the long term record of a growing number of job opportunities as technology has impr0ved. At the point of impact of such changes the burden falls heavily upon those workers who are "engineered" out of their jobs, L0ng term increases in the number of jobs provide no solace to those directly and adversely af- this into such developments, approvingly and are COUraged by most segments clear that only a annual improvement an non-wage agreement first ingly, cost of fringes undoubtedly helps explain why UAW agreed to this type of pro- 1955 contract. allowance - for workers transferred when opera¬ tions is during willingness a>. under current Wage agreed viewed unnec- increases the cost of the entire rangements in the automobile in¬ if insur¬ or an . seems there has there that wage maintained program (uncontrolable) Thus, it may that seen by offsetting against possible cost of living adjustments. General factor weeks. work in vides hour each increases in insurance costs in the steel industry have been absorbed the place, it short work weeks and for Thus, • retroactive paid are extent from liction of dustry have been changed signifi¬ cantly from those found in the the next three years, GM workers are to pay V4 of the increase. In contrast, For the The short only 120 days in steel. Similarly, the maximum coverage in group life insurance is $9,500^ at General Motors and fates SUB "unscheduled" at GM and runs for ance To sions years ago (planned) hospitalization $6,50()pin steel. However, original interim fund. job security. Howall of these provisions usually T are not found in a single x;1,. ■ - weeks. 52 addition 50% extends up to 365 days coverage a each hour under 40 in "scheduled" However, the superior to those obtained by steel workers. appear to $40 addition, increases provided for payments only when a worker was unemployed. The recentlysigned agreement grants payments for partial layoffs: 65% of the employee's pay is guaranteed for the paid under the GM increased pay ^ound to be are In ,essary. the length of time was to signed six noncontributory basis. on a follows 39 for agreement the 25%. The insurance program has been placed made be 1961 payments in increased disability and early retirement benefits as well as improved vested pension rights. provides to the issue of mechanization • Moreover, 1958, the SUB program was tied in with severance pay. In 1961, severance pay was increased by of $2.60 contract to was week and are year SUB liberalized were es*- proper a program of action. ever, . ments been have determine to signed primarily to develop pro¬ grams which are most applicable The depletion of the SUB fund ixrthe industry or company -in contract nor are any of the provi; at ..Chrysler led to the inclusion ,sions found in all contracts. which they are established. Such of an even larger wage offset in ;, already have' been Technological changes provide programs that contract. The Chrysler con.the main agreed up on by Armour 'and long^impetus to economic : tract contains the same wage off'i growth higher real wages, and shoring on the Pacific Coast. set for pensions and welfare funds A brief review of several of the rising levels of living Accord- benefits weeks. In the tablished increasing . work weeks. management-labor of committees study technologic labor either have have been after their initial a d o p t i o n. The revisions in supplemental unemployment benefits (SUB) in the automobile ,found in the GM. contract, .^Ih contract provides the latest illus¬ addition, to build up a special tration. Thus, in the 1955 precereserve fund to insure payment dent-sharttering agreement with .of jobless-and short work-week Ford, SUB payments were to be a benefits, one cent of the wage maximum of $25 a week for a mcrease will be used this year period of up to 26 weeks. In the ? 1958 contract, the maximum was ian hour in 1962 and m 1963 unless on review such increased to $30 a week and pay¬ steadily * for guarantee unscheduled , Liberalized Coast, .number provi- for payments to Such commit¬ tees have been agreed upon by Emerson Radio Company, Pacific Coast ' Longshoring, Armour & Company, and the basic steel in¬ dustry. These committees are an a , Non-wage Thursday, February 22, 1962 number of companies to some collective bargaining clauses which relate tnus hour, an One cent of the amount due under , Pacific contain displaced through a royalty arrangement , industry, the payments are a maximum of $25 plus $2 for each dependent up to four for the period that UC benefits are pay¬ able and $47.50 plus dependents* benefits for the remaining time up to 52 weeks (total benefits are 65% of after-tax weekly straighttime wages). More significantly, contract benefits cents o the on contracts cally advances in benefits the cost of living clause is being obtained by the UAW will cer¬ •used to help finance liberalized tainly be demanded as a minimum i pensions and medical care for by the steelworkers. "Vv p ♦ iretired employees. - - steel the "GM be. -The it to to sions increase from wage cents be liberal more and recent significant The is $40 for a total of 52 weeks. the hold 7 York tirst would contract reducing the annual the tor finance and the of lactor .'. . in crease : ad- would pension a provid¬ than a < 62). or This latter result in may* involve be retire¬ costs in¬ some but, this much lower cost verse effects, of / technological than the alternative of retaining changes. The first steps include the older worker at his full sah special study committees and ad- ;ary. ' • 'v.•'. • vance notice and / From' the consultation. point of view of a Broadly speaking protection takes company, limiting layoffs to at^... . one of two forms:/(a) providing • jobs for the affected workers and trition the full delays the economies realization of made possible(b) .making financial payments to -by the new technological change. those who are laid off. Among The timing of the cost saving will the programs that, fall in the first -be determined by the age distrigroup are: retraining, abolition of -bution of its labor force. In time, positions by attrition, and provid- -of course, the number employed ing other jobs (which may or may for such positions-will reach zero. not require training and may or *The savings will be realized more may not involve a change in pay). rapidly if provision is made for There are several methods of :the transfer of affected workers compensating workers, who can- to other jobs and, if necessary, not be retained including: early .providing retraining to fit them retirement of older-workers, un- .for such jobs." Workers who are employment compensation, thrift' .not willing to makesuch shifts funds, supplementary unemploy- either should be deprived of pro^ment benefits (SUB), and severtection or should not participate ance . pay./v During the * past ; - few years . a . in subsequent in-, wage? °r general; increases in improvements in. Volume 195 Number 6136 ... payment to a violation of safety rules. It was Although aiso indicated- uiat no current severance pay involves a cost it employees were to be laid off may be lower than alternative and if changes in work rates neprograms. About one company in cessitated a shorter work week four has such a program and the they rwere to be guaranteed a fringe benefits. A policy of limiting reductions in the labor force usually involves for excuse retaining which jot^s, fill, can they 'r' 1 available. workers in alternative if * are equipment othfer or + to handle tors: 77 ; • - been • . -~7d7The""seieVhnce" naV^«hould cost of this agreement is set until displaced ?£?£?/7P? not have.-ihe quali- incre?se wittl the lenS"» ot-servfications required. Many workers ' lce r - examPie> 9ne ' Week with high seniority are older and';every :year or service. Sit,should hence"en^to'have ity in -acquiring hew skills, ;Simi- set . .In ,,are apt dustriesf pay a maximum 'pt eight adversely affected byweeks.^pay; to,^hose with some technological advances. Vi'hey designated period of service, such usually have so .little education': as ^ ten years, or. more..;:;..;-: f. : that it is difficult to provide ade^ v (d) Payments; might be made quate retraining in any short pe^. weekly, with provision that if the nod of time. These are the groups "worker is offered a job which he for whom other phases of a procan handle before the payments gram would be more important: are - completed, ' they will - be : It should be noted, too, that the stepped whether he : accepts the retraining of, worked who are. to" job'or not. • -. ,, :.77;/ 7 : 7 be replaced often may be- more 5 * (e) An alternative a p pr o a c h , addition, cruits rates wage lower be may of than workers who retrained. Retraining paid to cure-all for the is a problems of techBut it ^ t^New y^rk SNnnh^ Associatlon agrlembhtprovidei for^PaymeSs raS-: ™ JA W?• «roV;: -.containers'' filled-^or': new the reduce to and attrition junct' to may those pro- grams. Provide Other Jobs Where . , ested „ generally . A. „ J jobs, not in payments for. not working. rThus, it. is helpful, if the affected employee is given first-opportunity to fill vacancies. Ib is, also helpful, to, set.- up .machinery: to help a worker shift to a job in another industry. An orderly procedure ■ should established be and severance While ,severance ..,..,e severance the shock of . full time in be living pay ; / - any effort to help them make the necessary adjustments; (2) labor force labor force long, '• <7 - . . , maximum./ Under designated discussed would arrangement the cial cost> you go as approaches are; of. benefits firmly not are economic to retrain than to least signed example, for workers with at years of service ,and that five off of adjust- their ployee should snouia arrangement arrangement untary • There basis. 'tant'advantages tant - aaX are such: to g. impor.- Employes for ,nivin^ normal his him-his transfer. are- seniority);raises the average age in in retained retainea the the an an and^^ ana force torce as resultcr results also also it it men men. decimation-of of or the tne labor laoon where it place die. . ^ older proportion of mav may lead leaa to to . the the younger part force to the noint iorce 10 me point Secondly, or.. earlier while re- tirement of: the older increase the alternative needed be - toi cost of men even which - group;may of pensmns, the maintaining un- the payroll could on more minimize costly. The-extent such/, program, can the problems of transi- tion will be influenced by the age distribution of the Jffected workers, - i*.- : the whem they: retire -v ; 7 . *SeveraftceiPay r1, ; lon£, a<? zlig f free/in* ? f v change? eligible ef- any transi- a of unnecessarv ce s 91,,u y In hght of the pressures uninns and _ effect the al- nroerams lr0^ unionf and ine Pr9gf.ams af retaining on fi reia1/111 Lweeks uepenamg uu--ron workers who Th thp tVu "Pacific rppent • agreement }limD ,,um amount Aumi:? sum -a? The, employers agreed, 000,000 each a year annroach were ^gs size and of . ,, are otherwise negation of negauon 01 oec^gi0ns' the - the cargo Brothers,. New York; Robert L. Cody, North American Securities Co., San Francisco; George W. Fulk. Lord, Abbett & Co., New York; Arthur H. Haussermann, Vance, Sanders & Co., Boston; G. N. Lempereur, The Keystone Co. of Boston; Rowland A. Robbins, First Investors Corp., New York; Mr. Severance; and Joseph E. Welch, The Wellington Co., Philadelphia. Each improvements. iLacn costly. The most is a main- costly approacn wouia pe a main tenance of the status quo because annroach would to act longshore : of charge gdonted p weight apProactl.Wduw act t0 against On those balance which a - Chairman, Franklin R. Johnson, Colo¬ nial Distributors,- Inc., Boston. Members, Edward. B. Burr, Lehman Investment Companies: me annroach would he Co., New York. Members: Mr. Fridley and Mr. Fulton. pay- Foreign Securities: Chairman, Henri L. Froy, Abraham & Co., New York. Stone. are Vice-Chairman, John A. Nevins, BlOch, Bear, Stearns & Co.; Jerome C. Cuppia, Smith Inc.; Albert deJong, Albert deJong; John Fountain, White, Weld & Co.; Derek Grewcock, Carl M. Lo£bv Rhoades & Co.; Max Halperty Arnbold & S. Bleichroeder, InOi;: Edwin C. Marks, Carl Marks & Co.; and Marshall S. Mundheim, Hirsch & Co. r r • - i • Jr., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & - is to be han^- act to cushion the impact on work-' , , dled> Thus >irfiraritlv they greater obtained sig- control over and ers ' will provide operations and,they were for the remaining members of permitted;+to change work rules labor. relating 'to I multiple • handling,/: .7. X' ~,i~,'7 :. 7 ("W T 7. -7. to be no speecFup ®r;any - Y6fk Chy;^> v-. , . - jobs better ana wiu proviae oewer jods t„eir is Model, Roland & Members: (all from New York) Hans Ben, New York Han- seatic Corp.; Jack M. urogram oaiance, a-program loading and unload- based on the alternatives reand "the:; number f of-viewed Will proye; less costly, wjll needed slingloads in ing/wesselS, r0otiv , National, Qupt^tionsr Chairman, Francis J. Cunningham;, Kid-: Information: Chairman, Mr. Bunn. the l im„rovements i l . Inc., Seattle; and Craig Severance, F. Eberstadt & technological innovation tbey and would involve an excessive permitted to determine the number h to pay $5,h for 5V2 years or ®uch an mech-: ^ar some Sf I™ Sra, an7zation t — requirea Maritime/ illustrates tntaT bf <fi27 500 000 into a the i rpnilired f not ^acl11^ uviariume j alternative 1 5 p on • der, Peabody & Co., New York._ Vice-Chairman and midwestern regional committee chairman, Glen A. Darfler, H. M. Byllesby & Co., Chicago. Chairman, eastern regional committee, Gilbert M. Lothrop, W. E. Hutton & Co., Boston. Chairman, southwestern regional committee, William C. Porter, Dittmar & Co., San Antonio. Chairman, Pacific Coast regional committee, Ralph E. Phillips, Jr., Dean Witter & Co., Los Angeles. Members of the national com¬ mittee: S. Richard Harris, Courts & Co., Atlanta; Clarence A. Horn, First of Michigan Corp., Detroit; John I. Rhode, John R. Lewis, what is the cushioning the im- them York; Roy W. Jordan,' G^ HwWalket & Co., St. ,Louis* arid Joseph Boston!.-" 7 : W. Menges, Tucker, Anthony & R. L. Day, -s-tViJX;. / - r * .. he ^f p mem eiieci a uansi More make-work rules? 3q weeks deoending Association /Eyery/pro^^al Severance- pay There pmist /evaluate g^ng alternative cost& helr) bs? ap- of ^service." The costs involvcd are met when incurred. might be difficult to re- men : . Uniform Practice: Chairman, George J. Denzer, The Donald, J31yth & Co.", New York. Members:,Edward JT. Armstrong, Stejn Bros, & Boycey. Baltimore; Ralph Jones, Blair: & Co., New ' . 56$to a wedc,:^ maxima the cost of iength unbalanced labor force with unbalanced labor force with excessive ' technological of fort to , an while wage National • em- an . First Boston Corp., New York/ Vice-Chairman, Thomas B. Mac-1 . rlth a Of et former featherbeds^» b/J pact nen- off and laid pay ? y ?g / .nfie j.a eiJS1UAe ready adopted, any .realistic, eval- J for technological adjustment pay uation must choose between the' Pf , pay . . v worker a • Legislation: Chairman, Mr. Goodwin: Members,>Tdhn w: DayIon, Jr., Clark, Dodge & Co., New York* and Mr: Halliburton. - higher rate temporarily - performs• work in -a The real question tlien ne receives nis normal pen S10n> nro- a : . receives he then Cincinnati. not lower-rated capacity than to pay pens101? until he reaches normal tion? at 1/2 times tne 62 and amoUnt a vola voi. be on De. on a aiternative to WOrker may elect to accept a npncinn. af 11/0 timps the normal This pensions. to not -better while "he M cushion Yin of the geles; George F. Patten, Jr., George Patten Investment Co., Port¬ land, Ore.; and Justin J. Stevenson, Jr., W. E. Hutton & Co., only it draw^ his have- him at least 20 years of service, Lay0ff workers without T the who will nave a financial wno will have a unanciai workers workers it is Ifover5^yffr®°^a£^^1 ;lce: older the the- chairman, the association this year decided to chairmanship and accordingly named a chairman for each of the four quarters) Chairman, January-March, Mr. Bunn; and contribute nothing to output?-, ment pay based on length of serv- - mav be effected bv may oe enectea py some pay «r technological anc • laying Is mure contract, provides tjculariy for workers wrth low - direction finan- a Cost is problem. established. /-The; recently n . But that the of . Program involve part - Pension National Business Conduct: (Because of the increasing volume complaints that must be handled; by this committee, under the of with Milwaukee; Gus G. Halliburton, Equitable Securities Corpora¬ tion, Nashville; Robert R. Miller, Hornblower & Weeks,, Los An¬ Four current i With Rockefeller and Mr. Fulton. April-June,, Mr., Cohen; July-September, Mr. Goodwin; and Octo¬ ber-December, Mr. McHenry. Members; James H. Goddard, J. H. Goddard & Co., Boston; Robert W. Haack, Robert W. Baird & Co., ® 0bility^^prpvide othor Jobs? under 60 years of-age are to..be. ,-;is related to-the general state= or4 giv€n three months notice of a,, the economy. /During periods of plant or department shutdown if above average unemployment, few they are:: to' be displaced. The alternatives wilibe available pat-;, employee has the option Of sever- in Washington; Earl G.. Fridley, Fridley & Frederking, Houston; Mr. a Armour ^ , Adiustment Aojustment Chairman, Mr. Hughes. Members: Mr.; Daffrbn; Fleming, Folger, Nolan, Fleming-W.„ B. Hibbs.^- Co., proper charge against the savings effected is the cost of ,cushioning the impact of technological costs . Tie W. rotate Pay lowet; psym# job, his prevailint, wage level may be protectea for several years For Other, workers, the lower job rate is paid: How-. ever, it must be recognized that - Finance: by technological change, It is increasingly recognized that a ... _ the Chairman committees follow: Robert adversely are announced by Rockefeller, Jr., partner, Dom- * Dominick, New York. The Chairmen and members named (i) pay as you go, (2) a lump sum unemployment, ; •_ amount, (3) "royalty" payments, ; Clearly, any program incorpoand (4) fixed cents per hour to rating some or all of the programs shifted often, is protected. If the worker with sub¬ stantial; seniority is shifted to a , who service been of Governors, Avery Chairman, Mr. Rockefeller. Members: John W. Bunn, Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., St. Louis; Merrill M, Cohen,. J. M. Dain & Co., Minneapolis; Robert E. Daffron, Jr., Harrison & Co., Philadelphia; A. Jackson Goodwin, Jr., Lee Higginson Corp., Chicago;7William S. Hughes, Wagenseller & Durst, Inc., Los Angeles; Edward H. Ladd, III, The First Boston Corp., New York; Hudson B. Lemkau, Morgan* Stanley & Co.,. New York; Merl McHenry, J. Barth & Co., San Francisco; Paul E. Youmans, Bosworth, Sulli¬ van & Co., Denver; and Wallace H. Fulton, NASD executive direc¬ tor, Washington. without ; Wallace H. Fulton Executive: Three alternatives are available those the to , particularly William S. Hughes affected ers. worker a inick & in response to new technology; (1) layoff the affected workers ployees, McHenry of Securities Dealers have of the Board Conclusion ; m°ying^expenses.^THe senior- of tion moving expenses are on a payas-you-go basis, •:/ Merl Goodwin, Jr. Appointments to the various committees of the National Associa¬ as pay cushions pay cushions Methods ;of Financing care- provided in the form of reason- ity A. J. due and opportunity,. V assistance should area, tn ^or p®lmlttmg the^sh PP 9s. -seeM* institute more efficient^ There are various ways to fifully explained to workers. If the nance programs designed to help, job offered is outside of the pres-? technologically displaced "workent these maintain all workers on the — and possibly the — '^unemployment; it number of jobs—intact; (3) take a d0esnot- assure that a new job middle course which will help to wjp be Available. Such brpgrams,1 cushion th^ employment impact, helpful,, do not meet the Management is becoming more basic need which is a new job concerned with the fate of em- inter- are , the union tho (g) Integration with SUB where such programs are in operation. - ' 7 Possible Workers , Imaffilia'ted^with p .a■ r. Aihe*_ urnon is _.to : rece ve unemployment compensation laws. fV-.. ! ; (f) Denial of severance pay to workers who refuse to transfer to other jobs for which they are trained. : 7-7 ' help of cost > rJSro iS p e to jobs. As was noted earlier, retraining can be an important adv • continuance. However, this approach may require amendments may shift to workers some re- not is program methods or operation. . The use of fixed cents per hour ih determining the cost is illuspay enough each week to make trated by the automobile contract up the difference between his under i which a fixed cents-performer wage and unemployment hour cost is set aside for SUB compensation with the same pro- and, severance pay. However, vision as noted earlier for dis- other aspects of the program such amount of rates being are nological adjustments. help new payment a might be to determine the total j; or In to the labor force. newcomers - ' " third-. arrangement Tnto . costly than hiring new recruits v "royalty" most - .. 'the be total payments-many in- on. 7. July 1966. larly,. unskilled: workers - will that economies varyi£g wocners, may be effect comoensation unemDlovment new problems However, such a recognize : that some ease to the work force will permit off receives. over in "it to (a) A worker laid jobs amounts - depending on cover the cost of $27,500,000.. Unof adjustment. the state in which he works,\ 'her any circumstance the total program mtisf , to the Committee Appointments week. Thus, under this contract the Pacific Maritime Association is hoping that the greater control change requires new skills, where possiJbie displaced workers should be sibie displaced, retrained 27 minimum of 35' hours of pay each- number, has :• Retraining Programs If increasing.- A program. of severance pay snould be based upon the following fac- \ ' : . a worker who is laid off. to attrition should not become the unhecessary. jobs (947) The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . the Trading: Chairman, H. Neill Brady, Blyth & : The First Boston Corp., New York; Arthur W. Bertsch, G. A. Saxton & Co., New-York; R. VictorTMosley, Suplee, *7 : •. Lewis R; Bulkley, Members: Co. Yeatman; Mosley Ar Co:, Philadelphia; and .Stanley M. Waldron, > Merrill-Lymch, Pierce^Fenner & Smith Jttci - * •••- : - . 28 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (948) . . . Thursday, February 22, 1962 > STATE OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY Continued industry for the week Saturday, Feb. 17, was estimated at 16,266,000,000 kwh., according to the Edison Electric Institute. Output was 202,000,000 kwh. below that of the previous Ward's said sales for the period totaled 154,729 domestic cars, adding: new "While 30% make - week's total of 16,468,000,000 kwh. 1,6.99,000,000 kwh., or-11.7% above that of the comparable 1961 jumped a robust 118,686 for the same sales above power ended said Reports 16. Feb. on and from page 15 Automotive Ward's but period last year, the selling pace ran slightly below Jan. 1-10 and did not slow the industry's march week. Lumber Shipments Were 10.6% unit dealer inventory by month's end." The statistical service described 1961 Higher Than in States in the week another towards 1,000,000 - Lumber prospective 1,000,000 auto stock¬ a Week Feb. 10 ended 218,410,000 board feet com¬ pared with 212,940,000 in the prior week, according to reports from regional associations. A year ago, the figure was 197,528,000 board not necessarily eventful if expected increase, but forecast a varied pattern in factory operations due to dispro¬ "■ portionate sales shares—a mixture feet. !'■ y of normal work weeks, minimum Compared with 1961 levels, out¬ overtime, and possibly plant shut¬ put rose 13.6%, shipments were downs. .10.6% higher, and orders ad¬ Ward's said GM Corp. dealers vanced by 30.4%. took 57.5% of Feb. 1-10 sales, Ford Following are the figures in Motor Co. 27.4%, Chrysler Corp. thousands of board feet for the 8.6'% and American Motors Corp. weeks indicated: A * A pile as sales show their . 5.6%. Feb. 10, Feb. 8, 1962 1962 Studebaker-Packard Corp., suf¬ fering from its Jan. strike, 1-10 lack of a 1-Feb. sales. Ward's for will reach the week auto 11, 199,949 218,410 212,940 197,528 241,828 224,923 185,450 Business '-A >;i Feb. Faidures Rebound After Three-Week 17 Decline Commercial and Industrial fail¬ 136,374 units, a 6.2% rise from the 128,321 cars pro¬ duced in the preceding week, and more than 78% above 76,523 as¬ Feb. 15, reports Dun & semblies in the Inc. week same a year ago. Of the 136,374 cars planned by industry in the week ended the Feb. 17, General Motors was ex¬ pected to account for 55.1%, Ford Motor Co. 28.4%, Chrysler Corp. 8.1%, American Motors 6.9% Studebaker-Packard 1.5%. and Climb Loading of the week 542,415 11.5% versus Feb. decrease of 6,576 cars below the ; preceding a week. The loadings of represented 56,032 cars an 11.5% or the corresponding week in but a decrease of 37,735 or 6.5% below the corre¬ cars sponding week in 1960. A " There were 12,842 cars reported loaded with one or more, revenue highway trailers or highway con¬ :'.v tainers (piggyback) ended Feb. included 2,524 3, in that was week's over-all increase an 24.5% above the ears or responding 2,146 cars in the week (which were 1962 This total). week of;' and above 20:1% or the taled 58,419 9,949 cars of cars for or 20.5% increase an above 19.4% above the cars or responding period in 57 were Class 1 1960. U. S. the the 55 one year Truck truck week ended ahead of Feb. the responding American volume Truck behind the the cor¬ 1961, the Associations tonnage volume previous week of this These Week in was for the year. findings are based on the of 34 metropolitan areas conducted by the ATA De¬ partment of Research and Trans¬ weekly survey port Economics. The report re¬ flects tonnage handled at more than 400 mon truck carriers terminals of of general com¬ freight throughout the country. Eleetrie Output 11.7-%- TFIigber ; Than in 1961 Week The amount by of electric the energy electric continued edge an to main¬ last over year's Valentine's Day promotions level. boomed sales •• of women's and men's furnishings, confectionery, and flowers, while the Lincoln's Birthday holiday gave a strong push to activity in children's clothing. Home goods buying held to a strong level and car sales forged new records compared with the similar-period of the prior year. The total dollar volume of INVESTMENT TRADERS 14 ranged from 2% ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA OF The Investment Traders Association of Philadelphia is holding its 38th annual mid-winter dinner March 9 in the Grand Ballroom, re¬ Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. tail trade in the week ended Feb. Dinner will for out-of-town guests will be Clover Room of the Bellevue-Stratford. higher than a year ago, according to spot estimates collected by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Regional esti¬ mates varied from comparable 1961 levels by the following per¬ centages: Pacific —7 to —3; West North Central —5 to —I; New England 0 to +4; East North Central +1 to +5; Mountain +2 to +6; Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic +4 to -f-8; East South Central +6 to + 10; and West South Central -f-8 to +12. served be luncheon to 6% held at 7:30 12 noon at ' p.m. in A A the A Tickets, which are $16, may be obtained from John D. Wallingford, Jennings,- Mandel & Longstreth. Hotel Reservations- may be made through Alfred MacCart of Drexel & Co. KANSAS CITY A A • : SECURITY TRADERS ASSOCIATION Officers and Directors: Kansas has recently elected the City Security Traders Association following officers and directors for 1962: Nationwide Department Store Sales Up 6% 1961 Week From - $100,000 the were week's compared with 30 of as 45 and with light Department store sales on a country-wide basis as taken from the Federal Board's Reserve dex reported the week in¬ increase for Feb. 10, 1962, 6% a ended compared with the like period in 1961. For the Feb. ended week a losses year under Keith D. Lincoln 3, sales were higher by 8% from corresponding 1961 week. In the four-week period ended Feb. 10, 1962 sales advanced 11% over the corresponding period in 1961. According to the Federal Re¬ System department store in New York City for the week ended Feb. 10, .were 8% higher when compared yvith the same period in 1961. For the week ended Feb. 3, an increase" of 17% was registered when .compared President: Keith D. with the the Vice-President: Francis D. same four in week ; Jack L. Perry, Luce, Thompson & Crowe, Inc.; Dan Piedimonte, A. C. Allyn & Co.; Frank Westbrobk, Midland Securities Co., Inc. \"A'"-~:A ' pany; 1961. For Wholesale^ Commodity Price Index riod Since in in 1961. . CLEVELAND 1; ; December The 19 reached since elected the fol¬ lowing officers for 1962: Sonic Systems AAA 272.94, the lowset point Dec. stood SECURITY TRADERS ASSOCIATION Cleveland Security Traders Association has The general wholesale commod¬ ity price level continued to dip during the past week and on Feb.: Bertrand?, HA€). Peet & Company. ers & Co.; jlBilr Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Fierce; Fenner & Smith Inc.; David Kramer, Bache & Co.; Xewis JVIacDonald, DempseyiTegeler &?■■;Co., Inc.;^ Robert -Mahr, -Parke^.^jiseaf Waeckerle, Adams & Purcell, Inc.; Harry F. Mayfield, Commerce Trust Com¬ weeks the; corresponding week of 1961. 329 Robert L. Goss Secretary: Myron D. Mesler, Georg^KP®atifft/& Company. Treasurer: Robert L. Goss, Barret, Fitchf North & Co., Inc. Directors: Thomas P. O'Sullivan, Harris, Upham & Co. (Past President); William W. Bantrup, B. C. Christopher-& Co.; Jack K. Helper, Strp.u^Blosser & McDowell; James^TLowkp Stern Broth¬ ending Feb. 10, 1962, a 16% increase was re¬ ported above'.the comparable pe¬ previous week and Myron D. Mesler Lincoln, E. F. Hutton & Co. - serve in the Francis D. Bertrand the sales last 8 when year it v at/.272.68,~ .reports- Dun & Bradstreet,/ Ihcr.f: Substantially: Keene lower-in wholesale cost this week licly wheat, were corn, rye, oats and well',: mild declines were registered in rubber, steel scrap/and sugar. Although the cur¬ silver.1 < As rent .trend has been, consistently downward, the index still .exceeds the comparable year-ago level.. .' On Monday, Feb. 19, the daily month the 272.94 273.55 in and 274.94 a but ago, 269.28 1961. from week remained the on similar above day of A;;'A/A/Ty '■-..'A'" ■ Food Price Index Up Fractionally from Last Weeks The Wholesale Food dex, Low Price In¬ Dun & Brad-: to $5.90 on Co., Inc.,. 80 Wall St., City, is offering .pub-, 75,000 common shares of Sonic Systems,: Inc., at $2' per' share. Net proceeds will be used by the company for the purchase of-additional inventory and equip¬ ment^ sales promotion and adver¬ tising,' research and development, and, working' capital.;' > ■," : A The company 'of Shames 1250 Dr., Westbury, N. Y., is engagedin the design, manufacture and sale of ultrasonic devices, includ¬ ing cleaning systems and access¬ ories, and the sale of supplies in connection vices. Wholesale & York New used In with such James J. Drnek President: beyond constantly bubbles in and de¬ collapse, solution in which the Feb. 20 from the seven-month low of $5.89 a week earlier. This dirt from upturn cleaning. was Higher in wholesale were lard, coffee, lambs. beef, hams, represents raw foodstuffs and eral use. It is not Retail In of Univ. Electronics the sum Thomas ciated meats a in Emerick them is now are Laboratories Public shares offering of 101,667 of Purchases' Slowed by the terial the for production of inventory, program ma¬ teaching machines, ad¬ company additional * Week buying slackened ended Feb. 14, 5846 for Massapequa, L. I. vertising and sales promotion, and Securities; Inc.,. research and development. 'Merrick nounced in with President Corp. by of Road, it ; was an¬ Leonard 1.1 Axelrad, General Economics for although some may businesses and in also be used by the home. The company plans in¬ efforts consumer sales make to of some direct products. Electronics being made by Stearns & Co.; Clark, Weinstock & Porges and Elmaleh & Co., Inc., New York City. Net proceeds will be used Y. —Howard of common in the educa¬ of its products sale to colleges use Most A ; Named. Directors is appointed co-managers and:, schools, Laboratories Corp., at $6 per share Hills and Sidney Lebish have been opened Universal asso¬ G. E. C. Office newly designed creased ; MASSAPEQUA, N. Corp. Common Offeree registered a as representative. gen¬ cost-of-living S. with equipment for tional field. CHICAGO, 111.—James H. Douglas and < Walter W. Lennan, brokers, Incorporated, insurance according to an an¬ by Hermon Dunlap Smith;-President. . A , > Mr. Wilson, for some years ha3 been the of the sale have been Marsh & Mc¬ nouncement ;<The company, of 51.0 Hudson St., Hackensack; N. J., is engaged in development, production,. and cf machines, devices and Wilson elected directors of branch of G. E. C. Latest Consumer week effi¬ more methods bellies, index. Its chief function is to show general trend of food prices at the wholesale level. the other lings and Company, Inc., FidelityPhiladelphia Trust Bldg., members of the Philadelphia - Baltimore Stock Exchange, announce that the - the! surface than PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—C. C. Col¬ cocoa, potatoes, steers These increases offset Index of bubbles -blasts With C. C. Collings total of the price per pound of 31 Pace the this cost slightly the lower prices paid for wheat, corn, rye, oats, sugar, eggs and hogs. The of the year on week and Com¬ ciently ago level of the similar day, the index down 3.6%. $6.12 was slight 0.2%. a Drnek, Prescott & Co. . object to be cleaned is immersed. action pared with Gary A. Galdun Secretary: Gary A. Galdun, Wm. J, Mericka & Co., Inc. y Treasurer: Richard A. Probst, Saunders, Stiver & Co. Governors: Michael C. Hardony, Ball, Burge & Kraus; Robert M. Disbro, Disbro & Co.; Raymond W+Rooney, Murch & Co., Inc.; James B. Sparks, Ball, Burge & Kraus, and Harold A.-;Woehrmann, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. " • ; ;• ; cleaning, vi¬ audible range create a John R. Donahue James J. Vice-President: John R. Donahue, Joseph, Mellen & Miller, Inc. ultrasonic brations The up - distributed volume tain $100,000 climbed to 358 from 283 of Trucking announced. 1960. Shows tonnage in the 10, was 12.5% week businesses when pre-war < compiled by, in' street, Inc., edged 50 in Tonnage Bradstreet, more 1939 Failures ago. There and ago 12.5% Gain Over 1961 Intercity 40% 293. v/as casualties railroad corresponding week Intercity 0.5% toll cor¬ systems originating this type traf¬ fic in this year's week compared with ended wholesale commodity price index corresponding period of 1961, and 9,479 Over 1960. failed than in piggyback loadings, slipped to weeks of 1962 to¬ the prior first 5 the . , Cumulative of cor¬ 1961 1960 week. for week similar week, sharply the 289 in exceeded Lowest above 1961, and ■ increase the 374 occurred in the Association of Railroads announced. was post-war new a decline Up from 313 in the preced¬ ing week, casualties ran moder¬ ately higher than last year when the cars, 1.2% or by surging to high of 412 in this size last week freight in 10, totaled revenue ended American This three-week a Liabilities topping in 54 of % 1961 Week's Volume ; ended ures involved Car loadings retail 1961 208,940 Shipments produc¬ ended varying regionally from rains, zero cold to balmy spring warmth. However,, total severe Feb. .■•■i. Ay,- estimated tion of Feb. ____227,003 Orders ^ contract 0.9% ' due to cars labor 9 held to was Production "T weather shipments in the United totaled ;V & a. Co. ner, partherr pf Morgan; Stanley Mr. Douglas is a. member Chicago law firm, of Gard¬ Carton, Douglas and Chilgren. Volume 195 Number 6136 • . ; . The Commercial arid Financial Chronicle of Current The (949) following statistical tabulations latest week week Indicated steel Week capacity) cent (per Equivalent to— ' ' Steel ingots and castings (net tons) oil (BUREAU of 9 9 8,586,000 8,526,000 8,638,000 8,405,000 Gasoline 9 29,512,000 29,509,000 29,574,000 28,452,000 9 3,726,000 3,447,000 3,362,000 9 14,736,000 14,748,000 14,924,000 6,932,000 6,855,000 6,840,000 7,018,000 9 212,157,000 -209.642,000 201,920,000 185,403,000 9 25,985,000 26,906,000 29,755,000 23,423,000 —Feb. 9 112,773,000 ♦118,286,000 138,983,000 86,824,000 Domestic Feb. 9 41,741,000 41,838,000 45,952,000 29,545,000 Natural freight loaded (number of cars) • Feb. 10 freight received from connections (no. of cars)__Feb. 10 542,415 548,991 503,542 '.522,639 517,611 465,160 —— (bbls.) , Feb. Kerosene output (bbls.) Feb. Distillate fuel oil output (bbls.) -Feb. Residual fuel oil output (bbls.) Feb. Stocks at refineries, bulk terminals, in transit, in pipe lines— Finished and unfinished gasoline (bbls.) at Feb. Kerosene (bbls.) at ; ——Feb. — ' oil fuel Distillate oil fuel Residual (bbls.) (bbls.) at *. at_ • 7,181,110 7,402,710 7,406,010 7,479,010 ENGINEERING CIVIL and State lons .**_.* — ._ coal and lignite Bituminous anthracite Pennsylvania $520,000,000 $273,000,000 $329,100,000 248,600,000 356,600,000 131,700,000 197,500,000 184,800,000 163,400,000 141,300,000 150,400,000 136,800,000 123,400,000 (in Electric output 17,900,000 25,500,000 Feb. 10 —Feb. 10 AVERAGE=100 v 26,600,000 8,235,000 420,000 •' • . 7,750,000 7,360.000 377,000 8,170,000 i- ,V BRADSTREET; Finished steel (per Pig iron (per gross steel Scrap (per METAL PRICES all stocks (E. M. J. & Export (New Lead (St. York) Louis) (delivered) tZinc Zinc 407,000 440,000 COAL ♦114 , .'Aluminum (net cars Straits tin '(New MOODY'S U. Average • 6.196c $66.44 . . $66.44 $36.83 ; $37.50 s—.*—■_* rrt Egypt items' All 12.000C 11.500c 24.000c 24.000c 24.000c 121.000c 119.500C Housing 100.875c Gas 86.90. 20 ' ,. 20,^ 86.11 87.72 89.92 92.35 88.13 90.34 8948 8T.99 .-•>jy87D9 V f 85,59 1 88.80 86.11 86.11 89.92 86.06 ■J. i ;« v t 85.59 85.59,v ;.v< 81.42 81.29 'v 83.28 7 Men's t 87.32 87.86 87.86 89.78 4.03 413 J V " Other 4.70 4.55 ."■■'.o 4.74 4.74 4.74 4.62 5.07 5.08 5.08 5t06 4.90 4.91 4.92 4:63 4.61 4.49 4.57 4.57 4.57 4.43. 367.6 371.5 { Feb. 10 352,402 354,629 361.9 340,317 341,777 QCy .Feb.10 period 470,157 303,580] 332,753 343,811 Feb. 10 — activity v 94 . 301,286 ,j 97 go 407,005 483,653 473,415 sales .— - Total £ 7 ; transactions Total initiated on Crude Short — sales sales - 2,000 (customers' short 3,331,120 Dollar value by dealers— Number of shares—Total sales Round-lot Short Other Round-lot sales <. 386,140 '31,300 379,020 "t $70,730 453,700 11,300 34,100 303,600 409,400 All 19,100 893,985 Jan. 2f> Jan. 2° —Jan. 26 96,170 ,/ 410,320 92,620 925,416 314,900 Total ACCOUNT OF MEMBERS 48,610 \ 974,217 167,400 826,981 969,220 1,070,387 1,018,036 875,591 All • 3,616,358 4,854,667 531,850 571,100 3,499,497 3,613,436 4,031,347 4,184,536. V 320,900 872,660 3,137,001 v3v856,690 4,729,350 3,457,901 , 2,018,497 1,960,278 $106,428,180 . i * 1,700,195 2,199,889 $109,791,364 $86,704,001 $127,337,969 1,825,891 1,790,362 2,203,239 11' : Jan. 26 1,820,771 $95,157,415 $95,319,237 525,130 491,750 578,240 ' 525,130 491,750 578^240 MOODY'S 654,650 697,970 474,120 96.29 ♦85.79 80.47 ♦40.6 38.9 377.0 : ; 38.9 RUBBER 2,190,120 ♦41.2 39.3 ♦39.9 38.5 $2.38 ♦$2.38 $2.29 2.5$ •2.55 2.45 2.16 ♦2.15 2.09 ,, THE FEDERAL — RESERVE Month of Jan.: 114 i. AVERAGE STOCKS —Month (125)* : 115 102 114 113 103 3.04 ;_*•*. 2.92 YIELD—100 of January: *; (10) (200) MANUFACTURING 5.17 3.40 2.75 3.78 2.10 2.51 3.03 (15) 4.86 2.88 2.20 (24)__ 3.01 2.94 Tel. & Tel.) 2.91 3.26 ASSOCIATION, Passenger & Motorcycle Tires (Number of)— Shipments _< Production 8,160,610 * Production * Inner Tubes 18,766,900 710,300 17,260,790 7,809,103 23,583,253 180,474 293,711 1,119,189 192,339 186.785 262,046 250,954 1,000,757 991,190 Shipments (pounds) Production (pounds) Inventory (pounds) ' r; * • Truck and Bus Tires .Feb. 13, .Feb. 13 119.4 89.8 119.7 •119.5 ♦89.3 89.6 120.0 109.4 , .Feb. 13 95.1 95.1 —Feb. 13 127.6 ♦127.8 ■ ~ 109.8 43,317.000 43,104,000 * 15,667,000 (Number of)— 96.4 127.9 128.2 * * Inventory— * * 110.2 97.4 :. 109.5 tNumber of orders not reported since introduction of Monthly Investment Plan. tPrime Western Zinc freight from-. East^St, Louis exceeds one-half centra pound,. m. 45,758,000 48,441,000 16,480.000 * Production > 90.4 ' 9,458,224 * Shipments .Feb. 13 2,902,800 3,231,587 9,784,084 Tread Rubber (Camelback)— 22,691,000 U. S. DEPT. OF 2,887,602 3,001,620 * Inventory 21,666,560 17,655,990 TREASURY RECT MARKET AND TRANSACTIONS GUARANTEED OF U. S. A.—Month of Net Net sales purchases 6,799,240 9,050,957 21,572,323 (Number of)— * Production. 1,034,440 8,623,364 9,251,067 22,806,787 Inventory Tractor Implement Tires (Number of)— Shipments Inventory 395,200 3.23 4.77 Amer. INC.—Month of December: 13,119 $114,340,529 $89.08 39.2 (25) Shipments 17,684,700 ♦105.06 , OF 1 ' , (not incl. Average V 18,395,000 figure. DEPT. Passenger, Motorcycle, Truck and Bus Jan.26 ♦Revised ♦$96.63 9,426,000 40.4 WEIGHTED Insurance 719,320 6,313 1,784,049 $80,436,408 16,636 1,809,2551 Jan. 26 All commodities other than farm and foods $94.96 S. goods OF COMMON 675~334 Jan. 26 21,656 1,799,115 sales. Meats 430.1 19,916,000 ' l SYSTEM—1947-49=100 675,334 Jan.26 foods 19,017,000 17,205,000 10,753,000 17,471,000 8,019,000 17,181,000 . goods* Seasonally adjusted Unadjusted :**-*. Banks sales—. Processed , U. / goods* ERNORS Utilities sales. products — manufacturing Railroads Short Farm 19,561,000 INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION—BOARD OF GOV¬ (SHARES): Commodity Group— All commodities 144,132 400.9 goods** Nondurable 1,136,620 3,940,255 702,600 18,064,300 WHOLESALE PRICES, NEW SERIES LABOR — (1947-49=100)1 99,794 79,755 108,385 144,697 HOURS—WEEKLY Hourly earnings— 1,009,847 round-lot sales— Total 108,281 spindles in place Dec. manufacturing Nondurable Durable Other - 130,771 pounds)*. goods— Durable 443,500 822,808 '■''v 3,643,983 TOTAL ROUND-LOT STOCK SALES ON THE N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE AND ROUND-LOT STOCK TRANSACTIONS FOR 142,210 84.67 276,490 Durable " sales ♦117,836 103.02 Hours—j sales purchases by dealers—Number of shares 132.7 » ; 3,149,230 Jan- 26 —Jan. 26 Jan. 26 sales 122.3 ^ 78,303 < 2,267,410 Jan. 26 Jan. 26 Jan. 26 sales other 133.8 158.0 133.7 125.2 end of period (tons ESTIMATE Weekly earnings— All manufacturing 2,756,180 Jan. 26 Customers' , 202.9 , AND 2,667,030 Jan.26 Customers' i. . - ! 151,774 * • Nondurable goods* purchases)—t Odd-lot purchases by dealers (customers' sales)— -Number of orders—customers' total sales 134.3 121,327 pounds)** LABOR—Month of January; f Industrials by dealers 162.4 January: * Active spindle hours for STOCK TRANSACTIONS FOR ODD-LOT ACCOUNT OF ODDLOT DEALERS AND SPECIALISTS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE — SECURITIES EXCHANGE COMMISSION of shares. of * 671,160 854,153 .Jan. 26 Jan.26 value—. 209.9 125.3 (DEPT. OF COMMERCE): * Spinning spindles in place on Dec. 30* Spinning spindles active on Dec. 30 Active spindle hours (000's omitted) Dec. 30* 2,478,070 293,930 sales. sales 134.5 COTTON SPINNING 260,990 274,830 Other Dollar 94.0 146.5 138.0 " sales Number ,140.7 93.0 133.7 of 2,000 2,006,420 Jan. 26 Jan. 26.;. Jan. 26 Short Odd-lot (tons pounds)*** 2,309,000 Jan.26 sales U.S.A. 416,580 2,513,340 Total round-lot transactions for account of members— Total 142.3 150.5 134.8 month Refined copper stocks at FACTORY EARNINGS .Jan.26 sales Total 101.1 112.0 162.6 (tons of 2,000 pounds) 2,250,450 the floor— purchases Other . , Jan. 26 Jan. 26,> Jan. 26 Jan. 26 sales Total Other 10.6 101.7 ; 136.7 ; .j. Refined (tons of 2,000 Delivered to fabricators— 2,422,820 Jan. 26 sales 138.3 ^ 112,3 93.1 * recreation 2,660,130 447,180 • sales Other ; initiated off the floor— purchases Short 111.2 • •-.