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COMMERCIAL and

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ESTABLISHED

Volume

"

1839

Reg. U. S. Pat. Offic•

Number

195

New York

6140

Price

7, N. Y., Thursday, March 8, 1962

50

Cents

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Editorial

Process Poses

expected the President has sent a special
message to Congress pleading for passage of his medical
care
bill. He speaks at length about the hardships, or
presumed hardships, now being suffered by many in the
older age brackets by reason of the fact that they in the
normal course of events require more medical care, and
because the cost of such care has risen so greatly in re¬
had been

As

cent years.

stands
sorts

Threat to Our
By John E. Swearingen,* President, Standard Oil Company

1887

Oil head assails

a

people, particularly perhaps the older age groups—that
merely to provide the individual with money for such
medical attention would be of little avail if more facili¬

desist" order merely at the outset of

complaint. Citing some of his own firm's experience, Mr.

Swearingen depicts the extent to which business is "wan¬
dering in
initiative

teaching of medicine and the

of

cold

of

other

would

individual

kill

not

hands particularly

business'

tie
and

war

which

regulation

and

He outlines an acceptable

maze."

regulatory

a

philosophy

provision
of care for the entire population are not forthcoming.
Here is more foresight and more understanding than
we sometimes find among those who would
pump end¬
less funds into the aid of groups presumed to be short
of the wherewithal to buy the care they need or think
they need. This we may say freely even though we have
doubts about the wisdom of the way in which the Presi¬

ties both for the

legislative proposal giving F. T. C. power

a

to issue a "cease and

all the

to give full medical care to

at this time

Describes the

pressing challenges.

-

dent would

remedy the situation.,

/:

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— ^

manifold

:

regulatory

proliferating
of

branch

fourth

a

agencies
of

as

step-

government.

Says we need to step on the gas —not on needless brakes.
The

spectres confronting us today are the

manifold

regulatory agencies of the
Federal
Government, whose existence was not
contemplated by our Constitution and whose all.pervasive powers and activities
go largely unrealized today by
the average citizens.
Too many of our people are
going more or less blithely
through life under the mis¬
and

v

medical care measure is essentially the
thq^4o>^which strenuous objections have been
raised byrtlie medical profession and many others who
fear such steps are in the direction of what is known as
socialized medicine. There is very considerable potency
in many of these opposition arguments. As a matter of
fact, movements of this sort and threats of further action
of this type have already led to the inclusion of a good
deal of creeping, socialism in many, if not all, , the socalled cooperative plans for insuring medical care and
doubtless are creeping into other plans. Very consider¬
able pressure is exerted upon practicing physicians and
surgeons to provide care for men and women of low
incomes at rates below1 that generally charged. We grow
uneasy whenever we find these
(Continued on page 26)
Of course, this

same

and

development

by-step

Socialized Medicine Threat

I

as

proliferating

rules. I
little

a

stance

is

Those

Federal

is

Government

U. S. Government,
Public

the

Municipal

Securities

primarily of an executive
John E. Swearingen
and a legislative branch, with
an
independent judiciary
standing by as an impartial arbitrator, have lost
touch with reality. Such people dwell in wonder¬
land.
And while the wonderland may .have un¬
up

questioned origins in the concepts under which this

afforded

Federal

more

Organization
pages to the subject.

devotes 236
a

detail, I refer

you to

Government

The

the United
which

Manual,

results of this mushrooming process are

in
astounding. We have arrived at the
unhappy point at which the Cyclopean eye of some
many

ways

almighty regulatory agency is upon us when we
buy or sell, ship or receive, hire or fire, grow or
manufacture, save or spend, drink or diet, profit
or lose, talk or listen.
Furthermore, many of these regulatory agencies
exercise unusual powers in that they first promul¬
gate regulations which have the force and effect of
law, then enforce them, and later adjudicate them.
w

Non-Elected Officials

facet of this complex regulatory
that deserves mention is that the commis¬

another

over

our

agencies who exercise such

economic and

social

system

are

force

actually prepare the regulations, en¬
adjudicate them are lower-level staff

who
and

personnel whose role and deliberations in decision
making are almost impossible to determine. Yet
their philosophy and judgments are reflected in
conclusions affecting the daily lives of all of us.
When

we

add to this

already seething cauldron the
(Continued on page 22)

frequent lack of clearly-

corporate

State,

Municipal
and Public

Homing

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Securities

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AND

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in

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Santa Monica, Whittier
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on

Southern

California Securities
Nikko Kasai Securities Co.
LOS

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Orders

Executed

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Brokers

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York

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complete picture of issues now registered with the SEC and poten-

SECURITIES

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over

approximately 400,000 employees
and a total annual budget of around $10 billion.
Should
anyone
wish to examine this intricate

people

made

NOW IN REGISTRATION—Un derwriters, dealers and investors in

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fourth

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with

agencies

Housing,

State and

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of

embraces

it

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officials, many of whom while theo¬
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measure of fact responsible to no one in particular.
To complicate the situation further, many of the

SECURITIES

a

of

development
Today

witnessed

non-elective

merely dangerous. It
to be fatal.
who think that

step-by-step

control

could prove
...

the

have

we

—

sioners of the various

this in¬

knowledge in

Commerce

mission

process

not at all sure that

am

tory commission—the Interstate

Still

apprehension that the country
is being governed pretty much
according to the original ground

securities

are

wisely created, it is nevertheless a land I
in terms of the facts of life in 1962.
actually happened is that, starting in
with the creation of the first Federal regula¬
was

fantasy

What has

To his credit, he shows that he clearly under¬
more doctors
and more ^facilities of many

necessary

nation
of

(Indiana)

that

are

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Disneyland

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Exchange

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The Security

each week, a different group of experts

economical elemental sources
from which sulphur may be ex-'

STANLEY A. NABI

slZcCt& Co%"L YorTcl;

position more than 500

ing you the

Jefferson Lake

Over-the-Counter markets.

in

-

Based

of

in

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S^?dSil^enyl^ mni

Exchanges

2y

listed

decade

on.

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the American. Stock Ex-

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insist

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'accurately

Opportunities Unlimited
IN JAPAN
for

Write

our

Stock

Monthly

Digest, and our other reports
that give you a pretty clear

picture of
economy

the Japanese
a whole.

as

The Nomura Securities Co., Ltd

Published figures

be

seem

Paltiarv

Fast

hrdiect

ga^

will

East Calgary pioject vvill

to sup-

wjjich

and

cals"

owns

a

a larger

NY 1-1557

6, N. Y.

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Securities

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contribution from the two

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Co.9 Ltd.

NEW YORK OFFICE:

149 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

Telephone: BEekmari 3-3622-3

Pany; .cbpimon

Petro-

s.ock,

therefore,-

port
these viev^s. ! Free world gas recently completed ther eon-;
• P03se3s
considerable
consumption of sulphur, for in- • struction of a $13 million; plants speculative appeal for those seekstance. has increased at a respectwhich started operations in No- inS '3' businessman s
risk .with- <
able /ate of about 6%
annually yember, 1961.
7 /•* '": 7|7 7 ample rewards.
It affords partici-

LAMB0RN & CO., Inc
99

STREET

WALL

burdening the reader Potion; in/three aggressive eompacomplicated "schedules -of niest
of which still ^e. in the 77; NEW YORK 5, N. Y. /7
during the 1937-57 period. In the production, it now appears that eal/7 phases of development and
meantime,
recent
discovery of cash earnings of "Petrochemicals'1 with excellent long-term promise.new deposits have not been parmay be about 75 cents per share
Considering That the stock of the ,,^7,,a7SUGAR;77^l7
ticularly abundant, nor has there jin 1S625 increasing "to $1,00-$1.1G ;Parf?o company had;sold ,as high
irA.
?
h 7
'
ti
v.l,been
any
technological changgs in the following year.. Net earn- aSr7^ iv-J,8?6
a Jlme T\ Raw* -r-4 Refined, *->Liquid//
which would adversely influence
jngS will be approximately/ half ^ ■ n -two affiliates /wen*.;
future consumption and
Exporta—Imports—Futures
i
depress of these figures; : r
; 7v\powhere in sight, one :can only
prices.
./•'■
In a similar move, in this case

compared

during the past decade,
to

Without

rate of only 3%%

average

an

with-

v

61 Broadway, New York

Exchange

Jefferson . Lake Sulphur Corn-

"Petrochemi-

31% interest.

Exchange
-

Mobile, Ala.
Direct

Ltd^" new^orporftio^which"is
as they, become more,
char'gld with the purchase Productive, - and possibly from
gathering and processhig of raW better prlces for sulPhur- •

described as lack of proper planning,
ill-advised production, and haphazard sales and price policies.
more

Stock
Stock

Ne;w Orleans, La. - Birmingham, Ala*

I;;,/lnW,0:l ;^PPear that a figure
of $2.30-to-$250 a share us quite
withm reach for this yea¥, which
would; include a $2 million taxloss carry-forward. In.subsequent
year?' earnings will be helped by

and in Savanna
respectively.
:
%

Creek,

York

HAnover 2-0700

.

.

Peace River area,

industry,

the
thev

•American

19 Rector St., New York 6, N. Y.

.

.

Calgary, The other two are in the-:
-

plaguing

could

New

Members

viously, no value is.being plaSed„
on the parent company's c.wi, operations wh^contriouted sub-

complete three projects, the most
.important among which is in East

exists.

What; has

Members

izz

-

trades at about $9 a stantially all of last years $1,20
- •
- .
. •m earnings,
and which is likely
Js to' V contribute r$ 1.60-to-$l:80
a
financing
in
the share in i962.
r
;
- :
-United States has given .Petro- ..
.
chemicals" the necessary funds to
.
Consolidating all .three compa-

ac¬

no

tual

Steiner, Rouse & Co!

8

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Jefferson Lake Sulphur.Company,
?5°ckAs now being traded on tne
New York Stock Exchange. -Cb- .

company,

Bought—Sold—Quoted

-t

change and

v,

be->

ply

Teletype NY 1-40

Co.,

,%u3rP

many i

so,

sources

New York 5

120 Broadway,
WOrth 4-2300

Nationwide

'

Exchange

&

^(

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.

Associate Member

American Stock

Louisiana Securities

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City. (Page 2)

*
.

the

new

"Petrochemicals"

..Ltd.
>

projected

next

Alabama &

Co.—

Sulphur

Schweickart

:C New York

.tjon

proceeded to establish a

of

the

of

needs over the

1920

t..

outstanding stock
Jefferson
Petrochemicals of Canaaa,;

69%

"or

the

world

-

.

Stanley ...A,- Nabi," Research.

part of 1958, the

re¬

and
Established

.

Other

on pres-

known

free

CORPORATION

■

company

,

estimates

serves

HANSEATIC
^

:

Lake

Partner,

Canadian; affiliate to -which -it
sulphur industry nas been suffer- granted substantially all of its Ca—
ing from what might best be de- nadian reserves, contracts, : and
As
consideration
scribed
as
a
lopsided condition leases.
Ac /.nr>cirWntinn it re
it rpceived
1,400,018 common' shares,
oi oversupply.
-ent

NEW YORK

Sulphur Co.

the early

Since

broadest coverage

traTctedv

:

and

MemberNYSE

giv¬

Over-the-Counter issues,

RoKPnrrh

nf

chr.rao

Pnrt-nor

7

,

Participants and

:
Jefferson

"HANSEATIC"

Week's

This

Their Selections

favoring a particular security. > ^

participate and give their reasons for
'

We

Thursday, March 3, 1962

.

advisory field from all sections of the country

in the investment and

500 Reasons
call

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Forum

A continuous forum rn which,

to

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,

-

rhls

is

not.

orders

an

for

offer

any

solicitation for

or

particular securities

co^clude fhat future prospects far

to

more

picture

the

Domestically,

,=

even

point.

the

is

While

production
climbed
63%
during the 1950.-60 period,
the United States had an increase
of less than 20%. Contributing to
,.world

free

dependence.^??^®*^/ the risks.v ";.^ 7:
sulphur, the parent company
.
^
.v, 77C.'Y
.established another affiliate,. JefCURTIS V. TER KUILE*
person Lake Asbestos Corporation^, , : ; : .
..
New York City
7
and granted it an,option which it Pacific Petroleums Ltd
held on a-480-acre tract in Copr ..■ 7.ti: vv
r.
designed to reduce its

DIgby 4-2727

on

.

.

apparent dislocation has been peropolis,- Calif. Extensive drill- Pacific,petroleums common stock
rising .cost trend, and a dete- ing indicates that this, property is; is selling at 14^ pn the American
rioration in the richness of de- ; rich in asbestos-bearing-deposits, ^tock "^ Exchange. High and lov/

this
a

Need Hard to Find

.

posits ..recovered by the Frasch
process in, the
Gulf . Coast area
accounts for
over
twothirds of domestic output.
r" •
With
world-,
consumption ; of

which

sulphur possibly doubling

poss.bly the richest on the West
.Coast
As payment, ''- Jeffersoh
Lake Sulphur Co./received 600,000 common shares, or 77.3%, of

=-price's for 1931 have However the
been 17 V4-93/4
/

the currently outstanding stock of

v

..

during-"Asbestos."

'

This--issue*-is--alsid

-

pr

39

'

was

" it

and
,

que)TAT IONS?/

f

-12%,

2OV2

..

10-to-12 years,

range

1956

in
7

and new traded on the American Stock Ex-/
methods
of recovery ' apparently -change at about $91A;.a share;
'7:needed to replace the often un•
"Asbestos"
successfully 7com-'./
economical-rFrasch
process,, the
pletely a public offering of ; its /

the next

i c e.

1 9 57.

V YOU WILL FIND .THEM 7

w a s ;

.16%

-

>

in

;

IN

War¬

_

rants

are

also

.

selling on the.
same
market./
at 8i/4 for the

,

/

1961 and the
proceeds have been substantially:,"
competitive /sources.
Jefferson used for the construction of a mill
Lake Sulphur Co., the third largr
in Calaveras County, Calif,, with
est
domestic
factor,
seems
to a daily processing capacity, of 2500 /
possess unusual appeal as a result , tons of ore./This mill will com- /

leading companies in the industry
have been searching for new and

the

of

steps which

many

it has

already taken to insure its leader-

:

We maintain

ship in the future.
//, • . >. /
Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co. op-

trading markets
V

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Kent

-

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Moore

Organization, Inc.
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Shepard Niles Crane

control

Corporation

barrels

Maust

for

Coal

&

stock-/

at. 19
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operations sometime dur/.'/
Curtis
ing the third quarter of 1962, and
when at full capacity, will prob-;........

through

Mar,

31*, 1968/

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British

bound

give

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ably be either the first or second Columbia; Canada in
1939. On
largest of its type in the United"\Jan. 25, 1958 it acquired Merrill

well

:

the

you

publication will
monthly prices

listed/ securities

all

on

Coke

of

oil

about

and iri

fall' within a $1.25-'$2.00 "rangf fully-integrated oil and gas corndepending on market conditions, teem, although refining and mar*
For 1963, a range of $0.75-$1.00V ketihg operations are still ; small. ;

reasonable.*1; (The *President and certain other
one
is "likelv ?key officers are from the United
ffie9SxuSure $
The company holds^S,.
Jefferson Lake Sulphur Company
acres ln^lberta, 5,6o5,442
years, concerned Vvith
and some decline in lis quite complicated. Actually, it/acr®s inpnUs.h Columbia; vanous

which are derived ;share would seem
interest in 80 oil ;
From the above
wells and 25 gas wells.
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;
,
;to assume that
from

those

as

"hard to find".

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REctor 2-9570

.

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f

;

•7;/'v/

gas

rising

costs
output, the company has been |is not.' With- a 'total of- '782,000
searching
for
more
reliable icommon shares of its own stock

jP^oouction^creage m Saskatchej
}Yan .and Manitoba, as well as ih

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Over-the-Counter

Quotation Services

banks, brokers,

for 49 Years

and dealers.
nental

John], Meyers & Co.
30 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y,

Line Corp., in 1.8 and 0.77, respectively, for each '
,.
.
recovering sulphur from hydrogen of its own shares. The combined /c®mPany supplies gas to
sulphide during the last two yeafs icurrent market ;value /of/these f aW'-an3r a'
has
served
to
establish
sour ^holdings
is about $23.50/ 'or '5Pr
pipe Jines
natural gas as. one. of the most proximately the price at which.
Gas

Pipe

„

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these and
; ln^'
are conj-

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as

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offer to buy,

any

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an,offer to sell,.or ./ J'
security referred to herein.)
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circumstances to be construed

solicitation of

as

Continued,

on page

^Incorporated

;

j-.j,

a 22% interest in'The ne\y
gathehihg ^y^tem ,:qf/XJas;
;K

National Quotation Bureau
./ •/•.- Established■ 1913

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as

varying

In recent
•

common

mence

billion cubic feet of

of 25

natural

v

totalling

reserves

million

excess

Digitronics

Record

purchase/ of

In ad- States. Nonetheless, it will be the. Petroleums and on July 15,'1960 /. Over-the-Counter quotations. ,•
dition, through its Merichem Divi- only asbestos processing facility if took over the Canadian propersion,
it produces, cresylic .acid in the western part of the coun-./ties of Phillips Petroleum; and 'v- vWrite or call: J777./7
from petroleum by-products for >try.
'7
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/' Sunray Mid-Continent Oil. It is
WILLIAM B. DANA CO.
;
use in the manufacture of plastics ,■
Earnings of "Asbestos" for. 1962 the second largest natural gas
25 Park Place/////:/7^';;
and other hydrocarbon. ' Its Oil .are difficult to esthuate; but M7C°"ipany and the eighth largest •
and Gas Division is believed„to full capacity net per, share may 1 oil company 'in Canada. It is a
7^:7"; New York 7, N. Y.777.'/
2.2

& Hoist

•

Texas,

Bank & Quotation

using the Frasch process.

in:

•

deposits ;in

leased

erates

securities early in

19

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CONTENTS

Outlook for Business and
Interest. Rate Structure

Articles and News

By Dr. James J. O'Leary,* Vice-President and Director of Economic
Research, Life Insurance Association of America, New York City
Dr.

Association, evaluates the economy's

and, in

course

Economic

Strength—John E

AND

Again

}

Swearingen__:_____.._

probable near-future

take

Cover

our

Outlook for Business and Interest Rate
Structure

of the forces of expansion leads him

—James J. O'Leary

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quarter but that the expansion will be brisker in the
first half than in the latter half of the year. As for the general level
of interest rates, they are
on.

moves

Remove

expected to become firmer as .the year

short-term, rates

than

showing more strength

at this time of

is. always true

there is no scarcity of fore¬
casts regarding the outlook for
general business conditions and

year,

the

money

and

U; S.

running at

was

of

GNP

risen

had

first

has

eral Reserve Board's

for

1962,

as

James J.

O'Leary

that
rising demands for loanable funds
'.and

will exert moderate upward pres¬
sures

the

on

gep^r^l level of in¬

rates/'

terest

this

appraising

In

in

December

on

market
forecasters
falls short of perfection. Consen¬
sus
is not a guaranty of the ac¬

is

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seasonally

a

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in line with the pattern of the

earlier

cyclical upturns
experienced
since
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expansion., However, it is .well to/
payments continue to rise in com¬
remember that-our market system.,
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billion.- By the third quarter of
appraise the prospects for, the
1961
the * inventory
picture had
balance of the year and beyond.
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My remarks will be divided business inventories being accu¬
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view of the genera] business ex¬
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billion, a' rate which continued in
pansion in 1961; (2) an analysis the fourth
quarter.- This shift of
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During
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employment of our civilian labor
force.
Although the unemploy¬
ment rate was sticky, it declined
from 6.8%
in February to 6.1%

some

the year wears
on,

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registering a substantial
of nearly
13% in 1961.

possibly

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Taking Another Look at Investing in Real Estate

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broadly based expan¬
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billion,

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OBSERVATIONS...
BY A.

from

emanating

proxy
material
the investors in

ad¬

issues

mitted, to that Exchange. As re¬
ported by the Gilberts, Martin J.

WILFRED MAY

Vice-President in Charge
Exchange's listing
machinery, replied to such request

Keena,

of the American
from

WATSON, THE NEEDLED

of

stockholder

a

Milner,

fully

a

Crowley

listed

issue,

as

follows:
that you would be among the first
to champion the right of these
stockholders in this respect and

post-meeting re¬
port stated: 'This report on the
highlights of the meeting is
being sent to all stockholders

"I.B.M.?s (poor)

employees so that*
not able to at¬

I.B.M.

and

those

-who

tend

the

to

are

will

meeting

know

place.'
—
Thens
why did you
leave the questions out?
When
we
sent for the transcript we
found
they were
many
and
took

what

worth

and

more

a

chairman

who

to their

ques¬

question of identifying the stock¬
holders taking part in the annual
from the floor.'—Mr. Watson's / meeting discussion, it is Manage¬
name appeared
would
no less than 31 i. ment's thought that this
add nothing of substance to the
times in the post-meeting re¬
post-meeting
report and would
port."
This

needling

typical

is

ex¬

cerpted from the 22nd annual re¬
port to their corporate co-owners,
of their 1961 activities just pub¬

(286 pages with index) by
those fiery leaders of the volun¬
lished

pro-stockholder

teer

Lewis

D.

of

the

This

above.

at,

to

stockholder
Boston

from

junior-

the

i.e.

opening paragraph
year's opus is pref¬

aced with 12 pages
of themselves and

doings

and

John,

brother

partner
"we"

Gilbert

vigilantes,

of photographs
their

coterie's

and from, the 128
gatherings,
located
to
Chicago, which

they attend during the
spring
Meeting Season. Included is an
"action" picture of Carl Yastrzemski

in

his

Boston

fielder's uniform

Red

Sox

left-

deeply absorbed

in the Gilbert's

Report of how our
Corporate Boys hit last season.

would

meetings

interested

from

in

those

more

than in the affairs of the
pany." [Emphasis added.]

Basic Cause

The

of

com¬

Frustration

believer

in

the

orderly conduct
of an annual meeting of stock¬
holders. Of even greater impor¬

in addition there

...

luncheon

at

gan

9:30

stretching
hours.

with

a.m.

it

out

Most

justification for the
propelled needling,
and so far and wide, by our cor¬
porate Galahads is the intelligent
investor's
frustration
stemming

for

the

of

the

deep-rooted

status

til after 4:00

p.m.

The Gilbert maestros

ment

gives the

non-owner

gers

working

control

votes

of

the

- •>

■

holder

tabulation

in

the

case

of

a

co-introducer of

counting

the

a

champions

suffer

'

from

naturally

frustration

centuated through
marathoning.

The, InyestftrVoting Impotence
A

the

political battlers for
people's rights, our stock¬

the

the

individual

scattered

owners.

with

As

mana¬

over

"While

Thus

25

we

their

meeting

solidated Edison, we would sug¬
gest he resist the temptation to
argue

see

the

an

the corporate scene, with
current
points
of
battle

annual

meetings if he pays
more attention to parliamentary
technique and similar amenities,
such as passing out ballots when

SPERRY

RAN D—The Army

Called in
"Another example of how not to
an
annual meeting was

was

speakers
and
post-meeting re¬

photographs in
ports.
;■/;
'
In their propagandizing for the
issuance of a post-meeting report

the

Sperry Rand July session.
convened

hour

stated
made

to

meeting

promptly

but

no

the

read

at
attempt

notice

to ascertain the

or

Indiana

ing shareholders, the Gilberts use
their book for listing the compa¬
nies
which
issue " such
reports,
along with their evaluation in
three
categories:
"Honor Roll,"
"Intermediate," and "Poor." Their
comment
on
practically
every

ments, [sic] which in itself

abortive result: "Small stockhold¬
ers

will

feel

more

inclined

vote their stock if results

are

objectionable,
took

more

end

it

but the

than

.

"Instantly the meeting quieted
General Douglas MacArthur
forward

came

and

conducted

the

business portion of the meeting in
the proper fashion.

Brawling and Kissing in Chicago
The annual

meetings of Wilson

& Co. and Armour & Co.
cellent

examples

of

duct and not to conduct

meeting.

At

Wilson

was

in

the

Chairman

constant

asking

were

how

to

an

the

ex¬

con¬

annual

session

turmoil

because

resented

owners

questions. Chicago's
reported the proceed¬
follows:
valid

ings

as

"The staid meeting, featuring a
movie

Wilson

on

enlivened
break

tioning

at

operations,

the

end

by

was

out¬

an

by two stockholders ques¬
Judge John D. Cooney,

Chairman

and

Chief

Executive

Officer.
"Charles E. King asked the

whether
tions

Wilson's

were

foreign

judge

opera¬

insured under the State

Department's program against ex¬
propriation by foreign countries.
Judge Cooney said: 'If the occa¬
sion arises

will look into it.'

we

"King said 'that is like calling

an

insurance company after the house
on fire.' Judge Cooney cut him
off, saying 'don't ftiake a nuisance
of yourself, young man.'
"When King pressed for an an^
swer,
Cooney said, 'You've had
your questions, young man. Don't
make a nuisance of yourself.'
?
'Apparently,' replied King, 'the
Wilson
management
has
not
looked into it (the insurance ques¬
tion) as well as it might/

is

an

"

"

'You

can

be

sure

that Wilson

the

management is competent and has

pres¬

looked into these matters,' replied

was

not

procedure

hour and at its

Cooney.
"Then Edmond G. Levy, a stock¬
holder

from

think

stockholder ought to have

a

Milwaukee,

said

'I

right to ask a question. Those
to discuss the days when we assumed the di¬
knew
viewpoint,
and
air rectors
everything
are
such important matters as options, gone. I am complaining about your
the passing of the cash dividend attitude.'
and other topics.
company not earning their private
"The
stockholders
never
did
"Cum
Laude"
"Instead of this, President Harry find out whether the company had
degree cites the
deficiency arising from lack of F. Vickers announced a film would bought the insurance or intends
shareholder identification.
be shown.
Evelyn Y. Davis [a to. Certainly, after 'Castro,' says
handsome brunette]
was
rightly Gilbert, we can think of no more
THE ANNUAL MEETING
on
her feet saying it was time appropriate question from a share¬
Grading Our "Employees"
for
questions.
Mr. Vickers told holder."
They rate Bell and Howell's re¬ her it was not question time, and
Armour Has Learned Its Gilbert
port "Poor" because "while we [sic] Lewis Gilbert asked how long

to
re¬

was

time

few pictures the showing would take. On being
unfortunately told a half-hour, Mr. Gilbert de¬
it
be
tabled
until
the
President Charles Percy still has manded
glad to see
included,

were

a

shareholder

Lesson

a

were

resume

"Mr.
dence

King

was

Armour

at

equally in evi¬
& Co., asking

a

of the questions is equally

important."

EST.

Also

rated

by

crusader-

our

authors is the conduct of the
nual

©

meeting itself, with

list of

a

an¬

Japanese Securities

master

107 "Executives Who

Con¬

ducted

Meetings
Well."
Their
criteria
presents willingness to
give information to their com¬
pany's owners and besides the

1870

timeworn attacks
on

on

compensation

items in the category of com¬

pany manners running the gamut
from well-working microphones to

Correspondents inprincipal cities

comfortable

throughout the United States and Canqda

chairs

to

that

pressible interest in Lunch.

cating,
retain

UNDERWRITERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

zeal

however,
some

for

the

that

balance
latter

of NEW YORK, INC.

irre¬

Indi¬

they

midst

is

YAMAICHI SECURITIES COMPANY

still
their

their

Brokers and Investment Bankers

en¬

dorsement of the following kudo
for the R.C.A. Chairman, in the

OF INVESTMENT SECURITIES

account by Charles M. Sievert in

the

Affiliate of

World

Telegram and Sun:
approximately 2,200
stockholders at. the R.C.A. annual

"There

&

,

an¬

picture

and

was

a quorum. Various officers
called upon to make state¬

for the benefit of the non-attend¬

usual

of

It

the

of

ence

Vickers

motion

<

conduct

of

consultation

a

Mr.
the

would be postponed.

easier time at

individuals at the Standard Oil of

with the

.

"President Merkle of Madison
Fund will have

were

meeting,

.

have so many experts
today' should be avoided."

identification

proposal for
of voting

.

we

here

prominently including the lunch
provisions at meeting, and the

number

with his shareholders
such as 'I'm glad to

comments

on

their

of Con¬

their

extensive side -tracking to relative
trivia

Harland

asked to do so."

understand

can

also

—ac¬

not reached the conclusion that

Dominigk

YAMAICHI SECURITIES CO., LTD.

were

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not at

are

generally like the
C. Forbes,

we

of

that

American

Chairman of the Board

spectators,

of

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nearly

stockholders

doggedly through the entire
proceeding neglecting the lunch¬
eon provided by the company un¬

conduct

ended
up
with less
than 3% of the delegates' votes.
our corporate system where, under
the proxy technique, the separa¬ And, of course, there is similar
analogy in the Filibuster field.
tion
of ownership and manage¬
from

ported by stockholders as well as
overall fairness
to
all by shares. Wide voting is desir¬
Participation helps to in¬
stockholders present so that all able.
who wish to do so may participate crease personal interest.
In
in the
meeting in an orderly addition, voting of the stock helps
tell the management how accept¬
manner
and with due regard to
The cost
the rights of the other stock¬ able its policies are.
holders to be heard. They should would be minor. The figures are
not be deprived of this right be¬ already available."
cause of the lack of knowledge of
As a timely coincidence in view
technical rules which may not be of the American Stock Exchange's
understood by the great majority cufrent
state
of
suspension is
of the stockholders attending a the Gilbert volume's citation of
[sic] normal meeting. I am sure intelligent individuals' demands

/

questions

After

counsel,

nounced

no

sat

Nominating Convention in
Los Angeles, where Mr. Stevenson
although the recipient of most of
the noise from the demonstrating

in

Dominick

was

The meeting be¬

recess.

dential

main

The

increasingly

tance is the conduct of the meet¬

ing

manage¬
to persist

plight of an un-franchised major¬
ity at the 1960 Democratic Presi¬

companies
com¬
paring the number of individual
The needling is not entirely a proxies cast with the correspond¬
one-way street with all corporate ing aggregate of votes, shows the
executives'
panicked
by
these former as proportionately far in
highly
articulate
parliamentary excess of the latter.
The Gilbert book quotes Ed¬
experts. For example, Secretary
Ben Rawlins of U. S. Steel replied ward L. Gordy of Evanston, 111.,

assured that I am a firm

1961* continued

—

representative

may be

Electric

"General

all stingy about giving gratuitous
Aggressions"—
advice
sometimes
larded
with
including their unceasing agitation
threats—to their proteges on how
for cumulative voting.*
We
were
reminded
of
this to run the meeting.

Sassing Mr. Gilbert Back

to their complaint concerning his
opposition to the- use of Roberts
Rules of Order as follows: "you

cuse

of

end

debated.

with

"Gilbert

the

for

publicity

personal

the

More Lunch Trouble

absurdity of providing only
microphone.
Attracted - by
executive price fixing convictions
2,686
shareowners
packed
the
Onondaga War Memorial in Syra¬

curing this
situation so candidly admitted by
the negligent Exchange, justifies
the use of, and the actual need
Surely

-

-

in the

affect the election of directors."

•

O th

-

one

of

vote

a

business of -the

.*.the.box luncheon: transacted.

.

two

ment in

minority stockholders would not

tend to encourage comment at an¬

nual

that

mean

Thursday,-March 6, 1962

meeting had been
e r ' stockholders
sandwiches, an egg and joined in the.fray-and it was soon
imple dessert could not have been evident that independent share¬
"'e big- attraction.
We
think, holders present at the meeting
honestly, that Gen* Sarnoff and wanted business and not a motion
his handling of the affair was the picture.
Pandemonium prevailed
big attraction ... hedging at no for fifteen minutes as the pro- and
time and giving stockholders a anti
management viewpoints on
this subject of shareholder rights
complete but brief answer."

of

state:

proxy,

a

the largest

spread: over

NBC Studio..

;

supplies

company

.

Commenting on other manage¬
ments' performance in 1961, they

.

postmeeting reports thus: "As to the

report summar¬
ization:
'following the
movie
Mr. Watson answered questions

practice

such
and
shareholders
desiring to vote
may still do so by sending in
their
own
proxy'—and, more
shockingly:
• :
;
^
"Even
if the
company
has
solicited proxies, the fact that
a
majority of the outstanding
shares are held by interests as¬
sociated
with
management

Railroad responded

major offensive for

the

been

stockholders with

tioners' identification in the

atten¬

the

if

would
u£e 11 his'' knowledge-' of
parliamentary rules to the disad¬
vantage
of such
stockholders."
[Emphasis added.]
■
f
Again,
needling
the Gilberts
in-reverse, the management of the

Pennsylvania

than your

tion

of

not

.

was

of the company to solicit proxies
for its stockholders' meetings ...

.

Thomas J. Watson,

varied

critical

be

"It has

meeting

-.

NEW YORK
•

Stock Exchange ("The Levy Committee")
recommends, the de-listing of all issues,
whether presently fullv listed or enjoying
unlisted trading privileges.

111

BROADWAY, NEW YORK 6

COrtlandt 7-5900

Volume 195

Number 6140

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

,

(1157)

5

was made that
there Coach, now committing mayhem ing of the American Telephone equivalent extent' as specified in
three, but management re¬ on New York City's bus riders, and Telegraph Company, held in the accompanying' table.*
to identify them by name. The antics were reported thus:
Chicago for the first time, at'
'
stagger system. Here,
Average
"John A. Moreland, President of tracted some 20,000 shareholders,
however; William .Wood Prince, He asked if the President had cut
interval
p*j jndsa^teH
Prediction
Chairman of the Board, thanked his salary in view of the poor 1960 Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc. thus outdrawing by a good margin 1960-61 -1__
-j- 4%
+0.2%
Mr. King; for his viewpoint, an¬ earnings. The answer was no.
had hardly gaveled th6 embattled the
Chicago
White
Sox
who 1959-60 IlII
-^5.0 "
-f 6
"In view of the fact that a Por¬ bus operator's annual meeting to opened their baseball season the 1958-59 _HI
swered his questions, and saw to
4-32
—1.0
it that everyone was quoted fairly ter, division was mentioned in the order than all was disorder; The previous week.

prodding
cal

questions

Admission-

intelligent

as

should "and properly criti¬

owners

were,

the

of

fused

.

and properly identified in the
pany's post-meeting report."

famous

com¬

"rigged

bid"

Holbert first told

THIOKOL

Management

—

case,

Markowitz raised the subject.

Still

Mr. real uproar began when
holder

Mr.

feet.

Markowitz

Mr.

he should tell him

."Annoying"

.

.

.

stock-

Time

his

to

rose

Gilbert

draw

were

dividends

running

from his seat and

moved

when

was

shareholders

Shouting 'point of informa'point .of: information.' Mr.

tion,'

'to go to hell'
because he asked too many ques¬
.

Gilbert

John

of

the

and

*Cf.
"Observations," "Chronicle," Feb.
26, 1959; March i, iWO; March 19, 1961.,

American
content to

leave

And again this year,

the

to

company

the

management.

the disper-

sion of the forecasts as well as
their range confirmed the impOssibility of forecasting (at least of

But they are no
longer So passive
The prospect
0f being grilled at the next an- the-Averages)—and suggests the
tion
nual meeting is certainly a factor experts'
expectable results
as
post-meeting .report of Thiokol. replied that the company execu¬
,.;"]LJnfprtu^tely -fqr-Mr. filbert,, that management must take into P°Pfer than the toss ota,.coin, (By
Fortunately, Howard D. Sterling tives were indicted and tried in two other stockholders had the account.
For some the annual way of an. embarrassing "P: S.,"
[another understudy]
of
New Philadelphia; that price fixing was same idea at the same time. Max meeting is a modern form of tor- y°ur columnist happened to win
York, was able to attend the 1961 not the policy of the company; Beller, a chunky man in a brown ture for which they have to be the blue ribbon again this year,
annual : meeting
and inaugurate that the involved employees were suit, tried to grab the 'mike' in an weli drilled in advance... .But... dressing a D.-J. close of 717.31 vs.
effort to put management's slate
the long-needed prodding of man¬ still on the payroll."
they maintain a stoical smile reai- the actual performance target of
"For

years we have been tions.
(There should probably be made a bee-line for the microby the scanty informa¬ even more since it seems to bother phone reserved for stockholders'
contained Jn
the so-called management so much.)
Then he use out in the-middle of the floor,
some

.

.

.

annoyed

.

in the

agement

of manage¬
relations.

nomination

and

izing

The Old "If You Don't Like It"—

Joseph Romano, an attorney hold¬
ing a proxy for 10 shares, begged
"Mr. Holbert
then asked
Mr. to be heard on the question of
Markowitz if his shares werefor where
management had
got its
sale and

enough

no business
of the
shareholders have gone for good."

held

on April 20, 1961. I am
to* say that I have never
experienced a meeting which

sorry

money

their

.

man

directors and the

the

posed

did

identify themselves as to
position, or stockholding.
one

could not

they
gally

stockholders

were

authorized

name,

Thus,

to

if

le¬

or

propose

directors

of

a
at

.

MARKET EXPERTS'

Joins Richard J. Buck
seated up front.
There were re¬
FORECASTING DERBY
allegations of fraud
in
properly our employees (the man¬ peated
Richard J. Buck & Co., 4 Albany
The 1961-'62 Race
agers) into the correct postures. management's voting of proxies.
Street, New York City, memoer*
For example, they report that John Gilbert drew prolonged apOnce again the financial writers of the New York Stock Exchange,
Mr.
Lewis Gilbert put Mr. Ed¬ Plause
when he shouted,
This have exhibited over-caution in have announced that Adolph M.
ward
G.
The stormy market forecasting.
Uhl, Fairchild Stratos meeting is illegal.
As in past Gross has joined the firm as a
new
President,' recently
trans¬ interruptions of the chairman by years, the 1961-62 box, score of registered representative,
ferred from
Martin
Co., in his stockholders continued almost un- the results in the prediction conproper
place:
"Let
him
learn abated for about an hour."
conducted annually by East-

not

ascertain

even

other

and

Hayes Co,

j

time for the Gilbertians to harness

who pro¬

one

resolution

President

Sometimes it takes considerable

who nominated the

R

*

Haring Street.

forms of verbal abuse assailed the

'The

;

Form R. J.

holding owner's employees, i.e., liam Street, New York City,
the managers, will unionize to protec*
interests, may be far off.
House of Inv. Opens
Meanwhile, however, the indis- RRnmrTVM ^ v
House
pensable investor education in this
i
vital area will proceed slowly but Investors Inc. is, engaging in
securities business from offices
surely,
2645

less well conducted/

proxy.

^

+

Hayes & Company Incorpo.
rated, is engaging in a securities
The day when you, the share- business from offices at 27 Wil-

"
stock
rather
than
try to match over the 'mike'
[Editorial Note —John Gilbert
change what they do not like by
'I was not given time to vote asking questions and airing issues." normally weighs in at 15 lbs. less
than brother Lewis.]
for the directors, though I was
TEACHING OUR "EMPLOYEES"
"Catcalls, threats, and other
a
duly authorized voter and
DISCIPLINE
was

717.27.)

were

*

told he did not have

was

that the days when the
operations of the comr

pany

quorum, for the meeting. All three
to buy them. We collided at the microphone. Messrs.
often wonder why some execu¬ GilbHt and Beller shouting all the
tives think people are going to sell way got caught up in a wrestling

'As you probably know, I at¬
tended the annual meeting that

.

internal

Way Out

"Afterwards, Mr. Sterling sent a
strong letter of complaint to Pres¬
ident J. W. Crosby.

you

in

directors

of

field

ment-shareholder

.

a

resolution.
'The acoustics of the room, in
which
the meeting was
held,

President

from

Fairchild

John

Camera.

Carter

It

took

further

For

of

characterization

American Diversified

of

man

the transit company's meeting

Mr.

DiH0n,

Union

Securities

&

(in
Mike Quill had

Co.

those testifying,

vanced from 648.9 to 717.27, an

N. Y. — James J.
Carter time, too. We warned Mr. which union czar
estimation of the stock market's Mokhiber is engaging in a secuSterling called our atten¬
no
Uhl prior to the meeting that if
rities business from offices at 53
paHj+^ur authors cite the late ac+ual rise
tion tp the
importance, that proper he
Cliirttinf Avenue; under the firm
^
J
thought in terms of Martin N. Y^State Supreme Court Justice
bus transportation be arranged for
*n the interval from Feb. 15, name of ? American Diversified
management-shareholder relations Epstein's decision nullifying the
Thiokol owners. The meeting site
his thoughts were not ours. Share¬ meeting (later reversed), ex- 1961 to the same date this year, Funds.*
is, qiiite -far,; from the Trenton,
holders want more than a picture cerpted as followsthe terminal date of the'Race,-the ....
New Jersey, railroad station."
"The testimony' (John
of the President.
There was
Gilbert Dow-Jones Industrial Average adabominable.'

were

•

.

"Mr.

.

H.

K.

PORTER—Still

Un-Recon-

structed Non-Gilbertians

:

"H. K. Porter management pro¬
vided another example of how not
to
conduct
an
annual
meeting.
Shareholder

Hyman Markowitz
directors were
(President C. L. Holbert

how

asked

present
and

C.

two

in

formed
for

W.

many

Veatch

attendance)
that

it

meeting.

and

the

only

was

in¬

not necessary
be present at the

was

directors to

poorer

were

We

cannot

management

imagine
shareholder

not

line

a

about

.

debate

had

on

the

this

the

and

of

minutes

said meeting reveal that the meetwas
chaotic, unmanageable
'disgraceful'
There is no
question that Fifth Avenue's door-

and

in

current Gilbert bible:

.

.

.

keepers, who checked stockholders
"Attempts to ignore stockholder and
proxies for admission, allowed
rights at annual meetings will al¬
many
persons - into
the meeting
ways be met with forceful action who
were neither stockholders nor
and
ers

language if independent
such

ducted

which

ourselves

as

tendance.

annual

in

are

define

We

own¬

holders of proxies.

at¬

meetings

as

There is

some

question whether the microphone^

well-con¬

went 'dead' at

those

there

presided over fairly and
learn much impartially by the Chair."

-

among

Note)

ing
appears

warning

been

—Ed.

in the comments."

And

are

is

Beller,

critical time.

a

doubt

no

that

one

Bur

the senior Gilbert

corporations

nual

far-flung

were

in

the

"red."

to at¬
posture.
This conclusion was vividly sub¬
stantiated at the May 8, 1961 an¬
tain

the

Elder

meeting

manages

Statesman

of

ALBANY,

Fifth

Avenue
.

confusion

amid
even

Bradford Financial Corporation is
°* the 38 entries was down at 680, engagihg in a securities business

equivalent to a rise of only 4.6/0.
Similarly, underestimated was the
Pow_ " Jones Railroad Average
(performance, 143-149.3—average
of the predictions 145.4); and the
D.-J. Utilities Average (market
performance 116.0-129.1
age prediction, 116.0).
The

in

aver-

offices

from

355

at

,

Lexington

Avenue, New York City,

Form l>1*UC6, Franklin
Franklin & Co.,

Bruce,

formed with

jjeen

Broadway,

previous

years
erred—on the cautious side—to an
guesses

the

which

.

New

a

City

York

Martin D. Schechter)
in

Inc.

has

offices at 1475

(c/o

to engage

securities business,

.

We

are

pleased

to announce

us

of

SIDNEY J. SANDERS

presiding officer."
as

THE

the association with

shocked
a

Vice President

"NET"

What is the end result of all the

FOSTER & MARSHALL

activities and agitation of the Gil¬
bert

cohorts.

the

Do

antics

pay
INC.

off?

Trading in Foreign Securities?

15raciiorci Financial

kut .-P1® av?rilSf

a^?nc^Q°^

a

.

Thomas Mellon Evans may
think this is good stockholder re¬
lations.
We
do
not.
He
asked
which divisions of the

under-

Max

retired poultry dealer to
relations. Directors can
whom the term 'hireling' or paid
from [sic again] owners.
Gilbert and his cohorts are dis¬ 'stooger' for Fifth Avenue's man¬
"Mr. Markowitz requested that pensable in the
living-up of stock¬ agement may well be applied
Directors H. A. Eggerss and W. S. holder
meetings at times of the did forcibly take the microphone
Landes own more stock. The Chair company's
difficulties, perhaps from a stockholder, read a list of
replied it was not the policy of with a cut or passe dividend, names as nominees for directors,
the company that directors own amidst a
fight for control (when and. a vote called and tabulated
stock.

substantial

.

the

cumulative ;voting or identifica¬
tion of the shareholder participa¬
tion

reveals

It is

our

long-considered opinion

that the machinations do

serve

.

Investment Bankers

the

communal interest in

GERMAN

-

DUTCH

-

ENGLISH—you

With direct cable connections

to

name

offsetting the
public's basic lack of interest and

it

knowledge regarding their status,
rights, and obligations as invest¬
ing mwners.

offices in—

FRANKFURT

performed at the
annual
meeting,
the
boisterousness
is

PANAMA

HONG

PARIS

MADRID

sanctimonious

SAN

LONDON

welcome

ROME

KONG

aided

JUAN

by

gyration,
investor

porate
to

meets

the

foreign securities
trading desk; just dial—WHitehall 4-4732.
our

meeting

and

its

implica¬

tions, has been spelled out in the
London Economist thus (May 27,
1961):
:
,-7:V"•
.

"In

MERRILL LYNCH*

I

P t EftCEjt FEIMIMER& SMITH
70 PINE




STREET, NEW YORK 5,-N. Y.

Koeller Air Products, Inc.
594

Lexington Avenue

Clifton, New Jersey

the conduct of the American cor¬

selling foreign securities.
call

and
ad

awakening.
intelligent
impression from
abroad of the long-term change in

feel particularly well-qualified to provide
help and information when it comes to buying

direct

reducto

of

An

we

a

sort

a

decadent

to

stuffiness;

for

need

For

contrast

absurdum

TORONTO

or

Teletype SE 673

Telephone MAin 4-4550

As

MONTREAL

GENEVA

Seattle 4, Washington

1505 Norton Building

and May thousands
of Americans indulge in the largeJ fy seasonal pastime of attending,
tthie* annual ih.eefingV o| the com¬
panies in which they own shares

~

I INI C
;

—

*
,

a

April

sport' that has beeii

in popularity.

gaining
This year's meet-

Has contracted for the

purchase of the Morris-

ville, Pa. and Newark, New Jersey operations of
Wall

Gases, Inc.—one of the large independent
of acetylene, gas in the East.

manufacturers

major step in the company's-program to
growing demands of industrial gases and

This is the first

meet

the

oxyacetylene for welding and cutting equipment.

Alfred H:

• •*.* *

Koeller; Jrr, President.

6

The Commercial and Financial

(1158)

ChronicleThursday, March 8, 1962

National Stock Exchange
rj

on
Yesterday
since

marked the

debut of the

nation's

1929, and the first under the SEC, in

listings from the

first

stock

Over-tha-Counter Market. The National Stock Ex¬

change's Chairman, Lawrence H. Taylor, initiated
1958,

which

have

and

mambers

baen

successfully

culminated

potential of 401 in what is

a

now

trading mart and the third for New York City.
the

on

exchange

bid to draw qualifying

a

studies

in

114

with

June,

j

charter

the country's 14th

Trading is patterned

specialist system of the NYSE and is centered around two

trading "posts" capable of handling up to 100 issues each

before

requiring additional "posts." A network of tickers carries quotations
throughout the nation.
The

National

third

Stock

New

for

►

its

Exchange,
City and

York

lowing

appointive commissions,
Commissioner;' and
holder of numerous high offices

officals of the

of

New

ernment.

U.

the

new

York,

nedy

exchange, the
the State of

in

of The

four-year
trading.

National Stock

Issues

400

well

Presidents

as

of

since

the

of

will

The
has

National

been

York

Stock

sponsored

the

•

>

New

Taylor

busiest

floor

of

the

is

no

The ' Na¬

of

holders

public. Net worth

that

The

brought into being

to

up

.

years

from

noted. From 1951 to 1961 the

last year.

-

-

-

.

,

Another barombter of

-

Jin

which

-

»

that

only

the

initial

n

at

04.

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and

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in

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press

coverage

tional tape as

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NEW

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YORK

STREET

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companies+tbat: wish, Jo.

their

T

,

achievement of

1-ncrea-s^ Public interest j
securities as well as
the

In

.

his

,

-

view

Effective MARCH 7,
common

stock

will

ba traded

on

stocks

the

on

Exchange will

the

NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE
(Ticker Symbol: CAMP)

Self

view
-

of

Exchange seat is a
prerequisite to National Stock' Ex¬
change membership. The price of
such seats has recently been in
the vicinity of $9,400.
Exchange
officials

note

that

there

"treasury"' ^seats

99

remain

on" the

at

all

Stock

To-qualify: for

•

National

must meet

National.-

the

.

televi•

.

,

a

;

:

and

-

financial

be allowed to trade

ments to

requirements to ;act

specialists are
liquid assets.;,

of

dedicate
The

Exchange. It 'is

stock trading floor

History

installed

were

a

RfeqpiremcnT^9^
$50,000

at

set

National:

of

-Thepossibility-

Board

soundproofed

ceiling
,

,

.

,

were

.
,

these benefits

accrue

a

per-

i

of

the

:

Lawrence

tionnaires

6,000

ques¬

sent out to

mejn-

program,

of

bers
The

were

the

response

in

a

securities

showed

industry.
a

marked

securities

new

y

The Common Stock Of

-

a

TV DEVELOPMENT CORP.
has been admitted

HNATIONAL

to companies

to

trading

STOCK

on

the

EXCHANGE

which list their

dealers
2nd

AVENUE

&

13th

STREET, BROOKLYN 15, NEW YORK

who

trading

activities

•




FARM

♦

INDUSTRY

the

Specialist

System

•

•

RESORT

the specialist

-•

Employed

on

TVD

,

"

■J

DEVELOPMENT

TV

CORPORATION

system, and has been

primarily patterned after the
tem

"Ticker Symbol:

i

in¬

Trading on The National Stock
Exchange is carried on through

CHEMICAL SPECIALTIES
HOME

to

vesting public at large."

LEADING MANUFACTURERS OF
SEWAGE CHEMICALS

FOR

and

sys¬

developed and presently used

the New York Stock
Exchange".

469
MENEOLA

'•

H.

The Na¬
who in¬

We Are Pleased To Announce That

that

New

the

Exchange. Under

of

now Chairman of
Stock Exchange,

interest

.

J

Taylor,
itiated

officers and other Exchange

stocks, to member
participate in our

;

...

tolcony ;»verlooking_the floor of
11? National Stock Exchange, for
*

direction

the

Stock

purpose

'

of

Governors

of

cjaijy

Installed r
'

today the'

National

our

a

"

the:, Exchange

tional

orderly
and
respected
public securities market. To these
we

as

>

..

York Mercantile

healthy,

operations

;

forming a
kas- taken well over a year, ac-; new securities:
exchange. fori New 'r".v
-pofding to Exchange officials. Ex-- York City was first explored in
tepsiye'' wire, cable systems ;Jfor June, 1958, by a. committee pf the

in

to

the

require-

specific

.

which

essential

are

of

tain

The physical revamping of the
of

cost

additional membership is nominal
but the applicant must meet cer-

clbaring^^ member;; "

.

into

and dif-J;
requirements •

The

Trans-Lux

investing! public.
"discipline,:self - regulation-

information

Stock

separate

membership

of

net

,

the

ferent

standardization and full disclosure
of

:

Mercantile: Exchange m e m b e r s

further

Mr. ';?nnnp1

times

New

Exchange, since £
its by-laws provide'for* 500 maxi*'d
mum;
There are nine such seats J

York t Mercantile

the

objectives

CHEMICAL CO.,

be

York

New

Purchase of

who trade
full

CAWII*

the

seats

Mercantile

a

listed and the member dealers
on
The National Stock

are

1962,

that

York

Offices- have been built on

Taylor stated, "It is significant in
our

poten¬

a

up for sale by the
Board of
Governors at $10,000 each.

trading floor."

■

w>r

remarks

opening

mem¬

Natiional

The

This is the number of

first, during structural changes to
the edifice. Then an inlaid vinyl
ntc floor, panelled walls and spe-

offers corporations

.

114

are

of

visible simultane-

their ]basethrough wider
of their
secunt.es>oncommunications

public acceptance accorded
to issues that have been
carefully
~examined by The National Stock

Y.

New

and

ground- floor

di stribution

in

'

491 Members

Mercantile Exchange.

for

s

,

a-

Exchange and chosen for listing.

our

Stock

Exchange, there is

existing

*

Exchange, the Nawell as those of the

twin

on

•

9^ Exchangejs^ equally sigpifjV..

■

of

there

present

tial of 401.

-of the

light of exchange regulatory

procedures and scrutiny.

at

Stock

sion scanners, visible from all parts

added

WEST

now

,

t-

Although

bers

Sets

A network of tickers carried the-

rnar?Exchanges- are

«rGf
listed han§estatus

Report Available;

LEASING CREDIT CORPORATION
440

Exchange,

National

opening day's trades to all parts Exchange, membership, New Yprk

-

he nationwide market offered
by

Aiiniizl

The

now

Ticker Network

formerly available
the over-the-counter

•

Symbol: LCC

private wise

100' additional outlets

,:Jh® _opemng pf The National; building
Ticker

200

i : J" ''

.

Exchange^-tra4ing As-,by- public

the

NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE

traders, The

have already been taken, necessi-

auction, and is performed in the
full

on

of floor

tons;J "it was pointed out by Exchange officials at the opening that

securities

in

of

trading

use

Stock Exchange. has in-

ttonal. Stock

ticker

LEASING CREDIT CORP.
admitted to

200

°f the nation,"and through news
Sm'
"j
.wiresthe figures were carried to
Th^yN^ionat-j Stoek- ..Exchange financial editors throughout .the
will serve investors by
bringingUnitect:. States^ For,'the informa^mi anoPPO^nrty *<?trade on k
legulated exchange with.national rti0n:,ef: floor traders on The Na-

"everything

had doubled in the past 10
years."

announce

100 isof

total

stantlv available by pushing but-

to4 by

a*}n"a^ 7 iwFvnfti)
fSfifT f
^

American

to

up

a

increased--beinff installed';

pointed

pressure

When

stalled newly designed telephones
with five private wires in-

-geographic basis.'

been

Mercantile

of

Potential

cen-

"posts"

each

Taylor was the number-of
SEC registrations becoming effec-

result

j

has

p0r the

National

-tating

,

trading

issues is reached, two new posts
will be erected.
''.■J:/;?.:-'.'"'?""
-■ ■

num-

.

each.

sues4

6,500,000 in
present, he

at

two

capable of handling

S., share-

U.

15,000,000

National

as a

an;-ever-expanding

the Common Stock

York

organization
Exchange.
sponsor

the National is

on

around

Mr.

pleased, to

Taylor, Chairman; John J. Scanlan,
Llewellyn Watts,
Jr., Member
of
Governors, National Stock Exchange,

,

ber of-shares of companiesMisted

i

are

io

would
ahead,

„

noted

economy

ing guide its destinies throughout

We-

is

1952

financial

of

of

Chairman New

and

Super¬

Bonliag,

ered

everything

double again in the
The
number, of

of the. relentless financial pressures

Exchange building at 6
Harrison Street, Manhattan.
Help¬

Board

Woodson: .Broughton,

Activity

growth,

and

cantile

President;

trading

of

Stock Exchange had been planned

Mer¬

the

He stated that at the present rate

At the inaugural ceremonies. Mr.

-

Mercantile

built: ground

it

generally be from $500,000 up.

,

Exchange, the
commodity mart,
and it occupies the
completely re¬
City's

Fred

are:

Trading;

the

of

H.

rence

seen

as

floor

of

one

:

Exchange

by

right,

to

Floor

about

In addition to the three basic
on the New York Stock
Exchange
requirements, according to Chair¬ had jumped from 2,500,000,000 to
man Lawrence H. Taylor, a listed
just over 7,000,000,000. And the
company must meet additional re* number of shares traded annually
quirements as to earning capacity, on the New York Stock Exchange
stability,t and management per¬ had increased from about 500,000,formance;
:
T; .000 in 1956 to -over 1,000,000,000

the

Securities and Exchange Commis¬
sion in 1933.
'1! t;1 ft

listed

Exchange for stocks

the hands of the

Exchange is

left
of

Exchange

trading

Vice-President} Stanley Siegel, Director of In¬
formation; Alfred Joseph, Vice-President; Law¬

the

it will accept for listing are 500
stockholders, and 100,000 shares in

,

creation

is

Stock

organized since 1929 and is the
onty; new exchange to be franchised

it

requirements

securities mart to be

new

posts,

day

over-the-counter stock.

tional

com¬

...

The National Stock

the first

an

Basic

panies listed for trading and The
Stock
Exchange's
114
'

part from

Gathered

visor

National

Stock

decorated

a
stock
must
meet
requirements, and of

once

longer

National

members.

Exchange.

inaugural

National

newly

counter market; To
listing on a securities

numerous

community

The

of

the

-

a

course

guests frofriu

New York's financial

tjie

exchange,

trading at

of

-

achieve

the

on5

for the most

over

inception

traded

Exchange's

came

newly-launched Exchange
opening day ceremonies that
began at 10:30 a.m. and culminated

as

Staff

Stock

for

preparations

were

Roosevelt

D.

Listing Requirements

At the

a.m.

Franklin

on

the open¬
H.
Taylor,

for

the

the

Administration.

Exchange, who has spear-headed
its

SEC

over

Lawrence

Chairm a n

on

former

the Federal Gov¬

Presiding

was

11:00

counsel

adviser to President John F. Ken¬

-

New York and

with

as

S.,> in¬

for.

augurated

ing

period

trading March 7 fol¬
ceremonies that involved

fourteenth

City

incubation

has been James M. Landis, recent

JERICHO

TURNPIKE
LONG

ISLAND

ex-

•W»JM**»W*ii»V

Volume

195

Number

-

change, to be located
York City: ; •'*/•

in

New

/'V

The enthusiasm of the response
was
such- that
immediate steps
-;

-

taken to

were

tential

investigate the po¬
-fully and to study

more

.

and means'to put the proj¬
to motion.
A .franchise, was

ways
ect

f

received

the

from

Securities' and

Exchange7* Commission for T h e
National/.Stock Exchange7 on Aug;
16, 1960^ alter over* two - years1 of
study and preparation; The" Ex^
change organized hn~ April 27 of
that

under

year

corporation
New

York

the anembefshila

laws'of; .the: State: of
as

a

membership -

The Commercial

6140

cor-,

poration.;

and Financial Chronicle

Street; Rolf R. Roland of Model;
Roland
Co., 120
Broadway;
Harry Ross,. Ross,./Lyons .& Co..
41! Fast- 42nd ' Street;
Robert! J.
Seigel of Brand, Grumet & Saigel,

,

Mr. Taylor pointed out that the

staff

'V

.

James
a

K.

Hart

has

been

•

elected

.Vice-President of The Lehman

Corporation,
1 ...William
Street;
New York. City, it was announced
b

■

Mr.

charged with

e

Mr.--

1961, as
executive:

:

'the

those he

He:*;was-

Broughton is in charge : of
companies and liaison with

a

Vice-President

sistant

•

>
.

from the

comes

James K. Hart

senior

visor.

Of

Fred

.

floor

the

accountant

Bonhag,

he

York

super¬

Supervisor

trading, also

New

where

and

;from

comes

Stock

Exchange
the Depart¬

in

served

in

Gude, Winmill

-

for

/ !

»/. //

I.: duPont

&

Co-:, "as'Chairman of the-Committee
On .Arrangements. Other members
of the

committee

Norman H.

are:

Baumm of Sfroud &

of-

*

William A. Fine has become

Gerstley, V Sunstein &

John. B/ Richter.

Butcher

of

members of the New York

Exchange. Mr: Fine

&
.

Blyth

Shinn

of-

Fenner

&

Smith

of::/;;//v

Inc."; Robert V.
Philadelphia

Wehrheim /of

The

National Bank

and

Stuart

Burnham Int'l

MacR.

Broadv Street,

Richard/L,

members of the

Newburger of New- Committee. Other Committee
burger & Co.; Wallace H. Runyan members are: B. Newton Barber
of.. Hemphill,
Noyes
Co.; W.
Schmidt

of

Hornblower

& Weeks and Raymond L. Talcott
Co.
/ r
/ /

of Drexel &

of

*

& Co., Inc.; George L.
Merrill Lynch, - Pierce,

Co., Inc.; John
C. Bogan, Jr. of Brooke, Sheridan; Wyeth of Stone & Webster Securi¬
Bogan
&
Co.f- Inc.; a Edgar A. ties Corporation.
;.
' / /;/ ■! V * /
Christian- of - Suplee,- Yeatman,
Clifford C. Collings, Jr! of C. C.
Mosley Co., Inc.; Jarpes; T. Gies of
Collings..& Co., Inc., has been ap¬
Smith, Barney & Co.; Thomas J.
Meany
of The
Wellington Co; pointed Chairman of the Publicity

Marshall

W/.H.

Newbold's

Son

&

Co.

wholly-owned
of

corporate

Burnhan)

Exchange,
Jerome

and

New

York

-■

/-•'"

announced

Abeles

and

Compa

i-—'/:/;•/ >■".

n y.,

and Thomas B. Krug of Bioren &

Jospe have been appointed VicePresidents.

'•

;

/

NEW ISSUE

March 1,

an

County
and

officer

of

to

the

National

this he

1962

/; ./*_■; '/

heading

a sec¬
tion of the bank's investment re¬

was

$600,000
/

Middlesex

//;.////•; / M ETALFAB,

Bank,/Boston,

assistant professor at Har¬
vard Graduate School of Business/ !

INC.!/::/|,v///:

an

6% Sinking Fund Convertible Debentures
Dated December 1, 1961

Murray Frumin Forms
1

-Board

Lawrence

of

Directors

//',

Own Investment Co.

./

St.;" Aaron A. Freundlich,
Street; Maurice HaberHaberman* Bros., 15 Broad

has formed Murray Frumin & Co.',
offices-sin- the ^Penobscot.
.

.Building, to

engage

''business/ Mr.
of

.

the

6 Harrison

was

man,

son

■

&

Stock

an

•

Frumin, Inc.

:

,

*'://'/••/

/

'

The

Prospectus

•;>/;-"

Member

National Stock

%-.5j

.

1, 1976

•/ '•"./■

;

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "

may

/*/;>"'

bt obtained in any State in which this announcement is circulated from such of the
Underwriters as may legally offer the securities in such State. .,/•,..

DEALERS

Exchange

/

.

Splaine & Frederick, Inc.

*

/

-

'

,*'."

Direct wire

**';♦•>'.

*..

to

Ira.

C

*

i*.

•

/

■

v

'' '*.

,*s'

•'

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\

.

|

Straus, Blosser & McDowell T. C. Henderson & Co., Inc. 'Penington, Cclket & Co.

Hdupt & Company, Neiv York City.

Bell &
,r

WASHINGTON,
/•; /

V

♦

Frice 100% and accrued interest

■'

Cruttenden, Podesta & Co.
/.
'

•...

convertible into Common Stock at.SlOM per

Interest is payable ]une l and December 1 in

'/ !

4*

'v. •"/'■

•member/"
Exchange, •.

officer of Morri-

UNDERWRITERS

"*/i '/*.." •"?.

a

*

DISTRIBUTORS

.•*

in;^ securities

-Frumin,

Detroit

formerly

are

it:

'-ff

■

share on
or
prior.to December 1, 1966, at $11Y\ per-share thereafter and on or prior
to December
1, 1971/and at.$ll/i per share thtfrrirfter. until maturity.

DETROIT, Mich;—Murray Frumin
with

Due December
*7 : .',4-

7':..'*./»

These Debentures

H.~

Taylor, Chairman
of the, Board of ;j;ihe
National," is
with>:the 'firim: of Sirota, Taylor
Company ofH2,6 Broad way .> (Other
boardumembers9are, Ifendrik C,
Ahlers, - Carl
Ahlers,
Inc.; 4168
•Duane

'/

LOBBY

6.

D.

WOODWARD

■

Farrell, Inc.

Mullaney, Wells & Company

-

.J. Cliff Rah el & Co.

i

Rodman & Renshaw

/

C.

Westheimer & Company

BUILDING

*

15TH

TELETYPE:

WA

&

H

661,*

STREETS.

TELEPHONE:

N.W. /

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STERLING

/' •-

/

3-1677

This
.

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
303

ARLINGTON

TRUST

BETHESDA, MARYLAND

BLDG.

4925

Telephone: JAckson 4-1266

FAIRMONT

Telephone:

announcement

////•' /■

-

is

offer

not an

sell

to

solicitation of

or a

an

offei to buy thes( securities.

The offering is made only by the Prospectus.

-

AVENUE

/ 100,000 Shares

OLiver 2-2769

!M ETALFAB,-INC.
Common.Stock
I

SIROTA, TAYLOR & CO., INC.

NATIONAL STOCK

EXCHANGE

:■/'/•■ ■:;/- ' '• ■'

i.

be obtained in
Underwriters

-

4;

9-8220

...

The Prospectus may
.

BO

/.

(.$1

'

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.




New York 4, N. Y.

^

♦

as

.

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

.

T. C. Henderson & Co., Inc.

;;

/

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.

Co.|

.

;/; ■/'//,/..

'/■■;;
'•
}::■■
Cruttenden, Podesta & Co.

Penington, Colket &
•*

*

y.

'" /

•

/

State in which this announcement is 'wailalcd from such oj the
may legally offer the securities in such State.
V •

.

/

„

/'

share.

per

'■/.,

J

Broadway

'

-

any

:

-

/ /
^•. ;
Splaine & Frederick, Inc.
.

*v

Rodman & Renshaw

R. G. Dickinson & Co. Inc.

26

value)

par

1 Price %9%
■/'/'

that

Roger

Co,;/:"';!'-y:'7/r

an offer to sell or a solicitation
oj an offer to buy these securities.
The ojjering is made only by the Prospectus.

;

•

15

City,

New York Stock

had

M.

affiliate

Company,

This announcement is not
-

.

Burnham International
Limited, a

for-

.Vice-

Stock

formerly
Fine & Co.,

was

a
partner in W. A.
which has been dissolved.

Sherrerd; Stanley A. Russell, Jr.
of

asso¬

ciated with Gude,. Winmill &
Co.,
1
Wall Street,
New York City,

Co.; Samuel W. Parke of Schmidt,
Roberts
&
Parke;•" J.
Richard
Ranck of: Kiddetf, Peabody & Co.;

of Floor Procedures.

ment
"

-//;-//.

com¬

serve

named Albert A." R.

Loftus

Bankers Trust

Exchange, where Mr. Joseph was! search
division/; Prior
a

the year 1962.-

to

Presidents ' of

/

The" National

of

Exchange,

the-Club

merly an As-

:

member firms. Alfred Joseph, also

firm of Ernst and Ernst, auditing
consultants to The National Stock

an
-

research

William Fine With

mem¬

are:
Samuel M. Kennedy of
Yarnall, Biddle & Co.; Thomas J.

McCann

7

/department.

listed

Stock

the

corporation in
-.Sep tern ber,

the National.

on

Hart

"joined

functioning.
Broughton, Vice-Presi¬
dent .of The National Stock Ex-*
change, comes from the New York
Stock
Exchange -where he per/

is

yRobert

;Ilehmah,Pres-

Woodson

duties similar to

appointment of* various

Weiizel ' of Francis

the various activities required for

formed

llie

.

Edgar J.
The Bond

Philadelphia,; announced

mittees-of

Hart Named V.-P; vMr.

Gorpy

First

Chairman. Other committee

—

-

Club -of

»

Or Lehman

Buckley", of The

bers

Jay Street; and Charles Wiegard;
Reynolds & Co.; 2 Broadway." ///

of The "N'atiohal Stock. Ex/

exchan g

Pnmmc
XN 3TH0S .V/djIHIIlS..

r

1 L'j

S.

Boston Corp. has been namedUo*
head the Attendance Committee as

•

phartge"Includes. people carefully
phosen. for/tLriri/abiUties; who
make up a team' experienced „in
proper

John

Ine./.&L West 33rd Street;** Llew-? PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
ellyn Watts, Jr., Watts & S6ns; l7 L'bftiiSj -President of

-

.

(1159)

r

-

Bell & Farrell, Inc.

Westheimer & Company

*
'

"3

J. Cliff Raliel & Co.

Tabor & Co.

Harris, Logan & Co.

Mullaney, Wells & Company

r

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1160)

8

American

Analysis

THAT

INTERESTED

SEND

ro

Erie and Savings & Loan Holding

Colqmbia Gas System, Panhandle

Companies.

Eastern

Crowell Collier Publishing Co.

Paper,

Standard

Analytical Brochure — Carl M.
Loeb, Rhoades & Co., 42 Wall St.,
New York 5, N. Y. Also available
reviews of Royal Dutch Shell,

American Enka and Potash Co.^of
America and ^ memorandum on

Old Empire Inc.—Analysis—Laird,
Bissell & Meeds, 120 Broadway,

American

Sanitary

MENTIONED WILL BE PLEASED
PARTIES THE FOLLOWING LITERATUREi
THE

FIRMS

Radiator

&

—

are

Stocks

Review

—

—

Co., Inc., 1 Wall

&

Kidder

M.

A.

New York 5, N. Y. Also
Available is a report on Cosmetic
Street,

report on Baltimore Gas & Elec¬
tric Company.

Co., 524 Washington Street, Read¬
ing, Pa.AAy ; A:; A-A! ■ A-V'AA:

Stocks

City Bank

York

New

—

Broken

American
AerosparCe

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

International
Creek Coal, Parke
Davis,
International
Harvester,
Midland-Ross, Eaton Manufactur¬
ing,, Carrier Corp. and Rochester
Telephone.

—

.

RECOMMENDATIONS

UNDERSTOOD

IS

IT

.

Analysis — Ralph E.
Samuel & Co., 2 Broadway, New
York 4, N./Y, Also available is a

INVESTMENT LITERATURE
AND

Furniture

Co., Inc. —
Butcher & Sherrerd,
1500 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
2, Pa, Also available is an analysis
of Maytag Company.

DEALER-BROKER

<

.

—D.

Sugar Refining

Re¬

—

port—Reynolds & Cq., 120 Broad¬
way, New
York 5, Ni Y. Also
available are reports on Interna¬
tional Nickel, Globe Union, Inc.,

Hill

Proprietary.

Crowell-Collier
H.

Blair

available

is

Spiegel.'.

General

West

4, N, Y;; Also

memorandum

a

N.

on

Report

—

—-

Securities

57th

Co., Inc., 1.01
Street, New York 19,

Y,.

A-,: A-

.

PreVor

•,/; -J; ': Af

%•;.'

Line,

Osrow Products Inc.

■

Co., 66 Beaver

Street, New York

Pipe

Island

New York 5, NAY.

•

Memorandum

—

&

.—

Mayrsohn

:•

A/

.

International

breakdown on
Dallas Airmotive Corp.—Analysis Inc—Report—J. J. Krieger & Co.,
Government bond portfolio ■ and and Thiokol Chemical.
Stocks.
—M. H. Meyerson & Co., Inc., 15 Inc., 120 Liberty Street, New York
AAA ;A
source of
income—Laird, Bissell American Telephone & Telegraph William Street, New York
5,.N-. Y. 6, N. Y.
Anti Smog Companies— Bulletin
& Meeds, 120 Broadway, New York Company — Data — Oppenheimer,
Q u eb e c Natural Gas Corp. —
on
companies engaged in antiDecca Records— Memorandum.
Neu & Co., 120 Broadway, New
5, N. Y.
Memorandum—Annett & Co., Ltd.,
smog work—Walston & Co., Inc.,
Ross
&
Hirsch, 120 Broadway,
Oil Buy-Outs — Bulletin — Bache York 5, N. Y. Also, available are
220 Bay Street, Toronto 1, Ont.,
74 Wall Street, New York 5, N. Y.
New York 5, N. Y.
1
'
& Co. 36 Wall Street, New York data on Cluett, Peabody
& Co.,
Canada.
Bank Stocks — Comparative data
Fairchild
Camera & Instrument Dresser Industries
Analysis — Radar Design Corp. — Memoran¬
5, New, ■ York. • ; A.'r
on
26 leading commercial banks
Corp., F. W. Wool worth Co., and Dean Witter &
Co., 45 Mont¬
Bulletin

giving

—<

—

Illinois Company, Inc., 231

—The

South La Salle
111.

Street^ Chicago 4,

Credit

—

compari¬

up-to-date

showing an

Folder

between the listed industrial
stocks
used A hi the
Dow-Jones
son

:

1

.

Commercial

Over-the-Counter Index

,

*

Company

Annual

counter

Credit

the

Report — Commercial
Company, Baltimore 2, Md.

the

and

Averages

stocks used in

industrial

National

over-the-

35

Quotation

Bureau

both as to yield and
American convertible debentures market performance over a 23which appear interesting — Mc- year period — National Quotation
Fetrick & Co., 132 St. James St., Bureau,
Inc., 46 Front Street,
New York *4, N. Y.
West. Montreal', Que., Canada.
Convertible Securities —A list of

England and the Common Market
—

Discussion of British securities

benefit—New York

which should

Hanseatic
New

Corp.,

York

'

Japanese

Market

Yamaichi

Inc.,

—

Co.

—

of

New

Broadway,

Ill

Paper Industry—Memorandum

1

—

Re¬

of

comparative cyclical
Calvin Bullock Ltd.,
Wall Street, New York 5, N. Y.

changes

—

Public Utility Common

6, NAY. Also available are
reports
on
Matsushita
Electric
Industrial Co.,
Okamura Manu¬
facturing Co., Ricoh Company and

New York

National

Rubber

Stocks

ton

Cash

Register

Co.

(Japan) Ltd.' -'A '^A'A'7AA
Japanese Market—Survey—Daiwa
Securities Co., Ltd., 149 Broad¬

AyA

New York 6, N. Y.

way,

—

Comparative figures—G. A. Sax& Co., Inc., 52 Wall Street,

5, N. Y.

Industry

—

Hemphill, Noyes & Co., 8 Hanover
Street, New York 4, N. Y. Also
available

are

reviews

of

Swing-

line

Beauty Counselors, Inc. and
Modine Manufacturing.
' A
—

in current issue of "Investornews"

'

Japanese Stocks

—

Handbook for

investment, containing 20
tial

essen¬

points for stock traders and

investors

Co.,

The Nikko Securities

—

Ltd., Tokyo, ;Japan

York

office

1

Chase

—

New

Manhattan

Machine Tool Industry

— Revised
study of prospects, with briefs on
Cross Company, Giddings & Lew¬
is, Kearney & Trecker, Seneea

Machine

and

Warner

New York

available

reports
Hertz

in

the

5,

N.

Corp.,

&

Y.

Also

issue

same

Phillips

on

are

Petroleum,
W. Helme,

George

A

detailed

survey

Survey

with

—

specific

recommendations in each category
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

—

& Smith

York

Inc., 70 Pine Street, New

5, N. Y.

— Troster,
Singer & Co.,
Trinity Place, New York 6, Aetna Maintenance Company —
Report—Hooker & Fay, Inc., 221
Machine Tool Stocks
Survey — Montgomery Street, San Francisco
E. F. Hut ton & Co., 1 Chase Man¬ 4, Calif.

74

Y.

—

hattan

Plaza, New York 5, N. Y.

Also available
National

are

memoranda

Distillers

&

on

Chemicals

and U. S. Steel.

Machinery
Stocks

—

and

Allen

Organ

—

Memorandum

Drexel & Co., 1500 Walnut

—

Street,

Philadelphia 1, Pa.
Alside, Inc.—Review—L. F. Roths¬

Plant

Bulletin

—

New

land

Ross

Atchison
—

survey of Mid¬

a

Corp.

Topeka

Edward

D.

North Fourth

—

Memorandum

Jones

&

Co., 300
Street, St. Louis 2,

Mo. Also available

are

memoranda

Hooker Chemical, Libby Owens

Bankers

Equipment

child

Mackay &

York

& Co., 120 Broadway, New
5, N. Y.

AA
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United

Gas.

Trust Co.

Analysis —
Dillon, Union Securities
Co., 15 Broad Street, New York
5, N. Y. Also available is an anal¬
ysis of General Telephone & Elec¬
—

Eastman
&

tronics Corp.

& Co.

|

Troster, Singer

11

74 Trinity Place, New Yorfee.N.Y.

A

A.

V '• -'

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Brooks &

Construction
—

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Corp.

Bulletin

-—

Atlanta

Hartford

Chicago

Houston

Cleveland

Indianapolis
Kansas City, Mo.
Los Angeles

Detroit
Grand Rapids




Dresser Industries, Inc.

Courts

—

Radio

Review

able is

memorandum

a

Mortgage

Radio

Charter

on

Fluor

Corp.—Analysis—Robinson
Co.,
Inc.,
15th
&
Chestnut
Streets, Philadelphia 2, Pa.
Hercules

Powder

A

Also

available

is

a

review

Co.

^

-

of

_

Brunswick

Corp. — Analysis —
Colby & Co., Inc., 85 State Street,
Boston, Mass,. Also, available are
data on Celotex Corp. and, Del E.
Webb

A. A'vyA

Corp.

Seal-Kap. A';', ;/A

on

Burroughs Corp.

—

Memorandum

ern

Railway

Co.,

Arvin Industries

Equitable
and

Gas

Steam

Generating Equipment Producers.

Purcell & Co., 50 Broadway, New
York 4, ;N Y.
A-;; A A. Analysis — Doyle, O'Conner
Co., 135 South ,La Salle Street," St. Louis County.,. Mo. School DisChicago' 3, 111. - A
Stern
AA..vA'i;'lAA! V- trictAB oiidsj r—^.Bulletin
Brothers & Cq),
1009 Baltimore
Koppers — Memorandum — A. C.
Aveuuey Kansas' City 5, Mo. ^ i .J
Allyn & Co., .122; .South .La Salle
S c i e n c e Reseifcli;Associates Ai
Street, Chicago 3, 111.
;
;
Analytical Brochure — Williarri
McCormick-Armstrong Co.; Inc.—
Blair & Co.,Al35; South La Salle
Report—Milburn,. Cochran & tGa.v;
Street, Chicago 3, 111. y ' ; ; A; A
Inc., 110 East First Street, Wichita
G.Ab, Searie & Cq.—Memorandum
2, Kansas. .. - : ;
• AA—.
—Smith, Barney & Co., 39 .South,
Minnesota" & Ontario

Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Co.

.

Paper

;

memoranda

on

Control

Data, American Hospital
Supply, Packaging Corp. of Ame¬
rica, Oxford Manufacturing and
Lockheed.

^

-

—

Review—Hirsch

& Co., 25 Broad Street, New York
4, N. Y. Also available are reviews
Revlon, Inc^, and Union Elec¬

of

tric.L.

Y.

Also

randum

Gas.

'

avaiiableAis
Arkansas

on

A-;-,...". A

A,''

v

Carpenter

Co.,

&

Inc.

—

Analysis—Boenning & Co., Alison
Building, Philadelphia 3, Pa.
Cary Chemicals Inc.
Study —
Suplee, Yeatman, Mosley Co., Inc.,
1500 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
2, Pa.
—

in

cur¬

Hayden, Stone & Co., Inc., 25 Broad
Street, New York 4, N. Y. In the
issue is

—

discussion of Bar¬

a

*-

H

*'

a

C.

&.•Light.

memo¬

Louisiana

Seattle A First

Pacific Building, Seattle
24, Wash. A ■ vAy ' A.A'A : A.
A.;''A'

& Poor's Corp.—Analy¬
Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood,
.115 South Seventh Street, Minne¬
National I Distillers r &
Chemical
apolis
Minn. Also available is
Corp.—Discussion—Wood, Walker
a
memorandum on Potash Co. of
& Co., 63 Wall Street, New York
America.
5, N. Y. Also available is a dis¬

v:A'A

cussion of U.

"A'-: A-A: rJA-A/ A:

S. Pipe

&

Foundry.

National Periodical Publications-

Co.,
York

Afriott, Baker &

—

Inc.,
150
38, N. Y.

Broadway,

New

Standard

sis

—

Stanley Works

Corp.—Analysis
Cordova Company, 1709 West
Eighth Street," Los Angeles
17,

5, N. Y.

CaHf.

'

yv'A

A:

Analysis—New¬

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Also
on

available

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memorandum

Von's Grocery.

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North American Aviation—Memo¬

Oak

Report

letins

Pressprich & Co.,

leading business and
financial publications

Street, New York 5, N. Y.

York

Goldwyn

—

Zimmermann & Co., Inc., 70
Street, New York 5, N. Y.

Wall

Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc.
—Memorandum—Goodbody & Co.,

80 Pine

Metro

-—

Co., 80 Pine Street,

Swingline, Inc.

New

Analysis — J. R. Williston
& Beane, 2 Broadway, New York
4, N. Y. Also available are bul¬
Marchant,
Mayer, Bucyrus

Memorandum

&

New York

—

Commonwealth Theatres of Puerto

Smith Corona

—

Estabrook

man,

National Systems

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on

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Bank..—

United

—

Bradford' &

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Tenn.

ber Oil.

—

National

A':A-A Analysis,— Pacific Northwest Co:,

Manufacturing

Ohio

Memorandum

-

E.

La

—

Memorandum—J.

are

—

Salle; - Street,Chicago 3, 111.
Steiner, Rouse &
Also available is a. memorandum
Cq?, 19 Rector Street, New York ,6,. on
Wisconsin Power

Memorandum

Also available

Manufacturing
—

Chase

1

Company

—

Hornblower & Weeks,
Manhattan Plaza, New

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British American

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M

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5, N. Y.

York

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Carborundum

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Swasey
N.

Broadway,

Co.

&

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—

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Security and Industry

Plaza, New York 5, N. Y.

Falls

—Francis I. du Pont & Co., 1 Wall

Street,

Abraham

—

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Analysis

—

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Survey

Street,

gomery

Archer-Daniels-Midland

Ford and

Prospects at Mid Recovery

dum—Max Philipson &

Corp.

Ampoules, Inc.— Report—Edward
N. Siegler & Co., 1925 East Ninth
Street, Cleveland 14, Ohio.

on

Street, New York 5, N. Y.,

New

York

—

Granbery, Marache & Co., 67 Wall

view

Review

Securities

York,

Broadway,

120

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Averages,

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CITY
STATE.

Volume

195

Number

6140

.

.

>

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

(1161.)

9

;
We

Remove Confining Shackles
Off Commercial Banks!

value.

-

'

tion

is

plea is made by New York banker to allow

mercial banks to compete on a

com¬

non-discriminatory basis. Mr. Agemian

upon

layer of "excessive supervisory shackles." He scores the 5%
deposit reserve requirement, differences in tax treatment, dis¬
mortgage financing restrictions, and the

criminatory

to trust banks to

mortgages
adds,
V

based

are

on

for

he

we

able

is

to

provide

liquidity

for

without

loan

and

feet

our

and

backs.

our

if

would

We

the

ST. PETERSBURG

hand

one

have

authorities

The St.

or

—

of

economic

an

NOTES

NSTA

let

STOCK

AND

BOND

CLUB

Petersburg Stock and Bond Club has elected the following

officers for 1962:

a

—

more

requirement."

statutory

situa¬

portion
levels are

place in the mortgage busi¬
ness.
On equal
terms we could
compete with anybody and serve

us

Agemian holds that "a responsible management should be and

Mr.

both

behind

ultimate liquidation. In short,

and on

reality

...

Mortgages,

of long-term financing."

other forms

or

VA

a

substantial

a

protected

tie

unwillingness

"a solid hard core of demand deposits

use

in

and,

where

realistically set against property
valuation,
how
much
exposure
could possibly exist?
;
All I'm saying is let us compete.
Don't do us any favors, but don't

charges commercial banks with being, needlessly subjected to layer
time

way

,

prehensible;

Bank, New York City.
A forceful, serious

a

To call a portion of an
mortgage exposed is incom¬

FHA

By Charles A. Agemian,* Controller General. The Chase Manhattan

long

from the
20's.
Mortgages today are based
on reality—and on ultimate liqui¬
dation. They are amortized; they
are
a
realistic
portion
of
the
are

President:

John F. Gallagher, Peninsular Investments.
Vice-President: Frederic C. Beil, Jr., Beil &
Hough, Inc.

Secretary: E. Pat O'Brien, Bache & Co.*

function

while

I

convinced after
knowledgeable people

thoroughly

am

talking

to

that if the Federal Reserve Board

removed

had

from

ceilings

all

Q,

Regulation
perhaps

all

rushed

for

need

tax

rather

-

than

Ao

have

?

V

-;/'

get
for

business which is
our
competitors

to

taxed, i

like

sheep

government's

the

revenue did riot permit us to
a
tax
benefit for ourselves

comparable

not

have

tax

that part of our

we

would

equalization fight
It is unfortunate that

twist the
is taking.

'

them

be

but

I

wild

guesses,

removal

and that is all

the

t h

has

e^r

really
are,
of what
it costs (other
than

shackles

imposed on
us, but let us discuss the 5% re¬
serve
requirement on time de¬
posits.
Savings
associations
re¬
quire no such penalty. I believe

angry when I
hear
about

Charles a. Agemia*

been

this

of

to maintain

interest)

sav-

a

publication, in a recent issue, indicated
a method of study which is so far
off
base it is
impossible. Some

recommended

by

the

has

Bank

Reserve

now

it

its

suggested

they

a

later,

much

said

to

quote,

V2

of 1 %. If

3V2%

?lv<^
to

add

we

to

on

3.80%,

ai\ 0VL?r.~a

4/4%.

Is

However,

if

most

of

it

have

asset we

on

our

dollar of savings

on

time

back

pours

into

money

securities because

a

of

as

form of liquidity; it

a

liquid

about

could

never

10%

see

what

governments

was

selling

discount.

bank
the

have

must

loans

and

should

make

and

especially con(which
evidently

loans

sumer

become

the

country banker)

lifeblood of

it

the

prudently

can

make.

However, this failing, it has

other

avenues

ment

of prudent investwhich it should study

open

and become
able

thoroughly knowledg-

of, such

tax-exempts and
FHA and VA government-guaranteed
mortgages, both of which
as

with actual maturities of

will

years

5%%

yield

10

or

12

6a/2%

or

with virtually no investment cost,
This

can

be

let

discuss

us

one

with

done

only

prudence

convinced

comfort

of

the

when

hard

one

core

is

and

stability of savings accounts.

The
banker does not give this
cognizance in investing this
of funds. V
.

average

full
kind

We

are

in

one

of the most

com-

petitive businesses in the world;
yet the banker must really be an
inept salesman because he sells
some of his products below
cost,
top of this, we must work

On

us

on
,

in
the shackles put
supervisory authorities

confines

the

•

t

which,

&

the newly

opened National

Clifford U. Sadler, Davidson-Vink-Sadler, Inc.

Stock

the

more

Stock

sociate

also

Stock Exchange,

has

the

of
a

TRADERS ASSOCIATION

(Oakmont will be the
June.)

scene

of the National Open Golf Tournament

in
a

The Association believes this event will be

Philadelphia-Balti¬
an

SECURITIES

The Pittsburgh Securities Traders Association will hold their an¬
nual Spring Outing on May 4, 1962 at the Oakmont Country Club.

Exchange

Exchange and

member

to Ira

PITTSBURGH

Balogh,

which is

Balogh & Co.,
member of the

E.

the best

is looking forward to many out of town guests.
Reservations may be made with either John

as¬

&

Boston

Co.

or

Bob

Woeber at

direct wire

Haupt & Co. in New York

City.

by

of

•

~

indeed,

petitiveness.

curtail

We

This advertisement is neither

an

in

offer to sell nor a solicitation ofan offer to buy
offering is made only by the Prospectus...

any

of these securities.

The

March 7,

gage

on

The

us

loans

are

antiquity—we
20's.
0n

How
the

are

same

restrictions

to

as

a

are

Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.

im-

making mortmonument to
living in the

commercial
street

1962

$15,000,000

supervision, it couldn't stay

business.

AVa% Convertible Subordinated

Debentures, due 1982

banks

supposed

to

Dated March 1, 1962

Due March 1, 1982

*

they have different rules to
First of all, there is a

follow?

*oas]c Imitation on the amount
°.ne can invesJ: ln mortgages,
pven in guaranteed mortgages we
have

restrictions,

varying

all




our

know

com-

the

Price 100% and

Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained in any State in which this announcement
only such of the underwriters, including the undersigned, as may

is circulated from

legally offer these securities in compliance with the securities laws of such State,

for New

ancl unimpaired surplus

Jei*sey
banks.

accrued interest

from

sJaJe to state and national vs.
state. We can t even compete with
°Jie an°ther on an equal basis, let
al°ue with our competitors mu{H3!8 aP^ savings and loans. Our
limitations are, generally speakthe greater of 60 fo of our
time money, or 100% of capital

Reynolds & Co., Inc.

banks and national
The limitation on New

J*?anks *5
j?n^a i
of 15% of total assets, or 60% of
with still further
Qualification added on to that,
Indeed, even on this basic point
our supervisory
layers
cannot
agree!
* cannot understand the logic

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

wRy the limits are all based 011
percentage of time money—and,
R so> why R applies only to the

Merrill

commercial bank. It seems to me
an<I to anyone who has studied
deposits, > that there is a solid,
Iiard core of demand deposits that

Smith, Barney 8C Co.

Eastman Dillon, Union Securities Si Co.

time money

a

can
be used
0ther forms of

ing/

for

mortgages or
long-term financ-

Glore, Forgan 8C Co.

Harriman Ripley & Co.

Hornblower & Weeks

Incorporated

Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Lazard Freres 8C Co.

Lehman Brothers

Incorporated

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner SC Smith

Paine, Webber, Jackson SC Curtis

Incorporated

Stone & Webster Securities Corporation

Incorporated

White, Weld SC Co.

ever

and

Hoy at-Parrish
Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.

more

,

and

is

shackle and we will have said
enough.
Commercial banks are
subjected to layer upon layer of
supervision. If a hardware store
were
to be subjected to half this

when

A

securities,

compete in the mortgage business

Investment Earning Opportunities

all

investment

NEW ISSUE

Discriminatory Competition
Now

posed

course,

I

a

in

E. Patrick O'Brien

Albert Roberts III, Goodbody & Co.
Directors: William A. Emerson, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
Smith Inc.; Derwin B. Smith, Hill, Darlington & Grimm; and

shackle would assist us in bear-

much

course

at

ers

Gallagher

Treasurer:

other hand, the removal of such

managementdecisions,
it has no reason
in the savings business. Of

be

John F.

un¬

derwriters, distributors and deal¬

holds

of

archaic

to

D. C.—Balogh &

Co., Inc., Woodward Building,

President,

should

formidable,

so

bank
savings

its

then, of

NSE Member
WASHINGTON,

membership.

liquidity and capital adeformulas and because of

quacy

;/

1962.

to this

COpS

this

a

government
archaic

Savings Division
of
the
Association, New York

savings association about

a

the effective interest rate paid

from

the

Bankers

City, March 5,

most sterile and frozen

*nS the burden of the additional
.6
of
1%
to service its savings interest payment; indeed by simaccounts other than interest paid. P*e arithmetic it would cover up
We suggest that for a commercial t° one-third of the increased exbank this should run between .4 Pense of going from 3% to 4%.
to

by

American

Stephen

position—originally,
figure of over 1%,

"We don't believe this to be true."

It costs

National

sored

Exchange.

is only a myth.
A resporisible
management should be and is able
which is about twice what it costs to provide for liquidity without
savings banks. This I say, and this statutory
requirement. On the
modified

Mr. Agemian before the
Savings Conference spon¬

Committee on Money and Credit.
amount, indeed, has no vestige of liquidity—indeed it is the

books, v For every
withdrawn, the
reserve supplies 5 cents — from
persons
have suggested figures where do I get the other 95 cents?
from 1% to 2%
of deposits. The So much for reserve requirements
Federal

59th

by

TequiremehJ Washington's charter member of

This

ings account. A banking

talk

Balogh Charter

5% Time Reserve
Requirement

the

all

cuss

little

a

.

■

Time does not permit us to dis¬

see

have/

we

get

/

have,

let's

so

what

Attacks

rate—

we

■

*A

/■/'•/• >-

pay

to

the 4%

doing so. I like the fellow
who says he would rather have
honest arrogance than hypocriti¬
cal humility.
;
'
J
/:

Dean Witter & Co.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

-

10

able

that

Mr.

Lloyd,

Selwyn

will propose measures to

the

A

\

*

To

capital gains tax according to

that the recent revelation of the
Governments-inability to keep its budget increase within previously
announced bounds will lead to this type of a new tax. He doubts it
will raise the revenue sought.
Moreover, he fears the Government
will be intimidated into cancelling last year's surtax concession

ent

■

to

serve

Exchangejftransactions,.-/with-

purchase and re-sale
the securities. It remains to bei

of

of

cause

the

to

in

increases

upon.

the

of

be-

in.

policies
time

in the United States, because

will

1962-63

excuse

ing

they expected this new. tax... to
yield a substantial amount during
the first year of; its; application.
Unless the Government's policy

,

for-

over-

Meanwhile

the

less offset:each
Mr;

and

on,

so

the

:

G overnment

An

means

taxation

additional

raises

and
ana'

deficit

will

'
.

a

•

the

sjseaarjs.'srss

from the Government s

over-spending,

the

cost

covering the deficit by means

thoroughly unsatisfactory.- Itlays down the dangerous principle
that the? rise in prices in one year,

medium-term

gives the Government the right to

be

is

,

did

l°nS"term

an
-

Dabney

was that the Government
imposed;, additional
taxation of
£10() million on corporation

by

members

and

of

dividends

from

in

un¬

in

:

for

borrowing,

heavy/ So it

very

or

borrowing,

rediculed

be

spokesmen

-

the

wrien

;S;:;

•-

,

-

^ <>;

or a

Potomac Electric
Power

Company t;

:

groups

is not

but at
of urn
;•

Deplores Tax Penalty on

:

1

Individuals

Gifted

There is

>

.

.

;

.

op¬

that

a possi¬
Government .will

therefore, just

the

•

with

concession

its'- surtax

cancelling

the Gov¬

-

Dillon,

Head
& Co., Inc., New
City, and Johnston, Lemon
& Co., Washington,; D. C. ;head a
" group which is underwriting an
offering
by
Potomac " Electric
/
Power Company of; 536,221
comr

-V-;

allow itself to be intimidated into

Conservative

by

and

to

reduce

to

indeed

the

•

its

reverse

above

trade

last. year's
surtax paid

a

£2,000.

There

very

entirely because-of the
incredibly unintelligent and inef¬

ficient way in which official pub¬

licity
that

solicitation oj

and

.

press,

measure

publicity

was

York

shares

mon

to *'

its;

stockholders.

The company is offering the stock

through

'warrants
expiring; on
March 21/ 1962, at $39 per share,

is

;

used "by .the company to pay' $9,600,000 of bank loan notes* ""td' re¬
imburse its treasury for a portion
restoration of surtax to its previ¬
of construction expenditures here¬
ous level should be accompanied
tofore made, and to pay, in part,
by cancellation of the. additional for
anticipated future construc¬
tax on corporation profits .out of
tion. It is
estimated that gross
wrich 'the concession was to be
property additions for the year
financed.
Unfortunately, that is 1962
will aggregate approxiriiately

7i#

-

* "

%

f

■

•

their

the -s fruit' of

of

qualifications.; To

out. of the

about

handled and

ojjer to b{iy securities,*

an

V'

^

-

superior

logical,

be

a

question.

the

substantially

to ^increase
Tax

automobiles.

on

This would mitigate the drain on

industrial

scarce

autorriobile

the
in

by

manpower

industry which is

position to oulbid most other

a

v:'

$53,000,000.

thing to do would

obvious

The

.

employers, owing to the insatiable
demand for automobiles
by the

Headquartered

Washington,
D. C., the company furnishes elec-;
trie power to an area, of approxi¬
mately. 643. square mijes, having a

population

in

of !■ about ::. 1,480,000,
the entire District of
Columbia ^and portions o.f adjoins
a
/counties;in; Maryland/, and
Virginia.
.

comprising

,

public.
It. seems- unlikely, how¬
ever; that this would be done-to

.

^appreciable extent.. - In all
probabiliV ;the- Government will

any
ia-

*'

'Vi.

revert to

Share

The Company

has issued warrants to holders of its Common Stock
evidencing rights, expiring March 21, 1962, to subscribe for these
shares at the rate of one share foreach 29 shares held," with the privi¬
lege of subscribing for additional shares subject to a subscription
privilege granted to employees and-to-allotment if total subscrip¬
tions by warrant holders and employees exceed 442,362 shares, all as
more fully set forth in the
prospectus. Unsubscribed Common Stock
may be offered-by the underwriters as set forth in .the prospectus.

T.

a

device which failed to

inflation'*

on

occasion

each

Forming

.

Coast

on

applied during, the past six
BEVERLY HILLS,
Calif.—Kara¬
years — to tax a wide range of
sik & Roman, Inc.,, is being formed
consumer
goods , on the assump¬
with offices, at 400 South Beverly
tion that in doing so it would moj)
Drive, to conduct a securities busiup purchasing: power.
nessi Officers are Frank Karasik;
:.
This device is based on an ele¬
President V: and : Treasurer;./ and
mentary economic f a 11 a c y;, It
Harry Roman, Vice. President and
would work in a static economy
Secretary. .Mr.. Karasik?. is.fialsQ
where:the increase in- the prices of
President of Frank Karasik &: Co.,
a wide range : of goods would re¬
Inc.,.; of New York...
;
sult in a icorresponding reduction
it

' V" W.

Karasik & Roman;

.

arrdst

Par Va'.ue $1 per

•

.

cri¬

utmost

of
of -groups,

even

Common Stock

occa¬

is

surtax 4 cut

the

Southwestern Public Service
;.y:

trading

department of

.

pounds

strong feeling on
this subject among lower income

would

442,362„Shares

-

encounter

income

on

is

seems prob¬

ojjer oj securitiesJor sale

y»

formerly

the

Govern-,

by

every

on

for

years

a
change; Schixmers Atherton & Co.opposing; it

in;

ticized.; But this aspect of the
subject is hardly ever pointed out,
so that
perhaps only one out of
a/hundred or, even a thousand

•

among

invest¬

welcome; such

should

sion

in

Bernard, Jr-

.

been

Boston

was,,

N.

H.

x-

business

many

though that
trade,: unionists

-.attitude-

Their

merit

the

.

E

g e s

Bernard

ment

One; should; have
would

11

who has

the benefit of earned incomes.

Socialists/ and

k

c

a

Mr.

the
the

.

o

h

c

corporation

profits i'« belong, largely : in;
higher income groups; and
change: meant c, simply that
earned incomes are penalized

of

Boston

S t

The recipients:

£100' million.

30

Street,

.the New York

and reduced- taxation on
earned personal incomes-

profits
higher

Tyson,

-

State

■

some

secure

of

March 7, 1962

;

Town-

&

happen in last year's

bility

decision

-

.

.

-

-v.,

with

send,

•

Budget

be

*

Mass. — Hubert N.
Bernard Jr; has become associated

.

What

Purchase

*

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

BOSTON,

answered/even though there is a
perfect answer to it.
.>?
'
„

income-tax

unions

limit the inflationary effect of

inability to apply the formula of
its own choice, that formula itself

This announcement is not

Government

/

Opposition

which the Government is seeking

a,

,

Townsend, Dabney

the; result that inventors, onr the basis
support¬
of;one share for each
ers
but
also among millions / of high grade engineers etc. will con¬ 15 shares held of record March 7/
tinue to emigrate from Britain to
earners
of
higher wages.
The
1962/ • !; ; *;"
c
countries where dogmatic equali-<
Government
is' pressed
by ^the
tarianiSm does not deprive them- J pf.foce^ds frbiri tfc|e sale will be

*£? high ban.k rate )vith

Inflation Begets Inflation
"w
it
J

The

the

position not only

.e

'.T'

reduction.

tax

in

ernment's

sugarlnSi «i»4;A »••'• 5 m*
credit something like twelvefold.
*

H. N, Bernard With

given

source.

increase

would

volume

the

increase

millions

of

;

this

from

is

problem of finding
to cover, the additional

expenditures in 1962-63. Unless it

.jzssMama
'

restraint wnile the "rich;'
a., free gift of. a.major

pay

are

other.; Evidently

Lloyd cannot hope to

hundreds

-

-

.

,

an

as

faced with the

Ap¬

*

of expecting employees to submit
to

of
restraint \ were - to
fail com¬
members-of lower income
pletely and Britain experienced
that the surtax:
an inflationary boom, the chances, is? aware
are
that
during
the " next
12 being cut at his expense,
months gains and; lpsses on the the expense of recipients
Stock Exchange would more; or earned;incomes.;
c;;;; •

over-spend¬

and

1963-64,

in

forth.

so

used

be

for additional

would, be

advisers

his

and

guilty of unwarranted optimism if

inflationary effect Government
spending, own self-imposed limit
by. the
beyond its

tne

propriation Acts are passed here

■

inflation"

begets

The Chancellor of the Excheq¬

uer

this

year,

one

flfpattonarv

ap-

matter of form

y

riiula constitutes a built-in, pon-

than

a

only be applied to profits made
from April 1962a

.

tion in Britain is even worse

as

applied to capital profits ;made
during 1961-62 or whether it will

increase in Gov¬
ernment spending by 12% %
in
the following
year. ? This
reads
like Alice
inWonderland.
The

envisaged
their adoption was decided
■ In this respect the; situa¬

purely

ex¬

policies caused prices: to increase

of

course

corresponding

say
10% in
would justify an

amounts

the

beyond
when

the

a

following year. This
that, if inflationary spend¬

by,

of the unforeseen extent to

which the cost of various

seen-whether the new tax will be

the

"inflation

Government's
parent inability to control
growth of its expenditure",

owing

matter

ing by the Government and the
adoption
of
other
inflationary

growing, defeatism

a

in

means

'

-

is

to

course

tent

sponding to the rise in wages and
prices.
The actual increase was
nearly twice that figure, in'spite
of the cuts made in the Estimates
of several
Government depart¬
There

erence

,

expenditures within 2% % in ad¬
dition to the proportion corre¬

ments.

a

between the

its spending as a

increase

instance,

maximurfnime-limit of six months

contain inflation.

LONDON, England—*The publica¬
tion of the preliminary summary
or the Estimates for 1962-63 shows
that the Government failed in its
effort to keep the increase of its

measures

ungrateful task, and
are apt to be colored

however, it is-iab?
certain that-.part of the
money will be sought to be raised
through
the . introduction
of
a
capital gains tax. It is/expected
to be applied to profits on Stock

would

goods in a non-static economy

day

a

without- some critical reito the Government's policy

its sympathizers in the press
allow such criticisms to pass un¬

solutely

;

Hardly

being handled.

passes

and

Gains^ Hike

forecast. taxation

;

r. *

; •

*

still

by wishful.thinking. Tn,the pres^

grate to where they could keep more of the fruit of their contribu¬
tions. Further, Dr. Einzig dissents from the prevailing Governmental
view thai a tax on consumer

4

•

Capital

one's views

emi¬

top inventors, engineers, etc., to

which, if enacted, would cause

be

10

is always an

Einzig who strongly suspects

Dr.

a' *»;

-.'•••

Foresees

By Paul Einzig
is bound to introduce a

mop up

purchasing power.

excess

9„

created by the proposed increase
of expenditure.%
•'.*

/

.

U. K.

in

budget statemeni om April

Lis

The

Thursday, March 8, 1962,

...

(1162)

was

of

demand, the total of consumer
New Yarnall Office
stationary: Amidst
present-day Britain-, BRIDGETON/ N. J.—Yarnall, Bidhowever;'; higher: prices ,^ would dle>
Co. has opened : a branch
incomes being

conditions in

'
-

Subscription Price $30

per

share

• *

•

'-/

».

•

neeessarily

Copies oj the prospectus
the

be obtained Jrom such oj the undersigned (who
underwriters named in the prospectus) as may legally ojjer
these securities under applicable securities laws.
may

reduce

not

Future

writers

British

and sixties

Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.

textbooks

Rafferty.

:

;

.

V

,.v

Harriman Ripley & Co.
"

"*

Incorporated

of trying to apply a
dynamic situation:

a

158

Kidder, Peabody & Co.

'

Incorporated

.

Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.

Smith, Barney & Co.
•

^

Stone & Webster Securities Corporation




Rauscher, Pierce & Co., Inc.

.

J

Incorporated

White, Weld & Co.
Incorporated

G. H. Walker & Co.

i.

.

.Denney V.-P. of ..:
Doyle, 0'Connor-;
William B. Denney has been elects

-

->

!

ed

\

O'Connor &

The Milwaukee Company f

-

a,

of' Doyle,

Vice-President
Co.

Inc. Mr.

Denney

.

maintains his headquarters at the
firm's. New
Wall

Street;

York

City

". %;•

-

office/ 63

'

;
*

;

/

t-

•

of Harry
.

.

.

Now Corporation

; ;

BUFFALO, Nr Y.--Provident SeT
curities Gompany, Inc> is continuT
ing the . investment. business of
Provident
Securities^" Company,

Blyth & Co., Inc.
f.

Cumberland-Hotel

management

W.

Incorporated

Goldman, Sachs & Co.'

the

on

policy of' the fifties
a classical-instance

of the*fallacy

Blair & Co.

of

in. the

under

as

static rule to

Dillon, Union Securities & C<h

office

logic could do worse than quoting
the

Eastman

higher wages, so
taxation:would
consumer
demand.

mean

that the additional
are among

Kenville Road.

;,

/

-

Taylor & Co. Opens

.

/

W

:

Los

-

Angeles Of f ice

LOS ANGELES/ Calif .—Taylor

&

Company- of: Beverly Hills» has
opened- a branch
office at 621
South - Spring, Street : under
the
managementrof Richard vB/, Mc*

Kinney>
firm.,; •.

a

the

VicerPresident. of
■■ ■.

•

v;-

,

*.

'•

Volume

Number

195

The Commercial

6140

and Financial

Chronicle

(1163)

price

By Dr. Ira U, Cobleigh, Enterprise Economist

description

of

"

annual

divisions of the Canadian food

Those who
ers

different

in

of

showing above-

are

common

"are

being

$.15

Oshawa

a

plastic

widely

'

Foods,- General
Mills, etc., have found investing
in well-managed food companies
Here is a food company oper-vin§s afttie rate of more than 20%
most rewarding. .-While American ating
along
somfewhat
sirnilar" annually, are always attractive.
companies, such as these, have ex- lines to M. Loeb. It' also -is-S.a/•'/Vv
F
(F
' ;J
■;="
tensive -divisional, operations
in wholesaler of groceries,-■ produce,V'
\
''
General

_

Canada, we'd like to cite, today, frozen foods, tobacco and confec-.
native Canadian companies tionery.
It ; serves as* wholesale
moying swiftly ahead, ip the same supply depot for 128 IGA food"

-Wlt

'

fleet

trucks.

of

'

/,,

markets

-

in

the

Province

of

PLAINS, N. Y.

Walker

&;

New

.

Co.,

York

announced

G. II.

—

members

Stock

of

the

Exchange, have

that

David

W.

Mc-

vancing into three related product
potato.. chips;
frozen
of
,

individual,

tables.
lion

quick
utilization

vegetables; and

off-sized

broken'

and

Canada

pounds

vege-*

34

consumes

mil¬

of

potato chips
a
year, and Federal has been mak¬

on

ing

ttLe offering

quite

with

dent

a

"Mad

its

in

this

market:

Hatter"

brand.

Vegetables,,

frozen
individually,
•afuJ ,0± ?^0-P,uOO in %% convertible have a great advantage over
/ tario. Oshawa, itself,
owns
and' sniking cfund. debentures. These, frozen; "boxes," and permit use
Monarch Fine Foods Limited
operates fourteen IGA" markets/conver;fciibleuntoxommon.at,$4,. by the housewife of small quanti¬

general sector of the 'economy/.:

WHITE

39

lines: Instant mashed potatoes and

.

,

Feder<al Farms went public

_

transportation

a

Moving from success in raw
vegetables, Federal is rapidlw ad¬

,

four

Q. Ii. Walker
Names McKnight

clean
place

bags. Marketing is done
in Canada, implemented

company-owned

Wholesale

high of around
Current quotation is 23.
'
* " •
•
; and - rewarding: growth-minded
The Oshawa Wholesale Limited " investors. Increases in net earn-

in such companies as Standard

Brands,

by

Limited,
we
perceive a dynamically ex2234 /pariding food company, which, in
*
.
recent years, has been attracting

a

which

them in attractive consumer-sized

also 71,422 shares

are

production" lines,

wash, grade, sort,
trim
vegetables,- and

and

outstanding, but these

closely held.

In

sales and earnings.

8%,"to

early sharehold-

were

companies

industry, which

growth rates in

average

distribution

Share. There

"

progressive

four

receive,

swing in 1961, between a
7% and a high of 32.
policy is to pay in
June and December, the last semiDividend

v

Capsuled

ori'4* five

low of

Growing Canadian Food Cos.!

11

On-*

v

<

-

j

This

which

be

to

companythe believed to be
is sale of marin

J

the

believed

is

comnanv

marine

arrounHn^

for

awa

25%

ahout

g? £ ' ?,
i^
g
aP0UL 2
the Canadian market.
It has
manuf

& r o c

Canada
Lrdiiaaa.

£

five

,

its

-

;nnnift MonT0r°hnt0
000), Monarch is

in

of/ 80,000
position

a

its

laundries
•

of

manv

•

the

on

IV2

around

save

margarine the

each year

cents

million

40

English

287,017.

sells 28,1961,

•

ih

the

sales

Monarch

v;

lion. In the

-

year

only

a

$15,-

were

fat

a

free

of 451,541

gtock

(having

.

t

^

: «na-

modern.' 440

certain

.con-

dividend

Class "A'V is listed in Toronto and
a

In

farm

on

Summer

and

Fall

and

the-

of

cut

-

in

a-

Farms

has

shown

sales in 1952, to around $3

Winter

and

lively

£P^-^f®d

been

by

improved

use

>preservatives^ The

-of

many

office, ,10
: y

;

,

Place.

UNISEC Investors
HUNTINGTON

STATION, N. Y.
Investors; Corporation
550,000.. is conducting a securities business

its!

—UNISEC

shares outstanding, 40,000 are re-v from offices
tained by management indicating Road.

at

34 Walt Whitman
;

their faith in the corporate future,

energetic

eager,

early Spring... Winter

has

Plains

Place.

Bendix

8

million,

Of

for

securities business from offices at

million

now.

firm

NORTH LINDENHURST, N. Y.-—
John R. Steiger is conducting a

ex¬

$%

from

the

also resident partner

J. R. Steiger Opens

largest green¬
in America de¬

12.8 million flowers,

growth

of

now

White

ten

80,000 house plants annually.).

Federal

is

the

Mitchell

man¬

for

member

a

years,

exclusively to the growing
flowers and house plants.

(It produces
and

the

and

the

100 year old en¬

a

McKnight

Knight, Director of Research and

Dale

arranging

properties

is

operation

annually,

with

and i processing

growing seasons, the.

\:

recorded

acre

storage

Dale

Dale

cellent

scien?

of

W.

Farms

investment in

bonds

Limited,

the

voted

: its ; operations
into
processed and snack food lines? / /

operations.

spread

especially for them—cOriv oil
garine* : ;.r
' ' ; >;3f

the Hol-

Federal

contract under which it will

terprise,

expanding,

shares of Class A storage

„„„„

and

area,

$350,000

a

convertible

house

Aan4 Mar^h, has ,become a major
grower, processor and distributor*.
^^ -e^ a^ ?;
ls also r rapialy-

extensive

Preference- over; the- common).
Montreal

veSetable growing

ing

Estate

years.

com-

recently,

company acquires and - stores vegetables for ; These four Canadian food com¬
S-jater sale at premium ".prices ;in panies, outlined in capsule, appear

period, net ori

share to $.99. Capitalization
sists

iVfonarch is also taking advantage
of the special demand of "weightfor

-r

Tile

stockholders.

-

is consid¬

has broadened its horizon by mak-.

age

P311^ operating in Canada's major

jts

$50 mil-

vlass a stock ; rose irom

dustrial shortening.
The marga—
rine .market in Canada is growing
at the rate of 10%
a
year, and

watchers"

v

miW

.iagricultural: production

ended Jan.

were over

same

f25

Janulr/For ,taic
federal Faiitisi combines
January. tor

-

J ^'
; produces
not

Ingest

with

.

For

Ontario

ar^ today, its top executives"and

and

time. Formost

a

Dnvid

*

:

Philip and Morris Latchman, who

in-

50% interest"

in
195o, sales

fiscal year

per

margarine, 'but salad oils, dessert
toppings,, and'spreads; and it is
expanding its manufacture of in-

:

-

Here> again the growth rate has

,

pounds

company

a

.

tonseed^oily now, operation ltseM ^3^1:
processed by the lourth week
others.. Doing this
of

Bradford

coin-onprated:

Coin-A-Matic of Ontario

-

••

suoermarkets

some 550 apartment buildings in
Hamilton and Toronto areas.

cot-

coconut and

in

dIUUU(3 APU^-

afu

at

Most

150

around

,

Federal.Farms.started business.

'.'Plans

cojn actuated laundry facilitiesirr

plant to refine,

own

chain

m'' Scottish cities, and
to

Much larger storage fa-

Soybean, palm,

might

traded
J

' untario .{SO
miles
supermarkets North of Toronto) in 1958, under
guidance
of
two
brothers*
four - nearby"
gu P
or . two, brothers,

Citv"

"Food* City"

eludes-a

cjlities,^ are available, course,the
and
Company, plans, in due
to

pound

nos

Toronto and m
communities;-Diversification

"

•

plant

new

"Food

nlants

m

throughout

e r s

r^anufacturine

five

Srocers throughouV

construct

oi

ana tnanuiacturmg plants, .-fians
for 1962 cal1 for the opening of

denendent

expand.

numoer

by emciemi

chains, wholesale and in-

With

a

ties

Recently,: the ering a quick freeze plant for this
fh
Toronto
tne loionxo purpose..

ld

r
"
Exchange at $5.75, and the bonds

of' hos-:

number

a

ana

ctur e, high quality of
hvaeffressive selling

a

h

CQmmon

Pltals, hotels, schools, restaurants

hv

and

to retail

and

marKeis

pffiriont

arhipvod this nosition
acmevea tnis position

nroduct

Prices -thereafter.

63 independent retail" ^

serves

markets

,

of

until/.June-T5, ^1966, and at rising

about 5- 20 % J - of

provide

business Further
wnoiesaie Business, rurtner, Oshusn

leader

and

?nd

Perhaps it would be

chemical

while

to

ANGELES, Calif.—Arthur O.
Garrett, Sr. is now conducting his

promising.
worth your

detailed

get

Forms Arthur Garrett Co.
LOS

investment

analytical

any'?
reports: on each, if you
streamlined plant,, which went on
stream in late 1959, is extensively tracted to this industry,
automated with a continuous flow these issues,
v
;
ft.;*;-]
comp

the firm

at¬

are

and

•'

rett

to;

"

business

at 510 South

in

;

from

offices

Spring Street, under

name

Company,.

Alhambra.

of Arthur'O. Gar¬

He
;

was

formerly
,

mar¬

*

Growth

of

Monarch

v

has. been

ThfotittoMiwerrie/ty wcHot artsoffeh of■ securitiesof ^

impressive, with annual sales ris^

;ing from $300,000 iri 1950, to $111/?

ri

million for fiscal year ended Nov.

30r

-

**

~: 0:

c

~

•'

'

x

'

'

*

March 8,

1962

corresponding inr
creases in net earnings.
Monarch;
"Went public" June 14, 1961,: offer¬
ing its common at $6,75 a share. Its:
1,000,000v outstanding shares are
currently traded on the Toronto
Exchange at around 13.%« Net for
1961
was
around
$.85 a share.
Monarch

f

yS

1061," with

common

lively- equity in
young

This
1928

well

company.

M.

to< be

seems

a

•*>

a'

managed
v

-

-

;

!

j

Loeb, Limited
started

company

.

Par Value $10 per

out

Share

in

confectionery store.
It '
now distributes, at wholesale, con"
fectionery, tobacco, groceries,
produce, meats,' fresh and frozen
foods to
over
3,000 - accounts in
as

c.

Common Stock

a

The
'

Company has issued to holders of its outstanding Common Stock transferable

warrants, expiring
at
as

the rate of
more

-

one

March 21, 1962; evidencing rights to subscribe for these shares,

share for each 15 shares held and

the price set

at

fully set forth in the prospectus. Common Stock
underwriters

Eastern and Northern Ontario and "

as

set

may

forth below, all

be offered by the

forth in the prospectus.

Western

Quebec.. It also acts as
franchised
supply depot,, in the
same
region for some: 187 retail
outlets, who are members of Inter-

.-..r

-

,

.

.

t.•

i.

-

national

Grocers

Alliance

Subscription Price $39

;

Co.

per

Share

M. Loeb also, through a subsidiary

produces

and; distributes

butter,

cheese and powdered milk. In nongrocery

items, the
for

distributor

Sunblam,
Timex*-

RCA,

These

Copies oj ihe prospectus

is a
Kodak, *
Westclox and''
company

Ronson,
nonfood

named In the

-

items

may

prospectus)

be obtained, jrorn such of the undersigned (who are among the underwriters
as may legally ojjer these securities under applicable securities laws.

are

sold not

only to IGA members, but
to department, drug and appliance"
stores, and account for about 15%
of total sales.

M.
Its

$12

Loeb

annual

million iq

million

for

a

large business.

have

.

year

is

Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath

grown from

1954 to

fiscal

Capitalization

Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.

about

1961.

$2,500,000

Toronto Exchange. Net

ings are
the $.20
be

above $.80

ranged,

in

this

earn¬

a

year.

1961,; from




a

Stock,
low

Alex. Brown & Sons

;;

Johnston, Lemon & Co.

,

v

Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.

of„.

Merrill

Incorporated

1

share, and
dividend paid in 1961 may

increased

.

Folger, Nolan, Fleming & Co.
in

debentures,
followed
by
792,050 common shares ljsted on.

the

_

$80

.63^%

,

r

•

does

s^Ies

-

Ferris &

Company

1

Jones, Kreeger & Co.

i

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

.

Mackall & Coe

.

Incorporated

>

.

Robinson and Lukens

.-L~

Rouse, Brewer, Becker & Bryant, Inc.

Birely & Company

Rohrbaugh and. Company

12

,

(1164)

.

.

.The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

•

TAX-EXEMPT BOND'MARKET
*
.

.Thursday, Marches, 1962

.

fv;'

•

,

-Wayne Township, New Jersey,: California. (State)3%%
1982
"
awarded $5,660,000 various pur- Connecticut (State)___„—
3%%. 1981-1982
pose bonds due 1963^1992 to the New Jersey Highway Auth., Gtd._._ 3%
' •
1981-1982

'3.45%

3.30%

3.20%

3.10%

New York (State)__-__-___________
Pennsylvania (State)
Delaware (State)
New Housing Auth., (N. Y., N. Y.)__
Los Angeles, Calif..
were immediately sold and the Baltimore, Md
_______
account marked closed. '
Cincinnati, Ohio (U. T.)

.

BY GEORGE HAMILTON*

;

.

V

,

^

;

>

.

that have

Most of the new issues

market, although not of

to

come

-

927,823 Feb. 28, to $408,112,925 as

reported on March 7.

major proportions, have been ex-

HorKf

Tte„^

3.10%

1981-1982
1974-1975
1981-1982
1981-1982

3;10%
2.90%
3.15%
3.20%

2 75%
3.00%
3.05%

3%%
3Y4%

1981-1982
1981

3.50%'

3.35%

3.30%

3.15%

3%%

1981

3.25%

3.10%

1981
1981

3.35%
3.35%

3.25%
3.20%

2!95%

tremely well taken by commercial
New Issue
L£
0
banks, insurance companies and
v/®*^ 1 '-L.
»-1963-1967 to4he group headed by N-ew »York, N(., Y.,T/.Tr
,3,% M
1980 ,
3.40% > 3.30%
individual investors.
During this ^ There have been few large and. The
Northern Trust Company.' .
March 7, 1962—Index-3.123%
period The Commercial and Fi- interesting issues, with the ex- Scaled to yield from 1.90%
to rviifnrnin
cnm
$«7i«nnn
nancUil Chronicle's twenty year
ception of the $35,000,000 State of 2.40% the account reports an un- Hue i963-1983 to the erouD heariert rnmnST
J, . S}ey hav?
high grade bond yield index has Georgia
Highway Authority sold balance 0f $40,000.
bv B ink of A meiiraN T
/IsA
misjudged the amount
showii an improvement of just (1963-1991)
bonds, up for sale
.
,
Thursday>s flhai sale
of
A anet
enrf „f>
k
,taX exemPt bo"* that the
over
one-quarter of a point; the since we last
note consisted
32,850,000 Johnmajor members
this ing to

Vojume

-M-

Philadelphia, Pa
Chicago, 111. _

Midland, Michigan, City-School
District sold $2,250,000 bonds due

iw

3.20%

3%%
3%%
2.90%
3 V2 %

3%%

syndicate managed jointly by
\
~~
National State Bank of Newark
During the past week the state sharply reduced. The municipal and John Nuveen & Company as
and municipal bond market has
bond total as expressed by the 3.95s.- Reoffered to yield from
shown
excellent
improvement. Blue List was reduced from $523,- 2.00% to 4.00%, all of the bonds
j

1

y

"""

■

3^4%

j

™

tW

intent

calendar is replete with volumin-

weex ago
week ag

new issue^
for competitive
Wdding and generally there are a
handful of important negotiated
type financings in various phases
q

Investor Enthusiasm for

Tax-Exempts Preempts

"Stockpile"
At

last

time

week the
$72,000,000 New York State Thrupress

general

Authority

way

bonds

serial and term

revenue

being

were

reoffered to the public

along with
two other important issues, $40,000,000 Commonwealth of Massavarious

ehusetts
and

bonds

purpose

Prince

$11 500 000

The calendar of sealed bids
the

next

rxncrx

thirty days

modest

a

able

i«nP«

tvnP

was

Morton

H

the

balance

&

rarripH

i

all

The

i/m

bf

wafni n./bHclv

at

I orain

$670 000

onn

Ohio

hosn'ital

the.-'bonds

of
l983

17

cnimnn

1Q89

with

fl 500

hrfndt;
bonds

f

two

were

ot onenng.

investor

The

bonds

revenue
wue

(iBbd 1991)

enthusiasm

P.

niS

Chicag^^IllinMs^Fssue'wds^mie- ^a ^irS'^t^sS
wlch, connectkol various purpose terest cost was made by The First
44+ori

umc

nc

.issue

rAntonio,
of

Texas,
these

included
mama

<?old

A<?

is

balance
State

of

have

all

sold down to
of

yesterdays

$9,000,000; $12,275,000

Tennessee

count

marked

State

of

which

bonds

sold

been

and

the

clc«e<J> $27,702,000
bonds which

?Ve«Snnl
$9,000,000

^

of

and

Mo

nnS

$42,000,000

State of New Jersey institutional
bonds which have a balance of

$7,630,000
as
we
go
to
Many other smaller issues

prised of

cate

sy

mdrnhprc

smaller issues have sold out during tne past week.

NEW

buy

any

ohm cniri

Oregon,

3.35%.

and

This

week's

final

of

issue

sig-

fyndkate^^ Plant |963-1992 bonds which7) by should this average be potat and,
were of close to one-half struck tobought yesterday (March

The

1

e

& Company, day would indicate a further gain
?Ld??5.fVie±?R BOint 'Am0ng
Other major members of this syn^es Rowing, .the greatest
vifld inc Halsey, Stuart & Company, ^ength.have..beemJndiana^Toll
^teinclude Blytt & Company, Road 3y2s up to 2 points Kansas
yieia
?he Ra"'!man

SL?
b™ds

we^Fcaled
scaiea

to

Donas were

to

from 285% in 1976 to 3'10% in Inc. Smith, Barney &

Company

Turnpike

nfti

nnn

Thp

wml ih!i! S

thic

rnmnrofiW

Pinipv

pLLv

Rr

Wg^ri

Rr

National
-

Bank

First

of

National

Brown Brothers Harri-

pftmnnnv

remalns

m

The B

account.

j

Van

Ingen

&

Company,

up

Tuesday, March 6,/saw three mand with the present balance
interesting issues offered for com- being $5,300,000.
petitive bidding. The State of
Atabama. a very infrequent borHigher Municipal Prices
rower, sold $8,500,000 various pur'
in the Offing
196$-1982 bonds and the bulk
The prime reason given for the

Thp^nffArincf

combined

balance

the

issues

2%

points; New York State

.

pansion of business loans. Dealers seems assured.

hospitai

bonds due 1963-1972

bought

by

of

the

eroun

re-

general

Larger Issues Scheduled For Sale

were

headed

bv

Abilene, Texas

Ventura Junior College District,
'

Gustavus

Adolphus College, Minn.
Hazelwood Sch. Dist. R-l, Mo
Iona College, N. Y
Noble School District, Ohio
Vestal Central S. D. No. 1, N. Y.__
West
Bend, Addison etc. Joint
School District No. 1, Wis.—

an

Dallas, Texas
-—
Dickinson, Indep. Sch. Dist., Texas
Fort Pierce, Fla
Hidalgo County Road Dist., Texas
Highland Park, 111—
North Little Rock, Ark
-

—-

Common Stock
(Par Value $.10 per share)

^£0,000

1,200,000
1,100,000
1,060,000
1,050,000
1,278,000
1,330,000

1963-1984
1964-2001

2:00 p.m.
10:00

a.m.

1962-1999

10:00

a.m.

1963-1984

Noon

1963-1982

1963-1983

2:00 p.m.

1963-1982

7:30 p.m.

March 12 (Monday)

March 13

10,800,000
1,135,000
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,245,000
3,000,000

1,700,000
Allegheny County, Pa.——
7,710,000
Bethany, Orange, Woodbridge, Reg.
High School S. D. No. 5, Conn—
1,750,000
Denver, Colo.
15,000,000
Gates & Chili, Cent. S. D. #1, N. Y.
1,645,000
Henry Hudson Reg. S. D., N. J—
1,245,000
Laurel SD No. 7 & No. 7-70, Mont.
1,217,000
Northridge School District, Ohio—
1,021,000
Omaha, Neb.
5,700,000
Pennsylvania General State Auth.
25,000,000
St. Louis Co., Lindberg S, D., Mo.
2,500,000
March 14 (Wednesday)

be obtained from the undersigned underwriter
or other dealers or brokers
only in states in which such underwriter, dealers or brokers
are qualified to act as dealers in
securities, and in which the Offering Circular may be
legally distributed.
may

—

E.W.Stewart & Co., Inc.
3020 N. Federal

Highway'
Lauderdale, Fla;-*»

1963-1982

1:45 p.m.

1967-1987

7:30 p.m.

1964-1988

1963-1982

2:00 p.m.
10:00

a.m.

1964-1981

1:00 p.m.

1962-1991

7:00 p.m.

(Tuesday)

Aldine School District, Texas——

;.

Offering Price: $3.00 Per Share

Ft.

and 4 V8s up 2 points,
Next week's calendar is relatively unimportant and totals only
$104,500,000.
The features are
$15,000,000 Denver, 'Colorado,
Water System 1972-1999 bonds

1,7°^ to 3-10%> the account

o^OOO811 The^Sl OO^OOO

Processing Center, Inc.

Alnsley Building

points;

wide

$7,500,000

(a Florida corporation)

Miami 32, Florida

2%s

demand
for tax exempt and
$25,000,000
Pennsylvania
bonds continues to be the un- General State Authority bonds,
abated appetite of commercial both scheduled for competitive
banks for investment earnings to bidding on March 13.
make up for the lag in the exSome further market gain

totaling

70,000 Shares

402

up

awarded
to
the
group
headed jointly by the First National City Bank and Sterne, Agee
& Leach. Reoffered to yield from
were

ISSUE

Copies of the Offering Circular

3%s

jjgj. a balance of $1,045,000 pres- Kidder, Peabody & Company and Memphis Electric Revenue 4.40s

offer to sell, nor a solicitation of an offer
of this stock. The offering is made only by the Offering Circular.

Miami Data

municipal revenue bond issues
have also been very active. The
Smith, Barney & Company Turn-

been sold.

4V2S£

igTto^the
1964~198I to tJle syndicate n^n-

of

S

The

3V2s

as

.

Seattle

Bank and

$11

Oh^o sold $11,081,000

w

First'

The

Co.

!?anftrC'r 1964 t0 1975 were not Sealed this yield was in 1.70% de- Power Authority 3.20s up 2 points
to issue from good to and West Virginia Turnpike 3J/4S
reoffered.
3.40%,

Whifgx

This advertisement is neither
to

hav»

&

Drexel

.prices tne ently

|£Lf°

„

Pmchhitting for Donald Mackey.

Tonds

$£5801»000^unlimited tax
Lr
JSji!

TTavrimnn

press.

have

hal-

thp

nrpss

taken

C lumbus,
? f ^

Tnp

also benefited and at least twelve

to

^OOO^m bonds^ pav,

rnlllrhhll„'

ac-

Maryland

fyn

$9 000000

ma^Kaa "P

OOOgSSSS
Georgia

$30,OOU,OUO

Highway Authority Revenue

which

wp

«f
of

ance
ance

marked all sold

the

in-

net

about 75% of the bonds have been

issues which benefited in

.v.3

3 395%

of

flotations

three

x

hid

serond

Boston Corporation group. Scaled
to yield from 1.75% to 3.50%

on

were

The

San
bal-

$7,000,000
issue. 'The

ir,

counts

State

Pmnn

<tR 7dn nun

the

and

•ranees
ur0„o

fUo

term bondg through negotiation to

...W yv■:

Price Gains
•
The. dollar quoted State and

were

^bonds^w^

for

n

•

n

- '■ -:.

vvere

dav
aay

a

bov. '
Govern-

and

Dollar Quoted Bonds Continue

note—& Trust Company and The Chase

of

issues

wort^reportW^thaf?he vi^uslv mentioned $35^000P900 which came to market. The Phila- Manhattan Bank as 3s. Reoffered
toee
issues
sold
GeorgW StatffflghwayTuZrUy delphiaparking Authority, Penn- to yield from 1.75% to 3.20% all
of offering
n963-1991V
sylvania^Sold $4,500,000 serial and but $930,000 of the bonds have

witnin
within

k

press ume was *o<u,uuu.
,uoo hospital 1963-1982
to
Monday's calendar offered little the syndicate managed jointly by higher levels.
there

+VlQ

cor. orme

mf.i
? mar^ts in800d c0"d'*ion and with, taxes always with
m*6 mumciPal k°nc* market
would seem ready to move to new

L

to

in the way of pew financings but Continental Illinois National Bank

1

the

S SSf f P ?

'

offered
awarded

1963

hoTren^infheTtoc^markef

face

maturity

seems

entWe

*

to

time

W

so)d

were

Reoffered to yield from
3.25%

press

and

offeilhg

initial

group include Harris Trust and
Savings Bank, The Northern Trust

1.70%

Recent Awards
ii/rQ1,„u

u

company.

at

are

lssues close to maiket.
On

were

Company

tn.mflrkPi

Hncp

d

manage-

negotiated

buy08^^^^^ ttfejTare

now withdrawing bonds'from the
new issue market and the secondary market as though bonds were
going out of style. How long this
situation will last is not ours to
?Pec"late UP°" but>. with a

R£'aI f CwWch
Tr£st C°Tpany»V Th®
^-1982 bonds^whlch were First Boston Corporation Merrill
Kaneas«v^nl Ik
an'
S™'h
{ ?n«44<7 nit fnteW
Dean Witter & Company The
coS ^toml^Wm^soTthis
mTofl^ fn lls/fna

is

There

important

no

W

only

which

vei'y

proportions.

present

totals

$425,000,000,

considered to be of

George's

County, 'Maryland, various purKAnric
AithAnoh holntoHiv

Ft

of dealer consideration.

areT

x

completely

SiakA
"of
& Com0any'

bther

^

against'? 142%a a
against 4.142 /„

*i_

—

Geddes & Camillus S. D. 2, N. Y—
1,850,000
Hartford, Conn.. „-T—.53,680,000
Maiden, Mass.
1,314,000
Pascack Valley Sch. Dist., N. J—
2,900,000
Puerto Rico Water Resources Auth,
12,500,000
Rothschild, Hatley, Schofield etc.,
Joint Sch. Dist. No. 1, Wis.-—~
1,125,000

1963-2000

6:30 p.m.

1963-1992

11:00 a„m.

1963-1980

11:30 p.m.

1972-1999

11:00

a.m.

1962-1981

2:00 p.m.

1963-1987

B:00 p.m.

1963-1982
1963-1982

8:00 p.m.
Noon

1964-1978

11:00

1965-1989

Noon

1964-1982

a.m.

8:00 p.m.

1963-1981

1P68-1975

11:00

a.m.

—„——„-—

March 7,1962




•

1963-1989
1963-1998

1963-1982

8:00 pm.
11:00

a.m.

2:00 p.m<

Volume

195

Number

•••

6140

March 15
Board of

.

.

(Thursday)

Education, West Va._-._i-*

DeLanft,, Fla
Franklin

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

1,400,01)0"-? 1963-1990

County, Tenn,_^

Hempstead Cent. S. D. No. 3, N. Y.
Knox County, S. D. No.
R-l, Mo,.:
Louisiana Bond & Bldg. Comm....Osseo Ind. S. D. No. 279, Minn.___ 1
v

v

a.m.

1963-1981

Noon

■

15,000,000

1963-1987

l,000,000l

1965-1992

"r\

11:00

Officers

a.m.

Ariz. Biochemical

are

Frank

S.

Breen,

member

of

Common Offered
1

securities business.

a

the

Stock

Boston

Offering of 200,000

common shares
of Arizona Biochemical Co., at $4

Ex¬

change, President; George A. Stanley, Jr., Treasurer; William E.

8:00 p.m.

per share is being made by Globus,
Inc., and Glass & Ross, Inc., New
York City. Net proceeds will be
used by the company to construct
its first plant, repay
debt, and in¬
crease working capital.1

•

1964-2O01

12:15 p.m.

2,200,000

1964-1992

11:00

3,000,000

1964-1992

Noon

1965-2002

il:30

/Glasgow,

~
.

Kj^y(Electric Plant Bd.)'

March

20

1963-1982

7:30p.m.

3,500,000

1965-1990

1967-1991

Commission Sch.

7:30 p.m.

11:00

vert

a.m.

1963-1990

10:30

a.m.

1963-1882

10:00

a.m.

1964-1982

Noon

1965-1987

11:00

trash
Frank S. Breen

George

A.

Gerald J.

Stanley

and

terials

D'Ambrosio

brush,

and

processed

other

or

ma¬

recovered

from the refuse.

a.m.

2:00 p.m.

Bros, to Admit

Cullman

Brothers, 161 Front St.,
New York City, members of the

(Wednesday)

New

York
Stock
Exchange, on
March 8 will admit John A. Regan
to partnership.

Heights

Dist.

of

contract

a

garbage into compost by the

Cullman
1975-2012

received

for

"Dana Process". The
company ex¬
pects to offer for sale the compost,

8:00 p.m.

1965-1981

has

It

from the city of Phoenix to con¬
struct several plants for the
proc¬
essing of refuse which will con¬

(Tuesday)

—

21

refuse.

4:00 p.m.

1967-1981

County Sch. Dist., Ga.___"
2,000,000
County, Skokie S. D. #68, 111.*
1,290,000
Denton, Texas _____:
'1,500,000"'
Glendale, Calif.
6,900,000
Plainville, Conn.
1,545,000
St. Bernard Parish, La
'- 1,000,000
Spokane County S. D. 81, Wash,__
3,000,000
Washington Public Power Supply
System
10,500,000
N March

to construct and operate
plants
the processing and disposition

1:30 p.m.

1962-1995

Chatham

Chicago

The
company
of
1001
North
Central Ave., Phoenix, Ariz., plans

a.m.

1,550,000'

Cook

County,

a.m.

4,500,000
2,900,000

sPasadena, Indbp. S. D., Texas____J
Sioux City Iridep. Sch.
Dist., Iowa ;
; Taylor Township Sch. Dist., Mich.

£170, 111.

1,989,000v

1963-1978

8:00 p.m.

Lebanon, Tenn,

1,500,000

1964-2001

10:00

a.m.

Purdue

Univ., West Lafayette, Ind.

4,700,000

1965-2002

10:00

a.m.

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette. Ind.
St. Cloud Indep. S: D. 742, Minn.

3,300,000
1,375,000

1964-2001

10:00

a.m.

1967-1985

1:30 p.m.

1934-1998

1:00 p.m.

March

22

March

26

1,200,000

1963

1982

1963

1991

8 00 p m

2,225,000
March 27

2,650,000

1964-1987

10730 a.m~.
10:00 a!m!

1963-1990

11:00

Rapids,
University Bd. of Trustees,
Oxford, Ohio
March 28

1963-1987

2,200,000

;

'

,

.

1

a.m.

J. H. Goddard Adds

3,700,000
2,500,000

1964-1992

(Thursday)

Co., Spec. Tax SD 1, Fla.

11:00
11:00

Cook

County, 111.
Nashville, Tenn.
Oak Park, 111..

a.m.

banker>and

3,000,000

1965-1980

Noon

Keith

R.

NEW

Fitzgerald,

been

iced

of

has

J.

H.

been

added

to

the

staff

Goddard

& Co., Inc., 85
Street,
members
of
Boston Stock Exchange.
He

1963-1977

10:30

a.m.

the
was

formerly

Lister

&

Co.

with

Leward

M.

formed

Livingston

with

offices

Avenue,

to

by the

in ■certified

engage

Officers

securities business.

a

16

at

are

Abraham Hamelsky,

prior thereto
with Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

President; M.
Vice-President; H. M.
Shepherd, Secretary; and D. M.
Hamelsky, Treasurer.

listed

'representatives

and

bonds,

This announcement is neither
these securities.

1965-1992

an

offer to sell

nor

a

solicitation of

an

offer to buy any of

The offering is made only by the Prospectus.

2:00 p.m.

1963-1992

State

Office

Bldg.

Noon

Auth.

310,000 Shares*

7,000,000

April 9 (Monday)
Huntington, W. Va

1963-1981

1,800,000

American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.

April 10 (Tuesday)

,

New London Ind. SD

#345, Minn.
North Sacramento, Calif

1.160,090
2,500,000

2:00 p.m.

Common .Stock

Sonoma Co. Flood Control & Water

Conservation District,

Calif.____

($1 Par Value)

2,120,000
*

This advertisement is

not an

offer
The

■

NEW ISSUE.

to sell or the solicitation of an

offer to buy
offering is made only by the Prospectus.
-•

.

..5

■■

V "5'

any

of these securities.

139,500 shares have been reserved by the Underwriters for offering
to

'

officers, directors, and employees of the Company, and to certain

other persons
March 2,

.:

designated by the Company, at the public offering price.

1962

T

i

,

i

,

i

200,000 Shares*

Price $15

Tidewater Lumber Co., Inc.
Common Stock
(Par Value 10c

per

5

is circulated from

The Underwriter has

shares for sale

..

to

Sha re

Share)

Copies 0/ the Prospectus
*

per

agreed to reserve 10,00(1
designees of the Company.

as

Price $5.00 Per Share

may

be obtained in

any

State in which this announcement

only such of the underwriters, including the undersigned,

may

lawfully offer the securities in such State.

•

;

1 •

Bear, Stearns & Co.
•>

_

Copies of the Prospectus may he obtained from the undersigned oii/r
in States in which the undersigned if qualified Kractuis a dealer

.

in securities and in which the

Prospectus

may

legally be distributed.

V

^

£**

f

-

V V*"

V

A. ,G Allyn & Co.

•

First California

'

V

;

v

INCORPORATED

*

.

.

;

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\

V/*

_•

Company

"J, Incorporated:

b'sVi/,

Shearson^ Hammi II & Co.
-V-''n i!'.1

Francis I. duPont & Co.

Walston & Co., Inc.
i

*'■

\

March 7, 1962.
'

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc.

'
•vv*

/

the

funds,

underwritings

financing.

25,000,000

2,000,000
25,020,000

of

securities, over-the-counter

stocks
and

serv¬

branch office by

"firm which deals in mutual

Edelstein,

and

new

April 5 (Thursday)
(Atlanta)

President,

said the entire state will be

Devonshire

April 4 (Wednesday)

Georgia

securities

hue

•

1,090,000

•Lafayette Parish, Par. Sch. Bd., La.
Philadelphia, Pa.

investment
dealer.

Hamelsky Co.

BRUNSWICK, N. J. — A.
Hamelsky and Company, Inc. has

....

April '3 (Tuesday)
Angeles County, County Flood
District, Calif.

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

about ...March 1 in Wichita Falls,
Texas, have * been announced by
the Handley investment Co., Tulsa

BOSTON, Mass.—Henry A. Dona¬

25,000,000
6,500,000

Control

Form

a.m.

1963-1982

April 2 (Monday)

Los

that company in the trading department.

(Wednesday)

29

Handley Opening Branch
TULSA, Okla. —Plans for the
opening of a new branch office

■

Orange Co. Sanitary Dist. £7, Cal.
Plaquemines Parish, La.__
■__
March

and

Daniel L. Quinn

Mr- Breen was formerly a partner in Schirmer, Atherton &
Co., and other members of the new firm were also associated with

1965-1986

Grand

Wm. E. Creamer

Creamer, Vice-President; Gerald J. D'Ambrosio, Clerk; and Daniel
L. Quinn, Assistant Treasurer.
v

—

2,500,000
15,345,000
10,000,000

Miami

Brevard

j__

Samson Krupnick, President
Treasurer; and Franz Wink¬
ler, Secretary.

.

: f

(Tuesday)

Crawfordsville, Ind.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit City Sch. Dist., Mich

<

and

1:00 p.m.

2,562,000

'1

Dist., N. J

business from offices at 360

Lexington Avenue, New York City
(c/o Kramer & Lans).
Officers

(Monday)

City Sch. Dist., Ohioj

Roselle Park, Sch.
Sioux City, Iowa

Investing
Co., Inc. is engaging in the secu¬
rities

3,155,000

^

Parma

Adanim American
Adanim American Israel

(Thursday)

Lawrenceburg, Ind.

•

*

with offices at 50 Congress
St., to engage in

13

^

'

BOSTON, Mass.—Breen, Creamer, Stanley Corp. has been formed

1963-19818:00 p.m.

Illinois' University2,250,000

;Eastern

...

March 19 (Monday)

,

Alexandria, La.:
:Atlanta, Ga.

Cook

10:00

Breen, Creamer, Stanley Corp.

p.m.

-

:

v'

p.m:

3:30

1963-1974

March 16 (Friday)
Lycoming Col. Williamsport, Pa.__
1,400,000

rV1.; -

2:00

1965-1990

1,400,000
1,000,000
2,545,000
1,100,000

...

(1165)

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14

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1166)

Ira W.. Painton Joins

By Roger W. Babson

•

Vv'/cy.

;

-

diversity of investment opportunities and

the

most

companies with

This

question

Should

is:

briefly

buy the most popular stocks,
should

or

those in little

buy

we

demand?

Stocks

Unpopular
^

panies
.

sneezing and
store

is

Also

life

favorite drugbest business.

your

doing

its

insurance

stocks

are

attractive.
Everyone
is
striving to live longer; while the

always

doctors,

smallest

cash

cement

coppers'

_

.

.

com-

other

and

.

are

i.

O

.

constantly becoming less. This, in
way, applies to the making of
To

they

day

satellites

the

reduce

long

for

microwaves

are

ahead.

years

"stock

some-

beams and the

of

use

may

demand

but these

copper;

dividends," which investors
They pay no taxes upon these
until they sell the stock received.

cheap. The "beams"

are

from

and

universal

stocks

Politics

The

into Social Security.
If
Kennedy has his way,
increased

be

the

aged, the

to

ill,

further

other

and

unfortunates.

Companies-selling

food

popular. Everyone

also

are

eat

and

great

markets
—

vw

most

people like
self-service food

new

which

becoming

are

vr—w»«

..

a
vi

-social center where you meet your
•friends. Of course, the stocks of
these food chains

are high; but the
population is constantly growing,
It may reach 200,000,000 in five

'

years.

to

devote

ivi a d\x/

„

.i.-j.!.

*

__

had for better study

devXped

being

^

„f

not. be .unloaded without, pumps
which were only available in the
United States.' We at first refused
to let Canada have the

pany

ortmnllH.iml

/"I riT.^1

ideas

velopments

now

-p. .

Cuba

Washington,' D.tC.;

Bank

Women's! ,March,

"Bank

Woman

the1-

of

*

off if Cuba didn>t mend her

»

,

-

waYs-

,

j?

Bank

banking

'aRjjany experts^saj'

Cnmnnnv
Company

1988
1933.

since

smrp

?
,

nations

free

*s*ai!d>
Island, Illinois.
Miss Engel has been associated
with tee. National Sayings;, and
She
She

.

to

were

we

there
drugs

S

that

Blue v.

of

Read

York

made

State

Dillon

-The trouble is there has been no.

according to an announce- -could-use the lever. Now
by association Presi- -ls
embargo, except for

award

in

-bargaining with Cuba in which

1962,
Month"

"

have

great

'

'cit

I

do

race

will

wi?e

that

pect

?

this
end.

.

I

.

•

-

.

.

,

i

.

ritioc
cities

o

O.

•

-

4.

the

common

get together

of

h
be

Porges,

York

my

with

Clark

dl.eu wxwi uiarK,

&

wh,"h

ho'n''

nm"

"

Service Company to it's
stockholders
and

world disarma-

v

"

$

Department,

this'^ear0' Tli?'department
-JrCcxr,•
Q©paITin0n.l
v

shares

members

Stock

offices

W

r-

..

rr

i

k

i

x

C

'

''

Weinstock

weinstocK

of- the

Exchange,

as

V*

i

n

A

to

'■

>"

..commodities

?

^

v*

■

-

1

;

^

^

AT

—

v

l' -Vim

^

-

which; they^ agreed
RliCJClO

TA

KllT

almost ineffective.

1S

llOT

ThA

......

loans" obtained
af

Nineteen
from

;

^°J^eeP

•

The

securities business

the

to

East

and

been

sold,

this

announcement

appears

as

a

matter

of

record

But: the

ISSUE
MARCH

8,

1962

there.

matter

Because

does

not

States

in

be

DALE SYSTEM

lose

31

products.,.,.-

"INCORPORATED

•

.

a

COMMON STOCK
(no par

to carry on

year

with

Russia

and

in

-

?
a

F'or j.he
1961/

m0nths

12

the

ended

Dec.

company

D. L, Carder

-

Bulldmg:
-

-

•

Opens
,

T

T

x

;i

'•::

A" ♦ ri
' t
New OrviS Branch

'xT "

'
:

mIDDLETOWN, N. y. —Orvls
Brothers
&
Co., has opened "sa
under

R.

at 2

office

Branch

the

Main

East

'

-

Penski.

Samuel

and

Patterson

.

St.,

of Glenn

management

are

value)

at

the

of

estimated by
approximately

-

TTT;xrAT„

their

doing

is

^7* WAYJ^E, Ind. Dale L. Card r
is conducting a securities .Business
kom officcs-in the Indiana Bank

pretty
billions
the Gold War
so

the

*

;

would-

.

;f It seems that we are in
pickle. We are spending

Texas

reported
operating revenues of $56,000,801
and
t j
■ of $11,233,891.-

rest

-buying-some-of

by

population

company

-

of their exports, such as 1

some

Italy,

that

the

Panhandle

The

861 000

it

position to

a

includes

Oklahoma

served

the

the United Sta.es needs
tie "trade badly.
And would the

indemnify "countries

this Irvine

from

territory served by

The

romnanv

Mexic0

position,
United

\t-

the Pecos Valley region in New

(international balance of payments

,,16(3,000 jshares

rlprivAd

iggi.

its unfavorable

of

*

•«

territory

cleagy, if the trade were cut;
«?. tbe Eft would suffer more
the West.

only.

"

-

-

South Plains region of Texas and

if; it
in

thja

Texas,

-

the flscal y.ear ended ^ug.

31

latter's advantage, it.
engage

hppn

-

the

.

shlPPed

'

I

-

-and

lacle J3
??
ari
West undoubtedly is to the adC* D; H' ReaRy Associates with vantage of the East because of the
offices at 7914 Twenty-first Ave., "Partieuter! nature of the goods
to engage in a

Dallas,

^S .been derived irom tnis service

the

,0r^an^Zx^0nJ:0^.e^beij

t,r

in

company is engaged in the generati0n, transmission, distribution
7
_

State Department says it agreed
to the deletions because it wanted

-o

man-

ill

TA

list by unanimous consent.

-

Form C. D. H; Realty

Located

m-1950 and drerv up a list <£;

-

•

than
NEW

right to sub-

^mln^^nd

got, together-

staff of California Investors, 4376 items have been taken
Atlantic Avenue,
"c C C : C'C :r^^'SSuv^nan^Su

New

auarter*? "at

new

countries

European

..

Calif. Inv. Adds

Broadway, New York City.

having

of

icf forsK.4
.

$7'100'000 o£ bank
.fKp

And
these

21,
to

stock

new

jnents

Olson, Treasurer.

probably would not
of

*ionr.

-the

^

a

has
xlaS

,

wasn't-to the

All

em-

-

Commerce is not granting any

BROOKLYN, N. Y. Chaim:Stern,
ager 0f the syndicate department, general partner, and Victor Stern,
The firm has recently removed its 'limited
partner, ' have
formed

•

^wiii
will

x:

4.

d

ex-

hf611!
hnmhc"
rfecfrnv
^ ^
controlled, espe-

hvdrngen

u

associated

weapons

even

under-

pioyges

cnKoomKn

for. the fact that the

4

^

.

*

Robert G- Killgore has ^become

while ago.

not

do

is

,offering
of 442,362
eommbn~ shares of Southwestern

.

+

in

New

.pending hundreds of applications
to IbSE. .from American firms wanting to
Th!i balance of such nrb-eeds
fdea." But it .requires great; Olson, Inc. is engaging in a securi- do business-with Russia but-.is will be added to the general funds
patience and - persistence. It is ties business from offices at 13743 moving slowly right at this 5unc-;
thp c|mDanv and will be avaiL
important to young; people -who Victor . Boulevard. Officers are ture because Congress is critically
h,
fn
tu
„avment of further
are willing to work and who have- Forest E. Olson, President;.Donald watching this trade. V ; ^
imllovlthe patience to wait.
'
v Olson,
.r>r«ooj^c.Tif.
j
K. oionn Vice-President; and r<^r-i
Carl - -rr>u„ United States and nr—— costs oi aaaiLions ana improve
.The
Western

even

lowpr

Inc

investment

an

which

group

'
\

*

become™!" sec'oncf^lass Warrants expiring March
* would become_a sKond .cl^ '1962, give for
-holders the right
j?ormer.-rvice-i^resiaeni subscribe

t

XVlll^OFG J 01I1S

whTLn

nuclear

see

nhmit

and

a

readers

any

mL.^

these,

much

are

Drice than ttiev

Sometime

like

not

thev

Co

&

heads

•

.

writing6- |n

nation,

Tnar,v

-

national Vice-President.

SClark, Weinstock
thoueh

•

59' Miss EnSel has been active'in expensive exhibits at tne Leipzig „th
the additional
tee 3,700-member ..group : since .**>*, in the soviet zone of Ger-.-be a{ th
m

Forest E. Olson, Inc.
Moreover, history shows that. ity
d.oe® not require much capital, to ,
(Special to The p.n.»c..i CH.pN.drt;
ftert ,? company with only an VAN NUYS, Calif. — Forest
-

over

-

nAT

tracts.

we

]XlgJltS UlIGnilff

lever

a

officer,^bargaining.-;-In other words, they
°
i
i
i
wanted something to hold over 'Tq SlOPKmO HCTS
has ^ Cuba's head and threaten to cut -1-^ ^^
-r*

trust

in tei

drawjng boards
profit possibilities.
•
on

,t

"elec-

cry

"

•

wanted

i

ceived the National Association-of

Trust

a.

^ "full

such

T

primarily the

are

but

pumps

cellulose

f

Speculation
These

large

a

ment of wheat.

^ —

Common Stocks Bought for

CanconsignThe wheat could
ago,

a year

China

ing trade with Cuba, they say they

u

iNAbW Honors

•

President,
many

politics, and we are
overestimate the Im-

■-««•

President
will

to

inclined

of companies making office equip-

sold

Ask them why until a few q
.Wtr
weeks ago we carried on a thriv-. 001 VICe OOmPaRy d

dent,;Hilda^IL Kollmann,^ Vice-

Ideas

New

vs.

newspapers

columns

those

are

the insurance business since

ment

like.

—,

ada

no mean

^nm

mnnmr

1953-

aluminum

make

HTraininCf

of

Charlotte1 A.; Engel,

to

yield of all groups,

Other popular

.

We don't trade with

China, but about

an

National Savings and Trust Com-.

when

life insurance stocks, especially as
the companies constantly declare

the

nist business.

De-

trade with enemy
intellectual ex-

on

is

to the public. -V--.1.
1.•/> -:-vdf we don't do it other free nations' there was'such a hue and
Prior to his new appointment,:.will and, besides, it makes the about diplomatic amity that
Mr. Painton, formerly of Are^ia, Communist countries divert their finally relented.
Odli+'
1X700

a

aluminum.

Investors do not want to sell their

must

partment
countries

perience of

Africa. I like to buy copper stocks

are

Consequently, life insurance stocks
are
high,
and
hence
pay
the

help

Financial

head

will

there must be cheap and abundant
electric power such as exists in

hospitals, and the
helping them too.

the

government

the

the

'

stocks

common

railroads

"

this

Painton

•

sorfs. Queried
daily before China gets them. As Programs, Inc.'s large-scale ori- • why we, continue to s^pd.ma^
this is generally recognized, these -entation program designed to co-,chinery to Soviet Russia and the
stocks will lose their present un- ordinate life insurance: with the satellite countries, the answer is
justified glamour.
company's other financial services they say that, in the first instance,

/

,

,

Common

Investment

For

coming

a

.

.

'

-

.

*

,

Popular

.Most

•

According to President Tempest,

patience and persistence^

BARGERON
1

Programs,

Broadway,* J. 'William^ '
\
• *an- A discussion with the State

950

nounced...
Mr.

we

BY CARLISLE

Temfcest, the firm's President,

"idea" and little capital

an

must have an almost inexhaustible amount of

Inc.,

The reader is

popular stocks or those little in demand.

reminded that investors in

V

Sales

the

Financial

of

Division

considerations affecting decisions as to whether one should seek out

in

Co-Ordinator

ance

Mr. Babson looks into the

'

been named to the
newly created position of Insur¬

has

(CLU),

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

...Ahead of the News

Underwriters

Life

Chartered

of

.

FROM

Financial "Programs
DENVER, Colo.—Ira W. Painton,
a member of the American Society

Confronting Investors

.

-

.

-

•

Z. Beauchamp, West. Partner
Cold War.

Beauchamp,

...

West

Stava,

&

115

■

i;

Price $3.25

per

Our

and

her

growth

trade
that

Theodore Arrin & Co*, Inc.
50

Broad

Street,

New York 4,'N.




aid to

war

share

with
of

37

growth..

It

is

for

and *

our

power

Russia,
to

during the'

responsible
together

Western
her

doesn't

with

nations,

-

•

Although

make

won't

let

PUf^v^pdustries.^-.exkibit^
Leipzig

fair,' this does not

that we.are not

any

of

Ex-

,

....

.

j

—...

-With First Weber

sense
'

we

*ro*dvt*i> N,?w Yar^
b^rs
^h8 New York ^oc

change, has admitted,Fred
HiJf-k^r> member of the Exchange- to
Partnership,
- l
1

continued

somewhere.-

Wall Street,

•'New York 5, N. Y.

to

other

contributes

Norman, Wolf & Co., Inc.

Russia

since

First

79

Weber

Wall

vj.

Securities

Street,

New

Corp.,
York City,

tl^e have, announced that Albert Mann
mean

competing against

the other free nations for Commu-

has
firm.

become
Mr.

associated

Mann

was

with

the

previously

with Native Laces & Textiles, Inc.

;

-Volume

195

Number 6140

;

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

(1167)

long-term capital gains, as this
.buying ,*ahd selling often seems
to
be
the principal
activity of

Thetnet result of this
is that when
the

.

these corporations. And one must
wonder what happens in : a

.also

By

tions

Richard

II.

Swesnik,

President,

Washington, D. C.^and Chairman,
Realtors

market when

Swesnik

Federal

•

&

Tax

Blum,

Inc.,

Subcommittee,

Estate

•

Boards.

'

:

•

.

.taxation.
•astute

.

the

Specialist in real estate syndicates alerts the investor and security*

analysts to the
:

long-run

opportunities

in

properly

organized

managed trusts, .and to the disadvantages they may not be
of

in

the

form

corporate

realty

of

owning

corporation's

real

buying

-continue tax write-offs to avoid double taxation.

in

(1)

The original limited

to. find he
•'

trolley

is

with

What

.

the

at

all

mayhave

.

<a

General
a-

Partners,
sound

was

not

ln

liability to the

based

the

syndicates which

partnerships yrere also
using accelerated depreciation, the

a

security

nec-

public

*

stocks

sold these
clients—although
compares some of the

the

t hese
must

When

National

houses

other stocks that

opportunity for

method of ownership.

one

corporate

talks

present

looked

*

the
the

free

so

that the

the

to

realty

correct

to

as

the

^

"

own-

vehicle

<

/.

mmw*

so

owning
ducing

should

pro¬

-

prop-

f| i income

erties with the
d

a

van

•

-

'

ing the depre-

tthe

heads

of

its

corporations

considered

the tax advan¬

tages"
*

suit:

as

of

syndicates

i

in

properties

i <v.

"

•

I

•

-<

when properties are

that

occurs i

at

once

the

Fxamnliw

adopted
policy statement:
;,

-

iSff are
u-

sucn tnat

>»

Novem-

"

burVen

methods o£

depreciation be recomputed to the

IfTfflqmr

strai^

method

property

i to-be

what " the

a

within

on

sale of the

three

years

,

amount of depreciation taken..For
was pur-

i needs

of

Who

rofithe; partnership the property

is

button?
.

-4

Greed Button?

as

proposed

by the.-Secretary *of . the Treasury
were
adopted;
the
entire
real
estate
industry, .along with the

must

was

ask

is

to

whose greed
Was
it
the
syndicator
tired of syndication and

a

near

pushed
^

—

who

Congress, much of the macxn-

^anl' if the regulation

conservative.

question«one

.

-

.

construction

The

'

»■

owning

Who Pushed the

Uhis:

.

^1S resolution,is adopted by

^tions of the corporations would,
course^-be stopped. On the other

|income-producing)estate^;.,
:

of

departureJrpm
.long-term .investor's

substantial

.

exchanged for;.stock in 'new

~

SPSS'yy-«

receipt of money from the corpo- chased: by the partnership six
ration to the individual * stock- years ago for $3,000,000 in cash
syndi- holder. '>///>': and the property was [exchanged
<cation ;in the decade* of the 50's ; • Notwithstanding 'the "disadvanfor. stock -in the new corporation
'was the limited partnership; tages, during the past few years which was formed, there is no tax
fin October, fl960, 'the 'Internal many limited- partnership-interests ;despite- the fact that on;-the books
were

in

the'following

?^celerated

t0

crea

had: rowned", a property for .six woff faster, thus helping the corpoyears.i In - order for the exchange

.odds-on favorite method of

Revenue Service clarified the cri-

we

a^uirinf;—

than

t

limited: partnership method as an
.owning' vehicle; was iused, ,The

•

Treasury

,In order to encourage construc.

•Ste-K is^^e^•=

'

Consider that a new corporation more, speculative
was formed and it was exchanging

of /example, if the property

point

•;''

i

partnership £ original ly
1
owned-in cor-/paid for* the property less the total filling /the
-

■

pr^perties"rather tC pu'ehasin" ^eS'bu^^n^fderlo^eveni

X

of

taxation

double

.

ruled' out"'and'?the level "and

was

>

convention

1961

forip was the-to be;'on a tax-free basis, the and have started the
highly specu-1
the /syndicate: property owned by the partnerbeing excused from the pay- /ship is brought into the corpora- jlative business of .building and'/iil
s
ment of any taxes, thus avoiding " tion at its book value, which is selling tract houses. This appears the
advantage

"

of'depreciation, thbJc<frp'dl&td porate form—once at the corporate

fmethod!

Tax TjabiIitv

annual

ber,

itself

the

Richat-d H. Swesnik

re—'1

a

.

owning rA.

of select office buildings,

^formation

tax
•

When

rvestors.

:l

u

*

^

1
^

-'

the

nriorIteDrecb- movesXaCnd1a^Tseriouslv^^consfder1 !tion and investment in real estatei
iSw
?
? i
? f
we recommend
the retention of

851

-limited partnership

,

each of the in-

jwe

the

as

'

banking.--JvphahSd

sideration which gave /impetus- to.

:

to

used

be

5

'

ciation to flow

v

+.

R| iapartment houses, and-shoppingits stock for. all of the/interests
^ reenters. After all, the main-con-/in c a limited partnership which

■

tages of allow¬

Vdifectly

of other busi-

mortgage

as

that

Department may have some merit
realty {to their position, the National Asgood, sociation of Real Estate Boards at

new

vehicle for passively receiving the t a

<

'

tax

conducting
such

However, it is extremely difficult
toperceive why; a ' corporation

of

large

'income

the

nesses

couple

safety

and subsequent resale of land,

ung
iur

Position

Recognizing

a

'ing

i

sold to the

were

have

;

Real*Estate Assn/s

y

their

to
one

of such depreciation

use

not necessary by virtue of the

was

;

• What makes this extremely difficult for one to understand is that

when

organized

were

limited

as

rXh you .come away with the feeling
writer in
Washington, D. iC., 'a land development company en-S Vuvine
Xn at -that^liey are very well aware oi
problem was to determine the/ gaged in the acquisition,- subdivide ^iJher nrices :
Lx?HabiHtv to
.

April of 1961 the Secretary of
Treasury asked the Congress

on

V

stocks

Ae

Starting;' in ;1951 when-the first tivities of a construction company
syndication nvas. accomplished by -either- contractual -or-speculative, ;

estate.

fact

building which is being
on
the books at'"whole-'excessive

many

.

essarily*

the

carried

doors

been

investor,

sale."

of

end

the

share of

one

.promoters, who formerly were the
syndicators in most cases acting
as

V

'

he is liable

tax

load. In other words, the new in¬
vestor-is paying "retail" for his

k

Real Estate Investment'Trust Act, and warns that Congress will undo

have caused.

the

good opportunity for the original
limited partners and was an excel¬
lent opportunity for the corporate

perienced syndicators have formed trusts under the January, 1961,
may

per¬

as

on

new

$650,000 to do something .about what the
profit in the event of sale of the Treausry
felt
were
apparent
property for $3,000,000. The new .abuses by the corporations in the
investor'did~Wt"share" in any of use of accelerated
depreciation for
the benefits of the prior deprecia¬
avoiding the payment of corporate
tion, yet must 'share in the tax taxes. While the heads of some

corporate stock

ago,

long

keting stock which represented
equity interests in something »as
its books "wildly sought after as prime real

consider

a

corporation

made and have sold

/closed.

income-producing real- estate. "The writer notes that very few ex«

$any damage its laws

the

in

of

The

must

that there is

many
field that

carry

/$2,350,000.

therefore

to

was

the

also, (2) find they may not have bought well managed conservative

~

leaders

purchaser

day

"tax liability" and,

a

apparent

out

exchanges and sale^of newly formed corporations' stock, and not the
public who ^subsequently buy

It' is

exchange

to

partners and the corporate promoters are depicted as gainers in the

investing

at

original owner of the limited part¬
nership interest, when the original

for

order

poration must

corpora¬
their .buying

eventually conclude that
haps -he should have been

aware

Criticized,

estate.

constant

continue

continue! the tax write¬

:may

and

'

example,-is the

these

are

with

a
property
$3,000,000 which the cor-

valuer of

offs to insure avoidance of double

Washington Committee, National Association of Real
.

must

in order to

investors

new.

exchange iWho' only knew how to market
is issued, securities iin terms of
corporate
buying into stocks and could not resist mar-

stock

new

corporation

a

-

•soft

15

relished, Vthe

mm

power,

,

a

....

salary,

"°™C
'

»A

/

X**

hardShiP*.

•When

tages

industry, would grind
halt, causing severe eco-

f

V

/k y-v

we

of

yn ^

consider the disadvan¬

;limited

'partnerships,
namely, the turbulence that occurs

se¬

curity, and

personal liquidity cor¬
in/publicly owned corporations on a i.earped;- at?:its depreciated basis,
if the general
partners die, the
poration ownership would give?
/evaluating whether ormbtanown- -"tax free" basis and many of the which m the case of this six-yearOr was,it the limited partnership difficulties of general * borrowing
i
ing Vehicle - Would *b6 • taxed-as ua 'individual syndicates which Were ~oid+-building^-would _ be approxiinvestor/who sensed that perhaps because Of the unlimited liability
•corporation, thus solidifying the held in limited partnership form ma^e^;*?,350,000^.i-Note there is
to the general / partners even 'for
5 his to-be-acquired corporate stock
■■♦.position
ot> properly
organized were thus 'consolidated into pub- no tax to anyone even though the
nominal -amounts,- ? the necessary
; in .exchange
for his partnership
-limitedpartnerships -as the fa- licly owned corporations^Simul-^ eorporation .-.was* exchanging-^stock
interests would increase in value restrictions of the transfering of
•vorite
method
of.
syndication, taneous
with these • exchanges, certificates which would have a
limited partnership interests, and
(at somebody else's expense) once
/There are, of course, disadvantages many *.of the .■new corporations
va^uc hased on the build- ; it was
the initial cost to /invest in real
publicly marketed? Or pertfo -owning limited partnership * in- issued-stock, to the general public..
s .va, e of $3,000,000 as soon as
"
Continued on page 26
.haps it was .the security houses
terests in a syndicate—lack - of a .In a given number of instances, - the stock certificates are traded.
[formal market in-depth for the/especially in the New York area,
syndicate-shares, lack -of diversi- the new publicly owned corporafication, and usually the need of lions saw a rapid, increase in the
a
minimum
of $2,500 fto invest market value of-the 'stock. The
This announcement is neither an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of
s*r-x:v
before one can participate. How- investing public/hungrily bought ,these Shares. The offering is made only by the Prospectus.
/J/;/>, •;
.ever, the tax advantages, growth the new stock and some of the
/through amortization of debt,; and former-owners rsold their newly
5
better
than
average income far acquired shares. The new buyers
f
outweigh
the " disadvantages * of sought to invest in real estate and
■
.
owning
a
- limited
partnership still retain the liquidity that, up
interest.
-V./1';.-..
..until that time, only a corporation
r
could give,:
C ;v;'':ftetia-whiCh

they

-

would

use

.

.

-

"

'

•

'

>

-

-

.

163,600Shares

-

.

'

Requires
-

>

either to' bewhich

trust

a

Corporation

an

ease of

taxed'; as| a

The

corporate

^

Form

corporate; form-have, not been

the

.

allows

security analysts or the geninvesting public. One must be

reminded of

a

COMMON SHARES

"perpetual motion",

machine when

techniques

are used,
the corporation
from its present* tax disadvantage

(Without Par Value)

except

"tax

:,Tt

^

;

PRICE $15.75 PER SHARE

to its stockholders which will not

nothing will

save

Act of Congress,: which
does not appear to be .fort.ico
ing.1
an

.

; ;

There

the,
.

••<v-1:

free. and

for

not debenture

,

;r.--

carefully examined- by either

form. eral

operation forrits President,

...:

disadvantages to the, longterm investor in.owning real estate

examining the tax
easy corpolicies of ithe ipublicly owned ;
porate borrowing in addition fto corporation. For, in order to avoid
the regular mortgage financing, the ultimate payment of corporate
and, if it is large enough, it pno-; income
tax, - these 1 corporations •
vides a market in depth for the must continually be dn the mar- '
investor, and diversification. No ket to purchase and»must use
matter how carefully ;a corpofa- ultra-rapid'1 methods of
'deprecia-"
tion is organized and whether ?or tion in order to distribute
money ;
It

INC.

:

too

a

administrative

COLUMBUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS,

■_

Disadvantages of Corporate =

The

in

an

vehiclei organized-as j

owning

allows* tremendous

;

s/.

asSbCiaticih of

was.

tq'own stock in

or

corporation.

-

Congress

only other method of own-.
ing an interest in large incomeproducing property through I960
was

.

Act of

an

The

as

of

useyof

real

be-taxed

level, and
free"

t;

at

the

corporate

part of which
when

paid

may

out to

Copies of

be

the Prospectus

areas

}■-

werher

writer

some

•

to

during

\

any

this




as may

any

State only from such, of the several

lawfully offer the securities in such State.

of these corporate

the .taking of fast depreciation,
then- the 'sale "of properties

makes

not°tnClxniVT1,nlndi^
'^° ternal
expect
action
'on
not

estate"

obtained in

form moguls with respect to the buying,
•

{ W. E. BUTTON &-co..

the real" estate field4 as1 the ac-' 'a-nd

Congress.,

be

may

Underwriters, including the undersigned,-

the

stockholders. The frenzied manip-

obvious-advantages :in- ulations of

e coroorate
ah owning vehicle in such

•4
the

are

first

"of

if

wonder when "the-In-

Revenue Service will tax
the sale of these .properties as
ordi^rx^Jncomeu,- rather than,as..
tl

session

one

P

..

March 2, 1962 -

,•*

p

;

fr-

,

_

•• •

* •

Tn

v

••

-,

*

^

..
^ *

16

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1168)

Steel

Production

Electric

The State of

"By the calculations of the De¬

Output

partment

of Commerce,

total

Carloadings

tail sales failed to expand

Retail

usual seasonal amount in

Trade

Food

TRADE and INDUSTRY

Price

Auto

Production

Business

Index

ber

Failures

Commodity

declined

and

than

by the

>

retail
in

sales

fell from

25

March

National

to

.as

business

eral

(1957 = 100), slipped back to 114.1
in January after hitting 115.1 in

First

Monthly

-Bank

City

Letter includes the

cussions

the

of

issue

,

December. The

following dis¬

in

the trend of gen¬
conditions:

industrial Midwest and down into

the

"The economy appears to have
its
upward course in
a

tailed

rather

was

manufacturing

Automobile

generally dis¬
January when unex¬

after

South,

among

resumed

February

decline, explained
by storms in the

some measure

general

industries.

manufacturers

cur¬

November

least

at

of

some

the

since

periods of business contraction. It

not

political

even

all

days of the new year
held a 31% margin over the ad¬
mittedly
dismal
results
of
the

able

performance.

"Industrial

production, as
by the seasonally ad¬
Federal
Reserve
index

equivalent period of 1961. Mean¬
while, dealers' stocks have been
built
up
to approximately one
million units in anticipation of the
big spring selling season,

measured

justed

DIVIDEND NOTICES

March

NO.

DIVIDEND
At

Dome Mines
dividend

of

of

Seventeen

and

One-Half

declared

of

record

Cents

at

the

close

of

business

CLIFFORD

W.

Madison

980

The

on

'

1962.

30,

Ave.,

Eoard

COMPANY
York

New

21,

of

$1,375

share

per

5 Vi '/o

standing
payable

April

holders

of

business

of

March

on

out¬

steel

stock¬

close

"The

BOWERS,

In

THE

COLORADO

IRON

FUEL

AND

CORPORATION

Dividend Notice
The

A

Dividend No. 234

day,

Quarterly Dividend of Thirty
(30<-) per share on all

outstanding stock of Com¬
bustion Engineering, Inc. has
been declared, payable
April
1962,
at

of

February

28)

The

Colorado

the

stock

series

and

A

62 V»

cents

many

may

68%

series

B

These

to stockholders of
the close of business

on

$50

of

March

are

at

on

preferred

Board

with

respect To

of

Directors

the

took

common

no

stock

C. Kirk,

declared

a

on

tive

realized

gains

on

Over 1,300 offices
in

U. S.—Canada

Week.End..

England—Australia

'

March 3—

York—

New

of record

the

of

some

centers follows;

(000's omitted)—-V;
-•
1962" " 7 1961
%

/

$17,202,319

at

the

City

550,000

of

5.9

—

1,224,000" +

891,522

,.