« —Jan. 26 sales | Copper -production in U. S. A.— AVERAGE MEM¬ OF - 210.9 ——— and 139.5' 110.92 117.59 113.94 112.02 .Feb. 16 purchases Other transactions 125.6 149.3 ,*_^_* COPPER INSTITUTE-—For In / 375.2 ..Feb. 10 (tons) sales <103.9 142.5 ***** ■*_*_—_*_, Other .goods and services 4:83 4.63 BERS, EXCEPT ODD-LOT DEALERS AND SPECIALISTS in which registered— Other 137.0 103.4 101.3 *; care Reading 4.39 Transactions of specialists in stocks Total 139.2 112.1 care——_—_*; Personal 4.25 - 4.43 • Short 142.8 125.7 111,0 - , *.*—*— j._*_ 4.58 4.70 - :_** apparel Medical 3.69 ft'/ 4.56 Feb. 20 AVERAGE=10O Total 132.3 144.2 139.5 *; - girls'— Public ► 14.70 and 1 'Private ■ 4.01 OIL, PAINT AND DRUG REPORTER PRICE INDEX— - 119.9 132.9 140.1 oil*— boys'——u. Transportation— " •rJ- i.'-i; fuel .'-Footwear—**it*_*_* 88.95 87.86 and Women's 84.43" 87.05 4.42 INDEX. ACCOUNT and operation**—— Apparel*—z_,*—*—***__, 81.54 83.40 87.05 :«• 81.29 83.53 v Feb. 20 FOR fuels : Household > 87.18 Feb.~20 TRANSACTIONS electricity—.— Housefurnishings— , ' of ROUND-LOT and 111.6 122.7 133.1 : 126.3 108.2 122.8 1958=100) 119.3 121.6 125.7 (Jan. 110.5 119.4 103.3 from home —' away 26.000c 121.000c Food 139.0 108.6 123.4 Other food at home 118.7 140.9 119.5 — — 121.4 116.8 108.7 *rl— vegetables— 127.5 120.3 144.4 12.000c and 128.3 107.3 12.500c NATIONAL PAPERBOARD ASSOCIATION: 1949 1 140.9 bakery products poultry and fish ?12:500c Feb. 20 of — 128.2 and 10.800c 4.56 Group— end 12,095 116.9 * — •_ 9.800c 4.42 Public Utilities Group Industrials Group at 31,888 8,986 2,852 v , 84 : 9.550c Feb. 20 (tons) 78,122 100,135 1917-49=100- home— Fruits .Feb. 20 orders _J, at 11.000c .Feb. 20 Unfilled 110,010 102,262 , 18 — ! — 26.975c I Feb 20 of : 223,562 86,895 110,522 120.4 $32.50 « ..Feb. 20 Percentage INDEX 10.000c 12.000c tons) (net tons)——— PRICE 12.500c Feb. 20 (tons) 18,894 —— — 28.000c 12.000c (net (net tons) 9.750c ;Feb. 20 Bonds Aaa received 3,515 15,760 200,287 America 28.725c Feb. 20 corporate Orders Central 9.300c Feb. 20 „ Group., Group ! Production 1,179 1,940 MINES)— (net tons)—— 9.500c ^-Feb.20 —2—_ COMMODITY 5,741 — and 28.675c - MOODY'S 5,386 undelivered and Meats, Dairy products*—-. .• Railroad 4,678,000 Month of December: $66.44 - MOODY'S BOND YIELD DAILY AVERAGES: Average 12,583,000 ' Group**—— Government 304,833,000 * OF 28.600c ' U.- S. (BUREAU 30.600c ■—Feb, 20 Utilities Industrials order on 30.600c —Feb. 20 v cars— (net tons) CONSUMER AVERAGES: *>HT»T.yr"— 26,664,000 295,657,000 INSTITUTE— 30.600c ::.i—Feb.:2o^ ■ To Solid Feb. Public 374 6.196c $66.44 $36.50 1 Feb. 14 Feb. 14 Feb. 14 Feb. 14 —Feb. 14 L—i.—Feb. Railroad * ' ' 6.196c 6.196c Feb. 14r —Feb. 14 — . DAILY Bonds 23,319,000 " South America To To .Asia -Feb. 14 corporate 14,567,000 396 313 ; r*—i at-—. CAR tons)— Europe Cereal at PRICES BOND • . -—: — York) Government S. • i at 2S),980,000 26,498,000 ; export and December: North Food . (primary pig, 99.5%) 29,501,000 18,000 delivered cars EXPORTS QUOTATIONS )< :* domestic freight new Month of 111 127 16,857,000 16,468,000 412 Feb. 12 * at • 16,266,000 Feb. 12 . at- 15,000 33,585,000 U. S. exports of Pennsylvania anthracite \ —Feb. 12 —'. at (East St. Louis) V' & — at refinery refinery at Lead DUN k : Domestic 7 — . ton) 15,000 30,119,000 ' January: for freight Backlog of To —Feb. 15 gross 213,992,000 30,379,000 (barrels)—** RAILWAY New V lb.) ton)— Electrolytic copper— >* INDUSTRIAL) INC IRON AGE COMPOSITE PRICES: 243,511,000 220,942,000 (barrels)—: ,_*„ Month of Orders : 118 Feb. 10 Feb. 17 AND 251.336,000 30,974,000 gal¬ (barrels)—- output (barrels) imports (barrels)* product imports (barrels)—. AMERICAN *" • . 000 kwh.) (COMMERCIAL FAILURES 245,555,000 214,566,000 2,128 gasoline output To z. 249,700 (end of month)— (tons) ; 9,486,300 9,236,600 166,500 therms) " (tons)— INSTITUTE: 7,758,400 12,587,000 (M (barrels of 42 output consumption (barrels)— ; .106,100,000 . ELECTRIC 7,924,900 256,400 19,010 oil crude Indicated DEPARTMENT STORE SALES INDEX—FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM—1947-49 165,504 259,511 9,978,700 sales oil Refined 131,600,000 Feb. 15 ! EDISON 164,125 240,343 9,722,300 therms) each) Decrease $433,400,000 (U. S. BUREAU OF MINES): OUTPUT Crude -.468,184 Feb. 15 municipal——**..*—*, 167,993 207,055 end of Dec. 315,029,000 (M mixed gas . 34,400,000 COAL • Feb. 15 construction—- Public sales & Total domestic production 486,383 ., . Feb. 15 - construction-. tons) of November: ^ ■> construction S. Private Ago AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE —Month CONSTRUCTION—ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD: Total U. (short (M therms)—: gas Benzol Revenue Year ' ASSOCIATION— sale Manufact'd ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS: Revenue Month of December: gas Natural 3,153,000 , GAS For Month Total Previous MINES): primary aluminum in the U. S. 15,662,000 9 AMERICAN output OF (in short tons)—Month of December output—daily average (bbls. of 42 gallons each) I ..Feb. Crude runs to stills—daily average (bbls.) -Feb. Crude of that date: Month ALUMINUM 1,582,000 2,341,000 2,446,000 either for the are are as Latest 54,0 80.0 Production 2,454,000 of quotations, Ago 83.5 „ , cases Year condensate and that date, or, in on production and other figures for the cover Dates shown in first column Stocks of aluminum PETROLEUM INSTITUTE: AMERICAN Month Week 84.0 Feb. 17 j Feb. 17 month ended or Previous INSTITUTE: STEEL operations month available. Ago Latest AMERICAN IRON AND or 29 * * — 1,015.757 1,232,304 3,560,683 1,115,163 1,278,218 3,343,424 2,816,795 2,913,414 11,034,355 42,645,000 40,375,000 17,990,000 850.979 994,799 3,956,841 IN DI¬ SECURITIES January: • ; * $5,615,800 *£&9n»70O .-$27,826,200 30 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle ', (950) : . Thursday, February 22. 1962 Additions * indicates in Now Securities • —Stein Bros. & Boyce, Baltimore and son & Warwick, Inc., N. Y. NOTE Because of the large — number of issues Increasingly difficult to predict offering dates with aTiigh degree of accuracy. The dates shown in the index and in the accompanying detailed terial. Proceeds not, in are expectations of the underwriter general, to be considered as firm (2/26-3/2) Co. Products relocating Proceeds—For equipment. Nov. • • N. Y. supplies. Proceeds— For expansion and Cable Advance • 30, 1961 ("Reg. A") 55,000 common. Price — $4. Business—Design, manufacture and installation of elec¬ tronic cable systems and hardware. Proceeds—For debt •repayment, equipment and working capital. Office— 12806 Bradley Ave., Sylmar. Calif. Underwriter—B. ;B. — mosaic tiles. Leases Office motor —^ vehicles. Corp. common. and aluminum debt repayment, expansion and working capital. Office—00 Gazza Blvd., cFarmingdale, N. Y.f: Underwriter—Robbins; Clark & ; Co., N. Y. / ;; r', //,: . storm-screen products. Proceeds—For working other & in- Md. Co., N. Y. Neck, N. Y. '*/ > ■ Alloys (& Chemicals Corp. & ' / //. /• ■;.' '■, .. . / electronic, mechanical and p^?*of loans^ expansion —6900 West Road 64, Fort components. and working capital. Office Lauderdale, Fla. Underwriters a v • '"•+ + S^ountvIdPata^elcii j -.'i' 'lC-j . - • ■■ ... Jnvestment^ Corp. !hu/ le(! ^ .non-cinnulative convert"■'J5j5-"p*e?rre^' wt Bttsmess A mahagement in^went, comigny ~wh^h-plans to; aequire-^nns in the insurance and finance fields. Proceeds—For i i general cor- SorateUnderwriter—None.— Warner Bldg., Washington, purposes. . Office C. American Micro Devices, Inc. 2, — (3/1) • / 1961 filed 1,500,000 class A common shares. $1.15. Business—The manufacture of electronic , American Modular Manufacturing Borp.r Nov. 27, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$2.50. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture of a type of component constructed home. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equipment, and working capital. Office—4950 71st Ave., North, /Pinellas Park, Fla. Underwriter—Equity Securities Co., N. Y. // Price—By shares. YOUR .C. — 412 N. 6th St., Philadelphia. Collings & Co., Inc. and Harrison \ International, Inc. ; ' . . . r r Nov. 13, 1961 filed 73,000 common. Price—$7. Business —Company plans to construct special type homes, and engage in the general contracting business. Proceeds— BOUGHT For general corporate purposes. Office—St. Petersburg, Fla. Underwriters—Wm. H. Tegtmeyer & - SOLD— QUOTED for Banks, Brokers, Institutions Co., Chicago and of Proceeds—-Re- qftn nrw V; ; Co., Philadelphia. Alumatron and B. C. Office—20th Street, and Alle¬ •e—By amendment. Business—Manufacture / : writer—Albion Securities Co^ Inc^ N. Y. Mallpy, Inc., St. Petersburg^ Amerel Mining Co. Ltd. July 31, 1961 filed 400,000 common shares. ^Price—50 cents. Business—The company is engaged Airtronics efsL iqfio pr,v<LI<Ri<sabeoeficial interest, Mfg. Co. (3/19-23) Aug. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4. Pro¬ ceeds—For equipment, repayment of loans and working capital. Office—2690 N. E. 191st St., Miami, Fla. Under¬ of International Corp. of Florida (.2/28) July 29, 1961 filed 186,625 common, of which 150,000 are to be* offered by the company arid 36,625 by stockhold- / MA>4<ra<rn Alson gheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Underwriter—Francis 1. du Pont & Co., N. Y, Note—This offering has been tem¬ porarily postponed. ; • o Fh-c* >. Underwriter—Joseph, Meilen & Miller, Inc., Underwriters—C alu- capital, peh state- working capital. Office inventory and working capital. Office—350 N. Y. Underwriters-^Richard Bruce & Co., Inc., and Reubin Rose & Co., Inc., N, Y; ; nunum this of r American . and Business—Wholesaler and distributor of electronic parts manufactured by others. Proceeds—For expansion, Fifth Ave., other corporate purposes. . windows amendment.' Air Master Corp. May 26, 1961 filed 200,000, shares of class A common stock, of which 50,000 shares are to be offered for public sale by the company and 150,000 outstanding shares by the present holders thereof. Price—To be supplied by • adequacy components. Proceeds—The purchase of equipment and materials, operational expenses, working capital and re¬ search. Underwriter—Naftalin & Go., Inc., Minneapolis. Cleveland. Under- sale and accuracy Price Cleveland. 100,000 by the Price—$10. Business—Manufacture of men's a*id boys' underwear and pajamas. Proceeds—For and the ... gaged in the production of aluminum alloys. / Proceeds selling stockholders.' Office^—4365 Bradley Road, stockholders. and challenging ment. - Dec. 27, 1961 filed 225,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—An aluminum smelter and refiner en¬ Ainsbrooke Corp. (3/26-30) V Jan. 8, 1962 filed 200,000 capital shares, of which 100,000 are to be offered by the company and doors, Lomasnev4 & Co^N^Y Aug. / Corp., Paterson, N. J. manufacture tJhderwriter—My7on"'A7 Y. Note—The SEC has instituted "stop order" proceedings i;: y-;.: Almo Industrial Electronics Inc. Nov. 27, 1961 filed 155,000 class A and N. (3/19-23) working capital. The nance bentures, and capital funds. Office —For — debenture, 30 common shares and1 10 warrants. Price— $500 per unit. Business—The company and its subsidi¬ aries are primarily engaged in the automobile sale fi¬ an Business—Importing, marketing and distributing ceramic tiles. Proceeds—Debt payment, new products, sales pro¬ motion and advertising, new office and warehouse and windows : • Finance business. One additional subsidiary is a Maryland association and two are automobile /^insurance brokers. Proceeds—For the retirement of de¬ - Entertainment Corp. of America, Inc. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") .125,000 common. Price — $2.: Great ; Business Denver savings and loan (3/5-9) Price—$4. Business phonograph records, and the development and production of TV jingles. Proceeds—For debt.repayment working capital. Office—9171 Wilshire Blvd., Bev¬ erly Hills, Calif.1 Underwriter — Ellis Securities, Inc., Monica, Calif. UnderSecurity Co., 320 Northern Blvd., Great storm Inc., ././.• and Agency Tile Industries, Inc. (3/26-30) Sept. 6, 1961 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common. Price—$2.50. amendment. 1 bution of • aluminum Underwriters, ' . Business—Music publishing; the manufacture and distri¬ Proceeds—For working capital, new product de¬ velopment, equipment and other corporate purposes. Office—2036 Broadway, Santa , . be offered for public sale in units consisting of one $200 a Allied Jan. ratus. < broker-dealer-underwriter, Co., Inc. (2/28) / April 21, 1961 filed $500,000 of 6%: convertible sub¬ ordinated debentures due 1971; 75,000 shares of common stock, and 25,000 common stock purchase warrants to /'! Capital Corp. Underwriter—.Allen Space Electronics, Inc. Dec. 22, 1961 ("Reg. A") 80,000 common. Price — $3. Business—Design and production of electronic compo¬ nents used in electronic and electro-mechanical appa¬ • American Price—$3. common. small business investment company. Proceeds—For vestment.; Office—7720 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Aero ' (a subsidiary). Oct. 20,-1961 filed 213,427 common, of which 200,000 wfll be offered to the public end 13,427 to stockholders ont ; a l-for-10 basis. Price—By amendment. Business—A .• equipment, Office—522 W. 29th St., N. Y. writer—International Services insurance company, a . Allied trols and assemblies for the missile, rockets and aircraft , be named. acquisition, debt repayment; tr^st and general corporate .purposes. ;Otfice—50Q7 Lytle St.,; investment^Office—305 Fid Pittsburgh;, Pa.., Underwriter-First Madison Corp.'N.Fla" Aerodyne Controls Corp. ;Jan. 29, 1962 ("Reg.-A") 90,000 common. Price—$2. .Business—-Design, manufacture and sale of systems, con¬ . Office—1068 purposes. Diversified, Inc. Underwriter—Nation-Wide Proceeds—Fqr working capitals combination corporate a loan and finance company. Proceeds—For gen¬ eral corporate purposes/ Office—930 Grant St., Denver. 31-04 Northern Blvd., Loiig Island City, N. Y. doorsy Proceeds-For- life a By amend¬ — withdrawn^ was Rental other and Allegheny Aluminum Industries, Inc. , "Neck, N. Y. ; American Dec. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4.25. Bustness—Manufacture of aluminum and fiberglass awnings and installation of new moulds, machinery and equip¬ ment, research and general corporate purposes. Office— .250 Goffle Road, Hawthorne, N. J. Underwriters—Cam¬ bridge Securities, Inc. and Edward Lewis Co., Inc;, N. Y. "writer—Walter Auto and Newark, N. J. Underwriter—To Dec. 21, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—$7.50. Busi¬ ness—A holding company whose three subsidiaries are • Underwriter—NonC*. Proceeds—For the purchase Industries.^ Proceeds—For repayment Broad St., Offering—Expected in mid-March. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 50,000 This letter was i and Development Corp. " " 29, 1961 filed 60,000 common. Price—$6. Business —Development.and sale of vacant land. Proceeds—Debt Al-Crete All-State Corp. Aug. 7, 1961 filed 100,000 common shares. Price—$5. 'Business —The importation and distribution of Italian marble '"■/'•/ *•' Note—This registration Aero-Dynamics ; American new vari¬ ety of building products. Proceeds—For construction of a new plant. Office—4800 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, Md. Underwriter—Whitehall Securities Corp., Pittsburgh. Nov. Inc., M. L. Lee & Co., Inc., Hallowell, Sulzberger, Jenks, Kirkland & Co., Philadelphia. / / V ./ --/'/■,<... -/• ^Y^-'.v'/' (3/12-16) Business—Development and manufacture of Systems Corp. withdrawn. Voigt Industries, Inc. Corp. Sept. 20, 1961 filed 127,000 class A Co., Inc., N., Y. |George Securities,, Ltd., N. Y. Note —Milton D. Blauner & Co., N. Y., and , working capital. Office—3294 Steinway St., Astoria, N. Y. & Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—1101 W. Cambria St., Philadelphia/ Underwriters toiletry preparations, particularly in the hair care field. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—2525 Armitage Ave., Melrose Park, 111. Underwriter—Shields & Co., 11, 1962 -filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business —A warehouse distributor of automobile equipment ac¬ . boards, etc. . ment. Business—Manufacture and sale of cosmetics and Jan. ,'v •••-••-. Packaging Corp. (3/26-30) company. /•/ Jan. 12, 1962 filed 68,000 common. Price (3/26-30) selling stockholders. Office Underwriter—Bear Stearns & Y. Nov. Alberto-Culver Co.- Bank, Detroit. Underwriter—A. D. Gilhard & Co., Inc., N. Y. -; St, N. Jan. 5, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$3.50. Business —Manufacture -and sale of cardboard "boxes, display fixtures, show cases and related items/Proceeds—For repayment Of loans, work¬ ing capital, a leasehold improvement and moving ex¬ penses. Office—14-20 Dunham PI., Brooklyn, N. Y. Un¬ derwriter—David Barnes & Co., Inc., N. Y. C. —1928 Firth National Underwriter—Baruch Brothers Albert Proceeds—For fasteners. :r^y American Cardboard & The manufacture of metal store Proceeds—For expansion. Office Admiral Automotive Products, Inc. lumber Business—A missile Proceeds—For Varick Co., N. Y, Aug. 29, 1961 filed 80,000 common. Price—$4. Business— • and publishers. —75 Co., Inc., St. Louis. (3/5-9) Nov. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") $240,000 of 15-year 6% con¬ vertible subordinated debentures (convertible into common at $1.50 per share); and 40,000 common shares. Price—For debentures at par; for stock, $1.25. Business—Research, design and manufacture of contact accessories. (3/12-16) and repayment, American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. (3/5-9) 27, 1961 filed 430,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of hard-bound books for ^ - aircraft issue revised Oct. r • items equipment and other corporate pur¬ poses. Office—Lawsoh Blvd., Oceanside, L. I., N. Y. Un¬ derwriter— S. D. Fuller & Co., N. Y; 17, 1961 filed 250,000 common. ment. Acrylic Optics Corp. cessories debt Price—By amend¬ Proceeds—For construction and working capital. Office—614 Equitable Bldg., Portland, Ore. Underwriter—Dempsey-Tegeler & equipping a new plant, purchase of inventory, re¬ and development, advertising, promotion and merchandising, repayment of debt and other corporate purposes. Office—119 St. Mihiel Dr., Riverside, N. J. Underwriter—Roth & Co., Inc., and Janov & Co., Phila¬ delphia. * • " • ••• Pacific Lumber Co. Alaska and and dustrial : , For working capital. Underwriter—-None. Denver. to search lenses , All American Petroleum Corp. i 4 // . -i Feb. 15, 1962 filed 2,000,000 common; Price-^$1. Busi¬ ness—Acquiring, exploring and developing oil and gas properties.Proceeds—For debt repayment and other corporate purposes. Office—715 Midland Savings Bldg., July 17, 1961 filed 155,000 class A common. Price—$2. Business — Manufacture of transformers for electronic electrical ; • Alaska Aero-Electronic and — mid-March; offering dates. , : Office — 11608 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, Calif. Underwriter—Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francisco, Calif. Offering—In items reflect the but Vickers, McPher- Alan-Randal Co., Inc. : " Oct. 27,1961 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common. Price—$2.50. Business—Distributor of pens:and other advertising ma¬ awaiting processing by the SEC, it is. becoming since previous > f in exploration, development and mining. Proceeds—For diamond drill¬ ing, construction, exploration and general corporate expenses. Office—80 Richmond St., W., Toronto. Under¬ writer—E. A. Manning, "Ltd., Toronto. American Bolt & Screw Mfg. Corp. ¥ (3/26-30) v Dec. 15, 1961 filed 150*000 common. -Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of standard and special in- - v V / . . Direct ~ Jn,c. 39 Broadway, New York Dlgby 4-2370 N. Y. Teletype No. N.Y. 1-5237 Wire, to Holton, Henderson & Co., Los Angeles Volume 195 Number 6136 .. The Commercial and Financial . . (951) Chronicle • Corp. Phoenix American • Office—320 Park Ave., N, Y. Y. Interamerica Securities Corp., N. Dec. Arttin Miils, Underwriter— Insurance Co. American Pioneer Life • - : * ;, ; • Price—$5.50. Busi¬ 20,1961 filed 400,000 common. Proceeds ness—Writes life insurance in Florida. For — expansion and legal reserves. Office—307 S. Orange Ave,, Orlando, Fla. Underwriters—A. C. Allyn & Co., Chi¬ cago and Goodbody & Co., N. Y. Offering—Expected in rMarch.7 and work¬ N.-Y. ing capital. Office—390 S. Atlantic Blvd;~ Monterey Park, Calif. Underwriter-r-Dean Witter & Co., San Francisco. *• American Realty 1 subord,'de¬ •Sept, 28, 1961 filed $2,000,000 of 6Vz% conv. bentures due 1971. Price—At par. Business—Real estate 'and also the oil and gas business: Proceeds—For repay¬ Nov.. v debt, sales and advertising, property improve¬ ments and possible acquisitions. Office—16 W. 61st St., N. Y. Underwriter-r-Troster, Singer & Co., NA Y. Office—860 Hartford Bldg., Dallas. amendment. Business—Im¬ , • ... ; • "-A" " (3/5-9) aa.a •. .a;,-'"' 21,4961 filed 230,000 common,-of which 110,000 are - y —For Under- general corporate purposes. Office—14 W. 55th 17, 1962 filed' 160,000 common, of which 60,000 are by the company and 100,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—$7.50. Business — Operates diaper services, ^supplies linens, and publishes "Baby Talk" magazine to be offered American Space Exploration; Inc. Jan. 22, 1962 filed 250,000 common/Price—$2. Business «—Company plans to manufacture digital voltmeters, di¬ gital chonometers and solid state-counters.' ProceedsTor general corporate purposes.- Off ice—3910 S. Kald- -which • " Anchor • Coupling Co., Inc. * v; ment. Business—Manufacture of pressure •and metal tube assemblies. ' \ , t 1962 filed 488,000 common. Price — hydraulic hose Proceeds—For selling stock- Corp. . •. ; .A- v- U. * S. Av • and Canada. <3/19-23) 1961 Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 common..Price—$6. Business Price—$4.. Busi—Construction and operation of water-treatment: and ; ness—Company plans to. construct* and operate refuse sewage-disposal plants. Proceeds—For construction, ; disposal plants. Proceeds—For' general corporate pur- .• -plant expansion, and a loan to a subsidiary. Office^ 'poses.I Office—1001 N: Central Ave., Phoenix. Under¬ 17850 N. 29th Court, Opa Locka, Fla. Underwriter— writer—Globus, Inc.; N. Y. -V'vA'' A v 'i,iy '■. A A/'.;- A Hardy & Co., N. Y. A'... ■' •' ■AA;7 A, \j / •/. AA./A a A: Arizona-New Mexico Development Corp. A:A r ^ Atmospheric Control, Inc. " A- • 7 A;.'/.// //,> Jan. 3, 1962 ("Reg/ A" ) 300,000; common/A Price — $1. Feb; 5,A 1962 ("Reg. A") 86,000 common. Pricerr—$3.45. / Business Development of underground caverns as- a ^Business—Manufacture and sale of Mist-I-Cone humidi¬ tourist rattraction/Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office fiers. Proceeds—For equipment," advertising and work¬ 1—Suite No. 9—4344 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix.' Uning capital.; Office—668 Jenks Ave., St. Paul. / Under¬ derwriter—Preferred Securities, Inc., Denver. Offering writer—Pewters, Donnelly & Jansen, St. Paul. -—Expected sometime in April. A. / '.. ; .:,••• r ';•• .:t Barth • • — dietary products. Proceeds—For selling ers. Office—270 ; / A>: , 27, 1961 filed 70,000 cumulative convertible .preference shares (par $50). Price—By amendment. Business —The production of basic granular and brick refractory materials. Proceeds—For plant expansion. Office—845 Hanna nnd factoring, Proceeds—For'working capital.' Office—850 Third Ave., N. Y. Underwriter- Dean Witter & Co., New York.;/AAA. ■ A tA /tA A A A , v } a Automated Teaching Systems, Inc. Baxter Laboratories, Inc. A-A " -*• Argus Financial Fund, 4nc. ./A/,/ Aa'A^ A- Att."7A,,,/ Feb.* 12, 1962 filed 800,000 capital shares to be offered in exchange for certain securities, acceptable to the Fund. Ffice-r-^NetAasset value Sept, 18, 1961 and , ^ 1 nesses.A Proceeds—For -Tines investment; "Office—1118 Tqrrey derwriter—None. Bebell & Bebell Color Laboratories, *AA"'a Arnav .Industries. Inc. (3/12-16) A^- A, Av. A' ''t • A.Dec. 29, 1961 filed $600,000 of 6%/convertible subordi¬ nated debentures and 36,000; common stock purchase - - warrants to debenture be and offered 60 for sale in units Price warrants. — of one $1,000 ; self-instructional materials equipment, research and corporate purposes.A Office—1 Dec. * . parts for the aircraft and missile; industries, ceeds—For tional debt repayment equipment. Office and the ^ 32 purchase ; Industrial Ave.; Little • • . 28, 1961 filed 50,000 common. corporate purposes. Office—3601 Merrick Rd., Seaford, N. Y. Underwriter—S. Schramm & Co., Inc., N. Y. 1961 filed 150,000 class A shares, of which 125,to be offered by the company and 25,000 by Price—By amendment. Business—Sale and distribution of a photocopy machine and supplies. Proceeds—For equipment, expansion, and working capital 000 ' Richling, Inc. A '"A" Office—153 W. 36th St., N. Y. Underwriter—None. 27, 1961 filed 54,000 common. Price—By amendment. Business Design and manufacture of women's /A B. V.D. Co., Inc. (2/26-3/2) junior sizes. Proceeds—For gelling stockholders. Office 7 Dec. 28, 1961 filed 600,000 common, of which 400,000 are —1400 B'way, N. Y. Underwriter—Carreau & Co., N. Y. to be offered -bv the ^company and 200,000 .by :stock- . a , . • Business—Manufac¬ specially designed thermosetting plastic fabri¬ cating machinery. Proeecds—For debt repayment and other corporate purposes. Office—631 N. E. 45th St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Underwriter—Roman & Johnson, Fort ture of Lauderdale. Fla. Becton, Dickinson & Co. (3/26-30) 26,1962 fOed 480^000 common, of which 200,000 are offered by the company and 280,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of Jan. to be products -used in the medical profession. Proceeds—For expansion and working capital. Office—East Ruther-tford, N. J. Underwriter—F. Eberstadt & Co., N. Y. " <■ — Art Packaging, Inq. 1 A Jan. 26. 1962 ('Reg. A") 70,000 class A. Price—$2. Business—Design, manufacture and sale of clear. plastic, vacuum formed "blisters" for packaging. Proceeds—For equipment, inventory and working capital. Office—126 Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of imen's underwear, ii^s :and accessories. Proceeds-^-For holders. . 7 debt .repayment, a ; expansion and working capital. -^-404 Fifth. .Ave., N. Philadelphia. ' q Office Underwriter—Drexel & Co., it v-'i ■> Y, if: t' l '. 'r.v-..*■ ★ Bede Aircraft, Inc. Feb. 14, 1962 ("Reg. A") 259,272 common. Price—$1. Business—Design and development of an aircraft incor¬ design and construction. and general corporate purposes.' Office—201 N., Federal Highway, Deerfield Beach, Fla. Underwriter—Consolidated Securities Corp., porating - - . Engineering Co. stockholder. Price—By amendment. are Nov. , r in late March. (3/1) Nov. 30,1961 filed 135;000 common, of which 95,000 are to be offered by the company and 40,000 by a selling Automatic Marker Photo Corp. stockholders. :* Aronoff & Office—108 & Co., Bechtold Price—$4.A- Business and - installation of electrical. pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical systems, controls and devices to control and automatically operate industrial machinery and processes. Proceeds—For general 7 " » Production Inc. 75,000 common. Price — $4. of color photographic prints, slides, transparencies and photo-animations. Proceeds— For equipment, sales promotion, leasehold improve¬ N. Y. Offering—Expected Dec; !, etc.-Pro¬ of addi¬ .".Ferry, N. J. Underwriter—Gianis & Co., Inc., N. Y.- ("Reg. A") a new product, and working capital. W. 24th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Stevens, Hickey By amendment. " - 29, 1962 ments, y-—^Design,/ manufacture Business—Manufacture of hydraulic system devices and . Jan. * Road, La Jolla, Calif A Dealer-Manager—Argus Fif^nrn ' •*•• :vr .• --v. Corp. /eamoi;oHHreiioV' (same' address). irvanMal 'Sales nancial 'Saltn! ... Investing Corp. Dec. 20, 1961 filed 300,000 shares of capital stock. Price —Net asset value. Business—A mutual fund. Proceeds —For investment. Office—22 The Fenway, Boston. Un¬ Biusines?:-A-A. diversified ' ;v W Beacon of andv other ^, < devices.Proceeds—For development (3/26-30) >7 uniques for use in the fields of oceanography, meteorology, seismology and ionospheric phenomena. Proceeds —For product development and working capital. Office —43 Leon St., Boston. Underwriter—S. D. Fuller & Co., ;New' York. A 7- :V,v ' a'' '" A A- (expected to - $12.50T>per;,share)A W. 58th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Arthur J. Rosenwasser open-end investment company which plans to participate in the long-term progress of : Co„ 95 Broad St., N, Y. savings and loanrassociations, and allied financial busi- -A . AA A. . Automatic Controls, Inc.. < ; subordinated 27, 1961 filed 160,009 common. Price^-By amend* ment. Business—Development of products and tech- 1 Price—$10 (3/12-16) Bay State Electronics Corp. Business ("Reg. A") 30,000 common. Business—Manufacture . . First Boston Oct. * * — shares. Price —By amendment. Business—Manufacture of pharmaceu¬ tical supplies and equipment. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ ment and working capital. Office—6301 Lincoln Ave., Morton Grove, 111. Underwriters—Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., N. Y./r „ ; Cleveland. Underwriter Jan. 22, 1962 filed $10,000,000 of convertible debentures due 1982, and 120,000 common Atmospheric Controls, Inc. 1961 ("Reg. A") 40,000 common. Price—$3.50 Proceeds For repayment of loans, acquisition and working capital. Office—715 N. Fayette St., Alexandria, ington, D. C. Offering—In early March. Bldg.. Corp., N. Y. Offering'—Imminent. Va TJhderwrtter—First Investment Planning Co., Wash¬ mercial financing * or Basic Inc. — - stockhold¬ Rd., Valley Stream, L. I., Co., N. Y. Dec. Aug. 22, of which>150,000 are to be offered by the company and 129,000 by stockhplders. Pjrice—By amendment Business—General com12,,1962 W. Merrick N. Y. Underwriter—H. Hentz & , Feb. ^ Vitamins Corp. and . (A. J.) Co.r Inc. filed 279,000 .common, ' 23, 1962 filed 180,000 class A shares. Price — By amendment. Business—The mail order sale of vitamins : ' ' * (R. G.) Jan. , A A;. Armstrong & to be offered by •" • Office—224 E. 38th St., Co., N. Y. Offering—In¬ capital. Corp. (2/26-3/2) Sept. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Manufacture of slippers, robes, cushions, pillows, autoseat covers, and other specialty items. Proceeds—To re¬ pay debt, increase inventory and for other corporate purposes. Office—78 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, Ohio. Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., N. Y. . Co.•:(2/26-3/2) working Underwriter—Gianis Barry " 1961 filed 200,000. common. Y. definitely postponed. Proceeds— Atlanta, Ga. A-"A; A'.a. A- ; "• /''' Industries, Inc. Atlantic Capital Corp. (3AJ.9-23) - y Jan, 5, 1962 filed 95,000 common. Price—$2.- Business— Aug. 29, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—$12.50. Busi¬ Development, Sale and distribution of specialty cheminess—^A small business investment company. Proceeds7 cals and detergents. Proceeds—For sales promotion, new Tor general corporate purposes. Office—744 Broad St.. product development and general corporate purposes. ; Newark, N.. J. Underwriter—Paine, Webber, Jackson & Office—Industrial West," Allwood-Clifton, N. J, Under-; -Curtis, N. Y. C. .•/ AA A At':.:. v-'A" writers—Glass & Ross. Inc. and Globus, Inc., N. Y. A Atlantic Utilities Corp. j,;'.A' / A 14, Address—108 Associates, Inc. 1, .1961 ("Reg. A") 50,000 ceeds—For N. Anscott Chemical Nov. participating dollar-linked, shares. Price—By — A mortgage lending company. common. Price—$4. Business—Aeronautical research and development. Pro¬ - Biochemical ~ Barish Sept. Nov, 24, 1961 filed 38,500 common .-Price—$$7. 'Business Atlanta Motor Lodges, Inc. -Design and fabrication of precision she,et metal prod'.nets'. 'Proceeds—For machinery research^, sales promotel$0,9QJFcommon. Price—$J.0^ Business Operation of motels. Proceeds — For expansiorf and tion, and working capital. Office—26 Essex St., Hacken-' ^ ' 11 " ' working capital. Office—120 North Ave., N. W., Atlanta, 'sack,* N. J.: Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., Ga. Underwriter — The Robinson-Humphrey 9°-» Inc-» New York/ Offering—Expected in mid-March. " ,;7' .7: Arizona Mortgages & Loan Ltd.* Achad Haam St., Tel-Aviv, Israel. Underwriter—Adanim American Israel Investment Co., Inc. filed 232,500 common, of which 150,000 the company and 82,500 by stock¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Design and manufacture of ground systems and equipment for the support and servicing of electronic systems, aircraft and missiles. \ Proceeds—Repay debt and increase working capital. Office—9449 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, Calif. Underwriter—W. C. Langley & Co., N. Y. are Libertyville/ 111. Un¬ derwriter—Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, N. Y. Of¬ fering—Expected sometime in April. " A 7""*/ : ' Industries in Astro-Science Corp. Sept. 27, By amend¬ "holders. Office—342 N. Fourth St., Anchor distributed "Adanim" Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. For'equipment and working capital. Office—149 Madison Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Brand, Grumet & Seigel, Inc., N Y. Offering—Expected sometime in April. St., -Englewood, Colo. Underwriter—Preferred Se¬ curities, Inc.; Denver; Offering—In April.' - ' A; math Jan. 26, is Bank Dec. 29, 1961 filed $556,000 of 6% cumulative preference Assoc,ated Baby Services„lnc. Jan. Pierce & - A amendment. Business Publishing Co., Inc. . '&&&&*&£ & Co, ;N<;y.,and Rauscher, Co., Inc.,' Dallas. Diagnostic Service, Inc. ... I Oct. 18, 1961 filed 2,000,000 common. Price—$1. Busi¬ ness—Company wHT operate a medical examination center* Proceeds For a hotel acquisition and working capital. Offiee—10101 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour, Fla; Underwriter—J. R. Holt & Co., Denver. '%/A 7 '• dividend St., ;N. Y. Underwriter—Dana Securities Co., Inc., 258 Broadway, N. Y. . . ■ \ A.1 A-/ . ( Harbour Bal Jan. 29, 1962 ("Reg. A") 103,000 common. Price—$2. Business—Publishing of a bowling magazine.» Proceeds . : Instrument Co. 15, 1961 filed 60,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Development and manufacture of chem¬ ical, electrical and mechanical instruments, precision products and special purpose tools. Proceeds—For sell¬ ing stockholders. Office—200 N. Braddoek Ave., Pitts¬ burgh. Underwriter—Arthurs, Lestrange & Go.,-Pitts¬ burgh. ~ AA " -.v / ? ; ' ' ' American Southwest Realty Trust A A: /A/././/. i : Feb. 12, 1962 filed 1,000,000 common. Price—$11. Busi¬ ness—A real estate investment company. Proceeds—For Industrial ment. Bear, Stearns & Co., N. Y. av. Bacharach Nov. Corp. " Ascot Price—$4. Business "Dairy Drive-ins." (3/26-30) to be offered by the company and 120,000 by the stocksholders. Price—By amendments Business—Manufacture " of custom made castings. Proceeds—For plant-improve-;-, ment.A Office—321 W. 44th St., N. Y.A Underwriter- / ment of investment. • ^ & Petroleum Corp. '.(3/12-1'6). through Securities Co., San Francisco. OfferingExpected sometime in April. "AA/.rwood Corp. • dairy products, Pacific Coast porting and sale of arts and crafts materials. Proceeds—; Tor general corporate purposes. Office—321/Park Ave., 'Baltimore. Underwriter—Federman^ Stonehill &.Co., construction of water mains, sewers and storm .drains.- Proceeds—For property improvements Price—By stockholder. ing of Proceeds—-For debt repayment and Working capital. Of¬ fice—32550 Pulaski Dr., Hayward, Calif. Underwriter- 20, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which 100,000 are.to be offered by the company and 50,000 by a sell¬ ; ■ Inc. Nov. 27, 1961 filed 150,000 common. —Sale Dec. ; 'Jan. 15, 1962 filed 300^000 common; Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of reinforced concrete pipe =used in Babs, Underwriter—Ber- Inc. Arts & Crafts Materials :;r\ Pipe & Construction Co. American Y. (3 19-23) 28,19b l iBed 135,uOo Class A common shares. Price —$5. Business—The purchase, conversion, decoration, gilt packaging and distribution of terrycloth towels and cotton pillow cases. Proceeds—For inventory, repayment of loans and working capital. Office—1030 Pearl St., Long Branch, N. J. Underwriter—Mortimer B. Burnside & Co., Inc., N. Y. '7 , L. nard 24, 1962 filed 315,000 xilass - A shares. Price—$10. Business—General real esidte> Proceeds—For corporate purposes. Ave,; Brooklyn, N. Madoff, N. Y. - Greenpoint ... Jan. 31 • radical concepts in Proceeds—Tor debt Pompano Beach, Fla. repayment * Continued on page 32 32 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (952) Continued from 31 page " : : . • ' (3/5^9) Haven Pools Blue 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 capital shares, of which 40,000 are to be offered by the company and 35,000 by stockholders. Price—$4. Business—Design, construction Begtey Drug Co. 5, 1962 ("Reg. A") 19,900 common. Frice—$15. Business—Operation of a chain of drug stores; Proceeds debt —For and installation of swimming pools and equipment. Office—201 E. Irvine St., Rich¬ repayment. Business—Operation of warehouses, manufacturing buildings, piers and railroad facilities. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—48 43rd St., Brooklyn, N. Y, Underwriter—Pacific Color cisco. Lithographers, Inc. Varick N. St., Business . Jan. 29, 1962 filed $1,000,000 of 6% conv. subord. deben¬ due 1977. Price—At par. Business—Prospects for, tures Underwriter—Market Values, Y. Underwriter—None. Bolsa Chica Oil Corp. 5, 1962 filed 130,000 common. Price—$4.50. Busi¬ ness—Engaged in commercial offset lithography. Pro¬ ceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office Feb. 225 Pro¬ Office—11933 Vose St., North Hollywood, Calif. Coast Securities Co., San Fran¬ poses. ville, Ky. Bell - Bush Terminal Co. (3/9)* Nov. 7, 1961 filed 92,320 common to be offered to stocks holders on a l-for-10 basis. Price—By amendment.- ceeds—For debt repayment and general corporate pur¬ Underwriter—J. J. B. Hilliard & Son, Louis¬ mond, Ky. Sept. Bell Electronic Corp. Dec. Jan. 20, 1961 filed $1,250,000 of convertible subordinated 75,000 common shares. Price— For stock: By amendment. Business—A distributor of electronic parts and equip¬ manufactured ment and other corporate purposes.'. Office—306 E. Blvd., Gardenia," Calif. Underwriters—Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Los Angeles and Walston & Co., N. Y. payment 1961 filed 75,000 class A class A warrants. Price of Offering—Expected in late C. M. ... ' ,s ment. Business—Publication of scientific texts and refer¬ Proceeds—For 2465 working Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter—None. ^ Berkshire Gas Co. ^ ■ Feb. 20, 1962 filed 26,500 common to be offered for sub¬ scription by stockholders. Price—By amendment (max. §24.50), Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—20 Elm St., Pittsfield, Mass. Underwriter—Smith, Barney & Co., N. Y."... V;Y o to Inc. Bowey's, ; Oct. 30, 12, 1962 ("Reg. A") 70,000 common. Price—$2.62y2. Business—Design, manufacture and installation of photographic equipment. Proceeds—For general corpo¬ rate purposes. Office—9821 Foster Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offer¬ ing—Expected in mid-March. N. Y. Offering—Imminent, • Feb. Cruttenden, — (E. J.) Brach & Sons San S. Coast Pedro St., Los Angeles. Securities Underwriter Co., San Francisco. Besco Oct. Enterprises, Inc. 27, 1961 amendment. sidiaries in filed 150,000 capital shares. Price—By Business—A holding company whose sub¬ operate jewelry and photography departments discount department stores. payment and expansion. Proceeds—For debt re¬ Office—1328 Washington St., Oakland, Calif. Underwriters—Kleiner, Bell & Co., Beverly Hills, Calif, and Rittmaster, Voisin & Co., N. Y. , Best Plastics Corp. (3/5-9) 1961 filed 125,000 common, of whieh 100,000 will be sold by the company and 25,000 by stockholders. Price—$3. Business—Manufacture of plastic novelties and party favors. Proceeds—New plant and equipment and working capital. Office—945 39th St., Brooklyn, Sept. 26, N. Y. Underwriter—S. B. Cantor & Big "C" Stares, Co., N. Y. Inc. Jan. 22, 1962 ("Reg. A") 18,000 common. market. Business—Company markets in Washington selling stockholders. land, Ore. fornia plans to and Oregon. Office—1845 Price—At-theoperate super¬ Proceeds—For S. E. 3rd Ave., Port¬ Underwriters—J. Barth & Co. and First Cali¬ Co., San Francisco; Hill, Darlington & Seattle. Big Drum, Inc. Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 ment. Furnishes Business — Grimm, 1 common. Price—By amend¬ packaging materials and equipment to producers of frozen confections. Proceeds —For debt repayment and working capital. Office—1183 Essex Ave., Columbus, O. Underwriters—Merrill, Turben & Co., Inc., Cleveland and The Ohio Co., Columbus. Bilnor Corp, (3/12-16) v Jan. 8, 1962 filed 100,000 class A capital shares. PriceYBy amendment ($11 max.). Business—Manufacture of wading pools. Proceeds—For the selling stockholders. Office—300 Morgan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter C. Allyn & Co., N. Y. —A. Bison Jan. 26, 1 Manufacturing Corp. 1962 ("Reg. A") 25,000 Business—Design, manufacture common. Price—$5. and sale of merchandis¬ ing equipment for outdoor use. Proceeds—For inven¬ tory, working capital, debt repayment and equipment. Office—35 D. Lunt & Roetzer St., Buffalo, N. Y. Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Blackman-Uhler Chemical Underwriter—S. Co. Dec. 5, 1961 ("Reg. A") 5,600 common. Business—Manufacture of napthols, intermediates. Price — $8,875. pigments, tints and Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Ad¬ dress—Spartanburg, S. C Underwriter—Dargan & Co Spartanburg, S. C. Offering—Imminent. • Blane Chemical Corp. Jan. 29, 1962 filed 120,000 common. Price—$3. Business —The processing of plastic raw materials into com¬ pounds for extruding and, moulding into, plastic prod¬ ucts. Proceeds For debt repayment, equipment and Office—35 Pequit St., Camden, Mass. 'Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., — working capital. N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime Dec. . 1961 — Podesta & Co., in May. company-owned^ patents. Pro-/ capital. Off ice-—Kirk; Boulevard; Vincente Mt. Vernon, filed (3/5-9) 137,500 Photo labs, Inc. 1962 filed 93,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ Company processes black and white and color photographic film, and sells photographic supplies and — equipment. Proceeds—For sales promotion, equipment Rd,, L. I. C., Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y. • Calumet Industries, Inc. (2/26-3/2) Jan. 8, 1962 filed $1,550,000 of 6%% s. f. subord. deben¬ tures due 1982 and 100,750 common shares to be of¬ fered in units, each consisting of $1,000 of debentures and repayment of loans. Office-^21-20 45th N. Y. and 65 shares. Price—$1,032.50 per unit. Business—Mar¬ keting of lubricating and fuel oils and asphalt products. Proceeds—For Office—10 S. debt repayment and . working La Salle; St., Chicago.. Podesta & Co., Chicago. Cruttenden, capital. Underwriter— . •, 1 ; ; : ; Cambridge #uitd Of California, inc. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 280,000 common. Price—By amend-, convertible' subor¬ ment. Business—General real estate, Proceeds—Debt re¬ payment and working capital. Office—324 E. Bixby Rd,, debentures due 1972 and 65,000 common to be offered in 6,500 units, each consisting of $100 of deben¬ tures and 10 shares. Price—By amendment (max. $150). Long Beach, Calif/Underwriter—To be named. Offering —Expected sometime in May. : 1 ' • Cameo Lingerie, Inc. Business—Long-term leasing of automobiles.. Proceeds —For possible acquisitions and working capital. Office 130 Cuttermill Rd., Great Neck, N. Y. Underwriter— D. H, Blair & Co., N. Y. Feb. to Brown Engineering Co., Inc. Jan. 22, 1962 filed 80,000 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Engineering and custom manufacturing activities pertaining to the space and missile programs. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Ad¬ dress—P. O. Drawer 917, Huntsville, Ala. Underwriter— Goodbody & Co., N. Y. be ers. 12, 1962 filed 190,000 common, of which 120,000 are offered by the company and 70,000 by stockhold¬ Price—$5. Business—Manufactuer of women's and children's tailored panties. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ ment, inventory and working capital. Office—Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Underwriter—Schweickart & Co., N. Y. Cameo-Parkway Records, Inc. Dec. 29, 1961 filed 200,000 class A common, of which 40,000 are to be offered by company and 160,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business^-Recording and Brunswig Drug Co. — 29, ness Y. Price Publishing Corp. 1961 Calev dinate common. Proceeds—For PI., Associates, Inc., N. Y. 27, Jan. Blvd., Los Angeles. Briggs Leasing Corp. Feb. 8, 1962 filed $650,000 of 6%% enclose electrical wires. capital shares. Price—$5, Business—Publishing of text books and general educa¬ tional works. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—339 W. 51st St., N. Y. Underwriter—S. B. Can¬ tor Co., N. Y. (3/5-9) ^tone & Co., 15, 1962 filed 85,000 systems on capital. Office—19 Warren Underwriter—J. B. Coburn Caldwell Bridge Electronics Co., Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 225,000 common, of which 200,000 are to be offered by the company, and 25,000 by the stock¬ holders. Price—$4. Business—Design and manufacture of electronic equipment and communication systems. Pro¬ ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—201 Lau¬ rel St., Beverly, N. J. Underwriter—Roth & Co., Inc., Philadelphia. Offering—Expected in April. Jan. conduits to Oct filed San based By amend¬ distributing of phonograph records. Proceeds—For ment. Business—A wholesale drug distributor. Proceeds —For selling stockholders. eral corporate purposes. gen¬ Office—14Q5 Locust St., Phila¬ Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in March. Address—Vernon, Calif. Un¬ derwriter—William R. Staats & Co., Los Angeles. Offer¬ ing—Expected sometime in April, : \ • Buckingham Corp. delphia. Feb. to Campbell-Lurie Plastics, Inc. • Building Ventures, Inc. (2/28) 27, 1961 ("Reg. A") 62,500 common. Price Business—Real Estate. Proceeds—For working debt repayment and working capital. Office—5440 Highway Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. Under¬ writer—Florida Growth Securities, Inc., Jacksonville. — $4. capital. Capital Management Corp. ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬ ness—An investment company which will hold mort¬ gages, land contracts, etc. Proceeds For investment. Dec. 27 1961 Office—309 Main St., Islip, N. Y. Underwriters—Albion Co., Inc., N. Y., R. E. Investors Corp., Levittown, N. Y., and Great Eastern Investment Co., Queen's Village, N. Y. — Office—44 E. Indian School Rd., Scottsdale, Ariz. Under¬ writer—Pacific Underwriters, Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz. Caprlco International, Inc. Corp. Oct. 30, 1961 filed 70,000 common, of which 40,000 are to be offered by the company and 30,000 by stockhold¬ Jan. , Price—By amendment. Business—Designs, manufac¬ tures, imports and distributes artificial "flowers. Proceeds ers. 22, 1962 ("Reg A") 52,000 Business—Design, -manufacture common. and Price wholesaling —$3. of a proprietary line of sporting goods. Proceeds—For gen¬ eral corporate purposes. Office—76 Madison Ave, N Y Underwriter—Douglas Barr, Zrike, Hart & Alkazin, Inc.! —For repayment of debt and general corporate purposes. W. 19th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Rodetsky, Walker & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—In early March. Office—111 Burton Mount Corp. (3/5-9) Sept. 22,1961:filed 100,000 common. Price—$6. Business —Importation and distribution of copying machines and supplies. Proceeds—Repayment of debt, Inventory, sales promotion and other corporate purposes; Office—2147 be Proceeds—For Securities Burros -v 27, 1961 filed 574,250 common, of which 500,000 are offered by the company and 74,250 by a stock¬ holder. Price—$2.50. Business—Company is engaged in the plastic business as a converter of raw materials. sale of Cutty Sark Scotch Whiskey. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—620 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Lehman Brothers, N. Y. Oct. v Oct. 19, 1962 filed 500,000 class A common. Price—By amendment (max. $25). Business—The importing and New York. . • - Carmer . Industries, Inc. (3/2) Nov. 28, .1961, filed 185,000 common, of which 135,000 by the company and 50,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Conversion of raw plastics to basic/ shapes such as rods, tubes and are to be offered sheets. Proceeds—For 1 operations dfeyelbpihent of -for *2industrial:and research and* Offering—Expected in late March. Chicago. (4/9) Financial Corp. 12001 •• • working N. Y. ing company for a savings and loan association. Proceeds —For acquisition of two insurance agencies and expan¬ sion/Office • 30, 1961 ("Reg. A") 45,583 common. Price—$6. Business—Manufacturer of flexible steel tubing, cables 150,000 common, of which 30,000 are to be offered by the company and 120,000 by the stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—A hold¬ 13, Underwriter—Hayden, (3/5-9) working and 7, Brentwood Beryllium International, Inc. Feb. 1, 1962 filed 1,000,000 common. Price—$5. Business -—Company plans to manufacture various type beryllium products. Proceeds—For land and buildings, equipment, and working capital. Office — 528 Union Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—None. . Cadillac Conduit Corp. Co., N. Y. Price—$3. . Nov. and supplies powders, syrups, flavorings, etc., industry. Proceeds—For repayment of debt and working capital. Office—679 N. Orleans St., Chicago, 111. — —Pacific ; — company fice—1621 27, - postponed. Manufacture of handbags and related items. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Of¬ Oct. ~ Greenville, S. C. Underwriter—CapitaLSecuritibs/Gcrp'., Greenville, S. C. Note This offering was indefinitely to food Underwriter ' handling use ceeds—For 1962 filed 210,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of popular priced candies. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—4656 W. Kinbie St., Chicago. Underwriter—Goldman, Sachs & Business * 4V commercial (2/26) by the \ 1954, is engaged in the processes of California, Inc. (3/19-23) 1961 ("Reg. A") 85,000 common. like a Business— . ' special' material 1961 filed 80,000 common, of which 40,000 are offered be in and 40,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufactures, Jan. Berne and $4. 23, 1961 filed 196,109 shares of c^piVal stock. Price —$1.15. Business—The company which be&an Pneumatics, Inc. 1961 ("Reg. A") 93,500 class A shares of which 85,000 will be sold for the company and 8,500 for the underwriter;YPrice—$2. Business—Fabrication, assem¬ bly and sale of tools powered by compressed air. Pro¬ ceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office —365 Arlington Ave., Brooklyn 8, N. Y. Underwriter— T. M. Kirsch Co., Inc., Bernalen, Inc. • March; March Boston Nov. 13, Office— capital. —- P. -r books. shares ( Benjamin (W. A.), Inc. Nov. 15, 1961 filed 50,000 common. Price—By amendence Funding Corp. Corp. Jan. 19, 1962 filed 70,000 common. PMceY^: ^ By^'&hendY ment. Business—Manufacture of molded by. stockholders at the fate of $100 of debentures for plastic: products,' each 65 shares held. Price—At par. Business—Prospects * principally melamine dinner wear. ProcecdiYT-Fbr expah< for, develops, produces, and markets oil and gas. Pro-.' sion, working capital and debt repayhieht:. Office-—iig • ceeds—For debt repayment, exploration and develop¬ Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Calif. Underwfiter—Pistell,' ment. Office—612 S. Flower St., Los Angeles. Under¬ Inc., N. Y. sJ '.(jr.-7 • Cable writer—Bregman, Cummings & Co., N. Y. Carriers, Inc. " Aldondra .. N. Y. Corp. 29, 1962 filed $1,024,700 of 6% convertible subordi¬ nated debentures due 1977, to be offered for subscription, others. Proceeds—For debt re¬ by Oil Chica Bolsa tr Growth —Making of loans to small business concerns, purchase of machinery for lease, and the providing of manage¬ ment counseling. Proceeds—For working capital. Office —527 Lexington Ave., N. Y.„ Underwriter—Darius Inc.. Bregman, Cummings & Co., N. Y. debentures due 1977; also For debentures: At par. 20, number develops, produces, and markets oil and gas. Proceeds— For debt repayment, exploration, and development. Of¬ fice— 612 S. Flower St., Los Angeles. Underwriter— Inc., N. Y. 22, 1962 :YV" Jericho Turnpike,: New' Hyde Park, N-' Y» Underwriter—^ Reiner, Linburn & Co., N. Y/ : 1 Nov. Feb. Thursday;February ... a new plant, repayment of debt, Volume 195 Number 6136 . . 33 (953) Commercial and Financial Chronicle The . 1 and working capital. Office—22 N. 26th St., Kenilworth, Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. J. Underwriter — Inc., N. Y. Carolinas Capital Corp. (2/26-3/2) Price—$10. Business —A small business investment company. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—1200 North Carolina National Bank Bldg., Charlotte, N. C. Underwriter—R. S. Dickson & Co., Charlotte. Nov. 22, 1961 filed 500,000 Feb. 16, 1962 filed 195,039 common to be offered for sub¬ scription by stockholders on the basis of one new share for each 10 held. Price—$20. "Proceeds^—For repayment of bank loans. Office—122 E. St. James Street, Tarboro, Underwriter—None. ' ' C. Acceptance Corp. of, Delaware Central Underwriter—To be named. Brick Century ; purchase 15,000 class A shares to be offered in units (oi $250 debenture and a warrant to purchase 5 shares) subscription by holders of class A and class B shares land and working unit for each 50 shares held. Price— one $250 per unit. Business—Production of concrete for con¬ capital. Office—344 Duffy Ave., Hicksville, Optics Acrylic (A. ' 1 Co _____—Debentures Corp Gilhard D. Co., & Hamml.ll & Co.) (Shearson, Aero (Roth Arizona & Co., Inc. Biochemical V. D. (Drexel (R. Barry G.) & Inc.) Co.) $800,000 & Co.) Bowey's, Inc Podesta Industries, Capital (R. Fastline Inc. Dickson Flair $460,000 "■ Cards, Inc Burstein (Amber, Inc.)' Co., & (Raymond & Moore • • Co., Inc. 7 Happy House, (No Co.) : . Control . $700,000 .. .... _ ... (Woodcock, Kaufman Co.) &, Eastern .:o $120,000 . ' Electronics, Inc.._———„.Common* (Rubin, Rennert Inc.) Co., & Marie Design & Mfg. Corp..1 (Terrio Maxam, Inc. & Co., :■ $220,000 Inc.) , <fe (Morris $825,000 - Industries, (Arnold Malkan Inc.,.---& .Common Inc.) Co., Cohon - Sportsmen, Inc, (William, . —Units — David Scientific Struthers (Hirsch . Inc.) Inc.) Consolidated Natural Gas Co.____ 11:30 ...Debentures K. Co. Morris Cohon & and Fifth Avenue Cards, Inc (Hardy & Co. and Filor, Bullard Fluke (John) Co.) Stokely-Van Weld Camp, (Reynolds 115,000 170,000 & Uropa International, Inc.— Samitas (G. Common $300,000 & $15,000,000 & Warwick, . Inc Co., Inc.) & ..Common shares Lewis Co., $300,000 Inc.) Inc.) (M. -....Common Corp T 199,000 < . Finance Associates. Posey Ltd.) $300,000 Co.) $1,250,000 (Albion Securities Co., I. Inc., Eastern Great Common R. Investment (Meade & •„ DeLuxe Homes, Co;) - Co., & Co., Engineering (Roman _ & & Hamilton, (M. $1,725,000 Johnson) (8. United Acrylic Co., Inc.) Common shares 175,000 Common Inc.) Co., & $306,000 Common $287,500 Kureen Co.) Co., Common 70,000 shares Inc.) Class A Electronics Corp... (.T<Vhn Joshua & Co.. Tnc.) $300,000 Shopping Center Limited Partnership i— shares1 (Bids Land Co., Inc.) 12 World noon $30,000,000 D.'Gilhard & ' Cohon & Co.) Co., Inc.) $50,000 (Standard Securities Corp.) (Herbert $75,000 Inc.) .....Common Inc.) $400,000 -Common Young & Co., $300,000 Inc.) Common Fidelity America Financial Corp Securities Co., Inc.) $500,000 (Netherlands Philadelphia—Ben. Int. Franklin Realty Trust of (A. Gard Becker G. (Andy) iVan Co., & Inc.) $10,000,000 Common Corp Alstyne, Noel & 200.000 shares Co.) Garden State Small Business Investment Co.—Com. (Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc.) $990,000 Gulf American Fire & (Offering (Carl M. Inc.___ Rhoades Inc.) & Co., — shares —Common Inc. and Reubin Rose $300,000 & Co., ^ -—Capital 200,000 Honig's-Parkway, Inc. (Richard Bruce $452,008 underwriting) Productions, Loeb, Common Casualty Co.— stockholders—no to Hanna-Barbara of House : & Co., Inc.) Common Westmore, Inc,__ (Brand, Grumet & Seigel, and Kesselman Inc. International Airport Hotel Systems, & Co. & Co., Inc.) $600,000 Inc.—.Units Robinson-Humphrey Co., Inc.) 17,000 units and Units Jaylis Industries, Inc Liederman E. Inc.) Co., & Johnson Electronics. Inc.—— (Jennings, Mandel & Longstreth) PCS Data $1,700,000 Capital 125,000 shares Common Inc Processing, $375,000 and Lenchner, Covato & Co., Inc.) (Harry Odzer Co. Class A Power Industrial Products Co (S. Printing D. Corp. Fuller Co.) & shares 160,000 Common America of (Goldman, Sachs & Co.) 454,000 sharese Puerto Common Rico Capital Corp (Hill, Darlington Grimm) & $3,000,000 Ripley Industries, Inc., and Jomar Plastics, Inc.._ Units (Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and American Corp.) 100.000 units Servonuclear Corp. (Rothenberg, (Flomenhaft. Steel Seldler Plant Equipment (Joseph $200,000 Common Tidewater & Co.) $250,000 —Common Corp Co.) $300,000 Co., Inc.) $325,000 Co.. Inc.) Hurley W. & Common Co., Inc Harvey Lumber & Common Co. Rennert & $1,000,000 Common Tyson Metal Products, Inc World Toy Lestrange & Co.) 70,000 shares Common Inc House. Co.) - * , Common ——: & Co., Inc.) Heller Securities Spiral Metal Co., Inc.— (Laren Common 300,000 shares Funds, & Co., & Cryplex Industries, Inc.— (Arthurs, Units $3,000,000 Scope Publishers, Inc $750,000 Inc.) .-Capital Investments (Rubin, Bonds EST) -Units ! Inc (Roth $444,00C Development Corp (Morris Common & Units West Penn Power Co shares 100,000 Mackie, & Beane (Scott, " (A. (Dalen Tech-Torch West Falls 185,000 Corp Co.) & Corp. (Hodgdon & $600,000 Co.) & Taylor Hamilton, , $700,000 Inc.) Industries, Inc Fuller D. , Common Common Karasik (McDonnell & (Monday) Optics Woodhill, (Ezra Voron .Common Taylor ." Packaging Co., Inc Westates March 5 $300,000 Inc.) Valley Metallurgical Processing Co shares Inc Co., & _____ Texas Tennessee Common 137,500 H. (Frank Common 135,000 shares Inc.) Karp Corp. Common Co.— Co., Common (Irwin Technibilt $900,000 Transportation & Spartan International Inc._^___— Univend Inc.) Towing Co., Inc. (Godfrey, (Friday) Carmer Industries, (Godfrey, Common and Bassior & Co.) $300,000 Industries Foam (Fialkov March 2 - $300,000 Devices, Inc.__ (Naftalin Paramount Inq.) (Thursday) American Micro Bechtold $1,050,000 ..Common & (Sentinel Securities Planning Corp. 1 and ...Common Enterprises Corp Economy Food March Corp., $250,000 Inc (Alessandrini • Investors E. Corp.) (Jane), Inc.__— Common __. Inc. and Boenning & Co.) (Rodetsky, Walker & Co., Southeastern Building Ventures, Inc. Colby Inc fShenk Industries, —Units Lomasney & A. (Myron shares Co., Inc Co.) & Supply Co., Inc (Bache ' American (Singer, # —Common Discount Plymouth Class A Allyn Studios (D. = C. Industries, Inc.. ■ "...i 200,000 .Debentures , $405,000 Ltd.) Corp.; Cos., (Blair (Edward McPherson * , shares 131,500 shares 120,000 Inc Cinema Common Inc._—. Inc.) Co., Papekote, Inc.. Airtronics International Corp. of Florida.-Common (Stein Bros. & Boyce and Vickers, Corp.) Industries, Finance Oxford (Wednesday) February 28 100,000 shares ; Pierce, Lynch, _— (A. Investment Trust—Common (Gaumont ..Common Co.) ——Common Saxton A, 152,500 shares Olympia Mines, Inc.—_—.———...Capital 160,000 shares — & Atlantic Common —... Higginson (Lee North $718,750 Inc.) Inc.. National Real Estate $15,000,000 (Hill, Dariington & Grimm) Irwin & Co., duPont & Co.) I. L. Rossman & Co.) (F. Tri-Point Industries, Inc.__ r(Dean Miss Elliette, Debentures 250,000 shares Common Industries, Inc 100,000 shares Co.,. Inc.) Common (Francis shares Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.— (Reynolds Melnor .Common Inc.) Co., Common 100,000 shares Enterprises, Inc shares Common Inc.__ & $975,000 Co.) & Union Securities & Co.) Dillon, (Ehrlich, —Capital Smyth) & Co.) & Lunar $3,000,000 Mfg. Co., Inc.— (White. Baum Inc. (Eastman Developers Small Business Investment Corp._Com. (Lieberbaum & $375,000 Common (Putnam & Co.) ; Krylon, $25,000,000 EST) a.m. Corp.) Merrill Smith Inc.) & Concors shares Common Securities Corp. Common Inc. 300,000 Kollmorgen Corp. (Tuesday) ., (Bids Co.) King Louie Bowling Corp (George February 27 Products & -.Common __ units 600 .Common and Laboratories, Certified units 47,000 Co., Inc Camera (Underhill Corp....Com. shares 150,000 (Burnham Kine $300,000 International Co.. & Motti. & & Stretch International $310,000 Bilnor Co.) & Inc.) (Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.) $10,000,000 Units $7,500,000 Co.) & Fenner j Baxter - shares _____ Allyn C. . $2,000,000 Units Brothers (Lehman /.• Co.) & Co., & Laboratories, Inc Common 500.000 Co.) * Singer .(Gianis . Baxter Common —.Common $320,000 Inc.) Co., & Petroleum Corp.—Debentures Industries, Inc Debens. Corp shares and Lieberbaum Co. & (A. - $2,500,000 Trench, In<5.) $1,500,000 200,000 Barnes (Troster, Arnav of America— Industry Capital Corp. • . Pir-O-Wood & (David American Realty & Corp.__Common Ino.) 250,000 shares Co., Inc.) & Voigt Industries, Inc Albert $575,000 Inc.) Realty Corp First Republic Corp. Capital Inc.) Co., Co.) & shares Common Lumber Co (Dempsey-Tegeler —Common shares Plan, Inc.__——. (Bache , .Common ' $1,500,000 163,600 Improvement Properties Record Common 92,320 underwriting) (Monday) 12 Alaska Pacific Common French. & (Woodcock, Moyer, Fricke & First Hartford 200,000 shares National Bowling Lanes, Inc Lewis Fricke (Putnam —i— (McDonnell & Co.,.,Inc.) (Edward < ' .Common : * Family $702,000 March Common Inc $300,000 Improvement Moyer, (Friday) stockholders—no to (Offering Common Bayliss, & Properties March 9 Common Inc.) Co.) & Common (Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.) 328,912 shares $300,000 Dynamics, Inc Eastern Common —_ Co., & Hutton (Brandtjen Common .(McLaughlin, / \ underwriting) Hydra-Loc.^Inc.*: Kann-Ellert Pacific Coast Securities and $300,000 Inc E. (W. (Thursday) 8 Bush Terminal Co Columbus Plastic Products, Inc —Common Common Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co Capital $687,500 Co.) Laboratories, Altman (Stone, $224,001 (Wednesday) Co. $600,000 Corp.__ & Son, Inc (Francis H.) shares (Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Edward D. Jones & Co.) 99,288 shares shares 150,000 (Paul Eisenberg & Co.) ... Clute 7 March Griesedieck Common Cantor Colorfilm Cineque ** V "V. ..Common Airlines Futura " Inc.) Co., & Co.) & (Sandkuhl & Co., Inc.) , Parks (Tuesday) 442,362 March Century Brick Corp. of America Units —— (G. Everett Class A shares 130,000 Southwestern Public Service Co Common (Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Dillon, Read & Co.) $300,000 Common Linburn & Co.) B. 6 Curtis) & 34 page ——...Capital Stone (S. March on ._i Inc Jackson, Webber, (Paine, $375,000 Securities Co.) Caldwell Publishing Common : $5,000,000 Co.) & Co.) Corp (Reiner, shares —Units Corp s. 80,000 Youthcraft Creations, Common Coast (Hayden, Podesta & Co.) $1,600,375 (Cruttenden, Carolinas Co.) & Inc Continued Capital !, Financial Corp. Mount Burton .Common — (Cruttenden, Calumet of women's, misses' and junior sportswear, co¬ ordinates, and dresses. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equipment and working capital. Office—2025 McKinley St., Hollywood, Fla. Underwriter — Clayton Securities Corp., Boston, Mass. facture Common Cantor B. (Pacific Brentwood •- . Industries, Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 300,000 class A common, of which 225,000 are to be offered by the company and 75,000 by stockholders. Price—$7.50. Business—Design and manu¬ shares 230.000 Pools.— Haven Blue Common $500,000 shares 430,000 , . —Common _____ Malkan Co.) Corp.. (S. shares 600,000 Corp (Arnold Best Plastics Common Co., Inc.____.— ______ Co.) & Stearns (Kleiner, Bell & Co. and Rittmaster, Voisin & Co.) 150,000 shares $310,000 Co._ (Globus, B. Co.) & Press, Inc.—_ Common Enterprises, Inc. Besco Common Janov be named. Hill Chestnut $200,000 ______ (Bear, Co.- and and Common : & Stearns Corp. (Monday) Electronic Products 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—$5 Business— of paints particularly for use in tropical semi-tropical climates. Proceeds—for equipment working capital. Address—Santurce, Puerto Rico. Manufacture $240,000 Inc.) underwriting) (No (Bear, $13,444,582 Arwood February 26 ; . American Book-Stratford _Common Chemical Coatings Corp. Dec. 27, Underwriter—Singer, Bean & Mackie, Inc., N. Y. N. Y. All-State Auto Rental Corp Graniteville equipment struction purposes. Proceeds—For expansion, NEW ISSUE CALENDAR 2, 1962 filed 150,000 common, of which 90,000 are be offered by company and 60,000 by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Rebuilding functional parts for motor vehicles. Proceeds — For equipment, working capital and other corporate purposes. Office— 4301 W. 69th St., Chicago. Underwriter—Straus, Blosser & McDowell, Chicago. to Underwriter—To Sept. 28, 1961 filed $750,000 of 6% convertible subordi¬ nated debentures due 1976 with attached warrants to at the rate of Feb. and (3/12-16) Certified Industries, Inc. for (Friday) (3/5-9) America of ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4. Busi¬ ness—Company has developed a process for producing simulated brick facing for buildings. Proceeds—For gen¬ eral. corporate purposes. Office—4506 W. 12th St., Erie, Pa. Underwriter—Sandkuhl & Co., Inc., N. Y. Nov. 9, 1961 1961 filed 350,000 capital shares. Price — $7. Business—Production of plastics, marble and ceramics for the packaging and building industries. Proceeds— For expansion, leasehold improvements, repayment of loans and other corporate purposes. Office—250 Vree- Ave., Paterson, N. J. Underwriter—Foundation Se¬ curities, Inc., N. Y. Corp. Champion Parts Rebuilders, Inc. v , pansion. Office—526 North Ave. East, Westfield, N. J. one Casavan Industries, Inc. Aug. 21, February 23 ; common. ★ Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. N. • Nov. 29, 1961 filed 150,000 class A common. Price—$5. Business—A sales finance company. Proceeds—For ex¬ 150,000 shares Continued on page 34 34 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (954) r Continued, • Chez from 33 page . Cineque Colorfilm Laboratories, Inc. (3/5-9) Aug. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common;:Price—$2.50, Business—The production of slides and color film strips. Proceeds—For equipment, sales promotion and advertis¬ ing. Office—424 E. 89th St., N. Y. Underwriter—-Paul Eisenberg Co., N. Y. • v . v ?. Z - - , (3/19) Milhet, Inc. Jan 15, 1962 ("Reg. A") $100,000 of 7% convertible sub¬ debentures due 1967 and 50,000 common shares be offered in units of $100 debentures and 50 shares. ordinated to Business—Home unit. Price—$200 per Proceeds For debt — W. 22nd Ave., Miami, Fla. Un¬ N. Y. V Church Builders, Inc. 33 * Feb. 6, 1961 filed 50,000 shares of common stock, series; t A1 Price—$5.50 per share. Business—A closed-end diveiv 2. a sified management investment Office—501 investment. * Management, Inc., Fort Cinema Studios Inc. • Dec. (3/12-16) . Thursday, February 22, 1962 equipment. Proceeds—For materials and inventory, re¬ search and development and working capital./ Office^r 1303 Elm St., Rocky Ford, Colo. Underwriter — Stone, Altman & Co., Inc., Denver;* :3< / ♦.>' v^ Coastal Acceptance Corp. ^ '■* Worth. * 'V 14, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 capital shares. Price—$1. Investment Corp., Manchester, N. H. ; Life Citizens Ins. Co. of New York . 36 Lowell St., Manchester, N, H. Underwriter—Eastern City Finance Dec. 21, Co., 1961 filed in income (3/26-30) Inc. 110,000 / / ^ ">.; 1 • Price—By amend¬ common. rate purposes. Office—113 Fourth Ave., N. Y. consumer loan and fi- •, writer—Meade & Co., N. Y. •; buisness in Maryland. Proceeds—For general cor-^ Coleman Cable & Wire Co.' porate purposes. Office—307 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore. Jan. 18, 1962 filed 120,000 class A Underwriter—Stein Bros. & Boyce, Baltimore. nance from 33 page The — manufacture Orlando Paper Corp (Professionals 13 (Tuesday) G. Becker & Co.) (Searight, Pacific Gas & Electric Co (Bids 11:30 amendment. Business — Distribution of special types of electric wire arid cable, and the manufacture of Class 'Trygon A " (William, 21 Orion Electronics (A. MT) Inc.) ..Common Co., Inc.) (Schwabacher a Co.; $350,000 (Thursday) (First (Hemphill, Noyes A Co. Paine, and (L. Webber, Jackson & •\- (J. Co.— Capital New - —Common ... ; Corp Curtis) (Drexel Filon .■ Plastics A Co.) shares 250,000 (Investment (Offering, to Co.) A 200,000 Inc Planning Group, Inc.) 3.; April $300,000 by Hardy March 26 Co.) & Admiral • April 6 Corp (Hardy A ; Medex, M. Loeb, Rhoades (T. , Co.) 150,000 Kirsch Co.. Inc. Inc.) I. E. R. Investors Corp.) (Cortlandt _ Investing Corp.) (Hemphill, v Precision Noyes & Co. Estabrook and Instrument 37 A Co.) 150,000 Co.———.3:3.3 Hallowell, RF Interonics, Inc ;; Ridge ■ :* (White. 7 Weld Rockower Malkan Co. A (Drexel Co.) 284,586 Inc & 33 150,000 -.City f! Long Island Fastpak, .Debentures First Common Astro-Science Atlantic Burnside A Co., Inc.) (Pacific Milhet, A Curtis) Co.) A Co. $255,000 Co.) Halle A Stieglitz) (Auchincloss, Co.) & 165.000 Redpath) Interworld Film (General 100.000 Co., Inc.) Rides, (Paul Lithoid, Inc. and 8. Common ; Kasdan A Co.. A Redpath) A Co.) 1,000 units Taylor Matthias (AL.) Co Bros. Co., Inc.) $360,000 Common 7—„r_ ' (Stein A A Boyce) 200.000 shares Motor Parts Industries, Inc.... . (8treet • Narrows A Premium Co., Inc.) Corp (Pearson, Murphy A Co.) $400,000 Class A 120,000 shares J. , Publishers . Co.) 53,829 3 -;. McDonald Land (Lieberbaum Pyramid a Co. 3' * - shares -- * • ■ ; / - . // > (Capital Duro :V '3" ,s ; a' Co.) Furniture a $440,000 Taylor . 150,000 D. (Eids - a.m. Blauner. A Trans-Pacific Research Co., Inc ) EST);$25,000,000 ;3 v 3'^ -V . RR.—.333.Equip. Trust Ctfs. to.be received)'$5,925,000 ' - -/ V -3 .. -'^37.3/ Co., Inc,_'3__l_—3___:___3_3r_-Common -3/.'3"»'-'r Taylor Co.) A shai'es 65,000 Co. PenzeU and ' A 3- •- 166,666.shares , ;.7:3 ' / Co. * ^ " *.3 / (Bids ii / a.m. EST) $20,000,000 ; 3, ./• -.3 (Tuesday) 3:r Light Co.——— , 4Bids 40 be '■'■'■■"V £ Bonds — received) .$20,000,000^* . "/Utah Pow6r & Light Co._.-_3——_—3—.Common ( >'73" :f 7; • (Bids to' be received) $10,000,000 V:. • ' v ' 3 . ; ; r" 3?v." 3- May 29 tTuesday) ; -i;."'/.£■ 3'/ -3. . New England Elfectric System_31 _*_3..-Common / 73 (Offering to stockholders—bids to be-received • shares ' \ '.-3- •3 May.31 ' (Thursday); £,• •; - . > J \ Alabama Power Co^ " 343,551 A Co;, and shares .* Trans-Alaska Telephone Co,r-— (MUton (Bids, 11 Utah Power & . 872,876 sharts /;'; '• > 'r;/- "3 * - n ..Bonds k (Bids to be received) $17,000,000 . .. . / .. •' f; November 7 (Wednesday) Georgia Power; Co._^k_^k—.3. . Controls, Inc....——Common Hamilton, ; ' ; (Tuesday) 33...V3 ...*'./.;"33V. '/>'// •*. May 22 ; 7-3 industries, - Inc.L^.Common Weeks) : V . I • —^.Common $300.000Z l,(Godfrey, Hamiltoh/'Taylor A Co.) $500,000 ' 3 f .3 Co.)'Inc.) 3 ,.v $600,000 .3/;' /3•3: — Fashions,; Inc.3333.1A3_ 133333:_.3.Common13 /../ Industries, Inc.-———Common (Finkle (Godfrey, A . .3.3 ;, . , ; .Bonds April 24 (Thursday) 13-^ ,3 V -3/: -/3;£. m'l Appalachian Power-Co._-£-k.l.k—^3. .Debentures ___j__.Common shares Pen .3.;/,. "; - - 3 ■ City Dairy Products, inc..Common Tork Time (Terrio (Godfrey.^ Hamilton, - .. $5,000,000 13..• ... -•''/(Arthurs/L&strange :A rLee 3. 3 ■■ £ . Jiffy.,.Steak'■Cor33f33.ik333L3'k3^£^-333._3.Coiri'mon 3 ^ 100,000 shares Inc.). $450,000 Securities Corp.) Jf; - ' v. 3; Products, Inc. Pacific r. . , .Debentures Thc.)m5<000 -Common ,v . 3 L,i^ht Co.2^.^_—Bonds 3/! vIT .Z- ;/ ;/ ' (Thursday) - /k . ' *'/'/- • . Development Corp..__.Units Blauner a. Co., Growth Thomasville * r" » .Commonshares Co.) . ;'■(Wednesday)-.Z3,33//•••"•'« .••-k.'./-:-*3.3 April. 23- (Wednesday) •« : $1,250,000' "3 Cohon a . .....Capital shares "(Pids to. be-.received) $6,000,000 3"3. ' Missouri -/ Publications,, Inc;__v---—--.—Common (Milton D. 'T 3 ; 3 ,/Z and ' vCo.;' Inc.); $300,000 Morris />, <Appalachian Power Co.—-3.-—3-_____tlBonds Planning Group) $676,500 & U- - J *: April 17 s Corp.—Common and $750,000 ... /(Sandkuhl A Co., Inc.) $637,500 Seashore Food Co., Inc._i.——.3^31::,—Common Rico shares Co.). 550,000 :/; k/ r/3 April 16 :(Monday); w._^.^-._..._Common a 260 000 Mississippi Power Co... 33, '1/ * , ; Investment Co.) $450,000 Corp.) Co.) A .Class B Langley A Common Securities .^Common Irving Weis International, Inc... C. (W. . '3:'/;;*- April 12 /V /. A . $286,875 (Roth a Co.; Inc.) 541,000 shares Puerto (Hill, ...Common > 4. Paine, (Hornblower Common Hamilton, a (Scott, Harvey a Co., Sun Units Kimball Marts ' .. Pacific;Power & • / 7' j.^^;;.....;t.Common Inc.) Common Common First Lincoln Financial Corp.3 _/_—.Common &:y./.-Zj- ' (White, Weld A Co.) 320,000 shares 73 ; 3. Co., Inc. and M. L, Lee a Co., Ipc.).,. $1,800,000 • -/ -z, Securities. and (Bu-nham A Co.) , /April 11 Product Research of Rhode Island, Inc.—.Common Inc ) $616,000 Inc C. (T. —Class A Parker Inc. :April 10 f 3 3 ;,C 3 __._.Common Inc Nigeria Chemical Southern Inc (Godfrey, a (Investment Common Co.. ' ._L_,.i._Class _ __ ^ i. v——- 31 iv . $625,000 Inc.—_ Stearns Co.; shares Kay Foods Corp.— Kiddie « shares $425,000 (Auchincloss, Inc.) New World Laboratories, Inc._^ A $300,000 Distributors, Inc. Securities Co., Co., ^ 77' 7 ; Webber,-Jackson a Curtis Nikko Securities Co,, Ltd.) $25,000,000 " * shares ..... u Common (Jennings, Mandel a Longstreth) Common A Industries, Inc.. (Albion Securities : ;. underwriting) $2,675,000 ; Vitamiri Specialties ?Co.^—jiT-i.33r3T—Tiki-Capital f /3 3*-<Woodcock, Moyer, Fricke A French, Trr ) $300,000 3- - - Nationwide Bowling Corp.....—__'.^..Capital ..Common Noel Parker shares 110,000 shares. Michaels (J.), Jnc.—^ (L. F. Rothschild a Co.) 103,000 Morse Electro Products Corp.^1. ' 125,000 District Photo, Inc Hannett /:3 Products, Inc. —_.Common (Standard ..Class ... Als'yne, a Drug Co., Inc... $200,000 ; and 480.000 ______ Units A L. a $6,250,000 Inc Corp (Van , • .Common Securities (Street (McDonnell L. Common Jackson S :r.3. shares % l% Inc..—....——-__,*_Common Maikan (Stevens 'A /3 ,_______^___Common Co.) no /—.Debentures Turbodyne Corp. f- ... * , -..^Common - 160,000 Inc._.1".... ..... Fund, (Bache Common Corp.. Conductron Corp. Cosnat Japan Common „; Coast a v Corp..- * $525,000 ....Common shares/• Z A /: . ... Vending Co.a——.^———.^.Common $675,000 Langley A Co.) 232,500 shares Webber. Co.) A 60,000 Corp... (Bear, - Berne of California. Inc Chez Honora, Ltd. Common Corp. Capital (Paine. : B. C. (W. : 213,427 shares- Co.— Mills, (Mortimer a Co.) J' ":- • (Goldman, Sachs A Co.) 210,000 shares •Towers * .Common Blauner ..Common Co.) /Albion Securities Co.. Inc.) $300,000 Inc. Artlin D. Interstate Corp A Kirkland . . (Bumham A Co.) 367,000 shares^ ~ - / . * Inc. Scientific (Milton (Monday) (Allen ' Co., (Sunshine Capital ,*. • , shares (Hemphill, Noyes a Co.) 185,000 shares Lighting Co..- Manufacturing 150,000 Co)) a Eberstadt Hillside Metal (Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Blyth A Co., Inc., Boston Corp., and W. C. Langley & Co.) 421,472 shares Alson Jenks, Glass-Tite Industries, First March 19 •' ' (E. J,X &,,Sons--_.r;^_i— (Street Co., Inc.) & v Presidential Realty Corp (Netherlands Securities Co., Itic:; Seymour Blattner^Cov-and-*"Sprayregen. Haft a Co.) $600,000 'v * Common (Friday) Allied Rose _»■ .■ Employees /(I. R. E. Investors Corp.) $332,500 (Globus, Inc.) $175,000 16 (F. Finance .rDelford, Industries; Morgan Stanley & Co. and Lazard Preres & Co.) $40 000,000 March Co.) Lestrange (Arnold Universal Lighting Products, Inc & (Stein Brothers a Boyce) shares South European Pipeline Co.. '.** > Sulzberger. f ..Common Co.) Reubin Becton, Dickinson & Co V" shares Fuller FuUer Co.) McDonald A and Brothers, A and $2,000,000 Bay State Electronics Corp shares ...Capital 3__ (Arnold D. (Arthurs. a-c-—---.Common * $200,000 ' .'3 3- -*•; Tool /Co.—_33_,:3——k— —..^Class A •; k Inc. Co., • \ $8,000,000 Molecular Dielectrics, Inc.— ' ^ Capita] Bacharach Industrial Instrument Co. " (Lehman Brothers and J. Barth A Co.) 125,000 shares 3 v American Cardboard & Packaging Corp...Common ' ' .(Milton D. Blauner & Co.,,«Inp..;..}&• L, Lee"& Co., Inc. and; -A-' PneumoDynamics Corp. ———^Common J; * } & (S. $150,000 $525,000 Common American Bolt & Scriew Mfg. Corp...^...Common Municipal Investment Trust Fund, Pa. Series._lnts. ^:r^v/,r; v.. flra Haupt A Co V $6,375,000 * \ 3 ^ ; i National Equipment & Plastics Corp Common . Inc . shares 110,000 Class A and Bruce : Components, Inc. M. (Richard Common 3. •••.- Co.i_—_—.Bonds received) (Friday)• yC.orp.i a : Brach Inc/) Ainsbrooke Corp sharees Inc. (Globus, Milo & <D ialight v (International Services Corp.). $300,000 Common be (Offering to stockholders, " • . Agency Tile Industries, $306,000 Hayden Publishing Co., Inc (Carl AvCo.' shares* 3 .(Monday) x-; - ProduCt$";:Jnc.^-_—^Cdrtimon (Baruch Brothers Common Co.) /- ; 145,000 shares (Monday) to (Thursday) / Government Common Automotive (Bids 5 -44 iww $620,000 shares 124,900 Pacific Power & Light Co......l-^iCommon (Offering to stockholders—bids 11* a.m: EST) 670,000 shares ' * v',;:- Co (To be named) Common stockholders—underwritten Palm-Aire Mfg. 120,000 Beane) - —Common (Tuesday) A (Wednesday) . .. Common Inc.. shares ' Florida 20 Common Weld Florida. Palm-Aire Corp.—. . 1 March Wham-0 Corp (White, ..i /• Common Willislon Orleans Public Service : , - Mills Co.) .Common R. April 4 shares 1,700,000 Diamond ■ 800,000 shares J. Barth & Co. and Bear, Stearns a 135,000 shares : " : " F.), Plastics, Southwest Corp. V / (Godfrey. Hamilton, Taylor a Co.) $486,000 Wiggins —_Ben. Int. Common k—- (Pacific Coast Securities Co.) 550,000 shares . Vassar $600,000 Co.) Widmann March 15 J .: , . Continental Mortgage Investors Inc... Tyler Pipe & Foundry Co.k_—^____—.Common 140,000 shares Co... 35 page ...^ (Horizon Management Corp.) 951.799 shares National Vended Ski- Insurance Corp.k^—Common shares ....Common ServiceMaster (Norman) on (Monday) Lincoln Fund, Common Motti, a ——— (Laren Co.) Wiatt ...Common A 100,000 Inc David April 2 J. ..Common Inc.) Allyn & Co. and Hornblower & Weeks) Wade, Wenger Eq. Tr. Ctfs. $4,830,000 Corp Gilhart D. C. E. and $200,000 O'Connor, Inc.. Continued . Denver & Rio Grande Western RR noon Brands, (A. (Wednesday) (Bids 12 a Electronics (Midland Securities Co., Inc.) 75,000 shares March 14 Ahalt insulated 7 industrial Common Planning Corp. Co.) .—3— (Blair a Co., Inc.) 230,000 shares $65,000,000 Recco, Inc. & Sperti Products, Inc Bonds EST) a.ra, and Seg Electronics Co., Inc shares 147.000 farm 3 Executive Roberts Citizens Life Insurance Co. of New York—Common (A. of . Price—By common. Business March 50,000 Under¬ ment. Business—Engagectin the Underwriter—Dalen Investments & Continued 3:37 55,000 shares by stockholders.^ Price—$1Q. Business—Manufac.r / ture of women's apparel. Proceeds—For general corpo¬ Clute (Francis H.) & Son, Inc. (3/5-9) •" ••• I July 3, 1961 filed 1,000,000 common shares. Price—$1.50. Funds, Inc.. Miami, jV.- -^ . '• Colby ('Jane') ,. Inc. (2/28) producing securi¬ ties. Office—33 Maiden Lane, N. Y. Underwriter—A. G. Oct. 19, 1961 filed "105,000 common, of which "Becker & Co., N. Y. (mgr.). V *3*; 1 f3 shares are to he offered by the company arid Proceeds—For investment working capital. Office—309 Ainsley Bldg., Miami, Fla. * ™ (3/13). ' Sept. 8, 1961 filed 147,000 common, of which 100,000 will be sold by the company and 47,000 by a stockholder. 0 . Business—Production of motion pictures. Proceeds—For t • - Dec. 11, 1961 filed 80,000 class A common, of which 68,"000 are to be offered by the company and 12,000 by stockholders. Price—$12.50. Business—A small loan fi¬ nance company. Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office— company. Proceeds—For: Bailey Ave., Fort Worth, Tex. Distributor—Associates . . Price—By amendment. - Business—The writing of or¬ dinary life, group life and group credit life insurance. • repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—500 N. derwriter—Street & Co., ■'Q'} catering. food . :> /,/ -v; ■.. - Magnus A Co.); * - ' . • . 3 n . ' . ri - /" ( Bids ltp be 3 ,33 _.—kk.Bonds received ): $23,000,000 — , . 3.. '. * " t/ (Bids to be receivedV $7^000,000 / i /Georgia Power lCQ._--r3_->—-—-...Preferred Common $1,590,000 • ^ '* & Capital, Inc.-,.-Common Darlington a Grimm);47,000 shares ■■ ;; November -3 Welcome Baby, Inc.._- _-I—-_._.Common (Globus, Inc. and First Philadelphia Corp.)' $150,000—jw ■ ■ - . I .«? - 28 (Wednesday) 33 f Southern Electric Generating Co.. _k_—Bonds 377 . '. -7, (Bids to *be received; $6,500,000 v . - • >-3 Volume "V Continued 195 Number 6136 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle .-. . from 34 page - •:« • - , .;; r: .V and ^ electrical use. Proceeds —For equipment, possible acquisitions and working cap¬ ital. Office—1900 N. River Rd., River Grove, 111. Under¬ writer—Divine & Fishman, Inc., N. Y. .v. ,V •. " Columbus 22, Products, Inc. (3/5-9) 163,600 common, of which filed Dec. 5,1961 filed 100,000 class A shares. Price—$4. Busi¬ ness —Company plans to operate a service to furnish Leasing Corp. June 100,000 advice, assistance and skill in the field of data process¬ ing. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office < * —71 W. 23rd • * & 19, 1961 ('"Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price — $4. Proceeds—For purcnase of new automobiles, advertising __ company and 63,600 by stockand promotion, and working capital. Office—4 Gateway Price—By amendment. Busincss-^Design and > Center, Pittsburghj Pa. Underwriter — Cambridge Secumgnufacture of injection and blow molded plastic house-; rities jnc n Y ' wqres. Proceeds—To purchase machinery, expand facil-, ; , ities, repay debt, and increase working capital. Office— • U intero* 16^5 W. Mound St.; Columbus, O. Underwriter—W. E. J? . ' S 1, /00^00 shares,ol beneficial interest. Hutton & Co., Cincinnati, V Price-By amendment. Busmess-A business trus which , - 'AjL '• * ' 1 ' ^; ; plans to qualify as a real estate investment trust. Procecds—For • investment.1, Of fice—50 State St., Boston. rSffrihiffw tWJfnHetflrv'^ , /Z ti!a oArSria?^^^' i l j rihn :<R - *■ hv be ion HAH nnmmnn » LtyL Ai ' E. > ers. - coils for relays used in computers, aircraft, missiles and guidance systems. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—88-06 Van Wyck Expressway/ Jamaica, N. Y-- Underwriter—Jay W. Kaufmann & ' - - - - - • - •«-i --... . ' ■ . ®00pnyi!lS^!!' " ■ ; : • unit. per elery, etc. Proceeds Office—525-535 'writer—To E. Supply Co., Inc. 1961 filed 100,000 class i A. common. Price—$4. of food service and;kitchen equipment, ' Proceeds — For equipment, -debt repayment and other corporate^purposes. Office—ilO "A?m.,^ih^r^ton^DdL .Conductron •' Dec, 20, 1961 Corp.- (3,19-23) filed 125,COO class A ■ ' , . , common. amendment. Business—Research and offered in units of are $5,000,000 of 6V4% f. subord. debens. s. fib 1 1962 filed $25,000,000 of debentures 1, .1987. Business—A holding .company for , in^ subsidiaries in the natural, - gas • : Office—39 N vv; ►- . * w newly-formed-service company. Proceeds — For constryction... Office—30 Rockefeller Plaza, aN> Y. Under- w ISRfyS ?at v ." CosnS' Record Distributing Cosnat Record Distributing r • - - 0:30 (10 EST) at the Bankers Club, 120 Broadway, N. Y., •' . ' Business—A ; —For debt repayment Underwriter - Office—1775 Bernard — M. •• Pfice—$100 Kansas City, Mo. Continental : • :: . Industrial •*: ' \ Electronics Nov. 21, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Busi- tubes. : Proceeds—For' debt ture corporate purposes. • . geles. . N. Y.,Underwriter C . Underwriter repayment and other Office—2724 Leonis: Blvd./Los: An' *" • — ». . Amos Treat & Co., Inc., N. +ol Kahn & share and Continental , r 1 ACA Investment & AT ■■■.;• Broadway, N. Co., Inc., N. Y. Y. held. TP CP 4- T\/Ti avm « TP1« St., Miami, Fla. Products, . Saunders & Co., ; Estate Investment Trust Business—A real estate investment com— 90 State Street, Albany, N. Y. . Under■' TTLA a . on the basis of 3 units for each Price—$20 per unit. Business—Company plans to Devco Inc. 1962 ("Reg. A") 10,000 common; Price—$12.50. Business—Design and manufacture of boats, marine equipment and related products. Proceeds—For equip¬ ment and working capital. Office—Stark Industrial Park, Charleston County, S. C. Underwriter—Johnson, Cole¬ man, Manning & Smith, Inc., Charleston, B. C. • Developers Small Business Investment Corp. 4- (2/27) Underwriter - —A small business investment company. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—214 Engle St., Engle- Price—$4. wood, N. J. Business ris was * AMi corporate purposes. *! Office—626 Brooklyn N. Y. warrant) one Cohon Underwriters—Lieberbaum & Co. and Mor¬ & Co., N. Y. Note—This company formerly named. Diversified Small Business Investment Corp, Seals, lrtc.r'; /Uvo7 • ••'%/*• W ' Feb. 2, 1962 '("Reg. A")f 100,000 commpn.. Price—$2.2$. Underwriter-Blank, • ... ^ . * >?L: . • Device Business—Manufacture df hermetic seals for the elecr ,, X troillri"arid'ntiissile industry; T.Proceeds—Fdf debt repayv" 7 /" f / / ; ment,, equipment and Working capital. Office—7235 $600,000;of^:^)/2^i(Qohverfibie ^u^qr^hated l/Docn ;2%5l061ifil<^,^iOOJHHl^ <K>ihmon/Prlc<^$4^ Businest X Radford Bt.,:-North4,Hollywood, Calif./ Underwriter— - ' Jan. 18, . A'kins. Ave ; ; / Underwriter—None. —Manufacture of metal componentsand electronic ' hard Wale to precise' tolerances. Proceeds—For'rep ay* othe other of Proceeds—For start-up expenses for a laboratory and small plant. Office-r-360 Lexington Ave., New York. Inc* Nov; 20, 1961 filed 100,000 common. . to.'.be offered' by the company, arid 30,000 by; stock/ (-*>- .Cut & Curl,.Inq.!' holdersValso OC4-U sale manufacture and utilize all kinds of chemical materials. -I\ Metal / /X.ment of debt and Mortgage Coi ; > / . Jon,,:26,/; i96^ ;filed ,130,000; comrhon,r bfl whic^ 100,000 are . : a Custom ment derwriterr—To be named .-a derwriter:—To be named. a a None.; ^Continental Investment Corp. / ^ C jcommon/Price—By amend¬ Dec. 29, 1961 filed 2,000,000 (S3 max.). Business—A mortgage and real estate company. Proceeds — For working capital. Office—Scottsdale Savings Bldg/ °Scottsdale; Ariz! Un- /Yfri Price—By amend- 5% preferred share held, 2 units for each 5% preferred A stock held and one unit for each 10 class B shares Proceeds Herbert Young & Co., Inc., N. Y. tal.- Office—1050 N. E. 85th Co. Underwriter—M. A. - . Sept. 28, 1961 filed 140,000 common with attached war¬ rants to purchase an additional 140,000 shares to be offered for subscription by stockholders in units (of one : ★ Currency Machines Corp. ^ Feb. 12, 1962- ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$1. Business-Design, assembly and sale, of coin meters for ' automatic washing machines, dryers and dry cleaners, v Proceeds—For equipment, inventory and working capi- Y. investment — Sons writer—None. ,' •• ' manufacture"of television pic- ness—Development and ; Corp. Price—$2.50 . Office pany. — : A.) Business—Purchase/ manufacture nnd rDennis Real Offering—Expected in late April. ConsMmers Mart of America, Inc.. • Jan. 8, 1962 filed 72,000; commoh. Cryp.'ax Industries, Inc..- (3/12-16:v:'• Price^By amendment: ] Oct 10,v 1961" filed ,80,000 -common. Price—$3.75. Busi¬ Business—Operation'of discount department stores/ Pro-" ness Manufactures plastic jewelry, dress accessories ceeds—For expansion and working capital.; Office—4701 and novelties. Proceeds—For product development, mov¬ N, Harlem Ave., Chicago. / Underwriters—Rittmaster, Voisin & Co., N. Y. and Midland Securities Co., Inc., * ing expenses and working capital. Office—37 E. 18th St., expenses and working capital. Office—37 E. 18th St., ■: - Deuterium Corp. sales finance company. consumer > July 24,; 1961 filed 100,000 shares of beneficial interest " Dec. selling stockholders. Office—650 11th Ave., N. Y. Under¬ writer—Sheaf son, i Hammill & Co\, N, Y. Offering—Ex; pected in late March. 'b: /b'v.v~ Atlanta, various building materials. Proceeds—For debt repayand working capital., Office*—-373 Adams Ave., v, Department, Inc. 1962 filed $1,200,320 ' (John Memphis, Tenn. Inc., Memphis. . Jan. 26, of 7% conv. subord. de¬ Inc. ; 29, 1961 filed 180,000 common. Price—By amend- bentures; due 1974 and 54,560 common shares to be offered in 2,728 units, each consisting of $440 of deben¬ ment ($12 max.). Business—Furnishes technically skilled tures and 20 common shares. ■' Price—$550 per unit. personnel to industry and government. Proceeds—For Consultants and Designers, of per- r general- merit Credit / (2/28) 15, 1962 filed 200,000 common. ment. A. Kemper & Co., Lima, O. Offering—Imminent: a.m. . Homes, Inc. Denie's - above address. Information Meeting—Feb. 23 amend¬ 11, 1961 Jan. - y ^sjlxe ^ \ — -writers—i(Competitive).- Probable bidders: Morgan ' ley :& Co.-First Boston Corp. (jointly); Halsey,.;Stuart '' Aug, 31, 1961,,("Reg. A"),V0,006 common.; Price—$14.75. & Co, Inc/ White, IWeld & Co>Paihd,: Webber, Jackson Business—The sale of, punch bard type voting machines. !; &r Curtis (jointly). Bids—Feb; '27 v (11;30 a.m. EST) at - Office—830 High St.; Hamilton- O, Underwriter—John " - r ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price — $5. Business Construction and financing of shell homes. Proceeds—For working capital. Address—Allendale, S. C. Underwriter—Alessandrini & Co., Inc., N. Y» Van Alstyne,,Noel Corp DeLuxe Dec: - r / / Underwriter—Courts & Co., Atlanta. Ga. The manufacture Lorp. ; ^ StanV-A c°y(© '•»/'Voting Machine Co.... ^ , working capital. Office—82-88 Washington* St.,aMiddletown, N. Y. Underwriter—I. R. E. Investors Corp., common. Price—By (Max. $45). Business—The transporting sons, property and mail by air. Proceeds—For corporate purposes. Office—Atlanta > Airport, napI W. ,47_th St, N. Y. Underwriter one ness—Manufacture of precision rubber extrusions. Pro¬ ceeds—Plant expansion, equipment, debt repayment and ment - •• • Delta Airlines, Inc. Feb. 7, 1962 filed 203,687 ; operaK business rand . Levittown, N. Y. Inc. ; amendment. Business suPplj?^ 120,000 common, of which 90,000 public and 30,000 by a stock¬ Deiford Industries, Inc.; (3/26-30) Sept. 28, 1961 filed 95,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi- Y - . filed be offered by the • . Cosmetically, Yours, 1961 29, to Mass. Allvn Broadway, N. Y.* Underwriter—R. F. Dowd inc., N. Y,. Co. & due March six Price— warrant. one of wood and metal framed pictures, wood utility frames, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment, inventory, and working capital. Office—444 Courtland St., Mundelein, Ill/Underwriter—Clayton Securities Corp., Boston, Price-Bypurposes.,Office-15 Clinton St., Yonkers, N. Y. CnderF Securities Corp., N. Y. Offering (2/27) ' share and sale . Natural Gas Co. one ■■ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Production and due 1977 (with attached 10-year warrants to purchase 4,100,000 class A common). Price—By amendment. Business—Development and sale of land. Proceeds—For con--. development in the^ J. ^ / general field of electromagnetic; radiation for the U. S:~^koh^thhe ih Apru. : . Government. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other^v# Cosnat Corp.■-(3/19-23) corporate purposes. Office—343 S. Main St./Ann Arbor, -May: 26, 196V filed 231,444..common;- of which 165,000 are Mich. Underwriters — McDonnell & Co., and Halle & :;to be offered for public sale by the company and 66,444 Sfieglitz, N. Y. ; , : V /'• • ' . outstanding by the present holders thereof. Price—To be Consolidated (with attached additional 100,000 shares), to be an Decorel Corp. Jan. 29, ti962 ■ ("Reg,: A'O 80,000-common. Price—$3. ^;; Business-^-Manufacturer :of cosmetics. Proceeds—For : debt repayment, working capital and other corporate Underwriter—-Roth & Co.. Inc..-Philadelphia. purchase $3.25 + ^Corporate Funding Corp. Jan- 9, 1962 ("Reg. A") 75,000 class A common. Price -$2. Business—A finapcial investment and holding company! ProceedST-Fdr expansion and working capital. . . warrants to Inc. Ufi^nng Expected m ate Ap x .. Business—Sale v ^ i_ • Concors Oct. ,19, Ridge Properties, V Feb. 5, 1962 filed St., New York. City;t« Under- be named. Toy Corp. Nov. 27, 1961 filed 100,000 capital shares , Coral For general corporate purposes." — 137th ; Prigal, & Dec. • « 3^"Fl?1 wH^r^Crutten^^^^^^ Podestr & Co an^^ & Co MCWca^o Jll aiS J R ^llSton & Bean? Business-Manu- .> offerin^Ex^cted fn late Aoril ? ' facture of cosmetics, toiletries, cleaning chemicals, jew- (H.) Linder general corporate purposes. Office—5642-50 N. Western Ave., Chicago, Underwriter—Kenneth Kass, N. Y. r .a.. L Office—794 Union St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriters— Hampstead Investing Corp., Aetna Securities Corp., and Atlas Securities Corp., N. Y. Dec. 28, 1961 filed 60,000 common, Price 28, 1961-filed 120,000 "common (with attached year warrants to purchase an additional 60,000 - shares at; $2 per. share) to be offered in-units of one share and one-half warrant. ,Price-$2 ■ Dash,. Inc^/. r;,^U Oct, 25, 1061 filed 108,000 common.. Price—$5/ Business —Designing, converting, importing, and distributing of by amendment : . , y maximum. Business—manuiaciure ot pnoio-copy machines and the distribution of office copy machines, photographic laboratory equipment, etc. Proceeds—For _ , ; Underwriier—Morgan & Davis * : ^10 Price—By amendment. Business—Design and maiiuof digital equipment. Proceeds-^—For; debt repayment. : Office—983 Concord §t.;; Framingham, Mass. Inc /California St- Ontario, Calif, ..Angeles.;. >•". per unit. Business—Manufactures educational toys. Proceeds—To repay debt and increase working capital. * facture Products ; electronic equipment. .Proceeds Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—2445 N. Miami Ave., • . . / Miami, Fla. Underwriter—Stirling, Inc., 50 Broadway, N. Y. For debt ronovmont and repayment Office—145 Water St., South , shares. /Price—By decorative fabrics. . _e 100,000' capital "Business-r-PuWishing of .'technical, reports & Co., Los — , ers. Concord i Underwriters—John R. Maher, Associ¬ ates and Bull & Low, N. Y. Computer Control Co.* Inc. Nov. Paul St Norwalk, Conn. Jan. 24, 1962 filed 157,500 common, of which 62,500 are to.be offered by the company and 95,000 by stockhold¬ Underwriter—Kidder, Peabody & Co.,-N, Y.'/'■ 2 Inc ftivxr," 7 ®"c' ' ' Dec.-29, .1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—$3.75. Business—Manufacture of high vacuum systems and elecgeneral corporate purposes. ■ . &• Bavliss Brandtien tronic equipment. Proceeds Co., N.Y. Y. Underwriter "f^unaerwruer—ttranatjen <5* mynss,. inc., i>t. raui. _ Computer Concepts Inc.* V/'•; '(rf-V"...1' / Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 class A common. Price — $5. Business—Development and sale of advanced programming systems, for solution of -business problems by the use of digital computers.'Proceeds — For epnprai corgeneral pnrporate purposes. Otfice—1012 14th;St.r N.'W„ Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Doft & Co: N r / Working capital. Office—B340 James Ave., S.y'Minrieapo;: i:„ filed 1961 David ^ * ^ a - , —For debt Repayment apd working capital.1 Office—945 - : : •'■e^Dev^Opmenta0dproduction ofelectronictestiog 311(1 i,tr31DU)S ,Q6yiCCS»L' PfOftCCflS. OF fixpsiisioil» 3I1Q aa aaa on offered by the company and 30,000 by stockholdPrice—$3. Business —Manufacture of miniature 9, and, manuals covering ■ " Computer Components,' Inc. Oct. amendment. Bosto.n. Proceeds—For selling ;'* Webber/ Jackson, &, Curtis,Mortgage*Note—This firm,was . fnrmprlv namprf Federal Investor*? ■-"V ? stOckholdesi •*Offioe—50d Court ' St., Brooklyn, S N. " Y. ■ ^ f01™erly named f ederal Mortgage investors. Underwriter—Shearson,' Hammill & Co., N. Y. Offering ! ^ p°i!, «Pyj?,ai( V: v "1K ^' "V *—Expected sometime in April. ■*. r .i Oct.r24, 196V filed >500,000 common. Price $1.15. Bus!-; proprietary drugs. , . Data-Design Laboratories, Inc. > Underwriters—Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y, and Paine, hf distribution or , eral corporate purposes. Office—1790 B'way, N. Y. Un¬ derwriter—Theodore Arrin & Co., Inc., N. Y. OfferingImminent. r^L^Li '' St., N. Y* Underwriter—Jay W. Kaufmann Co., N.Y. Dale Systems, Inc. Aug. 9, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Business —A shopping service which checks the efficiency of " retail sales employees. Proceeds—Expansion and gen¬ are^to be_offered by the holders. to 35 Cybernetic Systems Corp. Proceeds—For St, N. W:; Atlanta, Ga. Underwriters—Joseph Walker & Sons, N; Y. and Clark, Landstreet" & Kirkpatrick, Inc., Nashville, Tenn. ' :1v * ; " Continental Plastic 1961 real estate development company. ■ . . Nov. a debt repayment and working capital. Office—44 Forsyth wire and cable for electronic and •' (955) 1 - / .. Costq^lO, Russptto & Co., Los Angeles^; Underwriter—M. - .V'/;.uContinue4-^n ; page ( 3$ ?, j 36 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (956) Continued front Proceeds—For the acquisition and development of properties, repayment of debt and engineering, etc. Office—10 E. 40th St., New York. Underwriter—Wood¬ tate. 35 page Diaiight Corp. (4/9-13) 1961 filed 367,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Design and manufacture of precision- 22, ment. engineered indicator lights for Stewart Ave., Office—60 Co., N. Y. —Burnham & • Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter instruments. tronic aircraft, missile and elec¬ & Pike, Inc. 27, 1961 ("Reg. A") 30,000 common. Price—$10 Business—Operation of supermarkets. Proceeds—For ex¬ pansion and working capital. Office—896 Old Country Mills Diamond 23, 1962 filed 250,000 common, of which 150,000 are the company and 100,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of women's nylon hosiery. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—417 Fifth Ave., N. Y.» Un¬ derwriter— Drexel & Co., Philadelphia. Rd., Econ-O-Pay, Inc. 26, 1961 filed 1,000,000 Oct. General recourse corporate Price—$3, common. finance business. Westbury, N. y. Underwriter—Meadowbrook curities, Inc., Hempstead, N. y. Busi¬ Proceeds Office—164 purposes. Valley City, N. D. Valley City, N. D. (3/15) Corp. Dec. cock, Moyer, Fricke & French, Inc., Philadelphia. ness—A dealer E. Underwriter—Reserve Main • Funds, be offered by , (3/19-23) Nov. 16, 1961 filed 100,000 common, of which 80,000 are to be offered by the company and 20,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Processes and prints photographic film and distributes wholesale photographic equipment. Proceeds—For repayment of debt, plant expansion, and working capital. Office—3306 Wisconsin Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter —Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Washington, D. C. • District Photo, Inc. Diversified Collateral Corp. 28, 1961 filed 78,000 common. Price ment. Business—A mortgage investment Dec. By amend¬ — company. Pro¬ Office—420 Lin¬ coln Road, Miami Beach, Fla. Underwriter — To be named. Offering—Expected in early April. ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Discount & Diversified Acceptance Corp. 13, 1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—$4.50. Busi¬ ness—A small loan investment company. Proceeds—For Dec. expansion. Office—707 Northwestern Federal Bldg., Min¬ neapolis, Underwriter—Bratter & Co., Inc., Minneapolis. Dolphin-Miller Mines Ltd. Oct. 3, 1961 filed 1,600,000 capital shares, of which 1,200,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 400,000 shares by stockholders. Price—50c. Business— The exploration and production of ores. Proceeds—For ; salaries and general corporate purposes. Office — 25 Adelaide St., W., Toronto, Canada. Underwriter—Brewis & White Ltd., Toronto. Don Mills, Inc. 27, 1961 ("Reg. Proceeds—General Rock corporate Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. purposes. Dbver Construction 1961 debentures due Co. For [[ and sale of homes. dent repayment and working capital. Rd., Cleveland. Underwriter—Mer¬ rill, Turben & Co., Inc., Cleveland. Equipment Corp. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$2.50. Business—Manufacture of food service equipment. Proceeds —For development and working capital. Office—79 Wal¬ worth St., Brooklyn, Underwriters — Carroll Co. and Paul Eisenberg Co., Inc., N. Y. Dec. Duraiite Co., Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 128,000 common. Price—$4. Business—Design and manufacture of aluminum-frame outdoor porch furniture. Proceeds For product develop¬ ment, equipment and working capital. Office—2 Barbour Ave., Passaic, N. J. Underwriter—Preiss, Cinder & Hoff¬ man Inc., N. Y. — Duro Pen Co., Inc. (4/23-27) Jan. 5, 1962 filed 125,000 common. Price—$4. Business —Manufacture of inexpensive ball point pens. Proceeds —For debt repayment, equpiment and working capital. Office—573 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter — Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. Y. Dyna-Mod Jan. 22, Electronics Corp. 1962 ("Reg. A") 143,000 development * Price—$2. and production of "packaged" electronic circuits and sub-systems. Pro¬ ceeds—For new products and working capital. Office— 317 Main St., East Rochester, N. Y. Underwriters—Gen¬ esee Valley Securities Co., Inc., Rochester, and H. B. Vesey & Co., Inc., Glens Falls, N. Y. Business—D e s i g n, Dynascan Corp. Jan. 29, 1962 filed 190,000 ment. tronic Belle Plaine & common. selling common. stockholders. Price—By amend¬ Office—1801 W. Ave., Chicago. Underwriter—H. M. Byllesby if Eastern Aluminum Manufacturing Co., ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Business—Manufacture and distribution of 19, 1962 equipment. Com¬ manufacture and sell electronic Proceeds—For product develop¬ and other corporate purposes. Office—136-05 35th also plans to teaching machines. pany ment Ave., Flushing, N. Y. Underwriters—Packer-Wilbur & Co., Inc. (mgr.). and Earle Securities Co., Inc., N .Y. Educational Aids Co., Inc. 26, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Sale of school supplies, toys and notions. Proceeds— For equipment, inventories and working capital. Office —1125 Okie St., N. E., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—• Wright, Myers & Bessell, Inc. Educator & Nov. Executive Co. 1961 filed 30, 174,900 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—An holding company for insurance con¬ cerns. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office —3857 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio. Underwriter—Mc¬ Donald & Dec. of 27, 1961 filed 10,000 common shares and $625,000 6 lit % con. subord. debentures due 1972. Price—For Stock, $2.50: For debentures, at par. Business—A hold¬ ing company for small loan and credit accident insurance subsidiaries. Proceeds—For and investment in a subsidiary Office—147 Northeast Main working capital. St., Rocky Mount, N. C. Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co. Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected in April. Eastern Properties Improvement Corp. (3/5-9) Aug. 22, 1961 filed $1,500,000 of subordinated debentures due 1981 and 250,000 common shares. Price—For deben¬ tures, $1,000; for stock, $10. Business—General real es¬ 50,000 Jr. subord. conv. shares to be common insurance. ball Proceeds—For working capital. Office—674 St., Philadelphia. Underwriter—Paul C. Kim¬ Co., Chicago. Offering—Imminent. & Equity Capital Co. Nov. 29, 1961 filed $3,000,000 of 8% subordinate deben¬ tures due 1965. Price—At par. Business—The investment in mortgages and the making of construction loans to and property Proceeds—For owners. repay¬ ment of debt and working capital. Office—430 First Ave. North, Minneapolis, Underwriter—None. if Escaiante Valley Water Corp. 14, 1962 ("Reg. A") 79,950 class A and 100,000 class shares. Price—$1. Business—A new public utility corporation. Proceeds—For purchase of water rights and construction of distribution systems. Address Feb. B common —Beryl, Utah. Underwriter—None, Co., Cleveland. Evans, Inc. Jan. 23, 1962 filed 130,000 common, of which 20,000 are to be offered by the company and 110,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business —- Retail sale of wearing apparel. Proceeds—For working capital. Office —36 S. State St., Chicago. Underwriter—Allen & Co., y. Offering—Expected sometime in April. N. Extrin Foods, Inc. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 Nov. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ common. ness—Creation and manufacture of flavors for the bak¬ ingand Photo-Optical Industries, Inc. filed 150,000 common, of which 100,000 are to be offered by the company and 50,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Wholesale confectionary industries. Proceeds—For addi¬ personnel, new products and possible acquisitions. Barclay St., N. y. Underwriters—Hay, Fales & Co., and McLaughlin, Kaufman & Co., N. y. Offering —Expected sometime in March. distribution of cameras, lenses, accessories and optical instruments., Proceeds—For debt repayment, expansion, Jan. • Ehrenreich Jan. 26, 1962 working capital. Eldre Components, Inc. 100,000 common, of which 75,000 are by the company and 25,000 by a stock¬ 5, 1962 filed be offered and For Price—$4. Business—Manufacture, processing of metal parts and products. equipment, construction of assembling Proceeds— building hhtL working Office—187 N. Water St., Rochester, N. Y. Un¬ capital. derwriter—Charles Plohn & a Co., N. Y. April. Offering—Late •' V.'/"// - Electro-Mec Instrument Corp. k ■; Sept. 15, 1961 filed 176,480 common. Price*—$6. Business —The design, manufacture and sale of potentiometers, digitometers and goniometers used in airborne comput¬ ing devices. Proceeds—For the selling stockholder, Wal- tham Precision Instrument Co., Inc. Office—47-51 33rd St., Long Island City, N. Y. Underwriter—Sterling. Grace & Co., N. Y. Note — This registration was indefinitely postponed. '-'-V. Electro-Nite Engineering Co. A") 100,000 common. Price $3. Business—Design, manufacture and sale of disposable thermocouple lances. Proceeds—For equipment, debt re¬ Jam 1962 8, payment ("Reg. and — general corporate purposes. Office—5619 Underwriter—Harrison & Co., Tulip St., Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Electro-Tec Corp. July 28, 1961 filed 91,000 common shares (par 10 cents). Price—By amendment. Business—The manufacture of slip rings and brush block assemblies, switching devices, relays, and precious metal products. Proceeds—For the selling stockholders. Office — 10 Romanelli Ave., South Hackensack, N. J. Underwriter—Harriman Ripley & Co., Inc., N. Y. (mgr.). Offering—Indefinitely postponed. Electromagnetics Corp. 17, 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—$5. Business Nov. —Design and manufacture of precision nuclear magnetic instrumentation. Proceeds—For general corporate pur¬ Office—Sawyer Lane, Hudson, Mass. Underwriter —Gianis & Co,, Inc., N. Y. .. ,,■/•' •. " Electronic Controls, Nov. 29, 1961 filed —Design and computer controlled of drives Fabco, Inc. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") . Business—Manufacture products. Price—.$3. Business automatic and electronic systems, and helicopter 86,000 of fiber common,. glass and Price—$3.45. other plastic Proceeds—For working equipment, inventories, and Address—Stillwater, Minn. Under¬ capital. writer—Pewters, Donnelly & Jansen. Inc.. St. Paul. • Fairbanks Wire Co., Inc. Oct. 30, 1961 filed 54,000 common. Price—$3. Business— Manufactures Proceeds specialized machinery and equipment. For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—Walnut St., M D 23, Newburg, N. y. Underwriter—First Madison Corp., N. y.„ ^/-v; — Family Record Plan, Inc. Noy. 20, 1961 filed 200,000 (3/5-9) Price—By amend¬ common. ment. Business—Sale of bums. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—2015 Angeles. Underwriter-—Bache W. & Olympic Blvd., photographic portraits and al¬ Los Co., n. y. ■- Faradyne Electronics Corp. Jan. 30, 1961 filed $2,000,000 of ordinated debentures. Business—The sub¬ is engaged in the manufacture high reliability materials and basic company distribution and convertible 6% Price—100% of principal amount. of electronic components, including dielectric and electro¬ lytic capacitors and precision tungsten wire forms. Pro¬ ceeds—For the payment of debts and for working capital: Office—471 Cortlandt Street, Belleville, N. J. Under¬ Note—July 11, the SEC insti¬ tuted "Stop Order" proceedings challenging the accuracy and adequacy of this statement. ! writer—To be named. Fastline Inc. (2/26-3/2) Sept. 28, 1961 filed $400,000 of 6% tures due 1971 conv. subord. deben¬ and 40,000 common shares to be offered publicly in units of one $500 debenture and 50 common. Price—$575 cealed and unit. per zippers. Business—Manufacture con¬ repayment, advertising working capital. Office—8 Washington Place, N. y. Underwriter—G. Everett Parks & • of Proceeds—Debt Fastpak, Nov. Inc. 30, 1961 filed 125,000 distribution —The devices of by general Price—$5. Business common. nuts, manufactured and Co., Inc., N. y, (3/26-30) Benson common. manufacture Office—70 repayment Inc. 100,000 tional bolts others. and other fastening Proceeds—For debt corporate purposes. y. Underwriter Place, Freeport. N. Malkan & Co., Inc., N. y. Office—8 — Arnold Fidelity America Financial Corp. (3/12-16) 3, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business check-out, flight control and landing control systems and Oct. —Commercial relays working and switches. capital and Proceeds—For other corporate debt pur- Office—67 Southfield Ave., Stamford, Conn. Un¬ Seymour, Eernard & DeBoff, Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in March. posse. derwriter • — Electronic Transmission Corp. Oct. 27, Business Investors, Inc. and Dec. repayment, Price—$3. 1977 N. Broad multi-contact Inc. screens, windews, doors, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment, plant expansion, and working capital. Office—910 Line St. Camden, N. J. Underwriter—H. A. Rieeke & Co., Inc.' Philadelphia. ' Eastern Business , Co., Chicago. Offering—Expected in April. Feb. Price—$4. common. poses. Business—Design, manufacture, and sale of elec¬ test equipment, antennas, and microwave devices. Proceeds—For ....... —Distribution of electronic parts and . • / ^ Food and Cedar 101 due consisting of $500 of debentures and 25 Price—$550 per unit. Business—Lending and builders Edu-tronics, Inc. 27, 1961 filed 80,000 Oct. to :. Business—Construction Dunhill of . . Feb. filed $750,000 convertible subordinated 1972, and 100,000 common. Price — By Green & Co., both holder. Proceeds — Roosevelt, L. I:, N. Y. Planning Corp., and Bassior St., N. Y. • Office—Red Underwriter—Stan-Bee & Co., amendment. Office—-2120 Proceeds—For gen¬ Office—111 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Un¬ derwriter—Lee Higginson Corp., N. Y. Offering—April. Washington, D. C. Offering—Expected in March. Dec.' 21, owners. Office—180 Babylon Turnpike, Underwriter—Sentinel Securities filed $1,000,000 of 6J/2% 1961 offered in units shares. eral corporate purposes. and A") 60,000 common. Price—$5. Business—Financing of shipments of business machines. Sept. Food Enterprises Corp. (2/28) Nov. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—Sale and servicing of home food freezers and sale of bulk food to freezer 27, debentures Economy Se¬ Equitable Credit & Discount Co. Oct. St., Inc., Jan. to Thursday, February 22, 1962 , . Eliner real Dec. . 1961 — ("Reg. A") Manufacture, 100,000 common. design and field Price—$3. testing of closed-circuit television. and other corporate Proceeds—For debt repayment purposes. Office—103 Hawthorne finance Proceeds company. — Gen¬ eral corporate purposes. Office—42 S. 15th St., Phila. Underwriter—Netherlands Securities Co., Inc.,, N. y. Fidelity Mining Investments Ltd. 30, 1961 filed 800,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Exploration and testing of mining prop¬ erties. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office Nov. —62 Richmond St., Toronto. Underwriter—G. V. Kirby & Associates, Ltd.. Toronto. • Fields Plastics & Chemicals, Inc. •: Ave., Valley Stream, N. Y. Underwriters—V. S. Wickett & Co.. Inc. and Thomas, Williams & Lee, Inc., N. Y. Nov. Note—This letter Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—199 Garibal¬ di Ave., Lodi, N. J. Underwriter—To be named. • Electrosolids was withdrawn. - Corp. Oct. 30, 1961 filed 100,000 cum. conv. preference shares. Price—By amendment. Business—Production of devices for converting AC-DC ships. Proceeds purposes. Calif. Debt current for aircraft, missiles and repayment and Office—12740 San Fernando — other corporate Rd., N., Underwriter—J. R. Williston & Beane, N. fering—Imminent. Syimar, Y. Of¬ ment. • 29, 1961 filed 220,000 common. Business—Manufacture Fifth of Price—By amend¬ vinyl plastic sheeting. Avenue Cards, Inc. (2/27) 115,000 class A capital shares. Price amendment. Business—Operation of a chain of Sept. 28,. 1961 filed —By •retail, greeting card. £toresfV Proceedsr-rBebbrepayment, working capital and expansion. N. y. Office—18 W. 34th St., Underwriters—Hardy & Co. and Filor, Bullard & Smyth, N. y. ' ' 195 Volume ^ Number 6136 . Corp. (3/15) 1961 filed 200,000 common, of which 50,000 are to be offered by the company and 150,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufactures translucent fiberglas panels for building and decorative (3/5-9) 21, 1961 ("Reg; A") 130,000 common; Price—$2. Business—Research, design, manufacture, sale and dis¬ tribution of precision electronic and mechanical com¬ ponents. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equipment and general corporate purposes. Office — 425 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas, Nev. Underwriter—Elmer K. Corp. ^ Fortune Electronics, Inc. Feb. 6, 1962 ("Reg. A") 46,150 real estate and acts as trustee under deeds of Proceeds—For debt repayment and. other corpo¬ Business—Sale Office—628 W., Sixth St., Los Angeles. Underwriter—White, WehL& Co., N. Y. rate ; First Midwest • Fraricisco. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—A small business investment company, Office—512 corporate purposes. Ave., Minneapolis. Underwriters—-Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, N. Y., and Craig-Hallum, Kinnard, Inc., Minneapolis. Note—This statement was with¬ ; V. 1 drawn. ■ First National Television Distributing Corp. class A capital shares. Price Business—Production, distribution and sale of TV motion pictures and tapes. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ ment, working capital arid other corporate purposes. Office—505 Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Internation¬ al Services Corp., Paterson, N. J. \ . First New York Oct. Capital Fund, Inc. 1961 filed 2,770,000 capital shares. Price—$1. Business—A small business investment company. Pro¬ 27, investment. ceeds—For Office—1295 Northern Blvd., Jan. "New Jersey estate investment trust. Price—$10. Business Proceed^Fqt general... corporate purposes. Office—477 Main St., Hackenshck, N. J. Underwriter—None. First Republic Corp. of America (3/5-9) Dec. 19, 1961 filed $9,400,000 of 6%% convertible sub¬ ordinated debentures due 1982 and 188,000 class A shares to be offered, for subscription by class A stockholders in 47,000 units, each consisting of $200 of debentures and 4 class A shares. One right will be issued for each class A share held, and 40 rights will be needed to pur¬ chase one unit. Price—By amendment. Business—Gen¬ eral real estate. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other corporate purposes. Office—375 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Under¬ writers—Morris Cohon & Co. N. Y. and Lieberbaum & Co., : First Scientific Corp. Franklin (3/26-30) ness—Company plans to acquire, invest in, and finance patents and new scientific technology. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—375 Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriters—Netherlands Securities Co., Inc., Seymour Blauner Co., and Sprayregen, Haft & Co., N. Y. Flair Cards, Inc. (2/26-3/2) 1961 ("Reg. A") 74,667 common. Price—$3. Business—Manufactures greeting cards, greeting card trays, dishes, note paper, etc. Proceeds — For debt re¬ payment and working capital. Office—537 W. 53rd St., N. Y. Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y. 14, Fleetwood Securities Corp. of America Aug. 8, 1961 filed 50,000 common. Price—$10. BusinessDistributor of Electronics1 Investment Corp., Contrac¬ tual Plans and broker-dealer registered with NASD. Proceeds—To increase net capital selling of vitamin mineral products to eld¬ erly customers. Proceeds—For working capital. Office —179 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Underwriters—Bacon, Whipple & Co, and Freehling, Myerhoff & Co., Chicago. Glass-Tite Industries, Inc. (3/26-30) Sept. 27, 1961, filed 185,000 common, of which 135,000 are to be offered by the company and 50,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of glass-to-metal hermetic seals. Proceeds—For pur¬ chase of equipment, investment in a subsidiary, research and development, moving expenses, and working capital. Manufacturing Co. 22, 1961 filed 349,590 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Design, manufacture and sale of house¬ hold freezers, Office—725 Branch Ave,, Providence, R, I, —Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y. refrigerators, automatic washers and driers, Proceeds—For a selling stockholder. Office-^-6522nd Ave., N. E., Minneapolis. Underwriter •— Lehman Brothers, N. Y. Offering—In late March. Franklin Realty Trust (3/12-16) Jan. 3, 1962 filed 800,000 shares of beneficial Price—$12.50 per Crazier-Walker investment. Office and for investment. Office—44 Wall St., N. Y. Underwriter—General Securi¬ ties Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Imminent. (A. J.) — compartments. Proceeds—Debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—10014 Avenue D, Brooklyn, N. Y, Underwriter syth, N. Y. 1616 Pa. Underwriter—A. G, Beck¬ Aircraft Corp. to N. Donald & Co., of • ... Gotham and other corporate purposes. Office—1707 H St., W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Rouse, Brewer, Becker & Bryant, Inc., Washington, D. C. Gould Paper Co. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 140,000 common. Price—$11. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture of paper. Proceeds—Expansion and working capital. Office—Lyons Falls, N. Y. Underwriter. —To be named. Gould Properties, (2/26-3/2) Oct. 20, 1961 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price — $5. Business Furnishing of scheduled air transportation service. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—8170 Beverly Rd., Los Angeles. Underwriters—Raymond Moore & Co., Los Angeles and Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francisco. . Government Employees Corp. (4/6) Jan. 8, 1962 filed $2,675,000 of 4%% conv. capital deben¬ tures due 1977 to be offered for subscription by common stockholders (3/12-16) handbags. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equipment and working capital. Office—2024 Montieth St., Brook¬ lyn, N. Y. Underwriters—Professional & Executive Planning Corp., Long Beach, N. Y. and E. J. Roberts & Co., East Orange, N. J. investment. shares are holders on of which 310,000 to be offered for subscription by the stock¬ a l-for-3 basis, and 153,000 shares will be sold to the public. Price—$2. Business—Purchase, devel¬ opment related and sale activities. of undeveloped real property and Proceeds—For debt repayment and general cprporate purposes. Office — 1790 N. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach, Fla. Underwriter—Hardy & Co., N. Y. Industries, Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ Flower City — Design and manufacture of plastic artificial foliage and flowers. Proceeds — For general corporate purposes. Address—St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Under¬ writer—Seidman Williams & Cantwell, N. Y. ness. Fluke (John) Mfg. Co., Inc. (2/27) Dec. 11, 1961 filed 170,000 common, of which 135,000 are to be offered by the company and 35,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Design and Office—1180 Raymond Blvd., Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. Y. Gateway Chemicals, Inc. Nov, 22, 1961 filed 100,000 common, of which 50,000 are to be offered by the company and 50,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Compounding and packaging of chemical products, primarily deter¬ Proceeds—For working capital. Office—8136 S. Chicago. Underwriter—Federman, StoneY. gents. Dobson Ave., hill & Co., N. General Battery & Ceramic Corp. Jan. 11, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price — By ameridment. Business—Manufacture of replacement batteries and spark plugs; design and production of subminiature hermetically sealed relays and glass-to-metal seals; man¬ ufacture of voting machines and toll collection devices. Proceeds—For selling shareholders. Office—Reading, Pa. Underwriter — Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc., St. Louis. Offering—Expected in late March, General Corp. of America Dec. 7, 1961 filed 266,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—A holding company for an1 insurance firm. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office Hanna Bldg., Cleveland, O, Underwriter—Merrill, ment. Turben & Co.,-Inc.; Cleveland. on the basis of $100 of debentures for each of record Apr. 6 with rights to expire Price — At par. Business — Com¬ pany and its subsidiary provide automobile and mobile home financing service on a nationwide basis to gov¬ ernment employees and military officers. Office—Govt. Employees Insurance Bldg., Washington, D, C. Under¬ 7 shares held about April housewares, and the custom molding of other plastic products. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Ad¬ dress—Leetsdale, Pa. Underwriter—Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y. . re¬ general corporate purposes. Office—370 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Stanley Heller & Co., N. Y, Dec. 15, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of molded plastic toys and (3/12-16) $10. and payment — Oct. 27, 1961 filed 330,000 common. Price—$3. Business —A small business investment company. Proceeds—For Inc. Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 class A shares. Price — Business—General real estate. Proceeds—For debt Future Airlines Business Investment Co. , tal —To be named. ,• Garden State Small . ^ N. Processing, Inc. 11, 1962 ("Reg. A") 150,000 common. Price—$2. Business—Rendering of various services to the poultry industry and to food preparation companies. Proceeds— For working capital and general corporate purposes. Office—1800 West C St., Russellville, Ark. Underwriter Corp. Cleveland, Investment Corp. Nov. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$6. Business Proceeds—For working capi¬ Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y. Offering—In April, (Andy) Pro¬ —Real estate investment. Further Gard motors^ powdered metal , products and devices for the missile and aircraft industries. Frouge Corp.;, 1 ■ Jan. 26, 1962 filed 700,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Construction and operation of various type apartment, industrial and office buildings. Proceeds —For an acquisition, construction, and working capital. Office—141 North Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. Underwriter —Van miniature electric ceeds—For debt repayment and working capital.; Office —1784 Stanley Ave., Dayton, Ohio. Underwriter—Mc¬ : Mfg. Corp. Florida Palm-Aire Corp. (3/15) Oct. 19, 1961 filed 463,000 common, by the company and 100,000% by stock¬ Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture offered holders. , Treibick, Seiden & For¬ Industries, Inc. 30, 1961 filed 200,000 common, of which 100,000 are be Price—By amend¬ ment^ plans to produce its Gyrojet FW-4, a iour-passeriger amphibious autogiro. Proceeds —To produce prototype models, and finance g e n e r a 1 overhead and operating expenses. Office—10 E. 52nd St., Underwriter—None.. — Globe Oct. Feb; 2,1962 ("Reg. A") 80,000 common. Price—$3. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture and sale of metal frames for ladies • Products Corp. 1961 filed 68,000 common. Price—By. amend¬ Business—Manufacture of prefabricated metal toilet interest. 30. writer—None. ^ Graham Chemical Corp. ' Fleres 3, ment. Jan„ 26, 1962 filed 140,000 common. Y. Underwriter Global Steel Nov. share. Business—A real estate invest¬ Proceeds—For trust. ; mail rect ' ment. 12, 1962 filed 162,500 common, of which 12,500 are by the company and 150,000 by stockhold¬ Price—By amendment (max. $8.50). Business—Di- ers. filed $500,000 of 8% subordinated debentures serially 1969 to 1973 and $500,000 of 8% subordi¬ capital notes due about 1970. Price—At par. Busi¬ ness—A consumer finance company. Proceeds—For debt repayment and expansion. Office—105 N. Sage St., Toccoa, Ga. Underwriter—None. Dec. Services to be offered Jan. Dec. 6, 1961 filed 200,000 class A stock. Price—$3. Busi¬ Nov. Feb. due - 4, 1962 filed 67,750 common, —Real ' Investor's Geriatric Research, Inc. Price—$6.50. and equip¬ repayment, inventories and " Walnut St., Philadelphia, er & Co., Inc., Chicago. First Real Estate Investment Trust of •' debt capital. components nated ment / Manhasset, N. Y. Underwriter—None. St., Omaha. Underwriter—General Corp. (same address), Feb. 9,1962 , Jan. 29, 1962 filed 200,000 —$2. 1962 filed 35,000 non-voting shares of beneficial interest. Price—$10. Business—A real estate investment Proceeds—For investment. Office—1221 Harney trust. Franklin Discount Co. ment. Nicollet General Mortgage Trust Feb. 8, working capital. Office—2280 Palou Ave., San Francisco. Underwriter—Stewart, Burbanks, Meyerson & Co., San Capital Corp. Proceeds—General Proceeds—For ment. purposes. electronic of • Mo. Aagaard, Salt, Lake City. on trust. Leasing Corp. 1962 ("Reg. A") 62,000 common. Price—$4.50. Business—General leasing of equipment. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—1719 Gage Blvd., Topeka, Kan. Underwriter—Midland Securities Co., Inc., Kansas City, Forrest Electronics Corp. (4/10) ^ Jan. 26, 1962 filed 320,000 common, of which 13,250 are to be offered by the company and 306,750 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—The company owns the stock of a savings and loan association/oper¬ ates an insurance agency, holds conditional sales con¬ tracts General Jan, 29, Dec. > . for ing—Imminent. Manchester, Conn. Underwriter—Putnam & - Co;, Hart¬ . and electromechanical components and systems multiple telemetering. Proceeds—For inventory, debt repayment, sales promotion, and working capital. Office —Ridge Rd., Monmouth Junction, N. J. Underwriter —Hess, Grant & Remington, Inc., Philadelphia. Vending Co., Inc. Sept 26, 1961 filed 55,000 common. Price—$6. Business —The distribution of novelties, candy, etc. through vend¬ ing machines. Proceeds—To repay loans, purchase ma¬ chines, and increase working capital. Office—990 Long Beach Rd., Oceariside, N. Y, Underwriter—None. Offer¬ property acquisitions, debt repayment and other cor¬ porate purposes. Office—-380-390 W. Middle Turnpike, \ Devices, Inc. 1962 filed 140,000 common, to be offered for subscription by common stockholders. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Development and manufacture of elec¬ tronic N. Y. Folz Oct. 30, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Heal estate investment. Proceeds—For First Lincoln Financial General Jan. 29, Weld & Co., Proceeds—For expansion and working capital. Office—333 North Van Ness Ave., Hawthorne, Calif. Underwriter—White, Weld & Co., N. Y. ford. 37 tiometers, arid related components. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—7100-220th St., S, W., Mountlake Terrace, Wash. Underwriter—White, purposes. First Hartford Realty Corp. (957) manufacture of precision electronic instruments, poten¬ Filon Plastics Dec. 4, • Chronicle The Commercial and Financial . . Jan; 22, 1962 O'Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$2.25. Business—Manufacture of dental anesthetic cartridges and related products. Proceeds—Production, advertising and promotion of disposable needles. Office—129-21 Merrick Blvd., Springfield Gardens, N. Y. N. Y. Underwriter —Paul Eisenberg Co. Inc., Grand Bahama Development Co., Ltd. Jan. 23, 1962 filed 250,000 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Sale and development of land on Grand Bahama Island for residential and resort purposes. Pro¬ ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—250 Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Allen & Co., N. Y. OfferingExpected sometime in April. • Graniteville Co. (2/23) Dec. 15, 1961 filed 796,716 common. Price — $16,875. Business — Manufacture of cotton fabrics. Proceeds —For acquisition of McCampbell & Co., Inc., a textile agent. Address—Graniteville, S. C. Under¬ writer—Shearson, Hammill & Co., N. Y, Offering—Im¬ commission minent. Gray Drug Stores, Inc. Jan. 2, 1962 filed $5,230,000 of 5% corivertible subordi¬ nated debentures due 1982, to be offered for subscription by Common stockholders on the basis of $100 of deben¬ tures for each 12 shares held. Price—By amendment. Business—Operation of. a retail drug chain. Proceed*— Continued oh page 38 38 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (958) from page 37 * ;V 2100 1 * & Cleveland. East Ohio Bldg., Reid Continued , Underwriter—Fulton, Co., Inc., Cleveland. Superior Cleveland. Underwriter—McDonald & Co., Cleve¬ expansion and working capital. Office-:—2400 Ave., land. , • Hanna-Barbara Productions, Inc. (3/12-16) rants '• - Dec. 29, 1961 filed 200,000 capital shares. Price By — amendment. Business—Production of television cartoons • • Grayson-Robinson Stores, Inc. 2b', 1962 filed $10,000,000 of 5% senior subord. de¬ bentures due 1985. Price—By amendment. BusinessRetail sale of women's and children's apparel and photo¬ graphic • N. Y. Estate Investment Trust Real : 4 ' Great Eastern Foods Corp. For general corporate purposes. Office—3325 Keswick Rd., Baltimore. Underwriter— Switzer & Co.,. Inc., Silver Spring, Md. " Lakes Homes, Co.,. : - Distributors, Inc. 200,000 common," of .which 100,000 ' are to be offered by the company and 100,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Retail sale of housewares, hardware, lighting fixtures, automotive •" accessories, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment, expan¬ sion and working capital. Office—1416 Providence ;• Highway, Norwood, Mass.- Underwriter—McDonnell & 3 Co., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in April. ^ 26, filed 1962 Great Southern Real Estate Trust 8, 1961 filed 160,000 common. plans to own and operate an amusement park. Proceeds—For property development, advertising, and working capital. Office—3100 Tremont Ave.,, Cheverly, Md.' Underwriter — Switzer & Co., Inc., Silver Springs, Md. ' V;.. :. / / ! / —Company - Co., Atlanta. Co., Inc. Harper Vending, Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ($7 max.). Business—Manufacture of corrugated board and containers. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—149 Entin Rd., Clifton, N. J. Under¬ ment Greater Co., N. Y. ; ; . , scription by stockholders of Bowling Corp. of America,parent. Price—$3. Business—Company will operate an recreation area in Green Acres Shopping Center, Valley Stream, L. I. Proceeds—For* general corporate purposes. Office—120 Broadway, N. Y.; / Underwriter—R. L. Warren Co., St. Louis. 