2.1
1.6

+

553,551 —^ 0.6

'

40% Under Last

+

third

consec¬

week, reflecting a
slow¬
buying, Steel magazine
March

on

mills

mates

19, 1962.

|

CORPORATION

running at
a
through March and
concerned

that

a

I (Kir (I Dividend

|
1 •
.
| February 28,1962

1,

first.

1962

Incorporated
96th Consecutive Year

A

of

have

good

level
they

the

labor

Data

common

Processing

Center, Inc., at $3 per share is
being made by E. W. Stewart &
Co., Inc., Miami, Fla. Net proceeds
will be used by the company for
the

repayment of debt,

leasehold
person¬

The company of 7750 N. W. 7th
Ave., Miami, Fla., is engaged prin¬
cipally in the furnishing of sta¬

Boston Pneumatics

Class A Stock Sold

Net

proceeds

will

be

used

from

the

by the

offering
to
expand

company

increase

inventories,
manufacturing facilities, and for
advertising and sales promotion; •
The company of 365 Arlington
Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., is engaged
in the fabrication, assembly and
•

of

tools

air.

by

powered

These

com¬

include drills,

grinders,
breakers,

riveters,
p a v e m e n't
dimpler guns and im¬
During the past
year, the company also began to
produce electronics measuring in¬
wrenches.

pact

struments

and

with

control

pneumatic

units

tools,

on

for

steel

a

labor

up this month.
"handshake agree¬

a

broad

terms

Then it will take

LOS ANGELES,
C.

Turner

staff

Calif.

—

to

has been added to

Olmstead, Allen & Co.,
5455 Wilshire Blvd., members of
the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
He

formerly with

was

Tegeler

&

Dempsey-

Co., Inc.

cents

paid

|

(50^)
on

per

|

last

share will be

March 2, 1962.

|

Pavab,e March 29'
Record March 16, 1962

i

'

.

..

•

Payable April 18, 1962

1

•

Record March 21, 1962

|

'■<

because

ordered

year

was

first

at

a

is

not

much

of

the

the

start

drop

quarter.

Steel

at

of

for delivery late in

,

'

DIVIDEND

NOTICE

buyers

were

caught

be¬

certainties of business conditions,
but it still looks like their stocks
of

Kellogg Company

CERRO

steel

mill

products

to be higher on

Cash Dividend No. 167
The Board of Directors of

Cerro

Corporation at

meeting held

a

cash divi¬

of twenty-seven

one-half cents

Stock

on

of the

payable

on

Company

In

Swindell-Dressier Corporation

^Transport Leasing Company

today.

Corporation,
March 30,

1962, to stockholders of rec¬
ord

on

going
June 1 than they
are

March 16, 1962.
Michael D. David

Secretary

h

.

survey
,

liveries,
'•

••

*

answer

of

to

metal

39 %
•

t

of

Steel's

stocks

the

Continued

quarterly
and

de¬

purchasing
'on page

27

per

Common

-

are

and

(27p£c)

the

a

March 6,

on

1962, declared
dend

share

tween the unsettled steel industry
contract negotiations and the un¬

President

Trailmobile Inc.
Trailmobile Finance

The

the

Pullman-Standard division

1

December.

tonnage

\

booked

below the peak of

the

Division and Subsidiaries:

The M. W.

being

are

to 50%

surprising

stockholders of record

W. IRVING OSBORNE. JR.
-Y.

|
2% stock Dividend

Orders

March 14, 1962,

to

v

time

short
workweeks;
seniority provisions. -

the

of

come

some

•<

Berthold

payment .for hours not worked in

rate 40

for

tyvty;

Olmstead, Allen Adds

their order books.

on

looks

impact

settlement

details, includ¬
ing pension costs; changes in sup¬
plemental unemployment benefits,
such
as
a
guarantee of partial

and

quarterly dividend of fifty

3

.

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Miami

to hammer out the

Secretary

|

>

of

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

April,

about

quick

It expects

Pullman

Thompson

12V2< per share

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offering of 70,000

shares

last week.

poured

mills

Hickey,

7, 1962

Quarterly

•

Stock Sold
Public

pact to be wrapped

DIVIDENDS DECLARED

•

;

little less than

a

Although steelmakers had big
enough
backlogs to keep their

Quarterly Casll Dividends

|

Processing

2,390,000 tons that Steel esti¬

would

COMMON STOCK

IIV AI ID DLIVI
| IVI U |\ I rl T |

protecting its customers,
retail
stores,
against
their own employees.

from

Miami Data

use

5.

Output will be
the

close of

t'

;

unscheduled

|

theft

pressed

in

were

record

March

,

to

primarily

+11.1

1,463,256

1,250,000
905,782

Steel production this week will

on>the

President

March

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voted

clearings for

Steel Orders Being Booked at

said

COMMON STOCK, payable

Wm. M.

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I

1790
Broadway, New
City, is engaged in a service
business, the bulk of which is de¬
York

indi¬
ended

Our compara¬

$19,113,570
1,376,350

Chicago—__
Philadelphia

ment"

FINANCE

week

for

money

"

down

March 12, 1962.

Wm. E.

will

week

country,

the

dip slightly for the

Common Stock

BENEFICIAL

the

summary

utive

investments

of 35 cents per share

by the

expansion.

of

;

principal

Kansas

quarterly

payable March 31, 1962 to stockholders of
at close of business

for

Dale

improvements, additional

of the United States for

it

Steel
$.25 per share

of
for

week in 1961.

same

endure.
Feb. 21,

dividend of

declared

company

Net : proceeds

be used

.

dividend from net

a

sold.

is possible to obtain
tpvpy
weekly clearings will be 8.2% T, M. Kirsch
Co., Inc., New?York
above those of the corresponding
City,* reports that the recent offer¬
week last year. Our preliminary
ing of 85,000 shares. of Boston
totals f stand
at .$33,505,827,777 Pneumatics,; Inc., class A stocks
against
$30,958,197,959
for
the at $2 per share has been all sold.

people's

The Board of Directors has

this

Secretary

QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND
has

cities

which

The UNITED Corporation

action

BENEFICIAL FINANCE CO.
Directors

un¬

present

December

business March

cash

all

DIVIDEND NOTICES

ers

of

this

Saturday, March 3,

that

March 26, 1962 to stockhold¬

Board

that

Rate

V

131st CONSECUTIVE

the

all

sale will

ircue

The Colorado Fuel and Iron
Corporation

The

cities

cate

Boston

quarter.

Vice-President and Treasurer

been

from the

increase

stock.

for

of

clearings

an

chief

the

payable March 31 to
the close of business

has

compared with tistical information for its cus¬
a
year ago.
Preliminary figures tomers by the utilization of data
compiled by the Chronicle, based processing equipment.
upon telegraphic advices from the

preferred

share

an

Clearings Higher by 8.2%

Bank

show

share

7.

The

Lambert J. Gross

per

value

par

record

value

par

cents

dividends

holders

April 16, 1962.

$50

Arrin & Co., and Nor¬
Wolf & Co., New York City,
report that the recent offering of
100,000 common shares of Dale
System Inc., at $3.25 per. share

tal.

long; this period of

expansion

press

*

even

Than in 1961 Week

President

regular

per

dimensions

Bank

.

.

today, (Wednes¬

declared ' the

of

of

Theodore

man,

nel, equipment and working capi¬

*

on

the

record

Directors

of

quarterly dividend

Cents

30,

Board

Fuel and Iron Corporation

and

re¬

conference on
Kennedy alluded to the
possibility of another recession in
1963-64.
The moderate
pace
of
the expansion so far may give it
a

problems, and

of

will have decisive in¬
upon both the duration

period of business expansion."

11 months

...

question in

business

maintenance

fluences

postwar

October

gi

minds is how

Secretary

COMBUSTION
ENGINEERING

in

strike

of these

easy peace,

1958-59, the index

in the first

year).',

of

1962.

16,

HAZEL T.
V..

to

the

at

including
philosophy of taxation and, deemphasis of government spending
as
the means to prosperity. The
the

Dale System Inc.
Stock All Sold

seri¬

policies,
basic" changes in our

resolution

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

wage-price infla¬

take redirection of public

expansion; in 1954-55, 8.7%; in
1949-50, 18.0% (dating^ from the
in July 1949, and not from
the artificial low created by the

company

1962,

1,

record

18.9%

of

prob¬

balance-of-payments
crisis.
Secondly, there is the problem of
giving fresh impulse to American
energies for progress. This will

low

Cumulative

the

In

minds
two

tion. Tnis could erupt into a

of time in

earlier

three

the

of

recoveries.

the
are

ous

of

this

the

on

Series

Preferred: .Stock

increases

the

of

corded in this period

rose

Y.

N.

of

Directors

of

company on February 28,, 1962, declared the regular quarterly dividend

MICHEL,

Chairman and Treasurer.

.

short

in

leaders

from continuous

February 1961. The expansion in
the 11 months since the trough

two

CITY INVESTING

per

holders

"

NOTICES

178

the

share
(in Canadian Funds)
was
payable on April 30,
1962, to share¬

(17V2C)

March

^DIVIDEND

1962

Board of Directors of
Limited, held this day, a quarterly

meeting

a

2,

particu¬

One is the danger to the
dollar, and to the position and
prestige
of
the
United
States,

activity
since 1946. The January index, at
114.1, was 2.7% above its cyclical
peak in January
1960 and up
11.8% from the recession low in

falls

MINES LIMITED

DOME

most

upon public policies pursued.

industrial

of

course

depends—and

been

length tnan

lems.

"The accompanying chart shows
the

have

variable in

"Uppermost

producing. the
retail
sales
which they are capable of sup¬
porting.'

the first 50

glowing estimates of 1962's prob¬

expansion

more

larly

deliveries in

car

ex¬
was

prognostication, periods of

business

;;

1955. New

National

Research, the

months.

nomic

production
cessive
inventory

more

According

the

to $224
billion in
This is 4% better than
the $216 billion annual rate ex¬
perienced in the first nine months
of
1961; nevertheless, merchants
have
been
disappointed
that
record high consumer incomes are

to avoid ex¬
A Hesitant Expansion
appointing
accumulation
pected declines; in production, in¬
"Prospects for renewal of busi¬
among dealers, but steel mill op¬
come,
and trade added a new
erations rose in January, and also ness expansion are strengthened
note of caution to the outlook,
in
February,
reaching
a
rate by the flow of new orders for
TJnusually severe > weather over
durable
goods,
enlarging order
wide areas of
the nation con¬ equivalent to 126 million tons a
backlogs.
Construction
activity
tributed to the January; setback, year,
continues at a high rate, so far
"There have been some disap¬
while
pressure
for
inventory
as" weather
conditions
permit.
building was eased by increasing pointments with the performance
Homebuilding has the support of
optimism
over
an
early
and of retail trade. New passenger car added
competition among lenders
peaceful settlement of steel wage sales have been declining since for
mortgage loans, but figures on
when
an
excellent
negotiations. But the record for November,
private housing starts, rafter ris¬
the first two months of the new initial response to the new: models
ing from an annual rate of 1.0
year—forming another "lull" such had raised the industry's hopes million in December 1960 to 1.4
that sales might surpass 7 million
as that experienced in Septembermillion in October 1961, have re¬
October—-is leading to reappraisal units in 1962 for the first time
treated to 1.3 million.
■
'
of

,of

.

(1958-60)
and
the
longest, 45 months (1949-53). Un¬
fortunately for the art of eco¬

$229 billion

January.

The

life.

on

studies

period of business
pansion since World War II

more

January. Thus, the
seasonally adjusted annual rate of

Price Index

the

.

shortest

Decem¬

little

a

to

Bureau of Economic

in

usual

longer lease

a

re¬

.

CERRO

CORPORATION

<

300 Park Avenue

New York 22,

N. Y.

*>;

-

Volume

Number

195

6140

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

with

THE MARKET

.

.

goal of building these up
Chandler Branch Opened
of total sales ultimately.
the more hopeful of its APPLE VALLEY, Calif.—Chand¬
new
products is a ceramic fiber ler and Company has opened a
made from aluminum oxide which branch office in the Newton Bldg.

AND YOU

.

to

WALLACE

STREETE

a

of

The string of listless stock market

it fell largely on deaf ears.
case

that

even

good

news

specific

issues, where
centered, shrugged off

the tidings for the most.
As far as group action was con¬

cerned,

fairly gen¬
eral in the tobacco and the savings
and loan sections, while the other
major ones lolled around in aim¬
less

easiness

fashion.

had

Steels

times

at

easy

been

was

such

slightly
pattern

were

their

and

drab

a

one

re¬

cently that it was enough to place
a couple of
them, including U. S.
Steel, at new lows for 1961-62.
There was, however, no clearcut
evidence of any outright chagrin
>, the

over

breakdown

(V

negotiations.

in

labor

>

autos, particularly, the
various views of a promising pro¬
duction year, which was bolstered
concretely by a 30% jump in re¬
tail sales in

mid-February, failed
to stir other than idle curiosity.
General Motors, which had been
having rough times at the pros¬
pect of 63,000,000 of its snares
being
spread
over
the
market
through
Du
Pont's
divestiture
plan, was able to do better oc-*
easionally. In any event, it held
far closer to its peak than the

Defense

Stocks in Doldrums

little

comfort

from

achievements,
the

and

multi

esti¬

dollar

in the years

area

show of at least
interest in the sec¬

centered
that

and

assured

The only

momentary
tion

space

awards

billion

-

spending in this
ahead.

recent

contract

virtually

of

mates

dull, getting

were

United

on

far

Aircraft

from

anything
fact; the play in it was
largely based on United's chances
of
competing with General
Dynamics in developing an engine
based

for

a

was

on

fighter plane program

new

that could
lion

the

for

to some

run

$800 mil¬

engine orders alone.

Rails were, as usual, the ignored

section, although it is Something
of
a
statistical oddity
that the
neglected section is still the only
one
in the plus group for 1962.

This is largely
hill climb-, on

trading

due to a good up¬
the year's second
session.
Since then the

carrier

index

has

Auto
Auto

somewhat

month.

last

On

one

standing that gave them a»
one-day plus sign on the year, but
by the barest of all possible mar¬
gins of 0.01. And after that they
a

dropped back into minus ground
for

1962.

':y:v

Industrials
come

have

never

close to showing

a

even

1962 plus

sign.

Their average closed out last
year only some three points under
the all-time peak, suffered a sink¬
ing spell in this year's initial
session, and then slid downhill
through January with little de¬
cisive action since.

it has diversified into small
engines and power tools and an
electric
products
division
that
accounts for
a
quarter of sales
servicing parts for gas clothes

dryers,

air

stoves,
fork

has

of

been

Go

the

Technical

about

done

the trading range built up

so far.
That,
obviously,
has
precluded
violation of "key" areas that
would either bring in additional

in

1959

of

business

as

a

company

office

at

earnings
recession slowing

under

the

reported
the
cut

peak

into

its

104

North

James

David

Freeman.

results.

Dempsey-Tegeler Office

since

Tegeler & Co., Inc., has opened
sales

necessarily

with

They

are

author

those

those

as

Post Avenue.

Camino

El

Hayden, Stone Office

the

from

SAN

firm.

offices

at

324

lift

New

automobile

opened''

Gintel

branch

office

at

120

will

BINGHAMTON,

item

than

wandered

over

N.

Y.

—

H. M. Fiske Opens

Hugh

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

SAN

MARINO,

Fiske

is

business

Calif.—Harry

conducting
from

offices

Cambridge Road.

of

an

offer to

buy these

March

7,1962

1 50,000 Shares

TECHNIBILT CORPORATION

it

14

Common Stock

a

(Par Value 504

months

range

Per

Share)

of

despite

name.

Price:
Fictitious

$4.00

Image

Perhaps there is still

per

Share

mis¬

some

understanding about the nature of
Yale & Towne today which tend§
to keep

is

it quiet.

Copies of the Prospectus

Its public image

may

State in which the

old-line maker of locks and

as an

be obtained from the Undersigned in any

Undersigned

may

legally offer these shares.

hardware but for two-thirds of its

sales, it leans
handling work.

now

material

on

And of this work,

Frank, Karasik & Co.

about half is lost to the American
audience

this

of

year

it

Incorporated

is

exported to
foreign markets. The bene¬

serve

fit

since

mestic

buried

was

since

recession kept

the

lift

of

users

last

the

trucks

do¬

from

expanding their orders and it was
foreign markets that shored
up this activity.
<
the

added

a

in

This announcement is neither

an

offer to sell

nor a

solicitation of

an

offer to

are

dividend

and

NEW ISSUE

there

was

February 2,1962

a

100,000 Shares

per-share profits, in
five-month strike at

its

part due to

that

buy these securities.

The offering is made only by the Prospectus.

year,

small stock payment and

indications

dip

cash

its

last

late

company

a

any

its main plant
in Philadelphia.
That dip was from record profits
substantial selling. And in 1960, however, and with the
little
showed
up
externally to strike over, lift truck prices firm¬
prompt more than inconclusive ing, and some realigning of pro¬
action.
a':' "; ••. ;;; -l: \ ?,' /.
;;; duction facilities for greater ef¬

buying

or

With

nothing

on

the horizon to

prompt this section to return to
the peak of 734, the usually bull¬
element

in

ish

Wall

the

strange position of being re¬

Street

ceptive to
least

at

new

test

was

selling that would
reaction

the

low

of

and, perhaps, clear the air for

689

better action once the existence of
a

floor

sturdy

But
any

there

no

was

the general

established.

evidence

that

lightening

broad-scale

commitments
so

was

was

of

in the making,

neglect

pain¬

was

fully evident.
There
that

was

merited

no

dearth

attention,

of

issues

nor

any

letting up in the age-old practice
of keeping a
stream of recom¬
mendations flowing, even though




a

no

when

full points

10

as

partnership. Mr. Gintel
from partnership
in
Roberts & Co. as of that

NEW ISSUE

units,

have

ficiency already accomplished,
projections indicate a new record
in earnings this year. Meanwhile
the shares
10

are

far

low

than to

Metatronics Manufacturing Corp.
(The Company is engaged primarily in manufacturing metal containers for electronics equipment.)

Common Stock
(Par Value $.05

per

Share)

available at around

points under their

and

closer

to

even

1959

the

high

14-month

the

1961

Price: $2.00 per

Share

high.

With
business
operating at a
high plane, including the automo¬

tive business

and heavy industry
Carborundum is well

generally,

Copies of the Prospectus
State in which the

may

be obtained from the Undersigned in

Undersigned

may

legally offer these shares.

situated to benefit from the busi¬
ness

recovery.

world's

largest

As

one

makers

sives, Carborundum's
diversify have
been
obscured.

that
sales

"The

nonabrasive

only accounted for
after

of the
abra¬

of

efforts to
somewhat

World

War

been expanded to 30%

lines

10%
II

of

have

currently,

on

M.

to

securities. The offering is made only by the Prospectus.

handling com¬
Yale & Towne

more

well-known

Robert

date.

Hugh Johnson Branch
Form Love Securities

to materials

much

its

Exchange,

admit

retire

Cady,

rection of Robert A. Barton.

Stock

will

15

;

business.

mundane

been

York

March

Montgomery Street under the di¬

Co., 30 Broad Street,
City, members of the

York

furnaces V and

which

trucks

founded

Andresen &
New

FRANCISCO, Calif. —Hay¬

a

was

1902.

Andresen Co. to

den, Stone & Co. Incorporated has

Opens

60th

Admit Gintel

of

New

of the

WESTBURY, N. Y. — Norman
Jacobson is conducting a securi¬
business

1815

tative

A'.>,aV:':v./;

Norman Jacobson

ties

at

charge of Benjamin C.
Chapman, a registered represen¬

at any time coin¬

•

same

its

a

in

of the "Chronicle."

presented

only.]

office

Real

1956.

[The views expressed in this article
not

celebrated

F. P. Ristine & Co.

in February,

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Dempsey-

The current rate has been

unchanged

it

Street.

with the
recovery
it is a
strong candidate for going on to
a new peak this year and is also
a candidate for dividend improve¬
ment.

St., New York, at the
that

The
firm,
which
also
holds
memberships in the American and
Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Ex¬
changes, was located at 15 Broad

Street

management of

new

Co., members of
Exchange,
headquarters at 67
Stock

anniversary.

And

direct tie with the fortunes of the

trimmed

since
midway in

seesawing

conditioning
fired

gas

The

Industrials
Much

,

last

more,

re-

bound-their average worked back

encountered.

Carborundum is also
that

Y.—Niagara investors
Corporation has opened a branch

ROME, N.

peak year of 1959 it re¬ Love
Securities
&
Corporation
is Johnson
Company Inc.
has
$2.43 a share. The figure
$1.58 in 1960, an estimated engaging in a securities business opened a branch office at 45 Che¬
$1.85 last year and for this year from offices at 33 West 42nd St., nango Street under the manage¬
is expected to match the peak. New York
ment of Harold M. Wakley.
City.
Contributing to the stability of
the company is the fact that McQuay's business is larger in the
replacement market than in the
This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation
original equipment one. Further¬

tionary after making something of
a
stand against continued
price
erosion

are

extreme

time

&

York

moved to

was

as

reac¬

temperatures

do

in recent

where

uses

Ristine

New

Broad

Niagara Inv. Branch

ported

Sour

somewhat

were

various

P.

the

Chandler.

its

For

.

Utilities

cyclical

for

cide

than most other prime auto
suppliers.
-<

hasn't

to

less

given it entry to rocket and
jet engines and nuclear energy
fields.
And
its
staple product,
silicon carbide, has been adapted

years

comes

Go

<

prices, McQuayNorris, for instance, was available
at a yield that
approached 5%
although it
has
proven
to: be

general- selling could wipe panies has
this slim advantage.
;,
; . which for
Utilities

«

Drab

At recent

ground in minute doses to where
out

Go

supply

The

any

-.

Suppliers

companies, which
obviously stand to benefit from a
good
auto
year,
were
equally

giving

^been

shares.

other auto

drab.

Defense items

In the

of the

Marks 60 Years
F.

under the direction of Edward O.

has

sessions stretched into the present
week and the disinterest was such

17

F. P. Ristine Co.

half

One

BY

(1169)

Frank Karasik & Co.
Incorporated

^

any

M.

securities
at

1499

18

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1170)

Robert

J.

Quarles,

cashier

NEWS ABOUT

of

The

BANKS AND BANKERS
Branches

New

•

Officers, etc.

New

•

charter

A

the

to

C.

Company" effective December 29,

Morris, Vice-President

A
Company, New 1961.
A
■ *
*
*
York, has been elected to the post, 'A-'-.'
The Elizabethport Banking
of First Vice-President.

t/Av

of

Bankers Trust

Af

h.;-' '•

"V

* 4-*v *

elected

the

of

Trustee

a

Director.

United

Mr. Johnson is

President

of

Executive Vice-

an

Vice

sistant

has

was

Nor-.
■J

tions
given

assets

and

Circleville,,.

purchase the

as

the

well

these

as

institu-

individuals

securities

the

has
best

The /results
vance

of

a
.

the

recent adrefunding operation of the

Treasury showed that $5,074,000,000 out of $18,739,000,000 were exBy a stock dividend the common changed for the maturity extendcapital stock of the First National ing obligations, with the 4% due.
Bank, Valparaiso,-Valparaiso, In-V 1971 f he most .popular issue, subdiana was increased from $220,000 scriptions
thereto amounting to
to $440,000 effective Feb. 16.
$2,800,000,000. The turn-ins for
.

-

v'-'v

The

Lester H. Sharaf has been elected
Bank of North America New York.

Saddle

Mr. Sharaf began his banking ca¬
reer with the National City Bank.
1948 and

Hackensack

Trust

Company,

Hackensack, New Jersey, and The
Bank
of Saddle Brook & Lodi,

Vice President of the Commercial

New York in

*

Brook,

merged

New

Jersey,

both

the' charter

under

and

title of The Hackensack Trust Co.

joined the

*

.

V*

effective Feb. 2.

;

.

-

J

*

;C

*

'

*'

*

the

~

which

have

plagued
y
6

us

so

js the current hesitation

in

much

3Y2%

due

1998

amounted

to

in

the

past,

evidently^aviS^a^^^
fiuence
aU

are

the

on

fixed

market

income

tions since
now

more

action

bearing

of

obliga-

funds of investors

being

put

to

work

in

Governments, corporates and taxexempt bonds. It is the purchases
of bonds by those who are interested in income which is responsible for the better tone that
is being evidenced in these secur-

ities. And there

are .no

indications

that this movement into bonds is
going to come to an end abruptly
unless

there

is

a

revival

of

the

$861,000,000, for the 3V2% due inflation psychology which does
V *
*
*
'
as
Assistant Cashier in 1948.
He
Pekin,
Pekin, Illinois increased ^O they came to $853,000,000 and not appear to be in the cards for
a ; : *
joined the Commercial Bank of A. A. Moore, has been named to its common capital stock, effective for the. 4% due 1980 they aggre- the foreseeable future.:
North America as Assistant Vice the Newark Airport-Seaport of¬ Feb. 16 from $600,000 to $700,000
gated $558,000,000. The Treasury
/■
a-/". ";
u '
fices advisory board - of. The Nar by the sale of new stock.
President in 1958.
>
is not expected to be involved in
Attractive Treasury Issue ; ;:
^ -a
any more advance refunding optional State Bank of Newark, N. J.
iThe purchases of the 4%s duev
-.■'A"'■•A
Sterling National Bank New York

The

> National; Bank

encies

investors than it has in

market tone they have had for.
considerable period of time.

liabilities

the

assume

market
-<•

attract

Treasury obligations?by

the

President

CHIPPENDALE, JR.

of

First National Bank of

Circleville, Ohio, to

bond
more

to

funds of

-

responsibility in banking,
Ji-S16 Farn*erJ_.?J1a.tlonal
business development, advertising Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. Williamsiport, .WuIiaii[isport,, Ohio
New York.
!"
on Feb. 2L
and public relations.

mary

Government

continues

»•', '•.»"

*

T.

———-

Comptroller of the Currency
approved the-application- of The

As¬

of

is

C

^

;>#

JOHN

.

Clareripe «W. The

The

'

•

BY

capital

a

surplus of $450,-

a

F." Robinson.
i

of

County,

the Cashier

■J-

C.

post of Chairman.

new

Mr. Spofford formerly

; >

with pri¬

Bank

the

the

to

bank

$300,000 and

man

who has been elected

Husbands,

States Trust Company New York.

Com¬

Arthur

succeeds

He

The

Hammer and

N.
J., ejected
Spofford " President
and

Gavin

been

on

21

Bank

Fairfax

000. The President is
;

Elizabeth,

pany,

has

Johnson

D.

Berkley

Reporter

and

Feb.

on

National

Vienna,

Virginia.
Robert

.President

issued

was

First

Vienna,

of

rVice

to

Thursday, March; 8, 1962

■

.

cashier.'.' ' "•V;' ■■■"■

Revised Capitalizations

•

Our

Richmond, Virginia has been pro¬
moted

Consolidations

of Richmond,
of Virginia,

Bank

.

Herget

A

of

.

.

erations for the foreseeable future 1975/1985,<_ according to^ advices,
"nle®s ftere would be such attract is as, good as ever with funds
£10«In th? long-term sector of the from investors other than pension

E. The common capital stock of the
oppointed to- LaSaile National Bank,/ Chicago,
Illinois was increased by the sale
Hanover Trust Co., New York has the advisory board of the Orange
of
new
stock
effective
Feb "21
-'M;
been elected Senior Vice President office.

Bradford

Vice

A.

Warner,

President

formerly

Frank

a

C.

Collioud

Manufacturers

of

Slovak

have

and. Rudy

been

,

of

Belgian-American

Trust

*

,

of

chelle,

New

New

A.V-. from

ics

Detroit,

National Bank of Woodbury,
Woodbury, New Jersey increased
its

common

$400,000

from

to

capital
$520,000.

stock

from

C.

Bank

Mich,

Davison

the

new

stock

Sydney

T.

elected

*

*

Jones,

T

Jr.,

Director

a

has

been

of,; the

h i

o w n s

changed

State

p,'

its

New uJersey

title

to

Cherry

*

On

Chelsea,

Massachusetts

creased

effective

$100,000

to

$500,000

in¬

was

Feb.

16

by

a

of

stock

District

dividend.
*

The

*/.„

Peoples

&

Trust

of

Southbridge, Mass.
$151,200, was

Northwest.

The

chusetts,

The

Central

its

3500,000

an

offer to buy

any

of

these

by

,

the

to

securities.

Offering

sell

This

nor

solicitation

a

-i-'..'

■

•,

March 6, 1962

40,000 Shares

i

"

I

;

from

sale

.'

the-

of vthe

common

Fair

iThp

has

,ag g^od

sues

which

a

busi'

its
e v

time

.were

been;

in the

in

Trpasurv

refunding operation

picked

,!* v

•

advanrf*

i d

to

e n

11

carry

of

the

v

it
is-

eligible for this-

^exchange-were sizable enough-to

Park

make: this

a

worthwhile

under-

of Dallas, Dallas,
taking in--the extending of the
increased from $300,-;; due date of the Government debt,

of

stock.

new

•*'

Jack

>*

Sweet

and

Rosco

Mu

Grover, Vice President in "charge
of First Security's Salt Lake division have been elected to the Salt
Lake Board of First Security Bank

Utah,

N.

A.,

Salt

Lake, City

v

;

•

} •

(Par Value $.10 Per Share)

*

a

*

,

Price $1.25 per share

,

exchangeable securities, the
Treasury was able to make use
of-the bond market in about the
on^y fashion in which the, longterm .area will be used by the

\)

*;/

6% Convertible Subordinate Debentures

January 1, 19771
Price 100%

.

Offering Circular
as

these

may

be

securities

obtained
may

from

lawfully

McCloy, Vice Presidents,

the

undersigned

be 'offered.

*

Gorman

*

-

of

has

the

•v-\.




141

GILHART & CO:, INC.,
Broadway, New York, N. Y.

•

public

sale

of

common

stock of Metatronics Manufactur-,
jng Corp. is being made through
offering of .100,000 shares,' at.

the

?2 Per Snare by Frank Karasik &
q0

j

inC

.

j

New York City. "

V ;.*•

.

proceeds from the financing

P^oceeas irom ine nnancmg

Wl11. be used for the purchase of
equipment, new tools and dies,.
and the construction of a buildin^-. Tile balance will be applied
t0 the reduction of outstanding
.

acc0+unts payable,, to increase fn-

v^ntory' and for working, capital,
,
Located
N, Y., the

_

Hicksville, L^J.,
its three

at

company and

wholly-owned

subsidiaries, '.are
primarily engaged in the manu-

facture

of

..

«military

electronic

tomers tor tue company's products
are

in

trie

electronics,

-

aircraft,

missile and communications fields,
....

The

duced

cises
-by

and

the

containers

company

pfo-

are

•

;

this recent advance

of

refunding

of the Treasury has proved to

be

and dimensional variability with
a minimum of weight and size,

To Hold Outing

been

elected

The

Municipal Bond Club of New

a

First

Gorman.

,

^

D.

xnitiai

verY; attractive issue for_ those York has announced that it will
National
who are interested in-an
—
lts annual outing June 8-at
Bank
of Nevada,
Reno, Nevada obligation with a favorable rate JJOMUs annual outing
succeeding the late E L Questa
of "return and a maturity that is»the Westchester Country Club;
E. A. Fitz has been elected Execu- in an area which is. not consid* tl7. . " „ "
,
XT
V
tive
Vice
President, succeeding ered to be too long.
;
y
;With Hemphill, lNoyeS'
President

Mr.

A.

:

*

-

$500,000 to $600,000 by
stock dividend effective Feb. 16.

Harold

(Plus accrued interest from
January 1, 1962)

States,

-

preponderance
of -- shortterm obligations has made it imperative£-that
the
Government

they be junior or senior ones. The
Treasury is evidently going - to
confine
its
new
money
raising
*
*
*
J'/'''and regular refunding operations
Bank of America, San
Francisco, to the short-term or intermediateCalifornia has elected Kendel A., term areas of the market;
The
Chance, Robert J. Emerson land new 4% due 1971 which came Out

a

*

the

U

"Ti yr '-C?

i

John W.

such

•

The

tana increased its common
capital

of

•-''

.jj

.

used
Government under the prevailing as transit cases to provide protec-,
debt policies.
saaA-:-..,-;'v tion
for
.electronic, equipment

stock from

in

' j_';

as
,

.

t

,

.

Copies

as safety of principal.
; ,.t ;
/r
,
;
-.
'

By using maturity extending ob- cases and containers, - and to- a
ligations with coupon rates which/.lesser extent in the; making of
were high enough, and maturities.. custom-built,
precision sheet
that appealed to the owners of the metal
products.. Principal., cus-

!'X•/:'f.';A^

:

;

.

high-

investors '

.

*

stock dividend effective Feb.

*

Due

.

attractive

interested in return

are

wel1

most

against, shock, vibration and deterioration; ; combination - cases
19, the common capital stock of
- which permit operation of panelThe
Midland National
Bank
of extend the
maturity^1 of the debt mounted i equipment without reBillings, Billings, Montana was in-;, whenever the
opportunity pre- moval from .the case; instrument
creased from $1,000,000 to
$1,250,- sents-itself. Therefore,,it seems as cases to meet a wide range of re000.
;; v - though advance refunding operaquirements; v.and modular metal
*
-:•
i's, r tions will be undertaken by-the .containers, which provide a re-The- Western
Montana
National Treasury as often as market con-- * usable shipping and'storage sysBank of Missoula, Missoula, Monditf0ns will warrant it, whether > tem to give component protection
By

Common Stock

$240,000

^ho

.

21"; ;Sout -since the^^ turn-ins

$350,000 by a stock dividend
$350,000 to $400,000. by

Utah..

Acrylic Optics Corporation
•l

-

S pSidSff

J.' A*
evident that the
P.ohc^& of the monetary authon-r
lies have so far shown no change
9Y

,though;? there
substantial recovery
ness pattern.
/ -

of

from

;

i

-

tendency to hesi-

Bank

was

Leon

f

.

stock

<

20

*

of
>

Feb.

National
Texas

•

NEW ISSUE

*

v

of

offering is made only

Circular.

*

Feb.

-'u

a

;eyen

by the sale

effective

Arthur

the
offer

91

Bank

stock

to $1,000,000
stock

of new

000 to

an

a

reb.^|1.

National

*

are

t

effective^

capital

common

and
neither

offZni\va

been showmg

■

Houston, Houston, Texas increased

Guaranty Bank iW. Arundel, William F.
Collins,".
Worcester, Massa¬ James D. Hittle,
Irving S. Licht- capital

is

of Suili- ?

capital stock*

common

HixnHpnH
dividend

Effective

advertisement

!-ie-trend of business whicRha^
the- lreasury.^The other one-is

.

$1,375,000 to $1,750,000 by

National

under the charter and
man, Robert E. McLaughlin," Irv¬
title of "Guaranty Bank & Trust
ing L. Siegel, and David-E. Snyder.

This

.

!

v

of

with

Co.,

;

whichhasjustbeen completed by

City,

-

.

County, Kingsport, Tennessee

ciWir
stock

initial

institution

new

rorer*

the

bonds- for -those

*

*

increased its

capital is
$3,000,000. The proposed Directors
of the

two

in

*

from

Streets,

Bank

stock of

common

Columbia

thom?h

outlet

an

Kansas

Trust

-

*

Bank. The site of the new"institu¬
tion will be at 18th and K

*

National

Southbridge,
with

consolidated

of

title

grade

^ favorable factors as far as the

trust depart-

*

under-the

Stimulants

r

finding

now

tills obligation. It continues to be

;i'.vA.'-Acme.,of

.,...1,

Bond Market

rievefODP®U
ueveiopments have turned out to

m

funds

■. •,.

National Bank in the District

Columbia

: •

Co.

•

Missouri'.

Hill

March

new

from

an un-:

;

lief pS'St'S

the,

Chelsea,

■

Bank

has

2, the Comptroller of
Currency gave preliminary
approval to the establishment of a

capital stock of The

.

••••*•; SS atfiSlSS Metatropics M f g;
^XSa-2y-!»?Kr<l5!»?SSa! Common Offered .

van

common

Andrew.

President

The First National Bank

*

Lincoln National Bank of

A..

r;.'v
Co., ; ;

Trust

National Bank.

Bank of Albany, Albany, N. Y.

The

Vice

bank's personal

»«"■

The v Cherry ' Hill National: Bank
of Delaware Township, •
Delaware

effective Feb. 20.

*

and

promoted

to

dertaking a must.

=•

••

^

'Vaa, -j*;
Detroit

$2,285,290 to $2,395,155 by the sale
of

$5,000,000.''

$4,500,000 to

stock effective

new

bond market to make such

,

-V-;.' -ck

The

increased

stock

*

-

Feb. 21 The Farmers and Mechan¬

National

has

capital

*

;:./•

•,;A.

•

Rochelle, New RoYork

common

;A;*

By the sale of

-At

Westchester

First

Bank

its

&

Co., New York.

!

The

Bank

i*

Despite
the

the

business

minor

letdown

in

.

(special to the financial chronicle)

trend, in January LOS ANGELES, -Calif. V- Robert
Hawaii, and ;;.February, ,the general : out-V a.'Winston is how affiliated with
Honolulu, Hawaii has appointed: look,; remains
satisfactory.-^ The Hcmnhill Novp =
rn
fi2fl West
Robert L. Kuney Vice President
economy, should'with time, how-H ; ^e^uP^7 ^°y?f &
f,
and San Francisco
representative, ev^r, go on to new high levels but ;Si^h;. Street.-He was previously,
aucceeding-Spencer A. Mhrphyt-.v'without the- hoom and-bust -tend--with -Sellgren,-Millar & Co., Inc.
.

,

First

♦

National

Bank

of

Wr|^|%ri ^ rfc r>tWt^M*» ■>*» «*> I

Volume

Number

195',

6140

*.,

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

,

(1171)

agencies

were opened. In addition, a brokerage
arrangement with
mutual fund organization recently
completed will add nearly
1,000 brokers to American National's sales forces.

BANK AND INSURANCE

Approximately

STOCKS:
AMERICAN

a

This Week

NATIONAL

—

INSURANCE

60% of the 33 million shares of American
by the Moody Foundation. The remainder is
scattered among
approximately 6,000 shareholders. The common
stock has had a range of $183/4-$14y4 in 1962 with
a current bid of
$18 in the over-the-counter market. At the present price, the stock
yields 1.1% on its,,$0.20 annual dividend and is selling at approxi-'
mately twice its estimated liquidating value per share.

Insurance Stocks

National

COMPANY

American National Insurance Co. of

Galveston, Texas, was formed
through over 400
states, the District of Columbia, Cuba,

are

held

in 1905. The company's operations are conducted
branch offices located in 42

Puerto

Rico

and

Guam.

The

home

state

of

Texas

approximately

accounts

assets

rose

to

and

first

profit, $20,000. From then

the

trend

with

a

has

improved

profit

of

$70,000

tember,
$140,000
$190,000 estimated
A

net

profit

pected

for

28, 1962,

On

28,

for

in

Sep¬

October,
November.

of

$700,000 is ex¬
year ending Feb.

the

and

in

on

steadily

net

a

profit of $3,share for

per

Continued
Trunk

group

-

thorized to

.

force crossed the $6 billion level. American National ranked 22nd
and 19th in size respectively in the'nation among all life insurance

from

Line

from

the

Westcoast
1

Fort

companies in these two measurements of size in 1960. The gains
recorded in 1961 are expected to have moved the
company higher
up the list of the nation's major life insurance concerns.

page

which
build

2

250

a

been

mile

northern

on

Nelsen, where large
are

ket.

line
of

a

Pacific
reserves

mar-

^ oil

/:/■"■•;/.-

,

promising.

to

up

balance
the

sheet

current

of

Feb.

ratio

was

area-

1, net working capital $1,365,523, investments $14,225,608,
net
property $168,628,471, other

assets $1,852,630, debt
$53,620,352,
Is roughly one-half that in the'
minority
interest
$86,647,
and
United States. So prospects for the there were
14,776,193 shares of
petroleum business in Canada are
$1 par value common stock,

proven

awaiting
v

au-.

terminus

Transmission

gas reserves

-Canada's sedimentary basin

.;,'. a

has

the

1961

1.14 to

THE SECURITY I LIKE BEST...

accident and health. Admitted
$900 million in 1961 while life insurance in

over

;

years
of
effort, the month
ending Aug. 31, 1961 showed the

for

v

personal

19

22

000,000, or 21 cents
following year.

The company issues all the standard forms of
ordinary, group,
and industrial life insurance, credit
life, individual and group an¬
and

'

the

one-third of premium income, while California
represents roughly 15% of total writings. No business is written
in the New England states, New Jersey and New York.
*.

nuities

I i'»',. IU 0. ^ * IJtr. ■»JJI .^..

and

:..;v

v'jy.

y

Petroleums

.

Included

in

the

debt

proved following:
of 112 million barrels of'

1.3

the

are

has

trillion

cubic feet
Its refineries are

of

\

,
<

; Pacific Petroleums 5% conver¬
tible subordinated debentures due

Oil now provides 50%
of the natural gas.
at
Jan.^l, 1977; callable at 106; con¬
company's: gross' revenue, with. Taylor, B. C., on the Alaska
High-'- vertible to common stock at $19
production: averaging 13,500 bar- way. They were built by Phillips'
(US) to 1/1/62 and at $20 (US)
rels
per
day.
When. the
new
Petroleum
and;: operated
by
it; thereafter
to' 1/1/67
f
(expires).
Western1
Pacific
Products
and until July 1960, The
1,500 mile- Outstanding $10,604,583. Present
method in general use: In addition to its own operations, American
Crude Oil line is completed from Alaska Highway is
being paved' market about 115 to yield 4.35%
National owns 100% control of the Commonwealth Life and Ac- /♦'
Fort St. John southward to con- ; and
the job
will
consume
the* current. A a ."
cident Insurance Co. of St. Louis, - Mo., whose operations were x
A;.;.,v: x;'V
nect with
Trans
Mountain pipe company's
entire production
of
Canada is on the brink of a
assumed in 1950. This subsidiary is licensed in eight southern and
line at * Kamloops, the company asphalt for
many years. Gasoline" large development in its oil and
midwestern states with life insurance in force of approximately
will proceed to - greatly increase; and other oil
products are mar- gas business. The United States is
$125 ■ million.;; a)
V:
its
oil .production. The Pacific keted by the company along the': sure to become an 5
; • American National has recorded a consistent record of growth .
increasingly
Petroleums
Group - have
com-' Alaska Highway, at locations near
over the past decade. Insurance in force of over $6 billion
important customer, particularly
comv
pleted 45 wells in the Fort St. Lake
Okanogan
and
in
the' for the natural gas. The future
pares with only $2.2 billion in 1950. The full effect of the company's
John/area and plan to drill 200 /vicinity
of
Vancouver.
Greater' for * Pacific
Petroleums
looks
expansion has not^heen reflected in operating .earnings because
new
development wells there in attention to manufacturing and
of the penalizing effects of rapid growth upon reported results.
promising. In considering as to
•1962. There is to be no oil pro- marketing
is
planned
for
the; when .the
Growth has not been established at the expense of quality in risk >
company might start
rationing in this area..
future.
In
February
1961
the* paying dividends it must be men¬
selection as; the company's favorable- mortality; experience ' arid; /
■The
Athabasca ; oil'.sands
of Canadian Government
adopted a tioned that it has a $72,000,000
trend indicates.
'
^■"r"A";!%
northern Alberta are estimated to National Oil
Policy. It hopes to tax credit which can be applied
hold 300
billion
barrels
of oil. build - up
Selected Statistics
Growth and Underwriting Results
oil
production
from- to future years.
Cities Service is heading a group 541,000 barrels per day at
Premiums
Total Admitted
Total Life Insur.
presentCapital
Funds
*The writer is a graduate mechanical
in Force
Written
to develop this oil field. Pacific to
•;•--•• Assets*:
800,000 barrels per day in 1963.*
All of the life insurance business written by the
company is
non-participating. Business is written with interest assumptions
of 2%% and 3% with policy reserves valued on the net level
premium plan, ' the strongest and most conservative valuation

v

.

S '

,

•

—

:Wi <■'

■

Petroleums

-(in millions)

Year"

•

.:

1956

$784.1

yy

1957

934.0

667.9

82.4

1,003.2
1,287.6
1,511.8

750.6

93.6

-

1958

1959

[;

•'

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' 1960

:

1

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A

N.A.•

15-10

1957

12-

1958

11-8

1959. --L AU

-

1960.

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w.w

—*.

*.*-

$.30

-

/:•

Includes

'A /;

insurance in

.56

f.

-*

8.07

directly interests in a new petrochemical plant at Rimbey and one

8.90

;

.ll-V/r;

in

.

been .as .aggressive in.; its^iAvestment
it has been in expanding its life insurance .volume.

v

Canada

were

^

of

petro-.

is

not

conducive

operations
tions./-Oil

under

to

profitable

certain

condi-

companies that were
subsidiaries of American corporations

carried

business.

pn

most

of the

Now,; conditions

r

Oil
are

changing.-In the fiscal year end-v
viously substantial, growth to be; ing Feb. 28, 1960 this
company
expected in* that business.
1
: had
a
deficit of
$3,921,895 on
N
Since the original discovery of total- income of $11,316,182. For
; petroleum, * more than- 1,500,000- the year ending Feb. 28, 1961 the
oil and gas. wells already have; deficit*; was
$2,866,604,
d o w n
been - completed
in ;.the United. 26.9%, Deficits have been less and
.

engineer, Cornell University. He has been
engaged in engineering and the invest¬
ment

business

for

.States
;

while

fewer

than -25,000. less in each month of the present
have been drilled in Canada. Yet- fiscal year. Then finally, after

many

years

This announcement is under
to sell

•

1960's results. The improvement in operations

over

effective

reflects
volume

11%

Reynolds & Co.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —Reynolds
&

Co., 1526 Chestnut Street, have

announced

'

Meyer

now

them.
Mr.

is

that

John

a

no

: ■;•'; "Aiv-.v.» V

Meyer, who

was

formerly

Vice-President of Walston &
Inc.

their

in

buy

Philadelphia office,%

securities business since 1929.

as an

offer

of these securities.offer is made only by the Prospectus which is available only

;:

v '

These securities

are

offered

as a

written. A large factor in

trolling expenses has been due to its use of electronic data process¬

NEW

equipment and the v consolidation of operations around it.
The expansion of business at American National Insurance
>Co. is expected to continue under the aggressive leadership of
William L. Vogler, formerly Executive Vice-President, who re¬
cently was named President to succeed Mrs. Mary Moody Northen
who moved up to Chairman of the board of directors. The con¬
centration of operations in areas with strong underlying growth
trends is a major advantage. In addition, the company has been

any

be lawfully sold.

speculation. '

/

ISSUE

March 7, 1962

ing
-

•

.

200,000 SHARES

Arizona Biochemical Company

steadily expanding its sales plans and sales force. In 1961 23 new
combination (debit and ordinary) branches and 17 new general

COMMON

V

NATIONAL AND GRINDLAYS
BANK LIMITED

■i

YORK CITY

NEW

Head

Office:

26, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C.3.

BANK STOCKS

London

Breakdown
Portfolio

&

of

Sources
v

Bulletin

Available

on

PARLIAMENT STREET,

13

Income
'.
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ST. JAMES'S

'

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the Government

KENYA,

i

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Stock Exchange

BROADWAY, NEW YORK 5, N. Y.




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in:

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KENYA, TANGANYIKA, ZANZIBAR,
.

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Specialists in Bank Stocks

In:

ZANZIBAR

UGANDA, ADEN, SOMALI REPUBLIC.

Telephone: BArclay 7-3500
Bell Teletype NY

PRICE $4.00 PER SHARE

INDIA, PAKISTJAN, CEYLON, BURMA,

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•

120

UGANDA,
Branches

York Stock Exchange

Members American

S.W.I.

SQUARE, S.W.I.

,

Request

JMembers New

Branches

54

Bond

Government

STOCK

(Par Value $.01 Per Share)

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NORTHERN AND
■

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.-

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SOUTHERN

RHODESIA

"

;

.

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...

I

GLOBUS, INC.

■

"J.

t

*

a

Co.,

has been active in the investment

circumstances to be considered

solicitation of an offer to

Andrew

associated /with

as well
as the expansion in
the company's success in con¬

control

expense

or

in such, States where these securities may

operations in 1961, exclusive of capital gains,

Net gain from

increased

The

a

J. A. Meyer With

.

compared with 4.16% in 1960 arid 4.00%-in 1959. The rate
of return on invested assets has been rising steadily in recent years.

is

Cornell Engineering So¬
ciety and the New York Society of Secu¬
rity Analysts.
•

•

1961

and

member, of. the

.

v

phasizing common stocks has proven to be highly successful. Its,.',
purchasing and holding of IBM stock has been particularly, reward?
ing. In 1960 American National realized a profit of $16.6 million
on securities sold during the year. A;.,:/..
'L.
'-..'1 '•
At year end 1961 the company's major assets were as follows:
Bonds—$425.6 million; stocks—$136- million; and mortgages—$283
million. The net return on assets before taxes rose to 4.38% in

*

velopment stage, and moreover
the
petroleum laws in Canada

per.

.

v

The company has a relatively high percentage of its assets invested/
in common stocks for a life insurance company. The policy em-,

; 'A '■•:,;.'

in-

presently
les§ than 45% .of ./that idn. the
United States and so there fs ob-

v

American National
;as

r: chemicals

V
•

or

at. / Savanna

^consumption

-

force././

directly

Creek, both in Alberta* .The
capita <

:

•

owns

underconstruction,

*

r

8.38

.56

v'" *41va
in life

;

.50

V

.37-0

8

equities

operations

>■;//:

.32

A

h

Petroleums.

,

;

:7J7H^

.57

8

- ;

6.11

.56 =

»$.09

Pacific

.

Dividend

>

Although

rich

company

.;

■

v

acres

very

;<

Liquidating

$6.11

$.45

"

.38

8

9- *7

19-

1961.
*

5,020.8

: *

some

.

.5,591.6'
••6,017.7:

Value*

holds, 200,000

including

denosit<? in these sands
"
I was founded in 1939 it IS now.
deposits in these sands.,
beginning to show profits for the
if,.The petrochemical industryin first time. Previously the comCanada is only ip its mtaw&jrhis.
panyjjad been in a distinctly de-

—(per share)-

1956_

..

:

A

there,

i;.

4,165.5
.4,510.9

V

129.0
Est.

Adjusted

Earnings*

Year

\
*A,;;;; ,-v
!'l

J A

'A-

Earnings

•

-

119.3-

929.5

//•',/ ;///'=/2:* Price Range

Tr
f

99.1

853.8

Reported

'

:

;

807.5

Approximate
C" r;

$3,762.2

:

•

1961

-

$75.9;

$627.8

GLASS & ROSS, INC.

20

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1172)

C. POTTER

BY JOSEPH

The Funds Report

FUNDS

MUTUAL

Affiliated
sets

,

of

.

.

"encouraged

.

to

a wage-earner

his

with

speculate

fiscal

modest

sav¬

first three months

*//Z
the salesman.
A dramatist por¬ ings."-"'''''"
To people who scoff because the
trays him as a pitiable fellow, a
fund salesman is- not a profes¬
frustrated
businessman
says,
teacher- ac¬
there's nothing wrong with
the sional man
countant or lawyer "who is" a parteconomy that could not be cured
time
toiler
in
the
investment
by "some belly-to-belly salesmanShip" and parents, aware that the vineyard, Bill has this answer:

quarter

Oil of Califor¬

Baking, Standard

Oil

Union

and

California.

of

,

lot of the salesman is
urge

precarious,
their youngsters to seek a

more

secure

trade.

■

"If you analyze
the mutual fund

the function of
representative,

must agree that he truly of¬
fers a service.
He makes avail¬

1 you

professions, arts and
able professional management of
sciences, the salesman is never
institutionalized
in the
quite accepted as an equal. He is, money
he
after all, as the British gentry form of a mutual fund
doesn't offer the risk of one se¬
once were wont to, say in their
he is performing a very
best looking-down-the-nose style, curity
"in trade."
About the only solace vital public role ... he is the only
he has is that the rewards can be segment of the investment indus¬
rich.
And, of course, sometimes try that is filling this vital need."
Bill
feels strongly th a t the
he can point proudly to the fact
the

In

.

.

.

...

that

if he

did

not

create

some¬

ish.

a

gwcs

fund

The folks who sell mutual funds
are

not the least maligned of the

selling fraternity and since
can—and

do—claim

they

credit

for

mighty mutual fund
field, it is pleasant to hear a
strong voice raised in their de¬
fense.
William G. Damroth, the
youngish President of Templeton
Damroth
Corp., has said some
building

a

things

that needed saying
"they haven't participated in a
single hot issue"
"unlawfully
margined an account"
"ma¬
nipulated the price of a -security"

middle-income

growing

thing, at least he made it flour¬

considerable

debt

group
to the

over
20 years now the
overwhelming majority of this fast
growing middle-income g r o up
has been piling up surplus dol¬
lars under the mattress, in gov¬
ernment bonds, additional life in¬
surance
and
in
savings institu¬
tions u. i These same people are

who

have

been

by inflation over
years."
''

hardest hit

the
t

past

20

.

.

,

.

.

.

...

O'Mv

For the rich, Bill notes, tradi¬
tionally there has been available
professional, money managers or
investment counters.- The fund
seller offers the family with $2,000
or $10,000 to
invest the same top,

m DIVIDEND

drawer

service' that

available

orice

was

only

to the wealthy.
While it isn't something that he
can
put away for a nest egg of
his own, the salesman also "is
selling our system of free enter¬
prise to the country as it has
never
been
sold J before,"
Bill
Damroth argues.

"This in turn is producing an¬
social
phenomenon,"
he

other

"Because-of the

says.

of

visits

personal

fund

thousands

mutual

that

sales

representatives
are
making in homes across the coun¬
try daily, the ownership of indus¬
try for the first time in our his¬

STOU

tory

122nd QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

is

definitely

shifting to
only the wealthy but

include not

the

7 CENTS A SHARE

rank

Bill

flung

file

and

would

like

of

program,

of

to

America."
see

Shareholders

120th QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

a

far-

Foundation."

by

Dividends payable Mar. 23 to shareholders
of record at 4:30 P.M., Mar.

9,1962.

24 Federal Street, Boston, Mass.

it ought to be backed
shareholders, the funds, the
investment fraternity and
non¬
profit organizations. "One of the
primary purposes of this founda¬
tion

would

be

to

inform

the

thought-makers, the teachers, the
lawmakers
and
ultimately
100

Wellington
A Name to Remember
When

Investing

million potential citizen-investors
on the merits of
ownership of this
nation's

industrial

property

fund

Another
how large

field

be

*

American Mutual Fund,

would

31, states that total net assets at
the close of the period were at a
record

high of $174,218,753r com¬
Net asset
at Jan. 31
was
equal to

pared with $170,126,118.
value

$9.53

share, against $9.83 at the

a

end of the last fiscal year.
iji

'V...,

*

"f

*

Bullock Fund, Ltd. reports that in
the three-month period from Oct.
31

to

Jan. 31

asset value per

net

declined

share

to

$14.13

from

$14.70.

New additions include

Chain

Belt,

Piedmont

Natural
Engi¬
Lines,

Gas, Reliance Electric &
neering Co., United Air

the

today if it had sat

Electric

with nearly 7% on year-end net plant.
of about $72 mil-- However, with the
company's Jow

population of

a

revenues

trial

and

11%

miscellaneous.

tial, 16%

Kentucky is noted as a tobaccogrowing and bourbon whiskey re¬
gion, but it has made great prog¬
in

ress

the

Rubber and-Southern

1962

tant

industries.

eral
as

Electric

the

sjfe

Jan.

31

000,

Fund

reports

assets

net

earlier.
the

At Oct.

last

that

washers, refrigerators,
washers, clothes dryers,
heaters, room
air
con¬
ditioning
units,
freezers
and

at

were

disposers. Other large

-

and

lowest

rates

gas

in the

vestor-owned
of

Kentucky

is

said

to

are

among

country for in¬

utilities.

The

approximate

year-end

original cost plus 10%. The
mission
rate

allowed

increases

State

fair value which

uses

the

in

com¬

company

1957-58

on

ac¬

In

its recent biennial report the
mission stated:
'
<

"Kentucky
well into

its

in

one

people

opinion

our

of the

will

greatest

is

eras

experience.

ever

Industry,
large
building
within

com¬

and

small,
state

our

is

and.,

is

of

the primary inducements
adequate utility service.
With
objective in mind, the com¬

mission

has

set

about to

create

a

healthy and stable regulatory at¬
mosphere and at the

time not

same

lose sight of the fact that rates

charged must be just and

so

reason¬

able. It is to this end that we di¬
our
aims and objectives to

rect

make

value

was

Delaware

as

fund,

it

reports

Fund,

a

is

New

Zealand

ten

Govern¬
'

issues.

-•

;i-r.

month

amounted to

first month of 1961.

unlikely that the

will have to do
1964

when

While

no

investment
its

^

a

growth

reasonable

"With

respect to

that

gas,

we

our

over

underground
which has-con¬

30 years,

has con¬
to
holding

immensely

down gas rates. Louisville Gas and

Company pioneered in
underground gas storage. On Jan.
10, 1962 we had an all-time peak
day gas send-out of approximately

seeking
possibilities

current

375,000,000 cubic
feet.
Of
this
375,000,000 cubic feet, 200,000,000

capital
income.

—

been

820, the stock yields 2.4%.
price-earnings ratio is 24.6,
quite

seems

considered in

reasonable

■

were

supplied from underground
storage—more than .half."
Sur¬

request

rates are
than
they

gas

Louisville
In
<

has

recent

been

lower

in

are

in

f

Houston.
San Francisco

if

(relation to the rate

of

growth in share earnings over
the past four years as well as the
conservative method

earnings.

of

reporting

V.V:■///'

•//■• //

Darius Inc.
Elects Officers

tributed

Lord, Abbett & Co.
Los Angeles

be

The

which

Darius

prisingly,

—

may

has

Electric

of

upon

bonds
stock

com¬

financing

-.■;/ i/S'Z/

years.

tinued for

company

shareholders

long-term

any

mission, 26,000 f r o m Tennessee
Gas
Transmission,
and
22,000
from Kentucky West Virginia
Gas,
President Armstrong recently

$1,150,000, against $106,803 in the

34%,

the present dividend

on

rate of

daily deliveries of 163,000 Mcf—
115,000 from Texas Gas Trans¬

Investing Corp. reported
largest monthly sales in its his¬
tory for January. Plan and share
for the

consecu¬

At the recent price around
and based

24

Natural gas is purchased under
contracts
calling for maximum

Research

sales

15

—

seven

tive years and the stock was
split
2-for-l in 1956 and 1962.

the beginning of 1957,
equity ratio is so high (about
43%) that equity financing may
not be required during the next

the

stock

increasing its
position, purchasing Ausf^aand

been increased for

sold since

gener¬

common

follows:

as

21

seems

issued.

*

,

Income

ally classified
bond

It

pany

until

$

are

$21 million

1964

$11.80/
*

.

1963-

31, 1961, close of
year,
per
share

fiscal

Prospectus

Chicago

(it is located favorably
to coal fields), both

this

clothes

$98,324,$11.70 per share.
This
with net assets of. $79,901,000 and $10.85 a share a year

and

—

electric
the

location, Gen¬
Company selected it
at which to concen¬

water

or

of

Atlanta

cost

relation

one

dish

compares

for

—■

Doubtless

trate the manufacture of all major
home appliances, including ranges,

waste

in

be¬

future amounts

Colonial

An

New York

the

of its central

cause

.

.

A Common Stock Investment Fund

Philadelphia 3, Pa.

in

of

chemicals; alu¬
minum, tinfoil products and
plumbing supplies are also impor¬

Cali¬

Affiliated

Wellington Company, Inc.

decade

past

manufacture

fuel

count of increased fuel costs.

Z"

,

•

write to

Gas

commercial, lfT% indus¬

storage program,

A sk your investment dealer

in

31%

were

about 60% residen¬

revenues were

believe

•

contributed

and gas 38%

revenues

residential, 25 % commercial and
small industrial, 33% large indus¬

stated:

•

665,Louisville, Ky.

around

Electric

Company

Electric,

operations

of

food

Fund




serves

000 in and

.

income, and profit

or

&

Kentucky
a
great
state,
industrial customers include Air both from-, an
economic viewpoint
Reduction, du Pont, International and the
fornia Edison.
standpoint of our social
*
*
*
/iSZ/ZZ/'/v Harvester, B. F. Goodrich Chemi¬ welfare."
cal, Reynolds Metals, Ford Motor,
The company's accounting
Canadian Fund, Inc. reports net
pol¬
Corhart Refractories, and Ameri¬ icies are
asset value per share was $18.28
extremely conservative.
can
Radiator.
1
It is one of a very few electric
on Jan. 31, compared with $18.56
Transportation facilities serving utilities which do not
on Oct. 31, 1961.
take ad¬
During the pe¬
Louisville
are
quite
adequate, vantage of liberalized deprecia¬
riod the company increased hold¬
ings of Metropolitan Stores of stimulating industrial g r o wt h. tion for income tax purposes and
Canada.,and Trimmed its inter¬ Larger locks installed at Louis¬ which do not accrue interest on
ville and elsewhere on the Ohio
est
in
construction
as
Consumers'
a
Gas,
Atlas
bookkeeping
Steels, Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, River, together with the erection credit, prior to putting new plant
of higher dams, have increased the
Dominion Textile, Home Oil and
into operation. The company's ac¬
Moore Corp.
It eliminated Con¬ advantages of transporting freight counts are also highly unusual in
by barge. The city is also served that
solidated Mic Mac Oils>.
depreciation for book pur¬
by many trucking firms, seven
ZlZ'IL/ZZ';
poses is greater than tax depreci¬
trunk!ine railroads and six air¬
Trustees of Chase Fund of Boston
ation, although the reverse is true
lines. In the ten years of the last
note new record levels in quar¬
for most companies.
This is in
census
period Louisville grew at order to correct
terly report for period ended Jan.
prior years' ex¬
one-and-a-half times the national cess
31.
During previous 12 months,
depreciation for tax
pur¬
Louisville G.&E. is at¬ poses...
number of shareholders increased average.
"'■,-Zf ""/■'//;•'?/r"-//
44.7% to 9,601, and shares out¬ tracting new gas and new electric
During the first half of the past
customers' at a rate of about 5,000
decade earnings per share made
standing increased 46.8% to 5
a year each.
128,353. These figures represent
comparatively little headway, in¬
System generating capacity will
record levels for the fund.
creasing only from 830 in 1952 to
On
Jan.
31, totl^l net assets approximate 976,000 kw by July 920 in 1957. However, in the later
compared with last year's peak
amounted to a record $42,093,761,
years with the help of the rate in¬
load of only 618,000 kw. Obvi¬
equivalent
to
crease they have
$8.21
per
share,
gained from 920
compared with total net assets of ously, there is a substantial gen¬ to $1.40 or an average annual
erating reserve.
Construction
$27,726,781, equivalent to $7.94 per
four-year increase (compounded)
expenditures including budgeted of
share on Jan. 31, 1961.
nearly 9%. The dividend has
S.

U.

possibilities.;

for prospectus

reporting

ended Jan.

three months

for the

BY OWEN ELY

Gas & Electric

trial and 8% miscellaneous.

*

Fund

seeking conservation of
capital, reasonable cur¬
rent

of the year.

Z-ZZ

back and waited for the public to
seek out its unique talents?

Balanced

Fund
reports
marking the half¬
way point in its fiscal year, net
asset value per share was $6.13,
against $5.87 at July 31j 1961, end

Gas

annual revenues

lion,

Growth

/■::///'
interesting
interesting

,

Louisville

62%

*

that at Jan. 31,

ment

thought.
thought:

a

American

lian

an

Louisville

1961.

of money—institutionalized in the

it's

'

.

#

*

through professional management
form of. mutual funds."

Anyhow,

—

Philco.

un¬

"Mutual

He thinks

8% CENTS A SHARE

a

education

dertaken, built" around
Fund

It eliminated National Biscuit'and

salesman. As he explains it:

"For

those

SECURITIES

of

Dur¬
the
company
added to its portfolio Continental
the

nia

Thursday, March 8, 1962

year,

the close of the fiscal year.

ing

.

PUBLIC UTILITY

Jan.: 31,

at

.

as¬

compared with
$804,149,201 on Oct. 31, 1961. Net
asset value at Jan. 31 was equal
to $8.38 a share, against $8.83 at

Debt To A Salesman
Probably one of the least appre¬
ciated fellows in our society is

$801,933,769

of the

close
the

had total net

Fund

.

years

earning

the
an

company

average

of

New

Incorporated, 8 Pine St.,
City, has announced
of the following of¬

York

the election
ficers:
Arnold R.

Schultze, manager of
trading department has

the firm's
been

elected Vice-President.

Schultze

has

since 1958.
firm

he

Merrill

been

with

Mr.

Darius

Prior to coming to this

spent

two

years

with

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &

Beane.

Thomas
elected

the

corporation.

been the

joining

Jr.,
-

has

been

Treasurer

Mr.

Lynch

of

has

acting comptroller of the

company

Mr.

Lynch,

Secretary

since, 1959.

the

Lynch

Darius
was

Prior to his

"organization,

with

Eastman

Dillon, Union Securities & Co.
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Volume

Number

195

6140

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.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

the sort of

SECURITY SALESMAN'S

CORNER

(1173)

salesmanship

Step right

BY JOHN DUTTON

long

He Buys

as

Securities Too!

many

different types of individuals.

He

is faced with the challenge, of liv-

ing with, and working with, many
extreme and complicated types of
personalities.
Some
of
these
people

can try the patience of a
saint, others must be handled with

the

following day
telephone him again.
me

I

did

not

Proposed

Taxpayer f

on

Account
I-Wi-"""

Numbers

enough, true to form, my
";T
telephone rang promptly at 10 a.m. ProP°sfd regulations on taxpayer
the next day. "What's the market '
KnU1^
f ?ave ,bc2n pub"
now?" he asked. I had

previously

checked and the market

part of the

tnat I

could

now

was

bid,

technique of security
salesmanship that can only be

Issues

Regulations

Sure

9%ths

salesman. This is

kinds, just as
by the rules

abide

him. Knowing that he would call

firm and controlling attitude on
the part of the
a

they

and honor their commitments.

IRS
security salesman meets

Complete Mass. Turnpike Offering

ladies and gentle¬
Exchange opens at
morning except Satur¬
day, Sunday and holidays, and we
up

men, the Stock
10 every

do business with all

A

you won't

learn in the book.
'

offered at 97/8ths. I
quoted the market and told him

him 9%ths NET

pay

i,sn

by the Internal Revenue
Service ac9?r4*.n§ to a
Gen®ral Bulletin just issued by the
frmeTri-?nT
Convention and
tbe .fe insurance Association of
.

Taking part in the formal closing ceremonies completing the
$180,000,000 Massachusetts Turnpike Authority were (1. to r.)
O. V. Cecil* Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.; James
S. Abrams, Allen & Co.; William F. Callahan, Chairman of the
Mass. Turnpike Authority; and Jerome C. L. Tripp of Tripp &
Co., Inc. Proceeds from the sale of the bonds will be used for ac¬
quiring the right of way and construction of the 12-miltf Boston
Extension, a long-needed, high-speed expressway, which will run
from the existing Mass. Turnpike at Route 128 in Weston to down¬

America. The identification number for the individual -'taxpayer
When I offered him 9%ths NET *s
his Social Security number
not only the fair, just, and under(which was right on the Street while the business taxpayer will
standing client that can provide a bid) you should have heard the USe
Employer Identification
salesman with profitable business; exnlosion.
He accused me of tak- Number, the Bulletin states.
nonociannlltr
v./-. i
i
i
a
Under
occasionally the individual who is ing advantage of him
I should
"Under the regulations," the
the rafjl ll n tl nn "

learned by those willing to profit
from their own experience. It is

+

A

n

rln nl

th

c,

motivated

by
self
interest,
cupidity, and neurotic compulsions

since I knew that I could eventu—
allv

use

jr

it

*

-i

for

retail

«

x

nurnoses

,

t

i

,

.

ji

town Boston.

c

4LC

and

;
The offering was ^initiated Feb. 13 by an underwriting group
managed by Allen & Co.; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Inc. and Trifcp & Co., Inc.

LIAA

Bulletin; conJ*n9ed\ "taxpayers must include
of which he is unaware, can also
fumbled his orders—I could have their
identification numbers in
become a profitable account,
if gotten him 9%^-etc. etc He thT <>wri returns c0™™ncing
you know how tomandle him.
ended
up
by saying,
"That he Wlth returns filed after March 31,
Incidentally, it may be interest- wouldn't forget it" and reluctantly 1962. Persons required to file ining to note, that last week the sold me the stock at 9%ths NET. formation and other returns with
in

newspapers

carried: a

southern

a

item

news

8,000 people have
the loss of
of

their

obscure mort-

an

,

-

**

wx

clerical

assistants.

lure of 10%

was

As

usual,

the

the bait that at-

the

greedy — there are
of these people and some of
buy securities too. If you

them

want to handle their business you

must

understand

their

motiva-

tions, control their decisions, and
make certain that they offer you

emotional

blow

tear

and

wear

on

tional and physical

emo-

your

resources.,

off

tirade

took

steam,

the

up

returned

it,

but

that

phone

I

had

the

stock

allowed

and

the
i/Xit-

check it7 Pick

also

your
^uux

have

you'll

have

500

You'll

up

friend
ixxexiu

and

Co.,

account

an

shares

find

it

sell
to

out

this

you'll

be

9%ths

for

pay

of

and

stock

ex-

a

change commission in addition." I
knew he wouldn't do it.

best

continued.

"One

the

of

won't admit is that in

you

have done busitogether you have had the

possiple service I could give

you. I am sure that you are aware
of this, but you want me to forget

who had accumulated

it.
Otherwise we wouldn't
be
transacting business together—you

tune.

fall

I

would

into

above.

been

that he would
category described
say

the
He

brokerage

has

several

accounts

able

large for-

maintain

to

large
I

and

have

profitable

relations with him because I have

kept

tight rein

a

the situation

on

and sometimes my sense of humor,

The other day he asked

for

me

L" an over-the-counter

?

security which I knew he wished

too

are

would

his

little

chisel

immediately,

that

sure

handle

the

his

other salesmen who

do

account

the

same

thing, otherwise they, would never
any trades with him;
He

make

would take his account

other

how

securities
to

make

over

to

an-

who

knew

put the

chisel

man

him

back in his pocket.

what?"

time I goofed

and quoted him the actual market

which

True

9y2 bid, offered at 10.

was

to

form, he queried, "See if
get

you, can

replied, "I
9% ths
will

for

it

NET?"

I

be able to get you

the

leave,

97/8ths

me

may

500

shares

with

afternoon."

I

agreement

and

you

for

me

if

the

finally obtained his
after

making

several calls to clients I could not
.find a buyer.
I then

telephoned

him about
me

himl

told

the

hour

an

thettrm

offer

could

after
at

he

gave

9% ths

and

sell the stock in

market at 9%ths, less a
stock exchange commission. "No "
he replied,
"You can do better
1-

open

■

than

1

•

.

t

-

that.

I

want

-

.

.

'

9% ths NET." I

kept the order for the rest of the
afternoon
stock

at

and
a

could

9% ths




not

NET

use

price

the

to

said

afford

it

There

is

9%ths

me

it

he,

once

"I

—

know

you

doing business with
but

I'd

like

something

nounced.

AL-

X11C.^

^

AS

.

proposed regulations will

u

117uv;c.u,

with you at

you, his firm,
I
can't make

efforts

reason

with

in

have

many

your

Then

Internal# Revday period

n

within

enue

allowed

for

the
such

30

comments," the

Bulletin concluded.

something
Exactly that!"
>

been

is

does

their

CHICAGO,
President

111.—John
of

the

Meeting
M.

Coates,

Masonite

Cor-

tal

Room

March 14 in the Crysthe
Union League

of

'

RacV,e IJntown Offir»

Dacne Uptown UlTlce
Bache & Co. has opened
770

Murphy'ls
caog

office.

also worked at the Boston bureau

with

of

Avenue

United

well

Press

International, as
at The Worcester (Mass.)

as

Gazette.

:

:

manager
■ \

,

>■ •

of

•

■

Roy L. Greene Opens
CEDAR

RAPIDS, Iowa —Roy L.

from

offices

Lexington

a

Ass0"

n?Te o£ Roy L' Greene &
clates.

branch

Avenue,

with

Mr.

Greene

Francis

L.

was

du

formerly with

Pont

&

Co.

to

at

that

for

securities
George W.

in

a

are

and

D'.

H. Blair

n-

& Company.

i

^

Feb

oam„

„

6

Bernard

nartner

in

B.

tjon Qf Jay ^ Hayneg_

mond Bassock, Arnold & ^asion,
26 Broadway, New York City,
Exchange,

Smith.

All
this

these

announcement

shares
appears

having

only

been

as

a

sold,

matter of record.

March 6, 1962

New Issue

1

85,000 Shares

'

boston

.

•.

.?

pneumatics, inc.
Class A Stock

^

—

(Par Value 100 Per Share)

Offering Price: $2.00 Per Share

it's

•

'

'
,

■ i

"

(

■

•

"

his only recreation, avocation, and
his entire life. He needs
too.

The

meek

as a

next

he

a broker,
called as

lamb and eave

other orders

complaint.

day

—

this time without

is

profitable

again. The account

but

it

does

54 Wall Street

New York 5, New York

way

for about two weeks then I'll have
to whack him

T. M. Kirsch Co., Inc.

me some

He will stay this

require

BOwIing Green 9-5975

beDia-

came a partner in nerman ijia

nothing?

accumulate money

Lax

Herman

—

But

\J-U

Herman Lhamona /\amii5
Qn

New York city_ under the direc_ Merrill Lynchi pierce, Fenner & members of the American

are

was

Chi-

the
■'-•'v

Nostrand

3165

engage

Officers

u

136

at

offices

business.

Greene is conducting a securities

will work
paused

.

Mazur, President and Treasurer,
and
Benjamin D. Mazur, VicePresident.
Both
were
formerly

i

Cherry Hill road under the firm

at

firm's

having served as an editor
in the Sunday Department of The
Harrison Sees. Opens
and as a Wash¬
ington correspodent and editor of BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Harrison SeUnited Press
International.
He curities,
Inc. has
been formed

business

club.

office

the

in

W

He joined RCA in 1955

p0ration, will be guest speaker at
the meeting of the Stock Brokers'
Associates of Chicago to be held
at 3;30 p m

headquarters

Los Angeles office; Mr. Kutitschek
is located in Pasadena; and Mr.
"

The

pretty rough, I'll ad¬
I knew my man.
At
heart he isn't a bad fellow. All he
it.

.

brokers

behalf.

I

get

This

street, member of the New York
Exchange, on March 15,
^
rwill elect Kopert t
will elect Robert I. Higgins, ur.
i. mggins, G.

stock

after

"Do you know what you get when

mit

1000 Locust

New York Times,

Chicago Stock Brokers
To Hear at

America.

.lowered my voice again andasked,

~

,

and special events.

a

is very simple—I
other
accounts

profitable."

you

Dempsey-

—

Inc.,

Co.,

while."

a

or anyone else. If
a
profit on your
will not obtain my

you

,

be considered by the Convention U1 v,Mr,Nplap.has been manager of
and Ass?clatl™> and if necessary, editorial and publication services
comments will >be made to the for
Radio
Corporation
of
pnrnrnpn1'c wiii-.v^o
ti™ w the -Rori,^ rnmnratmn nf
Commissioner
of

loss, or for no
profit—look out! He's no good for

best

LOUIS, Mo.

grp

Tegeler &

.

to
remind
you
of
anytime you find a
willing to do busi¬

—

broker that is
ness

Pc

10 XjIGCI V .-JlS.

"Your firm
in

called him by his first name, and
in a friendly confidential tone I
said

the

at

Thoroughly enjoying the set-too
by this time I dropped my voice,

business

At any rate, this

paid

I answered: "And

to

"So

out

to

ft that price I wouid have been
working for nothmg and maybe at
<>r to me.
loss
my firm,

a

could

If«I say one-half he automatically
says get me seven-eighths. I am

have

for the stock."

he

Knowing the account, when
a
bid I usually lower
the quoted
bid an eighth or a
quarter (depending on the price)
knowing full well that he will get

businessman

a

"Is that so," he had the temerity
to reply, "If this were the case

to sell.

desires

good

give your orders to someone who
doesn't look out for your interest."

you

P°sed regulations provide that director of public relations of the
L P?y?t5
request the num- Chase Manhattan Bank, George
ber of the payee, and the payee Champion, Chairman, has anmust

years we

Several years ago I started doing
business with a retired individual
a

OllclSG IVl&HHEll&Il

turns covering payments made on
or ajter Oct. L 1963. The pro- Joseph T. Nolan has been namod

furnish

V

TV

P^esen^ time no specific form f
for
In his new post, he will have Donald Murdoch, Raymond E.
V,
p .ThY
v
iviuraocn,
itaymona
r,.
these requests, but it is expected over-all responsibility foy, press Kutitschek and James H. Murphy,
the
o-uoilahlp !Service will make forms
Rations relations, services,com- Vice-Presidents of the firm. Mr.
editorial public affairs
munity
Higgins and Mr. Murdoch make
S en"

to

ness

e P 7ee °? re~

iJGHipSGy-1 GgGlGT

Vmffon

lllct°1'

lucky

^ne

PVioc/y

for

stock.

j

TV}w*r\ci/vt7 Termini*

it),
it).

Jet fo™

Then

Trkir»a

price

you

you

things

XTrvlon

knew

a

and ask them what is the best vou
can

>* -'.v

"T

top

got

Skip-Noodle

at

over,;,

_

believe he

(I

telephone axxu uaxx
icxcjjxxuiie and call

where

call and

sure you don't know
suie yuu, uuiu Miuw

you

500

nJtht

Jj™1°*

,

J OS# JN Ol&H J 01I1S

inph^fhp

other* must

with him

his telephone

am

Why don't

aR

Sample

day-

time

him to relax for 10 minutes. Then

sufficient incentive to pay you for
the

first

knowing his nature I let him

I

mortgages.
-

ness
for only eight years, it did
y
no
practically
advertising, and
was run by one man a couple of

many

but

I said'"I
t.Sdlu'

,

pmvious

the

could have become embroiled
an

estate

had been in busi-

company

tracted

I

in

the

not

was

that offered them

real

on

This

this

soldit

investments, which they-hung

company

10%

fear

considerable portion

a

acquired through
gage

over

to

reason

have

city,

that

21

Stock

22

The Commercial and Financial

(1174)

Commission. There is

Regulatory Process Poses ~
Threat to Our Economy
Xtintinued from page 1

defined

arrive

we

jurisdiction be¬
regulatory bodies,
a
final mixture of
of

areas

various

tween

at

this

that

Detroit

in

lead

would

action

defensive

widespread confusion as to pre¬
cisely what a businessman or a
corporation properly can or should
do, as to what body has legitimate
authority to make and enforce
decisions regarding such conduct,
and as to where one can effec¬

gasoline

of

handful

price to a
wholesalers

straight to nearly two decades of

litigation, I suspect we might have
weighed the matter in a somewhat
different light—although I doubt
which

tions,

fully

justified, .y:/; •r
Nevertheless,.! submit that this
questioned ruling.
/;/,
is the kind of thing #that can g.'ye
My own company has had suf¬
any responsible businessman
ficient first-hand experience with
nightmares at high neon.
In our
this process to give us a certain
status as experts on what the re¬ instance, the continuing threat to
our ability to compete also threat¬
sults of such a system can be. Let

appeal

for

turn

tively

from

a

can now or could
in the future escape the regulatory
yoke. If existing agencies should

somehow be found-to lack author¬

ity, I have no doubt that new ones
promptly created. Neither
is there any need to belabor, the
point that this relentless exten¬
sion of Federal control.presents a
problem of serious dimensions..; •
will be

Other Non-Federal Controls .;/■
Please

••••-•

largely
trols
of

to

single area

a

Federal

While

ened the interests of our thousands

give just one example of what

happen in the business area.

\can

stockholders

of

lest

And

Stopped from Meeting

employees.

be tempted

anyone

individual

an

or a

because the extent of its in¬

area

fluence 'is

by

little .comprehended

so

public,; it is

the

still

member* that

'to

that this is the extreme to

assume

which

Competition

and

corpora¬

tion is likely to

be forced, let me
sorrowful assurance that

of. con¬

activity—that

regulatory bodies'.
singled out this

have

I

also

have been

business

over

the

that
confined

in-mind

keep

remarks

my

.

me

tions

contfiols

and

steadily

well

from

■

to re¬
regula¬

other

nate

e m a

other '

-in

sources

Washington, while many of these
bodies

This problem originated in the
again have their counter¬
give my
parts at the state level.
r
1930s, at a time when competition
it is little more than a taste of
Well what is the moral of this
was
especially rugged, and our
what lies ahead unless the course dismal
tale? I am not certain that
competitors' began trying to win
of
events
can
somehow
be I am
over some of our best wholesale
fully qualified to answer
' *
customers in Detroit by offering ;hanged.:
,t"\ that question. Obviously the situ¬
ation is studded with morals of
them a lower price on gasoline for
Opposes Proposed New F.T.C.
various sorts, depending on your
resale. When several of our most
Power
viewpoint. We have at issue the
important
wholesalers
actually
This is not merely an idle opin¬
started to buy from competitors,
steady erosion of individual lib¬
ion. There is presently before the
our
erties, the increasing substitution
company
finally agreed to;
.

Wall Street's first major textile

sumated

.

meet this threat

of the reductions

all

or

a

Federal

com¬

our

proposal to grant to the

Congress

by matching part

Trade

Commission

new

action

our

constituted

discrimination
unlawful

an

desist"

unfair

amounted

and

should

injury to competition.
saw it, either
have

not

price

to

these

salers

or

we

reduced

selling

were

retailers^-:'
We

of

outset

Such

a

order

an

1940

in

our
company
would have left us under

a serious
competitive disadvantage in a ma¬

jor market for 17

including all
/,; ■V
■'■■/HI

—

•

the

against

reduced

it to everyone in the area to whom
we

at

Commission.

the

particular ^whole¬

should have

order

complaint, compelling an individ¬
ual or a corporation to discontinue
any
practice questioned by the

to

As the Commission
we

bureaucratic

of

dividual

pending

years,

ultimate vindication.
•/I

pointed chit that neither of

could with

ease

present other

place.

in

The: whole

which

the

involved. It

whether

the

is not easy

to

theory of government,
of economics, of philosophy or of
morality. How much regulation of
our
private
affairs
is ; needed?
How much is justified? How much
-cah^we undergo 'Without drastic¬
ally altering some of our oldest
concepts about a free, society? V.
Instead
of
attempting; to an¬
questions of this complexity,

swer

examples

let

oetroleum

purely
two

rather, conclude

with

sition of the

United States

world

I think it
news-to any of

competitive price, we would have
these jobbers as customers,
they would have received the
lower price anyway. On the other
hand, had we lowered prices to
would

have

the

and

industry.

has

become

uneconomic.

become

the

have

year

conceivably
with

low

so

that

have

been

;;

charged

The

finally
got
to
the
Supreme Court, which ruled on it
in 1951, agreeing with our conten¬
tion that meeting competition in
good faith is an absolute defense
to a charge of price discrimina¬
case

tion. Eleven years may strike you
as

long time to wait to find out

a

whether

a

tice

is

this

was

"

In

not

permissible, but

only phase

the

tion,

business prac¬

common

is

or

second

the

then

had

not

in "good faith" in meeting
competitors' price. Once again,

we

started the climb up the ladder

to the

again
not

Supreme Court, which once
decided in our favor, but

until

early

in

1958.

In

the

preserve a

competitive system for

effect

to

was

»,:American business, but it took 17
costly and trying
tion to do it.

And, to

right to compete,
off

Federal

a

years

we

of litiga¬

preserve our

had to fight

originally

established

to
insure
the
con¬
tinuance of collective competition.

not

to

indict

Commission.
that

sume

I

am

its

.which

is

Trade

willing to

as¬

attempting

this seemed

as

are

history

to
in

.

example
we

in

responsibilities
as
it
saw
them,

give you this
an

in going back
Federal

was

situation

paradoxical

as

I

it

out

carry

this

the

case

of

all

independ¬
until

the

many gas pror

commit

re¬

their- supplies

periods of up to 20
; into
the
future

years

more

or

without

knowing the price they will ulti¬
mately receive for their product.
This uncertainty has led, among
other things, to increasing sales
of

natural

for

gas

industrial

producing states, since
the pricing authority of the Fed¬
moving into inter¬
Whatever

commerce.

be

said

limited

of

else

this

development,
to be in the long

to

us.

history only

the

extent .to

wandering in




a

me

is

our

when
on-

own

railroads
since

have

the

under

the

had

turn

of

their

the

Interstate

Commission—and

them. The
share

century,

Commerce

many

are

near

bankruptcy. As commercial avia¬
tion developed, a
mounting num¬
ber

of

activities

of

the

airlines

have fallen under the
of

the

Civil

jurisdiction
Aeronautitfs Board

and the Federal Aviation
We are all. familiar with

difficulties

tively
the

new

Agency.
current

involving the
rela¬
television industry and

Federal

Communications

should be

gas.:

A.

Gilhart

D.

&

Co., Inc., 141
York.: City,
is
making
a
public
offering ,, of
$240,000; principal a m o u n t
of

trying to step

■i;■' Broadway,

,

New

.

Proper.

Regulatory

Criteria

Please understand that I

-

am

-;

Acrylic Optics Corp, 6% converts

not

subordinate

ble

condemning all government regu¬
oUprivate affairs as such.

Jan.

lation

debentures/ due

1, (1977,, at, par and accrued

interest ..and 40,000

.

is

.

;

economy.

'

:

•

•

..