4" : • Green (Henry J.) Instrument Co. y Aug. 24, 1961 filed 140,000 common. Price—$2.25. Busi¬ ness—The manufacture of precision meteorological in¬ struments. Proceeds—For repayment of loans, equip¬ ment, salaries and general corporate purposes. Office— : 2500 Shames Dr., Westbury, N. Y. Underwriter—To be . named. Note—This Registration Green Nov. withdrawn. was Valley Construction Corp. 1961 filed 80,000 common. Price—$5.25. Busi¬ 29, ness—General contracting for landscaping and construc¬ tion work. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other cor¬ porate purposes. Office—97-36 50th Ave., Corona, N. Y. Underwriter—Williamson Securities Corp., N. Y. f Griesedieck Co. (3/7) for new share for each three held. Price—By amendment. Busi¬ closed-end investment company. Proceeds — corporate purposes. Office—314 N. B'way, St. Louis. Underwriter—Edward D. Jones & Co., St. Louis. Growth Management & Development Corp. Dec. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 198,250 common (with war¬ rants). Price—$1,155. Business—A holding company for a broker-dealer, farm equipment manufacturer finance ' • and a Proceeds- — For an acquisition and working capital. Office—33 N. LaSalle St/, Chicago; Un¬ derwriter—Growth Issuers/Inc.; (Same address). Note— This company formerly was named Growth Consulting & Financing, Inc. j Jan. 11, 1962 filed 1,000,000 shares of capital stock. Price —Net asset value (for first 30 days/ thereafter an addi¬ tional 8V2% sales charge). Business—A mutual furtd. Proceeds—For investment. Denver. 28, Office 714 — Boston Bldg., Underwriter—None. Gulf American Fire & Sept. 1961 filed Casualty Co. 226,004 suDscription by stockholders shares for each 10 held. to common on the Price—$2. fire and (3/12-16) be offered Haltone Rental Corp. Dec. 18, 1961 ("Reg. A") basis of three 1 . .. _ 'i'i of ■ ... military transmitter-receivers. common. Price—$2. Under¬ Hampden Fund, Inc. 24, 1962 filed closed-end become open end. 500,000 the U. S. Proceeds—For general writer—Sunshine Securities, Inc., Rego Park; N. Y.- • House of Westmore, Inc. Oct. 27, 1961 filed 150,000 (3/12-16) Price—$4. common. Business Proceeds—For sell¬ ing stockholders. Office—120 E. 16th St., N. Y. Under¬ writers—Brand, Grumet & Seigel, Inc. and Kesselman & Co., Inc., N. y,* : - V: ■ - > Hudson Wholesale Groceries, Inc. \V / • filed; 100,000. Price—$8. Business—Pro¬ curement, storage and wholesaling of groceries and non¬ Jan; 23, food ing , 1962 items. Proceeds—For;, debt repayment and work¬ capital. Office—Lyndhurst, N. J. Underwriter—J. Williston & Beane, N. Y. Offering—In April * R. Hydra-Loc, Inc. Oct.; 10, 1961 (2/26-3/2) ("Reg. A") J -*, 60,000 common. Price—$2. development and manufacture of a Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen¬ control v TT«jprwritAr TiatPn Price common. s. v at — ooriPe offered in five series due 1 1966 to in ($1,000). Business—Purchase and sale real estate mortgages.^ Proceeds—For investment. Of- oi tice—630 Fifth Ave:; N; Y. Underwriter—None.: v ; ' ; Index & Retrieval Systems, Inc. / ;•/'•' ! Jan. 29, 1962 filed 125,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Publishes "The Financial Index" and v Harwyn Publishing Corp. Jan. 29, 1962 filed 300,000 class A Office—101 Park Ave., Hudson, MpT 1970. Price—At par By Off.cc--170 Vanck St., N. y*1-/^ R» St., Woodstock, Vt.' Cnderwriter-Searight, Y IJn-i AfiaU & O'Connor, Inc.,'N/y. ' ' Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y. Offering— ■ ' ■: ■ r'-'A-' 1 Expected in early April, .. r : • " ' v • Industrial Financ.a & /Thrift; Corp. ,;; * 2 ■; iV-'i' Oct. 30, 1961 filed $2,000,000 of 6% subordinated, deben^fnno0"' (3/15) ■ r, ^ ^ tures due 1974; Price—At par.-Business^-A - consumer Nov;;29, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which .20,000 are finance firnr. Proceeds-—For repayment of debt and exto be offered by the company and 130,000 by stockhold-* pansion. Office—339 Carondelet -St., New Orleans, La. ers; Price—By amendment. Business—Publishes "Elec-^1 underwriter—None.u frrtn?n T1oc!l'Oil " in finW 1 * tronic Design," a trade magazine in +V10 olnnfrnnin field. the electronic Industry Capital Corp. (3/5r9) Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—850-3rd Ave., Dec. 26, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—$15. Busi¬ N. Y. Underwriter—Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.,'N. Y/; ness—A small business investment company. Proceeds— • Herman & For general corporate purposes. Office—208 S. La Salle Appley, Inc. ■ : Oct. 27, 1961 filed 100,000 class A common. Price—By St., Chicago. Underwriter—A. C. Allyn & Co., Chicago. Kor workmg capital t derwnter—Van — , ... *r ^ h > . _ ' i _ • ' - - _ ■ r Business—General real estate. Proceeds— Information Hickory Industries, Inc. Aug. 31, 1961 ("Reg. A") 40,000 Systems, Inc. 13, 1961 filed 1,266,000 common to be offered to preferred and common stockholders of Ling-TemcoVought, Inc. (parent) of record Nov. 30, 1961. Price—By amendment. Business—Furnishes industrial information, handling and control systems. Proceeds r- For selling Business—The stockholders. Office—10131 National For investment. Office—16 Court St., Brooklyn. N. Y. Underwriter—Arnold, Wilkens & Co.;* N. Y. Offering— Imminent. : . - • manufacture of Nov. ' . common. Price—$5V barbecue machines and allied equipment. Proceeds—For equipment, inventory, saies promotion, expansion and working capital. Office —10-20 47th Rd., Long Island City, N. Y.. Underwriter— J. B. Coburn Associates; Inc., N. Y. Offering—Indefinite. • High Temperature Materials,. Inc.. « i/ ; *Sept. 28, 1961 filed 120,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Manufacture of products from test ment. models. Proceeds—For equipment, research and devel¬ opment, leasehold improvements, repayment of debt and working capital. Office—130 Lincoln St., Brighton, Mass. Underwriter—To be Hill Aircraft & Jan, 29, 1962 named. Leasing Corp. > ("Reg. A") 100,000 capital snares. Price— $3. Business—General aviation. Proceeds—For working capital, equipment, advertising and inventory. Office— County Airport, Atlanta, Ga. Underwriter—First Fidelity Securities Corp., Atlanta. . ' ' Hill Street Co. Oct. 16, 1961 filed 2,265,138 common to be offered for subscription by stockholders of Union Bank of Califor-,, nia on a share-for-share basis. investment Price—$3. company. Business—A Proceeds—For Office—760 S. Hill St., Los writer—None. Angeles. • Hillside Metal Products, Inc* Underwriter—None., Inland Underground Blvd., Los Angeles. * • r ; . * » Facilities, Inc. Dec. 7, 1961 filed 100,000 common.. Price — $10. Busi¬ ness—Mining of limestone and the operation of under¬ ground freezer and dry warehousing facilities. Proceeds —For debt purposes. repayment, equipment and other corporate Office—6500 Inland Dr., Kansas City, Kansas. Underwriter—Scherck, Richter Co., St, Louis. International * Airport Hotel Systems, (3/12-16) ' Inc. / v Jan. 4, 1962 filed $1,700,000 of convertible subordinated debentures due ,1977 and 170,000 common shares to be in- Under-. one $100 debenture and 10 shares. Price—By amendment. Business — Establishment and operation of hotels located in or near airports. Proceeds —For debt repayment and working capital. Address— Miami International Airport, Miami, Fla. Underwriters —Bache & Co., N. Y. and Robinson-Hiynphrey Co., Inc., offered, in units of Atlanta. ^ (3/26) > Dec. 15, 1961 filed 300,000 common; of which 200,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 10Q,000 shares by stockholders. Price—$6. Business—Manufac¬ . • i , . ^ International Insurance Agency, Inc Feb. 2, 1962 ("Reg. A") 6,000 class A common and 9,000 class B common to be. offered in units of two class A and three class B common shares. Price—$100 per unit. Business—A Proceeds— Y. in ma-r?w-f1!®1- -y^ ; c'\ \-0 \ ^Pec. 22^'j96R|He<li$l,500,000 of 10% registered subordifitra Huo QRfi nated nphpntlirfo to Hp nrfprPrl debentures in be corporate purposes.- Office—30-30 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, N. Y. Underwriter—Charles Plohn & Co., N. Y. Offering—In early April. * • : vestment. inventory, equipment, advertising and leasehold im¬ ness—A distribution corporate purposes. Office—42 W. 48th St., N. Y. Under- -Kaufman & Co., N. Y. general management 150,000 their w communications dnd electronicu equipij_j! ;■«- I-.;:"ii Proceeds—For a j; ; • Honora, Ltd. (3/26-30) v-". Nov. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 76,500 common. Price—$3.75. Business—Purchase of cultured - pearls in Japan ahd i'dbing •• Co., Inc., -• eral corporate purposes. of which 75,00(1 are be rine and mobile i provements. Office—350' Seventh Ave' yN. writer—B. G. Harris & Co., Inc., N. Y. ^an- common, offered by the company and 25,000 by stockholder. Price—$4. Business—Manufacture to new Business—Writing of Business—Rental of furs and fur garments. - 1961 filed 100,000 Corp. Fulton for casualty insurance. Proceeds—To increase capi¬ tal and surplus. Office—25 S. Perry St., Montgomery, Ala. Underwriter—None. " ' For Oct. 27, Electronics company. Gryphon Fund, Inc. • Marine & Co., Inc., N. Y. Business—Design, V Co., N. Y. Hartman A General • • amendment. ' Sept. 11, 1961 filed 99,288 common to be offered subscription by stockholders on the basis of one ness and Reubin Rose & — ment and Inc. Jan. 23, 1962 filed 225,000 common to be offered for sub¬ and , (3/12-16) Bronx, N, Y. Underwriters—Richard Bruce braKe burgh. Underwriters—Moore, Leonard & Lynch and Sin¬ ger, Dean & Scribner, Pittsburgh., amusement Inc. 12, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ ness—Operation of automatic vending machines. Pro¬ ceeds For expansion, debt repayment, and working/ capital. Office—498 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Underwriter— • Greenman 14, 1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—$11. Bust-; ness—A small business investment company. Proceeds— For investment. Office—952 Union Trust Bldg., Pitts¬ indoor . Jan. Pittsburgh Capital Corp. Nov. Green Acres Funtown /: Price—$5. Business Dec. . writer—D. H. Blair & Konig's-Parkway, Inc. Sale and distribution of cosmetics. v';:: Hargrove Enterprises, Inc. Nov. Greater New York Box • - Hopkins, Minn. Underwriter—None.- Ave., S., Milwaukee. Underwriter—Courts & ness—Company makes home improvement,; construction Underwriter—J.' W. Kim & Co., 11 Broadway, N, Y- working capital; Office—40 Sea Cliff Ave:; Glen Cove, Y. Underwriter—Albion Securities CO., Inc., N. Y. -• packages" consisting of basic carpentry for J houses, and construction of shell homes. Proceeds—For debt repayment and for working capital. Office—She-. 30, 1961 filed 320,000 shares of beneficial interest. Price—By amendment. Business—Real estate invest¬ ment. Proceeds—For general purposes of the Trust. Office—200 First National Bank Bldg. Annex, Atlanta. ^ Busi- an<* subdivision loans and buys, sell and trades in mortgaf.es and reai estate. Proceeds—For working capital. "•'Office—409 North Nevada-St.r Colorado Springs, Colo. N. Jan. Inc. Underwriter—The Milwaukee « < • "house Wis. ("Reg A")' 100,000 common. Price—$3. 1 Fabrication of Components for missilesr 3et " Hardl:nes 26,1961 filed 93,000 common. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of custom-designed, factory built Falls, — ■ ★ Home Builders Acceptance Corp. (3/11) Feb. 9,- 1962 refiled 800,000 common. Price—$1; - . Dec. boygan - 1961 11, Business For-debt repayment, expansion and Office—4344 E. Indian School Road, — • . Great Aug Industries, Inc. Proceeds Phoenix. Underwriter—None. ■- Vv - sorts. working capital. Dec. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Happy House, Inc. (2/26-3/2) Business—Company owns and operates three discount July 28, 1961 filed 700,000 common shares .Price—$1. Business—The marketing of gifts, candies and greeting V stores in the Bronx selling bicycles, electric trains, toys, cards through franchised dealers. Proceeds—For equip¬ t household appliances, etc; Proceeds—For general *cdrporate purposes. r Office — 2717-25 White Plains Rd., ment, inventory and working capital. Office—11 Tenth , — Hannett "■ ;>■ •; -, (3/19-23) ~ - Jan. 29, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$4. Business —Retail distributing of food freezers, frozen foods, gro¬ ceries, etc. Prcoeeds ;" :j;-! engines, aircraft landing gears and precision machines. Proceeds — Machinery, research and development and Aug. 3, 1961 filed 300,000 shares of beneficial interest. Price—$10. Business—Real estate. Proceeds—For investment. Office—530 St. Paul Place, Baltimore. Underwriter —To be named; Note—This firm formerly was known as Continental Real Estate Investment Trust. : building and new . and audio equipment., Proceeds—For Great Continental a working capital. Office—3501' Cahuega Blvd., Los An¬ geles Underwriter—Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Inc., expansion, "diversification, and working capital. Office—550 W. 59th > St., N. Y. Underwriter—To be named. - r commercials. Proceeds— For and Jan. Holiday Mobile Home Resorts, Inc. 31, 1962 filed 3,500,000 common and 5-year warto purchase 700,000 shares, to he offered in units of 5 shares and one warrant. Price—$50 per unit. Busi¬ ness—Development and operation of mobile home reJan. * For , Thursday, February 22, 1962 .v. general insurance agency.. general corporate purposes. Office—689 Cambridge, Mass. Underwriter—None. .. International Nov. Stretch 27, 1961 filed 300,000 Products common. Proceeds—For Concord Ave., ■ v '■ Inc. '(3/5-9) Price—By amend¬ ture of ste61 office furniture. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ common. investment trust Price—$10. Busi¬ which plans to Proceeds—For investment. Office— ment.. Business—Production and sale of extruded rubber ment, plant expansion and working capital. Office—300 Passaic St.. Newark. N. J. Underwriters— Milton D. ment and general corporate purposes. Blauner & Co. and M. L. Lee & Co., Inc., N. Y. * thread and braided son Ave., N. Y. elastics. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ Underwriter — Office—148 Madi¬ Burnham & Co;, N. Y. Volume Interstate Number 6136 195 . . . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (959) • ceeds—For redemption Hosts, Inc. of all outstanding 6% preferred working capital. Office—1200 Zerega Ave., Y. Underwriter—Hay den, Stone & Co., N. Y. Oct. 2, 1961 filed $2,553,800 of 5% convertible subordi¬ nated debentures due 1981 being offered for subscription shares the basis of $100 of debentures for 'each 33 shares held of record Feb. 9 with rights to ex¬ pire Feb. 26. Price—At par; Business—The operation of Yestaurants, other food establishments and gift shops. Proceeds—For expansion. Office — 11255 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriters—Glore, Forgan & Co., N. Y. and H. M. Byllesby & Co., Inc., Chicago. Krylon, Inc. (3/5-9) 10, 1961 lilea zau,U00 common. Price—By amend¬ ment, Business — Manufacture of aerosol spray paints, protective coatings and other aerosol products. Proceeds Electronics, Inc. (3/12-16) 1961 filed' 125,000 * capital shares. Price^-By Business—The design and production of special electronic components for the commercial and military market. Proceeds—For the repayment of debt, and working capital. Address—Box 7, Casselberry, Fla. Underwriter—Jennings, Mandel & Longstreth, Phila. by stockholders Interstate (3/26-30) Vending Co. Johnson common.; ,Price---$10. Business—Examination of inventions and the offering of assistance to Interworld Film Distributors, Inc. (3/19-23) Sept. 29, 196i filed 106,250 common. Price—$4. Business "theatrical distribution and co-production, of foreign and domestic feature films, proceeds—For acquisition, co*production, dubbing, adaptation and distribution of "films, 'and working capital." Office—1776 B'way," N. Y. ! filed restate. Proceeds—For investment. Office—630 Fifth Ave., Inc. new (2/26-3/2) ■ / • Laboratory Procedures, Inc. v / * r (Sept. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000. capital shares* Price-— $2.50.,; Proceeds—For debt repayment, equipment, ad- 1 ,vertising, leases, and working capital. Office — 2701 .Stocker Los Angeles. Underwriter—Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francisco. Offering-Jn mid-April; _ v. Dec. 29, 1961 88,000 filed class related A shares, common aluminum products. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ ment, plant expansion and working capital. Office—500 Edward Lamb Bldg., Toledo. Underwriter—Blair & Co., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in April. of which 44,000 are to be offered by the company and 44,000 -f by stockholders. Price—$7. Business—Packing and sale juice products. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—241 N. Franklintown Rd., Baltimore. Underwriter Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Wash¬ of fruit Layne & Bowler Pump Co. 1961 filed 108,666 capital shares. Price Dec. 22, — v_ '■,/ '.....r* 7 V." / /. • Corp., N. Y. . vvY"' ? ington, D. C.., lona Manufacturing Co. '' Keeko, Inez •. • ' - -. • •/ -Y://',.*/./.,;/7://,7".7' Dec. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Busi¬ Jan. 26, 1962 filed 140,000 common,-of which 125,000 are ness—Company plans to establish service stations and to be offered by the company and 15,000 shares by a vending machine outlets in the Denver area. Proceeds— "stockholder/- • P r i c e—46.Business—Manufacture of household electric appliances and electric products motors. For I a it, a P apf i962 'Jan. 24, ParLorc fUed In** $lf6oOOO * suborns. f. of Penraat Associates, Inc. - v system and Jackson Rides, Inc. Leader-Durst Corp. Dec. (3/19-23) de- '/ "//Kine Camera Co., • 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3j business : designing, the design op teaching machines • Nov. 21,.,L96L filed 75,000 common. Price—$5. Business of teaching programs/1 Proceeds-— ImpQfl4ng.;ar$ distribution of cameras, binoculars and For expansion, new facilities and working t>h6tographic "equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment capital. Office —315 Central Park W./ N...-Y. Underwriter—R. F. Dowd rand working capital. Office—889 Broadway, N. Y, Un¬ derwriter—Underhill Securities Corp., N. Y. Co., Inc., N. Y. ; • - ;v-//.•• •. ( /. . 7; Japan Fund, Inc.v (3/26-30) ; ^ King Island Cosmetic Co. Feb. 13, 1962 ("Reg. A".) 100,500 Oct. 19, 1961 filed 2,000,000 common; Price — $12.50. Business—A diversified investment company. Office—25 Broad St., N. Y. Proceeds—For investment in Japanese securities. Underwriters—Bache & Co., and Paine/Web¬ * ber, Jackson & Curtis, N. Y., and Nikko Securities Co., /Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. » ; / :/'/ ' Denver.^ : , Jayark Films Corp. L. v''*'7/7'-/r"; ;Y/ common. market : Price—$2. therapeutic clay for use in manufacturing cosmetics. Proceeds—For debt .repayment and other corporaet purposes. Office—73417th St., Denver. Underwriter—Birkenmayer & Co., Business—Company plans to a -./7 . •/" King Louie Bowling Corp. (3/5-9) Sept. 27,1961 filed 325,000 common. Price—$3. Business /-^Operates a chain of bowling centers.: Proceeds—Repay " /Aug. 24, 1961 filed 72,000 ■ Lee derwriters—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. Y. and Penzeil & Co., Miami Beach. Offering—In March. Lehigh Industries & Investing Corp. the •production (The) Price—$5. Fashions, Inc. (4/23-27) 27, 1961 filed 166,667 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Importing of low priced ladies' scarfs and blouses. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—2529 Washington Blvd., Baltimore, Un¬ "■—Industrial and common. ment. (3/5-9) Inc. filed 405,000 class A Dec. Price—By amendment. Business—The operation of coin operated children's amusement equipment. Proceeds— For repayment of loans, equipment and general corpo¬ rate purposes. Office^—2557 W. North Ave., Chicago. Un¬ derwriter—Paul C. Kimball & Co., Chicago. Jan. 30, 1961 1, Business—Real estate. Proceeds—For repayment of debt. Office—41 E. 42nd St., N. Y. Underwriter—None. Sept. 12,; 1961 filed $1,000,000 of 7% convertible subordi¬ nated debentures due 1971 and 30,000 common to be of¬ fered in units of $1,000 debentures and 30 of commoa •bentures, series A/due 1977 (with attached warrants). Price—$1,000. (Business—Meat packing. Proceeds—For debt repayment, plant construction, and equipment. /Of/' Tice—Denison,',;Iowa.K Underwriter—First Nebraska Se¬ curities Corp.,-Lincoln, Neb; ' ('"/(]'' Jaap repayment Kiddie .t '/• .••••. debt Office—4970 and By equipment manufactured by a subsidiary. Proceeds—■ For selling stockholders. Office—2943 Vail Ave., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Crowell, Weeden & Co., Los Angeles. general corporate purposes. St., Denver. Underwriter—Amos C. Sudler & Co., Denver. Offering—Expected in April, Pro¬ working capital. Office Regent St., Manchester, Conn. Underwriters—Richard Bruce & Co., Inc., and Reubin Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y. new — amendment. Business—Manufacture and sale of vertical turbine pumps and the sale of a domestic water *N. Y. Underwriter—IFC Securities ceeds—For ~ Lamb Industries, Inc. 24, 1961 filed 108,000 common, Price-—$6.50, Busi-, //■/.-■. J / V/*/ ,i>.: / ../{>. . ness—Wholesaling of electronic parts and .components / Dec. 28, 1961 filed $2^00,000 of s. f. subord. debentures and equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen- - due/1977, {With .attached warrants)Price—At par. eral corporate purposes/ Office — 2050 Rockrose Aver,-* Business—Manufacture of gas and electric water heaters; * Baltimore. Underwriter—Rubin, Rennert & Co., Inc., N.Y. pluming fixtures, water softeners; sugar cane agricul¬ tural equipment; aluminum doors, storm windows and Kay Foods Corp. (3/19-23) #' 7/7 $6,000,000, of 10% registered subordinated debentures, of 'which, $1,000,000 will mature *"1966 and $5,000,000 from 1971 through 1975. Price—$1,000 per unit. Business—Purchase, sale and investment in real 19, ,1962 . Oct. Underwriters—General Securities Co., Inc., and S. Kas- .Feb. Proceeds—For Kann-Ellerf Electronics, 1 . v inventors. - product development, salaries and contingencies. Office—1328-13th St., Columbus, Ga. Underwriter-r-None. holders. Office—251 East Grand Ave., Chicago. Under¬ \ J V" / writer—-Bear, Stearns & Co., N. Y. , writer—Stevens Investment Co., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. A Kaiiko Development Corp. Feb. 7, 1962,-;("Reg. _A">. 30,000 ttaurants in. New York City. Proceeds—For selling stock¬ " — Plastics, Inc. Ripley Industries, Inc., below. ! vending machines, and operation of industrial catering in the New England area and Brass Rail res- ' • L. L. Drug Co., Inc. (3/26-30) July 26, 1961 filed 100,000 common shares. Price—$4.50, Business The manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Pro¬ ceeds—For repayment of a loan, purchase of equipment, research and development, advertising and working capital. Office—1 Bala Ave., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. Under¬ Jomar See facilities Inc., N. Y. [ —For selling stockholders, Office—Norristown, Pa. Un¬ derwriter—Eastman Dillon. Union Securities & Co., N. Y. amendment. : 10, 1962 filed 53,829 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Sale of products through coin-operated -A' Investors Funding Corp. Nov. Sept. ■: 8, Jan. vdan & Co., and Bronx, N on 39 , 7- 7 7t Dec. 29, 1961 filed 2,000,000 class A common. Pric# — By amendment. Business — A holding company for three subsidiaries which operate utilities, engage in construc¬ tion, and distribute electronic parts. Proceeds—For debt repayment, construction, and working capital. Office— 800 71st St., Miami Beach, Fla. Underwriter — To be named (a newly-formed subsidiary). Lehigh Press, Inc. Nov. 3, 1961 filed 155,000 common, of which 45,000 are to be offered by the company and 110,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—A commercial printer. Proceeds—For a new plant, moving expenses and equipment. Office—2400 E. Huntingdon St., Phila¬ delphia. Underwriter—Harrison & Co., Philadelphia. (/" common, of which 50,000 are by the company and 22,000 stockhold-eiSi rrice—By amendment. Business—The distribution (debt and for other corporate purposes./ Office—8788 •<'■// Leighton Mobile Homos,. Inc.7.// '• 4/ of motion picture and television films. Proceeds—For (Metcalfe Rd., Overland Park, Kan. Underwriter—George Jan. 11, 1962 50,000 class A shares. Price — $5. Busi¬ production: of films and' working capital! Office—15 J5.- :K. Baum & Co., Kansas City, Mo. 77',. / ; : J, ;7 : * ness — Sale of mobile homes and development of real .'48th St.; N. Y; Underwriter—Pacific Coast Securities Co., i /King Pharr Canning Operations, Inc. / < property for lease to owners of mobile homes, Proceeds— San Francisco. Offering-r-Sometimeln April. (v~7;*/7 V.' Jan. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") $300,000 of. 15-year 61/2% sub¬ For debt repayment, expansion, and working capital* Of¬ Jaylis Industries,"' lne.f;(3/12-16)'/(//T-,V7ordinated convertible debentures. Price—^At par.- Busi¬ fice—Route 25 Lake Grove, Brookhaven, L. I. N. Y. Un-Oct. 18, 1961 filed $85D,000 o£.6&% suboru. oebentures ness—The canning and shipping of fruits and vegetables./ derwriter—George K Curtis Co., N. Y. , r 7(7 clue 1971 and 212,500 class A common sha^s to be of¬ Proceeds—For acquisition of land and working capital. Lembo Corp. •*'••• - 7--, , fered in units "of one $100 debenture ana 25 class A (Address — Cullman, Ala/ Underwriter — Hendrix & i Dec. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi¬ shares/Price—$200. Business—Manufactures patented (Mayes, Inc;, Birmingham, Ala. 7' 1 ; ness—Manufactures steel re-inforced concrete utilities, •traversing screens for use as window Coverings, room -• Knickerbocker Toy Co., Inc. / sanitary structures, fallout shelters and play sculptures. dividers, folding doors, etc. Proceeds—For debt repay¬ Proceeds—For debt repayment, sales Sept. 27, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬ promotion and ment and general corporate purposes! Office—514 W„ ment. Business—Design and manufacture of toys. Proworking capitaL Office—145 W. 11th St., Huntington ..Olympic Blvd.; Los Angeles. Underwriter—D. E. Liederceeds-/For: working capital. Office—401: Butler St., Station, L. In N. Y. Underwriter—Blank, Lieberman & man & Co., Inc., N/Y/ / to be offered , . - • " . Vy/Y>/-/>/>/ '■/"•-Y*■/// Jefferson Diversified -Dec. 29/ 1961 filed 200,000 • Industries, Inc. • Price—$3.50. Busi¬ common. ness—Company plans to acquire and operate concerns engaged in.diversified business activities; Proceeds—For < Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriters — Netherlands Securities Co., inc.,"and Herbert Young & Co.,-Inc., N. Y. Offering —Imminent/ Note—This registration tive. / : become'effec- has ':/v/ ..'7.7 7 " •' •./ / ,' '' " '' Kogel,Jnc..;/;///v./-.v-77"^'• J'-/•'•/'••• general corporate purposes. Office—161 E. 42nd St., New York. Underwriter—To be named;/ / > / / : / Dec. 8, 1961 iiled .100,00.0 common. Price-^$1. Business 7. —A holding company for three subsidiaries in the wall -~r; Jefferson Stores, Inc. ;•// •.Y/-/\:}'.//•■"/ *(/. "' ■' and floor coating business.. Proceeds—For product de¬ Jan. 25,. 1962 filed 110,000 capital • shares.Price—By amendment. Business—Operation of- discount appliance v velopment, advertising, and working capital. Office— 26-32 Second St., Long. Island City, N. Y. Underwriter— stores, / Proceeds—For expansion. Office-^-3700 N. / W. Globus, Inc. Offering—Expected in late March. 62nd St., Miami, Fla. Underwriter — Bregman, Cummings & Co., N. Y. /■. Y-x/r-.-—7J.. /.*■ " <•/; «/ jr (H.) Kohnstamm & Co., Inc. -. . . 7v7 V//'■• ( Feb. 21,1962,filed 160,000 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of colors and flavors for 5, 1962 filed 65,000- common. .-Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Processing, packaging. and /sale of- i food, ( drugs and ^osmetics; also industrial chemicals. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—161 frozen meat and meat products. Proceeds—For redemp¬ • Jiffy Steak Co. (4/23-27)//// Feb, , . • tion Avenue of 2,9.10 $50 par preferred shares,...expansion,, and working capital. Address — Route 286, Saltsburg, Pa. Underwriter—Arthurs, Lestrange & Co., Pittsburgh. ^ Joanell - Laboratories, Inc. > . . . be offered • by the company and 32^)00 by. stockhold¬ . Price —By amendment. Business ^- Development of /simulated weapons training devices for U. S.-Armed Forces and the manufacture of electronic control equipers. ' « — Kidder, . . Kollmorgen Corp. (3/5-9) 9, 1961 filed 100.000 common, of which 40,000 are Nov. to be sold Price—By tical by the company and 60.000 by stockholders amendment; Business—Manufacture of op. equipment., Proceeds-^For debt repayment. Office Northampton, Mass. Underwriter—Put¬ & Co., Hartford. —347 King St„ nam ment. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes/ Office —102 Dorsa ;Ave.; Livingston, N; J. Underwriter—Sea- . * Kraft , Price Inc. (4/2-6) 1961 filed 951,799 shares of common stock Net asset value plus a 7% selling commission. 30, — Business — A non-diversified, open-end, managementtype investment company whose primary investment ob¬ jective is capital appreciation and. secondary, incoma derived from the sale of put and call options. Proceeds— For investment. Office—300 Main St., New Britain, Conn. Distributor—Horizon Management Corp., New York. • Planned Homes, Inc. - Lincoln Income Life Insurance Co. Oct. 31, 1961 filed 45,000 Price By amend¬ Proceeds— For the selling stockholder. Office—Louisville, Ky. Un¬ ment. Business—A life common. insurance — company. derwriters—J. C. Bradford & Co., Nashville, Tenn. W. L. Lyons & and Co., Louisville, Ky. Offering—Imminent. Note—This registration has become effective. (3/19-23) Nov. 22, 1961 filed 120,000 common. Price—$3. Business —Development and manufacture of equipment and sys¬ tems for the photographic data processing industry. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—232 Cleveland Ave., Highland Park, N. J. UnderwriterGodfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y. Little Ruffy Toga, Inc. Price—$5. Business Nov. 29, 1961 filed 165,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business — Manufacture and sale of children's >r^A. holding, company cin "sheU homes" field. Proceeds— For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Of- clothing. Proceeds — For debt repayment and working capital. Office—112 W. 34th St, N. Y. Underwriters- Dec. . At John's Bargain Stores Corp. / ; "-> ■ Feb. 14,1962 filed 160,000 common.. Price-/-By amend"ment (max. $10). Business—Operation of a chain of re/ tail stores selling low priced housewares, toys, etc. Pro¬ Lincoln Fund, March r ' Lrtght,Ahalt ^O'Connor, Inc;; N/Y/" > • Lithoid, Inc. • . r Dec. 21, 1961 filed 114,500 common, of which 82,500 are to Americas, N. Y. Underwriter Peabody & Co., Inc. • > of the Co., Inc., N. Y. . . - 14, flee—126 1961 filed 200,000 common. W. . Broadway, • Girard, Ohio.. Underwriter— Best & Garey & Co.. Ino„ Washington, D. C. Offering— Expected sometime in March. Glass & Ross, 1 Inc. and Samson, Graber & Co., Inc., N. Y. •• • • Continued on page 40 40 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle .' .', (960) Continued from page Littlefield, Adams & Co. 28, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment ($5 maximum). Business—Publication and sale of paperback school books; manufacture of stuffed novel¬ Dec. ties, college pennants, etc.; and distribution of medical, nursing and law books. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—128 Oliver St., Paterson, N. J. Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y. Littelfuse, Jan. 26, holders. filed electrical working products for the electronic, automotive and industries. Proceeds—For equipment, and Office—1865 Miner capital. St., Des Plaines, Cruttenden, Podesta & Co., Chicago. Offering—Expected in April. • : : < 111. Underwriter Litton — Industries, Inc. due outstanding common the basis securities and convertible into $100 of debentures for each shares held. Price—By amendment. Business—Manu¬ common 10 on of systems and components, business commercial electronic equipment, nuclearpowered submarines and other vessels. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—336 Foot¬ hill Rd., Beverly Hills, Calif. Underwriters—Lehman Brothers and Clark, Dodge & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering —Expected some time in late March. facture of electronic machines, Lockfast Jan. 11, 1962 Mfg. Co., Inc. ("Reg. A") 85,000 common. Price Business—Manufacture to furniture ment, 3006 of furniture manufacturers. hardware Proceeds—For for debt $3.50 sale repay¬ inventories nad plant expansion. Office— Ave., Baltimore. Underwriter—R & D steel Boarman Investors Corp., Port Washington, N. Y. ic Lockwood Grader Corp. Feb. 20, 1962 filed $900,000 of 6% sinking fund deben¬ tures series B, (with warrants). Price—$1,000 per deben¬ ture. Business—Design, manufacture, sale and repair of machinery and equipment used in agriculture. Proceeds —For debt repayment, equipment and general corporate purposes. Office—7th & S Sts., Gering, Neb. Underwriter —First Nebraska Securities Corp., Lincoln, Neb. it Long Island Lighting Co. (3/16) Feb., 16, 1962 filed 421,472 common, to be offered for subscription by stockholders on the basis of one new share for each 20 held of record March 16, with rights to Price—By amendment (max. $55). Proceeds—For a new plant. Office—250 Old Country Rd., Mineola, N. Y. Underwriters—Blyth & Co., Inc., First Boston Corp., and W. C. Langley & Co., N. Y. expire Lowell Marie April 2. Toy Manufacturing Corp. Dec. 27, 1961 filed 120,000 common, of which 100,000 are offered by the company and 20,000 by the stock¬ holders. Price—$5. Business—Design, manufacture and sale of toys and games. Proceeds—For equipment, ad¬ vertising and working capital. Office—1074 Brook Ave., N. Y. Underwriters—H. M. Frumkes & Co. and Batchker, Eaton & Co., N. Y. Nov. Inc. (3/5-9) Aug. 31,1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—$5.75. Busi¬ ness—The production of television films. Proceeds—For filming and production and working capital. Office— 1501 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter—Ehrlich, Irwin 8i Co., Inc., 50 Broadway. N. Y. Lustig Food Industries, Inc. Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$6. Business —Processing and packaging of frozen foods and the can¬ ning and bottling of fruits and vegetables. Proceeds— For debt repayment and working capital. Office—48 High St., Brockport, N. Y. Underwriter—None. MRM Co., Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 150,000 common. Price—$2. Business—Design and manufacture of automatic filling machines and related equipment. Proceeds—For debt re¬ payment and working capital. Office — 191 Berry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—A. J. Gabriel Co., N. Y. Macco Realty Co. Dec. 21, 1961 filed $4,000,000 of conv. subord. debentures due 1977; also 150,000 common shares. Price—By amendment. Business—Construction and sale of homes. Proceeds—For purposes. Calif. debt repayment and general corporate Office—7844 E. Rosecrans Ave., Paramount, Underwriters—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. and Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Los Angeles. Offering— Expected sometime in March. MacLevy Associates, Inc. July 20,1961 ("Reg. A") 150,000 common shares (par one cent). Price—$2. Business—The distribution of health, exercise and slenderizing equipment. Proceeds—For re¬ payment of loans, equipment, new products, sales pro¬ motion and ital. advertising, plant removal and working cap¬ Lexington Ave., N. Y. 16, N. Y. Under¬ be named. Offering—Indefinitely postponed. Office—189 writer—To Note—This letter may be withdrawn and refiled. Medex, Inc. (3/15) Sept. 27, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Development and manufacture of a limited line of hospital and surgical supplies. Proceeds —For construction, inventory, research and working cap¬ ital. Office—1488 Grandview Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Un¬ derwriter—Globus, Inc., N. Y. Magazines For Industry, Inc. Aug. 2, 1961 filed 100,000 common, of which 80,000 will be offered by the company and 20,000 by stockholders. Price—$5. Business—The publishing of business period¬ icals. Proceeds—For promotion, a new publication and working capital. Office—660 Madison Ave., New York. Co., Inc., Washington, D. C. Jan. & Los < • ' > -v':'V:Ya'V. Corp. 1961 filed Proceeds—For 250,000 general Seventh corporate Minneapolis, St., None. ■' ■ 100,000 common. Price Proceeds—Repay debt, taxes, purchase equip¬ ment, and working capital. Office—174 Main Ave., Well¬ ington, N. J. Underwriter—Mortimer B. Burnside & Co., N. Y. Offering—Imminent. • couple tubes, and thyratrons. Proceeds—For expansion, research and development, and working capital. Office —54 Summer Ave., Newark, N. J. Underwriters—Richard & writer—F. Eberstadt &,£o., N. Y. Masury-Young Co. commercial products. nance equipment, and Proceeds and other Roland St., Boston. . /. — For corporate floor repayment purposes. • Mathias 4 Co. —25 & debt, Office—76 (3/19-23) — Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—1700 St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Eisele & Miami & Co., N. Jan. fice—7750 N. W. W. • Jam 7th Ave., Miami, Fla. Underwriter—E. Co., Inc., Miami, Fla. ! Michaels Dec. to be be of four stores. Proceeds—For construction, of a new store. Office—182 Smith St., Brooklyn, N. 'Y. Underwriter— L. F. Rothschild & Co., N. Y. stores. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working cap¬ ital. Office—525 Hyde Park Ave., Roslindale, Mass. Un¬ derwriter—McDonnell & Co., Inc., N. Y. McDaniel Stewart & (J.), Inc. (3/26-30) 20, 1961 filed 103,0C0 common, of which 20,600 are offered by the company and 82,400 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Retail sale of fur¬ niture, major appliances, bedding, etc., through a chain Y. filed to Processing Center, Inc. 2, 1962 ("Reg. A") 70,000 common. Price--$3. Busi¬ information to customers by using data processing equipment. Proceeds—Debt repay¬ ment, leasehold improvements and working capital. Of¬ (2/26-3/2) 200,000 common, of which 100,000 offered by the company and 160,600 shares by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Busi¬ ness—Operation of self-service discount department 1961 are ; Data ness—Furnishes statistical Maxam, Inc. 26, working capital. Office—5422 Chase, Md. Underwriter—To be King, Libaire, Stout & Co., N. Y. J. Underwriter Kidder, Peabody Offering—Expected in late March. shares Chevy K 100,000 common, of which 60,000are to be offered by the company and 40,600 by share¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of component parts and accessory equipment for ma¬ chines used in production of glass containers. Proceeds —For debt repayment, construction, equipment, and working capital. Office—111 South 15th St., Millville, Oct. Proceeds—For Ave., Metropolitan Realty Trust 20, 1961 filed 1,000,000 shares of beneficial interest. Price—$6.50. Business—A real estate investment trust, filed N. sales. Dec. Maul Bros. Inc. 1962 • named. repayment and general corporate purposes. Office E. Lee St., Baltimore. Underwriter—Stein Bros. 15, Price—$3. barbecue corporate Western common, Boyce, Baltimore. Jan. common. electric - of which 125,000 are to be offered by the company and 75,000 by a selling stockholder. Price—By amendment. Business—Operates private cafeterias and public restaurants. Proceeds—For debt 100,000 of Metropolitan Acceptance Corp. Oct. 2, 1961 filed $300,000 of 6% subordinated convert¬ ibles due 1967 and 60,000 common shares to be offered in units consisting of $100 of debentures and 20 common shares. Price—$150 per unit. Business—Financing of re¬ tail (A. L.) A") • Underwriter—Townsend, Dabney & 30, 1961 filed 200,000 ("Reg. Manufacture motors, Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen¬ purposes. Office—5356 Riverton Ave., North Hollywood, Calif. Underwriter—Kolb & Law¬ rence, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev. ' eral Tyson, Boston. Nov. — igniters, etc. mainte¬ of Enterprises, Inc. 31, ■-1961 Business Price—$6. Business— industrial Meteor Oct.- * Dec. 4, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Manufactures !J. of electronic cases and containers, and precision sheet metal products. Proceeds—For debt re¬ payment, and other corporate purposes. Office — 111 Bloomingdale Rd., Hicksville, N. Y. Underwriter—Frank Karasik & Co., N. Y.Offering—Imminent, Co., Inc. 9, 1962 filed $5,000,000 of 6Vz% senior notes due 1977 and 170,000 common. Price—By amendment (max. Notes: 105%; Stock: $12). Business—A commercial and industrial finance company. Proceeds—For general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—350 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Under¬ Manufacturing Corp. 18, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$2. Business —Manufacture Offering—Imminent. Mastan Metatronics Oct. Co., Inc., and Reubin Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y. Feb. repayment and Elm Sts., Beaver metals. Business—Manufacture of rectifiers, regulators, thermo¬ Bruce debt and • $3. — Proceeds—For Office—First Metallurgical International, Inc. Sept. 26, 1961 filed 145,000 class A. Price—$3. Business —Reprocessing and manufacturing of rare refractory Co. ("Reg. A") 1, 1961 capital. ing—Imminent. So. LaSalle St., Chicago. Underwriter — Morgan Stan¬ ley & Co., N. Y. Offering—Expected in late March. Nov. Proceeds— Office—Moonachie, N. J< Dam, Wis. Underwriters—Cruttenden, Podesta & Co., Chicago and Splaine & Frederic, Inc., Milwaukee. Offer¬ McLennan, Inc. filed 673,215 common, of which 225,000 will be offered by the company and 448,215 by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Insurance brokerage. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—231 Electronics industries. trical working . Marsh & Marshall equipment. Metalfab, Inc. 27, 1961 filed $600,000 of 6% s. f. conv. debentures due 1976 and 100,000 common (of which 20,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 80,000 by stock¬ holders). Price—By amendment. Business—Manufac¬ tures products and parts of the automotive and elec¬ Feb. 7, 1962 • — sprinkling • Office—91 Underwriter— V garden Oct. purposes. \ and common. Price—$4.50. Busi¬ ness—Publishing of newly written popular biographies. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—1512 Walnut St., Philadelphia. Underwriter—Meade & Co., N. Y, investment company. Minn. be Underwriter—Francis I. duPont & Co., N. Y. Price—By amend¬ common. purposes. > it Mercury Books, Inc. Feb. 14, 1962 filed 55,000 . V.1"*' business small corporate Busi¬ equipment. O f f i c e— City, Calif. Underwriter—Financial Equity Corp., For general corporate purposes. Marquette Capital Co. Business—A general Price—$10. electronic — 27, 1961 filed 95,000 common shares. Price — By — For expansion, acquisition of new facilities and other corporate purposes. Office—15316 Tenth Ave., Whitestone, N. Y. Underwriters—Ross, Lyon & Co., Inc. (mgr.), Glass & Ross, Inc., and Globus, Inc., N. Y. C. 1, common. medical Angeles. lawn amendment. Proceeds ment. of Melnor to June Dec. the Industries, Inc. (3/5-9) 15, 1961 filed 152,500 common, of which 52,500 are offered by the company and 100,000 by stock¬ holders. Price $11. Business Manufacture of Business Offering—Expected in late ■ ■- Polarized Marks in Nov. Price—$5. by-product proteins. expansion, machinery, and working cap¬ Underwriter—Arnold Co., Inc., N. .Y. April. 