In

•

the

men,

in the development of a
national product of at least

gross

to

bills in the next fiscal year.
Unless

the

poses—will

and

more'

matters

more

in1 the

regulation

more

whether American

retain

can

the

in¬

freedom of decision and action to

the

challenges

directly ahead. If
permit

which1 lie
sit

we

by and

the

increasing encircle¬
ment of business by bureaucratic
regulation, we cannot in all com¬
mon

fruits

of

panding
As

continue to expect the

sense

faced

we

with

at this

met

beyond. They

without

butions

of

a

the

can

re¬

free

be

contri¬

economic

sector, yet we stand in danger of
witnessing American business be¬
ing little by little painted into a
corner

so

small

that

it

pur¬

small

leaves

Stock

members of the New York

their; office at 250
Avenue, New York. (City.
C

Exchange, ;in
Fark

v

;

Paul Benitz Opens

V !

■

y

Evans MacCormack Adds
(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

LOS

--

(Special to The Financial Chronicle) "

LA

is

has 'been

added

to

the staff of Evans MacCormack &

members

of

the

Pacific

erlv

with Walston & Co.,

Inc.

ANGELES,

Calif.

—

Theo¬

hanian
with

have

Holton,

621 South

of

the

Henderson

Coast

for

6515
form-

Mans¬

:: ;v':;•!

been

appointed as¬
& Co.'s

sociate manager of Bache

Philadelphia office.
C.

Steven

.

is

Kraus

the

nut

Street.

-

...

.

:

manager

'
of

1336 Chest¬

branch located at
.

connected

become

&

Stock

New

Co.,

Spring Street, members

Pacific

was

Bache & Co. Names

r

dore T. Sackett and Leon G. Sha-

He

vice-president
Mills, Inc.

Petrosky has

r

offices; at

Drive.

Be¬

securities

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.Jacob B.

With Hollon, Henderson
(Special to The Financial Chronicle) -.'.

a

a

field

Coast

Stock Exchange. He was formerly

from

Murilands

Co., Inc., 453 South Spring Street,

LOS

conducting

business

ANGELES, Calif.—Willis H.

Doetschman

Calif—Paul A.

JOLLA,

nitz
-

own

never

creative

dynamic

"

Joseph E. Bitterly is now associa-ted with McDonnell & Co. Inc.,

really be
/
' ; ;

by Mr. Swearingen before
Rotary Club of Los Angeles, Ca-if.,
February 23, 1962.
\

mo¬

tremendous

sponsibilities, both to our
people and to the entire
world

with

can

'/

-*An address

2
are

that

its

r";

With McDonnell & Co.

•

ex¬

economy.

nation

a

ment

vitally-needed

a

in

busi¬

necessary

.

?

beneficial

the

daily conduct of
halted, it is ques¬ /.

can

be

find

corporate purposes.;

Stuart

trend

nronounced
and

more

John

instruments
for

great thing
accomplished."

-

toward

of

no

men

:

,

docile

hands—even

the Government's

pay

words

"A state which dwarfs its
in order that they may be

more

$570 billion to develop enough tax
revenue

meet

can escape

we

the

mover

own

undertaking

Acrylic Optics

another

what we're doing is apply¬
ing pointless regulatory brakes tobusiness in many important ways

.

increasing rate in every area
of enterprise in the
country. No

which to
it

way,

Meanwhile, American business
Mill,
being looked to as the prime,

ness

that

state

,

in

But while I have discussed
some
of the problems

only
facing my
industry,; please remember
they are being duplicated at

in

room

To

.,

tionable

Aviation

insurance

\v.;'

,

in the

business
and

and

-

volved

Rails

bank

.

of

y

;

turn around.

a

community.

the

t

hardly enough

pragmatic observation. qr
light of the present po¬

in

it hardly appears
term interest of the many residen¬
tial users of natural gas outside

producing states,

which includes a $10 million
loan. * ' : ;
5 * v.* ' •;;-

shares of coiA1 think wt would all agree that
mon stock at $1.25 a share,
vtr ^
regulation is proper when ; the
The debentures are convertible
need is clear, .the effect determ¬
by now no
us
into common at. $1,50 a share and
inable, and the people consent.
that we are in the midst of a
gi-T We are hearing the, point, how¬ are redeemable,.at 105% before
gantic economic struggle with the
ever,! " where; these esentials are Jan. 1, 1964, and at prices rang¬
Soviet Union. In so many words,
fast; disappearing. We are sur¬ ing downward from 104% to 100%
Khrushchev
has - declared
eco-.
rounded by seemingly numberless .thereafter.,',•!
y) ;•.!
nomic war upon us, and through
The company, based in Detroit,
regulations of debatable need, un¬
this
means
expects .to wip. the certain
is
engaged • in> research, design,
effect, and arbitary origin.
world for Communism without the
manuiacture:
and,, sale, at
both
As for the element of public con¬
need for direct armed conflict. >> J
wholesale
and retail
of contact
sent to-this.'process, 'the public
Still another factor tp be reck¬
eye-glasses and various
hardly comprehends what is tak¬ lenses,
oned with is the emerging Euro¬
tyeps of optical instruments.
; J
ing place.
j'J
pean Common Market, from which
Net proceeds from* the current
Here, perhaps, lies the greatest
America
can
expect - increasing
danger—the danger that individ¬ 'financing will.be used for ex¬
competition in international trade, ual i xi d
t. i a t i v e ,• w i 11 become panding; laboratory and manufacthe answer to which can only lie
facilities, opening
neW
swamped
by
government
edict luring
in
the direction of still
greater before
enough., people awake to retail offices, purchase of inven¬
efficiency and productivity with¬ 'the threat.;.
tories an i equipment and other

use

within the

an

agency

Now my purpose
over
this
chapter

its

cases

our

judgment,

net

reach

not

understanding^

to sales of gas

of

acted
our

in

meantime,
to

litiga-" state
sought to

we

would

2043—assuming its staff were
tripled.
--/V "V*

luctant

can

that

it

status

are

for

that

stated at the end

eral Power Commission is

one.

round

FTC

demonstrate

be

In the

.

complicated

producer rate

ducers

*...

.

to

segment of
the situation

Here
so

that

current

ent

could

we

trying to destroy competition

there.

a

I960

Commission—

gas

Commission

of

company

been

natural

our

in

would have lost
money, and, what's more, our gen¬
eral price level in Detroit might

The

Power

Detroit

marketing

everyone,

Federal

check'from

a

of

say

of the

one

interesting

the

Krusen

problem is basically

the

met

we

all

at

was

Unless

underwriting in 11 years is con(left), President of Graniteville

cratic country is moving seems to
be

lost

courses

reasonable.

Townsend

program

company

demo¬

and

two

Francis A.

leading cotton textile manufacturer/receives

Stanley

in

in

involving
only
the
industry. There is the
tragedy of errors in¬
volving another Federal agency—

these

-

market

the

direction

world's leading

a

as

Shearson, Hammill & Co.*, the managing
underwriter. The net
proceeds were $12,504,457.62 on 796,716
shares sold to the public last week. At the closing this morning,
Graniteville acquired all the stock of McCampbell and Co., Inc.,
an independent commission agent in the textile field, and merged
McCampbell into Graniteville. This is part of a $22 million financ-

-

for /in¬

planning

decisions

Co.,

;

IH.

•

petitors had offered. The result powers even more, far-reaching
than any seen thus far. In effect,
was a complaint from the Federal
this proposal would empower the
Trade
Commission, issued on a
Commission to issue a "cease and
chill November day in 1940, that

Complete Textile Underwriting

,

say.

unborn, which

our-- ac¬

considered

we

.

enterprise, including those yet

of

-

altered

would-. have

we

.

that it would
be difficult to envision any form

,

regulatory maze^ If we had real¬
ized at the time we reduced our

sufficient to

is

need to

no

down the interminable list. It

run

.cinorhC 8, 1962
Thursday, March

Ex¬

Quinby Office

!

N, Y—Quinby & Co..
Incorporated has opened a branch
NEWARK,
office

at

change. Both were formerly with

the

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

Healey.

520

East Avenue

management
-

/ •

under

Gene

of
•

G.
*'

Volume

195

Number

ASE Names

Charles

Phillips

Franklin

Phillips,

the

.

National Plan¬

ning

Assoqia-,
tion, has been .
appointed, a
public
A

N#^ Rrakrii
new

m

am

fund

g e

'

McCabe & Co., Inc;

The

branch office at 138 South Wolcott

followed "

ment

the

Street

of

approval

Glen Dugan.

appoint¬

ment

under

the

ers'

cold

new

.

accured:

r

..

turity.

The

priced at $28.75

/ v

and

dinner

party

Way; has been

pork

other

processor

ma-;

is

fruits

of

and

and
it

three

:

frozen
ranks

vegetables,

the

among

canned

largest

nies in the field.

Interamerica Sees. Opens

Interamerica

compa-

New

securities

•

Securities

offices

opened

.

..

changed to Finan-

com-

York

at

City,

Mr.

Posner stated,

"The

entire

>

ability

will .represent

the

on

American

cated

He has indi-

interest

keen

a

in

challenge and

a

ppportunity to

5Qth Annual Report

public

Stock Exchange

Board of Governors.

feels is

the

••

what

-

he

/

splendid

a

of COMMERCIAL CREDIT

-

economic
system, the public, corporate en¬
deavor and the securities industry." >
Dr.

*

New

serves

as

England

a

.Life

Stores,
W. T.
and

Council and

director

*

Maine Power

tual

COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES

Phillips is Board Chairman

the

of

serve our

of

Central

Insurance

Inc.,

Co.,
Stores

Diana

Grant

Co.

and

the

of

Committee

of

State

the

B.

Bond

the

also

•

a

gaged

who

of

elected

not

may

be

t' I

and

Dr.

finance -a/;'
Business Loans

one-year.

They are ;
terms, have /

and

gover¬

are

Phillips

Feb.

r

had

their

HIGHLIGHTS

for

not

to

be

....

/
•

/' /

i

-;

Wholesale Financing /:A

in

1934 to

insurance

A.B.

Common shares

reserves:

///

1

■

'

'

/,

Indii

and

and

.

*

and

the/.

he

international

Pakistan

:

10 658 933

.........

./

-....

;/.

$2 86

the

Puerto Rico

confer-

Commonwealth

in-1957.

1

'

.juirt >-.-J '; v-

Brass

Pipe Fittings A

>

/

-

Metal.

V

'

1

•/

of

College.
Phillips is

■

the

-

.

v

.

/

/7,

/

,




Pyrotechnics

,

'/

:

.

-

\

.

Problem"

'
>

.

•

*

Factoring,

open

238 475 075
/./

-

.7

•'/

Commercial

Company,

159 580 806

accounts, .leases, other wholesale notes and mortgages../.....

'

'

'

512 191 215
$1 935 147 246

......1..

Total..//........!

1

5_267J51

Companies

$1 940 415 097

;!

%

reinsurance.../......,..:/...,

$

20 781 035

insurance companies:
Written premiums, prior to

•;S

Earned premiums/.;...;.....;..;
.

.

,

39 098 362

/

39 944 036

Net income (including Cavalier Life Insurance Co.)...

/,;

,/•
WRITE:

603 299 091
421 601 059

/.,<•

Bearing

"

Valves..

$

*

other retail..,-.....

.....;

Net income of Finance

y

/Toy Specialties; ■' y yy

„

-.;
*

'

-

•.

$3 965 331 917

.7.

'

'A

,

Equipment

books,
including "Marketing"
(1938),,.
"Government Spending and Eco¬
nomic
Recovery'' (1938), "The
Neutrality

184 001 488

;

v-><

Printing Machinery

Roller and Ball

co¬

author or-editor of-several

32 553 677

$

Loan receivables

;// "'• /'

M

Maine,

author,

127 392 284

Sundry (principally unclassified items).........;
.

College and

Nasson

24 055 527

$

briefly:

'•./.'.-A'*"*..

r

.

are,

Motor wholesale

Specialties

Pork Products

/

Colgate University, Co'by College,
Bowdoin
College, Northeastern

University

^

receivables.. ./

JtA-'s/'/A'AV Farm equipment, mobile homes and

Metal Products

honorary degrees from

Western New England

on

Motor retail
T// >•■•

--

-

of

'

.

'/

;

Receivables outstanding December 31

participated in an.,

economics

$1 60

.//•Gross Receivables acquired..,.

at

American

.'.

Available for credit to future operations...

Operations shown separately

/■

• /

Malleable, Gray Iron and.

Department

Zurich, Switzerland,/in
1956. v Dr. Phillips aided in ,the development of a tax revision pro¬

.

32 162 730

$

L

.

..

Machine Tools

y

a

on

Castings /

/

Administrator

State

/.:

finance companies:

Heavy Machinery

Advisory- Comof Price Ad/

Teputy

mission

■

59 270 857

27 108 127

/« :/

Unearned income'on instalment receivables.......

///'//

manufacturing t

In May, 1944, he was

States

Dr.

.;...

...;

Insurance .AVA;;/: AAA

•

Office

United

-

63 407 135

-

-

rationing and placed in charge
rationing in the U. S.
During the winter of 1953-51 he

University,

-

Unearned premiums-Insurance Companies,......:.,

Health and Accident

of all

has

I....,....:,.'.. /

outstanding at end of period./....

Reserve for losses

•

Credit Life -insurance

for

for

122 677 992

•

'

i

/

1931

War II Dr. Phil-,.

Defense
and

ministration.

appointed

229 573 967

$

:"

charges......;'.........,

Net income per share on common stock;

Commercial Credit Insurance"

from

in Washington with

National

$

v/-

••'Net-income credited to earned surplus.,............;...........

;/

Automobile Insurance

economics

1941.> ;

Luring World

He

ACTIVITIES'.

Dividends paid per share:.....................

taught reco-.
nomics at Hobart College inv 1933and 1934 ?n^
Colgate University

•

'

-

Administration. /He

gram

1961

United States and Canadian income taxes

»:

vard (Graduate .School of Business

ence

*'

_

Net. income from current operations, before taxes.........^.5;,.5;,;;...;,.^...?,$
$

/

-

// /-

ate School of Economics and Har-v-

in

.

Interest and discount charges..,....,.

m *

University in 193* fol¬
lowing study at the Harvard Grad¬

was

OF

Net income before interest and discount

;/A ;

Harvard

mission

j •

_

//'

net income:

Rediscounting

reappointment.

Ph.D.

was

.

con¬

Phillips received an
from .Colgate University;,in

lips

•

1961

Personal Loans.

previously indi-!

desire

Dr.

from

n

..

...

Zeckendorf

a

..i.

gross income....................................................

•

George R, Collins and Mr. William

and

.

;

Instalment Financing

the

is

Leasing

Factoring'

three former: public governors,,/
G. Roebling, JPean

sidered

■

•

...

Mrs.. Mary

cated

y

1;

Fleet Lease Financing;

13, 1962, the day after the
exchange election.
The

annual

^

Equipment Financing/

first public /
governor to be .appointed to the.
present board which was organized
on

SS

;zl

en¬

equally entitled to
one
vote.
Their major resp.onsi-:
bility is to b^ing a public point of
view to board discussions!"
*

..

Governors."

to

equal standing with other
nors

.

RESOURCES OVER $2,000,000,000

YMCA/ /

in the securities .business A
represent the public on the •

Board

.

Executive

Maine

American Stock Exchange,
constitution
provides -that three

shall

wide variety of services and products that contribute to

a

CAPITAL FUNDS OVER $290,000,000

ANNIVERSARY

The

individuals

provide

growth of American business and the well-being of American families

Sperry

is

primary areas-Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing—Commercial Credit

subsidiaries

-

Corp.,

The

Hutchinson .Co.v He

member

In three

Co., The Union Mu¬

10 781 987

Credit

Baltimore

2,

Maryland for copies of

our

50th Annual Report.

manufacturing companies:
v

*

V

:

Net sales ...;.//.....-....

128 652 573

'

Net income.......:.....;;....

320
to

business.

Charles F. Phillips

by the

board is extremely pleased that a
man
of Dr. Phillips' caliber and

May 23.

on

Now Financial-Programs

Exchange Board of Governors, at
its regular
meeting,.-'
VA/Y
/

their

field

DENVER, Colo.—The firm name
of FIF Associates, Inc., 950 Broad-

pany in the U' S* and that> ;as a

share. '/■■/'/

per

any

at

stock

common

than

beans

to

priced

Bank¬

hold

will

_

a

interest

Investment

Association

day at the Omaha
Country Club.
The
Field Day
will be preceded
by a cocktail

Headquartered in Indianapolis,
Ind., the company and its subsidiaries are principally engaged

and

and

j_*

"

.

Nebraska

annual

storage warehouse in
;

.

.

OMAHA, Neb.—On May 24, 1962

company's

the

Minnesota.

1,

yield approximately 4y4% to

Cv

of

/;/.

-

-.

The company may use $750,000 of
the proceeds for construction of
a

r\

1

1

j[ 0 JlIOiCL Ull 11R2

operations.

a greater amount of canned

has opened-a' 100%

direction

the

to be sold for the account of

Sharp,debenture^' ark

Wyo.—Schmidt,';

of

manufacturing

can

23

Inv. Bankers

TT

business

gtokely-Van Camp common stock

Chairman.
announce--x

July

expansion

of

,-Sroup are,80,000,.shares ,of lieves that it packs and distributes

fnr Srhmirlf '

Sharp, McCabe &vCo.

CASPER,

*

commencing

volume

m

,

prancn ror ^cnmicu,

.

and

capital.
The
required to finance

are

increased

an

1971,
calculated to ,retire $11,0.00,000 of
:

working

funds

A;#16 *ssue PU°r to maturity, ;
,
in processing.. and distributing a
^ ^ Also being offered by the Rey^ Variety of food products. It be-

direction of Harrv R
Gorhv
direction of Harry B. Gorby,

Stock Exch. by
Edwin Posner,,

Exch

new

..

.

2355 East Platte Avenue unddr the7

the

President i and

r

-r^

Inc; has opened a branch off ice at

gover-v

of

nor

company's

Q
^
Q^l/I
O^vUX lllvzb 0010..

(1948),; "A Tax-Program to Encourage
The Further • Economic'^Reynolds & Company, Inc., New
York City, heads a group offering
Growth of Puerto Rico" (1958)/
for public sale a new issue of $15,000,000 Stokely-Van. Camp, Inc.,
Schmidt, Sharp Branch
*
•
-• 4/4%
. convertible
subordinated
COLORADO. SPRINGS,
Colo.—- debentures due .1982. They are
Schmidt, Sharp, McCabe. „& :.Co.,. entitled to a mandatory■; sinking

College, Lewiston, Maine, since ,1944 and mem¬
ber of the Business Policy Com-:
of

(1946), "Market-.
Principles and Methods",

ing:

t

President of Bates

mittee

(1175)

Stokely-Van Camp *,5x8 .JwwtflK 2 K Neb.

;

,

Manufacturers"

Dr. C. F,
Dr.

Financial Chronicle

The Commercial and

6140

''

599 707

Corp. has

Park

engage

Ave.,
in a

24

ity in

Outlook for Business and

the

a
a

from page 3

$q4 5 billion in 1961 to
$34.5 billion in 1961 tn

risp from
rise from

ffii'c?

nUA11i

„

TVio

vonr

XI1C

™

of his enthusiasm for automobiles

lines

many

may

moderate

inventory rise this year.

in total corporate profits

.

.

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

busi-

as

possible that

the year goes on

as

ness# activity

expands. Corporate the government may be required
(8) A prime objective of the profits before taxes moved up to direct its fiscal, monetary, and
Administration is to achieve full
A seasonally.adjusted annual debt management policies mpre
employment of our national re- r^te of1 ,$39.6 billion in the first toward protecting the value of
sources and a faster rate of ecoQuarter of 1961 to $47.2 billion in the dollar and somewhat less to■

Interest Rate Structure
Continued

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

/'

(1176)

nomic growth. The target is to
reduce
l"UUtC

the rate U1 unemployment
tilt; Idtt: 0f UI1CII1JJ1Uy 1I1CI1 b

0

_

in

•

o

..

the third quarter, and the .rate ward encouraging general busi*
undoubtedly nimrfpr _T " billion
reached Tn
$50
tnp
final
fi'vof

ness expansion.
xx\*>?&

\

ir»

✓

v

»

conducted
last af our civilian labor force from
final quarter. In the first
(4) As the economy expands, I
van'
esaertheit detscurrent 6.1% to 4% or pos- phase of a business recovery, as expect that we shall witness SOI^e
cniet "t£ esels
erally, but during the latter part y.ear suggested tnat tne increase
little lower by mid-1963, unemployed capacity is put to use UDward nressure«? on r>rire<? and

and durable consumer

of

his

1961

goods gen-

appetite

goods expanded

in

for these
hne with the

usual cyclical pattern.

The

expan-

&be 1 vTbout
""'„„rshowsthat

™ut

4%

on

'a

in

ex-

mriod

tosnS*

acSfve

S government

and ttan to
a sustained and productivity, improves, the
concern about
growth of GNP at a rate of some- nse of pr°£lts ls always Pro" such pressures will also reduce
thing HHe 4-5% per annum, as MMfrt.Weny expect a fur- the enthusiasm for pursuing
f i

;ry

s c a

1,

management
,

and go" without heavy-handed
government measures.
up

,

At the end of 1961 the tempo of
the business expansion seemed to
be
rising,
especially
consumer

spending.
Practically all of the
leading indicators used by economic forecasters
are now pomtmg toward a continuing improvement of business
The question
today is not whether the level of
this year, but rather

how far the

will go.

expansion

The General Business Outlook
For

of

Rest

the

Turning,
the

general

This

of

then,

Year

to the question
business outlook

a

—— — —

,

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—

-

_

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.

I

_

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—

4.U.

L*

III •

^

sta(rt>

be

can

moderatelv

this

KefolZme

of

,

h

My

Last

vear

private

is that housing

1962 will

run

moderate

vear

non-farm

?otaled

starts

gu|ss

housing

of

expected to increase

1i275,000.
^tart's in
This

about 1,400,000.

is

jncrease

based

on

thought that the rising level
personai income will bring a
larger number into the
market
for
new
homes despite
the fact that the comparatively
the
f

somewhat

low rate of family formations exPected this year tends to place

<«>sTheSlume of

expenditures

Ind "oca

TOvernment

the first half of this year, and
possibly somewhat longer. This is
8-9%.
a characteristic development in a
The principal forces
which I cyclical expansion, and it is esanticipate will power an expan- peciallly likely in view of the
sion of our economy this year are threat of a steel strike at midas

of

„

follows**

'

(1) Federal expenditures may
be expected to continue the rise
experienced in 1961. Total Fed-

*

■

•

%/*/ I— %/ «

rate

a

of

I

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(

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t

plant capacity becomes more fully abouT$5To billTon, as fhave xug^crea"" iUs likely^hlt geited. there wU1 s'iU be acon"
flscal> monetary, and debt man- uemanas: increase, it is nicety that slderable amount of unemployed
agement policies will continue for the; prospect for profits wiU dirm resourceS and this remaining
s?me weebs to exert an expansionary influence on business.
Based on these forces I have set
forth,

general

my

™t^u^°^df^n/u4Lr expansi^i
tkof

that general business
activity will continue to expand
at a substantial rate this year,
with the rate of increase greater
in the first half and probably ta-

rieintf

o

conclusion is,

therefore,

rJofinR

balance of

pressures on prices. There is evidence,

mm

nLments

fiseal

t

monetarv

and

concern

reasons, some

of which have been

Sbed

a

Sonallv Lifted

that unemploy

certaln industrles and in certain
areas of the country- Wltb gen"
eral business activity rising to

debt

business

enCourage

however,

ment4ends to be concentrated in

"*er at onal balance of Payments

whfch

high leve,ls' there is a real„ pos®iblllty tbat many areas °f th®
Labor and product markets will

ex-

was

SSrd

prke

pSures Cer!

talnly there is no reason to doubt
that the general business climate

an

^
was^run- £?y ^VisVew'to1 fe'mode'rthe

S mTh'reduLd9 and

ning at an annual rate of $1.4
billion. In the second quarter, due
iargeiy to a substantial advance
payment of debt by West Germany, our balance of payments
showed a surpfus at an
annuai rate of $992 million. From
there on, however, as imports
rose with our recovery, the U. S.

tb's

samf

the

time

I

be

L
S
the
Slrnment will be reouired to
fPTn„r it? exnansionarfSlicies
n

^'

th^

the

5u'

.

actuyjly

on

vrar

nf

inairnainine

stabiUty

leasonaDie price sxaDiiixy.
The possibility that the rate of
business expansion will taper- off
balance
again moved
into
a m.
.second half of
y a
deficit position in the third quar- raises the :mtngui:ng Quies^tnan of
rate of inventory accumulaiton ter at an annual rate of $3.4 bil- what lies beyond in 1963 I would
Thus, there is a good chance that Jjon
in the fourth quarter the suggest only that the piospect fo
a

.stepped up rate of inventory deficit
reached

still
further
and a renewed expansion in 1963 will
annual rate of about depend very heavily on whether

rose

an

$5 billion. This latest rise seems
not to have stemmed from rising

Sources and Uses

,

taken

®tePs

in

taK^ ^

field

the

*°

of

Federal tax revision to encourage
flow of short-term funds to take a much higher rate of private
imports but rather from an out-

advantage

of

higher

short-term business
It is diffi-

ini-ereg^ rates abroad.

ertste
cult to foresee
unused productive capac- now in the midst of the usual rise coming months,

nearly $60 billion in;

in

bnysionIn th^fourth quarter of
pering off in the second. Why does p|60 when great
a
^wtag domm, in the mprove- i^'e^^abo^f the Sow of
the latter part of the year? My natkmal"5 balance 'of °pavments

accumulation will impart a
marked stimulus to business expension in the early part of the
year. If a steel agreement can be ye&r which will be weaker as the
reached well in advance of the year goes on.
t *
contract termination, the buildup
(2) By the second half of the
®f inventories will be dampened, year we are likely to hear more
ence

slack will aid to moderate upward

enthusiasm for further ^pansion.

increased "from^an^nnual troTTteVenteries 'anTte

ices

rate (seasonally adjusted) of $54.7
billion in the first quarter of 1961
to

■

combined impact of government

goods^and'seSces bT

will probably increase in the

order

I—«-■ ■

g-ady foreshadowed, are as fol-

output of goods and services this
year

V

balance of payments situation, the

of
state
(1) Although I am hopeful that
and loCal government rose from labor and management in the steel
the year progresses By the final an annual rate of $50.3 billion in industry will reach a settlement
quarter (5 the year GNP wfll the first quarter of 1961 to $53.2 without a strike, it seems unlikeprobably be running at an annual billion
in the fourth quarter, ly that such a settlement will be
rate of $575-$580 billion
as comSince these expenditures keep reached early enough to prevent
pared with $542 billion ^n the °ast marching upward there is little a bulge in the accumulation of
quarter of 1961. For the year as doubt that they will increase an- steel and other business mvena whole
GNP will probably aver°ther $3-4 billion this year.
tones in coming weeks. After the
age out' at about $565 billion, as
(7) Some further rise in the steel settlement, especially if it
compared
with $521
billion in rate of accumulation of business }? slow in materializing, we are
1961.
In other words, the total inventories is likely to occur in likely to witness a cooling in the

andwiththerLetaperingoffas

.

higher

^5) ThttumLt

SatUlt<he^tllh,?eyrcoLS
''half

—

and

invest-

industrial

ment spending, and along with it

developments in a higher rate of saving to finance
but it is quite the increased rate of investment

of Funds in the Money and Capital Markets,

1952-

the fourth quarter. On the basis of

budget figures and appropriations,

(In

it is certain that this rate will in¬
crease

further

in

first

the

(2) Commercial bank credit is
likely to remain readily available
during the year despite the fact
that as the weeks pass, the Federal
Reserve authorities may be obliged
to

shift

credit

from

away

toward

ease

more

re¬

strictive

policy. Ready avail¬
ability of commercial bank credit,
probably at rising rates, is pretty
much
assured
by the fact that
between May, 1960 and Decem¬
ber,
1961
the
banks
increased
their holdings of government se¬
curities

with

and

year

maturities

under

These securities
in

sufficient

to

meet

volume

the

of

Estimate

the

1955

1956

1957

Life insurance

u.u

U.7

5.0

5.3

5,0

U.7

3.1

3.7

U.2

5.7

U.9

U.9

6.3

8.U

1.7

1.8

2.0

2.1

2.0

1.7

1.5

1.5

1.7

1.9

1.9

2.1

2.6

2.U
2.6

9.1

U.l

10.2

U.8

U.U

5.1

15.2

U.2

0.9

1.2

-1.0

-0.1

0.1

-0.7

2.1

0.3

Mutual

companies

and loan ass!ns

Savings

savings banks

Corporate pension funds

billion.
liquidated

if

necessary

$16

expected increase in

expenditures which de¬
last year, especially in

quarter, should extend
through much of this year.
prospects
for
automobile

The

sales

on

excellent

that

the

and

level

of

it seems likely
sales this year

approach 7 million. Similar¬
ly, the demand for appliances has
been strong and should continue
so.
During most of 1961 repay¬

Commercial banks

Federal

Reserve

Banks

consumer

credit, with a levelling
outstanding. Stu¬

in the total

dents of the

consumer

credit

mar¬

anticipating a sizable rise
this year in the outstanding vol¬
ume

f

**

State

U.S.

and local

funds

investment

Federal

■

2.1

.2.5

2.9

1.9

2.3

2.7

3.6

2.U

1.3

2.1

2.3

1.2

-0.9

-0.7

0.9

•

accounts

loan agencies

0.2

-0.1

0.6

0.9

1,6.

.0.6

2.5

2.5

2.9

2.U

0.3

11.2

-1.0

2.2

3.0

10.1

1.2

1.3

1.2

0.9

0.5

0.8

0.9

1.5

1.0

0.6

0.6

1.3

0.5

*

*

li.9

5.1

1.6

8.U

8.0

6.5

u.l

1U.3

36.9

Corporations

31.9

30.0

U6.2

32.2

33.3

U2.7

57.6

U.8

3.8

U.2

U.7

7.1

5.9

U.l

5-0

5.1

1.9

1.8

1.9

2.5

2.7

2.1

2.U

1.8

2.2

5.2

'

Fire and

casualty

cos.

Foreigners
Individuals
Total

Uses

and

others

sources

U.5

of funds

State

local

and

■

Mortgages:

credit

Consumer credit
All other credit

Total

(4) ^Plant and equipment ex¬
penditures by business and industry will probably increase in the
10%

this

year

as

com-

pared with last. This would

mean

-




m-mnnn

-Note?
rtoi*3j

uses

U.2

3.5

3.3

U.8

5.9

5.1

3.8

7.8

3.5

2.0

-U.l

-1.7

8,0

7.9

-0.6

*

*

1.5

0.6

2.1

-0.5

2.2

7.6

9.6

12.6

10.8

10.1

13.2

10.9

12.5

2-3

2.3

2.8

3.6

3.8

3.5

5.2

6.0

U.7

6.5

-1.8

l.U

9.5

7.U

3.0

3.1

8,2

7.5

3.9

'1.1

6.U

3.6

2.8

0.3

6.U

5.8

(■

8,6*

»

1.6

1.9

1.9

0.9

-0.U

0#

2.7

2.1

36.9

31.9

30.0

U6.2

32.2

33.3

U2.7

57.6

p
ox

l.Q

6.8

nr

because

6.5

*

•v'..V 2.9
t.8

Other
Business

3.5

*

1-h family

3.1
8.0

gov't issues

Federal agency issues

of consumer credit.

of

2.h

U.S. Government issues

are

order

li.9

Corporate bonds
Corporate stocks

ments matched new extensions of

ket

3.0

the basis of recent trends

will

out

.

final

itself

are

1962

U.9

195U

(3) The pronounced increase in

veloped

U.9

for

1959

1953

loan demand.

consumer

1958

1952

one

be

by

can

dollars)

policy

a
a

of

of funds

Sources

quarters of this year.

of

billions

three

rounding, components

-

Preliminary,
—T

may

not add to totals shown.

U.5
,

56.8

Volume

195

Number 6140

,

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

(1177)
without

generating

.

The

Outlook for the Money and
Capital Markets in 1962

What

be

can

said

about

the

moderate in character. Short-term

porations. This is characteristic of

rates

inflationary

consequences.

an

will

probably show more
strength than the long-term rates.
The accompanying table provid¬
ing data on sources and uses of
funds

in

the

money and
capital
during the period 19521961, with the rough forecast of

outlook for the money and
capital
markets
in
the balance
of
this

markets

year?

possibilities for 1962, will help to
crystalize my views. The figures

My view is that increasing

and capital demands dur¬
the year will press against

money

ing
the

supply

from

of

funds

savings

available

institutions,

com¬

mercial

banks, business concerns,
government agencies, and individ¬
uals.
This
will
be
especially
if

true

the

thorities
weeks

to

credit

shift,

to

in

think

At the

same

seem

demand-supply
be

au¬

coming

less

a

I

as

it does not

ever,

to

Reserve

required

policy,

the case.
the

Federal

are

easy

will

be

time, how¬
likeiy tnat

pressures need

moderate, espe¬
cially in view of commercial bank

So,

position is that

my

the general level of interest rates
will be firm this year and

prob¬

ably trend upward, but the rise is
likely to be fairly moderate.
The

extent

interest

pend

of

rates

this

greatly

achieved

in

the

stiffening- of
will

year

de¬

the

holding

success

the

upon

general

price level stable. If prices should
move

upward

the

as

expands and public
inflation

economy
about

concern

should

be revived, the
stiffening of interest
will
be
greater
than
if
prices remain fairly stable. The

extent of the

rates

,

for

reasons

this

general price level

expectation of it)
the

total

dollar

demands.

causing

At

funds

it

of

amount

the

same

shift

a

level

would

in

rise

payments

in

In

addi¬

the

general price
aggravate the deficit

because

to reduce

of

purchase of inter¬

international

our

by

toward
flow

est-bearing investments.
tion,

credit

time,

reduces > the

into the

rising

a

(or the public

tends to inflate

investor

an

equities,

that

are

balance

it

would

of

tend

our

exports and increase
not to mention the
outflow of "hot
money" it would
our

imports,

provoke.
in

In

turn,

rising deficit

a

balance of payments would

our

likely necessitate

very

strictive

credit

a

more

re¬

by

the

policy

monetary authorities.
Most

economists take the view
that any rise in the
general price
level
this year is likely to be

mild.

very

the

They base this

argument

fairly

high

ment

of

that

level

price

labor

moderate.
fact

that

that

of

unemploy¬
plant assures

and

will

be

stress

the

pressures

They

upon

continued

a

also

competitive forces

have

strengthened, especially competi¬
tion

from

foreign

products, and
that this will aid
greatly to hold
down price increases.
Beyond this,
they contend that the mainte¬
of reasonable price
stability
for successful defense of

nance

is

vital

the value of the dollar in
foreign
exchange so that the government
must

assign
maintaining
the

other

high

a

resurgence
of an
of prices this year

prices

As

of

upward
year

an

drive

earlier,

the

have**** been

for

the

to

growth

point

could

of

upward pressures
Beyond this, it is by

creating
on prices.

some

certain

that

not

be

is that

guess

year

and

as

labor

becomes

power

does

these

means

pressures

this

expands

economy

bargaining
strong.
How
all

no

cost-push
revived

be

one

balance

possibilities?

My

upward pres¬
sures
on
the general price level
will develop as the year goes on
but

that

check

some

they

by

will

be

held

government

in

policy

measures.

My

general

therefore,
of

interest

firmer

that

that

as

anv

which

the

rates
year

rise

does

the

of

take

conclusion
general

will
moves

become
on,

interest

place




but

rates

will

in

be

from

that

$:J /'' if':. V'",'

year.

Turning

the

to

of

uses

funds

in the lower half of the

Table, it

is

that

interesting

total

to

think

we

note

the*

be reached
for 1962 amounts to $56.8
billion,
as compared with
$48.5 billion in
1961.
Reviewing the individual
items for
of

1962

may

briefly, the figure

$5.1 billion for the net increase

of corporate bonds is about at the

level

same

the

in 1961.

as

We believe

net

increase
of
corporate
outstanding will be around

stock

$2.2

billion

below

this

local

somewhat
figure of $5.2

year,

The

1961.

billion for

issues of state and

net

bonds

this

is not

year

ex¬

pected, to depart greatly from the
amount

in

On

the

budget estimates

we

have

the

of

increase

net

this

1961.

basis

of

placed

Federal

$6.5 billion,

at

year

debt

as

com¬

pared with $6.1 billion last year.
The next item, Federal
agency

issues,

rbfers to the issuance of
by such agencies as the
Federal National Mortgage Asso¬
bonds

ciation

the

and

Banks.

We

Federal

expect

Land

modest

a

in¬

this year in the net amount
of such issues. Based on some rise
crease

of

housing starts we are guessing
that 1-4 family residential mort¬
gage
credit
billion
this

increase

will

$12.5

moderately
more
than
in
1961.
Likewise,
trends in apartment and commer¬
cial and industrial mortgage fi¬
nancing suggest a rise of "other
mortgages" this year to $6.5 bil¬
lion as compared with $5.4 billion
year,

in 1961.
The item "business cred¬
it" refers, of course, to credit ex¬
tended

by

commercial

this year

somewhat

attractive

interest

U.

more

are

S.,

rates

in

the

guessing that net
investments
by
foreigners
will
rise. moderately.
We are expect¬
ing a substantial increase in funds
we

available

from

others."

This category includes
individuals but also a

not

incorporated

bonds

.

and

securi¬

casualty-insurance

of

miscellaneous

corporate

credit

available

and

only

and

that

"individuals

in

rienced

1959

and

such as un¬
business
concerns

group

investment

companies!

this

Note

category

expe¬

pronounced rise.

a

y

Coming back, then, to the com¬
banking system, we are
guessing that in 1962 the Federal

$500

Banks

pared
the

add

about

million to

their holdings of
securities,
as
com¬
$1.8 billion in 1961.

government
This

will

with

is,

of course, a measure of
we
anticipate in Fed¬
Reserve policy to less ease

shift

eral

in bank

We

reserves.

are

guess¬

ing that the net increase in

com¬

mercial

bank funds (or total de¬
posits) will be considerably lower
this year, about $9 billion as com¬
pared with nearly $16 billion in
1961. Here again the lower figure
is

a

measure

of &n

expected shift
in monetary policy.
The makeup
of the $9 billion figure for this
year will be of interest to bank¬
We

ers.

are

the result

anticipating that,

business, borrowers on
mortgages
and
all
other loans will aggregate about
consumers,

estate

$10.4 billion. We

are also expect¬
ing that the banks will add ap¬
proximately $2.2 billion to their
investments,
mostly
state
and
local government bonds. In order
to
accomplish this expansion of
about $12.6 billion in loans and
investments,
we
are
expecting

that
to

the

will

banks

liquidate

be

little

a

required

more

than

$3.5 billion of government securi¬
ties.

The

bank

figures

producer of molded

extend

demon¬

be

can

itself

into

It sells to depart¬
stores, various large chains
of variety, hardware, grocery and
drug stores and to wholesale dis¬
tributors

expected to

the

balance

pany's

of

to

of

believe

expansion

the

that

will

be

the

eral

in

mands

place

year than in;
Based on the gen¬

mail-order

company's items

available

on

of
funds.
Interest
rates
should be firm this year, but de¬

in

supply

forces do not
than
a
moderate

more

Cruttenden, Podesta & Co., Chi¬
cago, and Splaine, Frederick, Inc.,
Milwaukee, jointly head an un¬
An address by Dr. O'Leary before the
derwriting group which is offer¬
Mid-Winter
meeting
of
the
Vermont
Bankers
Association,
ing $600,000 of Metalfab, Inc., 6%
Burlington,
Ver¬
mont, February 8, 1962., V >»'rv
sinking fund convertible deben¬
tures due Dec. 1, 1976, and 100,000

rise

in

the

general level of rates.

*

shares of its

Columbus Plastic

.

E.

Hutton

group,

has

public

sale

Columbus

&

of

manager

of

Co., Cincinnati,
underwriting
the

common

initial

stock

the

total

100,000 shares

proceeds

from

the

of

its 100,000 shares will be used by
the company for the purchase of

Proceeds

priced

billion

in

We

are

to

ing capital.
Metalfab

of

Beaver

Dam, Wis.,
a vari¬

designs and manufactures

ety

of

products

metal

automotive

and

credit

consumer

this

t

spending rises.
Finally, the category "all other
credit," which includes loans on
securities, life insurance
policy
loans,
and
so
forth, has been
placed at about the same level

year

this

as

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

Headquartered
the

in

Columbus,
designs and
injection and blow

company

manufactures

plastic hoursewares, mak¬

ing

over 300 different items, sold
mainly under the "Lustro-Ware"

of

year

as

LOS

ANGELES, Calif.—Jack B.
Mackey has joined the staff of
Calvin

Bullock

Spring

Street.

with

Merrill

&

ner

Ltd.,
He

the

finance
in

funds

in

Table,

Lynch, Pierce, Fen-

Smith Incorporated.

As

this

uses

will
the

you

of

part

that the funds
from life in¬

year

companies, savings and
associations, and corporate

the

associations

loan

this

funds
will
increase
There is some question

whether

year

as

savings

will

in

last

do

as

view

and
well

-

•_

.

"

|

.

•

"

■-

•

.

•

mercial

banks

and

Banks

for

anticipate

little

the
a

Federal

minute^-we

change

our

CANADIAN COMMON STOCK ISSUE

mon

5

stocks

years

this

up

★

or

an

on

up-to-date

resume

of Canadian listed and unlisted

which cash dividends have been

com¬

paid uninterruptedly forc

longer. It includes corporations and banks which have paid

to 133 years of consecutive cash dividends.

Don't

miss

the

opportunity to

advertise

your

Firm,

Corporation

or

the

of

recent
change in Regulation Q
permitting commercial banks to
pay a higher rate on savings de¬
posits.
The figure for savings
banks
is» placed
slightly lower
than in 1961. Skipping the com¬
Reserve

Spring edition of

will present

surance

to

<

come

various

upper

expect

we

money

the

1962?

the

available
loan

• •

.

year

Bank

before

in

this

important issue.

Please

reserve

your

space

closing date of March 16, 1962.

requirements
av;.;

Regular advertising rates will prevail
for space in this

important issue.

in the amount available from state
and

U.

local

S.

funds.

The

figure

for

investment accounts

(OASI,
Retirement
Fund,

Railroad

is expected to be

positive

a

Largely

year.

on

the

basis

of

FNMA's activity, we expect a rise
in the amount supplied by Fed¬
eral

loan

agencies.

Note,

we

expecting

a sharp increase in the
supplied this year by cor-

funds
:

are

'

:■

;

'

r

:

THE COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE
25

PARK

PLACE, NEW YORK 7, N. Y.
RECTOR 2-9570

South
formerly

510

was

Will Be Published March 29, 1962
★ The 1962

last.

will

to

note

"

•

.

the

indus¬

Joins Calvin Bullock

working

consumer

Where
from

•.

for

electrical

tries.

THE CANADIAN COMMON STOCK ISSUE

net increase of $5.8

a

at $9.75

the company will
redemption of. out¬
standing preferred and for work¬

c&pital.

molded

is

common

be used for the

machinery, plant and office
additions,
repayment
of
short-

Ohio,

at

holders.

new

term bank loans and for

con¬

share. Of the 100,000 shares^,
20,000 are being sold by the company and 80,000 by certain stock¬

are

sale

*

stock

per

being sold for the company, and
63,600
for
certain
shareholders,
who will own approximately 74%
of the outstanding stock following
the offering.
Net

are

common

per

The

of

Plastic

Products, Inc.,
through the offering of 163,600
shares, at $15.75 per share.
Of

interest,

into

share on or prior to
Dec. 1, 1966; at $11.25 per share
on or before Dec.
1, 1971, and at
$11.75 per share thereafter until
maturity.

an

announced

accrued

vertible

$10.75

Common Offered t
as

The debentures, priced at 100%

and

Products, Inc.
W.

stock.

common

:

banks,

inventories.

to
the

Securities Sold

expansion, especially the in¬

crease

and
use

Metalfab, Inc.

sup¬

plies

tions, and the like.
We are ex¬
pecting some rise in this item this
year in view of the general busi¬

anticipating

are

houses,

premiums.

as

trade credit extended by corpora¬

ness

carry

Substantial sales

to

other manufacturers who

expansion,
it
is
and capital de¬
rise
markedly and

will

and

S.

money

pressure

mand

made

U.

com¬

50,000

over

the

trading stamp companies,

business

likely that

products.

also

com¬

The

that

in

the

independent

kinds.

outlets

its

sell

to

estimates

retail

frr^t half of the

the latter half.

then

all

of

pany

rate

brisker

who

products

retailers

this year, with GNP rising to an
annual rate of $575-580 billion in
the fourth
quarter.
There are
reasons

piastre house¬

products.

ment

In
summary,
the strong and
broadly based expansion in gen¬
eral business
activity which took

place in 1961

The company believes
the
largest domestic

is

it

ware

Summary

as

of the

general business
expansion, the net increase of
loans by commercial
banks to

real

that

coming weeks.

suggest

mercial

Reserve

trademark.

trade

government

sum

fire

of

strate, of course, the key impor¬
tance of Federal Reserve
policy in

corporations,

consumer

of

The

standing

amount of about $500 million this

is,

ties.

corporate bonds in 1961 indi¬
cates
the
net
increase
in
out¬

etc.)

level

as

purchases

by

anticipation

increase

net

well

as

form

tne

basis;

for

the

Firming of Interest Rates

the

take

supplied

under

net

a

figure

capital funds from life
companies was $5.3 billion. Simi¬
larly, under uses of funds, for ex¬
ample, the figure of $5.0 billion

as

seems

on

the

available

pension
slightly.

pushed

out

creep

are

of funds for life insurance

year

economic

faster

the

that

some
time,
unlikely to
exception. Beyond this, the
for
full
employment and

this

will

a

be dis^

cannot

noted

trending
be

upward

of

Table

example,

sources

On

danger

services

and

to

dollar.

hand, the

regarded.

priority

stable

a

this

would

credit

companies we expect will be a
little less than last. Based on the

companies in 1961 indicates that in

than

more

liquidity.

in
for

expanding rate of business ac¬
tivity.
A large part of the rise

25

26

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1178)

of

sociation

Taking Another Look at' S
:
Investing in Real Estate
Continued from page

15

possible,

syndicates in limited part¬
nership form, along with the lack
of liquidity, plus the lack of di¬
estate

versification

done would be to pay a

return to
the investor that is entirely "tax

usually one-shot deals
avoid being taxed as
an
active real estate corporation,
one would wonder if, indeed, the
disadvantages do not outweigh the
advantages..
ships

are

order

in

free." This tax

to

Heal

The

Law

1961

January,

Investment

Estate

Trust Act which became effective
in

has been care¬

1961

January,

fully evaluated by those in the
multiple ownership field to deter*
whether

mine

this

not

or

new

of

vehicle retained the advantages

and eliminated
most of the disadvantages of the
limited partnership form/Without
the corporate form

into

getting

ment Trust Act,

that it

is

item

technical pro¬

the

of the Real Estate Invest¬

visions

the all important
not be taxed

will

as
a
corporation if it is properly
organized and operated.
The increase in syndicated in¬

despite

vestments,
the

fairly

that

fact

the

:

confusion.

or

investors

the

dollars

not

are

re¬

ceiving, which is the opposite situ¬
ation which most investors desire.

of

operation, indicates that the
public still feels that syndication
in
limited
partnership form is
here to stay. Indeed, because of the
uncertainty about what the final
regulations will contain when the

terminology

Commission, and "blue-sky" offi¬
cials who attended the conferences

services

So, as of this writ¬

areas.

others

ing there is nothing substantially
deterrent
to .the
forming of a

Syndicators Avoid

Experienced

Trusts

Forming

'/<>

One

enced

syndicators,
formed

have not

.

experi¬
example,

ask why the

may

for

trust. The

a

an¬

Further, if conventional methods
of financing are used and sensible
ratios of land to improvements are

of

annum

i

the years
precisely as has
been the income tax that the,

o

a

n

n

expense

v

to

comes

^

has

in

hand. To be

its

portfolio

sure

it

large
amount
of Treasury obliga¬
there are
shortcomings in this and all tions—but it is the Treasury
the other portions of 4'social which is responsible for the
security" which are regularly fund. In short, the funds have
been invested by the Treas¬
overlooked ' by
many
and
probably not even known to ury ;in its own IOU's. Any
the great rank and file. In his payments made by the funds
way of thinking
other very serious

our

a

in the

future as in the present
Congress, the Presi-.
will have to be raised either
one point
says that,
"under our Social Security by taxes or by the sale of the
System, a retired person re¬ obligations of the Treasury.
How much better it would
ceives cash benefits to help

dent

at

meet the basic cost of food,- have been had the President
shelter and clothing—benefits and all the others who talk
* to which he is entitled by rea¬ about the matter said simply

trustee, he must share in - a
three-quarters of one
per

are

plea, to

maximum of

percent

i

l:.t

expended in the various
projects of the Treasury over

of

son

the

contributions

that

he

shall

we

lay additional

all

those who are:
during his working
years." And a little later he liable for so-called social se¬
proceeds to say that he is curity taxes, .and in consid¬
eration of the fact that these
a
g a i n recommending "the
competitive enactment of a health in¬ taxpayers have made an addi¬

of depreciation. To be
a

b t

to

many

page

been

g individual has to pay. It is not
of allocated in any way, but isof the provider of used .for whatever
purpose

or

But to

tends

that

at. the

such services,

trust..

as

fact

the

individuals

helped in the clarification of these

problem

which

obscure

Exchange

Securities

Treasury,

preciation is taken on older build¬ swer is painfully simple — the
ings which have shorter economic emoluments to a promoter of a
life. It can also occur in situations
trust are not as extensive as they
where the cash down payments
are when, all things being equal,
on buildings are small and the re¬
a
syndicate is formed. The pro¬
payment of the mortgage is on an moter cannot be both trustee and
interest-only basis or the mort¬ independent contractor, which he
gage requires little repayment of most
handily can be in a limited
its principal. This slight disadvan¬
partnership. That is, he may be
tage is specious inasmuch as the both
general partner and he or
majority of the leaders in the his company can act as managing
industry
are
not
particulary agents. Secondly, his personal tax
charmed with ultra rapid depre¬
position is not as attractive. In
ciation of older properties because
a
trust he will receive ordinary
of the speed with which such de¬
income either as trustee or as the
preciation forces them to dispose independent contractor. While in
of the property.
a syndicate, if his "fee" is taken
The speedy depreciation ulti¬ as interests in profits, his income
mately causes taxable income on is subjected to the tax advantages

in its second full year

now

This event usually oc¬
extremely rapid de¬

new.

where

doubt

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

:Continued from

1961, helped to pinpoint schemes
incorporating what
and clarify some of the areas of
used to be called charity in

hap--

rarely

returns)

however, in properties that
well capitalized and that are

are

Estate Investment Trust

Real

Act is

cash

actual

AS WE SEE IT

in No¬

.

vember of

(in excess of

loss

pens,

curs

Present Tax Position Under

to. own

example,

for

property in trust form and create
tax loss. The best that could be

partner¬

limited

as

disadvantages, too. It is not

some

Invest¬

Estate

Real

ment Funds in Washington

.

the

gross

made

taxes

p ro gr am for the
elderly under the Social Se¬
curity System. By this means

tional contribution to the gen¬
eral needs of the Treasury,

the cost of health services in

the proper

surance

on

the

government will — when
time arrives—pay
followed, such losses as may be syndications.
later years can be spread over these taxpayers certain bene¬
developed through fast deprecia¬
fits which, within limits, will
A Fine Investment
the working years."
tion usually
occur
only at the
Internal Revenue Service issues outset, and usually last for only
Opportunity
b e
proportionate
to
the
Again he says that "it
them, many syndicate managers a year or two. Additionally, while
amount
of special contribu¬
However, the investing public should be
emphasized that we
and others experienced in the mul¬ a speedy tax depreciation may be has
a fine investment opportunity
tions made by them fo the
tiple ownership field have been desirable for iq,particular property ; in a properly organized and man¬ are discussing a gap in our
hesitant to form real estate invest¬ when( this property is mixed witm,
self-financed contributory so¬ general, needs of the Treas¬
aged trust and it is the responsi*
ment trusts. Under the new Real the other properties
held.by':the •bility of the ethical real estate, cial insurance
system. These ury. The borrowingi-vpower;
Estate Investment Trust Act' Coii-'1 trust, it is highly improbable that
and the ta*ih'gnpbtftef"rdf WW
industry to provide'this.'"
are all insurance benefits
assets. This is somewhat less than

what is par for the course in realty

,

,

possible a tax loss in excess of actual cash
of the distributions could be developed.
owning
real
My original thoughts in early

gress endeavored to make

the

elimination

disadvantages

of

many

.of

estate in either corporate form or

the

in

1961 were that the most successful

limited

partnership form.
Initially, the trust may be worked
such
a
way
as
to virtually
guarantee its perpetuity as trus¬
tees may

name

their

own

would be those which
of

rate

therefore
eliminating
the
ending that trust business in the
of

event

borrow
to

the

of

monies from time to time

with

desirable

income-

upon

of

trust

and

the

holders.

trusts

be

number

Some

eventually
traded

the time

of

New

over-the-counter markets.

raise

trust

diversified

held

properties

posed

....

number

a

such

depreciation

producing

new

as

immediate

investor,

as

to the "blank check"

trust,

which

funds

properties.

of

the

merely

and

then

op¬

type

seeks

search

to
for

diversification

and

its

little

very

start

this

"mix" that could cost

We

properties
to

would

the

trust

be

most

certificate

'

is

much

as $20,000 in a series of
pur¬
chases in limited
partnerships.

partnerships

avoid

generate
are

the

some

still

a

now

do,

way




a

real

estate investment trust. While the

professionals who

ing the

new

.

the

trinsic

curtain

one

sponsored by the National As¬

is

values

of

experi¬
persons.

opens,
the

the in¬

properties

promise to

pay
Such would be

or

b

$4,800 to $5,200

a s

a

e;~

from

year.

.

Compulsory, of Course

general

on

No
is

Time will disclose

revenues

tails

involved."
A

less
we

Costly Fallacy

one

of

the

have been

reasons

so

.

more

de¬

from

says the man
the street—and apparently

gardless of whether it appears
to

in
to

trust

him

fund,

this

miraculous

the individual that his

terests

entry

were.

into

best

the

served

system.

in¬

by

The

"present value" of future lia¬

trust

bilities of the

fund is somehow able to prov i d e
enormously expensive
benefits to

already

preferable coverage in
.private industry and quite re¬

a

made

he

that

has

again to the "benefits"
provided by it. These pay¬
all

believed

he

that

free in years

and

are

President's

the

V

past to add again and again

ments

about:

Treasury

grow¬

ing out of the social security
'

great many peo¬ system and a half dozen other
ple without burden to any of .types of so-called insurance
select and operate them will
gov¬
ern
the
ultimate
value
of
the them. Now this trust fund is,
are
almost beyond measure.
shares. You may be sure the hold¬ of course, technically jn ex¬
One hardly has need to won¬
ings of any trust will be ultimately istence, but beyond that the
whether
the
Treasury
less said about it the better— der
examined by technically
compe¬
and

the

tent

realty personnel. Those trusts

wisdom

organized

of the

men

and" operated

this

was

and

mastered

a

feild

by

will

get-

...

but
;

•,

learned

certainly

by perhaps

unhappy

public.

easily

a

a

who

rich-quick promoters who thought

wise

the

trusts

underwrit¬

by
responsible

briefing conferences

as

are

operated

re-valuated

such

machinations

merely the
curtain that covers the stage
upon
which
must
be
sound
incomeproducing property, carefully se¬

Internal Revenue Service regula¬
tions have not become
final, the

from

Utopia, however, as the new Real
Estate investment Trust Law has

something occur
(1961) which
Very few ex¬

year

porations, have developed

corporate tax
"tax-free" in¬

long

seen

indeed.

perienced realty promoters and
especially those with multipleownership backgrounds, such as
syndicators or heads of realty cor¬

Tax-wise, nhe trust would do
the same things for the investor
that limited

have

curious

the

> With
respect to the new real
estate investment trust, the hulla¬
baloo - caused by the stock market

When

during the past

as

:

properties, and could
depreciation at the cost of

course,

of

market, and all the manipulations
of the corporate realty stocks, and
all the exchanging of limited
part¬
nership interests will not alter
this fact.
'*'j::j: ■'
.*■' 7:;. '■ ;yr '

and

could

vested. In

fact, for as little as $25
they could achieve the diversifi¬

All

of the real estate investment trust

and

of

to realize the true

patiently wait until such

enced

which

holders.

in¬

sold.

lected

beneficial

owners

cash

one

a

trust

such

represent

For

purchase

Ideally,

certificates

would

or

value

well selected

We

earnings

mum

all.

public must be told, how-

he must

of the

shopping centers,
apartment
houses, and office buildings, the

and

us

real estate is eventually refinanced

that the market value
the

of

come.

The

a

original trans¬
fers. However, the exchange type
of trust, even though it has its
disadvantages, has the major ad¬

could

the

on

at

the

of

extent

would be quoted in the less formal

is,

eligible for Social Security

advantages of owning real estate

for

that

publicly

years.

income

or

by

■

mately benefits

new

Exchange, some on the
American Exchange, while others

cation

administered

plans, but it is apparent that
the system would be compul¬
This
fallacious
idea" that sory just as is the social se¬
this gigantic social security curity system. That is to say
everyone who has income
program is financed by some
taxable under social security
sort of legerdemain, and with¬
laws would have to pay that
out burden or danger to the
much more taxes of this sort
general position of the Treas¬
—quite regardless of whether
ury of the country is doubt¬

exceeded

York Stock

have

nation will stand behind this

to

65 who is

nership, or real estate investment
trust,.: real estate is a long-term
investment, usually eight to 12

of

need

available

over

burden

vantage

the

be

ever, that no matter in what form
—that is, corporate, limited part¬

the

course, this would
the total cash worth

If

on

will

everyone

-

ously, the new investors would be
taking on potential capital gains to

Of

depend

probably

be taking

trusts

on a tax free basis, but
trust, although exchang¬
ing certificates at market value,
would necessarily have to carry
the properties on its books at their
then depreciated value. So, obvi¬

producing
properties
and
with
large numbers of investors could

larger

invest¬

exchanging

was

result of sadly paying

as ,a

the

through transfer agents, just
readily as stocks and bonds. It
entirely probable that shares in

the

real estate

a

that

which

in the future.
a very much
more
accurate
known names who are unoriented
way
of : ex¬
Railroad Retirement benefits.
and inexperienced in real estate,
They would be entirely self- plaining social security : in
you may count on Congressional
increase in general and also these new
indignation and action against the financed by an
entire industry. Surely those of us Social
Security contributions plans the President has made
to add health "insurance" to
who have earned a little in this of
one-quarter of• 1 % each on
field can put a little back in terms
the
load
the
system must
employers and employes, and
of slightly lesser incomes for the
carry.
'■
y/'
good of the industry, which ulti¬ by an increase in the maxi¬
heavy

be made

dled

certificate

of

trust

Congress gave, they can
If the stench grows

away.

investment trust certificates could

responsibilities, the

The transfer and mobility of the
certificates would be easily han¬

traded.

law.

new

which, in
truth, they had no right to shoul¬
der. The exchange of - a limited
partnership interest for real estate

the trustees.

be

or

corpo¬

future capital gain load

lenders looking at only the physi¬
cal assets of the trust and not

trusts

in

prior to the

properties would

meet

their personal

is

shares

ment

emergencies and such
borrowings
would
not
become

as

form

held

were

changes that the cash purchasers

in limited
trustees could

partners

partnerships,

mergers

Since that time, however, we have
concluded
with
respect to * ex¬

trustee's death. Unlike

a

general

are

existing limited partnerships

those which

succes¬

sors,

the

real estate investment trusts

new

in

What
take

be

dollar-

re-educated

or

perhaps

about

it

the

more

the better

said

provided

always, of course, the truth
is spoken and not the balder¬
dash that has been fed to the

public with such assiduity.
The truth

is, of

course,

that

the income of this "fund" has

will be able to meet all these

one

obligations, but
is

entitled

to

-

.certainly

be

troubled

about whether it will be able
to

do

so

without

serious

jury to the nation's fiscal
tem—with all that it

insys¬

implies.

Volume

195

Number 6140

.

.

i

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

..

(1179)

STATE OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Continued from page 16

agents from

broad

a

ment,

fnetalworking' say they will
continue to lay in steel supplies
during the next three months.:
users

deferring

are

some

that March

w

cipally

from

service

In

automakers

-

t

centers. A

and

A.

,.

:

^ng may be out of the question ior.

;

In negotiations

Pittsburgh, producers of hot

rolled

down to

go

the

vanped by 23.9%.

Following

v

bars

$100,000
at

remained

279,

the

un-

same

in

as

aP~

28.7%
year

wjlen

agQ

357

0f,+|>is

size

succumbed,

American BookStratford Press
Common Offered

Wholesale

Food

J Shows

Price

Little

Index

Bear, Stearns & Co., New York
City, is manager of an underwrit-

Change

'in the past four weeks. On Mar.6
it was 2.8% lower than the $6.07

7

in
r

"

n?

will

tim wmpu^We day'last fear. ^
™i-A
!*ne

'houfnds of board feet" A the
indicated:
*-

weeks

holdersyand none^o/The'moceeds

STha™
snares
nave

139 500
io»,ouu

l0iai»

that

admit

"substantial"

some

***£ Ended iLrch

reasons.

_

215,67s

3, 1962

198>35~

w%,

cottonseed 'oil and
hogs/ These
increases offset dipping prices for

Dour barley, hams, bellies,

>

1961 Weeks

Volume

•

Y

181,321
A

^ompared

.

two

Were

under

changed

the- figures

are

they have wire, or if there eventually is a
adjust- '..-Strike, imported
ments in the March bookings.'.moving, into the
In the East, steelmakers report celerated
rate
Even conversion
233,352
that some customers have pushed* deals will not be out of the
ques^^l.^.^^^!:
March orders into April and April tion.
tonnage into May.
^
Steel Production Data for the
Orders have been trimmed for: ;
had

Stude-

„

setbacks,; prin-fApril and May. Inventory build-

and

2.2%.

Ike steel they need in the second regional associations. A year ago, straight*week^t^
ing group wnich is making the
quarter. But flat-rolled products the figure was 181,321,000 board Price Index
compiled by Dun & S 1? cnPU?J1C^ Sd
American
will be a different matter. For tne feet.
'
,r:
Bradstreet
Inc
edged fraction- Book*Sfratford Press, Inc., cornlate-comers, it will be a -difficult.
Compared with 1961-levels nut. Jit
an
2.
m.°P. _stock>. through the offering

shipment of mill products
will
climb
to
the
highest
level in two years
(7.4 million
tons or more),
S r.
In
Chicago
they arev already
concellations

and

Corp.

into holding off on their ^
Higher Than in 1961 Week
advance ordering.
Lumber shipments in the United
U late-comers are users of a States in tne week ended Feb. 24,
wide range of products—struc- totaled 233,362,000 board feet comturals, plates, wire, or tubular pared with 215,618,U00 in the prior

of

While

6.8%

Lumber Shipments

had been

users

Corp.

baker-Packaid

lulled

section

cross

steel

many

Motors

27

and lambs.

Leading of

75

Varirk

prunes hard-bound books including

^

^

]ndex represents the sum
t*1® Prjce per pound of

/

.

of

comnanv

St

Nir yo?k^ C§tv?';mannfi^ure4
sets

of encyclopedia and similar refbooks, adult and juvenile
f|cti0n, textbooks and other nonerence

revenue freight in ^al
week ended Feb- 24, which 91 ra™ foodstuffs and meats in fjcti0n, for book clubs and pubeHtntt
r/t
wlfir lncluded the Washington Birthday general use. It is not a cost-of- i|sher customers. For the first
dealer
inventories
with
sales, ->®*
*»' F ° 'iqro
9'Q«Tnnn holiday, totaled 511,040 cars, the Jlving index. Its chief function is 10 m0nths of 1961 the company
(Despite good sales in mid-Febru- f
7 J y
??
i
Association of American Railroads to show the general trend of food manufactured an average of apary,
inventories
climbed
from
^
2,405,- announced. This was a decrease Prlces at the wholesale level.
proximately 120,000 books each
944,000 cars on Feb; 1 to 998,000
toiw^ ( 129-1%) in the week 0f; 27,333 cars or 5.1% below the Wholesale Commodity Price Index business day, including the bindon Feb. 21.)
:
:
;
^

According

(1) Automakers have cut their
production schedules to balance

,,

.

g„

.

to

data

romnilpd

hv

t™

/

Tn

,

9

e

nnn

.

(2) Other

,

users

tVipir

at
that

..

•

,

w

/

n

/

,^ v*

™.

o

their March 3,
tVipir

am

•

this
year
through
91 407
unted to 21,437,

r..'A-,^ AT

through March 4, 1961.

The scrap market continued itsThe
decline last .week. nSteeVs price index

Institute concludes with
of Ingot Production,, by
Districts for week ended March 3,
1962, as follows:

composite on steelmaking scrap
eased $1.50 a gross ton to $34.17,
despite a moderate purchase by
a Japanese cartel for second
quar¬
ter delivery.

PWeek Ended
Week Endedrk

Labor

As

Contract

Abruptly Recess
The steel

.

;

sumed
a

new

\

^

inventory buildup

Youngstown

re-

sense

of urgency;

Detroit

The li on

v'

*

steel

negotiations [scneduled to

-

reports] forced steel users
into quick evaluation of their in-;

.A

Western

cars

(which

week's

was

-

were

over-all

increase

an

14.8%
.

of

cor-

;

above
>

,

loadings

weeks

seven

the
;

.

Cumulative piggyback

of

1962

of

"

14,292

cars

20.7%

or

cars

There

were

19.2%

or

126.7

above

the

on

5—
ing

,.

,

continued

.

decline

nnshpH

nripps

,

.

customers

—--A-J
printed

those

cfpnprai

sc£aP Pri°es pushed the general

number

..

S? Hi*? through acquisition

Sports PDun S&C Bradltrelt,

e start o

w^ek

March 5

Mondav

272:2$'fFdm 27114^ bh

the

day of the prior week and

same

from 270:17° a-year ago.

;

-

:

Retail
the

purchases
week

bogged

ended

Washington's

Common Offered

Feb.

Birthday

down
28

Bub^n' Bfnne.rt

Clty' 1S °ffermg 200,000
Tidewater
shares of

York

common
wx

This

Inc. at $5 per share.

the

is

first public offerin the New Hyde
Island,
wholesale

ing of stock
Park,
Long

Consumer Buying

in

of Duenewald-

Tidewater Lumber

-^tmiber Co

-o
;

Inclement Weather Slows

.

_

the Dailv

Wholesale Commodity Price Index

edged td

,

Monday of

on

KSeS'S stert'oi
q

^

_

Konecky Lithographers, Inc.

this week in several commodities

this

t—

by others.
approxi-mately 200 and include many well
known publishers in the United
states.
Recently it entered the
color
offset .lithographic
field

steel

in

thp

-*
of

Its

Dipping

as

lumber company.

■

Tidewater plans to

provide its 50%

lost "" the

.

use

proceeds

ow^ned

sub—

'
-

*in«iex. of production based

After
,

The

above the

corresponding period of 1961, and

"

Totah

rr>u

ran

totaled 83,288 cars for an increase

107

Up

To Low for Year

However, advances

22.7% above the

or

13,418

ventory plans. The inevitable resuit is a rush to get on .the books

•

This

for the first

—Ali8

,

:

that

1960 week.

press
■

reported

cars

17, 1962

in

cars or

1,585

LA 126

Southern
•

12,3°4

--

-

; •St/Loui^l>-A.^ AT 128

resume

early in May, according to current

were

^

133:

Cincinnati

>

r

-

160

___

9.1%

or

ta^ers^(piggyback) hiftheyweek
2,276

'

151

Chicago

*

labor o

i

132

...

There

total).

: I:

r

119

:

Cleveland

■

again tnis week, but with

Age reports. ■
1 ;
C The
breakoff
of

126
---

42,558",cars

Edges

in-

an

week in
1961, but a decrease of 42,842 cars
or 7.7% below the corresponding
week ..in, I960..-I A
;•

included

117

Buffalo
Pittsburgh • _I__

■?;

Talks

crease,of

ended Feb.

March 3,1962

North East Coast__

Steel Inventory Buildup Resumed

preceding week.
The loadings represented

inci6 ?boye the corresponding

,

the period

overstocked.

v

A*

Production

have discovered

rwArpctimntPfi

they;; overestimated
and
are
fast
becoming

needs

+

,

average

58 Class I U. S. rail-

road systems

trade"dipped

an retail

originating this typer:year's

level.

Buying

below last
women's

of

Co., Inc., with additional working
capital,

and

to

repay

a

$400,000

W€ek,y prodl,ctlon 'or is51-?9->traffic in this year's week com- wear slackened '.although
the debt.
June.
•;
Electric Oiitmit 14% His-hcr Than
Pared with 56 one year ago and holiday helped men's furnishings
Unaudited income from sales in
A For many users, this will be too
v
Jn^sei We^
^ ^ v^: 51 in the corresP°nding week in and children's apparel. Mild de- the six months ended Dec. ,31,
late to have a satisfactory inven- : °
^;1960;!A-,'.v:>'AAn::':clines were registered in home 19-1, was $5,198,610 compared
tory of steel by the end of June.-V'.®
/:
> V
goods activity in most areas, and with $2,092,237 in the similar 1960
Tne
for

large

tonnages

for?-May

and

w

•

..

.

-

i

-

points 7 out ;- that dls^1buted'by^the. electric light.; -^Volume of Intercity Truck
now will be for aPd P^wet mdustry for tr.e week .Tonnage 8.3% Higher Than in;
May delivery for the critical mill
was ^ j;: v ;>;?;^1961 Week
,
w,
products. 'With March and April • ^timatea at 16,514,000,000 kwn.,, ;
jntercity truck tonnage in the
books already full for most flat^■
..to the-iF-dtson jLlectric wee^ ended Feb. 24,, was 8.3%
rolled products, this leaves only -*
T_was^4U4,U0U,UOU ahead of the volume in the cor-May and June for added accumuthat of the previous, responding week of 1961, the
.lation of steel.
:
J
American Trucking Associations
.*■^
Th e
national > metalworking
/iu + * vi
'
7n
announced. Truck tonnage was
•weekly noces that most of the big above that of the. comparable 19ol 4 3% behind the volume for the
: ; users had not abandoned plans for
week.
previous week of this year.
}
a
big buildup of stocks. Even at
outuut in First Quarter to1
Observance of the Washington
;
the height of the optimism that
Volume in 1961 Period
Birthday holiday by many busiprevailed through most of the
^xceett volume m^l9bl,period
nesses contributed to the week-toBy 1.5 Times
short
negotiation
period,
they
*; week
decrease
as
did
adverse
held to tueir plans. .
' - •
%
The nation's
auto^ industry so weather conditions at a number
These users had their require- L>r in
1962 is producing 'about of p0ints>
;°
ments
pretty well blocked; out 9,600 ^ more ; passefrger cars
per
through the first half. There had working day than it did in 1961,
AV®=e nnaings are oasea on tne
been some cancellations and set- Ward's Automotive- Reports said
-

magazine
-tonnage: placed

■

,

^w^above

•

i

_

,

^

ucutniJC

ai3

,

w

^

^uS'S'0I^arf tf«"

^

:-AwT
•line,, with, current,-needs, such as,,
-The statistical agency said that
some
autoproduction schedule February output of 535,797 cars
changes, rather than changes in. was a rise of 47% - over 364,385
inventory plans.
units
assembled
in
the
same
..

.

For

not

month

only

did

change their own
kept the pressure on

output
1961.

was

automakers

not

but

nort

F.ronomif";

Thp

rpnort

tonnage hanXri
than

490

truck

terminals

„._K"ck;/r™LnaIs,

_

length of .time

i

51.1% higher tnan

HiS^^i^^^r?1 car
is also slated for

m

tail

^

higher than

mercial

o

relatively

and

from

varied

com-

failures

of

,

May

through
v

,

to

..meet

,,

-

.

their

,

September.

expected to add
million

2.4

tons

a

conserva-

of

steel

m

ended March

ouiit

meir

mmion

tons.,

In the
over

a

"

own

st®el?aal^ers. Uvehad
stocks up to

...

^

recent

wave

year.

>

-

of

was

estimated

by

the

reporting service at 138,611
units,
a
slight
increase
from
134,617 cars turned out the pre.pious uferek. In the corresponding
,

the first three months of this year.- session

?n..,a^1.

-

,

Factory production in the week

buildup, or plans for a
buildup, were well underway at
the end of February. Steel users
tive

.

needs, the, period last

The

were

j

.

were
Of

last

V^ur, only 92,024 cars

assembled.
the

General

recent

Motors

week's

i '
output,

accounted

for

optimism 55.2%;
Ford Motor Co. 26.5%;
possible early steel settle--Chrysler Corp. 9.3%; American




the preceding week, reports Dun
Bradstreet, Inc. Considerably

&

fewer concerns failed than
ago

when the toll

corresponding

was

a

year

408 in the

week.

However,
casualties remained slightly above
the

299

above

in

the

1960

and

pre-war

22%

ran

level

comparable

of

254

in the similar week of 1939.
Failures involving liabilities in

170111111011
1

*

Frank

Karasik

&

Co.,

--

Inc., New

1961 levels by the following per- York City, has announced the
centages: New England —18 to initial public sale of common
-—14; Middle Atlantic —10 to —6; stock of Technibilt Corp. through
East North Central —7 to —3; the offering of 150,000 shares, at
West North Central —5 to —1; $4 per share.
East South Central —1 to +3;
Headquartered in Glendale, Cal.,
Mountain 0 to +4; South Atlantic the
company
principally msnu+2 to g; Wegt South Central +5 factures and distributes shopping
to-4-9; Pacific +8 to +12.
carts and related products for use
.

Nationwide Department Store
«:a!p«

riown

9%

From

I9fii

Wpck

•fe,^^ark^e ° con^any ^
businesses. The company ^ s

rf
5
manufactures industrial hand ing
Department store sales on a equipment for transporting elec.

.

,

instrumentation

tronic

and

other

Feder^^se^e^s ior wholly
reporiea a z /0_ aecrease in- g^^pm^gd^o
owned

compared with the like period in

17,

For

over

the week

ended

Feb.

sales
were
higher by
6%
the corresponding 1961 week,
sales

•

,,

;]4-

JLGCllIllDlluV OOfD.

Bradstreet, Inc. Regional estimates

'U

m_

according

year,

-week

„

re-

to spot-estimates collected by Dun

1961.

even,

industrial-

last

under

lower to 1%

3%

from

was

country-wide basis as taken fr9m

Ended March 1

'

Holding

trade in the week

view

•

pr?"':

tr

ram

Business Failures Steady in Week

sub-

a

of

remained dull. Car sales, months. Net income for the 1961:
however, continue to:z gain Sub- months *- Was ^ $92,959, "equal
to
stantially from the comparable 29 cent's a common share, comperiod a year ago.
;
* • ;
pared with $57,790, or 18 cents,
The total dollar volume of re-'' °.
^;
v/r °v,a

,frei®ht the

/

after the June!30. duction

rp-

mo?e

at

of

example,

plans,

P^tment of Research and Trans-

linens

over

the

period

ended

advanced

4%

^or

subsidiaries

tunc

shopping
equipment and
as
an
electro-plating
operation
with
the
majority of ' its work
directed to chrome-plating corn-

facility

servicing

similar

carts

and

pany

products.

corresponding period in

Birely Opens Branch

1961.

According

to

saje(,

in

week

Federal
Citv

York

New

ended

the

department

System

serve

Feb

24

for

For the week ended Feb

l961.

17

registered'

of 3% was

a

ST>

MICHAELS,

de-

when

Md. —Birely

&

Company has opened a branch of-

tt

the

5%

were

beTow tof samf period fn
crease

Re-

store

Clr

Rnildiri?

fmHor fhP ^na^ment oflCdward
^der the management of Edward
^onKlul»
*

a.

i7J,A,ai.Je

vju

D„.nrL

tdwardS orancn

$100,000 edged to 32
from 30 a week earlier but were
off sharply from 51 of this size

week in
1961. For the four weeks ending

CRESTWOOD, <Mo.

Feb.

was

wards & Sons has opened a branch

comparable

office at 27 Crestwood Plaza under

last

period in 1961.

excess

of

year.

Casualties

with

losses

compared with the
24,

reported

1962,

a

same

gain of 3%
the

above
"

—

A.

G.

Ed-

the management of Paul M. Shatz.

>

28

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1180)

Indications of Current
Business Activity

week

or

or

steel

Equivalent to—
Steel ingots and castings

42

(net tons)

Mar. 3

output

Kerosene

output

Distillate

fuel

oil

fuel

Residual

oil

i

oil

Residual fuel

7,171,360

7,471,060
8,582,000

8,519,000

8,376,000

29,417,000
3,568,000

INCORPORATIONS

16,074,000

15,725,000

3,811,000
14,800,000

3,599,000
15,879,000

STATES—DUN

INC.—Month

of

(NEW)

&

IN

Previous

Year

Month

Ago

THE

BRADSTREET,

January.—

13,343

*14,802

16,350

$1,065,400

$2,750,500

$1,003,200

$1,806,000

$1,501,000

$1,360,000

CASH DIVIDENDS—PUBLICLY
REPORTED BY
U.
S.
CORPORATIONS—U. S. DEPT. OF
COMMERCE—Month of January:

28,794,000

(000's

omitted)

.

2,764,000

Feb. 23

6,009,000

6,488,000

6,615,000

Feb. 23
Feb. 23

213,528,000

206,491,000

CIVIL ENGINEERING

ENGINEERING

6,933,000

217,111,000

221,098,000

of

.*

25,638,000

26,036,000

27,110,000

106,484,000

122,610,000

43,147,000

40,544,000

40,539,000

43,492,000

Feb. 24
(no. of cars)__Feb. 24

511,040

538,373

532,955

468,482

502,200

512,927

508,187

U.

S.

Private

96,716,000

NEWS

RECORD —Month

construction

construction

Public

1,016,000

Federal

613,000

661,000

municipal

797,000

613,000

525,000

129,000

and

704,000

790,000

construction

State

475,059

CONSTRUCTION-

February (000's omitted):

Total

23,805,000

101,955,000

——^—— Feb. 23

(bbls.)

BUSINESS

UNITED

30,313,000

at—~— Feb. 23at

(bbls.)

oil

1,580,000

lines—

at...—1

(bbls.)
fuel

2,446,000

7,449,760
8,755,000

Feb. 23

Stocks at refineries, bulk terminals, in transit, in pipe
Finished and unfinished gasoline (bbls.) at
Kerosene

2,361,000

2,405,000

7,420,110

of that date:

are as

Month

54.0

30,097,000

FeP'

of quotation^

cases

Ago

83.5

Feb. 23

23
(bbls.)

average

output (bbls.)
output (bbls.)

Distillate

Ago

.....

(bbls.)
(bbls.)

in

or,

Latest

23

stills—daily

to

runs

Gasoline

that date,

on

82.5

(bbls. of

output—daily average

each)

gallons

Crude

Week

«

condensate

and

oil

Thursday, March 8, 1962

Year

Month

81.0

Mar. 3

PETROLEUM INSTITUTE:

AMERICAN
Crude

capacity)

cent

(per

operations

Previous

Week

STEEL INSTITUTE:

IRON AND

.

cover production and other
figures for the
Dates shown in first column are either for
the

month available.

month ended

Latest

Indicated

t

The following statistical tabulations
latest week

AMERICAN

.

184,000

88,000

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS:

freight loaded (number of cars)
Revenue freight received from connections
Revenue

NEWS-RECORD:
Total U.

and

Federal

Bituminous

231,700,000

179,300,000

244,600,000

156,600,000

285,400,000

161,000,000

109,000,000

264,500,000

117,400,000

47,600,000

20,900,000

43,600,000

8,000,000

*8,230,000
335,000

8,225,000
435,000

6,849,000

389,000

Mar.

1

206,700,000

1

131,600,000

Mar.

1

75,100,000

Feb. 24
.___—Feb. 24

$388,300,000

$381,700,000
175,000,000

—.

.—————

municipal

__

COAL OUTPUT

—

Linters—Consumed, month
Stocks—December
Cotton

and

lignite

anthracite

SERVE

(tons)

(tons)

:

664,095
Dec. 30___

of

December

STORE

726,023

130,127

*117,644

SALES—FEDERAL

*600,125

17,295,000

17,471,400

151

30

523,004

17,181,000

150

145

113

Dec.

SYSTEM—1947-49 Average
February:

Month

1,511,708
12,010,486

559,000
of

as

114

109

RE¬

100—

=

of

Adjusted for seasonal variation

445,000

875,443
1,711,864
10,730,061

1,794,720
11,719,825
108,656

30

spindles active

DEPARTMENT

(U. S. BUREAU OF MINES):

coal

Pennsylvania

OF

—

Consumed, month of December..
In consuming establishments
as of
public storage as of Dec. 30

$405,600,000

l
1

—-

———.——

.

construction..

State

$464,700,000

Mar.
Mar.

„—______

construction

Public

LINTERS

In

•

:-

Mar.

construction

S.

Private

f.r;

■

•

AND

DEPARTMENT
COMMERCE—RUNNING BALES:

CONSTRUCTION—ENGINEERING

ENGINEERING

CIVIL

COTTON

747,000

Without

seasonal

....

adjustment

DEPARTMENT STORE SALES INDEX—FEDERAL RESERVE

SYSTEM—1947-49
ELECTRIC

EDISON

Electric

FAILURES

AVERAGE=100

BRADSTREET,

INDUSTRIAL)

AND

(E.

copper—

>

Lead

(St.

JZinc

York)

Zinc

Louis)

Straits

tin

MOODY'S

—._

309

345

408

9.500c

Utilities

EMPLOYMENT

27.725c

10.000c

.

11.000c

9.300c

9.300c

9.800c

12.500c

12.500c

12.500c

All

24.000c

|

86.43

89.13

86.11

88.13

89.92

92.79

88.13

88.13

90.77

85.85

85.59

87.59

81.29

83.53

83.91

83.40

6

87.18

87.18

87.32

88.07

88.13

87.86

■

3.97

6

4.68

4.68

4.70

4.41

4.42

4.42

4.22

Unfilled

1949

6

5.06

5.04

5.08

6

4.90

4.87

4.91

4.62

.4.61

4.55

4.57

4.41

6

368.8

365.7

373.1

Feb. 24

353,540

331,537

331,122

345,363

345,837

305,151

at

DRUG

REPORTER

of

Feb. 24

period
PRICE

96

460,067

FOR

96

••

464,077

455,418

89

Silver

110.31

110.62

ACCOUNT

OF

MEM¬

BERS, EXCEPT ODD-LOT DEALERS AND SPECIALISTS
of specialists in stocks in which
registered—
purchases
Feb.

2,606,750
520,220

2,580,870

9

Feb.

9

2,220,550

9

2,740,770

sales

sales

transactions

Total

initiated

off

the

Other
Other

the

on

sales

382,760

530,340

18,600

31,300

39,310

53,700

9

296,960

264,610

407,235

405,830

round-lot

~

1

transactions

purchases

Other

for

of

account

315,560

295,910

446,545

459,530

Bismuth

9

Feb.

9

1,158,420

9

1,289,620

131,200
•

884,198

73,720
1,002,233

178,250
1,011,174

1,076,003

969,882
1,101,332

954,752

1,189,424

9

3,816,310

4,904,732

3,806,316
678,210

4,146,018

670,020

4,052,588

939,390
4,098,504

where

3,541,332

—I Feb.

9

3,345,950

4,219,542

4,593,038

5,037,894

session

"III

other

sales

Feb.

2,046,060

2,041,422

2,275,155

2,363,116

Feb.

$106,222,899

$116,188,056

$130,429,979

$118,942,380

1,905,241

1,921,264

2,493,142

1,941,880..
13,674

21,169

21,701

1,884,072

1,899,563

Feb.

$95,631,256

$100,606,739

$106,060,254

2,481,901
$116,733,341

551,390

550,238

IIIIIIII Feb.
"of sharesIIIIIII Feb!

sales

Other

sales

REAL

771,270

All

55L390

510!870

680,270

696,650

837,060

V

77L276

Meats
All

trim
told

nnelSMlf^UIe't
delivered basis
on




farm

834,090

902,480

706,220

18,629,240

18,459,020

18,525,503

24.000c

24.000c

26.000c

22.875c

23.250c

23.250c

81.250c

$2.25

$2.25

$2.25

$82,000

$82,000

$82,000

$1.61667

$1.60000

'$1.50000

$1.71667

$1.70000

$1.60000

32.590c
29.000c

i

19,361,500

19,231,723

23,955,940

74.000c

East

St.

Louis

.—

exceeds

0.5c.

AVERAGE

**F.o.b.

Fort
per

Colburn,

3.02
__________

Amer,

Tel.

& Tel.)

(24I.¬
;

•

duty

•'■ '

3.04

4.79

'

4.77

2.93

3.21

2.81

,r

2.94

3.15
4.9.9

3.33
.

3.51

2.13

FINANCING
U.

S.

loan

—

of

2.50

3.03

3.22

$1,131,839

$1,209,130

$961,106

NONFARM

IN

HOME

Dec.

2.20

2.99

__.—.__

OF

and

S.

?%:

YIELD—100

:

incl.

U.

long ton at morning

,

of February:
—

(10)

LOAN

(000's

BANK

omitted):

associations

—

companies
trust companies

96,133

1;

95,440

439,562

360,793

156,056

173,116

285,421

— _—

97,256

399,167

savings banks

295,426

131',• 876
300,528

510,740

488,319

$2,753,615

$2,338,062

33,910

lending institutions

539,125

$2,579,356

33,760

33,390

TIN—CONSUMPTION OF PRIMARY AND SEC¬
ONDARY

119.1

119.3

119.5

119.8

88.8

89.3

88.9

88.5

Feb. 27

109.3

109.1

109.7

109.9

95.0

94.9

95.7

127.4

127.5

127.8

Introduction of Monthly Investment Plan.
Louis exceeds one-half cent

a

pound.

fPrime Western Zinc

THE

UNITED

of

STATES
December

in

beginning

of

period

8.895

Stocks

at

end

of

Total processed

Intercompany
Consumed

Primary
Secondary

in

1

scrap

38,690

33,910

33,485

6,540

7,000

5,210

5,115

200

!_

120

200

6,340

transactions

manufacturing
1

40,910

36,265

period.:

7,150

42,805

L

Supply

128.2

where freight from East St.

IN

MINES—Month

Receipts

96.7

-Feb. 27

TIN
OF

long tons):

Stocks
Feb. 27
Feb. 27

II

foods

—_

22,782,180

19,463,330

II!

°* orders not reported since

centers

29.500c

Total

1,173,760

\

at

33.000c

STOCKS—Month

ESTATE

(in

and

from

Miscellaneous

Feb.- 27
than

36.250c
32.500c

33.000c

(25)

BUREAU

;

other

36.250c

Insurance

OF

...—_,

commodities

$35,000

$208,056

32.500c

Individuals

IIII

foods

101.042c

$35,000

$190,000

pound)

Banks and

631,940

IIIIII

products

120.318c

$35,000

pound)
pound)

(200)

Savings

'v

550~238

'

Feb

~I

S. DEPT.

commodities

Farm

79.625d

$2.79991

$191,500

(per

BOARD—Month

—

Processed

(per

(per

(125)

AREAS

510,870.

peb

IIIIII
U.

91.375c

87.080d ,*

$2.81096

121.076c

.

(15)

Mutual

Feb.

sales

»85.363d

$2.81458

pound)

(not

Average

ROUND-LOT STOCK SALES ON THE N. Y.
STOCK
EXCHANGE AND ROUND-LOT
STOCK TRANSACTIONS
FOR ACCOUNT OF MEMBERS
(SHARES):
Total round-lot sales—

Total

ounce)

(check 1

WEIGHTED

Insurance

TOTAL

WHOLESALE PRICES, NEW SERIES
LABOR
(1947-49=100)1
Commodity Group—

£81.966

ttAverage of daily mean and bid and ask quotations
Metal Exchange.
' ;;;;
• ■

Utilities

Feb.

_

6hort

£71.443

104.284c

Londcn

of

Railroads

11,241

1,928,206

of

by dealers—Number

freight

included,

COMMON

by dealers—
shares—Total sales
sales
sales

11.500c
12.000C

£82.763

£69.534

refined

Industrials

Feb.

HI

sales

(per

MOODY'S

Feb.

value

Round-lot purchases

540,450

Feb.

Other

12.000c
12.500c
£70.213

102.472c

grade ingot weighted average (per lb.)
grade primary pig export

Banks

II

Short

12.000c
12.500c

.

Feb.

sales

Customers'

£66.300

$1.50000
$1.50000
$1150000
*Rev'ised figure.
tEstimated totals based on reports from companies accounting for
96%
of primary, 95%- of secondary tin consumption in 1957 and 97%
of total stocks
end of 1957.
UDomestic five tons or more but less than carload lot boxed.
§§Delivered

3,675,930

purchases by dealers (customers' sales)—~
Number of orders—customers' total
sales

Number

943,986
131,450

9

_

value

Odd-lot

short

£60.290

£68.784

(per pound)
1
Cadmium (per pound, delivered ton lots)
(Per pound, small lots)
Cobalt, 97% grade (per pound)

9

STOCK TRANSACTIONS FOR ODD-LOT
ACCOUNT OF ODDLOT
DEALERS AND SPECIALISTS ON N.
*.
STOCK
EXCHANGE — SECURITIES EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Odd-lot sales by dealers (customers'
purchases)—t
Number of shares

Dollar

887,290

Feb.

I

Customers'

boxed

Platinum,

9

Feb.
1

sales

Round-lot

99%
99%

~~ Feb.

sales

Dollar

281,460.

members—

j

sales

10.800c

£65,334

£59.334

:

**Nickel

9

322,270

Feb.

i

sales

Short

11.000c

9.834c

£59,102

81.250c

9

Feb.

Other

Total

York,

9

Feb.

sales

(per

boxed

floor—

purchases

Total

bulk

Laredo,

ilNew

Feb.

initiated

10.034c

9.383c

Aluminum—

;

transactions

Total

Laredo,

3,388,940

Feb.

Short

Total

2,681,500

3,070,490

Feb.

sales

Total

9.583c

U. S. price)
(per flask of 76 pounds).

2,822,300

'1

sales

£224.550

Antimony—

Feb.

,

sales
__

Total

£230.545

£58,678

ounce

2,306,840

707,440

£234.306

ounce)

(per

Straits

York

(per

3,419,640

floor—

purchases__-.______

Short

New

York

2,879,060
427,420
2,643,070

515,460

27.040c

£223.619

(

Exchange

Quicksilver

Feb.

Other

Total

London

Gold
9

28.600c

28.060c

£230.449

Sterling Exchange—

New

Tin,

Feb.

sales

Other

and

Sterling

Total

30.600c

28.620c

Louis

Silver,

111.80

115.30

Transactions
Short

St.

Silver,
2

27,690

(£235.031

>

(per pound)
delivered (per pound)
ttLondon, prompt (per long ton)
ttLondon, three months (per long ton)

399,320

.

.

30.600c

■.

§§Prime Western,

INDEX—
Mar'.

TRANSACTIONS

95

,

pound)

*

•

East

Feb. 24

(per

prompt

New York (per pound)
Common, East St. Louis (per pound)

Zinc—

1

refinery

refinery

Common,

314,694

354,730

*31,210

QUOTATIONS)—

ttLondon, prompt (per long ton)
t+Three months, London (per
long ton)

367.4

Feb. 24

J.

M.

&

$54,070

Lead—

4.45

4.54

Domestic

ttLondon,

4.79

4.62

Mar.

23,190

*$55,190'

31,250
(E.

(per pound)
(per long ton)..
ttThree months, London (per
long ton)

5.03

6

i

(tons)

$55,950

Export

4.59

ASSOCIATION:

end

$30,880

2!),960

Copper—

4.36

4.74

6

_

AVERAGE=1U0__

ROUND-LOT

4.55

4.72

Mar,

-

activity

orders

4.55

Mar.

___——

(tons)
(tons)

OIL, PAINT AND

4.54
4.72

Mar.

:

____•

of

*$31,230

dollars):

February:

4.55

6 \

Mar.

of

Sales

3.66

4.08

3.94

6

Mar.

Mar.

,

&

(millions

|

METAL PRICES

Baa

received

January

90.06

6

.!

INDEX

of

Total

89.51

6

Month

84.94

Mar.

.

6

Percentage

$31,830

SALES—

81.90

'

Mar.

PAPERBOARD

7,066,000

Nondurables

81.78

:

81.54

6

Orders

8,867,000

*7,257,000

24,120

Durables

85.85

—

Production

15,933,000

*9,303,000

7,141,000

...

Inventories—

'

•

NATIONAL

*16,560,000

9,222,000

goods

MANUFACTURERS' INVENTORIES

87.56

6

Mar.

Group

COMMODITY

goods

Nondurable

89.92

6

Mar.

____

....

MOODY'S

98.9

avge. = 100)—

manufacturing

Durable

101.875c

86.38

86.38

Mar.

,

■

Group.

Group

goods _;
indexes (1957-59

99.06

87.40

Mar.

,

;

corporate

Railroad

5,291,000

*112.2

of

workers.)

goods

88.27;

-

.

.

__

Public Utilities Group—
Industrials Group
,

6,449,000

*5,460,000

16,363,000

(production

of employees in manufac¬
turing industries—

26.000c

120.000c

24.000c

121.375c

—Mar. 6
Mar. 6

—

___

Aaa

11,740,000

*6,853,000

DEPT.

manufacturing

All

11.500c

12.000c

12.000c

12.000c
24.000c

121.000c

S.

SERIES—Month

Estimated number

12.000c

Feb. 28

PAYROLLS—U.

REVISED

manufacturing

Payroll

10.800c

Feb. 28
Feb. 28

AND

LABOR

Nondurable

28.600c

28.625c

9.500c

—Feb. 28

—

MOODY'S BOND YIELD DAILY AVERAGES:
U; S. Government Bonds
Average

30.600c

28.650c

_

_

Group______

*12,313,000

6,769,000
5,351,000

January:

28.625c

-

__

Public

OF

$34.50

30.600c

-——

P

.

58,665,885

12,120,000

at Dec. 31

AVERAGES:

——.___

Industrials

$66.44

Feb. 28

«

'

Aa

Railroad

6.196c

$66.44
$36.83

6.196c

30.600c

_j._—Mar.. 6
!
Mar. 6

-

6.196C

$66.44

$34.83

6.196c

—Feb. 28
^

-

corporate

$975,024

59,869,782

57,491,067

of

...

customers

60,121,124,
$1,008,969

59,920,197

customers—Moinh

62,103,824
$1,038,410

108.5

ultimate

Number of ultimate

$66.44

Feb. 28
Feb. 28

s

at

from

Durable

_____

(primary pig, 99.5%) at
(New York) at

A

Revenue

$33.17

Feb. 26
Feb. 26
Feb. 26

;

______

_

INSTITUTE—

sales to ultimate consumers—
of December (000's omitted)

December

—:

*

at

ELECTRIC

Month

All

;

-

Aaa

Baa

1

311

EDISON

'

.

at—

PRICES DAILY
S. Government Bonds—

U.

—

——

BOND

Average

14,487,000

.

————'—————

at

(East St. Louis)

Aluminum

;

at

(delivered)

122

16,440,000

&
Mar.

t

refinery
refinery at

(New

117

16,110,000

M. 3. QUOTATIONS):

&

Domestic

Lead

DUN

—

INC.

Finished steel (per lb.)
Pig iron (per gross ton)
Scrap steel (pei: gross ton).;

Export

Mar.

—

IRON AGE COMPOSITE PRICES:

Electrolytic

122

16,514,000

Kilowatt-hour

kwh.)

000

(COMMERCIAL

METAL PRICES

119

3

-Feb. 24

INSTITUTE:

(in

output

6,880

4,915

3,990

2,350

4,460

2,420

2,845

2,070

1

Volume

195

Number

6140

.

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1181)

Securities

Now

* INDICATES

in

Registration

stockholders.
men's and
NOTE

—

Because of the large number of issues

with

high degree of

The dates shown
the accompanying detailed
items reflect the expectations of the underwriter
but are not, in general, to be considered as firm
offering dates.
a

the

accuracy.

Air

index and Jin

Packaging Corp.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed
80,000^ common. Price—By amend¬
ment. (max. $3). Business—Design and manufacture of
folding paperboard cartons. Proceeds—For debt repay¬
ment, advertising and other corporate purposes. Office
—651 Third St., Newark, N. J.
Underwriter—Baruch
Bros. & Co., Inc., N. Y.\
Electronic

Products

Co*

July 17, 1961 filed 155,000 class A
Business

n;

Price-T$2.

Manufacture of transformers for electronic
electrical equipment. Proceeds—For relocating to

and

equipping

a

terial. Proceeds

new

For

Alaska

All

in the general contracting business. Proceeds—•
Office—St. Petersburg,
Fla. Underwriter—B. C.
Malloy, Inc., St. Petersburg.
For general corporate
purposes.

it Amerada Properties Trust.
V
28, 1962 filed 112,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$10. Business—A real estate investment trust.
,

Feb.

Proceeds—For
—6363

Price—$2.50.

working capital. Office

American

—

Admiral Automotive

Products, Inc.

ma¬

July

11608

properties.

^ Admiral Business Systems, Inc.
1962 filed 70,000 common. Price—$3. Business
—Designs and produces printed business forms. Proceeds
additional sales

personnel, moving

and
other corporate purposes. Office—233 W. 42nd
St., N. Y.
Underwriter—Fabrikant Securities Corp., N. Y.

The

Corp.
100,000 common shares. Price—$5.
importation and distribution of Italian

marble and mosaic

tiles.

Proceeds

—

Aerodyne Controls Corp.
29, 1962 ("Reg. A") 90,000 common. Price—$2.
Business—Design, manufacture and sale of systems, con¬
trols and assemblies for the
missile, rockets and aircraft
industries.
Proceeds—For equipment, debt
repayment,
expansion and working capital. Office—90 Gazza Blvd.,
Farmingdale, N. Y.
Underwriter—Robbins, Clark &
Co., N. Y.

^

working capital.

Office—522 W. 29th St., N. Y.

Under¬

Allegheny Aluminum Industries, Inc.
Dec. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4.25. Busi¬
ness—Manufacture of aluminum and fiberglass awnings
aluminum

doors.

Y0DR PRIME SOURCE FOR

Proceeds

Pittsburgh, Pa.

-

SOLD

windows

and

acquisition, debt repayment
Office—5007 Lytle St.,
Underwriter—First Madison Corp., N. Y.
—

an

Capital Corp.

(3/19-23)

Underwriter—Allen &
,

First
Arrin

for Banks, Brokers, Institutions

Co., N. Y.

* Allied Doll & Toy Corp.
Feb. 27, 1962 filed 133,333 common. Price—$3. Business
—Manufacture

QUOTED

and

sale

of

dolls.

Proceeds—For

equip¬

advertising, and working capital. Office — 4116
Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter — Theodore
& Co., Inc., N. Y.
••
v
■ v

Allied

Entertainment Corp. of America,

Inc.

Jan. 23, 1962

Sidney, d SJJEGEL,
F*

'(j'f-., tfyic.

-

Dlgby 4-2370

Teletype No. N.Y. 1-5237
r

Direct Wire to

Holton, Henderson & Co., Los Angeles




("Reg. A") 125,000 common.
Price — $2.
Business—Music publishing; the manufacture and distri¬
bution of phonograph
records, and the development and
production of TV jingles. Proceeds—For debt repayment
and working capital. Office—9171 Wilshire
Blvd., Bev¬
erly Hills, Calif. Underwriter
Ellis Securities, Inc.,
Great Neck, N. Y.
—

39 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.

corporate

pur¬

Proceeds—For general corporate

purposes.

Sulzberger, Jenks, Kirkland & Co.,

Philadelphia.
American Development Corp.

-

Nov.

29, 1961 filed 60,000 common. Price—$6. Business
—Development and sale of vacant land. Proceeds—Debt
repayment and other corporate purposes. Office—1068
Broad St., Newark, N. J. Underwriter—To be named.
American

Diversified, Inc.

Dec. 21, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—$7.50. Busi¬
ness—A holding company whose three subsidiaries are

Alloys & Chemicals Corp.
Dec. 27, 1961 filed 225,000 common.

life insurance

and

loan

a

and

company, a broker-dealer-underwriter,
finance company.
Proceeds—For gen¬

eral corporate purposes. Office—930 Grant St., Denver.
Underwriter—Nation-Wide Underwriters, Inc., Denver

(a subsidiary).
American

April
<

21,

.

Finance

1961

filed

:

' ^

Co., Inc.
$,500,000 of

6%

convertible

ordinated debentures due 1971; 75,000 shares of

sub¬

common

stock, and 25,000 common stock purchase warrants to
be offered for public sale in units
consisting of one $200
debenture, 30 common shares and 10 warrants. Price—
$500 per unit. Business—The company and its subsidi¬
aries

primarily engaged in the automobile sale fi¬

are

le nance

business. One additional

subsidiary is

a

Maryland

savings and loan association and two are automobile
insurance brokers. Proceeds—For the retirement of de¬

bentures, and capital funds. Office — 1472 Broadway,
Y. Underwriter—Myron A. Lomasney &
Co., N. Y.

N.

Note—The SEC has instituted "stop

challenging the

accuracy

and

order" proceedings
adequacy of this state¬

ment.

• American Laboratories, Inc.
28, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—By amend(max. $6). Business—Operation of hospitals and medical
laboratories. Proceeds—For debt repayment and work¬
ing capital. Office—660 S. Bonnie Brae, Los Angeles.
Underwriter—California Investors, Los Angeles.
Feb.

small business investment company. Proceeds—For in¬
vestment.
Office—7720 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Md.

ment,
-

For

storm-screen

Oct. 20, 1961 filed 213,427
common, of which 200,000 will
be offered to the public and
13,427 to stockholders on
a
l-for-10 basis.
Price—By amendment. Business—A

««NEW
BOUGHT

combination

and general corporate purposes.

Allied

other

and

Office—1101 W. Cambria St., Philadelphia. Underwriters
—Milton D. Blauner & Co., Inc., M. L. Lee &
Co., Inc.,
N. Y., and
Hallowell,

common.

debt repayment,
equipment, inventories and ad¬
vertising. Office—1400 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter—
J. R. Williston & Beane, N. Y.

and

equipment

"(3/26-30)

boards, etc.

By amend¬

—For

Ainsbrooke Corp. (3/26-30)
Jan. 8, 1962 filed 200,000 capital shares, of which
100,000
are to be offered by the
company and 100,000 by the

ISSUES

;

Price—By amendment. Busi¬
ness—Manufacturing and distributing Pepsi Cola and
Pepsi Cola syrup. Proceeds—For an acquisition. Office—
1601 Guilford
Ave., Baltimore. Underwriter — Suplee,
Yeatman, Mosley Co., Inc., Philadelphia.
^ Alison Ayres Inc.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed 100,000 common.
Price—$5. Business
—Design and manufacture of women's dresses, Proceeds

writer—International Services Corp., Paterson, N. J.

(4/16-20)

.

rants) and 312,500

Price—$2.50.

repayment,

:

a

Business—Importing, marketing and distributing ceramic
tiles. Proceeds—Debt payment, new
products, sales pro¬
motion and advertising, new office and warehouse and

Under¬

Jan. 5, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$3.50. Business
—Manufacture and sale of cardboard boxes, display

if Allegheny Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
March 5, 1962 filed $1,250,000 of 61A% subordinated
sinking fund debentures due 1977 (with attached war¬

(3/26-30)

W., Toronto.
Manning, Ltd., Toronto. v.

American Cardboard & Packaging Corp.

toiletry preparations, particularly in the hair care field.
Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—2525 Armitage Ave., Melrose Park, 111. Underwriter—Shields &
Co.,
N. Y.
../V..
..

Price—50

exploration,

Office—Lawson Blvd., Oceanside, L. I., N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—S. D. Fuller & Co., N. Y.
^
'

ment. Business^-Manufacture and sale of cosmetics and

Jan.

common.

—

shares.

American Bolt & Screw Mfg. Corp.

debt

PL, Brooklyn, N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—David Barnes & Co., Inc., N. Y. C.
Alberto-Culver Co.
(3/26-30)
'
Jan. 12, 1962 filed 68,000 common. Price

common

poses.

penses. Office—14-20 Dunham

For the purchase

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.

Agency Tile Industries, Inc.
Sept. 6, 1961 ("Reg. A") 120,000

•

Albert Voigt Industries, Inc.
(3/12-16)
Aug. 29, 1961 filed 80,000 common. Price—$4. Business—
The manufacture of metal store
fixtures, show cases and
related items. Proceeds—For
repayment of loans, work¬
ing capital, a leasehold improvement and moving ex¬

Aero-Dynamics
Aug. 7, 1961 filed
—

,

,

400,000

Dec. 15, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price —
By amend¬
ment. Business—Manufacture of standard and
special in¬
dustrial aircraft and missile fasteners.; Proceeds—For

debt

construction and working capital, f Office—614
Equitable
Bldg., Portland, Ore. Underwriter—Dempsey-Tegeler &
Co., Inc., St. Louis.
■
*

expenses

filed

Office—80 Richmond St.,

penses.

• Alaska Pacific
Lumber Co. (3/26-30)
Nov. 17, 1961 filed 250,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment.
Business—A
lumber
company.
Proceeds—For

Feb. 28,

1961

writer—E. A.

repayment and other
corporate purposes. Office—715 Midland Savings Bldg.,
Denver. Underwriter—None.

cessories and supplies. Proceeds — For expansion and
working capital. Office—3294 Steinway St., Astoria, N. Y.
Underwriter—Baruch Brothers & Co., Inc., N. Y.

31,

development and mining. Proceeds—For diamond drill¬
ing, construction, exploration and general corporate ex¬

Petroleum

Proceeds—For

Underwriters, Inc., (same address).

cents. Business—The company is engaged in

Corp.
Price—$1. Busi¬
ness—Acquiring, exploring and developing oil and gas

(3/26-30)

acquisition of a shopping center. Office
Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Real

Wilshire

Amerel Mining Co. Ltd.

Feb. 15, 1962 filed 2,000,000 common.

Jan. 11, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business
—A warehouse distributor of automobile equipment ac¬

Inc.

engage

Blvd., Studio City, Calif. Underwriter—Pacific
Coast Securities Co., San
Francisco, Calif. Offering—In
April.

delphia.

Business

—

Alumatron International,

Under¬

13, 1961 filed 73,000 common. Price—$7. Business
—Company plans to construct special type homes, and

Ventura

and

Underwriter—Roth & Co., Inc., and Janov & Co., Phila¬

—For

•

Estate

Business—Distributor of pens and other
advertising

plant, purchase of inventory, re¬
development, advertising, promotion and
merchandising, repayment of debt and other corporate
purposes. Office—119 St. Mihiel Dr., Riverside, N. J.
search

common. Price—$4. Pro¬
equipment, repayment of loans and working

Nov.

,

common.

Collings & Co., Inc. and Harrison

capital. Office—2690 N. E. 191st St.,
Miami, Fla.
writer—Albion Securities Co.. Inc.. N. Y.

Lauderdale, Fla. Underwriters
cf-Stein Bros. & Boyce, Baltimore and Vickers, McPherson &
Warwick, Inc., N. Y.

—

.C.

Co., Philadelphia.

ceeds—For

Alan-Randal

and

filed 155,000 class A shares. Price—By
Business—Wholesaler and distributor of

•

Airtronics International Corp. of Florida
(3/14)
July 29, 1961 filed 186,625 common, of which
150,000 are
to be offered by the
company and 36,625 by stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture
of
electronic, mechanical and components. Proceeds—Re¬

Co., Inc.
Oct. 27, 1961 ("Reg. A")
120,000

& Miller, Inc.,

Alson Mfg. Co.
(4/16-20)
Aug. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000

payment of loans, expansion and working capital. Office
—6900 West Road
84, Fort

(3/12-16)
common.

&

gheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Underwriter—Francis I.
du Pont & Co., N. Y. Note—This
offering has been tem¬

-A-Accurate

ISSUE

1961

Underwriters—C

products. Proceeds—For working capital, and
other corporate purposes. Office—20th
Street, and Alle¬

,

REVISED

electronic parts manufactured
by others. Proceeds—For
working capital. Office — 412 N. 6th
St., Philadelnhia.

minum

'

27,

amendment.

Master Corp.

porarily postponed.

ITEMS

Almo Industrial Electronics Inc.

Nov.

sale by the company and
150,000 outstanding shares by
the present holders thereof.
Price—To be supplied by
amendment.
Business — The manufacture and sale of
aluminum storm windows and doors, and other
alu¬

•

PREVIOUS

Underwriter—Joseph, Mellen

Cleveland.

May 26, 1961 filed 200,000 shares of class A common
stock, of which 50,000 shares are to be offered for public

...

i< A. E. C. Electronics*-Inc.
Feb. 28, 1962 ("Reg. A") -100,000 common. Price--$1.25.
Business—Design, development and sale of transistorized
ignition systems for engines* Proceeds—For equipment,
leasehold improvements, advertising and working'capi¬
tal. Office—80 Wall St., N. Y. Underwriter — Bertner
Bros., N. Y.

Aero

Cleveland.

expansion, inventory and working capital. Office—350
Fifth Ave., N. Y. Underwriters—Richard Bruce
& Co.,
Inc., and Reuben Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y.

awaiting processing by the SEC, it is becoming
increasingly .difficult to predict offering dates
in

Price—$10.
Business—Manufacture
of
boys' underwear and pajamas. Proceeds—For

ADDITIONS

SINCE
•

29

American

ible preferred. Price—$10. Business—A management in¬
vestment company which plans to acquire firms in the

insurance and finance fields. Proceeds—For general cor¬
porate purposes.
Office — Warner Bldg., Washington,
D. C. Underwriter—None.
•

American

Price—By amend¬

Business—An aluminum smelter and refiner en¬
gaged in the production of aluminum alloys. Proceeds
—For selling stockholders. Office—4365

Bradley Road,

Micro

Devices, nc. (3/13)
filed 1,500,000 class A common shares.
$1.15. Business—The manufacture of electronic
components. Proceeds—The purchase of equipment and
Aug.

Price

2,

1961

—

materials, operational
> search.

expenses,

working capital and

re-

Underwriter—Naftalin & Co., Inc., Minneapolis.

American Modular Manufacturing Corp.
Nov. 27, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$2.50.

ness—Manufacture of
home.

ment.

Management & Investment Corp.

Dec. 20, 1961 filed 500,000 7% non-cumulative convert¬

Proceeds—For

working capital.

Park, Fla.

a

Busi¬
type of component constructed

debt

repayment, equipment, and
Office—4950 71st Ave., North, Pinellas

Underwriter—Equity Securities Co., N. Y.
Continued

on

page

30

30

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1182)

Continued from page

capital.

29

•

American

Mortgage Investors

•

1962 filed 1,3011,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$15. Business — A newly-formed business trust
which plans to invest in first mortgages. Proceeds—For
investment. Office—305 S. County Kd., Palm Beach, Fla.
U nderwriter—Hay den, Stone & Co., N. Y. Note—This
Feb. 8,

•

•

American

.

•

Phoenix

Corp.

be

and

offered

60

for

in

sale

repayment of loans, acquisition and
Office—715 N. Fayette St., Alexandria,
Va. Underwriter—First Investment
Planning Co., Wash¬

ington, D. C. Offering—In

and

equipment.
Office — 32 Industrial Ave., Little
Ferry, N. J. Underwriter—Gianis & Confine., N. Y.
•

Aronoff &

Richlcng,

27, 1961 filed 108,000 common. Price—By ^amend¬
(max. $5).'Business-i-Design and manufacture of
women's junior sizes. Proceeds—For selling stockhold¬
ers. Office—1400 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter—Carreau
& Co., N. Y.

Dec. 20, 1961 filed 400,000 common. Price—$5.50. Busi¬
ness—Writes life insurance in Florida. Proceeds — For

expansion and legal reserves. Office—307 S. Orange

Ave.,

/

American Pipe &

water mains, sewers and storm

work¬

American Realty & Petroleum Corp. (3/12-16)
Sept. 28, 1961 filed $2,000,000 of 6%% conv. subord. de¬
bentures due 1971. Price—At par. Business—Real estate
and also the oil and gas business; Proceeds—For repay¬
ment of debt, sales and advertising, property improve¬
ments and possible acquisitions. Office—16 W. 61st St.,
N. Y. Underwriter—Troster, Singer & Co., N. Y.
•

American Realty & Petroleum Corp.
American Southwest Realty Trust

Arts &. Crafts Materials Corp.
Dec. 20, 1961 filed 150,000 common,
are

fice—32550 Pulaski Dr.,
Pacific Coast Securities

of which

100,000

Office—800 Hartford Bldg., Dallas. Under¬
writers—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. and Rauscher,
Pierce & Co., Inc., Dallas. Offering—Expected in May.

■

stockholder. Price—By-amendment. Business—Im¬
porting and sale of arts and crafts materials. Proceeds—
For general corporate purposes. Office—321 Park Ave.,
Baltimore.
Underwriter—Federman, Stonehill & Co.,
N. Y. Offering—Sometime in April. .
"
•

Business

Price—By amendment.

of custom made castings.
ment.

Office--r321. W.

r

•

Inc.

29, 1962

>.

103,000 common.
Price—$2.
Business^-Publishing of a bowling magazine:; Proceeds
and metal tube assemblies. Proceeds—For selling stocky Y —For general corporate purposes.
Office—14 W. 55th
holders. Office—342 N. Fourth St., Libertyville, 111. Un¬
St., N. Y. Underwriter—Dana Securities Co., Inc., 80
Wall St., N. Y.
derwriter—Paine, Webber, Jackson & .Curtis, N. Y. Of¬
fering—Expected sometime in April.
Ascot Textile Corp.
Anchor Industries Corp.
Feh. 23, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By * amend¬
ment. (max.- $7.50). Business—Converter of linings and
Nov. 24, 1961 filed'38,500 common. Price—$8. Business
—Design and fabrication of precision sheet metal prod¬
interfacings used in thb manufacture" of clothing.- Pro¬
ucts. Proceeds—For machinery research, sales promo- . ceeds—-For expansion, debt repayment and
working capi¬
tal. Office-—335 W. 35th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Rittmastion, and working capital. Office—26 Essex St., Hackensack, N. J. Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc.,
ter, Voisin & Co., N. Y.
ft
; New York.
\
if Ashland Oil & Refining Co.
*
' -

1961 filed 60,000 common. Prices—By amend¬
Business—Development and manufacture of chem¬

electrical

and mechanical instruments, precision
special purpose tools. Proceeds—For sell¬
ing stockholders. Office—200 N. Braddock Ave., Pittsburgh. Underwriter—Arthurs, Lestrange & Co., Pitts¬
burgh.
•

Bal

Harbour

Diagnostic Service, Inc.
- I
1961 filed 2,000,000 common. Price—$1. Busi¬
ness—Company will operate a medical examination
Oct. 18,
:

("Reg. A")

15,

ical,

Underwriter—

Ascot Publishing Co., Inc.

Jan.

I
.

center.

Proceeds—For

a hotel acquisition and working
Office—10101 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour; Fla
Underwriter—J. R. Holt & Co., Denver. Note—This reg¬

capital.

istration

r

Price—$2. Business—

—By

Development, sale and distribution of specialty chemi¬
cals and detergents. Proceeds—For sales promotion; hew
product development and general corporate purposes.
Office—Industrial West, Allwood-Clifton, N. J. Underwriters—Glass & Ross, Inc. and Globus, Inc., N. Y.

~

amendment.

Proceeds—For

debt

repayment

Associated Baby

-

Services,

Inc.

*

Jan. 17, 1962 filed 160,000 common, of which 60,000 are
to be offered by the company and 100,000 by stockhold¬

Sept.

common.
Price—$4
Business—Aeronautical research and development. Pro-

•

—

address,

nesses.

Proceeds—For

investment.

expansion and

working capital. Office—120 North Ave., N. W., Atlanta,
Ga. Underwriter
The Robinson-Humphrey Co., Inc.,
Atlanta, Ga. (;v
■
■■.'

Argus Financial Fund, Inc.
1962 filed 800,000 capital shares to be offered in
exchange for certain securities acceptable to the Fund.
Price—Net asset value (expected at $12.50 per share).
Business—A diversified open-end investment
company
which plans to participate in the long-term
progress of
savings and loan associations, and allied financial busi¬

•

Atlantic Capital Corp.

':/;'vY'V'

postponed.

.

'

.

;

t

fice—127-09

i

.




Barth

G.

Richmond

Kletz

Hill, N. Y. UnderCo., Inc., and Rittmaster

&

Co., N. Y

.

v

.

*

-

—

^

j

,

..

,

Vitamins Corp.

Jan. 23, 1962 filed 180,000 class A shares. Price — By
amendment: Business—The mail order sale of vitamins
and

dietary products." Proceeds—For selling stockholdW. Merrick Rd., Valley Stream, L. "I.,
N. Y. Underwriter—H. Hentz & Co., N. Y.
Office—270

ers.

if Barton Instrument Corp.
March

1962 filed 120,000 common, of which 50,000
by the company^ and 70,000 by stock¬
Price—By amendment (max. $li).. Business—
Design, development, and manufacture of 'differential
pressure-measuring devices
and
related
instruments.
Proceeds—For working
capital. Office—580 Monterey
are

to

5,

be offered

holders.

Pass

Rd., Monterey Park, Calif. Underwriter—E. F. HutCo., N. Y.
'
;

ton &

•

Basic Inc.

Proceeds—For

plant

Baxter

Laboratories, Inc. (3/26-30)
$10,000,000 of convertible subordinated
debentures due 1982, and 120,000 common 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-r-Lehman Brothers and
Merrill Lynch. Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Inc., N. Y.
'

Mexico

•

Bay State Electronics Corp.

(4/16-20)

Oct. 27, 1961 filed 160,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment.
Business—Development of products and tech¬

niques for use in the fields of oceanography, meteor¬
ology, seismology and Ionospheric phenomena. Proceeds
—For

.

.

91st-Ave.,

writers—Michael
Voisin &

Jan. 22, 1962 filed

—

.

-

.

refractory
expansion. Office—845
Hanna Bldg., Cleveland. Underwriter — First Boston
Corp.," N. Y. Offering—Imminent.'

.

Atlantic Utilities Corp.
S/J'.
Development Corp.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 common.
Price—$6. Business
Jan. 3, 1962 ("Reg. A") 300,000 common.
Price — $1. 1 —Construction and
operation of water-treatment and
Business
Development of underground caverns as a
sewage-disposal- plants.,: Proceeds—For / construction,
tourist attraction. Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office
plant expansion, and a loan to a subsidiary. Office—
—Suite No. 9—4344 E. Indian School
Rd., Phoenix. Un- 1 17850 N. 29th Court, Opa Locka, Fla.- Underwriter—
derwriter—Preferred Securities, Inc., Denver. Offering
Hardy & Co., N. Y.
•
- ••'v.' y *
y
y
—Expected sometime in April.
Atmosphere Control. Inc.
//.
'
\ - Armstrong (A. J.) Co., Inc.
V
Feb. 5, 1962 ("Reg. A")- 86,000 common.
Price—$3.45.
Feb. jl2, 1962 filed 279,000
common, of which 150,000 - Business—Manufacture and sale of Mist-I-Cone humidi¬
are to be offered by the
company and 129,000 by stock¬
fiers. Proceeds—For equipment, advertising and work¬
holders. Price—By amendment. Business—General coming capital.
Office—668 Jenks Ave., St. Paul.
Under¬
mercial financing and factoring. Proceeds—For
working
writer—Pewters, Donnelly # Jansen, St. Paul.,
Arizona-New

•

Barr

materials.

general corporate purposes. Office—744 Broad St.,
Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Paine, Webber, Jackson &
Curtis, N. Y. C. Note — This offering was indefinitely

Road, La Jolla, Calif. Dealer-Manager—Argus Fi¬
nancial Sales Corp. (same address).

St..

—The production of basic granular and brick

For

Pines

38th

Dec. 27, 1961 filed 70,000 cumulative convertible prefer¬
ence shares
(par $50). Price—By amendment. Business

Aug. 29, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—$12.50. Busi¬
ness—A small business investment
company: Proceeds—

Office—1118 Torrey

E.

Co.y: N» Y,: Off®ring-»-Ih»

sheeting. Proceeds—Expansion and working capital. Of¬

•

—

Feb. 12,

.

For

—

same

Office—224

,

—

EST) at

working Vcapital.

Corp.
/Feb.- 27, 1962 filed 150,000 commotio Price—$4. Business
—Manufacture and sale of quilted and laminated Vinyl

.

p.m.

*„

Associates, Inc.
("Reg. A") 50,000

,'definitely, postponed.

if Appalachian Power Co. (4/17)
N
1, 1962 filed $25,000,000 of first mortgage bonds v ers. Price—$7.50. Business — Operates diaper services,
due Apr. 1, 1992. Proceeds—For the prepayment of bank
supplies linens, and publishes "Baby Talk" magazine
loans and other corporate purposes. Office—Roanoke,
which is distributed in U. S. and Canada. Proceeds—,
Va. Underwriters
For equipment and working
(Competitive)., Probable bidders: :
capital. Office—149 Madison
First Boston Corp.; Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc.; Harri- i- Ave., N. Y.
Underwriter—Brand, Grumet & Seigel, Inc., Y
man
N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in April.
Ripley & Co., Inc.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-Eastman
Dillon, Union Securities & Co. (jointly). Bids—Apr. 17 Astro-Science Corp. (3/19-23)
c
/'• *
(11 a.m. EST) at 2 Broadway, N. Y. Information Meeting
Sept. 27, 1961 filed 232,500 common, of which 150,000
—Apr. 12 (3 p.m. EST) at same address.
are to be offered
by the company and 82,500 by stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment.
ir Appalachian Power Co. (4/24)
Business—Design and
Mar. 1, 1962 filed $20,000,000 of sinking fund debentures
manufacture of ground systems and equipment for the ;j
due Apr. 1,
1992. Proceeds—For prepayment of bank
support and servicing of electronic systems, aircraft and
loans and other corporate purposes. Office—Roanoke, •<'. missiles.
Proceeds—Repay debt and increase working'
Va. Underwriters
(Competitive). Probable bidders:
capital. Office—9449 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City.
First Boston Corp.; Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc.; Harriman
Calif. Underwriter—W. C. Langley &. Co., N. Y.
.../Ripley & Co.-Inc.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.-Eastman Dillon,
• Atlanta
Motor Lodges, Inc.
(3/19-23) " "
r Union Securities & Co.
(jointly). Bids—Apr. 24 (11 a.m.
Oct. 30, 1961 filed 150,000 common.
Price—$10. Business
EST) at 2 Broadway, N. Y. Information Meeting—Apr.
—Operation of motels. Proceeds
(3

*

1961

Y.* Underwriter^-Gianis. 8c

Mar.

12

1,

ceeds—For

and

.

.: *

-

amendment. Business — A mortgage lending company.
Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Address—108
Achad Haa"m St., Tel-Aviv, Israel. Underwriter—Adanim
Barish

^

2, 1962 filed $25,000,000 of>s.f. debs, due 1987. Price

working capital. Office—1409 Winchester Ave., Ashland,
Ky. Underwriter—Eastman Dillon^ Union Securities &
Co., N. Y. and A. G. Becker & Co., Chicago.
;

-

r;Am^cMhtoaiel^yc»tihent^Di^
.

Jan. 5, 1962 filed 95,000 common.
/

~1

•:

Dec. 29, 1961 filed $556,000 of 6% cumulative preference
dividend participating dollar-linked shares. Price—By

,,

*•: Mar.

withdrawn.

was

Bank"Adanim" Mortgages & Loan^ Ltd.

,

Industries, Inc.

Instrument Co.

'$ products and

Bear, Stearns & Co., N. Y.

Jan, 26, 1962 filed 488,00Q cpmmpn^ Price tt By, amendment. Business—Manufacture of pressure hydraulic hose

Nov.
ment.

Business—Manufacture

St., N. Y.

Offering—

(3/26-30)

Proceeds—For plant improve¬

44th

Co..- San Francisco.

Bacharach Industrial

Arwood

holders.

capital. Of¬
Underwriter-

Hayward, Calif.

Expected sometime in April, "f

Corp. (3/13)
Nov. 21, 1961 filed 230,000 common, of which 110,000 are
to be offered by the company and 120,000 by the stock¬

—Company plans to manufacture digital voltmeters, di¬
gital chonometers and solid state counters.
Proceeds—
For general corporate purposes. Office—3910 S. Kalamath St., Englewood, Colo. Underwriter—Preferred Se¬
curities, Inc., Denver. Offering—In
yr

Anscott Chemical

Inc.

'

to be offered by the company and 50,000 by a sell¬

ing

investment.

Anchor Coupling Co.,

Controls,

Proceeds—For debt repayment and working

Inc., N. Y.

•

Feb. 12, 1962 filed 1,000,000 common. Price—$11. Busi¬
ness—A real estate investment company. Proceeds—For

^

Automatic

1961 filed 50,000 common. Price—$4. Business
—Design, manufacture and installation of electrical,
pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical systems, controls
and devices to control and
automatically operate indus¬
trial machinery and processes.; Proceeds—For general

•

side & Co.,

(3/19-23)

American Space Exploration, Inc.
Jan. 22, 1962 filed 250,000 common. Price—$2.

and

Office—4

Inc.
A") 70,000 class A. Price—$2. Busir : corporate purposes.'Office—3601 Merrick Rd., Seaford,
ness—Design, manufacture and sale of clear plastic,, I N. Y. " Underwriter—S. Schramm & Co., Inc., N. Y. ,.
vacuum formed "blisters" for packaging.
Proceeds—For
Automatic Marker Photo
Corp. : y
* y it
equipment, inventory and working capital.
Office—126
Dec. 1, 1961 filed 150,000 class A
shares, of which 125,Greenpoint Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—Ber¬
000 are to be offered by the
company and 25,000 by
nard L. Madoff, N. Y.
stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—Sale and
Artlin Mills, Inc. (3/19-23)
; distribution of a photocopy machine and supplies.. Pro¬
Sept. 28,1961 filed 135,000 class A common shares. Price
ceeds—For equipment,
expansion, and working capital.
—$5. Business—The purchase, conversion, decoration,
Office—153 W. 36th St., N. Y. Undeiwriter—None.
gift packaging and distribution of terrycloth towels and
Babs, Inc.
cotton pillow cases. Proceeds—For inventory, repayment
Nov. 27, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price—$4. Business
of loans and working capital;
Office—1030 Pearl St.,
—Sale of dairy products, through
"Dairy Drive-ins."
Long Branch, N. J. Underwriters-Mortimer B. Burn-

ing capital. Office—390 S. Atlantic Blvd., Monterey Park,
Calif. Underwriter—Dean Witter & Co., San Francisco.

-

research

purposes.

■;

Art Packaging

Construction Co.

used in construction of

equipment,

corporate

Jan. 26,1962 ("Reg.

Jan. 15, 1962 filed 300,000 common. Price — By amend¬
ment. Business—Manufacture of reinforced concrete pipe
drains. Proceeds—For property improvements and

other

Dec. 28,

■

Orlando, Fla. Underwriters—A. C. Allyn & Co.. Chi¬
cago* and Goodbody & Co., N. Y. Offering—In April.

Proceeds—For

and

St., N. Y. Underwriter—Arthur J. Rosenwasser
Co., 95 Broad St., N. Y.

ment
;

devices.

development

Nov.

Life Insurance Co»

:

W. 58th

(4/2-6) •;

Inc.

o

Inc.

Sept. 18, 1961 ("Reg. A") 30,000 common.
Price—$10.
Business—Manufacture
of
self-instructional
materials

parts for the aircraft and missile industries, etc. Pro¬
ceeds—For debt repayment and the purchase of addi¬

Underwriter—

early April.

Automated Teaching Systems,

—

tional

Office—320 Park Ave., N. Y.
Interamerica Securities Corp., N. Y.

Price—$3.50.

common.

For

—

working capital.

units

Price

warrants.

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

Atmospheric Controls, Inc.
("Reg. A") 40,000

Proceeds

of one $1,000
By amendment.
Business—Manufacture of hydraulic system devices and
to

.

Aug. 22, 1961

29, 1961 filed $600,000 of 6% convertible subordi¬
debentures
and 36,000 common stock purchase

warrants

*

purposes.

Pioneer

Underwriter—

Y.

(3/28)

Industries, Inc.

debenture

Jan. 24, 1962 filed 315,000 class A shares. Price—$10.
Business—General real estate. Proceeds—For corporate

American

N.

nated

American First Mortgage

company was formerly named
Investors. Offering—In May.

Arnav

Dec.

Third Ave.,
Co., New York.

Office—850

Dean Witter &

.

,

product development and working capital. Office
—43 Leon St., Boston. Underwriter—S. D. Fuller & Co

New York. >Y7,r-Y

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Volume

195

Number 6140

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

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31
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Beacon

Investing Corp.

Bestform

Dec. 20, 1961 tiled 3u0,uu0 shares of capital stock; Prict
—Net asset value. Business—A mutual fund.
Proceeds

■

—For

Office—22 The Fenway, Boston.

investment.

derwriter—None.

.

Jan.

29,

1962

Un¬

Inc.

,

("Reg. A")

75,000

common. Price
color photographic

$4.
Production of
prints,
slides, transparencies and photo-animations. Proceeds—
For equipment, sales promotion,
leasehold ifcnprovements, a new product, and working capital. Offrce—108
W. 24th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Stevens, Hickey & Co.,

,

Business

,

'

—

-

Engineering Co.

filed

be offered

Big

"C"

—»Fer

possible acquisitions and
working capital. Office
Cuttermill Rd., Great
Neck, N. Y. Underwriter—D. H. Blair &
Co., N. Y.
130

Stores, Inc.

Jan. 22, 1962 ("Reg. A")
markets

18,000

Price—At-the-

common.

Brown

Business—Company plans to operate superin
Washington and Oregon.
Proceeds—For

Jan. 22,

,

ment.

selling stockholders.' Office—1845 S. E, 3rd Ave., Port¬
land, Ore. Underwriters—J; Barth & Co. and First Cali¬
fornia Co., San
Francisco; Hill, Darlington & Grimm,

(3/15) 7:;'

-.Seattle.

Nov. 30, 1961 tiled 135,uuu commuri, ot which 95,000 are
to be offered by the company and 40,000 by a selling

•

to

market.

/77".,>,c

Bechtold

Briggs Leasing Corp.
^eb. 8, 1962 filed $650,000 of 6%% convertible subor¬
dinate 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).
Business—Long-term leasing of automobiles.. Proceeds

,

—

N. Y.

1962

23,

Inc.

185,000 common, of which 36,500
by the company and 148JiD0 by stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment (max.
$20). Business—
Design and manufacture of popular priced foundation
garments. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—38-01
47th Ave., L. I.
C., N. Y. Underwriter—Smith, Barney &
Co., n. y.
■
• .•/:.?:
v??:?u
are

'

• BebeSB & Bebell Color Laboratories,
(3/26-30)
' : /
;

(

Feb.

Foundations,

Big Drum, Inc.
-' ;
,
• ^
.
stockholder. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufac¬
Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common;
Price—By amend¬
ture of specially designed thermosetting plastic fabriment. Business
Furnishes packaging materials and
eating machinery. Proceeds—For debt repayment and V equipment to
producers of frozen confections. Proceeds
other corporate purposes. Office—631 N. E. 45th St., Fort
—^i+^1
For debt repayment and
working capital. Aff{«n:iipQ
Office—1183
Lauderdale, Fla. Underwriter—Roman & Johnson, Fort
Essex Ave.,
Columbus, O. Underwriters—Merrill, Tur.Lauderdale. Fla.
ben & Co., Inc., Cleveland and The
Ohio Co., Columbus.
• Bilnor
Becton, Dickinson & Co. (3/26-30)
Corp. (3/26-30)
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 480,000 common, of which 200,000 are
Jan. 8, 1962 filed 100,000 class A
capital shares. Price—
to be, offered by the
By amendment ($11 max.).; Business—Manufacture of
company and 280,000 by stockholders.
Price—By amendment. - Business—Manufacture of
wading pools. > Proceeds—For the selling stockholders.

Jan.

-1

Bede Aircraft,

Inc.

sale of

14, 1962 ("Reg. A") 259,272 common. Price—$1.
Business—Design and development of an aircraft incor¬

,

porating

radical -concepts

Proceeds—For

in' design

purposes.

v

Underwriter—Consolidated Securities Corp.,

•

—For

-

debt

mond, Ky.

.':

*ville, Ky.

;

.

"

'

-

-

• ■

.Underwriter—Godfrey,
N.

anri

Bell EEectronic Corp.

>

debentures:

■>

At

payment

and

For

par.

stock:

>

amendment.

By

of electronic parts and equipby others. Proceeds—For debt re-

other

corporate

;
'

7
'

purposes.

ment.
ence

2465

15, 1961 filed 50,000 common. Price—By amendBusiness—Publication of scientific texts and refer- /
books. Proceeds—For working capital. " Office—.

Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter—None.

Z: N. Y.

/

'

"•

j;

p

Securities

Co.,

San

Chica

BernaSen, Inc.
*
* 4 " ■ ^
Jan. 12, 1962 ("Reg. A") 70,000 common.
vpov;

Jirf

y ;

manufacture

r,

.

,,

,

-

..

..

.

mm

Oct.: 27,

w

.m

rh?ai!

•

Z :C.

1961;; X Reg. A .1 85,000 compion. ;-'»TOy
Manufacture of handbags and related ltepis.
.^
—
Proceeds—For* debt repayment and ^working capital. Of
^nitab"of*
lice—1621 S. San Pedro St., Los Angelesi Underwrite?

Business

—Pacific

Coast

Securities

Sept.

;

«

,

'

"

—

j---

.

'''

'

'

-n

ment.

Feb.

payment and

-i

o

Podesta

^




1

O-

Price

—

(4/9)

&

n*

Co.,

7

nui««

Chicago.

Cable

-

-rr.

commercial

Price

use

industrial and
company-owned patents. Pro¬

working

based

on

capital. Office—Kirk Boulevard,
Greenville, S. C; Underwriter—Capital Securities
Corp.,
Greenville, S. C. Note
This offering was
—

indefinitely

postponed.
-Caldwell
Oct.
uct.

27,
zy,

Vi;:./Z;./'7';/,
Publishing Corp.

1961
i»ei

>

filed
med

i3Y,ouu
137,500 capital snares.
shares.
Price—$5.
rrice—so.
Business—Publishing of text books and general educational works. Proceeds—For general corporate

purposes.
Can¬

Office—339 W. 51st St., N. Y.
Underwriter—S. B.
Co., N. Y. Offering—Expected in April.
Calev Photolabs, Inc.

tor

Inc.

Jan.

29,

ness

common.

•

are

Carriers, Inc.

ceeds—For

—

1962 filed 93,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬
Company processes black and white and color
photographic film, and sells photographic supplies and

Business—Publishing

»

„

—$1.15. Business—The
company which began operations
in 1954, is engaged in the
research and
development of
special material handling ; systems for

•

Underwriter—Goldman, Sachsr &

28, 1962 filed 150,000

Underwriter—Pistell,

Corp.

March 23,1961 filed
196,109 shares of capital stock.

Business—Manufacture of popular priced candies.
selling , stockholders.-• Office—4656 * W.

Chicago.

expan¬

Office—118

ture of electronic and
electro-mechanical components.
Proceeds—For prepayment of 4% notes
and working
capital. Office—1142 W.
Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, Ind.
Underwriter—Goldman, Sachs & Co., Nt Y.

Price—By amend-

common.

By amend¬

by stockholders.

-y/':7

expansion". ; Office—1328 Washington St., Calif./ Underwriters—Kleiner, Bell ? & Co.,? N. Y.
n/r„„
Offering—Expected sometime in May.
Beverly Hills, Calif, and Rittmaster, Voisin & Co., N. Y...
Bridge Electronics Co., .Inc.
Best Plastics Corp. (3/15)-V
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 225,000 common, of which
200,000 are
Sept. 26, 1961 filed 125,000. common, of which 100,000
to be offered by the
company, and 25,000 by the stock¬
will be sold by the company and 25,000
by stockholders.
holders. Price—$4.
Business—Design and manufacture of
Price—$3. Business—Manufacture/ of plastic novelties
electronic equipment and communication
systems. Proand party favors.
Pjant and equipment , ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—201 Lauand-working vapital. Office-945 39th St .-Brooklyn,. ;' rel
St., Beverly, N. J. .Underwriter—Roth & Co.,: Inc.,
H.A j Underwriter—.S.-B. Cantor &
po., N. Y.
Philadelphia: Offering—Expected in April;'
*
'

Oakland,

.V
common.

Price—By amendment (max. $28). Business—Manufac¬

Price—By amend¬
of trade magazines. Proceeds—For the selling stockholders. Office—770
Lexington Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—A. G. Becker &
Co., Inc.,
ment.

n.

Corp.

V
Feb. 21, 1962 filed
125,000 common, of which 35,000
to be offered
by the company and 90,000

1

whose sub¬

P.

C T S

proceeds—For

Publications

company

M.

Inc-» N. Y.

*—

holding

—

sion, working capital and debt repayment.
Santa Barbara, Santa
c,ani
Paula, Calif.

.

Business—A

Corp.

Business—Manufacture of molded plastic
products,
principally melamine dinner wear. Proceeds—For

Brentwood Financial Corp.

sidiaries operate jewelry and photography departments
in discount v.-t—
department stores. Proceeds—For debt re-

Funding

manage¬

C.

,

amendment.

Growth

1961

of

Jan. 19, 1962 filed 70,000

...

^

Proceeds—For

counseling. Proceeds—For working capital. Office
Lexington Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Darius
Inc.,
N; - Y.
Offering—Expected in late April. ; ■ ;
7

(3/22)
Beryllium International, Inc.
; ' , r
Dec. 13, 1961 filed 150,000
common, of which 30,000
1, 1962 filed 1,000,000 common. Price—$5. Business
,are to be offered by^the
company and 120,000 by the
.11:,.^
—Company plans to manufacture various type beryllium
stockholders; Price—By amendment. Business—A holdproducts. ^Proceeds—For land and buildings, equipment,.
jng company for a savings and loan association. Proceeds
and working capital.7 Office —- 528 Union Trust
Bldg.,
—For acquisition of two insurance
agencies and expanWashington, D. C. Underwriter—None. "•-.//' r.:" ;
sion., Office
^^
12G01 San Vincente
T __
A
1_.
Blvd., Los Angeles.
• Besco
Enterprises, Inc. (3/12-16)/
/ :
•'
Underwriter—Hayden, Stone & Co., N. Y.
/
/
Oct., 27, 1961 filed 150,000 capital shares.
Price—By
• Breskin
1

facilities.

—527

Feb.

"

railroad

ment

Bowey's, Inc.

St.,
Co;,;N; -Yv

r

manufacturing

and

filed 75,000 class A shares and a
like
class A warrants.
Price
$4.
Business——Making of loans to small business
concerns, purchase
of machinery for
lease, and the providing of

At-thecommon. Price
market. Business—Air transportation of
persons, prop¬
erty and mail. Proceeds—For selling stockholder. Office 7
—McCarran
Field, Las
Vegas,
Nev.
Underwriter—

Kinbie

Co.," San Francisco.r

20,

number

Feb. 14,1962 ( Reg. A ) 40,000

Brach (E. J.) & Sons
Feb. 7, 1962 filed 210,000
t

piers

drawn.

Underwriter—

Flower

—
Cruttenden,
offering—Imminent.

Business

Office—2147

ment.

Underwriter

.

inventory, sales

purposes.

working capital. Office—48 43rd St..
Brooklyn; N. Y.
Underwriter—None. Note—This registration was with¬

30, 1961 filed 80,000 common, of which 40,000 are
to be offered by the company and
40,000 by a stock¬
holder. Price—By amendment.
Business—Manufactures,
processes and supplies powders, syrups, flavorings, etc.,
to food industry. Proceeds—For repayment of debt and
working capital. Office—679 N. Orleans St., Chicago, 111.

of

m

buildings,

Oct.

e^ipmenL/P^eeds—For general-corporate purposes.
Office—9821^Foster Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
UMerwnter-Amber^^Burstem &.Co.,^iC^ N. Y, . , .

of debt,

corporate

Bush Terminal Co.
Nov. 7, 1961 filed 92,320 common
to be offered to stock¬
holders
on
a
l-for-10 basis.
Price—By amendment.
Business—Operation
of
warehouses,

St., Los Angeles. Under¬
writer—Bregman, Cummings & Co., N. Y. > -;

•

Price—$2.62V2.

and. installation

S.

other

•

Fran¬

Oil

Office—612

and

Jerichp Turnpike, New Hyde Park, N. Y. Underwriter—
Reiner, Linburn &' Co., N. Y.'" *"
/

'

Crowell, Weedon & Co., Los Angeles.

;

Business—Design,
photographic

•"

Coast

_

Bolsa Chica Oil Corp.
29, 1962 filed $1,000,000 of 6% conv. subord. deben¬
tures due 1977.
Price—At par. Business—Prospects for,

ment.

$24.50). Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—20 Elm

•

U.y*

,

Corp.
Jan. 29, 1962 filed $1,024,700 of 6% convertible subordi¬
nated debentures due 1977, to be offered for
subscription
by stockholders at the rate of $100 of debentures for

St., Pittsfield, Mass. Underwriter—Smith, Barney & Co.,

■5

•*

Proceeds—Repayment

promotion

Office—11933 Vose St., North Holly Wood, Calif.

Bolsa

Feb. 20, 1962 filed 26,500 common to be offered for sub¬
scription by stockholders. Price—By amendment (max.

•

--

S. Flower St., Los Angeles.
Bregman, Cummings & Co., N. Y.

(W. A.), tnc

Berkshire Gas Co.

.

supplies.

«

1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common.- Price — $3.
Business—Importation,- sale and distribution1 of Italian
cosmetics. Proceeds
For advertising, inventory and
each 65 shares held. Price—At. par.
Business—Prospects
working capital. Office—114 W. 13th St., N. Y. Under- % for, develops,- produces, and markets oil and gas. Pro¬
writer—Granite Securities, Inc., N. Y.
ceeds—For debt repayment, exploration and
Z^7/7/?.//,
developNov.

!

poses.

■

fice—612

Cosmetics, Inc.

Benjamin

Sept. 22, 1961 filed 100,000 common.
Price—$6 Business
Importation and distribution of copying machines and

develops, produces, and markets oil and gas. Proceeds—
For debt repayment,
exploration, and development. Of¬

.March37

.•

Underwriter—Rodetsky,
Walker & Co., Inc. N. Y.
Offering—In early April.
Burton Mount Corp.
(3/19-23)

Business—Design,, constrqction
*

are

stockhold¬

Proceeds

Jan.

Office—306 E.
Aldondra
Blvd., Gardenia, Calif. Underwriters—Mitchum, Jones & Templeton,'Los Angeles and Walston &
Co.; N. Y.
Bene

inctaiiati™

by

—For repayment of debt and
general corporate purposes.
Office—111 W. 19th
St., N. Y.

Inc.,

cisco.

distributor

manufactured

ment

•

Price—$4.

Underwriter—Pacific

Dec. 20, 1961 filed $1,250,000 of convertible subordinated
debentures due 1977; also 75,000 common shares. Price—

Business—A

Co.,

30.000

Price—By amendment.
Business—Designs, manufac¬
tures, imports and distributes artificial flowers.

Pools

~

,

For

offered by the
company and

ers.

g

*4£Inc., N/Y.

•

Blue Haven

stockholders.

•

.**-<

Oct. 30, 1961 filed 70,000
common, of which 40,000
to be

(3/15)
Nov. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A")
75,000 capital shares, of which '
40,000 are to be offered by the company and 35,000 by

Lithographers, Inc.
4 Feb. 5, 1962 filed 130,000 common. Price—$4.50. Business—Engaged in commercial offset lithography. 1 Pro¬
ceed^—For debt repayment and working capital. Office
^-225 Varick St, N. Y.
Underwriter-Market Values,

'

Hamilton,

Taylor &
Y. Offering—Expected sometime in
May.

^

Color

t

'

—

•

Bell

; "

/.7 Burros Corp. '••;/;/

Corp.
1962 filed 120,000

common. Price—$3. Business
processing of plastic raw materials into com¬
pounds for extruding and moulding into plastic
prod¬
ucts. Proceeds
For debt repayment, equipment and
working capital. Office—35 Pequit St.,
Camden, Mass.

Office—201 E; Irvine St., RichUnderwriter—J. J. B. Hilliard & Son, Louis-

&,

27,

1961 ("Reg. A") 62,500 common.
Price A— $4.
Business—Real Estate. Proceeds—For
working capital.
Office—309 Main St.,
Islip, N. Y. Underwriters—Albion
Securities Co.,
Inc., N. Y., R. E. Investors
Corp., Levittown, N. Y., and Great Eastern
Investment Co., Queen's
Village, N. Y. Offering—Imminent.

—The

repayment.

*

-

Building Ventures, Inc.

Oct.

BEane Chemical

Begley Drug Co.
7 s
Feb. 5," 1962 ("Reg. A")
19,900 common. Price—$15.
Business—Operation of a chain of drug stores. Proceeds

•

26,.1962

Jan. 29,

-

•

/V;

working capital, debt repayment and equipment.
Roetzer St., Buffalo, N. Y. Underwriter—S.
D. Lunt & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Fompano Beach, Fla..

;

Manufacturing Corp.

Office—35

corporate
Deerfield

'
,

>

tory,

construction.

and

debt

repayment and general
Office—201 N.-Federal Highway,

Beach,.Fla.

Bison

Fifth Ave.,
Brothers, N. Y. Offering—

Expected in early May.

("Reg. A") 25,000 .'common.
Price—$5.
Business—Design, manufacture and sale of merchandis¬
ing equipment for outdoor use. Proceeds—For inven¬

Feb.

.

■

Price—By
importing and
Cutty Sark Scotch Whiskey. Proceeds—For debt

repayment and working
capital. Office—620
N. Y.
Underwriter—Lehman

Underwriter

C. Allyn &

Jan.

7

"

-

-

Morgan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Co., N. Y.

Calif. Un¬

19, 1962 filed 500,000 class A
common.
amendment (max. $25). Business—The

.

'■/

^
—

Feb.

j

.

.

;/;f:'-r J

Address—Vernon,

•

—A.

.

derwriter—William R. Staats &
Co., Los Angeles. Offer¬
ing—Expected sometime in April.
'
Buckingham Corp.

•<

Office—300

manufacturing

15, 1962 filed 85,000

~

<

.products used in the medical profession. .Proceeds—For
j expansion and working capital. Office—East Rutherford, N. J. Underwriter—F. Eberstadt & Co., N. Y.

By amend¬

—

common. Price
By amend¬
ment. Business—A wholesale
drug distributor. Proceeds
—For selling stockholders.

—

i.

Price

and custom

;>/ Brunswig Drug Co.

..

T^„

Business—Engineering

V

.

common.

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. YM

:

v.;-'

/'?/'

-

Engineering Co., Inc.

1962 filed 80,000

equipment/ Proceeds—For

•_

sales

promotion,

equipment

and repayment of loans.
Office—21-20 45th Rd., L. I.
C.,
N. Y.
Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y.
•

Calumet

Industries, Inc.

(3/27)

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

-

•

and 65 shares.
,

•

consisting of $1,000 of debentures
Price—$1,032.50 per unit. Business—Mar'

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struction purposes. Proceeds—For

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and

keting of lubricating and fuel oils and asphalt products.
Proceeds—For
debt
repayment and working
capital.
Office—10
S.
La
Salle
St., Chicago.
Underwriter—
Cruttenden, Podesta & Co., Chicago.

expansion/equipment

working capital. Office—344 Duffy Ave., Hicksville,
Underwriter—Singer, Bean & Mackie, Inc., N. Y.

N. Y.

Champion Parts Rebuilders, Inc.
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
Feb.

ment.

Business—General real estate. Proceeds—Debt

re¬

payment and working capital. Office—324 E. Bixby Rd.,
Long Beach, Calif. Underwriter—To be named. Offering
—Expected sometime in May.
Cameo

Lingerie, Inc.
Feb. 12, 1962 filed 190,000 common, of which 120,000 are
to be offered by the company and 70,000 by stockhold¬
ers.
Price—$5. Business—Manufactuer of women's arid
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
distributing of phonograph records. Proceeds—For gen¬
eral corporate purposes. Office—1405 Locust St., Phila¬
delphia. Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co.,
Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in March.

Campbell-Lurie Plastics, Inc.
Oct. 27, 1961 filed 574,250 common, of which 500,000 are
be offered by the company and 74,250 by a stock¬

to

holder. Price—$2.50.
the plastic business

as

Proceeds—For

repayment

Business—Company is engaged in

debt

a

of

converter

materials.

raw

and

working capital.
Office—5440 Highway Ave., Jacksonville, Fla. Under¬
writer—Florida Growth Securities, Inc., Jacksonville.
Capital

Management Corp.
Dec. 27 1961 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬
ness—An investment company which will hold mort¬
gages, land contracts, etc.
Proceeds — For investment.
Office—44 E. Indian School Rd., Scottsdale, Ariz. Under¬
writer—Pacific Underwriters, Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz.

Caprico International, Inc.
Jan. 22, 1962 ("Reg A") 52,000 common. Price — $3.
Business—Design, manufacture and wholesaling 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.,
New York.
± Caribbean Capital

Feb.

Corp.

28, 1962 filed 400,000

common.

Price—$3.60. Busi¬

ness—A

small business investment company. Proceeds
general corporate purposes. Office—23 Dronningens Gade, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Underwriter—

—For

Richard
•

JjJBuck & Co., N. Y.

Carmerlndustries, Inc.

(3/19-23)

Nov.

28, 1961 filed 185,000 common,
to be offered by the company and

are

of which 135,000
50,000 by a stock¬

holder.

Price—$3. Business—Conversion of raw plastics
shapes such as rods, tubes and sheets. Proceeds
new
plant, repayment of debt, and working
capital/ Office—22 N. 26th St., Kenilworth, N. J. Under¬
to basic

—For

a

writer—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y.
• Carolinas
Capital Corp. (3/12-16)

parts

for

motor

vehicles.

Proceeds

—

For

equipment,

working capital and other corporate purposes. Office—
4301 W. 69th St., Chicago.
Underwriter—Straus, Blosser
& McDowell, Chicago.
'

it Charter Credit Corp.
28, 1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000

Feb.

Price

common.

—

$2.

Business—The construction and financing of motion pic¬
ture theatres. Proceeds—For
general corporate purposes;
Office—234 W. 44th St., N. Y. Underwriter—M. R. Zeller

Co., N. Y.

and

semi-tropical

climates.

Proceeds—for

ordinated debentures due 1967 and
50,000 common shares
to be offered in units of $100 debentures and 50 shares.

Price—$200
Proceeds

per

unit.

Business—Home

food

catering.

For debt repayment and general
corporate
Office—500 N. W. 22nd Ave., Miami, Fla. Un¬
derwriter—Street & Co., N. Y.
—

purposes.

Church

Builders, Inc.

Feb. 6, 1961. filed 50,000 shares of
2.

Price—$5.50

per

sified management investment

investment.

common

stock, series

share. Business—A closed-end diver¬

Office—501

company.

Bailey Ave.,

Distributor—Associates Management,

Proceeds—For

Fort Worth, Tex.
Inc., Fort Worth.

• Cinema Studios
Inc. (4/2-6)
Dec. 14, 1961 ("Reg. A")
75,000 capital shares. Price—$1.
Business—Production of motion pictures. Proceeds—For

working capital. Office—309 Ainsley Bldg., Miami, Fla.
Underwriter—Dalen Investments & Funds, Inc.,
Miami,
Cineque Colorfilm Laboratories, Inc.
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.
•

Citizens Life Ins. Co. of New York

(3/26)
Sept. 8, 1961 filed 147,000 common, of which 100,000 will
be sold by the
company and 47,000 by a stockholder.
Price—By amendment. Business—The writing of or¬
dinary life, group life and group credit life insurance.
Proceeds—For investment in
ties. Office—33 Maiden

income

producing securi¬

Nov. 22, 1961 filed 500,000 common.
Price—$10. Business
—A small business investment
company. Proceeds—For

Lane, N. Y. Underwriter—A. G.
Becker & Co., N. Y. (mgr.).

general corporate purposes. Office—1200 North Carolina
National Bank Bldg., Charlotte, N. C. Underwriter—R.

Dec. 21,

S. Dickson &
Carolina

Co., Charlotte.

Telephone & telegraph Co.

(4/13)

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.

N. C.

Office—122 E. St. James

Street, Tarboro,

Underwriter—None.

Carrols, Inc.
Feb. 21, 1962 filed

688,375 common to be offered for sub¬
scription by stockholders of Tastee Freez
Industries, Inc.,

parent company on the basis of one such share for each
two shares of Tastee Freez held.
Price—$6. Business—
Franchising and supplying of stores and mobile units
selling a soft ice product and certain selected food prod¬
ucts. Proceeds—For expansion. Office—176
W. Adams

St., Chicago.
Casavan

Underwriter—Bear, Stearns
Industries, Inc.

& Co., N. Y.

land

other

corporate

purposes.

Office—250 Vree-

Ave., Paterson, N. J. Underwriter—Foundation Se¬

curities, Inc., N. Y.
Central

Business—A sales

finance

Office—526

company. Proceeds—For
North Ave.
East,

ex¬

Westfield, N. J.

Underwriter—To be named.
•

Century Brick Corp. of America (3/12-16)
("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4. Busi¬
ness—Company has developed a process for
producing
simulated brick facing for
buildings. Proceeds—For gen¬
Nov. 9, 1961

eral

Pa.
•

corporate purposes. Office—4506 W.

12th

Underwriter—Sandkuhl & Co., Inc., N. Y.

Certified

St., Erie,

Industries,

Inc.
(4/16-20)
Sept. 28, 1961 filed $750,000 of 6% convertible subordi¬
nated

debentures

due

1976

with

attached

warrants

to

purchase 15,000 class A shares to be offered in units
(of
one $250 debenture and a
warrant to purchase 5
for

subscription by holders of class

at the rate of

$250

per

(Francis H.) & Son, Inc. (4/2-6)
July 3, 1961 filed 1,000,000 common shares. Price—$1.50.
Business — The manufacture of farm and
industrial
equipment. Proceeds—For materials and inventory, re¬
search

one

shares)

A and class B shares
unit for each 50 shares
held. Price—

unit. Business—Production of concrete for




con¬

0/;

and

1303 Elm

development and working capital. Office—
St., Rocky Ford, Colo. Underwriter — Stone,

Altman & Co., Inc., Denver.
• Coastal
Acceptance Corp.

St., Manchester, N. H. Underwriter—Eastern

Computer Concepts Inc.
Dec. 29, 1961 filed
100,000 class A common. Price — $5.
Business-^-Development and sale of advanced program¬

•

Computer

Control

Co.,

Inc.

(4/16-20)

Jan. 24, 1962 filed
157,500 common, of which 62,500 are
to be offered by the
company and 95,000 by stockhold¬
ers.

Price—By amendment. Business—Design and manu¬
of digital equipment.
Proceeds—For debt re¬

facture

payment.

Off ice—983

Concord

St.,

Underwriter—Kidder, Peabody

Framingham, Mass.

& Co., N. Y.

Computer Oriented Research & Engineering, Inc.
23, 1962 filed 135,000 common, of which 100,000
offered by the company and
35,000 by a stock¬
holder. Price-r—$4. Business—Electronic data
processing.
Proceeds—For computer systems
development, additional
personnel, and working capital; Office—119 Federal St.,,
Pittsburgh. Underwriter — Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.,
Feb.

are to be

»

Pittsburgh."

....

Concord

Products, Inc.
Nov. 28, 1961 filed 120,000 common
warrants

year

to

purchase

(with attached 360,000 shares

additional

an

at $2 per share) to be offered in units of
one share and
one-half warrant. Price—$2 per unit. Business—Manu¬
facture of cosmetics,

toiletries/ cleaning chemicals, jew-

elery, etc. Proceeds — For general corporate
Office—525-535 E. 137th St., New York City.

purposes.

Under¬

writer—To be named.
•

Concors Supply Co., Inc. (3/26-36)
Oct. 19, 1961 filed 100,000 class A common.
Price—$4.
Business—Sale of food service and kitchen
equipment.
Proceeds
For equipment, debt repayment and other
corporate purposes. Office—110 "A" St.,
Wilmington, Del.
Underwriter—Roth & Co., Inc., Philadelphia.
—

t Coroductron

Corp. (3/26-30)
20, 1961 filed 125,000 class A

Dec.

Price—By

common.

amendment. Business—Research and
development in the
general field of electromagnetic radiation for the U. S.

Government. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other
corporate purposes. Office—343 S. Main St., Ann
Arbor,
Mich. Underwriters — McDonnell &
Co., and Halle &

Stieglitz, N. Y.
-jAr Consolidated Edison Co.

of

New

York, Inc.

(3/29)
Mar.

5,

1962 filed 947,924

cum.

convertible

preference

shares to be offered for subscription
by common stock¬
holders on 'the basis of one new share for each 17 held
of record Mar. 29, with rights to
expire Apr. 16. Price
—By amendment. Proceeds — For repayment of bank
loans, and construction. Office—4 Irving Place, N. ,Y.

Underwriters—Morgan Stanley & Co., and First Boston
Corp., N. Y.
Construction Design, Inc.
Feb. 12, 1962

("Reg. A") 60,000

Price—$5. Busi¬

common.

ness—Remodeling, modernizing and expanding residen¬
tial and commercial properties. Proceeds—To make
struction loans to customers. Office—451 N. La

con¬

Cienega
Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Thomas Jay, Winston
& Co., Inc.,
Beverly Hills, Calif.
Consultants

ment

and Designers, Inc.
(3/22)
29, 1961 filed 180,000 common. Price—By amend¬
($12 max.). Business—Furnishes technically skilled

personnel

to

industry and

government.

Proceeds—For

selling stockholders. Office—650 11th Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writer—Shearson, Hammill & Co., N. Y.
Consumers

Mart of

8, 1962 filed 72,000

America, Inc.
common.

Price—By amendment.

Business—Operation of discount department stores. Pro¬
common.

Price—By

—

—For

equipment, possible acquisitions and working cap¬
Office—1900 N. River
Rd., River Grove, 111. Under¬

writer—Divine & Fishman, Inc., N. Y.
Columbia Bancorporation

Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Underwriters—Bear, Stearns & Co. and Allen & Co., N. Y.
• Commerce
Drug Co., Inc. (4/17)
common.

Price—By amend¬
Business—Manufacture, packaging and
distribution of proprietary
drugs. Proceeds—For selling
stockholdes. Office—505 Court
St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Underwriter—Shearson, Hammill & Co., N. Y. '
ic Compumatix, lijc.
Feb. 26, 1962 ("Reg.
A") 296 units, each consisting of
one

$1,000 6%

Office—4701

Underwriters—Rittmaster,

Voisin

&

Co., N. Y. and Midland

Kansas City, Mo.
Continental

Securities Co., Inc.,

>

Industrial Electronics Corp.

Nov. 21, 1961 filed 200,000 common.
ture

$30,000,000 of convertible subordinated
debentures due 1987 and
1,500,000 common to be offered
in units.
Price—By amendment. Business—A bank hold¬
ing company recently formed to acquire stock of
First
Western Bank & Trust
Co., Los Angeles. Proceeds—For
acquisition of First Western stock, and
working capital.
Office—1000 Vermont

125 common stock
purchase warrants and

ceeds—For expansion and working
capital.
N.
Harlem Ave.,
Chicago.

ness—Development

Feb. 23, 1962 filed

100,000

Expressway, Jamaica,
Co., N. Y.

N. Y. Underwriter—Jay W.
Kaufmann &

Jan.

amendment. Business
Distribution of special types of
electric wire and cable, and the manufacture
of insulated
wire and cable for electronic and
electrical use. Proceeds

9, 1962 filed
ment (Max. 22).

—

Dec.

company. Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—

Investment Corp.,
Manchester, N. H.
Coleman Cable & Wire Co.
Jan. 18, 1962 filed 120,000 class A

Feb.

Price—$3. Business
Manufacture of miniature
coils for relays used in
computers, aircraft, missiles and
guidance systems. Proceeds—For general
corporate pur¬
poses.
Office—88-06 Van Wyck

•

(3/14)

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¬

ital.

Acceptance Corp. of Delaware
150,000 class A common. Price—$5.

Nov. 29, 1961 filed
pansion.

Clute

36 Lowell

—

and

porate purposes. Office—307 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore.
Underwriter—Stein Bros. & Boyce, Baltimore.

nance

Aug. 21, 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

City Finance Co., Inc. (3/26-30)
1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Engaged in the consumer
loan and fi¬
nance buisness in
Maryland. Proceeds—For general cor¬

of which 90,000 are
30,000 by stockhold¬

ton, D.C. Underwriter—Doft &,Co., N. Y.

Underwriter—To be named.
• Chestnut Hill
Industries, Inc. (3/26-30)
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 300,000 class A
common, of which
225,000 are to be offered by the company and 75,000 by

Inc. (3/19)
Jan. 15, 1962 ("Reg. A") $100,000 of 7% convertible sub¬

ers.

—

equipment

Chez Milhet,

Computer Components, Inc.
Dec. 6, 1961 filed
120,000 common,
to be offered by the
company and

porate purposes. Office—1012 14th
St., N. W., Washing¬

working capital. Address—Santurce, Puerto Rico.

stockholders. Price—$7.50, Business—Design and manu¬
facture 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.

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

ming systems, for solution of business problems
by the
use of digital
computers. Proceeds
For general cor¬

Chemical Coatings Corp.
Dec. 27, 1961 filed 75,000 common.
Price—$5 BusinessManufacture of paints particularly for use in tropical
and

.

subordinated debenture due March
15, 1972. Price—$1,012.50 per unit. Business—Electronic
data processing in
scientific fields. Proceeds—For
equipment, and working
capital. Office—440 S. Brentwood
Blvd., St. Louis. Un¬
derwriter—Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc., St. Louis.

to

Cambridge Fund of California, Inc.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 280,000 common. Price—By amend¬

.

tubes.

and

corporate purposes.
geles. Underwriter
Continental

Price—$2.50.

manufacture

Proceeds—For

debt

Amos

repayment

Treat

&

Continental

are

26,

1962

other

Co., Inc., N. Y.

Price—By amend¬

($3 max.). Business—A mortgage and

derwriter—To

and

Investment Corp.

investment company. Proceeds —
Office—Scottsdale Savings Bldg.,

Jan.

Busi¬
television pic¬

Office—2724 Leonis Blvd., Los An¬
—

Dec. 29, 1961 filed 2,000,000 common.
ment

of

be named.

filed

estate

working capital.
Scottsdale, Ariz. Un¬
.

Investment &

130,000

to be offered by the

real

For

Mortgage Co.

common,

of

which

100,000

and 30,000 by stock¬
holders; also $600,000 of 6J/2% convertible
subordinated
debentures due 1974. Price—For stock:
$5; for deben¬
tures: at par. Business—Company was
formed to hold
the stocks of a mortgage
company, an insurance
agency
and a real estate development
company. Proceeds
For
debt repayment and working capital.
company

Office—44 Forsyth

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St., N. W., Atlanta, Ga. Underwriters—Joseph Walker &
Sons, N. Y. and Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick, Inc.,
Nashville,' Tenn.
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Continental Leasing Corp.
June

"

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("Reg, A") 75,000 common.
Price — $4.
Proceeds—For purchase of new automobiles, advertising
and promotion, and working capital. Office—4 Gateway
Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. Underwriter — Cambridge Securities, Inc., N. Y.
•

19, 1961

.

Continental

Mortgage Investors
(4/2-6)
Dec. 21, 1961 filed 1,700,000 shares of beneficial interest,
Price—By amendment. Business—A business trust which

plans to qualify
ceeds—For

as

real estate investment trust.

a

investment.

Office—50

State

St.,

Pro-

Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Boston. Note—This firm
named

Federal

Mortgage

Aero

was

hs.

Cooke

Inc.

Co,,

Albert Voigt

and

Janov

Barnes

&

Inc.)

Capital

(Netherlands

(Andy)
(Van

&

Co.)

$5,000,000

Co., Inc.)

Securities

Mills,

Atlanta

Corp

Papekote,

Inc.
Lewis

Co.,

(Fialkov

&

Co.,

(Hill,

Darlington

(Flomenhaft, Seidler & Co.)

Steel Plant

(Hirsch

Widmann
-

&

Co..

Inc. )

13

•

Arwood Corp.

&

Co.;

Macco

♦"International

Strecch

(F.

230,000

Co.)

L.

•'

shares

Inc

300,000

Narrows

■

a.m.-

&

Redpath)

Co.)

&

PCS

Data

(Lenchuer,

,

(Paine,

Class A

Haven

&

&

Co., Inc.)

Co.,

200,000

Inc.,

Co.-

—-Common

Plastics

and

Harry Odzer

,

Wiatt
+

,

Capital

Co.,

.

1

Mills

&

250,000

<Grace &

Co.)

(Carl

Medex,

Common
Inc.)

M.

Loeb,

1

&

(Globus,

Atlantic
(G.

A.

Inc.)

&

Co.,

Inc.)

131,500

(White,

Weld

Rockower
•

.

Shenk

•

&

Co.

and

(Drexel

McDonald

Co.)

&

Inc.—

&

Co.)

<
150,000

284,586

Industries, Inc.

Inc.)

&

16

Inc.)

130,000

Mfg.

•

Co.)

$900,000

March

-Common

Marsh

$175,000

&

:

21

Co

—

—.Common

(Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Blyth Sp Co., Inc.,
:-•"'First Boston Corp., and W. C. Langley & Co.)-421,472'Shares




March

22

Brentwood
*v

41'""

Japan

Class A
J-/.;/.A
:

"

;

M.

Fund,
&

Co.,

&

■'■.7.777/''

Inc.)

7'.

$286,875

.

7,

———..Common
&

Co.)

shares

53,829

Common

Inc
Paine,

and

Webber, Jackson & Curtis
Co.. Ltd.) $25,000,000

Securities

Units

Liederman

E.

,7

Inc.)

Common

Stearns

Co.;

Inc.)

Common

$300,000 7

Securities.

inc..

&

Co.,

Inc.)

$1,700,000

Common

_i—

,

Planned

Inc.)

$100,000

Lithoid,

&

Garey

Inc.)

Co.,

$1,000,000

Hamilton,

(jr.),
(L.

F.

Inc.

Taylor

&

Co.,

.

(T.'-J.

P-G Products

(Thursday)

t.Kahn

$360,000

Rothschild

&

Co.)

103,000

Common

shares

Capital

Bowling Corp.____———

New World Laboratories, Inc
.

Inc.)
—

—

(Jennings, Mandel & Longstreth)

7;

/

—Common

Inc.—

(Godfrey,

Michaels

Common

Homes, Inc

(Best

Nationwide

Common

Lee

7/^777/7/*;' ^.7/7/7"

and Reuben Rose & Co.,

Inc.

(Globus,

Kraft

/

shares

L.

'

145,000 shares

Co.)

Common

and

Inc.

Jaylis Industries, Inc

Kogel,

Units
—Common

&

Co.,

Co.,

:

$444,000

$700,000

Vending Co

(D.

673,215

$279,000

Inc.)

—

Nikko

——Capital

Financial Corp.
Stone

&

fv

—Common

—

Co.,

Common

'

(Bache

(Wednesday)

*<Hayden,

100,000 shares

Products, Inc.

(Richard Bruce &

$718,750

Co

(Morgan Stanley & Co.)

$10,000,000

—Common

underwriting)

Blauner

D.

(Bear,

McLennan, Inc.—;
:

Metal

Interstate

$650,000

Inc.)

Inc.)

77/777

100,000 shares

Co.,

Co..

&

.

(Friday)

Long Island Lighting

v-7

A

and

$600,000

—

..—..Common

(To be named)

'

units

47,000

-Class

'■•;7;'/,f/;7'// $1,800,000
Honig's-Parkway, Inc.

;

Common

&

Units

—

Co.)

&

Seymour Blauner Co.

Inc.;

Corp

(No

•

(Milton

f777

Comm jn

,

(Hodgdon

Wham-O

$460,000

!

Securities

shares

Shopping Center Limited
Partnership

shares

^

-

Units

Lieberbaum

and

Becker

G.

Leasing

$2,500,000

Inc.)

$332,500

Inc.)

Co.,

Corp.-

r

West Falls

A

Co.

&

(Sunshine

Co.,

Corp.)

shares

..Common

Realty Trust of Philadelphia—_Ben. Int.

.

$300,000

Realty Corp.——

&

125,000

I
Parks &

Honora, Ltd.

Films, Inc.

Stieglitz)

Happy House, Inc.—

(Tuesday)

Sc Co.)

7

;

—Class A

&

Investors

Everett

(Midland

Hillside

Class A

Co.)

>7;

—

Halle

and

Sprayregen, Haft & Co.)

■'

Capital

Inc

<fc

Common
$400,000

(Federman, Stonehill & Co.)

General

-Common

Curtis)

-Common

—

Inc.)

Co.,

4c

E.

R.

(A.

$287,500

(Midland Securities Co., Inc.) 75.000 shares

ft.
•

,.

shares

147,000

Gateway Chemicals, Inc

140,000 shares

Jackson, &

Co.

Cohon

A

.Common

Lighting Products, Inc
(Globus,

March

$600,000

Class

Co.)

Co., Inc.—^

Scientific

'7 Franklin

157,500 shares

Group,

&

(Netherlands Securities Co.,

Recco, Inc.

Common

___

shares

(Rodetsky, Walker & Co., Inc. and Boenning

Universal

(Morris

First

Common

Planning

(Balogh

shares

Class

Brothers,

•

f.

shares

100,000

| First Republic Corp. of America

units

175,000 shares
Inc.)

Becker

Corp.
&

(G.

Common

Policy-Matic Affiliates, Inc

—Common:

Ridge Tool Co
-

Lunar

shares

110.000

9,000

(Ehrlich, Irwin & Co., Inc.)

sharees

Industries, Inc.——

Saxton

Co.)

&

Fastline Inc.

Co.——————Common

(Putnam
5

Common
150,000

Co.)

;- f

—.Common

Industries, Inc.———

shares

Kollmorgen Corp.

,

.Common

-

North

Rhoades

100,000

Units

Motti,

G.

(I.

—

(Putnam

*

Inc.

20

First Hartford

Common

"-'(Lehman Brothers) 349,590 shares

Hayden Publishing Co., Inc
:

Delford

units

Common

Webber,

March

Common

Manufacturing Co.—
'

,

j

.

7

(Stein Brothers & Boyce) 110,000 shares

(McDonnell

'

(Offering. to stockholders of Waltham Precision instrument
Co.', Inc.T-^-168,250 shares underwritten by Sterling,

Franklin

Allyn

Concors Supply

Units

Plastics, Inc.

(Paine,

shares

Electro-Mec Instrument Corp.
„

$300,000

& Co._

(Roth

;

David

Youthcraft Creations,

.Common

Co.)

&

7
,

Laboratories, Inc._!rCommon

Finance Co« Inc..-w

City
'C M

f Conductron

O'Connor,

Inc.

(Investment

$300,000

Corp.-

(Drexel

-

-

■

$375,000

-

(Norman)

"Wiggins

'

Diamond

Debentures

;

and Merrill Lynch, Pierce,V
Inc.) $10,000,000

Smith

&

■

•

.4

(Schwabacher & Co.; J. Barth & Qo.;<and Bear, Stearns &
Co.) 135,000 shares

Common

—

Inc.)

Inc.--

"

Class A
C.

$310,000

Inc.)

100,000

(Laren Co.)

$375,000

Pools

&

Pierce,
shares

Corp.
(A.

Common

Wade, Wenger ServiceMaster Co.

Common

(Alessandrini

Lynch,

120,000

(Stevens, Hickey & Co.)

(A.

Co.»

Corp.

135,000 shares

-

Common

Inc.)

Chestnut Hill Industries, Inc._—-Class A
(Clayton Securities Corp.) $2,250,000 ",//•v'7 .;/f
Citizens Life Insurance Co. of New York—Common

.

Inc

(Ezra Kureen Co.)

Homes, Inc.—

shares

(F. Eberstadt & Co.) 480,000 shares

,

Bilnor

shares

Inc..