1961 filed 250,000 Proceeds—For Studio Office—233 Broadway, N. Y. ital. 13, ness—Manufacture fishmeal and animal —Distributes Proceeds—For investment Medical Video Corp. Nov. By-Products Corp. 26, 1962 filed 90,000 common. Proceeds—For sociates, Inc., Denver, Manufacture of waste water filters and filtering Marine & Animal Price—$10. Business which plans to company industry and capital growth situations. Office Lafayette St., Denver. Underwriter—Medical As¬ —677 Design & Mfg. Corp. writer—Terrio & common. investment open-end. medical new systems. Proceeds — For debt repayment and working capital. Office—610 W. 18th St., Hialeah, Fla. Under¬ to be Lunar Enterprises, a (2/26-3/2) 14, 1961 ("Reg. A") 55,000 common. Price—$4. Busi¬ South — of closed-end become common. Price—$4. Business electrically powered device for messaging a person in bed. Proceeds—For general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—Route 17, Rochelle Park, N. J. Underwriter—Stanley R. Ketcham & Co., Inc., N. Y. Dec. —Production 23, 1961 filed 25,000 —A Inc. 29, 1961 filed 75,000 Malkan 8, 1962 filed $50,748,100 of conv. subord. debentures 1987 to be offered for subscription by holders of Jan. Oct. Magic Fingers, ness— 100,000 common, of which 50,000 by the company and 50,000 by stock¬ Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture 1962 various of Inc. be offered to are Medical Industries Fund, Inc. Underwriter—Arnold, Wilkens & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offer¬ ing—In late April. 39 Thursday, February 22, 1962 • Micro-Dine Corp. 13, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—$350. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture, sale and operation of vending ma¬ Feb. Equipment, Inc. ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—Sale, service and installation of dry cleaning chines. Proceeds—For debt repayment, inventories and general corporate purposes. Office—6425 Oxford St., St. and Louis .23, 1962 laundry equipment. Proceeds—For equipment, debt repayment, and expansion. Office—516 Seventh Ave., San Diego, Calif. Underwriter—California Investors, Los Angeles. • - Park, Minn. Underwriter—Irving J. Rice Inc., St. Paul. Midwest Medical & Co.. Investment Trust . McWood Dec. 11, 1961 ("Reg. A") 15,000 shares of beneficial in¬ terests. Price—$20. Business—A real estate investment trust which plans to own interests in medical office buildings, hospitals, etc. Proceeds—For working capital. Address—Van West, Ohio. Underwriter—J. Allen McMeen & Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. Corp. Feb. 8, 1962 filed $3,100,000 of 6% subordinated con¬ vertible debentures due 1974 and 310,000 common to be offered in 31,000 units, each consisting of $100 of deben¬ Price—By amendment (max. $160). Business Company buys crude oil from producers, transports it to own storage areas and sells it to refiners. tures and 10 shares. — Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Of¬ fice—Oil & Gas Building, Abilene, Tex. Underwriter— Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc., St. Louis. Medical Fund, Inc. Oct: 26, 1961 filed 2,000,000 capital shares. Price—$10. Business—A closed-end diversified investment company. Proceeds—For medicine. investment in firms serving modern Address — New York, N. Y. Underwriter Fleetwood Securities Corp. of America, 44 Wall St., N. Y. ^Midwest Wool, Inc. Feb. 6, 1962 ("Reg. A") 30,000 common. Price—$10. Business—Operation of a wool scouring plant. Proceeds —For a plant, equipment and working capital. Office— c/o R. A. Smiley & William E. Anderson, Esqs., Belle Fourche, S. Dak. Underwriter—None. Midwestern Investment Corp. Oct. 16, 1961 filed 200,000 common. - ness—Company plans to nance and engage factoring business. in Price—$2. the Busi¬ commercial fi¬ Proceeds—General corpo- Volume * Number 195 6136 .•. ; The Commercial and Financial Chronicle rate/purposes'Offiee—1730 K St., N. W.,: Washington, D.: C. Underwriter—Affiliated Underwriters, Inc. *; municipalities and territories of the U. S. Proceeds—For investment. .Sponsor—Ira Haupt & Co., Ill Broadway, > . ■ . :Miller Brothers Hat Co., Inc.:. m'v, ■ t ;18, 1961> filed 126,000 common, of which 100,000 will be sold bS? the company and 26,000 by certain stockholders. Price—By amendment: Business—Manufacture of men's and boy's'hats; Proceeds — For purchase of a building, plant equipment, and working capital.. Address N.:Y. ^ Dec. —2700 Canton & St., Dallas. Underwriter—Eppler, Guerin ' V'>;< v. N. T. W. Missile New Campbelllsland Mines Ltd. Jan. , and young * » National 5909 Hollywood ferred Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. Underwriter—Pre¬ Securities, Inc., Denver. Offering—In April. Mississippi-Red Equipment & Plastics Corp. ated stores. pansion Laboratories, Un¬ Inc. Nigeria Chemical Corp. (3/26-30) 7, 1961 filed" 90,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Company plans to construct a plant for production of ethyl alcohol and deiivatives and to distill and sell industrial and potable alcohol in Nigeria. Proceeds—For equipment, debt repayment, and working capital. Of¬ fice—1060 Broad St., Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Scott, Harvey & Co., Inc., Fairlawn, N. J. Dec. North America Real Estate Trust Nov. 13, 1961 filed 2,000,000 shares of beneficial interest. Business—Real estate investment trust. Price—$10. Proceeds—For acquisition of property and working cap¬ ital. Office—475 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—None. (3/15) North Atlantic Industries, Inc. (3/5-9) Sept. 26, 1961 filed 131,500 common, of which 120,000 will be sold by the company and 11,500 by a stockholder. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of pre¬ Proceeds—For debt repayment, store ex¬ working capital. Address — Portage, Pa. Underwriter—Cortlandt Investing Corp., N. Y. River Transport Co. World Washington, D. C. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 105,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Operation of a cleaning and pressing plant and affili¬ Jan. 22, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price — By amend¬ ment ($2.50 estimated). Business •— A motor carrier of New (3/26-30) Nov, 13, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price —$3. Business—Manufacture of cosmetics and hair prepara¬ tions. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—1610 14th St., N.. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—T. J. McDonald & Co., Inc., — — pur¬ derwriter—Mayq,s$,£o.,^^J-,t; — Office adults, Proceeds—For general corporate Whitemarsh Rd,, Philadelphia. Office—152 poses. • . development of the valve. - Hope Academy of the Arts, Inc. 17, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$10. Business —Operation of a school of performing arts for children ... common. , and ' ment and mining. Proceeds—General corporate purposes. " Office—90 Industry St., Toronto, Canada. Underwriter— A. C. MacPherson & Co., Toronto. Price—$8. Business and missile industries. Prov ceeds—For debt repayment, inventories and research and tronic components. Proceeds — For general corporate t development. Office—4820 'Alcoa Ave., Los Angeles. purposes. OfficeT— 1400 Mill Creek Rd,,.. Gladwyne, Pa.... Underwriter—^None, ■*, « -mm m Underwriter-^Seymour .Blauner Co., N. Y. / ^ \ Narrows Premium Corp. (3/19-23) Milo Components, Inc." (3/15) Sept. 25, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business Nov. 17, 1961 ("Reg. A") 150,000 class A shares. Price— —Financing of casualty insurance premiums in New $l.k Business—Manufacturer-of" precision metal com¬ York State. Proceeds—General corporate purposes. Of¬ ponents, assemblies and sub-assemblies. Proceeds—For fice—9805 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter— debt repayment and working capital. Office—9-11 Pearson, Murphy & Co., Inc., N. Y. ' ' Cleveland St., Valley Stream, N. Y. Underwriters—T. • National Bowling Lanes, Inc. (2/26-3/2) M.Kirsch Co.* Inc., N. Y. and I. R. E. Investors Corp.,July 21, 1961 filed 150,000 capital shares. Price—$5.50. Levittown, N. Y." Business—The operation of bowling centers. Proceeds— Miss Elliette, Inc. (3/5-9) For expansion, repayment of loans, and working capi¬ Oct. 10, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend- \ tal. Office —220 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia. Under¬ ment. Business Design, manufacture and distribution writer—Edward Lewis & Co., Inc., N. Y. of women's dresses. Proceeds—For debt repayment, in¬ National Capital Acceptance Corp. ventory and expansion. Office—1919 S. Los Angeles St., Oct. 20, 1961 ("Reg. A") Los Angeles. Underwriter—F. L. Rossmann & Co., N. Y. 150,000 class A common. Price —$2. Business—Purchase of second trust notes and other Missile Valve Corp. securities. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—8719 Nov. 24, 1961 ("Reg. A") 300,000 common. Price — $1. —Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, Md. Underwriter— Business Production and sale of new type butterfly Guardian Investment Corp., Washington, D. C. valve. Proceeds—For purchase of the patent and pro¬ duction and electronic instruments. Proceeds—Repayment of debt, new product development, inventory and working capital. Office—Terminal Dr., Plainview, N. Y. Under¬ writer—G. A. Saxton & Co., Inc., N. Y. cision petroleum products. Proceeds—For purchase of tugs and ' National Family Insurance Co. barges and construction of docking facilities. Office— ,Dec. 26, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$5. Business 2809 N.Main St., Fort Worth, Tex. Underwriter—Wil¬ —Writing of automobile insurance. Proceeds—For addi¬ liam N. Edwards & Co., Fort North Star Chemicals, Inc. Worth, Tex. - ^ ; V tional capital and reserves. Office—2147 University Ave., Jan. 8, 1962 ("Reg. A") 185,000 common to be offered St. Paul, Minn. Underwriter—None. Development Corp. / for subscription by stockholders on the basis of 18Vs Nov. 21, 1961 filed 130,000 common. Price—$3. Business • National Real Estate Investment Trust of a share for each share held. Price—$1.20. Business— —Research and development of new products for the ! (3/5-9) Manufacture and sale of sulfuric acid. Proceeds—For electronic industry. Proceeds—For general corporate Nov. 9, 1961 filed 1,000,000 common. Price—$15.a <Busi*u e£p£iision and debt repayment. Address—P. Q. Box 28, S. purposes, new products. Office—899 Main St., Waltham, ness—A real estate investment company. Proceeds—; St. Paul, Minn. Underwriter—White, Weld & Co., First Mass. Underwriter—Stanley Heller & Co.; N. Y. ' For investment. Office—20 Broad St/, New York City*; National Bank Bldg.,; Minneapolis. Offering—Imminent. v.* Molecular. Dielectrics, Inc. (4/9-13) Underwriter—Lee Higginson Corp., N. Y. t Northern Wobd Products Corp. Sept,; 1, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which 135,000 - • National Semiconductor Corp. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 78,000 common. Price—$5. Business are to be offered by the company and 15,000 by Cardia / May 11, 1961 filed 75,000 shares of capital stock. Price r',:—Manufacture of wooden kitchen cabinets and related Co. Price—$5; Business—The manufacture of high-tem¬ —To be supplied by amendment. Business—The appliances. Proceeds — For debt repayment, expansion, design, perature. electronic and electrical insulation materials.development, manufacture and sale of quality transistors and working capital. Office—201-221 Godwin Ave,, PatProceeds—For equipment,- a new product and working for military and industrial use. Proceeds For new erson, N.J. Underwriter—United.Planning Corp., New¬ capital. Office—101- Clifton Blvd., Clifton, N. J. Under¬ equipment, plant expansion, working capital, and other ark, N. J. writers—Street & Co.. Mitron Research & v — . Inc. and Irving Weis & Co.. N. Y. / .Molecular 'Systems?-Corp. corporate purposes. Office—Mallory Plaza Bldg., Danbury, Conn. Underwriters—Lee Higginson Corp., N. Y. C. Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Minneapolis (mgr.). Note—This registration has been indefinitely postponed, *. ■ ■ <•. Dec. .12, 1961 filed 140,000 common. Price—$3. Business —Production of polyethylene materials of varying: grades.-Proceeds — For equipment, research and de¬ velopment: and working capital. Office — 420 Bergen Blvd., Palisades Park, N. J. Underwriters—Stone, Ackerman & Co., Inc., (mgr.) and Heritage Equity Corp.* N. Y. Morse Electro — Morse Shoe, Inc. Jan. 26, 1962 filed 630,000 Proceeds—For common. Price—By amend¬ selling stockholders. Office—1047 Com- monwealth Inc. and ■ • Motor Oct. Ave., Boston. Underwriters — Blyth & Co., Lehman Brothers, N. Y. Offering—In April. Parts 30, 1961 Industries, Inc. (3/19-23) 120,000 class A shares. Price filed By of automobile parts. repayment and working capital. Office—900-908 S. Oyster Bay Rd., Hicksville, N. Y. Un¬ For — debt derwriter—Street & Co., Inc., N. Y. • r Mountain -i.. Electronics Co., Inc. Jan. 16, 1962 filed 140,000 common. Price—$3.50. Business —Wholesale distribution of radios, television sets and other electronic products and parts. Proceeds—for debt repayment and working capital. Office—708 Bigley Ave., Charleston, W. Va. Underwriters—Maltz, Greenwald & Co,. N. Y. and Clayton Securities Corp., Boston. Multronics, Inc. Jan. 5, 1962 ("Reg. A"-); 100,000 capital shares. Price—$3. Business—Production of electronic parts and components . and the furnishing of consulting services in the radioengineering field. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equip¬ ment, and working capital. Office—2000 P St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter — Switzer & Co., Inc., Silver Spring, Md. • Municipal Series Investment Trust Fund, (3/15) First Pa. Broadway, N. Y. C. , Municipal Investment Trust Fund, Series B April 28, 1961 filed $12,750,000 (12,500 units) of interests. Price To be supplied by amendment. Business — The fund will invest in tax-exempt bonds of statesr counties, — Ski (4/2-6) Price—By amend- ?. coin-operated insur¬ common. Business—Distribution of vending machines to brokers at sporting centers. ■ inventory, advertising and working capi- * Office—420 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Underwriter- Proceeds—For ' tal. Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francisco. Nationwide Office — 11 a realty acqui- Tax-Exempt Fund, Bond Series 3 17, 1961 filed $15,300,000 of units representing frac¬ interests tional Bowling Corp. (3/26-30) 19, 1961 filed 100,000 capital shares (with attached warrants). Price—By amendment. Business—The oper-; bowling centers. Proceeds—For Co. 24, Nuveen Oct. < Oct. ation of Glass 1962 filed 95,000 common, of which 60,000 are to be offered by the company and 35,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture, warehousing and distribution of a diversified line of glass containers. Proceeds—Fox debt repayment, plant expansion, and equipment. Office—5801 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, Wash. Underwriter—Dean Witter & Co., San Francisco and Pacific Northwest Co., Seattle. Insurance Corp. in the Fund. Price — By amendment. Business—The Fund will invest in interest bearing obli¬ gations of states, counties and municipalities of the S., and political subdivisions thereof which are be¬ lieved to be exempted from Federal income taxes. Pro¬ ceeds—For investment. Office—Chicago, 111. Sponsor— John Nuveen & Co., 135 So. La Salle St., Chicago. U. • Commerce St., Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Jennings, Mandel & Longstreth, Philadelphia. ' Nebraska Boiler Dec. 29, fund bonds 1961 filed due 1977 Nuveen Co., Inc. $400,000 of first mortgage sinking (with warrants) and 15,000 shares series A convertible preferred Oct. 17, Tax-Exempt 1961 filed Bond $15,000,000 fractional interests in the Fund, Series 4 of units representing Fund. Price—By amendment. (par $10). Price— Business—The Fund will invest in interest-bearing obli¬ At par. Business—Design and manufacture of steam and hot water boilers. Proceeds—For construction and debt gations of states, counties, and municipalities of the U. S., repayment. Office—235 N. 9th St., Lincoln, Nebr. Under¬ to writer—First Nebraska Securities Corp., Lincoln. For • New Orleans Public Service and subdivisions thereof which are believed Federal income taxes. Proceeds—• Office—Chicago, 111. Sponsor—John Nuveen & Co., 135 So. La Salle St., Chicago. (4/4) political be exempted from investment. Feb. 20, 1962 filed $8,000,000 of first mortgage bonds due 1992. Proceeds—For construction. Office—317 Barrone • St., Orleans, La. —The bidders: instruments and provide consultation services. Proceeds —For organizational expenses and purchase of equip¬ New New Plan Realty Corp. 1962 filed 150,000 class A shares. Price—$11. Business—A real estate management company. Proceeds —For debt repayment, working capital, and general corporate purposes. Office—369 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Jan. 24, Underwriter—None. New York Testing Laboratories, Inc. filed 50,000 common. Price—$5. BusinessAnalyzing and testing of electronic, chemical and other materials. Proceeds—For plant relocation, equipment, and working capital. Office—47 West St., N. Y. Under¬ writer— Robbins, Clark & Co., Inc., N. Y. Newark Electronics Corp. Jan. 17, 1962 filed $2,000,000 of convertible subordinated debentures due 1982 and 110,000 class A shares. Price— Debentures: At par; Stock: By amendment. Business—^ Distribution of electronic parts and equipment and elec-trical supplies. Proceeds For .general corporate pur¬ — Oceanic Instruments, Inc. Price—$1. Business bompany plans to manufacture scientific marine Aug. 24, 1961 filed 140,000 common. Underwriters — Equitable Securities (Competitive). Corp.-Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. (jointly); First Boston Corp.; White, Weld & Co.; Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Kidder, Peabdoy & Co. - Stone & Webster Securities Corp. (jointly). Bids—April 4 at 2 Broadway (28th floor), New York City. Probable Jan. 29, 1962 April 28, 1961 filed $6,375,000 (6,250 units) of interests. Price—To be supplied by amendment. Business—The fund will invest in tax-exempt bonds of the Common¬ wealth of Pennsylvania and its political sub-divisions. Proceeds—For investment. Sponsor—Ira Haupt & Co., Ill ance Vended 30, 1961 filed 550,000 of 6 % — amendment. Business—Distribution Proceeds National ment. sition and working capital. ment, Business—Retail sale of popular-priced foot wear. - • Products Corp. (3/26-30) " / Dec. 29, 1961 filed $1,250,000 of 6Y2% convertible sub/ordinated debentures due March, 1977. Price —■, At par. eBusiness—Operates retail stores selling sewing machines and vacuum cleaners. Proceeds For expansion and working capital. Office—122 W. 26th St., N. Y. ,Under¬ writer—Standard Securities Corp., N. Y. .. ■■■_?%?; Northwestern Jan. and Oct. 1 > : New Engineering, Inc. 29, 1961 filed 250,000 —Engaged in the aircraft Byllesby & Co., Chicago. Oct. 13, 1961 filed 475,000 common, of which 400,000 are to be offered by the company and 75,000 by a stock¬ holder. Price—^50c. Business—Exploration,' develop¬ Fair Dec. . , — 41 poses. Office—223 W. Madison St.; Chicago. Underwriter —H. M. Enterprises, Inc. ~ Jan. 24, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business —A theatrical holding company. Proceeds—For con¬ struction, equipment, and working capital. Office—124 < S.' 18th St.; Philadelphia. Underwriter—Suplee, Yeat\ man, Mosley Co., Philadelphia. j. V i ' , Dec. 20, -1961 ("Reg.-A") ,100,000 capital shares. Price— $3. Business—Manufacture of switches and other elee, CA-Aci: Music Turner, Inc., Dallas. Milli-Switch Corp. • M96l) ment. Office—1515 Norton Bldg., Seattle. Underwriter— Globus, Inc., N. Y. Offering—Imminent. Oklahoma . Gas & Electric Co. (3/8) Feb. 8, 1962 filed "328,912 common, to be offered for sub¬ scription by common stockholders on the basis of one share for each 20 held of record about March 8, with rights to expire March 27, 1962. Price—By amendment ($41 max.). Proceeds—For construction. Office—321 N. Harvey St., Oklahoma City. Underwriter—Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., N. Y. Olympia Mines, Inc. (3/5-9) Sept. 1, 1961 filed 300,000 capital shares. Price—$1.35. Business—The exploration and development of mines. Proceeds—For Brooklyn, mining operations. N. Y. Underwriter — Office—44 Court St., Gaumont Corp., Ltd., Toronto. ° ic Operations Research, Inc. Feb. 14, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬ (max. $9). Business—Furnishes research and de¬ velopment services in the field of operations research. ment ... * Continued on page 42 , 42 Continued c The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (962) from page 41 Parker Finance -''■//' / . repayment and working capital. Of¬ fice—8605 Cameron St., Silver Spring, Md. Underwriter —Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Washington, D. C. Corp. Price—$6. Business —Financing of commercial accounts receivable. Pro¬ ceeds—for debt repayment. Office—8650 Cameron St., Silver Spring, Md. Underwriter—D. E. Liederman & . . Thursday, February 22, 1962 Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y. and Estabrook & Co., Bos- , Inc. Dec. 26, 1961 filed 160,000 common. Price—$3. Business —Research, development and fabrication of materials used in optical electronics. Proceeds—For equipment and working capital. Office—246 Main St., Chatham, N. J. Underwriters—Stone, Ackerman & Co., Inc., and Optech, Oct. 27, 1961 filed 135,Ouu common. t°n- Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected in early March. - Proceeds—For debt , Poticy-Matic Affiliates, Inc. / / r Oct. 16, 1961 filed 200,000 capital shares.. Price—$3.25. Business—Leasing of insurance vending machines. Pro¬ ceeds—General corporate purposes. Office—1001 15th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter^-Baiogh & Co., Inc.,1 Washington, D. C. Offering—Imminent. ; / --- . .// ; ,., • Parkway Laboratories, Inc. Dec. 6, 1961 filed 160,00Q common. Price—$5. Business; —Manufacture of drugs and pharmaceuticals^ Proceeds For an acquisition, research and other corporate pur¬ poses. Office — 2301 Pennsylvania Ave., Philadelphia. ; ■ .r-. ...t^ - " Polytronic Research, Inc. 7, 1961 filed 193,750 commdn shares, of Which 150|will be sold for. the company and 43,750 for, stock¬ /////Heritage Equity Corp., N/Y. ,■/. ///;' ,•/Z. ' Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., inc., N. Y. Offer¬ holders* Price—By amendment.. Business—Research and .'j /'///• Orion Electronics Corp. (3/14) ^ > .'>• ing—Expected sometime in April. '"/'/V;. development/ engineering and- production j of certain ■/"'/ /' Aug. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi/patent Merchandising 'Corp. electronic devices for aircraft^ missiles, oscilloscopes, \ // ./ ? ness—The manufacture of precision electronic sub-sysNov. 22, 1961 filed .100,000 common (with attached fiveelectronic vending machines and language teaching, matems for the generation, detection and control of fre1 chines. Proceeds—For expansion, repayment of debt and year warrants to purchase an additional 100,000 shares) quencies up through the microwave region. Proceeds— to be sold in units of one share and one warrant. Price /.// working capital. Office—7326 Westmore Rd., Rockville, For expansion, equipment and working capital. Address. •5i■ Md. Underwriters-^Jones, Kreeger & Co., and Balogh & —$3.50 per unit/Business—Company plans to market —Tuckahoe, N." Y. Underwriter—A. D. Gilhart & Co., patented products, or products which it considers to be Co., Washington, D. C. Note—This offering was post¬ Inc., N. Y. C. patentable. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. poned indefinitely. /; y .•/.'•/, / • Oriando Paper Corp. (3/19-23) Office—521 5th Ave., N. Y. C. Underwriter—Hampstead Oct. 11, 1961 ("Reg. A") 80,000 common. • Potomac Electric Power Co. (3/7) v-' Price—$2.50. • Investing Corp., N .Y. / > / :/>• > /, :'// Business—Manufacturer of miscellaneous paper products. Feb.;15, 1962 filed 536,221 comnion to be offered for sub¬ it Patent Research & Development, Inc. / Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corporate scription by stockholders on the basis of one new share Feb. 15, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬ for each 15 held of record March 7, with rights to ex¬ purposes. Office—Oceanside, L. I., N. Y. Underwriters— ness—Design, manufacture and sale of new products in Professional & Executive Planning Corp., Long Beach, pire March 21. Price—By amendment (max. $45). Pro¬ various fields. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. ceeds—For debt repayment and expansion. Office—929 ■* N. Y., and E. J. Roberts & Co., East Orange, N. J. Office—35 Third Ave., Long Branch, N. J. Underwriter E St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriters—Dillon, • Oxford Finance Cos., Inc. (3/5-9) —Louis R. Dreyling & Co., Inc., New Brunswick, N. J. Read & Co. Inc.; N. Y. and Johnston, Lemon & Co., Nov. 28, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Pellegrino Aggregate Technico, lnc. Washington, D. C. ./, / ! ment. Business—A finance company, Proceeds—For ex¬ Aug. 10, 1961 filed 130,000 class A common shares. Price pansion and debt repayment. Office—6701 N. Broad St., v Power Industrial Products Co/*(3/12-16)*/ —$5, Business—The manufacture of building materials. Philadelphia. Underwriter—Blair & Co., Inc., N. Y. > Nov. 22/1961 filed 160,000 class A common, of which Proceeds—For payment of income taxes and loans and • PCS Data Processing, Inc. (3/12-16) 133,333 are to be offered by the company and 26,667 by for working capital. Office—Woodbridge-Carteret Road, Oct. 6, 1961 filed 100,000 common ot wnicn 50,000 are to present stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business— Port Reading, N. J. Underwriter—Mortimer B. Burnside Warehouse distribution of corrosion resistant stainless be offered by the company and 50,000 by stockholders. & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Temporarily postponed. /'" steel Price—$3.75. Business—Furnishing of statistical infor¬ pipe, tubing, valves, etc. Proceeds—For repayment ir Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, Inc. • / of debt, expansion, and 1 working : capital. mation. Proceeds—For training personnel, new equip¬ Office—352 Feb. 16, 1962 filed 250,000 common. Price—By amend-.,' Harrison St., Passaic, N. J. Underwriter—S. D. Fuller ment, expansion and working capital. Office—75 W. St., men! (max. $17). - Business—Bottling and distributing & Co., N. YZ N. Y. Underwriters—Harry Odzer Co., N. Y., and Lench- ' v/:, ' / ./■';•/■ ' Pepsi-Cola in Chicago and three neighboring cities. Pro¬ Precision Automotive Components Co/ ner, Covato & Co., Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. ceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—1745 N. Kolmar f Dec. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 -common. Price—By amend¬ P-G Products Manufacturing Co., Inc. Ave., Chicago.- Underwriter—White, Weld & Co., N. Y. ment. Business—Manufacture of carburetor replacement Oct. 10, 1961 filed 110,055 common. Price—By amend¬ ir Perfect Photo, Inc. !//•// 'f* : parts.- Proceeds — For debt repayment, retirement of ment. Business — Manufactures appliance replacement Feb, 14, 1962 filed 154,800 common. Price—By amend6% pfd., and working capital. Address — Ballwin, Mo. parts and accessories. Proceeds — For debt repayment, ment (max. $20). Business—Photofinishing'and the.dis¬ Underwriter—G. H. Walker & Co., Inc., N. Y. ■* Jt expansion and working capital. Office—230 E. 162nd St., tribution of photographic equipment and supplies. Pro¬ N. Y. Underwriters—Kahn & Peck, Cohn & Co., N. Y./ • Precision Instrument Co. (3/15)/ ceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—4747 N. Broad Dec. 28, 1961 filed 125,000 capital shares of which 111,000 5 P. & H. Tube Corp. St., Philadelphia. Underwriter—Bear, Stearns & Co., are to be offered by the company and Oct. 25, 1961 filed 120,000 common (with attached war¬ 14,000 by stock¬ New York. /. ■// ; " ';• " /•" • holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Development rants to purchase 60,000 additional shares) to be offered / Perpetual Investment Trust /// fZ/Z/Z: ;'•//// and manufacture of instrumentation magnetic tape rein units consisting of two shares and one warrant. Price Nov. 9, 1961-filed 500,000 shares of beneficial interest. cording equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment, coft—$12 per unit. Business—Manufacture of electric resist- i struction and working capital; Office—1011 ConimerciaL~ ~ ance welded steel tubing. Proceeds-r-For<>debtrepay-/ Price—(Fbr' the-first 10,000 shares) $10.80 per share. (For the balance) Net asset value plus 8% commission. ment and working capital. Office—413 Hamilton Rd., St., San Carlos, Calif. Underwriters—Lehman Brothers,* > Business—A real estate investment trust. Proceeds- -For Bossier City, La. / N. Y. and J. Barth & Co., San Francisco. Underwriters—Howard, Weil, Lainvestment. Office—1613 Eye St., N. W., Washington, ! bouisse, Friedrichs & Co., New Orleans and Clark, Presidential Realty Corp. (4/9-13) ' D. C. Underwriter—Sidney Z. Mensh Securities Co., Landstreet & Kirkpatrick. Inc., Nashville. * Jan. 29, 1962 filed 260,000 class B" common, of which Washington, D. C. nv/ ' / ' y. y : /; Pacific Big Wheel 250,000 are to be offered by the company and 10,000 by Pictronics Corp. Oct. 26, 1961 filed 100,000 common. stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Acquisi¬ Price—By amend¬ Jan. 18, 1962 filed 80,000 common. Price—$5. Business* tion *and ment. Business—Sale and installation of automobile acdevelopment of real estate projects.-Proceeds— For debt repayment and the purchase of-stock in sub¬ ; cessories. Proceeds—For expansion and working capital. ; /—Manufacture of professional audio visual and sound recording equipment; Proceeds—Debt repayment, equip- V sidiaries. Office—180 S. Broadway, White Plains, N. lY. Office—6125 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. Underwriter— men/and working capital. Office—236 E. 46th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Burnham & Co.; N. Y. N. C. Roberts & Co., Inc., San Diego. ■r y :.;.v .... '/ ? Underwriter—Bayes, Rose & Co., Inc., N..Y. Prestige Capital Corp. * Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (3/13)., v" Pierce Proctor Schultte & Taranton /; Oct. 19, 1961 filed 200,000 'common. Price—$5. Business ' / < y Feb. 19, 1962 filed $65,000,000 of first and refunding ./Investment Co., Inc.; / —A small business investment company;? Proceeds—For mortgage bonds, series HH, due 1994. Proceeds—For ex- / Dec. .20, 1961 filed $465,000 of 10-year 8% debentures. - investment. Office—485 Fifth pansion. Office—245 Market St., San Francisco,, Un¬ Ave., N. Y,'/Underwriters —To be named. ; Z. ///. •/•'/. !■ derwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidders: First Bos- /Price—$15,000 per debenture. Business—The company M plans to organize and sell real estate syndicates. Proton Corp.; Halsey; Stuart & Co. Inc.; Blyth & '".Primex Equities Corp. Co., Inc. //?/'■' /•/ // :///'/ ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—1807 N. Nov. 27, 1961 filed 400,000 shares of 60c cumulative con¬ Bids—Expected March 13 at 11:30 a.m. (EST) Central Ave., Phoenix. Underwriter—None. " / vertible preferred, and 400,000 of class A common/to • Pacific Standard Life Insurance Co. Pioneer Restaurants, Inc. be offered in units of one share each. Price—By amend¬ .,/ / //-: Feb. 7, 1962 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common. Price—$2.50/ Dec. 21, 1961 filed 125,000 common, of which 75,000 are -, ment.. Business—A real estate investment firm. .■«!</. Pro■; Business—A credit life insurance company. Proceeds— to be offered by the company and 50,000 by a ceeds—For property acquisitions and working capital. To increase capital and surplus. Office—3550 N. Central selling stockholder. Price—By amendment. Business—Opera¬ Office—66 Hawley St., Binghamton, N. Y. Underwriter Ave., Phoenix. Underwriter—None. ...> ^ June 000 . . - " . ■ - - , - . . . , ■ . .. . . . , - q , , . „ . , * » - , i • ■ , - Pacific States Steel Corp. filed 100,000 outstanding shares of capital stock (par 50 cents) to be sold by stockholders. Price— June 21, 1961 $6. Business—The manufacture of steel ceeds—For • the products. Pro¬ selling stockholder. Office—35124 Alva- rado-Niles Road, Union City, Calif. Underwriters—First California Co.. Inc.. and Schwabacher & Co., San Fran¬ cisco (mgr.). Offering—Indefinitely postponed. tion of six restaurants in Sacramento. Proceeds—For . —None. •/ _ •• ■/, • ■;!• ; expansion, debt repayment and working capital. Office • Printing Corp. of America (3/12-16) —1626 J St., Sacramento.! Underwriter—Stewart, Eu-'Z Dec. 28, 1961 filed 454,0u0 common. Price^-By amend¬ banks, Myerson & Co,, San Francisco. / /""//// r '/;!/•' V ment. Business—Printing of t^ade^and business periodi¬ • Pir-O-Wood Industries, Inc.(2/26-3/2)/ cals and textbooks by lithography. Proceeds—For selling Nov. 28, 1961 filed 62,000 common. Price—$5. Business stockholders. Office—71 W. 35th St., N. Y. Underwriter —Sale of prefabricated wood and plastic specialized ?; —^Goldman, Sachs & Co., N. Y. ! i; »: components. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. / Producers Cotton Oil Co. ■ • ? / * Office 1182 Broadway. N. Y. Underwriter; — Arnold. Jan. 18, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Malkan & Co., Inc., N. Y. ment. Business—Growing cotton, operating cotton gins, Plasticon Chemicals, Inc., processing cottonseed and selling raw cotton-and cotton¬ Feb. 7, 1962 filed 150,000 class A capital shares. Price seed products. Proceeds—For expansion. Office—2907 S. —$3.50. Business—Manufacture of a plastic protective-' Maple Ave.,- Fresno, Calif; Underwriters—Kidder, Peacoating and a water proofing solution. Proceeds—For, body & Co., N. Y. and Dean Witter, San Francisco. Of¬ inventory, equipment, sales promotion, and. other cor-. ferings—Expected in late March, ./ • ! : /> porate purposes. Office—507 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Under-,, • Product Research of Rhode Island, Inc. writer—Arden Perin & Co., N. Y. . . , • — Pal-Ptaywell Inc. V • Nov. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business —Design, assembly and manufacture of toys. Proceeds— For debt repayment and working capital. Office—179-30 93rd Ave., Jamaica, N. Y. Underwriter—Tyche Securi¬ ties, Inc., N. Y. 1 ■/// Palmetto Pulp & ' Paper Corp. June 28, 1961 filed 1,000,000 common. ness—The growth of timber. and v ' ' Price—$3;45. Busi¬ Proceeds—Working capital the possible purchase of a mill. Address—Box 199, Orangeburg, S. C. Underwriter Stone & Co. c/o E/ — Lowitz & Co., 29 Broadway, N. Y Pan-Video Productions, . Inc. Dec. 15, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Production of films. Proceeds — Price—$3. Business— For general corporate Office—200 W. 57th St., N. Y. Underwriter— Curylo Co., 2166 Broadway, N. Y. • Fapekote, Inc. (3/5-9) Dec. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬ ness—Development and sale of chemical processes used purposes. coating. Proceeds—For general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—443 W. 15th St., N. Y.. Under¬ writer—Edward Lewis Co., Inc., N. Y. r<* # Paramount Foam Industries Sept. 25, 1961 filed 137,500 ment. Business—The (3/1) common. manufacture Price—By amend-* 6f polyester foams.' Additional equipment, debt repayment and working capital. Office—Mercer and Arnot Sts., Lodi, N. J. Underwriter—Fialkov & Co., Inc., N. Y. Proceeds — • (3/26-30) '/-■ ' July 28, 1961 filed 330,000 common shares. Plasto-O-Tron, Inc. Jan. 26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 84,666 common. Price—-$3. Business—Design and manufacture of vacuum thermoforming machinery for production of plastic packaging materials. R. J. in the field of paper . . • sion and / (3/15) Dec. 22, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which 100,000 are to be offered by the company and 50,000 by stockholders. amendment, t Business—Manufacture of pre¬ Price—oBy hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical equipment cision marine, aircraft, ordnance and industrial ceeds—For acquisition — The the Price—$2;05. vinyl plastic products marine and household fields. manufacture automotive, of ; repayment of debt, new equipment and working capital. Office —184 Woonasquatucket Avenue, North Providence, R. I. Underwriter—investment Plan¬ ning Group, East Orange, N. J./; ,• / / Z . * Programming and Systems, Inc. Price—$3. Business—Consumer sales financing. Proceeds—For re¬ payment of notes and working capital. Office — 2211 Church Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—M. Posey Associates, Ltd., 50 Broadway, N. Y. PneumoDynamics Corp. in Proceeds—For inventory, equipment, expan/ working capital. Office—60 Park PL, Newark, Plymouth Discount Corp. (3/5-9) Aug. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,00.0 common. ital. used Proceeds—For N. J. Underwriter—To be named, for Business use. Pro¬ of a companv and working cap¬ Office—3781 E. 77th St., Cleveland. Underwriter— Oct. Price—$3.50. Busi¬ programming and operation of electronic data processing machines. Proceeds—For expansion. Office—45 W. 35th St., N/Y. Underwriter—D. M. Stuart & Co., Inc., N. Y." 11, 1961 filed ness—Instructs 40,000 classes in common. computer the Prosper-Way, Inc. 7, 1962 filed 85,500 common. Price—$3. Business —Development and promotion of "one stop dry cleaning and laundry" establishments;i and - the sale and main- tenance of dry cleaning and laundry equipment. Pro- ' ceeds—For real estate, sales promotion, acquisitions, and working capital. Office—2484 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.- Underwriters—Grosse & Co., - Inc., Los Feb. Volume 195 Number 6136 . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle . Angeles, and V. S. Wickett & Go., Inc. and Thomas, Wil¬ liams & Lee, Inc., N. Y. (963) Office—12 N. Third St., Columbus, Ohio. Un¬ derwriter—Robinson-Humphrey Co., Inc., Atlanta. vestment. Publishers Co., Inc. (3/26-30) 28, 1961 filed 541,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment^ Business—Book publishing/ Proceeds—For an ac¬ quisition and other corporate purposes. Office—1106 Con-— necticut Ave., N. W., Washington, D, C. Underwriter— Hpth & Co., Inc., Philadelphia. Nov. Research Co., N. Y. and Elmaleh & Co., Inc. , Inc.y N. Y. ,r; 7, bentures Richmond Corp. * /•,-.'/;7,,/,7 ///■•i-7' Dec. 21, 1961 filed 142,858 common. Price—$7/ Business /■',, ,/v7 —'77,', 7-7-; 24, .1961 filed $4,0QQ,0Q0 of 5% con.v. subord.-de¬ due 1971 and 200,000 class A shares to be of¬ fered in 25,000 units, each consisting of $160 of deben-/ tures and eight shares. Price—$200 per unit. Business repayment and _7; > 7 —A real estate investment company. —Real estate and construction. Proceeds For general corporate purposes. Office—San Juan/ Puerto Rico. Un¬ derwriters—Lieberbaum & Co., and Morris Cohon & Co.,' New .7. York. % ,/ '•••;' '7;." . Z — 7"7/:77f7-/.7/ 7/.7/7"7 Pulp 'Processes Corp.:,77//'•/'"*" *7:7.77S6pt. 20, 1961 filed 140,000 common/ Price—$5. Business --Development of pulping and bleaching devices. Pro¬ r ceeds—General corporate purposes. Office—Hoge Bldg., Seattle, Wash, Underwriter—Wilson. Johnson & Higgins. San Francisco. postponed../ ■>- Note — This.offering was temporarily Madison Blauner & Ave.. N. Y. :;,Underwriter—Milton Co., Inc., N. Y. • . : enclosures. Proceeds—For equip¬ ment, aadvertising and working capital. Office — 234 Russell St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—M. J. Merritl & Co., Inc., N. Y. holders. Price prints * — of which ; 100,000 by the company and 200,000 by stock¬ By amendment. Business — Develops color, and / black • and white photographic equipment and working capital. Office—245 7th Ave., N. Y. Underwriter — Federman, Stonehill & Co., N. Y. < ' * 7" //7/ ./"';/:, filih. Proceeds debtTfeduction Address Sebring, Co., Inc., N. Y. — and general corporate O. Underwriter / — Ruby — For pur¬ Baruch Oct. 3/12-16) 77/.;/.;. V/;/' ///7:;" ic Rucker Co. 77:v77'v7 77'•''7;' 7'77'7'77 '7;77/7.-/:7 27, 1961 filed 100,000 16, 1962 filed 129,000 common, of which 43,000 are the company and 86,000 by stockholdPrice—By amendment (max. $13). Business—De¬ to be offered by ers. shares of Ripley and '/ sign, development, manufacture and sale of electronic, 100,000 of Jomar to be offered in units consisting of one electric, hydraulic and pneumatic control systems. share of each company. Price—By amendment. Business Proceeds—For repayment of bank loans. Office—4700 —Manufacture of wood and plastic heels for women's San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Calif. Underwriter—Schwashoes, metal molds 'and dies, 7bowling pins, bowling bacher & Co., San Francisco. ; common • shoes and related products. Proceeds—For general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—4067 Folsom Ave.- St. Louis and • ■:';777.-7<''7; 7;';7'7 capital shares. Price 7";" — $3. ment and working Los Angeles. Price—$1." Business—Rebuilding and reconditioning of automotive brake shoes. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office-*-94 Gazza Blvd., Farmingdale, N. Y. Underwriter April. —Meadowbrook M. S. Instruments, Inc. 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ ness—Repair and maintenance of aircraft instruments and accessories. Proceeds—For equipment, debt repay¬ ment, and other corporate purposes. Office — Idlewild International Airport, Jamaica, N. Y. Underwriter— ■ To,J^pamed. 77 77/7 Piedras, Puerto Rico. Underwriters—Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis and American Securities Corp., N. Y. 7* Rising's Inc. 7^7777.'• Jan. 18,-1962 filed 100,000 S. Nov. 28, Rio components and equipment. Proceeds—Tpr. debt-repay¬ 7/V7/7 7 Silver Mines, 1962 ("Reg. A") Inc. 2,400,000 common. Price—12% cents. Business—Exploration and development of mineral deposits. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Address—Box 1088, Wallace, Idaho. Underwriter—Pennaluna & Co., Spokane, Wash... Jan. 2, Business—Distribution of electrical and electronic parts, . Quality Brake Rebuilders, Inc. Jah/3/1962 /("Reg. A") 300,000 common. . St., Elyria, Ohio. Underwriters—White, / Co.; N.-Y. and McDonald & Co., Cleveland. Ripley Industries, Inc., and Jomar Plastics, Inc. 77'7; Co., Inc. and J. M. Dain & Co., Inc.,; Milwaukee. City Industries,.Inc.;,/7;:y.;i'-7\7, 7 ;•:./// Nov. 28, .1961 filed 87,500 common. Price—$4. Business —Design and manufacture of ; metal cabinets, boxes, radiator to be offered Feb. Loewi & and general corporate purposes. Ridgerock of America, Inc. Dec. .29, 1961 ..filed 100,000 common. Price—$2.50. Business—Production of stone facing for buildings. Pro¬ • common, Price—$5. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture of additives for gasoline, motor oils, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corpor¬ ate purposes. Address—La Crosse, Wis. Underwriters— boiler Cincinnati and V. E. Anderson Royaltone Photo Corp. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 300,000 common, and , Co., Los Angeles; Amos C. Sudler & Co., Denver; G. H. Musekamp & Co., & Co., Salt Lake City. , Brothers & D. 7:i-/77;:7 7/ Quaker E.. Lowe Proceeds—For debt ' Office—220 • Rubber & Fibre Chemical Corp. ? St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Hirschel 7 ,7:7/ & Coi, Silver Spring, Md. Offerings/Expected in April. 7 Sept. 25, 1961 filed 120,000 common. ,Price—$5. Business 7 —Exploitation of a new process for reclaiming unvul- / Ridge Tool Co. (3/15) *.7,777 77:77 7* '• 77'" canized rubber. Proceeds—Purchase of equipment and Dec. 28/1961 filed 284,586 class A common. Price—By 7 existing plant building, repayment of debt, and working / amendment! Business—Manufacture of pipe working capital. Office—300 Butler St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Under¬ tools and machines. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. writer—To be named. poses. .,7 Pyroil Co., Inc.///';:/ Jan. 2, 1962 ("Reg. A") 30.000 R. K ceeds—For Proceeds—For expansion, debt repayment, and working capital. Office —444 > : 7.77'7/z ''7/;/;7/; ///Z/'; 7:.7/77'; ■ 7 man's magazine. ■ Weld & Pyramid Publications, Inc. (3/26-30) ;/7/ Nov. 24, 1961 filed 115,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. : *• Business—Publication and sale of pocket-size a Proceeds—For design and introduction greeting card line and working capital. Office Broadway, Glendale, Calif. Underwriters— Bernhard & Co., Beverly Hills, Calif.; Schaefer, & McCamant, Inc., San Francisco; Costello, RusE. Office—400 Clark • paperback books and ,.<• 100,000 common/Price—$1.50. new —504 are St., Avoca, Pa. Underwriter—M. G. Davis & Co., Nov. , ("Reg. A") greeting cards. of sotto & .Rex Craft Associates, Inc. Dec, 27, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price — $3.7 Business—Design, installing and constructing packaged commercial interiors and exteriors for buildings. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—Route 315 & Vine 1961 Business—Design, production and sale of "contemporary" Products, Inc. —Manufacture of lithographic blankets used in printing. Proceeds—For debt, 'repayment and1 working capital. ; Address—Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Underwriters—Gross & Greeting Cards Dec. 26, Dec. 28, 1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—$9. Business/ • Puerto Rico Capital Corp. (3/12-16) Sept. 13, 1961 filed 300,000 common. Price—$10. Business —A small business investment company. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes.. Address—San Juan, Puerto Rico. Underwriter—Hill,: Darlington & Grimm, N. Y. •. Puerto Rico Land and Development Corp. :/ (3/26-30) ; vVV--: V ; / ■> 7. ■ Roth 43 capital. Office*—151 N> »Yerrpont Ave., / Underwriter —^Vickers, MacPherson & / Saladmaster Corp. Jan/3, 1962 file^$700,000 of 6% subord. conv. deben¬ tures due5 ^1072^^^126:030 common (of which 15,399 shares are to be offered by the company and 110,631 Jan. n7y. Offerings-Expected sometime in 7/7/:;7>;777;/ /''/; ;//7;//, :;/7/7'-7/ 77;; Warwick; Inc., • shares by stockholders). Price—For debentures, at par; Electronics, lnc.V-:7'7/;,7/;7//;':i'7/ 7 "';:r'7/. for stock, by amendment. Business—Sale of kitchenware, 29,' 1962 filed 62,000 common. Price—$6. Business tablewear and a food cutting machine. Proceeds—For —Sale and; distribution of receiving ; tubes, television debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office picture tubes, / and electroinc components, parts and Oct. 30, 1961 filed 40,000 common. Price—$5. Business —131 Howell St., Dallas/ Underwriter—Parker, Ford & equipment. Proceeds—For an acquisition, equipment and —Manufacture of radio frequency interference filters Co., Inc., Dallas. and capacitors, Proceeds—For working capital. Office—1927 New York Ave., Hunting¬ equipment, working cap¬ Sav-Mor Oil Corp. ton Station; N. Y. Underwriter—Robbins, Clark & Co., ital and other corporate purposes, Office—15 Neil Court, July 5, 1961 ("Reg. A") 92,000 common shares (par one Inc., N. Y.7 •/; /: -K ;7 ■• 7 Oceanside, N. Y. Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., ■;7/7;-77 ^/7;7/"/ '/■' cent). Price—$2.50. Business—Wholesale distribution of N. Y. ! ' Roadcraft Corp. V//-7 ■77:77r';''-/77';i;7/'/./7:. -7,; gasoline and oil to service stations. Proceeds—For ex■:;/> Racing Inc. r-/T1:" Dec. 26, 1961 filed 400,000 common; Price—By amend¬ pansion. Office—151 Birch wood Park Dr., Jericho. L. I., O.cL 16, 1961 filed 1,250,000 common. ment. Business—Design, manufacture and sale of mobile Price—Up to $4. N. Y. Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y. homes and office trailers. Proceeds—For general cor¬ Business—Company plans to build and operate an auto¬ mobile racing center. Proceeds-—General Save-Mor Drugs, Inc. porate purposes.; Office-vl39 W. Walnut Ave., Gardena, * 7 corporate pur¬ Calif. Underwriter •*— Vickers, MacPherson & Warwick/ Dec. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") $300,000 of 6% 15-vear subord. poses. Office—21 N. 7th St., Stroudsburg, Pa. Under¬ writer—None. :/77/;;7;^/-77/'7/7v ;;v7/777777'7/7' Inc., N. :Y. 7'7■ :?■:■7;:7.7/;7 ;7J :'7 '■/' // ''/>7''7;7'': 7C; conv. debentures. Price—At par. Business—Operation of a chain of drug stores. Proceeds—For general corporate • Radio Eiectric 7 Service Cb. ofNewJersey/lnc. -Roberts & Porter,' Inc. 4;7;;7;7777t;'777'777^ ;::j«;77/ purposes. Office—3310 New York Ave., N. E./Washing¬ Jan. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A"> 75,000 common, of which 67,500 Nov. 20, 1961 filed 80,200 common, of which 16,680 are ton, D. C, Underwriter—C. A. Taggart, Inc., Towson, Md. will be Offered byihe company and to be offered by the company,and 63,520 by stockhold¬ 7,500 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—$4. School Pictures, Inc. ers. Business—Wholesaling of electronic parts; Price—By amendment./ Business—Sale of special¬ supplies and equipment and the retailing of high-fidel¬ ized photographic, plate making and press room supplies / Feb. 7, 1962 filed 60,000 common and 40,000 class A ity and stereophonic equipment and components. Pro¬ and 'common, of which 41,864 common are to be offered by . equipment; to the graphic /arts industry. -Pro¬ ceeds—For debt the company; the entire class A and 18,136 common repayment, expansion; moving expenses ceeds—For working capital. /Office—4140 W. Victoria and working capital. Office—513-15 will be offered by stockholders. Price—By amendment Cooper Sty Camden, Ave.* Chicago, 111. Underwriters—Blunt Ellis & Sim¬ N. J. Underwriter—D.. Li Greenbaum & ($35 max.). Business—Company develops, prints, and Co., Phila. : mons, Chicago., and Schmidt, Roberts & Parke, Phila¬ finishes "school pictures." Proceeds —r For plant and if Raiford's, Inc. 7/77.77;.777/'7,/7t/ :7;7"77 delphia. ;;/.;,;;/\/;;/"// '/■; /7:'^:7;;. ///.■ /"•./■; Feb. .6, 1962 equipment, acquisitions, and working capital. Office— ("Reg./A") 175,000 common. Price—$4. ; Rochester Capital Leasing Corp. 1610 N. Mill St., Jackson,, Miss. Underwriters—Equi¬ Business—Operation:; of stores which sell prescription Oct; 30, 1961 filed $625,000 of 6% convertible subordi¬ table Securities Corp., Nashville, and Kroeze, McLarty shoes. Proceeds—For* debt repayment and working nated debentures due 1972 and 100,000 class A to be & Duddleston, Jackson, Miss. capital. Office—62 Monroe Ave., Memphis. Under¬ offered in 12,500 units each consisting of $50 of deben¬ writer—M. A. Saunders & Co., Inc., Memphis./ Schultz Sav-O-Stores, Inc. tures and eight shares. Price—$90 per unit. Business— Nov. 13. 1961 filed 160,000 common, of whicli 75,000 are / Recco, Inc. (3/13) Manufacture and sale of furnittire, equipment, and sup¬ Oct. 19, 1961 filed 75,000 class A shares.; Price to be offered by the company and 85,000 by stockhold- ; By plies to schools, hotels; hospitals and industrial com¬ amendment. Business—Operates record/ card and sta¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Wholesale food panies. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—8 Jay tionery departments in discount stores. Proceeds—/For distribution and operation of supermarkets. Proceeds St., Rochester, N. Y. Underwriter—Saunders, Stiver & expansion. Office—1211 Walnut; St., Kansas City, ,Mo. —For expansion. Office—2215 Union Ave., Sheboygan, Co., Cleveland. 7 -7 /• 7 7:;/y / ■ 7'' ;/ Underwriter—Midland Securities Co., Inq«, Kansas City, Wis. Underwriter—Blunt Ellis & Simmons, Chicago. • Rockower Brothers, Inc. (3/15) Mo. 7"7,' 7b" v 7 '7 'v 7'V7 7-.;7'77 Jan. 19, 1962 filed 150,000 common, of which 50,000 will Seashore Food Products, Inc. (4/16-20) Red Wing Fiberglass Products, Inc. be sold by the company and 100,000 by stockholders. Aug. 29/1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price — $4. July 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 260,000 common. Price—$1.15,. Price—By amendment, ■ Business—Retail sales of men's Business—The manufacturing and processing of assorted Proceeds —; Debt repayment, building and boys' clothing. Proceeds-—For additional inventory improvements, food products. Office—13480 Cairo Lane, Opa Locka, equipment, research and development, and working cap¬ and working capital. Office — 160 West Lehigh Ave,, Fla. Underwriters—Terrio & Co., Washington, D. C. ital. Office—Industrial Park,/Red Wing, Minn. Under¬ Philadelphia. Underwriter—Drexel & Co., Philadelphia. Sea-Wide Electronics, Inc. writer—York & Mavroulis, Minneapolis., Note—This let¬ Rona Plastic Corp./ 7 Sept. 26, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$4. Business ter was temporarily postponed. -/'/ 7 7: Dec. 15, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Importing of goods from Japan. Proceeds—For debt '. .* Regulators, Inc;/\ '7 7': —Manufactures plastic housewares, baby products and .■a ■: rv/.Vv 7:. repayment. Office—Stokely St., and Roberts Ave., Phila¬ Jan. 29, 1962 filed 75,000 common, of which 59,000 are other plastic items. Proceeds—For debt repayment and delphia, Pa. Underwriter—Janov & Co., Philadelphia. to be offered by the company and other corporate 25,000 by Electronic purposes. Office—1517 Jarrett Place, Security Acceptance Corp. Specialty Co., parent. Price—$5.1 Business—Design ..and Bronx, N. Y. Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., Inc., March 7, 1961 filed 100.000 shares of class A common manufacture of regulating and control devices used in N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in April. , / stock and $400,000 of 7%% 10-year debenture bonds, to the electric - and; electronic fields.; Proceeds—For debt • Rooke Engineering Corp. .7/ ,7.-' 7/ / be offered in units consisting of $100 of debentures and repayment and working capital. Office—455 W. Main Dec. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common. Price — $2.50, 25 shares of stock. Price—$200 per unit. Business—The , St., Wyckoff/N. J. Underwriter—Myron A. Lomasney & Business Design and manufacture of fasteners and : purchase of conditional sales contracts on home appli¬ Co., N. Y. ,• -"7 ' - v;.7777 77"7 y: 7 ■ - ; v "7., : related parts for the aircraft and missile industries. Proances. Proceeds — For working capital and expansion. Republic-Franklin Life Insurance Co. ;7 .7 , • ceeds—For debt repayment and-working capital. Office ; Office—724 9th StM N. W., Washington, D.4 C. V Under¬ Feb. 15, 1S62' filed 266,667 class A common. Price—$7.50. —8560 Tujunga Ave/ Suri Valley, Calif. Underwriterwriter—None. 7'/ 7'/" 7 Business—A legal reserve life insurance company. 'Pro¬ 77; 7 Adams & Co., Los Angeles. Note—This letter :was with¬ ceeds—For debt Continued on page 44 repayment, operating expenses and in¬ drawn. ■ 7 Securities, Inc., Hempstead,^N. Y. .7/;7' •; RF Interonics, Inc. (3/15) v7z/,77"::/A; Rite _ - . . . . — - • , ^ — • * 44 The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (964) Continued from page pipeline from Marseilles, France to refining centers near Strasbourg, France and Karlsruhe, Germany. Proceeds— 43 Corp. Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment Business—Manufacture of alumnium sliding win¬ dows and doors. Proceeds—For equipment, moving ex¬ penses and working capital. Office—503 E. Pine Ave., Compton, Calif. Underwriter—Vickers, MacPherson & Warwick, Inc., N. Y. Security Aluminum Inc. Security Equity Fund, 1961 filed 400,000 capital shares. Price—Net plus 6%. Business—A mutual fund. Proceeds —For investment. Office — 700 Harrison St., Topeka, Dec. 14, asset value Underwriter—Security Management Co., Inc., To¬ N. Y. Southeastern Jan. lated Oct. 26, and related electronic transmission, filters, transceivers equipment. Proceeds—For equip¬ ment, research and development, repayment of loans and Office—12 Hinsdale St., Brooklyn. Un¬ derwriter—Searight, Ahalt & O'Connor, Inc., N. Y. . working capital. • Financial Selective 8, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—$6. Business —Engaged in real estate mortgage field, and the financ¬ ing of intangibles and chattels. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—830 N. Central Ave., Phoe¬ nix. Underwriter—None. Note—This registration was withdrawn. Servonuclear Corp. (3/12-16) ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. 1961 12, Business—Manufacture Proceeds—For medical of products. inventory, Of¬ fice—28-21 Astoria Blvd., Astoria, L. I., N. Y. Under¬ writer—Rothenberg, Heller & Co., Inc., N. Y. J plant relocation, equipment, Shaver Food Marts, Inc. ' Starmatic Nov, 19, 1961 filed 170,000 class A common, of which 30,000 will be sold by the company and 140,000 by cer- / tain stockholders. Price By amendment. BusinessOperation of seven supermarkets in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area. Proceeds—For expansion. Office—139 S. 40th St., Omaha, Neb. Underwriters—J. Cliff Rahel & Co., and Storz-Wachob-Bender Co., Omaha. — 28, Industries, Inc. ment. search/for northern Ontario. Proceeds—For general corporate pur¬ Office—62 Richmond St., West, Toronto, Canada. Underwriter—None. poses. Sigrralite Inc. Jan. 29, 1962 filed 126,000 common. Price—$4.50. Busi¬ ness—Manufacture, sale and development of glow lamps for as debt repayment, & Recreation household working N. Y. capital. Feb. 1, 1962 110,000 Proceeds — For expansion named; Underwriter—Tucker, ufacture of devices using sound fice—260 Hawthorne —Meadowbrook South fluids as a source \ of corporate purposes., Of¬ Inc., Hempstead, N. Y. Pipeline Co. (3/15) 1, 1962 filed $40,000,000 of sinking fund debentures due March 1, 1982. Price—By amendment. Business— Company is constructing a 474-mile 34-inch crude oil Feb. Markets, . $200 debenture and 50 Business—Manufacture of Inc. Underwriter—Floyd D. Cerf Jr., Co.. Inc., • was Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. Nov. 29, filed 1961 and & Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Underwriter Securities European or Stevens Chicago. Note—This letter Proceeds—For debt repayment and working Office—720 Mercantile Dallas Bldg., Dallas, one 8, 1961 ("Reg. A")* 13,559 class A common. Price— $7.37. Business—Operation of supermarkets. Proceeds— For selling stockholders. Office—5701 N. W. 35th Ave., (3/6) Price $15,000,000 of due 100,000 withdrawn.. (2/27) 1982 convertible be offered by the com¬ shares by a stockholder. Business — Processing and dis¬ — and frozen ■, • ■common. food products. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Of¬ fice—941 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Underwriter- Tex. Reynolds & Co., Inc., N. Y. 100,000 subordi¬ to common By amendment. tributing of various canned cap¬ Struthers Price—$2. small Scientific & 7 ' International Corp. 7 7 business , repayment —Distribution of eggs and other southeastern states. dairy products in Florida and Proceeds—General corporate purposes. Office—3601 N. W. 50th St., Miami, Fla. Un¬ derwriter—Finkle & Co., N. Y. and Products, Inc. amendment. 30,000 by stockholders; Business—Manufacture of drug food & Grand St., Hoboken, N. J.J Underwriter— Co., N. Y Metal 7, 1961 processing and Co., N. Y. debentures due subordinated con¬ 1977 and 50,000 common to be offered in units, each consisting of $20 of debentures and 10 shares. Price—$60 per unit. Business—Design and manufacture of fishing and archery equipment and fiber glass household items. Proceeds—For general corporate Office—131 Saw Mill RiVer Rd., Yonkers, N. Y. Underwriter—William, David • Sportsways, & Motti, Inc., N. Y. Inc. Feb. 20, 1962 filed 175,000 common, of which 50,000 are to be offered by company and 125,000 by,a stockholder. Price—By amendment, (max. ture skin and cessories. , Sylvan Life Insurance Co. Jan. 8, 1962 ("Reg. A") 9,600 common. Price—$25. Busi¬ ness—Writing of insurance in Utah, Colorado and Neva¬ da. Proceeds—For capital and surplus accounts. Office— 410 Utah Savings Bldg., Salt Lake City. Underwriters— Peters, Writer & Christensen, Inc., Denver and Ure, Davis & Co., Salt Lake City. 7 7 Szemco, Inc. 29, 1961 filed 66,666 common. Price—By amend¬ ment ($1.50 max.). Business—Design and manufacture of ordnance, automotive, aircraft and guided .missile parts and components. Proceeds—For selling stockhold¬ ers. Office—4417 Okechobe Rd., West Palm Beach, Fla. Dec. Underwriter—None. Sportsmen, Inc. (2/26-3/2) 29, 1961 filed $100,000 of 6% Nov. purpose.1 • Sunset House Distributing Corp. 14, 1962 filed 120,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment (max. $20). Business—Mail order sale of general merchandise and operation of two retail stores. Proceeds —For selling stockholders. Office—3485 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Crowell, Weedon & Co., Los Angeles. Feb. (3/19-23) smelting. Proceeds—For a new refinery, debt repayment and working capital. Office—E. William St., Hopelawn (Woodbridge), N. J. Underwriter—Flomenhaft, Seidler 1961 filed 56,000 common, of which 30,000 are by the company and 26,000 by stockhold¬ Price—$5. Business—Design, development and man¬ energy. Proceceds—For general Co. and other non-ferrous metals. It also does be offered ers. Service of 1962 debentures vertible Oct. 27, to Public capital. Address— Dec. and R. J. Edwards, Inc., Co., Inc. (3/12-16) ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price — $2.50. Business—Broker and dealer in gold and silver bullion * , 2, nated Spiral Industries, Development Corp. of America consisting pany, Dec. Pingree St., Anthony & R. L. Underwriter—None. each Miami, Fla. Southwestern Blair Price—By amend¬ laundry equip¬ at designated residential locations. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—115 L St., S. E. Washington, Sonic • Proceeds—For Guerin & Turner, Inc., Dallas Office—730 common. ment C. Arkansas. products, electrical and electronic devices and precision machinery. Proceeds—For the purchase of cer¬ tain patents, repayment of debt, and working capital. Inc. r Dec. 28, 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—By amendment. Business—Installation of its coin operated D. Co. common. Oklahoma City. and manufacture and sale of semiconductor devices. Proceeds—For a new plant, debt repayment and working capital. Office—1 Solon and Price—By Business—Development, Salem, Mass. Day, N. Y. 220,000 working and Lighting, Inc. 7/7 77 7777 7/7/ 7 7/7777; 77 ("Reg. A") 260,000 common. Price—$1.15, Business—Manufacture of outdoor fluorescent lighting devices. Proceeds—For working capital, equipment, in¬ ventory. Address—Winsted, Minn. Underwriter—Mid¬ west Planned Investments, Inc., Minneapolis. Price—By amend¬ casualty insurance in redemption of surplus fund certificates and expansion. Office—5620 N. Western Ave., Oklahoma City. Underwriters—Eppler, Oklahoma Sperti Products, Inc. filed Insurance 1961 filed Nov. 29, 1961 filed 230,000 common of which 200,000 are to be offered by the company and buildings, repayment of debt and Office—253 Columbia St., Brooklyn, be 26, equipment Sterner Jan. working capital. Office—1601 Al¬ bany Blvd., Atlantic City. Underwriter—Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill, N. Y. of Underwriter—To Solid State ment. goods. Southwestern debt Sokol Brothers Furniture Co., Inc. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 240,000 common. Price—$2.50 Busi¬ ness—The instalment retailing of furniture, appliances other of ;7 7777/ 29, 1962 filed 135,000 common, of which 15,000 are to be offered by the company and 120,000 shares by a selling stockholder. Price—By amendment. Business— Mail order, sale of general merchandise. Proceeds—For 1962 filed 120,000 class A common (with war¬ rants). Price—$4.45. Business—Development and opera¬ tion of a ski, and year-round resort. Proceeds—For con¬ struction of the resort. Office—Sheridan Springs Rd., Lake Geneva, Wis. Underwriter—To be named. and modernization debentures: Jan. Corp. Jan. 29, and units, Spencer Gifts, Inc. Milton D. Blauner & Co., N. Y. Ski ; ceeds—For bicycles, tricycles and toy automobiles. Proceeds—For debt repayment, moving expenses and a new product line. Office—744 Berriman St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Under¬ writers—Lloyd Securities, Inc., Richard Bruce & Con¬ ine., and Reubin Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y. — Dec. be — indicators and circuit components. Proceeds— equipment and working capital. Office—1933 Heck Ave., Neptune, N. J. Underwriter— use For the St.,/ N.-- Y. UnderwriterTo ' '•"'■3 ;:"Y' / ^';'•"'/ 7 (2/26-3/2 ) 77/,/J K77/V; investment company. Pro-4/ Oct. 23, 1961 filed 150,000 class A common. Price—By capital. Office—113 W. 2nd St., Casa amendment. Business—Company was recently formed Grande, Ariz. Underwriters—Preferred Securities, Inc., by Struthers Wells Corp., to take over latter's recent de¬ and Brown & Co. Investment Securities, Phoenix. ; velopments in saline water conversion and certain man¬ v Spartan International Inc. (3/5) ufacturing, international engineering and sales activities. Dec. 22, 1961 filed 175,000 common. Price—$4. Business Proceeds—For general corporate purpose. Office—111 W. —Manufacture of metal shower receptors, precast con¬ 50th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Hirsch & Co. Inc.; N. Y. crete rceptors, prefabricated metal showers, baseboard Suburban Directory Publishers, Inc. radiators and rope and twine. Proceeds—For a new plant Dec. 28, 1961 filed 90,000 common. Price—$3. Business in Canada. Office—52-55 74th Ave., lVIaspeth, L. I., N. Y. —Publishing and distributing telephone directories. Pro¬ Underwriter—M. H. Woodhill, Inc., N. Y. ceeds—For repayment of bank loans, additional equip¬ Spears (L. B.), Inc. ment, expansion and working capital. Office—60 N. State Oct. 30, 1961 filed 65,000 common. Price—$5. BusinessSt.; Wilkes-Barre,> Pa. Underwriter—G. K. Shields & Operation of retail furniture stores. Proceeds For Co., N. Y. working capital. Office—2212 Third Ave., N. Y. Under¬ • Sun City Dairy Products, Inc. (3/26-20) : writer—Arnold Malkan & Co., Inc., N. Y. Oct. 27, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—$4. Business Price—By amend¬ silver in common. exploratory Price—For Business—Operation ceeds—For working Ltd. Business—The $5. "7 shares. Price—$500 per unit. Recreation shares. stocks: 30th ■ . $500. For bowling alleys. Proceeds For debt repayment and working capital. Office—2711 N. 24th St., Phoenix, Underwriter—A. G. Edwards & Sons, St. Louis. Offering—Imminent. the amend¬ Price—By of Stelber Cycle Corp. V , Jan. 5, 1962 filed $240,000 of 8% convertible debentures due 1972 and 60,000 common shares to be offered in Pro¬ Associates, Inc. Nov. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") $150,000 6% convertible sub¬ ordinated sinking fund debentures due 1973; and 30,000 Business—A Proceeds—For debt repayment Office—2101 S. High St., Colum¬ Mines Southwest Space Financial Corp. Nov. 24, 1961 ("Reg. A") working capital. bus, Ohio. Underwriters—Rodetsky, Walker & Co., Inc., N Y. and Boenning & Co., Philadelphia. Siconor • Underwriter—Dillon, Read & Co., N. Y.-.- (3/5-9) Sept. 18, 1961 filed 250,000 company. Office—Poinsett Hotel Building, Greenville, S. C. Underwriter—Capital Securities Corp., Greenville, S. C. » ital. Inc.,| N. Y.. / parts. and investment Manufacture Norristown, Pa. Underwriter—Joseph W. Hurley & Co., Norristown, Pa. J 7'' 7j7 77 7^7 77- / VY- ceeds—For investment. area. 150,000 common, of which 135,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 15,000 by a stockholder. Price—$6. Business—Manufacturer of re¬ automobile ■ Industries, Inc. (3/26-30) 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common shares. Price—$6. business common. • Steel Plant Equipment Corp. (3/12-16) Oct. 2, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Pro¬ Growth small Ave., Inc. 100,000 — W. J/J' By amendment. Business—Generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy in the Texas Panhandle filed 1961 Office —252 share for each 20 shares held of record March 6. Price— equipment, advertising, plant expansiori arid working capital. Office—3800 N. W., 32nd Ave., Miami, Shenk June Industries, Business named. 30, 1962 filed 442,362 common shares to be offered for subscription by stockholders oh the basis of one new ceeds—For built Inc. common. Jan. Shelley Manufacturing Co. Dec. 29, 1961 filed 55,000 common. Price—$6.50. Business —Manufacture of automatic equipment for handling packaged foods, and various food serving devices. Pro¬ Nov. Southern Livonia boxes, brochures, packaging materials and packaging machines. Proceeds —For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. . • Office—454 purposes. 1961 filed 3, ment. Price—$3. Business—Construction and operation of towing boats. Proceeds—For debt repayment, conversion of a boat, and working capital. Office—3300 N. W. North River Drive, Miami, Fla. Underwriter—Irwin Karp & Co., Inc., 68 William St., N. Y. - - / < 100,000 corporate , ment. Business—Writes automobile Dec. Fla. Underwriter—George, O'Neill & Co;, ("Reg. A") 1961 common Price—$2. electronic products, debt repayment and working capital. new 29, Business—A Corp. Dec. Sept. Nov. Price—$4.- Business common. Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Edwards & Hanly, Hemp¬ stead, N. Y. (3/5-9) data and program for Towing & Transportation Co., 1961 filed 80,000 general general corporate pur¬ poses. Office — 617 du Pont Plaza Center, Miami, Fla. Underwriters—A. C. Allyn & Co., Chicago and Bioren & Co., Philadelphia. Offering—Expected sometime in April. ■■ ' ■' : "• 'J •' /•' •' ■ ■ V /' / -;;"v Proceeds—For Southeastern -it. ; —Design, manufacture and sale of heavy-duty stainless steel equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment and Propane Gas Co. 1962 filed 75,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Sale of liquefied petroleum gas and re¬ products. ;>•■,: ; Stanley Industries Corp. 30, ment. peka. Seg Electronics Co., Inc. (3/19-23) r V Sept. 28, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Design and manufacture of networks Thursday, February 22, 1962 . Compton Blvd., Paramount, Calif. Underwriters— Troster, Singer & Co., and Federman, Stonehill & Co., construction, interest costs, and working capital. Office—Paris, France. Underwriters—Morgan Stanley & Co., and Lazard Freres & Co., N. Y. . Kan. . E._ For . distribution of $7). Business—Manufac¬ diving equipment and ac¬ Proceeds—For, working capital., Office—7701 Taylor Publishing Co. 21, 1961 filed 152,000 Dec. ment. Business — common. Production and Price—By amend¬ distribution of school year-books and commercial printing. Proceeds—For sell¬ ing stockholders. Office—6320 Denton derwriter—Dallas Rupe Dr., Dallas. Un¬ & Son, Inc., Dallas, Tex. • Taylor Wine Co., Inc. Feb. 15, 1962 filed 210,312 common, of which 170,000 publicly by stockholders, and 40,312 shares' for subscription by the stockholders for the ac¬ count of the company. Price—By amendment (max., $25)., Business—Production of various/type wines; - Pro¬ are to be offered ceeds—For plant expansion and working capital.' Office Underwriter—First Boston Offering—Expected in April;:." —Hammondsport, NJ' Y. Corp., N. Y. v. Volume 195 Number 6136 . . . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle Technibilt- Corp. (3/5-9) 26, 1961. filed 150,000 common. Price—$4. Business —Manufacture of shopping carts and related products. Nov. _ equipment and working Office—905 Air Way, Glendale, Calif. Under¬ writer—Frank Karasik &.Co., N. Y. Proceeds—For selling stockhold¬ Office—Lindale Rd., Swan, Texas. Underwriter— First Southwest Co,, Dallas. ers. Torch Jan. Rubber Co., Inc. 26, 1962 filed 110,000 common. Price--$3.50. • Busi¬ ness—Manufacture of waterproof rubber footwear. Pro¬ ceeds—For equipment, moving expenses, expansion and Animations, Inc. working capital. Office—1302 Inwood Ave., N. Y. Un¬ 30, 1961 filed $21!;400~of 7% conv. subord. deben¬ derwriter—Carroll Co.* N. Y* tures due 1972 (with warrants) to be offered for sub¬ O Tork Time Controls, Inc. (3/26-30) scription by holders of HaSs A and class B common at Dee. 12, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price—By amend¬ the rate of $100 of debentures for each 280 shares held. ment. Business—Design and manufacture of time con¬ Price—$100 per unit ($100 of debentures and one war¬ trolled switches. Proceeds—For debt repayment, expan¬ rant to purchase 14-class A shares). Business—Design and manufacture of -animated transparencies and. other " sion, and working capital. Office—1 Grove St., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Underwriters—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor technical training aids and displays. Proceeds—For debt & CO., and Magnus & Co., N. Y. repayment, expansion, -research, and working capital. • Towers Marts Office—11 Sintsink DivJEast Port Washington, N. Y. International, Inc. (4/9-13) Feb. 1, 1962 filed 550,000 capital shares. Price — By Underwriters—Bull & Low; John R. Maher Associates; amendment. Business Company builds and operates and R. Topik & Co., Inc., N. Y. .7,,7.'/V retail discount department stores. Proceeds—For expan¬ Tec-Torch Co., Inc. (3/12-16) sion. Office—41 E. 42nd St., N. Y. Underwriter—W. C. Nov. 28, 1961 filed 100,000. common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬ Langley & Co., N. Y. ness Design ami manufacture, of inert gas welding Traid Corp... /, equipment. Proceeds—For »dcbt repayment, expansion and working capital. Qffice^-153 Union Ave., East Ruth- 1 Feb. 12, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment (max. $9). Business—Design and sale of special erford, N. J. Underwriter—Scott, Harvey & Co., Inc., cameras for scientific photography. Proceeds—For gen¬ Fairlawn, N. J. 1 ■ • ; / eral corporate purposes. Office—17136 Ventura Blvd., Tel-A-Sign, Inc.. Encino, Calif. Underwriter—J. A. Hogle & Co., Salt Oct. 30, 1961 filed $900,000 of convertible subordinated Lake City. ■ • 7 '•/ 7-■ '■"■ debentures due 1974 and Jj.80,000 common to be offered o Trans-Alaska Telephone Co. (3/26-30) in units consisting of ,$10Q of debentures and 20 common. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 265,000 common, of which 250,000 are Price—By amendment. , JBttginess — Manufactures illu¬ to be offered by the company and 15,000 by a stock¬ minated and non-iliummatgd signs and other advertis¬ Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture and beverage service equipment. Proceeds— working caiptal, Office—6815 Hamilton Ave., Pitts¬ burgh. Underwriter — Arthurs, Lestrange & Co., Pitts¬ burgh. of Ultra Plastics Inc. Sept. 19, 1961 filed 150,000 class A — Uneeda Vending Service, Dec. Tele-Cine, Inc. : 29, 1961 ("Reg. A^i 100,000 common and $100,000 of 6f% 5-year subordinated debentures. Price—For stock, $1; for debentures, at par ($100). Business—Production of television programs. Proceeds—For equipment, debt repayment and other, corporate purposes. Office—1017 New Jersey Ave., S.$LWashington, D. C. Underwriter —Turnbull, Deter & SuIJivah, Inc., Charlottesville, Va. Corp. ■•77;"-."■ 7■'; Jan. 29, 1962 filed 125,000 common. Price—$3. Business —Manufacture of "Tellite,7 a: new material used in con¬ nection With electronic circuits. Proceeds—For expan¬ sion, research and development, acquisition a technical library, and working capital. Office—200 S. Jefferson , United Aero . St., Orange, N. J.^ Underwriter—Magnus & Co., N. Y. ' 'Tfen-Tex Corp. tronics Jan. 31, 1962 ("Reg. A") 128,000 common and $24,000 7% series B subordinated convertible debentures to ture Jan. ma¬ 1968-72*:. JPri.ce—$20 per unit. Business— Manufacture of a machine for production Of tufted tex¬ tile products. Proceeds^-For debt repayment and work¬ ing capital. Office—4813' Tennessee Ave., Chattanooga. Underwriter—Irving J. Rice & Co., Inc., St. Paul. 1, Oct. Capital, Inc. 16, 1961 filed 250,000..common. Price—By amend¬ Business—A small business investment company. Proceeds—General corporate purposes. Office—1947 W. ment. Gray Ave., Houston. Underwriter—Moroney, Beissner & Co., Inc., Houston. • Texas Tennessee Industries, Inc. (3/5-9) Oct. 26, 1961 filed 175,000 common, of which 150,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 25,000 by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manu¬ facture of water coolers, water cans and portable hot beverage dispensers. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—6502 Rusk Ave., Houston. Underwriter S. D. Fuller & Co., N. Y. — Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc. (3/26-30) Jan. 16, 1962 filed 343,551 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture Proceeds—For of furniture. household the selling shareholders. Office—401 E. Main St., Thomasville, N. C. Underwriter—Hornblower & Weeks, N. Y. Thompson Manufacturing Co., Inc. Dec. 22, 1961 filed 90,000 common, of which 80,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 10,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—$4. Business—Design and manufacture of special machinery for bowling alleys and related equipment. Proceeds—For expansion and general cor¬ porate purposes. Office — Canal St., Lancaster. N. H. Underwriter—Packer-Wilbur Co., Inc., N. Y. r Thunderbird International Hotel Corp. 1962 filed 175,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment ($10 max.). Business—Hotel ownership and man¬ agement. Proceeds — For construction. Office — 525 N. SepUlveda Blvd., El Segundo, Calif. Underwriter—Vickers, MacPherson & Warwick, Inc., N. Y. Jan. 2, Tidewater Lumber Co. (3/12-16) Oct. 23, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Wholesale lumber company. Proceeds—For debt re¬ payment and working capital. Office — 1600 Hillside Ave., New Hyde Park, N. Y. Underwriter—Rubin, Rennert & Co., Inc., N. Y. on the basis for each two held of record Dec. 30. ness—Manufactures tronic equipment. a of one new Price—$0,125. Busi¬ broad line of electrical and elec¬ Proceeds — For expansion. Office— Tokyo, Japan. Underwriters—None. ^Tomorrow's Industries, Inc. Feb. 16, 1962 filed 300,000 common, of which 100,000 are to. be offered by the: company and 200,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Prices—$6. repaymentj- equipmentr—leasehold United Variable Annuities Fund, Inc. April 11, 1961 filed 2,500,000 shares of stock. Price—$10 per share. Business—A new mutual fund. Proceeds—For investment. Office—20 W. 9th Street, Kansas City, Mo. Underwriter—Waddell & Reed, Inc., Kansas City, Mo. Offering—Expected in early March. Univend Corp. (3/5-9) Sept. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 115,000 common. Price—$2.50. Business—Operates coin-vending machines for food and —Ezra Kureen Universal Foods- Corp. 1 ^ diversification and acquisitions. Office—221 E. Buffalo St., Milwaukee. Underwriter—Smith, Barney & Co.,N.Y. Offering—Expected in late March. com¬ Office—209 Glenside Ave., Wyncote, Pa. Un¬ derwriter — Valley Forge Securities Co., Inc., Phila. Twentieth Century Capital Corp. Price—By amend¬ Universal Lighting Products, Inc. (3/15) Sept. 21, 1961 filed 175,000 common. Price—$1. Business —Manufacturer of lighting fixtures and display and merchandising equipment for use in gasoline service stations. Proceeds Repayment of debt and working capital. Office—55 Bergenline Ave., Westwood, N. J. Underwriter—Globus, Inc., N. Y, — s ment. Business—A small business investment company. Brands, Inc. (3/19-23) Dec. 22, 1961 filed 800,000 common, of which 550,000 are to be offered by the company and 250,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Distribution of imported and American wines and whiskies. Proceeds —For debt repayment, expansion and working capital. Office—23 W. 52nd St., N, Y. Underwriters—A, C. AUyn & Co., and Hornblower & Weeks. Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter Co., N. Y. ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Production of yeast and other food products. Proceeds—For possible ponents. general corporate purposes. Office—134 St., Chicago. Underwriter—Bacon, Whipple Chicago. For expansion and working capital. Jan. 25, 1962 filed 104,196 common, of which 47,248 are to be offered by the company and 56,948 by stockhold¬ Engineering & Automation Corp. 27, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4. Salle — Office—28 O'Brien Turner Tyler Pipe & Foundry Co. (4/2-6) filed 120,000 common. Price—By amendimprovements- and- ■;» meat. Business—Design^ development and manufacture Proceeds—For debt 1961 drink. Proceeds Business-—Design, manufacture and sale of women's and children's footwear. : S. Electronic Publications, Inc. ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—Publishing of military and industrial hand¬ books. Proceeds—Debt repayment, expansion and work¬ ing capital. Office—480 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Under¬ writer—Douglas Enterprises, 8856 18th Ave., Brooklyn. Turbodyne Corp. (4/9-13) May 10, 1961 filed 127,500 shares of common stock. Price —$5 per share. Business — The research, development, manufacturing and marketing of space and rocket en¬ gines, and related activities. Proceeds—For research and development, and working capital. Office—1346 Con¬ necticut Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter— Sandkuhl & Co., Inc., Newark, N. J., and N. Y. C. 21 stockholders U. Sept. 26, N. Y. Proceeds—For Price—$2.25. Busi¬ manufacture of automatic control systems. Proceeds—For repayment of debt, a sales and advertis¬ ing program, research and development, equipment and working capital. Office — 410 Fourth. Ave., Brooklyn. Underwriter—To be named. Trygon Electronics Inc. (3/19-23) 22, 1961 filed 100,000 common, of which 52,000 are by the company and 48,000 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—$6. Business—Design, manufacture and sale of power supplies. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office—111 Pleasant Ave., Roosevelt, L. I., N. Y. Underwriter—William, David & Mqtti, Inc., Nov. 24, 1961 filed 250,000 common. common. ness—The Dec. share to U. S. Controls, Inc. Sept. 28, 1961 filed 120,000 in¬ to be offered and (3/5-9) Inc. machinery, debt repayment and working capital. Office Wayne Ave., Philadelphia. Underwriter—God¬ frey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y. • & Co., Packaging Co., —4511 Industries, Inc. (2/27) 1961 filed 160,000 common, of which 80,000 are to be offered by the company and 80,000 shares by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manu¬ facture of precision," plastic components. Proceeds—For repayment of loans, advertising, equipment and work¬ ing capital. Office—175 I. U. Willets Rd., Albertson, L. I., N. Y. Underwriter—Hill, Darlington & Grimm, N. Y. S. La fered United Nov. 29, 1961 filed 102,000 common. Price—$3. Business —A general packaging business. Proceeds —- For new 42nd St., N. Y. Y. devices per¬ City, Mo., and Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. Offering—Ex¬ pected in late April. / Tri-Point electronic V' of Waddell & Reed. Office—20 W. 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. Underwriters—Waddell & Reed, Inc., Kansas Sept. 28, Business—Manufactures ■ - associated with the parent company or its sub¬ sidiaries. Price—By amendment. Business—A legal rerserve life insurance company. Proceeds—For the account Price—$6,000 per interest. Business—Company formed for the purpose of acquiring for investment the fee title to three discount department stores. Pro¬ • " k sons was Sept. ' remaining 90,400 shares will be offered to certain terests. • V"' Waddell & Reed, Inc., parent, on the basis of one United share for each two Waddell shares held. The 7 ceeds—For debt repayment. Office—30 E. Underwriter—Adler Securities Corp., N. :■ of 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Preparation and j packaging of meat food products for other firms and the large scale breed¬ ing of-vpigs. ProceedSrrr-For debk repayment, Plant ex¬ pansion and working capital. Office—4733 Belleview, Kansas City, Mo. Underwriter — Scherck, Richter Co., Tri-Department Stores Associates v 9, 1962 filed $2,436,000 of limited partnership ' ■'< United Investors Life Insurance Co. Dec. 15, 1961 filed 562,500 common, of which 472,100 shares are to be offered for subscription by stockholders • Feb. Exchange, Inc. St., N. Y. Underwriter—M. G. Davis & Co., Inc., N. Y. ment. ("Toshiba") Dec. 8, 1961 filed 50,000,000- common shares to be of¬ Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. 43rd Jan. 26, Texas Electro-Dynamic industries. Proceeds—Debt repay¬ Price—$3. Business —Operation of retail camera stores. Proceeds—For ex¬ pansion and general corporate purposes. Office—25 W. — St. Louis. nuclear United Camera Capital, Inc. -(3/26-30) Nov. 27, 1961 filed 47,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business Manufacture of high pressure valves and accessories. Proceeds—For expansion, working cap¬ ital, and possible acquisitions. Office — Pacific National Bank Bldg., Bellevue, Wash, j Underwriter—Hill, Dar¬ lington & Grimm, N. Y. !v /'i:? t i ■ and Jan. 29, 1962 filed 105,000 common. Trans-Pacific Research & - Corp* — Inc. Foods, Inc. Products Note—This offering was indefinitely postponed. processing and transmission field. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other corporate purposes. Office—1000 N. Johnson Ave., El Cajon, Calif. Underwriter—N. C. Roberts & Co., Inc., San Diego. Trenton of ment, research and development, expansion and working capital. Office—Columbus Rd., Burlington, N. J. Under¬ writer Hess, Grant & Remington, Inc., Philadelphia. Nov. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Research and development in the data and image • Purchase — Inc. 73,500 common. Price — $3. new and used coin-operated Sept. 28, 1961 filed $600,000 of 6% conv. subord, deben¬ tures due 1971. Price—At par. Business—Manufacture of precision machined parts for the aircraft, missile, elec¬ ■ Tellite ("Reg. A") vending and recreational machines. Proceeds—For gen¬ eral corporate purposes. Office—166 Clymer St., Brook¬ lyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Capital Consultants Corp., N. Y, Price—$6. Proceeds—For construction, and ac¬ quisition, repayment of debt, and other corporate pur¬ poses. Office — 110 E. 6th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska. Underwriter—Milton D. Blauner & Co., Inc., N. Y. Transdata, 14, 1961 Business . holder. Dec. Price—$4. debt, inventory, additional personnel, advertising and working capital. Office—875 North 28th St., Philadel¬ phia. Underwriter—To be named. , Underwriter—Clayton .Securities Corp., Boston. common. Business—The manufacture of outdoor plastic signs and urethane foam. Proceeds—For equipment, repayment of — For debt repayment and 3401 W. 47th St., Chicago. food For — — (3/12-16) holders. Technical ing material, proceeds working capital. Office Tyson Metal Products, Inc. Oct. 26,1961 filed 70,000 common, of which 21,000 shares are to be offered by the company and 49,000 by stock¬ Nov. : 45 of cast iron products. working capital. Office—703 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y. Proceeds—For debt repayment, capital. (965) t ★ Urethane of Texas, Inc. Feb. 14,1962 filed 250,000 class A and 250,000 common to be offered in units of one share of each class. Price— $5.05 foams. per unit. Business—Manufacture Proceeds—For equipment, of working urethane capital, leasehold expenses and other corporate purposes. Office —2300 Republic National Bank Bldg., Dallas. writer—Rowles, Winston & Co., Houston, Under¬ Uropa International, Inc. (2/27) Sept. 28, 1961 filed 120,000 common. Price—$2.50. Busi¬ ness—Importing of compact appliances and stereophonic Jan, 25, 1962 - Continued;on. page The Commercial and Financial Chronicle 46 Volume Co., San Francisco. Offering—In Corp. Mo. "• - May. ;; Vornado, Inc. . 7, — ■"'* due , Business—Writing of automobile, general liability types of insurance. Proceeds—To increase capital funds. Office—916 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. Underwriter—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. , ■„ ■ , $58): Proceeds—For expansion. Office—174 Pas¬ Garfield, N. J. Underwriter—Bache & Co., N. Y. Voron Electronics Corp. (3/5-9) - Western saic St., Co. 12, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business and regulators for oil, chemical and missile industries. Proceeds—For acquisition of land, Feb. 400,000 common. Price—$2.25: Busi¬ ness—Acquisition, construction and leasing of shopping centers. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Of¬ fice—2205 First National Bank Bldg.,, Minneapolis. Un¬ July 28, equipment and working capital. Office—1445 Lidcombe Ave., El Monte, Calif. Underwriter — California Inves¬ tors, Los Angeles. ' • installation and servicing of industrial and commercial communications equipment and the furnish¬ ing of background music. Proceeds—For tooling, pro¬ duction, engineering, inventory and sales promotion,of its products and for working capital. / Office — 1230 E. Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, Pa. Underwriter — John Joshua & Co., Inc., N. Y.v •' • the Vahlsing, Inc. 29, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Grows, packages, and ships fresh frozen Jan. Proceeds—For inventory, and working capital. Office—Easton, Maine. Underwriter—Pistell, Inc., N. Y. potatoes. Homes Val-U Price—$5. Business —The manufacture of prefabricated buildings and build¬ ing components. Proceeds—For working capital. Office —765 River St., Paterson, N. J. Underwriter — To be • . Valle's steak . 22, 1961 filed 78,812 common, of which 55,736 are to by the company and 23,076 shares by a stock¬ holder. Price—By amendment. Business—The opera¬ tion of four restaurants in Maine and Mass. Proceeds— Wallace be offered — -Walston Aviation, Inc. —For , v Van Der Hout Associates Ltd. r 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend-' ment. Business—National distributor of automotive parts ., Warlick Shore Rd., Corp., Ltd., Toronto. Vapor Corp. . ■ „ [;n 60,000 are to stockholder. Ursula Wham-O derwriter—Eppler, Guerin & Turner, Inc., Dallas.. for rail cars, buses and aircraft; and door control devices for rail passenger cars. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—80 E. Jacksonv Blvd., Chicago. Underwriter— William Blair & Co., Chicago. ; E. Corp. I writer—Shields & Co. Inc., N. Y. pected sometime in March. Weinkles (mgr.). ,, • \ working cap¬ Ala. .Under-.;; Offering—Ex¬ Electronics, Inc. 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$5. Business —Manufacture, lease and sale of an amusement device known Golf it. Proceeds For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—1 Bala Ave., BalaCynwyd, Pa. Underwriter—D. L. Greenbaum Co., Phila¬ as — delphia. eral • Industries, Inc. 26, 1961 filed 95,000 common. Price—$2. Business —Design, assembly, production and sale of creative arts, crafts, hobbies and educational toys. Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—68 Thirty-third St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriters—Ross, Lyon & Co., and Globus, Inc., N. Y. Vitamin Specialties Co. (4/9-13) Nov. 6, 1961 Business — ("Reg. A") 100,000 capital shares. Price—$3. Sale of vitamin products and proprietary drugs. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working cap¬ ital. Office—3610-14 N. 15th St., Philadelphia. Under¬ writer—Woodcock, Moyer, Fricke & French, Inc., Philadelphia. Volt Technical Corp. 29, 1962 filed 190,000 class A shares. Price—$10.25. Business—Preparation of technical publications. Pro¬ Jan. , ceeds^—For selling stockholders. Office—241 Church St., N. Y. Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y. • Volt Technical Corp; :: - • t, Feb. 21,-1962 filed 155,000 class A shares. Price — By amendment. Business—Preparation of technical publica¬ ' : Development of a shopping center at Falls Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. & West Penn Power Co. ; Price—By amendment. Business—Design dresses. Proceeds—For gen¬ Office—124 E. Olympic Blvd., Underwriters—Schwabacher & Co., and J. Co., San Francisco; and Bear, Stearns & Co., ; ; - • 20, 1961 amendment. Church, Va. Business—Publication of text — books By for Windsor Texprint, Inc. Aug. 25, 1961 filed 265,000 common, of which 250,000 are to be offered by the company and 15,000 by stockholders. Price—$2. Business—The printing of towels and other textile products. Proceeds—For repayment of loans, Office—2357 S. Michigan Ave.. Chicago. Underwriter— D. E. Liederman & Co., Inc., N. Y. Note—This offering was indefinitely postponed, Pa. Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bid¬ Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; W. C. Langley & Co.& Webster Securities Corp. (jointly); Lehman Brothers; Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-First Boston Corp. (jointly); Harriman Ripley & Co.; Kidder, Peabody & Co.-White,Weld & Co. (jointly). Bids—Ex¬ pected March 5 (at 12 noon EST). Information Meeting —March 2 (10:30 a.m. EST) 55 Wall St. (5th fl;)» N. Y. burg, ders: Stone Winslow Electronics, Inc. Dec. 28, - (3/5-9) 1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—$4. Business —Design and manufacture of precision electrical and electronic measuring devices and test equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other corporate pur¬ poses. Office—1005 First Ave., Asbury Park, N. J. Underwriter—To be named. ; < in units, each consisting of $100 of debentures and 20 common shares. Price—$200 per unit. BusinessGeneral real estate. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Office — 9412 Wilshire Blvd.. Beverly Hills, Calif. Underwriter—Morris Cohon & Co.* N. Y. Wiggins Plastics, college, post-graduate and adult education courses, and professional books, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc. Pro¬ ceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—440 Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—White, Weld & Co., Inc., N. Y. Office—1411 Sept. 28, 1961 filed $1,500,000 of 7% convertible subord. debentures due 1976 and 300,000 common shares to be F.), • Wiley (John) & Sons, Inc. Feb. 21, 1962 filed 150,022 shares of capital. Price ; (3/5) Corp. (L. Inc. (3/19-23) ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—Custom compression, transfer and injection molding of plastic, materials. Proceeds—For debt re¬ payment and general corporate purposes. Office—180 Kingsland Rd., Clifton, N. J. Underwriter—Investment Planning Group, Inc., East Orange,,N, J. »«•, i l et 1962 filed $30,000,000 of first mortgage bonds, series S, due March 1, 1992. Proceeds—For debt repay- " ment and construction. Address—Cabin Hill, Greens- Westates Land Development ' Widmann Oct. 12, offered • Inc. (3/19-23) 162,000 common, of which 102,000 are the company and 60,000 by stock¬ holders. Price—$3. Business—Operates a chain of retail drug stores. Proceeds—Expansion, equipment and work¬ ing capital. Office—738 Bellefonte Ave., Lock Haven, Pa. Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton. Taylor & Co., N. Y, St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Hodgdon Co., Inc., Washington, D. C. Jan. v;,:— 1 ..v > • filed 135,000 common, of which 45,000 to be offered by the company and 90,000. by Oct. 27, 1961 filed to be offered by Limited Partnership ' & N. Y. Office—210-07 48th Ave., Bay- ' are corporate purposes. Barth : Nov. 14, 1961 filed $444,000 of limited partnership inter¬ ests to be offered in 444 units. Price—$1,000. Business— K Visual Arts Dec. (3/5-9) . Co.(3/19-23) Los Angeles. (3/26-30) West Falls Shopping Center Calif. Underwriter—To and manufacture of ladies' side, N. Y. Underwriters—Globus, Inc., and First Phila¬ delphia Corp., N. Y. • v v.> Underwriter—Weil & Co., Inc., Washing¬ >" ; j (Norman) stockholders. Victor Jan. 23, - 28, 1961 shares 28, 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—$2. Business —Company renders direct mail public relations, sales promotion and advertising services to mothers on behalf of retail stores. Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen¬ eral corporate purposes. . Wiatt Nov. Dec. ' St.,. San Gabriel, ton, D. C. ,, Liquor Stores, Inc. Baby, Inc. Monte El Bethesda, Md. 80,000 are stockhold¬ ers. Price—$4.50. Business—Retail sale of liquor in and about Miami, Fla. Proceeds—For working capital. Office —2305 N. W. 12th Ave., Miami, Fla. Underwriter— Charles Plohn & Co., N. Y. Offering—In April. Welcome ' * lication of technical papers, marketing, product develop¬ ment and working capital. Office—4903 Auburn Ave., Dec. 27, 1961 filed 165,000 common, of which to be offered by the company and 85,000 by Jan. - • - • - Inc. vV .y v 1961 filed 65,000 common. Price—$3.75. Business —Rendering of consulting services pertaining to elec¬ tronic system analysis. Proceeds—For expansion, pub¬ Proceeds^-For the purchase of vessels, and ital. Office—71 Saint Joseph St.* Mobile, (4/2-6) Dec. 27, 1961 filed 124,900 common, of which 55,000 are to be offered by the company and 69,900 by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Design, manufacture and distribution of aids for hair styling, and the pro¬ duction of eyebrow pencils, lip liners, etc. Proceeds— For debt repayment, equipment and working capital. Office—585 Gerard Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—J. R. Williston & Beane, N. Y. ~ • White Electromagnetics, Un¬ : ^ - Mfg. Co. Oct. 5, Aug. 29, 1961 filed 1,743,000 common. Price—By amend-, ment Business — The carrying of liner-type cargoes. . Corp. Vendex, Inc. 12, 1962 ("Reg. A") 300,000 common. Price — $1. Business—Manufacture of coin operated vending ma¬ chines. Proceeds—For an acquisition and general cor¬ porate purposes. Office—1290 Bayshore Blvd.,, Burlingame, Calif. Underwriter—Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francicso. Offering—Expected sometime in April. Waterman, Steamship „ be named. repayment, equipment, and ' working capital. Office—2263 Valdina St., Dallas. ' ."-'v. Feb,, 2, 1962 filed 156,762 common. Price — By amend¬ ment. Business—Manufacture of steam generators for J diesel locomotives; temperature control systems debt V', •; (3/20) Dec. 26, 1961 filed 145,000 common, of which 72,500 are to be offered by the company and 72,500 by stockhold¬ ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Design, manufac¬ ture and sale of toys-and games, sporting goods* and housewares. Proceeds—For working capital.^ Office-—835 'Nlnc. Proceeds-—For ments. , Proceeds—For investment. Office—403 St., Aurora, Colo. Underwriter—Westco Corp., Aurora, Colo. t 25, 1962 filed'180,000 common.. Price—By amendment. Business—Printing of- legal land financial: docu¬ ,•/: '■< • ;?V Press ;;V . company. , Jan. selling stockholders. Office—* Toronto. Underwriter—Rosmar in Canada. Proceeds—For : • 13, 1961. filed 32,000 shares of beneficial interest. Price—$6.25. Business—A small business investment — Nov. McDonald Nov. Price—$6.25. Business—Sells Cessna Airplanes and sup¬ plies; also repairs and services various type airplanes.; Proceeds For expansion and general corporate pur¬ poses. Office—Civic Memorial Airport, E. Alton, 111. Underwriter—White & Co., Inc., St. Louis. Inc., N. Y. — Western States Real Investment Trust ;v;,...".V . Office—335 .Euclid Ave., Cleveland. & Co., and Ball, Burge & expansion. Underwriters . Oct. 30; 1961 filed 90,000 common, of which be offered by the company and 30,000 by a rocket, munitions and pyrotechnics industries. Proceeds —For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Office—Essex, Conn. Underwriter—McDonnell & Co. Vassar 7',Vv Co., N. Y. Valley Metallurgical Processing Co. (3/5-9) 23, 1961 filed 70,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. Business—Production of metal powders for the; . 29,. 1961 filed 213,734 common to be offered for subscription by stockholders on the basis of two new shares for each 3 held. Price—By amendment. Proceeds the mortgage loan correspondent business. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—1111 Hart-, ford Bldg., Dallas. Underwriter—Harriman Ripley & Oct. of Ohio Reserve Life Assurance Co. Dec. in engages Pressprich & Co., N. Y. Lake Western •• < 12, 1962 filed 400,000 common. Price—By amend'ment (max. $22). Business—Company makes short-term real estate loans, acquires, develops and sells land, and and general corporate purposes. Office—646 Forest Ave., Portland, Maine. Un¬ derwriters—H. M. Payson & Co., Portland, and R. W. 1480 _ Feb. expansion, debt repayment offered by the company and 196,750 by stock¬ Prcie—By Kraus, Cleveland. Investments, Inc. - of loans secured by N. Wayne, Chicago. porate purposes. Office — 2117-29 Underwriter—Laren Co., N. Y. House > amendment. Business—The making first liens on real estate. Proceeds— For debt repayment. Office—3243 Wilshirp Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y.v holders. on-location and supplies to franchise holders. Proceeds—For debt repayment, new building and equipment and other cor- . to be are > cleaning and moth-proofing of rugs, furniture, etc. Com¬ pany also manufactures and sells cleaning equipment Dec. For derwriter—None. • Western'Pioneer Co. Feb. 19, 1962 filed 371,750 capital shares of which 175,000 Wade, Wenger ServiceMASTER Co. (3/19-23) 28, 1961 filed 140,000 capital shares. Price—By amendment. Business—Sale of franchises for Aug. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common. named. , sale, Dec. of Delaware Corp. Land Corp. Oct. 24, 1961 filed . 1961 filed 100,000 class A shares. Price — $3. Business—The manufacture of electronic test equipment, —Production of valves, other and appliances. Offering—Imminent. •v • Western Casualty & Surety Co; ' * Feb. 16,1962 filed 187,500 capital shares to be offered for subscription by stockholders on the basis of one new share for each four held: Price—By amendment (max. 1961 debentures Telephone Co. Inc., and Schwabacher & Co., San Francicso. , filed $5,243,400 of 5% conv. subordinated 1982, being offered to common stockholders at the rate of $100 of debentures for each 25 shares held of record Feb. 14 with rights to expire March 1, 1962. Price—At par. Business—Operates a chain of retail "discount" stores and manufactures electric Dec. ■ Valve . corporate purposes. Office—115 W. Crane St., Topeka, Kan. Underwriter—Stern Brothers & Co., Kansas City, Sept. 18, 1961 ("Reg. A") 33,097 common. Price — $5. Business —: Operation of a discount department store. Office—3629 N. Teutonia Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Under¬ writer Continental Securities Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. Vacco - •••• California 18, 1961 filed 84,000 common, being offered for subscription by preferred and common stockholders on the basis of one right for each two common shares and one-fifth right for each preferred share held. Record date for the offering is Feb. 15 and the rights expiration date March 12. Two rights are required to subscribe for one common share. Price—$25. Proceeds—For construc¬ tion. Office—15900 San Jose-Los Gatos Rd., Los Gatos, Calif. Underwriters—Dean Witter & Co., Blyth & Co., Distributors, Inc. 24, 1961 filed 90,000 common. Price—By amend¬ Business—Operation of a self-service family shoe chain and shoe departments in discount depart¬ ment stores. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other By amend¬ and sale of metal pipe, telephone conduit and miscellaneous concrete products. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Of¬ fice—379 17th St., Ogden, Utah. Underwriter—Schwa- • N. Y. ■: Western Dec. Church store 8, 1962 filed 110,000 common. Price — (max. $10). Business — Manufacture concrete pipe, masonry products, corrugated U-Tell personnel. trained ment. Feb. • • Nov. Pipe Co. ment bacher & technically of selling stockholders. Office—241 St., N. Y. Underwriter—Andresen & Co., phonograph consoles. Proceeds—For working Office—16 W. 32nd St., N. Y. UnderwriterSamitas & Co., N. Y. Concrete supplying Proceeds---For capital. Utah and tions 45 page radio and • Thursday, February 22, 1962 . . ) from Continued Dean . (966) Wolf Corp. . - * ' - > : Jan. 26, 1962 filed $4,500,000 of 6.5% convertible sub¬ ordinated debentures due 1977 (.with attached warrants) to be offered for subscription by stockholders of class -A stock on the basis of $500 debentures for each 100 Volume class A Real estate. Number 6136 195 shares held. Price—$500 Proceeds—For The Commercial and Financial Chronicle ... • Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. Feb, 7, 1962 it was reported that this company expects to raise some $262,000,000 of new money in 1962. : The Businessrealty per.unit. debt" repayment and acquisitions. Office—10 E/ 40th St, N. Y. Underwriter —S. E. Securities, Inc., N. YYYYY Y: July:3I, I.- 1961 filed 300,000 common shares. Price—By n.._: Mi.UKaUjnn 1/.f Business-The publishing of encyclopedias Proceeds—For repayment ol ^ ■amendment. high May 1. Office—920 S. W. Sixth Ave., Portland, Ore. Un¬ bidders: Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co.; Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Lehman Broth¬ ers Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. on derwriters—(Competitive). Probable nrlmntlv d6bt, working capital and general corporate purposes. Broadway; Lynbrook, N. Y. Underwriter-^ N. Y. 'Office—290 debt -Standard Securities Corp., World Toy 670,000 common shares on the basis of one new share for each 20 held of record March 26 with rights to expire the debt side, which suggests equity financing to shorUy to be l0lj0wed VSv Promptly with a debt isvery with a debt issue." In 1963 the company will require about $168,000,000 of external financing. Proceeds—For repayment of , and other reference books. • al condition of the securities market. A spokesman stated that the company's capital structure was "somewhat (3/5-9) and construction. Office^—4 Irving Place, N. Underwriters—To be named. The last sale of bonds Nov. Inc. (3/12-16) Nov, 24, 1961 filed 150 ,000 common; Price—By amend'ment. Business—A manufacturers'broker specializing in the sale of toys, hobby goods and related items; Proceeds For general corporate purposes,^ffice—408 St, Peter YjSt., St. Paul, Minn. UnderwriteivYLaren Co., N. % House, 22, 1961 was won at competitive 47 Pacific Power & Light Co. (4/5) Feb. 14, 1962 it was reported that this company plans to offer stockholders the right to subscribe for an addition¬ type of security to be sold will be determined by the . World Scope Publishers, Inc. (967) Bear, - Stearns & Co.-Dean Witter & Scheduled for April 5 (11 aun. Y. Rector on bidding by First Co. (jointly). EST) in Room 2033, 2 St., N. Y. Pacific Bids— Power & Light Co. (4/11) Boston Corp, The last sale of preferred was made / Feb. 7, 1962 it was reported that this Company plans to privately on May 1, 1961 by First Boston Corp.,'and issue $35,000,000 of first mortgage bonds due 1992 ProMorgan Stanley & Co., who also'handled the last sale of ceeds—For construction. Office—920 S -W Sixth Ave . tcommon (a rights offering on Jan. 29, 1959). ■ I. - Portland, Ore. Underwriters—(Competitive). Ptofeable Denver & Rio Grande Western RR (3/14) « \ bidders: .HalSey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Lehman Brothers; a.... Worldwide Fund Jan. 31, 1962 it was reported that this road Ltd. ' •/:•%■•■•. /.. : v.-,* plans to sell - Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.; Blyth & Co.-$4,830,000 of equipment trust certificates. Office—1530"i White, Weld'& Co. (jointly). Sept. 19, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$100. BuslBids—Expected April 11 Stout St., Denver: Under writer s-^( Competitive ness—The Fund plans to invest primarily in equity se(11 a.m. EST). Information ).Prob. h • - ; " curities foreign issuers. of Off ice—Bank of able Bermuda Hamilton, Bermuda. Underwriter — Burnham & Co.,N. Y. Note—This offering was postponed indefinite- .Rldg.* -■'lyr-Y YY/YVi Yy'^Y ■ /Y'yyy y>\ •••// '• - " • y . ' ' Y Y ; • mortgage - Youthcraft Creations/: Inc. (3/5-9) -6, 1961 filed" 130,000 class A shares, of which 20,000 manufacture of foundation garments for "juniors" and r y Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, N,.Y._ / ' i r Zenith , . > : . a bonds in November. Office—270 Peach tree Oct. 5. women. Proceeds — To finance increased accounts re¬ ceivable and for other corporate purposes.. Office—21-09 Borden Ave.,: Long Island City, N. Y. Underwriter— Pan 12, 1961 it was reported that a full filing will be covering 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—• Operation of beryllium mines in Argentina. Proceeds —For mining expenses. Offices—39 Broadway, Underwriter—R. F. Dowd & Co. Inc., N. Y. ; Georgia Power Co. (11/7) 12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of the Southern Co. plans to offer $7,000,000 of preferred —Fo^repayment^orde^arrd^work^n^ capital'Office— S. in Proceeds—For St.; Englewood, Ny/J. Underwriter—Sulco Securities; Inc.,- N. Y.: Y:<Yv/ Y/YYY Y:/^;Y'l'Y" Y "/V- last sale .of 6, 1961 it was reported that this corporation Y operation of Our issue you're Corporation News a chain of discount houses. \ 88th Avenue, Flushing 54, L. I., N. Y. can we Office—135-21 REctor at us - YY mortgage bonds in April. Office—2500 14th St., Gulf port, Miss. Underwriters— (Competitive). Probable bidders:, Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-Equitable Se¬ curities Corp. (jointly); Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; MerY rill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. Bids—Expected April 12. Registration—Scheduled for Mar. 16.' 'Y'*" Y 2-9570 or . write us at 25 Park Place, New York 7/ N/ Y. ' - - - • Prospective * Missouri » _ (jointly)Morgan Stanley Co.; First„ Boston Corp.; Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-Equitable Secu- rities Gofp.-Drexel & Co. (jointly); Lehman Brothers, Y Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc. Bids—Expected May 31. I Appalachian Power Co. (4/17) /Y Feb. 14, 1962 it was reported that this : . / to issue $25,000,000 J: Of f ic e^Roanoket YVa. r . i Probable bidders: i Underwriters—(Competitive)// First Boston Corp.; Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc./ Harriman Ripley Co. Inc.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-Eastmah Dillon, Union Securities & Co. (jointly).' Bids—April 17 (11 a.ini EST) at 2 Broadway; New YorkV; City. Information Meeting—April 12 (3 p.m.-EST) atsame/address. : . v * ' Appalachian Power Co. Feb. 14, 1962 it issue ■ • - (4/24) Y ' Y was Underwriters—(Competitive). file Inc. of ! of . , facture ' of convertible . . Rd.r debentures. . .... Orleans. — 3 and Ches^rland^ O. Underwriter—To The last public, financing,by this company nnn equip- on be named, simulated pearl Corp.-Lehman Brothers (jointly). Overnite . E. Ohio For expansion, diversification and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Sept. 12, 1961 it was reported that this company plans to sell about 500,000 common to stockholders in midto raise some $17,500,000. Office—861 Sixth Ave., Diego, Calif. Underwriter—Blyth & Co., Inc., N. Y, Seaboard Air Line RR. Jan. 23, 1962 it was reported that this company plans to sell $5,565,000 of 1-15 year equipment trust certificates This is the final installment of a $11,130,000 issue which will help finance the purchase of $13,929,533 of additional rail equipment. Office—3600 later this year. , W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Underwriters—(Competi¬ tive). ^Probable bidders: Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Salo¬ Brothers & Hutzler. ..i, ■, » •;/ i ■ •. - if Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. Feb. 21, 1962 it was reported that this company plans $40,000,000 of first mortgage pipeline bonds in April or May. Proceeds—For expansion. Office— 3100 Travis St., Houston, Tex. Underwriters — White, Weld & Co., and Stone & Webster Securities Corp. to sell late Transport Industries, Inc. ••-'.••• 22, 1962 it was reported that a "Reg. A" will be filed covering 75,000 common, Price—$4. BusinessDesign and manufacture of truck and automobile brake systems. Proceeds—For expansion and research. Office Jan. —Pearl Davis and Elk Sts., Albion, Pa. Underwriter—A. J. Co., Pittsburgh. ; r/ ; ' ' v.'Y 'vY • j- . Power & Light Co. directors, the company of mortgage bonds and (5/22) plans to sell $10,000,000 of about $20,000,000 stock in common May. Office—1407 W; North Temple St., Salt Lake City. Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidders First Boston Corp.-Biyth on the & Co., Inc. (jointly); Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc.; Salomon Brothers & Hutzler; White, Weld & Co.-Stone & Webster Securities Corp. (jointly); Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-Smith, Barney & Co. (jointly); Lehman Brothers-Bear, Stearns & Co. (jointly), The last issue of common on Sent. 17, 1957 was underwritten by Blyth A Co« Inc.-Kidder, Peabody & Co.-Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (jointly). Other bidders were First Boston Corp., and Lehman Brothers. Bids—Expected May 22. Kidder, 25, 1962 it was stated that Harwood Cochrane, President, plans to offer publicly about 140,000 shares of his common stock holdings. It is expected that the ofBering would be made in late March, subject to approval of. the ICC. Business—Company is motorfc carrier of freight hf Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee. ".^Richmond. Utah Jan. 17, 1962 it was reported that subject to approval of bonds: Transportation Co. Sept.. 25. . Office—232 be named. i YvP lnSi° common shares., (sale of comOffice—1100 Ninth St. Rd., Richmond, Va. Underwriters 1957) was .underwritten by L. x-/-Hornblower & Weeks, N. Y., and J. C Wheat & Co., Sehwhin & Co., Cleveland. '. Y , Y ; > ..mon - Sff*J ' miS -1® a re^stration covering about;150,000 Price—$5.50. Business—Manufacture of Jan. -—- japital.V Office—'75 - Wilson Proceeds—For expansion. technology. Proceeds u-yYY,t Uj*%""J'fJ+ - Business—Manu- electro-mechanical- instruments ITS00™?8"!* r , { Brothers-Bear, Stearns & Co. (jointly); Carl M. Loeb, Co.-Ladenburg, Thalmann & Coj-Wertheim & Co. (jointly); Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Ific.rKidder,, Peabody & Co -White, Weld & Co. (jointly). Bids—May 29. Registration—Scheduled for April 12. Boston 19, 1962 it was reported that stockholders are to Mar. 12 on proposals to change the company's name to API, Incy and to authorize the issuance of ■ reported that this company plans to was St., Chicago, 111. Underwriter—To mon . . favorable tax ruling from the IRS and approval of the asset sale by Plymouth stockholders on March 28. Office —539 So; Main St., Findlay, O. Underwriters—First Feb. $1,250,000 V Ohio Oil Co. / 16, 1962 it was reported that this company plans $80,000,000 of 25-year straight debentures to help finance the proposed acquisition of Plymouth Oil Co., on April 2. The sale is subject to receipt of a vote „< 1962 it registration covering its first offering of 270,000 shares. Price—About $7. Business—Operation membership "key" clubs in Chicago, Miami and New a to issue about Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Harriman &. Co. Inc.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-Eastman Dillon,Union Securities '& Co. (jointly). Bids—April 24 (11 a.m. EST)> at 2 Broadway, New York City. Information Meeting—April 12 (3 p.m. EST) at same address. if Assembly Products, . Jan. First Boston Corp.; ; (4/17)-' / Probable bidders: / Ripley n RR buttons. Proceeds—For a new plant. Office—Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Baruch Brothers & Co., Inc., N. Y. Y reported that this company plans to $20,000,000 of debentures due 1992. Office—Roan¬ oke, Va. i-Sfcf' com¬ was Rhoades & plans company first/mortgage bonds due 1992./ of at tF0Y'ff/r' stockholcter/3 i/ju/ftherightto suTsSbe forYn Eastman * won reported that; this company plans to Y V Southern Electric Gaiterating 'CO.Y ( 11/23-) issue $5,925,000 of equipment trust certificates due an¬ On Jan. 12,; 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary ot nually Mar. 15, 1963-77/Office—Missouri. Pacific Bldg., the Southern Co. plans to offer $6,500,000 '30-year first St. Louis. Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidmortgage bonds in November. Office—600 N. 18th St., ders: Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Salomon Brothers & Birmingham, Ala. Underwriters—(Competitive) Prob¬ Hutzler. Bids—Expected Apr. 17. able bidders: First Boston Corp.; Halsey Stuart & Co., Inc.; White, Weld & Co.-Kidder, Peabody & Co. (jointly); „ rf, Hectr,e ?/29) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.-Blyth & Co., Inc. (jointly); Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & additional 872,876 common shares on a 1-for-15 basis. Co.-Equitable Securities Corp.-Drexel & Co. (jointly); Morgan Stanley & Co. Bids—Expected Nov. 28. Regis¬ Office—441.'Stuart'St., Boston, Mass. Underwriters— tration—Scheduled for Nov. 1. (Competitive). Probable bidders: Blyth & Go.-Lehman Alabama Power Co,/(5/31) 12, 1962 it Was reported that this subsidiary of ; the Southern Co; plans to offer, $17,000,000 30-year first mortgage bonds in June. Office—600 N. 18th St., Birmingham, Ala.' Underwriters—(Competitive) Probable •it bidders:. Blythr& Co. tine.-Kidder, Peabody. & ;Co. _ Pacific i^Y^Feb. ^l/Y^^^ it On Jan. ... was Playboy Clubs International, Inc. Feb. 7, 1962 On Jan. ; ah item 29, 1961 White, Weld & petitive bidding by Co., and Kidder, Peabody & Co. Other bidders were Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; First Boston Corp.-Drexel & Co. (jointly). San (4/12) ' telephone you is 12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of the Southern Co. plans to offer $6,000,000 30-year first like would prepare similar to those you'll find hereunder. Y Would Mississippi Power Co. planning to register? Department to know about it so that Nov. on working capital. Office—400-06 Adams St., Newark. N. J. Underwriter—Keene & Co., Inc., N. Y. contemplating its first public financing. Business—The r\" "" an bonds •**» Registration—Scheduled for Masters Inc. Jan. Y Do you have construction and the retirement of $17,- 000,000 of maturing bonds. Office—9th and Hamilton Sts., Allentown, Pa. Underwriters—To be named. The November. Bids—Expected Nov* 7< Oct. 5. Deaft ATTENTION UNDERWRITERS! Y. Office—270 Peachtree Bldg., AtResin Research Laboratories, Inc. lanta, Ga. Underwriters—(Competitive). ProbqWe bid-vf|iD#;. &0, 1961 it was reported that a full filing will be ders: Blyth & Co., Inc.; First Boston Corp.; Morgan " made covering 105,000 common. Price—$3.50. Business Stanley & Co.; Eastman Dillon,. Union Securities & Co.-/ —Company is engaged in applied research and developlilfitiitnKlo irif V^ ' monf -5 E(luitable Securities pArri ;<(jointly); T nV»tv*nW *i Corp. Lehman; Brothers:;; ment iii'fieltf of /resin's polymer chemistry and plastics Y.Y Laboratories, Inc. Nov: 22, 1961 filed 120*000 common. Price—$4,50. Busi- 150 N. if Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Feb. 20, 1962 Jack K. Busby, President and C. E. Oakes, Chairman, stated that the company will require about $93,000,000 in debt financing in the period 1962 to 1970. ioc! Y Yy ;,y;- •<Y common On Jan. stock Meeting—April 2 (3:30 p.m.) -;v '/> " " Y■ American Beryllium Corp. " at 2 Rector St.-N. Y.;. made reported that Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Underwriters—(Competitive). Prob¬ able bidders: Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc.; Harriman Rip¬ ley & Co., Inc.; Blyth & Co., Inc.; Kidder, Peabody & Co.-Shields & Co. (jointly); Equitable Securities Corp.Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. (jointly); First Boston Corp.; Lehman Brothers; Morgan Stanley & Co. Bids—Expected Nov. 7. Registration—Scheduled for are . was Georgia Power Co. (11/7) 12,: 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of the Southern Co. plans to offer $23,000,000 30-year first to be offered by the company and 110,000 by stockholders. Price—By ?. amendment. Business—Design and v Vending, Inc. On Jan. corporate purposes. Office—91 Main St., Madison, N. J. Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y. Dec. Hutzler; Halsey, (12 noon MT) in —Philadelphia, Pa. Underwriter—T. Michael McDarby & Co., Inc., Washington, D. C. Wynlit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. V;, / Dec. 28, 1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—By amend¬ ment. "Business—Development and manufacture of pharmaceuticals and medical products. Proceeds—For general ' & 14 registration statement will be filed shortly covering 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business—The servicing of vending machines and coin operated kiddy-rides. Proceeds—For equip¬ ment, inventory and general corporate purposes. Office ; called the Wulpa Lift."; Proceeds—To open loca-/ tions and increase working capital. Office—370 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Ehrlich. Irwin & Co., Inc., N. Y. ./ "Brothers Dec. •Sept. 13, 1961 it . Offering—Expected sometime in March. Salomon Co.syinc.' Bids—March" Diversified vice ! & Denver. Wulpa Parking Systems, Inc. Y / 13, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4. Business—Company plans to manufacture a parking de¬ Oct. bidders: Stuart —^ Peabody & Co.; , .... '"../Ti" -t'9 ■ • f . -J* 11 v..v» -4% 48 The Commercial and Financial (968) Chronicle. Thursday, February 22, 1962 . (Detroit; Mich.) May 19-23, 1962 WASHINGTON AND YOU Financial Analysts Federation 15th Annual Convention at the Statler BEHIND-THE-SCENES INTERPRETA TIONS Beach, Fla.) Spring Conference of the National CAPITAL FROM THE NATION'S Hotel. Hilton June 1-2,1962 (Miami Association the at Hotel, will unions by out worked be spring and that there will be no strike this year. v a strike. a President r that a desirous is Kennedy contract be executed before inventories are built up steel Investment" ington Municipal Conference at the Pick Congress Hotel. force in the talks. There is a re¬ port that the President himself too high. It is inevitable that the in¬ ventory buildup is underway at this time. It is because exces¬ inventories will be sive buildup in harmful an expensive to indus¬ and try, and will hurt the economy of country, that the White House is anxious for an early settlement. our Steel negotiations opened a few have a sobering steel users who will gotiations effect the big on of buildups excessive steel in- Investment Board "For the past 25 union Since have been seven nation¬ wide steel strikes since 1946. This is bad if for the country. Of course the and Congress executive - branch of the United States ernment would show some cal courage nationwide If we would Gov¬ politi¬ have not strikes. steel anti-trust laws/unions would still be to able strike, nual convention. Oct. 8-9, Fairless' Ben Association Fall Meeting at the Hopkins Hotel. Philip Murray's time, government in. True this idea. But time will will be the sure when come has Pressure, 'persuasive' liked union Oct. shooting the as Firms rope same but only on a basis rather than whole industry to shut company-wide will hanging harassment and what does negotiations. out There of to see the "Just who steel said weekend off naturally are business?" Steel In¬ that employment costs in December totaled $4,096 per hour, of which 48.8 cents is in fringe benefits. There is specu¬ lation by "Iron Age" that the steel industry might go along for three-year a hour, an time increase of 24 cents an 42 cents or Arthur Goldberg and the Kennedy Administration would keep hands working The families men "?ot do their and an the people and the the na¬ that means COMING Savings mands put be the excessive brakes and our on tend are some officials labor own views.] • advocat¬ over They still have not gotten 116-day strike in 1959. the Hundreds of millions of dollars in 2, 1962 (Houston, Tex.) annual outing the at Champions Golf Club. pertinent wages were lost in the last strike. Many of those workers are ready to rebel against another prospec¬ tive strike. i- ' s^ee^ industry, but in Washington officials and among government economists. It is possible for the steel industry to continue to pay the ever-increas¬ ing demands, and provide all the fringe benefits, and still meet competition. , \ !'•;/.! wage Government Intervention "Dictated Dangerous Donald and the participating, dozens there of was "What, others verbal becomes good basic mediocre a of cause dictated settlements? For Distribution in Central New England New York Boston Telephone lem Members: American Stock Exchange (Assoc.) (Philadelphia, Pa.) Investment Traders Association of 340 Main St., Worcester 8, Mass. Tel.: PLeasant 4-3295 Tele.jWO 395 Direct phones to: Wx»onsocket, R. I. - Fitchburg, Mass, Philadelphia annual dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford. v March '■ has Robert M. — elected Assistant Investors ■ ■ sociation Security Dealers 36th Annual Registered Representatives, grad¬ As¬ Dinner at April 8-10, 1962 (San Antonio, Tex.) ' ■— .-I-; Texas Group of Investment Bank¬ Association of America, an¬ meeting at the St. Anthony the United States, Korea.He was active duty Captain. S. Military - with Japan; and released the ; from of rank / Attention April 27, 1962 (New York City) Security, Traders Association of Astoria. ; , Brokers and Dealers TRADING MARKETS New York Dinner at the Waldorf- American Cement i wholly-owned May 6-9, 1962 (Seattle, Wash.), : subsidiary of Hugh W. Long and National Association of Mutual Savings Banks 42nd annual con¬ Company, Inc. ••1 . * ference'at the Olympic Hotel. Mr. Smith joined •> Investors Management Company in 1957 as May 9-12, 1962 (White Sulphur an analyst. He specialized in re¬ Springs) search of companies engaged in Investment Bankers Association the oil, office equipment, con¬ meeting of Board of Governors. ment U. the from uated Academy, West Point, in 1955 and served for four years as a Flight Officer with the U. S. Army in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.' ers top honors in the New York Stock Exchange's Examination for Manage¬ been of ! 30, 1962 (New York City) York New —■~Jn~^ Strom, who recently com¬ pleted the Francis I. duPont & Cd. Training Program and achieved >; V; Company, Botany 'Industries;Electronics ■rj\ Maxson ;v .. Official/ Films ■JxfA J;;Waste'<KingV;^.>-U^H': . .. Our New telephone number is York CAnal 6-4592 struction and air-conditioning in¬ May 14-15, 1962 (Detroit, Mich.) of Stock to his association Association Exchange Firms Board of Governors spring with the investment advisory or¬ meeting at the Dearborn Inn. ganization, he was employed by May 17-18, 1962 (Nashville, Tenn.) Travelers Insurant Company, Nashville Association of Securities dustries. Prior Hartford, Conn. Dealers annual spring party. LERNER & CO., INC. Investment Securities , 10 Post Office Square, Boston 9, Mass, Teletype Telephone HUbbard BS 69 2-1990 industry be¬ or expedient there is the . Probably the basic prob¬ here is the battle between Cove Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Common and Warrants '. Versapak Film & Packaging Carl Marks & r.o. Tn<- Common & Warrants expediency and long-term effects. It would be good for some people if the steel hassle was settled on an 'j "-'I-rj Mr. workers, citizens and ordinary people. If, by persua¬ sion, sly intervention, or outright threats, government can bring about labor settlements, what has happened to free bargaining? . S.ROMANOFF CO.,Inc. Then dent Partner of the firm. stake of the Richmond 2-0420 CAnal 6-8481 Settlements" will it do such a industry as steel," asked "Iron Age," "if it goes broke or As the steel negotiations began with union leader David J. Mac- Regis¬ , March 9, 1962 nual Management Elects Secretary --ty.in John H. Strom — Representative with Fran¬ cis I. duPont & Co;, 208 South.La Salle Street, it - has been an¬ nounced by Henry Stefany, Resi* Stock and Bond Club of Houston Hotel. Smith a ~ tered March coincide with the "Chronicle's" ELIZABETH, N. J. indus_ +r;ps another want may not that Meantime, there is con¬ ■ that buys other Mutual has become associated as a business Meantime, the steel union not only wants higher pay, but there Actually, the real price is paid in inflationary wage demands int ; 43rd annual Banks CHICAGO, 111. ' over (Boston, of With duPont in Chicago IN INVESTMENT FIELD to '■' upswing." Inv. m 1963 I-.:; V ';'"C / Association National ference at the Hotel Statler. magazine declared edi¬ torially that union leaders are "well aware of the public wrath they would incur should their de¬ hour for three everybody 1, April 27-May Mass.).'': v,';; sorry a companies, . strike. Association ; '• "V. "Steel" hour. 1V./ years. the tion." hand, if the steelworkers' yardstick as to produc¬ tivity, etc., is used, the minimum wage increase may be 14 cents an hour for unions, of 8 cents three-year total a this year, it will be swer package for ucts. Labor Boca .( 1 (Hollywood, Fla.) Bankers Beach Hotel. anything with steel in it is going to have to pay more for the prod¬ of Asso¬ the at Annual Convention at Hollywood ing, however, on Capitol Hill that it would be better for all con¬ Secretary Traders Club; Nov. 25-30, 1962 raise. big stakes taking place at Pitts¬ burgh. There is some strong feel¬ if Security Convention Investment , cerned 1962 Raton Hotel & painting would take his mind * :*r <. (Boca Raton, Fla.) Nov. 4-9, National" interesting come ^ been control." be Exchange Governors meet¬ Board'of ciation It Angeles) (Los Stock of Mark ing at the Ambassador Hotel. ing a 32-hour week for the steel forcing a It is simple economics that if' industry as an asserted aid to un¬ down. the wages, direct and indirect, of employment. If this were done, In a free enterprise system like steel workers are going to be con¬ it no doubt would bring about ours no fair-minded person, it stantly increased, steel 'manage¬ more unemployment within the would seem, would want to deny ment ultimately will be obliged industry, because it would send a union group the right to strike. to raise the price of steel in order the price - of steel higher and At (he same time fair-minded to pay for the added costs, While higher, this cutting into present persons everywhere are opposed the industry has held the "price markets. Jto all-powerful labor unions clos¬ line" in the face of constantly ing down an industry all over the [This column is intended to reflect rising labor costs during the past nation. the "behind the scene" interpretation several years, it clearly cannot Washington officialdom and do so indefinitely. This of course from the nation's Capital and may or Congress realizes there are some 11-12, "1962 Association union the hung from the management from: - (San Francisco) # of Stock Exchange 1962 Firms and On the other would only repeal union exemption from Congress labor the late stitute; asserts 1946 N.J.) V. do what they becoming wards of the government is a miracle. horned Association Bankers Governors Meeting. able to were the of American Bankers Association an¬ without "In (Santa Barbara, Sept. 23-26, 1962 (Atlantic City, government* has put its two into the regular steel has¬ sles. How the industry and the The American Iron & Shutdowns There years someone in cents did : ; Calif.) Meantime, "Iron Age," the na¬ metalworking publication v Club of Chicago Sept. 19-21, 1962 tional ventories. Seven hour. an (Chicago, 111.) Sept. 13-14, 1962 made this succinct observation: days ago in the great steel city of Pittsburgh. This conference of ne¬ 12 cents or Association Bankers Municipal Bond outing. : would Jike for the unions to hold their demands down to a wage ~ ~ * increase of 10 concerted effort to pre¬ However, whether that is good or bad is debatable in Washington. The facts are there is considerable pressure'on both management and union sides, making vent and Kennedy Administration is The , \' , published comment in Wash¬ about the Kennedy Ad¬ ministration being a powerful , , (Chicago III.) Sept. 11-12, 1962 WASHINGTON, D. C.—There is strong confidence in the nation's capital that a new contract between the steel industry and the Clubs Investment of Seville expediency basis. But the time has come value for take real for a a settlement of real long pull,- And it will 20 BROAD SECURITIES SPECIALISTS STREET TEL: HANOVER 2-0050 • Bought—Sold—Quoted • NEW YORK 5, N. Y. TELETYPE NY 1-971 < KILL, THOMPSON & CO., INC. collective bargaining— not government intervention. 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