Ahalt

(William,

Ultra

(Pacific Coast Securities Co.) $300,000

DeLuxe

/

Common

Trygon Electronics Inc

$165,485

Best Plastics Corp
Blue

Common

60,000

'

*

Webber, Jackson & Curtis and American Securities

Univend

Co.)

Co.)

Merrill

and

Laboratories,

Becton, Dickinson
■

&

Smith

&

Bebell & Bebell Color

Common

(S. D. Fuller & Co,)

Common
-Common

b. Cantor

Common
shares

68.000

Co., Inc.; M. L. Lee & Co., Inc. and
Jenks, Kirkland & Co.) $525,000
}

Brothers

Fenner

.

(Clayton Securities Corp.)

(Thursday)

(g,

&

Lestrange

Fenner

Class A

Texas Tennessee Industries, Inc

Inc.) $700,000

(Roman & Johnsort)

<•

shares

250,000

!

(Lehman Brothers

Planning Corp. and E. J.
Co.) $200,000

(Edward Hindley & Co.)

,

' 1

.

Common

Tel-A-Sign, Inc.

.Debentures

^

Engineering

&

Baxter

Inc

Cos.,

Plastics

(Searight,

& Co.) $40,000,000

Spartan International Inc.—

Bechtold

Inc.)

Co.)

Laboratories, Inc,
(Lehman

.^-Common

Seg Electronics Co., Inc

Eq. Tr. Ctfs.

(Bids 12-noon MT) $4,830,000

March 15

Baxter

Murphy & Co.) $400,000

Corp.)

$1,000,000

(Continental Securities Corp.)

Co.,

&

&

Sulzberger,

(Arthurs.

^

Processing, Inc.--—-——-Common

Covato

Jomar

shares

Coastal Acceptance Corp

U-Tell Corp.

Common

Co

Blauner

D.

Hallowell,

Ripley Industries, Inc., and

Boyce and Vickers, McPherson & Warwick, Inc.)

(M. H. Woodhill,

Inc.)

Co.,

&

Bacharach Industrial Instrument Co

120,000 shares

(Arnold Malkan & Co.,

South European Pipeline Co.—
Morgan Stanley & Co. and Lazard Freres

Rose

American Cardboard & Packaging Corp.—Common

Executive.

Finance

(-Wednesday)

(Eastern Investment Corp.)

Reuben

and

.

$65,000,000

Denver & Rio Grande Western RR

Inc.

(Dempsey-Tegeler

250.000 shares

-

Common

Pacific Lumber Co

(Milton

Jones

Inc

Capital

Co.,

Alberto-Culver

,

.

.

.Common

$400,000

$2,000,000

——-Debentures

&

&

Bruce

T

(Blair

Bonds

199,000

(Richard

$616,0(30

$660',000

Industries, Inc.———

&

Products, Inc.—

Ainsbrooke Corp

Alaska

Corp..

$375,000

(Monday)

Agency Tile Industries,

.

-

Co

Corp.)

(International Services Corp.) $300,000

v

-

Common

Securities

(Shields

-r --

120,000 shares

Inc

.Common

Redpath)

W

Co.,

Automotive

'

.

shares

—

&

-

Roberts

Oxford

Airtronics International Corp. of Florida—Common
(Stein. Bros. &

Admiral

Common

Pir-O-Wood Industries,

'March 14

$35,000,000

Common

(Baruch Brothers & Co., Inc.)

shares

100,000

& Co. and Mitchum,
Templeton) 150,000 shares

(Professional

1

100,000 shares

PST)

Debentures
:

Common

Camera

shares

-Common

200,000

Parker

^^

shares

- _

8:30

Parker

Premium

"

'(Bids

165,000

Common

(Pearson,

Common

Pacific Gas & Electric Co
"

Common
Noel & Co.)

Orlando Paper Corp.

-

Common

i.
—
Rossman & Co.)

$306,000

(Friday)

March 26

Co.) $200,000

(Street & Co., Inc.)

$1,725,000

Products

(Burnham &

Miss Elliettej Inc.-

23

v

Co.)

Co.)

Corp.

(Underhill

Units

Peabody

Motor Parts

Inc.)

&

(Clayton Securities Corp.)

;

—

Alstyne,

Realty

Common
&

Kine

(Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Mitchum,^ Jones &
Templeton) $4,000,000

1—Common

—

Stearns

Decorel

$600,000

(George K. Baum & Con

(Kidder,

-

(Bear,

March

!

Common

JVlacco/ Realty Co.-

Common

Devices, Inc

Co.)

&

Common

America

of

$255,000

(Eastman:Dillon, Union Securities^ & Co.)

(Tuesday)/

(Naftalin

Co.)

Common

Inc

Krylon, Inc.
.

,

Common

Securities

Westmore, Inc

-4:;

shares

(L. F.), Inc

March

$1,500,000

Corp

(Auchincloss,

(Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co.) $486,000

American Micro

Corp

(Goldman, Sachs & Co.) 454,000 sharese

King Louie Boiling Corp.-———Common

-Common

150,000

Common
Hardy

by

(Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers)

Kay Foods Corp.———————Class A

Scientific & International Corp..--Com.
.

180,000 shares

$620,000

(Hardy

Corp.

34

page

...Common

Co.)

National Dairy Products Corp

Common
Inc.)

Palm-Aire

Printing

011

Corp.__

stockholders—underwritten

to

$600,000

$250,000

(Joseph Wv Hurley & Co.) $208,980

Struthers

Florida

shares

Inc

Hammill &

■

$675,000

(Brand, Grumet & Seigel, Inc. and Kesselman & Co., Inc.)

.--.Common

Equipment Corp..

•

Inc.)

232,500

Industries, Inc

House of

$3,000,000
._

(Shearson,

(Hemphill, Noyes & Co.) 185^000 shares

..Common

,

——

Continued

Palm-Aire

(Offering

Price

holding

For expansioii and workihg capital,

i

Florida

Common

Coast

(Bache

137,500 shares

Grimm)

&

Spiral Metal Co., Inc,

Co.,

Corp

Glass-Tite

Common

,____

Puerto Rico Capital Corp.-—

Burnside

Lodges,

(Auchincloss,

Common

Inc.)

,,

$2,000,000

Family Record Plan, Inc..

$300,000

Inc,)

Paramount Foam Industries

Milhet,

(Van

152,500 shares

_____

(Edward

Co.)

Industries, Inc

Cosnat

Common

—_

Co.)

A financial investment and

-

comPany* Pr°ceeds

Debentures

District Photo, Inc

Capital

&

Brines*

*

Common

(Street &

^.Common

duPont

I.

Corporate Funding Corp. (4/10-12)
("Reg. A") 75,000 class A common.

(Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc.) $555,000

(Jennings, Mandel & Longstreth) 125,000 shares
(Francis

#

Jan. 9, 1962

shares

(Reiner, Linburn & Co.)

Chez

Inc.) $300,000

Industries, Inc

&

Langley & Co.)

Mount

.

Common

Johnson Electronics, Inc
Melnor

Singer

(Robinson-Humphrey Co.,

Carmer

...Common

(B. G. Harris & Co.,

C.

Motor

Burton

shares

:

Rental

213,427

Corp.

(Pacific

(Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Edward D. Jones
& Co.) 99,288 shares

Haltone

& Co., Chicago, 111., and J. R. Williston & Beane, N. Y.
Offering—Expected in late April,

Common

—

Co.)

>

fice—716 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Underwriters—Cruttenden, Podesta & Co. and A. C. Allyn

,

copy machines,
etc. Proceeds—For

Inc
B.

\ •

f. subord. debens.

s.

due

elec-

,

Berne of Calitornia, Inc

$500,000

200.000

Coral Ridge Properties, Inc.
Feb. 5, 1962 filed $5,000,000 of 6V4%

Consultants and Designers, Inc

Corp.——
&

.....

,

Corp
Co.

and

.

Realty & Petroleum Corp

(W.

Common

Inc.)

systems

office

of

7'

.

general corporate purposes. Office—5642-50 N. Western
Ave., Chicago, Underwriter—Kenneth Kass, N. Y.

(Monday)

(Mortimer

$300,000

Co.,

Alstyne, Noel & Co.)

Griesedieck

19

Astro-Science

Fidelity America Financial Corp.——...Common
Gard

distribution

(Troster,

Artlin

Capital

Century Brick Corp. of America
(Sandkuhl &

the

Capital

American

...Common

Dickson

S.

Inc.
125,000 common.
of high vacuum

laboratory equipment,

March

Allied

$320,000

Corp

■

33

1977 (with attached 10-year warrants to purchase
1,100,000 class A common). Price
By amendment. Business—Development and saie of land. Proceeds—For conPrice—$3.75. Busi- / struction, possible acquisitions and working capital. Of-

nhS&v

,

(R.

J.),

machines and

Kleiner, Bell & Co. and Rittmaster, Volsin & Co.) 150,000 shares

Carolinas

.7

For expansion and

—

%%

$310,000

——

Unseeds

„

Common

Co..

Besco Enterprises, Inc
<

Co.)

&

'

■

tronic equipment. Proceeds — For debt repayment and
general corporate purposes. Office—145 Water St., South
Norwalk, Conn. Underwriters—John R. Maher Associates and Bull>& Low, N. Y.
; -

Common

Industries, Inc

(David

(F.

Dec. 29, 1961 filed
ness—Manufacture

(Monday)

&

7,

9340 James Ave., S., MinneapoUnderwriter—Brandtjen & Bayliss, Inc., St. Paul.

photographic

Investors.

Co

7' '."'-f

V'''

(Allen

Electronic Products
,(Roth

'

V

and training devices.
working capital. OWice

NEW ISSUE CALENDAR
March 12

'' v

7

:

Control Dynamics, Inc. (5/2-6)
Oct. 24, 1961 filed 500,000 common. Price—$1.15. Business—Development and production of electronic testing

Boston.

Underwriters—Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y. and Paine,.
formerly

-

'"'f

'

(1185)

&

McDonald &

100.000 shares

Common

'

Co., Inc.)' $300,000

Manufacturing Co., Inc
Peck

and

Cohn &

Co.)

110,055

Common
shares

Common
150,000

shares

V-L.

—.

*

Continued

on

page

34

34

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

(1186)

Co.

&

Underwriter—R. F. Dowd

Broadway, N. Y.

Office—39

80,000 common. Price—$3.
■ cosmetics.
Proceeds—For
debt repayment, working capital and other corporate
purposes. Office—15 Clinton St./Yonkers, N. Y. Under¬
Jan.

A")

("Reg.

29,. 1962

Business—Manufacturer

writer

-

of

in

April.

-

'

.

'

■

Z

(3/19-23)

Cosnat Corp.

May 26, 1961 filed 231,444 common, of which 165,000 are
to be offered for public sale by the company and 66,444
outstanding by the present holders thereof/Price—To be
supplied! by amendment.-Business — The manufacture
and distribution of phonograph records. Proceeds—For
the repayment of debt, and working capital.- Officer—315
W. 47th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Van Alstyne, Noel &

Southwest

<D.

&

Co.,

Rico

Land

(Milton

RF

(Bids

Common

Interonics, Inc
(Arnold

Malkan

——Common

:—

C.

(A.

Southern

Growth

Securities

Sterner

Lighting, Inc.

(Finkle

:

Thomasville

Furniture

(Hornblower

$299,000

Co.

&

and

(Milton

D.

Blauner

United

Hamilton,

Taylor

(McDonnell &

(Globus,

Inc.

and

First

Philadelphia

'.i

—

Calumet

Molecular

&

&

Co.

Units

Co.,

&

:

,

Inc.)

(S.

Fuller

D.

&

&

Co.)

&

150,000

Co.)

21

160,000

♦

shares

Brands,

541,000 shares

March

28

■

.

Co..

Inc.)

(Gianis

&

Co.,

Inc.)

600

units

Cryplex Industries, Inc
(Herbert

Maul

Bros.

International, Inc.Langley & Co.)

550,000

shares

Inc.)

Inc.)

(Kidder, Peabody & Co.) 100,000 shares

National

Cash

(Offering

Ten-Tex

stockholders—underwritten

Read

National

Common

Cash

&

Co., Inc.)

Register

Dillon,

by

(Bids 11

'

v,

319,090 shares

April 11

;Boston

to

Corp.

Southern

stockholders—underwritten

common

end

Morgan

Stanley

&

Pacific Co
(Bids 12

Co)

by

947 024

April 12

First
shaves

EST)

]

i

Clute

Dalen

(Offering

Common

108,000 shares

&

Co..

Alson

Inc.) $75,000

& Son, Inc

Altman

Inc.)

(Hemphill,

Noyes

&

Co.

000

$1,500,000

(S.

{

(Singer.

underwriting)

(Kidder,

$330,000

General Battery & Ceramic
Corp

Fastpak,

.Common

Ar

Co

and

Distributors, Inc

(General Securities Co., Inc. and
>

Kiddie
Lincoln

(Carl

C.

Hannett

Common

Kasdan

& Co..

Co.)

1,000

Fund, Inc

Orion

units

Corp.)

951,799

.(Ira

-

National

Haupt

Co.)

$6,375,000

Equipment & Plastics • Corp
(Cortlandt

Investing

Corp.)

■

v/

•-

'




.

Co.)

&

■J-',

.

,

shares

$750,000

v;:■

t.,

i-*,: 'V-c;

-

•

•
.

/

Common
$800,000

Common

.

& Co.)
>'■;

■

•

$247,500
'

■

'.-V-

.....

*■

,

r

^

/

Co.)

157,500

shares

I

v

&

Inc.)

Co.,

>
,.

&

Co.,

Inc.)

Securities

Co.,

$300,000

&

Co.,

.

•

June 7

Inc.)

-

'

<

$350,000

i

-

(Thursday) ;;

^

——.Bonds

(Thursday)

-

-

—.Debentures

$25,000,000

^

.

•

Bonds

—t,——

(Bids to be received) $23,000,0001--.-'-

November
.

,

-

(Wednesday)

28

Southern Electric

-

•

.

-

——Preferred

(Bids to be

$325,000

Casualty & Surety Co.^__—_____-CapitaI
(Offering to stockholders—underwritten by Kidder
Peabody
Co.) ^87,50.0 shares

Common

'{

*

Georgia Power Co

-

—.Common

.

(Tuesday) "

November 7
-

/.

Common

$300,000

.—Common

$600,000

Inc.)

—_—_—_—

Georgia Power Co.„
•

Inc.)

,>

Co.,

(Bids 11 a.m. EST)

I—

200,000 shares

———

&

Columbia Gas Systems, Inc.—

--...Commo^
& Co.)

(Monday)

(Bids to be received) $17,000,000

,

...Common

—

Co.,

—

Common

Corp.

^.Bonds

$20,000,000

be deceived)

{Alabama Power Co._

shares

-————Common
Inc.)

Corp._____

Gilhart

May 31

—--Capital//

200;000

•;

New England Electric System^——.
Common
(Offering to stockholders—^bid$ to be received) 872,876 shares

$625,000

Inc._!

Productions,

•

(Tuesday)

(Troster, Singer & Co. and Federman, Stonehill & Co.)
175,000 shares
"

May 29

_____Common

(Arnold Malkap;& Co., Inc.)

■

$575,000

Inc

•Sportsways, Inc.

Western

Common

Inc.)

Great Eastern Foods Corp._______

Units
Inc.)

Spears (L. B.), Inc

.Common

.Commoto

—

Bayliss,

Inc

■

(Switzer

Common

(Terrio .&

-F-i

(Bids

;

May 28
:

Common
—Common

Mackie,

Rhoades

■

■

shares

160,000

Industries, Inc.—

D.

shares

150,022

Utah Power & Light Co
——Common
"J'—— (Bias to be received) $10,000,000

.

Seashore Food Products, Inc.

(Pacific Coast Securities Co.) 550,000 shares
1

150,000

(Kidder, Peabody <fc Co. and Dean Witter

$525,000

National Vended Ski Insurance Corp.

5

.-

Co.)

&

Malkan

Electronics

Inc.)

"

$300,000

Producers Cotton Oil Co

shares

Municipal Investment Trust Fund, Pa. Series—Ints.
■

Loeb,

(A.

—Common

(Horizon 'Management
;

Inc )

(Scott, Harvey & Co., Inc.) $450,000

Units
&

:

■

-

—Common

Co

Peabody &

Nigeria Chemical

$425,000

Kimball

M.

(Albion

Inc.)

Rides, vine
(Paul

.

S.

$3,900,780

_—

Hanna-Barbara

Robinson-Humphrev CoM Inc.) 17 000 units

Interworld Film
j

Inc.

(Arnold

(Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc.) 200,000 shares :

.International Airport Hotel Systems, Inc.-^Units
«Barhe

Fuller &

Beane

&

(Meade

.

•

May 22

underwriting)

Computer Control Co., Inc.__

—Conftnon

►

.—Capital

/ Utah Power & Light Co..—.—

Securities

Fuller

D.

Co.,

Debs.

Co

(Tuesday)

Books,

'

$6,000,000

Certified Industries, Inc

$300,000

Vending Co., Inc
(No

(S.

;•

^

(Monday)

V
received)

(Bay State Electronics Corp

Common

(Seymour, Bernard & DeBoff, Inc.)

Folz

Mercury

stockholders—no

D.

&

Enterprises,

May 15

$35,000,000

(Monday)
Manufacturing Co

shares

Electronic Controls, Inc

to

$276,000

$75,000,000

(Switzer & Co., Inc.)

American Bolt & Screw Mfg. Corp

-Ben. Int.
Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis)^

and
1

May 7

(Friday)

(Albion

Common

Continental Mortgage Investors

•

Common

April 16

Capital

Investments & Funds,

(Stone,

*

Bonds

be

Weld

(Brandtjen

shares

— ■—'-v,

..Common
Inc.)

Control Dynamics, Inc

Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.Common

,

Inc

(Francis H.)

to

—

__Bonds

EST)

a.m.

=

.Common
shares

(Wednesday)

May 2

'

{Hargrove

$7,995,000

Richling, Inc.—

Studios
<

$20,000,000

Mississippi Power Co
(Bids

(Monday)
(Carreau & Co.)

Cinema

'

Bonds

(Thursday)

April 13
April 2
Aronoff &

11:00

-.

$1,250,000

Corp.)

(Bids to be received)

(White,

Common
shares

250,000

-

"Wiley (John) & Sons, Inc

Pref.

Equip. Trust Ctfs.
noon

CST)

$300,000

Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph

(Wednesday)

(Bids

■

(Offering

$300,000^

Pacific Power & Light Co

Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc

V

(Tuesday)

May 1

$300,000

320,000

(White, Weld & Co.)

$50,000,000

29 {(Thursday)

March

T-r )

Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers, inc.:

.Debentures

Co

(Dillon, Read & Co., inc.)

Inc.)

Securities

(Irving J. Rice & Co.,

Class A

Co.)

a.m.

r

Common

—

Inc.)

Corp.

'

&

Co.,

&

800,000 shares

Northern Indiana Public Service Co

Register Co..

to

French,

Dowd

(Blair & Co., Inc.) 230,000

(Tuesday)

(White, Weld

Debentures
Shearson

$6,359,900

■Sperti Products, Inc

—Capital
&

F.

(Standard

,

.First Lincoln Financial Corp

.Common

-Debentures
$20,000,000

EST)

a.m.

(Monday)
(R.

-.-Common

(R. F. Dowd & Co.,

$300,000

:

-

'Morse Electro Products Corp.——1 _-_-Debentures»■

$637,500

_—

Fricke

11

Jaap Penratt Associates, Inc.

Common

Moyer,

—■

iCapital

stockholders—underwritten by

to

April 30

,

Capital

'Corporate Funding Corp

Common

Young & Co.,

Inc

April 10

Units

$300,000

!

Hammill & Co.)

$325,000^

Specialties Co

(Woodcock,

(Wednesday)

Industries, Inc

/

$2,450,000

Inc.)

(Friday)

April 27

*

Arnav

•

Class A

Co.,

.Livingston Oil Co

Common

(A. C. Allyn & Co. and Hornblower & Weeks)

Vitamin

/

Co.___

(Bids

Common

Inc

&

{

Co.)

&

Common

250,000 shares

(Sandkuhl & Co.,

shares

Penzell

and

(Tuesday)

(Offering

Turbodyne Corp.

—Class A

Co.

&

Appalachian Power Co

$300,000

Inc

C.

(W.

Joshua

Pioneer

-—Class B

Co.)

Harvey &

Taylor

(Kidder, Peabody & Co.) 371,750 shares

Common

Inc.)

Common

Inc

Hamilton,

April 24

$750,000

Co.)

&

shares

65,000

'

Capital

(Scott,

,

$990,000

[Power Industrial Products Co

Western

•

i'•

,

Co.)

&

(Shearson, Hammill & Co.)

Common

and Irving Weis

Inc.

Co.,

Towers Marts

-Common
Estabrook

and

Co.,

(Roth & Co.. Inc.)

Taylor

$7,500,000

Lestrange

(John

.Common

.

& ;CO>.)

Co., Inc

Tec-Torch

-

Noyes

—

Allyn

(Burnham

$150,000

^Garden State Small Business Investment Co.__Com.

(Hemphill,

C.

$452,008

Common

Co._

Voron Electronics c,oip.__

$325,000

Common

underwriting)

Presidential Realty Corp

(Tuesday)

Hamilton,

;

(Monday)

Livestock Financial Corp.___

367,000 shares

Dielectrics, Inc.—

(Street

(Cruttenden, Podesta & Co.) $1,600,375

(Godfrey,

Corp.—.Bonds

166,666 shares

—Common

(Switzer & Co.,

PneumoDynamics Corp.

$5,925,000

(Wednesday)

Fashions,

(Godfrey,

Common

Multronics, Inc.

—Common

Industries, Inc
.

Lee

Kidder, Peabody & Co. and
'Model, Roland & Co.) 56,225 shares

'Publishers
March 27
1

Ctfs.

Equip. Trust

Duro Pen Co., Inc
Common
(Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co.) $500,000 {—

.{Lehman Brothers;
:

$306,000

Corp.)

Co.)

Coast Securities

$300,000

.

Common

Loral*.,.Electronics Corp.——

,

;

-Common

-

Pacific

RR._

(Arthurs,

stockholders—no

to

70,000 shares

Co., Inc.)

Welcome Baby, Inc

100,000 shares
Common

and

Inc.

(White, Weld & Co. and Stone & Webster Securities Corp.)
$40,000,000
V { f

Debentures

Corp

& Sons

(A.

..Common
Inc.)

Co..

&

Co.,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Foods, Inc

(Offering

$1,590,000

Packaging Co., Inc.———

(Godfrey,

April 18

—Common

Gulf American Fire & Casualty Co

Co.)

&

(Hill,:Darlington & Grimm) 47,000 shares

Valley Metallurgical Processing Co._

-Common

.1

&

April 23

Industry Capital Corp.

Inc.)

^ —Vvn

$25,000,000

(Bids.to be received)

,

(Monday)

™Common

Co.,

&

Moore

(Missouri Pacific

$90,000,000

Light Co

Employees

(E. J.)

*Extrin

Trans-Pacific Research & Capital, Inc.—-Common" /

.

&

(Burnham & Co.)

shares

150,000

Airlines

$8,000,000

(Hay, Fales & Co. and McLaughlin, Kaufman & Co.)

Magnus

Trans-Alaska Telephone Co.

Bonds

Dialight Corp.

shares

343,551

Bonds

EST)

a.m.

'

(Goldman, Sachs & Co.) 210,000 shares

[-.—Common

Taylor

Hamilton,

?Brach

'

^

Common

Industries, Inc

Tork Time Controls, Inc.
(Godfrey,

April 9

——..Common

Weeks)

&

(Bids 11

>.y

$440,000

Co.)

&

35

page

,

—Common

Sun City Dairy Products, Inc

on

(Tuesday)

"Jiffy Steak

—Common

(Midwest Planned Investments, Inc.)

Continued

Commerce Drug Co., Inc._^
;
(Shearson/ Hammjll & .Co.)

(Offering to stockholders, no underwriting) $2,675,000

$600,000

Corp.)

Government

75,000 shares

Industries, Inc

(Capital

<

—Common

Allyn •& Co. and Bioren & Co.)

April 17

repay¬

Office—626
Underwriter—B lank,

Appalachian Power Co.—

(Friday)

April 6

300,000 shares

(Federman, Stonehill & Co.)

Southeastern Propane Gas Co

/

:

.

(Offering to stockholders—bids 11 a.m. EST) 670,000 shares

$2,000,002

Co., Inc.)

(Robinson-Humphrey

Royaltone Photo Corp.

Y.

N.

Inc.,

Proceeds—For

•

(Thursday)

Pacific Power

Class A

Co.,

Debentures

April 5

$200,000

Co.)

&

*

Republic-Franklin Life Insurance Co,_

received)

be

to

&

other corporate purposes.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Co., Inc., N. Y. '

Ave.,

Futura

Co

(First Boston Corp. and Lehman Brothers)

115,000 shares

Blauner & Co., Inc.)

D.

precise'"tolerances.

Lieberman &

300,000 shares;

Ohio Oil Co

——Common

Publications, Inc.——

to

{(Raymond

Orleans Public Service

$5,000,000

(Lieberbaum & Co. and Morris Cohon & Co.)

Pyramid

New

Kahn

Products, Inc.

,

Development Corp.—-Units

&

Atkins

(Wednesday)

April 4

$676,500

Group)

hardware

Common

Inc
Corp.)

Metal

ment Of debt and

Common

(Standard Securities

M.

Nov. 20, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business
—Manufacture
of
metal
components *and
electronic

shares

124,900

Beane)

&

Proceeds
Broadway, N. Y.

Office—1775

Bernard

—

—

Custom

shares

120,000

—

Willislon

R.

World Scope Publishers,

-Capital

.

Island, Inc.—Common

(Investment Planning

Puerto

(J.

125,000 shares

(Lehman Brothers and J. Barth & Co.)

Product Research of Rhode

Corp.

$810,000

Inc.)

Co..——

Instrument

Precision

„.__Common

Corp..

Liederman

E.

Co.)

sales finance company.

repayment.

Cryplex Industries, Inc. (3/28)
v. V '
Oct. 10, 1961 filed 80,000 common. Price—$3.75. Busi¬
ness
Manufactures plastic jewelry, dress accessories
and novelties. Proceeds—For product 'development, mov¬
ing expenses and working capital. Office—37 E. 18th St.,
N. Y. Underwriter
Herbert Young & Co., Inc., N. Y.

-Common

Pipe & Foundry Co
(First

Finance

consumer

debt

Thursday, March 8, 1962

—

Department, Inc.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed $1,200,320 of 7% conv. subord. de¬
bentures
due
1974 and 54,560 common
shares to be
offered in 2,728 units, each consisting of $440 of deben¬
tures and 20
common
shares.
Price—$550 per unit.

Vassar

.

•

'Credit

Continued from page 33
Parker

—For

.

Offering—Expected in late April.

Coyle's Voting Machine Co.
>
Aug. 31, 1961 ("Reg. A") 10,000 common. Price—$14.75.
Business—The sale of punch card type voting machines.
Office—830 High St., Hamilton, O. Underwriter—John
A. Kemper & Co., Lima, O. Offering—Imminent... / *

UnderhiU "Securities* ^

—

Sometime

v:

;

ic Country Set, Inc.
Mar. 2, 1962 filed 150,000 common.' Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $8). Business—Design and manufacture of
sports and casual wear for girls and women. Proceeds
—F"or selling stockholders. Office — 1136 Washington
Ave., St. Louis. Underwriter—Goodbody & Co., N. Y.

'

Inc.

Yours,

Cosmetically

Business—A

the

as

Underwriter

Y.

N.

Inc.,

formerly

Co., N. Y. Note—This firm was known
Cosnat Record Distributing Corp.
;

Continued from page 33

.

received) $7,000,000

(Wednesday)

•

Generating Co._...

(Bids to be received) $6,500,000

-

7

.

,

.

•

s
^^.Bonds

.'

Volume

195

Number

Continued from page 34
Cut &

Dec. 20,

6140

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,

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

.

'■ $-i\)\• -'"v'vC;■

/■'

■

Radford

St., North Hollywood, Calif.
Costello, Russotto & Co., Los Angeles.

.■

Curl, Inc.

Icommon. Price—$4.

1961 filed 100,000

^ Dextra

Business

&
-:t

y

9,

1961 -filed

—To

100,000

&.Dashy Inc.

7:

,t,

^

(

share and

and

:

and

Diversified Collateral Corp.
28, 1961 filed 78,000 common/Price

Dec.

'•

—

Denie's

'Jan.

(John

A.) 3 Sons

15, 1962 filed 200,000

ment.

•

Price—By

Sept.

small

plant.

Devco

unit

for

to

class

10

B

start-up

expenses

for

Lexington

Inc.

Cohon

Device

Seels^ lnc*:2,j 1962 ("Reg. A")»-100,000

Business—Manufacture
tronic and
ment.

missile

equipment

*^r
Price—$2.25.

common.

of hermetic

seals

for

indi$stry.\ Proceeds—For
and




working

capital.

the

elec¬

debt repay¬
Office—7235

tures, $1^000; for stock, $10.
tate.

Business—General real

development of
real properties, repayment of debt and
engineering, etc.
Office—10 E. 40th St., New York. Underwriter—To be
named.
'

-

in March.

v/-- •/

Econ-O-Pay, Inc.

Oct.

26, 1961

Valley
are

filed

sness—A dealer

General

offered

es¬

Proceedis—For the acquisition and

1,000,000

recourse

corporate

City,

/

common, i

purposes.

N." D»

Price—$3.

finance business.

J

P

Busi^.

r o cee

'• Office—164 E.

Underwriter—Reserve

•///;■'

v''
d

s

Main

St.,
Funds, Inc.,

Valley City, N. D.

Business—Sale and servicing of home food freezers and
sale of bulk food to freezer owners. Proceeds—For
gen¬
eral corporate purposes.

Roosevelt, L. I., N. Y. Underwriter—Sentinel Securities

ness

,

,

—

For

Manufacture of formula feeds for livestock and

debt

repayment,

equipment

and

working capital.
Address—New Richmond, Wis. Underwriter—Kalman &
Co., Inc., St. Paul, Minn. /
V
-

Dover Construction Co.

/ Dec.

21,

1961

debentures due

amendment.

filed

$750,000 convertible subordinated
1972, and 100,000 common. Price
By
and

For

Office—2120 Green Rd., Cleveland.

working capital.
Underwriter—Mer-

-

rill, Turben & Co., Inc., Cleveland.

:•

—

Economy Food Enterprises Corp.
29,

debt

repayment

sale

of

and

100,000

common.

Price—$3.'

Office—180 Babylon Turnpike,

101

Cedar

Edu-tronics, Inc.
Oct.

27,

1961

filed 80,000 common.

Price—$4.

Business

—Distribution of electronic parts and equipment.

also

plans to
teaching/ machines.

.

manufacture

and« sell

Proceeds—For-

ment and other corporate purposes.

Com¬

electronic

product
develop¬
Office—136-05 35th

Ave., Flushing, N. Y. Underwriters—Packer-Wilbur &
Co., Inc. /(mgr.). and Earle Securities Co., Inc., N .Y.
/

Educational Aids

Co., .Inc.
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., Washington, D. C. Offer¬
Dec.

26, 1961

ing—Sometime in April.
Educator

Nov.

Offering—Expected sometime

in June.

/■//

& Executive Co.

30, 1961

filed 174,900

common.

Price—By amend¬

ment. Business—An holding company for insurance con¬
cerns. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office
—3857

Du!any Industries, Inc.
Feb. 26, 1962 filed 400,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $6.25). Business—The
canning and freezing
of foods.
Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—850
Third Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Blair &
Co., Inc., N. Y.
Food

A")

Planning Corp., and Bassior & Co., both of
St., N. Y. Offering—Imminent.

homes.

•

Dunhill

1961-("Reg.

—

Business—Construction

■Proceeds

•

Nov.

pany

convertible subordi¬
debentures due 1977. Price—By amendment. Busi¬

poultry, semolina and durum flour for spaghetti making,
swimming pools and inflatable toys, and machinery for
beat sealing and labeling plastic containers. Proceeds—

Business

Note—This company formerly
was named Diversified Small Business Investment
Corp.
Offering—Imminent.
//;/.- ;/v.//' "■:}'J'"/"'■*- " ;7''■ '
Feb.

be

nated

laboratory and
Ave., New York.

Co., N. Y.

Eastern Properties Improvement Corp.
Aug. 22, 1961 filed $1,500,000 of subordinated debenture?
due 1981 and 250,000 common shares. Price—For deben¬

:Price—$5.

.

business investment

&

common.

Doughboy Industries, Inc.
Feb. - 23,
1962 filed $4,000,000 of

Investment Corp.
■
'Sept. 27," 1961 filed 600,000 common;. Price—$5. Business

ris

60,000

,

a

company.'. Proceeds—For
general corporate purposes. Office—214 Engle St., Engle/woodi N. J. Underwriters—Lieberbaum & Co. and Mor¬

Proceeds—For investment in, a subsidiary
working capital. Office—147 Northeast Main St.,
Rocky Mount, N. C. Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co.,
Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected in April.

Donnkenny, Inc.
Feb. 20, 1962 filed 90,000 common. Price—$9. Business—
Design, .manufacture and sale of -misses' snortswear and
casual dresses. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office
—1407 Broadway, N. Y.
Underwriter—Brand, Grumet &
Seigel, Inc., N. Y
•

r

Small

subsidiaries.

and

N. Y.

shares

ment and working capital. Office—Stark Industrial
Park,
•Charleston County,/ S. C.; Underwriter—Johnson, Cole¬
man, Manning & Smith, Inc., Charleston, S. C.

stock, $2.50: For debentures, at par. Business—A hold¬
ing company for small loan and credit accident insurance

by the company and 100,000 by stock¬
Price—By amendment (max. $12). Business—
Design and manufacture of boys knit shirts, sweaters,
and pajamas. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—
J. 115 Broadway, N. Y.
Underwriter—Goodbody & Co.,

•

each

Investors,- Inc.
27, 1961 filed 10,000 common shares and $625,000
of 6V2% con. subord. debentures due 1972. Price—For

Curtis, N. Y.

holders.

1962

—A small

A")

Inc.

Eastern

Proceeds—For

Donmoor-lsaacson, Inc.
Feb. 26, 1962 filed 150,000
common, of which 50,000

unit. Business—Company plans to

Office—360

Developers

("Reg.

Washington, D>. C. Offering—Expected

("Reg. A") 10,000 common. Price—$12.50.
Business—Design- and manufacture of boats, marine
equipment and related products. Proceeds—For equip¬

•

1961

Manufacturing Co.,

Dec.

Mills, Inc.

27,

Aluminum

dows, doors, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment, plant
expansion, and working capital. Office—910 Line St.,
Camden, N. J. Underwriter—H. A. Riecke & Co., Inc.,
Philadelphia.

$25).;- Business—Design,
cleaners.

corporate
purposes.
Office—Red
Rock Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. Underwriter—Stan-Bee &
Co.,

Underwriter—None.

Jan. 18,

air

—

19, 1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common.
Price—$3.
Business—Manufacture and distribution of screens, win¬

1,and

/Proceeds—General

Price—By amend¬
manufacture and sale of

manufacture and utilize all kinds of chemical materials.

•Proceeds—For

of which
company

:

one

per

of

W.

Inc.

Business—Financing of shipments of business machines.

one warrant) on the basis of 3 units for each
5% preferred share held, 2 units for each 5% preferred

Price—$20

sale

Office—1801

("Reg. A") 56,000 common.
Price
$3.
Development and manufacture of electron-

—

Eastern

working capital. Office—1400 W. 94th St., Minneapolis.

.share and

field.

and

stockholders.

Feb.

Inc.

Underwriter—Paine, Webber, Jackson &
Offering—Expected sometime in May.

iSept. 28, 1961 filed 140,000 common with attached warr
-rants to purchase an additional. 140,000. shares to be
.offered for subscription by stockholders in units (of one

and

Co.,

selling

Ave., Chicago. Underwriter—H. M. Byllesby
Co., Chicago. Offering—Expected in April.

optical devices. Proceeds—For equipment, leasehold im¬
provements and working capital. Office—14745 B. Kes¬
wick St., Van Nuys, Calif. Underwriter—None.

Acceptance-Corp.

amendment> (max.

manufacture

Deuterium Corp.

held

Donaldson

filed 190,000

common.
Price—By amend¬
Business—Design, manufacture, and sale of elec¬
equipment, antennas, and microwave devices.

Business

Feb. 26, 1962 filed 80,000
common, of which 35,500 are
to be offered by the
company and 44,500 by stockholders.

and

stock

By amend¬

and general corporate purposes. Office — 25
Adelaide St., W., Toronto, Canada. Underwriter—Brewis
& White Ltd., Toronto.

Co.

.

and

and

Corp.

1962

if Dynetics,
Feb. 26, 1962

shares by stockholders. Price—50c. Business—
exploration and production of ores. Proceeds—For

The

building materials. Proceeds—For debt repay¬
working capital. Office—r373 Adams Ave,,
Memphis, Tenn. Underwriter—M. A. Saunders & Co.,
Inc., Memphis.
c". . /
j

A

&

'salaries

various

ment

&

Dolphin-Miller Mines Ltd.
3, 1961 filed 1,600,000 capital shares,
200,000 shares are to be offered by the

common.

Business—Purchase,

Underwriter

-—

29,

Proceeds—For

13,

Don

Homes, Inc. (3/15)
Dec. 11, 1961 ("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.
.

Discoiant

Oct.

DeLuxe

circuits

Belle Plaine

neapolis. Underwriter—Bratter & Co., Inc., Minneapolis.

Atlanta,

common/ Price-

development

new

Dynascan

400,000

/corporate. purposes.
Office—Atlanta Airport,
Ga.
Underwriter—Courts & Co., Atlanta.

i g n,

production
of
sub-systems.
Pro¬
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.

1961 filed 125,000 common.'Price—$4.50. Busi¬
ness—A small loan investment company. Proceeds—For
expansion. Office—707 Northwestern Federal Bldg., Min¬

.

sons,

electronic

Offering—Expected in early April.

Diversified
Dec.

Airlines, Inc.
7, 1962 filed 203,687 common. Price—By amend(Max. -$45). Business—The transporting of per¬
property and mail by air. Proceeds—For general

•ment

"packaged"

ment. Business—-A mortgage investment
company. Pro¬
ceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office-r-420 Lin¬
coln Road, Miami Beach, Fla.
Underwriter —• To be

Delta

-Feb.

e s

ceeds—For

—Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Washington, D. C.

/»

V

.

tronic test

-

../!"•

Electronics Corp.
("Reg. A") 143,000

22,31962

ment.

•

Delford Industries, Inc.
(3/26-30)
1
iSept. 28,v 1961 filed 95,000. common. Price—$3.50. Busi-ness-^-Manufacture of precision rubber extrusions. Pro¬
ceeds—Plant expansion, equipment, debt repayment and
working capital. Office—.82-88 Washington St.,. Middle-town, N. X. Underwriter—I. R. E. Investors Corp,;

Levittown, N. Y.

Jan.

(3/19-23)

Wisconsin Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C.

i

(4/23-27)'/ '

Co., Inc.

Business—D

Un¬

photographic
film
and
distributes ; wholesale
photographic equipment. Proceeds—For repayment of
debt, plant expansion, and working capital. Office—3306

framed

,

Pen

Jan.

named.

•

Inc.

—

Dyna-Mod

■

Office—417 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
Co., Philadelphia.

$3.

5,

prints

pictures, wood utility
.frames, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment, inventory,
and working capital. Office—444 Courtland St., Mundelein, 111. Underwriter—Clayton Securities Corp., Boston,

.Mass.

outdoor

develop¬

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.

80,000 are
by a stock¬

Fla. Underwriter—Bayes, Rose

metal

(3/15)

Duro

holder. Price—By amendment. Business—Processes and

-are to be offered by the
public and 30,000 by a stock¬
holder. Price—By amendment., Business—Production and

wood

&

District Photo,

Office—1191

purposes.

;

Jan.

Nov. 16, 1961 filed 100,000
common, of which
to be offered by the company and 20,000

Interiors, Inc.

corporate

working capital.

derwriter—Drexel

DecorelCorp.(4/23-27)
-Dec. 29, 1961 filed 120,U00 common, of iwhich -90,000

of

product

Mass. Underwriter—None.

"

Diamond Mills Corp.

Price—

warrant.

one

Underwriter

Co., N. Y.

and

erasers

Jan. 23,/1962 filed 250,000 common, of which 150,000 are
to be offered by the company and
100,000 by stockhold¬
ers.
Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of
women's nylon hosiery. Proceeds—For debt
repayment

•

-sale

For

—

gum

stockholders.

personnel,
advertising and working, capital. Office—-77 Searing
Ave., Mineola, N. Y. Underwriter-s-pMagnus & Co., N. Y.

>

;Feb. 26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 52,000 class-A common. Price—
$2.50. Business—Manufacture of draperies, furniture and
bed spreads for hotels and institutions. Proceeds—For

other

porch furniture. Proceeds

Feb.

if Diamond Dust Co., Inc.

<$3.25 per unit. Business—Manufactures educational toys
Proceeds—To repay debt and increase working capital.
Office—794 Union St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriters—
.Hampstead Investing Qorp., Aetna Securities Corp., and
Atlas Securities Corp., N. Y.

and

aluminum-frame

ment, equipment and working capital. Office—2 Barbour
Ave., Passaic, N. J. Underwriter—Preiss, Cinder & Hoff¬
man Inc., N. Y.

-Feb. 27, 1962 filed 102,000 common,-Price—$3. Business
v—Production of graded diamond powder and compound.
Proceeds—For
debt
repayment, additional

(H.) .Toy Corp.
Nov. 27, 1961 filed 100,000 capital shares (with attached
warrants to purchase an additional 100,000 shares), to be

expansion

of

cleaners. Proceeds
For advertising and
working capital. Office—325 Marginal St., East Boston,

—Burnham &

Underwriter—Morgan

,

•N. "V^. 22hd St.,. Miami,
& Co., IncI, N. Y.

Price—$4. Business

common.

★ Durasol Drug & Chemical Co.
23, 1962 ('Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—
Business—Manufacture and sale of rubber and

instruments. -Proceeds—For selling
Office—60 Stewart Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y,

Davis

Decorative

and

Price—By amend¬
Business—Design and manufacture of precisionengineered indicator lights for aircraft, missile and elec¬

capital

Inc., 50 Broadway, N. Y.

one

:

Dialighf Corp. (4/9-13)
22, 1961 filed 367,000 common.

Proceeds-^For debt repayment and
general corporate purposes. Office—2445 N. Miami Ave.,
.Miami, Fla. Underwriter—Stirling, /Linder & Prigal,

offered in units of

named.

purposes.

A-Kendall, " Miami, Fla. - Underwriter
3'/
7;;;/,

Dec.

'decorative* fabrics.

.

be

corporate

Co.

Duraiite Co., Inc.

ment.

Oct. 25, 1961 filed 108,000 cottimon; Price—$5. Business
.—Designing, converting, importing and distributing of

•

and

general

and

Carroll

—

tronic

California St., Ontario, Calif.
Co., Los Angeles.
David

manufacture

expansion

Address—Drawer

shares... Price—By
amendment.
Business—Publishing of technical reports
.and manuals covering electronic equipment.
Proceeds
—For debt repayment and
working capital. Office—945
JE.

filed 128,000

—Design and

-

Data-Design Laboratories,■ Inc.

Oct.

Nov. 29, 1961

St., N. Y. Underwriter—Jay W. Kaufmann

Co., n. y.

St., Brooklyn, Underwriters
Eisenberg Co., Inc., N. Y.

repayment,

Systems Corp.
Dec. 5, 1961 filed 100,000 class A shares. Price—$4. Busi¬
ness — Company plans to operate a service to furnish
advice, assistance and skill in the field of data process¬
ing. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office
—71 W. 23rd

worth

Paul

Corp.

28, 1962 filed 300,000 common. Price—By amend¬
(max. $6). Business—Manufacture and test mar¬
keting of a vitamin-enriched sugar. Proceeds—For debt

*

35

—For development and working
capital. Office—79 Wal¬

ment

Cybernetic

.

Underwriter—

Feb.

—Operation of beauty salons. Proceeds—For expansion.
Office—67-11 Main St., Flushing, N. Y. Underwriter—M.
J. Merritt & Co., Inc., N. Y.

(1187)

Donald

N. High St., Columbus,
& Co., Cleveland.
/

Ohio. Underwriter—Mc¬
■

'

Ehrenreich

Photo-Optical Industries, Inc.
Jan. 26, 1962 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
distribution of cameras, lenses, accessories and optical
instruments.
Proceeds—For debt repayment, expansion,
.

:

,/

//

Equipment Corp.

Dec. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$2.50. Busi¬
ness—Manufacture of food service equipment. Proceeds

■

-/

:
■

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Continued from page 35
and

working capital.

Office—111 Fifth Ave.; N. Y. Un¬
Corp., N. Y. Offering—April.

derwriter—Lee Higginson

it Eisier
Feb.

28,

Transformer Co., Inc.
1962 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common.

Price

—

$4.

Business—Manufacture of transformers and inductors for

equipment.
Proceeds — For debt repayment,
inventory and working capital. Office—16 N. Salem St.,

electrical

Dover, N. J. Underwriter—Sherman & Hall, Inc., Allentown, Pa,
Components,

Inc.

Feb. 5, 1962 filed 100,000 common, of which 75,000 are
to be offered by the company and 25,000 by a stock¬

Business—Manufacture,, assembling
and processing of metal parts and products. Proceeds—
For equipment, construction of a building, and working
capital. Office—187 N. Water St., Rochester, N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—Charles Plohn & Co., N. Y. Offering—Late
Price—$4.

holder.

April.
•

Instrument Corp.
(3/15)
15, 1961 filed 168,250 common to be offered for
subscription by stockholders of Waltham Precision In¬
Electro-Mec

Sept.

strument

the basis of one new share
for each 20 Waltham shares held, with oversubscription
privileges. Business—Design and manufacture of po¬
tentiometers, digitometers and goniometers used in air¬
borne computing devices. Proceeds—For selling stock¬
holder, Waltham Precision Instrument Co. Office—47-51
33rd St., Long Island City, N. Y. Underwriter—Sterling,
Grace & Co., N. Y.
Co., Inc., parent,

on

Engineering Co.
Jan. 8, 1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price — $3.
Business—Design, manufacture and sale of disposable
thermocouple lances. Proceeds—For equipment, debt re¬
payment and general corporate purposes. Office—5619
Tulip St., Philadelphia. Underwriter—Harrison & Co.,
Philadelphia.
Electromagnetics

Corp.
17, 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—$5. Business
;—Design and manufacture of precision nuclear magnetic
Nov.

Proceeds—For

general

corporate

pur¬

Office—Sawyer Lane, Hudson, Mass. Underwriter
& Co., Inc., N. Y.

poses.

publicly in units of one $500 debenture and 50 common.
Price—$575 per unit. Business—Manufacture of con¬
zippers. Proceeds—Debt repayment, advertising
and working capital. Office—8 Washington Place, N. Y.
Underwriter—G. Everett Parks & Co., Inc., N. Y. •

Electronic

Controls, Inc. (4/2-6)
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business
—Design and manufacture of automatic electronic and
computer

controlled
drives
and
systems,
helicopter
check-out, flight control and landing control systems and
multi-contact relays and switches. Proceeds—For debt
repayment, working capital and other corporate purposse. Office—67 Southfield Ave;, Stamford, Conn. Un¬
derwriter

—

Seymour, Bernard & DeBoff, Inc., N. Y.

& 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
Rd., Westbury, N. Y. Underwriter—Meadowbrook Se¬

curities, Inc. Hempstead, N. Y. Offering—Mid-April.
Enviro-Dyne, Inc.
13,

1962

("Reg. A")

300,000

common.

Price

—

$1.

Business—Research, development, manufacture and sale
of enviromental testing equipment. Proceeds—For
equip¬
ment and other corporate purposes. Office—24447 Haw¬

thorne

Business
fastening

*

Blvd., Torrance, Calif. Underwriter

—-

Garat

&

,

Underwriter—Netherlands Securities

Forrest Electronics Corp.

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

Co., Inc.,, N. Y.

general corporate purposes.
Office — 425 Las Vegas
Blvd., S., Las Vegas,
Nev. Underwriter^—Elmer
K.

Aagaard, Salt Lake City.
Fortune

Feb.

N. Y.
•

Chicago. Underwriter—Allen

Offering—Expected

Extrin

Foods, Inc.

&

Co.,

sometime in April.

(4/9-13)

Nov. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common.
Price—$3.25. Busi¬
ness—Creation and manufacture of flavors for the

Underwriter—Stewart, Eurbanks, Meyerson & Co., San
Francisco.

•

First

Oct.
ness

Realty Corp. (3/20)
1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—$10.

30,
—

Real estate

investment.

Proceeds

f-

nated

ness—A

22, 1961 filed 349,590 common. Price—By amend¬
Business—Design, manufacture and sale of house¬
hold freezers,
refrigerators, automatic
washers
and
driers. Proceeds—For a selling stockholder. Office—6522nd Ave., N. E., Minneapolis. Underwriter — Lehman
Brothers, N. Y. •
•

(3/26-30)
3, 1962 filed 800,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$12.50 per share. Business—A real estate invest¬

Distributing Corp.

ment

trust. Proceeds—For investment. Office — 1616
Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Underwriter—A. G. Beck¬
er & Co., Inc., Chicago.
>
:
'
J ' }
,

Frazier-Walker Aircraft

2,770,000 capital shares.
investment

Office—1295

Jan.

26, 1962 filed 140,000 common. Price—By amend¬
Business—Company plans to produce its Gyro jet
FW-4, a four-passenger 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.,

Price—$1.

company. Pro¬
Northern Blvd.,

N.

Manhasset, N. Y. Underwriter—None.

and confectionary industries. Proceeds—For
tional personnel, new
products and
Office—70 Barclay

&

addi¬

possible acquisitions.

St., N. Y. Underwriters—Hay, Fales

Co., and McLaughlin, Kaufman & Co., N. Y. f

Fabco, Inc.
1962 ("Reg. A") 86,000 common.
Price—$3.45,.
Business—Manufacture of fiber glass and other
plastic

Jan. 23,

products.

working

Proceeds—For

capital.

equipment,

Address—Stillwater,

writer—Pewters, Donnelly

Manufactures
purposes.

—

specialized

Minn.

Under¬

/

Price—$3. Businessmachinery and
equipment.

For debt repayment

and

general corporate

Office—Walnut St., M D 23, Newburg
Madison Corp., N. Y.

Underwriter—First
•

and

& Jansen. Inc„ St. Paul.

Fairbanks Wire
Co., Inc.
1961 filed 54,000 common.

Oct. 30,

Proceeds

inventories,

N

Y

Family Record

Plan, Inc. (3/19-23)
1961 filed 200,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Sale of
photographic portraits and al¬
bums. Proceeds—For
selling stockholders. Office—2015
W. Olympic Blvd., Los
Angeles.
Underwriter—Bache
& Co., N. Y.
Nov. 20,

• Fashion

Industries, Inc.

Feb., 26, ,1962 ("Reg., A") 63,000 common/
Price—$4.75.
Business—Manufacture of blouses. Proceeds—Debt rev
payment, equipment, inventory and working
capital. Of¬
St., Tuskegee, Ala. Underwriter—Wright,

fice— Gauthier

Myers

&

Bessel,

Inc.,




Washington, D. C.

.

Office—141 North

Further

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—t
For working capital and general corporate purposes.
Office—1800 West C St., Russellville, Ark. Underwriter

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—Ey amendment. Business—Gen¬

—To

Corp. (3/26-30)
Dec. 6, 1961 filed 200,000 class A stock. Price—$3. Busi¬
ness—Company plans to acquire, invest in, and finance

Gard

housewares,

Co., N. Y.

N. Y.

Underwriter—Amber, Burstein & Co., Inc., N. Y.

Offering—Imminent.
•

common.

.

(A. J.)

ness—Manufacture

Mfg. Corp.
A") 80,000 common.
and

sale

of

metal

&

Price—$3. Busi¬
for .ladies

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.
r
• • >>"<. ■
'
•

(3/12-16)

custom

molding

—

By amend¬

plastic toys and
of other plastic

Underwriter^Van Alstyne, Noel

Pa:

Co., N. Y.

,

• Garden State Small
'

V

Oct.

(3/27-28)/;\'':V

Business Investment Co., ;

/'/■':

;

27, 1961 filed 330,000 common.

—A small

^
Price—$3.

Business

business investment company.,.Proceeds—For
Office—1180 Raymond

Blvd., Newark, N. J.
Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. Y.

ic Gaslight Club, Inc.
28, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
(max. $7) Business—Company operates four "key
clubs." Proceeds—For
expansion, debt reduction, and
Feb.

ment

working capital. Offiee—13 E. Huron St., Chicago. Un¬
derwriter—Myron A. Lomasney & Co., N.' Y.
.

•

frames

the

Underwriter—Godfrey,

Price—$10. Business—
Distributor of Electronics Investment
Corp., Contrac¬
tual Plans and broker-dealer
registered with NASD.
Proceeds—To increase net capital and for investment.
Office—44 Wall St.. N. Y.
Underwriter-—General Securi¬
ties Co., Inc., N. Y.
Offering—Imminent.
Fleres

Corp.

products. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Ad¬

investment.

Fleetwood Securities Corp. of America

Feb. 2, 1962 ("Reg.

and

dress—Leetsdale,

14,

Aug. 8, 1961 filed 50,000

(Andy)

ment. Business—Manufacture of molded

Cards, Inc.

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.,

(4/17)

Dec. 15, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price

Proceeds—For

general corporate purposes. Office—375 Park
Ave., N. Y.
Underwriters—Netherlands Securities Co., Inc., Seymour
Blauner Co., and Sprayregen, Haft &
Nov.

Airlines

porate purposes. Office—8170 Beverly Rd., Los Angeles.
Underwriters—Raymond Moore & Co., Los Angeles and
Pacific Coast Securities Co., San Francisco.

First Scientific

Flair

named.

Oct. 20, 1961 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common.
Price — $5.
Business — Furnishing of scheduled air transportation
service. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general corJ-

corporate purposes. Office—375 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writers—Morris Cohon & Co. and Lieberbaum & Co.,
N. Y.

technology.

be

Futura

eral real estate. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and other

scientific

Ave., Bridgeport, Cdnn. Underwriter
Offering—In April.

Jan.

convertible sub¬

ordinated debentures due 1982 and 188,000 class A shares
to be offered for subscription
by class A stockholders

new

Price—By amend¬

—Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y.

(3/26-30)

19, 1961 filed $9,400,000 of 6Y2%

common.

Business—Construction and operation

of various
type apartment, industrial and office buildings* Proceeds
—For an acquisition, construction, and working capital.

common.

First Republic Corp. of America

and

Underwriter—None.

ment.

Price—$10. Business
estate investment trust. Proceeds—For general
corporate purposes. Office—477 Main St., Hackensack,

patents

Y.

Frouge Corp.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 700,000

New

Jersey
4, 1962 filed 67,750

Corp.

ment.

First New York Capital Fund, Inc.

filed

Franklin Realty Trust

Jan.

ment, working capital and other corporate purposes.
Office—505 Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Internation¬
al Services Corp., Paterson, N. J.

investment.

(3/15)

Dec.

Business—Production, distribution and sale of TV
motion pictures and tapes. Proceeds—For debt repay¬

1961

Manufacturing Co.

ment.

—$2.

27,

Busi¬

.

Jan. 29, 1962 filed 200,000 class A capital shares. Price

ceeds—For

par.

finance company. Proceeds—For debt

consumer

Franklin

filed 320,000 common, of which 13,250 are
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 on real estate"and,acts as trustee under deeds of
trust. Proceeds—For debt repayment and other corpo¬
rate purposes.
Office—628 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles.
Underwriter—White,' Weld & Co., N. Y.

Oct.

capital notes due about 1970. Price—At

repayment and expansion. Office—105 N. Sage St., Toccoa, Ga. Underwriter—None.

(4/10)

Jan. 26, 1962
to be offered

Business—A small business

,.

Feb. 9,1962 filed $500,000 of 8% subordinated debentures
due serially 1969 to 1973 and $500,000 of 8% subordi¬

Busi¬

For prop¬

acquisitions, debt repayment and other corporate
Office — 380-390 W. Middle Turnpike, Man¬
chester, Conn. Underwriter—Putnam & Co., Hartford.

First National Television

.
.

erty

First Lincoln Financial Corp.

.

Franklin Discount Co.

Hartford

purposes.

bak¬

ing

Price—$6.50.

electronic

of

Ave., Lodi, N. J. Underwriter—Sutro Bros & Co., N. Y.

Dec.

St.,

■

Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—199 Garibal¬

North, Minneapolis. Underwriter—None.

State

'

di

N. J. Underwriter—None.

S.

■

capital.

components and equip¬
ment.
Proceeds—For debt repayment, inventories and
working capital. Office—2280 Palou Ave., San Francisco.

tures due 1965. Price—At par. Business—The
investment
in mortgages and the
making of construction loans to
builders .and property owners.
Proceeds—For repay¬
ment of debt and working
capital. Office—430 First Ave.

—36

Electronics, Inc.
1962 ("Reg. A") 46,150

Chemicals, Inc.
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 220,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Manufacture of vinyl plastic sheeting.

—Real

—

6,

Business—Sale

&

First Real Estate Investment Trust of

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

For general corporate

Dec.

Fidelity Mining Investments Ltd.
Nov. 30, 1961 filed 800,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Exploration and testing of mining prop¬
erties. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office
—62 Richmond St., Toronto. Underwriter—G. V. Kirby
& Associates, Ltd., Toronto.
'

Jan.

1962 filed

—

..

Fidelity America Financial Corp. (3/12-16)
3, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—Commercial
finance
company.
Proceeds —- Gen¬
eral corporate purposes. Office—42 S. 15th St., Phila.

Equity Capital Co.
Nov. 29, 1961 filed $3,000,000 of 8% subordinate deben¬

Evans, Inc.

repayment and
N. Federal

1790

—

• Folz
Vending Co.' Inc. (4/2-6)
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., Oceanside, N. Y. Underwriter—None.

Oct.

Plastics

debt

Office

Address—St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Under¬
writer—Seidman WiHiams & Cantwell, N. Y.2

—

Fields

Proceeds—For
purposes.

purposes.

• Federated Business Forms, Inc.
26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 67,500 common. Price — $4.
Business
Publishing of business forms and related
activities. Proceeds —- For equipment, sales promotion,
inventory and working capital. Office—1125 Globe Ave.,
Mountainside, N. J. Underwriter—None,

Polonitza, Los Angeles.

Jan. 23,

corporate

foliage^, and flowers. Proceeds

,

..

activities.

—

Arnold

—

Palm-Aire

Flower City Industries, Inc.
V
>.yNov. 29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬
ness.
Design and manufacture : of plastic
artificial

by others. Proceeds—For. debt
general corporate purposes* Office-r-8

Y. Underwriter

Thursday, March 8, 1962

Highway, Pompano Beach, Fla. Underwrite*—Hardy &
Co., N. Y.
^7^; V'?
V -

Feb.

Eflner

Dec.

Feb.

and

.

1961

related

manufactured

repayment

19,

general

(4/16-20)

Inc.

Benson Place, Freeport,. N.
Malkan & Co., Inc., N. Y. -

—Gianis
•

Fastpak,

Nov. 80, 1961 filed 125,000 common. Price—$5,
distribution of nuts, bolts and other

—The

.

Corp. (3/22)
filed 463,000 common, of which 310,000
shares are to be offered for subscription by the stock¬
holders on a l-for-3 basis, and 153,000 shares will be
sold to the public. Price—$2. Business—Purchase, devel¬
opment and sale of undeveloped real property and

cealed

•

Florida

Oct.

.

Electro-Nite

instrumentation.

•

(3/26-30)

Sept. 28, 1961 filed $400,000 of 6% conv. subord. deben¬
tures due 1971 and 40,000 common shares to be offered

devices

Eldre

•v

Inc.

.

(3/2S-30)';v
Nov. 22, 1961 filed 100,000 common, of which 50,000
to

Gateway Chemicals,
be

Inc.

are

offered

by the company and^ 50,000 , by a stock¬
Price—By amendment: Business-^-Compounding
and packaging of- chemical products,: primarily deter¬
gents. Proceeds—For working ^capital. Office—8136 S.
holder.

Dobson
hill &

Ave., Chicago. Underwriter—Federman^ StoneCo., N. Y. • v
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•

General

Battery & Ceramic Corp.

(4/2-6)

•
.

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.

General

Devices! Inc.
29, 1962 filed 140,000 common, to be offered for
subscription by common stockholders. Price-—By amend¬
ment. Business—Development and manufacture of elec¬

•

arid

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. Offer¬

Price—$4.50.

Estate

Baruch

formerly
ment

\

•

Mortgage Trust

&

was

Jan.

Foods

Corp.

29, 1962 filed 150,000

trust.

Office—3325

ceries, etc. Prcoeeds

investment. Office—1221 Harney
Underwriter—General Investor's Services

Switzer &

address).

Great

Research, Inc.
12, 1962 filed 162,500 common, of which 12,500 are
to be offered by the
company and 150,000 by stockholders.
Price—By amendment (max. $8.50). Business—Di¬

debt

—179 N.

Milwaukee.

Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Underwriters—Bacon,
Whipple & Co. and Freehling, Myerhoff & Co., Chicago.

1407
cott
•

E.
&

Inc.

common. Price—$10. Business
discount department store chain.
expansion and working capital. Office—

Proceeds—For

40th

a

First National Bank ' Bldg.
Underwriter—Courts & Co., Atlanta.
Greater New York Box Co., Inc.

Glass-Tite

Inc.
(3/19)
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¬

board

Nov. 3,

Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter
syth, N. Y.

—

Treibick, Seiden & Forr

Industries,

Inc.

Nov. 29,
h

ceeds—For debt repayment and working
capital. Office
—1784 Stanley Ave., Dayton, Ohio.
Underwriter—Mc¬
Donald & Co., Cleveland.

corporate

Office—1707

purposes.

N. W., Washington, D. C.

H

ness—Manufacture

of

paper.

Proceeds—Expansion and

general

corporate

purposes.

•

Office—370

rine

and

ment and

/
Corp.

Price—$4.

mobile

25,000 by a selling
Business—Manufacture of ma¬

communications

and

electronic

military transmitter-receivers.

equip¬

Proceeds—For

(4/6)

nationwide

basis

to

gov¬

Price—$2.25.
anesthetic cartridges

common.

—

714

saies

Boston

V

Bldg.,

*

Casualty Co.
common
on

to

(4/9-13) i,
be

offered

the basis of three

Fla.

Underwriters

—

Morris

Cohon

For

Co.

Proceeds—For equipment, research and devel¬
opment, leasehold improvements, repayment of debt and

working capital. Office—130 Lincoln St., Brighton, Mass.
Underwriter—To be named. Offering—Expected in late

new

April.

Office—350

Seventh

:';V;

Hill Aircraft &

Jan.

Leasing Corp.
29, 1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000 capital shares. Price—

$3. Business—General aviation. Proceeds—For working
capital, equipment, advertising and inventory. Office—
Fulton 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. Price—$3. Business—A

and

management investment company.
Proceeds—For in¬
vestment. Office—760 S. Hill St., Los Angeles. Under¬
writer—None.

Price—$2.

Ave., N. Y.
writer—B. G. Harris &
Co., Inc., N. Y. ^
'

;

.

Hillside Metal Products, Inc. (3/26)
Dec. 15, 1961 filed 300,000 common, of which

Proceeds—

inventory, equipment, advertising and leasehold

provements.

i

&

v
High Temperature Materials, Inc.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 120,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment.
Business—Manufacture
of
products from test

models.

;

for

Co., Inc., N. Y.

Business—Rental of furs and fur garments.

Underwriter
^

Office

Haltone Rental
Corp. (3/12-16) >:
Dec. 18, 1961 ("Reg.
A") 150,000 common.

products. Proceeds—Production, advertising
promotion of disposable needles.
Office—129-21

N. Y.

equipment, inventory,
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,

"-V"'v

at

Street &

Merrick Blvd., Springfield Gardens,
i—Paul Eisenberg Co. Inc., N. Y.
?

to be

—

and related




Gulf American Fire &

Miami,

dental

common

the rate of $200 of debentures for
each 60
shares held; Price—At par.
Business—Company
is engaged in the
development of planned communities
in Florida. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and general
corporate purposes. Office
557 Northeast 81st
St.,

Graham Chemical

of

f

,

common

writer—None.

Business—Manufacture

Appley, Inc.

27, 1961 filed 100,000 class A common. Price—By
amendment. Business—General real estate. Proceeds—
For

'

(3/12-16)

Underwriter—None.

holders

employees and military officers. Office—Govt.
Employees Insurance Bldg., Washington, D. C. Under¬
Corp.
Jan. 22, 1962 ("Reg. A") 100,000

Herman &

Oct.

if Gulf American Land Corp.
28, 1962 filed $11,000,000 of 6&% conv. subord.
debs, due
1977, to be offered for subscription by stock¬

At par.
Business — Com¬
provide automobile and mobile
a

/

Feb.

—

on

Proceeds—For debt repayment. Office—850-3rd
Ave.,
N. Y. Underwriter—Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades &
Co., N. Y.

Price—$5.25. Busi¬

Price—$2. Business—Writing of
casualty insurance. Proceeds—To increase capi¬
tal and surplus.
Office—25 S. Perry
St., Montgomery,
Ala.
Underwriter—None.

the basis of $100 of debentures for each
record Apr. 6 with rights to expire

Price

£ For working capital. Office—170 Varick St.,

shares for each 10 held.

ernment

and

stockholder.

fire and

of

30.

common.

Sept. 28, 1961 filed 226,004
suoscription by stockholders

Jan. 8, 1962 filed $2,675,000 of 4*&% conv. capital deben¬
tures due 1977 to be offered for subscription
by common

pany and its subsidiary
home financing service

80,000

11, 1961 filed 99,288

Denver.

Lexington Ave., N. y. Underwriter—Stanley Heller &
Co., n. y.
:u
Government Employees Corp.

1961 filed

Proceeds—For investment.

.

about April

.

,

„

Gryphon Fund, Inc.

Gould Properties! Inc.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 class A shares. Price
•—$10.
Business—General real estate. Proceeds—For debt re¬

on

.

Electronics

Oct. 27, 1961 filed 100,000
common, of which 75,000 are
to be offered by the
company and

,

J an. 11,! 1962 filed
1,000,000 shares of capital stock/Price
—Net asset value (for first 30 days, thereafter an addi¬
tional 8Y2% sales charge). Business—A mutual
fund.

working capital. Office—Lyons Falls, N. Y. Underwriter
—To be named.
'

held

Marine

.

St.,

Underwriter—Rouse, Brewer,

'

shares

Hartman

investment. Office—16 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
offered for $ Underwriter—Arnold, Wilkens & Co., N. y. Offeringsubscription by stockholders on the basis of one new
Imminent.
/ •'
share for each three held. Price—By amendment. Busi¬
Hickory Industries, Inc.
r
ness — A closed-end investment
company. Proceeds —
Aug. 31, 1961 ("Reg. A") 40,000 common. Price—$5.
General corporate purposes. Office—314 N.
Business—The manufacture of barbecue machines and
B'way, St.
Louis. Underwriter—Edward D. Jones &
allied equipment. Proceeds—For
Co., St. Louis.

Gould Paper Co.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 140,000 common.' Price—$11: Busi¬

7

—

Greenman Co., N. Y.

containers. Proceeds—For general corporate
Office—149 Entin Rd., Clifton, N. J. Under¬

Griesedieck Co.

Sept.

Bryant, Inc., Washington, D. C.

stockholders

For expansion, debt
repayment, and working
capital. Office—498 Seventh Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—

ness—General contracting for landscaping and construction work. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and other cor¬

•

Investment Corp.

and

ceeds

porate purposes. Office—97-36 50th Ave., Corona, N. Y.
Underwriter—Williamson Securities Corp., N. Y!

Nov. 21, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$6. Business
—Real estate investment. Proceeds—For
working capi¬

payment

Harper Vending, Inc.
Jan. 12, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬
ness—Operation of automatic vending machines. Pro¬

/ agency for sale of TV and radio spot time. Proceeds—
N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y. Offering—scription by stockholders of Bowling Corp. of America,
Expected in early April.
parent. Price—$3. Business—Company will operate an
indoor amusement and recreation area in Green Acres
Hayden Publishing Co., Inc. (3/15)
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 150,000
Shopping Center, Valley Stream, L. I. Proceeds—For
common, of which 20,000 are
to be offered by the
general corporate purposes. Office—120 Broadway, N. Y.
company and 130,000 by stockhold¬
ers.
Underwriter—R. L. Warren Co., St. Louis.
Price—By amendment. Business—Publishes "Elec¬
tronic Design," a trade magazine in the electronic field.
Green Valley Construction Corp.

Oct. 30, 1961 filed 200,000 common, of which 100,000 are
to be offered by the
company and 100,000 by stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture
of miniature electric
motors, powdered metal products
and devices for the missile and aircraft industries. Pro¬

Becker &

amusement

Springs, Md.

Green Acres Funtown Inc.
J an. 23,1962 filed 225,000 common to be offered for sub¬

,

other

an

—

Products Corp.

compartments.
Proceeds—Debt repayment and
general corporate purposes.
Office—10014 Avenue D,

and

Price—$5. Business

operate

.

toilet

tal

and

park. Proceeds—For property development, advertising,
and working capital. Office—3100 Tremont
Ave., Cheverly, Md. Underwriter — Switzer & Co., Inc., Silver

Atlanta.

v

common.

—

Steel

Gotham

Distributors, Inc.

general corporate purposes.
Office—30-30
Northern
Co., N. Y.
1
Blvd., Long Island City, N. y. Underwriter—Charles
Pittsburgh Capital Corp.
Nov. 14, 1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—$11. Busi¬ ,Plohn & Co., N. y. Offering—In early April.
ness—A small business investment
Harwyn Publishing Corp.
/; / ■;iy
company. Proceeds—
Jan. 29, 1962 filed
For investment. Office—952 Union Trust
300,000 class A common. Price
By
Bldg., Pitts¬
/ amendment. Business
Publishes illustrated encycloburgh. Underwriters—Moore, Leonard & Lynch and Sin¬
pedic works for children and operates an advertising
ger, Dean & Scribner, Pittsburgh.

1961 filed 68,000 common. Price—By amend¬
Business—Manufacture of prefabricated metal

Globe

Price—$3.

Greater

equipment, investment in a subsidiary, research
and development,
moving expenses, and working capital.
Office—725 Branch Ave.,
Providence, R. I. Underwriter
—Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y.

ment.

Annex,

writer—D. H. Blair &

chase of

Global

and

purposes.

common.

to be offered

8, 1961 filed 160,000
—Company plans to own

29, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment ($7 max.). Business—Manufacture of
corrugated

Industries,

(4/16-20)

100,000

Co., Inc., N. y.
Happy House, Inc. (3/26-30)
July 28, 1961 filed 700,000 common shares
.Price—$1.
Business—The marketing of
gifts, candies and greeting
cards through franchised dealers.
Proceeds—For equip¬
ment, inventory and working capital. Office—11 Tenth
Ave., S., Hopkins, Minn. Underwriter—None.

Dec.

1961

A")

Dec.

T

i

("Reg.

Fabrication of components for
missiles, jet
engines, aircraft landing gears and precision machines.
Proceeds
Machinery, research and development and
working capital. Office—40 Sea Cliff
Ave., Glen Cove,
N. Y. Underwriter—Albion
Securities
—

/Co., N. y. Offering—Expected sometime in April.
J# Hargrove Enterprises, Inc. (5/7-11)

Underwriter—The Milwaukee Co.,

-

fice—200

St., Cleveland, Ohio. Underwriter—rPres-

Co., Cleveland.

Sept. 27,

gro¬

For general corporate purposes.
Rd., Baltimore. Underwriter—

Great Southern Real Estate Trust
Nov. 30, 1961 filed 320,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—By amendment.
Business—Real estate invest¬
ment. Proceeds—For general purposes of the Trust. Of¬

1962 filed 140,000

—Company operates

Price—$4. Business

freezers, frozen foods,

repayment and for working capital. Office—She¬

Falls, Wis.

(4/16-20)

filed 200,000 common, of which 100,000
by the company and 100,000 by a stock¬
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 &

Co., Inc., Silver Spring, Md.

boygan

Inc.

holder.

Lakes

mail selling of vitamin mineral
products to eld¬
erly customers. Proceeds—For working capital. Office

Stores,

—

Keswick

Industries, Inc.

11, 1961

Hardlines
Jan. 26, 1962

Business—Manufacture of custom-designed, factory built
/"house packages"
consisting of basic carpentry for
houses, and construction of shell homes. Proceeds—For

rect

Mar. 2,

Investment Trust

Homes, Inc.
26, 1961 filed 93,000 common. Price—By amendment.

Dec.

Geriatric

Feb.

ic Giant Tiger

<

(5/28-6/1)

common.

—Retail distributing of food

Proceeds—For

Hannett

are

Feb. 8, 1962 filed 35,000
non-voting shares of beneficial
interest. Price—$10. Business—A real estate investment

Productions,

—

Trust.

Great Eastern

Office—

Underwriter—Fulton,

Co., Inc., Cleveland.

Business

Continental Real Estate Invest¬

as

investment.

,

Place, Baltimore. Underwriter
Co., Washington, D. C. Note—This firm

known

Busi¬
plans to

which

.

•

Grayson-Robinson

—R.

&

Hanna-Barbara

Aug.

Real

trust

building and
working capital. Office—3501 Cahuega
Blvd., Los An¬
geles. Underwriter—Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades &
Co., Inc..
n. Y.
• '
r ■

ment. Office—530 St. Paul

Business—General leasing of equipment. Proceeds—For
working capital. Office—1719 Gage Blvd., Topeka, Kan.
Underwriter—Midland Securities Co., Inc., Kansas City,

Omaha.
(same

•

.

Great Continental

'

Price—$10.

common.

investment

Dec. 29, 1961 filed 200,000
capital shares. Price — By
amendment. Business—Production of television
cartoons
and commercials. Proceeds — For
a new

convertible subordi¬

Aug. 3, 1961 filed 300,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$10. Business—Real estate. Proceeds—For invest¬

teasing Corp. (3/26-30)
Jan. 29, 1962 ("Reg, A") 62,000 common.

Corp.

•

apparel and photo¬
graphic and audio equipment. Proceeds—For expansion,
diversification, hnd working capital. Office—550 W. 59th
St„ N. Y. Underwriter—Bear, Stearns & Co., N. Y,

General

St.,

Reid

Retail sale of women's and children's

ing-—Expected sometime in April.

closed-end

become open end. Proceeds—For
2100 East Ohio
Bldg., Cleveland.

Stores, Inc.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed $10,000,000 of 5% senior subord. de¬
bentures due 1985.
Price—By amendment. Business—

for

General

ness—A

stockholders

common

land./'/;

Jan.

\

Hampden Fund, Inc.
24, 1962 filed 500,000

Jan.

1982, to be offered for subscription
on the basis of
$100 of deben¬
tures for each 12 shares held.
Price—By amendment.
Business—Operation of a retail drug chain. Proceeds—
For expansion and
working capital. Office—2400 Superior
Ave., Cleveland. Underwriter—McDonald & Co., Cleve¬
by

Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office
—672 Hanna
Bldg., Cleveland, O. Underwriter—Merrill,
Turben & Co., Inc., Cleveland.

..

Ltd.

nated debentures due

firm.

.

Co.,

Gray Drug Stores, Inc.
Jan, 2, 1962 filed $5,230,000 of 5%

Corp. of America
Dec. 7, 1961 filed 266,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—A holding company for an insurance

,Mo.

Development

Expected sometime in April.

General

tronic

Bahama

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. Offering—

—

•

Grand

.

Jan. 11, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price — By amendment. Business—Manufacture of
replacement batteries

37

im¬

shares

are

to

be

offered

by

the company and

200,000
100,000

Under¬
i

•;!

^

Continued

on

page

38

38

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

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Inland Underground

Continued from page 37

Facilities, Inc.

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

Price—$6. Business—Manufac¬

stockholders.

by

ture of steel office furniture. Proceeds—For debt repay¬

Office—300
St., Newark, N. J. Underwriters — Milton D.
& Co. and M. L. Lee & Co., Inc., N. Y.

ment, plant expansion and working capital.
Passaic
Blauner

—For

ing

fund

debentures

convertible

due

197.7

March

25,650

and

-

—

"

,r:'

•

of

repayment

170,000 common shares to be
$100 debenture and 10 shares.
Business — Establishment and

Feb.

near

or

27,

Stretch

Products

1961 filed 300,000

,lnc.

son

(3/13)

to

expansion.
Office—3700 N. W.
Underwriter — Bregman, Cum-

,

Price

—

are

by the company and 32,000 by stockhold¬
By amendment. Business
Development of
—

weapons training devices, for U. S.. Armed
Forces and the manufacture of electronic control
equip¬
ment. Proceeds—For general
corporate purposes. Office
—102 Dorsa Ave.,

.Livingston, N. J. Underwriter—Sea-

March

tal.

Feb.

ment

Co., Inc., N. Y.

Interstate

Vending Co.

(3/26-30)

shares and

vending machines, and operation of industrial catering

Johnson

"acilities in the New England area and Brass Rail restaurants in New York City. Proceeds—For selling stock¬

selling bicyclesj electric trains, toys,
household appliances, etc. Proceeds—For general cor¬
porate purposes.
Office — 2717-25 White Plains Rd.,
Bronx, N. Y. Underwriters—Richard Bruce & Co., Inc.,
and Reuben Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y.
'

.

Sept.

(3/26-30)
("Reg. A") 76,500 common. Price—$3.75.
Business—Purchase of cultured pearls- in Japan and
their distribution in the U. S*. Proceeds^-For general
corporate purposes. Office—42 W. 48th St., N; Y. Under¬

TheatricaY distributl6h> and

29, 1961

and

domestic

feature

co-production

films.

Proceeds—For

dan &

Westmore, Inc.

Jomar
See
•

Co., Inc., N. Y.

5; 1962 filed 370,000 common., Price — By amend¬
(max. $55). Business—Operation of a chain of res¬

•

Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—39,.

Co.,

lona

Longstreth, Phila.
'

,

'

Kann-Ellert

.

Dec.

29,

1961

filed

(3/19-23)

88,000

'

class

A

common

shares,

of

which 44,000 are to be offered by the
company and 44,000

by stockholders. Price—$7. Business—Packing and sale
of fruit juice products. Proceeds—For
general corporate
purposes. - Office—241 N. Franklintown Rd., Baltimore.

Manufacturing Co.,

Jam 26; 1962 filed 140,000 common, of; which
125,000 are 4
to be .offered by the
company, and 15,000/ shares

-

Underwriter

stockholder.;

Pr ice-f$6.
Business—-Manufacture
of
household electric appliances and electric motors. Pro-

Hudson Wholesale

&

Plastics, Inc.
'
Ripley Industries, Inc., below.

Kay Foods Corp.

by a

Inc., N. Y.

and

Baltimore. Underwriter—Rubin, Rennert &
Co., Inc., N.Y.
Offering—Imminent.
1
'
"

Office—630 Fifth Ave.,; N.- Y. Underwriter—IFC Securi¬
ties Corp., N. Y.
j
^

March

commercial

and equipment. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and gen¬
eral corporate purposes. Office — 2050 Rockrose
Ave.,

19,

.

ic Howard Johnson Co.

the

Electronics, Inc.
Oct., 24, 1961 filed-108,000 common, Pribe->-$6.50. Busi¬
ness^—Wholesaling ? of electronic parts and components

Funding Corp. ; '
'
1962 filed $6,000,000 • of 10:% registered sub- [
Sale and distribution of cosmetics. Proceeds—For sell¬
ordinated debentures, of which $1,000,000 - will: mature
1966 and $5,000,000 from 1971
ing stockholders. Office—120 E. 16th St., N. Y. Under¬
through 1975 (with war¬
writers—Brand, Grumet & Seigel, Inc. and Kesselman... rants).. Price:—$1,000 per unit. Business—Purchase; sale-"
& Co., Inc., N. Y.
and investment in real estate. Proceeds—For investment. ;
Feb.

components for

Underwriter—Jennings, Mandel

of foreign '
acquisition,

Investors

Business

Inc. (3/12-16)
'
filed 125,000 capital shares.
Price—By
Business—The design and production of

special electronic

i co-production, dubbing, adaptation and distribution of
films, and working capital. Office—1776 B'way, N. Y.
Underwriters—General Securities Co., Inc., and S. Kas-

writer—Sunshine Securities, Inc., Rego Park, N. Y.

Electronics,

1961

military market. Proceeds—For the repayment of debt,
and working capital. Address—Box
7, Casselberry, Fla.

Interworld Film

Distributors, Inc. (4/2-6)
Sept. 29,^ 1961 filed 106,250 common. Price—$4. Business

Honora, Ltd.

8;

amendment.

holders. Office—251 East Grand Ave., Chicago. Underwriter—Bear, Stearns & Co., N. Y.
•

(max. $10).

working capital. Office—1200 Zerega Ave.,
Bronx, N ,Y. Underwriter—Hayden, Stone & Co., N. Y.
Offering—Expected sometime in May.

Jan. 10, 1962 filed 53,829 common. Price — By amend¬
ment. Business—Sale of products through coin-operated

stores in the Bronx

14,1962 filed

160,000 common. Price—By amend¬
Business—Operation of a chain of re¬
tail stores selling low priced
housewares, toys, etc. Pro¬
ceeds—For redemption of- all
outstanding 6% preferred

debt repayment, construction, and working capi¬
Park Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Kuhn,

Office—320

Loeb &

Kim &

St.; Wollaston, Mass. Underwriter—Blyth &

Business—Operation of discount appliance

Proceeds—For

St.,

simulated

»

general corporate purposes. Office—148 Madi¬
Ave., N. Y. Underwriter — Burnham & Co., N. Y.

—For

Honig's-Parkway, Inc. (3/26-30)
Dec. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3.
Business—Company owns and operates three discount

Beale

Price—By

be offered

ers.

Price—By amendment. Proceeds

buys, sell and trades in mort¬

®

ment

shares.

^•International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
' right, Ahalt &
O'Connor, Inc., N. Y.
7, 1962 filed $50,000,000 of sinking fund deben¬
John's Bargain Stores
I tures due
Corp...
April 1, 1987.

^

Co., 11 Broadway; N. Y.
Offering—Expected in early ApriL

taurants.

<•

capital

Underwriter—Arthurs, Lestrange & Co., Pittsburgh.
Joanell Laboratories, Inc.
;
',j 7 *
Dec. 21, 1961 filed 114,500
common, of which 82,500

Price—By amend¬

common.

110,000

ment.

working

and

filed

-

Jiffy Steak Co. (4/23-27)
5, 1962 filed 65,000 common.: Price—By amend¬
Business—Processing,.,, packaging and sale of
frozen meat and meat products. Proceeds—For
redemp¬
tion of 2,910 $50 par preferred
shares, expansion, and
working capital. Address — Route 286, Saltsburg, Pa.

and

one

1962

Miami, Fla.
mings & Co., N. Y.

ment and

and real estate. Proceeds—For working capital.
Office—-409 North Nevada St., Colorado Springs, Colo.

(3/19-23)
Oct. 27, 1961 filed 150,000 common. Price—$4.

62nd

ment. Business—Production and sale of extruded rubber
thread and braided elastics. Proceeds—For debt repay-

gages

House of

debt

International

Nov.

1962 refiled 800,000 common. Price--$1. Business—-Company makes home improvement,, construction

•

*

Atlanta.

9,

Nov.

Inc.

airports. Proceeds
capital. Address—
Miami International Airport, Miami, Fla. Underwriters
—Bache & Co., N. Y. and Robinson-Humphrey Co., Inc.,
—For

Builders Acceptance Corp.

W.

stores.

amendment.
operation of hotels located in

ic Hollingsworth Solderless Terminal Co.
Feb. 27, 1962 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price — $4.
Business—Manufacture, sale and development of solderless terminals and other wire terminating products* Pro¬
ceeds—For debt repayment, equipment, advertising and
working capital. Address—P. O. Box 430, Phoenixville,
Pa. Underwriter—Harrison & Co., Philadelphia*

J.

1977

units

Price—By

Phoenix. Underwriter—None.

—

in

25,

Stores, Inc.

amendment.

4, 1962 filed $1,700,000 of convertible subordinated

offered

—

and subdivision loans and

Jefferson
Jan.

Inc.,-N.Y.::;^

debentures due

ness—Development and operation of mobile home re¬
Proceeds
For debt repayment, expansion and
capital. Office—4344 E. Indian School Road,

Underwriter

Co.,

International Airport Hotel Systems,
(4/2-6)

Jan.

working

Feb.

W.

general corporate purposes. Office—161 E. 42nd
St., New
York. Underwriter—To be named.

Price—By

amendment. Proceeds—For
debt repayment and general .corporate purposes. Address
—P. O. Box 299, Boise, Idaho.
Underwriter—White, Weld

v..:;

Holiday Mobile Home Resorts, Inc.
31, 1962 filed 3,500,000 common arid 5-year war¬
rants to purchase 700,000 shares, to be offered in units
of 5 shares and one warrant. Price—$50 per unit. Busi¬

Home

share.

common

•

Jan.

sorts.

7,

&

Madison, Wis. Underwriter—Milwaukee Co., Milwaukee,
"

Office—514

purposes.

-

$500 debenture and 50 common shares. Price—$1,000 per
unit. Business
Manufacture of liquid and semi-solid
salad dressings and specialty sauces. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and expansion. Office—109 S. Webster St.,
Wis.

corporate

Diversified Industries, Inc.
29, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi¬
ness—Company plans to acquire and operate concerns
engaged in diversified business activities. Proceeds—For

1962 filed $3,400,000 of subordinated deben¬
68,000 common to be offered in units,
consisting of one subordinated debenture and one

each

general

Dec.

v*

tures due 1987 and

shares; to be offered in units consisting of one

common

Thursday, March 8, 1962

Jefferson

Underwriter—Scherck, Richter - Co., St. Louis.
Gas* Co.

.

Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—D. E. Liederman &
Co., Inc., N. Y.
"• "'V;

debt

^ Intermountain

and

ment

repayment, equipment and other corporate
purposes. Office—6500 Inland Dr., Kansas City, Kansas.

ic Hoffman House Sauce Co., Inc.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed $250,000 of 6V2% subordinated sink¬

.

traversing screens for use as window coverings, room
dividers, folding doors, etc. Proceeds—For debt repay¬

Dec.

shares

.

—

Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, - Wash¬

ington, D. CX

*
Groceries, Inc.
Keeko, Inc5-:'
23, 1962 filed 100,000. Price—$8. Business—Pro- f ceeds-—For new products and working capital.
Dec. 1,1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3. Busi¬
Office
—Regent St., Manchester, Conn. Underwriters—Richard
curement, storage and wholesaling of groceries and non¬
ness—Company plans to establish service stations and
Bruce & Co., Inc., and Reuben Rose &
food items.
Proceeds—For debt repayment and work¬
Co., Inc., N.. Y. r vending machine outlets in the Denver area. Proceeds—
ing capital. Office—Lyndhurst, N. J. Underwriter—J.
Offering—Expected sometime in May,.
For debt repayment and general
corporate

Jan.

purposes.

R. Williston & Beane, N. Y. Offering—In
April t
•

Hydra-Loc, Inc.

Oct.

10,

1961

Iowa

("Reg. A") : 60,000 common.- Price—$2.
development and manufacture of a.

Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen¬
Office—101 Park Ave., Hudson,

eral corporate purposes.
N. Y.

Underwriter—McLaughlin, Kaufman

Office—4970

Packers, Inc.
* >,*
; \
1962 filed $1,500,000 of 6% %. subord. s. f. debentures, series A, due 1977 (with attached warrants). •
Price—$1,000. Business—Meat packing. Proceeds—For
debt repayment, plant
construction, and equipment. Of- >
fice—Denison, Iowa. Underwriter—First Nebraska Se¬
curities Corp., Lincoln, Neb,
; '
-

Business—Design,
braxe control.

Beef

Jan, 24,

v

& Co., N. Y.

•

Jaap Penraat Associates, Inc.

nated debentures due 1971 and 30,000 common to be of¬
fered in units of $1,000 debentures and 30 of common.

Price—By amendment.. Business—The operation of coin
children's amusement equipment, i Proceeds—
For repayment of loans, equipment and general
corpo¬
rate purposes. Office—2557 W;. North Ave., Chicago. Un¬
operated

(4/30)

Jan. 30, 1962 filed 100,000 common.
Corp.
Price—$3. Business
—Industrial designing, the design of
Dec. 22, 1961 filed $1,500,000 of 10%
teaching machines
registered subordi¬
and the production of
nated debentures to be offered in five series due
teaching programs. Proceeds—
1966 to :
For expansion, new facilities and
1970. Price—At par
($1,000). Business—Purchase and sale
working capital. Office
—315 Central Park
v£ real estate
W., N. Y. Underwriter—R. F. Dowd
mortgages. Proceeds—For investment. Of¬
& Co., Inc., N. Y.
fice—630 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—None.
' ^
I. F. C. Collateral

derwriter—Paul C. Kimball

.

•

Jan.

29, 1962 filed 125,000
Business—Publishes

common.'

ment.
other

indexes and

• Jamoco

Systems, Inc.
"The

Feb.

Price—By amend¬

Financial

Index"

and

Ahalt &

St., Woodstock, Vt.
O'Connor, Inc., N. Y.

(The)

Industrial Finance & Thrift
Corp.

Oct.

Oct. 30, 1961 filed $2,000,000 of 6% subordinated deben¬
tures due 1974. Price—At,
par. Business—A
consumer

•

common.

Price

$3.

—

.

and maintenance of heat¬

19,

Japan Fund, Inc.
1961 filed 2,000,000

Price

—

,

$12.50.

Denver.

*,*.•.
(

Japanese /

,

-

*

-

-

•

-

•

King Louie Bowling Corp. (3/19-20) "
Sept. 27, 1961 filed 330,000 common. Price—$2. Business
—Operates a chain of bowling centers. Proceeds—Repay
debt and
for other corporate purposes.
Office—8788

securities. Underwriters—Bache &
Co., and Paine, Web¬
,

•

King Island Cosmetic Co.
-Feb. 13, 1962
("Reg. A") 100,500 common. Price—$2.
Business—Company plans to market a therapeutic clay
for use in manufacturing cosmetics. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and other corporaet purposes.. Office—73417th St.," Denver.
Underwriter—Birkenmayer & Co.,

(3/26-30)
common.

Co., Chicago.

derwriter—Underbill Securities Corp., N. Y.

Business—A diversified investment
company. Office—25
Broad St., N. Y. Proceeds—For investment in

ex¬

St., New Orleans, La.

Underwriter—None.

40,000

—

Underwriter—Searight,

finance firm. Proceeds—For
repayment of debt and
pansion. Office—339 Carondelet

("Reg. A")

ing, plumbing and/air conditioning systems. Proceeds—r
For inventory, equipment and other
corporate purposes.
Office
954 Jamaica
Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.. Under¬
writer—Martin-Warren Co., Ltd., N. Y.

abstracts.

River

1962

Conditioning Corp.

Business—Design, installation
'

Proceeds—For equipment,
promotion, office relocation, and working capital. Office

—19

28,

Air

&

Kine Camera

Co., Inc. (3/23)
Nov. 21, 1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—Importing and distribution of cameras, binoculars and
photographic equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment
and working capital. Office—889 .Broadway, N. Y. Un¬

.

Index & Retrieval

St.,

Denver. Underwriter—Amos
Offerings-Expected in April.
• Kiddie
Rides, Inc. (4/2-6) ~
;
Sept. 12, 1961 filed $1,000,000 of 7% convertible subordi¬

.

Offering—Imminent.

Jackson

C. Sudler & Co., Denver.

<

ber, Jackson & Curtis, N. Y., and Nikko Securities Co.,
Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. ■

.

Industry Capital Corp.
26, 1961 filed 500,000

Dec.

(4/9-13)
Price—$15.

Busi¬

ness—A small business
investment company. Proceeds—
For general corporate
purposes. Office—208 S. La Salle

St., Chicago. Underwriter—A.

C.

Allyn & Co., Chicago.

Information Systems, Inc.
Nov. 13, 1961 filed
1,266,000 common to be
preferred and common stockholders of

offered

to

Ling-Temco-

Vought, Inc.: (parent) of

record Nov. 30, 1961.

amendment. Business—Furnishes industrial
handling and control systems. Proceeds —

Price—By

information,
For

selling

stockholders. Office—10131 National
Blvd., Los Angeles.-

Underwriter—None.




Metcalfe Rd., Overland Park, Kan.

Jayark Films Corp. t if. ; :
.V'-r '
Aug. 24, 1961 filed 72,000 common, of which
50,000 are
to be offered by the
company and 22,000 by stockhold¬
ers.
Price—By amendment. Business—The distribution
of motion picture and television
films. Proceedsh-For *
.

common.

production of films and working capital. Office—15
48th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Pacific
Coast Securities
San Francisco. Offering—Sometime in
•

Jay lis Industries, Inc.

Oct.

18,

due

1971

fered

in

shares.

1961

filed $850,000

and

units

one

Price—$200.

$100

Underwriter—George
/

;

King Pharr Canning Operations, Inc.
Jan. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") $300,000 of 15-year 6%% sub¬
ordinated convertible debentures.

Price—At par.

Busi¬

ness—The canning and shipping of fruits and
vegetables.
Proceeds—For acquisition of land and working
capital.

'

Co.,

Address

Cullman/ Ala.
Underwriter
Mayes, Inc., Birmingham, Ala. :

A^ril.

(3/26-30)

—

.—

Hendrix &

"

of 6^2%

212,500 class A
of

E.

K. Baum & Co., Kansas City, Mo.

suboru.

common

debenture

debentures!

shaies to
and

25

Business—Manufactures

be

class

of¬

A

patented

Kogel, Inc. (3/26-30)
;i
1961 filed 100,000 common.. Price—$1. Business
—A holding company for three subsidiaries in
the wall
and floor coating business. Proceeds—For
product deDec." 8,

Volume

195;

Number

velopment, advertising,

6140

.

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

working

and

26-32 Second St., Long Island

sion.

capital. Office—
City, N. Y. Underwriter—

Office—Herman L. Bishins Bldg., Riverside
Ave.,
Bedford, Mass. Underwriter — J. R. Williston &
Beane, N. Y.
" * - .'*■
New

Globus, Inc.
(H.)
Feb. .21

Kohnstamm & Co., Inc.

food,

Lincoln

1962 filed 160,000 common. Price— By amend¬

ment/Business—Manufacture

of

colors

and

flavors

March

9,

—347
nam

Proceeds—For debt repayment.,

King St., Northampton, Mass.
Co., Hartford.:
•>.r,;"•

Inc.

Homes,

W.

Broadway*

Krylon,

Inc.

Office

Underwriter—Put¬

tems

(3/26-30)

Girard,r Ohio.

Underwriter—

capital.

(3/19-23)

Drug Co.,

Price—By amendment (max. $9). Business—Manu¬
of an extensive line of industrial, /hospital and
clinical laboratory instruments. Proceeds—For debt re¬
payment, • construction, and working capital. Office—

Chicago.

Underwriter—R.
-

W*
'

•

Laboratory Procedures, Inc.
("Beg. A") 100,000 capital shares. Price—
$2.50. Proceeds—For debt /repayment/ equipment, ad¬
vertising, leases, and working capital. Office •— 2701
Stocker St;, Los Angeles. Un derwriter—Pacific Coast

facture

Lamb

-

<

—

This letter

sure
new

related

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.

•

ers

Lee

Fashions, Inc. (4/23-27)'
'
Dec. 27, 1961 filed 1166,667 common: Price—By amend¬
ment./Business—Importing of low priced ladies' scarfs
and blouses. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working
capital/ Office—2529 Washington Blvd., Baltimore. Underwrtters-^GcJdfrey,. Hamilton..!Taylor^ & Co:, N/* Y*

the basis of $100 debenture for each 34 common
held. Price—By amendment.
Business—Explora¬

development of oil and gas properties.; Proceeds
—For,debt repayment, expansion and working/capital.
Office -/Mid-Continent Bldg,, Tulsa. Underwriter—
Shearson, Hammill & Co., N. Y.
:
.

„

-

„

Office—41- E/ 42nd St.. N/ Y. Undemriter—None; /

(4/27)

tion and

the sale of a domestic water system
equipment manufactured/ by a subsidiary. Proceeds—
For sellihg stockholders. Office—2943 Vail Ave., Los
Angeles, underwriter—Crowell, ' Weeden & Co:, ' Los
Angeles.
,*
*
»

Price—$5
Business—Real estate. Proceeds—For repayment of debt'

on

shares

pumps and

common.

Livingston Oil Co.

Feb. 26, 1962 filed $6,359,900 of convertible
sinking fund
debentures to be offered for- subscription by stockhold¬

Amendment. Business:—Manufacture and sale of vertical

Leader-Durst Corp.
1, 1961 filed 405,000 class A

the lives .of all .types of animals. Proceeds—To form
subsidiaries. Office—26 Piatt St., N. Y. Underwriter

—Shearson,, Hammill & Co., N .Y.

Layne & Bowler Pump Co..
; f;/
Pec. 22, 1961 fi.led^ 108.666/capital .shares. Price;-- By

Dec.

Offering

Livestock; Financial/Corp. / (4/23)

•

Lockfast Mfg. Co., Inc. / t
Jan. 11, 1962 ("Reg. A") 85,000 common. Price —
$3.50
Business—Manufacture of furniture- hardware-for sale

'

to furniture

manufacturers.

Proceeds—For

debt

repay¬

ment, steel .inventories had plant expansion. Office—
Boarman Ave., Baltimore* Underwriter—R, & D
Investors Corp., Port Washington, N. Y.
'
" /' ' /

3006

,

Lockwood Grader. Cor p.

,

.

«

Feb. 20, 1962 filed $900,000 of 6% sinking fund deben¬
tures series B, (with warrants).-Price^-$I,Q00 peh deben¬
.

ture,

29, 1961 filed 2,000,000 class A common;. Price—By
amendment/' Biisinessr-A holding: company/ for i.three

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*.

subsidiaries which operate utilities; engage in construc¬
tion/^M^istribute^ electronic part^/ProceedST^For; debt

Feb.

and Perizell & Co..'Miami

Lehigh Industries

''/

/

Investing.Corp.

Dec.

repayment, construction and working capital. Office—
71st St., Miami/Beach, Fla? Underwriter—To i be
named "(a newly^formed'subsidiary)-.
N -.?•

'800

Leighton Mobile Homes/ Inc.
Jan.

li,'1962 50,000 classA/shares. Price — $5. Busi¬
Sale of mobile homes and development of real
property for lease to owners of mobile homes. Proceeds—
For debt repayment, expansion, and working capital. Of¬
fice—Route 25 Lake Grove, Brookhaven, L. I. N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—George M. Curtis Co., N. Y.
ness

—

Lembo .Corp.' -y

////;:.* >vy;'

y////////://///;

Dec. 21,. 1961 filed 100,000 common/

ness—Manufactures

steel

Price—$3.50.

re-inforced

concrete

Busi¬

utilities,

sanitary structures/fallout shelters and play sculptures
Proceeds—For
debt
repayment/ sales promotion and
working capital./ Office—145 W, 11th St.; Huntington
Station, L. I...N. Y. Underwriter—Blank, Lieberman &

"Co., Inc., N. Y///-/y :////;/;// y-V;/ •//
Lily/Lynn,

Inc.

Feb; 23/1962 filed 150,000 common, of

which 86,000

are

to

be offered by the company and
ers;

64,000 by the stockhold¬
Price—By amendment (max. $12). Business—Design,

manufacture

and

ceeds—For debt

sale of

women's

casual

dresses.: Pro¬

repayment, working capital and




expan¬

Lunar

expansion

Films, Inc.

and

debt

Pro-»-

Address—- ;

repayment.
C. Wheat &

Co., Rich¬

(3/20)

Price—$5.75/ Busi-»

common.

ness—The production of television films.

Proceeds—For

named

was

Lunar

Enterprises, Inc.

/

;

z

Lustig Food Industries, Inc./'//.':?/'Z;^/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.~
29,', 1961/ ("Reg. A") : 150,000
Business—Design and manufacture
Nov.

common.

Price—$2;r

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.
Mac-Allan

Co.,

Inc.

Feb. 23/ 1962 filed
130,260 of class A common, of
65,130 are to be offered by the company and

which
65,130
by stockholders. Price—$5. Business—Sale and distribu¬
tion of costume
jewelry, ladies' handbags, and accesso¬
ries. Proceeds
For working capital. Office — 1650
Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Underwriter—George K.
Baum & Co., Kansas
City -.
>
V
/
—

Macco

Realty Co.

(3/19-23)

Dec. 21, 1961 filed $4,000,uou of conv. subord. debentures*
due
1977;
also
150,000
common
shares.
Price—By
amendment. Business—Construction and sale of homes./
debt repayment and general corporate
Office—7844 E. Rosecrans Ave., Paramount,

purposes.

Calif.

Underwriters—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. and;
Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Los Angeles.
'

★ MatSway Main Line Homes, Inc.
March 6, 1962 filed 50,000 common. Price

—
By amend¬
$10). Business—Production, sale, erection
financing of manufactured homes. Proceeds.—For.
the financing of credit sales of homes. Office—315 E.

ment

(max.

and

Manchester Ave., Wayne, Pa.

Underwriter

Drexel

—

Co.,, Philadelphia.;
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¬
.

Feb 23, 1962 filed 245,000 common:
Price—$10. Business
—An insurance holding
company whose; subsidiaries -in¬

pluming, fixtures,-water .softeners; sugar, cane agricul¬
tural equipment; aluminum doors, storm windows and

*

of electronic

Brothers and Clark,. Dodge & Co.,. Inc., N. Y.
—Expected in some time in Early April.

Industries, Inc.

Price—By amendment
Canning and marketing of vegetables and meats.

Proceeds—For

debt repayment and working
capital*, Office—336 Foothill Rd., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Underwriters—Lehman

was

'

Dec. 28/ 1961-filed $2,200,000 of s. f. subord. debentures
due
1977
(with attached warrants). Price-^At" par
Business—Manufacture of gas and electric.water heaters/

turbine

"

systems and components, business
machines, commercial electronic1 -.equipment'*?- nuclearpowered submarines, and-other vessels.. Proceeds—For

>

San Francisco. Note

industries.

Litton Industries, Inc.
Jan. 8, 1962 filed $50,748,100 of conv. subord. debentures
due 1987 to be offered for subscription by holders of
outstanding - common arid: securities convertible into
common on the basis .of
$100 of debentures for each
10 shares held. Price—By amendment. Business—Manu¬

c

,

Business—Manufacture

Offering—Expected in April.

Sent. 29. 1961

'

100,000 common,'. of - which z 50,000:
the company and 50,000 by stocks

products for the electronic,; automotive and
Proceeds—For
equipment,:.; and
working/capital.; Office—1865 Miner St., Des Plainest
111. Underwriter — Cruttenden, Podesta &
Co., Chicago.
electrical

ers.

*

filed

of various

Instruments, Inc.

Co.,

34th St., N. Y. Underwriters—
Samson, Graber & Co., Inc., N* Y.

holders.. Price—By. amendment

facture

Securities

1962

to be offered by

are

Feb. 23, 1962 filed 142,860 common, vof which 122,168 are
to be offered by the company and 20,692 by stockhold¬

withdrawn.

W.

Littelfuse,lnc;
Jan;- 26,

.

W. Grand Ave.,
Pressprich & Co., N. Y

Office—112

ties, college pennants, etc.; and distribution of medical,
nursing andt law books. Proceeds^-For 'debt repayment
and working, capital. Office—-128. Oliver.
St., Paterson,
N.- J.i Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N* Y.

—This registration was withdrawn.

8070-82.

photographic data processing
general corporate purposes. Office—232

Adams & Co..
Dec. .28, ,1961 filed. 150,008' common. Price—By amend-*
ment ($5 maximum): Business—Publication and sale of
paperback' school books; manufacture -of stuffed novels-

-

'

be offered by the
company and

Aug. 31, 1961 filed 125,000

Litt lefield,

Inc...,

to

filming and production and working capital. Office—
543 Madison Ave., N. Y.
Underwriter—Wright, Myers &
industry. /* Bessel, Inc.* Washington, D. C. Note—This firm formerly

Glass & Ross, Inc.. and

July 26, 1961 filed 100,000 common /shares. Price—$4.50
Business — The manufacture ofi 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. Underwriter—Stevens Investment Co., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa. Note
Lab-Line

the

are

•

Little Ruffy Togs, Inc.; /
V1'* "L*
:
Nov. 29,-1961 filed 165,000 common. Price—Byy amend-;
ment. Business — Manufacture and sale of
children's*
clothing. Proceeds.— For debt repayment and working y

i961 uleu Zdu.uoo common. Price—By amend-:
Business — Manufacture of aerosol spray, paints,

L.

secondary, income
of put and call options. Proceeds—

Ave., Highland Park, N. J. UnderwriterGodfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co.* Inc., N. Y..

derwriter—Eastman DiUbm-tlhion Securities & .Co., N. Y..
L.

and,

Cleveland

protective, coatings and other aerosol products. Proceeds
—For_ selling stockholders. Office—Norristown, Pa. Un^
•

for

Proceeds—For

ior

ment.

appreciation

Lithoid, Inc. (3/26-30)
NoV/22, 1961 filed 12U,0U0 common. Price—$3. Business
—Development and manufacture of equipment and "sys¬

Best & Garey & Co.,.Inc;, Washington, D. C. ~
Nov.

capital

•

14, 1961 filed 200,UU0 common. Price—$5. Business
—A holding company in "shell homes" field. Proceeds—
For debt repayment and general corporate purposes. Of¬
:

of which 142,500
139,996 by stock¬
(max. $5). Business—

Seagrove, N; C. Underwriter—J.
mond,. Va.

is

E.,

common,

ceeds—For

St., New Britain, Conn
Distributor—Horizon Management Corp., New York.

Dec.

fice—126

★ Lucks,. Inc.
28/ 1962 filed 282,496

Feb.

•

holders.

derived from tne sale

&

Planned

•

For investment. Office—300 Main

(3/20)

1961 filed

Kraft

y/;- 11'./

...*•

Office—317

purposes.

jective

sold

tical equipment.

•.

—

loO,OUO common, of whicn 40,000 are
by the company and 60,000 by stockholders
Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of i op-y
be

(4/2-6)

filed

—

and cosmetics; also - industrial chemicals. "
general/corporate purposes. Office—161
Avenue of the Americas, N. Y. Underwriter— Kidder,
Peabody & Co., Inc." Offering—Expected in May.
■;/.■•->/

to

1961

corporate

39

Capitol St., Jackson, Miss. Underwriter—None.

type investment company wiiose primary investment ob¬

for

drugs

Nov.

Fund, Inc.

30,

Proceeds—General

951,799 shares of common stock
Price
Net asset value plus a 7% selling commission;
Business
A non-diversified, open-end,
management-

Proceeds—For

Kollmorgen Corp.

(1191)

/

Long Island Lighting Co«/<(3/16)
16, 1962 filed 421,472 common/ to- be- offered for
subscription by stockholders on the basis of one new

icals/Proceeds—For

promotion, a new publication and"
working capital. Office—660 Madison Ave., New York./

Underwriter—Arnold, Wilkens & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offer-"
ing—In late April/

//

/-./

■

* Magellan Sounds Corp./
Feb. 28, 1962 filed 60,000 common

(with attached oneclass A warrants to purchase 60,000 common shares
at. $4 per share and two-year class B warrants to
pur-:

year

chase 60,000 shares at $4.50 per share) to be offered in/
units (each consisting of one share, one class A warrant:
and

one

class:B

warrant). Price—$4 per-unit. Business-

—Production of educational and recreational devices and
games. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes.
—130 E. 40th St., N. Y. Underwriter—Darius

Office
Inc., N/Y../

Magic Fingers,

Inc.

/

Dec. 29,''4961.filed 75,000

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.

—Production of

a

new

Underwriter—Stanley R. Ketcham & Co., Inc., N. Y.
* Mandrel Industries, Inc.
Feb. 27, 1962 filed 303,900 common, of which 220,000 are
to be offered by the company and 83,900 by stockhold¬

ers/Price—By amendment (max. $20).; Business—De¬
sign and manufacture of specialized photo-electric color/
sorting machines and geo-physical exploration-devices^
Proceeds
For debt >repayment, acquisition of 90,000
shares of its own stock, and working capital. Office—800.
Welch Rd., Palo Alto, Calif. Underwriter-;—DomiD^k &
Dominick, N. Y/
/.
/
—

.

,

share

for each 20

held

of record March

16, with rights
(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..
to

•

•

expire April 2.:

Loral

Price—By. amendment

Electronics Corp.

ment/

—

By amend¬

Business—Research, development and production
military products/ Proceeds—For ; selling

of' electronic

stockholders. Office—825

Bronx River

Ave.,-N/ Y/Un¬
derwriters—Lehman Brothers, Kidder, Peabody &
Co.,
and Model, Roland & Co., N. Y. ,
, .
:
/ Lowell Toy. Manufacturing Corp. ;
27, 1961 filed 120,000 common, of which 100,000 are
to be 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.,
Dec.

NVY. Underwriters—H. M. Frumkes & Co. and
Eaton & Co., N. Y.

• Lucius

-

Corp/„~

.

.

/

/.'

>•

V

Design & Mfg. Corp.
Nov. 14, 1961 ("Reg. A") 55,000 common. Price—$4. Busi-»
ness
Manufacture of waste water filters and filtering;
systems. Proceeds — For debt repayment. and working
capital. Office—610 W. „18th St., Hialeah. Fla. Under-*
—

writer—Terrio &

Co., Inc., Washington, D. C. Offering

—Imminent/
Marine & Animal

(4/9-13)

Feb. 28/1962 filed 56,225 common/ Price

Marie

Batchker,

,

Feb., 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price
—$5.
Business.—Purchase and sale, of negotiable. securities.

By-Products Corp.

Jan. 26, 1962 filed 90,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—Distributes fishmeal and animal by-product proteins.
Proceeds—For

ital.

expansion, machinery, and working cap¬
Underwriter—Arnold

Office—233 Broadway, N*Y.

Malkan

&

Co., Inc., N. Y." Offering—Expected

in

late

April.
Marks

Polarized Corp.
27, 1961 filed 95,000 common shares. Price — By,
amendment. Proceeds — 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.

June

Marquette Capital Co.
Dec*. 1, ,1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—By amend-'
ment. Business—A small business investment company.
Continued

on

page

40

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.

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

,

v

Metropolitan

Continued from page 39

Realty Trust

■.

.

Dec. 20,

Proceeds—For
South

corporate

general

Seventh

Minneapolis,

St.,

Office—91r
Underwriter—

purposes.

Minn.

None.
•

(3/21)
Feb. 7, 1962 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
So. LaSalle St., Chicago. Underwriter — Morgan Stan¬
ley & Co., N. Y.
Marsh

&

Inc.

McLennan,

Nov. 1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price — $3.
Business—Manufacture of rectifiers, regulators, thermo¬

couple tubes, and thyratrons. Proceeds—For expansion,
research and development, and working capital. Office

Ave,, Newark, N. J. Underwriters—Richard
Co., Inc., and Reuben Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y.

<*—54 Summer
Bruce &

Offering—Imminent.
Mastan

I

Co., Inc.

King, Libaire, Stout & Co., N. Y.
Michaels

of four stores. Proceeds—For construction of

Masury-Young Co.
Dec. 4, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$6. Business—
Manufactures commercial arid industrial floor mainte¬
products.

nance

For repayment of debt,
corporate purposes. Office—76

Proceeds

—

equipment, and other
Roland St., Boston. Underwriter—Townsend, Dabney &
Tyson, Boston.
•

Maul Bros. Inc.

Jan.

(3/28)

filed 100,000 common, of which 60,000
are to be offered by the company arid 40,000 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,
N. J. Underwriter —Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y.
•

15,

1962

McWood

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¬
tures and 10 shares. Price—By amendment (max. $160).
Business
Company buys crude oil from producers,
transports it to own storage areas and sells it to refiners.
Proceeds—For debt repayment and working capital. Of¬
fice—Oil & Gas Building, Abilene, Tex. Underwriter—
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Inc., St. Louis. Offering—May.
—

Medex, Inc. (3/15)
Sept. 27, 1961 filed 110,000

common.
Price—By amend¬
Business—Development and manufacture of a
limited line of hospital and surgical supplies. Proceeds
—For construction, inventory, research and working cap¬
ital. Off ice—1488 Grand view Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Un¬
derwriter—Globus, Inc., N, Y.

ment.

Medical

Oct/ 26,

Fund, Inc.
1961 filed 2,000,000 capital shares.

Price—$10.

Business—A closed-end diversified investment company.
Proceeds—For
investment
in
firms
serving modernc

medicine.

Address
New York, N. Y. Underwriter—
Fleetwood Securities Corp. of America, 44 Wall St., N. Y.
—

Medical Industries

open-end.

Proceeds—For

Business
plans

investment

in

to
the

medical

industry and capital growth situations. Office
—677 Lafayette St., Denver. Underwriter—Medical
As¬
sociates, Inc., Denver.
\'
Medical Video Corp.

Nov. 13,

Proceeds—For
Studio

of

Price—$10.

common.

medical

electronic

Busi¬

equipment.

general corporate purposes.

O f f i

c e—

City, Calif. Underwriter—Financial Equity Corp.,

Los Angeles.

Brooklyn, N.

new

store.

Y. Underwriter—

L. F. Rothschild & Co., N. Y.

Micro-Dine
Feb.

Corp.

1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi¬
ness—Manufacture, sale and operation of vending ma¬
chines; Proceeds—For debt repayment, inventories and
general corporate purposes. Office—6425 Oxford St., St.
Louis Park, Minn. Underwriter—Irving J, Rice & Co.,
Midwest

w

ffi®.;;^

Medical

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. Offering — Expected in
April.
Midwest Technical Development Corp.

26, 1962 filed 561,500 common to be offered for
subscription by stockholders on the basis of one share
shares held. Price—By amendment (max.
$7). Business — A closed-end management investment
company. Proceeds — For general corporate purposes.

for- each two

—

2615

First

National Bank Bldg., Minneapolis.

Underwriter—None.

\

Midwestern Investment Corp.
Oct. 16, 1961 filed 200,000 common.

Price—$2. Busi¬
ness—Company plans to engage in the commercial fi¬
nance and factoring business. Proceeds—General corpo¬
rate purposes. Office—1730 K St., N. W., Washington,
C.

D.

Underwriter—Affiliated

Underwriters, Inc.

Midwestern Mortgage

Investors
Feb. 26, 1962 filed 500,000 shares of beneficial interests.
Price—$10. Business — A real estate investment com¬
pany. Proceeds—For investment and operating expenses.
Office—1630

Welton

St.,

Mel nor

'

n

Industries, Inc.

(3/12-16)

Denver.

Underwriter—Boett-

• Mil

National Corp.

Feb. 28, 1962 filed 100,000 common.
—Distribution of dry cleaning and

Price—$5. Business
laundry equipment.
Proceeds—For sales promotion, inventory and working
capital. Office—1101 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx, N. Y.
Underwriters—H. M. Frumkes & Co., Abraham & Co.,
and Berman, Sterling & Vine Co., N. Y.
Miller Brothers Hat

Co., Inc.
1961 filed 126,000 common, of which 100,000
will be sold by the company and 26,000 by certain stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture
of men's and boy's hats. Proceeds — For purchase of a
buildirig; plant equipment, arid working capital. Address
—2700 Canton St., Dallas. Underwriter—Eppler, Guerin
& Turner, Inc., Dallas.
Dec.

18,

Dec. 20, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 capital shares. Price—
$3. Business—Manufacture of switches and other elec¬

Proceeds — For general corporate
Office—1400 Mill Creek Rd., Gladwyne; Pa.

Underwriter—Seymour Blauner

Co., N. Y.

holders.

lawn

Price

and

—

garden

$11.

Business

sprinkling

52,500

by

are

stock¬

Manufacture

—

equipment.

of

Proceeds—

For general corporate
purposes.

Office—Moonachie, N. J.
I. duPont & Co., N. Y.
• Metal Marking Industries, Inc.
Feb. 26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 20,000 common to be offered
for subscription by stockholders on the
basis of one new

Underwriter—Francis

St., Chicago. Underwriter—A. G. Becker & Co., Chicago.
Offering—Expected sometime in May.
T-fy
•

Electro Products Corp.
(4/30)
29, 1961 filed $1,250,000 of .6convertible sub¬
ordinated debentures due March, 1977. Price — At par.
Business—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.
Morse

—

Morse

Components, Inc.

("Reg. A") 150,000 class A shares. Price—
$1.
Business—Manufacturer of precision metal com¬
ponents, assemblies and sub-assemblies. Proceeds—For
repayment

and working
capital.
Office—9-11
St., Valley Stream, N. Y. Underwriters—T.
Co., Inc., N. Y. and I. R. E. Investors Corp.,
Levittown, N. Y. Offering—Imminent.
Cleveland

Kirsch

Miss

Ellsette, Inc. (3/13-14)
10, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business
Design, manufacture and distribution
of women's

dresses.

Proceeds—For debt

repayment, in¬
ventory and expansion. Office—1919 S. Los Angeles St.,
Los Angeles. Underwriter—F. L. Rossmann & Co., N. Y.
Missile

Nov.

Valve

24, 1961

Business
valve.

—

monwealth

Ave., Boston. Underwriters — Blyth & Co.,
Brothers, N. Y. Offering—In April.

Inc. and Lehman
Motor

Oct. 30,

Parts

1961

Industries,

filed

("Reg. A")

300,000

purchase

of

Price — $1.
type butterfly

common.

Production and sale of

new

the

patent and pro¬
development of the valve.
Office — 5909

and

(3/19-23)

Inc.

120,000 class A shares. Price

amendment. Business—Distribution
Proceeds

For

—

derwriter—Street

debt

repayment

—

By

of automobile parts.

and

working capital.

Hicksville, N. Y. Un¬

& Co., Inc., N. Y. .»

Electronics Co.,

Mountain

Inc.
16, 1962 filed 140,000 common. Price—$3.50. Business
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 &
Jan.

—Wholesale

Co,. N. Y. and Clayton Securities Corp., Boston.
•

Multronics, Inc.

(4/9-13)

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

Investment Trust Fund, First Pa.
(4/2-6)

April 28, 1961 fiied $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
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 states, counties,
municipalities and territories of the U. S. Proceeds—For
—

investment.

Sponsor—Ira Haupt &

Co., Ill Broadway,

N. Y. C.
Music

Fair Enterprises, Inc.
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, Yeatman, Mosley Co., Philadelphia.
N.

T.

W.

Missile

Engineering,

Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. Underwriter—Pre¬
Securities, Inc., Denver. Offering—In April.

common.

and

Inc.

Price-—$8. Business

missile

industries.

Pro¬

ceeds—For debt repayment, inventories and research and

development.

Office—4820

Alcoa

Ave.,

Los

Angeles.

Underwriter—None.
Narrows Premium Corp.
(3/19-23)
Sept. 25, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$4. Business
—Financing of casualty insurance premiums in New
York State. Proceeds—General corporate purposes. Of¬
fice—9805 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. UnderwriterPearson, Murphy & Co., Inc., N. Y. »

National

Capital Acceptance Corp. j
1961 ("Reg. A") 150,000 class A common, Price
—$2. Business—Purchase of second trust notes and other
Oct. 20,

securities.

Proceeds—For

working capital. Office—8719
Silver
Spring,
Md.
Underwriter—
Guardian Investment Corp., Washington, D. C.

—Colesville

Corp.

Proceeds—For

duction

Price—By amend¬

common.

ment. Business—Retail sale of popular-priced foot wear.
Proceeds—For selling stockholders.
Office—1047 Com¬

29, 1961 filed 250,000
—Engaged in the aircraft

Nov. 17,1961

•

Shoe, Inc.

1962 filed 630,000

26,

Dec.

Milo

M.

Co.

ment and general corporate purposes. Office—932 Dakin

Offering—

April.
•

R.)

Jan.

Milli-Switch Corp.

purposes.

(E.

1962 filed 150,000 common, of which 60,000 are
to be offered by the company and 90,000 by stockhold¬
ers. Price—By amendment
($14 max.). Business—Manu¬
facture, sale or rental of girls' gym suits, academic caps
and gowns, and choir robes. Proceeds—For debt repay¬

Series

—

Nov. 15, 1961 filed 152,500
common, of which
to be offered by the
company and 100,000

Moore

cher & Co., Denver.

Oct.

•

•

Feb. 23,

Office—900-908 S. Oyster Bay Rd.,

Feb.

Office

working capital. Office — 420 Bergen
Blvd., Palisades Park, N. J. Underwriters—Stone, Acker& Co., Inc., (mgr.) and Heritage
Equity Corp., N. Y.

Jan.

Investment Trust

Dec. 11, 1961 ("Reg. A") 15,000 shares of beneficial in¬
terests. Price—$20. Business—A real estate investment
trust

velopment and
man

Dec.

13,

debt

1961 filed 250,000

ness—Manufacture

St.,

a

tronic components.

Fund, Inc.

Oct. 23, 1961 filed 25,000 common.
Price—$10.
—A closed-end
investment company which

become

Smith

inc., st. Paul,

,

20,600 are

stockhold¬
ers. Price—By amendment. Business—Retail sale of fur-,
niture, major appliances, bedding, etc., through a chain

Feb.

9/ 1962 filed $5,000,000 of 5Vz % senior notes due
1977 arid 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¬
writer—F. Eberstadt & Co., N. Y.

(3/26-30)

(J.), Inc.

Dec. 20, 1961 filed 103,000 common, of which
to be offered by the company and 82,400 by

Office—182

Co.

Electronics

Marshall

1961 filed 1,000,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$6.50. Business—A real estate investment trust.
Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—1700
K St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Eisele &

National
Feb.

Rd.,

Cash

Register Co.

(3/28)

1962 filed $50,000,000 sinking fund debentures
due 1987 to be offered publicly; also 319,090 common
to be offered for subscription by stockholders on the
21,

share for each

ferred

basis of

By amendment (max. $115 per share for common). Busi¬

ceeds—For

Mississippi-Red River Transport Co.
Jan. 22, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price —
By amend¬

2Vz held. Price—$3.50. Business—Design,
development and manufacture of specialized marking
products for the electronic and missile industries. Pro¬
Pecos

Meteor

Oct.

general

31,

Business

purposes.

Office—4675

S.

Enterprises, Inc.

1961
—

("Reg.

of

purposes.

common.

electric
debt

Price—$3.

barbecue

repayment

Office—5356

motors,

and

Riverton

Hollywood,

Calif.
Underwriter—Kolb
rence, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev.

&

gen¬

Ave.,
Law¬

Metropolitan Acceptance Corp.

tail

sales.

Western
Baruch &

per

unit. Business—Financing of

Proceeds—For

Ave.,

Chevy

working

Chase, Md.
Co., Washington, D. C.




($2.50 estimated). Business — A motor carrier of
petroleum products. Proceeds—For purchase of tugs and
and

construction

of

docking facilities. Office—
2809 N. Main St., Fort
Worth, Tex. Underwriter—Wil¬
liam N. Edwards & Co., Fort
Worth, Tex.
Molecular

Dielectrics, Inc.
(4/9-13)
150,000 common, of which 135,000
by the company and 15,000 by Cardia
Co. Price—$5. Business—The manufacture of
high-tem¬
Sept.

are

1,

1961

filed

to be offered

perature

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

ment

barges

100,000

Proceeds—For

corporate

North

A")

Manufacture

igniters, etc.
eral

corporate

St., Englewood, Colo. Underwriter—None.

capital.

re¬

Office—5422

Underwriter

—

R.

electronic and electrical insulation materials.
Proceeds—For equipment, a new product and working
capital. Office—101 Clifton Blvd., Clifton, N. J. Under¬
writers—Street & Co.. Inc. and Irving Weis & Co.. N. Y.
Molecular
Dec.

Systems Corp.
12, 1961 filed*140,000 common. Price—$3. Business
of
polyethylene
materials
of
varying

—Production

grades.

Proceeds

—

For

equipment,

research

and

de¬

one

new

share for each 25

shares held. Price—

ness—Production, distribution and servicing of business
machines. Proceeds—For expansion and working capital.
Office—Main

& K Sts., Dayton,
Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., N. Y

Ohio.

Underwriter—

ic National Dairy Products Corp. (3/22)
March 1, 1962 filed $35,000,000 sinking fund debentures
due March 15, 1992. Price—By amendment. Business—
Purchase, manufacture, processing and distribution of
diversified dairy and other food products. Proceeds—For
general corporate purposes. Office—260 Madison Ave.,
N. Y. Underwriters—Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Lehman
Brothers, N. Y.
•

National

Equipment & Plastics Corp. (4/2-6)
Price—$5. Business
—Operation of a cleaning and pressing plant and affili¬
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 105,000 common.
Proceeds—For

debt repayment, store ex¬
working capital. Address — Portage, Pa.
Underwriter—Cortlandt Investing Corp., N. Y.

ated

stores.

pansion

and

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(1193)

—Writing of automobile insurance.
tional capital and

For

Price—$5. Business

Office—2147 University

reserves.

National

Nov. 9,

1961 filed

ness—A

V

■

Realty

real

1

Ave.,
v
V

V,

•

1,000,000

Price—$15.

common.

Busi-

Proceeds—

company.

by amendment.

and sale of

systems. Proceeds—For

inventory, debt repayment and
working capital. Office—718 Atlantic Ave.,
Brooklyn,
N. Y. Underwriter—Ezra Kureen
Co., N. Y.
National Vended Ski
Oct.

Insurance Corp.

(4/2-6)
Price—By amend¬
:
coin-operated insur¬

30, 1961 filed 550,000

ment.
ance

common.

Business—Distribution of
vending machines to brokers

at

sporting centers.
Proceeds—For inventory,
advertising and working capi¬
tal.
Office—420 Lexington Ave., N. Y. UnderwriterPacific Coast Securities
Co., San Francisco. ★ National Work-Clothes Rental

MarchJJ, 1962 filed 500,000
ment

Business

•/

,,

common.

Price

t

,

—

By amend¬

Compa ny rents and j 1 aunders work
Proceeds—For selling stockhold¬
ers.
Office—Elizabeth, N. J. Underwriter—Hornblower
& Weeks, N.
.

clothes

and

—

uniforms.

Nationwide Bowling Corp.
(3/26-30)
Oct. 19, 1961 filed 100,000 capital shares
amendment.

Business—The

ation of bowling centers. Proceeds—For
sition and working
capital. Office — 11
-

-1

-ji.-V.v-'V

realty acqui¬

1

Nebraska Boiler Co., Inc.
Dec. 29, 1961 filed
fund bonds

a

oper¬

Commerce St.,
Mandel & Long-

Newark, N. J. Underwriter—^Jennings,
streth, Philadelphia.

Atlantic

Price—By
cision

.

^

$400,000 of first mortgage

due/1977 (with warrants)

f

\

sinking

and 15,000 shares

of 6%- series A convertible'
preferred (par $10). Price—
At par.
Business—Design and manufacture of steam and
hot water boilers.- Proceeds—For
construction and debt

•

Finance Cos., Inc.
(3/19)
28, 1961 filed 200,OuO common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—A finance company. Proceeds—For ex¬
pansion and debt repayment. Office—6701 N. Broad St.,
Philadelphia. Underwriter—Blair & Co., Inc., N. Y.
•

N. Y.

(4/10)

•

&

Witter

Co.

Co.

Blyth

-

Smith

—Manufacture of wooden

appliances. Proceeds

New

Hope Academy of the Arts, Inc.
150,000 common. Price—$10. Business
—Operation of a school of performing arts for children
and young adults. Proceeds—For
general
poses. Office—152
Whitemarsh Rd.,

derwriter—Mayo & Co., Philadelphia^
New

Orleans

Public

Service

Un¬

St.,

New

—

kitchen

cabinets and

ark, N. J.

24, 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—For debt repayment, plant

Realty Corp.

24, 1962 filed 150,000 class A shares. Price—$11.
Business—A real estate management
company. Proceeds
corporate

purposes.

working

Office—369

capital, and general '
Lexington Ave., N. Y.

Underwriter—None.
-New

World
Laboratories, Inc. (3/26-30)
13, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price
Business—Manufacture of cosmetics and hair

Nov.

tions.

—

$3.

prepara¬

Proceeds—For

debt

repayment and general cor¬
porate -purposes^ Office^rl610 14th St., N.
W„ Washing¬
ton, D. C. Underwriter—T. J. McDonald-r&

Analyzing 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.
/■/
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¬
poses. Office—223 W. Madison St., Chicago. Underwriter
—H. M. Byllesby &
Co., Chicago.

★ Newnam
Feb.

26, 1962

—$1.50.

&

Lunson,

("Reg. A")

Inc.
100,000 class A

common.

Price

Business—Company plans to establish a coinself-service dry cleaning business. Proceeds—

operated,




For

replacement

debt repayment,

share for each 20 held of record
ceeds—For

—

5

S., and political subdivisions thereof which are be¬
lieved to be exempted from Federal income taxes. Pro¬

units

Sponsor-

representing

Price—By amendment.
Business—The Fund will invest in interest-bearing obli¬
gations of states, counties, and municipalities of the U. S.,
and
to

political

be

repayment

rights to

(max. $30). Pro¬
construction. Office—

and

a.m.

EST)

in Room 2033, 2 Rector St., N. Y.

Power &

Light Co. (4/11)
$35,000,000 of first mortgage bonds
due 1992. Office—920 S. W. Sixth Ave.,
Portland, Ore.
Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidders: Halsey,
Stuart & Co., Inc.; Lehman
Brothers; Eastman Dillon,
Union Securities & Co.; Blyth &
Co.-White, Weld &
Co.
(jointly)/ Bids—Expected April 11 (11 a.m. EST).
Information Meeting—April 2 (3:30 p.m.) at 2 Rector
St., N. Y.
Feb.

Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, Series 4
of

(11

Pacific

Chicago.

17, 1961 filed $15,000,000
fractional interests in the Fund.

debt

S. W. Sixth
Ave., Portland, Ore. Underwriters—
(Competitive). Probable bidders: Ladenburg, Thalman
& Co.; Kidder, Peabody &
Co.; Lehman Brothers-East¬
man Dillon, Union Securities &
Co.-Bear, Stearns & Co.Dean Witter & Co. (jointly). Bids—Scheduled for
April

interests in the Fund. Price
By amendment.
Business—The Fund will invest in interest
bearing obli¬
gations of states, counties and municipalities of the

Nuveen

26 with

920

Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, Series 3 A:
Oct. 17, 1961 filed $15,300,000 of units
representing frac¬

investment. Office—Chicago, 111.
John Nuveen & Co., 135 So. La Salle
S,t„

Mar.

expire May 1. Price—By amendment

Nuveen

tional

at the com¬

Power & Light Co.
(4/5)
27, 1962 filed 672,299 common to be offered for
subscription by stockholders on the basis of one neW

expansion, and equipment. Office—5801 Fast Marginal
Way South, Seattle, Wash. Underwriter—Dean Witter &
Co., San Francisco and Pacific Northwest Co., Seattle.
/

(PST)

a.m;

Feb.

subdivisions thereof which are believed
exempted from Federal income taxes. Proceeds—
investment.
Office—Chicago, 111. Sponsor—John

27,

1962 filed

Pacific

States

Steel

Corp.

June 21,

Nuveen & Co., 135 So. La Salle
St., Chicago.

1961 filed 100,000 outstanding shares of capital
stock (par 50 cents) to be sold by stockholders. Price—
$6. Business—The manufacture of steel products. Pro¬
ceeds—For

For

tures

6,

(4/4)

due

1987.

$90,000,000 of sinking fund deben¬
Price—By amendment. Business—Pro¬

duction of oil and

•

cisco

gas. Proceeds—For general corporate
Office—539 S. Main St., Findley, Ohio. Under¬

Oklahoma

Gas

&

Elective

scription by
share

for

expire

common

each

Mar.

held of

20

27,

1962.

Office—321

Underwriter—Merrill

record

Westates Land Development Corp.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed $1,500,000 of 7% convertible subord.
due 1976 and 300,000 common shares to be
offered in units, each consisting of $100 of debentures
and 20 common shares. Price—$200
per unit. Business—

on

the

basis

of

one

Mar.

Price—$38.

8, with rights to
Proceeds—For con¬

General real estate.

Proceeds—For debt repayment and
working capital. Office — 9412 Wilshire Blvd.. Beverly
Hills, Calif. Underwriter — Morris Cohon & Co.. N. Y.

N.
Harvey St., Oklahoma City.
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Inc., N. Y.

Note—This company was formerly named Westates Land
Development Corp. Offering—Expected in April.

-

.
,

•

'

Olympia Mines, Inc.
Sept. 1, 1961 filed 300,000 capital shares. Price—$1.35
Business—The exploration and development of mines.
Proceeds—For mining operations. Office—44 Court
St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter— Gaumont Corp., Ltd.,
Toronto.
"'AAV'"
'
A;r A
A'
A," • AAA/AAA/ /

Pal-Playwell Inc.
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.
Nov.

• Pan American

Beryllium Corp.
28, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—Company plans to mine for beryl ore in Argentina.

Feb.

Feb.

ment

Proceeds

writer—To

Optech, Inc.
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,
J.

Electronics

Corp.

Aug. 28, 1961 filed 100,000
ness—The

manufacture

of precision

,

r..,

Office—200 W. 57th St., N. Y. Underwriter—
Curylo Co., 2166 Broadway, N. Y.

Papekote, Inc. (3/12-16)
1, 1961 ("Reg. A") 60,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬
ness—Development and sale of chemical processes used
in the field of paper

coating. Proceeds—For general cor¬
15th St., N. Y. Under¬
Lewis Co., Inc.,^ N. Y.

Price—$3.50. Busi¬

porate purposes. Office—443 W.

electronic

writer—Edward

tems

.

Inc.

•

sub-sys¬

for the
generation, detection and control of fre¬
quencies up through the microwave region. Proceeds—
For expansion, equipment and
working capital. Address

—Tuckahoe, N. Y. Underwriter—A.
Inc.^.N, Y. C.

named,

Productions,

Dec.

(4/16-20)

common.

repayment, equipment, and other

purposes.

R. J.

Equity Corp., N. Y.

Orion

debt

Dec. 15, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$3. Business—
Production of films. Proceeds — For general corporate

Underwriters—Stone, Ackerman & Co., Inc., and

•

be

Pan-Video

Dec.

Heritage

For

corporate purposes. Office—39 Broadway, N. Y. Under¬

—Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Washington, D. C.

N.

(mgr.). Offering—Indefinitely postponed.

debentures

being offered for sub¬

stockholders

selling stockholder. Office—35124 Alva-

Pacific

Co.

Feb. 8, 1962 filed 328,912
common,

the

rado-Niles Road, Union City, Calif. Underwriters-^-First
California Co., Inc., and Schwabacher & Co., San Fran¬

1962 filed

Operations Research, Inc.
14, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
Inc.,
(max. $9). Business—Furnishes research and de¬
Washington, D. C.
.,/A^/AA velopment services in the field of operations research.
New York Testing
Proceeds—For debt repayment and
Laboratories, Inc.
working capital. Of¬
Jan. 29, 1962 filed 50,000 common.
fice—8605 Cameron St., Silver Spring, Md. Underwriter
Price—$5. Business—
Co.,

Newark

appliance

—

Pacific

.

struction.

Jam

repayment,

Manufactures

Bids—Expected Mar. 13 at 8:30
pany's office.

Jan.

writers—First Boston Corp. and Lehman Brothers, N. Y.

debt

—

derwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidders: First Bos¬
ton Corp.; Halsey, Stuart & Co.
Inc.; Blyth & Co., Inc.

Co.

purposes.

Inc.;
Kidder, Peabody & Co. - Stone & Webster Securities
Corp. (jointly). Bids—April 4 at 2 Broadway (28th
floor), New York City.

—For

Business

19, 1962 filed $65,000,000 of first and refunding
mortgage bonds, series HH, due 1994. Proceeds—For ex¬
pansion.
Office—245 Market St., San Francisco.
Un¬

\

Glass

bidders:

Plan

Manufacturing Co., Inc. (3/26-30)
110,055 common. Price—By amend¬

filed

Feb.

related

For

Orleans, La.

Underwriters — (Competitive).
Equitable Securities Corp.-Eastman
Dillon, Union Securities & Co. (jointly); First Boston
Corp.; White, Weld & Co.; Halsey, Stuart & Co.

New

1961

expansion and working capital. Office—230 E. 162nd St.,
N. Y. Underwriters—Kahn &
Peck, Cohn & Co., N. Y.

(jointly);

debt repayment, expansion,
working capital. Office—201-221 Godwin Ave., Paterson, N. J. Underwriter—United Planning Corp., New¬

March

(4/4)

Feb. 20, 1,962 filed
$8,000,000 of first mortgage bonds due
1992. Proceeds—For construction.
Office—317 Barrone

Probable

10,

• Ohio Oil Co.

corporate pur¬

Philadelphia.
"

Office—75 W. St.,

&

Oct.

Jan. 17, 1962 filed

Business—Furnishing of
training personnel, new equip¬

parts and accessories. Proceeds

and

ment and

mining. Proceeds—General corporate purposes.
Office—90 Industry St., Toronto, Canada. Underwriter-A. C. MacPherson &
Co., Toronto.
•

;

Proceeds—For

Inc.

ceeds—For

-

to

Co.-American

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¬

r<

are

Pacific Big Wheel
Co., Inc. - Merrill Lynch, ;
Oct. 26, 1961 filed 100,000 common.
(jointly); Kuhn, Loeb &
Price—By amend¬
Securities Corp.P (jointly). Bids—April
ment. Business—Sale and installation of automobile ac¬
10, 1962 (11 ami. CST) at Harris Trust & Savings Bank,
cessories. Proceeds—For expansion and working capital.
Chicago.
'
Office—6125 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. Underwriter?-^
^ N. C. Roberts &
Northern Wood Products
Co., Inc., San Diego.
Corp.
Nov. 29, 1961 filed 78,000 common.
• Pacific
Gas & Electric Co.
Price—$5. Business
(3/13)

Pierce, Fenner &

New Campbell
Oct. 13, 1961 filed

Island Mines Ltd.

25,000

Underwriters—Lenchner, Covato & Co., Inc., Pitts-

ment.

•

&

(3/19-23)

by stockholders.
statistical infor¬

P-G Products

Oct.

Ind./Underwriters—

Stearns

Inc.

burgh, Pa., and Harry Odzer Co., N. Y.

(Competitive). Probable bidders: Halsey, Stuart & Co.
Inc.; First Boston Corp.; White, Weld & Co.; Equitable
Securities Corp.; Eastman Dillon, Union Securities &
Brothers-Bear,

Processing,

ment, expansion and working capital.

/AAfAAfAA'AA?

6, 1962 filed $20,000,000 of first mortgage bonds

Co-Lehman

Data

Price—$3.75.
mation.

series L due 1992. Proceeds—For
working capital. Office
—5265
Hoi man
Ave.,

Dean

PCS

Oct. 6, 1961 filed 100,000 common of which
be offered by the company and
75,000

Business—Manufacture of pre¬
instruments. Proceeds—Repayment of

Hammond,

Oxford

Nov.

U.

x

J-

Mining Co., Inc.
28, 1962 filed 900,000 common. Price—$1. Business
—Mining. Proceeds—For equipment and working capi¬
tal. Address—Creede, Colo. Underwriter—None.

debt, new product development, inventory and working
capital. Office—Terminal Dr., Plainview, N. Y. Under¬

March

corporate

• Outlet

(3/15)

A Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

general

Feb.

Underwriter—None.

Inc.

and

repayment

Office—Oceanside, L. I., N. Y. Underwriters—
Professional & Executive
Planning Corp., Long Beach,
N. Y., and E. J. Roberts &
Co., East Orange, N. J.

amendment.

electronic

repayment. Office—235 N. 9th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
Under¬
writer—First Nebraska Securities
Corp., Lincoln,. >

■u

Industries,

debt

purposes.

Sept. 26, 1961 filed 131,500 common, of which 120,000
will be sold by the
company and 11,500 by a stockholder.

Northwestern

(with attached

warrants). Price—By

production
distill and sell

writer—G. A. Saxton & Co., Inc., N. Y.

Tele-Systems, Inc.

Feb. 27, 1962 filed
82,000 common, of which 65,000 are
to be offered
by company and 17,000 by stockholders.
Price—$3. Business—Manufacture of closed circuit TV

Pri

Ave., N. Y.

North

quality transistors
—•

Proceeds—For

Business

for

Proceeds—For acquisition of property and
working cap¬
ital. Office—475 Fifth

military and industrial use.
Proceeds
For new
equipment, plant expansion, working capital, and other
corporate purposes. Office—Mallory Plaza
Bldg., Danbury, Conn. Under writers^Lee Higginson
Corp., N.Y,C|^
and
Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Minneapolis (mgr.).
Offering—Sometime in April. National

plant

a

-

stock. Price
Business—The design,

for

j

construct

North America Real Estate Trust
Nov. 13, 1961 filed 2,000,000 shares of beneficial
interest.
Price—$10.
Business—Real
estate
investment
trust.

Semiconductor Corp.

development, manufacture

to

St., Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Scott,
Harvey & Co., Inc., Fairlawn, N. J.

1961 filed 75,000 shares of capital

—To be supplied

Paper Corp. (3/19-23)
11, 1961 ("Reg. A") 80,000 common. Price—$2.50.
Business—Manufacturer of miscellaneous paper products.
Oct.

fice—1060 Broad

...

A:A";

Orlando

ethyl alcphol and deiivatives and to
industrial and potable alcohol in Nigeria.
Proceeds—For
equipment, debt repayment, and working capital. Of¬

investment.
Office—20 Broad St., New York City.
Underwriter—Lee Higginson Corp., N. Y. Note
This
company
formerly was named National Real Estate
Trust. Offering—Imminent.
v.;,:National

filed

1961

—Company plans

For

•

7,

Corp. (4/16-20)
90,000 common. Price—$5.

of

investment

Indian

Nigeria Chemical

Dec.
;

Investors

estate

general

corporate purposes. Office — 4800
Head Rd., Oxon Hill, Md, Underwriter—None.

Proceeds—For addi¬

St. Paul, Minn. Underwriter—None.
•

41
i/

National Family Insurance Co.
Dec. 26, 1961 filed
200,000 common.

D.

Gilhart
,'V

&

•

Paramount

Foam

Industries

Sept. 25, 1961 filed 137,500
ment.

Business—The

(3/12-16)

common.

manufacture

Price—By amend¬
polyester foams.

of

Co.,
•>

"■■■;/

.-<.^7

r_

Continued

on

page

42

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Continued from page

41

Plasto-O-Tron, Inc.
26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 84,666 common.
Price—$3.
Business—Design and manufacture of vacuum thermoforming machinery for production of plastic packaging
materials.
Proceeds—For inventory, equipment, expan¬
sion and working capital. Office—60 Park PI., Newark,
Jan.

1;

Proceeds

Additional

—

equipment, debt repayment and

Locu,

working capital. Ottice—Mercer and Arnot Sts,
N. J. Underwriter—Fiaikov & Co., Inc., N. Y.

(3/26-30)

Corp.

Finance

Farker

,

N. J. Underwriter—To be named.

Oct. 27, 1961 tiled 135,OOu common. rrice—$6. Business
11—Financing of commercial accounts receivable. Pro¬

Silver

Spring,

Office—8650 Cameron St.,
Underwrher-^D. E. Liedermarl &

Md.

Co., Inc., N. Y.

.;

.? v

t

-,..

J./

.«.

/,1

Parkway Laboratories, In©.
'
Dec. 6, 1961 filed 160,000 common. Price—$5. Business
%.—Manufacture of drugs and pharmaceuticals./Proceeds
-For an acquisition, research and other corporate pur¬
poses. Office — 2301 Pennsylvania Ave., Philadelphia.
Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., Inc., N. Y,
Offer¬
ing—Expected sometime in April.
.

,.

Patent

to be offered

Price—By

Port

Reading, N. J. Underwriter—Mortimer B. Burnside
Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Temporarily postponed.

•

common,

•

Feb.

21, 1962 filed 500,000 shares of beneficial interest,
Price—$10. Business—A real estate investment company.

Bldg., Philadelphia. Underwriters—Stroud & Co.,
Inc., Philadelphia, and Walston & Co., N. Y.

..

.

Perpetual Investment Trust
9, 1961 filed 500,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—(For the first 10,000 shares) $10.80 per share.
(For the balance) Net asset value plus 8% commission.
Nov.

D.

Office—1613

C.

Eye

Underwriter—Sidney
Washington, D. C.

Proceeds- -For

St., N. W., Washington,
Z. Mensh Securities Co.,

Pictronics Corp.
Jan.

18,

1962

filed

80,000 common. Price—$5. Business
professional audio visual and sound
recording equipment. Proceeds—Debt repayment, equip¬
—Manufacture
ment and

of

working capital. Office—236 E. 46th St., N. Y.

Underwriter—Bayes, Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y.
Pierce Proctor Schultte & Taranton

corporate purposes. Office—1807 N.
Underwriter—None.

Ave., Phoenix.

Pioneer
Dec. 21,

Restaurants, Inc.

1961

filed

125,000 common, of which 75,000 are
to be offered by the
company and 50,000 by a selling
stockholder.
Price—By amendment. Business—Opera¬
tion

of

six

restaurants

in

Sacramento.

Proceeds—For

expansion, debt repayment and working capital. Office
—1626 J
St., Sacramento. Underwriter—Stewart, Eubanks, Myerson & Co., San Francisco.
'•

Pir-O-Wcod

Nov.

28,

Industries, Inc.

of

resistant

1961

Instrument

Co.

N. Y. and J. Barth &

to

be

Proceeds—For debt repayment and
of stock in subsidiaries. Office — 180 S.
Broadway, White Plains, N. Y. Underwriter—Burnham
& Co.., N. Y. *

Prestige Capital Corp.
19,

\

p.

filed 200,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—A small business investment
company. Proceeds—For
investment. Office—485 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Underwriters
—To

be named.

Equities Corp.
Nov. 27, 1961 filed 400,000 shares of 60c cumulative con*
vertible preferred, and 400,000 of class A
common, to
Business—A

one

real

share each.
estate

firm.

Pro¬

property acquisitions and working capital.
Office—66 Hawley St., Binghamton, N. Y. Underwriter

and

protective
Proceeds—Forf

—None.
0

Printing Corp. of America

Dec.

28,

1961

filed 454,OuO

(3/22)

common.

Price—By amend¬

Business—Printing of t^ade and business periodi¬

—Goldman, Sachs & Co., N. Y.
Producers Cotton Oil Co. (4/16-20)
Jan. 18, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—By
ment.

:

V .v

;•

amend¬

Business—Growing cotton, operating cotton gins,
processing cottonseed and selling raw cotton and cotton¬

Co.",

Note
,

This

—

7 /

v

offering/was temporarily

•

Inc.

(3/26-30)

common.

Price—By amend?

and " sale

man's magazine.

a

of

pocket-size

Proceeds—For

Madison

Ave..

N.

Y.

Underwriter—Milton

D.

Industries,

Inc.

Brake

Rebuilders,

Inc.

("Reg. J; A") 300,000 common.
Price—$1.
Business—Rebuilding and reconditioning of automotive
brake shoes.
Proceeds—For general corporate purposes.
Office—94 Gazza Blvd., Farmingdale, N. Y. Underwriter
—Meadowbrook Securities, Inc, Hempstead, N. Y.,
•*",
O

f

3,

1962

RF

Oct.

Interonics, Inc. (3/26-301 '/' "/iZ
1961 filed 40,000 common! Price—$5. Business
of radio frequency interference filters
capacitors. Proceeds—For
etygpment, working cap¬
30,

—Manufacture
and

ital and other corporate
N. Y.

purposes^P&ice—15

//{■;-'-'/o

Racing Inc.

Neil Court,
Malkan & Co!,

'//

'

Oct.

16, 1961 filed 1,250,000 common. Price—Up to $4.
Business—Company plans to build and operate an auto¬

Proceeds—General

mobile racing center.
poses.

Office—-21 N.

7th

corporate pur¬

St, Stroudsburg, Pa.

Under¬

writer— None:

Price—By amend¬

investment

.

Business—Publication

Quality
Jan

,■

Primex

be offered in units of

Co., and Morris Cohon &

Oceanside^ N. Y> Underwriter—Arnold

1961

Business

—

28, 1961 filed 87,500 common. Price—$4. Business
—Design and manufacture of metal cabinets,, boxes,
boiler and radiator enclosures.
Proceeds—For
equip¬
ment, aadvertising and working capital. Office — 234
Russell St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—M. J. Merrit*
& Co, Inc., N. Y.

Price—By

Business—Acquisition and development of

the purchase

Oct.

-

Quaker City

Presidential

real estate projects.

unit.

Nov.

debt repayment

Realty Corp. (4/9-13)
1962 filed 250,000 class B common.

Francisco.

—444

New Broad

29,

per

Blauner & Co., Inc., N. Y.

and working capital. Office.
St., Port Chester, N. Y. Underwriter—
Van Alstyne, Noel & Co., N. Y.
©

de¬

expansion, debt repayment, and working capital. Office

offered

ceeds—For

—33

subord.

For general
Office—San Juan, Puerto Rico. Un¬

paperback books and

of which 75,000
by the company and 75,000 by stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment
(max. $12). Business—
Design and manufacture of microwave components. Pro¬
are

coating




Pfice—$200

Pyramid Publications,
24, 1961 filed 115,000

• Premier Microwave Corp.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed' 150,000 common,

of

plastic

conv,

200,000 class A shares to be ofT

York.

ment.

Co., San Francisco.

A capital

Price

San

manufacture of instrumentation magnetic tape re¬
cording equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment, con¬
struction and working capital. Office—1011 Commercial
St., San Carlos, Calif? Underwriters—Lehman Brothers,

Business—Manufacture

solution.

and

eight shares.

postponed.''

and

—$3.50.

proofing

and

1971

Nov.

cals and textbooks by lithography. Proceeds—For selling
stockholders. Office—71 W. 35th St., N. Y. Underwriter

—

water

filed $4,000,000 of 5%

1961

25,000 units, each consisting of $160 of deben¬

Price—$5. Business
—Development of pulping and bleaching, devices. Pro¬
ceeds—General corporate purposes. Office—Hoge Bldg;,
Seattle, Wash. Underwriter—Wilson. Johnson & Higgins.

(3/26-30)

Plasticon Chemicals, Inc.
Feb. 7, 1962 filed 150,000 class

—

a

and, Development Corp.

.,

1/

ment.

of

inventory, equipment, sales promotion, and other cor¬
porate purposes. Office—507 Fifth
Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writer—Arden Perin & Co., N. Y.

Land

Pulp Processes Corp.
Sept. 20, 1961 filed 140,000 common.

Dec. 28, 1961 filed 125,000 capital shares of which
111,000
are to be offered
by the company and 14,000 by stock¬
holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Development

ment.

shares.

Rico

due

in

tures

stainless

ceeds—For

(3/19-23)

a

24,

fered

parts.
Proceeds — For debt repayment, retirement of
6% pfd., and working capital.
Address — Ballwin, Mo.
Underwriter—G. H. Walker & Co., Inc., N. Y.
Precision

S

fPj

Darlington

/;;(3/26-30)
Nov.

Dec. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common, i
Price-PByf amend¬
ment. Business—Manufacture of carburetor replacement

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Address—San Juan, Puerto
& Grimm, N. Y,

purposes/

derwriters—Lieberbaum &

Components Co.

P:

■

Puerto

bentures

filed 62,000 common. Price—$5. Business
prefabricated wood and plastic specialized
components. Proceeds—For general corporate
purposes.
Office
1182 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriter
Arnold
Malkan & Co., Inc., N. Y.
—Sale

general corporate

Rico./ Underwriter—Hill,

13/27)

corrosion

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Sept. 13, 1961 filed 300,000 common. Price—$10. Business

New

amendment.

Investment Co., Inc.
20, 1961 filed $465,000 of 10-year 8% debentures.
Price—$15,000 per debenture. Business—The company
plans to organize and sell real estate syndicates. Pro¬
Central

distribution

,

r

general

Products Co/

•l<^

—A small business investment company. Proceeds—For

corporate purposes.

Jan.

Dec.

ceeds—For

Industrial

precision Automotive

Inc.
/
>
154,800 common. Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $20). Business—Photofinishing and the dis¬
tribution of photographic equipment and supplies. Pro¬
ceeds—For selling stockholders.
Office—4747 N. Broad
St., Philadelphia.
Underwriter—Bear, Stearns & Co.,
N. Y. Offering—Expected in late May.

investment.

Potomac Electric Power Co.

Power

.

quisition and other corporate purposes! Office—rl 106 Con¬
necticut Ave.; N. W., ^Washington, D. C. UnderwriterRoth & Co., Inc., Philadelphia.;
Puerto Rico Capital Corp. (3712-16) '

pipe, tubing, valves, etc. Proceeds—For repayment
debt, expansion, and working capital. Office—352
Harrison St., Passaic, N. J. Underwriter—S. D. Fuller
& Co., N. Y.
im¬

•

Business—A real estate investment trust.

.

—Real estate and construction. Proceeds

ment

.

Publishers Co., Inc. (4/9-13)
Nov.* 28, 1,961: filed. 541,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. BusiiiesS—Book publishing, Proceeds—For an ac/

steel

,

.

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of

Pepsi-Cola Genera! Bottlers, Inc. (4/10)
Feb. 16, 1962 filed 250,000 common.
Price—By amend¬

.

J.

•

Warehouse

Fund

Perfect Photo,
.Feb. 14, 1962 filed

,

Inc.
Feb. 7, 1962 filed 85,500 common.
Price—$3. Business
—Development and promotion of "one stop dry cleaning
and laundry" establishments, 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 iBivd., Los
Angeles, Calif. Underwriters—Crosse & Co., Inc., V. SZ
Wickett & Co., Inc. and Thomas; Williams & Lee, Inci,
N.
Y.y/Z~ p* '//y//y':y7

22, 1961 filed 160,000 class A common/ of which
133,333 are to be offered by the company and 26,667 by
present stockholders. Price—By amendment. Business—

and acquisition and
2220 Philadelphia Saving

(max. $17).
Business—Bottling and distributing
Pepsi-Cola in Chicago and three neighboring cities.: Pro¬
ceeds—For selling stockholders.' Office—1745 N. Kolmar
Ave., Chicago. Underwriter—White, Weld & Co., N. Y.

/'

Prosper-Way,

Nov.

repayment
—

/•

Prices P-< By

Barret, Fitch, North & Co., Ihc., Kansas City;

15 held of record'March 7, with rights to ex¬
pire March 21. Price—$39. Proceeds—For debt repay¬
ment and expansion. Office—929 E St., N.
W, Washing¬
ton, D. C. Underwriters—Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.; N: Y.
ahd Jolifnstotf, -Memory
Washington, "D. C.

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

capital. Address

•••

'X, 11

amendment (max. $10). Business — Company owns and
operates "a'motor hotel. Proceeds—For expansion* Office
—6th and Main Sts., Kansas City, Mo,
Underwriter—

for each

ing and catering club and a motel. Proceeds—For ex?
pansion and working capital. Office—15th & Locusts
Sts., Philadelphia. Underwriter—To be named.

working

y

common..

Feb.

Feb. 15, 1962 filed 536,221' common being offered for sub¬
scription by stockholders on the basis of one new share

of which 70,000
are to be offered by the company and 10,000 by stock¬
holders. Price—$5. Business-r-Operation of a private din¬

debt

repayment of debt,

'/Prom Motor Hotel, Inc. *
1
19/1962 filed 50,000 class A comnqoh/

cap¬

holders. Price—By amendment. Business—Research and
development, engineering and production of certain
electronic devices for aircraft/ missiles, oscilloscopes/
electronic vending machines and language teaching ma¬
chines. Proceeds—For expansion, repayment of debt and
working capital. Office—7326 Westmore Rd., Rockville,
Md. Underwriters—Jones, Kreeger & Co., and Balogh
Co., Washington, D. C. Note—This offering was post¬
poned indefinitely.
;

Branch, N. J. Underwriter
Co., Inc., New Brunswick, N. J.

Business—The manufacture of building materials.
Proceeds—For payment of income taxes and loans and
for working capital. Office—Woodbridge-Carteret Road,

For

Price—$2.05.

viriyF aplastic product!
and household fields;

■

—$5.

—

and working

company

Polytronic Research, Inc.
filed 193.750 common shares, of which 150,*
000 will be sold for the company and 43,750 for stock¬

Pellegrino Aggregate Technic©, Inc.
Aug. 10, 1961 filed 130,000 class A common shares. Price

Proceeds

a

77th

June 7, 1961

Office—35 Third Ave., Long

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Policy-Matic Affiliates, Inc. (3/20)
16, 1061 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—Balogh & Co.,
Inc., Washington, D. C.

various fields. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes.

Club, Inc.
filed 80,000

acquisition of

Office—3781

•

Development, Inc.
15, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$5. Busi¬
ness—Design, manufacture and sale of new products in

1962

by the company and 50,000 by stockholders.
Business—Manufacture of pre¬

Oct.

Patent Research &

28,

of

marine

Price—$3.50/ Busi¬
computer programming and
the
operation of electronic data processing machines".
Proceeds—For expansion. Office—45 W. 35th St., N. Y.
Underwriter—D." M. Stuart &" Co., Inc., 'N/;Yv

ton.

Feb.

Penthouse

manufacture

automotive,

Programming and Systems, Inc.

St., Cleveland. Underwriter—
Hemphill, Noyes & Co., N. Y. and Estabrook & Co., Bos¬

withdrawn.

•

The

Proceeds—For

hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical equipment
marine, aircraft, ordnance and industrial use. Pro¬

ital.

plans to market
patented products, or products which it considers to be
patentable. Proceeds—For general corporate purposes.
Office—521 5th Ave., N. Y. C. Underwriter—Hampstead
Investing Corp., N. Y. Note—This registration will be

Feb.

—

the

in

y/../

working capital?

amendment.

ceeds—For

unit. Business—Company

&

used

cision
for

Merchandising Corp.

—Louis R. Dreyling &

Business

1

Pneumo Dynamics Corp. (3 / 27)P
/vP/y/■':!//'* Oct. 11, 1961 filed 40,000
Dec. 22, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which 100,000 are ' ness—Instructs classes in

22, 1961 filed 100,000 common (with attached fiveyear warrants to purchase an additional 100,000 shares)
to be sold in units of one share and one warrant. Price
per

Island/Inc.

: •
(3/26-30)".
"
-pPy.:./"//
July 28, 1961 filed 330,000 common shares.

•

Nov.

—$3.50

Product Research of Rhode

Associates, Ltd., 50 Broadway, N^Y.

v

•

Office—2907 S.
Maple Ave., Fresno, Calif. Underwriters—Kidder, Pea?
body & Co.j N. Y. and Dean Witter, Sah Francisco/;, 7\

new equipment and
Office— 184 Woonasquatucket Avenue/
payment of notes and working capital. Office — 2211. North Providence, R. I. Underwriter—Investment Plan¬
Church Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter—M. Posey ir ning Group, East Orange, N:i'
H' •Z

1-

-

Thursday, March 8, 1962

.

.

seed products. Proceeds—For expansion.
v

Plymouth Discount Corp. •
Aug. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3.
Business—Consumer sales financing. Proceeds—For re¬

deot (repayment.

ceeds—lor
M; -ti

yy/'/V-i'';;P'-iyV

.

Radio

Electric

Service Co.

of New

Jersey, Inc.

Jan. 23, 1962 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common, of which 67,500
will be offered by the company and 7,500. by stockhold¬

Price—$4. Business—Wholesaling of electronic parts,
supplies and equipment and the retailing of high-fidel'ity and stereophonic equipment and components. Pro¬
ers.

ceeds—For debt repayment,
and

N.

expansion, moving expenses
working capital. Office—513-15 Cooper St, Camden,

J.

Underwriter—D.

L.

Greenbaum

&

Co, Phila.

~

Raiford's, Inc. '
7
*
1
Feb.
6, 1'962
("Reg. A")
75,000 common./Price—$4.
Business—Operation of stores which sell prescription
shoes.

" Proceeds—For

■capital.k

Office—62

debt

'Monroe '

writer—M. A. Saunders &

repayment

and

Ave, * Memphis.'

Co, Inc., Memphis.

working
.
Under¬

i|

Volume

195

Number

6140

.

.

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

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Recco, Inc. (3/20)
19, 1961 filed 75,000

amendment.
expansion.

class

A

Business—Operates

tionery departments

in

/

?

Oct.

shares.

record,

discount

Price

—

ized

press room supplies
to
the
graphic arts -industry.
Pro¬
working capital. Office—4140 W. Victoria
Ave.,--Chicago, 111. Underwriters—Blunt Ellis & Sim¬

ment.

'

equipment

Office—1211- Walnut

St., Kansas City; Mo.
Underwriter—Midland Securities Co., Inc., Kansas
City,
Mo.
_v*,
V'
•; ' '

mons,

.,

.

School

Chicago.* and Schmidt, Roberts & Parke, Phila-

delphia.

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\ Feb.

l;

-

(Red Wing Fiberglass
Products, Inc.
July 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") 260,000 common.
Price—$1.15.
Proceeds
Debt repayment,
building improvements,
equipment, research and development, and working capital. Office—Industrial
Park, Red. Wing, Minm Under¬
writer—rYork &
Mavroulis, Minneapolis. Note—This let¬
ter was
temporarily postponed.

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will

nated

equipment, and

to

schools,

hotels, hospitals

7,

Proceeds—For

ac¬

,

Pictures, Inc.

1962 filed

offered

60,000 common and 40,000 class A
41,864 common are to be offered by
entire class A and 18,136 common

by stockholders.

Price—By amendment
develops, prints, and
—
For plant and
equipment, acquisitions, and working capital. Office—
1610 N. Mill St.,
Jackson,, Miss. Underwriters—Equi¬
table Securities Corp.,
Nashville, and Kroeze, McLarty
max.).

finishes

•••j.

sup-

be

($35

'

plies

43

'

<

common, of which
the company; the

Rochester Capital Leasing Corp.
Oct. 30, 1961 filed $625,000 of 6% convertible

subordidebentures due 1972 and 100,000 class A to be
/
offered in 12,500 units each
consisting of $50 of deben-/;
'tures and eight shares. "Price—$90
per unit. Business— Manufacture and sale of furniture,
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Business—General real estate.

derwriter—None.

..

,

'

quisition of property. Office—67 W. 44th St., N. Y. Un¬

ceeds—For

card and sta—
Proceeds—For

stores.

photographic, plate making and

and

By

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Business—Company

"school

pictures."

Proceeds

industrial com& Duddleston, Jackson,
panies. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—8' Jay
Miss.'//
y.
• Rego, Radio & Electronics Corp.
/ St., Rochester; N. Y/
Seashore Food Products, Inc. ■ (4/16-20)
Underwriter—Saunders, Stiver &
March 1, 1962
("Reg.,A") 80,000 common.' Price—$3.75.
Co., Cleveland..//'.Ay, -w,,L^/;/j,7//V%,;';/,//// Aug. 29, 1961 ("Reg; A") 75,000 common.
Price — $4.
Business—Wholesales .distribution of automobileradios', ?/-v. Rockower Brothers, Inc.
Business—The manufacturing and processing of assorted
(3/15)/./"*,
replacement parts, air-conditioners, etc. Proceeds—For
Jan. 19, 1962 filed 150,000
food products.
Office—13480 Cairo Lane, Opa Locka,
common, of which 50,000 will'/-/
inventories, research and development and working
be sold by the
company and 100,000 by stockholders. w Fla. Underwriters—Terrio & Co., Washington, D. C.
capital. Office—46-25 58th St., Woodside
77, N. Y. Un¬ / Price—By amendment.:
Season-All Industries, Inc.
Business-fRetail sales of men's
derwriter—General Securities Co.,
Inc.,;N. Y,, / - -9- „•;•/
and boys' clothing. Proceeds—For additional
Feb. 26, 1962 filed 100,000
inventory
common, of which 50,000 are
Regulators, Inc.
I
:/;r
/ s\. < *1 /and working, capital. Office
160 West
Lehigh Ave./^ to' be offered by company and 50,000 by stockholders.
Jan. 29, 1962 filed
75,000' c6mirion, of wihicli 50,000 are t Philadelphia. Underwriter.—Drexel &Co., Philadelphia. / Price—By amendment (max/ $30). Business—Manufac¬
to; be offered by the company and 25,000 by Electronic :/v Rona Plastic
ture and distribution of aluminum combination > storm,
Corp.
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Specialty Co:, parent. Pfice—$5. Business—Design and
Dec. 15, 1961 filed 200,000 common.
screen windows, doors,
Price—$5. Business
railings and handrails. Proceeds
manufacture of regulating arid control
devices used in
—Manufactures plastic housewares, baby products and
—For debt repayment and expansion. Office—Route
119,
the electric and electronic
fields, Proceeds—For debt
other plastic items. Proceeds—For debt
Indiana, Pa. Underwriter — Moore, Leonard & Lynch,repayment and repayment and working capital. Office—455 W. Main
other corporate
purposes.
Office—1517 Jarrett Place,
Pittsburgh.
St., Wyckoff, N. J. Underwriter—Myron A.
Lomasney &
Bronx, N. Y, Underwriter—Arnold Malkan & Co., Inc.,
Sea-Wide Electronics, Inc.
Co., N. Y.
N. Y.
Offering—Expected sometime in April.
Sept. 26, 1961 filed 200,000 common. Price—$4. Business
• *
Republic-Franklin Life Insurance Co. (3/26-30)
•
Royaltone Photo Corp. (3/26-30)
—Importing of goods from Japan. Proceeds—For debt
Feb. 15,-1962 filed 266,667-class/A' common.
Price—$7.50.
Nov. 29, 1961 filed * 300,000
repayment. Office—Stokely St., and Roberts Ave., Phila¬
common; of which 100,000
Business—A legal reserve life insurance
company. Pro¬
are'to be offered by the company and
delphia, Pa. Underwriter—Janov & Co., Philadelphia.
200,000 by stock¬
ceeds—For debt
repayment, operating expenses and in¬
holders.
Price
•
By amendment.
Business
Develops
Security Acceptance Corp.
vestment. Office—-12 N. Third
St., Columbus, Ohio. Un¬
and prints color, and black and white
March 7, 1961 filed luu,000 shares of class A common
photographic
derwriter—Robinson-Humphrey Co., Inc., Atlanta.
film. Proceeds
For equipment and working
stock and $400,000 of 7M>% 10-year debenture
capital.
bonds, to
Research Products, Inc.
Office—245 7th Ave., N. Y. Underwriter —
be offered in units consisting of $100 of debentures and
Federman,
Dec. 28, 1961 filed 250,000 common.
Stonehill & Co., N. Y.
Price—$9. Business
25 shares of stock. Price—$200
per unit. Business—The
—Manufacture of lithographic blankets used in
Rubber & Fibre Chemical
printing.
purchase of conditional sales contracts on home appli¬
Corp.
Proceeds—For debt repayment-and
working .capital.
ances. Proceeds
Sept. 25, 1961 filed 120,000 common. Price—$5. Business
For working capital and expansion.
Address—Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
Underwriters—Gross
Office—724 9th St., N
—Exploitation of a new process for reclaiming unvulW.. Washington, D. C.
Under¬
&Co., and Elmaleh & Co., Inc., N. Y.
canized rubber. Proceeds—Purchase of
writer—None. Note—This registration was withdrawn.
equipment and
-Ar Resin Research Laboratories, Inc.
existing plant building, repayment of debt, and working
Security Aluminum Corp.
Feb. 27, 1962 filed
capital. Office—300 Butler St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Under¬
105,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi¬
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 200,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ness
Operation of a laboratory for contractual re¬
writer—To be named.
ment. Business—Manufacture of alumnium sliding win¬
search, development and engineering in the chemical
dows and doors. Proceeds—For equipment, moving ex¬
Ruby Silver Mines, Inc.
field. Proceeds—For
expansion of facilities, debt repay¬
Jan. 2, 1962 ("Reg. A")
penses and working capital. Office—503 E. Pine Ave.,
2,400,000 common. Price—12V2
ment and working
capital. Office—396-406 Adams St.,
cents. Business—Exploration and
Compton, Calif. Underwriter—Vickers, MacPherson &
development of mineral
Newark, N. J. Underwriter—Keene & Co., Inc., N. Y.
deposits. Proceeds—For debt repayment and general- Warwick, Inc., N. Y.
Rex Craft
Associates, Inc.
"
corporate purposes. Address-<-Box 1088;"Wallace, Idaho.
Security Equity Fund, Inc.
Dec. 27, 1961 ("Reg. A")
100,000 common. Price
Dec. 14, 1961 filed 400,000 capital shares. Price—Net
$3.
Underwriter—Pennalung & _Qo., .Spokane, /Wash,
Business—Design, installing and constructing packaged
)Rucker Co#
1*7*>!)b/,w / • -Jiir
'A-• ->iS .vo : asset value plus 6%* Business—A mutual fund. Proceeds1
and

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,

.

—

—

—

—

*

.

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—

commercial interiors and exteriors
ceeds—For general corporate

for

buildings. Pro¬

Feb. 16, 1962'filed 129,000
common, of which 43,000 are

.v.

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Richmond Corp.
,,
;
Dec. 21. 1961 filed 142,858 common.
Price—$7^.Business
—-A real estate,
investment company. Proceeds-r-For debt
repayment and general corporate
purposes. Office—220
K

repayment

of

bank

Sart Pablo
bacher

Ave., Oakland, Calif.
Co., San Francisco.

-S. M<; Si

Co., Silver, Spring,- Md./Offering-r-Expected in April.

/

loans.

Office

—

700 Harrison St., Topeka,
Management Co., Inc., To-'

Seg Electronics Co., Inc.- (3/19-23)
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment.
Business—Design and manufacture of networks

Office—4700

Underwriter—Schwa-

for data and program transmission,
filters, transceivers
and related electronic equipment. Proceeds—For
equip-;

Instruments, Inc.

ment, research and development, repayment of loans and
working capitaL Office—12 Hinsdale St:, Brooklyn. Un¬

NovV 28, 196X filed 190,000 common. Priee—$3.25. Busi¬
ness—Repair and maintenance of aircraft instruments'

Ridge Tool Co. (3/15).
^
Dec. 28,. 1961 filed
284,586 class A

investment.

peka.

.

Proceeds—For

St., N. W., ..Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Hirschel

&

Kan. Underwriter—Security

by the company and 86,000 by stockhold¬
ers.
Price—By amendment (max. $13). Business—De¬
sign, -development, manufacture and sale of electronic,
electric,
hydraulic
and; pneumatic
control
systems.

St., Avoca, Pa. Underwriter—M. G. Davis & Co.,

Inc.,

—For

to be offered

purposes. Office—Route 315

&; Vine

derwriter—Searight, Ahalt & O'Connor, Inc., N. Y.

common. Price-—By
and accessories. Proceeds—For
equipment, debt repayarhendment.. Business-rrManufacture .of
pipe working yment, and other corporate purposes. Office — Idlewild
tobls and machines. Proceeds—For
International Airport, Jamaica, N. Y. Underwriter—
selling stockholders.
Office—400 Clark St.,
Elyria, Ohio. Underwriters—White, r To be named/ "
:
* / .
^
■: Weld &

ic Selective: Financial Corp.
Feb.. 28, 1962 filed 500,000 ;common,

.

are

to

be offered

for

of which 405,000
subscription by holders of the A,~

B and C stock of Selective Life Insurance

f

.Go.,. JsT. JY, anil McDonald
Co., an affili¬
Co., .CleVelahd.^ /://
Saladmaster Corp.
^
ate, on the basis of 4 company shares for each class A or
.Ridgerock of America, Inc. >t >/^
.U
Jan.' 3, 1962 filed $700,000 of 6% subord. cony5
B share and two-thirds share for each class C share of
deben-:
Dec.
29, •/ 1961
filed/10Q,000
common.
Price—$2.50. i tures due 1972 and 126,030 common
Selective Life held. Remaining 94,822 and any unsub¬
(of which 15,399
Business—Production of stone facing for "buildings. Pro¬ /
shares are to be offered by the company and
110,631 ' scribed shares will be offered publicly. Price—To public,.
ceeds—For debt reduction and general
corporate pur¬ X shares by
$6; to stockholders, $5. Business—Company plans to en¬
stockholders); Price—For debentures, at par;
poses. Address
.-Sebring, O.. Underwriter W. Baruch
for stock; by amendment. Business—Sale of
kitchen ware, J gage in the consumer finance, mortgage, -»general fi-;
Brothers, & Co., Inc;,vN. Y. - 7 >
:
tablewear and a food cutting machine. Proceeds—For
^/^'n:7/7;
'rfe'.H'
nance
and related businesses. Proceeds
For general
debt repayment and general "corporate
•/Ripley Industries,Inc.,and Jomar Plastics, Inc.
corporate purposes. Office—830 N. Central Ave,, Phoe¬
purposes. Office
nix. Underwriter—None.
;:■////; (3/19)
/■ —131 Howell St., Dallas.
v
Underwriter—Parker, Ford &
Oct. 27, 1961 filed 100,000 common shares
Co., Inc., Dallas.
of Ripley and
Shaver Food Marts, Inc.
100,000 of Jomar to be offered in units consisting of one
Dec. 19, 1961 filed 170,000 class A common, of which
^ Sampson Enterprises, Inc.;
share of each company.
Price—By amendment. Business ; Feb.
28, 1962 filed 450,000 common. Price — By amend30,000 will be sold by the company and 140,000 by cer¬
—Manufacture of wood and plastic heels for women's
ment (max. $8). Business!—Atain stockholders. Price
By amendment. Businessholding company for a
shoes, metal molds and dies,/bowling pins, bowling
real estate
Operation of seven supermarkets in the Omaha-Council
concern, motor inn, shopping centers, bowlshoes and related products. Proceeds—For
general cor¬
ing establishments, etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment
Bluffs
area;
Proceeds—For expansion.
Office—139 S.
porate purposes. Office—4067 Folsom Ave. St. Louis and
and working capital. Office—222 E. Erie
40th St., Omaha, Neb. Underwriters—J. Cliff Rahel &
St., Milwaukee.
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Underwriters—Paine, Webber, •/ Underwriters—
Straus, Blosser & McDowell, Chicago
Co., and Storz-Wachob-Bender Co., Omaha.
Jackson & Curtis and
American Securities Corp., N. Y.
and Dempsey-Tegeler &
Co., Inc., St. Louis.
/
Shelley Manufacturing Co.
Rising's Inc.
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,
Save-Mor Drugs, Inc.
Dec. 29, 1961 filed 55,000 common. Price—$6.50. Business:
Jan. 18, 1962 filed 100,000 capital shares. Price
r—
$3.
Dec. 28, 1961 ("Reg. A") $300,000 of 6%
—Manufacture
of7 automatic'equipment
15-year subord. /
for handling;
Business.—^-Distribution of electrical and- electronic
parts,
conv.
debentures./ Price—At par. Business—Operation of
packaged foods, and various food serving devices. Pro¬
components and equipment. Proceeds—For debt
repay¬
a chain of
ceeds—For equipment, advertising, plant expansion and1
drug stores. Proceeds—For general corporate
ment and working capital. Office—151 N.
Vermont Ave.,
} purposes. Office—3310 New York Ave., N. E., WashingLos Angeles. Underwriter—Garat &
working capital. Office—3800 N. W.f 32nd Ave., Miami*:
Polonitza, Inc., Los
/ ton, D. C. Underwriter—C. A. Taggart, Inc., Towson, Md.
Fla. Underwriter—George, O'Neill & Co., Inc., N. Y.
"•
Angeles/Offering—Expected sometime in April.
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.Rite Electronics, Inc.
Jan. 29, 1962 filed 62,000

Schenuit
,

'

Rubber

Co.

Shenk

Industries,. Inc.

(3/15)

t.,
/ Feb. 26, 1962 filed 240,000 class A common. Price
Nov. 28, 1961 filed 150,000 common, of which 135,000
By
Price—$6. Business
amendment (max. $17).7Business—Manufacture of tires
shares are to be offered by the company and 15,000 by
receiving: tubes, television
f and tubes. Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—
a stockholder. Price—$6. Business—Manufacturer of re¬
picture tubes, and electroinc components,
parts
and
& Union
built automobile parts. Proceeds—For debt repayment
Aves.,
Baltimore.
Underwriter—
equipment. Proceeds—For an acquisition, equipment and / Railroad
Robert Garrett & Sons, Baltimore.
and working capital. Office—2101 S. High St., Colum¬
working capital. Office—1927 New York Ave., Hunting¬
ton
bus, Ohio. Underwriters—Rodetsky, Walker & Co., Inc.,
Station, N.'Y. Underwriter—Bobbins, Clark & Co.,
★ Schlitz (Jos.)' Brewing Co.
; i
N Y. and Boenning & Co., Philadelphia.
Inc., N. Y.
March 2, 1962 filed 347,543 common. Price
/•,/// / /:////'/
'
/:/
By amend¬
ment (max. $35).
Siconor Mines Ltd.
Roadcraft Corp. '■
Business—Brewing of "Schlitz" and
v
"T1/ / '/■"■'
V":
/r"'1
"Old Milwaukee" beers. Proceeds—For
Dec. 26, 1961 filed
Sept. 18, 1961 filed 250,000 common. Price—By amend¬
selling stock¬
400,000 common. Price—By amend¬
holders. Office—235 W. Galena
ment.
Business—The exploratory search for silver in
ment. Business—Design, manufacture arid sale of
St., Milwaukee.;■.-Undermobile
writer—Glore, Forgan & Co., Chicago.
homes and office trailers. Proceeds—For
v
.// > .northern Ontario. Proceeds—For general corporate pur¬

—Sale

and

distribution

—

common.

of

—

..

.

general cor¬
porate purposes. Office—139 W. Walnut
Ave., Gardena,
Calif. Underwriter
Vickers, MacPherson &
—

Inc., N. Y.
;

-

Roberts & Porter, Inc.*

Nov. 20.
to

be

ers.

'

■'
,

•

/

■''r/; •/.•

/.'.■:

/^r /

special¬

poses.

(Walter J.)

Corp.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed $5,500,000 of
QVz% subordinated con¬
vertible debentures due 1977 and
110,000 5-year warrants
to ^purchase a like amount
of, class A common.
The

Warwick,

1961 filed 80.200
common, of which 16,680 are
offered by the
company and 63,520 by stockhold¬
Price—By amendment. Business—Sale of




Schneider

;

debentures due 1976. Price—By amend-.

,

,

-

„

Jan.

29, 1962 filed 126,000 common. Price—$4.50. Busi¬
ness—Manufacture, sale and development of glow lamps
as indicators and circuit components. Proceeds—

(each
consisting of $1,000 of debentures and warrants to purchase 20 shares) for subscription bv holders of its class

A stock;,and 10%

.

Signaiite Inc.

company plans to offer the securities in 5,500 units'

•

Office—62 Richmond St., West, Toronto, Canada.

Underwriter—None.

for use
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on

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Thursday, March 3, 1962

.

House Distributing Corp.
14, 1962 filed 120,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $20).
Business—Mail order sale of general
Sunset

Spencer Gifts, Inc.
Jan.

For. debt

Heck

and

capital.

working

Ave., Neptune, N. J. Underwriter—

Milton D. Blauner & Co., N. Y.

■I

•

—

D.

e./gg;;ggg;;'^

Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture

of drug
products, electrical and electronic devices and
precision machinery. Proceeds—For the purchase of cer¬
tain patents, repayment of debt, and working capital.

—Company plans to qualify

as a real estate investment
general corporate purposes. Office

Office—730

%

Brothers

Solid State Products, Inc.
Feb. 1, 1962 filed 110,000 common.

'

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i

:-■■

ment.

Price—By amend¬

Business—Development, manufacture and sale of

semiconductor devices. Proceeds—For

plant, debt
repayment and working capital. Office—1 Pingree St.,
Salem, Mass. Underwriter—Tucker, Anthony & R. L.
Day, 1ST. Y,

*

Solon

Industries,

a

new

Inc.

Dec. 28,1961 filed 75,000 common. Price—By amendments
Business—Installation of its coin operated laundry equip¬
ment

at designated residential locations. Proceeds—For
selling stockholders. Office—115 L St., S. E, Washington,
D.

Underwriter—None.

C.

,

Development Corp. of America
Oct. 27, 1961 filed 56,000 common, of which 30,000 are
to be offered by the company and 26,000
by stockhold¬
ers. Price—$5. Business—Design, development and man¬
ufacture of devices using sound or fluids as a source of
energy. Proceceds—For general corporate purposes. Of¬
fice—260 Hawthorne

•

Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Underwriter
Securities Inc., Hempstead, N. Y.

For

construction, interest costs, and working capital.
Office—Paris, France. Underwriters—Morgan Stanley &
Co., and Lazard Freres & Co., N. Y.
Southeastern

Propane Gas Co. (3/26)
30, 1962 filed 75,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Sale of liquefied petroleum
gas and re¬
Jan.

lated

products.

Office

poses.

Proceeds—For

—

617

Underwriters—A.
&

Co.,

du

C.

general

corporate

pur¬

ing—Imminent.

Center, Miami, Fla.
Co., Chicago and Bioren

&

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.

Southern

28,

Growth

1961

Business—A

filed

Industries,

100,000

small

business

ceeds—For investment.

Inc.

•

Sportsways, Inc.

$7). Business—Manufac¬
ture and distribution of skin diving equipment and ac¬
cessories. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—7701
E. Compton
Blvd., Paramount, Calif. Underwriters—
Troster, Singer & Co., and Federman, Stonehill & Co.,

Building,
Greenville, S. C. Underwriter—Capital Securities Corp.,
Greenville, S. C. •
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•
Southwestern Insurance Co.
26, 1961 filed 220,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Writes automobile
casualty insurance in
Oklahoma and Arkansas. Proceeds—For
redemption of
surplus fund certificates and expansion. Office—5620 N.
Western Ave., Oklahoma
City.

Dec.

Guerin

&

Underwriters—Eppler,

Turner.

Oklahoma City.

•

Star Tank &

Southwestern

1

•

Inc., Dallas and R. J. Edwards, Inc.,
Public

Service

in

transmission

the

Texas

payment

and

distribution

Panhandle

area.

of

electric

Proceeds—For

energy
debt re¬

working capital. Office—720 Mercantile
Dallas Bldg., Dallas, Tex.
Underwriter—Dillon, Read &
Co., N. Y.

Boat

Inc.

(3/14)

showers, baseboard

radiators and rope and twine.
Proceeds—For
in Canada. Office—52-55 74th

a

new

Ave., lVIaspeth, L. I

Underwriter—M. H. Woodhill, Inc., N. Y.

• Spears

(L. B.), Inc.

plant
N

Y

derwritei^A/>G.
—In

GOV Inc., Chicago. Offering

—

For

working Capital. Office—2212 Third Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writer—Arnold Malkan &
Co., -Inc., N. Y.




Inc.

Szemco,
Dec.

29, 1961 filed
ment ($1.50 max.).
of

ordnance,

66,666 common*..Price—By amend¬
Business^Design and manufacture
automotive, air cr afP^and^guided missile

parts and components. Proeeeds^Fqr selling stockhold¬
ers/Office—4417 Okechobq.Rdr,- West*;Palm Beach, Fla.
Underwriter—None.

21, 1961 filed

ment.

gg.

Business

.152,000

common.

Price—By amend¬

Production and distribution of school

—

year-books and commercial printing. Proceeds—For sell¬
ing stockholders. Office—6320 Denton Dr., Dallas. Un¬
derwriter—Dallas Rupe & Son, Inc., Dallas, Tex.
.

Taylor Wine Co., Inc.
15, 1962 filed 210,312 common, of which 170,000
to be offered publicly by stockholders, and 40,312
shares for subscription by the stockholders for the ac¬

Feb.
are

of

the

Pri$fePy

company.

amendment

(max.

May.

u

.

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i

,

Starmatic

Nov. 3,

Industries,

common.

Manufacture

Price—By amend¬

of

boxes, brochures,
packaging materials and packaging machines. Proceeds
—For debt repayment and general corporate purposes.
Office —252

W.

—

30th

St.,

N.

Y.

Underwriter

—

To

be

named.

Steel Plant Equipment Corp.

(3/12-16)
("Reg. A") 69.660 common. Price—$3. Pro¬
ceeds—For equipment and working capital. Address—
Norristown, Pa. Underwriter—Joseph W. Hurley & Co.,
Norristown, Pa.
Oct. 2, 1961

Stelber

•

Technical

Animations, Inc.

Nov. 30, 1961 filed $211,400 of 7%<c'onv.

due

1972

subord. deben¬

(with warranty to

be-offered for sub¬
scription by holders of class A and cJass B common at

^

Inc.

1961 filed 100,000
Business

ment.

$25).

tures

Cycle Corp.

the rate of $100

of debentures for each 280 shares held.

Price—$100

unit ($100 of debentures and one war¬
14 class A shares). Business—Design

rant

and

to

per

purchase

manufacture

of

animated

transparencies and other

technical training aids and displays. Proceeds—For debt

expansion, research, and working capital.
Office—11 Sintsink Dr., East Port Washington, N. Y.
Underwriters—Bull & Low; John R. Maher Associates;
and R. Topik & Co., Inc., N. Y. Offering—Late March.
repayment,

•

Tec-Torch

(4/9-13)

Co., Inc.

T

g-

Nov. 28, 1961 filed

100,000 common. Price—$3.25. Busi¬
Design and manufacture*/ of inert gas welding
equipment. Proceeds—For debt repayment, expansion
ness

—

Jan. 5, 1962 filed $240,000 of 8%

and

erford,

convertible debentures
60,000 common shares to be offered in
units, each consisting of one $200 debenture and 50
shares. Price—$500 per unit.
Business—Manufacture of
bicycles, tricycles and toy automobiles. Proceeds—For
debt repayment, moving expenses and a new
product
1972

and

line. Office—744 Berriman St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Under¬
writers—Lloyd Securities, Inc., Richard Bruce & Co.,
Inc., and Reuben Rose & Co., Inc., N. Y.

Industries, Inc.

Feb. 21, 1962 filed 115,000 class A, of which 40,000 are
to be offered by the company and 75,000
by stockhold¬
ers.

tion of fish foods and distribution of various
types of fish
and aquarium supplies for hobbyists.
Proceeds—For a
new plant and working capital. Office—52
Cottage Plaza,
•

•

Sterner

Lighting, Inc. (3/26-30)
("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.
Jan.

2,

1962

Scientific

&

International

Corp.

(3/12-16)
Oct.

23, 1961 filed 150,000

class A

common.

Price—By

amendment.

Business—Company was recently formed
by Struthers Wells Corp., to take over latter's recent de¬
velopments in saline water conversion and certain

man¬

ufacturing, international engineering and sales activities.
Proceeds—For general corporate purpose. Office—111 W.
St., N. Y. Underwriter—Hirsch & Co. Ihc., N. Y.

50th

(3/19-23)

Tel-A-Sign, Inc.

Oct. 30,

1961 filed $900,000 of convertible subordinated:
debentures due 1974 and 180,000 common to be offered
in units consisting of $100 of debentures and 20 common.

Price—By amendment.
minated

Business — Manufactures illu¬
signs and other advertis¬

non-illuminated

and

ing material.
Proceeds
working capital.
Office

—

For

debt

—

3401

W.

repayment and
47th St., Chicago.

Underwriter—Clayton Securities Corp., Boston.
TgIO^CII'IC*
Dec.

29, 1961

InCa

("Reg. A")

100,000

common

and

$100,000

of 6% 5-year subordinated debentures. Price—For stock,

$1; for debentures, at
of

Allendale, N. J. Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y/ /

working capital. Office-^ 1-5# Union Ave., East Ruth¬
N. J. Underwriter—Scott, Harvey & Co., Inc.,

Fairlawn, N. J,

Price—$6. Business—Manufacture, sale and distribu¬

television

repayment

—Turnbull,

($100). Business—Production
Proceeds—For equipment, debt
corporate purposes. Office—1017

par

programs.

and

New Jersey

other

Ave., S. E., Washington, D. C. Underwriter
Deter & Sullivan, Inc., Charlottesville, Va.

Tellite Corp.
Jan. 29, 1962 filed
—Manufacture of

nection

with

...

125,000 common. Price—$3. Business
"Tellite," a new material used in con¬

electronic

circuits.

Proceeds—For

expan¬

sion, research and development, acquisition a technical
library, and working capital. Office—200 S. Jefferson
St., Orange, N. J. Underwriter—Magnus & Co., N. Y.
•

Ten-Tex

Corp.

(4/30-5/1)

Jan. 31, 1962 ("Reg. A") 120,000 common. Price—$2.30.
Business—Manufacture of a machine for production of
tufted

textile

products. Proceeds—For debt repayment
capital. Office—4813 Tennessee Ave., Chat¬
Underwriter—Irving J. Rice & Co., Inc., St.

and working

tanooga.

Directory Publishers, Inc.
28, 1961 filed 90,000 common. Price—$3. Business
—Publishing and distributing telephone directories. Pro¬

Paul.

ceeds—For repayment

ment.

Dec.

of bank loans, additional equip¬
ment, expansion and working capital. Office—60 N. State
St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Underwriter—G. K. Shields &
Co., N. Y.
Sun

City Dairy Products, Inc. (3/26-20) *r '
*
27, 1961 filed 110,000 common. Price—$4. Business
—Distribution of eggs and dairy products in Florida and
.

Oct. 30, 1961 filed 65,000 common.
Price—$5. Business
Operation of retail furniture stores. Proceeds

sometime

gg;':

Corp., N. Y. Offering—Expected in mid-May.

Price—By amendment (max. $18). Business—Manu¬
and fiberglass pleasure boats. Pro¬
ceeds—For working capital. Office—Goshen, Ind. Un-

'

(4/16-20)

Curtis, N, Y. Offering—Expected

May.

count

Co., Inc.

Suburban

International

Dec. 22, 1961 filed
175,000 comjnon. Price—$4. Business
—Manufacture of metal shower
receptors, precast con¬
crete rceptors, prefabricated
metal

^

in

facture of aluminum

Struthers

and

Spartan

,

•

ers.

Co.

30, 1962 filed 442,362 common shares being offered
for subscription by stockholders on
the basis of one new
share for each 20 shares held of record Mar. 6 with
rights to expire Mar. 21. Price'—$30. Business—Genera¬

tion,

of which 294,000
31,000 shares by a
stockholder. Price—$3. Business—Manufacture and sale
of baked goods. Proceeds—For debt repayment and
gen-,
eral corporate purposes. Address—New York & Drexel
Aves., Atlantic City, N. J. Underwriter—Balogh & Co.,
Washington, D. C.
:
.g

Business—Production of various type wines. Pro¬
ceeds—For plant expansion and working capital. Office
—Hammondsport, N. Y.
Underwriter—First Boston

Jan.

,

(max.

Feb. 27, 1962 filed 307,000 common, of which 27,000 are
to be offered by the company and 280,000 by stockhold¬

Sternco

Office—Poinsett Hotel

•'./ i'/•/'''

common,
to be offered by. the company and

are

Dec.

(5/28-31)

Price—By amendment,

(3/26-30)

shares. Price—$6.
investment company.
Pro¬

common

Cienega

Weedon &

• Superior Bakers, Inc.
Feb. 28, 1962 filed 325,000

due

Philadelphia.

Towing & Transportation Co., Inc.
Nov. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common.
Price—$3.
Business—Construction and operation of towing boats.

June

Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Crowell,
Co., Los Angeles.
g
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g'

/Taylor Publishing Co.

Feb. 20, 1962 filed 175,000 common, of which 50,000 are
to be offered by company and 125,000 by a stockholder.

Pont Plaza

Allyn

Southeastern

•

^

South

European Pipeline Co. (3/14)
Feb. 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
pipeline from Marseilles, France to refining centers near
Strasbourg, France and Karlsruhe, Germany. Proceeds—

•

Sportsmen, Inc.
29, 1961 filed $100,000 of 6% subordinated con~
vertible debentures due 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
purpose.
Office—131 Saw Mill River Rd., Yonkers, N. Y.
Underwriter—William, David & Motti, Inc., N. Y. Offer¬

N. Y.

,

Sonic

—Meadowbrook

(3/12-16)

Inc.

Nov.

For expansiui

—

'(\g, $2
Co.,

(Woodbridge), N. J. Underwriter—Flomenhaft, Seidler

and modernization of

buildings, repayment of debt an<
working capital. Office—253 Columbia St., Brooklyn,
N. Y. Underwriter—To/ be named.

Proceeds;

La

Jackson &

Metal

and other non-ferrous metals. It also does processing and
smelting. Proceeds—For a new refinery, debt repayment
and working capital. Office—E. William St., Hopelawn

Co., Inc.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 240,000 common. Price—$2*50 Busi¬
ness—The instalment retailing of furniture,
alliances
goods. Proceeds

Underwriter—

Dec. 7, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price — $2.50.
Business—Broker and dealer in gold and silver bullion

Furniture

and other household

N.. J.

S.

Symington Wayne Corp.
Feb;,23, 1962 filed $5,005,700 of convertible subordinated
debentures due 1982, to be offered for subscription by
common stockholders
(and warrant holders) at the rate
of $100 of debentures for each 38 commotn (or warrants)
held. Price—By amendment. Business—Manufacture of
gasoline dispensing, pumps, service station equipment,
specialty steel castings for raihrpads/and mechanics hand
tools. Proceeds—For. debt repayJhentr.and working capL
tal. Office-^—Salisbury, Md. Under writer—Paine, Webber,

Spiral

Recreation Corp.

Sokol

St., Hoboken,

Blair & Co., N. Y

Jan. 29, 1962 filed 120,000 class A common (with war¬
rants). Price—$4.45. Business—Development and opera¬
tion of a skij and year-round resort. Proceeds—For con¬
struction of the resort. Office—Sheridan Springs Rd.,
Lake Geneva, Wis. Underwriter—To be named.

"

Grand

Office—3485

•

Bldg., Providence, R. I. Underwriters—G.
H. Walker & Co., Providence'and Blair & Co., N. Y.
&

•

selling stockholders.

& Co., N. Y.

—909 Howard

Ski

(4/30-5/4)

and food

Feb. 28, 1962 filed 350 common. Price—$1,000. Business
Proceeds—For

Sperti Products, Inc.

Nov. 29, 1961 filed 230,000 common of which 200,000 are
to be offered by the company and 30,000 by stockholders.

^ Sixty Realty Trust

trust.

merchandise and operation of two retail stores.
—For

of general merchandise. Proceeds—For
debt repayment and working capital. Office—1601 Al¬
bany Blvd., Atlantic City. Underwriter—Carter, Berlind,
Potoma & Weill, N. Y.

ic Site-Fab, Inc.
/',■/:'■ jV' ■/g:/:
;.t;g
Feb. 27, 1962 filed 135,000 common. Price — By amend¬
ment (max. $4). Business—Construction of homes. Pro¬
ceeds
For debt repayment, acquisition of land and
working capital. Office — 1093 Frank Rd., Columbus,
Ohio. Underwriter—H. P. Black & Co., Inc., Washington,

I

Feb.

Mail order, sale

equipment

repayment,

Office—1933

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—

Oct.

other

southeastern

states.

Proceeds—General

Office—3601 N. W. 50th
derwriter—Finkle & Co., N. Y.

purposes.

St.,

corporate

Miami,* Fla. Un¬
_

Texas

Oct.

Electro-Dynamic Capital, Inc. '■v..;,
Price—By amend¬

16, 1961 filed 250,000 common.

Business—A small business investment company.

Proceeds—General corporate purposes.

Office—1947 W.

Gray Ave., Houston. Underwriters—F. S. Smithers & Co.,
N. Y., and Moroney, Beissner & Co., Inc., Houston.
•

Texas

Oct.

Tennessee

Industries,

Inc.

(3/19-29)

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-..
26,

facture

1961

of

beverage

filed

water coolers, water cans and portable hot
dispensers.
Proceeds—For debt repayment

.

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195

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Office—6502 Rusk Ave.,-. ceeds—For debt repayment. Office—30 E.
42nd St., N. y.
Co., N. Y. /
- - Underwriter—Adler Securities

purposes.

Underwriter

.

Corp., N. y.; '
• Tri-Point
Furniture Industries, Inc. (3/26-30) :
Industries, Inc.
Jan. 16, 1962 filed 343,551 common.
Price—By amend-;1 Sept. 28, 1961 filed 160,000
common, of which

:

,

.

'

Business—Manufacture

Proceeds—For

of

"

household

furniture.

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 commQn, of which
80,000 shares
are to be offered
by the company and 10,000 by stockholders.
Price—$4. Business—Design and manufacture
of special machinery for the paper
industry and the
construction of bowling alleys. Proceeds—For
expansion

-

2,

1962

International

Hotel Corp.

,

Trygon Electronics Inc.

(3/19-23)

48,000 by stockhold¬
Price—$6. Business—Design, manufacture and sale

i ers.

of

power

supplies. Proceeds—For debt

repayment

Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, Calif. Underwriter—-VickMacPherson & Warwick, Inc., N. Y.
/■'./'

Feb.*23, 1962 ("Reg.

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. ("Toshiba")
1961 filed 50,000,000 common shares to be of¬

Dec. 8,
fered

to

stockholders

on

the

basis

for each two held of record Dec. 30.

ness—Manufactures
tronic equipment.

of

one

new

For expansion.

—

elec¬

Office—

Feb. 16, 1962 filed 300,000 common, of which
100,000 are
to be offered by the company and 200,000 by stockhold¬

Price—$6.

Business—Design, manufacture and sale

Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co.,
Inc., N. Y. Offering—Expected sometime in May.
Rubber

Co.,

Inc.
Jan. 26, 1962 filed 110,000 common. Price—$3.50. Busi¬
ness—Manufacture of waterproof rubber footwear. Pro¬
ceeds—For equipment, moving
expenses, expansion and
working capital. Office—1302 Inwood Ave., N. Y. Un¬
derwriter—Carroll
Tork

Time

S.
&

—

are

Corp.
12, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $9).
Business—Design and sale of special
cameras for scientific
photography. Proceeds—For gen¬

of

Office—17136 Ventura Blvd.,
Underwriter—J. A. Hogle & Co., Salt

(3/26-30)

Proceeds—For selling stockhold¬
Rd., Swan, Texas. Underwriter—
First Southwest
Co., Dallas.
v /

Price—$6. Proceeds—For construction, and ac¬
quisition, repayment of debt, and other corporate pur¬
poses.
Office — 110 E. 6th Ave., Anchorage, Alaska.

Price—$5. Business

—Research and development in the
data and image
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. '
:
; h ,:

Uneeda
Dec.

expansion, working cap¬
ital, and possible acquisitions. Office — Pacific National
Bldg., Bellevue, Wash. Underwriter—Hill, Dar¬
lington & Grimm, N. Y.
Transport Industries, Inc.
Feb.

16.

1962

("Reg.

A")

75.000

common.

Price

—

$4.

Business—Design and manufacture of truck and auto¬
mobile brake systems. Proceeds—For inventories, ad¬
vertising and working capital. Office—Pearl & Elk Sts.,
Albion, Pa. Underwriter—A. J. Davis Co., Pittsburgh.
Tremco Manufacturing Co.
.!
Feb. 26, 1962 filed 150,000 class A common. Price

Underwriter—McDonald &

Trenton

Foods,

Co., Cleveland.

;

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—

j

•

'.V,

used

Feb. 26 ,1962 filed 275,000
common, of which 25,000 are
to be offered by the company and
250,000 by stockhold¬

Price—By amendment (max.- $16). Business—Re¬
tailing of men's and boys' clothing. Proceeds—For work¬
ing capital. Office—15 Linden Ave., East, Jersey City,
ers.

n. J.

Underwrite^—Hornblower & Weeks, n.
Products

y,

Corp.

-^■

and

nuclear

industries.

Proceeds—Debt

repay¬

ment, research and development, expansion and working
capital. Office—Columbus Rd., Burlington, N. J. Under¬
writer
Hess, Grant & Remington, Inc., Philadelphia.
Note—This offering was indefinitely
postponed.
—

Exchange, Inc.

pansion and general corporate purposes. Office—25 W.
43rd St., N. y. Underwriter—M. G. Davis &
Co., Inc.,
N. Y.

'

15,

1961

filed

562,500

unit.

Office

410

—

Fourth Ave.,

Brooklyn.

associated

sidiaries.

1961

books. Proceeds—Debt repayment, expansion and work¬

ing capital.

Office—480 Lexington Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writer—Douglas Enterprises, 8856 18th Ave., Brooklyn.

per

share. Business—A

new

investment. Office—20 W.

mutual fund. Proceeds—For

9th

Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
Offering—Expected in late April.
Underwriter—Waddell

&

Reed.

• Uncvend
Corp. (3/19-23)
Sept. 29, 1961 ("Reg. A") 115,000 common. Price—$2.50.
Business—Operates coin-vending machines for food and
drink. Proceeds — For expansion and working capital.

Office—28

O'Brien

Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Underwriter
Co., N. Y.

—Ezra Kureen

;

•

Universal

Foods

Corp.
Jan. 25, 1962 filed 104,196
common, of which 47,248 are
to be offered by the company and 56,948
by stockhold¬
ers.
Price—By amendment.
Business—Production of
yeast and other food products. Proceeds—For possible
diversification

and

acquisitions.

Office—221 E. Buffalo

St., Milwaukee. Underwriter—Smith, Barney & Co., N. Y.
Offering—Expected in mid-March.
Universal

Lighting Products, Inc. (3/15)
common. Price—$1. Business
—Manufacturer of lighting fixtures and display and
Sept. 21, 1961 filed 175,000
merchandising

equipment for use in gasoline service
Repayment of debt and working
capital. Office—55 Bergenline Ave., Westwood, N. J.
Underwriter—Globus, Inc., N. Y.
stations.

Proceeds

—

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

unit.

per

foams.

Business—Manufacture

Proceeds—For

of

urethane

equipment,

working
capital,
and other corporate purposes. Office

leasehold expenses
—2300 Republic National

Bank

Bldg., Dallas.

Under¬

writer—Rowles, Winston & Co., Houston.

'

Utah Concrete

Pipe Co.
Feb. 8, 1962 filed 110,000 common. Price —
By amend¬
ment (max. $10). Business — Manufacture and sale of
concrete pipe, masonry
products, corrugated metal pipe,
telephone conduit and miscellaneous concrete products.
Proceeds—For debt repayment and working
capital., Of¬
fice—379

17th

St.,

Ogden, Utah.

Underwriter—Schwa-

bacher & Co., San Francisco. Offering—In
•

May.

U-Tell

Corp. (3/14-16)
Sept. 18, 1961 ("Reg. A") 33,097 common. Price
Business
Operation of a discount department

—

$5.

—

store.
Office—3629 N. Teutonia Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wis. Under¬
writer — Continental Securities
Corp., Milwaukee, Wis.
Feb.

Valve

Co.

"

12, 1962 filed 100,000

common.

Price—$5. Business

—Production of valves, and regulators for
oil, chemical
and

nqissile industries. Proceeds—For acquisition

of land,
equipment and working capital. Office—1445 Lidcombe
Ave., El Monte, Calif. Underwriter
California Inves¬
—

Vahlsing, Inc./
Jan.

with

the

common,

parent

company

29, 1962 filed 100,000

common.
Price—By amend¬
Business—Grows, packages, and ships fresh frozen
Proceeds—For inventory, and working capital.
Office—Easton, Maine. Underwriter—Pistell, Inc., N. Y.

ment.

potatoes.

Val-U Homes Corp. of Delaware
Aug. 28, 1961 filed 100,000 common. 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

named.

Valle's Steak House
Dec. 22, 1961 filed 78,812 common, of which
55,736 are to
be offered by the company and 23,076 shares

holder.

Price—By

amendment.

by a stock¬
Business—The opera¬

tion of four restaurants in Maine and Mass.
For expansion, debt repayment and

Proceeds—

general corporate
Office—646 Forest Ave., Portland, Maine. Un¬
derwriters—H. M. Payson & Co., Portland, and R. W.
Pressprich & Co., N. Y.

purposes.

Valley Metallurgical Processing Co.

(3/26-30)

Oct.

of which 472,100
shares are to be offered for subscription by stockholders
of Waddell & Reed, Inc., parent, on the basis of
one
United share for each two Waddell shares held.
The
remaining 90,400 shares will be offered to certain per¬
sons

per

Publications, Inc.
("Reg. A") 100,000 common. Price—$3.
Business—Publishing of military and industrial hand¬

•

United Investors Life Insurance Co.

Dec.

(each consisting Y>f two

warrant). Price—$4.50

one

tors, Los Angeles.

Inc.

Jan. 29, 1962 filed 105,000 common?
Price—$3. Business
—Operation of retail camera stores. Proceeds—For ex¬

Scherck, Richter Co.,

three discount department stores. Pro¬




Unishops,

United Camera

Tri-Department Stores Associates
Feb. 9, 1962 filed $2,436,000 of limited partnership in¬
terests.
Price—$6,000 per interest. Business—Company
was formed for the purpose of acquiring for investment

"th^fee title to

t •

tronics
—

Inc.

Underwriter

and

precision machined parts for the aircraft, missile, elec¬

firms and the large scale breed¬
ing of pigs. Proceeds—For debt repayment, plant ex¬
pansion and working capital. Office—4733 Belleview,

City, Mo.

new

conv. subord. deben¬
tures due 1971. Price—At par. Business—Manufacture of

food products for other

Kansas

of

Sept. 28, 1961 filed $600,000 of 6%

Jan. 26, 1962 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment.
Business—Preparation and packaging of meat

St. Louis.

Purchase

—■

United Aero

By
amendment (max. $15). Business—Producer of protective
coatings, sealants, mastics, paints, etc. Proceeds — For
selling stockholders. Office—10701 Shaker Blvd., Cleve¬
land.

.

new

Electronic

26,

Vacco

$3.
coin-operated
—

vending and recreational machines. Proceeds—For gen¬
eral corporate purposes. Office—166
Clymer St., Brook¬
lyn, N. y. Underwriter—Capital Consultants Corp., N. y.

common.

Bank

Vending Service, Inc.
("Reg. A") 73,500 common. Price

14, 1961

Business

Trans-Pacific Research &

—

Inc.

(3/19-23)
Sept. 19, 1962 filed 175,000 class A common. Price—$4.
Business—Manufacture of urethane foam board and the
production of new patented plastic signs. Proceeds—For
equipment, debt repayment, inventory and working capi¬
tal. Office—875 North 28th
St., Philadelphia. Underwriter
—Edward Hindley & Co., N. y.

Transdata, Inc..

and accessories. Proceeds—For

Office—Lindale

Ultra Plastics

Underwriter—Milton D. Blauner & Co., Inc., N. Y.

ment. Business

Price—By amendment. Business—Distribution
imported and American wines and whiskies. Proceeds

of cast iron products.

holder.

"

(4/9-13)

800,000 common, of which 550,000
to be offered by the company and
250,000 by stock¬

ers.

shares and

Urethane of Texas

Brands, Inc.
22, 1961 filed

Tyler Pipe & Foundry Co. (4/2-6)
Jan. 25, 1962 filed 120,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Design, development and manufacture

Nov. 29, 1961 filed 265,000 common, of which 250,000 are
to be offered by the company and 15,000 by a stock¬

Capital, Inc. (3/26-30)
Price—By amend¬
Manufacture of high pressure valves

St., Chicago. Underwriter—Bacon, Whipple

debt repayment, expansion and working
capital.
Office—23 W. 52nd St., N. y. Underwriters—A. C.
Allyn
& Co., and Hornblower & Weeks.
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:\

purposes.

1961 filed 47,000

Salle

—For

Lake

27,

Un¬

holders.

Traid

common.

com¬

S.

Sept.

Co., Chicago.

Dec.

Feb.

Nov.

La

21

Langley & Co., N. Y.

29, 1961 filed 100,000

and

Price—By ftpiend-

retail discount department stores. Proceeds—For expan¬
sion. Office—41 E. 42nd* St., N. Y. Underwriter—W. C.

Nov.

devices

ment. Business—A small business investment company.
Proceeds—For general corporate purposes. Office—134

(4/9-13)
Feb. 1, 1962 filed 550,000 capital shares. Price —
By
amendment. Business
Company builds and operates

Trans-Alaska Telephone Co.

Corp.
Price—$4.

common.

Twentieth Century Capital Corp.
Nov. 24, 1961 filed 250,000 common.

International, Inc.

For

—

United Variable Annuities Fund, Inc.
April 11, 1961 filed 2,500,000 shares of stock. Price—$10

Co., Inc.J

Co.? Inesj Phila.

repayment, expan¬
sion, and working capital. Office—1 Grove St., Mount
Vernon, N. Y. Underwriters—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor
& Co., and Magnus & Co., N. Y.

Encino, Calif.
City.

&

ponents. Office—209 Glenside Ave., Wyncote, Pa.
derwriter —• Valley Forge Securities

trolled switches. Proceeds—For debt

corporate

A

Sept. 27, 1961 ("Reg. A") 75,000
Business—Manufactures electronic

Inc. (3/26-30)
Dec. 12, 1961 filed 150,000 common.
Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Design and manufacture of time con¬

eral

one

Sandkuhl & Co., Inc., Newark, N.
J., and N. y. C.
Turner Engineering & Automation

Co., N. Y.

Controls,

Towers Marts

and

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—

Y.

Torch

shares

n. y.

repayment, equipment,
leasehold
improvements
and
working capital.
Office—703 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn,
N.

common

Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Sandkuhl

Proceeds—For debt

Price—$3. Business

machinery, debt repayment and working capital. Office
—4511 Wayne Ave., Philadelphia. Underwriter—God¬
frey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., Inc., N. Y.

U.

if Turbodyne Corp.
March 2. 1962 filed 127,500 common.
Price—$5. Business
—Research, development and production and overhaul¬
ing of gas turbine engines. Proceeds—For debt
repay¬
ment, research and development, a new plant and work¬
ing capital. Office — 1346 Connecticut
Avenue, n. W.,

Tomorrow's Industries, Inc.

ers.

/

'

additions, inventory and debt repayment. Office—
St., Meridian, Miss. Underwriter;—McCarley &
Co., Inc., Asheville, n. C.

Tokyo, Japan. Underwriters—None.

of women's and children's footwear.

two

2000

Price—$0,125. Busi¬

broad line of electrical and

a

Proceeds

Inc.
A") 12,500

Plant

share

(3/26-30)

Inc.

common.

general packaging business. Proceeds

^working capital.

units, each consisting
(par $10) 7% convert- v
ible subordinated debenture due
April 1, 1972, Price—\
$20 per unit. Business — Steel
fabricating. Proceeds—
of

Co.,

Underwriter—Darius, Inc., N. Y.

* Tucker Steel Co.,

ers,

Packaging

of
automatic
control
systems.
Proceeds—For repayment of debt, a sales and advertis¬
ing program, research and development, equipment and

and

N. Y.;

—

United

—A

Business—Manufacture

capital. Office—111 Pleasant Ave., Roosevelt,
I., N. y. Underwriter—William, David & Motti, Inc.,

L.

175,000 common. Price—By amend¬
($10 max.). Business—Hotel ownership and man¬
agement. Proceeds — For construction. Office
525 N.

•

Nov. 29, 1961 filed 102,000

common

Vi."'." working

V.

filed

ment

St., Kansas City,
Reed, Inc., Kansas City,
Mo., and Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y. Offering—Ex-,
pected in late April.

• U.
S. Controls, Inc.
Sept. 28, 1961 filed 40,000 units

Dec. 22, 1961 filed 100,000
common, of which 52,000 are
to be offered by the
company and

Office—Canal St., Lancaster, N. H. Underwriter—Packer-Wilbur Co., Inc., N. Y,
Thunderbird

stockholders.

—

and general corporate purposes.

Jan.

80,000
by the company and 80,000 shares by 1
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.
Note—This registration was withdrawn.
;v
to be offered

are

the

life insurance company. Proceeds—For the account

of Waddell & Reed. Office—20 W. 9th
Mo. Underwriters—Waddell &

.

Thomasville

•

ment.

'

serve

S. D. Fuller &

45

or

its

23, 1961 filed 70,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Production of metal powders for the
rocket, munitions and pyrotechnics industries. Proceeds
—For debt

repayment and general corporate purposes.
Conn. Underwriter—McDonnell & Co.

Office—Essex,
Inc., N. Y.

sub¬

Price—By amendments. Business—A- legal ..re-:

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,

Continued

on--page

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Continued from page

Warlick

45

Van

Hout Associates

Der

Ltd.

ment. Business—National distributor of

in

Proceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—
Shore Rd., Toronto.
Underwriter—Rosmar

Canada.

1480

Lake

Vapor Corp.
Feb.

2, 1962 filed 156,762 common. Price
Business—Manufacture

ment.

—

By amend¬
for.

generators

steam

of

diesel locomotives; temperature

control systems for rail
cars, buses and aircraft; and door control devices for
rail passenger cars. Proceeds—For selling stockholders.
Office—80

Jackson

E.

Chicago.

Blvd.,
Co.> Chicago.

William Blair &

and

which 55,000

are

by the company and 69,900 by stockholders,

amendment.

distribution

of

Office—585 Gerard

aids

Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—J. R. Wil-

liston & Beane, N. Y.

Vendex, Inc.

Proceeds—For

$1.
ma¬

acquisition and general cor¬
porate purposes. Office—1290 Bayshore Blvd., Burlingame, Calif. Underwriter—Pacific Coast Securities Co.,
San Francicso. Offering—Expected sometime in April.
an

Victor Electronics,

Inc.

Jan. 23, 1962 filed 150,000 common. Price—$5. Business
—Manufacture, lease and sale of an amusement device
known

purchase of vessels, and working cap¬
Joseph St., Mobile, Ala. Underwriter—Shields & Co. Inc., N. Y; (mgr.).-Offering—Ex¬
pected sometime in late May.b/Vy' : : 1:
>
y

Golfit. Proceeds

Weinkles Liquor Stores, Ipc.»

.

,

BarHi

12th-

W.

Charles Plohn & Co.,

For

debt

Ave., Miami, Fla. Underwriter— 4;
N. Y. .Offering—In April.

Arts Industries,

Visual

Dec. 26,

1961 filed 95,000

Inc.

Price—$2. Business
—Design,.assembly, production and sale of creative arts,
common.

payment, and

Shopping Center Limited Partnership

Development of a shopping center at Falls Church, Va.
general corporate purposes. Office—1411;

St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Underwriter—Hodgdon
Co., Inc., Washington, D. C.

California Telephone Co.
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-

drugs. Proceeds—For debt repayment and working cap¬
ital. Office—3610-14 N. 15th St., Philadelphia. Under¬
writer—Woodcock, Moyer, Fricke & French, Inc., Phil¬

adelphia.
•

Voi-Shan

Feb.

28,

Industries, Inc.

Business

—

Volt Technical

Corp.

Jan. 29,

1962 filed 190,000 class A shares. Price—$10.25.
Business—Preparation of technical publications. Pro-.
ceeds—For selling stockholders. Office—241 Church
St.,,
N. Y.

Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y.

Volume

Distributors, Inc.
;Nov. 24, 1961 filed 90,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment. Business—Operation of a self-service
family shoe
store

chain

and

shoe

departments

in

discount

depart¬
and other

stores. Proceeds—For debt repayment
corporate purposes. Office—115 W. Crane St., Topeka,
Kan. Underwriter—Stern Brothers & Co., Kansas
City,
ment

Mo.

./■

■:

:

•

—

$3.

Business—The manufacture of electronic test
equipment,
the sale, 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.
Joshua &

Lane, Wyndmoor, Pa.
Co.,' Inc., N. Y.. "

..

Underwriter
,

28,

1961

filed

140,000

capital

—

John

:

Wade, Wenger ServiceMASTER Co.
Dec.

porate

purposes. Office — 2117-29
Underwriter—Laren Co., N. Y.

shares.

N.

Wayne, Chicago.

electrical

and

equipment. Pro¬

repayment and other corporate pur¬
Office—1005 First Ave., Asbury
Park, N. J. Under¬
writer—Amos Treat &
Co.,

Inc., N. Y.

Co.,.

Wolf

Corp.

;

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.

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.

?

f

:

Western

Land

Corp. "

Oct. 24,

1961 filed 400,000 common. Price—$2.25. Busl-,
ness—Acquisition, construction and leasing of shopping
centers. Proceeds—For general corporate, purposes. Of-.
fice—2205 First National Bank Bldg.,, Minneapolis. Un¬
derwriter—None.
"
Western

common; Price
By amend¬
(max. $6.50).
Business—Processing andf manufac¬
turing of aluminum building products.
Proceeds—For a
new
building and equipment. Office—1650 Howard St.,
Lincoln Park, Mich.
Underwriter—F. J. Winckler & Co

Detroit.•

Price—By amendment (max. $42). Business—
by first liens on real estate.debt repayment.

Office

—

3243

.

.

McDonald

&

Co., and

.

•

;

Ball, Burge &

•

13,

1961 filed 32,000 shares of beneficial interest.
Price—$6.25.
Business—A small business investment
company.*
Proceeds—For investment.
Office—403

St., Aurora,
Aurora, Colo.

Colo.

Mfg. Co.

Underwriter—Westco
:

•

sale

of

El

Monte

San

real estate

loans, acquires, develops and sells land, and
engages in the mortgage loan correspondent business.
Proceeds—For selling stocklmlders.
Office—1111 Hart¬
ford Bldg., Dallas.
Underwriter—Harriman Ripley &
Co., N. Y.
._
, .
. ...
Walston Aviation, Inc.

Oct. 30, 1961 filed 90,000 common, of which
60,000 are to
be offered by the company and
30,000 by a stockholder.

Price—$6.25. Business—Sells Cessna Airplanes and
sup¬
plies; also repairs and services various type

airplanes.

For expansion and
general corporate pur¬
Office—Civic Memorial Airport, E.
Alton, 111.
Underwriter—White & Co., Inc., St. Louis.

White

.

T

.

..

'■f.i

Parking Systems,

13,

Dec.

Inc.

1961

28,

Gabriel, Calif. Underwriter—To
:

1961 filed

Business—Development

-

Electromagnetics, Inc.

'■

:

-:V

Youthcraft

Dec.

•

'

Creations, Inc.

are

holders.

Price—$3.75. Business
consulting services pertaining to elec¬
tronic system analysis.
Proceeds—For expansion, pub¬
lication of technical papers,
marketing, product develop--'
ment and working capital. - Office—4903 Auburn
Ave.,
Bethesda, Md. Underwriter—Weil & Co., Inc.. Washing¬
ton, d. c.
:;
Lighting Co.
—

ment and working capital. Office—5221; W.. Jefferson
Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter—Costello, Russotto &
Co., Los Angeles.-

'

A

to

manufacture
women.

of

foundation

Proceeds

—

To

Business—Design

and

garments for "juniors"
and
finance increased
accounts re¬

ceivable and for other corporate
purposes.
Borden Ave., Long Island

City, N. Y.
Paine, Webber, Jackson &r Curtis, N. Y.
Zenith

Feb. 26, 1962 ("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price
$4.
Business—Manufacture and distribution <5f'electrical and
lighting fixtures. Proceeds—For debt repayment, equip¬

Z-

V"-

(3/19-23)

6, 1961 filed 130,000 class A shares, of which 20
000
be offered by the company and
110,000 by stock¬
Price—By amendment.

Oct. 5, 1961 filed 65,000 common.

of

:

Inc.

125,000 common. Price—By amend¬
and manufacture of
phar¬
maceuticals and medical products.
Proceeds—For general
corporate purposes. Office—91 Main
St., Madison N J
Underwriter—Andresen & Co., N. Y.
*
'
!

ment.

—Rendering

* White

'

-

Wynlit Pharmaceuticals,

toys

St.,

Ltd.

Offering—Expected sometime in April.

(3/20)

and games, sporting goods and
housewares. Proceeds—For working
capital. Office—835
E.

Fund

tions and increase working capital. Offi,ce—370
Seventh
Ave., N. Y. Underwriter—Ehrlich. Irwin &
Co., Inc., N. Y.

(

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¬
and

•

("Reg. A") 75,000 common. Price—$4
Business—Company plans to manufacture a parking de¬
vice called the "Wulpa Lift."
Proceeds—To open loca¬

Dec.

ture

■

v

Wulpa

Oct.

Corp.,"

'

•

Sept. 19, 1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—$100. Buslness—The Fund plans to invest
primarily in equity se¬
curities of foreign issuers.
Office—Bank of Bermuda
Bldg., Hamilton, Bermuda. Underwriter — Burnham &
Co., N. Y. Note—This, offering was postponed indefinite¬
ly.; /
Vy-e.y .V ,„//-.•
-

Western States Real Investment Trust

Wham-0

.Worldwide

;

Ohio/"

Kraus, Cleveland.

Nov.

-

Proceeds—For repayment of
working capital and general corporate purposes.
Office—290 Broadway,
Lynbrook, N. Y. - Underwriter—
Standard Securities Corp., N. Y.

,

—

/

-

and other reference books.

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
—For expansion. Office—335
Euclid. Ave., Cleveland.
Underwriters

••

debt,

Wilshire

Blvd., Los Angeles. Underwriter — Kidder, Peabody &
Co., N. Y.
; ..v
...
./ ;
Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of

-

World Scope

Publishers, Inc.; (4/2-6),
July 31, .1961 filed 300,000 common snares.
Price—By
amendment. Business—The
publishing of encyclopedias

-

The making of loans secured
Proceeds—For

—

ment

Pioneer Co.. (4/23-27)

Feb. 19, 1962 filed 371,750 capital shares of which 175,000
are to be offered by the
company and 196,750 by stockholders.

March 5, 1962 filed 100,000

f

•

12, 1962 filed 400,000 common. Price—By amend¬
ment (max. $22).
Business—Company makes short-term




test

'

Price—By

Feb.

—

and

debt

poses.

Investments, Inc.

poses.

Price—$4. Business

precision

Western

be named.

Proceeds

of

measuring devices

ceeds—For

share. Price—$25. Proceeds—For construc¬
San Jose-Los Gatos Rd., Los Gatos,.

Ursula

(3/19-23)

cleaning and moth-proofing of rugs, furniture, etc. Com¬
pany also manufactures
and sells
cleaning equipment
and supplies to franchise holders.
Proceeds—For debtrepayment, new building and equipment and other cor¬

■'

common.

manufacture

Jan. 26, 1962 filed
$4,500,000 of 6.5% convertible sub¬
Casualty & Surety Co. (4/16-20)
ordinated debentures due 1977
(with attached warrants)
Feb; 16, 1962 filed 187,500 capital shares to be offered for ;
to be offered for
subscription by stockholders of class
subscription by stockholders on the basis of one new
A stock on the basis of
$500 debentures for each 100
share for each four held. Price—By amendment (max.
class A shares held.
Price—$500 per unit. Business—
$58). Business—Writing of automobile, general liability
/Real estate. Proceeds—For debt
repayment and realty
and other types of insurance.
Proceeds—To increase
acquisitions. Office—10 E. 40th St., N. Y.
Underwriter
capital funds. Office—916 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo."
—S. E. Securities,
Inc., N. Y.
j
,:>./■
Underwriter—Kidder, Peabody & Co., N. Y.',
• Wolverine Aluminum Corp."
•

amendment. Business—Sale of franchises for
on-location

Wallace

and

electronic

Dec.

4

Voron Electronics Corp. (4/23-27)
•
July 28, 1961 filed 100,000 class A shares. Price

Mermaid

offering

Electronics, Inc.

1961 filed 125,000

-—Design

Office—15900

Calif. Underwriters—Dean Witter & Co., Blyth &
Inc., and^Schwabacher'& Co., San Francicso.

Office—180

,

1962 filed 100,000

common. Price—By amend¬
Design and manufacture of specialty
engineered industrial components. Proceeds—For selling
stockholders. Office—739 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, Calif.?
Underwriter—A. G. Becker & Co., Inc., Chicago. Offer¬
ing—Expected sometime in May.
♦

ment.

Winslow
Dec. 28,

right for each preferred share held.
Record
for the offering is Feb. 15 and the rights expirationMarch 12. Two rights are required to subscribe for

common

;

indefinitely postponed.

was

one-fifth

tion.

purposes.

textile products.
Proceeds—For repayment of loans.
Office—2357 S. Michigan Ave.,
Chicago. Underwriter—
D. E. Liederman &
Co., Inc., N. Y. Note—This

Western

one

Vitamin Specialties Co. (4/9-13)
Nov. 6, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 capital shares. Price—$3.
Business — Sale of vitamin products and proprietary

corporate

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

Proceeds—For

Underwriters-^Globus, Inc.,.and Ross, Lyon & Co., N. Y.

general

iV;;1./,../;,;-

(3/20)

date

of retail

Wiley (John) & Sons, Inc. (5/1)
Feb. 21, 1962 filed
150,022 shares of capital. Price — By
amendment.
Business—Publication of text books for
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.

Nov. 14, 1961 filed $444,000 of limited partnership inter¬
ests to be offered in 444 units. Price—$1,000. Business—

date

chain

a

equipment and work¬

•

side, N. Y. Underwriters—Globus, Inc., and First Phila¬
delphia Corp., N. Y.

crafts, hobbies and educational toys. Proceeds—For debt
repayment. Office—68 Thirty-third St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Business—Operates

JKingsland Rd., Clifton, N. J. Underwriter—Investment
Planning Group, Inc., East Orange, N. J.

Dec.
•

and

company

'

'

102,000 are
60,000 by stock¬

Wiggins Plastics, Inc. (3/19-23)
i
20, 1961 ("Reg. A") 100,000 common.! Price—$3.
Business—Custom compression, transfer and
injection
molding of plastic materials. Proceeds—For debt re¬

eral corporate purposes. Office—210-07 48th Ave., Bay-*

K

the

Oct.

•

Inc. (3/26-30)
28, 1961 filed 75,000 common. "Price—$2. Business
—Company renders direct mail public relations, sales
promotion and advertising services to mothers on behalf

&

—

purposes.

by

ing capital. Office—738 Bellefonte
Ave., Lock Haven, Pa.
Underwriter—Godfrey, Hamilton, Taylor & Co., N. Y.

Welcome Baby,

repayment and

general corporate

offered

Proceeds—Expansion,

..

Dec.

West Falls

be

holders. Price—$3.
drug stores.

-

about Miami, Fla. Proceeds—For

N.

&

• Widman
(L. F.), Inc. (3/12-16)
O.ct. 27, 1961 filed 162.000 common, of which

to

Price—$4.50. Business—Retail sale of liquor in and
working capital. Office

ers.

—2305

gen¬

Olympic Blvd.,
Underwriters—Schwabacher & Co., and J.
Co., San Francisco;.and Bear, Stearns & Co.,

Los Angeles.

*

y

■

Office—1 Bala Ave., BalaCynwyd, Pa. Underwriter—D. L. Greenbaum Co., Phila¬
delphia.

as

Saint

Office—71

manufacture of ladies' dresses. Proceeds—For
corporate purposes. Office—124 E.

eral

of retail stores. Proceeds—For debt repayment and gen-'

Jan. 12, 1962 ("Reg. A") 300,000 common. Price
Business—Manufacture of coin operated vending
chines.

and

Proceeds—For the

ital.

Underwriter— /

Business—?Design, manufacture
for hair styling, and the pro¬
duction of eyebrow pencils, lip liners, etc. Proceeds—
For debt repayment, equipment and working capital.
price—By

equipment, and
Valdina St., Dallas. Un-_
derwriter—Eppler, Guerin & Turner, Inc., Dallas.
working capital. Office—2263

Dec. 27, ,1961 filed 165,000 common, of which 80,000 are
to be offered by the company and 85,000 by stockhold-.

Vassar Corp. (4/2-6)
Dec. 27, 1961 filed 124,900 common, of
to be offered

(Norman) Co. (3/19-23)
28, '1961r filed 135,000 common, of which
45,000
are to
be offered by the
company and 90,000 by
stockholders. ;Price—By amendment.
Business—Design

Waterman Steamship Corp.
Aug. 29, 1961 filed 1,743,000 common. Price—By amend- '
ment.
Business —The carrying of liner-type cargoes.

Corp., Ltd., Toronto.

Thursday, March 8, 1962

shares

Proceeds—For debt repayment,

ments.

.

Nov;

ment.

1961 filed 100,000 common. Price—By amend¬
automotive parts

:Nov. 29,

.

Wiatt

Press, Inc.
25, 1962 filed 180,000 common. Price—By amend-;
Business—Printing of legal and financial docu¬

Jan.

.

Laboratories,

Nov. 22,

Office—21-09
Underwriter

.

; -

y*

.

Inc.

1961 filed 120,000 common. Price^-$4.5o.
Busi¬
ness—Development and manufacture of -ethical
pharma"
^.ceuticals,. non-prescription drugs, vitamins, etc.
Proceeds
—For repayment of debt and
working capital Office—
150 S, Dean
St., Englewood, N. J. Underwriter—Sul™
Securities, Inc., N. Y.
OU1CO
.

Volume

Number

195-

The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

6140

(1199)

Georgia Power Co. (11/7)
12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of

of

On Jan.

ATTENTION UNDERWRITERS!

the Southern Co.

mortgage

'

Do you have an issue you're planning to register?

«■'

Corporation

Our

News

Department

to know about it so that we

can

would

prepare

an

Would

<

write

telephone

you

at

us

at 25 Park Place,

us

REctor- 2-9570

ruling from the IRS. Business—Manufacture of various
Office—New Bond St.,
Worcester, Mass. Underwriter—To be named.

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

similar to those you'll find hereunder.

t

or

New York 7, N. Y.

Oceania

Office—Brooklyn,

-

N. Y. Underwriter—Baruch Brothers &

25, 1962 it was stated that Harwood Cochrane,
President, plans to offer publicly about 140,000 < shares
plans to offer $7,000,000 of preferred
of his common stock holdings. It is
stock in November.-Office—270 Peachtree Bldg., At-:
expected that the of- fering would be made in late March, subject to approval
lanta, Ga. Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bid¬
iOf the ICC.
Business—Company is motor carrier of
ders: Blyth & Co., Inc.; First Boston Corp.; Morgan
freight in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.
Stanley & Co.; Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co..Office—1100 Ninth St. Rd.,
Richmond, Va. Underwriters:
Equitable Securities Corp. (jointly); Lehman Brothers.—Hornblower & Weeks, N. Y., and J,
C. Wheat & Co.,
Bids-^Expected Nov. 7.
Registration—Scheduled for
Richmond..
Oct. 5^.;.
?-r
v, "
•••?
••
,
,

(5/31)

18th St., Birmingham, Ala. Underwriters—(Competitive)
Probable
bidders:
Blyth &
Co. Inc.-Kidder, Peabody & Co,
(jointly); Morgan Stanley & Co.; First Boston Corp.;
Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-EquitAble Secu¬

;

rities

Corp.-Drexel

& Co.

..

(jointly); Lehman Brothers,

Assembly Products,:Inc.
vote

Mar.

12

■

House of Koshu, Inc.

Nov.

.•

March 8, 1961 it was reported that this
company ex¬
pects to sell ahout $72,000,000 of debentures sometime in
1962, subject to FPC approval of its construction program.

13, 1961 it

was reported that this company plans
registration covering 65,000 common. Price—$5.
Business—Importers of Japanese liquors and liqueurs.
Proceeds—For expansion.
Office—Beverly Hills, Calif.

to file

"

/../v.-?.,■??

was reported that stockholders are to
proposals to . change the company's

a

Underwriter—P. J. Gruber

on

&

Office—120

Broadway, New York City. Underwriters—
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., and Kidder
Peabody & Co., both of New York City (managing).
Merrill

Co., Inc., N. Y.

to

Japan Development Bank
API, Inc., and to authorize the issuance of
Jan. 10, 1962 it was reported that the Japanese Finance
of convertible debentures. Business—Manu¬
facture of electro-mechanical instruments and equip-.Ministry had authorized the bank to issue $30,000,000
of Guaranteed External Loan Bonds, preferably in the
ment. Proceeds—For working capital. Office—75 Wilson
U. S., in fiscal 1962. Business—The bank was incorpor¬
Mills Rd., Chesterland, O. Underwriter—To be named.
The last-public financing by this company (sale of com¬
ated in 1951 as a Japanese Government financial insti¬
mon
on
tution to supply long-term funds to Japanese industry
Sept. 25,
1957) was underwritten by L. B.
Schwinn & Co.,- Cleveland.,
' rf-v'v for promotion of economic reconstruction and industrial
development. Office—Tokyo, Japan. Underwriters—To
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.
name

Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.
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.

$1,250,000

/

Feb.

,

f-.t

:/:???■

Aug. 30, 1961 it
issue

about

first

half

$25,000,000 of first mortgage
of

be named. The last sale of

reported that this company plans to

.was

bonds

Office— Lexington

1962.

and

in

Mississippi

3, Md. Underwriters—To be determined
by
competitive
bidding.
Probable
bidders:
Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; White,' Weld & Co., and First '
Boston Corp.
(jointly);' Harriman Ripley & Co., Inc.,
and Alex. Brown & Sons (jointly).
'
'
'
' "

:

.

Dec.

11,

196i

Capital Corp.
;
" *•
it was reported that this newly formed
■

..

Small Business Investment
million of common

Co., plans to sell $10 to $20
stock in the late spring. Office—297

sM South

; High
St;,: Columbus,vh named..-?;, c--? ? *.

O.'

Underwriter—To

be

Merrill

Lynch,

ders:

Pierce, Fenner

&

Smith

:

,

Mar.

For general corporate purposes. Office—New York

.

.

Underwriter—flampstead Investing
Denver &

;

Rio Grande Western

Corp.,
RR

City.

N.r Y.

(3/14)

-

&

Coy Inc.

Bids—March

Denver.

-yC

14

(12

noori

MT)

?yj/'•>••:•?•:

:

v

>

New York City

(managing).

—■

v

;

on

a

pro

:

1

.:y;:.

Feb.

.^Diversified Vending,

Inc.,).' 5 v?
reported that a registration stateshortly covering ; 100,000 common.
? mPrice—$4. Business—The servicing of vending machines
Jand coin operated kiddy-rides. • Proceeds—For equips
yment, inventory and general corporate purposes. Office
iSept. 13, 1961 it

to

^additional

was

''

jment

-

will

be

filed

-.

:

reported that this company plans
offer stockholders in June the right to subscribe for an

13, 1962 it

was

shares on a l-for-15 basis.
St., Boston, Mass... Underwriters—
(Competitive),.Probable bidders: Blyth & Co.-Lehman
872,876

Office—441

common

Stuart

Brothers-Bear, Stearns & Co. (jointly); Carl M. Loeb,
Rhoades & Co.-Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co.-Wertheim
y.?)^PhiladelpJaia,:Pat Underwriter—T. Michael McDarby V& Co. (jointly); Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
& Co., Inc.. Washington,
;.:y.;? • ','• ;>-•'- - Inc.-Kidder, Peabody & Co.-White, Weld & Co.. (joint¬
ly). Bids—May 29. Registration—Scheduled for April 12.
V
? ^Florida Power Corp. -y
r
r

V •/"./!

.

y

•

-yPeb. 28, 1962 it
sell

-

$25,000,090

•additional

was.

of

common

/Northern Illinois Gas Co.

reported that the company plans to
first mortgage bonds in May, and
stock in the fall. Stockholders have

^

28, 1962 it was reported that the company expects
to raise $125,000,000 to finance its 1962-66 construction
.f
program. About $25,000,000 of this, in the form of a debt
issue, will be sold in
Eastern

.bonds

615

&

named.

on Oct. 21, I960 was made through Halsey, Stuart
Co., Inc. Other bidders were: Kidder, Peabody & Co.Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (jointly);
y;y"\ -Lehman Brothers-Blyth & ,6o.- (jointly); Eastman Dillon,
\\
Union Securities & Co.-Harriman Ripley & Col (jointly);
First Boston Corp. The last rights offering of common
v?on May 14, 1959 was underwritten by Kidder, Peabody
& Co., and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, N. Y.

;

y

Florida

Power &

'Sept. 18, J 961, it

'

sue

was

Light Co. /

may

^

-

is-




of

Underwriters—To

111.

bonds

be
1960, was
bidders were:
Inc-Equitable
& Co.
14,

on

Northern Natural Gas Co.

Neb/Underwriter—To

$25,000,000 of bonds in the second half of 1962; Office

iPeabodv & CQ>.v(jointIy) ; Halsev.- Stuart & Co.; Inc.;
White,.Weld & Co.; First Boston Corp.; Blyth & Co., Inc.-

Bellwood,
sale

28, 1962 it was reported that the company's 1962
expansion^ program will require about $40,000,000 of
external financing to be obtained entirely from long
or short term borrowing. Office—2223
Dodge St., Omaba,

*

bentures

E, 2nd Ave./Miami, Fla. Underwriter—To be de¬
termined by competitive bidding. Probable bidders: Meryrill Lynch. .Pierce. Fenner & Smith, Inc.; and Kidder,
-"

last

Feb.

—25 S.

;v:

Ave.,

1962. Office—

of

July
by First Boston Corp. Other
Halsey, Stuart & Co., Inc.; Blyth & Co.,
Securities Corp. (jointly); Glore, Forgan

,

reported that the company

The

half

second

handled

.■■■*•

:

.

the

on

Nov.

be

16, 1960

basis by Blyth & Co.,

named.
was

The

handled

Inc., N. Y.

last

sale

on
-

a
.

of

de¬

negotiated
.

'

>

Norton Co...
.

-

Jan. 17, 1962 it was reported that this closely held com-

-

pany

had postponed until at

least

the

second

was

V

;

(5/1)

reported that this A. T.4 & T. -sub- :

Proceeds—For construction.

Ave.,

S. E.,

Office—67 Edge wood
Atlanta, Ga. Underwriters—(Competitive).
Probable bidders: Morgan Stanley & Co., and Halsey,
Stuart & Co. Inc. Bids—Expected May 1. /
.

Southern

,

quarter

.

Electric Generating Co.

(11/28)
On Jan. 12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary ol
the Southern Co. plans to offer $6,500,000 30-year first
mortgage bonds in November. Office—600 N. 18th St.,

Birmingham, Ala. Underwriters—(Competitive) Prob¬
able bidders:-First Boston Corp.; Halsey Stuart & Co.,
Inc.; White, Weld & Co.-Kidder, Peabody & Co. (jointly);
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.-Blyth &
Co., Inc. (jointly);.Eastman Dillon, Union Securities &
Co.-Equitable Securities Corp.-Drexel & Co. (jointly);
Morgan Stanley & Co. Bids—Expected Nov. 28. Regis¬
tration—Scheduled for Nov. vl.

-jAr Southern Pacific Co. (3/29)
Mar. 8, 1962 it was reported that this company plans to
sell $7,995,000 of 1-15 year equipment trust certificates.
Office—165 Broadway, N. Y. Underwriters—(Competi¬
tive). Probable bidders: Salomon Brothers & Hutzler;
Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc. Bids—Mar. 29 at 12 noon
(EST).
■
■■ ;;
•.
Transcontinental
Feb.

1962

28,

to issue
1982.

Feb.

preemptive rights. Office—101 Fifth St., South, St. Peters-burg, Fla, Underwriters—To be named. The last sale of

1962 it

2001.

be offered
<rata basis to common stockholders. Business-

,

'

Brothers & Hutzler.

Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

h/sidiary plans to sell $75,000,000 of debentures due May 1,-

Manufactures parking meters, truck winches, fiberglass
boats, steel towers, .etc. Proceeds—For debt repayment
and working capital. Office—350 5th Ave., N. Y. Under¬
writer—Bear, Stearns & Co.. N. Y.;;:.,;„■,",-■.-.■•.4.

in

of additional rail equipment. Office—3600
St., Richmond, Va. Underwriters—(Competi¬
Probable bidders: Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Salo¬

Broad

Feb. 27,

•

Lehman Brothers,

V

W.

V

sell;$3,000,000 of convertible debentures to
r

<•/? 'r •?

;

Seaboard Air Line RR.

tive).

-

.rr:

San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
Sept. 12, 1961 it was reported that this company plans
to sell about 500,000 common to stockholders in mid1862 to raise some $17,500,000.
Office—861 Sixth Ave.,
San Diego, Calif, Underwriter—Blyth & Co., Inc., N. Y,

mon

,

^Louisville, Ky. Underwriter—To be named.?

Service Co. of Colorado

$13,929,533
J

Lehman

-

;

com¬

this year.
This is the final installment of a $11,130,000 issue which will help finance the purchase of

-

;

at

later

Nevada Morthern Gas Co,
Raynoids Co., Inc.
•Feb. 28, 1962 it was reported that 400,000 shares of this
Feb. 28, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of
Southwest Gas Corp,, plans to sell $2,000,000 of common
firm's stock would be offered publicly, of which 100,000
/ ~
shares would be sold5 by the company and 100,000 by
stock publicly in May.jOffice—2011 Las Vegas Blvd.,
v;
jjMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corp., which now holds 96.9%., /South, Las Vegas, Nev, Underwriter—Eastman Dillon,
:
Union Securities & Co., N. Y.
ipf the total outstanding;'Business—Manufacture of in¬
;
1
;
dustrial finishes -and paints. Office—401 W. Main St.,
New England Electric System (5/29)
-

won

Denver, Colo. Underwriter — To be named. The last
equity financing was handled on a negotiated basis by
First Boston Corp.

.

Devoe &

•

was

&

stockholders through subscription rights had been
postponed until about June 1962. Office—900 15th St.,

/Nautec Corp.?; ;
•'v'".-;.**,:
Nov. 6, 1861 it was reported that the company plans to

,

Stuart

1961
were

to

"• '■

..y

$4,830,000 of equipment trjust certificates.. Office—1530
StOut
St., Denver. Underwriters—(Competitive). ProbCable
bidders:
Salomon
Brothers
&
Hutzler; Halsey,

v

iy

Halsey,

public sale of bonds, Underwriter
■

Jan. 31/ 1962 it. was reported that this road plans to sell
,

Public

is expected that the pipeline will be financed in part by

ness—A small business investment company. Proceeds—

V'-y

29,

Other bidders

Aug. 22, 1961 it was reported that the previously an¬
nounced plan to sell about $20,000,000 of common stock

Brothers, had formed this new: company
to transport natural gas from southwest Texas to Alex¬
andria, La., for sale to United Fuel Gas Co., principal
supplier to other Columbia Gas System companies. It

Corp. V?
5,' 1962 this company reported that it plans
early registration of 150,000?units, each consisting of?
one common share and 1/5 warrant;-Price—$2.25. Busi-1

■

.

Co.

Jan. 23, 1962 it was reported that this
company plans to
sell $5,565,000 of 1-15 year equipment trust certificates

and

Creative Ventures

/

Nov.

White, Weld

Monterey Gas Transmission Co. v?
April 24, 1961 it was reported that Humble Oil & Refin¬
ing Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey,

Inc.-;.;'

,

On

?

on

by

Stuart & Co. Inc.; Salomon Brothers &
Hutzler. Bids—Expected Apr, 17.
p
V?-?,'

Halsey, Stuart & Co.,?Inc. Bids —r Expected. June ,7
(11:00 a.m. EST) at the company's office. ./?>'?

•

-

Corp., Dillon,
Inc.

21,'/1962 it wasllrqptorted that this.cdhipany plans to
$5,925,000 of equipment trust certificates due "An¬ ,f
nually Mar. 15, 1963-77. Office—Missouri Pacific Bldg.,?
St. Louis. Underwriters—^(Competitive). Probable bid¬

White,; Weld & Co., (jointly); Morgan Stanley & Co.;
;,y

j(4/17)

bonds

Co., and Kidder,
Halsey, Stuart &
Co. Inc.; First Boston Corp.-Drexel & Co.
(jointly).

Feb.

JS. 41st St., N. Y. Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable
^bidders:

RR

of

bidding

Peabody &

Power Co.

Pacific

sale

petitive

-issue

Gas Systems,' Inc. (6/7) ^>'.4
On Mar. .7, 1962 it was reported that this company plans
to sell $25,000,000 of debentures, due 1987. Office—120
-

last

($20,-

^.

Missouri

>

ic Columbia

.

3, 1961

retirement of $17,000,000 of maturing bonds. Office—9th and Hamilton
Sts., Allentown, Pa. Underwriters—To be named. The

On Jan. 12, 1962
the Southern Co.

.

Columbus

Oct.

on

Proceeds—For construction and the

(4/12)
it was reported that this subsidiary of
plans to offer $6,000,000 30-year first
mortgage bonds in April. Office—2500 14th St., Gulfport,
Miss. Underwriters— (Competitive). Probable bidders:
Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co.-Equitable Se¬
curities Corp. (jointly); Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.; Mer¬
rill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. Bids—Expected
April 12. Registration—Scheduled JEor ,Mar. ^6.:, .
;

Streets, Baltimore

/

bonds

000,000) was underwritten by First Boston
Read & Co. Inc., and Smith, Barney & Co.,

the

Liberty

? Panhandle Eastern
Pipe Line Co.

•

'"'I:

Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc. Rids—Expected May 31.

EjTeb, 19, i962 it

.

r

Office—600 N.

bonds in June.

mortgage

Jan.

Co., Inc., N. Y.

Transportation Co.

the Southern Co.

On Jan. 12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of
the Southern Co. plans to offer $17,000,000 30-year first
;

Overnite

Georgia Power Co. (11/7)
On Jan. 12, 1962 it was reported that this subsidiary of

Prospective Offerings
Power Co.

International, Inc.

Dec. 27, 1961 it was reported that this
company plans to
file a registration covering about
150,000 common shares.
Price—$5.50. Business—Manufacture of simulated peari
buttons. Proceeds—For a new plant.

Oct. 5.

Alabama

original plan to make a public offering of"
to the inability to obtain a favorable tax

abrasives and cutting machines.

Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.

like
item

its

its stock, due

•

plans to offer $23,000,000 30-year first
in November.
Office—270 Peachtree

bonds

1962

47

Gas Pipe Line Corp.
(4/18)
it was reported that this company plans

$40,000,000 of first mortgage pipeline bonds due

Proceeds—For expansion. Office—3100 Travis

St.,

Underwriters—White, Weld

& Co., and
Stone & Webster Securities Corp. Registration—Expected
Tex.

Houston,

March 13.

Utah

•

Power & Light

?

Co. (5/22)
Jan. 17, 1962 it was reported that subject to approval of
directors, the company plans to sell about $20,000,000
of mortgage bonds and $10,000,000 of common stock in
May. Office—1407 W. North Temple St., Salt Lake City.
Underwriters—(Competitive). Probable bidders on the
bonds: First Boston Corp.-Blyth & Co., Inc. (jointly);
Kidder, Peabody & Co.; 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 Sept. 17, 1957 was underwritten
by Blyth & Co., Inc.-Kidder, 'Peabody & Co.-Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner A Smith, Inc. (jointly). Other
bidders were First Boston Corp., and Lehman Brothers.
Bids—Expected May 22.

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The Commercial and

48

Financial Chronicles

(1200)

.

Thursday, March-8, 1962

May 14-15, 1962 (Detroit, Mich.)
of
Stock
Exchange

f

Association

WASHINGTON AND YOU

Firms Board of Governors spring

meeting at the Dearborn Inn.
behind-the-scenes interpretations

May 17-18, 1962 (Nashville, Tenn.)

capital

Nashville Association of Securities

from the nation's

Dealers

annual

spring party.

May 19-23, 1962 (Detroit, Mich,)

WASHINGTON, D. C.—On Satur¬

evening, March 17, the big¬
one
night stand
ballroom
show
in
America—it could not

songs.

day

the

the

ner, as
"stand

ups"

the

around

those

in

will

It

strictly

be

best of white tie

their sartorial

in

stag show,

a

there will be only 546 guests

and

shindig is the an¬

The

tails.

and

to

function

no

where

that there
Washington

all

invitation is

an

cher¬

more

ished.

Heading the guest list is Presi¬
Kennedy.

dent

and

great

The

the
country will be there for the big
from

great

near

of

Most

blowout.

all

them

seeing

enjoy

doubt

no

the

field,

publishing

in

names

politics will be there for the high

The

Gridiron
Club, which is composed of 50
Washington correspondents and
editors, will begin assembling at 6
p.m. at the Statler Hilton Hotel
for

of

round

a

the

of

guests

pre-dinner recep¬

called the

thousands of
center

of the

dinner
red

the

of

roses

roses

as

in the

are

long specially ar¬
The flowers alone

ranged tables.
about

cost

$1,600, and the next
day they are sent to the hospitals
of the Washington area.
The

has
is

a

a

Washington Gridiron Club
couple of traditions. There
saying: "Ladies are always

present; reporters

The 1961 dinner

are never pres¬

chieftain

the

attend

din¬

Thus, this is merely to point
the fact that nothing is said or
the1

at

be said

or

dinner

that

cannot

done before wives

and

mothers.
Although reporters are
present always, nevertheless, what
the guest speakers say is off the
record.
Customarily, the Presi¬
dent

the

of

some

United

remarks,

States

there

and

has

is

a

speaker for the Democrats and

speaker
with

the
usually

for

talks

Their

a

Republicans.
are

marked

will

Chief

Every

scar.

be

rison, with

Executive

the

for

was

or¬

cared

have

them

ments to the effect that he wished

that he had
The

and

so.

four-hour

wonderful
which

done

are

songs.

supplied

food

dinner
and

served

three

its

traditions,

by

States

official

band

the

story

a

to

the

Roosevelt

President

objected to the Club inviting for¬
mer

Governor

Thomas

of New York to

he

E.

Dewey

make the Repub¬

lican "off-the-record"

speech, but

invited just the same.

was

Harold

the

Ickes,
in

Interior

Roosevelt

the

of

Secretary

of

the

clad

Band,

the

President,

and the Marine Band Orchestra.
One
of
the
purposes
of
the

Gridiron dinner is to shrink
heads
in
politics.

some

Occasionally,
the club does some lampooning of
the field of journalism, too.
The dinner not

attendance

by

Cabinet members

only commands
the

President's

if

they are in
the country, but members of the
United States Supreme Court and
Ambassadors
from
around
the
world. Not many members of the
Senate and House can attend for
the simple reason there are-not

enough seats. The leaders do at¬
tend, of course, and sometimes




Board

chorus

the

skits

because

the

and

N. J.)

backstage for
the
next
During the dinner the

ready
scenes.

Oct, 8-9, 1962

see why official Wash¬
ington should stand for what it is
sometimes called upon to stand

COMING

Association

EVENTS

Official

Washington—the rank
and
file—regard
the
Gridiron
Dinner as the top social function
of the year. They would not miss
it, if they could help it.
IThis column is intended
"behind the scene"

may not

11-12,

Firms

IN INVESTMENT FIELD

(Philadelphia, Pa.)

Investment Traders Association of

may or

Corp.

States

vestment

(Special to The Financial Chronicle)

America

OAKS, Calif.—
Corporation has been formed

at

Janss
with

offices

March

West

(Chicago, 111.)

Group

26th

of the

In¬

Association

Bankers

annual

conference

Raton

30, 1962 (New York City)

H.

Annual

Secretary-Treasurer.

April 8-10, 1962
Tex.)

much

time.

on

"Captives"
There is

about

the

one

Lampooned

the

of

Gridiron

Club dinners. The humor is
because

targets

there,
people that are the
the
lampooning are

the

of

there, and the situations
is

extremely

impossible
cold

to

put

.President

plays

if

not
humor in

the

'

ripe.

are

difficult,

type.

silent

,

of

United

the

leading role

a

"actor"

in

as

a

Gridiron

the

likes the barbs

opposition party

his

or

for

the

has

a

limited

number

guests,

of

who

so-

are

real

top-quality singers, who can
sing solos with words put to fa¬
miliar

York

sociation

Palmieri,
President;
Edwin
Janss, Jr. and Donn C. Odell, VicePresidents; and R. G. Dallman,

Security Dealers

36th

Annual

As¬

Dinner

LOS

ANGELES,

Calif.

—

North

April

27-May

April 27, 1962

Security

Wilshire Boulevard to engage in a
securities business.
Officers are

Astoria..

Galuppe

Investors,
members
Stock

Savings Banks 42nd annual con¬
ference at the Olympic Hotel.

ANGELES, Calif.—Sherman
Andrew

and

have

joined

3544
of

the

Exchange.

C.

D.

California

Olympic
Pacific

(Pittsburgh, Pa.)

May 6-9, 1962 (Seattle, Wash.)
National Association
of
Mutual

Two With Calif. Inv.

May 9-12, 1962

(White Sulphur

Investment

Coast

guests

will

from

be

Down

who,

no

first

Gridiron

doubt,

and

rightfully:

a

"It

East

will
Club

will

number

■

Bankers

Association

meeting of Board of Governors.

be

able

%JF

this

to

the

would

In

be

Russia

sent

to

Siberia and beyond.
The

late

"Old

at

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No other coun¬
try would stand for their bigwig
leaders

from

of

their

dinner

BOISE, Idaho—Willis H. Coffin is
conducting a securities business

HUbbard 2-1990

..

Dixie

to

attend

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Mutual

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Pittsburgh Securities Traders As¬
sociation Annual
Spring Outing
at the Oakmont Country Club.

Stanley Goldblum, Secretary and
were formerly with
Equity Securities Corp.

;V ./

Association

Maxson

Treasurer. All

Haimwertz

(New York City)
Traders Association of

May 4, 1962

;

Savings Banks 43rd annual con¬
ference at the Hotel Statler.

New York Dinner at the Waldorf-

Eugene R. Cuthbertson, President;
Michael R. Riorday and J. Arthur
Buckwalter, Vice-Presidents; and

1963

1,
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of

Hotel.

American Equity Corporation has
been formed with offices at 5150

LOS

Association

America, an¬
nual meeting at the St. Anthony
ers

Equity

Hollywood

Opens Inv. Office

Texas Group of Investment Bank¬

North American

Association

Bankers

Convention at

at

(San Antonio,

music.

There

year,

New

Victor

party,

own

for that matter, as well as the in¬
dividual barbs

club

securi¬

thing to remember

satire

Boca

Beach Hotel.

the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

pretty

runs

a

the

at

Hotel & Club.

National

The

usually

Convention

ciation

Mass.)

Officers

are

Exchange

Governors meet¬

of

tjpe Drake Hotel.

engage

business.

in

Ventura

1962

14-15,

Central

THOUSAND

1

of

(Boca Raton, Fla.)
Security Traders Asso¬

National

Investment

at

Angeles)

(Los

Stock

of

Nov. 25-30, 1962 (Hollywood, Fla.)

Bellevue-Stratford.
March

Form Janss

1962

Philadelphia annual dinner at the

coincide with the "Chronicle's"

views. 1

Boulevard, to

dinner

Board

Nov. 4-9, 1962

March 9, 1962

ties

back

are

Exchange
the Mark

ing at the Ambassador Hotel.

reflect

to

Oct.

Association

interpretation

from the nation's Capital and
own

Stock

Hopkins Hotel.

for."

the

(San Francisco)

of

Firms Fall Meeting at

stage changing
costumes and putting on make-up.

members

an¬

nual convention.

principals

not get to enjoy
necessitates, getting

Governors Meeting.

American Bankers Association

do

it

of

Association

Bankers

Sept. 23-26, 1962 (Atlantic City,

Ad¬

ministration, did not care for
everything in the Gridiron and
said so in his diary.
There are
probably others who have and do
feel that way, but summed up it
is a tremendous evening of fun
for nearly everyone.

The

scarlet

Marine

up

Roosevelt

Mr.

and
also

was

that

called

is

write

that

and I don't
There

skits

menu

correct

conformed.

wines

between

The musical

United

includes

you'd

about me—I sell SHORT not SHORTS!"

repeatedly tried to change
Nevertheless, the club stood by

it.

President

he later made state¬

wish

Bugle?—I

and he

Cleveland did not attend, but club
says

"Daily

Curmudgeon," (the
Secretary Ickes) may have
.

been correct when he penned in
his secret diary: "These affairs of
the
Gr i d i r o n
Club
wouldn't
amount
to
a
damn
if
official

Washington did not attend them,

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the traditional white tie and

history

President Grover

Calif.)

abandon
tails,

to

(Santa Barbara,

Sept. 19-21, 1962

lampooning. For
is a story in the

get

(Chicago, III.)

Municipal Bond" Club of Chicago
outing.
.

presidents

to

Association

Bankers

Sept. 13-14, 1962

all

in

Club shows. The guests constantly
turn
at
angles to see how the

ganized in 1885.

Investment

(Chicago, 111.)

Municipal Conference at the Pick
Congress Hotel.

that President Roosevelt

sought

States

tended the dinner since it

imposing,

as

there

instance,

exception, lias at¬

one

.

Sept. 11-12, 1962

Gridiron

The

Benjamin

just

all

Not

Har¬

President

since

Outing at the Westchester
Country Club.
*

probability, this year.

It

witticisms.

The Gridiron Club rarely leaves
a

Annual

elder states¬

now an

Hotel.

8, 1962 (New York City)
Municipal Bond Club of New York

Mine

United

the

of

Clubs

Investment

of

Seville

the

June

guest list from industry and labor

it

ner.

done

guests outside the

in the union labor field. The

man

in

never

at

Lewis, the longtime

L.

Workers, and

The

Strictly "Off the Record"

up

John

and

ent."

Ladies

Fla.)
Spring Conference of the National

government, as an example in¬
cluded Roger M. Bloug'h of United
States Steel, and Henry Ford, II,
of the famed automotive family,

effect

When the guests walk into the
presidential ballroom they will
see why this dinner is sometimes

a

June 1-2,1962 (Miami Beach,

Industry Well Represented

tions before the dinner bell starts

ringing.

Day at
Club; pre¬
cocktail and

Country

May 23 by

on

Bankers

dinner party.

Association

club

jinks.

Omaha

ceded

enjoy the one in 1961.

with

along

foremost

the

of

some

the

Annual Field

the

over

leaders of
this
great
nation
lampooned.
Leaders of business, industry, and
will

Investment

Association

This

Kennedy
has attended as
Chief Executive.
He appeared to

say

in

Nebraska

revolve

quips,

attendance.

Hotel.

(Omaha, Neb.)

dent

"public" dinner of the Wash¬
ington Gridiron Club.
It is an
understatement

May 24, 1962

year's St. Patrick Day dinner will
mark the second time that Presi¬

nual

is

din¬

skits and the

for

world—will

this

make

songs,

happen

anywhere
else
in
be presented in
Nation's capital.

Hilton

Statler

attendants

The

gest

1

Financial Analysts Federation
15th Annual
Convention at the

they are the subjects of skits and

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